Workers Press no. 246

Cuts loom in wages, housing and health services Heath ready to swing Tory axe workers press

NUMBER

246 • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1970

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

• WHERE WILL the economy axe fall first, or how to create more misery, hardship and despair for

BY A POLITICAL

the working class, was the central question be-

CORRESPONDENT

fore yesterday's Tory cabinet meeting.

working class in the All the reforms won by the last three decades was the object of the cabinet's

DUTCH

denDerations. Everything from dog's licences to dentures has come under Heath's searching scrutiny to deflate the economy and cut working-class consumption.

DOCK

High up on the Tory list for pruning is the Health

I.C.I.

Service-which the Tories and the British Medical

STRIKE

profits Association vigorously but unsuccessfully opposed in crash 440-the nationalized in- dustries and the university

SPREADS

grants system. Close on its IMPERIAL Chemical In- housing heels and dustries yesterday re- education. ported million these are traditiona lor

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

drop pre-tax In their cures tor the lils of the profits in the first half capitalist economy. THE WEEK-OLD Rotterdam port of this year, in spite of As the 'Daily Mail' com- strike has now spread to Amster- increast mented Chequers dam following the dockers' rejec- sales. meeting on Mondav: of a return-to-work proposal The coll group Minist by their union leaders. determined profi less [sic] action. une belgian port at Antwerp nas rerused sales to handle ships diverted Irom kotterdam "Flood' (there are more than 100 boats anchored off the mouth of the Maas) and now the *The result will be a flood dockers are pealing for the blacking of next policy by Bremen so nighter tal Hamburg portworkers. meeting vers reluctan 1969 dividend of 2s 9d been Strings tied of scie cutst because Drivers have 1 of conflict in the Tory Party ocial se contributions are deducted. y to new stoppage on which there hits Ford Pay sliced GKN offer? incomes Plan was a a case se

DELIVERY

sia. wage packet. Essex, I the Cabins delivery drivers at an outside *Enaged by the union leads NEW PROPOSALS for a return-to-work will rs at Silcock and Col refusal irit or clas be put to the 5,000 GKN-Sankey workers at Wellington, Shropshire today.

Rotterdam hea

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rally After 13 hours of talks

CORRESPONDENT

en oper which lasted into the early hours of yesterday

SOCIALIST

Dutch-America morning, trade union on members. the arde

LABOUR

agreed on a fresh offer whole t po whose craftsmen to the strikers disgusted three-week action is for cem bee lowest grades

LEAGUER

a 4s 3d-an-hour increase.

ay the There have been mount- Trotsky lay ull: class Holland inausuy as sup- he thou mecca of all reformists and pnes aried Up. Memorial

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The new formula was dis- may repeat itself Reject outright Meeting Mass meetings Then, a threw proposed

GLASGOW

on UCS pay-offs Partick Burgh Hall or sevas (nr Merkland St underground) string 7.30 p.m. clyde - tier to an UCS must ben "Earlier Shipbuilders Admission 2s. Trotsky glish Revolu Leon Trotsky's

DEVLIN

Speakeational secretary) last words: the

DEADLINE

'I am confident of Sunday the victory of the announced October 4 Fourth International com erim Septeation 21. Go forward'! Please note this mime indethal severs ciated changed date statement. See LATE NEWS The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Rolls- Middle East Royce Nixon lock-out dispute appeases spreads COVENTRY Rolls-Royce design and technical staff will march through the Israeli city today as the combine attack and - hoth statt manual workers through- out the combine. 'hawks' The members of Drainmen Ass cantiad wate By a Middle East correspondent that THE US was yesterday reported CoVentry to have sent messages to both Moscow and Cairo calling for an reas end to the movement of missiles signa has re- in the Suez Canal zone, in violation of the cease-fire. A public state- the lock ment was being prepared. nembers Derby, at Deigh On Wednesday, US Defence Secretary melvin Lalra nad revealed that Us Ship

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ments of phantom jets and the most had up-to-aate air-to-croung missiles been sent to Israel. The American ns. The israeli Tin an agreement on its next of extending the strike action could bring down Watching i she us ttlement, and starting a new Middle-East war.

PROBATA

TACTICS

differences be seces as a matter 7 strate rank ot sa not. suit. + Mividing Prime Allon the Palest

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she west ba Radiation is Many need with scare at Al Fatal lend Minater bed Pia dies) is with Jordan ens ted in a settement. Hussein steps nuclear backing to marte plant do up his anti-

PART

Cumberland guerrilla moves on the beatings! in one satan laid, to more THE JORDANIAN army has stepped up its attacks

DEFICIT

on tne palestine aperation guerrillas and tell supporters thane wek. Ontmented: he in Amman. Authorities commented:

CORRESPONDENT

tradi nore i ner mention the mall and theres was no abnor note threaten exposure of personnel to $250 ervenes shells guerrilla East sittiation is a the came andy reas ite apart from is nis Moving in sity tite apart support been moving into ordan tal Al-Fatan, himself

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i hit the Alt Fatal one on le des the Trotsky Memorial Lectures mom near in leader Popula

TROTSKYS LAST WORDS

IAM CONFIDENT OF

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while declaring Bruce is so miscen Palestine neW i All Trades Unions Silent Monday, 14 September Alliance Conference formation "Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism'

MINERS

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High St accepted the negotiations w

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workers press Cuts loom in wages, housing and health services Heath ready to swing Tory axe

NUMBER 246 • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY O WHERE WILL the economy axe fall first, or how to create more misery, hardship and despair for

BY A POLITICAL

the working class, was the central question be-

CORRESPONDENT

fore yesterday's Tory cabinet meeting.

All the reforms won by the working class in the was the object of the cabinet's ast unree decades

DUTCH

deliberations. Evervthing from dog's licences to dentures has come under Heath's searching scrutiny to deflate the

DOCK

High up on the Tory list

I.C.I.

for pruning is the Health Service-which the Tories and the British Medical

STRIKE

profits Association vigorously but unsuccesstully opposed in 1946- the nationalized in- crash dustries and the university

SPREADS

grants system. Close on its IMPERIAL Chemical In- heels housing and dustries yesterday education. £14 million ported These are traditional Tory

BY A FOREIGN REPORTER

drop Their Dre-lax for the the ills of profits in the first half capitalist economy. THE WEEK-OLD Rotterdam port of this year, in spite of As the Daily Mail' con strike has now spread to Amster- Chequers massive meeting on Monday: dam tollowing the dockers relec sales. tion of a return-to-work proposal "Tabrin Minister and olleagund rutt by les to aerion their union leaders wift a million The Belgian port at Antwerp has refused to handle ships diverted 'Flood' (there are more than 100 boats anchored 'The will be a floc aockers are appealing I0.

tne blacking ol the next few weeks. kotterdam ships by London, bremen anc Hamburg portworkers. yesterday's Cabinet dore strive read where striking Strings tied for 1969. union tiger bate Drivers paid about eze a re Party. to new stoppage contributions are deducted.

hits Ford Pay sliced GKN offer? a large slice of th docker said: *Sure we set specia bendier

ALES

i outside NEW PROPOSALS for a return-to-work will and be put to the 5,000 GKN-Sankey workers at but aleing unfair distribution Wellington, Shropshire today.

enal er- After 13 hours of talks

CORRESPONDENT

• PAGE

FOUR COL. 4→

lasted into tne early nours or yesterday

SOCIALIST

morning. trade union officials and management

LABOUR

agreea on a mresn oner the strikers, whose

LEAGUER

three-week action is for with a 4s 3d-an-hour increase.

by the dock mopl There have been mount- tied to productivity conces This Trotsky in at the thought industry as sup- classa nil Hollan plies dried up. Memoria lays meeti

• PAGE FOUR COL. 9 →

The new formula was dis- may repeat itself Mass meetings Reject outright Meeting the ps meeting in ran tem

GLASGOW

What on UCS pay-offs remains to Partick Burgh Hall terms serials inr Merk and st underground strings ME Uper Carde rist be rejected 7.30 p.m. morning outright. taken at the Tatest manage yenced that Admission 2s. over 3,000 Trotstnglish Revolution coming Leon Trotsky's

DEVLIN

mens dundanion nounce- te red too Speaker

(SLL

last words: national secretary)

DEADLINE

fficials 3,000 'I am confident of Tradesmen finishing Sunday the firm stated by the victory of the or their October 4 made redui- Fourth International 200 such only ous. Go forward'! Themselves from to officials come Please note from i additional changed date See LATE NEWS The daily organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League PRICE 6d. Rolls- | Middle East Royce Nixon lock-out dispute appeases spreads COVENTRY Rolls-Royce design and technical staff will march through the Israeli city today as the combine Managemen,prepares attack and both stati manual workers through- out the combine. 'hawks' demanding a By a Middle East correspondent THE US was yesterday reported to have sent messages to both Moscow and Cairo calling for an end to the movement of missiles in the Suez Canal zone, in violation of the cease-fire. A public state.

ment was being prepared. On Wednesday, US Defence Secretary Melvin Laird had revealed that US ship- ments or rhantom lets and the most air-to-ground missiles had up-to-date been sent to israel a middle Bas of the cabinet had still not Moshe BuT Dos ha of extending the strike actio Watching • be possible. The combines manua warening a new Middle bast war. se's rationalization

TACTICS

The differences oiler see ions to follow suit i Ping at Ministes the Paletionans dan, with King Hussein's help, an Radiation concerned with gec scare at Al Fatal me MiNister Are la dies baid with Jordan sabiated in a selimen Hussein steps nuclear Both sides plant on is movement up his anti- mannere must be re-

PART

n dosed because night guerrilla moves comparty military in on on the buadings! supplies. THE JORDANIAN army has stepped up its attacks

DEFICIT

on the Palestine liberation guerrillas and their supporters it state could not it ist state Atomic in Amman. come Following the rejection h

CORRESPONDENT

mal expostre of as sonnel to : no abnor amaunts to over $250 military intervention in de ence of the guerrillas. areas t has rough from its _ leader of

• PAGE FOUR COL. 3

Trotsky Memorial Lectures

TROTSKYS LAST WORDS

LAMCONFDENT OI

Something

THE VICTORY OF THE

KIH INTERNATIONAL

new?

GOFORWARD...

HANOr'S chief negotiator

9 THAT MEANS BULT

WOLKERS PRESS

there something All Trades Unions Monday, 14 September Silent Alliance Conference There has been no con reports *Trotsky's struggle against Stalinism'

MINERS

Sunday, September 6 Monday, 21 September * he is no one that 10.30 a.m. - 5 p.m. "Trotsky's fight against revisionism' Danum note High St

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DONCASTER

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FURTHER

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CASTLEFORD, YORKSHIRE.

for present

FERRY

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

PAGE TWO

A CONCERTED drive against gasworkers' jobs must be undertaken in order bring about to in gigantic reductions labour costs. This is the message of the Prices and Incomes Board report on the gas industry published last week A four-year target to save £78.5 million and to achieve a 7-per-cent return on net assets is to be based on exten- sive spreading of work-study systems and a continuous de- crease in the work force.

At the sametime, the PIB is explicit that this programme will not mean an end to price rises. In the early days of the PIB's productivity swindle, its reports consisted of pages and pages of statistics and other padding with, tacked on the end—apparently as an after- thought - the suggestion that work-study, job-evaluation and Measured-Day Work might be 'feasible' for the industry in question. Now, under a Tory govern- ment, this roundabout system is dispensed with and there is little else besides direct dis- cussion of work-measurement schemes, 'efficiency' and how to increase management con- trol on every page. The current report indicates that some workers may have benefited financially from in- troduction of the new schemes.

This is not unknown in the early days of productivity pay- ment methods, when the exist- ence of an apparently-satisfied 10 per cent is meant to con- vince those workers not yet in the scheme that they. are missing out on a good thing.

But now the Tories are de- termined to make it clear that the honeymoon is over, and attempts are to be made to spread the new measures to all sections. Schemes already existing are to be tightened up and a tough line taken with workers who have so far refused to accept them. February 1970, In when this industry was referred to the PIB for examination, Wor- kers Press forecast this could only mean that speed-up and a further drastic cut in the labour force was being pre- pared for the workers con- cerned. Here are the PIB's proposals for systematically extending the exploitation of the 120,000 workers in the industry.

NATURAL

GAS

THE REPORT ignores the position of the 22,000 produc- tion workers whose numbers are 'expected to decline very substantially over the next few years as town gas is replaced by natural gas'. The Board's figures indicate that this section will be down to 9,800 workers by March 1974. 1. Improved management in- formation and control: Audits of current efficiency and production of extensive in- formation based on work-study data, says the report, will lead senior management into 'im- proved planning and control of labour'. This, for example, could en- able a tightening-up on repeat visits by fitters which might result in a decrease of 1 per cent in the number of fitters• this required, giving a saving of £250,000 per annum'. 2. Improved effectiveness of supervision: The PIB wants the extension of training for supervisors; where their bonus payments are related to the operative's output, it hopes, a greater chance for the supervisors to influence the level of perform- ance will be attained. 3. Use of standardization in methods and organization: This includes use of stan- dard flexible and fixed coup- lings for appliances, agreed size I would like inform Fill in the form below and se

SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LI

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, L

Name Address The East Greenwich gas works fr Bernard Franks stu for service-laying teams and adopting of standard methods of deploying, transporting and supervising of fitters. 4. Extension of work-studied incentive payment schemes

WSIP) :

By April 1970, about 22 per cent of manual workers were • WSIP schemes, a figure on constantly below the numbers hoped for and forecast by the Gas Boards. The PIB now wants a big drive to put at least 65 per the work-force on cent work-study payments by 1973.

'STANDARD

PERFORMANCE'

WSIP uses the British Stan- 100 is dard scale, in which 'standard performance' and 75 is the starting-point for incen- tive rates. The report claims that on this scale, performance workers not on WSIP varies betwen 45 to 50 while the performance of those on the schemes varies between 87 and It was found that workers on WSIP have increased out- put by at least 80 per cent while their pay has risen only 21.6 per cent. The report comments about the schemes: '... they are not a substi- tute for management action.

"The real value of work- study is the production of meaningful control information designed to achieve a more - - 7 e information about below and send to NATIONAL

CIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE,

HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

vich gas works from the air rd Franks studies the latest Prices and Incol effective performance, and the discipline which this provides for management.' 5. Reduction in overtime : By reducing and finally eliminating overtime pay- ments, which at the moment account for a quarter of take- home pay, the Gas Boards could actually bring about a wage-cut for operatives-even for those earning under an incentive scheme. For example, worker might earn £5 a week bonus, but no longer be able to earn £7 on overtime. On the other hand, on the basis of work-study methods, he would be doing far more than when working extended hours. The PIB also suggests that Gas Boards look into use of shift-work, particularly_ of evening shifts as an alternative to overtime. The report estimates that the saving on using all of these proposals should amount to on the million manual section by March 1974. Efficiency of A NUMBERof ways efficiency and improving reducing costs for the 50,000 An exploratory well drilled by the Gas Coun ces and Incomes board report on the gas indi staff in the industry are put forward. These are: Revision of the national grading and salary struc- ture by means of a single job-evaluation scheme throughout the industry. Centralization and the extensive use of com- puters.

"SAVED'

264 STAFF

One Board, says the report, 'saved' 264 staff by central- izing customer accounting. In another Board, centralization followed by introduction of a computer reduced staff from 120 to 30 'despite a heavier work-load'. Use of organization and methods (O and M)-the office work-study system.

• Use of staff productivity measurement (SPM) which are the schemes, staff equivalent to WSIP.

for staff, These measures along with increased coverage of meter readers and collec- tors by WSIP, together overtime reductions, will, it is estimated, amount to a saving of £14 million by March 1974.

by the Gas Councll at Syderstone, Norfolk

WORKERS PRESS

on the gas industry Sales staff THE BOARD finds that the performance of individual out- side salesmen ranges from below £10,000 to £40,000 per man per year. These figures imply an aver- ge of from one to four appli.

ances sold per day. The report states that four sales a day should be made a target figure. On the basis of only three sales a day, it says, a reduction of up to 1,900 sales staff could be made. Showroom staff CLOSURE of 200 'unprofit- able' showrooms and ration- alization of staff in those remaining is advised. This would give a reduction of 1,050 showroom staff alto- gether, as well as a substantial profit on the sale of show- room properties. IN GENERAL, the report recommends that the Gas ment of the programmes of each Gas Board and to cen- tralize information. Friday, September 4, 1970 when it comes to paying for taken, apply to all the workers unis would incuude a record of all work-study times, which increased work-study staff and concerned, Wald of t 'central data- least Board management, nor- bank for use in synthe seemeda standards expected in very many industrial Humucis dit next four mcrease over une situalions. vears. A key role is seen for the The demand by 2,000 West main unions involved. The PIB's report gives Board manual Gas Midlands Stal spre instance rise to compensate for et three 1 Pay should These. savs. spent nearly four compensate stuuy increase work-study training months setting standards for overtime working is only par for shop stewards and full- twelve mecnanics in a garage time officials beyond the answer to the Torie -and completely new stand- vork-study 'appreciation' ana empioyers scnemes. ana ards were to be set for every threats against te nation.

other garage in the area.

alized industries. On pay, the average weekly These neonle set themselves earnings figure for men in the up with a job for life, and at this a considerably higher rate of average

COMPLETE

and pay than anything the workers

CONTROL

themselves can earn. The average working week But an indication that gas was 48 hours. To this should be added the workers are not In return for a Is Old flat- stand idly by demand for workers' complete condi erosion rate increase for 60,000 man- available jobs ual workers in January this and Lulls tors underade one a year, the trade also contame• in the report. t comments, natural resources the co-operation promole *Some : 18 months ago, the neededs ocialist alternative is emolovees measures Gas Council told us that the the cesiened to achieve maximum readers po union attitudes or the workers them efficiency of operations'.

directly *set selves were a maior obstace progress and for industy prin the middle of as At the present time, facter Ine workers urged the need for more per- Labour government's oroduch- suarient and undone bers.

be done man- vity plans and who now pIu- tul miln changeover pose to live with' the Tories' natural gas, and Measured-Day of which, as far as the employ- Work preparations. has •The Gas Council recently suggested that this These capital-intensive industry.

difficulty persists. people are class the worst collaharators opportunist type. "In some areas it is open to In 1969-70, direct sales individua workers to refuse natural ' 1595 accounted for to join a scheme (there had under cent of total per and Been in 5 CoaS been about 1.000 they sales: capelici Efficiency account for over yuper cer once Industry. HMSO 6s 6d.) by 1974-1975. With the outlined speed-up and manning reductions,

IMPORTANT READING

benefits clear Inal Ene modern technology are nOt intended for the man on the job.

WORKING-CLASS

CONSUMER

Nor are ev to accrue to the working-class consumer.

The PIB makes it clear that, the 'savings', of all could still rise. Gas Council has indicated that make such increases in the near future At the same the Time indecent haste to conver- through quick sion on the cheap- -is result- ana on mass or como aints on the use of natural gas hurners and on unsatisfactory installa- tion. Many üsers are finding, too, that natural gas costing more even before any offcial price rise occurs. The proposal to close 200 shows showrooms also com- niete contemnt toi individual customers. who travel further to raise queries, pay bills etc.

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Friday, September 4, 1970 AT THE same time as pro- state, each new military con- ducing the biggest and fastest lact comes unaer me closest aeroplanes in its history, the senate opposition is certain US aircraft industry is facing that many projects to ensure never get off the Several Its deepest Crisis. Dynamics faces major corporations could en Fary produce business easily go to the wall. ends it th firm fails une Boeing, producers of the Will ol tne increasingly much-publicized TUm DO lets. rare new contracts. and abo nave cut nel avour orce North American Rockwell's future in this field nail since moore sack ind of the sackings to come. hangs on more Profits the are said to be 'far in the future'.

the of cratt corporations grew fat or cuts cal Issuc 'Fortune' magazine says: Cost-DIus contracts. Dut Inat is unished outlooks a ruinous practice even grew un permanently scramhie for awarding production shrunken with before developmen out work and testing was even bring forward the the survivors forced to subsist start of production. on mcaste rallons. A decaae 1. SOp sticated planes like aro, a aozen airirame manu the swing-wing needed lacturers were able to thrive: considerabe recesionino in the a tew vears hence its cat. stage and this prac- prototune cult to see profitable business tice therefore led to extremely for more than three or four costly disaster Not the Pentagon is adopt- This vear the industry's before - you - buy' policy, pullins une developers 1968 on their own to a much greater extent unan betore changes Nowhere have these ing rapidly, more drastic effect than contracting by had on Lockheed. percent in the Thousands net Th of the industry the sack witn tens Inousanas man industry- redundancies already promised administration during the coming year. crisis compounded • a recues • permissior he

TOI

slow by the slow-down in growth of production the great C-5A cargo olane so as to snin out production until 1973.

next genel desperate effort ation break out of the ine excess capacily lacine n nilitary Lockheed coming generation of passenger 300-passenger and so on. inel ONE OF the least known years passenger plane Worries but best-financed right-wing inis move sul hangs ver groups in the United States Boeing chairman William despite much in the halance Allen said, quite correctly: last week's Senate approval is the American Security yet another bailing-out fund Council. 'The worries of todav are for Lockheed $200 million of arge v things bevond our con- This veranell budget in orp so orate minion trol' finance excess Lockheed's fight to break Some companies are already staffed by former FBi agents, endorsed by a long into profitable areas battening anwn the hatches. With American Rockwell's North Aristar is traught. with dith- tormer generals president claims: culty. is financed by and Comnetitore largest US cor It's possible to survive if we some ot the aircraft are paring porations. tailor operauons to une jumbo jets major hoperly m requirements. Sarmarked preserve that. North American has cut 23,000 lets market. anti-ballistic missile programme order book for workers from its payroll in just Lockneed's and it is presentiy compiling a and is the ritar has not drown hi 18 months which even irvine security voting indey one order in the last year!

off its sell A neeles stand headduarters along Shortages with several major plants.

The has been hit vital to for the first time in decades bi Alprover 100 agers stand • both civil Marshall Field, Sears Roes uck.

downturn just vears military aircraft. over against an estimated break-even total of The next generation of mili- Stewart - Warner. Motorola, aroune bu. tarv aircraft-like the ill-fated US General Hectric Schic, apparently fear Steel, and National Liberty FIll swing-wing nghter andl that cash Contributions from the giant C-)A cargo jet-have vent TriStar proved be enormously sources written off at the speed off rather business expenses. held estimates, and effectiveness has finding themselves their military the Research end of the queue for competing been called into question in aircratt many cases There are good grounds for rrom being the orize nums this fear. Congressman every which sought to win for his home As 'Fortune' magazine com- mented: Wacker Drive. Chicago, which largest Claims to contain 'the *Everywhere there private collection on need America for new monev.. five of the acivities in manufacturers new airframe ex-FBI have increased their long-term informatin K. Lambie and 12 months provided to supporting corpor- financial strain is intense..? Needless to say League's weekly paper kerc Lockheed's financial crunch 'Bulletin'. is amply represented is likely to come about the time when the TriStar's effec- tiveness becomes clear during wid made sprof malls should testing. made un of nuts should So not a few eyes in banking think again. circles as well as in tne in. of here is a whole chestrim dustry itselt will be turned on stemming from organizatione the TriStar's first ventures into openly fascist and anti-Semiti groups respectable The crisis in the US industr like which roduces two-thirds c of President Nixon, with the blessing vorld's total the aircrart ex -means curtains for 1tc each of these organiza. Euronean counterparts, tions has its connections with along hopeless t divided others national linec Rolls-Royce of Britain will

PRESIDENT

Nixon satisfied with listening in among as this firm is bing. watching Acquired anxiously what saying. omer peope are he TriStars engites to ube He plans to spend £416 mil-

SUDD V

Curity Can the wear contracto lion on a black hoy to allow Security, were mainstav over the neyt fow him to break into radio and acquired from a certain Harru television broadcasts and tele- vears. deceased - who phone One TIS chief published a right-wing, anti- could sit on his reported to have said of the Semitic paper House White sharpending in the industry: sharpening In this vas wateright ine con• tainer 'no bigger than a shoe- watch maintains revolution, Mr boxe 'Other executives primhle * leantage of One distinct it's Lambie and his a crooked crap game, but in turn. the system it's the only game in town.

Nixon's point of view- orivate collection ot counter. revolutionariec m 11 < + no facilities for his Capitalism remains capital- thereare watched closely by. the work- victims to talk back. ism. ing class.

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"TOWARDS "UHURU" IN TANZANIA'

By G. Andrew Maguire Cambridge University Press Price £4 5s. THE AUTHOR of "To- to write a pompo page account wards "Uhuru" in Tan- rule of the Tan zania' was an adviser to National Union. the United States mission of sort to the United Nations publisher in Brit while from 1966 to 1969 and writers have part of that country's UN down on market value'. T General Assembly dele- seen at least on gation for five sessions.

an up-to-date wo by a writer who In 1969, he was appointed unable to date despite to a 'development' post by material, Mayor John V. Lindsay of much longer exp New York. On his way he in the two lea had picked up a Ph.D. from democracies. Harvard and training at interesting London's School of Oriental in Maguire's posi little and African Studies. there is not He was thus fully equipped about this Nyerere to wite a poor is rise 400- en Tangahika se aad thei turned Білет, 10 situ. historically-oriented Former FBI agent K. Lambie with files micropolitical case study', as its introduction describes it.

There are great gaps in these 'micropolitics'. Chiefly, these relate to Tan- zania's periods of direct German and British dictatorship-by com- parison with which the 'one- Party state' of Nyerere, with all nightmares, is a Sunday- school picnic. It is always interesting that supporters of the two most bru- tal dictatorships in world history, British and American colonialism, should be so concerned with the 'problem' of the one-party state; happens which in Nyerere's case-but, apparently, not for Maguire -to serve British im- perialism so well. The book concentrates on the "tribal' group of the Sukuma. It begins with a false, racial description of their 'Nilo- Hamitic' (sic!) origins, a shallow treatment of the early mission- complete aries and failure to analyze the British influence be- hind the early so-called Arab slave traffic. Although the treatment of the period of TANU's rise is more factual, one searches in vain-to the end of the work, in fact-for improvement any the standards set on the first page. The book concludes with the 1965 elections which confirmed TANU in office, a justification of the one-party state, and an implied plea for Sukuma 'tribalism'. A good work on Tanzania remains to be published. Such works as indicated above, have already been completed in manuscript. Maguire's book emphasizes the need for their publication.

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REVIEWED BY N. MAKANDA

'A HEALTHY GRAVE'

By James Kantor Seven Seas Publishers, Berlin JAILED in Pretoria and Despite Yutar, Kantor can still talk of his own 'Jewish heritage Johannesburg 1963 in with Which aversione innate 17 C to under South Africa's 90- racialism'- course, is total day detention law, noncence the Other serious defects of the author gives a lively and book his are suggestions that racial tyranny with hegan the very readable narrative Nationalist Party's coming of his experiences — as power in 1948 and not, primarily, with British imperialism in the one of the accused in the 19th century. Rivonia sabotage trial— Indeed, this defect makes the otherwise absorbing of in the 'white' section of story police terror historically the country's prison system. This was the trial which led the imprisonment for life to of Nelson Mamed Tatter hors Kantor named one Walter Sisulu children and other African National Congress leaders. himself - neither Kantor member of the Communist Party, active

ANC

nor supporter but a wealthy lawyer at the time; liberal in his views- -was acquit- ted the trial. at Unlike Bob Hepple, a liberal Nelson Mandela social-democrat, Kantor did not become state witness against other accused. the For nowhere in his He left S Africa legally after account his acquittal, does Kantor show that the Boer rightly feeling that is the political servant, without re-arrest could he imminent. The police on all levels emerge real economic of the power, British imperialists from the book as the right-wing who hold 95 cent of the per real extremists they are. pronomin So does the state prosecutor, power. As a result of his inability Percy Yutar, a rabid Tewish anti- to see the behind the African i and anti-communist social forces aypical the upper echelons of state and thus also the police, Kantor gives unbalanced sections European an community: Jewish, British and picture Afrikaner brutality Afrikaans. since the British Durban, Johannesburg other and cities which they control are as notoriously pro-apartheid and anti-African as the Afrikaner in Bloemfontein and Pretoria. Not only an unbalanced is it but helps to hide British imperialism's ?CO- nomic dictatorship over the non- Europeans behind the official brutality of the Boer state apparatus. * More than this-books like Kantor's obscure the fundamental fact about apartheid - namely, that its basis is British imperialist.

capital. As a lawyer he should know better- -for the laws of S Africa are based on British-made laws, assed before and at the Act of Jnion of 1910 He should Know that the Nationalists merely took over United Party left where the off in 1948, and that legally or other- wise the Nationalists did nothing different new- -nothing that the pro-British Smuts party had not done before (or British colonial rule before Smuts).

accident It is not an that minds like Kantor's should sympathise with the collabora- tionist ANC and CPSA. both of which have always collaborated with British liberalism and hid- •den the basic role of imperialism 'in S Africa.

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NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

A TROTSKYIST ANALYSIS

BY ROBERT BLACK

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

PRICi 22sEd

Friday, September 4, 1970

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WORKERS PRaS Spanish 'Dead' Soviet Miners are Two • Moon Longer leave coal missions underpaid are axed output -Belgian oppositionist down Houston, Texas. Thursday - strikers Savage cuts in America's man- left Programaine

BY A WORKERS PRESS

ACCURDING to a recent Apolo astronauts ana sclen report by Spanish mining tists angry and dismayed to-

POEU

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in forced production day. coalfield has

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the first six months of t his

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ased twe at cy miners in the Zolder pits Suissioes Apollo is and i9.

coalfield in ot impoure re ent sepes simehnth pared sid th amons acui: Beccu, Belgium, are out on labour camp main cause o unomcial surike lor d Ddy Eive NA The increase of 12s 6d a day.

space explor- Enrnings at present average strike g, paleda tion Corad: imander Bowernen tha seriosea suppressed t o* THE SOVIET oppositionist Ghennadi Gavrilov, saidis not who was reported last May to have been sen- miners Br workerse to othe setions discouraged. NATAnWAOr prestihe tenced to death and executed under military Asurem tortse law, is alive and serving a six-year forced labour Cornfeld back sentence in a Mordovia camp.

Coretaia, hormer chai Service The news of Gavrilor Bernard

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POST OFFICE factories in London, Birming.

working in the region. comes from the same Edinburgh and Monmouthshire are to ham, source - the Milan daily reinstateal US firms ditector form the "Corriere della Sera'-that aunds be naltea dy d nall-aay strike tnis arternoon in support of a claim for improved leave for

DOCKS

reported the transfer of slash execulve lower statt grades. the imprisoned opposition- 2,600 members of the Ginsberg cent ist investment Hicxanucr

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Post Office Engineering dreves back to work for much from the Mordovia camp for the Bass deep ampit

LATEST PAY CLAIM REJECTED

Union will taking to the Vladimir Prison in advocates Workins diase. part the

FURTHER

cut-backs Moscow. stuppase Bus overtime Grucial factor which follows the break- capilal investmenl Dy Gavrilov, down prolonged ole business are anucipalec wno was Labour mormet ın a report lust puolisnec omcer on a soviet nucea with the negotiations ban is urged ov the securities andl submarine statoneo in th Post Office and its suc- hel srs ero rease d change off the miners Commission. kaltic. organized there edeamany from both cessor Corporations. gether with the Commerce opposition group, the Union stike i pay Political Rights. Lowest-leave grades in for ballol 5 which the Post Office were due to aorr ployer result was the bireest 1 Sori new dan? PROVINCIAL company busmen were yesterday recom- for an increase in holiday 3 politica and intel increase nice aw ehat almo tos ere ak menaca lo Dan overtime anu Dassenzer standlne om ie terban dak- September 13, following rejection of the unions' latest POEU members took al per ent bay lusie laly last year for milit pay demands for 98,000. October meant a further round of ote Caprilss andi The employers said in Siners •Potress dilu mr ultics. Heath swings axe workers rolk London that busmen can- Rights negolalons. rasion pr zecho money Co raiset iminim more irom next March have me are t e eor temed raise wechsimum until the present agree- me berested ment runs out next March.

whoses inhre. yeeeks ontrac Pernicious

NOT STRIKES

The union side asked their

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calllo Damage saryon e e ured by ih bil of the Nationat Healnh Service. and a. B blance of paymentan the Protection Cabinet or the hett * Mis se vies bureast deall so retreat for

PLESSEY

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violent as since Monday for a 50 per cent wage increase.

and growing unemployment.

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None of these questions can readers' the present trade Adress. 1s a resul of is Berayal by ai the trade teos: shat very large

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ad into poi big business Hundhe dsuil stude nes ce- workers from de- Rolls- danger pon an re emi • tetabihmen of me Bovero the presidentine Co BrEn 0 y Which CSN syster

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eas ings ar cables nd rabolishimen t Driverless tractor Paltér Lemis woich readime MOTE FOR US Menis Mesured. Day

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he announced the US support (See page one) for industry all alluusi. Ambassador, oTavali rhcr acion ece sea . idward Korry, na

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made up on aupis borre ceae

BY BERNARD FRANKS

nThe equipment Barricades ae Midde- Eas

MEETINGS

ralks, ht N teoted THE DRIVERLESS tractor system used for fruit farming During ham ber ofe Den ti rovade r C

SOUTH-EAST LONDON

is now being developed for industrial uses. A thousand yards éput of floor wiring in the Green Shield Trading Stamp company's decision taken durinsra f cabour meeting o Caculato Univers Santiago.

Daveulry warenouse nas enabiec tne remote controi (stoD 2A5E ping, starting and steering) of a tractor and trailer as part of the storage operations.

mus. strike must be 530 p.m. Ciy o the astudent strike laring over a accounts and other