Vigorous pay policy urgent

systematically attack workers' basic rights.

The mobilization of a million or even more workers On a one-day stoppage will not defeat the Tories either.

As the Workers Press has repeatedly pointed out, only a substantial General Strike of millions of trade unionists can create the pulitical crisis which will force the Tory government to resign.

The Communist Party has given repeated evidence of SPANISH workers and stuits desire to confine the movement to a series of dents living in Britain proprotest actions by militants. tested in London yesterda It does not wish to embarrass against the Basque trials reformist trade union due to begin tomorrow.

leaders and the parliamentary "left' by insisting that of all picketed Spanish govthey mobilize the whole Spanish Converged on the ernment offices (above), strength of the working class in an all-out struggle • against Toryism. form of a demonstration. On the contrary, the CP has See in the her and of the union bureaucracy confining the struggle to protest mobilizations.

Left on this level, December 8 would be the first stage of a trap for militancy.

The political differences between us Trotskyists and the Communist Party Stalinists are thus not at all question of academic debate.

They are intimately involved in the most vital issues If the Socialist Labour League were to keep silent about these differences it would itself become part of the chain of betrayal in which 16 Basque nationalists the Tories hope to trap the tomorrow.

working class.

Of course, these political differences do not start or said to be members of the finish with the December 8 illegal workers' commissions stoppage. arfd university students, Because it the fought with police near the interests the privileged city centre, while about 1,000 "The Franco regime is trying to frighten the opposition which is growing. The illegal trade unions are becoming so powerful The protesters, who first that the regime finds it very difficult to stop them any other way.

Embassy in the "So all political opponents are considered to be criminal offenders. Their defence is a question of principle' e trial rs burn nd cars BY A FOREIGN ( CORRESPONDENT SOME 3,000 demonstri ators burned buses and cars and battled with p solice in Barcelona early yesterday morning in pr otest against the trial of which opens in Burgos Groups of several hundred, Police stormed the groups Three-quarters BarceThis is also reflected in their refusal to subsidize : the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board.

Taking up Mr John Davies' theme about 'ame ducks' and the 'morass of subsidized incompetence' , Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, told a stunned opposition parliament that neither the government nor the monopoly users of the Mersy docks were prepared to provide a single penny. to meet the f20 million debt which the Mersey board would incur over the next three years because of bond redemptions.

There would be no bridging loans to cover the expected cash deficiencies.

Nor would there be a moratorium on the repayment of bonds and interest as the Mersey Board requested.

Instead a receiver would be appointed to receive the rates, but not to wind up the company.

Reshuffle

A reshuffle of the personnel on the Board would be undertaken immediately.

Amongst the new appointees to the board are merchant banker Mr John Cuckney and former Housing and Local Government permanent secretary Sir Matthew Stevenson. Serving with them will be Mr Emerson of ICI and Mr Harry Wall of the 'Transport and General Workers' Union.

Mr Cuckney's appointment is interesting if only for the fact that until March 1970 he was i -director of Lazard Brothers, merchant • bankers managing director of Standard Industrial Group Ltd, an investment holding company, chairman of Standard Industrial Trust, Ltd, the issuing house, and is now chairman of the Anglo-Eastern Bank, Ltd, and director of J. Bibby and Sons Ltd Europa Insurance Company.

Significantly he was member of the steering group which advised on the organization and financial structure of British Rail.

Mr Peyton did not mince words proclaiming Tories' plans for the run-down the South end Mersey docks:

No subsidies I must tell you roundly that, in my view, the prospects for the expansion and development of the port of Liverpool reside on Merseyside and not with Ministers.

I believe this country has become sick of subsidies and it is time we got away from them.' What Mr Peyton meant is that in future cash deficits will have to come out of increased exploitation and speed-up by the employers—not out of government subsidies.

While preparing to down the South end, the - says research, body A VIGOROUS Tory incomes policy to deal with inflation is urged today in the economic review of the influential National Institute for Economic and Social Research.

The review reflects employers' concern at the continuing wages offensive:

•Wage rises have accelerated steel is the recent ped to they must expected continue at a high rate.' Upward trend It warns that the upward trend of unemployment shown over the last 18 months -will continue 'virtually certai», alongside in consumer • price increases next year.

Despite Heath's rejection of the incomes policy at present, NIESR is very close to gorernment policy to implement the anu-union laws with the Heath: Financial policy weakened.

collaboration of the union leaders, while having a certain amount of inflation and rising unemployment.

The review welcomes Heath's policy of rejecting severe monetary and fiscal measures.

NIESR probably believes that deflation could weaken the employers' ability to stand up to strikes.

This is reinforced by its estimate that growth rate for real output will remain at an almost stagnant 2 per cent level.

NIESR says it assumed that average • pay increases (at annual rates) will step up slightly in the last quarter of 1970 and in the first quarter of 1971 to around 14 per cent -and then fall back towards 10t per cent.

Forlorn

Its review voices the forlorn hope that the fall-back will come because 'we are now in the late stage of a 'wage round' caused by workers' attempts to make up for wage increases foregone during earlier periods.

But it warns that union success in winning pay increases this year will 'persuade them to lodge (and achieve settlement of larger claims next year' THIRTY THOUSAND New South Wales teachers were yesterday awarded a 14 per cent wage increase by the state's Education Department. Before the rise, teachers' salaries ranged from £1,420 to £4,226 a year. Something for everyone at the YOUNG SOCIALISTS GIANT XMAS BAZAAR The campaign to transform the December 8 strike is therefore of the utmost urgency.

In every section of the labour movement, workers have demanded that the trade union leaders mobilize the whole resources of the trade tony nolitically to chaitergo the capitalists and force the ,Tories, to resign.

Nine press bosses sought and obtained a High Court order yesterday to prevent print union leaders calling on their members to support the December 8 strike.

It was said that the strike call was an inducement of union members to break their contracts of employment and was 'plainly unlawful at common law'.

and its Morong Siar Party tinue to insist that anything but 'pressure' would be premature. They omit and distort the nature of the supSaturday December 12 and and his Corn Exchange Exchange Leeds OPEN AT

port for the December action.

A one-paragraph report in yesterday's 'Star' lead article merely stated that 'a meeting called by Manchestęr district of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions urged nearly 200,000 more workers to stop for next Tuesday's Day of Action'.

In fact, the meeting of 1,000 stewards was a running battle between the floor and the platform speakers who sought to confine support for strike action to the level of a protest.

A steward from a Mirlees, Stockport, factory said that Manchester area of the AEF had worked to replace the old union leadership.

'We elected them to change the policy,' he said to tremenapplause, and asked: 'Where now? We should demand they act!' This demand to make the union leaders fight evoked a bitter attack on 'these people' by leading Communist Party member Bernard Panter, AEF Manchester district president.

call them people, he said, 'because they are not part of the workers' movement. They were calling for a general strike at -the Liaison Committee Conference in London.

TOO CRITICAL

*These are the people wno are shouting here. How many of their factories are coming out?

'You can't expect the TUC leaders to stand up yet. It's up to us and after December 8 we'll see a change. Don't be too critical of the TUCthey've called for a national day of protest on January 12:

Shouts from the floor made it clear that the meeting wanted a fight against the Tories.

A steward then proposed a resolution calling for support for December 8, to be followed by all-out action necessary to defeat the Tories. • At this point the chairman cut the meeting short by putting the motion to the vote, omitting any mention of action against the Tories.

With the second reading of the anti-union only 16 days away, the Stalinists continue their desperate efforts to protect the trade union bureaucracy — on which the continued existence of Tory r.le depends-and to step up their attacks on those who prepare the working class to face and defeat the class enemy.

Public Meeting THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 7.30 p.m. fight for workers' The Town Hall St Helens, Lancs.

Speaker: G. HEALY

(National Secretary of SLL)

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