Workers Press no. 645 (643)

workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY DECEMBER 23, 1971 • NUMBER 643 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE To defeat Tories Ultimatums fly on Clyde £181.74 needed

IN YOUR CHRISTMAS

WORKERS PRESS

TOMORROW

to complete Engineer Davies omorrow s eation will t December Fund £1,250 target gets tough Iners leaders Joe Goarence Dal •resident (left) and. secreta yo Stable pen Yimousine by limousine E1695EA arived miner alliance with UCS The Queen is in the counting house..! course enough. ch as stewards is needed

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN GLASGOW

Workers Press Appeal Fund, TORY INDUSTRY Secretary John Davies 'window gaze at 2000 186a Clapham High St, warned Upper Clyde Shipbuilders workers Burning London, swe the yesterday - coopere or came none upper Clyde could collapse.

USS stewart he made it citr clear

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stewards. he made it that the future of the Tory-

BY DAVID MAUDE

Govan Ship- appointed company builders Ltd would be grim if

FIGHTING

negotiations to establish 'agreed alliance between and International Socialists

CHRISTMAS

Britain's miners and engineering wor- procedures and co-operation of the

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workforce' did not immediately

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kers could decide the fate of the Tory mood with ors premployment secretary Robert Care ensive begin. for government next month. Davies admitted main that the problem was the shop stewards' official the National headers ni other arities Starts on p. 2 toda

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London protest over jailed seamen Union of Mineworkers policy ot insisting cumuative exciting convinced that their proposals' covering four yards before talks could start. strike towards 'Slur on there was no 'active He warned tha their t5 to f9 pay claim.

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BY IAN YEATS

*Tha thee atteM top. THE FATE of 22 Bengalis who jumped their ships at Rochester and Sudan brass esterday sers want Dundee rather than return to W Pakistan has 'shocked and saddened' 1Shis

CONFRONTATION

BanglaDesh officials in London.

their adly miners I was under butcher the trpes. year ch te wil be thin dram of corone ner would treated i to tike being one way things are som and the abidinos and Year's

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Guerrillas hold citizens,

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BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Chinese politicians no doul wnich no peasanary Islamic states regime is als black peppess in the agains

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moted yester. onsible politically sasistant army Pent Cost-of-living takes exective Armie Ships sar he hoped a feasib King ey jelling by the second half of the fizz out of FIS face THE INCREASE in family salvation.

BY PHILP WADE

pensioners supplements ecke entitled to claime had on no more than a cheap gim Raids and shown to liver Twist govern- Sartre demands mick by the lory The caped into ment and a fraud from be- Lein loseph mastery. ginning to end. justice for resignations stroke. as been Iran students in Croatia awarded mily. not on FIS was - Who her sea inth mal to drive another student Tastel. health service. ake effect from April 4, 197 Yu sloppo ice have sile literature a • Political Steelmen back campaign 1 Per Bang Bes rel monopolists or the cheap Sheer Trades and abo Week And Brian Oilicy, to give uncil to support the cam offered wage cuts red to are the

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

THURSDAY DECEMBER 23, 1971 • NUMBER 643

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COmMiTItE Or To defeat Tories £181.74 needed to complete Engineer December Fund £1,250 target Minera loadore Joe Gorwrence Dalent (left and secretary miner alliance - 0 21,06 70, you ke the Vis needed expansion of Workers Workers Press Appeal Fund, 1868 Clapham Hiah St. London, SW4.

BY DAVID MAUDE

A FIGHTING alliance between Britain's miners and engineering wor-

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kers could decide the fate of the Tory gainers preten munt scentry per.

On-the-spot mood with government next month. Leaders National of the London protest over jailed seamen Union or Mineworkers now appear convinced tnat tneir members are being torced towards strike 'Slur' on inexorab v trion to 9 action January 9. over. pay claim. meeting with the the 211 Emit or. scared Bengalis hat they could afford. suCke are already under

BY IAN YEATS

THE FATE of 22 Bengalis who jumped their ships at Rochester and Dundee rather than return to W Pakistan has 'shocked and saddened' Bangla Desh officials in London.

the impres- i was under sion they would be treated and honourable abiding Guerrillas hold Ahmad. Mission sterday. politicians sen taken and

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into before is a slur on their in contempt Federation meeke the Nor SIXTEEN men

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

the Belfas 1,950n i present 620 hilt there and le gainst the • Only 16 af these politiciansa dicting the assh gance is asat they haver or home is Bea of their new ation- yesterday.

oficial a wela D wants disarm the ill 322 Cost-of-living takes felt the crew BanglaDesh Permited. circumstances the Toyou thin the fizz out of FIS Good faith options open. Bani tro su mendered a leas

BY PHILIP WADE

1 tha THE INCREASE in mis supplements comic Tuesday allancer no more than a efects: the British done so. тіск оу ше govern ment and a nraua from De y Minister poKesman Louse oro cars ginning to ene Ban october 19%0, the is system revies were Deshe tur spokes- driven useder oamed the man into up Heath's to tering arrying ngs, health service. Desh on other, wowil have arine nt ales tew pence to be aded to th against to saga for mice ollaborated with Yabya Khan's forces holdings test. Steelmen back campaign of banker The fl increase takes tse. is sheer window dressing If the cheapest sort Tra BRown in hop The one Meli Hion are on he fired wage-curs a pushed the that leads the fight against the Tory government Ultimatums fly on Clyde

IN YOUR CHRISTMAS

WORKERS PRESS

TOMORROW

Tomorrow's edition will be 28. But can promise you laining for redule Inal 00 0 moment durine ine noidavs Just rOr Instance how Her does Majesty mich crowd really earn? Jack will tell stable yo stable penny • limousine by limousine 'The Queen is in the counting house course, if you're not gettina quite you can always pop End London your

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YEATS went snooone. amone Ine Christmas Crowds curing • the weak Just your ordinary common Bond teet and rington

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INDUSTRY Secretary John Davies chauffeured Bentleys at 2.000 warned Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' window workers oems- —ano yesterday - co-operate or shipbuilding on the out the nothing Having (sorry, , they're on cash upper Clyde could collapse.

credit accounts) them, either. Speaking after a meeting with

UCS

stewards, he made it clear

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Tory- that the future of the d themisivest revisionists see and appointed company Govan Ship- Comments Socialist be grim if would builders Ltd League by ernationa Marxist negotiations to establish 'agreed Group and International Socialists.

procedures and co-operation of the did not immediately workforce'

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begin. Your TV programmes for four days at a glance. Davies admitted that the main problem was the shop stewards' official

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of policy of insisting 'cumulative number of other articles proposals' covering four yards before excitino news about the expansion and enlargement talks could start. Workers Press the New Year. He warned that there was no 'active buyer for the Clydebank yard: an issue to look cussions that wou at make Goyan hipbu dess 'There forward to So make sure • Govan Shipbuilders your copy now elephoning our a made concend. CirculatIor lose, there is really no time 01-622 department • really must get on with this task.'

He said that there was 'a real danger of coven ninalders running our or work will be If they run out of work this Chinese hia nanklemifor the comnanv and the whole of the Clyde for that matter.

At a press conference the stewards. led br aid for James Reid and James Airlie reiterated their formula that there Govan Shipbuilders except unless there 'cumulative proposals covering the four Sudan divisions'.

CONFRONTATION

butcher Said Airlie: 'If this drags on into the new vear there will he some form of confrontatior sooner or later and the way things are going

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it looks like being sooner.

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signed an economic agreement stewards' reterring to the chon with Gen Numeiry's Sudan threat not to allow any more ships out of the which sulline thousands of com- The is due for delivery from next one munists. Govan in mid-January. agreement was signed There is however one wav the CP Stalin.

ekins President of the ists can still avoid a battle with the Tory Deput the Sudan, Maj. government. leaders Danny McGarvev Khalid Hasan Abhas and like boilermakers' president, can persuade Break. 1 cen nien ViceDramian nt it there- Clydebank, hipsy China could argue their big and enthusiactir lative proposals' ultimatum had been met.

crowd turned un at the air break port to see the visitors off.

This would, of course. the stewards policy The loreamant

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includes mamhere discussions Chinese credit Sudan meaningtul the underground Portionedi without which will be no doubt used cast ron anaranteed Communist Party have over Cludehank's future. repressive forces sentenced by state security working class But the nann m Lisbon up to two court in mittee are desperate to con- peasantry of the son ment one tact Breaksea • They mysterious most reactionary Islamic states.

Asted the support vears

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The regime is also carrying The six, including of ex-Clyde one black pepress in we a repressive oirl were charged with beins managing director John mamhere of the narty and Rannie. Talks took rganizing conspiratorial meet.

The possibility of a firm bid place between The trial has been goins for (ludehank now anneare re.

on since November mote, as hawardr Mauied hinted yesterday. politically responsible for the • Chief Govan Shipbuilders Chinese armv. Peng Chao-hi avecutive Archie Gilchrist caid assistant chief of the gener King-kuang he honed a fagcihility studu an staff and Hsian the Scotstoun yard would start vice-minister of jelling' by the second half of defence Peking has declared its for nan Ken Doug support what it descrinac las warned UCS anti-imperialist policy 'Any factor which tends of Khartoum. to a standstill pensioners face ene hring the thing etonuation will militate nant its even. tual success.' Try aiki asking for more and with ren t the th Raids and that come Sartre demands Yet charitable wha resignations tha Tariar justice for and their hangers-on an. joyed. Iran students in Croatia fomily not on BIC was of Tory Sym- Sym- A london IDANI DAIT Contao hae nollar IN ANOTHER raid Zagret. phony or action to support politica hostel etudont prisoners d detained in Tran Yugoslav Tanth ant canno arrested For services to Europe an- . have 359 conscater other €37.000. open on and an arms Harold Wilson 104 per foreigners can Durge natonzic increase.

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tend. Croatia. Continuing throughar What abper cer friends in Committee Political "he latest to an inolndar Croatian Defence minister Iraniat business and Prisoners, of of which he is pre- Dragutin Horomis nronerty ho re world? St me. tact? the editor cident danaunradl cigner amri former partne violations of the rituts of and tortures lim of Data, Director of • Zagreb Walror radio com- lefence in. a lette protes! may also onment been linked pany after comp company. resign They have Slater Securities "prime minister. It has with the onalists in party bee meetings y many p COnSider

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Workers Press, Thursday Decer".. :3, 1971 HUNDREDS of workers in N Ireland will spend this Xmas interned. For them, as for thousands of unemployed workers and their families in Ulster, the iestive season will be singularly bleak. While the ruling class are pouring caviare, their turkey, champagne and brandy down throats, internees at Long Kesh internment camp will stage a hunger strike from midnight Xmas Eve to Xmas Night. They will spend Xmas in over-crowded, rat-infested compounds which many of their relatives think are responsible for recent outbreaks of scabies.

In the cities, families live in a state of semi- siege. In the Bogside and Creggan areas of Derry there is very little movement after dark Movement is limited as no buses run to the Lone Moor Road area and, after 6.30 p.m., buses to the Creggan area stop, when the last people lucky enough to have jobs return home after the day's work. done under the hostile Xmas shopping is stare of British soldiers who stand on street corners and in doorways with loaded weapons Just last week, a woman was shot in the hand as she shopped because someone had fired a shot at a soldier. In the centre of the city there are coloured bulbs and decorations, every- where else there is almost total darkness. Many behind heavily boarded shops do business windows, only a sign 'Business as Usual' marks these shops still open after the months of fight- ing. Fuel for bitterness In the Creggan estate, if anyone wants to risk a hazardous walk down New go out they Road, past an army post in the grounds of Essex International's light-engineering factory.

If someone can afford 30p, they might think of hiring a taxi. But that is difficult since none of the public phones work.

In the Bogside and Creggan most of the street lights are broken and the city's 'Develop- ment Commission' obviously does not think they renewed fighting worth repairing since are would see them broken again.

The complete darkness, streets, in almost are hazardous. Pavements in many places have been torn up during heavy street fight- ing and broken stones and glass and rubble lie in heaps everywhere. On many corners, at the entrance to the areas, stand barricades of old, burnt-out cars, corrugated tin and cement blocks as a reminder of the fact that since internment began on August 9, the army have been able to make short-lived forays but only have been promptly beaten out again. The Bog- side and Creggan are now controlled by street committees of local inhabitants and Provisional

IRA.

Under these conditions, most people stay in- doors at night. Television news provides a con- stant source of fuel for anger and bitterness as they watch and listen to biased reports of army activity. Everyone is extremely cynical of these reports. Arms 'finds', they say, which are have increased since internment reported to began, are one thing to be suspicious of. One woman said to me: 'Why is it that the army always seem to find same weapons every time? In my exactly the "finds" are just propaganda to opinion these keep up their own morale. And if they did find anything, they'd report it every day for a week, saying it was a new "find".

Suffering under Tory rule Then there are the conflicting reports from the army and local citizens every time some- one is shot. The recent death of 16-year-old just Lee Martin McShane at Coalisland is one example. The army maintain he was armed at some passing soldiers.

and had taken aim and his friends Everyone else says he were playing a game and he had a toy gun given to him by his grandmother years before.

No one goes to bed very early. There is always the danger that the army will try to mount a surprise attack. This, if it does come, is usually about 4 a.m. when the army expects everyone to be in bed. When the hooters go off warning of an attack, the cry 'All out, all out!' resounds through the streets.

From the internment camps, too, there are constant reports that the internees do not sleep well. Dogs are constantly provoked by the army throwing stones and bark all night.

Batons are run along the sides of the huts keep- ing men awake. Men who have been subjected to heavy torture, relatives say, sometimes rave throughout the night and others have to stay up with them and try to calm them.

Most men tell their relatives very little about their own sufferings because they are afraid they will cause too much worry and anxiety.

Workers Press has interviewed relatives internees from Derry and the Bogside who will spongsthis Xmas wondering how much longer their husbands, fathers and sons will have to suffer theog fonditions of Tory rule.

Venissi ... NORA CANNING is 19. 'Both were also Dal Chils llly interned during war. My She had been married for children mother then. nad nve The youngest was a boy of three and the eldest was nine. just over three months 'I feel very bitter about what- when her husband Cyril, my parents have had to suffer.

22, was interned on Sep- 'My mother is dead now. When 9 fate was arrested an August tember 17 and taken to everyoody walling the now infamous Long another swoop. I had been mar-* ried two-and-a-half for months Kesh internment camp. when came this time Internment and I am expecting my first baby in March. Nora's father Sean Keenan had already been interned eM. He sas husband had been well. a heart condition from the first swoop made due to rheumatic fever. by the army on the notorious arrested "Cyril was the. first night of August 9, 1971. night he stayed at his mother's in use Lone Moor eroad ar i es of all first in the Lone Moor Road area Her father was the 'Maidstone' prison Bogside.] Before that he had been taken to then ship, in bed for three weeks because to the capital's Crumlin he was ill. shifted taken' Road jail and from there ''''For the first 48 hours the to Long Kesh. police and the army would not Internment has been affecting tell me where he was. my life since I was very young, 'Then I heard that he had been Nora said. Ballykelly and kept taken to years old there for one day. He wàs then 'When I was five Palace Barracks in my father was arrested. moved to Belfast.' was different then. For a Ulster Royal start it was Constabulary and the B-Specials Tortured who arrested them. Nora if her • husband 'They didn't just give you two I asked had been tortured while he was bed and minutes to get You least had time to in Palace Barracks. come. at belongings together to get some 'We hear so many reports, but take with you. I don't know. He is the sort of 'He was interned for four-and- person who wouldn't tell me any- a-half years then. way in case I would worry lod much. I have always been politically- 'After he had been in Palace minded', Nora told me. Barracks he was taken to Crum- lin Road. 'At the age of five you grow has been intelmed You want to 'In there he was locked up in You want to been interned. the basement and wasn't arrested know why he has been allowed to go to the toilet or and what Republicanism is all anything' about. Had Nora's husband been connected with the IRA? 'My father is now 57 and this is third time he has 'Well he sold and he ,.been papers interned. Yet. they have never was politically-minded, but he his andl know couldn't do very much because o/ Soroken spirit now they never will. his health. Ian Yeats looks at the Tory Press IF YOU are one of those bers either hadn't made up their minds didn't know enough OT people who thought free- Hardly a for staggering yes dom of the press meant Carr I what it said, you've got It was the same with the ques- inviting a shock coming tion the Dublic say what they thought of the Act in London's 'Evening News' general. said last Forty-four per cent of week in reply 'concerned spondents approved per letter that it was cent of trade unionists. that the views of its readers But 56 per cent of all respon should be printed. dents and 57 per cent of union 'But would of stop short members either hadn't made up It printing a letter which amounted their minds outright or were almost to an incitement to riot.' opposed. Fancy that ! figures for what The people In- thought about the Code ot WHILE the 'News' was stripping dustrial Relations Practice were the wool away, the 'Evening even more staggering in their flat Standard' contradiction 'Standard's' was busy pulling of the the blinkers. bold headline. Seventy-five per cent of all re- On Wednesday they came out with banner headline 'Most spondents thought things would people approve Carr labour Act.

hadn't made up worse Incredulous, I examined their their minds or hadn't heard of it.

poll for for carried them by The trade unionists out figure Opinion Research Centre. was 72 per cent. misleading head- Beneath its Fifty-nine per cent of all re- 50 per cent line there appeared a carefully- spondents and of worded introduction. members were against 11n10r working with the Commission

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'The campaigns by the And on Industrial Relations. the and many trade union leaders to critical question of should unions oppose Mr Robert Carr's Indus- Act, 54 pet cent trial Relations Act is opposed by WOrK with une of all respondents were opposed most people in Britain who have per cent of trade and 47 any views on the subiect. members. have any rats op he subjeho operative phrase If the figures show anything at reply to the first question: all, it is certainly not that *Most should trade unions people approve Carr's labour Act.

ТРО1СТАТ the Tory Act? Forty Standard's' poll was under per of all cent respondents said yes retty hlatant example of the and 46 per cent of union mem- Tory press at work bers. But 60 per cent of respondents

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'Sunday and 54 per cent of union mem- vided another equally "The information they had was way out. They thought they had got one of the top men in the IRA when they arrested him, but he was never that.' Cyril After. Crumlin Road, was then moved to Long Kesh. 'He is in a compound which is supposed to hold 80 men. As far as I know there are now 96 men there. "They're sleeping in bunk beds with hardly space at any all between them.' How had these two intern- ments affected her? 'When my father was arrested, I was more determined than ever that the fight should go on. But since Cyril was arrested I would just like to see him get out and I would go away. 'My whole thoughts now are internment, I was internment, three months pregnant when Cyril was arrested. If it doesn't end soon I will have spent the whole of my first year of my marriage without my husband.

'At the moment I don't want to face up to the reality of hav- ing this baby on my own. Leometimes I get so disheart- ened. If they do let them out soon there has to be some sort of political solution before it. Some- times now I feel there is not going to be any end to it.

'Yet if internment was ended tomorrow, Hume and Fitt [Social Democratic Labour MPs and the others would go back into Stor- mont [at the moment they are boycotting it and ! think: why should Stormont exist at all?

Ireland is too small a coun- try to be divided in the first place. I think every country has the right to freedom. Who is Eng- QUEEN MUM-like a C bit in its reporting of events in the Yugoslav republic of Croatia.

The headline accurate was enough-'Tito gets tough'.

But then that Tito we learn has taken a 'big step backwards' which has demonstrated very clearly how limited political free- dom still is in Yugoslavia.

"The leaders whom Tito has ousted are all good communists.'

For the 'Sunday Telegraph' to describe communists as any 'good' is enough to excite doubt the most politically in even naïve, let alone those who know the men referred to are right- wing nationalists capable of turn- ing the most blind of blind eyes a creeping restoration of on capitalism. CARTOONS have always been a potent vehicle for commenting on affairs of the day and Rigby of the 'Sun' has taken a consistent view of events in Ulster.

His latest offering last Monday shows two Mafia-like figures standing in an alley watching a baby fall dead from an over- turned pram while elsewhere the town burns and mobs rampage.

One of the men is saying 'I hope someone is keeping a list so all these we can remember glorious victories'. Rigby's IRA gangsters stalk his cartoons as monotonously as poor innocent British soldiers.

Why doesn't he comment on the tortures and terror carried out by the British army? land to say what is right for Ireland or for India and Pak- istan? Internment definitely hasn't worked this time. 'In this campaign more British soldiers have been killed here than in Aden. The Tory govern- ment dosen't care about soldiers getting killed. But I do think they would like to see the vio- lence ending. "They are losing all the time.

'How long can they afford to keep all these soldiers here? I can't see this campaign ending until there are some sort of talks about a united Ireland. *The government are trying to make this into a religious fight, but it's not. It's the Catholic people- because they aren't Unionist that are feeling the injustices of this regime. Support 'I think that this is the first the 1920s IRA campaign since when the people have been interested enough to give sup- port. 'Heath and Maudling seem to forget that it's not just the IRA that they have to beat but its ordinary people and the they can't do that. Internment has for the campaign. the support of the people 'My father had a broken nose when he was in Crumlin. 'He said he got it playing football. I don't know. At his age I don't think he plays foot- ball. 'He also suffers from arthritis.

'Yet now he looks ten years I know that might younger. seem funny, but it's because he thinks that because: in this struggle the people are behind M-like a Christmas tree. TO GRASP the true flavour of the Tory mind reflected so fully in the press each Anne day, Edwards, the woman's edițor on the 'Sunday Express' is a must.

Last week she was sending out her Christmas greetings. "To Enoch Powell because he is the modern equivalent of the fairy-tale child who was the first to say that the emperor wore no clothes and continues to make so much sense on every subject that it's no wonder some people think he's a trifle mad.' I wouldn't have missed her Christmas intro for the worlds.

'In a mood of seasonal good will I propose to wish a happy Christmas to those people who have done most to take my mind off the depressing from news Belfast and BanglaDesh.' (She talking about the struggles of workers and peasants for their rights.) "To the Queen Mum-because whenever I see this little dump- ling figure with her dimpling Soot ke a christmas sparkling from. head to. foot tree, she gives me a cosy feeling. 'It is good to see someone en- joying life as she does and I'd much rather some of my tax went to keeping her than to giving a rise in salary to a drear, dour down-with-the-rich MP like Willie Hamilton.' Personally I'd rather see the Mum on the Christmas Queen tree with all the other useless decorations. Mich. him internment itself will not say we can't get the money, only break the train ticket. him. *At Long Kesh they do every- 'But it's good going by You thing they break walk miles can to train. have

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from men's spirits. the station to get to the camp.' "During the snow a few weeks and lighting ago all the heating I asked Nora about turned off. They locked reports that the Stormont gov- was them up in the huts at 4.30 p.m.

ernment allegedly preparing off all benefits in the and the men to cut afternoon inter- dependants. had to huddle together. nees' the 'I heard about this, but I 'Now they're opening up "Maidstone" haven't heard of them actually again, Nora went doing it to anyone yet. 'on: 'They're getting pretty desper- "The "Maidstone" is so old condition. ate when they're talking about and is in terrible dependants' They have little portholes as big cutting off internees' money.' as your face and when we came to visit the only thing you could What about the future of the see was their hands waving.

struggle in Ireland? "The only facility for recreation 'The internees themselves say the deck and that is very was Faulkner [the can't go on. small. Ireland premier] must look- be ing for a way out. I just can't "They only allowed were out see Stormont lasting. for two hours a day. The lighting was so bad in there that it used 'At the moment there is hurt their eyes when they opposition; the opposition MPs came out into the light. Most of withdrew after internment was the men who were in it brought in. now need glasses. 'As long there as

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'We only allowed are to see opposition they had the appear- them half-an- once week for ance of democracy, even though hour. It takes us more time being the opposition themselves weren't searched when we get there than doing anything for the people.

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think Maudling and -Heath 'Now well they are cutting would like to see the opposition as off the travel grants we used to back. They would like to have get to go and see them. the semblance of a government.

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HOURS after the liberation of Dacca by Indian and Bengali troops, IAN YEATS obtained this interview with Dacca MP Subid Ali.

INDEPENDENT Bangla Desh will treat Pakistani businessmen the same as all other foreign nationals, Dacca MP Subid Ali told me only hours after Indian troops had liberated the city from the butchers of Bengal. He said this would happen, if friendly relations between India and Pakistan grow and it is to the benefit of the people'. aid and the labour of Foreign Bengal's 75 million population are to be the basis of the nation's "recovery" after nine crippling war-ravaged months.

*Everything depends very much other states give us aid how to build up our shattered econ- Ali told me, commens desirability of the a prompt on influx of foreign capital.

'If the people work with the enthusiasm they gave do i our fight for independence, there shouldn't be too many difficul- Aims India is naturally regarded as likely give the imme- most to aid the Bengalis hope for, diate Ali but appealed to Britain as well his to recognize and open trade relations.

will both 'Britain and India be and in wanting we can get moving to repair our future indus- industries and tor trial development.' Ali admitted post-war recon- struction Ten would be hard. Dacca MP, Mr Sut million refugees to feed, house and cloth besides the millions of others with dislocated incomes.

plan to and we have *Bangla Desh has attracted nationalize the banks and insur- for centuries ance companies.' people because of If its wealth. this is true, why did Pakistan want to keep Sentiment it? 'If this wealth is utilized. by our people for the benefit of the But Ali denied there would be country, it be happy Will workers' control. 'Workers would place. be shareholders, but they not Awami League member Ali would participate as much as Ali claimed the policy of the they would could and generally new government would be to try benefit from. production.

to ensure 'the rich don't grow richer while the poor Commenting BloW the possi- poorer. bility of compensating previous The Party has plans to nation- Ali said it owners would be alize the banks and heavy indus- done according to the sentiment. tries, most of which of the and the people. alterna- viously owned by W Pakistanis. tives available'. Ali told me: "Bangla Desh he 'We won't remain capitalist if by this And added: cannot nationalize everything you mean the bourgeoisie.

There at once because of the will definitely be chaos and the no scope for them. We are aiming. problems of training man- dl We ism. want a society where there will be no economic exploi- Turning to agriculture he said tation. this would be mechanized and 'We shall for nationaliza- organized go co-operative tion of the big, heavy industries basis with individual owners like steel, chemicals and elec- pooling their land while retain-

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'We will ensure something like aware sater enou necessities of life-that is hous- health, Ing, unemployment pay and a minimum wage. 'Workers will have substan- tial control of industry through the whom trade unions to we shall give all help and facilities.' secular state, Ali In the new claimed, non-Bengalis would be the same as citizens of BanglaDesh. 'Men and women will have the and will vote whatever do be done according to the wishes of the people. 'Naturally any political parties that the people would

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not be allowed. Explaining what would happen to the guerrillas who have fought make Bangla Desh a reality, Ali said: *They will voluntarily lav down their arms. Thev know they have done their job and that they are needed for national reconstruction. 'We won't need a vast army.

Just a token uncle Lalu law and order of times emergency' The Indians helping were them their feet find with army and civil officers, but Ali said these would leave soon as Bengalis could take over.

ca MP, Mr Subid Ali. Non-aligned ing full individual rights over it.

He said his country's foreign 'Ninety per cent of our people policy would be non-aligned and are peasants and we have a very discussing W relations with because them Plan Bengal he said: hey have suffered the worst. 'We don't consider relations 'Ultimately will distribute we with Bengal in particular. W the land so there are no land- Bengal part and parcel of less But immediately Peasants India and she will be benefited anyone up. to tour result rela- of land would his acres have debt to the state cancelled and would in future be exempt from He said he Saw no reason paying to the govern- why world shouldn't recog- ment. nize Bangla Desh, including Pak- istan, whom he stressed 'had no right keep Sheikh Mujibur Nationalizing Rahman- the head of state of an independent country. If Pakistan releases Mujib, 'Jute will be nationalized to check the said: "This will do deal exploitation of the relations poor peasants who will be given normalizing with Pakistan and might help a reasonable create price tor their raw jute by a jute marketing board.

triendly relations. But war is war and Ali warned 'The made will be invested for the that the sentiment of the people benefit of the "very Jute industry and the ordinary strong' against colla- emphasized jute growers. borators, though he that his government had prom- *The government will also help ised they would be dealt with the cottage industries. according to the law of the land.

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BY MICHAEL

BANDA

SUBID ALI'S remarks will come as no surprise to regular readers of the Workers Press. mem in every detail, nod weth unre troable thesis that esse that t hearties nationalist Desh Bangla Awam world imperialism They only change patronage Indian capitalists. an hernie struggle con. ducted the workers and The workers will work peasants the capitalists, will accumu- Is usual there is the "left' lemagog national interest', 'equality' and even the aboltion of the bour.

geoisie'. Considerial-shek that Chiang other leaders of the Kuomintang were and see long lie wor reass could be statement the much in the fration or bour.

tradition of hour. nationalism worker apitalists, land ind banke Mukti Bahini guerrillas carry a wounded comrade.

Facia tare them workers ems peasants? industrialzauon capital loans to asian countries •hey are. intensifies 52 per cent.) denendence Bangla • Rural and urban unemploy- Desh imperialist The only way out cycle the inance and industry transter ducted on extremely explitat increased and oppressed peasantry. through direct taxation the gradual collectiviza- through end urbation or industrat is a a relatively ation of industrial under- tion of the peasantry and. imme- produced development. diate idustrialization on a plan- cost. exploitation ned basis. (It has Utopian Asian countries In the market,

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Not so much Lippe IF YOU think TUC chief Vic Feather doesn't look too happy in the picture above, you'd prob- ably be right. You see the bespectacled, be- chinned and bow-tied bod stand- ing next to him is Irwin Lippe, labour attaché at the US embassy in London. And friend Irwin has just dropped a bit of a brick.

The unhappy occasion was last month's London conference on industrial relations legislation sponsored by Leo Kramer Inter- national Ltd. 'Lippy' Lippe, as he must in- evitably be called, devoted several hundred words to eulogizing the American system of trade union law, on which the Tory Indus- trial Act Feather claims to oppose is based. But he led into these remarks with a lot of guff about how the average US worker is not an- tagonistic to the capitalistic sys- tem as such'. , prefers quick action for quick results 'pie-in-the- to sky' changes in the system, be- has lieves he *access to the •powers and favours of govern- ment'- in fact all the things the TUC is trying to tell workers in Britain. And the heart of Feather, who privately believes that all left- wing are just "barnacles groups on the boat' (the ship of state?), must have missed a beat when the American intoned: • the American worker did not have to fall in with radical political groups in order to in- fluence government • • It's a pity about Lippy The workers' judge WHAT KIND of men will be investigating trade unionists who wrong side of the get on the Tories' Industrial Relations Act?

One of them is Harold de Ville, a member of the Com- mission on Industrial Relations. De Ville is executive director of British Insulated Callender's

(BICC),

Cables special with responsibility for personnel and productivity. Last year he played the lead- ing role in preventing the BICC staff association with merging Clive Jenkins' of Association Scientific, Technical and Man- agerial Staffs. The staff association's central committee backed the merger and the issue the was put to vote of the 8,000 members.

De Ville struck back at this attempt to build a union in his industrial empire by withdrawing all facilities from the associa- tion. He stopped them using notice- which made it difficult boards, to hold meetings and campaign for the merger. • He encouraged members not to vote via a circu- lar to all the staff. As a result, the proposal was narrowly defeated since a majority of the total membership needed to vote in favour before the move could go ahead. The association therefore remains in the best non-militant traditions of these kind of organ- izations. two full-time officials are Its paid by the company and, of it has been accepted course, onto the provisional trade union register under the Act. In order to get onto the full register, the Registrar has to be satisfied that it is an indenend.

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HOURS after the liberation of Dacca by Indian and Bengali troops, IAN YEATS obtained this interview with Dacca MP Subid Ali.

capitalist INDEPENDENT Bangla Desh will treat Pakistani businessmen the same as fore SP all nationals, Dacca Subid Ali told me on t management' hours after Indian troops liberated the city nadi from the of outchers Bengal. He said this would happen, if friendly relations between India and Pakistan grow and it is to the benefit of the and a minimum wage. people. shall gade ain top and tacti crippling war-ravaged months.

same as citizens of Ever hiner states see us aid frantid Desh. flux of esirability or the personine to the wite!

sane he people dey difical- Aims and open reade relations.

emergency.' wanting jute, and for future indus- Feeara. econ on mitted Post-war Dacca MP, Mr Subid Ali. Non-aligned ing full individual rights over it.

ance companies. non alied pla suffered ave ecause Bengal he said: Sentiment the worst. relations Country. orkers control Workers would tions wish India our trade feed would have his All claimed the men bee new: michl. lize the bay has plans to nation Fishmato- Nationalizing which Pakistanis. tives available. So ence on in be Bi -Bat it by th no and 10 added: and will definitely be ne of training there wil be no conomic goi amsociety invested for t made will the nen1 this mond o agriculture ordinary ute grousery and the nationaliza- tice according to the lan of the land and while raren The governmen will also help steel, he cottage industries

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12.00 Workers Press, Thursday Decemb Bangla Desh remains a client state of world imperialism.

BANDA

BY MICHAEL

SUBID ALI'S remarks will come as no surprise to regular readers of the Workers Press detail, the that inse nationalist Desh the Bangla National League, A wamni Party and They only change one formabya Indian capitalists. fruits of an heroic struggle con- ducted peasants usual there is the "eft" lemagog about 'sacrifice' 'national interest, 'equality' and even the aholition ot the bour geoise. Considering shek the fact Chiang and other leaders of the Kuomintang Moscow even to go to shout rever could repressed, Awami leggle cankacman ic very much in the tradition of hour. geois nationalism. Prads and bankers Mukti Bahini guerrillas carry a wounded comrade.

manhlone workers and peasants? retards industrialization and capital loans to Asian countries They are. 52 percent.) intensifiec denendence • Rural The unemploy- Bance and industry. Bangla only is the and urhan Desh imnerialist nut evcle workers nation industry, banks and a extremely exploitation direct nand none campaign and onpressed neasantry. increased. "aid' and foreign exacerbaton of list under.

greater The low productivity through the peasanaly and time- culture means peasantry and imme- tion of produced relatively lustrialization on a plan- This cost. basis. then indeed ness and Utopian countries in Cipal on tore on one ill read

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lursday December 23, 1971 Not so much Lippe IF YOU think TUC chief Vic Feather doesn't look too happy in the picture above, you'd prob- ably be right. You see the bespuctacled, be- chinned and bow-tied bod stand- ing next to him is Irwin Lippe, labour attaché at the US embassy in London. And friend Irwin has just dropped a bit of a brick.

The unhappy occasion was last month's London conference on industrial legislation relations sponsored by Leo Kramer Inter- national Ltd. 'Lippy Lippe, as he must in- evitably be called, devoted several hundred words to eulogizing the American system of trade union law, which the Tory Indus- on trial Act Feather claims to oppose is based. But he led into these remarks with a lot of guff about how the average US worker is not an- tagonistic to the capitalistic sys- tem as such', prefers quick action sky chich results to 'pie-in-the- changes in the system, be- lieves he 'access the has to and favours of: govern- powers ment'-in fact all the things the TUC is trying to tell workers in Britain. And the heart of Feather, who privately believes that all left- wing groups are just 'barnacles on the boat' (the ship of state?), must have mišsed a beat when the American intoned: '... the American worker did not have to fall in with radical political groups in order to in- fluence government . • It's a pity about Lippy The workers' judge WHAT KIND of men will be investigating trade unionists who get on the wrong side of the Tories' Industrial Relations Act?

One of them is Harold de Ville, member of the Com- a mission on Industrial Relations. De Ville is executive director of British Insulated Callender's Cables

(BICC),

with special responsibility for personnel and productivity. Last year he played the lead- ing role in preventing the BICC staff association merging with Clive Jenkins' Association of Scientific, Technical and Man- agerial Staffs. The staff association's central committee backed the merger the issue and was put to the vote of the 8,000 members.

De Ville struck back at this attempt to build a union in his industrial empire by withdrawing all facilities from the associa- tion. He stopped them using notice- boards, which made it difficult to hold meetings and campaign for the merger. He encouraged members not to vote via a circu- lar to all the staff. As a result, the proposal was narrowly defeated - since majority of the total membership needed to vote in favour before the move could go ahead. The association therefore remains in the best non-militant traditions of these kind of organ- izations. Its two full-time officials are paid by the company and, of it has been accepted course, onto the provisional trade union register under the Act. In order to get onto the full register, the Registrar has to be satisfied that it is an independ- ent organization-'not under the control of an employer'. ternational

PAGE FOUR

Workers Press, Thursday Kraft strike in 6th week WORKERS at Kraft Foods, Kirkby, near Liverpool, are in the sixth week of a bitter strike over the sacking of a fitter. Each day pickets watch the workers at the production plant file through the gates and work with supervisors who are doing the work of on strike. the 150 craftsmen But one of their leaders, Eric Staniford, explained that he did not blame the mainly female labour force. 'Some time ago manage- announced that they ment were 180 workers surplus to requirements. The girls have this redundancy threat hang- ing over them all the time.

If they refuse to work with the scabs they are afraid they , he said. might be sacked, The men believed that the sacking of the fitter is part of a management drive to weed out unwanted labour. In Kirkby this is ho joke —an estimated 20 per cent of the labour force is already on the dole. pickets explain that The the action was against estab- lished discipline procedure under which a man cannot be fired if he had a clean slate like the sacked fitter. They are angry because the Union of En- Amalgamated Workers has gineering re- fused to make the struggle official. refused. of the The last meeting AUEW shop stewards' quar- terlv demanded that AUEW Arthur divisional organizer Hearsey give a full report of talks they claim he was hav- Kraft's personnel ing with director at York. # Cambridge chapel rejects deal CAMBRIDGE journalists have proposed pay rejected the between the agreements National Union of Journalists and the Newspaper Society.

Ray Swingler, father of the News' "Evening Cambridge NUJ chapel, said the mem- bers voted overwhelmingly not to accept the new two- tier wage offer. He said the formula worked out in negotiations on Mon- day night 'inhibited local chapel bargaining on pay, and condi- hours, holidays of work'. The members tions decided to call other on chapels to take similar decisions. No fizz in

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and • buying made £14m in Wharf shares. selling Hay's leave vou with two We which indicate small items what Christmas means to the Tories. the On the day £l in increase' was hailed, Wililam Stern announced his resigna- tion from Freshwater Group, London's biggest private land- lords. Was he going on the dole?

No. He was setting up his own company with over £35m of property. worth Finally, you will be pleased that Christie's, the to know art auctioneers, are not stary- ing. On Tuesday they said there was no truth in rumours that prices for impressionist paint- were sliding. ings A Picasso was recently sold for £280,000. Christie's turn- over for the autumn sales was LONDON Transport yesterday rejected 15 per cent pay claim for 23,000 busmen and made no counter offer.

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01-622 7029 STRONG backing for Bristol's 6,800 Rolls-Royce strikers has been expressed by workers in tnd wood, she strikers seb Bob retary, said yesterday. He told Workers Press after the Patchway, a meeting of Bristol, factory's stewards yes- terday that next week their support will campaign spread into the N° and Scot- land. A Bristol meeting of Rolls combine stewards to discuss the pay dispute, now in its éighth week, , has been put back to January 3 so that Scottish and Irish delegates can attend. The stewards are planning a big press conference next week to publicize their fight government-ap- against the pointed board of Rolsl-Royce (1971; Ltd. Workers Press, Thursday December 23, 1971 WHILE upper Clyde shop lay, kers represcialives welc one of the closetea wild privale enter prise managements talks atecting 430 100 British rown Lid. will happen to and BSC plans ® Davi wane Tos. ies, chet-man to sell off useful River Don's thi and invest Smial olicy Finniston workers chief.

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god-like status. Europe. truit He is also asking for fun- died is said that he Chilean camenla clauses and returned to life common Markel s agricul Prospad dis claim he tural policies and the dis- sima incom mantling

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BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

CHILE'S right wing is losing no opportunity to He calls for sanctions against mobilize its forces and probe the Pen Washington ten out nesses of President Salvador Allende's Popular cribed time. Unity government. Rains cented to imped the preparanon

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