Workers Press no. 1085

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ALEX MITCHELL

PREMIER Heath h elevated himself to jud Lambton - Jellic affair. He has acquitted the 'third man' from any suspicion by virtue of a teiephone call he had with the mysterious Cabinet Minister early on Monday morning. On the basis of this conver- sation, Heath has over-ridden the proposed investigations of Lord Diplock's Security Com- mission and declared the Minister innocent. Heath is acting like a desper- ate man. Having invited Diplock to investigate all the security aspects of the affair only last Thursday, he has now been forced to make a second state- ment clearing the third man.

In clearing the yet unnamed Minister before Diplock has a chance to meet, Heath has placed a question mark over the role of Security Commission and judicial procedure. It was the commission's job as outlined by Heath and agreed by parliament-to look into all security aspects of the affair and 'to verify that there has been no breach security as a result of the incidents. Wilson accepted this formula; so did the Parliamentary Labour Party. If Heath intended being judge and jury in the first place, why did he appoint Diplock?

GLARING FLAWS

Heath's hurried statement is- sued from 10 Downing Street on Monday night (while he was in Bavaria) exposes a number of glaring flaws. indicate some These deep divisions in the Tory government over the Lambton-Jellicoe affair and suggest that Heath is the odd man out. Consider the following state- ments which all come from Heath: • On April 9 MIS reported to Home Secretary Robert Carr that was involved with a Minister prostitutes. • On April 13 Heath learned the Minister was Lambton.

• 'In the first few days of May • a number of other people said to be involved with pro- stitues were named. These in- honourable cluded my right Friend Lord Jellicoe.'

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• On Thursday, May 24, Heath 'At each told the Commons: stage we have instructed the Security Service to examine the security implications, and at each stage they have been able to assure us that there are no indications of danger to national security!' • In the same speech to MPs said: 'On the information he available to me-and I have been kept fully informed-l can tell the House that there are no grounds for supposing that any other Minister or any member of the public service is involved.'

• On Monday, May 28, Heath's second statement concerned the 'third man' named by Mrs Norma Levy and mentioned in the 'Sunday People'. There was no reference to this name in the information available to the Prime Minister when he made his statement in the House of May 24" Commons on The *are categorically allegations named. denied by the Minister This further material therefore does not alter the position as stated by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on May 24: This catalogue of so-called 'facts' raises a number of crucial questions. ®

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'People's' allegations and acquitted the WHY is Heath behaving in such erratic and contradictory an fashion? He told MPs last Thursday no involved. After one else was Sunday articles on newspaper the third man' , he issued a new statement saying that a further had surfaced - one he name didn't know about. This statement by Heath is particularly intriguing because 'Times' Thursday's (May last 24, 1973) carried a front-page headline stating: 'Call-girl dossier names two other Ministers'.

One of these, as Heath admits in his statement, was Jellicoe. But who is the other? Heath maintains that the name given to him by the 'People' is somebody he's never heard of in connection with this scandal.

This may be so. But if it is, the scandal is bigger than ever. It means there is not one third man' but two! One is the second Minister named with Jellicoe in the police dossier and the other is the name given to Heath by the 'People. Heath emphasizes in his Mon- day statement that the 'People' name was quite new to him. This is very interesting. In its edition last Sunday, the 4р AY 30, 1973 No 1085

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'People' said their dossier was *now being placed before Scot- land Yard officers investigating call girl rings in London.

In other words, the very earliest that Heath could have received the 'People' file was on Sunday night at Chequers when Carr and Sir Peter Rawlinson, the Attorney-General, came to meet him. We are told that Heath then phoned the named Minister on Monday morning and received a 'categoric denial' that he was in- volved. Heath fully accepted the Minister's denial and closed the book on the 'third man' he thinks that's what he's done!

Why should he so readily accept the Minister's word with- out even a face-to-face meeting?

How could the police or the 'Security Service' have had time to give any advice on the subject if the 'People' file only reached the Yard on Sunday?

INDECENT HASTE

This indecent haste to acquit the third man is in direct con- trast to the seemingly painstak- ing investigation which pre- the ceded resignations of Lambton and Jellicoe. Lambton went after six weeks no of inquiries and Jellicoe after about three. But Heath, Carr, Scotland Yard and a phone con- versation acquitted the third man in less than 24 hours.

Has Heath any right to accept assurance when this off-the-cuff Diplock has still to commence his investigation? The most likely explanation of Heath's muddling over this scan- dal is that he has no control what's going to happen over next. His statements are starting to assume the pattern of Nixon's as the seeping Watergate turned into a veritable torrent over his administration. There is not a politician.

newspaper, a Whitehall Tory mandarin nor a bishop — who doesn't know that there is a third Minister, and possibly a fourth. The carve-up which Wilson joined last Thursday is rapidly becoming a cover-up. What's driving this political crisis forward is that Heath him- self has become a prisoner of events. £100,000

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The battle is now well truly joined. Yester- and day's post brought a mag- nificent £2,644.61 bringing the total to £33,603.31. Tottenham £5.04; Dagen- ham YS £4.57; Jarrow £5; Outer Lon- Paddington £5; don £935; Wandsworth £184; Clapham £94; Clap- LP Croydon ham E100; £221; Watford £231; Hollo- Harrow £100; way £106; Acton £138; South East £48; Dagenham £123; West Lon- don SL £100; North Kent £130; Newcastle £15. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High St. London SW4 7UG Lambton drugs case set for June 13

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Lord Lambton alleging illegal possession of cannabis and amonelamines at nis norin-west London are home due heard on June 13 at Marylebone Court. Lord Lambton (50) faced Une Cours inename Antony Claude Frederick Lambton. He is accused of unauthorized of 5.84 DOSSeSSIOn grammes cannabis resin and 1.16 grammes cannabis, to the contrary Drugs Act. on Ma Dancerous Hamilton Terrace, St In Johns Wood. The third summons alleges un- authorized possession of eight tablets and one part of a tablet or ampnetamme ana baromurare.

one tablet amphetamine sulphate and two tablets amphetamine phenacelin and aspirin. Contrary to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1964.

The summonses were issued Wednesday on information ast provided by chief superintendent Albert Wickstead

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OVER-RIDES

ALEX MITCHELL

PREMIER Heath h Lambton - Jellic ing He has acquitted the 'third man' from any suspicion by virtue of a telephone call he had with the mysterious Cabinet Minister early on Monday morning. On the basis of this conver- sation, Heath has over-ridden the proposed investigations of Lord Diplock's Security Com- and declared the mission Minister innocent. Heath is acting like a desper- ate man. Having invited Diplock to investigate all the security aspects of the affair only last Thursday, he has been noW forced to make a second state- ment clearing the third man.

In clearing the yet unnamec Minister before Diplock. has a chance to meet, Heath has placed a question mark over the role of Security Commission and the judicial procedure. It was the commission's job— as outlined by Heath and agreed by parliament—to look into all security aspects of the affair and 'to verify that there has been no breach of security as a result of the incidents'. Wilson accepted this formula; so did the Parliamentary Labour Party. If Heath intended being judge and jury in the first place, why did he appoint Diplock?

GLARING FLAWS

Heath's hurried statement is- sued from 10 Downing Street on Monday night (while he was in Bavaria) exposes a number of glaring flaws. These indicate some deep divisions in the Tory government over the Lambton-Jellicoe affair and suggest that Heath is the odd man out. Consider the following state- ments which all come from Heath: • On April 9 MI5 reported to Home Secretary Robert Carr that a Minister was involved with prostitutes. On April 13 Heath learned the Minister was Lambton.

• 'In the first few days of May •.. a number of other people said to be involved with pro- stitues were named. These in- honourable cluded right my Friend Lord Jellicoe'

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On Thursday, May 24, Heath 'At each told the Commons: we have instructed the stage Security Service to examine the implications, and security at each stage they have been able us that there are no to assure indications of danger to national security.' • In the same speech to MPs he said: 'On the information available to me-and I have been kept fully informed-I can tell the House that there are no grounds for supposing that any other Minister or any member of the public service is involved.'

• On Monday, May 28, Heath's second statement concerned the 'third man' named by Mrs mentioned in Norma Levy and the 'Sunday People'. 'There was no reference to this name in the information available to the Prime Minister when he made his statement in the House of Commons on May 24" The categorically 'are allegations denied by the Minister named.

material therefore This further does not alter the position as stated by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on May 24. This catalogue of so-called 'facts' raises a number of crucial questions.

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'People's' allegations and acquitted the WHY is Heath behaving in such erratic and contradictory an fashion? He told MPs last Thursday no was involved. After one else Sunday articles on newspaper ', he issued a new the 'third man' saying that a further statement had surfaced — one he name didn't know about. This statement by Heath is particularly intriguing because 'Times' (May last Thursday's a front-page 24, 1973) carried headline stating: 'Call-girl dossier names two other Ministers'.

One of these, as Heath admits in his statement, was Jellicoe. But who is the other? Heath maintains that the name given to him by the 'People' is somebody he's never heard of in connection with this scandal.

This may be so. But if it is, the scandal is bigger than ever. It means there is not one 'third man' but two! One is the second Minister named with Jellicoe in the police dossier and the other is the name given to Heath by the 'People'. Heath emphasizes in his Mon- day statement that the 'People' name was quite new to him. This is very interesting. In its edition last Sunday, the AY 30, 1973 No 1085 • 4p

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•People' said their dossier was 'now being placed before Scot- land Yard officers investigating call girl rings in London'.

other words, the very. could have earliest that Heath received the 'People' file was on Sunday night at Chequers when Carr and Sir Peter Rawlinson, the Attorney-General, came to meet him. We are told that Heath then phoned the named Minister on Monday morning and received a 'categoric denial' that he was in- volved. Heath fully accepted the Minister's denial and closed the book on the 'third man' •.. or he thinks that's what he's done!

Why should he so readily accept the Minister's word with- out even a face-to-face meeting?

How could the police or the 'Security Service' have had time to give any advice on the subject if the 'People' file only reached the Yard on Sunday?

INDECENT HASTE

This indecent haste to acquit the third man is in direct con- trast to the seemingly painstak- which ing investigation pre- the resignations of ceded Lambton and Jellicoe. Lambton went after six weeks of inquiries and Jellicoe after Carr, about three. But Heath, Scotland Yard and a phone con- the third acquitted versation man in less than 24 hours.

Has Heath any right to accept assurance when this off-the-cuff Diplock has still to commence his investigation? The most likely explanation of Heath's muddling over this scan- dal is that he has no control what's going to happen over next. His statements are starting to assume the pattern of Nixon's as the seeping Watergate turned into a veritable torrent over his administration. There is not a politician, a Tory Whitehall newspaper, a mandarin nor bishop — who a doesn't know that there is a third Minister, and possibly a fourth. The carve-up which Wilson joined last Thursday is rapidly becoming a cover-up. What's driving this political crisis forward is that Heath him- self has become a prisoner of events. BECAUSE our Fund began on April 3 we have had a number of requests to ex- tend the closing date from May 31 to June 3 for the first £50,000. This is agreed because the original intention was to try and reach £50,000 over two calendar months.

The battle is now well and truly joined. Yester- day's post brought a mag- nificent £2,644.61 bringing the total to £33,603.31. Tottenham £5.04; Dagen- ham YS £4.57; Jarrow £5; Paddington £5; Outer Lon- Wandsworth don £935; £184; Clapham £94; Clap- ham LP £100; Croydon £221; Watford £231; Holio- way £106; Harrow £100; Acton £138; South East £48; Dagenham £123; West Lon- don SL £100; North Kent £130; Newcastle £15. Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High St. London SW4 7UG THREE SUMMONSES against Lord Lambton alleging illegal possession of cannabis and amphetamines at his north-west London home are due to be heard on June 13 at Marylebone Court. Lord Lambton (50) faced courts in the the of name Antony Claude Frederick Lambton. He is accused of unauthorized possession of 5.84 grammes of cannabis resin and 1.16 grammes of cannabis, contrary to the Dangerous Drugs Act, on May in Hamilton Terrace, St Johns Wood. The third summons alleges un- authorized possession of eight tablets and one part of a tablet of amphetamine and barbiturate; tablet of amphetamine one sulphate and two tablets of amphetamine phenacelin and aspirin, the Drugs contrary to (Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1964.

The summonses were issued on information last Wednesday provided by chief superintendent Albert Wickstead.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday May 30, 1973 Committee of Twenty almost defunct The committee, composer 'Floating' THE COMMITTEE of of are finding that far currencies now a matter of urgency'. 'his indi- are from clearing the air and bring- cates that the committee evresentatives aroma The Wilch Twenty, which spent all last main capitalist Industrial coun capitalist countries are conduct- been reduced to little more than tries, is the successor warfare week in Washington dis- to the economic an impotent talking-shop.

clarihes the irreconcilable differences between them.

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unensewer cussing reform of the monet- questions used megually same competitive devaluation to drive The abolition of con- collar questions perceit sky-rocketing ary system, has failed equally They have in fact been over- own of in. result. their oppo- gold, the growth taken by iple that the all arres produce any concrete pro- ments goods too costly to sell in the Far from bringing agreement system foating Drine me ThAT should the committee's de- based on fixed theirs. rency make it impossible for the posals to put before the liberations have confirmed the adjustable The Financial Times' capitalists the clock parities, but prac com- turn International Monetary Fund pre-1971. The objective connoiete uce columnes involveri baCK sensus basic are "floating' and they detect any sense on the part crisis world economy when it meets in Nairobi in even on the most In The monetary from fixed parities nOW the negotiating governments that makes resuscitation of the Bret- the autumn. ton Woods agreement impossible.

Chairman Jeremy Morse and his than at any time in the past.

Lon Nol President should come before Grand Jury should Put Nixon be hung- Sihanouk on the stand OVERTURES from Marshal Lon Nol, puppet ruler the of part of Cambodia, were rejected out of hand yester- day by spokesmen for Prince Norodom Sihanouk who is fighting to overthrow the US

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backed regime. Nol agreed Monday LOn

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Federal in for the first time negotiate with Sihanouk's directly the Watergate case have told the Press they ment which controls most of the think there is justification for calling Presi- country. dent Nixon to testify to the Grand Jury But Sihanouk's in spokesman Peking said his which will eventually bring charges against yesterday that government had no members of the White House staff and others negotiating with traitors.

Instead they press their offensive inside Cambodia. alicady presented to unes cranean Prince Sihanouk, Rabat on tour of several African states, declared: 'Lon clemency Nol is a anes traitor, we He accepts Cale wite him. negotiate with I me now because Shall be patient until we, rumph beaten, practically Doss De to duu per He added: 'We have a right to shoot him necessary' becaust

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tel ana corrupt and deserves the gallows.' He said the Royal Government Union of National secrelary, refused the label ducepi covernment because its partisans con- statement said it was trolled 90 of the coun- had seven try, ministers, its own diplomacy, a power- efficient and well-equipped of men inside the army asking Mr Cox to investigate the Captain Pappas (seated foreground) and his Greek mutineers.

nese COULLLy He said his Royal Government Concentration camp threat to was recognized by 39 Ill Lon Nol's government is main tained Nixon's B52 tean or acomes mar evidence somes or entirely by THE 31 mutineers from the even renacon sailors sailors of the Greek ship is forced to recognize. But the Velos' Greek destroyer "Velos" do not want any Soviet bureaucracy continues to have been threatened with assistance from the treat the there as it it Italian police! sections upon were simply a civil war. tration camp by the Italian The foreign Massive China has accused Moscow of government. ministry cancelled a Press do not sup- co-operating with *Phnom Italy conceded the Greek 1o be by held port them. and Penh clique' with Washing- The Greek Captain Pappas cal asylum, but Is afraid of threatened with contempt behind onicers are convincea that offending Greek resisted, declaring officers for the interests of the Cam- are being their telephones through bodian people. smokescreen Sed • endael tapped. the mutineers move 'Pravda' televate recently commented: The Italian government freely and give Press "The decision send con- *Following is clearly in an Vietnam ferences. political refugees agreements on and sing and potentially dan- Captain Pappas these gestures. because Laos the turn of developments gerous situation. has exposed the weakness con- Indo-China the • to the military dictatorship and to the Geneva They do not want • peace ana ponucal settlement offend the In Greece. He sald that al Greek now brings up particularly hallollal rcalcuallels. convention. govern commanders naval ment, but they are afraid sharply the of that now stands between question warships opposed to they of the feeling in the Italian amp bodia. The fire of the fratricidal the government. ascist ol democratic, class continues to blaze in that

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War The same, history has colonels' dictatorial country. corruot. Dest ranking officers shows taught us. The • officers and regime. The Soviet has government consistently refused to recognize Stalinists' government: not protest will not shift Andreotti Tre only does Moscow still accredit its ambassador the Phnom Penh. vernel n •Ul economic aid and PREMIER Giulio Andreotti's and is involved in a court provides case Paring in to the foclaist Pamy unity in parliament against the even of the arms over this allegation in Palermo. linking Socialist fascists, which resulted in centre-right coalition is tot- ships running the Mekong River But the real source of Andre- fascist leader tering after losing a vote on

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with US air support. otti's weakness is his inability Giorgio Almirante to on trial. whether to postpone a debate New China News Agency com- solve the struggle guarantee Minister of Posts, ments that far from being on the democracy said Pajetta, "today, lacing ine Ilallan ruling class.

"fratricidal' what is taking Gioia, until after the of reforms'. echoing The floating of the has when the fascist conspiracy seems place in Cambodia is 'a life-and- Christian Democratic Party's huge devaluation and nore ano more dearly inked to force death nattle between The massive rises in the cost of liv- foreign countries, means assur- conference. of national salvation and that of ing. DrOLESLINE dealist ing the independence our national betrayal' The Republican Party, Andre- The Communist Party has country The Chinese Stalinists natur- otti's coalition partners, have 'We need policies which ren- Issacu salemen uncl Italian called the for resignation raise sewestion existence of the der Italians capable dispos- to continue the Christiar order to conceal their own Lne Giola because of government would go against the ing of the life and fate of their as Dule OVeL and deals with imperial- ¡The crimes elementary a ban on cable television.

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pIu- Gioia has also been accused of correct denocrate benaviour With this nationalist phrase- vides Soviet bureaucracy evidence _or now responsibility' It would all the 'moral Com- Soviet really 101 aralavale mongering, Tine murder the munist Party pretends to fight ChrisTian DemO. problems, are cite views the struggle of the Indo- cratic Party official by the Mafia workers and the The against the the fascist threat. cutese beovies.

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Africa House, London. unionist is now wait- ing: anxiously for the -car fac- *°His outcome of a South son, (23), African show trial in We're concerned among But Tone which six men face death. Mondav: wee about about John. But The six, two white and John. four black, are on trial Tor oi all the in Pretoria on charges under the notorious the charges frame-up. we must campaign Terrorism Act, which gives the South African had to police sweeping power of be three times arrest, interrogation and before for the release secret detention. If convicted, the light- from trolled South Press est sentence they can the of expect five horrific of all the evidence of incarceration ycals against him is a forced Vorster's jails. the But racialist could de-

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from solitary Among those watebing the October 1a00 courtroom and General leading his back, that Transport Wor- he kicked and was had hair KeIS SnOt steward alli Coventry, John Hosey

MRS KATHLEEN HOSEY

TrOM senior, joint convenor of the Lofthouse disaster inquiry opens today THE PUBLIC inquiry into the the force of the National Coal Board officials mountings by Lofthouse colliery disaster inrush. admitted the new face planned in conjunction with old, opens in Wakefield, Yorkshire, The miners were working on unreliable plans. unreadable today. iney admitted that no real enort seam, S9B, driven close to y, March 21, hours of. Wednes. been made to find waterlogged 19th work- century day, March seven men died shafts. when flood water swept into the enormous build-up was the the old pit. Theorind deports sident tee of water in shatts That Roland burst S9B Wednes- Coal moving equipment and day morning. Only one body was time: 'The face was in a critical panels Over ct were ripped from their condition. recovered. Figures expose Tories' appalling housing record THE GOVERNMENT is accused today of bringing about the 'lowest output of houses for a decade, despite

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the Tory election manifesto promise of 'a vigorous new housing drive'. n the UK was 307,714 in 1963 383,192 in 1964, and 330,751 in The charge is made in the Labour Starts in the public sector dropped 12 June of Re- "Labour The article notes that the cost Pietle more than half the and search', which contains an cent last year. were Şussex was in 1967 €7,500 housing investigation of the govern- compared with figure. £1,700 in 1967-1968. ment's housing record Figures for 'Labour Research' pub- Gloucestershire €5,408, The article says the number lished the trade Hampshire £5,000, and Wiltshire by union re- of houses started in 1972 was Labour the oralization. t4.o1o 100,000 nearly Research Department says goes on: "The median Bess unal for 1967, the best figure under a the output of houses residential average prices per acre are. astonishing; lallu €121,000 in Ulster right backsniping condon ncrease of 74 per cent in a year £53,040 and Hampshire an in- crease ok y increases in Norfolk cent. 335 were ULSTER'S right wing continues cannot be described as basis £19,710; in North- per cent for a return to peace, order and nacksnipe nexT

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elections a Northern Ireland 288 per cent: and Lin- good government William accuses Faulkner of coln 228 per cent. Assembly draws the The number slums demo- down Craig's Vanguard Unionist Pro• lished closed last year was gressive Party has described the salone execut ve will alili- Ulster Unionists' manifesto as partitionists and, six The 1t Mr wniteaw ved. the chairmanship number of people moved out of 'dull". under slums 37.000 than Vanguard- was statement from 1969 Unionists' 1967 and 25,000 less than which is due to publish its own vanguara says the last full year of the Labour blueprint early next week- manifesto "riddled with government. the Unionist document ambiguities'. calms Workers Press, Wednaaday Mary 30, 1973 PAGE 3 trade unionist. He is mar- ried child. with one

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Alex Moumbaris (34), is a naturalized Australian who spent many years in Britain It was under this torture a keen member of and was that the sole justification of

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He is a com- the charges against him was puter operator, married and extracted. since his arrest his wife has But as Mrs Hosey pointed birth to their child given out, while taking part with whom he has not yet seen.

her daughter and three Petrus Mthembu (37), sons in a 24-four youngest up in Natal with his grew fast and vigil outside South and parents two younger Africa House, John's case Forced to cut short sisters. to highlight merely serves his studies, he worked in the widespread of use a number of firms and fac- torture political against tories South prisoners in Africa. Sejaka Sandi (30), All of was the Pretoria Six' born in the Transkei, where have been treated with he spent his youth. A keen similar brutality, for the student, he was forced 'crime' alleged of opposing his studies as a apartheid. Besides John give up result of lack of money. Hosey, they are: Backing for the campaign Ranka Cholo (45). who was 'Pretoria Six' to release the born in Pietersburg, the son has in from come many of a blacksmith. He left sections of the trade union school early and went to with movement, starting he Johannesburg where senior's trade John Hosey a domestic ser- worked as union branch in Coventry.

vant and in a shop. An aroused The has active trade unionist, he is case married with one child. particular interest inside Justus Mpanza (34), helped the British-Levland combine, Standard- which on his father's small sugar owns recently Triumph and lantation while at school was sub- exposed paying Te then worked in a sugar as black refinery became, like starvation wages to and workers in South Africa. John and Ranka, an active

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PAGE & Workars Prose, Wadnoaday Ml of it all made me question the Helen Willis (33), is a London secretary and mother of three: communism and so was my husband, although he became disillusioned with the Com- munist Party. After the Czechoslovak uprising I be- came disillusioned as well.

I've always been very aware of the injustice in the world.

I think that's what really led me towards socialism. I could see that there were people starving in India while they are tipping milk into the sea and burning up fields of wheat and black people in South Africa are herded into while corrugated iron huts white South Africans are living in the most beautiful places.

The injustice of it all made me question the whole system.

I've always felt it's not fair, it's not just, it's not right that some people should live like that and some people should have nothing. I've never taken an active part in politics. I thought they were very open to corruption.

I never really believed in the politicians. I've never had any faith in any of them. I've always had socialist views, but I've never found fulfilling way of really any them. Then I started reading Workers Press and what they were sayıng in there was what I believed in. It was a real eye-opener to me. I could really identify with it. The views there were some- thing I could follow. When I first started reading it, my mind was • almost a blank. I thought: 'Well I can't believe it's all happening.' I couldn't believe things were really as bad as that. I've always questioned things in the capitalist Press and on seemed the television. It all very contrived, as if they weren't telling the full story. It's always very distorted. But I started reading Wor- when Press, I thought: 'Well kers truth. It was a this is the really world-shattering thing for ine. I suddenly became very aware of the class struggle.

came up against this very middle-class woman who said 'You're only working to me class and you've got an appall- ing acent and your children are awful'. I suddenly realized what a parasite this woman was. She'd got her bridge parties and her golf and I went into Roehampton Club and saw the sort of lives people like her were living and I was suddenly conscious. A few yards away working-class people were living in those awful flats at some of them Roehampton, hand to mouth. I've always worked as a secretary and you don't really aday May 30, 1072 1954 Soviet tanks occupy Prague in 1968. ' against the class come up struggle. It's not like working in a factory. I've never had a lot of money, not with three young children. But prices are getting worse all the time. They go up practically every time you go into the shops. I took the Workers Press over a period on an occasional basis, but then I thought: I can't afford to miss out on a day now. I read what they were saying and I could feel the crisis building up. I started going to a few meetings including one at Woolwich where I heard Gerry Healy speak. He really made me feel building socialism was possible. He explained that we were in a revolutionary situation and I think history shows that.

The only way out is to take the power by building this party. There's no other way Helen Willis. n 1968. 'I was aluays Interested in communis out for mankind. survival of The whole humanity is at stake, I would say. I can see that the capitalists are really, really worried. They are getting desperate. I'm sure see the economic crisis they even more clearly than we do.

They just can't make any more profit and their money has no value. Their only way out is coming down on the working class. The working class are being made to suffer already in all sorts of ways — economically and by the taking away of democratic rights through' the legislation the Tories have brought in. we fight, the work- Unless ing class won't be able to move a muscle. They'll just have to sit back and take what the Tories hand out. I'm sure people are not prepared to put with all these repressions.

up I think the Pageant at the Empire Pool, Wembley, proved how the working class will rise up and unite and fight.

We've done it before and I'm sure we'll do it again. I think the Tories are desperate men and that they'll The fact go to any lengths. that they've done it in Ireland means that they'll have no compunction about doing it over here. I'm sure this bloke Kitson is in cohorts with Heath and that Heath is very worried. He's said that the 1970s are going to be a time of civil war.

I don't think Heath is the fool people try and make him out.

I'm sure he's a very clever communism... (but) after the Czechoslovak u man, very aware of what's going to be necessary. He really will need the police and the army and everything ne can lay his hands on in order to keep down the working class. The legislation the Tories have brought in is to hold down workers and gradually decrease the standard of living.

People are beginning to feel this and some are being hit very hard. The TUC and Labour Party leaders are not doing anything at all. They're just grovelling Tories. They've before the absolutely sold out. I don't think the rank and file of the working class have got any faith in them at all. This is why some of them are going through a period it's impos- where they think sible to do anything. They know these leaders are not going to fight for them. They see it happening all the time.

This is why 1 think it's up to all of us in the League to get the Workers Press to as many people as they possibly can. It's a very, very power- fully written paper. There's dennitely a growing change in the consciousness of people. I've seen it in the last few weeks. People aren't just saying: 'You're extremists.'

They're realizing that what the League says is true. Workers are confused at the moment, but there is definitely much more interest shown in politics and in the League. I think consciousness is chang- ing now. This is going to make it slovak uprising I became disillusioned.'

easier for us to build the Party and I think this is imperative, especially with the American situation (Watergate) which I'm sure is going to have gigantic repercussions.

The whole of Europe and Japan—we're all going to be hit in time. I'm sure it's no corruption accident that the has been exposed just at this present time. The people on the Central Committee of the League have seen the situation and fore- seen the outcome of this crisis and I think their policies have been proved right time and time again. The policies of the revolu- tionary party are the ones that I deeply believe in and I'm going to fight for. wouldn't join the Com- munist Party because they are counter - revolutionary. They are not going to fight for a working-class revolution England. It's not in the in- terests of the Soviet Union to do so. - When I first read the docu- ments, I questioned why we should vote a Labour government, but that has be- clear to me now. I come thought: 'Well, what is the use, because they are certainly not going to do anything for the working class. But I can see that the Labour Party was formed by the trade unions and it would just spl.t the vote if we stand ourselves.

We do need to put in the Labour Party, to expose them more than anything else. They all talk very left and they all sound very good, but what are

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We bour be- the ainly for bour rade spl.t Ives. the them They Vall t are they actually going to do?

They're not going to do any- thing within the system we've got because reformism is at an end. It's all a thing of the past. Once they're voted in, we shall be able to prove they are not going to do anything. But we must build the alternative leadership. We must have something to take the place of these people. The League is a very dis- ciplined party and I think the conflict that goes on within the League really helps you to develop. We've all got overhangs in our thinking and it comes out.

You can't suddenly become a Marxist. It doesn't happen like that. It's a tremendous struggle within yourself. struggle until It takes a Marxism really becomes you- the way you think-and you can recognize what is bour- geois ideology. We've been fed with bourgeois ideology for so many years we think like that.

You can't really recognize it within yourself. You need other people there to point it out to you. I think it's very difficult to become a Marxist because you have to dispense with yourself as an individual. You've always been brought up to think and as an individual act and a struggle to break I understand dialectical thinking, but it's very hard to apply it to life. It's very important. It's the whole basis understanding the class for struggle. If you don't understand dialectical materialism, then you don't understand the forces that have brought you to this stage. It's very important at this time that we build the party.

The whole capitalist system. is in decline; the money system is in chaos; there are going to be crashes. If we don't, the working class is going to wiped out as far as I can see.

It's important for the whole international movement to build the party now. members of the I think League have got to be terribly conscious of the struggle all the time. They've got to be conscious of what they are doing. They canvassing are not just or selling a paper. They've got to really think about it all the time. You can't shut off from it. You've got to work with terrific awareness and appre- ciate the crisis. It's no good going knocking on doors on a wet Sunday and feeling how depressing it all You've got to really feel is. you're going to meet someone and that you're to be going able to change their conscious- ness. think the League is tremendously democratic. At meetings it's always open to anybody to get up. At most meetings, political unless you've actually written in three weeks before you can't say a word I love the feeling of being comrades. Friendship SO intangible but comradeship is something that really binds the working-class world-wide.

feel that if I met a Trotskyist the world from across would immediately have communication with him.

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'The TUC leaders leave everyone isolat happened? They were out for a few we 'The TUC leaders leave everyone isolated Peter Ainge is a Rolls-Royce worker from Mountsorrel near Leicester and National Union of Sheet Metal Workers' mem- ber: work at Rolls-Royce, Mountsorrel. As at the we're working Derby works, on the RB2l1, for how long I would not hazard a guess. The management have talked our shop steward into accept- ing off-loading of work, al- though the particular men in- volved were not in agreement.

An article appeared in a that the Derby newspaper engine division, which includes Mountsorrel, was being Bristol. shipped down to Although the article was de- nied by Rolls-Royce, some of the things in it have been hap- pening, such as the off-loading of work, so I cannot help wondering if there some truth in the article.

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isolated. Take the hosnital happened? They were out for a few weeks, got no support and were defeated!'

The stewards have just ac- cepted a £1.90 pay rise. Well it's just an insult. A lot of the men seem resigned to rise. accepting any Take the last rise manage- ment offered of £2.00. Quite a substantial said it minority acceptable but the was fought on, and at the end we got £3.00. You see men round here have never known unemploy- ment. But when the unemploy- ment does come it will.shake hem up a bit, having to accept a job at £25 a week. They'll start thinking then. He My Dad's an example. 62 old. He yeals Well through all the stuff. Now he respiratory cripple, he can't work again. All his life he worked at the same firm, right from his him youth. seen go to I ve work even when he was hall lead. He served six years in the army. What did the firm give him all that? £50. after And he gets £ll a week off the social security. NOW he realizes.

question of leadership It's a really. Take May 1. A couple Workers Press, Wedne What better cause to get everyone out in ere defeated.' of men at Rolls went in on May 1, so when we got back on Wednesday we were all supposed to be stopping off work for an hour. There was no communica- tion between the different sec- tions, and some were working.

We sent for the head steward and asked him what the posi- tion was. He said that it was "up to the individual'. I ask you what kind of a lead is that? That's a man who 200 sheet represents metal workers and 100 welders. Of course it's exactly the same with the TUC. They said it was 'up to the individual' as well, and tried to turn May Day into a wash out. A lot of people didn't come out on May 1 because they thought a one-day strike was pointless.

just These TUC leaders are throwing everything away.

People in the past actually organize unions, died to our basic rights are being taken away today without a fight. The TUC leaders leave everyone isolated. Take the hospital workers. What better cause to get everyone out in solidarity with them. But what 58, Wednesday May 30, 1973

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one out in solidarity with them. But what happened? They were out for a few weeks, got no support and were defeated. I think a revolutionary party is a great idea. It's about the right time, the way people are thinking now. My wite is real- izing that something has got to change. Two years ago I was earning £24 a week, and then I was redundant for six weeks but I could afford to run a car. Now I earn £12 a week more, with the possibility of overtime on top, but running a car is out of the question. My standard of living has not risen in two years. Yes, I think a revolutionary party should be built. The policy is right. Most people would • agree with the charter of basic rights. But the trouble is that these points have been made before and nothing came of them. Wilson said he would build socialism, for example, but he didn't. You can say all these things can't you, but it's got to be proved. It will have to be the kind of that party people believe in if it's going to get anywhere.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Wednesday May 30, 1973

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

Lord Anthony Lambton growth was prefaced by Lord one of the Monday Salisbury, is a millionaire, right Club's earliest recruits.

winger and life-long far as key sections of As the aristocracy were concerned, anti-communist. Never had Macmillan given away a member of the Monday Africa and with his application Club he was, however, Common Market to join the the of was ringing death knell that among group for the Empire. Tories who became dis- Lambton was a hawk over Suez. He believed affected with Harold Britain was right to try to cut Nasser down Macmillan after his size by sending in the to 'winds-of-change' speech.

military. 'A Plea for Africa', a pamph- In 1956 he went with Selwyn let Lambton Lloyd to help present Britain's wrote in 1960 outlining a new deal for Africa United Nations. 'case' to the which would both bind it to The strength of his feelings imperialism and provide for over what came to be known as the 'Suez débâcle' can be judged from the fact that he resigned in 1957 as a direct result of Britain's so-called Middle-East climbdown. Politically isolated by the 'left' turn of the Macmillan government, Lambton was not to hold high office until Edward Heath came to power in 1970. «Heathmen' needed agreement with Lambton and other disaffected Tory young and, as well aristocrats as swinging the party to the right, Heath brought a number Into the government. Lambton appointed was under-Secretary Parliamentary for Defence, Royal Air Force, in 1970 under Lord Carrington, another Heath aristocrat wanted as a bridge between the two wings of the party.

Carrington was First Lord of the Admiralty during the Profumo and Vassall scandals in 1963, although his name was He was succeeded by cleared. Lord Jellicoe. Carrington became leader of the House of Lords and Jellicoe became deputy leader. Relations between Lambton and Sir Alec Douglas-Home were neutral-Home's mother was Lambton's aunt. But Lambton lashed Mac- millan unmercifully. The Pro- fumo affair was the last straw.

In Lambton's eyes the man who was breaking the up impire and doing more thai nyone to make Great Britail little England had turned a to a communist blind eye threat from within. Lambton could forgive Pro- fumo his indiscretions, but he War adamant that the was Minister's with a association Communist should have spy been revealed at once instead of after a long delay. Seven years later, in 1970, Lambton was again riding his anti-communist horse with dire warnings about a Soviet arms build up The Profumo scandal hit the aristocracy hardest of all. In addition the of to scourge Macmillan's conversion to But- skelism and the loss of Empire, Britain appeared to be losing the so-called cold war as well.

Lambton's criticisms of Macmillan of were, course, made from outside the govern- from which had ment, he resigned in 1957. In October 1962 he com- mented: "Tory politics in the last five years have become so much a question of follow my leader that anyone who has consistent line maintained a of policy is called arrogant.?

And replying to a reporter's question he said: 'Most mem- bers of the Tory Party are so bad, you really wouldn't want to bring out the worst in them. What happened in June 1963 at the War Office only con- firmed his belief that the rot had well and truly set in to the party. In his years out of govern- ment-although not out of the House of Commons-he de- time to voted considerable of building up his estates.

By 1971 he owned over 26,000 acres in Durham and divided into Northumberland four at Lambton, estates Witton, Langley and Muddles- wick, near Consett. His fortune increased in 1963 when Lord Hailsham, as part of the Tories' new deal for the north-east gave the go-ahead for Washington New Town to be built on part of Lambton's land. As Tory MP for Berwick on Tween he was by no means idle. He was a consistent anti- because Marketeer, he not disliked the idea of rejuvenat- seizing ing Britain by the leadership in Europe, but be- cause the terms of entry would mean higher costs and smaller for farmers. By 1968 he was interested me to in the work of the Society for Individual Freedom - the Society on whose behalf right- wing lawyer Francis Bennion prosecuted young Liberal Peter Hain for campaigning against South African sports teams visiting Britain. The Society goes back to 1942 when its aim was to combat fascism and com- munism. It merged with right- Lord wing sugar magnate Lyle's Freedom League in 1945.

became 1968 Lambton the Society's president and a year later he tried to introduce a Bill of Rights into the Com- mons which, other among things, would have outlawed the closed shop. earlier he had Two years backed Churchill's son-in-law, right-wing MP Duncan Sandys in his bid to get capital punish- ment restored Society's aims were The Society basically to create the con- Workers Press, Wednesda ditions for unfettered capitalist enterprise. As part of his love for unfettered capitalism through- out the 1950s Lambton-an ex-coalowner - kept up campaign against consistent and the coal nationalization industry in particular. 1953, two years after In Winston Churchill returned to power pledged to end the war- time controls that big business hated and the to review nationalization, question of Lambton said: 'Nationalization is nothing but organized in- efficiency. He accused miners of low productivity and claimed that Labour MPs had a vested interest in keeping the pits overmanned to save their seats in the Commons. Two years later, he again railed at the miners for not working hard enough and in Profumo Left: John Lisa Any bardes 1957 be said asha matter said their numbers must mayor ed min charged with the Obscene Publications Bill Commons. the 1969. after the wilder. est. Heath bros it 12 vears the oposition Lambton onto the system under which naval ratings are subjected to sum- mary punishment.

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday May 30, 1973 Since May-June 1968, the Soviet Stalinists have been haunted by the spectre of revolution in western Europe and the growth of Trotskvism 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 discredit and distort begun a campaign to the once again 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 Trotsky. the relations between Lenin and In this series of articles MICHAEL BANDA replies to this book.

they became incorrect when it was announced that the state of war had been terminated Lenin's confidence but peace had not been con- in cluded. (P. 149, ibid). Trotsky-based on poli- What has this appreciation tical agreement about the in the Stalinist common with "Trotsky prospects of world revo- slander that main- tained an anti-Leninist stand, lution—was greatly en- criminally exposing the newly- hanced by the final agree- emerged Soviet Republic to mortal danger'? Nothing what- ment over the Brest- ever! Litovsk peace treaty. dialectic of the What the In his reply to the debate debate did show, however, was those who the political report of the that supported on 'Committee (March 8, Central Lenin in the early stages, like 1918) the editors of Stalin and Zinoviev, did so for which 'Against Trotskyism' entirely different and opposed repro- duce-Lenin a balanced reasons. pays Stalin and and generous tribute to Trot- Unlike Lenin, while not sparing his lack Zinoviev supported sky peace at of tactical judgement. any price because they were sceptical 'Now I must say something completely of the European working about Comrade Trotsky's posi- class. At the January 11 CC meet- tion. There are two aspects to Lenin Trotsky his activities; when he began ing, criticized negotiations at Brest and for proposing 'an international the from made splendid use [sic] of political demonstration' for all the tribune at Brest, but at them agitation, we agreed with Comrade Trotsky the same time dissociated him- Trotsky's tactics self far more sharply from the were of Stalin and Zino- correct as long as they were remarks Trotsky aimed delaying matters; who opposed at viev from an anti-internationalist and chauvinist angle. It would not be presump- tuous to state that the follow- ing remarks of Stalin and Zinoviev, culled from the min- utes of this CC, caused more embarrassment to Lenin than the mistaken evaluation made by Trotsky: Stalin: 'Comrade Stalin feels that by adopting the slogan of revolutionary war we are play- ing into the hands of imperial- ism. Trotsky's stand is unten- able. No revolutionary move- ment exists in the west, there are no facts, only potentiali- and we cannot take ties, potentialities into considera- tion. [Shades of Socialism in one country!] 'If the Germans - begin an offensive it will strengthen the counter-revolution in our country.' Zinoviev: 'We are confronted of course by a serious surgical operation because by signing strengthen shall peace we chauvinism in Germany and for some time weaken the throughout the movement The other west. prospect looming before us is the des- truction of the Socialist Re- public' (Minutes of the Cen- tral Committee of the RSDLP August 1917—February (B) . 1918. Russ. ed. Moscow, 1958 pp. 171-172.) Lenin's comments on the speeches of his two supporters not only reveal the enormous gulf separating Lenin's intran- internationalism from sigent the national-reformism of Sta- lin, but also refutes the per- vasive Moscow lie that Lenin's foreign policy was based on the principles of 'peaceful co- existence: The minutes of the CC for January 11 (24) 1918 leave absolutely no room for specu- lation on this score: 'Comrade Lenin points out that he is not in agreement on some points with his suppor- ters, Stalin and Zinoviev. Of course there is a mass move- ment in the west, but the re- volution has not yet begun.

'But if we were to alter our tactics because of that, we should be traitors to inter- national socialism. He does not agree with Zinoviev that Stalin: 'No revolutionary move- ment exists in the West. .

the conclusion of peace will for a time weaken the move- ment in the west. If we believe that the Ger- man movement can develop immediately, in the event of an interruption of the peace negotiations, then we must Above: Berln workers al a huge in the Sregesalle mass meeting on December 7, 1918. Lenin and Trotsky's optimism in relation to the German working class was confirmed by the events in November and December 1918.

sacrifice ourselves, German revolution will have the a force much greater than ours' ('On Trotskyism' p. 130.)

Lenin's optimism-and Trot- sky's too—in relation to the working class German was confirmed by the November 1918 revolution which en- abled the Bolsheviks to uni- laterally renounce the Brest- Litovsk treaty without declar- ing hostilities. In short to de- clare a state of 'neither war nor peace'! Were we to use the histori- cal method adopted by the authors of this book, it would be possible to show without that Lenin, in the difficulty course of the war with Poland two years after Brest-Litovsk, more "damage' than did far Trotsky's position at Brest- Litovsk. Lenin's policy on this ques- tion, incidentally, gives the lie directly to all those Stalinist pundits who try to portray him as a pioneer of the idea of 'peaceful coexistence be- tween states with different social systems' Nothing was further from Lenin's mind in the struggle with Pilsudski, which broke out on May 1, 1920. The Polish troops invaded the Ukraine on that date, urged on by the British government and Winston Churchill. Within six weeks, the Poles were in full retreat.

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On April 10, 1919, the Commissar for Foreign Affairs in the First Bavarian Soviet Repub- lic, Dr Lipp, sent the following telegram to Lenin: 'The proletariat of Southern Bavaria happily united Social- ists plus Independents plus Communists firmly joined to- gether at one as a hammer: with peasantry. Liberal bour- geoisie completely disarmed as agent of Prussia. *Bamberg seat of the fugitive Hoffman who took the toilet key of my ministry with him.

Prussia's policy by abertea Hoffman aims at cutting off from the north, from Frank- furt and the Ruhr coalfields, while making the Entente sus- as bloodthirsty pect us depredators. *At the same time the hairy gorilla hands of Gustav Noske are dripping with blood. We want peace for ever. Immanuel "Concerning Kant Eternal Peace" 1795, "Theses", 2-5' Lenin kept his reply brief and businesslike-ignoring the reference the hygienic to nuisance at Lipp's ministry, as well as Lipp's desire to inject Kantianism into the class struggle: 'Please send us details about the accomplished revolution in Bavaria. Please inform us of the course of developments and whether the new order is fully everywhere established. What is the position in Bav- aria concerning the agrarian of the council programme government? Lenin.' Lipp's claim to have 'unity' with the Communists was Com- false. The Bavarian munists had nothing to do with that bizarre outfit.

Be- fore the end of April, 1919, Hoffman, the Special Demo- in crat leader (who had been charge of military affairs in Eisner's government) launched a military offensive against the regime with the aid 'Soviet' of reactionary generals. The assortment of Anarch- Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37₺p • Problems of the British Revolution Paperback 35p Lessons of October Paperback 60p In Defence of the October Revolution Pamphlet 15p Marxism and the Trade Unions Pamphlet 25p Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International Pamphlet 10p Postage: 10p per book, 5p per pamphlet.

Order from: NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG 'left' Social Democrats ists, and mental home inmates who constituted the First 'Soviet' Republic were totally un- face such an equipped to attack. This time the Communists -now under the leadership of Eugen Levine-came to the Second Bavarian fore. The Soviet Republic was born.

Eugen Levine was a Russian Jew who had been imprisoned for his part in the 1903 Revolution. He had played a key part at the foundation conference of the German (in Communist Party late December 1918) and had sub- sequently been sent to take part of the Bavarian Party.

His major political step in Bavaria was to establish a clear-cut demarcation between Anarchists. Communists and He had done this up to and beyond the proclamation of the First 'Soviet' Republic on April 6. That 'Soviet' lasted precisely one week. The Communists, however, had no choice but to head the class against Hoff- working man's military onslaught, how- ever unfavourable the circumstances. And the circumstances were unfavourable. In Germany a workers' up- rising had just been bloodily suppressed in the Ruhr and the left was heavily under attack in Brunswick. Counter- Testimony linking Howard Hughes, the multi-millionaire recluse businessman, to the Watergate affair could embar- ass Archibald Cox, selected by special the government as Watergate prosecutor. The reason is that Mr Cox's brother Max is Hughes's general counsel. Mr Cox (61), a Harvard law professor, was selected to pro- secute the Watergate case after pressure was put on the gov- Workers Press, Wedn revolutionary forces had in- vaded Hungary from Rumania, while the Soviet Union was still debilitated by civil war.

By contrast with the Social Democrat Hoffman, who now openly served the bourgeoisie, and the 'left' Social Democrat who had cringed be- Eisner, Communists fore the called an Strike to intimidate the bour- geoisie in Munich and to pro- vide the forces to meet the aggressors from Bamberg. Another measure never dreamed of by Eisner nor the Anarchists was also put into immediate effect. The bour- geois police was disbanded and replaced by a Red Guard of armed factory workers, under Rudolf Egelhofer (26), a veteran of the Kiel sailors' mutiny. An enormous response was won from the working class.

Soldiers of the White Army refused to fire on the Com- munist troops. In Dachau, factory workers - men and women-ran among Hoffman's troops and persuaded them to allow the Red troops to enter the town. But the Social Democrats in Berlin were determined that capitalism should survive.

Ebert's 'law-and-order' ex- pert Gustav. Noske informed Hoffman on April 17 that he was prepared to send up • to 20,000 troops into Bavaria.

ernment to hand the case to an independent outsider prosecu- links to the tor with no administration. Hughes's name came into the Watergate testimony when convicted conspirator James McCord told a Senate commit- tee that he was told Hughes would provide the plane that would take him away from a proposed burglary. This tidy little tale was revealed last week at a Press conference given by publisher Mr H. N. Greenspun of the 'Las Vegas Sun'. Mr Greenspun said his office was in fact burgled in August 1972, two months after the Watergate burglary and the arrest of the perpetrators. He put forward the theory that the aim of the burglars was to get at documents he possesses on Hughes's political plans.

The plans were kept in a safe which the burglars failed to open. ess, Wednesday May 30, 1973 PAGE 9 Left: A Red Army machine gun post in the inner city of Munich.

They defended the city,_building building, against Freikorps and Thule soclety. Meanwhile Colonel Ritter von Epp, old drinking com- panion of the Bavarian Social Democrat leader Erhard Auer, forming the Bavarian was Freikorps. Among its officers was Captian Ernst Rohm, the subsequent head of the Nazi stormtroopers. Another mem- ber of its ranks-enrolled via the anti-Semitic Thule Society which Eisner had refused to ban—was Rudolf Hess. The actual encirclement of Munich was under the strate- gic direction of General Lutt- witz, who a few weeks earlier killed 1,200 workers in had Berlin. At this point, the most 'left' of the Independents who had been in the leadership of the Soviet Republic with the Communists deserted. Their leader, Toller, who all along had favoured lenient measures against the White officers, demanded negotiations with the Whites, called for 'a revolution of love, not hate and the denounced Com- munists: These men base their de- cisions not on our circum- stances, but on conformity to the teachings of Russian Bolshevism ... whenever alien elements take over leadership of a revolution, dictatorship results' On May 1, 1919, the Red troops defended Munich building by building. The Thule Society-a precurser of organized fascism — launched what it called the 'Cleansing of Munich of the Red Scum'.

Some 186 'executions' took place on the first day alone.

The massacre lasted for six just under 1,000 days and people were murdered. Throughout, the slaughter received the approval of the Papal Nuncio Cardinal Pacelli, later to be Pope Pius XII.

It was the same Pope Pius XIl who, on October 16, 1943, acquiesced in the mass round up of jews in Rome by the German Army and their de- portation to Auschwitz. On May 13, 1919, the Social Democrat Hofiman returned to Munich and resumed the functions of government. Social Democracy in Bay- aria, as in Germany and Austria, clung to the coat- tails of reactionary militarism.

When it was no longer needed it was contemptuously flung aside. Then, and since, Social Democracy its left and right varieties proved to be the most abject servant of imperialism. Only the construction of revolutionary parties, steeled in theory and practice, will be able to lead the working class to the capture and retention of power. With such parties, sections of the Fourth Inter- national, the task taken up by the heroic Communist Party and Red Army of Bavaria will be carried to a victorious conclusion.

BY JACK GALE

LBJ

How would the late President Lyndon Johnson have handled the Watergate bugging scandal?

An answer was provided at a recent luncheon in Washington former LBJ aide Jack by Valenti. Under LBJ it wouldn't happened in the first have place, he said. But had it happened, Mr Valenti told friends, the morn..

ing after the President would have summoned him to his White House oval office and said Boy, that's my life you with' all . are fooling and demanded the whole story in less than 24 hours.

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Dead cadet's father demands inquiry into drowning

COMMENT BY J

' MORNING STAR'

Foreign Editor Sam Rus- sell yesterday revealed details of the brutal treatment handed out by Franco's police to wor- kers and left-wingers arrested on May Day. Of 145 people originally detained, 80 are still in jail and details have reached London of brutal beatings and tortures inflicted on least 23 prisoners-including six young women. Specially savage treatment was meted out to Tranquilino Sanchez, Vicente Llamzares and Manuel Galan, Madrid workers' leaders who are conflicts, strikes stop- pages. Tortures Russell reveals that the tor- tures were inflicted in the cells and cellars of the security police headquarters on the Puerto del Sol in Madrid. He also reports that most of the May Day prisoners are now in Carabanchel jail in Madrid, which also houses the 'Cara- -

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workers at Merthyr Tyatil, South Wales, have been served with redundancy no- tices following management's decision to rationalize at Cyfarthta and shut up shop at Cefn. Notices were issued to 175 workers. But two men, one of engineers' whom union was Arthur Jones, convenor Communist Party member, MR MEHANGA SINGH, a maintenance fitter, of Effing- ton, near Wolverhampton, has called for a public inquiry into how his teenage son was drowned during a cadet exer- cise. He said: 'My son was very bad at swimming. He was not qualified in any way and he

BY JACK GALE

banchel Ten', incarcerated since June to expose the savage oppression of all opponents of the Spanish fascist regime — as Russell has done-and to call on the British workers' movement to campaign against it. Russell has done this several times recently in the 'Morning Star'. Undermined But his concern at the fate of the Spanish fighters is under- mined by his own refusal to face up to certain questions which must be answered. Nowhere yet has Russell stated where he stands on: I The export of coal from Poland to Spain in 1970, which assisted Franco to break the Asturian miners' strike.

& The trade deal signed be- tween the Soviet Union and Spain on September 15, 1972.

3 The celebration of the Rus- sian Revolution in Madrid in November 1972. Organized Franco regime, by the these celebrations were attended by members of a Russian shipping delegation in Madrid and by various representatives of east European governments. While these junketings were taking place before the courts workers students were in Barcelona, accused of belong- ing to a communist organization.

given in lleu of were pay notice and told not to return after the spring holiday.

Jones and the other man were trying to return to work yesterday. The General and Municipal Workers' Union has accepted management's redundancy pro- and posals, other two so far lack a joint unions policy to fight them. was taking lessons. A full inquiry to find out why must be held my son was told to swim across the river.' Sixteen-year-old Judma Singh was drowned in the River Severn during a joint army-RAF exercise on Sunday. taking part in a was canoeing exercise with ten other he cadets from the 12/90 ATC 4 The negotiations began in November 1972 and con- tinued right through to January 1973 when diplomatic relations were established between East Germany and Spain. The final ratification after East came German Foreign Minister Otto Winzer had visited Moscow to discuss the matter with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The visit to Madrid of Bul- garian Minister Emil Raz- golov in January 1973, to sign a Bulgarian-Spanish protocol. This established a bilateral Bulgarian- Spanish committee of factory directors. The visit of a Spanish dele- 6 also in gation to Poland, January, 1973. This delegation included the head of the Civil Guard, General Iniesta Cano, and also the Count of Mayalde, who had been General Head of Security during some of the bloodiest periods fascist of terror. Lavish The Spanish Communist Party lodged an official protest with the Poles at the lavish reception gıven to the spanish police chiefs in Warsaw. 7 The three-day visit to Mos- cow in March, 1973, of the Spanish director of embassies and ' Luis Villegas. Franco's envoy expressed his delight at the facilities being provided for the Spanish diplomats. THE DEFENCE COUNCIL, chaire issued a top secret memorandum servants against drugs. The direct when Lord Lambton was RAF M Carrington, the Defence Secretary and Tory Party chairman, issued the memo- randum to all army command- ers heads of the other services. abuse is It states that drug 'totally alien' to the 'standards' of the armed forces. This will come as a surprise, perhaps, to . Lambton. On television last Friday night he admitted smoking hashish and opium. "Taking opium in China is totally different from • taking it on Berwick-on-Tweed,' the erstwhile Minister said. The directive says that 'there is no evidence that drug abuse is at present a major problem in the army. It all depends what you mean by 'major'. This year there have been a number of civilian court Col Squadron, Wednesfield, near Wolverhampton. John Osborne (15), corporal in charge of the cadets, said: 'We had first been told by one of the army instructors that we would go out in a canoe and we would have to swim under the boat, then back to the river bank. "The instructor then asked if IC we had any weak swimmers in Workers Press, Wednes A Hungarian delegation in Madrid. 8 The two discussions which took place in the Spanish Embassy at Helsinki in March, 1973. The subject was 'Security in the Mediterranean' and the participants Portugal, were Greece, East Germany, Rumania and slavia. 9 The position of the Spanish Communist Party, which supports entry into the Common Market and advocates the peace- 'democratization' the fascist regime through such people as General Diez Alegria, the "head of the General Staff of the Spanish Armed Forces.

This was the line carried at eighth Congress of the the Spanish Communist Party in 1972. The so-called pact of freedom' contained in the was report of Party Secretary San- tiago Carrillo. 10 The attacks launched by the leadership opposition tendency in the Spanish Communist Party which called for a struggle for socialism.

in Spain. This also occurred at the 1972 Congress. UNTIL Sam Russell faces up to these questions and gives an- swers, his reports on Spain-no matter what crimes and brutali- ties they expose-serve only to cover up for the Stalinists in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union who collaborate with France. Protestations at tortures, how- ever sincerely felt, remain hypo- critical if their author remains silent on those who establish diplomatic and trading relations with the torturers. L, chaired by Lord Carrington, has randum warning officers and civil le directive was issued on May 4 RAF Minister. cases involving members of the army charged with using and possessing drugs-amphetamines and cannabis. It is well known that these 'soft drugs' are passed around the barracks in Northern Ireland.

THREE ULSTER men, convic- ted of IRA membership on the word of a police superintendent, each were sentenced to six months prison in Dublin yester- day. Henry Fagan (40) of High Street, Newry; Michael Bran- nigan (22) of Tullyvallen, New- Hamilton; town and James Bernard Savage (33) of John Martin Gardens, Newry, refused to recognize the Special Criminal art Court. our group and Judma put up his hand. So then the instructor told us that instead we would have to swim across the river and back.' The RAF officer in charge of has the exercise declined to An inquiry will be comment. held 'quite soon: It was not clear, he said, whether the in- quiry would be conducted by the army or the RAF. .. ... 6, Wednesday May 30, 1973 PAGE 11

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BELLE VUE

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Wednesday May 30, 1973

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOUR CORRESPONDENT

A RENEWED drive for speed-up and wage-cutting has been launched by important sections of the engineering employers.

AT THE

of today's has stated The compant Desperately worried about the rapid erosion of their profit That

COT

rates, they want firm legal back up for this drive under Phase tion, workers ackas no wage offer is vailabl begin Ferguson in Three of the Tories' state pay laws.

LOVELY

The strike will be the first a strike for £2.50 across the Already there is evidence that the giant British-Leyland and board. that Massey's has ever faced This claim, plus two days' at : Coventry over the annual Plessey combines are tightening the screws on Measured-Day holiday and £2,000 ware claim Work and productivity deals in a bid to bolster their sagging retirement grant has been workers mem are rejected of

AUEW,

by bers protitability.

NUVB

Metal has counterposed

EPTU,

Measured-Day work systel

WAUSE

of payment. on the National Joint Nego- called for a 'relentless' which both combines are members, campaign to halt the drop in profits and place British industry on a war ing percentage of rises to the with the rest of the footing buyers of its products capitalist world. on a sliding scale This is don The employers' new produc- whose wnich would allow a nrm wages 80 per offensive tivity once again costs to pass on 78 per cent of emphasizes the extreme dan- ot wade ln crease and complete treachery gers

TUC

Phase the leaders such employer would Three talks with the Tories, indeed. very consaclabit which have now been tormalv Yet even this is not enougr sanctified by Victor Feather.

for the profit-hungry employers Within 48 hours of the code It exposes these talks the being Michael bianed CBI presiden von cues co -voo•co acces- Clapham was on his tance of the role of slavemaster at the Foreign Press Asso feet, factory workshop every and ciation, attempting pin the In une country blame for inflation on the work Stated bluntly, the employers' ing class and calling on em- working class message to the exact dramatic ployers to in- this: having obtained vour lead- creases in individual productivity.

co-operation in cutting your his call has been an-

CAMO

Phase Two, real wages under swered. Phase Ihree At British-Leyland, the launch nOW make them the basis of rease US increase of the new Allegro car has beer our on return preceded and accompanied Drive to push MDW schemes to their utmost.

dwindling wage packets. the ruthless paring down of job. This, by implication, the 1s decline in the rate of profit had levels the Lilie content of yesterday's real taken place despite big in- will make it competitive noose • 10] WIlc ThInKS Edward Burgh speech de crease over the last ten years in with Europe and Japan Marsh, advisory services direc- Allegro body the value of net output per head workers at of the EEF. tor in engineering. Swindon are currentv on strike Speaking exhibitors and Some of this over attempts to enforce a big increase-from others at the Industrial rapacious new demands is already speed-up under the MDW system £1,330 head 1963

DCI

Exhibition, in London, poin- Increased £2,400 per head in 1972- brought last - is, of ycat ted disastrous course, due to price inflation.

une stale pay control ieasaul the Allegro dispute at Long- But figures from the Depart- wages paid in engineering over bridge, Birmingham. Employment, whick ment the last five years. Swindon, as Workers Marsh did not Least quote cente cene Said Marsh: Added value per Press has already reported, that at per cen or tae held out big rewards to labour- £l of wage and salary has con- Plessey combine wants to force rise is due to actual increases ir year fror firms which speed of its up the work rate at one production per head. n 197 £1.80 in 1968 to Lucyrkers Mariar record-olayer lactorie In other words, each individ- "margins from 55 to 74 units per hour.

with the recut loat ual worker is engineering pro- which additional costs, de- These just justiser Marsh instances and future capital ducing over a third more preciation goods than he was ten years ago.

investment programmes must be wares

COUL

terday called 'industry... relent- Not satisfied with this, funded has declined. how total costs can pass an increas- lessly pursuing areas Marsh and the EEF want 'Clearly, if ever, "relentless' further increase are to improve in real terms, their order profit. is a rena lal neeas to be nisl stopped, and then reversed be- colanse of th fore we can completely boom (the that the regain employers' life is to aim •ur compellive care their workers' living

BISCUITS

Belfast, for fear 'The for Phase

M BEA

become the airport, nen tampered with. framework increase much help standards is, of course, laugh- staple diet on flights be it has been Three could do able). Belfast and London Following inis recovery. Marsh bar services considerable amount for made clear Aldergrove dearer this „Month- relentlessly pursuing all yesterday, the employers want the hour-long flights have been when was declared prim this written into the framework reduced because "shortage by the Provisional

IRA-

areas of Dultillid. Lalsel of cabin crews on these services, -and many-in the for Phase Three there are security arrangement nave been effective use of manpower.

For the TUC to agree to con discussed between BEA and air- Says DEA tinue talks with the Tories under Food port officials, crew and staff and Marsh, a former management , longer stressed being taken on at consultant. Loat Tiese condons represens All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic ri Special showing of the Pageant film

THE ROAD TO

WORKERS

POWER

and Songs and scen from history tiating Council have recom- mended that the individual unions support the action being taken. At Monday's joint chop stewards' committe were drawn up to picket the factory. The day-shift starts the strike at 4 p.m. today and the night shift 6.30 a.m.

tomorrow. potential improvement in the effective use of manpower' There are hundreds of other instances.

But, as at Swindon, the em- ployers are already meeting with firm the resistance on shop floor. The employers' anxiety shows that they can be defeated. All talks with the Tories must be broken off now, and the fight to create the industrial and political conditions to force them to resign waged throughout the trade union movement.

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