Workers Press no. 176

New dangers of a The

• NUMBER 176

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

• TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

AS ELECTION DAY draws nearer the opinion

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Machine-tool poll manipulators are working feverishly to

CORRESPONDENT

prejudice the electorate in favour of the Tories.

crisis behind The 'Daily Telegraph' poll, for example, having ElUm loan probed the 'fickleness' of British voters, has now come up with the sensational discovery that the Tories have taken a 24 per cent lead over Labour.

Alter seeing reals palmenc penormance ou saturday nient. anvone woua nave touent unal the reverse was the case notais tant lael Sunderland Villers, strikers meet machine tol induisis-ridden 1 ories. PARTY CHIEFS remained remarkably coy in kicking off the General Election campaign proper yesterday about the issues which will be the 2 per cen main concern of millions of working-class voters.

dustry, the es 1355 - Few ot tne. swealng

BY DAVID MAUDE

• Labour up lournasts wno emergeu terday's from the first round of elther tricians yed agreed to relaten L0 a or Liberal press con- biuners, and yol takea your choi money, the parties dalv news con- boy British go terences yesterday lunch- members at the • yard iven more incongruous i rd Byers praised the time coule calm interesting

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much ine wiser tan tney

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had been two nours earile.

aboul nousing, Mercer at Y.S. school ana union relorm aren favour of the Pilkington's believe wages would rise.

Plavwriaht David Mercer answerina questions on Culture, Theatre and state this in favour of Socialism' at last weekend's London announce area Young Socialist school in East- aterviewing Deterrent peuple bourne A full report of the school 22 'redundancies' will Thursday's 'Inter- appear P.A. survey national Youth News' column.

HuLL mempers or te amonal Association of steve-

PILKINGTON'S

Helens 20 0 8,000 and Dockers ('Blue' Union)-stopped work dores yesterday morning to attend a meeting on the imple Association survey announcing that mentation ol nase Iwo of the Devin plan tor the rationalization or the docks.

the next fortnight Iso mattended T&GWU members

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Mich chap

REPORTER

announcement—which • Sucenty it prote betweee union chief Hus proposais 1o de put Be- nd the leaders of the negotiate registration

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

LENIN

So far, neither Feather Workers Umiand THE MOUNTING problems Centenary Lectures against the isan ds of workers action threatened oI une : Uzecn bureductac) hounds the Labour wad a leduction i Teny, the

HULL

reduction of starkly revealed lr the Prime viinister strougal's Throwing away speech Federal Wednesday, June 3, 8 p.m.

neeting Assembly on May 29. Heath, wold de able to sa of the Amalsamated ASW Hall, Speaker: Tom Kem abour would not Tactic 53, BeverAdmission 1s mande tist that Tab s whavend nothing to warry about

SWINDON

ceiving this amount. pore ine infation Teson dan tie com Ineme Strougal's dias tins organs of the Stat placency. ion or ny kind of any indivis hes and mortess

OXFORD HOTEL

This • Maile the regime cracks Corner of Groundwell Rd

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responsible womaster any interest Speaker: Gerry Healy, tropagan en and complicated inenal in they are national seure le Socialist Admission 2s Encouraged

POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE

The couraged paign

OF THE GENERAL ELECTION

siles ant Perry Barr, five mais d wilson mitted than oe Orgad Cha nov. be diste proposa canno The May Two public meetings thomanes raditional 10 2ab o

SWINDON

LONDON

Sunday, June 14, 7.30 p.m. Friday, June 12, 7.30 p.m.

witter are Cast sell Frank WithS (ATUA) an y wrme d a beltef in ult A. T Specte (ATUA) pae " eneral Electionsm (YS na sinat secretary) '4) and to figk advert page spit of win it wil be id By incorporation lice nat SLL national secretary G. Healy will speak at both meeting

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président Cales Pugh suite.

Guld

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caucation prostit The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Bankers and politicians concerned THE DIRECT entry of Bank of England governor Sir Leslie O'Brien into the Investors Overseas Services crisis reveals the acute anxiety which the affairs of this company are now pro- voking in top capitalist political circles.

O'Brien, who must be acting with the Labour

BY PETER JEFFRIES

government's approval, is.

of Rothschilds and Hill now desperately engaged Samuel and Guinness Mahon in US sounding of London-still seem reluc- out tant to get involved. Treasury officials, in the One obstacle the IOS 15 hope that a consortium

ACTS.

These have yet to appear, can be formed to prevent and there are reports from Washington IOS's total disintegration.

that they are in chaotic that such condition Approaches are also being

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made to the Deutsche Bank, Commerciale of Banca Italy, one of the big four British Otter Mill clearing banks, and at least American interests. strike still With increasing that number of key American financial institu- St tions, including Wall solid brokerage houses, are near to collapse, O'Brien correctly fears that should

IOS

WORKERS at the Otter Mill go cond tee triggered financial раліс Switchgear subsidiary of the could in Drake electrical combine, which all stock markets would Ottery St Mary, Devon, were be caught and which would hopeful that the Electrical almost certainly provoke Trades Union will make their run against the pound. strike official at its executive meeting which began yester-

GUARANTEES

day afternoon. Their four-week strike re- There is little doubt that mains solid despite manage- efforts to intimidate at his talk to finance ment pep leaders last week, President workers to return under the Nixon threat of sackings. ment help guarantees Only 23 of the 300 trade these government financial institutions. unionists at the plant have This was the key feature given in to the management's temporarily halting Wall threats. in St's catastrophic slide. The strikers are determined With to win their demand for a demands from customeis for redemptions- 4s 6d-an-hour increase across the board and 100 per cent cash—now 83 running million a day, and some of trAlreany the General and IOS branches-notably Fund Already the Funds-facing Municipal Workers' Union of rapidly deteriorating cash and the Metal Mechanics position, have 'officially recognized' the only concerted efforts by number of governments hold strike. out any possibility of a suc- Otter Mills management are reported to be willing to cessful salvage operation.

open négotiations on the de-

OBSTACLE

mands and arrangements are being made for them to meet The original IOS under- strikers' representatives and writers-led by Drexall, Har- Department of Employment Ripley New York and Productivity officials in and including the Paris branch Bristol on Friday. This is the time to raise sales of Workers Press will be introduced to politics many for the first time. It is vital that they become acquainted with the revolu- I tionary Marxist point of vieec We have made extensive plans in order to do this. They I include : • Display advertising Poster advertising. • Handbill distribution outside factories and universitles.

• A special 15s election offer for 18 issues (June 1 to 20) post-paid (see page 4). Public meetings in all the main centres.

A special Workers Press news film of the election.

We need your help. Please fill this form in without delay.

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workers press New dangers of a INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 176

TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1970

AS ELECTION DAY draws nearer the opinion Machine-tool

BY A WORKERS PRESS

poll manipulators are working feverishly to

CORRESPONDENT

prejudice the electorate in favour of the Tories.

Crisis behind The 'Daily Telegraph' poll, for example, having £10m loan 'fickleness' of British voters. has now proded une come up with the sensational discovery that the Tories have taken a 4s per cent lead over Labour• After seeing Heath's pathetic on репокшансе 1V saturday nignt, anyone would nave thougnt that the reverse was the case.

announced at the weekend.

This lead, piece 8 piece it Sunderland Th a prinary to TRC , Lab us in 190s mon is to stimulate strikers meet machine tool inaustry. war,

PLUMBERS

Sunderland union of cas PARTY CHIEFS remained remarkably coy in mace moden ceded their 12 week sterday to trolled machinery. kicking off the General Election campaign proper yesterday about the issues which will be the Rather more main concern of millions of working-class voters.

the . sweating who emerged

BY DAVID MAUDE

journalists ote was taken at ye British-Leyland is among th me called to trom the nist roune OT Emerue or Liberal phe needing and agreed to aetter the parties' daily news con- yoU oakes your chai money, ferences yesterday lunch- machine- maturday to saad time could claim to be det aed co tatue aye strike.

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much the wiser than they had been two hours earlier about housing, innation Mercer at Y.S. school and union retorm. Pilkington's Heath, speaking at his Playwright David Mercer answering questions on 'Culture, Theatre and the Tories are this because attack on the brings announce Socialism' at last weekend's Londor area youno bocalst schoolncast- people Deterrent bourne. A full report of the school 22 'redundancies' "We aim do trengthen a Thursday's WIll HULL members of the National Association of Steve- P.A. survey deadership against in nationa youm news column.

arent has throw en dores Union)-stopped work and Dockers blue claim of the Tories yesterday morning to attend a meeting on the imple- gauntlet 12 kai tenance worker aled that Countr mentation of Phase lwo of the Devlin plan for the rationalization of the docks.

does this actually o be mad mell, said Heath, thishole the next fortnight.

T&GWU

members

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Some Which attender

REPORTER

came on the event a bie protec sufficiently if entry i big shocks ye the recent proposals St Helen rank-and-file committee.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

LENIN

either Father pa the Genera shift: + akin to 9 p.m. sion of working-cras votes.

THE MOUNTING problems do hardered harder a taken Centenary Lectures the p.m. immunity from civil ation for damages. want full mobility of in Then, the Trines, waint on,

HULL

about hing scales. opinios reaucuon Prime Minister Strougal's me for Throwing away Assembly on thay 29. Wednesday, June 3, 8 p.m.

manderto red tini in me l'eucia. of the malam ted Enember cher

ASW

На Кетр The main obstacle blockin Speak Be roy Tactic , Rd Admission Is Cation aTre pricie is known 5, which Deposes have theret

SWINDON

No. i the press add ceiving this amount demoralizat ploy creates I Sun dad the co. 7g Bris theme Workers anion had breeds com an we eva evolution' lacency ОХКОКО НОЬІ chat strategists televisio workers • corone the Corner of Groundwell Rd

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cracks the ot any interesi regime responsible meeting has been given warfare, or Speaker: Gerry Healy. will more o Izropaganda and Socialist national sour league rumours Encouraged

POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE

ders are uncertain abo their cam-

OF THE GENERAL ELECTION

Perry Barr, five the Guild had " proposal student Two public meetings occupaediate steps must be Hallanded sue to te the traditions lift the 79 intuas.

SWINDON

LONDON

pare thro and nothing else to win. Sunday, June 14, 7.30 p.m. Friday, June 12, 7.30 p.m.

Thet a strategy general Some Hal Programme Ine only with a belief in upti Frank Spells (ATUA) A. Thoreett (ATUA) amenities wishes saidents Election mate and wearined can- students (YS natsiman secretary) offices their tas men the Aston spite of win cowardly and Will Margaret St. SLL national secretary G. Mealy will speak at boin meetng: president calda Pugh sul Turn or porating

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The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Bankers and politicians concerned THE DIRECT entry of Bank of England governor Sir Leslie O'Brien into the Investors Overseas Services crisis reveals the acute anxiety which the affairs of this company are now pro- voking in top capitalist political circles.

O'Brien, who must be acting with the Labour

BY PETER JEFFRIES

government's approval, is.

of Rothschilds and Hill now desperately engaged Samuel and Guinness Mahon in sounding US of London-still out seem reluc- tant to get involved. Treasury officials, in the is the IOS One obstacle hope that a consortium accounts. These have yet to appear, can be formed to prevent and there are from reports IOS's total disintegration.

Washington that they are in such chaotic condition that Approaches are also being

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made to the Deutsche Bank, Banca Commerciale of Italy, of the big four British Otter Mill one clearing banks, and at least two American interests. With strike still rumours increasing of that number key financial American institu- tions, including Wall St solid brokerage houses, are near to collapse, O'Brien correctly that fears should IOS WORKERS at the Otter Mill go cond tele triggered financial panic Switchgear subsidiary of the could Drake electrical combine, at which all stock markets would Mary, Ottery St Devon, were be caught and which would hopeful that the Electrical almost certainly provoke Trades Union will make their run against the pound. strike official at its executive meeting which began yester-

GUARANTEES

day afternoon. Their four-week strike re- There is little doubt that mains solid despite manage- finance at his pep talk to efforts intimidate leaders last week, President workers to return under the threat of Nixon of sackings. Yamantees help these Only 23 of 300 trade government to the financial institutions. unionists the plant have at This the key feature given in to the management's was temporarily halting Wall threats. catastrophic slide. The strikers are determined St's With redemptions demand for demands from customers for their 4s 6d-an-hour increase across cash-now the board and 100 per cent running million day, and of trade unionism.

IOS

branches- -notably Fund Already General and the of Funds Municipal Workers' Union -facing a rapidly deteriorating cash and the Metal Mechanics position, have 'officially recognized' the only concerted efforts by number of governments hold strike. Otter Mills out any possibility of a suc- management cessful are reported to be salvage operation. willing to negotiations on the de- ODen

OBSTACLE

mands and arrangements are being made for them to meet The original

IOS

under- strikers' representatives and writers--led by Drexall, Har- Department Employment of Ripley and riman in New York Productivity officials in and including the Paris branch Bristol on Friday. This is the time to raise sales of Workers Press BETWEEN NOW and the general election tens of thousands of people, young and old, will be introduced to politics.

many for the first time. It is vital that they become acquainted with the revolu I tionary Marxist point of vieec We have made extensive plans in order to do this. They include: Display advertising Poster advertising. Handbill distribution outside factories and universitles.

• A special 15s election offer for 18 issues (June 1 to 20) post-paid (see page 4). Public meetings in all the main centres.

A special Workers Press news film of the election.

We need your help. Please fill this form in without delay.

I want to help the Workers Press raise its circulation: Name Address Post to: Circulation Department, Workers Press, 186A Clapham High Street, London, SW4.

Or telephone : 01-720-2000.

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back to the old And 20th Century Fox presents

'M*A*S*H'

Andra here or dea tions in a new torm oi Produced by Otto Preminger old Western prototype. They Directed by Robert Altman resourceful. they they gamble, they 'get laid".

Showing at the Rialto Cinema, London Taboos So that all the taboos ther break an of the old indivi- amirmadon It comes the old with a ditterent Cutore. The virility cult dominates ab- women are mere v sexual are defined by best rmy ), film and played on that level. student kind traditiona! * Ph the Hou vel Catch are it with one novel which there former's ollective ora decent or lea ous death- and the others the wal is an ever-conscious nightmare.

Back cloth The it in the brief brief but war defines their release. actions, behaviour, everything.

attitude t termination from their minds, make them- selves as confortable as

DOSSI-

pretend its not happen- They the job with that is not very civilian emotion end vhen they learn that some By Brian Moore dre going homon. home Button out Is te reso hes quescion, 'HOW COME a degenerate like that ends up in a nected with home. Imperialism makes that connection. position of responsibility?' fumes a regular US Army nurse about Captain 'Hawkeye' Pearce.

Impasse 'He was drafted,' comes the laconic reply. s eid ishta ot health. It's a very popular obviously Ilm in America ana about not the leannes

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four miles behind and one contradictions front all dear that are interesting. auring dualism, understand revo- They nearly wal who That'servise ly fat tee seen drafted. по Otherwise jokes hour the Ithan the given By the casual stop, the maranis run ol mes are nown in oy nencootel bleeding, with know-how. aying, wounded міссія They have no names, no num American Ford a re it. seen because those contradiotons that race Te con want then ade all ene Iconoclasts Mexico 1970— realing tha that every recisee is it Still the land of the repressed he two central characters played Elliot brillant y Gould and Donald Sutherland, 'CONFIDENT that Moore would be back among them within are the next 24 hours, the players set off to train in the Olympic good with alitter Christ Stadium accompanied by a police escort worthy of gold sanity, rules and regulations.

bullion. The team coach, four motorcycle outriders and a What gives them the upper riot van with three policemen clinging to its rear, coasted chills their mar- hand. what the journey of eight miles at a steady 50 miles per hour!

Ke of the them Unis. wndi brig is provisional tibertas provisional provide a spor or focal colour he aare dis jest join a name r Back in 1968 while the Mexi- his team mates in have to put up with them Mexico c man workers and since peasants lived in degradation and overt! umptuous Olympic Standard shape mpic Ga prepara i and the her fo most him and sheer pee nesto the situations ars veneral recto situations rest. comedy, bret sat the army what and Mr stewart, the whole nyth-making apparatus Iollywood itsel that blares out information the camp an everything the sources dist be done to settle the matter a No one pave the sligh There slightest to either the movies attention or the information.

BOBBY MOORE

Fatigue Sassing and the that men peed.

stadium's peri- phery were painted so as not to of the out sense upset delicate LoUrIStS the World growing fatigue at the clap- Cup unat bothered with trap about ist rand or ryet place the military dictator lakes the imperialist role by President Daz Callywod a or the lose wen every means off for Fleet Street, massacred in ene streets as thed ither here nor there Except to Tuesday, June 2, 1970 America, its history its mythology are all there in ar banad and shot with unresolved form. a few comments by Paul, some jokes by John and some variable THIS CERTAINLY cannot be music. said of 'Paton, Lust for Glory There must be an interest- in Cinerama. ing film to be made about the Apart from a brilliant per- phenomenon of the Beatles, formance by George C. Scott, rates hot some ma its the usual turgid glorifica- that surrounds ratus tion of war. their own special talents, the And interestingly enough curious position that they are we have yet another maverick in and occupy. rebel, only this time he's mad, It's not by accident that obsessive, right they characterized a whole extremely wing. But a 'character': need period of the 1960s. ane say more. But this is banal and per- It merely serves to highlight admiration of this American pop the rebel of whatever form there. hape or size 'he film lumbers from on noisy battle to the next and is linked by the reactionary There's obviously a lot to be said and assessed about the rhetoric of Patton himself.

won't waste Beatles but I reserve that for any more space on it. a later date. Ever had that feeling you've demonstrated their opposition to the Ordaz regime. student leaders Many of the been there are still in jail two years later.

Now, as the various teams before? for the much-desired compete 170 sports honour, political prisoners are rotting in Mexico's Some have ecumberri prison.

THE PHENOMENON

of deja been detained for more than ten vu is not uncommon. It refers to years without trial. the feeling of having been in a place before, when you're almost certain you haven't. A strong attack of the same suffered last Wednesday It is only a few months since was the brutal beatings took place when reading the then current 'Morning Star' edition the when Brigadier-General Andres openly incited had been Puentes Vagas which we trust not criminal attack previously published). prisoners to detainees. They political were Prominently labelled

'STAR

with pipes and iron bars

EXCLUSIVE',

lead article and some stabbed. was headlined Military hunger strike Eighty went on Secrets Revealed' and went on: in protest against this treatment "Tory plans to use British and against the refusal of the to liberation forces government to either release Asia, movements in Angola them on bail or bring their cases and S Africa are spelled out in into open court. detail in a document ob- seer Mornine Star" Then, as the Britismerian were tained by the yesterday.' arriving in America, and The goes on in some Guatemalan revolutionary report guerrilla leader Marco Antonio detail about the contents of the Sosa was killed in a border document, prepared for the Con- Yon battle with Mexican soldiers.

Commonwealth servative and This is Mexico - and Latin Council and released Overseas America-today. for circulation private in February of this year. little bell A quick rang. look through the files was suffi- 'Star reveal that the Exclusive' of The Mexican people do not was inclusive number Workers Press papers, including World Cup view the simply in of football, but sense the terms The main details of the docu- huge contradiction between their ment had in fact appeared in oppression and the wealth that Guardian' 29), The (April is flaunted before their eyes.

'Workers Press' (April 30), "The that of Little wonder some Times' (May Sunday 17), 'Sun' those who will be 'privileged' (May 19) and possibly elsewhere Bobby Moore and col- see his also. and (from afar) hear leagues OI Of course, it is important that the VIP treatment acoorded to detail, of the Tories' every re- them-as 'The Guardian' des- proposals should be actionary cribed—-will see them as indirect made as widely available as pos- supporters of the Diaz Ordaz sible in the working-class move- regime. ment, but it's a strange of use the word 'exclusive' describe Tese Broish press is fiction to from conflict information, the essence of which miles had appeared in at least three material forces that the real 1S of But that, course, is other papers up to a month pre- Mexico. capitalist 'objectivity'.

viously.

Tuesday, June 2, 1970 IN OUR LAST article we discussed the attempts of Place and other radicals to tie the Chartist movement to the coat-tails of the middle class.

But it was an attempt which was increasingly understood by the more class-conscious Chartists, as we shall now see. 'Base, hypocritical and assassin-like, they [Place and Company] will join the move- ment only to divide it, de- clared the 'London Democrat' (1839). 'Whatever the middle classes have ever taken into hand has turned out to the people's cost to be delusive and fraudulent.

the inererore intend Classec regenerate their country, they mUSt rerv themselves and themselves alone.' was this political sub- ordination the

DO ITICS

the middle class that Chartism was to sweep away. Ironically nough it was of ighly-skille smal workers, led by William Lovett around Place wno originally drew up the charter with its famous Six Points.

No doubt Place intended to head more dangerous the working develonment class. Before help consentina draw un the Charter in 1837, Place insisted that the Work- Men's Association promise the New Poor Law (which we

WILLIAM LOVETT: A

deal with in the self-taught Cornish chall next carpenter, he article) and all those in favour became secretary of the first Chartist Convention.

of socialism. funded ties, the same magazine out- DroDeriv. showy pretence of remitting to some the expected people that 30 Enemies which measures Colla millions of taxes requisite for expected to follow the triumph meeting of the movement: He declared at the time that interests. second ster ine what thev determined mist ne they parade a ready distrati nas cease using opprobious terms "equitable epithets, and property' Knife-and-fork recere everyone as a friend who WIll ake the Charter as his guide and to work on steadily with "Renudiation State every such person gagements confiscation for accomplishment of their under the nur. manne pose'. Underini the narence base graded income tax: the aboli- which ton ot Drimogeniture in orca *The Working Menis Asso rested, 'Black wood's to ruin the landed interest; the ciation' retorted Harney, Magazine issue of in order are one of its many an the eneine in the hando nf anticles state the directed against the under enemies some designing shock franchise estimated: credit which cach of the working millions, whose necessarily 'Out of the 19 million measures wand endeavour haode occasion, might with concentate by the 300,000 are establishment in this island not dence be looked for.' ot thic connected with property suffi. and such other light delucinne cient ensure 'The question the abilities and energies of the of universal conserva. instincts people, and then to vilify their tive sympathies suffrage declared the effects.' of properties' Tory-Chartist the Rev. And in 1848, during the next Stevens, kniteuand-forr the limited great peak in Chartist activi- Rurt question. Lovett and Place were suner- seded the was camnzon up thousands Taken the towns vil WOrTAra in lages of Yorkshire and Lanca- shire. Social And it movement character. Io win the Charter was t overthrow the system o roberty. concincinn which herama danr both sections of the ruling class well the most advanced Chartists. The ultra-conservative 'Blackwood's Magazine' pressed this fear that the vin. implied the TOrV expropriation of private property. •Within three weeks,' declared in 'were it merely to earn their wages, to new, house RICHARD COBDEN, standing in the centre, addressing member of legislators ahodicher League. 'If any man asked him what he world universal suffrage, would tell him ha moont working man to cay that atapy land boat and have a good 8ood head, rool over his than would keep mare work him in health, and as much wages as would keep him plenty, and the enjovment which those pleasures of life a reasonable man could desire' Lord John Russell. as chiet of the Whig Ministry during the debates on Reform, made it clear, there further extension of tha autr even rage to the working class the Re- fton th those cause who supported and those who it waro onnaced deter. Fill in the form below and send to use heir best endear, bes to use their best endeavours

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impaired'. Lord John was also clear on Name the social implications of the Charter. Address n his 'Letter to the Electors 'Of the working classes who

WORKERS PRESS

Some pages from the history of the British working class

BY PETER JEFFRIES

have declared their adherence session? The New Poor Law to what is called the People's for England. Why did that base Charter, few care for Parliament both pass these Universal Suffrage, Vote by acts? To place the labouring Ballot or Annual Parliaments.

classes of both countries at the feet of the rich assasins, who "The greater part feel the rob, brutalize, and enslave the hardship of their social con- populations of both. It is in the dition; they complain of their nature of things that the hard toil insufficient and middle classes must be worse wages, and imagine that Mr than any other part of the Oastler Fielden or Mr (two community. prominent Tory Chartists) will lead them to a happy valley, *The Reform Act admitted where their labour will be light the middle classes to a share and their wages high.' of that power which was formerly engrossed by the aristocracy ... but what is the Grim picture consequence of the Reform Act to us, the people? Lord Macaulay also painted "Why, that the number of a grim picture of the England of opponents, of those the future when property interested to uphold the mono rights would no longer be safe- of legislative abuse, is guarded by a parliament mono- more than doubled; and, in- polized those who had stead of having the property of their own to pro middle classes on our side, making tect: common cause with us against A great community the we have aristocracy, of human beings-a vast people contend against a combination would be called into existence of the aristocracy and the in a new position; there would middle order.' (Chartist Pub- depression, lication, n.d.) if not an utter stoppage of trade, and In addition, the reformed of all those vast engagements House, reflecting the of the country by which our now dominant interests of the Man- people were supported, and how is it possible chester manufacturing class, to doubt steadfastly that refused to intro- tamine and pestilence duce Factory would Act which come before long to would have limited the hours wind up the effects of such a of labour in the Lancashire system. The best thing which textile industry. can expect and which think everyone must sec as a The great advance which result, is, that in some of the Chartism represents in the his- despenate struggles which must tory of the working class can take place in such a state of be seen in the sharp hostility things, strong military which existed between the despot must arise, and give Chartist movement and the some sort of pratection- some Anti-Corn Law League, a capi- security to the property which talist body established in 1839 may remain.' to fight to abolish all duties on The basic force driving the imported corn. working class to fight indepen- Despite dently periodic effonts of the middle on classes the part of Richard Cobden and other leaders of the League to use Chartists as weapon to force repeal they were unsuccessful. Motives Writing to a friend in 1841 Cobden made clear the cynical motives of those in the middle class who wanted some alliance between League the and the Chartists: 'All present.. were of opinion that it would be desir- able to keep the League dis- tinct from the question - AT the same time there was an impression that it would be desirable to get as many indivi- duals prominently engaged in Corn Law agitation as possible to sign in order to conciliate the people... I am not sorry to see Sturge (a supporter of repeal and also Chartist) taking up this question. It will something in our rear to frighten the Aristocracy. And it will take the masses out of sing members of the anti-Corn Law the hands their present rascally leaders.' was the economic interests which increasingly separated Brickbat it from the rest of society.

The 1832 Reform Act C. P. Villiers, prominent bitterly disappointed all those League member, writing who had hoped that it would J. B. Smith, who was the Presi- soon lead to dent of the Manchester Cham- an extension of the vote to the working ber of class. Commerce, 1840, in made this position very clear: The after 1832 immediat elected immediately intro- 'We had a meeting of the duced a London series of measures association the which further night of the Chartist meeting, worsened the and I thought it not inappro- dreadful conditions which the working class had to endure.

priate do state as strongly as could my thorough con- viction that the working Poor Law classes are those most in- terested in the repeal of the corn laws. Most notorious among these • My great object was the Poor Law Amendment in getting them (the working Act of 1834 which established class) to speak out is that I am in all areas workhouses convinced that until they or 'Bastilles' Aristocracy will as they were nick- never yield. I grieve to say that the named - which from then on brickbat argument is the only were the only sources of relief one that our nobles heed' during times of unemployment.

But these tactics which The violent struggle against had been successful in 1832- the Poor Law which followed could not be repeated. rapidly merged with the With its demands for the Charter. constant jeers at the 'respectables' the Shopo- 'What was the first act of crats' and the "millocrats' the that Reformed Parliament?' 'Northern Star', with repeated asked Bronterre O'Brien. "The appeals to 'fustian jackets, Coercion Bill for Ireland. What blistered hands and unshorn was the last Act of the first chins' did much to foster a

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An artist's impression of the inside work- house. 120 to 200 men, many of them nouths. They go from place to where place Ana-Corn LaW lectures dre given: they make a aisgracerul broil. which "Northern reported These 150 men and their imes the people their Jun- pudence and tyranny is with- out example T have a letter bee reas me from the editor of the so Ang is done here in pass Argus" in which he savs have put 1 ne

CARTOISTS

down public speaking"! have seen many roarious meetings,' wrote Place o conn collins the Birming. Chartist nam mortal torre who had been imprisoned Lovett I never anything would distant compari was very much vexed at and of, the very much ashamed people before me. There thinking of the of the French Revolution earlier eriods and • sure I an i the men who compose far the greater portion of the not res- aualence were "their fellow sub- policeman and the lects. the the soldiers all the worsen, enes in the French Revolution, its monstrous The Beater all enormous evils of Enter Ready kuna would be outdon. hands whose would speedily commit them.'

Han has admited a Slamber of the

NET OKACOTLAMY

Gain Whatever its actual course, this was the great calt Chartism and hence Lenin' a distibroad chartist as the politically- proletarian-revolu- organized movement of the Tionary Trade union card 1833 masses'. deep hatred for or sever the middle vears agn de. "go. the whole hog" with the clared James Williams address- class amongst the people has been hinted at if most mill meeting • in The Chartist demand the Chartists will only Chartists. Sut orandat ground hor cheap corn was widely - not thi for principles, met on ground the coalition and a committee understood to be only a pre- said they wISh what text for cheap wages. Tner thought would be freedom. individuals selected from both the Jomea middle class greatest parties has been appointed to then. struggling for lal were saw, The onter together 'Northern lascar foo that the *Fustian freedom, them noltical. trusted to their gratitude them the for assisting against the distine. vorking men... The Chartists secure ChE Not one of the mon or wealth! great masses of glove for either (Harnes quite alive to move Kid the they had hepr and Pitkiethly). Therefore not to leceived, but they now stood determined not a blister locked. appear forward together again in their ing brand by right and majesty OWn Whig or Tory' Disrupted situation • In our next article we shall 1840s were to In fact the ern Star' made clear its aware. the examine ness of the strategy of sections reasons why constantly Chartism was unable, in the of the middle class: activities 'The sham conditions of the 1840s, to of agitating for Household Suffrage effect this triumph which many Wilmig Colonel of its leaders hoped for and Thompson, 'the interruption is made and sustained from about expected. first two parts of particular value for the subjects discussed in these articles.

S&B Webb History of Trade lininniam'. r of the emergence and develop- study ment of trade unionism. Although openly Treper ig this so as s approach, still the basic work from which in ItS were found useful in preparing all other studies must still start.

yond series ot articles. It is neans exhaustive, Briggs (ed) 'Chartist Studies': A series but should provide a starting point for anybody wish pr articles dealing with the regional background to undertake Chartism. Useful material relationship of series Marx and Engels 'On Britaln.

M. Hovell, 'The Chartist Movement: Despite its Lenin, 'On Britain'. distortions, still a useful book facts of the Chartist movement, especially in its basic Both these items are indispensable. They selection of the earlier period. orovide a шоте imoortant articles, speeches and letters by the founders A. R. Schoyen, 'The Chartist Challenge': A lively of Marxism the problems of tha British George Julian Harney, study of working class in one of the the early 20th prominent 'physical force' Chartists.

and centuries. G. Wallace 'The LIfe of Francis Place': An old written prominent Provides insight R. J. Harrison 'Before the Soclalists': A series Traditions in the specialist studies novement, on the eve of the General working-cass politics 1860-1880. Useful Strike work which tries to overcome all its freshness retaining some of the distortions of Stalinist historians.

and relevance Pearce 'Some Past Rank-and-File Move •and le Brian Jones lite Jones': A brief account af Jones's the lessons of ments: " A very useful study of relationsnio to Mary selection of Jones's articles, letters past rank and file movements.

and speeches. Woodhouse Stalinism "Marylem En Dandertield, The Strange Death of Liberal appear International' i0 of the "Fourth oraan International Committee the the rourth These dealing with International. books and pamphlets available from • crucia period in the history of New Park Publications Limited.

Clapham the British working class. The 186a High Street, London, , SW4.

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MARTIAL LAW was proclaimed : Cambodia by the pro-US Lon Nol re

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working class must arm itself with the heavy wea- worthless leadership-if we pons of socialist policy now lose it will be a serious set- that SO it can not only back. conquer the class enemy, We all Labour warn but it can also frustrate the supporters that the betrayals and retreats of its greatest weapon of the cowardly and treacherous Tories is complacency Fabian general stafi. Labour's ranks; com- placency that being Replace sedulously fed by the 'opinion' polls and the Today we will defeat the Tory press. will tomorrow enemy, replace the 'generals' with a Wars are not decided by histrionic gestures and elec- will new leadership which tions by not betray the trust of its won promises and speeches. ranks. If the Tories are to be • Make June 18 a day to beaten-forever-then the remember by smashing the Tories! • Build the revolutionary

ALL TRADES

alternative to Fabianism

UNIONS ALLIANCE

and Stalinism.

MEETINGS

NOTTINGHAM

'Beat the Tories' 22 to go Thursday, June 4, 7.30 p.m.

People's Hall Heathcote St

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BIRMINGHAM

and that endeavour every would be made to remove 'The General Election and present tensions.. the Economic Crisis' The faci that neither Feather nor the G&MWU has Thursday, June 4, 8 p.m. made any effort to take deci- sive action against the redun- The Wellington dancy threat should dispel Cnr of lingering illusions the any Bristol St/Bromsgrove St committee when have they meet Feather tomorrow.

COVENTRY

Another question pertinent is whether the AEF proposes 'Beat the Tories' to зсі against the sackings, Thursday, June 4, 7.30 p.m.

only do effec- which it can tively by mobilizing its part in other factories in the Shakespeare Inn Spoon St area.

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LATE NEWS

linking up with the Rockwell Corpora- American tion to market. manufacture and service turbines and gen- the US. erators in the com-

POLICE TO PATROL POLLS

pany announced yesterday.

Special police arrangéments prevent made have been to

STORK UP

disorder at election meetings The prices of three margarine controversial figures like of brands and two cooking fat Enoch Powell. brands were put up today by When one of the more 'con- Van Den troversial' figures is canvass- manufacturers Berghs. ing, police will be alerted and are Stork, Blue Band, They will offer protection if needed.

Echo, Cookeen and White Other police will be stand- Cap. ing by to prevent disturbances all candidates' committee at

BRITAIN

MAKES FEWER

CARS

Britain's industry car pro- duced and exported fewer

REYROLLE IN US LINK

cars in April. Reyrolle Parsons, heavy elec- in the four Production trical equipment makers, 3 May averaged weeks to 34,190 a wek, compared with 35,616 week in the same a at the Registered as newspaper period last year. Workers Published Post Exports fell from a monthly High Street, Press, 186a S.W.4. total of 19.699 in last year's London. Press Ltd. (TU). périod to Printec Plough five-week 14,674 Street, London, 180b Clapham High this years.

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Kent eye-witness says Workers' action can end Indo- China

NINE

HUNDRED

universities and colleges in the United States are still on strike-a month after the invasion of Cambodia and the cold-blooded shooting of students war on the campuses of Kent State and Atlanta Universities. The decree provides for death by student move- nring squad for any act 'aiding ment is receiving grow-

SPANGAR

support and abetting the enemy, the being not the 'enemy' working class, according the Nixon and Saigon

THE PERSIAN

to an eye-witness of the

GULF

but Kent State invading forces, massalic libera- who was in London last the Cambodian tion fighters. week. The decree also listed penalties for sevelt listening Peking, Mobilization Commit- Hanoi and National Liberation Front radio broadcasts-a sure sigh National Guard THE Thailand government or Pason i defence Lon Not regin

SCAPEGOAT

hard-pressed troops else store round. Belind me to the Tet, a the power bub + hate thou art ibe scenes, the Botish Miltary Adviser.

That rears impact anti- British guns Ine government Dropacanda of the 5 bean to Camboalan people police oil rrom san cremente Calitornia. It is reported that Nixon will make an report' the interim invasion squabble television broad in a cast to the nation. A BRITISH NAVY frigate, supported by RAF aircraft, Israelis retaliate took up its position in the fersian vult at the weekend off the tiny sheikdom of Umm al Quaywayn, one of

ISRAELI

the seven Trucial States whose feudal rulers survive seriCanal as puppets of the British government and the oil

SPREADING

*weekend's of suc- series monopolies. killed two

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

do with concestone to deli taken prisone section of the

WEATHER

Umam dom and Channel o uns of means pol 28 ands s the right to drill i the same areas as part the feudat enthe pacing uve en 124C (75Cery Shar another ers that core and a on i warm. Maximum NW England, N Ireland, Edin.

and British Politica Confusion Buttes team lawyers, State of Shariame withdrawal adre Persiat Wednesday and Dursday: Moseda workites clasudden But proper, freer United nty up to laimed soverel he Wilson eser very warm with sunny periods.

companies hops Czech workers Contin of the Tra refuse to collaborate

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Bye paradi and show tale com cent dot the anis. Daily action Budish forces and advisers period of last yeathe. Stalinise are urea son the ting class. Tightening Antonia on send pople of the Arabian

SET-UP

screws in the whening ahe British majority Muscat anops and he de resin open a care consolidation is pro • the mo fact a throw-baci of Stalinist counter-revolution Tuesday, June 2, 1970

BY A WORKERS PRESS

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

FRANCO'S 'victory par- ade'; held every year to celebrate the defeat of the Spanish Republic the in Civil War, watched was by smaller crowds than ever last Sunday. Observers no mil thy chil the amount meni ShoW was vear The attend ance was about half Amone those oreseni wety Wilson's Russell, Sir ohr Ambassador Franco, and Robert Hill, US representative in Spain. Not known parade Polish, Rumanian and Fred Kirsch from Kent, State bassadors, whose governments Have recent awaraea

OH DIO

Franco's mane recoenition to fascist regime, is not known.

Machine-tool crisis behind £10m loan

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are tool hims which incing it hard to compete with over- seas tool-makers The British machine-tool industry only

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€153 pro produces COLOMBIAN forces of 'law-and-order' have other million-worth every responsibilities at least as weighty as investigating year severely affected It the which wav allegations against visiting footballers.

machine-too orders come in the Kritish press coe entrated its attention misfortunes Kohhu Moore, a vast witch-hunt way last against left-wing colom nd the pack t Leading pack al C reactionaries exureme amonk A MASSIVE police clamp- Ine sentor omcers. They have used a series of down in Argentina has contessions extraced trom guer- Oscar Keves. a cantured followed the kidnapping of CP Tillahhter in which the leadership is accused of direct former dictator Pedro

FOREIGN CORES ON DENT

PRES!

responsibility Aramburu, deposed at the lawed guerrilla 1958 elections. class prepare their attempt Dr 'Orders' break the working class they time troops At thE came backed the full were moved into the province e orders al Coad at ts Santa-Fe weekend profitable thei but released when no evidence tect preparation for action against oldings in both industry ar strikers. Undoubtedly the kidnap- agnculture matured. leaders de- Ding of Aramburu has Ivilitary are been Protege the he hanned man eino Ongania's regime as the pre- Ongania himself is a protégé that Its leaders he tried tor 'subversion' and that all books of the having first Marxist inspiration' come into helenaded ma. prohibited. nence Reasons for the witch-hunt amthree twerk down Argentinian detacnment not far to seek. the three universities for an CIA-organized r opposition

SUDDONT

Popular the o th indefinite of mann suDoression revolT resident Lleros against the dictatorshin in the Dominiçan Republic in 1965.

teen torced nu stand pressure to call a 'week resistance' to government op- Calls elections. tune tull results not been Which have still nubished. situation the thic employers are moving to dis- Resistance with the facade • FROM PagE OnE democratic rights' and and well-written' he had read.

to Cordoba, and particularly workers' Of the representatives Renault car plant there, from parliament with it—particularly and local agree uncontrolled the centre of resistance to the insistence government Dollica auers on tne work.

immigration and workers' con- Ing l the incomes cass and tro-ano nad its own mani- agreed between the nnoy testo tor the election. government and right-wing interesting trade union officials, document must be negotiated •ang we -written were not distributed. government has res- Slip ponded with persecution • Defending the late

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representatives time-table closures of movement in Gordohe iniling Harold publication will only Garzon Maceda, a trade union elecuor meeunos further undermine confidence lawyer, and Jacobo Wilson let slip the following the university tea- enough Kothschilds ot andon re. 'we shall fused any help at the onset ot the crisis when Chanted with riot would not allow them to look weekend. and at the ber factor Poms aids shons and cans were damager Another people to come from all oe.

deterring to come from in street nahting merchant banks - the As Minister of tha Intarin ordered reinforcements former boss, Pound slips in into the eneed inhe barricades holding he still remains a ke- districts to repel attacks.

Canada dollars noure any neconadons Special conference scramble after the demise of Mr Tohr King. The pound slipped back on Whether the entry of the the and Haronea Americar London foreign exchangi together governments can now succeed governors markets vesterdav in the wake the price, armed provinces senior IOS is unlikely scramble hectic tor officials of survive central presena bored Canadian dollars. and For the since Torces inte ligence Ser- first time board controlling all To below its pa pity di di ted vices to make nans for a.

opera- ordinating their forces against below its parity with tions. the we nationass. US dollar government help will selling of sterling for for only giver relurr Canadian dollars erence a break oresent struc for at least a month postponed with much been Ture more supervision of IOS activities As the Argentinian ruling their currency float' in za clea

BIRMINGHAM YOUNG SOCIALISTS

DEMONSTRATION

Vote Labour June 18! For Socialist policies! To keep the Tories out! Expose Wilson! Birmingham, Saturday, June 13 • Waterloo Street, near Victoria Sq.

Assemble 2.30 p.m. March to YMCA, Constitution Hill.

Public Meeting 4.30 p.m. followed by Discotheque.