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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER FRIDAY JUNE 22, 1973 No 1105 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE After the AUEW conference

TROTSKYISM

AND

STALINISM

WORDS MUST

Yesterday we published a letter from Mr Monty Johnstone of the British Communist Party. A five- part Cliff reply by Slaughter, Central Com- mittee member of the Socialist Labour League, begins today on page 8.

BECOME DEEDS

BY ROYSTON BULL

Chrysler 'insult'-Stewards WORKERS PRESS welcomes the decision of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' con- Shop stewards representing ference to bar Hugh Scanlon from any further workers from the Press after the meeting. Most of the stewards Coventry, Chrysler plant at Ryton, went into con Consecred une ConDays attendance at the Downing Street talks where Heath ference at Transport House yesterday which would harden their determination to SUlT for a repent This nade ned at damelow win against the giant. Fuller and car story an- and the TUC leaders are preparing Phase Three of management. picture from

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stalmen! woventy T&GWU convenor page 12. speaks 1o the state control of wages.

This is an important blow against the pay laws and is completely in line with the policy Workers Press ever since last advocated by September's TUC Congress. We warned then that the proposed negotiations with the Tory government would lead to the loss of free collective-bargaining. If it is correct to demand now that the trade union leaders should end their collaboration with the Tories, it was correct to demand then that the collaborationist talks should never begin. But Communist the Party refuses even at this late stage to state unequivocally that Scanlon should talks, or to welcome the AUEW decision ault une instructing him to do so.

The Stalinists manoeuvred from the very start to avoid a clash with the lefts' on this issue. This meant abandoning any principled position. Their formula last Congress September, which adopted, was let the

TUC

leaders go to the and merely insist that no incomes policy be TalKS agreed to. Yested this formina Sna he CPs daily repeated

AUEW

rolluld approvine Ine movement should trade union withdraw from dealing with the government any prices and incomes policy.

But they completely ignore the fact that it was TUC leaders no to go the failure to instruct the into the discussions which led directly Phase Two-and the Phase One three-month Stallesul before wage restraint' despite all une resolutions. Although headline news in other papers, It IS 'Star' the cannot even bring itself to TeDore cear y has been told new development: that scanion take no further part in the talks. If it were Stalinist formula, Scanlon would still and Three would Talks Inase become a reality. But the Eastbourne vOLe the Conference start. de- All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights cisions will pay une Words turned into aWS. must he to the the TH

BELLE VUE

campaign force the to break off the talks and instead mobilize a General Strike to make the Tory government resign. Free negotiation for wages the

MOSC

DasIc the working class and trade unions have stripped of this and subordinated the caDilaisi Tories are driving STate towards a fully-fledged corporat- which is a stage on the road ism, dictatorship. Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

Almirante, Giorgio leader of Italian Special showing of the Pageant film THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JUNE 22, 1973 • No 1105 • Ap

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

After the AUEW conference

TROTSKYISM

AND

STALINISM

WORDS MUST

Yesterday we published a letter from Mr Monty Johnstone of the British Communist Party. A five- Cliff part reply by Slaughter, Central Com- mittee member of the Socialist Labour League, begins today on page 8.

BECOME DEEDS

BY ROYSTON BULL

Chrysler 'insult'— Stewards WORKERS PRESS welcomes the decision of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' con- Shop stewards representing workers the the Press ference to bar Hugh Scanlon from any further from after the meeting. Most of the stewards Chrysler plant Coventry, at Ryton, went Into considered con- the attendance at the Downing Street talks where Heath ference at Transport House the which would harden their determination to yesterady

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for a report back on the 17-hour discussion with win against the giant. Fuller and an- story and the TUC leaders are preparing Phase Three of management. ended Below: other picture from staffmen vowelly deputy T&GWU convenor LIam page 12. Dylan, the state control of wages.

This is an important blow against the pay laws and is completely in line with the policy Workers Press ever since last advocated by September's TUC Congress. We warned then that the proposed negotiations with the Tory government would lead to the loss of free collective-bargaining. If it is correct to demand now that the trade leaders should end their collaboration with the Tories, it was correct to demand then that the collaborationist talks should begin. But Communist the Party refuses even at this late stage to state unequivocally that Scanlon should welcome the AUEW decision Talks. or to instructing him to do so.

The Stalinists manoeuvred the from start to avoid a clash with the letts' услу on this issue. This meant abandoning any principled position. Their formula last which Congress adopted, was the

TUC

let that no incomes policy be Laks ane meet SIST agreed to. Yesterday's 'Morning Star', the CP's daily this repeated formula the doorovis demand 'that movement should trace union withdraw from dealing with the government any prices and incomes policy'.

But they completely ignore the lact that it was TUC leaders no to go the failure to instruct the into the discussions which led directly Phase Iwo-and the Phase One three-month Stallesul before wage restraint resolutions. Although it is headline news other papers, the 'Star' cannot even bring itself to been told has new aevelopment: that scanion take no further part in the talks. If were leít the Stalinist formula, Scanlon would still going the be Three would become a reality. But the Eastbourne vote the start. Conference only de- All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To discuss defence of democratic rights cisions will pay Words must be turned into to do ce the TUC campaign

BELLE VUE

force the to break of tue lalks and lustead mobilize a General Strike to make the Tory government resign. Free negotiation for wages the the

MOSL

baste working class and trade unions have been stripped of this and subordinated the Callas! Tories driving state Bure towards a fully-fledged corporat ism, which is a stage on the road dictatorship. Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

Giorgio Almirante, of leader Italian fascists Special showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history

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PAGE 2 Workers Fress, Friday June 22, 1973

BY OUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

WITH THE centre-left government of Mariano Rumor taking over office in Italy, the Communist Party is making a determined effort to put a stop to strikes. The 'New York Times' Rome cor- respondent reports that 'Industrial management has been quick to sense the new trend'. The Italian Communist Party is the most powerful in western Europe, with a claimed membership of 1,587,295. Communist Party membership in Italy is at its highest point for five which showed that taken place in the industrial north.

In the last week, with financial and political crises shaking the Italian capital.

ist system to its foundation, the Stalinist union chiefs have begun publicly warning the rank and file that not all strikes are good. 'We must seek in all sectors-in industry and in the services—to organize justified strikes and not mistaken ones,' says Luciano Lama, general secretary of the _Confederation of Labour, Italian General the largest trade union group.

Lama-a Communist Party member- talks of 'self-defeating' strikes and uses the threat of the sack to restrain militants.

When workers make mistakes, it's always they who pay,' he says. 'An enterprise that collapses isn't a socialist enterprise-it's only enterprise that had to be an shut down.' With leaders like these no wonder sections of employers are looking towards the Communist Party to help preserve the totter- ing fabric of capitalism in Italy.

The 'New York Times' reports the story of the plant executive who said: I wish to hell the communists took over Italy. They make the bistards alone can work' 'This anecdote is probably apocryphal,' the paper says. 'But the story tends to crop up wherever one asks Italian em- ployers about their problems.

'For years, Italian industrialists, large and small, have been known to make private deals with local insure a measure communists to peace in their enter- of labour prises and to subsidize the party covertly as a hedge in case it came to power. 'Conversely the party has not spurned such collaboration and help. In the region of Bologna, have become Com- trial plants munist Party members.' John Hosey to return to South Africa for son's appeal JOHN HOSEY whose eldest son, Sean, was sentenced on Wednes- day to five years jail notorious under the John Hose South African Terrorism ference in the AntI-Ap Act, said in London yes- terday that there would convenor definitely be an appeal. Coventry. returned yester- Mr Hosey insurance he nada and day from Pretoria where attended his son's trial. He before h said he would be returning Africa. to South Africa for his son's Sean + appeal. His fare will be pald at the air! by Coventry Defence in South Committee set up for Sean for havin Hosey and his five comrades books. who comprise the Pretoria Six.

that his i Mr Hosey Is a Transport set up bi and General Workers' Unlon police. And at no time has he launched an attack In ley inste ednesday- on the pro-Tory com-

MPS

parable ferocity right onslaught Benn thost wingers Tory government enabled to survive when voted for Labour and against against every decision of the Labour Party or Wilson's entry into the Common Market Instead, Foot welcome an ally in of Britist defence 'sovereignty', that working- opponent in vererate hat foot Enoch Powell, MP What doing the now is using 'bad publicity' avoid 01 arounderl Wilson's taking up

BOSTON

abandopment nationalization. Gait-

MICHAEL

he Tribuner one-time 'left' and the Social Foot look montin to detend the skell wanted to abolish Clause 4. Wilson •Soclallst oi the Icauc Holborn Hall In 1954. seaves Labour s consululion. ouL openly declares against its implement- Wedgwood Labour Shadow Sabinet. Wednesday's meet- Yet in times of acute ation. ing of the such nationalization

PE FOOT

Foot Luddy, accused central to the interests of the working for publicity class. helpful plans, Will Mr Foot tell us how 'rocking abour's be achieved without taking all the major and finance industries, land, banks capitalist nonses say On THe And how can Anthony Wedgwood Benn, we yous. usen it They else, these vital anyone raise ques- without publicity? from What Foot is seeking to do is to silence Clausc i altogether the demand for socialist poli- within the Labour Party, This is cies was aiming •the right wing

SCL

Wildl such anti-working-class measures as 'In the "Socialist wnen Immigration Act, Outlook', sought to ban "Tribune', The 'Tribune'-ites, moved the parliamentary whip from left opposed those the despatch of British policies, were witch-hunted MPs and tried to driven Aneurin. Bevan Nortiern accused damaging And, significantly, 'Tribune' joined the out of the Labour Party. wing Whor Them Labour's electoral chances and creating witch-hunt of Young towards end of that period, in the Socialists, was bad publicity. Foot then defended free- 1964 for 1959, that the Socialist Labour League Wilson in dom the freedom "Tribune' of expression and for socialism. joined was proscribed. was lack the Press, arguing that capitalist tendency (now In attempting to silence Benn, Foot socialist policies elections. joining the long line of witch-hunters ost International Socialist Group) Today he the Party. forming

USES

sannie azu- wave movement La DOUI ments against Benn as were used against which fought against the youth The end of his lettism underlines the him by the Gaitskellites. were from Wilson necessity of the construction of a revo. attack He has been which will fight to break in retreat since 1955 had defended Tribune lutionaly Dally he Labour lefts tollowing Aneurin Bevans that paper was returning a Labour government pledged sociallst vulook wnen banned by Transport House, but defection Gaitskell unilateral changed sides out socialist policies, including by the time to carry nuclear disarmament 1957 nine victory Incasure. This retre Wilson flight dur- years later without compensation and under work- became exone the governments of 1964- Foot's progress to the right has continued 1970. Not once did the "Tribune' during All Trades That purpose the litetime ot the lory govern 16 lui _oI the tendency fight and Ral THe As daddon Ivinister or ruel and be implemented by those governments. Power, he joined with the Tories Belle Vue, Manchester, Sunday, Instead, they crawled slavishly behind describing the of 1972 We all those miners' strike July urge Harold Wilson he opened the door demo- could have toodled Heath from 121L I01 SOCIaLL DULLICE cratic rights to come to Belle Vue.

by power, as 'a national disaster'.

Tonin to once Trade war improves US figures

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE EFFECTS of United States trade war measures against Europe and Japan are plainly visible in the balance of payments figures for the first quarter of this year, published in Washington.

The figures show that the devaluation of the dollar against the other main capitalist currencies has led to an increase in US exports and a corresponding cut in import costs.

The balance of dust is this basic con hit as.

export- basic conflict this which import trade which showed a deficit of $1,750m in the betweer tension the US and European capitalism.

1972, fourth quarter of was down to $960m in the first Bloody three months of this year.

However the outfow of short.

capital from the United homecoming term States increased sharply very period —reflecting the same over the exchange of huge dollar sums for Peron into other currencies during the and March February currency aises. SOME of the bloodiest gunfights The latest deficit on the bal- in recent Argentine $1,200m payments is after nearly marked the return Then the Howest since 1o years in exile or veneral juan when deficit ast cuate Domingo Peron. totalled less than $1,000m 20 least people were The deficit reached a peak of ported killed and 300 wounded Sast year and has inde taited of $2,700m in third quarter after fierce nghting erupted ai Ezeiza airport where the The erecs or me becende due to deliver an dictator was speaking at a Press con 1971 currency realignment have arrival speech. London yesterday. Seated Is Ethel de Keyser. secretary of worked through. The jet bringing Peron back Anti-Apartheid • evatation oi the docas figures take from fascist Spain diverted 1he account did airport and he the dollar convenor at Standard-Triumph, At conference in Press of the devaluation not attend the inass rally of Commons, the House John Ezeiza.

SOI

Wad exter mus vedr _suose- Gra- marked fall in the US for his sor quent Peronist 88gascor nosey supporters at the and active in

ASTMS

had been threatened and currency's parity. claimed of the scene

SHOOLIS

South maltreated in prison by police he went their opponents in the gunbattle 1 nese are certain to nave even kept him They Euro. members of the People's Hosey was detained standing one place trade with

(ERP),

Revolutionary Army airport when he arrived eriods and rubbed the long already supported which is feeling guerrilla off Africa and arrested skin his arms which were the effects of the 1971 devalua- by the Pabloite revisionists.

having pass- tion. Some of the hidden snipers Torged His father suggested In prison Sean Hosey is US and lynched by captured were his son been allowed newspapers and have Europe is simultaneously cutting Peronist guards. iwo men two (censored) letters a European industry out of Ameri- tried flee were surrounded, month. beaten disarmed and by markets dule monopolization of overseas in-

Poulson, Levy, Lowson, Humphreys, Turner ... and Diplock?

The sandals roll on Manchester dockers resist 'casuals' Poulson, Levy, Lowson, Hun THE FRAUD Squad's THE AFFAIRS an interim report the ruling class roll reler Poulson •ankiuole Casi will be handed to the Direc- presents a summary Public Prosecutions fronts. White Loudy, nahi solnees charged with

SERIOUS CONCERN

Mr Hunt fell from a prepared hurriedt platform which rested made avail. drugs. was being expressed by of his statement Ford workers on Mer- ou lwo moDlic auuco. sicAl Downing Street on Montdys yesunnee nearing He crashed down at Wakefield. oremier Heath V av lo. machinery below death onto was wanted Mrs Levy, allall fatal contract questioning 'in connecti employed anu sustalleu police stated juries. Workers the aesd cleaning _COlD- that contract would taki vesuicalon

TOU

pany's Halewood plant. low to five years to complete.

cleaners Shop Wash stewards The slashing of this time.

ano ae emoove• wilu workers have been insurance table is truly remarkable worried time

DINCI

some even cover. 'here would indicatt _oces Coluiliul going change way sus icill and emniovment Salel Vi the real thi the class hopes to iclenle governing man killed; play the the contract a star the hallic When the Fraud Squad cleaning.

A DOU

verooor Ioolbalici. This has come derecuves

CITSI

bedan unen head following the death Tunderstand stewards inquiry year are to take up the ques- Home Secretary on Wednesday of clean- tion contract Prime Minister • Mr Reginald HUnT O riaiewoud transmission section. Maudling, resigned from the Ilg Wil Mallagencul. Cabinet. mally asked bl cuc. set up bunal of inquiry into the links between local and LEVY .. questior and UDId autnore with criminal offences'. B network of companies : asso- was set up follow- with Poulson's so tar no attempt seems TEACHERS will picket It forces of Tawnand order chave the Hamilton House ing disciplinary CilLIl C .of the the NUT leadership bring her to book Union National against three

KLEOU DOLUY

Wands. Yesterday Mrs Levy's Labour MP, has asked leacners

NONOW

worth association teach- terview appeared in defence of the 'Wands- Home Robert secretary Fred Scott, •Daily Mail which

ATIC

worth Three' Carr explain why Mrs Porter David 'Stern', and from Levy was allowed to assemble at Norma WAll Whitely. one sales y a.m. ana aer a е. „enve oo Conservative. I voted 1 the Tories will be held Charued

ATOSE

He in the last el sane bonce 2 the -from noon p.m. from peared to have failed their rally main. Westminster

TON

Oclaus 'subjected to WIlC1 were Tories are my best clien!

unionists trade will at the OnGOR icatlero ponuica pressure. speak. end of February When

THERE

2,000-strong He aso wanted to know Is to The protest is being she would be brought the right-wing verarameni organized by the Wands-

OLUYC

back and if she would and Industry pro be worth Three Defence and •lalinist leadersmp Committee. off the platform. Manchester dockers are FROM STEPHEN JOHNS in Manchester in the opening stages of a struggle to prevent their position of the registered dock Under it men can be recruited port from becoming the But thev are

TO CO GOCK

woIK. WOIKeL. not put on the permanent regis- So next in the country to proDosaf ter and therefore do out for a second not enjoy accept the notorious of bulk embarrassment the

TOCK-DOLLOM

salerudrus They against redundancy enjoyed ol tne saop stewalus alt supplementary register. the registered port workers This more discreet about their backing 'casuals' third of the dockers right is the basis Their resistance to this meeting was avuntv to resisı me empover.

aLicnDi ald ulass atest dangerous tactic ov the retecter ov mer conmttee ro] to abolish dockers' employers c one Manchester the pt shet baitfe is stal mate docker told me: rights and privileges under the battle over. ton took the employers way National Dock Labour Scheme all other regis- Manchester. like there-it got rid 10.000 mer remarkable tered ports Decase • nanenden er who picked up the higher sever- almost totally spontaneous.

white trained after ance Now we have stage pay. (billed Jack Twice the shop stewards have assault on the

LWU,

charter, Jones une GOCKeIS meeting callea a recom nen cd. billed by Redford em employers' plan recruit always been hated charter!). , has ployer's workers but twice ployers. centre labour lost 25 pel been supplementary proposdi

LUTLICU

Sulaleyy the force over last SiX down unanimously by mass register.' A . little over 900 work there meeting. this compares with 3,000 in now Now the atmosphere in the

HEADLINE

1958. TroCuCEVILy CoulsC connected to the coast by has roketed upwards. DOll. But Manchester, for once, has ››* miles oi ship canal, is tense.

The bulk the Transport and Liver- Despite their first massive re- its near neighbour Shown Workers' General Union ste- buke, pool, way ure stewaros burudes issur TorWaO led by waiting for 'casuals' before second Liverpool shop stewards, waros dre une resIs- file tance among rank and to meting. This Jimmy Symes and a strong con- crumble. "The Port' news- Party Lunale siuly unceIL onlunde observe paper exposed phoney members, successfully recom- The employers

TO1S

nended a 500-strong small ally at a Liverpool mass pute could bring the major issue Laly

ICSOLCL

the surface and shut the majority meeling TnOQ R was extremely narrow. port. The steel temselves Symes and company are now their bosses.

TOT

attention from led by Mr D. to defec ence casualization. and the issue man managing hirecto They called for new he Manchester Ship Canal Com non-dock the use of pany, the port authority

TOI

purse Un Manchester. stufi labour lo tainers. This will get underway September.

PLUG GAP

SIGNIFICANCE

The 'sunnlementaries' became ahe stan theste remthoyers made But after Jones/Aldington, , this Manchester employers made issue has shrunk considerably in and Caell •ocme avludll significance. asked the shop Liverpool stewardsled sTewates "The supplementary the casuals the enormous Jimmy Symes above could gap caused by from issue, dOC Manchester anone Iviancnestel Take ASsonm me. 'We all see can ones/ dockers.

HACUSUV

alel and this why we Aldington report. back Only defence. It quoted Redford say- steward Mave K OCKeO CUlll ing the 'time was right' pletely.' principle disagree with the Why? Only Tilbury, of all the ports, the register. emniovers' demand. Yet the sup.

IC-oCH national has proposed cam- plementary register drives a tank CoReTSon olawn cherished National present because the employers the ker naren acanst casuass to Stewards do not want to strengthen National Ports Shop Dock Labour Scheme. Workers Press. Friday June 22, 1973 PAGE 3 Humphreys, Turner... and Diplock?

gripping the IRS and scandals Subsequently, Drury left Scotland Yard. oll relentlessly on. Workers Press immary of the latest news on all TWO SCOTLAND Yard detectives are in Frank- Glenn question furt to Turner, head of the pyramid possessing the £6}m share deal into selling Koscot corporation, carried Sir Denys out by Interplanetary (UK). from Lowson, former Lord Mayor When the firm was com- Monday, of London, and some of his pulsorily wound up last year Heath said City friends. Mr Justice Megarry described for Lowson's National Group it as 'a far-reaching swindle'.

connection of Unit Trusts, the fourth Although there was fre- outfit largest unit trust in Press criticism of its quent Britain, bought a controlling of operation period over interest in their firm own two years the police did not and Septem- June between act. ber last year. They National bought

ANTHONY

FLAN-

shares at 62p each. In Jan-

NERY,

former director this year Lowson sold uary construction company, National empire to the the told Leeds Crown Triumph Investments yesterday why he did not tell Group. head office about pay- Triumph paid stagger- he received from an ing £8.67 a share. architect. In other words the value 'I didn't think it was their of National has from business, said Flannery who £500,000 in 1972 June is facing corruption charges £6.5m SiX months later, a of with former Mayor leap of 1,200 per cent. Pontefract. *It on in other questions.

GUES

organizations like the Poul-

STRIP-KING

James son organization, he added.

But Humphreys has been pt seems to named in a charge of caus- On Wednesday the court by the ing grievous bodily harm. heard that the former mayor, nd order' to (42) in Humphreys is cus- Maurice Byrne, liked to boast Holland tody in after of his influence and Levy's in- Scotland arrested by took one of his directors to being in the -the then Yard detectives charges stay with a friend- on bought including attempted murder.

junior Minister of State for the Navy. The Dutch authorities are litically, I'm considering application voted for for extradition. FOOTNOTE: Whatever hap- le last elec- the Last year it was revealed pened to the Diplock Com- that Humphreys and Com- mission? It appears to have est clients. mander Ken Drury, head of vanished without trace the help from to be an the Flying Squad, had with little holiday together at a Medi- Tories, the Labourites and of the Fleet Street Press barons.

probe terranean resort. nationalized docks, Committee. But their demand outside a transport and shipping industry. was lost among welter of in- decision, back sliding and verbal The deals and so-called com- opposition. hatched by the union promises leaders and employers have Meanwhile the employers rub their hands in ports like South- served only to further under- of the the position port where the massive re- mine ampton, cruitment of casuals has already worker. the seriously undermined The employers', plan rolls re- strength of register workers; and lentlessly forward towards its wait like vultures in Manchester, of the goal-the total abolitior Hull and London. Scheme Clearly a national campaign Only expropriation, without compensation, will stop men like on this issue even more- serious than containerization-is Redford. vital and long overdue. But such a demand raises the key issue facing the whole wor- But the supplementary register row proves once more that there king class-the survival of this The dockers government itself. is absolutely no way that doc- kers permanently defend at Manchester could give a lead can in mobilizing the their rights to live in security working class.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday June 2 A discussion around the at the A be debated 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 Press, Workers was Committee's ATUA National statement adopted at Birm- ingham last year. In a statement adopted on May 13 by the ATUA in preparation for the July 1 conference, the National 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 the crisis intensification of ay Jume 22, 1973 id the policies which will he All Trades Unions e at Belle Vue, Manches- -3 p.m. will more and more disrupt plans and expose these Phase Three of the state 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 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- with the ing off all talks 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 resign. 'Can you Imagine an old aged pensione wouldn't let it happen. But under capita "The capitalists are the real criminals and a revolutionary party is needed to put an end to their system' Ian Flynn, a young south London pipefitter, is a new reader to Workers Press: I started buying the paper about eight weeks ago. What it says is tailored what I've been thinking to and feeling for a long time.

It's fantastic. I'm convinced is no other leadership there around. It's impossible to do any- thing the Labour through Party. You only have to look at its history. They're not only reformists, they're con- formists. Every time the system gets sick they give it the kiss of They resuscitate it be- life. cause they don't know what to do without it. They are part of the system itself.

But these Labour and trade union 'lefts' are very active at present. They are out to confuse people about the real- ity of the situation. I'd like to see some of them working on a factory floor on ordinary wages. Of course, 90,000 old people die of general lack of care "can you Imagine an old aged pensioner aying under a workers stater it wouldn't nappen. working peopl they starve to death.' wouldn't that. I believe there is a big crisis there'll be mushrooming up, an explosion. At present you have the extreme right wing coming onto the scene. You with these witch- can see it hunts building workers. They got so much money and they are preparing big attacks and their rights. on workers You could see the first signs of this attack in the police the move against kids in coloured Brixton few These kids weeks as and esey can't get jobs forced to live in ghettos.

This extreme how the right wing wants it: they want to provoke internal strife So that the police and other re- actionaries can move in. is right for us time to build a revolutionary party It's inevitable lo lake power. that this must take place. It's inevitable tor neen time but now is the time to act. The ruling class can't kill it. The same rebels who built the Labour Party are here to- day to build this party. It is this and fighting strength determination in the working Workers class which makes Press possible. As I see it, we were born into theoretical system called "democracy and then minds are suffocated at our birth. We go into their insti- schools, etc. - and tutions - our vocabulary and teaching 1U YO. late? It wouldn't happen. Working people is cut down to such an extent that our minds are oriented towards materialism. in This means that the working class there are artists doctors playwrights, physicists whose talents are being suppressed. Working-class people are never given the chance to express these talents. capital- At the same time ism perpetuates the worst crimes against humanity. They are deliberate, premeditated, thought-out acts of violence against other men. The whole capitalist system is criminally minded - they think this way. Yet you have all these cri- minologists around saying that crime is a 'disease' of ordinary people his sense.

this 'disease' out to It's absolutely ludicrous. We know who the criminals are.

They have their soldiers and their armies. Can you imagine an old aged pensioner dying under a It wouldn't workers' state? Working people happen. wouldn't let it happen. But under capitalism they starve to death. The only time the capital- ists bother about it is when there is a gas or power strike and then they make a great song and dance about it. The capitalists are the real criminals and a revolutionary party is needed to put an end to their system.

Above: Plckets at Neap House Whan (picketing) can only end in a blow-up Jim McShane, married with five children, is a shop steward at Rolls- Royce, Coventry. Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? Oh no. Definitely not. We'll have to get rid of the Tory government first. Do you think the present trade union and Labour leadership want to force the Tories to resign? No, the union men and the leaders of the Labour Party don't seem to want to put up much of a struggle against the Tories. Are you in favour of building a new leadership which will make the Tory government resign? Yes. We will need to have it.

I would like to ask why the Socialist Labour League doesn't train people in local govern- ment. If we could get men in, then we'd increase our support.

What experience have you had which makes you believe that getting Whart. "To bring out laws against a blow-up! Right: Jim McShane.

rid of the Tory govern- ment is an urgent task? The laws for a pay start. You've got wages held down up. I think while prices go prices have gone up 25 per cent in the last two years. That's scandalous. I've got five kids, and by the time you've paid your rent-£5.85-it is not a lot of fun. As far as money goes, I haven't got much left by the time I pay out for my family. What do you think of the TUC's collaboration with the Tories over the pay laws and Phase Three? That's scandalous. They are selling all these men down the Even like Scanlon river. men are working more in line with the government than against them. What do you think of the role of leaders like Jack Jones and Scanlon in this collaboration? They should be turned out. They are the wrong for men the job. These men don't be- The Communist Party lieve in the drastic measures and others describe these we need today. They are not the men as 'lefts' and refuse prepared to argue with Tories-onlv to go through the to expose their forms to please the men under collaboration. What do them. Workers Press, Friday June 22, 1973 PAGE 5 set policy. The only part has is which the Socialist Labour League. That's why I ioined it. There's a lot of young people coming into the League, as we Empire saw at Pool. Wembley was only a start. It's the young people who can really change things. A lot of other people don't believe in a workers' They government. hold things back. The basic democratic rights of the working class are under attack. What can be done to unify people in defence of these rights? I believe in picketing and to bring out laws against it can only end in a blow-up anyway.

And to bring out laws against for a man picketing all is wrong. That's why I think the Tory government will have to be put out. Are you in favour of a mass rally of trade unionists to build this leadership? Yes I am. I think a lot of League people who come to meetings you think of this? want to see action. They don't just want to go to I think the Communist Party's after meeting and meeting backing for Tones and Scanlon be told what's right and what': wrong. It's reflects badly them. talking very on no grad They be seem to bumbling about it all the time. There's about. They don't seem to have got to be something pusitiye.

ZD: PRODUCTIVITY WITH A TOUCH OF RELIGION

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday June 22, 1

FAR EAST REPORT BY ALI

At many of Japan's lead- ing factories you notice a recurring emblem. It appears on tee-shirts, on overalls, on lapel badges, on ashtrays, on car win- dow stickers and on great crimson flags flut- tering on the company flag post. The emblem is two initials ZD. It stands for Zero Defects.

The aim of the ZD move- ment is to remove error in all stages of the production, mar- keting and management pro- cess. As can be imagined, this is a task of considerable proportions. But Japanese big businessmen are hurling them- selves into the fight with their ZD motif. Backed by a well-heeled leaders of propaganda the industry, Tory Ministers and even some right-wing trade union leaders extol the virtues if ZD. There are ZD periodi- songs recorded and 3, Friday June 22, 1973 paris

ORT BY ALEX MITCHELL

distributed among workers, ZD towels and soap, badges, sweaters—in fact anything that can help promote the ZD con- cept. The aim of this mind- thumping barrage is to estab- lish ZD as the new industrial religion. Management wants to slash production costs because of economic necessity (two re- valuations oi the yen in the 18 months makes Jap- past anese exports about 38 per cent dearer). One crucial way to hold down costs is to eli- minate shoddy work, incom- petent marketing and ineffi- cient handling of goods. The organization in charge of promoting ZD is the Japan Management Association, which has launched a special Zero Defects Programme. Mr Shigeru Maeda, the brainstorm behind the programme, said recently: To put it simply, 4D aims at doing the job right from the hrst to the last. ZD, he signifies perfection. says, It is around this word 'per- vorkers, " fection' that big business is trying to erect the new reli- gion. The ZD propaganda says for the Jap- that perfection, anese, is a way of life. According to one sceptic of the scheme it conjures up 'old Confucius notions'. He goes It is meant to arouse on: deeply-ingrained thoughts and moves about striving for per- fection in one's work' So when I suggested to an official of the Japan Manage- ment Association that ZD was nothing more than a produc- tivity drive, he almost fainted in horror. 'No, no' he said 'ZD is an integral part of the of philosophy the Japanese people. It is tied up with their belief in the creation of perfectly-made things. ZD iS really part of our civilization.'

final statement This will come as a surprise to the per- sonnel and productivity coun- sellors at the Howard Hughes Aircraft Company in Cali- fornia. In the early 1960s they were heavily engaged govern- ment contracts for the manu- facture of war materials.

The Pentagon began pushing for production a shorter period of the Pershing ground- to-ground missile. There was a considerable drive made by the contractors to discover of attaining error-free ways work which the shortens manufacturing time, which in turn means lower costs. Out of this frantic search for cost-saving the measures, great ZD was born. In 1964 Dr Koji Kobayashi, president of the giant Nippon Electric Company, visited the Howard Hughes Company to investigate any manufacturing which techniques he might borrow. He saw ZD, he liked it and he took it back with him to Tokyo. It is interesting to note, however, that Kobayashi did introduce not immediately these productivity concepts. First of all, there was a gene- amount of discussion rous within his own company. Then he got the Japan Management Association interested. In 1965 Mr Maeda, then public relations officer, took a team of quality controllers to the US to study the concept in greater A further detail. year elapsed before ZD was released on the unfortunate working population. By this time it had a consi- derable number of other attri- butes. For instance, ZD had acquired very definite religious overtones. It wasn't simply a question of improving pro- duction and management met- hods, it all about was the Japanese deep commitment to manufacturing things per- fectly. It was all to do with harder and working more exactingly for the greater glory of the company and therefore the nation. As one of the advocates of ZD explained to me: 'For the average Japanese, work is a for ikigal 2D rein- i or self- striving realization. And forces that drive not only by giving it qualitative purposes.

enhancing the values attached to perfect performance, but at the same time identifies that performance with the good of the work group, the company and the nation. A top executive for Nippon Electric makes a similar point: I think that what a man is ultimately looking for is to lead his own happy life and in turn contribute to the com- So, pany's it's prosperity. necessary that the daily work of a man in the company should be related to success, without any failure, in order to obtain final purpose in life.

ZD makes that success pos- sible' It would be utterly wrong to conclude, however, that the Japanese working class goes along with any of this reac- tionary rubbish. They are susceptible to it— true-but the great majority of them think that ZD is an enormous joke. They wear the tee-shirts and badges in many factories, but it's done for the most cynical of motives. When took a photo- we graph of a worker in a ZD shirt, he raised his arms over head and flexed his and "ZeeDee'. muscles said: At this point the workers standing around began to roar with laughter and shout 'Zee- Dee'. An executive wheeled us away from this unruly scene as he muttered Japanese oaths under his breath. These fraudulent concepts of 'partnership in industry' and the extended family life from the managing director to the manual workers are all breaking down under the im- pact of the enormous strains on the Japanese economy. At another factory, for ex- ample, the manager, Mr Ohira, made a sweeping gesture to- wards the 200 workers busily painting, baking, sorting and packing china plates and said: Our success in exports is due to the work of my family.'

family?' 'Your I asked quizzically. 'Yes,' he replied. 'I am their father, they are my children, my adopted sons and daugh- ters.' It was a blissful moment.

We stood on the overhead walkway gazing at the furious activity down below. An end- moving less belt conveyor down the centre of a long table, an endless supply of plates trundling down it. Rows of male and female warkers their hands moving like quick- silver to snatch plates from the belt, draw finely with their paint brushes and return the plate to the Not a queue. second to lose. If you lose a second piles the work Plates pile up: One has visions of a logjam (platejam?) in which thousands of plates are eventually smashed the on floor. What would Mr Ohira say about his family then? He doesn't look the friendly type at all. And so we heard from two women workers after the fac- tory closed. Through an inter- discovered the preter we Ohira family had been making their plates since the turn of the century. The employees worked six days a week for just over £40 a month. The factory was freezing in winter and like a furnace in summer. When there were additional orders old women Workers Press, Friday employed at pittance were wages. Recently orders had been falling, they said. So when asked Ohira they for their annual wage increase he re- fused it. He said they would have to wait until later in the year when the economic situa- tion became clearer. They felt very angry about this. 'But I thought he was your father-figure and you were his children?' I asked. They both fell about laugh- ing. Sohyo, the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan, says in its annual report for 1972: "The rationalization offen- sive of the capitalists at the moment is featured by enter- prise mergers and subordina- tion of minor enterprises by powerful ones. *The capitalist perpetrates organizational and ideological attacks on workers of all in- dustries. In this attack, the management completely ignores the humanity of wor- kers and wants to establish a tight grip on workers. rkers Press, Friday June 22, 1973 PAGE 7 Above. A ZD publicity photo whịch was captioned The worker gets personal satisfac- tion out of doing his job well.'

Top left: Factory girls. Below left: Railway workersnot part of the ZD family-after a vic- torious strike. 'Rationalization is being carried out through the intro- duction of computer systems, shift-work systems, man cuts, job transfers and time-control by seconds. 'While intensifying labour to the degree that workers' lives are jeopardized, and health the capitalists are on the other hand anxious to foster the idea of "all workers as managers", strengthening wor- kers sense of "belonging" to the enterprise and class colla- borationism, so that workers "voluntarily" work for com- pany goals. 'In fighting these rationali- zation attacks, trade unions must steadfastly defend the rights of workers, fight for improvement in working con- ditions and defend the rights of workers.

MONTY JOHNSTONE

LIBERAL APOLOGIST FOR

STALINIST BUREAUCRACY

Trotskyism and Stalinism: Johnstone Defends the Executioners. Part one of a reply, by Cliff Slaughter, to a letter from Mr Monty Johnstone.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday June Trotskyism and Stalinism: Joh According Monty Johnstone, leading mem- ber of the Communist Party with special respon- sibility for dealing with the danger of Party mem- bers who might be at- tracted by Trotskyism, it is only certain 'points of objective fact [about his own behaviour] which are at issue' between him and the Socialist Labour League. There is no point in specu- lating this whether extra- ordinary assertion is just typical liberal muddle-headed hypo- crisy or is deliberate Stalinist deception. So far has the Stalinist movement degener- ated, with its 'peaceful and parliamentary' adaptation to the middle class in every that bureaucratic country, manipulation becomes, in in- dividual cases, indistinguishable from liberal individualism.

Johnstone hopes that ques- tions of "conscience', 'apology' and 'venom' will predominate over class questions of the role of Stalinism and the building of revolutionary leadership.

The end result of all this evasion of responsibility, in Johnstone's latest letter, is the turning of history on its head.

Our attitude, he says, is akin to that which 'went with the vilification and liquidation of many honest communists the Stalin-Vishinsky period'.

Trotsky used to write in the 1930s about liberal bystanders of the Stalinism-Trotskyism struggle who were 'unable to distinguish between the victim and the executioner'. Johnstone also 'fails' to do so, but he has always been squarely on side of the executioner. the He is no bystander. It is precisely this question, of his relation to the Stalinist bureaucracy, that Johnstone is still trying desperately to obscure. So far as we are con- 'setting the record cerned, straight' begins from this political question. Johnstone's bleating about how sorry he is that communists died at the hands of Stalinism in the past is only in order to provide himself with better cover to go on supporting the bureau- cracy. Take the trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky. Johnstone says that on BBC TV on November 19, 1967, he condemned the trial.

We said then, and we say now, that this trial was the last of thousands of such acts, rep- resenting the politics and interests of the counter- revolutionary Stalinist bureau- cracy. It gave a fresh opportunity to Communist Party members to fight to understand the Trotsky's bureaucracy and struggle against it. It served to answer those who had claimed the bureau- cracy was no longer Stalinist.

It emphasized once again the need for revolutionary struggle to overthrow the bureaucracy. Those who con- fined themselves to 'condem- nation' obstructed that struggle.

day June 22, 1973 sm: Johnstone Defends the Executio ...* This was_ proved only one year later. Johnstone and all those who had supported the centrist Dubcek and his policies in Czechoslavakia were con- fronted in August 1968 with the Soviet invasion. There followed mass round-up and imprisonment of oppositionists and . suppression of the Con- gress of the Czech Communist Party. Above all, the Stalinist bureaucracy feared that Dub- cek's policies were opening the door for the Czechoslovak working class and the political revolution. None of the political ques- tions raised by this experience is faced up to by Johnstone.

His own attitude of pious con- demnation of acts of injustice and persecution actually paved the way for the stand of the wiole British Stalinist leader- ship on the Czechoslovak crisis.

They 'condemned' the inter- vention, but drew no conclu- sions from the experience about the political nature of Stalinism. They continued in exactly the same relationship to the Stalinist bureaucracy and its politics. Their "condemnation' of the invasion was purely in order to preserve their rela- tions with the middle class and the trade union bureaucracy in Britain. The question here is not to 'condemn', , but to learn the lesson that the whole 'peaceful and parliamentary road to ¿xecutioners. Part one of a reply, by socialism' of the British Com- munist Party was the outcome of the subordination of that party to the interests of the Stalinist bureaucracy. Further, Johnstone does not draw any conclusion from his support of Dubcek's policies.

Trotskyism (i.e. the Inter- national Committee of the Fourth International and the Socialist Labour League) has fought bitterly against апу notion that Stalinism could be defeated or reversed by some section within the bureaucracy itself. We insisted that the essence of the question was, and remains, the construction of revolutionary parties inde- pendent of the bureaucracy.

To reject this lesson of two generations of class struggle and of battle against revision- ism is to lead the working class into a trap. Those who unreservedly sup- ported Dubcek did prucisely that. They present a sorry when they appear, spectacle after the intervention, with their hands raised in horror!

Johnstone wants to put his protestations of personal poli- tical integrity higher than these great historical questions.

For us that is quite impossible.

In any case, we are interested in Johnstone only in so far as ply, by Cliff Slaughter, to a letter fro he acts politically in the in- terests of the bureaucracy or of the working class, and not 'personally. The record shows very clearly that never at any time has he fought for the political independence of the working class, but always for the bureaucracy. We repeat that on their be- half he carries out the role of a 'Gollan man' , and we will quote once more just what we mean. 'He is posted by the Gollan clique to mix in revisionist circles and perfect the tech- nique of separating "dissident" Communist Party members from Trotskyism. 'He played this role in rela- tion to the YCL and CP oppo- sition in the early 1960s. He repeated it at the CP Congress in 1969, at which the leader- ship, deliberately and by prior arrangement with him, kept rry him off the new executive be- ar, cause he was useful to them as a controlled focus of opposition.' Johnstone likes to play on the word 'agent to make a makeshift comparison with the Vishinsky method of convic- in the Moscow Trials! tion But he knows very well that Stalin and Vishinsky manufac- tured a mountain of 'evidence' about spying, conspiracy and capital crimes. They then assured confessions from those in the dock by beating and torture. tter from Mr Monty Johnstone.

Stalinism cannot be defeated or reversed by some section within the bureaucracy - such as Dubcek (inset). Above: A Russian patrol in Prague, 1968. Johnstone 'condemned' the Intervention, but drew no con- clusions about the political nature of Stalinism. Johnstone is forced to make such an obviously ridiculous comparison by the formidable nature of his task: to conceal the political essence of his own role now that he is out in the open! It is no good just saying that 'we were naive' as Johnstone does, when he was responsible for utterances such as the fol- lowing, on Stalin's death in 1953: 'For 30 years Stalin led the Soviet people from victory to victory ... so that it is today well on the road to com- munism... 'On his passing we can say, as Engels said of Marx's death exactly 70 years ago: "Man- kind is shorter by a head, and the greatest head of our times at that. His name and work will endure through the ages"!

CONTINUED TOMORROW

Another huge business deal between the United States and the Soviet Union was announced last week by Armand Hammer, head of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation. The deal-a preliminary agreement to purchase $10,000m worth of Siberian natural gas over the next 25 years—is one of the biggest yet. The gas will be used to supply consumers on the West Coast of the United States. It represents about 2 per cent of current annual consumption in the US. However, the size of the deal is much larger than Hammer's recent fertilizer con- tract with Moscow. Occidental is being joined in the gas contract by El Paso Natural Gas Co. The western interests will loan the USSR $4,000m to finance a 2,000- mile pipe-line, a gas liquefica- tion plant and a fleet of 20 tankers to carry the liquid gas across the Pacific to the West Coast of the US. Details of the gas contract remain to be negotiated, but both sides have agreed on their intention to go ahead with the deal. The agreement was seen in Moscow as a key element in Soviet preparations for the visit to the United States by Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet Party leader. Under the present plan the USSR will intensify its geolo- gical exploration for gas in the Yakutsk area of eastern Siberia to try and prove the existence of 25,000,000 million cubic feet of reserves. This amount essential to is considered ensure a supply of 2,000 mil- lion cubic feet a day for the 25-year duration of the deal.

At least half the required amount of gas is already known to exist in the • east Siberian field. The gas is already being tapped for local consumption in the Yakutsk area. Occidental and El Paso will arrange western bank loans of $2,000m so that the Soviet government can purchase the tubing, liquefaction pipeline technology and other equip- ment abroad The Soviet Union will use most of its earnings from the project to buy goods and ser- vices from the United States.

The deal is one of a number vast mineral to open the reserves of Siberia to capitalist enterprises, frequently on ex- tremely favourable terms.

A lifeboat station is having because the to close new owners of the site-rent 5p a year-have demanded £10,000 for a seven-year lease. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution will have to leave the site on Birbeck Island at Weston-super-Mare by Sep- tember. The lease ran out in March this year and the Weston- super-Mare Pier Company, which owns the site, made their £10,000 - for - seven - years de- mand. The company has re- cently been taken over by Mr John Critchley (34), Chepstow, Monmouthshire, businessman.

Mr Clifford Smith (64), Toasting each other at the White Hous The Soviet bureaucracy has its own cover-up operations as is shown by the case of the missing electricity generator.

The generator at the giant Nazarovo power station in Siberia, with an output of 500,000 KW, has been cited in reference books for years as one of the marvels of Soviet engineering. It was inaugurated with the customary bands, trade union delegations and secretary of the lifeboat station, said the lifeboat wou'd move in September, to another site but they • would be unable to their fast inshore boat, use and would be left only with their inflatable boat. This meant the station would be unable to operate at night.

'It leaves a long stretch of the North Somerset coast with- out night time capability by a nearby station. You can easily appreciate how important time is in getting to the scene in small boat rescues, he said.

Mr Eifion Owen, managing director for the new owners, said: 'We do not want the lifeboat on this site. I know it sounds cold-blooded when it is set down in black and white, but there it is.'.

If people catch diseases in filthy through swimming rivers, the answer is not to hite House-Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet br self-congratulatory speeches.

The whole ceremony, with technical details, made the front pages in the Soviet Press back in December 1968. Unfortunately the generator is not working and never has done. It burnt out at the factory which built it before it could be installed and has not been replaced so far.

This piece of false economic reporting, intended to conceal a colossal piece of bureaucratic mismanagement, has just been the trade union revealed in ed paper, "Trud'. It says that only the steam- driven portion of the plant clean up the rivers but to ban swimming. Kathy Macauley (22) was taken to an isolation hospital swimming in the River after Foss in York. Doctors were trying to diag- nose what was wrong with her was admitted when she to Yearsley Bridge hospital with from her waist down . rash a and suffering from head and body pains, dizzy spells and severe bouts of vomiting.

York's Medical Officer of Samuel Moore, Health, Dr said: 'Swimming in rivers is a health hazard. I would urge everyone not to take risks.

There is always a danger of contracting disease by contact with river water' Mr Brian Smith, lock-keeper at the spot where Miss Mac- auley swam, said: "The Foss is polluted and rat- heavily infested. The only way to pro- tect people from themselves make river swimming is to illegal.' Workers Press, i Soviet bureaucracy, with Nixon.

put into operation and was all the officials present at the ceremony knew it. At the time 'Izvestia' wrote: "The start-up operations on the seventh generating unit of the Nazarovo station have been completed. During the night of the 18th, it began to feed into commercial power Siberian electricity grid.'

It claimed that the 500,000 KW turbine had raised station's capacity to 1.4 million KW. A replacement turbine was ordered on February 3' this year, but has still not been delivered. s Press, Friday June 22, 1973 PAGE 9 Closer economic ties between Yugoslavia and American capi- talists were discussed in Bel- * grade between President Nixon's special envoy for trade negotiations, William Eberle, and the deputy premier, Jakov Sirotkovic during his visit last week. Possibilities of expanding trade were discussed, and also the investment of US capital in Yugoslavia and the use of modern American technology.

The Yugoslavs also pressed for preference in trade with the US. The Titoite bureaucracy has been steadily opening the gates for capital investment in Yugo- slavia and Eberle's visit must be seen as in line with this policy. Foreign companies already enjoy special privileges, which include repatriation of profits.

No doubt still further conces- sions will be made to attract US capital to try to boost the ailing economy. The behaviour of arrogant Communist Party officials in Poland has reached the point daily where the Warsaw 'Trybuna Luda' of June 11 has called for a stop to be put to it.

An article by Andrzej Mag- don, a party journalist, gave many examples of errors and autocratic attitudes by people occupying leading posts in the Cracow area. said that many party He officials seemed to have two faces, one for their subordin- ates and another for the higher- ups. To the former they be- haved in an arrogant and autocratic way, but they were always ready to carry out in- structions and ingratiate them- selves with secretaries and inspectors of the Party dis- trict committee. : The bureaucracy in Poland another explosion like fears that in 1956 and 1970, which could be sparked off by high- handed action of its own members towards workers and ordinary Party members. Hence the call for a change by the party daily. been Death sentences have passed on two men in the Soviet Republic of Azerbayjan for economic crimes and others sentenced to long prison terms.

They include the plant dir- ector and the chief accountant of a soft drinks factory in Baku. They pocketed money provided for the purchase of citrus fruit for use in the drinks and substituted acid. They lemon-flavoured will be shot by a firing squad.

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Resolution of the 5th Congress of the Workers and six International Committee statements International League HULL: Wednesday, June 27, 8

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TYDFIL: Tuesday p.m. Windmill Hotel, Witham.

June 26, 7.30 p.m. The Wynd- 'Forward to the Belle Vue con- ham Arms, Glebeland Street.

ference CAMBRIDGE: Thursday June 28, LANCASTER: Thursday June 28, Trades Hall, 7.30 p.m. The Road, off Mill Road. 'Forward Fenton Street, near the Post to ATUA Conference on July 1.: Office.

Schools cleared in roof

BY OUR OWN CORRE

FIFTEEN schools and colle are under the closest examin collapse at the Camden School week. HUGH SCANLON snap- ped angrily at his con- ference yesterday about their decision not to let him go again to No 10 Downing Street for talks with premier Heath. His petulant outburst came during a debate on pensions.

The national conference meet- ing at Eastbourne decided to seek a TUC-sponsored one- day strike in support of a better deal for pensioners.

Delegates Instructed their executive to press the gov- ernment to increase retire- ment pensions in relation to the national average wage, with periodic adjustments.

During the debate Scanion, the AUEW president, said: " hope when we approach don't the government they adopt the same attitude and say they are not going to meet us. Fleet Street political cor- respondents yesterday report- ed that Heath was 'very sorry' that Scanlon would not be at the next round of talks.

The TUC Is to meet on June 29 to agree on the date of the next talks with the Tories on the implementation of the Phase Three wage limits. Delegates rejected platform advice during a Common Market debate and decided by 45 votes to 23 to 'seek firm guarantees from the Labour Party that, should to office, they be returned they will immediately an- nounce our intention to with- draw from the Common Market'. But conference also ap- proved the executive's report on the Common Market sup- porting the Labour Party pro- mise to renegotiate the terms of entry. prompted Scanlon to remark: 'Here we are again feet firmly planted with mid air.' But later he said: ' think delegates would say that policy is determined by reso- lution and not by the execu- tive report.'

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d colleges throughout Britain examination following a roof • School for Girls, London, last The buildings—six of them in London — were designed either partially or wholly by the same consultant engineer as the one in Camden. a private circular to In education authorities, department has suggested that classrooms be cleared until the investigation has been com- pleted. In the Camden collapse the fortun- main assembly hall was ately empty when tons of bricks and structural iron fell in.

More than schoolgirls congregate in the hall each day and only 24 hours before last week's crash had parents gathered there for a meeting to discuss turning the school into a comprehensive. Felix J. Samuely and Partners, the consultant designers, have the department that they told definitely know of 15 similarly designed buildings. But there are probably many more of like con- struction, the firm added.

A Department spokesman said: 'We have written to all authori- ties and. all governors as a fur- ther precaution specifying the type of construction and advising them to make any necessary in- without delay if any vestigation building is of that construction.'

Only three of the schools have been named, because the depart- avoid causing ment wants to alarm to parents. These are Mallory Comprehen- sive Windsor College of Further Creighton Comprehensive School in London's Muswell Hill, THE CLEAREST possible evidence that the Tory pay laws aim to cut the standard of living of the working class has come from a dispute at Blakes, a Gosport engineering firm. OUT OF 118 applications for higher prices considered by the Prices Commission since it was created over two months ago, only two have been rejected.

And these two-from Shell Chemicals and Burman and Sons : to be re-submitted in a -are new form to meet the objections raised by the Commission.

A DISPUTE between radio dramatists and the BBC will be heard by the National Industrial Relations Court in September.

Announcing this atter a pri- vate preliminary hearing at the court yesterday, Sir John Don- aldson said that the case raised 'a vast number of interesting The Writers Guild of Great Britain and the Radiowriters' Association of the Society of Authors are jointly asking the 01-720 2000 Chairs crushed by the fallen roof.

where 600 pupils were evacuated yesterday. Some schools and colleges have been checked already, others are still being examined. The department stressed that any reports would go to the authorities governors or con- cerned and not to the depart- ment. The Camden collapse and the buildings is a complete indico- check other school ment of the government's school- building programme. Many public Last year's pay agreement for a cost-of-living in- provided crease if the retail price index rose by more than ten points ir the That subsequent ›eriod figure was reached in May and the workers claimed an extra 12.5 per cent rise as agreed compensation. There are 268 outstanding claims for more increases. Appli- cations which originally Commission reaching an average of 20 a week leapt to 40 a week in May. About one in three claims in- a volve processed food. The Com- mission has no control over fresh food prices. court to refer to the Commission their Industrial Relations on complaint that the lack of a pro- cedure agreement between writers and the BBC is hinder- ing good industrial relations.

The claim is the hrst of its ind to come before the court After yesterday's hearing the progress in their efforts to gain with negotiating rights proper the BBC. 01-622 7029 Workers Press, I buildings-though not necessarily those mentioned-are thrown up 'on the cheap' and with obvious design discrepancies. Immediately after the collapse on Wednesday June 13, an Inner London Education Authority spokesman said the Camden school was 'voluntarily aided'- the maintenance is the governors' responsibility and not ILEA'S-so it was unlikely that any other London school hall was of a similar design and structure. With the backing of the Tory Pay Board, the firm welched on its agreement. During the resulting strike last week, management attempted to split the workforce by offering the lorry drivers a separate £4 increase if they would return to work, convenor Eddie Salt claims.

Local union officials persuaded the men to return to work last Friday on the understanding there will be a full works' conference today. The feeling among the workers is that there must be no com- promise on their full demand, or else their living standards will be further reduced under the latest price increases. can't afford 'We even the cheapest beef now, the con- venor's wife Mrs Salt said at her home in Portsmouth.

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given by Peter Jettries Sunday June 24 Trade Unions and political struggle in Britain Sunday July 8 Chartism, yesterday and today Sunday July 15 The Revolutionary Party and the British working class at Stanley Halls Upper Parliament Street 3 p.m. rs Press, Friday June 22, 1973 PAGE 11 THE COST of running an average family car has risen by nearly fl a week over the past 12 months, according to latest Automobile Associa- tion figures. The AA calculated that the average yearly cost of running a family saloon car in the 1,000cc to 1,500cc range is €578.80 for an annual mileage of 10,000or £ll.11 a week. This compares with the run- ning costs for the same type of car of £533.30 in May last year —an 8 per cent rise. The figure includes standing charges such as licence, insurance, depreciation and interest on capital as well as running costs such as petrol, oil, repairs and spare parts. The AA says insurance pre- miums have increased by more than 20 percent in 12 months.

Higher garage labour charges, together with the effect of VAT have increased the cost of repairs and servicing by up to 13 per cent.

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

3. The state and revolution.

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

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Manchester given by Peter Jettries Sunday June 24 Sunday July 8 Chartism, yesterday and today Sunday July 15 The Revolutionary Party an he British working class at Black Lion Blackfriars St/Chapel St near Salford Bus Station 7.30 p.m.

Trafalgar House mentioned in bribes case Chrysler 'insult'

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday June VICTOR MATTHEWS, man- aging director of the multi- million pound conglomerate, Trafalgar House, was men- yesterday's tioned during evidence in the Leeds Crown Court corruption case. Anthony Flannery, former director of a construction com- pany, who is accused of Il cor- ruption charges, was explaining payments made to him by an architect. alleged The offences are to have been committed between 1968 and 1970 when Flannery belonged to the management team of the northern division of Carlton Contractors Limited of Epsom, Surrey. Carlton is a subsidiary of the Trafalgar House group, chaired by Nigel Broackes and managed by Victor Matthews. Flannery has denied that he

FROM IAN YEATS

IN COVENTRY

A MASS meeting of the 4,500 striker at Chrysler's Ryton plant today i virtually certain to kick out manag ment's latest proposals for an end t the stoppage. After over 16 hours non-stop tr partite talks at Coventry Council Hou on Wednesday, Ryton strike committe leader Mr Joe Molloy told Worke Press: 'They insulted us. They didn give an inch.' And T&GWU district secretary Mr B Lapworth said: 'We've got to the situatic we find it completely where impossible to negotiate with the people we are talking to?

Ryton strike committee met for two hour at the T&GWU Coventry headquarters yesterday.

'After yesterday's talks our attitude is very, very hard. We shall recommend to our members most strongly that we go on with the fight, Ryton deputy T&GWU convenor Mr Liam Byrne said. He added: 'We are prepared a long time. We to fight for don't intend to bow down to intimidation.' Convenors, trade union officials and management were locked in discussion from 10 a.m. Wed- nesday morning until 3 a.m. on union officials Thursday with anxiously exploring every pos- sibility for a settlement.

But at the end of the day, WORKERS demonstrated out- side the Rolls-Royce headquar- ters in London yesterday over a Measured-Day dispute about Work at a new north London factory. The company have locked out recently transferred from the fusing to accept new pay scales.

The men want to continue their old piecework rates, and the main body of workers still at Willesden are backing them.

An employers' formula to give the new MDW rates a trial period has been rejected by the combined shop stewards.

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Front to control the workers, stated this week: I have admired Edward Heath for his courageous stand on the Industrial Relations Bill - we should introduce something similar.' laws is the Behind the pay economic crisis of worsening capitalism which, if it is resolved day June 22, 1973 accepted from John money Lloyd, a partner in the firm of Brown, Lloyd and Partners, Newcastle architects, for show- in granting ing favour them He admitted received cheques totalling £950 through Maurice Byrne, former Mayor of Ponte- who is also facing cor- ruption charges. But this was for services for as a practical building consultant. yesterday's testimony Flannery admitted that one cheque he received was for 'Byrne house came to my and handed ex-wife this my $500 in his wife's name. cheque and suggested we should buy something nice for the explaining that house, the had come from Mr money Lloyd, Flannery said. I think Byrne explained he thought it would heip my in- 00 strikers : today is It manage- an end to n-stop tri- incil House committee d Workers 'hey didn't ary Mr Bill he situation The Chrysler management team at during the 17-hour talks Coventry Council House. after six divisions for separate talks, Chrysler's were demand- ing: • About 350 men would not receive pay for 90 minutes they were off the clock for alleged shoddy work three weeks ago and the position would be re- viewed after a three months' 'good behaviour trial. investigation into the An allegation of shoddy work would not begin until the strikers re- turned to work. • The unions should in future refrain from 'damaging stoppages' and honour disputes procedure.

company's The proposals should be put to a mass meeting of the men. Chrysler's UK managing director-designate Canadian Mr Donald Lander stressed as the talks began that there was no substantial change in the com- pany's position. Half an hour before the Council House talks ended in total break- down, Lander was phoned by his chief negotiator Mr Peter Griffiths, but he refused to intervene. Warning that the company was now in head-on conflict with the trade unions, Mr Lapworth told reporters Chrysler's position had not budged their secret since talks with convenors a week ago.

DETECTIVES investigating the picket-busting operation at the Chrysler engine plant have inter- viewed officials of an east London firm. within the framework of capital- will mean unprecedented Ism, political and economic disaster for the working class. Unless the Tory government is forced out, the pay laws will continue, and worse will follow. For this reason, Workers Press now calls on trade unionists to let the battle begin in earnest to end the collaboration with capitalism. Let the Transport and General come tax position to make cheque out to my ex-wife, the prosecutor: Byrne was The not merely a conduit pipe from Lloyd, but he decided how you got the money, whether in two cheques or whether it was to you or your wife?' Flannery: 'Yes.' Flannery said Mr Victor Matthews, head of Trafalgar House, valued his services with a salary of £5,250 in 1969, €500 a year expenses, a Rover 2000 car and 6,250 shares in Trafal- gar House Investments. He also had a pension which guaranteed him three-quarters of his earnings on retirement.

valued my 'Mr Matthews services at £800 or £850 a month. This was apprecia- my tion of my value also, he said.

The prosecutor: 'How is that germaine? Does that make this €500 chicken feed?' PERKINS nanagement yes- terday refused to meet union officials for new talks on a return to work formula at its Peterborough diesel engine plants. A leading official of the Amal- gamated Union of Engineering • Workers, Bob Wright, attacked the Tory government and its pay

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Sunday, June 24, 10.30 a.m.

The United Services Club High Street South Workers' Union at its conference month consolidate the next AUEW move and instruct Jack Jones to follow Scanlon out of the Downing Street talks.

We are proud of the role we have played in fighting for the policy of mobilizing the trade unions to fight the Tory govern- ment instead of acquiescing in the TUC leaders' collaboration with the Tories, as the 'Morning Star' has done. Flannery: 'It represents about three weeks of my services!'

Flannery said he did not mention to his head office that he was receiving money from because I didn't Lloyd think it was their business' "What?' asked the prosecutor. 'Not the business of the com- pany paying you the thick end time 10 them year to sive your "They got value for money,' Flannery replied. Mr Justice Waller intervened: 'Would Mr Matthews have valued your services as he did had he known you had this €500 from Mr Lloyd? Flannery: 'I can't answer that.

Matthews has i always had his own outside interests as well as working for a company so I was only following his ex- ample'

THE HEARING CONTINUES.

From David Maude in Peterborough laws, which, he said, were en- to chal- couraging employers lenge' the unions. After shop stewards had re- jected the 'sloppy' wording of a •formula arived at in talks on Wednesday, Perkins declared that purpose would be no useful served by a further meeting.

regional AUEW Ted Scott, officer, revealed that the deci- sion to turn down new talks had been taken in consultation with local Perkins management and Terry James, industrial relations director of the Massey Ferguson parent company. Perkins' 5,700 workers, locked out a week ago for refusing to lift an overtime ban, reacted angrily. means we go all the 'This way,' said Wilf Gibson, a shop steward, after hearing the com- pany's decision. 'This isn't just Perkins speak- The revolutionary role of the Workers Press is now a more powerful influence than the reformist tail-ending of the 'Morning Star'. We confidently call on the trade union movement to help us make events by turning the Belle Vue rally on July 1 into demonstration of an enormous anti-Tory feeling and the start of the campaign to bring the government down.

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Workers Press is more Im- portant than ever. Our paper alone has campaigned that. all talks over Phase Three between the . TUC and the Torles be broken off. Now, from the de- cision of the AUEW conference, it is clear that this call has begun to be taken up through- out the labour movement. But this Is only a beginning.

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WE WERE wrong about the fund picking up. Absolutely nothing yesterday. What was one of the best politi- cal days for a long time, saw our fund marking time.

The fund stands at £51,413.22. We need £48,586.78 by October 31.

Can we hear again from all those comrades who fought so hard for the first £50,000? Post all dona- tions to: Party Building Fund 186a, Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG. ing. You've got the government's wage policy and they're telling all employers like this to stand firm.' The Perkins workers banned overtime 12 weeks ago because they wanted a firm commitment towards parity with Massey Fer- guson workers at Coventry.

As Bob Wright said yesterday, the wages of skilled craftsmen in the Peterborough toolrooms are £19 behind those of their opposite numbers in Coventry.

On the assembly lines the differential is between £10 and £18, he said. Wednesday's talks But after with union officials the company would only agree to: • Examine the parity claim.

• Set up a joint sub committee officials of involving national the com- both the union and pany. Compare wage levels across Massey Ferguson's British plants 'to assist future wage bargain- ing'. The statement did commit both parties to finding a solu- tion but, as the stewards told Wright, this means nothing.

After hearing that the com- pany had rejected new talks, he said: 'We are faced at this time with perhaps an over-confidence of employers, encouraged by the government's legislation, who feel strong enough to make chal- lenges they would not have made perhaps six months ago? Every gate of the company's four Peterborough factories blockaded by pickets determined to remain at their posts until Sir Monty Prichard and the Per- kins board climb down. • Prichard, the group's chair- expected to return man, was from Poland last night after amicable discussions with the Polish government about the rationalization of the country's diesel engine industry.