Workers Press no. 287

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

PRICE 6d. WN DAY OCTOBER 20. 19/0 NUMbER zor THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What Tories' ruthless cuts mean they're out to Three days to raise E404 18s ba for Uct Fund we Raise jobless

IT'S

We are struggle this think month. • produce Ine paper six da a week. pete the Total by immediately all your donations it of Workers Prese Is ree ponse to the finds to The road th' Street, 186a Cla But in our budget, we rely thing you can. to defeat NEW OFFER-See Late News total and AS AN EXERCISE in the revisionist bombast there Coal Board Винни strades Council -3113 seeks MDW Chatonly protests, could cut wages

FOR BINNE

the my on mile agreement

WHIE

BY DAVID MAUDE

Made of her LEADERS of Britain's 292,000 miners yesterday i the lawsass YESTERDAY'S ruthless cuts in social services received a new pay offer from the National Coal

BY A POLITICAL

give workers the first glimpse of Edward Heath's Board tied to a guaranteed coal production level

CORRESPONDENT

in the first six months of next year.

ee tering of strikers after quiet revolution'. Veral hoW TUC must Barber's axe means the lowest The Tory 'revolution' paid—people who need free school back milk for their children and who • No free milk for children over seven. School meal cannot pay the big increases in glassmen charges up next year. prescription charges — will be the • Health prescription charges up to a minimum of down into A DEMAND that the Trades 4s per item. Congress presses so The head of yesterday's Reading march.

Council poverty. union • Dental fees half of cost of treatment.

Year Equally the cuts in in- this. inquiry in nationalized Engineers vestment • Charges on spectacles up.

industries, the removal of

REDUCTION?

Investment grants in areas of high unemployment une regional employment opens join Reading premium and investment abolished. will mean Toners claim to grants rocKeL" ing unemployment in the council march kegional employment premium to go.

would been acyclopen areas • Profits tax to go down.

Tory revolution thể guarantees not attained. Pealed as a mastic reaction.

• No sickness benefit to be paid for first three days

•BY STEPHEN JOHNS

minestile to er off work. leader LED BY road sweeper Ernie Warwick on tam- Second front and • No nationalization of docks.

able to their members bourine, 300 council workers and engineers Thee sages front, mas tied sang and chanted outside Reading Town Hall offer could some rices yesterday. Cuts danger imbersity both Heath's election cant about # "What do wants

GROMYKO-HEATH TALKS

elective approach to social they shouted mas in produce. strikers in pay offer the War on workers- representatives tion each year. Dullaing to nand in a petition in support counci

GAIN

workers to the town clerk.

East and West to teachers would 'We have already 2,000 signatures from Reading NATIONAL Union of Teachers' leaders were people and this was lust over tor surface and underground the weekend, Tom Hibbard,

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENI

yesterday once again poring over the employers' Reading district officer of the THE STALINIST call for a European security con- pay offer which they have already rejected.

iransport and veneral ference is one of the main topics to be discussed between Workers' Union, told Workers The ement side has offered Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and Tory premier Press. Edward Heath today. *O homelat forms or productivity bargain is never fore tale able to or this meat. eman aided and d Poland are also unae "These preparations are pa eries yesterday •per-all claftheasabers a choby-school That Mate y estimated at 4225 Smilin Liton in the workers sate, Solidarity 3 mill basic pay Common Market countries. •bot 90 met Confident Britton has said that adorat propose shey the conde Ne so vard the rechers posite resting the pen stoppage yesterday. Union of E Foundry workers sacring form one conste

EEC

union (tary ack University not Indust working dias to the capit is Confeder "of British soften andustry, Re-structure industrial relation Norman Sloan, QC engineers They Talks between W Germany on entry or eatens pay coul Busmen oppose International solidarity-CP style Clear union law very th, cho: anagement side has mad with Birth onl tions, to Brist ZEMUN town counci Mot is a disone that af were bical racering hey one ense the Warn receiving the Labour Market atroducerit ernment's etchers by salary: and world

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28, 1970 • NUMBER 287 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What Tories' ruthless cuts mean they're out to we Raise jobless think The road to defeat total and Trades Counci iday s workers Press Cliff Slaughter pointed cut wages basis, YESTERDAY'S ruthless cuts in social services

BYA POLITICAL

give workers the first glimpse of Edward Heath's

CORRESPONDENT

'quiet revolution'. after The statement of Mr Clift not Barber's axe means the lowest The Tory 'revolution' paid-people who need free school milk for their children and who • No free milk for children over seven. School meal cannot pay the big increases in charges up next year. prescription charges — will be on before • Health prescription charges up to a minimum of driven down into the Tortes- 4s per item. poverty. Council Dental fees half of cost of treatment.

Equally the cuts in in- inquiry vestment in nationalized • Charges on spectacles up.

industries. the removal of Bile sot i • Investment grants in areas of high unemployment regional employment Ine opens defeat and anvestmet Revolution, grants will mean rocket-

INQUIRY

*laint opened • Regional employment premium to go.

unemployment in the Ing yesterday, 17º: guarantee at development aréas. "decided • Profits tax to go down.

wass, revealed ary would indeed be easy • No sickness benefit to be paid for first three days Hassive reaction. off work. a No maintain of docks. Second front Cuts danger Heath's in pay offer to teachers NATIONAL Union of Teachers' leaders were yesterday once again poring over the employers' pay offer which they have already rejected.

orms of productivity bargain it insists is it 147 mihan he let us never for et tha grade employed. alone Confident strikes Troyer 3, 1970. Because they are already not moving toward the struct proposals ' While rejecting the 7t-per- GEC director Si i is in tạct Confed of their Re-structure Thy les an ete possibl reapere rest cold Busmen oppose take union law managempay side has mad astor or altation shich depend troops Saturday nigh Eve to tenant Se T experi- recalls state one Bil. Beera stike again

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The daily paper that leads the Tory government

1Y OCTOBER 28, 1970

PRICE 6d. NUMBER Col Three days to raise f404 18s 6d for Oct Fund I aper air days the menti • needs the plete he total by October 31.

these ene of Workers reel are relying on 186a CI es to every our budget, we rely

BY DAVID MAUDE

LEADERS of Britain's 292,000 miners yesterday received a new pay offer from the National Coal Board tied to a guaranteed coal production level in the first six months of next year.

Ting several hours of com- during veral TUC must back bill 10s-a-week glassmen r Coal roard is insisting esses for th lead of yesterday's Reading march.

sacker ey achie ed as Wicy nondon S1? this from

REDUCTION?

Engineers Boar his say do told drywor berthe week increase from Day 1, 1971. DA Coal board asked if there w nould been possible te the the reactions not attained.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

some LED BY road sweeper Ernie Warwick on tam- bourine, 300 council workers and engineers sang and chanted outside Reading Town Hall offer could yesterday. What do we wants,

GROMYKO-HEATH TALKS

shouted ther Sukers representatives entered building to hand in a petition council of the SUPPOrt

GAIN

workers to the town clerk.

2,000 We have already signatures from Reading people and this was just over

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

weekena, 1om hiodard Reading district officer of the THE STALINIST call for a European security con- General ference is one of the main topics to be discussed between Workers' Union, told Workers Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko and Tory premier Press. Edward Heath today. anc Whạt the Soviet agreen ratifying and Poland are also under sign. common Maker senates: ut 50 men Solidarity of Czecho m planes what marched thro with the council workers.

n support of the t20. 'We the working the the French Co eacist Party in May and Jum stoppage yesterday. step alon Foundryworkers'

EEC

will not become revolutionary Wecan see thate challenge of reached working class to the capitalis soften workers discipline The lessor might get Cavay leaders s of i procos. on thi a on the Krem on entry next." Talks between W Germany tional solidarity-CP style Clear Heath, thenday night town hall on 1 recept tions et between di rent coon: minister The Towet good thing. hich ore British tr cceptance of the Soviet n to Zemu No comment. industry.

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A TURRELL

Mr HUGHES

BRISTOL

SCHOOLS

SHUTDOWN

UNITES

HOUSEWIVES

AND

COUNCILMEN

THE COUNCIL WORKERS' strike in Bristol has been notable for the militant backing given by mothers of the children deprived of schooling for more than three weeks.

Caretakers at the city's 220 schools joined the strike on their own initiative at the start or national action.

Housewives carrying banners inscribed Wake up Walker, pay up, open up' have repeatedly lobbied local Tory leader Gervas Walker, council concede the manual demanding that the workers' claim and open the schools.

Sixty-year-old Mrs Smith, who took her grandchildren on a council workers' demonstration, complained of the Tories reluctance to meet their delegation, but added: 'Anyway we'd have torn them to pieces.

'If you kept the kids home you'd be summoned' she said. 'I think we should do that to the Tory council.'

A fortnight ago housewives lobbied the Council House for two days running until Walker finally gave way and spoke to them One of the delegation said: 'Just because I've got a child at school isn't what makes me adamant. The caretakers have to do all sorts of jobs to get terrible money. warts susay & march through Brlto demanding the councH!

LIND

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MRS ELIZABETH TURRELL

of Kingsdown, Bristol told us that mothers were extremely annoyed that nothing had been done to settle the strike.

'My children have been home for three weeks now and it's very disruptive for them.

The council were nine days before they arranged for any work for the children. 'Some of the mothers are now very tired and a lot of them are losing money through not being able to keep up jobs. I'm lucky because when I go to work my neighbour looks after my children and I do in return. 'We had hoped that the council would pay up if they realized how much it was affecting the families.' I THINK the men are justi- fied in claiming 55s', said MRS MURIEL EWERS of South- mead. 'I heard on television the other night that the caretakers had never been on strike. You take it for granted that these men will always be doing the work. For the type of work they do the wages are disgust- ing. 'At the council meeting today councillors said they wouldn't do it for £3,000 a year. 'Last Wednesday we were trying to impress on the coun cil that its not just the strikers and their wives — we're com- league with the in pletely council workers. 'But Gervas Walker was dis- cussing something like the SS Great Britain' [the decaying hull of Brunel's steamship, recently towed back to Bristol as a historic relic]. 'When we went into the public gallery they needed a squad of police to keep us quiet. 'Gervas Walker suggested on television that mothers should The do school cleaning. teachers' association was very upset by this. This morning he said if the council workers all we could start dis- went back won't and I cussing. But they don't blame them. Speaking of last Saturday's demonstration she said: 'I just dropped everything to go. - even the shopping. I never thought I'd be on something like this. But if we don't have a go, then we'll never get anywhere' Mrs EWERS Mr KEN WELSBY workers press favour of all-out action' - he spoke of his work and wages.

'Even after a 40-hour week', he said-'we're overtime on at a flat 5s an hour. There's no time-and-a-half. 'For this we're expected to get the boilers going, some- times at 5.30 in the morning during the winter. 'I have to manage the main- tenance and the cleaners, order and fuel. I'm all materials for and responsible security bank the school's have to money and fetch meal tickets from the town. My working. week is any- thing up to 60 hours. I work from 6.30 a.m. to noon and then I'm off until 3 There is supposed to p.m. à break from 6 p.m. until 6.30 p.m.; but it isn't a real break.

activities in the school' in • the evenings and cleared these to be have up after 9.30 p.m. 'We're on call 24 hours

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talked to day and expected to be there MR KEN WELSBY, a comprer at weekends. hensive school and • caretaker Bristol social life. member of the strike I've no I've had committee. one weekend out with my wife in four years.' After commenting that the Mr Welsby showed us three strike tactics had been 'very bad'- -'Our members and the slips which ranged from wage in £62 4s 2d to £68 9s Id a strike committee are all вВС 1 Schools. 12.25-12.50 p.m.

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2.05- 2.50 Schools. 4.20 Play school. 4.40 Jackanory.

4.55 Touaregs. 5.15 Tom Tom. 5.44 Magic roundabout. 5.50 News and weather.

6.00

NATIONWIDE.

London.

6.45 THE DOCTORS.

7.10 TOM AND JERRY.

... The cost of Guy Fawkes night.

7.20 REMEMBER, REMEMBER

8.10 SOFTLY, SOFTLY—TASK FORCE. 'Without Favour".

9.00 THE NINE O'CLOCK NEWS and weather.

9.20 SPORTSNIGHT WITH COLEMAN. Including World Cup Rugby League: Great Britain v France.

10.45 24 HOURS.

11.20 Weather.

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All regions as above except: Sco.loda60006 5.00-6.45 Reporting Scotland Remen Midided Midlands Anglia: 6.00-6.45 Nation- Task remenber softly Look wide today. Party political News, National Party. 11.22 News, weather.

weather weather The scolts NW. NE, Cumberland and North. 6.00-6.45 Westmor ande Nanonwoe N Ireland: 6.00-6.45 Scene 12522d sis 11.22 News. Look North, weather. weatner Westh5.00 Wales: weather Wales .455 10 dae weather sW, South, West: 6.00-6.45 Nation- Heddiw. Nationwide 7.40-8.10 Ble wide. West. South ch the tamily catech chi fynd. ( 11.20-11.45 Late Spotlight SW. Weather. weather.

BBC 2

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SQUARE TWO.

7.05 p.m. 7.30 NEWSROOM and weather.

8.00 TIMES REMEMBERED.

MAN ALIVE. The mood of America. 'The Way Ahead'. A cioss- 8.10 section of Americans talk about their hopes and fears for the future. 9.00 PETS AND VETS. "Breeding'.

BIOGRAPHY. 'A King and His Keeper'. Alan Badel as Charles I.

9.20 10.45 NEWS ON 2 and weather.

LATE NIGHT LINE-UP.

10.50 BBC 2 Scotland as above except: 8.00-8.05 Gustavus. 8.05 Man Alive. 8.55-9.00 Party political broadcast on behalf of the Scottish National Party.

ITV

11.00 a.m.-2.59 p.m. Schools. 4.17 Rupert Bear. 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Lift off. 5.20 Wreckers at dead eye. 5.50 News.

6.02 TODAY.

THE SAINT. 'Invitation to Danger'.

6.35

7.30 CORONATION STREET.

THE BENNY HILL SHOW.

8.00 9.00 SPECIAL BRANCH. 'Reported Missing'.

NEWS AT TEN.

10.00 LIFE WITH COOPER. Tommy Cooper.

10.30

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.

11.00

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

11.45 12.00 THE CORRIDORS OF POWER. Ivor Mills talks to midnight Gwynoro Jones, Labour MP.

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CHANNEL:

11.00-3.00 London 4.10 Wind Channel except: 3.58 4.25 6.00 The willows. LOnGOn. weather. A trican patrol

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11.00-3.00 London. 4.00 "reasure hunt 11.40 Epilogue. 30 London. 18 willows. Wind in the LOndon. News, 4.30 6.00 dav weather Wednesday, October 28, 1970 month after stoppages, includ- ing an average of 50 hours a month overtime. It's not only the wage claim that's important,' he explained.

'We've got to wait five years weeks'. before getting three holiday. We want this after 12 months. 'We're expected to do all these things for a pittance.'

Asked about the course of the strike he added: 'All these inquiries just give the Tories time to pass their anti-union laws. The govern- ment's attitude is back to the 1920s. We've got to bring more industries into the strike. We need more support from other branches - cars, engineering, dockers--this is what hits the profits. 'We need them all out-the big cities-Manchester, Glas- gow and so on' ANOTHER Bristol caretaker, MR HUGHES felt that the employers were very stubborn.

'The inquiry is a foregone conclusion—it will lead to sup- pressing the workers. If the troops are used again we should call on our brothers in the car industry and all Lon- don militants for support.'

Crime desk. 6.30 Best of Lucy. 7.00 Jokers wild. 7.30 London. 8.00 Miss Southern Television 1970. 8.50 Love, American style. 9.00 London. 10.30 Southern scene. 11.00. London. 11.45 News. 11.55 Weather. Action 70.

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4.18 Women today. 4.40 Anita in jumble- land. 4.55 London. 6.01 Report West.

6.18 Report Wales. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Jokers wild. 7.30 London. 11.45 weather. HTV (West) colour channel 61 as above except: 4.16-4.18, 6.01-6.35 Report West.

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ANGLIA:

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6.00 About Anglia. 6.35 Crossroads. London. 11.00 London. 11.45 Reflection.

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Dateline. 7.00 Jokers wild. Bonanza. 9.00 London. Scotsport. 11.15 Wrestling. 11.45 Late call.

GRAMPIAN: 10.58-3.00 London. 3.52 today. News, Cartoon. Women 4.15 4.25 weather. Jokers 6.10 London. 6.00 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 Week, stile. 355 Son political broadcast.

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Wednesday, October 28, 1970

REVIEW: FRANK CARTWRIGHT

A TWO-HOUR BBC-2

programme bringing to- gether much of the respectable re- world's search on the human brain and some of the inquiries into mind (a much more dangerous aspect of the subject) is not as much in contra- with Monty diction Python's Flying Circus or Spike Milligan as some might argue. BBC mounted Last Friday the one of the scientific programmes for which it is uniquely famed, a round-up of the acceptable world-wide research resear the banner The Mind of Man'. Using film studio and to- Raymond gether, but Baxter, it was however consider- ably less than its title promised.

It was impressive in catalogu- ing and demonstrating many areas of investigation and experi- a major area of scientific work ment into the functioning of the yet to be done. brain; held back it never any But the struggle for conscious- chemical or other detail which aid viewer to under- ness, for mind, has wider, deeper could the dialectical stand. and more meanings than such studies in this system Nigel Calder (the writer) and production can reveal. Philip had •Daly (the producer) Mind can only be understood clearly travelled round the world dialectically; brain research acted on and only most of done, course, according to sober advice. They even acknow- laws of the scientific disci- the ledged some connections between pline brought to bear mind and body! upon it, and properly so. But when the chemistry, the

MECHANICAL

physics and the mathematics have been done on sleeping, for But the programme remained, example, adequate theory of despite all flashes of excitement, dreams will still have to be mechanical account of mostly developed. mechanical research Simply to describe The functioning of man's aspects of an event-even if that brain, its development historic- description enables certain ally and through be ot control to Italion, s Worker Behan • THE 'DAILY MAIL' is Charles following the career of "surprisingly restrained'.

"I'm opposed to instant revo- Brian Behan with great lution", the roistering Behan told interest. reports he spoke yesterdas prove against arch-revolutionary Tarig Having reported earlier his history Ali at university intention to study the 'Mail' last debate. Sussex University, week featured an interview under the heading: 'Behan surprises his Moral credit university'. 'He is settling down well, he says, to the routine of the univer- Behan trained by the was Communist Party in the 1950s as sity. "It's a bit like a monastery a syndicalist trade unionist in the as the extremism of some of the cuts out the chance for building industry. He left the CP students traditional radical discussion. in 1957 disagreements with Uver But I'm enjoying it. The students their trade union policies.

see me as an odd sort of figure, Joining our movement, he but moral credit my is pretty refused to abandon his hostility good as I've been in jail a couple Marxist of times"? to theory, restricting himself to conceptions of rank- and-file 'militancy. serves the 'Daily Mail' Behan in a double way. Break As a caricature of a stage-Irish, worker, wild-man, rebel he can This led to his break with be used to discredit revolutionary us that in 1960, when he insisted politics. At the same time, as tamed militant, the Labour Party was a capitalist his opposition to and denounced the Marxism will, it is hoped, organization turn Socialist Labour League as students away from the working for its continued class. 'opportunist' struggle for Marxist leadership But, in the present situation, in the unions. the evolution man like Behan cannot end at this stage.

Now, as the fight against the of His further the Tories the question movement to poses revolutionary leadership before right must be watched Marxists as closely as by Fleet St.

the working class as never before, I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

SECRETARY,

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Name Address cised-can never be a substitute for a full theory of the whole nature of that event. And wherever résearch yields the possibility of intervention for profit, all the evidence now is that within the production rela- tions the results are destructive of man's life on the planet.

CONFUSION

The bourgeoisie is not inter- ested in the whole, in learning the laws of nature to build a better life for all men; its in- terests are simply to lengthen its own life and rule at any cost.

And to present brain research as if it were a philosophy of mind is a valuable service of confusion to this end. But then science has consist- бобтттабт.т Workers Press notebook

LAST

WEEK'S

'Notebook' referred to British drug-peddling in China in the last century.

This week sees the 110th anniver- sary of the triumphal entry of British forces into Peking.

The looting and burning of the Imperial Palace in 1860 ended that glorious period in the history of the British Empire known as the Opium Wars. Huge fortunes had been made by British merchants in the 1820s and 1830s from the growing of opium in Bengal and its smuggl- ing into China. As the Emperor tried to stamp out this threat to the health the Chinese people, the British saw an opportunity to break open China for foreign trade. When a Chinese official-one who had not been corrupted by British bribery - destroyed the entire stock of opium in Canton, the Royal Navy went into action, and the First Opium War had begun. The right of true-born English- men to poison the Chinese was upheld, and under the treaty of 1842 Hong Kong island was ceded to Britain and the main ports opened to foreign trade- including opium. Compensation for the drug supplies was given destroyed in 1839. But trade did not increase fast enough for the City of London.

In 1857, a Chinese smuggling boat, manned by a crew wanted by the Chinese police, but registered as British Hong in Kong, was arrested in Canton.

Springing to the defence of British life and property, the Palmerston government put its 'gunboat diplomacy' into action.

An important role in this, the start of the Second Opium War, was played by the Consul in Canton, Dr Bowring. This gentleman was not only a former free-trader MP, but had also achieved fame as the author of the hymn • 'In the Cross of Christ I Glory'. Under the Treaty of Tientsin in 1858, not only were the rights of British and French merchants extended, but the interior of the opened upto country was Christian missionaries. British dope of both material and spiritual varieties was now going to be freely pushed.

But the imperialists were still not satisfied. Fresh hostilities

WORKERS PRES

'THE MIND OF MAN' BBC 2, Octobe ently been presented in this way on television. Always kept in tight and separate compartments.

Only questioned in the most collaborative way, the scientists have rarely been called to account their positions. Make no mistake: we do not ask a scientist to justify his work according to some imme- diately utilitarian or moral criteria. But so often the ideas which they treasure their as own unique and free insight are sim- ply the needs of their masters refracted through them and into their work.

BARRIERS

AND

unfortunately much the same is true of Spike Milligan (Oh In Colour', BBC 2). Lord Elgin enters Peking, October 24, 1860. were begun in the following year, ending only with the occupation of the capital city of the Celestial Empire. Writing in 1857, Engels had said: 'One thing is certain, that the death hour of the old China is Canticism hine • The very southern fanaticism Chinese in their struggle against foreigners seems to mark a of the supreme consciousness danger in which the old China is placed; and before many years pass away we shall have to wit- ness the death-struggle of the oldest empire in the world, and the opening day of a new era for all Asia.' Ninety-three years later, the Navy claimed its last victory in China. But this time it was the with- drawal of the cruiser 'Amethyst' down the Yangtse which was celebrated, as the Chinese Red infaminally imperstop the infamies imperialist gang- sterism in China.

WORKERS PRESS

COLUMN

BC 2, October 23. He *The people in the castle down- appears crash against the barriers of the acceptable, to stairs.' break through the limitations of We're shown Milligan as respectability, and all in search squadron leader in 1940. After of 'humanity'. film of the period, newsree His jokes and sketches, along with jingoistic complete com- with John Antrobus, long mentary and he begins way apparently mocking writing letter sacred institutions like the mon- of a pilot to the mother 'shot archy, the holiness of war and down at blank hours, over blank, blank of the church. the July'.. completes the letter and caricature copper, con- hands it to an adjutant with the stantly flexing his knees, arrives 'Have ten million instructions: on his bike to break of those run off'. tle between the Coldstream Guards and the Comanche Indians, being fought the

SWING

dining of Queen Victoria rOOm and Prince Albert at Windsor.

Admirable stuff. But con- Victoria, played by stantly the material also veers off He says to Rita Webb: 'I've had complaints heartlessness and into cynicism about the noise in this castle'. which may untypical 'Who from?' asks the Milligan in other ways. Oueen.

COUPLE

of new Moral Re-Armament pamphlets have appeared which bring the message of for 'changed men' the need right up to date. Entitled 'Management and Men: the Missing Factor' and Change, "Capitalists Can they illustrations of the lesson that

MRA

methods can bring about productivity and YOU MAY have read recently Minister Malik and Minister of of a lady in Indonesia who Religion Dachlan of the reaction- claimed she was 18 months preg- ary Indonesian regime. nant with a baby who was to be heard reciting passages from the They were all disappointed to Koran. learn last week that the whole Many people flocked to ob- thing was a hoax. The lady wasn't serve this phenomenon and to pregnant at all, found doctors ask the precocious foetus diffi- in Jakarta. cult points of Moslem theology.

The recitations were produced by ventriloquism and the bulge Among' by careful use of the stomach pilgrims were the President Suharto, Foreign muscles. , aren't always the way they seem. In this speclally USSON and JOANNA ROBBINS show how easily It's precisely this trap though that's so dangerous now. When there's no distinction between a 'funny' worker and a 'funny' ignorant' between queen, an working-class wife and a pre- tentious bourgeois one, there's no firm ground for the artist.

He'll swing this way and that depending on the relationship of forces in the society. Certainly many producers are doing just that. ' Just now, comedians like Milli- and the group who do gan, Monty Python's Flying Circus, to hold quite a radical seem posture. Certainly the surreal invention of the latter show plus its technical control can also be magnificent and last week's edition was extraordinarily good.

Mockery of the law, of middle- class life, of pretence, combined to make some lethal material.

profit increases. 'There is a missing factor. Change to be effective must start with ourselves • When a manager listens to the Almighty as he expects his staff to listen to him, he gets direction. When he follows that direction miracles of change can happen.' This is the astounding con- reached clusion by M. A. economist and Cameron, an who has transport consultant worked for British Rail and the World Bank. Take, for example, the case of 'the deputy convenor of shop stewards in a large plant near Manchester'. This man 'felt frus- trated about the way things were going in the plant, and was on the point of Joining the Com- munist Party. 'Then he met people who suggested that a revolution which changed human nature was superior to one which only changed systems.' As a result, runs the story, he got the workers to adopt a new agreement, giving greater "flexibility'. 'A few months ago, the com- pany announced plans for the expansion of the operation at this and another Cameron also tells of the man 'who leads all the building trade operatives in Coventry'. After 22 years in the CP, this gentleman 'now says the class war is out of date'. Example A third example quoted is of Jack Carrol, former strike leader on Bristol docks. After meeting MRA, he 'put things right with his official trade union representatives and with the management; and not many months later the manager of the port paid tribute on television to the good relations in the port.

'On a later occasion he added, "The influence of Jack Carrol and men like him may be one of the reasons why we have had so little trouble in the port of Bristol since decasualization"? The other pamphlet is about the experience of Shashi Patel, an Indian capitalist who took up with MRA. this, Before his son and daughter had taken to drink- and his nearly bankrupt factory was racked by strikes. Then he found the answer.

Meeting the union general secre- tary, a Mr Thonsekar, he even- tually got an agreement. 'Already there is a different spirit in the factory. The produc- tion is picking up. The workers are happier . • "Thonsekar and Patel both believe that more important than rupees and annas is the worker- management relationship. It is like husband and wife' Patel says: 'I have been ques- tioning my motives for wanting to make my factory a success.

Am I doing it as a showman?

For profit? Or because it is right?

In the context of the needs of the nation, ! honestly believe it is for the third reason.'

We are not told what the workers in his factory think, however.

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n this speclally constructed room MAGNUS ow how easily your brain can be fooled.

• The jokes at the law or at the censorship of the BBC were also usually doubled in their effect by being immediately apologized for as being against everything true or British.

INTENTIONS

But whatever the intentions of we're left wondering how much dis- affection they spread by their humour and how much they act simply as a safety valve to a system famous for the myriad ways it has developed of letting off excess steam. Both have programmes recently come in for attacks from

BBC

management and both would be a loss in the growing repressive climate. But again, we need have no illusions. As long as they are possible they will be tolerated; and they are tolerated as long as they're useful. The rapid move towards a heightened state power, aimed to protect privileged and wealthy, is usually accompanied by an attempt to create an impression of 'consensus' politics.

ILLUSION

This is the illusion that pre- sents all sensible, sane, rational men—or all men able to take a joke-as being in broad agree- ment over what must be done to deal with the difficulties of "society'. That process is fast getting under way now and the thing to be noticed is the way in .

which so many of the radical, muck-raking trendy left are assisting it. This is the period when com- merical television and the BBC are exercising more and more direct censorship on ideas, fin- ished programmes and produc- tion staff, when resignations are forced out of radio workers after the merest satirical remarks about the Tory Party (1 refer to 'It's Saturday'), and when the Tory government is bringing the full •weight of its plan for all- out attacks on the working class into operation. It is no surprise to learn that Mr Chataway (Minister of Posts and Telecommunications) is building up a plan for the establishment of a government watchdog committee to vet all television and radio output.

PROCESS

Wilson and the Labour govern- ment began this whole process with their appointments to key jobs in the industry. The ex-boss of the Indepen- dent Television Authority, the well-known 'socialist' Sir Robert Fraser, was also recently quoted saying in effect as that too much discussion on television of the weaknesses of our demo- cratic society will undermine its very democratic nature. Therefore, democratically and in the best interests of preserving it, we should be stopped having democratic discussions or investi- gations on television. In the midst of all this, it is a Labour MP, Maurice Edelman, showing greatest faith in the system, who is asking Тогу leader Heath to set up a control commission comparable to the Press Council.

BARGAIN

He's likely to get more than he bargained for-especially with support coming from the lefties of broadcasting itself. It is reported that the radical' 76 group-formed early this year to urge a Royal Commission on broadcasting - had a discussion evening with Chataway last week. To deal in anyway with a Tory Minister can only lead to class compromise, and to express to him their feeling of the need for an independent body to pro- tect their 'rights' of 'free expres- sion' will only lend strength to his argument on the need for some controlling body, however described. It's a dangerous time for all workers. For those inside broad- casting, the period is rapidly developing point where to a critical choices will have to be made between the two sides taking positions. For all work- ers, sharp eyes must be kept on the screen. The use made of it during the strike, council workers' when handicapped children and the dead were wheeled out as anti- strike evidence, is only one more warning.

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BY JOHN CRAWFORD

'TO GET panicky about the anti-union legislation Tony Cliff of the International Socialism group He was replying to

ALL TRADES

discussion at a meeting

UNIONS ALLIANCE

on productivity deals

MEETINGS

called by Wandsworth Trades Council. 'No anti-union laws' Force the Tories I support the call for to resign' national strike on December Wednesday'ub. 8,' he said, 'but I know that

LONDON:

October 28, 8 p.m. Prince Albert Balfe strike one-day is not Street

LONDON

the laws. Nednesdazil, enough to smash October "The real fight will come 28, Co-op seven Sisters Road registering WednesdayWilison Road. on not unions

THANET

28, and on the fining of strikers Willson Hall. Dont. after the laws are passed.' Ramsgate /Sireet. p.m. Earlier he had referred to High

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Thursday, October two strategies in relation to Artichoke Pub. 29, amber. productivity deals -one be- Church Camberwell Green. fore their implementation

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October and the other after. Pier Hotel, Beach Street. Miners Much

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November Monday Acton such he Acton Co-op Hall. ex- arrecinents. plained, the second strategy

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Wednesday, November was the important one. Kerbey St ar Chrisp St Market, Festival (near t14. 'Boomerang' 'Police state' In a speech which never

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in other parts of the coun- developed try had as a result of such agreements being introduced. 'Workers are more united as a consequence,' declared Cliff. His proposals for trade unionists included rank-and- file conferences, greater com- munication between workers in different industries and the re-building of shop the stewards' movement as in 1916-19181 The building of a revolu- a long tionary party was struggle in the next ten to 15 years, he explained.

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protest channels is, in fact, a continuation of its sup- port for the Stalinists during the anti-White Paper cam- paign in 1969. This led to the July com- promise with Wilson and, inexorably, to the present retreat of the TUC and the Stalinist leaders before the Tories. It testifies to the complete bankruptcy of state capital- ism and reveals in a glaring way something that Trotskyists have long pointed to. Those groups who refuse to defend in a principled way the most decisive conquest of the world working class, the property relations of the Soviet Union, cannot de- fend its less important con- quests, the trade unions.

To betray the defence of the Soviet Union against im- perialism is to sacrifice the trade unions to the Tory counter-revolution. That is the logic of Mr Cliff's method and outlook. The same moral applies to the Institute for Workers' Con- trol which, for all its anti- Tory pretentions, tries to 'in- substitute a non-class dustrial democracy' for the socialist dictatorship of the working class and the , ex- propriation of the capitalist class. It is a scarcely-veiled attempt to impose on the trade reactionary, unions the mystic and anti-communist philosophy of its ex-patron and ex-Honorary President, the Earl Russell OM FRS. That is why it can welcome

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the stand on the anti-union laws and glibly ignore its manifest failure to call a one-day nation- wide stoppage against the Bill and to lead any effec- tive campaign against it.

The IWC conference resolu- tion does not call anywhere for a general strike against the Tories, but instead talks vaguely the TUC about calling a 'massive rally and demonstration' in London on the eve of the TUC's recall conference which should be brought forward to 'coincide with the early readings of the Bill in parliament'. It is easy to see how the reformism of the Institute complements the verbose radicalism of the state capi- talists. The former want to lead the 'the blind trade unions up 'workers' control' alley of divorced from power while the latter, in alliance with the Stalinists, try to dissi- revolutionary pate of the working potential class in localized and un- co-ordinated protest actions.

While we support December 8 as a step, and only a step, towards raising militancy against the anti-union laws, we warn workers that any attempt to pose December 8 as a substitute for a real the lines campaign along indicated must be resisted. We urge all militant trade unionists not to fall for the trap set by these reformist • groups, but to concentrate instead on the campaign to force the executives of the trade unions to call, through the TUC, a one-day general strike against the Tory gov- ernment. Forward to the defeat of the anti-union laws ! Force the Tory government to resign!

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spends for full increase assistant to Defence Minister harassment of Panther mem- monstrations tica tormed in an METALWORKERS in the Bremen, and Unterweser region of Aircraft • "Shchekim. W Germany went on strike yesterday for a full 15 per cent 2000. they every member of the poputa pallet us The National increase. The action by 56,000 men followed their rejection 12 per cent offer from management, backed by arbitrator Paul Neverman, Bremen's Social Democratic mayor.

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council's still out white-collar workers are giving Police attack metal material support to rail strike in borough's manual worker THE LORRAINE coalminers who inined the councilmen's Tunisia national action last Thursday.

BOURGUIBA Ton MoH Tations and Local Govern of the truck, and militants in othe workan in tuni Nationa Westpharia, higher sette striking railway take a ers donation to the o ones lied ested Sidi Fathalad with ps had ones and logal plot da a and union theresponsibility for the ed o- memories Peter Archer the pose on relat STAGGERED contrated yes national major in September, ensure tread warily. scarcely-ve was and postal workers neateste Rebound John Walls representing emergency arrangements. making their Tove has nded doan directly comes before parierces nationa the with at silke luna Pit pay and union laws are linked stepped But the branch abolition at on as. sub- Says JOHNNY WALSH, Glasshoughton 2S 1967, the delegate to the Yorkshire Area g subsi di owing a motor accident National Union of Mineworkers and a Labour Party national continese sed ist for 14 years, a member: 's now think they of th reinforced and the working im- Published, we all know what's has orld's first daily Trotskyist against ureaucracy rainst permission Moselle,

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