Workers Press no. 274

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TUESDAY OCTOBER 13, 1970

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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What we think A grunt mal. Trom the Solidarity with victimized glassmen sewer Big turn-out in Genese, This is a debatable propo- Carr difficult to kn St Helens • Gutters fortsteps are fol- 1 articles *Socialist Comme964, dence inister of Roy nions THE FIRST blow from the North against the anti-trade union laws was struck in St Helens

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

yesterday when 1,500 workers marched thére in penalized. The Socialist Labour League support of the town's victimized glassworkers.

and wined. The slum streets *Rolls pay Black Pilkington that jostle beneath so the need is of the mono the six Pilkington re-formulated

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w Pilkington's journal orkers A MASS meeting alter yesterday's st helens marci further passed unanimously a resolution re-affirming the deter- 'Mr Gunter is not a reaction.

decide what offer mination or the sacken kineton's workers to non it will accept. for re-instatement and calling lor the blacking emperor Lord Pukinston's nrochets. • See Late News emperor trust i its effort ton, was proud their Pit leaders still not for ise mrst time in its delegation history committed to Workers orned factories building sites claim North tursed out

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AS GENERAL SECRETARY of the National Union of Mineworkers, whose members are voting this week in a ballot on national strike action in support of their wage claim, Lawrence Daly occupies a vital position in the working-class movement at an extremely tense stage of class relations.

He appeals to his members demand a determined struggle for to endorse the strike call, state power. and he says in this interview of power, the But the taking carrying through of every struggle that he is prepared to face with this aim, can only be done a general strike 'absolutely, by a Marxist, revolutionary party.

and without qualification'.

All talk workers' unity or of of industrial and political unity He accepts that such a even from powerful trade action, general strike, just like the leaders, is inadequate by itself. miners' action, is against the becomes persisted in, it Tory government, 'a major positively disarming. political confrontation'.

fundamental lesson The really 1926 General Strike was of the not the contrast pointed by All his answers in this inter- out view must be 1926 the looked at in the Lawrence Daly (that in the defensive, light of this class fight.

Tunes Time and time again the work- now they are on the attack), but shows itself ready to that the Marxist forces- that ing class -at the fight, but the question of victory time in Communist Party defeat in these battles is one did not concentrate everything or which be settled by on the building of an independent can only political leadership in the WOr- revolutionary leadership in with a programme of in the trade the unions, kers' movement, workers power. Why are the Tories resisting Instead, they welcomed un- the militant-sounding wage increases, preparing to critically General attack the 'unions. encouraging speeches of "left'

TUC

scab labour, and working to de- Council leaders. feat and demoralize workers in a height of the strike At the of disputes as series ипетроу- 1926, 'lefts' these ment builds up? assisted Thomas and his J. It is not a temporary tactic right-wing majority to call off the Tories, because they cannot proceed Shrough Sir John Simon, strike made it otherwise. plain that they considered it had reached revolutionary propor- Historical tions. Smillie, the miners' leader, had The world capitalist crisis, par- retreated in exactly similar ticularly as it affects the oldest fashion in 1921, when Lloyd Britain, forces capitalist power, George reminded him sharply the capitalist class to press for a that to with the strike on historical change in work- major would mean his taking responsi ing-class rights. bility for 'civil war'. They must win, or risk extinc.

The issue lot and is noi was which class shal tion. war, but civil rule? That is those trade union why leaders who call for pressure on Can jobs be saved, can wages the change government be maintained increased,

BIAS

or can policy, and continue discussion the unions themselves remain in with the govern- existence if the employing class ment, are dangerous for the work- continues to rule? ing class, because they obscure which the Is not every single one of these the real objective.to Tories are driving. under attack by the basic rights Tories? Can they be beaten back Because the crisis is so deep, except by challenging the whole there are no reform or basis of their rule? up solutions for the problems of any section of workers. The needs New content such of the capitalist class are that they seek to press home any they gain in order to advantage drive back the workers. Therefore every struggle, strike and demand is now filled with a Daly rightly draws attention new content: how can the work- to the hundreds of millions of mobilized, behind pounds paid out since pit nation- class be revolutionary eadership in the and alization to ex-owners All this has come off the struggle to defeat the Tor bankers. workers' and institute backs of the miners. power? But when he tells the Tory That is the meaning of the pro- of this that some government gramme adopted by the Socialist money must be returned to the Labour League section industry to protect jobs and in- which appears on this page. crease wages, next answer the questions: How is this money to be got back ? Who will go and get it? of Tory government policies public expenditure large cuts in and denationalization of the most profitable parts of state industries coal- are already at work in mining. Government spending is to be kept down by telling Robens not to meet the miners' increase.

Profitable operations like tun- nelling developments and more being handed over te private under con- tract, just like opencast mining, which was much more profitable than underground mining. Everything now depends upon the working class being as e A. J. Cooke with a leadership which theory, the the determination, Lawrence Daly is certainly class-consciousness, the trained and the taking a fundamental issue party membership, pro- up when he 'presses' the government gramme of working-class power.

burden and when he the capital interest remove Any other leadership will hesi- says 'no pit tate, withdraw, collapse and will closures'; the Tories' but OWn the working class to condemn just as reso- rogramme is to defeat at the very first of sign these utely resist on the ruling class taking the mailed So the question arises: how to fist from out of the velvet glove of procedure and parliamentarism.

break them? This is not a judgement on the Trade union power is necessary for this task but it is not individual strength weakness leaders, sufficient. We require a political of trade union but struggle for Marxism, waged suc- political from the conclusion working-class cessfully dominant whole epoch of the British labour revolution. ideology in the movement. No one can escape these con- clusions: Capitalism's crisis This reformist ideology- -col- such that the working class will discussion with laboration and with revolutionary the and the be presented employers state concessions for the situations which gradually win opportunities, I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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THE RIGHT TO

WORK:

WE MUST go forward from the wages fight to the fight for the right to full employment.

The demands must be: • No Measured-Day Work! No speed-up ! Across-the-board wage increases without pro- ductivity strings ! Wage increases in line with the cost of living! Equal pay for women! Full support for the miners and local govern- ment workers! The fight on wages must be used to build up the strength and confidence of the working class for the political struggle against unemployment and to bring down the Tory govern- ment. • No acceptance of redun- dancy! No sackings ! • Reduction of hours with- out loss of pay! • No factory closures! The unprecedented • dangers confronting the working class demand new forms of struggle.

The right of the worker to a job stands higher than the class workers without ever provoking révolutionary clashes - is acted out every day in the NUM and other unions by the Stalinists and 'lefts' upon whom Daly relies in the union. And so, when Lawrence Daly 'few things' on refers to the which he disagrees with the Socialist Labour League and Workers Press, we must insist that the disagreement, over the primacy of building revolutionary leadership to take the workers to power, is the most fundamental political cleavage possible in oul poch of wars and revolutions The struggles into which a • leader like Lawrence Daly is forced to take his members mean will be that historic choices made. Individual intentions nothwith- standing, leaders like. Daly have become part of the trade union bureaucracy in the last dozen years. Break The full political implications of the struggle which he now sees facing the miners pose the question of a break with that bureaucracy and a turn to Marx- ism. In so far as Lawrence Daly fights against the government and against right-wing policies in the unions and Labour Party, he will encourage and bring to the fore many new workers in the struggle, who then become open to the work and influence of the revolu- tionary party. But we cannot avoid posing the principled question as to Daly himself. Our Trotskyist movement is founded on the struggle against the betrayals of the Stalinist bureaucracy. We will not make

SLL PROGRAMM

AGAINST THE

right of the employers to a THI profit. Sackings and closures must now be answered by the sit-in strike and occupation of the factories. This is the road to expropriation of the capitalists and control by the workers.

Unity of the employed and unemployed! The fight against unemployment must begin in the factories and trade unions.

THE RIGHT TO

STRIKE AND

INDEPENDENT

TRADE UNIONS

THE DETERMINED actions by workers in May and June 1969 forced the Labour gov- ernment to withdraw its pro- posed anti-union laws. The Tories and the employers are now pressing ahead with their plans for legislation to shackle the unions. Thẹ Tory government in- tends to undermine the right to strike by attacking the benefits and income tax re- bates of strikers. They will be stopped only by mass action of the working class to force them to resign.

the same fatal error as the Com- munist Party in 1926 and rely on 'left' leaders' words.

Lawrence Daly, for example, refers to the promised Transport and General Workers' Union sup- port in the coming miners' strike.

No doubt this finds a warm response in the hearts of many miners and other militants, look- ing forward to a united struggle against the government. Lessons But the lessons of history— both of 50 years ago, and of the last three months-must burned into our minds. There were leading militants 1920 - 1921 before the great strikes who said: 'Why do we we have the need a party if Triple Alliance (of miners', rail- waymen's and transport workers' unions)?' But it was precisely the lack of such a party in 1920-1921, and the later Stalinist corruption of the new Communist Party in 1926, which made possible the defeats of that period. The Tory governments of those days relied entirely on the Triple Alliance leaders and TUC Gen- Council éral raising the not question of state power. And now, in every major strike since the election, Tune union leaders have used their position to drive the workers back to work on the employers' terms. Heath himself drew the con- clusion. In the September 24 TV interview in which he referred to a possible general strike, he commended the outcome of the national docks and GKN-Sankey disputes. He gloated over the govern.

ment's success in standing firm

WORKERS PRESS

Last Saturday's Workers Press carried an exclusive interview with National Union of Mineworkers general secretary Lawrence Daly dealing particularly with the miners' pay claim and strike action. Here Cliff Slaughter, SLL Central Com- mittee member, comments on some

AMME: ACT NOW

T THE TORIES

THE RIGHT TO

DEFEAT UNEMPLOY.

HEALTH AND

MENT BY ACTION

SOCIAL SERVICES

IN THE FACTORIES

THE TORIES' election prom- ises of tax cuts for the middle THE TUC must support the classes were only a deliberate call for a one-day strike against deception to justify the attacks unemployment issued by the on the rights of workers and South Shields and Kirkby their families in relation to the Trades Councils and make this social services. a national strike action.

Following the Tory tradition Trade unionists up and the government intends to down the country must pre- attack all social and health this pare to support strike services, so that older workers, whether the TUC supports the pensioners and children suffer call or not. the most. The working class built the Only a determined campaign trade and the labour unions in the factories, docks and the The leadership 1S mines and the entire labour the hands of Fabian now 1n movement to defeat the Tory traitors and agents of the em- beat back ploying class. these attacks on the welfare The Labour leaders, the Labour 'lefts' and the trade The working class will fight union bureaucracy have shown of Tory aspect their treacherous nature in the foreign policy, which is an in- six years of Labour govern- the of war against ment and in collaboration with interests of the workers in the Tories. They must be other countries. cleared out ! • No The fight for the independ- intervention in the ence of the trade unions from Middle East ! the state requires that • Withdrawal of all troops existing leadership of collabor- from overseas! ators and traitors is removed • Nationalize the arms in- and replaced by a new socialist dustries ! leadership. behind the employers and forcing Transport and General Workers' Union the workers back on terms pledge OI support In the offered much earlier. miners' strike! Many more ques- tions must be answered. This, said Heath, must become If trade union leadership On the docks, it was has T&GWU and Jack Jones who already been instrumental in the with the final situation took the men back creating where the Tories, acceptance of Devlin assured.

despite workers' bative feel tactically At GKN-Sankey, the T&GWU, secure enough to proceed with Evans, drove through Mr Moss then their evi-

DISCHIL

to work after the strikers back dently the question the Municipal and General Wor- leadership in the unions, revolu- kers' Union had failed to do so.

leadership, is at the top Clearly then it is by no of the agenda for the working means with the enough to be satisfied class. Daly finds himself talking very differently from 12 months ago, when with the Labour government in office, he favoured a return to work for the surfacemen striking over the hours dispute, right. Being prepared face to general strike, theretore, means being prepared politically to go struggle for through to the power, and not simply to draw in the strength of other unions behind any section, vital though that is. It is obvious that behind our differences lies a divergence on the evaluation of the period in which we work. For us the depth of the crisis so sharpens the class issues that the situation is rapidly develop- ing to one in which the direct conquest of working-class power is posed. Compromises All the weight of the middle class, of the 'official' traditions of the British labour movement, and of the indulgence of reformism in the working class itself, is placed against this perspective and in favour of the hopeless search for yet another series of compromises. This difference also underlines Daly's position on the role of his predecessor as NUM general sec- retary, Will Paynter. Paynter, for most of his life a leading Communist Party mem- ber, last year accepted an ap- pointment to the Commission on Industrial Relations, alongside George Woodcock. This CIR will be the main instrument the operation in of Tories' the "industrial courts', should their anti-union Bill be- come law. All the dangers of Lawrence Daly's union militancy without revolutionary theory, which must inevitably lead into the politics of the trade union bureaucracy, are expressed when he says: ... it was better to have someone like him [Paynter] from the unions than perhaps someone with different political and indus- trial attitudes. Participation in the growth of capitalist state institutions to control the unions is here ac- cepted by Daly, on the grounds that it is 'the lesser evil'.

Deadly This outlook is deadly: the real fight Wilson, question was to Castle and the Labour govern- nent on their whole policy which created in the CIR the first bases of the nascent corpor- ate state now being worked for by the Tories. That has surely now been proved. Paynter's decision to join the

CIR

was a betrayal. It repre- sented the logical end of his years of opportunist sharing of NUM power with Sidney Ford and the right wing, his piloting of hundreds of pit closures.

It was the logical end, too, of his life's devotion to Stalinism, the main counter-revolutionary internationally, force the main political force on a world scale collaborating with the capitalist class in integrating the unions into the capitalist state.

The trade union bureaucracy and Stalinists try to collaborate in the state and governmental institutions. Transform The revolutionary party draws the opposite conclusion from the increasing intervention of the state in the unions: fight for a Marxist leadership in the trade unions able to transform them into instruments of the revolu- tion. Because Lawrence Daly, in our opinion, ignores funda- these mental theoretical questions, he looks for some vanishing middle ground of trade union militancy unity in struggle, plus and a volume of accumulated socialist propaganda against Toryism.

Whatever the intentions of those who purvey this mixture, by itself it can only mislead the workers in their struggles.

• GL7N

DAI

17: -13 Tuesday, October 13, 1970 Because of the sharpness of today, the struggle Lawrence Daly finds himself talking very differently from 12 months ago, when, with the Labour govern- ment in office, he lost the confi- dence of tens of thousands of striking miners 'in the surface- men's hours dispute. From his answers to Stephen Johns on this strike, it is obvious that he does not connect it with the political questions we have raised in relation to the fight against the Tories. 'Left' The unofficial strike leadership , was in the hands of NUM branch officials. Dominant among these officials were members or 'left' friends of the Communist Party in S Wales and Yorskhire, al- though working with them were right wingers. These were the men who, un- willing and unable to fight through the battle against the Labour government, told Daly that there was a danenf the sarike break- when it was actually spreading. Dependent Lawrence Daly opposed the strike, and favoured the return to work, because he had no political alternative to these cen- trists and Stalinists, and had, to a great extent, become dependent on his relations with them in the

NUM.

That relation with the Stalin- ists, and the question of building the revolutionary alternative, was the essence of the question, and it will be the essence of the coming miners' strike. It will not do for Lawrence Daly to excuse Paynter on the grounds that he held NUM office when the miners, at a time according to him, were not in a militant mood, and then himself to refuse support to a militant struggle because of the union rules and the misleadership in the areas. Responsibility The real question was to take responsibility for a political fight against the government, which required a serious political pre- paration. If Lawrence Daly is, in fact, going to take the extremely im- portant step of trying to draw in transport workers on the side of the miners then this political preparation now becomes a mat- ter of extraordinary urgency.

What is to be concluded from this interview? If Lawrence Daly were to act consistently on his statements calling for industrial action to defeat the anti-union laws and to force the Tory government to resign, if he is going to ruthlessly fight productivity deals, if he is prepared to face a general strike, then the most serious theorétical and political questions arise.

Every one of these issues poses the revolutionary struggle for workers' power, which, of neces- sity, requires a party based on Marxist theory, built in struggle against reformism and Stalinism.

That is the meaning of the Socialist Labour League's pro- gramme of action against the Tory government. Tension These questions are now un- avoidable because of the accumu- lated historical contradictions and the resultant tension between the classes. There will be no personal ex- ceptions to this choice for trade union leaders-Lawrence Daly or anyone else. We are all for going forward in a united struggle to support the miners and on to defeat the Tory government. But when Lawrence Daly says to us 'the important thing is to get together and start pushing', we must go further, to the essential point.

The fate of the miners, and of the whole working class, will be decided by the fundamental political and theoretical question: the revolutionary party, building of revolu- alternative tionary leadership. WE

Tuesday, October 13, 1970 During four whirlwind days he IN the first ten years of discovers the flesh-pots of the this century the Ameri- big city and sobered can south was being and wiser. transformed by industry, Boone installs them in a luxurious whore-house, where and particularly the he has come to visit Corrie- growth of cotton mills. blonde, beautiful, robustly sen- The timental and not in new money, the way ally suited to the life. Lucius falls contact with the north purely and hopelessly in love and Europe, even and with her, is wounded dragged the south out of defending her from a slur on provin- her honour. and stagnation Stunned by his devotion she cialism, jostling and vows to leave the brothel. The awakening every class of film bursts with rough energy and life, tumbling Lucius from society. bliss to tears and back again.

'The Reivers', based They tangle with a dyspeptic sheriff and are thrown in jail, on a story by William to be released only by Corrie's Faulkner, is set in a small final lapse. Lucius wins a horse-race to in Mississippi in town retrieve the bartered car. His 1905. In a sweetened way, mount, supremely pragmatic, and floating in the rich will itself only when exert stimulated by the prospect of tender colours of the a sardine. southern countryside, it tells of the step a young Day of boy takes from purity Reckoning and innocence into adult- hood. Then the day of comes He is forgiven, reckoning. but Lucius is the child of a his the grandfather works family of southern aristocrats, emotional leverage to the full, rooted landowners in the trying to bring the child back cotton boom of the 19th cen- the old virtues the to and class tradi- tury, with their standards of 'a gentleman'. In tions of chivalry, racial a pool of old-fashioned senti- supremacy, gentlemanly up- ment he dries his and Leas rightness adoration and of steps into the future. white womanhood. The film light- excludes The new riches flowed into hearted southern romance and hedonism. What is toned down their pockets and made some of them the social soil in which it enormously wealthy. For a time the effect grew: the oppressed was to negroes reinforce the old habits and and poor whites, the shanty living. dwellers and the diseased mill- the leisured, 'gracious', But all the time 20th hands and the century perpetual, degrading before America with its calculation kow-towing and graft, automobiles and the employers. fashions, Through the eyes of a child was filtering into all this can be their lives. blurred. The boy's experience is static and Eleven-year-old Lucius, immediate, giving only brought up to tell the truth remote reflection of the 'grow- and revere his parents and his ing up' around him. class, sint life as simple and In a film, where it is very right, alone with difficult to concentrate all newly-acquired bright yellow attention on the experience of motor when his parents Call this single person, gives a depart for a relative's funeral.

slightly artificial and sugary Persuaded by the tearaway effect. But like great many young white man (Boone) who American movies 'The Reivers' tends the car, he sets off on a bouyant and direct, filling voyage of adventure to Memp- the screen with the life of its his, Tennessee, 80 miles away. characters. TV

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novel The Reivers' by Willlam acted By Mark Rydell, Showing Carlton cinema, London PERHAPS the most not- able aspect of Anwar Sadat's long and chequered career is that he survived-along with his predecessor President Gamal Abdel Nasser — 18 years of the regime that overthrew King Farouk in 1952. He did have the advantage of being close to Nasser—34 ago they were young years officers together. Nasser had graduated the just from Egyptian Royal Military Aca- demy. They had fierce and heated discussions on the future of their country and Sadat, extremely critical of the Brit- ish administration of Egypt, more revolutionary appeared than Nasser. As one of the group of Free Officers whose movement deposed Farouk, Sadat is said to have been an activist whose projects had to be restrained by Nasser himself. His plan to blow up the British Embassy in Cario in 1945 after the end of the Sec- 'ond World War was stopped by the late President. In the 1952 coup he was responsible for cutting all communications to prevent a counter-action by other army units. He later drew up the ulti- demanding Farouk's matum abdication. In the 18 years since then and up to his accession to the presidency last Wednesday, he has held a variety of promin- ent posts, though he is said not to have held any parti- cular sway in government policies. He was first a minister of state in the cabinet, then editor-in-chief of the govern- ment newspaper 'Gomhouria' ('The Republic'). From 1957- 1961 he was president of the National Union—a grouping of L to R Luclus (MITCH VOGEL), Boon (STEVE McQUEEN) and Corrie (SHARON FARRELL) Tuesday's

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various political trends-and of 360- was speaker the Assembly member National from 1964-1968. Last December Nasser appointed him vice-president previously held by -a post several Nasser aides and dis- continued after the 1967 six- day war with Israel. • After this appointment he toured several provincial cen- tres in which he took an un- compromising stand against Israel and violently attacked the United States. Mounting working-class and certainly peasant pressure forced the classical bourgeois- nationalist Nasser to taint his with left-wing state- stance ments. Bonapartist' balancing His act between the army and the Egyptian people was becom- ing ever-more precarious; and it was certainly not aided by from Soviet pressure bureaucracy for a Middle-East deal. * Sadat's history is different.

the struggle against imperialism—he leant not so much upon the masses as upon the Axis powers. His appar- ent hatred of the British was intensified after he was jailed by them in 1945-for colla- borating with two German spies operating in Cairo.

And his anti-British activi- ties during the war included his abortive attempt to fly General. Aziz el Masri, the former Egyptian chief of staff deposed by the British, out of Egypt to join the Nazis. He was also one-time secre- tary of the Pan Islam Con- gress. In his early days he was attracted by the policies of the fanatical and rigidly tradition- alist Moslem Brotherhood—an in organization since banned Egypt. * So his demagogy about the West and 'enemy number one' - the United States-makes him a right-wing militant.

His views and methods represent a strata of the bourgeois-nationalist regime whose opportunism corruption fits in with the needs of western imperialism.

Faced by the intractable problems caused by Egypt's semi-colonial the position, growing dependence of the imperialist economy upon loans and investment, the poli- tical repercussions of the '67 defeat and the betrayal of Palestine, it is impossible for Sadat to continue where Nas- ser left off. The fiction of 'non-align- ment' which sustained Nasser, Nkrumah, Sukarno and Nehru is now exposed. The Egyptian capitalists, led by Sadat, can survive only through increasing repression of the class and working peasantry and the purging of the mili- and tary state apparatus. Sadat is eminently fitted for this role. behind THE NEWS Infallible chariot A LITTLE Papal blackmail was revealed last week when the Vatican denied a report that the Pope had purchased an infallible chariot-a Mer cedes limousine-for his own use Answering a report in the French weekly "Paris Match' 'the that a model of mos expensive in the world® car was due for the St Peter' garage, a Vatican statement said the Pope had not bought or ordered a car in recent years. The Pope's present official black Mercedes was apparently given to him live years ago by the German company honour his coronation Pope. But before accepting this horseless chariot, and allow- ing himself to become a first- class advert for the car, the wily gentleman laid down a concition Going one better than his predecessor, John XXIII, who had received a similar gift, he con- the Spartar expiolted cept of his position, as the Vatican statement has it, to point out that others had much greater need of trans port than himself. A second saloon was 'made available' to the Catholic mis sions!

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MINERS-who yesterday were ballotted on strike action over their pay claim—-will yet again for become the scapegoats several price increases, includ- ing electricity. This much was clear from last week's report of the Electricity Council, presented chairman Sir Norman Elliott. He warned that the next round of coal price rises— inevitably blamed on any miners' wage rise-would lead to electricity charges being upped. * He explained, for the bene- fit of electricity supply work- • job ers, that higher wages, security and reduced electri- city charges-promised when they accepted productivity measures-had been swamped entirely outside by 'factors our control'. He added, 'Needless to say every effort is being made to remedy these problems! 'We can also take much comfort from the fact that our labour productivity and effi- ciency record compares fav- ourably with that of any other nationalized or private indus- try.? Like the coal industry, for example? Miners, too, have seen a productivity drive kill their job security and hold back their wages while profits rise (though these are whittled down to a deficit by compen- sation payments 'to ex-mine owners). And who will bear the brunt of dearer electricity?

Commented Sir Norman: •.. as many large industrial and commercial consumers are already paying fuel cost increases, it is only fair that the tariff changes should apply to smaller commercial domestic consumers.' * All this, despite the indus- try's operating profit for this year of £306.1m—reduced to £64m after deducting interest.

It was claimed, of course, that the figure its down on last rear's £323m due to increasec fuel costs. The ever-increasing prices in both industries—where work- ers take the blame and pay the costs-are an indication of the so-called 'nationalization' that operates for huge profits at the expense of workers' liveli- hoods. Under workers' control, state industries would be pro- ducing for the needs of the people and not for the balance sheets of unelected boards.

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PRAISE

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shipyards talk to Worker of the North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Ah, married with two children.

Tom (NPLA) and Wheldale NUM B Shipbuilders, Mr Mclver. Mclver, who is also deputy chairman of the Swan Hunte I AM DISGUSTED at the Shat British should it wed

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of offer 50s - 16s would Tax in Income go catching up with Japanese and they are after a rise of about 10s in Provided we can hold dowr the rent of costs and increase produc- Coal Board houses. tivity, he said, 'there is no That's more than half of why should not reason we it gone. We should give full if we so continue, desire, to support to the NEC in the get a fair share of the market.'

It's the first strike ballot. One of the reasons pros- time they've issued a strike were brighter, he said, call in 44 years, that shows "relations with that the Was how strong the case is. trade unions are on a very realistic basis, and despite the Robens' talk of pit things illogical which is just an occur closures empty 300,000 from time to time, there is a threat. He's put more professional approach out of work in the from both employers and last ten years without any unions, and a greater apprecia- wage increases. tion of each others problems.

The f5 is a genuine claim, it is fair and Miners just. have had terrible treatment nationalization,

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closures.

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Now it is going to be the the govern- miners versus London The Tory conference ment. that it's us shows against 'How to defeat the It's a battle for all them. the trade unions against the Tories' Tory government. ThursdaYrades Robens keeps saying there

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See page one) 500 draughtsmen marched through the city prior to meetin belief the esterday's executive's they victory' have won Rolls-Royce, the Coventry men Registered as newspaper at the lown its recommendation voted Published Workers return so that talks can Post Office. by simoy to 1862 Cdon, Press, High Street, take place copy believed They demanded a of the Pris Clapham High Street, Plough Press Ltd. (TU) to include a 12-montri pay standstil company's 'strings'- London s.W.4 —in writing.

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AH, married with two children. Trepanner worker Branch member.

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all trade unionists now. knock all back Well Some of the Yorkshire miners at Doncaster meeting on Sundar the ts matter how long it takes.

JM, Kellingley (Yorks) NUM branch. A life-long AM, faceworker at Kirkby colliery: Jolning is ridiculous, especially for set pared the way for ham. union ridiculous Robens talk of phasing ene Idispurpinion all workers If w increase lowes the strike ballot. Let the men do to the sot for a £20 Coal Board y of the two-thirds cil member : hold had settlè for less one British miner history of the not to should lership and vested houses by cosin same attitude the next thre years says: locat level and action build start at without • right-wing lea government and the we're on elet the wheel for a strike Eves should be mad ete t diVide and done will leaders prese he al

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promises are patrice back al ranst has destroyed this torry nave threatened the Oliver Cromwell untry to fight bitter tne be y 1926. We must fight we are not Cowley men return Airport meeting on future of state airlines ALL GRADES OI DŁA and DUAL stan will be to meeting at London's Heathrow airport tomorrow discuss the nent against the comes mans to des nationalize air routes, now exclusively operated by state airlines. Chad deaths posed private airline Caledonianover of BUA ELEVEN French soldiers were by ough. the Appropriately Killed and ten wounded in fighting in the Tibesti region place in front of the ha of the Sahara desert the area Innabited oy nomaa nerasmen t suddenly n of the Zoubou tribe. 'Motors Morris were artel six-week Pensions e country Frensi The strike Bed up on the dole, Breash-Ley ttempt Mily in the area. save the Halewood gearbox joint action titted Lea Defenders the Long meetingsteriay's hour production resumed onalized GEARBOX production was resumed at the transmission company representatives plant of the Ford Halewood factory when yesterday's BritaTe e han do man that al the men a stace or in morning shift went back to work.

saced withereat adduction had be das Rave the scit Strikers to con vestigation drivers 8 shift akers

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*Production at Fire inquiry 18OME consider At Maudline place as hey will not meet again unti Thursday: Little generald changed him yesterday. next Tuesday, October 13, 1970 Arafat

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best known ICI WIl guerrilla leaders ana Alalal, with treacherous perfidy, THE CASE of Italian anarchist Giuseppe makes no protest Meanwhile troops Pinelli's death, officially shelved as 'suicide' by Istae l border are alone the hordan lounging a judicial inquiry, is being reopened in a new renorted hA deck-chairs confident that legal battle. there is no immediate threat that sace tn p letia Pinelli died 'falling' whatever after Palestinian the window of a fron while being made novement has station

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"illegal assembly" and 'resisting interrogated connecuon lelaulcaul cical. caere can the forces of order' bomb with the More see diopha sance nst exPlOSIOR Inl a Im serralsmn city bank last December 12.

and no peace with its hangers.

iea an a yer re rispend in, dropped. The police version was that Whatever hiere uzable been PaisL sealencco agreement lacca will patened up between Husseir DrOOIS nIs have prelude nOW ocen and Aratat 1s only ano committed suicide to a fresh round of civil war.

reicaseu. by jumping through the With what has almost window. become conditioned But Milan con- Seviet Nixon ater evidence he could Stali situation Curve v showed assist- have had nothing to do with the explosion. e kines Jordan council ot t, the beacelui co False exi stence micanl une betrava. Palestinian suncue Now a Milan Clairesi, nas men out during the ten-dav war. missioner, Luig Calabresi, brought å case Uniy 1o years ago the same an for spreadin Stalinist policies the ledi dismembering of Vietnam at doolaale against the Geneva Conference. detamation' rroressor Baldelli,

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TormeN y eenton MILAN'S 18,000 city coun- Strengthen o toe er-wine ouma cotta Continua'. cl workers vesterdav hecan It considerations back During his editorship 'Lotta three-day strike to that strengther ion's negotiations 1 with Their Continua Dub ished artic es confidence labour contract, was statina that (alahraci Mideia liste the improved and con- settlement responsible for Pinelli's death.

East ditions. Vietnam Springs from his After a preliminary hearing re lance last revolutionary days counter before Milan penal court Stalinism. lemonstrations through the reacherv o1 This is the background to citY raffic the Rogers-Gromyko talks.

is paralysed be- Unchallengeable add pressure the the traffic cause wardens Stalinists, Nix Nixon cramed vutt worker The was nave aco struck. about submarines with and Cuba missiles along the WOrKeIS Hospital Cala- Suel Ca. Canal students. wnO nearo •resis awvers areue that the Hospital staffs knows that the more are en. suicide verdict of the nrevions the pushe: forcing a go-slow, treating proas stalinists, inauiry Shollidhe treated emergency cases, the more malleable on!y unchallengeable in the present they force the implementation will become. case. effect, of their new ordering cluding provisions for them to iumo to it and buckle Kaldell. insisting character of the cratic hospital task cown Their his convicti of management. betrava! was guilty Alfa-Romeo But the outcome of revolu- the murder. struggles tionary mass plants of Milan and nearby determined Arese or by the military bring stoppages might indo-volut any she Mes ie yield mala claello on a company contract. East are peperat. editor of 'Lotta Hundreds paring acers of cars rapid development of revolu- conaluons piled up in Continua'. u10ro10 workers refused to shift ot the nrs onary readersoin. lin der tals men wu wen camis ar nere is every grouna tor Trot- meL. connicence that- _n er Salier colibraor wil be ment to

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German Social Democrat - Free Democrat government coalition

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mains the target of a wide- spread political and General Municinal consonacy Union from Workers' Chan- Mer- spite of Federal sev s depress Newcastle and Brandt's Ceint cam! the contrary. from group Brandt cec ared weer Merseyside and solit in the FDP had Manchester, that the N Staffordshire. weakened the govern- not ment. nev were headed from chon stewards the Kut the three Pree Demo- Burmah Oil site led by Bob crats resigned, former MacKenzie, who was vice-Chancellor Mende, former arrested recently when Minister and MP picketing. Zogelman, march included of bringing clear intention and and forcing government down Liverpool Universities, wne 'grand coali- reTurO Toe i jonea a Izu-strong group ol of Social Democrats and

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Youne socialists trom Christian Democrats. and con. Liverpool Man. to union officials at yesterday's Oxford This the chester. meeting probosa. 'I have i cissolion separate party, was mooted by like said Christian Democrat latt wina Katzer at the weekend. coming troversial sentence: 'If neces- e questions in my Ally

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The three parliamen- glass factory' une tarians them- nOW moines that This was the voice of all Stewards selves the this St Helens. It is a new town com- Democrats in the forthcoming faces future of to jump two stages that pa. the procedure for negotiaes egional elections struggle. little They bri insel witl prestige. Mende ne a new bay systen. But the ainted by his association wit] suspicion is grow- may Kunstler of IOS chief ing that union leaders to hack hąve rer țąv the company's MDW plan. delayed But much more serious, is the fact that

WILLIAM

Kunstler leading the Chi- defence awer the 'ederal Republic ago 'conspiracy tria _which ønce e ố monn! Settlement Convention demonstrations- only CI OSELY linked to the politi.

detained for hours crease in return tor 'no sunke yesterday t London's Heath intrigues Bonn carandts attempts at a causes. curs in manning ang settle- effort. ToMoth defence constant ()-ner-cent Lawyer heavy and im- action will defendants mediately he racumad if tha received unacceptable Proposals the company's prove sentences at nOtOrO: March trial last which Brandt and Tito agreed or officials pledged that Rohhu Kary panther leader the for would be officially Seale was gagged and tied to Europear need supported. his chair. "security conference the Soviet bureaucracy's Tinplate strike ends greemen a conference to make

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British Steel Corporation tinplate plants at Trostre, ise suc working normally afte division I.lanelli. and Velindre Swansea were permanent and police two-weer strike, hu 451 maintenance men. Jermany lontr menduction workers also went hack vesterdav.

the separation of workers in F Negation fora ert men tre ro Be cand an insec ion.

Steunales of the he germing Germany Trom to carry out an instruction.

be resumed. labour movement.