Workers Press no. 324

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government NCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1970 • NUMBER 324 PRICE 6d. THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Tories Burgos 16 £1,250 Dec Power men's action shows Appeal Fund throw The way to stands at court in fear £195 7s 10d disorder the Workers Pressu THE 16 BASQUE nation- of workers challenge the Tory alists on hrew the court into dis government, power order of the leaders in vesterdav When thev sang an anti-lascist to force the Tories defeat anti- marching Irom une Spanish Civil Workers The that the defeats following 1926 are nanda never happen sour tute sport post all men Sulalgul away Wise Contan, Sia. *After a tried scutte Press union laws Street,

BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

behind Closed door ed FEARS THAT direct government intervention Nixon uses in the power workers go-slow would promote a widespread crisis in industry were voiced in anti-union vy nitenal yesterddy. After a meeting of laws on the Cabinet emergency Boots committee it appears railmen that the government is technicians' THE ENCOURAGING response to the December reluctant to declare a

UNITED

BYA POLTICAL

state pears nor 8 one-day strike and demonstrations has made pay march appeals

CORRESPONDENT

little or no impact on the Tory government.

voluntary power ce from Wed 'rationing' fails. Its positive outcome nas been seT Some - ban by 1300 two-hour pay strike. motion a national cam- .. and The drugs giant has turned rouse onwer workers must ThaT can millions of workers to questions force this government to resign. he union movement preserve for Tories But the dinterence be which disrupts the tile ike me Standard to hated ch inflicting notice is Santiago boweriul, celcal on me work walk-out, the technician in protes 18 cas. meath next Monday. Mr Edward •Cann, for- further which lamposed poor at Tore the aband. working workers. Carillo

MILOTMEN

to a san one thes (General secretary, government Industrial relations had been Spanish CP) situation since 1926, he said.

calling tol for Parificatio Blunt Beake a big mento face hi be state. regime give to that forms the ared to de wing Labour a calling Polish determined to re- t of Polish centent to Speaking House Something for every at s BOUNCIALIS e YOUNG SOCIALIST strike Heath follow nized this when he said: Mr stion add his cess in thẻ cal 190%. learn

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Inadequate Saturday December 12 cica.. paper ongrest and the Associatiol

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Beyond the protest are bomb threatened work-to-rule from Monday Leeds DOORS OPEN AT 11 a.m.

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government action against this 26,000 Such abstention he nt tor B-Leyland chief Tory praise endorsement in at new onare fuc thing salary makes new threats for Feather and conten kes Sha pamphlet ame from within the union

BY DAVID MAUDE

d the The power workers in kee A CRUCIAL stage will be reached tomorrow affect in British-Leyland motorworkers' fight to defend their and union wants. noh the tory tofthment organization. Not cowed

AFRICA'S

unions will meet Court Like the victorious council Visit Aladdin judge Wine Mandela - accused o Fleet St tycoons assembly plant and his known to thase While officials Magic Lamp Cleaners picket CPSU Congress Fisher SP)ed ant in Oxford.

•Even arounds for against sackings counselorm break up mas unity or purpose.

management March 30, 1971, Toys — Bingo - Books - Raffles - Plants - Can-Can

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hemselves, good of up to 80 ye face jail terms

NIGHT

asked ion company for another arete od tea is ed Candy Floss - mas circ recogni is no longer ther are mean - Bottle Draw - Food Bargains — workers have been sening.

YS Boutique Lucky pre heads of thes against per car the ethout the efforts made in Elephant — Instant Photo Babies' white replace Clothes - Punch 'N' Judy - Home-made Food - Fruit "as there has not ee Strand Cleaning Company. funds recent years oh all those Machines — Childrens' Clothes — Alligator's Head - Xmas repentse Decorations — Father Christmas — All the best jumble -- bied fers an Franco Fascism

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The daily paper workers press that leads the fight against the Tory government

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1970 • NUMBER 324

PRICE 6d. THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Burgos 16 Tories Power men's action shows £1,250 Dec. throw Appeal Fund The way to stands at court in fear £195 7s 10d disorder WE

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BY A WORKERS PRESS CORRESPONDENT

closed doors. FEARS THAT direct government intervention Nixon uses in the power workers go-slow would promote a

NO 'LEGALITY'

widespread crisis in industry were voiced in anti-union Whitehall yesterday. After a meeting of laws on the Cabinet emergency Boots committee it appears railmen clear that the government is technicians' THE ENCOURAGING response to the December reluctant to declare a

BY A POLITICAL

UNITED

of 8 one-day strike and demonstrations has made SlaLe pay march appeals for even

CORRESPONDENU

little or no impact on the Tory government.

voluntary Xavicipal powel 'rationing' fails. technicians demo e hand the Tori Nottingham through ack their vi Ratern during a to set Some motion a national cam- ... and nent ine government and erine down are er end paign that wall 1UuoC workers workers. millions of workers to tted on questions their wage increase, how maculas force this government the handen workers defeat to resign. she union t movement preserve Gown by for the difference be determined to smash eral Boots plants in the area the trade which ventul dreat omnie work? e company e of yesterday done will Santiago ing class. Sider the ter action wil has the Edward. Du Cann, for- mer Carillo said

EMMOYMENT

- radio hole of British in

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Frand French to a Standstin. to be brough • and italian The rapid and drastic ed tts laws?

CANNON,

vorkers Union hint, (General secretary, Electrical Trades Union Industrial relations had been workers, desser dad been sulering from lung aged Spanish CP) sated presentele emer ene Committee campaign COMMENTING on the trial

IN A LEILLA

dispute is Cou Canno Dennis, president of th the export Blunt Asturian Make Railwande and then go reply-if any-did ent of ahe kind of mistine tions of ballot-rigging. structure in ahead regardless. is c e county. to de- reparce which trike-breaki 1970 with to re- he House should her red this ser Heath recog- anuary 12. February 1970, you to that they bu y have made demonstration absolutely Inadequate Saturday December 12 incitmention ne of the role of te Electrical Power produced wons, bus we in their implica Demonstrations secretary Congress mplica Corn Exchange secretary lefeat the H

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tomt the sterate ed worko-rule rom Member will bee are that eyond the protest stage. never gol Leeds government action DOORS OPEN AT 11 a.m. leaders into

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member nginers' the lect B-Leyland chief abstention is Tory praise Power new salary makes new threats for Feather e cake so brin power came from within the unions

8Y DAVID MAUDE

tendents who by the magnificent A CRUCIAL stage will be reached tomorrow action man e nder Victor Feather's leader can hurt at them shows tos.

in British-Leyland motorworkers' fight to defend party. ship. their wages, conditions and trade union In the first part of this out Not cowed organization. uphela peal

AFKICA'S

caVanional fins of mour Visit Aladdin no ser one banne of i Poland and Hungary turn back context on to the assembly plant. Fleet St tycoons. breaker Mandela — accused of and his during the 19605 tb. They their wage demand they must discussions Oxford, lems Motors and Procedition bor Magic Lamp leader Cleaners picket attitude CPSU Congress colamely staremained low 'Even 24th Congress 0 the er (PSF) plant in Oxfor against sackings break up me nity of purpose.

Toys — Bingo — Books — Raffles — Plants — Can-Can ten face jail terms

NIGHT

for Records picketed the Boar - Portraits - Xmas Gifts — Candy Foss is near that the breach YS Boutlque — Bottle Draw — Food Bargains — Lucky evening to reward frantimenis des the washout the efforts made in.

Straws White Elephant - Bables Clothes - Punch 'N' Judy ppealed for - Home-made Food - Fruit workers mess the schema ng Company, is acceptede unl not teen oi all none to gang hen Machines - Childrens Clothes — Alligator's Head — Xma: ammunis Decorations — Father Christmas — All the best jumble Seme

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REPORTS of a Portuguese

CLASS STRUGGLES IN

mercenary invasion of Guinea from November 20 have been denied. Portugal 'Angou and Mozant Guinean

BY N. MAKANDA

bique hired mercenaries attack when Portugal backed 'Biafra'.

Touré Price Lum- Sekou the W Coast of Africa from this Africa, typical especial lines made to One mil- umbaist appeal to UÑO, despite a process of European Congo, Its known. role In garded the another alesult colonialism chief he 17th, ter million in the gency of imperialist interventior of primary accumulation'.

and nve mullion in the emancipa- tion' 19th century-19 million in 'Observers' included the transtorma tion bar obses miler Slain the it or slave part trade' basic For every slave landed in the primary accumulation process.

• to eight Hilled s some five can real them on than the imperialist press capitansm in rurope developer Bravesor drowner by means slave trade of th route nterior a by dispossession ng kid- enslavement, made African cheap capitalist upon a bour Europe Dronts in and britain included suffered heavily in this vulned as the man ind Chare the presen a nea Guinea) process. were Plantation X incoln's "Negro Pan. or a ta potaton and Africanist expiorer Delany wrote In the 16th century Portugal *Tem as it"has " ly been 'slave is unknown t began the Pan the Guy ta deportation system mass Intro- on the murder of peoples. aucea amont incl wiles Spain from Europe and America.'

These the first bloody cen- were was exported to the Americas.

Guinea, with the Africa Sudan, was part The main suspen of slaves to roto-feuda work Continued next week. sysici Compora Yeudalism Michelet, Africanus (16th the later racialist Leo trobenius Du hold and dard nave coven ca tull accounts or this social sys tem. wrote: "Throughout Armattoe the whole of the Middle Aces.

Africa had a more solid politico- social organizauon. allained internal and wes nigner Cont more conscious o than Surope. And Frobenius the South of zone "Traffickers' and Sudanese civilization abse destroyed not European racialist historians have tried and being, in show the "ATaDS being, fact, an integral Darl the or inis civilzanon, our by slave curopean invaders anu Walickers capitalism Huronean brought darkness to Airica and rose to its own glorious neients on me bul- age, muraer and destruction the Ameri- Asia and in caster African slaves being stowed aboard an 18th century slave-ship areas suffered more than organisent is due to one minute causes the crop to appear at a

ONLY A VERY

small both cases. proportion of human be- wide hanges can understood and doing lead ton range of ings at present inhabiting "oreakaowas deeper knowledge that inside trained the earth are change We may improve the scientists. flectively breed hastch cam roduces a conditions Yet in everyday life every- nature's vided weather disease is absent, one recognizes - though for as skin of madure include aren the saise sey absent right, as pa a of montrea can be multi- the most part unconsciously processes involved are better -that matter in all its forms understood, nature notning remals obeys laws that can be under- per- Instant constant. transformation, Dellar stale stood and used by man. ng sir disapprats surges is taught facto his machine and what meaning that they are ; are necessary- prevent a breakdown. meaning that oblecuive daily drudgery Behind his and aspects essential wnal the By Martin things are-rather and aws mechanics science of materials and lubrica- et it is clear Ton Zarrop essential that se es de che this general principle conditions within Lies able to understand nature is valid. foundaton drought occurs, sowing if there " it is responsible for crop; machine will responsil tne rice wist witner and die.

we know that this is not 'chance Conditional portant step further on, for that, wears knows peasant barring Hence, all laws of nature are accidents, his sowing of the rice take place in the conditional must con- ceived as necessary only if ignore contingencies, by we mean any disturbing influence.

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THE Ligue Communiste, French section of ine revision s Unite• Dec earen neg

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carried a serles of attacks in Its journal Alliance des Jeunes pour 'Rouge' on the le socialisme (Avs--rrench voung Socialists). In particular H. Weber of the Ligue Communiste attacked the AJS in issue No 85 of 'Rouge', suggesting that the AJS Minister had Interlo capitulated to Marcellin by demanding—that Its statute be published in the government newspaper oll na onee Weber also attacked the firm stand taken by the AJS agalnst police of occasions singled out AJS members attacks. for brutal physical Charles Berg wrote to AJS secretary 'Rouge' refuting the allegations made But 'Rouge' refused to publish his reply. It was printed in the Vovember 25 issue of "Information Ouvrières' and is reproduced here.

I ASK you to publish this reply in relation to the article signed by comrade Weber in 'Rouge' Issue 85 was couched in slanderous phrases derived which from false or multilated facts.

triumphan I add, in order to elimin- It is only in this way that the working class can, by its action, Maybe. But ate any possible misunder- the followed. oppose VICtORouS TuINO of class, whose repression now takes That the bou standings, that you can, character, and its own on a permanent do not refuse: we course, that the prepare the way for the dictator- ship of the proletariat. lean bourgeois legisla- 1c anorer on Revolutionarie the tion in asking you to pub- It is by starting from these expose interests and needs of the work mobilize lish this article, which is, in broadest of ing class in its struggle against the bourgeoisie that revolution- quite long, but any case, government ince aries can denne a strategy

TOT

ing freedom base ourselves on the mobilizing the masses. Such is through facing b Transitional principles of of the elementary Tne essence he need for a & Programme. workers' democracy. netatorshin i But let leave aside all us There dividing line 'schemata'. Let approach the between polemic and systematic problems from the standpoint OI use of slander; must has taken place and what WA avola what that line, comrade crossing must take place. wener When in April 1969 de Gaulle It is said, then, that we are presented corporatist plan of and guilty several crimes workers' aimed at destroving the netrayaic re arion Tn e movement, and, first and fore- workers' and revolutionary vanguard organizations, we WUs L novenent tougnt in the workine dass ang Let us examine the accusations its youth to unite all organiza- made by Weber: prosector tions opposed to de Gaulle. Jeunes The AIS [Alliance de The Ligue Communiste, reject- pour le Socialisme] is not fighting and ing any kind of 'parliamentarism' against repression even on the electoral worse they 'compromises' • beg. in an onen letter their molement a hed als constitu- ground, carag

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ancenion their movement Thus they said to workers: this constitu- struggle does not tion registered omcially!

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Duge, sth ey at they cade p of to vote ves or no. makes no ail- they ference at all. 'Rouge', pass Berg writes to the The intormation on. that the nar es AJ$ refuses to participate in the Minister of Interior . the Committee of Alain Krivine, he presented «cuve Initiative for 'Secours Rouge'.

himself as a candidate in the ore.

sidential elections. While the working class had Intervention demonctraten mascive v its onDo sition to Gaullist Bonapartism, of the leading while the crisis clear that comrade Weber's article is the first of a bourgeois Airelad was •eenenino (Poher-Pompidou), Duclos, Def- French Ligue which aims to 'armi series Rocard refused the CRS police Communiste members against Tarre this 'reformist which far urgent task drawing together group' NAch witr the working class students. the forces from all 'grandiositv' has in the against all the bourgeois candi- recent period developed its influence and support dates. strength, Thus the Revolutionaries must inter- national secretar throug? active intervention the of the class struggle. im pose struggie MInISTAT The class against class at all levels, preoccupation the official, legal including the electoral field.

leadership Tigre Com. The stitution and seems us to be The Ligue Communiste came amrana But, in wanting with the Stalinist, unfounded. to together from this petty-bourgeois one prove something toc mitch retormict ano Dollte sentences ends up proving nothing. bureaucracies. We fought, start- 'Red Brigades' ing from the needs of the The struggle defence for the muniste of workers' democratic rights, for ing class, candidate tor a cae In oraar to us communists, from workers' organizations, and young 'established wé asked the the integrated in when at that time candidat genera!

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for the gle of the working i class against revolutionąry candidate KruIne were. the state and whinh to publish the list of signatories its government. the most 'established political per- which ic of the Against a bourgeoisie But comrade reactionary and decadent all sonnel' who enabled him to pre. got the sent himself, told that along the line, the revolutionary we were working must were Stalinist methods and nace

MATANAI

†heca the gains won the class addition that was impos- force him the right strike, sible without ctrulag e. Call- his organize, freedom the press, celling candidature legal of Let grounds! etc. refresh your decree ééf lune be completely re knows one Por ee masion t evasion longer. The only tia for armed know in this

WHA AODACCITA V

Those Lanvin, Communicta eye Speller! We le Ministre, that waiting for attarrare amano two sons of M d'Etat taire of the governme member. are a meot would allov vou established in would for ate one another once and the exercise has one contine legality and the contin- objective nature cannot thing, circumstance, gency--the win/-hy being anie attacharo process physically to remove it. ait har accentall are sheltered necessary, but not both. Hence But there is a further objec- the authorit both exist side by side in nature; of tion. todav wuhile The laws of motion of the air nature contains all corte are in of which prison obiects and processes, we not calculate are. nown an accidental, the others exactly the effect wind kept und the some are to be on the piece of paper and hence ner ess nor confusing the two soats- June and July of not confusing the two sorts the need for aliminata contin. Perronized gencies by broadening the con- with one another. pletely rinizati illegal of the i.e. include process, other Deterministic alona with naner? thA yourself, still I6 But here we meet new will For the behaviour 'The decision, contingencies. we attempt TAMAue of the istre, wind denendo chance altogether by removing locations of the clouds, on the raminda nc then are back contingencies temperatures of bodies of water long ago when to the example of explaining the motion of a falling object by cal- considered as and tanna otr of instie nd fi Even we go into the laws culatino the effect on it of everv.

formation and this country cloud governing thing the universe- -atmos- in arpactad and th pheric motion, lunar attraction temperature distributions. we are still not finished. run come to instituted In this way, we Indeed, no evidence has been completely deterministic concep- papers, organiza dichouarad that taoping tha chain for socialism of cause and effect will ever end.

Angels tinn nt notare remar?o, illegally. 'According to this conception other words, every real only simple. direct necessity fight the process ie chiant pontinaan. sures taken cies arising outside the context in With thic neve n nee kind of necessity we likewise do fonta question not gèt away from the theological defend the Therefore the laws governing of everyone and effect (causal laws) concention of nature cause Augustus and 'Whether with selves and @nupenino contin. call it opinions, Calvin we eternal gencies complement each other and together make up the laws doorad of Cod oe Vicmot na tha condition Turks do. or wether we call it together of the necessity, is all pretty much the thẻ oppressors As we implied earlier. contin- dav' the science. There no gencies give rise to concept como + o m question of tracing the chain of Let 'accidental i.e us tho the of these ends with these chance causation any occurrence. and natural law not something Once we accept that necessity the decrees of extraneous. *For We therefore find that the bn „ tha imprisoned mili tary sides of all phenomena, we accidental is necessary, Incon- have to investigate the laws of •For the tradition "common concol chance. Tn 'Dialectics of Nature', expression matton^ our ignorance of what is really Are these Engels takes up this contradic- but going on, as capitulations? tion: necessary 'Common and with it understanding sense, staps A119 évery process. counter-revoluti the oraat manny natnea! the scientists, treats necessity and hauraanicia

• TO BE CONTINUED

chance that completely? determinations co pense? let Fraud Bo musi the Thursday, December 10, 1970 ssociation des Amis de la of our organizations would take du Peuple', and, we also place against the Censier attack- 'Secours Rouge' the ers. aken up the battle for their Two hours later comrade utions to be recognized Weber, to whom we proposed registered, egally joint leaflet denouncing the wanting, and we want also, to show and police provocateurs not a political that the bourgeoisie seeks tendency, declined to means opinion arguing through every to give an and about our methods! repress organizations Finally on 'Secours Rouge' and stand for the socialist tion. the struggle against repression.

ırade Weber, you must lack The

AIS

affirms that the confidence to use 'quo- struggles it is carrying out in all al o. The article is, above all, and their of intervention amalgam its terrains are in all its against repression • viciously anti-ATS. A forms. We terhain, ready to fight of the Ligue Communiste in the ranks of 'Secours Rouge', 'When Charles Berg but on condition that the basis to Marcellin' and of this be clear for everybody.

• in • • Weber should' ble after the brutal attack Comrade Also comrades the on this matter be less affirmative; our few ers of the Ligue Commun- everyone knows that there are Communiste ganize a demonstration of many Ligue mem- 60 individuals who shout: bers 'and leaders who envisaged, Marcellin the same or envisage still. leaving this le. Grenoble 'mass' organization, whose absence of clarity in the struggle events are for the defence of democratic to confrontation en anarchists and members workers' rights (leaflet:

CGT =

cops etc.) makes impossible any

AJS?

real effective action. comrade are wrong, to the lifting of , completely wrong. In relation the middle of the period the ban by the Conseil d'Etat from the OCI and the FER and olice Max" repression, d our Trotskyist comrades the Revoltes group, we have no valked calmly around complex about this: the struggle the without for the Central National Strike of the town, Committee which was carried in the least worried. gh their hatred of Trotsky- for the destruction of the out he Maoists chose to give bourgeois state bear witness of support to the "unpro- what were the political positions of these organizations. youth". Their attitude can surprise true anarchist have always ats who seen Divisions variant of Stalin- as a Everybody must take up responsibilities today and The divisions at the heart of take up "Max" position in rela- the leading circles of the i bour- i am doing in refusing to the affair. That geoisie and the political activity we carried out on the level of r for a thug, in denounc- the United Workers' Front, and which we will continue to carry is provocations and in for the complete sing publicly sympathy repeal of the decree of June 12 explain this comrades of the ATS my at in these aggressions.'

first victory. enoble, November 2, 1970.

Let us be serious. of the Comrade Krivine d Lewin, member was arrested hist Federation.) at the end of the general strike for having written affirmed and ours Rouge'? We simply 'the ICR continues'. take you to up your Freed without a trial, after ble Committee for sup- long months of prison after Max and his friends. having stated, as we did then.

ut that the AIS will never the ideas of the JCR that only 'mass' this, • organization continued, Krivine had not in order really to fight become an ally of the bourgeoisie t repression, must reject —as the article of Weber tries se of slander violence, of to insinuate in relation to t a tendency in the work- myself! lovement. We must not, comrade Weber, go beyond certain limits which will lead only to dangerous inco- herence. Grenoble (two people injured), Censier (four people injured), Caen (two people injured), Tou- louse (1 person injured). In each of these places they are members of my organization. In Censier the thugs struck with. out warning, in Caen there was individual aggression against our comrades. The list is long. To- day the

AJS,

UNEF

the and tomorrow comrade Weber? Nobody is safe. We are all involved. es Berg The workers' movement is involved. differences are permissible.

It is in common. as in the lively of polemics • most Beaux-Arts. as in Bobigny, that out. But when be carrier we must impose workers' democ- duals proclaim that there racy, to isolate the provocateurs be physical attacks an on through a political, "mass cam- SS, ization, ( shouting we We must. comrade Weber, paign. ler that they are no longer with those who mobile while of the workers' movement, claiming support for the nemies. May movement', the are en, in addition, these indi- instruments of police provoca- whatever tendency they S beloatever tion. take iron UD But I have just heard that in all the to kill. and wit- the last issue of 'Rouge' which of this attack in Censier is going to press you show in nize that it was a miracle

AIS

a member of the cartoon the did not cause wounds clubbing a student! to human beings. no one 1 And least 1 can say is that least extenuating R of complain nstances. true, be logical carry it to its must here tell the readers conclusion. not add use a secret. why onto the AJS badge the swastika...

the attack in ortly after Krivine tele- Excuse me for having been so ed the mureau Nationale comrade long. an immedi- Charles Berg. National secre-

AJS,

proposing tary of the AJS. leeting so that the next day November 12, 1970. national scale a joint action

Thursday, December 10, 1970 A SETBACK has occurred in the compulsory intro- duction of the tachograph in vehicles by employers throughout the Common Market.

Existing types of the device do not conform to complex specifica- the tions laid down by the EEC authorities, it has been found. Ine tachograpn, which recora.

istances travered oy a venucie. is also required in the EEC area to maicate visually Openine me Instrument" Further, separate charts lor each driver are Accordians the trade pawer 'Motor probably involve having

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of a rapids Bish aimed seo be purel master tem and slave tachographs in the cab of each vehicle. Cutback Change union paper 'Railway Review' in States The paper adds that 'the EEC have toes developed systems which consisted of The course regulation elect two function of a tacho- graph firthe Ands of emer ees al stant British graph orıginal purpose Rail sections being at Watford. driver-monitoring device. Capers consend! number of office work-stuay couvalent to

A WORKERS PRESS PAMPHLET

he big road-transport emnlov.

ers are determinea to move in or arivers wno to a certain extent had nave macpenaence- nOL Delil conunualy unaer une eye of supervisor: tachograph is designed to correct this ov ensuring that th arivers are accounted for to the nearest foot de ve cares second. Mells mail office day st have milton pieces Posit of mail, the and ministry sald yesterday Their opposing man- union asement abour poncies. ordered memders to leave aurine from aays they plan to strike on Decembe trial OBSERVER for inter- Packed with information on all types of deals 160 pages Illus. 3s 6d told a Paris press 'The Burgos trial is in reality Available from Workers Press, organization 186a, Clapham High St, London, SW4.

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Thousands of workers from Pirelli's 'Bicocca' plant in Milan marched last week to protest against distorted TV and Radio coverage of their struggle for an improved national contract.

WORKERS throughout Sicily are to stage a four-hour general strike today to back national union demands for reform in southern development policies, agriculture, health and housing. Their stoppage is the call for a first of a series of regional against strikes in which most sec.

a series of strictiv limited actions cist provocations in the area.

During alone the weer But the official leadership in all of will thousands workers

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own themselves reforms only because they down tools for 24 hours. ready to respond do nothing else a monside ed in Milan On July 6, when and the surround- Lombardy, area and Pied. There is to he a national ston- Sotial Demo- today against victimzan

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Good- year and Fireli (Becca) pants.

giant countermanded the strike orders by he Stainist-led CalL. weC

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government crisis The by drives the leaders of all three heen turther inflamed for, economic demonstrated centre-left resignatior ly, following coalition ir capital, with connented Mafia for many vears And in 'understanding' centre-left arties (Chrictior Democrats, Democrats, Social Party AMOUNTS of goods handled in London's enclosed docks have fallen by 23 per cent in the first seven weeks of the

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second phase Devlin's 'modernization' scheme, of lord head according to a Port of London report.

Some 90 shins were diverted of the working class. elsewhere during this period.

Reasons given for this reduc-.

'left-wing' tion by employers and union leaders include: problems dockers now working different hours from road-haulage drivers, the shorter working week, the reduced labour force and reluctance by a minority to New Park Publications 186a Clapham High St, accent the new agreement SW4. Measures to enforce acceptance already widely-hated of the scheme may soon be on the way.

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The way •So it will be ne with today the CP wans them tr FRANK DOOLEY was one of the 75 workers in the area over the Pilkington where the reme asks a for tr protest bullding workers who were nrea wo Sackines. months ago by the Stockport construc- Since then Frank and the rest of the factory to start district firm trade union br tion Kowlinson TOr GeMOn- men mave been none or rensate- strating in St Helens in support of the ment. So far they have been unsuccessful.

town's sacked Pilkington glassworkers.

But, says Frank, 'We will never give in over this issue of principle.

Up until the day they were sacked the men on the Rowlinson's site were among Workers Press talked to Frank, a lay meets of January member of the Transport and General solution for what is bedequate the few groups of NW building workers to maintain their black on Pilkington's Workers' Union national an ever more about the Draft Charter of Rights re- products. demonstrations on January This ruthless action by Rowlinson's leased by the All Trades Unions Alliance in preparation for the discussion on it was an indication or lne alarm The Charter to me is a felt at the growth of solidarity among at Birmingham on December 19.

brief summary of a cen- pang heritage STories, full disass also reactionary government be brenght down. form, now want to destroy.

ina ll nas lo be The times a to ind out i can t say i alsagree witn gainst the Bill and the Tor My main This means a going united Labour Party within we now have a great all agree whạt rans eh dent, have the eel mist be her Che A demand that the leadership fight up nere document. Tories But this caparsh or strusk are THE All Trades Unions Services garage at Garston, capable Alliance's Charter tation ton de Basic Watford. adopted the 1/409 lation Workers union The relation so the that pro- General

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delegation based ' during leadership that will he militan whole not just go in for a general strike and Merseyside ana in tne Ivy mobilized rences of such a strugie the Really it will be more leadership that is not afraid the consequences taking power Such a leadership I think of the miltant students and hand on every issue wets Because caed a scientific ament chou cannot just come from it is, l tnink, tne most STALINIST fears of the ever more demand for General popular strike to force une lores to resign are the only possible explanation Tor lie evasive report in vester-

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SOGAT Division A Central Halls meeting. for the hast step. To rearine 600-strong ovation from the the meeling, tollowing ment with Tory governi luesaays London maren Miss Devlin said when the she and lobby, was addressed one, sall Commons' the Indus- Bedations taken dy vid-Uister Mr berna- DIll certainly result would be. aete Devin. Bevien DESPITE DESULTORY reports of Merseyside's nly a General Strike woul ster received General top the Bill, she went o part of the massive and remarkable display of class solid- & in the local press. the arity on December reverberations of industrial war must have also

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cluded yesterday the body plant at Ford's with e prosecutor Bochum, totalling 754 years. earth, tracking station an- ne government ana tne torie nounced yesterday. Thursday, December 10, 1970 TUC call al theme lon All ce meet- the same ier Head IN THE darkness of Westminster's Central Halls, blacked out by the power workers work-to-rule, 600 members and supporters of the All Trades Unions Alliance held a highly successful meeting after Tues.

day's mass demonstration against the anti-union laws.

Socialist Labour League published a 'scab issue"

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Press national secretary Gerry the strike today.

REPORTER

Healy, the meeting's main The paper lucy were Hal He warned of the had been produced before the hidden speaker, stressed the revo- the Labour strike becan. are sander was of lutionary significance 'Why all the coyness in Insult the inte licence Tanks which ot the working class. the struggle against the Communist the rarty about had suffered enough from lies ine luc leaders. ne askea Tories. in the past. Union leaders like Scanlon "Morning 'Why the

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of the lones of Star" silent Polish "The working class in Britair and Int Tory breaking ready to hont this should smoked Workers are now their offices coal out in mass strike, break the Acturian that went demonstrating a willingness demonstrations and made muners have say where they stood the Soviet dia

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said. anti-Tory fight. since he seeThis anti-union? ureek colonels. Kevolutonists law What is the use ot t These bec a scabs' other day's protest on Janu- charter. and not give an inch. for smashing ary Why une trade unions Answering questions. com- Under the Bill thev January start Healy referred the can rush 12 rade to general of Germany before emergenev regulations through against parliament Hitler when matter ory hours. They're going to smash The Communist demanded policy situallun they get reformist leadership which took its poli- lead ers as Cles very serious v and a _Dro- soclal lascists naa sDill would not be the problems gramme to meet workine class and allowed frightened Hitler to come to power tacing workers home at hit 1ou ve he (harter of Hasic Riohto ye are not going to make that the point of the draft programme for the producuon anu same when vou hit him there vou've Trades Unions said conference on December cot _ to be preoareo lor programme which

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all comrade Healy said to. loud into account the attacks Pilkington rank-and-file com- on the working class. he said. mittee chairman Gerrv (augher believed sa10 he had always

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you didn't need to force the leaders to fight. 'We are the only organiza- But education hands of the TUC tion which comes forward nou Municipal Workers' with a programme to workers and says . discuss it, amend it government nad suggest alterations. but let's taught him differently. have rv scebucar or torcing zeadershin unions S210 "YOu can't retorm broad move- multi-millionaire and you can't needed to take the Cooper

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retorm Lord fight further. general secretaryl It must embrace and mobi- lize the Socialist Widespread sections who and the Workers impoverished workers and said were not unions sections middle.ciass Sweeney, chairman of Tony would otherwise fall prey London workers Halson committee. snoke English seven - week VICtOrIOuS council strike Charles went out Heath and Carr to take us on. But ther the ones that retreated first, war arainst ine scots. renre sentatives of the Fast Anglican he said to loud parliament Lars smash them a nd peasants entered "pillars" in who brought in problems tha his Bill. could not be answered back neap Certain Communist rubble can say: "This was we members had said the Workers our nnest nouri ı an unmistakable message after Tuesday's Delegates from ing in Nottingham (below).

similar purpose through Swansea (above). Second Annual Conference Discuss

THE CHARTER OF

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

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.