Workers Press no. 236

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

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER

Force the Tories to resign!

£1,000 August Appeal Fund stands at Jobless tops £402 Us 30 600,000 mark Make sure wee reach ou amations immediately ndon, sigh Street, 186a Clap 'Blue' union dockers leaving yesterday's West Ham Stadium meeting.

London "blue' Trotsky Memorial Lectures - A hard winter ...

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

Monday, 14 September vote for Devlin UNEMPLOYMENT figures for August, released "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' yesterday, leapt to 605,843.

'BLUE' UNION dockworkers in London voted Monday, 21 September This is the first time the August figure has exceeded by a majority of just over 200 at a mass meeting yesterday to accept Phase Two of the Devlin 600,000 since modern records began to be kept. com• What "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' pared with the July figures, there is an increase of modernization scheme. 36,246.

BEAVER HALL

we

BY JOHN SPENCER

Only about 1,200 of the All the dire predictions

GARLICK HILL

4,000-odd London National think Voting figures meeting. which have been made

ATTENTION!

Near Mansion House tube Amalgamated Stevedores' were 720-515. Starts 8 p.m. aboul serous unemploy Admission 2s Dockers members The decision reans that

ATTENTION

FRANCE:

ment this winter are now attended the decisive Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) Measured DaD y Work, spshift well on the way to being confirmed. DON'T MISS this weekend's Democracy & working wiemorial Hume att- of king-sade tee proscies Ramelson Mrs Smith Mr Francis Smith will Dictatorship dodges glass London Ulster mutants begin operalion in en,plo more than August 1969.

WITH YET

ena Its thre

READERS

"black' issue lated senately eleca deal will been fore tive paid a JOHN HUME, 'liberal' Derry Dusinessman who emerged ampaign n 33,437 aas change ter 1968 last year as a civil rights leader and was elected MP for

ASKED THREE TIMES

the wholly unemployed. Linion Britishe at a meeting in southall the toyle division, has now viciously attacked the young movement represents a on Wednesday, Communist workers who bore the brunt of the struggle.

tinal servitude for file means (01:720 20000 nod

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

Party industrial organizer as against 7.2 per cent in July.

Bert Ramelson refused to No lead day's Feather and the trade unior state his Party's position to suppress ill make all sorts Pilkington blacking my diam i and the British thand New glass glass. make ers have trade union movement. own minds about Mr E. M. Tucker row flares Can be more He lllustrated this with OFFICIALS of the General own callipic.

A HS

and Municipal Workers' the Pilkington's issu forward as a act to Pi applied to the epeated failure Union appear to have acted may be dustine here na. yet again to hamper the ilkin supporters

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National Do as Stop sekard fight of Pilkington's sacked ce for Employme lory secre glass workers. &M Wn Wednesday that there is ac defendie of the done askin in some percially it you are 1970: Thirty years wages are curbed. weed armed stre demon • the need for i intice since Trotsky's uch ocketing Meanwhile facerk ers

'GREATER PRICE'

to the factor assassination came London yet day weeks? time oved elsewhere in the cour

SOCIALIST

The convenor involved di eo; he said. Talk

LABOUR

rUC'S economic pelicies? Wednesday that the inves blurrenean

LEAGUE

rose cans were being held. is satement that the pal nan Thereis opped submind by four adon't think and iamentarian to speak for grout dockes to Memoria Warning never receie peap le Kremlin jeeps patrol Meeting mise to tres went y for esthe machin the net Troublema epression.

capitalis overnment offer except Prague ARMY JEEPS patrolled

ACTON

wet the cre as gain attacks on wage the Streets of Prague

TOWN HALL

Leon Trotsky's throughout yesterday, he ownershe for inte slical backerpand or th High St, Acton control of second anniversary

'DIRECT RULE

last words:

BY A

of the Kremlin invasion * West in the bank to be withdrawin enecessities of lite foren I am confident of

PORCIGN COHKEOPUNDENI

rule trom or czecnosiovakia August 23 las, now mi or the while the victory of the Arrested on Wednesday ster would reples uty in every main stree unk notic charges, e cancer for some time Sunday • the look-ou Fourth International pro- direct oh went rome he elis and demonstrations ip to is home at the Go forward'! brought 600 Italian Stans sion2s that his no expansion of the Communists quit Toget see a don t not! just conny. prison. Break relations Ting in theirs bassar • See this page col. o This means: She Han con men Far. Ce tost par and cele All Trades Unions Forward with the browshe down Bres mass actio The pang Alliance Conference streets. It is the test socialis first Trotskyist in protes struggle everyone in the city to see

MINERS

Policies of the Soviet bureau- all

ARREST

daily newspaper- responsibility Chairman: Sundav. September 6 ink or demonstratio Tare used for ine ecurit (Editor,

WORKERS PRESS

Danum Hotel ote is the working-class support for its 120 S provoke Viadimir television i or this year

DONCASTER

workers control policy an Cecch • that ALSO: The first public showing of the latest sacked tor he usel with Moscow Step up the wages offensive!

Young Socialists film-'Youth in Action in opposition to the copa Statin he Party policy of entry into Force the Tory government

CASTED SOONSHINE

the Year of Lenin and Trotsky'.

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATUR

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

UNEMPLOYMENT figures for August, released yesterday, leapt to 605,843.

This is the first time the August figure has exceeded 600,000 since modern records began to be kept. Com- What pared with the July figures, there is an increase of 36,246. we All the dire predictions think

ATTENTION!

which have been made about serious unemploy-

ATTENTION!

FRANCE:

ment this winter are now well on the way to being DON'T MISS this weekend's Democracy & confirmed. "rotary Memorial Supple ment, with first The sharpness of the trend the full-colour Dictatorship picture (8 x 1s shown ne the tact that the the August total of wholly un. movement emninued 561 130 the most 40,000 more than August 1969.

READERS of web-offset presses in the In Northern Ireland, its predecessor. calcu. DON't mIss Inis superia- Newsletter', later cenaratay the total in.

tive Tribute 19688cd. employment August the campaigr wa c word's Marxist Det 35.437 are 29754 wham theoreticians and co. ender the summel wholly unemployed. Lenin, with the word's mobilize oDInIon first Socialist Revolution lahour Rritich movemeni This renresents a Order your copy from our sharn in- the trench govern- crease on ment's decree banning ll leit- total rate there is 7.5 per cent 01-720 2000) now wing organizations: as against 7.2 per cent in July.

the Organisation Com- ministe Internationaliste Feather and the trade union the leaders will make all sorts organizatior sister about the need Socialist of the associated New glass togetner wild disarm can organiza- vonth angl student Fédé- trade union movement. tions (Revoltes and Etudiants Révolu. row flares antion rac tionnaires). Can be more three took advantage Councappeal OFFICIALS of the General nationalization under Wore rs!

policies carialist linking State French and Municipal Workers' without against Union appear to have acted pensation political with their camoadn yet again to hamper the an tor Inited i working-class OD- only be more unemploment.

recentl nosition the fight of Pilkington's sacked enacter anti-wreckers' law ot Carr, Tory Secre- Rohart the glass workers. tarv government. said Prad uctive is 21, 1970, the Coun- At a meetina on Wednesday said that chanc declared between of encouraging

COMWI

etowardd expansion until from Helens and dock Pilkington plant dossiers prove Meanwhile said organizations 'had pro. workers and these their the wives rocketing promised that voked armed street Gem on. such workers came price increases. factory strations or that they had ad the would their aim the armedayer. per cent rise Londor vesterdav ensure with tansnort fares thic week their re_emnioument 4-6 of government' and that Is this what Feather meant VIeW to reinstatemen 12. 1968 decree of tune weeks utime. when he told the dissolu- Union The convenor involved did without that the legal any was Tories were more likely than not angels to meet the sacked foundation and consequently Labour implement the men at the time arranged. but be TUC's economic policies? instead rank-and- Tound l fle the factory to excess of nower showed Coupramant hauras management had "he decrea incotar Wednesday that the indey related to the OCI. the FER.

industrial production -was therefore and 'Révoltes'- further less than 1 • cent in annulled. last There talks were being held utter Appeals submitted by four stagnation. Pilkington rank - and - file Otice Sara Co (Voix leaders call esterda renewed Warning .arxiste-Léniniste the dockers their "black' the comnanu's goode Communiste Party interna. In a leaflet, they refuted tionaliste and lanessa Com. that municte Révolutionnaire) ware comnant claims the warnin" or he wernment ass had haar rolanter carted mer The government Following adi formed donicinn have stator mainted nut that mili capitalist had those cal Coman fee the tonte hoon •kl klickod nothing offer Political the thrused Pikini or employmer rising cost Organisation Communiste attacks on living and att water of the The battle for jobs the ownership and control of tween decree of the struggie agains stewards he economy--to ensure eve and-file Pilkington leaders.

the necaccities ni ite for o Riley whole certion of the warlina What follows instancle. dace and can farthe whol told Workers Press he was in tion of selected passages from class, is now on. ... learnt about the meeting from Heath had

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henhor dockers. his electioneering lolana went along he Class and and 'floating the middle class 600 Italian and find men from voters': he will cut no controi no and General ing only and the Communists quit T&G stewards. How they ant economy. toopther don't thaw • See this page, col. 6 Break relations

SIX

HUNDRED

members Party, All Trades Unions But the Tories Salerno he Alliance Conference from the nf Naples, ha brought down hu pacianad mace antion from the canislict

MINERS

policies: against the dismissal of four policies of the Soviet bureau officials hostile to the brash al The unione mile Sunday, September 6 ernment! Danum Hotel High St were Ciaht anomalaumant with corinliet motionalination with.

DONCASTER

and under out compensation the left wing tendeney tormei workers' control! of this vear March Step up the wages offensive!

landia Communicte avnelled

DERWENT

last Force the Tory government the Party policy of entry into a coalition.

CASTLEFORD,

YORKSHIRE.

to racionl

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21,

I TO SATURDAY

NUMBER

236 A hard winter ... Mrs Smith Mr Francis Smith YET another increase announced yesterday in the un-

WITH

employment figures, it looks like a rough winter period ahead for workers on the 'dole'.

Workers Press paid a visit Brixton Employment Ex- change yesterday find out exactly what workers are thinking about the threat of unemployment and the Tories. Francis Smith, who lost his last job almost three years ago because of ill-health, told us: 'Even though have been cleared by the doctor for four months now they don't seem me. worry or do anything for 'I don't think it is 'small com Mr E. M. Tucker better. So many com- panies are closing down and maksked eople redundant? He illustrated this with Us. had been his own example: Asked offered any job he said, I haven't been offered a bank went for a job as job with a wage of f15 before messenger but at 57 I was too tax and no overtime.' old for it'. Young people at school have Mrs Smith, no relation to found it so much harder this the interviewee above, whose year to get holiday jobs. husband has been unemployed Cornwall, a film stud- for Roy six months, told us: 'My husband was a cleaner before ent, had been trying to find one for a month. oFfered one 'The and it is very difficult to get I have been job jobs especially if you are un- skilled. said, 'is a clerical one, but I have to wait a month for it' Redundancies through fac- *It to get, very tory closures are one of the going So people rough. many are main of unemploy- being laid off. The bosses are ment. Mr Johnson lost his job just interested in profit.

The machine as a operator two system is not inclined towards months ago because the firm helping people anyway. moved elsewhere in the coun- Roy is faced with the same try There problem even after he com- was no union theré pletes his studies: 'I haven't a and I did not get any redun- chance of the film he said. Talk- entering dancy money,' industry. So many union mem- about the rising cost of ing bers are I have unemployed now be- living he commented, cause of the studios closing got two children and down. about £10 benefit which The only jobs available are hardly the rent. We pays the very poorly-paid ones.

This haven't had any holidays this M. Tucker's ob- think was year we when he talked to servation ARMY JEEPS patrolled the streets of Prague throughout yesterday, the second anniversary

BY A

of the Kremlin invasion

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

of Czechoslovakia. Armed police were on Arrested on Wednesday duty in every main street, on unknown charges, he has on the look-out for any been critically ill with cancer for some time. demonstrations or pro- the Soviet tests against A doctor police was occupation. brought to his home at the well-organized leaflet time of his arrest to certify campaign in Prague has that his illness could be called for a boycott of all just treated as well in shops, cinemas, theatres and prison. newspapers for today, which These repressions, de- is regarded by most Czechs grading in their barbarity, as the anniversary of the now part and parcel of are though the first invasion, Czechoslovak life under Soviet entered Slo- units Kremlin occupation. vakia the night of late on Yet the leadership of the August 20. 1968. British Communist Party, which is officially opposed

ARREST

has to the invasion, not The Husak held regime has single public meet- prepared itself for the anni- ing or demonstration over versary by arresting another the last two years to rally group of oppositionists, in- working-class support for its cluding Vladimir Skutina, a policy on Czechoslovakia. Gollan's decision to differ leading Prague television commentator before he was with Moscow was in no sense based on a principled sacked for his outspoken opposition to the Marxist opposition to Stalin- occupa- Not tion. ism. only his whole The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. £1,000 August ## Appeal Fund stands at £402 Us 30 high nos dives us a total Many thanks for this big ree fund shows stre no policies orche prin However, must keep e 59799s o raise with only it day eke syr set teach your target donations immediately plan Hiat Street, 186a Clondon, Sie4. blue union dockers leaving yesterday's West Ham Stadium meeting London "blue' Trotsky Memorial Lectures Monday, 14 September vote for Devlin "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' 'BLUE' UNION dockworkers in London voted Monday, 21 September by a majority of just over 200 at a mass meeting yesterday to accept Phase Two of the Devlin "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' modernization scheme.

BEAVER HALL

BY JOHN SPENCER

Onlv about 1.200 of the

GARLICK HILL

4,000-odd London National Voting figures meeling Near Mansion House tube were 720--515. Amalgamated stevedores Starts 8 p.m. Admission 2s and Dockers' members ine decision means unal Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) attended the decisive Phase Measured- In Work, sed- Hume att- Tree manning. prospect Ramelson redundancies certainly dodges glass e perationd Ulster mutants of next "black' issue JOHN HUME, 'liberal' Derry Jusinessman who emerged

ASKED THREE

TIMES

last year as a civil rights leader and was elected MP for the Foyle division, has now viciously attacked the young at a meeting in southall on Wednesday, Communist workers who bore the brunt of the struggle.

Party industrial organizer

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

all diese Bert Ramelson refused to No lead state his Party's position union's executive on blacking Pilkington • in Sister that glass. have 1 пр ived in elking tons he in A Hume s attack is contined • deal wit own minds aboul deal. yo said. Heath and Maudling. in line surest r ot the stampede forward as a tactic to unite

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ational Docks Shop Steward ommittee meeling• defence of amdas aike in ist Partned by the Commun- industried for aid lip-service 1970: Thirty years since Trotsky's

'GREATER PRICE'

assassination According, Hume the 'Derr

SOCIALIST

cards ta tibe same

LABOUR

air create

LEAGUE

he toriese carving sion from a sea fat a diver Memorial Meeting And how ate the aleced record but the • Modied

ACTON

leaders etinial issues dealing

TOWN HALL

Leon Irotsky's High St, Acton

'DIRECT RULE'

last words: horr What set attitudest on 'I am confident of were Westmin August 23 the victory of the 1968 suspension Sunday gradually sid back tow Fourth International Go forward'! drayal of the Soviet bureau- Stanis on 23 crat the Husak, teland. a situation it isl This means: Forward with the first Trotskyist canor. Keep LetT) daily newspaper- Chairman She fight for a

BANDA

WORKERS PRESS

leadership workers Press ALSO: The first public showing of the latest Young Socialists film Youth in Action in the Year of Lenin and Trotsky.

imperialism in the West.

WORKeRo PH3dd

PAGE TWO

'ACTION FRANCAISE

Royalism and Reaction in 20th century France By Eugen Weber Stanford University Press (British agent Oxford University Press). First published 1962.

Paperback 1969. Scrupulous study of French reaction THE ROYALIST oppo- revolution, without they all Republican sition took main

I LS

the Dreyfus form, after Attair. In 'Action tion called Francaise' which later the title of its became published until i paper daily throne repulse the chine The history of this move- th the there me right. ment was woven intricately the into the politics of the Third

MIDDLE-CLASS

Republic and this study, by its detail and its depth, is not only a classic work on but an the subject, import- ant contribution to the nis- Reviewed tory of the period. by

TOM KEMP

narchy did not arise from are n the pretender ti vanted to sweep awa ance of the throne and and a Tally rastic means for achieving over- ction Francaise

SUPPORT

Support chick and no on or Munich it prated an adame had Pound dis ael, but with lit

FIGUREHEAD

The higher 1932, had dispered possible in othe any and game e undry Churchmen of athei narticismicio en used en Riots and 'contestation' in the So no sea in the a ang be

RIVAL

infuence tom Muerre through And disciplined youth a figure was now little more right, Hot and see demonstrators.

inthe Action rancaise made le places of is pres violence

JUST OUT

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It pervaded Petain's 'court' at Vichy. It was visible in the ranks of the Gaullists and especially of General de in the views Gaulle himself. It furnished sub- stantial contingents of political and literary collaborators for the occupying enemy. For many the logical exten- sion of Action Francaise was outright collaboration with the Nazis: the consistent most opponents of the Bolsheviks, the Masons and the Jews. Through the storms of the war period Vichy France seemed to offer, an oasis of repose. In support for Petain Maurras and of close sup- his ageing band thought they had found porters the fulfilment of their hopes.

The hated Republic had fal- len, but now France, France alone, had to maintain its national integrity. He thus tried to map a course between the collaboration enthusiasti- open by fascists like cally accepted • Doriot and resistance to the occupying Germans advocated by the Gaullists and the Commun- ists. The daily 'Action Francaise'

PRO-NAZI

On some things, like measures the Jews, against hostility to Soviet Union, England or the it supported the Nazis. It was foremost in calling for ruthless oppression of resistance fighters. At the same time it hoped that co-operation would short absorption of stop at France into a German-dominated new order. Maurras was arrested in Lyons after the withdrawal of German forces in 1944. Put on trial for 'intelligence with the enemy', his was a foregone condemnation conclusion; the 76-year-old reac- tionary defended himself with his customary invective, but was sentenced to life imprisonment and 'national degradation'. His career had begun with the Dreyfus case and it ended in • Dreyfus in what some called a reverse. Maurras, and most of the lead- of Action Francaise, ing lights had become defeatists in 1937- 1938. Seeing that France had to choose between the fascist pow- ers and the 'democracies' aligned in all probability with the Soviet Union they chose the former.

By 1940 the main body of the ruling class accepted this view, switching only to the Allied camp when the tide of battle began to turn. After the war ideologists and journalists like Maurras were made scapegoats while the eco- nomic collaborators went scot- free and the mass of the bour- geoisie, which had applauded Petain until 1944, transferred their allegiance to de Gaulle. Ironically, the saviour's new own views owed not a little to Action Fran- the influence of which was thus discern- caise, able in the Fifth Republic

ELITIST

As a movement the Action Francaise was elitist, tradition- alist and nationalist. It was never a mass movément and, despite the wide sympathy which Maur- many of his doctrines and ras evoked in right-wing circles, it never unified and led the reac- tionary forces as a whole.

Though it supplied or copied many fascist doctrines it was not, properly speaking, a fascist however, movement. was, violently anti-Semitic, believed of a Masonic in the existence and stood for the conspiracy destruction of the working- class movement. The meticulous thoroughness of Weber's study conforms to standards of the highest •aca- demic historiography and helps limitations of his conceal the "liberal' approach, which own tries to be fair to Maurras.

The pathological character of the man and his followers, the nature of his pretensions to liter- ary merit - accepted regardless of the content-and most of all the the which consequences triumph of this brand of reac- tion would have land did have for a time under Vichy) could much more fully have been and forcefully laid bare.

Friday, August 21, 1970 THREE years ago, no western journalist — nor scribe Stalinist in the East for that matter would have considered Alexander the life ot Dubcek a worthy subject for a full-length biog- raphy. For if ever a political leader was lifted in post-war Europe

OUT

sustained and finally dashed down by forces beyond

TODAY

both his understanding ano this Party control, was bureaucrat turned liberalizer turned Kremlin servant and now, according to his succes- 'right-wing sors, opportunist even 'counter- and possibly revo unionary. Through a study of Czech CP with publications, nued out series of personal interviews with friends Party and this s. Dubek's nawcross. Isnea

"DUBCEK'

career By William Shaweross Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 65s the to his controntation with the old guara wno the whole were stranguing economy, and nanon s the stalinist sander of 'counter.

so heroine reap revolution', does Inluauve In show that the Dubcek leadership souent Reviewed capitalist closer witn tne both classes eco- by himself, during his

ROBIN

detention Nazis Mantausen Concentration Camp,

BLACK

sery- betraved nis comrades Dy trusty. ing as a endorsement the ans, renatroducin all after ship, his ana, Inally, stage-managed con- ice- Not endeared champion- hips in Stockholn Conditions in the camp wer after terrible: when Stefan came ol aid His own removal from he weighed only seven stone- leadership, ship based itself as readily Dubcek Novotny had enough to eat. his the hand tor man who was did not endear the future Presi- urncoat bureaucrats the apply dent of Czechoslovakia either to legislanon arattea or a Novoty cane as on section moving refan or his son Alexander.' ( May time general stic he meat of the ok nat rally as the in p, of the beral- rally in begin- the Soviet leadership nature duren he hotes at the end of hil invasion eat months later.

this the And nere author provides those service book: the the • Krem- voice aspiratons mSuch been a i the rust if Bubeek April to from Reactionary Kremlin publi- cists alike-that Dubcek was th but centrism. wnen laced with she czechos the preparation of working instigator retorm movement within over his -the overthrow looking class West of capitalism shoulder at advanced workers _in the demanding, through Party the stalinist bureaucracy the trade resto- Last-Decomes openly reaction- democ. i genuine Lennis Kalted hireia nd his racy in the party an who most Con on part calist various the crea- intellectuals, entire Czecho tion new parties trends within the the Party and the working which accepted the slovak nation in a struggle defenco Dubcek always the post-war social democracy unity worked to overturn as socialist and both whole European compromise WItT Dart ot thelr programme with the work. And while Kremlin and their vec-men in the snawcross rejects ing class tor the deteat of stalin- TV

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Friday, August 21, 1970 ON

ULY

so indase oa point in history. mlyh 152 economy itself. e Ameri "or higher tection on toeriba goed Laoly Orst tim imports teaail marker socncn he uAny ang t Bi September 14 is th Dubcek (above), and a bume coviel tank General Motors, Ford, Chrysler in rracue Audusl to a he onta Set on. 1S00. and General Motors (GM) • US-bui career is heta corpra ibe la ese pobli denunciesion t s crimes show Irlals ana samme oi the 'soviet burero- product. gramme Profits in digue, bue those odf imperial.

ois tonce f the Aot rica. ho the ace Bine no Mo ei Beri ters never ndir aoa. of it ae ah he san auc d een The auto • out of every ntnor industries ar dependent on Motor: cent most recent period. Reviewed

JACK

GALE

"REVOLUTION AND EDUCATION'

"Education in Communist China" Ho Bh.rei World Education Series: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 308 pp.

:-E3 BEFORE 1949 the Chinese siste uop mahee indepatn is to siay- educational system combined K- bip ti traditional methods and ing very posl e laso ne- superstitions with the domin- Prms, pis plas na wall ance of western bourgeois ideology. to encourage people to study.

process ris soc ry u , tophe rmi ofe of the 19t Combined duced by education Wereneined wibie peducati wark. This D' heart) the emergence of the Red Guards formal essays. of the weaty, woo ead prisone Some sebeo rea che rialay "Not only is the material o rial access private libraries ultural revolution in 1966 nela single enr Punils draw uo a poster durina tn‹ The Opium War of 1841 and the hif ese eas swept away by 1 beie ei aron tot mon. hisher education sestablishments The Communists dardany teiculars in the s A number of foreign Improvement first task been found to be only semi so Chiang trank ind usmal base. full-time schools. he h te largest obstacle, rientated cultural élite.

he er gr the Chicro com Illiterate Par deve ed raneng ram siong from bast e systemr. Siteracs classes to gineerinity lere of edy catie faced opthathen task Wee ordinary people. engineering sontaned ma War lords languages and dialects. wreatment for eticizing ericiall It is the restrictions Spare-time One statement of the whic te iecten risted in er outers has heid back the deval 1 1949, 276,432 re-tirke s assees 960, this figure had risen to Only with tl among Sainism nized note a ot Du educational system duade ou ions rtmd ta, tory asints out ommunist SCom unist oac e ti 12, 1927) se so mp hanc In place of the old bourgeois • ofy thi eser tie, 'elec- Nildi or P kin cent whick tromcs ana accountancy. Luttbe main dnterenal ayrem Is he for gat onali pri ate co Durict thes res yerir, abee to lenders re eao battended ot eye tion of the free development basis. Diatetical mariatsph ie cons tocs a day serve urilized to US Roun suffered severe losses in It 1966 and 1967, and made thou- sands of workers redundant.

The crisis of AMC was the first indication of the future for the industry as a whole. The Chrysler Corporation was the next to feel the squeeze. 1969 fell was the year the bottom out for Chrysler, the smallest of the Big Three. First quarter profits were off 25 per cent; second quarter pro- fits dropped 51 per cent. The third quarter saw an incredible 87 per cent drop. For the first nine months of 1969, then, profits were down 47.9 cent to 93.2 million per dollars from the 1968 record figure of 178.5 million dollars.

The value of Chrysler stock shank from 723 to 40 dollars.

In the first week of July this several major commercial year, banks united in an effort to save Chrysler from financial disaster.

Led by Manufacturers Han- over Trust Co. (the fourth largest in the US), the banks arranged in five business days a loan of more than 400 million • dollars. Panic The banks moved swiftly to avert what they openly admitted could have been a serious fin- ancial panic. In the long run, neither GM nor Ford could avoid the crunch.

GM announced that its first quarter earnings for 1970 were 348 million dollars or 1.21 dollars a share, as opposed to 523 million dollars or 1.82 dollars a share in the same quarter of 1969. The greatest loss was suffered in domestic sales. Ford's report was much the same. Net earnings totalled 124 million dollars or 1.15 dollars a share, compared with 168 mil- The arm "TIME' MAGAZINE last week reported that the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, I. Edgar Hoover, had—in essence —blackmailed the late Martin Luther King into toning down his attacks on the FBI. to the report, According| Hoover met King in 1964 and revealed that the FBI had tapes noT anatis had been barging agents had been King's hotel rooms for some time and had uncovered exten- sive and vigorous sexual activi- Lectured Hoover, so the story goes, called King into his office in Washington and lectured him on the moral responsibilities of a Nobel Prizewinner. 'He also dollars or 1.54 dollars a lion share. For the first six months of 1970 total car sales in the US had dropped by 9 percent from the similar period in 1969.

These are hard, cold facts. We have seen the fate of Penn Cen- tral and Lockheed. The car-makers have seen them, too, and know that they to make a stand or go have under. The auto workers are one of the leading sections the American working-class. They are the most highly- organized, the most militant and the best paid. Best paid but not well paid.

For working under the speed-up conditions of a car plant, the average car worker makes 4.00 dollars an hour, and with fringe benefits, 5.76. This appears to be a great deal of money. It isn't. It's imperative to remember the extremely high cost of liv- ing in the US, the high tax-rate, and the high prices. In fact, while average straight time earnings rose 4.4 per cent in the first quarter of 1970, take-home pay fell 1.7 per cent and purchasing power fell 7.4 per cent. In actual fact, then, car work- falling further ers are further behind rising prices.

And what about the union leaders? Woodcock,

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Leonard president, has made it clear that he wants to avoid a fight at all costs. union negotiators have The in particularly servile acted and friendly manner. 'Goodwill was present', at the meeting with the employers reported one newspaper. Wood- cock has even stated that an Luther King leaving Hoover's office in 1964.

suggested that King tone down took his advice the FBI. King his attacks on This sordid little story holds in this interest for only us respect: it illustrates once more that the pressures of capitalism are omni-present, and that they are as sharp as they are exten- sive. This story reveals only the tiny tip of the iceberg: there are other much more sophisti- cated agencies than the FBI but with equally wide-ranging inter- ests. If the FBI can do this to the mild and comparatively harm- less King, who represented a bulwark rather than a threat to US imperialism. If they do this to each other what won't they do to the work.

ing class?

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Open clashes between workers hired and thugs at Flint, Michigan in the '30s. 'would be industry-wide strike suicidal'. Suicidal for whom?

But the bureaucrats face tremendous pressure from below.

The auto workers are well aware that recent settlements have given the Teamsters and building workers rises and bene- fits amounting to 12 to 14 per cent. They know that inflation immediately eliminates any small gains in wages. They also know that GM Roche 'earned' chairman J. A. 795,000 dollars last year in pay and bonuses alone. Major union demands include: An immediate 26 cents hour increase simply to an catch up with the inflation of the last two years. The union wants the 26 cents to be included in the base from which the new con- tract is negotiated. The car moguls want the 26 cents to form part of the new contract.

• Restoration of the unlim- ited escalator clause which • ex-UAW was given up by president Walter Reuther dur- ing the Ford strike of 1967.

• Woodcock is said to be proposing increases of 8 per cent and 7 per cent for the first and second years. This is a pitiful amount. pension • 500-a-month plan, with retirement after 30 years. • An end to compulsory overtime, elimination punch-clock factory workers. Adamant The auto workers are particu- 26 adamant about the larly cents; 26 cents they should have earned if Reuther hadn't sur- rendered the unlimted escalator.

'We want our 26 cents. I've een beat out of that 26 cents , said one Ford worker in Detroit.

In the event of an auto strike all the fighting traditions of the UAW members will return with new strength. The union was born out of vicious fights against Ford's hired thugs, in the occupations at Flint, the battles at Dearborn.

These struggles were open clashes between the auto work- ers and the capitalist state.

A strike today would not only re-create those conditions; they would be far more sharp, as sharp this new crisis of as capitalism. No amount of 'goodwill' can forestall the showdown.

THE AND AUTO COLLUSION®

CONNECTIONS between the giant corporations and their servants in the state machine are never well-disguised. This is particularly true in the United where nothing is well- States, disguised for long. It appears that for prestige the Ford Motor Co. leases luxurious Lincoln Conti- nental sedans to key Senators and Congressmen for a mere 750 dollars a year. The same service is available to the private citizen in the Washington area for 3,480 dol- lars a year. General Motors has a similar practice of renting Cadillac lim- ousines to key officials in both the legislative and executive branches of the Federal govern- ment. Among committees whose senior members currently take of advantage Ford's offer are those responsible for auto safety, highway, and consumer tax matters. These are the committees, needless to say, whose decisions the auto industry takes most interest in.

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INTEGRATION of British-Leyland's Steel and Austin-Morris divisions, de fanfare of press publicity, must be se last desperate gamble of the British car to survive in a world of contract- ing markets and increasing com- petition. This streamlining process will not only involve changes in the top administrative echelons of the company but, more important, it sweeping changes in work means methods and payments systems on the production lines.

• that If anyone thinks integration is going to benefit Ford men Leyland's 190,000 workers he had better forget it now.

The combine's directors urge action have realized for timé some fragmented and de- that its centralized has pre- On £14 from vented management effectively abolishing piéce- and preventing 'wage- work drift' in the group's factories, FORD workers at the 45- and has allowed considerable acre site, Dagenham, are accumulate in the Dower Lo hands of shop stewards. speedy urging action on only This dilemma is too their claim for wage parity evident: day the one after with car workers at the of integration, announcement the of the factory, whole Coventry Rootes Ryton factory of Standard-Triumph Coventry. came to a stop over the issue of lay-off pay. At the first of of a series shop-floor meetings which will Not available be held throughout the Dagen- ham complex this week, body- Three days after the procla- shop men endorsed the recom- mation, Leyland was forced to mendation of the joint shop stewards' that two n e w committees to announce go ahead with the f14 claim Triumph cars which would boost available till September rates at Dagenham from 1ls 6d because 'unprecedented stop- and delayed deliveries hour to 19s ld. pages They pointed out that Ford from suppliers component have hindered production'.

workers were now in a strong bargaining position due to the Inefficient management and combined impending introduction on to shortage of credit production lines of the new with an unprecedented rise in Taunus Cortina-a model al- shop-floor militancy have con- ready plagued by contractors' tributed to the present posi- where Leyland's strikes. tion annual The demand explodes the investment is £20-f30 million myth spread earlier this week less than its continental rivals.

that talk of the claim is 'pure Consequently the value of speculation' and that 'no ordinary 5s BLMC shares has or any individual' are plummeted steadily for the union last two years and profits for quoted in sub- reports as of 1970 scribing to statements about the first six month wére only fl.1 million the demand. com-

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his trends in the avi ha are to secure e the "Telegraph where discipline leaders politica line and penalize the oducin ership only ind order the le in a matter or the months to Indian is are playing the same rote Little doubt rest kind a ti soup exacty the same d it's they e ill inevitably deliver eme the leone the in Britain. group Speed-up drive swells doubt now be Cowiey, when is thi Parasitic Frustrate accident totals plant and isheduled OF ABOUT 3,000 acci- dels оccurrevc. wood- year involving

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