Workers Press no. 320

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government PRICE 6d. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1970 • NUMBER 320 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE £1,250 Dec B-Leyland ultimatum-accept Behind the anti-union laws Appeal Fund scheme or redundancies starts at MDW blackmail £l4 13s 60 Tories prepare claim CARWORKERS at Oxford yester- day accused British-Leyland man- agement of blackmail by threaten- ing redundancies if Measured-Day Work was not accepted. car men This was after stewards from the Austin-Morris car complex at Cowley, for a major near xiora. nao met management lo could moan old hear how the group's man- government

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1970 • NUMBER 320 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE E1,250 Dec. B-Leyland ultimatum-accept Behind the anti-union laws Appeal Fund scheme or redundancies starts at MDW blackmail £l4 13s 6d Tories prepare claim CARWORKERS at Oxford yester- day accused British-Leyland man- agement of blackmail by threaten- ing redundancies if Measured-Day Work was not accepted. car men This stewards from the was cater Austin-Morris car complex at Cowley, for a major near Oxford, had met management to hear now the groups man-

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

reductions power would divisio ber fand. issued anect the cowley works. threatened if changes are not could be Austin-Morris absorbed 1868 Clapham Hig

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THE SETTING

up of a not be overestimated. •We therefore decided to post- Royal Commission of pone the crisis in the hope Inquiry into the • coal averting it, or, if not of avert- of effectively with ing it, coping industry five weeks after time when the came. (My Red Friday was the first emphasis. J.G.) The quick step in the government's state was to act. The Communist Party planned to preparation for conflict.

produce a daily edition of 'Work- ers' Weekly' during the strike. But the right was prepar- The first issue appeared on mav 3, 1926, and on May 5 the police ing in other ways as well- raided the Party press and took on September 25, 1925, the vital away Parts Ure machinery. Organization for the Main- Communist Party Leading of Supplies tenance was members jailed Red Friday article, Workers Press, formed. November 21). Altogether 5,000 Its head was Lord Hard- people were acts committed. during the strike. inge of Penhurst, a former 1,200 of these were Communist Viceroy of India, and its Party members and 400 were jailed. Council included Admiral of did the How workers' leaders the Fleet, Lord Jellico. The prepare? 1925 september Congress of the

TUC

passed all On November 20, the Emer- kinds of 'left' resolutions includ- Powers Act invoked ing of support 'our and England and Wales divided Unle Chinese comrades', one support- into ten Divisions, each under ing the rights to self-determina- Minister acting as Civil Commis- tion of all peoples in the British sioner on behalf of the govern- Empire and one condemning the ment. enslavement of the German workers by the Dawes plan.

But despite this and despite the many speeches about the need for preparation by leaders such

TUC

President A. B. as Swales, no steps were actually The taken. trade union leaders placed their hopes in the Royal Commission (the Samuel Com- mission) and shirked their awn responsibilities even though the Commission contained no union representatives. Alliance The Industrial Alliance of and unions in heavy industry transport continued to grow- The National Union of paper. Workers Foundry joined and so did

ASLEF

and the

ETU.

In A. J. Cooke however, this Alliance practice, never functioned. Even after the Samuel Com- reported and mission recom- miners' mended cutting the

TUC

urged the the Waxes. Miners' Federation continue to Mining negotiations with Tine Employers' to Association reduce points of difference to the possible smallest dimensions. The miners' leaders met the employers in March and again in April, but the employers wanted not only wage cuts but longer hours as well. In most districts they posted notices in the pits ending the existing contracts April 30. The miners were from locked out. The wanted mine-owners impose cuts of 2s 8d to 5s lld S Wales and Monmouth, a shift in 2s 10d in Scot- Durham, 2s in Sir Herbert Samuel land and Is to 1s 6d in all other dicas. The government's position was The TUC leaders were on their clearly stated by the Chancellor knees from the They start. Exchequer Winston the pleaded with the government and Churchill declared on who employers suspend the December 10, 1925: notices so negotiations clear quite that a con- could proceed. IS flict of this kind, launched in this leader railwaymen's rigni-wing way, might easily cease to be efforts reported on these as industrial dispute mere ordinary follows: about wages and conditions and I suppose my usual critics will assume charter alto- that Thomas almost might say was gether different from such indus- and it is true grovelling, never begged and pleaded like I trial disputes. If that to ensue, then it begged pleaded all day were clear that quite con- today.' flict between the community on the forces All the one hand, with the ranged against the -not govern- miners- at its head, of ment and many forgetting the church, The the trade great unions on the Catholic Archbishop of Roman other, could only end in Westminster (Cardinal Bourne) one namely, by the declared at High Mass on May way, community, at whatever cost, emerging vic- 'There is no moral justification over organized for strike of this general

LOROUS

tion ot its citizens character. It is a direct challenge 'We considered, therefore, that to lawfully-constituted authority.

should such a struggle be found It is therefore the a sin against inevitable at the very last obedience which were to Goat to De moment, it was of supreme importance that it should only authority. be under conditions 'All are bound to uphold and undertaken which the would not expose assist the government, which is nation needlessly or wantonly to the lawfully constituted perils the gravity of which can- authority the and

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Name Address Dunna Col represents, therefore, in its own appointed sphere the authority of God himself.' On Saturday May 1, the TUC called the General Strike to start on Monday, May 3: All conduct of the strike was handed over to the TUC General Council. On May 10 the TUC.

in its paper 'British Worker under a heading "All's Well', declared: 'Nothing could be more won- derful than the magnificent response of millions of workers to the call of their leaders. From every town and city in the country reports are pouring into • • the General Council headquarters stating that all ranks are solid, h the s that the working men and women are resolute in their determina- tion to resist the unjust attack upon the mining community.

"The General Council's message at the opening of the second A food convoy escorted by armoured cars.

week is: "Stand Firm. Be loyal to instructions and trust your leaders":' Within 24 hours of this mes- sage, the TUC General Council was suing for peace. Sir Herbert Samuel put for- ward some suggestions known as Memorandum, the Samuel the main points of which were that the General. Strike should be called off while the subsidy was renewed for a 'reasonable time' while negotiations were re- opened. Without consulting the miners, the TUC's negotiating committee sought an interview with the Minister, Prime Baldwin. They crawled before him and pleaded with him to help them. J. H. Thomas almost wept before Baldwin: 'Your assistance is necessary ... we want you to help us we trust your word as Prime Minister. We ask you to assist us in the way you only can assist us-by askıng employers and all others to make the position as easy and as possible, smooth because the one thing we must not have is guerrilla warfare'.

Ernest Bevin took up the refrain: I think you will agree in the difficulties we have had before us, at least we have taken a great risk in calling the strike off. It took a little courage to do what we have done.' Bevin pleaded in vain for some crumu of comfort from Baldwin: 'I do not know if I am over- stepping the bounds, but I would like you to give me an idea of

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Ernest Bevin: pleaded In valn. whether there be decisive breakthrough in its of influence in the unions and in the mining negotia- renewal Stalin tions with us.' the Labour Party brushed off these was already seeking peaceful rela- Raldwin timorous appeals with open con- tions with British imperialism tempt. He gave them nothing: through the Anglo-Russian Trade 'Well, Mr Bevin, I cannot say Union Committee. more here at this meeting This was the international The point you put is one I must implication of the revisionist consider. In regard to your sec- the Ty brushed of socialism in one coun- there again I ond point, cannot try. aside the whole say at this stage what will hap- struggle that had been waged in what cannot say exactly the first four congresses of the DeNI the lines will be upon which my Communist International and the obiect can best be obtained.' British Communist Party in Len- Bevin begged, obsequiously: in's lifetime to establish Bolshe- of work in I do not want to take up your vik methods Britain. British and transformed the CP time, but shall we be meeting a loyal appendage of the into upon these two points soon? Stalinist emerging bureau- Baldwin spurned him: thenl I cannot say that, Mr Bevin. I Cracy. think be that whatever Instead of working tac- on may decision I come to the House of tical united front basis with the Commons TUC left wing, in the context of may be the best place in which to say it.' which the Party could advance its Despite this, the TUC General political influence in the rank and Council called off the strike and file, the Communist Party became left the miners to fight alone for involved in an opportunist colla- nine months. They even declared boration type of relationship with in their statement-without the the Centrist left wing, in which slightest they the Party basicallv a loval "ustification_that was had received that component of a bloc with this assurances séttlement of the mining dispute left wing. The Communist Party failed to They stated that can he secured'. they "assumed' for that the mining prepare any concrete way subsidy would be renewed.

the role of independent revolu- during tionary leadership the But the government was not strike. bound by the Samuel Memoran- For it called for dum. example, In fact, firet the govern- special conference of trade union ment official communiqué was to branches form a workers' the effect that they would not defence and to corps put the back employers take

COMNA

case before the armed workers who had participated in workers' forces, but which would also the strike. fight for wider powers to the General Council. Victimizations Trotsky declared that the impending General Strike could In some cases, they said, dis- herald the British Revolution missal of workers would be inevi.

and he warned of the danger that the British Communist Party table due to the decrease in pro- duction caused by the strike and would 'let slip the opportunity of the revolutionary in view of obligations incurred situation 1923 the General Party did employers in regard to volun- hu teer labour. ('Problems of the British Labour Movement'. Victimizations multiplied. Rail- written March 5. 1926. way for instance. companies, On May 6. in Preface declared that strikers had broken a to 'Where is Britain Going?' Trot- their and be contracts would sky wrote that real victory taken back only individual on l for the General Strike can only contraria be found the The TUC feebly requested that conquest of the government power by the proletariat should stoo the But the position of the British attache an the unions Communist Party leadershin "It demand that the was must made clear by T. Murphy in employers abstain from victimiza- tion. The word of the Prime Min- 1A full cot the ch the account chanain, er at did ste Communist Party ister, the Parts nocition Red Friday the CM. between do in this situation? eral can article and By 1925 the British Commun- Wandhance's "MarTem Stalinis Tena Bait Summer 1969.

Staliniem Rritain ist party was beginning to make 'Workers' Weekly, where he TUC preached caution:? 'Our Party does not hold the positions in leading the trade unions. It is not conducting the negotiations with the employers and the government. It can only advise and place its press and its forces at the service of the workers-led by others. 'And let it be remembered that those who are leading have revolutionary perspectives no before them. *Any revolutionary perspectives they may perceive will send the majority of them hot on the track of a retreat. "Those who do not look for a path along which to retreat are good trade union leaders, who have sufficient character to stand firm on the demands of the miners, but they totally are incapable of moving forward to face all the implications of a united working-class challenge to entertain state. any exaggerated views as to the revo- possibilities lutionary of this crisis is fantastic.' (My emphasis, J.G.) illustrates Woodhouse the marked between contrast the Communist Party's role before and after Red Friday. Early in 1925, the Party correctly stressed that it would not subordinate its own activities to the diplomatic requirements of Anglo- Russian Trade Union Committee: •Unity that only means a polite agreement between lead- ers is useless unless it is backed up by mass pressure..•• Vast masses of workers everywhere are moving slowly forward.

"Those leaders stand in who the way are going to be swept aside. The class struggle cannot be limited to letters, exchange of an diplomatic ('Workers' Weekly, January 2, 1925.)

Councils Similarly, the Communist Party welcomed the efforts of lefts such as A. J. Cook to build up the Industrial Alliance, but it combined this support with work at rank-and-file level to build up committees of workers under the leadership of the Communist Party and the National Minority Movement. The purpose of these commit- tees was not just to pressurize leaders, but to become embryo Councils of Action. In this period the CP was relating its work in the unions directly to the crea- tion of revolutionary conscious- ness. Thus, Tom Bell wrote in June 1925: 'All talk, such as the state- ment of Citrine, the acting secre- tary of the General Council of the TUC, that this is an: "eco- nomic dispute" is a definite sabo- tage of the working-class defence attack. The against capitalist miners' crisis is part of the gen- eral crisis of British industrial- ism. For that reason it has passed beyond any purely eco- nomic stage. It is a definitely political crisis and can only be solved by revolutionary political means.' ('Communist Review').

After Red Friday, however, the British Communist Party was in increasingly contradictory an position. The original attempts to develop the rank-and-file revolu- tionary potential were increas- ingly swamped by the pressure from the Communist Inter- national not to adopt an attitude would

TUC

which embarrass the working of the Anglo-Russian Trade Union Com- mittee. As time went on, approaching the outbreak of the strike, the Communist Party was acting more and more as the supporter, rank-and-file level, of the at the official General Council left wing. The initiative passed from the CP (which to a large extent had forced Red Friday on to the Quoted in L. J. Macfarlane 'The British Communist Party TUC leaders from below) to the opportunist element in the union leadership, who their turn assisted the right wing in sabo- taging the strike. preparing Instead of the workers for a sell out and build- ing an alternative leadership, the Communist Party increased the illusion in working class that the TUC would act firmly.

After the TUC's Scarborough Conference the Communist Party line develop inde- was not to pendent revolutionary potential in the unions, but to press the TUC to carry out the left-wing resolutions and to campaign for the General Council to assume full controlling power over the unions. In circumstances where work- ing-class consciousness was devel- oping very rapidly and where the Party task was to give concrete revolutionary leadership, the Party in fact lagged behind the developments in the working class: it was theoretically unpre- pared tor these developments and for the treachery of the letts as well as the right wing, and it was unprepared for the movement of the General Strike towards a revolutionary challenge to the state. Stanley Baldwin congratulated by Mrs Churchill on the defeat of the strike. After the sell out, the Com- munist Party - in line with instructions from the Stalinist- dominated Communist Inter- national-condemned the action of the General Council and the timidity of the lefts.

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by Trade unions in the epoch of Impertilis! decay. Communism and syadicuisii. Available from New Park Publica 186A Clapham Hi Saturday, December 5, 1970 But, while Trotsky called for a Russian walk-out from the Anglo- Russian Trade Union Committee, the EC of the CI drew the con- clusion Committee that the 'needed to be made into a more effective body'. of con- Despite its resolution demnation, the Communist Party retained a mild attitude to the TUC lefts and failed to criticize the errors of A. J. Cook (who post-mortem' had called for 'no on the strike). of its inability to Because the lessons of the strike learn and of its own wrong line, the Party quickly lost the gains which it had made during and immediately after tae » strike (Macfarlane states that the CP gained 5,000 new members and YCL 1,500 in the months after the strike). Accused Trotsky, who had warned throughout of the danger serious mistakes by the British Party was severely attacked in Russia and accused of writing off the British Communist Party as a reactionary organization.

Trotsky defended himself in a 1926 speech made on June 3, (Printed as Appendix F in Mac- farlane?). He defended his warning that the British Party might adopt too passive or temporizing atti- tude. 'Does not fundamental revolu- suggest', tionary teaching he declared, 'that in these circum- stances it was necessary to repeat and to emphasize the danger that, in all the old organizational imminent superstructure, strike would s meet counter- activity resistance, sabotage and from the side of the Communist Party, a lack of decision? ...

discrepancy The between its strength, its resources, its means, and those objective tasks which are becoming increasingly immi- nent, is gigantic; and about this we must speak openly, not replacing revolutionary policy by party legends and formulae.

In view of the monstrous conservatism of British social life the young British Communist Party needs to increase tenfold its implacability, its criticism, its counter-activity to the pressure of bourgeois social opinion and its "worker" organization' These warnings were ignored.

Part of the price paid by the miners will be discussed in later article. 3L. I. Macfarlane "The British Communist Party'.

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anti-aircraft and ammuni- guns of the company's tion-and managerial staff. based in ciations' Vienna has They were charged in connec- launched a campaign supporting Strauss calling *new tion with supplying arms, and for Swiss banned arms Germany stretching from al cas (30 miles France) merchants, disguised ship- inside to ments to permitted countries.

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of Driven economic crisis by the 35-milli- the employers of W Europe want Twenty-eight twin cannon to defeat their own working class rapid-firing and metre 216,000 of ammunition rounds ana reclaim tne power to expion the workers of E had Africa via Europe. gone to this-the threat Mansentes. Itis to the basic property relations in the Swiss officials allowed them- workers' the --that spels selves to be deceived by official end of 'peaceful co-existence'.

French government papers And in the front line of the declaring that the final destina- crisis facing Stalinism are tion of the weapons was France.

Ulbricht German and the bureaucracy. They fear that they Which raised the question how may be made sacrificial lambs sales managers Lebidin- Oerlikon Soviet world-wide deal between the sky and Gebert had obtained the Stalinists. US. and papers and why the Swiss bureau- imperialism. crats accepted them although the signatures were illegible.

Prompted Similar shipments had gone to This fear has (via Ethiopia), Malaysia even the power Egypt lips. their (via Indonesia), Nigeria, Saudi oring truth It prompted Friedrich Ebert, Arabia, and the Lebanon. CP chief, to declare in presence at Refusing to take sides in the Brezhnev's the recent Middle East the enterprising Congress the Hun- DudaDesi garian CP Germany salesmen had also supplied the that Israeli government-via France, imperialist state, and part of

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despite the rrench embargo U11 supplying weapons to Israel.

His simple wisdom cut across the polite talk of 'cultural Three ex- of the accused were changes' and "friendly for relations jailed their pains. But between states having differing Buehrle himself, of the one social systems'. the un- with chest maen spectacular sign of a crisis which fortune of £11 million, threatens the historical death sum of Was the Stalinists and all brokers in £2,000 and cautioned with an class collaboration. eg ma suspenaca sentence.

SUNDA

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Tories out to takestate steel

THE

TORY hatchetman for the nationalized in• dustries Mr John Davies has opened talks with the chairman of the British Steel Corporation, Lord Melchett, to look into ways of selling off three of the most profitable parts of the industry in Wales. Four Welsh plants employ ing 1,000 men enco mav o sold. These special are at the DOCKERS in Liverpool have an almost unparalleled division Panteg, record of militancy under successive Labour and Tory chemical division But now they face their biggest test of all.

Walch interests three Waport Talbot Bit- A government team is currently investigating the companies in Port and the financial crisis of the Mersey Docks and Habour Chemical Company. Mr Davies Board. They will undoubtedly recommend closures that would mean ta these and redundancies in all sectors of dockland.

sup- Lax the the rest DOLL 1Or Part of the team's strategy will be to bulldoze austry and snortage capital for building new steel the Liverpool docker into accepting Phase Two of works. the Devlin scheme, which has again been resisted by Decisive blow the 10,000-strong dock labour force.

It deal would decisive blow industry's But the most testing challenge of all to workers the and would creale weaknesses on the Liverpool waterfront are the Tory attempts to

TUST

une smash the dockers' strongest weapon—the unofficial con- structure was Delne solidated. strike-with the Industrial Relations Bill.

Workers Panteg have already alarm With this Bill the government seeks to outlaw because thei private completely the unofficial leadership that has fought the industry concentrate for dockers' rights and conditions in Liverpool for Sheffield. over a century. selling parts As the secretary of the Liverpool docks stewards' back would be to ivate operators committee, Alan English is part of that leadership.

Meisheft Says the And Lord Melchett We talked to Alan about the draft Charter of thered be a corsetee solution Basic Rights published by the All Trades Unions BP-type Solunon Alliance for discussion at its December 19 conference.

weere TRe state Tetantee bot mator share of investment in the Incustry. But „regy the Winde Post Office HIGH COURT yesterday de- Lord cided that Tuesday's injunction who variously about against the executive of print ill health.

STRI

ana SOGAT (Division A), Ulon There can

GOUDI

preventing it from calling on that Me chett stands way its members to support the the the lory plan break up the nationalized should December 8 strike. steel industry he will be forced to resign. contrue

• FROM PAGE ONE

the view, government's •why they showa have to go

PUBLIC LECTURES

to all unless they delher.

ately want to make martyrs of themselves. Elements of means, plain Ens lish militants go and witch-hunted will be and conaemnea as sen appointed Marxism martyrs. Dictatorship …ce new aws are the hrsi The importance of Marxist philosophy in the step open capitalist dictatorship building of the revolutionary party.

of Musso- che corporate state lini and Hitler's Nazi regime ine working cass will NOt Lectures by C. Slaughter (Central Committee permit the capitalists to take this road out : of the crisis. member of the Socialist Labour League) But to defeat their plans it is necessary SWINDON: Eastcott Hotel, Manchester Rd, 8 p.m. Wednesdays truggle December 9 and 16. union nobilize trade unions December 13 a d2opur Hotel, Haymarket, 7.30 p.rz Sundays.

tale for a general strike to bring then. The right-wing's B p.st. Thursdays: Dece Deer 10 Cend i, Colston Ave, Bristol 1.

leaders' treachery the Labour 8 p.m. Thursdays. December is that with the class enemy in mere shey Lectures by G. Healy (national secretary of the dictatorship. more crawl, Socialist Labour League) Tories

LUIC

press ahead. of the depth because Sundays. December Poly on Hotel, the Polygon, 7.30 p.m.

SOUTHAN KUN

of the crisis. and the historic changes which are really signi- the anti-union Sm is hedl

BEXLEYHEATH:

er 15 and all Christchurch, Broadway, 8 p.m2 that the now so sinister and dangerous •escars. December The CTON; Oddfellows Hall, Fletcher Rd, W3. 8 p.m. Thursda asalls ecember 10 and 1 union laws Into mere

DIO•

the TeST Chance covern- Lectures by M. Banda (Editor of Workers Press) ment's mindi There inher denne BIRMINGHAM: Digbeth Hall, 8 p.m. Mondays. December 7, that leaders union 14 and 21. forced to fight, and cover up to that th Lectures by P. O'Regan (SLL) create could

BALHAM:

Co-op Hall, 47-51 Balham High St, SWI2. 8 p.m.

carried on ment Mondays, December 7 and 14 which out such anti-union laws.

Here we have the traditional counter-revolutionary role Stalinism last carried oh's invasion

LATE NEWS

was More meat 011 Portueuese armed forces acing in con

DEMO AT

Guinean dissi-

GUINEA

unction with for Polish dent elements from outside

LONDON CENTRE

Twelve demonstratoes carry.

banners entered

TORIES BACK KY

miners Portuguese Tourist Centre

WITH CASH

cerse at he frec recent attempted coup

POLISH

Communist Party first and British Wladyslaw Gomulka leader visit S Vietnam told miners in ahrze Unne for three-and-a-half years, left Milesial on "hursday that mea after

BASQUE TRIAL TELEGRAM

vesterdau exports had been cut to main with leaders the take tain Poland's shrinking domes- Tea nages l and 4) regime. Defence lawvers tic for tha Kershaw • Saigon i that future Basque nationalists on trial in e land ormiheis! aid to would certainly Spain, have sent than than the Supreme food shortages £600,000 a protespera Silesia, under the Wilson gossmend.

being supplied Counci Military Poland's Justice protesting that were con they main coal-producing region tinually ruled out of order by Because of their importance officer when Line prestonne the économy they tried to pose oblections Gomulka exnlained miners to the proceedings. would be getting extra meat rations. *worker These would diverted

GUINEA INVASION

from other parts of the coun The United Nations special countries capitalist unanimously mission Guinea reported uld not re- yesterday that duced any further. historys struggled face the biggest struggle of Thind in mid 10 da Big. workersocks, pralls. Bill oRecal strik we get But it is the Toried situation thi leaders and the •Te, all and gusted with their attitudes.

sked that Kind or wal differen As he lecisive and critical asto Yorward to road's How NOT the anti-union

• FROM PAGE ONE

have broken negouations dorm son to artrationatic union right ton withdraex ticular concern presses ser would Employer al Tou pointse so that alent is not the reace em

WEATHER

SE Scotland in the N. Temperatures est

WORKERS PRESS

the ones out where are the generals? 8 should be ning. think the

TUC

act after Have his they will kind of LaYe all with unIs rory covernment. The demands I like par- acuary are Those concant- ing the welfare service and pensions. SPANISH dictator General Franco summoned an aboute Crime take off the kids. the milk an emergency session of his cabinet on his just what kind of people dealing with. 78th birthday yesterday, as big strikes and then maere are toe school demonstrations continued against the Burgos meals-with prices ot these to es wit be path as a some large military trial of 16 Basque nationalists.

week. The cabinet was ther woman the of tamil, thought likely to decree

FOREIGN CORRESPONDEN

to keeD laye

WOLK

JUSL

a state of emergencv at nel kias tea, yel tnis, as tne which de- search Daysical states, should be a crarter least the Basque the start of the aved right. minutes. find the On country, where more pensions Waiting spectators stood demand for a sliding scale of workers than 80,000 outside coum under the and pensions

YEL)

struck on Thursday in There a soldier alliantlyer al c manned by massive wave of court- third floor popular support for the room Appeals from the defence don district committee f the 16 accused. district awvers tor the contaillee suspended appeal

AEF

an Handcuffed WIll alienals LIe two-by-two trial is for civil heard con- and surrounded by 32 steel. DecemDer

ALUA

terence which will discuss the helmeted soldiers, the brusquely Charter of Basic Rights. prisoners.

SIX

presiding officer on trial for cneir lves. , were All 16 counsel objected zed into COUrT on nurseat commandel the most stringent amid dock would ever who security measures ever tane Tenre defence for after a life-time recuests of making nessed in prisoners handcuffs to money for the ship owners their relatives and Then in a few friends allowed into were Beihl, Eugen them San rIgorous German consul collecting tea cups still not been Sebastian has or something canteen despite lound Massive This terrible. All Basque coun senter or lot workers should be retired try by para-military police.

FAST

one on the as ag He was snatched on Tues day from outside his garage being held sel now.

DURING

and the fate all these things 1 see being out. There won only car breakaway the out.

BASQUE

the sector Dase ut a sweep „such nadonaust the left among workers this wont be thi

TRIAL

SPLIT

Labour party to its own tricks Hrancos cabinet when it gets back. This is reported to be split between the way 1 see • See page headliners who want maxi- the future. one story growing fascist regime and thost who tear SOns Will dallast the Te tons with westerI imperialists. None of them, apparently, fear that trial and the will regime's rascIs trading relations and the Unt Arella dill auropean olannists Police arrested more thar I00 people in sar sebastian and the surrouncing puzcoa province after Thuts day's strikes and demonstra against the And the civil governor of the warned he Could. covernient perhussion

USUR

measures WITh recourse every legal resort' strikers. San Sebastian Julio Aranza 30,000 people province certaines gross inreatened action 29a10s ousinesses bars and other public estab 'who close their between demonstrators in tran Thursday alle 1 ulusa nicalus

LIC

¡aana was oockee tor nve Police broke up nade monstrations Barcelona, and Hernani, firing frighten air marchers. T to fight It happened yesterday union laws PAKISTAN'S first-ever general made bombs dropped

WCIC

from Manila University crecuon has enaca win had Illion voterS

COWS

demonstrating DeLOSS the functions of an employer.

students in the street below.

choice or zu Darties with the A wamı League itor h Pakıstar They say: "There ronce nrew tear-cas can autonomy) expected win dication Isters disperse students Ine most of the 169 seats in the how who had been demonstrating East. against the suspension of some development, observance

CANADIAN

plane schools. pro- Call yulk vrucily and the kidnappers British difficul- for resolving diplomat Cross arrived

ITALIAN

firemen marched james between employers and in Havana. through ween moe covernment nonic of to the dis- This 1s itsell a party the signal for The TourtA ady unel agreement.' higher release from the national strike

TOI

cross wages, 40-hóur week and Cuban consulate in Montreal, The • will danger money. waere he nad spent une pre- dis licasillsiy Dally They are also demandin end will leave vious nignt alter being nanded agreements and they recruitment drive to boost over by members the one. banned French separatist FLQ.

14,000 in any doubt as to what this creation means- defeat or a principled political fight force the student died and

SI VICE

suspicical their hard-stretched resources.

Tories to resign. two were injured when home- During une lnaennite strike.

maintaining The remer are Atomic accidents only skeleton vices.

SOVIET

shipping • delegation in negotiating spain boost cancer rate servicing merchant

SAID:

using spanish ports. resulted atomic The delegation was received

ACCIDENTS

The article states that at Secretard one plant DOdOO Franco s unaet• of Flats, for Merchant cancer among Navy. atom workers ation and posed This is the most recent of threat Cical series official between the Kremlin communics accord- ol cance and me to an aruce m . Lie cura fascist regime. 325 workers rent Issue or Ine American …tae "Look' have been COre GOVERNMENT'S High Court se said editer lacks taminated since 1953 and 01 Shepherd said there these 56 contracted cancer abolication lor aopolniment or "irrefutable evidence' that and 14 died. a receiver or the crisis-wracked accidents have Mersey and Harbour hazards Board was adjourned wo to fo week denials million fall-out panies the were five to 300 times above stake in the Board complained Commission (AEC). of the move. Saturday, December 5, 1970

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

DIFFERENCES are arising inside the leadership of the Czech Communist Party over the drafting of an official history of the 1968 crisis.

Sharp disagreements be- Eggs 7s 6d tween Husak's supporters and the ultra-Stalinists are THE Egg Marketing Board's expected to be aired when prediction would that eggs cost 7s 6d a dozen by Christ- the Party Central Com- mas was a certainty, an execu- mittee meets in Prague on tive committee member of the National Egg Producet December 10. Retailer's Association said yesterday. Three views are being ex- pressed on the origins of the that began crisis with the removal of old-guard the Stalinist Novotny and reached

ORDER YOUR

its climax with the Soviet invasion eight months later.

POSTERS

Over-reaction

TODAY!

One blames the rise of Dubcek the so-called and 'reform movement' on bureau- of cratic repressions the Novotny era, to which "liberalism' Dubcek's was an over-reaction. Another school claims that Dubcek and his group were in with league counter-revolu- tionary elements, while the third traces the crisis back to a 'Zionist conspiracy'. Oldrich Svestka, editor of 'Tribuna' the Party weekly

DEFEAT THE

has that commented Party meetings are no longer well attended as they were in 1968, a TORY ANTI-a when members spoke out freely for their own views.

UNION LAWS!

Today, he complained, Party meetings have again become dull, routine affairs where members listen pas- sively to speeches by their 2s per poster leaders (often appointed from 30s for 20 above) and then give their £3 5s for 50 unanimous support to the 'leaders'' proposals. Send your orders to: Socialist Labour League Fear to speak 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4. The Army weekly, 'Lidova Armada, commented recently that• many members fear speak out at meetings, prefer-

ALL TRADES

ring to discuss quietly | in corridors.

UNIONS ALLIANCE

Underneath bureaucratic blanket of official unity, new

MEETINGS

conflicts inside Party the leadership are developing Discuss the proposed draft of around the nature of the 1968 crisis. the Charter of Basic Rights The most diehard of

OLLERTON:

Saturdan. December 5. Stalinists, by Professor The Plough Inn, 'Lessons le Miners Jaromir the claiming Strike'. Speakers: York- are that the movement sure miners.

NEWCASTLE:

oyal Turk's Head, Royal at a ce Grey st.M. on or Kafka.

SUNDERLAND:

Tendon DCom- ber 10, 7.30 p.m. They also munity Centre. argue that the present ment in is a p.m. Kingston Paisley in Rd. 56 DA GEND.M. Marsh December monday, New Rd:™. Green School, Deeply divided

ACTON:

Monday, 14, 8 December p.m. Co-op Hall. Acton Hieh St.

Unable to drive the work-

WEST LONDON:

Decem- ing class back ber 14, Prince to its Balfe St, NWI position under oppressed Vovotny, the Czech bureau- December 15, is deeply divided Community Bridge cracy over how to solve the political and economic problems facing the SW 8ND Princes Head. December p.m. Prince's Falcon regime. Rd. Clapham Junc This is what lies behind the SE LONDON: Thursday, controversy over the origins December 17, Artichoke pub, Church of the 1968 crisis. St, Camberwell Green. Second Annual Conference Discuss

THE CHARTER OF

BASIC RIGHTS

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

BIRMINGHAM

Sat. December 19 Digbeth Civic Hall, Digbeth 10.30. am For delegates' or visitors' credentials send 5s to Alan Wilkins, ATUA secretary, 53 The Hiron, Styvechale, Coventry.