Workers Press no. 276

THE DAILY ORGAN OF TI

we think What the fight against Tory govt means

THE TORY

wording hand and glove to defeats on the working Previously, fer It should be clear that there They are studying formist ance. colate in of mist capitalist enemy They disarm the working class!

is vita political preparation Shoese stewcials to dominat their negotiations i must be won a ai con Bush conse of he act That goverl Once the go they it is political les sons. If oficials egy must centre the can onl At ards here they ta coke which ma being fought out siruggle the Tory government They ss policies or tely are working out thei clear that a number are going to bes can be broken fight wil government more iformatios.

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 1970 • NUMBER 276 PRICE 6d THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE DEP refuses E1,250 October Appeal Unemployment grows and Fund reaches £290 11s 8d THE FIGHT is on, The cost of dole to 186a Condom, swa Street, to all our readers the urgent Tories are car men living By a political correspondent preparing

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

HEATH'S

Tory

EDWARD

crush trap for government aims TWO-AND-A-HALF thousand Midlands car working-class living of price in- under a mountain workers have again been refused unemployment creases. here is no oner benefit for the four weeks they were laid off to explain the concerted assault council men during a strike which ended Monday on workers wage packets trom every boardroom, council and soars the nationalized industry

MINERS

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

bulls ye Yesterday's news of gas price

BALLOT

THE LATEST pay 'offer by local government due to come into uncrease employers can only be described as an insult to effect this winter-will add up

IN KENT

Britain's 770,000 man- in the f to every family to 2s ual workers. gas bill. Hi-jacker

DESPITE

with the 5 pe cent steel price rise wilipproval P 'bound • Rices rejected then com- • in bi the toal aboli one average nato price shot' Buildin s1,0cie in tase fochis will however include -Leila a rise of almost overtime or service action on smaller Leila Sated has And Greater employers Coestey told all grade ; • Gretime and other pay Tomme the usi reached figure had Beirut press accepting vee, he added. inter pretatiorkers Press ear Monthly rise been captured whether Rents — since the Tor •Ser the amand, for the chdune"s which seen tempt, an unpreced so a 4p at. 10 per hi-jacking. It was done lasa camp capturin When to fight it out. Encouraged fondlock. it might break ta baster be" as retreat by tudes. Are the into the hands ot. playing into arms. More in the Kent coaled Vliners at the bertesnanger coners is meded bore a see are expected to on parter to the shike t of ant minimum site 'Daily Mail onge hither to two-thirds m food, sackings witch-hunts and airport

MEANING OF FRANCO-SOVIET ACCORD

Prices. again decimalization French CP's 5 away, it ise been so ted by managemente is not Pilkington key role in walked of the Suade in ayment policing workers For es ching were he Piking Tory tamed Communis li the goy and *Yesterday THE FRANCO-SOVIET accord signed in Mos- Pilkingtoos Conside see the to comment on cow earlier this week by presidents Pompidou and Podgorny is an ominous further step in the national international world Stalinism and the European employing cordooralon Leila Khaled over satant he has cared world Reshuffle the mr so the isker securall the first

MEETING

BY JOHN SPENCER

serd see take test a " Abdul Muhsin Hasan, dis Hands off the unions! xtended to his successor !

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OCTOBER 18

Poplar Civic Hall, Bow Road, E.

luctivity terms. Here Reggio: withdraw police 7.30 p.m. Cale was tell in the Talian

SPEAKERS

released. questions word, Bec other through produc a. nea tolL Natonal secretary.

File Commit Chairman Pilkington's Rank and poli freely on useful to exchang on the strets general strike views.' more trusti workers in migh Roy Battersby This shane elected barti- John Simmance (YS National Secretary) em- ecognize. The purpose of capital and means the staclization or the fromol is demanding tiat tandond of living Chairman: C. Slaughter (SLL Central Committee member) status quo and the prevention police are tea in b 10,000 make petrol demanding used To

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workers press What we think What the fight against Tory govt means TiE To covernment and the working class. This miss teases sot prime Pread terence to he strike • she part of for Theactions indisputes break mintant resist collaboration of the solve The dame win montical preparation is vital. shoese e remards ing disaster t sanent and sainst be gone at all tot made condous of t fac conscious of the on the i Tory govern- Stories enerate d Tach strike. day-to-day development texi against Rank and file-isn INCORPORATING THE NÉWSLETTER • THURSDAY OCTOBER 15, 1970 O NUMBER 276 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Unemployment grows and The cost of living By a polltical correspondent

HEATH'S

Tory

EDWARD

crush government standards working-class living under a mountain or price l There is no other way cicasco to explain the concerted assaull on workers' wage packets from soars council and every boardroom, nationalized industry in the coulll ye Yesterday's news of gas price - due to come into increases effect this winter-will add up 2s in the f to every family gas bill. Hi-jacker will give 'bound manu excuse then hundreds other modities. shot' -Leila a rise of almost Council Kenneth Blessley told one, he added. Monthly rise Rents ten the Tore an unpretened mate. up at. are no peak hours charges Telephone pited ballot ion over thei pithea strike rise again sooe. wage claim. A two-thirds da me called needed before a strike aside hises have with Scoland as stren ad footwear Rated they we t

MEANING OF FRANCO-SOVIET ACCORD

decimalizatiol French CP's looming a *Patrick ac Arguelle not • Tear it eat: over the key role in en a rebe and and as are s, unemplo00,000 policing workers What kind of future do THE FRANCO-SOVIET accord signed in Mos- earlier this week by presidents Pompidou soners and workers on the Cow and Podgorny is an ominous further step in the between collaboration international growing Leila Khaled world Stalinism and the European employing Reshuffle Class

BY JOHN SPENCER

Heath already wish enis brutal determina. H tha exese buria successor by machine ang ot ton not to concede an extr Swiss council Couchel the extremely ter trying sties twice a year at foreig can at Atist one es are best called day the ployers on Patrick. it worke that he had dence most condition ductivity per stringent pro- murdered. demise, but eagerly where Reggio: withdraw police triac come i to their nion.

Catali was set a tio talian over men besit- hantly the drawn released. rises through produc wethe strike This Workers in might coming The son recognize purpose 58% stabilization of standard of hiving is saras you are the provotion pome drafted

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BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

trap for TWO-AND-A-HALF thousand Midlands car workers have again been refused unemployment benefit for the four weeks they were laid off council men

MINERS'

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

BALLOT

THE LATEST pay 'offer' by local government employers can only be described as an insult to Britain's 770,000 man-

IN KENT

ual workers. town-hall chittem and the three union official: plannin& on- There alter die there strike from hire res rejected

RETREAT

Dustmer decision throughout Forners • the do earing Monday bring 1200. MAne yesterday however include action on smaller overtime or service pay. Sevine phie. opal now out is 62,000 employer. Still ON the 55s demand for union re This meens now reached nd for more really a matter improved Yesterday a National Union of Publi • ON the man admitted to centre Bonus shene shute o of the old one plus e their strength themselves to fight it out. Encouraged Even of this

TEST CASE

negotate on the derit by Stewards are dangerous atti- be a retreat cases concerni ng the dole pay treatmenext for the Sankey that by ment Local More site 'Daily Mail sackings witch-hunts corporation again insork sat management.

BRITISH-LEYLAND

shop ned store in on tal angrils that in ur walked of Stories mingham san Long de not be Site on interpretatio he the Fard Workers narching with the Pilking- pee oran policed by government depart rational worried of con retire ke comment or how-dow sheet-glass See Wisseut thinking!- anicials the employers. page 2. referred to

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SPEAKERS

Communast G. Heav (SLL National Secretar) File CommitteChairman Pilington's Rank and Oxford stewards said yester- Roy Battersby ance (Yo National secretary his system is that Fleet St could now Chairman: C. Slaughter (SLL Central Committee member) duced reused to talke to them.

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FLASHBACK to last May: Glass- workers unanimously decide to continue strike action. ST

HELENS

Lan- workers returned after their in seven-week strike. cashire is the heart of the Two hundred and fifty men British glass industry. were later sacked following a dispute the right of over Take the any tamily, representation to the manage- townsfolk, will find and you ment and their fight continues at least one person working at today on the basis of a struggle Pilkington glass the company for the basic trade union right whose tall chimneys dominate to representation and, to with- the smoky landscape.. draw labour. The town grew out of the The Young Socialists' mining industry, much of which national recruiting team found now closed. is that many of the youth sharply Since the 1850s St Helens reflected the determination of has been dominated by glass the sacked Pilkington workers making and Pilkington's. to fight it out with the Tory- Three of the town's mayors backed Pilkington employers.

over the past century have members of the Pilking- been

POURED OUT

ton family, the local station Young people at the local was opened by Lord Pilkington and a statue of Queen Victoria technical college amongst by the town hall was founded them apprentices from Pilking- by the late Colonel Pilkington.

ton's and other local factories poured out to listen to a YS

MILITANT

college-gate meeting. Having spoken at a St Helens Against this almost feudal YS branch National meeting, hold the on town, 8,500 Secretary John Simmance was workers came out on strike in enthusiastic about the response.

April this year in the biggest, Item most militant movement in St number on the branch's been Helens' history. agenda had plans for a campaign in The lives of almost every- sup- port of the Pilkington one in the course of this seven- Rank- and-File week-long struggle were quite Committee's demon- radically changed, especially stration through the town on amongst the youth. October 12. The Pilkington workers' Many of the new YS mem- struggle did not end when the bers are young workers who

SPARE

A thought today for is often himself innocent Hilary Eccles-Williams. victim of the strike?' he asks.

You may never had much time Part of such repayment should for his problems ... but he's come from told tax rebates, he been thinking about you! his Association. In fact Hilary, fulminating 'While there is certainly away at Dudley, in the county of entitlement to refund of income Worcestershire, yesterday, tax', he said, is it either neces- showed himself a very thought- sary or desirable to make special ful sort of guy all round.

for arrangements speedy dis- bursement of such refunds rather He thinks Edward Heath and than let them be made after his sidekick Robert Carr are work? return to going soft; their draft Industrial Relations Bill, he told the 'Such refunds could then help lugubriously-titled Association of facilitate of to the repayment British Chambers of Commerce loans taken supplementary Hilary is benefits.' president), for wnich proposes no changes in the pres- ent system *feather-bedding Starve strikers strikers the taxpayers' expense'. In other words, starve strikers The real point about Hilary -their wives and their children Eccles-Williams, you see, is that -into submission and then sad- he's no joke. of debt dle them with a burden which will make it impossible for them to defy their class Deadly currents Yes, Hilary's really thoughtful.

Beneath the heavy-handed irony of his Dudley speech yes- If he and his Association had Heath could terday ('is it really their way, maybe necessary to really start to carry out his pre- be quite so solicitous to apply election tax-cutting pledges-and salve self-inflicted Wounds deadly cur- swirl the screw down the working class at he asked, Tory rents of thinking whipped tne same umel closer and closer the sur- So spare a thought for Hilary face of politics by the class-war Eccles-Williams. maelstrom that is the Heath-Carr plan. And while you're about it, thought for Victor spare What Williams wants to do is Feather and his friends on the make supplementary benefits to TUC General Council who—-it is strikers' families repayable: -will try to convince them- said- their meeting 'Should such disburse- selves today ments be loans, to be repaid in that the Tory plans can be wished away by a 'big education reasonable instalments after programme' work, rather than in the trade union return to free gift from the taxpayer, who HOVemen I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE,

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

Name Address were involved in the Pilking- They expressed anger over the trade union leaders' role ton strike. They expressed in their own words why they in the strike. Young In their opinion the men want to build the were betrayed into going back Socialists into a mass youth movement to fight Toryism.

and when the 250 were later Committee member Ian said sacked the union leadership he thought they had made gave them no support. good start with the YS branch.

It was a principle involved 'It's what St Helens young Pilkington's--the right to at people have been crying out work and the right to strike.

for. They wanted to take both Sacked Pilkington worker from us, said a things away Alan explained: committee member. 'St Helens was a pretty dead politically until the

MAJOR ROLE

Pilkington strike shook every- The Young Socialists, they body up. feel, can play a major role in the town because it shows

RUTHLESS

that the youth do care about happening under the 'What really shocked people what is Forthe Pilkington's dispute has the completely ruthless Was government attitude of the employers to- forced a lot of young people wards the strike and the way Before in which a whole number were o think about politics sacked for withdrawing their the seven-week strike we labour. always considered ourselves 'Pilkington's were the first militant, but I had never joined out Tory policy into anything political, commented to carry This is practice. an example Alan. 'But for me the YS is of what the Tories a are pre- paring to do under the new serious organization which con- itself anti-union legislation.' with the main All the young lads on the branch committee said that no 'We have come to a time expected such a one had big when reforms won't work. We break in St Helens. strike to have got the point where But, they said, the dispute be- the only thing you can do is 50 outlet for years fight replace the present cubit form of 'society? of suppression. THE GREAT Antipodean Nickel Fever, which went the way of the South Sea Bubble, the Florida Land Boom and the 1929 Wall St bull market, has left not a few speculators considerably out of pocket.

unfortunates Among these the Tin Creek Mining Corpora- Tas- are holders of shares in offloaded very large quanti- tion, minex NL, whose misfortunes ties of Tasminex shares when the are the subject of an official price was at its height. government tabled in report Singline's and two Australian state parlia- wife two com- panies of which he and his wife ments this week. were directors made sales of Tas- shares The report comes from barris- minex totalling about ter J. W. Wilson, appointed by £479,000 between January 27 and Tasmanian 30, the report claims. the government to look into the rapid rise and even And the leading lights in the more spectacular fall of Tasminex consultant geologists' company shares Australian stock on the of about made net profit market. of third million pounds You can now buy Tasminex by much the same method. Nickel: But not quite another Poseldon.

shares for the bargain basement Law officers are reported to be of 17s But it urgently scanning the report to price each. whether wasn't always like that. see criminal proceed- ings should be taken. Prospects Which might be some consola- tion to all those who got their On January 26 the shares stood fingers burned.. at f7 18s on the Melbourne Stock Exchange. Then the company's chairman, William Singline, took it into his head to announce the company's nickel Australia, could prospect Mount Venn, W and be *bigger better than Poseidon the company that was leading the nickel share boom.

generated great excitement on the already

DUSAN

PETROVITCHSAN,

over-heated nickel market. The Yugoslav of head of the trade reached peak price soon has publicly £44- an increase of almost 600 warne movemen Tito warned the regime percent. present inflation of against By March 18, however, the and cuts prices consequent dropped to about its price had in real wages. present level, where it has stayed he In a recent statement ever since, leaving a lot of specu- standard points out the lators' deal pockets a good of living of half the working lighter. class, and particularly in the industrial has fallen in absolute terms dur- Offloaded ing the last year. Now, so Wilson alleges, direc- The fear of further strike of Tasminex, not to men- action by sections of workers tors tion its consulting geologists and has produced an open split in

WORKERS PRESS

CINTERNATIONAL

Y JAPANESE industry is breaking into the international commercial aircraft market for the first time, but still faces difficulties in catching up with established aircraft industries like those in the United States and Britain. Plans have been approved for marketing a new jet air- liner overseas, to be manu- factured by the Nihon Aero- Com- plane Manufacturing pany (NAMC). With five other local com- panies NAMC made the first all- Japanese medium-range prop commercial transport and sold different a number countries, particularly to smaller alrilnes. That was in 1965, and the 60- seater YS-1l has now sold 150 models. almost half of them overseas. This is still a far erv from the production levels achieved in the Second World War, when the

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Tananese aircraft In custry emploved a million workers and turned out 5,000 planes a year.

So the has hit before it gets on the snags

BROKE UP

and with uncertain prospect States occupa- By th sales. reluctant to put up aircraft industry for the project. the three years ago. Mitsubishi, Fuji and Kawasaki ircraft was banned in lapan 1o

NAMO

and were vears. June Americans still smarting trom Pear Har international air transport indus- try. Once the ban was ended. now ment has thred he thous teems- ever re-invesument in

MONEY SNAGS

The obsolete DC-3s and DC-4s Development costs have with some bit- they rememher rocketed. that the YS-11, used Japanes drie y5-11 markets , a much terness eplaced hard find, with stiff left a £3.5 million development bill.

Clall are plane overseas competition. Japan's Goered at pay 55 per conservative has per ment costs, cent development seand the rest. manuracturers But even on these terms, com- panies are reluctant to bite.

NO HEADWAY

the Vigilan, head of the Phaned to be is sit at Plans Federal government, warned for joint develonment unless the the Dutch Fokker aircraft that infintion government with recently said under concern have made little head- immediate v troubles would develop. cut

NAMC T

development costs,

SOCIA

When Serbian miners struck 'Social troubles' thic oneking making time earning. modifications to bring it these their Despite one central up to date. ities are rolling. & made Whathar thic will onluothe stock Japanese industry's problems in under the guise of "decentral.

imnassible transnort engl neriod mounting word crisis is полисес • another matter. now. economic in the minos ever. Thursday, October 15, 1970 says St Helens YS member tinted economy

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

EGYPTIAN labour leader Abdul Moghny Said, presently on a visit to Europe, exposed with crystal clarity the dangers which face the Arab a leadership masses from dedicated to compromise with imperialism. * Addressing an audience of TorA colonial on cals retired Council for Arab-British Under- standing in London's plush Si Ermine's Hotel last Monday, he to make it clear that Arab no threat to represents world-wide interests of capitalism.

Said, who edits the pullin Laborand official formerly wrote for the daily paper of the extreme right-wing Mosiem brotherhood, treated his hearers to a rose-tinted guided of the Egyptian economy tour "Trends towards under the title in the socialism Arab World'. Not once, either in his speech or the many replies to questions, did he so much as mention Hussein's massacre of the Pales- tinian revolutionaries or imperial- ism's bloodthirsty plans for all sections of the Arab labour movement. * • Lest any doubt should remain as to his respectability, he con- cluded by saying: 'We do not believe in the dictatorship of the proletariat. We believe this slogan is obsolete.

Too many people have suffered under the dictatorships of Nazism and Fascism (l) . . • I want to make it clear that we entirely reject the material- istic aspect of Marxism. We respect its scientific side, but we have faith, we are believers.

Reassured that they were brothers under the skin, reactionary audience willingly joined him in standing in sanc- timonious homage to the late President Nasser.

Thursday, October 15, 1970 THE PROFITABLE pos- sibilities of automation of and the necessity firms computerizing to take on their competitors is leading to a veritable orgy of computer instal- lation throughout indus- try. Despite the huge expense involved, automation combination with the appli- cation of productivity deals to impose a rigid discipline required position can be calcu- on the work-force-can be lated by computer, from infor- a very attractive proposition mation fed into it beforehand by (thermometers, sensors for management. gauges, computer programmes, and so on). One has only to look at the This required position can numbers of large computers then installed or on order as part be compared with the of automated machinery actual state of affairs and the in major British industries.

error or difference signal used to operate an electric motor Chemical and petroleum and correct the dial setting.

factories top the list with 34. With a large computer such Electricity and generating, 30; be used to a system can metallurgical, 29. Con- Paper and trol an entire plant. In indus- printing have six, rail trans- tries like chemicals, where pro- port three, and 28 other large cesses and operations be can computers have been installed expressed mathematically, such in other industries. advanced computerization is The total investment entirely feasible. involved runs into hundreds of The valve is used to regu- millions of pounds. late the amount raw The enormous attraction of material flowing into the pro- computers is not some cess and must be opened and people think their great intelli- closed in accordance with gence, but their absolute stupi- varying product requirements dity. They do at least in and plant conditions. theory- exactly what they are told, no more no less.

FED

And they do it a great deal faster and more reliably than human operators, who have valve position, amount the added disadvantage that quality of the product etc. are they ask for fed into the computer. wage claims, frequent and demand rests A control unit is i used to comparatively often make mis- of informa- schedule the flow takes. tion which in conjunction with Of computers pro- data previously obtained and vide the possibility of ridding held in store is processed in mankind of the menial tasks the arithmetic unit. An out- necessary for production, but put signal can then be sent to under private ownership, this regulate the valve position.

A simply means another oppor- computer can perform many of for making more profit tunity these operations. from fewer workers. In similar way automa- The manual setting of, say, tion is being used in the field a lathe or a dial on a piece of of machine tools. Eight centre machinery involves a series of lathes requiring eight skilled that be actions can general- operators can now be replaced ized. The actual position of the by eight single spindle auto dial is relayed visually to the lathes and using one setter brain, which then compares operator both unskilled. the present position with the Programme can be written from one required and actuates the directly engineering hand to turn it to its new posi- drawings to machine com- tion. ponents in three dimensions, This series of operations can using one computer to control several machines. be simulated (imitated) using electronic and mechanical Of is not course, it very devices to produce an difficult to see who benefits matic control system. from the automation of fac- Here is where The crisis in capitalism tories. computers come into their The has made it essential for the own.

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BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

ruling class to get maximum, racy, production for the minimum wage bill. Automation provides one answer but the cost of many control systems is so high that only the large monopolies can afford to implement them and deals offer a productivity cheaper alternative.

ADVANCE

It is impossible for tech- nology to advance without the development of control systems. James Watt realized in 1788 that manual control in the opening and closing of steam valves was not the best way of keeping the speed of his steam engine constant.

So the Watt governor was developed which used the 'lift' of rotating balls as a speed monitor, automatically shut- ting off steam as speed tended to increase and vice versa.

Man's physical limitations, in terms of speed and accu-

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kimum, racy, have necessitated these advances in automatic tech- niques. However, capitalism to may provide the money a specific automation solve problem but, little is available for fundamental research into analysis of systems. It is here that automation is held back because before control techniques can be applied a detailed analysis of just what you are trying to control is needed. These sys- tems are often complex and analytic mathematical methods invariably fail to provide com- pletely satisfactory solutions.

Idealism and empiricism play their role here. The engineer often trys to see a problem as he would like to see it, i.e. by reducing it to simpler one, usually a much considering each component in isolation and ignoring the numerous interactions between them. Such methods can of course have disastrous con- sequences. This resulted war in the partition • of Palestine by the United Nations, the disposses- sion and expulsion from their land of some one million Palestinians and the creation of Israel as an exclusive racial state. Although the Egyptian gov- ernment was monarchic and feudal, the war was a "just war' on Egypt's side. Egypt was a semi-colony of mainly British imperialism. For all practical purposes, although nominally_ independ- ent since 1922, Egypt was more like a British colony be- cause of the British occupation and ownership of the Suez Canal. The struggle against Israel was also a struggle against British domination and, as such, part of the anti-imperial- ist struggle. On Israel's side the war was wholly 'unjust' and revolution- ary defeatism the only policy to adopt inside Israel and the war-machine. It was during the 1948 war that the Free Officers, in which Nasser was a main figure, be-

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gan to organize the coup which ousted Farouk in 1952, and replaced the feudal regime with a military national bour- geois government. Its first act, the payment of compensation to the Suez Canal Company, re-established the old financial links between the ruling circles of Egypt and imperialism. The acceptance by Nasser of US 'aid' (investment) to the tune of over £B1,000m further deepened the dependence of national bour- the Egyptian geoisie upon imperialism.

This financial tie-up with imperialism at once ruled out any real solution to the burn- ing, agrarian problem. The old feudal lords had been inextricably connected with monopoly finance capital abroad ever since the building

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SOVIET and United States space engineers are to meet to work out ways in which future space travellers can rescue each other, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion (NASA) announced in Washington last week. Though no definite date has yet been fixed for the meeting, plans are well under way and are expected to be announced shortly, NASA said. Topics for discussion are likely to include standardiza- tion of portholes to facilitate rescue in flight-by making it easy for ships to dock one against another-and a stand- ard system of fittings to allow oxygen and water replenish- ment in space.

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If the talks are successful, Soviet and US spacecraft would in future be fitted with inlets which could be linked up in space. At present designs are not standardized between the two countries and any US- Soviet space rescue could be extremely hazardous. The rationale of the plans is that because of the colossal expense involved in a single manned spaceflight neither of the Canal by Ferdinand de Lesseps in the 1860s. The national bourgeoisie arose largely out of this feudal class and the compensation paid, plus loans from the US, • W Germany, Italy, etc., re- established the links with foreign capital. The same capi- tal which had dominated agri- culture in the interests of cotton production for the im- perialist manufacturers. Renewed The renewed links with im- perialism thus struck at the roots of any agrarian reform programme. In the year of the anti- monarchy coup by the Free Officers a land reform law was . passed. Its extremely limited nature was shown by the fact that it restricted land holdings to 200 feddans (about 200 acres). This preserved most of the old feudal. estates, because a 200-feddan farm was worth over £100,000 and represented considerable value. Moreover, those who had land removed were compen- sated and this imposed a fur- ther drain on the peasants who had to pay for the compen- sation with their taxes. In theory the redistributed land was parcelled out in two to five feddan lots to landless peasants, but in practice this lead to illicit land-speculation which the government had to declare a further 'problem'.

This speculation was the re- sult of the law, which did not distribute the land free to the but made it pur- peasants, chaseable. The peasants could not afford to buy even the bare minimum, two-feddan farms. Mono-culture Moreover, the peasants who did get land were drawn into the mono-culture of cotton- the one-crop primary industry of Egypt when it was a direct colony of Britain. So the essential semi-colon- ial nature of Egypt - as a primary producer of cotton for imperialism-was preserved by the first land law of the Nasser regime. The peasants producing cot- ton were paid a small fraction of the world market price and this constituted the means of their super-exploitation.

This had the added advan- tage to the imperialists that they were not responsible for the upkeep of their labour force. In 1952 there remained two million fellahin families with less than one feddan of land, would be likely to country have 'back-up' craft avail- a the launching able on pad ready for take-off while manned flight is actually in progress. But in some cases, Soviet off while a US ship was in craft might be ready for take- difficulties, or vice versa.

Under these circumstances, the astronauts' slim chances of recovery might be improved by a rescue shot. It is even possible to envis- age emergency robot 'lifeboats' which could be sent up to intercept astronauts in diffi- i.e. less than half of what was needed for physical survival.

Seventy-two per cent of all land proprietors owned only 15 per cent of the cultivable land and 1.5 million families were entirely landless. This was the condition of landlessness, total and relative, among 60 per cent the Egyptian rural population.

At the other pole of rural society stood some 300 great landowners who owned 600,000 feddan, an average of 2,000 feddan each, including 178,000 feddan in the hands of the Farouk family alone. Only the latter were at first redistributed by the 1952 law and the destruction of the re- Free maining big holdings led to such speculation that it be- came a scandal.

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Instead of land redistribu- tion the regime resorted to rent reform. The effect of this may be judged from the fact that five years after the 1952 law the majority of tenant peasants were paying out 50 per cent of their receipts from production in rent alone—i.e.

half their starvation income.

the poor peasants Among were the farm workers and in 1952 their yearly wage was, on average, not much above £32. The per capita annual in- come was what it had been in 1900, at the height of the British 'devilizing influence' on Egyptian agriculture. Such was the problem created by British rule for Nasser, and which his class was unable to solve. culties. The Apollo flight made it starkly clear that once astronauts are in trouble, they virtually on their are own. The dangers of manned flights undoubtedly played a major part in deter- mining the direction of the Soviet lunar and planetary exploration programme. While the US took terrible risks to get a man on the moon, the Soviet Union seems to have been more cautious , rapid and, in the long run, quite as successful. A comparison of the Apollo manned programme with

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WIDE extension of auto- mation in industry must lead to increased com- puter monitoring and control of production, according to the head of GEC-Elliot Automation writing in the current issue of 'Computer Weekly'. He states that new, cheaper computer techniques will mean for the first time that thousands of manu- facturers, many of them quite small, will be able to benefit from on-line automa- tion. However, this can only be effective if the computer sys- tems are directly linked to plant. He comments: In most industrial automa- tion schemes, data transmis- sion and telemetry systems are vital, and over the next decade closer and more effec- tive relationships will develop between computer and com- munications specialists.'

Monitoring Telemetry is the system by which monitoring, or opera- tion of production, is con- ducted from a control centre via telephone cables. The article gives an example of the Heinz soup-blending plant at Kitt Green, where a materials-handling complete scheme for five production now under computer lines is control. Another example in the issue of 'Computer same Weekly' W German is a Grundig plant where quality control of television and radio set manufacture is conducted by a Honeywell 316 computer directly connected to instru- mentation on the production line. Mechanization In the early days of mechan- ization, automation and flow- line production methods, capi- talism fought to incorporate workers into the speed-up processes by developing time- and-motion systems. As far as the employers were concerned, a worker could not be allowed to take

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oviet robot flights is now pos ible after the safe return o he first Soviet moon samples, drilled out on the satellite's surface by remote control.

han the US Apollo moonshi hich preceded it. And it space terms, smaller means less expensive. Every additional pound in weight requires more sophisti- • cation in the rocketry, more fuel, and adds thousands of pounds to the bill for the flight.

TWO TONS

'Soviet News'-which pub- lished details of the Soviet flight last week-says the craft weighed only two tons com- pared with the seven-ton American craft which landed on the moon. Its launching rocket was perhaps only an eighth the size of the Saturn rocket which put Apollo on the moon. The Soviet craft left the moon's surface directly for earth, without going into Lunar orbit, as the Apollo did.

This did away with any neces- sity for the complicated arrangements of back-up craft orbit round the moon used on the Apollo flight.

The forces generated by its , rapid acceleration, of course, would have been fatal for any human cargo. But it achieved comparable results to Apollo at a fraction of the expense and with none of the dinger.

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minutes to feed a machine which carried out its operation in seconds. Now, with the development of computers, the employers say that workers, as part of the productive process, simply cannot be allowed to work in their own way when equipment costing thousands of pounds an hour to run is in use. Incorporated Workers who cannot be eliminated by automation must be entirely incorporated into the computer-controlled pro- cess. Just as with work study, the 'experts' will claim that there is no process where such a system cannot be adopted.

For example, the use of permanent radio contact sys- tems between managements and drivers in all manner of vehicles, dockers on the con- tainer berths and building workers on the sites, is the first step in exerting an iron control man's over every move. Processed Eventually these systems could be directly linked to a computer so that the informa- tion the worker gives can be directly processed and work- ing instructions issued. In factories control is far more direct. This is certainly the case with tele-control where auto- matic sensors on the machines are linked directly to a com- puter which registers every aspect of the machines' and the machinists' working opera- tions. In this situation it is import- ant to understand that tele- control is not some isolated experiment by an individual employer. Controlled Faced with a severe crisis of falling profits, enormous cost of capital equipment and the build up of a trade war, the employers in every case must see to it that not only but also the automation worker is computer controlled.

The remarks by the head of GEC-Elliot Automation almost certainly indicate that attempts are about to be made to spread the tele-control sys- tem on a large scale, particu- larly in the engineering indus-

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