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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY APRIL 19, 1973 • No 1052 • DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MAJOR

TRADE

DEFICIT

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BY DAVID MAUDE

A CRUSHING trade deficit was admitted by the Tory gov- ernment yesterday-proving that British capitalism is losing out increasingly in the international trade war and heralding a sharp, new attack on the living standard of the working class. Figures released by the Department of Trade and

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a drop of 183 points on was deficit last month. the overnight dollar and over This was much higher a quarter or a cent down on the spot sterling rate before than forecast and put the the figures were pub- trade

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British economy well on unbearable the wav to an the said news bankers £1,500m-£2,000m deficit brought a dull this year. al change market

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workers ancillary week while the Castleford District will Normington and make new pay demands Hos- next month when the National pital Branch seeks a £30-a-week Union of Public Employees minimum. meets at Eastbourne for its na- Swansea and District Hos- tional conference. Oldham Health Service Branch pitals Branch also wants a built- has submitted a resolution call- cost-of-living regulator as ing for a minimum wage of £27 safeguard against price increases.

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PUBLIC MEETING

What next after the miners' ballot The fight against the Tory government THURSDAY APRIL 19 8 p.m. -. Manor Hotel, Grimethorpe Speaker Cliff Slaughter

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY APRIL 19, 1973 • No 1052 DAILY DAGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MAJOR

TRADE

DEFICIT

SHOCK

BY DAVID MAUDE

A CRUSHING trade deficit was admitted by the Tory gov.

ernment yesterday—proving that British capitalism is losing out increasingly in the international trade war and heralding a sharp, new attack on the living standard of the working class. Figures released by the Department of Trade and

THE POUND

took a knock Industry showed that yesterday as dealers markee €100,000 world prices and rise falling down news the value of the worse-than-expected trade produced pound had a The he drop of 18t points of new £197m visible trade 01 2.4010

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was deficit last month. the overnight dollas This much higher was the spot sterling rate before than forecast and put the trade figures were pub- British economy well

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on the way unbearable the news bankers £1,500m-£2,000m deficit brought a dul foreign this year. market al change

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the pound's fall was The show that figures not as bad as expected. imports last month soared llkeh when further is recorci £1,0/ 1m- - e the New first time ever that they have topped the £1,000m staris to trade. ON THE DOT came the cheque for Mark. AL Me sonne wie ex £2,000 from reader S.L. to double ports slumped. But the figures show more Imports were up £94m fund with £1 from our together U11 that. than previous Coventry and £1 from Holloway Workers exports at £874m, were as branch of the Socialist Labou E26m down. Press warned yesterday, that British Sit and teeing is on its bad League. These extremely feeling the sharpest figures, which should have fund now been published local £4,103.78. crisis which is sweeping the capitalist world. way from that fresh attempts the bring enormous Tory I his must government to workers pay for capitalism's Can we have another big push demands from the inter- bankers for rapid over Easter? Post all donations to: While fiercely curbing deflation. demand for home imported Party Building Func deflation would the Tories COOUs

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ancillary the Castleford Normington week Wale will make new pay demands and District Hos- Deton month when the National pital Branch seeks a £30-a-week Public Emplovees meets at Eastbourne for its na- Swansea tional conference and District hos- Oldham Health Service Branch pitals Branch also wants a built- has a resolution call. fesulator ing for a minimum wage of £27 safeguard against price increases.

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

PUBLIC MEETING

Grimethorpe (Yorks) What next after the miners' ballot.

The fight against the Tory government THURSDAY APRIL 198 p.m. .. Manor Hotel, Grimethorpe Speaker Cliff Slaughter

Cambodia: Guerrillas seize town Workers Press, Thursday April 18, 1973

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TWO SIGNIFICANT events yesterday fill out the background to the open support now being given by the British Communist Party to a corporatist deal between the union chiefs and the Tory government. The first took place in Paris, the second in Moscow.

Together they completely expose and strip away the 'left' verbiage with which the Stalinists are now trying to cover up their counter-revolu- tionary policies. In Paris leaders of the CGT, France's big, Stalinist- led trade union federation, met the new Minister of Labour to ask for government intervention to end a month-long strike at Boulogne-Billancourt, the giant headquarters factory in south-west Paris of the state-owned Renault motor combine.

The CGT Stalinists have twice attempted to stem the tide of militancy which has rolled through the factory following the walkout of 400 as- immigrants, sembly-line workers, mostly demanding higher job classifications and month increased pay. desperately afraid that, bareiy Now they are month since Pompidou was returned to power at the polls, the strike movement will engulf all 100,000 Renault workers and place them at the head of a major confrontation with the new regime. Meanwhile in Moscow yesterday, Stalinist premier Alexei Kosygin was locked in cordial discussion with the British Tories' emissary, Trade Minister Peter Walker, before signing an agreed protocol on the results of two days' trade talks between representatives of the two governments.

Bourgeois commentators saw thé signing as evidence of a new warmth in relations between the Soviet leaders and the Tory government, while the talks have been celebrated in the British Communist Star' with a prominent front- Party's 'Morning page picture of Walker getting together with the Stalinist chieftains.. Yesterday's protocol will give British big business direct access to the new Soviet 'industrials'- vertically-integrated trusts or groups of industries which have been set up in a bid to streamline Soviet industry. It is also designed to encourage mutual trade. The Stalinists' treacherous policy of peaceful co- existence with imperialism means that in France, Britain and everywhere else the movement of the working class must be sacrificed to the foreign- policy requirements of the Soviet bureaucracy.

And since imperialism is in its deepest-ever crisis, so much deeper must be the treachery and so Amalgamated brisa it nineinghy, orkers Amalgamated Union of Engineering conference, where the Communist Party had its biggest-ever faction, the Stalinists' support for a deal with the Tories had to be so open and so craven. Facing a growing crisis of confidence in its own Star' the 'Morning is now desperately ranks, attempting to put a 'left' face on this conference.

But no amount of votes to support the 'left Press' (the 'Star"', 'Labour Weekly' and "Tribune') or side- swipes at the 'ultra-left' can obscure the fact that the Stalinist faction in the AUEW is in absolute solidarity with the proposals of union president Hugh Scanlon for a deal with the Tories.

In other words there is complete political unity of the Stalinists in the between the policies British trade union movement and their actions yesterday in France. the one hand they provide Scanlon-and through him the entire TÜC General Council- blank cheque for continued with a completely talks with the Tories. On the other they appeal to he repressive Pompidou regime for action to end their own members' entirely-justified de- mands for increased wages and lay-off pay.

In both cases this amounts to calling 'Cop!' to the capitalist state in a desperate bid to prevent the working class tackling the main question which is now before it: the construction of the alter- native, revolutionary leadership which will lead expropriate its oppressors and take the it to power. After their performance at the AUEW national doubt there any longer be any committee, can that this is the sole aim and object of Stalinist policy? on the committee last The 'Star's' cover-up job 'While it can be argued that it week claimed: would have been better to decide to refuse any talks with the government in which questions of pay were inyolved, the terms of reference laid down by the engineers rule out any talks con- cerning any form of wage freeze.'

Yet despite these 'terms of reference", Scanlon was able to return that very same day to talk of a 12- month agreement [with the Tories]' which 'would "for putting our have given a breathing space respective houses in order"!

These words were reported in the same issue as the 'Star's' cover- up! At the Renault factory in Boulogne-Billancourt, the Stalinists demonstrating how their are simply support for these policies works out in practice.

Renault workers in Paris.

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of the CGT, France's largest trade union confed- yesterday eration made a call for gov- ernment intervention in the dispute at the Renault motor com- pany. A delegation from the union visited Georges Gorse, Minister of Labour the new Messmer under cabinet, and pleaded for by the authorities action to end the Renault dis- pute. The Stalinists' interven- tion reflects their fear that the dispute will get out of control. Since unrest began at the state-owned combine's Bou- logne Billancourt factory a month ago they have made strenuous efforts to get a return to work.

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and the Soviet Union have agreed on con- cluding a ten-year pact on scientific-techni- economic, cal Industrial and co- operation. This was announced In Moscow yesterday following SUPPORTERS of the exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk have seized the Cambodian coastal city of Kep after a two-week siege, marking a new stage in the military de- bacle of the Phnom Penh regime. Kep, a seaside town 85 miles of south-west Phnom Penh, is the first municipality with the status of city to fall to the liberation forces since the war in Cambodia be- gan three years ago. Word of the fall came as the puppet dictator Lon Nol announced in a radio broad- cast the resignation of pre- mier Hang Thun Hak to make way for the formation of a new government. ons. They thought they had finally succeeded last week when the press-shop opera- at the core tors, who were of the strike in the Bou- logne factory, reluctantly voted at a poorly attended meeting to go back to work.

week before, The the press-shop workers had re- jected a management offer recommended by the CGT. The return to work was short-lived, however, for management refused to pay lay-off benefits to the wor- kers who had been affected by the press-shop strike.

Some 7,000 workers at the main factory walked out in protest. Solidarity strikes at two other factories, Flins, near Sandouville in Paris, and Normandy, by were met management with the imme- diate closure of the plants.

About 30,000 workers are now involved in the dispute the whole and combine could be completely shut down in the next few days.

The union chiefs' appeal one hour and 40 minutes of talks between premler Tory Alexei Kosygin and Minister Trade Peter Walker. Soviet sources said the talks were *friendly and interesting'. The president gave no reason for the premier's re- signation, though it may well be an attempt to make Hak a scapegoat for the regime's losses over the last few weeks. •Lon Nol is believed to be seeking new more "broadly-based' government conceal his own abject to reliance on the American Air Force to stay in power.

• US B52 bombers renewed their raids against libera- tion armies around the Cambodian capital. They bombed positions along the Bassaç river, ten to 20 miles from Phnom Penh. Phnom Penh has been Vol. encircled by road for weeks and only by saturation bombing were the Ameri- cans able to clear a way for the passage of part of a convoy up the Mekong to the new Labour Minister, who is also mayor of the Paris suburb where the Renault plant is situated, is a blatant act of class colla- boration. Stalinists' The entire policy at Renault ever since May-June 1968 has been to restrict all struggles within the narrowest possible con- fines. They fear the explosive consequences of a big strike there at a time of growing labour unrest throughout the motor industry and in the steel, engineering, tex- tile and other sections of industry. Last week at the Peugeot car factory, near Lyons. sent squads of management armed thugs to oust sit-in strikers. There have been major strikes in the last week at the Lorraine steelworks of Wendel-Sidelor, where large-scale closures are sche- duled over the next three years. See What We Think. Walker's meeting with Kosygin was the first such meeting at cabinet level for several years. Walker said the proposed ten-year agreement would exert a considerable effect on British-Soviet trade. river last week. The Nixor government has ordered resumption of air raids on Laos and raised its attacks on the Cambo- dian liberation armies to a pitch of air-borne new savagery. military According to sources in Phnom Penh, the US bombing is running at a level of 60 sorties a day in Cambodia-more than in the whole of Indo-China in 1971. Strike sorties by lighter tactical aircraft have also multiplied several times over to about 200 a day. The US is also airlifting ammunition and other sup- plies besieged the to southern cities and bringing emergency supplies of avia- tion fuel to Phnom Penh. The command said at the provincial capital of Tram RUCHELL MAGEE is to be retried over the killing of a judge in the 1970 Marin County shoot-out. The first trial lasted 11 weeks, cost over $1m and ended in a mistrial when the jury failed to agree. Edward Heinz, chief asslstant attorney-general of California, ended specula- tion about whether the black militant would face retrlal when he told reporters: The decision has been made. We will be retrying Magee.' Ruchell Magee's trial was originally linked with the case of Angela Davis, who was eventually tried separ- ately and acquitted. But Magee, who already sentence for faces a life kidnap and robbery in Los Angeles In 1965, was singled out for the full vindictiveness of Californian 'Justice'. Ruchell Magee... at back.

Robert Carrow, Magee's attorney, said the decision to retry his client was "an unbelievable waste of tax- payers' money... 'Even If the state secures a conviction, Magee can't get a bigger sentence than the one he has already.' The huge cost of Magee's first trial arose because the Jury was sequestered throughout and because of so-cailed security measures, including bullet-proof screen In the courtroom. Nearly 50 lawmen with submachine guns and rlot gear stood guard. Magee himself was trans- ported by helicopter every day to the San Francisco courtroom from San Quentin state prison 15 miles sway.

But If these measures were intended to produce a panic conviction they failed.

Now the state intends same ordeal for a second time. Khnat, 24 miles from Phnom Penh, government troops had retaken the de- market vastated central place, but the situation was still regarded as critical.

The Americans hope they can persuade the USSR, China and North Vietnam to put pressure on the Sihanouk leadership to reach a compromise with Lon Nol. Sihanouk is closely linked with the Peking government and Washington has high that the Chinese hopes Stalinists can once again be persuaded to betray the re- struggle in volutionary Indo-China. The Soviet Union can play only a minor role in this betrayal it has because never recognized the Siha- nouk government-in-exile.

toolroom wage fight

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of A NATIONAL Union of In •the course the Public Employees (NUPE) strike, police were used against them and this led to official yesterday Claimed mass picket at the that ail action in the ancil- pital. lary workers' dispute pay NUPE and had ceased. But at Hope Oilicias from COHSE have said that the drivers hospital, Salford, official action has again walked out. backing. They claimed that the striker told Workers had used non- management Press that one management their drivers representative had threat- vehicles and had refused to ened them by saying: give an undertaking that this practice would cease.

'How would you like it if we did away with your jobs These men were on strike for the full seven weeks of altogether and brought in outside contractors?' the pay dispute. ENGINEERS' union president Hugh Scanlon's speech offering support to the Tory state pay laws in the 'amended' Industrial Relations Act is form of an having dangerous repercussions in the Coventry area.

Toolroom shop stewards throughout the district are to meet to plan support for 211 toolroom workers on strike at the GEC Stoke and Helen Street plants.

The strikers' request for such a meeting has been endorsed by the Coventry district committee of the AUEW.

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But a dangerous diversion created by stewards has been who visited Department of Employment officials and-last Tuesday a Pay Board official and attempted to get a state- their demand is that "legal' under the Tory state pay laws. This thinking, which refuses to wage struggles must see that all confront the government, 1s re- flected in the right wing-domin- ated district committee. Rejection Recently that body rejected a to instruct con- resolution Pay not to the venors Board under any circumstances.

Instead, an amendment to ask council the union's executive stewards could whether ap- Collaboration. Scanion . proach the Pay Board was car- ried by 17 votes to ten. Industrial Relations Court. the but the was lost, It was a strong Scanlon sup- That move who amend- retreat continues. porter moved the ment so eagerly seized upon The GEC strikers must make the right wing. sure that the Coventry toolroom It was the Coventry AUEW stewards take action with them Tory government against the district committee which led the and corporatist-style attacks national committee its move at the on the whole working class.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday Aprl Feather, Jack Victor Jones and Hugh Scanlon never cease talking about the need for a new spirit of co-operation and har- mony to prevail in indus- try and replace the politics of confrontation.

The three are always appear- ing on joint platforms with big at lunches businessmen orga- nized by the Industrial Society, the Industrial Participation Asso- ciation and other corporatist, co- partnership bodies. What is the real face of the which employers' organizations these of collaboration agents wish to suck up to? The viciousness of the British class is legendary after ruling hundreds of years of persecution of Ireland and other colonies, as well as the metropolitan working class. exploitation of slave The capital in labour by British South Africa and elsewhere still goes on, as well as military sup- port for feudalism in the Arabian peninsula and other places.

Nearer home, the ruling class on a determined has embarked campaign to solve the problems by creating of inflation more surplus value from the backs of the working class. It wants to restore value to the flood of de- preciated paper currency which the capıtalist system injected into the economy to 'cure' pre- vious political crises. The Tories have raised rents, slashed social services and intro- duced laws to abolish free col- lective-bargaining in order to force down working-class living standards and extract this addi- tional surplus value. In short, the ruling class re- quires the working class to live less comfortably in order that the capitalist system should sur- vive the world-wide economic crisis. In other words, the work- ing class must eat less. The Engineering Employers' Federation is the largest single organization in the employers' country and very influential in Tory circles. Members of the EEF partici- pate in all of the corporatist bodies which Jones, Feather and Scanlon are ever urging workers to co-operate with. For sheer viciousness, the EEF takes some beating. The front page article in the latest issue of its journal reads as follows: Some 24 million working days were lost as a result of industrial disputes last year Cape Asbestos Company has announced record pre - tax profits for 1972. Profits have advanced to £4.14m while turnover reached a colossal £55.6m. Cape is Britain's second largest asbestos company — it mines the material in South Africa, transports it to the UK and has a series of fac- tories making asbestos parts for the engineering and build- ing industry. The full extent of the Cape profiteering will be made clear today when the annual report and accounts will be released.

As the preliminary figures have indicated, some of the gains have profit biggest occurred in the company's mining operations. And after all, if you can cheaply, you mine the stuff stand an excellent chance of making bigger profits when you start to use it in manufacture.

How does Cape go about mining this most dangerous of minerals, which has already cost the lives of hundreds of British workers through asbes- tosis? Adam Payne,. the "Rand Daily Mail' mining editor, rsday Aprli 19, 1973 Jack Jones, Hugh Scanton, Victor Feath and strikers and their families received in direct state aid a total of around £8m. the taxpayers* sizeable slice of That such money should be diverted to this purpose is, as the Secretary of State for Social Services acknowledged in parlia- ment a few weeks ago, a matter for urgent public concern. All so because to some the more extent this money comes from relatively poor people by means of indirect taxation. The government is reviewing supplementary the payment of benefit in industrial disputes. It is to be hoped that the review, when it has been completed, will result in effective measures to plug this gap in the social secu- rity payments system. It is as illogical as it is unsound.

in the matter The state, of strikes, is generous to a fault.

visited Cape's Penge mine in the Northern Transvaal two weeks ago. In a special report he said that the 'single worker compounds' were outdated and overcrowded while the married workers were housed in "cell- like' houses without furniture, lights and other amenities.

He said that overcrowding led to 200 men sleeping on floors. Payne went on: 'Last time I visited Cape Asbestos and wrote about the housing which shocked me, the mining "You visit said to me: man the largest and richest amosite asbestos desposit in the world, •"The royalties on mining it lone amount to R1,297,000 a year [about £700,000] yet you write about the kaffirs You need your compounds. head read"' Payne said the conditions at the mine would shock British shareholders in the company.

On the contrary, when Cape chairman, Mr R. H. Dent, learnt of the report he simply said: could 'With hindsight we have done things faster.' The company has a plan to build some new quarters for both single and married men. ctor Feather thrae union chlefs who repeatedly One of the oddest phenomena in a major industrial stoppage, such as the mineworkers' strike last year, is that an emergency ope- ration is promptly mounted to dispense State funds which are intended to provide for the needy. It is hard to see how those who voluntarily deprive themselves of a pay-packet fit into that category. Against the background of statutory regulation of pay settle- ments, it is all the more irra- tional that the state should cushion strikers against the con- sequences of their own action.

carries the The strike still mantle of old struggles for social justice. 'Men fighting for their democratic rights' is how one Member of Parliament recently described strikers generally. But the fact of the matter is that strikes today are seldom any- Leeds police have taken a M turn 'towards puritanism.

They have raided à bookshop in Woodhouse Lane and removed a vast quantity of literature under the Obscene Publications Act. Six uniformed officers entered the shop on April 11 warrants. They armed with waited for a lawyer to arrive before taking away six boxes of books and newspapers. Three people in the shop were cautioned and the pro- prietor was told that the books were being sent post haste to the Director of Public Pro- secutions. Included among the seized publications were: Wilhelm Reich: 'Mysteries of the Organism' Boswell's 'Life of Johnson' (Signet edition). Henry Miller: 'Quiet Days in Clichy'. Wm. Burroughs: 'The Naked Lunch'. Henry Miller: 'Sexus'. peatedly speak on platforms with leading emp thing romantic than more a means of pushing up wage rates by force. In any changes that follow the government's review of the situa- tion there will be a need for flexibility to protect the families of strikers from hardship. Wives strikers, and families, not are the recipients of benefit.

This is a point that is much laboured by those who oppose any change in the existing arrangements, but it is no more than a technicality.

There would seem to be a strong case for imposing an obligation upon strikers whose families re- ceive benefits to repay them.

the existing Tightening up will not arrangements stop strikes, but it will make indus- trial action look less attractive than it does now. In the long run, with state bounty curtailed, union officials could be looking a McCaffery: "The Homosexual Dialectic' (a recognized text book on this subject). Richard Amory: 'Song of the Loon' Walter: 'My Secret Life'. (The Victorian Classic—all three volumes.) M's 'The Sensuous' Man' (Corgi). Simons: 'Does Sex Make you Feel Guilty 'He who is the Greatest is the Servant of the Other' I am Curious (Yellow): Grove Press. Ed Badajos: "Filipino Food'.

(Published by Tandem.) 'Theatre and Drama Review' Hundreds of the following periodicals were also removed: 'Gay News', 'OZ', , 'International Times', , 'Forum', 'Follow Up' "Nasty 'Cozmic Comics', 'Robert Tales' Crumbs Comics', 'Corridor', 'Ecstasy' paper of the Gay Revolution of Party USA, and copies various underground comics.

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harder for solutions to problems, avoiding seriously thereby damaging effects of strikes. This process might well have its im- pact on the inci- dence of strikes. Put very simply, the engineer- ing employers are proposing that strikers be driven back to work by starving their wives and children. The EEF is typical of the ruling class. It is determined to hang on • to the privileges and wealth which the capitalist sys- tem brings, whatever cruelty is to keep the working required class in its place. Jones, Scanlon and Feather want the working class to give up fighting the ruling class and to turn the other cheek instead.

They only do so because they themselves are part of the pri- vileged system. Owner of Books, Mr Bob Gregory, told Workers Press this was the first time his shop had been subjected to police harassment since it was opened 12 months ago. he said, 'we've 'Of course, had the usual police cruising around. A bit of heavy breath- ing that sort of thing.' and He said an invoice would be sent to the Leeds police for the books. 'We'll have to charge them,' he said. 'All books seized have been re- ordered and will be on sale as usual as soon as possible.'

He said that recently there ›d'. had been a definite move in the direction of the White- house brigade in Leeds. The 'Clock- Stanley Kubrick film work Orange' had been banned by the local authority. police Whether the Leeds and the DPP are corrupted by Boswell's 'Life of Johnson' will be known in a few weeks' time.

Mr Gregory said he had in- structed his lawyers to fight any prosecution.

E TITO'S FARM CRISIS

A 'grave situation' is admitted to have arisen in Yugoslay agriculture, which is lagging badly behind the targets set for the 1971-1975 Plan. It was intended to push up production by 3 per cent per year on the privately-owned farms and by 6 per cent on the state farms to give an overall yearly increase in pro- duction of 3.5 per cent. Actual production has fallen far short of this. In the first two years of the Plan, the private farms only increased their output by 0.8 per cent and the overall increase was 2.5 per cent. Coupled with this poor per- formance there was what Lagreb radio commentator called 'the astounding fact that the plan to bring about rapid structural changes in agricul- ture with a view to boosting stockbreeding was not only not implemented, but the situation grew worse, especially in state- owned estates which ought to have been the driving force of the entire agricultural production'. Unlike the Soviet bureau- cracy, the Yugoslavs do not blame climatic conditions for the shortfall in agricultural production. The season of 1971 was exceptionally favour- able, but the gains were can- celled out by 'the lack of appropriate measures' The situation in 1972 turned out to be catastrophic. The wheat yield was short by 20 per cent and much of the maize crop was of inferior quality and unfit to be used as fodder.

The sugar beet quality was also down. The failure of agriculture to meet the targets set for it in the plan undermines plan ful- filment as a whole. It also means that Yugoslav workers will go short or have to pay ever higher prices for essential foods. The hope of earning foreign exchange by the export of agricultural surpluses has also been frustrated. The policy of concessions to the peasants and reliance on individual incentives has not paid off. The mismanagement and inefficiency of the agrarian sector has weakened the entire economy, which is now in the throes of a crisis. The Tito regime, already becoming increasingly depen- dent on world capitalism, is now in a position where it may have to join the Soviet Union in buying food on the in order to world market stave off a shortage. Writings of UNTIRE Of Leon Trotsky 1057-38) 1938-91

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Workers Press, Thu A leading Ukrainian opposi- tionist who wrote a vigou- rous attack on Stalinist na- tionalities policy has . been jailed for five months after a trial in Kiev. He is Ivan Dzyuba, whose 'Internationalism book, or Russification', ', was circulated 'Samizdat' (underground in documents) form in the Soviet Union. He shows that current policies follow on from those of the Stalin era which ran to the na- directly contrary tionality policy of Lenin and the Bolsheviks after 1917.

that Stalin's He shows policy represented a return to the Great Russian chauvinism against which Lenin had fought in the yast years of his life. bureaucracy tried to answer Dzyuba in a book put out in Ukrainian and English called 'What I. Dzyuba Stands For and How He Does It'. Dzyuba had been harassed rosa, Thursday April 19, 1973 PAGE 5 Large quantities of fertilizer are being wasted on Soviet collective farms through lack of proper storage facilities. In Turkomenia, 32 collective farm chairmen and chief agrono- mists have recently been punished for violation of rules on the storage of fertilizers.

It is not known what part- ishment was meted out, but the and is abuse continues widespread. In the same re- public a check made at a super-phosphate works showed that the active ingredient in the fertilizers produced amoun- ted to only 16 per cent. • An official report comments: •This results in the transport over long distances of tens of thousands of tons of worthless material. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of roubles worth of equipment, not yet installed, lies in the open air and deteriorates.

Checks are now being car- ried out on the organization of loading, transportation, un- loading and storage of fer- tilizers throughout the country in an effort to put a stop to the waste already revealed.

GRAIN

The Soviet Union is expected to make large grain purchases in the world market again this year to make good harvest deficiencies. Last year about 28 million tons was purchased, 18 million the United of them from States. In the meantime, as a of the Soviet result partly demand, world prices are a good deal higher. If the Soviet Union only buys half as much as last year, the is likely exceed cost to $1,000m, about half of which will probably be spent in the United States. Last year this much was spent in the US alone, helping to drive up the general level of food prices.

Although this year's harvest is expected to be better than last year's, the Soviet bureau- cracy has apparently little con- sufficient grain fidence that can be produced to meet the national requirements. A large number of ships has already been chartered suitable to carry grain. Oppositionist, General Grigorenko -feared by the bureaucracy.

for many years because of his to Stalinism. He opposition made a number of public pro- tests against repression in the Ukraine and the Kremlin's drive against Jewish culture.

He was arrested in April 1972 and charged with 'anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda'.

The Kremlin bureaucracy fears Dzyuba as it does those oppositionists, other like General Grigorenko and Pyotr Yakir, it holds in jails and 'psychiatric' wards. The working-class move- ment should demand the re- lease of all those oppositionists whose only crime is to raise their voice against Stalinism.

Tzu Tsai-cheng, a native Taiwanese, is now lying in Pentonville prison awaiting extradition fol- lowing the failure of his appeal to the House of Lords against being sent to the United States. In May 1971, Cheng was found guilty in an American in complicity court an attempt on the life of Chiang Kai-shek's son, but he left America before sentence was passed. If he is extradited - and he now awaits the outcome of a direct appeal to the Home Secretary Robert Carr-Cheng faces up to 32 years' imprison- by further ex- ment followed tradition to Taiwan, where he will certainly be killed.

United He went to the in 1962 States as a student and two years later joined the Formosa Independence Move- ment. The Taiwan regime then removed his passport. In April, 1970, Chiang Kai- shek's son 1 - Chiang Ching- kuo — visited the US to ask for more American arms to crush the growing opposition in Taiwan. During this visit, the World for Inde- United Formosans pendence organized demon- strations against him. One took place in front of the White House, one on his arrival at the Andrews Air Force base, and one in front of the Hotel Plaza in New York City, where Chiang was meeting American business- men. It was during this visit that one shot was fired at the son of the Taiwan dictator. Ching-kuo is, in Chiang fact, hated almost as much as his father, whom he hopes to succeed one day. He is head of the Taiwan secret police force, which is a million estimated to be strong out of a population of 15 million. This force has responsible for the been arrest of 1,500 political oppo- nents and hundreds of execu- tions each year. When Cheng's trial started, another Taiwanese, Peter Huang, pleaded guilty to fir- ing the shot. Cheng has al- ways maintained that he had no connection with the assas- sination attempt and at the time of his arrest, when he clubbed by brutally was police, he had only a few leaflets in his possession.

Nevertheless, an all-white jury found him guilty of attempted murder and illegal possession of a gun. Under New York state law, the maximum sentence for at- murder is 25 years. tempted and for illegal possession of a gun, seven years. • 1971, Cheng fled In July to Sweden and applied for political asylum. The Swedish granted him an government alien passport and permits to and work. He was joined stay by his wife and two children.

Ever since Cheng left New York, the Taiwanese military regime has been demanding that the Americans get him back. Yet it was not until been in Sweden Cheng had for nearly a year that the US demanded his extradition.

The reason for this is clear.

President Nixon wants to use Cheng as a sop to Chiang-Kai- who was extremely dis- shek, at Nixon's turbed visit to Peking. arrested in Cheng was Sweden on June 30, 1972, and order against deportation a him was granted on August 31.

On September 4, Cheng was taken on board an American plane, which • was forced to . at Copenhagen when he land was taken seriously ill. Some hours later he was carried from hospital and flown to London where his condition was so serious that he was placed in the emer- gency department of the air- port. In Britain Cheng appealed not to be sent back to the. States. After being remanded in custody many times his case was finally heard at the Bow Street magistrates court on November 23 and 24, 1972.

There the magistrates ruled that the assassination attempt was not an act of a political iso- character, since it was lated act. They also ruled that Cheng should be sent back to the United States since the act Cheng's place there and took was not in con- organization the American gov- Д1C1 With with the Tai- ernment, only wanese. The extradition stood., Cheng appealed to a Divi- sional Court January There, it was decided that the assassination attempt was political act, supported by an organization whose actions were purely political. However, the second part of the magistrates' ruling was up- held. Cheng was told that he would have been

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them. On March 5, Cheng appealed the House of Lords. to turned That appeal was down on a two to one majority Lords decision Law оп Monday. The Cheng Defence Committee says now it will Home Secretary ask the to change the extradition order of deportation, which would allow him to live out- States the United and side avoid the long of the arm Chiang militarv But Cheng must not Tories at the mercy of lant who, of course, wholeheartedly support Chiang Kai-shek. The entire labour movement must demand immediately Cheng full that be granted political asylum. There is no time to be wasted. Resolutions should be sent from trade union branches Chlang Kai-shek's son, Chiang Ching-kuo. He was on a visit to America when the immediately to The Home attempt to kill him took place.

Right: Taiwan's president, Chiang Kai-shek. Above: Whitchail, London, is Office, Britain. left: Tzu who who joined ner husband in Tsal-cheng, appealing against the extradition order which could mean 32 years' jail or death.

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Representativos of the Chiang Kai-shek regime sat through hearings all the preliminary as well as the trial of Tzu Tsai-cheng. made the trial a hot They made political issue and clear to the American authori- ties that they 'out for were blood'. It was this which prevented Cheng being sentenced on a lighter charge clearly influenced and judge and prosecution through- The political pressures oper- aling in ine cneng case were made clear in a sworn deposi- ton by victor kabınowilz wno defended Cheng at his trial in the United States. Mr Rabinowitz's statement, sworn on November 16, 1972, declares: I made numerous appear- before the Supreme ances the State of New Court 01 York in connection with this a when the matter. Several of the apper- hek. Above: who ances were in connection with eng, motions to dismiss the indict- ment and related relief....

At most of them the proce- dure followed was the same.

There was first an open calen- dar call and this was followed by an off-the-record discussion between the judge, the assist- ant District Attorney in charge of the case (Stephen Fallis), Mr Scoppetta (Peter Huang's lawyer) and myself. conferences Some of these took place at the judge's bench out of earshot of spectators in the courtroom; most of them took place in the judge's cham- The general tenor of bers. these conversations was an effort to dispose of the cases without trial. The procedure followed is one which is customary in the New York criminal courts— indeed, it is the procedure fol- lowed in probably 95 per cent of all cases. Counsel meet for purpose of ascertaining the whether there is some offence, less than that charged in the indictment, to which a defen- dent may plead guilty with an agreement by the judge that if a guilt plea is entered and if the probation report justifies it, an agreed-upon sentence will be imposed. I suggested that Mr Cheng be permitted to plead guilty to a charge of unlawful posses- sion of a gun or of assault and that the judge agree to sen- tence him to a term of no more than about 18 months or two years. Mr Fallis refused to accept such a disposition of the mat- ter and gave as reason for his a number of argu- refusal, ments. Prominent among these arguments was that this was a 'hot' political case, that the Nationalist Chinese govern- ment was very much interested in the outcome, that a light sentence would result in a protest from the vigorous Nationalist Chinese represen- tatives, who were, in Mr Fallis' words, 'out for blood'. He pointed out what I had already noticed, namely, that court hearing at every single since the beginning of this case, several representatives of the Nationalist Chinese gov- ernment were present in the courtroom. He told me that representa- tives of the Nationalist Chin- ese government had expressed some dissatisfaction with the fact that there had been delay in trying the case and stated that his superior, the District Attorney of New York County, was not going to permit him to make any disposition of the case which might result in bad relations between the Nation- alist Chinese government and Workers Press, Thu the government of the United States. Judge Harold Baer's attitude was that he would give con- sideration to any disposition of the matter which was satis- factory to the District Attor- ney, but that he would not attempt to persuade either the District Attorney or counsel for the defendant to accept any disposition. He, like Mr Fallis, expressed understanding that the his crime was politically moti- vated and was not to be ana- logised to a street fight or a felony committed during the course of some crime intended for private gain, but he did not feel that he was in any position to urge upon the Dis- trict Attorney any disposition of the case which might prove politically embarrassing either to New York State or to the United States Department of State. I am not, at this late date, in a position to give the precise dates on which such conversa- tions took place. I would esti- mate that there were at least six of such conferences which took place in the chambers of Judge Baer, and that all of such conversations took place between the third week in April and the beginning of the trial in May 1971. Press, Thursday April 19, 1973 PAGE 7 Taiwan and the Pon-Hu islands were ceded to Japan as part of the war reparations after the defeat of the Ching dynasty in 1895. After World War Ii, Chiang Kai-shek was ordered by the allied commander in the Pacific area, General Douglas McArthur, to occupy Taiwan and Pon-Hu.

At the same time, America occupied Japan and Okinawa.

The occupational government of Chiang was so brutal and cotrupt that the people of Tai- wan rose against it in 1947.

Chiang Kai-shek declared mar- tial law and 20,000 people were shot down in the streets.

1949, after Chiang's total defeat by the revolutionary forces in China, his forces were carried to Taiwan in American planes and warships. Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuo- regime still claim to mintang govern the whole of China, des- pite having been ejected by the chinese people a quarter of ¿ century ago. Accordingly, there is a double structure of govern- ment in Taiwan. is the 'central First, there government' which is supposed administrate the whole of China. All decisions on the na- decided by tional level are various ministries in the 'central government. Secondly, there is the Taiwan "provincial government" ', which in the main executes the policies handed down by the 'central government. The Governor of Taiwan has always been appointed by the 'central government'. Although, there are 13 million Taiwanese (86 per cent) and 2 million Kuomintang Chinese (14 per cent) on Taiwan, the Tai- wanese representation in the 'central government' is merely 3 per cent. The National Assembly is em- powered to 'elect' a President and vice-President every six years. Members of this Assembly Chinese were elected on the mainland in 1947 and 1948 for three-year or six-year term.

About one-fifth of them are still in office in Taiwan. The rest have either died of old age or are living in the United States.

Chiang Kai-shek himself re- "President of tains the title China'. The Prime Minister and are appointed by the ministers 'President'. The Prime Minister is Chiang , Kai-shek's son, Chiang Ching-kuo. The Governor Taiwan is appointed by the Prime Minister. no elections Thus, there are at 'national' and 'provin- at all cial' levels. The people of Tai- wan can elect only mayors and county magistrates. Even at this level only one party - the Kuo- mintang, financed by the govern- ment - is allowed. There is no freedom of speech, assembly, movement or publica- Demonstrations and strikes tion. are illegal. Criticisms of the re- gime, whether verbal or in writ- • criminal offence and ing, are a imprisonment. The mass media is rigidly cen- sored all newspapers are and owned and published by the Kuomintang or by the govern- ment. The wartime emergency mar- : remained in force tial law has ever since 1947. This law em- powers the regime and its garri- | force to search, command son arrest, torture, try by military and execute court, sentence people without any due process of law supposedly guaranteed by the 'constitution'. There are tens of thousands of political prisoners in Taiwan, and between 600 and 1,000 of these are executed every year. The regime, of course, has no popular support whatever. It is solely by American maintained money and American weapons. It was to obtain more such 'aid' that Chiang Ching-kuo visited the United States in 1970 US President Nixon's visit to Peking last year and his warmer relations with the Chinese Stalin- ists have thrown Chiang Kai-shek of thugs into. a his band • and panic. The United States has clearly decided to sacrifice Tzu Tsai-cheng as a sop to their Taiwanese allies.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday April 19, 1973 Today we begin a four-part series on one of the greatest fighters in the history of the Scottish, and indeed the British working class-John McLean, the fearless leader of Clyde- side during the first decade of this century. McLean's attempt to develop a revolutionary consciousness among the working class was his outstanding contribution to the labour movement.

He stands in sharp contrast to the Stalinist leaders of Clydeside today like James Reid. In this introduction we reprint extracts from McLean's speech to an Edinburgh court which sentenced him to hard labour for his anti-World War I agitation on Clydeside. The High Court of Jus- system that mankind has ever witnessed. My language 1S ticiary in Edinburgh is regarded as lan- extravagant the temple of bourgeois but the events of the guage, 'justice' in Scotland. It is four years have proved past my wish 100 harm to the headquarters of some I wish any of the most class- human being, but I, as one man conscious judges in the exercise my free- am going to of speech. No dom human world. being the face of this on On 9, 1918, the May with no government is going earth, first imperialist war still rag- to take from me my right to this ing, was where they speak, right to protest my brought McLean, John con- against wrong, my right to do Glasgow sul to the first everything that the workers' in the government benefit of mankind. I am not world, the Bolshevik regime here then, as the accused; I established in Russia by the am here as the accuser— of revolution of October, 1917.

capitalism dripping with blood charged was on from head to foot... counts under the Draconian as Russian freedom So far Defence of the Realm Act of and British slavery are con- making statements prejudicial cerned, I wish to draw atten- to recruitment and discipline tion to the fact that an article HM Forces, of attempting in appeared in the 'Scotsman' the cause mutiny, sedition and to Bolshevism, other day about disaffection amongst the and I have a feeling that that civilian population, and • TO article was written especially impede production of the for this trial to create a feeling against Bolshevism. munitions. The state- marched Forty workers in that article ments ale d through the night from Glas- travesty. -40 miles away- —to be gow- Inside Russia, Lenin since present at the trial. McLean and Trotsky and the Bolshe- preferred to rely on the sup- viks came to power, there have of the working class port been fewer deaths than for symbolized by their presence, the same period under any of the manoeuvrings than on Tsar for 300 years. Capitalists bourgeois lawyers, of which he have been killed perhaps, had already had considerable officers have been killed per- He chose experience. to haps, because they have not duct his own defence. submitted to those who have After farcical trial in come to the top—the majority McLean revealed all which of the people-in the name of sorts of inconsistencies in the Bolshevism testimony of Crown witnesses, The Lord Advocate pointed most of whom had taken no out here that I probably was notes at his meetings for fear a more dangerous enemy that of attracting attention, the had face than in you Lord Advocate mustered all Germans. The working the of the hypocrisy British class, when they rise for their Liberalism demanding in a are more dangerous own, to He voiced verdict of guilty. capitalists than even the the fear of the capitalist class German armies at your gates of the October Revolution.

I am glad that you have There was no law against made this this statement at socialism, he talking about the most historic trial that has said, but at a certain point been held in Scotland, ever such talk became an attempt when the working class and to implant the seeds of sedi- capitalist class meet face the 'We must protect our- tion. to face of that kind selves against It was not the workers who thing, or face at once in this The wor- instigated the war. country the same catastrophe overtook Russia.' kers have no economic interest as as a consequence of to serve McLean hour- made an the war, and because of that, from long speech reply, it is my appeal to my class the following is which that makes me a patriot as far tracted: ( as my class is concerned, and when I stand true to my class, the working class, in which I was born, it is because my people were swept out of the Highlands ... I have remained true to ... the working class I am no traitor to my country. I stand loyal to my For the full period of my because I stand loyal active life I have been a country to the class which creates the of the teacher economics to wealth throughout the whole working classes, and my con- of the world has always been that tention In view of the fact that the capitalism is rotten to its and great powers are not prepared foundations, must give to stop the war until one side place to a new society ...

capitalism the other is broken down, consider the most or it is our business as members infamous, bloody and evil Above: A detachment of armed revoluti lurked in the background of McLean's at once the same catastrophe as overta of the working class to see that this war ceases today, not only to save the lives of the young men at the present, but also to stave off the next great war. That has been my attitude and justifies my con- duct in recent times. I am out for an absolute reconstruction of society on a Co-operative basis, throughout all the world; when we stop the need for armies and navies we stop the need for wars... I am a socialist ... I am proud of my conduct. I have squared my conduct with my intellect ... I act square and clean for my principles. I have nothing to retract ... Your class position is against my class position. There are two classes of morality. There is the working-class morality and there is the capitalist-class morality... My appeal is to the working class. I appeal exclusively to them because and they only can bring they about the time when the whole world will be in one brother- hood, on a sound economic foundation. That, and that can be the means of alone, bringing about a reorganiza- tion of society. That can only be obtained when the people of the world get the world and retain the world. When Lord Strathclyde, the Lord Justice General, an- nounced the sentence of five years' penal servitude, Mc- Lean turned to the workers in the gallery and said, 'Keep it going, boys; keep it going!'

McLean's was Lea confidence well placed. The campaign for his release stretched through- the working class of out Britain and indeed the world.

It was the revolutionary No d revolutionary workers In Petrograd, McLean's trial. 'We must protect ourselves aga as overlook Russia, the Lord Advocate said that forced the working class strength of the British gov- ernment to release McLean after serving only seven in months of his sentence, stand as Labour time to candidate in the General Elec.

tion of December 1918. Speaking at a conference of Moscow trade union and fac- tory committees, in June 1918, Lenin hailed McLean's stand: The British government prosecuted McLean :.. not a Scottish school- only as teacher, but also as a Consul Federative of the Soviet Republic. McLean is in prison because he came out openly as a representative of our government, yet we have never seen this man, he has never belonged to our Party. He is of the the beloved leader workers, Scottish but WE. joined with him, the Russian and Scottish workers united against the British government. And when McLean was re- leased, Lenin said: • This shows that the British labour movement with its revolutionary demands is be- coming stronger and stronger.

The British government has been compelled to free Mc- • Lean, its bitterest enemy, a man who calls himself a British Bolshevik. It is now 50 years since the death of John McLean, on ary November 30, 1923. He was I, November 1917. The events in Russia selves against that kind of thing, or face cate said about the charges on McLean.

then only 44, but his death had been destroyed by his in brutal experiences HM prisons in 1916-1917, 1918, in the early and several times 1920s.. The world working - class revolution [wrote Lenin] began with the action of in- dividuals, whose boundless represented courage every- thing honest that remained of that decayed official 'socialism' which is in reality social- chauvinism. Liebknecht Germany, Adler in Austria, McLean in Britain-these are the best-known names of the isolated heroes who have taken upon themselves the arduous role of forerunners of the world revolution. Today the descendants of the decayed official socialism of the social democrats who sided with their own' bour- geois governments on the out- break of war in August 1914, stand more nakedly exposed as traitors than ever, before a working class which has suffered no major defeat since World War II. It is the task of all those who reject decay and respond to the living spirit of McLean, to unite that spirit with the science of Marxism as de- veloped by Lenin and Trotsky in the Russian Revolution and the struggle against Stalinism, and to take advantage of the enormous crisis of capitalism to construct the revolutionary party to lead the working class to power. There is no other way to celebrate the heritage of John McLean. Saturday—McLean's early life —the making of a socialist.

'He told me how the French had once wiped out his whole village.' second day of the On the the had interview two men developed rapport. 'good The 'recited poetry prisoner He and sang a song to me. said the poem was one that he recited when he always was downhearted.' Russo's Suddenly, voice The courtroom fell into broke. Russo buried his face silence. in his hands and sobbed. and Ellsberg Russo are charged with conspiracy, espionage and theft of govern- They face life ment property. jail sentences. It had to happen. Now people are making money out of the by advising state pay laws Daniel Elisberg—case continues.

handle big business how to Without much fanfare the case them. the authors the The 'Sunday Times' has just against 'Pentagon Papers' is going on.

published an expensive adver- There has been some remark- from Bentley Asso- tisement able testimony. Co-defendant of Old Bond Street in ciates Ellsberg is Maytair. with Daniel The Anthony J. Russo, junior.

advertisement says: explained 'Phase Three and the future Last week he under oath to a Los Angeles Dynamic wage and industrial court why he photo-copied the relations policies.' secret Pentagon documents on Vietnam the war. Russo, a researcher for the Rand Corporation, Viscount and Mount- Lady was on project to analyse the 'motiva- of Stainley House, garret, tion and morale' of the com- South Stainley, Ripon, near denied munist soldiers. have that they are He recalled a conversation But their ex-butler and mean. with an elderly liberation army -sacked after refusing to cook- prisoner at the 'National Inter- serve breakfast because of dis- rogation Centre' in Saigon in satisfaction with their own 'He was the strongest food—claim that they got fish 1965: man I've ever met in my life, fingers while the nobility got Russo told the court, 'an edu- pheasant and grouse. Mountgarret said: I cation cadre who had Lady The am not a mean person. the man freeze He recalled food is kept in a deep was and has to be carefully labelled 'very committed and sincere so I can tell what it is?

We talked for two days in his jail cell. He explained But the sacked George Kelly (48), said: the great deal to me about Lord Vietnam, about last came when Americans in straw what the people in the villages Mountgarret, when served where the with stilton, asked thought. 'He said he would never crust was. give up, no matter how much I rescued it from the dust- bin and served it on Silver he was tortured-and he had salver.' already been badly tortured.

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CROSSROADS.

6.00 6.55

FILM:

of the Worlds'. Barry, Ann Robinson. Gene A Martian machine crashes in California.

THIS

WEEK.

8.30

SYKES WITH THE LID OFF.

9.00 Eric 10.00

NEWS

AT

EUROPEAN JOURNEY.

10.30 From the Baltic to the Adriatic.

11.00

CHILDREN

TO

CHILDREN.

A Place in the World.

THE PAPERS SAY.

11.30

WHAT

MYS-

11.45

SCOTLAND

YARD

TERIES. The Missing Man. 12.15

PRAYER.

FRIDAY'S TV

BBC 1

9.45 Chigley. 10.00 Magic roundabout.

10.05 Banana splits. 10.35 Starsport. 10.50 Captain Pugwash. 11.00 Grand- stand. IT.05 International siew 12.55 Football preview. News. 1.00 Laurel Hardy. 2.00 and The last hour. 3.00 Grandstand. 3.05- 4.30 International show jumping. BBC TV Grandstand trophy. 3.45 Rugby league. Widnes Warrington. 4.45 5.00 Crackerjack 73. 5.35 Final score. Weather. 5.40 Today's sport. 5.45 all. International Gymnastics. FILM: Song of Bernadette'. 6.30 Jones. French The eldest Jennifer , daughter of a peasant has visions of the Virgin Mary.

9.00

THE

REGIMENT. Women. 9.50 NEWS. Weather.

PERFORMANCE.

10.00

GALA

Michael Flanders introduces Hunter, Merle Park, Rita David Julian Bream, Kyung-Wha Derek Rencher, Orpheus Royal chestra the House. i New Philharmonia Or- chestra.

ACCORDING TO THE RULES.

11.05 A Doctor in Auschwitz. Ac- of the Auschwitz libel count 1964-one of the suit of longest libel actions in English legal history.

BEYOND

PERSONALITY.

12.35 Nice People or New Men. 12.40 Weather.

BBC 2

11.00-11.25 Play school. 2.50 Tyman- friend. 3.45 Play school. 4.10 cha's The First of the Few'. Leslie Film: Howard, David Niven, Rosamund Tohn. Story of aircraft designer R. J. who gave Britain the Spit- Mitchell hire.

MISTRESS OF HARDWICK.

6.05 Sweet Chatsworth. Honest 6.30

GAME. 7.20 NEWS.

MONEY

Weather.

GARDENERS' WORLD.

7.25

ENTERTAINS.

The 7.55

KOREA

Mansudai Dance Company.

AND DEATH OF

8.35

THE

LIFE

WEIL..

of

SIMONE

Pilgrim the Absolute. Told by Malcolm Muggeridge "The Sandpiper'

FILM:

Eli- 9.50 Burton, zabeth Taylor. Richard Charles Eva Marie Saint. Bron- The Webber. son, Robert res- of pected principal high passionate affair school has beautiful woman. with a NEWS SUMMARY. Weather. 11.55 Workera Pross, Thun Scott Anthony as Cheri, Lorna Hellbron : dramatized novel 'Cheri' BBC2, 8.30 p.m.

REGIONAL TV

2.30 NIm. A Breath of Scandaln don.

2.30 Film: Breath of Scandal'. Cartoon. 4.20 Lottery. 4.25 Rainbow 4.55 country. Tomfoolery. 5.20 in charge. 5.50 London cross.

Doctor 6.00 6.10 Lucy News. show. 6.35 roads. 7.00 Film: 'City of Bad Men'. 10.30 Towards the Y.35 8.30 London. 2000. 11.02 Scales European journey. 12.00 weather. Channel

WESTWARD.

As except: 10.15 East 1, West 1. 10.40 Danger man. 11.35 Dr Simon Locke. 12.05 London. 12.37 Gus Honeybun. 12.40 London. 12.57 News. 1.00 London. 6.00 Diary. 10.30 Report. 10.59 News.

12.00 Song. SOUTHERN: 10.00 Paulus. 10.15 Yoga.

10.40 Film: 'Pardners'. 12.00 News. 12.05 London. 2.30 Women only. 3.00 Film: 'Hello London'. 4.25 Weekend. 5.20 London. 5.25 Crossroads. 5.50 London. 6.00 Day by Scene SE. 6.35 Doctor in charge.

'Along Came a Spider'. 8.30 London. 9.00 Hawaii 10.00 London. 11.15 11.00 News. 11.10 Name of the game. 12.35 Weather. HARLECH: Film: "In the Doghouse'. 11.35 Not so much a theatre-more 12.05 London. a way of life. 2.30 Women, 3.00 Film: The Astronaut' 5.25 5.20 Chuckleheads. Crossroads. Report 6.18 Report Wales. 6.35 Sky's West. the limit. 7.05 Film: "Timetable'. 8.30 London. 9.00 Hawaii five-o. 10.00 Lon- don. 10.30 Festival 73. 11.00 Spyforce.

12.00 Weather.

HTV

Cymru/Wales 150V Cantamil. as except: mawr. 4.35-4.50 4.25 Miri 4.50-5.20 Rovers. 6.01-6.18 Y dyda. 10.30 See can. 11.00 12.00 Weat you Spyforce. Weather. West as above except: 6.18-6.35

HTV

Sport West. 9.45 And think of

ANGLIA:

that 10.10 Paulus. while you're swinging. 10.20 Animated classics. 11.05 Gallop- 11.35 12.04 ing 90. 12.05 2.30 Let's face News. Welby MD. 3.55 it. 3.00 Marcus Ву- 4.20 News. 4.25 Romper room.

gones. 4.50 Merrie melodies. 5.20 Lucy. 5.50 London. About Anglia. 6.20 6.00 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Film: Arena. 8.30 London. "Conquest of Space'. Hunter Rita sings arias from 'Aida', BBC1, 10 p.m.

ITV

9.30 A season of Gilbert and Sulli- van. 10.15 The prince and the 11.05 The Alistair MacLean pauper. story. 12.00 Cartoon. 12.05 Rainbow. 12.25 Happy house. 12.40 First report.

"General hospital. 1.30 Crown 1.00 Were you court. The Nutty 2.00 2.30 Film: Professor', Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens. 4.20 DoeS News. Magpie. 4.50 The big top. 5.50

KONTAKION.

A Song of 6.00 Praise. 6.30

CROSSROADS.

7.00

THE

SKY'S

THE LIMIT.

7.30

THE FBI.

8.30

WHO DO YOU DO?

JUSTICE. Nobody's That Good.

9.00

NEWS

AT TEN.

10.00

- SONG OF THE

10.30

MAHLER

EARTH.

Leonard Bernstein and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra play Gustav Mahler's symphony. 12.00

PRAYER.

SCALES

OF JUSTICE. In- 12.05 famous Conduct.

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL:

1.00 London. 2.30 Yoga. Knight'. 4.20 2.55 Film: The Black London. Exeter. 6.35 London. 6.00 9.00 London. 8.30 Comedians. 10.30 Kontakion. 11.00 Film: 'The Fantastic 11.25 Weather. Man'. Disappearing Channel except: 9.40 WESTWARD. As Danger man. 10.35 Dr Simon Locke. Cartoon. 12.05 11.05 London. 12.00 Honeybun. London. 12.37 Gus 12.40 London. 12.57 News. 6.00 News. 12.25 SOUTHERN: Yo.oo Paulus. 10.10 Yoga.

Locke. 11.05 London. 10.35 Dr Simon 12.05 London. 2.30 12.00 News. Galloping 3.00 Let B1F4.20 Film: It'. London. 6.00 George Do 6.30 Upper 7.00 Kontakion. crusts. Cartoon. 7.05 Sky's the limit. 7.35 Tone, Thursday Apoll 18, 1873 PAGE 8 Heilbron as Edmee in Episode 1 of the 8.30 p.m. 10.30 Bygones. 11.05 European jour- Baron. ney.. 11.35 12.30

ATV

MIDLANDS:

11.10 Acres profit. 11.30 Survival. 12.00 Guide. London. Wome " Forest. 12.05 2.30 3.00 425 London. •Sword • of Sherwood 5.20 Elephant boy. 4.25 5.50 London. artoon. Tos columbas Cartoon. 7.00 Bob Monkhouse. London. 9.00 Spy- 11.00 Gardening. 11.30 force.

ULSTER:

11.35 Not so much theatre - more a way of life. 12.05 London. 1.29 News. 1.30 London. 2.30 Romper room. 2.40 Film: Portrait of Clare 4.23 News. 4.25 Primus. 4.50 90. 5.20" General hospita Cross- 5.50 Reports. 6.35 6.00 'Cottage to Let' What's all 8.30 11.00 it about. Avengers. 12.15 Maundy , 11.20 Thursday. YORKSHIRE: 10.00 Play better ten- 10.25 Special brain Karl nIs. 11.05 Cartoon. 11.15 We Kroyer. need each other. 12.05 London. 3.00 Film: "The Astonished Heart'. 4.25 4.50 Skippy. 5.20 Doris Houndcats. Day. 5.50 London. 6.00 Calendar. 6.35 Film: Crossroads. 7.00 "The River's Edge'. 8.30 London. 11.00 Sport. 11.35 Streets Francisco. 12.30 Weather.

GRANADA: 9.30

Enchanted house. 10.05 9.40 Audubon wildlife "Underwater'. Film: 11.40 Pete 11.50 Hammy Hamster. 12.05 London.

3.00 Name of the game. 4.25 Thunder- birds. 5.15 Nature's 5.20 i do News. Crossroads. 5.50 Londons Ki Kick off. Put it writing. 7.00 Film: 6.30 Partridge 'Devil's Doorway'. 8.30

FBI.

What 10.00 Seven 10.50 Primus. 11.15 Pebbles and bamm. 11.35 Not so much of life. I2.os Londone -more a way 2.30 Dateline. 3.00 Film: Astonished 5.25 Heart'.. 4.25 Land of the giants.

Crossroads. 5.50 London. 6.00 Today. Partners.- 7.00 6.30. Film: Rivers Garden- 8.30 London. 11.00 ing. call. 11.35

STUC.

12.00 Frankie Howerd in Ulster.

GRAMPIAN:

11.15 Strange report. 12.04 News. 12.05 London.

3.00 Film: General hospit 4.25 Half London. 5.20 5.50 London. 6.00 hospital. News. 6.05 Conference 6.35 report. Crossroads. 7.00 Film: 8.30 London.

11.00 Police 11.05 Name of news. the game. 12.30 Meditation.

Banacek 9.00 London. 10.30 Film: •Dear Wife'. 12.10 Weather. Guideline.

SeaspracH: 1.05 Wondonda 12:00 Seaspray. 11.05 Chuckleheads. London. 2.30 Junkin. 3.00 Film Bonnie Scotland'. 4.20 London. 6.00 Kontakion. 6.30 Doctor in charge. 7.00 Bugs Bunny.

Renegades'. 7.15 Film: Last of the 9.00 London. 10.30 Comedians. 11.30 Our kid. Dr 12.30 Weather. Simon HTV Cymru/Wales as above except: 10.30 10.15 Stesion cantamil. Sports of icons. arena. 11.00-11.30 World ANGLIA: 9.30 A Green hill far away.

9.45 Animated classics. 11.00 London.

News. Documentary. 3.30 Dick London. 2.30 12.04 12.05 unkin. 3.00 Van 3.55 Romper room. 4.25 London. 6.35 About Anglia. Crossroads. 7.00 London. 7.30 Hawaii 8.30 Comedians. 9.00 London. hve-o. 10.30 Probe 11.00 Film: special. Married a Monster From Outer Space'.

12.30 Reading. for ATV MIDLANDS: 10.40 • Acres pront. 11.05 London. 12.00 Cartoon. 12.05 London. 2.30 Junkin. 3.00 Film: 6.00 Kon- 'Great Guns'. 4.20 London.

takion. 6.30 6.35 London. Cartoon. 7.30 • Comedians. 8.00 Hawaii five-o. 9.00 London. The 10.30 Police surgeon. 11.00 Film: Shuttered Room'. Weather. ULSTER: 11.00 London. 1.29 News.

Women. 1.30 2.30 3.00 London. Kontakion. 3.30 Romper room. 3.50 Rainbow 4.18 News. 4.20 country. London. London. 6.00 Reports. 6.35 7.30 Pathfinders. 8.30 Comedians.

9.00 10.30 Henry 11.00 London. Andy. Friday. 12.00 Look Good up.

YORKSHIRE:

10.10 Gilbert Sullivan. 11.00 and 3.00 Me the chimp. 3.30 Danger and 6.00 Kontakion. 4.25 London. man. 6.30 Cartoon. 6.35 London. 7.30 Who you do? 8.00 Hawaii five-o. 9.00 do 10.30 Film: The Young Sav- London. ages'. 12.25 Weather.

GRANADA:

Enchanted house. 9.30 10.35 9.40 Gilbert and Sullivan. Galloping Cartoon. 10.40 gourmet. 11.55 11.05 London. Bugs Bunny. 2.30 Junkin. 3.00 Dick 12.05 London. Van Dyke. 3.25 4.20 Danger man. 6.00 Kontakion. 6.30 Sky's London. the 7.00 Film: •Three Young limil. Texans'. 8.30 Comedians. 9.00 Lon- 10.30 Film: "Decision Before don. Dawn'. 12.45 Spyforce.

SCOTTISH:

9.50 No easy answer. London. 11.05 12.00 10.35 Batman. London. li Gustavus. 12.05 2.30 Date- Junkin. 3.30 takes a 6.00 Today. 6.30 do you do? 8.30 Who 9.00 London. 10.30 Friday Comedians. call.

11.05 STUC.

night. 11.00 Late 11.20 Film: •Vicki. 11.05 London. 12.04

GRAMPIAN:

12.05 London. Junkin. News. 2.30 Kontakion. 3.25 Let's face it. 3.00 melodies. 4.20 London. 3.55 Merrie 6.00 News. 6.10 Grampian week.

6.35 London. 7.00 Film: The Man With a Cloak'. 8.30 Comedians. 9.00 London. Conference report. 10.50 job 10.30 10.55 Frankie Howerd. 11.20 look. Theatre of stafs. 12.15 Meditation.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday April 19, 1973

CENTRAL LONDON

(Press and Entertainments Thurs- Parlour Central Branch): day April 19, 7.30 p.m. 'The Roo- Hall, Mare Street. buck', corner of Tottenham Court Cost Crisis and the Rising of Maple Road and Street (near Living'. Warren Street *Fight tube). tor Thursday

CROYDON:

April 26, Democratic Rights. The need for Ruskin House, 8 p.m. Coombe alternative leadership'. an Road. 'Marxism and the trade Speaker: Mike Banda

(SLL

unions' Central Committee).

FULHAM:

Thursday April 19, WILLESDEN: Thursday April 26, 'The Swan', Fulham Broad- Trades p.m. 8 p.m. Brent Labour and S.W.6. 'No collaboration with way, Hall, Willesden High Road, Pay Board' the N.W.10. 'Build Councils

LEEDS:

April 19, Action'. bours Yaverne. Cobourg Wood- p.m. HOLLOWAY: Thursday Aprit 26, Speakers from house Lane. hos- Seven 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Sisters pital workers and clothing indus- 'The economic Road. crisis and try. the rising cost of living'.

MIDDLETON, Thursday Aprll 19, 8 р.m. 'Assheton Arms', near the

HEMEL

HEMPSTEAD:

Monday Gardens. April 30, Room 2, Middleton 8 p.m. Adey-

TODMORDEN:

field Hall, Queens Square. Thursday, April The Weavers' 'Defend Basic Democratic 19, p.m. Insti- Burnley Road. "The Rights' tute, Ques- tions of May Day, 1973' EAST LONDON: Monday April 30, FELTHAM: Thursday April 19, 8 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hali, Bow 'Three Horse Shoes', High p.m. Road, E.3. All out May 1! Force Street. 'TUC must call a General

TUC

the to call General Strike to make the Tories resign'.

a Strike!

SLOUGH:

25, Wednesday April 8 p.m. Community Centre, ( Farn- WANDSWORTH: Monday April 30, Road

'TUC

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Name.. Address.. SOUTHALL: Wednesday May 2, Southall Library, 8 p.m. Osterley Park Road. 'Report back from May Day'.

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday May 'The p.m. Hoe be A CONFRONTATION at Massey states there no negotia- So MDW Street. 'Report back from May and productivity reneuson. covenu. or measured Day'. Day Work is now inevitable. Dur- deals. earlier conferences, ing. union Wednesday

WEMBLEY:

May involve call lol a substalliidi Incicase li Copland School, p.m. High earnings had been replied to with Road. 'Report from May MDW proposals. department has laid off for been Day'. These had been rejected by the three weeks by the Rubery Owen strike. Some now shop stewards' committee

WOOLWICH:

Wednesday May 2, that the will

DOCU

Hallasecul The Castle, Powis Street say come on new

DACK

E.18. May result, company Day'. would indee make Two 0 22.86 the based oner, BRIXTON: Monday May 7, 8 p.m laws, of across the pay Room, Brixton Training board. Centre. 'Report back from May But this would have meant Day'. that 31 outstanding claims from sections workers within the

LEWISHAM:

factory would have been ignored. 01-720 2000 Engineers' Deontore lasu Cone cace. opp. New Cross Station. The the company stated that no such of

TUC

role the the fight offer was and that aoainst the Tories'.

MDW

there outside of was whatsoever.

BATTERSEA:

Tuesday May The union side of the negotiat- 8 p.m. 'Nags Head', cnr. Wands- 01-622 7029 ing committee had no option but worth Road and North Street. failure 'Report back from May Day'.

Away oncas nave to • Carry oul national committee policy, which a ne art No journalist could have followed the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' saga closer than Workers Press re-

SO ON THE CUTOR

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REFORMISMON THE CLYDE

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No Common Market accord PICKETS were still operating at three major productio plants of the Watney Mann brewery chain in the Lond area yesterday. Workers were confident that all production at the Isleworth bottli plant would shortly come to an end because they have stopped st plies of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) thanks to the co-operation of lor drivers. Other essential supplies, such as fuel for fork lift trucks, is also not getting through.

Over 100 engineers and transport workers are on strike and picketing 24 hours a day at Isleworth, but the 700 production workers are not being called out at the moment. There is now little for them to do anyway and there is full co-operation between the different unions. As soon as any piece of machinery or transport equipment receives some maintenance from a fore- the money. Alternatively, of man in the absences the the men can have the strike, engineers on money, but will forfeit their the machinery is blacked.

annual pay agreement due in July. Nearly all of the workers Roberts, at Whitechapel Denis electri- are on strike and at the famous cians' shop steward, said: Mortlake brewery the first 'There has been a steady production workers have deterioration industrial come out on strike in sym- relations since Maxwell pathy with the engineering Joseph took over Watney's. section, who are picketing. 'He bought out the com- pany with paper money, but

BROKEN DEAL

needs to his now he turn a profit capital into and Pickets are being repay loans. main- tained round the clock at all "The only way he can get three manned by Dlalils the return he needs is members of the engineer. squeeze extra profit out of vehicle builders, steeet mena, union, electricians, the workers here.' workers, and T&GWU mem- thought it would be possible refusal by Watney's to im- the government and £2.40 as well as their annual ment in return for produc- pay agreement in July. agreements, They are striking to force changes in working arrange- to hand back the productivity concessions The men say that the con- they had which handed cessions they have made will over. be withdrawn if the £2.40 What happens if the Pay deal is blocked under Phase Board makes order for- an Two. bidding the strike has yet to They claim Watney's have be discussed. broken a signed agreement The stewards at the to pay the money for the Denis Re moment think that the state concessions which have pay laws cannot forbid them ard, Isle already been handed over. on strike to force a wants to Watney's that Phase say return to previous working Two forbids them making n pay conditions.

THE BITTER

dispute ening to tear the Euro- Common Market pean apart. came out fuming: 'Those people Com- the mad who invented A meeting of agricultural Market farm policy have mon ministers in Luxemburg the Council immobilized of Ministers.' broke up without reaching agreement yesterday morning has been strongly rerman ritical of the policy after an all-night marathon for several years and the revaluation of the session and will not meet mark as a result of the monetary again for two weeks. crises of the past year has har- dened opposition. Over 25 hours of arguing Herr Ertl rejected a compro- sharpened differences to break- the mise proposal that price point. Germany's Minister ing increases, averaging 2.76 per cent, Agriculture, Joseph Ertl, of should not apply to countries VAUXHALL management claim- their workers Luton, Dun- at ed yesterday that they stable and Ellesmere Port and approaching a settlement with have also proposed two extra the unions over a government days' holiday giving an Il-day dictated wage offer. break through Christmas and Talks between the sides New Year. two were broken off after three hours Over 6,000 workers at the before yesterday final agreement Ellesmere Port have plant al- had been reached. ready voted to accept the offer.

Vauxhall said that with the com- But a company spokesman said that it was believed they £4m offer in were pany's free approaching settlement. would now bargaining situation have The company has offered $2,40 had to be matched by increased a week with fringe benefits for productivity. Workers Press, Thurs THE TRIAL of five police- that erever,, possible earliest the including men, the former moment is operations chief of Scotland Sir Carl listed the case Yard's drugs squad, accused 5. He might not for June actually hold that date, of conspiring to pervert the to but the trial could not wait of justice course by giving. September. beyond false evidence, must begin by The accused police officers September at the latest. Det Chief Insp Victor are: Ruling this yesterday, the Kelaher, Det Sgt George Pritchard, Constable recorder, Sir Carl Aarvold, Det said: Nigel Patrick Lilley, and Woman Det Constable Morag roduction "This is a case which the McDonald McGibbon. public interest e London requires former drugs squad be should brought on for Norman Clemence detective, trial at the earliest possible Pilcher, is also accused. moment. All bail and all are on rth bottling 'And, all from have Kelaher face except perjury opped sup- heard today, it would seem charges. of lorry

NERVOUS

President A Nixon been forced has to break his official silence on the Watergate affair which become first-class has political scandal in the United States. In a statement to Press men he said that there had been a major development in the bug- ging case and that if any mem- the administration ber indicted by Grand the Jury affair he will be probing the suspended immediately. The affair goes back to the arrest, during the election cam- paign, of five men with burglars' tools and bugging equipment in the Watergate building where the Democratic Party had its offices. Two other men were later arrested. At their earlier this year no evidence was given about who was behind the bug- ging attempt but two of the former White accused were House aides. One of them, a former

CIA

man, James McCord, after being said he was ready to convicted, tell all to the Senate investigat- Committee and Grand ing Jury probing the case. He claimed that Denis Roberts, EEPTU shop stew- others were involved, that that Isleworth. 'Maxwell Joseph jury was committed and. political had heen put Nants to get his money back by pressure on the defendants to plead naking more profits out of us.'

guilty. whose currencies had been re- valued. ( He said Germany that was opposed to the whole prin- ciple of linking reunification of the market with the price proposals. The British Minister of Agri- Godber, opposed culture, Joseph the increase of 10.76 per cent proposed for beef and the imme. diate rise of 5 percent for milk the put forward by Agricultural Commission as a compromise. He clashed with his French opposite number, Jacques Chirac, who is under pressure to secure big, immediate increases for French producers. Consumers in Britain and other countries are in fact being called on to pay much more for food inefficient order keep farmers and peasants in business.

At the same time, the producers are up in arms because the pro- posed increases are not sufficient to maintain their living standards.

The only workable compromise between the continental coun- tries will be one which requires big in farm prices. Godber will be forced to accept what is decided in order to keep Britain in the Market.. German Food Minister Erti ess, Thursday April 19, 1973 PAGE 11 Kelaher... headed drugs squad.

Among those suspected of hav- ing a hand in the affair are John Mitchell, former Attorney- General, and President Nixon's John Dean. The legal counse Post' reported that •Washington money for the bugging had come from "secret fund' of the Republican Party. The finger of suspicion has moved rapidly towards the White House since the trial of the seven men; and Nixon, reversing his is looking for previous position, sacrificial lambs.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE MEETINGS

Make Scanlon retract! No collaboration with the Industrial Relations Act!

No acceptance of Phase Two! Force the Tories to resign! Build the revolutionary party! South London

TUESDAY APRIL 24,

North London

WEDNESDAY APRIL 25

8 p.m. Woodlands Hall, Crown Street, Acton, W.3. East London

SUNDAY APRIL 29

7.30 p.m. Abbey Hall, Axe Street Luton

FRIDAY APRIL 27

8 p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bedford Road Transform the SLL into the revolutionary party

MONDAY APRIL 23,

7.30 p.m. 'The Mona' , James St (Entrance at back in Moor St) Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Clapham High Street, 7UG. Printed Plough 01-622 7029.

Workers Press, Thursday April 19, 1973

PAGE 12

Criticisms leak from secret congress Steel union is slammed on jobs THE FIRST Iron and Steel congress since World War I met yester- BY day at TUC headquarters to plan the fight against the 50,000 redun-

IAN

YEATS

dancies the Tories want to create in the industry.

100 dele- More than from all gates over Britain met behind locked doors. Proceed- ings veiled with strict secrecy. Only dele- gates were admitted and no were announcements made to the Press. lobby mass ot the special conference by steel- but expected. only 27 arrived from East Moors Works, Cardiff and four from Newport Tube plant. Labour DuL small turn accounteo ror tre saying that the time

VUL UY

for banner-waving was over.

During a conference break celerates lobbyists that the union had been criticized also chilly morning. There was only one reso- lution before delegates call- the ing on union special teams oneserators into threatened works whether closure was justified. The lories are to be told alternative jobs must anar be provided before any shutdowns take place. indication lunchtime yesterday whether the executive would call tor industry.

DUFOUL L

wide acton to nait closures.

THE

footplatemen's union,

ASLEF,

yesterday call its members out a 24-hour strike on May Day the azallis. 804- pay policies. ernment s Soon afterwards, and the other rail two unions agreed at a loint meeting reluctance' With British Rail's new wage offer. Combined shop stewards picketing at Watney's Isleworth plant.

South Supplies of carbon dioxide, essential for beer bottling, are not getting Wales workers- among them through. See full story p. 11. Dockers at London's Royal Group are to miners-taking DalL refuse to handle bulk shipments of Swedish lager which they say is demonstra- protest distributed Watney's. Truman's in Stepney. In another dispute, involving drivers government's prices The dispute beer deliveries are being delayed.

WIll

LIONS

Cardiff to a meeting. is over bonus payments. Back-door methods' accusation at AUEW national committee COMMON Market supporters overturn union policy, at the committee at Torquay yester- were accused using back- annual meeting of the AUBW day. door methods in trying engineering section's national The from accusalon Calle Wrieht executive member

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union part in all trade bodies and connected committees with claim goes in

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Britain's CHLy Wright said it would con- flict with Labour Party and

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policies.

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make the representing over tween them and their Civil Ser- 1M1S WORe stand on its head and place 300.000 Joca government white.

weered the same camp as those rebels f15 a week. collar workers submitted a claim by as much as who for 15-20 cent salary in-

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Lincoll ana lost further comparison wno nave let the rarty in order weekly Marce, Ceto prata in the Common the WINe CONC based une workers different indus- said. tries that govern defeated the non-manual groups staffs had fallen the pro legates votese in a unions demand that the govern. 1972. representing recognize Their euse Lucill pite present statutory Cost says or ving estimates

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Ult. predict rise mandated when the union's atti- strictions'. 1972 tude towards the Market local cent from June to coverinel debated by four sections that earnings range from June this nears €5.000 for a principal d toer years old the fall in real earnings of local the union at OVer government 197319 Will staff con- ference Eastbourne in June. if the gov. Yesterday's vote foreshadows a Local government tinued in workers major row there. claim that the differentials be- ernment's pay limits are applied. IN THE MIDDLE of the new storm of severe econo mic crisis, all the reformist leaders of the labour movement could do was repeat more of their pathetic quack cures for a situation which they plainly do not understand. Scottish trade unionists did six months ago at the STUC little unfair! annual con- Wilson went in for Then gress got a double dose of the kill. this shoddy medicine. Wilson, tion leader, totally refused to launch a bid for discredited out the government: His challenge to Heath was an- other bout of rude word- swopping. Wilson said he had peatedly challenged Heath and did so 'Does he again. admit the fundamental now of the unfairness standstill period when prices rose far more than incomes?' In the middle of the col- lapse of Britain's balance of Wilson payments situation, is asking Heath if he does not now think, looking back, that something Heath

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problems for the Tories and is causing grave concern in stringent, attempts to hold big business circles. down wages by law. The powerful Engineering The Tories' only other Employers' Federation, in its alternative would be to let annual review published yes- the pound float downwards that 1973 must be -bringing in its train must considered 'make- precedented rises in import or-break' year for the indus- and intolerable prices an the fight against in- try in increase in the cost of food.

flation. At the same time the The EEF's first respon- difficul- employers' present sibility, the stated, ties in finding sufficient sup- was to hold down rises in plies of raw materials at the wages and salaries. right price would be greatly If it failed to do this, 'the intensified. of the present decline On top of this, a round dustry will not be arrested.

of competitive devaluations Yesterday's deficit trade would be sparked off which must be a sharp warning to would greatly step up the the working-class movement. trade war. There must be no 'deals' The Department of Trade with the left Tory government, and Industry blames the in- as trade union creasing value of imports leaders and their hangers-on this world Communist year on rising in the Party prices for goods like wheat, suggest. wool and copper, and on the capitalist The crisis is falling value of the pound spiralling rapidly into against many currencies. where the situation attempt In a bid he Put a brave must be made to institute a face on figures, police dictatorship military declared that the volume of plant. and deprive the working increasing reflects all its lot getting imports class of democratic activity in the economy' and rights. are to claimed 'strong growth' in The building of the re- ley say is exports this year. volutionary party to meet at But the this challenge is the task of continuing in- flationary crisis which this the Yesterday's trade le dispute hour. 'increasing activity' and deficit proves we have not 'growth' reflect huge poses much time.

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chiefs yester- union of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions day saw Northern Ireland Minis- saw Mr Howell at their ter of State. Mr David Howell in request at Stormont. a move to settle the Harland and Later a government spokesman Wolff shipyard dispute threaten- said: ing 10,000 jobs. The ten-week "They expressed their concern long dispute is between the man- about the situation and made and 2,500 steelworkers suggestions which they felt would agement over bonus payments. be helpful in resolving the pre- sent circumstances' Leaders of Confederation the