Workers Press no. 301

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABC THE TORY government is urgently seeking a policy of action to defeat the trade unions and working class and reduce it to the pauperism of the 1930s. While the most right-wing forces, repre- 'Positive sented in the Tory Party by Enoch Powell and his group, prepare the ground for the repressions which would be necessary for such a defeat, the Heath-Barber Cabinet covers up these prepara- tions with an apparently 'left' compromise to pay approach. freeze a minus strike have tory strike have and miners' DrouEnC criss to frighten the union leaders into some 'compromise' as an the camD emplovers moves and ones employers' our oke real. But these strikes have also the hammering Dushed Trade unlor issues behind th - Feather Campbell Adamsno, leaders into the arms or lne of Powell. government, Adamson, seek. once again, some rotten com- Director General of the promise. MOVES for a behind-the- tederation or onus indusury Keelona So these leaders have a vital scenes deal over pay and Conference yesterday: part, indeed the most import 'Since our inflation is caused industrial relations between of all, winning big business and its union leaders and the much bigger government were brought of settle- impas ron tithin short ment virtually the open inTO right-wing shown to see possible by yesterday by Trades Union statutory usine une memoos or arctator.

that means.. Congress general secretary Heath's government that the government ano Dou Victor Feather. envernment ot which nake and nrivate incustr nust in a very short time give manthat they Donning his detencer.ot.the way to the more fundamenta resistance to high wage claims.

class forces by nationa economy hat. Heather Time is running out. London Powell or by the working-class told union chiefs in that the proposed Tory Indus Whiplash Powell chat this cou dry cannot alord of a king once again making demagogic speeches, 'Heath and says For this reason. Torv right- or at any me inuse renteded or me. me is oung "Evening Standard', November Tuture. Tre IrOM without the world nut union othelas right in response to the gains being made by the organized ment and few n a position where, in orde themselves from workers charges that they have failed Powell other right even the advance interests nor be enouen. ne comments.

their members remarked to me The other day, *As a senior Treasury unions, thev are dragged along at the coat tasty card on v hat nest vou woul ot disgruntled or irresponsible need not prisons, hut con- members .... centration camps. (Our em- Striking phasis.) Responsibility This Ronanas thinking f the gove the ruling class shows that we government Soton not to the ing ass, and not at at ki 'then responsibility in busmen nterests of the economy and period or compromise Powell these the nation's future arouse represents such a camour of Duble dis- ruling - case discuss preparatons annroval that even the nresent Heath's role c to government cannot stop the union leaders and to pro- ears'. vide the time which the ruling Characterizing next step history tha of industrial those of Powel. are identical with country SOUTHAMPTON'S Corpora- not a difference i nere is systems to the massive changes tion hucman most today te between Heath Powell, discuss the next move in their That. have taken pace nutcasion stubborn five-week-old strike industria structure and the cervice of hig business.

for 1£20 ba wage. role methade heather outined And what tha strikers have Feather, rulins class elements in con- tho temptuously rejected ine 6d of the miners' ose to adar counes naltry OHeT further came to and promise anti-union gesture Tory the to be concessions introduced

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aws abou good will from of Commons. on its proposed easianon ne to the House council. was cite it would get a post- heather caus lin • a sneech tive response' to proposals for meeting : a yesterday): only a form of incomes policy.

Voles azansi remaining on strike. 'Co-operate' the if Opposition busmen sav that counci workers got sus thes Hence his 'It is now up to the govern- are ne going hapk for bess.

sition to the campaign busmen ment. We have been consistent the two-week genera stoke to cereal and reconcine WeaTE by legislation-described

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prepared to advise our mein- claim suad at a press conference on Wed.

proved t bers to co-operate in a policy nesday as and collective bargaining ineffective coming from the trade tha But Wednesdav's accentance union movement. overall plan by a national delegate Terence atonel dellate con Even the planned December and aster growth economic 8 token sat he it Neck, men that the boats Thad covers bronts Drices jour- dividends that between South- distribu. sponse and the week, tion nasts nanaked questons about it! strike could become told yester- co-operation. But we are not day's Congress dictated to. nice has still not been made conférence, is strength. and paishe official Wednesdav's de. and movement is entitled agreement freely entered into, cision has made thic more

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CELLIST

PROTESTS

MYESTISLAV

ROSTROPO-

VICH,

the world-famous Soviet cellist, yesterday pro-

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

tested against the persecution of writer Alexander Solz- 'Open Letter' henitsyn in an addressed to the Soviet daily papers 'Isvestia' and "Pravda'

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

SERIOUS and immediate inroads into nationalized industry were yesterday called for by Tory far-righter Enoch Powell.

The government had made a bold start on disengaging from private industry, he told a Tory women's meet- ing in Southport. abolished It had invest- grants and left firms ment with of their own profits to finance investment but this was only a start.

*The commanding heights, the old-time socialists used to call them, are still the for- crowned by main .. the name written tress the map those on across fortifications is frowning industry, nationalized he said. 'We have to show-and show early at an stare. this parliament-that we are able and determined to make serious inroads into nationalized industry.' Direct threat In a direct threat to three sections of workers already facing various forms of denationalization, creeping Powell insisted that there was no substance to the where the objection about money was to come from to buy state firms: 'The same power stations or aircraft or telephone ex- changes are there the day and the day after, before Strike me' he said. And the ruthless Tory- dealing style productivity says Mr Bryan behind Powell's rhetoric also poked through. THE MOST important aspect It was desirable, he said, of strikes was the way that live of de- examples they had increased over the nationalized | industry Employment Minis last year, working in practice as soon Paul Bryan as possible. try spokesman said in the Commons yester- Steps to make such in- day. duste likeli profitable were far *Already this year looks like from people more being the year since who had invested capital in the General Strike. it than from those adminis- tering it on behalf of the It is an escalating picture.

The figure of stoppages this to now is 3,196. year up a Not gradual last 42 per cent increase on was itself which year, Denationalization should record." be rapid. Industries could no more be denationalized gradually •Days of th than you can get married gradually'. he said. 'One moment you are not diversion at T married, the next you are.

reference In the government's £60 million aid to Rolls- DRAUGHTSMEN and other programme Royce, Powell said that workers white-collar Vauxhall's Luton plant yes- aviation should be one of the which to again held a day of terday demonstrate 'the virtues and *guerrilla' protest against the benefits of disengaging gov- management's plans for 325 ernment from industry sackings by the end of the can hardly think of 'One year. The firm an activity where the char- has far discuss the acteristics of private indus- fused even to more valuable and sackings. try are necessary? But go-slows and 'days of The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government

EMBER 73, 7970

mBER 3U1 Despite union's ballot decision

ACTION

NOW

NO 1926

• SELL-OUT

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

MINERS ARE planning to form anatonal srike committee Tithin their union to spread the unofficial dispute throughout the coal fields.

Attempts to form the commit- tee were taking place in London yes Mine workers Natcutive had Mineworkers to cancel the ballot declaed not on the Coal Board's pay offer and refused to call a special delegates' conference discuss national strike action. Speaking after the executive's meeting at union headquarters in Euston. NUM secretary Lawrence Daly said that the cave unanmousy condemned in timidation and violence in wnien those were lobbying involved'.

NUM N

guard wad police a kicked and Albert posted outside NUM head- quaters as executi yesterdays said that he had bee their wells yesterday: but a police inspector said there was no violence. болоні had ports of anyone being pushed

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

REPUDIATED

We've got delegatorin that out yesterday, as their "reds, but OVER 108,000 miners were asked ballot strike spread to nearly 130 pits all over Britain.

no coal 3r wales are sai , Kents and was a trick them millior the men outside, he figures, • showing signs Electricity Lord Robens,' confessor Generating day oe Holmes, the merg- stock" 10,750,000 a peak ted amount man claime 1 to 0o to meet the Strike committee

COMMITTEE

enders ed the ine com he made upo will be made to Dapproan other areas to nominate thei ownhe pre executive mem paraly pite sand miner over anemweekend to teams into other coalfields to i not heard of these moves, Sordid had not aking place they were strictly

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

move in THE CZECH Ministry of But significantly, it will not Indian apply to those who betrayed culture yesterday members acted by the striking for nounced an amnesty tnel country by neels aprodu parliament or whose works damaged the writers and omner intened- interests of the state. signed who antl- IN A PARTICULARLY sordid pointed co ansite that said Stalinist maniestos during ind 1968. mary to win are lied arbitarily ed out last year's unofficial strike an one sitional activities Centres the last three years. the countrys he silence od n at Vauxhall c fated to barrassme proving ahe atusak in W Bengal their overs intended Naxalites the Mke from Come pio- Party broke Come sino diar i ne but its con- the building for fighting the redundancies tinued crisis and isolation.

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workers press THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABO THE TORY government is urgently seeking a policy of action to defeat the trade unions and working class and reduce it to the pauperism of the 1930s. While the most right-wing forces, repre- sented in the Tory Party by Enoch Powell and •Positive his group, prepare the ground for the repressions which would be necessary for such a defeat, the Heath-Barber Cabinet covers up these prepara- tions with an apparently left' compromise to pay approach.. freeze The council workers' victory ana miners Have

HOW

Drouent an acule Crisis to frighten the union leader employers e on Promise as an the camp or lne moves and Tories. But these strikes have also employers' spokesmer pushed The trace - Feather issues behind the re-emergence leaders into the ams or une to seek, once or rower. com- rector general or une COn- promise. tederation of british industry MOVES for a behind-the- Corce our station is condi Regional So these leaders have a vital scenes deal over pay and indeed the most import- business industrial relations between ime for its tackled union leaders and the pret lem mes right - wing in the size on bee now need government were brought to prepare the coresculalives reaclor ston will a sort tillic with virtually into the open ments lnal expelle rin wine government statutory polic nas snown lu yesterday by Trades Union usue toe memoos or dictator.

DOSSIDe Dy Tnal means .. Sh Heath's Congress general secretary That is wav it is so important government that the government and both Victor Feather. government which industry must in a very short time give the! say about Donning his defender-of-the- to high ge claims for by the prosking lass national-economy Time is running out. Powell or that the proposed ory indus- novelica Whiplash trial Relations Powell Wull

HOW

slarts creale ware Kina once akaln makine aemazorio For this reason, Tory right- weat us country carol antone speeches. ane says now any time the winger Nigel Lawso (London or at Irigntened of me, ne is piling future'. the pressure from Evening Standard November It would 'put union officials right in response to the gains the without in order by the unemploy- in a position whiplash, of Illass workers themselves ment and few big shutdowns charges that they have failed and right even the anti-union laws will shouting about not be enough. He comments: davance Une Interests their denationalization and the neec tneir members and "As a senior Treasur mal unions, they are dragged along 101 unemployment ana remarker to me the other day at the coat-tails of any group bankruptcies. hearn uses inis would only half in jest, you of disgruntled or irresponsible need not prisons, but con- members centration camps.' (Our em- Striking phasis.) Responsibility This Bonapartist thinking of "if And the governmen the ruling class shows Soton hoose not to listen have stage TUC', he concluded, 'then ine onensive arainst une work' the our responsibility busmen class. period of compromise. interests or toe economy ane arouse Powell the nations tuture to these such a clamour of public dis- ruling - class preparations discuss cannot spres int Heath's role approach thee then me der anthe ruing government stop union leaders cannot cals next step Characterizing the history Class necus identical with of industrial relations this ous alms are those of Powell. country as a record SOUTHAMPTON'S Corpora- not There Is stant our busmen meet today systems to the massive changes bet a division Heath and Powell, discuss the next move in their of have taken place labour industrial stru hive-week-old strike business. methods' Feather the of lor a tav basic wage. the role The have elements strikers Feather, class clearly now VeLY temptuously the TUC General Council pro- prepares its biggest attacks?

council's pose to adapt now In ine madle or the miners promise te covernment came to with ant non negotiations gesturé the unions with introduced concessions laws will from Tory good into the House of Commons, 'get a Feather speech was council. says response tive to AL recent meeung there yesterday): 'prop against were only l votes a form of incomes pollcy.

remaining on strike "Co-operate the Opposition council 50s they oppo- It is now up to the govern- hence venement • for less. sition the campaign for a ment. We have been consistent to bullamplor busmen general strike to defeat the and responsible We came our aller une two-week him prepared to advise our in sup- nauona overtime dan Wed at a press conference £20 claim co-operate in a policy port and 'mischievous proved ineffective. bargaining and nesudy lor conective trade the But Wednesday's acceptance

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Comin incomes provided thal union movement. employees 33s part ol an overal ban

TOT

of faster economic growth and Even the planned December the 8 token strike drew the that it prof sistrices. prices. week offer, about egan asked question: that wished jour- dividends the f16 and wealth week. means urar about wha mean by strike could become co-operation But we told yester- 'Unity' Feather are not isolated. House cam- dictated day's It has still not been made COngreSs official and Wednesday's paign conterence, Is strengel must de real co-operadon.

ana "The movement has made this agreement freely entered into, senutica more

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The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13, 1970 • NUMBER 301 Despite union's ballot decision

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WE strike stil 69221 175 17 days to 8o. mines ande

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

MINERS ARE planning to form a national strike committee within back. their union to spread the unomicial dispute throughout the coal fields.

Attempts to form the commit- ee were taking place in Londo esterday after the National Unio Mineworkers executive had decided not to cancel the ballot

CELLIST

on the Coal Board's pay offer and refused to call a special delegates'

PROTESTS

conference discuss national

IYESTISLAV

strike action. Speaking after the executive's meeting the prose at union headquarters in Euston, NUM

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

secrelary Lawrence vav saio that the executive unanimously condemned 'in- Lila lon an Ol volence which a of lobbying were minorily Inose Powell wants mvolved Joe Gormley,

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A heavy police guard wa posted outside NUM head Coal stocks speedy attack quarters as executive member!

he had been left their meeting yesterday, but police inspector said on state firms well down there was no violence. said out. • Nobby

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

ports of

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

SERIOUS

and immediate inroads into

REPUDIATED

We've got nationalized industry were yesterday called 14-mar OVER 108,000 miners were as theil i the bailo 'reds, but our yesterday, for by Tory far-righter Enoch Powell.

strike spread to nearly 130 pits all over Britain.

no coal The government had made The majority of miners i start disengaging Yorkshire, Ke 07 ing in Southport. crick usea ( invest- nationa It had abolished they on thei the men use he toms of coal with stocks but this was only a start.

lis shoears snould nave relused used to * then sa thi Electricity crowned by Genera it said, ker the meet and frowning closely was a danger of sationalized mausuy, breaking up: 10,750,000 showe shiposte is parli lobbyists dis into persed determined nationalized industry Direct threat the strike committee. i col deliverio

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facing Council spokesman creepin insteed hal The bris sel to nominate their *The same power stations aircraft and the day i Yur-back to cope. Double edge to 'Strike me' Son sinke and 26 pers And Behind says Mr Bryan Prague 'amnesty' also poked through.

THE MOST

at lae examples hot said.

Sordid tie impist they as posite race as 3001 Employment

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

move in -ay in ine Commons yester- Steps to THE CZECH Ministry of But significantly, it will not dustry Indian Acade histor since Culture yesterday apply to those who 'betrayed moo had nvested capital it being tara srike. their country by fleeing abroad year since nounced an amnesty tot parliament series it on writers and other intellec- or waost works damagea luc interests of the state. tuals signed anti- who IN A PARTICULARLY sordid Not gradual Stalinist manifestos during increase The dip in to thi 1968. onalization should munist Party failed by a i been involved Mrs 'Days of thought of the Party's censure the li months silence diversion at Vauxhall • to for their mee bars Rolls. of hould be one that amnesty move sintended "the virtues and sitional seen shouting 'sc disengaging gov overnment work. 'Marxist Communist ‹ings by the an activity where the y think of be Threamt sty thereore does could India diversion from a real the bureass and isolatio war PAGE FOUR COL. 8 con But go-slows and 'days of for fighting the redundancie

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An explosion at a Barnsley colllery In the middle of the last century.

The Miners' Association—A Trade Union in the Age of the Chartists—by Raymond Challinor and Brian Ripley; Lawrence and Wishart 1968; price 42s of his successes in defending vic- The 1840s were a watershed timized miners in the law courts.

in the development of the The trade union achievements of the Miners' Association were working-class movement in impressive. It was an advance on all previous unions, since it was Britain. both a national and a unitary organization. Chartism, despite its political represented Earlier unions had mostly confusion, a break centred on local areas and from earlier movements in which been while had followed industries, attempts at the working class middle-class 'general' 'national' uncritically behind or unions, Grand National Con- Radical leaders (e.g. such as the in support solidated Tradé Union of the 1832 Reform in 1834, Bill). had been short-lived, and had Chartism essentially was failed impose any kind of movement for social change; central discipline. a movement for social Inceed. The Miners' Association was revolution, as ruling-class fears eventually to founder the and the writings of the advanced on of 'physical force' Chartists, such as same rocks local independ- Harney, demonstrated. because of the ence, regional economic condi- Though the middle-class Radi- tions. hold cals attempted to keep workers by seeking their Annual 'bond' over Anti-Corn Law support the tor League and in some cases by There was not yet a national sponsoring limited social reforms, market for coal, nor the the gap between the classes inex- •of structure employment uni- orably widened. form. In the North East coalfield, Owing the lack of educa- to the united strength of the tion the middle-class frequently enabled employers them to rose to leading in the impose an annual 'bond' (legally- DosIuons working-class movements, includ- binding contract employment) ing Chartism itself. on their miners, making it essen- tial for the miners to adopt But it was becoming increas- ingly difficult for them equally united form strike Lancashire the foothold tain in both camps, competition of many small politically speaking. employers encouraged adopt 'guerrilla' strike tactics.

Antagonism had After the 1844 strike shattered the original union organization centred on New- This was true particularly of castle, leadership of what the and mining remained to Lancashire, passed areas of Midlands, N Eng- the where only minor skirmishes had Scotland, land and where taken place. rapidly-increasing exploitation by middle class masters was daily Meanwhile, the Scottish coal- forcing the clash of class inter- fields began to break free from be transferred from the ests to national leadership because political of into the the of their inde- economic pendently organized sphere. partial strikes. The development of working- class antagonism to the middle By August 1847, the National class, the of Delegate Conference of historical essence the Chartism, reflected in the Miners' Association, at one time was of the trade union movement held every three months, con- 1840s, the history sisted solely of Lancashire dele- especially in of the Miners' Association. gates. This Association was describec The union's "The by the 'Northern Star' in 1849 a: Miners' Advocate', at one time 'the most powerful labour union 11,000 read by miners, was ever known in this country'.

gradually forced of ' print •out by the parallel drop which Its has often been history the develop- occurred in central funds.

overshadowed by ment of more enduring, less poli- By 1848, the history of the of Miners' tical "New Model' unions Association as a national skilled workers (such as the union was at an end. Amalgamated Society of But Challinor and Ripley Engineers) in the 1850s. demonstrate that there was Yet it is history of con. thread of continuity running 1850s siderable importance, since it through the the Leeds reflects all the tensions between 1863, at which a conference of the revolutionary and the merely attempt was made con- new TO struct a National Miners' Union, radical, reformist wings which eventually split up the Chartist along lines of moderation rather movement, and were to reappear than militancy. different form with the IS analysis of of redevelopment unions labourers, under social influence, from the 1880s onwards. It is imposible to separate the In the 1840s, the trade union history the rise and decline had not yet come to be regarded of the Miners' Association from purely defensive organiza- its political context. as a tion in the service of class com- Unfortunately the political per- promise. spective of Challinor and Ripley Most of the Miners' Associa- (International Socialism' group) tion leaders were Chartists.

them fris ndertaking. prevents detailed the analysis tionship of the union to middle- 'Ignorant' class and working-class political currents of the period. The employers often tried to Their very inadequate chapter use this fact as a weapon against on 'Politics and the Union' con- the claiming that its union, almost centrates exclusively officials were 'guling ignorant the parliamentary connections of But although pitmen'. only the union; its attempts to get small minority dad, the contact its officials elected to parliament, with socialist ideas, deter- and the role of trade union pres- 40,000 with which mination sure legislation Northumberland and Durham improve conditions for miners.

miners maintained 19-week Though strike against the owners in 1844 they note that, at the outset, the union virtu- demonstrates that the union, and was ally a trade union offshoot of the the strike tactic, were considered Chartist movement, they fail to the by many rank-and-file trace the political influence of members of Incrimene those individuals who social revolution, rather than of already turning towards various mere economic reform. forms of revolutionary socialism William This crude and early form of -ne-time editor wi Beesley, one-time "The Miners syndicalism was expressed most W. clearly by the lawyer P. Advocate, is mentioned in pass- figure as having been founder Roberts, who was ing immense influence amongst the member of the Fraternal Demo- crats (1845), union's membership, as a result internationalist

REVIEW: JAN

• which Marx organization with had friendly contact. Naturally the socialists were only a highly significant minority.

But the revolutionary wing of Chartism — often syndicalist, as described above - certainly had strong roots in the areas where Miners' Association was the strongest, and cannot be over- looked merely because of the activity in the second half of the 19th century. Deficiency The authors' uncritical treat- ment of middle-class Radicals is also a sure indicator of their own political affiliations.

It is a deficiency typical of "labour historians', who set out to study the working class in isolation, rather than to set it in the context of the whole of capitalist at a certain society stage in its development.

Challinor and Ripley ack- nowledge that "The days of the middle-class maverick in the radical movement were • num- bered'-but fail to explain this comment. Chartist JULIAN HARNEY In fact, it is quite inconsistent with their earlier treatment of the work of W. P. Roberts, the Radical MP Duncombe and even of the Tory humanitarian Lord Shaftesbury. Roberts sunk his career into the working-class movement to an unusual extent, yet retained some of his middle-class political characteristics. He had a tendency to strike out individualistically, rejecung the guidance of the Miners' Association leadership. Duncombe, on the other hand, is eulogized for his 'political kin- ship' with the miners, and as a Chartist', despite 'staunch the fact that he never lost his posi- tion in ruling class society.

For Challinor and Ripley, this fact is merely an attractive pecu- liarity--. . . he was completely at home amid the luxury and elegance of high society; he loved to hear witty conversation at literary soirées, he frequented the underworld haunts of London.

'A man for all seasons, he was still completely atease with engineers, miners, dis- weavers, now they could cussing jointly further the struggle to improve their lot..? Middle-class How well this description fits some of the middle-class radicals of today! In fact, Duncombe was politi- cally, as well as socially, middle class to the core. He belonged to the group of parliamentary Radicals who fought in the 1840s against the landiords, in the interests of the manufacturers, especially for free trade and against the Corn Laws. In 1842, he had attempted to explain away the sections of the which hinted Chartist petition at the irreconcilability of ruling class and working-class interests and claimed that the workers would remain 'respectful' towards the rights of property for ever, if only the reforms demanded by

WORKERS PRESS

'THE BLUE-COLLAR work- ers, who sweated in the mines and factories, built the roads and drove the halftracks, seemed to accept stoically their role of providers and members of the silent major- ity. No longer. Today they are making themselves heard as they have not done since the turbulent 1930s. Their voices are loud, angry and aggressive'—'Time' magazine.

LAST WEEK'S "Time' devoted a long feature to the working class which the magazine is concerned to have to admit is now the main opposition. Unbalanced A General Electric chairman complains of 'an unbalanced con-

EVIEW: JANE BROWN

centration of power in the hands the Radicals (mot the Chartists) of organized labour while another were granted. manager compared the building Even these authors cannot workers' 12 per cent wage claim that Lord Shaftesbury sup- increase this year to 'a kid in ported the Miners' Association do assert that the 1842 but they class with case of measles. Mines Regulation Act right mental climate You've got to isolate it before created the for the union's birth'. they all catch it'. This slurs over the fact that Shaftesbury fanatically the workers' opposed to organi- zing themselves as a class against the employers. His humanitarianism was influ- enced by his desire to champion the of the land-owning power the encroach- aristocracy of Peel and the middle- ments class Radicals. DRUG-TAKING has become so US troops The working class had prevalent no among Vietnam that squad leaders have representatives in the parliament been issued with a guide on spot- of the 1840s. Its guevances provided ting and dealing with addiction merely convenient for both in their platoons. ammunition sides in the central conflict between the Although official army figures and landed manufacturing the the put number of soliders interest. dying this year through drugs at Challinor and Ripley write as the true figure is certainly academic who much higher. Commentators admire the heroism of the work- ing class, but incapable of The same goes for the army's analysing history in class terms.

of estimate out 1,000- strong sample The central lessons of the ol troops leaving Vietnam, 30 cent regularly per Miners' Association are definitely took drugs. not arawn. The guide has been sent to Moderation "Marijuana and Drug Suppres- sion Councils' within the Tactical The authors fail to analyse not Corps Force and includes four-page 'narcotics only the role of the middle-class identification chart'. Radicals, but also the for implacable hostility of Tne The booklet vainly tries to the coal-owners towards the play down the significance of the union. problem by claiming that the Indeed, they conclude by sug- incidence of drug-taking is no that there gesting has been higher than at home. softening in employers' attitudes Understatement towards unions, and that 'the road to moderation . exists for though it offered workers today', But 'the dependence of all of little hope in the 1840s. us on each other in the combat take on a new dimen- problem They ignore the fact that sion here'. employers are 'prepared to accept the existence of the trade union' This cool understatement only as long as the strength of covers a gamut of incidents from the working them class drives the My Lai massacre to soldiers into this and other concessions. shooting their side, while Trade unions are no more an under the influence of drugs.

integral part of capitalism today The booklet advises: than they were in the 1840s.

Whenever capitalism enters "Heavy smokers have little period of economic the patience, easily provoked, are capitalists viciously assail react in wild and trade and may rights: Such men are this assault has disturbed fashion. formed the basis of all extremist a constant threat to the unit and regimes of the 20th century and should be encouraged to seek also the agenda It is of the assistance through the on new Tory government in Britain.

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Saturday, November 28 Saturday, December 12 Plashet School Corn Exchange (nr East Ham tube) Leeds Doors open 12 noon Doors open 12 noon 'Blue-collar "Time' believes A wave of strikes has swept workers are more militant today the country in one year pushing largely because their aspirations the man-days lost through have been raised while stoppages by a third. their income remains static. There has been the Teamsters' Over the last years, national action, post workers, for according to the Labour Depart- first ever, public Tine ment, skilled workers' average employees in San Francisco and earnings have increased 41 per Atlanta, tugboat crews and grave cent, compared with the Depart- diggers in New York, and many ment's estimate of a 61 per cent more. in the financial needs of a rise family with growing children. General Motors is cast by

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Job security and safety 'Time' as Horatio holding are the also major worries. 14,000 work- bridge against onslaught of ers were killed at work last inflationary wage demands.

year; 28 per cent have no medi- The cal coverage, 38 per centet life union leaders casti- are gated for being unable to hold insurance and cent Per the rank and file to negotiated pension beyond meagre social security. contracts, which this year have been rejected at the record rate of one-in-12. The San Francisco ironworkers last month had the audacity to win a 30 per cent increase in a one-year contract Their union spokesman is quoted as saying: This amnesty has been forced Not satisfied on the Pentagon. As the booklet 'the task admits of finding illicit The younger leadership is not drugs (is) difficult and continu-. satisfied. I don't understand what ous, and the complexity and they really what it would Woll often the futility of prosecuting take to satisfy them.? offenders made the threat of punishment ineffective with In a revealing passage 'Time' many men'. says: TV

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Crossroads Hood 8 30 10.30 Fill this 6.00 Day • 70 da London. SE ISS Weather. 11.00 This Tom Jones. Out of town. 7.30 Friday, November 13, 1970 "Today, instead of seeking to change and improve the system, the union leadership has become part ot it. . . • The isolation of labour leaders from many of members is a ticking their own time bomb.' Other means If union leaders can no longer be relied on to keep • back the working class then the employers must find other means. Better pension schemes are one suggestion. 'Other ideas must wait for the day that the budget squeeze is eased.' 'Time's' last card is a sugges- for tion 'participative manage- ment' and job enrichment'.

The idea is even considered for car factories and steel plants.

"The cost would be high, since the assembly line would have to be redesigned give each • to worker at least some responsi- bility for assembling an entire component rather than tightening a single bolt. "The time may come when it will be cheaper for the com- panies to enrich the workers' jobs than to pay ever higher wage increases as the price of continuing discontent." Nixon's law-and-order prepara- tions for taking on the working class throws into sharp relief the of nonsense such flights of reformist fancy. UAW pickets in Detroit ON

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shipyard workers r Friday, November 13, 1970 nears moon By a science correspondent

THE

SOVIET

UNION'S

third lunar probe in little over two months is approach- ing moon orbit today with all signs indicating another automatic landing. She luna- capsule. basted orbit into earth tuesday heading for the moon, was before testing omcially the details were kept secret: сирень, vul FEW PORT or shipyard workers will be surprised at the shor In September, Luna-16 became the the lunad state and hirst Tories to calls for financial aid to key sections of their two in trom surtace return to earth. carrying Kussia It has recently been made

BY DAVID MAUDE

urst samples or moon aus abundantly clear by both With the Americans conc-n- marined Ministers involved _ Trans.

Yesterday's london manned mi sent launch date

MD&HB

Ches Robert Pert Edwards and next year. John Pevton which DOrIS chiefs the Trade and Industry overlord hosenh Clearv must tererore Shol John Davies - that driving Zon poly when what the latter describes as viability earth otographic made 'lame-duck' enterprises to the round neighbour. nearest wall forms one of the chief

SAME WORDING

props of government policy.

agency's news A call for gover come anne said it Prising source

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Dateline North-East Shipyards for its predeces- sor's mission If latest a further the assistame when me as Luna 16 it

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regional employment premium is with Chan. investigation into careful cellor Anthony Karber's cuts.

Wednesday check of its final landing path.

unemployment 26 hours spent 'Assistance' little more than In Britain. of chairmar Wearino the hat the Contederation bulding and Engineering shipbuilding committee, has for a meet i asked y Western scientists are specu. tinued assistance lating whether Soviet space new been may rerer to a mooli • empers on were he ta la.

This left the visit to Liverpool last month.

be with ' surface-possibly Redundancy, f however, forms camera Two schemes send hact vnchoin scientine intormation as it travels both arth a later Soviet craft.

around rendezvou During he repulse‹ on aid and elicit placed the ball for undertakin that DEH week in septem

NO VEHICLE

antionalization her announced squarely in the port authority's In the heyday of the Us spac estimated millon 1,000 programme. o anne shipyara workers the got send a venice The cuthacks ramme no make hat this wil be attempter Soviet expenditure on each new Apollo flight is mounting. repeti- extra heard have been supplied A RECENT increase in visa prices for Soviet citizens volume nossible emergency nrocedures to travel abroad-they now cost 400 roubles- -effec- Apollo-14 would A failure for certainly tively cuts off ordinary workers fram the possibility Apollo programme. which planned with of visiting even W Europe.

1077 Apollo-17. In combination with the very must pay for high rate ther foreion currency. travel is now

PUBLIC LECTURES

prohibitively expensive for ordin- ary Russians. The itinerant hureaucrats and dinlomats anager in such use.

ful tasks as promoting relations with fascist Spain will not be affected. They will continue to enjoy free visas and travel, and duty- The importance of Marxist philosophy in the frep luvuries nurchased with hard building of the revolutionary party.

currency. "Tax' Lectures by measure is anos simply a ta this

M. BANDA

(Editor of Workers Press) ithout wanting onenv to t regime is determined to cut it to

RARKING

the minimum many workers, contact o-op Hall, Whitne Shamher with the labour movement in anchowe Ave int ques. throu inte tion for out ery da hasis en she Soviet media existence Lectures by G. Healy and M. Banda

NEWCASTLE

Travel abroad trefora to he reserved for those regarded a Sunday, November 15 Hotspur Hotel "trustworthy'. Sunday, November 29 Haymarket 7.30 p.m. Lectures by

C. SLAUGHTER

(Central Committee of Socialist Labour League) HE SWISS economy is now ariousiv infected by the inf

BIRMINGHAM

SHEFFIELD

ions ging Eurobe other coun Sunday November 25 Monday November 16 Oween emmon Market Oki Birminiben, 4.30 p.m. Crooksmoot tha hatween ciale and head

OXFORD

nance said in

LIVERPOOL

epartmenervie Wednesday November 25 Thursday November 19 Thursday November 26 dangerous Northgate Hall. 8 p.m. As solutions he proposed "wazes freezing of some at the short shrift given by the their two industries. many of them members of McGarvey's own union - lost their jobs at Palmer's Tyne ship- repair yard at Hebburn. Just over three weeks previ- ously, McGarvey met Davies with a delegation of local trade union- ists in London to protest against the planned closure of the yard, a Vickers subsidiary. Tirade Davies informed the delega- tion in no uncertain terms that no government aid would be forthcoming to save the men's jobs, and • McGarvey the follow- ing week delivered himself of a bitter-and very apt--tirade at the Trades Union Congress against 'government by the CBI.

(Davies is a former CBI director-general.) than Less a month after the Palmer's closure, and in the same week as Peyton's Liverpool visit, workers at Merseyside's troubled Cammell-Laird ship- yard were warned by directors that the £6 million given to Laird's by Labour Technology Minister Anthony Wedgewood Benn covered only the four ships under contract at the present— and were given a broad hint that the yard might still have to close unless productivity increased.

Bollermakers' leader Dan McGar.

vey on his September trip to see John Davies. Yet only three weeks later McGarvey bobs up again with a further plea. Defeat Neither Merseyside portwork- ers-some of whose leaders are now fostering similar illusions— nor shipyard workers in Birken- head, Scotland or the North-East expect anything from this can policy of defeat. It is nothing short of a poli- ical scandal that it should be advanced by a leader of the 3,000,000-strong CSEU. British-Leyland stewards, who also threatened with are now closures. have shown the way with their demand: 'Fight sack- ings'. Any firm which cannot workers give security to its should be nationalized under workers' control in line with the policy of the CSEU'. It is around this programme that port and shipyard workers must unite.

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rofits' and measures 'designer • encourage savine' Understand What is needed, he said, is for 'the Swiss citizen to under- stand that he must not spend more than he earns, in order that we achieve a certain dis cipline in the population.

The Swiss employers how-

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BY A

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

THE BOLIVIAN government of General Juan José Torres is jailed expected release to Debray French writer Regis around Christmas, sources close to the government have revealed. Debray captured was on April 20, 1967, along with painter Ciro Argentine Roberto Bustos. Both charged with were being involved in the guerrilla organization led by the late Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, killed in October 1967. At their trial, which started in September that year, Debray and Bustos were sentenced to 30 years' and 15 years' jail respectively. The sources said the two prisoners were both likely to be released by an amnesty, but that Torres would have the final say. Under pressure They added that the general under from was pressure students and workers. Torres, who came to power with popular support after the fall of president Ovando Candia, has under come increasing criticism from the guerrillas — organized in the Bolivian National Liberation Army - for his compromise reactionary forces, with dis- credited under Candia's regime. Soviet radio criticism of India SOVIET Radio broadcasts will no longer criticize any aspects of India's internal affairs, Foreign Minister Swaren Singh has told the upper house of the Indian parliament. The Kremlin's decision follows complaints by Indian MPs about Soviet Radio criticism of the Indian Supreme Court's veto of the nationalization of 14 banks earlier this year. The Soviet decision could not have been more timely for Indian première Mrs Indira Gandhi.

She is currently facing a bar- rage of criticism for allegedly giving favours to her 21-year-old son. He was recently granted licence to manufacture a small car-a much sought-after privil- ege among the Indian ruling élite. Mrs Gandhi can at least be thankful that her alleged mis- demeanours will pass unnoticed in the Soviet Union. ever, face an immediate poli- tical dilemma. To hold wages back they wish to impose a degree of unemployment, but since the government adapted to the extreme right wing by restrict- ing the number of immigrant workers, they are hampered by a very high demand for labour.

In addition the high level of imports in the Swiss economy makes for rapid inflation what- ever happens to domestic prices. All cars used in the country, for example, have to imported.

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educa- special ducational targets are

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The Cost Cuts', and the NUT warns: Severe conse- educational

HANNATES

luences Tor the children ritain would rollow ll tney wer repe policy which should be cent below what was postponed or delayed. required

UCIODI

secretar annuas Appalling conditions 1oca ecucaton authorities Scare or the ine true the Tor whitewashed system nursery education equality of opportunity, compre- being too est about And the total cash for educa naive raising of Proper cater- tion remained constant at school nillion with the prospect of argued that, art i atter all, the emba- leaving fall the NUT says that by But the programme was

LION

oullaine cent intact Britain cst £5,00 miTK any more and in

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were reca- really stand steady welfare not part simply le ments of the statutory require-

NUT

booklet ucation with the

LOWS

that even the present £2,200 million. heads with the Utmost importance cash available. union says 30,00 says Massive funds university a chi meals 500.000 Unless funds massive 3,500,000 children with. ntouched, three million childre quality -of the utmlist impott will suffer out milk- classes irreversible decline, a still n sharn ance to c pat in in schools conditione exnansion will he out of the anes.

It adds decision appalling. educational opportuni- raise education Chargec examn e 1s given the bernhig of a major Tory nave mosi damaging the Jess wavs in vocational affect education. and aquit wnien cuts draw least In a survey of local and of was state Czech- links extended CZECH and Spanish govern- ments soon exchange final documents establishing consular and trade relations. talks have been he paris progress

TOT

aires was the same killed three SCARCELY PAUSING over the death of de Gaulle Sense of timing With the Gaullist regime in France continues to press equally adroit the forward with its legal attack on the labour and trade egim union movement. A Saint-Etienne Court

BY DAVID BARNES

bring down the has ordered the clearing fascists. Czechoslovakia is tha nfłh of the administrative inexine Stalinist donniac face washore regime to conclude and with the Franco offices of the 'Nouvelles emal.conle cotton workers others are Galeries department Hungary ioined with agricultural worters and smal formers in a agreements have 1.500 meeting стоге. which rolnal. while Thay word copumiod for audr cons with aromatic rela- rela- Thaudh aalled hu union oth week au relaye of chan wanke tions with after reficed other ticall -the alteration lished links on many even to meet • to them discuss of the Sixth their pay and conditions claim.

Pan to provide mor levels. public works e nety of workers Shipping interests the The court order, to go into the rand Delegations effect after re recently hours, specifically i blow at ahe exchanged provided for of police imnortant employers. mutual shipping interests to throw out the workers having Franco'c miccin that Such laws will be brought govern- headanasters in the Rlank Co increasingly into play as workers the Odessa and Madrid are Starteet cit in •and Tenerife huv the farmers news emninvers determination facilitiesimes. allow no further reforms.

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ACTON, LONDON

From our Industrial correspondent MACHINE-SETTERS at London's Acton CAV plant are fighting for six demands involving pay and conditions, despite a standstill intro- duced earlier this year. Shop stewards have New stage endorsed the demands MEMBERs of the Joint shop stewards' committee executive and insist that they in

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this week infringe any no way an annual

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existing agreement. of Ealing not compulsory, not statutory.

LORY

Mayors Other workers "This applies to and mammersmita the whole prouds discuss sited aims. meet soon to field bargaining of and that they must eans this Bill. of the The Acton wage freeze was government came to site deal which in- Feather Panded installation the trade union movement on cluded tele-control That Dasis, men an pro- that it wolo get hotoves mostive response.' (Our emphasis.)

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treacherous Tory Chancellor Anthony TUrt to look to the TUC for leader- the Barber's 'of the mull-Duusel.

HOW-

ship. The General Council Com- ever. sparked series readily accepts that duty. But and the 'lefts' in erievances among the site's with 150 strongly-organized setters.

callics the blade sibility of trade Lne Dall unev

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challenge the san is More wastar union i executives to lena tel Staff parity strengue to this united entort. In what will be interpreted ignores reports of a new 'deal' as a union They asking both for December reports that the benefits staff enjoy- Withdred -no clock- 'forceful' issued supple sick pay Ink In

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ana the documen! anu year- I ve privilege cavs one will want to con- union aws. without the attendant staff tract our. ne stalinists are care status, and for increases out conscious betrayal. again, class Inis kind oi unity 1s the bonus long-service pay- diametrical opposite the Once disarm ments. unity defeat the working treachery of the trade union Tory Any increase due to them at the the moves nguire the im- leaders. July should be backdated mediate This fits in precisely with the to june zy this vear, they sav the Tories plans. As Carr said camoalen to Torce readers irresisuoiv Into mobi- "Tele-control', which to ine Insutute or Directors: lizing the united strength the have comine unael alreday allack union duty, after a period of opposi- Irom several sectons force a Tory resig- the factory, may workers in and accept the laws, and.

become primary target Hallull the setters' struggle. society can do nore lan make a temporary co- gesture relusing operate.'

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while ridge Road. Tories rush ahead on Dec 8 Lic wItn unetr orans

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onslaught on the createst working class.

MASS

Ford Workers May 1968 onwards, from 45-acre the League

WILLESDEN:

Wilson Hall, High Road, Douy" blail sile las caned lor all-our stoopart ernment's Wednesday Albert DOn- on December o.

WEST LONDON:

would lead to Cies tne relues " Baite Street, Kings Cross.

They demand that the or a new tvse or orv covern call a 'Bonapartist' ment, a Trades Union Congress ment. the venera suike Delore ene Tweeti she extreme right and of the vear to force the 'Tories well Green between extreme resign over proposed right and the Powell on the one anti-union legislation. hand, and

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incess Head, Fallen on the treacherous trade union rin ten Hon Road, Claphan stewares nave passed lcduers on me ower Boiss the Shat must be done? the Dagen. the resolution to situation we now lace. * To: Rocker it: BRE Road: ham factory's all-stewards' The fighting strength of the Tories in to disara t. as the 1 ones are concerned.

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It is now essential to fight In every single secuon or une Support Pilkington glassworkers and their udae movement force the trade union leaders class Defeat the proposed Tory anti-union laws stop anti-union laws, sup- port every section of workers, the sucids mainers, In value

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wItn Ine government. and force the Tories to resign.

GLASGOW: Partick Burgh Lesser Hall, near Merkland Street underground, 7.30 p.m. LONDON: Woodlands Hall, Crown Street, Acton, 7.00 p.m.

Speakers will be from the Pilkington Rank and File Committee against stringent strikers he CGT has said that a 30

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GENERAL MUlURs and th rise United Auto Workers' Union Coll and the lifting have reached provisional Waxes To end the

'BLUE' PLANS

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three-vear-ole Dan bargainin Levingston's Wast agreement announced strike more

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Roberto military 300,000 workers the unal dictatorship last week, well 'Blue' union dockers United states ane canada.

demands. short of their London's enclosed docks yes- The union's general council terdav decide to surike one has still to meet

ARAFAT WARNS AGAIN

day each mont against ine the terms, which reliably are employers' lecision not tour rise in the first yes.

reported to _cents a allow alteration of shift times guerrilla Palestine Header union branch meena Yassir told allow A ratat contracts, un- Afro-Asian of the cost-of-living allow- Council government customary weckudy creame seil airliting Wednesday Starting and new slalistics Ict Chucul dockers will stay away supples $30 Jordanian military are mobil- and case conn cr 12109 TOrCeS to rebare the union. until employers for a second round against the commandos,' 'he said. Earl Bramblett, one of the give wake motor vice-Dresiaents acknowledged that the agree.

ONE-DAY

ARGENTAREO

'inflationary', but general age trend in the only line with said Workers throughout Argen- Press, US. tine walked out yesterday for a thire ana-coveren sulke screet, London: The settlement in just over a

ICOULLS

month. der vine are correct, is well below the government threats to take

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JUAN FARINAS, a young worker at Columbia University and supporter of the Trotskylst organization Workers League, faces Selective Service Acts frame-up charges of violation the under which men are conscripted into the US army.

As his Intervlew makes crystal clear, the udicial attack on him Is because of his principled opposition to the Vietnam war and imperlalism and his willingness to enter the army and to spread his views amongst fellow Gis.

'Juan Farinas Defence Committee' has been formed, and including leading trade unlonists, the Workers League other groups. The Committee is campaigning for support in the labour movement and Is holding a meeting to involve Puerto Rican and other Spanish-speaking workers and youth in the defence case.

Farinas faces a possible five years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine on each of the five counts with which he charged. of the case is the of the One notable feature refusal Socialist Workers Party support the revisionist to Defence Committee campaign. Their objection is to a passage in the Committee's state- ment which reads: 'In the course of a fight back against these charges It will be both possible and necessary to take up the fight against the war and the entire racist and anti-working-class Nixon-Agnew Administration'.

policles of the They will not defend Farinas 'other than on a civil libertles basis'. In other words, the defence of class-war victims is simply a question for liberal protest.

This unprincipled political desertion by the SWP has not, however, momentum and wide stopped the campaign galning support. O: What the are I was ready to go in if ac- charges against you? cepted. This upset him very much.

A: I am being charged He told me that there were with failure to cease and who had the young desist from distributing leaf- idea, who thought lets, from speaking and from they could disrupt the centre unruly and boisterous be- by leafleting and making a the Armed haviour at lot of problems. Forces Centre, and also with I said that I had no inten- failure to report and sub- tion of disrupting. mit for induction and hin- Then he said he would dering and interfering with favour do me a great by the Selective Service System.

telling me what could hap- The trial date is December pen to those who disrupted 10. Selective the Service. He pulled out a book and read O: What is the basis something sony heard 510,000 fine and fast that for these charges? three to five years in prison' if A: On August 13, 1968, He asked me again I reported for induction at wanted to refusé induction, the Whitehall Centre here and I said no. in New York He then told me that if I would I was ready to go into wanted to refuse, he would the There was help me, he inform demonstration outside the me of my rights. on my behalf and I centre I left this office and went prepared distribute to the first room in the in- leaflet inside explaining There were duction process. what I thought of the war.

about 20 guys there. The leaflet explained that I began to give the leaflets 'it the was a war against out. There was no incident, interests of the workers in stepped until the sergeant Vietnam and in the United of the front the room States, and only for the and told me to stop giving benefit of the millionaires out the leaflets. He also told who rule this country. the draftees that , it- was also declared in the leaflet 'subversive literature' and that we had the right to that they could 'throw it in organize against the war not be- the garbage where it outside but inside the only longs'. army as well. I said they should not be When I entered the in- intimidated, that no one duction was ap- centre, could force them to throw proached by a sergeant who it away, and I began to ex- took me to an office on the what the leaflet said. plain second floor. He asked me Only the leaflets two of if the demonstration was on were thrown away. my behalf and I said yes.

returned Then me if I The sergeant he asked officer and shortly with planned to refuse to step forward. I answered no, that asked me to go back to the 'Guerrillas' in Ulster SPEAKING to a Paris meeting of the French organization Red Aid', Bernadette Devlin said on Wed- nesday night that her Ulster would, if necessary, supporters use armed guerrilla warfare against the Unionist regime there.

Miss Devlin, who on her jail declared release from her total opposition to what under have gathered the she called 'rioting', has now went Devlin umbrella, she swung over in the space of on : a few weeks to the most 'We are not interested in adventurist variety of dema- liberal democracy. It gogy. employs Reflecting the motley capitalism assortment of Republicans, violence against the workers.

revisionists and Maoists who 'We not need the do

BY A

The AFL-CIO thus swung

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

votes behind trade unionists' the Rockefeller-Buckley bloc.

$1.5 an hour demanded by members. many union Endorsed big But despite the wage rises being won in struggle by The leaders of the building US workers, there are New York acute workers in en- front. The victory dorsed the Nixon-Agnew "law- dangers in in New York's senate election and-order' campaign, aimed at of extreme right-wing candi- strengthening the law against Buckley vividly date James the working class. underlines these dangers.

And

AFL-CIO

president Buckley represents the most George Meany waited until union-bashing em- one day before the election to reactionary ployers and campaigned on a issue statement attacking programme of anti-union laws.

Buckley. Buckley won his senate seat Meany himself is deeply back-stage as result tied up in support for Nixon's in which union horse-trading war effort. leaders played a key part.

Buckley's ability win York

AFL-CIO

The New support from sections of (US trade federation) workers is a direct outcome of backed Republican candidate refusal the union Nelson Rockefeller. bureaucrats, the Stalinists and But Rockefeller himself had the revisionists of the Socialist Workers' Party (Pabloite) made deal with Buckley, to a which the fight for independent under two men workers' party in the ÜS.

were running in a virtual bloc.

serge to and intimidate me. He asked me if I would neither he no anyone what I thoug but of here! your told could to the first and tossed ; building, me out but ins tOOL minutes at the most. Would you com ment on the charges themse ves. The charges are both express one speech and free leaflet can heated radis i or e all is rep choses the behaviour After est to asked rather than to jail attempted to harass me. This charge is the most serious disc tical frame-up. O: Can you tell us something aboul background? i was born in Cuba fussie and bes be nee and that class and conscions played She rails against liberal House of Commons!

SUBSTITUTE

and armed Devlin's of de- o trade uns unita Friday, November 13, 1970 Encouraged by sanctions' School in New York and I Community ollege ane city colede I am now asa janitor Univer and am active member of Local of the Workers' Union. five years aco pecame interestee Do lues. especial the fight against the war Vietnam the qaestion premier lan Smith boasted in

RHODESIAN

of independence Rico. Salisbury of the progress his white supremacist time the of the in- regime has made despite sanctions and said he cident I was a was not over-optimistic about of a chances settlement with Britain though the Tory govern- ment had a 'more realistic and honest approach'.

language newspaper of this Smith was speaking About eight months as Sordid on the fifth anniversary PL and estion of his unilateral declar- move in Stalinism ation of independence, his party. That is how marked by a military came De a suporter o Indian show of strength and the Workers League. I have been marmed tor air force fly-past. an years three 1 have parliament one-year-old daughter. Smithsnno hurry che e tris agreement an with Q: Would you com- despite the con- the ciliatory attitude of Heath and

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ment on what you con- Foreign Minister Douglas- Home® sider the significance of Originally pro-Chinese, they is determined to make have these charges against you mover steadiv the concessions, even verbal since have and what you think can favoured armed repression ones, to the idea of majority be done about them? Tute. Bengal and offer seares. Inside me counv. moves segregation A: The charges are to tighten racial are well under way. fraud. This complete With the typical example the so-called the poluca atack. these brutal eviction of the Tang- nolltica renression. Gandhi is relent- go It stems from the down revolu- Cardes ranch zambique. Gaeresi samne the ionaries in W Benga causes all Une attacks on the working class.

police force has Al special than 1,000 people minority heen formed. ready to fire at the VOlTh andi have been forced to eo into workers and militants. will nnccnects" niaine ater their nomes were The capitalist system is in Seven Nayaltes were shoi bulldozed to clear the way tor Monday alone and a tremendous crisis amo can White tarmerc hundreds have been wounded The tribal lands were desig- maintain itset oniv through arrested. more and more open attacks 1930d der 'European' area Officials 120m Nada have oppose 1930 all tnnse who of about ior higher woakess fing eaders who are to be taken wa lea ding not informed dead or alive. war, Transport strike tue management the Gaeresi ranca svnalcate who Chicano militants Transport services servea men wim gonces resist racism and oppression.

been ault. Maharashtra state have This isolated WAre cripoled bv a strike of 200.000 is part and parcel attack. Jocal government workers.

destroy their homes and move milk supplies DOlC tand. so-called 'tribal trust have also been hit. anu-communist Bombay hospitals dis- witeh-punting. ana super. Bull dozers moved and charged patients admitted natriotic nvsteria to divide •demolished many Home Gyard ana caten iin the working houses. class in preparation for big- merdar and ger and bigger attacks. man hospitals

DIVIDED

Therefore I feel that we telephone exchanges. The strike is over a demand They have been warned that mist answer tais. attack for politically, by taking it Increase ba an aw 'every person louna Iving on trade unions, the ances to orino state emn ovees Gaeresi ranca will be treatedi clauth, to the entre working in line with federal workers.

as the TDe same manner others'.

WEATHER

tribe is now divided into two factions. Some want hidinhe French iron remain in • best hope reach others With believe return to their homes and defy miners strike and show police to move them out Coriana V the land- raciaist. Tories realme the stalin St want acreement with

(CGT)

Smith Iron hiding his over al simo V strike France miners ume until the lories drop the todav on their claim for last vestiges of their 'majority policy and back his prover water ana concltions government despite the tact that mine African racialist output has tripled in the last The N seven years, •management dictatorship. still refusing to grant a mini- end night secutive days' each the 'Nouvelles-Galeries' AL department Saint- store where ruenne. workers occunving the administrative onces were taced with a conrt week. order this staff have struck with official union backing See French strikes story on page three.

BY DAVID BARNES

WITH THE Mafia question and the govern- Swedish ment's proposed budgetary measures threatening workers claim the life of the Rome coalition, Italian employers determined face working-class resistance to attempts to erode wages and conditions of work.

20 per cent engineering in Mar metal-

THE

ERA of toriec Aver 160 000 impact many workers in "harmonious' workers are struggle the public sector. class Sweden enforce the full provisions Yesterday majority to a drawing decisivelv close 260,000 the national labour secondary with the recent claims by the school teachers ended a national trade union organiza- d5U, hefty day strike gave wage tion (LO). ment under impact These creases the average over 20 per demands 1969 cent and especially the teaching loads. demandede natonal surike waves creases workers (those The clear collusion betwee Market's Lebanese earning less than 19s an hour).

some of the Common LO seader Gerier. nutting major forward culpanie Inclucle the claims hetore Romeo, Alla 011- peasants Falck sermens Auto. outlined Novemher bianci-has torced 2 united the demands for social occupy land stop- response• there are vices and a lower retiring manage- nagec clearly present cent ment provocations. A POLICEMAN was wounded offer presents no basis for discussion. land- earlier this week when peasants lece Undertakings provie N red a audit Pushed Union leaders, pushed for- On clash Tuesday 10 000 previous year's un- workers struck ward the nast Hola nearby * ell- for half and demon- oficial strikes and by tha nepd where DOlICe ity prices, democratic centre, imorcemerts were called into with rising lemanding series of unaer- acuon ov the hig landownerc Palme's akings including peasants who eno Crive with the prospect with vere cultivating land that had

WOIK

•angerou c crisis. materials, recognition ot shor remained idla for gimmick Many of them Alouites stewards and an end to man. 'freeze' on food prices before over move- originally adement control wac brought ment of labour. now une summer eecuons starvation with neither land nor jobs. hum little benet and he must Such problems are typical of capitalism's economic crisis at held ine who do get work are and solve Swedich other factoriese manage- at the virtual serfdom bu the centre the expense of a strong and them bailiffs of the ahsentes land. attempts confident working class ment weaker €10 Payments lords who own vast stretches shop-floor balance organızation which the soul deficit che first million Droviced The ImnAtus in the So tar the Beirut govern- this nine nona contrac non made no comment ment hac leaves The him li++le clashes, which year government's public the gone on for several months.

room to manoeuvre. spending squeeze is having its