Workers Press no. 311

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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25. 1970 NUMBER 311

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE 'Fair rents' creas workers' familie E1,250 NoV Appeal Fund: reaches 2803 6S b0

BY DAVID MAUDE

A DANGEROUS and cold-blooded strategy for 5146 B T5 to find. This retreat before the Tory government's union- lemands immediate action shackling plans is now in daily operation.

e very first day it The Everyone from State airlines lobby right to 'left' wings of For most housewives living in Lewisham council Month have completed the target.

month children. (g rent ess, Mrs the official labour and will not fail halts BOAC jets Don't de trade union movement —has his part to play. by Gary Gurmeel Post your donation al once TORY-controlled London today Underindary the Britist borough ind will plans a substantial increase in council-house presshed. Pieces Union contes de. 7s 4.8d a week, says Lewisham Solderers Lawrence housing she tortois poppy token. out again case otherwise theiscenes the adjourned mini-y the effects against all the councis! HOPES Or a possible settle speed-up ment ings or the the TUC oung housewife told Workers By an indusirial correspondent nderbossterday, PRODUCTION of the new the Lab ever lead rora launus corld was and November 10 Mr Law- halted again last mont al ent pieding rence was granted an ex says, to bronchis in due.

tron the company's Dagenham of NATOPA plant as 12 nightshift torch their repea Richard Briginshaw Not much continued their solderers Won one tha us much to strike agalnst Manageinthl A MASS meeting of air-transport workers about the he had bees deprived attempts to change work. Reconciled proposed transfer of state airline routes to Caledonian.

ine melnous. BUA delayed three BOAC jet airliners at London's ep wore ne all our live not I olders in that the Heathrow airport yesterday.

Breakdown and in spe up Aircraft workers later lob- sied MPs at Westminster i Strike shuts They walked out on Monday advance of last night's House and stopped seo of Commons debate on the several hundred workers. subject. Manchester extrem code could to con wet dete too is pro sorting office parte MANCHESTER'S three-week- old mechanized sorting office Been phased by once on was closed by a strike day after 1,000 postal workers 'Ludicrous' Seein plagued by contractors walked out. Worst off offer — NUJ The strike too Rough ride -already Brish Arrats Corporathe Hared st Te cham which non of Journali averment Bostons it be even to the issue condemnl will private airlines. sit part from creating pose continued faithful implementation 23, por cent was there not es million o a los blic money to the taxpaye ose them if they becom of than a far i speeded up the his of Pes Dockers of the private ones Builders' pay

CONSTRUCTION

Beckton strike to he bis it a pres London are on Colay and day or bonus se out for long Yarrow shut- ine National Federation 100 p.c. union de Employers l down threat

MANAGEMENT

in Tilin. the Ford combine doberation one his win The deal provides to lene 19e2 meet tore to deres the was the esions rejecting a 1s 1ld-ar unions no want die Tasties onus boile porkers declared redundant crease hour offer. The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. Prisoners weren't there reasing milies rescue BLUSTER was the order of the day in Washing- ton yesterday as the Nixon Administration tried hard to make capital out of the abortive Hollywood-style helicopter operation to rescue US war prisoners from N Vietnam.

Saturday's raid on the

BY A

Son May prison

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

com- pound near Hanoi failed had been completely after months other camps three weeks hefore The operation bombing of top-level planning when oupled with raids helicopter commandos Vietnam, over of Nixon's landed to find the com- desperauor the rejection nhoner pound empty. "neace NLF winning

'HEROISM'

Having failed to induce the Vietnamese accent his Cambodian battle peace package, try- Nivan ing once beat them into Vecterdar he hucied himsel TROOPS of the National praising the "heroism' the quarters were routed and who took *cactainer ,Tenct hal-baked casualties. imooriant victory when ther Cambodian Another maior action was headquarters Kompong 'person- from major strategic Cham ant town North • T the capital prisals were taken against US The attack is nenhahly n Phnom Penh. town was nrisoners under fire for ten hours yes- nre nde to a thrust against Defence Secretary Melvin Battambang. the second terday morning. Laird said vesterdav he had largest Cambodian citv. perconalt recommended the since The end ot the mon.

raid and Nixon had approved Battamb: Cambodia. esterday soon Season US-backeds regime

NOW

His considering allocations statement •was backed army huge tinged with raorat anar the moving Troons lin trom the дтегісат finance prisoners the nearhy town nt siem lean.

sitterer a seriec or mintart other camps, Reuter reported.

government trooDs reverses at the hands of the defending the district head- liberation forces. N Vietnamese and Nationa Front delegations Liberation after the weekend donided Geismar in bombing raids to session the

CRISIS

The intransigent Vietnamese the US driving now

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Vietnam policy once FRENCH Maoist leader Alain Geismar appeared before crisis. With going hadl the war the Paris State Security Court yesterday charged with Laos and Comedia troops the nrashest that will have to stay indefinitely reviving a banned organization - his second court nd for a hunting round for i spectacular coup appearance in a month. to raise his reputation. Last October the 31-year- sis crience teacher can. tenced to 18 months ail for allegedly inciting violence the during 'La organization remag Gauche Proletarienne (PrO letarian Left) banned was other gether with Manist. Trotskvist and rou Second Annual dinnict aragningtiane ofton tha general strike of May-Tune Conference The Security Court Canto has recently handed heavy oung militants- most of them Discuss Maoists - convicted crimes as nainting walls with

THE CHARTER OF

the names of hanned arogniza.

tianc

BASIC RIGHTS

The right to a job, to strike and organize, to retain gains made, to fair prices, to welfare benefits and to decent housing. Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to force the Tories to resign.

BIRMINGHAM

Geismar Sat. December 19 Despite belated verbal tests against this Gaullist the French Com- Mander is let continues to Digbeth Civic Hall, continues and nas not litter a fnaor Digbeth 10.30. am mohilipe the against the state measures.

It is only hangice of thic For delegates' or visitors' Stalinist credentials send 5s the French government is able to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, continue its Styvechale, Coventry. hounding Geismar and his

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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25, 1970• NUMBER 317

THE DAILY. ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE "Fair rents' creas workers' familie E1,250 Nov Appeal Fund: reaches E803 6S b0

BY DAVID MAUD:

A DANGEROUS and cold-blooded strategy for 135 7d chall retreat before the Tory government's union- demands immediate action.

shackling plans is now in daily operation.

The Beated super of is aere. Everyone from State airlines lobby right to 'left' wings of case s in have completed the yul the official labour and • target. Spencer, Mrs Margaret Tate.

halts BOAC jets will not fail now. Don't delay. we knor trade union movement By Gary Gurmeet —has his part to play. Post vour donation at once TORY-controlled London borough today council-house a substantial increase pressed. must plans rents for the third time in as many years.

Chiei architects right-wing Party Solderers hose Congress on er Lawrence the Tories is purely token.

case Me sections of are wal adjourned retreatowhere will opposition operat all the councis 14,000 action again Relations By an Industrial correspondent officials PRODUCHUN oline new ssistantserative Printers Hord aunus coruna was refused the ele halted again ası neat du IU Mr the company's Dagenham Dancer nant as z nientsnit torea nats repeal if made solderers continued their ans-their Not much "on on't much strike against management A MASS meeting of air-transport workers about the told us live open diere a us attempts to change work- proposed transfer of state airline routes to Caledonian- Reconciled ing methods. BUA delayed three BOAC jet airliners at London's all out ve i trom socky and the re to Keep te the TUC reconciliatio Heathrow airport yesterday.

scarred slightly aBovertinea he late let she Alteratt workers ater lob- attestation operations and line speed iD rent -is now bied MPs at Westminster in Strike shuts advance of last night's House * the US A Stai The management sent hone severa hundred wore o1 Commons debate on une Manchester subjęct. extremely da The could sorting office parte MANCHESTER'S three-week- routes old mechanized sorting office alone was closed bv a strike vester onto the day after 1,000 postal workers 'Ludicrous' walked out. offer — NUJ The strike follows a dist • doubt be the most Rough ride Breed to no National Union of Journalists yesterd ndividual letters. private airlines. yesterday aftere off that said planned be in tor a rough ride durin tion last Frida two men had been reinstated •Apart from "They please in the or a milon I be forced to cose nee decorating 1 3,00 bur lanagement, it is una pean money to the taxpayer.

signed itself steps cover: i sheer wage i in londo pockeis of the prie own the Workers and Manchester.

PAGE FOUR COL. S

mo them them by not Builders' pay serday No Beckton strike rejection ts mario that in thee rents " National Joine which strikers lose Council for action is retaliation for a day for hoistmasif they ar holiday and lay-ofs bonuses.

the Yarrow shut- Reck tea a no stat 100 p.c. union whic down threat i discussion deal formal agree- send in December:

MANAGEMENT

threatened throughout the Ford combine signed meeting have strike today workers feel workers declared redundant next move. The daily paper. that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. Prisoners weren't there milies BLUSTER was the order of the day in Washing- ton yesterday as the Nixon Administration tried hard to make capital out of the abortive Hollywood-style helicopter operation to rescue US war prisoners from N Vietnam.

Saturday's raid on the

BY A

May Son prison com-

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

pound near Hanoi failed The for soners had Jee completely after months moved other camps of top-level planning when Time open to bocouple raids helicopter commandos reseNt Vietnam, Is an ea landed to find the com- of Nixon's desperano. artel Lne reTecuon Droner pound empty. 'peace' overtures

'HEROISM'

Having failed to induce the vietamese acceDi Cambodian battle peace package, try- Nixon ing once beat them into Yestercav he hucied himsel TROOPS of the National praising the 'heroism' of the quarters were routed and who took part liveranon * sustained teast Thornt vet wien tres casualtes. hold over-ran. Another maior action was district headquarters: eaders Kompong renorted Trom major were taken against Us Cham country. prisals town North capital of the Penh. The towr The attack is probably a Phnom Drisonels. for ten hours yes- prelude to a thrust againsi Defence Secretary Melvin Battambang, the second terday morning. Laird said yesterday he had largest Cambodian city. personally recommenuea tne Fighting broke Since the end of the mon- raid and Nixon had approved Battambai esterday Cambodia, nS-backed 12. Nol's now His backed considering by huge allocations Dress stalement Was акішу "tinged with regret over the troops Americal Inance mas prisoners removal or the sufiered a series ¡carDy wown o sem Read • or millar. other camps, Reuter reported.

troops Ine government reverses at the hands of the defending the district head- liberation forces. N Vietnamese and National Front delegations Liberation the weekend decided atter bombing raids to boycott the week's Paris US.

CRISIS

The intransigent stand of the Vietnamese Nixon'S US is now driving

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Vietnam policy once intuith st FRENCH Maoist leader Alain Geismar appeared before war going badly Cambodia and the Paris State Security Court yesterday charged with LdOs the prospect unat US trooDs will a banned organization - his second court nave to stav incennite t reviving is hunting vietnam appearance in a month. coup rouna lor a spectacular to raise his reputation. 31-year- old science tea the teacher was sen- tenced to 18 months' allor alececy violence police during against the street fighting in May. Geismar's organization Gauche Proletarienne' (Pro- letarian Left banned with eight other Trotskyist and Second Annual sus salizations unt general of May-une sunke 1968. Conference The State Security Court has recenty nanced GOWn prison sentences neavy young militants-most of them Discuss Maoists 'crimes' as painting walls

THE CHARTER OF

the names of banned organiza- tions.

BASIC RIGHTS

The right to a job, to strike and organize, to retain gains made, to fair prices, to welfare benefits and to decent housing. Defend and maintain these rights in a fight to force the Tories to resign.

BIRMINGHAM

Geismar Sat. December 19 Despite belated verbal pro- tests aşallist COls Gaullist persecution. une rrench com Digbeth Civic Hall, Party continues munist slander its left-wing opponents and has not lifted mobilize vorking Digbeth 10.30. am against the state measures.

only because For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s Stalinist connivance that the French to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, government is able continue its anti-working-class Styvechale, Coventry. comrades

WORKERS PRESS

PAGE TWO

When the council went

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HIGH COURT

'RISON

EQUALIANO RATES

POOR BOM

to Jail AS THE Tory government its attack oresses Workers Press notebook social services, local authori- ties will be called upon to administer the cuts. The 1921 march to court in support of the prosecuted Labour counciliors facing 1 ne quesuon councils whether act as ment that London's adminis.

the righ court and possibly to brison. tranon was breaking down and In September, having refused alliull councillor High we situation the precepts, 30 with Court to levy dismiss the question After all, men like him don't Council were of become councillors abou carrylg members the to go to jail! legal Briton, the women to erollo men evere demonstrations way. Krixton heard Lansbury speak through the bars of his cell.

Unti lyll. unere While the history known Disarray National Assistance undreds of thousands of fam …ot this campaign Well in the 1 ne enect •kavmona rostcate s Lue ol was tremendous. George Lansoury contains tactor not usually referred to whose expenditure came from the rates take some borougns reluseu elp at all - apart tron preventing the workhouse LaDouI circle: arrest chose it the love a eati est hit by of the councilors and had de- persuaded anow nounced the Poplar councillors George Lansbury As the 1921 post-war police to take unem values. as wastrels sump threw a million men our Manv more pressed lor strike of work, the position of many the government to leader acton n support of the move.

nauced councils climb ment, anu ll vas probauly Lau Still the retusing in London's colors inste etiased. coun- Labour Rare beast the flexi- Side the la on found a way bility cutting ine pointed out the obvious fact relief, it mount of 'out-doo re could in London the ding that for the police:" luctance to relcase unca.

decision prevailed over all legal doubts.)

I was vile a Que tudy the

THERE WAS

She no of prest believe that such cruelty exists, through the East people but there are actually Wildlife Fund, and who look forward to the final brass band in front, anda 'Poplar booze-up vanishing of the species, regard as a whole was on the retreat.

banner for the ing it as a kind of historical borourn counci marchine t with which it endea last vec tried The government nescay mont. Catalide Several reports commented Mitchell on ot tur coats to be seen at this catnering. supposed to secure une preser-

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vation of wild animals. pensive forms on lite tonbe speaks 9.15 a.m. Schools. 12.25 p.m. Nai zindagi-naya jeevan. 1.001.60 WIS expensive 1.45-1.15 News and weather.

Torms 1.30 Watch with mother Jackanory. 4.55 Little Mouse 5.15 Screen test. 5:44 Magic roundabout.

found at the Fund's charity do 3.45 Representing 2.50 Schools the union. No fewer than 18 internationa again .50 News, VONWIDE. Londor coming nei com ecole

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7.10 TOM AND JERRY.

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will Some thought that, while the ublicly take advice and pub- wild variety would disappear, 11.00-11.20 a.m.

PASCHOOL

licly discuss some of the tecn- the tam 7.05

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But strain in 19ig preserved. 7.30 NEWSROOM and they are difficult to put into Lemmacs If official government spoke men ignore nests in hotels in the South of France. it is because they Nowadays, are doing in secret what ne 1s arge nocks are asking them to do in public.

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1922 to punish Lansbury and his colleagues by investigating the level of relief and demand- ing it be cut down. When this • district was not done, auditor 'surcharged' the coun- cillors, requiring them to pay excess expenditure per- the sonally. The councillors simply ig- nored this order and after the new government was formed, the whole case was dropped.

Of course, Lansbury was a muddle-headed old Christian- pacifist, as Trotsky explains so in Where is Britain clearly Going?'. But in this action he was giving expression to the aspirations of the East End working class. One of his friends, a sur- vivor of Poplar Council in Lansbury's day, once told me: If George had taken it into 'his head to jump into the Thames, the entire population of Poplar would have jumped with him' This remark well expresses both the class following of Lansbury and the inadequacy of his leadership. But while in 1921 the gov- ernment could be made to back down by a movement led by a reformist like Lansbury, defeating the Tories today de- mands more than the courage of the Poplar councillors.

The clarity of Marxist theory is also needed - something Lansbury never had. WESTWARD: As Channel except: 3.58 News. 4.00 Gus Honeybun. 6.00 Diary. 11.40 Faith for life. 11.45 Weather.

SOUTHERN: 11.00-3.00 London.

4.00 Houseparty. 4.15 Wind in the willows.

Crime tomosrowWeathar. News. 11.10 London, 11.55 Action 70. London. 4.25

HARLECH:

11.00-3.00 4.55 London. 6.01 And gladly teach. West. 6.18 Report Wales. 6.35 Report Crossroads. 7.00 London. 11.40 Weather. 61 HTV (West) colour channel as except: 4.23-4.25, 6.01-6.35 Re- above port West. HTV (Wales) colour channel 41 and HTV (Cymru/Wales) black above except: 6.01-6.18 Y 4.35 Romper room. oads. 7.00 London. 11.42 Your musi ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00-3.00 London.

3.49 Horoscopeace. 4.40 Rupert Bear 3.52 4.10 Peyton

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today. 6.35 4.55 London. Crossroads. 7.00 London. evs. 4.55 103-

ULSTER:

11.00-3.00 4.50 News. 6.00 UTV reports. 6.35 Cross- 7.00 London. 10.40 An evening with Danny Doyle. 11.10 London.

YORKSHIRE: 11.00-3.00 London. 4.15 London. London. 4.30 Matinee. 4.55 6.30 Hogan's 6.00 Calendar, weather. heroes. 7.00 London. 11.45 Weather.

GRANADA: 11.00-3.00

London. 4.10 News. Peyton Place. 4.40 Paulus oned 625 Police le. 6.35 Get Smart.

wood gnome. 4.55 London. 6.01 7.00 London. TYNE TEES: 11.00-3.00 London. 4.10 Patterns Rupert Bear. 6.30 Wheel News. London. Epilogue.

BORDER:

1.38-3.00 London. 4.10 News. 4.12 Ghost and Mrs. Mulr Rupert Bear. 4.55 London.

6.00 4.40 Crossroads. 7.00 London. 11.40 News, weather.

Lookaround. 3.40

SCOTTISH:

11.00-3.00 London 3.50 Horoscope. 3.52 Women Dateline. today 4.15 London. 6.00 Dateline. 6.30 Father, dear father. 7.00 Londor 0.40 Hogan's heroes. 11.10 Scotspor 11.40 London. 12.05 Late call.

GRAMPIAN: 10.58-3.00 London.

3.49 News. 3.52 Women today. 4.15 food. 4.55 Cartoon. 4.25 Freud on London. 6.00 News, weather. 6.10 6.35 Crossroads. Week. 7.00 London. Scotsport. 11.35 10.40 F trooD. 11.10 Wrestling. 12.02 Police news.

THE OTHER SPIKE, Granada. November 17.8.15 p.m.

DIRECTED BY JOHN GOLDSCHMIDT.

THIS YEAR the Miss World competition contained a white Miss South Africa and a coloured Miss Africa (South).

In other ways, though, it was not such plain sailing in the media over the vexed colour question and progress was not uni- formly maintained. By refusing to pay proper technicians of all rates to grades involved in making and transmitting colour pro- the commercial tele- grammes, vision companies reduced themselves monochrome output. There were no great out- cries (perhaps because so few can yet afford colour sets). If technicians' the action con- tinues, however, the news pro- grammes and the press will no doubt find some poor sufferers who being victimized by are the horrid workers. ON TUESDAY, November 17 (9.15 'The Granada), p.m., Other Spike' was a documen- film-maker the tary by same who did the show Berna- onl dette Devlin in April this year: John Goldschmidt. It claimed to be a 'behind- the image' look at Spike Milli- gan, and to some extent con- firmed what has been no secret for a long time. Milligan has clearly suffered MILLIGAN: A struggle to make sense of the deeply from the contradictions of his upbringing, and the life he has lived as an entertainer and and comic latterly as children's writer and poet.

It's a commonplace that the best comics usually experience some of the per- and express sonal cruelties and inanities of modern life in an especially

BY FRANK CARTWRI

Milligan has long drawn his disruptive and aggressive, gentle humour from this of the appreciate the meaning of such greatest source, BBC-radio inventions of the Goon Show were his, and in It was meant not as a shar- his television appearances old ing, apparently. Rather it was have technical boundaries Milligan beating at the world's often been broken down. horrors with his despair.

first He brobably the Sometimes it was moving was hear of his suffering; fre- man to bite the lens of a tele- to quently the tale was told in a vision camera, and to throw a of that led to the sugges- bucket water at it. His way tion of self-pity. refusal to meet the rules of a show often led to hilarious The film ended with Milli- confrontations and collapses.

gan berating the audience with But behind it all, certainly, questions about 'normality'. the battery of Quite properly, is a despair. This film recreated some of questions showered disdain on Milligan's suffering during given values-but they shed breakdown. But it was done in no light. which could bring little It's true, as psycho- a way understanding therapist has put it, that it is to anyone watching who didn't-already normal in the US ta.try. to

A REQUIEM FOR

MODIGLIANI

BBC 2, November 22, 9.45 p.m.

DIRECTED BY FRED BURNLEY.

A SIMILAR statement can be made about Fred directed Burnley, who last week's 'Omnibus' on the painter Modigliani (BBC-2, November 22. 9.45 p.m.). Called 'A Requiem for Modigliani', it was stylishly and expensively done.

was also utterly romantic and arty.

Modigliani died aged 35 in 1920 in Paris. blurb The 'Radio Times' he died of despair and says self-neglect, and very limited the way programme showed some of his suffering from' tuberculosis and the alcohol and drugs he used to relieve. it. Modigliani

(PETER

McENERY) McEnery, Peter who and played Modigliani, never broke Jeanne Hebuterne into the reality of the poverty

(MARIANNE

and neglect and

BENET)

mistrust, hopelessness that the painter experienced. The relationship with Jeanne more about him ty the end Hebuterne was movingly done, of the film than at the begin- but perhaps because it only is so much easier to trade off ning. of the the cinematic cliches That his work was hugely this past in misrepresenting exploited after his death is well area of experience. known. But we learned nothing of this of the painter's view world, beyond the reproduc- tions scattered round the loca- The film pretended to record tions. the simple emotional truths of the last five years of his short That he wanted be to a life. Such anguish was clearly clearly important sculptor is accepted as the price of crea- of to recognizing the forms tion rather than the result of his but from work; apart the lottery of capitalist society.

alluding to his rudeness to and his of those bourgeois collectors Three years (he total lack of any profit from died in 1920) were during the his work, we knew very little First World War. Wednesday, November 25, 1970

COLUMN

HOE:

ake sense of the world.

ARTWRIGHT

produce a son at 18 who is pleased to go and drop napalm on people he has never met and knows nothing about. But formulated in that way it leads only to more despair: for the questioner and the questioned.

Goldschmidt's work con- tinues to show the same tech- interest as in 'Berna- nical dette'. His understanding, though, remains determinedly shallow.

Milligan at least shows the scars of a real struggle to make sense of the world, however forlorn and misguided his route. Goldschmidt seems merely to 'use' his subjects without penetrating to their meaning. One would never have guessed from the film. The bohemian myth was traded upon at every turn, reaching its climax in a tricksy presentation of the suicide of Jeanne, nine months pregnant, on the day after her lover's death. That it also contained some photography at the frontiers of television between the artist and his nude model also need not surprise us. Pubic hair has long been fine for art pro- grammes with small ratings.

Artists of all sorts continue •to be exploited in all ways!

Wednesday, November 25, 1970 moon- LATEST SOVIET reports of the Luna-17 moonshot indicate that Russian TRANSPORT union le scientists may be able to the eight-wheeled a strong call for corpor revive moon-walker Lunokhod 1 he spoke with Mr Geor at the end of the cold lunar night which envel- men's teach-in on Mon oped it yesterday. the During the 14-day night lavish Apart from the drops to minus temperature dinner at one of London's degrees Fahrenheit (272 240. degrees of frost) and the star hotels, apart from the robot's survival until the lunar performances of four tame dawn on December 8 would mean that Soviet scientists workers and apart from a have solved the problem of speech by HRH Prince through the how to conserve bitter cold at least enough Philip at the teach-in on power for Lunokhod to re- involvement at work, organ- its panel recharge its batteries. ized by the Industrial The official Tass Society, these two speeches agency news reported that the vehicle had were the real meat of the completed its for the lunar and has occasion. day been parked flat spot for the The first key contribution Ill with night its solar panel George Cattell, Mr came trom closed down. ex-Rootes whiz-kid, ex-top line official for the Department of Tass reported Lunokhod's per- Employment and Productivity formance impeccable' since and now Director General for the rolled down on to the National Union of Farmers.

moon's surface eight days ago The unbroken ard strongly from the Luna-17 landing definable thread that ran through stage. his lengthy contribution was his plea for corporatism at all levels total of radio ten sessions conducted with of industry. were the *Let vehicle during the five-day recognize,' he said, 'there are those of in positions work programme and the power and influence who believe moon-walker moved a total of 646 feet. genuinely that unrealistic to talk of the involvement of the industry workers in unless or Camera data until capitalism is itself abolished and we have what has been Lunokhod's TV and described as a fully collectivized cameras light-meter supplied data Mashed only people's democracy.' small part of across nearly 240,000 miles of Vivid space to earth, Tass added. To give vivid illustration to Some 85 per cent of informa- this point Cattell. described an from tion came several hun- conducted by the

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exercise fixed the dred sensors to under his direction in machine, reporting on its func- an eng!- the North. neering plant in and tioning, power reserves Here a carefully-planned pro- the of the ground nature scheme luctivity was nearly beneath it. vrecked by communist con- led who the The vehicle carries French-made venor the men in laser reflectors and factory out on strike against it. these may But after a 'short, sharp strike continue to operate during the measure radio the new system was accepted,' lunar night to said Cattell. interference in space. Moral? As their role is merely to reflect *As many in this will highly-concentrated beams of know that was not unique light back to sensitive receiv- Politics experience earth, they presumably times a central issue and there require no power to function.

things which governments alc and alternative government might will Lunokhod's controllers do about it.' undoubtedly maintain SOBe From this point Cattell devel- with the vehicle over contact oped a fully-fledged corporatist the order next fortnight philosophy. to assess how it it standing up Politics and industry were to the rigours of low tempera- 'uneasy bedfellows'. tures. The days when unions fought for hail ustice were mer More travels need now are politically independent strong, survives If the robot technical and professionally com- and Unions petent trade other malfunction occurs, the which comprehend the arts and Lunokhod's travels may prove the sciences of modern manage- to be extensive. ment, which can advance the In addition, the possibility of interests of their members not comparing dawn and dusk tele- by bleating dogma but vision pictures of the Sea of by demonstrating to manage- Luna-17's landing site efficiency be Rains ments that can will enable esti- raised, output increased, interest mates to be made of the dis- and satisfaction improved,' said Cattell. tances of various landmarks_by 'In short, by adopting the role changes in shadows that they cast. which the state has had to take

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upon itself, of acting as a pres- and catalyst for group modernization,' he reform and added. The same procedures, should, said Cattell, be developed on the shop floor. He recounted his experiences industry the car waen smashed a piece-work system at Midlands large car plant, replacing it with a flat rate based 'predetermined, pay on synthetic work standards'.

But this in itself was not the final solution. A form of modern Slavery developed and workers solved only The crisis can be had no interests beyond the if the bureaucracy develops in tasks and hence the measured Hence his the way outlined. did not answer system the for politics in indus- new anathema need for 'high-volume trial relatons. tivity'. surely hopes must have soared when he heard the con- tribution to the conference from

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general Jack Jones. blusters For Jones, despite about the 'hell' of the foundries, etc., potential recruit etc., to the Cattell camp. should be Industry, he said, as a series of self-govern- seen ing communities, within Winter people increasingly assume the role of policy-making and trolling. He gave examples of worker- participation in the construction of agreements. At ICI the old works councils have been transformed by shop stewards who had become mem. bers of them. At Fords participation had gone a long way to providing George Cattell industrial peace. And on the docks- Hence the solution was to 'We have moved to a new sys break down activity and involve of and to shift payments, Tena people' managers and "their in work without strike on the joint which are issue because we have introduced enterouses meaningful to all of them'.

the shop steward system, had a so that and Restructure the voluntary ballot men

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The that stood it is purposeful to workers have by the agreement,' đo it and control of added Jones referring to the restore methods and quality to 'the doers Devlin Phase Two themselves'. deal. But again the whole issue Not at any stage did Jones must be politically defused, said that the of aspiration Cattell. workers for their control of 'So-called worker-control sys- industries was incompatible with attractive capitalist modes of production. and practicable proposition when Like Cattell, in the last divorced from political doctrines.

analysis the leaders of Britain's see the role When allied to a common desire largest trade union wealth of involvement by workers to create pur- • as a suing disruptive political method of guaranteeing indus- trial peace. Hoaves What is Cattell Jones in fact was most explicit in essence about his own philosophy: proposing? He wants to end the independ- 'Different will exist. ence of unions organizations So what is envisaged is not colla- which the extend material wel boration but confrontation. fare of the working class.

This confrontation would recog- He wants transform them nize the differences of interests, …TO adjuncts of but also reflect certain objectives State that act as progress chasers within which can be mutually. advant- industry. ageous. this he 'If we in fact, that Parallel to recognize see a hierarchy on the shop floor are two sides to indus- there created within the ranks to it becomes perfectly possible discipline workers and to pro injure neither but benefit both.'

mote management schemes. Cattell, in other words, turns Beneath the subtle nuances of at this when major con- of their public There. frontations between the work- of is philosophy corporatism developed. They meet at business ing class the employers and the government are threatened, to the lunches, and conferences sen. trade bureaucracy at all inars to learn and refine their levels in industry. their respective strategies.

BARCLAY'S BANK expects

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a sharp Tory crack at the wages spiral rather than a permanent incomes policy, of ruling-class hypocrisy.

to the financial according The Bank is not known giant's latest review. have complained about the infla- tionary effects of the huge tax The Bank is clearly worried handouts to industrialists-- top that though and leading bankers- unemployment -given away over the 600,000 mark and 'has in Barber's mini-budget. not been so persistently high for Indeed, it welcomes Barber's 25 this years', has in no way hand-out as a sign that 'at long discouraged workers fighting for last British | financial policy is higher wages. swinging towards reality.

"The labour market today is governed by the pace-setters Inflationary in negotiation, and the faced with the government School milk, it appears, is a need for direct action all with highly inflationary commodity, to thuld intolve the turmoil that this be stamped out at costs- even if it does mean condemning thousands of children to rickets Little choice and other forms of malnutrition.

But an extra thirty quid a week Bank The the pocket money for the City élite government, little choice concludes. has in is a move to 'reality'. the present situation but 'to fall This open Tory incitement to back on direct action'. working-class struggle is already Tory effects Barclay's plea for having deep-going crackdown on 'rampant workers' thinking. Effects that inflation' has not a little element clearly worried Confederation of

JUDGING FROM

a recent television broadcast by Hun- garian Deputy Foreign Minis- ter, Frigyes Puja, the NATO and Warsaw Pact powers are drawing closer together on the question of a European Secu- rity Conference. Puja told how, 'on October 30, and 31, 1969, the Foreign Ministers of the Warsaw Treaty States . . . worked out a pro- posed agenda for the conference: dealin (1) Establishment of European Security . . . (2) Widening of commercial, economic and tech- nical-scientific relations with a view to the development of political co-operation based on between the European parity states'. He then went on: 'It came to light... that the North Atlantic Alliance was not *.. with the quite satisfied agenda proposed by the socialist states .. So what did the bureaucracy do? "The meeting Budapest on June 21 and 22, 1970 . took account of this and worked out another agenda proposal.' This included the addition of a third item-the 'establishment of a body to deal with the prob- lems of European security and co-operation'.

RESPONDED

So the Stalinists responded to the NATO criucisms by accept- ing their proposal for the crea- tion of a permanent 'law-and- order' force for all Europe! Comments Puja: British Industries chairman John Partridge when he spoke to the London management conference reported this page. Theme of the conference: Involvement at Work'-had little appeal for Partridge. Management, he pontificated, would surrender its not con- cern for its employees' interests to anyone 'whether trade unions or government or other well- or ill-meaning interventionists'.

And he called on the 'over- of siles more directly and Clinging The gist of Partridge's message will grimly onto poat they haveling is that and need to mobilize the respon- union chiefs and their workplace allies in order to keep it. Ne say: get rid of the Torie -and you'll get rid of inflation

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Would-be face death Transport and General Workers' Union Duke talks with the general secretary ot colnouren al Monday s the SEVENTEEN young people Inaustrial society teach-in 'Involvement at Work'. trial in on are aue to go soon charged with offences a gainst "state security'. are kev them a aW student named raeneat a worker called batnal ana two students. sabour ana nanimknaml. Six others face life sentences and the prosecution will demand ten to 15-vear sentences for the other Association of Demoratic ional International yers reports. The 'crime" they sympathized with the Pales tinian revolutionary movement Al and wanted 1010 ratan ine ralesunian guerrilla orcan- Izanon. No admission Do tisanted to artend one rei Amnesty International have been ermission bi the refused overnment of the Iranian Shah The ans despotic sy United hated many monopolies. storemen exports A STRIKE by 160 storemen in Shipment our t 20500d layes wool, valued at £4.6 million.

Ships have sail been torced without taking on scheduled wool cargoes Mr Gary of the South anales secretary of oh Packer strikers wage increase of a dent ad nos a

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Limb- makers may come out again LIMB-MAKERS who re- turned to work on Monday eight-and-a-half an atter week strike say they may walk-out again if manage- ment does not agree to meet them for pay talks by today. bachen oter or t l6s, which which to the cent demanded during view to from mass refusal to meet for talks.

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bob me say and wand sorte, told the Workers Press Wednesday got us back to work nith BSTA is the heat ill time but of the added the spokesman countrys 25 limb Public Meeting

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TUAL orrusu to producuviry dealine and naconanzacon under workers control of bankrupt firms that threaten redundancy are two most important demands in the drait Charter or basic Kigns pudisned Dy te All Irades Umons Alliance for their December 19 Conference.

Mike Black. ETU convenor for the Mersev Docks and Habour Board. like several thousand other Board workers is now threatened with redundancy.

he boare ists minon in the reo tourn i aboarenty can no zou minol for new dock development). Ine government nas so lar relused to bale it out and ruthless economies are expecte-economies wace may mean mie cosure of over half Liverpool's seven miles of waterfront.

Not suronsing v the Charter's sections on sackings and producuvity appealed to Mike, a long-time member of Liverpool Labour Party.

Mike Black have yet to be a then table then propan do sure destina lized it air the deman counteract a media lice must be ex nalzauon nas what they are or Thise in capitali • with of the goggle for the bias anc going existing unprofitabi paper? Be taken print would documents. oppose the Branse it the some pale money as out Crisis public mo in doors of the docks rate worried about nationalization ost it 1am demandsore situation is men Mike Powell workers' control and no sackings or is the onl i redundancies. aspect o evolution: the question is capitalist methods. Thill que stid, would disapprovcialism who German arat dacy this no sake greatest concern. DONCASTER Panel miners were the last to return to work in the Spanish police recent miners' strike-they voted 9 to 4 last Friday to go back.

This vote followed their Investigation by Jack Gale charge Basque previous unanimous de. cisions to stay on strike despite a national execu- trial marchers he ballot on be age ofe Barnsley harea, leaving the tive recommendation to on the wage accept the Coal Board's Doncaster Panel isolated.

pay ofter SPANISH police baton-charge demonstrators Robens vitriolic Lord tollowed in san sebastian (rigor in toe neart Or Edi Basque country. Berke shifts Couldn't spread 'Ihe demonstrators were protesting arains Although thes the trial of 16 Basque nationalists, which opened this week in Burgos.

How The prosecution has asked for the death able, becaus were left solated? penalty for six of the prisoners ime througho our one sain. under sweeping lascist laws oul lawing left-wing and working-class organiz- miners manto NUM branch seretar Barnsley area. Even area council voted for strike. spoke to mineveras Press: Tried hard the strike was crumbling.

Eric Hower a

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Stalinistshe Communist Party Scotland and S Wales did ley meeting was of pitin which corts Moose ar a thats stayed strike some about the No the Done causeu Wely two weeks nner caoinet The was ica us members 'Co-operation' Kelling organized. decided ti i We S0 men i as the iced apparent not far bondre and i een December 8 itself en scarion, who last dent the rules per did, horetary Hugh Stuper 'Murdoch' the traditional rules industrial December The NEC breaks the rule time for that. by Bad Cores " We can't get added tha a trut to

GUINEAN

ment are equally bankrupt Roth sides government yesterday an- nounced Conakry Radio over that foreign So on pree all it mercenaries had tried to invade the country for a third time on Monday night, but were again one knows is an evil what repulsed. NUS motion Then A similar Come by • that at keep their guns however, done President Sekou Touré has National several September- public • inquiry findings yesterday.

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trument in Chile is already danced ect ouche window. d the recent elecion Doncaster would entertain the ne *Lets wait to opinion carriers BOAC and BEA. flag a mineral s and Doncaster Il there crates votese Christian men would Christian used to the bauxite deposit studying the various alterna- ernment of Frei manufacture of aluminium out ourselves? tives: welc Wednesday, November 25, 1970

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EVEN BEFORE negotiations open on Friday on a Netherlands wages ›olicy the rank and file has made clear it will not allow trade unior eaders to agree to wage restraint Finance Minister Wit- teveen has demanded that real should rise Wants slower than productivity- sector workers employers should take an increasing slice of what the working class produces. But even the Catholic trad has been leadership forced to announce oppositior any such attempts to hold back pay. The government has already to retreat on its plans fo POSTAL DELIVERIES throughout France are and spending

DUDLI

blocked by a four-day strike of non reducuon in postmen and the current vear is onlv halt postal training officers, which started on Monday.

that originally announced.

ent at se de anding retire- but tnev are stil attemnting 35-hour with increases ment

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in income and petrol tax.

Saturday afternoon's rest one in a torment are an increase

SET PACE

The Gaullist regime in extra pay for nignt work.

like determined that postmen, Their action comes as the It was dockers in Rotter- public sector Senate (the upper house of the many oLner dam who this shall for the autumn set the Baringh part mervinish der workers. provisions pace econome drive on state Dutch workers annual spending. services on wages wit in the DOstal thai strike para vsed Docks modern port Hurone's moci for over a week ON MONDAY almost 20,000 The Catholic union leaders Bread van dockers French ports most worked flat out for return struck for 24 hours work then and it is certain In addition to their fight on strike spreads whatever ther conditions. they are be Illdy making atpresent strike two-week-old

SCOTLAND'S

now forced to resist govern- • lead a fight They will not ment attempts to hand them official government hakery.uan the private dock- spread Dundee future pay struggles. employers. yesterday About 100 drivers nectively liminating national bread at branches

WEATHER

labour board ioined the city state presently guarantees a iob 1.000-Strong night tor a 4-a.

tali-hack nav to all registered nd but as airstream Wilt Scot week increase dockers. This is the fifth strike areas the issue in two months. Mar- seilles still overtime, operating niera and Sunday wokentir Airline some bright periods THE STRIKE of ground per- conne of Air Inter irance's main domestic airline) on and conditions claim solid second into continue mild T+ will make any imnrovement to the and Fridas offer. and union leaders have emperatur 050 snit two carret hallots an attempt to procure a return to work. Sick and aged picked for gassing The told A DOCTOR who wot worked at ArICAnArC were Auschwitz death thev were going Last war admited in a frathe Poland torium when they boarded the taking them to the selected yesterdan. charged wit 100 Viet prisoners who were then sent namese peasants, Dr Schumann o the gas chambers. 54, who Horst Schumann was asma prutazed corle tos been on trial in Frankfurt a vast and barbaric impemalist the two monthe murder machine action', it réported. was Essex boycott

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bovcotted Jectures vesterday Its only active ingredient seauent tate later became and demanded the abolitior call on member known to him. at two donna l was to col Tulian witnece set up earlier this vear lege unions to contact local of Crakow. A Student Union committee tande union ronnizatione been assigned to attend these member said further action 'with a view to co-onerstion if the eo mi on that date and on other Dr Schumann have occasions'. 550 disciplined 12 students-were 50 victims to their de not abolished. This volicy-first stifle any demands which waltered the union leaders into serious action against the Tories, then

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