Workers Press no. 1080

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WATERGATE

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Wisht lads, had yer gobs I'll tell you an awful story Wisht lads, had yer gobs I'll tell you about the worm.

THESE are words from a Count Durham folksong, The Lambtor Worm', written in memory of on of Lord Lambton's (above ancestors. According to the legend the earlie Lambton slayed the worm, a sea ser pent from the River Wear. As result, the family has been cursed ever since. At Workers Press we don't believe in fairy tales, but it must be admitted that as far as Lord Lambton is concerned, the worm has turned. - He has been forced to resign as Minister for the Royal Air Force pending a full scale in- vestigation by Scotland Yard in- to an alleged vice-ring. Lambton is a right-wing Tory belonging to the party's squire.

archy. This group much is resented by Heath and the Peter Walkers of this world who come suburban, from middle-brow backgrounds. To his Tory contemporaries at Oxford in the late 1930s, Tony Lambton glamorous was figure'. He was rich, spoilt and 'witty'. In 1942, when just 20 years old, the highly eligible under- graduate married Miss Belinda Blew-Jones, daughter of Major Douglas Holden Blew-Jones.

Lambton immediately showed himself to be ambitious politically.

He had belonged to the Tory Party since his Oxford days and in 1945, when 23, he contested the Labour stronghold of Chester- le-Street. At the next election in 1950

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MAY 24, 19

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE S

BY ALEX MITCHELL

A MAJOR scandal of near Water- Heath government yesterday follow- ing the abrupt resignation of RAF From a secret location 'somewhere in the north' Lambton issued a statement admitting involvement with a call girl 'and one or two of her friends'. a County Police told him on Monday that the call girl's Lambton husband had taken photographs of them together.

y of one Immediately on leaving the police I saw the Chief above) Whip,' Lambton said, 'and said I must resign as soon as I could get a letter to the Prime Minister.

the earlier There was considerable discord in the Commons a sea ser- when it was announced that neither Heath nor Home As a Secretary Robert Carr would make a statement on the affair and all private mem- ber's questions were ruled out of order. The Speaker, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, said Heath would make a statement to- day. Meanwhile Scotland Yard stated that details of the case had been Director sent to the of Public Prosecutions: another interim document on the Lambton case and a larger vice ring was with Premier Heath and the Home Office. Drugs charges Late yesterday Lord Lambton was accused of possessing dangerous drugs. Sumonses have been issued, said the Attorney-Generals office last

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Heath would not night. They have not yet been comment on the Lambton served, but offences involve affair when he arrived to under Dangerous Drugs address Tory women at Cen- the Act concerning the possession tral Hall, Westminster, yester- dav. He brushed past reporters of cannabis and amphetamines.

*Are there who asked: any involved? Lambton's statement said: other Ministers Heath told the ladies he con- This is the sordid story. demned the excesses and ex- There has been no securitu which from travagances are risk and no blackmail and never time time thrown to up by capitalism'. AY 24, 1973 • No 1080 4p

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SOME QUARTERS of the Fleet The Street Press are saying that the buf Lambton affair is 'only the tip of the iceberg. The 'Daily Ex- press' said that Scotland Yard and MI5 had been investigating a vice ring which involved poli- ticians, prominent people and senior police officers. The police had obtained pos- session of a diary belonging to a dealer of pornographic litera- ture which contained names and 'made serious addresses and allegations of bribery and cor- ruption'. Already the scandal is assum- ing proportions that are far big- ger than the Profumo case m- which broke ten years ago.

led There are rumours that at least two other Tory Ministers may One Whitehall source told the 'Daily Mirror': The allegations are dynamite.' The scandal could not have broken at a worse time for the embattled Heath government. offi at any time have I spoken of any aspect of my late job.

All that has happened is that some sneak pimp has seen an opportunity of making money by the sale of the story and secret photographs to papers at home and abroad. 1 behaved with credulous stupidity and consequently have let down those I most wished to please—the Prime Minister, the Conservative Party, my elec- torate, who have given me 22 years of loyalty, and my family. Lambton has been Tory MP for Berwick-upon-Tweed since 1951. In 1970 he succeeded his father as Earl of Durham, but renounced the title to retain his seat in the Commons.

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The world economic crisis is buffeting the British economy and causing deep divisions in the ruling class as it scrambles to find an 'economic policy'.

Just as Watergate has blasted gaping holes in the credibility of Nixon and his administration - and paralysed it - so the Lambton affair looks like inflict- ing damage on the Heathmen.

It comes less than a fortnight after the Lonrho revelations and a year after deputy prime minis- ter, Reginald Maulding, resigned over the Poulson case. These are the people who want to cut wages and deliber- ately encourage price rises and ago. higher rents to slash the stand- ard of living of the working which produces all the class, goods and services in society.

The latest revelations must immediately strengthen the de- mand for a massive mobilization by the working class to force the Heath and his crowd out of ent. office. For the past two years he has been involved in a parliamentary row over his claim to hold on to the courtesy title of 'Viscount Lambton' because he objected to being called "Mr Lambton'.

Ironically, the family motto which dates back four centuries is "The Day Will Come'. He lives on a huge estate at Lambton Park, near Chester-le- Street in Co Durham, and owns some 26,000 acres in various parts of the north. Until his ministerial appoint- ment in 1970 Lambton was chair- man of the Seaham Harbour Dock Company which is engaged in the shipping of coal. He is also a regular guest columnist in the Beaverbrook- owned London 'Evening Standard'.

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

WATERGATE

COMES TO

WHITEHALL

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Wisht lads, had yer gobs I'll tell you an awful story Wisht lads, had yer gobs I'll tell you about the worm.

THESE are words from a County Durham folksong, "The Lambtor Worm', written in memory of one of Lord Lambton's (above' ancestors. According to the legend the earlier Lambton slayed the worm, a sea ser- pent from the River Wear. As a result, the family has been cursed ever since. At Workers Press we don't believe in fairy tales, but it must be admitted that as far as Lord Lambton is concerned, the worm has turned. .. He has been forced to resign as Minister for the Royal Air Force pending a full scale in- vestigation by Scotland Yard in- to an alleged vice-ring. Lambton is a right-wing Tory belonging to the party's squire- is much archy. This group resented by Heath and the Peter Walkers of this world who come from suburban, middle-brow backgrounds. To his Tory contemporaries at Oxford in the late 1930s, Tony Lambton 'a glamorous was figure'. He was rich, spoilt and 'witty'. In 1942, when just 20 years old, the highly eligible under- graduate married Miss Belinda PR Blew-Jones, daughter of Major cor Douglas Holden Blew-Jones.

aff: ade Lambton immediately showed himself to be ambitious politically.

trai day He had belonged to the Tory wh Party since his Oxford days and oth in 1945, when 23, he contested He the Labour stronghold of Chester- der le-Street. tra At the next election in 1950 tim

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MAY 24, 19

E DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE s

BY ALEX MITCHELL

A MAJOR scandal of near Water- gate proportions broke over the Heath government yesterday follow- minister, Lord Lambton. From a secret location 'somewhere in the north' Lambton issued a statement admitting involvement with a call girl 'and one or two of her friends'. ty Police told him on Monday that the call girl's on photographs of them together.

husband had taken ne police I saw the Chief 'Immediately on leaving the Whip,' Lambton said, 'and said I must resign as soon as I could get a letter to the Prime Minister.

er There was considerable discord in the Commons er- when it was announced that neither Heath nor Home Secretary Robert Carr would make a statement on the affair and all private mem- ber's questions were ruled out of order. The Speaker, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, said Heath would make a statement to- day. Meanwhile Scotland Yard stated that details of the case had been to the Director sent of Public Prosecutions; another interim document on the Lambton case and a larger vice ring was with Premier Heath and the Home Office. Drugs charges Late yesterday Lord Lambton accused of possessing was dangerous drugs. Sumonses have been issued, said the Attorney-Generals office last REMIER Heath would not night. They have not yet been the Lambton omment on served, but involve offences ffair when he arrived to Dangerous Drugs under the ddress Tory women at Cen- ral Hall, Westminster, yester- Act concerning the possession ay. He brushed past reporters of cannabis and amphetamines.

"Are there Tho asked: any Lambton's statement said: involved?' ther Ministers leath told the ladies he con- This is the sordid story. emned the 'excesses and ex- There has been no security which from ravagances are risk and no blackmail and never to time thrown up by apitalism'. AY 24, 1973 • No 1080 4p

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SOME QUARTERS of the Fleet The Street Press are saying that the buf affair is 'only the tip Lambton ng of the iceberg. The • 'Daily EX- press' said that Scotland Yard and MI5 had been investigating a vice ring which involved 'poli- ticians, prominent people and senior police officers'. The police had obtained pos- session of a diary belonging to a dealer of pornographic litera- ture which contained names and 'made serious addresses and allegations of bribery and cor- ruption'. Already the scandal is assum- ing proportions that are far big- ger than the Profumo case which broke ten years ago. led There are rumours that at least two other Tory Ministers • may One Whitehall source told the 'The allegations 'Daily Mirror: are dynamite.' The scandal could not have broken at a worse time for the He embattled Heath government. offi at any time have I spoken of any aspect of my late job.

All that has happened is that some sneak pimp has seen an opportunity of making money by the sale of the story and secret photographs to papers at home and abroad. I behaved with credulous stupidity and consequently have let down those I most wished to please-the Prime Minister, the Conservative Party, elec- my torate, who have given me 22 years of loyalty, and my family. Lambton has been Tory MP Berwick-upon-Tweed for since 1951. In 1970 he succeeded his father as Earl of Durham, but renounced the title to retain his seat in the Commons.

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The world economic crisis is buffeting the British economy and causing deep divisions the ruling class as it scrambles to find an 'economic policy'.

Just as Watergate has blasted gaping holes in the credibility of Nixon and his administration paralysed - and it — so the Lambton affair looks like inflict- ing damage on the Heathmen.

It comes less than a fortnight after the Lonrho revelations and a year after deputy prime minis- ter, Reginald Maulding, resigned over the Poulson case. These are the people who want to cut wages and deliber- ately encourage price rises and higher rents to slash the stand- ard of living of the working which produces all the class, goods and services in society.

The latest revelations must immediately strengthen the de- mand for a massive mobilization by the working class to force Heath and his crowd out of office. For the past two years he has been involved in a parliamentary •over his claim to hold on row to the courtesy title of 'Viscount Lambton' because he objected to being called 'Mr Lambton'.

Ironically, the family motto which dates back four centuries is "The Day Will Come' He lives on a huge estate at Lambton Park, near Chester-le- Street in Co Durham, and owns some 26,000 acres in various parts of the north. Until his ministerial appoint- ment in 1970 Lambton was chair- man of the Seaham Harbour Dock which is engaged in Company the shipping of coal. He is also a regular guest columnist in the Beaverbrook- owned London 'Evening Standard'.

Press and TV deride Watergate excuses PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday May THE BIG financial institu- tions which dominate the Wall Street share market are selling their shares and pull- ing out. Their move reflects a total lack of confidence in the inflationary boom. It is one of the main factors behind the prolonged slide in stock market prices, the worst for more than two years. For the seventh consecutive quarter the institutions sold more stocks than in the first three they bought months of this year. A survey of the 80 largest investment companies carried out by the Dow Jones agency showed

BY JOHN SPENCEF

PRESIDENT Nixon is fighti his back to the wall as his late ment on the Watergate scanda to pieces by the Press and po in the United States. Members of his own Republican F blasted the credibility of the 4 statement which claimed national problems of 'crucial importance' le ignore warnings about a Watergate Senator Charles Percy, a former for the party's presidential nomina that for all its length the statemen answer key questions about Waterg 'Let us have the facts, the total fac , us God, out en but the facts so help now, Percy said. At a White House Press conference follow- ing the release of the document the normally servile Press corps 'explanation' greeted Nixon's with hoots of derision. In his Nixon statement claimed that he had instructed his aides Ehrlichman and Halde- 'to ensure that the man expo- break-in did not sure of the uncover either an unrelated covert operation of the CIA or the activities of the White House investigations unit. He added: 'It was certainly not my intent nor my wish that the investigation of the Water- gate break-in or of related acts be impeded in any way.' The glaring contradiction be- these two sentences pro- tween voked the reporters at the White House Press conference held by Nixon aides Leonard Garment and Fred Buzhardt to a frenzy of shouted questions. They openly showed their dis- belief when Garment tried to explain away the contradictions by saying: 'Watergate itself might have certain related transactions that would be a very appropriate subject of investigation, but I think that this states that this particular instruction was de- signed to avoid having the in- vestigation move unwittingly, if you will, into an area covered by some of the legitimate cov- was aware of 'hat the President ert operations Garment went on to even heights of sophistry greater he tried to reconcile when Nixon's latest statement with his remarks on television last month, when he claimed his aides had repeatedly assured him that none of his administration were • in- volved. Garment said: I think the April speech on television re- presented the President's know- 01-720 2000 sday May 24, 1973 that sellers outnumbered buyers by 43 to 20 while the other institutions' transactions were inconclusive. Altogether the 80 companies sold $313m-worth of shares in excess of their purchases. In the last quarter of 1972 the equival- ent figure was only $180m.

Overall trading dropped by almost 20 per cent, to $3,720m.

The volume of shares being sold dropped by over 15 per cent, but the volume of buying dropped even further-by nearly 23 per cent. The biggest individual seller was the Dreyfus Fund, which lost heavily as a result of the Equity Funding swindle. Dreyfus Fund sold a total of $90.3m-worth of

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s fighting with his latest state- scandal is torn and politicians ublican party have i the 4,000-word national security tance' led him to atergate cover-up. • former contender 1 nomination, said statement did not t Watergate. total facts, nothing d, out on the table

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ledge and recollection at that point stated to the finest point of certainty, and the process of investigation examination and has continued then, and since this statement is a more com- plete statement? Nixon's statement is plainly an attempt to ensure that when Haldeman and Ehrlichman begin speak before the Senate in- to involvement quiry about Nixon's in the scandal, he is in a posi- tion they had 'mis- to claim understood' his instructions.

This, it is hoped, will pro- • vide threadbare alibi Nixon whose direct involvement in the scandal is no longer seriously in doubt. NIXON ... claimed he was preserving THE COMMITTEE of 20 meet- ing in Washington this week to discuss reform of the inter- national monetary system have reached a complete deadlock on of 'hot money' the question movements. Governments in Europe and Japan are terrified that the vast securities in the first three months of this year. 'Over the past three months, says its president, Howard Stein, 'we have been disappointed with the behaviour of the equities market.' • Stein adds piously, that 'the equity market holds the greatest promise for the long-run investor, for that person who • • • has faith in the future of our nation and its economy. Stein is no doubt hoping to encourage buyers to come forward for the remaining shares in his portfolio! Down at the Rome Price New Era Fund, another big institu- tional investor, president Howard Calhoun says: 'We are approach- • . CIA man implicating Nixon.

In fact Nixon himself admit- ted that he himself may have created the sort of climate in which illegal acts and the whole- by sale corruption revealed Watergate allowed to were flourish. He said that in 1970 he had authorized "surreptitious entry, breaking and entering in effect on specified categories of targets in specified situations relating to national security. included These the inquest into Daniel Ellsberg's "associa- tions and motives conducted by White House investigation the squad to which convicted Water- conspirators Howard Hunt gate and Gordon Liddy belonged.

re serving CIA. pool of short-term capital cir- monetary arrangements and create havoc with their plans. The German government—once the advocate of free movement capital internationally — has of had to erect a series of controls to try and prevent the mark from ths ing, if not already at, a point of crisis with The heads of the Pioneer Fund unprecedented 'hostility" detect and 'indifference' on the part of investors towards Wall Street. "The Watergate scandal in Wash- ,ington, the Equity Funding •scandal in the insuranee industry have eroded public confidence, ion they say. The lack of confidence in the future among these huge stock- holders is a clear indication that the inflationary boom is plunging that Wall towards slump and Street is heading for a crash.

• SEE Saturday's Workers Press for a 1929-1973 comparison.

TROOPS and police mutineers were locked in battle yester- day after a day of fighting in Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state, which left at least 40 dead and more than 100 wounded on both sides. The death toll, according to reports from Lucknow, was cer- tain to go higher. Premier Indira Gandhi ordered units of the crack Central Re- serve Police into the state to help suppress the mutiny by 20,000 men the Provincial Armed Constabulary. Some of the mutineers were reported to be marching on Lucknow and stringent security forces were in force in an effort them reaching the to prevent Shooting was going on in city. at least five centres. The mutiny had the appear- carefully ance being со- ordinated. It began with an attempt at non-violent Gandhian protest by the PAC mutineers, who have formed a trade union and are demanding better wages and living conditions. The army moved in to take the

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armouries over throughout the state. It met with stiff and widespread resistance, which the authorities claim in- dicates that the mutiny was planned in advance. OVER 1,400 film and tele- Vision , authors, members of Writers' the Guild of America, have been out on strike for 11 weeks. being overwhelmed by sales of unwanted dollars. By contrast the Americans want existing controls on capital movements phased out altogether.

The lack of agreement on hot money reflects the impotence of the committee, which was long ago overtaken by events and now has no authority. AN ALL-PARTY 21-man parliamentary commission has recommended that ita- lian fascist leader Giorgio Almirante should stand trial.

Only three members of the commission voted against the majority. They included two members of Almirante's MSI (Italian Movement) Social party and a Christian Demo- crat. Almirante would be charged with reconstituting the banned Italian fascist party. Under the Italian law, it is illegal to form any organization with fascist aims. In fact, Italian governments since the war have allowed the fascist movement to grow again without taking any significant attended 200,000 people the funeral on Monday in Milan of Gabriella Bortolon, the 23-year- old girl who died last Thurs- day in a fascist-inspired bomb attack. Some 135 fascists have been charged in connection with previous bombing on April 12 in Milan, where a police- man was killed by a hand gre- nade. Among them are many MSl members. action to stop it, although Almirante's party and several other groups are de facto illegal.

Almirante's party got 3 million votes at the last election.

members Under Italian law, of parliament benefit from im- munity under prosecution unless this privilege is waived by parlia- ment itself. Almirante has himself said that he does not want to shelter behind the 'shameful' device of • immunity and is parliamentary willing to stand trial. But he told a press conference recently that his conviction would amount to 'persecution'. As Almirante knows, his con- viction would strengthen rather than weaken the position of the fascists. He could then appear as a martyr to the fascists.

The Italian government has no intention destroying the fascist movement. The Italian Communist Party has supported this move by the Italian parlia- ment in order to divert the .

attention of the working class from a real struggle against the dangers of fascism in Italy.

The writers have taken on the big film and television producers in a struggle for higher wages, in their first strike for 13 years.

Leading script-writers, who also work as actors, joined the picket line. in front of the Hollywood film studios. 'We are the only union where millionaires and paupers have joined together in strike action', said John Furia, author of the TV series 'Kung Fu', and vice- president of the Writers' Guild.

Scriptwriters only receive the minimum of $5,000 salary a script, and since the number of film productions is rapidly de- clining, they are forced to aug- ment their income by producing scripts for TV serials and soap operas.

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MONTY JOHNSTONE'S de- fence of his own role in the Communist Party's Congress in 1969 must deserve a Stalin Peace Prize for its political dissembling. Johnstone's only fear was that the Gollan-Ramelson leadership would 'oppose' the Stalinist intervention in Czechoslovakia without a credible basis sufficient to unite the CP membership, who were deeply divided on the issue.

The 'hard-liners' could not understand why they were sup- posed to welcome tanks Budapest in 1956 but oppose them in Prague in 1968! John- stone's role was to plead for more persuasive answers. He avoided, of course, every struggle against the CP leader- ship in its attitude to the Hun- garian and Czech working class.

Once again he was 100 per cent with the Gollan leadership on the main question: the role of the Stalinist bureaucracy. Here is the extract from our our correspondent outlining the collusion between Johnstone and 'Morning Star' editor George Matthews at the Congress.

This same new situation was reflected in George Matthews' discussion in the reply to debate Czechoslovak to the salient points of which you gave prominence. Here a division of labour had been carefully worked out by the King Street hierarchy. Realizing the dangers for them reflected in the many resolutions demanding A LINK between the shoot- ing of a leading Irish Young Socialist* *, Peter Graham, in October 1971, and 'undesir- able elements' who they claim have taken over the leadership of Saor Eire is indicated in a letter smug- gled out of Portlaoise Prison in the Irish Republic by eight prisoners. The prisoners say that the un- desirable elements 'have not alone been content to use that organization [Saor Eire] for their ends, personal own but have far as to interfere with gone so the anti-imperialist struggle in Ireland by using harassment and bully-boy tactics against life-long members and supporters of the Republican movement. 'As has been stated in numer- ous Press articles, a cloud of mystery still hangs over the brutal murder of a sincere and dedicated revolutionary, Peter Graham, in October 1971. Saor Eire once operated as a sincere

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and Bogside areas of Londonderry were re- ported to be quiet yesterday after riots sparked off by the death of a man hit by a rubber bullet.

Thomas Friel (21) died in hos- pital after being hit in the head a fundamental analysis of the causes of the invasion and the distortions in the 'socialist' states that it revealed, they were deter- mined to prevent these being put to the Congress, which, they in- sisted, should only be allowed vote for or against their resolutions of August 1968.

agreed that Monty was Johnstone should jump up at the beginning of the Congress ahead of anyone else to oppose this.

As prearranged, Bill Wain- wright, heading the Resolutions Committee, would then counter- pose a 'reasonable' proposal, sure adoption, decision that a should be deferred till the next day when delegates concerned had had a chance to discuss the matter with his committee.

Johnstone then led a group of delegates into the committee and, after a sham fight, persuaded Johnstone manoeuvred in the CP's 196 vasion of Czechoslovakia to avold any causes of the Warsaw Pact armies inte previous year. Peter Graham. revolutionary organization. For us it does so no more.' The prisoners say that during the last two years 'undesirable elements have been able to fringes and operate round its actions under the carry out name of Saor Eire, which had nothing in common with the stated objectives of that organ- ization. by a rubber bullet at a range of 25 yards last Thursday night.

Following the news of his death, five buses were hijacked to form barricades. Troops were stoned and shots were fired at four army posts.

PART THREE

Last Thursday (May 17) we published a letter from Communist Party member Monty Johnstone, which was in reply to an article in Workers Press on March 14: 'A Stalinist humbug reappears? Today we publish the third part of our reply to Johnstone's letter. most of them to agree to Wain- wright's proposals in the interests of 'unity' against the faction sup- porting the invasion. Things nearly went wrong however when Jack Dunman (the CP'8 1968 Congress debate on i the in- avold any fundamental analysis of the rmies intervention in the August of the 'As this element now seems to constitute the leadership of that organization, we feel it our duty as revolutionaries to point out to the Republican socialist move- collection of individuals, Of that the degeneracy ment The eight signatories of the letter are: Martin Casey, Josepr Dillon, Paddy Dillon and Danny McOwen (all of Dublin), Eugene Norrby (Derry), Donal O'Laoghaire and Donal Dineen (both of Cork) and Cean Morris- sey (Tipperary). Graham, former Peter student in his mid-20s was found dead in his flat. He had been battered and shot in the head.

Special Branch and Murder Squad detectives established that two men called on Graham shortly before midnight the day before his body was found.

The murderers were never discovered, although there were clear indications that it could have been a political assassina- tion. * The Irish Young Socialists is unconnected with Young Socialists' organization in Britain. see Heath

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premier Liam Cosgrave will meet Edward Heath in Lon- don on July 2, the day after the results of the Northern Ireland assembly elections are known. Likely topics of discussion will be the proposed Council of Ire- land and plans for an all-Ireland television broadcasting network.

Workers Press, TI Party's agricultural for expert two decades who had fallen foul of the Party leadership when, for entirely non-political reasons, was sacked from his full-time job at King Street a few years ago) the next day insisted on pressing the issue to a division. Wainwright assured the Con- gress that delegates wishing to go further than the EC should be able to do so in the debates, a useful safety valve which could commit them to nothing. When it became clear, from the applause of delegates at attacks on the Husak regime and Soviet policies in the speech of Essex secretary Peter Sampson, Johnstone's kite- followed by flying demagogic speech, that many delegates wanted a stand on these lines, Matthews made his clever reply pretending to repudiate the Party's past ko- towing to Stalinist repressions.

This led the unwary to think that the leadership was accepting their The points. extent Matthews' sincerity can be judged, however, by the fact that prevented those passages from his speech appearing the next day in the 'Morning Star', which he edits. 'Behind the scenes at Con- • Workers Press, November gress', 29, 1969) Johnstone does not answer the main question: Why did he par- ticipate in the fraud of the Reso- lutions Committee when the issue was the right of Congress to dis- cuss and decide on all major resolutions relating to Czecho- slovakia?

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NOW OPEN Monday to Thursda Fudays fate night opening) 9 Saturdays 9 a.m.—5 8 Press, Thursday May 24, 1973 PAGE 3 We are not impressed by 'hard- genuine' discussions hitting and in committee. The facts show irrefutably that Johnstone acted an irreplaceable safety valve as for the King Street bureaucracy and consciously prevented a real discussion from taking place on the floor of the Congress.

For these reasons he does not attempt to defend himself against our statement—which we knew to be true-that he attended Comrade Tom Kemp's lecture in order to provoke a scandal about 'undemocratic methods' by the

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We refer in particular to the extraordinary procedure of John- stone in bringing a concealed tape recorder to the meeting addressed by Comrade Kemp in east London. Comrade Slaughter explained the purpose of this visit: 'Johnstone's plan was, if and when excluded from the sub- sequent meeting, to produce his tape recording as proof that he had not disrupted Comrade Kemp's first lecture' If this allegation was untrue, it should have provoked an in- stant and spontaneous reply from so keenly concerned a person about socialist ethics as Johnstone is. Incredible as it may seem remains Johnstone singularly silent on and impervious to this suggestion. Why? Is there reason to be- lieve that other people besides Johnstone were involved in this shady enterprise and are embar- rassed by its consequences?

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday May Sam Gordon is a garage work- er and T&GWU member: the situation without socialism' When I came to England from Jamaica in 1961 the Conservatives were in power.

The housing situation was ter- rible. I was living in Notting Hill Gate with my wife and conditions were very, very bad.

We had one room to live in.

Sometimes we had to use it as a sitting room or a bedroom, a bathroom and even a toilet.

The Labour Party came round and talked about social- ism and I voted for them. I have always voted Labour since I came to this country.

But they have fallen far short of socialism. Many of the things they should have done they didn't do. Take medicines. The drugs industry should be under state control. That's why the National Health Service can't function. Look at North Sea oil. Instead of harnessing the North Sea for the people, the Tories have given it to the Americans. The Labour Party did not blink an eyelid. Another thing. Those Labour who voted with the MPs Tories on the Common Market should be thrown out. In act- ing the way they did, they not only hurt the Labour Party, but they helped keep the Tories in power. I went to a tenants' meet- ing on the estate and some people said 'take rents out of , but I said we •olitics shouldn't do that because it was a political question.

A Labour councillor was there and he said there was nothing he could do. He said they had got to obey the gov- ernment, but if we wanted to protest we could. I asked him if he as a coun cillor couldn't do anything, what did he expect us to do.

Take the Industrial Rela- tions Act. the Tories When brought it in, had the Labour Party and the TUC co-oper- ated against it, they would have forced them out of office.

I don't think they wanted to. If they had done that workers would have asked them to carry out socialist policies, but they did not want rsday May 24, 1973 Take the Industral Relations Act. Whe operated against It they would have fo leaders during one of the massive den working class to defeat the government that. They reformists. are They are part of the capitalist clique. Harold Wilson was the man who sold out the Africans in Rhodesia. Britain has a lot of shares at stake in Rhodesia and South Africa. When a few hundred per- sons were involved in incidents in Anguilla they sent soldiers, yet they can't go to Rhodesia.

I think the time is ripe now to build an alternative leader- ship. Look at the monetary crisis.

When Nixon decided not to exchange the dollar for gold, that was a death nail in the coffin of capitalism. It set off a chain reaction. No money in safe. the capitalist world is Today I heard on the news that gold has gone over $100.

There is no way of changing the situation without socialism.

Everybody teels this crisis.

Never in the history of British trade unionism have the teach- ers and civil servants gone on strike, but they are living on peanuts and they have been forced to take action. What do I think of the League? The only thing we have is our word. The League stands on principle and neither Labour, Tory nor CP has ever said that. I was a member of the Com- munist Party. I paid my sub- scription and I read the paper [the 'Morning Star']. One day I asked them how they are Act. When the Torles brought It in, had the d have forced them out of office. I don't think assive demonstrations against the Bill. Instead overnment, they allowed the Bill to become law going to change the situation and they told me about get- ting men into the trade unions and into parliament. I asked them: 'How is it that after 40 years you still haven't got anybody in the House of Commons? How can you do anything?' I just quit then and there. They are re- formists. What kind of party do they have in France? They go along with the right wing, with Pom- pidou. In the recent elections Pompidou said should the left win a majority he would not let them form a government.

They did not challenge him. In other words they have no power. Why do we need a revolu- tionary socialist party in this country? Because only 7 per cent of the people here own about 90 per cent of the wealth. The Queen, the Duke, the barons, the millionaires who own Centre Point; they own all the wealth. The major- ity of the people have nothing.

have advanced Workers since the war, but with the progress in science and tech- nology had Britain been run on a socialist basis they would have been very much better off. Some people say a worker has a car, a fridge and a tele- vision, but they don't say how hours he has to work many for it. They don't tell you his wife, has to work too. He's had the Labour Party and TUC fon't think they wanted to! Above: TUC Il. Instead of uniting the strength of the come law. killing himself little by little.

Capitalism is a rotten sys- tem. It's finders keepers when you are big, but hand it in when you are small and weak.

Prince Phillip says pull your socks up, but he's never done a day's work in his life. A couple of years ago the Queen she needed money, said she's got millions and millions piled up. I recently saw a man's pay slip and it had 30 hours over- time on it. Why does he do that? If he had money as they say he would sit at home and draw or go for a three months' cruise on a yacht. If a man has money he doesn't want to kill himself. They say this is the affluent society, yet there are thou- sands and thousands living without even basics. Suffering has been going on for hundreds of years and I have yet to see God come out and do anything about it. The church are the greatest crooks in the world. At home we used to have a harvest festival and many poor people would give corn to the church and they would sell it. mi The people were poor and they had to make sacrifices to give the corn, but who do you think the church sold it to— the same people who gave it.

From those days I began to question the church. The par- son didn't do any work, yet he was treated like a God. He didn't work, he couldn't run, he was superhuman, yet you had to slog along. They told the people you mustn't care for any riches. But look at the Church of England. You can guess their riches. I may not know much poli- tical theory, but I know the practice. I have known hunger.

In 1951 in jamaica it was real, real bad. One Sunday morning my wife and I got up and we had a cup of bush tea in the little board house I had built and come evening we hadn't had a crust. I asked my wife if she was hungry and she said no be- cause that was her spirit. But I cried. It seems strange to think of a big man crying. But I cried because I knew she and I got to think I were dying. 'Is this right?' One side of the nation with everything and the other with nothing. Jamaica is a vicious place.

You go to pick up a crust and they stamp on your hands.

The police all carry guns and they shoot first and ask ques- tions later. When you have money you can buy what you want. Sir Gerald Nabarro said 'When I can pay dogs to bark for me why shouldn't I?' Look at the Poulson affair and now Lonrho. It goes on every- where. Yet to the man who works for 40 hours Heath and his crew say: 'You cause the infla- tion' Meanwhile the real cul- prits go scot free. In my opinion if you are following world events work- ers throughout the world are beginning to demand a share in what they create. Make no mistake, however much land there is, nothing will come out of it without labour. If wealth is accumulated labour, who is doing the labour—the working man of course. How much do they get out of it? The policies of the Tory government were bound to happen because of the mone- tary crisis. The big banks, the big companies want their pro- fits and who's going to pay if not the workers? Free bargaining has been taken away, but at the same worker is losing time the money because the pound is depreciating so fast. Wages are not standing still.

They are depreciating all the time. The things you could buy with f5 last week you need f5 and 10 pence this week. You are losing money on account of the rising prices.

The price of beef has gone up and Heath and company tell the housewife to shop around and buy chicken or pork. The same group of people who control beef control lamb, change over they say: account of demand we've st to raise the price.' And after a long day's w..K is it practical to shop around?

It's stupid talk. The govern- ment twist people. British workers don't know much about politics. But the young people now are talking demanding. and The young people are standing up. The basic thing is to edu- cate workers. You've got to let them know what is going on. Most of all you've got to bring all sections of workers together.

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Y PARTY

un, The job is to you raise the you les. of political consciousness' oli- ,er. John Gaffney works at the Ford eal, Halewood, Merseyside. ing His political and. industrial we education began when he left the the British serving dinary aller Milt in Guyana. He wanted to be a n't policeman, but had to settle for the assembly line. Work in the das. His Sos soon be- changed his attitudes. tility to unions disappeared to when he realized under Sut Tory rule his wage packet was nd jeopardy. nk He also witnessed the col- he lapse the Ford claim pay he primarily because of lack leadership from the unions and ce. Now John is helping stewards. nd to develop the Socialist Labour ds. League on Merseyside. nd think the time Is ripe to es- develop the

SLL.

As has been analysed in the document, the economic crisis has SIr pletely ruined the monetary set-up of capitalism. ne What we have to make at workers that they see Is will be made to pay for this crisis y- -it is not something far away from themselves. ks My lis own can get throurove s that things can through. 1l- the army full of all the propaganda they give you. The first thing I wanted to do was re k- to be a policeman, but there were no openings so I landed re up at Ford's. re I used to argue about the 10 unions, saying they were ruin- ing the country and the oLner th lads used to laugh at me.

Then is realized my wage Was 1g packet the money was being from by the Tory gov- taken ernment and began to have a e-

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Merseyside plant during pay. nego- Above: 'We have TaHIonS In noticed gradual Crosion standard of living... • buying food is a weekly nigntmare for my wite trudging from supermarket to supermarket comparing prices, trying to save a lew pence. rethink. -they there 1s argument- The place develop to really are doing it to test out your the is the shop floor and party ideas. But something new right inside the trade unions. always comes out of an argu- This is where most of the dis- things are the cussion of politics goes on same after it. where into The job is to raise the poli- lick direct conflict every day. It is tical the consciousness at this point of conflict where working, of them -most we ought to be. onlv hat realize the political Once men see man It's up to us Lne to make Issues. is dedicated and taking nel clear. up the tasks of the The shop stewards often say working class, he known becomes there is no room for politics on the plant. The next thing is the shop floor. that suits them nne - because it lakes Ther and Usually heat off them. The thing is that fact. every struggle workers are in is political and many of these stewards cannot deal with them. That is why men will come up to another bloke who has put his position over at a meeting. This is the mass beginning of leadership. Leadership, of course, is a crucial issue at Ford as the present pay claim has demon- strated. Right at the beginning of this struggle the Halewood lads came out. They would have come out for the pay claim even if it had meant a fight with the government.

I am not exaggerating the strength. There was a lot of weak sections who wanted to retreat, but they are there in every struggle. What was needed was strong decisive leadership. But this did not come. The unions dragged the issue out. There was a refusal—a deliberate one I think-to face up to the political reality that a fight against the Tories was posed.

So the men got demoralized.

They had information; no Jones and Scanlon were never heard. This to me was a case his- tory-it's going on throughout the whole working class on a national scale. That is why the time is ripe to build this älter- native party. Meanwhile the Tories are on belting away. The document outlines the basic rights in the danger-1 really don't think it ing hat can be improved on in this Workers Press, T respect. It answers all my grievances anyway. A most important thing to when you are pre- remember senting things to workers that they need something solid, something they can grip on to.

The programme must be as clear and definite as possible and the party must be well identified too. On housing, wages, unions, we must put our policy forward in the simplest, clearest way. I think people are faced with two problems. There is lingering belief that things will eventually get better-that someone will come along and the situation. At the rescue same time there is a fear that they might be next for an attack. This is a fear of the government caused by no lead- ership whatsoever. We must change this situation with our own activity. This is the big- gest job imme- diately ahead. 'Give workers An ex-member of the Com- munist Party contributes to our discussion on building the revolutionary party: When I got married about four years ago, I was earn- ing about £26 a week net, and ' ship my wife and I could live quite s Press, Thursday May 24, 1973 PAGE 5 well on that amount—in fact, we ate best rump steak twice a week. But since those days and two children later, we have noticed a gradual erosion in our standard of living, even though 1 am now earning in excess of £36 a week net.

It seems increasingly im- possible to find money to pay everything and buying food is weekly nightmare for my wife as she trudges from supermarket to supermarket comparing prices, trying to save a few pence. About 18 months ago my wife and I joined the Com- munist Party, as we were both disillusioned Labour supporters and hated every- thing about the Tories and what they stood for. But it took me quite a while to realize that all the Com- munist Party seems to teach is more democratic methods for achieving less democratic aims (i.e. bureaucracy). Nowhere in their 'British Road to Socialism' do they explain how the British work- ing class is connected with the international working class. The 'British Road' could have been written by Stalin himself.

It takes a party like the Socialist Labour League to lead the working class, a party Marx, with the teachings of Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.

So, onward SLL, and give the working class the leader- nd 'ship'it badly needs. You won't be disappointed.

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BY ALEX MITCHELL

A special government committee will report next month on whether to give workers in Japan's public service industries the right to strike. Its decision will bring to a head a long and bitter fight between the government and labour unions. The investigat- ing committee has been locked in fruitless deliberations for no less than eight years.

committee comprises The six pro-management members, pro-labour and eight 'neutrals'. The chairman is Yoshinor Maeda, who is also president of NHK, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation.

long- The talking has been winded and inconciusive he. cause the government has been afraid to antagonize workers in public sectors like railways, Thuraday May 24, 1973 the Post Office, schools and the civil service. But the issue was placed hrmly on the agenda last during the country's month first-ever General Strike in the public sector. It began at midnight on Thursday, April 26, and was called off by trade union leaders late on Saturday evening after an agreement had been reached with negotiators from the Tanaka government. The unions in the strike, all members of Sohyo, the TUC of the public service workers, had three demands: higher pay; pensions for all workers; and the right to strike. The deal between the and the Spring government Labour Offensive Joint Strug- gle Committee contained six points. The government prom- ised: • To normalize labour- relations in management government enterprises and public corporations. (This is reference to the high- a handed and anti-union conduct of many of the heads of public corporations.) 'sympathetic to- • To be wards any advice by the Inter- national Labour Organiza- tion (ILO) and a report by the Committee for Freedom of Association. • Disciplinary action against strikers would be taken with fairness and prudence. (Trans- lated into common or garden English, be this means there victimization would no after the General Strike.)

• To continue studying the problem of making compensa- tion for the postponement of increases in connection pay with disciplinary actions taken in the past. • To respect the results of deliberations such among labour-related ministers as the Labour Minister, the Wel- fare Minister and the Prime Minister's Office director general. • To respect any recommen- dation by the Third Council for the Civil Service System on the problem of basic labour rights of public service person- nel. The fact that in 1973 rail- waymen, post office workers, teachers and civil servants are still struggling for the basic right to strike is the outcome of a number of key factors in the history of the Japanese workers' movement. The right to strike was for- bidden by the early leaders of the Meiji Restoration at the end of the 19th century. The Imperial Diet enacted

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anti-labour laws: the Criminal Law (1880), 'the Law Concern- Assembly ing and Political Association' (1890) and the Public Peace Police Law (1900). This legislation out- la wed all the democratic rights of the working class-the right of assembly, freedom of speech, thought and the Press, and the right to organize unions. working The first men's organization's were pledged to fighting for all the basic demo- cratic rights, including the right to strike. The big movements began in Japan at the end of World War I and again in 1926. But the militarists and big when business cliques, the zaibatsu, took over in the 1930s, trade unions were banned and mili- tants were jailed, tortured or executed. In the constitution imposed by the United States after the war, the right to strike was enshrines 7 Article 28. This 'guarantees clause fically Sp all workers the right to organ- act collec- ize, bargain and tively. Although this principle observed in practice by was workers in private industry, successive Tory governments have stated that it does not apply to public service work- They are a special case, ers. the whose argument goes, withdrawn labour cannot be because they are employed by and serve the state. This government edict was followed by a Supreme Court decision which outlawed strikes in the public service.

On Wednesday. April 25, a day before the General Strike was due to start, the grand bench of the Supreme Court ruled by eight to seven that by strikes government and public corporation workers were illegal. Furthermore, the judgement said, workers who instigated strikes should be subject to criminal punish- ment. The timing of the judgement was a fix' by the Tanaka government. The court was giving its finding on cases which had occurred in 1958 and 1962—why had it taken so many years to draw up a decision? There can only be one con- clusion as to why the court issued its surprise decision on the eve of the strike: it was to intimidate workers and to foster the image of them as "law-breakers'. Premier Tanaka has made clear that he wants the government inquiry committee to come up with a recommen- dation banning strikes in the He went so public sector. far as to make a statement to this effect on television. The committee, the on other hand, is showing signs After eight years' of stress. work, it is now reluctant to reach a final decision. Chair- man Maeda told newsmen last week: The problem of public workers' right to strike is closely related to the govern- ment's labour policy, and believe that the final decision is up to the government.'

If the committee recom- mends against the right to strike, or Tanaka steps in and refuses to concede this basic democratic right, there will be a massive show of indignation from railwaymen and post office They have employees. basic been deprived of this right by a series of reactionary Tory governments. And the Japan Communist Party (JCP) major responsibility bears for this situation. After the war the JCP hailed the MacArthur forces as the 'liberating army'. They hailed the 'peace' constitution major blow for the pro- as a gressive' forces. They allowed the Japanese ruling class to divide the labour movement up into company-by-company unions and did not lead a fight against the outlawing of the right to strike in public cor- porations. Instead of exposing the US- imposed constitution as a fraud, designed to re-establish the Mitsubishis and • Mitsuis in business, the party declared: 'Democratization of the Japanese politics, economy and society was placed, as the most urgent and important in defeated issue post-war Japan on the order of the day internationally, as well, in connection the task to • with militarism. Im- sweep away mediately after the resumption of its activity, the Communist Party of Japan demanded the complete implementation of the Potsdam Declaration ..

'Action Programme' The adopted by the Fourth and Fifth Congresses veritably reeked with the deal cooked up at Potsdam between Stalin and the leaders of imperialism.

It 'demanded the tollowing points as the basic contents of the forthcoming democratic transformation: the abolition of the despotic Tenno system (Emperor system); the estab- lishment of a democratic re- public system whose sover- eignty rests with the people: the eradication of militarism; the eradication of the parasitic landlord-system; the purge and of punishment war criminals; the disintegration of monopoly capital; the establishment of a minimum system and seven-hour wage working day system; the people's control over financial institutions and key industries and the rehabilitation by the people of land. 'In this way the lines of the Communist Party of Japan adopted at the Fourth and Workers Press, Thursd Fifth Party Congresses

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rectly pointed out the basic direction in which Japanese politics should have marched, that is, the complete imple- Potsdam mentation of the Declaration and thoroughness of the democratic transforma- tion.' When MacArthur began to implement his post-war legis- lation, the Stalinists were in the forefront of those who sang his praises. Their reform- ist demands (see above) were almost entirely inaugurated by the occupation government.

While they 'demand- were ing the complete implementa- tion' of Potsdam, it is indeed tragic to note what really took At the place at this summit.. conference in July 1945, Stalin was informed that the atomic bomb had been dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Churchill recalls: 'I can see it all as if it were yesterday.

He [Stalin] seemed to be de- lighted. A new bomb! Of ex- traordinary power! Probably decisive on the whole Japanese war! What a bit of luck! President Harry S. Truman said in his memoirs: 'All he [Stalin] said was that he was glad to hear it and hoped we would make "good of it against the Japan- use ese": The Stalinists in Japan be- ters Press, Thursday May 24, 1973

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It was in line with Stalin's deals at Potsdam in July, 1945, (above lett) that the Japanese Commun- ist. Party set out their support for 'peace' constitution. Top right: Japan's surrender, 1945, after the dropping of the bomb.

Above right: Trains burnt during recent General Strike in Japan. trayed the working class in 'peace' supporting the con- which contained stitution precious few concessions for them. Today the constitution stands exposed: the militarists are back in business, the big business cliques were never purged and broken up, nor the minimum was wage system and the seven-hour day implemented. The JCP has never cam- paigned seriously for the basic rights of the working class in Japan since the war because their policy has been domin- ated by a powerful tendency nationalism: towards they helped harness the working class to 'reconstruct' the war- levelled country. The militancy in the work- ing class-clearly revealed in the General Strike during this year's wages fight, in the 7 million-strong May Day stop- page and the campaign against Tanaka's attempt to revise the electoral laws—means that the fight for basic rights is on in earnest in Japan.

TROTSKYISM

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday May 24, 1973 Since May-June 1968, the Soviet Stalinists have been haunted by the spectre of revolution in western Europe and the growth of Trotskyism in the advanced countries in the west. Fearful of losing their parasitic privileges at home and their control of the labour movement abroad, the Soviet bureaucracy has begun a campaign once again discredit and distort the to principles and history of Trotsky's struggle for the regenera- tion of the USSR and the world-wide revolution of the work- ing class. The Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1972 published Against Trotskvism' , a compendium of docu- ments, articles, extracts, speeches and resolutions aimed at dis- crediting Trotskyism and distorting completely the truth about the relations between Lenin and Trotsky. In this series of articles MICHAEL BANDA replies to this book.

PART FOUR

which the working-class rep- resentatives dominate and lead.

Trotsky clearly saw even The proletariat, in order to in 1905 that the Russian consolidate its power, cannot but widen the base of the bourgeoisie would be un- revolution. Many sections of able to undertake even the working masses, particu- the most basic demo- larlv in the countrvside.

will cratic tasks. The peas- be drawn into the revolution and become politically organ- antry, he correctly anti- advance- ized after the only cipated, could play no guard of the revolution, the stands urban proletariat, at independent political the helm of Revolu- state. role. tionary and organ- agitation The only way in which the ization will then be conducted democratic tasks could be ful- with the help of state resources.

The legislative power itself will filled was under the leadership become of the proletarian state.

powerful instrument Here is a selection of the for revolutionizing the masses.

key passages from the book The of social- nature our 'Results and Prospects' pub- historical relations, which lays Trotsky and Parvus the whole burden of the bour- lished by (who later the revolution the renounced geois upon 1905: of theory) in shoulders the proletariat, When we speak of will not only create tremendous difficulties for workers' workers' the government we but, in have in the first view a government in government period of its existence at any rate, will also give it invaluable advantages. This will affect the between relations the pro- letariat and the peasantry.

The Russian revolution does not, and for a long time will not, permit the establishment any kind of bourgeois- constitutional order that might solve the most elementary problems of democracy. All the 'enlightened' efforts of reformer-bureaucrats like Witte and Stolypin are nullified by their own struggle for existence.

Consequently, the fate of the most elementary revolutionary interests of the peasantry- even the peasantry as a whole, as an estate, is bound up with the fate of entire revolution, i.e., with the fate of the proletariat. The proletariat in power will stand before the peasants as the class which has eman- cipated it. The domination of the proletariat will mean not only democratic equality, Iree selt-government, the trans- ference of the whole burden of taxation to the rich classes, he dissolution ot the standins army ın the armed people anc the abolition of compulsory church imposts, but also re- cognition of all revolutionary changes (expropriations) in land relationships carried out by the peasants. The proletariat will make these changes the starting-point for further state measures in agriculture..• Under such conditions the • Left: Russian peasants, delegates to the First Duma (parliament) of 1906. Trotsky pointed out that the peasantry could play no in- dependent political role.

Russian peasantry in the first and most difficult period ot the revolution will be interested in the maintenance of a pro- letarian (workers' regime democracy) at all events not less than French was the peasantry in the maintenance the military regime of of which Napoleon Bonaparte, guaranteed to the new property- owners, by the force of its bayonets, the inviolability of their holdings. And this means br that the representative body of the nation, convened under the leadership of the proletariat, which has secured the support of the peasantry, will be no- thing else than a democratic dress for the rule of the proletariat. But is it not possible that the peasantry may push the proletariat aside and take its place? This is impossible. All historical experience protests against this assumption. His- torical experience shows that the peasantry are absolutely incapable of taking up an independent political role ...

.. The Russian bourgeoisie will surrender the entire revolutionary position to the proletariat. It will also have to surrender the revolutionary hegemony over the peasants. In such a situation, created by the transference of power to the proletariat, nothing remains for the peasantry to do but to rally to the regime of workers' • democracy. It will not matter much even if the peasantry does this with a degree of consciousness not larger than that with which it usually rallies to the bourgeois regime.

But while bourgeois every party commanding the votes of the peasantry hastens to use its power in order to swindle and deçeive the peasants and then, if the worst comes to the worst, gives place to another capitalist party, the proletariat, relying on the peasantry, will bring all forces into play in order to raise the cultural level of the countryside and develop the political consciousness of the peasantry. From what we above, it will be have said clear how we regard the idea of a "proletarian and peasant dictatorship'. It is not really a matter of whether we regard it as admissible in principle, whether 'we do or do not desire' such a form of political co-operation. We simply think that its unrealizable - at least in a direct immediate sense. ('Permanent Revolution', pp.

202-205. New Park Publications Ltd, 1971.) Instead of 'questioning the hegemony of the proletariat', as the editors of this volume lyingly maintain, it is quite clear and evident: even from these brief quotations that Trotsky did exactly the opposite. The unique feature of the theory of permanent revolution is precisely that it first demon- strated and correctly unveiled the historical dialectic which was to push the working class right into the leadership of • the Russian Revolution.

he Lenin himself broke with the•- co idea of the 'democratic dic- tatorship' in April 1917 on his return from exile in Switzer- land. He recognized that this formula had become outdated and dangerous because it was providing wide circles in the Bolshevik leadership with the excuse to conciliate the newly formed Provisional Govern- ment. Prominent among these con- ciliators was Stalin, then a "Pravda' member the editorial board. The position of the Old Bolsheviks, Stalin them, was mercilessly among attacked by Lenin in his 'April Theses' when he battled to break the Bolshevik party from the petty-bourgeois democracy and turn it towards the work- ing class and the conquest of power. In May 1917 Lenin attended the conference of the Mezh- rayontsi (inter-regional) group based on St Petersburg and made up of former members of both major factions of the Russian socialist movement.

Lenin moved a resolution for the fusion of the Mezh- rayontsi with the Bolsheviks on the grounds that the main differences between the two organizations had been re- moved This fusion, referred to disparagingly by the authors of this book, was a result of a recognition by both Trotsky Lenin that the and basis existed for complete merger of their respective organizations.

The editors claim that Trotsky's 'break with oppor- tunism' (which is how these arch-opportunists describe his the Bolshevik Party) joining was 'only a formality • This is certainly not how Lenin viewed the matter: In July 1917, writing to the Central Committee on the slate of Bolshevik candidates for the Constituent Assembly, Lenin attacked the presence on the slate of 'such an immoderate number of candi- dates from people who have hardly been tested and who have just recently joined the party .. •• He went on: 'It goes with- out saying sic! that nobody would oppose such a nomination, i for example, as that of L. D. Trotsky, for, in first place "Trotsky Sim- mediately upon his arrival took -the position of an inter- nationalist; in the second place, he fought among*the Mezhrayontsi for fusion with Bolsheviks f and finally the during the onerous July days he proved himself both equal the task and a devoted to adherent of the party • of the revolutionary proletariat.

Obviously that cannot be said for a majority of the recent members of the party who appear on the slate. • ('The Stalin School of Falsification' . p. 11. Pioneer Publishers, 1962.)

But then Lenin did not have to consult an Institute for Marxism-Leninism staffed by time-served liars and hacks in order to arrive at a judgement of Trotsky's politics and his capacity of leadership. And if he was in any doubt about these after penning the words quoted above, the doubts were certainly removed by Trotsky's leadership of the October uprising. ..•.. he•-" CONTINUED TOMORROW.

The giant US-based com- pany International Tele- phone and Telegraph, brought into the news as a result of revelations about its involvement with CIA intrigues in Chile, is also being accused of having main- tained close-and profit- able-links with the Nazi regime in Germany, from 1933 to 1945. In a book shortly to be published, author Anthony Sampson, a journalist with 'The Observer' has amassed his facts on the giant corporation from US government records.

He says that ITT co-operated with the Nazis and 'deliberately invested in the German war effort'. ITT, which is the ninth largest industrial corporation in America, today operates in 93 through countries, hundreds of subsidiaries. Its activities in Chile were the subject of recent hearings by the Senate Sub-committee on Multinational Corporations.

Founded in 1920 by a former US Army Signal Corps colonel, Sosthenes Behn, ITT moved into Germany in 1930, when Behn set up a holding company called Standard Elektrizitats- Gesellschaft. Later he bought the Lorenz company too. In 1933, it was reported that Adolf Hitler, new chancellor had received his of Germany, first delegation of American businessmen. It consisted of Behn and his representative in Germany, Henry Mann. According to Sampson, Behn obtained the names of 'reliable men acceptable to the Nazis who could join the boards of ITT's German companies'. One of these was banker Kurt von Schroeder, later an Ss general crucial channel of 'and the funds into Himmler's Gestapo'.

Another Nazi with whom the ITT interests became associated was Gerhardt Alois Westrick, whose law firm rep- several US firms in resented Germany and who became a director of SEG and Lorenz, the two ITI subsidiaries.

In the spring of 1940, West- rick visited America to urge

BRAZIL DEATHS

President Medici of Brazil.

Twenty-five alleged 'subver- sives' have recently died while in police custody in Brazil. One of the latest reported is that of Ronaldo deaths Mourth, Queiros, who was killed 'while resisting arrest.

Queiros was said to be an acquaintance of Alexandre Vannuchi Leme, a geology Stu- dent who security forces claim was 'run down by a car' last businessmen there to cut off supplies to Britain. He was acting under the instructions of the Nazi foreign office, but his trip was arranged by Behn and paid for by ITT. ITT was able as a result of its contacts to receive favoured the Nazis, from treatment according to Sampson. winning Besides massive armaments contracts for its German subsidiaries, the com- pany also had its subsidiaries in Austria and Hungary placed under SEG and Lorenz, and treated as 'German', and there- fore exempt from confiscation.

After the United States had entered the war, ITT's factory in Switzerland continued to equipment for manufacture Nazi Germany and the ITT Spain supplied company in German industry with raW materials. In Germany itself, the ITT- owned Lorenz company had acquired, in 1938, a 28 per cent holding in Focke-Wulte, the bomber producers. Thus ITT, with its sub- The International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, world's largest the multi- national conglomerate, has been involved in two political scandals in Latin America.

In 1970 it offered a sub- stantial sum to finance a CIA- plot to prevent Senator Salva- dor Allende from being elected President of Chile. In Argentina an investi- gation into the affairs of its subsidiary, Standard Electric, showed it practised that double invoicing. It was also accused of violating contracts with the National Telecommu- nications Agency for the sup- ply of equipment. Other charges made against it include customs offences and overcharging for contracts and resulted in the shut-down of its operations. ITT has had a bumper year.

Its first quarter profits were I1 per cent higher than in 1972. Its operations include hotels and food manufacture as month while trying to flee their custody. Leme's body has been buried and all in an unknown place efforts by his family and friends to reclaim it have proved fruitless. Other deaths under suspi- cious circumstances include those of: Rui Oswaldo Pfutzenreuter, a journalist who police said died of "acute traumatic anaemia' one month after he dis- appeared. Aurora Maria do Nascimento Furtado, killed in an alleged gun battle between police and friends to whom she was lead- ing security agents. Cordeiro and Luis Lincoln Ghilardini, both 'killed while trying to escape' Anatalia Mel Alves, who al- legedly committed suicide in security police headquarters in Recife. said by Antonio Benetazzo, police to have been 'run over by a truck' President Medici has rejec- ted requests for more informa- tion about these deaths on the grounds that it would be 'con- trary to the national security' sidiaries in various countries, was able profitably to provide munitions to both sides in World War II. After the war, the company set out to present itself as a 'war victim' and in 1967 managed to obtain $27m com- pensation from the US govern- ment for war damages to its German factories, including, Sampson says, $5m for damage to its Focke-Wulfe factories by Allied bombers! Had the Nazis won the war, Sampson says, 'ITT in Ger- many would have appeared impeccably Nazi; as they lost, it re-emerged as impeccably American'. Sampson's book, "The Sove- reign State of ITT', is designed to raise the question whether any government can control the big corporations like ITT.

What his facts on the com- pany's World War II record would seem to show is that there is only one law govern- ing these big capitalist con- cerns ... that is the law of profit. Allende: ITT tried to stop him being elected in 1970. well as telecommunications and electrical plant. With a revenue of $10,000m or so, ITT is able to make political pay-offs all over the place, including the. US. So many cases have now come to light that a bad aroma sur- rounds the Corporation. Business analysts are blam- ing the slump • in its share prices from over 60 in January to around 37 today onto the bad image resulting from its involvement in the scandals.

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Workers Press, Thursday May 24, 1973 PAGE 9 Japanese businessmen. 7 per cent of Japan's trade are while south-east Asia made up determined to carve out 21 So 70 far per cent. per big share of the Latin Amer- cent of economic co-operation ican market following a visit has been aimed at south-east last year of a delegation from 17 Asia against per cent for the Federation of Economic Latin America. Organizations, the Japanese Besides seeing , Latin Amer- equivalent of the CBI. ica as a market for Japan's The Mitsubishi group has surplus production, a search is on for more stable sources of sent its own mission, so has the Osaka Chamber of Com- of raw materials for supply merce and the Japanese Finan- industry. Japanese interests are Research develop the Pacific cial Association. alming to coast of the South American These visits mark a new high point in Japanese-Latin hemisphere. Amer- An enormous stepping-up of ican relations. In an interview with 'Prensa the Japanese drive Latin into Latina', America can be expected from Nagao Watanabe, chief of the Nikko Research Centre, Trade missions are now on. constantly on the move, three for mak- gave main reasons tempting offers to ing local Japanese interest in the area. first of all businessmen. Growing He made clear friction that Japanese business hoped with the United States, evok- ing old enmities, is inevitable.

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face Leyland cut-back BRITISH-LEYLAND is threatenin carworkers at Longbridge, Birmi ers persuade their toolroom and install a finishing line for the n holiday. The threat will be made today in talks between Pat Lowry, Leyland's labour-relations direc- tor, engineers' union president Hugh Scanion and Moss Evans, Transport and General Workers' Union national organizer.

All 2,000 craft workers at Longbridge are complaining that under the Measured-Day Work system accepted recently, their wages of £45.50 a week are al- ready £1 less than those of pro.

duction workers and could falf further behind. They are demand- ing restoration of tradtional differ- entials over the 16,000 produc- tion workers. A meeting of the works com- mittee yesterday was expected to record a fallure to agree with management, leaving the issue in the hands of Scanlon and Evans. If the toolmakers and main- tenance men refuse holiday work on the finishing line, output will be affected on normal production days. Besides the Allegro itself, models affected would be the Mini, 1100, 1300 and 1800.

THERE IS one question which was not examined in the welter of publicity surrounding the launch of the Austin Allegro last week-the position the car occupies in British- Leyland's strategy for* forcing up the rate of exploitation of its car- workers. of course, is the most question about the launch for Ley- land workers, particularly in the Austin-Morris car division. But while miles of news- print were given over to the Allegro's body styling, inert suspension and square gas steering : wheel, the motoring correspondents remained vir- tually silent on this point.

Normally to chew eager over Leyland's 'labour rela- tions problems ad nauseam, they devoted their columns of type to the new car's road- holding abilities, possible share of the British market and prospects of selling in Europe. omission is hardly an This accident. Leyland has been anxious to dismiss suggestions that the launch of the Allegro, a car very similar in price range and utility to the already existing Morris Marina, should fears for jobs or con- arouse ditions in its car factories.

But there are a number of reasons why this question is at least worthy of cerious con- sideration. The Allegro is really the first car to be designed and built by British-Leyland since the 1968 merger which formed the combine. Although described as being Marina, launched rejig of 1971, was largely a the old Morris Minor without the Minor's good roadholding qualities. As Maxwell Boyd, 'Cunday reatening to lay off thousands of e, Birmingham, unless union lead- om and maintenance members to or the new Allegro over the Whit One of the publicity pictures when the

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOL

STOKES

£500m to keep head above water. Times' motoring correspon- dent, commented last week, Leyland now admits that the bread-and-butter stopßap, of a Marina was 'something By comparison with Euro- pean models, the engineering of the Marina was extremely suspension, conventional, its composed of steel-leaf spring- ing, very outmoded. The engineering of the contrast, is ad- Allegro, in Besides vanced. its new Hydragas suspension, It sports and transverse engine a front-wheel drive. Its roadholding and general performance are said to be much better than those of the Marina, while petrol consump- tion is claimed to have been reduced by elimination of the fan belt. Filmer Paradise, head of the Austin-Morris sales and manu- facturing team, says there is a real demand for both a con- ventional and an advanced car competing in the same price range. But about the only real reason anyone would now buy the Marina in preference to the Allegro is that the older model is the only medium family saloon of any make on the British market left which the average motorist, equipped with no specialized tools, could hope to repair and service himself. ... when the Marina was launched showing the full

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While this may be an im- portant factor, it is extremely questionable whether it is im- portant enough to allow the Marina to retain its present 7-per-cent share of the mar- ket alongside the 8 per cent share which the Allegro, with a production target of 5,000 a week, must be aimed. Leyland admits that the launch of the Allegro may well have an impact on sales of the Marina. But it has tried to allay Marina workers' fears for their jobs with the formula of both that the success models will depend on the size of the market. This, of course, answers nothing. The rapid worsening of capitalism's world econo- mic crisis, and partıcularly the deepening of the trade war, put in question expan- sion of the market. Rather, a catastrophic shrinkage looms.

So the company's ostensible strategy of taking two bites simultaneously at the lucra- tive medium family saloon section of the market must be greatly in doubt. Under these conditions, the £50m Marina lines at Oxford would be in direct competi- tion with the newly-integrated set-up, developed at a cost of £21m, producing the Allegro in Birmingham. Here Allegro would have a distinct market advantage. Even if Leyland's own fore- casts of an expanding car market proved temporarily correct, the Allegro launch, which came just three days after the announcement of a £500m investment programme, must coincide wth a big drive to force up the rate of exploi- tation. In terms of cars produced per head, sales value per head or value added per head, Ley- is lagging well land behind almost all the European car manufacturers. Its value added per man is less than half that in the major German factories.

Workers Press, Th The Austin Allegro 1750 model.

ig the full range. Exploitation in the Euro- factories as a whole is pean itself way behind that in the US car plants. With Leyland's share of the British car market hovering at around 30 per cent, com- pared with 40 per cent or more last year, the f500m is about as little as Leyland chief Lord Stokes can afford to keep his head above water.

And he and the Leyland board know their family saloons now face massively increased com- petition from Europe and pany has been putting in a lot of time setting in advance the man-hours needed to pro- duce each part of the Allegro levels at competitive with European car factories. Meanwhile at Cowley there are already indications of a new attempt to reduce man- on the Marina lines. ning There are signs, too, that a cut in the Marina programme would not be entirely unwel- come to the management. Since workers return to work from their recent strike over the introduction of work- study men, or 'industrial engi- neers' the company likes as to call them, there has been continuous conflict over their attempts to get work studies implemented. Now the company is plan- ning introduce a to new medium-production car, the ADO 71, a Continental-styled model in the executive range.

When it does so, it is thought, it will attempt to man up the lines without out- side recruitment. There are only two ways this could be done. The first is by throwing up labour from the Marina, by dint of im- posing its work studies ruth- lessly on the men. Under pre- conditions, the manage- sent ment knows this is unlikely to be accepted. The second is if there is a significant Marina drop production, possibly as a re- sult of competition from the • Allegro. Press, Thursday May 24, 1973 PAGE 11

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Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Wednesday May 30 Role of the revolutionary party at St David's Church Hall, Church Street, Merthyr 7.30 p.m.

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Day-long SLL picket at Peruvian Embassy

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Workers Press, Thursday Ma THE SOCIALIST Labour League yesterday picketed the peruvian Embassy in London demanding the release of Peruvian Trotskyists jailed by the military Junta The Liga Comunista, Peruvian section of the International Committee of the Fourth Inter- national, has been outlawed by the Velasco regime and its Press seized. Leading members of the Liga Comunista have been jailed and tortured along with members of other left-wing organizations.

The British trade union and labour movement should demand their immediate release.

Resolutions should be sent to the Peruvian Ambassador, 52 Sloane Street, London, SWI.

SEVEN men have been remanded by Birmingham magistrates until June 25, charged with conspiring to trespass and unlawful assembly at an employment bureau in the Rotunda. They were three ATV men Stanley F. Evill (31), a film cameraman; Anthony Maycock (28), reporter; and Francis Minton (33), sound recordist; and Frederick Ainslie (24), Gerrard Kelly (22), Philip Beyer (25), and Paul Davidson (26). An eighth Graham Stevenson (23) man, failed to appear. ONLY THREE members of the General Council voted against ing negotiations with the gov over Phase Three of the Torie cutting policy. Sapper, Alan television technicians, argued . that by going back to Downing Street to ask for concessions which government was in no the position to deliver, the TUC was putting its head in a noose and allowing the Tories to confuse the working class about their real policies.

Doughty, draughts- George and George Smith, men, against con- builders, also voted tinuing the talks. But 22 trade • union : leaders, 'lefts' like including alleged Richard Briginshaw, Hugh Scan- WOMEN'S dispute at Garrards 103 building in Swindon, over work rates spread this week when 450 workers walked out of Gar- rards Blunsdon factory. A pro- ductivity deal in was signed December which the 1,200 women say was centred on the produc- tion of about 57 units an hour.

But since then, the workers claim, the management has been demanding up to 76 units an hour.

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he tried his hand at Bishop again de- Auckland, but was feated. The following year, how- ever, he was handed the safe of Berwick-upon-Tweed, seat which he has represented ever • since. During the Macmillan govern- ment he became principal private secretary to Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary and now the Speaker of the House of Com- mons. came to ministerial He first prominence in the Heath govern- ment. In 1970 he was put in charge of the Royal Air Force at the Ministry of Defence.

The ultimate responsibility for all ministerial appointments lies with the Prime Minister. But when it concerns the Defence Prime Minister Ministry, the relies on several factors: • The Minister of Defence (in this case Lord Carrington, the Tory Party chairman) has a large say in who wants in his defence team. the security Reports from services on the suitability of the candidates. It seems that Heath made the appointment based on favourable ursday May 24, 1973 socialis: Lovini Leu e der -As rs of the TUC's against continu- he government e Tories' wage-

BY ROYSTON BULL

lon and Jack, Jones, voted to carry on collaborating with the bankrupt Tory administration.

A statement issued claimed that the aim was to restore free collective bargaining, suspend the Industrial Relations Act, freeze and halt rising rents, prices. But not a single sentence in the 700-word statement men- tioned the crisis, capitalist which is daily driving inflation up uncontrollably and has SO undermined trading relations massive financial crashes that are inevitable. By ignoring the economic anarchy in the monetary mar- kets and the growing chaos in international relations, the trade union leaders lay the working to most ferocious class open onslaughts from a desperate ruling class without a shred of preparation or protection.

The setbacks suffered by hos- pital workers, gasworkers, and other sections, who are already feeling the pinch of uncon- trolled prices, but severely fet- recommendations from both these sources. that Lambton was in- News volved with call girls is parti- cularly damaging for Carrington.

Twelve ago he years was severely criticized following the unmasking of John Vassall, the spy at the Admiralty when he was First Lord. If it is proved there have been of judgement, Car- two errors rington's position as Defence Secretary and party chairman could be brought into question.

There were first signs of a Tory cover-up when the Speaker, Lambton's old friend, Selwyn Lloyd, announced that he was refusing all private members' questions. His office said that this pro- cedure was being adopted be- cause the Director of Public Prosecutions was now looking into the affair. Lord Lambton is not available to the Press for comment. His statement about his involvement with 'a call girl and one or two of her friends' was issued by the Tory agent for his constituency.

It was given to Press Asso- ciation reporters, at a secret location in Co Durham. When the reporter asked where Lambton Saranst Labur imagin Release Sergio Barrio tered wages, are entirely the res- ponsibility of the TUC's servile loyalty to , 'Britain's' economy— the capitalist system. Aș the corruption and disinte- gration of capitalism become daily more evident, workers must start mobilizing in their union branches a relentless campaign to force the trade union leaders to break off all talks with the Tory government and instead prepare to force them from office.

BRIEFLY - BRIEFLY

GEORGE HENRY INCE

• was yesterday declared not guilty on 'The Barn' six counts murder case yesterday. There.was cheering and applause in the public gallery as the jury an- nounced its verdict. POSTMEN in conference yester- day gave the thumbs-down to delivery of advertising circulars with the regular mail. Against all the efforts of the Union of Post Office Workers' leadership, they decided not to implement "Adpost' the proposed ser- new vice until there are firm proposals for better pay. Lord Lambton said by his agent to be was, his agent, Mr Maurice Hill, said: 'He is far north of here. He is not in London or in the north of England.' His sudden departure will dis- may many, but particularly his Only last local constituents. Saturday he was at the Five Bridges Hotel, Gateshead, when he was elected unopposed. as.

Який вости ір if us Release Sergio Barrio THE TORY enemy is closely watching the progress of our fund. A circular from the Eco- nomic League titled 'Two-minute News Review' and dated May 21 had this to say: • The Socialist Labour League -the largest Trotskyist ganization in Britain-has even more ambitious plans for de- veloping its revolutionary opera- tions. On April 3 it launched a £100,000 Party Building Fund.

•It is worth noting that of the first £4,000, 23,000 came from two unnamed individuals. One of them donated £1,000 and the other fulfilled a promise to give £2,000 provided a similar sum had been raised by a specific Predictably date. this initial target was reached, so to speak, just in the nick of time.

When the fund was launched it was made quite clear that the money. would be used still fur- ther to extend Trotskyist acti- vities. It was pointed out that not a penny was needed to pay off 'no debts and that there was financial crisis' in the day-to-day running of the Socialist Labour League. As the Trotskyist lead- ers put it: 'Our premises, workshops and printing facilities are swamped think of it—only out. Just little over three years ago we an entire new plant. installed We've simply grown out of it.

'Now we need major exten- sions to our printing presses, because of the growing circula- tion of Workers Press-at least gent to be in the far north.

president of the Northern Coun- ties area of the Tory Party.

This body represents 32 con- stituencies Northumberland, and Cumberland. Durham A statement issued yesterday said that he would not be attend- ing the annual meeting of his own Berwick Conservative Asso- ciation this Saturday. 20,000 square feet office Of an increase in the num- space, ber of full-time of technical equipment for pro- a list paganda and agitation purposes which too large to enumerate here, etc. etc.'

Now let's give them some- thing more to talk about. Yester- day morning's post pulled £362.16 which thrust the fund up to £25,342.91. We are just over half way to the first £50,000.

think about Just what the screams will be like if we do it by May 31. Keep it up and show them. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG

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