Workers Press no. 1081

workers press

BRING THE

TORIES DOWN

INCORPORATING THE NI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAI

BY ALEX MITCHELL

whole labour and trade union movement. Heath and his gang have been exposed as being rotten to the core and politically demoralized. They are being kept in office only by the craven collaboration of the Labourites, led by Harold Wilson, and the TUC leaders who carry out Heath's every wish.

affair is not the isolated The Lambton and Jellicoe These philanderings of a couple of eccentric peers.

are ministers in Heath's team-Lambton in charge of the top RAF and Jellicoe was leader of the House of Lords, the Lord Privy Seal and the man who chaired the security committee which Heath set up to smash the 1972 miners' strike. complete demoralization of the ruling This is the class Scotland Yard, to Fleet traceable from the Cabinet office, to City of London. Street and to the In other words, they are all up to their ears in one form decay and of scandal or another, emphasizing the putre- fication of British capitalism.

Reginald Maudling, Heath's Home Secretary and the deputy prime minister, was forced to resign last year in the wake of the Poulson bankruptcy case. • The Lonrho affair revealed that two senior Tories-Duncan Sandys, a former Cabinet minister, and Edward du Cann, the chairman both received large fees paid Tory Party former into secret accounts in tax havens in the Cayman Islands and Jersey.

It is utter humbug and impud.

• The Slater Walker takeover "The Times call ence for to bank of the merchant yesterday for a judicial inquiry which Samuel, was approved into the latest scandal. But we yesterday, will not be referred add that it is entirely must Monopolies Commission. to the predictable. The man who took this decision Whenever the ruling class find Sec- Trade and Industry was deep trouble- themselves in retary, Peter Walker, the found- Vehicle and Bloody Sunday, the ing partner in the Slater Walker Ulster torture in General crash. empire. -they send for the judge.

Lord Polwarth, junior Scottish It was this formula that was minister, who has just been put used ten years ago to whitewash charge of the North Sea oil the Profumo affair. Lord Denning, has development programme, of the Rolls, the Master was having accused of sub- been brought onto the scene following stantial financial interests in three deal between Wilson and Hate companies which are in- Harold Macmillan that the volved in the North Sea bonanza.

Labour Party would not press These incidents have been embarrassing questions against accompanied by senior resig- the Tories for the sake of nations from Scotland Yard and 'national security'. 'full scale' probe into police corruption. Today Wilson is playing the On In other words, what we are same treacherous role. Wednesday the Labourites did is not *another witnessing scandal'. launch an attack on the Profumo' or a *sex not Tories their week's and demand This events reflect the break-up of a ruling Wilson resignation because complete had been in touch with Heath which is gripped with the class and agreed to play down' the insolubility of the economic affair. crisis.

IG THE NEWSLETTER @ FRIDAY MAY 25, 1973

ENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

Who is Lord Jellico This decision to halt Oppo- sition criticism of the crisis-torn government shows the extent to which the reformists serve the Tory master. At the point when the Tories could be swept into political oblivion, they seek to protect them by hypocritical and diver- sionary rubbish about 'national security' And this brings us to the Morning Star', organ of the Communist Party. Its editorial yesterday shrieks of moral indignation, but not a word about the fact that while Lambton was in a bedroom at Maida Vale, the whole TUC General Council was in Heath's parlour at 10 Downing Street.

They've been in and out of it for almost six months collaborat- ing over the imposition of vicious state pay laws. There must be an outcry from every section of the trade union about Wednesday's movement TUC decision to continue talks on Phase Three with this re- actionary and wretched govern- ment. / 25, 1973 • No 1081 4p

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ellicoe? - p. 12 All talks must be broken off and a campaign must be launched to drive the Tories out of office. In its place must be elected a Labour government pledeed to carry out socialist policies in- cluding a programme of national- ization of all banks, insurance houses and major industries and the repeal of all anti-working- class legislation. STILL going up. Today's total is £25,564.41. Socialist Labour League branches sent in: Edinburgh £39; Willesden £5; Croydon £5; Exeter {4; Outer London £25; Bracknell £10; Totten- ham £22; Artists 28; Cam- den £46; Brixton £30.50;

BY ROYSTON BULL

HAROLD WILSON, the Labour leader, yesterday came to the rescue of the Heath government over the Lambton-Jellicoe scandal.

Wilson said he would be glad to enter into immediate consultations with premier Heath to set up an investi- gation by the top secret Security Commission. The Opposition leader was replying to Heath's statement that there was no other minister or any member of the public Services involved, Earl Jellicoe apart from Cabinet minister and RAF minister Lord Lambton.

Wilson said: 'All of us recog- nize how deeply painful it has been for you to make this state- ment. It is not for us to discuss the background of their resig- nations. Having assured the Tories he did not want to probe the mightily suspicious scandal any further, Wilson went on to praise the two discredited peers.

It is right to note the speed and the sense of responsibility that Ministers showed in immedi- ately resigning and doing so with dignity. As he spoke, Wilson's speech was punctuated with murmurs of *Hear, Hear from both sides of the chamber. Labour MP for York, Alexander Lyon, went so far as to "con- gratulate' Heath for avoiding a public inquiry. He claimed the electors had no right to know anything about the private lives of MPs where it did not effect their public duty. EARLIER there were whistles and groans from Labour MPs when Mr Terence Higgins, Finan- cial Secretary, said the pound was worth 79p last month com- pared with 100p at the time of the 1970 General Election.

In other words, the purchasing power of the pound has dropped money) since 21p (4/2d old Heath's election. Mr Gerald Kaufman. Labour MP for Ardwick, said: "That will come as a bombshell to millions of families frantically struggling to make ends meet. As far as they are concerned, the only thing going "boom" is their cost of living' Derby £1; Southall £12; Birkenhead £14. Post all donations to Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG

workers press

BRING THE

TORIES DOWN

INCORPORATING THE N

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY ALEX MITCHELL

movement. Heath and his gang have been exposed as being rotten to the core and politically demoralized. They are being kept in office only by the craven collaboration of the Labourites, led by Harold Wilson, and the TUC leaders who carry out Heath's every wish.

The Lambton and Jellicoe affair is not the isolated philanderings of a couple of eccentric peers.

These are top ministers in Heath's team-Lambton in charge of the House of Lords, the

RAF

and Jellicoe was leader of the Lord Privy Seal and the who chaired the security man committee which Heath set up to smash the 1972 miners' strike. the ruling class This is the complete demoralization of Cabinet office, to Scotland Yard, to Fleet traceable from the City of London. Street and to the In other words, they are all up to their ears in one form decay and putre- of scandal or another, emphasizing the fication of British capitalism.

• Reginald Maudling, Heath's Home Secretary and the deputy was forced to resign last year in the wake of prime minister, Poulson bankruptcy case. Ine • The Lonrho affair revealed that two senior Tories-Duncan Sandys, a former Cabinet minister, and Edward du Cann, the received large fees paid Tory Party chairman-both former into secret accounts in tax havens in the Cayman Islands and Jersey.

It is utter humbug and impud- • The Slater Walker takeover 'The Times call ence for to of bank Hill the merchant for a judicial yesterday inquiry Samuel, which was approved into the latest scandal. But we be referred yesterd Monopolies Commission.

add that it is entirely must predictable. The man who took this decision Whenever the ruling class find was Trade and Industry Sec- deep trouble- themselves in retary, Peter Walker, the found- Vehicle and Bloody Sunday, the ing partner in the Slater Walker Ulster General crash, torture in empire. -they send for the judge.

• Lord Polwarth, junior Scottish It was this formula that was minister, who has just been put used ten years ago to whitewash North Sea oil charge of the the Profumo affair. Lord Denning, has development programme, Rolls, the Master of having accused of sub- been brought onto the scene following stantial financial interests in three Wilson deal between and Hare companies which are in- Harold that the Macmillan volved in the North Sea bonanza.

would Labour Party not press These incidents have been embarrassing questions against by accompanied resig- Tories for the sake of the nations from Scotland Yard and 'national security'. probe into police 'full scale' corruption. Today Wilson is playing the In other words, what we are treacherous role. same Labourites did Wednesday the is not 'another witnessing scandal'. launch an attack the Profumo' 'sex or their week's events reflect the Tories and demand This break-up of a Wilson ruling resignation because complete had been in touch with Heath which is gripped with the class and agreed to 'play down' the insolubility the economic affair. crisis.

IG THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY MAY 25, 1973

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

Who is Lord Jellicor This decision to halt Oppo- sition criticism of the crisis-torn government shows the extent to which the reformists serve the Tory master. At the point when the Tories into political could be swept oblivion, they seek to protect them by hypocritical and diver- rubbish about 'national • sionary security' And this brings us to the 'Morning Star' of the organ Communist Party. Its editorial yesterday shrieks of moral indignation, but not a word about the fact that while Lambton was in a bedroom at Maida Vale, the whole

TUC

General Council was in Heath's parlour at 10 Downing Street. They've been in and out of it for almost six months collaborat- ing over the imposition of vicious state pay laws. There must be an outery from every section of the trade union about Wednesday's movement TUC decision to continue talks this re- on Phase Three with actionary and wretched govern- ment. 25, 1973 0 No 1081 • 4p

• SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ellicoe? - p. 12 All talks must be broken off and a campaign must be launched to drive the Tories out of office. In its place must be elected a Labour government pledeed in- carry out socialist policies cluding a programme of national.

banks, insurance ization of all houses and major industries and the repeal of all anti-working- class legislation. STILL going up. Today's total is £25,564.41. Socialist Labour League branches sent in: Edinburgh £39; Willesden £5; Croydon £5; Exeter {4; Outer London £25; Bracknell £10; Totten- ham £22; Artists 28; Cam- den £46; Brixton £30.50;

BY ROYSTON BULL

HAROLD WILSON, the Labour leader, yesterday came to the rescue of the Heath government over the Lambton-Jellicoe scandal.

Wilson said he would be glad to enter into immediate consultations with premier Heath to set up an investi- gation by the top • secret Security Commission. The Opposition leader was replying to Heath's statement that there was no other minister or any member of the public services involved Earl, Jellicoe apart from Cabinet minister and RAF minister Lord Lambton.

background of their resig- nations? Having assured the Tories he did not want to probe the mightily suspicious scandal any further, Wilson went on to praise the two discredited peers.

It is right to note the speed and the sense of responsibility that Ministers showed in immedi- ately resigning and doing so with dignity.' As he spoke, Wilson's speech was punctuated with murmurs of 'Hear, Hear' from both sides of the chamber. Labour MP for York, Alexander 'con- Lyon, went so far as to gratulate' Heath for 'avoiding a public inquiry. He claimed the electors had no right to know anything about the private lives of MPs where it did not effect their public duty. EARLIER there were whistles and groans from Labour MPs when Mr Terence Higgins, Finan- cial Secretary, said the pound was worth 79p last month com- pared with 100p at the time of the 1970 General Election.

In other words, the purchasing power of the pound has dropped money) since 21 p • (4/2d Heath's election. Mr Gerald Kaufman. Labour MP for Ardwick, said: 'That will come as a bombshell to millions of families frantically struggling to make ends meet. As far as concerned, the only they are thing going "boom" is their cost of living: Derby £1; Southall £12: Birkenhead £14. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG

Iranian CP welcomes Soviet trade with Shah PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday May 25, two-hour speech,

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Italian fascist leader Giorgio Almirante has warned parliament that any dissolve his party attempt to would only serve to make it stronger. Almirante is accused of having attempted to reconstitute Musso- lini's fascist party. Parliament has ten now packets of documents of evi- dence against Almirante and his MSI-national right party.

In the debate on whether he should stand trial, Almirante said that such a move would not only be undemocratic, but impossible in practice. 'You can take away a label, but you certainly can't take away a political will, he de- clared. His party would win many more voters if anyone tried to do away with it. If convicted, Almirante faces up to 12 years in jail and the THE ATTACK on basic dem at the centre of the Watergat United States, has been broug by President Nixon's latest sta He revealed that under plans dr tration had intended systematic su radical student groups. Nixon said: of 1970, another security problem r In March a wave of bombing and explosions struck college campuses and cities. 'There were 400 bomb threats in one 24-hour period in New York City. Rioting and violence on college campuses reached a new peak after the Cambodian operation and the tragedies at Kent State and Jackson State.

The 1969-1970 school year brought nearly 1,000 campus demonstrations and nearly 250 cases of arson on campus. Many colleges closed. Gun battles be- tween guerrilla-style groups and Some police were taking place.

of the disruptive activities were receiving foreign support.

'Complicating the task of maintaining security was the fact that in 1966 certain types of undercover FBI operations that had been conducted for many years had been suspended. This also had substantially impaired our ability to collect foreign incelligence information.

'At the rela- the same time tionships between the FBI and other intelligence agencies had been deteriorating. By May 1970 FBI director Hoover shut off his agency's liaison with the

CIA

altogether.' The President went on to des- meetings be- cribe how after tween the various heads of the disa security services, plans were set bro THE NEW programme of Tudeh (pro-Moscow the Stalinist) Party of Iran lays heavy stress on growing ties between the Shah's dictator- ship and the Kremlin. The establishment and con- solidation of these relations, which have included consider- able Soviet aid for the develop- industry, ment of Iranian is presented as a 'retreat' by the Shah. The programme sees Soviet aid as part of 'a genuine indus- of the country. 'In trialization recent years', ; it says, "faced with the people's demand, the gov- ernment has given ground and in particular with the aid of the socialist countries, taken certain steps towards the creation of some heavy industries. It adds: 'Had the regime been refraining from wasting thou- sands of millions from our oil revenues by pursuing a militar- istic policy and purchasing wea- pons, and had it been spending y May 25, 1973

ALMIRANTE.

GIORGIO:

logical result would be the disso- lution of the MSI. But given the pace of Italian legal pro- cesses, it may be months or before the case even years actually goes to court. In fact, there is no doubt that Almirante's party is based ideas on the and actions of Mussolini's party. They have led many brutal assaults on the working class in recent months.

Almirante's trial would be a sham facade of action against the fascists. sic democratic rights, which is latergate bugging affair in the n brought right in to the open atest statement on the scandal.

plans drawn up in 1970 the adminis- matic surveillance of left-wing and or said: 'In the spring and summer roblem reached critical proportions.

in motion, including 'authoriza- tion for surreptitious entry breaking and entering, in effect targets in speci- —on specified fied situations related to national security' These plans, Nixon claimed, were never put into effect. But it was these plans that White House counsel John Dean re- moved from his office and placed in a safe deposit giving the keys to Judge Sirica. This version of events is cer- tainly not intended to tell the full story. But it demonstrates conclusively that a massive and illegal campaign of surveillance against student and left-wing under. discussion at groups was the highest level in 1970.

Nixon's statement produced a • new high in public incredulity and scepticism. The 'New York Times', one of the newspapers in the trail of Watergate hottest disclosures, said it presented a picture of a government 'fright- eningly out of control. 'In Nixon's the light of Mr admission that he approved such measures in one context in 1970, it is hard to accept unreservedly his disclaimer that, in the case of the burglarizing of the office of Dr Elisberg's psychiatrist and similar incidents, "I would have disapproved had they been brought to my attention."' this money on industrializing the country, then the outcome would have been much better!)

From this it becomes clear that the Stalinists' aim is sim- ply to get the Shah to undertake a consistent policy of forming capitalist industry with the assis- tance of the Soviet bureaucracy.

The programme goes on: 'In the process of industrializ- ation the valuable assistance pro- vided by the socialist countries headed by the USSR has been the in- aimed at strengthening dustries in the direction de- manded by our country. 'These aids, including the of the [Isfahan] establishment steel mill, machine-tool factory and a tractor factory, have dealt a heavy blow to the imperialists' prolonged and subversive policy and have fulfilled the longstand- ing wish of the Iranian people who wanted a national steel mill. 'Although the regime has not made proper use of the true potentialities of the socialist countries or their willingness to 'TODAY Britain is no longer the sick man of Europe.' Pre- Heath's boast mier i to the Women's Con- Conservative Wednesday rings terence. on hollow today. The Lambton-Jellicoe scandal, the Lonhro affair and the Pouison revelations prove that top. Tories, including Cabinet have been involved Ministers, in call-girl rackets, tax eva- sion, profiteering enormous and dubious trading practices.

But that is only one side of the sickness of British capital- ism. It is only to be expected that the Tory hypocrisy of 'hard work and sacrifice for the good of the country" should be for working-class consumption only. The ruling class acquires the wealth that pays for its ex- istence from the labour of the working class. The fortunes •of the Lambton family came from the coalfields of Nor- thumberland and Durham. Lord Jellicoe, as head of the Civil Service, led the resist- to the civil service ance unions' wage claim. And he was co-ordinator of 'national security' during the miners' and dockers' strikes last year.

WHILE these upper-class gentle- men are dishing out £50 a time to prostitutes, the work- ing class faces state control of wages. fees without doing a moment's work, the workers struggle Nixon

BY JOHN SPENCER

provide comprehensive assistance, nevertheless the role played by the socialist countries in the industrialization of Iran has left its mark; this has also to some prevented the extent process from taking the grotesque form which the imperialists and capi- talism were inclined to give it.'

The programme goes to on stress that without the assistance Stalinists of the Soviet the Shah's dictatorship would have been unable to build up its heavy industry: •.. Not only could the crea- tion of fundamental foundations for the country's industrializa- tion come true and materialize only through the Socialist coun- tries' by assistance-as shown the steel mill and the machine tools factory-but they also pro- vide a reliable market, divorced from the goods produced by the imperialist countries. consolidation Expansion and of relations with the socialist countries, ... are of great im- with soaring prices and gov- ernment-imposed rent rises.

WHILE property speculators wax fat, thousands of families can find nowhere to live.

WHILE

the Tories and the Labourites moan about 'na- security, trade union. tional ists face a constant threat to jobs and basic rights. ring The 'sickness' of British capital- ism-of which the sordid an- tics of Cabinet ministers is only one expression—is rooted in the economic crisis which produces soaring inflation, . currencies, tottering trade war and , balance of payments crises. There is no cure for this 'sick- ness'-though the ruling class seeks to find a 'cure' at the expense of the working" class. Every day that this govern- ment is permitted to survive will bring further attacks on the workers. The call of the Socialist Labour mobilize the strength of the working class to bring the Tory government down been completely vindicated. ear. All those Labourites and trade union leaders who have co- operated with this 'sick' gov- ernment stand exposed. Yet the TUC chiefs continue to troop into Downing Street •and collaborate with Heath and his discredited gang, while the Stalinists cover up for them. gle And the Labour Party leaders. ov THE GREEK military regime claims to have foiled a mutiny on three ships of the Greek navy early on Wednesday. The under-Secretary of Press and Information, Byron Stama- topoulos, said two retired rear- admirals and a few active navy officers were arrested after the mutiny attempt. Stamatopoulos said that an attempt had been made recently by Greeks living abroad to pene- trate the Greek armed forces and create an underground or- ganization among them. The two rear-admirals, Cons tantine Engolfopoulos and loan- Mineos, had convinced a mis portance to our national inter- ests. 'Such relations will have posi- tive effects on the political and social situation in Iran. Conse- quently they have the support of the people and the progres- sive forces and above all of our party' This document is a most ser- vile apology for the treachery of which the Soviet bureaucracy, has entered into extremely close relations with the Shah's regime.

Even the Stalinists are forced to lift a corner of the curtain to tell of the savage dictatorship the Shah wields against the Iran- ian masses. Despite the constitution, the state power is in practice admin- istered by the Shah through absolute monarchy and the con- centration of the Three Powers in his hands. 'The regime's anti-democratic policy takes the form of a police sta'e and domination of the secu- rity organization, Savak, turning the Army into a tool for the suppression of the people's move- have announced that they will Their spokesman on television, the "security' ob- sessed James Wellbeloved, has not made a single call for the Tory government to resign.

Now is the time to demand, through nationwide meetings and rallies, that the Tory government must go. The TUC must be forced to break off "sick' all talks with the Cabinet and the Labour leaders must be forced to end their gentlemanly parliamen- tary restraint. Why should the working class suffer and pay for the Tories economic and political crisis; a crisis that must be utilized to kill it off politically?

The hospital staffs, gasworkers, carworkers, builders, civil engineers, teachers servants, and millions of other workers who have borne the brunt of the Tory • attacks could noW be mobilized immediately in a campaign to force the Tories out. The Tory government CAN be brought down now and re- placed by a Labour government which must be committed to socialist policies, including nationalization of the basic industries without compen- sation and under workers' control. As Marx wrote in the "Com- munist Manifesto': 'The bour- geoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of society as an existence upon ers overriding law' number of active officers to stage a mutiny in three ships of the Greek navy, he said. All the officers were arrested being able to put their before plans into operation. Stamatopoulos linked the mu- tiny attempt with a statement by former premier Constantine Karamanlis denouncing the re- gime. Karamanlis' statement was followed by other declarations in a similar vein from retired army and navy officers. It seems likely that the mutiny was inspired by supporters the exiled King Constantine, who attempted abortive an against the colo- counter-coup nels regime in December 1967 and has since lived in exile.

depriving the freedom of ment, assembly to national and demo- cratic parties, implementing national oppression of the coun try's peoples, encroachment by military social and courts on political rights and freedom and violation of the law.' This is the regime which is buying $3,000m worth of arms a year from Washington and boasts in whose leader openly the American Press that he has the largest Middle East army for the express purpose of keeping radical regimes out of the area and acting as imperialism's gen- darme in the Gulf. It would be a crime to sell this man a pea-shooter. The Iranian Stalinists--whose own members are among the 109 men and women executed by the Shah's firing squads in the last two years-are in favour of the Soviet Union and the East European countries giving him a complete set of heavy industry readily adapted to the require- ments of counter-revolutionary war.

JOHNSTONE

MONTY JOHNSTONE

would very much like us to conclude that the British Communist Party has aban- doned Stalinism. On the contrary, its role in sabotaging any united action against the Tory government, its support for the TUC lead- ers who collaborate with the government is a continuation of Stalinist policy ever since Johnstone was a member of the Party. As capitalism enters a crisis which entails gigantic revolution- ary struggles, so the Stalinist and the 'left' trade union leaders move closer to open collabora- tion with the capitalist state.

Johnstone is not blind. He was in the national leadership of the Young Communist League when the "peaceful road to socialism' first developed. Its real was meaning, then as now, was col- laboration with big business and the capitalist state to prevent revolution. Here for example are the words of Harry Pollitt, John Gollan's Party predecessor as in his 1947 policy secretary, booklet, 'Looking Ahead': •The militant working class will not be content with the role of either an indulgent or a carping critic of a Labour gov- ernment (elected in 1945). It is determined to increase its power and control in practical life, in production, and administration, in winning what it veted for.

On the job, this means stronger Joint Production Committees, it means linking up their work through the district or national organizations of the union. If important work is being held up because the materials aren't com- ing through, or because manage- ment isn't doing its job, then let the workers sit on the door- step of Cripps or Bevan till they HANOVER anarchist Ger- hard Gansert (21), claims he was approached last week by two West German special police agents who tried to recruit him as an undercover agent. Using a hidden tape recorder, Gansert taped the conversation.

Excerpts have been published in 'Der Spiegel', showing how Brandt's secret police obtain in- formation about the activities of left-wing movements. The agents were as gathering information 'for no particular purpose. They said: 'We don't work on a day-to-day basis. But rather, before approaching anyone, we prepare for some time.' 'We are neither criminals, nor suspicious characters, we are officials of this state ... we want to clear up the mess that exists now. •We are not particularly in- terested in what individual members of organizations are doing, but rather what is being thought about in certain circles and decided. 'You will of course lead the same life as before. In no way the suspicion be aroused can that you are working with us.

Our methods in that respect are so refined that any suspicion is satisfaction.' ('Looking get Ahead' p. 122-123.) Anybody can see who were the pioneers of the present corporatist trends in the TUC!

Here, 20 years in advance, are the advocates of 'workers' par- ticipation' to solve the crisis. Johnstone knows this history as well as anyone, but the pre- sent crisis does not lead him to examine it or break from it.

Predictably, he supports it. No doubt he would re-echo Pollitt's call to the militants: 'The shop stewards in par- ticular have now a more respon- sible task than ever before. They are the guardians and leaders of the workers on the job. They can set an example by trying to explain the character of the job the whole nation must tackle. Pollitt's pamphlet reveals collaboration 'Wipe out defeatism, cynicism and doubt, so that for example, the Joint Production Committee can really be organized and got going. in a manner we have never before, just because all the seen workers understand the gravity of the nation's position, its need for increased production, and are determined to make a bid for it.'

('Ibid' p. 123.) virtually out of the question.

'We shall meet each of mouth. You shall only meet me or my substitute in case I an A PICKET is to be held out- side South Africa House from 4.30 p.m. on Sunday until 4.30 p.m. on Monday to de- mand the release of the 'Pre- toria Six' The six--Theophilus Cholo, Justus Mpanza, Alexandre Moumbaris, Aaron Imtembu, Sandi Sijaka and • Dublin-born John Hosey-were held in soli- tary confinement and tortured Motorway stop BUILDING workers at Cubitt's the M3 near Sunbury Site on are on strike over a demand for a £200 summer bonus. The men came out last Thursday against the 'lump', but the strike was ex- tended to cover the bonus issue.

PART FOUR

This was the policy of the Stalinist leadership to which Johnstone returned after his stay in the Trotskyist movement at the end of the war. Another point. The whole correspondence between the Young Communist League and the Young Socialists, concerning for public debate proposals a was published in 'Keep Left' in the early months of 1969.

Johnstone's reference to what on his own admission was a 'stop Press' advance item in the January 1969 'Keep Left' will not save him from the facts of that whole correspondence. We were laborationist policies. not prepared to have the debate started as the Stalinist wanted it, against "Trotskyism'. The at stake, as we have questions explained, this reply, are those of two generations of the communist movement, and the world working class. Trotskyism is the culmination of the work of Lenin, the Bolshe- viks, the October Revolution, am ill or on holiday. 'You will be compensated for the time you have spent starting month. We will take care of you e I and protect you.' for six months before their trial opened on March 14. They are charged under South Africa's notorious Terrorism Act, for which the minimum sentence is five years' imprison- ment and the maximum penalty is death. The wife of Mr Moumbaris and the mother of Mr Hosey. together with former political prisoners and detainees from South Africa, will take part in the picket.

THE NUMBER

of price-rise applications before the Price Britain's Commission from industrial giants has rocketed two-and-a-half times about 200. Of these the number. of applications for food price in- creases has risen from about 26 to 66. Workers Press, and the early Communist Inter- national. It exists only through the struggle against the Stalinist bureaucracy. That bureaucracy came to the heights of its power and turned communist parties into what they are today.

only through the 'liquidation' of Trotskyism. It is this struggle, past and present, which must be avoided by those who want to discuss separately Trotskyism from Stalinism. For the working class, such an arrogance bears no re- whatsoever to its main lation historical task: to resolve the crisis of working-class leadership.

Nothing could more clearly reveal the absolute middle-class of the supporters of cynicism the bureaucracy than johnstone's that assertion seek we a 'Vishinsky-type confession' from him. This facile comparison wipes out the entire counter- revolutionary development of Stalinism and its consequences; it repeats the old comfortable middle-class idea that Stalinism and Bolshevism are the same thing. Vishinsky's trials were based on the unbridled brute force of a gang of secret police, jailers, interrogators and torturers re- cruited to defend the privileges of the Stalinist bureaucracy against the working class and Bolshevism. Johnstone is being asked to on his political clean come : record under conditions where he can speak out. He prefers to speak for the same Stalinist bureaucracy that perpetrated the

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Johnstone as an individual-for on Trotskyism and a debate Stalinism'. Mr Johnstone tries to evade this challenge by suggesting that there be two separate debates.

'As far as I am concerned', he says, 'the offer stands'.

We are not really concerned about what Johnstone thinks individually. We want to know what his organization thinks and whether he is prepared to fight within the Party for such a confrontation. Finally we think it necessary to point out that Johnstone comrade leaves unanswered Slaughter's challenge that he come clean on the witch-hunt begun by the British Stalinists against the Trotskyists in the Labour Party in 1954 and his ('Morning Star' own attempt distort April 18. 1972) 10 deliberately our.. principled de- fence of Stalinist fellow-travellers in the Labour Party in 1950.

CONCLUDED.

KS. PERIODICALS AND

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TRANSFORMING THE SOC

INTO A REVOLUTIONARY

Peter Holman (22) is a London telegraph overseas operator and UPW member: We had a two weeks' strike in 1969 after a lot of unofficial walk-outs. In fact it was only the walk-outs that got the official action. But then the man who led the walk-outs got the boot and the union reached some agreement with management.

It seemed to me that wasn't how things should be done.

In 1971 we were out on strike for seven weeks. The turning point was when our union secretary, Tom Jackson, stood up in Hyde Park and said we were striking against the Post Office and not the Most government. of us thought it was the govern- ment. UPW chief, Tom Jackson. The union has seemed very ineffectual since the strike. The general feeling seems to be that it's useless to do any- thing. When the Civil and Public Services Association was on strike we were told to walk their picket lines. through Union officials said people didn't come out and support us, so why should we support them. They made us into offi- but it was cial blacklegs, against what I thought. I came in contact with the League when some members put forward a resolution at I didn't our branch which really follow but it was all about Phase Two and no colla- boration with the Tory gov- ern ment. I thought: "This is a And we did. A lot of other bran- ches throughout the country similar resolutions. passed The next thing you know, Jackson is going in to see Heath, disobeying the instruc- tions we had given him. UPW officials say we were broken in 1971; what can we do? That's how they look at it. But a lot of other people don't. At first what I thought was jargon put me off the League.

I think there's an aversion to the socialism and Marxism of the Workers Press. I didn't want to listen at first. But people are listening more and more. They are be- ing pushed from above by .. ne ay May 25, 1973 Post Office workers at a mass meeting il things outside themselves.

After seeing the Pageant at Wembley, I had the feeling it was not a coincidence things are happening in all parts of the world. The Workers Press keeps talking about a crisis and then it happens. Being in communications we always put up on a notice board countries where there are strikes. One of the blokes said to me: 'Why are all these - places on strike? The board was covered. The way I see it, it is part of world situation. When a Heath talks about keeping in- in this country flation down it's rubbish. It can't be done because there would still be outside. Nixon has inflation a wage freeze too. By keeping wages down, they can't beat inflation, but they can keep uc- up their profits for a while.

Over the past year or two things have been going from bad to worse in this country.

I can't afford to go out or even eat properly. I've had a slight malnutrition. case The doctors say eat more.

You can't argue with doctors about economics. I don't believe there can't be unity in the labour move- ment. I certainly don't believe what they say that if we're all cool and calm we can .. negotiate what we want. What Post Office workers at a mass meeting in Hyde Park during the 1971 strike. The union has seemed very you gain at the beginning.

of the year is lost at the end be- cause of rising prices. The trade unions say social- ism will naturally arrive, but it's obvious it won't. If you that, you're the Say saying canitalist cass are going hand over all peacefully.

But As soon as you tney re not. begin to cut into what they've they're going to stamp down on you. Heath has to do what he's doing to the working class. He has choice. Heath no He's hasn't got a free hand. got to stop the working class getting what they need. The "peaceful road to social- ism' up to the crisis takes us of power and then stops. In fact it gets turned round and they end talking with Heath about how to keep us down. This road is taking us backwards. The working man has only one real right and that's the But it's been lost. In certain circumstances you can land in jail for strik- ing. A working man can't pull money out of an adventure- just himself. If they take away that weapon, you've left him with thining, think will join the League because of the pressure building haven't read up. Marx much or Engels, but I strike. The union has seemed very ineffectual when you read that capital- ism has contradictions inside it, I can understand that.

The crisis is happening. The • price of gold has gone up.

Because the League were the only people saying it was going to happen, you feel it must be right. The League are the only people to explain the way in which we must move. Cer- tainly the only people to ex- plain that the ways we have been moving have got us no- where. All the rights in the League's programme are so almost don't need basic you people to tell you about them —except that they are being taken away. One would like to know what's going to happen after the revolution. Common sense says you don't want to get in- volved if you don't know what's going to happen. Capitalism is going into a crisis-a serits of death blows —and something has got to come out of it. But socialism won't rise phoenix-like from the ashes. It is important to have a party that can educate and act as a leadership. Gold is going to •go up and sooner or later it is going to go up to a point where the will collapse. I whole system can quite see the crisis in the ineffectual since the strike.

next three years, but even ii it's ten or 20 years a leader- ship must be there with a his- tory of Marxist principle be- hind it. The revolutionary party is else will. The TUC and the • Labour Party won't. If they put forward a policy of nationalization, they would be afraid they wouldn't be elec- ted in. The working class is search- ing for something and there must be somebody like the League there to give it to them. As time goes on, action important will become more than argument. This crisis is a thing that will grow bigger and grow worse. The League has got to be built so that people see it as a real credible alternative. The time is definitely coming when we're going to have to stand up and fight. The Tories are driving us back all the time.

not just the crisis. It's I think a lot of people feel alien- ated from what they're pro- itself. ducing and from life People are saying 'What's it all for? What's the point of voting? What is our role?'

You can't underestimate this. They feel they have nowhere to. go.

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Y PARTY

'The main emphasis is on leadership' Kevin Timlin (20), is a build- ing worker from drab Merseyside suburb to the south of Liverpool. He is one of the workers many young who have joined the Socialist Labour League at Garston and the nearby Speke housing estate, which serves the Ford plant at Halewood. The most important thing • about the movement is that it says to me and every mem- "You must lead, its up to ber- you." This is something I have never come across before.

It comes over in the docu- ment very clearly. These poli- wholly socialistic and cies are honest. The League would not be encouraging you to develop politically lying. was Before you enter it they give the full facts about the you movement and situation Loe with capitalism. Not like what I have seen of the Communist Party or the Labour Party who try to con the working class into thinking their parties are socialist. main emphasis in the ine pamphlet is on leadership and • think this is quite correct.

look at the working class today and I see them milling around.

They lack the confidence to face up to the crisis because them any one Is giving confidence. They look at the situation and they say: "No one can do it." But the SIL is trying to do it and trying to do some- thing about changing the situa- tion by changing itself. As it is, some people are ripping up their union cards, others are carrying on with the union out of blind faith and the youth who work the sweat shops don't bother be- cause they see no further.

But even the youth will be hit, because they will get it er- sis- be- _C- dy the ney be ec- ch- ere the Karl Marx. through rising prices, like the policy says. Our leadership must be ger strong and forceful. Then we can win people to our policies.

be It's hand get someone as switched The policies because people equate len them Russia, Hungary ind and events like this. are why it's necessary to explain what the Communist Party is and what Stalinism is.

I think the the lic cast ro- sales of the Workers Press and elf. meetings is essential. It's no being use of part of the SLL unless you are prepared If you be active. LO ate just sit at home you are just a dead weight. The most important issue in the programme I think is the one of behind basic of Marx's books which had an introduction by Engels. Engels said if the flag flies it must be all red. I think he meant it's separating struggles no use into sections. This leads to splits and gives an advantage to the Tories. The only way to fight is for a political fight on basic rights.

The rents fight failed round here because of this. They kept it to one issue and you can't get rid of the Tories on one Issue. After this there comes the important issue of the Labour Party. I think there is most disagreement in the movement on this step. A lot of people just can't see the point of put- ting the Labour Party back in power. But we going to how are eliminate the traitors from the have to make. ranks? You workers realize what they are like in practice at the time of -the crisis. After this experi- ence, they will swing over to revolutionary policies. It's like the French revolu- tion. Most of workers the backed the Republicans but they were only for the bour- geoisie. It was after going through the struggle that wor- kers realized that and began to adopt their own leaders.

The bottom of all the devel- opments today is the crisis.

This is pushing the ruling class on. So, soon the working class will have nowhere to turn and we must be ready for this day. There is one thing that I think is missing from • the pro- gramme and that is what exactly would be the party after the revolution. I will have assume we total socialism. I would like more emphasis placed on this. 'The Tories Jim Flemming is a London traffic light repairer and ASTMS member: Everything the Tory gov- ernment is doing I don't like. The Tories are out to get the working class. It's either us or them. The people who say they represent the working class are actually far from it. The Wilson government said they represented the working class, but they didn't institute one thing on a socialist basis.

The Stalinists and Feather, Jones and other trade union leaders have collaborated with the Tories all along the line.

For what my standard of living was worth in 1970 there has been a noticeable differ- ence since Heath came to power. In the last three months my wife has had to go out to work because I can't afford to keep pre her and three children. I'm not the worst off who SO knows what other people do?

I'm living in a charity house supplied by Shelter. I couldn't even begin to buy a house, but even here I'm paying f5 a week rent. Since I've been working at Plessey's I've had one rise.

Another I should have got was stopped by the freeze. Building the League into a revolutionary party is the only. W chance for the working class.

The document is probably the most major step the working class has taken since the form- ation of the unions. I've only one query on it.

I'm an Irishman and it doesn't say anything about the release of political prisoners. I think it should say something about their release, just in not Ireland but everywhere.: How did I come to the League? It was pure accident.

I saw a lad selling the Workers Press street. I was on the anti-Tory and that was the start of it. Until then there had been a lot of anti-Tory people all talk- ing 'left', but doing nothing about it. I went to the ATUA conference in Birmingham and that clinched it for me. There was a draft document there and everything in it was my idea of what should be. The first thing that im- pressed me was the call to bring the Tories down. They must go at all costs. The next thing that surprised me was that there was such an attend- ance, that such a meeting took place at all. It was the first really active part I'd taken in the League.

People were really talking They knew what we wanted and how to get it. Workers Press The next big thing was the Right-to-Work marches and Wembley in 1972. That was fantastic. The physical endur- ance of the Young Socialists marching • all the way from Glasgow. That was very, very impressive. When they all walked in to the Empire Pool it really got you. You really appreciated the power of the working class and what it was capable of if it was given the leadership.

They were just youngsters with no help and the hind- rance of the Communist Party and local union branches.

I had toyed with the idea of joining the Communist Party. But I kept wondering why the strength they said they had and the obvious power of the working class was never brought to challenge not only the Tories but the Labour Party as well. The Communist Party appeared dormant. The League were the only people prepared to unite the working class to defeat capitalism. There can be absolutely no delay in building the party.

The longer it takes the more repressive measures will be against the working taken class. If you think we've had it rough until row, there's worse to come. I haven't turned to politics because I need extra money.

It's just that we need the kers Press, Friday May 25, 1973 PAGE 5 Jim Flemming. Above: 'The next big thing was the Right-to-Work marches and Wembley 1972...

You really appreciated the power of the working class and what it was capable of if it was given the leadership. money to live. As I said, my wife has had to go out to work.

She's not pleased, but She doesn't blame me. She said she knows I can't get the money because of the freeze. The so-called freeze on prices is a complete and utter fraud. It's a joke. At first my wife was neutral to the League, but then she read the Workers Press and to drop. the penny started Now she's all for it. She has League is seen now that the the only hope for the working class.

ISRAELI SOCIETY IS NOT THE KIBBUTZ

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday May 25, Israel and Palestine, an occasional series by Charles Parkins. Many people outside the country tend to picture Israel as some sort of "socialist country, a land of kibbutzim, with everyone happily work- ing together for the com- mon good, in a society based on democracy and equality. Reporters for the capitalist popular Press make a trip to Israel, get shown around, and back with holi- come sunny day-snaps of life on the kibbutz while Labour MPs make speeches about "socialist Israel'. Now and then, particularly since the war of June 1967 and the Israeli military occu- pation of Arab territories, people may be made aware of another side to the picture; a less happy one, of people driven from their villages, of military brutality, of con- quest and oppression. spokesmen for But the Zionism and particularly the Labour MPs who act as spokesmen for Zionism, will play this down. Of course, they say, Israel has had to occupy Arab terri- ay May 25, 1973 only reluctantly, but tory, for 'peace. There and are some Arab refugees, but the number has been exaggerated, and anyway it's all the fault of the leaders who urged them to leave. Deir Yassin? Well, yes, there have been a few 'exces- ', but on 'both sides, you know. And the Israeli occu- pation is very liberal and humane. A 'few' Arabs are oppressed, maybe, but only for 'security' reasons; and most of them would really be quite happy under Israeli rule but they are misled by the Arab leaders. A few Israelis might be chauvinist, but Israel is really 'progressive' country, its a people have conquered deserts and established swamps, a democratie society, which all 'socialists' must support ..

the and there is anyway, kibbutz! Not only have some Labour MPs tried to justify their support by falsely presenting Israel as a 'socialist society', but the Israeli example of collaboration between trade unions and the state has been exalted as one that could be in Britain. followed Paul Rose, Labour MP for Manchester, Blackley, has even spoken of the Israelis as be- 'the ing Vietcong of the Middle East'! (This must provide some among the cynical laughs Israeli political rulers, for Rose's pamphlet, 'Israel and the Left', omits to mention Israel's support for the Ameri- • Vietnam against Na- in cans tional Liberation Front.)

'socialism' Israeli must be unique indeed-for its main support has been aid and investment from the United States! Since the 1967 Six-Day War, foreign investors have found Israel attractive than more before. Capital is going into in land and factories the occupied territories, as well as in Israel itself, and real-estate being bought in the cities is up by developers. Some of the names and connections be may well- known overseas. Here in Bri- tain, the name of the Fresh- water group of companies is quite well-known, particularly in London, where its head, Mr Osias Freshwater, is reputed to be the biggest private land- lord, owning at least 20,000 ty: flats. His son-in-law, Mr William Stern, heads a finance-group which last year acquired a 50 per cent holding in the Israel Pan-Lon building company, in transaction worth a many millions. Pan-Lon had been short of turnover capital be- cause of heavy investment in building sites and thousands of unfinished flats in various parts of Israel. You may remember the out- cry from Zionist sources just after the June war about the desecration of the old Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives at Jerusalem, under Jordanian rule, and the use of gravestones as paving slabs.

But Tel Aviv's Hilton Hotel stands on the site of the old Moslem graveyard, which was cleared by the municipality as good real-estate. Part of the graveyard still remained, until last summer. Then, as Israeli writer Maxim Gilan recounts: 'Tel Aviv's municipality (which anyway has destroyed the first the coast-line of Jewish town by cutting off the sea-breeze through the erec- of luxury tion of series hotels which block off the rest of the city from its beach) found itself—as usual—con- siderably in the red. 'Loath to leave even a small plot of ground which might let some breeze filter through to the parched citi- zens during the torrid Israeli summers, the city fathers de- cided-very quietly, once again-to abolish the rest of the Moslem graveyard and grounds— build on these you've guessed it: Another luxury hotel whose foreign investors would pay the city good dollars for the lands of the expropriated Palestinian charity. The other side to the pro- hteering and the speculation, and the luxury for the few, is that while the investors carve up Israeli cities, there of Israelis are thousands forced to live in slums. In June last year, people from the slums of Kiryat Haim, by Haifa : Bay, includ- ing more than 100 mothers with their children, staged a protest strike outside the municipal Haifa buildings, after hearing that instead of 42 new homes they had been promised, they were only to.

be allocated 12. The families camped down outside the buildings. Local Haifa people brought food and drinks for the children. The said they had been parents promised better housing by the authorities five years ago.

They had spent 15 years liv- ing in their asbestos huts, with leaky roofs, which were now rat-infested.

DEVELOPMENT

Sometimes, the Israeli work- ing class is not even allowed to live in the slums. That is say that in Israeli cities, to has happened in other countries, if an area is recog- nized as being good potential 'developmunt', real-estate for working-class families may have to Just as Rachman methods

64221 used by landlords in were some parts of London to clear out working-class tenants so that a street could be turned 'luxury flats' for the into middle class, so in Tel Aviv too, brutal methods have been used. In 1963, the Israeli 'Left-Labour' leader Meir Yaari stated before his party, Mapam: 'We witnesses to the are desperate struggle being fought by slum dwellers in Tel Aviv whose land was sold from under them at exorbitant prices to a corporation which plans an entertainment centre on the site of their homes, costing millions and perhaps tens of millions of pounds. This land is the stage of a devil's dance of land specula- involving astronomical tion sums. Slums have been des- troyed with the help of evic- tion • notices. Policemen were recruited to aid the land spe- culators in order to evict the dwellers into the streets. Al- most incredible! Women and children tried, empty-handed, to defend their homes against the threat of expulsion. This is an excellent example of how the slum problem is solved in Israel!' Mapam is a mainly kibbutz- based party, which upholds the state of Israel and Zion- ism, participates in the govern- coalition and talks of constructing 'socialism' in Israel by means such as the kibbutz. But in the party's handbook in 1965, it had to acknowledge that 'almost everything. con- nected with large profits is primarily in private hands; banking, commerce, metropo- litan real-estate, light industry, growing. citrus Some 76 per cent of in- dustrial wage-earners in Israel are employed in private in- dustry. More than three quarters of the country's pro- duction is controlled by big the Bank capital, such as Leumi, the Palestine Indus- Corporation, trial or the Wolfson group. As in Britain, public ownership is mostly in either basic materials or services—in Israel, primarily in agriculture, mining, electri- city, and transport. The tendency in recent has been for private years capital to move in on indus- tries that were built up under ownership - for in- public the government sold stance, in the Elat-Beer- its holding sheba pipeline to an interna- tional consortium. A similar process has taken place with the Mekorot water company, shipping line. and the Zim American capital has taken over the formerly Histadrut- owned building firm, Solel Boneh, which has undertaken a number of overseas projects.

The kibbutzim "comprise less than 4 per cent of the Israeli population, and only 26 per cent of the Jewish population. Currently, rural the kibbutz is being billed by Hechalutz department (which organizes recruitment abroad) as 'the experiment has not failed'. which The truth is, however, that it is a deliberate distortion of the real significance of the Above: New Israeli buildings on seized Arab land on Mount of Olives. Far left: The first kibbutz, Degania A, came about from a strike of agricultural workers. kibbut? to pretend that it was all some kind of social 'ex- periment. As to whether it has failed, this all depends on how its purpose is conceived.

Certainly, as a collective village, with common owner- ship of the means of produc- tion, democratic election to posts, workers' control, com- munal eating and nurseries to free the woman for produc- tion and from economic de- pendence on her husband, the kibbutz may be seen as indi.

cating the possibilities for a communist society of the future, and in that respect as a useful 'experiment'. But the kibbutz movement would never have been al- lowed to develop had it not very different served pur - Like poses. the nationalized industries in Britain, although under different conditions, the 'socialism' of the kibbutz has been used to build up an economy and society that is essentially capitalist. The idealists of the left- wing Zionist Hashomer Hat- zair movement, who dreamed in the 1920s that the kibbutz- im would be 'the vanguard cells of the future society' have clearly been proved wrong in modern Israel. What- ever else it is, the kibbutz is certainly not an instrument or force for social change.

Although the first kibbutz, Degania A, came about as the result of a strike by agricul- Workers Press, workers, who then tural offered to take over the farm and run it themselves, it was a 'workers' take-over' with special features. For one the land itself was thing, Zionists' the owned by Jewish National Fund. Also these young workers Zionist volunteers, were Chalutzin (pioneers), and while they had come to Palestine with some socialist and populist ideas absorbed in Russia (this was just atter the 1905 Revolution), they nevertheless came with the prime purpose of building a 'homeland'. Most im- portant, it was decided by Zionists, prominent notably the head of the Zionist Organi- zation's Palestine Office, Ar- Ruppin, thur to give these pioneers backing. It became realized by the Zionist lead- ers that the kibbutz form of organization could be the most effective way of pur- suing the colonizing aim in Palestine. Previous efforts at Jewish agricultural had settlement succeeded, but in the 'wrong way'-an agricultural bour- geoisie had developed and with it a proletariat, and the farmers and citrus growers would employ Arab labour because it was cheaper, or because the Arab workers were more used to agricul- tural work, and more skilled.

To settle Jewish more workers on the land, most of them new to farmwork, the kibbutz seemed to be a much better social framework. Therefore, it served the Zion- ist aim of creating a Jewish "peasantry' as a basis for a nation. Secondly, the farmers of the earlier colonies on the coastal plain had turned to citrus crops as the most profitable.

(To this day, citrus fruits are Israel's main export.) But the kibbutzniks, want- ing to have work all the year round, without seasonal fluc- tuations which would require labour, generally pre- extra ferred mixed farming. Ruppin particul- and others realized, arly after the slump in citrus exports during World War I had hit the growers, that a one-crop agriculture, depen- markets, dent on overseas would leave Palestine an under-developed • country. Mixed farming, growing food for a national market initially, would give more stability to the settlement of the country, being less depen- dent on international market fluctuations; and it also meant that the Zionist settlement would not be dependent on Arab farmers for its food, and that agriculture could grow to feed industrial population in the future. In this way, the kibbutzim were backed with JNF land and capital because they were helping to build the national economy. Lastly, the kibbutz had- and still has—a special role. It is no use telling a capitalist entrepeneur, out for a profit, that he ought to invest his money in setting up a farm unpromising-looking on an hill because it happens rocky to be in a good strategic posi- tion in military terms. But the capitalist, same when he comes to sit down at a Zionist conference to dis- cuss political as opposed to purely economic aims, may agree to public funds to which contributed being he has used to back a group of young pioneers who will set up strategic outpost on that hill.

And that is what happened.

To this day, kibbutzim are still sited according to strate- gic rather than economic con- siderations, and the 'border' kibbutzim-which can in- clude some in districts of it.

ers Press, Friday May 25, 1973 PAGE 7 western Galilee which are far from the border but situated among Arab villages-can be transformed in an emergency into functioning military units.

They are given special con- siderations by the government.

There is even a special sec- tion Israeli army, the Nachal, in • which conscripts receive agricultural as well as military training and which is employed to set up new kibbutzim at strategic points, particularly nowadays in the territories occupied since the June war. These are, in effect, self-supporting garrisons for the areas. Over the years, the kibbutz- im have lost some of their economic value, and many Israeli leaders, at least up to were ceasing the June war, to accept their usefulness.

Two other features have developed. One is the heavy dependence of kibbutzim on private capital, often at vir- tually usurious interest rates.

The other is the turn of many kibbutzim to industry-and with it, to the hiring of out- side labour. Afikim, for instance, in the north, boasts of having the 'biggest plywood factory in the Middle East'. The work- ers in this factory, however, into the kibbutz every come morning by bus and go home again at night just like those in any other factory. The fac- is the main source of tory Afikim's income. Thus the kibbutz has become an em- ployer. Meir Mandel, one of the leaders of the kibbutz move- ment, expressed the dilemma recognized by many kibbutz- niks who had hoped to build an ideal society, when he said a few years ago: 'The kibbutzim on the one hand accept the money of the banks, and on the other em- ploy wage-labour, and profit from the surplus value that it creates with the sweat of its brow! In other words, as Israeli writer Nathan Weinstock puts (in 'Zionism Contre L'Israel'): ' ... the capitalist milieu has absorbed the kib- butz, and not the other way around.' Even when the kibbutznik himself works hard, putting in long hours in the fields, he is helping to pay off the inter- est charges to the capitalist bank, not building socialism. His say in the running of the kibbutz only means he helps to organize his own exploita- tion and that of the hired labour. It is hardly surprising to 'on social find that a survey in and political attitudes Israel, by A. Antonovsky, a few years ago, found that one- third of kibbutz members con- sidered themselves middle class. If the other two-thirds been more realistic, they had would have said the same thing. The kibbutznik today is like farmers in other coun- tries, despite his special type of community, in being both exploited by the bankers and unable to wage a struggle against it as proprietor himself (even though in his case it is through the group).

and even an employer labour, how can he strike?

The only strikes that have taken place in the kibbutzini -yes, there have been some- have been of hired labour against the kibbutz that employs it! In the last few years with the emergence of left-wing. anti-Zionist and even revolu tionary tendencies to challenge the Zionist Establishment Israel, a number of kibbutz.

members-as individuals often isolated in their community —have been turning in that direction. They may well find that, if they seriously want to fight for socialism, one of the first things they will have to do is to quit the kibbutz and get into the class struggle outside it.

TROTSKYISM

AND STALINISM

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday May 25, 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 to once again discredit and distort the• 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 1972 published 'Against Trotskyism', 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.

however, tion, rudely was interrupted when Trotsky re- Stalin's contradic- published There is no doubt that tory and semi-lyrical descrip-" tion of the most distressing and him - Trotsky - In October, called 'The Role of anxious moments in a the Most Eminent Party Leaders' Soviet 'historian's' career (SiC). This was an article are those when he is cal- commemorating the First Anniversary of the led upon to distort or ex- October Revolution in 1918. Here is Stalin's evaluation: plain away Trotsky's role 'All the work of practical in the October Revolu- organization of the insurrec- tion. tion was conducted under the Trotsky's role in the Octo- immediate leadership of the Chairman ber Revolution has been of the Petrograd too well and too widely documen- Soviet, Trotsky. It is possible ted in the world's Press and to declare with certainty that literature to be the swift passing of the garri- obscured to- day even by the son to the side of the Soviet most pro- and the bold execution of the digious literary gymnastics of these Stalinist scribblers.

work of the Military Revolu- tionary Committee, the Party To this day, let it be re- called, no Stalinist has dared principally and owes above all to Comrade Trotsky. to deny the authenticity of ('Pravda', No John Reed's Ten That 241. See 'Stalin Days Shook World', School of Falsification' the a book PP which 12-13 Pioneer Publishers ed.) unequivocally immor- talizes the role of Trotsky in There is neither originality, October. truth nor honesty in Against Although unable Trotskyism'. The to deny authors of this the authenticity of the book egregious compilation the Stalinists Britain merely retail, with astonishing in did inconsistency, everything in their of the power to many bureaucratic fabrications of 50 prevent its publication. Using their monopoly of the years ago. the copyright of Reed's book the At most crucial Stalinists maliciously moment', Vlasov, remarks suppres- Gavenko 'of sed its Solovyov, publication for and over decades the development of the social- two from 1936 to 1956. ist revolution-the period of It after Nikita preparation and the was only actual Khrushchev's sensational 'sec- accomplishing of the October ret' speech the 20th Party armed uprising in Petrograd— at Congress that an embarrassed Lenin and the Bolshevik Party King Street permitted its un- found they had once more to abridged reappearance. Trotsky's come to grips with The bureaucracy, in its totally untenable, harmful and to dangerous Trotsky in- remorseless quest destroy views. every vestige of Trotskyism sisted that the uprisings should has felt impelled to distort and be postponed until the Second Congress of Soviets. In prac- misrepresent Trotsky's role in the revolution for about half tice this meant wrecking the Its attempts have , because the Socialist a century: uprising, been as ignominious as Revolutionaries Menshe- they and viks could put off the date for have been frequent. The first major attempt to the congress, thus giving the Provisional Trotsky Government the excIse trom the of annals of the revolution came, possibılity massing its of course, from Stalin's pen. orces by that date and sup. In his book 'Trotskyism or pressing the uprising. Had it Leninism', been accepted written in the mid- this piece of adventurism might have been 1920s, Stalin dismissed Trotsky's contribution fatal. Lenin opportunately ex.

thus: I have to say that Com- posed Trotsky's demagogic rade Trotsky played no stand which was calculated par- for effect, and proved that the ticular role the October In insurrection and could not do Provisional Government had that, being chairman of to be overthrown before the Congress of Soviets opened.'

the Petrograd Soviet, he merely fulfilled the will of the This hoary old concoction corresponding party authority is borrowed not from Stalin, which guided his every step but from another anti- Trotskyist virtuoso of the *Comrade 1920s-—Yakovlev. Trotsky played Trotsky refuted this fabri- no particular role in the Party the October cation decisively in his appen- or insurrection and could not do so, being a dix I to Volume III of his 'History comparatively of the Russian man new to the October Revolution'. We our in cannot do (page 68) more justice to it than re- Stalin's unfortunate produce Trotsky's own essay re- into the realm of political fic- marks. Trotsky arrives in Petrograd in May, 1 widely documented in the world's Pre misrepresent it, in Its attempt to destr Whenever the official in- vestigators run into an unpleasant document they its Thus change address. Yakovlev writes: 'The Bolshe- viks did not surrender to "constitutional illusions" ', but rejected the proposal of Trotsky to accommodate the insurrection necessarily to the Second Congress of Soviets, and seized the power before the opening of the Congress of Soviets.' Just what proposal of Trotsky is here spoken of, where and when it was con- sidered, what Bolsheviks re- jected it—of this the author has nothing ; to say, and not accidentally. We should search in vain among the minutes, or among any memoirs whatever, Ior any indication of a pro- posal of Trotsky to 'accom- modate the insurrection neces- sarily to the Second Congress of Soviets' The ground of this assertion of Yakovley is a slightly conventionalized mis- understanding long ago ex- plained away by no other than Lenin himself. As is evident from memoirs published long ago, Trotsky had more than once since the beginning of September poin- ted out to those opposed to insurrection that appointing date for the Congress of in May, 1917, returning from exile abroad. His orld's Press and literature, but the bureaucra I to destroy every vestige of Trotskyism.

Soviets was for the Bolsheviks equivalent to appointing the insurrection. This did not mean, of course, that the up- rising must not occur except upon the decision of the Con- gress of Soviets-there could be no talk of such childish formalism. It was a question of the outside date, of the im- possibility of deferring it to an indefinite time after the con- gress. Through whom and in what form these disputes in the Central Committee reach- ed Lenin, is not clear from the documents. An interview with Trotsky, who was too much in of the enemy, view would have been too great a risk for Lenin. In his attitude of caution at that time he may therefore have feared that Trotsky would place his em- phasis upon the Congress and not upon the insurrection, or in any case that he would not put up the necessary resistance to the 'constitutional illusions' of Zinoviev and Kamenev. Lenin may have been anxious also about the new members of the Central Committee little him, the former known to Mezhrayontsi (or fusionists), Joffé and Uritzky. There direct evidence of this in a speech of Lenin at a session of the Petrograd committee on road. His role in the revolution has been bureaucracy is impelled to distort and November 1 after the victory.

'The question was raised at the session (of October 10) about an offensive. I had fears of opportunism from the side of the internationalist-fusion- ists, but these were dissipated; our party, however, (cer- tain old) members of the Central Committee) did not agree. This grieved me deeply.

According to his own words, Lenin became convinced on the 10th that only not Trotsky, but also Joffé and Uritzky, who under were Trotsky's immediate influence, were decisively in favour of insurrection. The question of dates in general was raised for the first time at that session. ('History of the Russian Revolution' Vol. III pp 352-353 Victor Gollancz Ltd 1933.)

It is clear from Trotsky's remarks that he has nothing to answer for and that the charge of 'constitutionalism' is completely misplaced. Trotsky did not deny that thee were disagreements with Lenin, but these were of an episodic nature which related to the organization of the insurrection.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

FILLING TORY COFFERS

As the cost of living goes up by leaps and bounds, so do the dona- tions from industry and the finance houses to the Tory Party and its supporting organizations.

Workers who are urged to produce more to save Britain' are not only pouring profits into the pockets of the bosses, but also producing wealth that goes into the Central Office coffers and anti - working class other organizations. One company which clearly for heavier the need sees financing is Tate and Lyle, Further evidence of the enormous profitability of some mining machinery firms has re- cently become available with the publication of a report on the finances of over 400 mechanical engineering com- panies.* Mining machinery is the of the 31 profitable most sectors in mechanical engineer- ing (which covers everything from pumps to valves to lifts and cranes). In 1971/1972 the average return on capital (pro- fit before tax and interest as a of capital percentage employed) in the industry was 14.6 per cent, but for mining machinery the average return was 25.5 per cent. This aver- the enormous conceals age profits of certain companies.

Gullick Dobson had a return of 59 per cent, Mining Supplies which launched the notorious 'Mr Cube' anti-nationalization campaign in the 1950s. In 1971 Tate and Lyle gave £2,500 to Aims and Industry and £2,025 to the Economic League. But last year it upped a staggering its payment to £20,025. It gave the Economic League £3,025, British United Industrialists £6,250 and paid £10,750 direct to the Tory Party. The banks and insurance companies also saw the need to give more money to the Tories to hold down wages.

The Midland Bank increased its donation to the Economic League from £2,150 to £3,300.

National Westminster The raised its donation to the Economic League from £3,625 48.6 per cent and Dowty Min- ing Equipment (which now includes the mining equipment Bonser Engineer- division of ing) 39.1 per cent. four largest mining The companies account machinery for over 70 per cent of the total sales of the sector.

As the NCB is the main customer for many types of mining equipment it is clear that the excessive profits of machinery companies mining are at least partly made at the expense of the Coal Board.

'Company Financial Results 1967/1968-1971/1972: Mech- anical Engineering EDC'-this useful pamphlet contains in- formation on 400 com- over is available free panies and from the National Economic Development Office, Millbank lies Tower, Millbank, London SWI.

to £4,625; and Lloyds Bank paid £3,000 to the same organ- ization, compared with £2,000 the year before. Kleinwort, Benson and Lons- dale dropped the £500 pre- viously paid to the Economic League and instead gave £1,500 to the Industrial Policy Group. Kleinworts also main- tained payments of £2,500 to British United Industries and £250 to Common Cause. Eagle Star Insurance main- tained a £5,000 a year sub- scription to the Conservative Party and raised its annual payment to the Economic League from £750 to £1,250.

Commercial Union Assur- raised • British United ance Industrialists from £10,000 to £12,500, the Economic League A new English edition of the 'First Years of the Communist International' i corporating hitherto unpublished materi from Volume XIII of Trotsky's 'Works'

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Cause continued to receive £1,000. expected, the As might be engineering employers are highly conscious of the need to into political pour money organizations of the right sort.

The Weir Group continued to pay British United Indus- trialists £2,500 and of Aims Industry £100. It raised the Economic League's donation Babcock and in addition to giving the City and Industrial Liaison Council £2,500, improved its payment Economic League to the by £250 to £750 a year. Mather and Platt Engineer- ing gave British United Indus- trialists £600 compared with £500 in 1971. Swan Hunter Group The handed over £3,000 to the North East Pro- Industrial tection Association — £1,000 1971—and also more than in raised its hand-out to the Eco- nomic League from £600 to £1,000. British Insulated Callenders Cables kept British United £5,000 Industrialists at and the Economic League raised from £630 to £885. The Barrow Hepburn Group doubled its payment the to £125 Economic League from to £250 and boosted the Con- servative Party from £4,875 to £9,750. Transport Development The Group continued to the pay Economic League £205 a vear £130 and Aims of Industry but for some reason decided the Tory Party needed £23 more than the previous £1,000 annual donation. British Ropes kept the South Yorkshire Industrial Council at £7,500 and raised the Eco- nomic League from £500 to £750. Thomas Tilling, as well as Together giving the Working Campaign £250, the Economic League £115 and Aims of In- dustry £100, paid out a new donation of £3,000 to British United Industrialists. from £1,000 to £1,750 and These show that payments political maintained Aims of Industry the employers view at £250. activities and very seriously The Tobacco companies are are prepared to put their cash also enthusiastic Tory down where they think it can sup- porters. Gallaher increased its efficiently be most used to donation the Economic preserve their profits, property to League from £500 to £700 last and political power. although it cut Aims of These are only a tiny pro- Yedustry from to to portion of political £250. payments Its dole out to Common Cause and finance. by industry We shall later be publishing remained £250. British - American list The much more complete (compiled along with this ma- Tobacco Company raised the Economic League' from £1,250 Labour Research). terial by But the fact that these key to £1,750, and held Aims of Industry and Common industrialists see the need to the Cause steady at £1.000 and raise their payments to £250 respectively. Tories underlines the urgency of building Imperial Tobacco also in- the revolutionary the and, in particular, of creased its generosity to party £1,250 meeting our £100,000 fund to Economic League from per year to £1,750. Common finance its expansion. Five rational' in- 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 reached its peak and then upsurge began to rečede. 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 Joseph 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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dockers fear that men on the supplementary regis- ter are being used to displace them and break down their militancy. Meanwhile temporary dockers claim they are being subjected to hire-and-fire techniques and being denied normal trade union rights.

Dockers say the effect of the deal signed by Transport and Workers' General Union general secretary Jack Jones and Port of London authority chairman Lord Aldington, which ended last year's dock strike, means that port shop stewards are powerless to put a stop to the changeover, even if they wanted to.

CUTTING BACK

One young temporary docker, Pete, spoke to Workers Press, but declined to reveal his identity for fear of reprisals. He said: The British Trans- port Board is cutting back on the regular work force. But the Board is afraid we are getting as militant the permanent as men and doesn't want that.

'There has been talk of all the temporaries being chucked out so that management can out who • they want and sort who they don't want. 'Discipline against temporaries is a lot tougher than against permanent men. About 33 were sacked last Friday for mis- demeanours. 'Generally the temporaries work harder than the lot.

The management know you want to stay in the docks and they use it as a whip to keep you going.'

Only a year ago there were about 1,700 permanent dockers and 700 unattached men at Southampton. Now the figure for permanent men has dropped to 1,300 and the number of risen to be- temporaries has tween 800 and 900.

STRONG HOLD

Said Pete: 'Temporaries can be sacked for drinking, or being late or just getting a bad name with the foreman. The employers have got a much stronger hold on the temporary because he be sacked at a week's can notice. 'Temporaries want to be made up to permanent status so that their jobs are secure. They want the supplementary register closed down. The fight against the supple- mentary register has got to be a fight all over the docks in- volving every port in Britain.

'Jones-Aldington was a com- plete fake. You had all the PLANS under preparation for the rationalization of work in Lon- don's Royal group of docks may mean the closure of at least 12 berths and the movement of up to 2,000 dockers Into other jobs.

At the same time there are in- creasing fears among dockers' shop stewards that the employ.

ers alm to force 'casual', supple- mentary labour into the port.

at Chobham Farm, And the east London depot which last year recruited dockers alongside its existing labour force, moves •dockers' are afoot to loosen the present grip on container work.

The Port of London Authority yesterday tried desperately to play down reports about lts rationalization plans, not yet seen by the unions. "The Times' According to Business News, the PLA is 'look- ing at the future' of berths 2-10 on the south side of King George "lefts" on the docks calling for votes of confidence and there about finding promises But nothing has happened at all. ernment want to use the tem- poraries as a scab force because of the effects of the crisis on the docks. It's obvious they are going to have a real go at the Dock Labour Scheme of 1947.

DIVISIONS

'They will try and create a division. If the regulars are out on strike, they will try to make the temporaries work. 'If no one gives a lead on the docks, this could happen easily.

The employers have got to protect their profits and keep wages down. 'Devlin hasn't turned out as they wanted. They're had to pay a high basic rate and ton- nage has gone down. This is why they have got to have a go at the Scheme.' Temporaries are denied the trade union rights same accorded to permanent dockers.

They 'Blue are not issued Book' of port agreements and they are not allowed to vote for shop stewards. Said Pete: 'We've got to unite with the permanent dockers and build between the a unity groups on a real socialist plat- form. But how can we do that

BY DAVID MAUDE

V docks and at berths 3, 5, 11 and 28 on the Royals' centre road. 'Behind the planned closures is the continuing decline general cargo handled in the ple- Royals as the world's merchant fleet goes over to containeriza- tion', the paper said. Men put out of their immediate job by the closure would be found other work in the Royals or asked to transfer to container work at Tilbury. Under the Dock Labour Scheme, permanent registered dockers cannot be sacked. The PLA says that It has no immediate plans to close down any more docks, but admits that berth closures are always on the cards as part of its continuing rationalization plans. unless the shop stewards fight for equal trade union rights.

'Any fight to get rid of the temporaries means a fight to get rid of the Tory government and the nationalization of the docks industry. No Tory government is going to give in on this.

'It will need at least a national dock strike so that the Tories would have to call a General Election.' What do permanent dockers at Southampton think about the increased use of temporaries? Max, a docker for 23 years, told me the use of temporaries outright attack on the was an dockers' charter. He said: 'If the employers are not going to add to the perman- ent register, ultimately you will have more temporary than per- manent men. pegged, benefits the Dock Workers Press, F PLA dockers' stewards say that the idea of recruiting 'casuals' for the Royals was put to them at a meeting on May 17 with Stanley Jarvis, an assistant operating manager. The labour shortage, stewards belonging say, related to ships to the South African conference.

They say the alternative put to them was a cut in gang strength.

The PLA yesterday expressed Itself puzzled by the stewards' claims. meeting At Chobham Farm, a of the board has agreed to con- tinue financlal support for the depot. But it was agreed to approach the unions to seek an easing of restrictions imposed when the dockers were recruited last year. The shareholders of Chatham Farm include Overseas Contain- ers, Cunard, T. Wallis Lid and British Rail. 36 'They want the hire-and-fire system back with a crowd of men outside the dock gate to pick and choose from. can't see why the union 'I officials can't look further ahead.

As far I'm concerned they as are nothing but policemen for the employers. 'At this port the shop stew- ards don't even work dockside. They are not part of the rank and file. They seem more a part of the management.

'The employers are trying hard to get away from the Dock Labour Scheme. They will knock it on the head somehow so that they can get more flexibility'

CRACK DOWN

Another docker, Dan, said: 'This attack on the Dock Labour Scheme is part and parcel of Tory policies to crack down on the working class. They want to do away with the rights we've fought for over the last genera- tion. 'They want more profit out of the docks. Obviously if they've got permanent dockers they have to employ them all winter and that costs more. 'Although 1 put my hand up for conned by it, we were Jones-Aldington. They are not going to make up any more registered dockers. They are phasing them out.' 's Press, Friday May 25, 1973 PAGE 11

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Merthyr Tydfil 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.

SOCIALIST

LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETING

Salford The Angel, Chapel Street Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. The Revolutionary Party and the Working Class'. All Trades Unions Alliance Meeting After Jones-Aldington What next for dockers?

SOUTHAMPTON

Wednesday May 30, 7.30 p.m.

Conference Room Civic Centre Speaker: M. Banda (SLL Central Committee) All Trades Unions Alliance meetings

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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JELLICOE FOLLOWS LAMBTON — RESIGNS TORY POST

CHIEF QUITS

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday May 25

BY IAN YEA

TORY national security supr signed before lunch yesterday ment with prostitutes. In a letter to Prime Minister E fessed to 'some casual affairs' and justification for linking his name w call girls. The resignation came only 24 under-Secretary Lord Anthony Lambton quit. The 50-year-old peer - the of Durham had he sixth Earl not disclaimed his title to re- main in the House of Commons -resigned his office and his seat after news broke that he had been photographed in com- promising positions with call girls. Like Lambton, Lord George Patrick John Rushworth Jellicoe was known as a man of 'charm', a mad with ide conta and as a 'good mixer', • He was the head of the per- manent security committee the Tories set up last March to deal national with primarily the dislocation caused by strikes. The committee he headed was comprised by the heads of the military, the police, the secret service and civil servants.

The Heath government used the pretext of the central Lon- don bomb incidents last March to set up a body with the widest martial powers ever known in peacetime. The committee had first seen the light of day even earlier at the end of last January's miners' strike when Jellicoe was ap- pointed to get the country "back to normal'. national emergency In • the £13,000-a-year Cabinet minister, who has quit one jump ahead of the • disclosure of an inter- national call-gıri scandal, would have been the most powerful THE TOTAL number of unem- ployed in the United Kingdom on May 14 was 621,083. A de- crease over the April figure of 106,791 was' partly due to the return to university of 47,639 students who had registered for vacation work in April. Regional figures were: (1.5%): South East 114,088 East Anglia 12,701 (2.0%); South-West 33,098 (2.5%); West Midlands 49,46l (2.2%); East Midlands 29,589 (2.1%%); York- Humberside 55,823 shire and (2.8%%);: North West 102,612 (3.6%); North 60,822 (4.6%); 34,718 (3.6%%), Scotland Wales 98,090 (4.6%); Northern Ireland 30,681 (5.9%%).

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IAN YEATS

ty supremo Lord Jellicoe re- sterday because of his involve- inister Edward Heath Jellicoe con- airs' and said there, was 'unhappily name with allegations of a ring of only 24 hours after RAF Defence Lord Jellicoe. man in Britain beside the Prime Minister. •Jellicoe was Lord Privy Seal, an historic post with no admin- istrative responsibilities, re- served for 'statesmen' and politi- cians of exceptional abilities that a government leader wants in his Cabinet. A personal friend of Heath it

MRS JUNE HUMPHREYS,

wife of a Soho strip club owner, appeared in Old Street Court yesterday charged under the Sexual Offences Act. She was remanded on bail of 7. She was £50 until June charged with allowing flats to be used as a brothel, but this had 'nothing whatever to do with any other matters canvassed in the papers this morning and on TV last night in relation to Mrs Humphreys' husband and a cer- tain other gentleman', her lawyer said. Her husband is at present living abroad at an unknown whereabouts. In January 1972 the 'News of the World' revealed that Mr and Mrs Humphreys and Mr and Mrs Ken Drury went to a Medi- holiday. terranean resort on this revelation Shortly after Commander Drury resigned as head of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad. COMPENSATION claims brought against the Transport & General Workers' Union by two haulage firms were discussed at a 90-minute private hearing in the National Industrial Relations Court yesterday. The claims, by Heatons Trans- port (St Helens) Ltd and Crad- dock Brothers, of Wolverhamp- ton, arise from the 'blacking' of their container lorries by work- ers at Liverpool docks last year.

The T&GWU was fined a total of £55,000 by the court, which held it responsible for the actions of its members who were oper- ating the 'black'. in this capacity that the was Tory leader gave him responsi- bility for national security.

He certainly had some notable qualifications for the joo.

During the war, in which he covered his chest in medals and was mentioned in despatches, the man who ended up as a co- the notorious lonel served in Special Air Services regiment. The regiment is used for espi- onage and counter-insurgency work and has units stationed in Ulster. • Jellicoe was a member of the Cabinet and as such one of the score of responsible for men major decisions of government.

He was leader of the House of Lords with responsibilities for master-minding government business through the House and Cabinet's views. conveying the A godson of King George V he was a member of the Privy inner group of Council - an advisers directly responsible to it the Queen. Mrs Humphreys arrives for yesterday's

COMMERCIAL UNION

Assurance, one of the big- gest in the motor insurance field, yesterday announced a rise in private motor pre- miums of 10 per cent from August 1. The company claims that VAT alone will add 6 per cent to its claims costs in 1973. The Privy Council has the power to instantly make orders sanction of the without the Commons and which have the force of law throughout the land. The 55-year-old peer was deputy leader of the Conserva- tive Party • in Sir Alec Douglas Home's 1964 administration office recently quit by an Reginald Maudling because of his association with the Poulson scandal. Like Lambton, he has been connected with the Ministry Defence. During the Tories' last year in office after '13 years of misrule' he was Minister of De- fence, Royal Navy. He stayed at the Ministry after the Profumo and Vassal scandals rocked the Macmillan govern- ment and forced 'Supermac' to resign. In july 1963, the month atter the Profumo story broke, Jelli- Lord coe refused a call from Stonham to investigate prosti- esterday's court case. Five other leading car insurance companies are expected to an- nounce similar increases almost immediately. Premiums for some younger motorists and motor cyclists are expected to rise by up to 50 per cent. About half the motor in- surance business will be affected by the increases. The insurance business is not controlled by the Price Com- mission, but comes under the Department of Trade, with which tution. Stonham alleged that an increasing number of people were living off immoral earn- ings. He has done his share of globe-trotting and after the war he got a job as a diplomat in the foreign service with postings in Washington, Brussels and Baghdad. Ci vice • Jellicoe was Minister and last Mu in the news again for his i...

compromising implementation of Heath's pay policy against the civil servants. A man noted for his refined taste and culture, it was during tenure of office that decision was made to impose museum charges. The Earl has been married twice and has four daughters and three sons. In July 1970 he was fined £75 and disqualified from driving for a year after he was found to have more than the permitted level of alcohol in his blood.

BY OUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

NO JOINT policy has been agreed by unions involved in the closure of Triang's Cefn works and the rationalization of the company's Cyfarthfa factory in South Wales.

The redundancies at the two factories, both in Merthyr Tydfil, will mainly • involve 175 indirect workers and office staff.

General and Municipal Wor- Union members, kers' mostly direct workers, were asked at a meeting on Monday to mass choose between 68 redundancies out of and 600 members being work if the plant closed down.

Faced with this choice, the proposals management were accepted. Negotiations are now in pro- between G&MWU shop gress stewards, led by convenor Gerald Morgan, and management on the wages and productivity section of the package. The Amalgamated Union of Workers has Engineering not The accepted the proposals. ASTMS and clerical unions are the other unions

APEX

involved. is a 'gentlemen's agree- there ment to limit premium increases.

Union Commercial blames rising costs. Car owners insured with the company, however, will all be delighted to know that in the year ending December 31, 1972, Commercial Union handed a gift of £10,000 to the over Tory 'British United Industrialists' £1,000 organization, as well as the Economic League and to £250 to Aims of Industry.

It's nice to know where your money's going.