Workers Press no. 261

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

261 • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1970

PRICE 6d.

• PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Mass unemployment is Salute

NEXT

SATURDAY

heroic A threat to September 26 Arab guerrillas trade unionism

BY ROBERT BLACK

FROM THE inferno of blazing buldings, corpse strewn streets and devastated refugee camps in and around Amman, comes the terse, stirring Victor Frather General Secretary TUC talks to Workers Press on : message of the Palestinian guerrillas:

BY JOHN SPENCER

'We fight on until victory or death!'

• Wages • Anti-union laws • Productivity and unemployment self, MASS UNEMPLOYMENT is now emerg- th • Victimization at Pilkington's ing alongside the Tory anti-union plans An exclusive interview with Stephen Johns.

as a major threat to the trade unions. This A must for every trade unionist.

danger is underlined by the latest official Telephone all orders to 01-720-2000.

butchered countles unemployment figures, which stand at 1967 1968 1969 1970 the Third Reich, the imperialist 628,271, the highest for any September allies feigned horror. CP still looks

APPROVING

since before the war. nor jons fordan

)PUBLIC

Out of every 1,000 workers 27

THE

FOOT THE BILL

the dole, and the Unemployed are now to fraudulent inexorable trend is upward.

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summer began, Since the Jump

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BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

DEPUTISING for the absent Bert Ramelson at a Communist Party strike-call emplye yer amcaiy the tic or de em.

putnc meting in Ken- ..These sington. London. on wednesdav night. stalınıs ]. Jacobs attacked the Palestinian guerrillas now AS A new Hussein 'negotiated dancies hits the North East settlement' in the Middle East.

atesneaa waae council das obs, wee aske durethas backea une one-aay

SUIKC

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PRESERVED

co-exisience ingly bard eo All over it inereasingny Asab esevoite to -at-back in thei *THE RUSSIANS appear to use the labour exchanges labou o victimize militants. ferce duced posttion one 'Settlement' Serk in te tare the fate, bader ot Thi of Thursday, Septem

DUSTMEN MARCH

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FIREMEN PLAN PAY-

Commenting esiden demesor acnar us strategy Sunderland Preses

&-HOURS STRUGGLE

against the Sins using ne do as not aldayed tark to so fl more Proi Sonerin tades con call Hris neresay Por sai FIREMEN in several areas of the country meet today present V For pd as ter r dund od sitass also said the Soviet to lav plans lor next week s seven-aay emersency- Council strike zela calls-only' action over pay and hours.

Ereneb a dedendenn h Resolution

BY DAVID MAUDE

t the creation of che Zibnis for The Tines Sepeter the sinide résuld nu port durer tondon ve hig yen 24.) Teachers add

INFORMAL

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ATUA

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BY STEPHEN JOHNS

ma tll to tre conference Tinger issue. AFTER seven weeks on strike government sinis a mi n the ciaim. an me tacties Middle erast) entin Kremlin's deci Transport and General employ a the statms in y, pod to hatf iwe unions. wary strine resme tireya Total drawal, Us Seate Departmant reinstate. spikesman Robert McCloskey glass workers omcials that Id meturn to ors. The day to disess the actin

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without jobs in Angust. Ceourt let aut in ahe cold tie demands tor tutsanaliy claim, saj 2 516 105

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struggle and the proposed Tory "Se me n, tiin be called Lon participated in the lor d net right to strike anti-union laws 8 501.8- We ely as o ry by othe out to be ahte ne tanist St George's Hall, Lime St Yet as th tak- botd or hal an h obe sunne

LIVERPOOL

and polis pay vor he my ils Wilson, secretary of tor ten minutes latenesa.

Saturday October 3 ever. Tita sucat, tom th tire strike ent, Biployment is na HeDDu Ring wekend voi a Natone a nitr ed nd London said 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. iha rhmen employer call akred no ilt tacir ban ol 186a london, Sw4. Street, greed to lift could have provoked

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PUBLISHED FROM TUESDAY TO SATURDAY •

NUMBER

261 • FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1970

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

Mass unemployment is Salute heroic A threat to Arab guerrillas trade unionism

BY ROBERT BLACK

FROM THE inferno of blazing buildings, corpse strewn streets and devastated refugee camps in and around Amman, comes the terse, stirring message of the Palestinian guerrillas: 'We fight on until victory or death!'

BY JOHN SPENCER

THOUSAND:

to withdraw, menaced by MASS UNEMPLOYMENT is now emerg- 550 ing alongside the Tory anti-union plans ms tomassiver che middle Fast sand hears as a major threat to the trade unions. This danger is underlined by the latest official

ASONDIFMAMIJASOND

tion unemployment figures, which stand at 1967 1968 1969 1970 628,271, the highest for any September since before the war.

JPUBLIC

e mood on the dole and the

I ME

Unemployed dole, and

FOOT THE

BILL

inexorable trend is upward.

- F'i TOWNi jump Since the summer began. employment has grown in every

MALL

TATORS

region. boosts In Scotland, there employed one-day ana as tne lory plans mature cuese nguri v1ll grow Silike-Call • These mating greatly employed. AS A new wave of redun- dancies hits the North East Gateshead trade council has i unemploymen Dropping food and tere gainst unemployment callec y S Shields trades council The pures, neich much reiger ease Latest to join Sunderland's so the milie mark. swollen

PRESERVED

Workers at over thei le the As desperation, cut-back cent luca song end she Kremlin yesterda foreign competition. Kent anal Sunderor min reg the manenne authority marantee here Norn cast a further 800

DUSTMEN MARCH

virtually market the Tyr down completely today their toll.

FIREMEN PLAN PAY-

who claim that they have LUJUN dustmen the town on A extra s to build up

&-HOURS STRUGGLE

and management has not allowed them to work since.

so he kremlin swield orkini conditions Would be FIREMEN in several areas of the country meet today sets bo said the send ahe to lay plans for next week's seven-day 'emergency- it meeting Unemployment Council strike calls-only' action over pay and hours.

rodicine mie on ers strategy m- Resolution throughout the

BY DAVID MAUDE

comonded her these da fightin has the shink ye should su poor should по ир. in his Teachers add demands Outer London weighing.

INFORMAL

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ATUA

North East during 30,000-stron move Brigade:

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Seember numbered 6,l1 conference out on strike September 'We will not accept SomeoNe Mistache be compromise on the Coral of 4,271, the Union leaders stewards London claim. wary of the pricee enectiv Sept mien pian only. (mal minimum virtue Une of Court left out in the coldover- Nanonal

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without jobs in August. Employees, way to demo tie de they for temptatio Cranemen work to Something has with rest of the ved By teachers sains Ton "All they did in talle ment must be takemp out of work. fight rule on London boilermakers Imprehensive legislatione

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CONFERENCE

ferring action until Ok er Tory governme stand for this thind oe president "There was some talk movine cortes fork it trucks and London's Royal Group vill saa this has now died. would recommend on y complaial The Pllkington Defeat the Whe matter Group already Handled for extra struggle and the proposed Tory in Pease en lad and 10 Y Londorticipated in the 1963 "Tribune'-ite right to strike anti-union laws were reuted to hand trucks St George's Hall, Lime St deposit to the a which Teeular Their action is insistin tot ren minuites general ikequestion Saturday October 3 Jarrow and Hebburn, ormal shift times and ban Yester am iam uni Blue union 2.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. ning weekend working. eneral, on said that West stadium The PLA dockers are de Union 'orkers' conterenc their ban on nease on the basic rate id working. original

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September 26 Victor Feather General Secretary TUC talks to Workers Press on : • Wages • Anti-union laws • Productivity and unemployment • Victimization at Pilkington's An exclusive interview with Stephen Johns.

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BY A WORKERS

PRESS CORRESPONDENT

DEPUTISING for the absent Bert Ramelson at a Communist Party putfic meeting in Ken- sington, London, on Wednesday night, Stalinist J. Jacobs attacked the Palestinian guerrillas now fighting Hussein for rejecting a 'negotiated settlement' in the Middle East.

Jacobs, when asked whether he the guerrillas supported Peaceful Hussein, replied : against 'We support the struggle of the guerrillas for the libera- tion of Palestine, but decry co-exisience the fact that they couldn't see their way free to enter into discussions. 'THE RUSSIANS appear to Even this two-faced state- have done all they could not ment is not a correct version to exacerbate the situation, Stalinist Middle-East of the and to be as angry as any- position. one else at Syrian behaviour "Settlement' ... this Is a notable achieve- ment.' As Jacobs himself made (From The Times' first clear in the meeting, the Com- of Thursday, Septem- leader munist Party supports a 'settle- ber 24.) ment' on the basis of the 1967 United Nations Security Coun-

'FOR TWO

nights l could cil résolution, which specific- hear demonstration of ally denies to the Palestinians Wadhat at the Al people the return of all their home- Camp against the continued land. "Stop the army shelling. It merely calls for the with- God, the killing! Oh stop drawal of Israel from certain killing! You will kill us all!"

territories annexed in 1967 to 'Their pleas were drowned frontiers necessary for Israeli by round after round of 'security'. defended the heavy machine - gun and Jacobs also Kremlin's 1947 decision tank fire directed against to United the Nations unknown targets. (From vote in for the creation of the Zionist Martin, report by Paul Middle East correspondent state. September of The Times', 24.) Same lines Meeting the same evening, the Political Committee of the Lucas Communist Party passed the lines in- resolution along still out dicated by Jacobs. It centred on a call to the AFTER seven weeks on strike, Tory 'to government dangere move maintenance men in the two these the Middle East]. combine factories Lucas at Fazakerley, The Stalinists employ a Liverpool yester- day decided by 54 to eight to division of labour. The Kremlin undermines reject recommendation of the union officials that they the guerrilla struggle by seek- ing to Syrian military should return to work. They cut off demanding £5 aid, while in Britain, the CP straight leadership diverts the increase. labour movement away from a class in defence of the campaign Arab Revolution towards an

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YESTERDAY

we received decimalization, the new first- £72 1ls giving total of class will be virtually rate £504 8s for the fund. twice the old 4d post. There are only five days left Post Office Corpora- The and we have £495 12s Od still tion's £114 million price-rise to raise. Let's have an all-out higher package also includes effort to complete the target overseas increased rates and Don't leave it until on time. parcel charges. the weekend - The Users' Council, how- raise every turned down penny you can today. ever, a request Post donations im- reduce the weight allow- your to mediately to : ance for basic mail from 4oz 2oz. The Post Office Cor- Workers Press Appeal Fund, to 186a Clapham High Street. has accepted the poration London, SW4. Council's amendments to its price-rise plans.

working-class movement because of the emergence of a so-called pro evoked considerable interest in the gressive' military junta which is recelving uncritical and enthuslastic support from world Stalinism, including the British PERU nas How would you charac. Communist Party, as well as Fidel Castro.

terize me present which continues to of peas- junta? What ants and workers alike, is a clear Indictment of the treachery and pollical bankruptcy of Stellinism and Castroism This unprincipled support for tary are In the long This interview with a Peruvian Trotskyist shows with great clarity and cogency the reactionary anth working class run? of the junta and the inevitabllity, despite Stalinism and Castroism, of alrevolutionary overtum in Peru as well features as the favourable prospects for a Trotakylst party in Peru today cannot be • not witho It is clear that the givernmene and this means, repress can she pens ty in Thies on one ment of industry and the develop reflects the inabinctio the standards of living due to imperialist penetration.

oTinis masses to, alysing the com plex policies e-shapin nitial deterioration educational are more clear with difficulty with formal this semi- Bonapartist regime is Control

STALINISM & IMPERIALISM IN

herie by and or cred professiona management' has the internationa class as a step tatiards sabion strikese

PERU

State unions come more intolerable than ever.

tountains or retu se gone rises relente Interior (Chie police) has I wille enter hee General Velazco, in his miters of the Revolution are supported wholeheartedly • map bore thing to do with

PART TWO

не виросте». course, Could you briefly tell us different how the sec- of the left have defined their policies with respect to the mill- tary junta? re together hopeless The the arcion a ope a Vanguards 8 closize • They have nis organizatio can decomt te controlled inspir mperialist plot' TV

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BY ROBERT BLACK

Name * no, betray an is there Address 93498 Pam High Si. SWA nalysis that a neurotic may pro Friday, September 25, 1970 (today this can only mean Trot- skyists). The blackmail of Fidelism, the egalitarianism Maoism, the unclear ideological stand of some of its members of origin, original political station of its Vanguardia Revolucionaria has nevertheless consistently followed a policy of political independence from bourgeois parties in the unions and has contributed to the creation of the CGTP, though never yielding to the Stalinist Support should be bureaucracy. given to these comrades who at the present only represent organized hope of the Peruvian working class. But much remains to be done in their ranks.

What do you think should be the main items of the revolutionary pro- gramme in Peru? The thesis and programme should be based on the Tran- sitional Programme of the Fourth International and should be com- bined with the best of the thesis of 1. C. Mariatequi, the theo- retician of the Peruvian Socialist Party. It should demand a fight for the absolute independence, and organizational, on the tical working class and its organiza- tions from bourgeois parties and from the bourgeois state. It should fight the corporate state.

It should demand the refusal of the working class to collaborate and share responsibility for the failures of capitalism. It should refuse to share the profits of bankrupt capitalism. It should demand the distribution of land without compensating the landlords, and without making the peasants pay for the land.

It should demand the expro- priation, without compensation, of all monopolies and the estab- lishment of workers' control in industry, trade, education and services. It should establish as immedi- ate aims the strengthening of the working-class organizations, the satisfaction of their demands, the raising of the political level of the masses and the formation of the revolutionary workers party, as an integral part of the Fourth International. It must fight for the over- throw of the military regime and the establishment of the workers' state based on soviets. These should be the aims of the revolutionary party in the present situation and the develop- of working-class ment con- sciousness will depend on the strength and policies of its international vanguard. In two parts — PART ONE appeared in yesterday's Workers Press. don. 6.3i Report Most 618 por- Report West. 6.18 Report *Backlash' 35 Wales. Crossroads. 7.00 Film: With Richard Widmark and Donna Reed. Western. 8.30 Lon- don. 10.30 Fill this Space.

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Friday, September 25, 1970 THE SPEECH of leading Black Panther Huey Newton *Revolutionary Peoples' Convention' in Philadelphia has touched a raw nerve as far as the bourgeoisie is concerned.

Newton's au-minute Speech

FIVE LECTURES_BY H. MARCUSE

was the main attraction of the Allen Lane. The Penguin Press 28s called by radical convention, constitu- groups to aralt a new tion for the United States.

the centre of his statement was the vital issue of programme and perspective. called fight for He and noW socialism in America said that the working class Will use whatever means necessary' to acnieve It.

ROOT

Newton pointed to the capital- the root of racial- ist system without a Ism and Stalca racialise could not be destroyed against Struggic hits the Here entire working the issue racis and this is no acci- Class . .. acul sha the wor of class the crisis aappy extremistr trigger- Indeed, the Panthers' struggle attracted " the reported con- vention: •About 40 per cent of audiences dents. was white. mostly surprisingly blacks proportion ot the were resid mes and women apporently gnetto

RECESSION

REVIEWED BY BILL WOODS

leader, Panther Michael thẻ convention, made that the economic recession a so IN THIS short book of breaking up the illusions the structure or capitalsm. accept the and consciously reject some separate lectures, two of which revorunonary Dollies. oack capitalisun back 15 date years, •bective v. hel savs. a revol. Pennie urged blacks own the their own business, agenda for

CON 039

DeeT sale. but did Marcuse goes over some year desire, they frequently Dul cnere when tney bankrupt they Working elass to fight. went because Pall of his favourite themes. compete with the big supermarket chains. He discusses Freud's theory

'ONLY HOPE'

the Despite of psycho- and improvisation cuture Their needs are sufficiently met analysis, attacks the so- repressive called 'Utopian' element That the Marx and digresses on the lid it Tribune' Tride therefore lies the 'student Panthers Tuture working class, doctrine the or in revolution those with specialized the students. The eud the ey fatur tar the most interesting -aré They know all the facts' an ism on a moral basis. mobilized to fight capital.

develops. view that nstincts ealing his tion Berkely man fornia) which produced the usual capitalist society. between police 'confrontation' Philo •After two thousands scary three ninutes Sane a Cane, edi See Deer and narchers and harmonicas this principle tha all accepted of self-denial. appeared pettie b, and neck- petting' the une nenest value wnich tes amans institual, dective drive may of the 'pleasure denial sane or ta ro make an impres principle' bourgeois thought Marcuse only argues, sion even on the enemy. within a society domin ated expioited alienated which man himself, his so the gunru of the New Lett' Jabour in for life whole activity. was turned escends to the Worst of is many into a commoalty.

REPRESSED

varieties hy annealina to the good sense and decency of the ruling They are asus ts of human activity renressed These last two lectures are dangerous something healthy' worthless. said his in sis raid, herbas bourceois man tortuous. Malthus notion normal fashion - - something of value. restraint' for curbing population betomes increases all capitalist societies.

'Marcuse tries show that OIL AND WORLD POWER BY PETER R. ODELL A Pelican Hrend's personalt built around the notion of sexua repression, is potennally a revolu- nonary concept. al basis frien that quently has a sexual dasis its indirect relecuon THE ERUPTION of the • He links nalysi species cr this a very timely book. with What is not so often real- analysed by 'Capital'. expansion of the oil industry 6.

17A( Marcuse insists thic I, no -historical human coa: in the post-war period, so not a norma that anv hook more than a few years old is quite out-

GO FURTHER

of-date. socialist

REVIEWED

BY JOHN CRAWFORL

"world production Since Marcuse has risen at about petroleum this. year- mphasis ok's great viterational each His emnhasis international •reatmen character of oil production and raises ine quesuo consumDuon socialism, man However, as Odell points out: finds himself under capitalism.

Protessor subject of the last This world es man! politics and book. text does not imply res in mere simplified economics. arguments lenin's based Dimensional Man' Marxist, firmly sea reply do fusine the industry that thic perialism. which operates * reworky to such a tach attackarxisn the with network foundations

CHARACTER

relationshin reveale withy t formist perspit- without ambiguity the hands Bhe Complexitiss of ehe petrol- tive. nainly in ot the como exities ol eum industry and its international The working class, (page 13) Marcuse claims, are now integrated into ramincatons.

WORKERS PRESS

"They mastered a few have Marx, hand-me-downs from Lenin and Fanon, but they have theory neither intelligible nor with their chief deal tactics to the American urban concern, condition • 'At bottom, then, the Panthers reformers, radicals. For are not all their talk, and sporadic use of guns, for all the repetition of "proletariat and oppression", their vision is not-or at least not yet-one in which an under- forcibly seizes power from class a ruling class.' And this is how the esteemed paper, of course, would prefer it to continue not only among workers, but for white workers also. disagreements Whatever our of the with the programme the Southern Black Panthers, Newton has hit applause of extremists! the nail on the head. We are sure that there will The Congress announced after- be many coming from the ranks that rejected integra- wards tion for achieving social equality of this movement, who will break of from the reactionary between whites and blacks.

black nationalism and take their It will work, like its former stand alongside workers of every the fight for Marxism segregationist colour in enemics, institutions and has the United States. separate taken a county school system as model for 'district control'

BATTLE

based on the existing white and black neighbourhoods. This will not be some pure However, the powerful move- devel in a bitter battle but must ment of the American working against place in class, as revealed in the fight of take black those who now the motor workers, lays the basis power to its racialist limits.

for a thorough cleansing of this While Newton spoke in Phila- reactionary ideology. -delphia, 600 black leaders Newton's of Racial words expose the attending the Congress smallest tip of a mighty ice- Equality meeting in Alabama and berg. denouncing integration Huey Newton L A Pelican original Oll and World Po Price 5s

I CRAWFORD

These 'international seven 'quota', imposed by imports they are Eisenhower 1959, Known in when low- ds Standard Oil of New Jersey Middle-East cost oil threatened (Esso), Standard Oil of New York the position of the US oil fields. (Mobil); Standard Oil (California) • (Chevron), Gulf Oil, Texaco, Shell and British Petroleum

PRICE FIXING

- account 80 of for production

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outside the Soviet Union. Five He also has a section on the of them are US firms. system of 'Gulf prices' which operated until the 1950s.

The assets of US oil companies abroad amount to some $15,000 Under this, the price of Middle- East million and their repatriated oil in Europe was fixed earnings in 1967 came to $1,600 if it had been produced in million. the US then shipped from and the Gulf of Mexico. This highly-monopolized has, of course, enabled 'the Since tion of production in

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oil barons to make huge profits.

the Middle East are only a frac- US, tion of those in the astro- Odell explains of the some nomical profits weré made.

contradictory effects of the US BY TODAY nearly 350,000 Gen- eral Motors workers in Canada and the United States will have gone through ten days of strike action. Many are preparing to dig in for a long haul, already discussing the stoppage in terms of months rather than weeks.

Rank-and-file militancy was start evident right from the when thousands of workers walked out at five US and three Canadian plants the day before their contract expired and the strike officially began. Dan Fried, Labour Editor of the US Trotskyist newspaper 'Bulletin' talked to pickets out- side General Motors Linden plant in New Jersey as the strike was getting under way.

They explained that, along- side retirement wages, on a $500-a-month pension plan after 30 years, regardless of age, is one of the many big issues on which United Workers Auto president Woodcock refuses to commit himself in the current negotiations. (There is no state pensions scheme in the US comparable to Britain's.) One picket said: 'After 30 years in here you've had it—you've had it. Everyone in the plant from the guy who started here one month ago wants this (early retirement).

Getting people out to enjoy life age when they can enjoy at an life and giving the kids a chance to get a better job-that's all we want. This isn't a selfish thing'.

HARROWING

The harrowing speed of the lines-60 cars an hour at Linden -has put real pressure behind the retirement demand. One man who had worked eight years at Linden recalled: I've seen a lot of things around here that are unbeliev- able. I've seen a man drop dead and before he hit the floor there was another man doing his job.

That's true' One of his fellow pickets added: 'One time I was up in the washroom and a guy who. 'was washing his hands dropped dead.

The foreman rushed in and the first words out of his mouth were: "Did anybody punch out his time card?" They were :so afraid that this man was going to be paid while he was lying there dead... • You could go on with stories like this all day.'

General Motors men know that they are in the vanguard of the wages fight and a victory would open the way for the sec- tions following up close behind.

GEARED

Nixon knows this too. One of the Linden pickets said: 'Of course, all of the other unions will want a big raise if the auto workers can it, and that's why I agree with the government wants to you, hold it down. 'Everything is geared to what the auto workers get. In other words, when the construction workers get a raise, they don't talk about pennies - they talk about dollar bills. 'But when General Motors told United the States of America that they were going to give us a couple of billion dollars raise over a period of three years, that was the big- gest lie that was ever put forth to the people of the United States. The truth is that GM is Even after this racket had come to an end, oil prices are still kept far above the few cents a barrel it costs to extract in places like Saudi-Arabia.

addition The prices to to allow for transport is also highly inflated by the monopolies.

Odell's factual background makes it easy to see how the oil companies were quite pré- pared to pay increased royalties to some of the governments from whose territories their profits originated. This forms a major element in the character of the Middle East military nationalist leaders, whose politics is rooted in their ability to squeeze a few more cents a barrel out of the oil firms, by threatening them with the mass movement. There is a useful chapter on the growth of the Soviet oil industry. A large part of this was originally planned in the 1950s to supply China, but with the Sino-Soviet dispute, this has almost ceased. Instead, incréasing quantitie f Soviet oil and natural gas ar being geared to the. needs of W European markets.

REASSURES

Odell reassures those in the capitalist world who warned that Moscow would use this develop- undermine western ment to economies. le is able to show that suc elationships between the Sovie

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offering 3 cents an hour in new worker $1,000 over the past two money the first year.' years. Union president Woodcock is UAW members are demanding trying to duck out of another 26. cents hour to catch an up issue of vital importance to car with inflation over ther soarin? workers, that of fighting for last two years. work-sharing as defence against the effects of automation.

This is intended to be the line from which cur- One of the Linden men talked new base rent negotiations should operate.

of this problem: I'm in We The car bosses the 26 nanTenance want month. be included in the new automate here every cents to and There's getting to be fewer pay offers. fewer men here every month. We have such automation pro- in the body shop gramme now

'NEW' MONEY

General Motors' workers rightly talk in terms of "new' regarding the of money, cost living increases as theirs by right. The unlimited cost-of-living escalator clause, given up dur. ing the 1967 Ford strike, is esti- mated to have each car Union and European capitalism 'make sense' in terms of techni. cal needs in the supply of energy.

The politics of the Soviet Union do not worry him in the least. Auto workers president Woodcock The book is sufficiently up to of date provide

ACCOUNT

that pretty the rise of the soon natural gas in- to be just a skeleton crew there. dustry. "octopus that they have in thete "monster" Odell shows how the large Dutch gas field, only discovered in 1959, was quickly taken under the control of Shell and Esso.

and now want cut down to 50. What are they going With the help of the Dutch to do with the 150 men? government, they kept the price buy one cat. We build them and I want to machine which it would not at a level at with oil. However, this compéte we can't even buy them. situation is being changed with the opening up of the North Sea 'Not only have we fallen way gas deposits. behind on hourly wages because of inflation, but Whatever the author's inten - has hurt Car our total income. tions in providing a useful source of information, he shows the con- sales have been very bad.

You've work weeks and lay- tradictions in the development of had short offs for a vital sector of world economy a few weeks at a time. And today you can't afford any by imperialism. weeks without a pay check?

What a contrast between these

DOMINATE

the problems correct points on facing carworkers through auto- The oil 'majors' typify the mation and the general of crisis giant international monopolies the economy and Woodcock's their which, through ruthless bland reassurances. profits drive, dominate the lives Asked possible about the of millions of human beings, ex- of the Woodcock length strike ploit workers in the advanced as replied: well as the backward countries *There are no ideological hang- and stand in the way of the there is no reason for planned development of the world's resources. to go. on too long. Read together with Lenin's Though this statement is open 'Oil World "Imperialism', and to number of interpretations, Power' they all put Woodcock firmly in forms useful back- of those retreating on ground to capitalism's growing the camp the carworkers' struggle.

crisis.

Widest campaign needed Threat

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COULLLY.

only way to This is the unite emploved employed workers and defend the right to work 'THE PURPOSE of this meeting is to serious right any accorded under go forward to working-class power. We go forward to working class power. We Capitalsill. No reliance can be placed have to prepare a mass movement to udde force the Tories to resign.'

Labour leadersaiD to unaer• take such a struggie. This statement by Lambeth Trades Council of the he Tory first months tAw Mendelson secretary vuvienne exoressee une was the centre discussion at public meeting, and at Wednesday'c • the Trades Council. the Only Eighty trade and youth listened these examoles DeODIC attentively facing have retreated steadly trom working class and th issues any fight against gov- the ernment. neea to bezin une widest calpalen Insuc avour movement to deltal unt conunuine with Mike Banda pointed Workers Press ecitor for productivity Measured- to the present Middle-tast crisis as revealing the nature of the Tory government. speed-up "This To the government contributed now consulute directly to te case said. 'The enormous threat the Leila Khaled exacerbated the jobs of the workers involved.

Amman. This situation the siludlion in unionists demonstrated utmost urgency to the fight *British trace their Suez Thousaner winne policies Invasion ories were forced to withdraw and Anthony wren resianed unemployment 'There should be a general strike if British toreat troops or there The call from the Socialist Labour League Central Com- mittee published employers Ine were de. Nary government at key termined to use i unemploy- ment to defeat the working A section class, he said. meeting The SLL "ne loried want unem calls ployment, speed-up, wage mittee upon attack immigrants, potends in lose millions JUG to support une Call bash the pounds the

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Friday. September 25, 1970 Electronics success Brazil to defeat Tories regime's Soviet in sop to

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rocket unions

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THE US-backed

BYMARHIN ARRO

there keepers: dictatorship, Brazilian SOVIET UNION recorded a

THE

major notorious for its use of yesterday technological achievement TEne torture and assassina unmanned spacecraft Luna-16 successfully com political against pleted its return journey from the soft-landed in a pre-set area in Soviet Asia.

head off the trade

RESOLUTIONS

by The lunar capsule, Hovellell suppened resortio providing for finance brought back a American Leila kh andf the Came rock sallie. various 'welfare' activi- automatically cut from and the struggle ties. surtace. moon s Pilkington workers When President Meaic mi parachuted to earth 50 From wat • 0000-stron of South East second expedition. Dzezkazgan the week Toryism survives because monopolies an end to meng other Asian steppes and was work hunting attack

NONSENSE

Danks. later picked by up Contrasted with this some brush in hero mat i helicopter. space progr -Trom eight of thousay pies itable distribution of riches ва то красе Luna i had to day BONIA, he there soviet Academyao Sciences.

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MASS

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MEETING

Essex voted Thurrock's Magnet Joinery factory in reachery n with Stalinist

WEATHER

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GLASGOW

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