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overtim rates - 1970, nothing on the basic and I see no reason for calling of the docks now is the yardstick by which the whole trade union stated exact he said ate en next two to three years.

Doors li are and they a We will INTERVIEWED in Liverpool before yesterday's conterence, Morning stara bich hav a number of dockers were following a determined to continue the 'We should continue the fight no matter what the fight for the £20 basic. The outcome. alternative is being mandated Transport and General to negotiate Devlin Phase Two shop steward Jim Nolan-a and we don't want that. member of Liverpool's port I don't know how Friday's modernization committee - mass meeting here will go, commented: but I think there's a • good prepared JUST OFF THE PRESS INC 1970 supe DOCK STRIKE leader Forme member down tacit wan thee dock terday uppor ones throughout the stri THE 31-51 VOTE of yesterday's docks delegate conference in favour of a return to work on Monday on the terms dictated by Lord Pearson's inquiry is not the end of the dockers' fight.

Available from 186a, Clapham High Street, SW4 MAXIE HENDES, T&GWU, member, Southampton: The throughout this strike have been the most forceful of all and the most genuine. I felt that as a docker, and I'd like to thank the Workers Press for the way that it has covered this fight.

continue Liverpool dockers unity needed to defeat the Tory governmer Liary CavarWay dockwor FETT • HAMITE lobbied Transport House yesterday were quick to point out, it is only the beginning.

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not going in', shouted Royal Rich be mil our be The struggle battle Ust another wages ALBERT GITTINS, Royal group of docks, London: This deal doesn't give anything to us. It's obvious they took all Tony de divine back the the employers' recommendations. It's quite ludicrous to aim put up overtime without put- dockers seem inne ting up the basic rate. You've got to work 50 hours over- employers' terms and opentime to get this money. As an ing the way for mass NAS&D member think employment and anti-trade Phase Two is the real fight. union laws., The union leaders, nk anyone expected a fair deal struggle, have been in headproduced is the same package Onslaugetreat itrike for a basic increase. There's strike. What happens in the movement will be judged in the fight' apitulation to the Torie (ene here a a like a possibility of our deciding to boosted continuously by the carry on with the fight.' Communis Party Rank-and-file T&G member Frank leading Labour Party Hughe left-winger in enemy.

Liverpool's Scotland constituency, told the Workers Press he thought most Merseyside dockers would now think that maneouvre the real fight had just begun. to weaken the dockers' figh 'They won't go back with- for their £20 basic wage out something being won.

'When we negotiated the £16 basic here last year it su teeded in the spit are was a real millstone around the employers' neck and fight.

Merseyside will fight to maintain that. still in front.

'Dockers don't need telling this is a showdown with the fusion on the docks. Tories-after all, they've been telling us for months and months they're going to try the most and break the unions. Well limb-down since the gen this is it. al strike of 192 'What's been worrying me is the problem of leadership.

'The stewards are putting be going back with absoforward this policy of £60 for 20 hours, but the question of redundancies is left hanging in the air. the second phas "They must formulate a Dévlin's speed-up scheme policy of no redundancies and maintaining the register. found the vote satisfactory chairma Otherwise are they saying they'll accept four to 5,000 men going off the docks never to return, if the ante is high enough?

'We'll have sold our birthright and within 12 months Press: the f35 will have gone' While thumbing through up. We completely reje his copy of the port employers what Pearson said 42-page Devlin Phase Two the working sease is waking proposals, T&GWU shop steward told us: at all from the inquiry. the 'We've got no satisfaction It says - just like employers—no increase at all their fight. If they lick us unless you pay for it through modernization, through the loss of hundreds of jobs under Phase Two. Devlin Phase Two is completely unacceptable at cupboard any rice, lose this fight then everyone else had better look out. This government has set out to the unions- •OPAGE FOUR COL. 9 particularly shop stewards?

On the contrary, as pickets among the 200 from Liverpool, London and Southampton who Shouts of 'you've sold' and 'thè Tories have won' as delegates came into the 'There's our flag and we're comits outside Transport House yesterday echo the headline of yesterday's Worker The issue It is intensely politica is Devlin' he strik was provoked the employers and the says Hull Chairman COMMENTING after Hull dockers' Tuesday decision to accept Pearson, Mr Ludders, chairman of the Humberside area of the National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers, told the Boosted decision The issue is the second Phase of Devlin. This is a diabolical decision because the delegates have been mandated to a £l6 basic minimum and at a further meeting of been the Transport and General Workers' Union this first mandate was repeated.

Morning Star'-really stan class The straw that has been cast into the stream has been Report clutched at the first opportunity.

We expected this straw to be thrown, but we didn't expect it to be clutched so quickly.

Thanks the union The position put by the leaders, the Tories have T&GWU officials that the claim was for the lower paid workers was a red herring, because if they were demandBut the main struggle is ing an increase in the basic rate it would enhance the There must be no con- position of all their members and would have squashed the negotiations carried out by them (where not concluded) on the second phase of Devlin. weeks on If we got £20 basic it would strike, * thehig dockers will make £35 for a 35-hour workWing. week look sick. (It is a 35-hour working week : but a 40-hour attending week.)

The £20 basic will put our wages up 80 per cent depending on our work.

No wonder employers' With shift work in Devlin Phase Two the chances of Waking up Bail refused in 's a sell-out. That sun firearms case WHEN Bowes Egan, 29, of bail was referred to a was charged at Bow St judge in chambers. magistrates court yesterday Detective Chief Superinwith 'conspiring to con- tendent Reynolds arrested tory workers: our fight is travene the Firearms Act', Egan in Belfast on Tuesday police opposed the granting morning. of bail. He said he was continuing His solicitor told the with the throwing of two court that among those cannisters of CS gas in the prepared to stand surety House of Commons last for him were Michael Foot, week. Ben Whittaker and Hum- Bowes Egan stood as a phry Berkeley. Peoples Democracy candidBail was refused and ate for a Fermannagh conEgan remanded in custody stituency in the Stormont until August 6. The question election last year.

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-Moscow boosts Pearson union law IN LINE with its June 19 broadcast welcoming the Tory election victory, Moscow Radio has now come out on the side of the Pearson inquiry findings on the dockers' pay claim.

Commenting on the dock BY A strike, Moscow Home Service FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT on Monday: campaigr on the state of the 'The commission set up bs the government was compelled That is precisely what to recognize the validity of Jones, Gollan and the Soviet wick, Northumberland. at AIn• the dockers' demands.' bureaucracy fear. The 'dockers' demands' They all share and try to i decide mined to bal were first and foremost for impose on the working class an increase on the basic rate the reformist policy best he warned -a claim that was rejected summed in the phrase "peaceoutright utright by the Pearson ful co-existence'.

union law inquiry.

Praise SUBSCRIBE NOW Stalinist broadcasts from the Soviet Union and E Europe have been full of praise for the mriers nress • Yu leadership of Jack Jones in this strike.

And now that a big clash between rank-and-file dockers and the union leadership over Pearson and Devlin approaches, the Soviet bureaucracy makes haste to come to the aid of its fellow bureaucrats in Britain.

If Pearson 'recognizes the validity of the dockers' demands', then clearly the strike should be called off.

This is the logic of the Moscow Radio position.

The Kremlin, like the Sorie, just nike its Polish a thes wants to break this broke the strike of Asturian enference miners and Itish cement workers, and just as its French Stalinist allies betrayed the great_sit-in general strike of May-June 1968.

The dockers' strike is political, full of revolutionary implications for not only the whole British working class, but Europe as well.

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I would like information about PAGE AS NEGRO youth fought with police on the streets of several American cities in the last fortnight, newspapers and police officials were anticipating that this would be the start of another 'long hot summer' in the black ghettoes.

The reasons are not hard to find. At Ashbury Park, New Jersey, where fighting went on for three nights running, a civil rights official said:

'Housing in the West side is among the worst I've ever seen. They can't even move from one hovel to another'.

Unemployment The local chief of police himself attributed the cause of the rioting to the high unemployment among Negro youth in the city.

Having long been the most oppressed section of the American working class, super-exploited, badly-housed, victims of discrimination, racial insults and police brutality, black workers have also been the chief victims of unemployThe spread of mechanization and automation has taken away many of the unskilled jobs to which they were confined, and they have usually been the first to be laid off in any recession.

Large numbers of Negro youth have grown up in the black ghettoes without any prospect of a job, and, because they were either unemployed or in dead-end jobs, the black youth have been the main people to get drafted; sent out by the society which oppresses them, to fight for its interests in Vietnam and elsewhere so as to help it oppress other people.

Growing up in the ghetto Slums, offered no future except unemployment and war, suffering su plenty oved pinession id the 'land of the free, the black youth are confronted daily in their poverty by the symbols-—in shop windows, on television and in films-of the prosperity which is denied.

parts PART TWO will appear in Friday them, acting as an insult an incitement to revolt.

In one city after another, beginning with the Watts insurrection in 1965, these youth have taken to the streets and fought American capitalism, its police and its troops. Their revolt exposed the basic rottenness at the heart of mighty America, the heart of world capitalism.

The Watts revolt was the first shots of the American revolution.

It has often been observed that the threat of revolution is the most effective way of bringing reforms.

It was only after insurrectionary conditions had arisen in one American city atter another that the US establishment began paying serious attention to Negro demands and the government attempted to introduce some measure of However problems like unemployment and racial oppression are built in to the very structure of American capitalism.

Reforms

The reforms introduced by the Nixon Administration have solved nothing and with the crisis of US capitalism growing worse, unemployment is increasing..

In April this year the unemployment rate among Negroes rose from 7.1 per cent to 8.7 per cent. Among the youth the figure is much higher, having risen from 28 per cent to 34 per cent-more than one in three.

The Nixon government's scheme to get firms to take on and train more black workers has proved a flop. According to 'Time' magazine of June 'Launched with much fanfare 18 months ago, the combined government-business drive to hire hard-core unemployed—particularly blacks-is becoming a casualty of the economic slump.' The JOBS scheme - Job Opportunities in the Business Sector-was established jointly by the Department of Labour and the National Alliance of Businessmen.

The government undertook to pay training grants averaging $2,400 per man to companies that took on and trained unskilled labour. The government expected that 140,000 workers would be enrolled.

Cancelled

In the year ending June 1970, only 99,000 were hired, and of these fewer than 40,000 were still in their jobs by the end of March. The Chrysler Corporation cancelled a JOBS contract which would have provided for 4,450 workers. Chrysler's chairman Lynn Townsend is also head of the National Alliance of BusinessAnother company which is involved in the JOBS scheme is Zenith Radio Corporation.

Since the scheme began, 28 per cent of their trainees have left, while another 61 per cent have been laid off.

A Zenith spokesman, Mr Leonard F. Luce, stated:

'Should there be a further downturn in the economy, it Black Panthers prepare to face police attacks.

Black Panthers protesting duri the trial of lead Huey Newton.

BLACK by CHARLES PARKINS will be necessary to lay off the balance of those still with us.?

'Time' reports that a Senate Labour Sub-committee looking into the JOBS scheme found that the scheme had not reached Negro teenagers at all and furthermore found serious abuses in the scheme.

'A few companies have used government training grants to subsidize their wage costs and have skimped on teaching. Others have used the programme to recruit and hold 1 ar unskilled labour in dead-end jobs.

'A California company, for example, contracted to give 322 hours of on-the-job training at a cost to the government of $4,173 per man, but most of the jobs were so simple that it took only from two hours to two days to learn the routine. A Detroit manufacturer agreed to train machinists, but turned some of them into general labourers.

These companies are obviously not interested in solving problems of unemployment or economic insecurity.

They are simply getting what they can out of the scheme - a supply of cheap labour and government subsidies as well. Very nice, says the capitalist!

Of course is not this to America.

We have seen something very similar happening in this country when firms move to development areas in Scotland and the North East and in their altruism 'help' the unemployed by taking them on at low wages, helping themselves to'nice fat government subsidies into the bargain.

It has happened in Britain too that firms which have taken government subsidies for moving into these areas then proceed to lay off their workers at the first whiff of recession.

Anarchy

The anarchy of capitalist production is such that attempts to modify and regulate it by government intervention usually end up as merely schemes for turning public money into private profit. The problems of the working class remain unsolved.

American capitalism can offer no future to the Negro youth. To solve the problem of unemployment and bad housing requires the removal of capitalist chaos, and its replacement by a socialist planned economy.

crisis caperiod not even offer palliative reforms. This is shown by the failure of the JOBS scheme. The Senate subcommittee which examined the programmes failure remarked:

"To ask the private business sector to use the JOBS programme as a solution for unemployment in a declining economy is like asking them to solve a financial crisis by writing more checks.' Not only are the companies laying off workers whom they had recruited under the scheme, but the Nixon administration intends to cut its allocation of funds to the Washington DC:

The scene of some of the most vicious police attacks on Negro JOBS programme, as part of a general cut-back in expenditure.

The failure of Nixon's reform programme underlines the seriousness of the capitalist crisis centred on the United States.

Although Marxists have consistently drawn attention to the economic crisis as being central to present political affairs, there has been no shortage of revisionists with theories about 'neo-capitalism' or 'permanent arms economy' according to which America should not be in any crisis at However the American capitalists do not share the confidence and faith in capitalism which some 'socialists' seem to possess.

United States the head of the News, weather.

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As for the 'arms economy', the Vietnam war has only compounded the contradictions in the American economy and helped it along to breaking point.

If the US economy cannot maintain full employment in a war situation, then what happens if the war ends?

There will be no jobs for the Gis returning home.

So whatever course the American ruling class takes it faces a serious internal crisis.

This means that the American bosses must turn to more repressive measures against the working class, the students and the black youth. To prepare politically for reaction, behind their "law-and-order' slogan, the Democratic and Republican leaders will turn News, weather. Na News, weather. Road Flynn and Alexis Smith.

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WIDTH. 'Only 1877 and Gls in Seattle: Black youth have been the main people to be drafted to Vietnam. again to an alliance with ségregationist forces in South.

This means a resurgence of extreme racialism as a force in American politics and a halt to de-segregation. This has already started.

At the same time, the Nixon Administration and its big business backers have sought out amongst the black people those whom they can use as allies.

The old Christian pacifiststyle 'Uncle Toms' are no longer sufficient to hold back black militancy and the American ruling class realizes this.

What it has done in the last few years has been to consciously cultivate its own tame brand of 'Black Power'.

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for what was virtually a lockout.

AUSTRALIA'S position in the Territory of Papua-New Guinea is increasingly being revealed for what it is—a colony being prepared by the government for super-profits by western capitalism.

The latest confrontation came between the establishthe most consistent feature of this reformist daily.

While most dockers suspected, correctly, that Jones was preparing, retreat, the Star' did its damndest to "Though, knowing thẻ employers and the Tories, they'd use three-year-old kids to break the strike, like they did in the days of Dickens.

First reaction amongst some dockers in Liverpool yesterday afternoon was that there was 'no danger of us going back on these terms'.

'This is where the real fight begins,' commented one T&GWU militant.

I think many Merseyside dockers expected something like this and I don't think there'll be an early return here' • Reject Lord Pearson's report outright! • No return without the £20 basic wage!

Throw out Devlin Phase Jones must go!

Full support from all other sections of workers!

Force the Tories to resign!