Workers Press no. 219

No to Pearson

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PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 219

• WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1970

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T&GWU delegates must echo rank and file Nơ' to Devlin

BY THE EDITOR

Nothing THE ONLY answer that today's docks delegates conference can give to the so-called Pearson to discuss "peace formula' must be a resounding no!

As the Workers Press

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Close the ranks contident proclaimed in its banner headline on July 23, the Pearson FIRST REACTIONS to the Pearson- against retreat inquiry is suspect?. strikers at the ravnter rebort And as reporle. koyal group or docks in London com HOSTILITY to the find- dockers are preacted to Pearsor bined hostility with ings of the Pearson Report Pearson's committee growing mistrust of the official union inquiry into the national quickly found expression leadership. Com opinion d a he earld docks strike is the spear.

head of a Tory attempt to in many ports vesterady. Dockers has Aride Are Comer rejected рост не талорот conterence and will €20 retreat full dockers inter ching wage'. ready We were absolutev right. includ-

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thee Sociat out. THE Association of Univer- es delegates l eachers representing the Pearson 20.000 universitv lecturers and dons, is submitting a 20 per meeting t They confident this original ore to be that are re cent salary claim Press through while preparation This wober tea 345t power seats and 5y 535 o 83.650 the full claim break the unimpeded The capitalist press used the demand' inquiry more should to loped than were designed to member, Bad aer ass.

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Scanlon • dockers in DOCKERS at all five nationalized ports in way as re-elected General section. S Wales have turned down a plea from Jack local employers to unload 30 Jones and

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million bananas worth £375,000 from ships to lose. move at Barry docks. parun to moan to ser *This is not just a strike for elected Te was

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more money. On Monday the first 'It's a complete class war.

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113,000 stems from one a co gene son he Nothing moved He secured 76,063 votes regional T&GWU secretary sent Mr John ol the three Ships were being dumped charmanmer Labour Party the s Atlantic six off- miles shore. banan Baould be

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port don't think the men wil a shared the work No reaction with them Working-class

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acTion on on alone maemand But Mr G. Tyrrell, unity needed 1970 * Bit among the mon then to defeat

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Smaller ports still shot the Tory Phase f wattle over Devlin

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The proposal put for- Pearson ward by. for Rogers three-me ch 'cease fire' and negotiated settle- which denies self- tactic determination, for the Palestinians has been accepted by the following say Mersey dockers Arab governments: Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Jordan

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and saudi Arabia The Ba'athist regimes dockers

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ers is growing. General ort's 12 Transport and The Workers The Iraqi elegate: London conference issued oun which "reaffirms tatement 11%l rejer nian whose 1s to liquidate dill And whilst they would make Palestine Issut anu statement Une ralesune DeoDIe

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and return to tent nomeland. confided US Lild unev the recent particular reject virtudil certaine proposals'. Visi senatever foes he ShoSymes. stewards' chairman provision whatsoever Jim personal this aspeaki said return capacity he * fellow thinks the strike con- his Nationalists tina don to think of the Sovex have capitulated Liverpool will pletely. It is not a com- Damascus Radio denounced strikers any Rogers-Nasser deal both meters terms. calle Blue NASAD an u no more resolute 'Blue' General and the chain successive pointed our nat they never imperialist plans expected a compromise. any- covering up the real and the RESOLUTE not to conceed As we thought, said one which rank-and-file Transport O1 upply the Zionists with more pretexts General Workers strikers We're already oes enter Thei 12th week on strike. and annihilation. never Even with the possibility The pressure falls call back the delegates on of obviousiv tentative Laiks between tne leaders this basis. organiza- umon oldas anu manaze- tne many guerrilla Just a sontune acue tions, which draw their sup ment The end OT InE self-respecting trade

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 219 • WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1970 No to Pearson 'No' to Devlin

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BY THE EDITOR

THE ONLY answer that today's doc conference can give to the so-cal 'peace formula' must be a resoundir HOSTILITY to the find- viewed, Summed what up many of his fellow dockers are ings of the Pearson Report thinking: quickly found expression In my opinion the Pearson in many ports yesterday. Commission Report should Atkinson, member be rejected in its entirety, Arthur of the Humberside Area Com- despite the fact that it is Jones and of obvious that mittee NAS&D, just one O'Leary Hull dockers are clutching at several inter- straws and are clearly ready to accept a compromise.

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The call must go out now to all dockworkers close the ranks fight to any THE Association of Univer- attempts at a retreat. Teachers, representing sity We should make it perfectly 20,000 university lecturers and clear to the lay delegates who are meeting today that we will dons, is submitting a 20 per not accept retreat from cent salary claim. our original demand for f20 basic, and This would increase salaries will press with all means in our power for October 1 by £245 to the from the full claim. £1,600 a year on minimum scales and by £545 to €3,650 It is becoming increasingly at the maximum. clear that the we win struggle for £20 basic it will October, Last when an in- the employers' Devlin place terim 9 per cent increase was Phase Two in jeopardy. agreed, it was accepted that Phase Two is an employers' more should follow this year.

charter. It paves the way for the employer to achieve some- Scanlon thing that he has failed to do throughout the years, namely the complete domination of a re-elected force diminishing labour at very little cost to himself.

The employers know that

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of the Amal- with the reduction in the gamated Union of Engineering labour Foundry Mr force, increased and Workers, mechanization, reduced man- Hugh Sconlon, has been re- ning scales, flexibility, mobility elected with greatly and docility of labour, a figure increased majority it was of £35 for those that are left announced yesterday. is ludicrous and will mean a the cost He secured 76,063 votes saving of millions on 32,002 for of labour. against his right- wing opponent Mr John Boyd, It means an industrial way of life completely alien to all senior executive council mem- dockers have ber and former Party that the Labour fought for so bitterly. chairman.

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governmer Cavanagi dockwor A SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE PAMPHLET PRICE 6d Available from 186a, Clapham High Street, SW4 T&GWU delegates must echo rank and file As the Workers Press confidently proclaimed in its banner headline on July 23, the 'Pearson inquiry is suspect. Ana as our reDolLer rightly predicted Pearson's committee inquiry into the national

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suike is uc spcali nead or a 1ory auerol lo Strange Ine docKers ight Ior a basic We were absolutely right.

-includ- ing Soast 10 League was prepared that the inquiry. the went strike euphoria to help and pertin to work. • get a Nothing moved es uson bureau that rest erestimated the dockers port And despite te emors the ez0 basic becaus ecisive battle over Devili Phase Two Not only did the dockers refuse to scab decisively : slogans with correctly mented: clear becomi ' 20 bas i To is an Devlin • Phase Mr strike, men back Equivocal so clearly think this stage stage comment at • PAGE FOUR COL. b

Y TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 219 •

• WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1970

SAY ROYAL MEN

FIRST REACTIONS to the Pearson- the Paynter report from strikers at Royal group of docks in London com- bined hostility to Pearson with growing mistrust of the official union leadership. Dockers feel that offered Pearson new for the delegates conference and be timo ra mass uscus: House picket Transport bress accralto lo ulow rcalsul vui Anv move to return to work on Pearson's terms wil meer wire sun resistance As one cocker nut "f we swallow this lot we will be ridiculed After two weeks on strike no docker collc 80 bt back with nothing on basic' the many consider the delegates conference accept the Pearson may recommendation. are confident this will They the end of the struggle not be nowever st anw thinke more sond. Many unolicial put it earlie. As one have cacc" the Ing tais meet trou we were recommerce• to star work when the strike began."

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Barber onn nember, told Workers Press "Ac a "'kine' union membe DOCKERS at all five nationalized ports in țhíc c a want any part but S Wales have turned down a plea from Jack since Jones has sort of jumped and brought us Tones and local employers to unload 30 irrelevant strike we just can't million bananas worth £375,000 from ships to lose. at Barry docks. 'This is not just a strike for more money.

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On Monday the first It's a complete class war.

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113,000 stems from one "The Tory government has regional T&GWU secretary, forced a showdown of the three ships were ComPieLe because if thev Dick said: a strong being dumped in the men were section to beal eaves The "ha anxious right open Atlantic six miles off- to comply with Jack Jones working cass Mensured-Day Work and unload modernization.' shore but all ports 'Blue' union mem- to refusec id to co nora tee Maurice Nichol, 150 Barry ber. put had sard not they would else Tall everyone don't think the men will prepared to work the boats was on strike. dockers go back until we receive what without Da V No reaction we came tor - the oter ports shared the work basic rate. All l can say about with them that it must be There was no official re.

Pearson is Monday thrown out completely! But Mr F. G. Tyrrell, action mongohe men there But among the men ing teir support press. demandr minimum time rate of f20 week Mr Tyrrell said: LIKE portworkers all over the t st ery tor me to We feel that nua case make an omcia! comment just should country the dockers anol Pearcon see WA have to wait Swansea and the 80 working have recognized this. dele- what happens at „the the quay side Port If the Tories gate conference Wed- Talbot steelworks are 100 the docks nesday. dene minide behind the strike and they difficult. T&GWU officials in defeat dockworkers' he not Wales something empioyers anyont men much con- Although the British Steel the with the The real feelings of dockers increasine Corporation that claires theit Dasie Tunne rate affect strke will not semions y were .a so exnressed

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colleagues in other parts pickets on the gate to Kings nandinn the emniovers are the country Dock. roncernernkot the doorerg Mr Turrell told me determination even in the out cone Smienel need we're Most of the work is on smallest about the meat piece rate here these national docks market We not related to the basic Hilton, fellow time rate. een earn o Press men Ink average between don't really need pickets men at Swansea £36 the a weex. behind sinke. all. Workers on Cardiff docks 'There's bound to be trouble Think thate camcor the agree if the tha1 OnAd WAARO £20 hasic must he settled he ories move troons in they can earn an average of fore there is any question the docke what £36, but they claim that is Phase negotiating Iwo happened scab bacon the on the basis and eggs in N Treland. Devlin. con. 'The men at Swansea mainly handle 'We've hast conis. e ik at ores nationa Cardiff told me: cra dooi al Jones' ce, bal some weers car TV f36. was Anen as much isgrace fruit, re've got good local leader that'c tor worzing Tı1ii seven days with overtime on here's boun with would be angrv if troons were redundancies come used against the strike in ant beviin then

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THE US 'peace plan, combined with Soviet Post vour donations at once to: diplomatic pressure and the treachery of the Workers Press Egyptian bourgeoisie, has successfully split the Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, various Arab states menaced by imperialism London, SW4. and its Zionist outpost in Israel.

The proposal put for- ward Rogers for a fire' three-mr th 'cease and i. negotiated settle- denies self- which determination for the Paistinians. has been accepted by the following say Mersey dockers Arab governments: Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Jordan

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and Saudi Arabia

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The Ba'athist regimes

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dockers WiNG Syria and Iraq have rejected gain a mere 6d ar stanc the plan. a position which hour from the inauiry recom consistent with their

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are, the most mendations tor United. Nations sition tO the bitterly hostile to Security Council resolution Pearson Report. November 1967 which the Rogers deal is based. And support for their stand from other sections of work-

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is growing. The port's 12 Transport an The Iragi Revolution Com- General delegates Workerc mand Council has issued to today's London conference statement which 'reaffirms net for two hours yesterday rejertion morning. whose aim is to liquidate And whilst they would mare Palestine Pase a no formal statement on their the to return to their homeland, confided are virtually certain to reject Dalliculal recent proposals. The Rogers plan makes in Symes, stewards' chairman DrOVISIOn whatsoever tor Jim speaking return of Palestinian refugees said he personal Nasser thinks this means the con his tellow Arab Nationalists' Sovex Linuance or te strike have I don t think Liverpool will pletely. accent this it is not a com.

Damascus Radio denounced promise of any description.'

strikers the Other members both terms, equally the 'White' Transport more General and 'Blue

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resolute the chain successive they that never plans Imperialist almned a compromise any covering up the real aims of RESOLUTE not to conceed une aggressors and the inten- thought, said one As on their original dons imperialism. Which rank-and-file TransDor an ol seeks various pretexts eneral yv orkers member. sunny the ionists with mare 'the report gives us nothing imperialist weapons of destruc- We're already on a fl6 hasic tion and annihilation. pressure falls lones never had any right greatest HuAn with the possibility to call back the delegates or of tentative between obviously leaders thing's this hacic The whole union officials and manage- just a splitting the of tions, er thousands •No self-respecting made it trade trom the at the strike meeting

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participation, needed to hold down wages Workers' and increase output. and profit sharing CO- 'last-ditch' The stand by partnership schemes employers as far, as confidence have been in the news before they trickery 1.e. 6Ucs decide that the working class What are all recently. be beaten into sub- can only these about ? mission by strongarm methods, and is 'workers' participation' been 'workers' control' of the work"

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of its capitalist owners and 'disloyalty' would that nothing is owing in the Such way of compensation. with- blocked by regulating The bosses have already drawals. reason this system is had their money's worth ten The being looked at is because it is times over and all production for profit must be brought to obvious that the productivity deal swindle is not going.

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'Workers' control can only take place after ti deal of time talking about 'workers' control' without explaining this point. So what is some- they are advocating thing the employers have no that great objection to i.e. the workers participate in the running of the processes of capitalism. This actually happens on some jobs where work study has been introduced. ' Management and supervision are withdrawn and the stop- watch carrying 'workers' repre- so ati sta adars and ensure that they are adhered to.

This, of course, is no more than 'workers' participation' in raising profits and 'workers' control' of speed up! Some sections of work- ers have had substantial rises under job-evaluated graded systems. Does this disprove what you are saying ? NO. The real crunch does not come until payments-by-results (PBR) and piecework are com- pletely abolished from a com- bine or even an industry.

sections remain on While PBR, managements with fixed rate payments are sometimes forced to concede rises they would not otherwise give.

• may find themselves They in a situation where the gap between those individual fac- tories on fixed rates and those on PBR become so wide that it becomes impossible to resist the pressure for the militancy generated by the differential itself. Alternatively, since it is the requirement of management to abolish PBR in all factories, this would be impossible if 'The implementation of job evaluation, work study and Measured-Day Work, is not just a policy of an individual firm or industry, but a political action affecting every single industry and the lives of millions of workers.' ake place after the industry has been completely taker capitalist owners.' the gap between PBR factories and fixed-rate factories, parti- within combine, cularly became enormous. It would obviously then be impossible to sell these schemes to those remaining on PBR. for a It is not unusual deliberately management to give a rise to a faotory or a section in order to tempt another section who are reluctant to take the bait.

Why do you say that graded systems are so dangerous? GRADED systems are often introduced in order to get rid of incentive bonuses. The main danger involved is that they absorb all forms of payment into a number of grades with fixed payments and established differentials. This effectively ends the normal form of negotiations which go on all the time under incentive payment over such things as changes in means and method, schedules, condi- tion money merit payment, etc.

Productivity Almost all such agreements contain basic clauses under which the unions have to agree not to submit claims which prejudice the established dif- ferentials, and clauses which tie all future wage negotia- tions to annual reviews based on productivity. Such systems based on job- evaluated grades not only effectively peg wages, but when disputes take place they are often directed not against the company but against another grade of workers or against another union. Often if a grade of workers

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completely taken out of the hands of its take action and claim to be upgraded, let's say for example AEF workers in the tool room claim to be upgraded on parity with the electricians, the ETU may well insist on established maintaining the differential and the company will stand outside the result- standing only to ing dispute, gain in the long run. In some cases grading dis- are referred to a panel putes of union representatives from each grade, at which the dis- senting grade is simply out- voted by the rest. Such graded systems should be totally opposed. You say that the intro- duction of these systems is a political question, but many leading mili- Com- tants, including munist Party members, have continually denied this over the last five years. What exactly do you mean by this? IN THE past, before • the government began to develop these schemes, if an individual employer got hold of a parti- cular method and tried to apply it on his own initiative, then this was purely a local matter, a local firm 'trying it on'. However, when the govern- ment takes up such a system, country's leading sets the managements, university experts and trade union lead- ers to develop it, and when it sets out through state legisla- and state agencies tion to single that ensure every employer is setting about put- ting this system into opera- tion against single every worker, and further, attempts ing class. to institute laws that will fine For leading militants to deny imprison operatives this is the utmost treachery.

or any then opposing its measures, It means that workers will that the we must say new be fighting the joint power of become a political system has the state, employers and weapon of the government.

the union leaders' army on This is why we feel it is local (home guard) purely important to tell those workers basis. who quite rightly tell us that many of these systems are not Defeat have and that workers new of made substantial amounts This will inevitably lead to on them, that money working defeat and demoralization.

what is now different is that Let's take an example of these systems used as a are just one government agency- political attack the capi- the Prices and Incomes Board.

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4.25 Handful 4.55 London. 6.00 songs. News, weather. 6.10 Mad movies. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Joker's wild 7.30 London. 8.00 Hawaii five-o. 8.55 Police news. 9.00 London.

Wednesday, July 29, 1970 AS YOU bask in the holiday drizzle of the English sum- mer, ponder the fate of Walter K., of Cologne. It • might happen to you one day.

Returning from a mountain- climbing Walter of aboli, ne was ormed that the boss was right. A Ministry spokesman even warned that anyone arriving back from holiday too tired to work night have to loss a week's par s well. The W German trade unions' legal department said EVERY FEW hours pilots of the US Air Force take off and fly around with nuclear bombs in the bellies of their B-52s. Every child born in the world since the testing of such weapons began has been born with the radioactive element strontium 90 in its bones. But if someone goes out into the street and screams that they have an atomic bomb inside them or that they are being destroyed they invisible will rays, usually end up in a mental hospital with a few shots of 110 volts across their frontal lobes and nicely subdued in a hefty chemical straight jacket.

This situation is repeatedem countless ways modern capitalist society; madness often fiercely illuminates the normal world, and lights it so brightly and clearly that the mad one has to be shut up , or locked away with great speed before he upsets too many people.

Most of the progressive think- ing and practice in contemporary psychotherapy is concerned with precisely this state of affairs.

Alienation Any treatment which does not recognize and found itself upon the alienation which capitalism fosters merely serves to prolong confusion and despair so necessary to its survival.

But that in no way glorifies insanity. The desperation, terror and pain which make up SO much of the experience are rarely welcome; they usually reflect not a growing awareness of intoler- contradictions, able objective but a defeat in the battle of subjective vehicle of those con- tradictions. Sometimes, however, the sub- ject gets a brutal and shattering insight into the real world; this may take a symbolic form where the reality of the unconscious mind surges up and invades the mind with all its conscious archetypal images, monsters and raging demons. People who have experienced this breakdown of normal barriers sometimes speak of it afterwards crucial and enlightening as a episode. They occasionally emerge from it with memories of an experience of 'identity with all that is or ever was' and may be utterly changed in their com- rehension of the world Sometimes too they refer to 560б Said from the the man Ministry: The holiday exists so that vorkers can draw new strengt] for their jobs. The best way to spend a holiday is to sit back and do nothing. * He warned workers not to spend long hours on do-it-your- self jobs around the house and told them that long cycle tours might jeopardize their holiday pay also. However, a court has ruled that this does not apply to W German soldiers. For some reason, they are entitled to tire themselves out as much as they please.

So don't be surprised if the next productivity deal demands full reports on employees' expen- diture of energy while outside the factory, checked by inspectors and special sleep-meters attached to everybody's bed.

WORKERS PRESS

FRANK CARTWRIGHT'S

their insight as experience For the assertion of madness of God - not in abstract, is the assertion of nature over metaphysical or personalized way, ConsciouSness but simply as a means of allud- "There nothing that the is ing. the totality of apparent madness of men their subjective perception. invents which either not made This, of course, can also lead manifest restored.' nature (Michel Foucault, to endless confusion, 'Madness and mela- physical ramblings and theological Civilization', p. 283.) speculations - most which lend themselves to

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THIS is prompted by the nicely prop BBС-2 Timeless ping up the archaic and re- series Ine Moment' (10.20, Friday). and their actionary churches dogmas. Such a way of speaking about valuable such experience 10 itself and flows from reveals clear historical and philosophical traditions. Lenin noted very clearly of Feuerbach's the analysis subjective attempt to convert an objective existence into one ('Collected Works', vol. 38, p. 81) and there is mo cause fin this and there is cause for idealist trap. However it is currently very tread this well-worn popular to dead-end of idealism and even it certain incorporate InTO selected of Marx's aspects writings. is especially treacherous ground because the experiences founded which upon it is undoubtedly revealing and central capitalist Preciation of modern But the attempt to use them help tie reactionary to thought is not to be ignored.

Much of the past ot the art 100 for is years, example, an interlacing of language and but equally the oppo. delirium. sition of these of art and two, madness is total; its an oppo- of life and death, sition reason (in its fullest sense) and reason, man and nature. • Dress notebook A LETTER in the latest issue of the Communist Party journal 'Comment' illumin- CP ates the depth of the crisis-even if it can do little to resolve it. Written believer by a sincere in the 'British Road to Socialism', the Party's reformist programme, it nonetheless puts some ques- tions the leadership which blow the whole policy sky-high. The author, David Waddington, Tenders to coe senio an leaders elections, ContesT when little local political even work had been carried out, while at the same time they talk about 'the general election being of five years' culmination mass work, not an interruption'. 'Who are they to kid, trying besides Wad- themselves?' asks dington. sales by local CP branches? It's 'One wonders just how out of with the of branch a fine paper... touch reality life they 'must be As for the Waddington's demand for an- "important political reasons" for questions swers to these is all they been the powerful it low votes, hecause nave

ROTE

with us for a They from someone who long time. SO comes don't explain the disastrous de- clearly agrees with the basic out- terioration.' look of the leadership. Waddington insists asking (His only on tentative suggestion the obvious, but studiously- to solve the problem is: *Perhaps avoided questions. we can learn from the Italians.') He reflects many 'Why the continuing low level workers who of local Party activity? Why found so their way into the CP ranks? they much passivity our because thought it really Why the continual loss of mem- was a Communist party, and got grow? bership, the inability to caught up the basically con- Why servative politics of Stalinism.

our weakness amongst young people, the critical section Now, as the working class for Communists and the Left? enters massive struggles against Why the loss in votes and sóme- the Tone's decline, and wey they try under- times seats in where stand the areas sloand expect ade crisis in "tac Gollan and company refuse to tenants? Why the crisis in discuss it. David Cooper These three programmes_give us Geoffrey Moorhouse 'talking people about insights into to reality glimpsed through drugs, madness mysticism'. 'Radio or Times'. (My emphasis.) Last week's film concentrated on two women who have gone through profound subjective crises and for both of whom the experience was creative. Mary Barnes was a hospital R. D. Laing Gollan 'Of course there are no easy solutions, says Waddington, 'but how much better we'll all feel when responsible Party leader- ship says "Yes. comrades, the facts are disturbing, so something is wrong; let us get together in honest and open discussion and find the way out"' But he will never see the day when those who led the CP through the lies and slanders of the 1930s, the disciples of Stalin, conduct such a discussion-they have too much to hide. People like Waddington who are trying to understand the des- perate problems of the CP, must go deeper than mere styles of work, or even than the reform- ism of the 'British Road to Socialism'. He might do worse than to nurse; her insanity took the form complete regression to in- of a fantile life and the gradual re- growing back into adulthood and reason. She now paints and exercises an often irreplaceable compassion and understanding other people in similar circumstances.

She has had exhibitions and, wishing no unkindness, has be- spokesman for a come a star particularly interesting form of approaching mental illness.

But the contradictions of this method of approach in capitalist society remain dangerously con- fused in the minds of many who regard themselves as progressive and enlightened. Mary Barnes expressed it well when she said about her experi- ence: "The more I kept in touch with my own depth the more I under- stood the world.' This is precisely Hegelianism, where being is converted into a special reality. The truth is still Hegel on his head-the more I keep in touch with the world the more I under- stand. my own depth. And indeed the paintings of (Morag Coate he two women was the other) showed the same idealist inversion. who, after dismounting bicycle and shaking hands with ponder the words of J. Gollan when he said: The Chinese comrades by im- plication suggest that Stalin was against the concept of the pos- sible peaceful transition to social- Stalin's AN AD in Paisley's 'Protes- tant Telegraph' announces:

'MAGNIFICENT ORANGE

AND BLACK SHIELDS

AND PLAQUES. The very latest tribute to Dr Paisley's success in Lacquered Mahogany? The shop, situated in Belfast's 'All Sandy Row, also offers general Orange badges, wenlets, orebooks and jewellery, at PROTESTANT PRICES'. However, the main attractions are photographs not only of Dr Ian R.' K. Paisley, but also of William, Prince of Orange.

This is a considerable tech- since King nical achievement, Billy passed into the Protestant heaven in 1707.

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tify experience and thus make i omprehensible to the person in.

volved. also and outer experience and serves to forward consciousness of ob though it is jective reality-even passed inevitably subjective experience of the artist.

It may be therapeutic, but it is so on the premise that where the artist can no longer bring the exactly there that art faces us with the next great question to trump of reon ayer waterson, hat we celebrate, the victory of form over chaos that excites our admiration. We accept all of the world, a E nature and its workings in u only the more to change it and bring it to comprehension.

The programme did nothing of this sort though. It was intensely interesting i its material, but its maker totally reflected the latter-day theologians like idealism of Tillich and others. in te the saking part placed. R. D. LanG aaron Esterson aid with others, has made a large contribu- ion to the understanding of sub ective processes and their dialec Garıty ti- Psychiatry, (oreshmple ne inti-Psychiatry' has traced these processes with clarity and with clear ack- gratedgerent or the intent of Marx and other materialist philosophers. But the outcome is still existentialism. to make t te step ye b a table step into a truly of the lincond dialectical theory Someespecially Laing- have come as close as you can go be- fore veering off from the im- placable logic of the class struggle before histortheir and responsibility This film was merely a glimpse of some of this; it is an area where a revolutionary film maker day make a critical will one intervention. But in this period it is un kely that we shall see suc Likece on television. Idealism and with or easily thrown away.

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Behind Coventry DATA strike THE WORSENING economic position of Britain's aero-engine giant Rolls-Royce now lies at the centre of every sectional dispute arising in its many factories.

That is why the struggle of the company's design and

BY A WORKERS PRESS

technical staff at Curse it

REPORTER

change must noW its claim for substantial wage increase is to be success- ful. recover the cost of sible to The of the strategy research and development. Draughtsmen's and Allied For Rolls-Royce the prob- Technicians' Association for lem is to find new customers.

1970 increase followed its its 1969 and In Britain the only possi- successful taetic Coventry was chosen for bility is the BAC 311 engine only the battleground. which at present has no funds In 1969 it was Scotland for development. and it took a four-week strike bus con- The European air Scottish factories for the to tract has gone to Pratt and win their claim. Whitney and in the

USA

This claim was then lodged Rolls-Royce has General Elec- Rolls-Royce in all factories tric as well as Pratt and nationally. Having conceded Whitney to contend with. the the claim in Scotland, manal-Rent into the hands of Rolls-Royce has was in no position resist elsewhere. to 1970, On 16, the so-called economic advisers.

June Cories todged lls Rolls-Royce fac- From connections with tories claim for Hambros Bank comes Mr substantial increase in wages. Thomas Murrow, who, as well The company replied with die tosshite, if as five other national offer of per cent. President of the Institute reiected This was by the Chartered of Scot- Accounts which continued union to land. fight on a local level by call- 24 key From Royal Dutch Shell out design staff 1ng comes Mr David Fleming and Coventry and all in other Coventry

DATA

from British Rail fame comes members Dr Beeching. then applied sanctions (work to rule). According 'Sunday Times July 26, the company Letter is ld most easily hive off and hard looking areas replied with Rolls-Royce personal letter to each DATA since non-aero activities are relatively neither very large or member informing them that working very profitable, hiving off in unless normal was resumed their pay would be some cases should be perfectly practicable'. stopped from July 14. 15 On July the company To do this, of course, 900 technically locked out would throw Rolls-Royce into

DATA

from members its even greater conflict with the Parkside and Ansty factories American giants. Coventry. It is only through this con- the reason for this 1S flict and the driving to the by change of tactics the wall of one or more of these from 1969 that company is giants that profitability can be important and must be grasped restored, because total output if defeat is to follow. not of particularly aero engines, Behind Rolls-Royce's de- in the civil field, outstrips total

DATA

cisicn to take on is demand, as it does also in air- its intention to rationalize its frames. present wages structure, to the labour force make pay Competition for its present troubles. This is why Lockheed is also Rolls-Royce in serious in trouble. It has to compete financial Their need with Boeing and Douglas. attack to It is this that (1) A l profits from Connelon £15.9 millicn has ended the British air-frame 5.4 million industry's position as a leading in con- tinuing fall This was the reason producer. 1970 and for the turn towards Euro- (2) A pean joint ventures like Con- drop prices from 5s in to Ils at corde and the air-bus. present share. So Rolls-Royce has no basic and last (3) The of develop- home market year ct, home sales only accounted for me the RB-211, from f14 million out of a total of risen £70 million £100 £100 million. OVer million. In order to compete Rolls- Royce ies must reduce its total Co of wages. bill. and the fact it now This is the reason for the sell 175 only of lock-out in the present DATA L-1101 instead its dispute. Rolls-Royce says of the estimation of its 7 350 offer would ImpOs- put million on the total wages bill and the company can afford that each no more; also extra 1 on the total per cent wages bill must mean a 3 per

WEATHER

cent reduction in the labour force over the next five years.

This statement the opens door for compromise, a London area, SE and central settlement with strings southern England, E Midlands, attached. Channel Dry Islands: with This puts the DATA claim sunny periods. Light afternoon in line with the company's showers. Near normal. Max. attempt to end piecework for 20C (68F) manual workers. W Midlands, NW, SW and Change northern England: central The lock-out Sunny periods, isolated cannot be fought showers. Near normal. Max. economic 18C (64F). struggle. The workers' strategy must be changed political to Edinburgh, Glasgow area: strategy to fight the company's Dry and Isolated sunny. and the Tory government's showers afternoon. Cool. in attacks. Max. 17C (63F). At its centre must.be the nationalization of Rolls-Royce N Ireland: Scattered showers asapt in dust nationalized air- at first. Dry later, with sunny industry producing Max. periods Rather cool. craft for a co-ordinated trans- 5C (59F) port industry under workers' control. Outlook for Thursday and All Rolls-Royce workers, Friday: Dry and bright at first, technical, clerical and manual must the Coventry but rain spreading from the Join workers fight against Rolls- West later. Temperatures Royce's rationalization wage about normal. plans.

LATE NEWS

of Commons last week were flying into London yesterday Belfast from with a man arrested earlier. The described

JUDGE KIDNAPPEI

Illan, lecturer-journalist living in W Armed men vesterdav kid- London, was arrested by RUC napped Uruguayan Judge Special Branch men at Larne Daniel Mases i dealing who has in N Ireland. handled cases with CID officers are in N Ire- members the guerrilla land making further investiga- The kidnappers movement. tions. broke his house and into carried him off in a stolen car.

NASSER CLOSES

COMMANDO STATION

(See page one) In his first move against the Palestinian guerrillas, who oppose his deal with the US, Nasser yesterday closed down two Cairo-based Palestinian Commando radio stations. The betrayal of the Arab revolu- tion has already begun. Registered as the

COMMONS GAS:

Post Office. Published" by Press, 186L Cdon Clapham High Street,

BELFAST MAN HELD

S.W.4 Scotland Yard detectives in- Hi Street, no. (TU) of 80b Clapham High Street, throwing vestigating the S.W.4. CS gas grenades in the House

WORKERS PRESS

THE DOCKER AND HIS FAMILY

"These stories of the highly-paid docker are a lot of nonsense. I've never seen this talk about..? GEORGE McCRUDDEN has worked on the Royal docks in London for 12 years without ever experiencing the mythical f35 a week wage. The papers keep talk- ing about this fabulous sum we are all supposed

PROVINCIAL

TAX DEDUCTED FOR YEAR ENDED

LONDOY

to get—I haven't seen it.

ARTIE. E OF PAY AND

Last year I earned about

LOADON A 'THORITY,

a hires stawn below £1,400, this was with an

DIRECTOR OF EMANCE:

FOR THE PORT OF

TRINITY SQUARE, E.C. 1.

average of three or four 48412

JOAN LUNCHI

ME CRUDDEN G

nights overtime, he says.

L$ 85 53 72 A Mr Micurudden Tor. 313 to be sick. tunate enougn for the moment he 1,424.11.0 doesn't have manage to £5-a-week strike pay.

PAY AND ONE

This is what he told us Canning Town your cign: Nationai council house shadowed by Ronan Point. 'You can what the see Mr McCrudden's annual income shows that he receives, on issues are Denna unis sunke average and after stoppages, just over £22 a week.

Ine next decade uncer Deviln The STat the docks to 80 per 1s gonna to be cut an hour. This replaces the ductivity that the ell- by cent. all the hoppers always alla ployers gain, unev anything away. 'Phase Two is happening slall lilal uscu WOrK

CONT

Now the last time there was cael now. Ine machinery told they a rise I was working for the have been moment. ine cock at unis can even When operate shins Tilbury without any men Replaces men all! The demand they increased 'At Tilbury, decent basic we really didn't or examole Lulliase • rain. all Done a 00 on sea al get anything out of it at all insurance for the future "This is what they will try avoul DrO- Lo amaz Officials' S. Wales nearly 100 yards and at the eired I can hardly stand upo of a dav I've been actions Other dockers claim that

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they only get a good pay once two anger three months *We have to work hard to it only rose to about £27 example Devon timber ship every piece has The rest of the time they be bundled would earn £16 minimum. sepalately and the strikers pieces are ver Tara decid it rel heavy. With Trut We have to stack the boxes in about six different places AFTER 12 weeks the strike may be up 50 yards Switch- apart. or workers ottery Co-operation gear Lta., at Uttery si Mary in Devon is entering a crucial Sometimes have to We The dockers' leaders have boxes at stashe strike carry the speed Pre empl to co-operate for "basic employers to halt in the and 100 per 454d the rundown and hang on an hour 45 Hartlepools cent due have The result in the docks is i ne ottery bosses that in 1969, for nired student JaDouT 'no' to rate above that received prior yeal runnine. me uve ports the strike by skilled profit togetner „made workers more than £368,000, while compromise 180 now ed. here are All the whole British a surplus of E16L,367 Board had been sacked. Transport have 150 inside. The management has said it

THE HARTLEPOOL

delegate The

BTDB

invest canne General and Municipal only take 70 back. £26 tm by 1972 the national docks con S Wales ference, who is also secretary ports in a bid to of the Hartlepool strike com- Workers' Union made the new llarbours, mit the had been aiken strike official only after Workers Press ana Jeldes capable or com- month. a clear level DeLine with the last week's mass mandate: mechanization other meeting vehemently British and European ports.

WUlACis he Leu Dasic alu no lo dev- expressed dissatisfaction with in rnase iwo. In an area with unemploy- ine union leadersno and une ment twice the mined than ear attore repert *The more deter- way strike was being The avers leaders have (40,000), handled. been claim that union concerned to work officials have opened with the Kooison. ure manacine awec with a breen employers employers to build up trade cussions tor of the lees and Hartebool Port Authority, as saying that in the ports. at Bristol that strikers would the dockers e mention of tae But the of these asleenient efforts was summed consulted every bro up by posed move. une cockers who too me. The 'I rue the day I ever came new leadership if they men nave build a new to the docks. are to win this strike which is tect eat the day you fust "Our basic wage is £1l 1s 8d -that is 5s 7d an hour. Newton Abbot Trades Council Agreement PETER CROSSLEY (26) was secretar Mr vavia reruson Tatalv In ure• in a car acci- 'But under a local nas resigned over trace non cent saturday July bureaucracy. ment if work two hours and died in hospital on July He trade receive the caid that unionists Tolpuddle 27. attended the basic rate tor one hour. Doese ally witn peter was a member "The other hour, we only were the Stockton branch of the greeted get our piece earnings. So Worker To the Wears Proreg, bs an enthusand developed Mr Ferguson added in parti- are also disgusted. at wy e the employers' splitting tactics Cular war representatives negotiating a tly Ss basic the ottery strikers were not A computer systems ana- allowed by the rally organizers win tne crane arivers, men- to make an appeal for financial bers of the NUR, only weeks ne

HITSU

before the strike. became active with ine letter Young socialists during the _one GoCker echoed the summer of 1969. mood of the Hartlenool He was quickly attracted dockers when he said to a the campaign to found Workers Press reporter: reatner who was speakine al Workers as the ine ovucue rally. "I can't see an early end to Trotskyist daily paper this dispute. Tories "I'he the world, and began to

BUSMEN

give we fail it considerable Crculaton

END STRIKE

back for other Newsletter •redecessor meeting of 130 dockers workers Press

BUSMEN

Mistrict Traction Aldershot November at vne cock unanimous v re- he t and membership to com lected the Pearson proposals and instructed their represen- pany depot returned stand firm on the admitted as a can- after tour ycolciudy original claim proposed sulke action okesman for the me then he had be- Chances n workine bracuces.

aid the Pearson proposals, of the mainstays as Iverollations over new Come vie siva, contained nothing of the work of the League

SNITL

ana producuvity system are to continue. lor taem. in me cessiae ared

A SERIES OF WOR

Royal Group, London, dry ear Geos sl Even Dearer would be nations zain this. Nationalize When Wilson was beaten like docker. No to Peal

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significant 'Daily To an a Mi one 80 dared to •Manto. are an eter close after norm: Having accepted docks i destrys which compensatio the inch oment prospect a seate mor the it Workers ino paper and te politica

F WORKERS PRESS IN

McCrudden shows his neir branch meeting then. Took over This is on Bast that n and the be i would refuse to so come long a serie Pearson & De bat all trade groups Crossroads

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RIGHTS

Central Committee of The Palestiniathe errivities of the nationalist government leaders Cairo Tribune® vrote on jul ... the consensus amon contribution last Engels, Peter Crossley represente arest condolences, Wednesday, July 29, 1970 Pearson

RESS INTERVIEWS

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unionist accept this can report. Merseyside 'But dockers always expect retreat at some point. They're prepared for this and I'm certain they'll unofficially even if the fight delegates rat.' the But dangers of what dockers are beginning some to call the passive strike are revealed in the comments of seamen on the situation. NUS member Joe O'Rourke said At branch meeting the question of seamen taking perishable goods to be dumped sea was raised. was stated by the NUS official that there had been no approach whatsoever by

T&GWU

the workers for solidarity or any communication as regards the present docks dispute.' Another seaman, Sid Car- thew, said: 'The Pearson inquiry into the seamen took two years to resulted complete and in defeat for us (seamen). 'The Tories see this as a case for their test incomes policy and anti-trade union laws. And the whole of the trade union movement must be mobilized in support of the dockers.' Frank Lennon (NUS) added: 'The militant seamen feel that the dockers quite justified in the fight for a f20 basic and deserve their full support.' Indo-Chinese WHILE THE Soviet bureaucracy finds Arab leaders only too willing to collaborate with imperialism against the national movement in the Middle East, it is be- coming increasingly frustrated with resistance to a similar strategy in SE Asia.

In Chinese-language broadcast to SE Asia a week

BY A

Moscow Radio openly ago,

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

called on the peoples of Indo- China to accept the victory of imperialism as inevitable.

have styled revolutionaries whole history Ignoring the "a weak nation asserted that of the Indo-Chinese struggle, defeat a strong can one; the and especially complete small nation can defeat a big French of rout the at Dien the people of one; Bien Phu in 1954, the broad- defeat country can certainly cast stated: aggression by a big country"!

has As US imperialism expanded its aggression against Indo-China, self- the Opposed The Stalinist peaceful co- existence policy is diametric- & Devlin ally opposed this to contention. So the broadcast continues: called out on strike when 'Frankly speaking, such a the troops go in! policy has isolated the peoples Force the Tories to of small countries. The peoples resign! | of small countries will inevit- ably be defeated in the anti- imperialist struggle because their strength is match for no imperialism.' that of (Our emphasis.) foreign observers here is that Under the of attack- zulse ing theory both Mr Nasser and the the Maoist of 'self-reliance' (itself a response Kremlin's leaders genuinely want a settlement if the price to the treachery of the Soviet bureaucracy in Vietnam) the is right. Kremlin recommends a line of The same writer notes that total capitulation to imperial- Nasser's line is reflected even ism, and at a time when the adorning in the new slogans puppet regimes in Saigon and the hall where the Arab Phnom Penh (recognized by Union Congress Socialist is the Kremlin) are faced with being held. growing armed and mass One banner proclaimed opposition to their rule.

Israel must be defeated in the The history of guerrilla field of psychological war!'

a far cry from the old slogans struggle against imperialism Vietnam and now Cam- calling for the military bodia and Laos proves that destruction of Zionism. workers and peasants of small As representatives of their semi-colonial countries can native capitalist, and landlord inflict defeats the classes, the Arab bourgeoisie most powerful and well-armed fear the rising popular struggle capitalist states. at home more than the threat from Israel. Established Nasser, by accepting un- conditionally the Rogers plan, The NLF Test offensives of also recognizes the Zionist 1968 and 1969 established this state of Israel. for all time. And by the same token, he The immense sacrifices of denies the of the Pales- right the Indo-Chinese people have tinians, in the annexed regions failed to produce final victory and in the refugee camps, to only because of Stalinist of struggle for the return treachery the conference their homeland. table and in the embassies of Europe and, and America, This is the measure of all, of the Nasser's betrayal. above because refusal by the Stalinists and To enforce the terms of the mobilize the reformists to deal, Nasser will now join working class of the im- with Hussein in attacking the perialist for indus- countries Jordan-based Liberation move- trial action against the Indo- ment. China war.

FIRST STEPS

Last lap for Past guerrilla attacks on bases in Lebanon and Jordan due 'misunder- were not to Italian coalition as the i standings', leaders of both the and the armies guerrilla involved

CHRISTIAN

Democrat groups claimed at the time. Treasury Minister in the out- They first steps were the Rumor cabinet Emilio going towards the deal that has been Colombo has accepted, with- concocted Moscow and enthusiasm, by out President Nixon and now openly ap- Saragat's mandate to form a proved by Nasser. new centre-left (Christian The Revolution, Arab Demo- mass movement of nearon 100 Democratic, Social Socialist Repub- cratic, and and million workers peasants lican) government. for self national unity and determination against im- His chances appear slim perialism and its internal since the Social Democrats are agencies in the Arab capitalist still refusing to join any ad- and landlord classes, Is now ministration with the Social- at the crossroads. ists, no matter how right wing Either 'Nasserism', the ideo- the programme, until Socialist- bourgeoisie logy of the Arab Communist co-operation at and compromise with im- regional and local level 1S perialism and Zionism, or the ended. leadership fight for socialist Colombo the of embarked on his on programme the Permanent Revolution. task saying: have no illu- but the choice sions, deal of That is now great facing the Arab masses. patience.'