Workers Press no. 1064

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MAY 5, 1973 • No 1064 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Behind the CBI boom'-

TORIES

By Royston Bull THE GOVERNMENT and the CBI are deliberately boosting the inflationary boom to prepare conditions for a possible Election in the General summer or autumn. As in the pre-election boom of

PREPARE

1963, the inflationary taps are being turned on without any regard to the runaway balance-of-payments deficit.

of the vastly altered circumstances Because since then, this boom will have even more catas- But with the crisis trophic consequences. capitalism rapidly worsening, the Tories have to clear a path for the extreme measures that will be necessary in the all-out trade that is developing.

GENERAL

that This means smashing the wages movement will break out in the autumn as a result of the ceaseless rise in prices.

way is the organized strength But standing in their The frontal assault Trace movement. through the National naustrial keatons failed. The of corporatist wage controls of the

TUC

leaders is with une treacaerous connyance not getting them very lar and nas surred some danger- ous signs of revolt. ground for The Tories are therefore preparing the getting a new mandate and installing a hard-line govern- kind not seen before in modern times in this

ELECTION

are utilizing inflationary boom and COUntry. union leaders for creating an tne Taks wiin une wade atmosphere to disarm the working class.

This temporary boom is being created entirely by an arbitrary expansion of the money and credit supply.

economic developments This has no foundation in real within the capitalist system wien are all, in lack, pomt- ing in the direction of deflation and trade recession.

the last war, the capitalist class has But ever the been haunted by fears of a return to the slump 1930s. In the conditions of the enormous gains made by labour move- War II, the after World capitalist governments the Bretton Woods system

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its built-in tendency to inflation

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£100,000 endless US Led hv seemingly 1-4100 capitalism econonie expansion. reasserted itself over the western Now the price

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world and Japan. terms of un- Dale I controllable inflation. American Since the govern-

BUILDING

officially August 1971 ment its huge dollar debts, werence on which had queued mme DOSL- Wal any semblance order the inter- out

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nadona monetary set-up. Faced with the consecuences this in terms of sharpening and WE very much need a sub- trade war, currency competitive devalua- stantial donation to boost speculation. tions or floating currencies. tne fund our towards com- have conjured up the of its first £50,000 'boom' by resorting to the money pletion by May 31. printing presses. With other capitalist govern- Our branches fight well. the same thing and ments doing Yesterday we received: already long- standing US dollar expansion. has meant still further huge to world money Reading uncontrollable and result Leicester world-wide inflation. 18 of the critical condi- Because Barnstaple tion of the international economy, East London the orles aruncial DOOr had the inevitable result re- Southall balance-of-payments deficits, cord i.e. Britain is becoming bankrupt Todmorden 4.11 BAC workers at the factory entrance 'under workers' control.

accounts wIll overseas Jarrow countries. Weybridge aircraft men sit-in Harrow The last time the capitalist 12.50 cass dig Inis on suca scale was Swindon 3.23 1963, again under Tory which also the them all and payment for the Our total now CBI's last time that days they have lost. nave £10,821.37. Post all dona- ebullient. survey was was so Deing ouven A second dispute is about two- the year before the General entance tions to: days Election. corporation Dian al lay-on pay cause when the factory closed due to Party Building Fund he consequences then were water shortage two weeks ago.

the The main cause of the dispute 186a Clapham High Street The workers want not only incoming Labour govern- the

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pay, average London SW4 7UG Tall Dack

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Ine ment ending eventualy aC- who blacked WorK were then bonus for the two days which valuation and years of deflation- Manual amounts to £2.40. banned

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manding the reinstatement • Other sit-ins see p.11.

26. fringe over penels.

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MAY 5, 1973 • No 1064 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Behind the CBI 'boom'-

TORIES

By Royston Bull CBI are THE GOVERNMENT and the deliberately boosting the infationary boom to prepare conditions for a possible General Election in the summer autumn. As in the pre-election boom of

PREPARE

1963, the inflationary taps are being turned on without any regard to the runaway balance-of-payments deficit.

Because of the vastly altered circumstances since then, this boom will have even more catas- of trophic consequences. But with the crisis capitalism rapidly worsening, the Tories have to clear a path for the extreme measures that will be necessary in the all-out trade war that is developing.

GENERAL

This means smashing the wages that will break out in the autumn as a result of the ceaseless rise in prices.

But standing in their way is the organized strength of the The frontal assault trade union movement. has Relations Court National Industrial

STOURN

Lne The failed. introduction wage corporatist CoRErOis with the treacherous connivance of the TUC leaders is not getting them very far and has stirred some danger- ous signs of revolt. The Tories the are unerelore orebarine getting a new mandate and installing a hard-line govern.

ment of a kind not seen before in modern times in this

ELECTION

They are utilizing the inflationary moor and the trade leaders for creating an the talks with atmosphere to disarm the working class is being created entirely by This temporarv boom an arbitrary expansion of the money and credit supply has foundation in real economic developments no within the capitalist system which are all, in fact, point- ing in the direction or denaton and trade recession.

But ever since the last war, ine capitalst class nas been haunted by fears of a return to the slump of the 1930s. In the conditions of the enormous gains made by the international ment after World War Il, the adopted capitalist governments with Woods system brellon its built-in tendency to inflation £100,000 Led hv seemingly endless capitalism economic expansion, the reasserted itself over world and Japan. Now the

PARTY

price has be paid in of un- controllable inflation. Since the American govern- officially 1971

BUILDING

ment welched on its huge dollar debts, the which had fuelled post-war Doom. any has gone out the inter-

FUND

national monetary set-up.

Faced with the consequences sharpening Losin Terms ol trade war, currency and WE very much need a sub- spens or notin devalua- stantial donation to boost the currencies, our fund towards com- up ories have contured £50,000 'boom' by resorting to the money pletion of its first printing presses. by May 31. other capitalist Our branches fight well. ments doing the same ining and Yesterday we received: adding Us dollar the already long- expansion, it has meant Sull growth world money supply Reading uncontrollable alla world-wide inflation. Leicester 18 of the critical condi- because Barnstaple then Tothes arnacial beco mys Tories' artificial boom East London une Inevitabic Icoull 1c- Southall cord balance-of-payments deficits, Britain is becoming bankrupt BAC workers at the factory entrance 'under workers' control.

Todmorden 4.11 with overseas accounts countries. Jarrow Weybridge aircraft men sit-in The last time the capitalist Harrow 12.50 did this on such a scale was class Swindon 3.23 Torv Y0S. uncer government, which was also the 2229022 them all and payment for the time that the CBI's trends Our total last now days they have ebullient.

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£10,821.37. Post all dona- Was was A second dispute is about two- also the year before the General tions to: Election. days caused when the factory closed due to Party Building Fund The consequences then were water shortage two weeks ago.

The main cause of the dispute ine most severe economic crisis to be followed later 186a Clapham High Street The workers want not for the incoming Labour govern- the suspension of by three other shops. All the leading eventually to de- pay, the average ment blacked work. London SW4 7UG do WiTO workers were then suspended. bonus for the two days which and vears of deflation- valuation manual WOrKerS amounts to £2.40. overtime last Thursday The manual workers are banned

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(April 26: tringe benefits. the over manding reinstatement. of • Other, sit-ins see p.11.

This is not the fime for Lebanon: "Ceasefire agreement' is worthless PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday May 5, 1973

'SOCIALIST WORKER',

the weekly paper of the International Socialism group, offered Costello, space the Com- Involial munist Party's 'Morning Star'.

It wants Costello to put us views on. mi the Stalinist- concience dominated committee

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Time Defence of Trade Unions where Inter- national Socialist members were physic- Stalinism is a counter-revolutionary force showed yesterdaj alv assaulled as soul. word scale. ters' and 'wreckers'. munist Party acts not in the interests of the working class, but in the interests role In return IS asked for equivalent space to or lie soviet oureaucacy.

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especially put the Morning Star.

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product of the pressure world im- that the Needless revisionists nave perialism isolated, economically- with the an been backward Soviet Union Socialist says: Union The state-capitalist' International So- Trades 'Sadv. the "Star has turned its back o a discussion that would have proved of Clalismn group writes on al tae economic proviacd l considerable value to the many militants and social gains of the 1917 Russian leaders' Revolution: the

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about building Concealed organization Tory nghung The same issue of the IS paper carries an The 'Morning policies.' •Unity maintained Action' cultural slalcalicall having supported the revisionists Committee since Stalinists in the Liaison such unity cannot established be- a General Strike the 'Morning Star' and 'Socialist tween government. dockers, the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' and the for The IS workers then miners group trade 'Socialist Worker' tells its readers that of bringing dowr sell-outs of the stalinists and the the even though union leaders, now ina ll sad thal the batiste Stalinists refuse settle the whole National Union of Teachers' conference Having collaborate friendly interchange of joined with right wing and the Liaisor matter sup- in a announced it ported a pay deal within the lory state VIeWS. laws, nevertheless "Morning it had al lCi assessment of the whole ror stalinish Star" has correctly called for out-and- ference. ssessment of out opposition to Phase Iwo.

Why 'Socialist Worker' 'soft' on But it is clear that is the ever gets under Stalinism? The truth is the exact opposite. As we THE TWO TOP White House aides who re- signed at the beginning of the week have given evidence to the Water- gate Grand Jury which broke out in the jury-room.

resignation Haldeman apparently implicates Executive privilege is the desperate effort to clear right their boss, President ot winite house himself of the taint of scan- their cos versations tor com!

Nixon, in the criminal com- Udi. Now does he the Presi- bugging plot.

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dent. face the consequence of his former aides' but John Ehrlichman and H. According to 1V corres- the Haldeman both spent outside the jury- pondents aisl nicatel White House two hours talking to a pro- room lie

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White House counsel he un.

even wider aides team room raised ın a ceremoniously sacked at the questions than their own in- at the Federal Grand Jury the week. bugging building in Washington. the Dean has offered to turn anal and subsecuenl Ehrlichman Afterwards cover-up. state's evidence and reveal spent six hours being grilled everything he Washington say knows in SourCes prosecution lawyers exact which Nixon immunity the role TOta front of the 23-man Jury.

from prosecution. really blaycu scalludi According to leaks from will soon be out The offer still being the hearing, the open. discussed Ehrlichman evidence to say what he knows until Already, without any higher' than gets of

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evidence except guarantee COnCICLO the two ex-presidential President's ne l

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lility aides. to evade Nixon nas. naden nimsell Haldeman and Ehrlichman per cent respondents away at the summer White Prest- in a Gallup poll say they Clemente, seculia House San White lieve Nixon took part in dent NiXon the California. for weekend House hierarchy. over-up for Watergate and and is reported to be brood- cent that he knew At one point in the hear- ing on appointment of when the question about the burglary and bug.

"strongman' take charge ging in advance. executive privilege came up _smattered. serious disturbance' Nixon the tration. insisted on Nixon's aldes Haldeman, (.) Ehrlichman and Dean have been forced to evidence Their more and more implicates the President, now weekending Florida.

PALESTINIAN

occupied several

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

regular Syria and There scattered troops and guerrillas clashed were clashes with the Lebanese Army.

during the period Sep- with the Lebanese army in netore the PLA Sources said would 1970 when Hussein mas- Lebanon south-east early withdraw Syria under the sacred many guerrilla fighters yesterday, according to local terms orners to nee reached between the Lebanese to Syria and Lebanon. sources. and Al Fatah leader The Lebanese 'democrat' government The clashes came only hours Suleiman assa alal oroville the announcement of a every as after The agreement provides for Jordanian despot Hussein. ceasefire army ceasefire in all petween complete areas, His army stood idly by while and the cammandos after two of all forces to their pre returni the smae murder sondes went days of battles in and around 'elimi- vious positions and into action in central Beirut Beirut. nation of causes of tension'. three weeks ago. The sources said units of the This agreement just There in were Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) worthless as the deals signed be Nations, but -the Palestinian regular forces tween the guerrilla leadership anese leaders made attempi Hussein -had crossed into Lebanon from and of hit back King Jordan against Israel same opportunist course as that charted by the IS inside the Liaison Committee.

Its will be fight against the purpose formation of a new revolutionary leader- ship in the unions behind the coat-tails of spontaniety. the Tory After listing the iniquities of 'in- it calls state pay laws (which an Worker' policy') 'Socialist d esterght agast the ally a tor says: Conned. 'It is going to be a hard struggle to get of fight against the pay laws, irning Star repeatedly lied about these truths accepted by our leaderships.

Peopleare otes ave me working longer it takes, the more the trade union leaders, ly the lefts, and sowed illusions

TUC

would co-operate not. Thus the 'Socialist Worker' centrists are soft on both the Stalinists and the trade have voted at last September's union bureaucracy. They no con- Union Congress for a resolution the working fidence in class whatever. provided the cover for the TUC The role of the independent class collaboration with Heath and totally rejected. All workers can do suffer until the centrists have explained the 'truth' to the existing leadership.

Star' has systematically The that cover since and trade union bureaucracy. already has opposed all for the truth and calls knows is deliberatelv ral Strike to bring down the Tory working to assist the and employers their government to solve their crisis at the expense of the working class. similarly. evades the issue ging down the Tory government.

The Stalinists likewise, operating on the theory of peaceful co-existence, work ollaborated with the Stalinists in deceive the working class and lead to Committee, the group them to defeat. would form an alternative To exchange 'pleasantries' been silenced at the con- with these gentlemen increases the danger of con- fusion. The task is to raise the political clear that this organization, if it understanding of working class by will pursue the fighting to expose Stalinism.

way, WHILE President Nixon's special envoy, Dr Henry Kissinger visits Moscow work the to out next of a deal with the Soviet stage bureaucracy, the KGB claims to have virtually wiped out an im- portant section of the opposition.

The connection is not fortuit- The Nixon administration ous. fears revolution. its or

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premonitory rumblings, anywhere in eastern Europe or the Soviet Union as much as the bureau- cracy. Although the dissidents around the underground journal 'Chroni. cle of Current Events' had no revolutionary perspectives, its was regarded by very existence the bureaucracy as a danger.

Orders were given to the KGB at the end of 1971 to smash this wing of the opposition. This now have been seems to fairly The done completely. journal has not appeared since last October. The KGB has effectively ter- rorized those concerned with its production with threats •of con_ finement in psychiatric wards, imprisonment or exile. A number of arrests have been made, including that of Pyotr Yakir. Yakir has been forced to sign letters to other oppositionists calling on them to give up their struggle using the argument that their activities were being ex- ploited by anti-Soviet forces abroad. the Yakir has been held bv

KGB

since last Tune and has been worked over by the subtle methods of psychological and physical torture which it used preparing the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. And on the flimsy pretext that ment. two of their soldiers had been the bombastic talk from All kidnapped. they ranged tanks, the Arab capitalists about the artillery and mortars against the struggle against Zionism and im- Palestinian fighters. has proved be a perialism to the past, Yassir Arafat fraud. As in will undoubtedly appeal to the They have become the accom- good offices of other bourgeois plices of the Israeli reaction- Arab leaders like Egypt's Pre- aries in the systematic destruc- Sadat. sident tion of the Palestinian fighters.

For a time, perhaps, the situa- They bear the primary res- will be stabilized. tion leaving ponsibility for the defeats of the Palestinian commandos in a 1948. 1956. and 1967. weakened position. They acknowledge in words the national rights of the Pales- Then pressure from Israel will for Leb- once again mount the tinian people but try in deeds deal further with the anese regime to to come to terms Zionists. blows the liberation move-

Suzuki's human guinea pigs Rubery Owen strike wives

FROM OUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

LEADERS of all 15 Ford unions are being asked to call an all-out official strike to push up the company's £2.40, Phase Two pay offer. Moss Evans, union-side chair- man of the Ford national joint negotiating committee, said after meeting senior shop stewards and convenors: 'It was apparent from what they told us that the decisions at mass meetings rejecting the company's offer had not been reversed.' Therefore it had been decided to refer the matter to union executives with a view to calling an official dispute. By this, he said, was meant 'a full strike against the company's proposals'.

This news came on a day when 550 press-shop operators at Dagenham-from all three shifts -together decided to stay out until Monday over the stopping of a man's pay for working-to- rule. No cars were produced in the complex yesterday and 6,000 workers remained laid off.

The company has now agreed to pay three hours' pay for the time in dispute, but says it has accepted demands that in not future no one is put off pay without shop stewards being consulted. After Thursday's meeting with the convenors, Moss Evans said: The asked for convenors us leadership and this is what we have given them.' But it must be doubted whether Tuesday's half-strength next meeting of the engineers' union executive, which is likely to be first to consider the call, will commit itself to a stand-up con- frontation with Ford's and the government. And Evans' own Transport and General Workers' Union can also be expected to hedge its bets.

here The convenors have adopted a rather different pro- cedure from that of previous Ford strikes. In 1971 they called workers out against the company offer, then sought official backing. This time they want each individual union to pledge its support for industrial action which is as yet not taking place. There is a strong suspicion among some Ford workers that, despite the continued and suc- cessful militancy of the shop floor, as demonstrated at Dagenham, Evans and the convenors may be seeking an excuse to wash their hands of the pay struggle.

WIVES of Rubery Owen st solidly in support of their hus week of their struggle against 1 the Darlaston, Staffs, factory.

Two weeks ago the Wolver- hampton 'Express and Star' came out with the hackneyed anti-strike headline Rubery Owen strike wives put their foot down'. The paper claimed on April 21 that within a few days an action committee would be formed to try to get the men back to work.

It added in a sinister and melo- dramatic paragraph: 'The orga- nizers of the end-the-strike call do not wish to reveal their identity because they fear repri- sals.' Two weeks later, there is still no sign of the legendary commit- tee—presumably the creation of an over-active imagination on the 'Express and Star'. But the paper's attack has had the opposite effect among the strikers' wives, a number of openly supporting whom are their husbands' action. Mrs Lil Downing, mother of four children, whose husband is and General Work- a Transport Dr Mitsuru Suzuki (right) w

A CONSIDERABLE

amount of bad feeling has erupted following the acquittal of doctor a alleged to have deliberately given typhoid and dysentry to 64 people. The Chiba District Court in Kyodo recently acquitted the doctor thus ending seven-year legal wrangle in the criminal courts. Dr Mitsuru Suzuki (40), a re- sident doctor at Chiba Univer- sity Hospital was arrested on- April 7, In the first 1966. instance he confessed to having given the men and women food which was infected with the diseases. Later he withdrew the confession and said it had been obtained by force. The prosecution said that Suzuki had come into contact patients included ate workers from Kawasaki Street Corpora- tion, 13 doctors and nurses at the Chiba University Hospital, 12 nurses_and out-patients at Mishima Hospital and 22 per- sons related to Suzuki. In the case of the Chiba University employees, Suzuki gave them bananas, mandarin cake oranges, sponge baked clams contaminated with typhoid. wen strikers have come out eir husbands, now in the fifth against Measured-Day Work at ers' Union shop steward at Rubery Owen told Workers Press: 'I think they should stick it out. It they oute lottall they have wen been fighting for. I know the manage- ment offered them a lump sum to give up piecework, but how long will that last. In the long run we face a wage-cut. 'We can't stand that because every time you go into the shops the prices have gone up. With this Tory lot in, it's getting im- possible to • live. It's ridiculous. There doesn't seem to be any value in the money these days.

'Food is creeping up to Com- mon Market prices. At one time you got cheap ends of meat, but not any more. And it's not just food prices-kiddies' clothes and shoes have gone up and they cost as much to feed as the adults. 'Gas and electricity has also gone up, and now there's a £6 increase on the rates. Workers Press,: "Mainichi Daily News' Tokyo, man working in a February 5: 'A Osaka •City manhole in was thrown metres by some seven Monday deafening explosion and penetrated the roof of a two-storey house.' A nearby roshedo to the hearing the crash, rushed to his room where two small children were sleeping find and was shocked the to bleeding. body worker's dangling from the rafters. "Mainichi News', Daily Tokyo, February • 10: 'A labourer working at a manhole in Kyoto City late Thursday night killed in- was stantly when it exploded and rocketed him 30 metres onto the roof warehouse house' house- nearby holder, hearing the crash, rushed

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(right) with his lawyer The said that who had connections with the prosecution Suzuki was attempting to test government. tolerance against drugs in Shirakabe, Dr Hikoo pro- experiments. Suzuki was human fessor at Chiba University: at arrested by police, who quickly the time of the outbreak, said the discovered pattern . to there were about 100 patients typhoid and dysentry OuT. suspected of having contracted several of the breaks: victims disease. This lent credence the were colleagues the in same to the theory that both infec- hospital while 22 either were rampant' tions the were at neighbours or members of his hospital and need not have family. ( The families had been been caused directly by Suzuki.

sent presents of fruit from the doctor. Then Dr Rintaro Nakaya, Suzuki's defence, director of the microbiology however, be the National turned out to remarkably department of high-powered. The police case of Health, testified Institute was blasted apart by the expert that the victims could not have testimony of academics been infected in the top VISITING Japan at Throughout present is boWind and handshakint could this ritual goodwill Chinese mission discord. the invitation of the be heard sounds of here at Friendship The Japan-China Asso- Okinawa delegates outside the conference •chant- clation. ing slogans after they had been The first session of the con- barred by police and officials.

produced vention com- The Okinawan delegation "open a muniqué which would firmly believes that Japan has new page of friendship between territorial rights over the Japan and China'. Senkaku (Tiaoyu) Islands. But the mainland Chinese say the Liao Chen-chih, president of the association, presented islands belong to them. Chinese Needless to say, honour pre- flag with the words: 'Long live the friendship vailed -and the be- incident was tween the peoples of China and not reported in the major news- Japan.' papers. husband a cut in gets wages, then it's obvious that I will get a cut in housekeeping. I need a rise not a cut. If the new scheme comes in. my husband faces £2-a-week drop. Is that any way to treat a man who has worked at Rubery for 25 years? We have two child- and ren way cost living is can't going up, we afford to lose this strike.

It's telling the no good mo shopkeepers husband has my just taken a £2 drop in wages, you must do the same and drop your prices-they won't do that.

If Rubery Owen wants show- ing that the wives support the strike, then I would go as far as saying if a demonstration in Mrs LIl Downing. sup- port of the strike is needed then won't stand for wage-cut must do that. know us wives 'I think all the could do it because I have women must we stand behind their husbands, be- had a Not of wives t tell me they the long it's them 100 per cent support of run cause in It's the woman who will lose out. this strike. who does the budgeting and think the Tory government we need a wage increase! has made such a mess of things Garbett Mrs Renee said. that the sooner we get them AlIT The Tories support this strike because if my the better. will do rs Press, Saturday May 5, 1973 PAGE 3 to the room where his two small children were sleeping and was shocked to find the worker's bleeding body dangling from the rafters. Strange coincidence? Not really.

There will be more than 6,000 industrial workers about 2 killed Japan this year and million injured. They are all largely prevent- able. They're not prevented be- cause the Japanese capitalist class is the most profit- among motivated in the world: Last weekend the Japanese Productivity Centre revealed that productivity during 1972 rose Il. per cent in the manufactur- ing sector compared with 4.4 per cent in 1971. At the same time production rose 7.4 per cent while employment dropped 3.4 per cent.

as described in Suzuki's con- fession. The case wound on for seven years until last week's verdict.

The judge found that Suzuki's 'could confession be not trusted'. And he accepted the expert reports that the method allegedly used by Suzuki could not cause a person to contract typhoid and • dysentry. Standing under talling petals ot cherry blossom, Suzuki told reporters: 'I am happy. I didn't do such a thing.' Before the trial he said that only a fair hearing would save him. He said he intended going back to practice as a doctor. FOOTNOTE: During the tour Liao has extended the also hand of friendship to the right- wing regime of Chiang Kai-shek on Taiwan (Formosa). He said that his 'fellow countrymen in Taiwan' would be welcome if they wanted to join hands with mainland Chinese. Liao that "patriotism' does declared not distinguish between early comers and late-comers so long as they love their country. (!)

'Late-comers welcome are and my fellow countrymen in Taiwan are included in • this group of latecomers,' he added.

nothing for the working class be- cause they have their own class to look after and that's what they are doing. "That's why Rubery Owen is taking us on, so we have got to defeat him and the Tories.'

Another Bentley housewife, who herself has worked at Rubery's for 15 years, said: 'I would like to see a demon- stration by housewives in sup.

port of the action their men are taking. Price rises are upsetting us women enough without hasins, to face wage cuts as well.

'If you complain in the shop: about price rises they take thr Mickey out of you and try t make you look a foo! by tellins you to get Ted Heath to come and check their prices. 'It's no good just complaining.

My intention is that us must get together and meet lohr Owen face to face and tell him that we have had enough of hit trying to talk money out of our men's pockets. Our wages ar: low enough now, so we suppor: our men's actions? These interviews show clearly the mood of the Darlaston people in their fight with Rubery Owen -and the Tories-they are not prepared on any account to take a cut in their standard of living.

CHATAWAY AND THE RR DIRECTORS

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday May Christopher Chataway, the Tories' smooth-talk- ing Minister for Indus- trial Development, had an embarrassing moment Monday's during last talks with local author- ity representatives, union men and MPs on Rolls. Royce Motors. In the middle of a session workers' with the clerical union APEX, he was suddenly confronted with the knotty Writings of

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urday May 5, 1973. problem of the Rolls directors' contrast with the uncertain fate of the car firm's 8,000 contracts. staff and manual workers, it It seems under that con- March, is, on the face of it, a clear tracts signed in but breach of the Tories' own pay dated from four January, laws. directors are granted to up Chataway didn't exactly years' seven employment or blush. But he had to promise salary in lieu plus a share of to have the matter quickly the profits for a similar period.

looked into by 'the appro- Were the four to be sacked priate body'. immediately by the company This led to undig- some whose purchase of Rolls nified buck-passing as the Motors expected to was be Trade Department of and

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The matter arose in this way. APEX organizes about 1,000 workers in Rolls-Royce Motors and as a stat union is worried that its members are particularly vulnerable if the company is taken over by a concern which could absorb administrative work inside its own organization. The union's delegation - Denis Howell MP (president), Roy Grantham (general secre- tary), Keith Standring (execu- secretary) and Shirley tive Williams (union - sponsored MP) - therefore raised • three points with Chataway. The judge sympathized with worker who appeared before him, and listened politely to the worker's mates who had come along to help plead his case. But in the High Court last Wednesday Mr Justice Bean still granted Erpingham Rural District Council an order which will allow it to evict welder Eric Amies (35), and his family for £3.25 rent arrears. What is more, he ordered Amies to pay the council's costs of f100 on top of the £70 he already has to pay as a result of an eviction hearing in a local court. Factory shop stewards who have been carrying out a 24- hour guard at Amies house went to the High Court to plead with the judge to allow him to stay. Bean said he sympathized with Amies, whose family cir- cumstances had led him to be in arrears with the rent. But he said he had no alternative but to grant possession of the house in Park View, Suffield, Norfolk, to Erpingham Rural District Council. Eric Amies said after the 25-minute hearing in chambers that the judge suggested that the council should reconsider Left: Rolls-Royce workers leaving the factory. Inset: Christopher Chataway, who was faced with contracts. First they urged that Rolls remain in public ownership, then they pointed to the job- security provisions of the directors' contracts and finally they asked for changes in com- pany law to provide similar protection for ordinary em- of bankrupt com- ployees panies. Chataway stonewalled on the first point-setting up a meeting between them and the Official Receiver for last Wednesday. But it was during discussion of the second point that one of the APEX men suddenly remembered about the pay laws. How on earth, he asked, could an arrangement like this be in line with the govern- ment's own provisions? Jan- uary, after all, was supposed to be a month of total pay 'freeze'. Signed on March 21, but effective from January 1, the managing contracts cover David Plastow, director Thomas Barlow (diesel division managing director), Leonard Harrison (commercial direc- and tor) Thomas Neville (financial director). Plastow (40), who reached the board of Rolls on March 4, 1971, just before its col- lapse, was appointed manag- ing director when the govern- ment took over on April 1, 1972. He takes the lion's share under the contracts. Plastow's contract guaran- tees his employment for a minimum of seven years from January 1, 1973, at an annual salary of £15,000 plus any in- crease the directors may deter- mine. On top of this he is pro- mised 0.2554 per cent per year of the net profits in group excess of £2m. Barlow, head of the diesel division, guaranteed five years at £11,000 a year plus 0.1846 per cent of net profits over £2m. Harrison gets five years at £8,500 (plus 0.1301 per cent) and Neville £9,500 plus 0.1383 per cent. In salaries alone-assuming no increases at all over the next seven years-the agree- ments are worth £250,000.

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calculates on the basis of this year's expec- ted profit that the profits share-out will be worth £14,000 a year. Rolls is ex- pected to make £4.5m this year. his case with a view to grant- ing him a new tenancy. Chief shop steward Charles Amis, accompanied by three other members of the shop stewards' committee at Crane North Walsham, said: only crime Eric has committed is that he was too proud to ask for help when he was in trouble? He had occupied the three- bedroom council house since 1961 and paid his rent. Then in 1969 his daughter got dia- betes and he was involved in extra expenses to be paid from his £18-a-week wage. His daughter died • last year. He has three other children— Kevin (8), Gary, (Il) and a two-month old baby. He had stayed away from work while his wife was in hospital and debts had moun- ted. He himself had also broken a bone in his toot.

Eric Amies said he had only owed £3.25 arrears in rent and that had been paid off, but the council went ahead and obtained an eviction order.

He had re-entered the house to make an inventory of furni- ture and his mates had enabled him to stay in the house and prevent bailifis from evicting him. Fifteen shop stewards had worked in teams so that some- one was always with him at the house.

OUT FOR A DEAL WITH THE WEST

Turkey

13 ON TRIAL

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HISTORY

Among the many trials have been that taking Turkey, place in with trade unionists, students, members of the Turkish Workers' Party and writers being jailed, one little have case may escaped much notice. of 13 Jewish group teachers, among them two rabbis and six women, have been brought to court charged offence of teaching with the the Hebrew language and Jew- ish history. The case has been going on since ast october. The other week, an 11-year- old boy appeared as a witness to testify that lessons given at the Knesset Israel synagogue how onlv in

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pidy (Jewish prayers normally are said in Hebrew) and that Hebrew separate language classes were held. The defence claims that the Hebrew language was only as of religious taught instruction. Minority The reason it is necessary for them to prove this would the generally seem to lie 1n Turkish repressive policy on the national The question. Kurdish language, for instance, Kurdish the vaniled in eastern Turkey is minority subjected to severe repression.

One of the charges brought political against left - wing fact, was that 1n they they supported the national rights of the Kurds. So the Turkish regime is being by repressive measures against the Jews.

Religious indoctrination is all right, the authorities, say but teaching language or his- tory is definitely out! From a regime which jailed Turkev s leaalng novelist, internationally - known Yashar Kemal, for translating Marxist writings into Turkish, such re- pressive measures should not be all that surprising. What might surprise many that nowever. Caus case is taking place with so little publicity. No protests Where are the noisy Zionist demonstrators who normally turn out to protest on behalf Jews in the Soviet Union?

Where are the people who harass Soviet tourists and call for the Soviet ballet tours to be stopped? Don't they care about Jews in Turkey? The case of the 'Istanbul 13' has hardly been rated a headline in Jewish Press, let alone aroused any militant demonstrations. We might also note that the Turkish regime has been Sir raised by Alec Douglas behalf of the Tories Home on and good Hailllans with the state of Israel.

And that explains the differ- Jew the ence between Soviet Union and one on trial in Turkey. All the diplomatic efforts of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies are being con- centrated on the aim of winning the consent of the European capitalist countries for a security conference to be held in Helsinki in June or July.

The bureaucracy hopes to follow this up with a grand summit meeting before the end of the year to consecrate the existing division of Europe and prepare for balanced force reductions. It is this perspective which governs the rightward shift of Communist Party policy in Britain and the other Euro- pean countries. The bureau- cracy will support any govern- ment which goes along with the European Security Con- ference plan. It is already sure of the support of Willy Brandt's gov- ernment in West Germany. It is equally sure of the support of the Pompidou regime France. Witness the evident satisfaction with which it A new English edition of the 'First Five Years of the Communist International' in corporating hitherto unpublished materia from Volume XIII of Trotsky's 'Works'

THE FIRST

FIVE YEARS OF THE

COMMUNIST

Workers Press, greeted the re-election of the that it is positively opposed to coalition West Germany in revolution in Europe. and of the Gaullists in the Commenting on the present French elections. stage of negotiations the At the moment the journal 'Za Rubezhom' writes: plans for the Helsinki conference 'There has been enough behind schedule. are running time to set out positions, areas One reason is the lukewarm of agreement to be noted and attitude of the Tories in Bri- unavoidable disagreements to Hence the Stalinists are tain. be determined. The main making a special effort now thing is that a balance of in- to win over the British ruling terests has been found on class by offers of trade con- whole of range important cessions in the Soviet Union points.' and by a tacit undertaking to Meanwhile the talks which hold back the working class began Vienna in on mutual in Britain through its influence and balanced reduction of the trade union movement.

forces on January 31 has not Soviet diplomats are con- made a formal start owing to fident that once they can bring procedural difficulties. Great their capitalist opposite num- flexibility can be expected bers to the conference table a from the Soviet side to push deal can be worked to ahead with the proposed out their mutual advantage. They Helsinki meeting. are prepared to make conces- The Helsinki meeting is sions imperialism which to seen by the bureaucracy as the would have been inconceivable culmination of efforts to reach only a few years ago. understanding the an with The economic row nove capitalist ruling class in Union long period which have been crisis the caused by its own mismanage- presented under the propa- ment and negligence is making heading of ganda 'peaceful it amenable to almost any co-existence' suggestion from the capitalist For many western diplomats side. In particular it is giving the Soviet Union is still seen increasing practical guarantees the projection of as the 'First Five national' 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 revolutionary upsurge reached its peak and then 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 to pervert and eventually destroy.

IF THE

Price: £1.50, 421 pages. 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) 18 Press, Saturday May 5, 1973 PAGE 5 Above left: Brezhnev who is visiting of foreign a number capitals. Right: Brandt (top) and Pompidou who support the con- ference. October Revolution and they remain suspicious of the bur- eaucracy's intentions, despite all its protestations. Soviet Party Communist secretary Leonid Brezhnev has a num- ber of vişits to foreign capitals scheduled in the next few months in which he will aim to smooth away these fears.

This he will do by offering further economic concessions and by giving confidential political guarantees. At the same time he will try to win agreement that recognition of existing frontiers must come before concrete steps on arms reduction. Brezhner will be seeking US endorsement for this line when he visits Washington in The big concessions June. made to American business groups for the development of Soviet natural resources are intended to prepare the way for a political and military deal. So are the assurances re- garding the emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel. If the bureaucracy can con- vince the capitalist powers of its counter-revolutionary in- tentions, it hopes to be able to tackle its own economic problems and hold down the restive working class in east- ern Europe and the USSR. It would like to make greater use of technological know-how from the US, Europe and Japan and be able to shop around for capital equipment to make good in- dustrial deficiencies. It will welcome foreign capital in- vestment in developing re- sources which will provide the means to pay for bigger im- ports. It hopes to be able to re- duce the enormous burden of armaments production which dead weight on lays like a the Soviet economy and in- crease the output of consumer goods to meet the working- for improved class demands standards of living. Illusory as these prospects may be, the bureaucracy clings to them as the only way it can see out of its difficulties.

ers Policies expose the work- states to the gravest dangers from caritalist pene- tration.

Workers Press, Saturday May 5, 1973

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BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Smith court in February Cllr In June many thousands supported a stand that led to bankruptcy. was even more his bitter in of council house tenants SECONDIY: They say the Labour that attack on right. in Scotland will be asked from the trade He accused one councillor of support union forth- 'ratting' the Clydebank withhold movement was not to rent in- The local leadership coming. people. creases forced on the 'After this week,' he con Clydebank and Glasgow offered money but not strike tinued, 'we will have the mas- working class by the action. This was supplemented sive support from the Scottish Tory government class if any by the collapse of big councils working action through the Housing I never like Glasgow over the Act.

ushen animals "'Sike Finance Act. thought animals this The 'rebels' argued that to would represent us after the This second attempt at re- reveal this state of affairs by years of sacrifice by our fore- remaining defiant would have bellion comes after the col- fathers.' lapse of 30 Labour councils exposed a 'weakness' in the But it was Strong words. which once stood united with ranks of the labour movement.

CP councillors the too who

THIRDLY:

The the trade union movement in Communist for eventually voted imple- their determination Party in particular argued that not mentation and it was Labour Tory bid to further surrender would have councillor Malcolm Turner destroy public housing. split the 'unity of progressive who rubbed sat in the wound forces' that had been achieved But resistance will certainly by telling the rebels that when be unsuccessful if the lessons with the bulk of the Labour they decided to be 'respon- of the last betrayal are not Party and the Nationalists. sible people' they were only Therefore understood. The experience at when came 1t using arguments that the eight Clydebank is especially impor- implementation it was all or origina implementers used six nothing. tant. This was the town weeks previously. Turner, of These assume stood virtually alone against arguments course, was correct. beyond Clyde- fines that threatened to bank- importance tar the People in the labour rupt council and the bank.

EXPOSING

movement, tenants and Com- borough. Clydebank's crime was that it refused to imple- munist Party members all over

THE

the Act be intimi- the country, used similar ideas ment dated by Tory to justify, threats. but in at least explain. the end even Clydebank gave a collapse of opposition to the in. rent Act. On March 6 Bailie Betty Ironically the same points The left and the Communist Brown announcement on be- in essence were half 13 the Labour Party had found themselve of the rebels-the right-wingers very same majority of the council: Party when they became the trapped in the Clydebank brave formist politics of protest that Tonight stands abandon the hirst for the she said. 'We don't promise of the had paved the wav alone, resistance to original retreat by Glasgow further want to put any Housing rinance Act made at councils which the trade unions. 1971 Party conference. burden on ana ine olnel This happened at Clydebank.

implemented before the fight They have their own battles had even begun. to fight and they have already When he led the minority The arguments they used to taken honourable and resolute Pro- out of the rent fight, the tus examinatisition need care- stand action to back the Clydebank, Robert vost It would be ask- taken. i that the exalllilallull. nave Fleming, said First, the danger of 'expos ing changed radically une woe about move tion had the ment to come out on a local ing weakness' of because the vast majority labour movement. situation. Labour councils had voted to ins would be

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The Labour and trade union much when they already have implement the Act. He added: leaders on the rents issue, so much their plate. We 'We have never had a mas- Tory That other resistance to responsible people. dily sive turn-out from our tenants policies, confine their activity is why we are voting for im- or to warlike words and the most inalcallig plementation. whether they are willing to In an earlier council meet- leeble prolest this or back the town fight This is a question of poli- Betty ing council.' tics. Reformists do a more defiant note. At one this stafe be was But at to remove the government by she lashed the Labour right- opposed by vehemently they first broke mobilizing the working class. wing when members. observe Tory They prefer to away and demanded the coun- CP councillor Arnold Hen- law because of their ingrained back down. derson told the council: British capitalism 'Having campaigned for a stand today because I feel ten and its legal whole year I will never agree feet tall. I have felt weakness to work this tax. This Act never indeed a I nis Is prouder. Clydebank has been and it is the duty of socialists is another nail in the coffin the spirit associated with of democracy in this country, to expose it to The workers of the people all the feeling from reform- them she said. to break over the country. ism and develop But on the night of sur- 'I will stand up to this right consciousness render not a voir was raised tionary socialist There to the end. are more in the working class. in opposition. Counted among folk than Clydebank watching Betty Brown's No struggle on rents can be responsible us tonight. They will judge us people were three Communist successful unless this is done.

by what we say by what sup- Party councillors and two re- port they can have.' The Labour and trade union presentatives of the Scottish leaders betrayed over the first CP councillor Millions of people are Nationalist Party They will round of increases What had changed since the said: people betray over the second round.

local autho- Clydebank looking for one great days Workers council rity to give the lead and not nouses led the rent rebellion in Scot- must be told this. be intimidated. The UCS fight land? Those who defend the Secondly the desire not to policy of the Communist Party did not have mass support at Too upset 'left unity' with the 'pro- and the Labour rebels say the beginning. illally people look at the practicali- gressive forces'. three things. This was a major factor in ties and cannot see the wood

FIRST:

The Tories used the for the trees. Lower the flag dictating Communist Party tac- subtle and damaging tactic of if you will. Do that and it will despite refusing to choose individual tics have done incalculable damage some voices in the Party who councillors victims. as their confiscated to the fight of the of argued that are council should rou have their Instead they Tory through the court the money Scotland against that fed all Clydebank's public policies' voted to implement. CP councillor Jock Smith It is significant that in the services. After the first £5,000 'Somewhere, said: someone fine, would nave to- orners lowed. Soon the council would and somehow somebody has got to stand against the attack have been bankrupt and their laid-off. of Heath against the working stand candidates against workers of Labour rebels, class.' the leading The CP and the Labour After the imposition of the William Neville and Betty Party that the people an Edinburgh Brown, in the local election.

of Clydebank would not have £5,000 fine oy UN $·70

2UPA

Bailie Betty Brown, James Reid, J. Malcolm, This was left unity' in action.

Unfortunately the Labour Party did not return the favour. The CP was hoping for a clear run in Faifley ward (which already has two CP councillors), but its candidate, Finlay. Hart, faced Labour opposition. 'Left unity' inevitably be- comes right unity. It happened March 6 at Clydebank on when the CP faction backed the shaky Labour rebels who, in essence, used the same right-wing arguments for im-

FOR

NO TRADE UNIONISTS

Clydebank councillors. Above: Reid and A. Henderson, J. Bauld and Police Judge-all s Reid, J. Malcolm, he raised his hand for the ini- Dementation that were used the tial increase council weeks betore. In chamber?

THE RIGHT

Finally there is the most that the important argument: Clydebank

TO DECENT

working class of and elsewhere would not have backed the council faced with

HOMES

bankruptcy by the Tory gov- callical. Some CP members feel now This is a crucial issue since 'How they the are mised. For example, how can are socialists to raise the con- Jock Smith go round his own sciousness of the working class so they will mobilize in a poli- ward urging tenants not to pay the 75p increase in June when tical struggle defend their rs. Above: Reid and Brown on the Clydebank rents march in February.

• of left for the one-day strike, the basic rights- -one those rights being the right to decent demonstration and the meet- where leaders breathe hell homes?' ing fire at Heath and the Cabinet No one knows whether the of Clydebank would only to announce their willing- people go and talk have rallied their council ness days later to to No some more with the govern- facing bankruptcy. one there was no knows because ment. attempt to call an emergency A call for strike action over few town meeting to test out opi- rents (there were very the made despite nion. The about-face by anyway, nro. mises) may well have met with 13 rebels was taken in private.

the fac- It is certainly true. however.

a poor response in that the days of protest poli- tories, mines and shipyards of Workers in the Scotland. ties are over. It is no longer possible to factories have little patience Workers Press, Saturday May 5, 1973

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mobilize large of Tenants and their leaders must sections workers single issue pro- are they prepared to see ask - tests which have as their the farce played per- out once spective some change or defeat iearned from the first policy. fight? Yet this is the policy of the One conclusion must surely Communist Party and was the be drawn. The rents fight can- policy of its members at Clyde.

not be coloured with reformist bank. Under the banner of politics and kept as an isolated 'left unity" they were getting tenants' Clydebank from the leaders (local union proves this. great chal- and national), the All workers under at- are lenge made by Labour councils tack from this government, as all Scotland tenants, housewives and wage knowing that such resistance over The earners. fight must be is based on sand. unified at local level. But it must be a unity of the work-

PARTNERS

ing class. Locally the fight must be led by organizations that bring to-

TO THE

This gether people in struggle.

tenants' means committees even constructing

RETREAT

janning Councils of Action which have of all the representatives The CP does not act as a working-class and political force developing revolutionary organizations. The branches consciousness within the local union working class but should be there, factories as an aa- junct to the reformist bureau- should send delegates, tenants' leaders and all cracy which wants peace with members of the Heath government. tendencies the political Clydebank, labour movement should serve At places like where the members of the sig- on these committees. nificant CP faction The aim should be to mobi- on the council could have played an lize the whole working class in defence of basic rights.

extremely important role in Those in the tenants' move- the reformists, both exposing of the left and right variety, ment who seriously want to they are partners to a miser- develop a revolutionary con- able retreat. Instead of show- the working sciousness In ing the working class the only class face a choice. Either way forward they cover they on under go because they are afraid to re- the domination of reformism, 'weakness' of the the with the and retreat would labour movement. that resistance mean Now Scotland is on the 'disrupting unity' or that work- brink of second round of ers will not respond to a lead.

rents struggles. Or they must face all the So far the literature is care- difficulties, go out to the work- ful not to charge the Labour ing class and tell them they councils with their betrayal. must break with reformism Clydebank call and take up the political cud- may another of councils over the gels to bring this government meeting second increase October. down. in Nessie Lindsay, chairwoman of know of the real implication the Faifley tenants action com- of this Act. There is still mittee and Communist Party lot of confusion spread by the Tory Press about rebates and member. I feel that a great factor in We must go out and SO on. the outcome at Člydebank was explain what this means. of the official 'On the of Labour the reluctance collapse trade union movement to come all over Scotland. I think and support the councils were simply witnessing the The TUC traditional role of social demo.

which were fighting. and the STUC all the rents issues as promised cracy- -on The bulk of verbal support. Clydebank was first Tories' the to call the Labour leaders do not the bluff and they were found want to get rid of capitalism wanting. This after the -they want to work within it.

was Glasgow, Edin- This collapse of leads to the betrayal. burgh and Midlothian. There is an awful lot of oppor- fine tunism, even among the left- 'After the first the the social council was faced with a situ- all democrats are defeating ation of more fines for not interested can- capitalism only in getting re- tempt of court. Within weeks it was clear that the forms.' borough would been bankrupt. have Mrs Gerraldine Blair, Faifley We repeated our approach to tenants' action committee: the trade union movement 'One of the difficulties was Yarrow's ship- after the fine. borough that the tenants yard gave £200, Singer's gave council thought that the was £700 and there were other fighting on their behalf so they donations. UCS indicated they are now unprepared for fight- would back us in a big wav. ing the increase The fact that But of course money was not tenants in the Scottish Specia!

We wanted strike the issue. Housing Association la govern- and this did action ment-controlled body) got materialize. their increase put on also had 'Mick McGahey of the Scot- bad effect. About 500 tish miners wrote to us regret- them were refusing to pay. but ting that he just could not that has collapsed completely the guarantee that miners since the council decision.

would come out over the rents 'We thought they would go Alex Ferry, the AUEW for individual councillors, but Issue. said district secretary, also they didn't. Instead they too! he thought industrial that the that would have action was unlikely. bankrupted the town. Clyde- 'The lessons from 'You have to be realisti? 1 bank are that on the cuestion think that if there had been of rents 13 councillors were chance genuine support able to overcome difficulties in from the tenants. the council other fields- had Labour -we But could have held out. in Party councillors. Commottist Scottish the circumstances they had no Nationals and alternative. Party representatives among Mr Jimmy Blair. They felt that the majority. council cou'l they had taken the decision to I think the make a stand unanimously and lave put the issue to a town But they didn't even that if there going to be meeting. was this. They do any change, that unity should what could happen to them. not be destroyed. That is why They never said "We will fight the decision to implement was only if the government take a unanimous. 'The lessons as far as the certain course." They told the would fight and tenants are concerned are that people peep should have stuck to it I do not feel sufficient people

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday May A series by B. Franks Part Five Some of the largest retailers in Britain today are:

SAINSBURYS:

201 stores, 31,612 employees (14,014 part- time), profits 1971-1972 £8.2m (30 per cent increase on the previous year). According to the annual re- port and accounts, the com- pany owned 69 supermarkets in 1968 and 125 in 1972. How- counter-service ever, stores have been cut from 140 (1968) to 41 (1972). The company then, owns three times more supermarkets than counter service stores, but the sales turnover from the supermarkets (£221m) is more ten times that of the than counter service (£18m). firm is controlled by The the Sainsbury family. John Sainsbury was a dairy- man who started in Drury Lane, London, in 1869. Today, the family still owns 97 per cent of the business and there are only four non-family mem- bers on the Board of 11. The company's report for 1972 notes an increase in pro- ductivity per man-hour supermarkets ' ... the greatest advance have we ever obtained', Methods used to achieve this included the installation of improved display equipment, urday May 5, 1973 * Super Save Offers Super Save Features Steak Pies - 9, Sand Cream Snax amloo -140 Sandwich Sarsad SaUCe rated Ma Whole Carots 100 = 12- Pichards use of packing, weighing and pricing equipment, and 'a more effective control over the use of labour'. The Sainsburys are keeping up a constant campaign for the relaxation of control on build- ing land which restricts the construction of edge-of-town superstores. No wonder, when at their new supermarket at Bretton, Peterborough, opened in April last year, 10,000 cars made use of the car park in the first week of trading. TESCO: 861 stores and super- markets, 32,000 employees, profit before : for year to tax February 1972: £16,542,000— (20 per cent increase over pre- year). vious Shareholders 85,519. Tesco was founded by John Cohen. He began by selling army surplus foods and dented tinned foods in Wells Street market, Hackney, in London in 1919. The name 'Tesco' from the combined comes initials of his own name and those of a former tea supplier, T. E. Stockwell. Tesco led the main retailers in the attack on • resale price maintenance (RPM), a system which many small traders saw protection against the as a multiples. worked to support Cohen Edward Heath who, at the time-1964—was president of po 11: 12. 2° the Board of Trade and a lead- ing advocate of RPM abolition.

In 1971-1972 the company opened 32 supermarkets, six Home in' Wear stores and three furniture stores. Nine shops were enlarged and 36 smaller properties closed down.

The company is in process of appeals to the Minister for the Environment to get plan- edge-of-town super- stores. Cohen is life president of Tesco and his son-in-law, Hyman Kreitman, is chairman.

Subsidiaries owned by the company include Cadena Cafes Ltd., and Anthony Jackson's Food Fare Ltd. Takeover approaches are being made to several European grocery chains. FINE FARE: 1,081 stores (in- cluding 503 supermarkets), 25,000 employees. Profit before tax to March 1972 was £4.78m.

The Fine Fare group of 14 is a companies • subsidiary of giant Associated British the Foods Group (ABF), which Bakeries owns the Allied Group of 48 companies, in- cluding 2,388 shops and res- taurants as well as Sunblest and the Aerated Bread Com- pany (ABC). ABF also owns the Allied Mills Group of 22 companies (including Vitbe, Rankin Flour Mills and Sugdens), the Twin- ing-Cosfield group of seven the Weston companies and Foods Group of six companies.

In the annual report of 1971- 1972, 16 other companies in are listed, including Britain Ryvita, and control of 29 com- 23 i n panies in Australia, South Africa and one in New Zealand. ABF is controlled by With- ort ington Investments Ltd., which in turn is controlled by the of powerful Weston family.

Profits for the entire ABF for 1971-1972 group were £27m. The total labour force is 76,000. In 1970 Fine Fare opened its first superstore at the Aberdeen. It is Bridge of Dee, ten times the size of the com- pany's average supermarket.

A

SIEPHI

GREAT UNIVERSAL

STORES: 49,000 employees, profits 1971-1972 £60.68m, (15 per cent increase on the previous year). Chairman, Sir Isaac Wolfson. include Art Subsidiaries Wallpaper Ltd., Houndsditch Warehouse Co., John Noble (mail order), Whitney Blanket (mail order), The British Mail Order Corporation, Lybro, The Scotch Hector Powe, House, Times Furniture Co., Willerby's, Global Travel and the Easyfit Footwear chain.

Last year the group bought control of a 39-shop menswear chain in France and began the process of acquiring control of a chain of 90 furniture shops in Australia. Wolfson commented in • the ... it is in annual report: everybody's interest to control inflationary pressures where- may occur, but in ever they the event of voluntary efforts not suceeding, then the gov- ernment has the to protect community by introducing a suitable policy for prices and incomes." GUS was Britain's 23rd largest company in 1972. BOOTS: 1,398 chemist shops, 58,772 employees, profits for 1971-1972 £34.2m (an increase of 37 per cent over the pre- vious year). Jesse Boot was the son of a Nottingham herbalist. He went into partnership with his mother, under-cutting local chemists and relying on selling larger packs to bring in the He founded Boot & profits. Co. Drug Stores in 1883 and Boots Pure Drug Co. in 1888.

By 1903, the shop chain had 189 branches. The 1972 and report accounts takes a side-swipe at workers' wages: '... naturally we have anxiety over the per- sistant national wage claims subsequent settlements, which are often ahead of any likely increase in productivity as such demands can only re- sult in a further erosion in the value of money and be against the interests of everybody' Today, the company also owns Timothy Whites. The takeover of the latter was referred to the Monopolies Commission, but was passed as being in order. Dividends paid to share- holders were announced as, 22 per cent, an increase of 15 per cent over the previous year.

The shareholders' contribu- tion to 'increase in product- ivity' is not recorded. W. H. SMITH: 314 shops, 152 113 wholesale depots, stalls, 18,658 stafi. Profits £6}m (increase of 40 per cent over previous year). The firm was started as a single shop in the Strand, Lon- don, in the early 1800s. It was built up into a major retailing chain by the son of the founder. He was a prominent Tory, occupving a series of positions including First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary of State for War. Smiths was already one of the largest chains in Britain by the year 1900. f a CONTINUED ON MONDAY

500 YEARS SINCE COPERNICUS

Art review by a guest reviewer The astronomer Coper- ago and a small, insig- nificant exhibition at the British Museum endeav- ours unsuccesstully to celebrate this fact. Copernicus is presented as a genius who came along at the right time to challenge the existing ideas about the struc- of the universe. The ture exhibition lacks any under- standing of the dynamics of thought and its Copernican part in the break-up of feudal- ism as reflected in the Renais- sance and the Reformation.

Because bourgeois historians and critics look at history as static things that happen and they fragment and isolate human cultural achievements, they cannot understand the true nature of the Copernican revolution. Copernicus was not just another astronomer. He was the first to challenge the ideas of Aristotle and Ptolemy which had prevailed for 1,400 years, and brought about the first real break between natural science and theology. His importance is paramount to an understanding of the Renais- sance and the development of scientific and philosophical thought. Copernicus was born into the Europe of the Renaissance, a period of great changes, at a time when the feudal system was breaking up and the new bourgeoisie were coming into struggle with the aristocracy and the Catholic church. Copernicus. was a reflection and a part of this change.

His theories replaced the earth, as the centre of the universe, with the sun, around which earth and the other planets revolved. What were the implications of his new ideas in philo- sophical and thought science? We are not told.

There is no historical analysis of the revolutionary nature of his theory. The Helio-centre view of the universe did in fact chal- lenge the whole basis of the man being at conception of the centre of all things, bring.

ing about a new philosophical outlook. It also shattered Aristotle's theory that the universe was self contained with the stars pinned at the point with nothing furtherest beyond, divinely created and maintained in motion. The old methods of thought and science were proving in- adequate for an age where new being dis- continents were covered and the whole social system was being challenged by the new merchant classes.

Science was a necessity for the Interesting incident from last Tuesday's 1 May Day Commit- demonstration through tee London. At about 2.10 p.m., just as the leading sections of the march were crossing Shaftes- bury Avenue into St Giles' High Street, a police transit van drew up on the opposite side of the traffic island.

A group of about six police. art jumped out and grabbed two dockers out of the Royal new needs of the bourgeoisie, for trading and warfare. But this aspect of Coper- nicus' times and preoccupa- tions is not even suggested in the exhibition. His achievement becomes a thing in itself. There is not one mention of the Renaissance—a period when the whole of human scientific and cultural achievement was re-examined and the revival in the arts and sciences was enormous. Copernicus is seen in static as an interesting per- terms sonality, and so the real un- derstanding of change in that period is seen merely • as the refutation of one set of ideas for another. The revolutionary nature of Copernicus was not appreciated by Luther, who saw his dis- placement of the earth as the centre of the universe as a against God. Luther stand wished in his struggles against Catholicism smash to the church in arder to bring man closer to God. But Copernicus' ideas even brought the exist- ence of that God into question.

The Catholic church initially did not really understand the full implications of his ideas, but when the counter-Reforma- tion got into full swing they banned his theoretical treatise 'De Revolutionibus'. When Galileo (1564-1642) started to develop Copernicus' ideas, he was prohibited by the church from carrying out any further scientific work. They rathere fatue mone Tyler tri tyrant state topie Man the lemon George Martin Group contingent. They were quickly bundled into the van.

dockers Other surrounded the van in a bid to prevent it moving off, and were joined by marchers from other con- tingents who had observed the arbitrary arrests. Among those who moved towards the scuffles which Prime then broke out was George Martin, described as a teacher at the Stanislavsky Institute in London, who stood in the middle of the traffic island waving his arm towards the police van and shouting at the demonstration 'Come on! Come on!' Martin, who is a frequent attender at a wide range of political meetings, did not get closely involved in the attray himself, but stayed the on fringes encouraging other par- ticipants. But his apparent hostility to the police underwent a nots- worthy change when one of the constables at the centre of the scuffles lost his helmet.

Martin picked up the helmet, crossed the traffic island in the other direction and handed it carefully to a police sergeant who was looking on. Martin is co-author of book produced by the Stanis- ed lavsky Institute entitled 'Discipline or Corruption?'.

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Above: Copernicus. Left. A page from his work 'De Revolutionibus' which presented a whole new conception of the universe.

attacked him on the basis that of development, but to portray his ideas were heresy. the dynamic of this nature The extremely reactionary development would mean to nature of the counter-Reforma- contravene the fashionable tion, which fought to support 'environmentalist' views pre- feudal order the against the valent in academic circles bourgeois which deride the of newly-emerging concept before forces, brought Galileo scientific progress. the Inquisition role The British Museum is seen in its of stemming the tide of scientific or these people residue as a man's and social inquiry cultural heritage, Though Galileo recanted, his departmentalized in order to work had spread throughout limit and fragment one's un- Europe and Copernican derstanding of such things the as system had its adherents in all of the revolutionary nature educated and major scientific scientific development. circles. Copernicus is therefore pre- Presenting an exhibition that sented as a character, a cameo describes the origins of capi- picked from history because talism in a way that is present- of his recent birthday. One able to the general public is a can presume from the manner difficult task for the academic of this exhibition that if Coper- exhibition of the alive organizers nicus were today he British Museum. interesting, would be but A 'real' exhibition would iust another guest on the bring into question the nature David Frost show. Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37 p • Problems of the British Revolution Paperback 35p Lessons of October Paperback 60p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p Marxism and the Trade Unions Pamphlet 25p Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International Pamphlet 10p Postage: 10p per book, 5p per pamphlet.

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Wave of occupations throughout country Long Kesh letter: A comment BACKING for the sit-in strike closure at Norton- against Villiers' Andover factory has started to flow in from Ford and dockers in workers Southampton, refinery workers at Fawley and engineers in Swindon. These results of the first week's campaigning for financial support among wider sections of the working class will be re- ported to a meeting of all 54 strikers this morning, and early week strike leaders will next decide their next steps in con- sultation with full-time union officials. So far the company has re- fused to meet the strikers while their occupation of the factory continues. But the strikers are confident that their action, which started last Friday, will soon begin to bite. They are occupying the key spares department of the motorcycle firm's European sales division, and will release no components at all until the com- to come to terms. pany agrees Tony Fordham, spokesman for yesterday: the strikers, said 'Dennis Poore (company chair- man) says he won't negotiate under duress. just resume work 'But if we all our powers of negotiation are gone. 'There's considerable support for our stand everywhere we've been so far. Just on the indus- round here every trial estate trade unionist knows he could be the next to lose his job.

'At Norton-Villiers in Wolver- where the company hampton, has said it wants to transter our work, all sections are blacking any transfer of production.'

WE WERE pleased to receive the letter from a Long Kesh pri- soner which we published yester- day. (The writer attached his name, hut and cage number, but withheld these for obvious we reasons.) It is encouraging to know that Workers Press is being read with such interest by the victims of imperialism. Our corres- British is absolutely right to pondent stress the unity of interest be- tween British and Irish workers.

If the Irish workers are left isolated then, indeed, the streets will run with workers' blood not only in Ireland, but in England, Scotland and Wales as well.

Workers Press has often stressed the point made by our correspondent that the British generals regard the army's bru- tality against the working class BRIXTON: Monday May 7, 8 p.m.

Control Room, Brixton Training Centre. 'Report back from May DA LEWISHAM: Monday May 7, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club, opp. New Cross Station. 'The role of the TUC in the fight against the Tories'. BATTERSEA: Tuesday May 8, 8 p.m. 'Nags Head', cnr. Wands- worth Road and North Street. 'Report back from May Day'. DAGENHAM: Tuesday May 8, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue. 'Marxism and the trade unions. TOTTENHAM: Tuesday May 8, 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arms, High Road, near White Hart Lane. 'Force the Tories to resign.'

WYTHENSHAWE

(Manchester): 'Cock o'th'North'. Portway: back from May Day'. KINGSTON: Thursday May 10, 8 p.m. Norbiton Hotel, Clifton Road. 'Forward from May Day —to remove the Tories.' WILLESDEN: Thursday May 10, 8 p.m. Brent Labour and Trades Hall, Willesden High Road, THIRTY Stockport en- gineering workers were guard yesterday on against bailiffs who are trying to break their fac tory occupation. men, The employed by Bason Engineering, who make equipment for the brick indus- try, have been under threat of forcible eviction for three days.

Their occupation began . three weeks ago in defence of trade union rights. The firm, which has recently been taken over by an American Forest Taschal company, of Carolina, has demanded the dis- THE occupation of the cable factory, Aberdare, Glamorgan, by 180 production workers con- tinues, despite conciliation at- tempts by the government and a G&MWU secret ballot. The ballot is believed to have gone almost 100 per cent favour of continuing the occupa- tion, which began unofficially and is against closure. A Department of Employment official has been trying to get negotiations started about redundancies. of Ireland as valuable practice for future struggles here, just as the role of the British army in places like Aden developed the techniques that l are now being used in Ireland. -because they may not have received Workers Press regularly —that we have not realized the importance of the fight against imperialism, British Irish and its repressive supporters emergency powers. From the very • beginning we opposed the sending of British troops into Northern Ireland in 1969—unlike the British Com- munist Party and the Interna- tional Socialism group who ap- plauded Wilson's action and said the British army had a peace- keeping role'! NW10. 'Stalinism and the strug- gle to defend democratic rights.'

DARLASTON: Thursday May 10, 'The Nag's Head'. •Fight the State Pay Laws and Measured- Day Work.' EAST LONDON: Monday May 14, 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hall, Bow Road, E3. WANDSWORTH: Monday May 14, 8 p.m. Kings Arms, High Street, SW18. WATFORD: Monday May 14, 8 p.m. Watford Trade Union Hall, near Watford Junction Station. 'Stalinism and the Seen democratic rital o PADDINGTON: Tuesday May 15, 8 p.m. 'Prince of Wales,' Harrow corner Gt Western Road, Road, 'Marxism and the Trade Unions.'

TOOTING: Tuesday May 15, 8 Tooting Baths, Tooting p.m. Broadway, SW17. 'Build the Revolutionary Party! SLOUGH: Wednesday May 16, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Farn- ham Road. 'Forward to the Revolutionary Party.' SOUTHALL: Wednesday May 16, 8 p.m. Southall Library, Osterley FROM STEPHEN JOHNS i missal of 11 men. Among those to be axed are two shop stewards, the convenor and other strong union men-all AUEW members.

Convenor Monty Hulse ex- plained: 'We offered the firm a work-sharing scheme which would have cost them nothing, but they still refused to lift the redundancies. We also offered to get volunteers from the whole labour force, but they still in- sisted that the original Il should go. 'We feel the firm wants to destroy trade union organization in the plant and we will not let them? Mr Hulse said that strong sup- Workers had some trouble get- ting their side of the case re- ported in the local newspa of 'Aberdare Leader' the Thomson group, which pub- lished a management statement on the front page last week.

The paper refused to publish • letter from three an answering shop stewards on the grounds We have regularly covered the lut struggle of the Irish workers. pa ever since and recently published a detailed report of the courts set up by the British ruling class "review' the the cases Long Kesh political prisoners.

Yesterday we carried a cen- tre-spread Emergency on Powers planned before we re- ceived the letter from Long Kesh. Immediately the Diplock Com- mission's recommendations were published, we said: 'Martial law proposed for Ulster' and stressed that the judicial procedures pro- posed were similar to those established by the Greek colonels after their military coup of 1967. Our correspondent stresses the torture methods employed in Northern Ireland. He is abso- Park Road. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights.'

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday May 16, 8 p.m. 'The Crooked Billet,' North Circular Road 'Force the Tories to resign.'

WEMBLEY: Wednesday May 16, 8 p.m. Copland High School, Road. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights.

WOOLWICH: Wednesday May 16, 8 p.m. The Castle, Powis Street, 'Stalinism and the struggle SĘ18. to defend democratic rights.

SWANSEA: Thursday. May 17, 7.30 YMCA. Defend wor- p.m. kers' basic rights. General Strike to Force the Tories to resign.'

BASILDON: Thursday May 17, 8 Community p.m. Barnstaple Centre. 'Stalinism and the strug- rights to defend democratic CROYDON: Thursday May 17, 8 Ruskin House, Coombe p.m. Road, Croydon. 'Forward to the Revolutionary Party.' FELTHAM: Thursday May 17, 8 p.m. 'Three Horse Shoes, Felt- ham High Street. 'Stalinism and struggle defend demo- Workers Press, Sa port had been offered by workers in firms in the area if a move to evict the men physically was made. Meanwhile the 30 takè turns in manning the factory premises round the clock. The AUEW has made the dis- pute official and has taken the Issue up with the firm and the Engineering Employers' Federa- tion at north-west district level, but without success. The eviction order came after Bason's took the matter of occu- uld pation up at a Manchester court.

Stockport was the home of the famous Roberts Arundel dispute middle-1960s when workers in the town launched a mini-General Strike against an- other American employer who up- refused to recognize the union.

that parts of it were libellous.

By coincidence, the managing Aberdare Cables, James Robertson, has a brother on the board of directors of Thomson Regional Newspapers.

The occupation is getting in- creasing support from other unions in the area and a large delegation of cable men led the Cardiff May Day march. Another delegation travelled Merthyr to SLL's May Day Tydfil for the. march and meeting. the lutely right and we published a ers pamphlet (still available) 'Ulster Dossier: a Torture Casebook' by Stephen Johns in October 1971.

We gave extensive coverage to the events of Bloody Sunday in Derry on January 30, 1972.

We have also published, over the last three years, regular series of articles in the entire history of the Irish struggle.

We welcome the letter from this political prisoner of British imperialism and we assure him that there will be no let up by Workers Press of fight the against the Tories in Britain, and in Northern and Southern Ire- land. Our task is the construction Britain and lut ireland as sec- of the reyolutionary tions of the Fourth International.

All Trades Unions Allian OLLERTON: Monday May

CASTLEFORD:

May 17, 8 p.m. Rooms. Speaker: G. Healy Secretarv SLL). Press, Saturday May 5, 1973 PAGE 11

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Wednesday May 9 The materialist conception of History Wednesday May 16 Dialectical Materialism- a Marxist theory of knowledge Wednesday May 23 Theory and Practise of Marxism Wednesday May 30 Role of the revolutionary Party at St David's Church Hall, Church Street, Merthyr 7.30 p.m. After May Day — What Next? Liverpool

SUNDAY MAY 6

7.30 p.m. Mona Hotel James Street (Near tube station) Central London All Trades Unions Alliance -

TRADE UNIONS AND THE

TORY GOVERNMENT

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday May 5, 1973 Stalinists help defeat Post, eggs, General Strike call fares to FROM IAN YEATS IN DOUGLAS, Isle of Man was reserved

COMMUNIST

Party Tor (Labour Shadow Chancellor members and their sup- Healey. their for them- supporters conspi- _Der cent use cuously abstained. selves in breach of the Tory Healev said the last La go up porters abstained yester- bour government had made told aWs. rallie. realst day in a crucial vote on a terrible allow- no choice mistake conference: They now had i nis moton General totally opposed to any form but to take on the govern- be call for ment. tween the polltical ana trade control wages blalc Strike to bring down the leadership the The delegates' refusal to ano to CorTuous oar- made rage of attacks by the Tory vote for the General Strike Tory government movercal the Labour

BY WORKERS PRESS REPORTERS

motion reflected the reform- rights won at the electricians and tone of the government started to ist and centrist nunarcus right the plumbers' conference. working class struggle. WeeK one COLICI CuCCi THE ROAD Haulage Association is It would be act Yesterday from social havoc of five years of andid Some delegates claimed Pcole the Tory likely to apply soon to the Prices Com- cowardice not loryism, it wold be sure could insisting that trade union that the resolution laws, but reverse mission for increases in rate of at least he said. it, have been passed had the attacks. movement with " abour covernment Stalinists voted for it. *I say the lack of leader- duce incomes policy 5 per cent. The Association's commer- me went our is a waste which applied prices of time denying over ship in this nght is a con- i nere cue Was cial committee, representing 17,000 the last years dividends member scious act well perraval wages demanding who the

TUC

and will was members, is to discuss the situation on Brecknell inter- passea overwnelmingly. were 1101 C of The resolution was down the annals wages inan tney were pro ask by ducing. May 15. backed enthusiastically Southampton branch if their working Class 'But, executive, he added, 'the pro- could be taken to such'. About 85 per cent of all goods is carried blem high He 'We still smarting from Thurs- went was Wakes imply a General strike

MUSL

day's defeat of poli- by road, so such an increase would have much as the rerusal bring this government down rease le British invest balloting members wide-ranging effects on the cost of living.

plied: ana relurn a Labour govern

CICS

Musl say their and as a matter pledged to repeal truthfulness and about registrato aer une British Rail, which has already applied for king-rade ats and dedicate.

wor- Industrial Relations Act. growth.' anti-trade union of principle that in my view They asked delegates A Labour government an increase of 5 per cent in passenger fares to this Tory government Call would aim at a growth rate resolution not be brought down with- themselves positive in the summer, is seeking permission ot raise vote dallist workers General Strike. socialist policy' calling opposition of 5 per but TOr CelL freight charges by a similar amount.

OUL

prices and incomes policies near doubling dele- must realize that all or tne

EXCCULIVC

HILCi- Rising extra wealth would of neces- cost £5 any government. breaktast also Hivic. vention only fees from nanatul gates sity go to plant and exports prices in London's wholesale this week market delegates voted for the Mr Pearse said the con- conterence's Some will mean 2p per Ib more on imported bacon in and ference had agreed to an most rapturous applause and and Stalinists Wares. and Solution. the week shops more expensive cuts will cost up Rubery to 4p more per lb

NIESEWAND

And Mr Bernard Matthews, the Eggs chief exeCulIve Authority, nas Owen men prices are likely to rise soon egg pre-Easter level. above their

ARRIVES IN

The Post Oiice is expected to to return apply soon to increase Its mal first and rates, putting 20 second class post. as Is a per cent rise.

BRITAIN

MASS

MEETING of 1,200 Rubery Owen at workers KENT officials of the engineers' laston yesterday voted to return with about vestered cenanacu work on Monday management action against seven Lu voles againsl. who broke JOURNALIST Peter Niesewand, non-unionists Terms of return are: wage in- a Rochester May strike detention Luy released from creases of between 50p and £4 airpoe strikebreakerst ry begin Thursday, arrived with negotiations Rhodesia on strikebreakers who fied pickets and reported for Heathrow airport yesterday. at structure. work on Monday Mr Niesewand (28) this week When Fred Griffiths, Wolver- home on full pay won his appeal against a two-

AUEW

district secre- management talks took place hampton All 350 workers at the factory, he alleged addressed the meetins year jail sentence for Tary. Elliott said it was complete victory.

Automation

SLUCK

contravention of the Rhodesian two full days from Tuesday night he the But when read out shift demanding that the seven Official Secrets Act. of the settlement section terms be dealt with. the contained the

IWO

He is still subject to the deten- tail. DISPUTE at CAV's Acton tion order under which he was One clause of this section said over an engineering negotiations revised wages tactorv first imprisoned in February, but crossed the should begin immedi- worker was allowed to leave Rhodesia line in the May Day strike has ately and • a turmer cause sald led to a stoppage the cutter on condition that he did not dis- these discussions were to be completed by October 1973.

grinding section and could lead information any cos: to more trouble military matter What this settlement means is Rhodesian The shop stewards are de- of the principle of the be re. say anything about his trial other ine acceptance manding that man change in the wages structure moved rom une sile. ine swilcr than things he would have been from piecework to high-base rate gear factory also stopped work or Measured-Day Work. able to say in Rhodesia. white-collar workers who over + the factory

T&GWU

con- scabbed. In prison he was kept in soll- told venor the meeting: "This is going to be a tary confinement, all conversa- can be wage structure that we tions with his wife were in front proud of.'

MAY FUND

of prison guards, his newspapers high-paid pieceworker Kult said: 'We have been against this were 'cut to shreds' and he was the last five scheme years. Ior not allowed a radio that could

£106.71 —GIVE

the a Doul pick up anything further afield settlement is that they have got the right implement high-base Rhodesian Broadcast- to than the

IT A BOOST

rate in October. ing Network. 'We have previously increased On his arrival at Heathrow, our wages by ti› a week In und period and that's what Rubery

THIS WEEKEND

Mr Niesewand said that he Owen is against. hoped to see his wife and child DON'T let our pace begin • See wives' backing p. 3.

again in about a fortnight.

slacken. good was such this month rUle Let's do our best to keep it up.

TORIES PREPARE A GENERAL ELECTION

a clear, political lead today

BRIEFLY

exposed the depth of the economic crisis.

"The One thing is certain. The rul funds are mainly from nomy ill-balanced. Then

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These ing class all over the world will the huge pool of surplus dollars Times' added: ary restraint and a political crisis working and Europe. Even the "They government] will . [the with trade union movement. aval by about the class tood rend her em

LIGHTNING

argued wish with rinancial allies yco" nOW must not relax for moment. 150 drivers at Heathrow airport outcome

WILC

terday: expansion acneve even more calamitous because the Only paper warns yesterday stopped coaches 'The to which dollar negotiations on Phase Three extent the unprecedented deterioration in passengers and from London, Will Finance this encouragement international and the situa- air- meet it through the building of delayed crews getting no netary atmosphere is capable vestment. tion with not the revolutionary Party. baggage acting spur to official process by foreign Mers borrowings. in the whole world and all kinds and freight movements. "Then they will still have a1s- of to So let's make up for lost time everywhere. inflation two supervisors pute was lall Dalll painfully clear. becomes decelerate more sharov. a litt'e Give weekene. driving vehicles Gatwick. Aredo une i ories alt Isoll 'Those who argue that the in- later limes: describes as situation. boost with extra amounts.

Raise "Ine the sireman beerier, sup as flatic America is exporting wil!

'dangercus'. all you can and post immediately together, such local finally undermine the economi? it is more than dangerous. 1l

COMMUNIST

Party members encoulascuickl and health of the rest is a desperate gamble which like voted with the Tories this week authorities and Docues Workers Press May Appeal Fund well worth the world their preparations Electricity Council raise support al c COVer 101 WiCk 186a Clapham High Street foreign to provide merely „stening to. tor the most

VICIOUS

Council of Action was narrowi 'The Times' on basic democratic rights and for the admitted that the London SW4 7UG defeated at an open meeting of sonne exclause of living of the that the the standards distorted. University huge balance of payments Cambridge •e. situation the 1930s. ficits. recovery is uneven and the eco- workins class silice Students Union.