Workers Press no. 170

workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League

TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1970

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 170

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

For socialist policies of nationalization without compensation and under workers' control

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Keep the Tories out!

WORKERS

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Manifesto of the 12th National Conference Workers' action of the Socialist Labour League must stop charge of our THE TORIES must be defeated in the General Indo-China war Most Election on June 18. The working class must return a Labour Party majority to parliament.

Editor of the Workers Press 'IMPERIALISM has tied This will counter the plans of the employers.

politically michael banda speaks lo d

BY A WORKERS PRESS

the whole world up into

REPORTER

who urgently want the Tories back in order to packed audience at Sunda!

one bloody knot. There is night's Press editor Mike the 'discipline' the workers, stop wage increases, and Indo-China. els no way un Banda told working advanced struggle of the Capacily impose unemployment. class for socialism,' Work- audience of more than 600 at a public meeting against

MARTIN ZARROP

Indo-China It is because of the deepening economic crisis Wal second tean conference London's Beaver Hall on that the election is called tor sune.

Sunday night.

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The Confederation of British Industries,

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the Merseyside Like *of the main tion to empiovers organization, and the Treasury itself, have Left' party leaders.

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issued grave warnings that the present series of wage

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who increases must be stopped, otherwise all the improve need. OF THE SOCIALIST Labour ments in balance of payments will come to an end,

LENING TROTSKY

The Tories want League's national and profits cannot be kept up.

ILIn conference, held in London government office in order to strike heavy blows at at the weekend,. was the une workine class best-attended and most compied orking do withdraw raw she anti-trade meson day politically advanced since e inse increases the League was founded in Sisten once Ther

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programme accompanied report. stop of racialism will for industrial action. incl Via by Hass back Major threat сололі healtl the expense of the workers as as intolerable for one minure longer.

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March demands

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DATA man's Sunday, May 31, 7.30 p.m.

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a the pies the are in.

THREE - HUNDRED

anti-apartheid demonstrators Corner of Groundwell Rd now want to set backly defeated marched into Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon at the Americans the end of a four-day protest demonstration Irom were usin Oxford organized by Ruskin College's Kitson Committee.

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with a so cant earship policies for deepinine Pompidou bans A.J.S. the employers socialist policy for the crisis, an answer to abotage sentence in South rally to re or gay that maures hold beast in band immediately left in fra the revolutionary

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condemns Polish coal for in May 187. There must be immediate

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TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 170 • For socialist policies of nationalization

SLL PUBLIC MEETING

Manifesto of the 12th National Conference Workers' action of the Socialist Labour League must stop THE TORIES must be defeated in the General Indo-China war Most Election on June 18. The working class must return a Labour Party majority to parliament Raitor of the workers Press 'IMPERIALISM has tied This will counter the plans of the employers Michael Banda speaks to a

BY A WORKERS PRESS

politically the whole world up into packed audience at Sunday who urgently want the Tories back in order to

KEPURICH

one bloody knot. There is night's public meeting O1 Press editor Mike the Indo-China. ers 'discipline' the workers, stop wage increases, and way Oul struggle of the working told a advanced Danaa capacit audience of more than 600 impose unemployment. class for socialism, Work- al a Duonic meeune aralnst It is because of the deepening economic crisis Indo-China war conference that the election is called for June.

London's Beaver Hall or

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Sunday night. The Confederation of British Industries, The Cavanaeys and Kee "empioyers' organization, aidthe Treasury itself, have Aileen the m

BY A WEPORTS PRESS

issued grave warnings that the present series of wage

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increases must be stopped, otherwise all the improve- campaign THE SOCIALIST Labour ments in balance of pavments will come to an end

LENNE TBIC

and profits cannot be kept up.

The Tories want League's national government office in order to strike heavy blows at conterence, hela in London interior of Contadia the working class. at the weekend, - was tne best-attended ana most Thed working - mutant actions amore urgent, comrade thousand politically advanced since • San the League was founded in living increases. 1959. the working class can pang order he hou legislation; more use of racialism thrill the represses! behind a programme industrial action. the class That time back he Major threat egard the lass as intolerable for one minute longer e Tories. it wit anti taking clas class preparations ot these

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March demands

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be carted through now. 1º

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DATA man's Sunday, May 31, 7.30 p.m.

stationedy to inten as interests, and he will do so sean, so the sit actice and t There it pray par interests, Sunday, June 7, 7.30 p.m.

Responsity of the working dias under a stair cadership release Lenin and thociming English The ass internat thaly ol

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anti-apartheid demonstrators Corner of Groundwell Rd nial and Stalinist-domin marched into Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon at national ker: eary, Socialist end of a four-day protest demonstration from LabouT elsion 22 The were usin Oxford organized by Ruskin College's Kitson Committee.

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AS WE MADE clear in introduction last our week, the greatest single task which con- has fronted the British work- ing class throughout its long history has been the construction of a leader- ship which could break it free from the grip of the Some pages from the history of the British politics of the middle working class represented parti Class. cularly during the 20th

BY PETER JEFFRIES

century by the bureau- cracy within the labour Manchester, state and the creation of a new combined with series which met the needs 01 technical state Chartism, the great revo- whiches in she textile industr the victorious class remained lutionary movement of the ment had argel destroyer unreformed throughout the domestic basis for production, English working class which had. bv the 1820s. begun to reached its high point in the create a new town-based work- 1830s and 1840s was the first Lords) particularly in Lan- ing class. well as une cashire chartim was to draw and so far greatest example monopolized @real The its struggle landed interest. emergence of the of the main strength these for the extension of the fran- working class as an inde- the town-based the North industrial areas in middle class in the 1830s was pendent and revolutionary those well many not therefore a social revolu thousands like the handloom force. changing Wanyare who were made desti.

amed tute by the development structure or society, but merely power-driven machinery in the Charter struggle by the canitalists textile industry. for the control of the seat of government. If we study this period we So rapid were these changes But in their that only around want against do so in order to draw the one-quarter of the remnants ot the nonnation were Avina revolu- the class lessons from this in rural areas by privilege. the same period increasinglv tionary phase in the develop- were conscIous ter was a ment of the working class, a of a new danger While, and city the mercial • one hand which the middle they needed support from with population phase over sections the vorking 350,000, class would so dearly like to tentold increase to force the order 'forget' or distort. comnared with the heginning of the century. interest The external details The horrific and brutal con- demands. thev also recognizec Chartism told : ditions which such trans can that once called into action well 1840s formation involved The 1830s the working class might рате beyond the limits of class brilliantly saw hundreds of thousands of were WOrKIne fight merely for in Engels' 'Condition workers organized outined • of the mid- franchise the struggle for the Six Points of of the Working Class in Eng.

dle and the People's Charter docu- land 1844' and need little dis- class ment drawn up famous SiX 1837. These struggle which would threater Points con- the entire interests of all pro perty holders. sister or annual _elecuons to Francis Place. an ex-tailor narliament. universal 'man who became capitalist pollas ying the and a figure in all radica abolition of property qualifica- MPs; equal electoral late and payment districts centurv and cen MPs. was nerhans most con scious of such dangers. New force Dilemma The reached its movement He summarized the dilemma high points in 1839, 1842 and confronted 1848, all vears of acute eco- Radicals such as himself in nomic distress. After 1850 it working gradually 5: decline, face of the emercent was a friend least as writing to with class: movement following. 1Xustitving hic memher. mass — a key figure in all ship of the National Political In itself such a nrogramme Union body embracing radical politics during represented nothing new working-class Similar demands many the late 18th and early middle-class aiming times been placed before the 19th century an extension of Commons during fran- House chise) he i 19th early warns _The cang- century ers othe workingt people • a toned canno century in Chart- cussion, despite the attempts what historians tism wac that a new force many later them for a purpose and then the the working class, was drawn onwn enormous bet aban вар into the struggle human an which the incle working trial revolution involved.

appendage middle middle class, But decisive for an would ments in the but classes thai of Chartism appreciation widened. the nancour • a torce increasing v con- that a new social evicte would he inarpaced and force, cine nt itset as one ranged all chance of conciliation put against the whole of capitalist working class. had entered on off for * years. I am a mem the scentruggle of the middl crane nt histori Council The background to Chartism Union) only of course, the Industrial in she Pay 1905 had som Union early 1830s had seen because includes Revolution. first time after 1750 saw working people. I have some The neriod working modern reputation among them. aceries entry some rites ex over a ore e- short which in a relatively case as such an indenendent influence over more or period revolutionized the farre less of them.' whole of English society Radicals Cromwellian revolution and ther movement in had Place thoroughly bourgeois agriculture, which drove thou- the conderc which and desperate plight of the work sands off the land into rapidly character and had seen the ing class was producing. Only Leeds expanding towns Nike first two parts are of particular value for the subiects discussed in these articles

BIBLIOGRAPHY

S&B Webb 'A History of Trade Unionism': A classical study of the emergence and develop mont of trade uninnism Althonah openiv rabiar into snaron still the haci, work from which all other studies must still start.

These books and articles were found useful ir preparing this series "Chartist Studles': A series of but should provide a articles dealina with the regional background to starting point for wishing Chartism. Useful material on the relationship of some further study of the matters raised in the Chartism to the Anti-Corn Law League.

series Ult Cal Movement. Dognite its Marx and Engels 'On Britain' hacir enin, 'On Britain' of the Chartist movement, especially in its Both items are indispensable. They these earlier period nrovide calention more imnortant A. R. Schoyen, 'The Chartist Challenge': A lively and lattore by artinlao onsenhao the foundere of Julian Harney. one of the of Mloriom on 4ho problems of tho Rritich working class the 19th and early 20th G. Wallace 'The Life of Francis Place': An old prominent early written Cohion Provides J. Harrison 'Before the Socialists': A series 'Where Is Britain Golng?'.* A classical Trotsky. of the the British labour nolitics. study specialist of General overcome written the eve Useful work which movement. 186N.1880 some of the distortions of Stalinist historians.

but freshness Strike retainina relavanco 'Ernest A brief account of SAVHe relationship to Marx. Also Pearce 'Some Past and-Flle Move Jones's life and its selection of Jones's articles, letters A very useful study of the lessons of montes * and speeches. nect rank and file movemente Dangerfield, 'The Strange Death of Liberal Brain 1920-18: Ma Series of aricles am ar- Woodhouse Stalinism Enaland' "Courth Intarnatinnal thanratical oraar * These books and pamphlets available from 4ho Intornotional Committoo nf the sourt, 1860 Clanher International. dealina with this crucial period in Now Park Publications Limited history of the British working class. The High Street, London, SW4.

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could are employed by the middle if the middle class class and "petty masters" as retain its hold over this force induce your would the situation, in the arguments to allowance of their long run, be saved: of our but be not intimidated by great mass un- and but little skilled them; a violent revolution is skilled labourers (among whom are not only beyond the means of the handloom weavers), and a those who threaten it, but is number of them their greatest object considerable to very in of alarm; for they know that our skilled labourers are if not actual misery; such a revolution can only be poverty, of these have effected by the poor and a large portion if of deprived millions who, been in a state poverty all their excited to the step, might use and great privation it for their own advantage, as lives. They are neither ignor- ant of their condition nor re- well as for that of them- would conciled to it. ... To escape selves, who thus not from this state is with them of only be placed in a less exclu- sive situation than at present paramount importance. Among multitude of but would also have their vast these rights of property endangered: people not a day, scarcely an be assured that a violent revo- hour, can be said to pass lution is their greatest dread, without some circumstance, should even the some matter exciting reflec- poor compelled millions be to tion, occurring to remind them of their condition (and) resort to such an alternative, they scarcely ever cease, and they will be as firmly opposed to it as you yourself could never for a long period cease, to feel and to acknowledge to possibly be. themselves with deep tions of anguish their deplar-

GEORGE JULIAN

able condition.'

HARNEY

'Absurd' Rejecting John Doherty's Bill contention that only a would satisfy the working Place told him it was class, absurd expect such to combination among the work- ing people would enable as defeat the army and them to others who would not quietly submit to be plundered. That the working people middle class unaided by the accomplished had any never and that national movement, him to sup- — one of the leaders it was insane in pose that they could effect any of the left wing of the change by force. Chartist movement But if Place was anxious to retain the support of the work- ing class as an instrument for Place and other Radicals, forcing reforms from the aris- before the emergence tocracy, the most advanced even of the Chartist movement, were sections of the working class bitterly hostile to those ele- were also becoming clear about ments in the working class what was involved. who were striving for a com- A petition addressed to the House of Lords and reprinted plete break with the Radicals.

in the 'Poor Man's Guardian', Some elements in the working October 1831, made this clear: class were even willing to sup- "revolution" port the Tories, in that to give 'Threats of a

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the vote to the urban middle classes would strengthen their enemies and leave them iso- lated. Place was clear about the dangers from the "most con- scious sections of the working Attacking the 'Rotund- class. anists'-so named after the public house where they met in London -he writes: 'Some of these men were but remarkably ignorant, fluent speakers, filled with bitter notions of animosity against everybody who did not concur in the absurd notions they entertained, that everything which was pro- duced belonged to those who, by their labour, produced it ought be shared and to them; that there amongst ought to be no accumulation of capital in the hands of any- one to enable him to employ others as labourers, and thus by becoming a master make slaves of others under the name of workmen. ... They denounced everyone who dis- sented from these notions as a economist, political under which appellation was included the notion of a bitter foe to the working classes, enemies who deserved no mercy at their hands.' One of the most important features in the development of the working class in the 1830s was this growing opposition to and hatred of the political economy' of the capitalist class. As Marx pointed out later in 'Das Kapital', the years around 1830 sounded the 'death knell' for any scientific political economy, which had reached its high point in the work of David Ricardo. No longer could it examine the social relations of produc- tion objectively and scientifi- cally as Smith and Ricardo had genuinely attempted; now the whole capitalist order was threatened from the growing working-class movement. Political under economy, these conditions, degenerated and became mere apologetics for the continued existence of capitalism.

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All regions as BBC 1 except: Malane today 0321 d3, parma Look East, weather Nationwide. 6.00-6.45 Look 11.27 In response to this degen- of eration a school new socialist economics developed in the 1820s (analysed by Marx in "Theories of Surplus Value') which used the Ricardian labour theory of value as a justification of labour's right to the whole of its product.

A feature of later Chartist literature, especially of the 'Northern Star', was its bitter attack upon the hated political economy which 'justified' the horrific conditions of early 19th century Britain as inevi- table 'market Place and other Radicals who set out to court the work- ing class were rightly con- demned as 'sham-Malthusians'.

Threat "They say we are too many', declared George Julian Harney, one of the leaders of the left wing of the Chartist move- 'that population ment, increases faster than the means of subsistence. If so, let those who work not leave the country, and when the aristoc- racy take themselves to Van Dieman's Land, and the moneymongers to the devil, take my word for it there will be enough for you and me.

• Our country may be • • compared to a bedstead full of nasty, filthy, crawling aris- tocratic and shopocratic bugs.

In answer to our caluminators who say we wish to destroy property, I answer that we will not destroy the bedstead but we will annihilate the bugs' James Mill, father of John Stuart, and a leading disciple of Ricardo, also expressed fear that these new economic doc- trines would gain a hold over important sections of the class. Writing to working Place in 1831 he says: "Their notions about pro- perty look ugly; they not only desire that it should have nothing to do with repre- sentation, which is true, though not a truth for the HTV (Wales) colour channel 41 as above except: 10.30 University challenge. 11.00 Trip ir teulu. 11.30 Y dvdd. HTV (Cymru/Wales) black and white service as above except: 6.30-6.35 Report-Wales. 11.00 Trip 10.30 University challenge.

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South-West, today. Spotlight weather. Nationwide. 10.35-11.05 The Charles Dickens 1812- anthusiasts. 1870. 11.27 News, weather Tuesday, May 26, 1970 present time, as they ought to see, but they seem to think that it should not exist, and that the existence of it is an evil to them. Rascals, I have no doubt, are at work among them.. Nobody has such a means of probing an ulcer as you, and nobody has so much the means of curé' 'These opinions' declared Mill, writing to Lord Broug- ham in 1832, 'if they were to spread, would be the sub- of civilized society; version worse than the overwhelming • deluge of Huns and Tartars.'

Place and others deliberately tried to strengthen and encour- 'respectable' those ele- age ments in the working class like William Lovett, leader of the 'moral force' wing the Chartists, against the attacks which were rained on them by the most class-conscious Chartists: 'As the best men in the working class proceed in their attainment of knowledge they will cease to enforce their mistaken notions, and this will be calted abandoning their caste by those who remain un- enlightened; and these men and such other men as have power over multitudes of other with sinister men, objects to accomplish, will mis- interpret to the many the actions and opinions of those who may have become more enlightened, and will repre- sent them as enemies of the people whom they would be best qualified and best dis- posed serve. The people to will continue to be misled, and will look upon their best friends as their worst enemies, and the more these, their friends, may attempt to justify themselves and to defend themselves against absurd and false imputations, the firmer will be the conviction of the misled, ill-judging multitude that they are enemies to be shunned.' In the next article (Tues- day, June 2) we shall see how the 'physical force' wing of the movement was to deal with Place and his friends.

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Executed leaders of the Pennsylvania anthracite miners; the original 'Molly Maguires, Left to right: Edward J. Kelly, Thomas Munley, Thomas Duffy, Michael J. Doyle and James Carral The Molly Maguires Tuesday, May 26, 1970 caréfully to break the unions and THERE IS a type of destroy the AOH.

'historical fiction' which were organized under the They leadership of Franklin B.

Gowen, involves no more art than lawyer and rai He rege large owner railroads. mines is required to twist the forced their private army, Coal and Iron Police' and in events of the past to suit an- nounced wage-cuts a of the the purposes fifth and the abolition the minimum wage. present. Faced with this the whole coal- ield struck, against the advice of These productions are not Siney and the WBA leaders. The and after a few weeks the north.

miners had little money, redeemed or made more 'historical' by attention to ern pits yielded and went back work, accepting defeat. to detail. But in the South the strikers held on until June. I remember reading that in Digging roots, living for on Persons of history were hired tor recent pro- terrorized by bread and water, they the employers armed men, fat fees to advise on the designs brought to the fight all the cour- of mid-19th Russian century age and bitterness of the Irish Army buttons. struggle against British people's "The Molly Maguires, which capitalism. was filmed near the site of the When they went back, with events it 'relatés', gives evidence their women and children starv- of similar methods. As a whole, however, the film whitewashes the period when the methods of labour spies and gangsters, frame-up légal Richard Harris as and lynchings, were first systematic- James McParlan - ally used by American capitalism the - against miners the Pennsylvania anthracite in the 1870s. While this Technicolor version is plastered across the screens of Europe, here a brief iS account of what really happened: The business crisis of Septem- ber 1873, starting in New York, produced a terrible depression in the whole American economy, which lasted for six years.

At least a fifth of the working class was unemployed during this time. Men wandered the country off search of work, living In scraps from rubbish heaps.

REPRESSION

For those still in employment enforced wage cuts were with threat of the the sack, while report of work available every brought crowds of hundreds.

Yet the working class was forced back only when it could fight no longer. A massive demonstration in Chicago against unemployment was attacked by the police, and broken ' the movement only by jailing sending the leaders and the organization to agents into sow confusion. Everywhere employers tried to the depression take advantage of to break organizations, cut wages and hunt out militant leaders.

Nowhere did they set the witness who

OVEL

this task with greater brutality sent most of the vic- than in the coalfields of eastern tims to their deaths, Pennsylvania. later became notori- Most of the miners were Irish tried Catholic immigrants. The owners ous when he had been forced, after an attempt frame Big Bill to at a wagé-cut in 1869, to recog- Haywood, then the Workingmen's Benevo- nize leader of the West- lent Association. This was the largest union, led Federation of ern by John Sad worked Irish then for blowing Miners, immigrant who had In up the ex-Governor the English mines and been part of Idaho. of the Chartist movement.

The early leaders were very moderate men. Believing in the harmonious of co-operation labour and capital, they wanted to guarantée that 'our stock is ing, the owners broke all open always accordingly they signed an agree worth value'. resistance. Wages all leaders were cut, weight - checking ment for a sliding of pay, sacked, was scale based on the price of coal.

abolished. The informal backbone of the Armed thugs of the employers the redoubled their assaults trade unions was Ancient miners and their families and the Order of Hibernians, exulted in their victory.

for mutual aid and protection owners The their de- which organized of the miners, union Irish immigrants. stroyed, turned to the Ancient of It was the descendant of the Order Hibernians. it became of semi-secret society, organizing society the same defence which in turh grew out mutual help, and Ireland, and of the revolutionary struggles retaliation against the mine against the British oppressors.

bosses and supervisors. The AOH united many of the The employers, led by Gowen, militants who pushed the union sent in spies and agents provoca- teurs to procure the framing of leaders into action and organized witch-hunted the the which militants. They the miners in pils in British capitalism held important miners as 'murderers' and 'térror- all over the shares. ists' in the press prepared United States. The miner-owners At the pit head-Jack Kehoe (SEAN CONNERY)

WORKER PRESU

"The Molly Maguires' starring

CINEMA

SEAN CONNERY, SAMANTHA EGGAR,

RICHARD HARRIS.

Directed by Martin Ritt. chief deep yes Church, police med American capitalists established planted color ner en once of labour dart nor ret pleasant duty to r 1877 to 1829, and murder many The Molly Maguire • All the bar, sleep betteen with the "psychological melodrama.

resistance to a

'MOLLIES'

took ov of the cel The 'Mollies' gings and murder against their care, sparated from it Withdrawing the loyalty and instice wage cuts the aftermath of 1877 the " to cs that Life in the mines behind THE NEWS

'CONSPIRACY'

Another 750 One cheer for added to the 1,000 Tady sentenced men to fail tai 'because increasesibili no as ther democracy General Electio and Ulster intelligence forces all THE TORIES will not be short of canvassers this election.

votes along g with the 1,000 visi- Takes cond in a minor disturbance in Police Federation spent The a jolly time by the sea last week • арест 1 rooting lor law and oraer ana the following • Intelligen telec sena ala con decing the sees notice it shor dead in ther manner befitting the Scot- Capit institemony is a mone ash louts. dezardousstitution, While Callaghan's former bud- were daaing une possibuity shooting the Scottish Tories' extensive list-including Their real come 'AnyAnswers' - Prague caning, birching and electrocu- they would like tion-ot things to do to trouble makers', an- other 750 troops-this time com- mandos—-were packing their bags tor the emerala isle to ensur that justice will be done in the style Ulster polling. mistress are time cas 0,0 Well to the fore in the elec- oral preparations- • he cecia immandos are whole businese rather & state of affairs?" 1ls alsgu or artient develope in mies of the entre is a listene of ne mean is one thing the Dahree rabinet ministers in Working time yees Were light saratremely embrasing te could lead to the troubl that another this oke. because the After all, with the British, Irish

PAGE THREE

omas Munley, Thomas Duffy, Michael J. Doyle and James Carral Guest reviewer

DAVID BARNES

Tristsh phireman frank finian Irish whimsy and there is, a point A subject which right goes back to the heart of American miner's and capitalism turns it history, into a windy roustabout, blotting out the class heroism of the Pennsylvanian miners and absolv-

ESCAPE

ing those who murdered them for greater profits. • Why? they are terrified of coalfields to escape from Because Philadelphic gentility of the the class history of America.

and conducts They know that that middle class, when a with history is understood it will put restrained) affair McParlan-Harris in the hope of to their end profits, their wars and doing so. murders, their But she can't stomach it when lies. When the last tame script- convicts Connery of murder. These are the horizons of the writer is gagged with the entrails They filled with of the last cinema mogul, then are 1n Americans be able realistic violence, a sound-track will to make of the films of their own history.

of saccharine music, lashings tivity in the factories throughout The counter-revolutionary ele- Europe and the Soviet Union who endanger the ments con. is now stepping up in the face of tinued existence of the national- growing economic problems.

ized relations in E property Europe are not the victims of the While the continue purgés purges, but those who now carry against all those who express in them out and continue to main- any way opposition to the bureau- tain their grip over the economic cracies, there is no way to solve these life of countries, while the these problems within con- looking wistfully towards the workers' fines of the statés capitalist metropolitan nations themselves. "labour for the last word in One thing is clear from Bar- discipline'. tonik's plaintive plea. I would like information about the • Fill in the form below and send to

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TWO FRESH disputes have now St Hospital Pilkington's up at flared Helens glassworks. pay claim A work-to-rule and overtime ban will be in operation when workers return from the bank holiday lodged to the Triplex safety-glass works today.

They protesting

BY DAVID M/

this week against changes in the shift system there, announced more

UNIONS

han 250, o aesinary hospital following Friday's return as members piled out of Con- would work, which Friday gress staff are this week to lodge a House bate beh32f Por heit men bers.

mean a loss of £3-E5 in 20-32 night. "They dion't cueceed'. weeks prior to despite the f3 earnings n the seven want the lowest basic meeting the simkers staff lifted rate interim pay settlement. their jobs sisted threats to to £16 desertion their loca Icicasce week for Hill float- At the cowiev officials, government appeals meanwhile, Pilk- glass plant, work the workers involvea. return ington's pro- a ressure carne tinuous black mai walk-out mass maral Dress Saturdav suspenaine from the local clergy

WEATHER

worker invo ved in 1nC1- Why the dent with a non-striker. and their friends so concerned SE England nothing is settled London area. England, E about cois sunker Central Soulher at st Helens Workers have quickly made Closing the government's and Midlands. central the Northorn Froland. Drw with clear that company Coree-oav cour or moury In Thursday periods. Wind westert to the cusoute the Maximum temp. town's six glass nrevious y renorted in Workers Press, Professor John NW En Islands, SW England, Dry with sunny their reacers Wind westerly, and not with periods long sinke Warm maximum or moderate discredited General ano Muni temn. pal Workers shop stewards. Edinhurgh aren 'Nailed lid' Ireland. Mainly dry with sunny tactarly moder maximum temp. 'We have nailed the the livo, the coman ot tne Outlook and wernesdav cair strike committee chair- change. man Gerry spending several hours on Sun- the 5,000 filled

NEW MID-EAST

the strike committee

CLASH

their supporters remain deter seven- LEBANESE and Israeli arm mined. despite rmoavs with G&MWU forces were vesterday hour discussion ed in battle in an area of an d (oneress chiefs in South Lebanon. Tandon •that thev are not going to return to the Israeli Armourea .

FROM PAGE ONE

the Bint rank-and- that the conference must take areal enanese armoured and serious stock of how the work- torced north commulee ves pias. " vas to meet th Cowley told the Workers Pres Yaroun village fought back.

international cap- italist crisis important 'The most tion for the working class chould said. that thay retur Labour government,

EAROFLENIN & TROTSKY

The calling of the General Election was a crisis decisior whole drive tha capitalist class through and isolate the is to try oress revolutionaries fi the work. ing class, he added. Favourable The struggle government giving no concessione right wing and the tare leti enabled the rouolutionar movement to wage its conflict much more favourable con- đit the Torics ; win, the drive will go to There will be ámendments arde

ACTO

desnerate atmos phere of witch-hunting 'You cannot Chave nure legislation against the The British bour. thee against the left prepared he nolitical Two editions +hic dave onment Bull anhacrinton "Dialectical philosophy must (For any two daye hasis work. O R (Posted dally) comrade Healy stressed {2 10s. for three 1 for three month with the months {4 a year that the work. dominant fact the move, on class I would like to subscribe to Workers' Press for all things are changing' Old forms work- The changes in the Namo ing class. he pointed out. ne development. Address mean Post to: Circulation Organlzer, Workers Press, 1868 past. problems, Clapham High Street, London, SW4. (Tel: 01-720-2000) recent develop- mante in tha worrer move firmest one of the fermins the las most

LATE NEWS

shape ye what Norking could do a the crisis paco develoned The problem of democra-

U.S. IN MID-EAST TALKS

ISRAELI COLUMN HALTED

tization "f tha uniano Maised by the Pilkington strike and Foreign Minister The Israeli armoured Minictor Aldo Moro Tane disputes corte inte pushed which Into A State William Rogers disputes could not story Iohanan vectoriay (cep but must talks devoted mainly to the this page) was checked on the Middle outskirts Fast crisis in become part of a great car Varoun afte- fierce fighting tha vectoriay southern frontier with Israel.

Fresh forces or ne e to the e en

DIPLOMATS LEAVE

PHNOM PENH

activities which we carry out, three-week delav. A fana. bring Chine Mouth Vietnam and Korea left Buida mass communist pres Phnom Penh yesterday "or Canton and Peking. exile -a party to be pross has to ss the les government contrate on teaching the vouth İBos CLapham Hie Press Ltd. (TU), revolutionary teachings integred Marxism. Danom Panh

WORKERS PRESS

Tuesday. May 26.1970

CAMBODIAN PLEA

TO US TROOPS

One of the in seize of US TROOPS are to be asked to remain in Cambodia after Nixon's June 30 deadline, it was Otis announced at a press conference in Phnom Penh yesterday. engineers This was stated by the right-wing regime's Foreign Sihanouk oppose Minister, Yem Sambaur. Nixon speed-up for We to the Workers Press last N Vietnam

BY A WORKERS PRESS

if ington itstop. "They've already

AVID MAUDE

out

CORRESPONDENT

they much they're really alter ENGINEERS from Liver- is had pulled out 1o before, pool's Otis Elevator plant isit N Vietnam industy the de list it the coal Wood dismissed the 1 of lying are to lobby city's the illusive Engineers' Amalgamated staying -glasdustry China. and Foundryworkers' dis- took recon regions. third of the nur forest trict committee this week

PRETEXT?

about the three-year job-

ALL TRADES

evalualon arreemenl piu-

UNIONS ALLIANCE

factory's posed by the pya real ser

MEETINGS

already management pret for none higher than the national aver- although The or Nixon's Indo-Chinese war.

is being oppo

SW LONDON

age. Tuesday, May 26, 8 p.m. ord Harry, the low be several indis were return not to work tore these voters mis tous monopo 50-daose Not simple spurred the motor bosses i It least four department naangements for chatter fish Ben Salah The basic labrapplies in an attempt questions raisec meeting. jailed to The fight for democratiza- Another two strike

• FROM PAGE ONE

several occasions to the com- justify *g In St Helens and else.

productivity policy accepted. enable To who claim Pilot scheme The engineers, switch Beach of the mo steward demand Questioned are to demonstrates means posed deal. School, to develop a erior on and th on the democracy It has already kicked back draft agreement. one bureaucrays programme he mat ras People los deas collected Pilkington's regard the nex 12 months as crucial do me in to workers inclotting 'Productivity? queried Press later this week. Kavennead picket wnen talk security of the I Tuesdays Pointed press, las o-operatives and the leading reformer in nment, was nope dent so i can attent of last policy weeks after -ass issues on all working- World Bank report which

COMPENSAȚION:

Foreign ee with the general

• FROM PAGE ONE

- Ben subse- 1he Aprape enticle the has been almose speculators and Staina) and other countries in genuinely returns to the stack and th techn rade whole bulld- the rusticati provide ma he housing. to socialism. about-turn of policy. Such a policy would requir the o-operation men and Lu the entry. control of the state and Man dangers the working

INDO-CHINA:

in hand as cambodia ana vietnam be given. meless ine ree mansions ahe unions e mahe rich. luxury homes with No Vietnam. which Seeing nize in du told overseds territories. The sari also is equipment of living NATO AND UNO: A soesalit policies

SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS:

egislatio docile coa of imperie governmer • diplomacy or particia fo to had All mus arrest the trade The Immigration Act would vice could remaroonte and impoverish.

charity. cuts made in succa- seen cesuld be restored.

AND

The Socialists and, immediately bee a the Heale Service id all the social services care man predicion conse possible an ad will dictator- carefull nd-up soes • Nationalization of banks, major industries, build- ing societies and the land, under workers' control lise holdings in the and without compensation!

Revolution nembers of the • Socialist policies to defend the unions and stop ay Workers Party of Brazil . enteres the rise in the cost of living!

market bs ians No return to the 1930s. Withdraw all troops from abroad!

would be lowered. End all support for the US war in Vietnam and Cambodia! No to the European Common Market. For the Socialist United States of Europe!

No return of the Tories! Vote Labour!

May 25, 1970 Ceara, ravio,