Workers Press no. 1074

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

TRADE BALANCE STILL IN THE RED

GRIPS MONEY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSL

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CEN

BY JOHN SPENCER

OUR FOREIGN EDITOR

AS THE British balance of trade again registered a huge deficit yesterday, the price of gold continued to rise on the London market. The morning fixing set the price of the metal at $lll an ounce. This means that in less than three days the price of gold has $11 and with gone over dollar-holders all over the world issuing orders to buy gold at any it could well price rise even higher. At the same time the dollar is in decline against all European currencies and the Nixon admini- has been pushed stration into issuing denials that another de- valuation is contemplated.

"The situation is more dangerous than in February.' said the foreign of one US bank. exchange dealer "The quotes are highly volatile on indi- sometimes very low volume, complete mistrust of cating the dollar.' system and the monetary Sterling is at its highest level the the pound against dollar since was floated in June last year.

This itself great problems in poses for US British to the crucial exports market. Euphoria It makes nonsense of Tory at- whip entirely tempts to up an euphoria on the basis that

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he April trade deficit is dowr com- pared with March figure-which in Tories itself indicates that the are clutching at straws. The official figures published yes- terday by the Department of Trade showed a visible trade deficit of £45m last month compared with a revised deficit of £205m in March.

The Department claimed that ex- ports were up by £77m to a record £954m and imports were down £83m to £999m. Invisible earnings, from shipping, insurance and tourism, £56m. were figures come only 24 The hours after the announcement ent of a $10.200m quarterly gold rush can only come from deficit in the United payments Washington. But with his ad- States, caused largely by the rush falling ministration about his of dollars out of the country in and his reputation ears own the monetary crises earlier this Nixon deeply compromised, year. incapable of taking any such The absence of stability in the action inner circles of the American reels from government as Recession scandal scandal to has throughly undermined any re- The dissension in the Ameri- maining confidence in the dollar class and the can ruling para and destroyed any prospect of lysis in Washington ensure that restoring the slightest stability to the gold panic will continue and the monetary system. drive the capitalist world eco- move towards concerted Any nomy towards all-out recession international to halt the with great speed. action INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MAY 17, 1973 • No 1074 • 4p

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STALINISM—a new series by Michael Banda starts in Monday's Workers Press - Order your copy now 01-622 7029 JOB CUTS of between 14,000 forecast in awaited report on the future shipbuilding, published yesterday. súbstantial Though predicting growth in world demand for shipping- grounds the con- -On sultants who prepared it are un- able explain-the to report is extremely pessimistic about the British industry. International is competition becoming increasingly it severe, Capital support of says. to UD £250m by 1977 will be needed to 39,000 of the pre- maintain even sent 50,000 jobs in the merchant shipbuilding yards. The government's attitude to the report has been yet not decided, Industrial Devel- claims Minister Christopher Chataway, but he will not deny that cuts of the order predicted are on the cards. • Details, page 11.

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COMMITTAL proceedings against A journal of international Marx- 'Belfast 10' the begin at ism published by the Inter- Lambeth magistrates' court on national Committee of the Fourth Monday. The ten were arrested Spring 1973 International following bomb explosions out- Contents include: side the Old Bailey on March 8. Ceylon: The Centrism of Bala the One of defendants is seen Tampoe from wagon as waving a police By a Ceylon correspondent it left the court yesterday.

April Dictatorship: The Tasks of The 'Ten' Dolores Price are: the Greek Trotskyists (22), Marian Magdalen Price Resolution of the 5th McNearney (19), Roisin (18), Congress of the Workers William Patrick McLarnon (19), International League Robert Martin Walsh (24), Gerard Martin Several translations of Kelley (19), Francis Brady (22), Paul Joseph articles from the German Trotskyist newspaper Der Funke Holmes (25), William Joseph (29) and Hugh Armstrong Italy's New Fascists Feeney (21). By Stephen Johns

LENIN AND

TROTSKY WRITING

• THE

Belfast Ten Defence

ON EUROPE

Committee is organizing a march and six International Committee from Clapham Common to Brix- statements ton prison on Saturday, moving off at 2 p.m.

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

TRADE BALANCE STILL IN THE RED

GRIPS MONEY

INCORPORATING THE NEWSL

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CEN

BY JOHN SPENCER

OUR FOREIGN EDITOR

AS THE British balance of trade again registered a huge deficit yesterday, the price of gold continued to rise on the London market. The morning fixing set the price of the metal at $lll an ounce. This means that in less than three days the price of gold has $11 and with gone up over dollar-holders all over the world issuing orders to buy gold at any it could well price rise even higher. At the same time the dollar is against European in decline all currencies and the Nixon admini- has been stration pushed into issuing denials that another de- valuation is contemplated.

'The situation is more dangerous said the foreign than in February,' of one US bank. exchange dealer *The quotes are highly volatile on volume, indi- sometimes very low of cating complete mistrust the dollar.' monetary system and the is at its highest level Sterling dollar the pound against the since was floated in June last year.

This itself great problems for in poses US British to the crucial market. Euphoria It makes nonsense of Tory at- whip an entirely tempts to up euphoria on the basis that he April trade deficit is down com pared with March figure-which in itself indicates that the Tories are clutching at straws. The official figures published yes- terday by the Department of Trade showed a visible trade deficit of £45m ast month compared with a revise leficit of £205m in March claimed that ex The Department by f77m to a recor ports were up £954m and imports were down £83m to £999m. Invisible earnings, from insurance wipe n96m. and tourism, were the heres come ent of hours announcement 510,200m balance. of rush can only come from United But with his ad- falling his ministration about out of the country and in ears his reputation own the monetary crises earlier this deeply compromised. Nixon is year. incapable of taking any such action. The absence of stability in the inner circles of American the it government reels from Recession scandal scandal has throughly undermined any re- The dissension in and the Ameri- maining confidence in the dollar class para- and destroyed any rospe lysis in storing the slightest stability the gold panic will continue and the monetary system. world drive the capitalist eco- nomy towards all-out recession international with great speed. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MAY 17, 1973 • No 1074 • 4p

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'Belfast 10' demo planned All Trades Unions Alliance Meeting What next after the miners' ballot ? The fight against the Tory government

CASTLEFORD

TONIGHT, 8 p.m. Sagar Street Rooms Speaker: G. Healy (SLL national secretary) MAY 17, 1973 • No 1074 • 4p

• OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

YESTERDAY'S post brought almost £200 from Socialist Labour League branches: Watford £11.30; Tottenham Tooting £8; Paddington £25; £7; Liverpool (Speke) £10; Jarrow £4.50; Cambridge Oxford £25.75; £28.90: Leicester £10; Glasgow North £19.50; Glasgow South £7.20; Coventry £30.

Vauxhall car workers, Luton £5. The total is now £27,452.02. Keep the pressure up Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4

TROTSKYISM AND

STALINISM—a new series by Michael Banda starts in Monday's Workers Press - Order your copy now 01-622 7029 JOB CUTS of between 14,000 and 25,000 within five years forecast in the long- are awaited report on the future of shipbuilding, published yesterday. súbstantial Though predicting growth in world for demand shipping-on grounds the con- sultants who prepared it are un- able explain-the report is extremely pessimistic the about British industry. International competition is becoming increasingly it severe Capital says. support of to up £250m by 1977 will be needed to even 39,000 of the pre- maintain sent 50,000 jobs in the merchant shipbuilding yards. The government's attitude to the report has not been vet decided, claims Industrial Devel- Minister Christopher opment Chataway, but he will not deny cuts of the order predicted that are on the cards. • Details, page II.

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COMMITTAL proceedings against A journal of international Marx- the 'Belfast 10' will beain at published ism by the intor Lambeth national Committee of the Fourth magistrates' court Monday. The ten were arrested International Spring 1973 following bomb explosions out. Contents include: side the Old Bailey on March 8. One of the defendants Ceylon: The Centrism of Bala is seen Tampoe waving from wagon as By a Ceylon correspondent it left the court yesterday.

April Dictatorship: The Tasks of The "Ten' are: Dolores Price the Greek Trotskyists ...

(22), Marian Magdalen Price Resolution t McNearney (19), Roisin (18), Conaress of the Workers William Patrick McLarnon (19), International League (24), Robert Martin Walsh Gerard Martin Several translations. of Kelley (19). Francis Brady (22), Paul Joseph articles from the German Trotskyist newspaper Der Funke Holmes William (25), Joseph Armstrong (29) and Hugh Italy's New Fascists Feeney (21). By Stephen Johns

LENIN AND TROTSKY WRITING

Ten

• THE

Belfast Defence

ON EUROPE

Committee is organizing a march and six International Committee from Clanham Common to Brix- statements on Saturday. moving ton prison off at 2 p.m.

Stalinists aid military repression of Peruvian Trotskyists PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday May WITH the full backing of the Communist Party, the Peru- vian military junta has begun a savage repression against the Liga Comunista, Peruvian sec- tion of the International Com- mittee of the Fouth Inter- national. A letter to the Socialist La- bour League from the central committee of the Liga Comunista describes the open collaboration Lt-General • Juan between Velasco's government and the united in Stalinists who are hatred and fear of the their revolutionary party. In their letter the Liga Com- unista say: Our organization is at the moment being very harshly attacked. The police apparatus is busy hunting out our comrades.

The two comrades in the lead- ership are in prison and their

BY OUR OWN CORR

MAOISTS still plan to demo chief Leonid Brezhnev's visit 1 pite a gigantic police crackdow Two thousand demonstrated in night against the police raids on the Communist Party of Germany (KPD/AO), the League Against Imp Christian Semler party leader escaped police net.

THE THIEU regime in South Vietnam re-appointed Nguyen Van Ve as Colonel director of the notorious 'tiger cage' prison on Con Son Island.

Colonel Ve was director of the prison in 1970 when two first un- American Congressmen covered the cramped underground cages used to house political prisoners, many of whom were permanently crippled by the ordeal. Ve tried to prevent the Con- gressmen from seeing the cages and the ensuing publicity forced the regime to relieve him of his post. After Thieu undertook to re- move the cages, they were re- placed by others smaller even which were built to specification by the American firm RMK-BRJ.

rsday May 17, 1973 future, like that of the rest of the Central Committee, is un- certain. Our Press has been destroyed and now completely we are clandestine. Repression has been only against us, unleashed not but also against centrist organi- and isolated cadres of zations the CP, who are being arrested, kidnapped and held incommuni- cado. Every right of individual freedom is being violated.

All constitutional guarantees have been suspended in Arequipa and Moquegua, the provincial leaders of the latter have been arrested. A General Strike is imminent in Cuzco and Puno in support of Arequipa and Moque- who are fighting for the gua patriation of a deported leader,

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• demonstrate against Soviet s visit to West Germany, des- ackdown on their organization.

rated in West Berlin on Tuesday aids on the homes of members of Germany/Construction Organization ainst Imperialism and the Commun- ist Student League (KSV).

The police action swept through the whole of West Germany and West Berlin. At least four people were arrested, including Jürgen Horlemann, one of the KPD/AO's leaders.

The raids and arrests were based on paragraph 129 of the Criminal Code, concerning crimi- nal organizations. Police were still searching for a 32-year-old British news agency correspondent, who is supposedly a close friend of KPD/AO leader Christian Semler (34), who also appears to have escaped from the police.

'RINGLEADERS'

Homes were searched in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Frank- furt, Cologne and Munich. State Ludwig Martin an- attorney nounced on Tuesday that raids on the three organizations had taken place. Members of these organizations MEMBERS of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's nuclear planning group have called for field commanders to be given greater freedom to use nuclear weapons on their own initiative. Defence Ministers, chiefs of staff, ambassadors tó NATO and other high officials of the United West: Germany, States, Italy, Canada, and Turkey attended the meeting in Ankara earlier this week.

The meeting heard a report by the US assistant secretary for defence, Robert Hill, who briefed them on the latest state of the strategic and tactical balance of the nuclear powers between east and west. He showed the meeting 'highly- confidential' fims and photo- graphs of new Soviet develop- ments in strategic and tactical nuclear weapons, according to a spokesman for the group. proposals for giving The a worker in the mine in Moque- is gua (Cuajone). His name Hernan Cuentas and he is a member of the POMR la centrist group]. The repression has been un- leashed because of against us difficulties of the CP in the getting rid of us. The facts we have plus the mentioned an- nouncement that strikes will be inter- subject to government vention and the gains of retire- ment benefits are to be cut back show the seriousness of the pro- blem facing Stalinism and the dictatorship. The latter had to publish communique through the CGTP which we were explicitly accused of being CIA agents and our repression was called for.

A KPD demonstration In. Dortmund, searched during police raids.

accused of being ring- were leaders or members of a group whose aims and activities were directed towards carrying out illegal activities under paragraph 129. The KPD/AO is a Maoist group which had called for demonstrations against Brezhney.

• These raids were clearly in preparation for the Soviet leader's visit to Bonn in three days' time.

The Brandt government is determined to prevent any pos- sible disturbances to the talks with Brezhnev. But as one capi- in Germany talist newspaper pointed out, there is another side to these arrests. The pro-Russian Stalinist Ger- Communist Party (DKP) man

BY A FOREIGN CORF

greater latitude to field comman- ders are being advanced under the pretext of combating what the military describe as 'bureau- cratic delay'. Their argument is that in com- bat conditions there will not be enough time to wait for a poli- tical' (i.e., government) decision if tactical nuclear weapons are used by the 'other side'.

In practice, of course, the decision launch nuclear weapons is in the hands of the military anyway. The US army equipment has standard an 'atomic bazooka', the Davy Crockett, which can be fired by • two men. NATO has never been able to They destroy and want to us have their hands free. We are determined that they will never do this! We have behind us almost all of the south of the country which is on strike, and strikes are spreading through Lima. The Socialist Labour League unequivocally denounces and condemns the military repression against the Liga Comunista.

We call on all sections of the British labour movement to de- mand the immediate release of the imprisoned members of the Liga Comunista and an end to the anti-working-class repression in Peru. In view of the role played in preparing and launching this re- ortmund, where Maoists' homes were has a greater chance to present itself in the eyes of the government and the people, as a respectable organization' 'Frankfurter according to the Allgemeine Zeitung'.

WITCH-HUNT

The Communist Party has already supported the witch-hunt in the unions, launched by the union bureaucrats in the West German

TUC

(DGB)

against these very same organizations.

Now they are clearly aligned with the forces of law and order in the Brandt government who want to join with the Moscow Stalinists in action against the working class.

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devise a fool-proof system which would prevent these two men from launching the missile against the wishes of the head of state under combat conditions. The demand from the military tor wider powers over the use of nuclear weapons is especially ominous in the light of recent reports about the development of 'mini-nukes' , small-scale atomic weapons which, it is claimed, can delivered with pin-point precision. It is yet another sign that the ruling class is getting prepared behind the scenes to unleash World War Ill to halt the revo- lutionary upheaval against its rule. pression by the Peruvian Sta- linists, we demand to know the position of the British Com- munist Party on this question.

The British Stalinists recently refused to unite in defence of democratic rights with basic the Socialist Labour League and other organizations. Will they now condemn the counter-revolutionary measures of the Peruvian junta or do they stand with the jailers and tor- turers of the military regime?

Resolutions from trade union branches and shop stewards committees demanding the re- lease of the imprisoned Peruvian Trotskyists and all other victims of the Velasco repression should be sent to the Peruvian Em- bassy, 52 Sloane Square, S.W.l.

BY OUR OWN

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MORE than 300,000 trade unionists and students jam- med downtown Tokyo yes- terday in the first wave of demonstrations against the Japanese government's de- cision to change the electoral laws. Traffic was brought to a stand- still as the columns of marchers through poured the heavily- guarded streets. The riot police were out in full strength. They carried full- length shields, batons and wore crash helmets fitted with special gas and missile prevention visors.

They were backed up by water television monitor- cannon and ing vans which filmed the entire it to con- march and relayed trol points. The marcher were in a bois- terous mood. They sang labour slogans, linked arms and did the 'snake dance', blew whistles and waved placards saying: 'Smash the small electoral constituency system' and Down with the Tanaka Cabinet.' A spokesman for the National Police Agency said this week's demonstration the largest was since the left-wing rallies in 1971 on the return of Okinawa to Japanese rule. The biggest demonstration will be on Friday when Sohyo, the TUC of the public service unions, has called a one-day General Strike by its 4 million members. This protest will be joined by members of the four opposition parties who are at present boy- cotting parliamentary pro- all ceedings. Premier Kakuei Tanaka has aroused this deep indignation in the labour and union trade movement by announcing his intention of forcing through changes in the electoral system aimed at perpetuating his Liberal Democratic's Party's 20-year rule. The opposition has labelled this barefaced gerrymander an attack cen the Constitutions and a 'violation of democracy'.

With parliament paralysed and a one-day General Strike called Tanaka is showing for Friday, no signs of retreating for the proposed legislation. He has declared that he will extend the present Diet (parliament) from May 20 to handle the debate on the new laws.

Workers Prese, Thuraday May 17, 1973 PAGE 3 Comment by Alex Mitchell on Heath's Lonrho outburst Premier Heath has hit the don't have •tell a Cambodian their wages are cut, their cost to of The savagery of the regime he has peasant that capitalism is ugly.

He living rises the now created in Northern suit Ireland is Lonrho directors over the head enormously lo feels it every day as American B52s profits of the food merchants, the a warning that he will not shirk from with his handbag. He has called pound his homeland. rents and mortgage payments be- employing the barbarous

LOSI

Meanwhile, down at the old Water-: the Lonrho boardroom fight the come more éxorbitant, lạws are powers of the military to defend the gate, the White House perpetrators enacted aimed at smashing the basic profits and privileges of his friends ugly and unacceptable face of of this wholesale murder 'des- and rights of trade unionists.

in the ruling. class. capitalism. exposed About as corrupt these ugly and unaccept- Away with Heath's humbuggery! ale able faces of capitalism Heath says twisters. Away with ugly and unacceptable Tory judging from yesterday's Do you have to tell an American nothing. And why should he? After capitalism by the mass mobilization Press you would think that Heath worker that capitalism is immoral?

all, Heath is the leader of the most of the working class to force the had made the profoundest statement Tory Heath's Nearer home, sudden Heath government out of office.

reactionary government since of the epoch. But what was new moral outburst is revealed even more the war. In the three years since he Join with us in the transformation it? Sure, about capitalism iS ugly; clearly as a hypocritical stunt.

came to power it has launched of the Socialist Labour League into sure it's unacceptable. British workers and their families after attack attack on the working revolutionary party which will The working all class over the are persistently hammered by class as a desperate defence of the lead the working class to power and Lilt world is well aware of this fact.

You exploitative nature of capitalism: capitalist system it represents.

the establishment of socialism.

Capitalism's ugly face

EDWARD HEATH

RICHARD NIXON

GEORGES

JOHN POULSON

BRIGADIER

REGINALD

POMPIDOU

FRANK KITSON

MAUDLING

Broadstairs-born Born organist. in Quaker town of Pontefract-born architect.

Recently increased California Built largest practice in Auvergne At public vvnittier. Born in region school slept rormer unancelor from £14,000 to Wanted to join after Europe. salar of France. Exchequer, Home Secre- ine moor to develop opar- £22,000. law school but opted for Went bankrupt two years Took no part in resistance tan qualities. tary and deputy Prime Established martial law politics. to Nazis. Spent war According to bankrupty Last l mee concept Master after Senator Joe drunken sailor, No mem Leane became, ing on anthology of French Forced leave Heath Coner cans Intere torture and intern- McCarthy, America's most poetry. liberation movements and Cabinet in wake of Scot- ment regime there notorious anti-communist. court QC. Joined the French Roth- assassinate leaders. Industrial Rela- defeat pre- schilds and became man- Squad now investi- moduced AILer rave kind of Decorated tor this group with rouison and state pay jointed gating his empire.

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siaential election director Kenya, Malaya, which he was closely WOrk laws. law firm with John Mit- Friends include Dan Appointed premier by de Cyprus and Northern Ire- associated. Lives luxuriously; recently chell, his Attorney-General ('Mr Gaulle in land Newcaste also connected mauline •Reginald Maudi georgie new now His linked Promoted of the infantey Heath 2Bernard Bernard: Kenyon, with now-bankrupt real £45,000 and has a private Watergate scandal. Alain and founder of 'Deloin Train- nece to him trim. Responsible for Pottinger Albert masseur keep heaviest Roberts, also in business scandals ing School at Warminster.

outfit in all tor director Brown which rocked his Labour MP. for Normanton

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evel i mistory last America. Shipley merchant bank. -North Vietnam. shadow cabinet minister, Maudling is wine fancier Dog lover. Anthony Crosland.

-A LETTER FROM MONTY JOHNSTONE

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paperbacks May 2, 1973 we carried it back democratically MY the full congress- has been a vote Today we publish a letter which unlike the SLL's confer- orawn lo Charges ences was held in public.

your issues of February and received from Monty March 14. These centre are (4) Slaughter's allegation that the Johnstone of the British to justity the decision

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Lo ence wanicu doubuc debate me from all SLL public meetings 1968 Communist Party. A reply but that the Com- since -at a time when, with would not entertain League irony, the publicly will be published in due ompletely at with variance the Callincol he facts. If he looks at the fron to join with it in a campaign to course. page of 'Keep Left' of January end all bans and proscriptions in Stop Press item: Sheila Torraine, 1969 will following the labour

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have not the past the Young tet Nanonal secretary ol the naive belief trials on thạt any useful would Socialists, informs "Keep Left" that it was not conceivable that that. Monty served by attempting Johnstone invited workers states. would engage to a public debate on Trotskvism.'

answer vour menamous dersonal _e.g. such macia moroers (see, allegations, most which by my letter •Morning Star their nature very are not sus- 1972). I am not clear anuary 3]

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proposed ceptible In these changed the title to verticallon. on where SLL Central Committe "Trotskyism and Stalinism'.

Since Two Issues nowever cerrain state.

members Slaughter Kemp and ments fact ahecked. lt Th which then has have Marxist more 'acceptable' consistentiv retused readily be checked. on own original -all public debate

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title, or to take up the suggestion these that i wish to set the record of their reasons for. defendins straight. debates two these trials over exactly the same separate period as I did—a fact that and Stalinism respec Teleca (1) You alleged in both text and you As far as I am concerned from nive V.i photo caption that I supported wUul

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the offer stands. preposterous the trial and sentence of Soviet slaugnters Igneous "inalgnacior • preconditions debate about my attitude in the Stalin writers Daniel and Sinyavsky SLL in the period (Workers Press, March 14).

ine contrary 1s the case ave orm of a public Vishinsky-type consistently expressed my com- (3) To back his allegation that confession of my mythical career plete including in disapproval, Stalinist special as a teenaged Stalinist agent shor Night Line. Du television s Lalt Slaughter refers tot the clearly who afraid of quite discussion the trial on 'behind-the-scenes' report and public debate. November 19, 1969 Party Reference the above four Communist

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(2) You alleged that I have 'still items of demonstrable fact should That workers Press [myl support of the on November 29, 1969, This be sufficient to cast doubt in the alleged that that mind of reasonable Kalk Tact

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congress, any person 28 charlotte st more than 17 years. condemned Machiavellian on the veracity of such phantas.

Some allance innumerable publicly ment with the Party leadership, magoric obviously unveri- ano proceeded 'after sham fight fiable assertions as that I joined london wl occasions as frame-up—not indeed in my 1968 Cogito 'mistake' the to persuade most of the delegates Communist TrOM oranenes trotsky, to which vour March calline Czechoslake ntasian sis (at age of …tha 10)-0r attack refers, I Czechoslovak 1943, at the of 14, invasion to year age rehabilitation one the before the

RCP

was formed, withdraw LuCI factors undermining the credibility This allegation completely the SLL's organ. 'The Newsletter' 19641 All the dozen or claimed on November 14, or use moscow untrue. sitating the withdrawal of the branches, trust that delegates from such will be pre- criminal charges against Trotsky Resolutions consideration WIno were 101 34-35). (Pp. Committee with me, will testify your readers, to publish this Moreover I have quite openly that exactly the the in full. opposite was letter Yours fraternally -6 p.m NOW OPEN Monday 10 Thursday 9 in my argument on both sides rererred ane case. „lne error in having till 1955 defended was hard-hitting and genuine, and Monty Joanstone fudays hale honi Saturdays 9 a.m--5 p.m.

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Extract from the policy resolution adopted unanimously by 2,200 delegates and visitors at the All Trades Unions Fellow trade unionists, comrades and friends we address you with this urgent call to action: PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday May 17, 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 government frontation with the which is pledged by the mass workers are forced to action of the working class to defend their standard implement socialist policies.

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

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

Fair Trading Act and all wage 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 the changes in to implement the Charter of legal procedures made the by Basic Rights, along the follow- 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 Tory adminis- secrets of the be guaranteed. This can 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 and Employed economy. un- must be guaranteed. employed must unite to insist The Labour government na- struggle must begin Ond tionalizing the main industries now. No closures, no sackings, and banks, under workers' must be the policy of the trade control and without compen- Occupation of fac- unions. sation. tories threatened with closure, (I joined the YCL as a teen- ager convinced of the cause of the working class, but not educated politically.

But after three years in the Salford branch I could honestly say that had my development hardly improved. used to attend meetings but no one lina Jarvis is a young house a fight with took up me to vife the wife of building the Marxist read important worker-from Prestwich, north works and become active in Manchester. Her introduction the working-class movement. politics was through the The branch revolved to largely Young Communist League around three people and when she at 16. they left for which various joined reasons it disintegrated. characteristic of the Stalinist movement is their inability to I think really the older layer build a youth movement and in the Communist Party are Tina's own experience is testi- afraid of the youth. this fact. Youth The first time I really took mony to in the YCL are not developed as up a serious study of political Marxists political literature was in the League. to take Once leadership, but are used, at we did get advice on most, as a stage army for the what to read in the CP but it reformist amtitions said party's was mainly novels-they The Stalinists therefore find it books like 'Sons and Lovers', impossible develop a seri- 'Catcher Rye' and to in the ous cadre among young work- 'Grapes of Wrath' were worth and students. Tina des- reading. ers became Eventually, I suppose mebeber of the ne bigammed cribes be- cause of this, I dropped out, Middleton branch of but I had no specific disagree- the Socialist Labour League. ments. I spent two very frus- unanimously by 2,200 delegates and visitors at th ober 22, 1972. Is we address you with this urgent call to action: vernment is relentlessly pursuing its plan for a con- 1 the working class. Fach day new sections of rced to become criminals — under Tory law—to andard of living against government-inspired soaring s of these workers openly acknowledge that the only fight to maintain a decent standard of living is a That is, the creation of the industrial and political h will force the government to resign.

as part of the fight to bring ernment cut in welfare bene- down the Tories. fits, the health service and in in all public spending must 5) The right to a higher stan- be revoked. On the basis of dard of living. It is not the nationalization, a crash pro- of living standards trade of expansion of ser- gramme but the profit sys- unionists, vices to the unemployed, the which causes the crisis. tem, low-paid, the sick and the aged The first step must be to ex- be undertaken must as an propriate all the great fortunes absolute priority. The working of the rich, close down the and class the Labour govern- Stock Exchange, place a state ment must take immediate and control over all movements of absolute responsibility for capital and out of the 1n 'these victims of the capitalist country. system. Nationalization of the basic 7) The right to decent housing.

industries and of all large com- Decert housing is not a luxury; panies, banks, building and in- it is a necessity. People have societies will provide surance the basic right to decent the resources for a unified accommodation at rents they improve the living plan to can afford. Nationalization of standards of the whole people.

the handful of building mono- Workers' control of these, as building polies and well as the present national- societies will provide the basis for ized industries, will run them in the interests of the workers massive programme of new house building. The disgraceful and consumers. problem of the homeless in Again, the fight must begin the cities must be immediately State control of now. wages solved by and census taking- must be answered by the most over of all unoccupied pro- widespread fight for wage in- perty. price creases to meet rises 8) The international and improve standards. This respon- sibilities of the working class. means a fight to remove the Tory government and The working class is interna- change We fight for the the union leadership. tional. un- restricted right of any worker 6) The right to health and wel- of nationality to any move fare benefits. Every Tory gor- freely through the world.

The Tenants movement against Tory Housing Finance Act in Man.

'The rent strike collapsed. chester. because it was confined to protests and the hope that the Tories would give in over it.'

; at the All Trades Unions Withdraw the troops from Ireland. Unite the Irish and British working class to throw out the Lynch and Heath gov- ernments. Unite in the struggle for the Socialist United of States 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 setting up of Councils of Action to lead the struggle against the Tory government in every area. These Councils unite trade unionists, tenants, unemployed, all political par- ties and tendencies of the working class (Labour _Party, Communist Party, SLL, IS, IMG, etc.) to fight against the main enemy, the Tory govern- ment. The SLL calls upon every socialist and class-conscious worker to consider this pro- manifesto gramme and very carefully, and to decide now to their inescapable re- take up sponsibilities. The building of the revolutionary party is the tely burning question now, not in some remote future. The SIL 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 trating years, knowing that I ought to do something in the working-class struggle but not really knowing what. We had heard of the 'ultra- lefts', but really we got the impression that they were something to do with bomb- throwing or that the people in these organizations were a bit mad. The whole thing was shrouded in an air of mystery.

Someone might disappear, then you would have the whis- pers-'Oh he's joined the ultra-lefts'. I came back to the move- ment after some CP comrades told me there were changes and that they were fighting for more-mainly to give the YCL a true revolutionary perspec- tive instead of the peaceful roads. But at the same time my husband had come into con- tact with the League and through him I began to learn a bit more about Trotskyism and the SLL. I did go to some Inter- national Socialist meetings, but they did not really make much of an impact. They tended to organize around the university and be dominated by middle class. The impression . I got was that they were going out to organize the working class and tell them what to do.

Of course the SLL has been an enormous change. I think for me it can be put simply as a question of training. This

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it it the the vere mb- e in bit was ery. his- the ve- des ges for CL etul my on- and arn ism ter- but uch sity lore got out lass ink This comes out in the document for the revolutionary party. You don't join this movement just to be a member. It says that there is a need to train Marx- ist leaders in the working class and this is exactly what hap- pens. I think I learned more in two weeks in the SLL than in all my time with the Com- munist Party. It's not just a question of reading and listening to meet- ings and so on, but there is a continual struggle with you to take a lead. In other words the SLL is saying the most im- portant thing, the struggle is not outside you, it goes through you. This is the great- est responsibility of all. It is the hardest thing really. (This kind of view was totally ab- sent from the YCL.) Once, for example, I went along to a college in the Man- chester area with another League comrade. This college was not influenced in any way by the Labour Party, the CP or any group-it was new ground. So it was my job to get up and speak after we had seen the student union people.

Now before, I would never of speaking-l have dreamt was always there to listen not lead. But suddenly the move- ment was proving it meant just what it said—you have to lead, no matter how inexperi- enced you think you are. So I told them about our campaign.

It was amazing, I was not Tina Jarvis and I was not nervous, because I had a job to do and I did it. We got good results that day. This is what I call real political work. The other major factor in the League is its view of the way capitalism is developing.

The economic crisis is at the centre of our politics, that is why so much time is spent analysing it. This is another major difference between the League and the Communist Party. Before I joined the SLL I never heard of Bretton Woods or the currency crisis.

Yet if you don't put the crisis at the centre of yaur politics, how can you possibly give leadership to the working class. The most important effect of the crisis is that it stops the period where the re- formists could pass l on con- cessions to the working class.

The employers and the Tories don't have a choice but to take from the workers all their basic rights. This is not going to change but get worse. All perspectives are based on this.

This has an important effect political demands. on your For example, the main demand for unity of the working class to bring down the Tories. This is not something we decided because it sounds a good idea, but because of the crisis. There is no hope of getting real con- cessions from the Tories-they are just not there to give.

So from this we get the idea of All Trades Unions Alliance in to unite workers every union in defence of their orga- nizations and also the idea of the Council of Action which we want to build in Middleton to unite all the working class on the issue of basic rights to get rid of the Tories. As the draft document ex- plains, the single protests on one issue are no use. I was talking to a lady on the Lang- Henry Etienne: "The TUC leaders are a fraud... All of them want to ley estate who was in the She tenants' movement. was disgusted that the rent strike collapsed. I said that was because it confined to protests and Was the hope that the Tories would give in over it. There was not the political for perspective uniting the wor the class in to bring Tories action down or at least start that fight on Langley. She said she agreed with no-politics- -this is where the real struggle comes in to make people see the need for poli- The CP tical leadership. does best its very to stop people realizing this because of the line. 'peaceful co-existence' There is also the question of the youth work. We are not 'get hold' of youth and them model Marxists. make this made mistake on we Langley at first. We used to be meetings and thought just electing com formal in mittees would get us where. Then you find out that most don't even know what we mean when we talk about re- volution and revolutionary You are out to build a Darty. political youth leadership, but will not transform all the you youth. The mass of youth will be discos, they attracted by will be noisy and things like that. We can't change that, but we must make the Young Social- ists the organization which they all look to for political leadership their everyday 1n lives-this is the meaning of the mass youth movement to crucial part my mind. It is a of transforming the League into the Revolt. tionary. Party. ars are a fraud... All of them want to be like Henry Etienne (45), a London Transport and General Wor- kers' Union member, came up against politics at an early age: Once I heard the Pope telling a few thousand people Your poverty is the blessing of the Lord and if you bear it here you will get your reward in heaven' I thought 'Blimey, I want mine here' • Since I black am a man, I went back into it and I found that slavery was through the church. They want with their Bibles to make the people believe slavery was nothing. They told them if they stayed slaves they would be rewarded in heaven. Then I started looking at white Some poor people. children get millions for their education while others live in slums. I started to think how is this possible? I asked myself what is it we call democracy and I started to read books. I grew i p as a Roman Catholic and I was made to believe I shouldn't read certain books because they were writ- ten by the devil. They said Marx was a leading hand of the devil. But when I read Marx I came to a different lay • conclusion. The capitalist system is in a desperate position. The crisis is building up and the more it does the more pressure will be put on the working class.

That's why it is so desperate Ho Workers Press, Th o be like certain 'gentlemen' in the House of Lo to build up a revolutionary party in the working class.

With the Tory state pay laws working men's wages are frozen. But prices are going up all the time. The govern- ment says it cannot control the price of fresh food and imported food. But when you take that out, what is left?

They are not controlling any- thing. Four or five years ago a could put a working man deposit on a house. Today he can't. And mortgage rates are going up. Even those who have bought a house are in some ant difficulty now. The economic situation is deteriorating. The paper dollar is only worth using in the toilet and the pound is going the same way. I can't see there will be a boom as a result of the Com- mon Market. The Tories went in mainly for the big com- panies, but now stuff from the Continent will flow freely into Britain. The pressure the Tories are bringing on the working class is opening the eyes of thous- ands and thousands of workers.

They are really pushing us.

You take home £26 a week and everything is rising and can't get they tell you you more wages, that is sufficient for you. Every day democratic rights away from taken the are working class. A working man has no right to strike and his are decided for him. wages Who is the working man going to look to? The TUC leaders are a fraud. They are playing into the hands of the govern- ment. All of them want to be like certain 'gentlemen' in the House of Lords. Press, Thursday May 17, 1973 PAGE 5 ouse of Lords'. The first time was approached by Workers Press, the man selling it said we must vote Labour. I said I could not see any difference between Tory and Labour. Then he explained to me that Labour is built by the working class and this is the only way they will realize they've been con- ned by Labour. On the Common Market Labour had the power to bring the Tories down. The same people who voted to keep the government in power are still there today. We need working-class leaders, men who understand workers. Men who use it as a game or as an opportunity to get themselves on will not give the working class anything.

They will betray time and time again. Workers need a leadership they know is not a fraud.

Workers Press is a paper that It's for the gives the truth. working man. It's to develop him, to show him his rights to show him who is pressing him down. I think the working class will follow the Socialist Labour League. When the working class comes to power, led by the Party, it must be a government of the people, not like the Stalinists. Everything must be done by the people, not just telling them what to do. The system they call free- dom is freedom for one man to exploit another. If we nationalize everything. every- body has to work. There are thousands who do nothing, just live off the sweat of others. To them it is honest, but if workers do it they are criminals.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday May 17, 1973 Today Dr ('Strangelove') Kissinger, one of President Nixon's meets Le Duc Tho, the North Viet- few remaining advisers, nam negotiator, to examine the Vietnam 'peace' shambles. The fresh Paris talks have been called 'to review the implementa- tion of the agreement on ending the war and restoring peace to find measures to bring about the strict in Vietnam and of that agreement. In background of implementation the Kissinger's visit to Moscow and London, the US ofiensive in south-east Asia is continuing on an unabated scale: heavy Vietnam, US bombers devastate Cam- fighting is reported in bodia, the CIA incursions in Laos proceed. This article looks at the war behind the peace. By Alex Mitchell " The National Liberation Front has accused the Saigon forces of 60,000 violations of the Paris peace treaty since the international supervisory team arrived three months ago. At the same time President Thieu's puppet regime alleges 12,000 violations. One battle-experienced re- porter said: Fighting is scarcely less intense than it was before the ceasefire. The military situation has wors- ened since early April.' occurring in Fighting is many districts, especially the Thua provinces Thien, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh in the highlands; in • Long where the ARVN Binh Tong Le Chan, 50 miles post, north of Saigon, has been be- sieged for more than two months; and in My Tho and Chuong Thien provinces in the delta. 300

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Last month troops were killed and 6,000 wounded-the same figure as in April 1972. The Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) said this week that US warplanes had been bombing in the south April, since openly violating the ceasefire.

Col Duong Thao. Dinh member of the two-party Joint Military Commission, said that American B52s, F4s and F105s have been bombing along the Cambodian frontier and up to four miles inside the south.

The attacks began on May 2 and continued for a week. The US embassy refuses to confirm or deny the reports. The much-vaunted Inter- national Commission of Con- trol and • Supervision (ICCS) has proved totally useless in policing the activities of the lawless Thieu forces. The com- mission has yet reach a to verdict in any of unanimous its deliberations; the Canadian and Indonesian delegates always line against the up Polish and Hungarians. And if there is no unani- mous agreement, no decisions . Thus the ICCS can be taken. is powerless: it controls and nothing. supervises Canada is planning to with.

draw from the commission by and Indonesia may May 31 follow suit—if the Americans tell them to! continued The Canadian participation is rendered even more farcical because it claims to be 'broke'. The four parties to the Paris agreement—the US, the Thieu the NLF and the regime, North Vietnamese-contri- buted an advanced total sum of Slm to get the ICCS going, but that sum has been used "PiThis is a very serious situ- ation and difficult problem for the commission,' said Canadian External Affairs Minister, Mit- chell Sharp, last week. 'We have requested the parties to the peace agreement to make another advance that will en- able the commission to con- tinue its operations.' So far none of the partici- pating countries has put a cent into the operating budget of the commission-a pretty obvious sign that no one is taking its work seriously.

In the neighbouring coun- tries of Cambodia and Laos, US bombers pounding are 'strategic areas' in the country- side. The greatest danger facing the liberation forces in Vietnam and in eisewhere south-east Asia is the counter- revolutionary policies of the Stalinist bureaucrats in Mos- cow and Peking. They will go to any lengths to achieve a modus vivendi with imperial- 'peace' They hailed the ism. agreement signed in Paris on January 27 as a 'victory'.

It was nothing of the sort; it represented a breathing space for the Nixon adminis.

tration which was being buf- feted by the dollar crisis and profound domestic problems.

Now, with Watergate, Nixon's is more corrupt administration desperate, its battle to survive becomes more brutal. Yet it must be noted that the Stalinist Press the Soviet Union and eastern Europe is keeping reports of Watergate to a bare minimum.

Nixon's 'internal troubles' are reduced to minor paragraphs in the official newspapers with Above right: the Defence Department's recruiting notice. Right: Kissinger and Le Duc Tho smile and shake hands after signing the 'peace' agreements.

little or no comment. The Stalinists actively try to the restrain revolutionary movements of south-east Asia.

How else can one explain the fact that the Khmer Rouge has not smashed into its way Phnom Penh when it clearly has the superior fighting capa- and city the overwhelming support of the peasants, work- ing class, students and intel- lectuals. These forces are being kept on a leash in accordance with of 'maxim- the Stalinist policy Izing pressure' on the Lon Nol Unhappy and Nixon. regime the 'broadly- with present based government', the Stalin- ists want any new government to be 'more progressive'.

B52s pound the While the Khmer republic, Kissinger holds cordial talks with Brezh- This Brezhnev, the nev. man who has just awarded himself the Lenin Peace Prize! Workers Press, Thursday May 17, 1973

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Referral Activity' division. His job is to place the US military in overseas operations. His letter seeking secret re- cruits for service South Vietnam was written only two weeks after the signing of the 'peace' terms which specifically Article 4 of the Paris agreement states that the US called for the complete with- drawal of all US forces. will not continue its military in What is the Pentagon's involvement or intervene game? Apart from Osborne's the internal affairs of Viet- letter-issued at the Dere Defence nam. Article 5 stipulates that the Supply cectronics US will ensure 'a total with- Dayton, Ohio-similar recruit- drawal from South Vietnam of ment notes went out to per- in the air force and troops, military sonnel and military personnel including navy. All had a security stamp technical of 'top priority-urgent' and personnel millary within 60 days of the agree- stated: 'Short recruitment time will ment. On February permit the normal vou- H. 16 last not Adrian Osborne, a senior Pen- chering processes prior selection and personnel offi- tagon official, sent a recruit- ment circular to members of cials requested not to are his The register prospective applicants 'advertised' a number whose personal attributes or of posi- tions vacant in 'the Republic situations are such as to make of Vietnam'. them poor employment risks' words, the Pentagon In his top-secret document In olner Osborne said: 'A high priority, demanded scrupulous security urgent requirement exists vetting. The air force circular asked fill these positions in the short- est possible time. Applicants for 'intelligence research spe- cialists' 'intelligence should advised be that tour of duty is one year, that clerk. There were other calls there is a 25-per-cent differen- for radio operators, helicopter and fixed-wing pilots and com- tial, that dependants are not authorized, that PCS move- munications technicians. When will likely begin within asked about the secret recruit- two weeks or less after selec- ment, the Pentagon declined for to make an official comment.

tion current Department of Defence It's to help with the recon- em- rehabilitation re-employment rights and programme,' Pentagon will granted across com- one be spokesman said cynically.

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THE STORY OF JACK TANNER

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday May 17, 1973

BY JACK GALE

After World War I, Jack Tanner worked as an engineer on the Lon- don 'Evening Standard'. Despite his presence at the Second Congress of the Communist Inter- national-to get there he his worked passage to Helsinki and then stowed away on a cargo boat for ten days - and despite chairing the Unity Congress of 1921, which brought together the different bodies that formed the British Com- Party, Tanner munist never actually joined. He was, however, a 'left' in the engineers' union. Ine 1926 TUC he called for the right of unions to affiliate to the Red International of Labour Unions and he attacked General Council for the 110U presenting a full report of its treacherous role in selling-out the General Strike. He the leader- GuCSuNCa ship's failure to for prepare the strike, TLS winoess lo support the miners, its assump- non taal notning coula de won - and its failure even to win a no-victimization pledge from the employers. The rank and file, he told Congress, the

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acuusing raday May 17, 1973 General Council of being trai- tors, cowards and weak fools, who had sold out the miners.

While the General Council says that it was not attempting to challenge the constitution or the government,' said Tan- ner, 'we know perfectly well that the government was chal- lenging the whole of the trade unions of this country.' In September, 1929, Tanner published a Minority Move- ment pamphlet called 'The En- gineers' Struggle'. The views expressed in this are in start- ling contrast to the line he pushed when he became Presi- dent of the Amalgamated En- gineering Union. 'The period' he post-war wrote, 'is one of increased pro- duction and extensive exploit- ation owing to the introduc- tion of various sinister forms of payment-by-results.' Under this system, he con- tinued 'men and women cease be human and become to trained animals, tearing, racing and sweating in order to keep In what could have been a descfiption of his own future role, Tanner declared: The policy of the leaders of the engineering unions is one of co-operation with the employ- ers. Under such a policy there is little hope for the : workers improving or even maintaining their present standard. 'The intensive struggle for markets forces British capital- ism to rationalize its indus- tries. The policy of the trade union movement, as expressed through the General Council, is one of active co-operation with the capitalist class: to assist that class in its rational- ization methods, and in main- taining capitalism which means starvation conditions, more unemployment, and hunger misery for millions of the working class, and eventually war? All this, said Tanner, was the inevitable outcome of 'the reformist policy of co-opera- tion with capitalism That same year Tanner be- came chairman of the London district committee of the AEU and in 1930 he became full- time London organizer. In 1939 he succeeded J. C.

of Little President the as union. He was still at that time regarded as a 'left'.

He was to tell the 'Evening Standard' some years later that he broke from the left after World War II over the 'rape of Czechoslovakia'. But one of his first acts as AEU president was to sign— even before the war started— the Temporary Relaxation of Existing Customs Agreement, which accepted dilution. On May 22, 1940, Tanner even further went towards of assisting the employers by signing the Extended Employ- ment of Women Agreement 'with special regard for in- creased output'. This was opposed by the Communist Party which was opposed to the war at that time because Stalin had signed a pact with Hitler. When Ger- many invaded Russia on June 22, 1941, the Communist Party line turned 180 degrees and Tanner once again became a 'left' hero. He had full Stalinist sup- port when he declared at the 1941 Trades Union Congress: If Russia succeeds, then we succeed; if Russia fails, then we fail.' The Stalinists also applauded him ecstatically when he said: I believe Churchill is honest in his determination to defeat Hitlerism and act honourably with our Russian allies.'

Tanner again had the full support of the Communist German Invasion of Russia, 1941. Tanr support. He was a 'left' hero again. Tor accused the TUC General Councii of be fools, for selling out. Party at the 1943 Trades Union Congress when he moved a resolution calling for intensified production, com- pulsory productivity and effi- • committees and pay- ciency ment by results. In the interests of the Com- munist Party line of full sup- port to the Churchill govern- ment and opposition to all workers' struggles to defend conditions the and rights, Stalinists consistently defended Tanner and covered up for his rapid move to the right.

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941. Tanner now received full Stalinist again. Top: General strike, 1926. Tanner incil of being traitors, cowards and weak

Trade between the Soviet Union and the United States could quickly reach an impres- sive size according to an article in the government newspaper 'Izvestia'. The carefully-laid out sug- gestions provide a fresh talk- ing point for Soviet CP Leonid Brezhnev secretary when he visits President Nixon in Washington next week. The 'Izvestia' article is by three journalists who parti- cipated in a recent conference Soviet-American trade on called by the National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers in the United States, held in Washington. NAM is the main organiza- tion of American big business which is now turning to markets in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe as part of the trade war. Trade turnover between the Soviet Union and the United States has trebled over the past year. A number of deals has already important been concluded and more are being negotiated in line with inter-governmental agree- the ment signed as a result of talks in October 1972. In a second article the authors suggest that Soviet industry should produce com- modities specifically for export to the American market. This should be provided for in the economic plans. In addition they propose 'new forms of economic co- operation' of a type which, they say, already exists with firms and banks in western Europe. These involve prin- cipally contracts to supply natural gas by the Soviet Union in return for the supply of machinery, equipment, pipe- lines and other materials for the Soviet gas industry on long-term credit terms. Faced by increasing economic difficulties arising from its own mismanagement, the Soviet Commissioner Robert Brake of Coral Gables, Florida, USA, is incensed by his failure to get 'Last Tango in Paris' starring Marlon Brando, ban- ned. He thinks that if they will not stop the controversial film being shown altogether, the least the city planning department can do to protect the young from its evil in- fluence is to limit it to theatres in industrial areas which are at least 500 feet from residen- tial areas. Presumably the in- dustrial workers are pretty corrupted already and the middle classes will not walk 500 feet to see it. 'People who watch these have latent criminal movies tendencies, Brake declared.

I wouldn't want my daughter and her date to go to Chippy's Restaurant (near the cinema where 'Last Tango in Paris' is in currently showing Coral bureaucracy is now exposing planned nationalized, economy of the workers' state to enormous perils. It is proposing to shape the economic plans with reference to markets in capitalist coun- tries and is opening the way for the penetration of foreigr capital into the Soviet Unior and the ending of the mono- poly of foreign trade. 'Izvestia' also calls for closer co-operation on scien- tific and technical matters and for the mutual granting of 'most - favoured - nation' treat- ment in trade between the two countries. A hint of this is given in the statement that 'contacts between American firms and Soviet foreign trade organiza- tions and the submission of numerous proposals by both sides, show that conditions have ripened for mutually-. int advantageous co-operation on a long-term basis' While Soviet-American deals are being worked out, Japanese firms are also actively con- cerned establishing with a position in the Soviet market.

They are ready to co-operate in developing the vast oil and gas resources of Siberia and building a pipeline to the coast from whence it can be shipped to Japan. A similar agreement on Soviet timber has been in existence for some years.

Talks are now on the way for the participation of West Ger- man monopolies in the con- struction of a big new metal- lurgical complex to use the Gables) and be assaulted by who is somehow someone frustrated after seeing this picture.' Some suspiciously minded people in Leeds have doubted the independence of the York- shire Electricity Consultative Council. How could it be in- dependent, they asked, when it shared the premises of the Yorkshire Electricity Board at Scarcroft, Leeds? Mr Peter Emery, Parliamen- tary Secretary for Industry at Department of. Trade, recently said that consultative and consumer committees for the nationalized industries should not only be indepen- dent, but should be seen and judged to be independent.

Labour Alderman Albert King, chairman of the Council, has now announced: 'We shall have a separate address and telephone number, which hope will satisfy people with doubts' For the Council is, indeed, going to move out of the YEB headquarters. And who owns the new premises? The York- shire Electricity Board. process of direct recovery from ore. The equipment for this will come from Germany and will be paid for by the export of steel. Needless to say, the German capitalists expect to make a handsome profit on this trans- action. Capitalists from Italy, France and Britain have made similar agreements and the Soviet bureaucracy is inviting tenders nd for more. There is a close connection between trade and foreign policy. The closer trade and economic links are intended to prepare the way for acceptance of a European Security Pact and a global deal with the US for the recognition of the existing division of the world.

bureaucracy The Kremlin makes plain that it is not ly- interested in the spread of revolution and will support any regime which will, through trade and credit, assist it in facing its economic crisis and dealing with its own ruling class. This is where the policies of 'socialism in one country' and 'peaceful co-existence' have led.

The conquests of the Soviet working class are in jeopardy.

The bureaucracy, unable further to develop the pro- ductive forces, is obliged to look capitalists to to the exploit the natural resources of the country. Its dependence world imperialism is be- On increasingly strongly coming marked. new English edition of the 'First Five A Years of the Communist International' in corporating hitherto unpublished material from Volume XIII of Trotsky's 'Works'

THE FIRST

FIVE YEARS OF THE

COMMUNIST

Workers Press, Thursday May 17, 1973 PAGE 9 A curious charade took place on April 19 in Moscow when the Committee for the Inter- national Lenin Prizes for the Strengthening of Peace among Peoples decided on its awards for the year. To the general surprise it decided to award one of the prizes to Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Com- Party Soviet munist of the Union. Since then praise has been lavished on him through- Soviet Union and out eastern Europe in the fulsome but empty language reserved for such purposes. The with his man who, Kremlin colleagues, permitted the Vietnamese workers and shed their blood peasants to for years and finally made with US imperialism compact over their bones is praised 'for and support the great help which Soviet the people are giving to the peoples of Indo- China. Stress is being laid on what is called 'the great personal contribution' of Brezhnev in shaping the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and parti- cularly for initiating 'new stage in Soviet - American Above: US President Nixon and relations. Brezhnev Nixon's visit on to Lenin Prizes were also Moscow last year. Now they are awarded to the reformist making a 'fresh talking point' on President Salvador Allende of increasing trade. Chile, who the Stalinists have been backing in his opposition to revolution in Latin America; to Enrique Pastorino, President of the World Federation. of Trade Unions, and the to journalist and author James Aldridge. The award is no doubt in- tended of as an earnest Brezhner's willingness to do In a recent speech on the a global deal with US imperial- Central Television network of ism no matter what the price.

Soviet Hall, To describe thése activities as Union, the Gus being in the 'service of peace' general secretary of the Com- Party

USA,

is as degrading munist launched as the asso- a strong attack on Maoism.

ciation of Lenin's name with He described it as 'one of a procedure with which he the dangerous and would have had nothing but most the inter- poisonous weeds in contempt. national working-class Aldridge, after working for move- ment' which acts together with succession of newspapers the imperialists in most spheres.

'Sunday Des- including the and "Time' said that the Maoist patch' and 'Life', movement is rent by factional has for a long time been a firm struggles both in China itself friend of the Soviet bureau- and around the world. Soviet cracy. viewers could not know that On May 2 he had an article Hall discredited in 'Pravda' in which he claimed represents a Party with little influence in Lenin's authority for the policy the American working class, "peaceful co-existence'. He which itself has been, and still said the Soviet Union had is, rent by factional struggles.

He was put on to assist the most closely-knit bureaucracy's anti-Maoist cam- multi-national society ever formed by mankind. He carefully avoided paign. discussion of the policies of It is this unqualified and the CPUSA, which supported for uncritical support the Soviet bureaucracy Presidents Roosevelt and which has Truman and whipped up votes Aldridge his prize, not earned for the late Lyndon B. Johnson "services to peace' or to any in 1964 the presidential the working class on behalf of election. whom Lenin fought. •First Five lational' in- ed material The First Five Years of the Communist International This first volume of Trotsky's writings and speeches for the Communist International covers the period of its first three Congresses when the post-war revolutionary upsurge reached its peak and then began to recede. It establishes, without fear of con- tradiction, the important role which he played in the foundation of this, the Third workers' International, and in the formation and early development of the French, German and Italian Communist Parties. At this time the theory of 'socialism in one country' had not been invented and loseph Stalin was still a second-line Bolshevik leader who played no part in the international movement which he was later to pervert and eventually destroy.

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dation to accept the offer and authorized stewards to continue to negotiate fringe benefits.

MIDDLETON (Lancs): Thursday May 17, 7.45 p.m. Assheton Arms, Long Street. .. 'Trade unions and the Tory government.' SWANSEA: Thursday. May 17, 7.30 p.m. YMCA. 'Defend wor- kers' basic rights. General Strike to Force the Tories to resign.'

BASILDON: Thursday May 17, 8 Barnstaple Community Centre. 'Stalinism and the strug- CROYDON: Thursday May 17, 8 Ruskin House, Coombe p.m. Road, Croydon. 'Forward to the Revolutionary Party.' LANCASTER: Thursday May 17, 7.30 p.m. Trades Hall, Fentor Street (near GPO). 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend demo- cratic rights'. FELTHAM: Thursday May 17, 8 p.m. 'Three Horse Shoes,' Felt- Top: Paul Harding In one of the several roles he plays in a new, expensive series for Independent channels, 'The Whiteoaks of Jaina, Mazo de la based on Roche's famous 'Whiteoaks' the first novels. which appeared in 1927. In 'Shakespeare Country' BBC 2 at 10.40, Alfred Fagon appears in his own play about an out-of-work coloured actor. 5.20 5050 7000 Crane'. 8.30 London. 9.00 troop. benart- s. London. ment Garden- zulugondon 8.30 11.30 London. Wailace. Late call. 11.35 Edgar 10.00 Jason King. London. 10.30 1190. Sport. 11.00 Police 11.05 .35 News. ema. 12.20 Mont:

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DAGENHAM: Tuesday May 22, 8 Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- p.m. 'The shawe Avenue. inflationary ham High Street. and the rising cost of liv- 'Stalinism and crisis defend the ing'. struggle to demo- cratic rights.' TOTTENHAM: Tuesday May 22, 'Bricklayers 8 p.m. Arms', High ACTON: Monday May 21, 8 p.m.

Road, nr White Hart Lane. Belis', Street, Tuesday, 'Force

READING:

May 22, break talks with the Tories'. The

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p.m. offices, The

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King's Road. and May 21, 8 LEWISHAM: Monday Phase Three.' Club. Deptford Engineers p.m.

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(Manchester): New Cross Stalinism and Road. Wednesday 23, 8 May p.m. the struggle defend demo- Cock Portway. cratic rights' and to Stalinism the defend

ABINGDON:

Tuesday 8 democratic rights. May 22, Öck p.m. Above New Top Taxis, HACKNEY: Wednesday May 23, Street. 'Stalinism and the strug- Central Parlour Room, p.m. gle to defend democratic rights.'

Mare Street. Build the Hall, Revolutionary Party'. BATTERSEA: Tuesday May 8 22, Wands- 'Nags Head', LUTON: Thursday May 24, 8 p.m.

p.m. cnr Ola Road/North Street. "The Recreation Centre. Bedford worth and the rising Road. 'Force the TUC to break crisis economic off talks with the Tories'.

cost of living'.

Trade war, cash crisis, management THE BOOZ, Allen and Hamilton report on ship- building, commissioned by the Tories in March 1972, was outdated well in advance of its publica- tion yesterday. In fact, even before this 262-page document thudded Industrial Development onto Minister Christopher Chata- way's desk on February 1, the gathering trade and war had smashed monetary crisis away most of the flimsy assumptions of demand growth upon which it is based. Yet despite its now baseless forecasts of 'substantial' growth in world trade, its conclusions about the British industry are avowedly pessimistic. most optimistic of five The strategic alternatives the report before the government places envisages the sacking of 14,000 shipyard workers by 1977; the most pessimistic says that 25,000 must go by 1982.

PRODUCTIVITY

Almost all of these redundan- cies would take place in areas of already high unemployment, the so-called 'development areas.

Meanwhile, the report says, to reach the current best European standards of industrial perform- ance, an increase of more than per cent in each individual 50 worker's productivity will be needed. To equal Japanese performance the required speed-up would be well over 100 per cent. Booz, Allen and Hamilton, a prestigious firm of management consultants, received their com- mission to study the industry during the continuing crisis over Upper Clyde Shipbuilders early last year. The Department of Trade and Industry wanted a factual examin- ation of shipbuilding technology, finances, organization, manage- ment and competitive position on which to base its future policy decisions. From the outset it was clear that the industry was in a mess.

Between 1967 and 1971 the tonnage of British ships launched remained static, had while the British share of total world launchings had fallen from 8.2 per cent to 5 per cent. By comparison the Japanese industry had been growing by 20 per cent a year. The end of 1971 had found it controlling 46 per cent of the world market.

It was not the Japanese alone who expanded, however, since the consultants found that Britain was in fact the only leading ship- building country which did not achieve growth during this period.

Now the situation for British capitalist shipbuilding is even more serious. As Chataway said in introduc- ing the report: 'There are no grounds for complacency.

COMPETITION

'The consultants' report shows that British shipbuilding has not generally been competitive profitable and that it is likely to be exposed to increasingly fierce competition on the world market it, as the consultants forecast, capacity continues to grow much more rapidly than demand. Although the consultants in- clude a ritual complaint about the shipyard workers' strike record, which they say 'compares badly with the national average', their general conclusions after surveying Britain's 12 shipbuild- ing companies point an accusing finger at management. They slam the 'lack of general management skills' ', which, they say, is due to and neglect 'insular of effective internal management development'. Typically, the report comments, the industry has lacked any orientation towards marketing. strategy has been No detailed mapped out, no consideration has been given to which types or lab DAVID MAUDE, our lab examines the Boo Hamilton report ol shipbuilding i sizes of ships are the best com- mercial proposition and market information is always difficult to come by. Little design work tends to be done advance assist to marketing. Estimates are often given, even for prototype ships, without full knowledge of the cost and tech- nical implications of the tender.

An analysis of cost estimates showed that they were consist- ently too low. During preparation of their review, the report team visited the major shipbuilding of most facilities in Britain-finding many 'less than adequate'. of them The increase in ship sizes which has taken place steadily in recent years has aggravated this situ- ation. The report team found that it had caused severe prob- particularly regards lems, as berth craneage, steel shops and storage.

SLOW RISE

Financial performance the report found to have been poor.

Merchant sales revenue in real terms has risen slowly due to fixed price contracts signed in the late 1960s, while costs have risen rapidly. In addition the mix of costs has changed, with both labour and overheads assuming an in.

creasing share of the total.

Over the five years to 1971 labour costs in Britain averaged ur labour correspondent e Booz, Allen and ort on the British Iding industry 26 per cent and overheads almost 15 per cent of the total—com- pared with 25 per cent and 10 per cent in Europe. Says the report: 'With dete- riorating margins and additional costs on ships delivered late, the industry has suffered enormous losses, over £15m in 1969 and over fllm in 1970. 'As a result, many individual companies have had liquidity in recent years and problems have become more dependent on government grants and loans to fund their shipbuilding opera- tions. 'Only f54m, a third of the total assistance provided to the industry, has been devoted to capital expenditure, despite the Geddes recommendation assistance to modernize and re- deploy resources in the industry.

'Almost all of it has gone to the three government-supported companies-Cammell Laird, The report draws attention to further, haphazard characteristics and the British industry.

It says that management con- trol procedures are under-deve- loped in comparison to similar industries. Budgetary control systems do exist but they are generally limited. Control systems suffer from failure to measure the state of completion of ships under con- struction. In many yards, work done is assessed visually and it is diffi- Workers Press, Thur cult to estimate work left to completion. Despite the three- to five-year time cycle few companies plan more than one year ahead Yet it is, of course, the ship- yard worker who will be expec- ted to pay for the crisis his capi- talist employers have produced. This is the common plank of all five alternatives Booz, Allen and Hamilton have laid before the government. A look at just three of these alternatives shows the spread of choices which face the Tories in the report. The alternative dubbed Situa- ion A by the consultants pre- sumes a continuing low level of government support for the in- dustry, a continuing alongside low level of performance.

Under these conditions it is assumed that the government's present capital commitments of £60m-f65m to Harland and Wolff, Govan Shipbuilders and Cammell Laird would be main- tained, with sufficient revenue support to ensure that all three would break even until 1977.

Output, say the consultants, would remain virtually static at 1.2 million gross tons to 1977.

Two-thirds of this would come from the three supported yards.

JOBS CUT

Situation A would mean a cut in employment from its present level of 50,000 at the nine mer- chant main shipbuilding yards to 27,000 by 1977. Beyond 1977, with no special for any yard except assistance import duty, for relief from Booz, Allen and Hamilton say output would probably decline to half the present level. Employment would be cut to 25,000. The consultants describe as Situation E a situation under which medium government sup- provided port would be and there would be a medium level of performance similar to the best present European yards.

During the first five years out- put would increase marginally to 1.4 million gross tons, hampered yard by necessary reconstruc- tion. By 1982 it would rise to 1.6 million tons. This would maintain Britain's present 5-per-cent share of the world market, at a capital cost to the government of £120m- £130m over the next five to ten years. improved But productivity would cut employment by 18,000, to around 32,000, by 1982.

In Situation I, the most opti- mistic of the consultants' pro- sectors is combined wit la high level of performance. Government assistance, mainly for capital reconstruction, would cost £210m-£250m up to 1977.

Output would more than double to 2.5 million tons by 1982, but employment would be cut to 39,000. The DTI has virtually admit- ted that this last alternative could be ruled out under Common Market rules on regional aid.

LIMIT CHOICE

If the consultants' report is accepted this would limit the Tories' choice to slashing either 21,000 or 25,000 jobs inside five years—an even greater rate of job loss than the Tories plan in steel. When he introduced the re- port, Chataway insisted that the Tories neither accept nor reject the Booz, Allen and Hamilton alternatives. Government policy would be decided only after con- all interested sultation with parties. But he would not deny that redundancies of the massive and disastrous order envisaged could be on the cards. In other words, even with their assumptions of boom, the con- sultants have made out an urgent case for the nationalization of shipbuilding without compensa- tion and under workers' control.

They have shown that for the • working class there is no strate- gic alternative to removing Chat- away and his Tory associates and replacing them with a Labour government committed to nation- alization. ress, Thursday May 17, 1973 PAGE 11

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Wednesday May 23 Theory and Practice of Marxism Wednesday May 30 Role of the revolutionary party at St David's Church Hall, Church Street, Merthyr 7.30 p.m. Jarrow Given by Cliff Slaughter SLL Central Committee member Civic Hall, Jarrow 7.30 p.m. Monday May 21 The Socialist Revolution In Britain : 3. The state and revolution.

Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for democratic rights today means preparing for working-class power. Basic reading : Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party: Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

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

Council of Action North London TUC must break off talks with Torles No negotiations on Phase Three No capitulation to corporatism Make the Tory government resign TUESDAY MAY 22, 8 p.m. Lord Morrison Hall, Chestnut Grove, Tottenham, N.17 All Trades Unions

TEACHERS' MEETING

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

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

HOSPITAL WORKERS'

MEETING

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

Norfolk Room Caxton Hall, Caxton Street: London SW1 (admission 10p)

BUILDING WORKERS'

MEETING

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

Wednesday, May 30, 7.30 p.m. Tudor Room Caxton Hall. Caxton Street, London SW1 (admission 10p)

POSTAL WORKERS'

MEETING

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

Sunday, June 3, 10.30 a.m.

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Thursday May 17, 1973 Phase Two frustration Briant print jobs

FRUSTRATION

Phase Two for the with the Phase Two benefit of our mem- 500,000 civil servants erupted yester- made

BIOL

Tor lie menvers or tre Civil Services Association and Public complaint top-grade and the Civil Service Union' had been disappear as deal asked to 'subsidize' Gerry Gilman, deputy general secre- lower-paia seculous. behalf tar the we comed the executive. The complaint came at the Folkes- criticized The government for setting a limit on the Wore conerence Tane society available and telling unions Civil Servants, which likes to think it organizes the upper crust.

sharing ngal among Inemselves over it out.

A DEAL

clinching the nears By overwhelming majority the sale of Briant Colour to conference carried Two is ABC Mr Peter Bentley is was not The responsibility for frustration and society's responsibility to subsidize expected to be finalized low-paid members other unions by ranks or the civil service this week when contracts unions must rest with the

TUC,

which

BY IAN YEATS

avanilo lucreases que 1o Ils Owl.

are exchanged. allowed continue by pay laws to the Scottish An executive oficer in But as Workers Press J. Raffety, told delegates: 'We support the civil service gas and Unice, has warned repeatedly, should extract all we can get out of hospital strikes. the deal means that only about 40 men and women will be employed. Registered When the work-in began on June 21 last year, 120 and 30 men women were be Word, London, the salu LO Road, Uld Kent plant. In the last months union wins alone, as lcws llat employ That benter Willi only about 40, coupled with the drying up of the work- BIll Freeman in's nehting tund been dramatic exodus Briant's is threatened bv the from the labour force. deal expected be con- court appeal Work-in leader and Com- cluded this week. Party We understand that Bill Freeman told me on and father of the une Tuesday that there were

SOGAT

chapel Mr Norman only 85 occupying the Pennington are to be trans-

LIUW

the raclory. ferr ed other jobs in

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

He said of the print lacuse as part dispute pay had agreement between Bentley THE APPEAL COURT yesterday handed the tiny, but regis- and the unions. and Mr Pen- tered Telecommunications Staff Association the right to carry Mr Freeman Mr Freeman's own job at on union activities on Post Office premises.

Judges overturned deci- Greeks lobby embassy over junta visit sion of the National Industrial which Court earlier this vear. upheld the Post Office's refusal the TSA to recognize grant it facilities. Giving the Appeal Court's judgement, Lora Denning In- sisted that it was "implicit' in

DOWN

the Industrial Relations Act that a le

WITH

gistered union to carry on premises such

INI

the reasonable Cas tull stances or mne case. It was also implicit, Denning said, that every worker have the right to take part Those actes. The judgement, which if con- hrmed br House of Lords the a big ex- will open coor to pansion of

TSA

activities, challenge to Stitutes a major the unregistered Union of Post Ofice Workers. telephonists. of 10,000, Cabest but the real figure is thought to be far lower. UPW special At the confer- rebruary, general secre. _..... NIRC de Jackson hailed tary The decision as 'complete victory for his union. He will have to make a report to the UPW annual con- ABOUT 40 Greeks demonstrated Piecework dispute could ference next week. outside their embassy in London The action on which the yesterday against the visit to Appeal Court was brought by walter judgement close Reyrolles plant Britain of two members of the Crouch SA facial in lephor telephonist and ruling military junta. A spokes- man for the Greek Committee REYROLLES, the Tyneside in piece- While the judgement does not say that any increase Against Dictatorship said the work the non-TUC union nego- engineering combine, is fac- give carmines beer une it men were not elected represen.

result of higher productivity and tinting rights, places ing closure this weekend over is therefore covered by the Tory with footing tatives of the Greek people and a piecework dispute involv- far organizational wage laws they condemned the Tory govern.

inside the exchanges ing production workers. The firm disagrees. It says that piecework 'drift' has been caused concerned. ment for inviting them. Hebburn already locked out their piacee have by pressure from the shop floor

PUBLIC MEETINGS

and that the poor order situation workers after they decided to makes it unable to give more operate national the conso 1- Transforming the Socialist dated time rate which dras- Stewards believe there are Yesterday tically cut outout. deeper causes to the clash.

management began to lay off 'We have Labour League into the definite noticed a ancillary workers and staff.

change atmosphere The dispute is over a claim by negotiations, one told me . yester- Revolutionary Party day. 'There are strong indications the workers produclon

TOI

higher minimum earnings and a unal une manacement Is orevarme better dispute rate. to clamp down on earnings next Central London Minimum earnings in the plant year because of the order Hull situation. we think the curren our moost men get £12 a week more. resistance is very much part of Sunday May 20, 7 p.m. Wednesday May 23, Shop stewards that this new policy. argue the The London Film Reyrolles is one of the few 8 p.m. Licicase the firm almost remaining north employers WOUld Cost east School, 'Windmill Hotel' nothing, but give more security which still operates 'simple' the employees. piecework system without other 24 Shelton Street Witham The disputed rate is an agreed more conoucated torMs oI DOost.

(corner Langley Street) level payment made when ing productivity, like Measured- management and DY e get-tough attitude may be Work. unions are in London WC2 Goole alsagreement over new piecework prices. the opening shots Speaker: Roger Smith The workers maintain that of a works meteod that guaran- piecework in favour Thursday May 24, 8 p.m. well within their claim the Showing the Pageant Film: lees more ana a more 'Cape of Good Hope' 'The Road to Workers' Power' plus 4 per cent. They also intensive pace of work. force in the leadership of the fight for jobs at Briant's. Sources that Mr say has been worried Bentley about the impact on poten- tial customers of the con- tinued presence of militant work-in leaders at the plant.

He has given an under- taking to re-employ all those who cannot be given jobs immediately he as builds up the business. Mr Freeman said nego- tiations manning were on still going on and we under- stand that at least one union has drawn up a pre- cedence list for workers who may want to return to Briant's if and when it expands. Liquidator's spokesman Mr H. B. Blandford Baker said yesterday he could not see what the work-in had achieved. He said: 'Half of them have lost their jobs and it has cost me £75,000.? Asked how he thought negotiations between Bentley and the print unions were proceeding, Mr Free- commented: I just man don't know what to say to you.'

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Conference Room Civic Centre Speaker: M. Banda (SLL Central Committee)

CORRECTION

OWING to a typographical error, our report of the APEX confer- ence in Tuesday's Workers Press read in paragraph eight: Wil- liams [Shirley Williams MP] . .

nationalization'. did not mention This should have read: 'Did not mention nationalization of indus- tries, only of land'.