Workers Press no. 188

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

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

NUMBER 188

TUESDAY, JUNE, 16, 1970

PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

With two days to go ine Danish scab ship "Sara' approaching Heath funks polish cement imported cement cargo Powell clash to break £1,000 June Appeal Fund reaches #238 17s 10d Irish strike THE BATTLE IS ON to break the back of our June largel as soon as possible.

or rot a 24 to a To. This eare a with a blance TOP TORIES have clearly decided to drop a BY It would be splendid if we could be over the half-wa mark of £500 by ext weekend. Can we do it?

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black-out over the inner-Party crisis sparked by Post your • donations, STRONG CLAIMS that Polish-made cement has been imported into Appeal Fund, Workers 186A Marken Press StreetaL udon, SW4.

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the Irish Republic during the 20-week-old cement workers' strike their official candidate for SW Wolverhampton.

have been made by residents of Moville, a small port in Donegal.

Speaking to Conservative supporters in the Fourteen miles away. Labour-held marginal of Putney yesterday afternoon, Central election issue - per do r

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Tory leader Edward Heath made no direct reference

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to Powell, but urged them not to be diverted by any

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'My message to you is "keep at it right up to arity with their Southern the last minute on polling day"!' he said.

workers' She realers and to e councils action em orists governments-ridden Lynch por cement through the Chorle fight to the towel vel as Trish Communist Pat Sin the Labour leadership semblance" shut down committee —meeting told Won, but only by te le Get yen tied the Tor ALL THE workers' councils established in Czecho By Workers Press reporters • of this nd complete expo slovakia after the fall of Novotny have now been closed silence e- 'WE ARE not abstention-

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em the harbour 'Our views' half-jokingly. Other questioners PRINT UNION leaders met representatives of the they hived almost equally shore

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that i so. anton of weila, haye reciscopter working class, warned Cde 2751 might not ou Thornett vor the day. * meting sale n i bor there is There are dangers here. neeting called s awarene can effort and to uta blade want to abolish all the and NATO becaus o ones the firs only jeopardize peace. sincerice of per cent to the Common c cadres in the Cietion pot ohms. Sital One t0 -------. Soyuz breaks record The kind of get-together they I want to help the Workers Press raise its circulation ard month? Name Trade ently ¡ Address ever Treaty of Rome itself.

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TOP TORIES have clearly decided black-out over the inner-Party crisis their official candidate for SW Wolve Speaking to Conservative supporters in the Labour-held marginal of Putney yesterday afternoon, Tory leader Edward Heath made no direct reference to Powell, but urged them not to be diverted 'by any other distraction'. 'My message to you is "keep at it right up to the last minute on polling day"!' he said.

But if there is crisis in Conservative the Party there is apparently a more insidious, but equally dan- National Party - as candi- gerous growth- -complacency date for Chorley bore no —in the Labour leadership.

resemblance' to the Powell wall that саве. Knowing full - Fountaine had never been press and television i accepted by the Party's continue to give maximium standing committee on Powell's exposure to candidates. extreme right-wing utter- ances and, no doubt, Clearly rattled, the Tory shrewdly that estimating leader then blundered into three days of silence- -even refusing a question from the embarrassed silence — will London editor of the Dub- lose it little of the Powellite lin 'Irish Press' paper - a vote, Tory Central Office both Britain circulating in has apparently issued the and N Ireland on the order: 'Clam up on Enoch!'.

grounds that he was answer- ing British papers first.

In any event, Tory leader Edward Heath gave a very Short shrift convincing imitation of that tropical shell-fish Conference his London news 'I'm an Irishman,' the yesterday. questioner an accredited lobby correspondent at Westminster - had begun, 'Our views' half-jokingly. Other questioners re- A statement issued by the ceived almost equally short Shadow Cabinet on Sunday shift. night, he told reporters with Would the Tories de- an air of studied finality, and nationalize all or part of the was absolutely clear telephone service? reflects the whole of the views Shadow The Conservative of the Party Cabinet and of the future put forward had no pro- Conservative government posals for any such measure, and the Conservative Party. claimed Heath. Perhaps the Tory leader have nothing what- would care to comment on soever to add ta that, Harold Wilson's nothing whatsoever.' challenge, made at the Labour news The claimed statement conference earlier yester- that the Tories had never day morning, to 'state cate- and would divide never gorically that Paisleyite no class from class or one com- MP, if any are elected, and munity from another. Unionist elected with no Paisleyite will be support, Heath, determined to accepted as members of the avoid the verbal hop-scotch Conservative Party in the into which he was forced on House of Commons'? several occasions last week, The question didn't arise, asserted that the Party's said Heath. 1949 withdrawal of support from Andrew Fountaine - The Prime Minister of N later leader of the British Ireland had denied that there had been any electoral deals between Paisleyite official £31m organizations and Unionist candidates. Impression trade Besides his attempt to deficit throw the Paislevite span- into the Tory works, Wilson had little to offer THE POUND slipped back on journalists yesterday ex- overwhelming foreign exchanges yesterday impression of his own belief and stock fell prices as trading deficit in remaining Prime Minister.

Britain's latest He was said, not, he was announced. SO Labour worried that Trade with the rest of the even voters might not turn out world 1n May showed plunging deficit of £31 million on the day. -f21 million worse than in There are dangers here. April. Having prepared the Although imports were cut ground for both Powell and back by £20 million from the Paisley with their immigra- record £750 million the pre- tion, anti-union and Ulster month, 4x dipped VIouS exports policies, the Labour leaders sharply million to remain incapable of rousing £633 million. the working class against The surplus on invisibles- the threat they pose. including bank- services like While the Tory leaders- and tourism— ing, insurance despite their - work crisis was estimated by the Central might and main to whip the Statistical Office to have been middle class in behind their recently about running at 'law-and-order' anti-union, £40 million a month. programme, the The Board of Trade said reformists imports included exude the feeling that that the May everything is in the bag.

747 aircraft- -out two Boeing of a total of three to be im- We say it agadn: ported Parted at sl8.5 million, along • Vote Labour on June 18!

million, along • Fight Toryism and defeat of with a postponement Wilson to allegedly caused by a betra attempt by every ports dock dispute at Southampton.

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decided to drop a y crisis sparked by W Wolverhampton. —meeting told By Workers Press reporters 'WE ARE not abstention- ists. We are dedicated participants.' With these Press words Workers editor, Mike Banda opened the Trotskyist movement's London meeting on the political significance of the General Election. A capacity audience of 700 in the St Pancras Town Hall listened attentively as the speakers outlined the tasks facing the working class and in the coming period. leading revolutionary movement Alan Thornett, member of the All Trades Unions Alliance, said that the Young Socialists were proved right when they insisted in 1964 that the Labour govern- ment would be a government of crisis. "The central issue in this election remains the indepen- dence, the combativity of the working class. • No should under- one estimate the role that the struggle against Measured-Day in this Work has played period,' he said. Stiffened The fight had stiffened the resistance of workers and the employers had begun to rea- lize that the answer lies in something much more ruth- less, much more brutal. 'The offensive of the work- ing class dates back to Heath's Selsdon speech in January.'

Workers knew then that there could be no return to boom-time Toryism. "The working class is going to vote Labour, but there is enthusiasm for Wilson. no They vote for Wilson on the basis of their successes against him.' On wages, the employers the run, but this were on raised all the weaknesses in the working class, warned Cde Thornett. It appears to them that they can solve their problems without politics. 'But there is a layer coming forward in the working class which can be decisive. They are militant on wages, but they realize the limitations of this struggle' The training of Marxist cadres in the factories was the central task, he said. Youth Young Socialists' national secretary, Simmance, told the audience the YS was calling on all vouth over 18 to vote Labour. "The ruling class is turning towards Powellite policies to solve their crisis, he said.

'Powell's policy is to whip racialism up amongst youth.

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rue vaniso scab ship 'Sara' to break £1,000 June Appeal Fund reaches £238 17s 10d THE BATTLE IS ON to break the back of our June Irish strike as possible. It would be splendid if we could be over the half-way mark of £500 by • next weekend. Can we do it?

STRONG CLAIMS that Polish-made cement has been imported into

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have been made by residents of Moville, a small port in Donegal.

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THE 1850s MARK a decisive turning point in both the development of the labour movement and of British capitalism.

It was a decade which saw the effective end of Chartism as a mass movement and of the emergence of a group of 'New Model' unions which were to be radically different from the revolutionary trade unionism which existed be- fore and during the years of Chartism. The basis of this change is not difficult to seek. It lay in the great increase in pro- duction and exports which occurred after 1850 — the years of the 'mid-Victorian boom' and the period in which Britain established a virtual monopoly as the 'Workshop of the World'.

WAGES

Although the share of wages as a portion of national income continued to fall, real wages, even allowing for unemploy- ment, began to rise, and rise sharply in the early 1860s.

As a rough estimate we can say real wages rose by one- third in the 25 years following 1850. But the lion's share of these increases went to a small and privileged section of the work- ing class — a 'labour aristoc- racy'. This was true both of the engineering industry and the building industry, two key sec- tions, where decisive changes were to take place in the de- velopment of the labour move- ment.

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Technical changes in engin- eering increasingly demanded a skilled and trained labour force and around 1860 roughly threequarters of the labour the industry were force in skilled men. Similarly in build- ing where the figure was only slightly lower. It was largely around these skilled, privileged layers that type of trade unionism, a new so admired by the Webbs and other Fabians, began to emerge.

It was characterized by an attitude to the employers summed up in the phrase 'Defence not Defiance! craft exclusiveness which, as a deliberate act of policy, sought to exclude all unskilled wor- kers from its ranks; a high level of contributions matched by equally high levels of bene- fit and, crucially, the growth of a permanent, salaried layer of full-time national officials who were quite different from their largely amateur, unpaid predecessors of the earlier period. The Webbs, in their classic history of the unions, were aware of the importance of this latter change: 'During these years, they write, 'we watch a shifting of leadership in the trade union world from the casual en- thusiast and irresponsible agi- tator to a class of permanent salaried officers expressly chosen from out of the rank mem I would like inforn about Fill in the form below and sel

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"The British People's Beehive.". C and file of trade unionists for their superior business capacity. Newton of the engineers, Robert Applegarth of the carpenters, Edwin Coulson of the builders, Daniel Guile of the ironfounders and George Odger from a small and highly- skilled union of shoemakers, were amongst the first group of such officials whom the Webbs were to name 'the Junta'. This Junta, according to the Webbs: • . accepted, with perfect good faith, the economic in- dividualism of their middle- class opponents, and claiméd only that freedom to combine which the most enlightened members of that class were willing to concede to them...

their understanding of the middle class [that is, capitalist] • point of view and their ap- preciation of the practical difficulties of the situation, saved them from being mere demagogues ..: In Allan and Applegarth, Guile, Coulson and Odger, the traducers of trade unionism found themselves confronted with a combination of high personal character, ex- ceptional business capacity, and a large share of that official decorum which the English middle class find so impressive.'

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as a result of the brutal con- ditions he saw prevailing in the large towns, summed up the differences in the working class: 'There is a tendency, he said in 1873, 'to regard some- what slightingly the distinction between skilled and unskilled labour. But the fact remains that artisans whose manual labour is not heavy, who are paid chiefiy for their skill and the work of their brains, are as conscious of the superiority of their lot over that of their poorer brethren as is the high- est nobleman in the land ...

Beatrice and Sidney They are steadily striving up- wards; steadily aiming at a liberal more preparation in youth; steadily learning to value time and leisure for themselves, learning to care more for this than for mere increase of wages and material comforts... they are steadily accepting the private and pub- lic duties of a citizen ... They are steadily becoming gentle- men.' And Marshall went on to contrast this comforting pic- ture of the labour aristocracy 'that darker scene which with the lot of the unskilled labourer presents'.

GROWTH

It should be stressed that this growth of a number of national, stable unions, aiming at a policy of conciliation with the employers, was confined to an extremely small section of the working class. Until the next wave of unionism in the late 1880s and 1890s, the 'labour movement' is largely synonymous with a small layer of skilled workers.

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k's view of the stratified The vast majority remained unorganized, casual labourers living in squalor and poverty.

This distinction in the ranks of the working class was, we Shall see, very important in determining the attitude of the employers and the government to these changes. The conscious policy of this new labour aristocracy was, in fact, to attempt to make these divisions permanent. By fixing contributions at a high level and insisting that only time- served apprentices be eligible for membership and vigorously controlling the entry of ap- trice and Sidney Webb. prentices into their ranks, these new unions sought to safeguard their privileges against the rest of the working class. As the rules of the Journey- men Steam Engine, Machine Makers Millwrights' and Friendly Society pointed out in 1845: "The youth who has the good fortune and inclination for preparing himself as a useful member of society by the study of physic, and who studies the profession with success so as to obtain his diploma from the Surgeon's Hall or College of Surgeons, naturally expects, in some measure, that he is en- titled to privileges to which the pretending quack can lay no claim; and if in the prac- tice of that useful profession he finds himself injured by such a pretender, he has the power of instituting a course of law against him. 'Such are the benefits con- nected with the learned pro- fessions. But the mechanic, though he may expend nearly an equal fortune and sacrifice an equal portion of his life in being acquainted with differ- ent branches of useful mechan-

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'There is tendency, to a regard somewhat slightingly the distinction between skilled and unskilled labour. But the fact remains whose that artisans are paid chiefly for their skill and the work of their brains, are as conscious of the super- iority of their lot over that of their poorer brethren is as highest nobleman in the the land... Robert Applegarth, (Herbert Marshall 1873) Amalgamated Carpenters. William Allan, secretary of Engineers. ism, applied has no law to nroteM And thic attitude his privileges? But would be mentary reform but also a serious that shall error imagine Genrae Odaer. an official of next article next Tuesday.

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prominent tence on him will bring to a colonial bureaucrat of Great conclusion the dramatic epi- sode of the Irish uprising.!

Britain, Sir Roger Casement, by conviction a revolutionary In so far as the affair con- military Irish nationalist, the cerned the purely go- of between for Germany and the operations the insurrec- Irish uprising, on being tionaries, the government, as tenced. death declared we know, turned out compara- .to it refer*to sit on the bench of tively easily to be master of the aceused than in the seat of the situation. The general- the accuser', before the read- national movement, however it was expressed in the heads of ing of the sentence, which ran did according to the old formula the nationalist dreamers, The that Casement should be materialize at all. not "hung by the neck until dead', Irish countryside did not rise at which God was invited to The Irish bourgeoisie, as up. influen- have mercy on his soul. also the upper, more tial layer of the Irish intelli- Should the sentence be car- gentsia, remained on the side- ried out? This question must have given Asquith and Lloyd- The urban workers lines. troubled hours. fought and died, together with George many Casement would revolutionary enthusiasts from To execute the petty-bourgeois intelligent- make it even more difficult for nationalist The historical basis the opportunist, sia. had and purely parliamentary Irish the national revolution led by Redmond, disappeared even in backward to party, ratify a new compromise with Inasmuch the Ireland. as the government of the UK on Irish in the last movements the blood of the insurrec- century had assumed a popular character, they had invariably tionaries. To pardon Casement, of after having carried fed on the social hostility out so exhausted would mean the deprived and many executions, pauper-farmer towards the an open 'display of indulgence omnipotent English landlord.

to a high-ranking traitor. This is the demagogic tune of the But, if for the latter Ireland was only on objeot of agrarian British social-imperialists the Hyndman type-downright exploitation, for plunder and But British imperialism it was a blood-thirsty hooligans. fate of of their however the personal necessary guarantee Casement is resolved. the sen- dominion over the seas. In a Roger Casement.

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Leon Trotsky. pamphlet written on the eve of the red. In this the way, Casement, speculating revolution', the war, 'national even in Germany, Ireland, be- about proves in practice Thal of Ireland of workers, the independence come an uprising 'freedom of isolated the the and the obviously means death blow to of Casement in the and the position of Eng- the naval domination movement only serves to em- This is true in so far as phasize this fact still deeper.

land. In a pathetic and shameful 'independent' Ireland could an Plekhanov recently exist only as an outpost of an article, 'harmful' char- imperialist state hostile to pointed to the acter of the Irish uprising for England and as its military the cause of freedom, rejoicing naval base against the English supremacy over the sea routes.

that the Irish nation 'to their It was Gladstone who first ex- credit' had realized this and pounded with full clarity the not supported the revolution- military imperialist considera- madmen. Only complete ary tion, of Great Britain over the patriotic softening of all the Anglo-Irish anyone to interests of the could lead joints landlords and laid the if basis interpret the situation as for the wide agrarian legisla- the Irish peasants had declined tion by which the state trans- to participate in the revolution of ferred to the Irish farmers the from the standpoint the landlords' land, very international situation, thus gener- 'honour' of Ireland. ously compensating the latter, saving the after the of course. Anyway, In actual fact they were led agrarian reforms of 1881-1903, only by the obtuse egoism of the farmers turned the farmer and complete in- into con- small difference to everything beyond servative property- whose gaze the green the bounds of their plots of owners, banner of land. It was precisely because national independ- of this and only this that they ence is no longer able to tear away from their plots of land.

supplied the London govern- The redundant Irish intelli- ment with such a quick victory the heroic defenders of gentsia flowed in their thou- 'the Dublin barricades. The un- sands into the towns of Great doubted personal courage, rep- Britain as lawers, journalists, the hopes and commercial employees, etc. In resenting methods of the past, is over.

this way, for the majority of But the historical role of the them, the 'national question' got lost. ( On the other hand, Irish proletariat is only begin- Already into this the independent Irish ning. ot rise , mercial -under an archaic ban- and industrial bour- rising- ner-it has injected its class geoisie, in so far as it has formed over the past decades, militarism resentment against and imperialism. That resent- immediately adopted from will not tagonistic position towards the ment now on subside. On the it young Irish proletariat, giving contrary, will find an echo throughout up the national revolutionary Great Britain. Scottish soldiers struggle and entering the camp The the Dublin barri- of imperialism. smashed young Irish But in Scotland itself working class, taking cades. coal-miners are rallying round shape in an atmosphere satur- the red flag, raised by Maclean ated with the heroic recollec- friends. Those tions of national rebellions, and his very who at the and clashing with the egoistic, workers, moment the Hendersons are narrow-minded, imperial arro- trying to chain to the bloody chariot of gance of English trade union- imperialism, will revenge them- ism, naturally swing between selves against hangman Lloyd nationalism and syndicalism, ever ready to unite these two George. concepts in their revolutionary consciousness. It attracts the 'Nashe Slovo', July 4, (From intelligentsia and 11 - 1916) dividual nationalist enthusiasts, who, in their supplied turn, Roger executed, Casement was the movement with a prepon- along with other leaders • The uprising, on August 3, 1916.

derance of the green flag over Dublin 1916: The uprising.

LAST WEEK saw the launching of a new offensive by the Husak regime against the Czechoslovak trade unions. Meeting on June 10, the Plenum of the Central Council of Czech Trade Unions removed four prominent union leaders its from Praesidium and four others from the post of plenum members. Summing up the state of the purge in the trade unions, Prague Radio commented the same day: 'To date. 37 members and lternates have left [sic!] the Central Council, 181 members have left the Central Committee of Czech Unions, 24 have left the Slovak Unions, 47 members and alternate members have left the Czech Trade Union Council and three members N and alternate members have left the Slovak Trade Union Council.' By the middle of May, claimed Tan Pillar at the Plenum meeting, '503 members left the district trade union councils in the Cżech lands and 52 in Slovakia'. But these dismissals only affect the top and' middle layers of the trade union leadership. The actual confrontation with the working class in the factories and mines has not yet begun !

'card exchange' campaign The has almost ground to a halt, as in district after district it has been revealed that the interviews are being conducted by Party members who themselves sympa- thize with the anti-Husak oppo- sition. Many such 'hearings' have been invalidated because the expulsion rate has been of 50-60 per cent target been upheld the minimum as permissible expulsion rate.

So the bureaucracy has now shifted its attack directly into the unions. But here the prob- lems are even greater. It is not matter of 'interviewing' in- dividual Party members, but con- fronting working-class a mass movement embracing millions.

And this is openly admitted by the Stalinist Pillar: ... in cleansing its own lines the trade union movement has SHIk

MRS

RENEE SHORT, Labour Wolverhampton candidate for NE, has been saying some very harsh things about the National Front, skinheads, factory closures and other issues that are of im- portance, not only to the work- of Wolverhampton, but ing class to workers everywhere. Standing in a constituency which she held for Labour at the last election with a majority of over 8.000 and in which she is by a Tory opposed right-wing and also a National Front candi- date, one would think that it a heaven-sent opportunity was for clarifying the class nature of Powellism before workers in both of the Wolverhampton con- stituencies. Not so. 3 Here is an indignant letter. Mrs Short recently penned by and published in the local press ('Express & Star', June 4): 'Sir-I do not normally have to correct reports of my speeches in the "Express and Star"; but the report of my speech at my adoption meeting in Monday's paper calls for some correction.

'As I have said in the House, I believe firmly in vigorous con- : the trol of immigration into United Kingdom from anywhere, including the Commonwealth, and I have always supported the Labour government's success in this. 'Contrary to your report, I pointed out that we never admit anyone to work in this country unless they are essential to the national economy I also pointed out that the largest number of work vouchers, 30,000, was issued in 1963 under a Tory government, of which Mr Heath and Mr Powell were lead- ing members. Last year, under the Labour the number of work government, vouchers was the lowest ever. Figurés for the first quarter of this year showed a further de- cline - they equalled just over 6,000 for people with work vouchers and dependants..

One might only add that the Wolverhampton NE Labour Party Young Socialists are very proud of Mrs Short and completely back her call to the Home Secre- tary for 'an immediate inquiry into the recent deplorable and alarming clashes between skin- heads and Asians'. With such friends...!

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always borne in mind that the struggle for a Leninist resolute [read 'Stalinist"] of conception the trade unions be

HUSL

waged the primary organiza- [i.e. in the place of work], nons which the rightist [read 'anti- in Stalinist'] forces exerted their influence day and straight every away millions of members (Em- Gustav Husak. phasis added.) So after nearly two years of But try as they may, the pro- Soviet occupation, and more than Kremlin Stalinists simply cannot of hard-line Stalinist rule d ycal either buy over intimidate Or under Husak, the Czech working small of the even fraction class openly defies the buréau- Czech Thẻ working class. re- cracy in its millions. markable bluntness of Pillar's The Stalinist purge proceeded statements are the most eloquent relatively smoothly while directed testimony to the plight of the only students, intelléc- dented ra the entire history which unprece- and leading supporters of tuals dented in Dubcek. Stalinism. A wedding: Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline née Bouler, ex-Kennedy. A MAN of parts is Mr Onassis, Greek millionaire shipowner and enthusiastic supporter of the addition to colonels' In regime. being a fan of grand operari ande collector an éager private yachts and archipelagi, he is, is well i known, the most recent spouse of Jacqueline, née Bouvier, lately Kennedy. The budget of which connec- tion is currently running, as we Marriot Corporation, who are to reported in a recent edition, at provide catering services the on $20 million a year. airline. But Mr Onassis' monetary re- The other signature was that lations with the American Presi. of Mr Marriot's Donald Nixon, dency do not end there. vice-president and be- He recently signed, on behalf loved brother of Richard. of his Olympic Airlines, What you lose on the round- valuable contract with the about. DR

DOOTEN

NAPAL

is prob- bread and ham rolls in his lec- ably not very well known outside 'Paki-bashing type' ture room by students (according to the E&S), Wolverhampton. Dr Napal had the following com- A lecturer in Social Psychology ment to make : at the Bilston College of Further am pleased to note that the Education, Dr Napal earned him- skinheads appear to be attracted self some space recently in the to Mr Enoch Powell. In my view local 'Express & Star' by clashing it's far better for these with of his some skinhead be attracted Mr Powell, students. scholar and a gentleman, than to Having been pelted with bacon, the real extremist organizations which their inspiration from get the Nazis.' Surprising? Not to those who have followed Dr Napal's politi- over the last few years. According to one Wulfrunian, the doctor's reactionary staté- ment in praise of Powell is com- pletely in line with his position on the Tories in gerteral and the right-wing Powell in since the latter's speech on immi- beginning of 1968. gration at the From that time on, Dr Napal publicly associated himself with the Powellite position and even went one step further in calling for a ban on all immigration.

While openly supporting this position, he formed an tion called the Afro - Asian Minorities' Association and 'Pardesi' launched a paper- which was printed in English, Punjabi and Urdu, 'the first multi-lingual paper in Britain'.

This finally folded last October after the Afro-Caribbean Circle had Napal's - which opposed claim West to represent local Indians — • produced information on his political activities.

Tory councillors defended him against this 'communist-inspired witch-hunt and the 'Express Star' expressed their 'regrets' for Standing for Wolverhampton the demise of this 'multi-racial experiment'. N.E.: (From top to bottom) Mrs Renee Short (Labour), With such friends Dr as Geoffrey Wright (Conservative) Napal ...!

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Paisleyite tail wags Party dog Co-op insurance Ulster Unionist men strike tered ran third day Insurance contaged with the une agents wno work -her second let in 70 party plunges don area USAW representa agents called stoppage is about deeper into crisis cis will notrenforce the claus ents agreemen THE ULSTER Unionist Party -the N Ireland quia trade union. •a memb The a r branch of the Tory Party which has ruled the rate extra or cove triagents six counties at bayonet point for the past 50 given They are lanet years - is now in acute crisis as the election gentens by local vergers.

allowance sive a maximum approaches. Not only does the party face the loss of at least three more seats to Labour or Nationalist candidates, but it seems almost certain to lose at least one seat to the protestant Unionist farty of the Kev lan raisiey.

And it is the ultra- loyalist Rev Paisley who has thrown the latest and On-the-spot report by J. Spencer biggest spanner into the Unionist works. Unionists had neede director rela nhe director red not to sand and e in Armagh, bitterain ' disillusioned te Maginnis, rig and s Antrim. Easted endantainine there for nop standing agaid Stommont workers, e nor parliament sten highi th right-wing pol into 500- back manded ed son van Involved Ireland, thus dentreir Tory Party laims took place. deal rugbyDres The revelation i the stren Unionists' efforts omitted 'Snatch squad' arrests as youth protest Denied Orange Order march THERE WERE sharp outbreaks of street fighting and troops were antainionist r pelted with stones as the army and the police mounted the biggest security operation since August last year at the village of Dungiven, rated that He Co Derry, N Ireland on Sunday.

al members or railey s Eight people, most of them operaTion was further concession to the Some th Kev an raisev ano the character

DEAD MEN'S

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VOTES

sistea last week that a Tories plump heir later Th orovocative orange parade through the overwhelm- were late released do appear

GEKKY

ingly Catholic village must be allowed to proceed. Strong protests Villagers protested strongly daya General Election. insure el tempt t offle has told the returninis attempt to deaths certificates are avail- turice of throwing stoned.

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mal. Max. 18C (66.). col. Max. i8c (6i), Rather moderate. Max. 10c 6aterly, Lax, a2 (020). light. Warm. Tuesday, June 16, 1970 Despite poll losses

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

DESPITE THE state election reverses suffered by the Social Democratic-Liberal coalition over the weekend, Brandt declared yesterday that he intends to press ahead with his drive to improve relations with the Soviet Union and E Europe.

The conservative Christ- ian Democrats have been beating the anti-communist other dentined member wink drum in recent weeks as other cabinet member the 'eastern policy. Bonn new the government N In Rhine, their vote nears the conclusion of a dropped from 7.4 per cent to 5.5, while the in other two non-aggression pact with it fell below the 5 per states, the Kremlin. cent level required to secure representation in the state They also attempted parliaments (Saxony: from 6.9 to 8.3 to 4.4). make right-wing political to 4, Saar: capital out of the two meet- The extreme right-wing Brandt ings between and his National Democratic Party German opposite number, continued its slump which Willi Stoph. began at last September's General Election. Judging from the results of the elections They lost half their votes state in N Rhine, Westphalia, Lower in Lower Saxony (trom 6.4 to 3.2)- -a traditional strong- Saxony and Saar, this cam- paign appears to have scored hold of reaction. some success. It failed to reach the 5 per cent minimum in the other

DEFECTIONS

two states also. The bulk of the defections

IMPROVED

to the CDU have come from The and rightwards in deeply divided move sections middle-class Free the middle class based OI has had very little impact on Democratic Party under the Scheel, trade union-supported Walter who, as Social Democratic Party. Brandt's Foreign Minister, has In fact, they improved on their previous both vote in Saxony (from 43.1 46.2) Black- to Saar (40.7 to 40.8). and Catholic Rhineland did strongly they lists on votes to the lose

CDU.

The of losses the Free Democrats will impose new militants strains on Brandt's coalition partners, who are deeply divided from top to bottom -claim on their leader's support for Brandt's foreign policy. Brandt has already made that his discussions it clear Poland, Moscow ON THE EVE of Sunday's with and elections three of the E Germany are to in go on: this [the major Lande (states) of W For me, election Germany results] means that the employers un- convincingly trade government must continue denied with redoubled vigour union allegations that they its keep black-lists of militants.

policy aimed at actively securing peace, economic Speaking at Bad Driburg last stability and reform. week meeting of the Internal questions have also employers' associations of N had a big impact on the Westphalia, Rhine Herr decline of the Free Democrats.

Zigan, the chairman, said:

WAGE RISES

If firms refuse employment it is in the interests of peace The Brandt coalition came in the factory, and overall the to power in middle of economic stability. The time West Germany's largest-ever and manner of the post-war strike wave. the DGB announcement in Since then, the main trade union) German trade unions- -under great pressure press leads me to the con- from the ranks-have negot- clusion that it is a man- iated sizable wage increases to make electoral oeuvre for millions of industrial and propaganda' administrative workers. This new militancy has Herr Zigan's evasiveness deeply alarmed many big spelled out his hostility to employers and bankers in the Social Democrats, and Germany. made it clear that the em- Employers' organizations are ployers and the politicians calling for state control now of the right will not give of wages as the only method off any undertaking to lay of combating that inter- victimizations in the fac- national trend now known as tories. 'wage drift' The CDU--the main party Earlier last week the Christian of the banks and industrialists Union Democratic filed -has used the 'eastern suit for slander against question' to drive refugee and Chan- Social Democratic middle-class Germans over cellor Brandt following his the to right. election statement in The real motive is not address the Christian that much hostility to the Democrats had urged em- Stalinist bureaucracies - dis- ployers to provoke unofficial the Kremlin cussions with strikes in the period before were in fact begun under the the election. CDU-as the need to build up powerful middle-class counter-weight against the re- awakened German working tension never before seen in class. the history of man' and As in Italy Britain, The audience heard Sheila elections reflect the move- Torrance on the, im- report and ment growing polariza- proved circulation of the of historic class forces tion Workers Pres prehensile particularly in W Europe. -through The decisive factor now is election coverage, and the the building of revolutionary plans for further development leadership in all these coun- and expansion. of tries the programme The response was a magnifi- the socialist united states of cent collection of £229 9s 9d.

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