Workers Press no. 224

Hoover

OCT 29 1970

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 224 • What Lucrative routes to go private we think Tories to Responsibility for Uster deaths Bant orien By area + last loot state of an imperialist bloodbath.

the Ulster capital bombs at British troops. Daniel O'Hagan's funeral ol impressive airlines And ths ringield and Baliy only intensified desire of the youth to Meanwhile, the Ireland Tory Paisleite JUST AS the defeat of the Labour government allows man defi. by the Tories in June helped to push back the baen on parades. of its own ports, so too the defeat

BY THE EDITOR

nationalization of the of dockers' demands has now encouraged the cheir Forceup and prepare Tories to denationalize Tory government which the airlines. NO saratened less than three This is the meaning of the decisica

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break the dockers 50ks. to hand over routes earning over £6 These as ne work er million a year lor une state owned

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DUAL to a privately owned second-

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Torce airline. Ireland, but of Brionly

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The Having and students in the This is not new in Tory history.

While Gen Freeland had. the naised road traited + and Labour expense and then * armys famished reputathen. at one nethe catholi well as against Adverse effect causing by its tactics. On vesterday's In return for this sage advice a commission (composed o residents in one riot Speed-up CBI urges tougher Interes or delu minder in water the so TORY EMPLOYMENT and industry Productivity Minister Robert Carr this week turns Wister a tention ie arom his assistanie If the British troops are not the in esearch department Party's Lions Bil he will introduce in to e oncretely, - to now, e shackled and our in and t unions can the wages nent curbed. in the must Tood of talks with employers for* sin these or ea the The tent of the trustral on. SioN commends that borh public wind greate indust sle and ne unions in the industry, th Should be acceler. Dusty answer advises into troops at Longbridge Its ended edictatior expansion formation of a second-tora Crane strike

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ales in the plant is giv Bulls treatenins mesase Lives yesterday or hour

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com the work from Akes at the paint shop

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1970

PRICE 6d. Baghdad Location strike

STALINISM

IN parley

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to me words delays

BY ROBERT BLACK

Now on sale Arab summit

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plan for Middle East, backed

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Board of Trade. closure MGM's : is head. Shepperton have 1,000 out of work in recent 1970: Thirty years 'Good films' Confused since Trotsky's assassination iament has Lestes Littlew

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. The union plans le industry Memorial Meeting with an intorma a social w-wow between nationalize Be sc the win, of Tom 1

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Leon Trotsky's last words: week, the CBi with urge Cart Sunday I am confident of taste shed our Steel the victory of the August 23 express 'grave automation * Present Tor Fourth International Go forward'! OF the most Starts 3 p.m. advanced Admission 2s or ate die an •drives HEALY (SLL NaAND This means:

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ventral commiee). ALSO: The first public showing of the latest it also i Young Socialists' film-'Youth in Action in the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.

workers press

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What Responsibi for Uister deaths

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fate bombs at British troops. fight. Meanwhile, t • defiance an on parades. The ban 1s regroup heir forces. re of O' Hagan* Break the dockers stike. The minary intervenion. on britain Theing against the students in the Unted sinte used Whie ere on and repeate army' arnished reputation. sation an areas. towards I reland agreed to aprice Investigat army composed residents in the riot areas.

Instead cops are they treated responsibility revisionists who hav zea or tnem ana Justin Ireland. To lagan agragic reminderr murder Daniel demand.

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224

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

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Lucrative routes to go private Tories to loot state airlines JUST AS the defeat of the Labour government by the Tories in June helped to push back the

BY THE EDITOR

nationalization of the ports, so too the defeat of dockers' demands has now encouraged the Tories to denationalize the airlines. This is the meaning of the decisica.

STUDIO

to hand over routes earning over £6

CLOSURES'

millon a year

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The state-owned

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to a privately owned 'second-

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force' airline. Air- Caledonian Jnitec Been, one at which hit stated Ent route a some of The A nantic rocals to This is not new in Tory history.

vartea unti Labou nationalized road nade a neat E50 million profit.

sars to intensit entire workers ti wages security against rationalization plans. Adverse effect De este days mono acto maco Gear i Can Pest leave (TUC General Council) instaburher a and low stry, Speed-up CBI urges tougher compounded by in water TORY EMPLOYMENT and • Paper industry productivity Mondscen Robert Carr this week turns the water industry his attention in earnest mor industry his with yesterday the in Party's research department contractiled and uniona can be harked 2422 progress both pubic my mobis wild be Kicked of dre- sidone of op isidost ated.mes gover Edwards Co acceler- Dusty answer "th predictably at Longbridge for non-manual workers. formation of a Second too Crane strike

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1970

PRICE 6d. Baghdad Location strike

STALINISM

IN parley BREAKING new ground, a at the closure of MGM

BRITAIN

delays

BY ROBERT BLACK

Now on sale Arab ON THE occasion of the 50th summit

BY A

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

no mere Party l the THE US plan for Middle East, backed

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preparation for a ceasefire

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... as film men are now he in supposes march Stalinist Rodine OVER 200 workers in the film industry marched Initiatials as the Arab peace

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trouen London s nimand yesterday as part oi a have attacked union campaign against studio closures and redundancy.

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said that the i ran attitude

BY MARTIN ZARROP

take toke aston. Were cal in The industry a is dom.

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quarters in Golden Square.

months. 1970: Thirty years 'Good films' Confused since Trotsky's The restricting of the cam.

assassination many on members on. Rusty Cor. fim rece Wyatt Catteneo Productions

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union plans Memorial tons Bil he wil it die in pose be a tale o the employer a title bom Meeting "informal'

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SLAUGHTER

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Central Committee). operations-and ALSO: The first public showing of the latest Young Socialists film-Youth in Action in

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the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.

make foulne reports

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'Mr Bedaux is a man who has made his money from the sweat and labour of the textile workers.

I suggest he takes the Duke and Duchess lot Windsor] on a tour of the southern textile dis- tricts to interview the men and women who are wandering around on relief as a result of his system? (Francis Gorman, Union President, United Textile Workers. November 1937) WORK-STUDY systems cerned with work-motions.

'eliminate His was to and the various methods from resulting wastefulness ill- the use of unnecessary, of applying them are not directed inefficient and motions' new. Gilbreth introduced the con- Some workers will tell you of avoidable delay, to cept describe 'either idleness or an that these systems have been unnecessary movement that is operating in some factories essential part of the not an not advance for years. Others can tell of cycle and does the product or the operation'.

struggles against the the Such delays began at the Bedaux work-study method 'the on were body mem. from the normal in the 1930s. er departs of work, and ends pattern where the leaders of the 1917 member resumes The the normal pattern. Russian Revolution, Lenin and Trotsky, took a close look at Gilbreth To measure this, time-and-motion methods. devised the technique for film- In preparation for his book ing workers and dividing their Imperialism, Highest 1/2,000 of a jobs into Stage of Capitalism' minutecalled written 'wink'. This 1916, Lenin made a in com- is known as the 'wink micro- prehensive study of the Taylor motion film technique'. and Gilbreth (time-study) (method-study) systems. He commented that •under capitalism they 'a were tor- ture conjuring trick', Techniques of while Trotsky wrote in 1920 of exploitation Taylorism as a system under which: "The elements of the scien- of the pro- tific organization cess of production are com- Bedaux began to sell his bined with the most concen- of developed variety these trated methods of the system techniques of exploitation to of sweating' the British employers through The system was first intro- private company on whose duced in a developed form in

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and Enfield Board sat Rolling Mills directors. Britain in the ten years which followed the defeat of the 1926 Bedaux and his company General Strike. director associates were soon doubt thought It was no faced with a two-month strike Charles Bedaux-the sys- by their by girls against system tem's chief protagonist-that employed at the Wolsey stock- he would encounter less oppo- ing factory at Leicester.

demoralized sition among the December 1931 From to Britain than had workers in February 1932 they were out been the case in America.

›ehind the slogan 'No Bedaux!

predictions would Any such Opposition ang also came from quickly have proved have biscuit-making linoleum wrong by the wave of strikes Three hundred workers. and which general unrest women struck at Amalgamated of greeted the attempts Carburettors Ltd. saying they introduce the employers to 'were determined not to have Workers Bedaux system. anything to do with the Bed- through the claims that this aux system'. was a 'scientific' method of aid- In 1933 800 men walked both and ing management out of the Smethwick firm of workers. Henry Hope Sons and 'determined not to return to firm is willing work until the to abolish the Bedaux system' eight The strike lasted for Employer's weeks, with mass picketing of profits the factory and a public meet- ing following a march from West Brom- Smethwick to wich. Three hundred engineers at Elliot Bros of Lewisham also The essence of the scheme, of course, was that it pushed struck against job-timing in and up the employer's profits and 1933, the same year Ven- often allowed him to dispense thousand workers out at Silvertown, with large numbers of workers Plywood, COLd behind the demand. altogether. 'Bedaux must go!' One of Bedaux's main inno- Union leaders reported 'un- vations was the concept of the 'standard minute', a method of abated determination have to do with the timing the work process which nothing to sys- Fights broke allowed a great rationalization tem'. out between strikers and of in other non- movements words, speed-up. and the "Daily unionists, That Bedaux Herald' reported: was the founder of modern work-study 'Non-union workers on the had by Bedaux system police methods is flatly denied work-study against crowds of all present-day protecuon strikers' (May 2, 1933). and consultants, managers that At the same time, similar officials who say unlon was taken against the today's systems have nothing action

USA,

ae ma Belgium. to do with Bedaux's system. system This conspiracy of silence is Czechoslovakia and Bed- However, while some union maintained because officials aux's subsequent history and in Britain came out because of the disputes which against the system, and while the workers aimed in every broke out when attempts were made to apply his methods.

case to throw out the system unions' The story now is that mod- completely, the trade ern systems are based on the leaders who had sold out the work of Taylor, not Bedaux.

General Strike seven or eight Bedaux brought• years previously were not the In fact, together all the work of pre- to fight the employers men vious time-and-motion engin- eers like F. W. Taylor and F. In almost all cases where Gilbreth. taken against action was leaders Taylor, working in the latter Bedaux these part of the last negotiated where- century, was agi cemicals the first apply the by the system would be intro- man to stopwatch to the organization duced but 'at special bonus of and developed rates of pay' and under strict work, sys- union examination' tems such as that of loading half the previous The Trades Union Congress a lorry in time with fewer men. produced a report showing the Because of his aim to inves- physically and psychologically tigate and analyse 'scientifi- harmful effects of the scheme, of would cally' all the and that it inevitably and result in sackings. The report the production process; ended with the to experiment with materials, by agreeing machines and methods of work introduction of the scheme "so full consultation instruments long as using Itsull occurs' such the stopwatch he Attacking the role of the became to be i known as the 'scientific TUC, the paper of the first developer of Com- munist Party, Worker' 'Daily management' of December 23, 1931, said: Gilbreth was cọn- I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

LABOUR

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST

LEAGUE,

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

Name Address

BERN

"The TUC agrees with all forms of rationalization. They believe in all kinds of speed- up. The trades union officials are the same in every capital- ist country, kidding the work- ers to adopt such systéms in to compete with the order workers of other countries, and as a consequence we find the army of unemployed rising higher every wéek.' They went on to describe the Bedaux system as 'one of the most devilish systems ever invented. It is known in the mass production shops of Ger- many as "Bedaux Hell!", But the Communist Party held a heavy responsibility for the 1926 defeat of the General Strike, through its policy of telling the workers to support the 'left' trade union leaders.

Now (from 1929 on) in the 'left turn' the period of its Labour Party and trade unions became groups of 'social fas- cists' so that no united move- ment against the attack of the employers, which Bedaux was a part, could be built.

The Stalinists could con- tinue to make statements like that of January 13, 1932: 'What the bosses and the Labour leaders hail as scien- tific is merely the progress, sweating intensified of the working class. No Bedaux! is the slogan of the Wolsey girls, and their fight must be backed by all workers who are up against rationalization in one form or another' political against the Labour leaders. Like the work- study experts, the Communist Party now prefers to forget its previous history. Today the CP has supported 'productivity' schemes such as • Measured-Day Work and has smoothed the way for the introduction of time-and- motion study into factories.

As the working class fights back today against the Labour leaders who encourage the growth of monopoly, rational-

BERNARD

FRANKS

ization and speed-up, it must learn from the history of the previous struggles against the employers' demands for higher and higher profits. In September of the same year, the Windsors went to stay with the Bedauxs at their shooting lodge in Hungary and it was from here that Bedaux personally Charles arranged for the Windsors to make a tour of Nazi Germany.

The Windsors claimed later that Bedaux had said that the and visit would be private, they would simply meet cer- tain German industrialists who were among his friends. •Heil, Edward!' However, on their arrival at Berlin, on October 11, 1937, they were met by leading Nazi accord- Party members, and, ing to the Illustrated London News', the Duke was greeted by crowds shouting 'Heil, Edward! and 'Windsor!' 'Windsor!' They were taken on a con- ducted tour of the mines, chemical housing estates, factories by Dr works and Robert Ley, head of the Nazi Labour Front, the National man who had directed the destruction of the ruthless German trade unions. The Duke was also shown over a secret aircratt produc- tion works that no visitor had been allowed into before.

During their stay, the Wind- were entertained by sors Krupp, Goering, Hess and Hitler. It was during this tour that the Duke had a private dis- cussion with Hitler, described by the Duchess in her memoirs some years later as follows: 'On the back way to

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90 25 80 70 60 50 Munich, when we were mom- entarily alone, I asked David [the Duke] whether he had had an interesting talk with «Yes, Hitler. very," he answered, riffling through the pages of a magazine. • "Did into inter- get you national politics?" I asked, curiously. • "Now, darling," he pro- tested. "You know my rule about politics. I'd certainly never allow myself to get into a political discussion with him!" •"You were with him one hour. What did you talk about?" '"He did most of the talk- ing." •"Well, what did he talk about?" • "Oh, the usual stuff. What he is trying to do for Ger- many and to combat Bolshev- ism. about • "What did he say Bolshevism?" • "He's against it." 'And that was all I ever did get out of David about his meeting with Adolf Hitler?

attempted to follow Bedaux up this 'success' by arranging a similar tour of the United States for the Windsors. This visit was opposed by thousands of American work- ers through their unions, parti- cularly the Baltimore Federa- tion of Labour, on the basis that Bedaux, already notori- ous in the USA for his perni- cious systems of exploitation of the workers, had been the Nazi's agent behind the Wind- sors' German trip, under the auspices of Ley, and was now attempting to extend even fur- ther his openly fascist sympa- thies in the USA. As the time of the visit approached, the storm of pro- test increased. Thousands of United States workers prepared to meet the Windsors and Bedaux at the pierhead with anti-fascist ban- ners placards and slogans as they arrived. Nationwide demonstrations 10 20 30 40 planned. Automobile were workers at Detroit who had been on strike a year earlier against Bedaux's of system preparing speed-up were strikes and demonstrations against the Windsors' visit there. Textile workers also planned similar action, Bedaux eventu- ally withdrew as sponsor of the visit and finally the Wind- sors cancelled the trip alto- gether. Corporate state The methods of time-and- motion study far are not removed from the methods of the corporate state and the kind of dictatorship towards which sections of the employ- ing class in Britain are now looking as a solution to their economic problems. Bedaux himself was looking in this direction in the late 1930s. At that time he was a friend of the present Duke of Windsor. In fact, in 1937, following his abdication, the Duke of Windsor married the Duchess who was then Mrs Simpson, at Bedaux's own country man- sion, the Chateau de Candé, Tours, France, where near Mrs Simpson had already been living for some months as the Bedaux's guest. After becoming friendly with Schacht, the president of the German Reichebank, and Ribbentrop, German Ambassa- dor London, Bedaux to resigned from British Bedaux Ltd. in 1937 and went to live in Germany. Following the surrender of the French Army during the war, he acted as intermediary between the Nazis and Vichy. depa He finally committed suicide in 1945 while under arrest by the USA authorities. That Bedaux's methods are the basis of present work- study systems can be seen when we know that rating, the rating scale, work-studied in- centive payment schemes and methods of stop- modern watch timing as well as the 'standard minute' — were all Bedaux's inventions. It is also significant that job evaluation system a invented in the USA, was expanded to its modern level development in Nazi- factories in Ger- controlled Hitler during the Second many World War. At present, all these systems are being re-hashed and com- bined in a government policy of attacking the jobs, wages and living standards of the working class. In many colleges there are industrial relations depart- ments which specialize in training prospective managers in how to get these schemes across. course in 'communica- A tions' is now said to be vital for any manager or supervisor who has regular direct con- tact with operatives and staff.

Teaching staffs of these Vichy. departments, and of psycho- Wednesday, August 5, 1970 logy, sociology, and economics industrial research and other government agencies for pub- lication. Warwick university, for example, is closely associated with big business interests in the Midlands, as was revealed of the after an occupation registrars office by students.

According to 'The Times', the university ... set out to introduce new university courses tailored the needs of modern to business generally and of specific industries in particu- lar? The university's ruling coun- directors cil includes Hawker-Siddeley, Courtaulds, British-Ley- Rootes, Jaguars, land, Rugby Cement, Barclays Bank and R. Mead J. described as a director of 42 Midlands companies. ('Sunday Times', February 22, 1970.)

Its professor of labour rela- tions, Hugh Clegg, has been a member of the Prices and Incomes Board Royal Commission on Unions, well as being on as the original Devlin committee.

He has also been proposed as head of a new government- backed research unit which will be located Warwick at and which will aim: 'to encourage the develop- ment of long-term and funda- mental research in industrial relations; and to improve the quality of industrial relations decisions by government, employers and trade unions.'

Many of these experts also take part in courts of inquiry during disputes and are lead- ing members of bodies which Pro- examine and report on ductivity deals. These people are described as being "impartial' or 'neutral' industrial disputes far as as are concerned and so are said to be capable of an unbiased decision. Man-power requirements Another body aimed at helping managements 'to fore- cast and plan long-term man- requirements' is the dower Institute of Manpower Studies.

Based jointly at Sussex Uni- versity and the London School of Economics its setting up was enthusiastically backed by 20 of Britain's - biggest com- panies, including ICI, Shell, BP, and BSC. The link-up between gov- ernment, employers, university and experts trade union leaders can be clearly seen from the list of its joint vice- presidents. They are: Sir Peter Allen, chairman of ICI; Sir Denis Barnes, official head of and Productivity; Dr ment F. S. Dainton, vice-chancellor of Nottingham University; and Victor Feather, TUC general secretary. One of the most recent and use of work study took place in the period 1965-1970 at the Fairfield's shipyard, Clydeside. To the Labour government and to a bunch of closely associated millionaires and Tory business tycoons, the chance to 'save' the bankrupt yard came as a golden oppor- tunity an experi- to set up ment involving all the latest developments in the intensifi- cation of labour. After money had been paid out by government, million- aires and unions to keep the work-study yard open, 130 personnel were shipped in to apply work measurement, job evaluation, O&M, and Mea- sured-Day Work to the 3,000 workers involved. Mass publicity was given to the scheme with Labour, Con- servative, Scottish Nationalist and Communist Party parlia- mentary candidates contribu- specially set-up tions to the house journal, the 'Fairfields News'. Even Sean Connery of Tames Bond fame went along to make a promotion film.

were flown down Workers to the Electrical Trades Union Training College, presided over by education officer J.

Haston, for courses on pro- ductivity techniques. However, it was not 'com- munications' and 'good labour relations' which pushed the scheme along, but the policy of of the vard's chairman directors, lain Stewart, who, subse- according to the book published on the quently scheme: .. expressly made no attempt to obtain orders until the yard has been totally and tightly re-organized for he wanted to use the precipice of unemployment to keep the men on the narrow path he needed them to follow! (Whatever happened at Fairfields'. S. Paulden & B.

Hawkins.) The book explains further: •"The men were over barrel" Stewart is not afraid to confess "and I intended to they keep them there until understood our new tech- niques and trusted them and until the yard was running as I wanted it to run": And what was achieved by

Wednesday, August 5, 1970 7th conference which make the promises Federation's them to the work-study Team was held in Eire in 1968 cost the firm a redundancy, quarter ol a aDoul nO 200 delegates pounds in wages alone pay, etc., Cabl always rresenl WelC for a year? denied once the ConsuT- represenuns 1o countries ants have left on the basis World plans were laid or a *Systematically the labour oh the they were not part Congress force was cut down the and Science sometime so six months by about 750 company future. make such qualined men.' Time Mea- promises anyway Methods even more recent Association of Great Sometimes, too, disputes been develop meit nas was formed in 1963 which break out over a scheme of MTM television to use are blamed on une

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aspects or producuvily

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the emciency consultants Drilall ing. the company saying that With membership shire and The series 'Representing the eventually own work-study 1.400 it claims that Union', jointly run department put things Une more manacements are becom- trade unions and the right. ing interested in its metnoas. out to prove that workers Work-study particularly since MTM-2 was with consullanls art unite paid extremely well. An assist- 1965. work, which making capitalism there anything are 22,000 a year level of Call

MIM

shop-floor France, while senior men Associations in Holland, aneans acceptance

WULK

USA,

Germay. - coev cal unem encineers- study, job evaluation ano may Japan, get as much as 20,000. Ivor way. sweaen ana Measured-Day Work. Workers facing continual Italy, • a under The Finally, bring fully us hounding increase times. of an international directorate.

up-to-date is necessary who haven't The associations run courses often from people look at the business, manage- work a clue the out certificates to those tha Delete. ale suluck large increases in staff and by pass. It is no surprise that world the uncreds or thousan pounds paid out salaries canitalism. CrisIS and these schemes are decay, should seek to dissem- on a world-wide scale all operated. vicious and Ne must also add that most

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like capitalism itself, tive methods sweating, sultants, and controlling the are internauonal. Work-Study European ine working class.

IMPORTANT

READING

Duke of Windsor ment and work-study consult- ants' firms which tout in ever- increasing numbers con- tracts to introcuce the latest time-and-motion methods into he othe her.

1970 THE YEAR OF LENIN AND TROTSKY

majo effects of the development industry-

DOCUMENTS OF SOVIET OPPOSITION

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LIKE THE proverbial dog returning to its vomit, the British ruling class cannot avoid return- ing to the question of Kim Philby, the Soviet spy who became head of anti-Soviet espionage in мІб. The implications of Kim and of the Philby's story revelations that were made of about the operations British and US intelligence agencies at the time of his the USSR in defection to 1963 are too disastrous to be simply forgotten, so they have to be distorted. Thus distortedly but unmis- of takably the capitalist traits advanced state of society in an decay find themselves reflected in the mass media that the capi- talists themselves control.

Philby, the son an upper family with a tradi- middle-class tion of mild revolt and pro- nounced eccentricity, student at Trinity College, Cam- bridge, at the time of the great depression that followed the 1929 Wall St crash. The middle class was thrown into turmoil by these events, and in instances turned many to- wards a socialist solution to the capitalist deep crisis in the system. Explains This documentary explains that Philby left university in 1933, the year of Hitler's accession power in Germany, and that the experience that determined to struggle consistently for what he considered to be Communism John PHILBY was the brutal massacre of the Austrian workers' movement bu of the war, even earning a good Dollfuss in 1934. deal of respect from the US spies He was at that point enrolled he came into contact with.

by Soviet intelligence as an agent whose task long-term was It is a real commentary on the of the British Secret penetration state the British ruling class had Service alongside his fellow two by then reached that it took students, Burgess and McLean. Soviet spy to inject some order He immediately set about into the operations of MI6.

establishing his credentials as as d Fróm loyal British spy. the extensive testimony Trot step was apparently of the historian, Hugh Trevor necessary get a job as a reporter for "The Roper, it is clear that the main Times'* concern of SIS soon shifted from He then qualified himself poli- the war Germanu tically for the job by joining the to do battle with preparations fascist 'Anglo-German Fellow- the Soviet Union. and by Franco's

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Miles Copeland, ship' joining Headquarter staff sym- who also appeared in the pro- during the pathetic journalist a similar gramme, made point Spanish Civil War. when he said: He wounded and

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chasing after Com- decorated by Franco for his 'We were during when bravery. the ministe War With such outstanding qualifi- everybody thought we were cations. Philby was received with chasing after Nazis.' Secret Intelli- With the Normandy landings of open arms by ThA gence Service (MI6) 1944, the SIS began to group to- at the out- gether break of the 'war against fascism'.

the various departments concerned with the combating Clearly, here was a man mir. ably prepared to take up the of Communism and the sub- fight! version of workers' states.

With the unerring instinct of Indeed Philby, the Soviet- trained turned out to be true officers and gentlemen they spy, extremely good at sorting out the chose exactiv the right man Allied head the Kim that reigned new section chaos intelligence during the early part Philby. The most important action that *Bruce Page & others: 'Philby, this section undertook the in The Spy Who Betrayed a Genera- years following tha waI tion, pp. 140-143. campaign to start a civil war in EVERY MATOR strike sets answer Fleet St and the telly-men hunt for strikers' on the wives who oppose the workers' action. of is both characteristic dockland and a sign of the times that the barons' press news were unable find one hawks to statement on these lines in any port in the country. Dockers' wives interviewed on Dockers lobbying the Trans- TV up firmly for the port House docks delegate con- all spoke the dis- had strike- no doubt to ference last Wednesday several things to say about Mrs appointment of the interviewers.

But Fleet St has to do its job Burrell, most of which One Liverpool somehow. be reported here. So the 'Express' last week dug man caid. Mrs Burrell, '14t-stone uD a 'As for this woman on Mersey-

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former ohusical fitness side going instructor'. This lady from Wal- who says che ic unload got 1,000 ships, we've lasey was organizing housewives who'll dockers' wives there the •all over if she shows be ready for her unload perishable army to face the docks. The her near cargoes. can't believe trade unions must Tories and the employers kid dockers wives any more with be disciplined,' she said, accord- their television and press propa.

'Thev are ing to the 'Express' getting out of hand 'Private Eye', and a leading IS THE 'Daily Telegraph' Col- member. our Magazine on July 24 the smal hous he met Foot in Yergin several managed to cover pages with a feature by Dan 'Only late at night can one Yergin called 'Beyond the weave such tapestries,' says the Foot is left, further than the right.

"Telegraph' articles. quoted as saying: This pot-boiling compendium the possibility I do question "left" happening. I've tried to mix various of a revolution with such organizations never been very sure that a revo- groups as the National Front. lution would happen... •Peoble sav to me: "Look here, When Yergin approached the it's absolutely out of the ques- Socialist Labour League for tion, this revolution, what" are material several months back, we mucking about when We have you doing refused to co-operate. could useful of the kind of do far more some experience you But even in this miser- publicity seek things?' capitalist papers capitalist system, it's the able to give revolutionaries. reformer revolutionary- -not the who fears top th But, the state state But, as always, th alwavs. gets gent tea reforms. I'm con- gets of that" ism' grour could not resist the Fleet St's Tust to check, Workers Press lure of bright lights. The result was an interview with phoned Foot. •I sunnose I may have said the Paul Foot one of the editors of Philby: Ruthless Journey: BBC 2 Documentary Wednes- day July 29 includes film shot by Philby's son John, who also relates childhood lections of his father. Albania to topple the young Communist state. To this end Philby was set to work recruiting emigré Albanian royalists to train guerrilla as fighters who would then be para- chuted into the country to start an uprising. This scheme had the the then Labour blessing Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin.

Indeed, by 1949 it appears that the CIA had also become interested in the Albanian ven- ture. The combined operation was now on a much larger scale, and joint command of it was placed in the hands of-Kim Philby.

The allied governments watched with dismay as their guerrilla squads were picked up one by one as they tried to enter the country. In the final big drop the whole group of infiltrators was sur- rounded as it parachuted down and massacred to the last man.

Philby's cover was effectively blown in the early 1950s by the efforts of the FBI to identify a source of leaks from the British embassy in Washington. They successfully tracked down was McLean, the source, who Philby's fellow agent. Escape Although. McLean and the othèr member of the trio, Bur- gess, managed to escape to the continent because the British :.'middie-ciass tradition of the long 'week-end made it socially im- permissible to arrest them on a Fridably impinate Philby was in- Friday. evening, Even then the old school tie sayed Philby, until effectively à decade later a mumber of defec- tions by important Soviet agents placed into the hands of British intelligence, it it is permissible word in this connec- to use the tion, enough evidence to arrest him. By that time, however, he had already worked out his escape and he disappeared into route, the USSR. Through the career of Kim Philby up to date we gain a rare insight into the nature and workings of the British, and to a US ruling large extent of the class in the century of imperialist decay. oft aald thee hatred eet the profit and the of the working class that led the SIS, as an organ of the class rule of the bourgeoisie, to flirt with fascism LAST Thursday's 'Morning Star devoted a good chunk of page 5 to a picture of Gora, described as 'India's saintly atheist'. It might seem surprising for the 'Star' to have anything to do with an unbeliever, but this one was interviewed in Canon Col- lins' sitting room, so that's all right. Gora's atheism becomes even clearer when we read his state- ment: *The slavish submissiveness of the many provides a handle for things he quotes, he told us, 'but in isolation, I think it's I know I shouldn't ridiculous. have seen him. I can't complain about it now, and Workers Paul FOOT

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Kim PHILBY talist state is indeed a sad one, and to undertake the murderous adventure in Albania; the inter- and in the footage of him that managed the his bring connectedness of all organs has recently out of the Soviet Union of class rule, of the secret ser- politicians, with the we see a sad and tired man.

vices all, he broke free, as he whether Conservative or, like After from the limitations of Bevin, Labour: the Tole of the saw it, of communication under his own upper middle-class back- media ground into the service of Com- capitalism, in this case 'The find himself a Times' which shown by the only was Philby to be regular hireling of Stalinism. recruiting ground for SIS in the pre-war period at least. Generation But the BBC too plays its part in this. It is part of the capitalist state.

This was, after all, the fate of It of intellec- must therefore try to whole. generation gloss over the things that really emerge tuals who made the first faltering from the Philby story and direct from middle-class steps away our attention instead to some radicalism only to find in Stalin- metaphysical maunderings from ism, whether they took it or left Hugh Trevor Roper something that reinforced all concerning the personal and emotional their worst weaknesses and the individual formed a barrier to further pro- poverty of spy's existence. gress. The saddest thing about Philby Not only Philby, but also Stein- for beck and Brecht belonged to this Trevor Roper was. not that, against his foil, the real generation. It is now mostly dead, dirty mess that the British ruling crushed and defeated. To clear class is, but the 'total absence of out the corrupt and still any genuine human contact. moribund, although vicious Philby's and violent capitalist state and story, despite his in- reckoning tellectual courage breaking to to with from a fetishistic and chauvinistic Stalinism is the task of a new middle-class loyalty to the capi- generation. The Transitional Programme adopted by the Founding Confer of the. Fourth International with the Statutes of the

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their visited both •Karl Marx's the active few to exploit rave the the house where Gandhi fellow indeed it is and men, The makes lived in 1931. 'Star' reports: slave who tyrant

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'Both of his brother.' men, says were great he So his doctrine of 'aggressive humanists, although regrets direct oppo- that Marxism has had recourse humanism'. the dictatorship" "political for of Marxism. to site and religious achieving economic equality Where Marx saw rooted in conditions of that Gandhians have stressed the belief Gandhi's exploitation and Gora religious aspects of oppression, says it is the other way round.

philosophy while ignoring its from revolutionary aspects. Marx's conception leads of religion the Any admirer of Gandhi, the criticism to British conditions pacifism enabled need revolutionize to hold back the which it develops. imperialism to in Gora implies that the bosses Indian national movement for decades and laid the basis for the blame for exploiting are not state of today, -it's your own fault! Indian capitalist you- The 'Star' us that Gora is a friend of theirs. tells So he can hardly be surprised Press has every right to criticize Tory when paper uses their me over it.' We of with him print have no intention interview 'valuable' the 'criticizing' Foot. stuff for ruling He is no naive lad making class. experienced Foot's words can be taken mistake, but of IS journalist, fast being groomed as reflect the real thinking and similar circles. a TV 'personality'. When Foot preparing For them, "revolution' is an was Enoch Powell, he exotic dream, played with his book on to he for kicks in youth— arranged an interview with his one's especially late at night.

subject. 'useful' Workers Reforms the November, are which possibly Press asked him: reality, might think that justify the 'revolutionary' talk.

Do an you and therefore, is no accident, interview BeTween Powell will serve to whitewash that Foot risks being used in an article aiming to discredit revo- whose racialism is man lutionary for the sake designed to the working outionait politic split class?' publicity. His to be duped in He replied by telling us that eagerness way is a direct result of his the information gleaned by this middle-class scepticism about meeting Powell as well as even of the more openly indivi- the ability working class reactionary to take power, in a period when duals would be 'very valuable it must prepare to do just that.

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Wednesday, August 5, 1970

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Silence by Brewery- Transport union drivers' Palestine

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strike solidarity TWO WIDE-RANGING productivity systems— backs the 1968 engineering package deal and the Devlin spreads docks 'modernization' scheme-have, perhaps, TRANSFER drivers handling done more than anything else to explode the deliveries militant reputations of the 'left'-wing union group Ior wallbread s brewery yes- leaders. terdav cioined the unomicial dispute of drivers and mates But hostility the productivity the firm's trouncers'-at AS IMPERIALISM moves to impose a settle- and General 1 ransoort nve city depots the Middle East would ment on wnich workers leadersnio s naste Palestine people permanently deprive the 01 to sheve the tv dasic- their land, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign rate struggle in favour of The dispute i the transport has been conspicuous by its silence.

Lord mentation recom. Pearson's Campaign was mendation to proceed with alreadyside formed in May 1969.

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