Workers Press no. 181

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ELECTION

The daily organ of the

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Central Committee of the Every Socialist Labour League Monday

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 181

MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1970

PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

'S. Irish are aliens'

PARTY

CHIEFS

What we think

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Paisley agrees

AGAINST

Trotskyist policy

PRINTERS

Tined up in we end and the icader. lined up Son and Misha. General Election with Powell

A REPLY TO THE

money.

'MORNING STAR'

nir tement in this raisle at arst election meeting.

significant papa pining sit che mo

THE

ATTITUDE of the Socialist THE Rev lan Paisley, in his first big election cities face a total shut-down.

Labour League to the Labour Party event, clearly lined up with the Tory Party's Special reporter in Ulster

ELECTION PHOTO NEWS

in Britain is as explicit as it is un- right wing. 'I agree with Enoch Powell,' he said

JOHN SPENCER

Cardiff equivocally Leninist. 'that S Irishmen should be regarded and treated yarn The Labour Party is a bourgeois-retormist as aliens? or y which becaust of tato pentatics workers Powell and also largely because of the His demands for law r of British Stalinism, and order and his call at fight new the the end of the meeting for majority of the British workers.

'three cheers for the band shifts Its capacity to workers In brital and the police placed him rants on i to discus right in the right-wing's the Labour camp. WURKEks at the strike- Earlier, bound Brocklehurst Yarn Laisinis factory at Cardiff claim collar, Paisley alla

BY MARTIN ZARROP

Those of the t trolestant Umonisu sup- they have been threatened 'YOU HAVE been treated as intelligent human with dismissal porters-some wearing rea.

walte and blue scarves and unless they beings', the Tory chairman informed his Wolver- management others carrying Union Jacks Болено ад. sign contracts. hampton audience, visibly sweating under the marked "NO surrender - the more than 1,000 as layers offensive television are lights. through the seaside tracts Lenin campai a this 1 relentlessly against and of Port unions very pronounced However, any of the human beings present in the th Haps overwhelmingly Tory gathering that listened to Powell's first electoral address in his home constituency may have had other opinions. Strike Khan leader Bahadur told me: forecord unanimously not to sign toted "The ury well so my tine Heath We expect aise shal " here of kind in industry. spells out Confidence shit sem "Collected "The Industrial Re-organ- Marold vylson is a traito • B00 accept a Kritish Con он, т та, о каст New shifts that i understandinor he told an astonished housing be facing Keren- government RAl British Leata there i added owa Russia and Germany so management wants that attack -n the present he ilearly sund five Boye on the boardtor told me

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

they have malized 12 that e trishmen reated A BOAST of the Tory Party is that Hendersons they will improve on Labour's housing

BACK-DOOR

Churchill. lecuru. wilson inced that intendisd Fin, tau • с сето onstrator Powell a some or sis volve. 'their Lenin minary belier ed chanen money. rose student ter and denied Work load Bradford • mins in the standard of livinge loo Kinchi us. busmen • First my grant hes are less than Some 'Liberty' one, then two and angered by t in the Dont ning pay retreat Four college or houdly about 5Sach 1t0 now Returning later to education

BY A WORKER PRESS

led to a very high comprehensive condemned the CP's inter

FEELING

aT tor selection, ine. General soon elis their f2l-a-week pay S. Mor were tarn an a Theeps everon dy: Jobless live well - Brown

LEGAL REFORM

tells Leeds audience Peace is in the et eat. Kinder so much a an ele d failed to eithe much unior venes unema do it able Bears claimed, in our worst five I Settle to - after 12 declared stinger here song to make her • The Moscow Trials. Georg Offer mont an vice win ver set •soret writess. of Grigorenko and other which the men so includer he has tin drives and connis to не та. • sTe bra folish the Spanish miners* men

PUBLIC MEETINGS

way and t which TOUl minnes each des pen de te somewhere? Did it wage up to only

OXFORD

loved so her the bond Contine asked another vage dere" The refusal of th oret go verone for a Doc" duction bones of ta which th issues sia the eneral setonal Longer to speak a a hand to be detend business from the next Labour gov- 1 am barge assisteden duty he uses a misses a da.

said answer nen say it would be imposs

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Speaker: G. HeelaryLl national Alsatian dogs Labour had made Britain strong,

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NUMBER 181 • MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

What we think

A REPLY IU THE

'MORNING STAR'

THE

ATTITUDE

Socialist THE Rev lan Paisley, in his first big election ot the Labour League to the Labour Party event, clearly lined up with the Tory Party's Speclal reporter In Ulster

ELECT

in Britain is as explicit as it is un- right wing. 'I agree with Enoch Powell,' he said,

JOHN SPENCCH

equivocally Leninist. 'that S Irishmen should be regarded and treated The Labour Party is a bourgeois-reformist as aliens? party wanch, Decause n Lic penaltic. development (and british imperlanst decline), and also largely because of the His demands for law and order' and his call at opportunist treachery of onush stallnism still l commands allegiance tne ine ena or lne meets 101 majority of the British workers.

'three cheers for the band and the police placed him right in the right-wing's Calp Earlier aisleash and his unions. collar, Paisley and Protestant Unionist the ultra-lefts, completely Those who write a one Staliniss reform wearing scarves others carrying Union Jacks 'No maineu surrenael -

SWOPL

more alan 1,00V suons unrougn une seaside campaigned against town or Fortrusa Thest around thie While fighting for the political independence it a selection 5 Orange and integrity insisted and benevole • das, to the masse openin in lengthy pares of the entire Confidence (Let Kin "Collected 'Harold Wilson is a traitor Lenin in urging the British Communists t as orkses te herefore the task of British Communists Lenines unerie opinions

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

A BOAST of the Tory Party is that they will improve on Labour's housing record. end Bore leader dear spelt out Hesth improvement will in- volve. Lenir Tanises is eace ate one panacal crisis and bring the revolutionary uprising Of ourse contanyto shake, 'Liberty' * 1920 the cal common edomist is still sectarian are volurouty - Brown Jobless live well small contractor, coupled tells Leeds audience Brown claimed, in our able worst five oh ho3065 increasing SoThe ariess of Grigorenko and other strike With finish co the Spanish miners to. be unem

PUBLIC MEETINGS

ted oll belongs to technical

OXFORD

on the dole, Brown promised ennesday ce another wage freeze, someon stringent attacks business, d comine ast lancer bie Weds a tune potal ernment. longer snid answeri

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Speaker: G. retary Lt national Labour had made

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and Tory leaders threatenes seches lined up axalstune dewspaper prulers in Lo on and Mangeste The two and thied Teas Lithographic cent pay pace

COST

une valut money. otter rates Paisley at first election meeting.

there significant improvement next 24 hours, cities face a total shut-down.

Cardiff yarn workers fight new shifts WORKERS at the strike- Yarn bound Brocklehurst factory at Cardiff claim

BY MARTIN ZARROP

they have been threatened YOU HAVE been treated as intelligent human with dismissal by the beings', the Tory chairman informed his Wolver- management unless they sign contracts. hampton audience, visibly sweating under the Employers are using television arc lights. tracts trade ba However, any of the human beings present in the prevent them from disrupting overwhelmingly Tory gathering that listened to Powell's and through nronto first electoral address in his home constituency may attemnte prove pay and conditions.

have had other opinions. Mr Khan Following an almost word- surike leader Bahadur told me: for-word repention the delivered Stour- men speech unanimously not to sign these Smethwick. Driore Ducker Halesowen oldourV contracts. Powell reiterated utta-might economic theores and then haunched into tirade against nationalization and state intervention of ant kind in industry. seep a new shir sem. Industrial Re-organ- "The ization Corporation is nation- alizing industry through back the New shifts door." he told an astonished audience. Ur Bahadur said They want us to do more if Cammell hours than we are doing Kous-Kovcer Laird!! British-Levland!!! now i have been management wants to ensure that shift system wants went to bay shifts nent wants them t the present ne of the For mere be government director told me put on the board Illan

BACK-DOOR

maximum machine hi pro- cess Convinced that the fiendish Yarn Top: Nemanctratore watched operate have all been speeded Wilson police outside Powells naa almost Insulutea thev claim UPTwo years ago the meeting. Above the Above: Paisley's sea communism oy means front capitalist the Portruch. state back tion cvele used Left: Heath with some of his course aoor. • Une hours noW takes Bexley followers. aualence their in three vears the work load acceDe anytaine 200 has heen increased saviour suggested. ner cent. nut with no extra money. A student from Lancashire rose to niseet and denied Work load Bradford Power's assertion ThaT une closing oł the cotton mus Mr Bahadur said: in the sulandard of livinge nad resuited increase the work They increase busmen load asking LOoK machines. atter extra

MITST

Some waged less than then two and now he shouted. was one angered by my grant, to he three Poweapplause of To the loudest "This means an increzge o *Done retorted: 50 ner cent in the work nad.

pay retreat No loudly about new men are heing your college grant. taken on at the factory excent for the purpose of replace- Returning later to education The

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mant men 0a117 that

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Dolicy. argued strongiv nor workina conditions have ed to a very high staff turn- against comprehensive edu- over cation. are picketing high The strikers 'There is a growing de-

PARTINC

rnning outside the factory every day amongst Bradford's municipa mand for selection? he said. busmen against the retreat 'Elitism? 'course the workers £21-a-week pay claim. their production an elite are immigrants and Mr Baha- benefits everybody: been meet tonight

LEGAL REFORM

siderable criticism the meeting leadership in the there was onlv one brie lose retreat. mention trade union for £23 Many busmen are extremely the trace bitter about recommenda- have else accept the new svstem. five house settle for legal frame. answer for. bonus- after worT cries nut tor retorm Offer service. driver gets and Tory Immigration bolek The firm has offered 4 dr WaS covered with leave that One ot the conditions WaS to the mudament or my tellow that all drivers and conductors nai he tinted anyway chould make in loa_Sheets TOt demonstration outside I minutes each dav. wage the hall members the up to wind But the quarter hour book- the Socialist Unity Movement this have also ng-oi time thất the nd the Wolverhampton Anti- time-and-a-half Racialist Campaign shouting for actually amove ay weeki amounts and a pro- actually £8 which the If a busman misses a day's men say it would be impossi-

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duty he loses a further hour. Alsatian dogs

ZINOVIEV LETTER

PAGE TWO

WORKERS PRESS

That led bor Alexis Inteing Britishr Macdonald foil remused to order oner Reilly almo any omicial inquiry certainly picked it nio the conduct to 117 Fisehaplace trasse (left) in Berlin. by PETER JEFFRIES

ONE

FEATURE

which

THE STORY OF A MAJOR TORY FRAUD

dominated Tory preparations for the General Election has been the persistent attempt, especially by their press, to generate an election scare.

First it was the Rosemary Whippe case, then Pilkington's, followed by the law-and-order' campaign and finally the S African cricket tour. Although all these cheap "The most notorious example of

RED LETTER DAY:

attempts to scare the middle Tories' lies and deceit this century class into voung iorv nave is undoubtedly the "Zinovier Letter" of 1924, failed, every worker must be The Daily Mail, 25 October 1924 which played a crucial part in the downfall nis guard (lne dories have a long record of similar of the first-ever Labour government' elecuon stunts ana irauds

WAR PLOT BY SOCIALISTS' MÄSTERS

- CIVIL

or Tones testor deceit e

MOBOUR REDS.

century ev. Letter de 1924iy which first-ever Labour sovernment. hich the try preed re Torie: the General Strike of Stanler Baldu in he following year. (rient crimed ne benerca ine leiler to be genuine pay t7,00 t released the forgery and drafted letter for of complaint to the hu.ssiah.. Loyalty red scare realto stard to hat the Charge British Comes orders Britist No one ned o gen the MacDonald and hi Servants as men of good faith.

beteren and all with at it we vital hak beto easte sence. : revelations of Belle gardels ruling class. a lation designed authenticate that me fordesi. it was details of the fraud.

"THE ONLY THING LEFT

MacDonald ror the lory rress the letter

TO DO IS

order the den of the targe

VOTE CONSERVATIVE

Dred the Corporator the 'Daily Expe Mails Kins the Russian vanter fleet the Attacked his election campaign. Ss the letter claimed, Bl took or in it mad showed th In fact there were such glarin member. of then vitrioic anti-Conemunist propa erstrasse in * Russia Ti tacked plans Kno on ganda. been the provocateurs: become

WULA

rose, Lad miliar: ed to Be Ily no the store letter oficial letters. wave signed ault the Cor ey maal defea • di the of the lag bor gainer the operations A fer No original deBer the Pail Mavor the mos I ahead with the which then passed cument an to British intelligence Dry the also obtained its own copy.

Close friend , con credit bec and the Daily Ma Forei were 'soft on the Reds'. strident though this was The was defeated one letter in the pubication of once and Mac obad resigned.

rought i Reilley, Zinovier whe holdaying at re the British air woo had worke udicrous instructions, they convince who at I would like information Indian coe a list. was about stablished himself as about Soviet Doe Fraud, not on al not only did it con sated from the following ng, troth of, numer deera enconsisten 'Here Moscow here g from him in of the maturit ril in te orm below and send to NATIONAI monsters

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE,

letter headed Here On election the Express' splashes lobA CLAPHAM HiGh sI, LUNDON, sW4.

DO NOT

VOTE RED

sinist hinternationath sceager instine seats

TODAY.

of govern. Name the face o wilhe pasted ly the Address was typical of a Fabian Cretary or a orce san, in Non of Bit intelignee reléased the text 1928, in connection with a cas a later employee of British Intelli letter and the accompanying pro- national. Monday, June 8, 1970 Shipping director and former British spy Conrad im Thurm (above) was the vital link between the Conservative Party, the Foreign Office and Secret the Service. Im Thurm contac- led Guy Kindersley (above) Conservative MP for Hitchin. involving currency deals, it was revealed that he had used his access to Foreign Office cables to speculate in French francs.

Despite Baldwin's protestations that he always believed the letter to be genuine, all the top Tories part conspiracy were along with their Civil Service and police friends. The Tories established a fake Cabinet Committee of inquiry into the event after the Tories had won the election chaired by Secretary Foreign which found 'no foundation' to Labour charges that the letter was a forgery. And when Gergory's dismissal threatened to re-open the scandal in 1928, Baldwin produced signed statement from im Thurm, a mixture of downright lies and misleading statements which was used by Baldwin to avoid any inquiry into the conduct of the Civil Service. And im Thurm was duly re- warded. He was paid his £5,000 out of the personal account of Lord Davidson, then Conservative Chairman. The money was paid to Major Joseph Ball, director of Con- servative publicity who trans- mitted the money to im Thurm.

Whether the latter actually paid Reilly is not known. Thus the Red Letter scare was over. It had done its work in securing the election of a Con- servative government at a vital Not only did it show the Tories and deception which the always against their opponents. It also revealed the weakness and per- fidity of the Labour leaders whose reformism them left utterly prostrate before the con- spiracy. 1970 is not 1924 and no doubt the working-class movement is on the look-out for ans • other such attempted frame ups.

But the Zinoviev letter should a serious all warning to workers to be on their guard gainst the provocateurs in the Cory Party during the last week of the campaign.

'he real nature or the British ruling. Class was shown on the 'Bloody Sunday' demonstration when police attempted to head off a contingent of unemployed from Clerkenwell Green Toryism-main enemy of the working class Monday, June 8, 1970

WORKERS PRESS

'ne real nature or the British ruling. Class was shown on the 'Bloody Sunday' demonstration when police attempted to head off a co ONE OF THE MOST important features of the elec tion will be the campaign Conservative Party's attempt to present itself as the party of 'democracy' and 'freedom', fighting against the power and tyranny of the trade union movement.

Heath and other Tory leaders win wilhour donor try to project an image of themselves as 'men of the people, standing lor

CORRESPONDENT

Interests or the whole com- munity and renouncing any Duke of WELLINGTON 'sectional interests'.

ROBERT PEEL

No class-conscious worker will be fooled for a moment by this cheap hypocrisy. The pages of history show for all

BBC 1

to see that the Conservatives as the dominant party of big 9.38 a.m. Schools. 10.45 Watch with mother. 11.00-11.20 Schools.

noon-1.30 o.m. World Cun drandstand Enaland v business and capital. nave nany v bulgaria, cl salvador v mex co. 1.45-1.53 Newc spect de 2005 always set their face against Abbott and Costello. 5.30 London this week. 5.50 News any emoldue rents for the working class Severnam: 5.00 or These gentlemen would like Bread and circuses 7.10 to present a view of the exter

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HEAVENS, NEW EARTH. Those Barbarlan People.

Labour victory NEWS Including BBC Campaign report.

HIGH CHAPARRAL. 'Alliance' Swept away OF MAN. Wedding-investigatior Stori. To women in as Victorian 10.40 NEWS Including BBC Campaign report.

10.45

LINE-UP

the old

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gentry apindy tiac Rasolution rath and infuence of the capi men answer duestions on the teleohone.

public. 3.45 Skippy. 4.12 Once upon a time.

eter Arne and Betta St. 45 crashes in the middle of the jungle and Tarzan goes to help Gordon ocol Jonn. A planeloa

WORLD CUP 70.

which mani 6.45 larges ModagNogerNIE'S SCENE. Guests include Roy Orbison and

TYNE

Clodagh Rogers

CORONATION

STREET.

The Bill 'A BETTER TOMORROW:. Conservative Party political broad cast. 10.14 NEWS. 10.50

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'Violent Moment. With Lyndon Brool he inde franchis

INHILLCH.

quarrel. it develops into a violent and fatal struggle.

ing die class, let alone i

REGIONAL ITV

the S New • head of a contingent of unemolove Ine 1880s saw the un: obo ine match workers parliamentary reform. Although 1852 to class ruling * #* nt of unemployed from Clerkenwell Green.

)s saw the unskilled workers organize into unions. In match workers at Bryant and May's struck and won their case. and bers of parliament as well as they secret balloting. ble to postpone any The landowners great and with their allies in capitalists, the middle class who had won class the right to he benefactors of the vote, put down Chartism with a force and vio- when it was lence which should be a warning assed, it was not this forced the hand of about the real nature of the British ruling class This role was to every e working class, in- young worker of today Napier a Under Sir Charles with the massive display of armed the industrial force was ranged against the Chartists, is a class conscious many of the movement's leaders dependent historical were jailed and heavily fined and when the trade union movement s a result of the threatened to merge generated with the Chartist campaign savage class, often sen- tences including transportation most oppressed and were meeted out to its leaders.

ken, that the Whig Under the impact of this show Grey, was forced to strength and violence Chart- Bill proposing a ism and the int of reform. It was union movement was, at this stage, smashed. As House of a mass movement Chartism dis- appeared after 1850. n brought enormous Even when the vote was finally he working class. granted to the working class (or neetings and demon- more strictly those living in the ended by thousands towns) with the Second Reform Ill over the country. ed in Bristol . where e working class held Castle was 1; Derby jail sacked paraded some sections of the use this of the working class n, limited ends, the ion from the town- e class was one of uickly closed ranks and supported the gave property e towns the vote but ing class out in the st movement was to ious hostility of the o any political rights epresented the first and revolu- ment of the working threatened to break • grip of the middle d in its famous six demands for uni- suffrage. the 1l property qualifica- The opposition of the ruling class even to h voters and mem-

PAGE THREE

Benjamin DISRAELI Edward HEATH Act of 1867, it was done so only funds for political purposes, that after a prolonged and bitter fight is to finance the Labour Party.

of the It might be all right for workers series London meetings and demonstra- the have vote. was But tians of 1867, notably the great quite otherwise when they sought Hyde Park rally in April of that to organize that right to voting year. candidates independent the most And if Disraeli - of the two capitalist parties-the of all cunning 19th-century Tories and the Liberals. Tories-introduced the Act, he The same line on the part of did with SO only the hope of the ruling class towards political being able to win the support of action by the unions was also the more respectable, skilled seen after the defeat of the 1926 layers in the class working who General Strike. the previous 20 years had over The Trades Disputes Act of begun to organize themselves in the following made illegal year the 'new model' unions. any future general strike, made It was then, with the 1880s, trade unionism illegal amongst that unskilled the began to civil servants and allowed only organize themselves and turn to those who specifically stated that the creation of an independent they wanted to pay the political expression for their struggles to the Labour Party liable levy, the Independent Labour Party, to do so. formed in 1893- that the true These measures were only re- character of the 'moderate' from moved the statute book in British ruling class was once 1946 by the post-war Labour more revealed. government. The ruling class did everything The lessons of history are they could to weaken this new clear. The Tories and the ruling and class movement destroy the have always opposed any Labour Party. democratic rights for the work- ing class. And they have not Losses changed. Heath's 'law-and-order' cam- Not only was the Taff Vale paign is designed to strike blows decision carried in the capitalist at the unions and the right of courts in 1901 which, by making workers to organize and for the strikers and their union respon- strate, just his plans for sible for losses incurred by their 'reform' of industrial relations employers of trade are aimed to curb through loss the power of as a result of strike action, made the unions to give the employers trade virtually the whip hand in every factory.

im- possible. The maximum vote against the Even then, when this iniquitous Tories and the biggest possible decision was reversed Labour majority is the first step Liberals in 1906, the courts then defeating on June in these ruled, in the infamous Osborne plans of the employers, as well judgement of 1909, that it was as striking for socialism. in illegal for their unions to use the struggle socialism. g class even to limited reform brought riots in Bristol where workers held the city for a time.

PAGE FOUR

Rescue' attempts but I.O.S. still At the heart of money crisis REPORTS THAT three of the leading directors of Investors Overseas Services have resigned that the acting chairman Sir Eric Wyndham White is locked in conflict with the IOS insur- ance chief Richard Hammerman, and that the 1969 accounts are still not ready, point to the imminent disintegration of IOS.

hold-up The 1969 accounts, due to be Paisley

BY JOHN CRAWFORD

sent out to shareno ders this weekend by Canadian Cornfeld

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law, is reported to be a expenses of the sace head.

unemployed himsee i'll b disagreement over the way inemployed to present the Arctic land deal, described in Workers Press on May 23. The value of over 10 million acres of this land, John With King in 1969, was written up to $8 an acre, after a King aron the bill bob portion of it had been sold

INVESTORS

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thee seat, said It, evite fifth Antrim from Isradi ant suns and successive Bako rise

UNEMPLOYMENT

United States best way to organize tate tol

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cent-trom its April level ot 4.8. It was done let use that the fifth successive monthly increase. o works en by he percentage y the certificate, epresents a hundred i sh produced share 1s sold may be far Decembe 1805 Chaphan is directly due to

WORKERS PRESS

Cardiff yarn workers I think sys

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who works man meal, entitled 12 hours ble to work hard to one enough or cooked fast enough to earn. Another said: The management knows They've marked out a place we cannot earn the bonus. We in a square where we have to want them to make the bonus go to smoke.' and £2 put an extra on The claim that the the wage bringing it up to £23 men management has week. Originally asked approached we a bid individuals in to split for £25 but will we accept their and break the £23, commented Mr Bahadur.

ranks strike. The men's union, the Amal- the Brocklehurst Yarn Society Textile At gamated of factory there must Workers and Kindred Trades be: Resistance the them to em- advised to accept the ployers' attempts to break firm's offer. the strike. The strike is not quite Complete rejection of the solid. dozen About people, union leaders who have re- including the union's local treated before the bosses. and girl socialal y some No retreat on the decision are still working in packers, the factory. not to sign contracts. No retreat from the de- mand for £23 a week. Operating But all the production wor cers are out. It is understood that unsuccessful attempts been have made to operate the idle machines with fare- men and inspectors. Mr Bahadur said: 'We dont want to know the have union. We withdrawn membership. We have

OBER

already approached the Tran- sport and General Workers' Union.' There has not been a strike at the factory for four years after which the management have said to re-engaged on a selective basis. workers But resentment at poor con- ditions-temperatures 100 degrees and artificial light -has exploded and the only- men say they are determined not to give in. man told me: One 'In the original eight hours' there agreement wasn't even a break. We had to fight for a break of 20 minutes. "There are no canteen A RECENT Meeting shift facilities for workers. tourism on We have to bring sandwiches.

Rumania, Bulgaria, Tu What think

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• The support of Wilson's visit to Nixon. election to • The failure of King Street particularly the to collaborate in a campaign claim strengthen the of industrial against fighting for movement a the Vietnam war and- -most change to the left in the foul: Labour government's policy,' • The silence of the 'Star' correspondent our com- on the frame-up of Dubcek mented correctly: by the French Stalinist 'Having totally failed through- leaders. out the six years of Wilson's None of these things moved Now, government to achieve the Mr Matthews. how- slightest movement by their ever, he devotes, half the brand of "pressure politics" editorial column to attack the this

SLL.

The question serves up the is threadbare reformist objec- why? tive again in once an at- In our opinion the reason is off tempt to head any It quite obvious. is not development of a revolu- only because the SLL and tionary alternative' its paper are growing con- In dissecting the programme stantly, but also because for the economic crisis political the campaigns as Comrade Spencer pointed we saw on the Wilson visit, out the hopelessly unten- in Liverpool on May and nature Stalinist able of now in the general election, 'theory' economic which beginning are to have an has more in common with impact on the CP member- Keynes than with Marx: ship which is seriously policy f *Its {the document] taxing the credibility of its perspective is an ex- leaders. panding high-wage economy, Havooklet by published She old Stantise entire through "curbing rule". monopoly die-hard Betty Reid to it implies that, suitably the prove that

SLL

was reformed by the application 'ultra-left' 'sectarian' and of "Dressure, and hopelessly isolated, the capitalism will able CP leaders are hard put to to satisfy workers' needs. square this 'theory' with 'According to this Fabian the manifest development if and tract, the imperialists robust vitality of would only Trotskyism stop being im-r in Britain. perialists and listen to the In contrast to this surging movement, the Stalinist Party and press is in great difficulties which stem from the rotten opportunist line of Matthews and Gollan. The 'Star' gets more and more turgid as its circula- tion declines and its finan- cial according to its own Similar problems increase. Party afflict the and the Communist Young League

(YCL),

virtually which 1S non-existent as a national force. and Hence the cantankerous, outburst from Mr nervous, Matthews who tries, clum- sily, to discredit Trotsky- Let us ism. look at it as as we can. closely The SLL, he states, is a 'sect'.

Indeed! Is Gollan it fact- not a even admitted by hardened Stalinists - that all the CP's expert advice, capital- public meetings and de- ism could satisfy every- monstrations of the

SLL

body's needs.' and YS have dwarfed all On the arms bill our analyst CP's the public activities stated: 1970? May Day, in the 'And what does the CP pro- Lenin centenary meeting pose to do with, for exam- and the public lectures on ple, military spending? Why Lenin have shown unmis- cut the arms bill . by takably the of superiority halfl the Trotskyist programme "The other half, according and policy and leadership Gollan at his press confer- over Stalinism. ence introducing the mani- How does Matthews explain festo, be applied to 'sect' the paradox of "maintaining our [sic] com- which publishes daily United mitments the to paper financed by its sales Nations etc. and through the donations word about the role Not of its readers? of this "den of imperialist Mr Matthews complains bit- thieves" in terly that we advise Congo or Suez! workers to vote against the perialismentst word a- Party only which is con- perialism must main- testing the election precisel tained!' [socialist] pro- the CP proposal in gramme'. We see no reason Again on the CP document for for Mr Matthews' confusion new security alliance in and anger on this question.

Europe, We Spencer wrote: made clear and 'In essence this is a proposal uncompromising statement for policing which showed beyond joint working shadow of doubt that the European class by imperialism and the Kremlin CP election programme was reformist and Utopian bureaucracy.' and, therefore, could not assist We could not agree more with Iohn the development of revolu- Spencer's main of the CP docu- tionary consciousness in criticism ment that 'not a single one the working class or expose these demands and undermine the right- can achieved without revolution- wing traitors. To avoid confusion ary struggle to prepare any we of of reproduce some the overthrow capitalism, salient and yet the CP is careful criticisms made by John Spencer in his review not to point this out'. called And we heartily concur with reformist pipe- dream'. (Workers Press his conclusion: June 4, 1970.) 'At a time when workers are turning Referring the motives for towards class to intervening in the general vote for Labour in order to Monday, June 8, 1970 LAST WEEK Bulgaria became the fourth Soviet bloc country to open up diplomatic relations with Franco. Madrid Radio gave details • of the talks concluded on June 3 in Paris between representatives of the Bulgarian and Spanish governments which established con- sulates in the two countries.

The agreement, which was signed in Paris on June 4, creates consular representation between Madrid and Sofia. Trade relations are also formerly established by the new agreement.

The current direction of Stalinist policy towards Franco is quite openly stated in articles by the Madrid cor- respondent of the Polish journal 'Zycie Warszawy, the first in a series of dispatches entitled 'Spain 1970: at the Crossroads'. The Polish been government Has mOST Franco consistent

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months. was, realme over the ast

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course, Polish coal that helped to break the month-long strike of Asturian miners 3o the of technicians experts afterwards with of t mines the rascist leonid organize the resumption of full production between delegates from tourism held in belgrade Now this article by I. Krasicki (also broad- nia, Bulgaria, Turkey ... and Greece !

Radio cast over Polish Hunc Gomulka's strike breakin first une bonucal Teasons Tor during A resol Let be understood by meetings with senior officials it also Mr Matthews that this tac- the Spanish For tee tical sortie did not, Min that , I could perceive 1 my vay, compromise isolation general important, criticall ana the support 1 could perceive a willingness La Dol the Tories in oul or las Isolation. he General Election rouen une present mauves with Stalinist contacts At the risk of appearing too whose governments schematic, let it be stressed value cannot be fully assessed that conceptual frame- keep the Tories the right OuT. CP's can only intervention our tactics introduce concess of

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wards the Labour Party side-track sections war- kers. The his sta acayea.ls resmen enousa Spanish feel isolated, Stalinist Its programme is a fraudulent Sianon where parties reformist sham. the lett sympathetically free to openly Party te vate Labour they under 'Workers home ale with the Labour Party adanst noe candicates allack wrom une workine cass.

elections. this Party and participate in intel- youll students ano of their Tactics must be based on lectuals. problems class keep Tories of mili- sober appraisal of all tary relations with the USA forces What is splenetic (whose about this In a Danicular dudle aid or Spain under treaty and states that surround it concrete CP expired) policy, and of all states the world analysis Mr al c fulminate And why do you over) as well as of the cute then the response fulminate against of of ism when movement.? Wing Gomulka this crisis in Spanish fascism?

Polish Stalinists Collecter openly ommunism'. Franco? Works with 3, 63.) olers 145 services Lenin We also pointed out the con- surike breaker The come Anyone who. used butchered arctatorship secucules LO Dullel sve is not me maze countless thousands of work- a lunatic asylum must surely SHOSTITUTe i he tears and of ignor. the Labour Party strictly bjective ing the real feelings is ridiculous War masses present Contest Spanish How does Matthews Labour Party for seals workers are once more taking plain the drop hope Dadament CP on their class enemies voting will Strength make political capital out 1 Matthews lyingly connaence seen since of it. Republic, cereal the Alas for the King St Stalinists accuses other East vomulka and tne having coals over European Stalinist leaders difficulties with elec- reason, they are now on the The lend moral, political and the 50 aid to the Franco deposit system. which •eposits

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Toe all costs, Spanish fascism seeing ConDensation -or with faTV screen. itself.sented themselves few a Gollan's the Madrid The corresoonuent writes. folly is that when canarates wu rose their deposirs because ot the here is a sharp shift in class

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policy and tactic of tase Matthews and Gollan. 'From this change une Dollecall point or view This is uation— -a019 boung to nan. encine aranco's prediction will pen-many CP members will soon Spanish inter- my for who that dire peating,70. evolution, that they Tne erecaon prospects Mr junc the Matthews We Labour and de- соте would define the situation vole candidate act that the s Tories todav Teal Tne the that of Spain we Can organize tne struggle against Wilson for although form. the crossrodas. • nOW broader basis Collid' aliy CounTry Sull dicts policy system was Dears The that We imposed ODDortUnISIS to mbid the brutallv Coming from wilson's everything happens ale ano comtort a persovisit capitalist mood the who workers Supported fighti re to all a revolutionary, defended members tunist Stalin, this is grotes for alternative supporters British Communist Party: Leadership owe p Policy. The imposed' Cue recine orulally. What was important opportunist intervention and on ine spaniso working cass was the tart that *ranCO remains

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it was held against the back- reacuonary procramine class has wring against Socialist aimed democratic, political or trade of United States Europe rights. tries short-circuit this Workers who fight for them ontradiction and direct the of of the workers in a persecuted illegal of the man oeuvres This, mien Chatthews accuses Party- gut wing and in order to make outalinists imprisoned, policy in relation al c

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welr aulill- the and tortured Communist spleen ne lies.

trists unmistakably clear, How much longer are your We are not anti-communists, we stood Frank: Willis. to remain silent on readers we are in fact, revolutionary this utter betraval of every. and and inter- thing the snanıch. Stalinists national working fought Stalin- Only case-hardened the Civil War against men for sts and hatchet Franco? the Kremlin Demand public. Gollan Cannot and ThaT Matthe European Tin guise berween condemn ism and stalinism support 101 the bureaucratic negation Franco fascism and the regime that com- stands for oI une colonels in reece. munism Mr Matthews never live

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long enough to Jediru but many memn vers nis

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see Party are beginning to and learn through experience and so and that Stal ism *Political significance of communism General Election' Trotsky the pointed Insin. out, is the labour

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The movement. Matthews he Mr can fume Matthews much likes Sunday, June 14, 7.30 p.m throw editoria St Pancras Town Hall, Euston Rd.

evers of 1970 have sto the, Although our candidate lost alts (SLL national cretary) speakers. deposit, he only 50 Ilo A. ThoractS secretary; Simmance less than votes conunue to snoW Party it dwindling CP that rival. whose had thaT the campaigned in the Swindon rapidly into

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reaotionary it is parliamentary arena for dogmatic sect chink to that Trotskyism Friday, June 12, 7.30 p.m.

that Swindon is assuredly coming Co-operative Hall, East Street was worthwhile and ful political ex- movement alling Speakers: G. (SLL national I retraot nothing prophecy perience ana Frank Willis (ATUA) that we said then or since.