Workers Press no. 228

Tories planning

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PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER

228

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

WHILE UNION leaders fumble and retreat, the Break Tories are preparing to co-ordinate their plans with the employers' associations for a winter away offensive against the working class.

union All the signs of such an attack are clearly visible.

pickets

STOP

Immediate v atter lord stokes cres or anarcy and Chaos and Pilkington s arrogant and provocative Pilkington dismissal of 300 men over union recognition, there comes the news that the ul is planning a conterence of industrialists and chairmen of employers' associations OVER LUU bickets were out Pilkington's alass in september to discuss wage restraint • tories at St Helens yester- This follows while the dory sinster tat Me CEP claimed the

BY A POLITCAL

sacking of a intervals of les mone wing

CORRESPONDENT

thán 12 months. Tender Carge Casered newly-formed Glassworkers their action on Sunday. had entered the Triples works bie While Israeli jets bomb Lebanon Worth would Gasworker Unton watching' ith productivity Pilkington Bros, and mem "The *CBT is Aucularizit the - Home office with paere in 2,000 approves files discussed by WITH THE Egypt-Israel 'cease-fire' now in its Following one fourth day, the United Nations Middle Eastern the CBI sewared for the comissed ordinating debate september for 0 Or 40 yers. envoy Gunnar jarring (aiso swearsh Ambassador to Moscow) is pressing ahead with his plan to In short The statement followed the launen tne lalks projected belween Arab leaders and the Zionists. class has reeder ac US and Soviet officials are forcing the pace. Review reported trom New york. fear because they Arab new and reaction Sunday's Sunday tangement nad ree in the Middle seident Nicol Israeli jet attack on the fight develop. Soviet hamstring ment of the negotiations.

asser despite UN ons and increase unemploy- raid beas liberati, Lebanon and Syria.

repial for

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'Release Keane' march cease-nre came into operation. Gloatings Steersunday All the indications were despite he face that til hae this in tatia son the Zionist of all

FRANK KEANE

unions pay strikers

DEFENCE,

Strategy

COMMITTE

1 his Foreign Minister. Tone for the sake of the TV Rebates delay balucias. preSsing to the has beer Tories are doubly onsideri Hardening should It is clear that Pilking stand 1 While

"THE

this T move- further by abolishing SET and planation. cratic there as me be s prepayra s the only

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obviously being contemplated Israel to be conducted through

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sires, while the Zionists would

ATUA CONFERENCES

the toreign mimiger, Irish Black Power marc stradition proceedings. governments involved. the Sy 50 policemen a led

MINERS

DOCKERS

Saturday, August 15 Sunday, September 6 troops to police with the Arab and eechers stopped for a brief 2 p.m.-6 p.m. Danum Hotel demonstrates Scuffles broke out in High St Cutting edge YMCA Room 1 to intervie pit they wished Notting nd 120 pai

DONCASTER

the Us gover been have nd Mount Pleasant zo pole drea their batons obered pople i won emerged from their back-stair It is claimed that Keane, Fors prio, a Cations Won edis the Arab revati military framed because of his politica * the iront of ve demo police seventeen The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Unionist govt shaky Four- power summit call by Brandt

GERMAN

Chancellor Willy Brandt, due to fly Moscow tomorrow Bonn- soviet non-derression DaCu Tor sent better THE FIRST anniversary of the British military Prime Minister death call ing for a four-power sum- intervention in N Ireland sees the Tory Unionist mit conference. Chichester-Clark regime teetering once again ou Subjects covered by such the edge of collapse. the Bonn-Moscow nact and

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Troops were ostensibly thestem powers in bertin.

three Ments

CORRESPONDENT

sent in last August to the sure carrying through Premier James Chichester- of the reform' Clark. agreed Some the W London between of Labou In fact, the tenants managed Home Secretary James form get Westway remains Ulster Callaghan and behind which efore reing extreme right removed by the police. CERt Wine steadily carnered sireneta.

The issue of the latest gov- crunchu unchester clarks apparen rerusal activate Act's internment provisions and establish concentration and workers st-vening against left-wing the regime. Chichester-Clark's own con- Ditren is have Dered i notion of tidence in his premiership on unis Issue Paisleyites and the Unionist right wing, headed by former Home Affairs Minister Willian for Chichester-Claren ale now openly caling for to ao. Craig said in a radio broad- cast yesterday that he to topple 'striving hard' the government.

'RE-ARM'

FOUR demonstrators appeared in court in Marylebone He claimed that the govern- yesterday charged with obstructing the new Westway ment had 'which have and law elevated highway on Sunday.

order a laughing-stock'. Two were fined fl each Craig the Paisleyites and the re-arming and the others were re- Royal Ulster Constabulary and manded until next month disbanded affer the unt ate of the Specials, after pleading not guilty.

port last year which 45 tons ind his supporters a full- Lendils seem supporters lined the scale show-down with the SCCLIOn Roman Catholic minority. ol me new motorway Dor- fomenting trouble rio said cenue walner ko. was the action taken by the Jatest residents long cam- yesterday paign for rehousing. t quarter that Catholics] there The Greater London undermine nute of lat t effort given Council has ine ances that the eight houses Chichester-Clark's ban nearest the parades - ban dealt with been broken severa times with impunity by Paisleyites-

BY MARTIN ZARROP

hich borders • of discontent new road some distance among the East LIe anu rodus runnine into le Fumes 1970: Thirty years mediately a mitted Tenants that could prob- since Trotsky's anything up assassination six months. The remaining tenants Walmer Rd now have to fumes, dust

SOCIALIST

and rats the Irom onstruc debris 'normal'

LABOUR

Lile

HOUSINE

crumbine orick work. camo ness and rotten woodwork.

LEAGUE

Tenants particularly the angry Tole ¿reorge Lark Tur-wine chairman of the Notting Hill Housing Service and chair- • Memorial man of the Golbourne Social Rights Committee Meeting tark issued a statemen prior to the demonstration, dissociating himself from his and placing Faith Kensing and

ACTON

Council.

TOWN HALL

Leon Trotsky's Service High St, Acton last words: During the demonstration, Mr 'I am confident of Méthodist David August 23 Mason the victory of the clergy, were leading service Sunday munity ecumenical Fourth International ol thanksgiving in Acklam Road. Go forward'! Starts 3 p.m. Admission 2s marchers? Speaker: This means:

HEALY (SLL

nationa

BANDA

oculelalys Forward with the Workers some demonstrators were injured as the arrests were, first Trotskyist Keep Left).

DOLICE

daily newspaper- Prepari Secretary Chairman

SLAUGHTER

(SLL

WORKERS PRESS

Central Committee). 1 ara police asked for he ALSO: The first public showing of the latest rAmands in order that con- sideration may be given to Young Socialists' film-'Youth in Action in that may brought against the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.

people

Tories planning

HOOVER

workers press

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1970

NUMBER

228 •

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

Winter offensive against working class new attacks WHILE UNION leaders fumble and retreat, the Break Tories are preparing to co-ordinate their plans with the employers associations for a winter away offensive against the working class.

union All the signs of such an attack are clearly visible.

pickets Immediate vatter coro stokes cmes or Anarchy and Chaos' and Pilkington's arrogant and provocative Pilkington there dismissal ot 300 men over union recognition, comes the news that the CBI is planning a conference OVER 200 pickets were of industrialists and chairmen of employers associations Pilkington's in September to discuss 'wage restraint'.

glass tac. tories at St Helens yester.

discussions wish! Friday's

L DUNGE

DEP-

day walle tne High was da the clammed wal une situaton

BY A POLITICAL

was back to normal. Tol- " moninger at of ies lowing the sacking ol more phan

CORRESPONDENT

angered than 300 members of the Tenants George newly-formed Glassworkers' 'leader' action on While Israeli jets bomb Lebanon the pipe ted th to out Soviet-US police factory three-das WITH THE Egypt-Israel "cease-fire" too dama ring are i a force' ti Some CBi tor the compand dismissed For 30 or 40 man ho chi to Moscow) is pressing ahead with his plan to Sunday launch the talks projected between Arab leaders dismissed alass hase and the Zionists. is planned were refusen ing class. US and Soviet officials are reported from? a New Yor Review mselves for work pred mere Arab LICy ACar 5821 Sunday's legislative israel et alack on me d Lebanon district of Haspava stored tollow cards WeLc mignt obstruct the deve oo- ment of the negotiations.

claime for Arab Comrad raid

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• decision nease-fre 'Release Keane' march sand kin rillas in their stride. the Zionist sArat enemy of the

FRANK KEANE

uling classes.

DEFENCE

for Strategy terday. Cabinet meting yes managemen: Had bruene the nem be Minister, includingm cor the froe of the Rebates delay pressing or asse she talks been Hardening or strikers It is clas Pukins ton management actabour el hardening tude of employers the the launched torteout the St Heens fac obviously being

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foreign governments involved. extradition proceedings. But

EIGHTEEN

end on ball If extradited to Dublin after

DOCKERS

MINERS

*States Promised ayrine will face a murder Sunday, September 6 Saturday, August 15 Brad fores. • Soon a perce a deed t nearly w Danum Hotel 2 р.т.-6 p.m. YMCA Room 1 High St Cutting edge i wished people they

DONCASTER

Mount Pleasant to interview

LIVERPOOL

che se that Do Caragented framed because of his political allies against the Arab revolu carried at the front of of the Worth watching' - Home office approves files people washed files e have a criminal record scoe stater rubbishy • time are he Home once entirely 'politically they precIsch None or and here ti Shredded The Chie ood has stated should where this las the richer words resulted i rauc Dungie Ii

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'More serious' charges against Black Power marchers? markers stopped or a bit on of Pad. inks as bricks and bottles police The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Four- power call by Brandt

GERMAN,

Willy Moscow the the Bonn Paine on tere a al, sent a letter THE FIRST anniversary of the British military Prime Minister Heath ing for a four-power sum.

intervention in N Ireland sees the Tory Unionist mit conference. Chichester-Clark regime teetering once again ou Subjects covered by such the edge of collapse. meeting woke nece the Bonn-Moscow pact and

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Troops were ostensibly the rights the three

CORRESPONDENT

western powers in Berlin.

sent in last August to en- sure the carrying through Premier James Chichester- of the 'reform' programme Clark. Labour Some of the W agreed nerween

LONGOT

fact, the 're- tenants managed Home Secretary James onto the Westway road form remains Callaghan and Ulster behind smokescreen Dunday Derore The extreme mont UnnO have removed by the nolice. steadily gathered strength.

The issue of the ¡atest cov ernment crisis Chichestar apparent refusal to Clared activate Special Powers and establish left-wing camps for and workers someone acansi toe recime stituency association have Derr ne leved con- tahled a motion fidence in his premiership on this issue. Psevites The right wing, headed by former Home Affairs Minister William Craig, are ster Clark aré now openly calling • broad. yesterday cast Was striving hard' to tonne vert the government.

'RE-ARM'

FOUR demonstrators appeared in court in Marylebone He claimed that the govern- yesterday charged with obstructing the new Westway ment ha d aconted police law elevated highway on Sunday.

Which nave mace and Paisleyites Two were fined fl each Craig and the the want reaming The and the others were re. Royalster Constahniary and manded until next month Specials. the return at the R disbanded after the Hunt Re atter pleading not guilty.

or lig and Sunday's demonstration, his 1 опра тел which tenants and determined seem supporters lined the section scale show-down with new Roman Catholic minority. Walmer dering Rd, was the fomenting trouble, estig said taken by acoN cam. yesterday. residents long paign for rehousing. Catholics] undermine very The Greater London Council has given assur. ances that the eight houses bar on nearest thA motorway will which has parades - Dan with immediatel he denit been broker several times along with every house in house

BY MARTIN ZARROP

with imnunity ny Paiclevtas- is another cause of discontent the new Bad some distance among the Unionists. and roads running into it. Fumes 1970: Thirty years Tenants admitted that "immediately' since Trotsky's could prob- ably mean anything up to six months. assassination The remaining tenants ir tha have to endure fumes,

SOCIALIST

and rats from the construc- "normal" problems

LABOUR

housing the a rea crumbling brickwork, damp- nece and rotten wondwork.

LEAGUE

Tenants the cel ly role anery about Clark, full-time

CHANTOA

chairman of the Notting Hill Tinacing Comino and chair man of the Golbourne Social Rights Committee. Clark iccued a statement prior to the demonstration.

dissociating himself from and placing his faith in Tory Chelsea and Borough

ACTON

Council

TOWN HALL

Leon Trotsky's Service High St, Acton last words: During the demonstration.

together I am confident of Methodist David August 23 Mason other the victory of the cleray were leacing a com.

Sunday munity ecumenical

CARVICE

Fourth International of thanksgiving' in Acklam Road. Go forward'! Starts 3 p.m. Admission 2s Speakers This means: G. HEALY (SLL national Secretary), M. BANDA

RANINA

Forward with the schind demonstrators were some (Editor

CHAININC

maded as the arrests were Keep Left). first Trotskyist Paddington police daily newspaper- Chairman: yesterdaor Toni

SLAUGHTER

WORKERS PRESS

Maudling and Confland Contral Committoo) Vand The ALSO: The first public showing of the latest ay be given to given Young Socialists film-'Youth in Action in • much more carinis charge brought against that may ha the Year of Lenin and Trotsky'.

people'. *hoco

PAGE TWO

31 HOW DO you regard the outcome of the docks strike and the accept- ance of the Pearson Report? WELL, it was a complete retreat. But unfortunately, it was foreseen before it actually took place. It was a strike we lost on all and it sort of counts knocked us back as workers and the rest of the working class — it must have put us back 20 years. Jones wouldn't face the issue. Although he was fully aware that it was a political struggle, he wouldn't accept it —either because he couldn't or because he had ulterior motives of another kind. WHAT DO you think of the position that was taken up by the shop stewards and the docks delegates who also accepted the Pearson Report? SHOP STEWARDS in the Royal Group were fully aware that it was a retreat, but they seemed to be inclined to accept the delegates' report that they should go back.

It was rather a poor show really, because it meant we were going to lose the struggle, and there was a possibility we could have stayed out as from the Monday even though we might have been on our own. At least we would have tried if we were able to show some sort of protest. As I said, the shop stewards were aware of the position but they still led us back and they never spoke against Jones or anyone else. WHAT is the feeling now on the docks about this? WE'VE lost two weeks' wages, that's about all, because we haven't gained anything finan- cially. That's the short-term aspect.

But the biggest blow is the have Tories sorted out strong working body. For mili- tancy, the dockers are pretty strong and within a short week, they've beaten they've smashed us wide open so it give the rest of the doesn't working population much chance. HOW will this affect the negotiations for Devlin Phase Two? THE position on the Royal Group is particularly strange.

I can only speak for them.

Counting the amount of 'White' (Transport and General Workers' Union) men who voted against it, combined with 'Blue' the figure the - Г I would like inform Fill in the form below and se

SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LA

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LO

Name Address JOHN BARBER is a member of the 'Blue' National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers working on London's Royal Docks. 'Blue' dockers, whose only official instruction was not to cross picket lines, nevertheless played a big part in the strike and many—like Barber— were angry at the recommendation to , return. (National Amalgamated Steve- dores and Dockers), there's just not enough. The people that want the scheme are in the minority.

So I can't possibly see Phase Two going in. But it'll be the employers' job to force it in at the first opportunity because the longer they wait the more it will cost and in the end the rest of the workers will realize that its certainly no good to them. It won't come in at any price. So that the policy now is to crunch in at the first opportunity. WHAT will be the effect of Devlin Phase Two on the Royal Group? FOR a year or two, perhaps it won't make a great deal of difference. It's the rest of the country I think they're aiming at. But it will end up with nine in ten redundancies. Nine in ten men will be out of work by 1975.

You'll have no bargaining power whatsoever, it'll be a Measured-Day Work stroke, give them collosal but it'll tonnages. For years and years we've worked on piecework, and the cheapest type of worker is the pieceworker. We've had to get along with inadequate dilapidated gear, places of work, old-fashioned cranes. 7 • information about below and send to NATIONAL

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE,

HIGH ST, LONDON, SWA.

But now they've realized all these things are clapping out. They've got to be re- newed, but when they do renew them we'll be in a posi- tion where we can do vast tonnages. Whereas in the past the em- ployer wanted you to do piece- work for nothing an hour- we stopped once we were virtually off pay—we're coming to an era now where we can work at a casual stroke and do •they've colossal tonnages, so got to switch over quick.

Until they do get Phase Two in and they get us at this Measured-Day Work they can't possibly introduce new gear. YOUR UNION is opposed to the introduction of Devlin. How do you think they will fight on this question? WELL, as I say, most people get the leadership they only deserve. I've got faith in New- man.* He's still new to the job and he's only feeling his feet.

It's quite a job he's got on his hands. But I believe he'll realize that this is the be all and end all. If we lose this one we might as well give up. So I think he'll take it to its extreme, if the men'll go behind him in this thing. I think its a fight to the finish. But then again we've got the might of the transport union leaders. That'll have a disastrous effect if they retreat on Phase Two as they retreated on this basic wage thing.

So although I've got faith in Newman, I'm afraid the T&G could retreat again. WHAT IS the attitude of the Royal Docks shop stewards to the Devlin proposals? THEY DIDN'T like the idea of losing this basic wage struggle.

They looked rather sick when it was announced that it had gone against us - that they'd accepted the Pearsor

WORKERS PRESI

Report and were going back as from Monday. They looked physically sick, the shop stewards that are supposed to be representing us, but they still said, 'Well, OK, that's it, we'll go back Mon- day' Well, I don't think it really carries a lot of weight, what they say and what they do now. If they're told to go back to work, I'm afraid they might just do that. They did it on Pearson, they could do it on Devlin Stage Two. I can't explain why they went into such a somersault.

It's bad no matter how you look at it. HOW DO you see the development of alterna- tive political leadership on the docks? I THINK the Workers Press made a very good case during the strike. I've always been to the left.

I've never been in the Com- munist Party. I've never quite known why, but perhaps things are coming to light now that are making me know why. They'll go for anything they can get provided there's no effort involved. But if it's going to cause any sort of trouble, they change their minds and negotiate later.

But its always later rather than sooner. They duck all the main issues. There's a strong Commun- ist Party element in the Royal Group, but I haven't seen anything great from them.

Over this Pearson Report, which they themselves were against, they still advised us to return to work. I'm afraid I'm not all that inclined to accept them. If our leadership is this type of communism, then that's some- thing I don't ever want. I want something to repre- sent the workers, and this Workers Press has put a good case all along the line and if anything my money is on them.

*NAS&D acting general secre- tary. ON MERSEYSIDE, we spoke to Transport and General Workers' steward Jack Abbott— (on left) one of those who opposed recommending a return to work on the Pearson formula ten days ago. HOW DO you feel about the ending of the strike and the return to work? WE HAVE to admit that it was a retreat. I think what happened was that, with the Tory govern- ment in power, the employ- ers put up a hard and solid front and backed the union leadership down. But if we'd stayed out longer-even if the troops had been used - the resolve of the men would have hardened. Jones and O'Leary have lost a lot of prestige on this dock their handling of the through dispute. delegates The Liverpool voted 100 per cent to continue the strike: none of us wanted to go back. It was only the smaller ports that saw the £20 fall-back as something good and it was they who led the retreat. We really haven't got any- thing out of the strike.

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Available from New Park Pu 186A Clapham High St., Lor - DO YOU think this means the employers are now going to press more con- fidently for the implemen- tation of Devlin Phase Two? THERE'LL be no agreement over productivity deals in this dock. The employers have put out a 42-page document on Phase Two in reply to our demand for £60 for 20 hours for work- ing Devlin. when I Let me tell you, read this document I thought it must have been written for a joke or something. No one on Merseyside could possibly accept this deal.

60-for-20 is the only way we can deal with this shift- working and the other pro- visions they want to introduce —price them out. Of course, if we get those hours we'd need twice the number of people there'd be Working-class unity needed to defeat the Tory governmer

BOUR LEAGUE PAMPHLET

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om New Park Publications, lam High St., London, SW4.

Tuesclay, August 11, 1970 THREE million workers in the nationalized industries and many more in the private sector have already been warned by the Tory government-encouraged by the retreat of docks union leaders-that it will firmly resist their pay claims.

The main drive. predictably, is to be for productivity speed-up policed by steadily rising unemployment.

Port employers hope to press home their advantage with the rapid imple- mentation of Phase Two of Lord Devlin's notorious 'modernization?

scheme. But dockers themselves are far from feeling defeated. After right days hack at work, dockers at two key ports gave the Workers Press their views on the struggle that lies ahead.

otherwise under containeriza- Method - Time Measurement tion-and you could absorb all Systems. the present labour force.

The danger is that in the The £60 is actually based little sheet they've two-page get £35 on the average you're going to now given

PATRIOC

for what the employers tell us a week for almost nothing.

is the present average tonnage: The shop stewards have 15 tons an hour. rejected these proposals and I In fact on the present rates can't in all seriousness see it containerization should give us being accepted in this port.

about f60 an hour, The £35 is for anvone who but-not be too greedy—we've said to can do any job-but what we'll settle for that for the about the who are not whole week! completely fit? If you read it carefully you What we're really after is some of the fruits of produc- can see that what they're aim- tivity. ing at is just to throw the whole older and the injured men on But the of Devlin Phase Two is really completely the scrapheap and use the unacceptable. You've got this Light-duty men younger ones. document there, and will be on just f27 massive -one thing I object to- -they have broken their seem to HAS any progress been necks not to mention shop made towards imple- stewards: they keep calling them 'workpeople's representa- menting the sort of tives' and the like. promises on working This on right up to roes conditions the employers Clause when they men- tion senior stewards. making But they were when would just be puppets, there Phase One was intro to make sure everyone abides duced? by the agreement. THERE HASN'T been much AND IF they don't? progress on the amenity blocks

THEN

THE

management they were sunoosed to set up would have the power to do under Phase Öne of Devlin.

them! The ridiculous thing is that they've got one for the banana WHAT about the discip- berth--and you don't get much linary clauses in the dirt off bananas!-while for document? the men working fish-meal there's still absolutely nothing.

THEY CAN have you up on charges for negligence in a way HAVE YOU any comment that virtually takes away a to make about the con- democratic man's right to have a witnes there's the dis- duct of the strike leader- And then ship? cipline imposed under the Measured-Day Work system. I I'VE LOST a lot of faith in don't go along with that at over this whole Tack Jones He's general secre- all. business. tary of the biggest union in You can't treat people as a what the block which is and he country never They employers want to do. rike ede digo to the employee.

needed to take a fast rate of working and on tele- telling us to call it the average which others vision like that. have to reach. stay at work and pleading for don't agree with piece- a meeting with Tonge. And he should have reiected work but what's happening what's happening the ing oregates outright without making a bit of a go of it the recalling confer- are saying it's got emplovers ence. to be abolished. The employers are certainly They're trying to get us to going to take advantage of the attend courses to hear about situation they've got now.

Tuesday, August 11, 1970 Theatre

REVIEW BY DAVID BARNES

Making revolution. in one's head because they

IT WAS

The Plebelans: Aug. 13, 1.50 were unable to acneve the uprising Aug. 14, 7.30 a revolution reality, In Aug. 24, 7.30 that the Ger- Marx says. Aug. 25, 7.30 made one within Sept. 7, 7.30 their heads. Sept. 8, 1.30 The impotence of Sept. 21, 7.30 tne (rerman bourgeoisle. Oct. 1. 7.30 Oct. 2, 7.30 time when the French revo- lution was decapitating the Oct. 9. 1.30 king and laying waste the oct. 10. 2.30 old order, was reflected in oct. 10. 1.30 and DUWeL of German Dillosooners wnen the loun century was becoming tne * Guat impotence the oh a to- le of that inventiveness, intended intellectdal eining "Dilemma' But the 'dilemma' is the play construct himselt entirely at home.

1953. in casu Which had see overcrowded would be distinguishing

ITON

takes upolitical were to admit revo workers another i pars led Ensemble are many other anton leaders ering refusing ba note tells not in Brecht in "The Winer to does noet intellectual who lefeated insullection so often inooked! feality he need to co he Hundreds Aman ordered the situa- simulates as Looked at i Refected in powers dos in my aiscreeny to live forever with sity more minded, recognites that his stage earrass has no scruples about broad- TV

BBC 1

Cymanta plass-Conscious plebians.

12.25-1.25 p.m. News and weather. 4.20 Play Fines. i Weathe Action 18.

Justy of the circus. 4.! Z CARS. 'Weekend With Sally'. Part two.

HIPPODROME CIRCUS. Great Yarmouth.

GOOD OLD DAYS. Old-time music hall.

8.50 weal TAKES THE YOUNGEST. Tuesday's documentary

MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS.

10.00 10.30

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CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR LEICESTER.

11.05

WORLD CYCLING

POSTSCRIPT. 11.35 Weather.

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Gunter

GRASS

NOOSES: NICHOLAS

Y-ERWIN (left) AND

JAMES-

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EAST BERLIN JUNE

1953: STONES WERE

THROWN AT

SOVIET

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nus' is a which he is crucified at the end, At the same time (a fact with which Grass's patrician was in first a ploy great place DreCOl that he deliberately adopted. fun) they insisted on the legality on people when he Before he can get entangled in of their demands, 'being careful le Volsci- his problems he must first manu- walk on the i municipal facture them. That's what makes flowerbeds'. them his own problems. The Bertor prisin ungaried pointed ease the plebians Workers Councils and the "The Plebeians' is, in fact, nto exile. poli- sceptical, subjec- vast, elaborate, tical revolution in Czechoslova- of tive contrivance, made Rome. kia. ironical phrases and resting on Learning from these bitter him hoes nothingness. and the and hands experiences joining It's the outgrowth of that sec- struggles ath. which with the revolutionary tion the intelligentsia West E pting the in the the workers of seeks in the struggle of classes against Europe will forge the strength a nostrum for their own end to Stalinism once and tainties lo put all and for all. Watching my mind was will get But they no support carried behind the stage to the from Gunter Grass, who is a fer- of E Europe and the workers vent supporter of Willy Brandt.

IT have no ideology, Union whose real task it Soviet world- is to destroy Stalinism. part When I was i7 years fell view. E Berlin The of insurgents blow in struck the first that The biographer programme battle. describes him, doubtless with 1953 they almost June his as 'dedicated with Yor assed approval, immediately beyond the single-minded fanaticism to the work norms questions cause of moderation'. important them- seriall for the resign on It is social-democratic 'modera- tion' that of the government and the uni- revels in the convul- fication of Germany. sions of the intelligentsia and But there stands Stalinism was no support aside for to (though all sorts of agents were strangle the revolution. But the German revolution will work) for bringing back the find an appropriate fate for him.

banks and capitalist firms were carefully preserve of wer While pictures of Stalin "Take eloquence, as a French- those once suggested, 'and wring shreds, man are to be its neck'. they in • workers. ho inter-

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NOW THAT the Labourites porters (and dependent on the civil service), he had to admit comfortably settled have that there was some opposi- into the opposition benches the Labour Party tion to with a good view of the Tory becoming a 'party of govern- ment. government on the rampage, "The labour movement the time has come to write would never be content if we a few memoirs, edit a journal were to constitute ourselves as We a party of government. or two or even become a lord sent there [parliament] were of the realm. to carry out what is referred to as so-called socialist No doubt it helps to pass the change.' time keeps the and wolves away from the door. What this strange animal was he wasn't quite sure.

In any case, it is a time for I'm not an (some) truth-when a little of economist, he admitted, 'and I know little the goings-on behind the about public ownership. We scenes and a certain amount of avail- did not find the of a soul-searching is made secret rapidly - expanding able to the outside world.

economy with balance of payments Mr R. H. S. Crossman a surplus. Dick to his friends- -obviously 'We had the highest level of enjoyed government. unemployment for Speaking to 40 a recent meet- vas this inevitable? If so we ing of the Central London had better of abandon Fabian Society on 'The Future some our socialist principles and say for Labour', the ex-Minister of so openly! Health and Social Security went on at great length about how pampered he was as a member of Wilson's govern- Having said so openly for ment. some years, the remark His middle-class audience. seemed superfluous! packed into inadequate the 'We tried and we failed,' he Oak Room at Holborn's Kings- said ambiguously. However, it Hall, way guffawed and was up to others to criticize.

chuckled at his performance.

'We're not likely to make 'Like the Queen, I never got objective criticisms about wet, he said, I didn't even NEC cannot ourselves. The know about the Victoria Line.

look at its record.' There was a stratospheric sep- Yet he ventured his opinion aration from reality. that 'I don't think organiza- Nevertheless. mused R.H.S., tion was responsible the for it's a good system'. last election. don't think that the nationalization of steel was anything but liability in terms of votes.

Lots of helpful civil ser- waiting to draft legisla- 'I was in favour of a sharp vants for tion you, based on your immigration policy. Callaghan election manifesto. In fact this handled it with supreme skill.

seemed Crossman's main argu- We stopped the people coming ment for having a programme in.' at all! These remarks evoked If you stray from definite from the scarcely a murmur policies, 'you find yourself audience. committed to idiocies and you Not Crossman's astounding statement that had have to carry them out. That's the penalty of democracy.

the Labourites the elec- won 'The Prices and Incomes tion, they would have run out Act, the Industrial Relations of ideas in two years, dis- Bill' of the fossilized Fabians. were not part the turbed manifesto and we had a little of that Think only two it' trouble with years away from socialism!

Clearly

R.H.S.

and his Of course, the working class colleagues were more worried got hardly (even mention about trouble with 'their' civil though 48.000 dockers hap- servants than with the work- pened to be on strike at the ing class. time) and the Fabians moved However, while defending a out into the evening air to Labour government's right to the inspiring rally cry: "Third be of time lucky!' independent its

SUD-

AS THE SECOND anniver- active. They arrived August 21, 1968 to see the sary of the Kremlin invasion chairman of the district of Czechoslovakia on committee, Comrade Aug- Kozlik and told him that the ust 20-21 approaches, the official radio has broadcast about Husak regime has launched information Comrade Kozlik being collaborator a concerted press and radio with the occupiers. campaign *They asked him to accom- against those pany them to the shaft, where who workers took strike a meeting of the all-enterprise strike committee taking was action against the invasion.

place. "There, of As reported in last Thurs- renrecentativac the enterprise attacked him day's Workers Press, the threat sharply and asked him of even passive resistance to repudiate publicly the entry of the regime has forced the Warsaw armies. Stalinists reveal details of Comrade Kozlik. on whom the movement in 1968 which the attention of the fanatic crowd Ithis is how the Husak were previously unknown. Service Prague Home regime speaks of the Czech on August 1 reported the activi- working class!] in Tachov was was forced in the end centred, ties of one strike committee to speak in this spirit on the set up in the Vitkov uranium wireless ... mines to organize resistance to the invasion forces. Dubcek's then According to the broadcast, the leader of a collaboration- the strikers issued the follow- politically dis- ist regime ing appeal to fellow workers: orientated the growing strike movement, which was clearly "Dear comrades, we inform confined not to the uranium that of the you the workers of the we, workers W Bohemia. mines or Dubcek and his sup- mines in W Bohemia, yester- With porters disgraced, there is now day started follenera general strike Husak only the ultra- the condi- Inner Stalinists tions: around Bilak and We are not willing to Strougal between the Kremlin's forces and the Czech working deliver a single gramme of our have thoco class. attacked and occupied us.

Despite the slanders and the '2. As soon as the situation purge which has decimated the becomes normal again and the ranks of the Czech Communist full activity of all elected State and Party Party, the working class organs we shall compensate secured, refuses to accept the Soviet for all shifts lost through the occupation to collaborate strike, in such a way that all with the invaders. damage caused to our national and more details As more economy be made will UD are released, the prostration of shall completelv. We secure the revisionists before Dubcek the fulfilment of all planned in 1968 is revealed as tasks and of the plan as such.

com- '3. We believe that. if pletely treacherous. the normal activity of the State Every detail vindicates the and Party organs is not stand of the Socialist Labour restored and the occupation League from that time to this.

of our fatherland continues. Not surprisingly, the leaders shall not serve of British Communist the occupiers. Party maintain their despicable group of worker ef of workers shaft No. silence.

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end of Boverm ent appointed - • a sproutine or raice of the trade union sinecures made necessary Cornield claims that ne already has over nall the ine the exact sille of compensate vetermint the preference shareholdings tied up in proxy votes and certain career prospects thcalledera will have the necessary two-thirds majority at some anals in 1uo. e Rumor resigned point during the coming week.

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AFTER a lull of several days in Cambodia, fighting flared up over the weekend between liberation forces and right-wing troops only two miles from the centre of the capital Phnom Penh.

The advance-the closest yet made since Sihanouk

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remaining strongholds in W and S Cambodia. ACCORDING to sources in Phnom Penh military Vienna, quoted in the Paris had officials said guerrillas daily *Le Figaro', the attacked in force around six Czechoslovak in- towns situated around the regime capital. tends to open a frame-up And a Lon Nol official at trial on August 15 of some Kompong Speu openly boasted of the leading signatories of that his forces were receiving "Manifesto the of 1wo full backing from US jets: Thousand Words'. 'Our troops at Kirirom get American air support when- The "Manifesto' was pub- ever they need it' said Colonel lished in August 1969, Sar Hor, the region's deputy year after the Soviet inva- commander. sion of Czechoslovakia and openly opposed the re- imposition of the Stalinist

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dictatorship in the country.

This contradicts completely Those expected to be placed last US in the dock include Jiri week's statement by Hochmann, Ludvik Defence Secretary Melvin Vaculik, Vaclav Havel, the historian Laird, who repeated earlier claims that US air strikes were Teszar and the famous chess-player Pachmann. aimed at communist supply routes and were not intended Hochmann was prominent to give pro-US support to Pravo' 'Rude forces journalist on ground fighting guer- immediately before the rillas. invasion. Vaculik, writer, and Havel, a dramatist, have been held

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jail some time already, as has Pachmann, is who reported to be SE, East and central London Area, bad health as a result Central solutern. North. Wect. Northern England, East and Wind est of his treatment. Midlands: sunny periods. Normal The unmistakable westerlv. (68F). tions of the Czech Stalinists to the Enoland Channel Islands: return to frame-up and Cloudy. Occasional drizzle. Wind methods of the Stalin era moderate mai. Max. 19C fresh, westery. Nor- must be opposed by the European whole labour gas, Area, Dry. E Scotland movement. and Glasgow Area: Sunny Normal: Max. meal moderate, westerv.

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us #.SW. 201 for New strong enough Zealand and further capital attempts are going to be made close off loop- to remaining holes. WORKING families struggling South islands to submit to to find somewhere to live in arbitration. of Australia's capital Strikes have been illegal in any New Zealand cities will not be very happy since 1894, but building figures for with the there were early loopholes tighténed June quarter. which up in were 1913 and 1954. This shows an average drop Most unions are now reg- of 25 per cent, with a high of istered under the 1954 Indus- 67 W Australia. per cent in trial Conciliation and Arbitra- But the squeeze which is Act, the forcing money out of housing tion which removes strike, but allows is having the reverse affect on right to access to arbitration court for commercial building and pay awards. during the same the quartér This Act is obviously not value of commercial and in- dustrial approvals (hotels, increased 35 offices, etc.) by per cent. Housing is a field in which the consumer is exploited even more than in most other fields, both in quantity and quality. Frequently a purchaser has to take out two mortgages. one at about 10 per cent and the second 15 per at up to enable them to find cent to investment at Bougainville is somewhere to livé. million (E139.992 $300 Council houses are virtually million), but most of the unknown and the alternative for money borrowed this the to buying is renting on be repaid within will five with all the ad. open market, side of years. the the vantages on This is largely because of landlord, and little very exemption a three-year tax security for the tenant. from the first day New the ever starting building of commercial production in sprawling cities is done on the early 1972 and because of basis of selling blocks of land various other concessions.

the bidder who to highest For example, the then proceeds to sub-divide and sell the completed houses.

will not start paying pany company tax on profits until Alternatively, 1o w rise 1981-1982. blocks of flats are built for Evaluation and proving sale or private renting in areas carried out by the company already developed. indicate estimated 760 which is an No matter em- million tons of avail- ployed, is ore the main concern for able pit mining, of creating an environ- open not but this is probably a con- ment for the people, but of concerned. from land speone servative estimate. Most of making everyone this is copper, with a little gold. lators to moneylenders. The need for parks, play- A recent survey predicted schools, youth clubs, and com- a $9.3 million profit (£4.3 centres is ignored. munity million) in 1973. rising to The thing is to make houses homes: profits $117.8 million (£54.9 mil- rather than lion) by 1980. rather than communities.