Workers Press no. 167

Another Pilkington vote to stay out

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THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1970

From our own Reporting Team St Helens, Wednesday, 2.30 p.m.

FIVE THOUSAND workers from Pilking- ton's St Helens works this morning voted overwhelmingly to continue their seven-week-old strike, despite promises of support from the Trade Union Congress for their three main demands.

A meeting of the TUC's General Council, Feather announced strike committee chairman Gerry Caughey, after a tele- not clear on Dhone conversauor congress Victor Feather, agreed that secretary it would back their demands tor' next move dismissed from its Pontypool factory.

keinstatement or zo filkington worker oRer Pracing of Pikington's &3 interim wage 10 original claim. piron to . striker. No victimization of any St Helens' steve summitte treasure on one, When General Secretary later, • toile reasurer tee Porting on time meeting in si ollowing a lunch crete offer and laid th Tucy Further moves by the Police lets to distus he bones raised by eat No return *These Pese peopletil definito back on permises strike commented strike leader Gerry Lon in this dip DELEGATES representing Workers at the Rolls-Rovce pant in Willesden. London. where there is a pay strike. Britain's police overwhelm- ingly defeated a proposal £20 million loan means for the right to strike Helens from the G&MWU. yesterady. E de Loan. At the Police dudno, they were urged to

BY JOHN SPENCER

right of industrial action.

REDUNDANCY and speed-up strings will be an with inevitable part of the zzo million government loan come cand. to kolls-Koyce, a payment made to support the There Than etier betatesy company in the lace ot a dramatic tall ot nearly Awaiting call 60 per cent in profits.

BY BERNARD FRANKS

Sons ate dece call wit WoRd ye come that poore of the poet. men fc their discussions Consistent returns on cur- 1 he nust agitation i Tent inice aratitude to on engine division labour force paid to be ndustrial "Rsorganiza ustrial action wash ethn ased this a level the right do it here res still face for eating Toryism once and gor sing rese chat right.

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hose arrested on rates U.S. bombers resume upport of a determine respeche es Leashire worker ature fron Cambodian raids Unilever profits cut 25 miles South of me Cam, bodian capital Phnom Penh, но ние верес соски. Offenese mounted in heavy

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7.30 last ning night Melt away hed up by the cs minst of of this year. rost the o mit the observers openly one off h • strike admit doubt that attack from present trike situation completely at one with Enoch In fact, the forces unde The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. The Dubcek affair GUATEMALAN revolution- Marco Antonio Yon Sosa reported to have been killed earlier this week in Doreet Dae With Mexican soldiers. Reuter According to group guer- report, who crossed into rillas from Guatemala Mexico

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

of the surprised by Mexicar were soldlers. French Communist Party started a two-day re Killed guerrillas the meeting yesterday, under the storm raised ensuing gun-battle. Sosa by the recent revelations that they have dentified by papers found on his body. supplied the leaders of the Czechoslovak Sosa The killing of Yon follows a military Stalinist regime with documents. against Guatemala death Dubcek. diler une kanaDoed YYest uermar The French Party ambassador Karl von Spreti.

The Guatemalan leadership published in govern- ment has alleged that Yon Monday's 'L'Humanité ')

BY DAVID BARNES

Sosa masterminded Spreti kidnapping. the documents in question shorthand notes of Massacre meeting between Waldeck ine Mexican government. the Czechs Rochet and Dubcek and given whose appear any explanation speech other leaders of the Czech the

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Party in July 1968, shortly May with radio students wu de tanked une rrenco before the Soviet invasion.

comrades. and in baracuat Etienne Fajon, for providing lympic: At published thev least the notes. also se regime that of them-further sec- most Indra went on to use the nons were published in yes notes rouse suspicion Cubed the ruder erday's 'Le Monde'. against Dubcek The French Stalinists claim and his act student shoot to they never handed over prior the invasion ings, but maintains cordia That Evidence continues to mount the notes. that Tuesday's edition Prathe the episode Mexican dictatorship documents is part of the pre- Prague daily Rude the iriconunental paration frame-ups Tor Havana came vo the suppon of their Dubcek and others. story, saying we already have violent attack on Yon Sosa, more than enough documents

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'a Trot- on the activities of Alexander describing him as skyist' and la traitor to the Dubcek.' The edition of 'Rude Pravo But neither the French nor quoted above says that collected on Dub- cek (who has been suspended and is pre trom the party ently ambassador in Turkey before Central to Sentens the UCYClOD- nent of the crisis in Czechos lovakia alla une rart and provided a sum cent basIs suspend from the Party and set up a Commis to re-examine his activi- And yesterday's 'le Monde OVERSEAS telegraph notes of the operators at Electra House, Dubeek-Waldeck Rochet meet London, are to meet this evening to consider action Ing Idle Decr Duplisnea following the disciplinary measures against their branch Lne interna butterin Czech Party together with an Ron Beak, secretary, at the Union of Post Office introduction-ignored ''Humanité'. Workers' Isle of Man conference.

The introduction On Monday the conference part: voted down Ron Beak's appeal suspen- draills l

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"The loaded dice were from Ber be bie Branches committee For working-class action to defeat Press. with few American imperialism in excepuons, were dlleddy Man- dated vote azainsu appeal.' Vietnam and Cambodia con- beak s appeal to tne ference concentrated mainly Sunday, May 24, 7.30 p.m.

the legalistic aspects Beaver Hall (near Mansion House tube) at the of his speech thai he Speaker : when he quoted MIKE BANDA, Editcr of Workers Press remarks power being on the admission 2s

workers press Another Pilkington vote to stay out INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURI From our own Reporting Team St Helens, Wednesday, 2.30 p.m.

FIVE THOUSAND workers from Pilking- morning ton's St Helens this works voted overwhelmingly to continue their seven-week-old strike, despite promises of support from the Trade Union Congress for their three main demands.

meeting of the TUC's General Council, announced strike committee Feather chairman Gerry Caughey, after a tele- phone conversation with Congress not clear on Victor Feather, agreed that secretary it would back their demands for: next move Reinstatement of 28 Pilkington workers dismissed from its Pontypool factory.

Rol as conference yester- Placing of Pilkington's £3 interim wage afternoon Congress offer on …the workers basic rate That London ano negotiation. for the remainder ot their

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leaders " oricinal caim. vere дори: St Helens' No victimization agement's ts striker. nut on to the basic wage.

However, such backing would only come. When General Secretary said strike committee treasurer Tohn Potter by was told later, following a return to work.

that the A committee statement following a lunch- voted said that time meeting insisted that there could be no Stay vul had heard return without a concrete ofter and laid the

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indication blake fine she trouble wit and cave of any further moves by the Pilkington and Municipal ee clared that strike Police maste Fiscuss the issues raised by the dispute. No return "These people will not go back on promises strike endere erry pennies, that's dennite- who up;' commented strike leader comed Caughey. beginning Already many strikers question the purpose of the TUC's interven- tion in this dispute. DELEGATES representing here douht that are ton union bureaucrats Britain's police overwhelm- now seriously concerned at the prospect ingly defeated a proposal continuin General strike for the right to yesterday. an send fa dieta rather than mirect ingress fro di repre- At the Police Federation's today's meeting, ouse dudno, they were free Feather organize themselves as laurney independent reporteo at a Dress coner- staT assocalon afternoon. urge Office with the ence this CALLS FOR the reintroduc- the mome before this him (caughev) gallows for wonder nosta cane morning's mass meeting to powers deal with 'test the temperature and hair come and another O vote against the phone call'. man, Police delegates proposals. Awaiting call We would achieve a great lowering the respect, strike committee was 'em' brigade and affection in which afternoon waiting for a scotise l orv comerence. ity ore he d bia great major.

call urther nolice greeted these calls with onone make to reatner arrange- considerable gee ments for their dISCUSSIOnS They were delighted when Consistent with TUC officials. their attacked chairman Meanwhile many of the "VOMtArOUS minority pickets remanded after last The police are at least con- want indenendant invest102- special court hear- tion of complaints against the cictent in their attituce to in.

dustrial action. ng of charges arising from police' clashes actor While denying themselves gates still face the nrosnect strike they the right are ot vicious sentences on the used against wor- increasin inec those already tility, recoro magistrates kers who exercise that mont.

handed at nu a former parliamentary adviso to those arrested on Mon- Their activities at St Helens to the Police rederator day. respect remand a hon renuation as one police. Support of a determined man'e friend' respect, steem and undertaking from the S Lancashire workers.

nature fom for throughout Merseyside and the gruelling work of strike- still remains Pikingent question Federation Unilever if tha are to win their struggle. is mind she profits cut conference's against demonstra- keep tors and the attempts to dole hangmen off the

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the fats sodes. urgent desire of the the orv frozen foods combine. sode red AN meeting landare to hit out at the or.

emergency maSc £4.5 million profits called for 7.30 last night ganized working class and its first three months of this year trade unions. in the dineen's recraation narr mobilizing all the St Helens lanes hu the van.

blamed this and-file strike committee this end. company, inflation, higher raw mate- clarify their position and any After the Se cashot be misunderstandings that Drices arre the present Heath completely at one with Enoch strike situation. to soo.

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BY JOHN SPENCER

rowel ana nis Ivanonal rron •lowers or tion issue of 'law and order' Fres hounding or mitant Press houndinger ists is to gr agains reactionary every vote las actions for all.

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524 7.128 iyso Press. 67 Workers at the Rolls-Royce plant in Willesden, London, where there is a pay strike. £20 million loan means REDUNDANCY and speed-up strings will be an inevitable part of the £20 million government loan to Rolls-Royce, a payment made to support the company in the face of a dramatic fall of nearly 60 per cent in profits.

BY BERNARD FRANKS

That Rolls-Rovce workers will bear the brunt of the Work and 'redeployment'. firm's from crisis is seen that Rolls-Royce claims the situation last December development costs have risen when, on the basis of a low enormously and are not prot forecast, the company covered by returns on cur- demanded a per cent re- rent deliveries. duction in the 47,000 aero- engine division labour force.

The loan, to be paid in 610 million by two stages The threat of this cutback the Industrial Reorganiza- then was used as a lever tion Corporation, is separate try and to get acceptance from a further £50 million of job evaluation, three-shift

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working, Measured - Day Cambodian raids The town of Dam Rokar, the command of this officer 25 miles South of the Cam- should have made contact bodian capital Phnom Penh, several davs ago with Saigon fell yesterday to a guerrilla units occupying the strategic offensive mounted in heavy town of Angtason, situated on Highway 3. rain. The demoralized state of The approach of the mon- the puppet forces was sum- the together with med up by the comment of growing disintegration in one officer: the ranks of the Phnom "We'll have another push Penh regime's armed forces, in the morning, perhaps with makes the of this air support. and other similar missions In fact, the forces under unlikely. The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. The Dubcek affair GUATEMALAN revolution- Marco Antonio Yon Sosa 1s reported to nave beer killed earlier this week in border bate with Mexican soldiers. to a Reuter Accoralne report, group guer rillas into who crossed Mexico from Guatemala THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the were surprised by Mexican soldiers. French Communist Party started a two-day Three the guerrilas Yonths sa meeting yesterday, under the storm raised were killed en suing aun nattie. by the recent revelations that they have identified by papers found on his body. supplied the leaders of the Czechoslovak The killing of Yon Sosa Stalinist follows a massive military regime with documents against purge inside Guatemala the death b the Dubcek. kidnapped West German French ambassador Karl von Spreti The Party Guatemalan hat leadership published The govern- (In has alleged Monday's 'L'Humanité)

BY DAVID BARNES

Sosa masterminded' Spreti kidnapping. the documents in question -shorthand notes of Massacre meeting between Waldeck The Mexican government, the Czechs have Rochet and Dubcek and any troops onven of the speech by expanation other leaders of the Czech broadcast by the Alois indy Party in July 1968, shortly radio on May with zeNh blood which he thanked the 'French before the Soviet invasion.

students massacred Comrades' particu the eve of the 1968 Mexico Etienne Fajon, for providing Olympics. ost leathem- the It is also significant that most holes Indra went on to use the published in yes. Castroite retime notes rouse

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Monde'. The French Stalinists claim against Dubcek and his acts demned the student shoot.

prior that to the invasion cordial they never handed over Inas. but maintaine Evidence continues to mount trading relations with the the notes of the here that the these Mexican dictatorship. edition of the nesdav's documents At the Tricontinental Prague daily 'Rude Is part came to the • we already Dubcek and than saying already have violent attack on than enough on the documents

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skyist and a traitor to the activities of Alexander Dubcek: The edition of 'Rude Pravo But neither the French nor says aunter anove that collected on tormation cek (who has been suspended from Party the con ambas sador Con mittee before Central put September last It testified to Dubcek's re

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The deva on ment of the crisis in Czechos lovakia and in the Party and provided a sufficient basis suspend Dubcek fron the Party and set up Commis- Lics And yesterday's 'Le Monde' that OVERSEAS telegraph operators at Electra House, the notes st the Dubcek Walderk Rachat meat.

London, are to meet this evening to consider action Ing have been following the disciplinary measures against their branch the Internal Bulletin with an Czech Party together Office Ron Beak, at the Union of Post snored Workers' Isle of Man conference.

'L'Humanité The introduction reads in On Monday the conference voted down Ron Beak's appeal against his two-year

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was a good day at 30s His fellow workers Ior the tund. Our postbag in- Electra cheques and postal SHouse Care incensed cluded for £70 Ils 7d which the savage orders action, Pushed. "P the total to €330 SHARES in Investors Over- triction hetween seas Services fell again yester- militant and highly-organized This leaves us with a balance branch and the day on the London Stock Ex- of £669 collect 31- - approximately change after reports from Geneva that IOS Management comrades for the entire quarterly has cut its latest splendid effort. Now dividend. members keeo une pace wo until targe favour joining the Association dav. Post donations to: IOS Ltd fell 5s to scientac Technica and

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'The dice were loaded against him from the branch For working-class action to defeat one committee mem- told Workers Der Press The big branches, with few American imperialism in exceptions, were already man- to vote against his dated Vietnam and Cambodia appeal.' ference concentrated Sunday, May 24, 7.30 p.m.

the legalistic his 'senten ce', Beaver Hall (near Mansion House tube) the speech came near the Speaker : Bas susa suspension when he quoted MIKE BANDA. Editor of Workers Press renarks a Dout Dower beine on the admission 2: shon foor.

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This is a reply to 'Socialist Klugmann, reprinted in the May issue of 'Marxism Today', which Klugmann edits. His report was Executive Committee. 'Honesty in politics is the tures a report given by Klug- to the CP Executive result of strength; hypocrisy Committee Socialist on is the result of weakness'.

Democracy'. Lenin - quoted by James He claims, very tentatively, with a great show of modesty, Klugmann. to be making a 'personal con- tribution, merely 'opening' a

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Congress last discussion on the question.

November, the Commun- He warms with some up quotations from Lenin on the ist Party of Great Britain importance was faced with a split in being honest and critical. He its top leadership. then proceeds to out an set argument carefully designed to One group, led by Palme spread as much confusion as Dutt, Andrew Rothstein and possible on some key issues.

nutshell, it comes Sid French, supported the In a to this: a peaceful and 'constitu- Soviet intervention in Czech- tional' transition to socialism Their followers lead democratic oslovakia. will to a state; the corrollary workers' blamed the decline in the obviously being that the revo- dangerous Party on the of power lutionary conquest with tendency to disagree leads to bureaucracy. Of course, it is not put in Moscow. so bald a fashion. The majority of leaders, on the other hand, were more 'Democracy deeply involved in the move Great care is taken by this towards 'left' MPs and trade craftsman to confuse master union leaders, and, through three different ways that the them, towards Wilson. 'democracy' has word been discussed the in socialist They have dissociated them- (a) the fight for movement: selves from the Czech invasion utilization of and the demo- order ito facilitate this in cratic rights by the working alliance. class under capitalism; (b) the Since the Congress, where possibility or otherwise of the this division quite was 377- constitutional forms of parlia- resolved, word the not in sufficient rule being Stalinist press has referred to mentar y to overthrow the capitalist it. class; (c) the development of But the fundamental crisis bureaucracy in workers' in the Party leadership cannot state. be hidden from the ranks.

It is not hard to find many struggles As sharpen in quotations from Lenin's writ- industry, the worker-members explaining the ings import- are daily faced with problems ance of the battle for democ- which make the Party diffi- racy. Let us see how Klugmann culties impossible to hide.

however. uses such passages, Gone the days when are "The Marxist solution to the awkward questions could be problem of democracy is for brushed aside with a quota- from Stalin and a lie the proletariat to utilize all tion democratic and about the Trotskyists. institutions The crisis of world Stalinism aspirations in its class struggle visible, and against the bourgeoisie in order is too clearly Trotskyism is no longer prepare for its overthrow and its own victory. small persecuted group, but a (Collected Works, Vol. 23, p. growing tendency in the work- 26), quotes Klugmann. ing class with its own daily He stopped his typewriter paper. Someone just in time. For, a few lines in the Stalinist head office at King Street must down on the same page, Lenin therefore try to find a way of makes clear his revolutionary these glaring con- meaning: covering up civil war against the The man who now tradictions. steps forward is undoubtedly bourgeoisie is a democratically qualified for the job. organized and democratically James Klugmann Edu- conducted war of the property- was cational Director of the Party less mass against the proper- until 1956. He was, and should famous as the author remaln. of the book 'From Trotsky to Tito' (Lawrence and Wishart, 1951). The book 'with- was drawn' in 1956, when its lies could no longer be defended, and has never since been re- ferred to by its author. Tito Describing the trials of Laszlo Rajk Hungary and in Traicho Kostov in Bulgaria, shot as 'imperialist spies' in 1949, explains how the book supporters had Tito and his 'agents become 'fascists' and of American imperialism'. It goes on to talk about the trials of Russian communists in the 1930s and how they revealed

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Trotskyism to have played a similar role. But civil war, "The imperialists hate the tied minority. Communist Party of the Soviet like other, must inevi- every Union and its leader Stalin,' tably replace rights by violence.

Klugmann, "because However, violence in the name enthused it is the most experienced and of the interests and rights of of all the majority is of a different clear-sighted working- class parties in the world-the it tramples nature: on "rights" of the exploiters, the greatest enemy of dying capi- bourgeoisie, unachieve- talism.. it Is of us, like myself, "Those able without democratic organ- and the who in the early stage were ization of the army "rear"! deceived by the manoeuvres of the Titoites, well under- can So, despite his tearful dis- stand the gratitude that we claimers of Stalin's crimes, owe... to the wisdom of the and despite (perhaps we should by the Com- warnings given say because of his close asso- Party of the Soviet munist ciations with the church these Union.' (p. 202.) Klugmann in 1970 is up days, Since penning these words, to his old tricks. Klugmann has seen many changes. All his learned-looking quo- Now engaged in writing the from Lenin tations are distort Communist Party's history attempts to hide and else?), he Lenin's idea: the working class (who spends a lot in order of his time in the 'dialogue' needs democracy to with the Church. He expresses mobilize the force 'regrets' at the events of the the capitalist state. to smash 'Stalin era', without being too From Belfast to Ohio, this and tries to give the lesson is driven home by the specific, that the actions of imperialism. impression new, CP is far removed "liberal' Just when the international from those days. crisis capitalism involves In 1970, this old admirer of the sharpest clashes between machine Stalin's murder the working class and the state no Labour assures everyone, all over the capitalist power MP need be afraid to decorate world, the Stalinist leaders are CP platform: all the

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fighting for the line that the bloodstains have been scrub- ruling class can be persuaded bed away. the historical to leave stage real situation is the But quietly and peacefully. different. The new quite Klugmann, in trying to model CP leader is a direct dupe workers into accept- of old-style continuation this idea, brings to bear ing Only of Stalinism. the form all his experience as a Stalin- treachery to the working class ist distorter of texts. has been brought up to date.

May of the But his task today is much The issue Today' fea- harder than it 1951. journal 'Marxism was in One difficulty in particular faces those who want to dis- claim Stalin and recommend the Fabian line of 'The British Road to Socialism': the inspi- ration for the conception of a peaceful British, road to socialism came from-J. Stalin.

Another of Klugmann's quo- tations raises a similar point.

'For many of us it was an experience when eye-opening Georgi Dimitrov, in his great speech to the 7th Congress of the Communist International in 1935, quoted Lenin's incisive that "the prole- declaration tariat cannot prepare for its victory over the bourgeoisie without an all-round, consist- revolutionary struggle ent and for democracy"? We have already seen what Lenin meant by this statement.

But it is also worth remember- ing the context in which the was made. Dimi- quotation launched trov's speech the 'People's Front' policy, whose author was Klugmann's late master, Josef Stalin. 'Discussion' British Stalinists have con- stantly built up Dimitroy as a supporter of a more 'liberal' line, distinct from, if not in actual opposition to that pur- sued by Stalin himself. Hence the frequent references to his speeches at the 1935 Congress.

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Dimitrov's reply to the 'dis- cussion' cited by Klugmann in fact ended Manuilsky with declaiming: 'Long live the faithful and companion-at-arms tested of the great Stalin, long live the helmsman of the Communist International, Comrade Dimit- rov.' (Seventh Congress Docu- ments, p. 32.) Dimitrov himself was one of the most fanatical adherents of the 'Stalin cult, which is now belatedly condemned by Klugmann., On Stalin's 60th birthday, Dimitrov wrote this of his hero, AFTER his mur- der of all Lenin's closest com- rades. 'There is no greater honour for the proletarian revolution- ary than to be . . . a real Stalinist [emphasis in original] ... there is no greater happi- ness for the Communists than to fight under the leadership of Stalin. . . . Not everybody can be a Stalinist.' ('Commun- ist International', January 1940.) This then was the helms- man' for Stalin's 'Popular Front'. Inseparable from this policy, which enrolled duchesses, bishops and Tories in the fight for 'democracy', was the des- truction of thousands of com- munists in the blood purges by order of the same Stalin.

Without the Moscow, Trials and the campaign of anti- Trotskyist slander of the period 1936-1938, the line set out by Dimitrov could not have been carried out.

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JOHN CRAWFORD

Here it is necessary to point According to his out that the murder of the old what he calls the 'abe Bolsheviks was not just under Stalin resulte crime of Soviet Stalinism. Each wrong attitudes to de of the three Moscow Trials was forms of organization publicly endorsed by Klug- in turn, were made mo mann's Party. by the historical After the third 'trial' Klug- prevailing after the mann's Party leadership tion. endorsed the following resolu- And so, even thc tion: repeatedly warns 'We express our full confi- 'explaining away' dence in our brother party of washing' 'erro these the Soviet Union and in its pretended 'analysis' is great leader Comrade Stalin, to do nothing else. 'So, says Klugmanı in Comrade Yezhov's determ- ination to root out the last times the pace of socialism had to be : remnants of the anti-Soviet conspiracy, and in the judg- almost inhuma an ment of the Soviet Court on Sometimes the most the assassins and wreckers who rapid centralization ar formed the "Right and Trot- trialization was a qu skyist bloc"! (March 5, 1938.)

life and death. Concentra This resolution-and many , power in the hands like it-have others never or the special authori been repudiated by the lead- Party, or measures o ership of the British Commun- ship, or of security, ist Party. necessity become a ha So when Klugmann begins longer no necessary, to warn against 'whitewashing' a danger.' the crimes of Stalinism. he is careful avoid his to own Explainin •democrap this respect. Party's record in The Klugmann has to cover over the deep con- This sort of 'explain nection between the crimes of fool no one. The great Stalin and the alliances of the ering of democracy in Stalinists 'democratic' took with place precisely forces in the 1930s. hardest period of tl War. It was after the 1922-1927 Buried won, in industrialization was slowest, that the bur But the history of that consolidated its period cannot be buried by the po industry and Stalinists: Klugmann, like the in th rest of the CP leaders, tried machine. This privilege. hard enough after 1956. The increasingly separate stench of Stalin's corpse is not and hostile to the So hidden by the incense even the international provided by Klugmann's cleri- class, grew large up cal friends. the period of 'War C Going through the motions ism' and before the fi of considering these issues, Year Plan. Klugmann asks: Klugmann would ni 'How could it come about it so plainly, but the that, under Stalin, so tion of his argument i many innocent people, some of them was in Lenin's time well-tried Communists, were conditions for the arrested or killed, that false Stalinism were laid. evidence was often concocted, In «his, he is at c that the role of mass organiza- the 'state capitalist' tions was deeply curtailed, that of International Socia the power of decision fell as well as every anti-c and more into the ist who wants to warr more hands of a small group, at the 'terrible results' o times of a single man, that rid of capitalism. inner-Party democracy was so The last thing he w reduced and thwarted?' sadly readers to remember thwarted?' the first fighter agains ist bureaucratism Excellent Mr was questions, Klugmann's 'explana Klugmann! What a pity they 1951, the 'aberrations' of s did not strike you attributes them to th when you wrote: socialisi of "building 'When you read of the secret this raises the questic agreements between the Trot- is his idea of socialism skyists and German fascism, One of the the the plans for the internal sabotage of the Soviet regime, Stalin, often used t his most repressive 1 for the assassination of the was that with the g Soviet leaders, and for the socialism, the class restoration of Russian capital- would intensify ins subservient to German ism Soviet Union, and lat imperialism, you read of the the socialist camp, precursor of the Titoite agree- th class in ments with the successor of enemy subtle ways, German fascism - American creeps mass organizations imperialism.' ('From Trotsky to the Party itself. W Tito, page 85.) becomes a dogma onl his book, it is true, van- sion seems the anst shed from the shops in 195€ repression breed. the But that was 14 years ago; sion! now, Klugmann has decided it is time to So Klugmann's 's 'open' a discussion. can include repressiol The delay was not due to ever, he never expla refusal to accept criticism. In was repressed. book, Klugmann same wrote indignantly of the Yugo- In the years after tl lution it was the e slav CP: who demor were 'Is it possible to think of repressed by the honest Communist who an state; later, it was the would be proud to not who were repressed receive i criticisms from the own bureaucratic lead Parties whose leaders were But don't worry a Rakosi, Stalin, Dimitrov, Klugmann tells his rea Togliatti or Thorez?' (p. 25.)

The 20th Congres pretended 'answers' The CPSU very decisively Klugmann gives to his ques- this conception, as tions are, not surprisingly, resolution of the CPS feeble. Where Khrushchev followed the Congres blamed it all on to the defects Now, this raises a c of Stalin's personality, Klug- The 20th Congress, mann tries to make it look a Khrushchev launch bit more scientific. Stalin's memory, attack on took place in 1956. But it was that Khrushchev's in 1968 successors organized the inva- Czechoslovakia, sion of to suppress the Czech working class, using the same kind of excuse as had been employed when Khrushchev sent his tanks into Budapest (with Klugmann's approval) and by Stalin before that. Klugmann avoids having to explain how Stalin's methods were being applied 12 years after the CPSU had 'rejected' them, for his report on 'Socialist Democracy' does not mention either the Czech inva- the Hungarian crisis sion or of 1956. 'Marxism Today', edited by Klugmann, has shown the same remarkable amnesia with regard to Czechoslovakia. In May 1969, an article appeared by Marian Slingova, widow of Otto Sling, one of the victims of the 1952 Slansky purge in Czechoslovakia entitled: Why Did It Happen? Some reflec- tions the Czechoslovak on Trials of the Fifties.' Comments While it did not get very far in answering the question, it did at least pose it. In December 1969, Maurice Dobb wrote expressing surprise that no one had commented on the article. A further note, by F. Gee, was printed in March, but these are the only Party members who have ven- tured to comment on this question, or at least whose comments have appeared. Klugmann, Gollan and com- pany, despite all their 'demo- cratic' pretences, are the con- count, tinuators of Stalin's heritage tions' of lies. Workers who want to from understand the destiny of the cratic October Revolution, and the These, way the working class must likely build the party to spread it to itions the rest of the world, cannot evolu- find clarity through the 'expla- nations' of men like them.

h he Klugmann tries to give the gainst impression that Stalinism. was white- something that happened a , his in a long time ago far-off ended country. This is false, as he well knows. Stalinism was a 'some- ilding ced in way. cruelly indus- ion of as of a few, of the ensor- uld of , and, ecome ' will flow- istory 1 the Civil

GEORGE DIM

r was when t its tendency that developed in the international communist move- cracy r in ment, eventually destroying : Communist International Party the which Lenin and Trotsky had founded as the 'World Party of layer, from Socialist Revolution'. Klugmann's methods are t and part this development. orking of Theoretically, they are founded after on the conception that the ımun- transition to a socialist society Five- could be, and was, in fact, completed within the borders r put of the Soviet Union. plica- All the lies and distortions hat it of Stalinism flow from this it the se of fundamental departure from Marxism. Klugmann's contor- tions thus reflect the degenera- with tion of the Soviet state, in eories m' - the course of which the work- ing class was expropriated 1mun- gainst from political power by the etting bureaucracy. Stalinism was not a matter ts his of 'wrong methods' or bad 'habits' or organization, but of : that definite developments in the Stalin- enin. class struggle. • the conditions of isola- of In tion of the revolution, survi- linism efforts ving only through the struggle But of the Soviet and the inter- national what working class, the bureaucracy arose as the transmission mechanism of the of es pressure of world imperial- justify ism. asures, Stalin's 'theory' that social- th of ruggle the inside t the most o the • into 1 this epres- ; and epres- alism' How- who Revo- oiters tically rkers orkers their ut it, rs. of the jected d the which culty. which d his ¡Thursday, May 21, 1970 ism could be built in a single, side the Bolshevik Permitted War, factions were backward expressed country, the tendency the Soviet of The ban introduced at the bureaucracy towards accom- 10th Party Congress in March modation with the capitalist 1921 was only intended to class. temporary. It explicitly upheld Against it Trotskyism con- the right of tendencies to be tinued the fight within the formed and their to elect international workers' move- leaders onto the Party Central ment for Lenin's principles. Committee on the basis of The revolution defined was clearly oppositional betrayed, but it was not platforms. destroyed. The Soviet Union This right was denied the continued to exist on the basis Dutt-French minority at the of the property relations estab.

last Cp Congress. In fact, the industry Congress in 1917, its chairman developed the insisted that all discussions on basis of planning, between delegates had despite the bungling, to be oppressive rule of the Stalinist stopped--though this did not, bureaucracy. course, i prevent the Party leadership This was not socialism, but securing the elec- mid-way between tion of a new National Execu- society socialism and capitalism.

tive which, as far as is known, Which way it goes, depends does not include a single sup- the of the Dutt-French on revolutionary struggle porter of the working class. Inside the group.

USSR,

the bureaucracy Yet this secured group threatens to destroy the heri- around a quarter of the votes tage of October. removal resolution condemning in the by the working class in a poli- the Soviet invasion of Czech- revolution, tical oslovakia. restoring workers' democracy, is bound There is a faction in control of with the spread of the the British Communist up Party. revolution to the advanced countries. But like its prototype in the Central to the development Soviet Union, it rules in the of the revolution is the name of the entire Party, up- holding a fictitious 'monolithic struction of the international unity' A faction is only a fac- revolutionary leadership, build- ing the experience of the tion when it is in opposition!

on Third International destroyed Klugmann's formulations on PourSh Stalinism. This the iS 'democratic centralism' smack International, founded of that favourite Stalinist by Trotsky in 1938. slogan of the 1930s 'criticism and self-criticism'. This catch- Only Trotskyism grasps the rise of Stalinism and word was never more popular its over- than when Stalin's GPU were throw class movements. Klugmann, hunting down Lenin's old According to on comrades and framing them as the contrary, its appearance, 'Hitler's agents'. and especially its disappear- Griticism was applied from the ance, are events outside the top downwards, with those of objective course history. below only being permitted to 'mistake', con- Beginning as a tinued out of 'habit', apply the other half of the it was formula- -'self-criticism'. ended with a speech from the leading bureaucrat Khrush- This is the type of Party chev. that developed regime in The whole purpose of Klug- the Britain and throughout mann's long article is to direct Communist International fol- attention away from the crisis lowing the death of Lenin and and bureaucratic regime within the consolidation of the Stalin- the British Communist Party.

ist regime in the Soviet Union.

It is a product of the working- He makes great play of the class defeats. fact that own Party The internal life of a Party opposed the trial of the Soviet cannat be separated off from writers Daniel and Sinyavsky: class the and the struggle development of Marxist theory and philosophy. But this is the Klugmann precisely task has set himself. His is a carefully article constructed cover and apology for the bureaucratic regime of Gollan and Matthews. Ait all costs, the peaceful road and the alliance with the labour and trade 'lefts' must be preserved. Protected And as more and more Party members the experience treachery of the latter and the counter-revolutionary nature of the former, attacks on the Party leadership will increase.

Gollan and company must be

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protected from their own rank and file. That is Klugmann's and 'There is, in my opinion, a Johnstone's—-job. also Monty need for a clear demarcation 1930s, In the the grip of between dissent and subver- the bureaucracy on the inter- sion. To treat the dis- workers' national movement sent of the working people as made it possible to twist Marx- subversion is solution no at ist theory in this fashion with all.' the GPU to deal with awk- ward Today, This applies with equal force questions. the fight for Marxism becomes too to the internal regime within a Communist Party. strong to allow anyone to get But here Klugmann upholds away with such distortions.

French When the workers the bureaucratic principles engaged in struggle with the Stalinism, which for more than 40 years have masqueraded as Gaullist in 1968, the treachery of the Stalinists was 'democratic centralism': clearly seen by thousands of Congresses in between workers and youth, and not all have a right through the only in France. channels of the Party to raise When the Soviet leaders of disagreement, points but the make agreements with the form of fractions not in Spanish fascists or the Greek or factions..: demon- colonels, Trotskyists strate the class significance of Faction and these actions, are heard by workers all over the world, Bolshevism itself began as even in the countries ruled by a faction within Russian the the bureaucracy. Social Democratic Party at its Klugmann the continues Second Congress in 1903. And fight for Stalinism, but under Bolshevik even within the conditions where he cannot go faction, shadings and unchallenged. groups arose expressing genuine differ- As the working class breaks over policy, programme free Paces from the bureaucratic and philosophy. stranglehold, the Fourth Inter- Yet Lenin never raised the national clears away the moun- question of bureaucratically tain of lies and slanders manu- excluding them by applying a factured by Stalinism and ban on factions. opens the road for Marxism As we have already empha- theory and leadership and the sized, right through the Civil conquest of workers' power.

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plained the results previous Lavoisier had found experiments THE RISE of capitalism and very small particles called that chemical reacuon total the need for the bourgeoisie a lolls. werent compounas the beginning and same Atoms are indestructole ther to subordinate to the end (total subdivided, created nalure numoet • Atoms themselves for the purposes alons remains consant tarouga- •"Also, manufacture and trade of are similar to one another and salt and break conpin i prepared the way for major equal in weight. development in all fields of • Atoms different elements am. This different diverent erenths. wee. Thi Dropertes and natural science, including is simply explained if we that chemistry. • Chemical combination res each atom of results the the joining Alchemy could not provide comhines with an simple numerical proportions the element chlorine sharp material The general accentance of the Looking these postulates series of chemical atomic toeory made too and teen are incorrect bes toaay. to invesugate varving know so that

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aves, stre his law the 'law of Group this octaves', aughed cod they retused to piat Chemical Be until 1887 In March, 1869, Dimitri Men- Ne SA 18 22 the elements, bore which 'The Relation the Properties Weichtc of th ue.tha-atomic 156 M2 nements. In it he sume 6. Xe 7. R86 ments to make an important mhe statedry that radiSe Cd His aae Mum, hema prade ement produced earler this year: Ra stated elemente

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These were elements 31, 21 and 32 respectively and on the basis that the properties of these elements must be in continuity those of with their neighbours, Mendeleev was very accurate in his predictions, as the table below shows. Modern-day periodic tables have little advantage over the original, but scientists now know what lies behind them.

Engels placed Mendeleev's achievement very high on a level. 'Dialectics of Nature' he says: ... the Hegelian law is valid not only for compound sub- stances, but also for the chemical elements themselves. We know that • their quality is deter- mined by the quantity of their atomic weights. . • Mendeleev achieved a scientific feat which it is not too bold to put on a par with that of Leverrier in calcu- lating the orbit of the until then unknown planet Néptune' Both Engels and Trotsky recognized that despite the scientist's reactionary political position, in natural science he was a materialist. The cause of chemical reac- tion lies in • the physical and mechanical properties of com- pounds, said Mendeleev. In other words, chemistry needed no supernatural force to explain its workings' but a study of the real material pro- cesses going on within matter.

It was the carrying through of this programme that revealed finally what lay behind the power of the periodic table. To be continued next week THE PRESENT 'stand' of the Catholic Church in S Rhodesia is not against Smith's anti- African land law, but any encroach- against ment of the state on the preserves of the Church. The Church ultimatum to Smith that it would close all its schools, hospitals and old- peoples homes is not directed against apartheid, but against the danger to the church of state interference with the implementation of apartheid

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WORKERS PRESS

AT ITS FIRST Congress in the 'Salle de la Mutualité', Paris, last weekend the Alliance des Jeunes pour le Socialisme, sister organization of the Young Socialists, high- lighted the important tasks facing revolutionary working- class youth in France today.

Since its founding conference 1969 the AJS has in February consistently fought vital lessons of the to through the the May-June days of 1968 when million out on workers general strike against de Gaulle's government were betrayed by the Stalinist leadership.

With branches in all the main France industrial areas in and important progress made amongst students in the universities, the

AJS

fights on a programme of building mass revolutionary youth movement in a fight against the betrava and class collabora- tionist policies of Stalinism.

The AJS has its own monthly 'Teune Revolutionnaire' paper other opportunity of getting one.

and in Paris new spacious head- Even when you come from train- quarters were opened earlier this ing school there is, in most cases, with meeting and year rooms no suitable job, he said.

offices. The success of the AIS are a 'In the training schools (CET) reflection of the youth combativity most working and the French working-class youth.

up their before give courses On February 1 this year 10,000 their taking exams because they all know they won't get a job even young people from over France and groups from Germany with the exam. Belgium took AnS-organized rally at le Bourget In France there are very few In the field of apprenticeships. Paris. allpoll, near drawing industrial there is the This the biggest revolu- apportunity to become a teacher tionary youth rally ever organized after of five years' a period Europe the Second work by additional passing World War. In France today one out of For aliens- -mainly Algerians— every four youth are unemployed known 700,000). there is method promentely as One 'Alphabetization' to teach read- member interviewed by Workers This course has ing and writing. Press had been and no particular use other than out of jobs for one and a half to enable a young read worker to since he left school-and yeais he had no his terms of employment and qualifications. sign a form if there No opportunity job available. In the factories the AJS has been mobilizing amongst young 'Once you leave school without workers who are now increasingly a training there is barely any affected the by government's sibility for this apartheid.'

which the Roman Catholic The missionaries were experts Church, like every other in the practice of educational church in S Rhodesia, has apartheid and starvation.

always practised. Their main role was to regiment and starve 'African There is thus every likelihood They were the major education'. of a 'compromise' between Smith fact that the party to up to and the Church and it is for the 1939 there was no secondary such of purpose compromise all for African school that Smith agreed to meet the children in Nyasaland, S Rhodesia Church leaders and that the or N Rhodesia. ultimatum itself was issued at For the 'European' child there of April. the end was luxurious system The Catholic Roman Church separate well-equipped schools. in Rhodesia has, for half The purpose of the mission century. carried out the various schools was to indoctrinate the anti-African land laws made by African child with slave Britain. mentality. The purpose of the protest the against inten- European schools was to prepare sification by of the Land Acts the 'white' child to be a master.

Smith is thus nothing but These fraudulent. purposes were often British state This Church, like the Anglican openly stated Rhodesia, as they policy in S Church, has practised every form of apartheid law had been in S Africa. made by Britain during its long and brutal By 1939 the missionaries who loudly are now direct rule over S Rhodesia.

Its 'protesting' against Smith mainly therefore cannot were recent protest sponsible for be 'system' of in any way interpreted as 'education' which the anti-apartheid. African child by of means expenditure 5d of ls per African child, compared with f6 (a year) for each European child discrimination of about 80 to practised by the holy missionaries themselves. After the apartheid war, in schools extended was and in- tensified-again with the help of the Churches. By the time of 'independence' for Malawi there and Zambia

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was the grand total of 3,300 Africans in secondary schools in Rhodesia (with million some In the Churches particular people classified by the British the of were main agencies racial classifiers), 2,108 in educational apartheid and star- Rhodesia and 1,300 in from the very beginning Nyasaland. of British rule until the present 'European' The total for day. children 21,671 (for some

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They have owned and man- quarter 'Europeans')- million aged special inferior schools into racial discrimination of over 100 which they segregated African children even when there was no The Churches participated fully law to enforce such segregation.

in the running of this apartheid At the same time they have system of education starvation and for the African colonial owned managed slaves 'Europeans and of luxurious only training for 'white supremacy' of old people's homes for the children schools, and the 'whites' of all classes.

hospital services. They are the oldest masters of apartheid in Rhodesia. It was not for nothing that Rhodes' special thanks went out to them the 1890salready after the defeat the Matabele of and Mashona a by Britain. other Britain. The major imperialist churches- for that is in the modern what they epoch - have alwavs practised and also preached the apartheid they now pretend to condemn order to curry hopus favour with the 'independent' African states and to divert anti- imperialist struggle into liberal, pro-imperialist diversions. look the educational Rhodesia ›ositior in makes role of the missionaries in this respect clear enough. One hand-book says of the present, Smith period: Most S Rhodesia schools in are run by missions, grant aided Gordon- by government (e.g., A. Brown). Since educational the S Rhodesia is notor- Delegates and visitors to last weekend's ec system in Mutualité, bour see sation the missions bear direct respon- main

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This is the first the average wage of a young 900 workers francs a month of our new, (about £14 a week). Through its work for the regular features February 1,

AIS

rally the has been able to on youth contact thousands of young workers the factory. in and socialism The AJS campaigned around the hostels provided Michelin to appear every for the workers young — and Thursday. made many contacts through relating these conditions in the factory to the struggle for socialism. Michelin own many of the flats and lodgings which their 'sixth plan, programme of employees live Workers rent in. attacks the working class to houses for which they pay 90 meet the economic crisis.

francs a month. Renault, where there "The political work of the AIS 100,000 workers, there has been has been specifically turned to a fight over the past two months wards the youth in Michelin. the introduction of against The key to the problems on the "progress contracts' which seek to shop floor youth is to train a tie workers the management leadership to win the confidence and attack the right to strike.

of the workers in struggle against the Stalinists and church, the Organized explained Michelin young worker. The

AJS

organized on the Consciousness floor shop to mobilize workers the 'sixth against government's 'In preparation plan' on programme of for the Con- demands. gress of the Alliance Ouvrière on June 15 and 16 and in build- The Stalinists refused to

AJS,

ing the have basis; they raise organize on a class the political consciousness of the accepted the contracts. workers and youth on two levels CAT the March Congress of the to link the struggle in the factory Stalinist-controlled and around the lodgings to the union) the

AJS

fought against general struggle the against the contracts. bourgeoisie.' They oppose the progress con- AJS members at Michelin have tracts on the basis that the recently hadl a very important Stalinists and the trade union experience struggle against bureaucracy could use such an management-union participation.

agreement to convince other factories to sign and in this way Following ultra-left an pro- use it against the whole French vocation Stalinists, by the three working class. workers were sacked, but the Long live Lenin! Long live Trotsky! First congress of the AJS.

The problems of young workers wave of strikes and the deter- at Renault are centred around a mination of the Michelin workers demand for conference of all forced the management to retreat.

young workers. IN THE universities the AIS has The CGT has been forced to emerged this year as the largest call for national defence of youtonat the factory.

meeting the National Union of group in French Students (UNEF). An

AJS

member working in his work In a recent six-week strike by the factory explained students language

AJS

and that of his comrades: policies for national strike "The AJS intervenes not just committee were carried over- on a particular local issue whelmingly in face of opposition factory issue, but relates it to from United Socialist Party the the general demands of the youth

(PSU),

the the Stalinists and and low in lobs. unemployment Maoists. wages on a national scale.

The strike took place because 'The strength of the AJS in of a bill proposed by the French Renault can be seen in the fact government to abolish the teach- that at Billancourt the Stalinists ing of a second foreign language are completely unable to slander in schools. the Trotskyists.' Demonstrations Large branch When the tsari strike ended the At the Michelin factory, National Central Com- Clermond-Ferrand. the AJS has mittee proposed demonstrations large branch of members- throughout France a united on some of them to the platform came OVer of students' and Young Socialists' 10th teachers' demands. Annual Conference in Scarborough Big demonstrations were held April this year. in some of the major cities in Out of a labour farce of 24,000, Grenoble, Dijon, Cler- France — 5,000 are under the age 25, mont and Lille. It was mainly as a result of the struggle carried through in this strike that the AJS emerged in April as the strongest single organization in UNEF. Out of this fight the AJS won many new recruits and was able to gain a powerful force amongst students. The AJS work amongst young workers, students and un- employed over past year is the powerful vindication of the history of the revolutionary movement and the theory of Marxism; theirs is a record to be proud of. With the Young Socialists the AIS is this celebrating the vear year of Lenin and Trotsky, work- towards international an conference youth at the end of 1970 This will bring together youth from all over the world, young revolutionists who will forge an st weekend's congress in the Salle de la international for programme building the Fourth International and establishing world socialism.

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Wire C.A.V. Acton workers reject Stewards strings 6d-an-hour crease without strings. still talk Their union nas retused to sultmongement without con- telecontrol sectional sekes in souplay.

with ocher sections al were man that ATTEMPTS by the management at CAV's, Would be liable to dismissale Acton, London factory to link the introduction of the 'big brother' telecontrol system to the factory pay claim have been partially rebuffed re the by shop stewards. The stewards decided at their Monday committee to stay Dublin meeting to accept an executive recommendation that the extension of telecontrol could only be discussed after the site claim-for 3s an hour for men and 4s ar hour for women-had been satisfactorily settled.

arrests But this still leaves two

BY A WORKERS PRESS

after

CORRESPONDENT

WEATHER

sections open une ln- troduction of telecontrol— could wee s earned with wnien stewards nave arms already accepted in prin- not Cloudy Cole he devaruments and 66. Swoop ands Menders meet es tied down i of the race serie A NUMBER of people coraled appeared in court in introduced manage- Dublin yesterday follow- to spread try by every means ing an overnight swoop Edinburgh: Scattered police in search of 10s offer arms. Мах. 1зС (55F) sore by Spoil re and it on principle over Stax 13C Speratures norma entire he m show ment claims on erally rather cost. when injuries sent at te-co thel and arme or both sales of the Border.

Hatred for the with drama of Brin Six speed-up (For any Britain's two days OR you roo months umann said in Paris yes he right wing I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for SOLID strike 1,500 Dunlop engineers in in Birmingham Name Birmingham to achieve a Adare8s to-a-week raise without strings comes after years Post to: Circulation Organizer, Workers Press and years or irustrating Clapham High Street, London, SWA. (Tel: 01-720-2000) 'normal' negotiations. hich would allow time-stud Measured-Day Work to BeLi aVerage piece- earnings vork or bonus • a pay were

RUSSIANS ASSENG JETS

Has invited members Dunlop maintenance strike this 8 engine i Soviet pilots flying jet Cricket Council the Africar pack- Agreement mprovements 6s a week for cil what it proposed to do boyment Inervien will be i cabin so where which have been made about the tour. workers Minimum

WALL STREET SLUMPS

New York Wednesday- Wo 6s those every hour was x 34.69 (dan 6.71) ineerinther and Measl normal conditions day or this who has been at he fle tary knows! Thursday, May 21, 1970 Need to Civil rights leader killed as Georgia extend march begins in Atlanta on Saturday, bu

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BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

President meets of yesterack THE SEVEN-WEEK-OLD strike at Crosse & The Blackwell's Peterhead factory has reached a critical stage. As the employers' campaign to break its solidarity is stepped up, the illusions say, play breaking point' which many strikers still have in the union leadership threaten to lead them into a trap.

The employers, Nestlés, State pay join remain intransigent on une Peant set, the Close bee question of 100 per cent trade unionist. Walens the only demand so far control-US put forward.

TACHOGRAPH

RES i threat bulla up

EVIDENCE USED

circles for state contro or wages.

AT INQUEST

FOREIGN COY RESPONDENT

incomes Be and po can bere takeven with week * Bankers soci tera very modest 30 and lit have achieve *20 60° th Suiter -10 70- with deadat torter 80%

BY BERNARD FRANKS

EVIDENCE DEDUCED from examination of a tacho- Doc at sier dam ta graph chart was used in a recent inquest on a driver killee in a venice acciaent.

According to the trade paper the nirst im 1 un thia cer the close shop has been gained distances for American Marxists to edu Dubcek microscope almost a foolby.

party. ate thousands unable

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vehicle in question can Vorster, of limite maue. Tic co ent He the Sove Unine din. victory Concerned ay was removed from the vehicle and how Ton Banda in his con ster dis the e bated have allowed some wreckage was broken- forces none the meliens i secret not red to brake Bedre ta written report from the The Internal talks German not SECRET talks between • ancan oremier vorster Senative dia face t Perry and his Malawi opposite, • nastines banca. con• we thrust o does instructions of her tinued in Blantyre yester- dentedly deep day. Krem viciou My the invasions of Czechos vehicles. frame-up of Dubcek and othe lovakia took Dunlop engineers stand firm Rolls-Royce men aparted teach what a elected

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and elopment maken vanced Rolls-Royce are

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cluded with the loan is tha san ward at pled 10 pledged help enforce the agreement.

ALL TRADES

Joint council

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MEETINGS

running the

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NORTH LONDON

again Change secepied as normal and e 'Keep out the Tories!" Fight for socialist policies!'

engineers anor of set and Thursday, May 21, 8 p.m. (West / in Kasse failedattemp Speed-up drive Seven sisters Road

NOTTINGHAM

pletely demands are without Tasks of trade unionists today Nationalize To ed ine - the Bon Socia Thursday, May 21 7.30 p.m. workers to bella Heath ote Street

SW LONDON

tion. They mi ahis cola ration Tuesday, May 26, 8 p.m. binthese huge monopolies see ish on the agendaobably eceive Falcon sad, SWII