Workers Press no. 1072

workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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FROM ALEX

MITCHELL

Tokyo All parliamentary proceedings are being boy- cotted by the Opposition and the General Council of Trade Unions, the TUC of the public service unions, will hold a series of one-day General Strikes starting Friday. Today tens of thousands of trade unionists, labourers and students will demonstrate through Tokyo con- verging on the Diet (parliament) late this afternoon.

The government has ordered a full-scale alert by the riot police whose reputation for brutality against de- monstrators is notorious internationally.

Behind the political and industrial clash with Tanaka's Liberal Democratic Party is the Cabinet decision to force changes in the electoral system. Tanaka's plan to increase the number of seats from 491 to 511 and to alter the pro- portional voting system has been branded as a violation of the constitution' and *a direct attack on the democratic process. The new voting legislation is a monstrous gerrymander 20-year aimed the rule

LDR.

at perpetuating of discontent is Although the chief focus of labour these reactionary laws, at the back of this militancy lies wider and deeper issues of the workers' while public housing soaring movement: projects are being cut back be- cause of the price hikes in build- • The cost of living. Tokyo is the capital city ing materials. expensive nOSE Food earth. have • Pollution. Although this is trebled in 12 months. In March largely liberals' dilemma in alone the price index rose 10 per Britain and the United States, in the highest jump in post- cent Japan it bombards the very war history. existence of millions of working and their Their men families. • Housing. The main industrial bodies poisoned and are muti- centres, stretching from Tokyo pollutants lated by horrific in Nagasaki the to in south, are the atmosphere, in food and in Whole appallingly overcrowded. medicine. families, grandparents, parents and tiny children, are forced to When Tanaka the called share one and two rooms in vast General Election November in slums. Private rents are urban last year his personal popular- COMPLETELY without any gard to the economic crisis now reaching its sharpest point in the capitaist world, British-Leyland -adding its voice to the con- certed boom chorus being organ- ized by the Tories and the em- ployers-announced a £300m ex-

SOLICITORS

for six people pansion programme over five years. accused of conspiracy to cause next an explosion, after police raids in Leyland is basing these pro- Coventry month ago, com- jections partly the recent plained vesterdav that they are growth in earnings from over- still being held extreme under seas alone. But this income is restrictions' and *Al security only a product of the highly in- conditions'. flationary situation the in For four weeks, Coventry capitalist world. magistrates were told, the six A large part of the increased have been isolated in solitary value is accounted for each nominal confinement, with with man in by the devaluation oi the pound cell by and allowed and the general float of curren- only irregular exercise. cies. It is a great injustice that they should be held like this for so But the sales themselves are long with no prospect of com- also only the result of the con- mittal proceedings or a date for tinued stoking up of the boom the trial, said solicitor Michael artificially in the various capital- Jervis. ist countries. All of the accused, he added.

BLMC is not well placed, in men with property and were fact, to ride out the inflationary families in Coventry and could being crisis, already heavily in be expected to honour bail.

Confident forecasts could debt. But bail was again refused and quickly be undermined by heavy remanded in cus- interest and repayment charges. the six were 21. rapid development of the until May They tody are Birmingham trade war could put Leyland in being held deep trouble. prison.

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down this ity was at a phenomenally high 62 percent. But an official and reliable poll conducted two weeks ago showed his following had dropped to 27 per cent, the lowest ever for a serving premier. Indignation with Tanaka and his big businessmen's govern- ment has flourished since revela- tions that trading companies in have been profiteering in basic food imports including rice, soy bean, fish and coffee. Figures released at the week- end show that Japan's ten giant lar- trading firms made operating Lord Stokes of British-Leyland blowing company's birthday cake. 4p No 1072

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profits totalling £300m in the six months ending March 31 last.

This was an increase of 52 per cent over the figure regis- tered in the same period last year. Although these figures show amount of infla- the enormous tionary speculation that has been on, the Daily Yomiuri' going newspaper commented: Observers said that they be- lieved many trading firms had concealed of their profits some ek- by doctoring their account books real profits, were iant and the ting greater. blowing out the five candles on the Ap

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Three days ago Tanaka em- powered a Cabinet sub-commit- tee to draft the new legislation.

Immediately, the opposition par- tiesthe Japan Socialist Party (SP), the Japanese Communist Party

(JCP),

the Democratic Socialist Party and Komeito, the Clean Government Party of the Sokka Gakkai- Buddhist sect, walked out of the Diet. A joint statement issued at the weekend said they would not take part in any further proceedings parliamentary until Tanaka withdrew his legislation.

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workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

FACE UNION

SHOWDOWN

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENT

FROM ALEX

MITCHELL

Tokyo All parliamentary proceedings are being boy- cotted by the Opposition and the General Council of Trade Unions, the TUC of the public service unions, will hold a series of one-day General Strikes starting Friday. Today tens of thousands of trade unionists, labourers and students will demonstrate through Tokyo con- verging on the Diet (parliament) late this afternoon. The government has ordered a full-scale alert by the riot police whose reputation for brutality against de- monstrators is notorious internationally.

Behind the political and industrial clash with Tanaka's Liberal Democratic Party is the Cabinet decision to force changes in the electoral system. Tanaka's plan to increase the number of seats from 491 to 511 and to alter the pro- has been branded as 'a violation of portional voting system the constitution' and 'a direct attack the democratic on process'. The new voting legislation is a monstrous Is Berry DR. 20-year aimed the rule

LDR.

at the priet to discontent Although chief focus of labour is these reactionary laws, at the back of this militancy lies wider and deeper issues of the workers' while public housing movement: soaring projects are being cut back be- cause of the price hikes in build- • The of living. Tokyo is cost the expensive capital city ine materials. Food earth. have

DUCES

• Pollution. Although this is 12 months. In March trebled in largely liberals' dilemma in alone the price index rose 10 per Britain and the United States, in the highest jump in post- it bombards the Japan very war history. existence of millions of working their Their men and families. • Housing. The main industrial bodies poisoned and are Tokyo stretching from lated by horrific pollutants in Nagasaki the to south, are In the atmosphere, in food and in Whole appallingly overcrowded. medicine. families, grandparents, Tanaka and tiny children, are forced to When called the November share one and two rooms in vast General Election in urban slums. Private rents are last year his personal popular-

COMPLETELY

without gard to the economic crisis now reaching its sharpest point in the world, British-Leyland capitalst -adding its voice to the con- certed boom chorus being organ- Tories and the ized by the ployers-announced a £300m ex-

SOLICITORS

for six people pansion programme over five years. accused of conspiracy to cause next an explosion, after after police race Leyland is basing these pro- Coventry ago, com- jections partly the on recent plained vesterday that they are growth in earnings from over- still being held under 'extreme seas alone. But this income is restrictions' and 'Al security only a product of the highly in- conditions'. flationary situation in the For four weeks, Coventry capitalist world. told, the six magistrates A large part of the increased have been isolated in solitary so cell my himself each nominal value is accounted for with man in by the devaluation oi the pound allowed and cell and the general float of only irregular exercise. cies. 'It is a great injustice that they should held like this for so But the sales themselves long with no of also only the result of the con- prospect com- mittal proceedings or a date for tinued stoking up of the boom the trial, Michael said solicitor artificially in the various capital- Jervis. ist countries. All of the accused, he added, fact, to ride out the infatidary

BLMC

not well placed, in with and were men property families in Coventry and could crisis, being already heavily in be expected to honour bail.

Confident forecasts could debt. quickly be undermined by heavy But bail was again refused and and repayment charges. remanded interest the six were in cus- 21. They are They until May rapid development tody are trade war could put Leyland in being held in deep trouble.

DISON.

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sing ity was at a phenomenally high 62 per cent. But an official and ild- reliable poll conducted weeks ago showed his following had dropped to 27 per cent, the a serving premier. Indignation with Tanaka and ing his big businessmen's in have been profiteering in basic food imports including rice, soy bean, fish and coffee. Figures released at the week- end show that Japan's ten giant lar- trading firms made operating Lord Stokes of British-Leyland blowing company's birthday cake. • No 1072 • 4p

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profits totalling f300m in the six months ending March 31 last.

This was an increase of 52 per cent over the figure regis- tered in the same period last year. Although these figures show the enormous amount of infia- tionary speculation that has been 'Daily Yomiuri' going on, newspaper commented: 'Observers said that they be- lieved many trading firms had concealed of their profits some by doctoring their account books . were and the real profits greater five candles on blowing out the i the

LEAGUE

Three days ago Tanaka em- powered a Cabinet sub-commit- tee to draft the new legislation.

Immediately, the opposition par- ties-the Japan Socialist Party (JSP), the Japanese Communist Party. (JCP), the Democratic Socialist Party and Komeito, the Clean Government Party of the Sokka Gakkai- Buddhist sect, out of the Diet. walked A joint statement issued at the weekend said they would not take part in any • further parliamentary proceedings until Tanaka withdrew his legislation.

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BUILDING FUND

THE FUND now stands at £22,047.30. A magnificent collection of £170.85 arri- ved from the London area conference of the Socialist Labour League. Socialist Labour League branches sent in: Exeter {3; Liverpool £13.50; Da- genham £5; Slough £1; Acton £7; Paddington £1; Tottenham £5. We know we can drive this fund upwards. Let us waste no more time. Push it ahead in all the areas.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday May 15, 1973 IN A call for ieft unity' the trade leaders- union 'lefts' Hugh the Tories, Reuben particularly the against Falber, secretary of Scanlon and Jack Jones-and assistant Communist Party, misled the said at has deliberately its the weekend: readership, 'A of left trade number While Workers Press consis- leaders fell into the of denounced the trap tently class- talks the entering into with collaborationist actions of the government on incomes policy, trade union leaders and called when they should have been for unity of the entire strength using all their time and ener- of the trade movement union gies to mobilize working the behind workers in struggle, class.' Star® the 'Morning repeatedly implied that all was well and The talks, said Falber, who that the TUC and the 'lefts' was speaking at a meeting of were leading the fight. Communist Na- • the Party's tional Executive, had 'created The Stalinist paper told its and some consternation

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"will readers that the important factor were an in little give encouragement to strengthening the Tory hand'.

Tories the who hope to accommodate the

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in Those union leaders who have talks economic problems collaborated with continually (September 8); that 'the more the Tories have, of course, bosses' realistic were calling because been able to for concessions to the unions the door was opened for them (September 27); that the

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by the Communist Party itself.

was giving 'a clear lead' (Sep- They did not so much 'fall' tember 28); that 'a deal seems into the trap, as run willingly (October unlikely' 28); that into it. Heath had 'failed to trap the If, as Falber says, 'major criti- union leaders' (Novem- trade cism must be levelled at right- ber 4); and that the state pay all wing leaders who along 'a confession laws were of sought a deal with the govern- failure' by the Tories (Novem- and did everything to ber 7). ment prevent May Day being a 100 These words were matched by then per cent success', 'major by the actions organized criticism' must also be levelled Ramelson inside the trade CP leadership, parti- at the the Na- union movement. At Ramelson cularly Bert the Teachers' tional Union of industrial Party's national the conference. for example, organizer. Communist Party delegation For it Ramelson who was voted with the right wing mobilized Communist Party against a call to come out on delegates and at supporters May Day. September's Trades last electricians' and for And at the Union Congress to vote conference the Sta- which permitted plumbers' formula linists abstained on a resolu- continued talks between the tion calling for General TUC leaders. the bosses and a Strike to bring down the Tory their government. government. Since then the Morning Star' has continually covered up for Meanwhile, the 'left' cover-up

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE PRICE of gold broke through the $100 an ounce mark for the first time ever on bullion In European markets yesterday. $102.55 during the Paris the price reached day, while in Zurich it went over $100 an ounce at the start of trading.

In London the price broke the $100 barrier official before the morning fixing, where the price was set at $99.75 an ounce, $2.80 up on Friday's closing price and an all-time record for the London market. and more devastating even The relentless upward march currency crisis. of the gold price is an index of When the central bankers the severity of the economic from the main capitalist coun- and the crisis growing fear in yesterday they tries met in Basle bourgeois circles that the dollar reported in 'sombre were will undergo another great de- mood'. valuation. The political insta- They fear that the March bility of the scandal-ridden monetary agreement cannot hold inflaming the Nixon regime is and, existing crisis still further.

up much longer, according to the 'Financial Times', they are The economic crisis has nATA worried that 'wild rumours of with the political crisis merged started the kind which last US government to Dro- in tha dollar in situation duce an unparalleled could again set on the world money markets. The weakest currencies. among and them sterling floating upwards at a rapid rate against the dollar which is now completely unwanted.

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government officials have stated that there is The downward spiral of the 30-month. and a plot to topple the dollar parity the constant old ruling Popular Unity asslation of the gold price coali- 10- tion headed by President dicate the complete instability Salvador Allende. and untenable character of the two-month-old monetary agree- The allegations follow raids on which almost all ment under the hide-outs of the fascist float- major currencies are now Fatherland and Freedom Move- ing. which large ment in quantities Governments, financiers, bank- of and ammunition were arms speculators are helpless ers and seized by police. build-up of tension to stem the in the markets and avert a new More than 50 people were continues. Clearly the bl acceptance of Tory meas and the total collapse of official trade 'opI the pay S aLe created problems has This forces Falber to ad 'All the factors for spreaa revolt against tne there. and ernment are growing. It is to head off this develo •situation that the governı has entered into new with trade union leaders. Falber's divert this the 'left' trade union lea obstruct the …orer ro of altern velopment an revolutionary leadership.

why he says that it the only rigal- wing who sought collaboration the government. In fact, the pace for this laboration been Scanlon and Jones. Scanlon who publicly decl that he would accept Relat Industrial amended Act, and it was scanlon

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told Nati Committee thạt the Tories 'won the first round' on

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off speculative wave WOlid 1• erine stability. The rumours pale al the side facts eme sinate tale Washington affair creating cal ccae never seen derore The central bankers havı of utting the situ: hopes together whick back again, their GOlDI explans gloomy expectation. arrested during the raid cities after the several ment „recel ved reTeNTed Sl according gence epor finistry under-sec interio Danie Vergara. Vertara net she ti arrested members of the charged with were of arms. which he criminal con aimed the go d'etat then unleashing a civil war'.

who have been, and control of leaders wages. still are, collaborating with the At that National Committee Tories while even bigger at- he called for more talks with tacks workers' rights are the Tories and 'the sooner the prepared. better'. He threw down the This 'unity, therefore, gauntlet to the Stalinists and and ses through 'lefts' the the 'left wing', who voted bureaucracy trade union and overwhelmingly the at con- 'unity' ends up as with the the debate on the clusion of Tory government itself. laws to give him state pay the go-ahead for further talks The Stalinists seek a totally with Heath. unprincipled unity with Scan- Ion, Jones and the trade union The Stalinists and their sup- porters made no clear call for bureaucracy, but recently re- jected a proposal of principled to break Socialist bour League, the International TUC, they defend national Socialists the Stalinists' left workers' organizations against unity' in action. attacks from the capitalist state machine. Clive Jen- And, according to Imit: of ASTMS, The Stalinist brand of unity is kins Scanlon is vide- the the counter-revolutionary to now co-operating with gov- core. Precisely when a grow- National Industrial Relations are of workers Court in a roundabout ing number are way, • the

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beginning to see their estab- even though it is ping lished leaders exposed policy to ignore all the in ma- ment can be won to of the Industrial Re- action and chinery talks the revolutionary alternative, lations Act. Stalinists rush to prop up Jenkins clairus that the AUEW these leaders under the cover s to leadership him got to of 'unity'. hind their dirty work' by giving ders Workers' living standards and him a case to put before the de- Court, democratic rights can only be Industrial industrial ative tribunals and the Commission defended by the construction That of the on Industrial Relations. revolutionary party, was the Socialist Labour which ders and Jones And Scanlon League is pledged to build. accompanied Feather and with the This involves relentless TUC right wing in secret talks the struggle against oppor- with Heath behind the backs tunist trade union leaders and col- of their members- -secret talks Sta- counter - revolutionary by which do not even get a men- linism. was tion in Falber's speech. Falber's speech ared proves once not a When Falber and the rest of that single step again an forward to remove the trade the Stalinists talk about 'left tions unity, they do not the bureaucracy can be mean union who of unity the working class made without consistent ional against the Tories, Stalinism but con- fight against which had provides a 'left' cover for it.

"left' tinued unity with the state AN ENTHUSIASTIC conference of supporters of the Socialist Labour League in London at the weekend pledged themselves to expand the strength and influence of the SLL and the Workers Press in preparation for the founding conference of the Revolutionary Party in October.

Gerry Healy, SLL national secretary, introduced five-hour discussion of the two pamphlets 'Transforming the League into a Party' and 'Marxist Analysis of the Crisis'.

Healy said Britain was entering into a revolutionary situation because capitalism could no longer function without engaging in the greatest class struggles will be undermined if inflation against the working class in all continues. history. Healy said the disruption of of He traced the development vhich the mystique of authority that the the capitalist crisis from etary devaluation of the pound in 1967 surrounds the presidency had done greater damage in one week and explained how the further to old ties and relationships than deepening of the crisis with the even a thousand strikes could achieve.

dollar devaluation this year long- formed the background to the 'The idea that there is from some- TUC Special confusion in the one up there in control of things, rgate oliti- Congress March 5, who plan and fix something on relieved by the difficulties, on a porarily com- up if there are no of a one-day strike and The great mythical promise longer works. of secret discus- continuation tie that mystifies is no longer no sions with the Tories. there.' ation The world-wide domination of Just to call Nixon a crook was of US imperialism that the meant to miss real crisis in crisis at the heart of the capitalist ruling class, the ending of the system affected every town, vil- legends which helped keep the lage and street in the world.

working class in line. Now the great tremor was running The Watergate affair not was through all social relationships a scandal involving Nixon, but and capitalist rule was breaking an aspect of the economic crisis into a thousand pieces. in and the split the capitalist 1n vern- world. The bourgeoisie Healy said the conditions of

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compromise telli- divided among themselves about Britain between how to meet the to crisis and how the ruling class and the labour to fight the working class.

and etary trade union leaders, which had slowed the development of Some older established sections the revolutionary crisis and if capot base ise bion forever the worked against the development inflation-based scist sections of Marxism, turned now into German banks, for sses- crisis. ex- their opposite. ample, were advocating a decisive ribed duct cutting of the inflationary spiral The defence of democratic regardless of the rights more and more is becom- vern- mass un- and which would be demand employment ing a revolutionary as caused and warning that all values the crisis worsens.

High-powered corporatism

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE CONFERENCE

pompously entitled 'The Future of European Society' which ended at the Guildhall in London on Sunday was a par- ticularly high - powered example of the Common Market corporatist net- work in operation. This conference was no shoestring operation: dele- gates came from all over western Europe and were accommodated in the most expensive London hotels. They took block bookings at the Savoy, the Hilton, the Metropole, the Royal Horse- guards, the Kennedy and the Charing Cross Hotels, to name but a few. Expense was obviously not spared to bring big name speakers from all corners of the Continent to London for the occasion. If some of them gave more than averagely flatu- lent speeches, this was more than compensated by the de luxe accommodation and the free flow of food and drink.

MP. Duncan Sandys, Tory The opening session set the tone for the rest of the confer- ence. Chaired by professor Walter Hallstein, the session was ad- by, among others, the dressed Lord Mayor of London, Lord Mais, John Davies, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Duncan Sandys, Roy Jenkins, Altiero Spinelli, Maurice Faure Victor lean Monnet and not least Feather, president of the Euro- Trades Union Confedera- pean tion. VICTOR FEATHER'S presence at the opening session was a symbol of the meeting's class- collaborationist character, and he left his audience in no doubt that this was so. the recent history of see Europe in terms of trade union aspirations, trade union aims and trade union activities,' he told the glittering throng. I see it in terms of the social interaction which takes place be- employers, and tween unions governments at various levels.

on the shopficor where perhaps the government's involvement is little; at the industry level where the employers and unions must TUC secreta work out their particular prob- lems; within nations where tradi- tional methods of compromise, conciliation and agreement count for so much and yield so much co-operation; and now at the European level! Just who are the men and women to whom Feather exten- ded this amazing olive branch and with whom he promised such willing co-operation? A detailed look at the bio- graphies of some of the partici- pants in the conference reveals the crude reality behind the glossy façade of the European Movement and the Common Market.

DUNCAN

SANDYS, Winston Churchill's son-in-law. Former Colonial Secretary, also variously Minister of Supply, Works, Hous- ing and Local Government. De- Top to bottom: Peter Hain, Franz Josef Strauss, Jiri Pelikan.

fence and Aviation in successive Tory Founder- governments. president of the European Move- ment and President of Europa Nostra (no relation to the Cosa Nostra!). Sandys was in the news lately over the unsavoury board-room wrangle at Lonrho. He was ap- pointed consultant to Lonrho on a part-time basis in November 1971 at a salary of £50,000 a year. The appointment was ex- tended to run for six years 1972 and the pay raised to JC secretary Victor Feather at home among the €51,000, all but £2,000 of this to be paid via the Cayman Islands (a Caribbean tax haven). When Sandys was offered the chairmanship of Lonrho later the same year, it was agreed that a payment of £130,000 would be 'fair and reasonable' for termina- tion of his consultancy agree- ment. Lonrho is one of the firms accused of paying starvation wages to its workers in south- ern Africa. JOSE GIL ROBLES: Best-known of a large delegation of 'Euro- peanists' from fascist Spain: This time last favourite of the Stalinists'. The article, in our issue of May 18, 1972, He was the went on: leader of the fascist CEDA be- fore the civil war. 'After trips to Germany and Italy, he modelled the political work of his organization on that of German and Italian fascism.

He now enjoys the open support of the Spanish Communist Party for European policies and his calls for greater power to the regions within Spain. 'In a recent speech to the Em- Christian Association of ployers, Robles quoted Hitler against excessive nationalism. He praised [Maurice] Schumann and [Konrad] Adenauer as supporters of a Christian and Democratic Europe? Giorgio Amendola, Italian CP.

PETER HAIN: Former chairman of the Young Liberals, organizer of the 'Stop the Seventies Tour' campaign against the South Atrican rugby team. Hain is the doyen of radical- liberal protest and was the sub- ject of an unsuccessful private prosecution for conspiracy by extreme right-wing lawyer Fran- cis Bennion. Hain was one of a large num- ber of Liberals at the conference, Thorpe's them. Jeremy among political Richard secretary, Moore. Hain is a member of the executive of the National .Coun- cil: for i Civil Liberties and a spokesman of the Act.on Com- mittee Against Racialism.

GIORGIO AMENDOLA: Leading member of the Italian Communist Party, sits on the central com- the political mittee com- mittee. Amendola is a deputy to the Rome parliament and also heads the Italian CP delegation to the Parliament in Stras- European bourg. Symbol of Italian • CP support for the Common Market.

Amendola stayed at the Savoy Workers Pross, Tu among the delegates at the Congress of Europe and took part in a discussion panel on the subject Europe a super-power?'• with Strauss, former French, premier: Maurice Faure and Danish leäder Per Haekkerup. The session was chaired by Lord George-Brown.

JIRI PELIKAN: Former director- Czechoslovak televi- general of sion, now lives in exile in Rome.

Pelikan is director of a 'socialist opposition journal' and frequently speaks at meetings of New Left and revisionist groups. FRANZ JOSEF STRAUSS: Pre- sident of thę Bavarian Christian Social Union, formerly Minister for Special Tasks in the Aden- notorious auer government, a right-winger who draws support from the most reaction- section of the German ary bourgeoisie.

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MERVYN

STOCK-

WOOD: Bishop of Southwark, member of the House of Lords.

Long a darling of the Stalinists who regarded him as a protest bishop, Stockwood recently came out in support of the nationwide Festival of Light, a right-wing movement calling for repression under the guise of morality.

HELEN VLACHOS: Right-wing Greek journalist and opponent of the colonels' regime. Mrs Vlachos is the former editor of 'Kathi- merini' and founder of the national 'Ikones' and papers 'Messimvrini". Abdul Minty of AA

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She and Pelikan shared a plat- form with Lord Harlech and David Frost for a discussion on the mass media. ABDUL MINTY: Honorary sec- retary of the Anti-Apartheid movement, fellow of the Richard.

son Institute for Conflict and Peace Research (sic). Minty was there to talk about 'Europe and World Poverty' on the same platform as Jacques Soustelle, the right-wing Gaullist, and Labour MP Maurice Foley. ROY JENKINS: Former deputy leader of the Labour Party. Led 69 pro-Common Market the MPs into the Tory lobby for crucial vote which kept the Heath in office and ensured Bri-.

tish entry into the EEC. Am active campaigner the Common Market since its in- ception. This is only a sample of some of the more noteworthy partici- pants in this corporatist jam- boree. There were other Tory MPs: Heath, Julian Amery, and plenty of Labour pro-Marketeers as well. There was the Welsh national- ist leader Emrys Roberts, Dr Borg Olivier, the Maltese Tory, leaders of local Tory associations and representatives from em- ployers' associations, banks and multi-national companies.

With them were trade union 'socialist' leaders, Stalinist and politicians and leaders of protest movements from all the over EEC. Their aim is to tie the working class to the institutions of the Common Market and create an all-European frame- work of class-collaboration.

This is the real purpose of the Movement and it was European clearly exposed at this costly jamboree.

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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 'Workera Press, Tüesday May i5, 1973' Extract from the policy resolution adopted unani Alliance conference, Birmingham, on October Fellow trade unionists, comrades and friends we In its place must be elec.

THE TORY governme ted Labour a government frontation with the which is pledged by the mass workers are forced to action of the working class to implement socialist policies.

defend their standard We say 'pledged to socialist cost of living. policies' Knowing that the pre-. sent leaders of the Labour move- Large sections of thes ment have no intention of intro- policies. Indeed, in ducing such answer to their fight to them the last analysis some of General Strike. That is will be prepared to join a coali- with the Tories conditions which will fo to head off the working class.

But if the working, class is strong enough to force the Tories 3) The democratic right to out, it is strong enough to deal strike and to organize in trade with the its traitors In own unions. Only the organized midst. This can only be achieved working class can lead man- by exposing them in the fight for of the kind historical out an alternative socialist policy. crisis. Every right and every The Central Committee of the gain won by the working class, Socialist Labour League calls every democratic right in Bri- upon the working class to sup- has been the following policies to tain, because won DOrI unite the working class against of the organized strength of Tories and the the present the and the strike unions Wilson-Feather leadership of the weapon. labour movement: Here is the policy which the A Labour government must next Labour government must immediately repeal the Indus- be forced to carry out. trial Relations Act. This fight must begin now by forcing the 1) A Labour government must TUC to break off all relations immediately repeal the Indus- the Relations with government and trial Act, Housing mobilize the working class to Finance Act, Immigration Acts, Fair Trading Act and all wage destroy state control of wages.

control. After the repeal of all 4) The right to defend rights Tory anti-working class mea- won in the past and change sures, there must be legislation the system. All ihe changes in the Charter to implement of legal procedures made by the Basic Rights, along the follow- Tory government must be re- ing lines. pealed. All secret police and 2) The right to work! Capital- MI5 organizations must be dis- ism demands mass unemploy- banded and fully exposed. The ment. The right to a job must of the Tory adminis- secrets This can be guaranteed. only tration in this sphere must be be done by breaking the grip published. All rights to assem- of capitalist ownership on the bly, free speech and the Press Employed and economy. guaranteed. must be employed must unite to insist The begin on a Labour government na- struggle must No closures, no sackings, tionalizing the main industries now. and banks, under workers' must be the policy of the trade Occupation of fac- control and without compen- unions. tories threatened with closure, sation. Greater Manchester has a population of over 6 million people.

It contains some of the most concentrated industry in the whole of Europe a working class that still crowds into Vic- torian slums or lives in better conditions on the massive housing schemes built by successive Labour administrations.

Round the edges of the city live the rich. Some of the wealthiest capitalists in the country feed directly off the value produced by the Manchester working class.

This area is essential for the revolutionary movement. It will be the scene of the second Pageant of basic rights.

This will be staged at King Hall, Belle Vue, the biggest indoor arena in the city. The Pageant is a central event in the massive expansion of the Socialist Labour League in the north-west, in preparation for the launching of the revolutionary party.

Already the drive is underway. People from different back- grounds and experience, like the Hyndmans and the Cole- mans, have made the decision to join in this historic struggle.

They are two very different families, who are helping to trans- form the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary Party.

aged four, five and eight. She hardly ever buys meat. If she does it's mince, and at 50p Ib, this means sacrificing some other part of the weekly diet.

They live in a pre-war hous to death' ing scheme by the new Salford they precinct- -an amenity rarely use because the prices in the glass and chrome shops Cora Hyndman's £18.50 from are beyond their income. the Social Security Last weekend they walked stretches only to the barest necessities the precinct bakers. A DaSt for her unemployed husband sack was hanging in the shop Mike and their three children doorway stuffed with bread, unanimously by 2,200 deleg ober 22, 1972. ds we address you with this u vernment is relentlessly pursuing i n the working class. Each day : rced to become criminals — unde andard of living against government s of these workers openly acknowle fight to maintain a decent standa That is, the creation of the indust h will force the government to resig to as part of the fight to bring ern down the Tories. 5) The right to a higher stan- dard of living. It is not the living standards trade but the profit sys- unionists, tem, which causes the crisis.

The first step must be to ex- propriate all the great fortunes of the rich, close down the Stock Exchange, place a state control over all movements of capital in and out of the country. Nationalization of the basic industries and of all large com- panies, banks, building and in- surance societies will provide the resources for a unified improve the living plan to standards of the whole people.

Workers' control of these, as well as the present national- ized industries, will run them in the interests of the workers and consumers. Again, the fight must begin now. State control of wages must be answered by the most widespread fight for wage in- meet price rises creases to and improve standards. This means a fight to remove the Tory government and change the union leadership. 6) The right to health and wel- fare benefits. Every Tory gov- Cora and Mike Hyndman: "There com cakes and pies—the left-overs from the Saturday sale. Til have that', Mike said to the assistant and picked up a loaf.

I was only joking,' he told me. "The girl was really fright- ened. "You'll get me the sack, she said. So i threw it back.

think what they But just could do with all that food. They could give the cakes to the kiddies round here, they'd soon get rid of it. Instead it ends up on the rubbish dump or in the pig trough. And we delegates and visitors at th this urgent call to action: rsuing its plan for a con- h day new sections of — under Tory law — to ernment-inspired soaring knowledge that the only : standard of living is a e industrial and political to resign. ring ernment cut in welfare bene- hits, in the health service and in all public spending must be revoked. On tne basis of nationalization, a crash pro- gramme of expansion of ser- vices to the unemployed, the low-paid, the sick and the aged must be undertaken as an absolute priority. The working class and the Labour govern- ment must take immediate and responsibility for absolute 'these victims of the capitalist system. 7) The right to decent housing.

Decent housing is not a luxury; it is a necessity. People have the basic right to decent accommodation at rents they can afford. Nationalization of the handful of building mono- polies and building societies will provide the basis for a massive of new programme house building. The disgraceful problem of the homeless in the cities must be immediately solved by census and taking- over of all unoccupied pro- perty. 8) The international respon- sibilities of the working class.

The working class is interna- fional. We fight for the un- restricted right of any worker of any nationality to move freely through the world.

here comes a point when you can't do anyth live like this.' Mike gestures around his gloomy living room at the old furniture and the carpetless floor. 'We are not exceptional you know. There are thousands like us in Salford. The old people are literally starving to death.' Things are steadily getting worse. Under Tory instructions the Social Security is restrict- ing payments, particularly the which mean the grants may , 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 United States of Socialist 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.

For the carrying out of such policies the SLL fights for the up of Councils of setting 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 the working class (Labour Party, Communist Party, SLL, IS, main enemy, the Tory govern- ment. The SLL calls upon every socialist and class-conscious worker to consider this pro- manifesto very gramme and carefully, and to decide now to • their inescapable re- take up eful sponsibilities. The building of the revolutionary party is the tely 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 t do anything but fight or go under.'

difference between being at least adequately dressed Or going round in near rags.

'There comes a point when you can't do anything but fight or go under and stay under.

We have reached that point, said Mike. Both. Cora and Mike are now members of the Socialist Labour League and with the other comrades in Salford are attempting to build a large branch of the movement this solid working-class area.

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ons or len ght ler. at, are list the are rge in A doubled salary but declines Joan and Derek Coleman live in quite different circum- stances, yet they too have de cided to join the fight to buil on the southern fringes of the city, was. the beginning to new life. This revolved rounc Derek's job as a lecturer in science. the computer But golden life did not happen.

Joan estimates that though Derek's salary has perhaps doubled since he started work, their standard of living has remained static and now has begun to decline. It seems incredible but it's true. People think they are better off because they get more money. But the inflation has eaten it all up. I hardly buy proper ever meat. stick to mince and that's ex- pensive too.' Both the Hyndmans and the Colemans explained why they had reached their decisions.

MIKE HYNDMAN:

I had read some Marx be- fore I met the League first, but I had never put it into practice. The thing that struck me first about the movement was that although I disagreed with things that said, were there was the feeling that this movement really meant what it was saying and would not back down. This is what I need, I think. Another big influence was the film of the Right-to-Work marches. I have been un- employed for a long time, fac- tories are closing down all the time round here and there are no decent jobs. So the film definitely struck a chord.

I thought it was fantastic how those lads marched all that way and never gave up.

They shouldn't have to do these things, but people have to do it. So I thought, what about me-where do I come into this struggle. developed Things from there. The SLL taught me to look at history in a different the develop- You saw way. ment of fascism in Germany.

I can see now that this was not just a particular thing, but that it was the result of a collapse in the system, the crisis with money and the break up of trade. This is happening today so that his- tory could come back-it is coming back. I think Heath is like a dic- tator already. He passes the laws and he tells you to obey them. No one has any say, yet affect everything these laws you do, change your whole way of life and press you How far are we away down. from fascism? way I feel now, it's The only the SLL which can take this country forward and make it worthwhile for me and my family to live in. No one asks for much, just to live with enough to eat and spend on clothes and some money over for recreation. As it is, we just exist. The working class has the Labour Party. But this is not Joan and Derek Coleman.— 'The history enough any more. The canvas- ser came round the house last night. He asked it the Party depend on my vote. I could said yes he could, but would he answer some questions.

I asked him what the Labour Party was going to do to house and nationalize the the rich big firms. He didn't know what to say-all he could say 'Can we count on your was support?' I think we have to put these people in to expose them. The most important issue class is with the working leadership. The Tories are arming the police now. But if the people really stood to- gether as one, the army and the police would be no use.

They can't defeat the people.

We are the people. If workers shown were real alternative they would stand together. What they need is a Party, something they can definitely relate to not just as a Party and a group of people in a 'League'.

It must be a Party that can in simple language explain what they would do to im- condition of the prove the working class by getting rid of the capitalist system. brain- People have been washed, of course, about com- munism. They think what hap- pens in Russia is communism.

So we also have to explain carefully what kind of com- munism we want to get, ex- plain to them about why the Soviet Union went wrong be- cause of Stalin and that the Communist today Party doesn't fight for social revolu- tion, but just try to back up the system with a lot of pro- tests. I think this issue of unity of workers is most important.

Anyone can see the way things are going-towards dictator- ship. he history of struggle for basic rights has made We don't have a lot of time.

The crisis will get worse and they Will be able to come 'ОК round and pick you up. mate, we don't like what you are saying-off to jail'-that's how it will go. We have to tell people how urgent things are.

CORA HYNDMAN:

This government is simply driving us into the ground.

We can't get grants anymore for clothes, so if I want to buy something for the kids to wear we just have to do without paying the rent. There is no chance of a . decent job for Mike; it's just poverty we face.

then you see Ted Heath And and his boat telling us about the nation—it makes me sick.

We never see meat in this house. Perhaps once every two weeks and then it's mince at 50p Ib. They talk about steak at 90p a lb. I couldn't even afford half a lb. In these circumstances you just about keep alive. We never, ever go out of the house for a night out and we've not had a holi- day for three years. People in England don't realize how bad things can They are arming the get. police. Soon they will be knocking at your door. People don't believe it, but it will happen. I know, I come from Ulster. We had it there.

We were all asleep in a house in Armagh and they came knocking at the door. There were seven of the police-all armed. They got us up and came in the house—no explan- ation; no warrant, they went through the place and tore it apart. Ripped the furniture smashed the crockery. and They herded us out of the way like we were cattle. To them that's all you are. They came back the same night and kept coming back.

They thought we had • an IRA man in there. It will come Workers Press, Tuesd has made the working class what they are toda here, because all those police is stopping people are from getting their rights. This is the system. While all this is going on see people making un- you believable profits-more than anyone has imagined. If the Tories are allowed to keep going on, we will be on the breadline-we are near it now.

United It will be like the States; there will be no social hospital security, no free treatment, you will be beggars, while all the time those bloody bourgeois are climbing on your back and driving you on • you off slowly, like killing they do with the old people.

Sometimes you have to say enough is enough. Make a stand.

JOAN COLEMAN:

It took me a long time to come to the League. For years I have been avoid- two ing joining. One of the things that worries me was I just saw it as an organization that grabbed you and had you out on the streets seven nights a week. But this is not the case with the movement being larger and reaching out to more and more people in the working class. way things have gone The in the last few years has had an effect as well. I thought for a long time there was a real chance of improving ourselves life. It and building the good seems incredible, but it's People think they are true. better off but it's an illusion.

Derek's salary has doubled but our standard of living is the same and now I think it's going is no down. There future, even for people like us. You slowly begin to realize things can't go the on husband same 2ld way. My has worked very hard for pro- motion to get on, but you are running to standstill. ess, Tuesday May 15, 1973. PAGE.5 / y are today.'" The other direct influence was the shock of the Tory government. I had an idea that they would be tough, for ex- ample, when they brought in the Industrial Relations Act.

But it shakes you when they actually it and stick use people inside. You know they mean business and you have to start thinking. So I came close to the move- ment with these things in my mind. It was at the time of the Pageant of basic rights. I heard about this at the All Trades Unions Alliance conference in Birmingham and from the start I thought it was a great idea. In the course of this Pageant and doing the work for it, trying to act the strug- gle for these rights out, I understood much of more what the League was saying on its platform. How history, for example, played such an important role in the struggles today. It was only when you realized that the history of struggle for basic rights has made the working class what they are today that you reali- zed the Tories could not pos- sibly wipe out these gains without an enormous struggle.

Then this became a challenge to you-where did you stand in this fight? I think it was the same for a lot of the people who went to the Pageant. They saw the fight for rights. The soldiers all the time. The were on struggle, the battles, the vic- tories the defeats-the Pageant said: 'This was the history, your history. You to take up the fight have again? And it was the League which was proposing to lead the this struggle. From Pageant the people who saw it realized there was one organ- ization that was pre- pared to fight.

'OUR OLDEST

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday May 1

BY JOHN SPENCER

Nowhere has the affinity between fascism and the British ruling class been openly and more con- sistently expressed than in its relations with Portugal. Over the coming weeks this relationship will be proclaimed roof-tops by the from the Fleet Street Press, the tele- vision and all the propaganda of the Tory govern- media ment. The ballyhoo will culmi- nate in an exchange of visits with the Duke of Edinburgh visiting • Portugal for a state day May 15, 1973 visit from June 5 and dictator Marcello Caetano reciprocat- ing on July 16. The ostensible purpose of these junkets is to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the Anglo - Portuguese alliance. an There will be air force dis- th plays, football matches, page- ants and exhibitions. treaty in question, The signed between Edward III.

and Fernando I, was the re- sult of the ambitions of John of Gaunt to take over the throne of Castile. But its relevance today is not academic-when Henrique Galvao, the adventurous anti- captain, tried to land fascist in Britain 1961 he was in ate barred under a clause in the original treaty stating: It is mutually agreed tha it shall not be by any mean permitted to the said Kings or to any of their subjects Lands or Dominions, of what soever station, degree or con ... to give direct! dition or indirectly, publicly or clan destinely, any countenance, o whatever kind or nature i Ill, may be, to such enemies o rebels.' A great deal more ha: been mutually agreed betweer the parties since, but if the 600th anniversary is bein celebrated with such warmtl there is one basic explana Dr tion: since Antonic Salazar installed himself a dictator in 1928 Portugal ha:

Above:: Three deserters from the Portuguese army pictured with members of Frelimo • in liberated area of Mozambique. Left: Marcello Caetano, Portu- gal's president. Right: Blessings • from the Roman for the army Catholic church on the parade ground and in church (top).

been an island of capitalist stability and a haven for in- vestment almost unrivalled anywhere else. In the Portuguese version of the corporate state which Salazar installed, the working class has been completely de- of all prived democratic rights, the workers' parties— including the social-demo- crats — driven deep under- ground and the standard of living driven down to colonial levels unknown elsewhere on the continent of Europe. A further recommendation in the eyes of the Tories and the British big businessmen is the limitless willingness of Salazar and his successor Marcello Caetano to supply cannon-fodder for colonial in Africa, and thus wars maintain apartheid in Rho- desia and South Africa. The relationship between Britain and Portugal has not always been so idyllic as it is today. There were many clashes short of outright war between the two countries, particularly rising British when colonial ambition collided with Portu- guese vested interest in str Africa, Latin America and Asia. That these clashes stopped short of war is more a measure of the extent to which Portu- guese colonialism had passed its peak and entered its period decadence by the time British imperialism appeared the scene, than of any real community of interest.

Today, however, through the NATO alliance, the Tory government and the fascist dictatorship built by Musso- lini's admirer Salazar have much in common. Both are primarily interested in pre- venting the development revolution in Europe and both have an interest in maintain- ing the colonial regime in Portuguese Africa. Angola, Guiné and Mozam- bique are a fertile field for British investment, as the list of contractors and banks in- in the showpiece volved Cabora Bassa dam demons- trates. These British contrac- tors need Caetano to push his wretched conscript soldiers into the struggle to keep the colonies Portuguese. Salazar and Caetano have much to thank the Tories for.

Only a year after the 1926 military coup which brought pinnacle of Salazar to the power the Foreign Office in London was displaying great solicitude for the regime.

Sir Lancelot Carnegie, the British ambassador, reacted strongly to a revolt against the army dictatorship, warn- ing that: 'Large numbers low class and armed civilians are begin- ning to loot and government does not appear to be able to control situation. Immediate warships here (Lis- presence bon) and at Oporto where I hear looting has also begun, to protect British interests is highly desirable.' No one need be surprised about the British government's support for the embryo fas- cist state. At this time Churchill was engaging in extravagant eulo- Salazar's gies mentor proclaiming Mussolini, and that if he, Churchill, were in Italy would certainly be wearing a black shirt. Salazar backed naturally Franco in the civil war in Spain, supplying the fascists material to crush with war the Spanish workers and send- ing 'volunteers' to fight along- side the fascist troops. Strongly hoping for a Nazi victory in the Second World War, Salazar supplied the vital tungsten ore necessary for the Nazi war effort. His 'volunteers' fought with Hitler's troops against the Red Army. He switched his allegiances only in the closing stages of the war, allowing the United States to use the Azores as a staging base and finally end- ing traffic in the tungsten 1944. Workers Press, Tu The victory of the allies was a time of crisis for the Salazar regime because the workers Portugal had placed high hopes that it would spell the end of Portu- fascism as well. guese This fatal illusion was es- pecially fostered by the Stalin- ists of the underground Portu- guese Communist Party, as former member Mario Soares relates in his political auto- biography. Soares, now leader of the 'democratic' opposition in exile, was then a member of the CP under- ground. Together with the Vatican it was Stalinists who the saved Salazar's bacon. Soares relates how on the day Hitler surrendered, the CP organized a huge illegal march — to the British and embassies American calling for their backing against the regime. 'We sent very explicit mess- ages to the allied ambassad- 'They ors,' Soares relates. were upset and replied with purely formal thanks and re- ceived our cheers coldly.

•Perhaps they knew they were going to betray us! They would come to terms with yesterday's enemy and save Salazar.' Soares' image of the British and American ambassadors 'betraying' the Portuguese working class is bizarre: these representatives of capital never attempted to disguise Press, Tuesday May 15, 1973 PAGE 7 their hatred and hostility for suffering in the workers Salazar's dungeons and in the torture chambers of the poli- tical police. Appeals to the Tories to break off the alliance with Portugal are equally futile.

Such as the campaign being waged over the next few weeks by the End the Alli- ance Campaign. There is not the slightest reason to think that the Tories will be moved by revelations Portuguese militarism, and anti-working savagery class measures. The Tories have the same mixture in store for the Bri- tish workers if they can break the power of the organized workers and push ahead their blueprint for the cor- own i porate state. The fate of Portuguese capi- tal is intimately linked with that of British capital, which is the protector and chief ally of the Caetano regime.

The way forward against Caetano lies not in protests to the Tories but in the con- struction of a revolutionary leadership which will settle with the British accounts would-be Salazars and Cae- tanos and create the condi- for the tions Portuguese workers to receive fraternal assistance they need to over- throw the hated fascist regime, end colonial rule and estab- lish a workers' republic.

THE STORY OF JACK TANNER

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday May

BY JACK GALE

The rapidly accelerating the right progress to of Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' President Hugh Scanlon recalls the career of an earlier engineers' leader Jack Tanner. Frederick John Shirley Tanner, CBE, was president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union from 1939 to 1954. He was on the TUC General Council from 1943 for 11 years was TUC President in and 1953-1954. In his later years he was one of the most anti-communist of trade union leaders. all the After his retirement from union office he became a direc- tor of IRIS (Industrial Re- search and Information Ser- vices Ltd), organization which specialized in 'exposing' communists in the trade unions.

Yet Tanner, like Scanlon, had started out on the left.

Born in Whitstable, Kent, in 1889, he moved to London when his father became sports manager of the Alexandra Palace. At 14 he began his engineer- sday May 15, 1973 ing apprenticeship in South- wark. After a spell in the Merchant Navy, he returned to engineering during World War I and was a turner and fitter at the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough. He lost his job there after a fight with a non-unionist and spent the later part of the war with an engineering firm in France. Before World War I, Tanner worked with Tom Mann in the Amalgamation Committees and in the International Syndicalist Education League, which in the Industrial 1913 became Democracy League and began the publication of 'Solidarity'.

Syndicalism developed rapidly during the war, especially with the growth ot the shop stew- ards' movement. This emerged as the real leadership of the working class, especially in the engineering industries, because • of the of the collaboration official union leaders with the wartime government. The official and unofficial leadership polarized in early 1915 following the bitter Clyde strike in February and the Treasury Agreement, signed by all the union leaders-except the miners-in March. By this agreement, the union executives gave up the right to strike in the principal industries for duration, the accepted unlimited dilution and conceded all restrictions on employment of women, girls and boys, intensified speed-up, abandoned all definitions the working day and all restric- tions on overtime, nightwork and Sunday working. Safety and health provisions were also allowed to lapse.

The body which ran the Clyde strike stayed in being as the Clyde Workers' Committee.

Following the 18-day Parkhead Forge strike on the Clyde in March 1916—over the rights of shop stewards and con- venors-other such committees were formed. These linked up the as National Shop Stewards' and Move- Workers' Committee ment. In 1917 a conference was held attended by represen- tatives from 23 such commit- tees, the main ones being in Shethield, the Clyde, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Elswick. Associate membership was established at Id a week, dis- trict committees were set up and also a National Adminis- trative Council. The movement ran two papers: "The Worker' and Solidarity' in Scotland south of the Tweed. Despite the conviction of 10,465 workers under the made Munitions Act, which strikes illegal in vital indus- tries, the strike wave grew. In engineering there were 58 strikes in 1916, 94 in 1917 and 132 in 1918. In shipbuilding there were ork 26 strikes in 1916, 49 in 1917 and 168 in 1918. And in coal mining there were 61 strikes in 1916, 116 in 1917 and 165 in 1918. In number of workers involved, the peak year was 1917-the year of the Russian Revolution.

In 1918 Tanner became the editor of 'Solidarity', which years later became the two paper of the Shop official and Workers' Com- Stewards' mittee Movement. The decisive conference in the history of that Movement was held in january 1920.

This conference welcomed the Russian Revolution; mis- takenly—a significant mistake!

that the British -declared workers' committees were the same as the Russian soviets, called on the TUC to lead a General Strike against inter- vention by the British govern- Soviet Union, ment the decided to join the Third (Communist) International, and ity' The Shop Stewards and Work- ers' Committee Movement de- cided to join the Third (Com- munist) International and elected three delegates to the Second World Congress. Lenin and the Bolshevik leaders had to be firm but patient with the syndi- calist leanings of many of the best workers from western Europe. Above: Lenin pictured Second World entering the Congress of the Third Interna- tional in July 1920 in Petrograd with other delegates. elected three delegates to the Second World Congress of the Communist International. These delegates were Tanner, Dave Ramsey and J. T. Murphy.

At this congress the Bol- shevik leaders had to be firm but patient with the syndicalist leanings of many of the best workers from western Europe.

Disgusted with the old poli- ticians, these workers tended to be distrustful of all politics, hostile to work with Social Democrats and against parlia- mentary elections. While seeking to explain political. questions to these workers, the leaders of the International insisted that only political parties could become part of the International. The therefore, section be a Com- British would have to munist Party-it could not be merely the shop stewards movement.

BOOK REVIEW

•Paupers: The making of the New Clalming Class'. Jordan. Routledge and Kogan Pou.

SELF-HELP

MEN

AND THE POOR

The idea of the poor as a capable of being class, organized to help them- selves, is a dangerous one. Yet in his book Bill Jordan "The working class is be- says: ing split into a high product- ivity sector represented by the trade unions and a have not sector which must represent itself.' He goes on: 'What is politely called the "poverty trap" combination of low wages, high prices and numerous renates for the which ensures poor, that the harder they work the worse they are-is creating a pauper class. He argues that not only, the Tories but Labour as well carry out economic policies which perpetuate this process. And he says, since a socialist revolution cannot be expected in the toreseeable future.

temselves. poor must act He writes: 'In the long run, the hopes for any obviously, major change in our economic and politıca svstem must rest on the combined efforts of the proletariat, comprising who e workers and claimants. run, however, in ine short there is good reason to suppose that if claimants wait for such HOC CIl Colle existence, to organize its cam- paign and to carry it out, they will wait for ever.' The bulk of this slim volume is devoted to a detailed des- cription of the workings of the Newton Abbot Claimants' Union, set up in 1971. Jordan has been secretary and treasurer of the union for three years, in between his duties as social a lecturer in work at Exeter University.

The Claimants' Union is opposed to all welfare pay- ments because it claims they perpetuate poverty. It wants guaranteed natonal mınımum income and full employment as guarantees that poverty will be erdoucated. Meanwhile the Union pushes for the maximum possible wel- fare and seeks to Wa yıllells alleviate the plight of its mem- through of •ens programnles self-help. Newton Abbot Claim- The ants' Union involved itself in allotment schemes and bulk- buying projects and the in early days, at least, it showed great interest in the so-called work-in Clyde at the upper Shipyards. This middle-class, liberal concept of the poor as a separ- ate class is dangerous ruboish.

Poverty will only be ended by socialism. But socialism will be built by never sectarian adventures into an updated of Victorian self-help which isolates the poor from the rest of the working class It means bulding the Marist revolutionary party to take the whole working class to power.

If Jordan does not realize this, it is because he does not understand capitalism or Marxism- -and he lacks even a shred of confidence in the working class to carry out the tasks required of them. Politburo member Vladi- mir Shcherbitskiy de. nounced 'shortcomings' among the Ukrainian cadres when he spoke to a plenum of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party on April 17. After dwelling on the im- portance of training leaders and specialists, he said that qualitatively • new tasks were being posed. 'More than ever he said, it is neces- before' sary to ensure that the lead- ing cadres should completely master modern methods of management and production organization, that they should feel the new look ahead and have the skill to find the best ways of solving practical tasks.'

This kind of talk only pre- pared the way for a denuncia- weaknesses in the tion of Ukranian organization and a too slow fulfilment of the dir- ectives of the 24th Congress of the CPSU. In the first quarter of the year targets had not been reached in labour productivity and profits. 'Insufficient use is being made to production cap- acities' Shcherbitskiy warned 'and not enough is being done to reduce material consump- tion and expand material and technical resources in an eco- nomical way.' He criticized a number of collective and state farms which had not improved yields and the productivity of cattle.

'Some of our cadres have proved inadequate for the solving of qualitatively new tasks', he complained. "Cer- leaders in the economic tain administration still follow the old ways, do not concentrate sufficiently on the long term and disregard the fact that present conditions-above all the need to speed up technical intensify production progress, and improve its effectiveness profound and -demand more qualified and scientific approach to work and every- day efficiency. He instanced the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy as branch of production which falling behind because was being ex- capacity was not panded in time and new tech- niques were not being adopted.

The current Five-Year Plan hopes to achieve about half the needed increase in labour productivity through the intro- of more advanced duction technology and improved The usually more subtle politi- cal control of

BBC

the revealed management was rather crudely recently when they axed one of the six pro- Easter Rising, 1916. grammes in the 'Assassination' series broadcast on Radio 4.

Programmes on the assas- sinations of Dollfuss, Trotsky and Lincoln had already been broadcast when it was realized that the next programme fell on Easter Sunday. And it dealt with the Phoenix Park Murders of 1882. One of the victims was equipment. Many plants are lagging seriously behind through 'inefficiency, sluggish- ness and conservatism'. Shcherbitskiy also com- plained that 'haste, unscrupu- and bureaucratic lousness treatment were widespread in industry and construction. He denounced the 'poor workers among the chairmen of collec- tive farms, directors of state farms and heads of agricultural organizations. He held out for special scorn the Voroshilovgrad area where agricultural deliveries were falling badly behind. "The standard of farming is low, crop rotation is not properly.

observed and seed-farming has been neglected', he said.

Turning to science, he said: A row has blown up in Chimbote, the main fish- ing port in Peru, over a subtle form of imperialist penetration. It is Foster Parents Inc, an organization that in appearance develops philanthropy through sponsors in the United States and Canada who send money to poor families. Details of Foster Parents Inc's activities came out after a conflict triggered off by the American heads of the project in Chimbote who opposed the formation of a union by their administrative staff. The employees denounced the organization's interference in the lives of 25,000 people, one-fifth of the total popula- tion of the fishing port.

The mechanism works by Lord Cavendish, British Secre- tary for Ireland. No doubt, it was felt by the men at the top that it might be indelicate to present the of a represen- assassination tative of British imperialism in Ireland on the day reserved for commemoration of the Easter Rising of 1916! Be that as it may, the Cavendish programme was substituted—without a word of apology or explanation-by a repeat of a programme on the Royal Choral Society.

More soothing on the nerves, after all. There's one thing you can say for the Tories in Preston, Lancs. They seem to have a tendency to blurt out what- ever is on their minds. The other day there was a row on Preston council over allegations that a plain-clothes police officer had been photo- graphing the town's May Day demonstration. Tory councillor Joe Hood got up to say that he could not see what the Labour councillors had to criticize. Anyone taking part in a pro- cession like this and walking Workers Prèss, T It is being negatively affected by the fact that leading posts in individual scientific estab- lishments are held by people who have lost contact with life and current demands.' All in all, Shcherbitskiy's diatribe, backed by the auth- ority of the Politburo, must have been a painful experience for many of his listeners whose competence was being own questioned. In the Ukraine the bureau- cracy has shown more than its usual mismanagement and mis- of appropriation resources. With the economic pressures piling up and opposition to its rule growing, the bureaucracy is trying desperately to put its own house in order. It is find- ing it difficult at the moment Foster Parents Inc arranging for one child of a poor family 'adopted' to be by foster parents, usually in the US. The adoptive parents, of course, may be genuine kindly people.

The child is not taken away from home, but the 'adoptive parents' send a regular sum of money family- to his through FPI. In Peru the quali- fication for acceptance is a monthly income of no more than $5. A further $5 will then be received every month, long as the recipient writes regularly to the 'Foster Parent'.

What happens, of course, is that the recipient family be- comes entirely dependent on this charity. But the process is not left to work on its own. The staff of the Chimbote office have revealed that local officers are behind the red flag should 'take the consequences' Perhaps local trade union- ists should ask Clir Hood to be a little more specific, and tell us just what 'consequen- ces' he has in mind? Now available from New Pa 186a Clapham High Street, • Prèss, Tuesday May 15, 1973 PAGE 9 even to achieve its own targets.

The Ukraine includes im- portant agricultural regions whose shortfalls in production have contributed to the food crisis which made it necessary last year to buy 14 million tons of grain in the capitalist countries. Shcherbitskiy called for a series of changes and improve- ments in the work of Party and state bodies and cadres intended to deal with the shortcomings which he had re- vealed. But the bureaucracy is in the grip of an insoluble crisis which cannot be overcome by a few reforms or changes in leadership. It is a parasitic layer in the workers' state which holds back the develop- ment of the productive forces and the achievement of the potential of the nationalized and planned economy. It is haunted by the fear of the working class and is frantically turning to the im- perialists to form a counter- revolutionary alliance. Belaunde: Admitted Foster Par- ents inc to Peru in 1965.

installed to operate the plan.

officers instruct These the recipient families on how to stay 'apolitical' and 'organize around their neighbourhood' the activities of the local FPI office. In Chimbote the beneficiaries of the plan were mobilized ir antı-union activities. But the Chimbote staff, supported by the unions, are demanding that of Peru. FPI be kicked out A meeting of recipients was organized by the local FPI director, Robert L. Jores, to try to halt the move, but failed.

Jores then wrote back to his United States head office complaining: 'What we are now confronting is a radical philo- sophy that states that all foreign aid must be rejected and when people feel hunger pangs and extreme deprivation, then they will rise up and destroy the established order and thus create a new society.'

However, the Ferrol Institute for Social Promotion and Studies stresses the mani- pulative power of the FPI plan Bolivia, notes that in and shortly before the 'fall of President Juan José Torres, the beneficiaries of a similar plan were mobilized in support of extreme rightist sectors.

Foster Parents Inc was admitted into Peru by the pro-US regime of Fernando Belaunde Terry in 1965. However, its tentacles reach throughout the world. It be- gan operations in Italy and Greece in 1945, in South Korea in 1953, in South Viet- nam in 1957, Hong Kong in 1959, the Philippines in 1961, Colombia in 1962, Ecuador in 1963 and Brazil in 1967. "To a considerable degree, ris- ing prices are a psychological phenomenon.' — Sir Arthur Cockfield, chairman Prices Commission, April 30, 1973.

By LEON TROTSKY Paperback. £1.00 Illustrated Sharp pen-portraits of leading figures of the Second Interna- tional in Russia and Europe, for the first time published in an English edition. The translations were first commissioned by the 'Keep Young Socialists' paper Left' Their enormous success has the of the led to completion translation of the whole book, which is the first part of Volume 8 of Leon Trotsky's 'Works" pub- Soviet Union in lished in the 1926. It provides the most vivid picture available of the historic figures of the • Second Inter- national, their strengths and weaknesses, written by an obser- ver who was also a participant in the daily struggle of the Euro- pean and Russian working class.

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Merseyside dockers dispute 'supplementaries' vote

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOI

LIVERPOOL DOCKERS ha anger at their shop steward accept recruitment of 'casual", in the port. A joint statement, issued on S unions and the Mersey Docks anc a clear indication of the dangers | The statement was drawn up within hours of a stormy mass meeting Liverpool at boxing stadium, where after a disputed vote the chairman, Jimmy Symes, declared the re- commendation to accept sup- plementaries carried. According to the joint state- ment, put out by Lew Lloyd, Transport and General Work- ers' Union district secretary, and MD&HC managing director George Brimyard, this decision indicates the determination both management and men to work together for the good of the port. 'Recruitment ', said Lloyd and Brimyard. 'We hope that soon the port of Liverpool will be back in fully competitive position and that we can go forward and pull in extra busi- ness? Stripped of its diplomatic phrases, this means that under the whip of the threatened trade loss from the port, the T&GWU is to co-operate in a new speed- up drive in Liverpool. The intention of this drive will be to win trade away from other ports, hanging the threat of redundancy dockers over there, too, and enabling the employers to use supplemen- taries as a lever for speed-up nationally. Slashed the Liverpool In essence, stewards have handed the em- ployers this lever because they not prepared to lead a were stand-up fight with government policy. For despite the massive cut in the docks labour force under the Jones-Aldington severance scheme, which slashed the Liver- pool register by almost 3,000, the Tories are adamantly refus- ing to allow any recruitment of permanent dockers. Both Maurice Macmillan, Secretary of State for Employ- and Transport Minister ment, John • Peyton are strongly back- ing the growth of the supple- register, from mentary which men can be fred at a week's notice. And they insisted that any problems of trade loss in Liverpool should be met this way. Sunday's decision, which was being watched closely by other in the area, employers paves the way for a new campaign to undermine the _ 1947 Dock Labour Scheme, which provides permanent dockers with a guarantee against arbitrary dis- missal. Uproar They can be sacked only for serious misconduct, and then only with the of agreement their union. Supplementaries, who can be dismissed either by their immediate employer or the Dock Labour Board, will cer- tainly be used to break down the traditional solidarity to which this has given rise. Even in advance of Sunday's meeting, local employers were looking to the recruitment of supplementaries on Merseyside to prepare the ground for a get- tough policy throughout local industry. Chamber of Commerce presi- dent R. W. Johnson told . the Chamber's annual meeting re- cently that labour relatiors on the docks profoundly influenced labour relations in other firms in the area. Hence the anger at Sunday's meeting. There uproar several was times during the meeting, which was attended by between 1,000 and 2,000 dockers. senior steward Dennis Kelly said that though

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ERS have every reason for stewards' recommendation to casual', supplementary dockers ued on Sunday by one of the men's ocks and Harbour Company, gives dangers looming ahead.

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dock shop stewards joined their em- ployers on a business trip to the The continent yesterday. Jimmy Symes, stewards, led by of Merseyside chairman dock- workers' shop stewards' Mersey mittee, were invited by Docks and Harbour Company to make a three-day tour of Bremerhaven Rotterdam. and They will meet German and Dutch union dockers and leaders to 'exchange ideas and compare methods'. the employers had agreed to add rotest and the chairman Jimmy to permanent register of Symes had to intervene dockers to recruit new the men, He said that over 2,800 dock- government had ruled it out.

ers had taken the Jones-Alding- Therefore, to stop cargo ton severance Liver- money in being diverted from Liverpool pool and there would be no which was happening because of 16 work at all in months if a shortage of labour, the supple- proper labour force was not kept had to mentaries be taken on up. the would be port under- His main worry, the stewards?

mined. chairman said, was not the 500 Ar on questions a shan t supplementaries but the jobs of roar of questions and shouts the 7,500 permanents. A MASS meeting of 1,000 construction workers at the Esso refinery, Fawley, voted yesterday to con- tinue their strike for bet- ter and conditions. pay They are to hold another meeting today. The men, who walked out last Thursday led their shop stewards' liaison com- mittee, are demanding repre- sentation in the negotiations which officials of the Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions are conducting for a new local with the eight different companies involved.

Dissatisfaction with past agreements has been steadily as the pressures 1n% of inflation and the attacks by employers and the Tory government on basic trade union rights have increased.

Fain Britain, the biggest refin- is notorious ery product- for the first major ivity deal signed in the late 1960s. It led to large scale con- cessions to the employers on speed-up, flex- work-study, ibility and other matters A section of the Fawley oll refinery.

from which the workers are still suffering. The men are mainly in the The revolt guerrilla st against the CSEU is partly a boilermakers', construc ional continued i result of this history. engineers, electricians, and Tommy transport workers' unions.

Last week, the stewards committee claimed that the

CSEU

Pickets tried to pre have been out were refusing even to deliveries an agreeme stopping to on- meet them. Phase site contractors and efforts A committee spokesman turned into are being made to pull out «We said: will go back to against other refinery workers. work as we get soon ment by recognition and satisfactory The Stalinist Liaison Com- plus, solutions to our problems. mittee the Defence for of evaded But if negotiations Trade fail, we Unions is trying to ance will strike hold back the growing mili- our holiday action? tancy by proposing selective which is no Workers Press, Tue Symes said that the leaflets being handed round by out- siders, saying the defend National Dock Labour Board scheme by rejecting the supple- mentaries, had got it wrong.

The only way to defend regis- tered dockers was by defending the continued existence of the port of Liverpool, which meant accepting the supplementaries.

Symes, turned aside, in a demagogic fashion, questions about whether recruiting supple- mentaries did not mean re- cruiting a potential scab force.

Would dockers' permit sons themselves to be used as scabs, he asked. Symes claimed there was a one-year guarantee of work for the 500 supplementaries to be recruited. This, he said, was much more than most Liverpool workers could get, especially the 70,000 unemployed and the building workers. And when the 12 months was pledged, he the stewards would fight for them to be re- cruited to the permanent regis- Symes then cashed in on some applause he got for his dema- speech gogic and moved the vote, despite further uproar and demands for more questions.

A large number of hands went up in favour of accepting the supplementaries, but an equally large number went up against. Some dockers thought the num- ber voting against was greater than those for. Symes declared the motion carried, and despite renewed up- roar and demands for a counted vote, he then closed the meeting.

When the meeting broke up, Symes left with another steward ın a car without commenting to the Press on the decision taken.

Other stewards also refused to comment. Communist Party supporters and 'lefts' have been in the van of trying to frighten dockers into accepting the supplementaries.

The future of dockers' hard- won rights and conditions, in- cluding the Dock Labour Scheme itself, now clearly rests on the fight to build a new, Marxist leadership. uerrilla strikes instead of a ontinued all-out stoppage.

Tommy Copeland, strike ommittee chairman, has ried to prevent the fight for n agreement outside of the Two being norms urned into a political fight Tory gainst the govern- ent by suggesting that the I plus 4 per cent can be winning attend- bonuses and special oliday and overtime rates, hich is not the case. ress, Tuesday May 15, 1973 PAGE 11

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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 Clvic Hall, Jarrow 7.30 p.m. Monday May 21 The Sociallst 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 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.

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engineering ell- ployers held secret talks in March with Sir John Donald- son, president of the National Industrial Relations Court.

The talks, which were about the Industrial Relations Act, took place two days after the TUC's first clandestine meeting with Heath over Phase Three of the state pay laws. Eight days later Hugh Scan- lon, president of the engineers' union, told the Parliamentary Press Gallery that a deal could be struck with the Tories over pay in return for amendments to the Industrial Relations Act.

Engineering Employers' The Federation yesterday denied that PROFESSIONAL civil servan yesterday launched a bitter treme elements' in the civil seri In a speech which opens the door Press witch-hunt inside the civil se elements were out to ex- ploit real grievances for dis..

ruptive purposes. They commanded negligible influence in his own organiza- tion, he said. But they were more numerous in other civil service unions. McCall, who is general secre- tary of the Institution of Protes- sional Civil Servants, was opening the IPCS annual conference in Scarborough. The union leader, who made clear his remarks were directed at left-wingers, launched this at- two days after the tack proscription, by the APEX con- ference in the same town, of the International Socialism group.

Workers Press insisted yester- day that the decision of APEX, the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer and Staff, bad, wrong was 'All dangerous. trade unionists who value their basic rights in the unions should combine in the broadest possible faction to re- it and throw out this verse reactionary, anti-socialist leader- ship, we insisted. The same must apply to the IPCS leadership, which last week Private police: A NEW Tory-backed Bill before the House of Commons would give private security firms like Securicor the power to search property and individuals and use force if necessary. The new powers will be con- ferred by the Protection of Air- craft Bill, which is now passing through committee stage. The Bill is aimed at tightening up aircraft security. But Hack- central Labour MP Mr ney Stanley Clinton Davis is con- cerned that its provisions will be extended and abused. His main complaint is that un- like the regular police, members of private security firms are not directly accountable for their actions to parliament. All Trades Unions Alliance Meeting What next after the miners' ballot ? The fight against the Tory government

CASTLEFORD

Thursday May 17, 8 p.m. Sagar Street Rooms Speaker: G. Healy (SLL national secretary) esday May 15, 1973 it has proposed amendments to the Act at its meeting with Donaldson. Said an EEF spokesman: "The about the meeting was really working of the Act and the court.' But he confirmed that the meeting had taken place, on March 20. And he revealed that those taking part in the meeting were director-general Martin Jukes, another EEF official, Sir John Donaldson and officers of servants' leader, Bill McCall, bitter attack on 'sinister, ex- ivil service. the door to a Tory government and e civil service, McCall claimed such AFTER APEX Presi- member Fr dent Dennis Howell MP insisted tha ization shor had told the union's raised alons at Scar- conference question of borough yesterday that Earlier, pensions should be the had number one priority, a Williams MI call for nationalization the Tories n all insurance rassed' by th of com- panies was defeated. Relations Liverpool Central were wishin said that only not impleme branch 'as Righi such a measure, of a socialist Williams, ho part the delegat approach to pensions', achieve could Labour the union's objective. would "anti-inflatior But executive council complained that registration un- der the Industrial Relations Act would turn it into an 'authori- tarian' organization but now comes forward to aid the Tory authors of that Act. McCall attacks the left, but lets the Tories, who recently cut his members' pay rise, off the BACKING for the nationaliza- tion of Rolls-Royce Motors with- out compensation came yester- Association of day from the Technical and Scientific, Man- agerial Staffs conference, which congratulated Anthony Wedg- wood Benn for his 'defence of the public interests'. MINERS on the day shift re- turned to work yesterday at the disaster-hit Seafield colliery, Fife, as the operation to recover the bodies of miners lost in two Thursday's roof fall continued.

A Coal Board spokesman said there was no indication yet when the bodies would be reached. Teams are still working six-hour shifts throughout the day and

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Sohyo, the four-million strong TUC of public workers—railway- office employees, men, post teachers and civil servants-then announced a plan of massive dis- ruptions not contemplated since the 1960 protests against the Japan-US Security Treaty.

This huge unrest resulted in the fall of Premier Kishi.

A Sohyo statement called for: • Use of the 'one-day strike struggle formula on a repeated scale to crush the government's move. • An appeal to all opposition parties, four labour organiza- servative and Unionist Associa- 'Labour tion. According to was an active mem- Weekly, he ber up to 1966. In booklet, •A Giant's Strength, which formed the basis of the association's evi- Commis- dence to the Donovan the court. 13-point plan sion, was pro- He claimed: 'We did not make posed which would have made any proposals at all'. But he dis- political strikes a l criminal closed that the EEF left Donald- stiff offence and imposed penal- discussion document, son breach of a ties on strikers prepared for a federation work- code of conduct. new ing party examining the Act. Last April, during the rail- The document left with the Donald- waymen's work-to-rule, NIRC president, the EEF says, son telephoned the BBC to stress discusses various contentious the risk of contempt issues in the Act. if allowed to workers were was once a leading advocate defiance of the court Donaldson light in the Inns of Court Con- in interviews. Fred Donkin She believed that now International Socialists, Britain in the general secretary Roy that national- was Market, Grantham he should be Common claimed not Labour MPs should par- Vic with the had written to along institu- Feather who had re- estion of pensions. ticipate in its plied to the effect that conference tions. Shirley Labour was not proscribed. heard govern- should But Feather had had illiams MP state that ment, she said, do im- i hesitation in 'embar- not be asked to no were possible things. demning of their 'sed' by the Industrial It could out activities at meetings he Act and Carry attended had and that wishing they had four or five major re- Williams their activi- t implemented it. forms, claim- to expose but did ties would be a help. winger ed, she not reference back, however, told mention nationalization. The moved by Leeds delegates that Urging delegates to General reject a reference back branch, was government of the executive lost by majority of introduce an ti-inflation' policy. cil's proscription of the about two-to-one. this right-winger is hook. secretary, preparing a rod for his own back His attack, in the tradition of and that of the entire trade union all witch-hunts, based on no 1S movement. facts, gives evidence for its по it calculated slanders and to He must be made to withdraw publicity. maximum in achieve his attack - which can only the capitalist mass media.

attack strengthen the Tory on APEX's democratic rights in the unions-- Like Roy Grantham, or get out of office. pro-Common Market general Bartholomew Burns, wanted in connection with an explosives want him case. They extradited from the Republic. reach the bodies of night to Tom Angus Guthrie (20) and Provision-

JOE CAHILL,

former men died Kilpatrick (38). Five als IRA chief of staff in Belfast, and four were hurt when part of was among three Irishmen found the coal face roof caved in.

'Claudia' the when arrested for she was carrying alleged in

STIRLING

Metals, Nuneaton, explosives, was Dublin Special Court yesterday. that if the workers are saying company does not the reinstate 25 fettlers they sacked last Fri-

RORY

O'BRADY,

Provisional piecework dispute, day Sinn Fein released was the whole factory must walk out.

from the Curragh prison camp after near Dublin, yesterday GLASGOW police have issued a serving most of a six-month sen- for the the tence for being a member of the warrant arrest in Republic of Ireland of Father

IRA.

struggle being mounted by the tions, democratic societies, citizens' and scholars socialist communist-con- groups, intellectuals to establish a system trolled Sohyo. for a joint struggle against the The Tanaka government is in government's move. critical economic bother: the yen • Work tenaciously to bring the has been twice revalued in the downfall of the Tanaka Cabinet.

months by 18 total of past more than 37 per cent and Japan's The statement said the ruling being shut out of the goods are 'seeks to maintain the dic- party States R United and Wesler tatorship of the conservative Europe the trade war as party • worsens. The major TUC in private in- dustry, Kormei, has so far At the same time the cruelly- re- fused join exploited working class to protests, — Its une although it is clear from the and conditions well wages are interviews that I've had below those of workers in the many with car workers, industrial wor- capitalist other major countries demanding kers and shipyard workers, that decent wages, much-improved they identify with the partial housing and a

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