Union laws part of Pilkington fight Social democrats

night.

He outlined the story of Pilkingtons, how after a strike that won a f3 wage increase, the management had sacked and blacklisted 250 men in an attempt to destroy the new militancy spreading to their six St Helens factories.

Despite his personal guarantee of no victimization, Victor Feather, the general secretary of the TUC, had done nothng to defend the sacked men or night for their rights, he added.

'But we don't just want your verbal support. We want you to get your factories to John Potter black Pilkington's glass. We want money each week so. we can keep our struggle going and we want you to take the matter up with your own union leaders to demand they do something. we want to give the children a party. So keep the money coming for the fight,' he said. WEATHER ALL AREAS will have sunny spells and showers, which will be frequent and heavy in the Nand will fall as snow over high ground. Thunder will accompany some of the heavier showers.

Cloud will increase in SW England and Wales, with more general rain later in the day.

Temperatures will be near normal in the S, but it will be rather cold in the N.

Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Continuing unsettled, with showers or longer periods of rain. Temperatures near or a little below normal. Brian Woodward London dustman Tony Sweeney speaking to the Inflation crisis corporate liquidity and undermine greatly the export potential of the big corporations and the already anaemic growth of the economy.

The Treasury, it is believed, feels that deflation 'would weaken the main aim of the government's policy by making it more difficult for employers to stand to strikers'. ('Sunday Telegraph', Ronald • Butt, November 15, 1970.)

Heath's statements and government policy clearly indicate that the Tories are reconciled to a winter of industrial struggle and that their response will be to lean even more closely on the trade union leaders while pushing through their scab's charter and utilizing the menace of Powellism to force even more concessions from the TUC As Lord Balogh concluded:

If Heath cannot stop the unions Mr Powell might'!

The demand to make the trade union leaders fight for a general strike to bring down the Tory government could not have been underlined more succinctly! AS THE Italian parliament resumes its debate on the amended economic 'decree' this week the labour movement's political leaders' are engaged in a desperate search for new forms of class collaboration to prop up Mancini, secretary the Italian Socialist Party (largest of the social democratic parties), presented a report to last week's Central Committee meeting at which he proposed 'wait-and-see' attitude to their participation in the centre-left government.

Like many of the Christian Democratic leaders, these men realize that the centre-left formula is now worn so thin as to be transparent.

They seek new camouflage —in the form of participation or formal support for the government by the Stalinists.

COLLABORATE

For their part the Stalinists go out of their way to demonstrate that they are prepared to collaborate in the same programme-attacks on wages and employment sugared with Deemises of stockin-trade has stock-in-trade centre-left governments for six years.

Vice-Secretary of the Communist Party Berlinguer explained to the Central Committee last week that there 'are signs of .. • the beginning of a new phase in the political struggle, more open and closer'.

These were the result, as he put it, of the Party's struggle against 'adventurists' who seek to isolate the most advanced elements of the working class'.

EXPLICIT

Quite explicitly, the Stalinist leaders' plans for parliamentary collaboration require a drive against the Party rank and file and the trade unions who put forward class mates on trad on wages, conditions and trade inion rights.

In the metal and rubber industries of the North hundreds of thousands of workers face struggles to establish their labour contracts.

And in Reggio Calabria 3,000 youth and high-school students demonstrated in the main streets on Friday against the government's failure to give reforms in the area following the general strike and riots last month.

RIGHT

These movements make demands on the Socialist Party chiefs which force them to make left statements and force some of them more openly to the right.

Nenni, the aged ex-leader of the party (who used the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 to break from the post-war political bloc with the Come regime.

unist Party) opposed the ajority and demanded full icking for the centre-left. "There is the risk,' he said, at control of the countr Il pass out of the hands o e government, the parliaentary najority and the irties ' ESSENTIALS Nenni and the 'lefts' do not fer on essentials. They both ek to shackle the working ass to reformist politics hile the means of repression e strengthened.

But Nenni points forward to le future of social democracy Stalinism in Italy -›llaboration in the 'law-and(der' policies which the emloyers require to discipline le working class.

Just off the press VITAL READING FOR ALL TRADE UNIONISTS How to fight productivity deals is one of the leading political questions facing trade unionists. With collaboration from productivity-dealing union leaders, the Tories are organizing the employers to push up profits by intensifying exploitation... or go to the wall. 'The Measured-Day Work and productivity deal swindle' details the background, techniques and history of this process. And it exposes the bogus nature of the opposition put up to it by the British Communist Party and revisionist groups such as 'International Socialism'. Bernard Franks' analysis, first serialized in Workers Press between May 20 and October 21 this year, is more than just vital reading —it is a weapon. Clapham