Workers Press no. 1102

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JUNE 19, 1973 • No 1102 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Early-morning picket-line battle 40,000 rail jobs to go SIR SIDNEY GREENE, leader of "We will have a look at it. But

CHRYSLER

the National Union of Railway. we're not against modernization gave cautious That's the idea of modernization.

men. vesteroRy welcome to the British Rail your wife want have calls for the sack- washing machine, don't vou?

ing of 40.000 rail workers Press conference BR chairman Richard Marsh said he Reporters at British Rail head- would be asking the Tory quarters, Marylebone, were dumb- when Greene placidly ment 101 th/oom over the nine years to 1981. commented: It is better than we expected.

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CALL IN THE SCABS

FROM IAN YEATS

IN COVENTRY

FOUR THOUSAND men at Chrysler's Stoke plant, Coventry, are near certain to vote for strike action at a mass meet- ing today after scabs attacked a mill.

wright and crashed through picket lines. This will bring the number of men on strike at Chrysler's Coventry plants to over 8,000. Millwright John Doherty (37) was working in the factory at 3 a.m. yesterday morning when he heard noises and went to investigate.

Later he said he was chased by a gang. of men with east London accents and beaten with a spanner. Earlier the men entered the Stoke works by smashing the chains on a side gate and hacking a hole in a wire mesh perimeter tence with special cutters. They manoeuvred three tractors into the works and just after 3 a.m., with the full co-operation of the Chrysler security guards, drove across picket lines at 40 mph towing trailers packed with car engines. Pickets and police jumped clear as the drivers made their getaway hurling bottles, bricks and iron bars at Rvton workers who moved to stop Them. All 100 millwrights at Stoke struck work imme- diately yesterday in protest at the cold-blooded assault on John Doherty. Trade union leaders at the plant went into emer.

session and decided to call a mass meeting gency for 11 a.m. today. Ryton shop stewards retaliated to Chrysler's new tactics by withdrawing the last remaining safety their plant and completely sealing off men trom SCAB LORRY overturned in a field after unsuccessfully trying to break out of Chrysler's Stoke plant in Coventry.

the Stoke works with strengthened pickets.

Chrysler issued a statement at lunchtime yesterday admitting they hired contractors All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights move me ensues our aenvine al knowledge of violence. The three lorries without num-

BELLE VUE

ber plates were cuscovered police overturned and smashed Meadow, Ryton. En- Sines were scattered arouna te He d T&GWU convenor Mr Pat Fox wno was on te picket une wnen scab lorries burst through the told Workers Press: terrible thing it ndus. trial in this have sunk to a level where man- atement have •ror to me tours. Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

"This the American system of strike breaking. They come Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history nere to terrorize the pickets and possibly provoke the Stoke Tickets £1: Available from R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, Salford 7, Manchester.

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JUNE 19, 1973 • No 1102 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Early-morning picket-line battle 40,000 rail jobs to go SIR SIDNEY GREENE, leader of 'We will have a look at it. But

CHRYSLER

the National Union of Railway we're not against modernization.

gave cautious That's the idea of modernization.

mel. vesterta welcome to the British Rail You your wife want have review which calls for the sack- washing machine. don't vou? ing of 40,000 rail workers.

conference BR AT Press chairman Richard Marsh said he Reporters at British Rail head- would be asking the Tory govern- quarters, Marylebone, were dumb- founded when Greene placidly ments o zl,/ vum over the nine years to 1981. commented: It is better than we expected.

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CALL IN THESCABS

FROM IAN YEATS

IN COVENTRY

FOUR THOUSAND men at Chrysler's Stoke plant, Coventry, are near certain to vote for strike action at a mass meet- ing today after scabs attacked a mill.

wright and crashed through picket lines. This will bring the number of men on strike at Chrysler's Coventry plants to over 8,000. Millwright John Doherty (37) was working in the factory at 3 a.m. yesterday morning when he heard noises and went to investigate.

Later he said he was chased by a gang. of men with east London accents and beaten with a spanner. Earlier the men entered the Stoke works by smashing the chains on a side gate and hacking a hole in a wire mesh perimeter tence with special cutters. They manoeuvred three tractors into the works and just atter 3 a.m.. with the full co-operation of the Chryster security guards, arove across pickel car lines al tu mpn lowing tallers packea witn engines. Pickets and police jumped clear as the drivers made their getaway hurling bottles, bricks and iron bars at Kvton workers wno moved to stop All 100 millwrights at Stoke struck work imme- diately yesterday in protest cold-blooded at the assault on John Doherty. 'Trade union leaders at the plant went into emer.

session and decided to call a mass meeting gency Ior 11 a.m. today. Ryton shop stewards retaliated to Chrysler's new tactics by withdrawing the last remaining safety their plant and completely sealing off trom SCAB LORRY overturned in a field after unsuccessfully trying to break out of Chrysler's Stoke plant in Coventry.

the Stoke works with strengthened pickets.

Chrysler issued a statement at lunchtime yesterday admitting they hired contractors move the engines but denving all All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights knowledge of violence. The three lorries without num-

BELLE VUER

ber Dater were •uscovered police overturned and smashed at Church Meadow, Ryton. were scattered around the cines He o T&GWU convenor Mr Pat Fox who was on the picket line when the scab lorries burst through told Workers Press: 'It's a terrible thing if indus. trial in this have sunk to a level where man- archical nave Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

"This the American system of strike breaking. They Colle Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history here to terrorize the pickets and possibly to provoke the Stoke Tickets £1: Available from R. Smith, 60 Wellington Street West, Salford 7, Manchester.

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overshadow Brezhnev Will central banks sell their gold?

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday June BR chairman Richard Marsh yesterda

BY JOHN SPEN

WITH SOVIET Stalinist leader Leonid Brezhnev in Washington for a week of talks, President Nixon is facing the most dangerous week yet in the Watergate bugging investigations. John Dean III, the man he topple Nixon DEAN: Could he with evidence?

THE QUESTION

of central banks selling gold on the free market was raised at the meet- ing of the Bank for Interna- in Basle, tional Settlements Switzerland yesterday. At present central banks are committed to buy and sell gold among themselves and at only the 'official' price of $42 an ounce. The free market price in London yesterday morning was $122 an ounce. For many months the gold stocks of central banks have been effectively frozen because they refused to settle debt pay- ments at the official price. At for the private road hauliers who being BR to slash determinedly against the industry. Millions of com- oI tons will switched The гO20S wake of these decisions. 40,000 jobs united and un- bea must flinching fight against these Not 1Oly Plans job must be lost There must no Beeching: Deal peat of the disastrous job the pits; and no losses In in eight years the ›0,00 Jobs axe inreatening the steel 1965 there wele solic 47,000 drivers and second. N The only 27,000 leaders have neco• tiated away 20,000 jobs. THE BRITISH Rail ways by either cutting man-

BY OUR OWN

power or services. must be Telicals Board yesterday re- stopped at once.

CORRESPONDENT

seems that the board They can only be vealed plans to slash opted for the naive SuD• has to unite all ped tinue by a nght TO be providea k as policy of trying the labour force on long the railwavmen against the lory 40,000 jobs social government. the railways by more considers that wastage' while preserving Tories are the main track mileage. cleulon. the same than 40,000 over the their policies Under instructions from and his advisers Peyton Bri- next eight years. recommended that had livelihoods of tens reviewing troll thousands of The plan does not mean 1971. mureaze Icauccu workers rail

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sunce 11,000 to 7,000; there were Yesterday's the rails, on track report is an In steel, any reduction even more moat the shiar verification docks and in pits. almost total „Tse mileage, according to Bri- board in- mands stop the Cuts means which Rail chairman, Rich- appeared tish of vestigate AeLWOrK fight against govern- the Sunday Times' former ard Marsh, the 3,000 miles. muenl. •LO Labour Transport Minis- attack ferocious elect Labour govern- resulted ints railmen's jobs sectives recog- pledged detectives undas

WEILCIS

that large of policies. But there clear on the Times' and be include hundreds of miles 'Railway Gazette'. threat to alc Sinese must la- 'phased out' tionalization docks Minister John now that com- _the track Transport

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Market membership workers control in the mon small print. Peyton, mem Det tre been achieved. steel industry and Monday Club, insisted that uneconomic Nas DiLS Days railways. massive savings on the rail- It also means a bonanza tne passenger services wim con Dean evidence will Deflation moves in Italy ITALY is in an unprecedented economic crisis. ponucal anc sacked as White House coun- The country has had no govern- ment for a sel, is due to take the witness week and political Senate the stand instability has led to a loss of Lody Watergate and his committee confidence in the lira. evidence could blow the Presi- Employers and bankers are now dent right out of office calling for attacks on the savage testified be- Dern Has arcady Itallan working Class hind closed doors to the Senate's Fanfani, Amintore former investigators, giving answers leader of Italy's Christian Demo. public different from any secretary ty Culte was eecteo doe new given secretary his party yesterday. testimony covernment has said that he will tell Jean yesterday discuss anti-in- Nixon that flationary Consider able •rOseCulors an ted to campaign provide tension. $1m to buy the silence Since reoruare wael Water- convicted seven Italian currency was floated, the gate lira has than 30 per cent against the mest declined in value He also his has spoken conversations with German Deutschmark, and lost President Nixon about the cover- 27 between 24 and per cent on average against other currencies.

up or tne Snlouse role According to the 'New Dean has also Italy has risen by cent linked Nixon with the burglary Ehrlichman and Haldeman 'two of the finest public servants, in the last 12 months. Nixon. Now he might blame them Ellsberg's psychiatrist according to for everything. anie The Bank of Italv announced in 1970. an increase in the upward sliding Haldeman and Ehrlichman re- Dean he told that other sources, says was Tne scale interest rates for com- said Nixon had dis- signed their White House posts the for the orders break-in— lcwspayes on April 30 Watergate. Dean merical banks which make more over part position oi a wider plan Ior bugging Caraca 11S his inan one loan request wilnın al and illegal surveillance of Nixon's was fred from Which ne describec the two aides

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al lult period of six months. from R. (Bob) Haldeman and John same time. opponents -came wnlle Nixon's post Dollica. tion in the Watergate affair gets The Bank of Italv said that the 'two the finest Oince, the Oval worse almost hourly his Stalinist channelling of a large amount of for Nixon. public servants' he had known funds the bond market would to Fear Dean's testimony has No longer asserting non- guest renales compieleiy UR - the possibility involvement the spreading perturbed. the forced undertake in Buve ur casuly It remains to be how- new scandal, Nixon will seen, oI Inancing Isell inrougn dramatic Shitt in une grounos Vy alertal bond issues and limit the creation presidential of the his self-defence. Acording to the acknowledge whether the eforts

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Cvel. Washington Post' the President judgement based on misinforma- Kremlin new money. bureaucract Will and on unauthorized action enough to keep President Nixon These measures are The be. to claim that he

HOW

Was White House once Dean ginning deflationary measures aides, misled by his aides. the un the two senior tne

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which will mean massiye attacks Quoting White House and 'Post' said. nas spoken tne standara or living or lae Italian working class. della Sera', which speaks on beait of the "Corriere employers, said yesterday that the only cure for the devaluation of Acceptance of the free market contain upward pressure une a woue demane sacrances.

the centrai meeting some "The huge apparatus of public bankers urged the United States gold price would have an is "bevond the reach the unemploy- selling its gold reserves mediate effect on the market in government authority i of to- especially to begin at strained and fluid world ment Euro-dollars, which benents Shoulo De ous- on occe mantled. A They claimed desperate BIS meeting admitted is oui Thic Ine Layo profitable firms, public jointly would lead to of control. which s measure "une gold owned by a syndicate of central private should be abandoned to the price and in Otmar Emminger, the vice- that the their destiny. People should banks, also time president Bundesbank, Stable e Tre

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convinced that they have pay of floating dollar on international was extremely sceptical presen auricenent markets. chances of bringing it un- currency values will continue the real costs of public services money for some given the The ne stapped faim berine- met with oppo- der time, cuestion

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should stopped from becom- the US, BIS says sition from renort the of governments to return Lance clared it had intention of that 'authorities almost Bold to nxed exchange rales. ine nome scrouneere mue umons policy. countries practice It is pessimistic about the pros- must be asked for their help to changing its But 'more stable mone- dissuade people from premature is likev to he couchet

LICSCIVES

retirement, the 36-hour week and the International Monetary standards performance the future. Fund's Committee of 20 containing inflation'. saying 'the way ahead is ob- meets people snoula stay al telr Jods, the capacity to in one factory in one area.'

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Big banking marriage nears Fleet Street pressure to end 'engagement'

BY ALEX MITCHELL

BRITAIN'S biggest-ever banking merger between Slater Walker Securities and Hill Samuel received a crushing lambasting yesterday

IRRITATED

from the Fleet Street Press.

The £1,500m merger plans will be decided at a meeting in the City of London on Thursday. The issues raised in a series of articles in the 'Sunday Times', now repeated by the 'Daily Telegraph' and the 'Daily Mail', mean that not only is the merger in jeopardy, but a public inquiry is deman- ded. gest single finance and banking Business News staff of the 'Sun Britain, Last the group bold head- Monopolies Com- paper stated This financial affair terred to 'Shareholders nue. politically explosive because no. It went on: The man who took the founding partner of the 'On Thursday, not have monopolies sion Slatel Walker's Walker Slater Walker is was Peter the the Hill Samue operation ofter to acquire Slater ex-partner Group will expire. Peter Walker, the Trade and mionate Walker. We have been opposed to Industry Secretary, and 'Daily Telegraph' City editor this from the beginning, leading member of Heath's Kenneth Fleet said vesterdav. t anol exactive examina. Cabinet. is a deal that ought not to tion, we remain opposed. We re- through, certainly not convinced this take- on main that Hill Samuel the debatable also has referred to LerTIs arreca. over snould UnC Commission greater disservice Monopolies for closest connections with the wno 1s aoing te his his shareholders Sor Mer lth careful scrutiny on the grounds Party. Tory Two aru (Hill Samuel) or of size alone. Sir the chairman, Kenneth Keith, and his directors "The merger of Britain's two gave ing through the merger.' largest merchant banks to form £25,000 to Tory tunds. "Telegraph' The broadside with The central anxiety is that the comes alter unree consecuave certainiv warrants merger, which creates thẹ lar- blasts against the merger by the more than a cursory dismissal.' No decision on role of Maxwell at Pergamon

MAXWELL,

ROBERT

founder and former chairman of Pergamon Press, was neither rejected nor accepted in the bid to get back on the board at an indecisive extraordinary general meet- ing yesterday. After a call from the Ameri- editors of Pergamon Press can US Jim Slater (left) of Slater Walker and Sir Kenneth Kelth of HIll Samuel... Marriage off?

journals for Maxwel lo stay on in his £16,000-a-year consult- ancy position, the meeting decided unanimously to deier a Monday Club split: aecision inaennitely. It was disclosed that the proxy decisively against the yoting former Labour MP Expulsion moves today at Ior Slough out Tols was discounted after the defer- ment.

JONATHAN

GUINNESS,

The US editors of won the success Pergamon largely chairman of the Monday depends, called for deferment Club, will move the expul- until either the forthcoming the report Coman sion of the club's Essex Department of Trade and Indus- Inspectors published or branch at today's national Lu y Stock Ex- until it recalls executive committee meeting.

change quotation. Marvellergo on and the hime said yesterday it was Guinness man time Pergamon will 'fairly likely' his resolution the o a takeover Do ov Amer- be carried. can Leasco company in October 1969

JONATHAN GUINNESS

He pointed out that Mr chairman Leonard LanDerl. CBI chiefs see Heath the Essex branch, was expelled membership from national two weeks ago. Affairs Minister Sir Lambert was expelled for

CONFEDERATION

Consumer Howe. withdraw an invitation Geoffrey to Me lohn Tyndall, chairman Industry chiefs yesterday met of The meeting sought to establish Tory Ministers to demand free- wing the exteme car National working programme Front, to address a branch meet- dom for profits and prices and series of talks on the economy.

Despite his expulsion ing. no return to collective cerned to uper, they tree were con- claimed membership oi vert bulll open the to way tri- bargaining. virtue of the cunni chalt. manship of the Essex branch. betweet

TUC.

The CBI team- -led by Director- ment, the CBI and the General W. O. Campbell Adamson The CBI leaders claimed to be Lamn the send underesting Edward 'cordial and action Tors 'encouraged'

LIC

Chancellor described Heath together WITh constructive TalKS berween TEne Col• onv Anthony Barber, Employment government and the

TUC

last other example of his 'totalitarian method of leadership'. Secretary Maurice Macmillan, and week. Workers Press, Tue ed, bouncy and back Rhodes holiday, but... AS been a breathless debating point in and London Stock Exchange for the past couple How is Jim Slater's health?

over port in the City clubs they have been asking r the latest medical bulletin. Not a word has crept • pages. Such a thing would be unsporting, not to imental to the shares in Slater's £1,000m financial , Slater Walker Securities.

annual Tuesday An asked or deny his health was bounced to his the pink, present inten- of my with mark I hope I would unsolicited over Greek Times' Slater Walker Sec proposed Walker merchant of the piece of Times' that He told share- be sub No reterance to

HEALEY

No initike-overs Monopolles

WORKERS PRESS

The 'Telegraph' described the atmosphere around the merger as 'a conspiracy of silence' and stated: 'The City's silence has been deafening and of a quality matched only by the Secretary of State for Industry's decision not to refer this merger to the Monopolies.' Kenneth Fleet scathingly accuses the Slater Walker em- pire of 'corporate incest and asset cannibalism on scale never before seen, certainly not here. In the 'Daily Mail' yesterday, city editor Patrick Sergeant said: Today I must hold a candle to shame and consider my my Share of the Year, Slater Walker, my old friend Mr Jim Slater and the disastrous marriage to Sir Keith's Hill Samuel Kenneth: Hill Samuel... Marriage off?

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group which will take place this week unless the shareholders of both come to their senses in time.' Holders of 36.8 per cent of indi- Hill Samuel shares have cated that they will accept the Slater Walker offer at Thurs- day's meeting. This means there be a massive re- will have to stop the deal going volt to through. The savage attacks on the merger by the 'Sunday Times', the "Telegraph' and the 'Mail' are clear evidence that a section of the ruling class are opposed to the free range capitalism of the Jim Slater variety. They see the activities of these entrepreneurs as aggravat- ing the inflationary crisis and producing no real wealth in uel terms of goods and services.

Their editorial attacks amount.

to a declaration of war on the and share certificate money manipulators. Frightened by the revelations about Slater Walker's more bizarrae business dealings, shareholders small have been dumping their holdings. Since April 27, when the merger was announced, the shares in both groups have fallen in value by an enormous 19 per cent. and "Mail Yesterday's in The articles "Telegraph' will only intensify this slide. The fact that is causing deep anxiety in the City is that Slater Walker is the largest single force on the mar- ket. If its value collapses what happens to the rest of the gang?

A share crisis in which share paper values come under the closest scrutiny would be very serious. But one involving Slater Walker and a member of Heath's Cabinet . .

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday Jun 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 A!l 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- • on October 22, 1972, ham launched which 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 Workers Press, the was ATUA National Committee's statement adopted at Birm- ingham last year. In a statement adopted on May 13 by the ATUA 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 esday June 19, 1973 id the policies which will he All Trades Unions e at Belle Vue, Manches- -3 p.m. will more and more disrupt these plans and expose Three of the state Phase pay laws. It is this massive class basis for the launching of struggle which forms the Revolutionary Party. Therefore it is vitally urgent that these new devel- opments, which greatly as- sist the launching of 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 have already delegations gone out. The ATUA calls upon all those workers, who want to end the state pay laws and free negotiations restore for wages between trade unions and employers, to join the demand for break- in of all aks with 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 lo resian. Mr Noel Ring (46) is a Coventry Chrysler wor- ker and Transport and General Workers' Union member: Do you think the present Labour and trade union leaders want to get rid of the Tories? present leaders of the The Labour Party and the

TUC

are not real socialists. They are bureaucrats. They don't represent the working class and its aspirations. They've never tried to achieve any revolutionary Just reforms. Now change, we're going backwards all the time. We've got the Industrial Relations Act and Phases One, Two and Three. We must be going backwards. Are you in favour of building a leadership which will make the Tory government resign? I can't see us getting rid of the Tory government under the present trade union leadership.

The Workers Press has really opened up my eyes. It has ex- posed them for what they really are. see us doing it 1 can't present Labour through the Party leadership, although I'm very conscious of the fact we must try and return a Labour Party to power. Although everyone reading the League's programme will realize this is the road we must take, I think their allegiance the moment is with the Labour Party. Once the Labour Party is in, the next step would be to re- place them with more socialist- minded leaders. What experiences have you had which makes you believe that getting rid of the government is an urgent task? This Tory government has into politics by forced me tying up my wages under the state pay laws and taking away my rights. I'd like to get rid of the pay laws. I'm no different from any other chap on the shop floor who sees this as the first step to the sort of set-up they've got in fascist Spain. I've never really been inter- ested in politics until now.

Alan Gadsby We apologize to Alan Gadsby, Peter !

'We're Coming to Belle Vue discussion picture mix-up yesterday, Peter did n carried with Peter's interview; and Ala in tomorrow's paper. To put the reco Jones and Scanion enter 10 Downing: I've always been class-con- scious, but I'm just an average man who wants to go through life earning a decent living.

I think what's happening in- side Chrysler at the moment must be seen within the con- text of the crisis. Chrysler came over here with their sights set on cheap labour.

This whole business of Measured-Day Work is a cheap form for work of payment done. But it hasn't worked in Chrysler as expected. Their interpretation of flexibility of labour, for example, is not the same as ours. They brought their methods and here - speed - up over flexibility - but they didn't bring the remuneration. We aren't paid anything like what American workers get. What do you think of the TUC's collaboration with the Tory government over the pay laws and Phase Three? I don't think the TUC should collaborate with the Tories in any shape or form. The Tories have taken away through their the various capitalist laws right to free bargaining.

What do you think of Jack Jones' and Hugh Scanlon's support for the talks with the Tories? When I read articles and saw so-called lefts' pictures of like Jones and Scanlon run- ning in and out of 10 Downing Street and hob-nobbing with all the prominent members of the Tory government, I be- came disillusioned with them.

I ask myself, who are they representing? They tell the working class one thing, but what goes on inside 10 Down- ing Street is another. I think the Communist Party builds up Jones and Scanlon because they are not themselves. revolutionaries You have got to look at the Soviet Union to understand the Communist Party in this country. Peter King y, Peter King andSid Ledward, three comrade Belle Vue', , currently running on pages 4 and ter did not appear, though his interview wi ; and Alan's picture with Sid's interview. Alan' the record straight we print the pictures of th Downing Street for talke with Heath.

With all our demonstrations and protests here's Feather and the rest of them discussing Phase Three with the Tories.

We know it had no impact.

The basic democratic rights of the working class are under attack. How can the working class be united to defend these rights? I don't think we can do any- thing now without fighting and that means looking forward to this new revolutionary party which are hoping the we Socialist Labour League will be able to transform itself into.

This is the only decisive way we can go about things. I don't want to be tied to state pay laws. The days of protest are over. I see the tutility of one-day protests. l don't think they've had any impact. The campaign must be more decisive, more ruthless.

In the last resort it might come to physical violence, but I wouldn't like to see anything like the situation in Ulster. It has to be done through an organized party based on Marxist theory. Are you in favour of the Bell Vue rally to launch the campaign in the unions for a new leadership? We must build a new leader- ship in the working class. I don't see any other way out.

I contribute as much as I can to the Party, although I'm not a single man with a lot of free time. I deliver papers and I give as much money as I can.

I do it because I can see the absolute necessity of building the party. I don't think we could have picked a more appropriate time to call for the mass rally of trade union- ists at Belle Vue. Take the motor industry. not Chrysler is not alone in the present crisis. Look at Perkins, Massey-Ferguson, British-Ley- land. There's something going on and I think we've got to see it linked to the crisis.

Sid Ledward • comrades who have contributed to the les 4 and 5 of Workers Press. Due to a erview was printed; Sid's picture was riew. Alan's interview will, in fact, appear tures of the three comrades.

Mike Cork is a cleaner from Manchester. Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? Obviously not. This government to its policies, is committed even knowing some of them have led to serious problems for it. It is committed to carrying them out. The policies the Tories have pursued inevitably bring them into conflict with the working class. But laws are laws— whether they affect pay or strikes—and you can't get rid of such laws until you get rid of the government which made them. The reason for such policies must be the world monetary crisis. Obviously they want the best profit from their system.

Even if the world capitalist system is collapsing, they will •struggle within this situation to get the maximum profit by taking the basic rights of the working class. They want to preserve their margins, and the only way they can do this is by offering fl plus 4 per cent, which is, as everyone knows, below the rise in the cost of living. It's not just the Tories as a body-behind the Tories are the employing class, through- out the world. As was recently explained to me, a woman in Tokyo may not even know anything about a woman in Italy-but they both know that their yen and their lira buy less and less things to have. Do you think the Labour and trade union leaders want to force the Tories to resign? I think this is a very difficult question. Certainly the leaders don't want the government to resign, but I suppose there are a handful of revolutionary socialists in the Labour Party, obviously with no power, who would like to see this. I know the leadership would like us all to think something is being achieved in the tri- partite talks and the cups of tea at Downing Street. But there has been no effect on this government. Whatever they say, the action of these leaders show that they don't want to force this government to resign. And it is actions that count. Victor Feather: keeps going back for more talks. Would you like to see a movement built which would make this government resign? Obviously I would. But what is the level concerns me more of leadership that would take over. We want a leadership built by the working class, of the working class and for the working class. Once we have attained this, I think we will achieve our aim. I think this will happen shortly. But once we have achieved it we want to be sure we get what we want and how we are going to get it.

There is a danger that the new leadership will not carry out the wishes of the working class. But if it is a leadership built of the working class, I think the danger is very remote. = 'A woman in Tokyo may not even kno What experiences make you believe that getting ment is an urgent task? There is one answer to that: my wage packet, £15 a week, that's for a 32-hour week. That's not enough to live on.

What do you think of the TUC's collaboration with the Tories over the pay laws and Phase Three? I find this question very difficult as well. I don't think anyone knows why they do it.

We know that nothing is being done to fight this government.

I believe that people must sit down and talk, but it's what they talk about that counts.

The TUC put up all sorts of demands to the Tories, on rents and so on, but the government just ignore them and yet Feather and company keep on going back for more.

Now if Phase Three comes out and the leaders of the union are prepared to accept what the Pay Board is pre- pared to offer, they should be warned. I think the working class have now reached the point where they have had enough.

Over the last few months they have taken beating, but people are beginning to recover and demand some answers. It is far, far too late for talking.

LI even know about a woman in Italy-but they What do you think of the role of the leaders like Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon in this collaboration? I think they have both become far removed from the working class. They have forgotten what the word socialism is about any more, though they are very fond of using it.

The Communist Party and others describe these men as lefts' and refuse to expose their collaboration. What do you think of this? I think the same applies to the CP and the other reformist groups as Jones and Scanlon.

I can really see very, very little difference between the CP and reformism. I think the days of reformism are long over and past. What has brought me to this con- clusion is the fact that there are no more crumbs for the working class on the table.

If there were a few crumbs, it would be different. But there is simply nothing left to give.

It's the end of concessions.

People are actually starting to suffer poverty. I see it every day, not just among workers, but even semi- professional people who have big debts. It is a question now of what can be done. People have woken up with a shock It and are finding their basic ng. rights being taken away.

Workers Press, Ti but they both know that their yen and their I The basic democratic rights of the working class are under attack. What can be done to unity people in defence of these rights? Are protests and one-day strikes enough? One-day strikes achieve no- thing. I think the situation is that within the union there are all sorts of splinter groups of workers who are sick of protest and their leadership.

I think they will come to- gether as the situation gets worse and the working class get squeezed more and more. Then I think there will be a General Strike. I think this is now imminent. To speak of a General Strike two months ago, and I would have said no. But now people have had the opportunity to see what the leadership do- they feel the full impact of Toryism and things begin to move again. What do you think can be done to build a new leadership? I think one very important thing is the role of the Workers Press. It is the paper through which the workers can genuinely find out what is happening. İ broke away from reading it last year for a short time and the amazing thing was that things I had read in the Workers Press a month before were written about in the con- • Prose, Tuaaday June 18, 1873 PAGE 5.

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nd their Ilra buy less and less things ventional Press months after- wards. In a funny way the Workers Press is like the best Tory Press because it knows about what is going on inside the government. It studies the situation deeply not just on the surface. I think there should be discussion groups around the paper. It's also been proposed Marxist classes. I we have is think this is extremely import- ant as well. Politically we must become more and more aware of what is happening. From such classes the workers will begin to realize that a new leadership is necessary and that they will have to build it. Are you in favour of a mass rally of trade unionists to build this leadership? Trade unionists are not fools, they know about their leaders.

I think it will be very import- ant and decisive for them to come to this rally and give the position on their shop floor.

This is where politics start.

It is not enough to be on the fringes of the struggle. Myself and my wife have decided to be involved in the struggle; you have a responsibility.

Someone once said to me that the bourgeoisie are pre- pared to sit back and let you think revolutionary things.

They don't mind that. It's when they see you doing it they get scared. We have to go out to the working class and organize. This is what the rally is all about.

STUDENT REVOLUTIONARY

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BY ALEX MITCHELL

Whatever happened the 'revolutionaries' who led the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)? This militant stu- dent organization reached the pinnacle of its publicity during the 1968 United States presidential eleçtion. It was the SDS that led the anti-war lobby of the Democratic Party conven- Chicago. In return they tion in were battered and gassed by Mayor Daley's cops. Where are they now? • Jerry Rubin has retired and opened a health food stor • Abbie Hoffman who wrote 'Steal This Book, now reDu- diates his past and declares that his new philosophy is 'Give It Back'. • Bobby Seale, the former Black Panther leader, has just attempted to win office as Mayor of Oakland, California, calling for 'a stronger Democratic Party'.

• Tom Hayden, recently wedded to actress Jane Fonda, has become an apologist for Stalinism; he supported McGovern in the last presidential election.

• Carl Davidson recently wrote a series of articles in the US "Guardian' quoting enthusiastically from Stalin and defend- ing his counter-revolutionary policies.

• Rennie Davis, confidant and spokesman for Madame Binh, has been converted to the Divine Light Movement of Guru Maharaj Ji, aged 15. Rennie Davis, the one-time SDS leader, who now preaches the quackery of the 'Divine Light Movement.'

When student revolu- tionary' Rennie Davis met the Guru Maharaj Ji, it was a profoundly mor- ing moment. Davis told friends that he had lighted upon the '15-year- old master who has come to save the planet.' Since his passionate conversion, Davis ust • has been touring campuses in the US to describe the way forward. "The only thing that's stopping us from saving the planet is our own effort, he says. 'Its [the Divine Light Mis- sion] claims are the claims of the movement writ large. Why we do it now and not can before? Because we're con- we've got perfect nected, leadership' lackery of the 'Divine Light Movement.'

He adds thoughtfully: 'In fact, everything we've been been leading us doing has to Maharaj Ji' With utter innocence Davis puts his finger on the con- necting theoretical links be- tween middle-class protest politics and religion. Both are helplessly idealist.

No one could have predicted that Davis would have ended up with this particular guru, but, as he says, this was the general direction in which he has been heading for some time. When the Socialist Labour League made the sharpest cri- ticisms of these 'revolutionary' figures during 1968, the 'New Lefts', revisionists and radicals us for being 'sec- reviled tarian'. To Richard Neville of the underground magazine 'OZ (now bankrupt) we were doc- trinaire fuddy duddies living in the past. A Yippie mani- • festo published at the time the Chicago convention concluded with these words: 'Political pigs, your days are numbered. We are the Second Revolution. We shall win.

Yippie!' With this demand the Mo- bilization massed outside the hall. convention Norman Mailer explained what hap- pened to Davis: 'Then came a much larger force of police charging the area, overturning benches, busting up members of the audience, then heading tor Rennie Davis at the Bull- horn. He was one of the co- ordinators of the Mobilization, his face was known, he had been fingered and fingered again by plainclothesmen.

Now urging the crowd to sit down and be calm, he was attacked from behind by the • police, his head laid open in a three-inch cut, and he was unconscious for a period.'

in Following his acquittal the Chicago Seven trial before Julius Hoffman, Judge Davis returned to anti-war activism.

On May Day 1971 he was one of the co-organizers of the Washington demonstrations which resulted in thousands of youth being detained in makeshife internment camps.

In January this year, Davis, who was thinking of 'going into the woods and living in a teepee', had a dream which he interpreted as directing him to Paris to the National Libe- ration Front (NLF) nego- tating team. On the plane he into several ex-radical ran colleagues who had become followers of Maharaj Ji. These disciples provided him with a free ticket to the Guru's ash- ram in India. After stopping off in Paris (he reported that both Madame Binh and Xuan Thuy were 'very high' over the treaty), Davis continued to the astonishing ashram where an sight met his eyes: 'There were about 70 people there, and by some amazing they coincidence were people. People movement would come up to me and say, "Aren't you Rennie Davis?" and I'd say "yes" and they'd say, "You know, I was arres- during May Day". There were Weathermen there, mem- bers of Marxist-Leninist stu- dent groups, women's move- ment people, peace movement people.' At the University of Detroit recently Davis gave a mighty oration on the beauties of his new faith. He was introduced by a pro- fessor wearing a Maharaj Ji 'speaking button who, as person on the left, hopes this can pull the movement thing on this campus together. (The university, incidentally, has just been hit by an admin- istrative purge of radical faculty). Davis proclaimed: 'We used to think we needed a workers' party led by theory ... but now we have a party of people led by Perfect Leadership.'

Having quoted from the Revelations and other mystical Davis continued: propnecies, 'It really is a love story, fairy tale. The little boy and the little gırl will skip oft hand in hand out of the forest and live happily ever after. It's great to live in this time, it's a privilege to live in America, will bring because America this knowledge to the world.

Davis makes these state- ments at a time when US im- perialism and the Stalinist bureaucracies of Moscow and Peking are working hand in to stab the liberation glove in south-east Asia, struggles the Middle East and Africa; when the crisis-racked Nixon administration is trapped in a scandals which in- series of volve criminal interference with the constitutional rights of citizens; when inflation is having a catastrophic impact on the standard of living of millions of working-class fami- lies; when Nixon is planning a major offensive against workers' wages and a step up in productivity to restore some semblance of value to the dollar. At this historic turning point in which the most reac- tionary and dangerous Repub- is in the White House, lican Davis can say: 'It's great to live in this time, it's a privi- lege to live in America...

large Davis represents a section of protesters from the who have completely 1960s capitulated to the enormous now gripping US im- crisis perialism. Unable to grasp the nature of this tumultuous epoch--because they reject the Marxist understanding of capi- talist society and the struggle to build a revolutionary lead- ership in the working class to take power-these 'rebels' be- come totally disoriented, they embrace religious mumbo jumbo. Is their departure from stu- dent struggle a passive thing and • should . we take it seri- ously? We most certainly must. The Divine Light is more than a freak sideshow.

Its adherents will try to thrust its way onto the campuses to drag other students away from serious political struggle. These missionaries are ludi- crous but enthusiastic oppon- ents of Marxism and the work- ing class. It is a telling testimony to the strength of the Trotskyist movement internationally that for every defector to the temples of quackery, we have won many times the number to the banner of Marxism.

The headlines will be about Davis' conversion to the guru, but it is for us to take note of the strides being taken by the US Young Socialists, the British Young Socialists, the Irish Young Socialists and the Young Australian Socialists. These youth have learnt from the weaknesses of the 1960s protest groups and have made a decisive turn towards the building of world revolution- ary parties based on Marxism.

Workers Press, Tuesday June 19, 1973

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10; Student protestor under privileged America. Above, left to right: Jerry Rubin, health food storeman. Tom Hayden, apologist for Stalinism. Bobby Seale, stood for Mayor.

THE WAR GOES ON

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday June The imperialist war in Indo-China continues despite the signing of the second "ceasefire' agree- ment in Paris last week. This is clear from the report to the US Senate by investiga- tors Moose and Lowenstein, published recently. The report was censored on grounds of 'national security' in no less than 58 places by the Pentagon, the State De- partment, the Agency for International Development (AID) and the Central Intelli- South It covers Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, which though not a main is one of sphere of the war the pivots of United States strategy in the region. Here, broken down by countries, is what the report has to say:

AIR FORCE

BASES

THAILAND: 44,406 American troops are based in Thailand, compared with 31,685 in Janu- ary 1972. The bulk of these men-37,499—are members of the air force which has its main support bases in Thai- land. The main base is Nakon- Thanom, on the Mekong. It is used to fly missions in support of the Laos and Cambodia pro- American regimes. The US army is also directly involved in the fight against revolutionary move- the Thai ment: and 'various other units' are involved in this task. They act as 'advisers to Thai units operating in eight parts of the country: Nam Phong, Phitsa- nuloke, Ban Nong Saeng, Nong Takoo, Nam Phung Dam, Lam- pang, Lopburi and Bangkok.

Air force advisers are sta- tioned at ten of the Thai air force bases, while army advis- are posted to units of ers regimental size and above.

investigators The Senate estimate that the 'terrorists'— their word for the Thai liber- ation fighters—number from 7,340 to 7,770, an increase of 1,190 on the 1971 estimate.

But they give no exact indi- cation how these absurdly pre- cise figures are arrived at. At all events losses of Thailand government forces are increas- ing faster than those of the insurgents, according to the report. The original estimate for aid to Thailand from Washington was $60m for the fiscal year 1971-1972. In fact the actual amount spent was at least double that figure: $128.3m according to one figure, $146.25m according to another.

This year Washington an- an aid figure of nounced Thai $35.8m, whereas the regime asked for military $200m. The original figure is being 'supplemented' to avoid upsetting Field Marshal Tha- nom Kittikachorn. In addition to direct aid, the AID agency finances the regime to the tune of $16.7m, a quarter of which is used directly for fighting the guerrillas. LAOS: The army of the pro- American Vientiane govern- ment numbers 68,180, 18,000 of whom are irregulars. There are also 27 infantry battalions and three artillery battalions from Thailand, a total of 17,330 troops compared with 3,800 a year ago. The Thai troops, naturally, are financed by Washington.

They have to leave Laos when the North Vietnamese with- draw under the 'ceasefire' terms, but in this case the day June 19, 1973 American government will find an excuse for continuing to finance them. According to various official American sources there are between 61,610 and 70,000 North Vietnamese in Laos, of whom 40,000 to 55,000 are on the Ho Chi Minh trail, in the south of the country. The Americans estimate the number of Pathet Lao (Laotian liberation army) as 30,000 to 35,000. Naturally the Americans vested interest in have a making it appear that the war is all directed from Hanoi, or, better still, Peking. They claim that 30,000 Chinese are build- ing a road network in the north of Laos. The official American mis- sion to Vientiane numbers 1,174. In addition there are 'private' companies like Air in fact America (which are arms of the CIA). Their con- tracts have been extended.

Military aid from Washing- ton for the Vientiane govern- ment will reach more than $375m in the fiscal year 1972- 1973. $311m is already ear- marked for next year. Economic and financial aid has risen for the present fiscal year to $47.8m-four times the amount the government raises locally through its own taxes.

PUPPET

REGIME

CAMBODIA: The report makes clear the chances of the Lon Nol regime surviving are minimal. It devotes a good deal of space to the lies the puppet regime tells about its army. The Americans pay money to support an army of 212,357 soldiers. According to one military attaché Phnom in Penh, the figure is 261,518.

Official estimates in Wash- ington vary between 150,000 and 190,000. Starting , with a figure of 300,000, the Phnom later admit- Penh government ted to the Senate investigators that 100,000 only existed on paper though all of them drew salaries. Later still it revised the figure again to 180,000.

In fact, many of the soldiers who do exist are not paid, or are paid only irregularly. The worst off are the 4,500 to 6,000 children in the Lon Nol army. number of Khmers The Rouges (Red Cambodians) under arms is officially esti- mated at between 40,000 and 50,000 by the Americans, who put the number of Vietnamese in the fighting Cambodian liberation armies at 2,000 to 3,000 only. The supporters of Prince Sihanouk have taken over the running of the ground war against Lon Nol completely, according to the report, mounting operations indepen- dently at regimental level.

The Americans have a total strength of 185 in Cambodia, according to the official figures, which give no idea of extent of US the enormous intervention. In fact the US air force drops 60,000 tons of bombs a month on Cambodia.

Since the CIA coup of April 1970 which installed Lon Nol and forced Prince Sihanouk Washington has into exile, given financial and economic aid to the regime to the tune of $138.55m. Nevertheless the budgetary situation is catas- trophic and there is no sign that it will get better. US aid military rose to $133.3m during 1972-1973 and this figure does not include the enormous sums spent on air raids. This part of the report is by far the most heavily cen- sored, containing 27 cuts.

The authors of the report make the point that the air raids in Cambodia are direc- ted against the most heavily- populated parts of the country.

NO REAL

CEASE-FIRE

SOUTH VIETNAM: The re- port is pessimistic about the chances useful work any from the international control commission and casts doubt on the number of cease-fire claimed by the violations Saigon regime. The puppet army has 1,098,193 under men arms, according to the report. The CIA estimates the size of the at 253,000 liberation forces men, 142,000 of whom, it North Vietnamese. claims, are The investigators were given completely contradictory infor- mation about recent infiltra- tion from the North. There are still 8,500 Ameri- can officials in South Vietnam, despite the withdrawal. According to the official US interpretation of the ceasefire treaty, these are not military advisers, but mainly working 'under contract. provided for The

AID

$551m in aid to Saigon during the fiscal year 1971-1972 and at least $569m this year ($649.3m for fiscal year 1972- 1973). This year the regime's own revenues from taxation will be only $343m. Without Ameri- can aid the Saigon government would run a budget deficit of $635m, even with US assist- ance the deficit will be very large. A very severe balance-of- payments crisis will occur this summer unless Washington extends considerably more cash assistance. Inflation is raging, with nearly double the rate in pre- vious years. The Thieu government makes great play with the need for money to aid the refu- gees and start reconstruction, but this year it is spending only a derisory $7m on these items. The investigators say. that the South Vietnamese eco- nomy will need economic aid of some $800m in the fiscal year 1973-1974, and even this will not begin to set up a real reconstruction plan. Over the from 1965 years to 1973 military aid to the the regular' South under programme has totalled $7,396,000m, to which must be added $76 m spent on various other aid programmes.

This year the total is $2,260m.

In fact the cost of maintain- ing the Thieu regime is likely to get a lot higher: Pentagon secretary Elliot Richardson has spoken of military expenditure alone exceeding $2,900m. The Pentagon now talks in terms of a figure of $4,100m. And acording to the maga- 'Aerospace Daily' zine figure, excluding economic and financial aid, could be as high as $7,000m. These figures only indicate the impossibility of maintain- ing the US position in Viet- nam which has now become a bottomless pit as far as the ent US is concerned.

BY JOHN SPENCER

The fall of Giulio An- dreotti's centre-right gov- ernment marks a new stage in the long-drawn- out crisis of Italian par- liamentary democracy. Andreotti's fate was sealed by the congress of his own Christian Democrat party which voted overwhelmingly to drive him out of office.

In place of the centre-right government there will be a left-leaning coalition under the leadership of another Chris- Democrat, Mariano tian Rumor. In an impassioned speech at the Christian Democrat conference Andreotti bitterly denounced the parliamentary manoeuvres that have driven him from office. Citing the Testament he quoted New Christ's answer to the Mother of Apostles John and James, . that he give who has asked privileged them positions: 'Can they drink of the cup that I drank of? Having thus compared him- self with the party's spiritual inspirer, Andreotti went on to renounce his post as grace- fully as he could: 'As I stand before this congress, I hope for our coun try that days of acute difficulty do not come about when poli- ticians will have to face the hard consequences of their actions. Even the patronage of the Christian Democrat veteran Amintore Fanfani will not be enough to ensure that the new government enjoys a stable existence. Fanfani's position as the backstage strongman of Chris- tian Democracy was confirmed by the recent congress, but the divisions within the party are still there. Even more important is the unprecedented economic and political crisisthe floating lira and the absence of gov- ernment stability at a time growing when the fascist movement is winning increas- ing support from the most re- actionary sections of the big capitalists. No coalition, no attempt to reshuffie the parliamentary cards, can wish away these problems. The conditions which existed in the 1960s- the heyday of the centre-left coalitions which ruled without interruption for ten years- are gone for good. In place of the compromise policies which these govern- ments represented, the country is rapidly sliding towards civil war. nature of the The grave situation facing the Italian Christian Democrats was underlined by another veteran politician Aldo Moro at the congress. Today, more than ever, he told the congress, the pro- blems and the demands of the country, which are certainly serious and complex, seem further than ever from being solved and satisfied. Despite all the efforts made, the gulf between the indus- trial north and the chronically underdeveloped south was at best no wider than before.

And despite the leaps for- in man" ward made areas since the war, Italy was still No 15 in the league table of living standards drawn up by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Develop- ment. It was followed only by Japan, Ireland, Israel, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey in the table of the top 25 industrial countries, Moro said. Moro is no critic of the regime-he has himself played a far from negligible role in successive coalition govern- ments and he is the leader of the party which has held the major share of parliamentary office for the past 30 years.

But his outburst at the con- gress demonstrates the despair of the Christian Democrat leadership, their demoraliza- tion in the face of the crisis and the mounting mood that really nothing can be done. to change the basic situation.

This is the atmosphere in which Mariano Rumor and his coalition with the Socialist Party, the Social Democrats and the Republicans will get under way. The only real change is that the Socialist Party has re- placed the Liberals-who came in after the May elec- tion in a marked swing to the right. The return of the Socialist Party demonstrates the in- ability of the Italian bour- geoisie to free itself imme- diately from reliance on the treachery of the Labour bureacracy. It is also quite definitely an olive branch to the giant Com- munist which com- Party, mands 9 million votes and dominated the most powerful blocs of organized workers.

The Stalinist leaders of this organization have already in- dicated their support for the idea of reviving the centre- left formula — seeing it as a step towards an eventual Pop- ular Front embracing them- selves, the Socialists and the Christian Democrats. 'left' This formula, which will no doubt be dressed up in the rhetoric of anti-fascism, can by no means be ruled out over the coming period. The incoming government faces the same problems which forced the breakdown of its centre-left predecessor after succesion of parliamentary a crises throughout 1971. But in the meantime the problems have grown ten times more intractable. That is why the Christian Democrats must lean to the left for the moment, easing their burdens on to the backs of the labour and trade union bureaucracy and relying in- creasingly on the Stalinists to keep the working class quiescent. They already have the Stalin- ists' word for this. 'L'Unita' the Communist Party paper, carried the following comment trom Alessandro Notta, presi- dent of the CP group in the Chamber of Deputies. Workers Press, 1 Notta was the leader of the CP's team of observers at the Christian Democrats' confer- ence. Asked to summarize the principal results of the con- ference, he replied that it was 'relevant and positive' that the ''correctly acted congress had to rout the government and the policy of the centre-right and recognized the demand for a political change to face the dramatic character and the urgency of the crisis of our country. Also, he claimed, the debate at the congress had shown that the turn in policy was not a flash in the pan. Notta attributed the down- fall of the Andreotti govern- 'wrong character ment to the and incongruity' of the centre- right coalition, which was rapidly revealed by the resist- ance of the working class.

He took pains to stress that 'a notable part of the Christ- ian Democrats' had also been opposed to the government, and added that it all proved no government could last long

MOSHE LEWIN

Last Available from the Paperbacks Centre Or New Park Publications, 186a Claph s Press, Tuesday June 19, 1973 PAGE 9 Far leit: Andreotti, overwhelm- ingly voted out. Left: Fanfani, Christian Democrat veteran with Aldo Moro. when it faced the full force of the Communist Party's criticism and attack. In other words, the clear implication is that the CP will look with favour on the new centre-lett government, though it had better take care not to antagonize the party. While the Communist Party applauds this latest turn in the continuous game of parlia- mentary musical chairs, the fascists are building up their forces and ruthlessly prepar- ing for power. They have no interest in maintaining one or another coalition in office: their object is to discredit all forms of parliamentary rule—or rather to wait in the wings until the parliamentarians discredit themselves sufficiently. Meantime, they keep up a continuous round of provoca- tions directed organizations, and while training and drilling the future stormtroops of Italian counter-revolution.

The fascists cannot be fought by a government of the centre- left any more than they could be fought by the centre-right.

In fact, Rumor himself was Minister of the Interior when the Milan Agricultural Bank was blown up by fascist pro- 13 deaths. vocateurs with There was a determined at- tempt to pin responsibility on the left. The anarchist Pinelli was thrown from the window of Milan police headquarters and his comrade Valpreda held for years without trial, ruining his health. Rumor presided over this judicial charade, preferring to innocent men killed 1. and see imprisoned rather than order a real inquest into the crime and bring the actual culprits to justice. This episode demonstrated conclusively that the centre- left coalition could not fight the fascists and provided direct proof of Rumor's in- ability and unwillingness to fight the fascists. The new government is be- ing provided by the Stalinists 'anti- with entirely spurious fascist' credentials, though everyone knows that it is only a tired rehash of the old coali- tion formula of the 1960s.

The Stalinists' treachery in in sowing systematic illusions the bankrupt Italian parlia- ment and the institutions of the post-war Republic will cost the working class dear.

The urgent and unpostpon- able task is the construction of alternative revolutionary leadership against the Stalin- ists and their propaganda of Popular Front. This can be carried out only in struggle against all the illu- sions in the bankrupt republi- can regime within the perspective of the struggle for the working class to take state power. 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.

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Wogan. Jackanory. magic. 5.15 report. Animal 1.00 Lunchtime with Casey Jones. 5.40 Wombles. 5.45 1.30 Emmerdale 2.00 far Good afternoon. Harriet's News. Weather. back in 2.30 3.00 See it while you can. 3.25 Public

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James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, 7.05 Elke Sommer, Dickin-

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Angie Merman. son, Ethel Comedy about an Paris. 7.35 FILM: "The Devil and Miss American Sarah'. Gene Barry, James 8.30

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WIGAN: Tuesday June 19, 7.30 Market Hotel. 'Defend p.m. democratic rights. Come to Belle Vue' BATTERSEA: Tuesday June 19, sign. Return a Labour govern- pledged socialist ment to policies'. BRIXTON: Tuesday June 19, p.m. Training Centre, Control Room. 'Force the Tories to re- sign. Return a Labour govern- socialist policieg, Pledged 1o ment DAGENHAM: Tuesday June 19, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue. 'Force the Tories to resign. A Labour government nationalize major indus- must triés' CLYDEBANK: Tuesday June 19, Co-op Hall, Hume 'Fight the Clydebank. rent Act. Throw the Tories out.'

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

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

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

Coal stocks threat to jobs Convictions for Aldershot blast 'unsafe'- QC claims MASSIVE stockpiling of it had before the miners' strike of 1972. coal could undermine the Such large stocks already re- position of the miners' moved from the pit heads could undermine the position of the union and lead to a new strike. The any major programme of pit clos- of the 1972 picketing lessons has been learned by the major ures. coal-users. A National Union of Mine- There 33 million workers' spokesman tons of coal in stock and dur- It mented: doesn't necessarily ing the monthly summer follow that bigger stocks could stock levels could reach 41 closures. We're in a hell mean million tons by mid-Octo- of a different position now than ber. we were five or ten years ago. 'We couldn't sell then. Mr Roy Mason, Labour MP coal And the Labour Govern- then for Barnsley, said at the week- ment's White Paper in 1967 led 'In 1967 Coal Board end: the 41 million reached to closures. tons and re- Now sulted there's shortage of in pit closure pro- a gramme. There's an energy oil crisis in the United States. It's a totally Mr Mason omits to say that different situation. he himself Minister of was It's thing the Elec- good Power in the Labour govern- Board and the others tricity ment at that time! have big coal stocks, it means Only some 12.8 million tons of they carry the cost and not us. the undisturbed. I'm not impressed by the argu- stocks remain The Central Electricity Generat- ment that would help them 1t ing Board, for example, now us in a strike. It's not has against 16 stocks of million if going on strike as with the 12 million tons pared every six months.

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appeal against his convictions at murder convictions Winchester Crown Court Noel Thomas Jenkinson on against November 14. following the bombing of the jailed for life Jenkinson was Parachute Regiment officers' mess recommendation that he WIth a Aldershot were 'unsafe at and serve at least 30 years after being unsatisfactory', a QC claimed in of five convicted of the killing the Court of Appeal in London waitresses, gardener and yesterday. Roman Catholic padre in the bombing. Strict security precautions surrounded the hearing of The seven died after 200 Ibs an of explosives stored in application by Jenkinson (42), the boot transport for leave to of a Ford Cortina exploded out- manager, Shooting in Santlago during recent demonstrations.

STOP ALL this filth He said it all resulted bugging from a rejection of God their drugs, their and muckraking over their prostitu and absolute moral fiddles, Watergate. Poulson, he their values. Then added: and weapons Lonrho, etc.-it's get- 'We ought not to be too death we get a ting too much for the All of censorious. sermon about not be over gentle- sanctimonious 'over censorious'. have a share in the uS men in dog collars. of the human tragedy 'There are many si Archbishop of of God's mucking The up todav that York, Dr Coggan, told world? thoughtful people the faithful that to 'con- With unrivalled beginning once again Coggan centrate on the muck, clarity. ( exposes take say what note nof you miss the crown, the utter hypocrisy of psalmists that the God-believers. whatever may said. 'They are fed mean! They spend their lives With raking the mi with Addressing a haranguing people, Dar - Minster, the gation at York ticularly poorer Who are these 'ho 'Vietnam about the Coggan said: working class. of thoughtful and Belfast: call girls virtues and godliness of We don't believe t honesty, and Lonrho: Watergate integrity and exist. and drugs... The news- morality. have a field day the the But minute The really papers with the muck rake leaders world capi- people are recently - and the heap there be are thruct into that stinks" the limelight with their Workers Press, Tues Ord Large stocks would hinder any effective picketing during miners' Industrial side the mess on February 22 for the hearing - should never last year. have been brought against him.

Mr Myers told Lord Justice The charge of effecting a public Edmund Davies, Mr Justice Bean mischief in fact was withdrawn and Mr Justice from the jury's consideration Croom-Johnson, by that he was putting forward two the trial judge at the end of the grounds of evidence in the case. But Mr main appeal on Jenkinson's behalf. Myers alleged the facts involved Counsel contended in that all the charge had the effect of a massive murder convictions building wall of seven were up unsafe and that a further charge prejudice' against Jenkinson, and should before against Jenkinson - not brought never have been to London's Law Courts yesterday the jury.

SALVADOR

ALLENDE,

president of Chile, has warned that his right-wing opponents are preparing a coup d'état to try and overthrow his Popular Unity regime.

He told a meeting of trade union leaders in Santiago that they would fail because the army loyal was to the constitutional regime. Like Allende, the army chief-of-staff Carlos reneral Prats is a freemason. He is thought likely to take Ministry in a new over the of Defence crisis cabinet. fighting After four davs of violent street in Santiago, in which killed and 68 one man was wounded, the country is perilously close to civil war. The rioting in Santiago began when strikers Teniente from El demanding copper mine 41 per cent pay rise marched on the capital and erected barricades in the streets.

Leaders of the Christian Democrats and the Na- tional Right. the extreme right-wing opposition, took part in the demonstration and clashes. They have seized on the regime's anti-working have seized on the regime's anti-worke miceass wage increase in order to sow confusion.

Allende's government—a coalition of Stalinists, Radicals Social Democrats-is now almost and completely reliant on the armed forces. The copper dispute is estimated to have cost the country about $40m through the enforced suspension of exports.

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Liverpool equipment, lies and corruption their tax which are an integral given by Peter Jeffries capitalist r prostitutes of the Dart of system. Sunday June 24 get a polite It is this thorough- ut not being which Trade Unions and political going exposure frightens the dog-collar struggle in Britain e many signs crowd. hosts of But their pathetic Sunday July 8 are can't quell the Carone Chartism, yesterday and today again to tide of anger and indig- what the nation capital- against Sunday July 15 Coggan ism and its ugly face. are fed up The Revolutionary Party and In the same process muck the British working class Coggan and his brethren should be asked these hosts. about church at plain people'? shareholdings in the believe they Stanley Halls racialist republic of South Africa and the Upper Parliament Street y thoughtful landlording practices of demanding the Church Commis- 3 p.m. in London and com- sioners ure of all the elsewhere. 0s5, Tuesday June 19, 1973 PAGE 11 Industrial action like that seen in 1972.

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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 Practice of Marxism Sunday July 15 Role of the Revolutionary Party at The Red Lion Worsborough Near Barnsley 7.30 p.m. Leicester lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee) The Soclalist Revolution In Britain: 2. The roots of capitalist crisis: Marxism and the con- tradictions capitalism. of Britain and the world crisis.

3. The state and revolution.

Reformism and revolution il Britain The fiaht for demo- cratic rights today means working-class preparing for power. Sundays June 24, July 8 Stockingfarm Community Centre, Stockingfarm 7.30 p.m.

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Manchester given by Peter Jeffries Sunday June 24 Trade Unions and political struggle in Britain Sunday July 8 Chartism, yesterday and today Sunday July 15 he Revolutionary Party an he British workino clas at Black Lion Blackfriars St/Chapel St near Salford Bus Station 7.30 p.m. ...

MIS tactics and basic rights CAUGHT SPYING ... A cameraman stationed opposite the picket of Friday's court case in Shrewsbury.

Stalinists cover-up Scanlon PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday J CAUGHT SPYING . . . A cameran COMMUNIST PARTY memb tulated to Hugh Scanlon at ye Union of Engineering Worl AUEW president proposed fur the Tories and blamed the wo ting the state control of wages.

Following Scanlon's reaction- ary speech, a technicians sec- tion motion demanding that 'All economic talks with the by trade union government leaders must be discontinued and a clear lead given in the struggle against all government measures directed against the working class' was withdrawn.

The TASS delegates instead supported a composite resolution said which something entirely different: 'Conference declares its continuing opposition to any form of wage restraint and calls upon the trade union movement to withdraw from dealing with on any prices the government and incomes policy.' This the same formula adopted at last year's TUC Con- gress when the Stalinists and the 'lefts' conspired to open the door to collaboration with the Tory government. The long series of talks at Chequers and Downing Street subsequently disarmed the and led to the working class eventual imposition of the pay laws without a fight by the TUC.

which this composite, When lets Scanion off the hook over his continued collaboration with the right wing and the Tories to impose Phase Three of the state control of wages, was put up by the Standing Orders Committee, not one voice was raised in op- position. The Communist Party are thus deliberately betraying the work- ing class to the abject surrender of the

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bureaucrats to Heath's demands for permanent corporatist controls over trade unions through the pay laws and the Industrial Relations Act.

In his outrageous speech, Scan- stated there had lon blandly been 'an obvious failure to effec- back up' the hospital tively workers, gasworkers, and the civil servants particularly through co-ordinated

TUC

action'. The biggest culprits for this were Scanlon and Jack Jones, the dominating voices on the TUC's finance and general pur- poses committee, which failed to take the action. (Tomorrow, Workers Press will report more Scanlon's role in this fully on TUC betrayal.) Scanlon blamed 'a regrettable refusal by many trade unions to give the TUC the teeth it needs to coordinate the movement'.

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Printed Plough 01-720 2000. Newsdesk: 01-672 7029. Tuesday June 19, 1973 cameraman stationed opposite the picke ( members and supporters capi- on at yesterday's Amalgamated g Workers' conference. The osed further collaboration with the working class for permit- Then he added: 'It must be said that at this stage, no real has developed movement struggle for higher remuneration irrespective of government wage- restraint policies' This is a deliberate and scan- dalous distortion, to which the Stalinists are party. The hospital workers and gas- workers put up enormous fight and were utterly and cyni- by the cally abandoned trade Scanlon is here union leaders. adding insult to injury and re- vealing his utter contempt for the working class. The purpose of these lies is to cover up Scanlon's real inten-

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tion; to evade the growing de- mand for the mobilization of the whole trade union movement to drive the Tory government from office. Scanlon knows from the mili- tancy of the Chrysler, Perkins, British-Leyland Cowley workers that the General Strike is again becoming the issue.

Len Brindle, an engineers' section delegate and a member of the Communist Party-in- fluenced Standing Orders Com- mittee, said that Scanlon should be represented in the talks to 'fight for the policies of the union'. Chrysler pickets show some of the ston by the scabs. THE HIDDEN camera spy (left) was caught by our photographer in Shrews- bury last Friday. Crouching behind cur- tains in a house near the courtroom, the spy was taking pictures of workers demonstrating in support of the Shrews- bury 24—building workers who face trial on charges arising out of picketing duties in last year's building strike.

The man, or men, could be from the police; who have recently ad. building the employers, mitted dossiers compiling on militants; security firm. They are Pressmen, certainly not who would normally take pictures of the picket line in the street. Two days after this event Chrysler's manage- ment in Coventry admitted hiring a photographer to take pictures of pickets outside their Stoke plant. Those parliamentarians and sections of the capitalist Press are so quick defend Lord Lambton against invasions of his "privacy' favour kind completely in of spying on the working all support the Tory attack on workers' basic democratic rights. Because, building worker Arthur Murray as defiantly told the Shrewsbury 'We are not Poulsons, Lambtons and Jellicoes of the a in Shrewsbury. this world.' The Tory government hauls workers before the courts be- cause it wants to take away the basic right to strike and picket. Spy photographers are used to compile dossiers In the hope of intimidating socialists and undermining the right to demonstrate. Now hired thugs have arrived on the scene to smash through picket lines and beat

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up workers with spanners. Meanwhile Vic Feather, the He added: 'If we 'lefts' withdraw it Jack and Hugh Jones would the right Scanlon, and other TUC lead- give wing an make deal which excuse to ers carry on talking to the would be completely unacceptable Tories instead of leading to our members. fight to destroy their pay laws.

'We have a must position And they are protected by where, if what is proposed proves the Communist Party which to be unacceptable, can fight we provides a 'left' for its rejection in the Congress.'

cover for this class collaboration. Exactly the same excuses led It is time to the treachery of the TUC's now to bulld Marxist leadership in the trade Phase Two collaboration. The only way forward now from che unions to defend basic rights danger of and living standards. serious corporate in Britain demand state is to That is the of the purpose everywhere: All Trades Unions Alliance Break off talks with the Tory Conference and Rally at Belle government. Vue, Manchester, Sunday, Mobilize to force its resignation.

July 1. • Beat the spies and thugs! • Defeat the employers' speed-up plans! • Bring down the Tory gov- ernment and elect a Labour government pledged to social- ist policies! • Reject the collaborators in workers' the ranks!

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FROM PAGE ONE

Chrysler's would avoid paying lay-off money.' About 2,000 men were laid off at Stoke yesterday and a similar number were expected to be put off this week. Chrysler intended to re-employ the first 2,000 next week on stock-taking and thereafter rotate the laid-off men to avoid giving the full work force lay-off pay.

T&GWU fork-lift truck stew- ard Mr Mick Stapleton told me: 'This rethink is tne time to The company seem our tactics. to have changed theirs. 'We frightened. We are not shall stay on the picket line. The management have developed new tactics but we'll soon find some- way to counteract them.' Mr Fox added: 'We have been a peaceful picket so far, but we don't relish strong-arm methods against our men.' Chrysler's strike-breaking comes only 36 hours after secret talks between Ryton convenors and management broke down. Yesterday's incidents throw new light lengths on the which the company are prepared to go to break shop-floor resist- once and for ance all to the I the stones and bottles thrown at them unfettered operation of Mea- sured-Day Work.