Workers Press no. 1108

workers press

NIXON KNEW

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

BELLE VUE

acial showing of the Pageant film THE ROAD TO WORKERS POWER' and songs and scenes from history

BY JOHN SP

PRESIDENT NIX

In a 150-page testimony to the committee, Dean said he was certain Nixon had recei- ved information on the cover-up from H. R. (Bob) Haldeman, his former chief of staff. Dean's dramatic evidence ex- poses the lies that Nixon has told about Watergate over the past few weeks and threatens to topple him and his corrupt administration. Only hours before Dean took the stand, Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev left Washington for Paris after week of gladhanding and a banqueting with Nixon. As the Dean testimony was being given, the White House strategically released the text of final communiqué of the Brezhnev-Nixon talks. It was the most blatant attempt to divert attention from Watergate.

The communiqué expresses mutual satisfaction' with the substantial advance in the strengthening of peaceful rela- tions between the USA and the

USSR.

The process of reshaping re- lations betwen the USA and the USSR on the basis of peaceful co-existence and equal security is progressing in an en- couraging manner,' the com- muniqué says. Thanks to Brezhnev, Dean's testimony has been postponed for a week while Nixon's cronies subjected Dean to systematic abuse. In his opening statement to the Senate hearing, Dean also said that former Attorney- General John Mitchell and Com- merce Secretary Maurice Stans both asked him to see if the White House could do anything to prevent 'unnecessary embar- concerning rassment' funds found on the Watergate burglars.

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YESTERDAY'S

produced post £48.17 which brings the total to £51,767.09. It it is still danger- ously slow, although there are definite signs that our comrades are going into action. We must complete our £100,000 target by Actober 31. hernsley £14.92; = £25;

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JUNE 26, 1973

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

IN SPENCER AND ALEX MITCHELL

'two of the finest public servants I have known'. Dean's much-awaited revela- tions will destroy authority any Brezhnev has been able to on Nixon over the bestow past week. Nixon's attempts to pose as world statesman are meeting with opposition on Capitol increasing Hill by Senators and Congress- men who fear that he is running fast and far in

TOO

TOO

detente with Moscow. The Stalinists trying des- are perately and blatantly do to everything possible to maintain Nixon in office. The counter- revolutionary collaboration be. the Moscow tween bureaucracy and the imperialists is clear for every worker to see. The Hungarian Stalinists' daily newspaper "Magyar Hirlap' even goes so far as to say that 'the summit has made the process of detente irreversible'. When the burglars were caught Democratic redhanded in the And its stablemate, Neps- the Watergate headquarters at zabadsag', claims that a situation Hotel. their pockets were stuffed 'where the now exists resources with hundred bills which dollar of socialism need not be concen- were traced back to Stans' safe.

trated to defend its existence, but Shortly after the June 17, 1972, rather to economic and inerpace break-in Mr L. Patrick Gray, act.

cultural progress'. ing head of the FBI, asked him In other words, this group of for an assurance that information Stalinist bureaucrats is openly on the being reported case was campaigning for abandonment of to the President, Dean said. the defence of the Soviet Union the basis him on peaceful co- assured that it was of existence with imperialism.

reported to the Presi- being Even though There is no basis whatsoever dent. was not for a capitulation to imperialism; directly reporting to the Presi- I was aware talk of detente is utterly fraudu- dent at that time, Shrlichman of the fact that lent. or Haldeman had dailv discussions The capitalist class has never with the President, and felt abandoned its ambition for the certain, because Haldeman often forcible restoration of capitalism made notes about the information in the workers' states. I was bringing to their attention.

peaceful With their talk of that this information was be- co-existence the Stalinists are ing given to the President. disarming the working class of In the past few days Nixon is the world and helping the reported to have decided to imperialists to prepare a new abandon Haldeman and Ehrlich- world war as a way out of their man, whom he once described as economic and political crisis.

All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To d Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchest acial showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORK TICKETS £1: Still available from 186a, Clapham Coaches will be leaving from all areas and trains fro Swindon, Reading and BOOK NOW. Or telephone for de 3, 1973 • No 1108. • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

WORKERS from Rolls-Royce Motors in Willesden, north London, demonstrated yesterday outside the company's headquarters in Conduit Street. The men have been locked out because of their opposition to the introduction of Measured-Day Work to the factory.

The joint shop stewards' committee in the plant is also angry about the high-handed way the Tory-owned company is attacking piecework and opening new premises.

: To discuss defence of democratic rights chester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

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workers press

NIXON KNEW

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

BELLE VUE

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

acial showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history

BY JOHN SF

PRESIDENT NIX(

In a 150-page testimony to the committee, Dean said he was certain Nixon had recei- ved information on the cover-up from H. R. (Bob) Haldeman, his former chief of staft. Dean's dramatic evidence ex- poses the lies that Nixon has told about Watergate over the past few weeks and threatens to topple him and his corrupt administration. Only hours before Dean took stand, the Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev left Washington for Paris after week gladhanding and a banqueting with Nixon. As the Dean testimony was being given, the White House strategically released the text of final the communiqué of the Brezhnev-Nixon talks. It was the most blatant attempt to divert attention from Watergate.

The communiqué expresses 'mutual satisfaction' with the "substantial advance in the strengthening of peaceful rela- tions between the USA and the

USSR.

The process of reshaping re- lations betwen the USA and the USSR on the basis of peaceful co-existence and equal security ... is progressing in an en- couraging the com- manner, muniqué says. Thanks to Brezhnev, Dean's testimony has been postponed for a week while Nixon's cronies subjected Dean to systematic abuse. In his opening statement to the Senate hearing, Dean also said that former Attorney- General John Mitchell and Com- merce Secretary Maurice Stans both asked him to see if the White House could do anything to prevent 'unnecessary embar- rassment' concerning funds found on the Watergate burglars.

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YESTERDAY'S post produced £48.17 which brings the total to £51,767.09. It it is still danger- ously slow, although there are definite signs that our comrades are going into action. We must complete our £100,000 target by Antober 31. -ernsley £14.92; = £25; "vu.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JUNE 26, 1973

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE DE THE SOI

IN SPENCER AND ALEX MITCHELL

'two of the finest public servants I have known'. Dean's much-awaited revela- tions will destroy any authority Brezhnev has been able to bestow on Nixon over the past week. Nixon's attempts to pose as world statesman are meeting with opposition Capitol Increasine Hill by Senators and Congress- men who fear that he is running fast and far in

TOO

Too detente with Moscow. The Stalinists trying des- are perately and blatantly do to everything possible to maintain Nixon in office. The counter- revolutionary collaboration be- the Moscow tween bureaucracy and the imperialists is clear for every worker to see. The Hungarian Stalinists' daily 'Magyar Hirlap' newspaper even goès so far as to say that 'the summit has made the process of detente irreversible'. When the burglars were caught redhanded in the Democratic And its stablemate, Neps- Watergate headquarters the at zabadsag', claims that a situation Hotel. their pockets were stuffed now exists 'where the resources with hundred dollar bills which of socialism need not be concen- were traced back to Stans' safe.

trated to defend its existence, but Shortly after the June 17, 1972.

rather to increase economic and break-in Mr L. Patrick Gray, act- cultural progress'. ing head of the FBI, asked him In other words, this group of for an assurance that information Stalinist bureaucrats is openly the on case was being reported campaigning for abandonment of the President, Dean said.

Soviet Union the defence of the TO the on basis of peaceful co- assured him that it was existence with imperialism.

being reported to the Presi- There is dent. Even though basis whatsoever was not no Presi. for a capitulation to imperialism; directly reporting to the talk of detente is utterly fraudu- of tet tert hat Ehrlichman was of the fact that lent. or Haldeman had daily discussions The capitalist class has never with the President, and felt abandoned its ambition for the certain, because Haldeman often forcible restoration of capitalism made notes about the information in the workers' states. I was bringing to their attention.

With their talk of peaceful that this information was be-y co-existence the Stalinists are ing given to the President. disarming the working class of In the past few days Nixon is the world and the helping reported to have decided to imperialists to prepare

MATA

abandon Haldeman and Ehrlich- world war as a way out of their man, whom he once described as economic and political crisis. All Trades Unions Alliance Conference: To o Kings Hall: Belle Vue Zoo Park: Manchest ›cial showing of the Pageant film 'THE ROAD TO WORK TICKETS £1: Still available from 186a, Clapham Coaches will be leaving from all areas and trains fro Swindon, Reading and BOOK NOW. Or telephone for d 3, 1973 •: No 1108 • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABCUR LEAGUE

TGWUnotres WORKERS from Rolls-Royce Motors in Willesden, north London, demonstrated yesterday outside the company's headquarters in Conduit Street. The men have been locked out because of their opposition to the introduction of Measured-Day Work to the factory.

The joint shop stewards' committee in the plant is also angry about the high-handed way the Tory-owned company is attacking piecework and opening new premises.

chester-Sunday July 1: 3 p.m.-9 p.m.

) WORKERS POW ER' and songs and scenes from history Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG.

trains from London, Portsmouth, Southampton, ding and Oxford. ne for details: 01-622 7029.

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1, Tusadey Juno 26, 1973

LAMBION

ЗЕШСОЕ WORKERS at the Ford plant in Broad- meadows, near Sydney, Australia, are in the fourth week of their strike for higher wages Stalinist trade union despite attempts by officials to get them back to work.

They are demanding a flat wage increase of 45 per cent and the abolition of the present bonus system which ties wages to a series of penalties for such things as bad time-keeping.

Basic wages at the plant are A$61 to A$63 a week (about f30), but the workers want a flat rate of about AS90 a week with the bonus. They say the line speed at the plant has from been raised cars an hour in 1967, to 40 cars an hour in 1969 and now runs at 70 cars an hour.

An attempt to drive them back to work on the basis of a 5 per cent rise in the bonus was made by union officials on Monday June I1. The recom- Laurie Car- mendation for a came from relurn of the Amal- michael. assistant federal secretary Union Workers' and a leading gamated Metal Communist Party member. He declared that a mass meeting of strikers had work, voted in favour returning to but workers maintained this was not true.

On Wednes- and picket formed outside the plant day a mass fought with police to the factory being prevent opened. The strike continued and the militant resistance Carmichael to issue a of the men forced cringing 'I have made a mistake, he said, 'and you apology. We had a plan and we were taught me a lesson. concerned with plan to listen the too our to Mounted policeman rid workers.' The continuing strike threatening to stop production of Ford cars in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The Federal Labour is government

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MARKET

Foreign trying to shield the bureaucracy Ministers were meeting in Luxem- by generating anti-American burg yesterday to agree sentiment. mon policy to meet the Ameri- Labour Minister Clyde Cameron cans and Japanese in trade talks.

said on television: They were unable to agree don't like a situation in the terms which month ago on which Australian workers have they should put to world- the fight industrial contest wide trade negotiations, opening against someone whose decisions in September under Tokyo in made the board- are being in the auspices of the General Agree.

rooms of New York. ment on Tariffs and Trade.

'It is a foreien company. It is owned by foreigners. Its policy France ODDosed is being made by foreigners and agricultural to the Australian workers have partners want to make the meat in the sandwich' Americans. The US wants the

THE

BRITISH LEYLAND

Motor of British-Levland, an to on May Corporation plans to produce official visit 14,000 In fascist 15. cars a year 1977. Its Spain by production companies which have Other been filed plans have already completed their plans for Invest- with the government Madrid.

SEAT,

in Spain the ment

FIAT

which intends The firm Is planning to sink a subsidiary. to spend C122m by 1977 at total of in its main Saragossa. Pamplona plant where locked- out workers were savaged by Production at the existing last Another SEAT plant In Barcelona, the police week. {15m be spent on an to be stepped up and a new spare engine factory. By 1977 parts centre is planned. SEAT will be producing 600,000 Leyland has bought out Its cars a year, 150,000 for export. Authi Spanish partners in the company. Lord Stokes, the head Ford will be spending £120m

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•3///.11/44 T1116461 Iceman rides Into pickets at Broadmeadows.

EEC to open its doors to US farm products. The Ministers have little real hope of resolving either this question or the other key ques- their relations with tion of African, Caribbean and Mediter- ranean countries. The French government wants the continuation of the present style of preferential trade agree.

the Yaounde ments, styled on convention of 1959, whereas the majority of Common Market countries want a more flexible type of association. on a plant near Valencia with an output of 300,000 cars by 1976. Citroen is enlarging its Vigo • plant at a cost of over £40m to produce a total of 700 units a day. By 1977 Citroen In- tends to export almost half its production. Chrysler has had plans for some time to spend {25m on enlarging Its existing plant.

The spate of Investment pro posals follows special tax con- cessions to motor firms provided they produce at least 500 cars a day and export at least 100.

THE SHAKY Wall Street stoc another savage blow with the suit by the Securities and against the largest stockbrokin is The basis of the quarrel how best to plunder the econo- mies of those so-called associated states forced to sell their pro- ducts to the EEC at low prices in exchange for expensive indus- trial products. There is due to be an EEC.

Africa conference in Brussels on July 25 where the African states —including former British colo- nies—will be able to pick which- imperialist method ever domination they prefer. Another item on the Luxem- is lack of progress burg agenda at the current GATT negotiations on compensation for the effects of EEC enlargement on their competitors' trade.

BY OUR OWN CORRE

THE NATIONAL Coal Board has placed the ownership and operation of its 13 coking works in England Wales under a and newly formed company, Natior Smokeless Fuels. The plants produce at million tons of coke a The move is part board's programme to t et stock market has been dealt ith the filing of a malpractice and Exchange Commission kbroking company. The SEC has accused Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith of fraud- ulently misleading at least 4,000 of its customers by pub- lishing a series of optimistic reports about a near-bankrupt firm. Merrill Lynch, it is alleged, went on giving glowing re- about the Scientific ports Control Corporation

(SCC)

until a week before it went bankrupt in November 1969.

at the The charge comes worst possible time for the New York Stock Exchange, which is for 18 at its lowest point months and still falling.

It comes on top of allega- tions of corruption linked to the Watergate affair inside the SEC itself, which led to the resigna- newly-appointed SEC tion chairman. Merrill Lynch is by far the stockbroking world's largest company, with equity assets of almost $300m.

MISLEADING

The SEC charges include send- ing out reports to Merrill Lynch branches on SCC 'made without adequate bases and were mis- leading; failing to carry out of analysis' •diligent research SCC; failure to disclose that its recommendations based were largely on unchecked informa- tion supplied by SCC. The SEC is to hold public not only against the hearings, firm itself, but also against 47 of Merrill Lynch's employees.

They • are charged with mak- ing 'untrue facto, statements material potential buyers of SCC stock. Merrill Lynch claims to have 'good defences' against the EEC charges. But in the present climate of near-panic on Street the charges are certain to intensify the crisis.

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non-mining activit:-- total assets holdi nds embodied in the 1973 Coar Industry Act.

Anti-working class statements by driver and middle-man The politics behind the 'picket-busters' Anti-working class statements by

BY ROYSTON BULL

HOW BIG is the professional strike - breaking organization and burst through the pickets siege of the Stoke, Coventry, engine plant? And how much official backing does it have?

Piecing information together from local sources and the limited news in the capitalist Press, which has clearly been instructed to play the issue down, a picture emerges of a politically-planned operation of long standing with support in high places.

The organizer of the Coventry raid was Tony Bilton, described as an ex- He is also paratrooper. variously des- cribed as a haulage contractor and an advertising agent. He agreed to pay five men £500 each to cut their way through a fence into the Stoke before plant dawn last Monday and drive out the gates past pickets with engine loads prepared by the company. deal was finalized at Bob's Cafe The on the A45 outside Coventry.

Serious allegations have been made midnight against these raiders; injuring one worker, John Docherty, inside Stoke by assaulting him with an iron bar when discovered them he preparing to drive of the and plant; hurling bricks bottles at the pickets as the trucks raced out of the gates; and crushing a security guard Dunstable at plant He ing locally. could they when they delivered the engines.

said, run a business of any great But much more important size.' the behind this politics raid. But Chryslers knew about John Walker (37), of Toynbee Street, Stepney, of the this mysterious organization, The has well enough. whole opera- drivers, revealed: planned tion in 'I was all lined up to do a job was great de- significantly, tail, and, the for him [Bilton] during the coal police were involved in helping miners' strike last year. 'That didn't come off. But he to it out. The 'Sunday Times' reported: got in touch with me again dur- *The dis- ing the container dispute. company does not 'I didn't pute that it engaged "con- actually do a run tractor" ... The early hours of then, but I was willing. 'He came through again at the Monday morning were selected because there nightshift end of last week. I went up to was no working at Stoke at that Coventry have a look with time. to 'Strict orders that him and he told me the firm the police should be loaded present.' wanted to get eight It continued: containers out. Walker added: In the John event, something went 'He's a funny fellow. He puts Sub-sub-contractors wrong. en- tering through a hole in the car- on the accent of the people he is talking to. He talked to us in park fence, guided by white Cockney, and to the blokes up painted oil drums in the style of there in Brummie. And a commando raid or a bank job, heard him talk northern. were rumbled by pickets. really don't know Pickets said that at the sound want to of the picket line at the Stoke plant. who he is because I want to do of a car horn 2 a.m., at about more jobs like this? the of No. barrier gate was Bilton himself told the 'Sunday raised and a military-style of three articulated lorries, Mirror': voy Tee had of in ustryone have led white by a Avenger car industry. (made at Chrysler's strike-hit money, trom four more raids my books. Ryton plant) swept out of the on about 40 m.p.h. Two of them are connected with plant at The 'Daily Mail reported that the car industry. Bilton with the John Walker and brother mingled David then strikers at Saturday's mass meet- 'went back to a load of van which voted ing to collect engines- this time with a police escort'.

work. The 'Guardian' reported that The had originally lorries the police have interviewed the driven with their lights off, ex- man 'employed by Chrysler cept for the lead lorry, in convoy the Stoke from the organize the picket - breaking plant Blue operation'-Tony Bilton, Boar the area His name was supplied by the Ml where they rendezvoused.

He was described as a David Walker, amited he was company. haulage Chesterfield. 'Mail' broker in admitted But the 'Guardian' added: anxious to get the [Dun- into 'The main haulage stable plant before the day contractors and in the Chesterfield area said last shift arrived, in doing SO the night that they had not known took his load too close to that any such broker was operat- gate-house, crushing the duty ts by driver and middl security guard, Mr Terry Walker- Spiers. •Yesterday the brothers, went to see the injured guard at the Luton and Dunstable hospital. Mr Walker-Spiers was not very impressed by their apologies.

• "They were the worst drivers I have seen at the plant," he said.' The 'Guardian' reported: "Mr Walker-Spiers, who has worked for Chrysler for four said that the Walker years, brothers were not the sort of haulage firm he would have ex- pected his employers to get in- volved with. 'He said that John Walker had told him that a Chrysler man had been with the lorry convoy, driving a white Avenger car, and that this man had shown them where the engines were, and then driven with them to Dunstable.' There would seem to be con- siderable circumstantial evidence inquiry into the role of for an the police in this affair to see if they have not been condoning driving without lights on the highway and a number of other incidents. It is not difficult to imagine what an uproar there would have been, and how quickly the police would have acted in arresting people, it the same tactics had been used the other way about —by picketing workers against a company. The responsibility of Chryslers in these legally-dubious actions also seems worthy of inquiry.

Harold Walker, Labour spokes- man for employment, has called for 'some kind of inquest' into the appalling behaviour of those professional strike-busters'.

But the only real answer to the organized violence of the ruling class is mass political action by the working class.

This was clearly no isolated incident, but part of a whole political strategy for use against the trade union movement, par- ticularly in the event of a General Strike. Before bringing in the picket- busters, Chryslers had been tak- ing photographs of militants on the line. Police files are full of pictures of active trade unionists.

A spy photographer took snaps of the demonstrators at the Shrewsbury building latest workers' trial. Bilton told the 'Daily Mirror': I've done it before and I'll do it again willingly. I refuse to stand by and let militants and agitators bring this country to its knees. I know of at least 16 . Workers Press, Tue niddle man professional agitators in the Chrysler plant. I'm British and proud of it and I won't stand by and watch strikes like this strangle the country.' Bilton, of Staveley, near Ches- terfield, described himself as an 'advertising agent' and a 'pro- fessional breaker'. Не strike added: You say I'm a true patriot, can John Walker told the 'Mail': believe that every man should be given a free hand within the law and no man should prevent another man from working. 'I've done wrong when I was 'Normally, we're fighting for a bit of the crust, but if there are any more jobs like this going, then I'm your man. I'm pleased we done it. These strikers are ruining the country and it's time people stood up to them. 'My brother and • myself are trying to make a living. But what happens? You get to the docks or to a factory with a

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The trucks that never made it.

These trailers, which were picket driven through lines at the Stoke engine plant, Coven- later overturned in a field, spilling out their 'black' con- tents. load you've brought 200 miles and a picket line expects you to turn round and go away. 'It's not us that's breaking the law, it's them. I know the law about picketing. It says they can give information. But it doesn't say they can throw bottles at you, prevent you get- ting through, and smash up your motor. "Too right I'm against them.'

right-wing These extremist attitudes are aimed directly at the organizational solidarity of the working class which is its only defence against the on- slaught on basic democratic rights being conducted by the and the Tory government employers. The working class must con- sciously prepare to defend itself against more and more frequent examples of this kind of ex- tremist political attack.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday June A discussion around the be debated at the Al Alliance conference at Bi ter, Sunday July 1st—3 p.r 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 currently being are cussed in the pages of the Workers Press, ATUA National statement adopted at Birm- ingham last year. In a statement adopted on May 13 by the ATUA in preparation for the July 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 in Britain inflationary boom and the policies of the Tory and Labour leaders. The Tories have laid plans for a corporate state, but the sharpening class struggle resulting from the intensification of the crisis day June 26, 1973 id the policies wh All Trades e at Belle Vue, Ma will more and these plans Phase Three pay laws. It is this basis for the struggle which Revolutionary Part Therefore urgent that these r opments, which the launchin sist Revolutionary he discussed by possible number gates Arrangements ar to provide appropi ties such ter, one of sembly halls of England. delegations gone out. those workers, end the state pay restore free for wages unions and join the demand off all ing government on Ph The fight for th basic now insepara the struggle Revolutionary Party We believe that 1 rally can be an landmark in the the working the basis of cies to create the industrial and pol ditions for forcing to resign. es which will Unions ue, Manches- and more disrupt and expose the state massive class forms lary Party. vitally greatly as- launching or the Party, should sed by the largest of dele- visitors to the ments are in hand appropriate facili- discussion Ile Vue, Manches- the largest as- the north Invitations have already calls upon all who want to and state pay laws negotiations between trade employers, to demand for break. Paul and Janet Burgoyne: When you s Paul Burgoyne (25), a young repair shop worker at Chrysler, Ryton, a member of the Sheetmetal Workers' Union, comes from a family which thought the Tories would help them to get on. His wife, Janet, a hosiery worker, was brought up by a father who was an ex-member of the Communist Party. Both have come to the con- clusion that the working class needs a new leadership.

Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? No, I don't think so. There's got to be a change of govern- ment. The Tories represent big big business, they are business. I've never voted Tory but I think some people thought if you want to be a bit differ- ent and buy your own house, this is the government that will help you. But it's proved exactly the People have been reverse. conned. I've been living in a fool's paradise for the past 10 or 15 years while I was single. It's not until you get realize responsibilities, you things are getting worse.

The controls wage are really bad. When you can plan the future all well and good, but when you see a cloudy horizon, or no horizon at all, that is when people start thinking. Do you think that the Labour and trade union leaders want to get rid of the Tory government? No. They want to get rid of the present government, but not until the next General Election. Even if they get in, they look at the mistakes made and the people they offended last time. ren you see no horizon at all, that is when pec When they were in office, they broke their promises and went against the people who voted for them. The trouble with the Labour Party is that within they want to work capitalism. What experience have you had that makes you feel that getting rid of the Tory government is an urgent task? Paying for this house for a start. Negotiations for the house were going on and I jump in found there was price. I had solicitor's bills to pay and I was just paying out all the time. With the cost of living to- day, I'm glad my wife's work- ing. We couldn't afford to have a child. Wages are definitely going down and the margin of what I can save is getting smaller When I was and smaller. courting the wife we used to but we can't steaks, have afford it now. What do you think of the TUC's collaboration with the Tories over the pay laws and Phase Three? It's disgusting. Feather and the TUC seem to be going cap in hand to Heath. I don't think they are working people at all. I've been very dis- appointed because this is where the trade union move- ment is falling down fast.

• haven't The Labour Party really forced any issues on the Tory government either.

They've just stood by. They even tried to bring in an In- dustrial Relations Act them- selves. What do you think of the role of leaders like Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon in the collaboration? Where are the words to des- past they cribe it? In the have done good things for the working class, but now they when people start thinking!'

seem to have got swept into the net and gone along with the rest. The basic democratic rights of the working class are under attack. What can be done to unify people in defence of these rights? Are protests and one-day strikes enough? Protests and one-day strikes are a complete waste of time.

It's got to be a national strike. I'd be very sad to see a situation where everybody was out in the streets as they were in the General Strike.

But if you've got nothing, or they're trying to take everything away from you, that's when the dog has to turn. What do you think can be done to build a new leadership? It's working up to most people now to consider seri- ously building a new leader- ship in the working class.

With our entry into the Com- mon Market I can only see things getting worse and worse. I must admit I've only had the Workers Press in the last two weeks during the strike at Chrysler's. I used to read the 'Socialist Worker'. I thought it would improve, but although they show what's wrong with society, they don't tell you the alter- native. I think the ATUA's cam- paign to build a new leader- ship to take the working class to power is the most con- structive thing to come about yet. Are you in favour of a mass rally of trade unionists to build this leadership? Yes. I think it will do a lot of good. It will shake a few in the Labour Party and the unions as well.

Des Reilly is a shop steward at the Vauxhall car factory at Ellesmere Port, Merseyside. Do you think it is possible to get rid of the state pay laws without getting rid of the Tory government? If you take the average per- son down there in that plant the main attitude is what can be done abbut the state pay laws. They know what is going on, but they think that the Labour Party would be as bad as the Tory Party. I think people are a little bit apprehensive about the possible solution to the be total revolution and a party like the SLL or the Tories. In the long run these are the choices. I even get people coming up to me in the plant who are not even strong trade union- ists asking about the situation.

Most of their questions are selfish, in the sense that they want to know what is going to happen to their money in the future. The big problem is that the working man is interested in his own little world, not things outside him. He doesn't know about the collapse of the dollar or the effect of the rise in the price of gold, but he perhaps feels a bit disturbed about this—he knows it will affect him somehow. This is the narrowness we have to break down. What experience have you had which makes you believe that getting rid of the Tory government is an urgent task? I believe very much in the right to negotiate the rises that I think are due to me. I don't believe in anyone saying to me I can't negotiate, this is the pay you will get, while they go on making profit out of my labour. This is what has happened under this government. The Tories have come along and taken all our negotiating rights away, they are virtual dictators over the working class. You are going to get £2.40, which is what we got, while prices are going up faster and faster.

The whole thing is done to keep the capitalist system on its feet. It's something that we cannot tolerate. Are you in favour of building a leadership which will make the Tory government resign? I think this is possible. The average working man I think is a bit frightened of it. For the working man the SLL is an entirely different leadership, different from the Labour Party, I think a lot of people are frightened about this big gap. I often wonder myself how this enormous change is going to take place and how long it is going to take us to achieve it. The way things are going we can't carry on with the Labour Party. It's got to be a revolutionary party pledged to socialist policies. The basic democratic rights of the working class are under attack. Is protest and one-day strikes enough to defend these rights? I don't agree with one-day stoppages. If we are going to have a go we must get more power to our elbow. The aver- bloke says the one-day age stunt is ridiculous, it doesn't affect Tory government and it loses him a day's wages.

I would like to see a total stoppage, a General Strike.

A lot of blokes don't think this is possible, but the Chrys- Workers Press, Tusaday June 28, 1073

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ler situation is really making them think. With this and the speed-up in the plants and the collapse of the I think people Cola. beginning uneasy are to get about the way things are drift- ing. Are you in favour of a mass rally of trade unionists to build this leadership? told SLL's was about the Wembley rally by the lads who down there and went was very disappointed that I could But I not make it. hope to Vue. make up for this at Belle history think the of the working class that will be shown there is very, very In It shows how portant. Our for forefathers fought the rights we have today—it goes right back Tolpuddle the martyrs who were penalized for forming trade union branch. Now the working class today can be penalized for exercising the most basic right-the right to free bargaining The same thing is happening They are trying to smash now. the working class. It's either Then o us ana as lar as 1 am The chryse staton is roy mating for worker mat. or thir but remand or ely are., concerned it's not going to be

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday June 26, 1973 Workers Press today prints a letter smuggled out of Soria prison, in Spain, and signed by 27 political prisoners. As we reported on Tune 15. three prisoners. Iokin Gorostidi, Javier Larena and losu Abrisqueta were brutally beaten and tor- tured in order to force them to confess that they had written the document: fighters for our class and our The political prisoners of people by breaking down our Soria prison have in the health and minds. past months been suffer- We realize that this situation ing the effects of constant is not an isolated phenomenon, rather the reflection of the threats and provocations repression which is growing and the application of a felt at all levels. The oligarchy of monopoly capital, unable to policy of systematic re- aspirations of meet pression aimed not only people, incapable of governing at denying us our free. helpless democratically, and with before the strengthening of the dom sentences struggle of the working class, imposed by fascist courts, students, white collar workers, but also at destroying and professionals—has no alter- other than the utiliza- revolutionary native us as tion of more brutal methods.

militants. Since the murder of Txabi five Not satisfied with 'these Etxebarrieta, years ago, killed sentences, they at- workers have been in monstrous El Ferrol, 'tempt to eliminate us as future Erandio, Granada, SEAT (Barcelona), Madrid, and finally San Adrian del Besos: and important each strike demonstration, marking the greater awareness and organiz- ation of the working class, has been paid for by deaths and injuries. In Euzkadi (the Basque country) the authorities have unleashed a ferocious 'man hunt' against revolutionary militants, the latest victim of which was Eustaquio Men- dizabal in April. Part of this process are the monstrous sentences demanded by the prosecution and passed by the Public Order Court, the return to the systematic use of military tribunals to try political cases and the in- creased tortures and arrests as a result of the May Day events.

This repression • is slowly affecting ever higher-placed sectors of the population, as is shown by the attempt of the regime to annul the autonomy of the professional associations.

The policy of repression has not, however, prevented the strengthening of the class struggle, the sharpening of the confrontations and the exten- sion of the movement, both to the more backward sectors of the working class and to other sectors of the population, a struggle for better living con- ditions and against the terrorist rule of the regime. Within this context, the penal system has traditionally played and continues to play a very important role. The General Prison Admin- istrations follows a policy of thus maintaining dispersion, punishment prisons such as Cartagena (where Floreal and Miguel Ingles are held), Cor- doba (Dorronsoro, Izko San- Carballo), and and toyo Caceres (Uriarte, Onaindia and Zalbide). All these are used for poli- tical prisoners and represent a constant threat for those held in other places like Soria, Segovia and Jaén: Any re- sponse to the continual threats to which we are subjected, or any initiative aimed at better- ing our situation as political prisoners, could end with our to those centres of transfer punishment and isolation.

In some provincial prisons the political detainees are kept separate and isolated in differ- ent wards, forcing them to live with common-law convicts and preventing them from even talking to each other. These are the most notable charac- teristics of the policy of disper- imposed by the penal sion authorities. mong th soria stands out nany prisons in Spain Aher hunoreds of boltical Drisoners this repression. Heres" • send the ere te signer ollectively administration prison is in the hand of Gover locé Manue de la fuent who colahorates close v us the cruel est con. but his control, he is to blame for Among the measures used against us. a clear reflection of the escalating violence troudh.

the following;, conditions communicatine witn our visits are limited to 20 lies: minutes in dark rooms where we are separated from them by a double grill, with a pass- age of 1.5 metres in between and covered with a screen from hear- which prevents us ing or seeing each other clearly.

All conversations take place in the presence of a guard, who note of or takes interrupts say constantly. We what we speak in forbidden to are Basque or Catalan, and visits are violently brought to an end if those languages are used.

Censorship is the Gover- nor's most direct and effective weapon for repressing us poli- tically: a) Arbitrary censorship of the Press (i.e. of 'ABC', the only newspaper allowed) which is given to us with great pieces cut out. For example, on May 31, 1973, columns 1 and 2 on ›age 33 and column 2 on page 1 had been cut. There were even holes on the page for religious information. b) Censorship is more rig- orous for books and magazines, since the Soria authorities do not even go by the ruling of the General Administration and prohibit books which are authorized in other prisons.

One indication of the degree of censorship is the statement to 20 of the prison teacher that '25 per cent of the books' which our families bring to us are refused. c) Interception of corres- pondence without explanation, breaking all lines of communi- cation with our families. In answer to one prisoner who asked for a letter which had been held back, the Governor, 'the paranoid, said: "The truth cannot be revealed.'

Punishments are arbitrary.

In January, Ramon Llorca was sanctioned with 21 days in the punishment cells because he threatened a guard, allegedly but in fact for having asked •for a letter adressed to his lawyer which had been inter- cepted. Later, Iokin Gorostidi was sent to the punishment cells for 30 days for having reques- ted medical attention because he was recovering from an operation (he had been wrongly gıven antı-blotics, which had damaged his health even more).

• The scale of punishments has orsened in the past days with the confinement in punish- ments cells of seven comrades, the for which is reason unknown. The threatening treatment to which we are subjected is also applied to our relatives, eit riskin A detainee in one of Spain's many jails where political prison- held. They aim ers are destroying revolutionary US as militants, the Soria statement says. (Photo-Amnesty). who are followed and searched by the police. The tyres of their cars are punctured and they have even been arrested on the orders of the Governor.

This happened last April when the police entered, pis- tols in hand, the hotel room where three prisoners' wives were staying. One of them was elderly and in delicate health, but they were all taken with no explanation to the police headquarters cells where they remained for two days without medical care and under con- tinual interrogation. • Lack of contact with our lawyers (as has occurred to Iokin Gorostidi and Gorzon Isasa), denying us defence and information about our trials, which are so necessary in these cases. 'The Paranoid' does not hesitate to use the most repul- sive tactics, to the extent of offering some of us better con- ditions in exchange for infor- mation about the political affiliation of the others and threatening blackmail if we do not collaborate. Workers Press, Tuesday June 26, 1973 PAGE 7 Lois Maria Aizpurua Berasate- Francisco Javier Larena Mar- 1968. tinez (27). Arrested in 1969.

(24). Arrested in Sentenced to 40 years' impris- Condemned death, onment by a military tribunal.

muted to 30 years. Plus other Has been tortured and beaten.

and sentences years three years in addition. Held in San Sabastian arabaa, Ocaña, Has been tortured and beatent. Held Burgos, Santander. in San Sebastian, Carabanchel, Alicante Soria. Burgos, and (29). Victor Arana Has spent 77 days in solitary.

Carlos Lopez Echeverria 70 Has (25). Arrested in 1972. Sen- years' tortured beaten. tenced four been to two years Held Burgos, months. Has been tortured. in San Sebastian, Cara- Puerto de Santa and Held in Soria. Has banchel, Jaén and Soria. spent Gregorio Lopez Irasuecui (27).

solitary Arrested 1969. Sentenced lose in Sen- (30). by a military tribunal to ten tenced to years and additional sen- Has tor- tence of 30 years. Has been tary tortured and beaten. Held in Santa Sebastian, Pamplona, Ocana, Burgos, se- and Cordoba and Soria. Has Maria govia, spent 40 days in solitary con- finement. Llorca Lopez (32). Ramon Arrested in 1972 Sentenced years. Has been tortured. Held Has tortured. by a military tribunal been Barcelona and Soria. Fernandez Barcelona and Soria. Has Pedro in 21 days in Sen- Marta (sI) (27). Arrested in spent Jose Hassana Y'Marti tenced to Sentenced Has Arrested in 1971. -tribunal. tOI- tary 26 by a military tribunal to Has Madrid and Soria. years and eight months. been tortured. Held in Pam- Gil-Grova Esteban Sen- plona, Santander, Basauri and (21). Arrested in Soria. Julio Moreno Viedma (43). Held tortured. 1962. Arrested in Sentenced to 30 years by a military tri- Carabanchel, bunal. Held Jose Giokoetxea Ramon Has spent Burgos and Soria. 160 days in solitary. Has Sentenced to Inaki Orbeta Berriatua (26). Arrested in 1969. Sentenced 40 by a military tribunal to Gorostidi (28). Iokin tortured and years. Has been Arrested in beaten. Held in Burgos. Ocaña and Soria. Has spent 30 days 30 muted on each to in solitary confinement. count. Mugiga Gonzalez (40). Jesus of sentence, and

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Arrested 1970. Sentenced in to four years two months. Has tortured months. Has been tortured. Held in Basauri Cara- Held in San and Soria. Cartagena banchel, Jose Julian Pascual Gallastegui Has days in Soria. (33). Arrested in 1970. Sen- solitary. Has been tenced to six years. losu Ibargutxi Sampedro (23) tortured and beaten. Held in 1968. Sentenced Arrested in Carabanchel and Basauri, 40 military to years by Soria. An additional tribunal. sen- Federico Sanchez Tuliachs of six years. Seriously tence (31). Arrested in 1969. Sen- explosion. Held injured in an tenced by a military tribunal in Carabanchel prison hospital, to 23 years and an additional Santander, San Sebas- Burgos, sentence of six Has years. tian and Soria. been tortured and beaten. Held Ioseba Imatz Garai (27). Arres- Barcelona, Cordoba, Cara- in Sen- ted in January this year.

Soria. Has spent banchel and january us yeal. wet. solitary confine- 61 days in tribunal. Has been tortured. ment. Inaki Sarasqueta Ibanez (24).

1968. Sentenced Arrested in death military to by tri- Sentenced Arrested in bunal. Commuted to 30 years six by military to years a plus ans. dits nal se tentered Has been tribunal. tortured Has years. been tortured Held in San and beaten. Held San d" Soria. Ocaña Sebastian. and Feline Esnal (36). Has spent 35 days in solitary confinement. Soriano Martinez Salvador 1969. (28). Arrested in Sen- tenced to 16 years by a mili- Has spent 40 tribunal. Has been tor- tary confinement. Held tured and beaten. in Hinojosa (25). Valencia, Burgos and Soria. Sentenced Arrested Has spent 30 days in solitary 1n 16 by a military to years confinement. tribunal. Barcelona, Losu Korta (23). Abrisqueta Madrid and 1969. Sentenced Arrested in Miguel (55). to a total of 52 years. Has and been tortured beaten. Held in Basauri, Burgos, Ali- Held in Has been cante and Soria. Has spent 98 days in solitary confinement.

MONTY JOHNSTONE:

LIBERAL APOLOGIST FOR

STALINIST BUREAUCRACY

Trotskyism and Stalinism: "Socialism'... and legal murder of Communists! Part four of a reply by Cliff Slaughter to Monty Johnstone.

Khe aland Trotty or undone agreed he gage in eyes pot mens was a correct one PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tueaday June Trotskyism and Stalinism: 'Sor Monty Johnstone objects to our characterization of his position on the Moscow Trials of 1936- 1938. He says that 'a whole sec- tion of many hundreds of demonstrating why words they should be revised' was published in 'his" article "Trotsky' (in the Young Com- League publication munist 'Cogito'). In fact he wrote two pages in this duplicated journal and half of these consist of refer- ences in footnotes. -Johnstone wrote in this article: 'Re-reading the ver- batim reports of the Trials, see that there were ore can number of demonstrable distortions of fact in the trial confessions that should at the time have given rise to con- cern and questioning. 'However, finding it virtu- ally impossible to believe that a socialist country would resort to legal frame-ups or that the accused would charge themselves with crimes which they never committed, the international communist movement accepted the Trials as evidence that Trotsky and his followers were acting as agents of fascism against the Soviet Union and commun- ism'. The main . paragraph then follows, consisting entirely of references to Soviet and east official European sources which 'cast doubt upon con- fessions of guilt of this character': "Krushchev's re- velations at the 20th Con- gress of the methods of tor- ture used at Stalin's bidding false confessions to extract from communist leaders, fol- lowed by the rehabilitation of ... Rajk . . . Kostoy, and ' and '... later Slansky certain rehabilitations and re- velations in the Soviet Union are, however, of such a nature as to undermine the validity the Moscow specifically From this Johnstone con- cludes: 'It is to be hoped that the Soviet Union will soon offi- cially revise these trials, which are still said to be "under in- vestigation" and to which (as far as I have been able to reference has ascertain) no appeared for 12 years in any Soviet book or article. With- out waiting for this, however, I believe we have sufficient evidence to warrant our fol- lowing the lead of the Italian Communist Party which, November 1961, has since publicly rejected the accusa- tions of a criminal character against Trotsky made at the Trials, but expressed the view that the struggle against him in essential political elements a correct one' was The Italian CP, of course, is a Party wholly committed to the 'peaceful, parliamentary , just as are the British road'. Their 'clearing of Stalinists. conscience' on the criminal is against Trotsky charges done purely in order to faci- litate their relations with the Italian middle-class politicians commitment to and their Italian capitalism and the Italian constitution. Johnstone's appeal to their authority for his most 'dar- ing' proposal is indicative of his own political position. As day June 26, 1873 sm: 'Socialism' ... and legal murde Khrushcher above. Johnstone conclude Moscow Trials and Trotsky. Yet Johnsi we have written many times, he occupies the same 'official' right-wing position in British Stalinism as does the Italian CP in world Stalinism. But of course all this talk of 'rehabilitation' on the cri- is deliberately minal charges to obscure the political es- sence of the question, the same question which we have this emphasized throughout reply. If Johnstone says that before 1956 he could not be- lieve that a socialist country could carry out frame-ups and forced confessions, does he believe it now? Or does it not precisely raise the ques- tion of the character of the USSR and of the Soviet bureaucracy? Johnstone is saying: there did arise a political regime which wiped out the Bolshe- vik leadership in Russia and internationally. The whole machinery of the workers' state was organized for this purpose. For at least a whole generation no opposition was able to express itself or or- ganize against these acts. But Stalin's idea that socialism could be built in a single country was correct as against that of Trotsky! The reality is that the judi- cia! frame-ups and liquida- tions flowed directly from the disastrous consequences, in- and internationally, ternally of Stalin's politics. "Socialism As in a single country' meant iso- murder of Communists! Part four concluded from his 20th Congress speech 1l let Johnstone still agreed the 'struggle agains lation of the USSR, the re- turn of the struggle for indi- vidual existence on backward economic and cultural foun- dations, the rise of a privi- leged bureaucracy in the state to regulate this compețitive struggle, the degeneration of bureaucracy as it tried this empirically and bureaucrati- cally to cover up and answer of its to consequences concessions to the rich peas- ants in the Soviet Union and imperialism outside. The 'ultra-left' zig-zag taken in 1929 to "correct" the right- wing course of 1924-1928 brought in a short time the disastrous consequence Hitler's 1933 victory in Ger- many and a virtual civil war over forced collectivization in the Soviet Union. It was in dealing with these contradic- Stalinist tions that the • rapid- bureaucracy developed ly into a tyrannous dictator- ship that would have to be in a political overthrown revolution. This was not 'socialism'!

It was a workers' state in which the collectivized pro- perty established by the Oc- tober revolution remained the basic economic foundation of the state. State ownership is the form necessary for transi- tion to socialism. The Soviet Union was and is still a degenerated workers' state. The Soviet bureaucracy is not the state, but a tem- porary historical excrescence in the which has developed course of a transition to socialism and which has its in the material foundation it four of a reply by Cliff Slaughter speech that the bureaucracy would hopefully gle against him [Trotsky] In essential political isolation and backwardness of Soviet economy and culture in the pressure from imperial- ism. But Johnstone we from have presumably the conclu- sion the revelations' that since 1956 have convinced him that it is possible to have socialism and frame-up trials and mass legal murder of communists. That is precisely the meaning of his 'common- sense' Englishman's dismissal of our distinction between workers' the state and the Stalinist bureaucracy. He equates these two. We see them as opposites - that is the difference between us.

And from this standpoint the bureaucracy -defending against the working class and Trotskyism - he calls for following the line of the Ita- lian CP. This is made very clear in the conclusion of Johnstone's 'Cogito' section on the Moscow Trials: 'The absence of a public revision • of former support for the Trials by British com- munists provides an oppor- tunity for the SLL in parti- cular to harass us persistently on this question. 'Such a revision, necessary: above all, in the interests of truth, would also remove this convenient weapon from their armoury. Moreover, it would emphasize the essential point, understood by most British ughter to Monty Johnstone.

hopefully revise Its officlal position on I political elements was a correct one'.

communists for many years now, that our opposition to Trotskyism is on political grounds, and our public con- troversies with its supporters can be fought only with poli- tical weapons? He does not explain that today, five years later, his own Party cannot even do this, and yet he still works in complete harmony with its leadership at headquarters, and corresponds with Work- ers Press and attends our meetings by arrangement with these same leaders. Johnstone would like to forget the main points about his role in the CP Congress of 1969, which is that he played exactly this same role.

It is not a question of our "lamentable ignorance' of pro- cedure at such Congresses (some of us have been on the receiving end of this proce- dure more than once!), but of Johnstone's collusion with the King Street leadership.

At the 1969 Congress Johnstone deliberately worked in such a way as to 'persuade' those who raised fundamental questions over Czechoslovakia leadership's own that the 'opposition' to the invasion was adequate for dealing with the question and with the in- vasion's supporters. "opposed' by the He was panels committee of the Congress as a candidate for the new executive because he more useful to King was Street as a focus for fake opposition outside.

CONCLUDED TOMORROW

TV REVIEW BY ANNE BLAKEMAI

THE ENERGY CRUNCH: 'The Nuclear| Dilemma'. (Documen- tary). Director Patrick Uden.

Producer Lawrence Wade.

BBC 1.

PLAY

FOR TODAY: 'Blooming Youth'. Directed and devised by Leslie Blair. Produced by Tony Garnett. BBC 1.

THIS

WEEK:

Directors David Gilt, lan Stuttard, Tom Steel Tiffin, Peter Terry Yarwood. Producer John Edwards. Thames TV. Six per cent of the world population is using two- thirds of the world's energy resources. Like every other basic need, the sources of heat and power under capitalism, are in dire shortage or will be shortly while all the energy required to supply the world abounds -constricted on all sides by the predominating considerations of war- mongering and profit seeking. In 1946, after Hiroshima, in 'Life is great in the Sunshine State.' That's what the anthem of Queensland, Australia, says anyway. It seems, however, that it's great only for the white For the . population. aboriginals ... read on. The annual ball is the social fling of the season at Nanango, centre of rich cattle-raising and peanut-growing country, 130 miles north west of Bris- bane. The ball features the 'com- ing out of local debutantes among the area's 1,400 people, and traditionally they curtsey before the guest of honour.

But after the announcement this year's guest of that Federal honour would be Senator Neville Bonner, four of the nine debutantes to be presented have said they won't go. Senator Bonner is an Aboriginal. Miss Maureen Bain, orga- nizer of the ball, said the girls' parents would not allow their daughters to be presen• ted to 'a black person'. The families have had dark persons working for them, and they still compare Senator them, with Bonner even though he is in his second term of office.' Miss Bain told reporters. She said the ball, set for July 7, would go on despite

AKEMAN

grasping at least a portion of its significance, international governments predicted a bright future; better standards of living drawn from this great source. It is slow new power in materializing. Despite the fact that a large nuclear reactor can produce as much long life nuclear energy in a year as a 1,000 Hiroshima bombs; and despite the fact that there are almost 200 reac- tors in the US, that there will be 1,000 in western Europe in next 27 years, there is still not enough power to go round. But the BBC documentary on Tuesday night was not concerned to emphasize this aspect of the problem. Rather the programme spent 75 min- studying the production utes of nuclear energy and radia- tion. With much efficient film- ing of reactors at work and power plants and their prob- lems, the programme faced us with an almost certain •doom -it gave us the formidable facts (as so they are) but no possible way through the jungle of problems that sur- round the use of nuclear energy. A simple explanation was what she called the snub to Senator Bonner, who is the first of his race elected to the Federal parliament. Two of the girls who with- drew are daughters of wealthy local graziers. The incident has caused up- roar in the normally peaceful Queensland town, and gained national attention. Australia's Aboriginals, de- scendants of the dark-skinned natives who populated the island continent long before whites colonized it in the late loth century, live in shacks on the outskirts of country towns, and in squalid condi- tions in inner city suburbs.

Estimates vary on tie num- ber of Aboriginals in Austra- lia's 13 million population, but Aboriginal spokesmen esti- mate about 140,000. Recent studies show some groups of Aborigines suffer far higher disease, malnutrition and in- fant mortality rates than. the whites. A judge decided recently that no further action should be taken in the case of an elderly couple whose cottage roof was torn off by their landlord after they refused to quit the pre- mises. Judge R. C. Chope was told at Plymouth County Court that Mr Bill Brown (70) and his wife Olive (67) had given up their fight to stay at the cottage at Norris Green, Har- rowbarrow, near Callington, Cornwall, which had been their home for 20 years. given to us of the process itself-that heat turns water into steam and steam into energy; that the heat comes from the splitting of the atom and that Uranium 235 is the only naturally occurring sub- stance which undergoes fis- sion; that from the break-up of atoms and the critical con- finement in a small space of collision and the neutrons, split can be artificially created from this collision and and split enormous energy results.

That the process, finally, pro- duces 3 million times as much energy as coal. But, the programme also dire warning—-with gave us such highly unstable substan- ces as uranium and plutonium, the dangers are enormous. Radioactivity as Hiroshima and Nagasaki have taught, can be lethal and have long-term resulting damage. Secondly the problem of ensuring that no accidents occur which will allow leakage and thus contamination from the reactors is considerable.

At Hanford in Washington, four official accidents have resulted in heavy leakage near the Columbia river. The pro- gramme reassured us-reactor Mrs Brown, who had earlier stated that they were prepared to be buried alive in the cot- tage before agreeing to move out, said her husband had col- lapsed with worry, which had brought about their decision to quit. Earlier Tavistock County Court had been told that the roof and chimney had been ripped off the cottage by the landlords, Mr and Mrs John Chidzoy, after a bailiff had refused on health grounds to execute a possession order against the couple. trial taking place at Lan- A caster Crown Court came to a sudden end recently when Mr John • Carr Altham was for- mally found not guilty, on the judge's direction, of corruptly giving £20, in September 1970, to a British Rail employee, Maurice Raymond Woodward, as an inducement or reward for favours_to J. C. Altham and • Sons Ltd., butchers, a firm of which Altham is a director. The case concerned meat supplied for two British Rail ships, the 'Duke of Argyll' and the 'Duke of Lancaster' , both on the Heysham to Belfast route. Woodward, who pleaded guilty to six offences, four concerning falsification of ac- counts, one concerning cur- tains supplied to another Bri- tish Rail employee, and another, of accepting a bribe from Altham, was jailed for 12 months. Workers Press, Tu Left: Domes shieid nuclear reactors in the power complex near Peekshill on the Hudson River, North America. accidents are 'very unlikely'.

In June 1971 the Atomic Energy Commission announced new design inspection stand- ards for nuclear reactors. But many years and many reactors and accidents had elapsed up until 1971. But the most vital question is the matter of waste; what to do with it. Containers hold- ing 750 million gallons are stored in many parts of the US. Smaller ones are to be found in Britain. The pluto- nium they contain if it enters food or water supply, is the highly-concentrated, most lethal substance the world has ever known. The containers of waste must store their grim contents for many hundreds of years to ensure the continuance of the human race. The documentary never came near to suggesting there might be any way out of this labyrinth; nor, of course, that political considerations any could affect it. Man must turn to tackling these tremendous problems at once; capitalism has outlived itself and can do nothing but endanger man's future with problems such as those related to nuclear energy.

DREARY VIEW

OF YOUTH

Play. for Today, Blooming Youth', excessively was an mild little piece devised and directed quite amiably and sympathetically by newcomer Leslie Blair. It concerned the daily lives of four students in a grubby London flat, reduced to apathy and inertia by their life at the North London Poly- technic and apparently drifting in a kind of vacuum from which there would be no re- lease. Philip Jackson and Peter Kinley were appealing an couple as the curiously assor- ted friends with opposing atti- tudes and there were moments of humour when it seemed the play might take off, but some- how never did. The net result was are- markably depressed view of youth today—a kind of dreary resignation which, while it is true that our weightless and dislocated education process is Mr David McNeil, prosecut- ing, said the charges were only sample ones. Woodward told the court that, after receiving £20 from Altham in September a 'cer- 1970, he had received amount in cash' tain each month from Altham, between £21 and £28, and another £50 at Christmas. 'He never said anything to me why he was giving me the money, but we both knew the reason. Woodward had certified ac- counts for legs of lamb as correct, whereas he knew that cheaper shoulder of lamb was

CES

rotsky Now available from New P 186a Clapham High Street, Press, Tuesday June 26, 1973 PAGE 9 designed to achieve this effect, hardly seems worth pursuing, in so unadulterated a form, even for an hour or so on television.

BRINGING THE

BOYS BACK

Finally, on 'This Week', a calculated piece of propaganda while the team went into Mr and Mrs Cheston's attempt to 'withdraw our boys from Northern Ireland. This couple, whose every backward opinion was fol- lowed with loving care, under the thin guise of refuting them, has devoted a great deal of time and energy going about the country to gather 40,000 signatures to give premier Edward Heath in support of bringing back the troops, 'who daily risk life and limb against enemy for an unseen an obscure cause' as the petition states. Mrs Cheston explained that if the Irish wanted a blood- bath 'let them blow each other to pieces since it was their lookout; the troops explained that they were engaged in 'keeping the IRA down while ing the politicians sorted it all out' • It however was apparent, from the crowning interviews with leading Ulster unionist Brian Faulkner and Tory Ulster secretary William Whitelaw that what the pro- really designed gramme was for was to applaud all govern- ment policies and imply that only with the far-sightedness of a government which keeps the troops out there and per- mits the reforming of the Irish Assembly to collude where necessary, could the problems of Northern Ireland be solved.

being delivered. Sentencing Woodward, the judge said: "This is something which cannot be passed over.

It happens in other places and it would be very dangerous if it got about that sympathy for any man of previously good character would turn me away from sending him to prison.'

The day after Woodward had been convicted of cor- ruptly taking a gift from Altham ... Altham was found not guilty of corruptly giving it. Mr Altham (40) is a More- cambe magistrate. By LEON TROTSKY Paperback. £1.00 Illustrated Sharp pen-portraits of leading figures of the Second Interna- tional in Russia and Europe, for the first time published in an English edition. The translations were first commissioned by the Young Socialists' •Keep paper Left Their enormous success has led to the completion of the translation of the book, whole which is the first part of Volume 8 of Leon Trotsky's 'Works' pub- lished in the Soviet Union in 1926. It provides the most vivid picture available of the historic figures of Second Inter. the national. their strengths and weaknesses, written by an obser- ver who was also a participant in the daily struggle of the Euro- pean and Russian working class.

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Manchester given by Peter Jeffries Sunday July 8 Chartism, yesterday and today Sunday July 15 The Revolutionary Party anc the British workino class at Black Lion Blackfriars St/Chapel St near Salford Bus Station 7.30 p.m. 26, 5, Mount Pleasant. 'Defend basic Tor ting democratic rights - Forward Tol to Belle Vue conference on July 1.' SLOUGH: Tuesday, June 26, 8 p.m. Farnham Road Community to 'Forward to the Belle Centre. Vue Conference. Build the rty' Revolutionary Party!'

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LANCASTER: Thursday June 28, Trades Hall, 7.30 p.m. The Street, near the Post Fenton Office.

Employers and union officials get together in stronger 'joint council'

BY A WORKERS PRESS

TRADE UNION officials in th on the verge of negotiating a employers which will provok among building workers. It wi of subjects-from the lump' procedures. The proposed agreement aims to in the hands of union officials throu of the Building Industry National Joint Industrial Council. This would become a semi- corporatist body like the noto- rious Joint Industrial Board of the electrical contracting industry... if the officials and employers get their way. The council wants to compile a register of 'good firms which allegedly enable local would authorities, and the like, to avoid companies which encourage the growth of the 'lump' A registering firm would be required to make sure that its workers are directly employed, either by the company or a regis- sub-contractor, at nation- tered ally-established pay rates and working conditions. The proposal is a fraud. In an editorial last week "The Times' explained why. A 'dilemma... had faced sev- eral councils recently when they let it be known that they would employ companies not using "lump" labour. The authorities have been quietly "frozen out" by contrac- tors who have refused to con- sider work in their areas while restrictive such any covenant remains in the rule book.'

'The Times' then showed ex- actly why the new 'register' will be as ineffective as the previous 'boycott: 'In the past there has been …a degree of hypocrisy among build- ers who have spoken out against the "lump" the abuses of in public while recruiting it through the back door to help out on difficult jobs.

COUNCILS WARY

'Councils have learnt to be wary and it may well be that some of the leading authorities will see no good reason for insti- principle tutionalizing a which has already worked against their interests when they tried to apply it voluntarily themselves. A much more serious objec- tion than that, however, is that the 'register' system will depend entirely on the goodwill of the industry itself, meaning the em- the union officials, ployers plus to 'do the right thing' and get rid of the 'lump'. Even 'The Times' concedes that: 'An "approved list" system will almost certainly be useless without government backing and it is by no means certain that the government will feel it pru- dent to fall in with the scheme.

"To do so would entail at least a tacit admission that its own "tax net" policy had failed and that its original decision not to interfere with the individual's right to choose his own method of employment was miscon- ceived'. In other words, the Tories old-fashioned exploita- support tion and profit-making, and will so whether there is a 'regis- ter' or not, official or unofficial.

But a lump' deception is not all the joint industrial council has in store.

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Is in the building industry are ting a package deal with the provoke enormous hostility s. It will cover a wide range 'lump' to joint negotiating aims to place much greater power als through increasing the authority Miao Defend the Right to Pick Is Throw Tort "The Times', again, describes a: 'Revision of present arrange- ments covering dismissals, in- cluding safeguards for workers so that they • would have to be warned both verbally and in writing that their work was not good enough' More likely, the matter being discussed in these secret negotia- tions is the joint disciplining militants by employers and union officials. Another explosive subject ap- parently under discussion is job- grading. The employers would try to use this to further divide building workers against each other and, in the process, drive Contents include: Ceylon: The Centrism of Bala Tampoe By a Ceylon correspondent April Dictatorship: The Tasks of the Greek Trotskyists.. Resolution of the 5th Congress of the Workers International League Dejend the: 4. Balberson a Allance. says Defe Only the Socialist Labour League sent 24' case. The Communist Party's Chart And in relation to the 'lump', Charter !

the union officials' discussions with ti down pay rates and in- some crease exploitation overall.

Other matters on the agenda are closer working arrangements between managements and union officials; the spread of the cor- 'check-off' system where poratist the company collects the men's dues behalf of the union officials; and joint discussion of 'manpower requirements' in up new sites, starting which would give employers and union officials even better opportuni- victimize and ties to blacklist militants. The Communist Party's 'Char- ter movement' spokesman, Peter Carter, has capitulated com- offensive, pletely to this new before a shot has been even fired.

ATTRACTIVE

'It looks as if there may be a package deal in the oiling which looks attractive and effec- tive and effective in terms of union consultation with the side', he told the 'Morning Star'.

Carter refused to condemn the secret talks on the 'lump: 'If there is an agreement signed which makes sub-contrac- ting respectable, then the Char- ter movement will have to continue in violation of that rule, he said. Not a word • about the union officials' and he manoeuvres adds a circumspect if' before he names what action should be taken. Several translations of articles from the German Trotskyist newspaper Der Funke Italy's New Fascists By Stephen Johns

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05 - Detend the \Shrewshery 24 talks Defend the shine Right 1o f ague sent a major delegation (above) to the l ty's Charter group created a diversionary cam Charter leader, Stalinist Pete Carter (left) rai is with the employers on a 'register' of non-'lu And what is the action? To violation continue in of that rule. But he doesn't say how he 'violate' the new proposes to respectability being given to the 'lump' by the 'register'.

This is in line with the deaf- ening silence from the Stalinists on the question of the 'lump' since the abysmal collapse of Eric Heffer's reformist attempt to get it outlawed by playing parliamentary games with the Tories. At the Central Hall, West- minster, mass meeting following that debacle last month, the Sta- linists put up a 'selective boy- cott' to be used campaign against one employer at a time, starting with Mowlems. Nothing has been heard of it since. They won't even call a joint sites meeting to discuss it.

As Workers Press said at the the proposal time, was wretched diversion to prevent building workers getting to the rostrum and proposing a cam- paign to mobilize building wor- kers on a programme of out- right nationalization without compensation and under wor- kers' control as the only answer the problem of the 'lump' to and the defence of basic demo- cratic rights.

FRAGMENTED

The Communist Party's selec- tive strike campaign, even if they had meant to carry it out, would have only fragmented the building workers again as they did last summer in the pay dis- pute, and given the employers opportunity to rally in every defence of beleaguered firms.

(The pay rises won then have been wiped out since by rocket- ing price increases.) The Stalinists are showing the same hesitancy in dealing with 'Shrewsbury 24' case. the The Socialist Labour League and its supporters were the only organi- zation to send a major contin- gent for the last trial hearing of the arrested pickets. The only answer for building 1088, Tuesday June 26, 1973 PAGE 11 Pim ) to the last hearing of the 'Shrewsbury nary campaign that never came about.

(left) raises no immediate objection to of non-'lump' firms. workers, as for all other sec- tions, is to deal with the origi- economic nator of the and statutory danger which all wor- kers are now living in because of the pay laws, the Industrial Relations Act, and the police offensive against pickets, namely the Tory government. The question of how to deal with the Tories, and with the collaborationist union trade leaders who help the govern- ment bring in its punitive con- trols against trade unions, is the subject of All Trades Unions Alliance Rally on Sun- day at Belle Vue, Manchester.

All trade unionists who under- stand the need to defend basic rights should attend.

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Given by Gerry Healy National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League Sunday July 8 Theory and Practice of Marxism Sunday July 15 Role of the Revolutionary Party The Red Lion Worsborough Near Barnsley 7.30 p.m. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office, Published by Workers Capu. Printeres Press, 186a SW4 Printed Newsdesk: 01-622 7029.

Second union blow to Phase Three? PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday June 26, 1973

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN EASTBOURNE

A FURTHER blow against the TUC talks with the Tories could be struck tomorrow when the leaders of 3 million workers in the engineering and ship- building industries decide policy towards the state pay laws. The Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, which is holding its annual meeting here, has no less than three resolutions to discuss on this crucial issue.

One indication of the tense situation over the Phase Three talks emerged yesterday when it became clear that the standing had failed orders committee to produce a composite for tomorrow's debate. The most important resolution comes from the AUEW's engineer- which" controls a powerful block of votes at ing section the con- It urges the TUC 'not to participate in any discussions with terence. the government on any form of wage freeze.

It will call for a declaration that the 'Confed'.

will not be bound between the

TUC

the

CBI

by any decisions arising from talks and the Tory government which would place restrictions, either or imposed, upon the free collective bargaining of wages voluntary and conditions. It was this same militant-sounding resolution which endorsed was by the AUEW engineers' section conference in April. And it opened the door for president Hugh Scanion to take part in two sessions No of talks at 10 Downing Street well as at least one secret discussion with Heath.

But when the engineers came together with the technical, foundry and

COSHUCHOI

of the AUEW last week, tions Scanlon was barred from any further collaboration. The other resolutions- two from the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Sheet- Workers' Union- metal ale pathetically framed protests which amount to nothing. The question everyone's lips here is this: Will the Confed follow the of week's lead last instruct all conterence and Its leaders with to stop parleying

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

Heath?

IN MANCHESTER

Confed talks

WORK STOPPED

on Man- chester's biggest building pro- on Perkins ject yesterday over the right to conduct union business on the job.

THE JOINT

negotiating of the Massey Ferguson mittee About 150 pickets were out will Eastbourne Centre meet in at the Arndale group site discuss Perkins Diesels to the while union offcials talked to dispute at Peterborough. management over the dispute.

Union officials attending the Trouble flared last Friday Confederation of Shipbuilding after site convenor Jim O'Hara Union's annual and Engineering went to see management over conference hope to prepare the sacking of labourer Jimmy formula to bring about a settle- Wainwright. ment ot the two-week lock-out.

They believed to be pre- 'form of words' paring on will them parity which enable recommend a lifting of the to 12-week overtime ban.

ABOUT

300 building workers Skins tanekes line the and engineers demonstrated out.

told Perkins picket were side Birmingham magistrate's that new union talks were court yesterday. Seven men were underway the city 'to review in before the court accused of con- the esterdion the they spiracy to trespass after Yesterday lines picket occupied the SOS Labour Agency outside Street and the Queens during their campaign against Eastfield plants were strong. 'lump' workers. fight for with The party was adjourned until The case Coventry workers would go on, uly 25 and the men released or they said. They utterly rejected 100 bail each calls from AUEW national lead- UCATT branches, delegations ers to return to work. from Chrysler, Rover and Austin The stewards appear to have of calling a meet- no intention ing. 'Why should we?' said one. 'The men and determined We've had willing to carry no indication of a shift in man- agement's line. What would we about?' meet

- ATUA MEETING •

Lessons of the NORTH WALES police have pre- pared elaborate security pre- Perkins Lock-out intimidate lobbyists cautions to when they arrive at Mold Crown Peterborough Court today for the trial of seven building workers.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 27

Mr Justice The trial before 7.30 p.m. Talbot is expected to last about five weeks. The Still The men are charged with Cumbergate under Conspiracy conspiracy Speaker: Ken Tyrrell and Protection of Property Act Shop steward Massey Ferguson of 1875. (in personal capacity) The charges arise out of last year's bullding workers' strike Arndale pickets oul Mr Wainwright was trans- ferred from the Arndale— which is a union-organized job —to another site which em- ploys 'lump' labour. Last Saturday Mr Wain- received his notice wright from Taylor contractors, Woodrow, who claimed he was 'not suitable' to be employed.

This came after he had made several requests to be transferred back to Arndale.

Mr O'Hara said yesterday: 'I took the matter up with

FROM IAN YEATS

IN BIRMINGHAM

car plants, Post Office workers contingents from Birming- Coventry, Trades Councils, and political groups backed the demonstration solidarity. UCATT general council mem- ber Mr Arthur Hodges was cheered when he called for the Tory government to be cleared and followed a six-month inves- tigation by the police. In September a further 24 workers will appear in. Shrews- bury Crown Court to face number of charges arising out of the same strike. At each court appearance trade unionists from all parts of the country have joined in a lobby despite the police harass- ment. At Shrewsbury two weeks ago a camera spy was in action taking pictures of the pickets.

SANCHE

MOT

SHOR

ickets out yesterday. management and asked for a meeting. They said if we held a meeting we could clock out and if we did that we lost a day's pay. 'Later they told me to get off the site until I was sent for. 'This going to be the is biggest job in Manchester. If we let them knock hell out of us now, there'll be no chance of keeping the union strong and keeping in the future, conditions high out so that trade union rights could be restored. Labour's prospective candidate for Perry Barr, Mr Geoff Rooker, told a rally outside the court: 'The real thing about this case is that it is a political trial. It is all part of the Tory battle to erode the freedom of the trade union movement.' A building worker added: "The Industrial Relations Act defunct, so now they're using the Crown Courts against us.'

Socialist Labour League - & International Marxist Group

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Defend Basic Democratic Rights Support Shrewsbury 24 FRIDAY JULY 6 8 p.m. Acton Town Hall High Street, Acton Collection will be made for Shrewsbury 24 Speakers: DAVE JACKSON (Chairman Shrewsbury Defence Committee)

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EQUITY, the actors and union, is to reverse actresses all previous policies and de- register under the Industrial Relations Act. This surprise announcement was made yes- terday at the union's annual general meeting in London.

The General Council agreed to deregistration vote majority or iž to il at a single a meeting last week. Following this announcement conference voted by 198 votes to 102 on a motion to deregister the union immediately. But the Council has ignored past decisions of general meet- ings on the basis of constitu- tional let-outs. Announcing the General Coun- cil deregistration vote general secretary Gerald Croasdell said its members had now decided that registration in defiance of the TUC's policy was wrong. on the basis of principle and ultim- ately detrimental to the interests of the membership. But the diehard right-wing forces claimed that the union would be in breach of its con- stitution if it did not hold the referendum first. Croasdell proposed consulting the solicitors and • their advice to hold the referendum first has been accepted. The swing in the leadership's position is the result of the move- ment in the membership's under- standing of the political situation Britain. Motions calling deregistration down were at annual conference from various sections of the membership and the leadership have moved in to head off this revolt. strongly-worded A motion calling for a fight against the pay laws as well as deregistration as part of a united trade union movement campaign to force the Tory government to resign was narrowly lost by 137 votes to 157 votes. The leadership later suffered a major defeat when by an over- whelming majority conference instructed the council to re- negotiate the 1972 BBC agree- ment Mover Tom Kempinski argued that the agreement was cutting the wages. of many artists. In an earlier debate a pro- posal moved by Corin Redgrave to nationalize all theatres and compensation studios without and under workers' control was narrowly defeated by 149 votes to 110.