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workers press From Stephen Johr ENGINEERS' leader, Hugh: he was in favour of more tal "the sooner the better. He challenged the left-wing in l to lead the union in any new rou the TUC and the Heath government. The president of the Amal- gamated Union of Engineering Workers threw down this gauntlet at the policy-making national committee at Torquay yesterday. At the conclusion of the de- bate on the state pay laws the conference, by an overwhelming majority, voted to give Scanlon the green light to proceed with talks with Heath. He was speaking on a key composite resolution which in- structed his executive to 'press" the TUC not to talk with the Tories on any form of wage bound by any freeze or be decision restricting free collective bargaining. Scanlon asked: "If the dele- gates mean in their contributions that this resolution is an instruc- tion to the president not to any further attend discussions with the government, then let them say so and say so directly.'

He added: It is our job to talk in my view and talking does capitulation, sell-out not mean or any other adjective that might be used.' Talking should start the sooner the better', said Scanlon.

If these fail, the public could see what had been done without confrontation. After this, the executive would have to deal with the situation as 'circum- stances demanded'. Leading Communist Party members who make up the strong Stalinist faction on the com- mittee remained silent through- out Scanlon's challenge. Only one speaker, J. Hamilton from Glasgow, answered Scanlon.

He said talks could be used by

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INCORPORATING THE NEW:

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

1 Johns in Torquay Hugh Scanlon, said yesterday lore talks with the Tories and ving in his union to defy his right new. round of discussions between £10 claim BRITAIN'S engineers are to go forward with a demand for a €10 rise and a 35-hour working week.

The policy-making committee of the AUEW voted overwhelm- ingly for this pay claim yester- day and instructed their execu- tive council to lodge the claim at the end of August. The resolution also demanded a recall of the national commit- tee before any settlement is agreed. An amendment opened the way for locally-negotiated in- creases on top of any improved basic rate. The left and Communist Party faction on the national committee won moderate support by abandoning their original call for a €15-a-week increase.

TWO ENGINEERING union branches in Coventry have passed resolutions demanding that AUEW president, Hugh Scanlon, retracts his offer of a deal with the Tory government.

Coventry No 73 branch has passed a resolution which 'de- mands that H. Scanlon retracts his offer to the Tory government immediately and that the union uses its full strength to defeat the government and its Industrial Relations Act and state pay laws*.

A resolution passed by Coven- try 49 branch calls on the union *to reaffirm its total opposition to the Industrial Relations Act and the state laws on wages and to force the resignation of the Tery government and the election of a Labour government which must repeal all the anti-union legis- lation. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY APRIL 12, 1973 • No 1046 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Hugh Scanion. PICKETS are out at GKN Bolts and Nuts Limited, where 200 toolroom maintenance workers

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support Scanion' was the heading of our front- page lead article in Workers Press on March 31. Now it is being proved correct in prac- tice. Rank-and-file members of the Communist Party are justifiably confused by the latest outburst by Hugh Scanion, president of the engineers, in which he wants talks with the Heath govern- ment 'the sooner the better'.

They are confused because they have been lied to by the 'Morning Star' and their party leaders. On Thursday, March 29, Scan- Ion made his notorious speech Parliamentary to the Press Gallery in which he offered a deal with Heath: he was willing to discuss amendments to the Industrial Relations Act, collapse the union's opposition to the Common Market and start fur- ther talks on Phase Three of the state pay laws. The following day Workers Press, in a front-page article, demanded that trade unionists call on Scanion to re- should tract his abject capitulation to the hated Heath government.

On the other hand, the Morn- Star' ing carried an editorial which stated that Scanion had misunderstood and been mis- quoted. GKN Bolts strike. The walk-out occurred Darlaston, when men were laid off by management following a work to and plant rule and overtime. The dispute involves a claim for are on more The paper said: 'Some of these scribes have seized on Hugh Scanlon's remarks about amendments to the Industrial Relations Act, which he made in reply to a question at a Parlia- mentary Press Gallery lunch, to continue their campaign for the unions to do a deal with the government. Mr Scanion has denied that he was proposing a deal. . . The editorial was a complete cover-up for Scanion. It was de- signed to preserve the rank and file's illusions in Scanion as a 'left' and in Stalinists' the treacherous policy of 'left unity".

Behind the cover-up the real betrayal of the CP's rank and file was taking place. In reality the CP top leaders have no disagreement with Scanion. They too want to see the mass movement of the working class against the Tories and their pay laws headed off.

This policy of class collabora- tion is dictated by Moscow. Its theory of peaceful co- existence is a product of Stalin's 'socialism in a single country'. In times of crisis, like the pre- sent, it always lead to betrayal.

Serious communists who want to take up a principled fight against the Tories and their parasitic system of wage slavery must now seize this opportunity to cross-examine the meaning of Stalinism. but this has been out- money, lawed by the Tory pay laws. See Rubery Owen picture and story page 11.

workers press From Stephen John ENGINEERS' leader, Hugh s he was in favour of more tall 'the sooner the better'. He challenged the left-wing in h to lead the union in any new rou the TUC and the Heath government. The president of the Amal- gamated Union of Engineering Workers threw down this gauntlet at the policy-making national committee at Torquay yesterday. At the conclusion of the de- the green light to proceed with talks with Heath. a key He was speaking on composite resolution which in- structed his executive to 'press' the TUC not to talk with the Tories on any form of wage bound by any freeze or be decision restricting free collective bargaining. asked: 'If the dele- Scanlon gates mean in their contributions that this resolution is an instruc- to the president tion not to any further discussions attend with the government, then let them say so and say so directly.'

He added: 'It is our job to talk in my view and talking does capitulation, not mean sell-out or any other adjective that might be used.' Talking should start 'the sooner the better, said Scanlon.

If these fail, the public could see what had been done without confrontation. After this, the executive would have to deal with the situation as 'circum- stances demanded'. Leading Communist Party members who make up the strong Stalinist faction on the com- mittee remained silent through- out Scanlon's challenge. Only one speaker, J. Hamilton from Glasgow, answered Scanlon.

He said talks could be used by

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETT

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

1 Johns in Torquay Hugh Scanlon, said yesterday lore talks with the Tories and ving in his union to defy his right new round of discussions between £10 claim BRITAIN'S engineers are to go forward with a demand for a f10 rise and a 35-hour working week.

The policy-making committee of the AUEW voted overwhelm- ingly for this pay claim yester- day and instructed their execu- tive council to lodge the claim at the end of August. The resolution also demanded a recall of the national commit- tee before any settlement is agreed. An amendment opened the for locally-negotiated in- way creases on top of any improved basic rate. The 'left' and Communist Party faction on the national committee won moderate support by abandoning their original call for a f15-a-week increase.

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ENGINEERING union branches in Coventry have passed resolutions demanding

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that president, Hugh Scanlon, retracts his offer of a deal with the Tory government.

Coventry No 73 branch has passed a resolution which 'de- mands that H. Scanlon retracts his offer to the Tory government immediately and that the union uses its full strength to defeat the government and its Industrial Relations Act and state pay laws'.

A resolution passed by Coven- try 49 branch calls on the union *to reaffirm its total opposition to the Industrial Relations Act and the state laws on wages and to force the resignation of the Tory government and the election of a Labour government which must repeal all the anti-union legis- lation. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY APRIL 12, 1973 • No 1046 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITȚEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Hugh Scanlon. CN BRid Nistermi PICKETS are out ai GKN Bolts Limited, where 200 toolroom and plant maintenance workers

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Scanion'

'STALINISTS

support was the heading of our front- page lead article in Workers Press on March 31. Now It is being proved correct in prac- tice. Rank-and-file members of the Communist Party are justifiably confused by the latest outburst by Hugh Scanlon, president of the engineers, in which he wants with the talks Heath govern- ment 'the sooner the better'.

They are confused because they have been lied to by the 'Morning Star' and their party leaders. On Thursday, March 29, Scan- lon made his notorious speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery in which he offered a deal with Heath: he was willing to discuss amendments to the Industrial Relations Act, collapse the union's opposition to the Market and Common start fur- ther talks on Phase Three of the state pay laws. The following day Workers Press, in a front-page article, demanded that trade unionists should call on Scanlon to re- tract his abject capitulation to the hated Heath government.

On the other hand, the 'Morn- Star' ing carried an editorial which stated that Scanlon had been misunderstood and mis- quoted. GKN Bolts strike. The walk-out laid off by Darlaston, management following a work to and plant rule and overtime. The dispute involves The paper said: 'Some of these scribes have seized on Hugh Scanlon's remarks about Industrial amendments to the Relations Act, which he made in reply to a question at a Parlia mentary Press Gallery lunch, to continue their campaign for the unions to do a deal with the government. Mr Scanlon has denied • that he was proposing a deal..? The editorial was a complete cover-up for Scanlon. It was de- signed to preserve the rank and file's illusions in Scanlon as a 'left' Stalinists' and in the treacherous policy of "left unlty".

Behind the cover-up the real betrayal of the CP's rank and file was taking place. In reality the CP top leaders have disagreement no with Scanion. They too want to see the movement of the mass working class against the Tories and their pay laws headed off.

This policy of class collabora- is dictated by tion • Moscow. Its theory of peaceful co- existence product of Stalin's "socialism in a single country'. In times of crisis, like the pre- sent, it always lead to betrayal.

Serious communists who principled want to take up a fight against the Tories and their parasitic system of wage Slavery must now seize this opportunity to cross-examine the meaning of Stalinism.

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money, but this has been out- lawed by -the Tory pay laws. • See Rubery Owen picture and story page 11.

What we think Terror raid based on impeccable information Insiders aid Israeli PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday April 12, 1973 THE REAL face of Toryism was revealed in the courts on Tuesday when Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, ruled that pickets or trade union officials who stand in front of a vehicle to per- suade its driver not to enter strike-bound premises were breaking the law, even if no force at all was used. All that was permitted under the law, said the judge, was 'the use of the voice or the exhibition of placards'. No physical effort could be used to stop scabs or lorries entering a site. In other words, effective picketing is outlawed.

As a recent article in the 'Industrial Law Journal' pointed out, the existence of a mass picket So bring the article up co date the word almost almost entirely by courtesy of the should be removed! Justices Widgery, Ashworth and Bridge allowed the appeal of the police prosecutor against the Stockport justices' dismissal of a case against Edward John Broome, a UCATT official, for wilful obstruction during last September's building strike. orry driver trying to persuade him not to deliver is load to a site. There were no angry words or violent actions; it was a peaceful picket. The incident lasted for about nine minutes.

The Stockport justices had been of the opinion that nine minutes, interspersed with manoeuv- ring the lorry and intervention by the police, was not unreasonably long for the defendant to spend in exercising his statutory right peacefully to seek to persuade a person not to work and that his statutory right was meaningless unless the picket placed himself in such a position that the person to be persuaded was obliged to stop and listen for a reasonable length of time.

This, continued Lord Widgery, was 'applying the wrong principles'. Specifically it was ruled that Mr Broome 'had no protection under Section 134 of the Industrial Relations Act. It provides that 'attendance' for the purpose of peaceful picketing does itself offence not constitute an under Section 7 of the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act of 1875. But the court's interpretation now means No serious attendance Is all that is permitted.

attempt to form a picket line to prevent people entering a workplace is now protected in law.

Although the case was remitted with an instruction to convict under the Highways Act of 1959, the judgement leaves pickets and union officials open to prosecution under the 1875 law. It was under this Act that 24 building workers were charged in Shrewsbury last month.

Some protection against the 1875 Act was afforded by the 1906 Trades Disputes Act, which was passed by the newly-elected Liberal government of that year. In 1906, Labour candidates stood for the first time in any numbers completely independent of the capitalist parties and 50 were elected. It was their presence which brought about the changes in industrial law. This followed the decision of the unions to form a Labour Party after the 1901 Taff Vale case, in which the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants was forced to pay enormous damages to a railway company arising from a strike.

The Trades Disputes Act was thus a direct outcome of the recognition by the working class that it.

needed a separate party to protect the unions against the state. The Widgery judgement now exposes workers to which date back to before the legal actions formation of the Labour Party and before the Taff Vale judgement. This is what the Tories want to see. While general secretary Victor Feather and the rest of the TUC chiefs obediently trooped to Downing Street in answer to Heath's every call, this is what the ruling class were really planning.

These reformist leaders, backed up by the Stalinists, have isolated all those workers who sought to fight the state pay laws and restricted the struggle to piece-meal battles and inadequate one-day strikes. Encouraged by this, the Tories intensify their offensive workers' against seeks to weaken the fight even more by publicly conceding 'victory' to the government on Phase Two. The building of a revolutionary leadership in the transformation working and. the of the Class Socialist Labour League into the revolutionary are now among the most urgent tasks party facing the working class.

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BY JOHN SPENCER

Salam has resigned following cowardly murders, carrying out these knew from outset that the Pales. the savage murder of three tinians were without the means to prominent Israelis in Tel defend themselves properly.

Palestinian leaders in the the Lebanon. Instead of prevaring to fight back.

heart of Beirut by Israeli the Lebanese government responded to This is by. no means the first such the ravaging of their country by Israeli attack trom Israel. On December commandos. Lo. ¡nvades wiln concessions wuca Diacca ter at Beirut Airps , took it belic at the Palestinian fighters in the gravest ter at Beirut Airport, took over at danger. His resignation is an admission gunpoint and blew up 1s planes belong of responsibility for the lack of Every the Ing lo Niadle cast alrines.

protection afforded to the Pales- history the struggle against Israel There have been 1 Ulc ls tinian leaders by Lebanese than two months ago, tells the same storv. the authorities. february The is absolutely Isatil commandos Arab bourgeoisie and ane lc the north ot Lebanon incapable clear that the carefully-planned Wallis ally i cullootcul It 15 attacked refugee killing guer- struggle against amberiasa raid rilla guards and blowing up the offices was •aser on agencies, still less of mobilizin‹ the impeccable information which could of resistance groups. exploited masses, Arab and ewish, to only have been supplied as a result of The latest attack was not unfore- put an end to Zionism and the Israeli nsde inlomers. According the Beirut state. ne Soviet paper i ne commandos knew exactiy wnere Jarida': and Americar Not content with murdering the toren da th trom tim le banese eremo la nd ambassadors had warned the presiden- a Lebanese firm, Palestinian leaoers. stael DaCK tial palace and foreign ministry propagandists are spreading lying that WitRod resistance SuouTes Israel had assi cosiy 111 cHI stories about their heading some sin- the capital and proceed direct to their were immediately melens ve measures aster DacK slace LerrOnSl organzatlon. taken:' Lal selor Their aim is to blacken the name of myth that immediately This gives the lie to the What measures were the Palestinian organizations, the assassinations were "retaliation' for taken? The that same paper ICOUlLS the unsuccessful attempt to kill the spread the idea that all Palestinians are the Tre Lebanese artev ciasned With terrorists to create situation Israeli and ambassador in Cyprus earlier the invaders at only point-a village where Palestinian hunted doene and shot sint of hand with imd same day. outside Beirut where the Israelis des- Many questions remain unanswered rove• a corcrete storetouse punity. about the Israeli action: Lebanese authorities bear the Nasser, Yussef prime responsibility for the lack of pre- Kamal Najjar and NOORden rere o oc Kamal Adwan were the chosen repre- parations to meet the Israeli assault. It Palestinian leaders? Palestinian sentatives ot the was tney wno alsarmea toe Palestinian

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fighters in the wake of the last • How did they know there would be series mer wno naa dealcatea their lives to of Israeli attacks on refugee camps.

the struggle against Zionism and im- no resistance? perialism. At that Lebanese parlia- • Why was the coast unguarded?

anne Ine ment series of laws which Their murder part of the attempt Israeli assassins' job all made Why was the alarm only raised too by imperialism leader-

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cesurov une late? Palestinians the Palestinian revolution and easy. were cevarreo trom ship oi bearing arms in Beirut and the guer- make the Middle East safe for the rilla weapons were placed It is inconceivable that such an oper- in the camps val vlis anu ine monobonsis or toe us ation could be successful in reverse- and Britain. unuer sunct cedarese survenance.

No wonder the pious Zionist vampire Mrs Golda Meir was in ecstasy. She said after the murders they 'very that were lilal" 'Shining venlous ane accec. pages will be written about this.' Her chief of staff, general David Elazar, was even more explicit: I am we shall forced not not be of operations, and Tols wav that because of one reason which that Lebanon the centre of terrorist orga- nizations.' In other words, the Israeli lilocdllsts. Na vlee •iten Palestinian people from The their Yussef Najjar, whose family Kamal Nasser, the official Kamal 37-year- homeland and subjec- Ao alal. ted of the Palestine them fled trom jaffa in the israeli spokesman old spokesman of Fatah, um neree terror threw up Liberation Organization, was said have further plan to extir- 01 1948, been num watons. su 1967 ul/ business talented poet and a former pate systematically all those career the right than the

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1967 leaders after six-day who fight back. Ba'athist ¡edders or Ai ratan. ne was Their lob is made all too Ilberation organization after former member of the .econeone oTne Palestinian movement's most the 1967 June war. Muslim Brotherhood. easy by the supine and reac- skilful diplomats. tionary Arab bourgeois gov- who crucis ana leaders have dreiner ene lifesod themselves nave from Arab oboressed massed

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international parlance as tiental shelf in the area hostile'. Iranian troops are fighting Abbas Hoveida of Iran This the IS against the liberation Icveist nove- has been in London for Iraq Teatrv. concerned at the other side of the past three days for build-up of Iranian military only purpose talks which the Tory Hoveida's U.S. planes yesterday began Huzut on lls ironuers.

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plan regards already out how tighten the governancul Ine Iranians nave to supplies artilne Into The grabbed two islands imperialist the extremely important. grip Cambodian capital of Phnom Gulf which were Middle East. Penh vicc tamiles Tory allu This is because the Iranian Arab hands and why the ale foreign diplomats have been has been given to corner as much . as they government takes it So regime evacuated. can of the oil-bearing con- seriously. lask or walchaoz over Duuso not known whether oil interests in the Gulf.

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One of the steelworkers Abel's sell-out means that bassadors have their main purposes sent steelworkers will have are up in arms against the of Hoveda's visit is to dis- families out of the country. extremely tense no-strike pledge given by accept binding arbitration Despite appeals from

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Toe situation at the head of the contract remain Prince Sihanouk, the Soviet union boss l. W. Abel in an Gulf, force until 1977. which has erupted in with bureaucracy remains on good the steel acreemen The he has terms regime with ine annec coa aor oerween aricClCIl OI companies. Iraq and Kuwait. made steel com- Lon Nol. with the This a move towards gives per cent The attempt to supply the Kuwait backed against full collaboration with the annual wage increase

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ano other the shans govern- Nixon the adds essentials by ship the em voyers ane DOnuS wHien ment in Iran. administration in advance of another 1 Mekong river proved a fail- about per cent. the negotiations Hoveida has claimed that for his a new more than Lovels ure I wo snips were Sink labour Iraa has 'adopted an attitude the inflation at and only eight small vessels contract Three montis' that can only be described dustry. the present rate. pierced the blockade.

- Left' Press tail-end dock leaders' retreat Why the dockers ended their strike THE COLLAPSE of reform- ers ist and revisionist policy on the docks was completely echoed by the coverage which their Press gave to last week's strike in the Port of London. 'Tribune' declared that the recommended acceptance of the Phase Two pay offer was 'one of the subtlest moves yet by workers in the fight against Tory wage policies' By accepting the state control of wages, but then withdrawing flexible manning from the arrangements in force since 1970, the unions were making it 'diffi- cult [for the authorities] to take action against the dockers under legislation,' "Tribune' the new wrote. 'This provides for sanctions against strikers attempting to the breach the £1 plus 4 per cent pay ceiling, but technically the dock-

BY IAN YEA1

WHY DID London's 8,000 do one to call off their week-old s men were publicly divided. S their hands to go back. Other their hands in their pockets.

What happened at that historic m of heated discussions at home, in qu out dockland. But the insistence by union officials that the fight only in- volved London and that it was not in any sense political has spread confusion and led to a situation in which for the time being everybody is blaming everybody else. One docker told me yesterday: 'The trouble was that the river- side men would not support us.'

Another added: "They didn't out at Tilbury. want to come They are on £80 a week down there and they were afraid of losing money' 'The Royals have always been the most militant, said another, 'but they have been run down and down until everyone thinks they are finished.' This mood of mutual recrimi- nation and self-denigration flows directly from the failure of union and the 18-man shop leaders stewards' committee to unite dock workers with • a common perspective. Without it the different atti- tudes which go with the pay existing between differentials container berth crews and con- ventional cargo handlers have been allowed to develop. Yet changes in the upper en- docks with the phasing closed out of conventional berths are one aspect of a modernization and efficiency process which will ultimately affect all London's dockers. That the port employers and face the

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set stony against any attempt by dockers boycott Clause 12 of the to covering labour Book' 'Green flexibility is a sign of the times.

Heavily in debt and in danger of being priced out of the mar- ket, ports in the National Dock Labour Scheme have no choice under capitalism but to forge DOCKERS who broke last week's strike in London's enclosed docks are to receive not only their full pay from the employers-but the £2.60 pay increase which other men will only draw this week.

This emerged at a meeting be- tween union officials and the port employers on Tuesday and not seeking to breach rm- ers are the ceiling,' it went on.

In the first place, of course, this simply is not true. If the Pay Board chose to prosecute on the grounds that the withdrawal ot co-operation was an indirect attempt to induce a breach of the Phase Two pay laws, their prose- almust certainly cution would have succeeded. The way to defeat the pay laws does not lie in being cleverer than the courts. But, these speculations aside, what does 'Tribune' say about the main issue: that the docks leaders advocated acceptance of the Tory pay ceiling? It approves.

What is more, it then seeks to cover up for the right-wing and Stalinist London docks leadership by dressing up their capitulation as a 'subtle move'. But it collapsed after just five days. The whole policy of accepting to the offer but then withdrawing from manning arrangements adopted in 1970 was a farce from

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,000 dockers vote by two-to- ek-old strike on April 7? The ided. Some resignedly raised • Others stood sullenly with storic meeting remains the subject ne, in quayside sheds and through- ahead ruthlessly with the modern- ization and efficiency formula set out by Lord Devlin in his middle- 1960s report. Not only will the labour run- berths down at conventional continue, but it cannot be long attack is before all-out an size of con- mounted on the tainer gangs kept high until now by union pressure. The London dockers' leaders climbed down on a pay fight with the Tory government by accepting the PLA's offer of £2.60 plus 4 per cent on differ- payments in line with ential Phase Two. Then they led their men into a hopeless fight on Clause 12— the very core of the port em- ployers' plans to increase re- turns. Many dockers now realize the extent of the betrayal perpe- trated in the Jones-Aldington deal which ended last summer's dock strike against these pro- posals. But lack of leadership has driven them temporarily back on themselves and, as one docker from the Royals put it: 'We've resigned to what's happen- got ing? All the dockers we spoke to agreed that the responsibility for disunity between groups of port workers and between the ports themselves rested with local and national leadership. "There should have been a na- campaign on pay, said tional one. 'Instead of that we've got one rate, Liverpool accepted an- other and Hull, I think, is different again.' The crucial thing missing from all their comments was why transport union secretary Jack Jones, the national shop ste- wards or the 18-man committee appears to have been let pass without a trace of embarrassment by the union men. Proposals for a new pay struc- ture in London's enclosed docks, based on the consolidation of for skilled men and bonuses payments for experience, extra are to be discussed by employers

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start to finish. It was nothing but the most pathetic cover-up for the spineless lack of leader- ship on the question of the pay laws.

'SUBTLE'

When the entirely bogus 'fight back' revealed in practice was for what it was, the dockers voted to return to work, which was regrettable but not surpris- ing in the circumstances.

• Their return to work, how- ever, in no way implies satisfac- with the pay settlement or tion any willingness on their part to tolerate having the Tory govern- ment decide their wages. On the contrary, the fact that they came out on strike in the first place, and that they were very hesitant about going back, shows that their fighting, poten- tial is still at a high peak.

What is totally lacking, how- ever, is any confidence that the

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adopted the policies they did.

Many dockers know they were wrong and a number told me that nothing short of joint action by all the ports could lead to higher pay or a halt to Devlin.

The question they cannot, as yet, answer is how to get it.

that with- They agreed, too, out nationalization of all ports, private docks, like Felixstowe, would be used directly against them to intimidate militants.

Because of the policies of the leadership, only a few see that questions of pay, modernization manning can only be and re- solved by a fight to mobilize the whole working class to force the Tories to resign and elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies including the nationalization of all ports.

As a docker from the Royals said: 'What can we do? We're on our own. Look what's hap- pening to the hospital workers.

It's up to the union leaders.

They've got to act." and unions early next month.

The proposals first tabled by last September, the employers were revived just before the en- closed docks strike by Joe Payne of the ocean trades employers and trotted out again during the strike by John Lunch, of the Port of London Authority.

Workers Press, Thursday April 12, 1973 PAGE 3 fight they are being drawn into Then the IS permitted them- being conducted sound on selves a tiny doubt. or being led by lines men who "The tactics of the negotiating know what they are doing.

the freeze committee in fighting The same throughout is true guise of demanding under the industry, including the miners, higher dubious manning levels are gasworkers, hospital workers, Ford workers, and others.

In other words, the IS ten- 'Tribune' adds to this confus- dency not prepared to say 1S ion by completely ITS OWn whether the tactics were wrong principled of tail-ending the In right. words, they dock leaders' line. are simply tail-ending the existing The International Socialists leadership. took exactly the same opportunist And the IS supporters were line. still saying the officials' policies were correct when the mass

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meeting was held which called off the strike. They supported the docks The 'Morn- Communist Partv's Star' leaders' and still ing failed action were completely to approving it at the mass meeting report the back-to-work mass five one of the days later when the meeting, which was repudiated it and largest mass meetings seen on the voted to re- turn to work. docks for some time and one dockers clearly where 'Socialist Worker' were Their paper, thinking deeply about the leader- reported that the employers were have been ship they given. making considering concessions The Stalinists fear on the 18-man committee's man- such reckoning, and would rather not ning demands. This was totally misleading. report it.

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American big business is getting the jitters about the future effect of the Common Market on trade, according to an article in the latest CBI Review. Griffin Burnett claims that the recent enlargement of the community is almost certain US agriculture affect to adversely. US exports to the UK are expected to go down as British farmers step up pro- in response duction to the higher prices agreed under the Common Agricultural Policy.

Common Market farmers will also now have a preferred position in relation to the UK.

Burnett adds that US sales fruit and vege- of tobacco, tables are likely to be threat- preferential ened by these arrangements. Not only will American farmers be hit in these ways, but Commonwealth countries denied special access to UK markets will now step up com- petition in third markets.

Burnett notes that industrial exports to the EEC will be more and more affected as the members Market's three new are incorporated within the customs union. He says that gradual elimi- nation of tariffs between the Six and the Three will increase intra-community trade at the expense of non-member sup- pliers. Preferential agreements are for the time being the major source of anxiety for American Writings of

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(1933-341 (1934-35| Six volumes of Trotsky's writings during the years 1933-1940 £8.00 including postage Please tick those you requi Name Address Complete form and post to: New Park Publications, 18 A New Park Publicat rsday April 12, 1973 big business. Preferences Mediter- to ranean countries have already put Florida citrus growers at a disadvantage. And special arrangements for tropical producers in Africa and elsewhere in the British Commonwealth put south American firms at a disadvantage, thereby reduc- ing their capacity to buy from the US. Reverse preferences, where- by developing countries grant preferences to EEC manufac- tured goods, was a major ele- ment in the deterioration of the US trade deficit. The deficit worsened by vis-a-vis the $1.7 billion developing countries American Says Burnett: business thus has strong reason to be concerned about the reverse preferences which threaten to weaken its ability to sell competitively in im- portant parts of the develop- ing world.' Burnett warns that the en- larged Market also threatens the ability of American firms to compete in the communist countries of eastern Europe.

He says: 'If the EEC gov- co-ordinate their ernments efforts to expand exports to eastern Europe, American ex- porters will have great diffi- without culty selling there assistance from the US govern- ment.' He concludes: "An inward- looking EEC would not only affect American adversely business interests, it would pose a major obstacle to the maintenance of a viable world trading system.' History of Russian Revolution -special gift pack of three volumes £1.70 including postage u require. Amount enclosed f post to: tions, 186a Clapham High Street, Lon Publications Booklist is a vailable, fre There are some glaring omis- sions in the official bio- graphies put out by the government on the recently- named members of the Pay Board. Take Derek Robinson. There is a 12-line paragraph on his background and the jobs he's held. It tells us, for example, that he won a TUC scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford, and that since 1961 he has been senior research officer at the Oxford University Institute of Economics and Statistics.

He was also an economic adviser to the Labour govern- Trotsky-a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage eet, London SW4 7UG able, free, on request.

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ment's Prices and Incomes Board until its collapse.

Nothing is stated, however, about the fact that he member of the Labour Party and is 'a convinced socialist' (!!) in the "Scotsman' Writing Michael Fry Robinson says accepted the of deputy chairman of the Pay Board 'to make the Conservative in- comes policy work'. At 41, Robinson has been an important post in given Heath's corporate state plans.

The generally reckoned to have 'discovered' Robinson is none other than

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INCREASE

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British port charges will go up 29. of on April the port Liverpool the in increases vessel berth charges will be 10 The rise in port charges have sanctioned by the been Tory government despite the fact that the Phase Two laws supposed to outlaw such increases. The increases will be passed directly on to the consumers.

Dues on foreign imports and exports passing through Liverpool will rise by 20 per cent generally. Conservancy charges, which for be Revied maintenance and dredging of the approaches to all ports on the by Mersey, to go up an average of 17 per cent.

Above: Derek Robinson (left) with the Pay Board chairman, Sir Frank Figgures. Robinson, a member of the Labour Party, was chosen for the job on the Pay Board by Frank Chapple.

the Labour with the Labour and trade union bureaucrats are strong.

In 1971 he case to the first Wilberforce inquiry.

He was chosen for the job by Frank Chapple, the elec- tricians' leader and the most right-wing member of the TUC General Council. PORT Se

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A spokesman for the Mer- sey Docks and Harbour Com- pany said: We have discussed the new charges with the shipowners' special working party on port charges. "We would like to have given customers longer notice, although increases were fore- cast earlier this year. 'Unfortunately, due to the company's financial situation and the fact that the increases have already been frozen for some four months, urgent implementation is necessary?

- LON NOL'S REGIME

The war between the Soviet Union and Finland in the winter of 1939- 1940 need never have been fought according to a remark made by Fin- nish President, Urho during Kekkonen, Nikolai Podgorny's re- cent visit to Helsinki. He suggested that a bilateral could have agreement been worked out making the war unnecessary. The Soviet Union did, indeed, offer Finland a defence pact in April 1938 and Stalin . renewed the offer in October 1939. By that time Stalin had entered into the notorious pact of August 1939 with Hitler Germany and had joined in the partition of Poland What Stalin wanted from the Finns in 1939 was the cession of a number of islands in the Gulf of Finland and the right to lease territory, includ- ing Petsamo, Finland's only ice free port in the Baltic, and the Hango peninsular. Stalin feared an enemy attack on Leningrad through the Baltic and from Finnish territory. He posed the ques- tion of defence of the the Soviet Union in purely military terms. He sought by diplo- matic means, backed up by the threat of force, to impose a cession of territory upon the intense Finns which aroused national feelings. Stalin was unable to appeal to the working class to defend the Soviet Union by revolu- tionary means. His methods alienated millions of workers, beginning with those in Fin- land itself who might other- wise have defended the Soviet Union in the best possible way -by , overthrowing their own reactionary rulers. After weeks of negotiations the Finns refused to accept Stalin's conditions in their entirety, the Hango peninsula being stumbling the main block. Stalin ordered the Red Army to invade Finland with- out warning on November 30, 1939, only a few days after the Finnish delegation had left Moscow to Stalin's 'Best of luck' and Molotov's Till we meet again'. The attack proved to be a disastrous adventure. The Red Army had been deprived of its best leaders by Stalin's bloody purges in 1938 and was still demoralized. Proper prepara- tions had not been made for a winter campaign. The puppet 'Finnish Democratic Govern- ment' set up on occupied terri- tory won little support inside Finland. Trotsky put it: The As Soviet-Finnish War revealed graphically and completely that within gunshot of Lenin- grad, the cradle of the October Revolution, the present regime of the USSR is incapable of exercising an attractive force.

By March, 1940 Finland could fight on no longer and Stalin brought the war to an end. Coming immediately after the switch from the policy of "collective security' to a pact with Hitler and the partition Poland, the invasion of of Finland confused the working class in Europe and played into the hands of reaction. It demonstrated that the bureau- cracy 'defends itself at the ex- pense of the USSR and at the expense of the world prole- tariat', as Trotsky said.

That remains the chief les- son of Stalin's attack on Fin- land in 1939.

BY JOHN SPENCER

President Nixon has sent his aide General Alex- ander Haig to Indo-China with instructions to try and save the shaky Cam- bodian dictatorship of General Lon Nol. Haig arrived in the Far East amid speculation that the United States would have to mount a big airlift of supplies to Lon Nol's capital, Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh has been cut off from the outside world, apart from the battered rem- nants of a river convoy which was ambushed on its way up the Mekong. Petrol is rationed, basic staple foodstuffs are running out and the government has declared a state of national danger which allows the army to order the summary execu- tion of opponents. But nobody in Phnom Penh is convinced that these measures will save the presi- dent. Even his court astrologer is in prison because, like every other astrologer in the capital, predicted Lon Nol's downfall. US Defence Secretary Elliot Richardson Admiral Thomas Moorer, head of the joint chiefs of staff, say they foresee no immediate military defeat of the Phnom Penh government. But at the same time their subordinates in the Pentagon privately describe the situation in Cambodia as 'deteriorating' and are considering desperate measures. Cambodia is not covered by treaty the Vietnam ceasefire and though there are no American ground troops - from inevitable apart the battalions of 'advisers' - the US Air Force is very active there. Officially, the air force operations are secret, because, according to Richardson, the information might give 'pos- sible advantage ... to the other side'. Pentagon officials have said off the record that about 60 B52 bombers and 150 tactical fighter-bombers are operating Cambodia every day. over This is a considerable increase on the previous level of air strikes. The same bombers were once used primarily to attack North Vietnamese and National Lib- Front supply eration lines along the Ho Chi Minh trail in north-east Cambodia. But increasingly the bom- The Soviet bureaucracy is not ashamed of its ties with the Shah of Iran and his blood-thirsty regime. On the contrary, the bureau- crats boast about it. Their pro- paganda hand-out 'Soviet News' carried the headline 'Alexei Kosygin Pays Friendly Visit To Iran' a couple of weeks ago. It quoted the communiqué issued at the end of this visit, during which Kosygin opened the Isfahan steelworks, built with generous Soviet aid.

bers have been diverted to saturation undertake bomb- ing of camps and troop con- centrations of the supporters of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, leader liberation armies. Sihanouk, a former god-king who resigned his throne and his divine status to become prime minister, was deposed in 1970 by Nol and Sirik Matak, both American agents.

Sihanouk's overthrow, carried out with funds sup- plied by the Central Intelli- the pre- gence Agency, was lude to the devastating-and unsuccessful - invasion of Cambodia in September 1970.

The Shah of Iran with Soviet Prime Mini: where he declared 'friendship and goo •Friendship and good- neighbourly relations consti- tute a permanent policy Soviet-Iranian relations; they are fully in the interests of the peoples of both countries and serve the cause of peace and security,' international the communiqué said. It expressed satisfaction that Workers Press, Thu Not only did this invasion fail to destroy the bases in Cambodia used by the Viet- National Liberation namese Front, it also united the entire Cambodian peasantry against the US-backed regime. Sihanouk's peasant armies strangling Lon Nol by are severing his supply lines and cutting off the capital. The Sihanoukists • say they could have taken the city at any time in the past 12 months had they not feared the heavy air bombardment which would certainly have followed. Now all seven roads as well as the Mekong River water route leading to Phnom Penh Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin on Kosygin's visit and good relations' with the Shah's blood-thir d- the positions of the Soviet Union and Iran are close or coincide on many international problems, noting in particular that both believe the time is ripe for a world disarmament conference. Shah, The who has just ordered $2,000m-worth of arms from the United States Press, Thursday April 12, 1973 PAGE 5 Lon Nol, the ClA's man in Cam- bodia. He was installed in power by a coup which ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk, leader of the present liberation armies.

cut and the regime is are taking desperate measures to defend itself. In a statement issued last week the Cam- bodian liberation forces said they had launched their final offensive. 'The arch - rotten Lon Nol regime is being routed,' said Chau Seng, a spokesman for Prince Sihanouk. 'Our forces have launched the decisive and ultimate offensive which will lead to a complete and early victory' gin's visit to Iran a couple of weeks ago, blood-thirsty regime. and plans to buy other weap- ons from Britain and West Germany, must have signed this phrase with tongue in cheek. But perhaps he's only buy- ing all those weapons in order to secure a grandstand seat at the world disarmament conference!

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday April 12, 1973

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But the recently-published census report revealed that in the Greater London area alone there 100,000 dwellings are standing empty. A Labour-controlled Greater London Council could there- fore solve the problem homelessness immediately by

BY JACK GALE

requisitioning every one of were living in rooms so cold, Rents, a month, with more to come.

these dwellings and mortgages rates, were in 'danger. The average existing house their putting the homeless in them lives and soaring prices are the In February, 233 out of 569 in London and the south-east similar issues behind today's now costs £12,000 - exactly children examined in Bir- outside London. The only signs of double is of for the showed figure that elections new the existingorice needle 1970, the Tory rickets the traditional temporary council June when people in county councils in Eng- disease of poverty and under- government took ofhce. accommodation. In county land and Wales. nourishment. Nobody councils and county boroughs less than £70 a week and without a sub- Last year the official figure outside London there are The second stage of the - 12,034 per- of statutory homeless in 2,297 families stantial deposit in the aaaition Tory comes into rent Act could possibly buy a house in Greater London in such institutions.) area was sons effect this month, putting families 12,888 This worsening of working- that area at today's prices.

4,7/Č many council house rents up Those forced to rent private conditions is the result persons. class by a further 50p. Rate revalu- accommodation frequently of deliberate government po- will mean higher Dav- those in official council licy, backed up by state con-

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have to endure overcrowding ments of 50p a week for some of basic amenities and porary accommodation'. Those trol of wages. householders. In today's are not included county council exorbitant rents. Turned away Food costs have gone up by In areas of acute housing The latest figures. for 1971, elections, the Tories must be £2 week for the average shortage, people on the lowest show that 9.794 families ap- every decısıven rejected l working-class family since the plied for such accommodation wages are paving the nighest dica. middle of January and are rents for the worst accom- and only 3,194 families were Leaving out Aldermanic po- continuing to rise. admitted. sitions, Labour needs to win modation. Mortgage interest rates Hardship. insecurity and So the actual figures for 49 of the new Greater Lon- are don Council's 92 seats to gain up to 9.5 per cent and will rise homeless the poverty are growing in work.

still Many ing-class January a Greater London area today is 632 square more July: areas. the 1n in the region of 10,000 fami- people struggling to buy their Vedical Research report re- mile area. which covers one- house aiready have to pay £88 vealed that 500.000 oid people - some 36,000 peopie. sixth of the British electorate lies and has an annual budget of £750m. Tories have controlled The the old GLC for six years. Outside London, Labour al- ready controls 62 out of 83 county boroughs. reshaped county Now the councils will 'shadow' existing April authorities until 1974. will assume full they When powers. six There will be huge metropolitan county councils, and non-metropolitan couress unich Labour could Areas which win include the Tyne and Wear County: Metropolitan counties of Northumber- the land, Cleveland Durham, and Cumbria: South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Humber- Midlands, the West side; Nottinghamshire. Derbyshire and Staffordshire; and Greater Manchester, the second largest London, taking in area after 33 parliamentary constituen- But since the last Labour its total lack government, by opened socialist policies, the door to the Tories, section of the after section battle class class has gone into battle into food prices, Tent increases, housing conditi Soarina NO only to see its struggles headed off by the leadership. Rents because amusands up going today council tenants who were prepared to defy the rent Act were aban- doned by the Labour Party national first the leadership and then disowned them one Labour Council after another capitulated. When the Labour Party's Greater London Council mani- festo was launched earlier this the Group year. İeader, Sir Reginald Goodwin, insisted that a Labour Coun- cil would implement the Tory He, rent laws. along with others, threatened resign opposition to the law was not dropped from the manifesto. Yet without a fight against the Tory government on the policies, basıs of socialist the working class would gain noth- ing whatever from returning Lahour candidates. Labour voters must demand Labour councils imme- tast expropriate al! diately empty houses and office biocks.

Labour councillors must be elected and then forced to end Tory with co-operation policies. Labour councils ses, housing conditions-Issues behind local elections.

should cease to implement the Workers Press, Thursday Tory rent Act and Tory rate increases on householders. All rented property should be taken over by Labour coun- cils, as well as speculative developments. The property profiteers should be exposed and driven out. Labour councils should de- monstrate how cheap and effi- cient services could be pro- vided. For example, since London Transport was na- tionalized in 1948, over £80m profit over working expenses has been recorded the service is ineff- Yet cient, constantly in debt to the tune of millions of pounds, wages and conditions for those employed in it are poor, and roads the remain jammed. This is due to capital charges, and interest charges other burdens foisted on the indus- try for the benefit of private enterprise. exposure of Tory fiteering at the expense of Pro- working class would intensify Heath at the anger govern- ment over wages, jobs, housing and prices. And a resounding defeat fo: the Tories today also be a warning to the Labour leaders. ers Press, Thursday April 12, 1973 PAGE 7 The return of Labour to power in the county councils mandated to end homelessness, high rents and high rates on householders, is linked to the fight to bring down the Tory and government return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. Such policies must include the nationalization of the land, industry, the building the banks and the finance houses without and compensation under workers' control. Labour MPs and councillors who refuse to fight for such policies and who insist on im- Tory plementing policies working class against the be driven out of the must Labour Party. Vote Labour today! Defeat the Tories! profiteers Drive the out and speculators! Solve the housing problem by compulsorily requisitioning empty dwellings and offices!

• Lift the rents and rates burden! • Fight for a socialist policy down the Tory gov- to bring ernment!

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BY TOM KEMP

and Britain in particular, have always had a parti- cular interest in the development of the South African economy as a source of gold, the basis of its monetary system, and of super - profits de- rived from the exploita..

tion of unlimited supplies of African labour. South African economic development began with the mineral discoveries of the 1870s and 1880s. From then until the present day it has been indissociably linked to the mining of gold, diamonds and other minerals which brings together the richest and most advanced organs of finance capital with the most exploited labour force in the world. The South African mining industry has always depended upon a supply of cheap Afri- can labour recruited on a tem- porary basis from the tribal areas in the country as well as from neighbouring coun- tries. The workers have been forced into the mines by the poverty of the land left them by the white settlers and by the need to find money to pay the poll tax and meet other payments. There nearly are now 500,000 African mineworkers, paid the lowest possible wages, herded into compounds and working underground for 60 hours a week under condi- tions of enormous danger and hardship. The exploitation of these workers has been the basis of the wealth of the big mining companies. After a *spell in the mines of perhaps 18 months the Africans re- turn to the reserves and their are constantly being places taken by new layers of young men. maday April 12, 1973 To discipline this huge la- bour force, to harness it to the needs of capital on the most advantageous terms and to provide permanency in the operation of the mines, the mineowners also hire white workers, about 50,000 strong.

These workers are highly paid and there is a rigid division between the white workers and the black, even though they may be doing similar work.

Wages and working condi- , tions the mineworkers were laid down by the power- ful Chamber of Mines оп a uniform basis-the minimum outlay to produce necessary the effort required. Movement of all African workers is con- trolled by Pass Laws, first in- troduced in the mining areas in 1857. They became a sys- means not only for tematic controlling movement, but also for keeping down wages. By combination of measures of this kind the African tribesman was prole- tarianized in the most barba- rous way to suit the insati- able needs of finance capital for profit. As an official report put it in 1903: "The only pressing . needs of a savage are those of food and sex, and the con- ditions of native life in Africa are such that these are, as a rule, easily supplied.' It was therefore necessary to ensure that basic needs even these could not be satisfied unless the Black African was forced to work for the mine-owners.

Another official commission in 1941 said: "The goldmining industry of the Witwatersrand has indeed been fortunate in having se- cured, for its unskilled labour, native peasants who have been prepared to come to the Witwatersrand for periods of labour at comparatively low rates of pay. But for this for- the in- tunate circumstance, dustry could never have reached its present stage of development... It was indeed 'fortunate that the white ruling class had a large supply of cheap African labour at its disposal, but it was a result of conscious de- sign, not ot chance. Unly by forcing Africans into 'reserves' where the land was poor, pre- venting them from acquiring land in white areas and forcing them to pay money taxes were these 'fortunate circumstances' created. The big employers and the labour aristocracy of white workers found common interest in maintaining colour bar which was the fore- runner of apartheid. Low wages suited the mine-owners and they were willing to return part of the surplus value ex- tracted from the black workers to the whites in return for their support in maintaining the system of cheap African labour. African young men were forced into the mines to earn money to keep their people from starvation. While they pittance worked for the. a capitalists in the gold-mining industry made enormous pro- fits. From 1911 to 1940 profits from gold mining in the money of the time amounted to ed £538m. The African worker averaged about f25 a year.

In the 1930s, when the rest of the capitalist world was depressed South Africa under- went a boom fuelled by the high price of gold. Gold-mining is once again booming with the rise in the price of gold. Pre-tax profits of the big gold-mining com- panies amounted to nearly £300m last year. Those millions made from gold-mining flowed and still ve flow into the coffers of a few .. giant concerns such as the Anglo-American Corporation, Rand Mines or Consolidated Goldfields which have close and intimate ties with the City of London and inter- national finance. The wages of African miners have virtually stood still for decades and in real terms they receive no more than their great grandfathers in the 1880s. Almost 20,000 have perished in mine accidents. Countless thousands have re- turned to the reserves to die slowly from silicosis. One of the advantages of migratory labour is that the mining com- panies have been able to avoid obligation • to Africans whose lives have been ruined by work underground. As Adam Raphael put it in 'The Guardian' (April 5): 'It is, after all, a remarkable achievement by South even African standards in an indus- try, making enormous profits employing more and than 500,000 workers, to prevent any real wage increases for 80 years.' Some of the gold-mining magnates, notably Harry Oppenheimer of the £1,000m Anglo-American Corporation, now favour a more stable work force of married Africans who can acquire higher skills. This was rejected by Dr Verwoerd in 1952 on the grounds that the result would be the estab- lishment of what he called 'a series of native towns' contrary to the apartheid policy. There has been no change in official policy on this score.

Oppenheimer and others like him oppose the rigid apartheid policy because they view it as a barrier to the formation of a modern type of industrial equipped with proletariat higher skills and thus capable of producing more surplus value. The Afrikaaner Nationalists who legislated the full apar- theid programme of racial segregation did so because they fear that greater equality and opportunity for the black workers would raise wages on the farms, which depend on cheap labour, and threaten the position of the privileged white minority. Their racialism, al- Above: Squalid living conditions for black workers are part and parcel of the rule of apartheid which all economic rela- upon lionships in South Africa depend.

though imbued with a par- ticular ideological fervour, has economic roots. • Gold-mining still plays a crucial role in the South African economy which sup- plies about 80 per cent of the newly-mined gold in the capitalist world. In recent decades, however, there has been considerable industrial development based the on creation of a black industrial proletariat at wage levels not very different to those paid in the mines. In the wake of gold-mining came the development of transport and the expansion of the home market for manufac- tured goods. Gold and diamond-mining directly en- couraged the foundation industries producing explosives (South Africa has one of the largest explosive factories in the world, partly owned by ICI), mining equipment, cables, protective clothing and foot- wear. Mining of other minerals was also encouraged, not only diamonds and platinum, but • industrial minerals also such as iron-ore and coal. South Africa is now a big coal-pro- ducer and, moreover, thanks to cheap labour, is beginning to compete on the inter- national market. A contract has recently been won to supply South African coal for Hamburg power station а . starting in 1975. However, the development of manufacturing industry in South Africa has lagged be- hind gold-mining and it has always owed a good deal to initiative. government The home market was and remains restricted by the low purchas- ing power of the mass of the African inhabitants. The higher incomes of the whites in the period before the last war tended to be spent on im- ported manufactured goods.

The state was anxious to develop manufacturing indus- try for a number of reasons.

In the 1920s there was a

serious "poor white' problem of jobless people from the veldt farms for whom only in industry employment seemed to offer a way of escape. South African governments also concerned about were what might happen if the sup- plies of gold and diamonds gave out or became too costly to extract at world prices. This also made industrial diversifi- cation desirable. The curtail- ment of imports during World War II gave a fillip to local industry. A period of rapid industrial growth began which on. The 'poor is still going white problem' has practically disappeared. Nationalist regime The which came into power in 1948, backed by the Afrikaan- has been particularly ers, developing concerned with industry while raising the barriers between black and white still higher. This has led to a series of contradictions aggravating those to be expec- ted under capitalism and only kept in check by the continued expansion of the economy as a whole-which was kept going by the expanding world de- mand for gold, diamonds and other primary products which South Africa produces. Among the economic con- sequences of apartheid-which supplies cheap labour to the mines-is a limitation of the home market which is bound to hold back capitalist indus- trialization. Another is that it Africans from doing excludes certain kinds of jobs and, more particularly, segregates non- whites in Bantustans and other areas designated for them.

participation of the The in industrial develop- state ment in the past 25 years has crucial. The iron and been steel industry, with an output of about 5 million tons per year, is state run. A number of other important concerns wholly or partly state- are owned. The Industrial Devel- opment Corporation, a state body, has holdings in a num- ber of major capitalist under- takings. If state undertakings, like roads, railways, harbours, air- ways, power generation and so on are included, the total state sector must be responsible for about 40 per cent of gross capital formation in industry.

South African capitalism has always had close inter- national connections, particu- larly with Britain. British capi- is represented heavily in tal mining of all kinds and the close connections between the and Johannesburg London Stock Exchanges have survived South Africa's departure from Commonwealth in 196l. the British capitalism remains, as it always has been, a main apartheid beneficiary of the economy. To keep growth going, to overcome the serious contra- dictions produced by apart- heid, the South African government has had to attract further draughts of outside capital, technology and know- how. It has done so by offering foreign businesses wishing to set up plants in South Africa many advantages in the way of investment allowances, grants and tariff protection. Without these attractions, offered by the Industrial Development Corporation, and the prospect of cheap labour, it is doubtful whether many of multi-national firms, the British and American, would have thought it worthwhile to establish branch South Africa small home market and the political risks involved.

To stave off economic col- lapse, the apartheid regime of the Nationalist Party has been forced to press ahead with its industrialization programme. This is the only way in which prospects of profits can be opened up for white capitalists their support for and keep Europeans Only' - a scene in South head. Mining has always depended on : racial segregation while creat- jobs (mainly ing highly-paid executive and white collar) for the white workers and middle class. Foreign firms attracted in by the IDC have been areas where they can employ the cheap labour from the re- serves. But industrialization cannot take place without the creation of a proletariat—in- creasingly composed of black workers. Unlike the mines, modern industry cannot operate with a transitory labour force. It must have a committed prole- tariat, equipped with certain levels of education and skill.

Apartheid denies the right of Africans to acquire these skills, or at least to receive the wage as white workers same even if they have them. Hence industrial develop- ment exposes new contradic- tions. Black workers in indus- try and in construction are being paid wages completely out of line with the cost of providing themselves and their families with a decent level of living. The revolt of the black

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South Atrica cause centrated heid blacks 'homelands' basis. of which goes has living in centres in These white time. labour has semi-skilled

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that speaks for Itself has always depended on a supply of cheap African labour recruited from tribal country areas is a new phen- be- before has big enterprises whole apart- of segregated in their own some sort ot Conscoles beyond regime itself big uiban workers, after At the same scarcity of more or skilled work. the attract Above: African miners, leaving the pit- them and create a more stable and contented labour force. The granting modest creases, as yet, to black workers under the pres.

of the rais- sure strikes, and ing of the question of the pay- at starvation ment of wages British rates by companies operating in South Africa in the Press has thrown light on the contradictory and explo- sive character of South African economic development. What cannot be tolerated by the regime, or by the capital- ist interests in mining and in- dustry which support it, is the end of white supremacy upon which al the economic rela- tionships in the Union depend.

It is liberal hypocrisy to call for the granting of few crumhs to the black workers: the return to them, in effect, or only a tiny part or tne value which they create with their labour power. The of ending white and apartheid hegemony re- quires the taking of power by It cannot the working class. take place in any way other than revolution in which the black workers must play the leading role. Press, Thursday April 12, 1973 PAGE 9 Roman Catholicism has an every situation. answer for scene is Jacksonville in The Florida. A young man with a gun entered a religious book- shop. He asked the attendant to hand over the money and then said: 'Swear by the Blessed Virgin Mary that you won't tell on me.' The lady behind the counter handed him $70 and solemnly swore her oath. But the moment the youth left, Mar- garet Davis (67) raced to the priest and told him what had happened. She then raced to explain the confessional to why she had broken her oath.

She explained: 'I decided to back out of my promise not to tell on him because I felt it might help him it he was arrested.' 'Sir, Having spent some 18 years in Parliament it has never crossed my mind that my views on any given subject were of any interest to anyone.'

Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, Conservative MP for Walsall South, in a letter to The Times'. Sylvia Pankhurst, jalled by Tories.

May Hobbes has given vent to her political views in the ultra- Tory 'Yorkshire Evening Post' The main topic of 'Post' interview her with was women's lib, of which she is enthusiast, and 'the left'.

an Women's lib, she said, 'is not like some political groups I could mention who came and tried to boss us around and tell us how to run our own affairs' One group Mrs Hobbes does not mind however, is the Com- munist Party, which she joined last year after a rather erratic association with 'other groups' Later in the interview she does give a clue as to why she should feel at home with the Stalinists and the reformist protestors. 'My kind of liberation is perfectly possible under capi- talism,' she admitted. 'All this talk of bloody revolution is just a load of nonsense. It won't happen. I think there is room for all political groups within the movement, but that it should be non-sectarian.

'If Tory ladies want to join us, let them, as long as they are prepared to work and not Sylvia Pankhurst and somc of the outstanding leaders of the suffragette movement would not, we are sure, agree with Mrs Hobbes. The ruling class, Tory ladies and all, jailed them for fighting to expropriate capitalism, that the system reduces all workers, male and female, to dependence of wage Slavery.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday April 12, 1973 All Trades Unions Alliance meetings

KINGSTON:

Aprli 12, WATFORD: Monday April 16, Thursday 8 p.m. The Norbiton Hotel, Clifton Watford Trade Union Hall, Woodford Road. Build the revolu- Road (off Kingston Hill). 'Make Scanlon retract! No collaboration tionary party. with the Tory government!'

TOTTENHAM:

Tuesday April 17, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', High

CROYDON:

Thursday April 12, White Road, Hart near Lane. Ruskin House, p.m. Coombe 'Make Scanlon retract'. Road, Croydon. 'The fight against CRAWLEY: Tuesday April 17, 8 Stalinism'. AEU Hall, Robinson Road. p.m.

BERMONDSEY:

Thursday Aprill 'Make Scanlon Retract'. 12, 8 p.m. 'Havelock Arms', Bala- ACTON: Tuesday April 17, 8 p.m.

clava Street, off Southwark Park Bells', High Street, W.3. Six Road. 'Build Councils Action. 'Make Scanlon retract'. Make the Tories Resign'.

PADDINGTON:

Tuesday April 17, WILLESDEN: Thursday April 12, 'Prince of Wales', 8 p.m. corner Labour and Trades Hall, 8 p.m. of Harrow Road Western and 'Tory 'Law High Road, NW10. Road. 'Make Scanlon withdraw - Preparation Order' and for his No proposals. collaboration dictatorship'. with the Tories'.

HOLLOWAY:

Thursday April 12, WOOLWICH: Wednesday April 18, Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters 8 p.m. 'Castle', Powis Street, E.18.. Road. 'Forward to the Revolution- 'No collaboration with the ary Party'. Pay Board'.

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Thursday April 12,

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Wednesday Coombe Ruskin House, ad. The tight against Stalin- April 18, 8 p.m. 'The Hoe Bell. Road. 'TUC must call a General Street. ism'. Strike'. EAST LONDON: Monday April 16, FULHAM: Thursday April 19, 8 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hail, Bow Fulham Broad- 'The Swan', p.m. Road, E.3. 'Fight rising rents and way, S.W.6. 'No collaboration with prices. Build Councils of Action'.

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BY OUR OWN REPORTER

The drivers went back to work inquiry on Tuesday pending an between top-level management and the Transport and General Workers' Union officials and stewards. One of the stewards, Mr G.

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General hospital. 5.50 London. 6.35 ten. •Mystery Street'. 8.30 11.05 Name of the game. Police news. 12.30 Meditation. Weston, who the company re- fused to pay for three days dur- ing told depot negotiations, Workers Press: 'The result of the inquiry is that the firm has now agreed to pay all the money owing to the shop stewards. In future all negotiations will be paid in the • G. normal manner.' and a whole class with razor blade cuts on their hands to show they have paid their weekly protection money.' in his No mention appears articles of the Tory policies to- wards education: cutting the school-building programme which keeps class numbers high, increases the price of school meals and ending free milk for children over seven.

Workers Press, Thursday April 12, 1973 PAGE 11 Double-talk

RUBBRY OWEN DIVIDIONAL :

claim on

PUSH

tool room pay rate

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

TOOLMAKERS on strike at the Coventry GEC Stoke and Helen Street plants over the way the company intends to pay its wage offer of £2.88 a week are now meeting what appears to be double talk by the Department of Employment.

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

Pickets outside Rubery Owen's Booth Street gate, Darlaston.

The men went offi- on who met the same cial strike two weeks ago that MORE than 3,000 workers in the small Black Clalll alter Union rights fight when the firm refused mich neatino dsut the Country town of Darlaston spread te statee ot a2.88 are locked in the £2.88 pay against week graduated employers — Rubery struggle oI d a week over a year of monthly Owen, in- Keen Nettlefold (GKN) and at Rubery Owen stare w as Guest, crements. illegal. Wilkins and Mitchell. The wanted men The GEC toolmakers, The decision by these powerful groups to launch an stepped-up horsed öye he A bEN whose strike has onLnly (As 'fair' changes the rate, Darlaston workers is undoubtedly linked as the document our pay structure. attack on les in which would have There would district committee, have with the introduction of Heath's state pay laws and the orececind Tne mousua duseru lations purpose in having a meeting creased their come against wart up retreat by the trade union leaders.

Deal Work' and the under- the first month by 48p both the intransizence and increased the At Rubery Owen's Seven- cesse re duciul ore precedine the trom of the GEC and 'inter- meant- Siurali slaniuil, union s £5.76 calling for pretations' of the Tory 2,500 wage rinance ACI neconaune commitee That wetk between AcIe SIle, workers I cunliui 'fair rents'.) any agreement we reached the end of the 200 £6 and £9 a week for many government's Phase Iwo are out on strike with should have its months. pieceworkers. Before circulating naner ano even „antick. more at the nearby King's létter the pation tougher told oDleclive une ultine similar Hill factory. that appears manag tulilyally was of these anomalies.' scheme to the old Dis- Phase lhree stage ment lecided to volvemgamolon exoress ane The strike, now in its Star' (March 30): In of its Toolroom Rate pursuit wage- trict In a statement AUEW second week, is, according necouauons •resent •Some people have got to cutting objective, Rubery wage claim- -which has taken which gave monthv in district secretary An- to Doug Peech, Transport the form of a claim for £2.52 has crements based on the reanze mat daey are noł co- owen caused massive drew boyle said: and Workers' General ing to get much the disruption to the Midlands all workers the average earnings ror -unil 'The Union convenor, 'over the future as they have the industry: there official car are pay became a WS skwee oleccworkers.! made it clear to already our right to maintain free col- operative. Rover's. Dasu idy -ons al The firm turned the lective bargaining'. 'It's about time we sorted Solihull; Jaguar and Massey stewards Then they each SenIOIN toolmakers demand bloody the Ferguson Coventry, and there was nothing ille- out mess The strike began on Mon. advising worket letter about their also threatens production Cialulee Lne propo- day, April when the them that from April 2 they Wares struclurt In luis coni- time that it 'would dis- -sals would be at the Austin Morris management attempted the wage pany nas got into. OTOsU

CALCOL

Sa Vi tort the company's the two-weeks of the Longbridge, Birmingham. michr lee to ciaculty by-pass established neculal- siruclur¢ arialz cuculs also nait prostopone word continued stoppage would overall wage structure. under Phase Three. strike, the ing procedures effort letter Rubery ThaT owen conany posilon end piecework and sub- director Mr Owens not changed. Now they say it is 'It is alsò his job to Measured-Day said: Shaw, another director, told "inflationary'. stitute ana unrysiel plants. a new siale unc law. пої О the payments "The present payment sys• Despite opinions about work-[voe salic lic wopapci prevarications claims that express The firm system. tem cannot continue. I feel local union officials, the the Pay Board

ADIEUI

a DEP official 'made it Had the attempt been suc- our proposals are fair.' Rubery workers know 'We have serious anoma- they might do.' absolutely clear that the are in a struggle which has The that •robosar was contrar TaCIS are enormous implications for DEP officials are crea- to the White Paper the future their living Lunching with corporatists...

covering Phase Two' of tures of the Tory standards. Lne t ory slale contro ernment ana wil inter They are mounting pickets of wages. pret' the law to suit Seven Tory a cres onl l Tne strategy in its "The official expressed Acre site. again drive thet very stronc omininy Vilious

DUSA

These

VICTOR FEATHER

will be men have abso- down all workers' living Une pickel al tne booln with lutely Loal company told Workers standards. Huncnii® sum •luousiv nOWIe consen Street gate paid the increase in the the bourgeoisie agaln today with working-class interests. manner required by Skilled toolmakers are Press. the at the Piccadilly Hotel when They are bitterly hostile to the the another 'we are not Just simpiy zoomakers ПО _excevuon addresses is Its president Jack sociaisi. shen ts a an economic Board would no Tory strategy. have poratist But Feather will be laugh- Tn e Callard. chairman of ICi. one for basic alternative but to issue issue. fight Participation Association. GEC toolmakers must ing and joking with of the world's largest mono- an order prohibiting the that their urade union orincioies. ils d see strike The Association has as its polist corporations. Its chair- wine, and over Tne

TOO•

fight for free negotiations.

company from paying cigars. be motto: Towards common Vinson, right- Cas nol separated the thus mak Hilall 'What happens here will from the fight of mil- Feather's speech will be purpose work.' It used ocalon of indueiry organaton.

SH•oone ing a settlement lilegal.

lions of others, against anti-communist Aims have its effect throughout called the about "Trade and unions But the Tory government. Co-Partnership Association. Industrial Democracy'. industry in this area. stewards senIor Weekend meetings planned

SLL LECTURE

SLL LECTURE

SERIES

SERIES

The Socialist Revolution The revolutionary party on Vauxhall claim in Britain of the VAUXHALL workers will meet and the history this weekend following their British working class Middleton union negotiators' rejection of a £2.40, government-controlled Merthyr Tydfil (nr Manchester) offer. Tuesday's pay But at meeting results and the general trading Shop stewards will call for the formula was that if The company aureed •OSIuOR.

SOST

endorsement of the offer was accepted it would be necollators 4n nv[ Caedraw School Hollins Centre Nocha attitude. ơn thity basis • O. the present pro- Engineers union members Tintern Road, Hollins Estate Merthyr Tydfil spokesman for the Ellesmere as port deal, from the Port factory, 7.30 p.m Willis 1 al. said 7 p.m. Ellesmere stewards °" This is not expected too a well Mondale Conunu usualv constcered vaslucreo tne mOs Vauxhall's militant 27,000 Sunday April 22 Monday April 16 vestereav •uesuor whether we're going to take the received by the in Liver- Lectures given by mass meeting workers, are meet Lectures given by Cliff Slaughter government Stadium lhe union negotiators told thi pool Boxing on Sunday Peter Jeffries is £2.40 plus (SLL Central Committee) Vauxhall's offer accept morning to decide their attitude company tney Collo nol improvements pay its offer because government the periods of ten days Separate The Socialist Revolution In policy had ruled out free meetings were being The Unions and the working period of Britain: and one five days laid arranged vesterdav for members nerouatios company countered with the Transport and General cacu year. The Revolutionary Past of the The state and revolution. At a previous meeting with the the argument that it would have Workers' Union and electricians' British working class-and its Reformism and revolution unions, March 23, the been dificult for it to come future. Ullll Britain. insisted that the £2.40 Vauxhall workers Vally wiw a verter onrer. even n unere

LUTON

are tic rights today means prepar- The Transformation of the SLL should be subject to productivity was no government limit. also expected to meet at the ing for working-class power. concessions. cited Party. its 'recent trading weekend. inio d nevorutonary Basic reading: Perspectives for

READING

lans ormiae Phase Iwo pay cut dilemma at Massey SLL into a revolutionary Ine Trotsky, Where Britain party. Going? Problems of the Marxist Analysis of the Crisis British Revolution. Problems WORKERS at Massey Ferguson, Measured-Day Work the British Revo- proposals, dilemma facing the ste- Perspectives for Transforming stewards insisted the officials had wards 31 section claims Tne covertrv manutacturina com- is laton (rolsky) will soon learn to negotiate the wage claim and submitted the SLL into a Revolutionary pany, were during the Doe Taso or te filis ned of yesterday's Party. come wage claim nothing else. Tasks the Fourth Inter- LOuISe lasl vedl s apreement decision them exhausted pro- Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

mccls AS a resuit oI InIs some national, Communist Manifesto.

stewards the company has offered the Dlucials ano •shon have found themselves with Phase maximum. To offer these sections insoluble gnom Hih 51 problem due the The £2.86, _Office. worth . SWiTu?. . EWD. 0-20 20. Ceia on workers doduonal monev would cost of two reduce the £2.86 to £1.50 I OrY zynells ody laws. walca inc udes Street. Having rejected days' additional holiday. board. 01-622 7029. codally across uce

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SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 14 & 15, WINTER GARDENS, BLACKPOOL PAGE 12 Workers Press, Thursday April 12, 1973 Iranian students harassed

IRANIAN

students demonstrating Later the police even deman- outside 10 Downing Street yes- the ded that demonstrators terday against the visit of Abass clear up their cigarette butts or Amir Hoveida were subjected to face prosecution under the litter unprecedented harassment by laws. the police. Ahmad Ghotbi, the demonstra- The students, who. could face said the police long prison terms in their own. had told him: don't know country for taking part in the demonstration, were refused per- prison. will not allow you to wear masks.! mission to wear masks. Police also tried to take the Agents from the Iranian em- names and addresses of all the bassy were spotted among the protesters, but backed off ontookers as when the demonstration they threatened to call a solicitor.

took its course.

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

A UNION leader yesterday bluntly told Premier Heath he could expect no co- operation from his union with the state pay laws. He then went on to accuse Heath of tricking the country into electing them false on promises. Ernest Lorenz, president of the 37,000-strong National Union of Insurance Workers, was speak- ing on the opening day of the annual union's conference at Eastbourne. He said the sort of co-opera- tion the Tory government could from the expect union was. 'a firm and unequivocal "none", I have nothing but He added: contempt for men who tricked the country into electing them on promises which they had no intention of attempting to fulfil.'

After unsuccessfully asking for the co-operation and sacrifice of the unions to help them out of the mess their own policies had A PANEL beater on strike created, they blame the unions union recognition at a south Lon- 'for the sort of corporate state don legislation which Mussolini would garage was yesterday re- manded until May 3 on a charge have been proud of.' of obstruction. Lorenz then listed restrictions With 25 other workers at Lan- sludis, the pinier to imprison.

kesters, the main British-Leyland strikers, wage distributors in Kingston by the on creases 'sinister' Pay Board—-'All this Thames. Phil Penn has been out from the Monday since of last week de. who would cut the rise in prices "at a stroke". manding union recognition in negotiations He told delegates: for a new pay 'We must, in structure. our small fight way, these Last Friday he was arrested on measures with every legal means at our disposal.' picket duty while talking to a customer entering the depot.

The charge then wilful KINGSTON No 12 branch of the was obstruction of the footway under union says Scanlon should either section 72 of the Highways Act his retract statement or be 1835. Yesterday this was changed expelled from the union. to wilful obstruction of the high.

The branch, which carried this under 121 resolution in view of the union's way section of the 1959 Act. policy of non-co-operation with No reason was given for the the Act, is making its views change. known to the district committee Police were again in evidence and the national executive.

Its yesterday afternoon as the strik- resolution condemned the fact that Scanlon had fit of them seen young ap- paid to suggest to the Press that the prentices who were being Act be in 24p an hour before the strike could amended form acceptable to the AUEW.

picketed the garage (above).

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A striker told Workers Press: "The firm announced that intends abolishing piecework and then refused to due to a gang of 20 pay money workers. In effect, the is preparing for company Measured-Day Work in August.'

FROM PAGE 1

the way for the Tory scheme to their press corporatist plans the Tories to the mannenitro against the working class. unions into a bad position.

Scanlon revealed yesterday He said only mass industrial how far the unions had to gone action affected the government: placate the Tories. He said the This can defeat the government.

unions had offered the govern. this is what thev are afraid of.

ment 12 months of wage control The controversy of the pay in which pay increases would be laws centred kept composite within a £3.50 norm in drawn by resolution uD the exchange for concessions Standing Orders Committee.

rents, pensions and land specula- It bears a close resemblance tion and statutory control over to the TUC policy adopted last prices. September, which verbally 'Who is going to say in this wage restraint, but conference we were wrong to opened the door for, the tri- attend or wrong in putting forward a partite talks between the TUC the programme for the government and the CBI.

period indicated?' Scanlon asked Com- accepted yesterday's session Again no one his munist Party members repeated challenge. the same role they played He said the price of defying at Brighton September: in they government over laws was 1TC made no clear call for the union more than the trade union move- to break off relations with the ment had been prepared to face Tory government. in the name of humanity' This was why. said Scanlon, In this way they also paved

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IT IS still much too slow. We are now well into the month but a long way from raising our tar- get of £1,750. And yet today, than more there is no time to sit ever, back. The Tory government sets the pace. While It launches new attacks against pickets, the trade union leaders maintain their silence in the face of this offensive.

The Workers Press speaks out clear. loud and An alternative revolutionary leadership must be built throughout the trade union movement. Our Fund, therefore, must be Don't stepped up immediately. let another day go by. Raise all you can. all donations straight Post away to: Workers Press April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG MOTOR workers throughout the British-Leyland combine are to be called out in support of the TUC's May I stoppage following a meeting of senior shop stewards yesterday. The executive of the British-Leyland combine trade union committee, which repre- sents some 190,000 workers in the combine, welcomed the TUC's decision to call the stop- It recommended 'whole- page. heartedly' that individual unions throughout the combine accept the invitation to join the stop- page. Central Bus Committee of the Transport and General Workers' Union called on all 200,000 bus- men in London and the provinces, and its taxi-driver members, to stop work on May 1. engineers have been allowed to hospital picket lines-to cross prevent death in the case of emergencies. Executive councilman, Bob Wright, also played along with Scanlon's line of continuing talks with the Tories. Wright, who was a delegate to the recent Stalinist-organized Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, said union should meet the tochallenge its government policies and not adopt a 'puri- tanical approach' by remaining aioof. During the final voting the main composite was weakened still further when a demand for the recall of the TUC and con- sultation with the membership before any agreement with the government was reached, were deleted. Communist Party member Sid Harraway agreed to drop motions which outlawed more talks in the light of the passing of the composite. This latest outburst from Scanlon has thrown/ complete confusion among some Com- munist Party and left delegates.

In the name of 'left unity' the CP faction has subordinated the clear call to outlaw all talks for a policy, which commits the union to nothing but verbal protest. When Scanlon laid down his challenge on this issue yesterday, they did nothing because their main role is to protect his image as a 'left'.