Workers Press no. 1086

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MAY 31, 1973• No 1086 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE The third man'... and all that

HOOVER

INSTITUTION

BUCK HOUSE

TO THE RESCUE

Be upstanding And what of Finding scapegoats for the Queen Lord Diplock?

THE

MOST

circles in the reactionary

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Tory ruling class are now gunning for the News THE MOST colossal evidence the IN THE midst KuDert

MUTCOCH

ane

SHIS

une or us contrived news. World' for its part exposing the Tory cover-up came yesterday when the Lord Diplock's Security Commission Lambton scandal. scandals disappeared from the front pages undergoing a transformation.

It was this paper's revelations that led THE BRITISH ruling class has begun of evers national daily newspaper The original terms of reference were to

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What sensational news drove the con- But in vesticate Guestions security a series of blatant manoeuvres to charges being brought against him for tinuing Lambton - Jellicoe affair into yesterday's reports show that Diplock alleged drug offences. Straight Royal has become chamber morals. cover up the crisis sweeping every itself, the going Public-spirited journalism? Not accord- scapegoat that is well CubaSe rotten branch of the Establishment.

away from the Tory government.

MP for Winston Churchill. Tory ment or rrincess Anne to me wals pork pie heir! Stretford. The great cover-up extends from the We believe this belated announcement What is particularly unattractive,' said Cabinet room, to the Commons, to the forward at a convenient time, Churchill, is brought *is that rich and powerful men Palace, to Scotland Yard, Fleet Street to • should be Fleet Street to avert aurennon away won me covern- seekin. Lo and to the City of London.

1f ment scandal (why keep it a secret for make themselves richer by hiring a mouldy mattress has been turned over five weeks?). criminals, hijackers, as we have seen in and all the bed bugs are scurrying for It is also welcome coincidence for recent ana prostitute.

CUVCI.

their memoirs and to make money out of the Roval Family rumoured what they are doing. The issue is not simply few snap- is connected, through Angus Ogilvy, with

LORD LAMBTON

shots of a Minister's night life.

the Lonrho affair. "If that AL staKe were to transpire rans country had here is the survival of the Heath govern- The reports stress that Diplock will in The "Daily Mirror' picked up this nanona newspaper and, the political inquire into photos

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TOOK

conspired With a tier or DrosaTe mom-eaten COUrI announcement of the bourgeois system itself.

Lambton and *the motives for taking a man's career in politics, , I think dumoriLy splashed it on Pages One, Two, hree them. it would have very grave implications for Four, Five, plus the two It against the background of this In other words, the central issues of ponnical me in unis country.

There's nothing like a royai wed- polteal and economic crisis nat we can Dates. the staisions nested the deeps ane and 'Only the fullest and frankest ding (or entara the macle commission are no lonter staTe: divisions class and direct its attention towards the Jellicoe and the third man, but are ruling on 'sneak pimps' (Lambton's words) and the attack excr to cover Its own as camus tracks while blaming someone else.

monarchy. ana ourer mumor players mm us arama -name or onusu gourmansm.

Evidence of Tenants demand better housing conditions deep split THE PATTERN of events Tellice to come It. Lambton- Poulson is clear enough. While one section of the capitalist Apart from some con- Mr Press is obedientiv keep.

Tused mutterines its shut, the James Wellbeloved, ing the Labour Party has been being other section

OUR FAI HOUSIN

silent this hounded and menaced by since abSOluLCry latest affair broke. the out-and-out reaction- gROWS ATROCITI

HEND SU NTS OUR

The silence by Labour aries. opens the door for the most

FUNGUS

of the Here evidence

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right-wing Tories come within the ruling-class forward with their claims

SOUL

HOUSIN AS FO FLATS

itself. moral rectitude and

ARE PEOPLE

decency.

ARE

Collapse This group knows that lor the Tory government to

DAMP

It is a measure of the des- be the survive there must perate nature of the crisis backlash most

VICIOUS

bludgeoning that these against the working class. The has informed the

TENANTS

demonstrated yester- in the living room. Repeated family methods are being used the name of the third minis- day anneais for action tv the familv.

council that they are considering outside ne creaer London Harsh blows and the Council's Locksley district their doctor. the medical officer a court action under the Public was exposed

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offices, London, protest of health for Hackney and local Whitehall of east Health Act. whole KnOWS they will be driven to Brown, who the conditions MP. Ron Heath LaDour HaVe Tenants taking part in yester- driven failed to move the GLC. government would be the Haggerston Estate. blows the day's demonstration were de- inflict harsh duced to a state of collapse.

Rising damp has A health visitor and com- forced expressed manding immediate rehousing o trade unions and une work. George Angol, an munity worker have It is only kept in office ers' movement. the Angols, or urgent action to worker, his wife, Veronica, and Tears NIrS AnGOL mas Wilson and liab the collaboration matic lead. That is why their five close close to a breakdown because put their flat right. If this was not any time lost their of the conditions under which done by 5 p.m., they said, they bedrooms flat Tories in forcing the would take the matter before the most be- and her children are forced The Tresenerous Marlowe House Sne They don't want the truth trayal of all time. The whole family has to sleep to live. COUrTS.

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MAY 31, 1973 • No 1086 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE The third man'... and all that

BUCK HOUSE

TO THE RESCUE

Be upstanding And what of Finding scapegoats for the Queen Lord Diplock?

THE MOST

in the reactionary circles

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Tory ruling class are now gunning for the News THE MOST colossal evidence IN THE midst of this contrived news, Nupert Murdoct ane une World' for its part exposing the Tory came yesterday when the Lord Diplock's Security Commission Lambton scandal. scandals disappeared from the front pages undergoing a transformation.

It was this paper's revelations that led THE BRITISH ruling class has begun ТРОСА ПАНСІОНЕПААЗТО The original terms of reference were to What sensational news drove the con- aisle how eat Diplock But Investorte questions a series of blatant manoeuvres to charges being brought against him for tinuing Lambton - Jellicoe affair into yesterday's reports show that alleged drug offences. obscurity? Straight from the Royal chamber of morals. cover up the crisis sweeping every has become itself, the five-week-old find Public-spirited journalism? Not accord- going to away from the Tory government.

scapegoat that is wel WaLLCI C.0.1 rotten branch of the Establishment.

ment of Princess Anne to the Walls pork Tory MP for Winston Churchill. pie heir! Stretford. The great cover-up extends from the We believe this belated announcement 'What is particularly unattractive,' said Cabinet room, to the Commons, to the is brought forward at a is that rich and powerful men convenient time, Churchill, Palace, to Scotland Yard, Fleet Street Fleet Street . . . should be seeking lo and to the City of London.

themselves ment scandal (why keep it a secret for make richer by hiring a mouldy mattress has been turned over five weeks?). hijackers, criminals, as we have seen all the bed bugs are scurrying for It is also welcome coincidence for weeks, and arosutule.

WHILE

their memoirs and to make money out of the Roval

WRITS

what they are doing. The issue is not simply few snap- is connected, through Angus Ogilvy, with

LORD LAMBTON

shots of a Minister's night life.

that the Lonrho affair. Austake 'If were to transpire here is the survival of the Heath govern- The reports that Diplock will in this country had The "Daily Mirror' picked this

SLICOS

natona newsoaper and, furthermore, the political ment inquire photos conspired with a prostitute InTO WInO

TOOK

The or mol-eaten ColI announcemen! of the Lambton and 'the motives for taking destroy man's career in politics, , I think dutiority Dour co system local. splashed it on Pages One. Two, Three, them'. Four, Five, Seven plus the two it would have very grave implications to1 against the background of this It is In other words, the central issues pouncal me in unis country.

There's nothing like a royai wed- 01 political ana economic crisis tnat we can bakes, the 'Only the fullest state- ding (or tuneral) to entral the commission are no longer Jellicoe class and direct its attention towards the and the third man, ruling and attack clear ence group cover

ILS

OWIl pascallly tracks while blaming someone else.

monarchy. and other minor players in this drama.

Evidence of Tenants demand better housing conditions deep split Poulson Lambton- THE PATTERN of events Jellicoe to come out. is clear enough. While one section of the capitalist Apart from some con- obediently keep- Presss Tused Hutternes

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shut, the James Wellbeloved, ing its mouth

DUR HIM HOUSINS,

Labour Party has been being other section silent this hounded and menaced by absolutely latest affair broke. the out-and-out reaction-

PROWS ATROCITIE END SUNTS OUR

The silence Labour aries. by

EUNGUS NOW HOUSIMPREFO FLATS

opens the door for the most

ENAN

of Here evidence the right-wing Tories come within the ruling-class forward with their claims itself. moral rectitude and

RE PEOPL

decency. NOW LUNg

ARE

Collapse This group knows that for the Tory government

DAMP

It is a measure of the des- survive there be perate nature of the crisis mosT

VICIOUS

backase bludgeoning these that against the working class.

TENANTS

demonstrated yester- in the living Repeated The family nas intormed ine methods are bette used the name of the third minis- anneals for action tv the famiv.

council that they are considering Harsh blows and the Council's Locksley district to he doctor the medical officer exposed a court action under the Public was London, health Hackney and local Whitehall offices, east in protest of Health Act. To reimpose their author- who the Heath MP. Ron against mousing LaVe Tenants taking part in yester- they will be driven ity, government would be the Haggerston Estate. failed to move the GLC. day's demonstration were de. inflict harsh blows the Rising damp A health visitor and duced to a state of collapse.

has forced com. trade unions and the work- an worker have mancing immealate renousing o Georae expressed engueerig WUlY It is only kept ers' movement. the Angols, or urgent action to Veronica, in omce worker, his wife, and by the collaboration That is why their five oohis of their 1o close close to breakdown because put their flat right. If this was not any time lost Wilson and the

TUC

5 p.m., conditions which done by they said, they bedrooms the under in forcing the

IWO

Wal be- would take the matter before the CIs. the most treacherous HOUSe none oneer de locce to live. They don't want the truth trayal of all time. The whole family has to sleep courts.

THE SMILES WILL SOON DISAPPEAR

Tough talking due on trade and PAGE 2 Workers Thursday May 31, 1973

THE

international the main issues likely to be

BY JOHN SPENCER

money crisis discussed Reykjavik: crisis and monetary

MONETARY

As the question of trad- differences between the two the breakdown last week's Committee of 1 wenty meetings. ing relations between Nixon Washington Then appeared meeting Europe and America Europe the demonstrated and the height of his power. unchallenged supremo of the dominate the summit America are Hal years apart western world. question and every this meeting between Pre- day the gulf them the Today appears discredited master-mind be- sidents Pompidou hind Watergate, a man under expect and Nixon which dusty answer from Nixon should raise the question could be out of office within opens in Reykjavik weeks. today. with 1blllty gold. This puts him under great

TRADE:

The United pressure adopt a harder The same questions with Pompidou- -and States wants the demolition ine were also high on the Common ine Pompidou with the when they held agenda which other states do callula their last summit in the Europe- -as a , some of this com- compicou 1s • neavily 13, of mitted to defend. Azores December satisfy 1ng some Nixon also wants the EEC 1971—the from evernes dr nome Nixon The US President has laid which orereenud nounced trade agreements the the first dollar devaluation.

heavy stress on his grandiose Mediterranean, Africa and Toreen Done Daus To evace In the intervening period Wash- Latin America. the crisis has grown ington scandal.

EXPENDI-

worse.

MILITARY

the relations the

TURE:

national security United States is H1S United States and the Com- Dr Henry Kissinger demanding the host inat should shoulder Liarker more sualica the Pre- recently announced and the impossibility of Year the burden and pay for the the scent wanted reaching agreement through Europe (1973) New the

SCC

more obvious. of Atlantic taining American garrisons signing a Like in Europe. the Azores summit, Charter the Revkiavık meeting is in.

LINKAGE:

This onended the common reters tended to inaugurate a round Market leaders with his US plan to deal with the of meetings US sertion the that •lestons and turopean heads of state power issue as a single package in

WILS

serves interests, while Europe's in- which and pream- monetary, inary for the multi-lateral are only "regional. terests would be talks be held trade in together. mixed sides are can be seen from This resisted by the But there are important examination Europeans. Nixon and Pompidou... all smiles at a previous meeting, but no more.

oI some ol CIA financed How long will Andreotti THE QUESTION In Italy Is FASCIST and right-wing last? not if the Black Andreotti movements in Italy are ment wil fal. but when. be replaced and what will receiving Central Intelli- with. Confusion and despair gence Agency money to Hallan leader of the Malta exists within the ruling class finance anti-com- Republica an Prince's which is any of ely unable rary made munist army. with the Andreottl govern- İtalian of the r economy. Hank. ment, decisively ending the New revelations show that coalition that has Corriere paper the Black Prince', Junion Democratic Party Sera' said In a. eading front- Valerio fascist Borghese, received power. page pat he crisis is out in day article money in the early 1960s via The socialist and com- the Dominican munist opposition Is puppet dic- now open'. demanding of discussion, Spanish and resionation tator, Trujillo, of the government, which Is polemic and intrigue have fascists. desperately trying post- not overcome the vacuum of army events until after the Borghese, pone Tonner commence Mas'- -one Munder os Party feared. suicide founder conference, due to begin on 'Italy is now being squads- -and admin- липа в. Front Istered by men who Italy, still wanted by the police for attempted coup in leading New Israeli request 1969, aimed installing a mili- tary dictatorship. Borghese's name reappeared on the then a socialist deputy only few days ago for US arms in parila• Giuseppe Machiavelli, asked what the government in- tended to do about 'the financiers of

ISRAEL

make is to alla Is usalors lascist squads'. series of arms requests to the United States following the multi-million American A MILLION shopworkers, civil Kuwait •ea servants and hospital doctors Saudi Arabia. Tuesday and yes- on The influential daily 'Ha'aretz' Italy. quoted high-ranking' The independent unions rep- saying ask israel WIll

TOT

resenting teachers declared speeding of arms shipments that they would stop marking from the US already ordered

ICCCIL

as wer as pace new orders wit agreement requests for easy payment terms herween The unions and the government on time- 'Ha'aretz' said Israel was faced modified. tables not with a fart accompl about the was arms deal The secretary of the General Wild THe

TWO

Borghese not seen since states. It said the United States Contederation told Israel about deals. the only kers said that 'if the rate of communists and install a nation- One of them Gil Robles Was inflation rise alist Gaullist type of regime.

the founder of a Spanish fascist atter thev had been hinted at in continues newspapers. speed, wave 0 The

LICI

DOSCIL

money for the army- О ДОР О ОСТАР ® ЗІ | wage demands will become international financial groups. billions -disappeared be- OI ure inevitable'. Tha other was Julio Muñoz, son- tween 1962-1968 from the Banco number of people who are today in-law the president of the Credito Commerciale Indus- National Bank of Spain. Denne accused empertement triale, whose president was Machiavelli wanted to know and keeping false accounts.

The story then moves to Rome.

it was true that Borghese held a boronese In eight years of administration meeting on April 12, 1969, , in the bank collapsed in In 1962 a company called the many Dillons of ure alsappeared but the source of some the Italian Financial Society

(SFI),

The accused cannot explain vila Genoa, lawyerand which noted ship- reveals the link-up in difculties due to a num wnere the money nas gone Was owner, a f an important with italian fascism. Apparently Trujillo's dollars DeT ol mistaken speculations.

Shipping agent had been present were not enough for Borghese's Ratato Till the

SFI

Jr, son president Carlo Baldini, OT ТАН Internal security police reports activities. ex-dictator Dominican also a papal envoy, asked for a confirm held meetings were Republic, 10,000 million lire 969 he travelled through loan. part of Borghese's Italy in search of financial sup- calldalki with him on a fight 1z/1 With the help leading raise money for his National of from Spain in 1961. industrialists and Front movement. Monsignor Santini, churcha. Italian businessmen The money had been given by and thrican he Sial contacts The police documents state that when the internal Vaticanot was the United States government obtained that he intended to constitute the security police keeping Rafael

CIA

Genoese section of the National part 1110 Lavact. cavital dorms and were alic puppet dictator. tered by Robles and Muñoz. front. comple mel telling reports.

But during the meeting, Bor- Trujillo Ir gave the money to The

SFI

passed this money They reveal most sinister revealed the Spanish rightists, connected immediately bank. ghese also existence Borghese's tie-up and show that the

CALICHC

with Opus Dei, the powerful Among the directors of this bank right are just waiting in the wings Willary politiçal arm. of, the Spanish professionals arnich is ready apart 'from 'Robles and Muñoz, the Andreótti oread Catbolic charch. and •Borghese, begins to totter. prevent the riser to, of were a a previous meeting, but no more.

compelled to live from day to day, through humillating compromises and no one establish who wịll can govern tomorrow. 'No one can say who will be the next secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, what will be the structure of the new majority and under what conditions the dialogue with the soclalists will be conducted. 'No one knows to whom will fall the difficult task of as President guaranteeing, of the Councli, a real econ.

omic revival, stopping infla- tion, realizing reforms, and encouraging collaboration between the employers and the unions.' It said the deal with Saudi Arabia amounted to £260m ($625m) and that with Kuwait came to £220m ($500m). 'Ha'aretz' said Israel under- stood the United States was arming the two gulf states to oppose the growing power of the Soviet Union in the region, but the Jewish state would . demand convincing guarantees that their will not be used against arms her. It quoted Israeli experts in Jerusalem as saying it would take two years for the arms ordered by Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to be absorbed by their armies.

BRIEFLY - BRIEFLY

LAWYERS

representing Andreas West German anarchist, saader. arrested in June have lodged 1972 'bad treat- a complaint against the ment' client in meted out to their Shales held sterederisons others different prisons have been holding hunger strikes.

CHURCHMEN throughout the Phillip- pines have been asked by the gov- ernment to ban the throwing of rice weddings because of shortages of at grain. (Reuter). CASHING in on an art boom in Japan, Tokyo dealers last year sold paintings worth almost f61m. (Reuter).

JERUSALEM will always remain united and under Israeli sovereignty, the speaker of Knesset (parlia- the Mr Israel Yeshayahu, claimed ment). yesterday in a provocative statement 'on the sixth anniversary the military take-over of the city in the 1967 Six-Day War.

Boilermakers taken to the Swansea dockworkers plan strike to defend steward

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE TORY Pay Board yesterday began an examination of a claim for higher bonus pay- ments by boilermakers at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.

A management team from Harland's travelled to London to get the government's opinion of the claim which has brought the giant shipyard near to closure.

the Board's verdict and therefore come goes against the men, the under Phase Two. dispute, which affects the The dispute is dwarfed by skilled Protestant most the political particular role workers in the city, will of the Protestant working take on an open political Belfast. class in The character. British and army Tory government draw great So far the 2,300 boiler- strength.from belief makers, who were sacked Protestants that union after a lengthy overtime ban, with have insisted that the dis- Britain (in effect the British does violate the ruling class) bring privileges. pute not Phase Two pay This' illusion may well be covernment laws. shattered by an attack by They are demanding bonus the Tories through the Pay Board. payments negotiated far 1971. September Behind the bonus skirmish back as The firm says these should is a plan by management to paid the not be because double productivity in yard. ductivity targets have not been achieved. Already agreement cover- The men argue in reply that this has other trades been ing has been caused by Harland's reached within the scope of Phase Two. rebuilding and programme These include work- disputes beyond their control.

new They add that contingency ing methods speed-up. and The agreed boilermakers, however, payments were their and are insisting that the bonus society settled before management last issue is ycal. Two, bonus Under Phase negotiations on any long- agreements signed before the term deal is negotiated laws affect Harland's management is pay came into on November last year stand.

Board pressing the for an early ópinion on the dispute Harland's will arguing boilermakers" to avoid mass lay-offs within thàt the cur- demands of the work rent represent sections change in the bonus force. agree- FOUR HUNDRED Swansea dock workers plan to strike

BY OUR OWN

Monday

CORRESPONDENT

next in protest dismissal of against the a dredgermen's shop steward.

him of. the decision ing was delivered to his home. The men involved are dredg- appeal On May his was ing, mechanical, civil electrical, rejected. The director port • *T dockside and quayside workers.

claimed that the Cardiff decision Their opposite numbers in to sack O'Connor was in no way other South Wales influenced by his position as staff ports are representative. being asked to support the But. the Swansea dock workers Swansea action. the the just latest see in a series of attempts to under-

SACKED

mine their rights and trade union Des O'Connor, secretary of the first, they The say, was Lord local negotiating committee, was threat month last from by the British Transport sacked Melchett, head of the British Docks Board after a pay dispute Corporation. Steel the movA involving a dredger crew. BSC's tinplate export trade else- A member of the National The heavily where. port relies Union he of Railwaymen, was on this trade. accused of using a radio without Secondly, coal hoist is a new a false authority, broadcasting to be introduced onto the docks.

and derogatory statement regard- Management the plan to give ing an officer on board. intimidat- manning of this hoist to registered ing the assistant dockmaster and dockers rather than to the coal contravening harbour by-laws.

trimmers'. The men involved, who regard this work as tradition- His dismissal was speedy 8, and It was decided on May ally theirs, went on strike against ten hours later a letter inform- this move. FOUR SOLDIERS who took part in a fight sparked off by racial tension at Tidworth Royal Hussars, all pleaded guilty fined at Winchester to making an affrav at the bar- Court yesterday. O'Connor. racks last October. Sheerin and Gilroy Three of them, members of the also admit- First Battalion. Roval Scots, were ted possessing offensive weapons. Kerr fined f40 lured into an ambush by coloured

TATA

TAJ1TO

months' jail in default: O'Connor men whose girl friends they had a total of f110 with four months branded 'wog lovers', said Toseph Moloney, QC, prosecuting.

in default: Sheerin £80 with three The fourth coloured default; and Gilroy months in man. Hussars. the Roval £150 with six months in default.

private in admitted the Sir Joseph said yesterday that taking part in girl friends of the coloured men, ambush. members of the Third Oueen's William Kerr James Regiment, O'Connor • (20), • and were taunted Sheerin' (19), of the Royal Scots "Gilrov (20). of the Plainsman's Club: Harris and Des O'Connor said that the 'present dispute began when a • dredger 'crew-"returned port to after a 16-hour" shift to find that the time• had been entirely in- cluded. in their 40-hour basic rate. .: On hearing this, O'Connor he went immediately explained, the maragement. They see were not in fbeir offices. An- this cover nouncing the radio he threatened transmitter, ..to withdraw • the crews of two dredging vessels.

LUMP

Roy Thomas, chairman of a port liaison committee set up to 'lump' labour curtail the use of the docks, said: 'This dis- on missal is totally unjust.

'Yet this is supposed to be a nationalized industry. The only alternative to this management, who have created Des O'Connor's case, is workers' control' O'Connor is a founding mem- ber of the liaison committee, which embraces NUR members, engineers and mem- electricians, bers of the Transport and General Workers' Union. Two days later the coloured men, including Gilroy, collected knives and sent an advance party taunt the Scots into the club to and lead them into an ambush outside. A large number of the Royal Scots chased the coloured men from the hall and four of them were injured in the fight that followed. The trial was continuing yes-

NOW OPEN

terday of seven coloured men, privates in the Third Queen's denied Regiment y who háve Connected with the fight.

charges Workers Press, Thursday May 31, 1973 PAGE 3 A ROMAN Catholic priest and five other men accused of conspiring to cause ex- plosions were remanded in custody again at Coventry yesterday until next Monday.

One defence Mr solicitor, William Wilson, MP, said the likelihood of them coming to trial before the long vacation was 'a bit remote' and they faced a considerable period of custody.

Magistrates refused bail for the seventh time. The men, all from Coventry, are: the Rev Patrick Fell (32), priest assistant at All Souls Church, Earlsdon; Anthony Lynch fitter, (36), of Berkswell Road; Anthony McCormick e Road; en- of Sycamore mineer Thomas Rush (26), electrician's mate, of Browett Road; Herbert Kelly (28), builder's labourer, of Daimler Road; and Francis Stagg (31), driver, of Chetwode Close, Allesley Park. All six are charged with con- spiring with others to cause an explosion likely to endanger life; conspiring to damage or destroy property by fire; and conspiring to or destroy buildings damage without lawful excuse. Lynch is also accused of pos- sessing sodium chlorate, con- centrated nitric acid, wax, bal- loons, an alarm clock and seven micro-switches, intending to use allow them to used to or destroy or damage property.

Mr Peter Spencer, for the Director of Public Prosecutions, said the were alleged men to be members of an organization whose aim was to •cause ex- and damage plosions do in Coventry and elsewhere. The papers in the case would be served shortly. Mr Wilson and other defence solicitors renewed a protest that the six were being held as high prisoners in Winson security Birmingham, and Green Prison, in solitary confinement, were although they had not been con- victed of any offence.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday Mi 'Trade union leaders at best are cotton-wool Graham R. (34) is an EPTU shop steward in the South London area: alternative to the present parties whose policies are bankrupt. The role of the union leaders has now been exposed for what it is. They part and parcel of the are capitalist system. In the past, strong unions, like those at Ford's, could establish a good rate com- pared with others, like the hospital workers. But now the Pay Board gets at all workers and tries to con people into thinking it's 'fair' Now the competition be- tween the different capitalist countries has become so in- tense that each one is trying to cut production costs by cutting wage rates and intro- ducing measures like job- evaluation. All workers are subject to the same crisis to- day. It's necessary to have a system of production for need not profit. That means a planned economy, rather than one dependent on the market.

There's no answer except through a planned economy.

I came to politics because of the problems around me housing and the inefficiency and corruption of a system based on getting the quickest penny you could. Looking for you can look at an answer, several policies. The Labour Party just seems to want to shift the national income, to try to in- growth, but they're crease very little different from the Conservative Party. They don't want a different system. backs protest to a point. But when it comes to taking a stand, they back down. They covered up for Hugh Scanlon [engineers' president] when he said he would accept an amended Industrial Rela- tions Act. They all talk left, but when it comes to it, they are, not left at all. The Communist Party sup- ported him because they are a party of protest and that's all. In my own union, Chapple's philosophy is to increase pro- duction so our members will benefit. But my firm is in a competitive export mar- very ket. For them, increased pro- duction must be linked with cutting costs. That way increased produc- tivity will lead to lower wages, because there isn't an expand- ing market. And if we increase productivity, so will the other companies. We'll be competing with brother trade our unionists. Socialism means a planned The trade union economy. leaders don't support that. If anything, they're nationalists.

At best, they are cotton-wool reformistsy They don't provide ursday May 31, 1973 Hugh Right: Scanion--the CP covered up for him. Above: EPTU members on. the march. answer at all. They are an boom men. The sickness •of the cur- rencies show the sickness of industry, of capitalist each country's economy. They show the contradictions within the system itself. Whether it would be changed by putting a Labour government in committed to socialist policies, or by an alternative party, I'm not sure.

I can't see a Labour gov- even if it's pledged ernment, to socialist policies, carrying this out once it gets in.

The Labour Party needs to gain a few million votes to get into office and to get them it would promise anything.

It's a coalition of 'lefts' and rights. It's followed policy a of consensus politics, like the Tories, ever since the war and I can't see it changing. If it was put in on a draft manifesto of nationalizing the banks, land and industry, it wouldn't do it. But the very situation the leaders would find themselves in would expose them because they wauldn't have any answer to it. 1→..

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30 Steve and Marilyn Perkins live in Coventry. Steve toolroom worker at GEC and strike was

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Workers Press why he helping to build the revolu- tionary Marilyn 1S housewife. impor- most tant change for her has been the rapid rise in prices.

Housewives are waking up to how this government conned them' Marilyn: I think the rise in prices forcing just to us seriously think about the fu- ture and what kind of political organization the working class going to have. alc Every time you go into a shop prices It's not up. al t just the jam but the bread, and the margarine as well. find it and more more difficult to keep standards up.

don't eat the same way we used. to do. I never buy fruit.

used to bit of beef- but I can't ever buy this now.

The other meats are extremely expensive too. housewives are I think really beginning to wake up to how this government con- ned them. The trouble is that the housewifc has no one to turn to. The trade union leaders are traitors. I definitely think they need to be got rid of.

A big worry to me is the policy of putting the Labour Party back and then exposing them. I think this is a gamble —I would like to know exactly how this can be done. This is the first time I have really taken a serious active interest in politics. The miners' strike had a big in- fluence on me. I come from a family of miners. I thought their strike showed what the working class could do. If they had stayed out, the govern- ment would have come down.

Since then the workers have been divided up and taken on one by one by the Tories. But I think people will be forced to get together. I think with housewives the began as far back as process decimalization. They realized that the talk about price con- trol was a con. Since then, of course, it's be- obvious. come capitalist system, is in 'deep trouble' Steve: There is a lot of confusion in the working class over what a revolutionary party A lot of men think means. it's something to do with taking up arms. Of course we may well have to do this to defend what we have won from attack by the capitalists.

But revolution is mainly con- cerned with a change from one type of capitalist society to a socialist society. The other big worry is over the Soviet Union. People equ- ate socialism and communism with Russia. People are fright- ened of the word communism because of this. Of course, we have to explain that Russia Stalinist, not communast. The issue • is not just one of propaganda either. Events are moving now towards crisis.

The higher price of _ gold is the symbol of this. It shows how paper money, the main. t'are • of the capitalist system, stay Workers Press, 1 Coventry toolroom workers during the what the working class could do.

is in deep trouble. The workers in Coventry have been used to a relatively high standard . of living. But this is beginning to break up.

Men are really beginning to think twice about the struggles ws they are going in for A lot are in- suare just hoping that' things i wi will get better then they won't of a Press, Thursday May 31, 1973 PAGE 5 stewards uring the 1971 fight to maintain the tool- 1972. 'I thought their strike showed have to worry about unpleas- ant things like politics and revolutionary parties. In our strike they think the government might be behind the GEC strike, but they don't like to admit it. Conditions are being steadily eroded and with it' a whole way of thinking is going.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday May 31, 1

BY ROYSTON BULL

Two of the most ener- getic opponents of the plan to nationalize Britain's 25 largest com- panies as part of Labour's next programme have been former lefts' Michael Foot and lan Mikardo. Add to this Harold Wilson telling the combined Shadow Cabinet - National Executive Committee meeting that the Party conference can decide what it likes but the Parlia- mentary Labour Party will only do what it wants to; and banker Jim Callaghan scorn- ing the idea of nationalizing the banks, and the picture is complete. The Labour Party is in the hands of men who, whether 'left', centre, or right-wing, always compromise the will movement's socialist aspira- when faced with the tions 'realities' of office. And they will continue to do this, whoever such leaders are, for as long as the fight is Thursday May 31, 1973 confined to the parliamentary struggle. Parliament is a bourgeois institution which, since has fulfilled a 17th century, specific function within the bourgeois state machine. Two or more political par- play tweedledum and ties tweedledee in and out of office in attempts to regulate the economic and social rela- tions of capitalism. The whole thing is a decep- tion. remains State power firmly in the hands of the capitalist class whoever rules parliament. Labour in All leaders and their trade union counterparts, who abandon the challenge to the ruling class for its state power, are completely later sooner or absorbed by the bourgeois into immersing themselves in the treacherous two-party "demo- cracy'. Socialism, and the emanci- the working class pation of from wage labour, are quickly forgotten and before long the deeply Labourites are en- meshed in company director- ships and the other perks of life at the top. From to time, the time Labour MPs put on a big show conscience' 'socialist and march with demonstrators or left-sounding utter some phrases in order to cover the working themselves with class. But when it comes to getting something done, there are always endless excuses as to why it couldn't be man- aged. This contradiction, a Labour leadership which serves the capitalist system and can do the working very little for class, is becoming more and more acute as the crisis dis- rupts old-established relations and makes capitalist rule less and less tenable. It is part of the crisis of leadership of the working class and leads to increasing anta- gonism and a disruption of old relationships within the Labour Party and trade union move- ment itself. But because of the inability of the Labourites to make any serious analysis of the pro- cesses taking place within the whole of society and affecting the labour movement, all that is produced compounds their crisis. The reformists, in short, are the mire of stuck as deeply in insoluble contradiction as they ever were. The younger back- room men write fierce denun- ciations of capitalism and pro- radical-sounding pose some The older changes. guard, ( with more experience of living capitalism, tone things with down in order to achieve the maximum 'appeal' to the elec- torate. But they all start from the same premise: public opinion must be convinced that Lab- our ideas are far better than Tory or Liberal ideas. They feel they must get across to the electorate how much cleverer Labourites are than Tories and will run capitalism so much better. This is largely an illusion. There is little to choose be- tween a set of grammar school opportunists and Oxbridge leavened by careerist some trade unionists on one side and the Eton and Oxbridge oppor- tunists on the other. Roy Jenkins, former deputy leader. His supporters kr pushed Britain into the monopolists' Common Marke socialism altogether. connection with nationalization shopping list. Above right: Harold Wil to the chief representative of the capitalist class.

There is a lot of graft and jobs-for-the- corruption and boys on both sides at every of operation. level Party's The Labour new policy document starts with a great lie. democratic 'We are a Socialist Party and proud of it. We put principies of demo- er. His supporters kept the Tory government i ists' Common Market and now want to sever Above Foot. He op left: Michael ove right: Harold Wilson extends another help cracy and socialism considerations of privi market economics. A few lines later, it 'Crucial levers of and economic power in irresponsible privat Crude market forc allowed a far too d role. This is the mair for our miserable record, for the scandalous rise in house prices, and for the continuing of financial speculators power to influence national economic policy! rest of the 200-page The document can be ignored. The whole treachery and bank- ruptcy of the reformists is con- tained in these few lines.

The first point to make is that no how matter many Labour Party policy documents and Fabian pamphlets identify capitalism as the enemy, noth- ing is ever going to be done about it by the Parliamentary Labour Party. The only 'principle' the PLP will ever observe is never to allow the 'principles of demo- socialism' to inter- cracy and fere with the age-old busiress of playing verbal games with the Tories in the House of Commons chamber on about 30 days a year each, on aver- age, and on the other 335 days a year attending to their many directorships, other company business interests, free junkets and other trips, and working in their constituency to make sure they get re-elected.

n power, for Labour's What was democratic, poses a example, about the 69 Labour ng hand MPs who defied Party Confer- ence policy and voted with the Tories for Britain's entry above into the monopolists Common ege and Market, which has since led to intolerable food price rises adds: inancial for the working class? it are still What service to was that their undemo- hands. socialism cratic action allowed the are minant remain Tories to in office when, if the Labour Party and reason other anti-Marketeers had voted together, the Heath gov- ernment could have been brought down? What business interests went undeclared when those 69 Labour MPs voted for the businessmen's coalition of the

EEC.

What are the Labour leaders to do about Lonrho, going surely a case of irresponsible private hands'? The one thing Wilson won't do is make a pledge to nationalize it.

And what happened when Anthony Wedgwood Benn re- peated Labour Party policy over the case of Rolls-Royce Motors, which the Tories plan to sell off to private interests after the parent company had been rescued from bankruptcy of with millions of pounds public funds? Wilson instantly repudiated the pledge to renationalize the without compensa- company tion when Labour returns to power. As for being democratic, the Labour leadership shows more treachery on this issue than on almost any other. Whenever real socialists have developed a movement inside the Labour Party, they have quickly been expelled happened and proscribed. It to the young Communist Party in the 1920s when the organ- ization still had some links Bolshevism: it happened with in 1959 when the successors to the revolutionary tradition, the Socialist Labour League, were declared anathema; and it happened again in 1964 when the supporters of 'Keep Workers Press, Thursday Left' had won a majority in the Young Socialists for the second year running. But throughout the Labour Party's history, right wingers of every description have not only been allowed to continue within the Party, but have fre- quently risen into the top lead- ership. Some have actually joined the Tory Party. Others have limited themselves to the reactionary most right-wing attacks on the trade union movement. Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Robens, Lord Shawcross, Lord George-Brown, Ray Gunter and Sir Oswald Mosley are only the more notorious. The present Shadow Cabinet is full of the most Tory-minded men whose whole life is dedicated to the capitalist system, known deceitfully the 'mixed as economy'. Roy Jenkins, Dick Taverne and company remained in the leadership up to quite recently, although their support for the and their capitalist system wish to divert the Party from the socialist-trade union tradi- tion was well known. The Labour leaders are the agents of the capitalist class within the workers' movement.

They act as the transmission bourgeois thinking, belt for which holds back trade union- ists from ever challenging the ruling class for state power.

They and must, be can, exposed in this treacherous role so that the working class break from reformism. can This can only come about in the struggle bring to socialist policies as a solution 4s Press, Thursday May 31, 1973

PAGE 7

to the economic crisis. Useful reforms have been won by the strength of the working class during various Labour administrations in the past, but that period of history is now over. With the ending of the long inflationary Bretton Woods boom, the capitalist class all over the world is forced in- increase its at- evitably to tacks on the working class in its quest for more profits.

facing the The future now working class is not one of making reformist gains through compromises with the em- fighting ployers, but of to defend every past gain includ- ing its most basic democra- tic and trade union rights.

To defend these gains from Tory the government's on- slaught in the courts and cor- poratist institutions like the Pay Board, a completely new level of struggle is required.

Only by a determined cam- paign to mobilize the strength of the trade union and labour movement for the removal of the Tories and adoption the of policies to nationalize, with- out compensation and under workers' control, all major industries will the Labour leaders be completely Party isolated and discredited.

The 12 million workers who vote Labour have nothing in with the bourgeois common opportunists who comprise the Party leadership. Only by unit- ing and winning those workers for socialist in the fight demands will tha parasite- leaders be forced off the back of the working class.

TROTSKYISM

AND STALINISM

PAGE 8

Workers Press, Thursday May 31, 1973 Since May-June 1968, the Soviet Stalinists have been haunted by the spectre of revolution in western Europe and the growth of Trotskyism in the advanced countries in the west. Fearful of losing their parasitic privileges at home and their control of the labour movement abroad, the Soviet bureaucracy has begun a campaign to once again discredit and distort the principles and history of Trotsky's struggle for the regenera- tion of the USSR and the world-wide revolution of the work- ing class. The Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 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 the relations between Lenin and Trotsky. In this series of articles MICHAEL BANDA replies to this book.

Pilsudski to rally the peasant masses on the basis of bitter When Lord Curzon, the of Great Russian memories repression under the Isars.

British Foreign Minister, Lenin hoped that the Red on July Il, proposed Army intervention in Poland 1920, that Britain should would spark revolution there of the and that the arrival mediate between the Red Red Germany's Army on Army and the badly. frontier would have a similar battered Poles, who had effect in Germany too. These hopes proved illusory: tried to invade the the Soviet forces, as Trotsky Ukraine, the Bolshevik had feared, were defeated and leadership rejected routed on the Vistula before his Warsaw. The offensive owed offer by a majority. its failure not only to the Instead, Lenin favoured 'a unfavourable political con- furious of speeding-up the juncture and to its adven- offensive on Poland'. turistic character, but also Trotsky, who opposed Lenin the personal, subjective to Politburo, the favoured on ambition of the political com- halting the Red Army at the misar in charge of the southern Joseph Curzon line Stalin. previously pro- invasion army, the frontier by posed the Stalin wanted to cover him- as British Foreign self in glory by Minister and entering the offer. making a public peace town of Lvov at the same time Lenin and the Politburo as Tuchachevsky, commanding majority favoured carrying the the northern wing of the army, pursuit of the Poles into War- Warsaw. This was entering Trotsky and beyond. saW ambition ran completely con- correctly feared that an trary to the requirements of 1n- vasion even by the Red Army, the plam of battle because it would inflame Polish •national- opened a widening gulf be- sentiment• and enable. ist tween the two wings of the Red forces. Demands from Moscow to close the gap were ignored by Stalin and it was into the gap between the two armies that Pilsudski-advised by Marshal Foch-aimed his successful counter stroke. Contrary to Stalinist legend, Lenin did not believe in • the conception that socialism built in a could be single country. He was prepared to gamble for high stakes in the hope of provoking revolution abroad and assisting the wor- kers of the west to come to the aid of the Soviet Union by overthrowing their own bourgeoisie. His position contains not a of the bureaucratic trace nationalist prejudice embodied in the Philistine concept of 'peaceful co-existence' The Polish episode alone gives the lie to • the version of the Brest-Litovsk events put forward by the editors of 'Against Trotskyism'. It Lenin's demonstrates that thought was dominated by the "Trotskyist' idea that revolu- tion in the west was essential to save the Soviet Union from degeneration and defeat and that he was prepared even to undertake a sally into Poland to try and hasten this process. The defeat on the Vistula in the west enabled the White Guard forces of General Wrangel to invade the Cau- casus in the south. As a result the Soviets signed a provisional peace with Poland in October 1920. This peace proved extremely precarious because Pilsudski, be backed by the enterte powers, the hoped to nullity it and resume had hostilities. If the Soviets fallen for Pilsudski's intrigues, the consequences for the USSR would have proved far more serious than those which might have attended Trotsky's refusal to sign • the Brest- Litvosk treaty. All the calumny and dis- tortion of the Soviet Press and historians cannot hide the fact that it was Trotsky's unbend- ing determination to avoid advance another disastrous onto Warsaw which alone saved the Bolshevik regime and enabled it to meet the severe challenge of the tran- wn sition from War Communism to the New Economic Policy of 1921. Isaac Deutscher in the 'Prophet Armed' describes the curious reversal of roles be- tween Lenin and Trotsky in this historically-famous epi- sode. "Trotsky relates that Lenin was at first inclined towards war, but only half-heartedly: Trotsky insisted At any rate, on peace and on the loyal observance of the provisional treaty with Poland; and once again he found himself in danger of being outvoted and reduced to the dutiful execu- tion of a policy he abhorred.

'From this he at last shrank.

He decided that the differences went so deep that this time he would not feel bound by majority decision or by any Politburo solidarity and that, if outvoted, he would appeal to the party against its leader- ship. 'He used a threat similar to that which Lenin had, with overwhelming effect, used in. an rs,: the controversy. over Brest; . an and. he, too,. achieved..his... CC Polish commander, Pilsudski. Above: Trotsky addresses Red Army troops before they leave for the Polish front to fight Pilsudskl. ... for now Lenin purpose deserted the war faction and shifted his influence to back Trotsky. Peace was saved.' (The Prophet Armed', Oxford University Publishers, 1954, ice p. 469.) Far from weakening the nd USSR the controversies be- tween Lenin and Trotsky on tactics and even aspects of strategy did strengthen the collaboration of these leaders and contributed the to strengthening of the Soviet state and party leadership.

The Polish events are, in this sense, the most damning of the Stalinist- exposure idealist attempt to portray Lenin as an impeccable Pope of Communism and Trotsky as in ": an, incorrigible Beelzebub', of st;; ". anti-Bolshevismai his..- CONTINUED FOMORROW..:

TV REVIEW

BY ANNE BLACKMAN

'Jumping for the Jelly Beans.'

Produced Peter Riding. BBC 1. Laurle Lee's 'C|dor with Rosie'. Screenplay by Hugh Whitemore. Producer Ann Kirch. Director Ciaude Whatham.

BBC 1.

The ways and means for keeping the workers in their place grow ever more ingenious. One of the latest concepts goes under the heading "job enrichment'-and this is a notion full of great potential for those wiser employers who now dis- cern that fatter profits and higher productivity levels cannot be achieved by the whip, or even the bribe, alone.

BBC 1

gave us the edifying spectacle of one of America's popular industrial and social psychologists, Professor Fred Herzberg, playing up to an audience of managers in 'Jumping for the Jelly Beans' and giving them the inside story on how to keep their workers' happy in the new 'enlightened' way. Herzberg, leering and cavorting, displayed the sort of geniality that a gorilla might do before embarking on its dinner and came up with™: one tidy little theory after an- other, covering up tired old exploitative notions with bright new names. Between jokes, he explained that 'people can be made to do almost anything if you bribe them or threaten them enough' and that the 'quickest and easiest way to make some- one do something' was to 'kick them in the arse' or the KITA method, as he quaintly pronounced it. By treating people well, on the other hand, he went on, you can get a fair day's work -that is to say 'about half of what the worker can really do'. Rewards of course, he nudged his audience, are crude and ineffectual since a re- ward, once given, 'becomes a right - so if the bonuses don't keep coming, then you are going to get lower and lower rates of performance.

Then he got on to what he called the "motivators': the things which really count when it comes to extracting Stephen Grendon as Laurie in 1918 in the best performance out of a man or woman: that is "a sense of achievement, meaning- ful and interesting work and increased responsibility. This is the stuff that does the trick from the management point of view. Then there were all sorts of tips he handed out to his enraptured audience. What he called 'hygiene'— work conditions, status, pay all important etc.-were things. 'Employers seem to think no time for I've got money', he said plaintively and stressed how wrong they were and how all-embracing on such aspects his theories were. 'Communication' is also im- allowing portant i.e. the worker to actually speak to the man above, below or at his side. And a built-in feedback to keep patting the worker on the back in all sorts of subtle ways, to make him feel this sense of achievement he needs to keep him functioning at top pace. Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37Łp ¿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 SW470G in 1918 in the BBC's heavily sentimental progr Finally 'to deny people fair treatment with the declara- tion that you will make it up to them later' brings the worst possible results as it induces revenge psychology' in the man. "This is seen so often in relations' labour says Herz- berg. "The workers who will "look what say, years later, those bastards did to us years ago"!' To cap a perfect evening and a perfect performance, Herzberg earnestly stated that 'when the employer says the worker hasn't been treated well and it's because we don't respect him enough and its all our fault' •.. when that day comes then a new understand- ing will be with us all. Naturally he didn't give a this idyll date for to com- mence, but implied it as some sort of mystical state workers and management will enter into at the appropriate point in man's history. This kind of monstrous psychological research and application technique of Cannon fodder The stench of the workhouse, which surrounds the Tory pro- posals for cutting the price of surplus butter for sale to pen- sioners and those on Social Security, brought home to a Wigan reader that the capitalist class has not changed in its contempt and hatred for the working class, including those workers it uses in its armies.

So a paragraph in one of those '100 years ago' features they sometimes run in the pro- vincial Press struck him par- ticularly sharply. It concerned a veteran of the that. insane imperial- ist adventure in, which the, ad Workers Press, Tr ntal programme 'Cider With Rosie', on the child underlies most industrial prac- tice today throughout the capitalist world, although the US has always inclined to a more naked style-in the end Herzberg's jokes and his puny theorizing can only be exposed as the obscene techniques of a desperate employing class bent on squeezing out the last drop of productivity from their employees on all levels.

The fact that the ruling class must resort to such abuses of psychology and of work itself and the working class, with such convoluted measures, is an indication in itself of the scale of the trade war and currency crises that pressurize management at this time. There seems to be all sorts of sugar around to coat the various pills — Laurie Lee's 'Cider With Rosie', a Monday night play on BBC I was an- other dollop of nothing so much as syrup to take our minds off more or less any reality that might have danger- lives of hundreds of working- class soldiers were sacrificed as cannon-fodder to the whim of an incompetent, megalomaniac aristocrat, Lord Cardigan.

But where even for Cardi.

gan's officers there was a touch of glory, for the shattered there only survivors was degradation. Reported the 'Wigan Obser- ver' May 1873: 'John Aspden (42), a former soldier, applied to the Relief Officer last week for admission to the workhouse. served in the Crimean War and took part in the famous "Charge of the Light Brigade". 'He was wounded and trapped under his horse and later treated for his wounds by Miss Florence Nightingale.'

Aspen's experience will have a familiar ring to many of those returning, as broken ht, cannon-fodder, from. US im-.

al-: perialism's genocidal Vietnam.: he, adventure. Press, Thürsday May 31, 1973 PAGE 9 › the childhood of Laurie Lee.

ously crept in to disturb us.

Hugh Whitemore gave cleverly restrained adaptation of the West Country poet's heavily sentimental portrait of his childhood in a country village during the World War I period. Rosemary Leach, Catherine Lacey, Freda Dowie and many others in a fine cast did what they could to liven this awe- some fable of romance and 'goodness', where the air was always full of honeysuckle and roses, tables were laden with food, the sun shone and Mother, in her most idealized fulsome objectionable form, dominated the proceed- with persistent cheer and nothing so dirty or mean as conflict or despair crept in to mar the whole ludicrous fantasy. As the BBC smiles more determinedly into the eyes of its viewers, the world outside is convulsed with crisis and scandal and makes a mockery of every programme. A veteran. of - Vietnam, in- an valided Marine in US hospital.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday May 31, 1973

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ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

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Head, Wardsword June

BASILDON:

Thursday May 'Nag's Head', p.m. Community bannstao e 'Build Centre. 'The trade unions and the Road. revolutionar party Tory government' Bells', High Street,

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Thursday 31, May ing): Tuesday June 5, 8 p.m. fight to defend Stalinism and the Ruskin House, p.m. Coombe Talbot 'Engin- democratic rights' 'Forward to the Belle Vue Road. and the fight against the eers conference'.

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Monday June Tory government. Council for Social p.m.

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11 note date LUTON: Sunday, June 3, 6 p.m. vune horease Small Hall, Recreation Centre, Room Brixton change), 8 p.m. Adeyfield Hall, Queen's Square. 'Build the revo Old 'Build Centre. Build the revolutionary Bedford Revolutionary Party. rarty lutonary party.

Triang workers in Merthyr must

THE 1971

census re- vealed more homeless- and overcrowding ness than ever before. Yet, under the Tories, fewer houses have been built and fewer slums de- molished while house and land prices rocket. London alone 362,515 people (5 per cent of the population) are living more than It persons a room. In 1966 295,180 people, or 4 per cent of the population, lived at more than ls persons a room. 553,235 people in London (7.7 per cent of the population have no fixed bath; 440,060 (6.1 per cent) have no hot water supply; and 529,074 (7.4 per cent) have an outside toilet. This is a class question. There are 99,730 houses standing empty in Greater London, while at least 12,000 families are homeless.

MAGNATE

Meanwhile a certain Rosemary Kanzler is selling her Hyde Park Gardens flat for £350,000, and shipping magnate Ravı likkoo has just paid £500,000 for a house on Hampstead Heath. But it is growing more and impossible for working- more class families and even middle- class families to buy a house.

The average price of new houses mortgaged with building societies in the second quarter of 1970 when the Tories took office was £5,082. By the fourth quarter of 1972 it had gone up to £8,571 -an increase of 69 per cent.

The corresponding figures for second-hand houses were £4,778 and £8,639an increase of 80 per cent. prices have more than Land doubled since 1969, the last year before the Tory election victory.

Land was then averaging £840 per plot. In 1970 it was £920 TRIANG WORKERS at Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, meet today to discuss resist- to the management's ance plans to rationalize at the Cyfarthta plant to close down at Cefn. The management has served 175 redundancy notices, clos- ing one factory, intending to rationalize the other with the possibility of 196 vacancies if a long-term wage and pro- ductivity deal is agreed by the unions concerned. In September 1971 the crisis- prone _toy industry was shaken when Lines Brothers, the owners of Triang, were almost forced to go into liquidation. Asset-stripper John Bentley capitalizing on this took over the firm and proceeded to close •:..the : Mobo. Toy. firm in Erith, :. ap!

per plot, in 1971 £1,050 and last year £1,770. But these figures, taken from Hansard, hide even more astro- 'Estates nomical rises. The Gazette' shows much higher prices. For example, the median price per plot in Sussex stood at £1,700 in 1967-1968, but rose to £7,500 in 1972. Other high price counties are Gloucestershire, €5,408; Hamp- shire, £5,000; Wiltshire, £4,818; and Northampton £4,000. The table shows how building land prices per acre have shot up in the last year— in some cases by over 300 per cent.

PROFIT

This situation provides almost unlimited profit opportunities for ropertv companies and specu- lators. According to the 'Financia Times, companies' property profits last year were up by between 41.6 per cent and 50.1 per cent. While profits soar in this way, the number of houses being built Last year is falling. 330,751 houses were completed - the Kent, sacking 500 workers.

He transferred production to Triang's Merton, South London.

factory, which . was also closed in June 1972 with 1,500 redundancies. Bentley claimed that he in- tended to expand instead the two factories in Merthyr, an area of high unemployment and cheap labour. Stewards and workers at Merton, whose reward for work- ing productivity deal a and turning a threatened €100,000 loss into a £98,000 profit in six months was the sack. They : taken by sur- completely were prise by the closure. training officer had A new been appointed and vacancies 'good prospects' offering were th,.. appearing in the local paper. the... Mu 1963. lowest total since And fewer slum houses cleared were than at any time in the last seven years. Tory policy is nowhere more clearly expressed than in housing —luxury for the rich, squalor for the poor and enormous profiteer- ing all along the line. The housing problem is an essential part of capitalism. As Frederick Engels explained 'The Housing Question' 1872: The housing shortage.. is a necessary, product the bourgeois social order; it cannot fail to be present in a society which the great labouring masses are exclusively dependent upon wages, that is A LEADING Democratic Sena- tor yesterday called on General Alexander Haig to either resign from the army or 'step down from his present position as President Nixon's White House chief of staff. Senator William Proxmire said in a statement: "Two hundred years of military tradition and good sense have been violated by General Haig's day before the factory closed.

Merton's Frank convenor, Goss, said • after the closure: 'We took on professionals as amateurs and got beaten.'

Bentley made a fat profit from the deal, by selling the Merton site for building purposes.

In December 1972, the firm, along with Chad Valley, was taken over by the Iranian-born Davoud Alliance and associates who, because of the squeeze of economic crisis on manufacturing, is now forced to rationalize and speed-up the two factories in Wales. The five unions at the factor- ies are totally unprepared and no joint policy has been agreed. General and Already the be... Municipal. Workers' Union. has «'pos Workers Prose, Thur

RESIDENTIAL LAN

London (0-20 miles) ..• London (21-40 miles) Birmingham (0-12 miles) ••. Birmingham (13-25 miles) ••• Cheshire •.. ••• Derby •.. ••. •.. Gloucester ••• ••. Hampshire ••• Kent ••. ••• Lancashire ... :.. ••. Lincoln •.. Norfolk ••. ... ... Northampton ••• ••• ••• Nottingham ••• ••• ••. Somerset ... Sussex Wiltshire York Source: 'Estate Gazette', ', 7.4.73. The lis of land sold with planning permission upon the quantity of means of subsistence necessary for their existence and the propagation of their kind; in which improve- ments of the machinery, etc.

continually throw masses of workers out of employment...

in which the workers are crowded together in masses in the big towns at a quicker rate than dwellings come into exist- ence for them under the prevail- ing conditions; in which, there- fore, always be there must tenants for the most even infamous pigsties; and in which houseowner in finally the capacity as capitalist has not only right but, by reason of com- petition, to a certain extent also the duty of ruthlessly making as much out of his property in house rent as he possibly can.

acceptance of a political post in the White House. It compromises the military and it compromises the political process.' General Haig, who until May 4 served as Vice-Chief of Staff with the army, was appointed by President Nixon to take over the duties of Mr H. R. (Bob) Haldeman, who resigned in the publicity of the Watergate scan- g's dal as Nixon's Chief of Staff.

accepted the full redundancies and shop stewards, led by con- Gerald Morgan, are venor negotiating with, management on wages and productivity. Arthur Jones, AUEW shop steward and Communist Party member, was given money in lieu of a week's notice on Friday and told not to return. At a joint engineers' and electricians' meeting on Satur- day, comprising all maintenance workers, it was decided that Jones would turn up for work at the Cyfarthfa factory after the Whit holiday on Thursday morn- ing and a factory gate meeting would be held to decide on action for the week. It is clear that the union leadership must raise at today's meeting a demand for Jones' immediate reinstatement with a joint policy completely rejecting the redundancies and the pro- as' '"'posed', productivity, deal:..

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ITIAL LAND PRICES -

Median Price per acre Increase 1971 1972 % 121,000 74 69,540 43,030 62,501 45 24,890 38,571 55 20,328 30,108 48 28,384 120 12,857 7,999 14,750 84 11,350 32,500 186 24,792 53,040 114 21,590 47,826 121 15,500 31,343 102 10,483 3,791 228 4,524 19,710 335 35,784 9,212 288 15,760 7,300 115 8,739 23,008 163 34,491 57,777 67 34,377 257 9,629 7,083 14,948 111 .73. The list denotes the auction prices permission for residential development.

Housing scene in London. In such a society the housing shortage is no accident; it is a necessary institution and can be abolished together with all its effects on health, etc., only if the whole social order from which springs fundamentally refashioned.

Figures from Labour Research

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WATER HAD been seeping i at least three months before th which killed seven men, the Lo was told yesterday at Wakefield And two weeks before mud and water swept through the mine, conditions were so bad that face men were granted special water payments. The inquiry, led by Chief Mines Inspector Mr William Calder, heard the first of 50 wit- nesses yesterday. Two weeks before the disaster a deputy and a machine-cutter had felt there was so much water on the coal face that they had asked an overman about it.

They claimed that on both occasions Mr Raymond Sparkes told them he believed the water was coming from old shafts and workings behind and to the left of the coal face. Yorkshire Questioned by miners' acting general secretary, Arthur Soargill, Mr Sparkes dis- closed he knew about the work- ings because he had seen them marked on a map in the under- manager's office. He said: 'I reported the water to the under-manager a week before the accident because it was unusual to find it in the Flockton seam. I understood he was going down the same day to have a look at it. But I don't know if he did.' Mr Sparkes said water was bubbling out of the floor at various points along the advanced coal face--yards from two cen- tury-old waterlogged pits.

He confirmed the testimony of other witnesses that there had

BY DAVID MA

LOCKED-OUT electricians at the Ind Coope brewery extension site, Romford, foiled have attempts to install 'lump' labour following their summary dismis- sal last week. The dismissals came last Fri- day, when the 30 men were ex- pecting to hear that their W. T. contractors parkere Ltdo conceded Parker had improvements in pay and safety conditions on the site. Talks with a company direc- tor nine days ago had broken amicably, with the men's up convinced they representatives had won their case. But instead of a handshake on a new deal, Friday brought a slap in the face. Letters from the company told the men not only that it had no intention of pay- ing them an increase, but that it was sacking them all on the spot.

The letters accused the elec- 'unconstitu- of using tricians obtain in- tional' methods and conditions outside creases laid down by the Joint those Industry Board. Parker's offered to consider the re-employment, a week later, All Trade rsday May 31, 1973 nen were on spec

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efore the disaster on March 21 akefield.

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Bemand , Coln Bar Charles Cotten, Alan Haigh a been a stagnant smell which he assumed came from the water.

The coal face was pushed to within 35 yards of the two aban- doned engine and bye pits.

Both are clearly marked on , for the inquiry maps drawn up under the supervision of National Coal Board area chief surveyor and mineral manager, Mr Victor Bown. Deputy, Mr Arnold Rose, who had been alarmed by the appear- ance of so much water, told the inquiry: 'For three months water had been seeping into my section of the face.

DAVID MAUDE

he of those men who were pre- pared to work within the JIB rules. Any increases, the letters insisted, were ruled out not only by the JIB but by the Tory pay- control laws. Contact immediately • was with the Electrical and made Plumbing Trades Union, whose full-time Pinfold oficial Tom said yesterday he was awaiting a company reply to his demand for the full reinstatement of his members. Picketing of the site, in Rom- ford High Street, began on Saturday morning and altogether half of them about 20 men, 'lump' workers from London, were turned away. the picket-line yesterday, On electricians dismissed the accusa- tion that they had breached JIB rules or agreements. The agreement they had ex- pected to conclude on Friday, they pointed out, was based entirely on offers made by the firm. three-day safety campaign A which ended with the talks last week, had been directed purely at enforcing the minimum legal safety standards. Trades Unions Alliance Cont Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Pa

ERS WHO DIED

Sldnay Brown n Haigh and Wiliam Armilage 'Up to a fortnight before the incident I wasn't too concerned because you often get seepage.

But then I started to get worried and I asked the overman where it could be coming from. 'After I had raised it with Mr Sparkes I was satisfied the people responsible for planning the face knew of the old workings ahead and that it was approaching the Lofthouse boundary' Further testimony to the peril- ous state of the face was given Mr Albert by trepanner Thackery (46), who missed be- ing among the victims by a single shift.

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Electricians picketin • Conference: To discuss de oo Park: Manchester-Sunda He said: "The water had been accumulating for a fortnight and had a distinctive smell with it.

My mates who worked in the forward heading (coal face) said water was plentiful there. I don't think that amount of water could have come from the dust sup- pressors and water from chocks was mixed with oil so you could recognize it. The water on the face had a different smell.'

Mr Thackery stressed repeat- edly that there was no water along the tailgate (start of the face) but only along the main gate (advance face)-and yards from the old waterlogged work- ings. Deputy Tom Killen (35) testi- fied that as miners sliced the coal shift before the face on the seeping disaster water was through. Mr Killen admitted he knew of old shafts in the vicinity because, he said, he had heard overmen talking about it. Quizzing witnesses, Willett,

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spokesman Dr H. director general of mining, sought to establish that on the day of the disaster conditions at the face of division S9B were normal.

All the witnesses agreed that they were, but pointed out that enormously from these varied shift to shift. Mr Sparkes said: 'There was no water in the advance heading the afternoon before the disaster.

afternoon before that But the there was about one-and-a-half inches.'

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