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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JUNE 5, 1973 • No 1090 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE UNION leaders took another step along the road to the corporate state yesterday when they pre- sented their case for a Phase Three pay rise for hospital workers to the Pay Board.

A four-man team from the union side of the hospital workers' national pay nego- tiating body went to the board's Westminster offices yesterday afternoon.

Led by Alan Fisher, general secretary of the National Union of Public Employees, they saw board member Derek Robinson, the man responsible for drawing up Phase Three recommend- ations for submission to the Tory government.

Fisher said: We are taking the government its word and testing their sincerity.*

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of the union members delegation were Peter Evans

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General Wor- Transport and Union, Charles

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DonneL General ang Municipal workers and David Confedera- tion of Health Em- DIoyees But Fisher, Evans. although and Donnet Williams

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oniv union colers pnysicaly pre FU Gene feather ee, announ the Victor carried and the It was Feather who announ- ced, only Saturday, on that General Council negotiators will holding another round talks the Tories on June The of these talks, yul pose which started behind the backs of the working class, is a dirty deal over Phase Three. What is of more was. the whole General Coun- COurSC. Smiling their Pier (NUP: Charles Donnet (GaMWU), David Wiliams (COSE), Peter Evans and Alan which berraved the nosotal

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courageous battle against the pay laws, tory admission on March 5 that what Yesterday's visit to the Pay their March 5 promise netin. on Board by the hospital unions is Was OSCUSSIOn

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of co-ordinated action' in sup- Tories in the last round of talks no means the first evidence port of those fighting the laws.

deal collaboration. was wage-restraint un- Particular respe efts) here for the Board oreccacnica ocaccumcin SpoKesman fall "lefts' Hugh other words, corporatism.

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said that a number otunions Both Scanlon and Jones, whose in some cases or sentine bad scanion and Jack jones, wno sal silent on the TUC Finance and could enormously numbers union have workers, large Purposes Committee General strengtnened the nosoira!

STrIKe already been incontact in by mobilizing transport driver way me of them had asked for when une noso la workers were refused help. have remained silent in the latest issue of names to be kept secret. Scanlon, Feather's latest their insult to the his engineers union Tournal says workins cass nis statement asi the union chiefs are prepared to week that the union chiefs will One union that has sent the go as far as is needed to reach a deal with the Tories, Board documentation for a phase keep to if possible, whatever claim the agreement in the talks with the next sep- Union

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tember's says about the Workers. Tories. rost once when was He in no way repudiates his yesterday still waiting for the TV companies fear film union's strength Frank

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court chairman Sir Hugh Griffiths Bickerton, that Independent television -which companies yesterday dispute Inal Ine companies were JeSS Ine worried about the financial loss refused awarded an injunction attend the

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drainst this blacking, om 1 rsion aroses in the Coa over particular the hilm-television

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which division nicians' union, by the Industrial anects CovernmenC Can- arose Relation Court. They paigns on smoking report were etc.. COaT secret THer government fear of the powerful effect such Sir Ronald Melville end the blacking Structed to action could have in which industrial recommended commercials certain television with effect Friday. TUTUre WOrR Counsel The director-general should be handed over to private for the companies, ot the Central Office of Information, interests. Leighton Davis, agreed with the NE 5, 1973 • No 1090 4p

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), David Williams (COHSE), Peter Evans Board to fix a date for an actual meeting. It is likely that a date will be fixed before the UPW executive meets on Thursday. The UPW claims that its posi- tion towards the Board is one of 'armed neutrality. This is bunk.

What is happening is that the TUC has turned retreat into a rout. Hard on the UPW's heels will come the civil servants. who were also refused strike aid by the TUC Finance and General Purposes Committee. unions' The hospital case affects some 220.000 workers and is based on the fact that the authority local workers, who settled before Heath's announce- ment of standstill last a pay November. got £2.40 while the hospital workers got only £1.80- As it stands the case can only be a contribution to the Board's study of the anomalies problem which will exist when Phase Two ends in the autumn. There is no commitment for the government to grant special case awards.

The more the union chiefs

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the fishing The battle in grounds around Iceland are reaching a climax with charges and counter charges of aggression and violence. The men in the Britain's deep- middle are sea fishermen. But whose war are they fighting? investi- Workers Press has gated the economic and political issues behind the conflict. The series starts on Wednesday with the views of Hull's fishing community.

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workers press Four join in dangerous collaboration

HOSPITAL UNIONS

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JUNE 5, 1973 • No 1090 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE UNION leaders took another step along the road to the corporate state yesterday when they pre- sented their case for a Phase Three pay rise for hospital workers to the Pay Board.

A four-man team from the union side of the hospital workers' national pay nego- tiating body went to the board's Westminster offces yesterday afternoon.

Led by Alan Fisher, general secretary of the National Union of Public Employees, they saw board member Derek Robinson, the man responsible for drawing up Phase Three recommend- ations for submission to the Tory government.

Fisher said: "We are taking the government its word and testing their sincerity!'

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of the union menders delegation were Peter Evans of

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Transport and General Wor- Union Charles

KCIS

Donnel General ano Municipal workers and David Williams Confedera- Service tion Health Em- •Joyces But Fisher, Evans, Donnet and Milliams were the won caters paysically pre sent, the Victor certainly carried the ic Ge Yral CoUnt with them.

Feather and It was Feather who announ- ced, Saturday, that only™ on General Council negotiators will holding another round talk Thei with the Tories on June of purpose these talks, which started behind the backs of the working class, is a dirty deal over Phase Three. What of more it course, the whole General Coun- board (1 to r): Charles Donnet (G&MWU), David Williams (COHSE), Peter Evans (TaGWU) and Man Fisher (NUPE) which berraved the nosotal workers' courageous battle Tory against the pay laws, Yesterday's admission on March 5 that what visit to the Pay their March 5 promise Board by the hospital unions WaS Walte of 'co-ordinated action' in sup- Tories in the last round of talks by no means the first evidence port of those fighting the laws.

was wage-restraint deal of collaboration. un- Particular responsibility here for the Board Dreccuculcu wealtic l SOOKCollidil fall the Hugh "letts' other words, corporatism. musu number of unions. Both in see cases or enter bidd scanion ana jack jones, wno sal silent on the TUC Finance and could numbers union enormously workers, Purposes Committee General strengthened the hospital

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alreddy been mobilizing transport driver way or another. when use Rosollai workers refused help. silent Some of them had asked for to be kept secret. Scanlon, in the latest issue of Feather's latest the their names insult to said. his engineers Won loured. says workine cass is saenemasi the union chiefs are prepared to week that the union chiefs will One union that has sent the needed to reach keep to a deal with the Tories, Board documentation for a Phase as as lar whatever Sep- Three claim the Union agreement in the talks with the LeXI Workers, says about the _i ories. temper s wolco was yesterday still waiting for the He in no way repudiates his TV companies fear film union's strength court chairman Sir Hugh Griffiths Frank Bickerton,

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revealed Independent television with ACTT-which companies were yesterday That line companies were JeSs Ine ans oute awarded worried about the financial loss refused an injunction aliena the court axallist this blacking, over 18 redundancies in the

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the over particular hilm-television reco film which division nicians' union, the Industrial by anects government al use VUl Relation Court. They were in- smoking etc.. secret TeDOTE neverment fear of the powerful effect such in 1972 by Sir Ronald Melville end the structed to blacking of action could have which recommended industrial commercials television certain possible with effect from Friday. Tuture. wacitel WUrN Counsel for The director-general should be handed over to private the companies, Central Office of Information, interests. Leightón Davis. agreed with the VE 5, 1973 • No 1090 • 4p

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), David Williams (COHSE), Peter Evans Board to fix a date for an actual meeting. It is likely that a date will be fixed before the UPW executive meets on Thursday. The UPW claims that its posi- tien towards the Board is one of 'armed neutrality. This is bunk.

What is happening is that the TUC has turned retreat into a rout. Hard on the UPW's heels will come the civil servants. who were also refused strike aid by the TUC Finance and General Purposes Committee. unions' The hospital case affects some 220,000 workers and is based on the fact that the local workers, who authority settled before Heath's announce- • standstill last ment of a pay November, £2.40 while the got hospital workers got only £1.80- As it stands the case can only be a contribution to the Board's study of the anomalies problem which will exist when Phase Two ends in the autumn. There is no commitment for the government to grant special case awards.

The more the union chiefs

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The battle in the fishing grounds around Iceland are reaching a climax with charges an d counter charges of aggression and violence. The men i in the middle Britain's deep- are fishermen. But whose sea war are they fighting? investi- Workers Press has the economic and gated political issues behind the conflict. The series starts on Wednesday with the views of Hull's fishing community.

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WE'VE almost done it. By Sunday evening June 3 our splendid and members sup- porters had collected £6,167.14.

which brought our total to {48,254.15-just £1,745.86 short It's been such a splendid fight and our members in such high political spirits that we are certain raise this we can balance by next Monday June 11. Take one more whip round and we're there. We have then until October 31 to raise the second £50,000 We know our comrades will not fail us.

Acton £88; North West £142.78; Hemsworth £8: Batter £66: Southwark £57.50 sea Bristol £9: Outer London £480 Paddington £6: Sheffield £9.84 Leicester {100; Chatham £54: Jarrow £50; Camden • £110; Ban- bury £70: Central London £75.

East London £2.60: Wolverhamp- ton £54; Reading £57.70; King ston £50: Castleford {16: Basi!- don £124: Oxford £69: Swindon £13.26: Wandsworth £41.50.

Croydon £5: Exeter £22.50 Wa' ford £84: Tottenham {61.00 Portsmouth £40.48: Actors £9.27.

Dagenham YS £16: Postal Wor. kers £12.20: Paddington YS £1: Dockers £2. Chepstow YS 21: Anonymous £6.50 Crawles YS £10: Scotland $400.95: Brac ford £40. Doncaster £12: Hul | £40: Leeds £32: Sheffield {6.5f Todmorden £12: Harrow £31.57 Holloway £46: North West are: £32: Birmingham £85: Coventr £9; Nottingham £16. Oxford 54: Swansea £24; Merthy! £21: Dag enham £242; Southal! £30. Nort' Kent £324: Liverpoo: £10: M. M £20; J. R

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday June 5, 1973 Gold hits new record in London GOLD reached a new record the devaluation in flood of Watergate continues to fear that the inflationary boom Rinfret, Janeway and others last formal and the im- completely of speak most mount question level of $123.50 an ounce at will of US trol- capital who Within the United States there comes out bursi calmerl

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aululll the second fixing in London is open discontent among power- open. in ene devasasin Rinfret, But Schultz has made public no tration against the won of class yesterday as the split within Nixon chief plans to deal with this situation.

through imposition Nixon's economic spokes- the even the American paralysis employing economic His une race une Ur e Cal. shakeable as un- 1101C Wart class emerged more clearly crisis. paign, now describes the of the one fen They want even tougher mea Wilbur Mills, of the bankrupt and chairman and divisions between Sixon-Pompidol Europe, but the does no ensuated House Ways and Means predicts Com. there may be three more in the Watergate scandal.

summit Ice- Europe and the US deepened.

mittee spoke TOr ThIS SeCTion cola devastons Tre economist Yet right-wing

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week At the time the dollar when he called last week for 'an He told a Senate inquiry last sallie Eliot that the Common Market coun- Janeway, opinions iron-clad and that deterioration ef yet again London tries will bend to the will wa3co considerable situation be. reached all record low revers

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of the Americans Street, describes 10n117 Frankfurt and Stock- ing met the The said: we gave the presi as 'a professional incompetent'.

holm dent the authority se impt ac that to act. he soit when emerged trot officials nige the US hold. He Administration like Behind the Watergate canda the Reykjavik evi- fidence in autho- has dence solve rift the Unitec that talks cannot treasury about secretary valuation of cent since Nixon lacks, however, the Schultz, are openly voicing their States ruling class. per Hurry for The essence of revisionism Watergate conclusion in wrote formula-ther renuse• to rase ao oly

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ine lories are able Watergate inquiry Washington today under sumes In

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pressure from influential Stalinists who allowed the Wine ne speed up its investigations and get to ne ceteater. more ano workers the bottom of the scandal quickly.

The have reinforced ed the been aculanas reports linking President Nixon firmly of allenot dily ment The Democratii Party headquarters.

camine 1 rotskyist, always. John Dean III, sacked by Nixon from their knees White House job counsel, claims the President knew in a vance or daymens moe to buy the silence of the conspirators Sets austakes. burgled the Watergate office complex nearly a veal axo. the Class 'Washington Post', Dean According to the capitalism he aspects discussed with the President or the cover-up either Cares alone out his presence on at least 35 occasions between January and April this year. by the Com. White House categorically denied the being report declaring lic ricos Was President' pulated destroy The vern s …hese ronts can will be the rest mine the peesed it has wil vI even greater signincance would be

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uncerstand' time President directly inked at hrst hand with the cover-up LaDOUl Mara-cord This glaringly contradict Nixon's torced _ The mass launch determinee campalen May 22 statement file has According to the 'Washington Post' Dean with meeline nad 1rials. He has de. President shortly before the seven Watergate sentenced March conspirators on theory Suce suedes bom ass mated scuicialy. asked addition how much- pressure allosts $460.000 already paid-would be needed to ensure the defendants' silence.

sullaloll Namelson s support for the trade union Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey pracuice une deedest nostry revolutionary has set in the first tentative the impeach the President. He sent a letter national Committee of the COntressmen Inter- tomorrow about Nixon's obstruction justice. •everately accelvca. 1 Hs Was Counter Chile threat more of rotskvism_ nuncame ta TeVISION to workers . TorOwers bullaing

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is Gendarme of the Gulf feted alllly mounting a campaign against 'terrorist anti- government groups' to cover its prepara- tions for fresh repressions of by Stalinists striking miners from the El Teniente copper mine. Miners at the nearbv town Rancagua have been on strike for more than month the most challenge President since Aenee declared the the 'brink of civil war' last October.

The government has accused resident we sunke oranzers or motives and tried to link the workers activities of right-mag opponents demand Popular Unity coalition. ol the This smear attempt has become covery necessary since lie sadol- from ing of striker by military patrol earlier Since Minister Tendere then there have been violent clashes crate with students supporting miners. Irigates, two nigh-speed gunboals, The province of O Higgins. in which Rancagua and assisicill. declared eve of his ser veteral month and last CuliciscuLy

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be once-were put under mutary Contro The army officer commanding slaltu all ovit the area, Colonel Orlando Ibanez, nis aim to become Slatemen said Sunday Rancagua was absolutely calm, out trere were power in the town trying groups in any o Party) said the you and wish you a pleasant sta!

Technes UnIC public order, who undermine men were inTormer could resort to acts ot terrorism any S210 such would be repressed 'with utmost package executed. rigour' and the appealed ana nonday other residents homers the Rancagua not participate 'Alow me fret ot ail toler.

Heaters, ten Lause public demonstrations which could lead to grave errors.

COMMENT BY ALEX MITCHELL

PICTURE this nauseous amalgam: Sir Max Aitken of the 'Daily Express' group, William Rees Mogg, editor man', George Gale of the 'Spectator, Richard Ingrams of 'Private Eye' and Paul Foot, a writer for 'Socialist Worker', the weekly organ of the International Socialists. These spokesmen of reaction and radicalism are at present sharing the same platform. They have come together through common indignation against Rupert Murdoch and his Sunday newspaper, the 'News of the World'. 'Indignation' is perhaps too mild a word; some of them have been driven into veritable paroxysms. Murdoch's 'sin' was to allow a staff photographer secretly to take pictures of Lord Lambton, the RAF Minister, at the flat of Norma Levy in Maida Vale, London. NEWS or mr WO These gentlemen - same apart from Paul Foot—do not print when workers roar into FIRST AGAIN: We name the mi dam in have their privacy invaded by Press. Nor television and the do they complain about the scandalous and illegal surveil- lance which the police and the Post Office mount on groups Call girl Norma on the left. talks about But the second that a member of the Tory aristocracy is peeped third Minister on, they start to thrash around indignantly. But when Foot had the excel- lent last week opportunity expose the humbug privacy politically he chose to join in on the side of the reactionaries.

He added his voice this angry chorus last Thursday night Vice ring Granada when he presented the Television 'What the Say programme couple tell

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Papers During the course of the pro- us the lot! Foot made clear he gramme thought that the 'News of the World' done something had wrong and was trying to cover up.

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Gunboat At one point he asked: "It however, raises the question, who took the crucial photograph in the same room, the same on Lambton's bed Lord flagrante delicto?' It wasn't much different from Top: Paul Foot 'Socialisi of the question asked by Aitken in Worker' who has Joined the angry the 'Express' a few days earlier: chorus from reactionaries and 'Who took the pictures of Lord radicals against the 'News of the Lambton and the call girls? The Its editor Mr Larry World' and public needs to know Lamb (right). Later in the programme Foot answered his own question in the following way: 'For some really that the paper had taken photos straight talking we had to wait Lambton bed with call- in "Private Eye" for this morning's girls. which states baldly: "According This admission and a fighting government sources, in- to top bound counter-attack to criminating Lord Laos which put heighten the division these paid to Lambton's career ruling-class circles. And it is on were not taken as the Press had question that Workers Press this reported by Mr Levy. faithfully itself absolutely distinguishes experienced It was taken by an from all other newspapers cover- "News the World' of photo- ing the Lambton-Jellicoe affair. grapher. Inspired by 'Private (for which he in

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worked and still previously apparently maintains close rela- tions), Foot went on breathlessly: We are not concerned with the 'Yesterday I rang Larry Lamb morality issue as a thing in itself.

(editorial director of the parent * News priate The revelations are secondary of the the company World'' to their real significance in the to ask if the Eye" His break-up of the ruling class un- report was correct. told "I'm der -the impact of its economic secretary me, sorry, and political Nor he's making no comment on that crisis. are we going to take sides in the Aitken.

whatsoever' Or. put it an- to Mr Murdoch row. It would be pre.

other way, Lamb made an excuse and left,' commented the posterous for us to do so.

Mr Foot. If these Press barons smirking want to Sunday the 'News of the each other's throats in Last tear at World' came clean and admitted public, why should we interfere r WORLD

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except to cheer them on? But Foot does. By joining in the witch-hunt of the Murdoch Press, Foot and the 'New Statesman' play directly into the hands of the Heath government. The Tories desperately want to create a diversion in the Lamb- ton-Jellicoe affair. They want the heat switched from the away Cabinet room and the third man who still sits there. A group of reactionary Tories Churchill and John (Winston Gorst, etc.) want to turn the Security Commission's terms of reference away from 'security' towards the conduct of the Press.

Howard Foot and aid the Tories by making the Press the scapegoat for the Heath govern- ment's political crisis. The 'New Statesman' went so as to recommend that the Tories bring in a 'law of privacy' —just the thing they want to Workers Press, Tuesday June 5, 1973 PAGE 3 hush up scandals like Poulson, Having turned the organization Lonrho, Lord Polwarth of the etc. capitalist state into moral issue, it is quite natural How is it that Foot, a so-called for Foot to take sides when 'international socialist', comes 'thieves fall out'. He rails against together most strident with the Murdoch of - Aitken, on television in the voices reaction same way that his weekly news- George Gale, Rees Mogg—in this vilifies the cads and Press-bashing campaign? The paper answer can be found in a reading bounders who are up to hi-jinks of this week's 'Socialist Worker' in the boudoirs. on the Lambton-Jellicoe affair.

But this moral indignation It shows a section of the IS won't shift capitalism. Nor will it develop workers' for it really is-outraged understand- what middle-class of the enormously grave liberals, reformers, ing of the epoch. do-gooders of one description In their three-page and another. spread on the Lambton-Jellicoe affair, the The front article page, (un- almost Jesuitical three "Socialist Worker' writers, signed) is in Foot, Nigel Fountain and Laurie style and content. Flynn, do not once, call for a Its proposition is that main campaign to force the Tories out certain individuals in the ruling of office. And there is class are corrupt and awful and not of the mention economic crisis have no right to be in the posi- which is what lies behind this tions that they hold. It concludes political scandal. with this call: "The answer from the workers By leaving out the economic is back loud and and political crisis and substitut- coming clear: Get to the Cayman ing their own moral outrage, the out, go and take your "Christian IS Islands, revisionists retard the politi- civilization" with vou.' cal development of the workers with whom they are in contact This is pre-Marxist moral and thus aid the class socialism. enemy who thev claim to 'oppose' its crudest form it In takes that society is divided There are many in IS, we are the view into good and bad who with into good and bad people and sure. agree Foot's liberal How moralizing. people to drive out the bad can he explain his balancing act to make the world a better place to between the Tory television and 'Socialist Worker'? live in. the

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YOUR

HOSPITAL

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THE

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The hospital service is like the dark ages in many ways' Mrs Gwen Evans is a National Union of Public Employees' shop steward at Poplar Hos- pital, London, and played the ancillary active role hospital workers' pay struggle: We didn't get what We wanted out of our strike.

And the nurses haven't had what they want either. The service is like the hospital ways. dark ages in many There's still dictatorship from the top. The people at the top are over-paid and and overrated the people who do the work -the nurses, younger doctors and ancillary workers - are and under - paid under- estimated. young doctors are 1ne really under-paid. They have all the responsibility and get But they're all the blame. often afraid to speak out.

didn't give The us enough backing in our strike.

They should have made us all one-all the hospitals and all The noos We tried to get the dockers, and busworkers Carworkers together during our strike.

went to them around day June 5, 1973 DUrrUK

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here. They had a lot of sym- for us, but they pathy wouldn't The come out. union leaders should have given them a lead, but I think working people should come forward anyway. Can you get all the workers to fight to- gether, that's the question?

governments should Tory be abolished. There should • Tory government never be a in this country. There are far too many working - class people. There are all sorts of things Trades Union wrong. The Congress only called for a one-day strike. The hospital wanted at least workers a week, but the TUC backed down. The rank - and - file people have to do something for themselves. The Wilson opposition isn't doing anything. It's got to be a special crowd of people who come in. Labour, when it started out, was the only alternative to the aristocracy, but that seems to now. They've be forgotten forgotten who they should really be representing. But I'm not sure about some things. For instance, what would power do to you people when you got it? It went wrong in the other com- munist countries. But the youth is more in- telligent now. The government can't pull the wool over their eyes. Nobody can. The youngsters know that is losing its their money value. It's not a matter of how much money you've got.

It's its value-what you can buy with it. With prices going up all the time, our wages aren't worth much more than they were before the war. And then you get royalty... well you wouldn't like to print what I'd say about that. Evans. Above: Hosoltal workers march with placards calting for Mrs Gwen hospital service is llke the dark ages in many ways. There's still work-the at the top are overrated and over-paid and the people who do the ancillary workers. -are under-paid and underestimated.

worse than the rich. I'm Some of these not younger I'm this because not people now have come up at saying better off. But the middle class time when it war bretti well off and they're easy. It's never been marvel- have got even for them, but they greedy. They would fight the lous, won't ever go back to the con- working class. their lived ditions parents in But their and daugh- sons before the war. the younger generation. ters, they might get sick of it and Any government which tries drive this generation back change from it. to will come a cropper. I don't think the Tory gov- I think the worst enemy is ernment will last another two the middle class. They're There's more to come years.

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Unk support. Mrs Evans заув, 'The from the 10р. The people people who do the work-the nurses, younger doctors and out of this scandal. Like Nixon, are trying to hide they their dirty • linen I think the churches should have less They run Day They should be too much. kept out of political affairs been fooled People have over the years and now they'r fed up The Labour Party has Working definitely changed. are fed up with class people everybody who's been in power.

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

'The main issue of the The Whitelaw White Paper in Northern Ire- land has thrown the Republican movement, both Officials and Pro- visional, into political turmoil. The decision of the six county Republican Clubs to stand for the first round of under the White election Paper proposals, has dismayed rank-and-file Officials. many Though entry into the election is hedged with all kinds of ex cuses and 'safeguards' the par- ticipation of any section of the Republican adds movement credibility to what is a blat- ant Tory attempt to re-estab- lish a new basis for oppression in the north. These kind of developments have led to discussions with Republicans and the Workers League, the Irish section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

Some ex-Officials, like these two Republicans interviewed below, have decided to help develop the revolutionary party in the north. They told Workers Press what they thought of the political situa- tion. For obvious reasons the two comrades are identified as X and Y. Y has suffered a period of internment in Long Kesh.

Workers Press appreciates that this expresses a particular view and would welcome any comment on the situation from members of both wings of the Republican movement and Pro- testant workers. X told us: 'One of the biggest prob- lems here is that of course immediately people do not think about socialism or the struggle of the working class in immediate terms. People are too dominated with the British army to be fussed about socialism. 'But I think there is a basis -even if it is a small one. Now the Provos and the Officials have had to answer some political questions and the people are finding them wanting. I think the Provos have had nothing to offer for six years. 'I think the issue of the election has shaken people up.

'I disagree with the elections and contesting them. They are rigged by Whitelaw from the start. By entering into the competition you give them credibility. What people want is a real socialist policy to consider. 'The big gap is the Protest- ant workers. I really do not know what they think or how one could get across to them.

I have to this no answer problem.' Y told us: 'At the moment I am only feeling way with your my policy. I have read the docu- ment of the Socialist Labour League and found it extremely Catholic workers behind a barricade of class politics going ... But in the North interesting. As an ex-Official Tri I feel badly let down by the: Officials. They really don't *th have any perspective at all - jus now. They are confused over the elections and their mem-, bers are confused. 'There one or two are things I would like to clear up, however. In the document you keep referring to the TUC and breaking the TUC from collaborating with the Tory government. You also talk about forcing a Labour govern- to carry out socialist ment policies. Tust what action do you propose to make these things possible-how can it be done?

I think things are very vague over this one' X: 'I agree on this point.

In 1968 there was a US firm who came into Shannon indus- trial estate and employed about 300 workers. They went on strike for higher wages and management said deal". And then they brought scabs in. The result was that the buses were blown up. Would you be doing this kind of thing to get action? "The other issue is this. Naturally we are very con- cerned with the Irish situation and the oppression of the working class in this country.

'Have you any influence in the trade unions? When your grows could movement you get real action—strikes and so forth, by British workers to come to the defence of the rricade of barbed wire in Ulster. 'I think the ba i the Northern Ireland situation this will be very cial Trish working class?'

Y: 'The main issue here is n't »" the unity of the working class, all . just as it is in England. But you must consider this. It is very hard to unify the work- in England - just ing class think of the task here where you have so much sectarian hatred and bigotry. One of the biggest bug-bears I agree has been the Provos who have the Protestant working flung class into the hands of extrem- ists by bombings and so on.

'You know there would be no UDA if it had not been for the Provos. Whitelaw: Tories' Ulster supremo.

'But now I do think a tre- mendous lot of people are really looking for a way out of the corner they are in. I feel this anyway. I want to be active. I want to see results.

Perhaps your movement has the answer' Z is a worker for one of Workers Press, T ink the basic thing we have to do is to forge ill be very difficult." Ireland's leading Northern engineering firms. He is a skilled worker - a compara- tive rarity since he is Catholic- born. The Catholic working only suffer from class not direct discrimination, but they have been unable to build up the craft tradition .the Protestants because of years of oppression. With several other Irish workers, Z is taking a keen interest in the building of a revolutionary party to repre- sent the Irish working class: 'I have been a socialist all life, but not an active my socialist. It is very difficult to develop a direct interest in socialism in these conditions, people are concerned mainly with the troubles. Usually the worker would just Catholic register his vote for whoever standing against the was Unionist Party. 'There are a lot of people in the north who want to use the working class. The UDA and the IRA, for example, com- pete for their allegiance.

'The situation is breaking however, I think. The traditional Unionist Party is finished as far as the Protest- ant worker is concerned and • UDA paper if you read the the "Republican News" . and you will find a great deal of similarity in them. They are all orientating themselves to- wards the workers. This must mean something. I think basically the events a Press, Tuesday June 5, 1973

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s to forge ahead in the unions and get of the last few years have made the working class, par- ticularly the Protestant work- ing class, realize the power that they possess. 'In my plant there are about 20 Catholic workers. At the height there were about 60 that is out of about 800 work- ers. I have always been anti- sectarian and tried to talk with the Protestant workers about their class interests. I think the basic thing we have to do is to forge ahead in the unions and get class politics going. We have to fight all Ulster Unionism which deliberately fathered these divisions between workers.

•We have to bring up the class issues and expose organ- izations like Loyalist the Association of Workers who are really against the working class. On May Day they came out against the strike because they said it was political. Yet this was a strike to defend the nd basic rights of the working class, Protestant and Catholic.

'But in the Northern Ire land situation this will be very difficult. Really the mind boggles when you think of the Northern Ireland situation People relate what happens to the past and their history and things the that have been pumped into their minds. The Catholics feel Irish and the Protestants feel different, different in privileges and in origin. This is a history and very real feeling'

PAGE 6 Workars Pross, Tuaaday Juno

BY DAVID MAUDE

This week the Post Office unions' bulky case for a 'catching-up' increase under Phase Three of the Tory pay laws is expected to arrive at the Pay Board. It will take the board some time to digest. But the most important point about the case is not its length, which is con- siderable, but its role as a pacemaker in the unions' rush towards corporatism. involved The six unions enjoy the doubtful distinction of being the first across the Pay Board's threshold with a Phase Three claim. The man who must bear chief responsibility for this move is Tom Jackson, general secretary of the big : Union of Post Office Workers. But he has enjoyed the tacit support, or at least silence, of "lefts' and Communist Party members on the UPW execu- tive; their role, and that of their co-thinkers in the leader- ships of the other five unions, must not be forgotten. day Juno 5, 1973 Other evidence of the cor- poratist trend in the Post leaderships was Office union revealed at last month's annual conference of the UPW, held well out of reach of the main concentrations of postmen counter clerks and telephonists in Douglas, Isle of Man. Delegates faced a situation in which their leaders had just accepted a Phase Two pay deal, without a fight and with- consulting them. Their out real earnings had been cut and, as a result of the leadership's productivity-dealing policies, the 'potential membership' ot the union had been cut to an estimated 208,000. It was not surprising, there- fore, that the feelings of the membership should be reflec- ted in a number of defeats for the executive council. But here again the lefts' and the Stalinists of the CP came to the rescue, despite the vicious witch-hunt launched against them by Jackson on Saturday, May 19. Thus the EC was able to gain approval for its decision of to go to the Pay Board and, postal mechanization excepted, it was not prevented from pushing ahead with more pro- ductivity deals. Like the actual submission of the Phase Three case this week, the conference revealed urgency of building the revolutionary alternative to the present leadership: Throughout the first two days of conference, delegates speaking on rules revision urged some redress in the balance of power between the conference floor and the plat- form. Marginally, they were suc- cessful. Amendments of direct opposition will be allowed to future EC recommendations, and where amendments have been composited into one the right of reply to the debate will rest with the mover of the amendment rather than the EC. The logical proposal to fts' extend the same right to the movers of all amendments to EC recommendations fell to Jackson's witch-hunting. Clearly the EC felt at this that their ability to point defend their corporatist record was too much in danger to rely on the formal logic of Citrine.

Delegates such as Bridge- water IP Bert Reid, who had previously waxed eloquent about democracy, did not now join battle for the real defence of democratic rights—the right of Communist Party, Socialist Labour League and Inter- national Socialist factions to fight for their policies at con- terence. Delegates like Reid were only too eager to rush to the to proclaim the rostrum moderation of their views and their sole allegiance to the Labour Party. : such delegate, It was one John Taylor from London, who, on a point of order, cut short the condemnation Jackson's remarks which an SLL member was making. Such sensitivity did not pre- vent the defeat of the amend- ment. Communist Party members likewise refused to rise to the defence of democratic rights.

They insisted that to demand that Jackson withdraw his remarks would only be playing into the hands of a provoca- tion, adding that in any case Jackson could not possibly have made his statement with the permission of the EC.

It this was so, ot course, it was the responsibility of CP members on the EC to descend to the rostrum and speak out.

Indeed an EC member was to do precisely that during a later debate on mechanization.

But EC Stalinists Maurice Styles and Les Hewitt re- mained silent on the witch- hunt. Not only did the Stalinists refuse to speak out. Following the repetition of witch-hunting remarks, the this time by both Jackson and deputy general secretary Nor- man Stagg in the following 'Evening Monday's London News', Communist Party mem- were discouraged from bers entering any of the crucial 'Adpost', product- debates on ivity and mechanization. The Party did not, however, prevent one of its leading Scottish members, Jim Birnie, from the EC line advocating that 'Adpost' should be accep- as a possible way of pre- ted venting the reductions services and loss of postmen's jobs. 'Just as the workers in the UCS fought the clowns on the Clyde, so we have the right to fight for our jobs,' he said.

Similarly, on an earlier, suc- cessful motion to terminate the recruitment of female and of part-time labour, he pre- ferred to oppose it, claiming that it could lead to the loss of services and the cutting of 20,000 jobs, rather than take up the question of defending both jobs and conditions together. The refusal of both re- , it formist and Stalinist speakers at conference to take up the defence of democratic rights, and the defence of the right to work, was responsible for the success of the EC line on productivity and wages. Although 'Adpost' was re- jected, the EC constantly played on the real fear of many delegates that a refusal to explore and accept productivity deals in many areas of work would result in considerable job losses.

nd John Taylor, moving the ban or- on all productivity deals until Post the Office produced ing five-year plan for the future and of the whole post tele industry, om communications in- sisted that the motion was not opposed in ct- principle pro- ductivity deals. Consequently a er, succession ing of speakers from inland teleg- LC. laullist craucs ine that they faced either accept- ep- ance or proaucuvity or exter. The only answer the mination. reformists could give was that exceptions would have to be n's made. The move to ban product- he he ivity deals was thus defeated, but the issue was immediate y brought to life again with the Successi reimposiuon ban letter parcel ate ana mechanizauon. Defending his defiance of the same decision last year ng I would Jackson stated: do of the same tomorrow it i had to' Ke He later told the 'Morning ng Star' that the decision the end of the parcels mean sernice In lengthy debate on wages, he only two delegates even approached the real issues in- ght volved. Calling for the rejection of

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the whole report Jock Cowan on of Paddington said: 'The UPW, along with some other unions. tly co-aperating with oris Tory with ny co-operating government, has split the whole ity trade union movement rk down the middle.' ole And Accrington Frank O'Rourke declared: 'The unity of the working class, not the courts, can get rid of cor- ruption. 'It's a lie that trade union demands have ought to do inflation. Let's smash with this roten Tory government.'

Jackson and the UPW leader- ership, of course, stand dia- metrically opposed to this position. During, the Post Office strike of 1970, at a time when Tory Ministers were whipping up the middle class with in - flammatory speeches about 'the monster of inflation, the union secretary issued a categorical denial that his members' fight was against the government.

'We had suspected we were up against the government and that the goveinment was exercising its influence upon the Post Office, he said.

'Now we know we are just up against the Post Office. The fact that agreement has not been reached is not the fault of the Ministry or the Minister, both of whom have worked to produce circumstances which settlement could be reached.' Backing for this view came from the Stalinist camp, and on February 6, 1970 Maurice Styles put this very clearly in an interview with Workers Press: We got the impression that if the Post Office had come forward with an increase, this would not have been blocked by Mr Carr. 'This was the view of Tom Jackson, the national execu- tive and I share it. I share the view advanced by the national executive that, on the evidence, the enemy is the Post Office.

"There is no evidence to suggest that the government has got its hands round the neck of the Post Office? On February 1 Jackson clarified his position even fur- ther, again in an interview with Workers Press: 'As to bringing the govern- ment down,' he said, 'I think that a government going to bat following a mini-General Strike would probably win hands down. 'That's the nature of the British voter. I don't believe that the trade union movement can force a General Election and hope that the left will win it.' This, essentially, was the justification for winding up the Post Office strike. And this has now become the justification for going to the Pay Board.

At the UPW special confer- ence in February of this year, himself Jackson addressed specifically to the alternatives facing the labour movement.

The first was to negotiate 'a better deal' with the Tory government on the basis of statutory control of wages and prices. The other was 'massive all-out industrial action to change the mind of the govern- ment' Industrial action to bring down the government was impossible, according to Jack- son, because it would simply replace Heath with Powell.

'A General Election might be forced, and in the weeks before it there would be fighting on the picket lines and the lads would be out in the streets. 'In this situation the Labour Party The In- would not win. dustrial Relations Act would on Statute Book Tenan The and Britain would have all even more reactionary govern- ment than at present. At Douglas, this reactionary, reformist philosophy became justification for the going Board and attempting the Pay silence all opposition such corporatist moves by witch-hunting the right of trade unionists to hold political views and organize factionally in their defence. most dangerous and sinister development.

For whatever reasons Jack-

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Concern ai the UPW leadership's several votes policies •roonced against the platform (left) at the conference This despite the Vas watch illne efforts of (above left and centre) depuly secretary Norman Stagg and secretary Tom Jackson, and issue toe Silence on this Stalinist Maurice Styles (right). son made this attack, and for whatever reasons the Stalinists chose not to reply to him, both are in fact preparing a rod for their own backs. The hight for revolutionary politics in the unions, and the defence of the right to conduct that fight, is a vital task for every single trade unionist in the struggle against the Tories' corporate state plans.

SLAUGHTER

HOUSE

PAYBOAR

HERE'S THE FIRST ONE, BUT WILL THE REST FOLLOW?

TROTSKYISM

AND STALINISM

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday June 5, 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 between Lenin Trotsky. In this series relations and of articles MICHAEL BANDA replies to this book.

ment' famous

PART FOURTEEN

with the

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calling for the postscript re- For a summary of the moval of Stalin as general- secretary of the Party. relations between Lenin, The Georgian events con- Stalin and Trotsky on Lenin vinced that the fight the 'national question' against Stalin had to be con- cluded at the 12th Party Con- and an irreproachably gress-and the official line truthful account of the completely reversed. facts of this controversy, For this reason Lenin set up of three a private commission we must turn to Moshe personal people-two secre- Lewin's book, 'Lenin's taries and the of secretary Sovnarkom-to investigate in Last Struggle' (Faber and detail the of circumstances Faber 1969). Georgian episode the and in Lenin, who at the beginning particular the role of Stalin. of 1922 supported Stalin The question which faced Georgian opposi- Lenin, however, was on whom against the of Mdivani | because he could he rely conduct the tion to imagined the Georgian opposi- struggle in a final and victor- tion being unreasonably conclusion if his health was 1ous nationalistic and failed again—or worse still— intractable, if he died? The Institute of began to change his soon opinion the role of the Marxism-Leninism, which on to Mos- this day has not published the communists sent from help integrate Georgia results of Lenin's private com- cow to Socialist March Russian mission-delivered into the on Federation of of Soviet Repub- 3, 1923—would, course, like lics (RSFSR), referred to yes- the Soviet public to terday. believe that that the crisis Uneasiness turned into was amicably resolved, or that alarm deep possibly it did not even exist.

and suspicion when he received a letter from Okudzhava, of the member old Georgian Central Com- mittee, Ordzhoni- accussing kidze of making threats the Georgian com- against munists. When the Soviet emissaries Rykov and Ordzhonikidze Georgia returned from in Lenin, December 1922, early days before had who a few already secured an agreement with Trotsky to fight bureau- cracy in the Party, questioned them closely. He was outraged by what he discovered, writes Lewin: inquiry Dzerzhinsky's naturally corroborated the ex- founded planations originally by the Secretariat (i.e. Stalin).

Ordzhonikidze was white- washed and all the blame laid Felix Dzerzhinsky. once again on the dangerous But Lewin's book, however, deviationists. this time Lenin was more aware of what throws entirely different an and embarrassing light on this was going on and he suspected scaffolding question: lie beneath the of the official thesis. He 'Lenin spurred on the work was by of his commission; his health particularly struck two facts that Dzerzhinsky was un- was precarious and he wanted able First, at all costs to deliver a mem- conceal. the commission had decided to orandum on the national ques- recall to Moscow the leaders tion to the coming Congress. of the former Georgian New information might Cen- neces- tral Committee, who were held sitate an extension of the in- for responsible everything. quiry, perhaps sending Ordzhonikidze Secondly, had the scene of the someone to lost his and incident, all temper gone So of which would far as to strike an opponent, take a great deal of time. "Any a member of the Party. delay in also the com- and Lenin mission's Potieva recounts, work, he told himself confirms, that Dzer- Fotieva on February 14, might "upset him Zhinsky's account ruin its chances success, deeply" and that would be a great There It was these events as much blow to him. "Toure are no as the deliberate rudeness of notes in the from Stalin to Krupskaya - - Lenin's February 14 March 5. to of the wife--that impelled Lenin to Moreover, the editors "Works" lof Lenin) provide no add to and qualify his "Testa- Stalin gazes on the body of Lenin, lyir Trotsky to take up the defence of information about these three . may well have weeks. Lenin written nothing during this period, and in any case, the secretaries were very busy on their work for the "clandes- tine commission." 'One thing is known, how- ever: on March 3 the com- mission presented its con- clusion. But the document has not yet come to light.

Why has the Institute Marxism - Leninism not yet made it public? Could it have "disappeared", like Kaban- 'For the present, nothing is known about it. In any case, the results of the commission's work must have given the last two active days of Lenin's life the character of a major struggle. They must have made Lenin more bitter and more angry with his colleagues than and strengthened his ever conviction that the sorry Georgian affair was merely one symptom of a much deeper sickness. 'But Lenin's declining health did not allow him to live much longer in such a state of emotional and nervous ten- Lenin, lying in state in January 1924. Before e of the Georgian affair against Stalin and Dze sion. His illness grew rapidly more serious, and owing to a combination of his disturbed emotional state and the steady increase of the sclerosis, he began to feel very ill. This was doubt the reason that drove him, without further delay, to deliver the blows that he had been pre- paring against his opponents for the past two months, even if it was still a little early to do so. The first three attacks were directed against a single objective: Stalin. Lenin man- aged to conceal from his doc- tors the deep emotional stress that he felt when he took these decisions, and told them, Fotieva reports, that he was merely dictating a few business letters. About noon on March 5, he called for Volodicheva and dictated two letters.

"The first, which was strictly secret and written in an un- usually affectionate tone, was addressed to Trotsky and was to be read out to him at once over the telephone. Here it is: •"I earnestly ask you to undertake the defence of the Georgian affair at the Central Committee of the Party. That 1. Before his death, Lenin appealed …to n and Dzerzhinsky. affair is now under 'persecu- tion' at the hands of Stalin and Dzerzhinsky and I cannot rely on their impartiality. Indeed, quite the contrary! If you would agree to undertake its defence, I could be at rest. If for some reason you do not agree, send me back 'all the papers. I will consider that a of your disagreement. sign " With the very best com- radely greetings, Lenin." 'Lenin could do nothing without an ally. Trotsky was not only the sole possible ally, he could also be depended on.

With the protection of Lenin alive, Trotsky was still unbeat- by Lenin to Trotsky was so warm that Stalin, when forced to read out the letter before before the Central Committee in July 1926—by which time his position could no longer be seriously threatened-preferred nonetheless to change it to a mere "With communist greet- ings". This letter represented a great victory for Trotsky'

CONCLUDED TOMORROW

WHITE MASTERS, WHOSE DAYS

TV REVIEW BY ANNE BLAKEMAN

Touch of the 'South Africa: A British'-BBC 1. "The British speaking minority are both com- fortable and bewildered: comfortable because they've made a lot of money and bewildered because they once ruled the roost and now longer do so and cannot under- stand how this hap- pened.' Time 1973, place South Africa-the speaker, one of 1.5 million whites, of the British extraction, who con- stitute the most powerful minority in the world. They are outnumbered two to one by the white Afrikaans and 14 to one by the black Africans. They embody the most poisonous aspects of the heritage of British imperialism and colonialism which now holds fast with the tenacity of the deeply-threatened regime that it is, under the iron fist of Balthazar Vorster's racialist administration. 1 documentary The BBC lingered on impressions of the British South Africans and their way of life, threw in a handful of history for good measure and left its audience, as ever, to draw their own be- mused conclusions from some truly_remarkable displays by British colonials of the sort of obscene extremes pro- duced by a system of govern- ment so distorted in its aims, and by a history of the most and rapacious im- violent perialism. First the old man accused of Nazi tendencies, who sees multi-racial society that a 'would lead to chaos and in- deed revolution'; who claims South Africa to be under a three-pronged attack 'from in- ternational communism, inter- national finance and inter- national religion' and who be- lieves that 'apartheid is the finest system of government in the world'. as his reason for He gave belief a eulogy on the this merits of the 'passbook' sys- tem-the hated regime of identity cards for the blacks: "The wonder of the men and women when they receive their passbook!' he exclaimed. "They become people suddenly.' the couple who run Then the game precincts and plan for a bigger and better shoot- ing season this year. A bust of Winston Churchill graces their English cottage style home and photograph of the dear a Queen. They believe in work- ing alongside their black em-

BETTER OFF

WITHOUT YOU

The Rev Donald Barnes has contributed an • article in the 'Kilburn Times', north London, which specifically sets out to prove that the fact that fewer people are going to church these days really means that the church is stronger than ever! He starts with an account of the funeral of a murdered policeman and an appeal made 'silent the time for the at majority' to speak out against violence. But even if they did, Rev Barnes queries, would criminals take any violent notice?

AKEMAN

The pass system policemen stop and cards on them are arrested, as the mai ployees and servants for 'the African workers are jolly good in their own slow way' and it teaches them better standards which is an imperative. It even 'teaches them to speak English with an English accent' Next the man who claims to be a descendant of George III (something most people would hesitate to claim with much enthusiasm recalling that monarch's many derangements) and the man who has built his English village with an English in the middle of the pub African plains so that decent And anyway, he asks, what is the 'silent majority'?

After all, President Nixon was sup- posed to represent it, and now look at Watergate. What worries him most about the 'silert majority' argument, though, he says, is the that the assumption majority is always right.

Then we get down to it. Since the majority are, according to the reverend gentleman, often 'ill-informed, emotional, easily swayed and often shown to be wrong', per- haps we would be better off without them. And since the figures show that the number of people at- tending church is declining, surely this is a good thing.

'The Lord said to Gideon, citing he points out, the inevitable biblical quotation which can be pulled out of the clerical hat to answer apy conceivable situation, '"The

ROXIM

stop and chack each person's passbook. Thos is the man in handcufis on right, above.

can have somewhere people decent to turn to. And the man and his wife roaming their farmlands who candidly revealed their feelings that 'one is morally bound to employ these blacks-some- one's got look after them; after all before we came along they knew nothing of knives, forks spoons, medicine, cleanii- and ness' and other essentials. Twice the wife reiterated 'after all the British have this gift for seeing other people's point of view" Finally those golden oldies people that are with So if nobody went to church at all, religion would be even better off. Either way, you just can't lose. And, anyway, who needs people?

'LEMON' AWARD

After all the bally-hoo about British-Leyland's expansion plans and the wonders of the new Allegro — here comes the let-down. One of Leyland's Austin just "won' the 1300 GTs has Silver Lemon award given by touring the German club ADAC for the car of the month with most defects. It spent three weeks of its first two months back in the Parts needing re- workshop. placement included an engine, two gearbox casings, differen- tial, transmission and thermo- stat. Workers Press, Tu ook. Those that don't have their identity of show business, Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth, believe it or not still exist—in an idlyllic spot on the Cape, 'bored with heat—and the it all-the coloureds who are so difficult to handle'. Each without ex- ception puts up the cry of how little is understood of the problem by those who live out- side South Africa. In one sense, of course, they are right. Our views of South Africa have been deliberately confused and misdirected by so-called 'anti-apartheid' the liberal protest movements Press, Tuesday June 5, 1973 PAGE 9 which obscure the realities of the situation. Enormous wealth is concen- trated in South Africa and 25 per cent of the top 100 firms who the wealth are own British. British firms account for 60 per cent of all foreign investment in South Africa.

church figures very The large in South African com- mercial interests. All the talk of morality, ethics, humani- tarian concern, both 'Christ- ian' and political, means noth- ing in face of the huge con- crete support given the Vorster regime by the British ruling class. And the history by which the ruling class stands so firmly is a wretched testimony to the of 'the brutal aggression days of the British glorious Empire' Bloemfontein, At the as programme showed, stands the 'museum of hate' as it is known locally; here amid the plains scattered about with still broken relics of the rusted bitter battles of the Boer War, stands the museum with the photographs of the concentra- tion camps set up by the British, the bloodstained gar- of the 26,000 women ments and children who died in them; the steel hooks that were put in the food and the vitriol supplemented sugar rations which helped these Afrikaans to their death. To these numbers now are added year by year the num- bers of black Africans shot by South African police (77 last year and 299 wounded) and these are the officially recorded casualties, excluding the vast numbers which die from acci- dents in the mines and in in- dustry, from illness induced by putrid living conditions and malnutrition. But even while the British persist in their outdated mode of life, their hunt meetings, their cricket and the cocktail gatherings, Vorster wages an implacable war with the ever- increasing threat of guerrilla activities, protest and all forms of insurgency-from his openly- avowed declaration of war on the students and their mass meetings to the freedom fighters who drive in from the north and are bent on the destruction of the Caborra Bassa dam project, so essential for the future power supply of South Africa. What the BBC documentary showed was the raddled and insane face of a people whose days are numbered but who, in Britain like their masters itself, will cling to their power with ounce of their every energy in face of the gigantic challenges ahead. 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.

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TODAY'S TV

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9.38-11.38 Schools. 12.25 Eisteddfod yr Russell 9.30 Schools. 10.40 Bertrand urdd. 12.55 News. (London only). 11.00 Schools. 12.05 1.0 Pebble Mill 1.30 Fingerbobs. 1.45 Fanny Rainbow. 12.25 Hatty 12.40 2.05 Schools Invies if the 1.00 Lunchtime with rirst 2.30 top 2.55 Wogan. 1.30 Emmerdale farm. 2.00 Animal design. 3.20 Gardeners' world. but Britain. 3.45 Governor and J.J. 4.10 Play Good BaCk

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4.35 Jackanory. 4.50 3.00 3.25 school. Animal afternoon. About 5.15 5.40 Hector's Caser Public Eye. 4.25 Junior showtime. house. 5.45 News. Weather. 4.50 How! 5.20 Arnie. 5.50 News. 6.00

NATIONWIDE.

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TOM AND JERRY.

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Neil Guest 6.55

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neers' section): Wednesday 13 The Windmill p.m. June Hotel', Witham. BASILDON: Thursday June 14, 8 Barnstaple Community the Tories Centre. resign. Force •overnment carry out socialist policies'.

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Workers Press, Tuesday June 5, 1973 PAGE 11 Two sides to meet over contract labour in building

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carve up 'lump' fight Support

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

COMP

THE TORY PRESS has discovered that the building employers are really kindly, paternal old gentlemen who really want to help their trade union workers get rid of the practice they hate most-labour-only sub-contracting, 'the lump'.

Or so it would seem from some of the stories that have been appearing over the last few days about a meeting, due in just under a week's time, to discuss proposals for regulating this Bullding dem ating against the the sub-contract system which threatens to undermine practice, which now provides some 25 per cent of building union strength on the sites.

labour nationally. In fact the purpose of For instance, they miy employers rid sto rough- What the NFBTE would Intimidation launched a sharp attack the meeting, on employers riding between top like is an approach so broad Private Bill shod Member's union or- that even the most short- employers' representatives over trace sponsored May 980 use ent ganization, agreed pay rates skinhead employer and union officials, is not talked out in the and established working drive to get rid of 'the lump' at allu • ommons morses inrough Its loopnoles.

in Ulster 50 of 300 The National Federation of CausC It wants the qualifications It is to patch up a phoney Labour MPs turned up Building Trades Employers LU for proposed joint approach to the govern- debate accused Heffer 'crudity'. register of. employers to be Bill proposed to

LUI

measures 1 |C Silllely

DOOL

pete no more than take could not effectively be make serr-endovnent medal genuine employer' and hav few sharp edges off on all but repair and main- forced, they claimed. Skilled report 15 adequate insurance tenance supported labour would be system, but which will help work.

ULIVCA

CoveT. the of registration industry. much me union cniels carve up the But wants tradesmen developing campaign Construction forward the

TUC

broader approach' was who 'the lump' Industry Com- needed. are not in the industry. cinoloyers able to register in addi- kept secret More and this cam- so long tion, they can establish paign Inreatens to dredge up that they al c all the questions left un. business settled last year's national building strike.

bitter their own account. Legislation the every worker that the lump As it becomes clear

NFBTE,

should provide that

THE

GOVERNMENT is keeping ally ulit Curascul shrinkenea increasing than secret a report which shows that more wno pays lor bullaing work to be done by anyone other than 60,000 people in Ulster have been than ourlane uncer registered workers' control becomes the should be intimidated into leaving their homes reraroed as demand of the hour for many employer of that person. during the last three-and-a-half years.

thousands of men. federation wants the No one is more frightened retention of all forms of sub- The Catholic newspaper 'The Universe' by the prospect of having contactl wack lead a fight for this demand says intimidation has taken place on a large employer-employee relation- than the union ship So scale not only in Belfast and Derry, but also they are almost gratefu allow in provincial towns like Lurgan, Portadown, for the Fleet Street headlines {all

LAC

davanlazes heralding possible Craigavon, Larne and Bangor.

mobile, virtually 'casual' deal as the labour force and thus keep Many of these people-who now comprise employers themselves. their costs down. the largest exodus of people from their homes But the while emplovers. In other words what they in western Europe since the war-have been for the good pub- Wall Is a respeclame cover licity, have in fact made very driven out by the activities of groups like the continued use 'the

TOT

Protestant "Tartan Gangs'.

clear their attitude Eric Hotter MP, whose anti-lump' talked out of the And Fleet Street is Commons. helping them get it. Issuc. Eighty per cent of the intimidated people- 48,000 - Catholics, - were of Belfast's are one Rowntree's want to Priest charged with population have been intimi- dated. No newspaper has so far been reverse VAT reductions running Coventry IRA given access to the report, which restacied Love cal members. ROWNTREE MACKINTOSH, the lation on the money markets The report was compiled by food giant, confectionary and

ROMAN CATHOLIC

both 32, alleged that, which has made the sterling price Northern Ireland's berweer government- of cocoa much higher. January 1 and April 15 this year WIDe Oul priest and another man were sponsored Communiti Actions Tax with they took part in the control and conserv If the Commission. increases granted by accused at Coventry yester- an application Prices Com- are the board they mission for a will Ulster Secretary William White.

6 to cancer

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Coventry unit of the day of helping to run a local name use gained law is to be questioned in parlia alV price Irish Republicar Army which crease through VAT which led to a fall unit of the IRA. products. was organized and trained 'for the alla of price some confectionary to give answers on June 22.

have risen 25 ps cere to fl2.0im group's pre-tax Father Fell and Francis charge new purpose or enaoling its members items two months ago. Patrick Stagg, employed for the use Barron Together with Cadbury physical promoting a says that the world Schweppes, Rowntree control the political object.

NEWSDESK

rocketed. One factor cocoa proportion of the Demos over

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Father Fell, assIstant the increase been specu- tionary industry. Earisdon, Souls Church, Coventry, and bus driver, Chetwode 01-720 2000 Close. Long Kesh Hampshire printers to appeared in huesiev coventry. court with five other men.

work with non-unionist death likely

SOCIALIST LABOUR

SOCIALIST LABOUR

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PRINT WORKERS at Philip thacial backing. that strike would not get

LEAGUE LECTURES

PUBLIC MEETING

DEMONSTRATIONS were ex- Andover, and Tacey Limited, Peters said yesterday: pected in Belfast MiTC yesterday Hampshire, have agreed to Merthyr Tydfil Wythenshawe 1n 'I'm going to join. I don't after a 22-year-old man from work for four-month trial believe in unions.' the Falls Road hanged himself period with a non-unionist.

Given by Gerry Healy at Long Kesh prison camp on Wednesday June 6, The 73 all Foundry claim Sunday. 8 p.m. worker. national secretary

SOGAT,

of blacked her work Patrick Crawford one of the and banned overtime in at- an FOUNDRY workers at the Swin.

13 'The Cock O' Th' North' men arrested near Newry last tempt to build a fully-unionized Socialist Labour League Wiltshire, factory Wythenshawe, don, Portway, they travelled south shop. Wednesday June 6 Manchester claim- Mr Craws

STUCK

vesterov But the Mrs Grace ing more pay for working in bad Crawford had 7.30 p.m. wollan. been in still refused to take conditions. reters (49), Long Kesh for a month Questions and Answers on union membership and is of the foundry section no week he was due Workers trial and this publishing Marxism, Philosophy the factory doing bers foundry section to appear before the ce cases on which CrOsswores. make hard-steel tool Economics and History • the cases 1110 The decision to lift sanctions

SWA FUE

without due process. Surelea Joints. men rele St David's Church Hall after wor- company has refused payment week he was given laken yesterday Church Street, Morthyr kers were told by Mr because of the Tory pay long list allegations against control Whittle, SOGAT area organizer, him. laws.

15,000 British-Leyland workers at standstill Speed-up revolt in car factories All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights

BELLE VUE

Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday June 5, 1973

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

MORE THAN 15,000 carworkers were on strike or la British-Leyland factories yesterday as a result of disputes ove and speed-up. The largest number of lay-offs was at Cowley where all car production was halted in both body and factories. Union officials and senior shop stewards met management to discuss the claim of 80 plant attendants in assembly, who, among other duties,

WOMEN

workers stop and start production lines, to be Cheney Garrard's moved up from the Skilled B to the Swindon, record-player returned work yes- tory to Skilled A grade. terday having won important The men want a declaration that they concessions from more than four strike lasting will be upgraded as soon as the Tory weeks. pay laws may allow. their Soon after But the company has so far said it would had stopped production only agree even to look at the claim further in dispute again a under conditions where 'industrial engineers' workers who had scabbed (work-study men) were allowed study on the strike. other Skilled B sections in the factory.

all The vote to return pointed that, Shop stewards have out The basis the remained the unanimous. since plant attendants the return was proposals only section who have not yet been even meeting drafted paid under the annual pay review, this was Friday between manage- completely unacceptable. Any proposals for the West of England settlement must involve the plant attendants ment, Employers' Engineering plant attendants alone. and the officials eration, union of procedure All stages were exhausted shop stewards. and two weeks' notice of strike action given, which expired at 6.30 a.m. on Friday.

withdrawal of still further their already long- Following the standing claim, which is not even labour by this key section all pro- for immediate regrading throughout the assembly but tor duction promise of possible action in and body and the future. factories ceased. 12,000 other workers laid Secondly, it would have opened off. the door to work-study amongst attendants The have plant testers, transport inspectors, decided not to meet again until storekeepers and other drivers, 10.30 a.m. Friday. Some felt on who in sections are no way should they meet tor involved. This clearly links up fortnight. with the speed-up drive on which of the strikers is The mood busily engaged management is militant. the combine. throughout Leyland management has taken AT SWINDON yesterday, Allegro extremely hard line against car-body an workers at Leyland's and its proposals to their claim, continued fight factory their study all Skilled B sections was against this speed-up drive.

double-edged. weapon. the seen as d Despite attempt by Transport and General Workers' First it would delayed have her sister Marion Price (19), stu-

SEVEN

MEN

and three dent: and Paul Holmes (19), accused of cons- women tiler. to cause explosions All were charged that on and piracy before March 8, 1973, they con- were committed for trial at and with others spired together Court Winchester Crown cause explosions in unknown from Lambeth magistrates' United Kingdom of a nature the life likely to endanger to court yesterday. cause serious injury to property.

two-week Roisin During the com- The accused are: which re- (18), typist: William mittal proceedings, in McNearney (19), have McLarnon porting restrictions Patrick nOt Walsh been lifted police have kept a Martin loyed; Robert strict guard both inside and out- 24). tiler: Gerard Kelly (19), un- employed: Martin Francis Brady side the court. All cars passing the court were (22), a driver: William Joseph searched stopped and before Armstrong (29), window cleaner: people were allowed to drive past Hugh Feeney (21). student: Dolores Price (22), student: and the ConTI All Trades Unions Alliance Cont Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Pa Special showing of the Pageant film THE Tickets £1: Available from R • or laid off at ites over grading Cowley, Oxford, ly and assembly The 1,400 workers in- volved struck, after exhaust- ing procedure, against to raise management bid their rate of working from 55 to 74 units per hour. sit-in Under the return-to-work settlement, the new rates of demanded by man- working agement are scrapped. The company, part of the over powerful Plessey group, ' to guarantee weekly earnings of between £22 and {24 under the old, preferred methods of work- and the old manning code dial ho had to con no change in Fed- methods, job patterns or manning levels now can Union to force a return to work, 700 press operators voted on Friday to continue their fort- night-old strike. A T&GWU national officer was yesterday meeting shop stewards and, later, management. The men, who produce body stampings Allegro the lines at Longbridge, assembly are opposing a force management their rate of working with no extra pay. production at Long- Allegro bridge has been suspended be- cause of the strike, 1$ and 2,100 other workers laid workers are laid off at Swindon.

The T&GWU has informed the MR JOHN GORST, Tory MP for Hendon North, has asked the Press Council to in- conduct an immediate quiry into the conduct of the 'News of the World' and 'The People' in the Lambton- call-girl affair. Meanwhile, Lord Lambton yes- terday consulted his solicitors over the 'News of the World' disclosure that it took com- promising pictures of him with prostitutes. An announcement from the solicitors said: 'As Lord Lambton and his advisers understand the • Conference: To discuss de oo Park: Manchester-Sunda im 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWE le from R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, S without the take place agreement of the unions. stewards consider Shop this is a key concession, since with control of these rates three elements, the subject to then become negotiation. If not agreed no new rates can apply. While this obviously does not exclude • the company coming back to try and obtain speed-up, they will face a section of workers tested who have already their fighting strength. The Garrard's victory will also have a considerable impact on other struggles against speed-up — notably that in progress locally in the British Leyland press shop. men it would not officially back and has asked shop them, stewards to recommend a return.

But they voted overwhelmingly to continue and not to meet again until Thursday. All gates of the factory are being picketed by the now strikers, to keep supplies out and any assembled bodies in. CHRYSLER carworkers at Ryton, strike Coventry, remained on over paint-shop wor- kers losing one-and-a-half hours' pay last week. The paint-shop lay-off, which 100 involved 600 men, arose out of a company attempt to impose performance standards. 4,500 workers are on strike.

• referred to the matter has been Press Council, it is not intended to make any, • further statement at this stage. See Mr Foot and his strange bedfellows. Page 3.

FROM PAGE ONE

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scientists might have been able to as- certain that water in Loft- house colliery came from old workings-if they had been called in. Mr John Coxon, the Board's north Yorkshire scientist, area told this to the public inquiry into the Lofthouse colliery dis- aster in Wakefield yesterday.

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