Workers Press no. 296

Socialist Labour League Central Committee says: More wait Victory to the

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What we think The only way to answer capitalist intlation

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a 42-90s gained wage in crease. vito the tory blow to The he Times, in its mouthpiece of Toryism so capit as a ter al the capit seen i and i per ea "st Table since is as er Lord of Fleet se line t with io per cent in October. Warning about the prospect of i total cole in the belief currency, The Times' then The Brians deemin inflation: Prophetic voras maeed shorn! Tory gaunted power of th Not surprisingly it is forced to comment Soones of the amply rath Yes struggle inspire tu miners already Every wage increase, won after agina infiatior The abby ary treadmil

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• SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1, 19/0 • NUMBER 290

AGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

LORD ALFRED

INCREASE

WE THE MINERS are about to engage in their biggest and most vital

BY DAVID MAUDE

strike since 1926.

CANUTE-LIKE

by manoeuvres Every miner knows that he is talled to stem the against the Nationale oat Board, but against battle only rising tide of support for national action amongst suke miners the combined forces of big business yesterday. and their Conservative The 50,000 or so Yorkshire, S Wales and Scottish ment. solidly on strike yesterday ale now almost certain to be joined next week by at least an equal number-3,500 of them a dent. Scottish at near chief orate message 10r in Son his time at ye ver Meetings strike is to kno the 40,000-strong no we sat Weeding of sure asid ends on note tide for Before branches see are citive will als General all-out Unior • instruct th move coal from stock

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE BULK

of Britain's 70,000 striking council workers vesterdav Justified agreed to return to work on Mon- 'Of course we would like to day when operation clean-up will 70,000 miners are co coys start in earnest. ins are no had to be forec ed by Barbe despite him. and the is felt that Witne thes would many dran London, a NUR spoke introduced be able to bold bac s0o seit. the coalfield in the pas settlement

COVENTRY

the dispute esthen you then with the on miss al

NEWCASTLE

i derbies

BIRMINGHAM,

in Scorend, Yorkshire torced by the mon Committed others, have been forced by Sue against coated The Coal Board, meanwhile, ano hesitating to listen only 8,600,000 amounting anto fortrease mee noting at the and 3 Yark.

these right-wing leaders.

o wash blocking sackie the husy cites an seemin huge mounds The union leadership must now be in- shire panels was 'very close'.

prolonged strike. councils :, at tai wil ployers faci nion officias at BiRMING- ampaign throughou the miners Conservatives M councilmen 35,000 tons of rubbish in the on the see let MIXED feelings over the Scamp inquiry find- In LIVERPOOL corporation ings were expressed by Birmingham Transport ne who fail to lead and General stewards we spoke to following 8 ese are in a meeting with local officials yesterday.

essons of 192€ it's diabolical" blic works steward No coal argument. g chief Robens has spoke Definitely, I really Birmingham counci used with the 50s off press they were not final offer, worry more. He wil at hi As I said outside the Coun Soviet oppositionist count is being recommended yy canesda absorbe torres one thank to face trial

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serious on are ber sare immediately fe Brave words from the stag is out steps he salvage deparment the salvage ver since, wil face trial along

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echoed ke mesery pie in the stop dietermined

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Slanders reading anti basic rights and other are

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Minister of State Paul Bryan said: the strike hamshire, Sovietnion 19 published in NUM executive must *The lesson is that we will the West in vote next Thursday The union, at national, elation of the Robert Care was asked what Determination and local level, must cal trict case the the ortorkers cadfastness and that proposed Amier this to black all transpor unions ng strike to the miners

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Brave words - but also if it takes place, that is

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Yesterday's complaint

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from Employment Minister Robert Carr that the organizing workers at British- Leyland's Service plant

BMC

Trades Union Congress comes the following resolu- tion: refused to discuss details (Cowley No. 4 branch calls of the proposed law- on the national executive to declare a one-day stoppage reported on page four—is, of work by the NUVB as the start of definite campaign of course, a cynical blind.

against the anti-trade union proposed by the Con- laws Alongside his previous servative government. statement that the legislation's principal 'eight pillars' are not At the time, the Sane bring negotiable, the government's executive should pres- announced time-table for sure to bear on the TUC to its makes convene a special meeting for implementation clear that the Tories intend to press the purpose of formulating a on regardless. united policy to defeat the proposed The Industrial Relations legislation. Bill is scheduled to appear in gst four weeks' time, go to its Hoke back Second Reading in the House of Commons the in week But some trade union December 14-18, move into officials now appear to be en- January and committee gaged in a concerted campaign have its Third Reading before to hold workers back behind the end of February. suicidal their official leaders' wait-and-see' policy. After Transport and General So the emergency national Workers' Midlands engineer- committee of the Amal- ing officer George Wright was Engineers amated and reported yesterday ad- and oundryworkers the mitting that it was only with

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well fall special could difficulty that full-time officials after the Bill's passage through prevailed' on delegates to the Commons. Monday's and engineering motors section of the union's Less than a month's delay Birmingham district com- expected in the Tory- mittee 'to defer action and dominated House of Lords

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official the

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before the Bill becomes an campaign. Act. Birmingham AEF organizer That, in any event, is the Norman Cartwright said that plan. with

TUC

interference the But powerful forces are still would be campaign not building up in the trade union tolerated. Bill- His objection to Carr's Bill MOVemenT against the with the miners now in the was that it would weaken us, front linel and we cannot keep control of people without strong unions'. Resolution And at London's Imperial From Oxford's Cowley No. College branch of the Associa- branch the of National tion of Scientific, Technical Union of Vehicle Builders and Managerial Staffs, defeated similar motion was chairman - a Com- when its munist Party member who sits November

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national tive spoke against the demand for a national one-day stoppage. £1,250 Fund He claimed that such action was premature, would put the 'out limb' and union on starts at could alienate potential white-i collar workers. Such tendencies will have £95 3s 11d be ruthlessly fought and TO defeated if the struggle Tories stop the and force them to resign is to be WE'RE STILL talking about successful. your magnificent effort behind the success of October our Yesterday's Industrial fund. Society conference (full report, We promised you a Workers four) heard British- page Press which would fight night Leyland industrial relations Tory and day against the director Pat Lowry point out government. that the Tory law would aid Rest assured, we will live what he termed the trend to up to that promise. framework national Now we are off to a start ments. on the November fund. "There difficulties in Don't leave it to the last are securing of minute. Send your donations implementation of that kind,' he at once to: agreements said—in what could be inter- Workers Press Appeal Fund, preted as a reference to his 186a Clapham High St, own combine's difficulties over Measured-Day Work London, SW4. the clauses of the engineering package deal. The Tory proposals would aid such in getting. terms n the Tories accepted. *In however,' he the major revers in view added, matter for the minister as collective bargaining will still the situation develops continue to be carried through From the Labour benches basis.' largely on a voluntary Carr's predecessor Mrs Asked how British-Leyland Barbara Castle offered the stewards would react the Tories some advice on Bill, even if Tones and Scanlon keeping down wages. Lowry refused to accepted it, If Carr had allowed his answer 'on the record'. department's conciliation If I answer this were to services to be used in the question it would probably normal way, she said, 'then cost 1,000 cars my company he could have got a settle- on Monday,' he said. ment which would certainly See 'Leyland have not been higher than threat, pase page the present and might four col. and one have been lower'!

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workers press Socialist Labour League Central Committee says: More wait Victory to the What we think The only way to answer capitalist plans working Shackles. If the union had called every tribute sween 15 and ich pests t total collapse in the sadency, ahe rimes then e crucial test ot Britain's Prophetic words inded Having Toes has come back shorn! people's belief in our aunted pore pe Tory governmenter of the Not suringly it is forced Thos des distress of the empty grates.

*estruggers fary indeed the dustmen's won 01 y other Section armande in the bipelin wagt different cer sentlements ther Hear make hi overjoyed state- ments on TV. sine now miners' But that o oh there by. What already with the more sat ge cups in he near urese aging inflatecaus cost

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WE URGENCY must now be the keynote of the campaign to force union leaders to fight the THE MINERS are about to engage their biggest and vital Tories' planned anti-trade union legislation.

CHOSE

BY DAVID MAUDE

strike since 1926. Yesterday's complaint

CANUTE-LIKE

BY DAVID MAUDE

manoeuvres from Employment Minister Every miner knows that he is union leaders failed to stem the battle only Robert Carr that the Deganizis work so i pish.

rising tide of support for national 00 I strike National Coal Board, but against amongst Trades Union comes the following resolu- action mers Congress tion: the combined forces of big business yesterday. refused to discuss details and their Conservative govern- The 50,000 or so Yorkshire, S Wales Cowley No. 4 branch cal the national executiv oI the proposed law- ment. and Scottish miners who remained reported on page four-is, Tahs the govere at must be det aled.

sonary on surike yesterday are nOW means almost certain to be joined next week of course, a cynical blind.

by at least an equal number-3,500 of them in Kent. scottish of Board able Lord a beause tox "yearere out history. Kent's National Union Mineworkers area council to back Meetings the Co Board's defeat neces ener strike Neena do stay legislation. next week. so il be as are dias. Hot back Before branches sials sow appear to be some lared execuais will also fan ail inter sedal oral ymen the end of February. then members no wait anu-see poncy• Dun sad yeserdayany Taci After

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

weeks lented eare So the emergency national THE BULK of Britain's 70,000 Yorkshire Ama striking council workers yesterday Justified agreed to return to work on Mon- the commons asage through day when operation clean-up will sulting NCB trir and then fu tiedus the most of the county's until Monday. _postponcu stan mn eanest. and the provinces month's delay The mood song for more money 20c t Bal becomes This in itself is an indica- the ballot hated of ate there noth ion of the Snored and introduced by the means or Do 12 the ritising on the Yet by 13 That. in anv event. is the Norman to accept the miserable new 1Os offer plan. interference "hate now called ther panels building up Even in middle of ere olid It is these leaders men out. trike, he was move meet able to swing miners now in the keep control Committed nne-to-one vote 1o1 a relur from Mon employees are expected to no people Schofield gainst a without strong coalfeld Resolution oficials wert to ·24,000 Prolonged sleepared for a ting at the and t pecters there ring Monday.

Unbao Vehicle Bari National towns. was November Pat has orders mere ol he miner min demand for a national one day £1,250 Fund pol tradin coul stern pornia ne Starts at ay NUM is the test collar workers. er claimed eader Such will ha' £95 3s 11d city. fought defeated MIXED feelings over the Scamp inquiry find- executive 1 It is shem ings were expressed by Birmingham Transport on Monday. There the

WE'RE

3530000 successful. " Leaders and General stewards we spoke to following pected cent eur to the corporation' October Easons 1926. the , a meeting with local officials yesterday.

British the towns sewage plant, wh Press plant, whick amy against No coal gument sale strike cond and with the the law would aid 55 bob dia bolical went yesterday chas promise will live Big chief Robens has Bed any more. He wil eat it Birmingham counsit istied with the 50s of Press they were not the November fund. a start difficulties eat will last Lend your donations wordsntil the full claim is satisfied. at once to: For the first time the tow aid outside of coal must bob Workers Press Appeal Fund, ouncil 1s being recommenae 1868 gone thanks to face trial of 6d in the & from January London, Swan St, 5o bey as far

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ANDRE AMALRIK, the Soviet he bones aid in get gettinto sals would more coke. are epositic wille een worth Joseph Stanton. Brave words from the Tories are in on November ill. accepted. Sverdlovsk Torer havent win. Last May ain added, "the are stop. echoed millions sarike imesry pit in their top

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target on voluntary basen side since, a deputy rights and or are spenty Not shop tould • necka the stinke Somalike stel, eden your sand anthe ook Will fore lot Union fetched in fact resonn the Tower ting let oke to expressed apr could taey : 55s. We Determination Robert Carr was asked wha It will take courage ani the Workers and railway Greathead, American we secretly Biter miner serie ill get from this transport- earlier 'At a he made to te

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Name Address FRANK STELLA and Don Judd are at the head of a new tendency in painting and sculpture centred in America, which began in the 1960s.

Minimalism, as it is called, says that art should express the existence of the material from which it is made. In this way, what they want you to see is the paint on the canvas, the metal of the metal; the paint as paint, not as an image or anything else, such as a human being who exists outside the canvas. As Stella puts it: 'What you see is what you can see' They want to do away with the illusion of space in a paint- ing, since these are 'not real, they don't exist. Minimalists' under- The standing of existence is as follows: 'Things that exist exist, and everything is on their side. They're here which is pretty puzzling. Nothing can be said of that don't things exist. Things exist in the same way if that is all that is considered everything is equal, just existing, the values and in- they have are only terests adventitious' (Judd, 1964).

According to the Minimalist then, basically everything is the same; death is the same as satisfaction, life, hunger and male and female. The differences are small and unimportant. So what you have is a fixed and static conception of reality. And this is reflected in the artist's work. The world is seen as equal —not contradictory. Just exist- ing, not in motion through the conflicts of opposing forces.

Accidental In this sense these artists are idealists, because they start from fixed ideas, the reflections in of the world our minds rather than from the world itself. This new form of art has all kinds of philosophical pre- tensions, especially coming from critics, who say that this art is the art of the real.

They quote Wittgenstein, the linguistic philosopher, to back their observations. The essence of their jargon is an attack on materialism, to assert and reassert that there are no laws of development in nature -'All that happens is accid- do ental, images themselves not contain meaning, but an which information content, may or may not elicit a certain response from the receiver'.

The idea is to reject previous art because it is based on a 'system built beforehand, an a priori system' and to make works of art which show 'things as they really are' Trotsky already discussed exactly this question in rela- tion to Schlovsky, the theorist of the Formalist school Russia, another conscious opponent of Marxism (much more conscious I think than the artists of Minimalism).

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ecture of Thomas Jeffersor nd the artists of the Frenc Revolution. Polk City 1963 The works express one side by STELLA of American society the of Ameri- enormous strength can technique and industry: machine-made perfection, per- mathematical fect accuracy, unlimited the latest size, industrial processes and mate- rials from cold-rolled steel to anodized and aluminium metallic and acrylic paints.

But their sterility and aca- demicism, their cold distance and lack of feeling human the other side of express American capitalism. The feeling is the same as the flag the plastic with artificial flutter that the Art, Trotsky says, cannot be American astronauts planted created algebraically, put- by These on the moon. artists ting together words or paint break through the cannot yet according to the laws and of the alienation producer- and paints logic of sounds this sense the artist is and in only, but that 'the fundamental part of the working class- source of poetic words will from the means of production.

before, pre- the Tenan Stella's exhibition showed conceived artistic idea, under- that he is passing through 'a stood in the broadest sense, as very rapid development. From an accurate thought, and as a Grape Island of 1958 to personal and clearly expressed Takht-I-Sulaymonl 1967, there social feeling, and as a vague is a whole process of experi- mood'.. mentation, where Stella takes The form is an active ele- different of the problems ment which influences the idea form to their conclusion.

itself. Minimal art was part of a massive swing away from the open subjectivism moodiness, and pessimism of American art The the 1950s. desperation in of artists like Pollock and De Kooning stemmed, from their isolation. Judd Judd described the process of change that began in the 1950s in a symposium he con- tributed last, month- -his involvement in politics, he says, began reaction to events of the 1950s; 'the the continued state of war, the of destruction the United Nations by the Americans and Russians, useless political the general parties, exploita- Stella: Everything Is not equal.

the army and McCarthy' tion, (Art Forum. Sept. 1970). The turning point was the But certainly in his most he does try to war in Vietnam, which as Judd recent work much says, 'presented a situation make direct relationship with the viewer. either or'. marched in the first Tudd It is difficult to say where he Fifth Avenue parade against but he will will go from here, Vietnam, although the be able to develop any war in he hated group activities.

along the farther road of The capitalism crisis of idealism. forced the middle class to take The change forced by class sides. The way in which Tudd 1950s, contradictions in the sought to overcome his isola- was only the beginning. grasping at the This tion by was last May, was shown of American when over 1,500 artists, critics, traditions the of 1775-through Revolution dealers museum and people democratic representation, by formed an Emergency Cultural local joining 'Citizens for Government action as an democracy'. racialism and against war, He also began to see the repression in America. need to organize artists.

Limited as the actions of In their art, the Minimalists this government may have also go back to the forms of been, this certainly proof 1S revolution the bourgeois in that there is a great ferment France and America. going on in art, which is a The large simple squares and reflection of the movement of archi- rectangles recall the the American working class.

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Saturday, November 7, 1970 discussion AS THE Spanish working of and personal the rule during respect were class comes forward in an the first years of the Commun- unprecedented mass political ist International, he says.

fascist strike against the regime of General Francisco

• IMPORTANT

Spanish Com- Franco, the The mention of Trotsky's munist Party is plummeting name in this context is very into the deepest crisis of its important. history. Civil War, During the hundreds of working-class Faced with the third split in militants murdered in were six years-this time inspired Stalinist for special prisons and directed by the Soviet their opposition to Stalinism.

Stalinists - the leadership of Many of them were executed general secretary Santiago Car- "Trotskyists' as when the rillo is trying desperately to police began to Soviet secret hold together the nucleus of export to Spain the methods the CP organization. perfected during the 1936-1938 Moscow Trials in the USSR.

Carrillo's liberal wing wants a Popular Front with the anti- Marti makes another signifi- Franco sections of the Spanish cant point. employers. Over the past few years, he Together Dolores with says, first of symptoms Ibarruri (La Pasionaria) and change in the capitalist coun- most of the rest of the leader- appeared ship, tries 'sometimes he opposed the invasion spontaneously, sometimes of Czechoslovakia and pro- under leaderships quite foreign tested the Soviet leaders to the communist movement'.

against it. The Black revolt in the This was one of the main United States, the fight against for formation, reasons the the Vietnam the student war, with Soviet backing, of the struggles in a number of coun- opposition section headed by tries all emerged in this way, former Civil War general he says. Enrique Lister. And he stresses that during the May Days of 1968 in

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France students, university radio and television journalists But Carrillo's 'liberaliza- and even civil servants 'were tion', like Gollan's liberal asking questions about their moves in the British Commun- social role'. has let a number of ist Party, very fractious cats out of the

IMPLICATION

bag. One is released in the latest The clear implication is that issue Bandera' of •Nuestra the Communist Party was un- ('Our Flag'), the Carrillo wing's able to answer them. discussion journal. Its author, the pseudonym who uses The Spanish Civil War Marti, is said to be one of the party's leading activists.

Marti's article starts by try- ing explain why the Party to has suffered a long period of 'theoretical stagnation' He cites the trade union discussion in 1921 which in Lenin, and Bukharin Trotsky participated as an example of real discus- how communist sions should be conducted: 'Despite Lenin's criticisms and sarcasm, despite their during minority position the of the

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Marti ends his article with a roll mos explanation sociatist 'problems socialist camp without fearing the use to which the enemies of social- ism will put such an explana- tion'. His main concern, clearly, is to break free from the past of the Spanish Communist Party and its dependence on

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dependence the which must be burden- very some for the Party as it strives for unity with so-called pro- TOPPING THE Czechoslovak best-seller lists in recent weeks "liberal' church and book for small is a children. bourgeoisie. Published by the Prague Min- The Soviet Stalinists are on of Education, it is istry entitled 'How Volodia the verge of re-opening diplo соп- quered the Cruel Tsar'. matic relations with the Franco regime. The author is Mr Hostan, a retired headmaster. ministerial Acting on

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directive •Marxism- that Leninism' is absorbed best Tass has a Madrid Already he has writ- when very young, correspondent and there has of Lenin in the ten the story been series of diplomatic October 1917 Revolution in comings-and-goings between intended European Stalinists and form to make it the E intelligible to his young audi- the Franco government. ence. Describing the period when Carrillo's of the section from the Spanish CP too is deeply Lenin took refuge police, he writes: embroiled in its 'Popular 'When hundreds of officers Front' plans to go along with these moves. took oath to find and murder Lenin, he had to hide Its 'liberalization' sets himself by lake in hay- for radicalized sec- new trap stack. But even from his hay- tions of the Spanish working stack, he continued to lead of class, emerging from years the workers.' enforced quiescence under The narrative is sweetened fascism. with and a sort of potlls But the fact that the Com- speaking chorus, no doubt for munist Party of Spain recitation by budding bureau- forced to publish such crats of the kindergarten.

an describes article is index of the It also Lenin an as depth of the Party's crisis and having been jailed in Austria during the First World War.

the political problems that are welling for the Carrillo The manner of his release is up leadership. a touching illustration of Stal- "internationalism'. inist The Austrian workers pay a visit to the Minister of War, and say to him: 'You are fighting the Russian Tsar, but you are holding his greatest enemy in prison!'

"What do you mean? What is this you're telling me?'

'You have Lenin in put prison. But the Tsar executed his brother. So Lenin is the Tsar's fiercest enemy On hearing this, writes the author, the Minister imme- diately ordered Lenin's release, and he Switzerland. went to Sad to though, few say, copies of this educational mas- terpiece have yet found their way into the hands of Czecho- slovakia's toddlers. Older citizens, delighted rewriting with the latest of history, are buying them like hot cakes.

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of the Italian Communist with the Catholic Party Church wore long faces in the middle of October when the Archbishop of Sicily, Cardinal Francesco Carpino, was abruptly removed from his post by Pope Paul. Archbishops Since are almost never reduced openly to the ranks, Carpino was publicly transferred to other duties, but it is generally recognized that these are far from strenuous. His demise coincided with the mass resignation of the Sicilian Regional Government, or 'junta', dominated for years by the Christian Democratic Party. The immediate cause was the transfer of a planned state steel plant from Sicily to Calabria, as a response to the October riots and strike in Reggio Calabria. But hanging over them were the findings of the Parliamen- tary Commission on the Mafia, chairman, ( Christian whose Democrat Cattanel, openly accused the Mayor of Palermo (the Sicilian capital), fellow Christian Democrat Ciacimino, of Mafia connections. London scheme agree

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authority workers to find away behind the scenes wi London boroughs are at present pushing for the imple- mentation of a wide-ranging schem e job-evaluation amongst some 35,000 white- collar workers on which dis- cussions have been going on in strict privacy since 1966.

The primary object of the scheme, which has now been in _principle by the agreed London Whitley Greater Council for local authorities' administrative, professional technical and clerical services, is both to eliminate local wage 'drift' and to under- mine the strong local union organization built up in many boroughs. Unions helping with its pre- the three paration were involved in the manual workers' dispute—-the Public and Employees, Transport General Workers and General and Municipal Workers-plus the National and Local Gov.

ernment Officers. Voice NALGO, which earlier this week stated that some of the Tory Industrial Relations Bill might prove acceptable if amended', holds an overall the majority of seats on Whitley Council since it is the , principal white-collar organization among local- authority workers; its voice is usually decisive. It appears, however, that the employers' side of the Council is particu- Whitley impressed larly with job- evaluation schemes already being operated by the Greater London Council - where the Greater London Staff Associ- ation is in a majority-and in the BBC. Over a long period of time, local-government officers have been able to up their pay rates through struggles on the local joint committees for the upgrading of posts within each borough. The most effective method has been to negotiate re- grading of job either on the - grounds of comparability with other boroughs, increased workload or more responsi- bility. But the Whitley Council scheme is designed to take away grade-fixing from the joint committees and make it a management function. 'Safeguards' Early this year, NALGO's metropolitan district council local government committee agreed in principle to the scheme's implementation and 'safe- proceeded to discuss guards'. Yet only in the last few months-by which time the whole thing was cut and dried as far as the leadership is concerned - have branches been allowed the information necessary to discuss the scheme. A campaign to rescind the union's commitment to this RUARY 14, 1971. 11 a.m. Young Socialists and All Trades Unions Alliance

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backed to the hilt the Vati- the Siciliar Christian- Cattanei's allegations s of ane at the end of a month can's opposition to divorce.

Democratic And as some st ctions in the naist investigating lie Maria betores he succeeded. tellow Hauollal curcies world- Sicilian Runtini a most Democrats (cluding the famous Arch- certainly murdered by them, towards bishop high protecting their several minor Mafiosi mown down in broad daylight.

secre- administrative office Tary i consIstory One assassinated La rooals the Sicilian party was (while Hospital valermo He me itali most tie rcacnea oreakine onL recovering small from previous Word went tc Rome page ToRT attempt) by four men posing the Church in facily but carrying damaging morta danger o machine guns under ¡aditions break with mistake meddling white coats 'honour' and, re, tiss politics of the wrong sort.

being what thi What connection has all this Reverence got th chop. Not, of course, that he had with the Archbishop's palace?

Communists And Stalinist hopes of poli- 'In ecclesiastical terms Car- anything alliance with strength- heinous as that fica dinal Carpino's record But had been associated ened *pro Seist with the supporters of Fanfani above reproach. Only Demo- (a 'liberal' from Tuscany) with- crats took a severe knock.

had previously le agreed in principle Case IANUAL workers are not the only section of local kers to find their union leaders productivity dealing inquiries Chief Scotland Yard ctive, ech Supt he scenes with their employers.

breach the "conspirac of sance silence' Devenne who died London- derry, N Ireland last uly. chief Young premier claims the exposed. to a situation was verging pline of a teer Preters broke Young has condemned have policemen responsible. who never been positively identified.

The police concerned have no THE NEW minimum wage for actors in provincial theatres admitted has there their involvement nor announced this week may be seen on the surface as a con- from the evidence public siderable victory for members of the profession.

trom which identity. their but advance indeed it is an guilty when With mind un An actor comments new ware tions. of the rocketing This is No let up Today Gerry members are out work. let up said he The union's until the • is to uilty rooted out situation facing workers in enter- and dismissed ber of jobs. tainment. the force'. place In tact the gee ano nride witi and entertainmen Equity unveiled 'victory' merely shows that the national subsidy attitude traditional cannon not and i still grips the union and its offi- range of all rectity they are alleged to pro- Clas This the te Take rehearsals for example.

have faith anyone where such men End he asked. Pay for ree magniticent now dreary provincia variety. mum of nothins incredible figure 'such actuall men' It would give nighly respected production лоте ето с artistes myes of all the peoplento ente ranks the ment for small summer hole false. above abows and e50 in top tourn Ister constabulary rines a theatre rare excursion Clearly those with 'guilty seasons. every-day enjoy- instead feel were onl knowiedge' ther ment. doing their beating the Rehearsal pay duty in All actors who really care for ute out or samue Devenner their profession value their andi skills should fight to change this night, and Darochiall attitude confidence in the police force.

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Capitalist Home Office accepts speed-up report inflation HOME.OFNACE endorsement of Sir Ronald Holroyd's 227-page refort on the fire service brought diametrically.

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itions yesterday from the Fire Brigades Union 'Scabs out ODDosCu Ie and rank-an set up to geolen 1-file firemen in London.

at the union's spokesman nationalization Fulham headquarters was 'glad to Fire,nen of the distributive trades before we Such a came wilson her hear that the Home Secretary has accepted the in principle. datons would be subject a prepare work'- aura ales once for productivity and job evalua- Hackney men Those struggle wto study

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Hackney council workers issued this The dio ine with the ultimatum to borough employers after Optimism from a mass metling yesterday• Reluctant *Feeling is very Thirish bourgeoisie, aments so the matina be bond deced it ones lit intend.

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t. ONE an this boro osal nas snocked un the nationa I ne * vii cost the. to cover the victory for the council wor- average houser eder an extra surged focal return at clerk, uncil officials to There is mt thi faisy stable 3s a week. • the claim mail opposite Hackney who Swindon as much in ortime as blocked a bid contrac prescription I told th in Most disaster: Yorkers were Hackey dubaie. THE INTRANSIGENCE of the

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rubbish Les than the demander se TYNE the Swindon council workers - who nextial year thade us feel very bites Hackney budge an inch under $500,000 the could Tensed To the threat of military intervention The meeting agreed unani- WALES 75 per itself, then let it perish!

Brief meeting mot demandal sered to a prone eat the us meeting yesterday morning which he whery cork. so class aren voted reluctantly to aton action on contract labour. said that it was work. the the 'Conspiracy' isolateds exhibit Prisoners Tory Carr cracks Trial freed in charges in

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leading oppositionists spoke, anti-union whip Algeria did not hold recognizing long and birer le would national *can math Montreal ANTI-UNION laws were a necessity to deal with a serious and the orcial. °case Monde *Bella Poesident 'Peaceful' laws and throw the rapidly deteriorating industrial situation which was becoming critical said that Swin- eri rest The are weak and Amalıık en deplicated in some industries, Employment Secretary Robert Carr told a London asked CHARGES OF 'seditious conspiracy' Hadi the conference yesterday. found in Oubojko's possess rer Speaker brought yesterday against ten alleged members nematonate other over pot anti he said. 1 don Kuzne sembly, Moh: of the now outlawed Quebec Liberation Front tary les Horn nad b sene i kang colone will Minister Cliff, need be ° be bigger than " group of mended s

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to rif. defeated befores Cher police Minister 500

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the 14 Another face * the are who said questioned charges, such various Montreal and Quebec police ray in the 'plotting extender duely over Leyland threat the Industrial Sor ousted. • had re div throw the Federal and under the plush Europa Provincial governments

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ist the hesitation by force' "illegal pote me to take t and More Horieved to bet Morris se show are aked to possession of weapons. secludes yesterday that she Allers w is is the task of all marked 'explosives. are with belon ., all İzation, which posed sen statement by divisional direc of five years

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Montreal

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8

for the miner. beens the emergency regula marches COVENTRY: Keith's Club, Cox Street, 3.30 p.m.

the coly It then pee atorges NEWCASTLE: Royal Turk's Head Hotel, Grey Street, 3 p.m.

plater must ross The corporatis beginning with the pre 3.30 p.MLD: Crooksmoor Vestry Hall, Crooksmoor Road, clearer when he told the con mused col cargoes of in • Working cios to th teren the lo gonsent nor ther i Pompidous Sultural polic TEN THOUSAND French searched all visitors. peasants farmers and peasants and small meret just as much as

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Gueret,

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15

demonstrated in and unions know tha • dead pleased. roads in and grow 730 migh Lesser Hall, near Merkland Street ye All-out national strike now main town of the Creuse agri- to the 1920s and 1930s. t guilty. It region of central France, • NO underground, i I the and a cheat to the voi agaton must be aspired d • slaidarity LONDON: Woodlands Hall, Crown Street, Acton, 7.00 p.m.

against the Crust contence of mento to her the transport, railway and doc gime's agricultural policy.

National Unton of Wall ation-wide movement on th Lee he control Pod u Speakers will be from the Pilkington Rank and File Committee sentences increased in severits • orkers acutes to bai co before tran in the ore th

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future ahead. political prisolease B Additional so dispute and i Inquiry into Yarra bridge system mass would consists meeting yesterd retur condi- until bonus and overtime payments control workers ros i in conserva * he Milor clearing are partner neish backle

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has T the cham in ti. Bows ment gainst the decidec the claim the unions

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eschool of Economies lized theatres fran as establish yesterday turn else to severed Trically here or the "launcher' and borough late yesterday after- welded into laun that svet the strike. Concern traditionaould matic relations with China.

press Other bridges sees like are the Madrid schoo Jutting following staged from the Civil The Dr Oleg parallele ading late Pri Minister o- lectures the er at the since inquiry "Street e use of action sup and of their o costandin is cannot work in ,pan.. Le. London. Printed C leading designer box-shaped