Workers Press no. 244

workers press

NUMBER 244

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • 1970 Labour Party Conference No challenge Labour to the vouth on the Tories decline THE National Execuuve report gives a measure ot the decime or une Young Party socialists. une rump organization of ageing Labourites nerd together by fake

BY JOHN SPENCER

Une Trotskists of the 'Milit- LABOUR'S election defeat will dominate much of the discussion Blackpool at the Party's ant tendency. annual conference in four weeks' time, but According there is no sign from the executive report and agenda of any serious move to comaci cuce challenge the Tories. ended b with 216 at instead.

DOLL

documents raolale bureducralc 1967 con rente complacency about the election result and Labour's sinche n ne be nn luture prospecis. 'No strings'- Featner boun are a wibute lo sas faren dea maticanym ber the complete incapaciv of retormism. its mabuly to even so ve the most attempts trifling problems in front of the working class. Ferodo men motor Noh cà e 12 r hinn than 100 belom solution the 1967 figure. unanimous Other statistics ONLY HOURS before his meeting with Tory

TUC

The sumted by corsiers premier nealn, UNION OFFICIALS are pressing hard for a secretary Victor Feather to make the elec chon machine more thicet- the last productivity settlement at Ferodo's brake-lining was tvine to resolve une factory at Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, where Ba So taronsto Tecte ven motor empiovers mount- Hecto ite 200 craftsmen are entering their fifth week of Insis. alanise strike action in support of a claim for a f10 with invoived in the CRN Sankey vone or tals cost tue Labor and ieading figures, central much cash. increase wilhoul surings Fitour ly the as eto while" DEP d o beir rump vouch repu rack nira of ma for e The strikers have their

ISRAELIS

say for further ment movement.

DOUBTFUL

ON PEACE

Pious hopes

TALKS

that from Basingsooke Con Suharto C Middle Ea THE ISRAELI cabinet visit cut meeting ended yesterday Laboiter six nears afha to a day without reaching any con- hat cot nemegement disciemady clusion on tne next steps in the UN negotiations. i beter in oposi refore the thin end of thi Sald oday the . the ta sit to Holland by Thad esia meeting latee 'Schemes' Presto one day ro or Gunhi sons with the Tocher has ement onm the 12-hoir : Indonesian am prate terdo sentatives in New York repre : beton separatists here are prostate e Bover deal and wil piate Th Sota a riniee dis o- almost ounced here ht bee pres sing e Baone thied dene pur bach anieres Coyentra fa ot compon c posat aa thei radet, furths for se back aeotnes lugust 27

LISE

nt which oper the Torie here on resusay oon due o une retur onis Theabous talkers inside lett'

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• See page four over ti Cambodian liberation All Trades Unions Alliance Conference 'illegal'?-Sihanouk rement

MINERS

asks Sunday, September 6 mit the Pasto fowl Danum Hotel đo each the occupation as an illegal anyway. Baus When H12n s

DONCASTER

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SERRERWENT®

CASTLEFORD, YORKSHIRE.

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

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1970

Wider TUC chief at No. 10 support TUC secretarv Victor Feather met Prime Minister Heath yesterday afternoon for talks on the Tories' proposed industrial relations plas. Ine governlelt for is likely to take a tough line from the outset on the Car indusry crisis. basis ol tne motor producton dropped from a weekly average of 10,306 in June to 5,437 in July. glassmen SUPPORT for the tenacious struggle at Pilking- ton's St Helen's glassworks continues to come in. Two hundred and seventy men are still with- out jobs three weeks after they were sacked for taking part in a three-day token stoppage at the plant.

CORRESPÔNDENT

Workers British- Leyland's Lancashire Truck factories last week col- give tul support to tae stan lected f430 to support the Flikingto fight against the dismissals.

NUGMW

They pledged their sup- mine sae nt full sacked men that and demanded their im- i this mediate reinstatement it woll moral and e vll financial support Comedian banned Negro Plea to Coventry Tories on

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

shipyard

LEAGUE

closure Trotsky Memoria BOILERMAKERS' union chief Daniel McGar- Meeting vey, together with Tory MP Dame Irene Ward, is to head a delegation today to the Ministry Technology protest at the closure

GLASGOW

Palmer's shipyard, Hebburn, Tyneside.

Partick Burgh Hall has governaenl nr Merkland St Underground decided not to give finan- Cholera cial aid to the yard, which Starts 7.30 p.m. reprieved earlier this Leon Trotsky's was Admission 2s. year by Labour Technology may last words: Please note Minister Anthony Wedge- reach changed date 1 am confident of wood Benn the victory of the Sunday Europe Fourth International October 4 A SERIOUS outbreak of Go forward'! cholera,, with at least 2,000 cases and more than 60 deaths. nas occurrea in une African Trotsky Memorial Lectures Guinea. the World Health organization reporlea yes- coas tiom Pa mers. leraay.

WHO

held top-level talks

IAM CONFIDENT OF

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ban, aa in comes® it and why we avent keer Vaccine the yard open In Lebanon there are 32 Many of the workers at Monday, 14 September suspected S a CraN millen 'Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism'

CROSS

Nationalize health Monday, 21 September visitors. "Trotsky's fight against revisionism'

TUBE TALKS

BEAVER HALL

bavins Taras yesterday were

GARLICK HILL

nge men wao te demand, Near Mansion House tub Admission 2s strings Starts 8 p.m. prized: hen it should be nationaliz Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary)

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Labour youth on the decline THE National Executive report gives a measure of the decline of the Labour Party Young the rump Socialists, organization or arena young Labourites held togetner mne lake Trotskyists of the 'Milit- ant tendency. 1 12% this conferenc has faren dramatic ny. this year, is LPs national committee claimed 41% Now still me below the 1967 figure. othes fluctuations in the numbers The number of youth 17670 None of of this cost very Financiallym spenuch last year rearp sobe O the LPYS fis that House youth paper Leo: Suharto visit cut to a day cue to one day. • cane. Bassador me do yesterday. had the presi unred here day 10 2 24 postponed yester hoths for se barily reather.

now due here on Thursday morning • See page four All Trades Unions Alliance Conference

MINERS

Sunday, September 6 Danum Hotel High St

DONCASTER

DERWENT

CASTLEFORD, YORKSHIRI

workers press

NUMBER

244

• PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

1970 Labour Party Conference No challenge to the Tories

BY JOHN SPENCER

LABOUR'S election defeat will dominate much of the discussion at the Party's Blackpool but annual conterence in lour weeks time. there is no sign from the executive report and conterence agenda of any challenge the Tories. both documents radiate Instead, bureauc and complacency about me eleccion result and Labours future prospects. 'No strings'- Both Son piete incapacy to Feather reformism, its inability to attempts

CYCH

trifling problems in front Ferodo men or une working class. motor sed tothe major question.

the ane solution unanimous ONLY HOURS before his meeting tor a real with ory Heath,

TUC

premier UNION OFFICIALS are pressing hard for a secretarv victor reatne productivity settlement at Ferodo's brake-lining was trying to resolve the factory at Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, where motor emolovers mount Barnet ing crisis. 200 craftsmen are entering their fifth week of Attempts strike action in support of a claim for a £10 oficials of the Labour Party and its central increase without strings.

and leading strikers have con- way for fure to

ISRAELIS

take on the ste tinued to vote unanimously to continue their fight.

DOUBTFUL

that Toe m, has toen accepable for as crease

ON PEACE

Pious hopes

TALKS

the possiblity of a e2 interim y a Mida respondent

THE

cabinet at the fores and motor meeting ended yesterday without reaching any con- employers clusion on the next steps in the UN negotiations. core the reined the unionel meetings later the Stalinist The 'Morning and his colleagues to interpret chooses 'Schemes' tead or son to the shity discussion al attempted living discustong tong vin the appears to be in the often!

The left Septie in ford Ton repre- caine at devices bett at almost members Coyentras supples to be stepped up.

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Cambodian liberation "illegal'? -Sihanouk asks : occupation as an illegal means the Cam he teal act reme of Lon Noll considered

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

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1970

Wider TUC chief at No. 10 support TUC secretary Victor Feather met Prime Minister on the Tories heath vesterdav arternoon lordlalks proposed industrial relations plans.

The government for is ake v to take a rougn me nrom une oulsel on unt basis of the motor indusry crisis.

Car production dropped from a weekly average of 10,306 in June to 5,437 in July. glassmen 1053 SUPPORT for the tenacious strugglé at Pilking- ton's St Helen's glassworks continues to come in. Two hundred and seventy men are still with- out jobs three weeks after they were sacked for taking part in a three-day token stoppage al lne planil.

CORRESPONDENT

Workers British- Leyland's Lancashire Truck factories last week lected f430 to support the fight against the dismissals.

Branch at support They pledged their sup- port to the sacked men reinstatement and demanded their im- mediate reinstatement.

(AA & EE)

• mord Suppos resolution Comedian banned that of the Nat Canberra, • Dick kington's militants, preparing been refuse Plea to the working class through denartment kesman declined to explain Tories on

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

shipyard

LEAGUE

closure Trotsky Memoria union chief Daniel McGar-

BOILERMAKERS'

Meeting vey, together with Tory MP Dame Irene Ward, to head a delegation today to the Ministry closure o Technology protest at the

GLASGOW

Palmer's shipyard, Hebburn, Tyneside.

Partick Burgh Hall has The government nr Merkland St Underground ceciced not to give lan Cholera cial aid to the yard, which Starts 7.30 p.m. Leon Trotsky's was reprieved earlier this Admission 2s. year by Labour Technology may last words: Please note Minister Anthony Wedge- reach wood Benn. 'I am confident of changed date O1 inf the victory of the Sunday Europe sack to wormpsoyment is well Fourth International October 4 A SERIOUS outbreak Go forward'! cholera, with at least 2,000 Produce o ryneside. cases and more than deaths, has occurred in the Stewards Atrican countri Trotsky Memorial Lectures Guinea, the World Health Also on today's lobb local Organization reported yes- representatives shop stew- terday.

WHO

held

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Spanish

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said Welle

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL

OUrUKWARD...

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they entr so they want pe closed. East total of 33

MOOSES PRES

raned west bank a 'What what's we and why they want Vaccine In Lebanon there are 32 the yard o those the s Monday, 14 September suspected of today's authorities have prepared "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' Nationalize Monday, 21 September health checks on foreigr visitors. hop when they th 100h "Trotsky's fight against revisionism'

TUBE TALKS

BEAVER HALL

Laning Talks pesterday wer * or less on the having

GARLICK HILI

n of the 3,000 rebe mata Mansion House tube tainan ace men who are demand- Starts 8 p.m. Admission 2s po their latest pay then it should be nationalized.

Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) be dropped.

PAGE TWO

The 1970 Devlin Phase Two agreement for London enclosed docks demands : 'Movement of gangs to other work on either ship or quay at any time within a shift including ship to quay and quay to ship'

MOBILITY,

flexibility and interchangeability are usually found grouped together in one clause in productivity deals. Between them they cover any changes in working prac- tice that management wish to make. It is vitally important to understand their relation to job evaluation. Whereas job evaluation claims to put jobs in order of importance 'scientifically' and to break the final list into five or six groups or grades, mobility, etc. aims at breaking down all trade and job de- marcations within these groups so that all that is left are five or six grades of general labourers. But this shows what a com- 'scientific' plete fraud the classification of jobs, i.e. job evaluation, really is when all that is being aimed at is the complete elimination of trades and job titles anyway. This does not mean that job evaluation is always necessarily introduced first. The breaking down of demarcation and a consequent loosening of organ- ization in the work-place is often used prior to the intro duction of job evaluation, or as a system running at the same time and in the same agreement. It is useful to look at these three methods separately to understand the way they are used. Among themselves, manage- .

ments and consultants usually define them as follows: • Mobility of labour : This is the transfer of workers from one work-place to another, within one com- pany or within the terms of an agreement between more than one company. The different work-places may be next door to each other in the same building (site or dock), they may be at opposite ends of the town or at opposite ends of the We have already given one example in relation to elec- I would like inform Fill in the form below and ser

SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LA

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LO

Name Address

PART

tricity supply-'the acceptance of mobility between Braehead and other stations and into Braehead from other stations, if the Board thinks this is desirable for intensive main- tenance or other reasons'. Others are:

DOCKS

The 1970 Devlin Phase Two agreement for London enclosed docks demands: 'Movement of gangs to other work on either ship or quay.

at any time within a shift in- cluding ship to quay and quay to ship!

SHIPBUILDING

When a rationalized pay structure has been agreed for two or more of the company's yards the employees will be completely mobile as among these yards.' (1967 Employ- ment Charter Upper Clyde Shipbuilders.) The mobility of labour clauses are a major means of intimidation to encourage wor- ers to leave a job. Firms with • no - redundancy guarantees' offer work at another place, perhaps a long way off, which makes it such a wearing pro- cess travelling, that workers prefer to leave the job. By doing this they lose any claim to redundancy payment and workers is the loss of such then called 'natural wastage' or 'voluntary redundancy'.

- 7 • information about

OCIALIST

JR LEAGUE

below and send to NATIONAL

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE,

HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

PART SIXTEEN OF A REGULAR SERIES

breaking down of demarcation An example of long-distance lines. For example: mobility: In 1969 more than a hun-

AIR TRANSPORT.

Ired dockers living in London 'All this and previously working staff subject to in London Docks, i agreement must be capable of, including the closed Katharine's available for and willing to Dock, perform work associated with were commuting regu- larly between London and Til- their usual occupation or such bury. (25 miles away) to where other alternative work if avail- transferred. able, as instructed by the em- they been Some of them had to get up ployer when their usual work at 5.30 a.m., is not available (Agreement returning home and spending over covering Engineering and Main- ato £3 a week in fares. workers on civil air tenance transport, 1969)

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

• Flexibility of labour 'Under the MUPS sheme, This is the carrying out of although process operators and some of the operations of one tradesmen continue to be differentiated, is trade by workers of another each per- trade in order to progress the mitted to perform such ele- mentary tasks of the other as job. It is the basis for the employers' plans for the over- may be necessary within any lapping trades and given plant situation to ensure

JUST OUT

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

A TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS

BY ROBERT BLACK

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

PRICE 22s Ed 186A Clashem Mich S

WORKERS PRESS

optimum of the operation process. (The 1965 ICI Man- Utilization and Pay- power ments Structures agreément.)

RAILWAYS :

'List of additional duties of conductor guard. • Check that toilets and wash basins of train in which are properly equipped. • Replace unserviceable light bulbs. • Operate public address sys- tem on trains.' (Pay & Efficiency Agreement between British Rail and NUR 1968.) Special training systems have been evolved to enable wor- kers to encompass at least some aspects of other trades as well as their own. One such method is par- ticularly favoured by the In- dustrial Training Boards.

'Module' This is the 'module' system whereby trainees will undergo a series of separate programmes of training which can be com- bined in different ways to qualify them in a variety of skills and to which further "modules" can be added later as required.' What this means is that every worker will be taught certain aspects of other wor- ker's jobs to facilitate over- lapping. The building industry train- particularly ing board anxious to develop this for all construction work where, for example, a steelfixer might be taught how to cut, bend, join and tie down conduit to save the cost of electricians doing the work. and Similarly carpenters bricklayers may be taught some aspects of each others' jobs, and all craftsmen would certainly be expected to re- move rubbish and rubble, to clean up and to do work pre- viously defined as labouring.

This training is to be ap- plied to all workers, not just the younger ones, though it is claimed by government sources that radical change will take craft place in apprenticeships on the basis of the module system. Overlapping of jobs can vary from a situation where a of between group workers them cover the work of an- other worker to one in which one worker does the entire job of another worker as well as his own. With modernization and automation, of course, this can even be extended to a position does where one worker the work previously carried out by a group of operatives. It is certain that with in- creased research into one ming simplification methods, and job flexibility, work an enormous cut-back in jobs can occur. • Interchangeability of "integration' having been labour achieved. transfer of a This is the The right of management to worker of one craft to operate these systems as and operate or permanent on a temporary they fit see wnen worker of other basis as them an step craft. Some examples: ward towards complete trol over a work force.

MOTOR INDUSTRY

On the pretext of 'progress- 'All production operators ing the work', shop stewards be must completely inter- can be moved on and militant changeable and responsible for groups of workers broken up; body rectification of bodies, workers can be taken off a job parts, gear boxes, engines and and be replaced by others who suspension units. It is on this do not know the correct rate category has basis that the for the job, the previous man- assessed and the been rate the traditional ning levels, established.' speed of working, or what protective practices have been (1968 Agreement put for- operated. ward at Rootes, Linwood.)

Certainly, within these 'The purpose of the agree- sys- tems one may see the seeds of ment is to end traditional craft future socialist organization facilitate distinctions so as to of production. temporary or permanent trans- fers of labour to overcome The complete flexibility of production bottlenecks and to would allow working that ensure deliveries. are made on worker to cover a wide variety time.' of tasks and for occupations his own self-development and (Rolls-Royce, Coventry, well-being, that would allow March 1970 'Black Book' pro- mobility to and from jobs posals.) which further widens the field of education; and an inter-

BUSES

changeability, including that into management, which would 'Bus crews to be used on give all workers a deep under- Suitable garage work. garage standing society which staff to be given some plat- ot form duties.' they themselves and own operate. (PIB Report 1969 Produc- the Bus tivity Agreements in Distorted Industry.) One other term used by con- Under capitalism, however, sultants is: these forms are distorted into of total exploitation systems "Integration' solely dedicated to the making of profit. When a section of workers has become fully 'flexible' and Of course, no objection can 'interchangeable' between be made to workers learning ceracti- number of tasks, and new skills and techniques, so cally all demarcation between long as this training is carried jobs has disappeared, the out in the firm's time and with employers speak of complete full pay.

BBC 1

12.25-12.50 p.m. Nai 1.00-1.25 Telewele. 1.30 zindagi-naya jeevan. 4.20 Play Watch with mother. 1.45-1.53 News and weather. school 4.40 Noggin and the flying machine.

4.55 Dog in orbit. 5.15 Tom tom. 5.44 Barbar. 5.50 News and weather.

6.00 LONDON. Nationwide. 6.45

THE DOCTORS.

7.05

TOMORROW'S WORLD.

7.30 'WHERE THERE'S A WILL'. With Harry Worth.

8.00 MISSION IMPOSSIBLE. 'Doomsday'.

8.50 NEWS and weather. 9.10 SIX WEDNESDAY PLAYS. 'The Last Train Through the Hare- castle Tunnel'. A young train-spotter goes on a weekend excursion on a vintage train.

10.25

24 HOURS.

11.00

THE FIFTIES.

11.15 WEATHER, regional news and weather.

REGIONAL BBC

All regions as BBC 1 except: Ble carech chi fynd? 11.17 Weather 1R.17 News Sead: Scot- Scotland: 6.00-6.45 ana. ren. North wear Nand lines and weather wide: i157 News Northern Ireland: headlines and weanhere region West: South tonight: Points today: onwide toot weather. south-west. 1117 News nationwide. session

BBC 2

11.00-11.20 a.m. PLAY SCHOOL.

7.30 p.m. NEWS and weather.

8.00 LOUIS MALLE'S INDIA. 'Where East Goes West'.

FANNY CRADDOCK INVITES ... YOU TO A TEENAGER'S

8.50

PARTY.

9.10 SHOW OF THE WEEK. 'Scott on Progress'. Terry Scott with guest stars. 9.55

EUROPA.

10.25 NEWS and weather.

10.30 LINE-UP.

ITV

2.15 p.m. Racing from York. 4.17 Tingha and Tucker club. 4.30 Cross- roads. 4.55 Anything you can ido. 5.20 Ace of wands. 5.50 News.

6.02 TODAY.

THE SAINT.

6.30

CORONATION STREET.

7.30 IT TAKES A THIEF. 'Fortune City'.

8.00 THE SINNERS. 'The Mad Lomasneys'.

9.00 10.00

NEWS.

NEAREST AND DEAREST. 'A Young Man's Fancy'.

10.30 11.00

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

11.45 midnight. VANTAGE POINT. 12.00

REGIONAL ITV

and the

CHANNEL:

London. 1 professor London! birthday werne, 01048 Pumn'c for life. 11.50 Weather. the Cha thei trews 6.35

SOUTHERN:

4.155-100 4.00 rossroads. natroll Ho separty London Day Nanny The Crime desk. 2 20 troop The Avengers. 9500 7.30 London 7.00 Jokers wild. 11.4: Sowed by Action 70. Weather fol- 4.25 Tandor 4.40 Wind 4.27 Gus

HARLECH:

1 show. 4.4 4.40 Westward 19m London today. Once upon a time. Nanny Renort Wednesday, September 2, 1970 BY

BERNARD

FRANKS

What is certain, however, is that the workers concerned can only ensure that this train- ing is genuine and not just a vehicle for the overlapping of jobs, or for eliminating 'non- productive work, if it is totally controlled by the trades unions, with no interference from employers or the state.

For the worker who is a Marxist there must be at all times complete opposition to any system of working which attempts to change control of work to the advantage of the management. Opposed Where a productivity deal is being proposed, these clauses, and the deal in its entirety, must be exposed and opposed.

Where a deal has been agreed and is being imple- mented, a struggle should be carried out against each and every attempt to eliminate jobs and workers. At the same time the fight must continue for the total repeal of the agreement. But it is here that the ques- tion of a political fight in the unions for a totally different kind of leadership is very much to the fore. Only with a leadership pro- posing a socialist programme of nationalization without compensation and with work- ers' control of any industry attempting to make reductions in its labour force can a fight be taken up against the implementation of these sys- tems. It is only on this basis that modern scientific and technical achievements can be used to the benefit and not the detri- ment of the working class.

7.00 Joker boli HTV West colour above except: 41234.25 and 6.01-6.35 Scene west. HTV Wales colour channel 41 dyda. "12.15 above except: 11.45 Y Weather. ANGLIA: 2.15-4.15 London Romper 4.25 Anglia 4.55 newsroom 4.55 room. 4.55- London. Crossroads. 00, About Anglia. 7.00 The 8.00t he saint. 9.00 London. 11.45 7.30 London. Reflection. ATV MIDLANDS: 2.15-3.40 London.

20 Von de cy 60 cros 4.40 Tingha Who knows! followed by weather.

ULSTER: 2.15-4.10

London. 4.30 Romper headlines. 4.55 London. 6.00 Viewfinder. roads. 7.00 Jokers wild. 7.30 London. 8.00 Strange report. 9.00 London.

YORKSHIRE: 2.15 London. dee. T.S house. Matinee. enchanted London. 6.00 Calendar and weather 6.30 Wally Whyton style. 7.00 Toker's wild. 7.30 London. 8.00 Randall and Hopkirk (deceased). 9.00 London. 11.45 Weather. GRANADA: 2h05 sodo 440° Tingha short story. London. followed by Tingha club This is your and Tucker 4.55 Newsview. 6.10 right. 6.15 Laurel and Hardy. 6.30 The big 7.30 London. 8.00 The Baron.

aller .00 London TYNE TEES: 2.15 London. 4.10 North 4,55 London. 6.00 Today 4.40 Paulus. at six. 6.30 Survival. 7.00 Jokers wild.

7.30 London. 8.00 Court martial. 9.00 night Faith and the family.

BORDER:

2.15-4.10 London. 4.13 Border news headlines. 4.15 Freud on food. 4.40 Tingha and Tucker club. 4.55 London. 6.00 Border news and lookaround. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 7.30 London. Jokers wild. 8.00 Man in 9.00 suitcase. London. 11.45 Border news and weather. SCOTTISH: 2.15-4.15 London.

Scottie. 6.25 Police call. 6.30 Calumn's 6.10 A girl called Ber- ceilidh. 7.00 Jokers wild. 7.30 London.

10.30 Festival a suitcase. 9.00 London.

8.00 Man in 1.30 Late call GRAMPIAN: 2.15-4.10 London.

7.30 London. five-o. 8.55 Police news, 9.00 London.

Wednesday, September 2, 1970 Amalrik 'I set myself the objective of refuting those current and inaccur- ate ideas liberalization of the regime which is allegedly taking place.

Soviet regime, my in what 28 reall nampening Ine opinion, is not that it is getting more nderal-Dur gelling mor In reality the regime is more and more losing control over the situation in the country.

a totalitarian regime the degree of control is already naticent pramnle I can cite the unusual popularitu of * Ar an Samizdat. This does not happen hecause the rearme takes liberal view of such things, or deliberately permits it, but simply because the regime can't do anything about this problem..

30 YEARS AFTER TROTSKY'S DEATH

THESE ARE the words of 31-year-old Soviet his- torian Andrei Amalrik, recently imprisoned for the second time on ac- count of his opposition views. He has still not been tried, and it is feared that like hun- dreds of others he may in- be stead to a committed mental hospital. Amalrik of the was one Soviet oppositionists who ap. filmed interviews American corresponden William Cole in '24 HOURS' Shot and recorded inside the these interviews pro- vided one of the most moving and informative experiences have neen cantured on tele. vision. Here were men who had of experienced sion, who had not the slightest Goubt that The but they stood determined to fight on, whatever the conse- quences personally.

24 HOURS

LABOUR CAMPS

BBC-1 Friday, August 28 Filmed interviews with Piotr Yakir. already having ceryps, son of the Soviet served 17 labour Soviet oppositionists tary commander murdered by Guest reviewer Stalin, spoke out yet again: Cliff Slaughter 'There's no going back. we're not here, there'll be There already others. are Ginsbera of many 1s—many voung "They'li beat us and they'll kill us All the same, people will principles rather than Marxist thinking opposition-even in the frag- after all the ones, the years of stalinible. this inevitable ments presented to us in this Incide Potma the nrison -fulfils and at the programme- camp from which he was re.

same time begins to enrich the of even harder er to a camp But of course we have con- harder even regime, ciderahle evidence or the nilm.

the neronectives Ginsburg of leon Trotskv. who himself had Alexander re. died 30 years ago at the hands corded on tave the following gains of October of a Stalinist assassin. wards: Amalrik, can of those prisons struggle and the see The near to us- soninet the Stalinict chowed ue a fleeting alimnse death cracy as i inter- of what rich developments of that is what we are surrounded tho national struggle of the working Marxism we can expect when hy and nevertheless we none the against imperialism. (See working to hold out. 'We are sustained, not bot therent out entreationahe contribution to Jamizdat extracts makes its own the so-called decisive stand the cadres of the Fourth Inter- The living struggle of the national. he Soviet Union, nor by the onod will nt the governmento International

A JOURNAL OF

of the great powers but by the wrath, protests and solidarity

INTERNATIONAL

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MARXISM

1970 THE YEAR OFLENIN AND TROTSKY

who hold dear the dignity of

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rights of man will be observed —herA and thronahont. the world.'

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27-year-old Vladimir Bukov- sky related his horrible ner- conal ayneriences in a mental hospital. He explained and tople that like him took Documents trom tha Sontal Oppostlar fought the kind of risk involved Long live the struggle of the Czechoslovak Working mekin& cause a fly flmad intár. view, saw that Thing or all as to how the Lo Apa to the sitan a che son unto from lie artacrank.

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Dismissing with cold con- tempt the theories of 'liberal- ization' of Stalinism, Amalrik at the same time seeks a his- torical perspective for struggle against the bureaucracy. Their repressions come from their weakness, just as the failure of the repression to silence the opposition comes from the crisis - from the senility of the system of bureaucratic control. Asked about the political attitudes of the workers of in the and country town Soviet Union, Amalrik gave a fascinating account of how his section of the intellectuals sees its relation to the proletariat: the workers had not yet begun to generalize and question the nature of the regime as such, but were manifesting dissasfac- tion with many aspects of it.

Workers dissatisfied were with the level of their wages compared with better-paid sec- tions of the population, said Amalrik, Others - perhaps better-paid—criticized the lack of available consumer goods.

Farmworkers were dissatis- fied with their legal disabilities, being unable to move from the villages. Factory workers were dissatisfied with the com- plete control over them by the factory managers. People in small towns were unable to move to bigger ones, for ex- ample, when insufficient jobs were available. In these summary observa- tions by Amalrik we see the ingredients of the struggle of the Soviet workers agains the parasitic privileges, the rigid bureaucratic control of indus- try and lack of workers' rights in the economy; the legal and political restrictions designed to prevent any organization of national political opposition from the workers; the inability of the bureaucratized economy the to provide the goods workers need. Amalrik expressed the opin- ion that a revolution in the the c Yakir d con- USSR might be caused pre- cisely by the continuance of this system of rigid control.

There are the germs of a profound thought here. What Amalrik calls the 'tightly-controlled castes' into which the bureaucracy strati- fies Soviet society come more and more, in their rigidity and exclusiveness, into conflict with the kind of social and political structure demanded by the development of the planned economy.

CONFIRMATION

The name Trotsky was never mentioned in this programme, though of course we know that many spokesmen of the opposition have now raised the question of his historical role, his fate and his contribution to Marxism. But 30 years almost to the day since his death, here was striking and inspiring confirm- ation of his struggle against the Stalinist bureaucracy.

Asked about the bureau- cracy's technique of sending arrested oppositionists to men- tal hospitals-which combines brutal punishment with the advantage of avoiding a trial— Amalrik was once again most illuminating. Yes, he said, such punish- ment is terrible, but it shows above all the 'complete ideo- logical capitulation' of the bureaucracy in face of its opponents. Through the struggle of men and women like these-with all manner of unevenness and differentiation, no doubt-will come, and are coming, thou- sands of revolutionary fighters for the Fourth International.

It is in the work of Trotsky, in the building of the and Fourth International, that their up with the struggle links October Revolution, and with the communist future. MINERS on the S Wales bastion of coalfield, that royalist enthusiasm, worked this weekend in electrified anticipation of a Royal visitor. 'Will our Prince toil by our side?'-this was the question on all lips at the coal-face- a speculation sparked off by their leader's invitation to the Royal Family to allow their son to work down the pit for five years. The Prince of Wales is due to visit Maerdy colliery in the Rhondda valley_(ex the 'Red November, but Rhondda') in Dai Francis, general secretary of the S Wales area of the National Union of Mine- workers has asked Buckingham Palace to go one better. He should, said this mem- ber of the Communist Party, for five work underground years. This would broaden hs experience of life. 'Miners are the finest men he could work with—it would be a great character-builder,'

TGWU SOCIAL CLUB

IT IS PROBABLY a coin- cidence, but three trade union journals are in trouble with their readers at the moment - and all the unions con- cerned are led by Labour 'lefts'. The back cover of the jour- nal of the Amalgamated En- Foundryworkers gineers and (president: Hugh Scanlon) carries an advertisement in- serted by Ford's. It is headed: 'Toolmakers get more than top money at Ford.. This might have sounded OK to editor Jim Conway at AEF headquarters in Peckham Road, but down in Dagenham they took exception to it.

Essex District South-East Commitee of the AEF has sent a letter to the executive pro- testing at the advertisement, saying: 'We are opposed to company advertisements in the union journal which use mis- leading and deliberately mis- chievous headlines'. Since the unions have just put in another claim for Ford's wages to be brought up to the levels of Midlands carworkers, this annoyance is understand- able. Parity begins at home. MORE MYSTERIOUS is the controversy surrounding a book review which appeared in the June issue of the Society of Graphical and Allied Trades Journal, 'Graphic 70. Signed by Jeff Walsh, it re- viewed 'Workers Control' - edited by Ken Coates and Tony Topham of the Institute for Workers' Control. Headlined 'Workers-beware of CIA "Revolutionaries" , the • this book review said: gives rise to the question "in

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ON AUGUST 25 the 'Morn- ing Star' got very worked up about the newly-formed In- stitute for the Study of Con- flict and the fact that its sponsors include two Labour MPs, Patrick Gordon Walker and Christopher Mayhew. (The latter has been a 'Star' contributor, by the way.)

former Tory They join Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd and Lord Colyton (of Tangan- yika Concessions, Union Minière and other leading African companies.) Sir Robert Thompson--ad- viser to the British and US governments on how to fight Workers Press, said Francis last Thursday.

It would help recruiting in the acute shortage of young people coming into the indus- try and would do him the world of good.' "The miners would welcome Prince Charles with open arms, and he could stay in the read warmth and friendship of a miner's home in the Rhondda.

I know some people will say these views are ridiculous, but I am certain what I advocate would help this young man considerably ... It would help him to de- velop as a real man,' added Francis. Pay, of course, might be a problem for our richest-ever heir to the throne. Any recruit to the mines has to undergo a year's training and the wage at 21 basic underground is f16 a week, but then again the Prince may be able to expend some of his noted organizing ability in the fight for the current sizeable wage claim. It remains the sad task of the Workers Press to dash the

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The editors of the book concerned-while they would, no doubt, take quite a lot from 'left' trade union leaders-also felt aggrieved about it. A letter was duly sent to sign in by several supporters of the editor of 'Graphic the Institute for Workers' Con- NUM's trol - including the Lawrence _Daly, the TGWU's Bill and Jack Jones and the AEF's Ernie Roberts and Hugh Scanlon. These prominent trade union- ists declared that to state that Coates and Topham were agents of the CIA is com- pletely disgraceful. extraordinary,' 'We find it they conclude, 'that a respon- journal sible trade union should publish journalism of would be in- this kind, which even in the gutter excusable press.' This statement, however, did not appear in the next issue of 'Graphic' '70', as requested.

Instead, this curious an- nouncement was inserted in the August issue: 'Careful discussion with our contributor reviewer, a mem- ber of the organization, has ascertained from him his in- tention with regard to his re- view of the booklet "Workers' Control" published in the June journal. 'It was never his intention to say that either of the edi- tors of the booklet were either directly, indirectly or remotely connected with the CIA. He indicated his belief that there was a conscious dangerous line

OUBLE AND STR.

guerrillas - and leading LSE anti-communist Professor Leonard Shapiro are also on the Institute's council. The aim of the Institute is to study 'revolutionary unrest and incipient conflict. The merchant bankers and indus- trialists who have financed it feel strife and strikes that should not happen. So sociologists and psycho- logists, led by Brian Crozier, are to puzzle their heads about why they do and how to stop them. From their Piccadilly offices, they intend to survey conflict terrorism all over the world. They hope to be able to provide governments and in-

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hopes of the Welsh miners; we rang the Palace and they were distinctly unenthusiastic.

'We cannot say what the attitude of the Royal Family is to this suggestion at the pre- sent time since they are all on holiday. No doubt they will read Mr Francis' remarks and make up their own minds.'

Try again, Dai. Charles - T.U. journals clang 1 the : of thought being propagated by elements whose intentions are inimical to the working- class movement. It was certainly furthest from his mind that any of those who had been involved in furthering the ideas for workers' control were either directly, indirectly or remotely connected with any of these propagating bodies. 'If anything contrary to his intention has been read into his review, he sincerely apolo- gizes for such an impression. 'On our part, editorially, we have indicated • to our reviewer that we prefer that he does not submit material for publication in the future, so as to avoid any further misunderstanding between him and us.' This may or may not cover 'Graphic "70" legally, but it certainly falls short of a poli- tical apology. We wonder what Richard Briginshaw,

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general secretary, thinks about it?

FINALLY, someone dropped a clanger at Transport House recently: The August issue of the Transport and General Wor- kers' Union 'Record' carries a half-page advertisement for the T&GWU Social Club. charter-flights Advertising arranged by the club, it is illustrated by the picture of an airliner, clearly bearing the word: 'Caledonian' Whatever happens to later versions of the ad, there were audibly red faces at the union's Smith Square headquarters when we phoned to inquire whether the club was patron- izing one of the companies in- volved with it— but on the other side-in the airlines de- nationalization row.

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dustrialists with 'an early- system' on areas where (That chap in specs taking steward's tempera- your shop ture at this moment is prob- ably a man from the Institute, finding out whether he is com- ing to the boil.) Crozier revealed that the first job to be tackled is to find out just why there is all this bother in the Middle East.

work will be of great 'Our practical value to both the great international companies and the academic world. The Russian Embassy is already taking an active interest in us.'

Somehow, that last bit — while reported in "The Guard- ian'-was missed by the "Star'.

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Violent New police offensive clashes against in West Panthers Bengal

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ther Party. HOUR demonstrators were killed by police in Calcutta on vonday. wnen men- bers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) defied a ban on all gather- ings five more unan people. "conspiracy Mommade mermad The INDONESIA'S President Suharto yes- terday postponed his visit to Holland for another 24 hours to give the Dutch government 'more time to prepare.

Informer The Dutch are still 'I HAVE no panacea that I can offer in the way he Bick Panter Pare to be the he conviction within unable guarantee of new projects... Firms cannot come in to build of McLucas, Suharto complete safety attack new factories overnight,' was the formula used arter a group or students wise here Direct rule the from mnaonesian by Scottish Secretary of State, Gordon Campbell, which Calcutta is the cap of Davis at in concerted are island of Ambon occu-

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the pied when he shed crocodile tears over Scotland's maonesian imposed atte under left-wing legal opponents embassy in The Hague left-wing students surren- * inister doseph its resumeust act promptly 'most disquieting' unemployment position at a and seized members of dered March. Dutch police Ion of direct rule on Monday.

recent press conference in Edinburgh.

their defence. the Ambassador's family atter holding The wei be the trade unions. may bassy for more than 12 as hostages. This came at the end of a week in which no hours. fewer than 3,300 redundancies were announced or confirmed on Clydeside, which will be one of the hrst arcas to sullet as unemployment deepens this winter.

Since the government is committed to massive attacks on the working class in the attempt returning to the conditions of the 1930s, Campbell's inability to come up with a

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solution to the Scotland is hardly prem The thin an in the surprising. vement active Ex-Scottish to since Indonesia Nationalist Mr Winitred twing has the Dis inden endence from the Markets cvnicallv scottish un ast by barenus in in ats to weaken the THE STALINIST-backed Medical Aid Commit-

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ones poltical en. tee for Vietnam has sent a new consignment moderate our of a of medical supplies to liberated areas of South down alter four hours. Vietnam after its original consignment- -costing her as saying: £6,000—was seized by the Lon Nol regime in The pound continued under Even the official Amboin- pressure, e no Badat Cambodia. 'Opportunity' insoliday. taken At

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In all, £70,000 worth of slipped rate the bethe eNt situation in Scotland surprise ning of October last year.

issued a state- first meaical suppies were con- the occupat fiscated pro-US the the STUC must make dictatorship porting the students' action.

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work people before the killer of Cam- Ayrshire the Scotland. T3i Mo g Stad Mone 'Caledonian Asturian miners, always in the lead of Spanish workers militancy, are on strike again.

if it is allowed to pao tea US oil the Don Noon verp the liberation movement.

recognized the Warsaw Diversion Pact powers E Europe revenues • only served as a diers dropping Sater route DESPITE nationwide repressions to a 1 0 30 9 2 0 of the caned the 'The TUC and the Asso- by Franco's fascist police, the Spanish strike wave continues to the whole alaimain lesson of however, spread. At LASCARAS in the Asturias, the detec a contre in reve also Moscow's through Cambodia? miners' strike which began on Saturday decision do-calla will against the sacking of a militant is Once again. the reactionar Malayan still solid. military-indust- uilding on the confusio i slaughterhouse rial complex'. But, equally vitally, trade Wilson surrender e 'friend'

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oressed to match Tor three monin: fere ce makes plathe workers, Friendship Association has leadership, the r, Londniz, swA. 01-20-2000 capitut Treasurer (Tel: e fascist regime will b just been set up, with the slaim, have declared a ban on seen this century in propes ack Minister for (ammerce all overtime working. centres done so many times before.

But the preliminary doct Mohamed Khir Johari, as ibe to Workers Press for Metro o its President. Plessey threatening Israeli clash with ther tion or the Association By the faces left who stoppage rare 25 candidates for the seven cons 'Deadlock' t Scotish voters in support themselves With cludin Deputy Barbara Castle of strikers continuing, in delance of the laoisperati oNatiosai Libera Cover up corace talks coase-tre guerrill lecte makes the "The radio He deliberately seeks to explain Since the intentions of come the the cather fibe esper is anisi working class, now fully re- readers or in aces or perest! all from the te suem- • от сорня unils as previously. rent alsons reveals mismanage- Vietnam prison in ratest resid from a peak of over a mit- the Tories he sans, inas left Canadian bank island and difficulty trouble elves eu nee. break-out Feather rate cut oy deceptions brings

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