Workers Press no. 1070

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SHIPYARD

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IN BELFAST

From Stephen Joh MANAGEMENT at the gia shipyard in Belfast yesterday boilermakers who have been hold a mass meeting. The 2,500 steelworkers got thei operating a four week overtime ba government's pay laws. Since May-June 1968, the Soviet Stalinists have been haunted by the spectre of revolution in west- ern Europe and the growth of Trotskyism in the advanced countries of the west. Fearful of losing their parasitic privileges at home and their control of the labour movement abroad, the Soviet bureaucracy has begun an extensive campaign to once again discredit and distort the principles and history of Trot- sky's struggle for the regenera- tion of the USSR and the world- wide revolution of the working class. The Institute of Marxism-Lenin- ism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1972 issued a compendium of documents, articles, extracts, speeches and resolutions aimed at discredit- ing Trotskyism and distorting completely the truth about the relations between Lenin and Trotsky. The book is called 'On Trotskyism'. Workers Press will be serializing an extensive reply to this Stal- inist attack next week. Be sure to order your copy now.

Tel: circulation 01-622 7029.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

in Johns in Belfast the giant Harland and Wolff esterday sabotaged a bid by e been sacked by the firm to got their notice last Friday after rtime ban in defiance of the Tory The men have been demand- ing payment of bonuses agreed in 1971, but they have been told this is impossible under Phase Two. subject They have been to attacks by the Belfast Social Security which has denied them benefit, despite unemployment the fact that in the past men taking similar industrial action have received dole payments.

meeting yesterday was The scheduled for 3 p.m. and shop stewards were hoping to rally their members in this bitter struggle, which affects the highest primarily Protestant paid workers in Belfast.

YARD CLOSED

TO WORKERS

But the firm stopped workers from entering the yard to collect their week's wages in hand and set up a collection point outside the yard on the dock estate. They from stopped the Press also entering the yards to report on the struggle. 'We see this as a deliberate attempt to sabotage our struggle, a boilermakers' Bobby Johnson, shop steward told me yesterday.

The management I expect have contacted the local con- the normal stabulary to stop collection of wages.' Despite this there is no sign that the unity of the boiler- makers is cracking. The dispute steelworkers began when the banned overtime on April 13 and imposed wage sanctions in pro- test against the blocking of bonus

E NEWSLETTER

• SATURDAY MAY 12, 1973

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

Ship under construction at Harland anc payments under Phase Two of the Tory pay laws. Earnings in the Belfast ship- are already between f6 yards those in and £8 lower than . British yards and the steelworkers are understandably angry since the agreement on the bonus deal dates from 1971. The unrest has further been increased by a decision not to allow the men to draw dole pay- Social Security officials ments. because they say that this are involved in industrial mis- conduct. But men see this as a deliberate provocation. This dispute has caused great turmoil within the Protestant working class in the city.

The Loyalist Association Workers, which backs union with Britain and has alliances with leading Ulster Unionist politi- , 1973 • No 1070 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THIS IS really our big day. Yesterday's second post brought the largest single don- ation we have ever received in our history.

A London comrade, J. Ambrose, who be: cause of illness is no longer able to partici- in the practical work of transforming pate the Socialist Labour League into a revolu- tionary party, sent us £10,000. This is a terrific boost to our campaign. We are indeed thank- ful for the most generous gift.

Socialist Labour League branches sent in: Lewisham £12.23; Slough £5; Merthyr £10.

The total is now £21,784.95. We are on our way to £30,000. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG

BY ROYSTON BULL

THE ACCEPTANCE by Vauxhall car unions of a Phase Two pay agreement is yet another consequence of the policy of surrender the Tory laws to pay which has been consist- ently pursued by the TUC since last autumn. The 7-per-cent deal of £2.40 more a week across the board means that wages for the 26,000 workers will rise by less than the current rate of increase in the cost of living of 8 percent and more. In other words, the Vaux- hall workers at Luton, Dun- stable and Ellesmere Port are, like most other workers, receiving wage cut in actual fact. Union leaders have been deal able to sign such a without a fight after getting arland and Wolff. endorsement at mass cians, has so far refused to com- ings. the dispute. ment on But the background to This follows its call on May this string of decisions by Day to workers not to take part workers of all industries not in the one-dav strike against the on strike at the pre- to go Tory pay laws. time against the state sent The shipyard has always been of the control wages iS the centre of the whole Protestant cowardly retreat by the TUC working-class ethos in Belfast. leaders. This based regular was on Every worker now knows employment and relatively good that to fight the fl plus 4 - by Northern Ireland wages per cent norm means a poli- standards. tical fight against the gov- But now the Tory government ernment involving the likeli- is directly challenging these gains hood of criminal court pro- and shattering the illusion that secutions, fines, and impri- will treat capitalism Protestant better sonment. workers than their Catholic counterparts. To meet this challenge, a strike movement developed The attack on the boilermakers joined by which eventually forced the has been their leader

TUC

leaders their Danny McGarvey, who yesterday against will to call a special Con- called stewards to Newcastle next gress; belatedly on March 5.

Wednesday in a new bid to end the strike.

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workers press

SHIPYARD

LOCK-OUT

IN BELFAST

.. From Stephen Joh MANAGEMENT at the giar shipyard in Belfast yesterday boilermakers who have been hold a mass meeting. The 2,500 steelworkers got thei operating a four week overtime ba government's pay laws. Since May-June 1968, the Soviet Stalinists have been haunted by the spectre of revolution in west- ern Europe and the growth of Trotskyism in the advanced countries of the west. Fearful of losing their parasitic privileges at home and their control of the labour movement abroad, the Soviet bureaucracy has begun an extensive campaign to once again discredit and distort the principles and history of Trot sky's struggle for the regenera- tion of the USSR and the world- wide revolution of the working class. The Institute of Marxism-Lenin- ism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1972 issued a of documents, compendium articles, extracts, speeches and resolutions aimed at discredit- ing Trotskyism and distorting completely the truth about the relations between Lenin and Trotsky. The book is called 'On Trotskyism'. Workers Press will be serializing an extensive reply to this Stal- inist attack next week. Be sure to order your copy now.

Tel: circulation 01-622 7029.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

n Johns in Belfast the giant Harland and Wolff esterday sabotaged a bid by e been sacked by the firm to got their notice last Friday after rtime ban in defiance of the Tory The men have been demand- ing payment of bonuses agreed in 1971, but they have been told this is impossible under Phase Two. They have subject been to Belfast attacks by the Social Security which has denied them benefit, despite unemployment the fact that in the past men taking similar industrial action have received dole payments.

yesterday was The meeting 3 p.m. and shop scheduled for stewards were hoping to rally this bitter their members in struggle, which affects the highest paid and primarily Protestant workers in Belfast.

YARD CLOSED

TO WORKERS

But the firm stopped workers from entering the yard to collect their week's wages in hand and set up a collection point outside the yard on the dock estate. They stopped the Press from also entering the yards to report on the struggle. 'We see this as a deliberate attempt to sabotage our struggle,' a boilermakers' Bobby Johnson, shop steward told me yesterday.

'The management I expect have contacted the local con- stabulary to stop Despite this there is no sign that the unity of the boiler- makers is cracking. The dispute steelworkers when the began banned overtime on April 13 and imposed wage sanctions in pro- test against the blocking of bonus

E NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MAY 12, 1973

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

Ship under construction at Harland and payments under Phase Two of the Tory pay laws. Earnings in the Belfast ship- £6 yards are already between than. those in £8 lower and British yards and the steelworkers are understandably angry since the agreement on the bonus deal dates from 1971. The unrest has further been increased by a decision not to allow the men to draw dole pay- ments. Social Security officials say that this is because they in industrial mis- are involved conduct. But men see this as a deliberate provocation. This dispute has caused great turmoil within the Protestant working class in the city.

The Loyalist Association of Workers, which backs union with Britain and has alliances with leading Ulster Unionist politi- , 1973 • No 1070 • 4p

• SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THIS IS really our big day. Yesterday's second post brought the largest single don- ation we have ever received in our history.

A London comrade, J. Ambrose, who be: cause of illness is no longer able to partici- pate in the practical work of transforming the Socialist Labour League into a revolu- tionary party, sent us £10,000. This is a terrific boost to our campaign. We are indeed thank- ful for the most generous gift.

Socialist Labour League branches sent in: Lewisham £12.23; Slough £5; Merthyr £10.

The total is now £21,784.95. We are on our way to £30,000. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG

BY ROYSTON BULL

THE

ACCEPTANCE by Vauxhall of a car unions Phase Two pay agreement is yet another consequence of the policy of surrender the Tory to pay laws which has been consist- ently pursued by the TUC since last autumn. The 7-per-cent deal of £2.40 more a week across the board means that wages for the 26,000 workers will rise by less than the current rate of increase in the cost of living of 8 per cent and more. In other words, the Vaux- hall workers at Luton, Dun- stable and Ellesmere Port are, like most other workers, receiving a wage cut in actual fact. Union leaders have been deal able to sign such without a fight after getting arland and Wolff. endorsement at mass meet- so far refused to com- ings. cians, has the dispute. ment on But the background to call on May This follows its by this of decisions string Day to workers not to take part workers of all industries not in the one-day strike against the on strike at the pre- to go Tory pay laws. time against the state sent The shipyard has always been of control the wages the centre of the whole Protestant cowardly retreat by the TUC working-class ethos in Belfast. leaders. This based on regular was Every knows worker now employment and relatively good good that to fight the £l plus 4 - by Northern wages - per cent norm means a poli- standards. tical fight against the gov- But now the Tory government ernment involving the likeli- is directly challenging these gains hood of criminal court pro- and shattering illusion that secutions, fines, and impri- will treat capitalism Protestant sonment. better workers than their Catholic counterparts. To meet this challenge, a strike movement developed The attack on the boilermakers joined by which eventually forced the has been their leader

TUC

leaders their McGarvey, against Danny who yesterday will to call a special Con- called stewards to Newcastle next gress; belatedly on March 5. Wednesday in a new bid to end the strike.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday May 12, 1973 A question of leadership with the pro-Tory LABOUR captured four of the 'big refusal to deal

WHAT WE THINK

Jenkins right wing has been inertia six' metropolitan and district coun- at the polls. cils in England and Wales-Man- chester, Birmingham, Newcastle and The reformist leaders the Cardiff - in Thursday's local Labour Party and trade unions-left Tories in their election plans, Failure to win control at Liver- since and right alike-and the elections. Stalinists they can reasonably expect Liberal pool, a centre of workers struggles, have shown over and over again that But Liberals will be the the where Labour leader Alderman support to melt away in a General they cannot and will not fight the strongest party in Liverpool and will William Sefton lost his * Election: hold the balance of power in Leeds.

scal, Tories. Labour So the Heath government, having indictment of the Party Results in 62 areas gave the Tories Once again the urgency of trans- leadership nationally. launched an artificial pre-election forming the Socialist Labour League control in only five- Bolton, Brad- Despite the rents Act, the Indus- from the Stadinist-ba strea draws strength both into the revolutionary party has been ford, Monmouth, Sefton and Solihull.

trial Relations Act, state control of from the capitula- Altogether Labour won 1,784 seats, revealed. 'Independents' Conservatives 728, wages, soaring prices and EEC entry, tion of the TUC and the total in- The first task of this party will be ability of the Labour leaders to put 557 and Liberals 193. Wilson and company have totally to mobilize the working class around failed to rally mass up any real opposition to them.

support behind socialist policies and to expose the Despite the unpopularity of the themselves as a viable alternative to Tory government, however, The price of Wilson's collabora- Wilson-Feather Labour leadership in the Heath. did not make tion on state control of wages, his fight around these policies to bring any spectacular advances. This only the sabotage of the rents fight and his the Tory government dowh.

encourage Uneasy Harsh anti-inflation Set-back for Nixon's truce in move by Germany bomb money Lebanon PRESIDENT Nixon suffered a major foreign policy defeat Thursday

PALESTINE

commandos in THE WEST German government has announced a

THE WEST

German Bundestag on when the behind Deste tre reite se ceeman.

House of Representatives Lebanon remained tough 21-point programme in an effort to beat back treaty with German sandbagged voted that no funds in the positions an 1n inflation which is undermining Democratic Republic signed last the rocketing the Bill the Appropriations it was uneasy truce with army DetenDer economy. should be after week of bloody The fruits considering used treaty, of the of chancellor Brandt's for the bombing of highting. Higher taxes and cuts in government spending are aimed Cambodia. Shots were exchanged with the OSADO Na consecrates ne «vi. Economics Minister at reducing investment and consumption.

of Germany into two states customs the

SUL

first that the Army al a DOSt In It is the Hans Friderichs told Germans: "All will have to tighten their the way for trade and ume and opens of the country and air House has rejected White House belts.' economic link. force jets went into Indo-China The vote eastern and Europe the witi the major amerdment to the Bill Soviet Union. He appealed to trade unions court has just ruled that commando truce team has been 224 many Republi- by auring the refugee and employers show Democratic camps to persons

DATO

private Ins _bie cans and conservative Democrats must be increased to take account opposition opposed the ratification the wage demands and dilu of the fall in the value of money. well providing for in force. increases but the Opponents cunew remains price This the An Egyptian official said that hrst Germany measures stop short of a freeze.

unconstitu- had the Nations. Thei did seven-point plan been Ta in the value oi money has United tional the Vietnam SInCe Ceast- been used to justify a change in this because it was linked with The Brandt government hopes axiccolo avo• lucuor nre. vote also renected the

GDR.

the basis of a commercial contract.

the admission of the It would be a mistake to think effect which the Nixon thaab the rebases navebando ned state bond issue to be having in reducing the admin- army frozen in the central bank and credibility Istialol s public vote is CuLo secono a versa Bill goes to the Palestine guerrilla movement by spending. Sected what the the same means those employed in Jordan in 1971. next week. Depreciation allowances amendment said that funds should not trans- be surtax ano corooon taxes nave ferred from .other heads been increased. ance bombing operations in Cam-

SWAPO

The measures are not expected voca. nev are nkev American bombing of Cambo- erec BRANDT .. • 21-point programme.

but they open the way for an dia has been taking place on pricking the arrests economic plunge, scale the Allende extends military inflation-boosted West corrupt ana alscreaitea Lon Ivo boom. regime. The end of air support mean early military

SOUTH

The African police have vital export trade rule threatened the effects of the THE ALLENDE regime in memocrs Peo- international monetary chaos ••• vest clamped Chile has military ple's Organization in Namibia which has resulted in two major SWISS police admitted to bug- police and 20 workers the were in- holding political meetings.

rule on province of for revaluations of the mark. of the jured the O'Higgins, where the strike- 90 LOwn 1wc were mansonce 101 nevotunonar League The West German government Rancagua. days, others have been released held in Lausanne last weekend. bound Teniente Com- copper is putting pressure on the have still to appear Members of organization mine is situated. mon 'Market to reduce tariffs to Those arrested are opposed to

SOUTH

KOREAN

found a transmitter in the keep down food prices. The capital South policy martial has sentenced a number ing after a systematic search of

ANICAS

South-West porating Africa into Santiago has been under military of high-ranking officers to long the hall. The mark has lost 7.5 per cent the apartheid and support control since state of Minister prison terms and heavy fines for The of Justice de- of its the the demand that it should be- was declared last weekend past months and five tended • ano corruoon. rommer bugging sa ville following between sup- Commander the Seoul that while was contrary come an Inaependent state.

years it has lost one quarter.

ciastes oI South Africa does not intend porters and opponents of the Maj-Gen Pil-yong Swiss law (1) it was permissible rich in Germans fear a the Chief 0fi1923 when trals and give an area min- government. Staff, Brig-Gen the protect stale inflation runaway Miners El Teniente have Yong-kil both get 15 cheaD labour which it years ane crimes ano subversive acIs une their strike for three under now pay weeks were fined heavily. Five other police had been given govern- workers Conecter Deer defunct League of Nations man- suitcases and found that it was for higher On Wednesday generals and the colonels were in- ment permission plant date. valueless next day. over 9,000 marchers clashed with volved in the case. uransmitici. Key decision on Merseyside casuals LIVERPOOL dockers face a say they have been

BY DAVID MAUDE

acceptance, But, with Tory patronage, the

LMT,

where even the employer caught between two fires. wanted permanents, what chance key register keeps growing. decision tomorrow,

OUR LABOUR

Liverpool the loss recruitment which could affect the future one hand the It the 1s nere or acmevino ir alter almost 3,000 men from the labour ahead will

CORRESPONDENT

goes supplementaries of jobs and conditions not Jones-Aldington under the case, almost o Colorise

DCI

only in the port itself but in force nation- issue whenever a fight takes place special Liverpool severace Tetus recruit Perminens, has Tine

GOCKS

the area as a whole. caused big delays in handling ally. In the important container a conrontauon wild covena. Maritime t canais. actually and led ships being port of Southampton, supplemen- ment policy why not have the cargo govern- prevented by the On of the face of it the issue Deen grounds of other confrontation on Port ment from doing so. Latics they will vote on is a simple employers trade permanent registered men.

principle now! Threatener fort Unlike permanent registered one: they will accept The time for 'left' talk is over could be lost permanently. supplementaries be men, can 181d d a ment of 500 'casual', supple- on Liverpool docks. On Tory the hands of the employers for the other hand the either week's Jones-Aldington a bitter mentary dockers to meet the pushing through speed-up, break- was • hrm/y the local Dock Lab em employer

BOYCICAL

COLLLLCU

Their immeciare port's crippling labour short- ano une

TOT

starled Board. to allowing … new recrumeni 118 COWn dockers must stopped now. Dockers dockers. perme metr of solidarity and ultimately attack- age. To most dockers this smacks must throw out the supplemen- ing the Dock Labour Scheme But in the background lurks of the old casual labour Hicl system, defend the 1947 itself, laly

LUCK

threat security of 'Dock Labour which the employers hate major Une under which and demand „LaDour scheme Scheme from dismissal. hercely. employment and trade ruthless speed-up under threat of their leaders fight to force 41101 The Liverpool ganization on the docks. If sup- Both Maurice Macmillan, the sack. groundswell of oppo- stewards say Tory government to resign. are accepted, under Secretary, they will make sure whatever Employment and sition recently forced the docks The I Orles reviacec supplementaries are recruited are whatever conditions, both could Minister ohn Pevton by a Labour government pledged ane waterways connottee Transport and General Workers' quickly made permanents have made clear they welcome nationalization de senousty vocenoneo, of shop growth of the Union declare it would fight Members the port supplemen- But there are powerful forces the entire port indus- growth of the supplementary committee. which by the and stewards LarY Haronaily. ranceo dramas suco a dossioway.

ITV

Wildoll compensamon majority vote recommending Merseyside firm which wanted to register. If this could not be achieved at under workers'

JOHN N. MITCHELL: The President's closest political adviser and former law partner. Indicted on charges of conspiring to obtain a secret $200,000 contribution to the Nixon re-election fund. Mitchell was director of the Com-: mittee to Re-elect the President (CREEP) from March to July last year. The prosecution allege he took what amounts to a bribe from Robert Vesco, a shady financier who was at the time facing a civil suit for taking more than $200m from the offshore fund International Overseas Services.

JOHN

WESLEY

DEAN

lll (34), left, sacked last week White House counsel. as He has evidence which he claims implicates the Presi- dent in the Watergate plot.

Dean conducted the inter- White House inquest nal which absolved the presi- dential aides from compli- city in the plot. Has said he will not be made a scapegoat for Water- gate and now expresses fears for his life. Dean attended and meetings In March April 1972 when the plot to bug the Democratic head- was first discussed. quarters of Supervised payment $175,000 to keep the wire- tappers quiet after their conviction

JEB

STUART MAGRUDER (38),

RICHARD KLEINDIENST (49), re- White House aide to Haldeman signed Attorney-General as at Haldeman who Mitchell's deputy the time and was later same as Ehrlichman. the

CREEP.

Was the first He formally at with administration official to charged the first phoney resign investigation into the affair.

Last specifically Watergate. Denied involvement last autumn, Kleindienst casually week re- began vealed that he had been but then to incriminate Mitchell, Dean and Liddy, among approached by Liddy and others on the golf the others. course morning Watergate He admits having after the break-in. campaign $235,000 in cash to They asked for help, but he claims to have refused. Liddy. He also admits having lied Grand to the Jury about his advance knowledge of the Water- told investi- gate burglary.

DONALD

H.

SEGRETTI

(31), gators that Mitchell advised him alleged head the of a network to commit perjury. of Republican and spies provo- out to disrupt who cateurs set the Democrats'

JAMES

McCORD (54), campaign. Alleg- security

CREEP,

edly $35,000 co-ordinator for the received 1n pay- with four other CREEP Kalmbach. Segretti arrested ments from by the Democratic indicted last week employees In Federal Grand Jury charged headquarters the night of June 17. Tried and convicted of with illegally distributing phoney literature conspiracy, burglary and wire- election campaign tapping January 30. Later alleging sexual misconduct by on alleging the Democratic candidates. wrote to the judge of 'higher-ups'. involvement McCord's subsequent secret Senate select testimony to the

E. CUSHMAN

ROBERT

(58), committee and grand jury led of command the General in to the present crisis. Marine Corps. A member of the Chiefs Staff. When Joint

HERBERT

W. KALMBACH (51),

deputy mid-19 diallege of the

CIA

in Nixon's personal lawyer in Los allegedly agreed to Was Ehrlichman for Angeles until last week. request from

CIA

chief campaign fund raiser in assistance to investigate 1968 and 1972 until Stans took Ellsberg the Pentagon over He also 'slush fund' Papers leak. The CIA is legally over. had -of some $500,000—which was barred from conducting investi- used mainly and operations apparently to gations covert United States. finance by Donald inside the operations Segretti (see col. 2). Claims these payments were authorized by the President's appointments ROBERT VESCO, purchased In- secretary. vestors Overseas Services in from Cornfeld. 1971 Bernard November

PATRICK

GRAY

III

Charged with L. (56), last $224m IOS of Nixon milking lawyer friend of who some J. His accepted by nominated to follow money was was Hoover as head of the Mitchell took Edgar donation of S50,000 with another Gray's nomination

FBI,

was Watergate $200,000 'under the counter'. the withdrawn as Belatedly the money has now affair began hit the head- amid lines. He been protests was forced to resign returned that he from Mitchell that he is 'an when revealed innocent by-stander who got had personally destroyed evI- the leg'. Vesco's money the Watergate shot in dence in case into the safe which incriminated White House found its way at Stans' office. chiefs,

MAURICE

HUBERT

STANS,

former secretary of commerce. conspiracy, per- Charged with jury, obstruction of justice and obstruction of a criminal in- headed vestigation. Stans the operation. Nixon fund-raising Kept a million dollars in cash in his safe and approved pay- ment from this fund to Liddy.

Stans' committee been has fined by the Federal courts for failing to disclose contributions required by law. Further as charges are still pending. Stans with Mitchell is now accused of Vesco's $200,000 accepting the understanding that on exchange they would try to in- an investigation by the fluence Securities and Exchange • Com- mission into the IOS affair.

Above: Stans. Below: Vesco.

Workers Press, Saturday May 12, 1973 PAGE 3

HARRY

R.

HALDEMAN

JOHN

D.

EHRLICHMAN

(48), (46), former domestic above left, former White House right, chief adviser to the president. affairs chief of staff. Under investiga- Under criminal investigation for tion by a federal grand jury for his role the White House 1n leading a conspiracy to cover up Admits he was present cover-up. White House involvement in the files from when the safe of Watergate burglary. Haldeman Hunt turned wiretapper were controlled a $350,000 fund used over to L. Patrick Grey, the then FBI chief. to keep the convicted burglars Ehrlichman admits that he : quiet. Hunt assigned Everett Howard Haldeman headed broad George Gordon Liddy to and Daniel campaign of sabotage aimed Ellsberg's investigate at He knew the Democrats. Many of the psychiatric record. the had broken other men implicated in the case two spies into office. reported to Haldeman, Ellsberg's psychiatrist's who was the powerful but kept this information secret.

considered most Ehrlichman * reportedly offered man in the White House next to

FBI

Nixon himself. Haldeman the directorship of the to re- the Pentagon Papers judge at the signed ten days ago under pres- height of the trial. sure from Nixon. GEORGE GORDON LIDDY (42), former White House aide and FBI man convicted as ringleader of the break-in at Watergate.

When he was caught in the burglary he was counsel to CREEP's finance commit- tee. Sentenced tentatively to six to 20 years' jail and fined $40,000 plus an indeterminate sentence for contempt.

EVERETTE HOWARD HUNT (54), former deputy chief, western hemisphere division of the CIA. Author of 42 thrillers. First conspirator to plead guilty at the trial.

With Liddy, he organized the raid on Ellsberg's files in 1971. At the time Hunt was a White House consultant. He has also admitted forging diplomatic cables to smear President Kennedy. With Hunt, in the break-in Liddy took part at Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office in 1971.

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Extract from the policy resolution adopted unanimously by 2,200 delegates and visitors at the All Trades Unions Fellow trade unionists, comrades and friends we address you with this urgent call to action: PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday May 12, 1973 Extract from the policy resolution adopted unanimously by 2,200 delegates and visitors at th Alliance conference, Birmingham, on October 22, 1972.

Fellow trade unionists, comrades and friends we address you with this urgent call to action: In its place must be elec- THE TORY government is relentlessly pursuing its plan for a con- ted Labour government frontation with sections of the working class. Each day new which is pledged by the mass workers are forced to become criminals— under Tory law—to action of the working class to defend their standard of living against government-inspired soaring implement socialist policies.

We 'pledged! to cost of living. " knoweng socialist that the pre- sent leaders of the Labour move- Large sections of these workers openly acknowledge that the only no intention of intro. Indeed, answer to their fight to maintain a decent standard of living is a the last analysis some of them will be prepared General Strike. That is, the creation of the industrial and political join a coali- tion government with the lories conditions which will force the government to resign.

to head off the working class.

But • it The democratic right as part of the fight to bring cut in welfare bene- strike and to organize in trade out, it is strong enough lown the Tories in the health service and with the traitors in its own spending Only the organized public unions. must achieved 5) The right to a higher stan- class can lead basis of exposing them in the fight for working dard of living. of the kind out nationalization, a crash alternalive socialist poncy.

crisis. Every right and gramme of expansion of ser- Central Committee of the unionists, but the profit gain won by the working class, sys- vices the the Socialist Labour League calls which causes the crisis. the working class every democratic right in Bri- low-paid, the sick and the aged upon to sup- The first step. must be to won because must undertaken as

BULL

propriate all the great fortunes unite working class against absolute priority. The working the of the organized strength thelson Feather leadership of the Tories present of the rich, close down the class and the the unions and the strike Labour govern- Stock Exchange, place a state ment must take immediate and weapon control over all movements of absolute responsibility for Here is the policy which the A Labour government must capital in and of the 'these victims of

OUL

the capitalist next labour government must immediately repeal the Indus- country. system. be forced to carry out. trial Relations Act. This fight must begin now by forcing the Nationalization of the basic 1) A Labour government must 7) The right to decent housing.

TUC to break off all relations industries and of all large com- immediately repeal the Indus- Decent housing is not a luxury; the panies, banks, building and in- Housing with government and trial Act, it is a necessity. People have Finance Act, Immigration Acts, mobilize the working class to surance societies will provide the basic decent the resources for destroy state control of wages.

unified Fair Trading Act and all wage accommodation plan to improve the living al rents tney control. After the repeal of all 4) The right to defend rights can afford. Nationalization of standards of the whole people Tory anti-working class mea- won in the past and change the handful of building mono- Workers' control of these, as sures, lnere must de legislation the system. All the changes in well as polies and building societies to implement the Charter the present of natonal- legal procedures made by the ized industries, will run them will provide the basis for Basic Rights, along the, follow- Tory government must be re- of lines. in the interests of the workers ing new pealed. All secret police and house building The disgraceful and consumers. 2) The right to work! Capital- MI5 organizations must be dis- problem the homeless ism demands mass unemploy- Again, the fight must banded and fully exposed. The begin the cities must be immediately ment. The right to a job must State control of wages secrets of the now. lorv solved by census and taking- daminis be guaranteed. This can only tration_in this sphere must be must be answered by the most of all unoccupied pIO done by breaking the grip published. All rights to assem- widespread fight for perty. of capitalist ownership on the bly, free speech and the Press creases to meet price rises economy. Employed and un- The international must be guaranteed. and improve standards. This 8) respon- emploved. must unite to insist means a fight to remove the sibilities of the working class. Labour government na- The begin on a struggle must working Tory government and change The class is interna- now. No closures, no sackings, tionalizing the main industries We fight the union leadership. tional. for the and banks, must be the policy of the trade workers' under restricted right of any worker control and without compen- Occupation fac 6) The right to health and wel- move naulonall tories threatened with closure, fare benefits. Every Tory gov- freely through the world. sallull. "There has been much so preaching over the last 20 years and after all this talk, there is country in the world that has a communist govern- ment.' O'Connor, Terry London Despite his doubts, Terry brewery worker agrees that a believes a new leadership must leadership must be built new be built in the trade union and the working class to labour take movement. power. "This Tory government have always been sus- taking line much tougher of all left-wing parties.

against the working class. They Up till they have been now, fear the power of the working isolated from the working class and the unions more than class.' ever. Terry (23), works for Watney 'If we do reach a stage where Mann and is a member of Jack of living the standard really Transport and General Jones' drops, there will be revolution.

Workers' Union. people don't lot ot young •When working He went on: know anything but boom, but think of people communism, they start having things most of them still think of the them, they taken away from Communist Party. will fight. "They like "The cost of living has gone look at papers Workers the Press or the up in the last three years since Worker" but I'm a "Socialist Tories the and ther Terry O'Connor—'A lot of young people don't know anything but boom, but see them as student papers put single and it has not man away from them, they will fight.

from and really me personally. universites anected the labour colleges. I've always been against the and trade union or two reforms. But in a period movement fight back? 'Workers left-wing Industrial Relations Act.

Once of crisis, they can only go one see Terry replied: It's because bourgeois and they attack the trade unions, way the ruling class. parties as pelly - LO they are suspicious of that's it.' they are reformists. In a period They've got no more reforms petty- Why won't the leaders of of boom, they will create one bourgeois parties. give. , at the All Trades Unions Withdraw the troops from Ireland. Unite the Irish and British working class to throw out the Lynch and Heath gov- ernments. Unite in the struggle for the Socialist United States of Europe, the only alternative to the Common Market plans for dictatorship. Withdraw all British troops from abroad • and disband the present standing army. Sign treaties with all ex- colonial countries for pro- grammes of equal trade and mutual assistance. Break from NATO and all ro- imperialist alliances.

the For the carrying out of such policies the SLL fights for the setting up of Councils of Action to lead the struggle against the Tory government in every area. These Councils unite trade unionists, tenants, unemployed, all political par- and tendencies of ties the working class (Labour Farty, Communist Party, SLL, IS, IMG, etc.) to fight against the main enemy, the Tory govern- ment. The SLL calls upon every socialist and class-conscious no. worker to consider this pro- and manifesto very gramme carefully, and to decide now to their inescapable re- take up sponsibilities. The building of the revolutionary party is the burning question now, not in some remote future. The SLL is determined to carry through its transformation into a re- volutionary party. JOIN the Socialist Labour League and help transform it into a revolutionary party.

Central Committee Socialist Labour League boom, but If they start having things taker 'A new leadership is neces- sary. The main thing for the party is to distinguish itself to the working class so that they look to it for leadership.'

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these leaders the Tories could not last' Mick O'Shea (24), is a young boilermaker at Scott-Lithgow shipyard on the lower Clyde: Like most young workers I suppose I didn't take much interest in politics apart from the fact I was against the Tories. But then I began to realize that politics affected me in everything I did. I started taking the Workers Press and I found this very interesting.

The articles that were most revealing were Marx's analysis of the economic crisis. I found that what they said were true in practice. The real need now is to build up a leadership in the trade unions. Particularly where ! come from, the leadership is really bankrupt. They are letting all our rights and conditions go. The lower Clyde, you know, is an arca of high unemployment. In the yards we used to have a ratio of five journeymen to every apprentice. This was a good ratio, since it kept standards high. But the district delegate and the district committee of the

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Society the scrapped ratio. They fell for the idea of train- ing about 300 to 400 appren- tices. These lads now are half- way through their training and a permanent pool of are unemployment. These lads are coming for- ward for jobs. In some cases they do men's jobs. All this is used to threaten the existing labour force in a subtle way.

Already the lower Clyde has a bad reputation. They call the upper Clyde 'red', while they call the lower reaches the 'yellow river, but it's only be- cause men are feared of un- employment. Most of the unions want peaceful co- existence - the management put on joint dances that shop stewards go to. It's like that.

When I read the Workers Press it made me see that what was happening all round me in the yard was part of a pattern and a plan by the employers and the Tories. I think if we don't bring the Tory govern- ment down will we move quickly towards a dictatorship.

The only way we can stop this is by building a revolu- give the tionary party to necessary leadership. I think a lot of people are aware of what they face from this government, but they shy away from it. It's too un- pleasant to think about. This is what I had all the time. I could see things going and at the back of my on mind I knew I was shirking my responsibility. But then again it's amazing

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how many people don't realize the implications of this govern- ment. I go to them and say 'Don't you realize that its illegal to go on strike for more money?' 'That's rubbish,' they say. But it's the truth. The Tories prey on this kind of ignorance. I think they are waiting for the Labour and trade union leaders to de- moralize the working class some more and then they will really attack. The revolutionary party Iems of backwardness i prob.

should tackle all these . the existing working class. The leadership is really tied to the capitalist system. Without the support of these leaders, the Tories could not last. The Communist Party are the other group workers con- sider. The UCS example put paid to them for me. Their leaders said there would be no men down the river, but 2,500 went down the river and there is another 300 down in June. It was the same over the rents issue. In Clydebank even the Communist Party council- lors voted for the Act when they could have condemned Labour for giving in, like any honest political group would.

I think the most important thing immediately is what is said in the Draft Programme for the Party-to bring all the sections of the working class together in a struggle for basic rights. This must be against the ing Tories, to bring the Tories Workers Press, Sa Mick O'Shea.—'Particularly where I com bankrupt. Above: TUC chiefs, Feather, leader, Airlie, Labour 'left, Wedgwood against UCS closure. 'Without these lea down. This is the only way forward. Take the unemployed-they might say to you: 'Don't bother me, what can I do I am un- : Press, Saturday May 12, 1973 PAGE 5 ere I come from, the leadership is really , Feather, McGarvey, Scanion with UCS Nedgwood Benn, and Reid on a march these leaders the Tories could not last.'

employed?' There is only one answer to that one-to stop being unemployed join the fight to get rid of the Tories.

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BY ROYSTON BULL

Ernie Roberts, well- known trade union 'left' and assistant secretary of the engineering union, has taken up, in a book published this week 'Workers' Con- called question of trol', the how socialism is to be achieved in Britain. , Saturday May 12, 1973 Roberts describes how the achieve working class can political power without revo- lution by adding more and more to their degree of con- trol over industry until the capitalists completely are undermined. 'At the present time, capi- talist control and workers' control are out of balance, the scales heavily with weighted in favour of capital- ism. 'But previous struggle has ensured that some measure of control exists even at this stage, and made every gain by the workers, every battle encroaches upon the won, power of the employers, and eventually increase the workers' power to the stage where they can make an open challenge to the capitalists. 'At this crisis point, one more victory for the working class would "tip the scales" 'Of course, the nearer the working fet class to the complete achievement the fiercer will the power, capitalist class fight, but still •gain by the workers every contributes towards the erod- ing of what Bert Ramelson calls "the framework of capitalism"' Roberts does not say what is to happen the state to machine, built up and per- fected over centuries by the capitalist class to keep state power in their hands. He does not say what the various branches of the police and the secret service will be this doing at moment the scales', organiza- 'tipping tions which devote the whole and of their vast time amounts of manpower and re- but sur- sources to nothing and harassment of veillance the working-class movement. Roberts offers not a word of explanation of what the should do working class standing about the army, and air force at the navy decisive moment. The armed forces are not only commanded by represen- tatives of the ruling class and trained to defend the status quo and act in the interests of protecting property in this country or abroad, but they special also receiving are in dealing with training strikes, riots and insurrections by workers. All he has to say on the 'The General subject 1S: Strike ... is not a way to Socialism in One Easy Step, useful in though it can be raising the political awareness of the working class. 'Its limitations are clear, however. moderately Any successful strike of employees in the public sector-notably the miners and the dustmen —brings in its wake the threat of "using troops" in order to "avoid a break-down in essen- tial services". 'How much more useful the be,' armed forces would Roberts continues, 'during a Strike General when they could be used not only as strike-breakers but also as a disciplinary against measure the strikers.' And that is it. Roberts runs fast that he leaves away so the question just dangling in mid-air. He adds some comments about how the Chinese work- ers in the 1925-1927 revolu- tion were beaten by the army 'had because they allowed control of the army to remain in the hands of a bourgeois élite'; quotes Mark Twain on a soldier being a blind killing machine; and ventures an opinion that it seems that "winning over the army" in reality means winning over the officers'. Behind this naive misunder- standing lies something a bit more worthy of debate. For heart of Roberts' at the muddle-headedness lies hos- tility to theory, and the most narrow petty-bourgeois philis- tinism. Roberts accuses Lenin of 'Lenin implies, élitism. "What is to be Done?", that the - bourgeois intelligentsia are a unifying factor in a revolutionary party since they provide the necessary breadth of outlook and the ability to "all recognize and respond to of cases tyranny-no matter what class is affected" 'The trade union movement is so self-absorbed that it is equipped teach the not "every workers observe to social class in all the other manifestations of its intellec- ethical and political life" tual, whereas the bourgeoisie with the political party, with their and educational cultural sdvantages, are well able to do Lenin was saying no such thing, neither in these quota- tions nor elsewhere. The point he was making was an entirely different one; that the political work of the revolutionary party could not advance if it was restricted to purely econ- omic questions affecting work- ers and did not take up a many-sided exposure of all the crimes of the Tsarist auto- cracy. Just giving the quotation in the point ade- full explains quately enough: The German party is espec- ially strengthening its position and spreading its influence thanks precisely to the untir- ing energy with which it is of conducting campaign a political exposure. 'Working-class conscious- be genuinely ness cannot political consciousness unless are trained to the workers respond to all cases, without exception, of tyranny, oppres- sion, violence and abuse, no matter what class is affected.

Moreover, to respond from a Social-Democratic [i.e. Marx- ist], and not from any other point of view. 'The consciousness of the masses of the workers cannot be genuine class consciousness unless the workers learn to observe from concrete, and above all from topical (cur- rent), political facts and events, social and other class every all the manifestations of the intellectual, ethical and politi- cal life of these classes; unless they learn to apply in prac- tice the materialist analysis and the materialist estimate of all aspects of the life and activity of all classes, strata and groups of the population.

'Those who concentrate the attention, observation and consciousness of the working exclusively, even class or mainly, upon itself alone are Social-Democrats [Marx- not ists].' The working class must make the revolution. But it must make it on behalf of all the oppressed people. This is vastly different from Roberts believed that Lenin sayıng only the intellectuals under- Lenin in 1918. Roberts accuses him of elitism. Lenin himself had some particularly uncomplimen- lary things to say about similar attacks in his own day. stood the all-round political struggle. He goes even further: 'The theory of "the élite of exper- tise" is a dangerous one for the working class. The work- ers must not believe that they need an élite to think on their behalf, otherwise they get saddled with petty-bourgeois intellectual "experts" , who are a dead-weight for the work- ing class to carry. 'Marxism has been expoun- ded Marx himself, by by Engels, Lenin, Mao and others; the proliferation of an élite breed of intellectuals to interpret their is theories reminiscent of the establish- ment of clergymen to interpret the bible — the greater the number of interpreters, the more plentiful the points of disagreement, and so the more schisms and sects and irrecon- cilable factions. 'In order to think like a revolutionary, you have first to act like Roberts con- one, tinues, 'and that does not dividing the working mean class against itself, but work- ing for its unity! This is a gross worship of Roberts' hostility spontaneity. to analysing theoretical ques- Workers Press, Saturda! tions springs not out of a desire to 'think and act like a revolutionary' but the oppo- site, out of a desire not to have to budge from the trade- unionist reformist swamp he has spent his life in. The 'unity' he proposes, as against, presumably, the splits caused theoretical by differ- ences, is the same 'unity' the Stalinists of the Communist Party put forward which set- theoretical differences with a bullet and 'united' the working class with the middle class the open way to fascism in the 1930s. Today, 'unity' means covering up for 'left' union leaders like Scanlon and Jones while they to Downing Street for go talks on how to hold down wages. The only other quote Roberts offers to back up his slander about Marx and Lenin's 'élitism' is the follow- 'What is ing from be to done?': 'The history of all countries shows that the working class, exclusively by its own effort, is able to develop trade only union consciousness, i.e.

the conviction that it is necessary to combine in unions, fight the employers and strive to com- pel the government to pass labour legislation, necessary etc. 'The theory of socialism, however, of the grew out philosophic, historical and economic theories that were elaborated by the educated representatives of the proper- tied classes, by intellectuals.

According to their social status, the founders of modern scientific socialism, Marx and Engels, themselves belonged to the bourgeois intelligentsia.'

These are historical facts. Roberts does not that he say disagrees with any of them. What he says is: 'While agreeing with Lenin's proposition, that members of other classes-the intellectuals and the bourgeoisie-must be a part of the workers' strug- gle, I cannot however sub- scribe to his reasons for in- cluding them.' Once again, the confusion is entirely of Roberts' own mak- ing.

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The point about socialist theory being brought into the workers' movement has noth- ing whatsoever to do with an intellectual élite. Elsewhere in 'What is to be Done?', Lenin wrote: conscious- 'Class political ness can be brought to the workers without, only from that is. only from outside of the economic struggle, from outside of the sphere of rela- between tions workers and employers. 'The sphere from which alone it is possible to obtain this knowledge is the sphere of relationships between all the classes and strata and the state and the government, the sphere of the inter-relations between all the classes.'

Elsewhere, talking about the need to concentrate all secret functions in the hands of as small a number of professional revolutionaries possible. as Lenin says: "This does not mean that the latter will "do the thinking for all" and that the crowd will not take an active part in the movement.

'On the contrary, the crowd will advance from its ranks in- sional revolutionarice, profes- creasing numbers Exactly the of opposite what Roberts is putting for- as the Leninist view. ward But this kind of attack is not new. Lenin himself had particularly uncompli- some mentary things to say about attacks in his own similar day: smile 'The Germans only with contempt at these dema- gogic attempts to set "crowd" against the "leaders" to arouse bad and ambitious instincts in the former, and to kers Press, Saturday May 12, 1973 PAGE 7 rob the movement of its solid- and stability by under- ity mining the confidence of the masses in their "dozen wise men" 'Political thinking is al- ready sufficiently developed among the Germans, and they have sufficient accumulated political experience to under- stand that without the "dozen" tried and talented leaders (and talented men are not born by the hundred), pro- fessionaly trained, schooled by long experience and working in perfect harmony, no class in modern society can wage a determined struggle. The Germans too have had demagogues in their ranks who "hundred have flattered the fools", exalted them above the "dozen wise men" the of and spurred • have masses, them on to reckless "revolu- tionary" action and sown dis- firm and towards trust the steadfast leaders ... 'Our wiseacres, at a time when Russian Social-Demo- cracy [Marxism] is passing through a crisis entirely due to the lack of sufficient num- bers of trained, developed and experienced leaders to guide the spontaneously awakening masses, cry out with the pro- fundity of fools: "it is a bad thing when the movement does not proceed from the rank and file"? Continuing the criticism of those who were opposed to the building of a disciplined Lenin revolutionary party, went on: • "A committee of students is is not stable." no good, it Quite true. But the conclusion to be drawn from this is that we must have a committee of revolutionaries professional and it does not matter whether a student or a worker is cap- of becoming able a profes- sional revolutionary. 'The conclusion you draw, however, is that the working- be class movement must not pushed on from outside.' He went on: There has never been too much of such "pushing on from outside"; on the contrary, so far there has been too little, all too little of it in our movement, for we have been stewing too assiduously in our own juice; we have bowed far too slav- ishly to the elementary "econ- omic struggle of the workers against the employers and the government" 'We professional revolution- aries must and will make it our business to engage in this kind of "pushing" a hundred times more forcibly than we have done hitherto. 'But the very fact that you select so despicable a phrase as "pushing on from outside" - a phrase which cannot but rouse in the workers (at least in the workers who are as un- enlightened as you yourselves) a sense of distrust towards all who bring them political knowledge and revolutionary Q4 experience from outside, and rouse in them an instinctive desire to resist all such people —proves that you are dema- gogues, and demagogues are the worst enemies of the working class.' Lenin states categorically that within the revolutionary 'all distinctions as be- party, intellec. tween workers and tuals must be utterly oblitera- ted. Contrast with this tho Roberts patronizing wav blames the working class for the failures of the labour and trade union leadership, of which Roberts is part. 'The political education of the working class has never been of such a high standard as to enable a General Strike to be successful. The apparent strength of "them"-the em- ployers, the government-has always seemed too great for a working class not yet con- scious of its own strength.'

There is nothing quite like union sight of a trade the the working leader blaming backward- ciass for his nwn ness and cowardice.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday May A series by Bernard Franks Part eleven In May 1920 the John Lewis strike broke out. John Lewis, who was 84, would deduct from the wages of van boys the farthing left off cus- P. C. Hofiman in his book on shopworkers conditions quotes one ex employee: 'He [Lewis] would take a dislike to a salesman or woman for no reason at all and would go up to him or her and ask one or two questions about their . length of service with the firm, and then would say: "You have been here too long. Go to the counting, house and get your money.

Lewis had signed a wage agreement and then went back on it, sacking staff and taking on new assistants who had to sign an agreement not to join a union. Four hundred and fifty workers came out (370 were union members). Lewis addressed a com- munication to 'our young men and maidens' which in- cluded the comment 'What is it then that has caused this unhealthy atmosphere? It is the vapourings of the accursed trade unionists. Their voca- tion is to make mischief or otherwise lead idle lives at your expense by drawing from that might be you money saved for better purposes... Massive support came in, including £300 from Harrods' £150 from dress- workers, makers and £300 from work- ers at the Army & Navy Stores. All handling of goods was blacked by railway and vehicle workers. was called off The strike by the Staff Disputes Com- mittee after six weeks and all the staff found jobs elsewhere when Lewis still refused to receive a deputation. It was Lewis's son Spedan who be- gan the so-called John Lewis Partnership in 1928. important strike Another was at Wolverhampton in July 1920 where 100 shop assistants at Messrs Beatties, Victoria Street, struck against the firm's ultimatum to leave the union. Beatties published a notice in the local Press which stated: 'About the lock-out at We wish to inform Beatties. the public that union mem- bers of our staff were dis- missed because we decline to recognize the union.' Meetings and demonstra- tions were held, including one of 15,000 people. Police tried, but failed, to stop picketing.

After 16 weeks the strike was called off, the workers taking other jobs rather than go back.

Apart from living-in ac- tions, there were 58 other strikes from 1914 to the end of 1920. Very shortly the gains were to be savagely taken back.

Mass unemployment, wage- sweated labour cutting and brought back by em- were with the economic ployers crisis of 1920. The Tory government launched a ruthless attack on the standard of living of the The union working class. leaders who had lagged be- workers in the hind the struggles for economic de- mands and political action were not the people to be urday May 12, 1973 question capitalism's right to rule. Now they systematically be- trayed their members to the employers new onslaught. The communist newly-formed movement was nowhere strong enough to give a lead.

Workers continued to fight and strike, but now it was in defence of jobs and against massive wage-cuts. In grocery retail alone, pay fell from 60s 6d in 1926 to 45s 6d in 1936. The 1930s saw the arrival of the cut-price shops, selling cheaply concocted food and goods to the poor and em- ploying young people as cheap labour to keep down the costs.

A similar system of 'cheapies' had already developed in the Hoffman gives an instance girl receiv- of an 18-year-old ing 12s for a 712-hour week.

But where had the great potential of the post-war period gone? The 1920 and later the 1926 General Strike situation showed that without a truly tried and tested revo- lutionary working-class lead- ership, ready a time at when a leap forward in revo- lutionary consciousness and action is required to change the system, then even the mighty, militant power of a industrial labour move- mass can be overcome by ment capitalism and pitched into • decades of chronic unemploy.

and impoverished ment existence. For all their profits, the great distributive groups and companies do not exist separately from the crisis of capitalism.

Already they are con- cerned about 'over capa- city'-the danger of more and more selling space with fewer and fewer sales per square foot. Though capitalists demand the utmost regimentation and of workers and regulation products within each shop and factory, the operation of in- is sheer anarchy. dustry The biggest groups vie with each other in constructing and piling larger stores up products on the shelves. The supermarkets and the huge superstores backed with mechanized massive their warehousing systems cost millions of pounds to con- struct and require millions a week turnover in order to pay their way. On the face of it the lead- ing companies are in a strong position with profits rising every year. But this is not the whole story. Relative to what is spent, the return tends to get smaller and smaller.

In this situation the destruc- tion uf all local competition becomes a dire necessity.

Independent shops and en- tire chains are bought up to be closed down and the sites sold off only to traders who will not be competing with the products of the parent firm. Much of the ruthless prun- ing and takeover strategy by major groups in recent months was in preparation for Com- mon Market entry. Confronted by open trade war with Japan and the US this nervous alliance European capitalists survives only in its desire to defend and extend its regime of ex- ploitation. To this end its single unit- ing objective is the smashing of the European working class. Britain, the retailing In groups are in favour of the restrict Tory measures to wages of workers. This holds down their own wage costs.

Any loss of spending power by urban workers in general is to be made up from the new stores catering for the well-to-do, and from higher prices. The powerful association of the retall giants, The Retail Consortium, held discussions with Heath over the setting up of Phase Two of the state pay laws and will play a major part in raising prices in line

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The Free Communica- tions Group of Press and television workers will shortly communicate no more. Its next pro- nouncement is likely to be its swan song. But just as throughout its four-year existence it could never make up its mind what it was cannot quite decide how it should die, or for what rea- son. A special general meeting was held on January 28 to debate a Council proposal that the Group be wound up. En- thusiasm had been dropping, the money from the Rowntree Trust had run out, and the FCG still had not decided exactly what it was supposed to be doing to radicalize the media. But the special meeting voted against the Council's proposal. Instead, it elected itself a new Emergency Coun- cil of six to act as temporary caretaker, including 'Observer' Neal Ascherson who man started it all, TV producer and Labour MP Phillip Whitehead, and Bill Webb of the Man- chester 'Guardian'. A notice was put out. 'This is no time for the FCG to "lie down and die". We go on, then, but you have to decide the basis of future operations.'

Two alternatives were pro- posed for the future form of the FCG. They were: • That the files and remain- ing money should be held by a small body to be elected at the next meeting, for support- ing projects put forward by the present members; that subscriptions should cease: and that the two limited com- panies should be wound up.

• That the present situation with an Emergency Council should continue, on the basis of regular general meetings.

These were to be debated at a further SGM on Saturday March 31, when the Emer- gency Council would also re- port on current and proposed FCG projects. The notice also reported that the SGM had decided to 'lodge formally with the IBA Broadcasting [Independent an expression of Authority] group's dismay at the the IBA's conduct in banning pro- grammes it has not seen and inadequate account giving an of its decisions'. This was typical reformist, protest-politics. Tl FCG also publishes the odd pamphlet, a magazine called 'Open Secret' exposure stories with about the evils of the establishment of the media, and control shorter bulletins of small-scale difficulties and scandals in the

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The celebration of recent William Shakespeare's birth- day at Stratford upon Avon recalls the 1926 commemora- tion when — in error — an invitation to attend was sent to the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires in London. The General Strike was im- minent, the Russian Revolu- tion was fresh in the memory and the Zinoviev letter for- gery had terrified the middle class only two years before.

When the news leaked out 'reds' were that the dreaded going to be there, the Strat- ford Shakespeare Club held protest meetings, the Soviet summoned officials were to the Foreign Office and advised to attend because of not 'possible incidents' and the television and Press industries.

One of the Group agreed to make known to the IBA the substance of this protest, which was about the banning of the World in Action pro- gramme on John Poulson the bankrupt Pontefract architect.

The Saturday March 31 spe- cial meeting was in fact held on Sunday March 30 (!) accor- ding to a notice later circu- lated about it. The traumatic events of that meeting pos- sibly contributed to the con- fusion about what day it was held on. The meeting was first of all told that the offices in Craven Street, Löndon, had now been vacated, the contents stored away, and the Ansaphone con- tract and machines were being handed over to 'Spare Rib' magazine. Above: 'Observer' man Ascherson The notice reported: "The future of the FCG was dis- isexactly cussed, [which : the organization began where four years earlier and never left off], and information on current projects given, such as news on the situation with Granada's Poulson programme and the offer of an edition of "Twentieth the magazine Century" for the FCG's use.'

It went on: 'A vote on the two alternative motions, as printed in the last handout, was taken and resulted in a 6/6 draw with a few absten- tions (it was a poorly attended meeting.)' The FCG is dead, but it still can't lie down. After more discussion, the tew present passea an amen- ded version of the first motion, adding the words 'if necessary' to the proposal to wind up the companies, and deciding to inform the membership of the decision. In place of the six- man Emergency • Council, six 'Trustees' [in inverted com- mas! were elected, which in- cluded four new old faces.

The new projects considered were, in fact, all extremely projects. They were handbook on how to use the for activists, strikers, media .; 'some kind of edition of "Open Secret", summariz- position of the com- ing the munications industry at the present time, including an Tory Press howled for blood.

- The mayor and town clerk made a special trip to London to urge the Russians to stay because of away - again 'possible incidents' But the Russians insisted on attending. And the dire warn- ings of 'incidents' had an un- expected outcome. Meetings of trade unionists in nearby Birmingham decided that they would travel in force to Stratford on the day to protect the Soviet flag and delegation. And so they did.

large red flag When the with the hammer and sickle emblem was unfurled, the workers applauded while the burghers of Stratford trem- bled. Then, as the procession moved off to Shakespeare's grave, the workers formed a guard around the Soviet ban- ner and delegation. There were no 'incidents'.

But that was 47 years ago.

Today no respectable bour- function is complete geois without its sleek, well-fed 'Soviet' representative — who would be the first to com- plain if worker-guards showed up. Workers Press, Saturday May 12, 1973 PAGE 9

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JACK JONES and the Finance and General Pur- Committee of the poses Transport and General Wor- kers' Union have declared their 'support' for Wedgwood Benn who is in the middle of a row with Labour Shadow Cabinet colleagues for threatening to re-nationalize Rolls-Royce Motors without compensation. But how does this square with Jones' big drive to get workers to take up positions management and on super- visory boards of companies to help the capitalists run their affairs? Motion Jones has a motion down at his union's biennial conference in July supporting steps 'to ex- tend the participation by mem bers in the control of their wages and conditions, and of industry in general'. The answer is that it doesn't square at all. Co-partnership in industry is a corporatist fraud which Jones is determined to peddle throughout the trade union movement as an alternative to fighting the class struggle. Completely consciously, Jones workers to is trying to get ignore the revolutionary impli- cations of the all-out Tory offensive on basic democratic rights. He knows that the Tories' use of the law courts and the police to take away the right to free collective-bargaining, to severely the THE 'HITLER' film row has again raised the question of a virtual circuit monopoly by Rank and ABC. Doncaster's Labour MP Harold Walker, shadow spokesman on unem- ployment, is to ask Home Secretary Mr Robert Carr to refer the matter to the Mono- polies Commission. Yesterday the Rank Organi- zation said it is to show 'Hitler the last Ten Days'. It was offered to the company after ABC's Mr. Bernard Delfont turned it down as a 'very, very poor film. He had also claimed the film made Hitler a 'hero'. Mr Walker described Mr CRAWLEY: Monday May 14, Council for Social Service Hall, Station Road. 'Stalinism and Struggle to defend demo- cratic rights'. 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, p.m. Watford Trade Union Hall, 8 near Watford Junction Station.

'Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights.

CAMDEN: Tuesday May 15, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert', Whartedale 'Force Road, Kings Cross. the TUC to break off talks with the Tories'. PADDINGTON: Tuesday May 15, 8 p.m. Prince of Wales, cnr Harrow Road/Great Western Road. 'The trades unions and the Tory government'. TOOTING: Tuesday May 15, 8 Tooting Tooting p.m. Baths, 'Build the Broadway, SW17. Revolutionary Party! SLOUGH: Wednesday May 16, 8 CR p.m. Community Centre, Farn- ham Road. 'Forward to the Revolutionary Party.' limit the right to picket, and to curtail trade union rights, such as the closed shop, are part of a calculated campaign to drive back the working class and cut its standard of living. Jones knows that this course of action cannot but end sooner or later in an all-out class con- frontation between the trade unions and the Tory government.

Jones, engineers' president, Hugh Scanlon, and all the rest of the labour and trade union bureaucracy - left, right, and Stalinist - are determined to drift towards open avoid this class conflict at all costs.

that this will neces- Knowing sitate coming to some kind of agreement with the Tories and helping the employing class to patch things up, the reformists and 'lefts' are eager to seize on anything that will take attention away from this craven collabor- ation. Stance Hence the quickness to strike a 'left' pose on the Rolls-Royce issue and the loud trumpetings about industrial democracy.

While side the the one on trade union leaders sign Phase Two pay deals, refuse to go to the aid of the hospital workers Delfont's action as 'censorship': It is not for people like Mr Delfont impose their to opinions and prejudices cinema-goers. Parliament would not allow the Home Secretary to exercise the same kind of that Mr Delfont is power wielding' The MGM film, with Sir Alec Guinness in the title role, is just part of a spate of books, films, documentaries and plays in a virtual Hitler industry- an indicative interest during the deepening economic crisis.

SOUTHALL: Wednesday May 16, 8 p.m. Southall Library, Osterley Road. Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights.'

WALTHAMSTOW:

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

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

WOOLWICH: Wednesday May 16, 8 8 p.m. The Castle, Powis Street, 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights.' DUNDEE: Thursday, May 17, 7.30 p.m. YMCA, Constitution Road.

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

BASILDON: Thursday May 17, 8 Barnstaple Community gle to defend democratic rights.' CROYDON: Thursday May 17, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road, Croydon. 'Forward to the Revolutionary Party: who wanted to fight the pay laws, and prepare for new sell- outs to Heath at the next Down- ing Street talks, on the other side they put out a lot more 'left' talk to try to throw up a smokescreen. But what does the bold stance on Rolls-Royce in amount to practice? Very little. Gesture In the first place, the next Labour government is, they cal- culate, a long way away. Who is going to remember who said what about such a relatively small issue as Rolls - Royce Motors when such a momentous event is reached of the fall of the Tory government in the mid- dle of a gigantic economic crisis.

But , secondly, and far more revealingly, the statement is an empty gesture anyway as it stands. Because the important thing now is not what Benn said, which was after all only in line with Labour Party policy, but repudiation immediately afterwards of the 'no compen- sation' threat by the Shadow Cabinet. 'It was not the policy of the Labour Party to dispossess share- holders in the RR automobile THREE TRAPPED men Seafield colliery, Kirkcaldy, Fife, were assumed dead early yesterday morning some 12 hours after a roof fall 1,600 feet beneath the Firth of Forth. A National Coal Board Press Officer announced that although two of the three men had been able to talk to rescuers early in the rescue operation, they must be assumed dead be- FELTHAM: Thursday May 17, 8 Shoes, Feit- p.m. 'Three Horse ham High Street. 'Stalinism and struggle cratic rights, lo defend demo- ACTON: Monday May 21, 8 p.m.

'Six Bells, TUC to High Street, W3. 'Force break off the talks with the Tories'. LEWISHAM: Monday May 21, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, 'Stalinism and New Cross Road. the struggle to defend demo- cratic rights'. BATTERSEA: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. 'Nags Head', cnr Wands- worth Road/North Street. The economic crisis and the rising cost of living'. DAGENHAM: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue. 'The inflationary crisis and the rising cost of liv- ing' TOTTENHAM: Tuesday May 22, 17, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', High Road, nr White Hart Lane.

HACKNEY: Wednesday May 23, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central Hall, Mare Street. Build the Revolutionary Party'. LUTON: Tuesday May 24, 8 p.m.

Recreation centre, Old Bedford Road. 'Force the TUC to break off talks with the Tories' , 8 ABINGDON: Tuesday May 22, 8 p.m. Above New Top Taxis, Ock Street. 'Stalinism and the strug- gle to defend democratic rights.

Workers Press, Sati compensation, without sector Wilson made clear. 'And on this more important matter Jones had nothing to say.

All talk of socialist policies from a future Labour govern- ment is meaningless chatter with- out a clear understanding of how the reformist leaders of the labour movement must be resolutely combated at every turn and eventually exposed in the fight and driven from the labour movement. Not only is Jones not in favour of such a struggle for principles; he will be very hostile to it.

Because Jones is as likely as anyone to be the first to be cleared out following such a campaign. Socialism As a motion from a transport drivers' branch to the same T&GWU conference states: "There can be no true control in industry by the working class except under a socialist system where the means of production and the profit ensuing therefrom are owned by the people as a whole; therefore, any other con- cept in our ranks can only be a diversion from the main struggle.' cause there had been no res- the ponse since then trom location where their voices had been heard. An NCB spokesman said earlier yesterday that there appeared to be no danger from gas or water and ventilation in the blocked face was understood to be good.

It was also reported that steel supports might have formed a cage for the trapped men.

The three presumed dead are James Comrie (49), Thomas Kil- patrick (38), and Angus Guthrie (20). Two more miners were brought Robert out dead. They were Henderson (59) and James Holmes (53). Three men rescued after other miners tore at the fall with their bare hands were David Dickson (48), Edward Downs (57) and James Todd (30). David Dickson was freed by large rocks as rescuers moving as a yard across. He was able to give the location of the other trapped men. A ninth man, James McCartney in the fall (26), was also hurt taken to hospital. and The roof fall took place in the D22 Dynart main coal face at 6.50 p.m. on Thursday. The col- lapse was 180 feet long by four and a half feet high and 120 feet wide. Twenty-two workmen and officials were on the coal face at the time. The working height was five feet on a gradient of 1 to 1.5. Shearing-mechanical cutting- taking place when the fall was occurred. Exhausted miners and relatives of the trapped men waited . all night in the pit canteen adjoin- ing the first aid room. Mr John Gibb, NCB Production Manager for the Fife area, said that 100 rescuers had taken 'calculated risks' by crawling over fallen debris: under an un- supported roof. There was 'very, very much danger to life in the rescue operation', he said The body of James Comrie was found by a recovery team more than 17 hours after the fall.

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SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Wednesday May 16 Dialectical Materialism- a Marxist theory of knowledge Wednesday May 23 Theory and Practice of Marxism Wednesday May 30 Role of the revolutionary party at St David's Church Hall, Church Street, Merthyr 7.30 p.m. Jarrow Given by Cliff Slaughter SLL Central Committee member Civic Hall, Jarrow 7.30 p.m. Mondays May 14 and 21 The • Socialist Revolution In Britain : 2. The roots of capitalist crisis: Marxism and the contradictions of capitalism. Britain and the world crisis. 3. The state and revolution. in Reformism and revolution Britain. The fight for democratic rights today means preparing for working-class power. Basic reading : Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party.

Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

Problems of the British Revolu- tion (Trotsky). Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth Inter- national, Communist Manifesto.

All Trades Unions

TEACHERS' MEETING

The way forward after the NUT conference Thursday, May 24, 7.30 p.m.

Conway Small Hall. Red Lion Square, Holborn (admission 10p)

HOSPITAL WORKERS'

MEETING

Hospital workers and the fight against the Tory government Tuesday May 29, 7.30 p.m.

Norfolk Room Caxton Hall, Caxton street, London swi (admission 10p)

BUILDING WORKERS'

MEETING

TUC must break off talks with Tories! Build revolutionary party!

Wednesday, May 30, 7.30 p.m. Tudor Room Caris": tall. Can.u: S'eet, London SW1 (admission 10p)

POSTAL WORKERS'

MEETING

Break off secret talks with the Tories! Force the Tories to resign!

Sunday, June 3, 10.30 a.m.

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Coventry toolroom fight goes on PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday May A MASS meeting of 200 Coventry GEC toolmakers yes- decided continue terday to their six-week-old strike. They will not meet again until two weeks time. Financial levies in support of the strikers from other toolroom workers are beginning to come in.

The strike which is over the method of payment of a £2.88 a week offer by the company has ELECTRICIANS at Ford's Hale- wood transmission factory struck yesterday over pay they claim is due to them for reporting for work on May Day. The 40 men, who say they reported in line instructions from their with union leaders, but were turned away by pickets, want a nominal two hours' payment. ANDREW ELLSMORE (27) yes- terday denied at the Old Bailey having plotted with Pauline Con- roy and others to have hirearms Mr Michael June. illegally last said Mansfield, for Ellsmore, reference would be made to the recent so-called 'Angry Brigade' trial and to 'certain Irish con- nections'. The prosecution said Ellsmore had approached a man called Tierney, who was a police informer and who posed on police instructions as an agent of people who could sell fire- arms. P AND O shipping group has Falmouth threatened to close repair yard, killing 1,700 jobs, unless the unions knuckle under to stringent conditions, including the sacrifice of 300 men's liveli- hoods. In a fierce attack on productivity' alleged "low and 'lack of co-operation between and workpeople' management the company has told union rep- resentatives they must negotiate seriously on its terms by next Wednesday, May 16. The alter- native to such talks, says yard chairman D. E. Turnbull, is closure. AN UNPRECEDENTED migration and office work into the rural area and transport of grain and agricult the Soviet Communist Party. Som were bought from capitalist count astrous shortfall. While blamed onto bad climatic conditions, it was obvious that an important reason for the de- ficit lay in a breakdown in organization and sheer mis- management. Central Committee The new directive calls on the responsible organizations to make better preparations this time. Orders have been given for an increase of farm in the production vehicles, grain and rice harvesters and other mechanical equipment.

Emphasis is laid on the need to have available stocks of spare parts, tyres, oil and -petrol, lack of which caused big grain losses last year. In addition orders have gone out for transport and stor- age facilities to be improved.

Personnel brought in to assist agriculture will be paid 75 per cent of their normal wage and have to make up the rest will All Trades Unions Alliance Meeting Whar next after the miners' ballot ? The fight against the Tory government

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Thursday May 17, 8 p.m. Sagar Street Rooms Speaker: G. Healy (SLL national secretary) rday May 12, 1973 now noticeably hardened. This is in spite of a Pay Board statement saying that payment of the ofter by stepped monthly increments which the toolmakers are demanding would contravene a clause in Phase Two of the pay laws. Some strikers deny such con- tradiction. Others say: 'As it is AUEW official policy not to what the accept the pay laws, Pay Board said is irrelevant.'

FORMER US Attorney- General John Mitchell instructed his agents to obtain 'blackmail' infor- mation on one of the leading Democratic can- didates during the last yesterday. This latest revelation, com- ing of the heels hard on Mitchell's indictment for lying to the Watergate grand jury, is creating panic among the re- Nixon aides in the maining White House. They fear that Mitchell, who campaign for Pre- headed the sident Nixon's re-election, may be forced to disgorge further involving White guilty secrets House personnel wło have so far escaped involvement in the affair. nigration of workers from industry ural areas to deal with the harvest agricultural products is planned by rty. Some 14 million tons of grain ist countries after last year's dis- from bonus earnings according to productivity. Powers have been given to the Councils of Ministers Union Republics to mobilize the able-bodied population from towns and villages for agricul- tural work. The latest directive is a gamble which in- tremendous dicates the depth of the economic crisis provoked by its policy ot 'socialism in one country.

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Against the bureaucracy's wishes, that Congress threw out: do-nothing

TUC:

oficial document and was only preven- ted from calling for a General Strike by the treacherous inter-" vention of Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon with their one-day pro- strike motion, plus test co- ordinated action in support of individual unions in struggle.

was be- of the hospital workers, working class began to take stock of the situation. No single section of workers on their own can defeat this government. Nothing short of a General Strike to create the necessary industrial and political conditions to force the government's resig- nation can do anything about the legal curbs on pay. ¡'he strike is affecting company production. In some instances the firm is stockpiling components months in advance of schedule to avoid lay ofis. Convenors' reports from the factory show that there is now widespread waiting time, but so far there have been no lay offs. The strikers feel that this is deliberate company policy order to try to undermine their confidence. James McCord (I.) convicted Watergate An official of the Justice Department, which Mitchell him- self headed until spring last year, said the former Attorney-General has 'much, much, much more to tell' about the Nixon scandal.

'The full horror stories about Watergate have yet to be told,' he said. Mitchell and former Commerce Maurice Secretary Stans have been indicted on six each of making false counts declarations. The charges relate to the part played by the two cabinet officers in the placing of a secret $200,000 cash donation Republican to campaign funds from Robert •L.

Vesco. Vesco is an offshore financial operator currently being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for spiriting $224m funds of Investors the from Overseas Services, which once belonged to Bernard Cornfeld.

The clear implication is that Stans accepted a Mitchell and vast bribe from Vesco in return for promising to protect him from the SEC inquest. The charge against them amounts to perjury, carries the same legal penalties, but is far easier to prove.

The charges against both men relate to their testimony before the Federal Grand Jury investi- the Watergate gating affair. Mitchell has claimed in the past Having no confidence that the reformist leadership of the trade union and labour movement can carry this through, workers have decided to watch and wait.

There is no acceptance of the state control of wages and noth- ing but hostility towards the Tory government. Everything is building up to- wards an almighty explosion in the autumn when the increase in the cost of living and the other pressures of the capitalist crisis reach boiling point. A likely development then is workers a showdown between who want to fight back against the Tory attacks on their basic rights and the union leaders who wish to surrender. Sectors which have now set- tled include gasmen, hospital workers, civil servants, dockers, miners, teachers, post office workers, nurses, railwaymen, and government industrial workers.

MAY FUND

Ted Smith, a toolroom shop

MAKE A FIGHT

told the meeting: steward, •We have been advised that it

GEC

which was the company

THIS WEEKEND

the main instigator among the Coventry employers to force termination of the through the

THE

PACE

has really begun to and district toolroom agreement urge you all, We dear slacken, replace it with plant-by-plant to don't let our fight for readers, bargaining. Fund this month's begin to 'But as this strike shows, GEC weaken. Make a special effort prepared to negotiate. Its is not this weekend and pull our total attitude is take it or leave it.'

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WEEKEND DEMOS

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Five Solidarity Committee is holding today. march in London Speakers Corner 'Leaving at will the demonstration p.m. Fields. march . to Lincoln's Inn The Stoke Newington Five, all serving savage sentences for allegedly conspiring to cause explosions are: Barker Hilary John (24), Mendelson Creek (23), Anna (24) and James Greenfield. All are serving ten-year sentences Watergate burglar blows gaff on Mitchell.

the following explosions at that he is merely 'an innocent Barnet home of Robert Carr, by-stander who got shot in the Secretary in January the Home leg'. 1971. The latest details about Mit- The fifth prisoner, Jake Pres- the and chell's role in spy for 15 years cott, was gaoled i sabotage campaign against the an earlier 'conspiracy to on Democrats the last election charge. at explosion' cause an were revealed yesterday by James ARAB and Iranian students are McCord Watergate a convicted marching from Speakers Corner, burglar in testimony to a Wash- Hyde Park, to the Iranian em- ington civil court. bassy in Kensington at 2.30 this Mitchell, McCord said, wanted afternoon to protest against the information (unnamed) Shah's on Intervention in military candidate which would have Dhofar. Iranian troops have re- linked him to racketeering. In cently joined British and Pakistan the event the investigator is hoist mercenaries in this Arabian Gulf with his own petard. princedom in order to shore up the Sultan and protect imperial- Who's who in the Watergate scandal p. 3. ist oil interests. Young Socialists Students Society Supplementary cash grants now!

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