Workers Press no. 208

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

TUESDAY JULY 14, 1970

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PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 208

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

DANGERS AHEAD

All trade unionists must give July £1000 Appeal Fund Full support at £52 18s 3d soded lie svet ems of Wee threes of bet ten working loyers to dockers cera is showing on the outside wa strong Ying for De dos fonder gesterday. Their meeting Dockers lining up THE TILBURY dockers' decision to go ahead *Strike must Collan: with the strike today is a clear sign of their Kremlin looks on as determination and undaunted immovable go on', say U.S. has temper. er sham Appe street Answer Regardless of whatever Royal dockers doubts over agreement is cooked up between Jones and Tonge Tory arms deal Corby demand

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the employers, the Tory from jail stewaras there was a leering that the stnke must go on.

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WHEN THE Tory government was elected three weeks class backers to the end.

ALL TRIAN ON

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dockers a id LEADERS of the Com- over its Stalinist bureaucracy, welcomed Heath's win as a victory National Docks munist Party have for 'an independent foreign policy course.

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BY JOHN SPENCER

Master Conne a as FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY strikers from Standard "Blue' onto Telephones' Erith Cable and Greenwich Submarine the pressior the meeting. This was turned factories are returning to work today with little gained dothe meeting voted to return he but, they made after their three-week strike against the companys their position. the or ment of prenacy or proposal to make 280 hourly paid workers, redundant.

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workers press The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 208

TUESDAY JULY 14, 1970

DANGERS AHEAD

All trade unionists must give July E1000 Appeal Fund Full support at £52 18s 3d Indeed. We are anxious sow to dockers dock no let l 80 far concerned dockere® roviding u have in be остАв. nite the working class behind Dockers lining up outside 'M' shed, London, yesterday. Their meetin Low a strong feeling for the doc strike to go THE TILBURY dockers' decision to go ahead 'Strike must with the strike today is a clear sign of their Gollan: Kremlin looks on as and immovable determination go on', say U.S. has temper. Answer Regardless of whatever agreement is cooked up Royal dockers doubts over between Jones and Tonge demand Corby —and until the delegate WHEN dockers from London's Royal group of docks Tory arms deal conference is reconventa

IN CENTRAL BRANCH

-they are willing to fight mel yesterday morning to near „reports trom their

OGAT SAYS

Tory stewards there was a feeling that the strike must go on.

from jail the the men

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government and its middle- WHEN THE Tory government was elected three weeks class backers to the end.

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bitter ago, Moscow Radio. oficial mouthpiece for the Soviet dockst as id LEADERS of the Stalinist bureaucracy, welcomed Heath's win as a victory Com- the National Docks have now Tarty received a direct challenge

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BY JOHN SPENCER

FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY strikers from Standard gents National ecutive of ted Blue Telephones' Erith and Greenwich Submarine Cable groups and supporters of ot thi "Dracon the. revisionist journal lactories are returning to work today with little gained • state laws in the world after their three-week 'Militant, and strike against the company's they made confere revisionist the bulk of the 1,000 proposal to make 280 hourly paid workers, redundant.

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PAGE TWO

Some pages from the history of the British working class

BY PETER JEFFRIES

OUR LAST two articles developed of providing jobs for trade union and labour officials in this series will be con- in 'the growing number of ad- cerned with the years ministrative posts associated immediately before the with the social reform policy of the Campbell-Bannermann- First World War, the Asquith government. years of the great labour Elie Halevy in his 'History of English People' unrest', as the capitalist the has given some idea of the extent class came to call it, and and importance of this the lessons which it con- development. tains for the struggles of He estimated that the has 1909 Trades Boards Acts today. created 800 posts with salaries of £1,000 ber in some cases Out of all the tendencies year; in 1910 Churchill created which in the 1920-1921 period two posts at the Home Office, came together to form the as Labour Advisers, one going to Shackleton of the textile British Communist Party workers and the other (CPGB), the strongest was Welsh Tom Richards: miner, in addition 30 posts were also undoubtedly the syndicalist created as sub-inspectors of tendency which had its mines and quarries, the jots to origins in the period after be reserved for miners and 1910 in the British trade quarrymen. The 1911 National Insurance union movement. Act brought another large of the The early battles batch of similarly high paid Communist International with Civil Service jobs to satisfy the leaders of the CPGB were the growing appetite of the largely against the limitations trade union officials. in the ideas and methods of Figures for 1912 reveal that syndicalism. over the previous six years Syndicalism was a body of places had been found at the ideas imported largely from Board of Trade for 117 active France and America in this period, and, if it did nat attain the status of a definite philo- systematic sophy or body of thought, it was based in general upon a growing opposition to the opportunism and class collaboration of the official leaders of the movement. It counterposed against reliance such leaders the on development of strong rank- and-file action with the aim of creating new industrial, unions which could link workers to- gether regardless of their skill Tom Mann and break down the old craft which had originated barriers in the period from the 1850s trade union workers at a total onwards. annual salary of over £25,000.

Over 120 jobs in the

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National Insurance Depart- ments had been created for ex- At its highest level syndi- unionists at a cost of £34,000.

calism involved the notion that Home Office contained The out of these industrial unions filled by nearly 50 posts the working class in the course the unions with recruits from of larger and larger strikes over 80 posts in other depart- would be able to take power ments. from the capitalists by taking And complete the to over the means of production.

developing hostility towards a There is no doubt that one bureaucracy which was finding of the main stimulants to the such well-paid state jobs, most growth of such ideas was the of the leaders of the Parlia- disillusionment with the per- mentary Labour Party were formance and record of the officials, union this being Labour Party at Westminster.

almost inevitable in the days MacDonald and company, in before MPs received a salary.

the period after 1906, once the Trades Disputes Act had re-

STERILIZED

dressed the situation created by the Taff Vale judgement five that A. P. years earlier, were quite con- Little wonder a leader of the Guild tent to a tame second Orage, play fiddle to the Liberals in parlia- Socialist movement could com- ment in 1914: ment. But perhaps more important It is not generally reatized was the increasing servility of how successfully the the established trade union present government has sterilized the leaders towards the employers Socialist and Labour move- and the capitalist state.

ment by enlisting in the ranks The trade union bureaucracy of the bureaucracy energetic more and face more set its young Fabians well as against any determined struggle prominent political socialists against the employers and was and Labour leaders.' becoming increasingly en- meshed into the institutions of But the strike wave after 1910, which affected nearly all state. This particularly true industries, including the best was victory of organized with the Liberal and assuming near 1905 revolutionary proportion in the 1913-1914, It was in the period after cannot be years systematic policy explained simply in terms of a this that I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE,

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

Name Address growing contempt for the Labour bureaucracy. This period saw new economic problems facing • capitalism which had a deep impact upon the thinking of the working class. In the first place, these years saw a strong tendency for prices to rise rapidly and con- stantly to outstrip wages.

In part, the bitter struggles of the period represent determined effort by the rank- and-file in the unions to main- tain its living standards in the face of such rising prices.

ENGINEERING

Its ability to do so was re- inforced by the relatively low levels of unemployment which existed after 1909, in contrast with the earlier years of the decade. Secondly, under the impact of growing foreign competition, the pace of technical change il a number quickened industries. Most notable here was the engineering industry which witnessed in these years a speeding up of those changes which first began to assume significance in the 1890s: the breaking up of the old crafts and the creation of a large number of semi-skilled jobs.

These developments had a deep impaot upon the Amal- gamated Society of Engineers (ASE) which once more (in 1912) changed its constitution to open its membership to such layers. But even these factors to- gether, important though they were, cannot explain the vio- lence of the eruption which occurred throughout the labour movement after 1910. Of crucial importance was the growth of monopoly within economy which, though less pronounced than in other capitalist countries, notably Germany, was beginning to effect profound change a throughout large sectors of the economy.

MONOPOLY

This trend towards mono- poly, which brought with it a growth in the size of the typical industrial concern, was intimately linked to the grow- ing intervention of the state into the economy. although Thus technical change was comparatively slow in the coal industry, the miners were in the vanguard of the class struggle in this period and the ASE also saw im- portant changes where tech- nical development was perhaps most pronounced. The ideas of syndicalism found a fertile ground amongst the class - conscious most workers, primarily because the growth of monopoly, and with it deep-going changes in the of industry structure and finance, posed a new genera- tion of workers with new prob- existing lems to which the institutions of the movement had little answer. Strikers clash with police during the

BOTTLE

Is ll: The great transpor In some respects the 'labour unrest' reproduced many of the features associated with the 'new unionism' of the late 1880s and early 1890s, but on a higher scale. Again the dockers and other previously - unorganized sec- tions were to the fore; like the earlier period this was one of comparative prosperity, in terms of the level of employ- ment and the rate of industrial expansion and finally the two periods witnessed a rapid ex- pansion in trade union mem- bership. The four years before the outbreak of war saw a pheno- menal 60 per cent increase in trade union membership, con- centrated particularly amongst seamen, labourers and dockers.

NEW FACTORS

also pro- But there were found differences, which in- presence of new dicate the factors in the situation. Right to the front of the struggles were the miners and the en- gineers, the former the base for the continuing support for liberalism in the working class during the 1880s and 1890s, the latter one of the earliest ice during the 1912 transport strike.

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great transport strike of 1912.

'new of the conservative model' unions established at the start of the mid-Victorian boom in the mid-19th century.

So general indeed was the crisis facing the trade unions that even the hitherto ultra- conservative metal trades of the Black Country saw a strike involving over 50,000 in the summer of 1913, to be fol- lowed a few months later at the start of 1914 by a general lock-out of London building workers, again a union which provided of the many most conservative and oppor- tunist leaders of the 1870s and 1880s.

CRISIS

And like all pre-revolution- ary periods, the years berore 1914 saw not merely a series of political upheavals, but. a profound governmental crisis, notably over the power of the House of Lords and the ques- tion of Irish Home Rule. Nearly all the great struggles which occurred during years of the 'labour unrest' had one common feature; they invariably started as unofficial actions, opposed by the trade union bureaucracy concerned.

If they did receive support it was only so that the leaders could more easily head them off or get the rank and file to accept a 'compromise' offer resulting from the intervention of the government. This struggle of the rank and file found expression in the ideas of syndicalism, and it was largely syndicalists such as Tom Mann, James Con- nolly, Noah Ablett, Richard Coppock, A. A. Purcell and A. J. Cook — the latter two later to be prominent 'lefts' at the time of the 1926 General Strike-who organized and led the strikes which took place.

Turning now to an outline of the main developments we can start with the transport workers who were to play a decisive role in the struggles over the coming four years.

At the end of 1910 several unions of dockers and other transport men had brought their forces together in the Workers' Federa- Transport tion.

STRIKE

The rising cost of living and the failure to effectively tackle tound obe dockers saadi ton the dockers hardly any better off than in 1889. Following a strike by sea- men in June 1911 for a uni- form scale to cover all ports, dockers and carters struck in Manchester in July and the Port of London was soon closed down by an even bigger strike than its famous pre- decessor of 1889. The Port of London Author- ity under Lord Devonport, supported by the Liberal gov- ernment, refused to budge and Home Secretary Winston Churchill threatened to dis- patch 25,000 troops. Tension mounted as daily of dockers, demonstrations sometimes as many as 100,000, rched through the city. In face of this power, the ment retreated and most of . he : original demands Similar developments took place in other ports, notably Liverpool where a 70,000- strong general strike embracing dockers, seamen, carters, tram- and railwaymen, waymen, occurred. Mann in the Tom was struggle, leadership of this which in this case actually saw the intervention of the troops and violent clashes in which two workers were shot. The early months of 1912 a strike of Glasgow saw dockers and in May 100,000 dockers were out again London against alleged breaches of the 1911 settlement and em- ployment of non-union labour.

This time the London action met with little national res- ponse and eventually the Port Authority, backed by the gov- ernment, was able to drive the men back to work defeated.

The summer of 1911 also brought the big rail strike which was to transform trade unionism in this sector and bring about the major move towards industrial unionism part of the aim of the syndical- ists as we noted above. 200,000 railwaymen were in- volved in this struggle, bringing determined opposition from the government, which once more, as in the first dockers' strike, retreated in the face of a grave international situation and the unions won de facto recognition from the em- ployers.

TONYPANDY

The miners' struggle reached a climax after that of the rail- waymen. 10,000 miners had been in- volved in strike action in the autumn of 1910 at the Cam- brian combine over the pay- ment of abnormal rates. Metro- politan police and troops were dispatched to Tonypandy and violent clashes occurred with the workers. Similar clashes were to take place throughout the whole of South Wales during 1911. So great was the pressure from the ranks for an effective struggle for a national mini- mum wage that the Miners' Federation| leadership was forced to call a national strike Tuesday July 14, 1970 in the early months of 1912.

It met with immediate re- sponse from the men and the received widespread strike support from the rest of the working class. But once more the govern- ment intervened with an 'im- partial' settlement, giving the form of victory to the men, the reality to the coal owners.

The Minimum Wage Bill, rushed into law by the end of March, merely prescribed machinery for the determina- tion of district minima and a ballot favoured continuation of the struggle. The leadership, however, took the men back to work, on the pretext that a two-thirds majority is necessary • for the continuation of a strike.

TRICKERY

Commenting upon this typi- cal piece parliamentary trickery involved in the Mini- mum Wage Bill, Lenin wrote: 'But the lesson was too obvious. The interests of capi- tal had conflicted too sharply for the gap to be covered by the appearance of concessions.

'It was clear whose interésts the Liberals were defending.

"The English workers had to recognize how important for them had become political organization, a political party.

In England, where according to the old English proverb, "par- liament can do anything except make a man out of a woman" the English workers have con- vinced themselves that in this all-powerful parliament they are nothing, despite their powerful economic organization. "The miners' strike positively represents a new epoch' wrote Lenin. 'Since the strike the British proletariat is no longer the same. The workers have learned to fight. They have discovered the path which will lead to victory. They have realized their power ... A change has taken place in the relation of socia forces in England which cannot be expressed in figures, but which everyone feels.' • Final article next Tuesday

Tuesday July 14, 1970

THE

BLUE

& THE

ORANGE

SIR KNOX CUNNINGHAM,

former Tory MP wrote a letter to 'The Times' on July 7 about the Orange marches.

Boasting that he would be walking' again on July 12, he explains how different are the Orange Order's marches from other demonstrations.

"Those taking part, he says, loyal Crown and Constitution and aemonsware to maintan civil and religious liberty.'

Loyal Orange • Order, hat strange ConDilatol and Viser Boites Tor many Every member of the stor stormont Mrs. and Unionist Lodgesent figures in the Orange Orangea tall con dation of date fr the foun Orange Order ins Order was organization of English settler farmers in Armagh. he poc At the start it was Tarmers WIld fighting to stop Catholies, landowners disdainful. Uprising In 1798, the radical United Irishmen, the Duoun Protestant 1 one attemptea an uprising. m the precealng years, thel from pes attracted serians, especially in Belfast.

hmen trade die Pro work a tore they cout as here was pecular view of Irish history which interorets every In the universe as a contlict ol against •h. This ci and his forms such victory JIm Larkin The that recall Louis POV, was hames ally When the news of the The Orange declined 19th in the nrsi century. Its when Heacher change Presorterned with the Oran 34. men and landlords Now began Ine sectarian Belfast, stirred riots quite consciously to keep the masses divided, and the alli- ance of the Orange Order and Toryism was solidified. Previously an Anglican body, the Order was now opened to all non-Catholics. But the big development of place in this alliance took England in 1886. In February of that year, Lord Randolph Churchill wrote his famous letter to the Irish Lord Chief Justice Fitzgibbon.

'I decided some time ago that if the GOM (Gladstone) Rule, went for Home the Orange card would be the one to play. Please God it may be the trump and turn out to not the two' As an independent Tory, Churchill, whose father had been the Viceroy of Ireland, quite cynically calculated that he would gain political advan- tage over his Liberal opponent by stirring up as much sec- tarian strife as possible in Ulster. Speaking against Gladstone's Home Rule for Ireland Bill, he declared in Belfast: : Ulster will fight, and Ulster will be right' His real opinions of the Ulster Tories, which were quite contemptuous, he kept to himself. In a few weeks, there was fighting all over N Ireland, and June the worst riots saw Belfast had experienced. The Orange Order went through a massive revival, enrolling many upper-class members. Tens of people died in July and August 1886, but Churchill had succeeded in defeating Gladstone and soon was Chan- cellor of the Exchequer. Twenty-five years later, the Liberal Party was still trying feebly to resolve the issue of Irish Home Rule. But Orange- ism was now experienced enough to know it could always frighten them off.

Got ready When a new Home Rule Bill was • being prepared in 1912, the Ulster Tories, firmly backed by the leader of the Party, Bonar Law, got ready to stop it. They chose for their leader a former Solicitor Gen- eral, Sir Edward Carson. In 1911, he had reviewed 50,000 Orangemen at the man- sion of James Craig, son of the whiskey millionaire. Apart from organizing a Orangemen escort Lord Randolph Churchill petition against home rule, the Unionists began to_form Force. the Ulster Volunteer Ten thousand men drilled with wooden rifles, but arms were being imported all the time.

The Carsonites also demon- strated their support among the Army officers. The King was known to sympathize with them. As Lenin commented : 'Lord Carson has threatened rebellion, and has organized gangs of reactionary armed thugs for the purpose. empty threat, of course. There can be no question of a rebel- lion by a handful of hoodlums.

... It is simply a question of the reactionary landlords try- scare the Liberals.' ing to ('Collected Works', Vol. 20, p. 150.) who in THE MOST revolution- ary art is that which shows the world as it is.

A poem or a play, a docu- mentary or a painting can be concerned with any aspect of reality its author chooses; what we ask of it and how we judge its quality is that it shall truly represent to us that part of the world or man's experience of it with which it is concerned. This criterion does nothing to limit content or to pre- scribe form; it in no way in- hibits the artist from any area of experience, but it does make an unequivocal demand truth.

LITTLE PRAISE

By this standard, how long is it since I could last praise a television programme? Liter- ally, it is months. And yet each week there is super-abundance of pro- a grammes that could be written about for their lies, for their distortions and omissions that should be taken up. Indeed there are scores of falsehoods and half-truths every week.

In each such broadcast all the seeds of an active critique of capitalist society and its ideology be found. are to Whether it's a police series or a schools programme, the news or an art film, we face a con- of bourgeois stant barrage propaganda. Sometimes it comes straight, more often it's disguised.

One of last week's choice offerings of (thinly) disguised mischief was number three in the Dares' series 'He • Who (BBC 1, Wednesday). Described as 'Six true stories

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dolph Churchill through Belfast in 1886.

of maintaining the split in the What forced the pace for the Unionists was a new factor.

working class. By keeping of the Belfast section workers For five years, James Larkin under the control of the em- Connolly had been and James and ploying class, it played building the trade unions still plays an important part in among the Belfast workers and strengthening the power of the had begun to break down Tories in Britain. old antagonisms between Pro- Today, as in 1912, the ruling and Catholics testants on a class must every trick it class basis. knows to divide the workers.

1912- So Orange riots in But the Irish crisis is now 1913 had the function of of British part of the crisis breaking up the class unity imperialism. which Protestant and Catholic Paisley in Ulster and Powell employers found so dangerous.

in England each seek ways of 'rebellion' The Carson tying sections of the working opened the way for the parti- to Toryism, to smash the workers' movement.

tion of Ireland to be imposed by British imperialism, which The fight for the Irish sec.

with the help was carried out tion of the Fourth Inter- of the Nationalist leaders in national is vital to the stop. 1920. 'Orange card' being played by Orangeism then had the task the ruling class again. V 'free' England's of people who survived against ing through odds' all the is made green and pleasant land.

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jointly by the its and A genuine and deeply suffer- the Australian clearly ; of counterparu ing victim that Broadcasting Commission. there is no doubt. Its financial impoverishment During the war as a child he has forced the BBC into more lived in England, on a farm in such joint produc- and more We were Berkshire. given not and this tions in recent years one clue about his family and one of thę most series is precaution went far

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this be- encouraging results. yond the real need to protect The film shown 8 relatives still living Czechoslovakia. and worked in Party lived Britain during the war, in- cluding most of the victims of

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thwed iat purges which fol- Its title, 'A Place Beyond omid egede clear that we eturning home to for vernment set up by the 19 little historical military coup they were quickly singled out as scapegoats for under ils Moscow distorions, failing I aposition: given Czechi main juxtaposition: the man n his solitary confinement a n innocent victim of 'Com were unism' at home and as a sa where whilst abroad linked in the fabrications at xile now living abroad, walk ввс 1 1.00-1.25 p.m. Dyna wall. 1.30 Watch with mother. 1.45-1.53 News and 5.20 weather. 4.20 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Animal magic. Shazzan! 5.44 Abbott and Costello. 5.50 News and weather.

LONDON. 6.20 THE ICE SHOW. 6.45 Z CARS.

7.10 LAUGH PARADE.

'It Started With A Kiss'. With Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds. An Air Force sergeant marries a show girl.

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8.50 NEWS and weather. 'THE SUGAR DISEASE'. Problems of diabetics.

9.10 10.00

24 HOURS.

10.35 E. M. FORSTER 1879-1970. An appreciation.

11.05

THE SKY AT NIGHT.

POSTSCRIPT. 11.25 Weather.

6.01 11.20 10.30

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6.00 7.00 nand E Anglia: 6.t Scotland: 6.00-6.20 Reporting Scotland.

11.20-11.50 Portrait Midland. Angula: of a Dr Douglas. Kev Hugho 227 News healed and News, N Ireland: 6.00-6.20 Look 11.27 News South West: 6.00-6.20 Points South-West. and today. weather. 11.27 News, weather

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11.00-11.20 a.m. PLAY SCHOOL 7.30 p.m. NEWS and weather.

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE'S SHERLOCK HOLMES.

"The 8.00

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Hound of the Baskervilles', part two.

8.50 LOOK, STRANGER. 'Rivers of Pearl'.

PREMIERE.

'Any Second Now'. With Stewart Granger. 9.10 6.00 wealthy wife threatens to divorce her husband.

PARIS REDISCOVERED. A view! of Europe's most beautiful city.

10.45 11.05 NEWS and weather. 11.10 LINE-UP.

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o.su 2.00-4.10 p.m. Great Yorkshire show. Keith Macklin reports from Harrogate, featuring the Blue Circle Badsworth Stakes. 4.17 En- chanted house. 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Sooty Show. 5.20 Country boy. 5.50 News.

6.02 MOVIEMEN. 6.30 NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR.

FILM: 'A Matter of Who'. With Terry Thomas, Sonja Ziemann, 6.55 Alex Nicol, Richard Briers and Honor Blackman.

Adventure Comedy.

8.30 HIS AND HERS.

9.00 A FAMILY AT WAR. 10.00 NEWS.

'MARINA! A LITTLE PLACE IN THE SUN'. How much money do 10.30 you need to live in luxury on the French Riviera.

WORLD OF CRIME.

11.15 7.00

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birthday London. day. 60 Film: London. Safecracker" "the is offered Milland. A safecracker his freedom behind a mission don. 11.15 News. 11.25 Weather. Action WESTWARD. As Channel except: 4.25 treated into longing memories 'Zionism', and, of of his childhood in England.

From scenes of him in his ing activities'. being cell. the to on way broken, we cut to him walking With and others differ- this haven called of in through 1952 trial of England, a haven ent increasingly Slansky, ( Loebl and open only to those who may in some way be used, however climax of unwittingly, in the fight against tims was the communism. ducted. This 'free' England where im- migrant workers are so neces- sary and their degradation so urgent in the attempt to con- fuse and divide the inter- programme. national working class. sceptred where This isle Prague after war as such programmes are so wel- drama sen- come to those who control the hard tenced to years' output of the great ideological labour. machine called television.

he The man was brought to After two where he gladly signed point anything and after five He is cal and merciless was released. DrIsOn humilitation. now trying to forget. And there's the key to it: At no did the pro- film, the producer of the gramme tell of what this Gordon Clark, Lawrence was innocent was even ac- clearly anxious to help in this impossible and destructive task what —but only up to a point. of Europe and the

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Simple, we were meant to see man', isolated from him as Forget happened, what's his period, his social and poli- happened, how it why tical understanding and every- happened; forget anything thing else except his 'human- which may cast light and bring ity. understanding, however pain- ful. Forget history, forget fact. Certainly the film captured some sense of the horror of Remember that this is and that England his incarceration, a horror ab- solutelys coming od of Statines confirmed other solutely It's been said that a man who does not understand his prisons since. own history is bound to wan- No speech except interro- der forever in its re-runs.

gation, a light always on in his tiny cell, being forced to sleep That's just where capitalism the work- facing the peep hole in would like to keep the too - ignorant and ing class door with his hands showing above the blankets, no view of lost. the outside world and constant But it will take more than threats about measures to be BBC men to do it, men who taken against his old father.

themselves their pride on and yet whose ob- Forced into dreaming, both liberaliti asleep and awake, he came to jective mph of barbarism.

jective role only ensure fear for sanity and re- his

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N.U.T. leaders retreat Full support

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ment caused by the strike Teachers' drive wear deser es of the rest mass and the docers Danger are were politien Behind all this will stand the only hes stred politicall the and the possible Marxists must counter- Cambridge dents faced claim in anybones of • atrol Germany, the Far East the Tories to ment towards expansion• • ordinary econo- sledership he retire bulld nic struggl the and death UnSus Alibe " Trades All Tely danger sein they nization dowi a hot me re the dock labour force in Blanket they • will protection excess eatist to play intr for use un organized ports to break strikes. Orange THE NATIONAL Union of Teachers' negotia- They of their government receive the full tions for a new £1,250-£2,200 salary scale is in marches danger of being buried by a working party Worse proposed for a 'banded' salaries scheme tied to

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*The Times Educational were unde By an education reporter Supplement' explained last A HUGE military operation involving almost 20,000 armed Friday the dilemma of the would be considerable. nen imposed an uneasy peace NUT leaders with reveal- on the six counties of N Ire Ins rankness as yesterdays provoca of ratty his decisicutive di tive Orange parades wound through the streets of Belfast, panted ne Seat en panel Derry and other towns in the lay repeared this request on province. more c Balle of the Boys Whe dockers uister fe not northem part of the rbitor private abbits and container facilities elfast-Lisburn motorway province bire douses in the Hered hereoper Ireland preter Betesser i Robert Porter. scheduled ar Mashera han the n 40 miles strom Brif this nged his plan: not done

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to d rejecte alk and head Workers Union Convenor mat put into r sara Stalinist reaction. regulations o strand rehabilitanie. tims of the so-called Stalin such a Rarel Taco poser, car only it this fault res ment and Com he sad sentenced. galacance Minister who into sion of eze thoslovakia Cases and rehabilitate victims

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Sydney- -July Australia's work, with the help of a few INSW. 2000 ge. Prime Minister Tohn Gorton is advanced natives. According to former Inis week touring nis country s 'mini-colony', the territory of Australian Papua-New Guinea*, and has Guinea far been met with appeals search econo- ten -and plan for the corlry leading to a situation in which soon- banners claiming that colonial- 90 per cent of all business and putedly caller the People's Isil prccas lacialsu. Industry and more than y› pel oclauon AmIY Cre ent of profits will be in the Early in the week Mr Gor- week rey creott lands of foreigners did $300,000 for a fire which The 98.5 cent of the ton announced (That most (£140.000) of damage pod New Gurledn. worth the power tor the area would Melborne | warehouse be dra ste ted oo thee wind owned by McPhersons Ltd. and that agriculture, have independence ofti mate deres ra50 incmet The denied the comsaly Australia did not say when cet met PLA's claim gross rural that arms were although he while the being made by them for use cent the future. in Vietnam. expatriates will also receive 5( He added that per ire Gorton's Other less spectacular alsu have berel clared will cesses Ausurallan government Mr speeches avoided any reference to the the tụp. retaln powers over terntonal order, fact that act tht plantation workers Docary ano been arrested and police have four have Tłe na are țrade veznn! 165) defence and areas such as vorth stepped up raids arenatass aviation, thus leaving that labourers ments on une gomes ane meet- towns recelve $7 a week ing places of left-wing groups.

power and economic Suratis TERORISM has appeared on

FIVE-HUNDRED

rabud vey nurses who developing along have been on strike in A suralan noliticalccene with classical colonial lines. berra for three-and-a-half Withın the last tew days in the weeks over a petrol bombings and une waltes Takiina cream torm doing the industrial damage by a group still sticking it out-with ana tne natives the Social parlamentary Democrats cicisus oppoalnes ot the already strike. And within two hours the fall full fascist ergine strike. workers ignore the need close co- between the govern agents movement the trom onlensive the WOrKIDY and Dusdins Devone al0 l union the trade Jeaders. But the manoeuvres could not avold orocucine a situa- acure CrIs1s "imın- ating every pölitical character very clearly. 1 ne enl-wine socialists Party «tanan Docla lst

PSIUP)

Proletarian Unitv put out factory Turın Tuesday morn tentiet the i ing which denounced Social word e Stalinistr. Demonstrations contrar he On the called for support CIL's 101 call LIKELY CANDIDATES to vince. ana i demon- suranons ar ae bace or work.

attempt new to torm a This despite vote shepstrike on the CGll leader- Italian government follow- ing last Monday's résigna- hands were tion are Andreotti - an class col boration right across extreme right-wing the political spectrum Rumor sets the scenario for Christian Democrat closely a right-wing government, rely- associated with the Vati- ing. onune most reacuonary trade Colombo, can - and union ¡edaers to oreak une cenela sanke. Treasury Minister in the This they are able to do only Stalinists government that has just the fallen. the nave seaalea mirace unity

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retorms . And the Both favour anti-strike legis- oralinists. Wina V ananaon. Bill Wraight said: the strike ate nrovided aton camouflage by seems a bit with political When Mariano Rumor took their 'left' critics. vague. Let's not kid ourselves cabinet present political crisis surprise by rowever. he cid not onnose of - In which state Dowet the acceptance of the formula.

lucsaay s glven dime to reorganıze itselt Dronsed cenedi sunIke. l 'responsi- onu thronoh thA was reiving on toe trade union No fight bility of the Stalinists, and in readers back GOWn and which Communist Party „tho from the floor nestera create cumcient contusion the anour movement tor the capital proposals for fighting next government to come into mot the lack et dundancy attion ary programme. office more actor cisely Suile sited tht the Greenwich ortanizalon culDoca enough, almost anotner And. cilte the Stalinists fight serzt 28 davs would the hour Social within une readersnD Ine Ciass simply Republican ave Loe manadement breathing space. trom them withdrew, this contusion. anger Shon stewards from the two the and trustration which now union (CISL). tactories met in krith vester. many attents workers, which day to prepare for their hirst ed oti ted attion be They produces support for anarch• meting with Mr Dudderidge, had called off istic groupings (such as 'Lotta

STC

active in Turin and cause main party this afternoon. Milan), now absent. Ae necolalions adventures against the police.

Secretary's holiday Alternative the largest This left Com-

CGII

munist-led union. "esnité the distrust ot the nto reverse had The Satini ts bir already CP leaders, which many wor- demonstrated express, the Stalinists desire to keep politics will lead the Italian working oul de- defeat- -as thev broke Stalinist genera suikes WiLe Cie renression) were Darture •l seneral secretam heing aboliched. bú Londo fo bogana ac coé would Kehanilitation. weekeno on holdav. future derit with After a decent interval the critics' panels judres ordinary

CGIL,

the with- of whom sentenced announced and the ultra-left the original victims) in ordi- Grawa ot stre orders. Thẻ of the theories nary groups) on v memner with toelr Nemec *re- imp orhant bee enderchin who voted that tanısm radical' changes tinue the action the ett. "made more were was tormed'. wing Socialist (PSIUP) repre- the "by-passed' is nrecıse v to cause caare COmDOSI- prevent an understanding the ItoD' renaoiitalion

CGIL

need for such alter- announcement benches did not correspond made no criticism to the new redmitements confusion sown to, thc hy tho other worde comA but announced Stalinists their depend- actually tha "rehahilitatorc unlens, Provides the ruling class that : with paluades polricin took their job seriously.

elbow

CGIL

Seretariat con- In effect the new Czecho- The slovak law 'rehabilitates' the siders the government crisis a

TOON

Pietro Nenni, veteran Social- all naken attemot imDose al- height used et th sudden shitt to the right 1st parlamentarian. ready let it be known that he Salin's tha nation's economic and European social situation. Martino. roncidered that Durses. present •+ defentina the Somalist ezder. l as the long hand- policv of reforms, carried for- ¡aatir racnancne taa the tal with picked judges agree of the calition through press- ward in unity lour emphasisl the the methods the workers and their trade forward quickly veraicl. longer used to reach it no the Commun- Tuscany matter in The eves or tre face of this manoeuvre, which has Umbria. uzech talimisis. character Taken together with re- other words, Nénni, grave oluCe provocaulon, Social- Czech eulogies of he CGIL has decided to sus. nip cent reDa e line part 24-hour Soviet secret noltcemen who nend the general Party Into shifted directed the Sansky trial stmke a tresh centre-lett 1050c and (he the in tha pary Wanm ave so many mis civise v T1°hA anel muthlace nuraind of Duheol representations| enact legis- hpen packed nay f!y and his supporters from the into one paragraph. against latian the l trace Czech Communist Within hours. unions. the ressure, of applying 'united As England, in the was converted into payers sec k e nalin ce hem Bi sor m the right i retreat wing helior movement, of provocation. threaten workers with indignant Frague s things worse that it is nlanning anv such assured the extreme reactionaries. thing. Tuesday July 14, 1970 who have tontributed S20,00 haye to neip keep them country have conserine with. hospitals "The island and islands of 1S6 the and the nou and known as West Trionesia General strike against Chilean regime

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THIRD high-school student gener the posed by the Frey genime.

against accoma med Politicary take the OFFICIAL rump of the uch Congress Ion. poo. the do many union o clas- includ Cordob: strike ground conference. movement Preside he • Labour after installed peronist Minister TuaT inted "Luco Con- fore perresuelate called of continuer of polita. Corby

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