Workers Press no. 25

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

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY • NUMBER 25

• FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1969

PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Incomes Act

CRISIS IN

The by-elections

MOTORS

stays Mrs The fourth article in this series will appear in Saturday's Workers' Press (November 1). Castle tells

A CASE OF BLATANT

Our industrial correspondent was in Paris last week durin une surike al nedaulls M.P.s giant boulogne-billancourt plant and interviewed By a political correspondent some of its 37.00l workers ahout the ow wages, long hours and HAROLD WILSON and Barbara Castle made peed-up imposed by

POLITICAL FRAUD

it clear in their beginning of term speeches to the state management It will also this week that they will press the role of the ahead with their of policies wage restraint, productivity and rising cost of living.

in helping to create As Wilson put it: we'll follow these conditions not i lets the Fore in whethere The article will be of great *Political success interest in view or ine Labour depenas on econo- new wave or struggle mic success by Labour.' The prime task is economic which has broken out onomy. British savilis in the wrench car industri By G. Healy and will be of especial

B.S.R.

importance for those attending the All Trades THE VOTE-CATCHING antics of Unions and the Labour leaders in the recent by-elections was perhaps the most workers will be attending

TWISTED

Plessey cynical performance in a long sand incomes course, the prices background reading to of treacherous action parade in une report tney will If the nent the govern- Dresent since they became Order your copy now! Mrs ment five years ago. merger British Firstly, the slight improvement in trade figures was talks aspect of economic and social to imply that the economic crisis order PoVital Stalinism was now being put right. Wilson Yet, at Swindon, the By Jonn spencer in a by-election mecting, BSR. the anti-union manu exposed paper tiger of the tell Mil Fool admita that tols order under facturers of the breach Monarch was achieved by record player, whose the Labour government creating un • Hast Kilbride locked employment. A reply to Mrs Reid's came aton 'Ultra-Left- pamphlet MP, Ian on the same platorm, ms renow leit recognition, Predecion the over union ism In Britain'. Mikardo, repeated the government he when he sara comancing It is now undoubtedle clear that the government has with them means of

COMMENCING

with the giant Plessey elec- gone a long way cows secure our economic position

FOOD UP

will pub- in the worla. orkers Press The Labour leaders fought the and 1966 five articles 1404 . 10 on the claim that they were the party Robert Black. general happen as cretions Firemen's delegates at Wednesday's meeting vote for all-out strike action. The date was later set for November 19.

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of full employment. appear as London firemen N aside, to the aphlause en

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4. 1. Ine first thing on Tues the price People's rront and the Angry scenes nd the city of London. Grangemouth B-P site ransitional Programme Fourth of the all out on tional Boilermakers fight as dustmen Nov. e War: the Wareh diz milthought to November 19 confront police Now errest of use Pis Fes. in the War: th jobs loss holdings to Be da unions are being allowed AFTER OVER a year of frustrating negotiations over Friday Nov. 7: 4. British to take up the jobs of 500 manning and pay, delegates representing London's 4,800 Loday• Shal Cynical claim Boilermakers' Union mem- dustmen Important element firemen voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to take Revisionism and bers who sacked disperse on Wednesday were Workers' Press reporter Dalurady Nov it Wednesday. Octobe all-out strike action by 97 votes to 14 MPs, defended by lied. had climbed near lOUI weeks nent lol alternative Society he were caught in a clett from the British-Petroleum sti Cheir leaders were fly is munist Party 'Morn- strike will be pre leadership l ne Stan. By Rex Henry ists' record-and ours. site at Grangemouth. ceded by a token stoppage on fly hawkes night be rachside the Town Hall, unio Mr Danny McGarvey, Make sure every Com- tween 8 and 10 a.m. and 6 miserable ti and 7 p.m. munist Party member you know receives a acted to de D.E.P. inquiry Amalgamated Union of En- only whistl operaency calls

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ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

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ONE DEAD IN

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U.S. STRIKE

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BATTLE

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MOTOR WORKERS

the increases. The boilermakers rank and Young Socialists Warsaw Pact moves for a "collective security' conference

CONFERENCE

GRAND XMAS

MERSEY

BAZAAR

BUILDERS

THE

RECENT

spate be- Saturday, Nov. 29

MARCH

diplomatic

NATO,

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

PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY

NUMBER 25 • FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1969

PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Incomes Act

CRISIS IN

The by-elections

MOTORS

stays Mrs The fourth article in this series will appear in Saturday's Workers' Press (November 1). Castle tells

A CASE OF BLATANT

Our industrial corresnondent wac in the strike at Renault's giant Boulog plant 37,000 some ot its workers about the loy wascs, 0шs nouls ада HAROLD WILSON and Barbara Castle made

POLITICAL FRAUD

it clear in their beginning of term speeches to une state manacement Labour

MPS

this week that they will press It•will also ceal wiri the roe of the •taims poticies of ahead with their wage restraint, trace union leaders productivity and rising cost of living.

in helping to create As Wilson put it: these conditions. we'll follow inter- The article will be of great "Political for success not it lets the Tories iner Labour depends econo- -The ime task is eco mic success by Labour.' out in the French car industry economy. By G. Healy and will be of especial

B.S.R.

Mrs

BETE

Importance for Lnes THE VOTE-CATCHING antics of avenarns ne all irades aban and Unions Allance's motor the Labour leaders in the recent industry conterence or November &. Renant by-elections was perhaps the most workers wil be attending

TWISTED

the conference and the Plessey in a long cynical performance article is essential background reading to parade of treacherous action the report they in Labour present. II the became since they the govern- Order your copy now! ment five years ago. merger British rirstiy, the slight improvement in trade Igures was talks utilized in order to imply that the economic crisis Stalinism was now being put right. he antisincer yet, at swindon, in a oy-election

BSR,

paper tiger of the left Michael Foot admitted that this exposed Monarch Laclurcis was achieved by the Labour government creating un recora slayer, waist Lidsi employment. A reply to Mrs Reid's Albride TaCtOry is lockea 'left MP, pamphlet 'Ultra-Left- eleven-week strike Mikardo, repeated the for mint file when he said: lan over union recognition. are ism In Britain'. conducting merger talks ta detan: at dealing It is now undoubtedluca, faat the governmentar

¿COMMENCING:

with the giant Plessey eied- Tues economic position way towaras securing our in the world "Novemher the

FOOD UP

Workers Press will pub- leaders fought the lish five articles The Labour Presumably, the same woul general elections on the claim that they were the party Robert Black. if full employment Flreren's dolozates at Wedeniday's for all-out strike action. The date mas later set for November 19.

London firemen

NOW

kene the warl street and Angry scenes ind the city of London. Grangemouth B-P site Programme Fourth all out on tall boils down his® standing toi as dustmen Boilermakers fight the Party Nov weanesda Stalinism in the War: the full November 19 confront police Stal- uter making overtures Before "thursdav Nov Stalinism in the War: the jobs loss being allowed outside Manchester Town Hal "Big Three'. unions are outside Manchester ArIEk UvEk a year or Irustrating negoulations over Nov. 7: 4. British to take up the 1oos orsu manning and pay, delegates representing London's 4,800 Stal- Boilermakers' Union mem- Cynical claim Revisionism Important element firemen voted overwhelming|v on Wednesday to take Ders Wno were sacked Workers' Press reporter defended by ted 'left' four all-out strike action by y/ votes to 14.

nearly ago Octobe onto the striker climber •Mom- were caught in a clett from the British-Petroleum Ama gamatea | society ceded by ra to kell strike the town. Stalin- will be By Rex Henry posite their turns bollermakers preslaent. site at Grangemouth. Their leaders were fully it stoppage has that the anyour strings Fawkes vuy Mr McGarvey, welding work is not Make sure every Com- Danny car- Inside the Town Hall, union tween o and 10 a.ll. • all o ried out members munist Party member and 7 p.m. Counted to other - the site have a deal the men know receives a of En- you D.E.P. inquiry Meanwhile, whistl operancy calls in these strings that telling their them theired to ers or the home make ro these dates. With сору * to bemporal rebren thẹ real

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ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

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rent revolt

ONE DEAD IN

Sacked More honED Oxford cou counci U.S.

STRIKE

and the tenants de the backombine of unemployment.

BATTLE

one South London fire terchangeser ay mate saint between then. not settled bre

MOTOR WORKERS'

honore he. The boilermakers rank and Young Socialists to age Warsaw Pact moves for vantag the stake call

CONFERENCE

GRAND XMAS

ment and Productiy, Un 'collective security conference

BAZAAR

MERSEY

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BUILDERS

lances, the wars miract and

THE RECENT

spate Saturday, Nov. 29 •Bringing uld

MARCH

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BIRMINGHAM

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November 'S will

PAGE TWO

TO THE Labour gov- ernment and to a band of closely associated mil- honaires and lory busi- ness tycoons, the chance to save the bankrup Fairfields shipyard I965 came as a golden opportunity to set up an experiment involving all the latest developments in the intensification of labour. In many ways, the situa- tion at Fairfields was ideal for the purpose. On the one hand the yard had closed down with £32 million worth of orders on the books and in the middle of a £5 million modernization scheme. It was, therefore, not the most antiquated of yards.

On the other hand, the threat of complete closure put the workers in the yard 'over a barrel' and the new manage- ment meant to keep them that way. That this basis of using Fairfields as the proving- ground for work-study tech- niques was the key to the plan to save Fairfields comes over clearly as a fundamental theme of this book. For public speeches from ministers, commentators and union leaders, it was all a question of saving the jobs of the Clyde workers. Wasn't this the reason why the unions chipped in with €180,000? In fact, this contribution was to act as an essential part of the proof that the scheme was union-backed and sup- ported. The money could have been raised elsewhere without too much trouble.

GOVERNMENT

STOP-GAP

The unhesi- government tatingly paid £1 million as a stop-gap to stave off immedi- ate closure (Wilson promised this after a brief discussion when he heard what it was for). The book in detail traces the behind-the-scenes link-up to raise the cash for the second million pounds required to run the experiment. The key man in the scheme to run Fairfields, who had seen the opportunity to try out the Sir lain new measures, was Stewart, chairman of a nearby firm, Hall-Thermotank, and a member of the boards of Bab- cock & Wilcox, The Dorchester Ltd., Hotel the Thomson Organization, Eagle Star In- surance, the National Com- mercial Bank of Scotland and Scottish Television. While the government agreed to raise half of the second million pounds, millionaires Thomson (newspapers) and Wolfson (Great Universal Stores) invested large sums on the understanding that this was to go to an experiment into new forms of labour re- lations in British industry.

At the same time it was essential not to considered taint the enterprise with any suggestion of nationalization.

LEADING

ADVOCATE

The government was not to exceed its 50 per cent stake.

The leading advocate of the • scheme was George Brown, who fought to get it accepted in government circles. Stewart himself convinced the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, Callaghan, of the : ... opportunity to expose the problems of the industry and grasp the nettle of over- manning, demarcation an d management problems.' The final line-up monetary was: the unions £130,000, the including Wolfson tycoons, and Thomson, £400,000 and the Board of Trade £530,000, a total of £1,060,000. The Electrical Trades Union also lent £50,000. Alcan (South Wales) factory—the next Fai is featured in BBC-I's Representing the Once the money was raised, the next step was to scour industry and the universities for the best possible work- study experts. First on the list was Oliver Blandford. He was to head the new productivity department.

Until then he had been general manager of Stephen's Works where he had been study, Measured-Day Work and a number of other ad- vanced management tech- niques. Blandford, in turn, took on Jim Houston, director of en- gineering at Singers (Clyde- bank), 'a fearless convert to productivity. Over the following months, Houston developed a depart- ment of over 130 work-study examine personnel, to work of the 3,000 workers in- volved. 'Literally, scores of men were seen issuing from Houston's department armed with stop- watches, and tape-measures notebooks. Safety helmets were issued, colour-coded to indicate the nature of a per- son's employment. • "God" the yard workers exclaimed, "a bunch of bloody chocolate smarties"' Work-study men began by to develop some attempting sort of rational system out of methods of working that had been built up on a 100 years of trial and error. And their method of doing this? "Trial and error.'

WIDEST

PUBLICITY

If this experiment was to act as an incentive to the rest of industry, it was essential to develop the widest possible publicity. Sean Connery of James Bond fame, who had held eight different union cards in his days early a milkman, as labourer and factory worker, sister the and time over le gave up a television film about what was going on. The role of the universities in the experiment is also in- formative. On the Fairfields Board was K. Alexander, professor of eco- nomics at Strathclyde Univer- sity. However, it was not his knowledge of economics that was required. He had promised lain Stewart that he would raise finance from the univer- George Brown who was the man to push the Fairfields idea in government circles. sity towards research into the effects of the new techniques on the shipyard labour. Alexander was the link be- tween the shipyard and the academic world. It was felt that also on the Board: was required to 'Someone represent the interests of Lord Thomson and Sir Isaac Wolf- son, who between them had put up a quarter of a million pounds. The man who joined the board on their behalf was y—the next 'Fairfields experiment'-which presenting the Union' programme.

'WHATEVER HAPPENED A

By Sydney Paulden and Gower Press Bill Carron, ... President of the AEU Sir Jack Scamp was also appointed 'to spread to other indus- tries throughout the country accurate reports of what was being achieved at Fairfields.'

The work-study department set to work; every job in the yard had to be timed.

TECHNIQUES

INTRODUCED

'Oliver Blandford and Jim Houston had introduce to work-measure- techniques of value- quality-control, ment, engineering, operational - re- search, network-analysis, budgetary-control, job-evalua- tion, investment - appraisal, and management-accounting organizational methods.' But where was the incentive for the acceptance of all these new measures? 'One of the main stanchions in this new edifice was discip- "The men line. were over a barrel," Stewart is not afraid to confess, "and I intend to keep them there until they understand our new techniques and trusted them, and until the yard was running as I wanted it to run"? The authors explain that Stewart had no marketing or sales organization in the whole company. 'He • made no expressly attempt to obtain orders until the yard had been totally and tightly re-organized, for he wanted to use the precipice of unemployment to keep the men path he needed on the narrow them to follow. At the same time, for the new owners, the results had begun to arrive. 'Systematically, the labour force was cut down in the first six months by about 750 men.'

Also essential to the scheme 'good communications' was The yard set up its own news- paper, 'The Fairfields News', edited by Bill Hawkins, a man co-opted from Thomson news- papers and one of the co- authors of this book.

CLOSE

RELATIONS

Its aim was to foster close management-worker relations.

being Special efforts were made to avoid any semblance of the paper being a manage- ment propaganda sheet. A charge of 3d. a copy was made and : 'To underline the principle of free and unprejudiced com- munication, the second issue of "Fairfields News" in March carried 1966 statements specially contributed by local parliamentary candidates from Govan and Craigton giving their views on the Fairfield proving ground. There were two Conservative candidates, two Labour, one Communist and one Scottish Nationalist.'

Another key operation was the recruiting of workers to hold the stopwatches. It was found: 'The almost automatic re- sistance to outsiders carrying stopwatches which causes so much labour trouble in many industries was avoided because men carrying stop- many watches at Fairfields were men who themselves, two or three

WORKERS' PRESS

PPENED AT FAIRFIELDS?'

'aulden and Bill Hawkins wer Press 35S. months before, had been doing the work they were measuring.

"They were trusted and ac- cepted by their mates in the yard and they themselves were endowed with a conscientious- ness th t only a new chance in life can inspire? A section on how these men were trained is also particularly instructive: 'Plane-loads of Fairfields flown down men were to London Airport, driven into the Surrey countryside and, in the setting of one of Britain's most stately homes, Esher Place, they studied new pro- ductivity techniques at resi- dential courses. 'Esher Place is the ETU Training College run by Jock Haston, the union's education officer. He was asked if he would allow Fairfields to use the magnificent facilities there IT WOULD be difficult to suggest that one can learn much from this book other than the com- plete bankruptcy of the author's liberalism and of its Stalinist apologists.

The book outlines the author's views on how the immigrant working class can be reconciled to the rule of the British capitalist class.

DeWitt sees no relationship between capitalism and racial- ism. For him the whole problem is that there is a white com- munity (of workers solidariz- ing with employers) and an Indian one and the two do not quite mix because of ignorance on both sides. Not only is there no dis- cussion the origins of on racialism, but there is also no discussion the problems on facing immigrant workers.

Only a passing mention is made of the role of British employers in recruiting abroad for cheap labour.

TOUTING

The dependence of immi- grants on those who can speak English and 'deal' with fore- men, government officials etc., is mentioned, as is the rise of wide-scale bribery based on this dependence. Touting for jobs, overtime etc., and the use of traditional Punjabi kinship and village ties in weakening the immi- grants before the employers are all mentioned. But 'it should be clear that the black marketeers and touts, or "businessmen", as they prefer to be called-are not unsavoury characters who lurk on the fringes of immi- grant society. Without their services, the immigrants would to train shop stewards and deputies, because Jim Houston wanted the men to feel they were still "on union territory" There was a danger that the stewards might resist "brain- washing by management" as some of the unions from other yards like to call the re-train- ing. Representing two big business interests Fairfields board

WORKERS'

outer inn then president of the engineers'

REPRESENTATIVES

The courses were called months there were 24,746 work-study appreciation working hours lost in strikes. courses. Certainly less than the 96,837 A system of 'workers' repre- hours lost in 1965, but hardly sentatives' was also set up. good publicity for the Two men were nominated by methods, and the main scheme the workers from each depart- was still yet come. These were the people ment. It took from January 1966 who were supposed to repre- 1967 to prepare the to June sent the workers in dis- any way for the introduction of the work-study. The pute over Measured-Day Work scheme. authors comment • This scheme set down stan- *Fairfields probably paid over dards per hour of every job.

£250,000 in wages alone in 12 Men were paid a basic rate months for the productivity for reaching of a percentage staff.' maximum efficiency. While the new methods con- Following close on this de- tinued to be introduced, velopment came the proposed training into new trades, end- introduction of double day- of demarcation, ing flexibility shift working, but this was interchangeability and devel- October 1967, more than 18 oped under the same rules of months after the publishing of discipline. Geddes Report the with its • "Well". Houston, relates i recommendation for mergers "when this chap says to me 'I between yards. want to be a sheet-iron worker all my life' I said, "O.K. then, sheet-iron worker. unemployed and How did the new set-up contribute to the smooth run- ning of the new yard? Four days after the "Magna Carta" at Fairfields the pro- cedure agreement was signed, midst national when Dialse, strikes and stoppages were banned for ever, the boiler- makers' apprentices walked walked out and in qut. They again five times between June and November, chalking 21,722 lost attendance hours' The apprentices had been promised a pro rata payment based the adult on rate — promised, but not paid.

CRANE-MEN

STRIKE

This dispute was finally settled, but next came the strike of the crane men over Sean Connery, of Bond fame, the flexibility proposals. made promotion film for Altogether, in the first 11 Fairfields.

'INDIAN WORKERS' ASSOCIATIONS IN

BRITAIN'

By John DeWitt Jr. Published for the Institute of Race Relations by OUP. I969. Price 25s. Reviewed by G. Myers

RUTAN HOR

ASSOCIA

BIRMINGE

Indian workers on an Association demonstration in London.

hree cheers for tie be lost DeWitt is not concerned So three the about the conditions and cheers capitalist market, it assures to problems faced by its mem- his right but only deals with every man price- bers, the if bribery involved. goings-on in the leadership.

is Our liberal stands four square Leadership, in fact, has with the system. fallen either to the Communist Party or to those traditionally influential in Indian village

LEADERSHIP

politics, i.e. the heads of the Workers' iamilies, Indian Associa- landowning larger tions have sprung up wherever even if these parti- are not there are large concentrations cularly wealthy in Britain.

Indian-mainly Punjabi- In fact, the only cause with of immigrants. which DeWitt seems to siness interests on the other than Carron, the The Fairfields experiment came to a sudden halt with its formation together with four other yards into Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd. (UCS) and the new board of directors was dominated by the 'old gang' of shipyard owners who were not favourable to new methods.

BEHIND

THE SCENES

This book, written by two industrial journalists, is useful descriptions of its the develop- behind - the - scenes ments-the meetings on aero planes, at golf clubs and cock- tail parties between business- and members of the men government which led to the setting up of the Fairfields experiment. This is backed by a cynical frankness about the use of the 'precipice of unemployment'.

(The point is made again near the end of the book that: "Throughout all the prelimin- aries of the Fairfields experi- ment Stewart had avoided fill- ing the order-books too full so that the threat of unemploy- ment loomed during the "edu- cational" period as a possi- bility'.) Are we to understand that what was done by apparently good labour relations and communications' was really carried through with blackmail and intimidation? The authors of the book regret the ending of the ex- periment and represent its ter- mination as being due to a series of unfortunate circum- stances — new unsympathetic directors, loss of interest by the government, and the im- lementation of Geddes. However, it is more likely that the Fairfields scheme was quite deliberately and quite consciously brought to an end.

solidarize in this book is the protest of the educated Indians who come to Britair expecting a decent status in British society only to find themselves forced to work in factories. He even argues that dis- crimination is not a problem for the poorest immigrant workers but only for those who 'by rights' ought to be in society able to move up (into good jobs, buying decent houses etc.) but find the way blocked! The cynical use of the traditional kinship and village loyalties of the Indian immi- grants by the IWA leaders in their bid for positions is out- lined in some detail. DeWitt finds it rather un- fortunate because the tradi- tional feuds tend to upset relations with British liberals, but otherwise the practice is acceptable.

ADVANCE

In fact position-seeking will have to be legitimized by the liberals if they are to over- come this problem: the leaders must be made able to 'commit themselves to working with British and inter-racial organi- zations with some hope of advancement and personal without losing all of their the Punjabi prestige within community'. (p. 176.) The Communist Party gives much the same leadership in the IWAs. The Communists generally co-operated with non-Com- munist leaders and even with "reactionaries", as long as a few members Party were named to prestigious posts in the Executive Committee' (of the IWA). (p. 67.) ... 'the programme which the Com- munists advanced for the IWAs included little to which non - Communist could object.' Friday, October 31, 1969 Such 'open' experiments, if they are to act as incentives to workers to accept similar pro- ductivity deals and methods of working, must be seen to be successful. Up to 1967, it might have been just possible to get by on this basis. Even the high strike figures (of hours lost) could be put mainly to apprentices down wanting to 'get in on produc- tivity' rather than them being against it. But as the long-term aim of Fairfields could only be the making of profit by the win- ning of orders, then the wor- kers would have ceased to be 'over a barrel'. They would have regained the Clyde man's traditional fighting capabilities. Faced with with this possibility, it was better for the employers, etc. to 'call it a day', at least as far as the publicity stunt side of it was concerned.

Fairfields may be regarded as the second productivity dea set piece' - Fawley was the first-the third appears to be a certain Alcan Works, which is currently featured in the tele isnion on B Representing television

WHERE

THEY WENT

Finally, it is interesting to note what has become of some of the characters in the book.

lain Stewart_got a knight- hood from the Labour govern- ment as 'ex-chairman of Fair- fields (Glasgow) Ltd.!. Jim Houston '... left UCS and set up his own Consult- ancy, Higher Productivity (Organization and Bargaining) Ltd. in partnership with four of the productivity managers from his Fairfields team.

"They invited lain Stewart to be chairman, he accepted and invested money in it per- sonally' Houston, for his work at Fairfields, received the Gil- breth medal for outstanding services to productivity and work-study'-the highest acco- lade of the Institute of Work- Study Practicitioners. At present, he is the chair- man of the Joint Industries Board of the Electrical Con- tracting Industry. As for the first full-time convenor of shop stewards at Fairfields (Glasgow) Ltd., he is now 'transfers Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Ltd!

manager As the real aims of produc- tivity deals - speed-up, sack- ings and closures-come more into play, there can be little hope left for the government to convince workers of the 'advantages' they are offering by national showpiece experi- ments of the Fairfields type.

Similarly, for the union leaders who have played a major role in the introduction of the employers' most vicious methods of exploitation, many chickens are rapidly coming home to roost as shown in recent actions by miners and workers against union car officials. In fact it seems that the Indian branches of the Com- munist Party were open to who wished to seek all positions in the IWA. Many members who pre- viously held membership in the Communist Party of India were disgusted. The Indian branches led an existence in almost total isola- from the rest of the tion CPGB—that is until the Sino- Soviet dispute broke out and left-wing critics of the leader- ship raised their voices!

EXPULSIONS

Then separate Indian branches were abolished and explusions were numerous.

Over one half of the Indian membership of the CPGB re- signed and since then the IWAs have never been the same. No longer can the rank and file be so cynically manipul- ated. Indian workers are refusing to co-operate with the 'inte- gration' committees set up by the Labour government on Indian which so many 'leaders' are pleased to serve.

Immigrant as well as white workers, in fighting back against the employers, are breaking from bureaucracy.

DeWitt hopes that the new militancy will be restricted to simply fighting cases of racial discrimination. Some hope! Workers coming into struggle today will soon learn the class role of racialism.

Around the Workers Press and the Socialist Labour League the serious question of leadership facing alternative workers of all races will be thrashed out and answered whilst the DeWitts will be consigned to the dustbin of history reserved for those who attempt to stand in the middle of the class struggle.

Friday, October 31, 1969

'AMERICAN RADICALS'

Edited by Harvey Goldberg Modern Reader Paperback, 308 pages.

Reviewed by Dave Spooner moved towards left-wing poli- FOR A NUMBER of reading Edward tic after historical reasons, radi- Utopian novel Bellamy's calism remains an ex- Looking Backwards' and he never really broke with that powerful in- tremely early stage of his development.

the United fluence in States.

NEVER

Its power, as Tim Wohl-

GRASPED

forth points out in his pam- phlet, 'The Struggle for Marx- De Leon never grasped capi- United States', talism as a relationship of pro- ism in the could be duction that only has developed, to some ex- prole- overthrown by the tent, from the fact that the taking state power and tariat bourgeoisie never establishing its dictatorship. American had to organize itself to over- Instead, according to de throw feudalism and there- Leon, when the revolutionary peaceful electoral party fore never had to formulate majority, it should immediately its own body of empirical vest authority the itself and then dissolve and thought. all other existing political in- Puritanism Further, was stitutions. the predominant religious in- The other side of de Leon's spiration of the early settlers sectarian and abstract theoriz- America and this has car- in ing was syndicalism which in ried over into the theory and part of the the early century practice of the radicals dealt Industrial gave rise to the with in this book Workers of the World (IWW), The socialist conscience- founded in 1905 and adamantly or the so-called even worse, opposed to politics and Marx- 'Marxist' -looms conscience- ist theory. large in this book. 'Big Bill' Haywood was self- Eugene V. Debs, major of the leader of the appointed Wobblies- as members of the in the early Socialist Party IWW came to be called-and of years the century, was he led some great strikes, proud of his empiricism. the victorious 1912 particular Lawrence strike of textile

NEVER

workers.

ORGANIZED

He followed, though, the re- actionary ideas of Sorel who Although he was spokesman made of the 'great for Party for leader' and idealized the class the Socialist struggle in and for itself.

some 20 years, he never par- ticipated party conven- tion, held

GENTEEL

position and never took party part in any organizing of the

FABIANISM

left wing of the Party in its struggle the right- against The IWW, despite its vio- wing Hillquit and Berger. He lently militant activity against wrote: the employers, remained tied I never had much faith in to conceptions that also leaders. wiling to be am characterized the feeble, charged with anything, rather genteel Fabianism of such as Ramsay MacDonald. a leader. am suspicious and especially of the leaders, Give intellectual variety. me file day the rank and every в.В.C.-1 in the week. The emphasis on rank-and- filism and the opposition to 9.38-11.55 Schools. 12.55 any real organization was the p.m. Disc A Dawn. Watch other side of the sectarian With Mother. 1.45-1.53 News. 'Marxism' of Daniel de Leon. Weather. 2.05-2.25 Schools. 4.20 Play School. 4.40 Jackanory.

4.55 Points Crackerjack. 5.40 Junior

PROPAGANDA

Of View. 5.50 National News and Weather.

SECT

6.00 Entertaining With Kerr.

For 24 years, from 1890 to 6.25 Television Brain Of Britaln.

1914, de Leon strove to mould 6.45 The Virginlan. his party, the Socialist Labour Party, into a 'spokesman for 7.55 Not Front Of The In American working the class, Children. but he ended up with a purely 8.25 Golden Silents: 'Bring On completely propagandist The Girls' from working isolated 8.50 The Main News and class. Weather. De Leon argued that the 9.10 The Survivors. would bretaren revolution 10.00 Come Dancing. peaceful in America be- 10.30 24 Hours. there had never been cause feudalism in the States. 11.05 Star Close-Up: Lon Chaney 'Look across at Europe. The Jr. feudal spirit still prevails there 11.40 Weatherman. in an important respect, consequence of the continued as BBC.1 except there large prevalence of feudal institutions. chunks Midlands and Ay: Look D6.5t, 5 Today Midlands East, In Europe, the capital- even 11.42 Weathe NewS Summary ist class is feudalized ... Daily Weather Weekend Prospects HOr Road Anglers, tells Worke Renort experience us that [the American capitalist class] 76. 016.22 Moreon North of England Look North. reached their present status of Neathpi Headlines. swindle. rulers.. by Scotland: Around Scotland. 11:35-11.55 Modern Studies Basically what these authors call his 'Marxism' is a variant 6.00-6. Reportins Scotland Cut 9.10-9.35 9.35-10.00 if of Populism, implying that €1.000 there coulid be a return to the then Northern cather: 15. 42 Northern pre-capitalist days, the Around swindle' would be put right.

Ireland News Headlines, Weather. De Leon is reputed to have A mural painted by Diego Rivera, the r US labour movement. This is from the IWW's 1908 manifesto: 'It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism:: By or- ganizıng the structure of the industrially, we forming new society within the shell of the old.' No preparation of the re- volutionary party in the work- ing class for the taking of of only a species power; gradualism. This book is a prolonged and boring, panegyric to the radicals. It takes up this or that element, but is unable to make any assessment of the radicals. However, the introduction unwittingly sums up the neces- sity of the radicals to the con- tinuation of bourgeois rule: 'American radicals have democracy [i.e. honoured capitalism] by trying to make it better ... Out of convic- tion and necessity they have sought to give it what it needs —vitality, variety, choice.'

Be that as it may, the treatment of the supporters of Eugene McCarthy at the Democratic Convention in late 1968, demonstrated that capi- talism in crisis makes short shrift of those who supposedly foster 'vitality, variety and choice' Wales: 1.30-1.45 p.m. Ar Lin • Mam. 6.00-6.25 Wales Today. 6.45-7.05 Heddiw. 7.05-7.30 Bob Yn Dri.

7.30- 7.55 Week In Week Out. 11.05-11.30 Hwyr Neu Hwyrach. South and West: 6.00-6.25 p.m. Points West, South Spotlight South- Weather. South and West, West News Headlines, Weather, Weekend Road Works Report.

B.B.C.-2

11.00-11.20 a.m. Play School.

7.00 p.m. What Are The Facts?

7.30 Newsroom, Weather. 8.00 Wheelbase. 8.25 The First Churchills.

9.10 Deuxeme Chema the Deuxieme Second Breath'). 11.30 Westminster At Work.

11.50 News Summary, Weather.

11.55 Line-Up. Thames 11.00-11.55 a.m. Schools. 1.40- 3.00 p.m. Schools. 4.10 How

WORKERS' PRESS

• Rivera, the revolutionary artist, depicting personalities and events Guide to Rivera s painting

1. EUGENE DEBS. 2. 'BIG BILL' HEYW

3. DANIEL DE LEON.

About You? 4.40 Hatty Town. 4.55 Welby, MD Weather. 10.30 Lost In Space. 5.50 News From On Friday. 11.45 Late W

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6.03 Today. 6.30 Peyton Place. 7.00 London Weekend Television starts. 7.00 p.m. Parkin's Patch.

10.58-11.55 a.m. 4.15 7.30 Strange Report. Schools. Hatty Town. 4,30 8.30 Ours Is A Nice House.

Thunderbirds. ian News. 9.00 Hawall Five-O. Crossroads. 7.30 The 10.00 News At Ten. Avengers Nice House. 10.00 News 10.30 Frost On Friday. Frost On Friday. 11.15 Hadleigh. followed by 12.10 a.m. Giving and Getting.

Tyne Ter Yorkshire 11.00-11.55 Schools. 4.08 4.10 How About You, 4.40 4.53 North East 11.00-11.55 a.m. Schools. 1.40-3.00| Of The Giants. Schools, 4.00 Housepartv. 4.15 News At Six. 6.30 Peyton Place.

Headlines. 4.17 Hatty Town. 4.30 Tales Patch. 7.30 Ours From Dickens. 4.55 Tarzan. 5.50 News. 8.00 The 6.00 Weather. 6.30 Wheel 10.00 News At Calendar. Of Fortune. i on Parkin's Patch. 7.30 Friday. 11.15 Your Randall and Hopkirk News (Deceased). 8.30 11.45 Late Ours Is House. 9.00 Marcus The Name Of The Game. Nice GUEVARA'S theory of the guerrilla focus as the prime creator of revolu- tionary conditions has been severely mauled in- ternationally by suicidal tragic and failure of his Bolivian campaign. His total dependence on the moral example of the guerrilla, his contempt for the international working class and his idealization of the peasant are clearly re- vealed in both books. His lack of concern for a scientific analysis of the cor- of class relation forces, for the training of the revolu- tionary cadre-in a word his petty-bourgeois contempt for Marxist theory -made him incapable of realizing his sub- jective desire for a continental American imper- war against ialism. Guevara's 'Guerrilla War- from odd fare' apart the homily on treating the peasant humanely and the imple- on of limited menting agrarian reform in guerrilla controlled areas, is largely about survi- val in the Sierras, though it does have some purely mili- tary tips on ambush techni- ques. He rejects the town as a theatre of guerrilla activities or armed insurrection because there the guerrilla cannot melt into the bush. He does not consider that a guerrilla the early working-class can melt into his own population in conditions of mass insur- rection. 'Reminiscences' are The collection of anecdotes which no real contain insight into Revolution, the Cuban ex- cept the odd give-away such as when he unwittingly re- veals that the peasants were already in revolt in the Sierra Maestra before Castro's guer- rillas arrived-a fact have confirmed myself in conversa- tion with Cuban peasants- of thus destroying the basis the 'theory', in Cuba's case at least, that guerrilla creates the conditions for re- volt. It is Pomeroy's book which is the most dangerous of the three. It is a collection of passages about revolutionary violence. The first part has brief ex- cerpts, often too short to be of any value, from Marx, En- gels and Lenin, to establish its pedigree, and the second is a mass of material largely from different Stalinist Party docu- ments interspersed with mid- dle-class ideologists' asser- tions that the peasants, of private property, owners can abolish capitalist property (Cabral, Castro, relations Guevara, Debray). The book is most signifi- cant for its omissions.

LL' HEYWOOD

Trotsky, the organizer of the October Revolution and the creator of the Red Army, Westward 11.00-11.55 a.m. Schools. 1.40-3.00

MATT

Schools. 4.10 Westward News Head lines. 4.12 Peyton Place. 40 The Honeybun Gus Show. Thunder- birds. 5 50] National News. 6.00 West- ward Diary: 6. 6.25 Sports 6.35 Crossroads. Randall Unt Hopkies. Hopkirk (Deceased). 8.00 The Os Patch. Nice House Ten. Parkin's 10.00 News 10.30 11.15 Frost On Friday. Faith For Life. 11.21 Weather. 10.00 News At Ten, Yorksport. 11.00 Frost Late Weather. Grampian Scottish cadlines 4.m7 Schools 20 Scoriand 14a102.30 News Schools. Scotland Early. Crossroads. Skippy. Castle Haven. 4.55 Arthur. 5.50 News. 6.00 Gram- 5.50 National News. 6.00 Scotland On Earth? 6.35 Now. Wheel Of Fortune. 7.00 7.00 Nearest and Dearest. Parkin's Patch. 7.30 Mission: Impos- 8.30 sible. 8.30 Is Ours Takes Thief. 9.00 Hadleigh. 10.00 News At Ten. 10.30 Frost Weather. 10.30 On Friday. 11.15 In Camera.

I by Road Report. 11:15 Joker's Wild, 11.45 Sez Lez. 12.15 Late Call. Tyne Tees Anglia Schools. 1.40-3.00 p.m. North East Newsroom. 10.58-11.55 a.m. Schools.

1.38-3.00 p.m You. 4.40 Hatty Town. Schools. 4.25 Anglia Newsroom. 4.35 4.55 Land The Romper 4.55 Newsroom. 5.50 News. 6.00 Today Africa. 5.50 News. 8 6.00 About Anglia 6.35 Place. 7.00 Parkin's Takes 'Thief Nice Is House. 8.00 Mr and Mrs. 8.30 Ours Is Nice Hadleigh. 9.00 Hadleigh. House. 9.00 10.00 At Weather. Ten. 10.30 Frost On 10.30 Frost On Friday. Friday. 1.15 The Horror Film: World On Friday Extra. 12 Kruger midnicht starring Otto and The Game. Gloria Holden. 12.35 Reflection. a.m.

PAGE THREE

'GUERRILLA WARFARE'

By Che Guevara Penguin

'REMINISCENCES OF THE CUBAN

REVOLUTIONARY WAR'

By Che Guevara Penguin

'GUERRILLA WARFARE'

By William J. Pomeroy Lawrence & Wishart Reviewed by Tony Short is never mentioned and his the Leninist principle of the independence of the re- writings on revolutionary vio- lence and volutionary and Trot- such as terrorism party Communism' have no place.

sky's theory of permanent re- volution. Nothing is said of the for- mation of workers' militias in Such bourgeois 'allies' are the Spanish Revolution only waiting to become ex- (Pomeroy his long intro- in ecutioners. duction characterizes it as Pomeroy supports the offi- people's armed struggle to de cial Soviet line that there is fend the bourgeois democratic an objective world trend to- Republic') and their bloody wards socialism which is little destruction by Stalin's agents different from Piao's Lin in Spain in 1936 so as to faci- crude optimism about the litate his alliance with the force people's revolution: 'no French and British govern- can alter its general trend to- ments. wards inevitable triumph! Stalin's for These mechanistic responsibility theories the 1954 carve-up of Vietnam of history are formulae for the and the post-Second World abdication of responsibility Fidel Castro. War arrangement with im- for the struggle for a world perialism to hand France and international. Greece in exchange for over The different national par- Central Europe white- are ties make their own adapta- washed or skated over. tions to their national bour- The of the geoisie and speculate on ques- complicity French Communist Party in tions of guerrilla warfare, in- government's their war surrection in the towns and against the Vietnamese people parliamentary peaceful roads and against Algerian national to socialism, while their mem- liberation struggle go unmen- bers and the workers they in- confused tioned. fluence are left about the main theoretical Apart from the usual lies, question. distortions of omissions and This book, written in 1968, history, common to Stalinists, and Pomeroy's introduction the year of May and June in comments are most dangerous France and because they attempt to give national crisis con- a Marxist gloss to petty-bour- tains no answer to the Cuban geois denials of the revolu- and Chinese leaders who deny tionary role of the working the revolutionary role of the metropolitan class. Class. working While he is critical of Gue- It ignores the international of vara's lack of preparation and crisis capitalism and the bad timing in Bolivia and of world-wide offensive against 'theory' of pea- the Chinese the working class. encirclement the sant Ignored too, are the sharp- cities, he fails to disclose the ening trade war and the colli- heart of their political errors.

between confident SIOn quibbles He over tactics working class from emerging the but does uncover not boom and the Bourgeoisie and its state.

class, and basic anti-working therefore objectively counter- nature of their evolutionary that imperialism can be made hough to see o recognise he changed balance of power glorification ignorance (Pomeroy's introduction) at a the greatest at- when he says that it time tacks are being prepared.

read military As Lenin said in an address ritings of Mao-Tse Tung or the East on 1919, quoted in colonial ny Marxist literature come t that. the book: Most, Ton Ties in the of cory of ject unrepentant docu- pation lies ments the Greek, Indon- the international revolution and Philippine Commu- esian and the nist Parties. proletariat is the only ally of They describe alliances with all the hundreds and millions and liquidations into parties of working and exploited peo- of the national and democra- tic bourgeoisie, based on illu- he task of building th sions that demonstrations of 'ourth International, Party o good faith abandoning In and con- he world revolution, struggle against them would inuing the work of the Thir allow the communists to in- International, destroyed by fluence and reform them. Stalin, is the central issue for Apalling and murderous Peoplworking and, exploited penalties were paid for ig-

WORKERS' PRESS

PAGE FOUR

IN THE aftermath of the THREE Scandinavian ship- By Peter Jefferles Deutsche-mark revaluation ping lines are to challenge HARD ON the heels of Monday night's strike at the monopoly of me AUs a nerce Dalue nas ae- members on veloped inside the Com- tralla • curope contamer nive Scotland's three airports has come the Prices and which shin trade attempted mon Market on the ques. Con- Compensa Incomes Board's latest report on airport workers' nema Australa tions of agricultural poli- tainer Service consortium.

now really cies and farm prices Co-operation threat pay. in the container shipping en DeTH Under present arrange Protes on id ments, German establishing pricec

BY DAVID MAUDE

deal about should fall by the full &' per cent of the revaluation.

common machinery ano should be grading systems for ishment on ith beration one of ceman ares in? mean a By a foreign correspondent britain's szo grouna stan men ordered - within

IWO

or unree or Ministers, FIAT'S take-over of its smaller Turin rival Lancia was the continent Belgium vears return finalized on Tuesday when Shareholders elected nve rial But directors to its new eight-member board.

clearly clamp duplicates the ACS's i method. Fiat now dominate the By our Industrial reporter competition, Ilallan car markel THE STRIKE by 900 fore- onto them labour more hirmly than men i enarcenanas vestments al has or will over 1,600,00 nine osen Lucas lactories 10le Offensive the birmingnam ared be tooled work shing not and the himan ended yesterday with a re- This is iust one examnle rivals a mee turn to work. necessary overtme workin un strike 50,000 a ena • Produces Unacceptable Leyland. This merger designed sharpe to streamline with rivals in Common Market.

MAIN

container-hand

PROBLEM

Pay Official action nellis main t reduc hide concial action it at bikswagen i then the men vi io date so monovement in the last 5 Unions cannot ara Fiat's workers ror those at the 20 loca more completely new salary struc- calm and astato a!

AESS

the stoard uthority airports is even change. company a pen a in he the Board fighting to win.

DUSTMEN

only

GUARDS'

under a reculted in farmers demonstrations

STRIKE OFF

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wherites tear on one esca.

Go back For a secret ba

BRITISH

S Suard have aud of and this Region threatened parrot stre reeting strike C.G.T. tells ovene Natibals Prion marched to ofNo doubt they are thinking Railwaymen nettiniscUsS thes marcall into THE MILITARY faction in Sudan's new government the dispute. Renault tightened its grip on Tuesday, when it announced that she dust men! was the country's new prime minister is to be Major-General said saying woat wl factory workers Hall. Fear Jaafar al-Numeiry, leader of the army group that seized will do'. power six months ago. Police order he PIb's own tear was. union. It was then that the police Al-Numeiry replaces tatemen I them to disperse dis Abu Bakr Awadallah, who the trust of the union officials an as the previous prime min workers ahead for wish 1ster welded togetner bee uneasy allance ol social- progress since last Saturday.

PROVISIONAL

ists. communists and more military and conservative alicials Arab people of the religious leaders. persuadec the B ruling Recent the neeting is planned for Satu right-wing Leapfrogging coalition ime ticipation in the coalition have n tine with tountry worker settements Minister Mrs Golda Meir. owed this latest de- Incomes By a foreign correspondent New posts Act TUESDAY'S strike by Italian building workers ended only brokery with 50.000 strikers marching through Rome Piazza Sante Apostoli, where they were addressed by

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25-man nates 26. ready-food prices would rise trade union leaders. ary relied day, Agriculture • 4d Un tne

POLITICAL FRAUD

rhead per Tour-cav strike or munici pal workers began in Milar anti-A rah rapidly and aftected

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the city's basic services.

ment Those groupt, for he arale Staggered c strikes the heroession st of party and Dayan. the Midiands P*works, Pirel i0n Where Oner ins on this mission leaders shamieully ex market n eve Zionis The Post-mortem orking ninister ha giver 'Star' comment expansionish mares cly there ens were Deputy Chairman Re- Workers' enemies

A.T.U.A.

lutionary Command Coun- Not to be diverted from it

ORDER THE

anti-fascist demonstr these sensente meetings This reshuffle marks a shift died to the mit 30 commer leader • region le lewish work not fowl and Mikarde "a

ELLESMERE PORT

now helping to open that door.

ers as well as the Arabs.

Next steps ar vauxnall Wrown by the reareas bomb The Fight for Parity, The crisis in the Motol Rootes naustry Sunday. November 2 neral strike por ay a foreion correspondent testers 10.30 a.m. Tor any two daya high rents.

TWENTY-TWO

Africans appeared in Jaille Sutton OR back Tuesday designed El for threo monthe On the street charged with offences

BIRMINGHAM

ha crisis de- DUDDIeSSIOL ¡ would like to subscribe to workers' Press foi communism Acl. prisonent 'The future for the moto!

pare meit defence. the with son and a he Tuesday, November 4 at the company's Stok Demand release Name reformist bree Horse Shi this "trials The British labou oventry Road, Sheldo takes Address ominic on the et en Charges

SOUTH-WEST LONDON

freedom see boas agains very start. against apartheid. Tuesday, November 4, week ago teren other workers serv conviction Chap am Cure on, al: 0572020809 This is the Already an appleyond th would (ANdfric nd hisTory date fixed, December 1, Horie nam Coadm pay for in retin been rejected. Friday, October 31, 1969 Market president ior agriculture Severe jolt franc the August Alter similar taxes Large mans with dres all y ball the • make tar or hos nease in MAKING his basic men willy Truend said side the Common Next month's summit con- specialmmu he sald. Europe, in th elated then Community, cot dours cous into he chan • wnich workers' of living. Under nressure Pencies all an lowing tulative pressure have no stability. shake-up Co markets another round Into o state the c served to in new directions. Guerrilla leader doubts value of Lebanon parley and the Lebense were U.S.-Dutch electronics link-up

FAIRCHILD,

the US microc.ectronics nrmn nas announcea Dians to lnk up With Dutch- owned Philips group Phili stakeom Both and Fairchil used in electronic computors will This latest, deal is another indication pressure Eurocconomic Published Worke Press, 186e Clapi h.S. wat 1000 Caphan 5A in Street, London