Workers Press no. 1059

workers press

UNITED CAMPAIGN

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY APRIL 28, 1973• No 1059 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE THE SOCIALIST Labour League has asked the lead- ers of the Communist Party to reconsider their refusal to join with the SLL and the International Socialists in a united declaration in defence of democratic rights.

Yesterday, G. Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League, wrote to John Gollan, general secretary of the Communist Party, as follows: • THE refusal of the Communist Party to associate itself with the Socialist Labour League and International Socialists in a joint statement defending the democratic rights of the working class should, in the opinion of the SLL, be reconsidered by your party. rights cannot be Surely you will agree that the defence of such who agree with the policy of the Communist Party contined to those or to the selected few who may be considered politically sympathetic to the Party. The defence of democratic the Tory govern- rights against Interna- communis y tional Socialists and the Socialist Labour League. applies organization of the their political class. coloration is right, left or centre.

It seems to us that the deci- for any organization within the class to working fight for aDie Slanu uD the democratic rights or anotner irrespective of the between ditterences ponucal them. Despite the serious political dif- ferences between the Labour League and the Commu- that consider it is

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1 arLy. CP from our auty to derend tne any its demo- of cratic rights by the Tory govern- Here. Would your Party be prepared defend democratic rights UnIC the Socialists and the Socialist Labour League if they were attacked by / the gov- agencies? ernment Or ILS Your letter states: •Precisely because of what is at onlv the stake We beneve Workers at the Lucas combine's CAV factory West London, yesterday voted (above) to take InACIon. involvement of the organized Tuesday's May 1 strike against the Tory pay laws.

part in next stewards had been Although shop and trade union ded on yesterday overwhelming Convenors issue, morning's can be successtul in revers- workers' menT read official calls to strike from the engineers and Tansport ing this authoritarian trend.

wholeheartedly une sue aerees with here. But is it not Sidney Greene, Danny McGarvey stand together and defend each prepared defend within the rights then democratic rights these fact that it or Joe Gormley? democratic the we may well find ourselves with- Sharp leaders' UnIOn movement chai Your conclusion that: differences exist? rights

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Was not the policy the Tory disruptive policy and coming period, if this government denouncing such Headers actions actior movement which you have within organized to attack electri- has its way social fascists by yourself and ment cians which opened UnOR Who is more 'disruptive' with- yOU! Part put Frank Chapple opinion, In 121 Dursued WIl.

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Hitles In une made union movement to would be attitude make your proposal what your 1933 day than that group of right and to power the

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productive what must so-called "left wing divided German working -the Involvement Un E Union who class? the trades We say unhesitatingly that we

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labour movement.' nave colaborated WILl ana whe the Socialist It is not would nave cerene napole. now acquiesce in the Tory gov. 1s simply an evasion. not because we agree with him. Lea Que ane Internationa. ernment's infamous Phase Two represents part of who 'disrup- It is Socialists are but because he the right of the Commu- The policy? every une tract тоусшени

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alsatret • Donucal! the How "involved' and Would not the approach and the -be unionist same With both thes cal Victor or Sir are not prepared in the trade unions unless you labour apply to movement KnoWs.

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WE'RE almost at a stand- still again. Socialist Labour League branches Swindon £2; east London £5; Dagen- ham £1. Total to date £9,685.77. We need to reach £50,000 by May 31. It is certainly going to be a hard fight. Lose no time. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG NEXT MONDAY, we begin an exhaustive inquiry into the conditions and pay of Britain's shopworkers. lan Yeats is in Shotton, North Wales, for today's demonstra- tion against steel closures.

TODAY on page 3 he ex- amines attitudes to the Tory attack on steel jobs. As a result of the wrangle between Agricultural Minis- ters in Brussels this weekend, prices on the high streets are likely to rise even further.

SEE PAGE 2

Be sure of your Workers Press EVERY day by filling in the form on page 10. the right wing, and yet we are obliged to defend their demo- cratic rights. 'An injury to one is an injury to all' is as true today as the day it was cam- paigned for by the pioneers of trade unionism. Finally your Party calls for the ending of all bans and pros- criptions. Do you mean that this applies only to the people who agree with you politically? Are you prepared to fight to lift all proscriptions from the bans and IS and SLL? Your reply will be awaited with interest.

workers press

UNITED CAMPAIGN

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY APRIL 28, 1973 • No 1059 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

SIL SECRETARY CALLS FOR

TO DEFEND

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THE SOCIALIST Labour League has asked the lead- ers of the Communist Party to reconsider their refusal to join with the SLL and the International Socialists in a united declaration in defence of democratic rights.

Yesterday, G. Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League, wrote to John Gollan, general secretary of the

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Communist Party, as follows: THE refusal of the Communist Party to associate itself with the Socialist Labour League and International Socialists in a joint statement defending the democratic rights of the working class should, in the opinion of the SLI, be reconsidered by your party. cannot be Surely you will agree that the defence of such rights i the policy of the conne• to diose woo agree wite or to the selected few who may be considered politically sympathetic to the Party. The defence of democratic Tory rights against govern- the does not just apply to the Party, Interna- Communist the tional Socialists and the Socialist Labour League. applies organization of the work- every their political class. coloration is right, left or centre.

It seems to us that the deci- sive for any organization within the working class to be fight for to sland us allu the democratic rights or anoner organization irrespective of the differences political between them. Despite the serious political dif- ferences between the Labour League and the Commu- we consider that it is ust rally. CP from our only any, infringement its demo- cratic rights by the Tory govern- Would your Party be prepared defend the democratic rights LO The socialsts and the Socialist Labour League if they were attacked by the gov- ernment or its agencies! Your letter states: 'Precisely because of what is at believe the We only Workers Acton, West London, yesterday voted (above) to take at the Lucas combine's CAv factor organized involvement of the Tuesday's pay laws. part in next strike against the Tory May l Altnough snop stewaras nad deen divi trade union and ded the the vote yesterday morning's mass meeting was overwhelming. Convenors Issue, can be successtui in revers- transport workers' unions.

read official calls to strike trom the enolneers ing this autnoritarian trend.

The SLL wholeheartedly agrees with you here. Sidney Greene, are prepared defend But is it not Danny McGarvev stana together and delena eacn The fact that it is within the trade or Joe Gormley? others' democratic rights then democratic rights of these 'leaders'? we may well find ourselves with- movement that the sharp-

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Your conclusion that: est differences

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Was not the policy of unlikely event, the Tory govern- "The disruptive policy and coming period, if this government Genolicso

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Heater actions within the organized has its way. the electri- ment were to attack social fascists yourself and labour movement which you have Who is more 'disruptive' with- which opened the Cans yvuL and put Frank our Chappie in 181 •ursuco Will. Hitle ne doe mor movenear co•

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fascisill Cullel what would be attitude make your proposal your day than that group of right and power in 1933 on „tse basts productive what must be the then? so-called 'left' wing leaders Class? divided German working aim-the Union who InC the Irades We say unhesitatingly that we movement. It is not the Socialist Labour nave coraborateo wild Chapple. would have to cerero is simply an evasion. now acquiesce in the Tory not because we agree with him, League the internauonal ernment's infamous Phase Two part of It is the right of the Commu- 'disrup- but because he represents Socialists who are the as every serious trade nist Party to disagree une Lace •onlically the How be 'involved' unionist and meinber Would not The •came aDoroado with both the is and the Cal prepared apply to Victor Feather Sir but if we are not in the trade unions unless you labour movement Knows. WE'RE almost at a stand- still again. Socialist Labour League branches Swindon £2; east London £5; Dagen- ham £1. Total to date £9,685.77. We need to reach £50,000 by May 31. It is certainly going to be a hard fight. Lose no time. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG NEXT MONDAY, we begin an exhaustive inquiry into the conditions and pay of Britain's shopworkers. lan Yeats is in Shotton, North Wales, for today's demonstra- tion against steel closures. TODAY on page 3 he ex- amines attitudes to the Tory attack on steel jobs. As a result of the wrangle between Agricultural Minis- ters in Brussels this weekend, prices on the high streets are likely to rise even further.

SEE PAGE 2

Be sure of your Workers Press EVERY day by filling In the form on page 10. the right wing, and yet we are their demo- obliged to defend cratic rights. 'An injury to one is an injury to all' is as true today as the day it was cam- paigned for by the pioneers of trade unionism. Finally your Party calls for the ending of all bans and pros- criptions. Do you mean that this applies only to the people who agree with you politically? Are you prepared to fight to lift all bans and proscriptions from the IS and SLL? Your reply will be awaited with interest.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday April 28, 1973 Agricultural Ministers meet in Brussels Chaos in Japan strike EEC wrangle means CHAOS struck Japan yesterday the effects as strike its history general made themse ves tet. The strike 'shut down most higher food prices bulonc mansoorl, leaomz lo Illas traffic jams. was joined local by dockers, postal workers, covernmenl Ios Dila. •Cull ployees and many leacners. Government efforts to mediate «us oute Drobent SuCil success as far as privately-owned concerned. There railways were of was compr use other sectors. for food ANOTHER HEFTY increase in food prices within whom higher spell future labour Shelest lucicascu the Common Market is certain to result from the costs. meeting of Agricultural Ministers which opens in Ine working out or farm sup- port prices has led to a ministerial criticized Brussels today. But almost Wlalsic CYCi •ycaL• President Pompidou has instructed his representative,

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more senous than before. Jacques Chirac, to take the toughest possible line at the talks

LEONID BREZNEV

The French gave and demand bigger increases in meat prices and over 8 per ceranl determined load major foreign policy review to a as much cent more on milk. closed of the plenum meeting of the the Dossiole burach farm price policy onto the British Central Committee of the Sovie The Common Market Com- working class. Communist Party on Thursday. has proposed smaller mission

BY JOHN SPENCER

He is thought to have reported but still hetty increases in the "Whatever price is decided Is how the of on far main West price of these items. due to come into enect on Mon- day, when the 1972 Trice support Soviet foreign policy. Darucuidi Germany wants a large increase Chirac the calling of a European Security was in Bavaria yester- scheme in the price of grain. Capiles. Agmin's Godber Conference, been achieved day tor a meeting with his West schene mas been maneled The first round talks, held German counterpart, Joseph Ertl.

successive currency crises and the tne plenum came al tne same before Easter, broke down with- They were making a l French are demanding compen- time as further criticisms of the maintain the high prices aid to Ukrainian out agreement after marathon attempt powerful reach French Germai party astoriilcal mclcical ane salon Lnest have UnILi against caused. chiet Pyotr Shelest. is still farmers. walize WIlLI

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WId against the Tory Joseph Godber. Godber at today's meeting. discussion He is said prices under a rolltburo member. The Tories are in no , position promises The level farm opponent of the support today the first phased step lo oe al alc vital lo lesist mylisccny siznca ‚be equally has ot rapprochement with the Unite( allilivlivus. 101C OLICs i orells DNEduO (nto use mul away policy … the tralona! outstanding shopping basket every house- Common Market policy. the Tne assues been Slales walca Tonowed president favour of the common agricu- resolved and French govern- wife the

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The Tory will Nixon's visit to Moscow last year.

terms are agreed, it hardened joined the Market on tural scheme ment's attitude government 'Our huge Shelest's Soviet ulicall

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imple- Godber Ukraine' cons ceraDiy. conaiuon Lnal Dulal nate cosí o dec coccccens will try ana put tne published in 19/0, has After Thursday's cabinet meet- mented the full farm policy by Godber best face he can on it, but there attacked in latest issue oh the pose oe Karamunist ing chaired by Pompidou, premier housewife the the slightest doubt that protector .. oI Ukrainy, the This means total abandonment Messmer Pierre described arallsi wickel renci Locays mee ne wilk eventudil or tne ll or the Ukrainian com- peasantry. In fact his position at result in further big increases in munist Party for its ideo- larm price aispute as one

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most serious crises the Common policy British capitalism and talks faithfully the living costs and give further mirrors logical, theoretical and pl vico Market has known'. the payment of hefty levies interests of British big business boost to roaring inflation.

slonai ever. Who will whitewash the Watergate files burned PRESIDENT NIXON is desperately ng White House? trying to find a respected public figure acting FBI willing to take on the White House cleansing operation made necessary by the Watergate scandal. chief claims Nixon desperate for The reluctance first of Secretary of State William Rogers and then of former someone . . . anyone Secretary, of Defence Mel-

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

vin Laird to take the job is a measure of their investigating the affair Republicans THE ACTING head Federal Jury Congress of the waning.

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behind closed doors. are demanaing that the tre- Nixon himself. Bureau of Investigation, Patrick Gray, is Pressure sident should make a clean put.on House Whether Nixon knew about the prosecutor of his White ready to tell the Grand Jury that he swac- the bugging of the Demo- Grand Turv. The Deore mne stall. •• zuaro or moe burned politically sensitive files belonging Party head- Silbert, to hand over testi- paroy ast now tumin of the cratic campaign the head * ime- the arogant young mony men carters

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to White House consultant Howard Hunt, he has clearly been a party Nixon gang whose ustice Depar tulcit s presencc to the covering up for nal Division, Henry Petersen.

they always resented. one of those found guilty of the Water- able te eee a, Haldeman the which has bers oi his slall gate bugging. House, for their special hatred. on ever cone since lr was Jeb Magruder ... resigned discovered. the palace unost undel Invesulratiun Ica They were apparently handed to him two will be able to make sure got Nixon into trouble. fi Jeb Magruder, who sides over dai lad visetin s oe that they tell the same story and his whole staff should weeks amer me oreak - o ixoa couse on have implicated Nixon's top advisers. Dean, conde hes aure bethe fold tutt ethey ind rebortec To cleaned out to help re- the ury. former. Attorney - General dismissal their contents being In view of such conflicts cover TrOM TAS. sale One Mitchell the affair, has John Ehrlichman, is expected of interest the New York old-line Republican Senator. the Watergate Dean said concern allall from soon. Bar which He that 'his sub- files were 'political dynamite' and were Lesienca

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Association added the — to the Commerce Department. 'highly sensitive, classified" national security The Justice Department is.

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once •e orced - nan oralnale. mUst aiso During the presidential elec- documents now investigating 15 officials appealed.to. , him to name ey'!l knife his replącemer he was deputy director tion, tles independent prosecutor. Nixohs back' peakir having past present Hunt and another of the men involved in the of the camoaign committee.

Otherwise Petersen in- aides another the White House and Watergate

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mite to tep auer beo thay were con of his ougging Nixon's chief of staff, Bob has presented evidence Senator said: 'Who do those vesucans enolovees Haldeman, longer some of them to the Grand employer-President Nixon.

young punks think they are?'

pre- Chalced. urana nas been lole. was revealed by former FBI man, James McCord.

Husak regime attacks 'Morning Star' Funds for financing shady operations like the Wien Neos bugging cam brotherarand Jury has from money' which Edward, publicly of the British Com-

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radio has we made avallable to him at- lamnea trom nobert vesco, tne details the imprisonment munist Party eastern been told. the Communist tacked Czech Europe and harassment 'Morn- Party's daily, the Vesco took over control of IOS after the In the interests of 'real- and Star', Corun u susco •SoCIdSLs ing for report downfall of its founder, Bernie Cornfeld, and and their ism' Wilson not, tamilles • Tne statement made by he on a installed after the course, the cases of and his associates it oi tlum cash nuCLeO Marion Sling, Mrs whose Soviet intervention of 1968.

and securities, according to the Securities communists still im- lilal y husband of and Exchange Commission. was victim Mr Wilson should •risoned victmized the 1950s frame-up publicly voice his unconcern the Husak regime. Vesco this He trials. wholesale persecu- met only the hand- Republican funds the tallyaisi commentary

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suprests unar ne Ilas Dicke• arenu stooces.. Exchange Commission's oecuriues ane prode Press reactions Harold chosen to be the cynical ex- the hundreds of thousands was going on. Vesco's office and He went to Wilson's ponent capitalist real- of honest Party members recent visit received the money in $100 bills handed over politik and the repre- who have been Prague it accuses the oa vel

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in an attache case. opening its columns OI sealauve

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Sace Iy0o anti-communist traditions the labour ,Stch oo the ratin om tne It was 'Morning ater placea in the sate or Maurice movement ' tal fear of Nhat the Star Stans, Nixon's former Secretary of Commerce. This Wilson . ignored appeal did was reported in the class. It then found its Gordon Liddy was TeDOLL Slale' WUl Alle way who 'Star" ment by Sling, One of them, Vasil Bilak, Mrs

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witnour comment the gang which broke into the Demo.

•What neduca sec retartend the echosotee Committee Prague radio says: place peopte the at told party functionaries columns cratic deis e usad ato pay o ais campaign headquarters Party strange the faet di posel of these Bratislava 'If the recently: the bugging 'Morning Socialists. that the the has of Dubcek In it Salu. vlan supporters come fellow wuns palus. 'Before de- British Communist Party .. noe rot. the harshest -made... ing krom lamp posts!

not reacted to this criticism.

wi sons we snall all be nang- parture Czechoslovakia the "Morning Start; should •to

Only national strike action will work A NATIONAL strike open hearth throughout the steel industry not matter steel was called for yesterday by management. Shotton action committee whole hog or member Mr Barry Evans. There is w among Shott Mr, Evans, a T&GWU shop that marches steward, said: 'Either we with- will do anyth draw labour or we accept the Tory plan. ernment sack He said: 'Melchett has said Said Mr THE FIGHT to save 6,500 jobs in the steelmaking section of Shotton works, North Wales, has entered a crucial stage. To- day over 10,000 steelworkers, their families and their sup- porters are expected to stage the biggest demonstration ever seen in Deeside. Marchers will assemble at three points before converging, chaperoned by 300 marshals, for a monster rally at Wepre Park. 'We think it will be a great suc- cess,' action committee secretary Mr Ken Monti told me on the eve of 'Dee Day'. But however successful today's march, the feeling is already abroad in the minds of thousands of steelworkers that no amount of protest marches will stop the Tory axe falling on Shotton.

Mr Monti himself told me: 'Maybe it effect at this moment. won't have a great But at least the British Steel Corporation will know that the whole community is behind the action committee.'

The steelmen will march today. But there will not be a man among them who about what has been is not sceptical achieved. As hundreds of Shotton's 13,000 steelworkers streamed home yesterday, we asked them what they thought.

will keep the avy end going, notes profet, nishing heavy end going,' trades. 'Saturday's demonstration will have no effect at all. It's a waste of time,'-William McCulloch, finishing trades.

'It'll show we're not going to give up without a fight, but marching is a waste of time,'-E. Buckland, labourer.

after But while the men themselves, only a few short protest-filled weeks, are sceptical about the present campaign, the reformist bureaucrats on Shotton Action Committee continue to serve up the diet as before. Worse, there is so much illusion about Ten what the next Labour government will do and so much cynicism about the value of protest that with last week's withdrawal of Ebbw Vale, even the so-called National Action Committee is falling apart.

Disillusioned by their own efforts and consciously shunning the political fight for the right to work against this government and against capitalism's servants in the movement, the entire unofficial labour leadership has been forced to go cap-in- whose in- hand to the steel unions, activity spurred them on in the first place.

That they have, in fact, settled for a mess of pottage is clear from the resolution carried at the first ever Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ex-BISAKTA) con- ference which we print in full on this page. One reformist went to London to plead oth in hearth is finished. It would one-day strikes and works going it alone i how many tons of produced impress There has got to be to nagement. Now its strike.' either the ole hog or nothing? Mr Evans There is widespread scepticism the steel unions and th ong Shotton's 13,000 steelmen national action comm t marches and one-day strikes be put to a once-and 1 do anything to stop the gov- when Newport tube n on July 7. ment sacking 6,500 men. aid Mr Evans: I'm against He said: 'Newport Steelworkers (| to r) R. Profet, William R. Worrall. Top: Demonstrators are told by an ‹ stration outside parliament earlier this year.

with another and all that come out of it such mutually comforting phrases were as 'concern', ', 'investigate' and 'full support'.

amount of investigations will per- No suade the BSC or the Tories to reprieve a single open-hearth works. That Shotton is a profitable plant makes no difference.

If the men work until they drop and never take a day off for a strike, it will make no difference. • It cannot be overemphasized or over- repeated that the Tories have brought in industry-wide change, revolutionizing basic production drive down to processes, BSC's costs whole. They are not as a worried about whether individual plants THE FOLLOWING resolution was passed at the first ever conference of the British Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Associa- tion at Congress House, London last week: This Conference of delegates of the British Iron, Steel and Kindred Trades Association, whilst recognizing the need to develop a modern and competitive steel industry in the interests of the industry's prosperity and that of its workpeople and in the interests of the national economy, is deeply concerned at the grave effect on employment of the prospective plant closures outlined in the White Paper (Cmnd. 5226) 'British Steel Corporation: Ten Year Development Strategy?

This conference is not convinced that the projected increase in output to 33-35 millions tonnes of liquid steel by the late 1970s and to 36-38 million tonnes during the first half of the 1980s, will be sufficient to meet the requirements of the rapid increase in economic growth envisaged by the government and of important develop- which are taking place, ments such as those in the fields of petrochemicals, oil and gas. Nor will such a limited increase in output enable the steel industry to take full advantage of the opportunities arising from our accession to the European Coal and Steel Community. This conference requests the government not to prevent the British Steel Corpora- from extending its activities into tion other appropriate production areas and sup Workers Press, Saturday April 28, 1973 PAGE 3 and I'm be the crunch. If there is not an will against they do something about We have Incenture strike men. Won airer. closures. be a national native work is provided, lutions through our branches for we may Tubes will as well wrap up and go home.

nothing Newport what the unions' response said the policies of The of the majority major the and stee national In case that turns out to be committee would action have approved less satisfactory, Mr Evans than pledging full once-and-tor-all LeSt resolutons sala ne nopea tne national action ort tube works closes for workers faced with the sack.

would agree to strike committee 'Leaders of the Mr Evans said: support of the Newport men 'Newport tubes will official movement are all when it met on May 15. saying

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МОТУ workers the truth about what is happening deep the step ındustry is leading to and vi dest Mccollecs: This plant made Said Mr McCulloch: when it owned by Tohn money Was Summers. As soon as • they • nationalized it, it started losing money.

think it would be better if it went private Arthur hank hande Griffin, whose job is threatened. "If it was in private hands, there would Worrall. question of closing'- -Mr R. McCulloch. Albert Griffin, Buckland and by an official to 'cool It' during their demon- Workers must be crystal clear about AlI® the private ownership. steel- owners put together (the Summers family are still in management at Shotton) could make or don't make profit.

Nor can it be overstressed that if they not satane up enough cash to bulid even one giant multi-million BOS plant.

need increase output from the five heritage sites, they can do So simply if they kent onen the by AnO today, they would be forced to close them oxygen one

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nara down tomorrow because they could converters employing few, if any, extra compete in world steel markets.

men. They must be clear too about national- Increased production will not cave ization. It is not nationalization which has obsolete open-hearth plants.

betrayed them. Tories steel Nathay tho the oldi What has betrayed them is the cowardly barons They will not are philanthropists. refusal of even the most militant Labour keep plants open just wAry whole hog with All they are interested in is costs and the retormists nationalization, expropriate the capitalists profits. all without compensation and overturn The failure of the reformists, backed by members of the Communist Party, to tell the nic pront-seeking imperatives of the capitalist economy. All the nationalized industries are hur.

dened with huge payments the old to owners and all are forced to onerate on the same profit and loss basis as ordinary capitalist enterprise. Nationalization, without compensation and under workers' control is still the way from entering into joint ventures with other enterprises. It should be required ment and develop industrial tech- new to create iob opportunities among its own free the hardships from ninted employees (and at the same time reduce which occur under capitalism.

full_coole of its external costs) he On the of demonstration cartain eve today's entry into such areas as stockholding, many Shotton steelman told me nothing transport and handling and by using its can be done to stop the closure under own labour force for work now performed this government. by outside contractors. On the contrary! What can be done is This therefore. demands contaranoo to get rid of this government. Resolutions that before any final decision on plant should be passed in every branch and losures ic taken. each nrosnective olosure force the leaders of the steel district to shall be investigated in depth by a com- unions to help create the conditions in mittee composed of representatives of the which the Tories can be made to resign British Steel Corporation and of the trade of Conoral Ctuila by means unions of which the employees concerned And if that happens, nobody should be aro mimhara These investigations shall include close ment will save the 50,000 jobs to go in They will simply try concideration ot the economi and congl the steel industry. consequences plant shall gricino.anr no to make their loss less painful. be closed until a searchino A new alternative Marxist revolutionary examination of all possible means of preventing or trade landorchin tha delaying the closure has revealed that and the labour movement based on union there is no alternative. Should these in- All Trades Inione Alliance and tha the vestigations conclude that a plant closure Socialist Labour League. chollnot tors Halt unemployment! place until satisfactory job opportunities Force the Tory government to resign!

heen made available in the Inonlity have for all those who will be made redundant, and in this connection 'special attention carry out genuine socialist policies.

is drawn to the major responsibility which • Nationalize steel, without compensa- the government bears. tion and under workers' control!

Further, this conference pledges the full • Build the All Trades Unions Alliance British Tron, Steel and and the Socialist Labour League!

resources • Forward to the revolutionary Marxist Kindred Traded Accorintion in of these party! support demands.

TROUBLED WATERS FOR ABERDEEN FISHING

PAGE & Workers Press, Saturday April 2 The imminent possibility of a major crisis in the Aberdeen fishing indus- try is foreshadowed in a recent article in 'Aberdeen's Own' - a magazine primarily de- voted to toothy wedding photographs and other cosy items of civic pride.

The author is Robert Allan, chief executive and secretary of the Scottish Trawlers' Federation. He warns of the need for a major, government- Figures released by the government show that a shopping basket of the 21 most important items of food increased £1.33 or almost -40 in the first 30 per cent months of Tory rule. The foods include all the major items, meats, fish, fruit, vegetables and processed foods.

The increases which cover a period from July 1970 to Feb- ruary of this year-range from a massive 61.2 per cent on steak and 96.7 per cent on tomatoes to 3.8 per cent for of the items tea. Not one decreased in price.

• FOOD PRICE INCREASE JULY 21, 1970

Item sirloin (without bone) pork sausages cod fillets 3lb frozen chicken (broiler) tomatoes cabbage Hb mushrooms cooking apples oranges bread (white loaf) flour (self raising 3lb) streaky bacon tinned salmon nilk (one pint) butter (New Zealand) margarine (Ilb) Cheddar cheese eggs per dozen Instant coffee per 4 oz sugar 21b tea 1b *price pence per lb unless stated.

lay April 28, 1973 ty financed fleet replacement pro- gramme. Without this, he says, it is difficult to make realistic pre- dictions about the future' of the trawling industry, despite the relative prosperity of the last year or two. The bulk of the 100 or so vessels in the crucial middle water fleet are 12 to 14 years old and the cost of replace- ment is beyond the means of most Aberdeen owners. Allan is also worried about the possibility of a 50-mile Icelandic fishing limit divert- ing other fleets to waters nor- mally fished by Aberdeen nt- trawlers; about the effects of Over the same period aver- age earnings increased by 30 per cent and basic rates even less than this. The figures are proof that the real standard of living of the working class has in fact declined under the Tory government and that the de- cline is now steeper than ever before because of the govern- ment's pay laws, VAT and the Common Market. The figures came out in the when on House of Commons Robert Hughes, Labour MP for for Aberdeen, asked the Minister of Agriculture for statistics of food prices.

21, 1970 TO FEBRUARY 20, 1973

Increase in price money value* per cent 61.2 22.5 5.6 29.6 16.0 76.2 4.2 25.6 96.7 11.8 39.5 1.5 1.0 15.9 3.9 52.0 1.7 24.3 1.4 22.9 2.3 23.5 48.4 10.6 26.6 7.2 19.6 28.9 18.2 73.5 17.2 20.9 16.0 3.8 40 per cent £1.33 competition in the Common Market; and about congestion and pollution resulting from the increasing numbers of oil- rigs. Aberdeen is Britain's third largest fishing port, and the fishing industry, in one way or another employs about 25 per the working • popula- cent tion. This is the measure of the crisis facing workers, young most of whom already work and in for miserable wages dangerous and insanitary con- ditions. The crisis of capitalism today penetrates into every sector of industry and into the lives of all sections of work- ers. Yet the reformists and the Stalinists of the Communist Party continue cynically to advise the Tory government how to change their policies in the interests of the work- ing class. In the north of Scotland the North Sea Oil Action Com- mittee is now the focus of their attention. It is devoted to fostering-on an increas- ingly nationalist basis-the illusion that a properly admin- A new English edition of the 'First Fiv Years of the Communist International' ir corporating hitherto unpublished materi from Volume XIII of Trotsky's 'Works'

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istered North Sea oil industry Above: Fishing tied boats up Aberdeen harbour. Most can solve the problems of vessels are 12 to 14 years old Scottish economy. and the cost of replacement The committee has recently Mr beyond most owners. Inset: recruited ex-Tory Lord peer, Robert Allan, secretary of Scot- Boothby. tish Trawlers' Federation. Other honorary committee This was reflected in a re- members are journalist cent set of youth employment Michael Barratt, rector of figures by Aberdeen Aberdeen University, and issued Corporation. These showed Viscount Thurso. that, despite the favourable It is not surprising therefore that the chief overall employment position tactics so far in the area, more school leav- have been to lavish praise on find im- Tory for were unable to Ministers their ers mediate employment last sum- reasonableness, to protest mer than for many years past.

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of the magazine in which he As the oil industry increas- it-that the youth of ingly comes up against its own wrote Aberdeen must look in order contradictions with major prepare for the real fight firms drawing a blank in fields to which they had invested which lies immediately on now ahead of the whole millions of pounds, the basic working in the main class. crisis productive Allan's plea to the govern- industries in the area is very ment belongs to the era of the thinly concealed by the various activities boom. He is about to post-war temporary find out that it is over.

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Available from: New Park Publications 186a, Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG • the deracks centre 28 Charlotte Street London, W1 . (Enclose 10p for postage) West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was given a great welcome when he visited President Tito last week. • wonder, since he has said publicly that he thinks Tito is one of the outstanding personalities of modern times and a factor for peace in South-East Europe. That part of the world has traditionally been seen by German capitalism as a sphere of influence which it could dominate by its superior in- dustrial strength. Yugoslavia was overrun by the Nazis in 1941, but the workers and peasants fought back and the country was liberated in 1944 largely as a result of the partisan forces' struggles under the leadership of Josef Broz Tito. In the course of the war the Germans killed about 950,000 people and inflicted consider- able material damage on the country. German units wreaked ter- rible vengeance for partisan attacks, wiping out whole villages and in the case of the town of Kragujevac massacring the entire male population.

Germany has never paid reparations to Yugoslavia, challenging the number of casualties and claiming that the total damage was less than the Yugoslavs claimed. Until 1968 West Germany did not have diplomatic relations with Bel- grade, but since Brandt be- came Chancellor relations be- tween the two countries have improved considerably. prompted German capital Brandt's Ostpolitik in order to markets open up new eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In any case there are now hundreds of thousands of Yugoslavs working in the in- dustrial centres of West Ger- many because they are unable to earn a decent living at home. The economic failures of the rightward-drifting Tito regime have made it increasingly de- pendent upon capitalism; re- lations with Germany have become particularly close since 1968. Germany is now Yugoslavia's leading trading partner, with double the trade of five years ago. Yugoslavia has a big trade deficit with Germany which amounted in 1972 to almost £140m but this is more than outweighed by the expenditure of German tourists and remit- tances from Yugoslav workers in Germany. Germans make up about 40 per cent of the foreign tourists visiting the country. It is, however, a lamentable Tito regime reflection on the " that it depends upon the re- out of the mittances made of Yugoslav workers wages exploited in foreign capitalist countries such as Germany.

These economic questions the main which were ones were discussed between Brandt and Tito, together with Yugo- slav Prime Minister Dzemal Bijedic and government officials from both sides. agreement reached on The reparations envisages long- economic co-operation term which will open up the Yugo- Slav economy still wider to German monopoly capital, the nature of which remains to be worked out in future talks.

In addition Brandt has undertaken to influence German businessmen to open branch plants in Yugoslavia to take advantage of the abundant supply of cheap labour rather • Yugoslav workers having than to go to Germany to find work.

For their part, the Yugoslavs have promised to give more, wi privileges to foreign capitalists invest to encourage them to in the country. In other words, the Tito regime has become a party to peaceful penetration of the Yugoslav system by German big business. The partisans died in vain and Yugoslavia is rapidly on the way to becom- economic colony of ing an Workers Press, Saturday April 28, 1973 PAGE 5

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Above: Workers hovels In Yugo- slavia. Right: Brandt and Tito.

western, and particularly Ger- man, capital. The Kuh Sor Brandts bost Brandt's Ost- a triumph politik and a blueprint of what German capital hopes to achieve in of parts eastern curope. Yugoslav While workers sweated it out in the steelmills of the Ruhr, Tito, Brandt and their suites engaged in lavish wining and dining in Belgrade and on Tito's private island of Brioni in a succession of parties and gala dinners. Brandt and his family rounded off the visit with a five-day holiday which ended on April 24. A return visit will be made to Germany by President Tito Minister Bijedic at and Prime a date to be arranged. In the and meantime the will flock businessmen still Yugoslavia in greater numbers while the return flow of impoverished Yugoslav workers will continue.

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BY JOHN SPENCER

There are nearly ten million immigrant work- ers in the Common Market and the authori- ties even patronizingly describe them as a 'tenth member-state'. If they do form such a state, it is a submerged tenth, for immigrant labour is used throughout Europe for the dirtiest, most badly paid and most menial jobs. The Common Market authori- ties prefer the immigrants to come as what are euphemistic- 'migrant ally referred to as workers' rather than as 'settle- ment immigrants'-that way they don't bring their families and they are no charge on the social services. In other words, immigrant labour, according to the neat theories of the Brussels bur- eaucrats, will form an internal colony of docile workers work- ing long hours for low wages and costing next to nothing to the capitalist state. This ideal has been avidly pursued by the LEC employers for years. From the industrial lay April 28, 1973 centres of West Germany, the monopolists send recruiters to the remote mountain villages of Turkish Anatolia, to the colonels' Greece and to the impoverished peasant popula- tions of fascist Spain. Their recruits are frequently induced to sign contracts com- mitting them to work for a particular employer for a period of say, a year or even more, at a specified (low) wage. Even if they have no legal force, such contracts are a potent means of terrorizing workers who often do not speak the language of the country they working in and have no are idea of what rights they have.

Germany attracts by far the biggest immigration of all the EEC countries. Over 500,000 workers from Turkey, 470,000 Yugoslavs, 270,000 200,000 Greeks, nearly Spaniards, have been driven by unemployment and poverty, economic necessity to leave their homelands and move to Germany for work. These workers have no rights to speak of. Frequently they cannot speak German, are housed in special barracks, often under conditions which are extremely poor, and they organize. have no right to Foreign workers are allowed— though definitely not encour- aged—to join unions. But they cannot hold office in them.

Subjected to constant sur- veillance by a special depart- ment of the West German force, the foreign police workers (called 'guestworkers' by the German Press) can be hustled out of the country at a moment's notice without any right of appeal. At the time of the Munich shoot-out, when Chancellor Willy Brandt's government wanted to curry favour with Israeli premier Mrs Golda Meir, Arab and Palestinian workers in Germany were systematic- ally harassed, political activists were arrested and deported without formality and many were held by the police for questioning without even being allowed access to lawyers.

In France, another coun- try which has a large intake of foreign labour—-more than 1.2 million workers are immigrants, compared with Germany's total of over 2.3 million—the majority of foreign workers are equally without rights. The recent •strike of immigrant workers at the key Renault plant in Paris demon- strated the dependence of French industry on immigrant labour. But it also showed that, as in Germany, the official leaders of the workers movement want as little as possible to do with these workers' pro- blems. The Stalinist union leaders, who for years have tolerated rampant non-unionism among immigrants, began be- latedly to talk about dealing with the situation facing them.

But their concern did not extend to fighting for the ers demands put forward by the at Renault, workers whose sts 1 demands were not satisfied by compromise eventually the forced down their throats by the union chiefs. The strike one of a number recently in- volving workers from outside France-lifted a corner of the hellish conditions under which these men live and work. Many of them are forced into bidonvilles (shanty towns) which fester on the outskirts of Paris, Lyons, Marseilles and b industrial towns. They l other b herded into the are worst housing at high rents, hounded by the police and subject to racialist attacks. In these shanty towns live workers from the former n French colonies and those with the one-way special relation- a ship which makes tl them the object of licensed plunder and gives their workers the "right' N to come to work for the west European monopolists. And even this so-called right tl -which in practice conveys an almost total deprivation of other rights—is not automatic.

There are horrible stories the desperate stratagems used to bring men illegally from former French Africa, Mali, Senegal and the Arab countries of the Mediterranean, into the metropolis. g Earlier this month the French Press reported on three black Africans whose bodies were found in the snows of p the Pyrenees: they died of ex- tE posure after their guide had m abandoned them on the moun- tain route of illegal entry into France. Others found were last year packed like sardines th into the false bottom of a b truck. There is a similar traffic in immigrants to Britain who are ti barred from legal entry by the m Tory government's racialist immigration laws. Once they have entered the country, these immigrants are caught in a el trap. They must avoid contact with the authorities at all costs.

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be deported immediately—a law which is a godsend for blackmailers, rackrenting land- de and lords unscrupulous em- the who batten ployers on immigrants. These workers can know security and a never normal life. There is no equality even among immigrants as far as the Common Market bureau- cracy is concerned. The pro- ext Marketeers make much of the 'free movement of bla so-called labour' within the Common pre Market, but forget to mention that it applies only to nationals of the nine member-countries.

According to the EEC pro- pagandists, every citizen of a member-country can work any- where in the Common Market on the same terms as the workers of the country con- Re cerned. Some enthusiasts even far as to describe this go so set-up as 'community citizen- ship' This is part of the mono- polists' dream of economic in- tegration, Europe vast one market in which British, Ger- man and French wages can be driven down towards the level of those in Sicily, Ireland and the 'associated states'. It is a blatant fraud. The articles of the Treaty of Rome provide for the aboli- tion of work permit require- among member-states, ments and allow member-state citi- zens to bring their families to join them if they go to work elsewhere in the community. They also allow migrants from other member-countries to col- lect social benefits, including

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In Britain, Tory the government has intro- duced- -to its racialist pacate partners in the C as wel as right-wing the Tories-strin- gent legislation restricting British citizenship to so-caller patrials excluding about three- of the quarters immigrant workers in Britain from the possibility of moving to work elsewhere in the EEC Patrials are defined by the Tory lawyers as citizens of the Kingdom and colonies United who born, adopted, were naturalized or registered as UK citizens or have been set- tled in the UK for a con- tinuous period of five years or who have one parent more or adopted, grandparent born is a UK citizen. Common. etc. wealth citizens qualify for patrial status if they have one parent who was born UK citizen or if they are the wife of a patrial. The racialist character of this legislation is

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clearly aimed at retaining the right to British citizenship as many white Common- TOr wealth citizens as possible while at the same time depriv- ing the majority of black Commonwealth citizens of any chance of gaining citizenship in Britain. A side-effect of this change in the law, of evident benefit to any employer who wants to import cheap labour, is that for the first time it completely from divorces immigration citizenship rights. A new caste workers without rights is OT created as in EEC countries.

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Workers who now come to Britain from non-EEC coun- tries to work will have no right to stay indefinitely. Already British companies are turning away from the traditional immigrant labour sources of in the former colonies to the countries of the Far East where there is a huge level of poverty.

In the four years from 1969 to 1972, the number of work permits issued to Filipinos, tor example, rose from 252 to 2,677. In the textile towns of the north of England, Filipino women are employed as sew- ing-machine operators at very low rates of pay and the situa- of Filipino domestic tion workers brought to Britain under contract is frequently far worse. The scourge of contract labour enables employers to bring in workers at pay rates fixed in advance even to areas where there is already high un- employment. In Rochdale, for example, 100 Filipino women were imported to work as machinists in a town where unemployment is over 4 per cent. Spanish and Portuguese workers are employed in hotels and hospitals in parts of Northern Ireland where un- employment is over 20 per cent. This system is tailor-made for the use of immigrant labour to depress wages, break strikes and destroy trade union organization. The racialists and the Tories shout loudly about restricting immigration: in fact what they want is immigration under their terms. Workers Press, Saturday April 28, 1973 PAGE 7 (left) and Hospital enenders workers (above) during their re- strike. For these the Tories Sucn as are trying to create a 'second class citizenship', make them docile labour force deprived of all rights. They want immigrantsbut not workers as rights Wind equal to those of every other worker. They want a docile force of immigrants who be kept in line by police har- assment and deprived all basic rights by law. And this, under are Iney already beginning to introduce.

The racialist demand of the Tories-echoed by the Labour restrictions leaaers - Ior on direct immigration involves a attack on the basic rights and conditions of all workers. They have succeeded creating second-class citizenship for thousands of workers Britain. The struggle must be for the repeal of all anti-immigrant legislation, for the immediate and unconditional restoration for all immigrant workers, and an harassmeni Ihis is the only way in which working-class movement can protect jobs and conditions employers' plans: immigrant workers must be accorded the same rights as the workers already in the COllE - t'it is only on this principled basis that the spectre of under- cheap cutting and imported labour raised by the new Tory laws can be beaten back.

EXONERATING STALIN

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday April 2 In an autobiography by noted aircraft designer Alexei Yakovlev, Stalin is exonerated from res- ponsibility for the un. preparedness of Soviet defences when the Nazis struck in June 1941. Yakovlev criticized a state- ment by Ilya Ehrenburg that 'Stalin failed to use the two years' respite to build up our (This defences'. the was period which immediately_fol- lowed the notorious Nazi- Soviet pact of August, 1939.)

Yakovlev claims that the Party Central Committee and Stalin were actively engaged in strengthening the Red Army and supplying it with modern weapons. He admits, however, that these weapons only began reach the front in large to quantities from mid-1942.

His own account of the situation in which the armed forces found themselves at the time of the Nazi attack hardly constitutes a con- vincing apology for Stalin's policy. He does not mention the bloody purges which de- prived the forces of their best and most-skilled commanders.

He does not explain how the weapons available, including aircraft, were so woefully in- adequate in 1941. He admits that as late as 1939 the power of the Soviet Air Force rested upon obso- lete bombers and fighters no match for which were German machines-as had al- been shown during the ready Spanish civil war. Modern planes, such as designed by Yakovlev those himself, did not begin to come off the production lines in quantity until 1941. At that time the main aircraft factor- ies were located in European they Russia where were vulnerable to enemy atack.

In the summer of 1941 he records that discussions were still taking place about whether planes should be camouflaged.

or not. Stalin's role here was asking what confined to foreign air forces were doing chiding officials of the and aircraft industry for being slow off the mark. Until 1941 even airfields not camouflaged and were 'military camps. in the fron- tier areas looked very much like parade grounds, what with their white tents ranged in rows, readily spotted from the air'. When the Nazi attack came, the frontier airfields had not been properly prepared and the lack of an operable air- field network helped account for the heavy losses inflicted by the Luftwaffe in the first hours of the war. It destroyed 900 planes on the ground and

FOR DUBCEK

During his visit to Prague last week Labour • leader Harold Party Wilson hob-nobbed with the Czechoslovak bur- eaucracy, installed in power after the August, . intervention by 1968 Warsaw Pact armies. In 1968 the Labour Party shed great crocodile tears on behalf of Alexander Dubcek and his supporters. Parliament was recalled so that this could be done with ceremony and in full due public view. That Wilson should now go backslapping in Prague will cause no surprise. Hundreds of Dubcek's supporters are in jail, unemployed or doing odd jobs "having dismissed after been from their posts. As far as is known Wilson did not even inquire about their health. In an interview with Prague radio he said that his three- day visit had been 'a most rewarding and exciting experi- ence. It has been some time lay April 28, 1973 СМЕРТЬ ФАШИСТСКОЙ Soviet anti-Nazi poster produced after 1941. Above: Molotov signing the pact between Russia and Nazi Germany. 300 in combat before noon on June 22, 1941. Obsolete wrongly planes, located, and inefficient air- fields, vulnerable to enemy attack, meant that little effec- tive air cover could be pro- vided for Red Army units. The since a leading politician in Britain has visited your coun- try and I was anxious to come'.

To millions of Czech work- ers bitterly opposed to the bureaucracy Wilson's words could only be taken as an en- dorsement of Husak's regime.

Wilson said that his talks 'very with Husak had been friendly, very constructive on both sides. He went on to give a strong plug for the European Security Conference, the early convening of which is a main aim of Soviet diplomacy. I am extremely satisfied with everything I have heard, that has been said,' he went on. In his statement to reporters he said: "Time has moved on now, and I told them here that it was time to turn our backs on 1968.' But millions of workers in Czechoslovakia and in eastern Europe will not forget 1968.

Wilson's remarks should be a lesson to any of them who had illusions in social democracy • alternative to the rule as an of the Stalinist bureaucracy.

Wilson's visit to Prague, followed by that of Willy Brandt, shows that the re- formist bureaucracy also stands for the status quo and the existing division of Europe.

civilian population was ex- posed to merciless епету and machine-gun- bombing ning. The Nazi war machine drove deep into Soviet terri- tory. This was no accident. The responsibility for this criminal negligence lay at the door of both the and bureaucracy Stalin who was its absolute master. Stalin thought he could buy off Hitler with the Pact and dallied with prepar- ations to meet a Nazi attack.

Nothing which Yakovlev says ing that, rather the disproves contrary. In the period of the Pact, Yakovlev was sent to Germany as a member of a trade delega- tion where he spoke with Nazi officers, was shown military aircraft and taken round the main factories. Of course he Alexandr Dubcek, the man for whom the makes out that he knew all the time that sooner or later it would come to war with Germany and he tries to ex-. cuse the Pact as providing a much-needed delay to enable the Soviet Union to build its defences. But here were Russians out ta do business with the Nazis, strengthening the Third Reich it with raw by supplying materials and other war needs and completely cynical about the fate of the German work- ays' ing class, the Communist Party and the jews. Yakovlev did notice on his was anti-Semitism in Germany and that Jews were made to wear a yellow band with a black letter I on their sleeves.

'This sort of paradox was practised all over Germany', whom the Labour Party shed crocodile tears in 1 says. 'Here was a paradox: he a wealthy and cultured land— and Jewish pogroms. It was than we could under- more stand, but there it was. It was fascism.' the hallmark of Yakovlev thus poses as some kind of political innocent who saw Germany as 'a wealthy and cultured land' rather than as a capitalist country racked by crisis which had produced Nazism, the persecution of the Jews and the drive to war. A talented designer, he was, pampered nonetheless, a favourite of the bureaucracy who did as he was told and accepted the official line.

His autobiography is now being brought out to show that Stalin was not so bad after all by concealing his crimes and covering up his costly military and diplomatic errors. • tears in 1968

The Tory attempts to dominate broadcasting effectively even more than the ruling class at present controls radio and television is to con- tinue via a 'non-depart- mental study group' being set up by Sir John Eden, Telecommunica- tions Minister. The group, which will be a Tory-dominated ad-hoc com- mittee of 'public-spirited' citi- zens, will look into different aspects of broadcasting policy and make recommendations.

Its report is likely to promote a two-pronged attack to place further restrictions on TV coverage. The first reactionary idea is for a broadcasting council, a permanent 'public-spirited' body which would pass lofty matters of on and politi- cal 'controversy' referred to it.

Such a council would inevi- tably be always in favour of 'moderation' and 'restraint'.

is to The other proposal consider allowing a permanent customer watchdog commit- to meddle in television tee affairs. This is a sop to Mary and the ultra- Whitehouse reactionary Festival of Light law-and-order brigade. Despite the universal rejec- tion of the antics of White- house, McWhirter, Muggeridge and Longford, the Tories are to oblige them with happy recognition because of the im- portant role such people could play in whipping up middle- class opinion in support of the establishment in any political NUT president Mr Harry Allison has been replaced by Party member Communist Max Morris. Mr Allison was the man who chaired the riotous Cen- tral Halls, Westminster, meet- ing recently at which the executive was forced to aban- don the platform. All but about 30 of those present at the meeting wan- ted to vote on a resolution drawn up by Wandsworth Association calling for strike A crisis, such as during a General Strike. The study group will consult 'consumers' of broadcasting in preparing its report. These moves are further de- velopments in the long-stand- ing Tory plan thoroughly to tame any vestiges of liberal- ism in television news, current affairs, documentaries and drama. The massive use of censor- ship, especially in the coverage Northern Ireland affairs, has been a feature of the Tory government. The Tories also the long-promised abandoned re-examination of the tele- vision set-up in Britain due to coincide with the review of the BBC Charter in 1976. Because of the clear signs that workers in the industry were preparing to make deep criticisms of the role of the BBC and the state monopoly control of broadcasting Britain, the Tories decided to put off such an inquiry until 1981. Although many Tories had been unhappy about some of the liberal sentiments that still get expressed on the air, they felt they had much more to fear from a public analysis of the role of the state machine working through the BBC. • They are now happy to let the monopolist-controlled ITV and commercial radio, when it comes, give the appearance of 'freedom of choice' and some 'competition' and work on the traces of liberalism within the BBC by other methods. The very setting-up of this study group enables them on the one hand to pretend to be doing something about the enormous dissatisfaction about Max Morris-president action in support of teachers' special London allowance to be stepped up. Mr. Allison, whose term as president is said to have been characterized by "firmness and authority, refused to allow any resolution to be put other than the executive's. Now he has announced that on retiring from the presidency he intends to become ... an Anglican priest. Robert Carr, the Home Secretary, who control over the police. Now the respon transferred to his department. Above le the state of the radio and TV industry, both among the pub- lic and the people who work in it, and at the same time to fire yet another warning shot the bows of the BBC across governors and the Independent Broadcasting Authority. It will be enough for these bodies to know that they are under surveillance to make them clamp down on almost anything 'controversial' over the next 12 to 18 months.

By 'controversial' is meant anything too critical of the economic situa- political and tion in Britain. This means that the censor-

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does inflation Where come from? A clue from Edinburgh recently when a four-acre site in the city came up for sale.

Newcastle Breweries sold the land occupied by an old malting to the aptly named High Life Investment Develop- ment Company of Glasgow for £137,500. The next day the site was sold to a Mr Young for £200,000 and the same it was sold again afternoon Christian Salvesen for to £220,000. The site was not improved or altered in any way. The result of this neat trans- action will be to add to in- flation and push up the price that it will of land so impossible to build on it.

A recent report revealed that 1,000 Edinburgh council homes empty because were people could not afford the rent after the latest Tory in- creases. Workers Press, Saturday April 28, 1973 PAGE 9 who has responsibility for maintaining law and order. He has direct he responsibility for broadcasting matters in the House of Commons has been Above left: Sir John Eden, Telecommunications Minister. ship of the first World in minister responsible principal Action' programme about John for maintaining law and order during times of civil strife. He Poulson, the banning of many direct programmes about Ireland and has control the over police force. other acts of gross news will become Why should such a law-and- management, and more prevalent. order minister be placed in more But possibly one of the most control of television and there is sinister of all in these broadcasting when moves perfectly suitable Minister for new developments is the ap- Posts and Telecommunications parent transfer of overall res- ponsibility for broadcasting work in the House? at Tories The de- matters in the House of Com- mav have cided that the BBC and ITV mons from the Lord President Council's office (for- are in fact 'safe' enough to be of the merly William Whitelaw) left until 1981, apart to alone Home Robert from few minor tinkerings. the Secretary, a But it is clear they are still Carr. The Home Secretary is the going to take no chances.

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9.00 Time off. Farmhouse kitchen. The exploring mina. secame Cartoon. 11.25 Weather. Camberwick 10.55 11.05 Tom- street. green. 11.45 Motor mouse. 12.05 Gold foolery. 11.30 Flaxto boys.

12.00 Par- on crow mountain. 12.30 Grandstand.

tridge family. 12.30 12.35 News. World of sport. 12.40 On the 1.05, 2.10 Cricket. Worcester v New 1.05 International special. 1973 Zealand. 1.25, 2.35 Snooker. 1.50,

SOUL

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9.10 CHERI. By Colette. Part 2.

10.00 THEM AND US. The Nether- lands. Second of a series about the arts in other Common Mar- ket countries. 11.40 NEWS ON 2. Weather. 11.45 FILM: 'Day of the Outlaw'. Robert Ryan, Burl Ives, Tina Louise. A small Western town is taken over by gold robbers.

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As Channel except: Take better photographs. FOR Cartoon. 11.35 | Exploring

SOUTHERN: 9.15

minds. 9.40 Take better photographs. 10.10 At your 10.35 Wildlife service. buses. 6.15 "Tarzan and the River'. London. Man in a suitcase. 12.25 News. 11.30 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.00 London. 9.55 Hammy 10.10 Sesame hamster. street. 11.10 Osmonds. 11.35 Tarzan. 12.30 Lon- don. 5.20 It take a thief. 6.15 Film: 'Private's Progress'. 8.00 London. 10.25 Scientists. 11.10 Name of the game. 12.30 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as above except: 5.20 Merrie melodies. 5.45 6.15 Sion sian. ANGLIA: 9.00 London. 9.55 Hammy 10.30 Film: Hamster. 10.05 Skippy. 12.30 12.00 Flintstones. London. Tarzan, 6.15 Who do

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9.30- 10.00 Repondez s'il vous plait. 11.00- 11.30 Seeing and believing. 11.35 Don't just sit there • 12.00 Train- ing for work. 12.25" Picture making.

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1.30 Parents and children. 1.55 News Weather. 2.00 the Along seashore. Shari Lewis show. 2.25 Animal game. 2.55 Film: "The Diary of Anne Frank'. Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer. Diary of a 13-year- old Amsterdam girl hidden in an attic the German occupation. during 5.20 The New road. 6.05 NEWS. Weather.

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tists. 12.10 At the end of the day.

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Exploring 9.15 minds. 9.40 Take better photographs. 10.10 Film: 11.00 'Who's Minding London. 12.30 "The 5.20 Bonanza. 6.20 Spy in the Green Hat'. 8.00 London. 10.30 Scientists. 11.15 Name the game. 12.10 Epilogue. Weather.

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Look 11.00 up. Sesame 12.00 Survival. 12.30 street. spott climb an Angry London. 5.15 5.45 Who you do? 6.15 Film: Mountain'. 8.00 London. 10.25 Scien- tists. I1.10 White line. 11.35 Branded.

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Rents rebellion revived Officials meet Rubery Owen-Workers Car bomb explodes inside army barracks COUNCIL house tenants are to start the rebel- against lory rent in- creases in Scotland. The action is centred on Scottish councils implement the Tory housing

BY STEPHEI

lan after the Labour Party- Party communist controlled implement the next increase of council caved in under a threat 50p in October. of huge fines for defying the There are few signs, however, order. that leaders have learned the The third 75p increase is due of lessons of the last collapse to be paid by council tenants in resistance. June. The tenants' Originally 30 councils in Scot-

CON-

But mittee at Paisley are asking them land retused to implement.

not to pay the increase. they all eventually gave in to This is to be followed by a call Tory law. the from Clydebank council to other The trade union leaders in the Labour authorities Scotland also back area retused up to stand together and refuse to verbal support with form

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE 1,400 Rubery Owen workers at Darlaston, Staffs, yesterday voted un- animously to continue their four-week- old strike. They will meet again next Friday. Fred Griffiths, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AUEW) Wolverhamp- ton district secretary told the meeting that local officials had met the company twice in the past week. The local officials had moved their ground considerably to try and get a settlement', Griffiths said, and they had agreed on various wage rates for difTerent But the management had demanded a substantial the high move base rate structure and 'we had to sav that that move was not for sale. 'So there's nothing you can ment late afternoon yesterday doi he told the meeting, 'but and the strikers agreed call to continue your dispute. With the if further mass the metlille present company attitude, they officials recommended accept- the dispute. want to. continue ance of 'a suitable offer'.

have fight there's no question about that.

Transport and General Workers' Union (T&GWU) shop National told Workers officials steward were Press he meeting Rubery Owen didn't think yesterday after- Nanase"

A CAR BOMB

yesterday Five a.m. yesterday. were in Belfast and the other in Strabane.

Gough blasted the army A bomb went off on a road near barracks at Armagh-the Armagh and another destroyed headquarters of the Royal a sweet shop in Newry. Regiment of Fusiliers. Dundrum, Dublin, brick- Five layer Hugh McGearty, civilian de- a 30-year- cars were 20 military old refugee from Belfast's Bally- stroyed and vehicles The bomb had damaged. murphy Estate, was shot by two heen men who called at his home.

planted in a car owned by mechanic who of member Unionist Angry officials have the Ulster Defence Regiment. Mr Stratton challenged Mills, Six shootings were reported in Unionist MP rebel for North Ulster the hours Belfast, who has applied to join up to

GLASGOW

(Engineers' and

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday Workers' May 2, Shipyard meeting): 8 p.m. 'The Bell' Hoe Saturday. April 28, 10 a.m. Room Street. 'Report back from May Partick Burgh Hall. Day'. 'Make Scanlon retract'. BIRKENHEAD: Sunday April 29, Copland School, 3 p.m. 'Chester Arms', Hamilton Road. Street (near tunnel entrance).

Day'.

HEMEL

HEMPSTEAD:

WOOLWICH: Wednesday May 2, Monday April 30, 8 p.m. 'The Castle', Powis Street, Room 2, Adey- 8 p.m. Hall, S.E.18. 'Report back from field Queens Square. May Day'. Defend Basic Democratic Rights'.

FELTHAM:

Thursday 8 May 3, 'Three EAST LONDON: Monday April 30, Horse Shoes', Felt- p.m. High Street, 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hail. Bow nam Feltham, Middlesex. The Fight against the Road, E.3. All out May 1! Force Tories after May Day. the

TUC

call General to Strike! BRIXTON: Monday May 7, 8 р.m.

WANDSWORTH: Monday Aprll 30, Room, Control Brixton Training 8 p.m. 'Kings Arms', High Street, Centre Report back from May S.W.18. "Trotskyism and Stalin- Day'. Ism'. LEWISHAM: Monday May NO ST HAMPTON: Monday, April p.m. Deptford Engineers' 'The Green Man.' 30, 8 p.m. New Cross opp. Station. "The Out May

TUC

Day. Force the the

TUC

role the fight to call a General Strike.

against the Tories' SOUTHALL: Wednesday May 2.

BATTERSEA:

Tuesday ay May 8. May 8 p.m. Southall Library, Osterley 8 p.m. "Nags Head car. Park Road. 'Report back from worth Road and Street. May Day'. 'Report back from May Day'.

STEPHEN JOHNS

of of industrial action to back the councils. Clydebank was the last to give up the struggle after a £5,000 fine was levied by an Edinburgh court. The Communist Party argued that the council had no choice but to implement because people would not have backed them if they had resisted and invited the bankruptcy of the town. The new campaign appears to Pickets outside the Rubery Owen noon's meeting would come to much because it was the first the national officials had time been brought in. He didn't think Rubery Owen would give in at this stage.

He thought the only thing that would make the firm give in the Alliance Party, to resign his Westminster seat and fight a by- election. Mr Robin Baillie, former Stor- Minister, mont Commerce has also applied to join Alliance.

Iwo other ex-Unionist Cabinet Ministers — Mr Phelim O'Neill and Sir Robert Porter-crossed over last year. The Provisional IRA in Belfast has accused Pope Paul of being 'misinformed' on the situation in Northern Ireland. 'We regret that the Pontiff 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). workers Press, sa be taking an uncritical attitude towards the council. Nessie Lind- say, chairwoman of the Paisley action committee, told me: 'We hope to put the situation to the board of tenants at a meeting on May 29 that they should make a stand and not pay if they hope to defeat this Act. 'We also want them to recog- nize the stand taken by Clyde- bank council. If there is no success, the council hopes to resurrect the defiance of other Labour councils towards the in- crease in October.' Rents in Scotland will have doubled by October next year and trebled by October 1978 under the Housing Finance Act.

• NEXT WEEK the Rents Struggle at Clydebank-A Case History. ery Ow'en gates was pressure from the big car companies who were having to cut back production. What if worried him was officials kept negotiating to find common ground, it could result in sections getting some a settlement and the most militant sections being left isolated.

couid be so misinformed as to believe that the British • White Paper provides a basis for a per- manent solution to the age-old • conflict between Britain and Ireland,' their statement says.

Since the British army had built massive military posts in the Catholic areas and submitted the people to every degradation of an occupying army, the Pro- visionals demanded: 'In the face of such oppression can His Holiness deny us the right to resist?' Alliance Public Meetings 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: Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee).

CASTLEFORD:

Thursday May 17, 8 p.m. Sagar St Rooms. Speaker: G. Healy (National Secretary SLL). Press, Saturday April 28, 1973 PAGE 11

BY A WORKERS PRESS

CORRESPONDENT

MAY DAY strikers at Perkins diesel engine factories, Peter- borough, could lose three days' pay, they have been warned by management. The factory will be left open for both day and night shifts next Tuesday, May 1, in line Engineer- with the policy of the ing Employers' Federation.

But because of the proposed stoppage and a four-week over- time ban against a government- controlled pay ofier, management says, normal working will not be possible either on Monday, Tues- day or Wednesday. 'Employees who are affected on these days will be informed by their supervisors whether or not they should report for work, a statement said. The statement was issued only hours after shop stewards had accused Perkins—now part of the Massey Ferguson group—of be- ing deliberately provocative in threatening to withhold Easter holiday pay because of the over- time ban. Assembly workers are currently seeking legal advice on this threat.

A stewards' spokesman said of the threat that the question was being asked in the factory whether management was trying to pro- voke an all-out stoppage by the 5,700-strong labour force.

Now Perkins have produced a more tense situation. The management statement said that because of the factory's decision to participate in the May Day action it was inevitable that even some workers who wanted to go in on Tuesday would be sent home. The Perkins workers are de- manding firm steps towards pay parity with Massey Ferguson workers in Coventry, tractor some of whom earn up to £20 a week more.

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! East London

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WEDNESDAY MAY 2

7.30 p.m. 'Grapes Inn' Trippett Lane Speaker: Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) CENTRAL LONDON: Sun- day May 6 7.30 p.m. Shaf- tesbury Hotel, Monmouth Gerry Street. Speaker Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League. Rost recePublished newspaper at the Post Office. by Worker Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG. Printed Plough Newsdesk: 01-720 2000. 01-622 7029. ah..

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday April RHODESIAN journalist Peter Niesewand was jailed earlier this month because he sent out three reports last November dealing with 'terrorist' and Rhodesian security forces operations, it was disclosed in Salisbury yesterday. According to an edited version of the judgement issued regional court magistrate J. E. T.

Hamilton on April 6 after the journalist's secret trial, the sen- tence of two years' imprisonment —one of which was suspended— was imposed because it is the clear duty of this court to make certain that nothing is done which will ever prejudice the safety of [Rhodesian] forces operating in the field'. The edited version of the judgement was published on the orders of the Rhodesian appeal court, which sat yesterday to hear Niesewand's appeal against his conviction and sen- tence. The 28-year-old Rhodesian journalist, who represented several major international news organ- convicted in the izations, was Salisbury regional court earlier this month after a secret trial.

Magistrate Hamilton sentenced him to two years' hard labour, one year of which was suspended.

Bail was granted but Mr Niese- wand, already a detainee under the country's emergency powers regulations, was sent back to jail to await the outcome of his appeal. All the proceedings of his trial closed doors were held behind and no details of the charges were made public. The trial and sentence caused a storm of pro- test abroad at a time when the Rhodesian government was at- tempting to renew efforts to reach a settlement of its con- stitutional dispute with Britain.

POLICE battled students in the streets of Santiago for six hours on Thursday after a clash be- tween opponents and • supporters of Chile's President, Salvador bomb was Allende. A petrol hurled at the presidential palace and windows broken by demon- against Allende's pro- strators establish a unified posal to national school system. TILBURY dockers were told at a mass meeting yesterday by the docks division of the Transport and General Workers' Union to come out on May l. Chairman George Hughes said: 'May Day is to protest about three things: pay, prices and pensions.' 111111111////#

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day April 28, 1973 TOOLMAKERS at GEC's Coventry plant voted yesterday to defy a Pay Board ruling set- ting aside a £2.88 a week wage settlement and to continue their strike, now in its fifth week. In a letter from the Board, read out to a mass meeting of the the 21l men involved, increase, due to be paid in monthly increments over the next year, was declared to be in violation of a clause in the Two government's Phase legislation. But the toolmakers decided that the settlement is not illegal THE LOCOMEN'S union, ASLEF, yesterday formally ac- government-controlled cepted pay deal for 170,000 railwaymen.

A letter sent to the Railways Board by Ray Buckton, ASLEF general secretary, leaves the way for increases to be paid open next week, with the other two having already rail unions accepted. Pay Board clearance is a £18.36m formality the since deal comes within the govern- ment's Phase Two formula.

From May 1 the deal increases the lowest basic rate of £20 a week to £21.80. The minimum earnings guarantee of £20.50 is increased £22.30. to £30.75, will receive a £2.25 increase. THE STAFF side of the National Whitley Council yesterday approved proposals for reach- ing a pay settlement on behalf 450,000 civil servants under of Phase Two of the government's state pay laws, giving a mini- mum increase of £2.15 a week from April l. Docker David Marks told the TUC Workers Press that should have called for stronger action months ago in support of hospital workers, the gasmen and civil servants. But, he said: 'If we don't oppose this now, the Tories will bury us with Phase Three.'

EE DAYS TO GO

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needed. Extra amounts are Rush every donation immediately to: Workers Press April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG McGarvey Coventry toolmakers bid to end yard dispute defy Pay Board DAN McGARVEY president of the Boilermakers' Societv. is fv.

ing to Belfast on Monday in an il-week attempt end the far they concerned, this period of the state control work-to-rule by his are memoers of the Harland and Wolff shipyard.

and after hearing that wages. Iceluk- Press has repeatedly The dis- Workers bollermakers are in

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Coventry factories lad voted for warnea or me musioas mar are Dute wild toe manacemen over weekly be raised by created when unions try to work ductiity. bonus increases in pro- Levy for

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laws and the district within the Cullelllce they voted to stay on strike until the said vesterday nccoulale selliemenls will Ivicuarve' the wage rise is paid. government and the ray boar Intencc tonoma mezrn The Employ at the yard to persuade the men During their meeting, one Board are the working, ment and the Pal e coulllc livilllal striker called grounds that heir for return croser nsu umens or mae lones accoroasce Wd dOus on the plans to drive down the standard decision of the Society's execu-

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ilegal. of living of working class aCuOd was

HOW

tive council. The will be urged The Lurvulallsi Cullli y.

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overwhelming majority of Wales. Irvine to Go deann continue discussions in line however, tne men, were saustec these bodies only creates con- decisions taken at a meeting. ir that the dispute was official, that fusion among workers. London Society officials Coventry Derween other engineers The only wav to hight to win anu Yalu Mandzement and suDoOrlInE unci, Lilal the present circum- fortnight ago, Wasec sald Confederation of Shipbuilding stances through laid oft 1,000 or the 2,500 a boildy and Engineering Unions is calling Struggle against the lory govern- members Its in a UuL piCOL maker memoers dne vcarouct 1 against the Tory strike on May Any strike, however effective, to the others. Now the jobs of pay laws. does this all 10,000 shipyard as workers are The new deve opment in the perspective. is in danger of being alccicu dispute has brought useful McGarvey will be accompanied eventualv worn down the visit Belfast Societys vice-president, Mr John their stewards about the political hy cadillcal Vy du sccil with the hospital workers.

of any pay struggle in reanues ventert

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

AND

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE

MAY

DAY

DEMONSTRATE TUES. MAY 1ST

UMIT

DEFEND BASIC DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

BUILD THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

Liverpo. et ing b pm entra tan.

LONDON:

Assemble: Speakers Liverpool. Meeting: 7.30 Central Arch. Romin Speakers: cornet o.m

CORIN

Assembly

REDGRAVE.

_ivernool •So cers.

MAUREEN

SARAH

HANNIGAN

(Keep Left editorial Première Pageant

BAMBRICK (YS

board). showing ing of Pageant film. Blythwood Assemble: 10 a.m. Garden

SCO LANU

YORKSHIRE:

Assemble: 12 noon Glasgow. Meeting: p.m. Meetina Hest. near Lepos Noodside Halls Cross. George's Guildford 7.30 p.m. Hotel, Headrow. Central Speakers:

ROY

(Workers Press •oeakers. Committee) editorial board). DAVE BIŘD (YS National

«OKUON

GALLEYI

Committee). Première showing of Pageant Committee). Digbeth, NORTH EAST: Assemble: 12.30

MIDLANDS:

Assemble a.m. Civic Hall, Birmingham. . Meeting: :7.30 p.m. Meeting: Centre

•UTN

Speakers: Hall, Jarrow. Digbeth

CIVIC

centre, soeakers AssemDly

SLAUGHTER

Central Committee). STEPHEN JOHNS (Workers Press editorial

GURMÈET

(Editor Keep board), JOHN SIMMANCE (Young Social.

GARY

Left). Premiere snowing or rageant mm.

„515 .. p.m. Caedraw SWINDON: Meeting 7.30 p.m. Co-op Hall.

WALe•• assemoie. Merthyr. Meeting: Henry Street. Swindon. Speaker: Roger School, Speakers: ROY Smith (ACTT in a personal capacify).

Caedraw School, Merthyr

BATTERSBY,

OBERMER

(Young Socialists).