COMMENT on list of betrayals Ten points of Stalinist treachery

trated Belfast shipyard the yards. added security risk'. understandably angry.

negotiations.

CK FRAUD perp by the Communi • dominated sho stewaras' co - orainatir committee at the for Upper Clyde Shi builders' yards is beir exposed more and mo clearly.

The repeated warnings Stalinist tactic of worki for the linnidator rather th пала длуи ALUE LA LALI fighting to safeguard jobs 1 mobilizing the working cla to bring down the Tory go ernment, have now ber proved correct.

The Stalinists and the uni leaders have tied the former U men to working conditions which basic trade union rig have been jeopardized.

This is the picture facing thi men today: 1 4,000 former UCS work will get no redundancy p strikers meet today STEELWORKERS sacked from the Belfast shipyard of Harland and Wolff will stage a protest demonstration outside the company offices this morning before holding a mass meeting on their lengthy bonus dispute.

Officials of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions will meet management to review the progress of a joint wer 10, paro, ser word consider ways of avoiding lay-offs among DalLv.

Harland's agreement to set up the working party indicates the deep anxiety with which the dispute is now viewed both by the company and the Tory govern"The Times', expressing some of their fears, commented yesterday that 'to put several thousand men out of a job and onto the streets must itself present an Tories paper's worry is that the state pay control laws, which sparked off the steelworkers' struggle, may forge a link between the class action of these predominantly Protestant, loyalist workers and the national struggle for withdrawal of troops and self-determination.

The dispute began when the giant yard's 2,300 steelworkers, members of the Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, banned overtime and imposed other work sanctions in protest against the blocking of bonus payments under Phase Two of the pay laws.

Shipyard earnings in Belfast are already between £6 and £8 lower than those on the Tyne and the upper Clyde, and since the bonus deal in fact dates from 1971, the steelworkers were Harland's eventually retaliated by sacking all the men, after unsuccessful attempts by ASB president Danny McGarvey to force them back to normal working.

It has since offered new wage sest 1g ur 1g re in he ng an ion CS in hts ers ay. Right: Sta linist Sam Barr, who has introduced time-and-motion to the Scotstoun vard. Below: Some of the shivard men methods ir during infamous 'work-in'.

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WARR nUED OT 2 Or 2,500 hourly-paid workers at Clydebank, only 1,300 have been taken on at Marathon oil rigs.

3 The 350 workers finishing off ships for the liquidator have no guarantee of further employment unless they are permitted to retrain as boilermakers.

4 This retraining, if allowed, plus the four-year no-strike contract at Marathon will be used to undermine the position of existing boilermen and to But the men are sticking fast to their demand that the old claim is settled before any talks on a fresh deal take place. Bhutto reveals Shah's aid IRAN BACKED Pakistan with valuable assistance during the wars with India in 1965 and 1971, revealed President Zulfigar Ali Bhutto on the eve of his state visit to the Shah.

Essential supplies such as oil reached Pakistan through Iran when the port of Karachi was blockaded. The Iranian air force assisted with air reconnaissance at sea. The civil air fleet took shelter on Iranian airfields and flew in supplies from other friendly countries.

Bhutto has chosen this moment to reveal the extent of Iranian aid to still criticisms of his visit Solan in amaterview eby the hah ı 'New York Times'. '. He told the paper that he would take 'protective reaction' measures in Baluchistan in the event of a break-up of Pakistan.

Opposition leaders demanded that Bhutto should cancel his visit and one of them, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, demanded that the National Assembly should be summoned to discuss what he termed an intervention in Pakistan's internal affairs.

In the statement by Information Minister Kausar Niazi, giving UVEi YOUNG SOCIALISTS E'S SAY accelerate the more drive for 5 Productivity at the Govan shipyard is to be driven 120 per cent by the introduction of speed-up and new working practices. 6 At the Govan and Linthouse divisions of the newly-formed Govan Shipbuilders, time-andmotion studies are almost completed. 7 At the remaining division, Scotstoun, Stalinist steward Sam Barr has organized time-andEmergency motion is critical of ASTMS THE EDINBURGH general branch of the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs has unanimously endorsed the following motion:

It has now been put forward as an emergency motion to the Fifth Annual Conference of ASTMS this weekend.

This conference severely censures the National Executive Council with regard to the weak and hesitant leadership it has details of Iranian aid, the Shah's remarks were described as those of a friend, not of a would-be adversary or an adventurer.

Hitherto the Pakistan government has evidently felt that revaluation of the full extent of the aid received from the reactionary regime of the Shah would be grist to the mill of its opponents at home and abroad. DOCKERS MEETING SUNDAY MAY Mona James (near tub:

GENERAL *STRIKEAll Trades Unions Alliance LIVERPOOL lo supplementary registers. Defend the dock labour scheme!

Force the Tories to resign! Jovernment must nationalize the port industries under workers' cr HEART IN TORIES OUT.

13, 7.30 Hotel Street : station)

dJT motion study on behalf of the management which involves workers timing other workers. 8 Wage rises, or alternatively bonus rises, which workers thought were promised in the original agreement and were due in April, have been refused. 9 Management is demanding co-operation in further productivity deals. 10 No pay claim can be lodged before September and there is no guarantee that anything will be forthcoming then.

leaders consistently displayed on a number of major issues affecting the membership since the Tory government came to power.

In particular, the position adopted by the NEC in relation to the question of legislation under the Industrial Relations Act; support for the industrial action taken against the act in March 1971, and more recently the decision on the May Day strike against the Tory government in no way constituted a firm and decisive lead being given to the membership on these occasions.

This conference therefore demands that in future the NEC exercises its proper function, which is that of providing the leadership required by members of this trade union in the struggles which undoubtedly lie ahead.

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE LECTURES Merthyr Tydfi Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary Socialist Labour Leagu Wednesday May 16 Dialectical Materialisma Marxist theory of knowledge Wednesday May 23 Theory and Practice Marxism Wednesday May 30 of the revolutionary St Javid's Church Hall, Ch urch Street, Merthyr 7.30 p.m.

Jarrow

Given SLL Central Committee membe Civic Hall, Jarrow 7.30 l p.m.

Mondays I May 14 and The Socialist Revolution Britain : 2. The roots of capitalist crisis: Marxism and the contradictions of capitalism. Britain and the world crisis. 3. The state and revolution. Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for democratic rights today means preparing for working-class power.

Basic reading :

Perspectives for transforming SLL into a revolutionary party. Marxist Analysis of the Crisis. Problems of the British Revolution (Trotsky).

Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, Communist Manifesto.

All Trades Unions Alliance meetings TEACHERS' MEETING The way forward after the NUT conferenc hursday, May 24, 7.30 p.

Conway Small Hall.

Red Lion Square, Holborn (admission 10p)

HOSPITAL WORKERS' MEETING ospital workers and fight against the Tory government uesday May 29, 7.30 Norfolk Room Caxton Hall, Caxton Street, London SW1 (admission 10p MEETING TUC must break off talks with Tories!

Build revolutionary party!

Wednesday, May 30, dnesday, May 7.30 p.m.

Tudor Room Caxton Hall.

Caxton Street, London SW1 (admission POSTAL WORKER MEETING Break off secret talks with off secret talks the Tories! the Tories to resign! sunday, June 3, 10.30 a.m Conway Small Hall, tea Lion Square, lolborn (admission 1 Op)

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MAY FUND

NOW STANDS STEP UP FIGHT TODAY IT IS slowly moving forward. 1 am sure if we make a big effort now, we could give our Fund a boost and get nearer to reaching our £1,750 target.