Workers Press no. 245

Whar think A cover tor class compromise

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move early Lans o ven com- Soviet erves with the the Bolsheviks kept econominated and inchmati CY many Greck Com When She Polish government the estiment for na Sove This is the politi behind the with W German capitalism

COUNCIL

STRIKES IF

NO RISE

local authorities are forced to ivily senenies. All Trades Unions Alliance Conference

MINERS

Sunday, September 6 Danum Hotel High St

DONCASTER

CASTLEFORD, STORKSHIRE

HOOVER

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER 245

•

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1970

Behind Heath-Feather confab, Tories plan Lock-outs and unemployment By an industrial reporter As Clydeside

TRIVIALITIES

aside, things emerged two sackings mount

PORTERS

Heath-Feather dialogue on clearly from the Singer Tuesday.

WANT £25

It is clear that the Tories strikers

WIS PARTNERSHIP

are determined to bring in laws be Ineir ant-union fore the end of the year stay out in order to restore pront rates. By Workers Press reporters is also clear coat th

MASS

encourage meeting workers at Singer's Clyde side tactory yesterday re- afirmed their decision remain on strike over the sacking of 800 from the All Mr Feathenson sweet indicate the grim reality of drea where remployment lay's we pointed out in Tue where expansior dustan arenal threen fa Forces has and that the ques redundancies mandatory on thes there as scoTlANd byll he end of the

GARDEN'S 1,000

Hussein prepares Cruit and y ay et their Sold to the at route. a 25 guaranteed weekly wase.

rule for showdown nanagement had not shifte its position. with guerrillas Confidence Is (See auseof loading de.

PALESTINE

guerrillas erected roadblocks E13 e present ok ad is around their strongholds in Amman yesterday which varies as heavy fighting continued between them and the Jordan army. By or Minded Fast King Hussein's regime is show-down prep the guerrilas. Lebanositions in Jordan and fal-bake te of sir Present told Hussein goat the 12,00 Vil intervatie e the can i relation can be Bing the ki go to P3. ° The employers' panel, how- Recession Palestine Leratien e heir offer above £20. ralse liberation struggle.

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han you to da

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determined to stage a Belore S Pilkingten s osworkers "The cease-fire has Israeli ceases to has re eased rank-and-fle committee many of these The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

BY JOHN SPENCER

TALKS on the GKN-San- key dispute were still in progress after five hours at the engineering employers' headquarters London yesterday. Factory convenors and thi 14-man Bollermakers leader Daniel McGarvey enters Mintech's Miu. local national pressuring the bank lower ouces vesterday. he belleves in discussion Lories. He wrote in his union's journal: 'We should campaign with for the government to carry out its election promises. Management GKN's Luree-week yellineton. shropshire plant. Lay-offs he strike has canced wide spread lay-offs throughout the car industry. Main involved are unions General and Municipal Workers' Union though

ETU

Transpor and General Workers represented at the tarks

MCIO

dIsi workers at the Friday threw fact tory last deal Day and producivity worked FORMER Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgewood talks last weer. Benn joined Boilermaker's leader Daniel McGarvey and The strikers wanna. a delegation of trade unionists, local councillors and crease ot 4s so an hour with.

out strings. representatives of the North East Development Council Officials plan to renort the at the Ministry yesterday in a pious protest against outcome of westerdav's to a mass meeting in Welling- Vickers' plans to shut down a Tyneside shipyard.

ton tomorrow. Vickers is to close Palmers ship-repair yard at the end of this month, and

SOCIALIST

750 workers will be out of 1 Tyneside is already above the national

LABOUR

averare Other Labour MPs on the

LEAGUE

delegation were ernest terny- and honon arrowl Arthur Blenkinsop (South Shields).

Not Charity' Trotsky They had with Tory Technology M Minister Geoffrey Memorial Rise The subsidy for the yard sparked the closure. Before the North Meeting mentin Council East Development Chairman Alderman Matthew Allon said:

GLASGOW

'We're seeking charity not hand-outswe Partick Burgh Hall want-it's work. He also said the delegation (nr Merkland St underground) Minister the 7.30 p.m. nihich the forthcoming port on the shipbuilding in- dustry as rapidly Admission 2s. Leon Trotsky's Trotsky and the comine English Revolution' Speaker: last words: Heav Belling national secretary) I am confident of Sunday workers the victory of the October 4 Fourth International demand £3 Please note Go forward'! changed date and fifty workers at the Belling factory Burnley, Lancs are Strike SuDDOrt aclaim for an extra €3 a week. Trotsky Memorial Lectures The strike started when dispatch workers walked

OUT

claiming parity with workers doing similar jobs at the com. pany's Enfield. Middlesex,

TROTSKYS LAST WORDS

plant.

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workers When dacnatan

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decided at a meeting on Mon-

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day to put their case to the other

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already out

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come strike. The rest followed later.

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A strikers' spokesman said:

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ing the worker abs Enfield doing have same given been the one we are demanding.

'We were told this was take into account risine prices Monday, 14 September in onach. But nrices are tis no all over the country. 'There shouldn't one "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism' SE workers seale tOr and another for the NW Most of strikers Monday, 21 September the are Municipal Goneral Workers Union embers. "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' The union's Burnley branch Lowden. secretary Michael has disowned the strike. He

BEAVER HALL

said:

GARLICK HILL

action We have been negotiating for Near Mansion House tube past week and en come spite Starts 8 p.m. Admission 2s from request me to stay work!' Both lectures given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary)

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ambulancemen todayse greetwee neetin authorities. and 1o0 and prodito. ivity schements All Trades Unions Alliance Conference

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THE NEWSLETTER •

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

245 • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1970

By an Industrial reporter As Clydeside

TRIVIALITIES

aside, emerged things two sackings mount

PORTERS

clearly from the Heath-Feather dialogue on Tuesday.

WANT £25

It is clear that the Tories strikers

WIS PARTNERSHIP

are determined to bring In be- anti-union laws stay out lore the enq ol te yeal order to restore profit rates. By Workers Press reporters

MASS

yorkers at Singer's Clyd s unemployment fade dions more decial remain on suike over le sacking or ou trom tne arm. All Feather's reports not ree reality of e down meet intou Heath's plans. As we porkers Press. Tues 'expansion ofical reported that com- ores in the on of fores - has arena cedurees Tories as they unemployment- SCOTLAND will have 110,000 issue • strike wi

COVENT.

GARDEN'S

1,000 still awaiting ta move from are not spect but hat for showdown lanagement nad not snit ts positio North East- col rade Confidence trade et their objectver PALESTINE guerrillas erected roadblocks uthorit that the around their strongholds in Amman yesterday by the Busin which seen as heavy fighting continued between them and the yean some cases, the porterage the Jordan army. area By a Mile enot King Hussein's regime is in the conter ot preparing for a show-down rilla positions in Jordan and Lebanon. fall awar told Hussin shoe the 12, 000 Jordanian of higher open 's it attempts of reflation done at present. Moscos Palestine Literation 'peace' plan a declaration employers panel how Recession to raise Liberation Struggle their offer above £20. I alcotilic investment boom Hole there 1-Fatah has warned igh secure dan atheir po pressing That point cis in In his week-end broadcast corporation eat win be made force. nember of the Czechosloval babie tim teamed, osition care obliges the regime to move gainst with pola Defiance Praesic inary charges before cation ad defied the Stalinists Hemation Zionists, the determ ment in which he wrote case has made cardar bea invasion inevitable.

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Thousands held The case for addition the glassworkers the ordan border the Stalinists have ha retice the rais and te secretary of the Saintm in Coholic la many of these are stillin Pilkingt g assworker rank-and-file committee Israeli forces to attack guer- The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d.

BY JOHN SPENCER

TALKS on the GKN-San- key dispute were still in progress after five hours at the engineering employers' headquarters London yesterday. Factorv con venors ano the strike committee Boilermakers leader Daniel McGarvey enters Mintech's Mill- 4 man bank Tower offices joined local and national He believes in pressuring thi officials discussions Tories. He wrote in his union's journal: We should campaign for lue government to carry out its election promises. . .

Shropshire plant Lay-offs The strike has caused wide- spreadsay-ous unroughout the Main involved are amons general Municina l and the workers Union engineers, though the Transport and General Workers' Unt the talks. also represented at he 5 000 workers factory last Friday đeat Waked or productivity out at London FORMER Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgewood talks last week. Benn joined Boilermaker's leader Daniel McGarvey and The strikers want an in- crease of 4s 3d an hour with.

a delegation of trade unionists, local councillors and out surines. representatives of the North East Development Council outinials planster Officials report the at the Mintstry festerday in a plous protest against to a mass meeting in Welling.

Vickers' plans to shut down a Tyneside shipyard.

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tomorrow Vickers is to close Palmers Ship-repair vard Hebburn

SOCIALIST

The ene ot tole • month. 750 workers will be out of a job, Unemployment on Tyneside

LABOUR

is already above the national Labour MPs on the

LEAGUE

delegation Ernest Ferny- were (arrow) and benkinson south snields. 'Not Charity' Trotsky They had Tory talks with Technology Minister Geoffrey Memorial Rippon, whose refusal to con- tinue the subsidy for the yard sparked the closure menting Ninet Meeting Alderman Matthew Allon said:

GLASGOW

'We're not seeking charity hand-outs we at all. It's not Partick Burgh Hall want-it's work.' He also said the delegation (nr Merkland St underground) would Minister • Dress Ine 7.30 p.m. forthcoming

DUDISO

DOrT on the shin bullcing in- dustry as rapidly as possible.

Admission 2s. Leon Trotsky's Speaker:

(SLL

last words: Belling national secretary) 'I am confident of Sunday workers the victory of the October 4 Fourth International demand £3 Please note Go forward'! and fifty

EIGHT HUNDRED

changed date workers at the Belling factory Burnley, are strike in claim support for an extra £3 a week. Trotsky Memorial Lectures 30 dispat striker The started when workers out walked claiming parity WILd workers doing similar iobs at the comi Middlesex, many's Honed.

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PAGE TWO

THE FIRST electronic star - measuring machine was installed at the Royal Observatory in Edin- burgh in January of this year. Linked to a 16-inch optical telescope and an Elliott 4130 computer, the new £110,000 equipment-named Galaxy- automatically analyses the light from thousands of stars which leave their imprints on photographic plates. The laborious process of poring in the hope of over the plates which finding something new, used to stretch over months and even years, is now largely elimin- ated. In the first 12 hours of oper- ation, Galaxy increased the num- ber of known stars in the con- Perseus-less than 28 stellation million years old - from 15 to 1,103! the observatory's Commented senior principal scientific officer, 'Reddish: 'We are Dr Vincent delighted with this first astro- nomical result. Power 'Some idea of the power of this machine is that by the end of expect to have the year we measured more star images than all the world's astronomers have made this century. 'We shall be able to seek the answers to questions that it was pointless even to ask before we had this machine available.'

It appears amazing that the pinpoint of faint light from matter, thousands of light-years can yield in some cases, away such detailed scientific informa- tion. But in fact it is possible to calculate in this way the temper- ature, size and chemical compo- of these stellar objects- sition are invisible to most of which the naked eye. What is crucial is the assump- tion, backed up by a wealth of empirical data, that there are laws governing the processes go- in the universe and that ing on the same laws apply to the move- ment of matter-whether taking place in the laboratory or in the interior of a distant star.

itself - that This assumption the universe is lawful and there- fore subject to scientific investi- gation-was part of the revolu- tion in human thought that ac- companied the rise of the bour- geoisie and the establishment of its hegemony. This was by no means an even process. On the evening of January 7, Professor 1610, Galileo Galilei, of Mathematics in the University of Padua, Italy, looked for the through a telescope first time that he had constructed and dis- covered four of the moons of orbiting round their Jupiter, parent body. first time, here was For the evidence that smaller direct bodies rotate round larger ones.

This and further observations convinced Galileo that this was true in relation to the sun and planets and supported those who the middle of the 15th since century had placed the sun at the centre of the solar system.

In 1600, Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake for proclaim- ing such heresies. He had written: I have de- clared that there are endless par- ticular worlds similar to that of the earth; with Pythagoras, regard it as a star, and similar to it are the moon, the planets and other stars, which are indefinite in number, and all these bodies are worlds. Such conceptions challenged unique position the previously of man in the universe and by implication raised the question: 'Are there men like us on these other worlds?'

LIFE ON OTHER V

PART TWO

A century before Galileo, the Polish astronomer Copernicus had already elaborated his model of the solar system with the sun its Yet he still retained the centre. old 'spheres within spheres' idea, considerably although it was simplified by this revolutionary hypothesis. It was not until the middle of the 17th century that it was possible to unify all the observa- overall tional data into an framework through theoretical Newton's law of universal gravi- tation. Basically, he proposed that the responsible force that same for objects falling to the ground also accounts for the motion of the planets and that this force decreases as the inverse square of the distance between the attracting bodies. Isaac Newton (1642-1727) This means that to double the distance between the bodies is to quarter the attraction, etc.

force is also proportional to the masses, i.e. the amount of two matter in each, roughly speaking.

Previously, quantitative infor- mation about the solar system that which was restricted to be inferred from simple could geometry and the use of the most basic surveyor's tools. Distance For instance, if we wish • to measure the distance of an object from us, we set up a sufficiently long straight line as our base line and form triangle with the a object at the corner opposite the base. A measurement of the angles can be made and a brief calculation gives the distance re- quired. This was used 2,000 years ago to calculate the circumference of the earth (see last week's article in this series). To measure the distance of a planet from the sun, it is normal to take the baseline as the long- est line available us - the to major axis of the earth's elliptical orbit round the sun, 186 million miles long. Once we know the distance of the moon, say, it is simple to calculate its diameter. If we hold a small disc in front

THER WORLDS BY MART

The globular star cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules of the full moon so that it just covers, then we know that the distances are in the same propor- tion as the diameters. Today, the distances to bodies within our own solar system can be, more easily be measured by bouncing powerful radio signals off their surfaces and measuring before the the period elapsed echo is received. In the case of the moon, the distance is known to within a few hundred yards because the Apollo deposited astronauts a mirror on the lunar surface— which has been used to reflect back laser signals. With the development of more devices, accurate measuring a knowledge of Newton's gravi- tational law enables the masses of astronomical obiects to be calculated. earth's In particular, the weight is just under six thousand million million million tons !

As wé know the size of the earth's orbit and the speed with which we travel, we also know that the sun is 332,000 times the weight of the earth, and so on.

Measure It was not until 1838 that it was possible to measure the dis- tance of a star. So objects distant are these date, that, until that even the huge mileage covered by the earth in six months seemed to produce no relative motion in star, apart from the motion any explicable by the earth's rotation on its axis. In 1838, the German astrono- mer Bessel detected that a star called 61 Cygni moved backward and forward relative to other stars by about one ten-thousandth of a degree every year. The sur- veyor's triangle could be closed at last! The distance is about 40 light-yéars — in fact, about ten times the distance of the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. Refinements of this technique now yield the distances of thou- sands of stars in our own galaxy and also allows a simple calcu- lation of the masses of double stars, which 'wobble' around each other. a wobble may Such mean something more significant.

Although a distant observer would be unable to see the planet earth directly because of its size, a close scrutiny of the sun's path through space would lead him to infer the existence of the solar system. The reason is that although is many times heavier the sun than all the planets put together, their gravitational pulls on disturb its straight-line motion and this would be detectable to sensitive instruments. However, to detect a planet is a long way from finding intelli- gent life. To be continued.

Y MARTIN ZARROP

WORKERS PRESS

INTERNATIONAL

THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS

the brunt of capitalism's world economic crisis. are organizing a big campaign Youth can expect nothing but continued retreats and betrayals autumn and winter this from the right-wing trade union leadership. against the Tory government In the docks, motor and air- and its unemployment and cratt industriesnot to menton GKN - these Pilkingtons and wage-cutting policies. gentlemen spend all or most of their time trimming the demands the confidence Following a forecast of un- and undermining around the one and strength of the militant rank employment is obvious that million mark it and file. big of the un- proportion The last thing they want— employed will be young people- and this applies equally to the Lloyd's as in the case of Selwyn 'left' trade union leaders— crisis plan in the sum- economic which will force the movement mer of 1961. Tories to With the full agreement of the Since they the Tory government as a 'fact', they must Labour and trade union bureau- cracy, and the behind-the-scenes and will. in the end, accept unemployment and wage-cutting help of the Stalinists, the Tory 'facts' government is preparing an offen- as too. double- Sive against working-class youth edged weapon for the Tories and Unemployment seeking to force them to bear Long before the completion of

COLOUR - DISCRIMIN-

the of dispossession, process ATION in S Africa was had heaped colour- Britain of another bar law on top applied by Britain not every territory she overcame.

'democracy' spread in As only after the 1806 occu- Britain, so it immediately Europeans extended to in pation of the Cape but but by legal trickery and Alrica, of law and arms, non- force the 1896- also during systematically Europeans were out from increasingly shut 1903 occupation. and this process of enfranchisement.

education, income Property, British forces under Gov- and 'civilized-status' qualifica- ernors Macartney and raised as legal bar- tions were riers against the non-Huropeans. mission- Dundas, aided by Shepstone, same time At the aries like van der Kemp and fastened Rhodes and others iron compound and reserve (Ban- liberals like Maynier, at that the dispos- on System time made land-wars against sessed people, and, with the open support of British artisans, unions the Batwa ('Bushmen'), Khoi- 'socialists' made the indus- Khoin ('Hottentots') and the residential trial, social, and colour-bar both fact and law.

Xhosa Bantu resisters. of dispossession, These wars Liberals and early 19th century pass and other labour laws, were part of •While the Reform Bills were 'civilizing mission' of Britain the being fought for in England, the the of the abolition anne liberals and missionaries movement in England. Africa imposed a rigid system of Wilberforce, the Wesleyans, educational segregation and star- and Fox, followed by the area's conquered Pitt the vation on London Missionary Society col- onialists-like John Philip-were of all these The total the the making loud noises about emerged, finally, as laws slave traffic while England syste- constitution of S Africa and this extended only matically not made not by the Roers but by Tory, Liberal and Labour MPs virtual but also actual slavery at the Cape. in Westminster itself in 1909.

At the same time, Britain was list not the place widely extending her murderous colour-bar laws the hundreds of India and other by British imperialism made 1910. Suffice colonies. before Free Traders and Chartists that these laws form the legisla- alike had little or nothing to bedrock of apartheid tive say about this tyranny abroad.

Africa today. addition of further laws The Economic after 1910 was made by the Boers, but at the behest and in interest ever-expanding In those days, the Cape and later Natal were not of particular British capital and super- exploitation in S Africa.

Britain economic importance to tes Indies, -compared with the When the British businessman Africa India, the slave states Wates recently visited -but after the for America etc. and published the of the sugar planta- his refusal to extend his activi- opening up Natal, the diamond ties to that country, he attempted tions in Kimberley the an analysis of the motivation in in mines Cape and apartheid. northern mines He said aimed at pre- it was steadily became greater serving white supremacy. British capitalism. importance to smiddle of the 20th not the of this colour had long an end. The aim century, Africa policy is super-profits. become the most important semi-colonial of S Africa's gold, diamond and single area Britain-exceeding even India in uranium deposits pillars •are investment and trade. London Stock Exchange. Its the gold is the basis of British cur- The industrial revolution bullion, trade-exchange associated diamonds rency, with sugar, and prices. and gold led to a rapid escala- tion of the wars of dispossession.

No capitalist is isolated from of dependence this on But the resistance of the process apartheid. inhabitants was so strong that, On the one hand, the struggle missionary desnite liberal of S Africa deception, peneration apartheid is, against trade and brute force-including struggle against rimarily. the machine-guns British capital and will put inis lasted right up to the end of the capital of business. On the out 19th century. other hand, the struggle against British Only then was British capital this capital, i.e. against imperialism's heart will progres- in possession of the land and the sively put the apartheid labour she needed total for out of business. imperial domination. Young will be used ruthlessly against of the recent Soch liste Natio six monist, be- the youth in industry. months, in tne next Not only will the emplovers and the mass anti- the sack tween now use the threat of Tory rally at Palace Alexanara depress and undermine wages on February 14, 1971, a national will conditions, tney will be cam- recruitment team try to intensify the exploitation and paigning up down the of youth by the introduction of outside labour Measured-Day Work, job country, CA" evalu- changes, factories and schools, ation and mobility and flexibility building new branches, recruiting of labour schemes. members. new These schemes, combined with focal for launching point the anti-union laws of the Tories, campaign be YS the will the will severely restrict the right of regional conerences. adequate the youth to wage At these conferences the whole of c and security employment. expansion of the area's work through political and social pro- The changes in the educational will be number grammes one on system proposed by the agenda. will greatly the milicase The recruitment teams will go of who will be security youth, outside the factories, the labour deprived of a decent education exchanges and the schools with and become of cheap a soulle their leaflets their unskilled labour for big and and Vauc 'Keep Left' explaining the policies business. of the Young Socialists and the In this way the reactionary organize to fight for hunting, shooting and fishing. the right to a job, an eaucallon crowd want to deny young and training, to force the right to a job, people their build Tories to and to education and a trade. Britain within a Socialist socialist Young Socialists It was the United States of Europe. of these warned In Its campaign dangers - before the thousands of new youth to the Labour Committee has government was elected in 1964.

YS the National planned a full-scale social pro It for this the was reason gramme of sports, football, films Young Socialists sub- were dances. sequently and expelled- -for fighting With developments in the tor a socialist government political situation and the grow- socialist policies and for refusing ing militancy in the working class compromise, like the state the National Committee has pro- capitalists and revisionists, with 'Keep Left'- posals too for the the right wing. that the should preparations go Now, as a result of Labour's ahead through bullaing big six-year subservience to circulation and extending the the bankers the business and paper's popularity amongst work- Tories are back in the saddle class ing youth make it a with a programme of anti-union weekly paper in 1971. laws. wage-cutting. unemplovment The regional committees will and immigrant baiting. prepare for this momentous 'step forward by L allis

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Determination But the working class in Britain, ( and particularly workers, hate the Tories and friends. their millionaire In- creasingly, wage battle after wage battle, strike after strike, and the rank of the trade unions showing its deter- 1S mination to fight. and milit- This determination evident 1S ality Howucie 110lC than in Ulster where the youth occupy the front ranks of the struggle against British tropps and police. situation the Young In this Socialists are resolved to shoulder the responsibility of establishing the independence of the working from and class its reformist Stalinist leaders and around will which socialist programme put an end to Toryism for good.

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11.00 News Untouchables. With Gregory 12.05 Weather, Horse'. Thursday, September 3, 1970 dents for the 'Keep Left', ensur- ing that the life of the YS branches and the campaigns are well-featured in the paper.

'Keep The development of Left' goes hand in hand with the developments of the Workers Press towards four-colour print- ing and six days a week production. In line with these advances National Committee pro- the posed education programmes for the regions with special weekend schools in October. Strategy The Young Socialists base their work on the programme of Lenin and Trotsky: the programme of the world revolution and the international solidarity of the working class in the struggle to overthrow imperialism and the Stalinist bureaucracy. will find its This struggle highest and most concrete ex- pression in the International Conference Revolutionary of Youth in December 1970, when youth from all over the world will gather to discuss their experiences and elaborate a and tactics in strategy the struggle of youth for socialism.

This conference will constitute the second stage of the move- ment begun by the 1967 Assembly of Youth towards the creation of a mass revolutionary international youth movement.

This movement will be in the vanguard of the struggle against imperialism and reformism and for the socialist united states of the world. National Committee is The resolved to make this event the triumph for revolu- • greatest tionary youth and Trotskyism.

LENIN: Speech to the Petrograd Soviet, 1918 38.0d. By G. Zinoviev Illustrated with many photo- graphs, this was a speech de:?

livered by one of Lenin's closest associates the on occasion of his recovery from wounds received in an attempt on his life. It gives a remarkably clear picture Lenin and what is required to be a revolutionary. London.

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Thursday, September 3, 1970

THE CASE FOF

rotters, exn MEN WHO LED Pilking- ton's 8,800 St Helens glassworkers for seven determined weeks and won a f3 wage increase now have no jobs. Six hundred workers--the backbone of the greatest in- dustrial revolt in the history of the town→-were sacked because they dared to with- draw their labour in support of a fellow-worker; 250 are stilk shut out-and blacklisted by Pilkington's and other firms in Merseyside and S Lancashire. Three hundred and fifty have been re-employed-not reinstated-losing, in some cases, rights, built up over 30 years. It has been a spring and summer of bitter class struggle in St Helens. The seven-week dispute and our subsequent fight against oppression has shattered Pilkington's pater- nalistic image and shown the working people of the town that, with the right leadership, they have the power to defeat the Windle Hall squires--the Pilkington family-who have ruled for so long. Lord Harry is now a troubled man. From his Ilth-floor office in the firm's slate-and-glass sky- scraper he looks down on a changed town. We, below him, have tasted victory-and the taste is sweet. Now, in a desperate attempt to reimpose his family's cen- tury-old grip on his labour force he has acted in the true traditions of his exploiting ancestors; by sacking and vic- timizing men who welded to- gether the glassworkers into one body for a decent wage.

But he will not succeed. He will never scourge from the minds of the townspeople the lessons of 1970. We do not appeal to other workers for their support as beggars. We have been sacked be- cause we defended a worker from victimization by strike a challenge, action. This is and a grave threat, to the most fundamental right of trade of any unionism-the right worker to withdraw his labour.

I would like inform Fill in the form below and ser

SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LA

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LO

Name Address

ISE FOR THE GLASSWOR

Without this right no trade union can possibly exist.

At this time of economic crisis, when a Tory govern- ment is gathering its forces throughout the country for the campaign to destroy the power of the labour movement, every employer has his eyes fixed on St Helens. Pilkingtonism is waiting in every board-room in Britain; on the docks; in the mines, car plants and engineering fac- tories. If it is successful in St Helens, the hesitant desires of every British employer will flower into ugly growth and no worker will be safe. We say in appealing for sup- for the appealing blackingt ap-pakingtoo- glass, in appealing for sympathetic action: our struggle is your struggle. It is a struggle to defend all the gains of the working class. The front line of this fight is here, in St Helens.

STRIKE!

'We have got something in St Helens we have never got before.:. all the glass fac- tories stopped at one time. We have proved to Pilkington's that we are not going to be told what to do? (Jubilant striker at the first mass strike meeting in April.) PILKINGTON'S HISTORY is one of paternalism, low pay and bad working conditions.

The last serious dispute, apart from the 1926 General Strike, was exactly a century ago; when glass-blowers struck against a reduction in wages, were defeated and forced back on management terms. For a century-and-a-half, the family has nourished itself on the rich returns provided by a docile labour force. Gross trading profits last year more than doubled to £19.5 mililon and the 300 private share- holders received a £3 million pay-out. In return for average earn- ings of around £25 for a 52- hour week, the 8,000 produc- tion workers in the six St Helens plants must endure some of the most arduous and dangerous conditions in British industry. The heat for the men wear- ing regulation clogs, asbestos suits and respirators is unbear- able. Almost every worker has been badly gashed: some have 80 stitches sewn across their backs, and bad cut one per shift is about the average.

The majority union, General and Municipal Workers-about which more later--has based 7 • information about below and send to NATIONAL

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE.

HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

SSWORKERS

itself on the lack of militancy.

Devoted to industrial com- promise, it tried to ensure that there were no strikes or stoppages in exchange for the management's grateful bequest of a closed shop-membership ot the G&MW was, and still is, a condition of employment.

But time and change, that most dreaded enemy of the paternalistic employer, even- tually caught up with the Pilk- ington family. * The wages explosion, un- leashed after the defeat of the Labour government's proposed anti-trades union legislation, did not go unnoticed by the glassworkers. Neither Lord Harry's massive 1969 profit. When the strike started the plants were mid-way through a phased pay deal negotiated by the G&MWU, which had given a paltry 4d-an-hour in- crease in November 1969—to be followed by a further 3gd on May 2. But all eyes were fixed on Ford workers at Halewood, barely five miles away, who had won a £4-a-week rise- one of several similar increases won at this time by other workers. Frustration mounted, find- ing outlet through the union stone-walling bureau- cracy or the discredited joint industrial council chaired by David Pilkington, director in charge of labour relations at St Helens. * The dam of discontent burst amazed management on an and union when a minor dis- pute over a faulty wage slip developed, over the week-end of April 3, into a nationwide demand for a £10 rise in the basic rate of £14 10s. By Wednesday, April 8, 12 of the 17 Pilkingtons plants— from S Wales and Birmingham to Glasgow—had walked out in support of the claim. The seven-week unofficial strike had begun. In st Helens, the dispute developed with increasing bit- terness. Local union officials contin- ually urged the men to return to work at a series of mass

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meetings, and, as a result, an . keep unofficial committee was estab- lished at a mass meeting on April 18. Its members led the strike throughout. They are on the Pilkington all now black-list. On May 10, Matt McGrath, a shop steward at the sheet works, a man who was flung from the platform by striking widows at one mass meeting, quoted in the 'Sunday was Times' as saying: 'As soon as the firm call us back-an an- nouncement is expected shortly -I have asked people outside to follow me whatever •the • a lot fear consequences . • violence. But nobody can stop me? On May 18, he carried out his threat and strutted through the gates of sheet works at the head of a 200-strong 'scab' column flanked by horse-back police. McGrath was backed by senior shop steward Bill Brad- burn, the joint industrial coun- cil member for sheet works, who said in the same edition 'Sunday Times', of the decided that the only way to start negotiations in which I had taken part earlier was to get back to the job. I was spat on and jeered at by people I regarded as my friends and still do.. This local behaviour was only an echo of union policy at the top. The G&MWU's Lord Cooper promised hardship payment of £12 to the glass workers on condition they return; though and many men stayed out took the money. He allowed payment of the £3 increase offered by management on April 20 to the rump still working in the factories, while his members outside were liv- ing without wages or strike pay. He invited the Home Office to investigate 'intimidation' comm at St, Helens and his national executive passed a resolution * condemning 'hooliganism, vio- lence and intimidation'. * It was in this context that on April 29, the G&MWU's St Helens office was sacked by angry men who had marched there from a mass meeting.

But the men fought on. Support flowed in from many groups of workers inspired by our struggle. Ford's, Halewood, were the first to act by 'blacking' sup- plies of foreign glass their management had imported to

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keep the assembly lines moy- ing. Leyland Carworkers from •Motors, Vauxhall and Stand- ard-Triumph; workers from the Kraft food factory at Kirby, Liverpool;_ building-site wor- kers Fiddler's Ferry-all sent us their support and finan- cial help. This boosted our spirit. We were not fighting alone.

SACKINGS

I believe in people... That is why I will stick to my no matter how many guns people run away from this fight! Gerry Caughey, chair- man of the rank and file com- mittee. COOPER and his officials in St Helens would never have got the men back. This delicate job fell to the general secretary of the Trades Union Victor Congress, Feather. By the seventh week of the strike, 2,500 workers had re- turned in the town and all the factories outside St Helens were back. Only at Pontypool, S Wales, had 27 men stuck it out-and they had been sacked for their pains. But in St Helens, the bulk of the workers remained firm behind the rank-and-file com- mittee. On May 19, Feather sent a telegram promising the com- mitee representation in talks provided they got the men back. This first appeal was rejected by a mass meeting, but after another telegram— which clarified the Feather deal—a final meeting on May 22 voted for a return. 'At last,' declared a happy striker, 'we have found a man we can trust to put our case.'

A minority on the strike ation'. committee did not share this confidence in the leader of the TUC, and events "proved their reservations were well founded. At a first meeting in London, the rank-and-file committee met Lord Cooper and G&MWU officials, with Feather in the chair. An agreement was signed by Cooper, Gerry Caughey and Feather stating: there would be no victimization of any worker, the G&MWU would fight for the reinstatement of the 27 Pontypool 'truckers' and both sides would do all they could to reduce tension in the factories. Every one of these solemn undertakings has since proved worthless. No doubt Feather was hoping Police attacked Pllkingt that once the return to work engineered things had been would drift back to their usual apathy in St Helens and that the old union set-up would re-establish its control. What he didn't reckon on was the Pilkington's magagement. The strike had cost them £3.5 million in lost production, and, as they stated to the whitewash inquiry on the dis- pute, 15 per cent of their export orders: they had been stung where it hurt most-in their pockets. At the Triplex factory, which had supplied many of the rank- and-file leaders, 240 redundan- cies were announced. The 'last in, first out' principle was abandoned, and 40 men who would have been made redun- dant — if this principle had been applied—were reprieved from the dole because they had returned to work before the rank-and-file committee called off the strike. In all the plants, stewards who had supported the strike were given the worst jobs in terms of time and pay-both to wear them down and to ensure they could not function as representatives of the men.

If they did take up griev- ances with individual workers they were watched and re- Mounted police provide protection to workers led by shop steward Matt McGrath walking through picket line i firm ported on by informers. In Triplex, two militants were sent away to 'training school to keep them out of the plant.

Management refused to nego- tiate with representatives of the newly-formed Glass and General Workers' Union, de- spite the fact that 4,000 men had contracted out of the G&MWU and many were pay- ing money to us. The Pontypool 'truckers', all members of the G&MWU, re- mained on the dole and noth- ing was done. Then came the biggest attack of all. * Lord Pilkington declared on television that he thought his approach in the past had not been or professional tough enough. His change of heart was soon revealed in a most dramatic fashion. At the Cowley Hill works, Eamonn Topping was in- definitely suspended for re- fusing to be represented in a complaint he had by a repre- sentative sanctioned by the management. After several verbal ap- proaches to the employers, we held a mass meeting of the Cowley Hill workers who voted ttacked Pllkington pickets during last May's strike unanimously for a three-day token strike. This was a test of strength.

Management knew that if all militancy in the plants was not crushed the possibility of return to the pre-strike atti- tudes would be impossible.

They threatened the strikers with the sack. Their weapon of fear was partially successtul. Many wor- kers dia return, leaving 600 outside the gates to see the protest through. Gerry Caughey, chairman of the rank-and-file committee True to their promise, Pil- ' kington's dismissed the men- along with militants at other plants who had come out in support. They rounded off their efforts by drawing up a black- list of men active in the seven- week strike: these men-be- . 200 and 300 of us — tween would not be offered their jobs back under any circumstances.

Others who were taken back were re-employed, not rein- stated-and therefore lost all pension rights, rights under the Contract of Employment Act, redundancy safeguards and other payments. This after more than 30 years' employ- ment, in some cases ! Those who returned to work are now being closely watched by management. If they are heard discussing the dispute, they are threat- ened with the sack. A works medical is required if they report sick. And if they want holidays, they must produce evidence of bookings. For workers who supported the strike, Pilkington's is a concentration camp. Feather, who cajoled us back is silent when the to work, right to strike the most basic right of the movement he is supposed to head—-is crushed by Pilkington; is silent over the Pontypool men, still sacked; lifts not a finger when workers are victimized. He will never be forgotten for this in St Helens. At this point, when all seemed lost, support came yet again from outside the glass industry. The dockers of Liverpool and Birkenhead, in a magnifi- cent display of solidarity, an- nounced a 'black' on Pilking- ton's glass — how our spirits soared when we heard of this action! The ban is now lifted after their employers suspended two checkers who operated it, and because some stewards in- correctly reported that we had been reinstated. Let me here deny this rumour. About 250 of us remain. sacked. Men who have actually ap-

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plied to go back on the humili- ating terms of re-employment have been told by letter that there is no job for them with Pilkington's. Not only this, the black-list is now in the hands of many Merseyside employers: several of our men have been refused jobs elsewhere when employers learned they were involved in the Pilkington's dispute. argue: 'Why Then dockers should we support you with a "black" which may mean strike action throughout the port, when most Pilkington workers remain at work while their brothers are outside the gates'.

This is an understandable attitude. But let me emphasize once again that this struggle more than Pilking- involves ton's-it is a fight to defend the right to withdraw labour.

If we lose here, this right will certainly be in jeopardy on the docks - and dockers themselves will eventually have to face this challenge. We therefore make a special appeal to dockers, who have shown us so much support in the past, to re-impose their "black' and join the seamen, • works engineers, car railway and building-site workers who are fighting with us.

AN APPEAL

'I can't retreat. Where can I retreat to?' Gerry Caughey.

IT WAS a bitter day indeed when we on the rank-and-file committee stood by the factory gates and watched men who we had fought with and for file by, bent into submission under Lord Pilkington's threats.

Then to turn round to one old worker-near retirement, now sacked with no pension rights, worried because he has been refused dole for 'indus- trial misconduct'-and answer his question: 'What should we do now, John?'. To look into his face and see the lingering defiance still in his eyes tests your ability as a leader to the utmost. But at these moments of deepest despair, I remember the support we received from workers all over the country who came to our office with money for the fight. I remember one great collec- tion at the Fiddler's Ferry raised building site which £400. I remember the dockers of Liverpool and Birkenhead who 'blacked' the glass. And the carworkers and building workers who have retained the "black' to this day. All this brings back the will to struggle on. Because I realize then that this fight does not just affect glassworkers. Pilkington's have attacked, and attempted to destroy, a right that is the property of every worker: he has violated the property of the working class. If he wins here, which group of workers will be next for the dole ... who will be next?

Therefore I ask you to take our struggle into your factories and your unions and back us.

The fight to defend the workers from attacks by the Tories and employers is a fight for solidarity with the glass- workers of St Helens. Your fratemally, John Potter. Secretary of the Pilkington glassworkers' rank-and-file committee.

WORKERS PRESS

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