Workers Press no. 1099

workers press

PRESIDENT NIXON'S

nothing to restore confi criticism from leading Co a 60-day freeze on prices i A WHITE-collar union agreed yesterday to call on the TUC to 'black' any private hospital development which would hit the National Health Servce.

The 'blacking' should be imposed if planning permis- sion was granted for such a hospital Government the National and Officers' Local Association conference de- cided. Trade unionists would be urged to boycott building work. The conference, at Scarborough, Yorkshire, ex- pressed total opposition to American medical firm an seeking to take over and ex- pand private patient facilities in NHS hospitals. The delegates, representing 500,000 workers in town halls and the nationalized indus- tries, heard of the suffering of NHS patients awaiting out- patient appointments. Mrs Myfanwy Manning, an administrative assistant in a hospital at Luton, Bedford- said: We shire, see their suffering increase while they wait longer and longer for the treatment they need. 'At the same time, we see part-time consultants seeing their private patients in their National Health Service con- sulting rooms, using the ser- vice of the National Health staff at a cost which bears no relation to the return received for those services. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JUNE 15, 1973• No 1099 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE After Nixon's speech No recovery on markets PRESIDENT Nixon's night's level of 3.1025 exchange market, the last anti-inflation package dollar declined against the

SWISS

FRANKFURT where two strongest European In

DOLLAR

had generally currencies, the Swiss franc were favourable reception and the little affected, banking German the United OUTSICe sources said the President's deutschmark States and failed to bring But was slightly measures would little about recovery stronger against the British help the dollar and the US dollar, Reuter might in the long term de- sterling which Has repoe te yest way. sharp been nit by press it turtner. feeling widely crease in Britain's trade They pointed out that ex- deficit. President's proposed pressed by ban- the European London banking kers Presi- Us food exports was sources

CUTOS

den't 60-day prices freeze said that since the Water- in order to keep American prices down, was weak compromise which would do mining the dollar a month only be to the detriment utue

CRISIS

help the alling American avo me markers nad been of tne us balance or pay- the agency said. Logical state such bad psycho. ments.

APANES

only the IN

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dollar fooc agency the US strengthened slightly officials said the mea- could Stronges! measures sures could lead to higher restore confidence. against Iranc

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in world grain mar- One likened thought the pack- Nixon's the kets. package was unlikely to have dEc of general lack 'bursting

SIST

US of confidence in the criticizing the lack of wage The dollar was down in the and

BRUSSELS,

where currency was a rise in

ZURICH

foreign disappointment gold, a traditional DrICe

CAPECSSCO

haven speculators direct

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exchange marker the back. Theack against the dollar little US measures On the LONDON foreign with the dollar opening at the currency.

WORSE

Why is Chrysler using skilled men to sweep shop floor? see p. 12

BY JOHN SPENCER

PRESIDENT NIXON'S package of economic measures has done nothing to restore confidence in the dollar and has drawn bitter criticism from leading Congressmen. The main item in the package is This is Nixon's second such freeze in two years and it failed to impress the international money markets. In London the dollar's position improved slightly against the pound at the beginning of trading, but it soon began to slip again.

The price of gold rose by 25 cents to $1l6 an ounce at the According to many foreign exchange dealers the morning fixing. narket had already largely discounted anti-inflationary moves b They anticipated further demand fo the Nixon administration.

the German and

COLL"

advice of those who wanted tinuing decline in the dollar. the wrong thing, and split- Mr Nixon difference, Nixon's speech clearly under- the scores the paralysis of his admin- has produced a damaging econ- of omic package.' impact Isualon unacl Nixon's speech show and was the watergate revelatons of weakness in the face of the the worsening economic crisis.

working CaSS Prices are rising in the US at He specifically ruled out an annual went out rate or over

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freeze wages and and in the last six months olive extend ar way the dollar has shed between branch to the union Trade value against major European curren- "The reached wage settlements cies. under the rules of Phase LnCe powerful have not been a significant cause Under pressure from of the increase in prices." he sections ot une US runnE class said. for deflation and facing a work- ing class thoroughly aroused by Why is this skilled craftsman sweeping up at Chrysler's Encourage Nixon The rISINE COSI Stoke, Coventry, engine plant? Management at the US- forced back on The trace owned firm is ordering men onto the most menial tasks to bureaucracy and the Anue to abe rese settle ente union responsible avoid costly lay-offs at Stoke, and try to undermine the non not to any, sed wage freeze non- nationary. increasingly bitter and solid strike at Ryton. • SEE BACK The visit to wasaneton next week of Leonid Brezhnev, leader

PAGE STORY.

On the eve of the major round Party, Communist of the Soviet of negotiations, this wage Nixon's figured prominently can only statement speech. courage strengthen and work class militancy. He referred to the months of

£100,000 PARTY BUILDING

Nixon also set his face against preparatory work that nave beer for this meeting the the mounting lobby of bie and ness interests demanding defla- consultation Cor-

CALCHDIYC

YESTERDAY'S

tionary measures aimed the post predicted that respondence an e

FUND

class. would lead to "major new working brought £59, which In progress'. 'We sale ate пот to put the American economy in brings our total to Demo- Washington, angry In a strait-jacket. We are not going £51,275.62. Coventry £20; donations to crane congressmen aeschoca boom COnLTOL Way the package as too little and too that would lead to a

DUST

Glasgow N. £8; Glasgow S.

Party Building Fund late. Henry Reuss, of Wisconsin, victims Chief of the Nixon and further package will be the colonial and £5; M. Craig £1; Outer Lon- 186a Clapham High Street went СУСЛ posed Nixon - television semi-colonial countries who lace don Branch £25. Send all London SW4 7UG immediately to retract his steep increases in price of essen- speech. tial foods as a result of Nixon's Reuss said: 'By taking the export controls

workers press

PRESIDENT NIXON'S

nothing to restore confi criticism from leading Co a 60-day freeze on prices i A WHITE-collar union agreed yesterday to call on the TUC to 'black' any private hospital development which would hit the National Health Servce.

'blacking' should be The Imposed if planning permis- sion was granted for such a National and hospital, the Government Officers' Local Association conference de- cided. Trade unionists would be urged to boycott bullding work. The conference, at Scarborough, Yorkshire, ex- total opposition to pressed American medical firm an seeking to take over and ex- pand private patient facilities In NHS hospitals. The delegates, representing 500,000 workers in town halls and nationalized indus- the tries, heard of the suffering of

NHS

patients awaiting out- patient appointments. Mrs Mytanwy: Manning, an administrative assistant in a hospital at Luton, Bedford- shire, said: 'We see their suffering increase while they wait longer and longer for the treatment they need. 'At the same time, we see part-time consultants seeing • patients in their their private National Health Service con- sulting rooms, using the ser- vice of the National Health staff at a cost which bears no relation to the return recelved for those services! INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JUNE 15, 1973 • No 1099 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

After Nixon's speech No recovery on markets PRESIDENT Nixon's exchange market, the last night's level of 3.1025 anti-inflation package conar decimned aralst une FRANKFURT where two strongest European In generally

DOLLAR

currencies, the Swiss franc were favourable reception banking and the West little affected, the United deutschmark sources said the President's States and failed to bring But was slightly me sures would little about 'us* recovery stronger against the British the dollar and the dollar, Reuter pound which might in the long term de- Sterne Mas reported yesterday. by sharp press neen The feeling widely crease in Britain's trade They pointed that ex- out pressed by deficit. President's proposed ban- the European curbs Presi- London banking sources Us food exports. Kers was cEne den't 60-day prices freeze said that since the Water- in order to keep American weak gate scandal began food prices down could was compromise which mining the dollar a month be to the detriment would do

CRISIS

of the US balance of pay.

alling A merican agency said. logical state that such bad psycho- ments. only the IN

PARIS,

dollar food agency the officials said US strengthened slightly the med strokesi measures Could sures could lead higher restore confidence. against franc, The

OUT

Reices in world grain mar- One dealer likened thought the pack- Nixon's the package was unlikely have of ceveralad. balloon. muCh enccl of confidence e a rise the US criticizing the lack of wage The dollar was down in in and

BRUSSELS,

where currency was controls.

ZURICH

foreign price of gold, a traditiona disappointment speculators the

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exchance marker the back.

aureci against the dollar age little effect, US measures for On the LONDON foreign with the dollar opening at the currency.

WORSE

Why is Chrysler using skilled men to sweep shop floor? see p. 12

BY JOHN SPENCER

PRESIDENT NIXON'S package of economic measures has done nothing to restore confidence in the dollar and has drawn bitter criticism from leading Congressmen. The main item in the package is This is Nixon's second such freeze in two years and it failed to impress the international money markets. In London the dollar's position improved slightly against the pound at the beginning of trading, but it soon began to slip again.

The price of gold rose by 25 cents to $1l6 an ounce at the According to many foreign exchange dealers the morning fixing. narket had already largely discounted anti-inflationary moves b the Nixon administration.

They anticipated further demand to the German and

HANK

advice of those who wander tinuing decline in the dollar.

the thing, split- Nixon Nixon's speech clearly under- the difference, strats the para sine hipad or has producea a damaging econ- omic package." impact Nixon's speech show was the waterace rever allons allu weakness in the face of the the worsening economic crisis.

working class. Prices are rising in the US at He specifically ruled out an and went out annual rate or over freeze on wages and in the last six months olive extend an way dollar, has shed between branch to the trade its value leaders. against major European curren- 'The wage settlements reached cies. Three rules of Phase uncer lie have not been a significant cause Under pressure from powerful the increase in prices, he sections Us rulins Class said. for deflation and facing a work- ing class thoroughly aroused by Why is this skilled craftsman sweeping up at Chrysler's Encourage Nixon the Stoke, Coventry, engine plant? Management at the US.

forced back The trace and bureaucracy the 'As long as wage settlements owned firm is ordering men onto the most menial tasks to union be responsible and Kremlin Stalinists. avoid costly lay-offs at Stoke, and try to undermine the will no be any, osed wage freeze non- nationary. increasingly bitter and solid strike at Ryton. • SEE BACK The visit to nexu week : of Leonid Brezhnev, leader

PAGE STORY.

On the eve of the major round Party, Communist of ta. soviel of negotiations, wage Nixon's figured prominently statement can only serve lo en- speech. courage and strengthen WOrK- class militancy. He referred to 'the months of

£100,000 PARTY BUILDING

Nixon also set his face against preparatory work moar nave been done for this meeting the the mounting lobby and ness interests demanding extensive consultation Gena.

YESTERDAY'S

tionary measures aimed the post at predicted that respondence

FUND

working class. would lead to "major new brought in £59, which 'We are not progress. He sale Conne to put the American economy in brings total our to Demo- In Washington, angry We are not going a strait-jacket. £51,275.62. described Coventry £20; donations to cranc concressmen the boom way the package as too little and too would lead to a Party Building Fund that

DUST.

Glasgow N. £8; Glasgow S.

late. Henry Reuss, of Wisconsin, Chief victinis Nixon the and further package will be the colonial and £5; M. Craig £1; Outer Lon- 186a Clapham High Street Well

CYCL

nosed Nixon go teens on semi-colonial countries who tace don Branch £25. Send all London SW4 7UG immediately to retract his stel foodse asea i result of Nixons speech. as a result of Nixon's Reuss said: By taking the export controls.

CHENG APPEAL FAILS AND HE IS FLOWN TO UNITED STATES

Vietnam 'peace' - second PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday June 15, 1973 Deadly deportation Cheng appealed to the House was yesterday

FORMOSAN

but of March, after Lords flown from Britain to the United States. He was several delays, nis appedi was 1e jected by a two-to-one majority.

Heathrow airport yesterday morning The Cheng Defence Com- after an appeal by his solicitor, Mr Benedict concentrated then on Birnberg, for a delay was ignored by Home Home Secretary Carl. LO permit Cheng to be deported to Secretary Robert Carr. a country of his choice In a letter to Mr Neil Kinnock The appeal asked for Cheng's return MP while a petition was considered by the European Com- members …• to orner parliamentary deputation

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had made re resented is de. convicted in New York of the behall, LalI sion oy save de was salisica that there was 'no question' the Nationalist government of Taiwan and son of dictator Cheng being sent back to lalwall. Cheng fled to Sweden, from where 'The Carr's letter continues: request of the United States Solicitor Benedict Birnberg question whether the offence carried unconscious from a plane which Cheng Mr was convicter to Divisional Court. appeal in New York was one of the decided that character, within the Lnere 1 Was political Wormwood assassination attempt was a poli- Lakel Extradition Act meaning of the țical act, supported by an organ- 1870, was fully argued before the whose aims were purely supporters have been fighds fod and feel bound ILallull courts, decision of Dollocal majority accept the world Unite no itica The House orosual Formosans for Independence of Nixon's visit to Peking. failing that, for him be de- not? which Cheng was a prominent of his choice After his journey the Even if he sent mne. member.) rather States in Britain diately to tor 32 chers Cheng faces Than Decau baCk was However, second part of United States. in appeal not prospect by his illness. ruling was up the the jail deportation They say he could be returned heard at Bow be sent back was held. was told he Anen car allli Cheng would from States Street m. The res court to Taiwan after that. Taiwan not have been extracted November. magistrates attempted face certain torture and death Taiwan, but since his organiza- His convictions for back should was not in conflict with the murder and illegal possession permitted Ludl SCIl tion engabeer „TO since the assassination attempt maximum sentences carry live and work before Sweden for Amenicar covcramcal Was a sul 'was not of a political character'.

to hand 25 and sever the Ameri- order him over to nearly ycals ycal Cheng them. tively under United States law.

his January, can tor

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autores Italian CP bids for ЭНСКОЙ government posts ЦЕНТРО: ЕСКОЙ of government are tak- the majority the seats THE ITALIAN Com- new council. place. in the regional ing munist Party is step- fact the Communist indicated the In Berlinguer down Party vote went Party's willingness to crawl ping up its attempts which Berlinguer with centre-left to become part of the the explained away the by saying cyclicall left parties who numerous Democrat next Italian Listas govern- candidates Andreotti proved that Dul UD Berlinguer popular neg ected great ment. the ton that the vote of the PCI could not

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fascist

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party went Party secretary Enrico 593 vote in 1968 democratic policies to Berlinguer, elec- In solve the problems of the to toral speech in Trieste, There be no doubt Call county. the defeat of the accused the Andreotti that called for a government He t government of 'seriously da.

Andreotti government 1s change the that would the position of Italy blow against itallan capilal- maging inability of me and measure of the political climate and ap- the world' ruling class sop proach the urgent pro- nanonaisu. which is part of the Sta- solve daytons blems of the nation in a linists' preparation to colla- propoșal of the But the Party, new way. Italian Communist Donate of government.

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A Communist Party de- ad shown, he forms and sole bre The election legation is to be received Val presidential palace at the said, a victory for the force on Monday, where consul- autonomy and the left. class reactionary The 'parties of the left' won dangerous. the CP Secretary Berlinguer time around AFTER FOUR and a half months and hundreds of battles and skirmishes the two sides of the Vietnam war have solemnly resolved to 'amplify and consoli- date' the January 27 agreement on ceasefire.

Big sections of US capital want This was done in a modest but vague communiqué the Indo-China agenda soon possible issued from the ballroom of the former Hotel Majestic that the trade war against Europe and Japan be prose. can in Paris on Wednesday. effectively. cured more The statement adds little to the previous accord and does As result administration nothing to dispel the doubts about the January ceasefire, which dropped their fight to supporters has been violated in more block senate passage of a sweep- scarcely-veiled scepticism, the ing funds amenement places and occasions than it reported for all American combat authorities opera- Saigon has been honoured. tions throughout Indo-China.

alleged coast- Kissinger The of the for the hours ending at spirit new hire The which the amendment. Wednesday. of Scott, strong supporter agreement- -and its limitations Senate Foreign Com. dollie Kissinger admitted Nixon's Indo-China volicv. stated mittee to a pend- aptly summarized by attached we e Cambodia was that preparing to break there Department Dr Henry Kissinger after the senate Cambodia bomb. obliged with Nixon Bill, Appropriation I'm not signing bombing mission President to only prohibit the bombing _ cense mne once

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pretend that naive enough to there. ends. but also block all Cambodia, of having the mere act Kissinger's enthusiasm for South Vietnam should According to Reuter, the Paris Millar agreed to certain words bombing Cambodia, however, is gress opposition to Nixon's non- will not Con- South agreement itself will guarantee progress.'

not shared on Capitol Hill. ties then resume--without speci- As if to emphasize the leader Hugh China policy. hc congressional approval.

WHEN THINGS were going rough in the Lebanon, the gov- ernment would always turn to its critics and say, 'Yes, but we have the freest Press in the world.' Such is not the case any longer ... even if it was true in the first place!

The recently reorganized gov- ernment has introduced a series of fierce Press regulations. These state: 'No reference to sectarian mat- ters, no criticism of the author- ities, no mention of calls for the boycott of imported goods, no political discussion mention of related to Israel (such as the internationalization of Jerusalem or calls for conciliation with the enemy whether they originate in Beirut or Tel Aviv), no reports detrimental to army morale, no reference to army plans or mea- sures, criticism of censorship is banned, no criticism of the head state, no instigation of acts endangering security, no rumours or unconfirmed reports or false reports or anything that confuses the citizens or makes them lose confidence, no reports that are with measures taken connected to protect government and pub- lic institutions, Press cam- no paign on a foreign king or head of state, no attack on foreigners or foreign institutions, no calls for meetings or gatherings, no news or discussions, ideological opinions which would be assessed by the censors in the light of the developments.

Vio- the above-mentioned lators of rules to be Recent issues of the English- language 'The Daily Star' have reading. for intriguing made Whole sections of articles are missing and the paper frequently has big blank patches indicating where the censor has struck.

The paper does have space to report such items as the Beirut baseball league fixtures in which Japan defeated the Colonials 10 to 4. A LETTER received by Am- nesty International from Spain reports that seven prisoners have been brutally beaten and placed in solitary confinement for up to 70 days for smug- gling out an earlier letter ex- posing conditions Soria Prison, near Madrid. Twenty-one political prisoners went on hunger strike on June in protest at conditions at Soria and the letter states that Yokin Gorostidi, Xavier Larena and Yosua Abrisketa have been "terribly beaten to force them to confess to having written and produced the document'. The prisoners' manifesto de- manded an end to the practice of dispersing political prisoners over a number of jails; improve- ment in their prison conditions family visiting rights; and and replacement of prison governor JoséR Manuel de la Fuente Rodriguez. It accuses of in- Rodriguez punishments flicting 'continual confinement; in solitary the arrest of our relatives when they come to visit us; interception of correspondence; brutal censor- snd constant provocations threats of punishments; blackmail to encourage police political informers the among prisoners'. Extradition SERIOUS disturbances are ex- follow yesterday's pected to extradition of an Ulster Defence Association member from Bel- fast to the Republic. Robert William Taylor (18) of Clooney, County London- derry, is wanted in the Repub- lic on charges of murdering two people in County Donegal on January 1.

Workers Press, Friday June 15, 1973 PAGE 3 Another Labourite joins Powell MR PETER SHORE, a Shore welcomes Market 'stand' member of the Labour shadow cabinet, yester- day came out in support of Enoch Powell's views Workers, shared two seemed of like Britain and Europe on the Common Market. platform with mind.' dead and buried. same

BBC

radio had reaction- Ther rowel rowel and the mace Snaccu- Shore applauded Powell programme. him and distorted asser- this extendu rate country putting his One Mon- about Labour's policy,

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of their exchanges from before his party his to the like trying give went TOs. •av Natonal Common Market speech a *What chap you Front spoken there nice The

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was serous working class. enemy of the threat to the European week ago. Hugh.' alc. commitment Labour's 'Before that, recus that record It inconceivable that you say rower was am the Enoch, remember sayıng: Mr Powell or any politician were on kills socialism. nev are wrong. ne said should have received such record.' 'It will not do On Sunday night Powell rebuke These friendly tête a têtes massive that the say. Labour Party was chatting about contem- between Powell and Labour determined

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acslov on an important matter ading fert", leaders can only confuse with ILa. this Treaty Accession would put the bour's leading Michael workers about and interests who and to reassert the rightful Foot. It another cosy was what Powell

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Вето e power the unitiall that of his party, and before occasion. They must cease at once people. that of the Common Market Reporting the debate, Labour gov- Foot. Certainly, a ke a serious ana •caniol becomes Shore the 'The Times' said on Mon- called upon will Snore miist. ne senior figure in the Labour day: to denounce Powellism effort vulall. and union all mentary sovereignty, at- movement anti-working class our mar erns That traternizing liamentary continued membership of Las

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concerts. reactionary Foot standard bearer Speaking to the 1972 In- the

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Power c require. views in the past week. of the left, aid that London, 'But the possibi- and Mr Powell. dustry Strong Last Friday Hugh right, lity everyone The sale Mar. and lon, president. of the Amal- complete. harmony. keteers would like to be- knows it that renegotia- gamated Union En- lieve On a number issues the the whole of tion will fail. Peter Shore ... 'principles before party' Issue Perkins workers locked out Ready for long parity fight LIKE CHRYSLER, Perkins want to know'

FROM DAVID MAUDE

announcement just Engines haven't a leg to stand

IN PETERBOROUGH

over a week ago, that the Peter on according to the tenets of boron til tores voice estat conciliation, compromise and until further notice unless deputy convenor, Jeff Cain. be- 'getting round the table.

neves meat mus secy unked

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Was the atmosphere surrounding first regarded some workers by In fact Perkins' decision to the as a bluff. pay laws. lock out its 5,700 workers for But Reg points out: they left their jobs for Briers bul di banning overtime even has 'There's only been one stonnage what could be the ast time lo. astounded sections the here since the company came to a long while on Wednesday, they local, capitalist Press. Peterborough in 1946. We've dis- set for struggle. were Ryder, a £25-a-week As Reg Said im oners. Ama camate. cussea waxes every yeal Union Engineering Workers' minimum trouble. labourer: AlIT this convenor, been year things different: the was cleared here. This company we've decided think they can act like doing work make seem to Oul stanualu. Culinally s 40-hour week, which is all we're fight of it.' little dictators: it's now up to us committed to do under Jeff Cain added: don't to show them they can't. with the ourselves militant 'We've been treated like "tur- class nip toppers" long-because workers here.

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compulsory overtime. now pre- obvious v nave to be Tos use• to be doi Leaving aside for the moment pared for a long fight. area doesn't mean they can go 'This has deliberately agricultural been paying What we Tner reasons We deciced to overtime, how can they possibly built up bv the company to force clear indi- Walll us to accept their f2 justify putting us all out of work offer and that we're going to get Canion break campaign for parity. our rights. never agreed to some-

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Close We 'I'm The com. not very strong on politics, thing we prove this. call but The Perkins workers banned nev can operate no one or reason is definitely part of what's hap- sup- overumme weeks ago, In effects overtime penin apter the entrys are port of a demand for parity of Some of the determined Perkins workers, now locked out.

earnings with Massey-Ferguson services department. banned overtime they when services going bargain for No me here believes Coventry, more Workels lil WIlO al c three months ago at enlack of of the same Canadian- now part facilities the week- they say in the Press about canteen Arms drilling charges owned group. "shoddy ends the plant ran seven davs a being to blame Work at the Peterborough fac- week. at unrysier s, ana no ones going which makes diesel 'We offered the same arrange- the shiedo we here. believe we're responsible for gines for export, and for Massey ments this time, but they didn't Coventry and dropped K1l- THREE YOUNG Irishmen Were marnock, is no less arduous than cleared yesterday of being . at an at Coventry. for unlawful meeting drilling or

GET YOUR BOOKS, PERIODICALS AND

Probably is harder, since it Perkins'

NEWSPAPERS FROM THE

.on Mea- wOrkers ale charge Unlawful (20), of the Anthony all Work While 1819 Manchester, said would be Drilling Act with- there Massey's where piecework still the Director of Public operates, men have the opportu- Prosecutions Manchester city were on legal ald. nity to regulate their effort.

mes whe disch, Me. magistrates All three At Coventry, however, earn- Mr Michael Sachs, defending After

PAPERBACKS CENTRE

leaving the ings betweer £54 a Coul li range 'British $37.10 Joseph Michae. brennan Areer 10 t reporters: and 101 callouch 1U1 Peter Anthony McAleer (19) and justice has been done' against abourers reterbor. ough's £32 to £25 range (a semi- skilled Ma wee eus 19 more week, at t48 gets Fine Tubes pickets won't HOLe his opposite number than Perkins). go back to firm Despite this gap, which • was a €2.47 pay turiner increasea di deal at Massey's this week, the Perkins workers actually modi- raines man Ron King, Amalgamated Union

ALTHOUGH

the three-year fied their original demands coll perio a of the overtime ban.

picket Be lifted today. there of Engineering vy orkers sicerao v Snort mouth will be secretary cial said the men had re- ceived backing union to engage the com- is no suggestion that the the hrst dav. but he agreed 1no men wii seek re-emoiovment pany In senious negoalons ine.

with the company. there had bitterness asked merely for 'a commitment that been poor support principle on a move towards 'We wouldn't be found dead that workers. parity' recognizing imme- inside there, one the strike implementation Herman Welch, strike commit- olate was members said yesterday. Of the tricted the Tory laws 180 men and women who walked tee chairma. salo marack and that the final aim could take support from other trade. union-

28 CHARLOTTE STREET

1970, er are let dispute in lune ists the years to achieve reason why are left. was Lilalit moderate de- even this

LONDON, W1

ine surike was enuine. mand backed by the ultra- During their bitter struggle, tactic • 9. examination of the moderate an overtime Open Monday to Saturday • A full The wine voes men were vicums with of police brutality, a number of lessons rine will be Dan. nas met multant nos- and betrayals by appearing shortly Workers tility and total lockout.

court actions Briers nor his Neither Reg Press. the trade union leadership.

TRANSFORMING THE SOC

INTOA REVOLUTIONARY

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday June 15, 1973 out for the interests of the Mrs Nelesia Chambers is a new member of the Socialist Labour League in Croydon. The Labour Party is sup- posed to represent people like myself, but it doesn't.

It the policies for doesn't have the working class. The League hasn't been put to the test But it is the yet. only alternative for the work- ing class, since its policies are right. The most important thing League is about the that it looks out for the interests of the working class. As it is noW, the working class hasn't got a party that represents it. On television yesterday an Asian said he'd been here for so long he couldn't be de- ported, but the man told him could be it backdated. Now you can't say: I can do this and I am within the law' They change it at can The Heath any time. govern- ment has made it so there isn't a law for the working class.

If you strike, you can go you picket, you can go to prison. Even if you just complain, they could fix it so you went to prison for that. Such a government shouldn't be able to. stay in, but the Labour Party does nothing. People are looking for some- thing, but they're sick and tired of just getting promises, promises. The Labour Party isn't a real opposition. If we could build the Socialist Labour League into revolutionary party, I know things would be better. There would be a real opposition to capitalism.

I've been in this country 14 years and I've been sitting on the fence, watching and listen- ing. Sometimes I blame my- self, for not questioning things It's like nough going and hurch just believing everything the parson says be- cause he's the parson. But there are people who definitely mislead Work- you. ing-class people have to go out to work every day, only to be worse off. If have four or five you children, you work and bring in 120 or t25.

Every week you need more money than you earn. You're thinking so hard about to- morrow, you don't think about politics. You have this burden-how to pay £7 or £8 rent. Every time you go to the shops it's expensive. Everything is more going up except your wages.

Leading Tories can get big salaries, tax free. But there's Mrs Nelesia Chambers. 'Look at Ireland off workers' and tax wages for the working class. A soldier tax on everything they buy.

street and accuse you of anything.

If we can really build the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party, things will be much better. The workers will have a party that will really fight the Tories. Everybody is looking for a change. They're cautious be- been fooled so cause they've many times. But if this revo- lutionary party is got off the ground and people see we are determined. we will do it. haven't the slightest doubt about that. There has been a slow res- ponse to things before, but des- now people are getting All kinds of organiza- perate. tions are trying to fool them. Last Sunday found National Front leaflet on my gate saying 'Stop Immigration! Start Repatriation!' am I sup- Where in Africa posed to go back to? They say Africa, back but the 20 poor people here are getting poor the same way poor people in Africa. at Ireland (above). There's no law there Look at Ireland, There's no er or policeman can haul you up in the law there for the working class. A soldier or a policeman can haul you up in the street and accuse you of anything.

You can't defend yourself in the courts. A police or army officer's word is all that's needed and you're guilty. No ordinary citizen is free, no one is safe from prison or even from being shot to death.

same things will be The happening here. We have to find an alternative. When I came to Britain there was a Tory government in, then Labour won. That Tory government was disgust- ing, but it wasn't half so bad as this one. You had a right to negotiate, to strike, I to demonstrate. All that is taken away now. You could complain if you were cheated in the shops. But what is the point of complain- now? The Prices Com- mission justifies every increase.

All the working class, black and white, must join together to build our party. This is no time to be thinking about the colour of our skins.

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1all eet my It's No J11C be ain SL- ght to en m- se. ick ner class is the force in London building labourer Chris Smith left the Socialist Labour League two years ago and re- joined in March. He says: • When I left I thought the League movement, but when I went to the Pageant of Labour His- tory at Empire Pool I could see things were really moving and I decided to rejoin. I was impressed with the numbers of people coming to- wards the League and there had been tremendous de- velopments in the Workers Press. When I left the League there was nowhere else to go politically. All the time 1 felt I was moving closer to the League. When I had time to think things out and read books, I felt capable of fight- Ing. At the core of the party vou've got to have a centra leadership, as Lenin said, made up of professional revolution- but I think a lot of aries, people are frightened of com- mitting themselves. How does the crisis affect me personally? I am a la- bourer. I can just about eat, just I take about survive. home about £16 a week. lot of Iwo years ago people dismissed the League as a fringe group, but now they want to find out who you are and what you stand for. People are a lot more committed They now. are actively looking for leader- ship. They can the whole see economic collapsing system around them and the whole basis of government being undermined. There have been too many scandals for people to respect the Tories. Workers are losing confi- dence in their own leadership, Harold Wilson-who Is trying to back away from nationalization.'

too. They feel the Labour Party and the TUC are not going to be able to protect them. They want rising prices to stop and full employment to be guaranteed. What they want most of all is a clear leadership. They recognize all this Tory legislation such as the state pay laws and the Industrial Relations Act as anti-working class. I think it is the first step on the road to the cor- porate state. The Labour Party and the

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accept the system. They've never questioned the parliamentary system. They have to support it because it's all they've got. But I think the League is right to call for the return of a Labour government. I think the Labour leaders are scared stiff of it. I don't know what they will do because if they come to power there will be terriffic upheavals in the wor- king class. Wilson is trying to back away trom nationalization. He says the Parliamentary Labour Party is not bound by party decisions. The working class won't put up with that just kind of talk. If they put Labour in office they are going to want na- The tionalization. working class are moving now and I don't think it will take much to push them all the way.

The trade union movement is in crisis too. The leadership is getting more and more in- volved with the whole govern- ment structure. If the monetary system

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goes, it could mean mass un- employment and factory clo- sures. The Tories can see that coming and they want to smash the working class be- fore it happens. But if that situation came, I think the working class would rise up as one and clear the Tories out. The Party must make basic demands: the League's pro- gramme is absolutely right to things like concentrate on democratic rights, jobs and housing. I see Marxism as a force to make people fully aware of the kind of society they are in a class society. We've got to make workers aware of the of understanding urgency Marxism. Building the Party and get- ting rid of the Tories are con- nected. If we got the Tories out, this would immediately bring about a situation where there would be a massive re- volt against the Labour Party.

I think we've got to be there as the alternative party, a real mass democratic party Workers Press, which will represent the wor- king class and show it is capable of taking state power.

Two years ago I don't think there would have been the forces to stage the Pageant.

That really shows the way class forces are moving. Foot and Scanlon having discussions with Powell was a disgusting At the spectacle. end of it, Foot said he had than dis- more agreements agreements with Powell. That was fantastic. Scanlon appeared on a pro- gramme with Powell and was calling him 'Enoch'. What do workers think when they see these great left talkers ap- pearing on the same platform as Powell? And the Communist Party boosts these people. When I read the League's fund had reached over £50,000 that showed what the work- ing class really thinks. It gave me a boost. Reading that, I remembered be what Marx said about letting the ruling class tremble before rty the communist revolution.

ars Press, Friday June 15, 1973 PAGE 5 Marx-'let the ruling class tremble before the communist revolution. Above: The Pageant of Working Class History-a de- cisive event in the lives of many thousands of workers who attended. - I thought, let the ruling class tremble at the founding of the revolutionary party. I think they will tremble. The working class is not a docile force. It's most powerful the force in society.

ISRAEL'S SOUTH AFRICA PROBLEM

PAGE 8 Workars Prese, Friday

ISRAEL/PALESTINE. AN OCCASION

The establishment of the state of Israel involved the clearing out of Be. douin clans from tradi- tional grazing lands in the north and restriction on their movements. The Minister of Agriculture had suggested in 1960 that give up their they should flocks and their semi-nomadic and become hired existence labourers in the 'mixed towns' like Lydda -that is, places and Ramleh, with a mixed Arab and Jewish population.

The Minister at that time was Moshe Dayan. The employment of Bedouin labourers on 50 per cent pay Israeli - the government 18. 1073

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holds back half—was one step in this proletarianization of these people. This process does not mean their gradual integration with the Israeli working class (note that Dayan referred to their employment in specific but their areas), forcibly being turned into a special, particularly oppressed low-paid section of the wor- king class. Over recent years, this process has been carried turther, not only because the development l of Israel has with the former interfered mode of living of the Bedouin in the ordinary economic way, appropriation deliberate of clan grazing lands in the Negev and military confisca- tion and enclosure of land and the deportation of people.

Alongside the 'ordinary'

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working class—mainly Jewish, organized in trade unions, and enjoying a standard of living welfare benefits for the and most part well above that in the generally_ prevailing Middle East-another section has been created. The Bedouin labourers are part of this cheap Arab labour section, subject to both па- tional and class oppression, employed mostly in low-paid, 'dirty' jobs, and menial and with much lower living con- ditions. This process has developed the 1967 particularly since war, with the Israeli occupa- tion of Gaza, Sinai, the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Golan region. Arab workers, of many them from the poverty of the

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refugee camps, are encouraged to cross the so-called 'Green Line'-the pre-1967 Israeli frontier—into Israel, to take jobs with Israeli farmers, or on construction sites, provid- ing them employment with and the chance to earn some wages for their families, and the employers with a source of cheap casual labour. These under Arabs are Israeli rule, but they are not Israeli citizens. In fact, they are supposed to carry passes, and are not allowed to stay overnight in Israel. On August 3, last year, the Israeli 'Ha'aretz' newspaper reported: 'The government is going to instruct the police and the military authorities to take firm action in preventing Arab territories workers from the from remaining inside Israel's after working 'Green Line" hours, government sources have reported. The sources said that according to evalua- tion of security agencies, wor- kers from the territories sleep overnight near their places of under construction, kitchens of restaurants, in the yards of farms, in orchards, and other agricultural areas.

There is no official estimate of the numbers of workers re.

maining every night in Israel, but it is rumoured to be in the thousands.' Ports or Israele police raids there have been reports of on places where Arab workers from Gaza were sleeping and arrests being made. Inevitably, comparisons South have been made with Africa, with the exploitation of native labour, the pass- laws and the restricted areas.

of the Some Palestinian the guerrilla movements see employment of their people by the Israelis as a form of col- laboration. They blow up the Israeli-run Labour Exchanges in the occupied territories and bomb the buses used for tak- ing Palestinian labourers to work. While we must admire the courage and determination of the resistance fighters in de- fying Israeli rule, their tactics in this case are questionable.

Under the pressure of econo- mic circumstances, the Pales- tinian working class is driven to seek the chance of a wage, unfair, however meagre and from the Israelis. Resistance to Israeli domi- nation must base itself on the with masses, a programme which offers them the pers- pective of changing their con- ditions and strategy and tac- tics which bring the masses themselves into action. Terrorist tactics, derived from nationalism, mean rele- gating the masses to a passive do role and attempting to without them, by relying on Left: a rested Arab workers escorted coldicis Da 136: Greer ism ot the yours. It brings the danger that Israelis couid succeed in driv- ing wedge between the a masses and the resistance, and that the best elements of the Palestinian youth could be exhausted in a series of heroic but unsuccessful actions, a war of attrition against mili- tarily superior occupation forces which would be a last- ditch stand doomed to even- tually fall. Instead of trying to escape the objective situation of the Palestinian under masses Israeli occupation by means of desperate acts of terror, the revolutionary elements in the guerrilla movement must develop a strategy and tactics that will turn the Arab la- being bourers from just a labour-force for the Israelis to what they are potentially -a social and political force undermine the Zionist to structure and help bring about its downfall. On the Israeli side, the trend towards using the Arab labour has workers as cheap thrown the Zionists into fresh set of contradictions. Traditionally, Zionist ideology idea aid great stress on the "self-reliance'—in of ewish labour as in other fields-and the early Zionist pioneers re- garded it as a matter of pride that Jews should become farm labourers, building workers, etc, and that the Yishuv-the Jewish community in Palestine —should not rely on the la- bour of others. For the idealist followers of A. D. Gordon, it was the ideal of regeneration of the Jewish people through 'return to the soil' and 'the dignity of labour'. the followers of For Ber Borochov, the 'Marxian Zion- ist', it was the 'normalization' of the Jewish social structure and the creation of a 'terri- torial base' which must pre- cede class struggle by any Jewish workers. Objectively, these idealist and Utopian projects, and the nationalist policy adopted Zionist the Histadrut, the labour organization, of de- manding 'Hebrew Labour' and fighting to exclude the Arab from workers employment, served the overall Zionist aim of creating the economic and Jewish social base for a nation-state in Palestine and for its military strength.

In 1936, the value of this labour-base to Zionist settle- ment-and to imperialism— was demonstrated, when the alestinian Arab combine Peasant re- bellion, with both General Strike, aimed the Zionists and the against British Mandate, was defeated, largely because there was an alternative, Jewish economy labour, not reliant on Arab which was able to keep the country running. In fact, Jewish-owned enter- prises were able to take ad- vantage of the strike to ex- pand at the expense of their Arab competitors. We can see here what some British supporters of Zionism when, had the meant period just after the Balfour Declaration, they spoke of the 'creating a Jewish value of Ulster' to look after imperial- ist interests in Palestine.

The issue of Arab labour, and martiar its event employment since Six-Day War, poses both ideo- logical and real problems for the Zionists. In October last year, the 'Yediot Aharo- Israeli paper not' published a letter from the wife of a settler in a Moshav (co-operative farming village) addressed to Moshe Dayan. Expressing concern at Workers Press, Frida effort ker. . d- refuse: et end lawn. "M" will do it' he says.' She cortinues 'Until a week ago, the wor- kers lived in various packing houses in the area. Now with more workers brought in to cope with the harvesting of hot-house crops, the packing- houses that accommodated the workers have become full. My husband therefore built his workers a hut in the back of our homestead. When I ex- pressed disapproval of this he sent me on a walk step, around the village. Well, it by Arab la- increase. The Arabs live in "the thickets" are worried settler on bour-like structure. Prior always suggestions should allow Arab refu- fifth column' military they have 'fifth brought a Arab area they

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Moshe Dayan observed, concerning the occupied West Bank, in August 1967: 'There about a million Arabs are whom we don't want, I should say, as citizens of Israel, in the Jordanian part.' on the As Dayan stated,

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Face the programme Nation', televised from New York, when asked if he thought Israel could absorb the big Arab population that it has with the taken over occupied territories: 'Economically, we can; but I think that it is not in accord with our aims in the future.

It would Israel into turn either a bi-national or poly- state instead of Arab-Jewish the Jewish state, and we want to have a Jewish state . We want a Jewish state like the French want a French state? How can this sort of state- ment be reconciled, then, with Dayan's other statements, and those of other Israeli leaders, that Israel must hold on to territories, and the occupied 'create facts' in them? How can you have the ter- and not the popula- ritories tion? Some Israelis have argued, ogically, that to preserve tha haracter of the Zionist state Le. the occupied territories will have to be abandoned. Others —and Rabbi Meir Kahane of Defence League' the 'Jewish would appear to be one of them-want to have the land but not the people who live on it: that is. obviously, to drive them out. The Zionist leadership does not regard of these either alternatives as practicable, at least at present. So they must be driven a third alter- to native. This is that the occu- pied territories and the people who live in them will remain under Israeli domination, but will not be integrated into Vorkers Press, Friday June 15. 1973 PAGE 7 :h. .:: :: 3: Some Talestinians have nicknamed the project, Pales- tinostan --like tne Bantustans of South Africa, supposedly native 'autonomous territories' but in fact, reservoirs for labour. cheap Despite what has been said about the Histadrut's 'Jewish Labour' policy, Arab workers were not altogether excluded by it even in the past. Besides certain big Jewish enterprises, such the cement works, as which were able to resist His- tadrut pressure and continue employing Arab labour—at less than half the Jewish wor- kers' wage rate in the 1930s- there were numerous employ- ers who took on Arab workers during boom conditions in building and agriculture, when Jewish labour was short. The Histadrut on it shat suc- ceeded in seeing to they were first to be laid off when the boom ended. So Histadrut policy did not exclude Arab labour alto- gether, but only saw to it that a reserve force, not it was depended under- upon-an privileged section of the wor- king class. In Israel before 1967, Arab 'second- labour remained a class' section-like the Be- douin labourers described before, or the Arab workers building industry in the around Tel Aviv, some of whom lived in disused

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at a nearby Jewish sheds village. 100,000 Arab Now, the workers in Israel are being joined by an estimated 54,000 from the occupied territories.

of the refugee The poverty camps, and denial of political to which this new re- rights serve force are subject, makes an opportunity for exploita- which Israeli business- tion men and foreign investors have not been slow to take up. The Histadrut newspaper 'Davar' on October 20 repor- ted that 'open markets' for Arab labourers had sprung up in Haifa. Nazareth and else- where. in Haifa's Cartmel One, quarter, specialized in boys.

'Davar' noted: 'The employers like these markets because no procedure is involved. They come in the morning with their trucks and tenders, and choose them for work like: construction, clean- ing of house-yards, gardening and other jobs.' On October 22, 'Davar' re- 'control ported that Israeli teams' checking on Arab wor- kers from the occupied terri- working without per- tories 'caught' children. mits, had to 12-year-olds, working ten in an olive grove near Dimona.

In citrus groves at Shuva and Zimra, tens of children be- tween eight and ten years old had been 'caught'. While the prospect of ex- Arab workers ploiting as cheap labour is bound to at- tract capitalists who have long resented the organization and wage demands of Israeli wor- ob- kers, there are certain stacles in the path of the trend we have described. One, in the way of the 'Bantustan' plans, is that the Israeli government has not yet succeeded in crushing Pales- tinian resistance. nor in find- ing suitable stooges to help West Bank, administer the Gaza or Golan. that Israel is The other is not South Africa. The gap Arab and between Jewish workers is not so clear or as that white wide. between and black there, and the social and political set-up is differ- ent. This does not necessarily mean that the 'South African' of development is ruled kind out altogether. It just means that there is a conflict.

THE FIRE LAST TIME

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Workers Press, Friday June 1!

BOOK REVIEW, PART FOUR

BY MICHAEL NOLAN

'The General Strike, May 1928.'

By Christopher Farman. Rupert Hart-Davis. £3.50. A number of points of general interest emerge from a reading of Far- man's book. Some of these relate to the natural history of the develop- ment of such mass struggles and some to specific characteristics of the 1926 General Strike. systematic lies The and distortions of the capitalist mass media become particularly well illuminated at a time like that. Farman gives a good list of the 'persistent falsifications' of the true position of the in the strike ', which was edited by Winston Churchill.

For example, it was claimed that the emergency department the London hospital was closed down because of a power failure, when the real reason was that most of the doctors had gone off to break the strike. Churchill expressed consider- able indignation when it was revealed (though not by him) that the strikers had made arrangements for the emergency services at the hospital to be resumed. Farman also makes it clear that the reputation for objec- tivity which is always imputed to the BBC is a hypocritical myth. He says a 'large number of totally inaccurate reports of returns to work were broad- cast. Although, in most in- stances, the union concerned sent immediate corrections.•• these were never broadcast'.

A false view of the effec- tiveness of the strike was thus perpetrated and this proved disturbing to particularly deprived of other strikers sources. Farman does not mention that the supposed 'independence' of the BBC was another lie. In fact, the Director-General Reith worked very closely with the govern- ment during the strike, con- stantly meeting Davidson and actually helping to prepare the broadcast of Baldwin on May 8. No general statements by were broadcast, nor strikers even calls for compromise, like the one issued by the Arch- bishop of Canterbury. Far from playing of 'middle any kind role, the BBC thus provided essential plank in the an government's strategy for de- feating the miners. The leaders of the TUC were not beyond lies and distortions claimed in their also. They paper the 'British Worker, in issue published on the evening on which they started their discussions with Samuel, that no attempts had been made to reopen negotiations.

The leaders of the NUR, in their fervid rush to arrive at an agreement with the Tories, claimed that there was 'a mass drift back to work on the railways', a statement which, as Farman puts it, 'had no basis in fact. Even after they had capitulated altogether, the General Council leaders claimed to have received 'assurances' that 'negotiations would be resumed', though they knew that this was utterly untrue.

Another interesting aspect of the struggle is the role of the middle class. It is important ay June 15, 1973 Crowds of workers gather as a food cl to realize that despite the long queues of strike-breaking volunteers in central London, there were many parts of the country, like Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester, where there were virtually no volunteers at all before the strike began.

Those travelling around the country when the struggle was many local on found that Conservatives had crossed the class lines. In Glasgow, Orange- men were 'active pickets and taking part generally in the struggle' In Weymouth, Dorset, and Shrewsbury, Shropshire, former Tories were also found to be active. Even some sections of the Liberal leadership around Lloyd George were forced to take a more sympathetic line to the strike than some Labour leaders. ( This was thus a classic situation, where, despite the picture which is usually painted of middle-class blacklegging, the strength of the working- class movement showed the ability to attract other sections ot society. There is one other important myth about the General Strike which Farman's account goes a long way to dispel. The publishers try to continue the how 'peaceful' and view • of 'English' it all was by quoting on the back cover the state- ment of George V that 'not a shot has been fired and no one killed'. His Majesty concluded that this 'shows what a wonderful people we are' Such statements as these are used to perpetrate a view of the benevolence of the ruling class and the unrevolutionary nature of the workers. How- ever, the lack of violence of the early days of the strike is an indication not of the weakness of the working class

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a food convoy passes through Poplar, the sce but of its strength. government's Although the services worked emergency well enough, the parasitic titled ladies and the backward proto- fascist students had no skills that made it possible for them to run any sort of reasonable public transport system, and they would certainly never have been able to restart the engineering mines, or the factories or print shops.

The very effectiveness of the strike left no reason for any violence. However, as the days Winston Churchill, Editor of Gazette' *British which spread employers' lies about the strike.

went, past, there was an in- creasing number of violent incidents. In Brighton pickets at the depot tram were 'hitting attacked by police them with sticks two feet long with hooks on the end'. In the north-east, there were provocations against the leaders of the most effective local strike organizations, and they were then arrested. At Bristol and Airdrie, the issue of per- mits by the councils of action for the transport of goods was

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r, the scene of many clashes between striking stopped by the police, and on May 12 the entire Birmingham Joint Strike Committee was arrested. There was also the use of agents provocateur. In West- minster a bag of bullets was handed to a worker selling a local strike sheet an hour before the strike headquarters was raided by the police.

Fortunately, the police failed to find what they came for!

So all the usual paraphernalia of police repression was clearly visible and Farman traces to a Cabinet meeting of May 6 'much tougher police tactics' adopted in the latter part of the strike. Although every book reports the football match between police and strikers in Ply- mouth, few have reported as graphically as Farman an in- cident in Poplar on May 12, which showed the way things were going as the struggle intensified. 'Local Labour leaders were addressing a meeting of 500 dockers outside Poplar Town Hall at 9 p.m. when a police tender suddenly swerved into the road • and raced into the crowd, injuring a number of people. When the tender stopped at the end of the road Bolice jumped out, doubled back baton-charged the crowd. While the injured were still trying to drag themselves away a second baton charge was made. 'A total of 25 casualties were treated at hospitals in the borough, including a local clergyman who approached police with an upheld crucifix.

Shortly after this incident, police with drawn truncheons stormed into the district head- quarters of the NUR in Poplar High Street, batoning anyone unfortunate enough to be with- in striking distance. The Mayor en striking dockers and police.

of Poplar, who was in the building playing billiards at the time, was admitted to hospital with serious head injuries.

Drunken specials were also accused of numerous assaults in Poplar on Wednesday even- ing and of wrecking three public houses in the area?

It was these incidents which represented the real face of Tory 'law and order' in the final desperate days when the effectiveness of the strike was spreading and the capitulation of the union bureaucracy had not yet been finally secured.

So the men and women in- volved in the General Strike were not all peace-loving, un- revolutionary, and 'English'.

and They workers were capitalists faced with the sharpest social problems that raised questions about the whole government and organ- ization of the social system.

There can be no doubt that had the struggle continued, it would have intensified sharply and control would have moved increasingly from trade union bureaucrats and government and more and more into the hands of the workers engaged in the struggle itself. The question of who should run society would then have been posed. Had there been a revolutionary leadership steeled in the preparation for such a situation, it would have been possible to take steps towards the overthrow of capitalism.

It is certainly both necessary and possible now, when the ruling class and working class are again in a position to con- cede very little, that a revolu- tionary leadership should be prepared capable of bringing us towards the victory of the working class and the creation of a new social order.

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A 17-year-old youth from the Falls Road area, Belfast, has been arrested by the British army more than 200 times, since October 1971. The arrests have involved six British regiments - the Scots Guards, Gloucesters, Green Jackets, Kingsmen, Coldstream Guards, and the Second Light Infantry Regi- ment. When one particular regi- ment finishes its tour of duty it picks up this youth—whose name is Thomas-and 'intro- duces' him to the incoming regiment. Frequently, after being arrested on the street, he has through been transported Loyalist districts and told that * 'one of these times' he will be dropped off there so that the UDA can 'get him'. A particularly twisted form of persecution practised against this boy by the British army is to follow him into a pub and there to arrest not him, • in the right place Picture this gathering. It's the and extravagant luxurious Plaisterers' Hall in the City of London. A grand dinner is in progress. The host is Sir Denys Lowson (his full name is Denys Colquhoun Flowerdew Lowson). A Tory to his boot- straps. The top table includes Lord Boyd-Carpenter, the right- wing Tory MP who has re- cently become chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority; Sir Burke Trend, secretary to the Heath Cabinet; Sir Dennis Greenhill, permanent head of the Foreign Office; Dr Carel de Wet, the ambassador repre- he but all those who are drinking with him. This is done to give the impression that he iS an informer. Another practice is to arrest his friends and ask why Thomas 'is not liked' by the IRA, or to say that he is 'on the IRA's death list'.

occasion On one when Thomas had been arrested by the Green Jackets at Welsh's Pub on the Falls Road they held him for three hours after saying that he had been re- leased. His family were panic- stricken wondering what had happened to him. At Easter time Thomas was picked out from a group of youths going to his work at Mackies Foundry and beaten up by British soldiers. On another occasion soldiers called at Thomas' home and arrested both him and his sister. The girl reports what happened at Springfield Road barracks: 'Thomas was shoved up senting the racialist republic of South Africa. Now who would be tossing his jowls alongside this lot?

you guessed it, Yes, Victor general secretary of Feather, the TUC. In his speech Lowson had a kindly few words for the head of the 10-million strong trade union movement: 'He's got his heart in the right place.

shovelling compost! Charles Simeons, Tory, MP for Luton, has assured his of his conscien- electorate tiousness: In the wake of the Lambton-Jellicoe affair, Sime- ons got himself photographed by the 'Luton News' shovel- ling compost. 'Other people mature wine,' he said. 'I mature compost.

The smell makes me feel I'm in the country.' He won't go off the rails like some of his parliamentary colleagues, said the 'News' . 'By the time I've shovelled this I won't have the energy to do anything wrong.' wall. He was made against a to stand, legs apart, fingertips against the wall until he was called for interrogation. About an hour later I Thomas saw being brought through to the.

interrogation room. He was visibly unsteady on his feet, holding his hands outstretched in front of him as if in pain.'

On this occasion an army sergeant attempted to push a pencil up his nose and another indicated that every soldier time Thomas answered a question with 'no', he— the soldier - was going to write "yes' The sister says that during the interrogation filthy and insulting remarks were made about Thomas' mother. The boy's family have asked for his case to be publicized because they • fear that either he will be interned, or assas- sinated — to be blamed on a Republican organization - or just left with a hood over his head. A new English edition of the 'First Five Years of the Communist International' in corporating hitherto unpublished materia from Volume XIII of Trotsky's 'Works'

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Workers Press, Friday June 15, 1973 PAGE 9 They asked him if he knew the where he It room was. is the beating room,' they said.

said in his sworn statement: made was to stand with my fingers against the wall and they kept throw- At the end of April Sean ing questions at me about the Moore was arrested by the boys in Beechmount. British army at a friend's 'They then pointed to the house in Belfast. was blood floor where there His mother was informed and told me that the blood that he had been taken to was Sean Moore's and that my Springfield police station. Mrs would be if blood there too Ellen Moore said in sworn I didn't talk. They also told statement to the Association me that Moore was mess a for Legal Justice: when they were finished with I went there but was not him' allowed to see him. I was told Brendan was punched and I could not see him as they thrown about between inter- were not finished with him.

11.30 rogations. At a.m. on 'The next morning I phoned May 2 he was released. Springfield Road barracks to and I inquire about my son told he taken was was to Castlereagh? After further in-

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he she found quiries was at Townhall police office. The police refused to allow Mrs see her son. They Moore to The route to Long Kesh in- also refused to let either ternment camp is cruel. A doctor or solicitor visit him.

man can be picked up on the "Then I went to the SDLP flimsiest find [Social Democratic and Labour pretext and himself behind the wire with- Partyl where I found that they had already received out the slightest warning to com- plaints that my son had been him or his family. beaten up at Springfield Road Take Gerard Kelly. He is Police station. They rang Gerry 33, a married man with three and he had also heard children. He lives in Belfast that my son had been beaten.

and used to work as an engi- It was another 24 hours with the Rolls-Royce neer before the army allowed Mrs company. Moore and her daughter to see In January this year he was Sean. was shocked to see asked to call at Fort Monagh the bruises that were on his the Monagh Road to in see face, neck, throat, chest and the British army's command- sides and he seemed to. be ing officer of the district. But rather confused. He told me found when he arrived, he they had put him in the boot only two officers of the Ulster car and threatened to Special Branch. They interro- shoot him.' gated him for half an hour.

Mrs Moore tried to get a They said he was a member family doctor into the police of the IRA. He denied this. 'They station to treat her son.

As he rose to leave he was allowed Dr Donnelly in to see told to 'watch himself' or they him,' she said. 'Afterwards Dr would 'put one in the back of Donnelly called at my house his head' and told me he had examined In a statement to the Asso- He said my son had my son. Legal ciation for Justice, bones broken, but no was Gerard's father, Peter Kelly, badly bruised on the face and said: 'My son gave this story body and had difficulty in to the "Irish News" and they " swallowing. following the story the ran Mrs Moore saw her son at day. He Castlereagh once more. 'The RUC [Royal Ulster had been placed in identifica- Constabulary] put a letter tion parades and he was not contradicting my son's state- recognized as being involved ment in which they stated that in any trouble. Early in May he had asked for the meeting the Association of Legal us- with the CO himself. The fol- tice contacted Mrs Moore to lowing day my son wrote to tell her that Sean had been the paper stating that what he taken to Long Kesh. had said was true. On Monday, January 15. Gerard was picked up at the Working Men's Turf Lodge

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Club. He was held for four days. When he was visited by his wife, she took his shaving At 6.30 on Monday p.m. gear. April 30, 'What did the broke you bring that army for?' he asked. I'll be out of into the house of Brendan here shortly.' Burns in Belfast. They took A few days later Mrs Kelly him Springfield Road to the labour went to exchange police station where he was to draw her regular monev. It interrogated by two Special was then she was told that her Branch detectives. husband was in Long Kesh.

First Five lational' 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 played 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 loseph Stalir was still a 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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A journal of international Marx- ism published by the Inter- national Committee of the Fourth International Spring 1973 CENTRAL LONDON: Sunday June 17, 7.15 p.m. Holborn Coun- Holborn cil Chambers, Town Hall, 197 High Holborn. 'The case for one big entertainment union.' Chairman Roy Battersby and a panel of speakers from the relevant unions. ACTON: Monday June 18, 8 p.m.

'Six Bells', , High Street, W.3. 'Build the revolutionary party. Defend democratic rights'.

LEWISHAM: Monday June 18, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Road.

'TUC

must break off Phase Three talks'.

CRAWLEY: Monday June 18, 8 p.m. Council for Social Services Hall, 19 Station Road. 'Force the Tories to resign. government must nationalize major industries' BATTERSEA: Tuesday June 19, 8 p.m. 'Nag's Head', Wandsworth Road. 'Force the Tories to re- sign. Return a Labour govern- socialist ment to BRIXTON: Tuesday June 19, 8 Centre, Control p.m. Training Room. 'Force the Tories to re- sign. Return a Labour govern- policies: Pledged to socialist ment Ross Hagen as Bart Jason being tak 486-lb tiger which appears in 'Daktarl'

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lay DAGENHAM: Tuesday June 19, un- 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- own shawe Avenue. 'Force the Tories to resign. A Labour government nationalize major indus- must rsby tries'. CLYDEBANK: Tuesday June 19, 7.30 Co-op Hall; Hume p.m. Street, Clydebank. 'Fight the • rent Act. Throw the Tories out.'

DEWSBURY: Wednesday June p.m. Textile 20, 7.30 Hall. All Trades 'Forward to the Unions Alliance conference.'

HACKNEY: Wednesday June 20, Parlour Room, Central LIVERPOOL: Wednesday, June 20, 7.30 p.m. 'The Westminster Inn', , Westminster Road, Walton.

'Defend democratic rights! For- ward to the ATUA conference!'

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Wednesday June 20, 7.30 p.m. Temperance Institute, Carlton Crescent, nr

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LENIN AND TROTSKY WRITING

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and six International Committee statements

ANCE MEETINGS

19, LANCASTER: Thursday June 21, Hall, 7.30 p.m. The Trades Fenton Street, near the Post Office. dus- CORBY: Thursday, 'The 8 p.m. Corby Candle'. 'Force the Tories to Resign.'

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

'Force the Tories to resign. Labour must nationalize the major industries' LEEDS: Thursday June 21, 8 p.m. Peel Hotel, Boar Lane.

'Defence of Trade Unions and democratic rights. Forward to the ATUA conference.' Speaker: Cliff Slaughter. LANCASTER: Thursday June 28, 7.30 The Trades Hall, p.m. Street, near the Post Fenton Office.

TUC hides behind Heath- Mayor of Pontefract's admission in bribes case 'Backhanders' the order of the day in contracting industry

THE

TUC leaders surrendered abjectly to Tory demands within state controls on wages-whil hours of the announcement of the rents rocket sky high-and record trade deficit and the closer ordinating the onslaught on rights-through speed-up, prov the Industrial Relations Act, government, which the crisis of leadership with Their decision to continue collaboration with a government which has imposed The demands must now be A FORMER mayor said yesterday that, as public relations officer for a con- tracting firm, he gave 'backhanders' to officials postponed until after the trial three and counciliors. of other men who deny charges of corruption. In one case, £1,000 was Anthony Joseph Flannery (39), paid director, Westbrook Close, out, Maurice Byrne, of Horsforth, near Leeds, has de- former Mayor of Pontefract, nied Il charges of corruption. told Leeds Crown Court. Brian Norman Woodcock (47), The 'backhanders' were on director of Hobbs Kirk Lane, Derbyshire, denied behalf of Carlton Contractors Ireton, has and charges of corruption Ltd, a London-based firm William Starling (44), director, whose head office was at The Baulk, Staincross, of near Epsom, Surrey. Barnsley, has denied nine astone Place shekeeper, has charges. Flaxton Place, Leeds, The offences are alleged to pleaded guilty to ten charges of have been committed between Sentence 1968 and 1970. corruption. has been A LOBBY of trade unionists building pickets workers, from London and the north- Liverpool dockers, steelmen west. will gather at Shrews- from Shotton - converged on Shropshire, bury, today when the Shropshire town to pro 19 bullding the workers face con- test against show trial of bullding spiracy charges. the workers. At today's lobby wlll there A total of 24 building work- London be delegations from from North Wales and ers trade union branches. The Merseyside have been charged Lambeth Trades Council has under the Conspiracy and Pro- voted unanimously to set up a of tection Property Act of defence fund for the charged 1875. men. Police Initiated the prosecu statement by the trades tions after a six-month Investi- 'The trial council sald: is gation of last year's building attack savage new on basic workers' strike. democratic rights fought by On March 15 about 1,000 generations of trade unlonists.'

MINIMUM

fares on many London Underground jour-

BY OUR OWN

neys will go up from 5p to

CORRESPONDENT

sub- 10p under plans just the mitted to Labour- London face shock - their controlled Greater London tickets would future season in Council. be charged at 'inner Lone' rates. London Transport is asking On the buses, in north, north- for bus and underground fares east and south London, some 3p will boost 5p fares increases which and which are 'below scale by £15m. It amounts would go up to 6p revenue 8p to line, all-round increase and them into to an London There say 10 per cent on present revenue.

corresponding would also be The proposed increases would rise in some other 'sub-standard' January and another start in fares at higher levels. But the application may be needed later fares affected are only 1 per cent 1974 to the cost of in cover of all London bus fares. 'special measures'. Suburban flat-rate fares bus Under the scheme, 37 per cent would go up from 4p to 5p (from fares Undereround the minimum on 2p to 3p for a child), monthly bus will from go UD seasons from £6 to £7, and annua 10p and 29 cent of to per ones from £60 to £70. The child's fares will 100 15p. go offpeak fare for journeys up to will also There be an average a mile would be withdrawn. 15-per-cent increase in season But the 3p 'any distance' off- tickets-greater cases where for peak bus the discount become fare continues has 'com- children and concessionary permit pletely unrealistic'. The bus minimum fare will go holders. for from 3p to 4p, then rise in Go-as-you-please tickets, up Flat fares adults. unlimited buses 2p stages for travel on most Red Arrow buses will and Underground, on stay are going up at 5p. -for example: a four-day adult Tube commuters £2.90 £3.20, from outer ticket from to

BY ROYSTON BULL

ges-while prices and to break off the Down gh-and which is co- mobilize the united str aught on trade union and trade union move I-up, provocations and Tories to resign and ions Act, will sharpen socialist policies to s ship within the trade crisis. The TUC must not come right into the behind Tory bogus e nferences, particularly the capitalist econon Union of Engineering from uncontrollable i and the Transport and in trade and money n nion in July. trade deficit is a reflec st now be stepped up instability of the capi Mr Peter Taylor, QC, prose- cuting, has said that Byrne, the three other men and a man named Allen, who had since left the country, formed the of the North- management team ern division of Carlton Contrac- tors. He alleged they had accepted bribes from subcontractors or architects and put work their way in connection with local authority housing contracts in the north of England. Byrne, cross-examined yester- day by Mr Gilbert Gray, QC for Plannery, agreed that he be- lieved 'backhanders' to be the order of the day in the contract- ing industry. The ones he had given varied 'from repairs to a motorcar, to up to £1,000'. 'Was that quite often?' asked Mr Gray. 'On a number of occasions, but not on my own behalf,' said Byrne. "This was always agreed to by the management of Carlton Northern and confirmed by the board at Epsom, which included the whole of the directors, in- cluding the managing director of Trafalgar House. 'No money was paid out un- less the chief financial officer , Mr Parker, for Trafalgar House, authorized it.' The green light for this was given at Epsom, and Flannery seven-day ticket from £3.80 to £4.20. Examples of the proposed cuts in fare-stage distances: the 5p minimum underground fare would mile's journey instead cover a of 1.3 in the inner zone; a 25p fare would cover 10.5 miles in- stead of 12 in the inner zone.

On buses, however, a 12p off- peak maximum fare would apply for suburban journeys of seven to 1l miles, which would nor- mally cost 14p to 18p. London Transport's shock fare demands come only nine months after fares were last increased in September 1972. It puts the new Labour council completely on the spot. In the election campaign Sir Reginald Goodwin, the Labour leader, promised to 'stabilize' the soaring price of fares. One method being discussed by the Labourites is to increase the rates! Goodwin said yesterday: 'Lon- don Transport's application to increase fares will be scrutinized closely in the light of our election pledge. 'The new GLC is firmly com- mitted to encouraging people back on to public transport by adopting a low fares policy.'

Workers Press, Fri which must b consequences the Downing Street talks and unemployment united strength of the labour nion movements to force the Chancellor's sign and Labour to bring in ('There is a d to solve the economic causes and exi of the worki must not be allowed to hide controls and u • bogus explanations of why Infiation is falling apart weapon to hel it economy working trollable inflation and chaos the burdens of infl • money markets. The £209m is a reflection of the inherent working class. I the capitalist system itself, flation is to e would pass the information to Epsom. Local councillors or officials were involped. Earlier, Byrne_agreed that be knew Mr John Poulson and met him several times. He also knew that the Open System Building company was the brain-child of Mr Poulson. A firm called Haslam Milan was the licensed contractor for Open System Building in York- shire and Haslam's public rela-

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Barnsley Given by Gerry Healy National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Sunday June 17 The materialist conception of History Sunday June 24 Dialectical Materialism-a Marxist theory of knowledge Sunday July 8 Theory and Practise of Marxism Sunday July 15 Role of the Revolutionary Party at The Red Lion Worsborough Near Barnsley 7.30 p.m. i win a is Press, Friday June 15, 1973 PAGE 11 h must be ended if the disastrous equences of deflation and massive ployment are to be avoided.

TUC's acceptance of the Tory explanation of inflation a distinction between internal es and external causes') is a betrayal he working class to further wage ols and unending price rises.

is deliberate capitalist a on to help the Tory employers defeat class internationally. The ens of inflation are then borne by the ing class. The only way to end in- n is to end capitalism. tions work was done by Dan Smith. I had a PRO arrange- Smith, ment with Dan not Haslam Milan,' said Byrne. He denied that by doing that work there was a conflict of with his work for interests Carlton Contractors. The Judge said: 'What is be- ing put is that in accepting money from Dan Smith there was a conflict?' Byrne said: 'I don't think there was.'

THE CASE CONTINUES

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LEAGUE LECTURES

Manchester given by Peter Jeffries Sunday June 17 Marxism and the study of history Sunday June 24 Trade Unions and political struggle in Britain Sunday July 8 Chartism, yesterday and today Sunday July 15 he Revolutionary Party and he British working class at Black Lion Blackfriars St/Chapel St near Salford Bus Station 7.30 p.m.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE

lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) The Socialist Revolution in Britain: 1. Political tasks facing the British working class. Marxism and the revolutionary role of the working class. Lessons of the history of the working class in Britain. 2. The roots of capitalist crisis: Marxism and the con- tradictions of capitalism. Britain and the world crisis.

3. The state and revolution.

Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for demo- cratic rights today means preparing for working-class power. Basic reading: Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party. Marxist Analysis of the Crisis.

Problems of British the Revolution (Trotsky). Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, Communist Manifesto. Sunday June 17, 24, July 8 Stockingfarm Community Centre, Stockingfarm 7.30 p.m. i..*. • it.. ...

Ryton strike has effect on other UK plants Chrysler slows down All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights

BELLE VUER

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

Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday June Pat Chrysler Fox convenors (top) and Roger Roberts (above) on picket lines yester- day. Officials move on Cowley NATIONAL union officials are attempting to split up the strike plant attendants at the of 80 factory in Cow- British-Leyland ley, Oxford. Moss Evans (T&GWU) and Reg Birch (AUEW) have gone over the heads of senior stewards and shop stewards and asked to send out the management letters to the strikers summon- meeting this ing them to a morning. The strikers, who are fighting for a promise that they will be upgraded as craftsmen, on Wed- nesday rejected a company offer to pay 2p an hour above their semi-skilled rate from present the date of the next annual pay review, plus a join investigation of whether to pay another 2p.

Evans and Birch, who stepped into the dispute on Tuesday, are now strongly pressurizing the men to accept this offer.

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FROM IAN YEATS IN COVENTRY

SHOP STEWARDS in charge of Ryton pickets at Chrysl (Coventry) factory, yesterday accused car industry emp launching a 'do as we say' campaign against workers on floor. Deputy Transport and General Workers Union paint shop convenor Mr Pat Fox claimed: Chrysler have definitely been provoking us to a very great extent recently. I think they are trying bring the American to In con- cept of Measured-Day Work.

'We have turned our backs to a lot of things that have gone but this on, time we have had enough.'

Yesterday Chrysler's management were taking all possible steps to avoid lay offs at other plants in their £66m UK opera- as 4,500 workers at their Ryton, tion, Coventry, plant continued their strike.

Large groups of men were seen at the Stoke plant carrying brand new brooms. Shop stewards said they were being em- ployed sweeping and factory cleaning.

All the Stoke gates at plant were heavily picketed yesterday each en- trance clamping an inpenetrable blockade on supplies entering or leaving the works.

T&GWU

automotive convenor Mr the Stoke Roger Roberts said that plant could be totally stopped by today. He said: 'Our analysis was that car pro- duction at Stoke would stopped Wednesday night and we believe it can't hold longer. will out, much Linwood be affected by the weekend' officials Chrysler management are re- fusing the dis- to 011 which has already cost pule £7m. them Pickets them of accused efficiency launching a ruthless EVERY GATE of Perkins' Peter- drive on the shop floor. Said Mr borough diesel factories Fox: It seems to us it is engine not picketed yesterday morn-

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ing, on the first full day of the

ALLIANCE MEETING

company's lock-out of its 5,700 workers. Issues facing The workers, who want a firm Chrysler workers promise progress towards of parity with other earnings in the Canadian-owned Monday June 18 workers Massey-Ferguson group, were 7.30 p.m. preparing for a bitter struggle.

THE ELASTIC INN

After being locked out for the

COX STREET

extremely moderate action of banning overtime, 1.000 of them

COVENTRY

signed who the dole on were told they could not be given un- Chrysler who are taking just but firms like Massey- tough line, Ferguson, Jaguar and Perkins.

Mr Fox said that discipline had been tightened up. 'There for were new rules

LABOUR

spokesmen on hous- All disputes had to late-comers. be settled in 15 minutes or men ing shifted uncomfortably yes- terday when asked: clock. would be taken the And production tracks had been 'Labour inherited economic speeded up from 42 to 48 in the chaos from the Tories in 1964 last year and management were and pursued deflationary poli- for house pressing further increase cies, for six years with off to 52 cars an hour. building dropping 1969- in 'We can't accept taking people 1970. The balance-of-payments off the clock as a principle and crisis now is even greater than everything this management that of 1963. What will Labour are doing they doing without do to avoid having to repeat deflationary with consultation the union,' policies when they to office after the present Mr Fox claimed. come chaos?' Pickets responded angrily to Tory Press reports that only a Frank Allaun, the man who handful were active in the strike.

went back on last year's confer- "It's Tory propaganda' just decision ence to support rebel said one who claimed he councils against the Tory rent was afraid to give his name for Act, said: fear of victimization by the com- 'That's a snorter? pany whose officials have already Anthony Crosland, who re- photographed workers taking turned a silver coffee pot to the part in pickets. Tohn call trustees administering Chrysters 20, 00 UR worker There Poulson's bankrupt gravy train, workers out said: strike. But yesterday the on Ryton 'The rest confident the of Labour's pro- would will deal with the eco- get no help gramme COnDoles from workers at other plants in nomic difficulties. We made an their fight to beat them. before by house using All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manche Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WC Tickets £1: Available from R. Smith, 60 Welli Pickets from Chr Gosford Green r Chrysler's Stoke are stopping the to the firm's Linv ry employers of and the supply ers on the shop Scotland. employment pay because they were engaged in an industrial dispute. Reg engineers' union Briers, said that the convenor, CO- operation already shown by other trade unionists was very good.

Dockers, transport workers and others were being many con- tacted for their support, he said.

Norman Beckett, chairman of stewards' the 140-man shop said: "The men are committee, digging their heels in. They will normal working resume not until the company give them a commitment in principle on this Anthony Crosland building as an economic regu- lator.' John Silkin, chief whip to Wilson anti-working in many class moves, said: The price of land affects up to 45 per cent of the price of a • control house and we plan to building land. The previous La- bour government's Land Com- mission did cause a 4-per-cent land, in the price of building drop ce: To discuss defence of d lanchester-Sunday July 1: 3 TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs ar , 60 Wellington Street West, Salford 7, Manch rom Chrysler's Ryton plant at the Green rail head yesterday. They ing the supply of engines going m's Linwood factory in Scotland supply of panels for Ryton from question of pay parity. Meanwhile there was no move from the company, which insists that it will not talk until the overtime ban is dropped. More than 170 workers have already been laid off at Massey- Ferguson's Coventry tractor fac- is supplied tory, which with engines from Peterborough. The group's Kilmarnock operations as well as British-Leyland and commercial vehicle Chrysler plants, are also likely to be affected soon. • See page 3 story. The spokesmen shuffled again when asked: 'What real difference in the overall housing situation will be Labour's achieved by repeating policies when four previous La- bour administrations since the war have not abolished extor- tionate rents, millions of sub- standard houses, and •homeless- ness?' Allaun didn't really answer the question. Crosland said: "The housing in Grimsby is not as situation bad as it was 20 years ago. There are still problems of un- fit houses and a bad variety to meet actual needs. We must now concentrate on the stress areas Kensington.' like North Silkin said nothing. None of the Labour spokes- men made the slightest reference to a socialist policy of national.

izing without compensation all land, owner-occupied except houses and small farms, and all finance capital as the only solu- tion age-old housing to question. • of democratic rights ly 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m. songs and scenes from history 7, Manchester.