Workers Press no. 1093

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CHRYSLER

MEN FIRM

SHOP STEWARDS at Per- kins' Peterborough diesel- engine factories yesterday condemned a surprise an- nouncement from the com- pany that it is to shut down from next Wednesday until further notice. •We are deeply shocked', said Reg engineers' union convenor Briers, who late yesterday after- had still not been able to noon pin the company down to meet him to explain the announce- ment. "They've been doing this kind of thing throughout our present pay dispute,' he said. For the last ten weeks, the 5,700 Perkins manual workers have been refusing to do over- time in support of their demand for firm steps towards pay parity with Massey - Ferguson workers at Coventry. Perkins is part of the Canad- ian-owned £404m Massey- Ferguson group. At Coventry group pays between £37 the and E54 a week, while in Peter- borough earnings range from £26 to £32. The company's offer to the Peterborough men is just £2. Yesterday's announcement, on notice-boards at all posted factories in the five town, This is the most claimed: serious situation we have ever had to face in the history of the company, but we had no shut down to alternative until further notice.' It accused the engineers' union of pressurizing the com- pany to accept what no other union has got from any other employer'. But Reg Briars pointed out was very con- that the notice . places. • Before com- fused in menting in detail the stewards would have to have clarification from the management, he said.

Marcelino Comacho, • the Spanish trade unionist now fac- ing 20 years in Franco's fascist for jails, was arrested attempts to organize in Perkins' Spanish subsidiary.

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to work until the co investment. This was shop stewards' reply yesterday to letters sent out by Gilbert Hunt, manag- ing director and chief execu- tive of the US-owned car firm, slamming the 'appalling record' of industrial the strikebound Ryton plant. The stewards' attitude hardened still further when the holiday pay, docking some men up to £30. Hunt, whose letters went out on Wednesday, had demanded the ending of the present dispute over arbitrary layoffs and a virtual no-strike regime in the factory in future. Otherwise, he said, he would neither recommend nor approve further capital investment Chrysler's British plants, which 25,000 workers employ at Coventry, Linwood, Luton, Dun- stable and Maidstone. This would stop a £10m expansion pro- gramme the company claims would provide 1,000 more jobs.

The 4,500 strikers yesterday defied this threat which follows the pattern of the draconian made by pronouncements Henry Ford II during the 1971 strike at his factories. Their picket lines remained unbroken and Ken Walton, Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers' convenor, declared: 'We are always prepared to talk, but we're not going back until our demands are met and Hunt's threat is withdrawn.' Mr Walton, who was named in the National Industrial Re- lations Court during non-unionist Joseph Langston's unsuccessful bid to break the closed shop at Ryton, linked Chrysler's pro- vocative attitude with a general drive against the shop floor by employers in the Coventry area.

Chrysler workers' anger with Hunt, and with allegations of substandard workmanship from American plant manager James Caton, reached boiling point when they discovered they were not being given any bank holiday pay. One striker said it was a 'dirty trick' and others asked if this was the way to find in- dustrial peace at the plant, where CORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JUNE 8, 1973• No 1093 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY DAVID MAUDE

CHRYSLER STRIKERS at Coventry will not return to work until the company withdraws a threat to stop

PART OF THIS WEEK'S MASS PICKET AT THE RYTON PLANT

the entire 4,500 labour force is on strike. Ken Walton told Workers officials Press: Even

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Tel us there's a tightening-up by employers the area as whole. I don't think you would be lar out it you were to say there's a concerted attack by the employers in the Coventry district. Just look at it. At GEC, tool- makers have been out for Then there's Massey- the boil and that's on kev o Dow soon. boA workers facing redundancies and

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Rugby, there are allegations company are using young girls to break a strike. At Bo body-in-strike strike started 600 workers after No 1093 4p

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ISS PICKET AT THE RYTON PLANT

were refused payment for a 90- minute layoff. The factory had only recently restarted production following a layoff because of a dispute at Linwood, near Glasgow, which makes body panels for Ryton and Chrysler's other Coventry plant, at Stoke. Workers believe that they were recalled only because the com- pany did not want to pay them their guaranteed week's earnings, which it would have been obliged to do had the layoff continued.

They say there was not a sufficient supply of good-quality panels to keep production going, and that substandard panels were used. One picket yesterday claimed he had handled a panel actually marked Rejected'.

Under the Measured-Day Work system operating in the factory FROM yesterday's post we received £44.10, which brought our total to £48,545.69. East London £1.60; Southwark £3; Hull £4 Paddington £2; Tooting £6; Crawley £20; Tottenham £2.50; Workers' Press Staff £4; Swansea £1. We need £1,454.31 by first post next Monday June 11, to complete the first £50,000. It means action, action all the way.

Send all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG there is no possibility of line workers, who have to meet pro- duction targets to earn their pay, arguing with management over quality. But after claiming that the level of acceptable bodies had fallen to as low as one-third of scheduled production, the plant management shut down the track and tried to blame the Ryton workers. It was on these grounds that payment for the 90 minutes was refused. When the body-in-white wor- kers stopped work over the management's attitude the rest of the labour force walked out, showing the same solidarity as they did against Langston's chal- lenge to union organization some months ago. ory TURN TO BACK PAGE

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CHRYSLER

MEN FIRM

SHOP

STEWARDS at Per- kins' Peterborough diesel- engine factories yesterday condemned surprise an- nouncement from the com- pany that it is to shut down from next Wednesday until further notice. 'We are deeply shocked', said engineers' union convenor Reg Briers, who late yesterday after- noon had still not been able to pin the company down to meet him to explain the announce- ment. "They've been doing this kind of thing throughout our present pay dispute,' he said. For the last ten weeks, the 5,700 Perkins manual workers have been refusing to do over- time in support of their demand for firm towards pay parity with Massey - Ferguson workers at Coventry. Perkins is part of the Canad- ian-owned £404m Massey- Ferguson group. At Coventry pays between the £37 group and £54 a week, while in Peter- borough earnings range from £26 to £32. The company's offer to the Peterborough men is just £2. Yesterday's . announcement, posted notice-boards at all on factories the five in town, claimed: 'This is the most situation we have ever serious had to face in the history of the company, but we had no shut down alternative to until further notice.' It accused the engineers' union of 'pressurizing the com- pany to accept what no other union has got from any other employer'. But Reg Briars pointed out that the notice was 'very con- fused in places'. • Before com- menting in detail the stewards would have to have clarification from the management, he said.

Marcelino Comacho, the Spanish trade unionist now fac- ing 20 years in Franco's fascist for jails, arrested his was attempts to organize in Perkins Spanish subsidiary.

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to work until the co investment. This was shop stewards' reply yesterday to letters sent out by Gilbert Hunt, manag- ing director and chief execu- tive of the US-owned car firm, slamming the 'appalling record of the industrial strikebound Ryton plant. The stewards' attitude hardened still further when the company their members' holiday stopped pay, docking some men up to £30. Hunt, whose letters went out Wednesday, had demanded on the ending of the present dispute over arbitrary layoffs and a virtual no-strike regime in the factory in future. Otherwise, he said, he would neither recommend nor approve further capital investment in British plants, Chrysler's which employ 25,000 workers at Coventry, Linwood, Luton, Dun- stable and Maidstone. This would stop a £10m expansion pro- the company claims gramme would provide 1,000 more jobs.

The 4,500 strikers yesterday defied this threat which follows the pattern of the draconian by made pronouncements Henry Ford II during the 1971 strike at his factories. Their picket lines remained unbroken and Ken Walton, Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers' convenor, declared: 'We are always prepared to talk, but we're not going back until our demands are met and Hunt's threat is withdrawn.' Mr Walton, who was named in the National Industrial Re- lations Court during non-unionist Langston's unsuccessful Joseph bid to break the closed shop at Ryton, linked Chrysler's pro- vocative attitude with a general drive against the shop floor by employers in the Coventry area.

Chrysler workers' anger with Hunt, and with allegations of substandard workmanship from American plant manager James Caton, reached boiling point when discovered they they not were being given any bank holiday pay. One striker said it was 'dirty trick' and others asked if this was the way to find in- dustrial peace at the plant, where INCORPORATING. THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JUNE 8, 1973 • No 1093 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY DAVID MAUDE

CHRYSLER STRIKERS at Coventry will not return to work until the company withdraws a threat to stop

PART OF THIS WEEK'S MASS PICKET AT THE RYTON PLANT

entire 4,500 labour force is the strike. Ken Walton told Workers officials tell Press: Even our us there's a tightening-up by area emo lovers whole. I don't think you would be tar out if you were to say there's a concerted attack by the employers in the Coventry district. Just look at it. At GEC, tool- out makers have been tor weeks. Then there's Massey- Ferguson-that's on the boil …kev to dow soor. boa workers are facing redundancies and GEC Rugby, there are unal unc company are usins yours girls to break a strike. At Ryton, the strike started after 600 body-in-white workers : 8, 1973 • No 1093 4p

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ISS PICKET AT THE RYTON PLANT

were refused payment for a 90- minute layoff. The factory had only recently restarted production following a layoff because of a dispute at near Glasgow, Linwood, which makes body panels for Ryton and Chrysler's other Coventry plant, at Stoke. Workers believe that they were recalled only because the com- pany did not want to pay them their guaranteed week's earnings, which it would have been obliged to do had the layoff continued.

They say there was not sufficient supply of good-quality panels to keep production going, and that substandard panels were used. One picket yesterday claimed he had handled a panel actually marked 'Rejected'.

Under the Measured-Day Work system operating in the factory FROM yesterday's post we received £44.10, which brought our total to £48,545.69. East London £1.60; Southwark £3; Hull £4; Paddington £2; Tooting £6; Crawley £20; Tottenham £2.50; Workers' Press Staff {4; Swansea £1. We need £1,454.31 by first post next Monday June 11, to complete the first £50,000. It means action, action all the way.

Send all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG there is no possibility of line workers, who have to meet pro- duction targets to earn their pay, arguing with management over quality. But after claiming that the level of bodies had acceptable fallen to as low as one-third of scheduled production, the plant management shut down the track and tried to blame the Ryton workers. It was on these grounds that payment for the 90 minutes was refused. When the body-in-white wor- kers stopped work over management's attitude the rest of the labour force walked out, showing the same solidarity as they did against Langston's chal- lenge to union organization some months ago.

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Workers Pross, Friday June 8, 1973 Wilson paves the way for the Tories incomes and undermines their illusions

ACCORDING

public opinion poll middle-class of independence, people- conducted by Times' and nde. pendent Television News, the Tories uranv cases committeer mortgage payments-can become ex- lead Labour for the nrst time in two tremely desperate. years. During Unless they united with the working the period dominated by Lamb- ton, Jellicoe, Lonrho, Poulson and a class on the basis of a socialist determined leadership Minister's shares, Labour gramme and a

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could leaa oI l per cent was convenee balto SuCk •cosic oculu Conservative lead of 2 per cent, right-wing forces operating on behalf of big business. says the poll. for the Heath As the economic crisis becomes daily Their recorded preference Labourites and moes place Worker? DolaNon casses asallst luc takes place. are forced into the right wing swing by-elections defend basic rights that Labour government would end are warning signs. struggles Bourgeois ideology encourages the middle such profiteering by policies of nation- class to associate itself with and model mobili- ano nyne conaiuions. Only nation po eorce Wer Tories s itself on, social 'superiors', with alization withou compensaton to But Labour's faiure to mount an offen- force Tories

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whom it really has nothing in common.

under workers' control. sive aimed at forcing the Heath gov- and Te uri SLa DOl government erment out of office Labour little difference between dampens S° Labour if it can see Tory, Tory. the middle and suboort ana arves Class WIlL

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geacersoo into the Tory even further And if the middle dass becomes dis on socialism, supported camp or hovelicul to the right. satisfied with the Tories under offers conditions where Labour no Mikardo. And Anthony Their of fed by hatred unions tne alternative it wil move further along Inls week virtually uckea Torv propaganda and the union leaders' the line and cast its vote for ultra- cringing before the Tory government. aalsu

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was no 'leadership crisis' right groups. solution to tnelt probiem lles nou It is this which is reflected in the Times- tarlamellary up ITN poll. DrOmWICI. allu With and state pay laws soaring prices They have offered their services to mono- demand nationallzation of al the mael while cutting the of real wages. Vande speed-up and 'rationalization' hits the WoC nl mccl wilk er Day JaWs, docks, railway, mines and engineer- car, while the pro-Tory Jenkinsite right wing nult renectea a desire on use part WOrKeIS Control. building and the government from LuGUS LICS

WULKCID

are dragged before the courts, Common Suchlck allu aw ay working class is not going to vote Conservative. The Labour leaders offer them nothing. Meanwhile alonte That Tory Dr oe bis mert why the swept spectacle of cringing cowardice: and to bring tne lory _cover menl Wilson and company ioined the aside in fight Tories great cover-up of the condoorauon. county councils last April. could ao inoeg See pe laws time Heats scandal. They not chal- economic crisis like Call cul But in times of acute Downing Street every time Heath Them perore une WOrKIN. Class and lenge government The

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the present, the middle class is caught crooks a finger. revelations, not just because Labour- the monopoly between power involved well ites :This capitulation by the léader- were and cavel the Cabilalisu

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raised the ship Bones. ool Decaust

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oI GOTEn Tn e arianecc airel organized working chass cam take question of capitalist business dealings. trade union wings of the labour move cass veooe wo wisn lo cnc cabilalsl no independent road of its own, and middle class from cannot win the ana therefore attracted whichever Similarly, the Labour leaders uttered. ment the Lonrho the pious phrases over ones anno uie lar stoe proves Docer HOre

LCWI

As the economic crisis eats away at their immediately determined. affair instead of declaring White House personnel change as impeachment move fails President have of the Los Angeles psychiatrist; THE POSSIBILITY of impeach- that the may PRESIDENT NIXON has brought in tough former if the President ordered the con- ing President Nixon was brought four laws in the cover VI0 alee acted fact and first uP hese Watergate oneration. Defence Secretary Melvin Laird to head the White The callic!l House were: assisting or acting prevent Representatives duvestdı tion conviction of Hunt and person House staff alongside General Alexander Haig as he member of Mcclosry. Ba Liddy, he would be guilty of a committed

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Lave valid affirmative prepares to do battle for his political life.

federal offence; concealing infor- fe onv uniess about obstruct- finally failed detence conlo be presented. CHeETK Citing other facts made public the investigation of a crime a quorum. Pressure is increasing for Nixon to make anther statement White House, he said: byne® the ana delaylng Inormano aboul d Senate should be siveh a hanc eto sient President on the Watergate scandal as the investigating com- crime. us is oeston Delore mittee unearths more startling facts about the illegal activities Referring ae ir and what point time to the evidence guilt reach that

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parl of the office of the Republicans during the election campaign.

burg ary the Watergate affair before cause that we of probable psychiatrist Daniel elsberg, cerce a decision on whether House took defendant in the Pentagon Papers are the Constitution to Former treasurer of the Committee to Re-elect the President bound Di impeachment House begin formal inquiry.' beuli bUcCCu by

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Hugh Sloan told how pressure had been brought Lasc ings. • that time He went on: me to commit perjury over the payment of $199,000 of aides Howard Hunt and Gordon bear on him the unless did ritte d no Liddy, he said: Saying that he SettI aUSL al lal campaign funds to one of the 'If President knew that President makes wished that members convicted Watergate burglars, the disclosure of everything he knows No Liddy committed impeach Hunt and Nixon h ne Gordon Liddy. and when he learned it. the facts before them, he added felony . DuI§lary o uie

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Substantial payments were campaign funds for made out questions asked' about Nixon bribes unspecihed reasons and when ne asked the finance campaign Maurice Stans ao about them told: not w ds know and you do not know' Much of the money collected to finance contributed pre-Olympic games riots in 196 the campaign was kept listed as having to Pressure was also brought Nixon has now agreed to bro. resulted in the deaths of paid Night' which vide the Br Bero ho weee nahae hat in note form. $350.000 bear Take the him through Dean to Senate Committee with was •alre ro some 200 people. out on a request from the White this with Fifth Amendment (re- logs meetings year House Former which of ataft, Bob thatde- which came who unaware that John Dean, were selt in crimination) if carled spon counse] TUSaI testl arounos nIs lorCa The charge, made by Jorge he their names were being used and who claims

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(ruckshank ToHoWS reDONI man. President at least 35 times about had inis was oT use casa to give evidence. not contributea a cent lo that Federal agents had been which found way the the Watergate cover-up. the party. ordered not to probe the way Watergate asked was conspirators in When lt ne about how the $350,000

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the Watergate the financier whether they Davinicils Yalcisalt of the It is not certain course cover-uo orcanzcu involved in the scan- conspirators were channeled from the White House. was used soan replied contain a record of the subiects through Mexico inivirdes not te in order actually discussed. broken with his pubilc •al. Las told the 'After having been the Sloan committee that

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relations man, Cuban- The essentially Paul Espinosa. He had [nIs The chairman of the Republi- country. numCIOus conversatiols

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sycals with campaign... I think mv curiosity Party in Maryland, Alexander

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of telephone- white House counsel the accused Cruickshank said

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men Dean. He also said that he had had really run out at that point that Lankler, has admitted directed Costa Rica LaODk So much had operated guise Peace destroyed all records

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… the against himself and foreign news-

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recenved Corps volunteers and English distributed receipts six days after the Water.

been in a simular way was used to sponsor a tribute to men. photo- language teachers. Agents suggestion gate break-in at the my vice-President Spiro Agnew.

WilAOl Knowieode Was lawyer, beyond the point of really asking A MEXICAN deputy has accused graphed through personal Travener. number of people the CIA of involvement in the the Mexico city airport. questions.' Herbert Kalmbach. were Right wing whip up Brandt 'bribery' case

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Press allege that

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to replace Rainer Barzel who win majority support in the manaser resorts the German Social Democratic over •Tener girered

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Party Karl Wienand has admit- £35,000 if he voted for Brandt rising criticism. The most effective alternative Brandt circulation motion. papers favoured contender the as a potential with the no-confidence Cune Te0 ne nao meels opposed to Brandt's Ostpolitik Rhineland State Palatinate the Christian Democrauc Union ete rotis tune If Brandt can be discredited using allegations to deputy Steiner, alleged vote, but denies that he was Premier, helmut nobl. scandal, Watergate-typ‹ 'red scare', paid to do so. to have been bribed not to vote

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He will need would wim be a godsena to the bring down Brandt support of the arch-reactionary ailing

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Tule o nou coaluot l The CDU opposition has called government. April 1972. way for a Strauss govern- Franz-Josef who the The

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Strauss investiga- opposition is using ior a parliamentary the naes une carisuan bodarand mene He claims that money tion dere nine Wherre natter o reunie ls owi in Bavaria. Strauss was the discussed at the bribery was involved. It also divided ranks and resolve the not but tais would precipitale a force behind Barzel's main that the ballot inner-party was conflict with the working class, with Steiner's claims secret

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«call brought about by its which out the electoral resizauon. came onto position The atreenes davers. were penci Strauss's for Kobl with Russia and Poland com- sied atte verde that they could be identi- defeat. thous

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nucels ruel lew for the when the pay- At its congress next week it is known to be lukewarm. But ands the last time that Brandt ratification in will have to select a new leader no other candidate is likely to was threatened with defeat. made. oudestd'e vul was

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORY government has perfected a riot-control gas which makes victims feel they are on fire. A Defence Ministry spokesman said yesterday the agent, known as CR, was being produced 'for use in the United Kingdom'® The fire gas has been developed at-the chemical and biological warfare station at Nancecuke, Corn- wall. It causes a painful burning sensation when it touches the skin and can be sprayed into a crowd by water cannon.

CR's effect on skin, eyes and respira- a much makes it tory organs more than CS gas and the potent wcapull previous "tear gas'. It has been produced by the govern- ment, without publication of any scien- tific documents or public debate. Its Puse would be in direct contravention of the Geneva Protocol to which Britain is a signatory. The surrounding the develop- secrecy and other riot-control ment of CR gases criticized Dr Robert yesterday by Jones. In developing the fire in gas secrecy, the government defying the findings of the Himsworth committee which stated all medical that and scientific research relevant to the use of newly-made agents should be published 'straight away' in the appropriate scientific journals.

He told Workers Press that attempts to obtain American field reports had been negative. The conducted were at Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, had and subsequently been given a security classi- fication. In article an in last week's 'New Scientist', Dr Jones the says "ideal' existence of an riot- control agent of sufficient safety not to impair the health of have so far failed to uncover rioters or of accidentally-exposed single riot-control agent which innocent people is 'merely be said be incapable of notional. causing permanent injury or even In other words, there's no such death under the conditions in thing as safe crowd-control which it is used. weapon and it's unlikely that the Now, with rapid manu- ever will be. there facture of CR, Tories the have Dr Jones, a biochemist at the produced substance which is Royal College of Surgeons, Lon- certainly no 'safer'. Scientists say don, writes: that its components indicate that 'Politician and alike scientist it will be more 'effective'- and must accept the inescapable con- therefore much more dangerous. clusion that any substance This has been cap- project sanc- able of producing an intolerable tioned the Tory premier, Edward Heath, irritation at low concentrations and the Defence must also possess a concomitantly Lord Carrington, who high toxicity? also Party chairman. "a sensible deci- While they talk of building 'one Saying that would be nation' and working in harmony sion to abandon altogether chemical of the trade they are means unions, dealing with Dr Tones preparing behind the scenes with riots, evidence referred to psychiatric the weapons for class wal. that CS gas had exacerbated the News of the fire must be gas mental children warning illness of some salutory to all those in Belfast. who living in hopes of the are and peace with Toryism. Decades of intensive research 'boom' POLICE forces in all capitalist countries closely watch the workers' movement and act as spies and provo- cateurs. A raw light on how this is done is shed by an article in the 'Le Nouvel Observateur'. It claims to French magazine a member of the 'Renseignements Generaux', a written by branch of the police specially concerned with internal security. of The French police also Back to the days carry out such routine tasks Napoleon, French police correspondence, as opening have been expert in col- public covering meetings lecting information about and taking down car num- political organizations and bers. They join in street trends in public opinion demonstrations, while others and keeping the ministries take photographs. supplied with a constant Police agents enter every stream of information. organization, however small, The tradition is now re- and informers already pay inforced with modern tech- As inside. they not nie ess of undercoron work, known to other, the each electronic the use de- departmental chiefs have vices and cameras with tele- double check on their sub- scopic lenses. ordinates. author, According to the Police headquarters who himself

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signs closely study the left-wing special attention is devoted Press and memos are writ- to telephone tapping because and filed away as part this is the best and often the of the routine work of the only way in which the police younger policemen who to the can gain access top are just learning the ropes.

levels of left-wing Later they may be asked to organization, join an per- He that points out haps becoming student, although many people are and then take an active part aware that their telephones in it. are tapped, they easily be- The 'Renseignements come careless and let slip Generaux' also have their informa- names and other Tontons Macoutes** for tion which can be useful to Watergate-type operations. the police. .. You either treat It with contempt (abo You certainly can't get away from tities it has been in Northern Ireland.

—is to be used 'in the UK'. WIll Ulster for this addition to the Tory arsenal Penguin book 'The Battle of the Bogsic They enter premises during ments address lists, plant bugging devices. Photography is another the political pastime of police, generally done from vans with the help of tele- scopic lenses. Leaders and militants are followed SO that their contacts can • be picked up. These activities are, of course, expensive and they require a large personnel. They take in nationalist and exiled movements operating in France. All this is pretty well known, but is worth recal- ling in the light of the London Metropolitan Police report's emphasis on dealing 'strikers ter- rorists'. * 'Tontons Macoutes' - A special corps of strong-arm men set up and used by Haitian dictator "Papa Doc' Duvalier to terrorize politi- cal opponents. emol above or simpli from CS gas when it' 1 Ireland. Now CR-sti vil Vister again provide arsenal? Pictures fro Interna Group has allenition Bunsie is their organiza contender: conference Birmingham. mmigrant Peake Workers Press, simply suffer It (below).

n it's used in the quan- 'secret weapon ovide ine testing ground es from Clive Limpkin's nternational Socialism it to our Bennie memoe. ganization. IS had only at last Saturday's He

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Open Monday to ..... 8. ' ers Press, Friday June 8, 1973 PAGE 3 A TWO-MONTH-OLD dispute involving 126 BEA baggage delivery men at Heathrow airport came to a head yester- day when seven of the drivers suspended and were sent home. The men, whose jobs include ferrying passenger baggage to aircraft, have been operating a non-co-operation policy since the beginning of April over a wage in- demand for a new crease. Under the state pay laws, how- ever, BEA management is refus- ing the rise. The sending home was fol- lowed by a statement from Roy Watts, BEA's chief executive: 'Our have had customers enough and so have I'. The dispute has been referred to the National Joint Council for Civil Air Transport. Meanwhile the seven drivers are suspended without pay. immediate de- There were mands at the airport for wide- spread industrial action which would severely disrupt air traffic and cause heavy flight cancel- lations. Chaos was brought to the as hun- Terminal One building dreds of passengers struggled in the heat with heavy suitcases.

Suspension of the whole shift of 40 men followed an emergency when the men refused meeting to end the work to rule. Quit talks call CRAWLEY No. 3 branch of the Union of Amalgamated Engi- Workers has called on neering Hugh union's president, the Scanlon, to withdraw from talks with Tory premier Edward Heath on Phase Three of the state pay laws.

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exploded at a terday injuring two men. were trying to restart the fur- nace in the drying plant at the Formans Road battery factory in Sparkhill. They thrown to the were ground by the force of the blast, which caused considerable da- mage to the plant, although there was no structural damage.

Mr Paul Taylor 44, a fitter, of Mavis Road. Northfield, was de tained in hospital with a broken leg and arm. The other man, Dr K. McEwan (42) of Orchard House, Warwick- Tanworth-in-Arden, shire. who is understood to be a senior engineer at the plant, suffered shock.

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Workers Press, Friday June 8, 1973

THE

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'We have a responsibility to the working class to develop political consciousness' London student Ken Toomey (17) is studying for his 'A' levels. & I think the League is the only party that takes stand. principled Its basis is the needs of the working class.

It's clear policies and got collaborate golg with the Tories every chance it gets. It's not an opportunist organization such as the IS or Ine 1/Viu. Paul Foot was on television the other night and he was hand in hand Fleet WiLd Tone Street Tories. He completely the News of the •enounced World' for the That's Lambton-Jellicoe affair. opportunism at its height.

And when you study their theories and policies in detail, they are completely opportunist and reformist. It's not as if they've strayed along the line somewhere. They are consciously revisionist and in that way they are diverting workers from the class struggle.

When I first came into the League I knew lact nothing about the massive crisis capitalism is now in. I just felt the injustice of the world we live in. I could see there were sharp conflicts between the working class and the ruling and the unequal dis- tribution of wealth. We're all affected by these injustices. We never gel whal we deserve. That's the basis of capitalism-the exploitation of one class by another. what I saw. 1 alan l Ilke I didn't like businessmen to be able to completely control the working class which produces everything while this parasitic was just a burden on Cass workers' backs. I was affected myself. Kids are still who at school are forced to go after Saturday jobs where the employers pay dis- gusting money. what a struggle i could see was for parents to make of ends meet from one end the week to the next. I asked myself 'What do we We own nothing at all own?' except our labour and we've got to try and get the best. price ay June 8, 1973 we can for it. Now the Tories have stopped that. They are deciding what get for the labour we we'll in. put They are trying to speed up production, make us sweat more and pay us less because of their crisis. I felt very bitter that I was exploited at such a rate as a student worker. The business- men who employ you are really pulling the strings. You haven't got a leg to stand on. If you try ana protest and ask ior a wage rise they either say 'No' or kick you out. I read papers like the 'Morning Star' and the 'Socialist Worker' they called for and one-day strikes and mass militant action, but I could see this wasn't the way. I could see from the start that the League was not the kind of organization that would jump on the bandwagon with the rest. I could see they were guing to fight to the very end, and that's why I decided to join. The League showed me the need for a revolutionary party.

But it's not easy being a member. This is where the principle of dialectics comes in. It's a struggle, a conflict.

The League is based on dialectics. The struggle within the party, the struggle between party and the working the the struggle between class, man and his environment and the ultimate struggle between the working class and capital- ism. Paul Foot of IS 'He was hand Above: 'Youth are a section of the working class being hit severely by the Tories. They are trying to whip the working-class youth into line.! The only way forward is by sharp conflict. The unity of opposites in conflict is the only way to move forward.

Constant struggle and the clash of opinions develops the League and the YS branches.

It helps people to understand the nature of the crisis they are living in and what they are going to do about it.

We have a responsibility to the working class to struggle with them and try to bring about political consciousness in them. I believe the international inflationary crisis will drive the capitalists on to try to smash the working class and introduce fascism and barbarism. The only way capitalism can is by robbing survive the working class of all its demo- cratic rights won in struggle.

The very basis of capitalism after the war was inflationary.

organs of Bretton All the Woods, like the IMF, were inflation. America based on built up Europe after the war, but how did they do it? They did it with billions and billions of worthless paper dollars and now they are going to pay the price for it. They don't know the rate for the dollar from one day to the next. The price of gold has just $123, but only three reached years ago it was as fixed at is Bretton Woods-$35. This a clear example of the crisis of capitalism. The policies of the TUC, the Labour Party and the Com- munist Party are basically reformist. When capitalism is booming, the reformists win small concessions. But in times of crisis they move completely to the right. They become agents of the ruling class with- in the working-class movement.

At least with the Tories you know they are out to smash you, but with these traitors in the working class you don't know where you are. As far as I can see there's no future for youth today under capitalism. I ahead can see industry massive sections of collapsing. There's no room to make it to the top at all.

Kids are facing a bleak future on the dole. You even get people coming out of universities washing up dishes or digging the road. I can see it happening to me and I don't intend to sit back and do nothing about it.

I think the Workers Press is going to play a big part in bringing consciousness to the working class. It is the organ of the League. We must turn the branches outwards and go out recruiting as often as we can. We must get the Workers Press to factories, building sites and wherever people work. I'm convinced that in the trade union movement youth will come forward and take a leading position. I can see a change in my friends at school.

Before they'd just be talking about going to the pub, but now they sit and talk about socialism and all that it means.

They • know what the Tories are doing to them. Youth are a section of the working class being hit very severely by the Tories. They whipped up a law-and-order campaign against them. They are trying to put fear into the working-class youth to whip them into line. It's very important to train as many sections of the youth and the working class as we der can in Marxism. It will be a struggle because Marxism is not the easiest thing to learn.

But this struggle itself will give the basis for understand- ak ing Marxism.

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of es 0. it it. ne th 00. es ey ne in th d- Once you've read some Marx and Lenin, you develop a taste to read a lot more so that you can analyse along with the League. This is very important because one day it will be our responsibility to make this analysis. Marxism from the starts needs of the working class nat from the needs of profit. That's why it's the only way forward for the working class. The sharpening crisis which affecting workers, house- 1S wives and youth is telling them there's something wrong; that they've got to do something.

They can see that the

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and the Labour Party aren't going to do anything. Groups like the IS, the IMG and the CP are spreading con- working fusion in the class. We've got to come out and stand on clear principle and put our policies to the work- ing class so that they can say 'Here's the way forward'.

The capitalists have got their backs the wall and to they've got to come out kick- They are going take 1ng. back everything they've given over the last two centuries.

But think the it people League has got a hard task, I think the capitalists have got a harder one. They are trying to turn the clock back 200 years. Transforming the League in- George Jackson; whilst in prison in USA to a party is a historical task.

towards the study of Marxism and diale It's not just a thing which picket squad in the St action at would be a good idea. kidding themselves that although it's be It's a historical smooth next.' task. Workers Press, 'The whole world is in a situation London warehouseman Junior W. (23) said: I think the League will do what it says. It's a workers' party. It's students not just and middle-class intellectuals.

I think workers are fed up with the old leaders and they are looking for another party to turn to. I've always been interested in politics, but more with what went on in America. was interested in black nationalism.

Black Panthers and Che Guevara: When I first came round the League I wondered what it was all about and why they criti- cized all these other groups like the IMG and the IS and Gradually the CP. by going along to the League's meetings I realized that what they were saying was true. When I first came into poli- tics it was a fashion -the thing do. Angela Davis and to George Jackson • were in the When I first news. was in- I volved the League with on in USA. before his murder, he turned thought it was a bit of a joke, and dialectics. Above: The police anti- but when all that wore off Thomas' site 'A lot of people are started to look at things more ugh it's been rough this winter it will be seriously. ers Press, Friday June 8, 1973 PAGE 5 I want to see this succeed and I want io sive as much help as possible. The only way, I think, is with the Socialist Labour League. I was very nationalist at one time. Kill at the whitęs. But when you looked at it you saw that there were a lot of white people suffering as well.

The Tories brought in their Industrial Relations Act, their anti-strike law, the pay laws and their picketing squads.

A lot of people are kidding themselves along that although it's been rough this winter it will be smooth next. If you're going to consider yourself a Marxist you've got to be out every day fighting for it. I think there is still a lot of difficulty in the party about this. At this time we need every- body. All those people who are in it must really pull their weight and go out and fight politically those workers who believe that everything is going to be all right in a couplé of months. If we are going to build an alternative leadership, it is very important that all the people in the party should play as active a part as they can.

The whole world is in a situation now which is really ripe for revolution. Things are in danger of going back like in the what they were depression. Now is the time to make workers aware of what really is going on.

COD WAR: THE MEN BEHIND THE WAR

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday June 8, 1

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Winning the 'cod war' is supposed to be in the interests of the nation. We read about 'our boats' fighting for free.

dom against the nasty Icelanders. But freedom for whom? All housewife knows about the fish is that it costs more. Is the war for her, or for the handful of firms which control the in- dustry from sea to table? The answer is that the battle is fought strictly in the interests of the latter. Monopoly is the driving force behind the war on the British side. Once trawling was controlled by scores of small family firms who ran the ships in a direct and ruthless fashion. Now the fleets are dominated by three firms. One, British United Trawlers (born of a 1969 merger of the two giants Associated • Fisheries and the Ross Group), is far larger than its nearest rivals, Marrs and / June 8, 1973 Boston Deep Sea Fisheries.

Concentration is extremely high. Just after the war the fleet in Hull was controlled by about 20 owners. Now there are six, dominated by the big three. In 1962 three owners with over 50 vessels each, controlled 41 per cent of the fleet. By 1971 two owners had 45 per cen. and four 73 per cent.

to BUT and In addition BDSF there is MacFisheries (Unilevers) who do not run distance trawlers but never- theless buy up to 20 per cent of all cod landings. These are the firms which send most of the men out to fight the cod war. BDSF owns the United Towing Com- pany, which hires out sturdy tugs to help guard the British trawling fleet off Iceland. The government pays the bill- £1,500 per tug per day. Monopoly in the industry is not an accident. It is due to the laws of capitalist produc- tion as they affect trawling. In part, it has been caused by the very antagonisms between the big nations that have led to the cod war itself. Yesterday's article showed how, as the North Sea fish stocks became depleted through overfishing, trawlers were forced further north to seek their catch. These journeys were more expensive, oil costs were high, fishing time was limited by the length of the journey. For a satisfactory performance, new, bigger boats had to be built immediately after the war.

These pressures marked the beginning of the antagonism with Iceland and increased the pressure for monopoly. The family firms simply could not stand the strain of the huge outlay of capital to start and maintain healthy distant- water fleet. H. Wight, chairman of the management committee of the • Distant Water Vessel Develop- ment Scheme, remarked on the effects of deep-sea fishing in August 1950, when he told trawler owners: 'A much greater return is now needed to make a trip pay on long-distance voyages and for some time many dis- tant-water trawler-owners in both Hull and Grimsby have been operating their vessels at a considerable loss.' The problems now are even more severe. Vessels have been forced to travel up to 5,000 miles to Newfoundland to search for fish. The costs are crippling and • beyond all bar largest companies which the have the capital to invest in ships that can stay at sea for a third of a year. According to Jack Alison, president of the Hull Fish Merchants Protection Society: "The Hull fleet of conventional [side-trawlers which trawlers make average sea trips of three weeks] is steadily contracting because the cost of replace- ment has risen to astronomical heights. Future investment in this field becomes an economic gamble which very few owners are prepared even to contem- plate.' But perhaps an even greater factor has been the revolution in the techniques of processing.

Traditional side trawlers (left) are fast d The owners used to have a built-in safeguard against serious competition from im- ports, since fish is a highly perishable commodity and must be marketed at great speed after it is caught.

Freezing, and the develop- ment of deep-freezing methods at sea, factory ships and so on changed all this. The trawling interests in other countries could deep- freeze their catch and market the fish in Britain months after the fish caught. The were freezer-ships, larger, more powerful and able to stay fish- ing longer, also gave individual companies an advantage over rivals who stuck to the tradi- tional methods of wet fishing.

It was a question of invest- ing in freezer fleets or suffer- ing badly in the competitive war. Freezing got underway in the the heavy capital 1960s and outlay involved was an enorm- ous driving force towards take- mergers and eventual overs, monopoly. With the investment came new problems. The higher pro- portion of machinery and plant per man employed in the in- dustry increased what Marx calls the organic composition of capital (i.e. the proportion of fixed capital, machinery on which surplus value and profit is not made, to the proportion of variable capital, labour, on which surplus value is made).

This always reveals itself in a tendency for the rate of profit to fall. And indeed dur- ing the 1960s the industry was

They have not got the range or the capacity of the modern freezer vessels (above) which fish from the stern.

from the industry. Traditional side trawlers (left) are fast disappearing

e fast disappearing from the industry. They have not got the range or the capacity of the modern freezer vessels (above) which fish from the stern.

i disappearing from the industry. They have not got the struggling to maintain margins increasing against costs largely a direct result of the investment programme. As the Authority report White Fish for 1967 stated: Increased revenue in some sections was offset by a massive increase in operating costs.' All this took place against a background of ruthless compe- tition on the high seas against the freezer-fleets other the depletion of nations and fishing grounds in the north- east Atlantic. Total effect once more was to reinforce the drive towards greater and greater control of the whole industry by a hand- ful of firms. 'Altogether, stated the White Fish Authority in 1969-1970, 'the ageing of fleets, the rapidly- rising cost of new construction the imminent shortage of and cod in the north-east Atlantic make it doubtful that British production can be maintained at current levels, despite the from increasing contribution the prosperous and efficient inshore fleet.' Greater concentration and pri the wave of investment also radically altered the shape of the fish market. The primary aim of the trawler-owners is not neces- sarily big catches. If the mar- ket is glutted prices can drop -in the past it was not un- to be known for tons of fish dumped because they failed to realize prices that allowed the owners their profit. Owners like high stable were not prices, but these guaranteed when a large num- ber of trawling companies faced hundreds of merchants who at eacn Ish pOrt the catch by auction. In these circumstances especially in the absence of storage any facilities to eradicate gluts and fluctuated SOLares prices violently. attempted to The owners by 'con- protect themselves trolling' the catch. When prices in the industry slumped, dur- ing the mid-1950s, for example, Vessel Hull Fishing Owners' Association agreed to confine 20 per cent of the fleet in dock and levy penalty pay- trawlers re- ments on winter turned from the grounds more than 70 per cent full. These restrictions were designed entirely to preserve pront margins or as was the case in Hull to reduce losses) and not aimed at getting more cheap fish to the public.

The need for more control became more urgent wnen the The massive burden of capi- tal expenditure poor would be doubly disas- prices trous for the companies, be- they had far more to Lause They were forced to

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thrust forward into the market, to control the price of fish and even further to secure re.

tail outlets. the The upshot has been the demise of smaller mer- chants at the fish docks, who rapidly side-tracked by were Those that remain the giants. are either owned by the com- panies or are their economic slaves. he modern freezer vessels (above) which fish fr By 1965, of Grimsby's 600 five firms, • merchants, all of which were associated or con- trolled by the trawler com- panies, handled 25 per cent of the catch. Unilever (MacFish- eries) handled a further 10 per cent. In Hull, with 200 merchants, 37 per cent of the catch was bought by six firms which were largely controlled by the trawl- ing interests-Unilever took a further 13 per cent of the Hull landings off the market. The decline of the merchants has continued. Today there are ay- about 130 in Hull and a fur- fall in numbers is pre- ther dicted by the Hull Fish Mer- chants' Protection Society.

To consolidate their hold, Ross the largest companies, Associated Fisheries, and formed a ring in Hull to keep up the prices at the auction.

The larger merchants control- led or influenced by the big two would bid price by agree- ment and the smaller merchant would have to enter auction at above market prices if they wanted to get any decent stocks at all. Ross and Associated reached their agreement in 1959—the dawn of the freezer revolution.

By 1964 sales of frozen fish had reached £100m and the two companies were automati- cally withdrawing the bulk of catch at 3s above the market price exclusively for own usedespite their pro- tests from the Merchants' Pro- tection Society (they later took the logical step of proposing This failed in the a merger. mid-1960s, but was successful formed in 1969 when they British United Trawlers).

The owners argued the prac- tice was good one because it provided good quality fish and a stable climate In lne which investment industry in and modernization could flourish. The quality argument was middle dubious. and water purchases were not sub- ject to such agreements and the quality of these was gener- all The recognized to be higher. stability ior al zullicul well be technically may rect. But the development takes the of context place wilhin Benefits, private monopoly. therefore, are not passed on to the housewife who buys the fish or the men who catch them, but the few who own the boats. "he mergers and cartels are designed to protect their margins. For the big boys, trawling is now a profitable business.

Fisheries (74 per Associated in increase cent over the year. In 1972 thr pre-tax profit hit record lne level of £2.2m. In April 1973 new figures showed yet an- other record. But the companies are still plagued with a relatively small rate of return (e.g. Associated 5 per cent). This is because of the increasingly high organic composition of their capital referred to above. The biggest owners have at- temoted to overcome this ten- dency by and control merger or the market, out tney are un- able to escape what is a law rs Press, Friday June 8, 1973 PAGE 7 ed of capitalist development.

What are the social and poli- tical implications of these developments? : led to a higher They have price for fish and a reduction in the choice of fish available.

Owners like large and constant catches of cod for freezing.

For the men in the industry it has meant pressure to catch fish and compete with inter- national and national rivals. The skippers now are in the midst of a battle with the owners who want them to sign contracts in anticipation of the demise of the side-trawler and redundancies in the industry.

But above all monopoly has had a direct influence on the cod war. The journeys to Ice- land and the northern Atlan- tic gave an impetus to mono- poly. But monopoly now fuels the flames of the antagonism on the seas. Owners have sunk millions in their fleets, they are expensive to maintain—a ban on Icelandic fishing would be disastrous for their profits.

Hence the pressure is on to fish and keep on fishing.

The cod war is the owners' war, though they like other people to fight it. One question remains to be answered, however, and it is asked by every deckie and skipper in Hull. If the Icelandic waters are lost and Britain is forced off the continental shelf—what happens to the thousands of jobs in distant-water fishing?

In the final article on Mon- day we examine this issue. Tomorrow we investigate the NATO aspect of the cod war.

REVISIONISTS EXPOSED

BY ECONOMIC CRISIS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday June 8,

BY PETER JEFFRIES

Dick Roberts, a leading member of the American Socialist Worker's Party has written a series of articles in defence of the economic theories of Ernest Mandel. It is when Roberts comes to justify Ernest Mandel's analysis of the monetary crisis that the theoretical bankruptcy of his group is most plainly seen. Roberts attempts constantly to deride and misrepresent the analysis of the monetary crisis which has been made by the Socialist Labour League. 'For Marxists, he tells us, 'the central contradiction of im- perialism, monopoly capitalism in the 20th century, 1s the revolt of the forces of pro- duction against national boun- daries.' Now we certainly don't need Roberts, representing a group which long ago deserted the Leninist analysis of imperial- ism, to tell us this. For Lenin, this was a general, abstract, statement about the fundamental cause of capitalist crisis in this epoch. In the same way, Marx, in the Preface to his work on capitalist economy ('Critique of Political Eco- nomy') made clear that the content of capitalist breakdown was the tendency for the pro- ductive forces to come into collision with the socialist relations of capitalist produc- tion. But, unlike Roberts, Marx also that it was neces- knew sary to deal with the forms took. For which this crisis the laws of capitalist economy do not present themselves directly on the surface of society. Quite the contrary!

Karl Marx. The content of any crisis can only be grasped through the specific forms which it takes under historically - determined circumstances. 'Value ... does not stalk about with a label describing what it is,' Marx tells us in 'Capital'. That is why he had to trace out the development of the value form in the open- ing chapters of 'Capital' from its 'elementary' through its 'expanded' and then its 'general' (money) form, a form which clearly does Roberts not understand. is quite ludicrous of It ay June 8, 1973 Morgenthau and Keynes at Bretton Woo system by tying the dollar (and through Roberts to "counterpose' the monetary crisis to the 'real' capitalist crisis. In doing so he only reveals his complete ignorance of Marx's economic method. are 'one-sided', says We in pointing Roberts, to the dollar crisis as the main com- ponent of capitalist crisis. 'In order to grasp the dynamics of post-war expansion we have to begin with Marx, in the arena of production, not cir- culation.' This method expressed 'in the logical struc- ture of "Capital" which pro- ceeds from the contradiction production in of first the volume to those of circulation in the second and third volumes'. Let us, if not for Roberts' benefit, at least for any of his readers who may have been misled by his analysis, explain the Marxist theory of money.

Marx constantly derided all those bourgeois economists who thought that money was merely a convenient way of circulating goods within capi- talism. What he would have thought of somebody claiming to be "Trotskyist" who laboured under the same illusions is easy to imagine.

Marx, in fäct, shows that money arises out of the very nature of commodity produc- tion and cannot be separated from it. In dealing with a crisis in the monetary system, we are in fact dealing with the highest expression of a crisis which now grips the very foundation of capitalist commodity pro- duction. It is from this standpoint that the SLL has analysed the unfolding of the monetary crisis: Marx demonstrated that etton Woods, 1944. Here the leading capitalist p d through it other paper currency) to gold.

there is a fundamental con- tradiction at the very heart of commodity production. For it involves at one and the same time the creation of use values and exchange values. Use values are objects of use for everybody but their producer.

Now the production of wealth takes the form of the produc- in tion of use values all societies. But what is unique to capitalism is that commodity production predominates. That is, all production tends to take place, not for the use of the direct producers, but for the including market. All goods, the ability to work, labour power, become commodities.

In exchanging commodities, are in men lact exchanging their labour. Under capitalism, the social relations of produc- tion take the form of or appear between the relations as 'things', commodities. The exchange of commodities is determined by the socially necessary labour time incor- porated into each commodity. If a coat takes twice as many hours to produce as hat a (assuming 'normal' conditions) then two hats will exchange for one coat. How does Marx explain the manner in which the con- tradiction within the an 'exchange value' is over- come? It is overcome through the development of money.

Only through the creation of a 'universal equivalent' is any means found whereby each person's labour individual (which produces use values) is transformed into its opposite, general labour (which produces exchange values). 'Money is a crystal formed of necessity, in the course of exchange, whereby different capitalist powers tried to 'plan' the money products of labour are prac- tically equated with one an- other and thus by practice converted into commodities.

The historic and progressive extension of exchange develops the contrast latent in com- modities, between use value and the value. The necessity of giving external expression to this contrast for the purpose commercial intercourse, urges on the establishment of an independent form of value, and finds no rest until it is once and for all satisfied • by the differentiation of com- modities into commodities and money.' ('Capital' I, p. 87.)

Roberts clearly understands none of this. This is obvious when, quoting Marx, he thinks he has scored a 'great point' when he tells us that only in does 'gold come into a crisis, its own'. As though we are not in a crisis now! As though the continual tendency for the gold price to soar is not the indication of most acute capitalist crisis! The inescapable fact is that the production of commodities remains antagonistically tied to the production of its opposite, gold. In a period of prosperity " 'real' the capitalists want only com- value in the form of modities. Only in a crisis do und they rush for gold, rejecting.

'profane' commodities Since 1945 the considerable built up largely through the creation of a vast pool of dollars, on the basis of which an even larger superstructure of credit has been built.

But the expansion of pro- duction-the growth of the productive forces-could occur only within the confines of the creation of exchange values.

Marx showed this in his analysis of the commodity- use values are created only to the extent that they can be produced as exchange values.

And the most abstract, general, therefore powerful ex- pression of exchange value is gold itself. The 'gold crisis' is not, as Roberts fondly imagines, some- thing distinct from the ten- dency of the productive forces to collide violently with the social relations of production.

The gold crisis is precisely the dominant form taken by this collision. It is therefore nonsense for Roberts (Intercontinental Press', May 14) to assert: It is precisely because of pro- duction crises that gold main- tains its special role.' No. Gold plays the indispen- sable role capitalism in transforming private, individual labour into general, universal labour. And in a long quota- from 'Capital', tion Vol. 3 (pp. 560-561) which Roberts imagines supports his conten- 'real' crises exist tion that independently of money crises, he most conveniently 'omits' the following passage, which Engels inserted in preparing Marx's draft notes for publi- cation: "The wealth of society,' says Engels, 'exists only as the wealth of private individuals, who are its private owners.

It preserves its social character only in that these individuals mutually exchange qualitatively different use values for the satisfaction of their wants. Under capitalist production they can do so only by means of money. Thus the wealth of the individual is realized as social wealth only through the is in medium of money. It money, in this thing, that the social of this wealth nature is incarnated.' It was for this reason that the attempt by the Keynesians to 'manage' the world money system after 1945 were doomed to failure. At Bretton Woods the lead- ing capitalist powers tried to 'plan' the money system by tying the dollar (and through it all other paper currency) to gold. Meanwhile a considerable expansion of commodity pro- duction took place, necessarily in the most 'anarchic', that is unplanned, manner. But commodities and money are bound together. What is a mere 'difference' in a boom, a difference which the revision- ists and capitalists alike sought to ignore, in a crisis is sharp- ened to the point of violent antagonism. Now the productive forces built up over 25 years are seen to be without visible means of support. 'Stabilization' involves their complete wiping out, along with vast quantities of labour power which are now 'surplus from the equally standpoint of capitalist pro- duction. Every worker and serious socialist knows that of all the tendencies within the working- class movement only those of the International Committee of the Fourth International have analysed the development of the crisis in a way which has anticipated these great changes and prepared a working-class leadership accordingly. In our final article tomorrow we shall examine the writings of Ernest Mandel on the money crisis to establish the ruthless manner in which the present crisis has exposed his complete shallowness and bankruptcy.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

DUMONT: A REFORMIST AT HEART

ENGLAND AND FRANCE: THE DIFFERENCES

BREAKDOWN

There won't be much mourn- ing among car workers over demise of Sir George the Harriman, president of the Motor British-Leyland Cor- poration. On the eve of the 1968 Motor Show he called on the Labour government to assist in the creation of a single trade union for the industry. It is obvious that there is a nationwide breakdown of res- ponsibility and discipline - a form of anarchy.' creeping Where anarchy was involved, he said, the government must involved, 'for if it is also be not stopped, we shall be facing not only the devaluation of sterling, but the devaluation of Britain' With the breaking of the Poulson, Lonrho, Polwarth and Lambton-Jellicoe scandals, Har- riman lived to see the 'break- down of responsibility and discipline—a form of creeping anarchy' which he so correctly forecast!!

LIZA

Liza Minnelli's whirlwind romance with Peter Sellers recalls another celebrated affair involving the star of 'Cabaret' A couple of years ago she visited Australia on a concert tour. Her name was linked with John Gorton, the Tory Prime Minister of Australia. Her taste is clearly improving...

slightly.

NO CHAMPERS !!

Great Scott, by George, Yee- gads. As if there wasn't enough trouble in the world. Now the news has broken that there is to be a champagne shortage.

This sensational, shocking, dramatic report had bankers, brokers and senior police officers weeping late yesterday.

A retired colonel, with tears streaming down rugged his stammered: 'This is cheeks, the end. I could take Suez, the winds of change, Profumo, the devaluation of sterling, the admission of Bernard Levin into the Carlton Club - but this is too much.' United Press International reports from Rheims in France that the shortage has been created by an overall increase in consumption over the past "The demand for ten years. real French champagne has doubled in the past decade,' a spokesman for Möet and Chandon said. In an attempt to slow down the demand, the bubbly makers have increased the price by 20 per cent.

The position is being further aggravated by the fact that there just isn't enough champers grapes being grown.

All in all, the situation is desperate. It could mean that the TUC leaders will have to be content with pints of mild next time they visit 10 Down- ing Street.

WHITEHALL

The Tories have introduced a policy of showing school children what goes on in 'the corridors of power. Recently a sixth-former from the Car- shalton High School for Girls was invited into the inner sanctums of the Department of the Environment to show her what Whitehall work is really like' (London 'Evening Standard'). Many people are wondering whether she saw Environment Secretary, Geof- frey Rippon, hard at it while she was there. 'Soclalism and Development' by Rene Dumont with Marcel Mazoyer. Translated from the French by Rupert Cunningham.

Andre Deutsch. £3.50.

REVIEW

BY TOM KEMP

Rene Dumont is a French agronomist with an inter- national reputation, which is no doubt de- served, in his own field.

'The of Begetters Revolution: England's With Involvement 1759-1789 France by Derek Jarrett. Longmans. £3.95.

This book arose out of a thesis and it is definitely for the specialist rather than the general reader. A great deal is taken for granted and some ques- tions are never made clear. England and France were the great rivals of the 18th cen- tury, but they interacted at many points. The difference between them arose from social and economic causes which Jarrett never investigates in detail, though they are hinted at from time to time. There is much detailed in- formation about the politics of the two countries based upon sound research, but when it comes to explaining why Eng- land had an enclosure move- ment and an industrial revo- lution and France did not, or France had a revolution in 1789 while England, despite the forebodings of the English aristocrat John Byng, from When he ventures into history and socialist theory, however, he becomes a most unreliable guide as this book demon- stratés. His standpoint, as he puts it, is 'to steer a course between the slavish adherence of the fellow-traveller and anti- communist propaganda, which soon falls back on self-interest and calumny' Unfortunately, this prevents him from understanding Stalin- ism and permits him to call a variety of regimes 'socialist" because that is what. they claim to be. He looks forward to some kind of reform in the Soviet Union eastern Europe and which will end over-centraliza- tion and bureaucratic control.

In the meantime, when asked, he has not hesitated to give the bureaucracy his advice about how to solve its agrarian problems. Essentially he is a pragmatist who tries to find technical and practical solutions. For Dumont, therefore, there are many paths to 'socialism', whose diaries he quotes at the beginning of the book, escaped it, our appetite remains un- quenched. Obviously Jarrett does not accept a Marxist interpretation of these historical differences and there is no clear thread running through his book.

Comparisons become mean- ingless unless the basic differ- ences in the stage of social development reached by the two countries is not pointed out. In short, England had already had its bourgeois revolution in the 17th century while France was still ruled by an absolute monarchy dependent on the of the privileged support in nobility. With this key, many things become clear, notably why the French crown was so finan- why with the nobility over its tax privileges and how this opened the way for a revolution in which the bourgeoisie took the leading role, but which was combined with an uprising of the peasantry. Any resemblances with con- temporary English develop- Workers Press 'socialism and freedom must be reconciled' and he tries to aim at 'improvements within the present regime, and at the same time a total revolutionary transformation when this be- comes necessary'. Needless to say, he says nothing about the working class as a revolutionary class, nor about the need for a party to lead it to power. Dumont's expertise is dem- onstrated in his observations about the agrarian problems of the many countries which he has investigated on the spot. While he is capable of seeing through the pretensions to socialism, some countries notably India, he has been taken in by others such as Cuba, Tanzania and even Zambia. He is unable to cut through the contradictions he reveals.

When a student told him that revolution in the rich coun- tries was the only answer to the problems of the poor coun- tries Dumont was at first m', inclined to agree-but his m ments are bound to be mis- leading unless the fact that the rich already controlled the purse strings is not pointed out and explained. kers Press, Friday June 8, 1973 PAGE 9 Above: A Cuban propaganda poster, showing Castro leading the revolution. Dumont has been taken in by the pretensions to Socialism of countries such as Cuba. congenital pessimism quickly re-asserted itself. He decided that 'the chances of such an enterprise succeed- ing during the little time that to me on earth are remains very slight. There would there- fore be some justification for a determined effort of reform, influencing public opinion in various ways to reduce the of exploitation the Third World, with more effective collaboration in the latter's true development as its aim'.

Such methods are quite in- effective and the cases examined by Dumont in this book argue against them. Unfortunately he is unable to carry through his logic to the end and the student he mentions was, in fact, much closer to a true understanding relationship between of the imperialism and underdevelop- ment. In other words, while this book contains a lot of i useful material, it requires much patience to extract the wood from the trees. Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37Łp •Problems of the British Revolution.

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TODAY'S TV

ITV

BBC 1

Cartoon. 11.25 Cricket. England 9.30 Schools. 12.00 10.00 Schools. 1.45 12.40 New Zealand. Rainbow. 12.25 Happy News. 1.50 Fel mae'n dod. 1.00 Cuckoo in the Weather. First report. nest. 2.00 General 2.15 Cricket. 4.15 Play school. 4.40 court. 1.30 nos- 5.15 pital. 2.30 3.00 Rac- 4.50 Coal hole club. Good afternoon. You 5.40 Hector's house. Epsom. 4.25 Lassie. 4.50 are there. from Lift off. 5.20 I dream of Jeannie. 5.50 5.45 News. Weather. News.

6.00 NATIONWIDE.

6.00 TODAY. 6.35 CROSSROADS.

6.45 DISNEY CARNIVAL.

7.00 THE SKY'S THE LIMIT.

6.55 TOP OF THE POPS.

ROMANY JONES. Run Rabbit, 7.30 7.30 STAR TREK. The Cloud Mind- Run. THE FBI. The Young War- 8.00

8.15 IT'S A KNOCKOUT.

NOt, 9.00 NEWS. Weather.

BETWEEN THE WARS:

'Voy- 8.55 Dark'. in the George

9.25 SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS.

Baker, Pat Heywood. Phase 5.

POLICE FIVE.

10.00

NEWS.

10.30

10.10 TALK-IN TO DAY.

FILM: Riot in Cell Block Il' 10.40 10.55 NEWS. Weather. Emile Neville Brand, Meyer, Faylen, Gordon. Frank Leo 11.00 FILM: 'Song of Scheherazade'.

America's first X film about a Carlo, Yvonne De Brian prison riot. Donlevy, Jean Pierre Aumont.

Hollywood film about composer

12.10 CLERGY AT LARGE.

Rimsky-Korsakov. KING. Every Picture 12.15

JASON

Weather. Tells a Story. 12.40

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8.55 Lon- don. 10.30 What's it all about. 10.50 Film: "Cool Million'. rogers 4.50 London. do Funny tace Calendar. Weather. • London. 6.00 London. 8.00 It takes 6.35 thief. 10.30 'Tycoon'. 8.55 London. Film: 12.50 Weather. GRANADA: 9.30 London. 4.25 Joe 90.

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TYNE TEES:

9.25 Northern saints. 9.30 London. 2.30 News. 2.31 Yoga. 3.00 London. 4.25 Woobinda. 4.50 HEMEL HEMPSTEAD: Monday 11 June (please note date change), 8 p.m. Adeyfield Hall, Square. "Build the revo Queen's lutionary party'. EAST LONDON: Monday June 11, 8 p.m. Bromley Public Hall, Bow Road, E.3. 'Forward to the revo- lutionary party. BERMONDSEY: Tuesday June 12, 'Havelock Arms', Bala- 8 p. clava Street. 'Forward to the revolutionary party. CAMDEN: Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert', Wharfedale Road, Kings Cross. "Trade unions and the revolutionary party'.

DUNDEE: Tuesday June 12, 7.30 Road. p.m. YMCA, Constitution 'Forward to the Belle Vue con- ference'. HARROW: Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall (Small Hall), Wealdstone. Avenue, Masons 'Forward to ATUA conference'.

LEAMINGTON: Tuesday, June 12, 7.30 p.m. The Commonwealth Club, Church Street, 'The Tory the trade government and unions.' PADDINGTON: Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. 'Prince of Wales' , Harrow Road, corner of Western Road.

Tories to resign. 'Force the Return a Labour government i to socialist policies'.

pledged TOOTING: Tuesday June_12, 8 Tooting Tooting p.m. Broadway. 'Force the resign. Return a Labour govern- ment pledged to socialist poli- cies'. Tuesday

WALTON-ON-THAMES:

June 12, 8 p.m. The Kiwi, New Ave., 'Building Zealand Walton. the Revolutionary Party' WANDSWORTH: Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. 'Foresters', All Farth- Lane. •Force the Tories to ing resign. Return a Labour govern- socialist ment to Jess Hahn as the down and out in Eric on BBC 2.

BBC 2

11.00-11.25 Play school. 4.30 Cricket.

6.40 OPEN UNIVERSITY.

MISTRESS

7.05

OF HARDWICK.

Royal Prisoner.

NEWS SUMMARY.

7.30

GARDENERS' WORLD.

7.35 MONEY AT WORK. Banking 8.00 Revolution. London. 5.20 Flintstones, 5.50 London.

6.00 Today. London. 8.00 Cade's 6.35 County. 8.55 London. 10.30 Film: The Loved One'. 12.35 12.40 News. Lectern. SCOTTISH: 9.30 London. 2.30 Date- and the line. 300 London And s professor. 4.50 London. Cross- 5.50 London. 6.00 Today. 6.30 roads. do 7.00 London. 7.30 Who ou do. FBI. 8.25 Romany Tones. 8.55 London 10.30 Liberal Party conference. 11.00 call. 11.05 Film: 'Night Must Late Fall'. 10.58 London, News. 1.38

GRAMPIAN:

Schools. Cartoon. 2.52 2.40 3.00 London. 4.25 Elephant boy. 4.50 5.50 London. 5.20 General hospital 70 Film: min 6.10 6.00 News. . 8.25 Romany Jones. 8.55 North. 11.00 London. 10.30 Points Partners. 11.30 Liberal Party con- ference. 12.00 Scales of justice. 12.30 Meditation.

UNIONS ALLIANCE

day ABERDEEN: Wednesday June 13, late 8 p.m. The Trades Hall, 24 Adelphi. 'Forward to the Belle Vue conference'. HULL (Speclal meeting of engi- neers' Wednesday, section): "The Windmill June 13, 8 p.m. Hotel', Witham. SLOUGH: Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Farn- ham Road. 'Force the Tories to resign'. SOUTHALL: Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. Southall Library, Osterley Park Road. 'Force the Tories to resign. Return a Labour govern- socialist ment to

WALTHAMSTOW:

Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. 'Crooked Billet', North Circular Road. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend demo- cratic rights'. WOOLWICH: Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. 'Queen's Arms' , Bur- rage Road. 'TUC and Stalinists —supporters of corporatism'.

BASILDON: Thursday June 14, 8 Barnstaple Community p.m. Centre. 'Make the Tories resign.

Force a Labour government to carry out socialist policies'.

CROYDON: Thursday June 14, 8 Coombe Ruskin House' Tories p.m. Road. 'Force the to resign'. FELTHAM: Thursday June 14, 8 p.m. 'Three Horse Shoes' , High Street. 'Labour to power, pledged to socialist policies of national- ization of land and property.

LUTON: Thursday June 14, 8 GO p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bed- ford Road. 'Stalinism and the struggle to defend democratic rights'. SHEFFIELD: Thursday June 14, "The Hallamshire' 7.30 p.m. - West Street. 'End talks with the Tories'. WILLESDEN: Thursday June 14, 8 p.m. Brent Labour and Trades Hall, High Road, N.W.10. 'Force the Tory government to resign'. ma out in Erle Rohmer's 'Le Signe du Lion' FILM: 'Le Signe du Lion'. Eric 9.00 Rohmer's film about im- an poverished composer. With Jess Doude, Michele Hahn, Van Garardon.

HONOURABLE BIRD.

10.40 11.10 NEWS EXTRA. Weather.

11.40 FILM NIGHT.

Hugh scanton joins Enoch Powell and Lord Stokes on 'Any Questions' tonight on Radio 4.

INCE MEETINGS

ACTON: Monday June 18, 8 p.m.

'Six Bells', High Street, W.3.

"Build the revolutionary party. Defend democratic rights'.

LEWISHAM: Monday June 18, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, 'TUC must New Cross Road. break off Phase Three talks'.

CRAWLEY: Monday June 18, 8 p.m. Council for Social Services Hall, 19 Station Road. 'Force the Tories to resign. A Labour government nationalize must major industries'. BATTERSEA: Tuesday June 19, 8 p.m. 'Nag's Head, Wandsworth Road. 'Force the Tories to re- sign. Return a Labour govern- BRIXTON: Tuesday June 19, 8 p.m. Training Centre, Control Room. 'Force the Tories to re- Labour govern- sign. Return a policies: Pledged to socialist ment DAGENHAM: Tuesday June 19, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue. 'Force the Tories to resign. A Labour government nationalize major indus- must tries' HACKNEY: Wednesday June 20, 8 p.m. Parlour Room, Central Mare Street. 'Labour must nationalize major industries'.

FULHAM: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. 'The Swan' 1, Fulham Broad- way. 'Trade unions and the Tory government. GOOLE: Thursday, June 21, 8 "The The Station Hotel. p.m. Revolutionary Party and the Fight against the Tories'. HOLLOWAY: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road. 'Inflation and the crisis of capitalism'. KINGSTON: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. Norbiton Hotel, Clifton Road.

'Force the Tories to resign. nationalize the must Labour ign'. major industries'.

Hard-hats in suits join the builders' non-union Professional LUMP

FROM OUR OWN COF

YOU'VE HEARD of the the exploitation of industry. Now the construc- tion kings have devised a new concept called the 'plump'. Basically, it is an extension of the 'lump' to include the protessional workers on build- ing jobs-architects, design- ers, draughtsmen, engineers, etc. Instead of paying full-time of their own, permanent staff building firms are paying fees to professionals. casually-employed In most cases they are supplied by privately-run agencies.

The employment of 'plump' labour has mutual advantages for the companies and the pro- fessionals. The engineer or draughtsman receives if at all. They also get tax relief and freedom to on expenses roam from one site to the next picking up work. The latest issue of the 'New Civil Engineer' says: 'Construc- tion firms are making increasing use of young site engineers and draughtsmen who are working under the "lump" system of sub- contracting. Agencies suppinne "professional lump" or « staff are mushrooming, and rates charged to clients, including both civil and consulting engineering firms, have been rocketing over the last 12 months. An 'NCE' investigation by reporters John Coates and Frank "Taylor shows that qualified staff can get between £1.50 and £1.70 an hour without much trouble.

The rake-off to the agency.

can be as high as 20 per cent of the hourly rate. There is a big rush towards 'plump' work particularly from among 20 to 30-year-olds.

The 'NCE' report highlights A CRIPPLING bone disease is hitting underwater divers working below the North Sea oil rigs. The disease, aseptic necrosis, decays bones and a diver who diving at extreme persists in depths can become permanently crippled. The medical journal "Pulse' says that any more than eight hours' pressure exposure to below 200 feet leaves the diver open to risk.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES

Barnsley Given by Gerry Healy National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Sunday June 17 The materialist conception of History Sunday June 24 Dialectical Materialism-a Marxist theory of knowledge Sunday July 8 Theory and Practise of Marxism Sunday July 15 Role of the Revolutionary Party at The Red Lion Worsborough Near Barnsley 7.30 p.m.

WN CORRESPONDENT.

some of the evils of the rise of the 'plump'. 'Contracting and consulting management interviewed agree while the system offers that flexibility of labour, like the "lump", , it discourages involve- continuity at ment, loyalty, and the place of work. 'If a mistake is found in work done on the "plump", the culprit may be working many miles away when it is discovered.' The situation is, of course, than that. Many of the worse 'plump' workers are from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand Canada. If there was a and serious — and perhaps fatal - accident, the "culprit may not even be in Britain let alone on the site! The 'NCE' reporters highlight another danger: 'More seriously, most con- ditions of contract, where they exist, indemnify agencies against any losses to the client caused by staff supplied to them.' (Our emphasis.) The existence of the 'plump' is exactly in line with other sleazy business relationships which have been exposed in re- cent weeks. The construction giants want to do everything on the cheap _except, of course, the level of their rents! But to get staff to design and put up their tower blocks, they are willing to take on casual design staff on the most tenuous basis. Involved in the relationship is tax evasion and the minimum amount of responsibility to each other. This can only be the in- gredient for poor construction standards and the possibility of catastrophe. Ihis is an industry which can- not be left in the hands of the slap-dash exploiters. It must be nationalized without compensa- tion and under workers' control by an incoming Labour govern- ment. With diving depths increas- ing dramatically in the North Sea-within a year divers will be working routinely at 1,000 feet - prolonged compression if accepted as normal practice.

is a question of economics.'

The article goes on: 'Most of the 300 divers employed on the

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETING

Central London 'Closures of Theatres and Film Studios'

SUNDAY JUNE 10

7.15 p.m. London. Film School, corner Langley and Shelton St (opp Covent Garden tube) Speaker: Yvonne Richards Lambeth Council of Action Sunday June 10 3 p.m. Clapham Baths Clapham Manor Street, SW4 'Break off Phase Three talks.

No Collaboration with Heath!

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE MEETING

BLACKBURN

'The Peel Hotel' (Town Centre) Thursday June 14 8 p.m. 'Build the Revolutionary Party' North Sea rigs oil are now working between 200 and 500 feet. As the rigs move into deeper water, still greater depths will be encountered with pre- sumably in- a commensurate crease in the incidence of asep- tie necrosis. Doctors estimate that some Il per cent of divers who have worked below 180 feet have the disease. Its existence is not new.

It first came to the attention of the medical profession when work- ers were engaged in tunnelling activities. Cox, Dr Robin Great Yarmouth, told 'Pulse' that he had seen many cases of the dis- ease among young men in their twenties. The crippling occupational disease can be avoided if work- ers are given proper protection by the use of decompression chambers. But this slows down the work. In their scramble to tap the rich North Sea field the big oil companies are prepared to sacri- fice the life and limbs of the workers who have to work in the icy waters below the rigs.

BY A WORKERS PRE

HULL DOCKERS have blacked the Wincolmee-based HWF (Warehousing and For- warding) Limited for refusing to employ dock labour. The shop stewards' committee decided on the ban after months of fruitless talk with the firm's management. Registered dock labour at a neighbouring warehouse is imple- menting the black by persuading lorry drivers not to unload at the HWF store. A spokesman for the commit- Workers Press, Fr NAVAL OFFICERS accused of involvement in the recent mutiny attempt are Greek now being tortured. Amnesty International an- nounced yesterday that it had reliable information that at least nine of the 30 to 40 officers arrested after the May

THE DIPLOCK

Security Com- mission into the Lambton-Jellicoe affairs will start behind closed doors at the Cabinet Office next Monday. Its terms of reference will be to 'verify that security was not endangered as a result of the incidents referred to in the Prime Minister's statement in the House of Commons on May 24, or by actions of the persons involved' Chairman Lord Diplock, a Lord of Appeal, will sit with four other

KERS PRESS REPORTER

tee said that HWF had been operating for more than a year without making any move to employ approved labour, despite repeated requests from Hull dockers. Meanwhile there are signs that the black on the Humberside Storage Limited of John Good and Sons may be lifted. The Anlaby-based company has agreed to employ registered dock workers at the warehouse.

The only point at issue is how many should be employed. The dockers say four. , Press, Friday June 8, 1973 PAGE 11 23 : plot have been tortured repeatedly. The nine are: Captain Diony- sios Troupakis and vice-captains Athanasios Sekeris, «Alexandros Papadogonas, Mali- Panagiotis aris, Athanasios Goigezas, Pieros Panagiotareas, Aristidis Koliy- annis, Theocharis (no first name available) and Karamitsos (no first name available). noblemen: Sir Philip Allen, the former head of the Home Office; Lord Garner, the former head of the diplomatic service; Lord Sin- industrialist; clair of Cleeve, an and General Sir Dudley Ward.

The other commission member, Lord Simon of Glazedale, felt unable to take part 'because of his close friendship with Lord Jellicoe'. 01-720 2000 01-622 7029 Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by • Workers Clapham High Street, Printed Newsdesk: 01-720 2000. 01-622 7029.

Film and TV men force COI retreat 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 Preas, Friday June 8, 1973 By Royston Bull THE FILM and television technicians' union ACTT has Central Office of Information to reveal information about Their blacking of television commercials has now been lif In a temporary settlement worked out at the Department of Employment, the COl agreed to let a mutually-acceptable third party investigate the relative costings which decided the COI to close its own film division and put the work out to tender.

The abolition of 18 full-time production jobs is put in abeyance and the 13 actual redundan- cies which were entailed have been suspended.

ACTT has opposed the closure, claiming that the film work, mainly newsreels for showing overseas, could not be done more cheaply labour outside unless sweated and inferior conditions of work were used.

The 13 Independent television programme com- panies who secured a National Industrial Relations Court injunction ordering the union to stop its black from today has dropped its action.

The black affected the showing and production of all government and COI adverts—-whether made threatened by the film division or not- -and was losing the companies revenue from such things as the 'clunk-click' campaign. It was the first time the union had successfully applied a total black to television broadcasting, with all three ACTT divisions involved-films, labs and TV. It was this potentially enormously effective weapon which the 13 caused companies to rush to the NIRC to get the black stopped. But the union decided unanimously to defy the court order.

It was the government's intervention, through the D of E conciliation office, that avoided showdown between the NIRC and a determined Heath's union. wish to goad the unions into Phase Three deal, but not push them over the edge into all-out resistance, lay behind both the and its subsequent prosecution withdrawal.

JUNE FUND

Despite the apparent lukewarm Victor Feather of to

ACTT

request for support, the union held firm and has only

WE MUST

give a boost to our relented now, still short of total pull our total up. June Fund to victory, because of the false bar- We are now into our second gaining position it adopted in the week and we need to try and first place of asking for costings raise extra amounts. Don't waste instead of rejecting the closure moment. Do everything you outright. can to give our fund a lift.

The success of the blacking However tough the fight might action, even on this limited de- what drives forward appear, us mand,

ACTT

proves to many is enormous determination to members, how much could be fight back against the Tory gov- achieved on all issues, particularly ernment and all its attacks. the threat flm to ance The more employers, certain studios and laboratories.

aged by the government's anti- They can see the way to fight union legislation, press on with the fear of redundancy is by the their plans to rationalize and determined the speed-up industry, the most on more action basis of the confirmed they feel the wrath of the work- union policy of nationalization of the ing class. Use Workers Press 1o provide whole industry without compen- sation and under workers' control.

a political lead to thousands of ACTT will now be watching workers coming into struggle to see that no further steps to- today. Help us raise everything col film can wards dismantling the you to complete our June Fund. We know you will do lt. division while the taken assessor does his work. So let's press ahead with the Send all donations imme. fight. And whatever figures are re- diately to: vealed, the whole situation re- Workers Press garding the closure is back to June Appeal Fund with the relative square i 186a Clapham High Street efficiency costings, and control London SW4 7UG as between COI and outside con- tractors all still open questions.

All Trades Unions Alliance Con Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Pa Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE Tickets £1: Available from R T has forced the 1 about film costs. been lifted. HAROLD WILSON and James Callaghan did a hypocritical double-act in launching Labour's new policy document yesterday to avoid a commit- ment to socialist policles and at the same time step up the right-wing's bid to disorient the party. Callaghan began in the most sycophantic vein by in- troducing Wilson as the best leader Labour has got who will lead the Party Into the next Election successfully and be Prime Minister for a great number of years to come. Callaghan, whose regard for Wilson is not high, was giving the bankers' approval to the right-wing leader, who they hope will destroy for them any threat of nationalization of major finance or industries.

Wilson himself was on the defensive over hard-line stance against nationalizing 25 major companies Imme- diately Labour gets into office.

A movement is bullding up against his threat to veto con- ference policy. He said he did not want e Conference: To discuss del Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunda Im 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWEI le from R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, S previous to alter his com ments, but when pressed, he said he could not be certain would what appear in the election manifesto and he accepted that the whole policy document was geared to pub- lic ownership as a cure to meet economic ills. He was all but forced to contradict himself over one remark which claimed that the National Enterprise Board do was not meant to any nationalizing itself. But Wilson was so vague and slippery that his clear disagreement with the nationalization pro- posals of the document was never pinned down. This antl-socialist confusion being deliberately sown by Wilson makes the Labour Party hardly distinguishable from the Tories. Working-class voters become apathetic and the middle class will be re- pelled by the Indecisiveness. (See What We Think, page 2.)

Only the most determined socialist policies , deal can with the rapidly maturing eco nomic Such crisis. pro- gramme will win an enormous response. A speciat confer- ence is needed to insist on such policies. ss defence of democratic ri Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m POWER' and songs and scenes from h t West, Salford 7, Manchester.

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The issue, they say, is not just 90 minutes' pay but the whole question of arbitrary lay-off. Said Ken Walton: 'What we're fighting is a situation where management seem to think they have the right to stop the track and send home the whole factory, at will, for the slightest reason.

But the Ryton dispute also falls into a much wider pattern, in which the working class is fighting back in a powerful and determined fashion against the attempts of the employers, backed by the Tory government, to profit extract more and more from a labour force whose living standards are being cut by law.

This drive, which has been seen particularly in the British- Leyland combine in a direct push for speed-up, is openly sponsored by the government, the Con- federation Engineering the Federation and the Fleet Street Press. Phase Two of the Tory pay laws directly encourages labour- intensive firms to force up the of exploitation of their rate workers, and even more incen- this kind are expected tives ot to be written into Phase Three.

CBI president Michael Clap- ham, just knighted by the lories, has insisted that employers must push up the output of each individual worker, and stressed that there must be no return to free collective bargaining on wages. Edward Marsh, director of advisory services at the EEF, wants a 'relentless' productivity drive. the 'Guardian' on Declared investment Tuesday: 'If cannot be raised sufficiently in the short term, more output will have to be squeezed out of the existing labour force-hence the emphasis on productivity deals and worker participation during Stage Three [of the pay laws]'. This is the face of a new bid to make the working-class pay for capitalism's crisis, orchestrated directly by the Tory government.

Walton says, it is not As Ken restricted to Ryton. It is taking place, or on the in every factory, dock, way, warehouse in the colliery and country. And the working class, as at Chrysler, is already giving its answer. This new turn in the Tory attack on the working-class de- mands two things: • The breaking-off of all talks between the government and TUC leaders, and the mobilization of the entire strength of the labour and trade union movement to create the industrial and political conditions to force the Tories to resign. • Replacement of the Tories with a Labour government, purged right-wing of its treacherous leadership and committed to the nationalization, without compen- sation, under workers control, of all the basic industries and banks, with full workers' control of the nationalized industries.

These questions will top the agenda for discussion at the All Unions Trades Alliance confer- ence at Belle Vue, Manchester, on July l. We urge all trade unionists to book now for this vital conference. Transport will be available from every area.

atic rights TUC must break off all talks on Phase 3 Make the Tory government resign! Transform the Socialist Labour League into the Revolutionary Party! -9 p.m. s from history