Workers Press no. 1058

workers press

HITS JAPAN

creases and in Railways, communi- cations, airways and postal services will be halted in the all-out action of hundreds of thousands of publicly- employed workers. More than 50,000 police armed with pistols, batons, shields, water-cannon and gas are to be stationed in and around the capital as 'a defensive measure' Tokyo is like a city of siege. Police are everywhere and everyone is waiting to see what today will bring.

Workers in private indus- try who belong to 'company unions' will not come out en masse, though they will participate in forms of solid- arity action. The decision to strike was taken on Wednesday night when last-minute talks broke down. On Wednesday the Tanaka government decided not to improve the pay offer. The General Council of Trade Unions of Japan (TUC of public service unions) was informed by a government statement re. affirming that the govern- ment would make no con- cessions on the labour de- mand that the right to strike be given the public corpora- tion workers' The Tory cabinet also stated that it would 'punish severely' any railway worker who went on strike. On Wednesday the Sup- reme Court ruled strikes by public and government workers were illegal and are 'not entitled to the full con-

THREE-DAY

GENERAL

STRIKE

A THREE-DAY General Strike begins in Japan today in support of wage in- creases and in defence of the right to

FROM ALEX

MITCHELL

Tokyo Friday stitutional sundament proteion the rights labour'. The judgement said that union members in the gov- would

SCIVICE

Tuture lace criminal punish- ment if they initiated labour disputes. A matory decision by the judges said that the basic working rights of public absolute'

WOLACES

are ana needeo to be limitedlin terms of the common benefit of all Japanese citizens' Railway INR) workers have borne the brunt of this year's wage the caled Spring Wages Offensive. On March 13 passengers rioted and beat up railway- men. On Tuesday again tions during a go-slow. Trains were burnt, sta- wrecked, ticket tions 238 machines smasnee ano more than 50 railwaymen punched and kicked. At one station railwavmen were 'tried' before a kanga- court and then forced rOo walk several miles 'punish- anolner stauon as ment'. Police are questioning 138 people about the riots and they've copuble y denied that the many attacks

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led by right-wing groups

RATING THE NEWSLETTER

• FRIDAY APRIL 2

OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF TH

bitterly hostile to the rail- of waymen. The Mainichi Daily News. part of the largest-circulat- ing Japanese newspaper group, had an editorial yes- terday headed Avert Gen- eral Strike. It said: Time is running short. We would like to call on all parties concerned again to make every effort to avert the scheduled Gen- eral Strike which if carried out will virtually paralyse the nation's entire transpor- tation network. The masses are usually sympathetic to labour, but the unions must be re- minded that Tuesday night's that the pa- events show tience of the masses is run- ning out. Many other newspapers and reactionaries are giving quasi-support to the thugs of the Japanese brolly bri- gade. In the face of this sharp class conflict, the three op- position parties, including the Japan Communist Party, have asked for an urgent meeting with premier Tan- aka 'to discuss ways to settle the situation. is This opposition pact between the Communist Party, the reformist Social- ist Party and the extreme Party, right-wing Komeito the political arm of the fan- atically anti-communist Sok- kagakai Buddhist sect. / APRIL 27 1973 • No 1058 • 4p

• OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN GLASGOW

OVER 300 men still working else to decide,' said Douglas, who the liquidator claimed that the Govan shipyard for at the could build big former UCS yards will lose ships be- never cause of the physical restrictions their jobs at the end of Tune of the River Clyde. when contracts for four Meanwhile over 80 upper Clyde ships will be completed. workers are being paid off today and they will not be re-employed This was stated yesterday by by the two companies Mr Ken Douglas, who took managing over the yards from the old UCS director of Upper Clyde Ship- consortium last autumn. builders at the time of its collapse in June 1971. Marathon Manufacturing, the American oil-rig firm which took Mr Douglas was announcing over the Clydebank division from his resignation as director and

UCS,

says it only has work deputy chairman of Govan Ship-

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boilermakers, but the 88 not Company hich seeded us. builders, the workers, painters and

UCS.

teneral succeeded other who will leave craftsmen He told a Press conference the liquidator today. that at the formation of

UCS

The total redundancy involved the had been ill- is 100 but 12 are boilermakers equipped by modern standards.

and they will be employed by It was under-capitalized and Marathon. the whole thing was not practical, The other 250 will be pro- he said. gressively paid off by the The question of whether the liquidator and between now amount of money which has been June. pumped into this operation justifies itself... is for someone

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workers press

HITS JAPAN

strike. communi- Rallways, cations, airways and will postal services be halted the in all-out of hundreds of thousands of publicly- employed workers. More than 50,000 police armed with pistols, batons, shields, water-cannon and gas are to be stationed in and around the capital as 'a defensive measure'. Tokyo like a city of 1S Police are everywhere siege. allu cveryone Walls see what today will bring.

Workers in private indus- try who belong to 'company unions' will come participate in forms of solid- arity action. The decision to strike was taken Wednesday night on wnen last-minule lalks Droke down. On Wednesday the Tanaka government not decided improve the pay offer. The General Councilof Trade Unions Japan

(TUC

public informed was 're- government statement affirming that the govern- would make con- ment no the labour cessions mana tnat the rignt to strike be given the public corpora- tion workers'. The 1 ory cabinet aSO stated that it would 'punish severely any railway worker who went on sulke. On Wednesday the Sup- reme Court ruled strikes by and public workers were legal and are not entitled to the full con-

THREE-DAY

GENERAL

STRIKE

A THREE-DAY General Strike begins in Japan today in support of wage in.

creases and in defence of the right to

FROM ALEX

MITCHELL

Tokyo Friday stitutional protection of the fundamental rights a Dour. said that The judgement union members in the would ernment service future face criminal punish- ment if they initiated™ labour disputes A majority decision by the judges said that the basic public working rights of WOrKER are aosolute and needed to be limited in terms of the common benefit of all Japanese citizens'.

Halwan

(JNR)

workers have the brunt of this year's wage steele called Lne Spring. Wages Offensive. On March 13 passengers note ana beat uo auway- men. ran amUck da 38 iN Sain Tuesday again tions during a go-slow. Trains burnt, sta- tions 238 ticket wreckeu machines smashed and more than 50 railwaymen punched and kicked. At one stanon rallwavanes were 'tried' before a kanga- and forced roo court miles Walk station as 'punish- another ment. Police are questioning 138 people about the riots and hey've publicly denied the many allack. WelC led by right-wing groups

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O= THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF TH

bitterly hostile to the rail- waymen. The 'Mainichi Daily News', part of the largest-circulat- ing Japanese newspaper group, had an editorial yes- terday headed 'Avert Gen- eral Strike'. Time is running It said: short. We would like to call all parties concerned on again to make every effort to avert the scheduled Gen- eral Strike which if carried out will virtually paralyse the nation's entire transpor- tation network. 'The masses are usually sympathetic to labour, but unions must re- minded that Tuesday night's events show that the pa- tience of the masses is run- ning out.? Many other newspapers and reactionaries are giving quasi-support the thugs to of the Japanese brolly bri- gade. In the face of this sharp class conflict, the three op- position parties, including the Japan Communist Party, have asked for an urgent meeting with premier Tan- aka 'to discuss ways to settle the situation'. This opposition pact is between the Communist Party, the reformist Social- ist Party and the extreme Komeito Party, right-wing the political arm of the fan- atically anti-communist Sok- kagakai Buddhist sect. APRIL 27 1973 • No 1058 • 4p

OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN GLASGOW

OVER 300 men still working else to decide, said Douglas, who claimed that the Govan for the liquidator at the shipyard could never build big ships be- former UCS yards will lose cause of the physical restrictions their jobs at the end of June of the River Clyde. when contracts for four Meanwhile over 80 upper Clyde ships will be completed. being paid workers are off today and they will not be re-employed This was stated yesterday by bv the companies who took Mr Ken

IWO

Uppers Clyde managing over the yards from the old UC Ship- director of Upper consortium last autumn. builders at the time of its collapse 1971. Marathon Manufacturing, In June the oil-rig firm American which took Mr Douglas was announcing over the Clydebank division from his resignation as and director

UCS

Ship- says it only has work for deputy chairman of Govan but 88 boilermakers, the builders, the general workers, painters and which succeeded

UCS.

company other craftsmen who will leave He tolde formation Press conference the liquidator today.

UCS

that the of The total redundancy involved been the had ill- company is 100 but are boilermakers equipped by modern standards.

and they will be employed by It was under-capitalized and Marathon. the whole thing was not practical, The other 250 will be. pro- he said. gressively paid off by the 'The question of whether the liquidator between and now amount of money which has been June. pumped into this operation

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RAGE 2, Workers: Press, Friday ApriL:27, 1973.

hr Stalinists We KNEW cover-up The CHAINS OF for the TUC

LABOUR

FROM

EARLIEST

What we think

CHILDHOOD

ACCEPTANCE

Tory by the govern- allowing abandon the by hospital workers, the gasworkers and mell s laws. announcee

VICLOI

TUC

DAYS

Feather bv penalt ine this otner secuons. and seetrackas ines irabsued by the Come week, is the ton ator the aya Strike with moves Com- May Day reformist their plan protest; politics pursued Party and not a word about the …La Dour DIe parations 101 talks Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon.

the next luce Phase halke with Heath Phase of the From the very beginning the enor- word about the control of controls; not a against state wages, the mous dancer •tre Class has have soldet Com Domist been placed in by these developments.

this struggle in the alleged interests the 'broad of trade Thẹ Stalinists on these unity union are silent ques be achieved through tions because discussion of movenenl. the unity of the 'left'. rauses assuer about the way forward for the work- That 'unity' has been achieved and it has class, the necessity, in fact, about led to the most colossal betrayal of challenge the ruling class tor power the working class. Communist speak party •cannot The Tories are now in a position to kick because, now that the economic crisis and the The trage union leaders harcet has forced developments Class harder to make them become struggle to the threshold of a revolu.

policemen for trade union- tionary crisis in Britain, their reform- ist 'peaceful road to socialism politics

1SIS

acceot "nase anal dictates of the corporatist Pay Board. are utterly bankrupt. This process has already begun The inescapable logic of reformism at a the full connivance of the unprecedented of such politica At the National Union of Teachers' con- unneavais lor loe • Dureaucracv lo cost ranks with the ruling class in order to ference, Partv Men Ders preserve the evolutionary status quo.

the • fight against the militants on be- half the wing. Rank-and-file Workers Press, right the other hand, has been activilles Have oullawed ana been una position lo warn une work' militants and then treacher- were witco-nunted ing class throughout of these silenced in the conference ous plans being hatched against then also voted rUC Congress Stalinists abolish the mili- Last September at the to Young Conference allowing Lan! leachers warne• or me cancers mi Prior to this, Communist Party mem-

TUC

leaders to open talks with the bers accepted the Phase deal, Tory about and government prices voted with Pay deal. Later on, Incoucs Dackase WC right- exposed that boare. ano acoulesced Tne sel -out was beine wing's rejection of a May Day protest prepared at the Chequers and Down- for teachers. officially Street talks, not revealed The 'Morning Star' remained silent about until several montas wien Scanlon wage restraint tnese betrayals untl yesterday. It then spoke of the announced of the decisions deal they nearly 'Morning Victor opening an exhibition of union banners in London after 'acquiescing' Feather conference by taken star made no to the Tories' state pay laws.

WEIC

Workers 'regrettable'. but refused press „Lne with the conduct of its own Party call of Congress immediately the pay Scanlon with their one- with the Tory the 'Morn. government, 01 ones ana

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particularly president introduced and the General Star for him all the were warned protest proposal after covered up 11l% Morris, CP formerly depaare When Council had been ine une Ganzers Dealen way executive. delay. attitude. 'Morning The Stalinists refused, and refuse now the bureaucracy 1 he star protest and said This is not accidental. The CP has all acceded to this campaign March welcomed this nothing to condemn the forthcoming talks with the step-by-step pre- the along covered up exposed pre-Congress double- the . treachery aboul ot ones coveramnenl als enabled Feather toa plans imposing workers Daralluns

LORS

Week star retredi

CUSS

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on by Feather. Their comment on the fatuous The 'Star' kept silent while the shame- Phase Three of the state control of present a surrender ' was that 'disgracefully without commitment ful of the hospital and place Britain firmly report any workers wages on the attempted to degut and play •Morning out, with Star the corporate actioll. Icillalcu was alle SaLe Workers Press May Day and lon refusing to implement the March will continue to. expose sent abour ne role ot tnese letts. infuriate millions of trade Workers Press then denounced as 'Black Congress decision co-ordinațe degeneration of the bureaucracy who will be Monday

TUC

action in taking part'. compromise lead the support of sections and to give a which will And that is all. Not a single word about that Congress

TUC

struggle successful wien oureau. crass enable the role of Scanlon and Jones who a General Strice frohe interten call When Scanion finally revealed at Torquay fight back to be mounted against paved. the way for this development Strike by the 'lefts' real intentions to do a deal these betrayals. intervention Pleading letters over Renault strike THE STALINIST-LED union CGT has followed up its appeal cludes a to be to elect strikers from the premises Ware increase SPays Yest theregh the siele As class relations become in- to Prime Minister Pierre Messmer intervene against

BY JOHN SPENCER

• LO Days lost through creasingly employers are management in the Renault strike with a letter to the leaders will not be paid, but the strikers building their UWIl of all the parliamentary groups.

nickets will recerve d lumno summ Walde smnasi Wite le ao tically stopped since the end repay over the the police. Although the CGT and the they will nave to nethe svek es onthe rejected these Specially Marco and producton

COT

"Tne and

CFDT

other workers. The dispute alsc armee Catholic have both been partly stoppec K-l6 has bands spread to the provincial plants at are recruited tron called on other workers to Over 40,000 cars have been lost Sandouville and Flins. paratroopers propositions walde ane crimina ee- press tor their own demands their original demands. They also They placed on the When lal dispute Lne oress snob in solidarity with Renault, this If the present strike the payroll as "security men' and paid on management was settled, workers last The will have serious effect on is obviously merely had been locked out de- draw sack

LOUL

substanial bonuses the the position bring pressure on manded full pay for the days lost compenuve Lu stewards ane seven otnel in e situation in kenault and worke Peugeot Renault in the export market.

Peugeot being watched by government. of the Decause strike. Anis at the Peugeot France has been workers in every management refused to concede strike part of The union chiefs are mortally and plant in st Etenne is now three tought bitter would take verv little on strike. unae. ana …TO afraid that will the men came out strikes spread compromise conditions. about general strike weeks violent manage. bring une gains won by throughout the car and engineer- has been proposed which ment brought in strongarm men situation on the scale 1968 shop men had electrifying ing industries outside their con- effect on workers of similar Hence combination Silent majority 'spoke up' grades at Hins and Sandouville militancy teigned with desperate Strikes broke out one shop enorts to onne une manacemenı after without the sup- the government the port of the union leaders conference table. The strikers imposed the de- AS THE silent majority remained public support which his policy way out of the Watergate affair l ne series or strikes ana locK- for all the mand equal in the state-controlled silent President Nixon was receiving. making candid admission outs pay when March Renault concern began on workers muslede ordered the mining of Haiphong ot the involvement Vice-President Spiro Agnew, top-leve: rates preferred by the ditterent waen neary tu workers harbour last year, members the management and accepted by a kepublicar in another of his well-timed poli- the press shop main fighting is believed to be going the Party committee spent more than the CGT lical interventions, nas expressed Boulogne-Billancourt factory stop- in the past. those who fear among that $4,000 his 'full confidence in the integ- sending The dispute Flins has him rity of President Nixon'.

ped work. hey demanded better that White House made scapegoats. resulted in the closure telegrams on its behalf. complete improved pay, conomions New York limes claims The he re radins of their jobs. The "'his comes officials were telegrams were days alter that Daill Hanasenlen refused sack workers for ably intended to with an initial com. wants TO regularly supplied informa- alleged acts of violence.

the White House's handling of enabled the morale his Press bronise allu the Watergate affair. Ziegler, ated and the strike went on while of two models. the cratic Party headquarters during rroaucuon secretary, Monat the management locked out 7,000 R-5 and R-12, has been prac- to the large the election campaign. Nixon is preparing to talk his

Communist Party rejects defend democratic rights call THE LEADERSHIP of the British Communist Party has rejected a call for unity of working Class organizations to defend democratic rights.

The Socialist Labour League and the International Socialists have received a letter from CP general. secretary John Gollan in refusing to join common pledging statement to support working organization subjected to repressive action by Tory and its government state machine. The Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League initiated a campaign on January 20 this year, aimed at warning the left and the of working Class the great dangers of oppression.

We declared: Heath and the Tories, be- hind the mask of anti- all infiation are in fact definite taking step towards Bonapartist dictatorship preparation for massive state repressions against the working class and the Marxist movement The Conway Hall meeting on April 16. 0 in the coming struggles. Gerry Healy (SLL national secretary) anc The future of every party and political tendency based the on inseparably tied the conditions to de- working class arrest, to 1S without trial and jail to the successful preservation of tain to basic democratic The militant trade social- rights. attack on these rights is part of ists and communists. the ruling-class strategy to The Socialist Labour League ultimately illegalize and suppress pledges defend unreservedly every form of political represen- all such victims of Tory repres- tation of the working class. sion whether they belong to the Soon will be Internat onal Scinists ist Pater Communist Party, provocation heaped upon calumny to create International

DRAFT

LETTER TO CP AND IMG

Dear Comrades, 1) A joint declaration on behalf The SLL and IS have held joint discus- of the Communist sions on the threat posed to the left by Party, International Marxist police repression, infiltra- increasing Group, International So- tion and developing counter-insurgency cialists and Socialist Labour techniques. The inspiration. for this League should be issued growing menace clearly derives from which says that: the general Tory attack working- conditions and organization. class A) The four organizations Both our organizations believe that pledge themselves to jointly is one in which both the this problem Communist Party

IMG

defend the democratic rights and the with us a shared interest and concern of the working class against which, this subject, transcend our on the legislative attacks of the differences. Tory which government IS

SLL

prepared and the seriously afiect the trade enclosed) which we statement (copy working and the unions Press intend to publish in Workers class as well as all and 'Socialist Worker'. the left of the labour We invite you to join us in this dec- Unl laration, amended by movement. necessary agreement, consider and to simul- B) We believe the threat taneous publication in our respective newspapers. against democratic rights Yours fraternally, arises from: G. Healy i) Raids carried out by National Secretary Socialist Labour League the police, the of purpose feel Jim Higgins which they do not These National Secretary obliged to explain. raids generally lead to large International Socialists But a significant MAY DAY will form the number of will back their workers unions main topic of discussion at directives regardless Tues- next of

CAV

mass meeting day and the discussion provoked morning workers this at by the mass meeting could well the right wingers' Acton, west London. backtire in faces. But behind the arguments Over the last four piece- years, for and CAV factory against joining the work 'drift' the TUC's part of the giant Lucas 'day of and protest com- amounted to between stoppage' against the pay laws bine-has 18 and 30 per cent. will lie deep-going crisis of Following Heath's union leadership in the factory.

announce- ment of a total pay standstill on Although the shop stewards' November last year, Lucas voted against committee has headquarters in Birmingham from supporting directives the creed all prices agreed engineers' and transport unions before that date remain to come out on May 1, the fac- unaltered. has been racked by sec- tory it The only exceptions, CAV's tional disputes sparked by said, would be jobs where new "freeze' use of the pay laws to methods had been adopted since piece work prices. November 6. The effect of this has been The calling of today's meeting to block long-established by some stewards is seen methods pushing up rates tactic get the right-wing LU of the stewards' section by section all over the leadership committee off the hook. factory. pril 16. On the platturm: Duncan Hallas etary) and Tariq All (IMG secretary).

national Marxist Group. We are prepared to discuss with all working-class political groups and parties support this struggle now.

In the Workers Press of Feb- ruary 24, Gerry Healy, the national secretary of the Social- ist Labour League, wrote that

DRAFT PROPOSALS TO CP AND IMG

quantities of documents and addresses being taken away under conditions in which the work of the organization can be disrupted. ii) Holding suspects for lengthy periods before they are brought to trial. iii) The secret decision to arm the police. iv) The use of telephone tapping, tape recording and letter opening by the police to illegally incriminate those on the left who are under surveillance. v) Planting spies and pro- vocateurs within the work- ing class movement. This is based on so-called theories of counter-insurg- ency developed by Kitson, Calvert and Clutterbuck with the support of the Tory Cabinet. We (CP, IS, IMG, SLL) be- lieve that the fight for demo- Yet when the shop stewards met just. over a week ago • they first discussed the issue of May Day simply as an item of corres- pondence. There was no recommendation from the stewards' executive committee. steward who A support for the unions' moved directives had his motion defeated by 24 votes to seven.

Later in the agenda the matter raised again and it was was agreed to hold today's meeting.

The convenors have made clear that they will report the defeat of the motion to back the stop- page to the mass meeting, and one has he be- already stated lieves this will serve to dissuade large numbers of workers from striking. Technically speaking, of course, there should be no question of a vote this morning since unions stewards' represented the on committee have been instructed to call their members out.

Workers Press, Friday April 27, 1973

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integral part of the defence of the basic democratic rights of the working class, they will pro- for vide the staunchest support each other in the event of any being of our organizations singled attacks by the out for Tories! Our words warning were April 14 when proved true on place all over police raids took Britain against Irish and people of the International members Marxist Group. In accordance with de- our clared policy, the Socialist Labour League participated in a the joint meeting with Inter- Group and the national Marxist International Socialists on April 16 in the Conway Hall, London. This meeting was the start of a campaign to defend the left and the labour movement against police attack and oppression.

Speaking at the meeting,

SLL

Gerry Healy national secretary said that the deeply-held differ- between the participating ences organizations represented the movement of class forces.

But the responsibility to lallas (IS), Gerry Lawless (chairman), battle the ideological in order to develop a revolutionary within the work- consciousness defending ing class had to be protected 'the responsibility for against police and state interfer- the rights of the working class rests with the Labour Party, the and that was why joint ence defence Communist Party, was necessary. the the International Marxist Group, It was following this meeting SLL and others on the left.

that the Socialist Labour League 'What and the International Socialists He went on: is now needed is a meeting of all these wrote to both the Communist and Party and the International groups parties to Issue Marxist Group. declaration that, joint as an

ND IMG

THE CP's REPLY 25th April 1973 cratic rights must become an Dear Comrades, integral part of the struggle of the trade union movement Thank you for your letter enclosing and the working class Tory action and to draft statement on expose the operation of the measures aimed to undermine working democratic National Industrial Relations and class organization Act and all activities of the working class militants. intimidate Tory government through We believe this is tremendously Our Party laws which are directed important problem. has con- against the democratic rights sistently campaigned against these new of the working class. dangerous trends and to dulnunitarlan safeguard democratic rights and insti- In the event of an attack tutions, and will continue to do so.

involving democratic rights Precisely because of what IS at Tory by the government, or believe that only the involve- stake we its agencies, against working ment of the organized Trade Union and class organizations, we will Labour movement can be successful such together organize in reversing this authoritarian trend public campaigns as are con- The disruptive policy and actions sidered mutually necessary within the organized Labour movement protect these organiza- have pursued which will, our you In membership tions and their opinion, make your proposal counter- from such attacks. productive in what must be the aim— the Labour The fight to end all bans involvement of the move. the ment. and proscriptions in and labour For these reasons we do not believe trade union movement is an essential part that it would be usetul to join with you in publishin yours fraternally, the statement. of the struggle defend democratic rights against the of the capitalist John Gollan, attacks General Secretary. state. A CLAIM for an extra 5p an hour for shipyard welders was lodged with employers yesterday. They also say that they are the only tradesmen to get a test The welders, key who are of skills and their they Claim want the workers in the yards, that their pay should reflect this.

compensate for health money to hazards and the skill in- extra The employers, however, dic volved in their job. strongly resisting these demands.

The original demand was made They all to end pay locally at Govan Shipbuilders, the differentials between crafts in the which inherited two of company shipyards. the old Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' division in Glasgow. This principle has already been established at Govan Shipbuilders But management there insisted where the boilermakers reluc- that the 5p was a national claim boilermakers' tantly signed deal which and yesterday their rate down to the McGarvey brought leader Danny met level of other crafts. shipbuilding Lon- employers don to discuss the issue.

Govan Shipbuilders appreciate that to return to differentials will As welders' leaders point out, the fumes connected with their mean that the boilermakers would the jobs have caused severe chest become pacemakers in the trouble in the past. yards once more.

BEHIND THE EMPLOYERS' VISIONS

OF ECONOMIC MINI-BOOM

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday April 27,

BY ROYSTON BULL

The latest spiral in the growing economic crisis makes last month's glow- ing economic predictions from the capitalist sys- tem's enthusiasts look very sick. The president of the Engi- neering Employers' Federation Tom Carlile was telling his annual meeting in February: •Lately the signs have been more encouraging. In sharp contrast to 12 or even six months ago, the major econo- mic indicators are all giving rise to optimism for the major- ity of the industrial sectors.'

This just is not true. As the April trade figures have quickly made clear, Britain's ruling class are playing a most desperate gamble with the economy. Far from 'the major econo- mic indicators ALL giving rise to optimism', many of the a long time. The rate of profit is falling, the world-wide level of mone- tary inflation is rising steadily —as registered, for example, in the free market price of gold; currency stability, has been completely undermined, witness the recent dollar de- valuation crisis; and the value of the pound is sinking under its so-called steadily 'free float'. All of these symptoms, which were well in evidence in February, indicate a trade war in which the weaker-organized economies like Britain's will suffer enormously. The bal- ance-of-payments position was already bad in February. It is not at all surprising that by April, it has become disas- trously bad. And some of the conse- quences of all this were also not difficult to foresee in Feb- ruary-such as a further de- valuation of the pound lead- ing to a still worse balance-of- payments position, as essen- tial imports cost Britain even more and its exports produce even less revenue. Developments beyond this point are less easy to predict.

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nt of the Engineering Employers' Federation, v are filtering through to capital goods equipment.' Carlile is interested in pro- fit, like all good capitalists.

British industry generally has been having a thin time for over a decade and it has been steadily getting worse. One of the consequences of this was the high unemploy- ment of last winter, which became so politically dan- gerous that the Tories had no alternative but to turn the money supply tap on again Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage eet, London SW4 7UG able, tree, on request. deration, with other members of the Federation and go for reflation, however circum- unfavourable the stances. coupled with the That, chronic world inflation caused by America's economic rake's progress since World War II, led in part to the April trade figures. But on the way there, the Barber reflation did cause the economy to temporarily pick , as far as the immediate level of industrial activity was concerned. THAT was what made Mr Carlile smile in February, com- ing as it did after such a long lean period. The dire cost of mini-boom inflationary this did not concern him then.

Carlile, and all the other capitalist pundits who have forecasting a healthy been period of economic expansion, will have time to dwell on this during the dramas of the months ahead. But the only trouble with these prophets who are blin- ded by the thirst for profits is the disorientation they create about what is really happening to the economy. Academics, columnists and business experts regularly churn out totally misleading analyses. The people who suffer are the working class who are prevented from taking political action to deal with the crisis through being mis- informed, mainly by their own leaders. The responsibility for that rests with the bureaucracy of the labour and trade union movement. The TUC and the Labour Party have produced utterly worthless proposals for mild reforms which have made no analysis at all of the nature of the capitalist crisis.

But even greater blame rests eri ederation at a Press conference in 1971.

with the Communist Party, still masquerading as Marxists and 'lefts', whose only contri- bution has been three articles in the 'Morning Star' by a London economics lecturer, who even had to fight to get them in. working class must The suffer because the only way out for British capitalism now is the most savage onslaught on wage rates in order to make exports cost competitive again. At the same time, a fierce curb on imports is due sooner or later. Food and all other essential raw materials must be priced off British markets to an even greater extent in order for the balance-of-pay- ments deficit to be rectified.

It means that the price of meat and all other goods must go higher and higher so that much less of it is consumed, because foreign creditors will not allow Britain's debts to get any higher than they have now reached. All of which means a dra- matic tightening of the screws on the working class and the raising of the class struggle to an even higher pitch. This is what the ruling class has been so assiduously pre- paring for over the past three with anti-union legis- years lation of the Industrial Rela- tions Act, the pay laws, and the growing harassment of pickets by the police. And this is why the re- 'lefts'-and the formists, the for Stalinists who cover up them-have carefully avoided too much concentration on the crisis. They don't want the work- ing class to know too much about the appalling situation capitalism is in because they don't want workers to be- come interested in the revolu- implications of this tionary sts crisis.

Husak: stifling the memories of 1968

MEETS

Philosophy teachers at University have Belgrade clashed with the leadership of the Yugoslay League of Communists over an attempt to discipline eight so-called (anarcho-liberals' on the staff. Matters came to a head when a number of professors stayed away from a meeting called in the university and it was therefore impossible to proceed with disciplinary measures. 'Leftists' The offending teachers are described as 'leftists' and have made contacts with various self-styled Marxists outside Yugoslavia. They are accused by retar Stambolic, a member of the Presidium of the League of Communists, of undermining confidence among young people in the organizational and leadership qualities of the League. Permanent ban A Belgrade district court has imposed a permanent ban on a book by one of the con- demned philosophers, Mrs Zaga Pesic-Golubovic, called 'Man and Contemporary Civilization', on the grounds that it does not give sufficient attention to the role of the working class.

The party group in the philosophy faculty has denied the allegations against Pro- fessor Golubovic and the seven others and called for an open debate on their views.

EFORNISM ON THE CLYDE

A REFORMISM ON THE CLYDE

'Reformism on the Clyde' the first exposure of Com- munist Party tactics at the UCS work-in. It shows how a powerful challenge to the Tories degenerated into a reformist protest. It exam- ines the records of the men who led the struggle, James Reid, James Airlie and Sammy Barr. Price 30p, 128 pages, illustrated.

Available from: New Park Publications 186a, Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG or the Paperbacks Centre 28 Charlotte Street London, W1 (Enclose 10p for postage) Just two days before Harold Wilson arrived in Czechoslovakia for a back - slapping, let's-for- get-the-past visit, Gustav Husak, the man the Soviet bureaucracy in- stalled in place of Alex- andr Dubcek, made an important speech to a Communist Party con- ference in Bratislava. He told the assembled Slovak bureaucrats that Party consolidated called for the fulfilment of the current Five-Year Plan. A big effort is being made to dampen criticism and stifle memories of 1968 by improv- ing the standard of living and keeping down prices. Referring to the Dubcek

NEWSPAPER

EDITOR

The military regime in Brazil has imposed a severe Press censorship under which weekly papers have to submit their entire copy to the censor at least four days before publica- tion. A leading paper, 'Opiniao', was seized when it came off the press and its director and editor held police by the overnight. It is a 'liberal' owned by a wealthy paper industrialist. It contains a supplement of four-page articles translated from the Paris daily paper 'Le Monde'.

Before the new system came into force, a police depart- ment functionary was stationed on the journal's premises to censor its contents. The editors wished to demonstrate that period, Husak said that 'the tragedy began when the leader- ship after January 1968 sawe to the revisionist, free scope anti-socialist and indeed counter-revolutionary criticism and propaganda, when the doors were opened to it and when one instrument of power after another was surrendered to it. He confined his criticism to the Dubcek leadership of that period, a liberal wing of the bureaucracy itself, a number of whose members in exile have slithered still further to the right. He said nothing about the deep current of re- bureaucracy sistance to the found, and still finds, which expression in the working class and which resulted in the purge of thousands of CP members.

The Dubcek supporters not only played into the hands of reaction, but they also provided alibi for the Stalinist an Costa e Silva-a leading man in the Brazilian • military regime. they could not have all the copy ready four days before publication and went ahead with printing the paper before censor's decision the was known. The constitution is supposed to guarantee 'freedom of in- formation'. • but in practice such a right does not exist in Brazil, even for the mildly critical Press. Workers Press, bureaucracy and for the War- saw fact invasion of August 1968, which was aimed against the signs of a political revolu- tion based on mass working- class support. The Husak regime was only able to consolidate itself with the help of outside military forces and by a vigorous re- pression of all dissident elements. Despite Husak's claims that the country is now facing a stable and prosperous future, the second part of his speech was devoted to an attack on "negative aspects in our society' He addressed some serious warnings to members of the bureaucracy who dip their fingers too deeply in the till. 'You know of one influential director-general,' he said, 'who was recently dismissed from his post as well as expelled from the Party because he did not see the difference between

DKP DENOUNCES

THE 'ULTRA-LEFT'

The Communist Party of West Germany, the DKP, has been alerted to the danger of ultra- left forces by one of its lead- ing members, Manfred Kap- luck. He accused 'Maoist-Trot- skyist forces' of pursuing a policy opposed to the interests of the working class and of being splitters. The 'so-called left groups- in reality anarchist groups- direct their main efforts against the USSR, against the CPSU, against Socialist Unity Party, the German Democratic Republic and the DKP', he said. This blanket denunciation and identification of all. the 'left' with anarchism is inten- ded to assure the Brandt gov- ernment of the DKP's loyalty.

Kapluck even accused 'leftists' of being allies of the Christian Democrat-Christian Social Party opposition..

He claimed that many young workers and students who had been drawn to the 'Maoist-anarchist groups' were now turning to the DKP. ers Press, Friday April 27, 1973 PAGE 5 Above left: Gustav Husak, the man the Soviet bureaucracy installed.

Right: Alexandi Dubcek, played Into Stalinist hands. his private matters and state funds and property' He denounced 'parasitic phenomena - sloppy work, shirking, covering üp, nepotism that's how things are done in some places, isn't it?' he asked an audience who certainly knew all about it.' As they did, too, when he drew attention to the frequent pretexts found for holding drinking parties in factories and offices with some picturesque examples. He concluded his speech with a reference to the way in which Czechoslovakia was improving its relations with the capitalist world, including particularly West Germany- one of the crimes of which the leaders of 1968 were accused. Foreign-owned • multi-national corporations have secured dominating position in the Argentine economy in recent years. Of the top 100 companies by sales in 1969 only 17 were really Argentine-o wned, accounting for 28 per cent of sales. If the state-owned petrol company is excluded, however, share of Argentine com- the panies falls to 14 per cent of total sales. While in 1956 four of the top ten companies by total Argentine. sales were 1970 only one. the National Steel Company, was in the top ten. There are only six Argentine firms among the top 20. There has been an accele- rated take-over by foreign companies since 1969. In fact.

nine of the ten directors of Argentine Industrial Union, the big employers' organization, are representa- tives of foreign companies.

WHAT NEXT FOR DOCK WO

PAGE 6 Workers Preas, Friday Aprll 27, 1 Part two of a statement by th The implications acceptance of the £2.60 state pay offer will be far- reaching. The employers intend to use this victory to introduce a new 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. shift with- out any extra shift pay- ments and at their con- venience. They also intend to propose a new system of labour, graded to capability, which will re- flat-rate system place introduced three years ago of piece- after the abolition work and the old system of manning. Consolidation of skills into the pay has been structure heralded by the capitalist Press as 'the biggest change in the dockers' status since casual labour ended in 1967'. It is nothing of the sort. The new pay structure is designed to condition dockers to acceptance of a corporate system which splits the dock- ers' unity and encourages the worst forms of individualism and a selfish loyalty to the company at the expense of the union. As the 'Sunday Times Busi- ness News' (April 8, 1973) so aptly stated: 'In the long term, some port employers want to see a proper career structure, so that dockers can rise up through their firms into top jobs. "This concept is not new.

Some stevedoring firms in Lon- don and elsewhere have for- ca April 27, 1973 nt by the All Trades Unions Allianc of mer dockers in top jobs.' (Our emphasis.) Indeed it is not new. Only dockers' recently stewards were being sent from Tilbury to Hamburg to negotiate con- tracts from Hapag-Lloyd with all expenses paid by their em- ployers. Other such corporatist measures have already been taken in a number of firms in the West India docks. • the one side they threaten and cajole. with the Pay Board and the Industrial Relations Act while on the other they try to seduce dock- the incentive of ers with a bogus career structure which creates a fifth column for the employers. The other equally sinister side to the capability grading.

scheme is that it is calculated to undermine the Dock Labour Scheme and intensify the dis- ciplinary powers of manage- ment. As dockers climb up the career-status ladder they will be excluded from the scheme.

Those who cannot qualify for capability grading will be con- demned to live on a wretched basic rate. But this does not exhaust the reactionary nature of the proposed new wages system.

As is well known the applica- tion of work study schemes has been seriously held back in the ports: first because the changeover from labour-inten- to capital-intensive- siveness ness is still proceeding at . sar a rapid rate and secondly be- for- cause of the hostility and wo • Alliance docks section.

scepticism of many dockers whose wages have fallen after the abolition of piece work.

The employers-and union leaders-hope to use the new grading scheme as the thin edge of the job-evaluation wedge. This is another reason why the union leaders are in favour of continuing with the 18-man committee which was set up when national wage agree- ments were abandoned in favour of local port agree- ments under Devlin Phase Two.

This body will become the instrument by which producti- vity dealing will be introduced into the enclosed docks. Even after all this there is no guarantee that the employ- ers will be able to go ahead with this corporatist venture.

As Mr Newman said: 'We could go through. a whole series of protracted meetings with the employers to an agreement and come with them. But how do we what the government know have in mind for Phase Three?

They could veto anything we agreed.' ('The Port', March 18 1973.) If the Tories do veto the agreement we can be sure that Messrs Newman and Shea will accept Tory policy with the at same resignation that Newman expressed • in his famous last nd words to dockers: "The last thing anybody wants is a stop- page in London.' The existence of the coun- ter-inflation Act and the cowardly collaboration of union leaders now mean that the struggle for decent wages, adequate pensions and job security through the Scheme is indissolubly linked to the defence of our basic demo- cratic rights to organize and strike and the struggle for new leadership. These rights cannot be pre- served without any more the destruction of the capital- ist system, the downfall of the Tory government and the ex- posure of the retormist poli- cies of the so-called 'lefts' on the docks. The greatest source of de- moralization and confusion in the docks are the Stalinists and IS revisionists who tail behind them. The CP and the 'Morning Star' while they de- fend and justify Scanlon's col- laborationist remarks at the an omin- same time maintain ous silence on the issues of grading, the supplementary register and the role of the 18-man committee which has sold Phase Two to dockers.

In the past it has covered up for Jones's role in every dock strike as it today pro- tects Scanlon. Stalinist policy in the docks is not determined by the dockers' interests, but by the selfish foreign policy interests of the Soviet bureau- cracy. This bureaucracy is mortally afraid of and hostile to the independent struggles of the Be European and world working an fo class since its power is based essentially on the big defeats of class the working 193,0s. Stalinism is the incarnation of class defeat. But working today the great resurgence of ret the European class working un and colonial peoples threatens po to shatter imperialism and Stalinism into a million frag- the rat Hells At the same time the finan- tha cial and economic crisis of im- wh perialism drives the imperial- mi of. ists to step up their war against the

USSR,

parations

SOI

China and Eastern Europe to pi regain lost markets and fields for capital investment. Caught between these forces di the Stalinists in the name of 'peaceful co-existence', to tiv try Ly neutralizing vice twar the ruling classes through the th policies of protest and diplo- matic pressure and try to pre- ter vent revolution by restraining, and betraying the the confusing working class. These politics wo far from preventing war, only as victory make the of fascism Th outbreak of another and the

CUI

imperialist attack on the del USSR inevitable. This was the lesson of the Stalin-Hitler pact ant and the invasion of Germany.

its It is no surprise, therefore, that the British Stalinists in engineering the docks, and wo other industries are the most sist contemptible defenders and me advocates of Tory corporatism

COI

and trade union collaboration ers witn the monopones In the docks the CP, having пес led the campaign to sell Devlin

ing sed calo the tion But of lass ens and rag- ian- im- rial- elds ices of to zing the plo- ore- ing, the tics only ism ther the the act any. ore, in and rost and ism tion ring vlin returned to work from the and to abandon nationalization political ian Phases return to unified wage ports. the port than millions of. In fact socialist This than Lyons-were Two. who worker'-is, This group complete lack union its venomous Soviet Union. Like the consciousness

CIS.

o work from the national do vo members of the 18-man c demand nazalon 191L ; to substitute for the against the Utop and reformist to get round and Three b work and age structure for the a blind alley because would employers ut down and get out system hundreds of of pounds to get rid ct it is easier to get bring back k on the docks. nothing red herring representa- e Carpenter and associated with an sell out on Phase titude of IS suppor- le docks— edit 'Dock- anything just cipled and bankrupt. its is typified 1n ce from Stalinism and despite its unist philosophy and hatred of the CP, the 'Dock- upporters fight con- develop any evolutionary political dock amongst based on a sponta uggles of dockers and of the syndi- anger when the Jones/ Aldington report was ational dock strike last year. Above: The vote 18-man committee-Mr Vic Turner (left) and N calist consciousness of certain dockers. It is no accident that this group constituted the greatest obstacle to the unity of dock- ers and lorry drivers in 1972.

Their policy of tail ending the working class led them to sup- port, uncritically, the picketing of container bases to the point where an open conflict be- drivers and dockers, tween container workers very nearly came about. Up to now they have ped- dled the falsehood that lorry drivers were paid to picket the docks in the summer of last year. They avoided any political criticism of the Jones-Alding- ton commission and refused to challenge the Stalinist collabo- ration with it. By rejecting Marxist policies and relying on blind militancy the IS have now placed them- selves in an extremely sinister and reactionary position in re- lation to the dockers. When the employers threat- ened to close down Thames 65 and move the meat trade to Southampton the 'Dockworker' refused to give a lead and con- fined itself to the following lame comment: 'It is a disgrace [sic] that the trade unions have allowed the employers... to play one port against another, and it is about time the trade unions adopted a

NATIONAL

AGREEMENT.' (Deckworker', February 13) This a conscious eva- was sion of responsibility to call for unity of dockers and lorry ort was finally accepted and dockers The vote to return to work on April 6.

left) and Mr Jim Carpenter.

drivers to force the union leaders to act in defence of dockers' jobs. The real 'dis- grace' which the 'Dockworker' carefully omitted to mention the opportunist accept- was ance by the shop stewards of norms im- the vicious work posed by the shippers as the of keeping price the meat trade in the Royals. In the same way the 'Dock- worker' for all its rhetoric has refused to give a political lead in the struggle against Phase Two and the state control of wages. In a joint article written by Ted Gates—a member of the 18-man committee-and Bob Light-a frequent contributor to 'Socialist Worker'-in the February 1973. 'Dockworker' the tasks of exposing the union leaders and forcing the Tories to resign are consciously ignored. Messrs Gates and Light write: 'Now the employers must be m"de to live up to their pro- mises, to honour the agree- ments made and to stop hiding behind the freeze. The em- ployers can certainly afford it Whether this nonsense is the product of ignorance or conscious deception it is diffi- cult to judge. What is abso- lutely certain is that Messrs Gates and Light confuse dock- ers by ignoring the political Ph Workers Press, significance of the dockers' struggle against Phase Two and • the absolute necessity for re- volutionary political leadership in the docks industry. It was not the employers who were hiding behind the SO- suited called freeze, which their needs completely, but the union leaders-and the stewards' leadership. Having refused to face up to their political responsibili- ties and having indulged syndi- calism the docks, in the 'Dockworker' now predictably covers up for the reformists and officials in the 18-man committee and-of course blames the dockers: "The pay battle is now over.

in ports throughout Dockers the country have accepted the employers' offers around £2.60. And now after a week's strike a mass meeting of men in London's enclosed docks has voted to return to work.

And they did this, despite a lead from the negotiation team (the 18-man committee) and unions. officials of both ('Dockworker' April 1973, our emphasis.) As we have already pointed out there was no lead from the 18-man committee who did nothing to educate or prepare the dockworkers politically for the wages struggle. does not exhaust the This role of the 'Dockworker, how- ever. To cover up their retreat they maintain that they 'op- posed the 18-man committee's policy of withdrawing Clause 12 ... as we did not feel it was the answer' The facts are slightly differ- ent. 'Dockworker' supporters opposed the 18-man recom- mendation in March but sup- ported unreservedly the iden- tical resolution on April 6 because the officials of both unions backed it. The contradictions of the and its support- 'Dockworker' ers in IS are too numerous to in one enumerate statement but there is one flagrant dis- tortion which cannot go un- • answered. The 'Dockworker' in its latest issue informs its read- 'one of the major ers that reasons for the defeat of the strike the T&GWU's was failure to make it official ...

In our opinion this was the of certain deliberate policy high-up officials.' This omis- 'Dock- according to sIon, worker', , left the men 'with no whether they were on idea official strike or not. If this was so-and IS sup- porters on the 18-man com- mittee knew all along that the committee did have not powers from their plenary executive committees - then why did the 'Socialist Worker' inform dockers on the week of the strike that 'their action officially backed by the union'?

Wasn't this a conscious attempt to con the port- workers? We leave dock- workers to make their own inferences. As far as leadership is con- cerned the 'Dockworker' has none to offer. In place of a revolutionary policy and which aims to ex- leadership propriate the port employers and their bankers these syndi- calists with conclude a pathetic plea to the bureau- cracy: •. we would hope [sic] that the leadership [!] shown by officials in London will next time be channelled into the fight for a national agreement.'

And again: ' ... for once, both unions gave a lead [!]. as we have been demanding for years.

But when we had a lead from the unions, the men didn't see fit to follow it [!]. For this shameful. reformist rubbish the editors of 'Dock- worker' a Churchill deserve Fellowship Award. The distortion of the syn- dicalists Rotwithstanding the fact is that the 18-man com- mittee, which was originally formed to assist the introduc- tion of Devlin Phase Two, will now become, under Heath's cal Phase Two, an integral part of kers Press, Friday April 27, 1973 PAGE 7 the corporatist set up on the nd docks. Lay delegates on this com- ip mittee will become impotent hostages of the union bureau- cracy and administrators of the state pay control laws. No class conscious docker can serve his class and the 18-man committee at the same time.

Dockers must demand the resignation of all rank and file from this cor- representatives poratist body immediately. As the 'Port' journal correctly re- marked: 'The 18-man committee is more official than it is un- official ... because of the unique set-up in the docks it has been found to be the most convenient way the officials of the two docks can get a true feeling of the representative unions of their entire mem- bership? ('Port' April 21, 1973 No. 159.)

WHO ARE THE 18-MAN

COMMITTEE?

Ocean Lay Group (T&G) Chairman: Maurice Foley Vic Turner George Hughes T. Nelligan E. Gates M. Day

PLA (T&G)

1. Connolly G. Learmouth J. Carpenter D. Lyons J. George P. Payne

NAS&D

F. Roffe D. Sheen W. Knight. T. Peterson D. McLaughlin L. Burley These methods and policies of the CP and IS confuse and deceive the working class about the true nature of the crisis, the bureaucratic leader- ship and the organized repres- sion of the capitalist state.

They prepare the working class not for victories and lasting conquests but for savage de- feats and monumental be- trayals. Dockers must completely re- ject their policies and build a new leadership based on the principles of Marxism and the policies of the All Trades Unions Alliance which are: 1) A campaign to force the TUC to create the industrial and political conditions lead- ing to a General Strike and a General Election. 2) The election of a Labour government which must be forced, as a first priority, to nationalize the port, haulage, container and shipping indus- tries without compensation and under workers' control. 3) The cancellation of all capital debts on the ports and the nationalization of the banks. This will not only end inflation but release large capital resources for improving the port industry in the inter- ests of dockers and put an end to the scandal of casual labour.

4) Complete opposition to the fraud of 'worker participa- tion' and joint consultation'. A national campaign of agita- tion and propaganda to ex- pose the union leaders col- laboration with the Aldington proposals and for a policy of nationalization and workers' control. 5) Unity of dockers, lorry drivers and container workers in a joint struggle against the union leaders' betrayals_ and government operation of Phase Two. 6) No redundancies. Oppose severance pay schemes. 7) Reject the Jones leader- ship and replace it with a leadership which will fight for the basic democratic rights of dockers and the independence of the unions from the State.

8) No collaboration with the National Industrial Relations Court or the Pay Boards. 9) Fight for stewards leadership. which will combat Stalinism and reformist syndi- calism.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday April 27,

BY PETER JEFFRIES

What the revisionists seek at all points to do is to write off the unions, or, more accurately, to confuse the rank and file of its unions with the leadership. particularly clear in This is the article by A. Jones of the Marxist Group International when he deals with the early unions of the skilled workers, formed after 1850 of which the Amalgamated Society of En- gineers (ASE) was typical.

'In this situation the trade unions of the "aristocrats" could quite plausibly see themselves as having just as much, if not more, in common with the employers than with other sections of workers, writes Jones. Now we do not need the IMG to tell . us that the aim of the leaders of the 'New Model' unions was class colla- boration with the employers.

But this was never an abso- lute development, as Jones wishes to present it, but a relative one. However narrow the outlook of the craft union leaders, they remained at the head of working class organi- zations which at that period (the 1850s and 1860s) were unique in Europe. And at a later stage, to- wards the end of the century, when international competi- tion began to intensify and technical changes undermined partially at least the privileges of layers of the old "labour aristocracy' the many unions were at the centre of crucial developments in the working class movement. This was true of the ASE itself which from the 1890s allowed . first semi-skilled and into later unskilled workers its ranks and was at the heart of the movement during World War I which saw the creation of the shop stewards' move- ment. Again, what this IMG 'theo- retician' ignores is the great impact which the emergence of imperialism had upon the working-class movement. The leaders relations between the of the New Model unions, the employers and the state could last only for that relatively - brief period in which Britain enjoyed a monopoly position in world markets and produc- therefore quite tion. He wrong when he states: 'For a really permanent servant inside the working bourgeosie class, the was forced to wait until the late 1840s and the development of the classical labour aristo- cracy? No. The creation of a layer inside the leadership of the working-class movement who out policies inspired carry directly by the needs of capi- was a product of im- talism perialism. Reformism is not, in this sense, a product of the working class movement From the onset of the im- perialist epoch, the strength of reformism, its ability to re- tain its grip on the working class, depended upon the sup- derived from it the port capitalist state, not from a April 27, 1973 trend within the working class movement. Reformism has drawn its strength from the exploitation by British capitalism of a vast pool of labour throughout the colonial and semi-colonial world. It is because this Em- pire has now disappeared and capitalism internationally is in deep crisis that all the re- formists working inside the class movement are thrown closer and closer towards the capitalist state in service of its most direct needs. his re- Unlike Jones and visionist friends, Marx paid the greatest attention to the development of the British trade union movement. While acutely. conscious of its many weaknesses and limi- tations he realized always its great potential. Yet Jones is forced to slight Marx's entire work with the English trade union movement during the period of the First Interna- tional. After the collapse of Chartism, there was a dege- neration' class conscious- ness, according to Jones.

interlude 'Even the brief when some of the trade unions were involved with the First International did not really reflect any real change in atti- tude.' And later: The English trade unions affiliated to the International took real nO political action however' Here again we the see idealist search for a 'perfect' working class. However 'con- fused' the union leaders were about the historical implica- tions of the decision to found the International in 1864 (and such confusion was in any inevitable starting case an point) without the active sup- • leaders and port of the union members who affiliated to the would International Marx never have been able to de- feat Bakunin and later draw the real lesson from the defeat of the 1871 Paris Commune.

It was in this period that principle of the legal the eight-hour day was made part of the policy of the Interna- tional, a demand which pro- the rallying call for the vided resurrection of the Interna- tional (as the Second Interna- tional) in 1889. Jones' attitude to the strug- for Marxism inside the gle British working class move- ment is, if anything, even more reactionary. He dismisses as 'absurd' the politics of the Social Democratic Federation, which, from its foundation in remained major 1884, the Marxist organization in Bri- tain. And despite its many grave defects and the splits which it experienced it still forces provided the major from which the British Com- munist Party was founded in 1920-1921. Again we do not need Jones to lecture us about the sec- tarian weaknesses of the early British Marxist movement. But like all revisionists he wishes transform these relative to weaknesses into a fetish, again as part of his implicit accep- tance of the fact that a re- volutionary movem be built by the Br ing class. Engels, more tha was oniv too the weaknesses and corner this did not for the affect which he tried young and movement towards and the working could overcom And whatever

SDF

might have played tainly in the great moves the unskilled (New late 1880 from the like People worked Engels and Eleanor, were in th who foug of those fully to turn the ur of politi direction the creation wards dependent workers As against today ists like Jones thing in common early efforts For movement. with the along Socialists, are now policies designed working class the crassest calism, which could only lead class to the feats. Instead he underplay New Unionism and the formation Party. eloquent on the fail SDF he consciously the main point which Engels this group—namely tended to stand asic efforts to establish Party. the Labour Committee, Hyndm soon grounds ThaT had joined in many not accept socialist Jones misses out because the his involve sectarian attitude wards the Labour P Labour Engels behoves ill Jones an to lecture the SDF when tarianism member of Blackburn, abstain the tion of June But when it is question of Sta the plays his cious and dangerou Every worker that the manner Stalinism treats the take' on Trotskyism-for

IMG

spuriously speak in Britain— at every stage on the theoretical a struggle against Stal question of the in question working-class has been ever since when Trotsky against training of revolutionary WOTKeTC depends vitally them daily in t ing every question the and Stalinism. question 'British' The vilest the end where he e linism and The circulateac the linist and different trom class and a social party such cratic bour Party. the attects such organizations mines to a consider movement cannot y the British work- too well aware of Hyndman SDF leaders; not for a moment way pauent to turn the inexperiencea towards the unions orking class as the n which its isolation t have had it cer- a leading role :ly developments of unionize moves lo led (New Unionism) late 1880s onwards e Will Thorne who with nOT ere in the vanguard who fought success- an in workers' party ast oday's revision •we ave ver with these of the Marxist the

IMG

the International engaged in the towards of syndi- successfu lead the working he most bitter de- he tries deliberately the role of the nism and its role ir of the Labour while he waxes n the failings of the criticism levelled against that they -namely stand aside from the establish a Labour filiating initially to Representatior withdrew lat the unions who in many cases did socialist ends. isses out' this point whole politics o1 involve the same today to- Labour Party and which the . It and the IMG the SS a for its sec leading • f his group, advised workers es of 'Red Mole to General Elec- when we turn to on of Stalinism that s his most realize must which he anner in is no 'mis- of an indi- part whole history which the claims Britain—has turned of its history retical and political 1c utt international and movement ver since 1923-1924 and his fighters, intellectuals, a O W educat- upon laly ın ine suruggle gucstion contern practice This is by no means of Jones' pall le is the point near lere he equates Sta- Bolshevism. ral relation betweel and a Sta- class Bolshevik parly working the social and demo- such as the La- .This line of izations and deter- considerable extent Every Trotskyist will only feel a sense of revulsion that this renegade can equate Sta- linism (the force which be- trayed the Russian revolution and then proceeded to murder all those in Russia and inter- nationally who defended that revolution) with Bolshevism (the force which made pos- sible the 1917 revolution).

Here alone is living proof of the absolutely principled nature of the split within the Fourth International in 1953 when • the International Com- mittee (to which the Socialist Labour League is affiliated) broke . from those who all wished to capitulate to Stalin- ism and destroy the theoreti- cal basis of Trotskyism. For Jones, the British Com- munist Party is not the pro- duct of international counter- revolution, the slavish servant the Kremlin bureaucracy within the British working class movement, but merely a British condi- reflection of tions. Given the Labour that Party's philosophy leads it to turn away from • the fight for politics in the unions, a 'gap' is created which is filled, says Communist Jones, by the Party. 'At "the base" perhaps the most important effect of this entire structural situation has been how it has allowed a tiny and hopelessly reformist Communist Party such as the CPGB to survive as a signifi- cant force within the working class.' earlier: The British And Road to Socialism conception of left unity in fact corres- ponds to the political practice and habits of several genera- tions of CP militants.' This is nothing but the crudest cover-up job for Sta- linism. Jones knows that the Road to Socialism' 'British was a document specifically He approved by Stalin. also knows that the origin of the present politics of the British Party stem from Communist the international right turn made by Stalinism after the 1933 debacle in Germany and that these politics were not unity' but of ones of 'left counter-revolutionary 'popular frontism' with sections of the capitalist class in order to destroy any revolutionary de- class. This being the case his 'criticism' of British Stalinism reformist' is 'hopelessly as inaccu- both fraudulent and rate. Stalinism is not reform- ist, but consciously and deli- berately counter-revolutionary.

Throughout his article Jones implicitly denies this. "The re- lation of a Stalinist party to the working class means that its politics can be drastically affected by the state of the A scene from • the Pageant of working c Engels and Karl Marx in the section of the First International.

struggle in The most dramatic this was in when the

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linism) had to strategic tire feared being left in the within the compan And later on th Because a CP is, nized at the point tion, it also means relatively by manoeuvre union party gether create a situ trade union directly under working-class in s CPs he like the his policies Here is the clear of the 'theory' of effect that 'pushed to objective working class. Certainly carry failed to cherous line in pra • the despite Stalinism sees reformist' this vented his striving might build up dishonest linist-controlled the mittee Trade Unions body which Tory anti-union la In recent Mole which have the support rated this body while time deliberately fight principled Unions Trades fight which and More ranks. It is becoming that far the left by working class, Stali closer and closer all ism over Britain it is being built not lucie! visionists but by capitalist Press and BBC. Jones' one respect. history The Socialist give historical question revisionists they involve past : but the imme of the working clas revolutionary have a correct, tha tionary, history. The real history of the international worki -eague to transform itself int ful revolutionary p working class history showi section which dealt with th in the work place. dramatic example of Renault in 1947 (French Sta- id to change its en- it line because ng outflanked to the • industrial struggles • company.' n the same page :P is directly orga the point of produc- so means that there little for room CP trade a Stalinist. in These features tS- ate a situation where leaders in struggle and must frame es accordingly.' the clearest example Pabloism the t Stalinism be can the t ber tere strength' y the IMG have not out this trea- Thus ne in practice. fact that Jones 'hopelessly as this has not pre- organization from sigor azd main to dishonestly the Sta- rolled Liaison Com- the Defence into the fighting is the unin tams. nt weeks the 'Red articles wiitlen ve grossly exagge- support enjoyed by while at the same the All Alliance, winning more workers into, its ecoming clearer to numbers of worker om being pushed to the strength of the lass, Stalinism moves closer to 1m nerıa - the world. In is being consciously ot merely by the re- but by organs of the including the rticle is thus useful pect. It vividly illu- • fact that the study battleground. list Labour League any noquarteron question to these distortions. For the not merely ne immegiate mille :king class. Only the movement can is revolu- crect, that relationship with the defence of British and of the al working class is the strug- Socialist Labour forward and itself into a power- tionary party. showing Frederick alt with the formation

'The First Five Years Communist Vol- ume One. By Leon Trotsky. New Park Publications. Paper- back, £1.50. Review by Tom Kemp. A warm welcome and a wide circulation should be accorded to the first volume of Trotsky's speeches and articles for the Communist Interna- tional which has been out of print for a num- ber of years. This new edition also contains a number of items which have not been published in English before. Lenin and Trotsky were agreed that the foundation of a new international was a priority task after the suc- cessful taking of power in Russia. It was necessary to rally revolutionary forces in the main countries and transformation assist their into parties of a Bolshevik type. The First Congress of the Communist International, the Third workers' international, in Moscow in held was March, 1919. During the next five years, Lenin, Trotsky was, next to in the leading figure the Communist International. He wrote, or helped to draw up, resolutions theses and the which defined its tactics and strategy. His speeches were among the most authoritative. Com- munists from many countries him about came to consult their problems and he played an important part in formation and early history number of Communist of a Parties. contains This volume Trotsky's contributions to the work of the International down to its Third Congress in 1921. In all there are 38 One of Britain's most powerful shipbuilding bosses has sug- gested that Britain is like republic without the banana bananas. Sir William Lithgow, head of the Scott Lithgow consor- tium on the lower Clyde re- cently got excited about the state of Britain and the sub- versives who undermine his stability as an employer.

and militancy 'Subversion can be likened to a bacteria always present in our system, but liable to take over when items, some only a few pages long while others are lengthy reports and theses adopted by the Congresses to which they were presented Trotsky deals with all the fundamental questions facing international movement and takes up in detail the problems and differences of particular national sections. To give some idea of the key role which he played in the Communist International it may be noted that he wrote which the the Manifesto First Congress issued to the workers of the world, he also wrote the Manifesto of the Second gave the Congress, theoretically important re- port on the World Economic Crisis and the New Tasks of the Communist Interna- tional to the Third Congress and wrote the Theses on the and International Situation the Tasks of the Comintern which the International sub- sequently adopted. All these documents re- quire careful study as part of heritage the theoretical Marxism. The policies which they embody were accepted at the time by the entire communist movement. They had no place for the Stalinist theory of 'socialism in one country which had not yet been invented, nor for "peace- ful roads' or 'parliamentary roads' to socialism which • Communist would every recognize instantly as revision of Marxism worthy • re Kautsky and other renegades. As Trotsky put it (p.83): conceptions of The revolution which letarian prevailed in the Second Inter- national did not in reality transgress the framework of self-sufficient national capi- Germany, talism. England, France, Russia were regarded as independent worlds moving in one and the same orbit towards socialism. The hour socialism of the coming of strikes when capitalism at- its utmost limits of tains maturity and thereby the bourgeoisie is compelled to surrender its place to the proletariat, as the builder of socialism. This nationally- limited conception of capi- development provides talist the theoretical and psycho- of social- logical grounds "Socialists" patriotism: of each country deem them- selves duty-bound to defend the national state the as self - sufficient and natural of socialist foundation development.' become run down, said we laird Lithgow to Glasgow businessmen. 'Why is it a mystery that militancy should be in the ascendancy when responsibility and power have been sundered one from another. 'We should be grateful to the militants for their warn- ing. They have come close to reducing us to the state of a republic without the banana bananas.' then passed on to Lithgow the question of basic rights and made it clear there were one or two he wants to see abolished. 'We must be willing to ques- tion what we have persuaded ourselves are sacred rights.

He would be heretic who would suggest that no man has the right to strike. But that heretic can claim the right to work in this day and age when striking preventing means others from working. The rights in question, of course, hardly affect Lithgow who needs neither as the boss one of the owner of and largest shipbuilding complexes in the country. Here is Stalinism defined even before it appeared! This is the policy which the so- called 'Communist Parties' practise today. No wonder they hardly like to recall the early years of the Communist International or encourage their members to study its documents. Trotsky goes on: 'But this conception is false to the and profoundly reac- core tionary. By becoming world wide, capitalist development thereby those snapped threads which in the pas epoch bound the tate of the social revolution with the fate of one or another more highly developed capitalist country? If 'socialism in one country' was reactionary when applied to the advanced capitalist countries it was still more so when taken up by Stalin as a for backward and goal dominantly agrarian Russiare.

Together with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, Trotsky saw the . blow Russian revolution as a at world capitalism and the beginning of the European revolution. To extend the revolution was the task of the Communist International, a task which it set out to fulfil by'the building of revolution- ary parties to lead the work- ing class to power. The fate of Russian revolution itself the was bound up with, and sub- ordinate to, this task. History decided that the thy. revolution should come first in Russia: The revolutionary epoch burst in through the most weakly barricaded door'.

of the But the priority Russian proletariat, all Com- munists believed at that time, only temporary. They was looked forward to the meeting Communist Inter- the national in Berlin, Paris or London: 'A World Communist Con- Paris' gress in Berlin or as Trotsky said, would signify complete triumph of the the proletarian revolution and Europe consequently throughout the world.' However, for reasons which are explained in this volume, the revolution did not move forward. ever - victoriously Revolutionary parties were not built in time to take advan- tage of the immediate post- war revolutionary wave which reached its crest in 1919. In- stead it began to ebb. The old reformist leader- ships retained their grip on a substantial part of the work- ing class. The ruling class re- covered from the blows of the new English edition of the 'First Five A Years of the Communist International' in corporating hitherto unpublished materia from Volume XIII of Trotsky's 'Works'

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Workers Press, Friday April 27, 1973 PAGE 9 At the Second World Congress of the Third International in the summer of 1920. Left to right: Serrati, Trotsky, Levi, Zinoviev.

International war and capitalism moved into in its first five a phase of temporary stabiliza- years made a vital contribu- tion. tion to the problem of build- Trotsky analysed these de- ing revolutionary parties in the velopments with great clarity advanced countries. But it is the speeches and articles also necessary to understand in collected in this volume.

From why these parties were not built in time in order to learn the of objective analysis trends the Third Congress was the lessons from the errors and obliged to work out a new tac- setbacks. which comprised, Only the Trotskyist move- tic essen- tially, the ment carries on today the tra- turn to masses through the United Front ditions of the heroic period of as a means of breaking the work- the Communist International. ers from their reformist lead- The Stalinists dare not print ers and building the party on the resolutions and proceed- a solid foundation. ings of its Congresses because In the course of his work they are a condemnation of its for Communist Inter- own revisionist betrayals.

The the national Trotsky Inter- entered with leading figures in the the prob- national-Trotsky, Zinoviev, great patience into lems of the national sections Bukharin—were to perish on best Stalin's orders. with which he was Stalin destroyed the Com- acquainted. He sought to win over those elements from the International munist just as he Bolshevik pre-war syndicalist movement destroyed the whom he thought could be Party. He first turned it into broken from their old concep- of foreign an instrument the tions. He warned against the policy of the bureaucracy, from the divesting it of its dangers reformists revolution- who had come from the parties ary character while conserving of the Second International. something of the old termin- Finally, in 1943, A decade later Trotsky, ology. equipped with this experience, wound it altogether in up the was able to enter in the same order to strengthen way into the life of the sec- alliance with the ruling classes Fourth of United States and tions of Inter- the being national which Britain. were The between the built under much more dis- contrast advantageous conditions. theory and policy of the Com- This volume covers a period International munist in the days of Lenin and Trotsky and of great historic importance in the history of the working under the control of Stalin is class movement when it was stark and revealing. In this presented with revolutionary Communism opportunities of unprece- voice speak- an dented kind as a result of the ing through Trotsky. In the building of the revo- brought about by the crisIs imperialist It the lutionary party today a study war. was foun- of the documents and resolu- period which saw the of a new international tions of the Communist Inter- dation precisely to take advantage of before it became national an opportunities, led by instrument of the Stalinist those Trotsky is indispensable. Lenin, and a genera- bureaucracy of outstanding A start can be made with this tion other of Trotsky's own Marxists. new edition The work of the Communist speeches and writings. Five natiana in. material The First Five Years of the Communist International This first volume of Trotsky's writings and speeches for the Communist International covers the period of its first three Congresses when the post-war peak and then reached its revolutionary upsurge began to recede. It establishes, without fear of con- tradiction, the important role which he played in the foundation of this, the Third workers' International, and in the formation and early development of the French, German and Italian Communist Parties. At this time the theory of socialism in one country' had not been invented and Joseph Stalir was still a second-line Bolshevik leader who played no part in the international movement which he was later tol pervert and eventually destroy.

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Providing a safety valve PAGE 10 Workers Press, Friday April 27, 1973 'Social Work'. Jenny Barra- The process is a gigantic farce clough. Tuesday April 24.

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MARY THE ALCOHOLIC

might be with measures taken. eight children care and hus- 1l1 Holborn The roved about the band inside: Miss and camera damp, miserable flats and worn her dog stinking in their refuse- McNally faces with relish; we watched strewn apartment; Mr, financial the social workers themselves and his and family locked to their telephones, show- problems; the old blind ing the utmost concern and act- who lives alone ... all to One ing as ultimate guardians of the degree or another are casualties of our society. good of the state. Rose: I think you have to be Their numbers increase daily something of a judge and jury- and as the pressure of their de- in otherwise you're better not spoken and mands, en spoken, the job.' gathers momentum, the rest May: (having turned over Mary's the population- -threatened from final and ninth child to court all quarters by economic, politi- care) 'Sometimes a job turns out and social crisis - pretends cal little different than expected they do not exist. and that's good for you and your Or, when forced to face them, work-stops you getting too con- they hand them with vast fident. over relief into the apparently bottom- less pit of compassion that the social worker is expected to sus- tain for the job. Shoring the holes and up The followed programme sick and crazed cracks in working-class Rose who, through ghoulish business. society and undoubted persistence And it requires an absolute work of the most hard praise- 'faith' on the part of its workers worthy kind, had reached order keep them in to going step in the ladder of social work.

a sea of difficulties. against (It reasonably is now Yet in a democratic, liberal esteemed profession and con- environment, it is essential that tains many of the promotional the thrive social services to perks of any functioning indus- bring about the release of a great try in this country.) head of they 'as We saw the enormous efforts steam; dustbins for their [the rest of give aid to to the needy, i con- the populace] consciences' with despicable as stantly overcast social worker put it of morality and 'lady one shades succinctly. bountiful' attitudes which have human waste is poured The prevailed through English his- into the ever-open maw. tory with its abominable puritan- No one wants to know what liberal heritage, soup-kitchens, becomes of these people, the charities, helping the natives and, dregs who own nothing, earn of always the needy course, nothing. nothing and produce poor. Yet We saw the abortive attempts the solicitous attentions of workers to alleviate hardship in wretched social service sustain the illusion that 'they are being housing, lack of food and decent cared for'. conditions - all dealt with as get WORKERS PRESS Do you regularly? If not, why | not take out a subscription now? £20.28 for 12 months (312 issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 issues) {5.07 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: Circulation Dept., Workers Press, 186a Clapham High St., London SWA ZUG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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stemming from 'emotional' prob- lems. Sociology in its truest form; social services as they stand—all are nothing better than a kind face of of excrescence on the society since in the final analysis they merely bolster up capital- ism and attempt only the most puny and ineffectual reforms.

All the zeal and dedication is, meaningless ultimately, obscene in its misdirection.

But capitalism does not mis- direct-these services are cal- culated and serve as safety valves to keep these people, mis- educated and dispersed. ANOTHER finger stuck in the dyke can be seen in 'Men At Work: Drudgery. The final pro-

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11.15 FILM: Man and His Mate'. 11.20 Victor Mature, Carole Landis. Prehistoric monsters. 12.25 Weather.

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Cymru/Wales as above except: 6.01-6.18 4.25-4.50 Stesion cantamil. gramme in this elevating series gave us the ins and outs of the process that is 'job-enrichment' becoming such an obsession in industry today. Flow lines are being out- moded. Instead of the dreadful mono- tony of moving one piece at a time on a production line; screw- ing one screw; guiding one wire, now there is the enriching busi- ness of putting several pieces to- gether at once. The management, covering up with fine words of concern, are obviously finding higher effi- ciency and production levels and cutting labour forces while at same time, giving workers the illusion that they are enter- ing into greater participation.

The slavery has been raised to a subtler level. Everyone is pleased - except the worker, who soon subsides Hollywood—the Dream Factory, BBC 1' young Victor Mature and Carole Landis

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8.00 MONEY AT WORK. The South 10.3 Connection. British African firms in South Africa. Y dydd. 10.30 Sports arena, 11.00 Outlook. HTV West as above except: 6.18-635 Report West. 9.30 Royal Marines. 9.50

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6.35 London. 7.30 Comedians. 8.00 Hawaii five-o. 9.00 London. 10.30 'Berserk'. Police surgeon. 11.00 Film: Weather. Allen. 10.05 YORKSHIRE: 9.45 Ed 10.50 Dr Simon Gilbert and Sullivan. Locke. 11.20 London. 4.25 Flintstones.

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A cheery commentary by a worker who says he's an elec- tricians' shop steward makes us all feel at home. The obsequious and patroniz- ing manner of film only managed illuminate the to oppressive activities that persist in factories all over the country and which in quality seem to have changed remarkably little since the 19th century. Not only has the BBC the gall such stuff in to produce seriousness, but it also reminds us at the end of the programme that the thing is on sale from BBC Enterprises as out-and-out propaganda for management no doubt during showings, other lunchbreaks or any moment when workers might pause long enough to reflect job dangerously | that enrich- ment' is not all it's cracked up to be, except where the profits are concerned. 'y, BBC 1's movie series, presents a very ble Landis in 'Man and His Mate' tonight.

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Holiday pay fight at Perkins Rubery Owen strikers meet today

SHOP STEWARDS

the overtime after at rejecting pany offer of f2 in reply to their fac- Perkins diesel engine claim for parity with much higher tories in Peterborough yes- paid Massey-Ferguson workers in terday accused management Coventry, now part of the same of 'deliberate provocation' in combine. The offer is in line company their threat to withhold Two with Phase of Tory the Easter holiday pay because pay laws. overtime of their members Perkins retaliated by with- drawing of em- ban. their guarantee ployment from the workers. spokesman stewards' said On Tuesday the company this was the feeling of all 6,000 threatened not to backdate the workers in the factories, and that £2 to April 1, when the old pay assembly workers had agreement in the factories ran sought legal advice on the issue.

out, unless the unions accepted The banned it by the end of this month.

workers have

STRIKERS

at the Rubery dred Jaguar workers were Owen Mid- factories in the laid off. production lands will be meeting today XJ6 is at a standstill and E-type produc- report-back to hear from 'explanatory talks' tion is expected dry up yesterday to afternoon on their four-week at the weekend. battle against a Measured- British-Leyland has now Work-type pay laid Day scheme. off 3,000 workers at and The which Longbridge Castle strike, has made official the Bromwich, Birmingham. been by General Transport and Mini production is at a the Workers' Union and standstill and 800 workers the engineers' union, is now are laid at Rover Solihull. biting deeply into car, truck factory, The Triumph and Chrys- and tractor production. Owen ler in Coventry Rubery produces car plant wheels, chassis frames, was said to be keeping petrol tanks and other close watch on component components vital to a num- supplies. big Midlands Rubery Owen claims ber of the has promised compensation vehicle factories. Six hundred Massey Fer- to make sure no one loses MDW-type system guson tractor workers, who from the it introduce, but were sent home soon after wants to dispute the 2,500 strikers insist that the at Rubery's laid off in some cases it will mean started, remained eventual £12 - a - week yesterday. an wage-cut. One thousand eight hun- THE RIGHT-WING Ulster woman just across the border in Year's Day Co Donegal last New Defence Association has threat- Taylor's appeal the ened to take to the streets in is due be heard in order Belfast next week. Northern Ireland this weekend

UDA

The council yesterday over a Londonderry man who announced that would it start faces extradition to the Irish demonstration by disrupting Republic on a double murder traffic in Belfast and London- derry and that its members will charge. resume the wearing of masks.

The

UDA

member- man—a William Taylor (18), Robert is whose home is in the Protestant London- Waterside district of derry. Police from the Republic have THE 211 GEC Coventry tool- granted an extradition order been makers meet today their as with Taylor for in connection fifth strike enters its week. and the murder of a man a The strike, which is official, is over a demand for a £2.88 week wage offer to be paid in negotiators

SEAMEN'S

union 12 monthly increments. have recommended the executive The firm the shipowners' in- has adamantly re- to accept of £8.10 fused negotiations on this. It has offer creased pay month to the able seamen's basic declared that aymen by this rate, raising it to £94.20 a month.

nethod would be outside Phasi All Trades Unions Alliance meetings SLASGOW Worker! (Engineers' and

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday "The Bell', meeting): May 2, 8 p.m. Hoe Shipyard 'Report back from Saturday Aprll 28, 10 a.m.

Room Street. May Partick 1, Burgh Hall. 'Make Day'. Scanion retract'. Copland School, BIRKENHEAD: Sunday April 29, Road. May 3 'Chester Arms', Hamilton p.m. Day'. Street (near tunnel entrance).

WOOLWICH: Wednesday May 2, 8 p.m. 'The Castle', Powis Street, Monday

HEMEL

HEMPSTEAD:

S.E.18. 'Report back from May Aprll 30, 8 p.m. Room 2, Adey. Day'. Hall, Square. field Queens FELTHAM: Thursday May Democratic 3, 'Defend Basic 'Three Horse Shoes'. Felt- p.m. Rights'. Feltham, ham High Street, Middlesex. 'The Fight against the EAST LONDON: Monday April 30, Tories after May Day! 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hall, Bow BRIXTON: Monday May 7, 8 p.m.

E.3. All out May 11 Force Training Control Room, Brixton call General to a Centre. 'Report back from May Strike! Day'. LEWISHAM: Monday May 7, 8 WANDSWORTH: Monday Aprit 30, Deptford Engineers' Club, 8 p.m. 'Kings Arms', High Street, p.m. New Cross Station. 'The S.W.18. Trotskyism and Stalin- opp. role TUC in the fight Ism'. _ or the against the Tories'. SOUTHALL: Wednesday May BATTERSEA: Tuesday May 2, 8, 8 p.m. Southall Library, Osterley 8 p.m. 'Nags Head', cnr. Wands- Park Road. 'Report back from Road North worth and Street. May Day': 'Report back from May Day'.

Then it followed up by saying : ava that because of the overtime ban holiday pay for Good Friday and Easter Monday would be with- held from 1,000 workers who had to be laid off on Tuesday.

Production was/ halted on Wednesday when 60 key 'assem- bly workers held a meeting to protest against this declaration.

It was there the decision to seek legal advice was taken.

The stewards' spokesman said yesterday that it was now up to the company to make the next move. 'We have at all times been Rubery Owen workers' previou

BY A FOREIGN CO

THE URUGUYAN government is pushing through legislation to curb trade union rights as well as to make anyone having 'sym- pathies' with Tupamaros the years' guerrillas liable to six imprisonment. The proposed laws have no precedent in the history of a by Two of the government's state pay laws and is inflationary.

A letter on this issue from a Mrs Collinbridge, a Pay Board official, is to be read to the strikers. Toolroom stewards met this official ten days ago. The GEC strikers have asked a meeting of toolroom stewards to organize financial levies in their factories. All Trades Unions Allian DONCASTER Monday April 30, 8 p.m. White Bear Hotel, Hallgate. Speaker: Mike Banda (SLL Central Committee).

KNOTTINGLEY:

Thursday. May 3, 7.30 p.m. Railway Hotel, Hilltop. Speaker: G. Healy (Natlonal Secretary SLL). . •ta Workers Press, F ing available to work our normal, basic 40 hours as per our con- tracts of employment, he said.

'The question we are asking now is: are they trying to force us all outside the gate? 'We have put these issues in procedure and we are now wait- ing to see whether the company has just been attempting to bluff He commented that the man- agement's attitude had apparently been stiffened by the feeling that the union leaders of other sec- conflict tions who had been in with the pay laws were backing down. s' previous mass meeting

EIGN CORRESPONDENT

country which was once held up as a model of democracy.

The law will be a blow to the . 500,000 strong Convention Nacional De Trabajadores which in February expressed 'more points of agreement than dis- agreement' with the programme imposed on President Bordaberry a by the military. But they must see that as far as the Tory government is con- cerned, Phase Two is in itself a wage-cut and the intention for the future is a new law against the background of ever soaring prices. The toolroom strike can only progress further by district action against the company and the government. , Alliance Public Meetings overnment OLLERTON: Monday May 7, 8 p.m. Blue Tit. Speaker: Mike Banda (SLL Central Committee). BARNSLEY: Thursday May 10, 8 p.m. Masons Arms. Speaker: Slaughter Cliff (SLL Central Committee). "Thursday

CASTLEFORD:

May 17, 8 p.m. Sagar St Rooms. Speaker: G. Healy (National Secretary SLL). s Press, Friday April 27, 1973

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BY QUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

RADIATOR assembly at Ford's Basildon, Essex, tractor factory was hit yes- terday when 90 day-shift workers walked out in sym- pathy with a man disciplined for taking part in the union- backed work-to-rule over pay. Similar action had been taken by 70 night-shift workers from the same section. In both cases the walk-out also involved a protest against men who failed to take part in similar action last week. Elsewhere the in combine things re- yesterday, however, mained relatively quiet in advance of next Thursday's meeting of convenors and union officials to review progress in their campaign against Ford's £2.40, government- controlled pay offer. AN ASSEMBLY worker dismissed for alleged poor workmanship at back Halewood has been taken -but under conditions of a 'final warning' Ford's yesterday denied WOr- kers' allegations of a 'toughening up' of their disciplinary pro- cedures in an attempt to break their resistance to the £2.40 offer.

A spokesman claimed discipline cases had been only apparently on the increase in recent weeks, and that this was because the company had 'bent over back- wards' the early stages to avoid trouble. He admitted, however, that it unlikely workers would was accept this explanation.

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! Luton

FRIDAY APRIL 27

8 p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bedford Road East London

SUNDAY APRIL 29

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

WEDNESDAY MAY 2

7.30 p.m. 'Grapes Inn' Trippett Lane Speaker: Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) Registered 88 newspaper at the Post Office. Published Worker by Press, 186a Clapham High Street, Printed Plough 01-622 7029.

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MEMBERS

the National of Graphical Association, the craft workers printing and newspaper industry, have voted decisively against taking strike action on May 1. The result, announced yester- day at a ballot of the membership on whether there should be strike action was: In favour 20,386; against 46,755. The 67,141 votes cast repre- sented a ballot of 81 per cent.

An official of the NGA said: 'This means our members will be reporting for work on May 1. In spite of this decision by the

NGA

members, there is little possibility of the national news- papers and many provincial papers publishing on May Day.

The other print unions have decided to call out their mem- bers on a one-day strike during which periods will prevent the publication of morning papers and evening papers on May I.

TWENTY members of the AUEW-from government instal- lations at Harwell, Aldermaston, Warminster and Bicester-yester- day sought an injunction in the High Court declaring Tuesday's May Day strike illegal. They applied for an order that the union's president, Mr Hugh Scanlon, and a number of local officers withdraw strike notices issued to members. • South Wales miners have voted overwhelmingly for the May Day strike. Fifty pits are ex- pected to be idle. In a ballot, the miners voted in favour of the strike by 23,000 to fewer than 4,000. They will now form the bulk of the Cardiff May Day rally which will be attended by dock- from South Wales ports, ers engineers, shopworkers and bos- pital workers.

FROM PAGE ONE

This is the most serious crisis on the upper Clyde since Govan Shipbuilders and Marathon took over from UCS last autumn.

The main obstacle is resistance by the boilermakers' union over the retraining of general workers and craftsmen steel trade as workers. The firms claim that the settle- ment reached last autumn pro-

APRIL FUND NO

A GOOD post yesterday of {183,33 brought our fund up to £1,014.04. But don't rest back yet. We still have only four more days to raise our target of £1,750. There is no more time to lose. Every ounce of your support is needed this month. We feel that a great achievement has been to send our news editor, Alex Mitchell, to Japan to give on-the-spot reports of the major events taking place there.

This, of course, has cost extra thought it im- money, but we portant to have this special coverage to show the develop- ments taking place amongst the ay Aprll 27, 1973

BY DAVID M

WATNEY MANN strikers at yesterday reacted bitterly to i Pay Board in their dispute.

At all three— Whitechapel, Mortlake and Isleworth— determined picketing backed up their demand for guaran- teed overtime pay. Talks with the company on this demand are expected to take place today. Jack Barnard, craft unions senior steward at Mortlake, con- Watney's attempts to cause a split among the 800 strikers. 'We're all Watney Mann wor- kers, employed by Maxwell all Joseph,' he said. (Joseph's Grand Metropolitan Hotels group re- cently took over the powerful brewery chain.) 'This dispute is over an agree- ment that affects all of us, so everyone's involved.' Pay Board The Watney Mann that a £2.40 in- crease it sought permission to implement from April 1 would exceed the limits allowed under Phase Two of the Tory pay laws.

So the strike leaders are de- manding the company withdraw five 'strings' agreed in a pay deal last July-and that it guarantee five hours overtime pay a week to all those on strike, even if these are not worked Barnard: 'We're Said Jack extremely bitter about the Pay Board's intervention defeat the but it's obvious we can't Board on our own. 'What's required to do that is DOCKS leaders of the T&GWU to campaign yesterday decided against the growth of the 'casual' supplementary register in Britain's ports. No decision was taken, how- ever, on an immediate re-call of the union's national docks dele- gates conference to discuss the National Ports' Council report on unregistered ports. But it was understood that such • a con- ference would be called soon once the report had been dis- cussed in the areas. vided for this breakdown of craft barriers. • say they do not have I hey other than iobs for craftsmen men who do boilermakers work building oil-rigs. These redundancies represent a direct challenge to the original pledge by the former UCs Shop Stewards' Co-ordinating Com- mittee, led by Communist Party members James Reid and James Airlie, that 'not a man would go down the road'. working class throughout the world. We ask you all, therefore, dear readers, to back us up all the way. We are sure you would like us to keep sending Workers Press reporters to other coun- tries to bring the latest news of the international labour move- Help ment. us then complete our Fund this month. Try where possible to give extra amounts.

donation Rush im- every mediately to: Workers Press April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG

BY JOHN SPENCER

SHARE

prices are falling profits are by up failed last year's have quarter on sharply across the board on The the side operators are well aware that the New York Stock Ex- these figures largely register the change amid fears that the inflation racking lcalaway Us economv US government will inter- eNew big vene to deflate the economy York the exchange have and put an end to the frightened by the been

DAVID MAUDE

putting nearl artificial boom. kers at three London breweries Since of the prices the beginning rly to the intervention of the will have to week the Dow-Jones industria Nixon governmen impose tax increases. average index has shed nearly 40 On Wednesday points. Earlier this week, Herbert united action throughout every closed at 930.54, compared to Stein, of the President's Coun- Monday's of secuon workers level Economic Advisers the Obviously we're 963.10. dropped broad hint Tha looking to in this con- increases in _ taxation are on the This figures have look hides the true and 'cool down' We try way which the beyond May Day as well! share mar. extenl lo Hughie Wilson, a shop ket past steward The four days. more broadly- fight measure could finally had to the Such a based stock index continue. put an end the artificial 'As far concerned this reastere• alcest bringingwall about wave as l'm boom. daily decline in its history on Street must go on to the end,' he said.

Sing share Wednesday. 'If we lose this one we've lost sending prices over a cliff-edge. everything.' Announcements that company

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

AND

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE

AMIT

Speakers NORTH WEST: Assemble 10 a.m. Islington,

LONDON:

Assemble: p.m. Corner, Marble Arch. Liverpool. Central Hall p.m. Meeting: 1.30 p.m Liverpool. Speakers:

CORIN

REDGRAVE

Pancras Assembly Rooms. (Keep Left editorial Nat

MAUREEN

HANNIGAN

Sec),

SARAH

BAMBRICK (YS Nat Sec). Première show- board). Première showing racedli ing of Pageant film. film. Blythwood

SCOTLAND:

Assemble: 10 a.m.

YORKSHIRE:

Garder noon Meeting: 7.30 Glasaow. of Resi. • Leeds Town Hall. Meeting: Holder near Cross, Woodside Halls, George's Headrow 7.30 Guildford Hotel O.M. Speakers:

MIKE

BANDA

(SLL

Central Speakers:

ROY

Press SULu "workers

GORDON

BAILEY

(YS Nat Committee) editorial board). DAVE BIRD (YS National Committee). Première showing of Pageant Committee). film. Digbeth.

MIDLANDS:

Assemble 11 a.m. NORTH EAST: Assemble: 12.30 • p.m. Heb. Civic Hall, Birmingham. burn Civic Centre. Meeting: 7.30 . Meeting: 7.30 p.m Speakers: Hall. Speakers: Assembly Centre.

LIVIC

Jallyw STEPHEN JOHNS (Workers Press editorial

SLAUGHTER

(SLL

Committee), contral board). JOHN SIMMANCE (Young Social-

GARY

GURMEET

(Editor Keep Left). Première showing of Pageant film.

ists). Caedraw 5.30

WALES:

Assemble: p.™. 30 Meeting: School Mentyr Speakers: ROY Caedraw School. Merthyr.

BATTERSBY.

KIKI

OBERMER

(Young SocialisIs i