Workers Press no. 1095

workers press Big business steps up its offensive against workers' rights

BOSSES PROVOKE

DEFLATION FIGHT

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JUNE 11, 1973• No 1095• 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY ROYSTON BULL

-Car plants at a standstill CAR PRODUCTION at cided not to meet again EMPLOYERS are setting out deliberately to Oxford, The Cowley, and Ryton, Fridav. will be kept 1 hard at failure to improve provoke workers into strike action in order offer means that tandstill today by the previous 12,000 Cowley Fine policies aconted WOrKerS to create a suitable climate for the drastic management in two dis- remain laid off for another week at least. putes. deflationary measures the Tory government 4,500 The strikers At Cowley, plant attend- Chrysler's Rvton RCLOrV ants who are fighting to be will shortly be forced into by the economic who are fighting arbitrar upgraded craftsmen have lay-offs, have extended their crisis. reiccled activities. offer of an unspecified in- Besides Ryton and the above the semi- Such measures will undoubtedly follow on the heels of a Gosford Green rail depot skilled rate they are now they picketing United States decision to deflate, which cannot be long de- the receivine. arme ume ornext company's secona covent year's pay review. layed in view of the record 25 per cent a year inflation.

at Stoke, to prevent The 80 strikers have de- goods being transported out The combined effects of US deflation and the raising of the price of UK exports to America because of the fall in the value of the dollar Will hit British industry hard.

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One-fifth of all exports go to

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the United States. With the artificial consumer boom also running out of steam at home and the relentless in- flation making profitable trad- ing more and more hazardous.

the ruling class has decided to

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credit crisis- addition

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to undermining the share values- face a very they wi nave angry working class. The rapid spread and short-time working, cenatonary screws are entered will inevitably lead to a occupations and factory period when. because of the ever-sharpening trade war, the will fact looking for greater speed-up. With the ending of the boom', normal production is no longel of any use to the employers.

cheaper cannot turn out a far Young Socialist Student Society members lobbied a special National Union of Students' hold LO unel For a full report turn to back page. grants conference at the weekend.

own in the trade war with con- tries like Japan, Spain, Hong Kong and other sweated-labour dundancies with possibly damag- everyone at Ryton' to the latest announce permanent closure and move out of Britain alto- ins cohe Unites, centres. then will be better attacks on neir appaling recora.

off not producing at all.

gether police- visted States EC But there is a general offensive cheap-labour, the aero- the by division Chryster employers An all-out offensive against the state countries Ken If they manage to take on the

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siluduel thus achieve caused by an anticipated would be 13-O1 VOu Tal begun peed-up motor driving British in military orders with the end- out if you were to say there's a ars and other industries official war in Vietnam. concerted attack by Causing conditions down ing of the WOrKCIS flict. The attack is meeting con- the district. Britain. Coventry Spanish standards. is is inne tis two companies The aesistance mast can be Cowley, the original Tory strategy with North American At tOo. manacement siderable resistance Common Market Chysler and appears to be making little effort for entry. (Swindon), Garrard's which the 80 settle Even companies which have no (reterborousn dre serums Pressed Steel (Swindon) rusher off 12,000. prospects of switching production the pace With unreats close. Dure which nas alc and British-Leyland (Cowley, to cheaper labour countries might basing , themselves on expectations All these issues of the speed-up Oxford). deflation. and the attack on trade displeased if the speed-up not be On top of this is evidence that will taken the workers, for example, rights up Chrvsler orensive ee to lone sukes.

With the almost instant cutting are very puzzled by the sudden some companies are acuperately mass and- ory provoking strikes because of the off of the American market from Belle Vue, Manchester, organized uncertainties of by the All Trades Unions Alliance. praising their co-operation as late d surike the right time would enable them Thousands trade markets May WITh Industral unonIsts P. goods will attend clear in pipeline lations director If they provoke the unions too Grinnins UnIs ray debate the "very the way forward for the working and also avoid the writing need that have been made by occupations, companies are ready announce sudden lav-offs and re.

enorts class Export Packing Services, at Banbury, is being picketed to stop Chrysler goods, as are storage facilities used by at Rolls - Royce, Chrysler Ansty. Shop stewards say they have a formula on which there could be a return to work, but there are doubts as to whether Chrysler will accept their terms. The Tory government is believed to have asked the Commission on Industrial Relations to investigate the dispute. BY FIRST post Saturday we had received £122.70. Slough £3; Harrow £7; Cam- bridge £30; Reading £1; Newcastle £2; Exeter £20; Hackney £18.50; Holloway £14; Dagenham £9.85; Vauxhall motors, Ellesmere Port £6; Young Socialists Students Society meeting £6.35; J. R. £5. Our total now stands at £48,728.98 and money is still coming in. Will we do it? Rush everything you can to us immediately and make sure that we do. We need an- other £1,271.02 by tomor- row to complete our first 250,000. We must do it! Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High St. London SW4 7UG

ENOCH POWELL'S

apparent support for Labour MP Michael Foot on BBC Radio 4's *Poli- tics in the 70s' last night was by some Sunday papers seen as a bombshell aimed at Heath and an implicit gesture of support for Labour. This is dangerous thinking. Powell is an inveterate enemy of Labour and socialism. • READ tomorrow's -Workers Press for a comment on the latest manoeuvres of this right- wing Tory.

workers press Big business steps up its offensive against workers' rights

BOSSES PROVOKE

DEFLATION FIGHT

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JUNE 11, 1973 • No 1095 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY ROYSTON BULL

-Car plants at a standstill CAR PRODUCTION at cided not to meet again EMPLOYERS are setting out deliberately to Cowley, Oxford, Friday. The ana kylon, Coventro will be kept at failure to improve provoke workers into strike action in order by offer that standstill today the previous policies 12,000 Cowley WOrKCIS WIll to create a suitable climate for the drastic management two dis- remain laid off for another week putes. deflationary measures the Tory government The 4,500 strikers At Cowley, plant attend- Rvton Gnosers ants who are fighting to be will shortly be forced into by the economic who are fighting arbitrary upgraded craftsmen have lay-offs, have extended their British - Leyland's crisis. acurviles offer unspecified in- Besides Ryton and the crease, above the semi- Such measures will undoubtedly follow on the heels of a Gosford Green rail depot skilled rate they are they picketing the United States decision to deflate, which cannot be long de- receiving, at the time of next company s secent novell year's pay review. layed in view of the record 25 per cent a year inflation.

factory at Stoke, to prevent 80 goods being transported out The strikers have The combined effects of US deflation and the raising of the price of UK exports to America because of the fall in the value of the dollar will hit British industry hard.

One-fifth of all exports go to

IMPERIAL COLLEGE

COLLEGE BLOCK

the United States. With the artificial consumer boom also running out of steam at home and the relentless in- flation making profitable trad-

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ing more and more hazardous.

the ruling class has decided to

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take the oftensive against the Dt. Fo trade unions before it is put SlUI on the defensive.

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to undermining the share values- unev Will have lace a very angry working class. The rapid spread on dos ures and short-time working octobey will inevitably lead to a spate and factory occupations take. period when. because of the ever-sharpening trade war, Looking for greater speed-up.

employers fact be With the ending of the 'boom', normal producton is no longel of any use to the employers.

cannot turn out a far cheaper Young Socialist Student Society members lobbied a special National Union of Students' to hold their oracl For a full report turn to back page. grants conference at the weekend.

the trade war with coun Spain, Hong Kong and other sweated-labour dundancies with possibly damag- everyone at Ryton' to the latest announce permanent will be better and move out of Britain alto- ing consequences centes. unen uncl attacks on mer aooalios record .

off not producing at all.

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unions in factories plants In BOSTOn 'Even unions and defeat them, manage- already worked out a strategy for Walton: officials 0111 Tell Main a lengthy strike to there's in the area as tightening-up will then be in a position summer us ruling circles. with employers whole the to emorce massive speco-u• and coot Cildulll silualiull Already, an attempted massive thus achieve vou would be caned u an aced on Tal speed-up has begun in motor driving British E. military with the end- out if you were to say there's a cars and other industries, causing official war in Vietnam. concerted attack by conditions down of the employers

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management siderable resistance can Common Chysler Perkins appears to be making little effort for Marke entry. (Swindon), at Garrard'S which 80 attendants dis- (Peterborough) settle Even companies which have no are sellins Pressed (Swindon) stee. off 12,000. prospects of switching production the close, pace withunreats pule Has laid and British-Leyland (Cowley, to cheaper labour or us themselves on expectations All these issues of the speed-up Oxford). of deflation. and the attack on trad displeased On top of this is evidence that will workers, for example, rights be the Chryslei onensive reo roslone sunkes.

deliberately Woth the ahmerican marketing puzzled by the sudden some companies are mass anu- core Tav duv la provoking strikes American market changeover from Belle Vue, Manchester, organized because or re uncertainties late by the All Trades Unions Alliance.

praising their co-operation as distinct ossibly. dollike markets. the right time would enable them May 1 housands of trade noustrial unlists goods in the pipeline lations director Pivery If they provoke the unions too will attena inis rally (TO • cerate the obvious the way forward for the working and also avoid the writing far and force all-out strikes neea that have been made by class. occupations, companies are ready announce sudden lav-ois and re.

enorts Export Packing Services, at Banbury, is being picketed to stop Chrysler goods, as are storage facilities used by Chrysler Rolls - Royce, Ansty. Shop stewards say they have a formula on which there could be a return to work, but there are doubts whether Chrysler will as to accept their terms. The Tory government is believed to have asked the Commission Industrial Relations to investigate the dispute.

DARILY

BY FIRST post Saturday we had received £122.70. Slough £3; Harrow £7; Cam- bridge £30; Reading £1; Newcastle £2; Exeter £20; Hackney £18.50; Holloway £14; Dagenham £9.85; Vauxhall motors, Ellesmere Port £6; Young Socialists Students Society meeting £6.35; J. R. £5. Our total now stands at £48,728.98 and money is still coming in. Will we do it? Rush everything you can to us immediately and make sure that we do. We need an- other £1,271.02 by tomor- row to complete our first £50,000. We must do it! Post all donations to: Party Building Fund 186a Clapham High St. London SW4 7UG

ENOCH POWELL'S

apparent support for Labour MP Michael Foot on BBC Radio 4's 'Poli- tics in the 70s' last night was by some Sunday papers seen as a bombshell aimed at Heath and an implicit gesture of support for " Labour. This is dangerous thinking. Powell is an inveterate enemy of Labour and socialism. • READ tomorrow's Workers Press for a comment on the latest manoeuvres of this right- wing Tory.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday June 11 THE LABOUR PARTY's much- policy document publicızed leaves out the essential basis for construction of socialist society-the national- ization of all major industries, land, the banks and finance houses without compensation and under workers' control.

Neither does it pledge immediate repeal of all the Tory govern- ment's repressive anti-working- class legislation. Indeed, it forecasts • the imple- mentation of similar measures by a Labour government— a standing Royal including Commission with statutory powers to investigate the con- ditions and pay of particular groups of workers. And it calls for a 'voluntary' incomes policy worked out with the TUC and which the TUC would help to implement.

It was precisely such a policy under the last Labour govern- ment which led to the pro- posed anti-trade union 'In Place of Strife' and opened the door for a Tory victory in 1970.

Despite vague talk of 'the exten- ownership' of public sion Harold Wilson has made it clear that a future Labour government would decide its policy unhampered by party policy statements, and decisions of either the NEC or the Party conference. This document is not a pro- gramme for socialism. Precisely for this reason it was welcomed in last Friday's 'Morning Star'. The Stalinist daily claims that Labour's pro- gramme 'contains many radical proposals advanced by the left'.

All that is wrong, according to the 'Star' is that it contains 'ambiguities' and 'loopholes' PRESIDENT Nixon's former special counsel Charles Col- son yesterday denied a report that he suggested a burglary and fire-bombing mission by a special White House under- cover squad. The 'Washington Post' said he suggested squad the enter the office at the Brookings Research Institute of Dr Morton Halperin and disguise the burglary as a is an fire-bombing. Dr Halperin associate of Dr Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

The newspaper reported for the first time the existence of a second White House operations group, forerunner of the squad known as 'plumbers', responsible for the bugging of the Watergate Democratic Party headquarters and for breaking into the offices of Dr Ellsberg's psychiatrist.

The 'Post' said that John Caul- field, who was reported to have headed a White House 'espionage' group, and John Dean, President dismissed White House Nixon's Counsel, had told Federal in- vestigators that Colson had sug- gested the raid in 1971. the newspaper, According to immediately rejected Caulfield the proposal as "totally insane' Colson denied it all. 'I abso- lutely made no such statement or suggestion, he said. It is ludicrous . a flight of fancy, the outer limits. This has gone too far.' Caulfield has told Federal in- vestigators he was involved in about 20 undercover espionage missions for John • Ehrlichman while Ehrlichman was the Pre- sident's top domestic adviser, the newspaper said. According to sources it quoted, Caulfield's undercover group was supplanted in 1971 by • 'the plumbers. ау Лип 11, 1973 for the right wing to prevent or delay its implementation.

The 'Star' applauds the alleged steps to 'extension of public ownership' but, like the Labour- workers, the key ites, it leaves out control aspects of and no compensation. In fact, the Labour Party docu- ment calls not for national- ization but for 'control' and worker This is participation. not socialist nationalization but its opposite-corporatism.

Taken together with state com- missions on pay and

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supervised control, it wage amounts to proposing that the working class subordinate it- self to the ruling class in running capitalism. 'co - determination' Such SO warmly advocated by Anthony Wedgwood Benn, is not a step to the left but by implication a move to the right. ern- That is why it is also warmly wecomed by "Tribune'. Michael Foot's lead article in this 'left' about journal lyrical waxes Labour's 'first-class, far-reach- ing. statement, which he de- scribes as 'a socialist strategy'.

long It way to meet goes a "Tribune's demands, Foot says, for 'a bold acceptance of public ownership, in a fresh and imaginative style'. arty In the same article, this 'left' excuses his vote against nam- ing companies for nationaliza- tion. The new programme is preferable without clear com- mitments, he says, because it is 'not designed to trundle old - fashioned fundamentalist ideas onto the political stage'.

The 'lefts' and the Stalinists join with the Tory Press in present- ing the Labourites' programme a left-wing statement be- as

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To THE NEW premier of fascist Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, plans to announce a major cabinet reshuffle today, according to Madrid sources.

The admiral (70), who was sworn in on Saturday as Prime Minister of Spain, the post occupied by General Franco for more than 30 years, is expected to make sweeping changes in the cabinet. According to government previous Ministers, sources, ten including Foreign Minister Gregorio Lopez Bravo, are to lose their posts in the reshuffle.

General Franco, the 80-year- old fascist dictator, named Blanco as Prime Minister on Friday.

Franco himself retains the posts of Chief-of-State, commander-in- chief of the armed forces and cause they fear, above all, the working mobilization the class around a real socialist programme to force the Tory government to resign. Their task is to keep the leader- ship safely in the hands of Harold Wilson. For the Stalinists, this is the 'parliamentary road to social- ism' in practice. It involves.

getting as close as possible to the reformists, as the economic and political crisis of capital- ism accelerates every day.

The task of the Socialist Labour League is precisely to break the working class from reform- ism by demanding that the Labour Party take power com- mitted to specific socialist centred the policies, on of all basic nationalization industries, land, banks and finance houses without com- pensation and under workers' control. As Trotsky wrote in the Tran- sitional Programme adopted at the founding conference of the (The Fourth International Death Agony • of Capitalism'): It is impossible to take a single in the struggle serious step against monopolistic despotism and capitalist anarchy-which supplement one another in their destruction-if the work of commanding posts of banks are left in the hands of pre- datory capitalists.' A Labour government returned by the mobilization to office of the working-class committing it to such demands would be rapidly exposed. . In this way working class could be the broken the grip of from reformist leadership and . the way opened for a rapid de- velopment of the revolutionary party in Britain. SUPPORT the.

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head of the National Movement —Spain's only permitted political party. Admiral Blanco is known as an extreme hard-line fascist who has faithfully supported Franco for many years. His appointment signals the intention of tighten- ing police repression against the workers' movement as Franco prepares to leave the scene.

Lopez Bravo, a leading member Market of the pro-Common Catholic secret society Opus Dei, by another is to be replaced Opus Dei member, Lopez Rodo.

But overall, the cabinet is likely to contain a larger pro- Falangist elements portion than previously. Tocuata Ferdandez Miranda, a Falangist, is to replace Carrero Blanco in the key post of vice- president. PRESIDENT NIXON spent isolation of his island reside Florida, with reports from his ing him to take action against He was generally expected to announce his decision on this vital question early this week-perhaps even today— but his Press under-secretary, Gerald Warren, refused to name a day for the announce- ment. Price increase figures for May show a rise in wholesale prices equivalent to a 24 per cent annual rate; farm prices are going up at over 49 per cent a year and industrial prices 14.4 per cent.

Pressure for action against the inflation — which means cutting the living standards of the organized class - is • working mounting in Congress as well as outside. Senator Henry Jackson, a Washington Democrat from said he would propose State, legislation this week that would OBIECTIONS from the Saig may have been behind the t Vietnamese talks on the cease in Paris last week.

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SUPPORTERS of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf (PFLOAG) picketed the Oman embassy in London on Satur- day to mark the eighth anni- versary of the start of armed struggle against the British- backed sultanate. The army of the Sultan fight- ing against the liberation move- ment is officered by British mercenaries and supplemented by troops from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Jordan and India. Control of Muscat and Oman —which dominates the entrance to the Arabian Gulf with its vast oil resources—is regarded as vital by the imperialists and their client states in the area.

spent the weekend in the I residence at Key Biscayne, om his economic advisers urg.

against inflation immediately.

impose a manadatory freeze on wages and prices. In Orlando, Florida, on Satur- day Nixon said that the govern- ment would act on inflation when- ever action seemed responsible and effective. Demands for tough action have been reinforced by the rise in the US discount (bank) rate. This was lifted on Friday from 6 per cent to 6t per cent-its 1921. In highest level since announcing the move the federal board said it was in reserve recognition of rises in other short- term interest rates and the general price level. The rise Is undoubtedly in- tended to force Nixon's hand over the imposition of wage controls for many days his administration has been in of semi- state paralysis as the impact of Water- gate spreads. he Saigon puppet government I the failure of the US-North le ceasefire in Indo-China held President Nixon's national security adviser Dr Henry Kissinger returned empty- handed to Washington on Saturday after talks with representative Hanoi's Le Duc Tho. American According to observers the main obstacle to not Hanoi but deal was a reach Saigon. The failure to agreement on strengthening the ceasefire was a blow to Kissinger who had publicly forecast that an accord would be reached last week. Kissinger is to return to Paris tomorrow for further talks with Le Duc Tho, who is remaining in the French capital. But the has declined White House . to predict what will be the out- come of these talks. Before leaving Paris, Kissinger 'American officials have said: sometimes mistaken in been their estimates of the length of time required to bring the Viet- parties to common namese a realization of the significance of words' But the issues involved are deeper than this evasive phrase would make it appear. Far from dying down after the signing of the ceasefire treaty, fighting has flared up all over South Vietnam and in Laos and Cambodia.

One of the key points of dis- agreement at the talks concerned the designation of areas under the control of the Provisional Revolutionary Government.

Saigon wants the liberated areas to be considered as temporary areas of purely military control.

This is essential if the puppet regime is to retain the slightest to legitimacy under the claim treaty. The signing of the treaty has opened up a new stage of civil in the Vietnamese war countryside. Across the border in Cam- bodia the situation of the Lon Nol puppet regime is even more precarious. The Us is still bomb- ing the liberation armies and the peasant population who support them, despite the Senate decision to cut off funds for further bombing. It is generally agreed that the Lon Nol regime survives entirely because of American air support.

But when Lon Nol is overthrown position of the Saigon the puppets will become almost com- untenable - and the pletely is terrified that the regime famous Domino Theory will operate in reverse.

TOWN FLATS FOR THE RICH

BY PHILIP WADE

Property developers have themselves con- firmed that vast sums of public money set aside for improvements to old houses have instead done nothing more than en- hance their profit mar- gins. A number of developers have depicted in some detail how large grants made under Labour's 1969 Housing Act helped push up profit rates between 20 and 25 per to cent. And they have admitted that the houses-which once provided accommodation for working-class families — were never re-let once modernized.

Instead, the properties were gutted and converted into small flats. These were then sold on long leases to the middle-class 'This process of gentrifica- tion has been going on in the big towns-especially in cen- tral London where the hous- "ing situation is desperate almost from the day Labour's now notorious aid-to-landlords Act was passed in 1969. Eventually Labour councils like Hammersmith in west London realized they had been caught in a reformist trap of party's own making. their Property developers were lap- ping up the grants and simply making off with the loot.

And there was nothing in the Act that said modernized properties had to be re-let at regulated rents. These councils began a hue- and-cry over the 'excesses' by developers. In parliament, the Labour leadership, the insti- wretched Act, gators of this inevitable re- hatched the medy': an inquiry! Of course the Tories rapidly acquiesced. What harm could one of those revered inquiries do? And if it helped ensure further collaboration from the Labour benches, so much the .

better. All the inquiry has done is to confirm what everyone already knew. This was the case when property developers operating in Hammersmith among other places recently gave evidence. What they said was blatant, to say the least, as the minutes reveal. A committee member put a to a director of question Greenberry Developments Ltd: 'If you were selling one of for, let us these flats say £10,000, and if your input costs, leaving aside the im- provement grant, had been £6,000, yOu would make a profit of £4,000. 'Presumably if you had re- ceived an improvement grant simply of X pounds it would have had the effect of increas- ing your profit margin in the case?' answer was swift and The sure: 'In that case, yes.'

Unfurnished Yet he was not taking any more grants. Why was that?

"They [the council] wanted unfurnished tenants to occupy the premises at rents set aside by the rent officer. That is un- economic as far as I'm con- cerned.' Without the grants, he told the committee, anyone want- ing to buy a flat would have to pay that much more. He wouldn't lose out. Directors of Limerston Securities Ltd-who said they had received up to £130,000 grants since 1969ex- in plained what a beneficial effect the Act had had on the com- pany's operations. 'We buy old houses, often in a state of disrepair. We com- pletely gut them-all the plas- ter comes out, windows and so on. When the improvement grants came out, we decided Left: Modernization in progress. Right: we would take a step further.

Before then we used to do about 80 per cent of that. Now we gut everything, said director explaining how pro- gress took place. Where tenants existed in the old properties some had been 'offered cash sums to move out and purchase their own pro- perties, he added. Some had been moved to other accom- modation where the rents were longer controlled and no therefore were much higher.

Grants had often gone on extra things like 'double glaz- ing and fully-fitted kitchens.'

Of course, such 'extras' simply raised the market price of the flats. The directors of St. Peters- burgh Properties were frank and to the point-as the minutes of the evidence taken illuminatingly reveal: 'Let me put this to you and see if you agree. Getting a £1,000 improvement grant simply increases your profit by ₺1,000? Is that not the case?

-Yes.' Asked to give examples of the crucial nature of the grant to profit margins, a director explained: 'When we started, there was a development on which with- out the improvement grants an outlay of some £20,000 would have made £3,000 ..

grants it With improvement was about £8,000' What rate of return did he normal time look for? 'In a (!), as I suppose it might be at the moment, somewhere around 20 per cent, or 25 per cent.' Like his fellow developers, he had found the climate in Hammersmith deteriorating as council tried to impose the conditions on grants, specify- ing that properties be re-let to unfurnished tenants. This had not deterred his company. 'We have moved out to where the atmosphere is a little less electric.' In other words, Hammersmith was just authority. There were others where grants were still easy to obtain. as one de- In any case, veloper explained, the grants had made the initial drive to- wards high prices for new flats that much more dynamic. In- flation had now taken over and massive profits could be made ss. Right: Overcrowded council flats in Stepne without the grants. They had done their work for the first few years after 1969. This use of public money to aid profiteering and the de- struction of cheap rented accommodation was made bla- tantly clear by Mr L. Garvin, a director of Central London Residential Properties Ltd.

He declared he would not bother applying for grants if there was a return to the pre- 1969 position where grant- aided developments could not be sold for three years. When asked what sort of grants sys- tem he would like to see, Mr Garvin had no trouble in pre- senting the clearest of pic- tures. lors breathing down your neck because you have made a pro- Writings of OF

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LEON TROTSHY

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11933-341 11934-23 Six volumes of Trotsky's writings during the years 1933-1940 £8.00 including postage Please tick those you requi Name Address Complete form and post to: New Park Publications, 18 A New Park Publicat Workers Press, Monday June 11, 1973 PAGE 3 in Stepney. Lack of alternative accommodation makes hard to move out. fit,' was his vivid description show that in the first quarter of the developers' property applications for •grants at over Utopia. 85,000 are 22,700 up on 1972 Labour brought in the 1969 levels. Act as a miserable substitute The Labour next govern- for a decent house building ment must not be allowed to programme and the munici- repeat a programme of con- rented palization of old cessions to developers and big accommodation neglected by landlords. Instead be it must absentee landlords. forced to carry out a socialist But extracts from even housing programme. tame Commons inquiry shows This must include the na- what untold misery such con- of land, tionalization the to big landlords and cessions banks and building societies, property developers can bring building industry under wor- for workers. kers' control and without com- Old tenants have been 'per- pensation. suaded' to go. Meanwhile, any Big landlords must be ex- young worker looking propriated and their dilapi- flat has to turn up with some- dated properties taken under thing in the region of £30,000.

control. Millions of pounds have been so-called All empty properties-there spent on im- are at least 100.000 in London provement grants. Apart from the taken by be used proportion up alone-must to pro- local councils themselves, the vide help to wor- emergency remainder-some say 50 kers decent homes per needing -has been pure profit for while a crash public house- cent- building is developers. programme em- And figures for this year barked upon. History of Russian Revolution Trotsky—a documentary by -special gift pack Francis Wyndham of three volumes and David King £1.70 including postage £1.65 including postage u require. Amount enclosed € VAT Registration No. 235 9135 59 ions, 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG Publications Booklist is available, free, on request.

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Workers Press, Monday June 11, 1973 At a mass meeting last Friday

THE

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GOES ON

What you get one day they take back off you the next' George Warren is a mem- ber the National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers, working at Millwall dock, London. He said: • I tended to think that increase every once was wanted until I saw it pointed Workers Press how out in the much profit these people nday June 11, 1973 y dockers from Tllbury docks voted to take ional Dock Labour Scheme. NASD member Gi make. It made me aware that the whole question of prices revolves around politics.

You think: How can I fight it?' You think you can't. You want a lead from someone. That's what it amounts to. I've got two old aunts. They've been working all their lives and they've re- tired now. But they've got to go out and do office cleaning.

It makes you think there's wrong with the something whole system. But when you think about the League, you think to 'Am I doing the yourself: right thing?' People say to me: 'Wculd you like to live in Russia?' You've got to answer 'No' haven't you? It's difficult to visualize that it's going to be different Russia under socialist from hat state. Russia started off as pure ted Marxist, but somewhere along the road it has gone wrong.

le How do you convince people to take a stand against the supplementary nember George Warren says: "The erosion of 1l this won't happen again? There are a lot of little problems for new people com- towards the League, but ing you've got to say to yourself there's something wrong with the system and unless we do something to alter it it's going to carry on in the same old way. I've been won over very gradually from a right-wing Labour position to practically the far left, but I've still got which are little problems holding me back from swing- ing all the way. Once you get interested in politics realize you've you been conned over the years by the traditional leaders.

I've always thought when you saw certain Labour MPs getting big directorships 'How on earth can they be supporting the working class?' They should be winning a better standard of living for us because we haven't got it.

We're going backwards in entary register of 'casual' dockers. The supple osion of the scheme is the biggest thing that' fact. under a capitalist system can't have better you a standard of living. What you get one day they take off you the next. It's beyond me how people getting £25 a week can sur- vive. I suppose I've always been sitting back and saying: people must 'These fight first.' But once you start getting involved in politics see its a fight for you can all—not just one section of the community. The dock workers used to be the most militant section going at one time. But they just seem to be shutting their to what's happening eyes today. The most scandalous thing,. to my mind, is the unregistered ports. I don't think we should have gone back in the last dispute we had until we got these registered. If ports we're not careful there's go- ing , to come a time when we just won't have the power.

The erosion of the dock he supplementary would undermine con- thing that's ever happened in dockland.'

labour scheme is the biggest thing that's ever happened in dockland. It was this sort of thing that kept me turning left- You haven't got to wards. look far to see that what the Workers Press has said was right. Until people realize that there is an alternative system, we're going to jog on as we've been going. Win a little bit one day-they take it back the next. It's going to be a vicious circle. I think it's going to be very hard to expand the League until the crunch comes and workers realize they are up against it. A • lot of the time if you say you're a communist they turn their backs on you.

Until six months ago I was like that. I have a lot to learn about Marxism, but to have a leadership pointing out what the capitalists are doing and looking to the future is very important.

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

the Labour bureaucracy, it will be a big step forward. Above: Harold Wilson, Labour Party chief, with his trade union counter: 'Labour bureaucracy London office worker and USDAW member Roana Geddes (23) said: I've got a child and I can't afford to eat meat. It's difficult enough to feed a child never mind yourself. I don't have any clothes that I've bought first hand. Every- thing I've got has been given to me. The prices are just pheno- menal. Things have got a lot worse in the last two or three years.

We were living in a boom be- fore and everything seemed so much better, food and clothes were cheap. In the last two years it has become really intense. Before, vou could ignore it, but now it's impossible to ignore what's going. on. You notice the change in other people when you go out canvassing. They are either very pro or very anti. They are no longer negative at all.

Politics has begun to affect people's daily lives. It isn't big inter- just a question of a national crisis that doesn't affect them at all. They can see when they go to buy food that things are wrong. I think they are getting angry about it now.

I think people are beginning to realize that it's not going to get any better. And they are also realizing that nobody is going to do anything about it in the TUC and the Labour Party. They've got nice cushy jobs and they don't care. If they took a revolutionary stand, they would put at risk their situation and they don't want to risk what they have. . I think it's also because they are reformists and it's time people realized reformism is corrupt and won't really get anywhere. I especially like the demo- cratic basis of the League. I've seen it in practice. People can get up at meetings and say exactly what they think. I'd read 'Animal Farm' and it was this sort of thing that worried me about the Communist I Party. never really con- sidered joining them. I knew something of the treachery of Stalinism. I don't think the Stalinists are democratic at all. It must be because they can't risk a democratic basis, whereas the The League has League can. nothing to hide. The League doesn't avoid issues. It looks at them straight in the face. It seems to me you've got to do this if you're talking seriously about revolution. You have to have a very firm foundation. At the moment I think the League is the only hope working class and for the socialism is the only hope for humanity. League isn't trans- If the formed into a party and built up, the working class will be completely betrayed because there is no other honest alter- native that is genuine a working-class movement. The IS and the IMG are just a bunch of ineffectual liberals. pre 'If we can expose the Labour bureaucra part, TUC head, Victor Feather.'

I think they are just playing at revolution. I'm sure these middle-class intellectuals are why they move to the centre politically. I think it's only the League which has the interests of the working class at heart and genuinely wants a socialist re- volution. The League isn't just sitting around, it's really wor- king for it. The ruling class have total fascism in store for the work- ing class. They have to totally smash the democratic rights of the working class in order to save their system. Their money has no value at all and the only value way to put back into it is to take it out of the hides of the working class. You can't reform capitalism.

The whole system is evil. It's ust based on the completely op- als. pressive theory that it's right bureaucracy, It will be a big step forward.' Abo to have a mass of workersrig supplying parasitical layers at the top. It's wrong and com- pletely illogical. The whole system has been lurching from decade to decade like a drunk liable to fall on his face at any moment. It will depend on the League how quickly workers break from bourgeois ideology. If we can expose the Labour bureau- cracy, it will be a big step forward. Any struggle you take up against capitalism must be on a firm foundation and Marx- ism is the firmest foundation of all. I think the point the British working class are at today is the realization that working within the system, reformism is useless. All the they've won rights over 200 years are being taken away.

Most people imagine they ght were just born these with Workers Press, M ward. Above: Harold Wilson, Labour Party chief orkers rights, but the Pageant at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on March 1l showed how they had to be fought for. I think it's important to push home these truths to workers and show them their history, be- cause this has been more or less suppressed. I think one of the problems in the League is the tendency toward bourgeois thinking. There's a tendency to be a little too fond of theory.

Someone got up at the con- ference and said there was a danger of the new cadres coming into the party diluting Marxist theory. I don't think that's where the danger is at all. I think it comes from people like into himself. Those coming the party now are coming in from the crisis. They are be- driven. And when you ing are driven you develop much more quickly. 3 Press, Monday Juno 11, 1973 PAGE 5 Party chief, with his trade union counter- Things are happening today. The situation quickly is changing at a phenomenal rate. Some of those who are coming into the movement today could go ahead of people who have been in the League for years. I don't like this middle- class attitude about dilution Is seems to me to be quite patronizing and dangerous to the I think the League. League is strong enough to train and educate new people who come in quite quickly- especially • with the speeding up of the crisis. you first enter the When League, it seems a mess be.

you don't understand cause dialectical materialism and the importance of the conflict.

I don't understand it com- pletely, intellectually, but I understand it from the point of view of its effec- tiveness in practice.

COD WAR: A POLICY FOR TRAWLERMEN

PAGE 6 Workers Prose, Monday June 11

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

When fish were a cheap source of protein for people who lived off the sea, the problem of con- servation did not arise. They were hunted for immediate consumption and the effort made no serious impact on stocks.

The development of capi- talism and the application of modern techniques to fishing altered this relatively harmoni- ous relationship between man and the sea. Fish became a commodity caught by firms not for imme- diate consumption, but to sell for profit. One progressive re- sult of this change was that the masses had access to fish— brought to them by the elab- orate distribution network set up to connect the fish ports with the inland centres of population. Inevitably enormous contra- diction arose. The trawling in- terests paid little or no atten- ау Лип 11, 1873 tion to the general development of this important supply of food. In the scramble for the largest and most profitable of the catches, rich areas oceans became fished-out.

This was not a result of stupidity or oversight. Indeed the plunder took place against a background of concern and protest about the danger of overfishing. But no single capitalist could call a halt to the destruc- tive process. To do so would have been to court bankruptcy, so leaving the field open to more rapacious rivals. As we saw in part three of this series, published last Friday, the development of monopoly increased the pres- sure to catch fish and fight for a larger share of the ocean as possible. These antagonisms now work entirely against the interests of the vast majority of the people.

On the one hand monopoly is a check on the development of completely new techniques, like fish-farming, on the other it threatened the extermina- tions of certain important species—the herring, for ex- ample, has all but disappeared ent from Icelandic waters.

It can be predicted with cer- tainty, therefore, that the capi- talist nations, who hold many conferences on sea law as it affects trawling, will find no solution to the crisis of over- fishing. Governments respond primarily to the requirements of the interests which own the trawling industries. Conservation, therefore, raises the question of trans- forming society from one where natural resources are exploited for profit in the in- terests of a minority, to one where human need 1s para- mount. In other words it poses last the transformation from capi- of talism to socialism. But the present conflict with Iceland presents socialists and the working class with much more concrete and immediate issues. Socialism is not a dream in mind of man. It is em- the bodied in a fight within the real world by the most representatives of advanced the oppressed classes for a revolutionary change in society.

struggle does not Class assume ideal forms—particu- and larly the smooth co- ordinated uprising of workers throughout the world behind identical demands and pro- grammes. The struggle of Iceland to control its valuable most natural resource-fish—is a a concrete example. The 'cod war' demonstrates the contra- dictory struggle of class forces their deceptive and often appearance. Iceland finds herself caught in a web of international and largely imperialist exploitation.

It is hypocritical in the extreme to talk of independence and self-determination for nations if this does not involve genuine freedom from the fetters of economic slavery. Without control of her own fish, Iceland would be indepen- dent in name only. The further prospect would be total ruination if the scramble for cod continues and stocks are fished-out. And, as we saw in part two, this pros- pect is by no means alarmist.

There are those who might argue for a neutral position.

Considering that both sides in the conflict are equally to to fish blame for the threat life within the 50-mile limit around the island. All conflict, they wars and might say, are reactionary the epoch of imperialism. The responsibility socialists OI the merely to raise 'greater issue' of a revolutionary trans- formation of society But position is to such ignore the development of the anti-imperialist struggle in favour of empty phrases and sophistry. Lenin campaigned against such arguments in his polemic the national question and on the right of self-determination great of nations during the first imperialist war of 1914-1918.

In his reply to the 'Junius' pamphlet (written by Rosa Lenin Luxenoure the her lates authoress on steadfast rejection| of all the of nationalist sentiment the Social Democrats who joined with their own ruling class in the clamour for victory.

But he attacks sharply claims that all wars national were re- of actionary in the epoch imperialism. 'The only mistake,' Lenin "Junius' ('Col- wrote against lected Works, Vol. 22), 'would be lo exaggerale Inis.

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from the Marxist depart quirement of concreteness, to apply the appraisal of this war the first World War to all wars possible, under imperialisni. The sole defence argument in the thesis, Wals are no longer possible" is that

the world has been divided among a small group of "great" imperialist powers. 'And for that reason, any war, even if it starts as a national is transformed war, into an imperialist war involv- ing the interests of one of the imperialist powers or coali- tions.' Lenin continues: 'The fal- lacy of this argument is obvi- , lines, That all dividing ous. both in nature and society, are conventional and dynamic, and that every phenomenon might, be under certain conditions transformed into its opposite, is, of course the basic proposi- tion of Marxist dialectics. A national war might be trans- formed into an imperialist war is an and vice versa. Here example: the wars of the Great French Revolution began as national wars and indeed were such. They were revolutionary wars-the defence of the great revolution ... against . . .

monarchies. 'But when Napoleon founded the French Empire and sub- jugated a number of big, viaore and long-established national European states, these national of the French became wars imperialist wars and in turn led to wars of national liber- against Napoleonic im- ation perialism. 'Only a sophist can dis- regard the difference between imperialist and war an national war on the grounds that one might develop into Not infrequently the other. have dialectics served . . . as a bridge to sophistry. But we and we remain dialecticians combat sophistry not by deny- ing the possibility of transfor- in general but by mations analysing the given phenome- non in its concrete setting and development' Lenin's reference to dialec- tics is, of course, no accident on this question. International relations and the international development of imperialism and the forces which struggle against imperialism must raise the question of dialectics, struggle is revealed since vividly in the international arena as not smooth, pre- planned or even predictable, but contradictory process.

Development and protection of natural resources and har- nations pre- mony between supposes the expropriation of imperialism by the working class. But this very struggle does not emerge in a 'perfect form' but in the concrete-in this case the cod war and the popular desire for economic independence in Iceland. The fight by Iceland for her has raised the fish resources support of the feeling and people. The decision to declare the 50-mile limit is a popular one, it runs counter to the interests of the main imperialist nations and must be supported unconditionally by socialists.

question of whether The Icelandic capitalists will con- serve the fish is secondary, but it does raise another important issue. The struggle for the emanci- pation of the working class is subordinated to the never national struggle. Capitalist interests in Ice- land will not be capable of developing fish resources — they will largely fall prey to the same contradictions that bedevil the British and Ger- man trawler-owners described in part three. The further therefore, demand, for the nationalization of the Icelandic fleet under workers' control is posed therefore. But what of the British long- distance trawlermen? They fear for their jobs if they are the Icelandic banned from grounds. A 50-mile limit around Ice- land would spell the end for many of Britain's side-trawlers.

this perimeter the Outside water gets too deep for suc- cessful fishing. The owners would sell or scrap their boats rather than bear the higher costs of fishing more remote grounds, Does justice for Iceland therefore mean mass unemploy- ment for deep-sea fishermen and workers employed in the industries that depend on the deep-sea catch? If the owners had their way the answer would be yes. But Workers Press, Mc workers have an absolute right to resist all redundancies in the industry. The problems of the trawl- ing industry are not the fault of the deck-hands and skippers.

They fish under orders, or at least in the full knowledge that poor catches mean poor wages, and in the case of the skipper, the sack. The so-called even "individualism' of the industry is a vicious system of reward and punishment designed to drive men to the limits of their energy. It is the em- ployers' greatest weapon.

The trawlermen should de- mand no sackings. The profits of the big companies should be used to pay wages while the industry is restructured.

This demand poses the long overdue step of nationalization of the industry under workers' socialist control. Under structure in trawling friendly negotiations with Iceland could be reopened to see if her waters could be fished without the risk of destroying stocks.

area of Another important advance is in the North Sea.

With proper protection and cultivation, fish stocks in this area could be returned to their former thriving state. In priv- ate hands the trawling industry has almost entirely neglected any investigation of fish-farm- and other methods developing stocks — preferring quick returns to research into future supplies. : Press, Monday June 11, 1973 PAGE 7 Above left: Fishing goes on 18 hours a day-that means work- ing well into the night-and in winter in Arctic waters, constant darkness prevails. Above: Pack- ing fish at Hull docks. The most immediate require- ment is for the trawlermen to put a black on fishing around Iceland. Why should they risk their lives oppressing another nation in a war they neither benefit from nor control?

They must also campaign in their own union, the Transport and General Workers, for reversal of the pro-employers policy in the cod war. Imme- be made diate contact must with trawling unions in other nations, including Iceland, to put forward joint demands that both reflect the need for nationalizing the industry and the right of Iceland to control fishing in her waters. This is the only way forward.

Trawlermen face a massive attack on their rights, with or without a cod war. The side-trawler is a dying class of ship. The owners are massive ration- preparing a alization programme based on the larger freezer vessels.

The tendency to monopoly in the industry will continue and this will mean fewer jobs with more intensive exploita- tion of labour at sea. Fishermen must decide their own destiny and not be pawns in the war of greed launched on the seas.

REVISIONISTS EXPOSED

BY ECONOMIC CRISIS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday June'

BY PETER JEFFRIES

Mandel's second excur- sion into the monetary crisis came at the time of the November 1967 14 per cent sterling de. valuation. Once more his analysis stood up just as well to subsequent developments as did his comments on the gold standard (which exposed we in Saturday's article)! 'In the international domain, the capitalist countries were happy over Wilson's "moder- ation"; if he had devalued by 30 per cent it would have shaken their markets.' did much It more than 'shake their markets'! Within a few months, as the SLL said it would at the time, it shook the entire world capitalist monetary system to the very point of collapse. March 1968 with its run on gold and the creation of the 'two-tier system flowed directly from the sterling devaluation at the end of the previous year. The crisis for the pound up a crisis for the opened dollar. Yet not only was Mandel happy at Wilson's 'moderation'; he could declare: •. the other imperialist moneys, are, to say the least, technically I?] • solid.' And on the very eve of the dollar crisis! Not that Mandel learned anything from the next few weeks in the build-up to this once more ruled out the return to gold. But even when the crisis did break, Mandel was unrepentent. 'Will the dollar follow the pound?' was the question he placed before his worried readers. No, Mandel assured them: "The apparent parallel between the pound and the dollar should not deceive us.'

The lack of confidence in the dollar, which even Mandel began dimly to perceive as a economic life, 'arises fact of from US government, expen- diture abroad'. This, in turn, Mandel told us, came from 'financing the Vietnam war; granting military aid 'to re- actionary and dictatorial re- gimes in many countries ...

It is these dollars which account for the constant flow of gold from the United States; it is these dollars that created the recent panic' Once more, the SLL never failed to recognize the impact of the Vietnam war. Indeed our latest statement on the crisis (A Marxist Analysis of the Crisis-statement by the SLL Central Committee) speci- fically draws attention to this factor. But for us it has never been the major source of the dollar crisis. Mandel utterly ignores the vast pile-up of dollars in the 'Euro-dollar market'. These represent the accumulated capital exports of the post-war day June 11, 1973 Sir Douglas Allen, Sir Leslle O'Brien, o announcemint of the decision to float perioa, capital exports which in turn reflected a desperate attempt to preserve social and economic stability in western Europe as well as to overcome contradictions associated with the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Mandel ended his piece with 'the plans to the statement create a world currency de- tatched from gold have slight chance of success'. Here we "theory' which the see centrists such as Mandel in- dulge in: nothing clearly stated, with the attempt to create lingering in the illusions stability of the system. For the plain fact is, as who has studied everyone 'Capital' knows, there was no Nixon: Mandel greated his August 15 measures as the be.

ginning of 'a long cycle of much slower growth ... chance whatsoever of such a currency. Gold alone is, and always was, the only 'universal money'. The dollar, even in the boom, and sterling, even in the heyday of capitalism, could never dislodge it. At the end of 1968 Mandel the crisis, however 'slight'. He O'Brien, of the Bank of England, and Chancel I to float the pound which put an end to a then thought that 'raising the creating price gold', a "central bank currency; pool- ing all the exchange reserves west European countries of 'Eurofranc' into a all were 'theoretically possible' solutions 'in the context of the inter- national capitalist economy'.

'None of them would under- mine the foundations of the capitalist mode of production.'

Of course all this was gib- berish. The only 'solution' was a steep increase in the price of gold, a 'solution' as we continually stressed, which would mean the final end of Bretton Woods and the open- ing of a period of intense and general capitalist crisis.

How far away Mandel and his revisionist friends were from such conclusions. 'The future of the system is created at Bretton Woods more than sombre,' Mandel in Inter- told his readers continental Press', , December 9, 1968. Far from being 'sombre' Bretton Woods had been • all but killed off by the two-tier system introduced the previous March, whereby the US agreed that only 'official' (government) dollar holders could switch their money into gold. August 15, 1971, merely finished off the operation in this sense.

As we saw from our first article, Mandel's aim through- out is deliberately to under- play the revolutionary implica- tions of the present crisis. This was nowhere more clearly seen than in his response to the Nixon August 15 measures.

For the SLL this announce- the most ment represented decisive turning point of all.

Nixon, on behalf of the American ruling class, had declared the rest of war on the capitalist world. The main lines of division were drawn: Europe against America. 1 Chancellor Anthony Barber at economic ta end to any hope of European monetary integ How did Mandel and his revisionist movement react?

The international capitalist system as a whole has emerged from a long cycle of expansion to begin a long cycle of much slower growth [emphasis added] and many more crises ... The merry-go-round has only begun. The long cycles last on the average 20 to 25 years [emphasis added].' In other words; in plain language; August 15 opened a period in which for the next 25 years there would be much growth' 'slower and 'many more crises. The struggle for power, the for decisive preparation con- frontation between the classes throughout western Europe and America was utterly alien to Mandel's thinking. The previous May ('Inter- continental Press', May 24, 1971) he had ended his analysis of the dollar crisis with the pathetic plea: 'The worsening international crisis monetary is a serious invitation [!] to meet the international specula- tions of the capitalists with an international workers' struggle.'

In Mandel's polite, petty- bourgeois world the class struggle occurs 'by invitation' only it would seem. Reading Mandel's pronounce- ments on the crisis, one can only conclude that the more gh- it deepens, the more optimistic he becomes about the future of the capitalist system.

At the time of the Smith- sonian talks (December 1971) he asserted with great con- The system born in fidence: will not survive Washington a decade.' (Intercontinental Press', January 1972.) A de- In point of fact, the cade? Washington arrangements did not 'survive' ten months let alone ten years. By June 1972, the pound was floating and any hope of 1972, just after the onomic talks July tary Integration. European monetary integration little while which only a earlier Mandel had seen as a 'theoretically possible' solution was killed stone dead. Such is the power of Mandel's per- spectives. So closely tuned is his analysis to the tempo of capitalist development! series of This is not a 'mistakes' which Mandel can correct at the 'final hour', as it were. For as we insisted in starting these articles, the analysis made by the Pabloites of the economic crisis flowed directly from their politics.

While he was doing his best to play down the oncoming capitalist crisis from the mid- 1960s onwards, Mandel and his followers were at the same time peddling every possible anti-Marxist policy amongst their middle-class supporters: the struggle to prepare the working class for the battles it now faces, which battles will decide the entire which fate of humanity. The economic analysis which the SLL and the International Committee of the Fourth Inter- national has made throughout the development of the present crisis has been possible only because we have been engaged in a continual political fight.

against all forms of revision- ticism. It is this struggle against revisionism which has been at the backbone of the prepara- tions for the founding of the revolutionary party. Mandel can rest assured that its launching later this year will only serve to open up a new and even sharper period of struggle against the politics and method which he and his fellow renegades from Trotsky- ism represent. of CONCLUDED

The recent visit of Leonid Brezhnev to West Germany was as much to meet the bosses of the big monopolies as it was to discuss politics with Chancellor Willy Brandt. Brezhnev told them of the Soviet Union's readiness for long-term economic co-opera- tion in the exploitation of natural resources and in the field of fuel and power. He whetted the appetite of the German monopolists with an outline of the Soviet Union's great potential in timber, elec- tric power, copper and nickel.

He suggested 30 to 50 years as a suitable period for long-term co-operation. German business does not have such a lengthy time horizon; it wants some imme- diate prospects of making profits. Your trade with us at present is no greater than what we do with Norway, a Krupps told a disconcerted man Brezhnev. The West German Industrial Institute has also raised some difficult problems arising from joint production projects by West German firms operating in the Soviet Union. In par- ticular, it wants to know what will be the consequence of the different forms of property in the two countries. What it presumably wants whether foreign to know is capitalists will be able to have an ownership stake in indus- tries set up in the Soviet Union.

It also wants assurances about the transfer of profits, taxation, customs regulations and state guarantees for par- ticular projects. In other words, the industrialists want assured profits without risks and in- tend to drive a hard bargain, if necessary breaking through

HAPPINESS

Wilson has left the Labour farty and joined the Liberal Party. Not Harold. I mean Des -D. Wilson, the erstwhile leader of Shelter, the national campaign for the homeless. Since leaving Shelter, Wilson has joined the 'Observer' as a of Mr Lonely Hearts sort columnist on behalf of the down-trodden. A couple of years ago he was very anxious to get a Labour seat and go into poli- tics. He was keenly interested in one or two seats which be- came vacant in north and west Soviet foreign trade monopoly.

A series of contracts has already been concluded. The electrical giants, Siemans and AEG are to construct six nuclear power stations in the Soviet Union, in return for which it is to supply West Germany with enriched uranium. About 30 West German firms will be supplying machinery, equipment and tools for the giant Kama truck works. The firm of Konde is to design three plants to be built in the Soviet Union to manufacture concrete pipes and reinforced concrete structures for house- building. The firm of Ferrol- Leukophosphit is working with a Soviet institute on a new metal-reduction process. Krupps are to investigate the possibility of joint development of Siberian mineral resources in which American and Japan- ese enterprises are already interested. Brezhnev and West German businessn offices and industrial plant. Above: Br cussed particularly the enlargement of Union and West Germany. London. In announcing that he was going to the Liberals Wilson made clear that it was because he hadn't been not found a safe Labour seat Asked about the loss of the great man to the Liberals, a Labour Party voice said: 'We hope Mr Jeremy Thorpe and his friends are very happy with their new colleague.' The other night police in East Dulwich, south London, went to a day nursery after an alarm bell had been triggered. They found a man on the premises.

He admitted the entering premises with intent to steel.

He had climbed through a toilet window. In court the next day he told the magistrate: "My uncle and I are starving and I was hoping to find food.' * Another chapter is recorded sin in Heath's A Better To- morrow'. The bureaucracy is opening for imperialism the to way the exploit immense natural resources of the Soviet Union.

It does so on the basis that there are grounds for the 110 extension of the revolution and that socialism in one country means 'socialism' nowhere else.

bureaucracy opening 1 ne the way for imperialism to exploit the immense ¡laluld the Soviet Union. resources of Its 'policy of socialism in one threatens the very Colly basis the workers' states OI and assumes peaceful divi- of sion the world with the capitalists. German capitalists are obvi- ously licking their lips at the before prospects them; they intend to drive a hard bargain, forcing the bureaucracy to make still further concessions.

At the end of the road which the bureaucracy is now treda the ing lays restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union.

businessmen on inspection tour Brandt with dis- Breznnev-iney the enlargement of trade links between the Soviet

STRANGE COURSE

OF JUSTICE

There is an interesting item in report from the une Criminal Compensa- • Injuries tion Board. A youth aged 17 and his friend were assaulted in the street by a gang. The assailants convicted werre 0I wounding with intent and three years' im- sentenced to The boy's friend prisonment. £2,500 compensation received for the loss of an eye. But the boy himself subse- convicted quently was for assaults, including one convic- tion for assaulting three policemen. And when his case before came the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board was ruled that although he had been assaulted through no fault of his own, his character since the incident made it in- appropriate that he should re- ceive any compensation. Workers Press, I

LATIN AMERICA

Until April 28 Sacha Volman was stationed in the Dominican Republic as the labour adviser of the nickel mining con- cern known as Falcondo. On that day he was arrested and the Chief of Immigration in person saw that he was placed on a plane leaving for Puerto Rico. Volman's What led to arrest and deportation? Who is this 'mystery man' whose presence became an embar- rassment to the Dominican government? In World War II Volman worked for the US espionage outfit known as the Office of Strategic Services, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency. After the war he be- CIA man stationed in came a the Caribbean. His special assignment was spying on the labour move- ment and planting CIA men in it. To this end he set up a body called the International Institute for Labour Research.

It was financed with

CIA

funds through the J. M. Kaplan Foundation whose secretary was Norman Tho- mas, one-time Socialist Party and presidential secretary candidate in the 1930s. With the support of AFL- CIO (American TUC) bureau- crats and the co-operation of Jay Lovestone, once one a leader of the Communist Party's right wing, he set up shop in Costa Rica. There CIA funds were used establish another high- to organization, sounding the Costa Rican Political Educa- tion Institute, followed up by a Centre for Social Studies and Documentation which had its headquarters in Mexico.

exiled Dominican The leader, Juan Bosch, was ap- proached by Volman and taught courses for the Politi- cal Education Institute. When Bosch ran for president in 1962, Volman went on ahead to set up the campaign. Doubtless Bosch did not know that the affable Volman and his Institute were part of the CIA thrust against the working class movement in Latin America. In the Dominican Republic, organized Volman a mass peasant movement which con- tributed to Bosch's election victory.. The CIA man then became his closest adviser, this time heading a newly- founded CIA front, the Centre for Social Studies Research.

Shortly before Bosch's over- throw, Volman left the coun- Order fron 18ба Claph s Press, Monday June 11, 1973 PAGE 9 try, after dissolving the peas- ant organization and the Centre. Presumably, while pretending to be Bosch's friend, he had prepared the ground for him to be defeated and discredited. Whatever the truth, Vol- man turned up again in Santo Domingo after the election of Joaquin Balaguer to the pre- sidency in 1970. He worked for a while as a Planning Offi- until he joined the Fal cer Juan Bosch: ex-president condo mining corporation, nominally as labour adviser.

The Balaguer regime appar- ently feared that Volman was up to his old tricks and hastily removed him from the scene.

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Name..... Address. The tenants of 54 Priory Road, West Hampstead, London, have presented a petition to Labour- controlled Camden Coun- cil calling for the house to be compulsorily pur- chased to prevent them all being evicted. New landlords have recently taken over the property. The tenants claim that the first time they knew it had been sold was when they received letters from the agents, Nor- man Townley and Partners of Muswell Hill, instructing them to get out. They turned to the Brent Community Law Centre for help and, after a search, they discovered that the new owners are Thornbrae Projects Limited of 25 Harley Street, London, Wl. There is, however, no telephone subscriber of that and the name and address tenants say they have not been able to make any direct con- with them. They have tact heard that Thornbrae are in buying engaged up other houses in the area. West Hampstead at one time contained many wealthy families living in large, elegant three- and four-storey • houses. Over the years the neighbour- hood has been run down and most of the property has been turned into bed-sitters and small flatlets. Now big old houses are : being bought up, the insides gutted, modern flats constructed with full amenities, and then sold separately at high prices.

The tenants at 54 Priory Road fear that that is what Thornbrae have in store for their house and they have decided to fight. 'What else can we do?' asked Tony Cavalho, who shares a groundfloor. double "They room with his wife. offered me f50 for removal costs, but what good is that to you have nowhere to move The first step was to take their case to the Rent Tribunal.

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were given six months' security Department and asked to be "Why of tenure. Two other rehoused and they said, young couples, however, found they don't you move to Hackney oi What should I do Millwall?" had been caught. accommoda- there? I have lived in this Desperate for tion, they had signed six- borough for over 30 years. All month leases for their rooms, my friends are here. which were described in the 'It's the young people I feel documents as 'holiday flatlets'.

Sanyal really sorry for,' Mr It was the only way they could He was most went on. con- get a home, but they had been cerned about Larry and Maria assured that the leases would Casadio who had taken one be extended indefinitely as long "holiday flatlets' of the 18 as they wanted. One couple when they had months ago. have, in fact, been living there married and first got were for 18 months on such a lease.

desperate for a home together.

Now have found they that Cllr Tony Clarke has pro- 'holiday flatlets' are specifically mised to present their petition excluded from the Rent Act to the next meeting of Camden and the Tribunal told them Council. It remains to be seen they could have no security whether the Labour councillors of and leave tenure must who eventually caved in to Their almost immediately. Tory the government and rents were reduced from £30.40 agreed the to implement to £21, and from £32 to £28 Housing Finance Act, will put a month. up a fight against the landlords.

They The are still there. If council lets them the agreed them- tenants among down, the tenants are not too selves that none of them would clear what to do next. They go unless they were all forced hope the Rent Tribunal might out. grant them a further stay of There is no doubt, though, execution, although that will that the landlords want them not help the young couples in out, and quickly. Mr Cavalho the 'holiday flatlets' told me that after the hearing And when all the procedure has been observed, there will telephone offering be nothing to stop Thornbrae increase the £50 offer to £250 Projects from asking for a court if he left immediately. order and the police moving He has a letter from them, in to evict the tenants. May 12, which dated reads: 'We'll just have to barricade 'Further to our telephone ourselves in if they come to conversation Tuesday last, on throw us out,' Mr Sanyal says.

when we advised you that our But 11 men and women, in- clients, the landlords of the cluding an old age pensioner, above. were prepared to offer however determined, will not you the sum of £250 by way their own stop the forces on of compensation for immediate of law and order' from up- possession of the flatlet holding the Tory law. Our clients. quite naturally, The only way to stop them wish to settle this matter and make the fight for the is to we are, therefore, instructed to right to a decent home at rents advise you that provided you, workers can afford, part of the Mr Nawab and Mr Sanyal fight of the whole labour and vacate your flatlets by 29th trade union movement to make instant their offer of compen- the Tories to £500.' resign. sation is increased The next Labour government Neither Mr Cavalho, nor the must then be forced to repeal other tenants mentioned, have Housing Finance any intention of taking up the the Act, offer. municipalize all rented property not owner-occupied, Mr S. P. Sanyal is parti- which is carry out an immediate census incensed the cularly at com- to house the homeless in un- pany's attitude. At 67, he has and start lived in the house for 17 years.

occupied properties, a crash housing programme on 'I am an old age pensioner,' the basis of the nationalization he said. 'Where could I find of the land, the banks, the anywhere else to live at now price I could afford? will building societies and the build- ing supplies and contracting £500 buy decent accom- us modation? Even the monopolies without compen- young workers' sation and under couples can't find anything. the Housing control. went to national' in- ed material The First Five Years of the Communist International This first volume of Trotsky's writings and speeches for the Communist International covers the period of its first three Congresses when the post-war revolutionary upsurge reached its peak and then began to recede. It establishes, without fear of con- tradiction. the important role which he plaved in the foundation of this. the Third workers' International.

and in the formation and early development of the French. German and Italian Communist Parties. At this time the theory of 'socialism in one country' had not been invented and Joseph Stalir was still second-line Bolshevik leader who played no part in the international movement which he was later to pervert and eventually destroy.

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I. THE COUNCIL of Equity, the performers' trade union, has ship with a summary of the Commission of Industrial Re- lations report No 40, recom- shop' for the union. This was greeted by council a 'pro- member Richard Briers, gressive' according to the London 'Evening Standard', as a great step forward. Briers makes no secret of his views. His elec- tion address-the ballot for the new Council election closes on June 15-is brief and to the point. 'I find all militant political views destructive and dangerous concerned with the protection of the actor against exploitation and improving his welfare in a highly-competitive and often cruel profession.' His proposer, Nigel Patrick, is of the There same opinion: should be no political involve- ment in the deliberations and discussion of the Council.'

Honri, His seconder, Peter considers that the majority of members think that the new West End contract 'marks the start of a new era: yet it is still systematically denigrated by our strike-in-breach-of-contract bri- gade'. He was a member of the negotiating team which accepted the outset the managers' from stipulation that the era in ques- tion should be at least five years and that the West End contract, whose conditions include a 48- hour rehearsal week and no right to holidays, should not be re- negotiated until 1977. All three, together with Marius Goring-'In the beginning was our profession • . . We formed our union to help it: .. We joined the TUC to help our union . . . Our loyalties should ...-and follow in that order others have taken advertising space in the 'Stage' to warn members only to vote for non- political candidates in the elec- HEMPSTEAD: Monday HUl

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June 11 (please note date change), 8 p.m. Adeyfield Hall, Jun Queen's Square. "Build the revo- 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, 8 p.m. 'Havelock Arms', Bala- Street. 'Forward to the con clava revolutionary party'. CAMDEN: Tuesday June 12, p.m. 'Prince Albert', Wharfedale Par and the revolutionary party'.

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

'Force the Tories to resign. Return a Labour government to socialist policies'. pledged TOOTING: Tuesday June 12, 8 Tooting Tooting p.m. Broadway. 'Force the resign. Return a Labour govern- pledged to socialist poli- ment cies'.

WALTON-ON-THAMES:

Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. The Kiwi, New Zealand Ave., Walton. Building the Revolutionary Party' WANDSWORTH: Tuesday June 12, 8 p.m. 'Foresters' All Farth- 'Force Tories to Lane. the resign. Return a Labour govern- socialist ment to ABERDEEN: Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. The Trades 24 Adelphi. 'Forward to the Belle Vue conference'. tion. All these candidates support and the union's registration 'approved application for an closed-shop'. But the CIR's report confirms what the leadership has con- sistently tried to deny, namely that the 'approved closed-shop' is not a closed-shop at all. It is one in which workers 'shall be, or shall become a member of the union, or-by special exemption— contribution pay an appropriate to an agreed charity. Moreover only the employer can enforce union membership, and under such conditions that in a vast number of cases the job would have finished before he would •have to do so. It is in the section headed 'Discipline', however, that the corporatist of the essence approved closed-shop emerges. 'Disciplinary sanctions', it says, not always in are the entertainment industry. Sack- ing actors might involve em- ployers in the costly business of re-filming or re-rehearsing production. Until now the union leaders have come to the of rescue employers in this by dilemma carrying out their discipline for them by means of fines or sus- pension. 'Equity's willingness and ability to discipline its members is a major factor contributing to the industry.' An stability of the approved closed-shop, guarantee- that all performers-except ing the 'conscientious objectors' who obviously don't need it-are subject to the union's discipline, is necessary if Equity is to per- this service in the form new situation. It is not, of course, the closed- shop which laid the foundations 'stability' in the industry.

for On the contrary a closed-shop precondition was the vital for day HULL (Speclal meeting of engl Wednesday, section): 8 p.m. 'The Windmill June 13, Hotel', Witham. SLOUGH: Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Farn- ham Road. 'Force the Tories to SALFORD: Wednesday, June 13, 8 p.m. 'Kings Arms', , Whit Lane. 'Forward to the ATUA Belle Vue conference.' SOUTHALL: Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. Southall Library,_ Osterley Park Road. 'Force the • Tories to resign. Return a Labour govern- to socialist ment

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Wednesday June 13, 8 p.m. 'Crooked Billet', and the struggle to defend demo- all), cratic rights'. WOOLWICH: Wednesday June , Bur- rage Road. 'TUC and Stalinists -supporters of corporatism' GLASGOW: Wednesday June 13, Woodside Halls, : 7.30 p.m. George's Cross. (Manchester):

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Wednesday June 13, p.m. Cock North, Portway. 'Forward to the Belle Vue Con- ference.' BASILDON: Thursday June 14, 8 Community Barnstaple p.m. Centre. 'Make the Tories resign.

Force a Labour government to carry out socialist policies' CROYDON: Thursday June 14, 8 p.m Coombe 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, p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bed- 'Stalinism ford Road. and the struggle to defend democratic rights'. all such gains as have been won over the years. 'Stability' was the undertaking given by the leader- ship in 1935, and included in all contracts that ever return for the right to operate a closed-shop they would not 'impede the course of a pro- duction', i.e. call a strike.

The threat to stability in the situation comes from the new crisis of the capitalist system itself, forcing the Tory govern-• ment to attack the basic demo- work harder and faster in order that employers can extract more profit from their labour.

Equity members were among the first to feel this crisis in its most direct form - a wage-cut imposed Tanuary this year, and then to their ignore see their leaders decision at a mass meeting to strike, to deregister and to defy the state pay laws. 'Stability' therefore, re- now, quires much more than a tame reformist leadership. What is needed if the employers are to solve their crisis is a corporate in which union the structure leaders have absolute duties and obligations and the means to impose the employers' require- ments on every level and section the membership; to regulate of their conduct, to whip them into The 'approved closed-shop' line. provides a blueprint for this.

The lesson of this report to Equity members clear, and very much in line with the tasks of the All Trades Unions Alliance conference at Belle Vue. To break the chains which the Tories and their agents in the trade union bureaucracy are seeking to impose all trade unionists, a new on leadership is required. Only a revolutionary leadership car now defend the trade unions. ngt SHEFFIELD: Thursday June 14, 7.30 'The Hallamshire', p.m. West Street. 'End talks with the Tories'. WILLESDEN: Thursday June 14, 8 p.m. Brent Labour and Trades 8 p.m. Quarry Sunday cil Chambers, Holborn Town 'The case a panel and Street, W.3. 'Build the party. p.m. Deptford •TUC must ter): Tories Labour government sign. socialist ment 8 Control socialist ment to must 8 tries'. Hume 7.30 9.38 Schools. 11.25 Cricket. England v New Zealand. 1.30 Joe. 1.45 News.

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6.40 DAVID NIXON SHOW. Guests Deryck Guylor, The Black Abbotts.

7.30 CORONATION STREET.

8.00 MY GOOD WOMAN.

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9.00 HUNTER'S WALK. Local Know- ledge.

10.00 NEWS AT TEN.

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11.30 TENNIS. John Player tourna- ment.

12.15 WORLD WAR I.

12.40 PLAYING AT WAR.

8.50 FACE THE MUSIC.

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday June 11, 1973 Lobby poses Narrow vote to return at Harland key to and Wolff yard Belfast's OVER 2,000 Belfast backbone Pro- testant Working class, has boilermakers return the Ont cisive industrial struggles in to work at the grants fight

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN BELFAST

Ulster since the war. Harland and Wolff illusion that it the the tivity through management shattered on terms dictated by still Britain shipyard today Tory government's Pay plans. receve onment Board. union is opposing this and determined, rotestant workers in Ster after with their will given wage taking the issue to court. parity harangue but alter a long ten-week dispute, to English Scot- and

BY DAVID MAUDE

McGarvey won the day. His Another fierce 'victory' the produc fight for however, less controversy

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counterballs Conces- justice on sion hinted at the Tory With under than satisfactory. tivity strings attached to the THE NATIONAL Union of Students' pay and conditions. White Paper on Northern half the boilermakers voting Tell. Mcuarvey Ireland. the majority returr that concessions like time. Immediately after their special grants conference, held in Lon- Mea- work small: 566 study, Methods-Time proved that the Saturday it has vote go Was favour to 360 government don at the weekend declared 'totally Sandy

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Dack, convenor Terms of the compulsory night-shift work.

towards Protestant workers settlement 'The mood Scott warned: ing have been accepted Catholic- -the Harland unsatisfactory' the Tories' to recent an- Incut. is extremely VIster Clause because a key clause and Woli Incu nouncement of a £20 increase in grants have • The Torv £ Dus 4 pe workers long dropped from onto dole and denied Was _the cent pay award, P the £3.50 We will be proved agreement. Social Security. bonus (instead of next year. 800 delegates, from colleges still right. has But shop stewards pointed justice IC Finally estassed bonus demanded Increase l0 out that Clause 4 contained be done in the yard.' that workers can only again and universities all over the country, by the men). even and Scott the strike specitic their rights and keep Lum- lump sum of £20.90 They A these issues. decided to continue the campaign for to kick committee sooner Day compensation for accepting Society president wil not out the Tory government makers' further increases to help students meet McGarvey agreement on this basis. build trade when he Culules. union Danny Wolf • A further The Harland and t50 lumo sum do

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the cost of inflation. Saturday to return to work award, for loss of produc- dispute, which involved the this. In opposition to the pre- dominantly right wing and 'Great bitterness' says leading steward Stalinist leadership of the union, the conference decided the summer to continue, over SANDY SCOTT, bollermakers' But It was and suffer- dispute by putting men on to the vacation if possible, the rent convenor, commented yesterday: ing that drove us back in the streets. have strikes which been end. The company should also Like other British workers we employed in colleges some trapped the recular o the high and Palture of Hope yard chlet Wor pointed with the attitude of the cision. Social Security is raised histle Board. The other cost of student accommodation.

leadership. If they had by the nation, for the exclu union not honour agreements forthriaht stand But a move to force the NUS issue it would have enormously Trade unionists and politicians men. responsibility strengthened the men, but y alerted to of great Ior lack or progress in tne grants misuse public funds. bitterness, and it will be remem- uls was nor vortcoming to make the bered for long, long see that similar tactic. majority executive members Bobby Johnson, a leading stew. will be used i where after Ulster have memories ard, commented resign, was heavilv defeated. on the decision this example. has already thon't forged to not 10 the boilermakers pay started in England at places like this one easily Efforts to commit the social security. where the men feel we have acted war ans tive week action and It was the management and are being treated in the • Hoppas explanation', involving people, horotiate was right. Convenor Sandy Scott for what we thought who precipitated and leafleting Some mess manuel. support, were dates lost by about five to one. Proper surveys would provide the grants bid to Comman will a ponucal per.

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1 ones lalcd have saved miners Yet the removal of the Tories replacement by their £176.50 pledged LabOul socialist policies, was key The issue facing the conference. WE ARE now close to- getting wards haltway through the month. An impressive dele- lobby organizec Young says NUM face about Fund a boost as it has begun to

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from men une Socialist sincent Societies lag behind. abnormal conditions. areas the Of He said: 'For example, we are that without course, we realize, dear THE LIVES of leader told by number witnesses all SuCH bens secuve urere Teasers. that vou are men at Lofthouse colliery be no defeat of the Heath govern- ol a very loui smell bullal ment's bid to make the working- Party Fund. rotten eggs, being present on the could have been saved if for some weeks before the magnificent effort. Class ody L0L capitalisill s We know Coal Board officials had this in- incident. that must keep our Fund By diline officials of misreading and mis- the end of the day, some sight. heeded danger signs at To manot Lne smel the platform party were interpreting references was reported to the deputy and openly encouraging a reactionary, The Victorian historian H. Green's developments the face and carried out the overman. industry, field and Tillson •anti-political clique in their enorts a proper geological know the under- to howl down or ridicule speakers and White's journal. and the who stressed the kick this capitalist crisis-are Manacel. tne Mallascr to the Tories. thousands workers into action planning and surveying staft also out the inati there Scargill submitted knew this smell. Tory government that have Outgoing presiden: and Com- Goals le may been something Workers Press is needed more Coal was munist breach of section 75 of the mennoer the WalCh nave caused

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than ever Jacks' keynote speech Mines Act which places a duty only concern, but an intensive extremely half- lead owners managers to conference was an and as to its cause.' investigation possible into information seek all nearied acicace Earlier the inquiry had been of protest to and pressure on the ole snails Tories. to raise this month's Fund. water bearing strata. of the appearance of water something more if you can. Post on the face two or three weeks The £20, was totally clear that all he said, He said it before the inrush water to: responsible the order to meet al your conallons those for giving In induculale. which killed the seven miners. Workers Press death the consequences face syb go-anead He said: 'Why was no action students needed at least another June Appeal Fund had relied on the information of the evidence taken, in view the Clapham High Street given them the What was t/0 a year. more. Tood London SW4 7UG available. the rumours that were but Green's had government ad o be orceo lo circulating apparent Until notes been and Tine decision' on the issue mace ve very apprehension on the i part of the their March of the signatories would they had ignored in district? working have very different view men taken announcement-local authori- Why was exam alon Lest •orne unce. ties' powers smaller, make BERNADETTE McALISKEY or une taken on south 9B unit? discretionary awards non- In addition to their failure to formerly Devin- claimed 1n Although inadequate planning students. letter • 5 William Whitelaw

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search the cause Was The ansaster British troops sionally all available evidence Delegates rebuffed an attempt weekend that Mr Scargill said in his 25-point obtain workings the sausactor answel concerning to obtain £800 for inform. telephone encorsement onered a man submission that S9B Mr for the executive's line by refus- to help the army 'Visters 'get' scargill in the division system Was

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persistent warnings ignoring report assessing perspectives. show eecuons. notices ing out of the lace were nol roules posted. All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights He monthly inspec. called for areas where old Shaft! HOls are known to exist and aerial

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to help locate them. All surveys should be treated with old shafts suspicion he said. He called for a systematic ex- specialist team should investigate be o d coe rest one cocon prove their depth Mine water should be analysed determine its source and abnormal water conditions investigated be Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m should immediately. Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history The inquiry has now ended and findings expected to its are Tickets £1: Available from R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, Salford 7, Manchester.

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