S. Wales nickel men ight pena OFFICIALS of the Transport and General Workers' tion if the 12-day-old strike at Clydach, South

Mr Coates and the 'Morning Star' 'TRIBUNE' September 26 reports that: "The organization sub-committee of the Labour Party National Executive Committee has decided unanimously that Ken Coates should be readmitted to the Lêbour 'A recommendation cf that nature is to come before the ful NEC meeting in Brighton this Friday. I believe it will go through "on the nod":

Mr Coates has had an interesting career. In 1956 he indignantly resigned from the Communist Party following the 20th Congress revelations by Khrushchev.

INSTITUTE

His socialist conscience was apparently shocked by Stalin's crimes.

For a time he was a member of the Socialist Labour League, then he left, entered the Labour Farty and joined forces with the Belgian ex-Trotskyist Ernest Mandel who was one of the instigators of the revisionist theory that the Soviet bureacracy would in time libsralize itself.

Some tire ago he founded his Institute for Workers' Control and immediately received full support from the Communist Farty.

Leading Stalinist Bert Ramelson led the discussion at the Institute's conference in Sheffield earlier this year.

LETTER Relations appear to be getting more cordial.

In a letter to the 'Morning Star' September 30 under the signatures of Ken Coates and Tony Topham the following nice things were said ab rut the 'Star' reporter Jim Arnison :

meet THE 400 members of the Workers' Union (CAWU) o1 Steel Corporation's (BSC) to meet again today.

The men are striking for recognition of the union at By our Political Correspondent 'We should like to express our appreciation of the sensitive and sympathetic reports which you have published, from Jim Arnison, on the GEC Liverpool struggle.

'On this question, the "Morning Star" has fulfilled a most valuable role, along with "Tribune", , in presenting an accurate and clearly assessed picture of the development of the situation in the three factories, and the activities and policies of the Action Committee.

'All the evidence which has reached us at the Institute for Workers' Control confirms the value of Jim Arnison's work in reporting this exteremely important and formatıve experience of new forms of working-c'ass action. Congratulations to him!' So everyone has received a prize.

BACK

Mr Coates is back in the Labour Party aud the 'Morning Star' is congratulated for its reporting of the GEC dispute and the role played by Wales, refinery of International Nickel is not settled 800 workers walked out of the factory two ago when the management began to operate the ing clauses of a proposed productivity deal agreement on the deal had been reached.

By our industrial reporter none other than Coates' Institute, which only goes show what you can do if you are not particular about principles.

Communist Party policy is for peaceful co-existence' with the employers, which is why it will never lead a real campaign for workers' control in a million years.

Whoever heard of workers taking control ana maintain- and maintain ing 'peace' with the employers and the government?

ALLIANCE

The centrist Coates likes ta!king 'left" about workers' control' but believes it can all be achieved 'peacefully' in alliance presumably with the Communist Party and from within the Labour Party ranks. realy broad cairy of take Hence the talkers.

As a slogan, 'workers' control' makes them feel really 'left' provided it remains 'slogan'.

The moment the working class, led by a revolutionary leadership, begins to fight for 'workers' control' as part of the strategy for taking power, then our "left' talkers will soon vanish from the scene.

weeks mannbefore The deal contains a 'no strike—-no lock-out' clause which effectively does away with the right to strike.

Drop

In return for a managenent guarantee that they will lot lock out workers, the workers are asked to agree that 'neither the union nor any employees should take part in, call, encourage, sup ort or give any financial ol other assistance to any strike, overtime ban or booslow, cott' Bretton Woods Sheffield engineers vote for nationalization WORKERS at the Sheffield factory of Davy and United Engineering voted at a mass meeting to campaign for the nationalization of the firm in the event of a merger takeover.

This announced by the stewards last week, speculation factory, of the Fears of merger with merger of GEC - AEI - EE ment says, thousands of workers redundalization' shop reported loss Another clause stipulates that if any employees take part in any such action, or if they fall below the work pertormance demanded by the company, they can be reduced to basic wage rates, with a substantial drop in earnings.

This Draconian deal has already been accepted by the five craft unions in the works, including the Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry workers.

An almost identical deal is in operation at the Henry Wiggin nickel alloy factory at Hereford and at one of the nickel company's Canadian factories.

The union leaders' proposal to call in the government must be resisted by the Clydach men.

Mrs Castle has made abundantly clear that the government favours productivity dealsespecially when they contain penal clauses.

Opposition

In fact, it appears that the union's opposition is not to the principle of the deal: they are in fact negotiating with the management for an increased price a 35 per cent wage rise instead of the present 19 per cent offer.

The T&GWU is proposing to return to work if conditions are restored to those existing before the strike.

But this will not solve the question of penal clauses.

International Nickel are clearly determined to press their deal through to the end.

They cannot be stopped, by fighting for a 'better' productivity deal, but by throwing out the deal completely.

This is the only' principled basis on which the strike can be fought to a successful conclusion. EDUCATION CUTS SWEPT UNDER A whitewashing for the education policies of the Wilson government took place at the start of the Labour Party conference.

The pamhlet called *Fight for Education', published by the Advisory Centre for Education is supposed to be 'an the Black Paper nswer to of the ultra right Tory educationists.

No other country, says the pamphlet, has a finer education system.

Mr John Daniels, acting director of the Nottingham University Institute of Education, says that scholastic standards of all children are rising and there are statistics to show increase in the number of GCE passes at "O' and 'A' level.

Covering up

A pamphlet that begins by covering up Wilson's attacks on education cannot possibly be an answer to the 'Black Paper'. For the Labour government, by scrapping class size limits, holding back teachers' pay and pruning grants to local authorities is opening the door for precisely the Tory 'Black Paper' Nor will Mr. Short's proposed education bill to make combine of £12,000,000 on a single contract for Conoco (Continental Oil Company) on Humberside, the management began merger discussions with Simon Engineering of Stocksbridge.

It is understood that the merger discussions have been discontinued, but the real decision will only be known when the contract for Conoco is delivered in November.

Meanwhile the shop stewards are committed to campaign for nationalization in the event of any takeover.

Already several other sections of the Davy-Ashmore group have been bit by closures. Brightside Engineer.

By our industrial reporter dustrial reporter ABOUT 1,600 Merseyside dockers employed by Ocean Port Services are on strike in support of a deck hands' claim to get 50 per cent of all awards given to hold men.

Dirty, dusty cargoes are worked by the ships' hold men in the worst conditions but as the deck hands are part of the gang they get paid a percentage of what money is awarded to the hold men.

Recently, the percentage has been going down and the deck hands, supported by the hold men, have called a halt to this trend.

Momentum

The employers, stewards claim, are trying to reduce the money paid out in awards in order to try and get agreement on a £21 basic for the abolition of awards.

Some men get £8 to £10 a week in awards which brings Labour protest ABOUT 100 banner-carrying pensioners booed Ministers this afternoon as they entered the Labour Party conference Hall in Brighton after the lunch adjournment.

One banner read 'Labour has life, Labour has soul—We need extra pensions to buy extra coal.

LABOUR CARPET local authorities toe the line on comprehensive schools fool anyone.

It is sheer deception to pass such a bill which cannot be implemented.

The government's monetary policies make it impossible for local authorities to carry through the necessary building programme.

In power And in any case Labour's policies have ensured that anti-comprehensive Tories are in power at the local level over the country.

It was Mr. Short himself at the Isle of Man National Union of Teachers conference who sought to use the 'Black Paper' as a diversion from i the government's own policies of education cuts.

No doubt a similar tactic will be used by the platform when Miss Alice Bacon opens the education debate On Friday.

But this tactic cannot evade the growing anger of the teachers against low salaries and the Prices and Incomes Board nor the struggle of the Coventry teachers against mass sackings of part-timers.

'ers ing in Sheffield, as well as plants in Bournemouth and Glasgow, have sacked men.

It is clear that the present Davy and United crisis part of a whole rationalization programme.

Members of the Sheffield All Trades Unions Alliance support the workers' call for nationalization of the firma in the event of a merger.

They point out that the experiences at GEC-EE Liverpool and earlier at AEl in Woolwich show that the Labour government supports the moves to merger and even puts up the money to make sure the merger goes through.

This means, they say, that the struggle for nationalization will require a political fight against the policies of the present government. their money up to £25 to a week.

The fight on the docks over wages is gathering momentum and a meeting of all Merseyside shop stewards is to take place on Saturday to discuss the wage claim.

Dockers have not had a basic wage rise for two years.

All Ocean Port Services men were called to a meeting on Wednesday by their shop The meeting voted to main on strike until they satisfactory outcome their claim.

HI!!!!!!I Cargo 'blacked' AT King's Dock, Liverpool, 120 dockers refused to discharge cargo from a ship the 'Manchester Port'.

It had been diverted from raked in dividends 9.1 Manchester because of the cent up on their 1968 c strike of tugmen there. / dends.

ITALY Turbulent year ahead in schools THE NEW school year in Italy promises to be at least as turbulent as the last. Figures just issued reveal a chronic scarcity of the most elementary educational facilities.

Dninl minnlinnn state that the new term DIICK WUrACIS join strikes in Italy NEW STRIKES broke out on Wednesday throughout Italy.

This time it is the brick makers, who joined building and cement workers already out on strike for a national labour contract.

The whole of the building industry is now at a standstill following national stoppages and lock-outs in the engineering industry.

Held up

Traffic was held up for over two hours in Rome on Tuesday while strikers marched through the capital in support of their wage claim.

There is now hardly a section of the working class that has not been brought into action over the last few weeks in the fight against low wages and unemployment.

Educational authorities begins with a shortage of 150,000 classrooms.

Most of Italy's 8,300,000 school children are already taught in over - crowded classes and the intake of 200,000 new pupils will only make this worse.

School administratin workers have already disd strike on Friday anu Suturday for higher pay, while thousands of teachers excluded from the civil service system are threatening similar action unless they are awarded equal status with i the rest of the staff.

Acute

The crisis is nowhere more acute than in Rome itself. 900 new classrooms are needed, yet only 531 are under construction.

Now many schools in the capital are planning to operate on a shift basis.

In some areas even this will not cope and provisions re being made to take pupils by bus to schools in other parts of Rome.

Ferment

This deepening crisis in Italian education, which hits hardest against working class children, only adds to the tremendous ferment inside the working class and poor peasants generally.

Like all the basic questions —hours, wages, working conditions, housing and unemployment (which today stands at around two million)the crisis in Italian education can only be met with socialist policies, not with Stalinist structural reforms.

THE latest episode in the squatter saga is the plan by a group of hippies to buy a desert island off the Irish coast on which to establish their ideal state.

A trust of five 'underground' figures has been formed to buy the remote and dismal St Patrick's Island for £20,000.

The island is uninhabited, has no fresh water and very little grows there.

But the hippy leader Mr Sidney Rawle is undaunted. It's beautiful. I think we will have to buy it, he said on landing on the island.

There is, not surprisingly, hard cash behind the creation of Paradise or Commune