Workers Press no. 1054

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STALINISTS

ACCEPT TORY

PAY BOARD

Islanders plan anti-oil armada see p.6, 7 & 12

FROM IAN YEATS

IN SCARBOROUGH

THE

235,000-STRONG

National Union of Teach- ers became the latest major union to accept a wage deal within the limits of the Tory state pay laws at its annual conference here at the weekend. Not only did the Com- munist Party faction vote for acceptance, but the union's new Stalinist president, Max Morris, helped draw up the executive recommendation on pay. He is also the man who will tell the employers at the Burn- ham committee that his members have agreed to a Tory-dictated offer of a f127 a year flat rate pay rise.

ATTACK

Morris went on to launch a vicious attack on the youngest and most militant section of the NUT who have been demanding a fight against the government pay norm. So in the first major test of Communist Party leadership in the battle against the most vicious Tory government since the war the Stalinists opted for collaboration in Tory plans for the corporate state. On Saturday the executive fought to have struck-out from a pay resolution a vital paragraph calling for a new 'vigorous public campaign' for a 'substantial flat rate increase'. Instead they proposed their 'case' union's pay should drawn up by experts at Ruskin College trade union research unit-presumably to be followed by submission to the Tory Pay Board.

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But only about a dozen of 2,000 delegates at Scarborough Spa voted for the Ruskin amendment, inflicting an overwhelming de- feat on the leadership. Leading the attack, Leeds dele- gate Mr W. Scott hit out: *In essence the executive amendment tells conference it is not capable of deciding its own wages structure. It can only be that it wants to side-track con- ference on the next pay claim.'

The Tory laws cast a heavy shadow over the conference and in the absence of any real leader- ship delegates were paralysed by the government's abolition the traditional methods of free collective under bargaining Phase Two. In the two days of debates.

teachers complained bitterly about step rises in the cost of living. It was claimed that although the vast majority are dissatisfied with their pay, they now see no

THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY APRIL 23, 1973

E CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

way of achieving rises above the government norm. Ever since being forced to flee the platform at Westminster Central Halls, London - all but about 30 of the 2,000-strong audience voted down a milk- and-water resolution ending the campaign on the London teach- ers pay allowance-the Stalinists and right-wing-dominated leader- ship have been gunning for the militants. his presidential address In Max Morris launched a vicious the lunatic fringe of attack on, the left,' with a call to the union's 'silent majority'.

*EDUCATE'

In a blatant onslaught on the young teachers who have led the for higher fight pay, Morris said: The vigour and energy that young teachers command should

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THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

GiL

SNERES

CANVEY

THE STALINIST policy at the National Union of Teachers' conference will set the pattern for Communist Party suppor- ters at every union conference this summer. Their action in voting for the NUT's Phase Two wage settlement arises directly from the decision the Party executive at King Street to give full support to the Tory pay laws and the corporate state in return for some amendments to the Industrial Relations Act.

Workers Press is the only newspaper in the labour move- which has consistently ment warned against the treachery of the Stalinists, who have now become the staunchest suppor- APp: WE SEEM to have levelled out at the £9,000 mark. Saturday's post brought in £6 from Coventry branch of the Socialist Labour League, which brought us to £9,153.78. This is not the time for complacency. Can we have the next big push please. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High St London SW4 7UG. ters of the TUC's right-wing policies. The lesson for the working class is made clear once again.

The building of a revolutionary leadership demands a complete and fundamental break from all aspects of Stalinist policy.

The record of Trotskyism's struggle against Stalinism dates back to the early part of the It is 1920s. most urgent task for all workers to study and understand the his- tory of this vital struggle.

Stalinism today is the most counter-revolutionary force in the world. The policy of the *peaceful road to socialism' leads directly to class collab- oration with the Tories.

workers press

STALINISTS

ACCEPT TORY

PAY BOARD

Islanders plan anti-oil armada see p.6, 7 & 12

FROM IAN YEATS

IN SCARBOROUGH

THE

235,000-STRONG

National Union of Teach- ers became the latest major union to accept a deal within the wage limits of the Tory state laws at its annual pay conference here at the weekend. Not only did the Com- munist Party faction vote for but the union's acceptance, new Stalinist president, Max Morris, helped draw up the recommendation execulive on pay. who will also the man tell the employers the Burn- ham committee that Tory-dictated nave of a $127 agreed offer a year flat rate pay rise.

ATTACK

Morris to launch a youngest

VICIOUS

attack on the and most militant section of the

NUT

been demanding who have a nght arains! government pay norm. so in the nrst major test ol Cornmunist Party leadership the battle against the

VICOUSIOM

overinen since the war the Stalinists opted for collaboration in Tory plans for the corporate state. On Saturday the executive oucar to gave sauck-our tom a pay resolution a vital paragraph calling for 'vigorous public a new callivalen lor a substalllai lal rate increase'. their they proposed instead union's pay 'case' should be drawn up by Ruskin experts at trade collece UnIon researen unit- presumably to be followed by submission to the Tory Pay DUalU.

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTI

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But only about a dozen of 2,000 delegates at Scarborough voted for the Ruskin amendment, inflicting an overwhelming de- feat on the leadership. Leading the attack, Leeds dele- gate Mr W. Scott hit out: 'In the executive essence amendment tells conference it is not capable of deciding its own wages structure. It can only be that it wants to side-track con- ference on the next pay claim.'

The Tory laws cast a heavy shadow over the conference and in the absence of any real leader- ship delegates were partitioed of the government's abolition the traditional methods of free collective bargaining under Phase Two. In the two days of debates, teachers complained bitterly about step • rises in the cost of living. It was claimed that although the vast majority are dissatisfied with their pay, they now see no

THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY APRIL 23, 1973

E CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

way of achieving rises above the government norm. Ever since being forced to flee the platform Westminster at Central Halls, London - all but about 30 of the 2,000-strong audience voted down a milk- and-water resolution ending the campaign on the London teach- ers' pay allowance--the Stalinists and right-wing-dominated leader- ship have been gunning for the militants. In his presidential address Max Morris launched a vicious attack on, 'the lunatic fringe of the left,' with a call to the union's 'silent majority'.

'EDUCATE'

In a blatant onslaught on the young teachers who have led the fight higher 1 for pay, Morris said: "The vigour and energy that young teachers command should no TURN TO PAGE 2 - 23, 1973 • No 1054 • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

МОСЯ КЕНН

SONERES

CANVEY

THE STALINIST policy at the National Union of Teachers' conference will set the pattern for Communist Party suppor- ters at every union conference this summer. Their action in voting for the NUT's Phase Two wage settlement arises directly from the decision by the Party executive at King Street to give full support to the Tory pay laws and the corporate state in return for some amendments to the Industrial Relations Act.

Workers Press is the only newspaper in the labour move- ment which has consistently warned against the treachery of the Stalinists, who have now become the staunchest suppor-

WE SEEM

to have at the levelled out £9,000 mark. Saturday's post brought in £6 from Coventry branch of the Socialist Labour League, which brought us to £9,153.78. This is not the time for complacency. Can we have the next big push please. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High St London SW4 7UG.

ONCARNEY

IVERHE

ters of the TUC's right-wing policies. The lesson for the working class is made clear once again.

The building of a revolutionary leadership demands a complete and fundamental break from all aspects of Stalinist policy.

The record of Trotskyism's struggle against Stalinism dates back to the early part of the It is 1920s. now most urgent task for all workers to study and understand the his- tory of this vital struggle. Stalinism today is the most counter-revolutionary force in the world. The policy of the •peaceful road to socialism' leads directly to class collab- oration with the Tories.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday April 23, 1973

A SYNDICALIST

levies at the bottom [the equivalent o ANYONE looking for a systematic defence 1920s]. It is not at all beyond > in the or synaicalist conrusion and a conscious will apology for Stalinism will not find the realms of possibility that there be an attempt on the part of the Con- than Mr Tony Cliff's example better servative government to evoke separate latest contribution in socialist Worker them with order to crush (April 21, 1973). conflicts, ir The article called-characteristically— liberal: philistine lorce, TOtalen leaders of the Labour Party, and to set 'Now file must pick rank ane

APOLOGY FOR

the movement back. gauntlet'. Mr Cliff is considerablv

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Trotsky, however, was not discouraged by ried by the failure of his prognostica- of breakthroughs and such envisaged victories, a prospect because ne Lulls that the revolutionary communist move- the front advances on wares -unlike. Cliff's -would syndicalists- 1973. Euphoria and mindless worship assimilate the political lessons of a set- spon- back. which filled the columns ot Lancily a defeat of that kind 'On the contrary, 'Socialist

STALINISM

worker of the Cliff has now turned into dour despon- for the renewal would orepare dency and disorientation.

revolutionary forms, and 'Have the rank and file failed? Do workers Connere is Britain Goinger consequently under leadership. lack militancy? Are they submissive. 77-78.) What is the explanation of the retreat?' Pp. Cliff's article is the opposite of everything asks a rueful Clift. Trotsky stood for. even have to pose the at snould What we think He conceals the counter- question about the failure of the workers ConsciousLy is itself a confession of utter bankruptcy and revolutionary role retormist Stalinist leaderships by blaming the set IS, when varuicularly 'form of organization back on the and month before; the 'Socialist worker lead 'ack communications between The reason for this-according to Cliff- about Toe corporate statea having created meet the entire struggle of Lenin 'The fight goes on. This week's strikes and fascism e rejects is the 'fantastic strength' bility int or mont dave down ze docra and Trotsky and prepares the way of mass action. United and resolute, the and Class presuma -e TuDOISe. working-class movement can the bureaucracy to betray the working The Sll has never stated that the

COT-

Although Mr Cliff does not state relation between political struggle for be- class. government Ireeze alla LoDDIC and the economic explicitly, clearly sate this deathless cousin: struggle hind it.' (March 3, 1973) 'fascism' UnIs Conclusion Cliff's answers to these questions are implied in his own Tories destroy the nave lo unions al 'Hence, of the political bureaucracy: only development crude serious or the physical laying • combat. but ther struggle itself, the fight the "The union bureaucracy including bv government-luc the lene arming or the poorer ate state legal basis for threat Dosed li duc will be followed and accom- Stalinist collaboration and, moreover, the so-called "left", will continue to fail the state the trailed ins to give a lead? attempt •TWey hope to be tor working class which typified This is politeness carried to the point of of the with the liquidation Do leaders betray? ared soften poncy in tne past magnanimity.

LIC

the Cliff, socialism This clearly revealed in Cliff's analysis No, replies they only of the Saltley reruse suicitile rcvolutional y the working class. contuse it and split Coke Depot episode in give a lead! into the spontaneous ex- oreanizauon it and then make a surprise attack.

perience of workers. This for union leaders and the Ine miners surike When Cliff sneers at the SLL he sneers of the Only those who warn dangers of leaders laser simple ment "The lesson for obscuring of the crisis which forces the predictably at the prognosis of Trotsky, and union was a simple Tories to collaborate with union leaders and ight for Marxist con.

Cor Duralisill prepare, tomorrow, who aware of the dangers sciousness working class and today was aculcly The nevel dsalll. stemming from reformist leadership and union can attempt to disarm the union ranks and ine I his is a conscious lacks arainst who never made a virtue of 'militancy'.

class with the revisionist argu- leaders themselves, an turn the present set-back into an endur.

aunteeral part that Tories Cliff's against Marxism. once the question of power becomes the were ing victory aranst corvista and sneers the Conservatives will endeavour Cliff's centrist diatribe emphasizes the why distorts- at- severe, and that trom That 1s he decisivelv cereatea for the transformation of great urgency on into the indefinite future, the govern- oi cor- the olls warnines or une danse.

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ment continue to collaborate poratism in Britain. "Hence-all tne talk the top, and on those trade revolutonary ball. you hear now among some left wingers who political through such a struggle. pay with the IC White House big CWS bank

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this extra effort we make part in the plot to bug the Democratic election headquarters.

The Bank of England has today. mounted a certain from his fund used to buy the order Repart nee usual a shotgun marriage votine crisis, the ruling class President left silence seven convicted tween the Scottish and English placuice, will and more Watergate defendants who are fight back both his top domestic adviser, Co-operative Wholesale Socie- lengthy jail terns. Workersk now facing Class Erlichmann his agallist and backed by ties. a consor lull ol Only press orer corale • LO oress evorls. dal chief of staff, H. (Bob) leading clearing banks. • K pared. Our paper alone struggles outs from this fund Haldeman, Washington to build the revolution- supervised by John Dean, Scottish Co-op Bank has necessary were when he flew south for the House lawyer. some £50m in customers' fight back White leadersue Mitchell, who and deposit and there against all inese attacks.

weekend. "Onn recent V We are confident that Both men have retained a top resigned from the post were tears al one point tarte dear are fully behind lawyer, have told the Grand fury that te crisis would lead to a run on the Washington former attorney-general, bank. We therefore, appeal to vou. attornev-general Wilson, to act for them in all vou the had approved payments of cam- Mitchell ... 'Legal fees' The bank came to the brink of Tase ol Fund this month. Time is running inquiry now under way paign funds to the Watergate judicial failure through its • operations on out so let's not waste a the Watergate affair. defendants. CND vigils the market in sterling certificates Over Rush every donation immediately deposit. These long-term Haldeman under havesued. me calmeo me davments wert are Workers Press April Appeal Fund tion by a Federal Grand Jury to for legal fees and had nothing to of securities bearing a nxed rate determine whether his office had do with buying their silence. interest and repayable on specific 186a : Clapham High Street initial case at sub site the bugging The ngures dates. role London SW4 7UG $3,000 attempt and in the later attempts lesser defendants 51,000, ac received The bank borrowed money in scandal accord- cover up. short-term the capital market ing to the 'New York He has denied any link witt Nuclear

THE

CAMPAIGN

for Inance Is purchases or stere Disarmament's weekend certificates, but the steep rise in

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pro- interest rates over the past Lest Colo to • poor sa woe months on at the Cosyth dockyard red involved it 1n heavy dockyard- Rosyth losses. fuelling base of the Polaris sub. The was tact tat the marines. able to get itself into such deep

FROM PAGE 1

still cannot distinguish between They erected a seven-foot high indicates that the controls genuine militancy and the opera- walcl

CND

waited to address sign and tion of a wind machine. SunDoseov be a positive benefit to a teach- members of the public-but no.

British banking operations ers' union. one turned up. in reality, less than watertight.

strikes deciaed upon by. tiny majority votes, calls for extended About 1,000 ban-the-bomb The banks' participation in the unrelated hit we nave Prucare strikes, marchers eventually left indetnite Glas- new members. Good union mem- sterne cerunicate ine bossible acmevemens ovar- centre marca bers are not born but made.

The market results from a relaxation ticular objectives, are foreign to the Faslane submarine base 29 of the Bank of England's miles away. genuine trade unionism. which and objects, the way it operates less than vigils were held on

LWO

dou. Overnight under democratically de- 'Our our allowed the rules bond" 1s to bule u Conion Saturday and last night at sites lendership The union's prime their holdings of this form of under occupation. and Edzell, Rosyth, Machrihanish weld its members to- Glen Douglas. Coulport and Holy cemocraticalv eecteo nas to be taught and learned like every- gether strongest Bankers have long claimed that ble force to fight for

LOCO

reace trees were planted higher thing else. better conditions of service pad at each location. Thanks to me warce keor

CND

general Dick Bank of England over the other secretary is not a college de- •A union financial bank caucanona davance. Nettleton expected institutions, said he had Its bating society. meetings. are He appealed: Faced with the are a thing of 4,›v0 marcners, out ne was not not tech ins talk-ins or ShOUT. disappointed' the past. methods discussion dangers piling up against us.

'COn- Communist Party member laid fronted by policies from on high Bank of England intervention decision-making are and Reid told and philosophies from all sides this time, case of a - marc however, is a cowa recoznized

DIU-

rally: do not want nuclear would undermine what 'We cedures, conventions and rules. shutting the stable door atter the W C bases in Scotland. makes us horse has gone. nave struggied lor over une years sitting ducks isorkers time for educational in the event of a Notning debases the currency or blunts the sharp edges of mili- throughout the service nuclear war.' The rally decided to send Heath

RIGHT-WING

elements in the tant action more than its misuse to close their ranks! Tory Surrey telegram to premier engineering union are In emov slotan ana Morris then went on to sup- panacea for every unsolved prob- asking the British government to High Court writ Millars then support or toase to stop the AUEW's participation back Australia in its protest over

DULL

Two militants then support for accept the Phase proposed French in May Day strike against 'Alas some of our members tests in the Pacific. the lory pay laws

TUC DOES A PUBLIC RELATIONS

ROYSTON BULL EXAMINES THE

The TUC's latest publi- cation, issued immedi- ately after the shameful abandonment of the hos- pital workers to the Tory pay laws, announces proudly: 'Strikes still possible under counter-inflation legislation, TUC tells unions' The purpose of this fatuous could not commentary be clearer. The TUC is trying to up its capitulation to cover the Tory government by some 'left' phraseology. The poverty of the attemp- ted cover for this nakedness only serves to reveal all the more the wretchedness of its surrender. 'There are no powers under • legislation entailing im- the automatic prosecu- mediate tions,' the paper says breath- lessly. No, the reality is that the Pay Board or the government has to make an order forbid- ding an increase before pres- to get it implemented sure a criminal offence. becomes A magnificent safeguard! And even that 'concession' is not valid for the vast majority of pay deals, ie. those cover- ing 1,000 workers or more.

Strikes or other industrial action to implement an agree- ment for more than 1,000 workers are automatically il- legal until the deal has been approved by the Pay Board, even if it is within the Phase Two norm of fl plus 4 per cEnt. The full significance of this corporatist abolition of basic democratic rights has still not sunk in with the trade union at large. It clearly movement never will at the TUC. The document chirrups on: 'In the absence of an order or notice, there are no legal limits on negotiations, and unions can lawfully take in- dustrial action to secure what- they settlements ever can reach.' defeatest terms Not a single sentence throughout this whole 2,000- word TUC document calls on unions to strike in defiance of the pay laws, or even re- minds unions that it is TUC policy to reject the pay laws and therefore to support strikes against them. Victor Feather-a frequent visitor at No 10 Downing Street. On the contrary, the docu- ment is couched in the most blatantly defeatist terms. 'Under the legislation, unions must not exercise any pressure on an employer to contravene either a notification or a res- triction order by taking the following action: (a) calling, organizing, procuring, or fin- ancing a strike, or threatening to do . SO; or (b) organizing, procuring, ot financing any industrial action irregular short of a strike, or threaten- ing to do so.'

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SUPPORT

YOUR

HOSPITAL

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Kost Hospital workers-The TUC leaders, inc And yet despite the total absence of any call to defiant action, and bearing in mind the record of the TUC in com- pletely abandoning the gas- workers, civil servants, teach- ers and hospital workers with- out the trace of a fight on their behalf, the document gaily tells workers that where there are less than 1,000 of them, they are free to strike until an order is passed for- bidding it. This attitude is 'not some chance error. For it is capped by an even • better one in the very next paragraph! 'The government's notifica- tion order of April 1 prevent- ing the implementation of pro- posed increases [for 1,000 workers or more until approv- ed by the Pay Board] will normally apply only after a settlement is reached and should not therefore make union action to secure such a settlement illegal.' This is a bold invitation to trade unions to go on strike without any fear of legal pen- alty in order to secure a which will then settlement automatically be vetoed by the Pay Board. Any subsequent strike action actually to get the implemented, of settlement course, would be illegal and invite criminal proceedings against the instigators. This kind of 'advice' is nothing but an insult to trade unionists. The essence of this attitude is the abject prostration before the mystique of bourgeois law. The timidity of reformist bureaucrats these tinkles in every sentence: 'An order or notice will nor- mally follow the consideration by the Board of a settlement and it cannot be supposed that the Pay Board will seek to interpret its powers to in- clude the power to make an order restricting pay which is still in the course of negotia- tion,' the document whimpers an almost audible sigh with of relief at having found an- other 'concession', instead if a further anticipated whip- lash. The document even tries to make a virtue out of the fact that striking of itself is not made illegal by the legislation, organization and only the instigation of strikes. The servility almost reaches the point of justifying the pay laws. 'This legislation • does not prevent unions taking in- dustrial action purely as a Workers Press, Monday April 23, 1973 PAGE 3 to secure an agreement in the form of a commitment to par whenever this legally sible or after Phase Two: Pos- COWLEY ROnN

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Criminal

HOSPITAL

misguidance

WORKERS

This is just not true. It is slipped in to cover the TUC's servility by pretending that pass. ine dark clouas will soon The document even hands out the hope that such above-the- norm might cren paid retrospec- be able to be tively, depending the Phase Three criteria. This totally false. Then, without any justifica- tion whatsoever, the statement predicts: for example, IS, assumed unlikely that the Board would think to orders against settle- Ssue future ments guaranteeing wage increases if the rise esving ee reds a the cost of certain level.' This is a most criminal mis- guidance of the trade union movement. exactly dribe Tories' intention wages down below the level of so-called 'leírs' abandoned their pay fight.

inflation. protest about by statutes The government, in fact, is and case govern ment's policy, secure law' Just in case the thought already doing it, the of being free to Piachaud analysis, recognition widely pub- go on surike rights, to prevent, or pro. unnerving for licized in the Press was too recently. Work redundancies clearly showed. Lest agalnsl ers to take. victimization, etc. The document then goes on The TUC bureaucrats were But thoughtfully it low on to predict quite erroneously: crawling too their Inen adds, 'These 'This should legislation parentheses not In would be governed

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday April Reckitt and Colman have been boosting their mustards range with a sentimental, but: un- doubtedly very expensive new television advertise- ment. The Reckitt's group-one of Britain's top 75 companies can afford such expenditure.

It earns hundreds of thous- ands of pounds of its f105m from cheap South turnover African labour. The group produces every- thing from wine to cleaning Huid. A year after the Tory elec- tion victory, into the making of which Reckitt and Colman poured considerable amounts of money, its 25,000 workers in Britain found themselves plunged into a major rational- ization. aim, said The chairman Arthur Mason, was to bring all activities under five main divi- sions -food, household pro- ducts, toiletries, industrial pro- ducts and pharmaceuticals.

First victims of this drive were jobs in wine production at Rickmansworth in Hertford- shire. Then closure of a can- ning and preserves plant at Peterborough was announced, threatening 250 jobs. The group's political dona- tions are generous. To British United Indus- trialists—a fund-raising or- ganization for the Tory Party gave £20,000 last time round. Aims of Industry and the witch-hunting Economic League both got £500. Yet these are mere fleabites in comparison with Reckitt and Colman's massive profits.

In 1971-1972 these were before interest almost £22m and tax. This represented a proht rate of 20.7 per cent in relation to capital employed, as compared with 19.1 per cent the previous year. 'We have nothing, absolutely nothing to be ashamed of in operations in South our Africa', the group told cam- paigners who wanted to sever links between it and Hull University, which it helped found. In 1970 Reckitt and Col- man's South African assets, at £5.85m, were about 5 per cent of its total. At £9.84m, its sales in South Africa were about 5.7 per cent of its sales worldwide.

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Taking these figures to- gether, the Hull campaigners worked out that worldwide the group's trading profit was 11.1 per cent of its sales, but in South Africa its profit was 15.4 per cent of sales. So at least £430,000 extra profit was being made there as a result of cheap labour, they reckoned. In fact this is probably a underestimate, gross since about a third of the group's South African employees are white and therefore paid over £40 a week where black wor- kers get less than £10. The South African Institute of Race Relations estimates that the minimum income on which a family of five could Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage reet, London SW4 7UG ilable, free, on request.

be at all secure in an African as Soweto, township such where some Reckitt's employees live, is £61 a month. So presumably wives are bé- ing expected to go out to work, perhaps as nannies to white leaving children, while their own families untended. In this way an extra £10 a week might be brought in, leave which would still Reckitt's workers among the 68 per cent of black workers who surveys conclude are living in poverty in South African townships. For these families there is no coy joking about the differ- ence between fresh mustard and Colman's—rarely enough any meat to put mustard on More evidence of the vast tracts of land available for house-building but denied to local authorities by speculators has come from the north west.

A recent survey has found that there is enough land to in build 149,000 new houses Lancashire and Cheshire for the working-class families of the Manchester metropolitan area. But it is kept lying idle by private owners. planning Both county authorities have said that the government's so-called plan to stop the hoarding of land will implement, be very hard to mainly because it is often im- possible to find out why land is being kept from the market.

Cheshire's deputy planning officer, Ronald Turton, gives three cases. PLANNING permission was granted two and a half years ago on 200 houses on a 25- acre site at the village of Doddington, five miles from Chester. But nothing has happened, even if they had any. Yet it is all too easy, amid the welter of liberal protest that the conduct of British companies in South Africa has recently evoked, to lose sight of the one fact that can help to change this situation.

And that is that firms such as Reckitt's rely heavily on cheap labour to buttress their must be expropriated stock and barrel before the conditions of the South African workers can be ameliorated.

This struggle is intimately bound up with the fight against unemployment and the cam- paign for the mobilization of the working class to force the Tories to resign. though the land has changed hands twice, presumably at ever inflated prices. If it ever does come up for development, the cost of building houses would be so high as to price the average working-class family out of the bidding. THE SECOND case concerns the only large undeveloped site for housing on the edge of Chester at Great Broughton.

Nine months ago planning per- mission was given on 200 acres for a 1,400 housing project.

Turton building says that could have started right away, but nothing has been done.

IN A third case the price of 30 acres of building land changed hands twice, first for £20,000 and then for £30,000. Now the owners face penalty clauses if they don't start building.

Despite this evidence, Cheshire and Lancashire County Councils say there is 'no evidence' of speculative holding. They are both Tory controlled and do not plan to move to free land until autumn.

The date is 1967. The place Oakland, Cali- fornia. The speaker Black Panther Party chairman Bobby Seale. 'These pig cops want to oppress us, tear our flesh with their service revolvers, the only way to deal with the is through power structure violence and force.' It the time fellow was Panther leader Huey Newton had been charged with the murder of an Oakland police- man. Seale said: 'That was no murder. That was the execu- tion of a pig cop. You got to your piece, have vour heat, your rod, especially you got to have a shotgun in your pad That power is very important The BPP was founded there in Oakland in 1966 by Seale, Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver to defend the ghetto community against police at- tacks. Last week at Oakland Seale had this to say: 'We have a good police department but the officers need to be trained.'

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He added, cheering LO crowds: 'There ain't going be any riots in this city-we're going to the polls.' Bobby Seale was running in an for the eignt-man race office of mayor of Oakland.

In 1969 he was gagged and handcuffed to a chair in Chicago court after protesting he was being denied his con- stitutional rights. Accused with six others of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic Party convention in Chicago he was given four years' jail for con- tempt before the real trial had even begun. Francisco prison he In San was brutally beaten by sheriff's deputies and locked in solitary confinement without bed to sleep on. In 1970 he was tried at New- haven, Connecticut, guarded by 4,000 troops, for the killing of fellow Panther Alex Rackley.

A year later he was offering to mealate berween prisoners at riot torn Attica jail and the authorities. Although little there Is evidence that his political changed his •olecuves lave methods certainly have. The gun has been hung up in favour of the ballot box.

A good part of the reason must be that in the past five years the Nixon administration has waged the Panthers ruthless war killing about a score and staging huge snow urals lo inumidale sup- porters. Seale said at Oakland last week: I've dedicated my life to the concept that the people have the right to a better and more decent life, the beginning ot which can come the win idea that people have the right a joo, WiLl Or wilsoul skill.' A considerable change from the hre and brimstone davs ot black power from the barrel of a gun. The real nature of this poli- tical change is still obscure.

All the signs are that the cuddling Panthers are closer and closer to the reformist tac- of the American tics Com- munist Party. Newton, who now lives in an expensive 25th floor aparl- Oakland's ment overlooking Workers Press, M 1. ol.1 Black Panthers, Huey Newton (left)' Carmichael speaking at a Black Power Lake Merritt had this to say: 'We're doing our basic home- to organize work and that's the community and be of some influence in the community.

'We have to be students of society, to be in tune with what's in operation at the time because if you're out of step then history will condemn you.'

Newton returns to univer- sity soon to study for a doctor- ate in politics. All charges against him have been dropped.

Last week some observers waiting thought he was only to see how Seale fared in Tues- day's election before making his own move into 'legitimate' politics. Seale, who campaigned in an Press, Monday April 23, 1973 PAGE 5 (left) and Bobby Seale. Above: Stokely ack Power meeting in 1968 expensive conservative busi- ness suit says he is now a master carpenter, amateur jazz musician and ordained minister in the Universal-Life Church, a mail-order religious movement.

Even John Reading, the quiet-spoken American busi- nessman who made a fortune out of food processing and who was seeking a third term as mayor praised the 'respect- able' and 'dignified' character of Seale's campaign. About 34 per cent of Oak- land's 360,000 population are black but Seale electioneered on issues affecting all workers such unemployment and as secrecy at local council meet- ings.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday April 23, 1973

BY IAN YEATS

flat seascape of this tiny Thames island, en sişhtly s uat- You can still drive to bellied storage tanks obliterate Canvey Island and see the view. munching quietly Not far away the historic cows of the night sky tranquillity in the flat and apparently in the is ended ever-blazing unending meadows. beacon of the methane gas Birds twitter in the hedge- centre. Now, despite the protests of rows and the wind rustles the of trees in individuals spring leaves the and local authori- of Minister gardens slumbering, de- ties, Environment tached, middle-class homes.

Geoffrey Rippon has ruled that But every few minutes this two oil refineries may be built on Canvey. idyllic calm is shattered by the of giant crash and roar red This will mean that exactly half the island's 4,000 oil tankers belching given over to gas and their way in clouds of choking will be diesel smog to the mainland.

oil. while in the other half 28,000 people will live under a residents Where post-war once looked out over the lone- pall of smoke and smells.

The town campaigned once 1964, to stop subsidiary of the Italian state oil company ENI, from setting up a refinery.

Their protests were so suc- cessful that Agip were unable to start building before plan- ning limits expired and they were forced to back out. Now, in his latest decision, Rippon has given the go-ahead for £45m. million-ton to ENI's subsidiary refinery United Refineries Ltd. On an immediately adjacent site Occidental Refineries are to begin work on a soon second complex. Apart from the pollution and the fire risk, local people that if the plans estimate go forward be oil tankers will roaring on and off the island at the rate of one every one- and-a-half minutes. But all of this, according to Monday Club member Rippon, is in the 'national interest'.

But is it in the local in- terest? The inhabitants of Can- Island say very firmly vey 'No' Moreover they claim that Rippon has effectively dis- enfranchised them by tramp- ling down the democratic ex- pression of their opinion.

The island council said 'No' to the refineries: other Essex councils said 'No'. Over 12,000 people almost the entire adult population of Canvey-said 'No' in a monster petition.

Environment Ministry in- spector K. M. Sargeant told Rippon the island was unsuit- able for more refineries with- out destroying the amenities.

Overriding these views Rippon has run out the red carpet to the oil giants.

A large number of the pro- testers are workers from near- to be Ford of the engineers who reclaimed Can- the sea and built vey from themselves light wooden bun- galows on piers. They surrounded by were farms, the air was pure and the sailing was good. After the war Canvey be- came even more popular with the middle class as a weekend retreat, and in the boom years 1950s and early 1960s of the workers moved there from central London. Oil Refineries Resistance Committee public relations officer George Whatley is typ- ical. He came from Tooting. 'I came here to get out of the dirt, he told me. Today his home looks out fields to the green over Thames. Soon the view will be transformed by and steel concrete forest of tanks and deadly masts out fumes night and day Committee treasurer's wife Mrs Val Smith told me: 'My asthma and I came son's got E here for the air. F 'But there's sulphur in oil- and that's a chest aggravant. A lot oi people here will suffer if these refineries are built. George and Linda Watson

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moved to Canvey from London five because they liked tar the look of the fields and the horses. But said Linda: 'The builders have moved Where they build those want refineries is about the only land left.' Added Mr Watson: 'We feel so helpless. We're at the mercy of the do oil magnates. What can We t Hundreds of highly - paid Tead on ery rse voice along the prints workers moved out of Londor Texaco oil tankers with their families seeking George warley let with orer slice of the good life, only to tance Committee'. Top right: The fields Workers Press, Monday

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especially if it happens to lie path of profit. in the Mrs Smith As said: They want to turn Canvey Island into an oil refinery. This undoubtedly true. Capitalist big business plans to of reaches develop the lower Thames at the expense of the old London. Island Canvey and the surrounding area is earmarked as a modern fuel and centre there are already oil refineries, wharves and storage depots at Coryton, Isle of Grain, the Haven, Shell Cliff and Thurrock. The centre is close to new Tilbury dock developments at and the rail, sea, air terminal Europe is not at Maplin. far away and major industries like Ford's nearby are On Thameside. of the In the lower reaches Thames industry can build new Above left. protest to the on men. from scratch and escape the Above right: er along the Island's tiny streets. and congestion of constraints of the 'Oil Refineries Resis- ight: The fields and the storage depot.

the old city. kors Press, Monday April 23, 1973 PAGE 7 To Canvey Islanders the only meaning of fuel centre is fire. Said Mrs Whatley: 'We all warned them about Aberfan. Now all those poor kids are dead. They have no right to do this to us.' Apart from oil and gas is also from there danger ammunition loaded into ships off Chapman Point. Fires and explosions could the deaths of scores of mean people - especially since although there are two roads on and off the island these meet at a single narrow bottle- neck roundabout. Two demonstrations block- these roads have been staged against the refineries.

and in the process two men have been arrested. Now the island council plans to fight their case in the High Court.

Mr Said Whatley: 'Our democratic rights are at stake that anis: Rippon is saying country needs that this 28,000 people need more than safety.'

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Apri John McLean, the Scottish wor affected by the war hysteria that imperialist agitated against the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. But to build a revolutionary party in I four-part tribute to McLean we weakness. It was to John McLean - recently sacked from his teacher's job by Govan School Board - that the rent strikers of Glasgow turned on Nov- ember 17, 1915, to head their demonstration which climaxed their campaign for rent restric- tions. And it was McLean who took up the fight for politics in the syndicalist Clyde Wor- Committee of shop kers' stewards from the main muni- firms, which led the tions campaign against the dilution of the skilled labour force on the Clyde from the autumn of 1915 to March 1916. McLean's courageous stand for principles- he was first briefly imprisoned in November 1915, and in April 1916 he got three years' penal servitude- won enormous respect in the working class. But the weaknesses of his propagandist approach to the working class-rooted in the undialectical method which dominated the parties and Inter- sects of the Second national - and his isolation from the international struggle for Marxist theory and prac- tice, began to become critical.

The rents struggle threw forward vital into new forces the fight against capitalism, which, in their turn to McLean and in their attempt to mount a demonstration at the West Nile Street recruiting office in Glasgow, expressed a develop- ment of political consciousness far beyond that which the most experienced layers of workers involved in the munitions fight were able to make at this stage. Although McLean saw the potentially rents struggle as the beginning of a campaign of political strikes, he was not able to intervene to win the most conscious of the rents strikers to a revolutionary programme. He remained an admired figurehead, and the reformists subsequently took the credit for the rents victory. To the government it was no more than an undesired but neces- tactical sary retreat which enabled them to get on with the job of enforcing dilution in the munitions factories.

Within the Clyde Workers' Committee, McLean correctly of nday April 23, 1973 tish workers' leader remained un- ria that swept the left in 1914. He perialist slaughter and hailed the 17. But he overlooked the necessity arty in Britain. In part three of this ean we examine his strength and criticized the evasion of the central political question of the war, which led to a con- fused position on workers' and dilution. But he control not turn successfully to did new forces in the struggle to bring them • into conflict with CWC leaders, the whose militancy was transformed in- to a brake on further develop- ment by the political situation created by the war. The defence of basic rights of even a limited section of the working class was in reality a revolutionary question affect- ing the whole working class.

A leadership which could grasp this idea and carry it into practice was required. McLean, above all, lacked a clear conception of building such a leadership, a new type of party intransigently opposed both to the opportunism of social democracy and the syndicalism of the CWC. Unlike Lenin he did not grasp the need for an absolutely decisive theoretical and organ- izational break from "decayed official socialism, the the Second International and for the building of a Bolshevik party. this, the 50th anniversary In year of McLean's death, there will be many who will rush to pour scorn on this criticism, and to justify their own hos- tility to Bolshevism by attempt- ing uncritically to canonize John McLean. Supporters of revisionist . International Marxist Group Inter- and national Socialists have already set the ball rolling (see Wor- kers Press, January 9 and 10, 1970; October 26, 1972). A revolutionary assessment of Mclean's significance must attempt an analysis of his weaknesses as well as his strengths. Only in this way can lessons of his life be negated into the living struggle revolutionary leadership today. The middle-class centrists and revisionists of IMG and IS who are entirely hostile to this task prefer to ignore McLean's mistakes or even to turn them into their opposite. McLean's reputation is then used to deny or cast doubt on the central significance for the British working class of the October Revolution and of the first four congresses of the Third Inter- national. McLean is said to represent independent British or an Scottish Marxist tendency and the fact that he never joined Third the International is • portrayed as having something to do with the struggle against •Stalinism, which is dated not from the degeneration of the Bolshevik party and the birth of the theory of "socialism in John McLean. Above: The Glasgow ren one country' in 1924, but from the struggle for internationalist discipline inaugurated by Lenin and Trotsky in the founding documents of the Comintern in 1919. The use of McLean's name to help propagate this petty- bourgeois distortion of the truth about the early years of the Comintern and evasion of the real origins of Stalinism of Trotsky's struggle and against it, is a disgusting slander. The mistake of greatest McLean's political life was his to turn decisively to failure the Third International. Dur- ring 1919 he launched himself once again into the most deter- mined activity, travelling the length and breadth of the country and writing for several workers' papers constantly.

This was the year of re- in the volutionary upsurge British working class, with the Clydeside General Strike, the railmen's wage miners' and battles, the 'Hands Off Russia' campaign, etc. But, as elsewhere in Europe, the question of the construc- tion of revolutionary leadership was postponed. In Britain, then the strongest link in the Euro- asgow rents strike of 1915.

pean capitalist chain, the re- volutionary elements in the workers' movement were especially weak. It was not until conferences in July/August 1920 and January 1921 that the Com- munist Party of Great Britain was formed. It would probably not have been formed at all if it had not been for the active assistance and insisterice of the Comintern. But McLean, the leading British internationalist of 1914, the most determined supporter of October, Bolshevik consul in early 1918, and honorary with Lieb- president (along knecht) of the first all-Russian of Workers' and congress Soldiers' Councils, increasingly • isolated himself from this central question. At the end of July 1920, he • was present neither at the second congress of the Comin- in Moscow, nor at the tern founding congress of the CPGB.

He does not seem to have had any thought-out theoretical differences with the early CPGB, but, dogged by ill- health since his prison sentence and hunger strike of 1918, he allowed himself to be in- creasingly influenced by per- sonal differences with other leading figures in the British Socialist Party-the main com- ponent of the original CPGB.

Lenin told William Gal- lacher in 1920 that he was very anxious McLean should come to Moscow for discus- sions. McLean did try to get a visa to attend the second congress of the Comintern or to go to Russia later in 1920, but he proceeded by way of a futile campaign to make this a principled demand on the British government, instead of travelling by any available means as other British dele- gates did. McLean's increasing subjec- tivism at this period cannot simply be ascribed to his shattered health, as Communist Party writers such as Gallacher and Tom Bell claimed. They were writing at a period when they were so steeped in the backwardness of Stalinism that they were incapable of attempt- ing any serious theoretical assessment of McLean's mis- takes. Despite his unequivocal support for October, McLean remained rooted in the old in- dividualist, propagandist method of the pre-war sects. failed the to grasp theoretical developments made possible and necessary for the leadership of the working-class internationally by the Bol- shevik revolution. Above all he failed to grasp the absolute necessity for a Bolshevik-type party in Britain, part of the constructed as Third International on the basis of the historical develop- ment of Marxist theory and of the principles of democratic centralism and revolutionary internationalism. Tomorrow: McLean after the war, the unemployed struggles.

ESSENTIAL READING ON UCS

'Reformism on • the Clyde: the Story of UCS' by Stephen Johns.

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The Socialist Labour League booklet, 'Reform- ism on the Clyde: the Story of UCS by Stephen Johns places the famed work-in at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders in 1971-1972 in its correct historical perspective. The capitalist system is in a deep world-wide crisis. As a direct result of this crisis, the boom in world shipbuilding orders collapsed in the early 1970s. Shipbuilding employers had no choice but rapidly to rationalize their yards, sack workers on a vast scale, and become super cost-competitive, or else face going out of business.

UCS,

which was itself a merger of four failing Clyde shipyards, did not make it.

Stephen Johns relates how, on the weekend of June 1l, 1971, UCS chairman Anthony Hepper travelled to Knuts- ford, Cheshire, to ask Tory Secretary of State for Trade and Industry John Davies for £6m of public money to pre- vent bankruptcy. The 'lame-duck' philosopher refused. The following Mon- day, a notice went up at UCS.

*The directors profoundly regret to announce that in view of the present financial position of the company, they have been obliged to instruct an application to be made to the courts for the appointment ot a provisional liquidator.'

Two years earlier, before the Tories got into office, Nicholas Ridley proposed in a secret document to the Tory Central Office: 'We could put a government "butcher" to cut up UCS, and sell (cheaply) to lower Clyde, the assets of UCS. Ridley was number two to Davies at the DTI when the Tories decided to put the axe to the UCS 'lame duck' Stephen Johns comments: "The battle of the Clyde had Over 8,000 shipyard begun. workers faced a Tory govern- ment determined to save Bri- tish capitalism.' This was the point. This was what the real battle of UCS was about. And this is why the work-in was a de- feat, not a victory the as Communist Party maintains.

happened Nothing has to take away the crisis of the capitalist system. The collapse shipbuilding market the at this be reversed cannot crisis. stage of the capitalist The temporary propping up of the economy by turning on the taps of money supply to the Tories which have re- sorted can only make the in- flationary crisis even worse. It is just storing trouble up for later on. That trouble, when it comes, will be in the form of a collapse of more commodity markets, a credit crisis, a severe reduction in world trade, leading to another round of bankruptcies, includ- ing some more in shipbuilding.

The Stalinists claim to have saved jobs. But the real point is that the Tories are saving the capitalist system by cut- jobs, as the have done ting at UCS. reducing wages, and UCS shop stewards Sammy Barr, Jame conditions and 2,000 jobs in accordanc worsening conditions, as they will do again and again as the crisis gets worse-if they are allowed to get away with it.

The Communist Party lead- ers may think they have won a battle. The real point, how- ever, is that they are losing the war. Crises similar to the one at UCS will be the vehicle in the months to come for bitter battles about the very class direction society is taking.

These fundamental political questions were all raised by the proposed closure of UCS.

There was a massive outburst of working-class anger at the of the capitalist rottenness system. With leadership, this feeling could have been de- veloped into the start of a mass movement determined to win the political and economic expropriation of the ruling class, starting with bringing down the Tory government and nationalizing the whole industry shipbuilding under workers' control and without compensation. The Communist Party de- liberately led the mass move- ment on the Clyde away from any such conclusion and con- sciously • directed it instead along the most harmless re- formist paths of keeping the yards going with working-class money until a new capitalist master came along to take over again. They actually built ships using working-class donations for wages and without the full control of the capitalist bosses, and then handed the to the capitalist ships over enemies, the very ones who wanted to close the yards.

Thus they turned the poli- tical situation on its head.

They achieved a measure of 'workers' control' , not to ex- propriate the capitalists, but precisely to secure more per- arr, James Reid, James Airlie on Heath's do accordance with the Tories' wishes as set dowi manent controls over the wor- kers by the capitalists. The terms under which the new Clyde companies opened were far worse than those the had at UCS before the men Stalinists 'took control'.

As Stephen Johns writes: 'The Stalinists claim that they have saved jobs. But the reverse is the case. Jobs have been lost, the working class weakened, and the employers have been allowed to develop their strategy. 'One might ask, when the next crisis hits the yards on Upper Clyde, as it un- the doubtedly will how soon, many more jobs are to go, how much more productivity is to be extracted and how many more basic rights sold? •There is, however, a more serious consideration. In • con- capitalist ditions of extreme crisis, the whole question of state power is raised before the working class. 'Workers defend cannot basic rights by the traditional compromise methods of trade union struggle that charac- terize boom periods. In times of crisis, the monopolies do not seek to "buy off" struggles with concessions, but to ad- their plans to drive vance down wages and destroy basic rights. "This does not mean that workers should not struggle on issues like wages and jobs.

This fight is basic and vital. But demands on wages and employment now become tran- sitional demands which raise the question of nationalization of industries under workers' control without compensation.

'In no other way, for ex- ample, can Clydeside ship- defend their yard workers conditions and basic rights.

Such battles involve big poli.

tical questions. In Britain, the main issue is the Tory govern- Workers Press, M eath's doorstep to sell wages, working s set down in their original 'Ridley' plan.

ment. To defend their jobs, wages and conditions, workers must remove this government by mass industrial and poli- tical action.' Summing up the Com- munist Party's role, Stephen Johns writes: "Their greatest treachery was to the whole mass move- ment of workers that de- veloped rapidly around the UCS struggle. 'It is difficult to convey in words the feeling of the Clyde- side working class at the time of the UCS liquidation. The call for solidarity from the yards brought forth a mas- sive response. Two General Strikes occurred in the West of Scotland and Glasgow saw the largest street demonstra- tions since the struggles which rocked the government during World War I. Press, Monday April 23, 1973 PAGE 9 "This spontaneous move- ment was not just based on a feeling of sympathy for the shipyard men. Rather, workers a focus had found for the outrage and hatred they felt for the Tory government. The i the dramatic stand taken in yards galvanized hundreds of thousands into united action.

Everyone talked about one thing: the intolerable nature of the government and their desire to get rid of it. 'What was quite new was that workers had begun to realize that they had the power to make this ultimate political challenge. They were as a class. beginning to act That deep and brooding hos- tility to Tories and employers characteristic of Clydeside had broken to the surface once more. It had been fuelled by months of rising unemploy- ment, petty Tory attacks like taking milk from school- children, and the general bom- bastic arrogance of Heath and his Cabinet. 'UCS had been the spark. The feeling spread to all corners of the country. UCS became a symbol for all wor- kers who wanted to get the Tory government off their backs. It is a complete lie to sug- gest a political fight aimed at forcing the government to resign would not have re- ceived an enormous response.

'The common slogan on all the demonstrations was "Heath out". Time and again, workers cheered loudest when speakers threatened the gov- with destruction. ernment 'But it was the particular deliberate aim of the Com- munist Party, together with the reformists like Anthony Wedgwood Benn, to stop this political development.' Stephen Johns gives an ab- sorbing first-hand account of the weeks and months of the development of the political that surrounded the crisis work-in. The 128-page book.

explains the let economic background to the UCS col- lapse and gives a blow-by- blow account of how the Sta- the mass linists subverted movement and handed the to the capitalists. yards back Included in the material is political profile of James Reid and his subsequent de- velopment as a television cele- brity; a comment from Trot- sky on the question of taking honorary rectorships at bour- geois universities; and a sec- of the tion on the role International Socialists' revi- sionist tendency during the crisis. The booklet is essential reading for all workers en- gaged in the struggle to build the mass movement to bring down the Tory government.

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A number of men have had to start wearing glasses.

Raids are carried out by the army in full riot gear with dogs early in the morning at regular intervals as well as regular raids by the screws.

Loyalist prisoners in Long Kesh have condemned condi- tions there. They describe the 'swill' and said any food as protest in the camp was sup- pressed by the British army stationed there for that purpose. The Bulletin also looks at the justice meted out to British soldiers in Northern Ireland involved in 'incidents'. Four soldiers received sen- tences of four months each, suspended for two years and small fines for a savage attack Joseph Patrick Kelly, on . worker at Ballylumford Power Station. was attacked on his Kelly way into he work, was punched and kicked and hit on wi the head with a rifle. The • camp-rows of Nissen huts, compounds and station shop stewards met to discuss the attack when the soldiers burst into the room, dragged out Mr Kelly, took him to a guard room where he was thrown around the room by a judo expert; his elbow was dislocated, his nose was bleeding profusely, his eye was badly bruised together with other parts of his body; he was detained in hospital for five days. Seven soldiers found guilty of stealing hundreds of pounds worth of 'loot' were sentenced to three months in jail at Bel- a fast magistrates court on March 23. The sentences were suspended for one year. Three paratroopers received light fines for a series of bur- glaries in the North Street area of Belfast at the city's magis- trates court. Private Derek Johnson said in court 'Everyone knows that our blokes have been doing jobs'. . When asked if this meant that members of the regiment were stealing he 'Yes. said knows Everyone what has been going on.' The British army in Ireland is not only licensed to kill but encouraged to loot. Post Office worker joseph McMahon killed by a Saracen while cycling along Albert Street on October 3 last. A soldier witness at the inquest said he thought Mr McMahon was on the wrong side. The driver of the Saracen said he did not see the cyclist and he did not know he had gone over Mr McMahon. There is to be no prosecution. On the question of women trial by held • without the security forces in Northern Ireland, the Bulletin says: The hundreds of men in- terned in the Six Counties have received some little notice in the bourgeois Press. There has been no notice of the four Belfast girls now held by the British government in Ireland.

While parliament discusses discrimination against women, has been Whitelaw • treating men and women the same since he came to Ireland. Teresa Holland (17) is one of a family of eight. Her mother is a pensioner and a on widower. Her home has been raided by the British army unds and barbed wire. over 50 times. The "security' forces have questioned all the family except the youngest 12 years old, Margaret Shannon (18) was taken from her home by the Special Branch. Her brother is serving a • 12-year sentence. The women's prison in the Six Counties is Armagh jail. A letter recently smuggled out tells how male warders armed with batons and shields put down a demonstration of the prisoners. One prisoner suffering from el- • a serious mental condition re- ceived 54 stitches; male war- ders threw the girl bodily into her cell and turned cold water hose on her. Prisoners were left for six hours in soaking clothes and further were locked up for 36 hours. Mary Smith Mrs (70), widower, who refused food and drink for a week when arrested on assault, kidnapping and unlawfully detaining an able bodied man in his late 20s, Mr Terence McGoldrick, has been returned for trial to a Special Court in Porta- against The charge down. Mrs Patricia Ruffner of Wash- ington DC, Mrs Smith's daughter, was dropped. The American vice-consul had been briefed on her case. And on 'accidents' the Bul- letin says: James Flynn was killed by a British army bullet which ricocheted at a 45-degree angle from the Pirbright firing range at Camberley to embed itself in the body of an Irishman working on the officers' quar- at Deepcut, Frimley, ters Surrey. The firing range was one and in- a half miles from the place where work was being carried out by J&N Scaffolding. Other workers, not soothed by the inquest verdict, are refusing to work there. One of the direc- tors of the firm said: 'They are just refusing to work on the Deepcut site because the army is still firing around them.'

Workers in the Six Counties have already learnt the price to be paid for working while the British army is firing all around them. 'Accidents' will happen. James Flynn died on Wednesday, March 14.

Fighting policy in T&G's A BIG leftward movement among workers is reflected in motions going forward for this year's union confer- By our ence from branches of the 1.6 million-strong Transport industrial and General Workers' Union.

gramme Since the last confer- the staff Labour government, i.e. ence years ago, [WO better workers have had bitter

1UIL

callalsill than the capitalists, will in.

experiences with the on- evitably fail'. which that Tory gov- slaught of the

MOLION

says The T&GWU's own lead- worker-directors and parl- ernment and the inability fire. comes cipation are a blind-alley and ersniD Branch 9/85 ot their own Labour Party.

in from the diversion main TUC and T&GWU leaders the payment of the Industrial fines under to face up to this challenge.

capitalism. The biennial delegate con- Relations Act bv the General Conference feels that the Executive Council and in- ference at Brighton in July та. WOrKCI -ULICLLOI Cacklicall structs the GEC to maintain wil be asked to call On ano toe so-caled EN TUC to mobilize the whole of non-payment of Plan" for getting, on better

DOLICY

all fines in future'. should be rejected, and that trade union movement in Dozens of motions call for venera bunke lo remove luc Tuture our leauersiD the Tory government and return should consult member-

CON-

The government plete non-co-operation with ship before committing them socialist policies. he Act. any such association with pledged to :, Motions from the Mid- mouon big business hulerests. branch in the north-west to call On the docks, there are lanes and

TOT

this effect will be backed by General Strike to beat the calls for all unregistered and government's pay laws brought within to be oran cics

OLICI

POlLs calling for the use of indus- all worki Class the

DOCK

trial strength campaigns and dozens of branches call Scheme and for unregistered industrial action to this and depots be force the Tories wharves VuL. end. coupied blacked growing disillusionment with The policies of work-ins On wider issues, there are of the and factory calls for land North present leadership prevent closures receive wide oil nationalization, the Sea Lavour rally anu calls opportunists and support, specifically pontical enolt? ON vale to 'be ruthlessly question of steel closure treatment, withdrawal from where strikes are also called Common Market, and excluded from holding the trade wider 101. There is implied criticism Another motion from 2/214 union inks

MOOT

branch warns under the of Jack Jones in a string monopolies. Other branches the call withdrawal of 'militancy the for of ast unline file has Ire- all bro. from Northern rank and not been execuuve matched by ductivity deals and impose land. the Labour with Two earles These total non-co-operation branches, people job ted with the betrayals rarty. nave landschell made little or no attempt ductions are involved and and trade The about formulate class all the time state pay con- leaders, call for the danger- pro- disaffiliation capable taking trols remain force. ous move

TUC

JACK JONES.

Another rebuke for ones the movement rorward, any attempt to repeat the pro- comes in London region Labour Party. ing his leadersh oppose THE £197m trade deficit for

RESOLUTION

calling for March Thursday's (see THE BANK of England's base Council of Action has been ruled Workers Press) shows rate bounced back per cent out of order at tainburgh trades Thursday after going grounds that the Council on the rapid deterioration in down 8 per cent the pre-

TUC

permit political rules only Britain's trading position.

week anaton to the Labour did co The January. deficit was disastrous foreign trade figures.

operative Parties. Labour MPs made feeble at- £78m the February and members of the Six of 13 tne tempts to raise the question of Trades Council — execute foreign trade crisis and the Communist members who averat the fall the this decision, ments deficit for the first quarter along power the pound before • in 1973 is £117m- compared desole save or vale liar lucy £40m in 1972 Council with and £20m warnament recessed would The government admitted that in 1971. set

' PASTMS

the internal purchasing power The deficit is call came from caused by three General branch whose major factors: the eneclive ue- Since Britain Mr A. A. Wilson, in- valuation of the pound since it imports almost at the next meet- was floated by the Tories last all the basic materials from tends to move which her goods increase circular June: of world manufactured the Issue exposing be They Irades onces commocames JuKe made. LIeV CU Li executive. 'We intend to continue wheat, wool and copper; and the down without causing large- Council of failure British capitalism unemployment also fight build and lIlt talls in export production.

ACTIon In caldurga, ne says.

Indillail

MIDDLETON

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday

SLOUGH:

Wednesday April 25, (Manchester): April 26, 'The Bell', hammAoad. Farn- 8 p.m. Mav Community New o.ut. ham

'TUC

must call Inn, Long Street, Market Place, Street. 'Report back from May Strike Middleton. 'May Day must begin Day' make the General the General Strike'. ones es on WEMBLEY: Wednesday TONBRIDGE: Wednesday April

WYTHENSHAWE

(Manchester): Copland p.m. 'The Foresters', Thursday, April 26, 8 p.m. 'The Road. Hill Road. 'Make Scan- Happy Man', Portway. The May Report Back Mav Quarry Day'. May 'Economic Living'.

HEMEL

Monday

SHEFFIELD:

Wednesday Wd k

CROYDON:

Adey- Thursday 'Grapes Inn', Trippett field Coombe House, 8.u. Basic Democratic 'Marxism Werene Training May o.Ju 1! Force hocu. and Trades

UOU.

'Kinas Arms'. Hiah wineseen InA in the HOLLOWAY: Thursday April 26, SOUTHALL: Wednesday

BATTERSEA:

Tuesday May May 2. Southall Library, co-op hall, seven Report back the rising cost of living' Peport back trom May Day Workers Press, Mo :. Several resolutions criticiz- s leadership. 81p in of the pound was now February compared with 100p in June 1970 at the time of the General Election. Shadow Chancellor Denis Healey said that the latest trade figures made nonsense of the Chancellor's 'bouncy •compla- cency. He forecast: "The gov- ernment is going to have a major inflation on its hands by the autumn' He blamed the trade deficit onto the devalua- tion of the pound. In the first quarter of 1973.

the value of imports averaged £1,002m a month-an increase of 1.6 per cent over the second half of 1972. time exports, At the same which stood at £881m in January and rose to £900m in February, fell to £874m in March. And between the second half of last year and the first quarter basic of this, imports cot- materials-petroleum, wool, ton, iron ore, timber, rubber, paper, etc.—have increased on average by 27 per cent. Basic material imports in cost £162m, compared March with £142m in February and £133m in January. The total value of all imports in March was £1,199m. Of this, £583m came from western Europe, £216m from the sterling outside Europe. area from the United States. £190m £58m from the Soviet Union, and £34m from Latin America £118m from the rest of the world. figures show These a grave increase in the capitalist crisis.

The only solution for the Tories -since a devaluation or further downfloat of the pound would nean even higher import costs- is to force the working class to work harder and produce more for less wages. This is what lies behind the Tory government's drive towards corporatist state. All the the efforts of the reformists and the Stalinists to gain concessions from the government are bound this rock of to founder on economic crisis. Press, Monday April 23, 1973 PAGE 11 SHOP STEWARDS at Gestet- ner's north London factory are engineering demanding the union call its president, Hugh Scanlon, to order over his re- cent statement on the Indus- trial Relations Act and the Common Market. A resolution from the shop stewards' committee calls on the AUEW executive council to *repudiate the statements by brother Scanlon made to the Parliamentary Press Gallery'.

They say that Scanlon was reported as saying he 'hoped' the unions would agree with Com- mon Market entry, that the TUC fixed level of had agreed to a wages to beat inflation and that he had suggested two amend- ments to the Industrial Relations Act. . The branch says this is con- trary to union policy and urge executive to bring Scanlon order. A similar resolution to has been passed by Tottenham AUEW No. 7 branch.

CORRECTION

paragraph in Saturday's article •Pay Board and Witch- hunt Threat to Teachers' should have read 'Collaboration with the Tories' Pay Board was , instead of 'was proposed at least year's conference'.

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,

8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor Street, SW4 North London

WEDNESDAY APRIL 25

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

SUNDAY APRIL 29

7.30 p.m. Abbey Hall, Axe Street (Behind Barking town hall) Luton

FRIDAY APRIL 27

8 p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bedford Road Liverpool 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 "published by, newspaper at the Post Office. Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, 7UG. Printed by Plough 01-622 7029.

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PROTESTORS

Canvey if they are built we will tear •at Essex, them Island, south-east down with our own hands.' plan to launch an armada against Westminster over The demonstrators carried decision build chanted to an •placards and refinery near their homes.

against the refinery, to be built by ENI, the giant Italian Over 700 Canvey Island perpened den appeal to One the demonstration after a march on Saturday.

'Oil fumes Boats will leave the Island words are not in the Thames estuary and and childe plants, animals helpful to make their way down river Other demonstrators car- o Westminster, where they hope to lobby MPs over the ried an effigy of Rippon decision by Monday Club hanging from a gallows. The march was the latest member Geoffrey Rippon, the in a series of protests which Minister of the Environment, to give the green light to a have involved blocking the path of tankers bound for massive oil refinery project.

existing refineries. 'We will never monstrosities, accene these

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one action

THE BATTLE OF CANVEY

committee member told a rally after the march,

ISLAND.

BY DAVID MAUDE IN SKEGNESS

THE LABOUR Party's youth movement seems certain to slip even deeper into the membership and policy crisis which has dogged it since it was re-constituted after the mass expulsion of Young Socialists the National Committee majority from the Party in 1964.

At its conference in Skegness this weekend, the re-named Labour Party Young Socialists showed once more its inability to attract working-class youth.

The platform claimed 'formulate socialist plan 1,000 delegates over and of production based the visitors, but counts on two public ownership with mini- separate occasions revealed compensation of the mum no more than 700 in the commanding heights of the hall and card votes in- economy'. dicated that over 60 of the 'The only answer is to call 220 delegates were absent.

on the Labour movement to launch a campaign to bring the situation On policy, down the Tory government was no better. and to replace it with The movement is still Labour government commit- dominated by the 'Militant' ted to a socialist programme' which claims to be prouD -concluded a lengthy reso- Trotskyist. but in fact united Swansea lution moved by with the right wing in 1964

LPYS.

to expel the majority of the Delegates also declared Committee National who tole mensition freeze Torr fighting for were socialist "freeze' government's policies the Party against wages. leadership. The level of political de- For the first time 'Militant' bate was revealed on Satur faced challenge strong day when the key issue of from the so-called 'Chartist' socialism and parliament was group, which says the fight raised. against the right-wing in the Bradford delegate Brian Party is not vigorous enough.

Ingham insisted it was pos- On policy questions the achieve sible to socialism showed conference itself to through the ballot box. be completely bankrupt and Portsmouth delegate lan tied to the right wing, ex- Jenkinson said that parlia- plaining why, in contrast to ment was a 'talking shop'.

the 1,700-strong conference The real decisions were Socialists of the Young at taken in the boardrooms. Blackpool last week, the He said the mobilization LPYS is not able to attract of the working class on working-class youth. 'really serious basis such as.

the LPYS It called on one-day General Strikes,' National Committee to cam- was necessary. within the Labour paign He went on to claim that Party for the adoption of a 'legalize' parliament could socialist programme. any gains such a mobiliza- The sort of programme tion secured. wanted delegates they Replying for the National was. said. embodied in a resolu- Committee 'Militant' sup- tion from Shipley constitu- Tony Aitman porter said ency passed by the party that the 'failure of the pre- Labour conference. sent leaders This was passed by the mobilize on Party conference last Octo- the raised concretely ques- ber but not yet implemented tion of changing the leader- by the National Executive ship to one which is pre- Committee. pared carry the struggle to to the end. This calls on the NEC to V IlI E

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M-NEARNEY

MEMBERS and supporters of the Belfast 1d Defence Committee mounted a vigil on They were Saturday outside Brixton Prison.

demanding the release of the ten people arrested in connection with the recent bomb- ings in London and who are being held at Brixton on charges of conspiracy. A spokes- man said that the three women were also being held there which is the first time women have ever been held at Brixton.

THE PRICE of petrol will rise by up to lp a gallon from the beginning of next month.

The major oil companies have applied to the newly-formed Prices Commission for per- mission to increase prices by an average of 0. The companies are confident that the Com- mission, which comes into operation on April 28, will agree to the increase.

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Provisionals start a week's truce in Derry THE PROVISIONAL IRA today starts a one-week truce in the Bogside and Creggan areas of Londonderry because, they say, a festival is being organized by the Bogside Community Association. 'Normal military action' will continue elsewhere.

The army says no agreement and radio. Annes. reached weapon-cleaning kit, were found has been between in a house in Shomberg Street in them and the

IRA

and 'we the Sandy Protestant ROw shall react to the extent that yesteraay. if there are no gunmen to be In England a 92-year-old nearly blind Irishman who walks seen, Inen we snall not snool at them'. Heath. crulcaes was stopped al row airport as 'security risk'. As than 50 Republican Joe Clarke, who comes to Lon- and Union Faster marches Were don year for the being prepared, five shooting annivers cidents and four bomb explosions of the Rising, put on a flight back to Dublin. bomb extensively night. • William Whitelaw is expected damaged a shop in Newry and an Ireland seCretary towards the end leave post Northern discovered under callic W di ine pulpit OI Ine 01 Ine year decause or the exces Mission Hall in Clementine sive strain' of the job. A possible Street, Belfast. the present Chancel- successor And 1,400 rounds ot ammuni- lor of the Exchequer. Mr Anthony tion, two pistols, a rifle, 15 maga- Barber. Rolls-Royce carworkers worried about their future THE 9,000 employees of Rolls- be announced on May Royce motor cars are becoming consideration by the Official Re. increasingly concerned about ceiver and Rothschilds, the mer- the of all bids. About their rurure as tu date for chant bankers £60m is the likely price.

divi- commoulsory sale or tre car sion approaches. Rolls' do followed she bankruping division being The firm will go to the highest sold bidder, what he recaraless une barent nrm l wants to do with the company's The government took the aero plants at Crewe, Shrewsbury and division public into easden. Ine union at ownership Licwe all of a work-in it they gel leaders are to see tele. no job guarantees. Walker, Minister for Trade and The Industry, on April 30. successful purchaser will All Trades Unions Alliance Public Meetings What next atter the miners' ballot? The fight against the Tory government

SOUTH

Secretary SLL). Thurs

ELNDALL

day April 26, 8 p.m. The

OLLERTON:

Monday May Manway noel Tit. p: Mike Diue Slaughter Speaker: Cliff Speaker: Banda (SLL

(SLL

Central Committee). Central Committee). DONCASTER Monday ohhite Beai

BARNSLEY:

Thursday May 18: M Masons Arms. Hallgate. Speaker Slaughter Speaker: Mike Banda (SLL (SLL Central Committee). Central Committee).

CASTLEFORD:

Thursda!

KNOTTINGLEY:

May 17, 8 p.m. Sagar Si Thursday 7.30 p.m. May halway Hilltop. Speaker: G. Healy (National Speaker: G. Healy (National Secretary SLL).