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LONRHO SCANDAL:

NEW ALLEGATIONS

A SUGGESTION tl Streatham and form dropped against th added fresh fuel to Heath regime. The "Sunday Times" reports that the fraud charges, alleging decep- tion in a Lonrho bid to take over a South African mining company, were mysteriously withdrawn in January without ex- planation. *Sandys spent a good deal of time talking with South Africa's Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller and London Ambassador Carel de Wet . . • 'If Sandys' talks with the South Africans did persuade their Attorney-General to withdraw the fraud charges, then in simple cost benefit terms, he was certainly worth £50,000 to Lonrho, the paper comments. Sandys's consultancy salary was suddenly increased from £10,000 a year to £50,000 a year in November 1971, the 'Sunday Times' reveals, shortly after finance director Fred Butcher was arrested in Johannesburg. Other directors could not go to South Africa for fear of arrest.

LUMP SUM

Later, Sandys transferred to a £40,000-a-year post as chairman plus a £130,000 lump sum as 'compensation'.

A reported 98 per cent of his consultant's fees and 55 per cent of his chairman's salary were paid into a tax lump haven. The £130,000 sum was paid in secret. Heath told the Conser- vative Women's conference last week: It is no part of our philosophy that, by one device or another, vast sums of money should pass hands at the heart of our financial system as personal rewards; sums out of all proportion to the rewards available for high distinction in other professions and walks of life. This hypocritical cover-up for the rottenness which is

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

MONDAY MAY 28, 1973•

No 1083 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE By Royston Bull

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workers press MP Sandys had fraud charges dropped-claim

LONRHO SCANDAL:

NEW ALLEGATIONS

A SUGGESTION t} Streatham and form dropped against th added fresh fuel to Heath regime. The Sunday Times' reports that the fraud charges, alleging decep- tion in a Lonrho bid to take over a South African mining company, were mysteriously withdrawn in January without ex- planation. 'Sandys spent a good deal of time talking with South Africa's Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller and London. Ambassador Carel de Wet . . • 'If Sandys' talks with the South Africans did persuade their Attorney-General to withdraw the fraud charges, then in simple cost benefit was certainly he terms, worth £50,000 to Lonrho,' the paper comments. Sandys's consultancy salary was suddenly increased from £10,000 a year to £50,000 a year in November 1971, the Sunday Times' reveals, shortly after finance director Fred Butcher was arrested in Johannesburg. Other directors could not go to South Africa for fear of arrest.

LUMP SUM

Later, Sandys transferred to a £40,000-a-year post as chairman plus a £130,000 lump sum as 'compensation'.

A reported 98 per cent of his consultant's fees and 55 per cent of his chairman's salary were paid into a tax lump haven. The £130,000 sum was paid in secret. Heath told the Conser- vative Women's conference last week: It is no part of our philosophy that, by one device or another, vast sums of money should pass hands at the heart of our financial system as personal rewards; sums out of all proportion to the rewards available for high distinction in other professions and walks of life. This hypocritical cover-up for the rottenness which is INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY MAY 28, 1973 • No 1083 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE By Royston Bull A SUGGESTION that Duncan Sandys, Tory MP for

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Nixon's dictatorship plan PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday May 28, 1973 IF IT required only revelations of immorality and high-living to destroy it, capitalism would have perished a very long time ago. Indeed, in its heyday—the Victorian and Edwardian periods — the most outrageous scandals took place as a matter of routine.

In his old age Gladstone said that he had known 11 Prime Ministers and seven of them had been adulterers.

But these and other more exotic scandals scarcely caused a ripple of discord because was all-powerful and the the bourgeoisie "excesses' could be hushed up. Against this historical background, it is absolutely clear that today's crisis in the Tory government is not primarily about morals. If it was a moral issue. surely we would heard have from the need for the social revolution Festival of Light brigade: Mrs and the taking of power. Mary Whitehouse, Malcolm Mug- Those sanctimonious creeps geridge, Lord Longford or even jumping onto the moral band- Margaret Mrs Thatcher, the with talk of 'morat wagon hysterical moralist who has been decency' are creating a moralistic sharing place in Heath's diversion away from real along with the ministry, two of the death issue agony of departed noblemen-Lord Lamb- capitalism and the historic neces- ton and Earl Jellicoe? sity of the working class to take These irrepressible headline power. hunters are profoundly silent be- Those who call for policy a cause they know that the moral to 'Clean Britain' like the to the main Issue Is secondary Stalinist 'Morning Star' are only question-the break-up of the from being moral step away authority of the ruling class under crusaders directly reflecting the the impact of the economic and feelings of a section of the bour- crisis of political the present geoisie itself. of the 'death epoch of agony The Lambton-Jellicoe affair is capitalism'. crucial to the sevarutionary They know that the revelations movement only insofar of the past week have irreparably illuminates the decomposition of damaged the authority of the ruling class on the broadest not only the Heath government, but scale-from the Cabinet room the ruling class itself. It opens to the police courts. of the eyes millions of people Its effect will be to shatter the to the sleazy foibles of their so- illusion of pomp, pageantry and called 'betters'. puritanism which the bourgeoisie In other words, it helps breed has sought to create about itself.

for This image has been assiduously further contempt the Tory rulers and the cultivated among the middle class system through they seek to uphold. In this sense whom the bourgeoisie the Lambton-Jellicoe scandal has rules. What will be the impact hea two overriding implications: in suburbia when the emperor vividly shows the decomposition has been shown have to of British clothes? capitalism and for the working class it poses the vital "The Times' showed deep con-

FOLLOWING

of reports closer collaboration between the forces of the police Common Market, comes news of a new airborne military force capable of fly- ing Europe anywhere in within a few hours. The Joint Airborne Task Force (JATFOR) is based at Upavon, Wilts. PLANS FOR the setting up of a virtual dictatorship in the United States, with wholesale violation of basic rights and a massive witch-hunt against the left, have come to light as a result of the Watergate affair.

President Nixon admitted in his latest Watergate state- ment issued last Tuesday that he had approved the plans as 'specific options for expanded intelligence operations'.

They would have been carried into practice had it not been for the obstinate opposition of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI.

The latest issue of 'News- week' says plans would

BY JOHN SPENCER

have brought together the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency

(CIA),

the National Security find (or to manufacture evi- dence of foreign involvement in (NSA) and the De- Agency fence the anti-war movement Intelligence Agency among left-wing groups. (DIA) for concerted drive Nixon and his aides were con- against daft dodgers, deserters, vinced that the anti-war move- Philip and activists such as ment and the left in the United Daniel Berrigan and left-wing States were being financed from groups including the Students abroad. for a Democratic Society (SDS) They refused to believe CIA and the Black Panthers. and other reports that this was The plans would have included the not case. One intelligence their mail and harassing official told the 'New York opening them with tax audits as Times': well as the kids and 'Every time went spying, wire-tapping bur- abroad there were those in the glaries. House Washington sources say one of White who were con- the main aims would have been vinced that they were meeting tion cern for this erosion of authority when it said in an editorial last Friday: 'The Protestant ethic is not crumbling by sectors: it is orat the whole line of cliffs that is being eroded by the sea. The illusion has been shattered because the economic foundations for it have been completely undermined. When once the ruling class could have manoeuvred its way out of trouble, today it is caught redhanded. old levers of empirical The improvization, which little men marvelled at, can no longer be pulled to avert danger: the iron • is laws of economic and political disintegration, as described by Marx, take over. Starting from this materialist basis, we can begin to under- stand the reformists and their craven role in parliament.

The Labourites have rushed to Heath's rescue by suggesting that scandal is a question of 'national security. They have obligingly offered to shift the whole issue to a secret enclave called the Security Commission pact headed by a peer, Lord Diplock.

But when the Labourites talk of "security' being at stake, they don't mean the foreign enemy is in on the act. They mean that It will have 37 Hercules aircraft, drawn from 46 Group RAF, and its troops will be from 16 Independent Parachute Brigade. The soldiers will be equip- ped with Swingfire, Vigilant, Wombat and Carl Gustav anti-tank plus weapons, missile-armed helicopters and the new lightweight tracked Job McGruder... Ready to telf all? with communists and coming back with dope. One of the main purposes of the huge investigation planned by Nixon-which was completely illegal—was to lay the basis for conspiracy trials to 'prove' this unfounded suspicion. Once Congressional sources quoted by 'Newsweek' called the plan '... a totally far-right view.

It frequently brings up the ques- of legality and concludes tion that the problem (i.e., domestic unrest) is too great to consider legal niceties' the security of the capitalist class and its state is in dire danger from a powerful working class.

When they race so crudely and openly to cover up for the Tories it is the clearest reflection of the economic crisis: the reformists fear the revolutionary nature of the epoch in which the Tories, their masters, will be swept off the scene of history by the work- ing class. 'At the same time the Wilsons and the Feathers will also be put out of a job. Hence we have the extra- ordinary spectacle of the Labour- ites being • more sympathetic to the discredited peers than many members of the Tory Party itself!

The Lambton-Jellicoe affair, involving members of the Tory squirearchy, with the merges business scandals of the get-rich- quick Tories. Both these groups of the ruling class are distinguished by the fact that they produce nothing for the good of society. They are a glaring negation of the earlier, progressive period of capitalism which developed the means of production. are break- The scandals which ing over the heads of the ruling class — Lambton-Jellicoe, Lonrho, Poulson, Lord Polwarth and the North Sea oil bonanza—all go to emphasize in the most urgent way that the conditions are here ock. for the social revolution.

In this situation it is the duty they of all our comrades and sym- pathizers to work all-out to build the revolutionary party. armoured vehicles Scorpion and Striker. The entire force plus weapons could go into action anywhere in Europe within 72 hours. With any sort of advance warning this could be cut to 12-18 hours. It could be followed up by other reinforcements, such as the United Kingdom Mobile Force. The magazine called the plan 'the most wide-ranging police operation ever authorized the peacetime United States. The witch-hunts of Senator Joseph McCarthy would have into insignificance com- pared with scheme which Nixon and his aides planned to set in motion. plan was only one of three similar programmes of sur- veillance described by Nixon in his Watergate statement. The two other plans were the series of wire-taps on newspaper reporters and the establishment of a special investigation unit in 1971 in connection with the Pen- tagon Papers case. FORMER White House aide Jeb Stuart Magruder, a key witness to the Watergate burglary and the subsequent cover-up, has agreed to 'name names' His evidence is likely to im- plicate several officials whose names have not so far been linked to the scandal. A source close to the team of prosecutors preparing the cases was quoted as saying: 'You may think it can't get much worse, but things are even worse than they appear.'

BY A FOREIGN

CORRESPONDENT

THE UNITED STATES

plans to conclude a series of multi-million dollar arms sales in the Arab states of the Arabian Gulf. Officials of the Defence De- in Washington said partment a Pentagon sales team was negotiating the sale of $500m worth of ships and military communications equipment to Saudi Arabia. They said teams were also visiting_ Qatar, Abu Dhabi and other Gulf states that used to rely on Britain for their defence arrangements. They said the sales effort in Saudi Arabia would be coupled with military-training assistance.

the State Earlier last week, Department acknowledged nego- tiations with Kuwait, which also was said to be seeking about £500m worth of military aid.

The United States recently concluded a $2,000m deal with Iran. 'Anything else would be much smaller,' Pentagon source one said. The negotiations Saudi Arabia are understood to include the sale of up to 19 old Ameri- : warships, mostly destroyers can and frigates. Officials confirmed • that the sales, if they develop, could reach more than $1,000m. The United States has said publicly there was a need to im- prove the defensive capabilities of the Gulf states following Bri- tain's military withdrawal two years ago. The sale of arms to the Gulf states has given rise to demands from Israel for still more wea- pons from the United States.

The daily paper 'Ma'arriv' said in an editorial that: 'Israel can- not prevent the growing courting of the oil-producing states by supplying them with unprece- dented quantities of arms.

'But Israel has the right to appeal for the United States not to alter the balance [of power] by its In other words, the Zionists have no objection to arms being supplied to Saudi Arabia and the reactionary Gulf states so long as they can get their full share of the action as well. SRI LANKA (Ceylon) is to ap- point a Criminal Justice Com- mission to try 37 Tamil youths arrested some time ago on alle- gations of subversive activity.

They said the youths would face charges of the attempted murder of government politi- cians, attempts to destroy public and property, including roads railway bridges, and intimidation of government politicians and pro-government people in the predominantly Tamil-speaking northern and eastern provinces.

The sources alleged that the police had uncovered caches of arms and ammunition. Guerrillas freed SOME 500 political prisoners, them left-wing urban among guerrillas, were freed at the weekend under a sweeping par- don ordered by Peronist presi- dent Dr Hector Campora less than 12 hours after he took office as Argentina's President.

The pardon was issued as an estimated 50,000 demonstrators, who were among hundreds of thousands of Peronist sympa- celebrating the end of thizers the seven-year-old military re- gime, gathered outside the Villa Devoto jail in • Buenos Aires to demand the prisoners' release.

Guards fired on demonstrators who stormed the prison on Sat- urday, killing two youths and wounding 20 others. The demon- stration followed the release of 276 of the prisoners held at the them three people jail, among jailed for kidnapping and shoot- ing Italian industrialist Oberdan Sallustro and two jailed in con- nection with the assassination of General Juan Carlos Sanchez.

THREATENED

CLOSURE OF

A. six-point programme for keeping open Barrow docks has been put local to the British businessmen, Transport Docks Board, the town council and the government. The docks, which the BTDB says it wants to close down at the end of the year, employ only 20 registered dockers.

But closure would have a serious economic and social effect on the area. And since there is no other employment registered men for within travelling distance, the dockers themselves may be forced out of the industry. Protests have been made against the board's decision by the Transport and General Workers' Union, the district committee of the Confedera- of Shipbuilding and tion Engineering Unions and the Labour MP for Barrow, Albert Booth. six-point programme The was approved at a town meet- ing called by the CSEU. It calls for local businesses to reconsider their import- export policies with a view to traffic through increasing Barrow docks, for a speeding- up of current BTDB-Vickers negotiations and for Barrow Town Council to consider a rate subsidy. The BTDB, it says, should for 12 postpone closure months, the Tory government should amalgamate all ports under the National Ports Council and, in view of the social effects, there should be a government subsidy. No reprieve for the docks given, the British will be Transport Docks Board says, unless there is a dramatic development in trade by the time it reviews its closure de- cision in October. But the Barrow dockers are going to give up their not livelihoods easily. Hogan, Martin docks for the branch secretary T&GWU, says: None of us would be willing to leave the register under the ordinary severance pay scheme. It is thought that something like the special severance terms implemented from Sep- tember until February, under the Jones-Aldington report, would be necessary. This could give each man in the region of £4,000 and cost the National Dock Labour Board around £80,000. Albert Booth MP is seeking discussions with the Depart- ment of the Environment, since he wants to take the matter out of its present dock board setting. He has canvassed the sup- port of the Tory MP for and Lonsdale, Morecambe Alfred Hall-Davis, and other local MPs. Booth points out that the number of ships arriving at and departing from Barrow has not decreased. He criticizes the way the BTDB have presented their accounts relating to the port.

for The proposal a rate subsidy, included in the six- point programme at the CSEU meeting, came from a Barrow Alderman, C. W. Ward. Clearly, however, none of these reformist panaceas will in any way affect the board's closure decision. Members of the board, chairman including Sir Humphrey Browne, who sat on.

the Jones-Aldington • commit- tee, have made no secret of their opposition to provisions of the Dock Labour Scheme.

On the eve of publication of the Jones-Aldington report last year, Browne spoke out against so-called irresponsible actions by registered dockers called for control and labour in the board's ports to be given exclusively.. to the board.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Astorism is a very in special phenomena British life. It deserves special consideration in examining what is pub. lished through its main mouthpiece, the 'Observer'. It means. above all enor- mous wealth. The Astors were family German immigrant who went to the United States and made money. Lots of it. It is said that you can stand in Times Square in the centre of New York and the property you is you around see owned by the Astors. A branch of the family be- and came the 'English Astors' they bought "The Times' as mouthpiece for their 'intellec- tual' soundings. After they flogged 'the old thunderer' to Lord Thomson of Fleet ten years ago, they were lett with Sunday newspaper, the 'Observer'. Apart from wealth, Astor- ism also spells a deep fruga- To the this lity. untrained may seem a contradiction. And it is! It can be observed in the demise of the late Lord Astor of Hever, head of the family.

He died on a remote Mediter- ranean island because of the family's wish to avoid as much possible. By probate tax as spending his dying days away from England-which he loved dearly—he thus savea who multitudinous relatives form the Astor Trust a great deal of money. editor, David Astor. Another contradiction con- cerns the question of 'morality.

columns of In public, in lne their newspaper, editor David Astor dispenses a regular diet There is scarcely or per allsil. of the paper that an Issue half have page doesn't the works dedicated to Oxfam or Shelter or Christian A More recently this breast- beating has been refined the hiring of Des Wilson, the liberal belts all-purpose who out a weekly column bleating the cause of the workless, the homeless, the misfits and the these deprived. In columns Mr Wilson has yet raise to of politics question Succ

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leaders Electricians' union were stopped four weeks ago from themselves giving blank cheque on the Indus- Relations Act. trial so most delegates to the EPTU annual conference thought.

de- Conierence delegates 291 votes to 205 an feated by Chapple, attempt by Frank right-wing general secretary, to have all resolutions on the Act remitted to the leadership.

calling for resolution secret ballot on the Act in the or to ask how these problems can be resolved under capital- ism. The private affairs of the Astor family are little known • except for two vivid incidents. refer to the tamily's country home Clive- den in Buckinghamshire. It was here that the Clive- den sunbathed, played set tennis and drank wine during the 1930s. The head of the clan at that time was Viscount Astor, a founder member of British Empire Union, the which was devoted to anti- communism. A historian of period this recalls that the Empire Union 'flirted with the British Union of Fascists', ', Sir Oswald Mosley's extreme right-wing party. To these idyllic country sur- roundings the right-wing élite of the British ruling class would gather. On one occa- sion the distinguished guest none other than Count was Von Ribbentrop. In 1963 Cliveden again came into the headlines. This time it was as a result of the in- famous activities of one of Majesty's ministers, Her certain Mr John Profumo. It during weekend was a at guest of Lord Cliveden as 'Bill' Astor that he had gone swimming with an 18-year-old Christine Keeler. She was a 'hostess' who moved in these Tory circles. The publicly-known incidents at Cliveden are in direct con- tradiction to Astorism's liberal- union, and on the executive to work to improve its worst aspects, was defeated by 260 votes to 227. Another motion, instructing the executive to urge the TUC to mobilize the whole trade union movement in defence of unions threatened under the Act, was carried by 268 votes to 235. Against this background, union members may have been surprised to read last week of an EPTU national officer, Jack actually appearing in Britz, the National Industrial Rela- tions Court to argue a case under the Act. The case in question, in- volving a challenge to existing bargaining at arrangements Smith Manufacturing, Clark in Warrington, Lancashire, was brought by EPTU member Alan Frost. Frost wanted the issue re- ferred to the Commission on Industrial Relations. And he brought Britz along to argue his application that the NIRC Workers Press, Mr published every week in ISm its Press. This expressed itself in the most glaring way when the came to pontificate 'Observer' the Watergate scandal on which threatens discredit to Nixon out of office. In a turgid litany the edi- torial moralizes about the sins of the accused: 'The stain in the White House is creeping nearer to the President.'

It really looked as if Astor- ism was at last going to finish a job-it was going to demand that Nixon, the twister, the man behind the bugging of Democratic Party headquar- ters, the man in the filthiest presidential race in years, was about to get his come-uppance from the liberals. Not so. The editorial went on: "The only possible choice is between keeping as Presi- dent a somewhat discredited [sic] Nixon or having an in- and clumsier experienced considering In Agnew. whether or not to press for Mr Nixon's departure from office, the American public, his own party and his Democratic opponents face a genuinely difficult question. 'In world affairs Mr Nixon, with the help of the outstan- dingly able Dr Kissinger, has set in train remarkable de- ... It must be velopments admitted that the Nixon- Kissinger team has been more skilful and successful in inter- national affairs than any recent make such a reference. explanation of his Britz's presence and his role was that he was a friend of the appli- cant. Sir Hugh Griffiths, But of the NIRC tri- chairman bunal which heard the appli- cation, thought. otherwise.

In dismissing the applica- Britz, who is tion, he told national recruitment officer of the EPTU, that if his union was registered you would not have to go through all this charade' A registered union could apply direct to the court for a CIR reference, he pointed out.

The 'Financial Times' the story last Tuesday, saying: • "Backdoor" use of the Indus- trial Relations Act by mem- bers of unregistered trade unions was highlighted yester- day in the National Industrial Relations Court in a case in- volving a member of the Elec- trical and Plumbing Trades Union.' The question EPTU mem-

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• Press, Monday May 28, 1973 President Nixon with his 'out- standingly able' Dr Kissinger.

predecessors. It is impossible to believe that the less experi- enced and less talented Spiro Agnew could hope to continue their success if he became President.' But the penultimate conclu- sion on Watergate shows the real face of Astorism: 'It is a harsh fact that there is no alternative for America' but to string along with Nixon.

The meaning is clear: the crook you know, is better you don't than the crook know. This is the face of liberalism: when it comes to the position of the world's No 1 imperialist being caught red-handed in a massive scandal, their moral crusade disappears out of the window and they shift with astonishing speed to cover up for capitalism and its leaders.

This is what Astorism means.

Profumo, quest at Cliveden.

EPTU chief, Chapple-no man- date to go to Court. bers will be asking is, if this is a correct assessment of the reason Britz was in court last Monday, how does it square with the decisions of the union conference a month earlier?

TRANSFORMING THE SOC

INTOA REVOLUTIONARY

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday May 2 'The need for international A Venezuelan who has joined the Socialist Labour League in Britain says that in his home country, which is dominated by the American oil mono- polies, many young people have heard about the Trotsky- ist movement and read the works of Leon Trotsky as well as the other great Marxists.

But developing the practice a revolutionary of building movement in the traditions of Lenin and Trotsky is difficult.

They are cut off from the world Trotskyist movement by imperialism. The Venezuelan's work with the League, there- fore, has been decisive. It has shown him how the fight for a revolutionary party can be launched and has deepened his own understanding of the capi- talist crisis and the historic tasks of the working class all over the world. We all had political expe- rience in Venezuela in 1968-1969 when the student movement was encouraged by the struggle of the Vietnamese workers and the workers in France who rose up in May 1968 to make demonstrations and engage in political activity.

There was also the under- standing that for the advance of humanity the capitalist sys- tem had to be banished from all over the world. This affected directly in us Venezuela, which is a semi- colonial country, dominated by US oil interests. But we had already rejected the concept of bourgeois nationalist revolution, which simply transferred the power from the US capitalist to Vene- zuelan capitalist. We realized that the revolution had also to be a socialist one. The events in Vietnam and the events in France helped us to put this in an inter- context-seeing the national Venezuelan revolution as part of the international struggle against capitalism. We real- ized, for example, that it was not possible to achieve social liberation in an underdeve- loped country like Venezuela outside the context of the international revolution.

In Britain I came into con- nection with the League. This has been a great experience.

It helped me to understand the contradictions in an advanced industrialized nation and more the practice of clearly see the revolutionary movement among the working class. In Venezuela this was diffi- cult to see because we were dominated by US imperialism.

This tended to cut you off from the working-class strug- gles elsewhere. The depth of the economic crisis is now dictating the sharpness of the conflict, and through the practice of the League one realized the true rature of this crisis. You see the depth of the crisis, how it day May 28, 1973

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Venezuela in 1968, a student is arrested and students on the streets of Paris in A revolution (in Venezuela) had also to !

in Vietnam and France (May 1968) hell national context.' within both expressed classes and which way it is going. This interaction we did not have in Venezuela. Every day it is clear that the ruling class has only one choice-to attack the working class and the things they have struggled for over centuries.

The issue is even more serious than this. It is clear that only two choices face the worker.

They either realize the neces- sity of overthrowing capitalism and replacing it with socialism -and they will need a revolu- tionary leadership to do this— or there will be a further de- generation of capitalism into fascism and war. Coming from South America this is less hard to realize than perhaps in Britain. When I left Venezuela there was not really a Trotskyist

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s arrested by the police. Above: Workers Paris in May 1968. 'We realized that the I also to be a socialist one. The events 1968) helped us to put this in an inter- movement. There were ele- ments there who had read Trotsky and agreed with his analysis of the international Character of the socialist revo- lution. But we did not understand the role of the Fourth Inter- national throughout the world.

Where did we fit in this, we used to ask. We were facing the problem of the theory of Trotskyism and the practice of Trotskyism and the building of the Fourth International.

In Britain I found that there were other groups who talked about Trotskyism as well as the SLL-the International Marxist Group and the Inter- national Socialists, for example.

But they • did not have a clear analysis. They had ideas of spontaneity; structural de- fects of capitalism etc.-

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nothing was clear, they seemed to have no clear direction. It was rather like Venezuela.

The SLL was and is abso- lutely different.* This move- ment, has: carried through a consistent * analysis.It based itself-on the insoluble nature of the capitalist crisis and the belief one should say understanding that only the working class has the power to transform history and society.

I had the confidence that this was the movement that could transform the situation and build a revolutionary party British workers. among meant what it said. • The SLL said we are going to get rid of capitalism-for this we need a practice and we have to struggle concretely for a practice. This is the correct way for Marxists to proceed.

Others say we will see what will happen at this demonstra- and that demonstration, tion see if some new group or sec- tion comes out of the struggle that will give us some hope of challenging capitalism, stu- dents and so on. These are blind people groping. I didn't think much of it at all. I have seen in Britain that the working class are the motor of revolution, despite their conservatism and often hostile attitude to political thought and action. We have seen the ruling class respond very sharply be- cause of the crisis and the growing militancy among the working class. Really the Tory government has been-as the SLL and the document for the Party says—one long prepara- •tion for fascism. The rulint class from this experience struggle have begun to realize they need dictatorship to deal with the workers of this country.

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Other examples of this are the repressions in Ireland, the police secret activities and the show trials like the 'Angry Brigade' episode. All this has great impor- tance for the left in Venezuela.

First the struggle of the revo- lutionary forces anywhere in the world is an expression of economic and the political crisis of the capitalist system.

Therefore the struggle in Vene- zuela is a part of the struggle workers face in this British country. Secondly I do not think it is possible for the Latin Ameri- countries to establish can socialism and build a workers' state outside the context of the international revolution.

I think those who talk about struggle in the third world as an exclusive thing are com- pletely wrong. This is an ex- pression of weakness in the face of the capitalist class. It is nonsense to suggest that the working class do not have the strength in the main industrial countries to overthrow capi- talism. They lack the leader- ship not the strength. This, of course, is not to say that you ignore the revolution in the third world. This is vital. Revolutionary parties to lead the working class must be built all over continents like Latin America. The struggle is a dialectical unity, there is no separation between the revolu- the third tionary forces in world and the working class in the main capitalist countries.

Here I have seen what the International really Fourth It bases itself on the means. historical need of the inter- national working class to lead revolution to transform the society and save humanity. The only future at all lies in building this movement.

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'The Tories are taking away all these rights to stave off their own crisis' Robin Campbell (29) is a Lon- ••• archerr (The League is the only party in Britain equipped to deal with the international crisis in Marxist terms. Over the last few days we've seen the dollar fall heavily and the price of gold go $110 time an ounce. it took the price of gold to rise from $35 ounce, rise of per cent three days is enormous. What is the seeing We e swift collapse of the en- very system. ure capilallst Capitalism's total inability crisis is throwing to solve its more and more liberals and professionals, like architects and engineers, into the hysteri- and profoundly dangerous cal alleyways of doom. 'Architecture Design' and this month proposes city based on spiritual life

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America and Europe. dized by These mustical mediators and individuals believe they nave ine answer, but them in- ability to understand the true nature of the world crisis hastening the collapse of the capitalist world. Liberals have been are shocked the at the demolition of Bath, but Lne great crisis, the gry engineers of capitalism are not only destroying their OWn 01- cities but their own knowledge.

ela. The League is the only poli- tical party with the in to bring down this Tory gov- ernment through the mobiliza- cal em. 11C- gle his it ers' of out as m- ex- the It the the rial

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be tion of the working class and ike establish a Marxist state.

• 1S The Labour Party hasn't got no the capacity because it is lu- capitalist The roots party. ird from which the TUC ana Ine • 111 Labour Party spring have now 's. been severed by the leadership the who, like Tories, ally di C resorting to anti-democratic the measures to stave off the crisis.

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have the Cause Tedders 1 111 been democratically elected by Ity. the rank supposedly and ne, in order to give leadership to working class, yet The weset A scene from the Pageant of Working died for the miners' union in Jarrow and them having talks with the Tories over glasses of cham- me pagne. It's only in this situation that the question of leadership becomes vital. All the basic rights of the working class are threatened, everything that's ever been won by the working class, Even the right to a living wage and the right to work.

The Tories are taking away all these rights to try to stave off their own crisis. I've been through all the local environment groups and radical groups and itwas through their complete mis- direction and localized policies that I came to the League.

It is because these groups' analysis of dialectical material- ism is false that they cannot hope to cope with the situation they resort to SO pure militancy. scene from the Pageant of Working Class History. 'It is amazing when you realize that men like Jobling died for the miners' union in Jarrow and now men like Feather are in charge.

It was through my involve- ment with militant environ- tient aot rous derstandi tion an understanding of politics and was economes raised. I think the time factor in- volved transforming the in League into a party is critical.

The party must be built in order to expose the bank- ruptcy and corruption of the existing leadership. A mass Marxist be movement must built which understands the economic decline of the whole capitalist system. e living day-so day tra nt if the living day-to-day organ objective analysis-the bank- ruptcy of leadership, the falling dollar and the need for a new leadership The Belle Vue conference in Manchester is also vital and all local branches should build up Workers Press, I g when you realize that men like Jobling in charge.' trade union and tenants' asso- ciation backing for the con- ference. doesn't really under- One stand the difficulty of building • the revolutionary party until you start working in practice.

selling the Workers Press and getting new subscriptions. It's in this process that everything that Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky fought for is expressed The League's grasp of his- tory is very important. That understanding of history expressed in practice to mie now. The working class now is represented basically by the TUC and the Labour Party.

The big struggle is going to be to break them from that. That's why the election of a Labour government pledged to socialist policies is going to expose them. ers Press, Monday May 28, 1973 PAGE 5 'What made me Phase One and Phase Two' Alan Cox is a Coventry tool- room worker. He is relatively highly paid by British stan- dards, but the Tory attack on trade union rights and the experience of the SLL's March 1l Pageant of Workers' His- tory-which showed how those rights were won-has drawn him towards the revolutionary movement. I am not badly off com- pared with other people. I have a good job and I sup- pose I get a good wage. But what made me grasp things were really changing was Phase One and Phase Two. This showed clearly that the Tories to change these out were conditions. The Pageant clinched it. This showed how the working class had to struggle for these rights. Really I would rather be a sympathizer, from the outside looking in as it were. But once you see these things, you have to do something about it.

It often comes up at work because you talk about the situation to your mates. They say: 'Well what are you doing about it then?' This puts you on the spot. You have to have an answer. I'm only starting really and I don't understand socialism fully at present. For example, I'm reading 'Anti-Duhring' by Engels at the moment, but I find it very heavy going.

I think we must find a way of teaching socialism simply.

We should say to workers: "This is what we would do if we were in' and have a proper programme to explain it. This I know might be a bit shallow, but it's the only way that I think we will put ourselves forward. I think one of the biggest aims must be to remove the leadership- trade union especially the 'lefts' , who are even worse because they use words to cover up all the time.

It is amazing when you realize that men like Jobling died for the miners' union in Jarrow and now men like Feather are in charge. The leadership is rotten both in the unions and the Labour Party. Our party is going to be a third party and it will not confine itself to taking over through elections — you can't get rid of this system just through parliament. But it is a hard struggle.

You go to the Pageant and see 10,000 people. You think, this is a really big movement and then you get back to your area like Coventry and you realize how small the forces are. You realize the struggle depends on you. You have to go out and do it. Without a doubt if you are making this decision, the SLL is the only one to join. But it's a hard decision.

GUNPOINT POLL

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday May: By a special correspondent Ulster's first election bat- tle since the troubles broke out in 1968 will reach a climax in two days. Voters will elect councillors for Northern Ireland's re-vamped local councils. But even the most strenuous efforts by the Tory administra- tion, led by William Whitelaw, the parties in the electoral and race, have been unable to dis- guise the true nature of this farce. While the Communist Party, the Social Democratic Labour Party and others say—or at imply - the election least marks a softening of Tory at- titudes, the army machine in Ulster grinds on and on. Diplock The Commission provides the basis for army terror by incorporating some of the most hated aspects of the Special Powers Act into the Ulster constitution. Trial by jury has been abolished and the tribunals which "judge' so-called ter- rorists are little superior to the courts of Adolf Hitler, used to Left to right: Social Democratic and La They will lend Whitelaw's (above) dicta day May 28, 1973 liquidate opposition to fascism.

In the tin shacks inside the Long Kesh concentration camp the Diplock men go to work.

The accused is assumed guilty in firearms cases. Evidence by unnamed and unseen informers is acceptable as basis for conviction and often the vic- tim is led out of court with his counsel while members of the notorious Special Branch give intelligence Or army evidence. And this only happens when men get the benefit of 'trial'.

Many are still locked-up with- out having been charged. The backdrop for the elec.

is in fact military rule.

tion The polls are essentially the icing on Whitelaw's crafty plan to formalize dictatorship of the most brutal kind all over the north and every faction of the Labour and Republican movement, bar the Provisional IRA and the Trotskyist move- have scurried with in- ment, decent haste to contest. Predictably the most devious of all the political tendencies has been the Communist Party in the north. Though small in number, the Ulster Stalinists have an important ideological impact on the reformist morass ic and Labour Party (SDLP)-men Ivan Cooper, ove) diclatorship an air of moderation.

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and the around the Official Republican movement.

Atter expressing token oppo- sition to the White Paper and election, the Stalinists the wormed their way towards Whitelaw and now finally and openly proclaim the possibility of 'democratizing Tory Ulster.

The Stalinists began in fine form by declaring the two-stage election-the poll for the Assembly will take place in June - as attempt "smother the voice of the work- al'. ing class by the creation of a centre' They added that a demand should be that no one should be imprisoned without trial conceding the right of the Tory government to arrest Repub- licans fighting British im- perialism. The suggestion that the main aim of the election was to create a centre, of course, was the cue for the Stalinists. The task, they argued, was to make the 'progressive forces sure challenged this Tory plot by standing candidates. • In fact power in Ulster is vested with Westminster and the Six Counties are managed by the British army and a repressive judiciary. Elections, 1 Cooper, Paddy Devlin and John Hume.

right or left, make centres, little difference to this fact.

Their only purpose is to lend air of respectability to an Whitelaw's rule. A little later the Stalinists warmed to the campaign. The extraordinary nature and cir- of the election cumstances were now conveniently for- gotten-the issue now was democracy' '. The grass roots May 5 issue of their weekly paper, 'Unity', commented: •.. the danger now is that many bodies, such the as Housing Executive, are being so far removed from the people that democracy is in danger at this level of public life despite assurances from the Whitelaw office that a second tier Hous- ing Council will operate.

... one can imagine how difficult it will be to protest about injustices such as rents and fares to a local council which will be in a position to pass the buck to some resident authority miles removed from the people.' 'Unity' urged people to vote for 'progressive candidates' nd and defend democracy..

One must add that this kind of statement—an abysmal capi- tulation to capitalist rule in the most ideal and peaceful circumstances—is made in a state under military rule where elections are the merest for- mality. The Stalinist arguments have an impact on had cleariy Official Republican circles. The Republican Clubs-sympathetic to the • Official IRA-have responded to the decision on Whitelaw banning their activi- ties by standing candidates in the main Catholic areas. Their tortured explanation for this implicit recognition of Paper has the Tory White thrown many of the more principled in the elements Officials into confusion and near paralysis. The Republican Clubs boldly state that Whitelaw's aim is to dictatorship in the create north. "Therefore,' they ask, 'why contest?' They explained in the May edition of The United Irishman': 'In the main the decision arrived at because the was majority believe that here was an opportunity to present the Republican programme to the people, failure to do so was the very gain the British govern- ment wanted. Politics was to be the preserve of the middle class [shades of "Unity"] and Republicans "abstained" Westminster and their toadies would have the field to them- selves. 'Republican participation had even more significance for the decision once arrived at was qualified by certain conditions vital for the continuation of civil disobedience cam- the paign. No seats were to be taken as long as internment or detention and Special Powers continued in any form.' The Republican Clubs want to establish some hopeless half-way house between the people of the Catholic areas and the council chamber. They will not take their seats, they say, but act as people's repre- sentatives in the areas. There must also be consider- able doubt over their boast that the election affords only the opportunity for them to present their programme. thi Surely this can be done in the course of normal struggle.

Under the umbrella of this stage-managed poll Republican participation only lends cred- ance to Whitelaw's boast that 'democracy' is coming back to Ulster. The Republican Clubs are further exposed when their programme for the election is examined. Demands are con- fined to local issues (apart from the nationalization of the building industry and their candidates for Andersonstown talk very much like typical left-reformists. One might ask how this be- haviour is supposed to school working in the class Marxist politics the Officials say they uphold. Provisional IRA and Sinn Fein still reject elections. But they have still to make up their minds on whether to contest Administrative Assembly for positions in June. A leading Provisional Sinn Fein officer, however, revealed that feeling in the movement was against standing candi- dates. •Whitelaw might make a noose for us in the form of some concession that allows us to stand. But we will not put our necks in. At least I am completely against standing. I would resign • from the move- ment over this issue.' But the Provisionals' stand is a shaky one. Recently they addressed Whitelaw in these terms: If the British government were serious in securing a political solution then it would remove all restrictions forth- with on the Sinn Fein political organization.' What does this mean-that the Provisional movement re- cognizes Tory rule in Ulster?

If not, why ask Whitelaw for concessions? In fact the Provisional move- ment has serious internal poli- tical difficulties. The army council still swears by the offensive. But the military 'politicals' want a new Pro- visional programme with a stronger socialist flavour. At present the leading Provisional Sinn Fein officers are touring the north attempting to set up a strong political network in the Six Counties. Their views, however, lapse into rank opportunism. Many hope for strong local move- ments, led by Provisionals, on issues like rents, housing, amenities etc. This sounds all very tame and-given the political and in Ulster- economic crisis quite Utopian. The greater dream of lrish unity is rele.

gated to a more distant future by the more 'realistic' members of Provisional Sinn Fein.

The elections and the of the Tory manoeuvres government, therefore have proved the political bank- ruptcy of the Ulster Repub- lican movement. The result of the election is scarcely important. Experts predict a big vote for the centre. This will suit Whitelaw. Movements like the Alliance party, the Social Democratic and Labour Party, will lend his dictatorship an air of moderation. But his greatest allies are the Stalinist and the Republican leaders who have failed to challenge this Tory manoeuvre.

Workers Press, Monday May 28, 1973 PAGE 7 Brian Faulkner, Ulster premier before the Tories imposed direct rule last year. Above: William Craig (lett), leader of the extreme right-wing Vanguard Party, pictured al Enniskillen.

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday May 28, 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 their parasitic privileges at home and their control of losing 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 in 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 between Lenin and Trotsky. In this series of the relations articles MICHAEL BANDA replies to this book.

The first phase of the Brest- Litovsk lasted from drama 2, All December when the provi- contemporary ac- sional armistice was signed be- counts link together the the Bolsheviks and the tween names of Lenin and Central Powers, to the begin- of January 1918, Trotsky as the principal ning when the Germans uncovered their leaders of the workers' brutal terms for an imperialist state. It was under Stalin 'peace'. that history was rewrit- During this period Lenin was in full the agreement with ten and even photographs stalling tactics of the Bolshevik doctored to erase Trot- delegation because he, together hoped for sky from the record and with Trotsky, the outbreak of a German revolu- retrospectively 'justify' tion. the ideology of bureau- On January 5 the talks be- came deadlocked and the Bol- cracy. sheviks were faced with two The Brest-Litovsk contro- alternatives: prosecute a sui- within the Bolshevik versy cidal war or agree to outra- Party is no exception to this The Ger- geous peace terms. Stalinist rule. man revolution was still matur- 'Against Trotsky- The book ing, but had not materialized.

ism' misrepresents and falsifies of the attitude of Trotsky only in This created a divisior opinion within the Bolshevik: order to the essential conceal and at the January 8 and Janu- of perspective unity and 11 of leading method which enabled Trotsky ary meetings Bolsheviks, the leadership split together and Lenin to stand three ways. Lenin was for an the petty-bourgeois against final and immediate peace and a breath- opposition in the decisive phase of the Brest- until the German ing space Litovsk crisis. revolution materialized and. the peasants received the land in Russia. Trotsky was for a position of 'neither war' peace nor which, he hoped, would pro- voke a breakdown in the nego- tiations and enable the Bol- sheviks to blame the Germans for any subsequent peace treaty. Bukharin and others were implacably opposed to peace and for a 'revolutionary war' Trotsky's attitude was influ- enced and mitigated by the fact that in January 1918 Ger- many was in the throes of a huge strike wave and soviets appeared for the first time in Vienna and Berlin. The revo- lution, however, was still 11 months away. Lenin's defeat at this ses- sion did not embitter him against Trotsky. On the con- trary, Lenin realized that, given the situation created by the German demands, the only to defeat the 'immediate way war' faction was to support or at least not obstruct Trotsky's formula. At the January 11 CC, Lenin modified his position to 'drag out the signing of the peace in every way'. This was carried by 12 votes to one. Thus on January 12 the joint session of the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks and Left Social- Revolutionaries resolved, by a majority of votes, to propose Trotsky's formula to the Con- gress of Soviets. Although the authors of 'Against Trotskyism' fail to mention it, the minutes of the succeeding Central Committee reveal that even Stalin had to defend Trotsky's formula (after the event, of course): 'Session of February 1 [Janu- nd. ary 19] 1918; Comrade Stalin: The way out of this diffi- • • cult situation was provided by the middle point of view--the position of Trotsky! ('Stalin' by Leon Trotsky, Panther His- tory, Volume II, P. 22.) The next stage of the Brest- Litovsk crisis lasted from Jan- uary 18 to February 18 when Germans and Austrians, the month of exasperated by a talks, launched their offensive against Russia. At the Central Committee meeting on January 17, Lenin proposed the immediate sign- ing of the treaty regardless of material and territorial sacri- fice. He was voted down-but by only one vote. On January 18 the Central Committee met again. At the first session Lenin was once again voted down by one vote, but at the second session the Central Committee meeting Trotsky-convinced equally by Lenin's realism and by the German entry into the Lenin's Ukraine-rallied to side and with his single vote gave Lenin the necessary maj- ority to begin negotiations for peace. This concluded the dis- pute. Trotsky's differences with Lenin were legitimate political differences arising out of dif- ferent and conflicting estima- tions of the German events, which were based sometimes on incomplete and fragment- information. This was what Brest-Litovsk proved in a very dramatic fashion. These differences with Lenin, however, have been magnified beyond all proportion by Sta- lin's henchmen. Here is what they say in Against Trotsky- ism' 'Documents show that on in: the question of the Brest Peace Trotsky and the Soviet delegation arriving for the Brest-Litovsk talks.

In the early stages of the crisis Stalin had to defend even Trotsky's formula. The later differences between Trotsky and Lenin were shown 1o be legiti- mate political ones arising out of the different and conflicting estimation of the German events.

Treaty, Trotsky maintained an anti-Leninist stand, criminally exposing the newly emerged Soviet Republic to mortal danger. 'As head of the Soviet dele- gation to the peace talks, he ignored the instructions of the party Central Committee and the Soviet government. 'At a crucial moment of the talks he declared that the Soviet government was unilat- erally withdrawing from the war, announced that the Rus- sian Army was being demobi- lized, and left Brest-Litovsk.

•This gave the German Com- mand the pretext it desired for ending the armistice. "We can only be saved in the true sense the word, by a European revolution," he said. (Extra- ordinary Seventh Congress of the RCP(b), verbatim report, Russ. ed. Moscow, 1962, p. 65. "The German army mounted an offensive and occupied con- siderable territory. As a result much harshe terms peace were put forward by the Ger- man government. 'On account of Trotsky's adventurism, Lenin wrote, Soviet Russia signed "a much humiliating peace, and more the blame for this rests upon those who refused to accept the former peace": ('Against Trotskyism' p. 13.) On the times! Oh the morals!

CONTINUED TOMORROW

THE MURDER OF A REVOLUTION

Rising 'Red in Bavaria'. By Richard Grunberger. Arthur Barker Ltd. £2.75. 164 pages.

Lenin and the Bolsheviks based their hopes for the development of the wor- kers' state in Russia on the spread of revolution to the west. They saw the Russian Revolution as the first step in the world revolution. Oil is still gushing from Vene- zuelan wells and adding to the profits of the petroleum com- panies. Production will rise this year-and so will the price at which it will be sold.

Most of the benefit of the higher world prices will go to the foreign-owned companies.

But while they are doing ex- tremely well out of Venezuela's the rest of the wasting asset, in the grip of economy is crisis. There is a shortage of meat and milk. This is blamed on parched pastures which re- sulted in the death or slaughter In Germany, Austria, Bavaria and Hungary: the le rose to take the workers power. Their revolutions were by betrayed their Social Democratic leaders. Then, as now, Social Democrats came to the rescue of capitalism in its extremity. Richard Grunberger's valu- able book shows precisely how this was done in Bavaria. Here events closely mirrored those in the main German Empire.

Just as the Social Democrats Ebert and Sheidemann mur- dered the German revolution, so Eisner and Hoffman be- trayed the workers of Bavaria.

When, in April 1917, the anti-war faction of the Ger- man Social Democratic party broke away to become the Independent Social Demo- crats (USD), a similar split followed in Bavaria. When in 1916, first Karl Liebknecht and Rosa • then Luxemburg were jailed for opposing the war, Kurt Eisner was arrested in Bavaria. And, also like Liebknecht of many thousands of cattle.

Domestic needs will have to be met by imports at tip-top prices. The imports of cattle pro- ducts will more than offset any benefit to the balance of pay- ments from higher oil prices.

The domestic economy faces collapse and the masses of the people go hungry while its riches are pumped out to the benefit of the oil monopolists.

How top secret can you get?

In the old days if a document in the White House was top "Top secret, it was stamped Secret. But when it was found that this security clearance wasn't powerful enough, newer ones were invented. no fewer There are now different security than 45 classifications above 'Top Secret'. And still the stuff leaks out! and Luxemburg, Eisner — the • leader of the Bavarian Inde- pendents - was murdered, by an aristocratic army officer.

But, unlike Karl and Rosa, Eisner was no communist. In 1905 he had opposed strikes in Bavaria in support of the Russian Revolution. And in 1917 he publicly declared him- self with Kerensky against Lenin. He was, however, swept to power by events which he could not control. During World War 1, 750,000 people in the German Empire literally starved to death. In January in 1918, 100,000 workers Germany and Bavaria struck work against food shortages and against delays in signing a peace treaty with the Soviet Union. After these strikes, which were led by the 'revolutionary shop stewards' , thousands of ringleaders were drafted into High the army-though the 1 Command took care to send them all to the western and not the Russian front. If you can't go through the front door, climb over the back fence. That appears to be the motto of the big busi- ness circles in Japan as they into the attempt to get Common Market countries. For some time, Japan's plans to get into the EEC markets have been rebuffed. The syn- thetic fibre manufacturers have been repeatedly refused per- mission to make cacital in France, West vestments Germany and Italy. Now they have gone to Por- tugal. Mitsubishi Rayon Com- pany and the parent company, Mitsubishi Corporation, have into 40-60 partnership gone with Companhia Uniao Fabril The fibre-making of Libson. plant will initially produce 12,500 tons a year, but this will soar to 21,000 tons in the near future. Workers Press, By August 1918, Ludden- dorf was cabling Berlin: The condition of the army de- mands an immediate armistice in order to avoid a catas- trophe.' The military com- mander urged the government to reconstruct itself 'along popular lines' with an 'opening to the moderate left'. In October the Imperial Navy mutinied and by Novem- ber 4, Kiel was in the hands of revolutionary sailors dockworkers. Similar risings in Wilhelmshaven, occurred Bremen, Hanover and Cologne.

In October, popular demand won the release from jail of Liebknecht and Luxemburg in Germany and Eisner in Bavaria. Then on November 7, demonstration Munich peace turned into an insurrection.

Soldiers joined the work- ers and ripped the epaulets off the shoulders of their officers.

That night the royal family fled under cover of darkness, and 738 years of Wittelsbach rule came to an end.

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Now available from New P 186a Clapham High Street, rs Press, Monday May 28, 1973 PAGE 9 Left: The German Imperlal Navy mutinied in October and by November 4, Kiel was in the hands of revolutionary sailors and dockworkers. Demonstra- tions such as this (left) took place on the quayside. Inset: Max Levien who helped to found of the the Munich branch Spartacus League. Eisner became lic and a provisional workers', soldiers' and peasants' coun- cil was set up. Immediately the provisional government and the workers' councils constituted the ele- ments of dual power, with Eisner seeking to balance between the two. While making 'left' speeches to the councils, his first act was to welcome into the far right government the Social Democrat Erhard Auer.

(Auer was later to send flow- ers and best wishes to Eisner's assassin.) Then Eisner handed over a majority of the cabinet places to the Social Democrats. They were given the key ministries justice, finance, military affairs and education. The Independents took only three places and gave the remaining one to a non-party man. This was matched by a re- treat on politics. Although re- distribution of the land had been prominent in every one Eisner's pre-revolution of speeches, once he in was power he took no steps to- wards it. He also explicitly ruled out the nationalization of industry. He gave way to the pressure of the right to replace the councils with a constitutional assembly. But the real left was also In December, a Munich the Spartacus League was set up, led by Max Levien, later to be founder of the Bavarian Com- munist Party. There were also calls for the formation of a Bavarian Red Army, but when a group its advocates burst into of Auer's house and forced him to resign from the government, Eisner hastened to his rescue and reinstated him. And when workers took over the right-wing Press, Eisner again intervened and supervised its return to its 'rightful' owners. He also rejected demands to action against the anti- take Semitic Thule Society and the élitist Royal Life Guards who remained under the command of the reactionary Colonel Ritter von Epp. produced When workers evidence of Auer's involve- ment in a plot to arm extreme right-wing forces, Eisner again saved him. Auer, spent Christmas of 1918 Turken barracks of the Life Guards, clinking glasses and drinking toasts with Colonel Ritter von Epp and one Count Arco von Valley. Arco von be Eisner's Valley was to assassin.

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Name.. Address.. Key workers at the Lan. cashire bus and truck factories of British-Ley- land begin a series of token stoppages this week over tough new company pay proposals. proposals are Leyland The Motors' reply to a claim from shop stewards for an increase of £2.49 across the board.

But workers say they are far more stringent than a pre- vious proposed agreement for a new pay structure. The belief is gaining ground that the re- treats of the Ford workers' and miners' leaders, among has toughened others, the company's stance. After lengthy negotiations new pay structure, during which Leyland attempted to undermine the piecework sys- tem at present existing in the five factories, the unions and the company recorded failure to agree. The stewards then submit- ted their £2.49 claim, which they said was within the Tory pay norm of fl plus 4 per cent. Failure agree was to again recorded, however, when the company's new proposals were brought forward. These called for a 12-month freeze on earnings levels, with no drop in effort and intensive work-study for a new agree- ment to be introduced in May next year. Leyland's obvious aim in these Measured-Day Work set-up, such as that existing in most of its big car factories.

But since a six-week strike in the summer of 1969 the 8,500 Leyland Motors workers have won some considerable in their improvements then relatively poor wages and con- ditions. And they are deter- mined not to give these up.

Leyland's proposals say that company is operating in the an increasingly competitive en- vironment and that in order investment the attract needed for future expansion 'a more stable industrial rela- tions situation needs to be introduced'. Writings of

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It is here that the proposal for an earnings freeze comes in. All 40-hour earnings levels, would be the company says, frozen at the personal average level over the previous weeks prior to implementation of any agreement. These levels would remain constant 'for all attendance hours worked for a period of 12 months'.

The proposal for no drop in effort would be strictly forced, the document makes clear. 'Employees', it says, 'will be required to continue giving a fair day's work at the same level of effort as applied be- fore the freeze and any drop in efficiency will be investi- gated so that appropriate action can be taken. Had this been agreed by the unions, workers would them- • committed have been selves to co-operating in such an investigation. Work-study activity to- wards the May 1974 agree- the document says, ment, would include use of synthe- tics, activity sampling, rating, method-study and other tech- niques familiar to workers themselves who have found out of a job through speed-up.

Following the failure to these proposals, agree on union officials made a peace • bid to break the move in a deaklock with the company.

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techni- No new management ques would be introduced during this period either.

This was totally rejected by the management. On Friday, May 18, a mass meeting overwhelmingly en- dorsed recommendation a from the joint shop stewards' committee to reject the man- agement proposals. Also endorsed was a re- of 'no commendation operation' with the firm, commencing from Wednesday, May 30. This will take the form of token stoppages in sections important to the day-to-day running of the company. Some work will also be blacked.

A levy of 25p will be placed on all union members in order to support those on strike.

Len Brindle, the factory's convenor, says that overtime will continue to be worked 'as a barometer of which sec- tion should be pulled out first'. The work's committee did not feel, he said, that all 8,500 workers were prepared undertake prolonged, all- to out stoppage. The danger of the form of action which has been adopted, however, is that man- agement may lock out strikers, working-rule suspend the agreement and allow workers to clock on only if they accept the company's terms. Even if this does not hap- long-drawn-out series pen, of skirmishes could sow con- in the factories and fusion for firm dissipate feeling stand against Leyland's attack on rights. The fight for an under- standing of the situation of real crisis which drives Ley- land forward against its Lanca- shire workers is now crucial.

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10.20 11:15 Carton. 1S.25 Blockheads. 12.15 Banana 10.50 Search. •Arrow Dust' Sterling Film: the Hayden Tully. Gray, Keith Larsen, Coleen Tom Wagon train meets 3ndia sotor racid randstand 12350 Motor racing. 50. 2.10, 2.10, 2.35, Racing Doncaster. 3.05, 4.10 Athletics. Inter-counties championships. 5.00 Tom and erry 5.10 amily. 5.30 News. 5.4' Ask the The Harlem Globetrotters. The clowr orinces of the basketball courts meet The New York Nationals.

6.20 DISNEY TIME.

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The story of Coronation Day — 20 ago this week. rears "To 8.00

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9.40 Neather 9.50 THE RED CARPET. The first visit by a western symphony orchestra to the People's Repub- lic of China. 11.10

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BERS. Conversation with Derek Hart. 12.00 Weather.

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CHANNEL: 1.35 London. 4.50 Film: 'Carlton Browne FO'. 5.45 the London. 5.57 News. 6.00 Film con- tinued. 6.45 London. 11.55 Weather.

SOUTHERN: 10.00 Thunderbirds. 10.55 4.45 Tarzan. London. 5.45 London. 6.00 Day by day. 6.45 London. 12.00 News. 12.05 Farming. 12.30 Weather.

Guideline.

AUSTRALIAN

postal unions plan a total blackout on commu- nication with France if the French announce that Pacific nuclear tests definitely will go ahead or if Australia's appeal to the World Court is unsuccessful.

This was the prospect after a fourth Australian Postal Union decided to join in the protest ban on communications with France.

BY A FOREIGN CORRI

TWENTY-THREE people, in- cluding seven girls—one of them months eight pregnant-were tortured by Spanish police after being arrested in connection with the killing of a young police officer earlier this month.

Friends of the detainees said some of the 23 were beaten with sticks and leather covered batons on the back and other parts of the body. A 50-year-old man was made to remain • undressed for three days and nights and inter- rogators pulled out the hair of another detainee. According to the friends, one BERMONDSEY: Tuesday May p.m. "Havelock Arms', Balaclava Street, off Southwark Park Road. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights.

CAMDEN:

Tuesday May 29, stov trayal against Stalinism'. PADDINGTON: Tuesday May 29, 8 p.m. 'Prince of Wales', Harrow Road, onr Gt Western Road. 'The economic crisis and the trade unions'. TOOTING: Tuesday May 29, 8 p.m. Tooting Baths, Tooting 'Stalinism and Broadway, SW17. the struggle to defend demo- cratic rights'. WANDSWORTH: Tuesday May con 29, 8 p.m. 'The Foresters', All Farthing Lane. 'All out for Belle FEL Vue conference'. SLOUGH: Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Farn- ham Road. 'The economic crisis and the rising cost of living'.

SOUTHALL: Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. Southall Library, Osterley • Road. 'Marxism Park and the trade unions'

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Weather. Cricket. THE BRITISH army in Ulster has justified the use of rubber bullets which only last week killed a 21-year-old Derry youth.

GN CORRESPONDENT

Four Belfast surgeons claim that the bullets are so danger- of those taken in for questioning ous they should be withdrawn.

May about the incident-in The army replied: wich a 20-year-old plain-clothes 'If people break the law, they was stabbed to death policeman must be dealt with by force and allegedly by left-wing group the minimum force is sometimes illegal demonstration staging an You dangerous. cannot shoot in central Madrid-suffered from candy floss balls at rioters.'

a heart ailment. But he was beaten throughout Doctors the bullets have say been responsible for three deaths his six-hour overnight interroga- bled from and for causing severe and tion and the mouth per- disabilities, and collapsed, they said. manent including Six young women were beaten blindness. about the body and sustained The of mystery spate bomb- severe bruises to the back, but- ings and shootings in Ulster con- Young tocks and legs. male de- tinued at the weeked. tainees were hit on the soles of At Dungannon, Co Tyrone, their feet and on the testicles.

shops and offices were damaged

CRAWLEY:

Monday June 4, Council p.m. for Social Services, 19 Station Road. 'The trade unions and the Tory government'.

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. 'Crooked Billet',

LEWISHAM:

Monday June 4, Road, Waltham- North Circular 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, 'Labour to power stow. pledged New Cross Road. The way for- to socialist policies'. ward-build the revolutionary party'.

WEMBLEY:

Wednesday May 30, Copland School, High p.m.

BATTERSEA:

Tuesday June 5, Road. 'Forward the

ATUA

to 8 p.m. 'Nag's Head', Wandsworth conference'. Road. 'Build the revolutionary party'. WOOLWICH: Wednesday May 30, 8 p.m. 'The Castle', Powis Street,

BRADFORD

(Engineers' meet- SÉ18. *Fight rising prices. Make Tuesday ing) : June 5, 8 p.m. the Tories resign'. Talbot Hotel, Kirkgate. 'Engin- eers. and fight

BASILDON:

Thursday the against the Tory government. Barnstaple Community Centre. 'The trade unions and the

BRIXTON:

Tuesday June 5, Tory government'. Control Room, p.m. Brixton

CROYDON:

Thursday May 31, Training Centre. 'Build the revo- Ruskin House, Coombe lutionary party'. p.m. 'Forward to the Road. Belle Vue conference'.

DAGENHAM:

Tuesday June 5, p.m. Barking Со-ор Hall,

FELTHAM:

May Thursday 31. Fanshawe Avenue. Build the 8 p.m. 'Three Horseshoes', High revolutionary party'. Street. 'The economic crisis and the rising cost of living'.

HEMPSTEAD:

Monday ACTON: Monday June 4, 8 p.m.

11 June (please note date 'Six Bells', High Street, W.3. change), 8 p.m. Adevfield Hall, 'Stalinism and the fight to defend Queen's Square. 'Build the revo- democratic rights' party'. lutionary Workers Press, M 6.40 London. 12.00 Ugliest girl in town. 9.30 Storyteller. Cricket. Merrie Melodies. 4.45 Film: "Clarence them continued. 45 on dons.

continuo Lecter. London. 12.00 Dragnet: 12.30 4.20 sperman 450 Bona 205.45 Bonanza. Superman. London. 6.30 Cartoons. loday. 5.45 London. 12.00 Late call.

after a 600lb car-bomb exploded.

Earlier several people were in- jured when a bomb damaged a bar. Patrons of a crowded Belfast café had a narrow escape after police removed a bomb wrapped in paper from the premises.

On Saturday night, three men, one armed with a sub-machine hurled a bomb into gun, Murphy's Bar, Great Patrick Street, Belfast. Minutes later, in the Catholic Unity Flats area of the city, a car-bomb exploded outside the Tavern Bar. The body of an unidentified man has been found outside Bel- fast at a beauty spot known as the Giant's Ring. And with gunshot a man wounds in his leg was found in the Newtonards Road, East Bel- fast on Saturday morning.

A four-year-old boy hit in the head during an exchange of fire between troops and gunmen has died. measures THE INDIAN government has invoked legislation normally ap- plied only in wartime to ban strikes on India's railway system for the next six months. The Defence of India Rules, giving the government virtually were applied after a 'go-slow' in northern railways paralysed India. The government claims that the railway workers are disrupt- ing movement of essential com- modities, including wheat for central hit by famine. areas However, behind the use of the wartime is mounting measures fear of the workers' opposition to conditions created by the eco- nomic crisis. Famine in the central areas is accompanied by industrial stag- nation, raging inflation and se- vere shortages of power. and edible oils, Foodstuffs water, petroleum products, cem- ent, steel and coal, are all in short supply. Queues outside gov- ernment ration shops lengthen daily. In the largest Indian state. than 40 Uttar Pradesh, more people were killed last week when the auxiliary police staged the most serious police mutiny since 1947. The mutineers made common cause with the students and re- fused a request of the Lucknow university authorities to super- vise examinations. 3 Press, Monday May 28, 1973 PAGE 11

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

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

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.

Conway Small Hall, Red Lion Square, Holborn (admission 10p) 01-720 2000 Registered as a newspaper at the by Workeri Post Office. Published Clapham High Street,

WHO IS THE THIRD MAN?

ASTMS blacking could close aero-engine plant As shelled trawler limps home to Grimsby Fishing giants in a last- British-Leyland's Allegro plans are held up PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday May 28, 1973 WHO IS the third Minister in the is rocking the Heath scandal which government? Yesterday's Tory Press was almost unanimous in hinting that a third name still has to come out of another Minister', anatheo coy to publish 1 the wash. The 'News of the World' said: 'We This is the same story reveal the story as Norma (Levy] told it in "The Times' last Thu to her belief that a third us number of other Minister was among her government Friday and Saturday. clients. Workers Press least one of the 'heavy" The 'Sunday People' said: Norma the call-girl at the centre of the had a Levy, story connectin Lambton sex scandal, has named another Minister with the scanda Minister in Mr Heath's publish, however, government as one of her clients. But although the advice'. front-page headline said: Norma names In the background, MEMBERS of the Associa- The is campaign against a Hereford firm, He Henry Wiggin ion of Scientific, Technical Nickel Alloys where 225 and Managerial Staffs wil ASTMS members have been on today start a blacking cam- strike for the last 14 weeks in paign which, their leaders defence of basic trade union rights. claim, could quickly A subsidiary of the US. down Rolls-Royce International inanced company engine production. Nickel, Wiggin's make parts for

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

THE BRITISH trawler 'Everton' limped homewards low in the water yesterday after being hit by six shells fired by an Icelandic gunboat.

A spokesman said the 884- with the support ship 'Miranda' ton trawler was making way and another seven were heading under her own steam- escorted frigate by the escorted by the ocean-going -HMS Cleopatra'. 'Statesman'-after Off the south-east coast there tug being 12 were trawlers with the fri- repaired by a team from the gate HMS "Plymouth', the sup.

navy frigate HMS 'Tupiter'.

port ship 'Othello' and the de- The incident, which is the fence tug 'Englishman'. most serious so far in the The Icelandic water represents the last chance of profit for the so-called cod war, took place firms who Britain's ageing when the 'Everton' sped away own fleet of side trawlers. from the gunboat 'Aegir'. In the next ten years this sec- After firing blanks and live tion of the trawling industry will ammunition over the Grimsby become redundant, resulting in trawler's bows. the gunboat widespread of unemployment opened up with non-exploding skippers and Already the men. shells. firms, like British United bigger Despite this the Royal Navy Trawlers. want to get skippers is still keeping a low profile in on contracts in preparation for the area and is particularly con- later sacking. cerned by the of the In the short term, however, Dresence Soviet fleet off Murmansk, which they want to grab as much they from the guards the Baltic approaches to money as can Russia. continental shelf around Iceland.

The shelling will, however, in- Hence the clamour to keep the British crease demands from trawler seas open to the owners and skippers for a more trawling industry. stance by the Navy. The of fight war-like owners, course, the A helicopter from the Jupiter the war from dockside had "contacted' the offices. the fired the But skippers eagerly enter the gunboat which and the frigate was keeping an fray because their livelihood and her movements. future big depends eye on as A Nimrod aircraft from RAF entirely on their catches.

Kinloss Scotland Two poor trips can mean that in swept over area on a surveillance flight a skipper loses command of his the and joins the ranks of the and took photogranhs. vessel Eight British unemployed or takes a job as trawlers were off Iceland's north coast fishing At present, BRITISH-LEYLAND'S plans they say, their wages of £45.50 a week are f1 to double production of their below those on the line. And latest model, the Allegro, at they threaten to fall even fur- Longbridge, Birmingham, this ther behind. They want the restoration of week have been upset by traditional differentials and have 2.000 craftsmen. formed a craft committee aimed securing separate negotiating The men-toolroom work- rights. ers and maintenance engineers Talks on Thursday between the falling -say their are wages and union leaders failed comproduce behind those of production acceptable solu- an workers under the Measured- banned tion the craftsmen and Day Work system accepted by during the spring holi- servicing union leaders last year. day vihich began on Friday night.

Whitehall and Fleet Street are gossiping about the man's identity.

Already, in fact, Heath's assurance to of Commons that other the House no Ministers are involved, is in tatters.

If the 'Sunday People' name surfaces in the next few days, the of Heath and his govern- publish his name. the position ment will me story which appeared be even more desperate. Nixon's last Thursday and in a His position will be akin to national dailies on trying to hold back the Watergate.

The papers have also strongly hinted been told that at about the identity of several other people which e 'heavy' Sunday in the call-girl dossier is with papers Cabinet Heath and Home Secretary Robert Carr connecting the —a TV personality, a leading member of he scandal. They did not because of 'legal the aristocracy whose estates are in the Midlands, a judge senior and several ground, the whole of policemen. Rolls, well for Lucas, want to tie it to a no-strike as as British-Leyland and many other agreement. Its rights, Wiggin's claim, in- big combines. Clive Jenkins, ASTMS general clude, 'but [are] not limited to, the right to determine by said that Rolls whom, secretary, are where and how, extremely worried by the black- when, work is "They told performed'. ing action. have us to be would close down their engine Manual unions are also moving plants within 48 hours,' he added.

towards a dispute on the same

ASTMS

Wiggin's says that issues. Trawlermen not the fading, mpety some es out els for ton nother This will help the profits-grab years. which can be used to set up factory' ship fleets. These need fewer men and skippers. misguided by their union and Meanwhile some workers, MPs, have been diverted from fighting for their jobs into making chau- vinist demands. dules not only for the Allegro.

BY DAVID MAUDE

but for the Mini. 1100. 1300 and 1800 models as well. talks, which Last Thursday's This means that the tooling-up than went for more seven of Allegro second hours, were between Hugh Scan- a assembly line, with which Leyland hoped lon, engineers' union president, 1.200 so 2400 productionk.

production from Transport and General Workers' will Moss Evans national organizer have to be put off until Thurs- and Pat Lowry, British Leyland's day when the holiday ends. industrial relations director. All three closely Leyland threatened thousands men were of lay-offs with the introduction among production associated of MDW into Ley- workers if the craftsmen refused factories in The Austin-Morris divi- work over the holidav. land's car to claimed any delay on sion. colDany proposals were said the new line would disrupt sche- New to

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AIAMNINJITIHI

AN IRISH MP claimed yes- terday that 70 tons of arms from the 'Claudia' had been landed and transhipped over- land to Ulster two days be- fore the navy intercepted the ship. There was speculation at the 'Claudia' time about why the was carrying a mere five tons of arms when she was boarded by the Irish navy. Cork deputy Mr Liam Aherne told a Dublin newspaper yester- day: "The guns and ammunition were landed and taken in a fleet of lorries to the north.'

He said the 70-ton cargo had been landed at the fishing resort of Ballycotton two days before the arrest of the 'Claudia'.

He added: 'They were Russian- made of the very latest and most and included a powerful type sizeable quantity of .38 machine guns hitherto unknown in this country! Republican Justice Minister Mr Des O'Malley said earlier he believed other arms had been smuggled into Ireland.

'RUBBER BULLETS TOO

DANGEROUS', p. Il. MORE LAY-OFFS may follow the spring holiday at Chrysler's Coventry car-body factory.

Management has refused a claim for payment for one hour when 600 men were unable to work because of component shortages. Last Friday, 1,000 workers were sent home when the 600 walked out. Meanwhile at Halesowen, Worcestershire, 500 workers at the Clancy components factory have started a strike in support of five men seeking a t2 rise because of a change in conditions. All production of valves and tappets for the motor industry has stopped. have been thrashed out in the talks, aimed at persuading the craftsmen to work the holiday.

But the 1,200 toolroom workers and 800 electricians and others in the central services depart- ment were apparently not im- pressed. Leyland faces further MDW trouble when the three-year agreement at its Cofton Hackett engineer plant, Birmingham, ends shortly. Workers there were the first production section to accept a flat-rate pay system and are already campaigning for higher pay rates.