Workers Press no. 168

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What think Police support Tory policy on the side of the Tory Party. inat was une message wien came over loud and cleat trom the Police redera. tion's Llandudno confer- pro- ine law-ana-order gramme enthusiasticalv welcomed bv the conter. ence-with its appeals for restoration complaints pro- whil the elec tion agitation of Heath ana rowell. Speakers at conference lisplayed real enthusiasm for the prospect of break- heals ana laking against. we way-ou caterwauling minority. The wayo i minders sure. sumauly people as the St Helens whose Sulke pickets suffered the full police treatment outside the Pilkingtca" glass fac- tories on Monday. 1 esteraay conterence voted more frearms trainine and called tor intensive re search to develop new weapons for police use. As a rewara for their en dorsement of the lory election campaign the police demanded a pay However. like the scaD union taste Police Hederation began its con ference by ruling out any industrial achieve their pay rise. Instead. thev rev on thel masters to see them all right' when they come to put - their anti-working- class programme into tion. here has long been a wide spaced mine said the stand devoted te ped only to linein ladies over the road. 1ne blanauano nas brougnt truncheon on Ins pal- ticular tairy story These "impartial public ser- vants' are more and more shapine army mirror of the as a Tory Llandudno rapid working class: police oI a "gainst al the rights of workers. place agalist background of mounung witch-hunts against mill- tant trade unionists the most vicious election since the war gets under police have campaign the In this Tory a very definite role are playing it to the fu G.L.C. staff lobby talks MEMBERS of Stan Aste Cent achieving 15 per cent workers press PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 168 • FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1970 Be on guard for A Tory plot to catch votes

BY THE EDITOR

IN THE manufacturing of 'Red Plots', forged documents, perjured evidence, distorted news and provocation there is no body so comsum- mate as the British capitalist class and its press.

For over a century it US officers now has used these tech- niques to mould 'public opinion, to manipulate lead Cambodian the middle class, to ex- pedite colonial wars, whip up imperialist war troops REPORTS from Phnom hysteria and facilitate Penh contirm that Cam election victories tor the bodian troops are now ruling class. fighting under the orders this sense the and leadership of US army British press, reflecting officers. traditions of the the Still no ban Tory ruling class, has earned itself the unique distinction of being a on Springbok estra as pioneer in fraud and the protagonist of journal- istic venality. cricket tour this colossal titand and of the even for withdrawal from cad HOME SECRETARY James Callaghan's formal request • could bodia lo ne cnairman or une cricket coune to withdraw their invitation' to the S African touring team is almost certain to be discussed by today's Council meeting.

Maunice Ales, she Condis Contradiction

BY JOHN SPENCER

meetire Calla with other com chis cos t and Mr Burkerd Cavendish wealth Games. in We dare possibar inact did no The Times. Whole companies proclaim he ame more he mone Sovex their came strikers Sating lad Nons ins want £6- stating no strings victorious

LEILICILD.

• Notorious have completely fosted productivity dial sis

BOOTS

G.I. DEATHS

RALLY

INCREASE

the London stock hange yesterda in yester of a fi mig on Essa last detected 207 week sprofits for the year en ing been carrie could not nones. The March sales fighting it Cambodia. street are on the wine s desperately for Job evaluation threat to building workers persuaded Basi go to the

BY BERNARD FRANKS

terms Skills the man to paolin chanc every iob is looked at in this Garaudy's expulsion confirmed

BY A WORKERS PRESS

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Party 5 Central Commitise of the Party's eading ideologues. le decisi so this the Political Bureat The decision comes at the arked by agains pion by a special commis Lauuy al Lie ru Garaudis espite munist militante That on dox st ghestions, on the okin developed capist sole ly.

questione abou are poten- yes and in on Before he raised the ques- PAGE FOUR CUL. b— Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. terday we received s70 10S Yes- same as the day indication that comrades are light- ing hard our

DANCI

won't be disappointed. Ley yve sharpe THE LATEST figures on very

L0OC

newc Tomorro Which we think vi make unemployment issued yes- every one of our readers extremely happy terday show the highest With 4558 140 May level since 1940. Keep top 7d and send May ll, the number

PACE

wholl which the possible largest unemployed per cent 579,235 donaton you can over unt numbe weekend em- ployees, to 2.3 per compared Workers press cent in May last year Appeal Fund, The mesponse of the figures 186A Clapham High Street will meni figures undoubtedly phasize Lne lacu That Cals first Ene ume unemoloyment nas taer below vear month. However. Coe une edition clear that the response of the to the wages offen- 'higher ecause seasonal demand for normal warns that bankruptcies and failures al e increase as the companies by rising labour costs and uene creat racinues. In companies the government's from legislatior anti-unior nas accelerated the drive IOT DrO trend to and the wage shed anot oftset increases will accelerate.

DOMINATES

While the worsenina eco Pilkington workers who voted twice on Wednesday to stay on nomic crisis dominates evert strike were meeting again yesterday.

natty's election none will shal O11t developments which must take this year. *Financial Times' the comments: 'Once the has the road un- employment become plain'. St Helens, Thursday FEARS ABOUT Trades Union Congress inter- vention in the seven-week-old stoppage of Pilkington glassworkers grew here this afternoon says N.U.T. as the rank-and-file strike committee called for an evening mass meeting. Union-

TANA TONATI

Members of the com- Teachers said that 2.1-point By our Industrial reporter increase mittee, which has led the cost April Iving index strike since the desertion completely justified the union's £135 of General and Municipal crease irom April l this year.

Workers' Union officials,

PICKETS

The union was Comments the DEP's said that the outcome of

JAILED

neures which shows the big.

the meeting would deter- eest month-to-month increased the prices index mine whether or not they

ROBERT

Cheshire cinco retail and began in its present form five Wilton, would travel to London Pinston years ago. were each sen- for discussions with TUC total of three The the caid that April index represented an in general secretary Victor Helens crease since 1967 of 16.7 Feather. malicious wounding and centrad been own pro- ection Feather made clear earlier disputed figure by the today that the Congress's management side General Council offer of sun what te Nur omitted to class in behind Heath's anti- teachers

DOIL

TOT

the stinkers' main the E120. finally won only The demands was conditional on ann-immelant. DrO a retanwhile G&WU general 'law-and-order' to mobi- WOrL programme all-out de- clergymen s secretary • Lord Cooper, The (reneral and Municinal Workers' secret to fight, that Micalls the hant tailed deliver teachers have suffered a wage hoping he was "fervently goods, big guns were trained

CUT.

murning. work St Helens course, really one thought the osie 05 solidinost strikers re- courd take out today mained in the face of continued attempts to create a spit woe would to Torce them back to work onl work. Pikington's terms. should be tooled by the Inflated conculator surtace annerance

TOTIC

e Workers Would be Even the company's estim inquiry. ost Office ate ot the number who went Strike committee treasurer - six fac ıno

ITS

factories thic Tohn Potter Innker danger- Dressing ater Tail bear morning Which mad ousiv close to falling into this substantial pay increase tor is again described by the strikers trap when he told yesterday 200,000 members was given a over 100. inflated — - dropped morning's mass meeting that, the union's Isle of Man con- over the first day's ference yesterday. The seven-week-old boys The kee demand, inmistakable said siot yet been dexecutive, the

UPW

has notice seat the working the and is Teeing not coing easily trapped back into Socialist Labour League to De its old coon government

PUBLIC MEETING

trade union man- oeuvres even outright police Devolis five-month-old brutalitv. For working-class action to defeat Centrax which ended the strikers American imperialism in shown which Vietnam and Cambodia pants Lores Sunday, May 24, 7.30 p.m.

Ballot Beaver Hall (near Mansion House tube) Hence last week's cesstul attempt by the press hy the nreçs Speaker : create a had scare which would fue MIKE BANDA. Editor of Workers Press Tory nre alertion chapch. admission 2s making and whip the middle

What think: Police support Tory policy THE POLICE are on the side of the Tory Party That was the message which came over loud and clear from the Police Federa- ence unis week. "law-and-order' The chorusiast caly welcomed by the confer- Will is appeals I0l Ine restoralon gallows, more powers lo aeal witn aemonstrators and an end to retorm oi pro- nolice complaints not whit cedure — is different from the elec- Heath and Powell. speakers at the conterence disp aved real enthusiasm for the prospect of break- ind eming ators heads he waction caterwauling minority'. The wav-out minority ore.

sumably includes such as the St Helens' suffered the police treatment the Pilktngtcü"giass fac- comes on monday. Yesterday the conference voted more firearms training and Canca 101 search lo develop new weapons for ponce use As or reward for their the Tory dorsement police demanded a pay TIse. However, like the Police it is, the Federation began its con- terence by rulng oul any inausual action achieve their pay rise. Instead, they rely on thei put - Inell anu-working class programme into ac tion. There has long been a wide- spread myla that the police stand above ponucs, that tney are somenow im partial. to keeping devoter oniv the peace and helping old ladies over the road. That par- ticular fairy These "impartial public ser- vans dre more dan more shaping as a private army. landudno is a mırror or tne future orvism offers the working class: the rapid of a police directed against all background against mili- Walt the most vicious elecon sınce the war gets unael way. In this lory campaign the police have been allotted a very definite role. Thes re playing it to the ful G.L.C. stati lobby talks Lon uncil a ester viet to achieving 15 per cent increases. workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 168

• FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1970

Be on guard for A Tory plot to catch votes

BY THE EDITOR

IN THE manufacturing of 'Red Plots', forged evidence, distorted news documents, perjured and provocation there is no body so comsum- mate as the British capitalist class and its press.

For over a century it US officers now has used these tech- niques to mould 'public opinion', to manipulate lead Cambodian the middle class, to ex- pedite colonial whip up imperialist war

REPORTS

from Phnom troops hysteria and facilitate Penh confirm that Cam- election victories for the bodian troops now al c ruling class. fighting under the orders this sense the and leadership of US army British press, reflecting officers. the of Still no ban traultons lne Tory ruling class, has earned itself the unique.

distinction of being a on Springbok town pioneer in traud and the protagonist of journal- cricket tour istic venality. or had nothing thl! do with without Hamiltealy colossal this aud of cle hurch with tha with HOME SECRETARY James Callaghan's formal request not survive. to the chairman of the Cricket Council to 'withdraw commited to his Cambo forces ress the lase prenise the thell invitation to the • Airican touring team is almost press - certain to be discussed by today's Council meeting.

imes Fistied adventure. Movement and Maurice Allen, etc Contradiction

BY JOHN SPENCER

the tha where Callaghan the tour with Council and Mr Bu Kord Cavendish the Concern Cam- in mi have possibie impact problems onceline and morale for US Whole companies proclaim Sovex of the shiny a disguise to a the con- strikers the c peoples, Excelled want £6- stil made no move to ban itself in the the el mon or more to bad art of slander no strings at to the let wing MEMBERS of the boilermakers Notorious 10 Erith, factors the crisis in African tour. my was us course ta.

BOOTS

G.I. DEATHS

played an im

RALLY

important

INCREASE

Hod on the mondon stock ral " General ment of all mig on BATTLE deaths in Indo- vitor be seen cared out not 49 ир million. the the Notions despera tor Job evaluation threat to ner. with their + building workers • betweer make mers clear bei

BY BERNARD FRANKS

lasks each covers and the Volved looked at import ant by the employers. Skills like who

• PAGE FOUR COL. 7 _

MAY 22, 1970

BY A WORKERS PRESS

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THE FRENCH Communist ot one partit deign of the cell to * document trot Bureau recom e unanimous decisior by a special commis- araudy at the PCF developed capist sei. poten and in th working class. efore he raised the que ollaboration in ter

• PAGE FOUR COL. 6 →

The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. ANOTHER good received 570 105, almost the same as the day before. This is a real indication That our comrades are icate ing hard lor our paper and disannointed which wed THE LATEST figures on will unemployment issued yes- of our readers terday show the highest happy. days May level since 1940. Keep up On May Il, the Tie bace are senol number of 559,035 which is 2.0 the Nareest Dossibe nemployed donation you can over the per the total Post it to: to 2.3 per ployees compared Workers Press cent in Mav last vear The response of the Labour 186A Clapt Street, government unese Hizure. WIll undoubtedis em таст that ThIS unemployment the "rst time below has fallen 600.000 this year and 37,420 less than last - However, the lune edition of 'Management Today' makes clear that response of the the mean uncl disguised ployment months of because nolllal seasondl acmana lol : that bankruptcies and business failures art increase as companies are nil oy rising labour costs and tigot creelt taclites. In larger companies the from government s retreat legislation anu-unior shas accelerated the drive for pro.

cucuvity and „trend to wage shed lanour oftset increases will accelerate.

DOMINATES

While the worsening eco Pilkington workers who voted twice on wednesday to stay or nomic crisis dominates every strike were meeting again yesterday.

campaign narty' c election out developments which must take A C the comments: 'Once the pre- boom has run the rising employment will become plain'. St Helens, Thursday FEARS ABOUT Trades Union Congress inter- vention the seven-week-old stoppage of in Pilkington glassworkers grew here this afternoon as the rank-and-file strike committee called for an evening mass meeting. IHE NATIONAL Union- Members of the com- Teachers said yesterday that the mittee, which has led the by our industrial reportel April strike since the desertion mpletely union's for of General and Municipal Interin crease from April l this vear Workers' Union officials,

PICKETS

CODE SS

commenting said that the outcome of Cost-vine which shows the

JAILED

the meeting would deter- pest monta-to-monto increases mine whether or not they

ROBERT

Cheshire and SInce the retali prices , index began in its present form five Wilton, Pilkington would travel to London years ago. nickets. were seT. for discussions with TUC The the NUT said that tenced to total of three Victor months' imprisonment general April index represented an in secrelary crease since July 1967 of 16.7 Helens yesterday on , charges Feather. ( intimidation. wounding and per cent. had been clear earlier puted made the lagemen

NUT

General Council offer of sup- omitted to class in behind Heath's anti- explain the the Illain Teachers pro- £120. Was conaltional

CON

anally

WOT

on t June programme. Meanwhile G&MWU general leadershin's reticall mohi clergymen's lize for de- • all-out strike, General spite the willingness secretarv lord cooner sneak. Workers ınd Municipal members means that ing at the union's annual con secret ballot b failed said deliver teachers have suffered a wage terence in Scarborough, the that he was fervently hoping 2000s. die ouns were trained work St Helens. tor of morrow morning'. course. one really However strikers thoucht that the strikers mained out would take he face of continued attempts court inquiry chairman create a split to chork on Tues- Dantaccor lohn Wond'e fille thom fern t back day appeal for a return to work. should fooled the conciliatory Inflated appearance NOTICE that the Union Eon the company's ate Post Office Workers would be who went committee later this John Potter 200,000 n increase which ously close to falling into this Was again described by the strikers given told vesterdav members was traD when the Isle of Man con high v Infiated - - cronned mornings mass meetino that. UnIon's over 100. outing the hrst days hearing. Terence vesteroa The seven-week-old strike the two *nancy he S17E the demand served the hac said the UPW executive hac notice that the working class not yet been decided. flexing its muscles, likes the feeling and is Socialist Labour League union

PUBLIC MEETING

nan utright oeuvres even brutality. police For working-class action to defeat Like Devon's five-month-old Centrax which strike ended the American imperialism in strikers in In ViCtOry tor March it has already shown determination which has Vietnam and Cambodia the pants off charad the Tories. Sunday, May 24, 7.30 p.m.

Ballot Beaver Hall (near Mansion House tube) Hence last weeK's unsuc. cessful attempt b bed create Speaker : MIKE BANDA, Editc: of Workers Press scare pre-election admission 2s

PAGE TWO

As June 18 approaches Workers Press will be talking to members of the labour movement from all over Britain about the general Merseyside-all of whom have first-hand experience of the problems of unemploy- ment, closures and productivity deals which plague the area-give their views about the issues in the election and of the past five-and- a-half years of Labour government.

HARRY SHULT is a member of the Amal- gamated Engineers and Foundryworkers' Liverpool district com- mittee and sits on the executive of the Huy- ton, Prescot and Kirk- by Trades Council. A life-long Labour Party member and from now delegate

AEF

No. Kirkby branch to the Consti- Party uency Labour

WILSON

HAROLD

which sent Harold Wil- Turned a somersault.. son to Westminster in Labour Party If the is he told the 1964, Workers Press: returned to power in the election that's coming up, it

WHEN

returned a about won't be on account of its what thought Wilson's lett-wing first policies, but because of tor the tIme there was a teeling tne Con• stituencies that we coula expect threat of a Tory government socialist policies I would now he has sav that if they get back..? turned a somersault on the stitution and principles Party on every from Viet- issue nam to the Hi: incomes will ¡irtation witn the downfall high souve even 8o gov- rate ot unemployment. down. ernment- 13,00 or so the bod sive the were and t Attlee's : docks is or so seen of Labour productivity councils all over advent ol 50-100 the country. rationalization of companies half -used Labour election Tory get back. Workers must realize that in could fall down be akers stands selling hard-won con. ditions they must press the em- the government changes. . is as deter- novers for wage claims

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But he us their pronts win no sumes.

everyone i deals and now the tado- When they build new factories from wave strikes there's new equipment and Ger- ivitv deals and now with Jabour stocked been in rrance half what it they're any means after 12 years of by.

torce 10 practicall only emploving halt the manv that The same thing happene and was. Ions that Fisher-Ludlow's 300 and voung bovs leaving scnool in Dar months we've accommodated. a wavs can l be Merseyside went ucular After rationalization In the case of some factorie the hullt under development years- -again, recent

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'The decline in support for Labour at local' level -they lost control here in the council election just recently-is due to a lack of policy on any of these issues. No worker is ever inspired to say he stands by the policies of the Labour Party..?

FRANK GALE, secret- ary of the Birkenhead branch of the Con- structional Engineer- ing Union and dele- gate to the Birkenhead Trades Council, said: election that there MY co the tea or the Tore oppose back whule strong meltical. d stress socialist poticies. instrument advance. tself migh parliame in to have 1s rese try ther the need for a revolutionary party.

Here host on on the left If these shipyards are to be bolstered must first facing produce nationally need.. in a principled way of government

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Friday, May 22, 1970 AN EVALUATION of Ho Chi Minh's political role during nearly hall a century at the head of the Vietnamese revolu- tion can only be made with an understanding of Stalinism which has dominated and held back its whole course. Lacouture has been unable to makes such an analysis because his approach does not allow him to penetrate beneath the most superficial of appearances.

For Lacouture Stalinism as a political force does not exist. His does not who have of the of collusion The method is own statement I's ideology: from e- that says ce and a -could at any This held true for both occa- was involved sions when Ho attempts to reach in such settlement - within the French Union (empire) from 1945 to 1946 and through the Geneva talks of 1954. mind 3. As a Workers Press editorial insisted, as Marxists have always done, several months before the breakdown of the Paris talks following the escalation of the war into Cambodia: .. the imperialist leopard does not change its spots-or its appetite- even when it agrees to conference table sit down at a with its colonial victim' revolution, The Vietnamese developing in line with the Per- inevitably Revolution, manent comes into violent conflict with imperialism. As in the other colonial coun- tries the struggle of the Viet- workers and peasants namese against imperialism poses at first 'bourgeois-democratic' tasks distribution, democratic land rights and national self-determ- ination. Unable But the Vietnamese bour- geoisie is so weak and depend- imperialism that it is ent on unable to carry through these tasks. The working class is there- fore the only class which can • give leadership to the peasant masses to achieve these demands.

Because this is so, socialist tasks th historical are on agenda, tasks which can only be consolidated when the Vietna- mese revolution merges with the world socialist revolution.

Lacouture's account flies in the face of this conception as he believes that a democratic peace could have been achieved within the French and later empire through the 1954 Geneva confer- ence. protracted negotiations Of the Ho between and French ine 1945 to 1946 reviewed by government from he says: in the whole of this drawn-out attempt to guarantee

PETER REID

bloodless revolution in friendly with the colonial power, accord unacceptable to the conditions, other side'. Stalinism always seeks to blunt and destroy the struggle of the working class whenever it offers a decisive challenge to capitalism. Lacouture's comment that '.

to his credit he [Ho] spoke like who anticipated that the [Geneval would be agreement adhered to in the main' misses the mark completely. Compromise On these decisive questions the author's naïve pragmatism mask Stalin- leade him The Geneva horse-trading ism's betrayal in Conference for a compromise with imperial- that the (below) paved ConVerSAV. forward development of the the way for Vietnamese revolution is depend- the puppet ent on a break from Stalinism.

regime of Lacouture, of course, is bewild- Diem (seen ered by Ho's retention ot nis left with US ambassador to S Vietnam, Cabot Lodge).

LAST WEEK'S

unanimous vote in the Senate approv- ing the nomination to the him (Ho) most credit. Which do these hours Supreme Court of Tudge that the Harry Blackmun brought to Lacouture maintains French leaders made 'mis- unprecedented end an take' because they did not realize of bitter political in- how far Ho would relinquish period claims in TO covereient fighting. for the unification of his try. This not only kept a Supreme Court seat for the long- vacant The the events surrounding Civil War, but est time since the 1954 Geneva conference has made Nixon the only Presi- treated in the same spirit.

this have two dent century reiected successive nominations Defeat the Senate. Nixon made it clear during the The French occupying forces 1968 that ramnaon 1954 were withdrawn in April wanted to change the complex- after their military position had attacked by ion the court, been shown to be untenable by Republicans for its 'liberality' on the decisive defeat at Dien Bien questions of 'law and order', civil Phu in the previous month.

rights and desegregation.

The Vietminh| were then the It has become conventional to effective the only power in divide the Court's judges into country. "liberals' and 'conservatives'.

The Soviet bureaucracy agreed partitioning of Divisions »* Canavo to the Vietnam into North South and even though the United States This covers narrow but none- had made its intentions clear by of theless important divisions refusal to sign agree- especi- itc ment which was to exclude all over civil rights and the foreien military forces from the trade unions. South along with the promise The so-called "liberality' of the decide the elections i cections to decide the ques- Court can be judged from one decision last month. Ho acted out his part in Tustice Hugo Black ruled that implementing this compromise. through which the Soviet bureau- a criminal defendant can lose his called toe toat cracy worked to continue its co- right to be physically for con- his trial, may existence with imperialism.

or be bound and gagged tempt He wrote to his 'unruly behaviour'. comrades for in court the South, soon to be exposed to This decision relates directly the savagery of the puppet regime of Diem. that they must to the Chicago conspiracy trial capable ending March which was 'be of enduring the present' and argued made notorious by Judge Julius they +not must not put forward excessive Hoffman.

WORKERS PRESS

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leading positions after the cru- cial events of 1946-1947 and after 1954. A few empty phrases such as vitality' 'the Ho's incredible his legend' and the power of 'affection of the ordinary people' are used in place of an explana- of the workings of the tion Stalinist bureaucracy and Ho's loyal service to it as a mediator between the Vietnamese working class and imperialism. Lacouture's rejection of a class his evaluation analysis reduces of Ho Chi Minh on occasions the level of the crassest to idealism. A statement made by a US officer in 1965 is quoted as evi- dence 'which nobody is likely to dispute': 'What keeps the guerrillas fighting, and the peasants sup- porting them, is the magic sur- rounding the name of Ho Chi Minh.' His draconian measures to control the defence included the binding and gagging in court of one of the defendants — Black Panther leader Bobby Seale.

Nixon his campaign began against the Court by securing the resignation last May of Judge Abe Fortas through a calculated 'leak' by the Attorney General's office of the Judge's remote association with man con- victed later of stock manipula- tion. The retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren was replaced by a safe conservative, Judge Burger.

The line-up on the Court was thereby changed from six lib- erals' to three 'conservatives' to an even four-four who dead- locked over several issues-and one vacancy. Nixon's first nomination for this was Judge Haynsworth who drew the opposition of the AFL- CIO (the US counterpart of the TUC) for his anti-labour deci- sions and his record in civil rights cases. Evidence The Senate rejected Hayns- worth after hearing evidence that he had presided over a case involving a company in which he had substantial share holdings.

also a South- Judge Carswell, was Nixon's second and erner, more disastrous nomination.

During the Senate Judicial Committee hearings his claims to "forgotten' being involved have in turning a Florida golf course into a whites-only establishment were completely exposed. Carswell's nomination was Senate, defeated by the his the showing that opponents longer he stayed on the bench the appeals were being more successfully made against his judgements. Senator Fulbright, having pre- supported Haynsworth viously and then Carswell, was forced to change his mind, declaring that Carswell was 'simply not up to the job'. Nixon's third nominee was the successful candidate, Judge Harry whose qualifications, Blackmun "stockholdings and origin—Minne- sota, safely outside the South- were finally acceptable to the Senate.

ORKERS PRESS

mythical "independence' this replace the of a vague promises 'free state' that he had been fobbed off with. The French government used this time to reverse their weak military position in Indo-China.

the population Ho called on welcome the French troops to moving in to take over strategic positions! All those who fought for the of unconditional independence Vietnam crushed in the Were 'Franco- interest of establishing a Vietnamese democratic front'. Numerous Trotskyists were killed and Ho said of the mur- der of the leading Trotskyist, Ta Thu Thau: 'All those who do not follow the line I have laid down will be This the authentic broken'. was voice of Stalinism. not only faced with was opposition of leading politi- the cal opponents. The Hanoi workers' Tenan to the March 1946 agreement is described as 'cold and suspi- cious'. Lacouture, who was in Hanoi at that time, writes of the mood in the city just before Ho spoke rally justifying the to mass treaty: with the 'Our ears rang been levelled charges which had in the streets of Hanoi for the past 24 hours (that he was Communist who his had sold country into the hands of his French comrades)? Even after hostilities broke out the last days of 1946, Ho in sent appeal after appeal to the French for their 7s government cessation. He that the only said later When he dies 'the Vietcong's his reply he received was that will crumble for resistance lack letters were believed to bear of inspiration' for forged signature and were that slender not con- reason The limitations of Lacouture's sidered. that method of analysis means light onto Ho's the he throws Sacking career is somewhat accidental to his intentions. French The sacking the Nevertheless the detailed nar- Communist Party ministers by rative - especially that of the Prime Minister Ramadier in May of diplomatic manoeuvrings-is with 1947 soon brought contact some value. de Gaulle's government to end. The most useful section of the book the episode epitomizes this describes protracted One the Gaulle with de period. necolanons government before and after the Bao Dai, later to become March 1946 agreement, although under the puppet 'emperor' re- the essential background for an established French rule, was understanding of that period appointed a senior adviset to the omitted. 'sym- Vietminh government as a bol of our will to within remain the framework of the French Conspiracy Union'. He soon tired of his post and Ho took his cue from Stalin's moved to Hong Kong to begin a post-war conspiracy with imperi- social life which attracted the alism head off revolution of the attentions gossip column- everywhere outside the territories occupied by the Red Army.

Ho wrote to Bao Dai: 'Do not He therefore demanded Viet- forget that you symbolize than "independence within more and its history. Let nam framework the of the French be worthy of the name lite Union', though after the which the even bear, of land collapse of the occupying Japan- which we share'. ese forces the Vietminh were Lacouture comments: 'It effectively aptly in control of the as though Robespierre is were country. writing to a Louis XVI who had Ho tried for Varennes months to nego- avoided arrest and inherited the tastes of Louis XV.

tiate more precise conditions for

JUDGE CARSWELL

THE

TEAMSTERS

from Ohio's cities and (lorry mayors drivers) in their recent unofficial behalf requested state on their strikes had to face not only the Rhodes to call out the overnor. Guard break the vicious harassment by police and National to National Guardsmen, but the strike. intervention of Cleveland's mayor who complained about Stokes, Carl Stokes-a Negro Democrat. the of 'violence' the strikers. was put into office with the full At one stage more than 72,000 support of the

AFL-CIO.

closing down teamsters were out, trucking traffic in key areas like His actions show once again Pittsburg Angeles, St Louis, the anti-working class nature of and Ohio. the Democratic Party. The US Stalinists, who are roving the rol system was Ohio trying people's by teamsters promote up SeT coalition' around able at short notice anti-monopoly very Democrats such as Stokes, mobilize 300 strikers to stop any denounced Governor Rhodes for scab lorries in the area.

sending National Guard. in the World' Kent But their paper 'Daily who shot down University students on May 4 had carefully covered up for Stokes. been used in a vain previously It did not report that Rhodes teamsters' attempt to break the acted in response to Stokes' call, picket lines. but only that Stokes had called discuss It was Cleveland Carl mayor's meeting to mayor the "means of ending the strike'.

Stokes called together who

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intended be In what to evidence for this supporting 'colonial the PCF's contention, described line' wrongly as 'undecided'. The 'Indo-China Chronology' Workers Press published in on Thursday, May removed all doubt on this score. Thorez PCF general secretary amply fulfilled his boast that he had not the 'slightest intention of being held responsible for France's position in sell-out of Indo-China'. Re-establish The

PCF

several deputies times voted for the war credits, the bulk of which desig- welc the Expedi- nated to pay for tionary Corps dispatched to re- Viet- establish French rule over nam. The on December 40, voted for a National 20, 1946, voted congrat tent Assembly motion General Leclerc for offen-

BAO DAI

sive against the Vietnamese.

Stalinist The ministers were in the Cabinet for to remain another five months after this Lacouture's idealist method is time and eventually for his making were responsible removed over another issue error about important factual an of the 1946-1947 events. aspect To ignore Stalinism's record in He that Ho relation to Vietnam, as Lacou- argues was while writing biog- efforts ture does, in his to come encouraged of Ho Chi Minh is rather with de Gaulle's gov- raphy to terms like who proceeds ernment because a third of it was surgeon solely on the basis of the external composed of French Communist of his patient appearance and Party (PCF) deputies and another with just about as much effec- third of socialist deputies. tiveness Available from New Park Publications Street, London, S.W.4, 86a Clapham High This dealing with the column, States will situation in the United appear every Friday.

AFL-CIO

last AFL-CIO leaders

THE

week parts the put whose attacked the 'bankrupt' forward character programme nomic policy of the Utopian re-empha- Administra- especially critical sized daily by the deepening eco- and was of the unemployment rate which

ROMEOSS.

last month jumped to 4.8 per tive all cation di credit the selec- even advocate the selec- cent from 4.4 per cent in March it will do most good for America' This was the sharpest month- to-month rise since the mild Nixon, by simple -as could do recession of 1960 and compares remedy, what he has with 3.5 per cent at the beginning signally failed do, that iS, of the year. stagnating economy while reigning in the galloping the April figures have As infiation. already exceeded the Administra- for 1970 tion's estimates as whole Nixon's aides now claim will feel that they dis- severe appointment' if unemployment 5.5 rises over per cent by the year's end. Unemployment The March-April in jump unemployment hit work- hardest of all, out of every 1,000 black workers are now unemployed. While the youth amongst under 20, four out of every 25 are out of work. Nixon's concern with the rising militancy of the working class in the face of these problems was reflected in the unexpected visit he paid to

AFL-CIO

President George Meany last week. Meany's attack on the bank-

NIXON

of the Administration's ruptcy significantly after policy came This is being seen for the what US one newspaper nonsense it is by more and more 'the described as warm Nixon and who face lower workers friendly reception average incomes than four years received from Mr Meany' and his ago. executive council. This fall in real wages began During the discussion the time as at the same the escala- executive repeated its willingness tion of the fighting in Vietnam.

to controls to agree wage similar This cannot het speed the Nixon imposed con- profits, of the straints on prices, movement working dividends and rents. class into the struggle against British the Indo-Chinese war. Like their counter-

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Dunlop Closure fears engineers behind stay out Kent THE three-week-old strike of miners' engineers at Dunlop's 1,500 Birmingham factory is still on, a vote yesterday strike following rejecting the union executive's recommendation for a return 1,200 miners at the Snowdown to work. Pit Canterbury are on néar strike after deciding In response to the workers' Tuesday demond sor a fo pe increase mass meeting on take action over without strings, manage- evenine lo three men put on to day wage offered £3, pro- ment have instead of contract work.

vided 100 'engineers accept redundancy. 'voluntary' This involves a loss of some £2 a shift for the mén bilfilllllllll cerned.

WEATHER

Prior to a visit from repre- the Kent sentatives nf area National Coal Board head- SE, central quarters, pit officials had London area, southern and central northern found that the men were be- hind their production England, Midlands : Sunny on Winds NW intervals, showers. targets. moderate fresh, becoming or One of the three men in fact light later. Near nor- mostly because was off at the time mal. Max. 16C (61F). he had fractured a finger when a girder fell in the pit.

Sunny intervals. Edinburgh : NW, Tn gether with the recent Showers. Winds fresh, management at at first. change perhaps strong locally 13C (55F). Tilmanstone and Betteshanger Rather cool. Max. pits, the men suspect that this Channel Islands, SW and NW is an early warning of attempts England : Sunny intervals, to close another Kent pit.

NW. showers. Winds moder- light SW. Near ate, becoming normal. Max. 15C (59F).

ALL TRADES

N Glasgow area, Ireland : Mainly dry with sunny periods.

UNIONS ALLIANCE

Becoming cloudy later with a little rain in places. Winds

MEETINGS

light, variable, becoming west- Near normal. erly, modérate. Max. 13C (55F).

SW LONDON

Weekend outlook: Some rain Tuesday, May 26, 8 p.m. at first in the North and East.

Princes Head Becoming mainly dry and Falcon Road, SWIl warmer with sunny periods.

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The council would reply by

ARMY WARNS ULSTER

todav. He had no

CROWDS

lunchtime Angy headg steg i d rea. mind and in further steps Council thought the Cricket warned that 'a very reasonable body'.

who failed break away from crowd told to disperse faced arrest.

FRENCH TUBE STRIKE

Underground railway services in Paris will be halted today by a 24-hour strike called by trade unions back claims to for pay rises and better work- ing conditions.

CALLAGHAN AND

SPRINGBOKS (See page one) Home Secretary yesterday de- that General Election nied need by W orkers Registered as Published had played part in his any Post High Street. decision ask the Cricket Press, to S.W.4. London, Council to cancel the Spring- Plough Press Ltd. (TU), Printed by boks tour. 180b Clapham High Street, London. S.W.4.

WORKERS PRESS

BY ROBERT BLACK

IN ONE of his rare political statements, Mao Tse-tung has denounced the US invasion of Cambodia and warned of the dangers of third world war. Broadcast on Wednes- day by Peking Radio, Mao's statement called Indo-Chinese on the to fight 'a protracted people's war' against US imperialism. Mao expressed his support for the Cam- bodian government in exile, formed by the deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and his con- fidence in the final

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

Indo- victory of the REPRESENTATIVES of management at the Acton, Chinese peoples over London, factory of CAV Ltd met shop stewards on imperialism: Wednesday to outline the company's proposals for the Acton site. 'A weak nation can de- feat a small proposals are belleved defeat a big one. cent in- Hallon Call nove a ne. output based on NHS and DeoDie Simall thoroughgoing countrv can certainly defeat of aepression ov a die count dare element in the on v thev to rise laundry pay for struggle, take up arms rate nallection course telecontrol hands rasp their and destiny fath or

P.I.B.

This law is a history. cali min ale minule ana recora aelals oi Threat work and outDuL.

BY A

According managemeni

CORRESPONDENT

neures. the overal Introduc. i nere is anotner law ou tion Acton ot telecontro ati Sisto Asia the operating aso by 30 per could raise

DEP

MRS Barbara Castle. drive allow oh be imperialism towards world secretary, has referred to the amount of work to Mao- quite correctly out with 250 fewer operators. Prices and Incomes Board the threat: pay ana conditons ol ancil-

EVADED

danger lary workers in the National 'The newi world war still and Management spokesmen Health Service and others in the epared. triet the laundries, cleaning and have about result contrael cicanine. i the world today telecontrol. Thousands of women wor- Few of the stewards appear Mao's firm statement con- will be affected by this trasts with lower-paid nave Talsea an y serious entrances whih cnalenge to une manacements sections Dans ano une aumosonere al prouucuyaty. believed from the meeting apart yasuc to have neen genial' recentes In direct contradiction by Nixon, have beer Deale previous statements by lead- directed at China Monday, •Pravda' 5,000-word attack carried a f won IT WAS smiles all round on the Chinese CP leader- tele- saio, une most vicious since introduction at the state banquet held he Sino-Soviet border talk: control. in honour of South pegan feking seven Leading stewards are thought months ago. not to have challenged this African Prime Minister Ulina s ledaers were tney nave Ilain- Vorster, currently visit- accusea great-power talnea inal me zi was part negemonisue amoitons. or toe tactorv cama. ing Malawi at the in- vitation of its president,

WORTHLESS

Editorial All ranunemenes maust es Hastings Banda. about editorial Banda. once detained withoul trial by British imperialism for his activities African nationalist. Lasl Asla. nOl the ica in my cate 'Whenever the inter- wastage' situation deterior. Hallulal US musicadins. means that Grovelling white alea 11.e. wnenever people wao leave. retire who supremacist imperansm launcheo a new ale are not replaced, and that anti- onensive against une semi- lousalus otthe future e pormenti es.

colonia neoples. the Pekıng apartnerd neaters Tall The future employment leadership tried to aggravate wilnour trial, banda tnankec young workers is not for sale. it and it and pes the wor 01m 210 Dulloun Telecontrol will allow which Mao Malawi's new capital: management to make full declared was inevitable' productivity Accepted and introduce a general This is a classic Stalinist speed-up. 'Leaders other slander. defendiate and discinine wil inevitabl conditions In fact, as his latest state.

ment shows usten. gained warned led against the Any increases friendship and we accepted excnange ror the introduction oI lois svstem wi De swit by this Vorster. revolutionary action: eroded Dy rising prices, rents overcome changes similal and tares. but the praise. repnea but revolution is the will bring vo the CA emagem benefits stvie: trend antnem CAV directors have recently never sounded so beautitul bach Nio 4 been £2,000 Malawhe when heard questio da 'actually Aftt ZoMba Wednesday's Danc uel Vorster flew with this in Foreiler Dr against ay ris Hilgard Vorkers a Acton must in- capital Lilo struct their of the new is not shop stewards to ongwe, the con- fight for inspected week work already to d 1O1 suructiul women ana PrIs wiinoul progress. Slander exploitation of strinos. Malawi labour is the com- nere must be no sel-ou must mon telecontrol. which language that unites enforced manoeuvre completely rejected and hack namonas a US after the kept out of the factory. white racist Vorster. Cambodia, the Soviet Stalin- a renewed Albania trades with lande chines nem pai Comminist Party leadership. Greek butchers Behind this smokescreen of lies, new be made to Niconces can 'working' relations with the ruk lhe urst ume SIDCe In fact, the Soviet bureau- the Second world war. blood-stained torturers Albanian and trade de paation (reek workers arrive Athens socialists. ( the biggest vesterdav. following the The leaders Alhanıan signed trade have gone further. agree- sinzie laclors capitalism to mount a third ment. worla war. Sistell Albania and Greece A Yas Workers Pres coliniries haverar, are se handed two authorities countries is ue only enel- has not political fugitives who make tive defence of the workers' this Albanian leadee- Dul Albania— tates. ano une suresı wa ventedi Ine W dy like the consigning them to imprison- toe imperansi uninese anu if not drive towards a thira-and soviet leaders trom nasten- ment ana torture. last-world war. ing estabisn corolal deala.

LE WEREN

One of the recent workers' demonstrations for government

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preparations for frame-ups in Czechoslovakia, he was the booed by delegatés at February's 19th Party Con- gress for insisting that the Congress should consider

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the sending of coal by the failed condemn to un- Polish help government to Franco break the strike of equivocally this capitalist attack were aiding the witch- Asturian miners. hunt and preparing a noose Not broken for their own necks. We make no apologies for Garaudy has not, in fact, our criticisms of the Stalinism. broken from group and its spokesman- Tuesday he . pursued On Barrett- who refused Terry - his 'dia- -on television - to withdraw the public slan- logue' with the Church, der that Rosemary Whippe joining in a discussion pro- wanted be victimized'. gramme with the reaction- Nor de we retract any- ary Jesuit Cardinal Danielou.

thing said we about The French leaders scabby role of the 'Morning Stalinism are now trying- Star' and the CP organizers by shouting 'anti-commun- who refused to defend ist!' as loud and long Rosemary Whippe. possible, and by expelling Our unconditional de- him bell, book and candle- fence of these groups against to bury the important ques- the capitalist witch-hunt has tions raised in the 'Garaudy never meant that we keep affair'. duplicity silent about their They must not be allowed and lack of principle in the to do so. face of this witch-hunt. Unity in against action Czech trials capitalist attack not does imply a mutual amnesty on The report that three political differences. Czechs prominent before —Vaclav Our warnings about the the Soviet invasion- CAV-Girling Havel, Ludvik Vaculik and witch-hunt are being proved a thou- Tan Prochazka - • are to be sand times tried on the serious charge right now by the line of the capitalist of "conspiracy the Republic' the Pilkington makes the fight press on frame-ups strike and the S African against by the cricket tour. Stalinist bureaucracy an The press and its Tory urgent one. backers know that this elec- This fight can only be which is vital for waged through the sharpest con. the Tories, will be decided political batle against those who try, deal- the marginal seats and, with secret therefore, and bureaucratic they have de- ings ex- pulsions, to the cided to create the maxi- up mum confusion and fear in international class questions the marginal now forcing themselves to constituencies the front in W Europe. around the cricket tour and S African premier Vorster (left) with Hastings Banda in the Malawi capital Zomba on Wednesday.

Job evaluation thre

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his opinion on how important each requirement is - the report states: placed in an ordered list with the jobs with most points 'Members of the panel each at those with the doing his own rating will not the top and least at the bottom. with the come up same At first, answer every time. At this stage the report there will be many especially explains: divergencies. 'There can be no question 'But when the members of 100 different rates for 100 discuss these, they often can jobs, but the whole run of If they can- reach agreement. jobs can be divided into say their be or eight with nOL, ratings seven grades, averaged.' of for all single rate pay 'weight' would Also extra the jobs in each grade. given to requirements con- This particular points-rating sidered more important than of job evaluation is system others. regarded by many work-study best consultants consulparis for the introduc List Measured-Dav Work tion of For example, whereas exer- into a workplace. tion might be marked out of Once the pay structure is five points training might be marked out of rationalized and all ten or extras, points because it is considered bonuses, etc., are consolidated much important into the basic rate or other- more it is possible quality. wise eliminated, All jobs having been evalu- the fixed to relate payment in this they remaining to work-study times ated way are orchestra assisted in attack by their allies in the she paper and tariule refuse to cor form to establishment rules Feder demand a hand tin against demonstrators this ally that thund equivocally, that asted in thi not est protest movement. m We cannot stress this too Wilson, to his etera, eternal shame to hi ban, is not a racist protest sure-fire vote-getter It the Battle of wateriod attle of June 18- Mobilize way to fight racism The not to with an adin leadarsernative revolutionary I stadeas tot to tarker so the fories ad te of an nilson. allerallye an This sorrence sto seen working and for the break demarcation Directed is all paid at anyway evaluation Friday, May 22, 1970

ITALY

Tension mounts as strikes end

BY DAVID BARNES

THE

FOUR-DAY

strike oI virtualv pubilo service workers in Italy 1s schequea to eno to. day in an atmosphere of use voluca tension Trade union leaders discuss the meeting to mands fo weeping govern. trans ort impot the In addition RAILWAYMEN are on strike TEACHERS have also taken

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS

level:

REFORM DEMOS

The st st of workers on thec coves behind strikes in recent longer • breakin" Lepperach may The sit on: is the

BULLETINS

The Communist Party, union sin the capa 2. азі по ine as hostity under. neath. Glass men

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and Mr Pilkington keep up the pressure keep gress from he ident coin brutal rention of the Finance those tried en