December 8 action restricted State capralisis line up with the Stalinists

Shots BY A THE UNITED STATES House of Representatives took a major step towards world trade war when it voted 206 to 173 to approve the Trade Bill-described as the most protectionist legislation the US has seen since the early 1930s.

If it becomes law, the Bill will reverse 36 years ot US free trade policy. It has already led to threats retaliation from British and European employers.

Main target of the legislation is Japan, though the import quotas contained in the Bill would markedly affect British and European exports to the US as well.

More than 70 industries have lobbied strongly for the Bill, in an effort to counter undercutting by cheap imports.

Footwear and textiles head the list of goods whose import would be restricted under the Bill.

These restrictions alone could cost Britain at least f5 million in lost exports during a full year. And there is provision in the Bill to impose restrictions on a wide range of other commodities.

'Voluntary' The Bill's supporters are pushing it through despite President Nixon's recent efforts to force Japan to accept 'voluntary' restrictions on trade with US.

Negotiations between the two countries - accompanied by considerable arm-twisting from the US, are reported to be near completion.

Textile imports under the Bill would be rolled back by more than 30 per cent and shoes by more than 40 per cent from next January—with catastrophic effects on Japan's footwear and textile industries.

Other industries can claim that they are being caused hardship by imports, and win increased tariff protection. The Bill's formula for distress cases could include such industries ' as motors-and the US is one of the biggest outlets for British car exports.

Fish, antibiotics, synthetic hormones, earthenware, explosives, many basic chemicals, sewing machines, calculating machines, radio and electronic products, clocks, optical lenses and sports goods are among items which could well be hit if the Bill goes through.

Retaliation Retaliation against American exports from countries hit by the Bill's provisions could rapidly escalate, leading to a full-blown trade war situation and growing unemployment throughout the capitalist The Bill jeopardizes the whole shaky structure of the capitalist world market and brings the threat of world siump closer than ever. State of emergency in Calcutta docks PORT authorities have declared a month's state of emergency in Calcutta docks, which have been brought to a standstill by strike action for the last fortnight.

It follows increasingly harsh government measures against the Maoist Naxalites, who are being hunted' down by police gunmen.

Work at the port halted on November 6, when about 2,500 stevedores' labourers demanded registration of casual LATE NEWS LAST DUSTMEN RETURN Kensington and Chelsea dustmen, believed to be the last local authority workers still on strike, yesterday votęd to end their eight-week stoppage and return to work on Monday.

The men stayed out when national action ended becausé the council refused to pay a £60 •bonus for clearing the rubbish backlog. The men ITALY SCHOOL BOYCOTT 5,000 Turin school pupils boycotted their lessons yesterday as part of the national day of protest against the Italian government's education policies.

In Rome, fascists attacked left-wing students demonstrating for university reforms. THE ONE-DAY strike and demonstration against the anti-union laws on December 8 is being deliberately restricted to an isolated protest by the Communist Party and left' trade union bureaucrats who support it.

This absolves them from any fight against TUC general secretary Victor Feather and the right wing in the unions.

It plays the game of the class enemy by avoiding the main question: the mobilizaof the . working-class movement to force the Tories resign.

Yesterday's 'Times' was quite explicit.

Its editorial asks if 'the tide combined press pube. wages Not only that, but, "The continued rise unemployment comes as a the greedy'. Given factors, 'The Times' advocates 'tougher resistance' to wage claims.

In other words, the Torie: need to defeat the workers wage offensive and get higher unemployment to make the anti-union laws work.

Therefore a fight on socialist policies against inflation-and Class of capitalist companies. propriation the working unemployment policies of exnecessary, combined with a campaign to force the union leaders to prepare a united fight to bring down the Tories.

Face'

The Stalinists try to give calling for cheme for the Dece facer by strike. Meanwhile they betray the miners' strike and oppose every attempt to make December 8 part of the preparation of a general strike to defeat the Tories. comple ded their see Storie The day miners' strike, the government anounced severe cuts in coa tricity generating indust will urning subsidies to the ele 'Special compensation be closures, redundant Times** so rese Stalinists helped the cased on the fight against the general call for himsent sup He confined port from the trade union movement to oppose with all its strength the intentions of the Tory government. December Br haped he is to see prepared to talk against the anti-union laws; but he does not raise the question of defeating the government; he doe rest nine the use t Gang the mas tovemen.

For reasons well wish he Stalinist tactics vans fits No wonder that Heath, and for oTher resistance, hailed HOUSING 'REALITY' -POWELL Extreme right - winger Mr Enoch Powell said yesterday the government's housing policy would restore a world of truth and reality which had been banished for decades.

Speaking in Dunbartonshire, Powell added There would be a movement away from the society in which more and more people were dependants of the state, saying "Please give me a house"?

KHRUSHCHEV

IN HOSPITAL Former Soviet Prime Minister and Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev is back in hospital with heart trouble, it was reported from Moscow yesterday.

Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London, S.W.4.

Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High Street, London, the GKN-Sankey settlement passage of the Tory laws is to last September as a beacon make it clear that the entire the nation. labour movement will. resist The instrument for getting them lock, stock and barrel if the strikers back to work was the government should ever • • • Moss Evans! try to use them. What is needed to smash the Bill is a Conclusion demonstration NOW that the trade union movement will The conclusion' is inescap- stand united behind any group able: the trade union bureau- of workers attacked under any cracy and the Stalinists, by part of the proposals if they supporting December 8 as just ecome law. a protest, at the same time practising and aiding retreats to rethink if a significant in the strike struggles in en- number of union leaders were gineering and the pits and to declare now that, in the opposing all who raise event of the legislation coming the demand to bring down the into force, they would: best rest, are providing the possible to register to re of the Industrial oute Tories to carry forward their Playing its normal deadly refuse to pay any fines imrole, the 'state capitalist' paper posed under the new laws or 'Socialist Worker' giving accept any cooling-off periods full support to the Stalinist or strike ballots. treachery.

Its front page for Novem- all disputes would be immediber 21 gives a big boost to ately declared official to stop the Liaison Committee's rank and file members or November 14 Conference, and shop stewards being Szed: Ster emphasis Editor, editor Roger Protz's report of the conference is sheer whitewash.

He confines himself to gentlemanly remarks that the conference 'lacked any detailed discussion continuing more explicit than their strategy for fighting the Tories Stalinist friends in giving the beyond December 8.' Tories just what they want.

comes from the interests of the treacherous Kremlin bureaucracy in keeping "peace' with the imperialists. For 'International Socialism' it is the fruit of years of revisionist attacks on Marxism from the standpoint of impotent middle-class radicalism.

potence, which can be turned only for purposes of conSpectacle of Lawrence Daly'.

adjectives to describe Daly's capitulation to the right wing of "respectability" defined by his fellow union officials ..

He was so used to manoeuvring in a bureaucratic Moss Evans set-up that he had completely lost contact with the forces This is English hypocrisy at hat had put him in office' its worst. Protz knows very against 'bureaucratic set-ups', US airline lays off 2,000 TRANS WORLD, one of America's biggest airlines, yesterday announced it was to dismiss between 1,500 and 2,000 employees by January 1. Already 400 air hostesses have received notice. The sackings, said a company spokesman in New York, were due to 'inflationary pressures' and the continuing decline in the US economy. "The Tories would be forced "1. Announce their refusal '2. State that they would '3. Tell their members that Explicit These revisionists are even For the Stalinists, this It is this very same imCAV setters refuse to work "Sorry' and 'pitiful' are their tele-control to remain within the confines MACHINE SETTERS at London's Acton CAV plant are taking action from Monday against management's refusal to concede their six pay and condition demands.

The left-sounding words, Daly was the result of 'left-wing' of the union. He had no political policy, the party, independent of these clashes STONES flew and tables crashed through plate glass windows at Nanterre University campus, near Paris yesterday as left-wing students clashed with supporters of former Gaullist Justice Minister, Jean Foyer, who lectures there every Friday.

Foyer played a key part in setting up the State Security Court, where a number of left-wing militants have recently received long jail sentences, and helped to draw up the defence agreement under which French troops were sent to the Republic of Chad.

EEC strike

THE Common Market's staff of 4,161 civil servants will strike next Tuesday in Brussels in support of demands for higher pay, better workconditions and union representation, a spokesman for the European Economic Community said yesterday.

complete stallat ot including the involved a wage freeze But shop stewards insist that the demands do not infringe any existing agreement.

The setters are claiming staff benefits-no clocking. in or out, sick pay and five 'privilege' days a year — without attendant staff status, and also increases in bonus and lons service payments.