Workers Press no. 1101

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THE CHRYSLER

PERKINS STRIKES

All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights

BELLE VUE

Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

To understand the background to the policies behind the Chrysler and Perkins strikes, it is necessary to relate the strikes to important new developments within the crisis of US and world capitalism. The Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League invites all trade unionists, especi- ally those engaged in the strikes, to study and dis- cuss this statement as a contribution to the struggles which are now taking place.

ECONOMIC

THE CRISIS has now reached a

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measures an- 3 nounced by President Nixon last and higher stage. The newer of the 'official' gold price established in only week mean the intensification of this year (at $42 to an conflict between America and Europe.

February Nixon's inability immediately to pur- ounce of gold) is hopelessly out of line sue a deflationary policy against the with 'unofficial' price which last week again reached $120 an ounce in American working class means that the several European markets.

been forced administration has directly price could export its crisis more The official gold a continuation and intensifica- Europe, observed, in the short run even, only if tion of the policy started on August 15, the parity of the dollar was stabilized.

1971. But far from being stabilized it has Nixon's measures have thus prepared fallen as much as 20 per cent over the the ground for a new series of econo- last six months. mic and political convulsions through- out the capitalist world, but above all

THE

POSITION facing European in Europe. 4 rapidly. capitalism deteriorates the Every dollar devaluation gives 2 AUGUST 15 when the Nixon admin- American monopolies yet another istration ended the convertibility of advantage in world markets in the the dollar, was the beginning of forcing European-American-Japanese trade war.

Europe to pay for the crisis. From that At the dollar devaluation same time, point onwards, world economics and raises the price of all exports entering politics have been dominated by the the United States from those countries.

collision ever-sharpening being pre- Devaluation is thus a double-edged pared between Europe and America.

weapon, more effective in this sense But in order to retain some slight than the tariff barriers with which footing in world trade and preserve section of the Senate has long threat- semblance of stability any in their ened America's competitors.

monetary arrangements, the Europeans were forced to to some parity come alignments between their currencies. 5

THE RULING

class of Europe is These were decided upon at the Wash- faced more and more urgently with ington currency realignment talks at the two further choices. It either

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end of 197l. But such allow its currencies to float collectively arrangements could have no lasting effects.

against the dollar, or it must raise the Tory and official of gold from its By June of last year the price quite Italian governments violated the agree- archaic $42. In the first case all-out ments and "floated' the pound and the trade and financial war would be un- leashed requiring full-scale deflationary lira. All Trades Unions Alliance Con What next for the miners The second part of the ATUA miners section statement Centre pages. Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo P Special showing of the Pageant film THE Tickets £1: Available from

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Statement by the SLL Ce attacks against the working class in order to answer the American trade onslaught against Europe.

In the second case it means precipi- tating an unprecedented crisis in the Euro-dollar market. A decision to 'float' would not only herald the arrival of an open trade war and the immediate and most brutal attacks on working-class living standards. It would also create conditions for the rapid break up of the

EEC.

Already, since August 15, 1971, each change in currency alignments within Europe has threatened to disrupt com- pletely the Common Market agricul- tural policy. A general float would almost certainly destroy these arrange- ments and the political stability which their continuation demands in countries such as France. On the other hand a sharp increase in the 'official' gold price would have equally disastrous implications. While there was an 'official' gold price there was at least some basis for the hope among sections of the capitalist class that some form of dollar convertibility might one day be restored.

A sharp increase in the 'official' gold price would now wipe out that hope for ever. It would at the same time plunge the entire Euro-dollar market into crisis. For an increase in the price of gold to anything above its present 'official level would by the same the value of the Euro- measure slash dollar market. It is this market which has provided TU e Conference: To discuss defenc Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday J m 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and able from R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, Salford

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L Central Committee the funds for many of the investment plans of the so-called multi-nationals (in effect the branches of the American monopolies operating in Europe).

highly unstable situation has arisen over the past months whereby they have borrowed short-term from this pool in order to make long-term loans and investments. These conflicting choices facing the ruling class are the product of the between US irreconcilable struggle imperialism and the European capita- lists as well as the determination of the European and US working classes to defend their conquests. The conflicts within each capitalist power are likewise intensified. Which- ever road is taken, the consequences must be the break-up of the credit struc- ture and destruction of capital values involving large-scale bankruptcies, run- away inflation and massive unemploy- ment. In this situation what is posed throughout the capitalist world is the question of working-class power which means the revolutionary preparations of the working class through the con- struction of parties affiliated to the International Committee of the Fourth International. ITALY REVEALS clearly for every worker in Britain the political shape of things to come. The lira last week was devalued almost daily and the 'right-centre' coalition, unable to deal ded TURN TO PAGE 2 lefence of democratic rights day July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

ER' and songs and scenes from history st, Salford 7, Manchester.

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THE CHRYSLER

PERKINS STRIKES

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

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEÉ OF THE

ECONOMIC

3 THE CRISIS has now reached a

THE

measures an- Nixon The by President last newer and higher stage. nounced week mean the intensification of the 'official' gold price established in only of this year (at $42 to February an and Europe. conct between america Nixon's inability immediately to pur- ounce of gold) is hopelessly out of line 'unofficial' which last deflationary policy against sue a wilh week again reached $120 an ounce in American working class means that the administration has been forced to several European markets.

crisis directly to The official gold price could be 1 LO Europe, a continuation and intensifica- observed, in the short run even, only if tion of the policy started on August 15, the parity of the dollar was stabilized.

1971. But far from being stabilized it has Nixon's measures have thus prepared tallen as much as zu per cent over tne the ground for a new series of econo- mic and political convulsions through- out the capitalist world, but above all THE POSITION facing European in Europe. capitalism deteriorates rapidly. Every dollar devaluation gives 2 istan ended the coNvertibilty of American monopolies yet another istration ended the convertibility of world markets the 1n duvalllare the dollar, was the beginning of forcing European-American-Japanese trade war.

Europe to pay for the crisis. From that At the same time, dollar devaluation onwards, world economics and raises the price of all exports entering dominated br the United States from those countries.

Devaluation is thus a double-edged pared between Europe and America.

effective in weapon, more sense But in order to retain some slight than the tariff barriers with which a section of the Senate has long threat- ened America's competitors.

monetary arrangements, the Europeans

THE RULING

5 faced more and more urgently class of Europe Is These were decided upon at the Wash- with ington currency realignment talks at the two further choices. must such allow its currencies to float collectively could have no lasting effects.

against the dollar, or it must raise the By June of last year the Tory official gold from its Italian governments violated the agree- archaic $42. In the first all-out case ments and "floated' the pound and the trade and financial un- war would be leashed requiring full-scale deflationary What next for the miners tue secona par Or Me AlUA miners section statement Centre pages

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d a attacks against the working class in order to answer the American trade onslaught against Europe.

EEC.

A sharp increase in the 'official' gold price would now wipe out that hope for ever. It would at the same time plunge the entire Euro-dollar market into crisis. For an increase in the price of gold to anything above its present 'official' level would by the same measure slash the value of the Euro- dollar market. It is this market which has provided TU • Conference: To discuss defenc Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday J m 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and able from R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, Salford

UR LEAGUE

L Central Committee the funds for many of the investment plans of the so-called multi-nationals (in effect the branches of the American monopolies operating in Europe).

highly unstable situation has arisen over the past months whereby they have borrowed short-term from this pool in order to make long-term loans and investments. These conflicting choices facing ; the ruling class are the product of the irreconcilable struggle between US imperialism and the European capita- lists as well as the determination of the European and US working classes to defend their conquests. The conflicts within each capitalist power are likewise intensified. Which- ever road is taken, the consequences must be the break-up of the credit struc- ture and destruction of capital values involving large-scale bankruptcies, run- away inflation and massive unemploy- ment. is posed In this situation what throughout the capitalist world is the question of working-class power which means the revolutionary preparations of the working class through the con- struction of parties affiliated to the International Committee of the Fourth International. 6 ITALY REVEALS clearly for every worker in Britain the political shape of things to come. The lira last week was devalued almost daily and the Iro- "right-centre' coalition, unable to deal ded TURN TO PAGE 2 lefence of democratic rights day July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

ER' and songs and scenes from history st, Salford 7, Manchester.

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PAGE 2 Workers Preas, Monday June 18, 1973 20th anniversary of East German uprising Lira sinks TWENTY YEARS ago yesterday the workers of East Germany struck the following first blow against the Stalinist bureau- cracy as the advance guard of the com- ing political revolution.

The uprising started as a protest strike govt crisis against increased piecework norms in the factories. The workers went onto the streets in East Berlin and other industrial towns and the bureaucracy responded with troops and tanks.

BY JOHN SPENCER

The of seige state East Tune 15 laided was on and panic- A MAJOR financial crisis has erupted in Italy follow- officials of stricken ing the fall of the centre-right government led by Unity the Socialist Berlin Guilio Andreotti. On Thursday, the lira, which has Party tried to contro movement by the been against other currencies for weeks, sinking leaders arresting its slumped a full 4 per cent.

and rushing extra sup- workers plies of food to the There was a rush to change lire for other currencies - affected towns. according to foreign exchange operators the amount that was Workers throughout changed ran into hundreds of thousands of millions of lire.

Germany East deman- lit Arrests during The the situation was made enol improved norms. more tense by rumours new

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living condition and that Guido Carli, governor of Pamplona strike Although elections. the Bank of Italy, was on the LIcC the Soviet tanks were neces- yerge of resignation. The Bank sary to keep the dis- hotly denied the rumours credited regime of Prime Grotewohl After several years of govern- torch power, it was forced to with instability no ment concessions make some sound government in, sight, Carli the strength plays very important role in working class. holding together the Italian (cO- nomy, functioning virtually as a adation, workers second government. were invited to put for- carmel

BY OUR OWN

against Tine ward their criticisms. As one American banker put

CORRESPONDENT

For some time after the it, referring to Italy: 'A country Russian T-34 tanks move in to clear East Berlin events the ferment con- on without been alowed to resume their tinued. Streets. Call cally ment-so long as it has a good Workers demanded to measures central banker.' and bars Three years later the ports at the end of 1970.

Polish Factories, shops Conlal weekend KnOW wIll Polish were shut at the workers Andreotti's government was rades had been arrested Germany. an estimated people Poznan ano other …ne torca was forced his of Christian Demo- of office by deci- on June 17 and why they stopped work in support of In the absence of towns and a few weeks lit by the Berlin and sion of did the right not have 20 the suspended men. revolutionary full-scale workers years ago revo. vally to strike. cranc rarty, when vote a s provincial ine support trom order coun

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Carrican lu congress a week ago to return government period of con- Hungary, to be smashed called the This tries the movement day. bureaucrac centre-left coalition with strike Germany Soviet tanks. throughout stoppages general cessions came an East was by the Socialist Partv. 1955 and lull Europe lives the ot we nee Line ••CE overturow would 'stamp out with maxi- followed by the bureaucracy. was Andreotti was billed a strong- inere came events «•orenension was i968 anchose big strikes further dis- the harbinger things to Czechoslovakia explosion uncontrol- when he took office mum energy any construction

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lable dimensions. Berlin and Dra- ago, has over a year Wall proved unable resolve the political and economic crisis Peking supports the 'Guardian of the Gulf' acute dalv. which grows HOre Meanwhile Communist Parts ¡cautis are sysicatically spicau.

ing illusions centre-left In with the The

CHINESE

Foreign Minister gered peace and security' in "Newsweek, th cole or non-nierrerence which is being cob- states! the Guif region. the Shah boasted internal affairs of other Chi Peng-fei has expressed Their together. paper That us ara was bee suboned In as vanover soeech. cn his government's full support calling with 'anything and everything only endorse the Shah's military

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and clear' intervention the for the Shah of Iran's Gulf wanted that the US has'. build-up advocated bringing slales non-atomic authorities end to in- to put an handled said, policy, which makes him whole Indian Ocean under a America. Was

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these es i had ones him 'to the as the new similar regime. ¡alion and socculaliol. hit guardian and protector' of of the gendarme He said China endorsed mak- area. 'L'Unita' describes the econo the oil-rich region. Indian Ocean anel The Shah added that he could ing the 'peace of the [we] strongly support it,' he said.

Lic call Chi was speaking at a ban- lead- nOT tolerate subversive acces zone •rooose• ov "catastrophic centre-right He expressed support for what He could tolerate radical regimes Sri Lanka. adding that this for him by Iranian ership. taking Arab reflected the desire of the over any coun Foreign Minister Abbas Ali the side the "It confirms' the paper says, measures

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I Call Khalat. The Chinese leader The Shah's 'that anti-popular economic the troops Cathit. Iran for a three-day visit.

in Shah is spending more than are fighting alongside British their determination to fight the and social policy essentially He said that increased expan- Dhofar powers' predominance and In ропсу, Was licicculalico to blaill sionist activities by big plans for the general interests of the outlie reacuonary sultanate standable' 'seriously endan- So much for the so-called prin- fluence zones. powers have

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The fighting spirit and determination with us in the preparations now well spearhead the struggle against the work- class. For it is firms such of the working class is being demon- under way to transform the Socialist ing this offensive the with the struggles which have borrowed most heavily from strated daily; the refusal of the Labour League into a powerful revolu- Italian working class, collapsed.

Mean- Chrysler be and Perkins the Euro-dollar market. Ihey are deter- workers to tionary party. Join us in the campaign while the fascists and military wait in mined that their capital will not be the intimidated ininoders and in the seatses of the threats create the industrial and political the wings, while the Stalinists and conditions to force the Tory first to go in the coming crisis.

govern- social democrats are utterly paralyzed.

building workers on trial in Shrews- ment to resign. Every worker must take their threats bury in defence of the basic demo- But immediately behind Italy stands In its place must be elected a Labour as deadly serious: they will certainly cratic right to picket. Britain. Last week's balance-of-payments prepared to close operations government which is pledged by the be now figure The hour of decision for the working were the record. and shift their capital entirely to fascist mass action working class to worst even The position has only been held be- class is struck! countries such as Spain. And their lead implement socialist policies.

cause of the huge influx of dollars into will be followed by every employer in We say 'pledged to socialist policies' Is it to be bloody dictatorship and London. This reflects not the strength Britain. the restoration of capitalist 'stability' knowing that the present leaders of the of British capitalism, but its profound This is the meaning of CBI director through unemployment, and labour movement have no intention of poverty and insoluble historical weakness. It general Campbell Adamson's statement introducing Indeed, war! such policies. on the inflow of dollars, How renes at the end of last week that the em- the last analysis some of them will be Or are the working class, under the currency devalued by already 20 per ployers would accept no further restric- leadership of the prepared to join a coalition government cent during the last six months.

revoluholary party with . the Tories to head off the work- dea wupo the tudrofits as part of a upon their being built, to prepare to take …nOW In this situation Enoch Powell makes ing class. power and put an end capitalist increasingly open plans for the forma- anarchy? There middle road! But if the workinstories out, it is 'If agreement cannot be reached or is class is strong tion of an ultra-right wing political if government and There is no 'third' choice!

enough to force the smash the resistance of strong enough to deal with the, traitors approve the terms of any agreement, 1 Only the Socialist Labour League has the working class. He already enjoys it their duty to step in and lay down in midst. This can own only be fought for a policy of the nationaliza-

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achieved by exposing them in the fight the guide-lines themselves, if necessary tion of all basic industries and centres a section of the employers.

des- for an alternative socialist policy.

by statutory means,' he said.

of finance under workers' control and perately engaged winning base The Central Committee of the backward sections of the work- trom against the Stalinists and revisionists, Socialist Labour League calls upon all he is given ing class, tacit and open IT IS IN this crisis that the decision 8 of have fought for and demanded a Lab- its members, supporters and readers of of the trade the Socialist Labour League support trom the Workers Press to into action union and labour bureaucracy such as transform itself into the revolutionary immediately and make the All Trades our policy. It is only such a programme and 'lefts' Peter Shore and plattorms by party has proved completely vindicated Michael Foot and Hugh policy which can now unite the work- Unions on uly l such Hance in this policy the struggle against the class Vue Manchester a major mile- Scanlon. itself entirely on the great strength of enemy, the Tory government.

of stone in the building. alternative the working class and its ability to revolutionary leadership within the 7 IT IS NO accident that American- taking We now call upon every single worker resolve this crisis through the trade union movement. Europe, of power and the establishment of who agrees with such a programme, as owned hirms June 16, 1973. a matter of the greatest urgency, to join Chrysler and Perkins, should now socialism.

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WHEN THE FRENCH

CALL IN THE ARMY

The spectre of a military intrusion into politics is being raised again in France as the working class shows its militancy and the health of Presi- dent Georges Pompidou deteriorates. It was the army revolt in Algeria which enabled General de Gaulle to establish his Bonapartist regime in June 1958. When the state was threatened by revolution in 1968 by the great General Strike, de Gaulle called on his generals for support. At that time a reconciliation took place between de Gaulle and the rebel generals who had tried to seize power in 1961 to prevent the granting of independence to Algeria. The Gaullists today, with an ailing president, know that to call in the they may have army if their rule is threatened again by a General Strike. This problem worries the Com- munist Party leaders as well because they are wedded to the 'peaceful road' to socialism and are constantly emphasiz- ing that they stand for national independence, including strong armed forces. In April and May this year the mass campaign of secon- dary school and university students against the ending of call-up deferments threatened to erupt into a general attack on military service and • the armed forces. The Stalinists strove might and main to keep the movement under control and to prevent a link-up with the strikes which were taking place in a number of big car factories and other industries.

Last recourse Undoubtedly these events, awakening memories of May- June 1968, jolted both the oficer corps and the Com- munist Party into taking note of the role of the armed forces.

An article in the Stalinist daily paper 'L'Humanité' on June 7 gave a series of intervention examples of the in of army and navy chiefs the political arena. The Gaullist minister of the armed forces, Robert Galley, demanded that the 'criminal denigration' of the should be stopped, for, army he says, 'it remains the last recourse of our liberal society' He could not have said more clearly that the maintenance of capitalist society depends bodies of armed men' upon The point is spelled out more clearly in an article in the official journal of the air 'Forces aériennes fran- written by a Commander Palmade: 'The maintenance of public order in these days, imposes particularly pressing demands.

To assure order and respect of the law, the state disposes of courts, the police and the

MOSHE LEWIN

Last Available from the Paperbacks Centre Or New Park Publications, 186a Claph Left: Georges Pompidou, the alling Pri army. But of these bodies of functionaries who directly con- tribute to public order and there is one — the legality, army-whose vocation it is to intervene in times of crisis.'

The army intervenes in strikes in the public services, taking over transport, the post office, etc. and also when a state of siege is declared.

Palmade says that in excep- tional crises, the military authorities take over civil administration, carry out house searches by night or day, remove people from areas suppress pub- under siege, lications and prevent meet- ings which they consider are contrary to the maintenance A study of the critical period of the consolidation of the Soviet state. The book examines Lenin's irreconcilable struggle against the growing threat of bureau- cracy led by Stalin, and Lenin's collaboration with Trotsky in this task. Despite certain weaknesses the book is a powerful corrobor- ation of Trotsky's defence of Soviet democracy and his criti- cisms of the oppressive policies of Stalin against the national minorities. Indispensable reading for all socialists.

LENIN'S LAST STRUGGLE

By Moshe Lewin. Published by Faber and Faber. Hardback, 193 pages. Available (see below) at reduced price of £1.50. ks Centre, 28 Charlotte St., London, W1 86a Clapham High St., London SW4 7UG Georges Pompidou, the ailing President. Right: The army 'intervening' in May 1968 in Paris.

of public order. 'Finally,' he adds, 'in a trial strength which Cas no the very existence of question the institutions [of the state] the army is the last resort of the government. And it can-

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Repressive role Marxists cannot quarrel with the Commander. He has accur- ately depicted the role of the army and the state in bour- geols societv and we mav echo his words—it cannot be other- wise. But the Stalinists, who quote his words, think it can. They

WHERE DOES

THE FRENCH

PHONE-TAP-

MONEY

COME FROM?

Everybody knows that the French telephone- tapping service operates from a house in the Avenue de Tourville in the Paris 7th district. It is headed by a general of espionage of the one agencies. The premises and the tech- employed niques were the Gestapo and over from Workers Press, Mc ntervening' In May 1968 in Paris.

think that the government has accentuated the repressive role of the army, but that some- how, within the bourgeois state, some means be can found of keeping it in check and harnessing it exclusively to the task 'of defending the national territory' Such a belief is necessary if their theory of the peaceful road is to retain any credibility.

But Palmade's remarks, which represent the thinking not of a few army extremists, but of the whole officer corps and the bourgeoisie, make nonsense of it. 'L'Humanité' clings desper- ately to the idea of the armed forces at the service of enable any phones attached to the Paris exchanges to be tapped. Tapping is authorized by government Ministers. When this is done, specially employed technicians wire up the phone so that whenever the receiver is lifted a tape recording of the conversation is made and the number which is being called, or made the call, is deciphered. These recordings are cen- tralized in the house in the Avenue de Tourville where they are transcribed and distri- buted to the Ministry con- cerned. In addition, useful in- formation is sifted out and forms part of a daily report sent to the government. It is believed that money is being made available from secret government funds to expand the telephone-tapping organization, despite the fact that the practice is nominally ch- illegal. Use is now being made en of more sophisticated electro- and nic devices for collecting Press, Monday June 18, 1973 PAGE 3 'democracy'. Speaking of the armed services chiefs it says: 'Cannot they see that the army itself is not outside the general evolution of society towards greater democracy and liberty?'

It calls for the right of soldiers to read the CP's paper in their barracks--where it is now forbiaden! 'L'Humanité' throws out the Marxist view of the state and speaks as though there can be a state, and an army which stands above classes. That is why CP deputiés vote military credits, and even voted the law ending defer- led ments against which French revolted in the spring. of youth information. Government-approved spy- ing and bugging is mainly directed against left-wing mili- tants and organizations, but even the Gaullists themselves spared from surveil- are not lance. Public accusations have been made that extensive use was made of telephone-tapping during the last election cam- paign. A Gaullist deputy and ex- Minister, Albin Chalandon, has proposed that telephone- tapping should be put on a regular basis by setting up an independent committee to give permission in special cases where 'security' is involved or in such cases as drug traffic- king. The Communist Party, through veteran parliamentar- ian Jacques Duclos, are to raise the matter in the Senate tomorrow with a request that the government should set up a commission to investigate ing the matter.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday June A discussion around the be debated at the A Alliance conference at B ter, Sunday July 1st-3 p.

THE NATIONAL Com- mittee of the All Trades Unions Alliance has called a national rally of trade unionists at Belle Vue, Manchester, for July 1, as a further step in the preparations for building the Revolu- tionary Party. This follows on the very successful ATUA conference of 2,200 workers at Birming- ham on October 22, 1972, which launched the cam- paign. The founding conference of the Party will be held in London at the end of Octo- ber 1973. The basis of the draft perspectives and pro- gramme for the Party, which are currently being dis- cussed in the pages of the the Workers Press, was ATUA National Committee's statement adopted at Birm- ingham last year. In a statement adopted on May 13 by the ATU in preparation for the July 1 the National conference, Committee declared: The further turn in the grave economic crisis caused by the political and economic effects of the Nixon scandal will have a profound influence on the inflationary boom in Britain and the policies of the Tory and Labour leaders. The Tories have laid plans for a corporate state, but the sharpening class struggle resulting from the intensification of the crisis day June 18, 1973 nd the policies which will the All Trades Unions e at Belle Vue, Manches- t-3 p.m. will more and more disrupt these plans and expose Phase Three of the state pay laws. It is this massive class basis for the launching of struggle which forms the Revolutionary Party. it is vitally Therefore urgent that these new devel- opments, which greatly as- launching of the sist the Revolutionary Party, should be discussed by the largest possible number of dele- gates and visitors to the July 1 conference. Arrangements are in hand to provide appropriate facili- •ties for such a discussion at the Belle vue, Manches- ter, one of the largest as- sembly halls in the north of England. Invitations to delegations have already gone out. The ATUA calls upon all those workers, who want to end the state pay laws and restore free negotiations for wages between trade unions and employers, to join the demand for break- ing off all talks wịth the government on Phase Three.

The fight for the defence of basic democratic rights is now inseparable from the struggle to build the Revolutionary Party. We believe that the July 1 rally can be an important landmark in the struggle to unite the working class on the basis of socialist poli- cies to create the necessary industrial and political con- ditions for forcing the Tory government to resian. Peter King (25) is one of the many Liverpool engineers making the trip from Merseyside to the ATUA conference at Belle Vue, Manchester, on July 1. He works for the CAV Lucas combine at Fazakerly. Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? It is quite clear to me now mere militancy in indus- that try is not enough. This is the kind of thing that leaders like Jones and Scanlon got by on for years, but those days are over. Everything on the shop floor is political now. I think given a lead most workers would be prepared to have a go at get- ting rid of the government— but of course there is no lead forthcoming. On the contrary I would say most of the top union men are helping the government. Do you think the present Labour and trade union leaders want to make the government resign! I think they are just hoping we will accept the Tory gov- ernment for what it is for the rest of its term. As I have said, they are quite willing to col- laborate with the government.

I think really they are more frightened of the strength of the working class then they are of the Tories. If they lead the working class to overthrow the govern- ment, the movement would rapidly go beyond reformism and the reformist policies they have-it would really be the -end for them. Therefore they are quite content to carry on the way they are doing now, hoping is going the government to come across with something to give them. some credibility.

What experience have you had which make you believe that getting rid of the Tory government is an urgent task? Acceptance of the wage freeze and the trips to Down- ing Street for the talks I think really brought it home to me that we had to change the

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situation radically or go under for a long time. complete be- This was trayal of all the principles of trade unionism. To carry on talking or doing nothing when the Tories are blatantly cut- ting the living standards of the working class is the most treacherous thing can imagine. It's more than just putting back wages. What do you think of Jack Jones' and Hugh Scanlon's support for the talks with the Tories?

In one way it surprised me and in another way it didn't.

Really going to collaborate with the Tories is only an ex- tension of the policies that Jones and Scanlon have any- way. But their role did open my eyes. I never thought they be quite so blatant would about it. It really exposed them as men who talk big and left all the time but do noth- ing to back it up. When it came down to it they went to Heath for talks.

following Scanlon still has a among some workers, but it's mainly because they don't want to face up to the point that the leadership is no good and they will have to do some- thing about it. I think a lot of workers are frightened and clutching at straws. But I think this has got to change. I think the crisis in is going America to hit us directly. Nixon is going to sort out the US working class by deflation and attacking wages.

This will rebound directly on us through a far worse ex- porting position. This is bound people up. I think to shake sooner or later people will have to fight. The big squeeze has started already in the car industry.

The management are cracking down and provoking disputes.

think this will spread throughout the whole industry.

The basis democratic rights of the working class are under attack. How can these rights be defended? Is it enough to make protests and one- day strikes? Even at the time of the pro- I had no illusions. I tests didn't think they would get anywhere. We could have a one-day strike every week for next two years and it would make no impact on this King. Peter Above: Chrysler workers. 'The big squeeze has started already car industry • . . I think this will spread government. On the contrary they often turn it to their ad- vantage to whip up the middle class. The effect of protest has also been bad on the work- ing class. It leaves many of them demoralized. They feel dejected when they realize that the results of their actions have been very little.

Are you in favour of building a leadership which will make the Tory government resign? Yes I am. I first came into contact with the SLL through a member years ago at work.

ort At first I used to take him seriously because he was a genuine militant and fought hard for our conditions, but some of the political things he said did not make a great impact at the time. gradually these really But came into their own. You can see now without doubt that the political questions are the decisive ones for us in industry.

This is more than militancy; it poses the issue of the new party. Are you in favour of calling a mass rally of trade unionists to launch the campaign to build this leadership? I think this is a very good idea. It will show the strength of the League and that its membership is really growing -I think it will put the League on the map in this area. I think the League will grow because it is the only organ- ization capable of meeting the challenge and standing firm for true socialist principles.

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affair-but we could not get the men out after this. The protest has a bad effect because it demoralizes people.

Sid Ledward (26) is one of the many workers from the car industry- now the focus of the class struggle in Britain —who will be coming to Belle Vue. He will part of a strong contin- gent of workers from the American owned Vaux- hall plant at Ellesmere Port, Merseyside. Sid, a shop steward, and the other Vauxhall militants are now feeling the hirst wave of the employers' drive to speed up and boost produc- tivity in the plant. Do you think that it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? is no Obviously not. There chance of budging this gov- ernment from its intention to increase the rate of exploita- tion of the working class. A lot of people in Vauxhalls are in the same mind. There are a lot, however, who look Tory pay laws as upon the some kind of wage freeze.

But of course they are much more than this. Wage freeze suggests a temporary mea- sure a pause of some kind- and then thing go back to normal. The Tories had done something very different; they want to erect a permanent system of wage control-it's the corporate state that they are after-the pay laws epito- mise the corporate state.

As people wake up to this fact-and of course it needs leadership to make them see situation-I think they the will become political very rapidly. You can see the change already by the sales of the Workers Press. A lot of men read it in Vauxhalls now, they can't get hold of enough of them. There is also the reali- zation that you cannot fight this government as an indivi- dual or as an isolated indivi- dual group of workers. Bid Ledward, steward at Vaux- hall's Ellesmere Port plant.

Do you think the present Labour and trade union leaders want to make the government resign? No. By their sheer lack of leadership they illustrate their is position. The situation quite fantastic really. They just refuse to warn the mem- bers what is taking place. We have a situation where the in its methods government on fascism, it's determined to destroy the trade union move- ment and the strength of the working class-destroy the working class itself for that matter. What experience have you had which makes you think that getting rid of the Tory government is an urgent necessity? There has been no one experi- This has government ence. unfolded as one concentrated •Protest is defunct ... The "Kill the E affair—but we could not get the men o attack on • the working class and the rights of working men women throughout and the country. The standard of liv- ing is now declining. We have had the onslaught through the courts with the Industrial Relations Act, now we have Phase Two and even worse Phase Three. These acts do not represent individual laws or acts of repression by this government, they all come together as part of its general strategy to deprive the work- ing class of the means of pro- itself against capi- tecting talism. You do not have any basic rights if you do not have any means of fighting back against this government. There is a growing realization of this.

The people I mix with have been fighting all their lives on the shop floor. But most of them are beginning to realize militancy is that over the place by this govern- ment. The realization is dawning that these laws can only be repealed by getting rid of the government that passed them.

It will need a politically-led General Strike to do this-we all know the days of protest and one-day strikes are over.

What do you think of the TUC's collaboration with the state pay laws and Phase Three? If you like they are the fifth 'Kill the Bill" campalgn (above) was a typica he men out after this. The protest has a bad column-they fighting are under a working-class banner, but they are doing the em- ployers' work. They say the working class must resist, then they call a refuse to one-day strike and make it an instruction, know- ing full well this will split the working class and encourage the weakest sections. This is deliberate. What do you think of Jack Jones and Hugh talks with the Tories? Most of the people I work with are agreed that the likes of Jones and Scanlon cannot really be distinguished from Feather. That is, in words they are different-these two talk left-but in action they are much the same as the right wing. You could never really look upon these men as fighters.

They have never really advo- cated taking this government on, really clearing the decks and the issue for a struggle.

It's always been the aggressive words and discussion formula.

But there time comes a when negotiation is not pos- sible any more and the Tories have called the shots on this one. What is posed now is not just a few more crumbs from the Tories, but survival itself for our class. A lot of workers are waking up to the role of these people.

Among the rank and file Jones Workers Press, Mo рові» a typical example ... At Vauxhall's we cam as a bad effect because it demoralizes people.'

does not get his own way now.

They gave him a very rough at the Pier Head reception on May Day. This talk doesn't wash any more. The basic democratic rights of the working class are under attack. How can the working class defend these rights?

Is it enough to have protests and one-day strikes? Protest is defunct. People on the shop floor are not fools.

They know you can get no- thing under this Tory regime by striking for one day or going on demonstrations and shouting. The 'Kill the Bill' campaign was a typical example. It did not stop the bill. At Vaux- halls we came out during the first one-day affair-but we could not get the men out after this. The protest has a bad effect because it confuses and demoralizes people. Then we have had the example of the miners-they clearly re- jected the proposition of fight- ing out a strike battle on their own against the govern- ment. They saw that a collec- tive stand was needed. Are you in favour of building a revolutionary leadership in the working class and Press, Monday June 18, 1873 PAGE 5 s we came out during the first one day holding a mass rally of trade unionists to launch this struggle? This leadership, if it is an alternative leadership, must develop along revolutionary is lines because there really no possibility for the working class to live with the capi- talist system any more. To maintain the rate of pro- hit, wages be driven must down and the only way to do this beyond a certain point is to break up the strength of the working class. This is exactly what the Tories are engaged in at the present time.

The leadership we build must be prepared to take over the whole shebang. If this leadership is not built, the working class will be run down to the position it was in 100 years ago. There can be no doubt about this. The importance of Belle Vue is enormous. For every trade unionist who goes there men who will be ten or ll will hear about it through him. I don't like the word rally —this will be a national con- ference. It is vital for every- one connected in any way g the ATUA and the SiL to make the conference the real basis for the building of the party. I think we have slid down so far, but it's only a check.

We have to go forward with a Marxist leadership, to a Mart- ist state and a Marxist Europe.

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WHAT NEXT FOR THE MINERS?

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday June 18, 197 Part two of a statement by the All Trades Unions Alliance. The vote by Britain's miners against national strike action to win their pay claim has to be understood in the con- text of events occurring at that time. When the special TUC met on March 5, it was 'left'-wingers, Jones, Scanlon, and the Sta- linists, who put forward the motion for a one-day protest May • 1. Only five days on earlier they had all voted to restrict agenda Feather's policy document and motions on allow even no protest or strike actions.

in Feather had spoken Huddersfield on the Saturday before (March 3) the special to Heath to TUC appealing Industrial Rela- modify the Act and 'get round the tions table for talks once again.

But the rapid worsening of the economic crisis that same week, in which Heath visited Brandt and the world money forced markets Cabines into Crisis meetings the whole weekend and pro- duced great nervousness in the trade union bureaucracy. A show of action was necessary.

Scanlon provided Jones and the formula. Gas workers and hospital workers were left isolated to be sold out by their leaders settlements. in Phase Two Scanlon, on the second day of the miners' ballot, made his statement offering renewal of talks with the government if they would make very slight modifications in the Industrial Relations Act. He also, like Gormley, went over to sup- port for participation in the Common Market. It was in this situation that the miners voted. Was it pos- sible to see any prospect of the necessary unity to defeat the Tory enemy? Was it not clear that the 'left' had been led only reluctantly to the point of a ballot? Had not the TUC confirmed its unwilling- ness to fight? For many miners, therefore, the vote not to strike was a vote of no confidence in the leadership of the NUM and the TUC. The memory of 1926 dies hard in the pits. In that year, from the General Strike in May until the autumn, the miners stayed out on their betrayed by the TUC, own, and went back whipped, star- ving and with their wages cut.

The miners will avenge 1926, nothing is more certain, but the road had not been opened But what comes next? time, the miners have decided the old-fashioned line along of English trade union 'com- promise to take what they can get, not risk a long strike and loss of earnings, and see if they have a better time to if necessary. fight later, things to be Some need said plainly. The struggle can be postponed only for a very short time and every day's de- infla- The lay is dangerous. and rent in- tionary price creases will get worse because they come from the insoluble crisis. The world economic Tories, encouraged by the re- treats of the union leaders, will press home the attack. This means that the same basic financial problems which affect the miners affect the whole of the working class.

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faced by the the questions miners. The great questions raised by the ballot are the questions of leadership in the working class. It is true that the trade union leaders cannot and will not lead a successful struggle against the lory government, the Tory class as a whole and machine. But this its state means that a leadership must be built which will lead such a struggle, a political leader- ship with the aim of defeating Tory government the capitalism, not coilaborating with it. No miner and no miner's wife can wash their hands of this problem. It was possible 'answer' inflation in the to trade action, past by union official or unofficial, to raise wages. But the Tory govern- ment has made this illegal.

The standards of living of our children and ourselves can no longer be protected except defeat the by a struggle to Capitalism in government. longer provide crisis can no the conditions for such wage trade and free increases unions. That is the meaning of the government's Industrial Rela- tions Act and counter-inflation laws.

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In the last six months the NCB has completed plans to 'hive off' assets worth £79m two holding companies. to And everyone knows the in- vestigation being carried out allegations of 'over- into orcering' to private companies from NCB areas, to the tune of tens of millions of pounds.

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ND puts forward its policies on May Day Socialist Labour League TUC, the Congress of the Above left: At the March 5, Special Alliance mounted a lobby calling for a General Special Congress. Along with Jones at the out. Right: lon and the Stalinists he put forward diversion of a the pletely subordinated to a ruth- less system of exploitation, a system in mortal crisis which threatens the lives of all wor- kers and their families. The NUM and TUC leaders are 'co-operating' these with moves-and not only in Britain. Gormley has insisted that the NUM collaborates in the Common Market institutions.

He has also made an agree- ment with the German Miners' Federation for German only and British coal to be supplied within the EEC. Is the NUM to be a willing all these Tory plans tool in or will the miners take their the struggle rightful place in to get the government out?

What is to replace the Tory government? It be must a Labour government, but it will be different from completely the 1964-1970 administration, whose policies paved the way back for the Tories. Because there is no solution for the working class under capitalism, only the destruc- tion of its basic rights and there living standards, must be a government which breaks nationalizes from capitalism, big and business the banks and runs them under workers' control. Without a struggle for leadership, the alternative this Labour leaders will present the All not carry out such a socialist programme. Along with However, the working class united behind can only such a socialist programme. We must undertake the task building the alternative leader- ship to implement this pro- gramme. When we call for a Labour government pledged to social- ist policies, we do so to bring the whole working-class move- with ment face to face the need to throw out its treacher- ous leaders. They will be ex- posed by the fight to elect Labour government on socialist policies. In every mining community, it that essential this struggle is carried forward, not only in the NUM, but in tenants' movements, also and in support of all sections of the working class who come miners' into struggle. The wives who confronted are every week with the increas- ingly difficult task of making ends meet must be drawn into the discussion and into the struggle. The Socialist Labour League has put forward the policy of forming Councils of Action in every town. In these Councils are represented all working- class organizations in struggle against the common enemy.

the Tory government: union branches, district committees and trades councils, shop stewards' committees, tenants' associations, unemployed com- mittees, housewives' com- and the political mittees, parties of the working class Com- (Labour Party, SLL, munist Party, International Socialists, International Marx- ist Group, etc.). Here united action can be planned to get the Tories out and fight for socialist policies. Correct policies and the means to achieve them can be thrashed out; the solidarity and defence of all workers in be organized struggle can here. Certainly the miners' ballot made it plain that we have entered a new situation, Trade action, and militant union strikes alone have reached a dead end. There will be many more strikes, even bigger than we have seen, but the ones industrial action alone cannot solve the political problem of a fight to make the govern- ment resign. Where will the political leadership come from for this political struggle? From Gormley on the ex. treme right to the Communist Party on the left there has a capitulation to been the the Tory govern- policies of ment. The trade union leaders have accepted the idea who that they will return to talks with the government are only Workers Press, Monday the trade union reflection of the reformism of the Labour Party and the Stalinism of the Communist Party. Small groups like the Inter- national Socialists and the International Marxist Group have only tailed along behind the Stalinists and 'lefts'.

Only the SLL (with its trade the All union organization, Trades Unions Alliance, and its youth the movement, Young Socialists) has fought consistently for the TUC to call a General Strike to force the Tory government to resign.

Only the SLL warned and fought against the policies of the last Labour government to try and prevent them prepar- ing the way for the return of the Tories. Most important of all, only the SLL has prepared its mem- bers and supporters for the political struggle, and pointed out that eventually the restric- tion of the workers to trade union and strike struggles would be a dead end. miners' Was the ballot 3 'dead end', or must we not make it the beginning of a neir stage in the struggle of the working class? To do that we must learn the lesson brouglit out in this pamphlet. For two years the Socialist Labour League, through all it- activities and in the Worker: has been fighting Press, politically transform itself into kers Press, Monday June 18, 1973 PAGE 7 the Marxist revolutionary Labour party which the working class so urgently needs. We call upon all miners and all workers to discuss with us the programme we have put forward in this pamphlet and in our draft policy for trans- forming the Socialist Labour League. This is the most im- portant preparation of all for the next stage of the miners' fight.

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NO AMOUNT OF TREATIES

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday June 1

BY JOHN SPENCER

The European Security Conference - long a major goal of Soviet foreign policy—will open in Helsinki, Finland, on July 3. The agenda and details of the conference were final- ized at a series of meetings in the Finnish capital which lasted more than six have months. The 34 participating coun- include Spain, tries, which Portugal, Greece and Monaco, but not Albania, have decided to hold the talks in three stages. The opening sessions will be attended by the countries' foreign ministers who will then delegate the detailed work to commissions of experts whose reports could take up to eight months to prepare. The agenda covers four main the main one being points, security. agenda details ten The 'principles' form the basis to of this discussion. These equality and are: sovereignty; non-recourse to threats or the use of force; inviolability of frontiers; ter- peaceful ritorial integrity; settlement of differences; non- intervention in the internal affairs of other countries; res- pect for the rights of man and 'including the basic freedoms freedom of thought, conscience, religion and opinion'; equality of the rights of peoples and the right of self-determination; between co-operation states; carrying out 'with goodwill' of obligations under international law. This list of good intentions, like the Biblical Ten Com- mandments, is a cover for the most heinous violations. Not for nothing is the forthcoming conference being compared with the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and the Versailles Conference of 1919 which imposed a predatory peace on Europe. These were the two previous occasions on which all the European states were around the table together. Both led to counter- revolutionary settlements.

At Vienna, following the defeat of Napoleon's armies, Metternich (the Old Fox) the Holy Alliance cemented of Tsarist Russia, Austria- Hungary and Prussia. According to Trevelyan the result was 'that nationality and popular liberty were dis- regarded on the continent, the outside boundaries ol France itself. Except England, the Great Powers who triumphed were Powers of re- action and despotism and even Castlereagh cared nothing for Parliaments outside England.

The rulers of Russia, Prussia and Austria divided up Poland, Germany and Italy as if in- habitants were so many head of population to be bartered among royal hagglers.' The avowed purpose was to maintain the status quo of reaction and monarchy and prevent any resurgence of the revolutionary struggles sparked by the French revolution.

At Versailles, just over 100 years later, the Allies got together to grab as much territory as they could from the defeated Central Powers and impose monstrous repara- tions to be paid off by the defeated countries. Versailles conducted was under the 'humanitarian' pre- cepts of US President Wilson, known as the 14 points. Today the fraud is conducted behind the façade of 'peaceful co-existence' which in reality counter - revolutionary means day June 18, 1973 • collaboration between the Stalinist bureaucracy and the capitalists against revolution. The difference today is that instead of taking place after a major war, the conference is allegedly designed to make such a war more difficult.

In the words of Mr Bill Simpson, the . Labour Party chairman • who headed a dele- gation of Labour MPs to the Soviet capital, the conference 'offers the opportunity Europe to construct a frame- for co-operation work which Will remove Europe for ever from the list of the regions which can be deemed a threat to peace'. Nothing could be further from the truth than this pious reformism. In reality the de- of the velopment economic and political crisis within the capitalist countries is system- atically laying the foundations for a new war. The European employers whose export trade is increas- ingly threatened by US pro- tectionism and by the persistent under-cutting of their cur- rencies must turn east to resolve the mountainous prob- lems they face. They Stalinist need the to help them bureaucracy maintain capitalism in the west —as the May-June events in France demonstrated con- clusively. But the bureaucracy's value to the employing class is only conditional and limited. The experience of the 1930s demon- this. The Stalinists' strated policies in Germany allowed Hitler to come to power, but once in power he began to prepare ruthlessly for war with Versi the USSR. Centi amount of collective No and security' nor even the treacher- buret 'non - aggression' ous pact Molotov signed with Ribben- No trop in 1939 deterred the feren Nazis from their goal of con- co-ex quest in the east. basic Hitler simply expressed in class the most consistent and ruth- natio less manner the ambitions of in th all the capitalists of the world, quest who hate the Soviet Union work and dream of restoring capi- Th talism there. Stalin 1919 Clemenceau, Vienna, 1815a counter-revolutionary Kosygin signing a bureaucrats look on. No amount of treaties, con- ferences, and talk of peaceful the can drive of the capitalist who correctly see the nationalized property relations in the Soviet Union as a con- of international working class. the phraseology of Stalinists is a crude deception Wilson and Lloyd Woodrow settlement. Top: Brandt previous treaty while Brezhner of the European working class designed to turn it Irom struggle against capitalism and line it up behind policy requirements Soviet bureaucracy, which de- mands 'pressure' and actionary regimes. 'friendly' to more Moscow bureaucrats. Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco (70), the former submarine commander who has taken over the post of Spanish Prime Minister from General Franco, had been tipped for the post for many years. He is one of the longest- standing fascist functionaries described as 'deeply conserva- tive with an ingrained loathing of demagogues of either the right or the left'. His anti- Semitism is equally ingrained.

He is, above all, a faithful disciple of the Caudillo. In one of his rare interviews Carrero Blanco said: 'I am a man totally identified with the work of the Caudillo, doctrinally formed principles the national movement and in the fundamental laws of the King- dom. 'My loyalty to his person and to his work is total, clear ana clean, without a shadow of any personal conditions, or trace of mental reserve.'

a l Carrero Blanco is one of the main backers of Prince Juan Carlos of Bourbon, officially designated to become King Franco dies, when or retires. He regarded Juan Carlos' father, the Count of Barce- lona and the main Carlist pre- tender to the throne, as a 'dangerous liberal'! Born in Santander province in 1903, Carrero Blanco en- the Spanish tered Naval Academy at the age of 15 and saw service with the navy in the colonial war in Morocco Spanish submarine school, spent some time commanding a gunboat in the Spanish West African colony of Equatorial Guinea and later became a professor at the Naval War- fare School in Madrid. He was in : Madrid when the Spanish civil war broke out in 1936 and took refuge in the French and Mexican embassies.

In 1937 he made his way Spain and joined the across fascist armies. He commanded a destroyer and a submarine in the civil war and ended it as chief of operations to General Franco's naval staff. The next year, 1940, he entered the adminis- tration as under-secretary in the becoming a presidency, Minister in 1951. In 1967 Franco • appointed him vice-President. He is one of the dictator's closest asso- ciates and has acted as patron to some of the younger fascist 'technocrats' who have entered the cabinet in recent years.

Carrero Blanco's fascist philosophy was set out in 1940 George. in his book 'Spain and the Sea'.

: Brandt In it he wrote justifying the I Sovlet savagery of the Inquisition against the assimilated Jews.

ng class This was, he said, a fight om the to the death which was part sm and of the war between darkness foreign and light'. The Jews, he said, had set out to destroy, to of the lich de- annihilate and debase every- le Tory thing that Christian civiliza- in order er re- tion represents to build on its ruins the Utopian o make to the Zionist empire of the Chosen People'.

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'Midweek' introduced by Ludovic Kennedy. BBC 1. 'Sam'. By John Finch. Part | 'A Way of Life'. Producer Michael Cox. Granada Television. 'Are you coming back?' the interviewer asked Robert. Maxwell, MC, publishing millionaire and ex-Labour MP. 'I was never away,' Maxwell replied dogmatically. 'Midweek', the poor man's , turned in a dazz- '24 Hours' ling documentary on Mr Max- well who will today attempt to make a rebid for power at Pergamon Press, the group he brought to fame and fortune.

If nothing else, the pro- gramme convinced us that Maxwell, the man in the wilderness, is on the road again. As each indictment of his past was read out, the ebul- lient Mr Maxwell drowned it with counter-charges. Curiously, there was only one question that seemed to unhorse him. Reporter Max Hastings asked if it was true that he only joined the Labour Party weeks before the 1959 General Election when he first tried to enter parliament.

Maxwell hesitated. 'It was long before that,' he mumbled. Hastings asked again. The Tiny Rowland confirmed as chiel executive of Lonrho.

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unconvincing It was an moment. Three Maxwell years ago was a defeated and humiliated man. He had been ousted from the chairmanship of Pergamon, he lost the North Bucks seat in the General Election, the Department of Trade and Industry was investigating his financial conduct and company's shares were sus- pended from trading land SO they remain to this day).

'Midweek' set out to answer whether Maxwell would ride again. Is it conceivable that this brazen speculator, this buccaneer of the book industry can regain control of his empire whose shares have dropped from a peak of £2 to 25p? Under the putrid economic atmosphere created by Heath's Toryism - Lonrho and Tiny 'Getting along' under the act While you're battling along with your 1 plus 4 per cent, here's how the big corpora- tions are making out under the Counter-Inflation Act Phase Two. The following firms have been granted • permission increase prices (thus fuelling inflation, incidentally): Lord Wilkinson's Cadbury Schweppes 71 per cent: Birds Eye Food 6 per cent: Walls ..... .::. Workers Press, M Left: Robert Maxwell, publishing and millionaire ex-Labour MP, was 'unfit to exercise steward- ship of a publicly-owned com- pany'. Now he is about to stage a comeback made possible by Heath's atmosphere the of Toryism. Rowland,_ Lord Polwarth, the affair Lambton-Jellicoe and Poulson-anything is possible.

The who man was pro- nounced by the DIl investi- 'unfit to exercise gators as stewardship of rallying support from dissatisfied in- vestors who are tired of the hidebound procedures of the caretaker management under Sir Charles Coutts. When Rowland was con- firmed as chief executive of Lonrho, the_shareholders from Perth and Eastbourne gave a massive mandate for the ugly 'unacceptable and face of capitalism'. Why not with Maxwell? Maxwell, formerly Jan Lud- wig Foch, was born in Czecho- slavakia, fled from the Nazis in 1939, fought with the free Czech army in France and received the Military Cross for his from Montgomery "patriotism'; married Elizabeth, a devoted Frenchwoman ('he has been the victim of a cruel attack") and began his pub- career while with the lishing military government in British Berlin. As the allies roved the devastated ruins, they un- covered many a piece of booty.

Maxwell's sharp eye fell on huge libraries of scientific and medical books, many of them written and published behind the walls of the Third Reich.

To get these volumes out and translated for the world's scientific community would be a great service to mankind, say Maxwell's bank to not account! rise was His sarcastically charted in a ten-minute section of the film called 'The men who made news', • Using old newsreels and stills, the 'Mid- week team created an amusing pastiche of Maxwell as the war hero, the business in the Labour MP tycoon. Wilson's white-hot techno- logical revolution. In the interview with Max- well, intercut with comments from some of his adversaries in the City, the Press and politics, he 'emerges as a self- generating publicity machine.

His contempt for the tradi- tions and practices of the business world leave one breathless. It's no wonder they call him the 'bouncing Czech'!

Maxwell came unstuck when he attempted to sell his business to Leasco chairman. Saul Steinberg, of New. York.

When the deal was almost clinched. Steinberg and his brace of lawyers and auditors discovered that the books of Maxwell's company had been overvalued: instead of buying steak he was getting dressed up horse meat. The take-over collapsed, the shares were suspended, the 8! to Meat products 9 per Strand Hotels 71 per cent. cent: Metal Box 9 percent: Dunlop and Carrington Viy.

ella 6 to 6! per cent: printing and transport firms 7 per cent. These increases are sanc- tioned by the Heath govern- of the top ment on extra charges allowed by VAT. The day after these latest price rises were announced. the news leaked out that the Phase Three 'norm' will be lower than the present even one. Stories of the third man Stories of the third man .. continued. A couple of years ago a girl working at a resort in France for the Club Mediter- rance met a romantic holiday- maker from Britain. They became good friends.

as they say, and there was : Press, Monday June 18, 1973 PAGE 9 City establishment moved in along with the DTI inquiry team. For Steinberg it was a near thing: 'He introduced me to politicians To a young Jewish boy from Brooklyn it must have seemed impressive stuff. Much has been said of commanding Maxwell: his officer gave him this testi- monial: 'He has a driving desire to kill Huns which is of immense value'; "a loner, a fighter, a man of the jungle' said the programme porten- tously; 'Recklessly trying to bash • his way to fame' said Richard Crossman, MP; 'The most sincere liar I've ever met' from one of his former hench- men. Maxwell rejects all critic- ism, past and present, as sour grapes'. He says he has learnt a lesson and now talks embarrassingly about being modest. 'I've no time for property' he says stroiling the lawns between the fountains on his magnificent estate. 'All those people who attack me do so for selfish motiva- They won't get tions. me down.' If he wins his boardroom battle today, the ugly face of capitalism will have triumphed for the second time in a month.

If he loses, we will have a glaring example of lost ferocious capitalism in a larger- than-life form. The opening episode of John Finch's worthy epic 'Sam' set in a Yorkshire mining com- munity of the 1930s set the for another picture of stage working-class defeat and gloom.

However, there are some good moments and the script is sharp and lively. Some of the performances ring a bit hollow and the production is self- over conscious, but an attempt is made to give an authentic feel of the times, the depression and the men out of work for five and seven years at a time, the disillusion with government and the fighting spirit of the defeated working class of the period The piece is built around the boy Sam, gradually becoming aware of the harsh adult world in which his father has run off and left his mother and there is little time for him in the bitter anxieties of poverty and hardship in his grand- parents' home. There's more to the working ed closs than despair these days.

but then there's more of Sam can hope for 10) Come: WO something better. tearful parting. The girl went back to her job in Switzerland and was bitter about not hear- ing from the British business., man. Last year she came to London to see friends. One night they were watching the television news when suddenly her companion appeared on the little screen. 'That's Bobby" she ex. claimed • No it's not her friend said.

'that's the Minister for..

Man of principle Richard Lamb, editor of 'City Press": Some people have asked me why, as a Liberal, I recommend South African shares. I am strongly opposed to apartheid, but I am a full- blooded free trader and the one way to harm the coloured in South people Africa is to withhold capital.' 1in....

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Monday June 18, 1973

SAO PAULO-

high mortality in the city to malnutrition, tuberculosis, yel-

CITY OF

low fever, parasites and welter of epidemic diseases Child mortality is the second

GROWTH

Latin highest America, being exceeded only in Haiti.

AND DEATH

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Name. Address. Peronist President of Brazli, Hector C The arms build up by the military regime in Brazil is continuing at break- neck speed with US support. Washington sees Brazil both as a main field for investment and as the policeman of Latin America. The country is teem- ing with American technicians and advisers. A major portion of the bud- get of General Emelio Garras- tazu Medici's government goes on armaments. Their share of expenditure in 1972 was 18.7 per cent. Forty-eight FSE fighter- bombers are to be added to the air force at a cost of over $100m. Fighters are also being manufactured under licence from the Italian Agusta Com- pany. Last year 16 Mirage 111E jets were bought from France and four Hawker. HS125s from Britain. The army has recently bought a large number of self- propelled guns from the US for use in border areas. Many of its needs are now supplied factories manu- by Brazilian under facturing weapons foreign patents; more sophis- equipment, ticated such as radar systems, guided missiles, tanks and armoured cars are purchased abroad. new English edition of the 'First A Years of the Communist International' in corporating hitherto unpublished materia from Volume XIII of Trotsky's Works'

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He has alerted the army on Argentine border.

Hector Campora. The Soviet Union is hoping modern submarines Three increase to its business with have been brought from Britain Brazil's military regime during recently to add to a navy which the coming year. has mine-sweepers, destroyers It has already supplied part and cruisers. The next step for of the equipment for the new Brazil's military is to have its Capivara 652,000 KW power own nuclear weapons. station and has signed a con- This has been confirmed by tract to purchase 75,000 tons Walt Rostow, formerly adviser of Brazilian coffee. President Lyndon Johson By these deals the Soviet and now at the University of bureaucracy is making it easier Texas, who said recently: for the Brazilian military 'Brazil is on the way to be- to overcome prob- oligarchy power and coming a nuclear lems resulting from the coun thus is a potential danger to dependence on imperial- try's its neighbours.' This means ism. that credits The political purpose behind have to be earned to pay pro- to foreign and the strengthening the fits enterprise Brazilian armed forces is the debt held to to service enable revolutionary move- abroad. ments in Latin America to be By opening up a market for Brazilian Soviet US goods, the suppressed without direct bureaucracy also helps to intervention, shield this satellite of US im- In 1965 Brazil sent artillery perialism from the effects of to back up the landing of US the trade war. It holds out Dominican marines in the attractive prospects to Brazil- Republic. In 1971 it aided the businessmen and strength- ian Juan José military coup of a regime which murders Torres Bolivia. It backed in and represses all its opponents.

Uruguayan reaction against the Moscow radio A commen- Broad Front and well Illay tator spoke approvingly of the have intervened had there, the development mission for been a left-wing election of trade which Brazilian capi- victory. talists are opening in Moscow.

the border The army on Brazil is to organize a trade is the with Argentina on fair in a number of east Euro- the coming to including alert since the pean countries, power of the Peronist President Soviet Union, later this year. Hector Campora. It has jet In the Soviet Union return helicopters, observation planes will open a trade and indus- and bombers, tanks and artil- Sao Paulo trial exhibition in lery at the ready. in two or three months time.

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TODAY'S TV

BBC 1

9.38-11.25 Schools. 12.55 Llwybrau'r wlad. 1.25 News. Weather. 1.30 Joe. 2.20 Schools. 4.00 Huckleberry hound. 4.10 Play school. 4.35 Jack- anory. 4.50 Blue Peter. 5.15 Man dog. 5.45 Wombles. 5.45 News. Weather.

6.00 NATIONWIDE.

6.50 TOP OF THE FORM.

7.15 Z CARS. Co-operation.

8.00 PANORAMA.

9.00 NEWS. Weather. 9.25 PLAY FOR TODAY: 'Bloom- ing Youth'. Three men and a woman share a flat in London.

Devised and directed by Leslie Blair. Produced by Tony Garnett.

10.40 THE MOVIE QUIZ.

117.10 THE SINGING TRAIN.

Journey along the Ffestiniog Railway in Wales.

11.35 LATE NIGHT NEWS.

11.40 HOMES AND THE HOME-

• LESS. The House and the City.

12.05 Weather.

BBC 2

11.00-11.25 Play school. 5.25 Open University. 7.30 NEWS SUMMARY. Weather.

7.35 INSIDE MEDICINE.

8.00 THE HIGH CHAPARRAL. For the Love of Carlos.

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 1.15 News. 1.30 London.

2.00 Schools. 2.30 Women. 3.00 Lon- don. 6.00 News. 6.15 Survival. 6.45 London. 10.33 Stanley Baxter. 11.00 Towards the vear 2000. 11.23 Protec- tors. 11.50 News. weather.

WESTWARD. As Channel except: 10.05 Rovers. Danger 9.30 London. 10.30 Port of Hong Kong. 10.40 11.30 Whicker. 12.05 London. man. 12.37 Gus Honeybun. 6.00 Diary. 6.20 Sports desk. '6.35 Date with Danton.

11.03 Happiness business. Epilogue.

SOUTHERN:

Hammy Hamster. 10.05 Yoga. 10.40 Galloping Dyke. 2.30 Houseparty. 3.00 London.

6.00 Day by day. 6.45 London. 10.30 ancisco ero Farmingeets, Afloat. San Francisco. Farming. 12.25 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.30 London. 2.00 At your service. 2.30 Dateline. 3.00 Lon- don. 4.25 London. 6.01 Report West.

6.22 Report Wales. 6.45 London. 10.30 Film: of Blood'. Corridors 12.05 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as above except. 2.30-3.00 Hamdden. 6.01-6.22 Y dyda. 8.30 Yr wythnos. HTV West as above except: 6.22-6.45 This is the West this week.

ANGLIA: 11.00 Cartoon. 11.10 Gal- Simon loping gourmet. 11.35 Locke. 12.04 News. 12.05 London. 2.00 2.30 At your service. House-

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ACTON: Monday June 18, 8 p.m.

'Six Bells', High . Street, W.3. 'Build the revolutionary party. democratic rights'. Defend 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 resign. A Labour Tories To government must nationalize major industries". MEDWAY: Monday June 18, 8 p.m. 'The York', next to Chat- ham Station. 'Forward to the All Trades Unions Alliance con- ference' WIGAN: Tuesday June 19, 7.30 Hotel. 'Defend p.m. Market democratic rights. Come to Belle Vue'. BATTERSEA: Tuesday June 19, , Wandsworth Road. sign. Return a Labour govern- ment policiey, Pledged to socialist BRIXTON: Tuesday June 19, 8 Training Control p.m. Centre, Room. 'Force the Tories to re- sign. Return a Labour govern- policies Pledged socialist ment to 9.30 Schools. 10.06 Friend of the blind. 10.25 Barbican regained. 10.45 World War I. 11.10 Wild life theatre. 11.35 Galloping gourmet. 12.00 Car- toon. 12.05 Rainbow. 12.25 Up and down, in and out, roundabout man. 12.40 First report. 1.00 Melody inn.

1.30 Emmerdale farm. 2.00 Jokers wild. 2.30 Good afternoon. 3.00 Do- ing things. 3.25 A family at war. 4.25 Clapperboard. 4.50 Tomorrow people.

5.20 Thirty minutes Worth. 5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY.

6.40 DAVID NIXON SHOW.

7.30 CORONATION STREET.

8.00 MY GOOD WOMAN.

8.30 WORLD IN ACTION.

9.00 HUNTER'S WALK. Outcast.

10.00 NEWS AT TEN.

10.30 WILD, WILD

WEST. The Night of the Avaricious Actuary. 11.30 ART OF THE CRAFT. China Restoration.

12.00 WORLD WAR I.

12.25 Periscope.

8.50 FACE THE MUSIC.

.25 THE TWO RONNIES. Guest: Georgie Fame and Alan Price

10.10 FOR LOVE OR MONEY?

11.00 NEWS EXTRA. Weather.

11.30 OPEN DOOR. Street Farmers Academic The Council for and Democracy, Freedom Teachers in Dentistry. party. 3.00 i London 100 Gre inglia Refection. Film: 'Miami Expose. 12.20 ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London. 12.00 Guide. 12.05 service. 2.30 London. Today. 6.45 London. 10.30 Romantic versus classic art. 12.00 Epilogue. Weather. ULSTER: 12.05 London. 1.28 News.

1.30 London. 2.00 Let's face it. 2.30 Cartoon. 2.40 3.00 Komper room. London. 4.23 News. 4.25 London. 6.00 News. don't 6.10 Please eat the 6.35 Cartoon. 6.45 London. daisies. 10.30 Assembly platform. 11.30 Mon- day night. 11.40 Theatre.

YORKSHIRE: 9.30 London. 10.06 Katie Stewart cooks. 10.30 Ed Allen 10.55 Manfred. 11.05 Preten- time. London. ders.. 11.35 Primus. 12.05 2.00 At your service. 2.30 London.

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SCOTTISH: 10.55 Yoga. 11.20 Bell- bird. 11.35 Last stand. 12.00 Babar. 12.05 London. 2.00 At your service. 2.30 London. 6.00 Toga Late 6.30 6.45 London. stairs. 11.35 c 10.30 Songs for your delight. King. 12.00 Allen. 6.00 Strictly Scottish. London. 10.30 Romantic classic art. versus 11.00 Challenge. 11.30 Odd couple.

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DAGENHAM: Tuesday June 19, LA 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue. Force the Tories to resign. A Labour government nationalize major indus- must 18, 8 tries'. CLYDEBANK: Tuesday June 19, 7.30 p.m. Co-op Hall, Hume Street, Clydebank. 'Fight the rent Act. Throw the Tories out.'

BACUP: Wednesday, June 20, door). Rising Prices, the Tories to Resign.' Force DEWSBURY: Wednesday June 20, 7.30 p.m. Textile Hall. 'Forward to All Trades the Unions Alliance conference.'

HACKNEY: Wednesday June 20, 8 Parlour Room, Central p.m. Hall, Mare Street. 'Labour must nationalize major industries'.

LIVERPOOL: Wednesday, June 2nn, 7.30 p.m. 'The Westminster , Westminster Road, Walton.

'Defend democratic rights!

For- ward to the ATUA conference!'

Wednesday

SOUTHAMPTON:

June 20, 7.30 p.m. Temperance Crescent, 'nr Carlton Institute, T&GWU. headquarters. SWINDON: Wednesday June 20, 7.30 р.m. Co-op Hall, East Street. 'Down with the pay laws. TUC must break off Phase Three talks.' £6 bonus promise at Gardner's

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

OVER 2,000 Manchester engineers return to work today at L. Gardner's and Son, the diesel engine manu- facturers. After a 13-week dispute they have not won a pay increase because of the state wage controls, but management has agreed to increase their bonus by £6 as soon as Phase Two ends.

There are lease retarde less what Phase Three brings, we are get convenor Eddie Ankers said. 'This pledge has been made realizing even

TUSK

Subpoenaed for breaking the pay He added: 'Some men are management Indy done the faced but it thes they will dis- face another Anolner im vortant concession shop stewards is a management mately one-quarter of the piece- Wher bas rate of 24a week.

workers system is out to come October, but ste- for wards be pressing Wil Convenor Eddie Ankers immediate neconanons. this agreement the management the re- Despite press workers the piecework Gardner's been trapped by the Tory Si unLulli nave arrangement. dis- However, the Gardner's pute Said Eddie Ankers: 'The hos- reveals once more a dan- gerous tendency, throughout the gasworkers engineering union. to accept the came arainst covern- ment and backed o collapsed. pay laws in practice. l ne miners either had to sign this 'We agreement

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October. would taking on the government

LEAGUE LECTURES

even core dock ernment as one factory, only as a nation.' Liverpool The which in- bitter dispute. cluded an occupation, has radi- given by Peter Jeffries altered attitudes in the tactory. Sunday June 24 Gardner's workers refused to Trade Unions and political join the wave of Manchester struggle in Britain sit-ins over the engineers' Sunday July 8 claim last year. Instead they Chartism, yesterday and today Gardner's' award. only Sunday July 15 a 100 per paid if men cent weekly attendance. The Revolutionary Party and the British working class Stewards hope the militancy shown during the latest dispute Today they will io at Stanley Halls Upper Parliament Street 3 p.m.

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LEAGUE LECTURES

Barnsley Given by Gerry Healy National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League 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. Press, Monday June 18, 1973 PAGE 11

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Chrysler 'secret talks' end in deadlock - Parity lock-out goes on at Peterborough No compromise at LP and miners' chiefs create confusion PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday June

SECRET TALKS

between Chrysler convenors and man- agement have ended with no prospect of a compromise, negotiated settlement. The talks, arranged after con- tacts between Jack Jones, Trans- Workers' General port and Union secretary, and the com- no change in produced pany, Chrysler's position. Picketing, therefore, continued strongly over the weekend with strikers from the Ryton assembly maintaining plant their block- ade of the company's second Coventry works, the engine plant at Stoke.

BY OUR OWN F

MANAGEMENT of Perkins factory where 5,700 workers ar compromise in their oppositi parent Massey Ferguson plant i WRIGHT ... Dispute goes on miners'

THE

YORKSHIRE

gala brought out more evi- dence of the crisis of leader- ship within the labour and trade union movement. Bill Simpson, this year's La- bour Party chairman and toun- dry workers' leader, spoke for the trade union faction on the Labour NEC in defending the 25-company nationalization pro- posal against Wilson and the right wing. 'As Party chairman I stand by the decision taken by the NEC and will fight for that decision'.

Transport House should mount

BRITISH

paratroopers army shortly to be pulled out of South Armagh, Northern Ireland, plan a series of 'revenge' killings be- fore they leave. This was alleged at the week- end by the Social Democratic and Labour Party MP for the area, Paddy O'Hanlon, in a statement issued in Newry. said that according O'Hanion to information he has received the past few days, at during least seven civilian may be killed Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office, Published by Workers Clapham High Street, Press, 186a 7UG. Printed Plouon Press Plough Newadesk: 01-622 7029. photographs of the

BY DAVID MAUDE

It was TrUe picket lines had been taken on behalf. He company s Pat Powell, sheet metal wor- company make …Tne comsensali all' the workers for all their loss beaust kers' union y on company wanted to establish ll of related to earnings accused the not employed by CUL CaLy pople GITere holiday attempting ofl werken une loce agreclchl. DIUS lIC involved in the picketing morernt with its hard- ane tor the spring honday. pay Chrysler's is other words, line stance. the whole issue ı think De. hind Chrysler's attitude is their He said: "The trade union new witch-hunt against trade weaken the strikers. position We mave louid alicmDi no basis whatsoever for a return union movement.' ho 'ugodd disere* Its claims to work. Meanwhile Chrysler's. wilci have thoroughly beet was week accused of 'Ml! strike on ana is as «ITeN as erilde DrOVOC0 We tactics' deter- shop stewards, admit Now it is seeking SORd ever are propa- company mined prevent decision the Te• lO aonolo avner ganda backing for ving the take people take pictures of the picket DeNK WOrKerS res stance lines. arbitrarily. off the clock arbitrary lay-off and speed-up or A spokesman, Peter Vey, said shut down. 'We are also determined to

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

Perkins MANAGEMENT of Perkins Diesel, the Peterborough factory where 5,700 workers are locked out, have refused to compromise in their opposition to wage parity with the Department of Employment which tried to mediate In nearly 12 hours of two sides. the

LW CEH

talks in London on Satur- accompanied WrenT was day they rejected union on the union side Amal- leaders' proposals for a gamated Union of Engineer- Workers' district end the

SCCIC-

compiolse Shaw and tary DICK Tans. lock-out which began on Ponion natonal alite and General Workers' Wednesday last week. Moss Wright, executive Bob ovars. The shop stewards' council member of the was not represented mittee Amalgamated Union of Lic lalks. Engineering Workers, who Management representatives led the union side at the were Tesr direster, Jayne, industrial talks, said: It is quite Massey relations clear the company is not reteuuson, DIl Ivearus. oCt. willing to make any posi- sonnel and industrial rela- EVANS .. . Joined talks tions director, Perkins Peter- The dis- mave comu annenl. Yates, Gerry pute goes on.' could return, they said, only alu Inensuna rea os n•amare he average wage diieren- when the ban Was of Perkins. tial between Wright said Satur- reteroorou n and Coventry plants is about the

PICKETS

maintained their day's meeting that round-the-clock yigil the £20. The says at compant were nor ocsaico to ıctull in dribs and drabs'. tactories paying ine marker lale 101 reterborouk the East Anglian area. He expected support from throncnout tre weekena an the recinan ard tont- the demand for the Perkins workers for Monty director, parity win the covenury lac union s posiuon. muey mave doll. tory which sparked the takich is a mrin tse taken stand issue remained adamant. on an When he The company's dispute. their Acill white-collar who wage TaST ameenent Lan oul Salo unaffected the beginning April, Because lar been

OT N

sovener tave the Peterborough Phase Two policies, the dispute, Grave

…IOH

been told carry union ban the union had not ocsal UVCILIlC that can cards hey support of parity. SO a O•OSon Acrouald After weeks, wage rise. the think Icenecy temselvcs

CL U

Nallase. claimed produc- company have exploited thi pickets. ment that Prichard insisted that the fallen 30 poste lengri Wright said. had

LOR

'neces- has been cent output and sutdown OI TUlE Sune mueewnd closed the factory. The men London was arranged by the sary'.

FROM ROYSTON BULL IN WAKEFIELD

called on Toe same coverer , fow s and the industriat elatipn.

repeal the rent Act, for a 'debate' without in support called a campaign of te regardless the rancour. proposals,

ACL

olalincu leading Party members. coal ex- fuel policy including The role of the unions in the panton Simpson said this crisis was touched was a very econonle said: must be clearly critical time in the policy making Arthur Scargill, newiv. will of the next Labour elected Yorkshire

NUM

and National president es- une erstood Inal we tolerate any further reduction in that the failures i the previol dent, our standards of living We will added our covernmen mast nor oe romnuey.

OLICV

LU stand idly by the repeated; and that Conference confusion by failing to denounce and scc October must decide the the TUC-Heath talks or to call of 1972 whittled nara-won gains bring away by legislation of the Tory for down necessarv new policles. Call balsu lU the Tory government. government. But neither he nor Anthonv how the did not sav described DUL Ne Wedgwood Benn, speaking Scargill C how The Tory government's attack was to Nottingham, would name Tories were ruthlessly attaking thrown back, and his remark Wilson, should be the existence of democracy say what 'We conflict' ycty do not want done about the right wing. Both ae mace non ricas, our cc disarms the connoleter WOrKIe class the face of this on- Paras plan revenge killings-Ulster MP slaught. In the same way, his call the next Labour government I01 bette del demnd for useless

BY OUR OWN

Meanwhile, as the Provisional without demand wor-

IRA

formally denied

CORRESPONDENT

kers' contro of the industrv.

sibility for the killing of Michael Gormley warned the govern- before the paratroopers are with- W SOnArolter» nena ment about interfering with free Defence Association leader «rawn Trom solm ArmauR BıusI but said nothing Tommy information Herron, new Icsutlaliulls. over a month's time. UDA's a00ut Takne e borca en emerged about the •1 have positive knowledge that sive force the Tories to volvement in protection activities.

have paratroopers restle ended by justifying his own a nuinc in people Herron has admitted

UDA

vowed

. IO SI00T

area before they leave', he added.

public houses do pay same rolA- - we have the onled but tives as you'-and blaming the denies this is for protection, A memorandum on the alleged working class for electing a Tory killings which said to •a protection racket. plans, been following government. conceived have He continues to claim TaISO the deaths or solders In DooDy that the Provisionals are respon- traps and mine explosions DOCKS shop stewards' meet sible for Wilson's death. Ulster being sent to the 'ories Ihree weeks ume to olscuss tael Secretary, William Whitelaw.

On far attitude to the increasing use of Saturday Fighters right casual", supplementrilbury in 'Ulster Freedom The document aso claims that Kici paratroopers planted explosives napped and murdered sevelal DOLLs. Illas. Beleek to Catholic from Andersonstown, meting has demanded a national house so al d that killing was a against the threat to claiming justify arrests of the people who reprisal for Wilson's death.

job-security. lived there.

TONIGHT

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETING

Issues facing Chrysler workers Monday June 18 7.30 p.m.

THE ELASTIC INN

COX STREET

COVENTRY

WORKERS at British-Ley- land's Cowley, Oxford, car factories begin their third full week laid off today with the company maintaining its hard-line refusal to upgrade 80 plant attendants. Talks involving top union officials and management repre- sentatives on Friday folded up after Leyland insisted it would make no improvement in its latest offer. So 12,000 workers will remain laid off. The plant attendants, who struck on June 1 after exhaust- procedure and giving two weeks' notice of industrial action, want a declaration that they will be moved into the lower of two Tory skilled grades when the pay laws allow. The company has turned this demand down flat. It has offered on the men's present semi- skilled rate, at the time of the next annual pay review, plus investi- joint union-management gation of whether a further 2p should be paid. At their meeting last week this was rejected by the striker!

despite favourable attitude at national level union officials -the engineers' Reg Birch and Moss Evans of the Transport and General Workers' Union. On Friday Birch Evans and travelled to Oxford, apparently with the intention of recommend- ing acceptance of the already- rejected offer at a meeting with the plant attendants in the Cow- ley factory. Letters announcing the meet- ing, signed by the company's in- had dustrial relations manager, been delivered to the strikers the previous day had agreed But the at their meeting last week not to meet again until this Wednesday, and that they would be notified of any change in these by the shop arrangements stewards' committee. All but a handful disregarded the manage- ment's letters and no meeting with Birch and Evans took place.

In later talks the company, led by industrial relations director Pat Lowry, stood firm on its 2p offer. Leyland later issued a state- ment accusing shop stewards of taking 'deliberate steps to sabo- tage the meeting [with Birch and Evans] by putting pressure on the men to stay away. Dougie Hobbs, secretary of the joint shop stewards' committee, told the 'Oxford Mail' there had been no consultation with the stewards about the management letters calling the meeting.

He dismissed the company's allegations sabotage. There of was no ill feeling between the shop stewards and the national officials, he said.

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE MEETING

BLACKBURN

'The Peel Hotel' (Town Centre) p.m. Monday - June 25, 8 (Please date change) note 'Build the Revolutionary Party'