Workers Press no. 307

What we think A question from a reader 3 the i that this must agal which militancy nto deen the tiess

REPLY:

the Tories is growing every suse in paris to It is not Every today inse he is in against the govern- lies not far ahead. class 1 ne inevitable clash. union laws are defeat the working o lass movement be Everything. i agration against purely protest, the Tories to change their minds. criminally 1lusion is dangerous. blind without the anti-union laws.

It is nonsense to put forwar To derat the eat the o yars nically that advanced an idea * resolution char explain ant.

of the what worker to rete to i gravest risks of having thei

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one in the miners moi Thor underaig aid man. euvres with these bureau-

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20, 1970 •

NUMBER 307

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUI

MY LAI

£1,250 Nov As the Tories press anti-union laws S Wales pits

MURDER

Fund rises to

TRIALS

may return Right E663 8s 11d Jobless Yorks wing defies ranged behind build-up Robens' smear S WALES coalfield delegates yes- dangerous. terday adopted a recommendation Calley trom the National Union of Mine workers' goes on area for execuave 186a Condon, Sit. 1 Street, AS THE long-awaited trial of Lieutenant Wil- Power workers demonstrate their determination to liam Calley gets under fight for a living wage outside yesterday's national way at Fort Benning, joint council pay talks in London, below.

Georgia, the less-pub-

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

licized court martial of

LEB

APOPLECTIC

Electricity Council David Mit- Sergeant 30 Millban

FLEET

chell draws to a close THE NOVEMBER jobless totals show that three workers WE at Fort Hood in Texas. are chasing every vacancy. With 602,000 out of work the

NEED

seen he co are him Both US servicemen situation has never been more critical since the end of the serving mare 210 depression in 1940. of My in namest E10 nunist: unemplovment - witn the anti-union laws the US economy ex-serviceman raul vicadl

NOT 15.

mator • 1 or weapon the offensive against the hits new leaders workin class s Demne Lakel used with Increasing now a civilian - severity. crisis with instigat-

SOUTHER

Told Do with the The e to e report themselves while guard ins said tacter which enables shouting AFTER a minor recovery in the better aditions and hither middle of the vear the American * Meadio yet killed them economy appears to be back on I have ever the ugliest crowd government which the road to decline and crisis which Sprayed fire attack. began in earnest in 1969.

IGNORED

Sustained expansione misome • York ever. augurated and 1 or 35-59 high of 174.6 over a Yorkshire mikes

POT DURAN

1,250 striker Kept. Power strike over

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remain bale Alliance Suite loss considerable produc Contempt he past month the bigges the campaign rs are still on st Scottist crying pay--men warn behind said "" The Charter does teres m

WALES

looking kept stil and 28,000 men on stand, dowitchell was some distance mental the cuts RANK-AND-FILE feeling is steadily building up amongst in fair example of the de torin Americad policy. dero-space fronte the massacre seas taking ditch Britain's 115,000 power workers against what they say is an Onslaught by the aero-space inadequate pay claim from their union leaders.

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big meso. volved in this campaign and sold the mothe Nores, Scotland and WOResides the sI0 increase £20 refused Measure Eggs up busines day Wait 0) про не 1967 produ- ucers for all grades o ices to p dozen from la an increase of a last week.

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THE DAILY ORGAN OF TH

we think Workers Press keeps

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insisting that the Communist Party sees the December strike against the anti-union laws as just a protest, and I agree with you that this is dangerous, and we must fight against such an idea. But surely the November 14 conference of the Liaison Committee on Defence of that Trade Unions showed there is a big militant feeling for a fight against the Tories which goes far beyond what was wanted by the CP and others who called the con- ference. How can we channel this militancy into the fight to defeat the laws and bring down the Tories?

REPLY:

THE working class is strong enough to fight the Tory government and one struggle after another shows that militant feeling against the Tories is growing every day. It is not just a question of militant strikes in particular industries. Every worker in struggle for wages today knows he is ir battle against the govern- ment. Millions of trade unionists sense that an all-out con- frontation with the Tories lies not far ahead. The ruling class is actively preparing every day for this inevitable clash. Its anti- union laws are an indispen- sable part of the plans to defeat the working class.

Everything depends, in the working-class movement, on the political preparation to win this fight against the government. The Communist Party has supported the December 8 strike purely as a protest, arguing that it can force the Tories to change their minds. This illusion is criminally dangerous. It is meant to blind the working class about the true nature of the class enemy.

The Tories cannot survive without the anti-union laws.

It is nonsense to put forward today the idea of a Tory government which does not advocate such laws, . which returns to the 'liberal' days of the boom. The Stalinists encourage this fatal illusion because it fits in with the interests of the counter-revolutionary Krem- lin bureaucracy, all the time seeking agreements with some such liberal' capi-, talism. To defeat the anti-union laws means to defeat the govern- The Stalinists ment. say cynically that this is too advanced an idea for the workers. How then do they explain the carried resolution unani- mously by the 200 delegates to the special conference last Tuesday of the Liver- pool Trades Council? "This conference calls on all workers to , strike on December 8 as part of a campaign to bring down the Tory government and to prevent it from intro- ducing its anti-union laws.

'We demand that the TUC make December 8 official and that they call for a General Strike to bring this Tory government down.' Not a protest, not pressure to the Tories minds, change but united action of the trade union movement to bring them down! That exactly what is required. The Stalinist argument that a fight on such policy ques- tions is 'premature' is sheer opportunism. Behind this mask the Stalinists expose workers in struggle to the gravest risks of having their fighting energies dissipated.

In this way the Stalinists did all in their power to break the miners' strike once their own shabby protest man- oeuvre in the miners' union was defeated. The Tories rely for their very survival on the trade union bureaucracy • to hold back the working class while they prepare their repressive measures. The Stalinists put their back- door undertakings and man- oeuvres with these bureau-

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. NCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20, 1970 • NUMBER 307 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LE ACI

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E1,250 Now S Wales pits As the Tories press anti-union laws

MURDER

Fund rises to

TRIALS

may return Right £663 8s 11d Jobless Yorks wing Costs. There sea poweri The Tories building up agains defies ranged behind Robens' build-up of these right-wing smear S WALES coalfield delegates yes- Post a Workers, terday adopted a recommendation Calley from the National Union of Mine- goes on aphem High' Street, executive workers aren

HOT

186a Cla London, SW4. AS THE long-awaited trial of Lieutenant Wil Power workers demonstrate meir determination to liam Calley gets under Dusham and Seriand around fight for a living wage outside yesterday's national way at Fort Benning, joint council pay talks in London, below.

Georgia, the less-pub- • par

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

licized court martial of

APOPLECTIC

Electricity Council. Sergeant David Mit- 30 Millbar chell draws to a close THE NOVEMBER jobless totals show that three workers

YORKSHIRT

at Fort Hood in Texas. are chasing every vacancy. With 602,000 out of work the

NEED

situation has never been more critical since the end of the servicemen if the depression in 1940. Lai in March Unemployment - with US economy

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described miners who Tory weapon in major refused to testify on the orensive adamst me hits new working class-ls being 'power- the maracte 1800 WILd increasie severity

SOUTHER

crisis And naw tue real to d Lo employment is the baste

DIS

st the top of that 'AFTER a minor recovery in the sent nigher wate middle of the year the American y Meadio had be back on yet killed them: culully apocals lu • It was tile ughest crow I have ever met ta caunches the road to decline and crisis which Sprayed fire encourage re- began in earnest in 1969.

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then stepped eco- ack a few yards and sprayed Bree down, with (ras over The base yes of 15,1959.

on the Lay the San to ta wind alarming raped young anti-union ith alarming rapidity during himal oned on that Meal which were boss ted it. Thabasic Charter Power strike over Trades call ae Board which onsiderable prodac Contempt the past month- Lic i56a A total of 3,000 Scottish niners are still on strik pay-men warn behind

LOSSES

Behind the cold statistics are the monu- tels rail, reomobile and meanse and 28,000 meat a RANK-AND-FILE feeling is steadily building up amongst Britain's 115,000 power workers against what they say is an Onslaught inadequate pay claim from their union leaders.

A WORKERS PRESS PAMPHLET

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SHORING UP WALL ‹

called 'failing firm doctrine'

THE TREMENDOUS

and longed fall in stock market values regulations are thrown anul-trust when the last week brought down another out of the window this the system is threatened. brokerage. house, time Corporation First Devonshire The Goodbody takeover was with some $50 million in Cus- worked out on a round-the-clock tomer accounts. basis under the leadership The New York Stock Exchange of Bernard Lasker, chairman of has done about this the New York Stock Exchange, nothing and a leading supporter of Nixon because its $55 million rescue committed fund already fully together far-righter James with handling the bankruptcies of ten other brokerage houses. Nor was it able do thing about the failure of Good- body and Co, the fifth largest US concern. Goodbody is one of the oldest most respectable and

HONOUR

Wall St. The 'New York imes' com. mented 'For firm to such been unthinko under would have

THE FORC

able a year ago'. had been allowed If the firm to collapse, the paper said, "The

PROFESSOR

recently whole financial community would

WHEN A

rabidly come tumbling down'. criticized the FBI's anul- communist chief J. Edgar Hoover, To avoid an enormous crisis 15 FBI agents dropped out of the of confidence, top ruling-class College Criminal John Jay nnancial circles had to Justice in New York. a rescue'. 'Rescue' is a misnomer. Later 11 FBI men were ordered For Goodbody is being. absorbed to leave a course on 'Violence in by the biggest firm of all, Merrill, at American University Lynch. America' made dero- because the professor This monopolistic move was gatory remarks about Mr Hoover.

informally approved the by Justice Department under the so- Hoover's blacklist is likely to

SUPREME COURT

DUCKS OUT

State's suit *should be settled raised THE SUPREME COURT last that the that question week made it clear that it will here and now. the so-called not rule The call to the court for legality of the Vietnam war.

such an important The cement en Vietnam war shows issue as the The Court voted six to three why Nixon has been so anxious to pack the Court with his own against hearing suit by the nominees and why there has been Massachusetts against State of Melvin Laird fierce controversy over his efforts.

Defence Secretary challenging the on the ground that it was not declared Congress. by The decision also shows the Four judges have to favour Court's essential subservience to the Administration. a hearing before a case can be brought before the As one press commentator put The filed in the it: sult was 'Often face of Mas- in the Supreme Court after the politically explosive the legislature last April SSUe court will put off hearing a case.

passed a law that no resident of since any decision handed down the State need serve outside the tend weaken the court country in a war undeclared by may Congress. in its relations with the executive and legislative branches of the The Justice Department para- government. doxically represented Mr Laird The Massachusetts will and argued in a way that seems suit be filed in the lower courts have nothing do with now and it will probably be "justice' and everything two or do with Nixon's three years before it reaches the war policy. high a call The State's law remains valid A judicial inquiry, the Depart- but it appears to be ineffective. both It also conflicts with the federal ment said, 'would under- the credibility of the Selective Service law under nation's friendly promises to which men are drafted into the and threaten nations army. embarrassment those who Head of the Massachusetts conduct its foreign affairs'.

Selective Service System, Col Feeney The only comment on the Paul said neither that decision from Justice the state's anti-war Bill nor the came Douglas whose lengthy written Supreme Court decision had said the Court owed affected his work. The Selective dissent Massachusetts an opportunity to Service just inducts them, and all, present its case more fully and that's he said.

THE ECOLOGICAL R

THE OUTCRY against pollution At the scene each time to a new folk a note reading simply in the Chicago hero area. Among his exploits was the Not surprisingly, the mysterious capping-off of given an of chimney and its pol- current wave interest in industrial preserving what's left of the luting smoke. countryside, The Fox' is hailed A sewage pipe carrying filthy as a hero and cars sport stickers effluents from an Illinois factory saying 'Go Fox, Stop Pollution'. into the once-beautiful Fox River 'The Fox' is known was blocked by a carefully made also to have dumped dead skunks barricade. Effluent from a US chemical factory flows directly into a river - ви Twould like information about

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OUR OF

THE RELUCTANCE of the Scottish bourgeoisie to study

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its history is hardly surpris- ing. So wide is the gap be- tween the illusion that its grow to include a good number interests are those of society of the country's universities.

as a whole and social reality Herald Tribune' International that it requires a considerable Buchwald reports columnist Art 'conspiracy' that there 1S feat of naivety, or hypocrisy, university professors to amongst to bridge it. Hoover and Edgar criticize J. explains why. At the of the turn The FBI is believed to plant historians like Hume Brown and undercover agents on every W. L. Mathieson, confident that campus, impeccably disguised as British capitalism was a progres radical students with beards, long force, sive attempted to write hair and bare feet and so indis- histories of Scotland comparable tinguishable from other students.

scholarly works of the TOe English 'Whig' historians. But radical students' three But even they could not bring walked out of a Mid-West college themselves to write with convic. Hoover lecture Edgar about the time when large- tion criticized left the was and scale industrialization was Scottish destroying 'traditional' society. few Subsequently, with very Scottish history has excepuons. been the hands of in petty- bourgeois idealists much of whose nothing whatsoever to work has do with historical reality. Britain's world leadership in the of industrialization

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HOOVER

far backward than ally more England—-this process involved a particularly sharp break with the They were undercover agents who had been ordered to go past. "left' through all the motions

HORRIFIC

of swallowing criticism their leader. England saw no equivalent of A short while later a similar incident occurred in California. the brutal expropriation the ot Highland peasantry in the 'clear- pointed out that The lecturer of the first half of the ances' the rose each crime rate 19th century. yeal the United States and higher in And observers each time Hoover got congratula- almost unanimous that, of were tions from the President.

the industrial excrescences thát Professor Briggs Asa calls students' Two • fradical more euphemistically 'Victorian cities,' found this too much to take.

Glasgow was quite the most horrific. These two episodes, according In Scotland the contradictions Buchwald, to made professors of British capitalism that were at realize the best . way to their his- sharpest: enormous expose FBI men was to: embark torical achievements went hand on campaign defaming in hand with degradation Hoover. for the majority of the growing population. The FBI is in a jam Do they retain their agents and force their The task of portraying these ears to be burned by the slanders developments, one-sidedly, as against their leader? process smooth, beneficial process which is the essential role So far it's been left up to the well- of bourgeois historians is individual agent. But such is the nigh impossible. pride of the force that it's said Recently the most substantial that every jibe the chief's contributions the understand- to honour draws blood. ing of Scottish history have come from so-called 'economic his- torians'.

AL ROBIN

They are forced by the nature of their inquiry to deal with par- ticular aspects of the economic reality underlying social develop-

HOOD

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Fox river. trial Revolution He entered the room, emptied Professor J. U. Nef has shown a can of 50 Ibs of raw sewage how the century of the bourgeois the England saw great on to floor and before revolution in escaping handed a 'Fox' note to advances in coal-mining; and now Duckham follows this up by the stunned receptionist.

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describing how, in the 19th cen- Scottish coal masters tury, the were able to follow suit.

Capital and technological ex- pertise from the more advanced areas of England played a crucial role in this process. But in the decades after the Act of Union of 1707, Scottish trade also expanded; at first hesistantly, then dramatically.

Wealthy merchants from Glas- gow and Edinburgh began to play a big part in developing the coal industry, usually by becom- ing go-ahead landowners. This was especially true after the rich Glasgow tobacco trade was disrupted by the American War of Independence. But it was only the not nouveaux riches who turned a benevolent eye or even their entrepreneurial talents to- own wards coal mining. The most progressive sections of the landed aristocracy came to terms with the decisive political defeat of the 17th century and turned towards making good in new ways. In effect, they helped supply the spades with which their own graves were to be dug. Some of them saw this. The 9th Earl of Dundonald, one of the leading investors ir Scottish mining, complained in the 1790s of the disruptive effects of 'the rapid increase of blast furnaces' to which he was him- self • contributing. Dundonald was especially con- cerned with the intensification of labour unrest' and with the break-up of semi-paternalist rela- tionships between masters and men. Duckham's study (mainly in the last two chapters) of labour Scottish coal relations in the industry before 1815 is extremely instructive.

ADAM SMITH

Developments in mining which were, in one sense, unique also act as a reflection of the less gradual changes in the economic and social life of the whole coun try. Duckham says (p. 313): 'Miners had never been typical workers of the old society where in the more developed fields they had formed something of a pro- letariat before its time. As indus- trialism developed they were overtaken in sophistication by the urban workers of textile mills or iron foundries. Miners changed less because the nature of their work and type of settlement changed less.

Thus they came to form a curious montage of the old and the new Though this passage brings out Duckham's the weaknesses method-deriving from the in- ability of the liberal idealist to the living reality of the grasp working class, which he sees montage-it also simply as a shows his understanding of the more general significance of the developments he discusses.

This understanding informs his important account of the most significant 'curiosity' of the coal industry: the sys- Scottish tem of slave labour. One of the celebrated 18th century 'travellers', Thomas Pen- nants wrote in 1772 of the 'rem- nant of slavery paralleled only in Poland and Russia', which existed in the Scottish coal industry.

In all parts of the coalfield, one of them in the environs of one of the centres of European _ Edinburgh — 'enlightenment' colliers and their families were bound to their masters for life.

Enlightened intellectuals, in the leading particular 'political economist' Adam Smith, criti- cized the system because it was extremely inefficient. But it was not until the Act of 1799 that it was finally and effectively abolished.

'PROGRESS'

Slave labour was no ancient hangover ready to be swept away by the tides of 'progress'. The system was legislated into exist- ence during the 17th century to labour-shortage deal with and vagrancy. As Duckham puts it (p. 241): "Collier serfdom had its begin- nings not in the mist of antiquity, but in the collective will of the landed coal masters uttered (in part) through the Acts of Par- liaments of Scotland during the century and a quarter before the Union 1707: The legal expert, Lord Stair, in 1681, had no doubts as to why was legally slavery justifiable: "The feual of coal', he wrote, "is in most parts necessary at home and very profitable abroad'.

Whether it is correct to Çall the system 'slavery' or 'serfdom' is not of great significance. What is at stake is not the character- ization of a whole social system, but simply a method of control- ling labour which was conveni- ent for the landed coal owners of Friday, November 20, 1970

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Friday, November 20, 1970 danger to teachers' privacy

COMPUTERIZED

record- keeping in schools is a danger to privacy of teachers, parents and children alike, National Union of the Teachers says in a memo- randum published today. The union's memorandum is addressed to the Committee on Privacy and comments on the dangers of intrusion afforded by computers, data banks and infor- especially where mation stores, are used to collate school these those made reports, including within the school by teachers and headteachers or by school inspectors and local authorities.

The union comments that the terms of reference of the Privacy Committee and are too narrow should include national and local government and public corpora- tions within their scope.

These are the chief agencies concerned with teachers' work and the union points out that 'the greatest danger to the pri- vacy of the teacher arises in con- nection with reports kept by the local authority. . . : The greatest danger in the use of computers and computer link- ups is the combination of diverse of information into pleces complete dossier on individuals without their knowledge or consent'.

CONCERN

This is undoubtedly a cause for serious concern, but it is not accidental that government agencies are excluded from the Committee's ambit. The purpose of establishing such a committee is to see to it that private data compilation is restricted, while the government bureaucracy is left to accumulate centralized data unchecked.

In this sphere, at least, there is no talk from the Tories of the superiority of. private enterprise.

The NUT proposals for dealing with the computer menace - which is undoubtedly quite real and pressing, and poses a major danger particularly to politically active teachers-seek to estab- lish a code of 'fair play' which will regulate information gather- ing and confidential reports on teachers and pupils.

COMMUNICATE

It says that a teacher should be allowed to see any confidential report written about him by the headmaster, and that the policy of communicating reports should be made general. 'Confidential reports, as such, do not necessarily infringe on individual privacy, but with increase in size of schools and the inevitable increase in the use of computers, safeguards must be provided to ensure that neither the local authority nor the head divulges information, for example to journalists, publishers mortgage companies.' political dangers The colossal of such data banks in a period of intensifying class struggle, are nowhere mentioned by the NUT, which confirms itself to the pious hope that the Committee will find 'safeguards' against misuse.

way to answer the The only dangers posed by computer banks in education and elsewhere, is to workers' fight for control over the computer banks, as a first step to overthrowing the capi- state and talist its huge anti- working-class bureaucracy.

LETTERS

Some point

CORRESPONDENT'

'SPECIAL

(Workers Press, Novem- begins need to indicate the errors he 9 and 10) by stating Sir Cyril Burt's concept of 'intel- ligence'. Surely it is more a exposing these question of 'errors' as flowing directly from an alien class method, namely the idealist method. It is not our job to 'establish a working definition of 'intelli- gence' but on the contrary to expose 'intelligence' as an ideal- ist abstraction. The bourgeoisie reject the theory of knowledge as worked out by Marx and Lenin.

(whose writings on this question are not even mentioned in the article). For Lenin the struggle for the Marxist theory of knowledge in 'Materialism and Empirio Criti- cism' was inseparable from the struggle for revolutionary theory and the revolutionary party.

The bourgeoisie have no theory of knowledge. For them history is a struggle of individ- to acquire abstract know- uals ledge', which is measured examinations and given a market succession price. History is a of 'geniuses' the rising above herd, sometimes common the various unrecognized, in branches of human culture.

The dangers of 'Special Corre- spondent's' basic approach become He quickly apparent. makes a laborious comparison between Marx and Einstein on the one hand and a colony of mental defectives to prove the existence of 'general mental ability' and goes on to say 'the of intelligence development affected not only by constitu- tional factors but also (my emphasis) by experience. Societal

WORNERO PRESO

= Daily Sketch Waning 'Sketch'

TULNAN.

The Skeich says-for pity's sake. end this torture

THIS IS A

smears

STRIKE

WITHOUT

limb strikers

MERCY

THE OLD 'Daily Sketch', as most of Fleet Street knows, has been losing readers at an alarming rate and is trailing badly in the breasts-and-buttocks war with the flaming new 'Sun'.

pain don t prest very Its future is not very bright.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

Cindila arast ear

REPORTER

salards tre 750,000 mark e strike mito inane maket atic ing tapin at is s ou -manine dant Ittack or f mb makers st Wednesday's "Daily Stetch" -devoted to ol davi ready nore agony, readers!

DECENT WAGE

realsshe 'Sketch ploughs on Tories envy other tadis of its Capain eo h et countries' powers • tron he h,o0 d icats ia grs (io IF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S latest 'cam- over nothing else, it has provided some paign'. does material that can be of use in the struggle against attempts of the Tories to shackle the trade dem metr edecent weekly unions in Britain. unionists want wage involvement in , there were clashes PhN MUPH ts tha tor sanr weis to mar several ci ne o th e d S Africa comlly area ned last ridiy.

Employed as a clerk in a Dur- Dalamini 6 aton do commite science'. no This, sobea tor onsiderabie Who need limis TORTURE bod sedere din people case- have met leaving them with no malice

AUTOMATIC

Marcelino Camacho Abad egement for ver edile une ase l aren. ketch neresse nionists, Ochola Ogayo Mak'Anyengo age increases should be Here we are at the nub of the matter What the 'Sketch" and itsevo- Spain Sapande ou ae o anse e prietors on ran tarm se v9al Sadist and the work. • Wass tried in 1958, witl Anally akersit ed in i95.

Some points on 'Intelligence and class' rode y he brane ald facond arac already relegated to sideration of intelligence is obvi- inse bran te coma ine shauld romnd gin bo liginki ne havi egra ted frehtineists which threaten it. are Che "theory modunes, sone lesignec an edu apling syst animal backwardness. • borne and ibely Instead clarifying

REALT

ani als hag scy es ords не поста ве Stephen Dhlamini cultura onamını nelpea to organiz list hrough 1961 hree-day ear co naues ot saird ya annene and epe Tong Ste tried charged, Through aquation of kronedse. otorious Robbe sos e ty spent betk Our social. In system is geared to the London teacher. Krupskaya's account rugs vin onbi Is The prop of Heath's Vik OnC Switzerland enin cale children's book •Adlerer broupi D Anusta Roatoms of British work- Tupsia ya, rineased acroudi the unumar Krocedaye deseribed Enelee. cenemy in taisen Beavor, ine ete powertul bon "deal comrades in all parts of the in ineli ens erke or their brian rearce

PAGE THREE

Now trades with Hungary and initialled long- technei and indus rial collaboration. Thin a Bredmest was initialled Franco's commercial under-secretary POWER-INDUSTRY wages are rapidly being set up and Fernandez as the subject of a major political skirmish on the Hungarian debut trade minister Bela Szalai.

way to the Tory Industrial Relations Bill.

enough The Confederation of By Industrial reporter British Industry council's reach a declaration that it is pre- hilton tot the meeting hat he dater Hernander announced pared for a strike in elec- tricity supply invites gov- possi- inabity of ale Labour Teaders there was a so The of exe freids of ernment war on the Lavour leaders experiences Ine ore Tor f5-a-week enrecuive power men's agriculture and industry.

Tory legislation because Y ment comes just announce- claim. chequered own shackling history. after the essage of not comes day ment Issued on the eve of yester form- here is one way of course varie estah shing talks ms is a clea power ally the workers «in omatic relations illustration contempt the wipe off the smile Tace between spain • anazech. wich employers nola от. іса дет ві tiger: make their the of' union aders Oslovakia. perale allempts fight, Hungary had a consul not reach a compromise with the December 1969 austral ne 1 ories. Rumania, to force Poland Tories to resign. colours the pemic statements on contemot iunior Ministers. the serae dam bell director-general future. council's The Stalinists of the Kremlin, Aramcon his concerting strike hreaking call Trader who with rapprochement Union Congress general secretary Franco, do pay- yet have Victor heather's oner not again being though talks consular relations paraded- only they тен trade and have undred yards away in the House exchanged newspaner corre. of Lords! spondents and state airlin activity comes to Settlement Danish" when In demanding an even tougher ‹ers are conl ore Franco's more strongly une trom ine government arainst butcher public-sector said that the goversment should wates. of courageous make clear-in of senat inside leaders settle- tha forthonmino nationalists. Hasane death Den- whom face the doe the Stalinists alty. exnoses not want to see collaboration with the Span- Campbell Adamson But

CBI

council did not think time for a declared in comes the ti council took the vien the was serious

PUBLIC LECTURES

that situation and the government should takt could what ste tide back, he said.

WO21 and Elements of what could chandra in the captore over which it was directiv or indirectly resnonsible Marxism -and should taking a verv indeed strong line on the calms It has to meet members the

ORT

representing private sec- the The importance of Marxist philosophy in the that he with an equally strong he merged. building of the revolutionary party.

fine'. leader 1 Lectures by the government down

M. BANDA

hammer | out a policy for infla- (Editor of Workers Press) tion? Victor Feather tor Feather had given a

BARKING

clear Monday November 23 Co-op Hall, Whitney Chambers of a 12-month pay standstill, he urged. Fanshawe Ave. 8 p.m. Monday November 30 Authorized Lectures by G. Healy and M. Banda from Althongh no the

NEWCASTLE

Hotspur Hotel Sunday, November 29 secretary Haymarket 7.30 p.m. author. his indertaking to sit down with the theole vernment to tis Lectures by conomic problems.

C. SLAUGHTER

(Central Committee of Socialist Labour League) The government have little lose doing Shackleton claimed.

SHEFFIELD

In a debate otherwise notable Sunday November 22 Guts Progenition Corpora only

LIVERPOOL

('Good gracious mel Good Wednesday November 25 grief! that destroying Hancy Shackleton's Thursday November 26 astrument the oyal Institution, Colquitt S should that (near Bold St). Northgate Hall. 8 p.m. Industrial Rela pons Bill tell on deat eat Tory Hail- Chancellor sham told the House the "silly" vote against motion the gov- motion of censure on the censure

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WORKERS PRESS

Unemployment used to force through speed-up Growing unrest amongst Leeds clothing workers THE PROSPECT of being forced to join the dole queues is hardening the attitudes of Leeds

BY A HOSPER ESS

clothing workers towards local officials of the Tailor and Garment Workers' Union.

The total 250-strong labour A question force at two Peter Pell - factories was made redundant at the end Limb-fitters das week All that officials negotiated for crats bon til interests of those affected was an extra week's vote to notice! Leeds clothing factories, including Co-op Collier, Heptons John and *alinst the ant union lad.

return Clothing, are already axing back their labour forces. Counting the votes at yesterday's meeting the tinted Drapely Cuter Pell is part of ending the stoppage. 'We've AFTER withstanding a press smear campaign had it now during their nine-week strike (see page 3), 800 snouleu unt • speede because hel were The limbmakers have accepted a 13 per cent London artificial limbmakers yesterday voted by methods® - £2 16s — with a promise of furthe increase a narrow 4z-majority to return to work talks on their original 20 per cent claim.

Reasons The strike committee followed the lead of the One of the strikers who voted to stay out said two main unions involved-the National Union Thee spoke bitterly about the reasons given afterwards We should have stayed out.

of Furniture Trade Operatives and the Sheet workin a clated toravi is Storase of skied machin We've been attacked by the management and workin 193054 they are sacking a whole fin try aula, Metal workers Union- in recommenaing a by the press and that only made me more class not the return. determined to see it through, however long it took: There were angry protests by strikers against and the baste right and gains which French taxmen

CANADA HAS MARTIAL LAW POWERS

may strike ed, said years completels New measures wastoung. lads taken at the skil out or th refused used on union chief med head rang con central administration. Nationwide UNDER CANADA'S War Measures Act, Montreal trade union leader Michel Chartrand faces a prison sentence of up to 14 years Italian for alleged seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government This phe al is, caried lic Rumours Trudeau's ener students' gency powers being used Australian clearly protest against the Canadian steelmen methods rose labour movement as well as the Ouebec defend union young people were injured and one girl tended Awo weeks ago and taken hospital attel began this morning expire until police attacked Italian Caled the one mared • Open no boopsists 1 students demonstratne Engineering yesterday for improve- by the strains • Threement the National and ments Social emocratic rauc rart struggle

COMMON FRONT

Forth all our might againstr pin when ers the uni Head of a steps to son Mrs Castle to i must ace a per made head union new US economy law team

• FROM PAGE ONE

picssive mcdsures. workers an • Nion rocking million Which Power products. dea pouray policy since ins election. Now

FROM PAGE ONE

Now pressure thos of the ind reyhed 864,5 hich

LATE NEWS

renalio. and

•TRADE WAR' WARNING

Labor ver me Yet Nixon has little room Leathers. for manoeuvre. richt arrests dithe balatinue about 10000 in each aid yesterday

FAILURES

Worked eaca week nage wand hundreds the expensive his thes Wall St brokers are turning cities mari and war raging in SE Asia. total number Hate in moand shal yea of coper Secret Moscow trip for reflect this pletely Unemployment electricians president Husak Commerce in London. executives who yesterdays com continue higher Part of the crisis is the drive The meeting, kep to monopoly. maries merged du in increased exploita- topies: the So See CBI to fight power I the previous year. Printed by Pou Street, London security confer- claim', page 3. Friday, November 20, 1970

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

A 70 PER CENT increase In wages Chilean miners demanded yesterday by 9,000 at the El Teniente Copper Mine.

The current contract between the unions and S Africans on the company expires on January 2 next year. Malagasy trip could® The claim well be-

TOP-LEVEL

African come the rst die rest delegation, Hildardy Foreign recently elected President Chile, Allende, was Minister arrived ·1,350,000 against 1 allalially monopolies ady concluat d econome asreement wim une we caly government government. 1 ne unlean Muller's team was panied by accom. DeT cent of leading firm entente. and tne Kennecott Copper the other 49. The management has backward asked for ten days consider the Madagascar) Is and ana an opportunily SIze nas its workers. been insoired victory the The visit is seen by vorster's the leit-wing regime another recent presidential elections.

hreak. through for declared Rejection policy establishing which inevitable considered and by observers will lead lilalic with the 'black' African states concilalon lalks supervised Dy Ine government. Teachers hosed

INCREASED

TONNAGE

BUENOS AIRES

police ves- 180,00 metric to of copper firm produces about turned terday nrenosec thousands striking teachers 100,000 are a year ana is banne to m. protest- tons Crease through an investment of $240 ing against government educa- million. DOlICy ana low teachers Much is at stake, therefore, wages. this battle between company 1 nousand: be WOrKerS WIll watching Allende The ment carries out its nationalize the copper indus- try in Chile.

• FROM PAGE ONE

ceed last peaker of corded s • Ine

BY A FOREIGN RÉPÓRTER

million over dole the January February SUDAN'S Interior: Minister Major Aboul not inconceivable. massive campaign must Ibrahim yesterday confirmed that arrests of the Tories in their tracks. developed STOn the regime's opponents had begun.

the right to ine slogans, While some of those arrested the right, to strike Work nationalization belong the allegedly and lo thi all bankrupt industries, must Brother- readcuonal y

WEATHER

be taken to all hoo•~ banned under me rew WOrKerS N prepatation for regime- All others helong to the une Sudanese Communist Party.

traues unions Allance con- In a crude attempt to lump Wales Birmingham on Ireland, and all Terence oups together, the these two becember o western parts of England and Scotiana W1ll have showers may be which heavy at times

ALL TRADES

'Liquidate' with hail, and some sleet snow over high ground in the

UNIONS ALLIANCE

'The Sudanese revolution is forth. determined to nougate all re-

MEETINGS

actionary and hostile elements Wales and sW England and for all. some longer outbreaks of rain "Victory to the Miners!' In the last few days the Re- may occur. 'Force the Tories to resign!'

Command E England and Scotland will

SOUTHALL:

Tuesdayne ember Major-Genera dry first with sunny Bridge Road: tantar vimelly. Has periods. but will become members

VORTH

three ane even ten pom: Coon a the Midlands and sacked 13 senior are ofte me.

England with some rain in Few. and little moved Diales, Tall Indy PaD, Balle Street. Moslem Brother- occur in remaining E districts.

hood, always hostile espread in the morning ly High Road. WInd trades Hal to power regime which came widespread morning in Have ver central and districts. There is now a great danger temperatures will rise to that a terrible purge could be Churrich unleashed against the Sudan will remain rather cold. whose Communist stabie: Ra. The Charter haver of bast retary-General is already under Outlook for Saturday and arrest. sunday • continuing change. anie with showers or longer periods of rain in most places.

Road, Clapham Cunction. normal. 14 years for assassination attempt NICOSIA District sentenced unmiots to a vears attempting to murder Presid- ent Makarios on march x this Second Annual They all pleaded not guilty. Conference Private Discuss

THE CHARTER OF

talks with

BASIC RIGHTS

Smith regime The right to a job, to strike and organize, to retain gains made, SALISBURY officials refused to fair prices, to welfare benefits comment yesterday the Smith London report tnal and to decent housing. regime nac renile to a lor Rhodesian independencen new negotiations on Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to Surely these contacts said force the Tories to resign.

Officia spokesman: British

BIRMINGHAM

S Africa where em bassy of the talks the initial stages Sat. December 19 are heino conducted, gave a similar On Wednesday, shited NaTions Tory Digbeth Civic Hall, roted re- affirming negotiate with the anemor to Digbeth 10.30. am smith regime was contrary to decisions and policy. The other countries which For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s voted with Britain were Australia. Belgium, to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, Luxembourg Hall sd, Styvechale, Coventry. Zealand, Africa United States. and the