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December £1,250 Fund £816.28 to raise by Xmas AS MORE brutal murders take place in Ulster every day, the major issue is still to force the Tory government to re- sign. This is the first step to withdrawing British troops.

Workers Press alone fights and Irish to unite British workers in a struggle against this Tory government. We are our readers, that you, sure back us up all the way. Help us therefore this month with a special effort to December Fund. raise our We are trying to complete the £1,250 target before Christ- bit extra if you mas. Add a can and post all donations Immediately to : Workers Press Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4. Briefly CO-OPERATIVE insurance are planning a series of staff 'guerrilla' strikes selective from tomorrow. The workers, all members of ASTMS, are acting in support of pay claim which has been in dis- pute since November. BSA profits in the com- cycle division pany's motor were substantially up for the months of the first three financial year compared with 1970, said caretaker chairman Lord Shawcross. He said he did not expect more any redundancies in BSA.

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will eventually cost £13m, says the president of the French partner in the project, Aero- spatiale. • STRIKERS at Raleigh In dustries Ltd's Nottingham fac- tory voted to return to work yesterday pending talks on a job, which has now disrupted been suspended. About 40 members of the Metal National Society of Mechanics went on strike pro- testing that the company was crying to get a skilled job- normally done bv a skilled man performed by unskilled labour. The dispute affected Raleigh's assembly and pack- aging sections. Some 400 were laid off. • ASSASSINATION attempt Jordan's ambassador in on London failed yesterday. Gun- men sprayed his Rolls-Royce with machine-gun fire and ran off. Mr Ziad Al-Rifa'i was hit in the hand. Two weeks ago Jordan's Prime Minister was assassinated in Cairo by Palestinian guerrillas. The Black September organ- ization in Beirut later claimed responsibility for the shooting.

• STATE-OWNED breweries and public houses in Carlisle, Gretna and Cromarty Firth made profits totalling £400,596 in the year ending March 31, report disclosed the annual yesterday. This compared with the previous £259,451 year. All the state-owned enterprises be disposed of under are to legislation passed in the last session of parliament. SOVIET-made • tractors, selling at about two-thirds of British-made their counter- parts, will appear on the UK market next year. The tractors will be marketed in Britain by the subsidiary of an American corporation. ANTI-APARTHEID de- monstrators tried to break up yesterday's game between the Cape Coloured S African Rugby Federation and Hert- fordshire. After running on to the pitch with banners and escorted posters they were outside the ground. • PRESIDENT Yahya Khan of Pakistan will broadcast to this afternoon the nation Radio Pakistan said yesterday.

The brief announcement, monitored in London, gave no indication of the subject of the president's broadcast.

The announcement came after reports from New Delhi said the Pakistan military com- mander in Bangla Desh had asked for a ceasefire as the Indian army closed in on The commander, Gen Dacca. 'Tiger' Niazi, is believed to received instructions have from Yahya Khan to negotiate with the Indian high com- mand. The Indians, who are Dacca, are now surrounding unlikely to accept Niazi's plan for an agreed withdrawal of Pakistani to certain troops areas agreeable to the Indians be from which they can evacuated to W Pakistan. Obviously fearful of reprisals from the Bangla Desh guer- rillas, . Niazi wants to avoid surrendering his arms.

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

THURSDAY DECEMBER 16, 1971 • NUMBER 639

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Birmingham jobless doubles in a year Engineers' pay talks break down Back to the E1.50 increase on basic rates.

BY PHILIP WADE

30s in industrial

THE TORY

government's success in action. forcing up unemployment without real Scano chief negotiator Hugh opposition from trade union leaders drawn take when it migh yesterday confirmed with the was take place announcement of Birmingham's highest post-war jobless figures.

neering he number of men and jobs without Midlands doubled within a year. The 25,197 work also mid-November Depart- this year. scheduled for next Monda Compared with vill not take place there are the cher rall it means that 20 went in thee chasing every vacancy Midlands class behind index figures. were men an in ase accounted for the leap. The national unemployment figures are released today.

The number ole me se kers Britain as a million mark be passed. Earlier this week the De in inses. artment of Employment con top and done the ernes, the right to work. mont to a pat 7.93. and Anthony High rate leg wounds he claims were inflicted while he was in the lal Benefit to Kedundancies internees' Inion tee dership. "The pain i backed Tory. over nemoves to families cut their government abours forces. from cigarette destroy the right to work. to be cut? ng the working das e. burns was terrible by a beast correspondent and I could rence dependant, even smell from internees del my skin burning antonition on tivity schem shake dua- asusands more workers. • unemploymen t and me: protes cost yesterdayral Statistical ofice ViSor Feather old the Tories he a conference in February to Lons Kesh. PAGE FOUR ColD What we think New terms to end Plessey occupation A dangerous move PRESS Comin rs Press nas the Alexandria Right-wing union industrial kna rong Court Priscussed which at te in the one let a. vorkers, includ occupymg

PLEDGE

the pian inery in

ETE:

fers interned to all devel every rapacious employer.

ange secreton, hand and is little

NIRC

omponents nation sh registered trous consequences for the The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government ineers pay break down Yesterday's meeting sulted *absolute stale- The would not even talk about claim 1iC M lalk £20 unskilled £25 for skilled men. 'We reminded tamil int with even today. supplements, man Cutle children two £20. talk about at Els basic them, ss the rio and a tew ridicules said Scarin. suggested them. DIsCuSSIOn about olner and or aspects or the cluding demand

BY JOHN SPENCER

35-hour week, •did not get off ground, Scanlon THE AMERICAN decision to devalue the dollar said. against gold opens a new stage in the trade war conceded He however that the union were and recession which is now gripping the entire ful of the conomic climate capitalist world. ack opposition In reality the dollar has

BUYELLI

But this would been devalued against other A series crisis meetings ot celer me unions, he claimea.

since August 15. currencies the capitalist DeTween Then President Nixon home the 1m- nas ony amven possibility stopped selling gold to over- restorink pre-August internatonal seas dollar-holders and other overcome Une countries were forced to let crisis. their currencies "float' up- Workers Press AS wards against the dollar.

pointed consistently Vixon's decision ousnea The US decision makes capitalist world towards trade clear there can be no formally war and slump. back Bretton agreement The trend towards the latter same time, Nixon

AL LUC

Is now carnaiy piculant. hoping his ponents will agree to the per- Reporting back Trom world manent up-valuation international own currencies Last ni monopolist azainst a une dollar. told City business men The he is also n also demanding World first the Market that Ine War countnes sullie worries afflicting every same their tariff barriers and. open un their brotected markets to 10W American goods. high unemo orment. rate This only intensify Call mand and above all a lack trade Wal call couple confidence. seeks to protect Its own Illal kets and make Into sita cannor change picasie Raising the dollar those of its opponents. The Used pork site eir Dublin press conference on Tuesday.

situation. cent unports sur The US government in an nile ne was in ine Jall. Carre. the seas bankers cannot pe covered $10,000m-worth Lne Cold-blooded killing in Ulster gold in Fort Knox

CURRENCIES

Nor can a realignment - likely of Ten Group Washington to- "solve hide murders the crisis. connection petween paper mtions apd get tha cis.

relationship between cur- and tortures decisively broken. The capitaust powers nave been discussing monetary re-

BY IAN TEAIS

form' last five years tor the without result. THE KILLING of 16-year-old Lee Martin There way which was cold- McShane at Coalisland on Tuesday the class can bul blooded murder. Local people claim Martin had valle nanto currency cept by the most titanic on gun while playing a game the working been carrying a toy of jailbreakers with four friends aged between The crisis within world capi- 1l and 16. talism drives the employers to attack a waters rents ane It happened because the move increas- standards and intelligence officers, members army has been told to ruth- towards and fascist forms of rule. lessly crack down on even men and the smallest hint of oppo- same mUST who sition to Tory law and order consultant SurECUl intensity the trena Towards Dublin in Ulster. war- above to recap- examined te men ture the markets and territor- It happened could be consistert with thees and following because naked their bodies i has left to offer the violence all Russian® and Chinese 'apitalism revolutions. working class needles and These are the stark histori Yesterday at Coalisland angry cigarettes. cal lessons of the 1930s which crowds and burned vices id and cannot be sidestepped by facile Meehan Martin told retaliation for the shooting.

peaceful Tuesday's press at

DULCIS

promise overcome the vall out. • PAGE FOUR COL. 7 command Army contradic. capitalists' crisis. their now familiar tory explanations of the killing.

First stories said McShane had been seen climbing over

TONIGHT

field football into tence carrying a gun. Utners involved a number some said to have escaped in a car.

Apology

PUBLIC MEETING

Yesterday the gized for any contusion caused nu the cla ot ditterent re-

ULSTER

ports of the shooting. "Every spokesman curate information. But reports No internment: Stop the Tortures !

received units the Withdraw British troops! by distorted pass- British and Irish workers unite and force the Tories of information through a out of office! of communications army HO. Unfortunately this nampere as ment

THURSDAY DECEMBER 16

Speakers : EARLIER at a Dublin hotel Beaver Hall mem- (SLL national secretary) thrée ProvisionaRA Garlick HIll ers who broke out of Belfast'

•. HANNIGAN

Crumlin jail last week (nr Mansion House tube) (Secretary of London YS) their stories stowing dorees to Tore Chairman:

LONDON

M. BANDA

horror. (SLL Central Committee) 8 p.m. The Martin three Doherty Meehan McCann

WORKERS PRESS FILM 'ULSTER'

claimed had been tortured by British

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY DECEMBER 16, 1971 • NUMBER 639 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Engineers December talks break E1,250 Fund £816.28 to raise by Xmas in.50 increase on basic rates.

BY PHILIP WADE

AS MORE brutal murders take THE TORY government's success in forcing up unemployment without real But chief negotiator Hugh British and nish opposition from trade union leaders yesterday with the confirmed lane place Back us up all the way. announcement of Birmingham's highest post-war jobless figures.

Help therefore this ettorund. Then numberut mes and -1,250 large ° Employers' eering The in thing distres procedure coubica wilnin a year. oi work also Immediately to : represents a 4.4-per-cent in- rocedure at the Der crease over mid-November this year. Monday indus 129. went down asing every vacancy in the city. albind idea Class figures. series es Ton at OVER HAN pround for the heartion a taste is por m ine read Noveme figures nai ete ud todayment aim which has been in dis pute since November. I birmingnam's trend I an indication, it usually ants of cine divin then the be passed. Earlier one week De- hamed that , of a sis fidu dances in sa. the mobility more jobles workers - 3, A Sent on BE 19 up and down the country. Tinuing depression in the tude leted in making and eNtry industries machine-tool orders are falling Lestroying month to a total of 7,698 ne Benefit to High rate The responsibility for th bless workers ba internees' a the brade union tea dership?

government backed 'The pain families to cut governed from cigarette estroy he thei to be cut? he baer ha Productivity per redundancies ad is 8 per cent burns was terrible Lat ortions. Some 200 were up in 18 months. By a Belfast corresponden and I could N IRELAND'S Health an‹ even smell At he one are cant morest below Producing said he my skin burning on impeccable produc- It is clear thai 6y thon leaders thousands more workers. among As the Bimine was gures through added: main enched by inth capil.

seekin these same riders are Broughou sty and shere hat seeking withhe d increases only s e attenee o statistical of te ns at about two-thirds t , caling mpossible Tell t. pinnes to 1299- husband The Long Resh. manufacturing • PAGE FOUR Col 5 ne ation an American What we think

ANTI-APARTHEID

New terms to end Plessey occupation postede the tower. shol decisio not be rushed into a of Pakistan will broadcast an a holenion movement as Vorkers Press has no hesit further s befor Tadio Pakistan said yesterday.

The mr. should union Sturd occupation, he said. separate with Hang the of the subject ably. her in londor dangerous broadca from New Delhi sai he Pakistat month buyere tol m97s. promised group the Alexandria proposals, which a andustrial Relation being management closed include occupying Alexandria Plant Separates rights the plant for have they co up to two years code Lucass win a wedd Lyon AN OFFICE for exploiting. I estate on the Alex evacuated i fearful wonder that Yans" Burnles so avera ose electrical- face stan cupate ge work in progress.

• SEE PAGE FOUR.

The daily paper that leads the fight against the break down mare sad canton ater Yesterday's, sulted waras. the about claim He w £20 for unskilled and £25 for skilled men. vve remindeo toem uda with family even today, with sup childres cod chlidren will talk about receive £20. To at £l5 remaining basic the tio and a tew shillings suggested said Scanlon. them. ridiculous.' Discussion about other aspects anda tor in- ot the cluding demand BY JOMN SPENCeH •did not the ground', Scanlor THE AMERICAN decision to devalue the dollar sald He conceded however against gold opens a new stage in the trade war the were and recession which is now gripping the entire climate lack hole and capitalist world. oppositiol. In reality the dollar has svinoalny coverd- this ment.

DUL

would nol been devalued gainst other of crisis deter the unions, he claimed.

A series currencies since August 15.

netween me caolalist bowers has only driven home the im- Then President Nixon restoring stopped selling gold to over- pre-August international seas dollar-holders and other agreement countries were forced to let Clisis 'float' their currencies Workers vress wards against the dollar.

pointed out consistently Nixon's pushed the The US makes capitalist vorld towards trade formally clear there can war and slump. the pre-August going back to 15 Bretton Woods agreement The trend towaras tne latter is now glaringly predominant. At the same time. hoping his main trachs OD- ponents will agree to the per- Reportin back couloist nternational up-valuation ot teir currencies against. the dollar. kington told City business for men ¡uestay Illal also demanding ine World the first time since that the Common Marker War countries demolish some same worries afflicting every tariff barriers and open country vestrent . he :Ane prote their low unemployment American goods o nis inflation, rate This can only intensify the and above all a lack war each country seek's to protect its own of confidence inroads those of its opponents. Raising the col atomice gold cannot change this basic The US leads the pack with elr Dublin presa conference shows its per cent imports sur- The US government in any charge. alle he was in the jal case unaoe o Den 'gold window pecause the $40,000m in the hands of over $10,000m-worth Cold-blooded killing in Ulster gold in Fort Knox

CURRENCIES

Nor realignment Cald likely dis- currences Group of cussedat Toe meetin 'solve she crisis.

Washington meeting hide murders The between connecuol pae remine ind sold, that is, and tortures re anionsnip betweet rency ane va ue. Das Deen decisively broken. The capitalist powers have been discussins monclal y

BY IAN YEATS

TON LOR

las l

LLVC

yeats without result of 16-year-old Lee Martin

THE KILLING

which There is no in way McShane at Coalisland on Tuesday was cold- the can put class cryu. blooded murder. Local people claim Martin had value Dack inlo curone) CeDE une MOSt ulane been carrying a toy gun 'while playing a game the salent agalnst working class. of jailbreakers with four friends aged between The crisis within world capi- 11 and 16. talsm arves tue capluycis lu a wolkers Mcnis anl It happened because the stancaros an el move Increds• intelligence omcers. members army has been told to ruth- ingly towards dictatorial and Special uni- Kranch fascist forms of rule. lessly crack down on even

RUC

men and British the smallest hint of oppo- it must paratroops. At the sallit sition to Tory law and order surgeon consullanl intensiry trena towaras Dublir in Ulster. examinee une NiCl WaT -a bove awa to recao said Monday tae wouna. ture the markets and territor.

because naked It happened ies lost to capitalism following ana marks on Thel oogles violence Russian crisis-naden couid ne consistent with ther capitalism has left to offer the accounts being tortured revolutions. working class. needles cigarettes. Yesterday at Coalisland angry hese are the stark nistori- cal lessons of the 1930s which crowds and burned vinicles in police and Martin cannot be sidestepped by facile Meehan Telesta told re- retaia in or te tenie hopes that peaceful porters at press capitalists crisis. promise overcome tory explanatos of the kine.

Army

.• PAGE FOUR COL. 7

McShane said rurst stories had been seen inbin er d rence

HALLU

carrying a gun. Others involved number were of some hic, said to have escaped in a car.

Socialist Labour League Apology

PUBLIC MEETING

Yesterdav the army aDolo- gized for any confusion caused the different re-

ULSTER

ports of the shooting. effort is mane te said: avery No interment: Stop the Tortures !

areas Withdraw British troops !

remote rural the pass- distorted British and Irish workers unite and force the Tories of information through a are out of office ! variety ol communicatons Unfortunately this armv HO happened last night.'

THURSDAY DECEMBER 16

••CAKeS.

EARLIER

Dublin hotel

G. HEALY

at a Beaver Hail Provisional IRA mem- (SLL national secretary) GON oá Belfast's Garlick HIll

S. HANNIGAN

(nr Mansion House tube) week (SCrIA, BANDA N Y9) s to Tory

LONDON

W ls uussic horror. 8 p.m. (SLL Central Committee) The three Martin men, Meehan, Dohérty 1 OnY and

WORKERS PRESS FILM 'ULSTER'

had been torene be rinis McCann nuen chalmed

Terror campaign in Malaya

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collect 'trophies' by behead- to ing or scalping their victims. And SPENCER's series exposing army officially the British army glori- fied these gory exploits. The Royal Marine journal Laurel', 'Globe and for example, photographs ber of showing 1952 a carried in May fulsome British soldiers, sometimes of the Ibans' delivilics accompanied Dyak trackers, by Maj Harry Willcox, written holding heads of severed of the men who recruited UnIc Malayan resistance fighters.

trackers Borneo for the No These recruited from Commando Brigade in Malaya. trackers, of the headhunting Iban with most Borneo. werescu Head-hunting of the infantry united in Malaya. 1952 there were 264 Dyaks in Malaya. Willcox describes the welcome They were actively encouraged of a returning head-hunter at his "solemn and native village as a joyful moment. He on: First, foremost and of supreme all concerned importance the question of whether he has brought back an enemy head or and hair which now- the scalp adays serve as a token head.

lucky. on 'If he hasn't been his patrols [in Malaya] and goes back empty-handed the welcome is altogether cooler. he will, of But it be has. sent word ahead, course, and at a meeting the head of the will longhouse have commis- sioned the most highly-skilled the to weaver among Women: weave a special ceremonial cloth for the reception of the head.

'This lady, in a state of great excitement and importance, is the first, to greet him, taking the the the cloth, while head in other women sing the anthem for returning warriors. "The tracker will have fitted the scalp or hair onto a pump kin, giving it the appearance of a turnip head and this he plaçes in the cloth with ceremony.

man 'Every boy there is green with envy, and girl gives him the sort of every look Errol Flynn is used to.'

can hardly The British army ignorant claim to have been dismembered of the with parts what the tracke They about 1 most of the British Infantry units in Malaya.

employed were there for. barbarous head- glorified their THE ending of the state and supported by US funds chan- nelled through Frei's Christian of emergency which was Democratic Party. in Chile's force in The authenticity of documents published phe links between the co per cine showing • Santiago province from December 2 to December porations right-wing politi- cians have so far not been denied.

10 does not mean that of rightists Meanwhile bands the problems of President are still active carrying out' Recently Salvador Allende's terrorist acts. Bang те- fire to a Socialist Party office gime are at an end. •CL Santiago. Allende says that 'violence will It is simply recovering violence, but in ac- be met by cordance with the peaceful road from the first round of thea which his regime rests, theory on by his right-wing attack looks to the army and the he police, not to the working class. opponents. a speech ast week ne made a distinction between the mono- The big rally of middle-class poly and non-monopoly sectors of from Santiago's plush women Chilean He called sparked off suburbs which capitalists in the latter to followed by on of big workers' rallies invest their series pronts in tael own pledging support to Allende.

industry. In the speech he said failed The right has to win that workers 'must not recklessly control of the streets in Santiago, increase wages without there be- but the left-wing parties and the ing corresponding increase in Central Labour Organization a production'. (CUT) leaders think it is enough to pass resolutions to deleat the Speculation reactionary threat. will have to turn to The right other methods. It calling for While not compensating the the formation of *a Democratic Chilean copper companies, Civic Union' to rally oppo- has sitionist forces. It is believed that government undertaken to repay $726m in loans from con- this fits with Washington's sortia arranged by previous strategy to bring down the regime gUY- through ernments international the name of 'democracy. in organizations. Similar slogans have been used The Chilean central bank and military by other fascist suspended . foreign cently ex- America in Latin sup- change transactions to stop States by the United damaging speculation. Central Intelligence Agency.

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Back in England after a to Germany, trip he to hang on living standards was won during the miracle. 'overcome with despondency' McGarvey isn't • at our lack of 'positive atti- much interested in the real state of the German economy, nor is tudes to work'. he really suggesting that if only The Germans are hard we all literally worked harder all at by seven apparently (up at 6.15 Britain's problems would i be a.m.) while we *struggle solved. work at 8 a.m. with office work- What he's talking about is how due for ers not another hour protect the rate of profit and from great many boardroom the effects of the slump. mandarins not due What he's talking about is shop- for another hour'. floor discipline and efficiency as And it's not just the men a means of maintaining that rate the factories who have seen the of profit. light and reap the fruits The capitalists are faced of hard now with the task of making the next work. *Even the are like best thing slave labour pala- it. The admin staffs start at the.

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work through the application Unemployment has gone up of and efficiency by cost-saving 208,000 with another m00t0 cent in three months to techniques. The whole thine backed up by short-time and immigrant work- of repressive anti- a.. network Greece and working-class laws like the Indus- ers from Turkey are being refused entry or even sent trial Relations Act. home. It is a dream which McGarvey with rising And prices Tories see coming to ana ine about 5 per cent a year, workers reality once Britain gets into the being pitched into Common Market and the capital- are major battles with the employers to try Europe ist class of able

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by Tom Kemp A RECENT seminar on been of a purely token nature and have done nothing to get to agrarian reform in Latin the root of the problem. America held in Chiclayo, a This the seminar recognized. But, of officials composed and city 470 | miles N of Lima, experts coming from the national bourgeoisie and the petty bour- Peru, heard a Colombian geoisie, could only think in 'effective' of really terms peasant denounce 'experts' reform. on the peasantry who had no The final report said: 'The situ- ation under-develop- caused idea of the hunger, unem- ment can only be surmounted by ployment and misery of their eliminate the rictions a exploi- which able lives. ter and exploited in the econo- and social fields'. political Official delegates were present It called for the active participa- from 26 The seminar countries. tion of those concerned. lasted week and was closed Peruvian Minister of by the An reform Latin agrarian Agriculture. Many of the offi- America of the which was sort attending expressed dissat- cials carried out under the aegis of with the failure of the bourgeoisie in Europe is out agrarian reforms. of the question. Much of Latin A Much of held la land in The agrarian question can only revolution huge called "latifundia'. by rich and which clears out imperialism and powerful landowners. They are its in the bourgeoisie. closely allied with the big foreign Latin American countries corporations, which dominate the rotten-ripe for such an overturn.

life of the Latin econome countries and with the This cannot be carried out by American urban capitalists. guerrilla struggles or peasant movements. It requires the build- The masses of the rural pold- ing of parties of the Fourth Inter- lation with tiny the poor, national based on working ings unable to support a family class and leading the peasantry.

or no land at all. They form This is a conclusion which the cheap. labour force for the big seminar was obviously unable to landowners and employers.

consider and nothing Latin 1n The land reforms of most America is likely to be changed Latin American countries have as a result of its deliberatiofs.

work on the shop floor ay Telegraph's Paddy Ian Yeats looks at the Common Market. oor and exposing alleged get torether ane tru to impose their will on working class. the his time on the shop McGarvey. floor work does not consist eight-hour Lonous, surelenes. Was sul list workers clock-watching une end ot the dav. The atmosphere in the English factory? They [the workers] concen- 5 on surelents assaily WOrk. lola. varcu wo ot toem are doine a lot ol paper-work stock-taking. as well. There is little excuse for bore- dom'. Corporatism Production Pardond e20 a week factory call ycals lucy COlO watch suaD Just the Not that one's devotion to the company ends with mere work in factory. There's outwork that workers can taKe components Holle assemoie taemserves wives. According: • McGarvey •tO. the all deliriously- happy. Home (there's o vanco. onland and in looking nuge windows al-pleasalt view.

ot Shearness (assuming they nave time to look up, from the bench). And, of everyone rushes to keep tidy. It's a case of one big happy family. All ideas anese are une corporatism for vey's work is an insidious, patern- alistic Now they are little more Wan dreams the employers minds. the A typical 'happy' assembly worker at Klippon's Shep Britain Unce factory as appeared in the cornmon Vialkel. and 'Sunday Telegraph recession deepening aroune. December 12. they to bring will do their best them to reality.

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By CLIFF SLAUGHTER PRINCIPLES are very awkward things to those who proceed in politics with the method of opportunism and man- oeuvres. Frank. Pierre veteran leader of the Pabloite revi- sionists (the Ligue Commun- iste) in France, is discover- ing this, not for the first time in his life. Like Joseph Hansen of the Socialist Workers Party (USA), he has been unable to resist • cized the temptation to comment on the divisions within the Inter- national Committee of the Fourth International (IC).

And he burns his fingers very badly, just as Hansen does. (See the previous three-part article on Joseph Hansen and the Interna- tional Committee.) Having avoided for so many years the principled theoretical questions in the world Trotsky- ist movement, Frank cannot approach the present differences in the IC except from a 'tactical' point of view. He would like to use the SLL's of the OCI (Organiza- criticism tion Communiste International- iste, French section of the IC) for his own ends in France.

But, unfortunately for him, the principled of the IC nature majority's criticisms calls in question all his own political past and future! Frank's difficulty is to make use of the SLL's criticisms while still covering up the differences he has, within the Pabloite move- with. Hansen and his ment, followers. He ales does not want to reveal the political differences. even within the Ligue Commun- iste itself. On top of all this, he still is.

obliged to slander the because he senses quite correctly that it is around the politics of • the' SLL that the decisive issues' in the movement will be settled.

To do all 'these things at the same time has produced a pre- dictably confused article by Frank (Intercontinental Press', November 29.) Hitting out at the SLL, Frank says: 'Healy [SLL national secretary] leans towards ultra-leftism (not the Maoist or spontaneist but Period" the "Third Stalinist type) This hash has been served up by Ernest Mandel and his friends for years, but it is in remark- heppey able contrast to the main body aph' of of Frank's own article. For example, he quotes the October IC document 24 at length on the OCI's mistaken

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9.00 ush boy. London. 11.00 Late call. 11.05 Anglia. Prisoner. an Dyke Lizard'. GRAMPIAN: 3.30 News. 3.33 Rum- 3.55 Yoga. blie jumblie. 4.25 Lon- 5.20 London Dick 6.10 Alas: 1.10 London. 7.00 Film: Robin and the Seven Hoods' Women. 9.00 London. Frank Sinatra. 11.00 Loder. British Museum. 11.30 McQueen. 12.00 Epilogue. Workers Press, Thursday Decemb electoral policies and its absten- tionism on a whole number of issues, and says: it is on Lambert's [OCI secretary] policies in France that is Healy's attack especially severe. It warrants being quoted at length because the whole is therer almost the whole story.

story, or He proceeds to quote at great length, and concludes the that IC's criticisms 'are very similar, if not identical, to those long expressed by the Ligue Com- muniste. This is not true, but it indi- cates that Frank agrees with the criticisms. The IC majority in fact criti- resist • cized the OCI for failing to fight for a massive vote for the Com- munist Party • Presidential candi- date in 1969. This should have been done, at the same time insisting on the CP pledging socialist policies.

Similarly we criticized the OCI for never raising the question of the Stalinists forming a govern- ment during the 1968 crisis.

It is sheer nonsense for Frank to quote these passages and still accuse us of 'Third Period' sec- tarianism! The Stalinists of the "Third Period' (1929-1933) refused any support to social-democrats against the Nazis on the grounds that "social- reformists were fascists'. Rejecting the united front, they said: 'After Hitler, our turn.'

Now, if it comes to 'Third Period' policies, what price Frank's opposite numbers in Britain, the International Marxist Group and its 'Red Mole'?

In the General Election of 1970 in. Britain they advocated abstention between Tory and Labour, and recommended break- ing up: Labour meetings, just as the Stalinists had done in the : 1930s. The same Robin Blackburn who advocated this line most vociferously had an article - printed in Frank's own 'Rogue' as recently as November 6.

It is only for the sake of peace and quiet in his own organ- ization that Frank takes us to task for ignoring the candidacy of "the" Ligue Communiste's own Alain Krivine. Frank knows that this was adventuristic nonsense, and his problem is that our criticism of the OCI carries even "greater weightwagainst his own organiza- tion. This adventurism is not diffi- cult to reconcile with sheer reformist opportunism. For example, the same Krivine, together with other Pabloite leaders, and meets regularly officialy Rocard and the leading committee of the PSU, a party of 'new left' reformists.

This difficulty, of reconciling his comments on the IC divisions with the position in his own organization, is matched only by the international dilemma for Frank... Whereas he concentrates on finding sticks to beat the OCI, Hansen puts all his weight in against the SLL. All these elements have been forced into a theoretical and poli- tical impasse by the crisis of capitalism. They would like a way out of this impasse, but they want to do it without getting involved in the questions of principle. Above all, they must not allow historical anyone to raise the questions of their own theoretical We origins. ( in earlier saw articles how Hansen distorted the history of the splits and unifications in his own history, and how he twisted the question at issue between the SLL and the OCI on the latter's claim that the Fourth International had been destroyed. Frank is no better. Like Han- sen, he rushed through the fake reunification' of the 1963 on the basis of refusing to discuss the issues of the 1953 split and their theoretical implications.

Later, in the course of the inevitable internal disputes those who 'reunified', among Frank admitted that to support Pablo in expelling the majority of the French section in 1952 had been a great mistake. It is an accounting on thesé questions that Frank fears.

Because of this, he resorts to the same falsifications as Hansen, referring to the . "Interna- Committee", whose tional to "recon- declared aim was struct" the Fourth Interna- . "destroyed" by tional, allegedly, the "Pabloites" So afraid is he of the past, of a real discussion, that he ignores the fact that one of the differences between outstanding the SLL and the OCI is that we reject this idea that the Pablo- ites were able to destroy the Fourth International! A real discussion of just what what its effects Pabloism was, were, and what the lessons of the fight against it were-these are essential questions for the revolutionary movement. Neither Frank, Hansen nor anyone else can prevent their being answered. hursday December 16, 1971

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The injustice of it all I FIND it intolerable,' said the High Court barrister, 'that mem- bers the bar should be expected to work in such con- ditions. What does he mean by in- tolerable? The choking dust and heat miners work in? The blistering heat in the steelworks or bakeries or laundries?

Does Mr Michael Ogden, QC suffer body-smashing manual work day after day. work in difficult or cramped conditions or get himself filthy? What is he complaining about?

The temperature in his court room. beginning to feel as am though I am in a Turkish bath,' he said. Poor fellow. It must be tough working at court all day in a temperature of 72 degrees.

Physical Mao A CONFERENCE on physical culture took place recently the Kwangsi province of China.

that. The participants agreed 'under the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Chairman Mao as the head, the situation on the physical culture front in the region was excellent'.

Physical culture departments were called upon to mobilize the masses to repudiate counter- revolutionary revisionist black goods such 'championship as 'material mentality', incentive, the theory that physical culture is useless' and the theory that physical culture cannot: go gIo rural areas. With an eye on touring table tennis teams, it was agreed to implement seriously the prin- ciple 'friendship first and results second' and to repudiate thoroughly great power chauvinism. It was concluded that all phy- sical culture workers should seriously study Marxist-Leninist books. , Chairman Mao's and works. The boot on the other foot THE BOOT was on the other foot, so to speak, when Sir David Barran, chairman of Shell had right-wing, patriotic Labour MP Douglas Jay to lunch the other day. You see, like all good Fabians, Jay had a decent edtication. None of this state education system No. he landed up at for him. Winchester public school.

When he got there he found he needed a fag. In public school parlance this is not something you smoke, but a pupil who runs around polish- ing his master's shoes, and so on.

Anyway, Jay turned to Barran for the job. To cut a long story short, it seems that Jay had one occasion to flog Barran because he wore Jay's trousers on a date.

Now Sir David, and head of one of the world's largest oil firms, Barran had a little laugh when the roles were reversed.

At the lunch the new master reminded the Labour servant of capitalism about the Winchester incident. It is reported that Jay was not amused now that the boot is on the other foot.

Brinkmanship HUGH SCANLON is teetering on the brink. No, this is not a reference to a possible battle in the engineer- ing industry • over the current pay claim. The President of the Amal-.

gamated Union of Engineering Workers is literally about to fall over a cliff-or at least he will if he stays in his holiday hideaway in the Isle of Sheppey. Like a relentless tide of mili- tancy the sea is rapidly eroding the Scanlon cottage. Each day the little nest nearer the terrible edge 20 more feet and it's down into. the raging surf.

Already crack has large appeared in the wall. But the union leader has already fled the coop and moved his furniture out. But he is un- likely to get any compensation— he's not insured for landslides!

Now I'm no great believer in the Biblical parable, but there does seem to be a message in this happening somewhere?

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Workers Press, Thursday December 16, 1971 Lord Donovan LORD DONOVAN, who died on Monday night, aged 73, will be remembered as the man the Labour government called on to head the Royal Commission on Trade Unions set up in 1965. 19%5 the arbur gave of The man 1964 who put had worsened and the fals the anti- class felt it was time to turn and face the work class. union ing As usual the Labour leaders under Harold Wil- They son proved pliable. machine first proceeded full legal immunity of trade breached by Rookes unions, v Barnard in 1964, by pass- in motion ing the Trades Disputes Act 1965. At the same time, how- Royal ever, they set up the Commission on Trade The shop stewards' move- Unions, which turned ment and the power of the be the opening" shot to In working the shop class on abolish trade moves to floor under direct came union rights altogether. attack from the Donovan Commission. of Lord The choice High Court Donovan, Although Donovan pro- to head judge, the com- posed no legal strait-jacket mission proved acceptable. as then, workers' ability to Woodcock, George then win wage increases above national - negotiated agree- ments was to be destroyed.

Measured-Day Work was recommended as the only system of payment, with its fixed, non-negotiable rates. Plant bargaining was to be taken over by full-time officials with their more responsible' outlook Most the serious were proposals to set up the first statutory body to deal with unions, the Commission Industrial Relations, and the recommendation that granted to immunity trade unions under the 1906 Act should not apply to un- official bodies like shop stewards. Acting the report shortly afterwards, Barbara Lord Donovan Castle brought *In out Place of Strife' in the early part of 1969. of

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secretary the showed he was willing to cue. from dis- Taking its unions' help dig the trade Tories satisfied and em- and accepted grave post ployers, who said Donovan with Donovan. but was step recom- mended no legal framework, all, it couldn't be After the White Paper added 28- that bad if a Labour judge, day cooling-off periods, legal rarity In itself, was to backing

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for decisions oversee it all? and strike ballots. Knighted The White Paper was subsequently withdrawn fol- lowing consistent. cam- From 1945 to 1950 Lord paign in the working class, Donovan, then plain Terence the . of including strike. Norbert Donovan Leicester. 250;000 was workers against it MP on May 1, 1969. Labour After five years as an MP In Juneat specially was knighted and made he convened Congress in a High Court judge. Croydon-

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-the agreed to act as • policeman' It after was year until MacDonald formed Ramsay time: was more favourable. national government with the Tories in 1931 that Corporate Lord Donovan left the civil and first became service barrister. But Lord Donovan had not failed. The door to the But it was after the war state had been that he gained corporale his "liberal' opened by his report. •The for image by coming out, trade union leadership had the death example, against moved the even closer to 1948. penalty as early state and the CIR was now George with Lord Donovan was also in existence, Woodcock as chairman, Khe noser his oppositioned ably supported by ex- flogging convicted ex-miners' Stalinist and criminals. It did more harm leader Will Paynter. than good, he said. died. And before he What is less well known Donovan the Tories "liberal' saw is that the took an return to power in June active part in suppressing 1970 job Greek revolution to carry out a the Labour had failed to do. and isolated by Stalin crushed by the British army.

On August 5, 1971, the Industrial Relations Act In 1945 he headed the government's legal was passed, stripping away British right of the trade every mission to Greece. established 150 unions The Commission years of struggle and creat- Royal reported 1969 in and the ing machinery which trade union movement soon could, if not smashed, open shetdoors for the corporate saberal Lord Donovan. mailed fist of the Reinstatement strikes ended at

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The protest is over three suspensions last week after a room, formerly used by stu- dents and which the authori- ties wanted for administrative purposes, was occupied. A THREE-DAY token strike by medical students began yesterday at Dublin's Mater Hospital. They are protesting about censorship of a Christ- mas film they have made. The authorities say one section of the film dealing with the Archbishop • Dublin, Dr James McQuaid, is offensive. Ritual burning of employers' lett PROVINCIAL newsmen working in London, yester- day gave a hot reception to 'scab'-or-be-sacked threats sent out by the Newspaper Society. They stood on the steps of the Society's London offices and burnt the letters, delivering the ashes to em- ended at Rugby Pearce, a deputy executive of the technical and member Amalgamated Union of Engin- missed on November 18 for attending a meeting on union

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01-622 7029 Government ti PAKISTAN'S Army in Bangla Desh seemed on lUkY plans for the urgeni the verge of surrender yesterday as Indian modernization of the state- run employment service forces closed in on Dacca. Pakistan's commander will certainly NOT provide Gen 'Tiger' Niazi dropped his boastful bombast more Jobs about fighting to a finish and send a desperate That by the deter Talist message asking for a ceasefire.

deal licy for eood ntentions The Indians claimed yesterday Craled People and los. who to be within a mile of the city The boundary as the Pakistani appeal Ths Departet on its play came through. usert sidelighis Newspaper Indian commander Gen Sam Maneshaw replied that Indian Society air force planes would stop attack- Towards end o Dacca ing my as a token labour goodwill. He added: Since you have indicated your desire to stop fighting, I expect purpose. you to issue orders to all the forces under your command in bangla Desn to cease fire immediately and surrender Ulster to my defending forces wherever they are located.'

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Niazi went on Immediately all conference that his arms st your forcesany ai hing unless sive Pakistan Opened this eno eedesaid: Steel hand blons needles command complied with the surrender terms Prod dine bones on the back Delhi

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ssy yesterday morning rE Pakistan needl former started scrapints continental Hen not ich in my hands bi Fight knocked out about wanted But che Indian a advance stitched at Crumlir abbit 20000, bur the Dy are proben embers thumb and scraped the bones since mary of the l Tony Doherty showed pres 'have Desperate appeals from islamabad for th oly erar ave fallen on deat ears 100 other marks on his thigh and buttocks of employers' letters yesterday Croats to a heaty and hoods strapped surrende the regular they i bahih Mukti I could hear matches beins held in as cigarettes guerrillas tney can expect no ceasenre appeal is Tito my skin burning. clept the vether skin they ca 'Practice' crack- S African down forces strike A WAVE of arrests spokesma Croatia Norma riDDied strongly widens vesterdav the were Slavi communist party cracked down on separa- elements sued for Dece for strik 2 to ce Zagreb Yesterday the army rounde Ballymurphy district of Belfast weeks and at the cry rs of last i warned yester section, university. against the contract more vicious forms syssolated from their families d in mi i exploited rs ar resigned rope of, the Croatin wa scared leat by the inte also abandoned his post. cial stewsmen so received 9,000 in Paisley ne Form of direct rule for Bom * mapers or hostie prand Republicar panied by a declaration EVA extremists in the S. aw labour were invited manual serious ris unded in Belfas re striking war a st Lee days rested the im, were adjourned estered inhe city seet. Back to the 1930s The immediate task is th

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discuss cret redit in dals Pay on wonder he made une! • clea ence earlier this press k coat he of rins win ord as the onto tracto endin With the devaluatic of the employment takes its toll unemployment. A ent tightens grip on jobless will not solve

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from How much further yesterday's •Morning imply there hard to reality can you get? worked was. Up in his ivory tower-far worth looking at away from the government- But it is sponsored shake-out which has the record, nonetheless close been destroying on 10,000 jobs week since the Small summer-the writer dreams of a world where people would For the size of the problem,, Withor, Highto stir super.

the shandoves emangie as it small: job amazingly super- about 7,000 staff market divided be- minutes, every 1,000 general offices hell of it! tween just for the 600 specialists the 45 in offices sional and exicutive field aes.

covering Sinister 200 at 44 occupational guid- The implications this of kind of thinking, which runs ance centres. through booklet, are, the to Alongside this, smaller and say the least, sinister. more inadequate services even What the D of E proposes for disabled people and youth is to: operate. TURN the employment ser- No wonder state-run labour vice into a self-managing unit exchanges have this unenviable within the department under record of handling only about a new Chief Executive respon- 20 per cent of the total job sible for expenditure and changes in an average year. administration. five Or that over the last

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the finding of one in three of years only jobs and the placing of people those who registered as from employed were found jobs.

of unemploy- payment benefit, the extending ment Though largely drawn up self-service techniques begin- under the Labour government.

ning to be used in the former there is little in the D of E out all activities and paying modernization which will im- benefit by post in future.

prove this record. EXTEND the forward plan- And her parliamentary in ning and predicting capacity attack on the proposals Bar- MP the 'service - - using com- bara Castle made clear and aids puters • other to that this not her chief redeployment from facilitate concern. improving the em- area to area. by As reported in yesterday's ployment service we succeed Workers Employment Press, in getting down by just one Secretary Robert Carr day on average the time taken also favours the establishment of by unemploved men and council a national manpower women to move into new jobs involving trade and we save the loss of 3 million unions management with government.

working days a year,' she said If the union leaders accept It is significant, however, this proposal it will authen- that the Labour scheme for tically whole trim out the making the employment ser- corporatist plan. vice an independent body free Despite the deplorable of day-to-day Ministerial con- record the employment trol has been scrapped. service, there can be no set of The Tories want to keep a neutral, firm grip over the administra- non-class proposals for it. Even so, tion of mass misery. improving

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