VIETNAM WAR: Criticisms WHAT NOW? Australian dockers give the answer the 'Tribune' men now find Pressure on dockers
By David Maude
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Lucas strike for t2 ONE hundred operators, setters, labourers and viewers in the yoke shop at Lucas starter came it on Strike at 8 a.m. yesterday morning following a meeting of the night- and dayshifts.
They agreed to meet again next Friday. The workers are demanding a flat £2 a. week rise for all grades for dirty conditions. Geneva Agreement and an Negotiations have been proother on the Party whin. ceeding for three months.
incoherence. pay in Wilson Can these UNION leaders are continuing their attempts to lift the Tilbury container ban.
Mr Peter Shea, Transport and General Workers' London docks secretary, was despatched to see port employers Pilso is it enter Niods yesterday morning.
The union's general secretary, Mr Jack Jones, claimed on Thursday night that incipled programme vi ha answer to this very complicated subject lies in the London employers and the unions getting around the table'.
'Black' Jones's call for Antwerp dockers to 'black' transferred container work, backed unnent spokesman for a political critically by the Stalinist 'Morning Star', , by no means indicates official union backthe noble lord tereditis to: ing for the ban.
Instead of congratulating the London and Tilbury men for their principled stand Quite simple against containerization and the second stage modernid.
Devlin's docks So Lord Russell can only ation', which under capitalist ownership can only mean vast increase in the exploitation of dock labour, 'Star' complains that they are being blamed for the crimes government ar of the bosses'. ined to repudiate and •.. they could have ended ors tippers ind the Strand the dispute long ago making a pay offer acceptable to all the London dockers.' this question it hs "Sell jobs the one y dockers and or Dockers, in other words, should have been given an ing-class action against the international opportunity to sell their jobs for more wages!
Neither Castle, Feather, ones or the Communist Party have anything to offer the dockers in their struggle and. British imperialism means against betrayal.
she lying pacifistic propaganda Only the Workers Press we Comede thoritic, example, e cynical gestures of au meetings the forces of sad vy tin the READING orkers Press and trade unions' 'if you are going to war then milk of human kindness Split Tuesday, December 7.30 p.m.
More than this, it means he courage and resolution te Palmer Hall West Street Wilson's government and his Trip to Washington sats OLLERTON (Notts.)
urday, November 12 noon Plough Inn CASTLEFORD fighting for the unity of all ports against the Devlin scheme; for the maintenance of the container ban and for no co-operation with any new methods of working without full nationalization of the docks without compensation to the port employers and under workers' control. 'Tribune' and the lefts have no answer for the atrocities in Vietnam or anywhere els Stalinist veteran attacks Solzhenitsyn VETERAN Stalinist writer Mikhail Solokhov used the platform of the Collective Farmers' Congress, held in Moscow this week, to attack the much-persecuted Soviet novelist Alexander 'You have done away with Pests', ', he told the delegates, but unfortunately we still have Colorado beetles-those who eat Soviet bread, but want to serve western chanU.S. intensifies scapegoats THE US ARMY'S hunt for scapegoats intensified yesterday when it was announced in Washington that a military commission may be set up to try former soldiers who took part in the 'Pinkville' massacre. nels. Soviet men of letters wish to get rid of them.' This latest attack is full of vital political implications.
Allies
Deeply worried by the growing strength of the anti-Stalinist opposition in the Soviet Union, the bureaucracy is now casting about for new allies.
Who better to rally to the fight than the collective farm aristocracy represented at the Moscow congress?
Stalinism leaned on the most conservative elements in the countryside in its fight against • the Trotskyist Left Opposition in the years after Lenin's death, and it will do so again today.
But the balance of class forces has changed dramatically in the intervening WILSON'S WASHINGTON FOR THE DEFEAT OF US IMPERIALISM IN VIETNAM DEMONSTRATION SUNDAY JAN. 11 MARCH: via Oxford Trafalgar Square pa: MEETING: Lyceum B Fifteen of the 24 men now under investigation have reto civilian life since the March 1968 massacre, and under present nilitary law cannot be court nartialled They claim that Nixon, as Commander-in-Chiet ol the US armed forces, has the authority to create such a body to try former soldier accused of 'war crimes'.
Sacrifice
We must be on our guard gainst such manoeuvres The US ruling class wil sacrifice anyone, even t President, to evade respons ibility for its Vietnam war.
The arrest and conviction of a handful of ex-conscripta trained and brutalized for th very job they are now belatedly charged with, will change nothing.
It will not liberate th Vietnamese people from imperialist domination and will solve none of problems that : face American working class.
Once again, we repeat: No scapegoats!
VISIT!
Street, Regent Street, t Downing Street. Illroom, near Aldwych, Young action is by no means on the cards as far as the union executives are concerned.
In tact, both they and their loyal Stalinist and revisionist 'opposition' are violently opposed to such a break.
A number of London associations have already complained about the way in which schools for the twoweek strikes were selected and the means by which they were informed of the executive's decisions. *The London schools were selected without consultation with the associations concerned.
Strong rumours are also circulating that the executive raced through the recommended lists for the whole country in a mere half-hour.
TIGER
Criticisms are also being voiced of the NUT-National Association of Schoolmasters' agreement that where members of one union are out on strike the members of the other will continue working.
The union leaderships are riding a tiger.
A mobilization of teachers on such a wide scale as has already been done must have a profound effect.
The demand for all-out national strike action, fought for consistently only by the stepped up over the next two weeks.