Workers Press no. 664

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

BY MICHAEL BANDA

HATRED of the ruthless policies of the National Coal Board and the Tory government reached a new pitch at the weekend when 12,500 white collar staff employed by the NCB voted to join national miners' the strike. What The strike enters its second 260,000 week today with workers out. All the signs are we that the Tories' plan is to try and starve the miners back. think The decision by the Colliery and Official Staffs' Section of the NUM the strike to join hardening in the ranks of the miners. marks TUC winks, The clerks proclaimed their "Tribune' solidarity despite the attempts of the NCB to cajole them to nods and despite remain at work the pleas of Joe Gormley Mr Leslie Stor NUM their A. 'TRIBUNE' is the paper of the said the 'lefts' in the secretary, parliamentary executive's that instruction Labour Party. the clerks should stay at work staff armed with was 'unworkable'. Its is poisonous pens for attacking "There is weight a growing the Socialist Labour League of support for the strike and and with whitewash brushes "all-in" "all- we took an or for dealing with the right- ¡ out" decision. Our wages fol- leaders, trade the wing union low industrial grades, so during a miners' strike as the ste equally caught up in at every other time. strike. I think picketing probably caused people a fight? According to the current realize they were in the decision by the issue, The

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wanted Finance and General Pur- white collar keep Committee of the men poses TUC General Council not running the highly elaborate

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and computer centres to convene a special meet- pay offices where wages, pen- of transport ing unions to sions and income tax rebates discuss action to support are handled. the miners was reported in The TUC leader Victor some papers as a serious Feather is being conspicuously setback the National to silent. as this historic con- Union of Mineworkers. In frontation continues: the fact it -was nothing of the leaders of the engineers and kind... power workers by abandon- *The TUC committee decided immediate pay fight ing an such meeting against have played the also into basically two reasons: Tories for hands of the and left first, because a decision to the miners isolated in their instruct trade unionists not pay battle. to cross picket lines would As the clerks were taking achieve the same purpose; their decision, Wheldale and secondly because such Castleford miners at were meeting could leave the unanimously supporting a l leaders of other unions calling for the resorudon open to legal action by em- mobilization of all workers to affected ployers force the Tories to resign.

svin- since they pathetic action, The same meeting voted for held could be have to the return of a Labour govern- instigated the blacking of ment to bring workers' con- goods. trol of the pits and end all *In other words the TUC is old the compensation to choosing to operate on the owners. basis that a nod is as good Meanwhile, on Merseyside, as a wink.' dockers al a mass meets And they explain NUM presi- defied their own leaders' ad- dent Joe Gormley's first vice and decided unanimously reaction of extreme dis- to black all coal, abnormal or the deci- not, and black all firms trying appointment with sion as due to a misunder- to break the coal strike.

standing. The for this necessity Victor 'Only when Feather pointedly re- defiance was phoned him later to spell vealed Portishead, Somer- at out the decision in full, in- where dockers decided to set, cluding the unload 1,200 tons of coal due lines, crossing in from Belfast. leaders realize informed the Presumably that they had not been left

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higher authority own,' explains sycophantiallpaper their docks official, Tom Davis, is reported to have said: All this is so much hogwash, 'The shipment is part of a except the declaration that regular monthly consignment the leaders did not call for station from to the power blacking which we regard as of coal because Belfast, they were afraid. normal cargo. Gormley is a hardened right- Moss, aged 57, Mr Jack he will of winger course lodge secretary at one jump when Feather cracks Wales' collieries, largest the whip. The fact remains and Western, em- Wvndham ploying 1,250 men and a life- that union members expected to do the blacking, of the Labour long member criticized the TUC for without regard to the possi- Party, bility of being taken to a lead. not giving He said: 'It is a fight against while their leaders court. the government and the TUC are avoiding the rap them- should out and not selves. come The miners DID need the co- stand on the sidelines. their statement by ordinating meeting, weekend expect it, and miners' leader Gormley went leaders DID

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of the the refusal path to arbitration: If they [Carr's Department 'inner cabinet' to fight.

In his interview with Workers of Employment] want us to miners' and take part in some Press, secretary come Lawrence Daly said: 'I could conciliation procedure we short-term would have to look at it. Any not- envisage a struggle ending successfully at conciliation which attempt us without the support for could lead to settlement of the other unions-and would get me to go any- that is why we will be where' (Our emphasis.) pressing for that when we There future for is no to meet them miners under the Tories-only expect to- (Tues- their complete degradation.

morrow afternoon Only the resignation of this day, January 11]. Editor Richard Clements and hated and the government have proved election of a Labour govern- his team yet again that they are good for ment committed to establish- except to provide a ing workers' control in the nothing flimsy *left' cover for the mines and power stations and right-wing leadership of the expropriating the rest of in- trade unions and the Labeur dustry can secure the miners' Party. future. workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JANUARY 17, 1972 • NUMBER 664 E1,250 Fund Strike stays despite now £658.90 Miners run the risk the Fund is absolutes, Rhodesia shootings

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Arrests STRIKING African mineworkers at the Shabani asbestos mine /v miles from me Anodesian capital decided yesterday to continue their strike ES in Ghana in the face of police terror and intimidation.

1 Post all opened Last week Douce siately tor dona fire on the strikers. Killin Speed-up and GHANA'S new one 9-vear-old miner wounding several others. Claphan leader Col I. K. Akyeam- would be and on snootin pong has arrested Gen pletel unnecessary Akwasi Afrifa, leader of stewards' the coup which toppled job at Decca Kwame President Nkrumah in 1966.

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radar facing a management bid to Reports from the capital speed-up of Accra say that Afrifa is the way fors It is most unlikely that the examin Ringuiy only one of several dozen Tory-appointe during e shooting

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coalous on a pay bial leadine muntary men and meeting stewardi 'protective • asbesto fromand. politicians in

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which coulsured-Day „directlyk pay system. melying of sitest so voted meeting. of almost called on full rate union officials to investi- has da all portial part and Hanl civilian (Europe) own yesterday stenco whose brie. gustin laborat shanas wrestre en o wever when pressed the anat Her, was in favour of seigne ere caring could By almost the same mone! laid by Dece e when he ° operatio unloniate demonstrated at the now-occupied Fisher-Bendix factory, Kirkby, on Merseyside, at the weekend Hundreds on 20,000 in car pay battles Kirkby demo erected SCOTLAND'S car and truck African workers and villagers.

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picketed laces a second to replace piecework earnings.

week of total shutdown as Powerful support for jobs.

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steward, Dundee, Milan e Comparade no cali Kinds on commentator, 12 50 are striking for 1 29 incr the Triump workers in the expected to endorse t end thei strike

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ery death play and produc strike ninatection statement support of the oce eaflets during 1970 and 197l The women are on strik Right to work Mersey dockers back campaign begins Jan 26 strike DOCKERS in Britain's six key ports will strike GLASGOW FEBRUARY be ma LIVERPOOL FEBRUARY 10 for 24 hours on Tanuary

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MONDAY JANUARY 17, 1972 • NUMBER 664

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Clerks defy NUM and join strike £1,250 Fund Strike stays despite now £658.90 Miners run the risk Rhodesia shootings certainly Arrests STRIKING African mineworkers at the Shabani of fighting alone 12° asbestos mine 270 miles from the Rhodesian capital decided yesterday to continue their strike with in Ghana in the face of police terror and intimidation.

and Last fire Speed-up 19-year-old THANA new multary leader Col I. K. Akyeam- would be pong has arrested Gen stewards' Akwasi Afrifa, leader of

BT MICHAEL DANUA

yesterday. the coup which toppled HATRED of the ruthless policies of the National said return job at Decca President Kwame Coal Board and the Tory government reached a 12,500 white Nkrumah in 1966. new pitch al the weekend water DECCA radar workers are collar staff employed by the NCB voted to join Reports from the capital facing a management bid to miners' national of Accra say that Afrifa is ted likely pave the way lor speea-up strike. What only one of several dozen and redundancies during wethe tries con negotiations on a pay claim.

leading military men and examine out. All the 'protective we he miners politicians in

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shall prov TUC winks, Paoublemakers witt "Tribune' nods A kyeampong's ceo officials to investi TRaliamentary pas in the secret police are 1 gate' it. Col Akyeampong has set up Labour Parry, a number of job-evaluation scheme officovernmend staff s for attackith internation Attorney-General. situation. swas own yester he The whose nestion the industrial The sine ale cent refused permission So coo an aw matra very other time. Salisbury. Healey, Accounthe decision by ent realize Finance speration Generacil Britan should send rop: meet- are bandie neome las put down Smiled Drops should reeyside, at the weakend action to -occupied Fisher-Bendix factory, Kirkby, on M Maces robler 20,000 in car pay battles Hundreds on emback pers as this costoric con of Mineworkers Kirkby demo In it -was nothing of the SCOTLAND'S car and truck philosophipparently wer worker SEVERA hundred

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Bands di the Tore industry faces second week of total shutdown as Powerful support for jobs.

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10,000 production workers 9.000 Czech arrests workers will be idle today in clerks were heldale against closure. continue their strikes for campaign in car industry Midlands due to strikes in Prague erikes dockers and inters.

and secondly pay increases of between f8 and lay-offs. wei it fave components fac and f9. Cree H the or circle all plane At the Ryton-on-Dunsmore Chrysler oding pa it day that the in tha unions their backing. with the senior Ryton workers at Coventry.

great morale to how thre result ten -day Duide, or men. Workers bandh Linwood • Ryton with Avenger 1° But the change the bal ties on to i i respected Lonebride plantai ' rom pile he mares and gave a Leyland's пB, 3,200- Triump i he 1300 strike The Linwood Liverp rejected a Chrysler bid to Be workers voted

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JACK GALE continues the history 'Citizen Marx considered the solutlon of the Irish as the solution of the English, and the English as the solution of the European.' Minute of the First General Council of the International, December 14, 1869: WHILE CARSON and the British Tories were prating about their 'rights' and "free- doms' and 'ancient traditions' the condition of the Irish working class was not only amongst the worst in Europe-it was amongst the worst in the world. In 1911 the 'Medical Press' commented the infant on mortality rate as follows: 'According to latest the the death rate in returns, Dublin was 27.6 per 1,000- the highest in any city in Europe, the next highest being Moscow, 26.3 per 1,000. In in the presence of Calcutta, and cholera, the rate plague was only zer analys of infant earlier analysis mortality rates (for 1905) showed in clearly the class divisions Dublin: professional classes 0.9 per 1,000; the middle class 2.7; small shopkeepers artisans and 4.8; unskilled workers 27.7 per 1,000. This high death rate of child- ren in Dublin was closely con- nected to housing conditions.

government inquiry into Dublin Housing Conditions in November 1903 revealed that 5,322 tene- accommodated ment houses a total of 25,822 families-or 87,305 people. 20,108 families occupied one room each.? same inquiry revealed The that Dublin Corporation did not enforce its own sanitary laws the Surprisingly in tenements. enough, 13 members of the cor- had direct financial poration interests in tenement property.

Ireland as a whole was being depopulated. Before the famine of the 1840s over 8 million people lived there. By 1910, there were only 4 million. But it was the countryside that was being laid Those who could waste. afford to, went to America. Those who couldn't rise to that, came to England. The very poor- who could afford neither, est, but were forced off the land anyway, flocked into the city slums-particularly Dublin.

In 1910, the wages of an un- skilled labourer in Dublin aver- aged 14s a week for men and The lls for women. average was 90 hours working week long.* But the working class would not stand for it. From 1907-1908 led the Belfast -when Larkin insters, Cater it aerotest of in strike after strike-a wave militancy spread throughout Ire- land. This found its organiza- tional expression in the form of Transport Union the Irish in Dublin in 1909, with January James Larkin its organizer. as (Larkin had been repudiated by executive of the the Liverpool Dockers' Union, of which he had been organizer, temporary strike because of his Belfast activities.) Transport Union The - an "New of the Union- extension ism' which had emerged from "Dockers' Tanner' the British strike of 1889-made its appeal directly to the unskilled, unorgan- ized, poverty-stricken workers Dublin The the tenements. employers were outraged, it was unheard for such men to make a stand against them!

(Trade unionism was not new in Ireland, of course. In one of Engels describes how his letters, the Dublin Congress of the Gas- workers' and General Labourers' of Great Britain - in Union Engels' opinion, the most pro- gressive union of the timé-sent Eleanor Marx to represent them at the International Socialist Workers' Congress in Brussels in 1891.') leader of the Dublin The employers was W. M. Murphy.

Murphy owned railway and tram- in Belfast, undertakings way Cork and Dublin as well as tramways in London, Ramsgate, and Paisley in Scot- Margate land. He also owned newspapers, a big drapery business and was involved in one way or another 1. Quoted in 'History of the Irish Citizen Army'. R. M.

Fox, p. 20. 2. Quoted in A. Wright 'Dis- turbed Dublin'. Wright had no reason to exaggerate- his book was paid for by the Dublin employers to put their side of the 1913 strug- glel 3. W. P. Ryan 'Labour Revolt and Larkinism'. 4. Engels' letter to Sorge, August 1891.

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guidance the Employers' Federa- Irish financial in most enter. of their tion presented each one pulses. Murphy workers with the following of the One Davels Trish Independ. owned was the document: "independent' this ent'. Just how I hereby undertake to carry by of was, is shown one by a on behalt of t me paper given its most famous articles 'Why behalf of my employers Oppose Socialism?' and, further, to imme- agree Because, said Murphy's rag: diately membership of resign my Its philosophy as laid down the Irish Transport and General in the 'Bible of Socialism' (Karl Workers' Union (if member) "Capital") Marx's is based on and I further undertake that the materialist conception of his- will not join or in any way sup- port this union." tory. Because the founder of On 21. 1913, the August Marx, that doctrine, was an Tramways Com- Dublin United atheist and bitterly avowed each of its 100 em- pany issued teachings of Christ opposed the ployees in the parcels department and his church. with the following notice: would Because socialism destroy 'As the directors understand the of the sanely of the family and the home, for which that you are a member Transport Union has Irish whose the Catholic church always stood. methods are disorganizing the of the city, 12. Because socialism stands trade and The scene in O'Connell Street on 'Bloody Sunday', August 31, 19 baton charges. they do not further require your for free love, and derides mar- parcels traffic will calling capitalistic services. The riage, If institution and a tool for exploi- temporarily suspended. not a member of the you are 15. Because socialism justifies union when traffic the for child murder, resumed, your application abortion, will be favourably tion of reproduction, prevention employment considéred." of conception, and its advo- Murphy did the same trish with cates proclaim it. 16. Because socialists hate the every worker Independent'. The Great Lock- Catholic church and condemn it Out had begun. enemy of workers. whose beginning, Murphy friend it has been through the The had the full support of the ages." To this end, he dismissed every Fox. op. cit. p. 25. joined worker who the Transport Union, and under his Notes' 7. See Intelligence 1913-1916, Irish State Emmet Larkin James 5. See Papers, p. 39. Larkin', p. 100. Irish Citizen Army men on the roof of Liberty Hall.

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When the timber and cement locked merchants out their September 22, the workers total number of affected men was brought to 25,000.9 It due this struggle Was LU that the Irish Citizen Army was The Irish workers formed. learned the rapidly that only rights they had were those they Even when rights fought for. they existed existed in law, only when in practice backed by up The for force. right to picket, right but example, was a legal attempts to that exercise led to incidents like the follow- ing: 'When the demand for legal rights made. the police was explained that they couldn't dis- tinguish pickets from corner boys So and hooligans. arranged have armlets with topicket" the word them to on help the police in their dilemma.

Also the clause in the Trades Dispute granting the Act right to picket was printed on a hand- bill and each picket given onArmed with these safeguards, another picket out for set Jacob's. He walked jauntily, feel- his legal rights assured.

'The policeman on duty looked "What baleful at him eye. WiTn d've think doing?" he you're ugust 31, 1913, during the police děmanded. Picketing," said the little man brightly. significant it It is that "See my armlet!" he pointed Larkin, who was organizing to the official badge. charged with strike, who was "The gave him policeman Sir Edward Carson, sedition. sour look He pulled out the band who organized an armed with leaflet and read eager it against a decision of the House The policeman confidence. list- Commons, and incited of ened grimly, fingering his Finished club. officers desert, was never • "Have he charged at all. On the contrary, asked as the little man paused was appointed First Lord of he "Yes, that's all," breathless. was the Admiralty. A clearer example the response. of the class nature of British • "Well, take that!"-the club justice would be hard to find.

whistled through the air and fell The employers, however, were with a thud, raising a lump on determined to Larkin. get the picket's head. The policeman and August Between January was certainly not going to stand 1913, there had been more than Dublin, and key 30 strikes in 9. Sat h, p. 1zZarkin, James 8. Ibid. p. 42.

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The Stalinist Crisis THE WORLD Stalinist press mand, addressed the congress. of praising the achievements gave extensive publicity to what he termed the 'corrective movement' in Syria under presi- the recent congress of the dent Lt-Gen Hafez al-Assad.

Lebanese Communist Party The Syrian Communist Party is also illegal. not because the party has a Clearly, Stalinist policy in the particularly massive follow- is abandon Arab countries every vestige of independent ing, but because it is now the organization of the working class, only legal Communist Party of complete capitula- in favour tior to the reactionary national in the Arab world. bourgeoisies. The persecution meted out to This was reflected even more the other Arab in clearly in the discussion on the communists the did not stop Palestinian liberation movement.

countries organizers inviting representatives Gennady Sizov, Soviet tne from the ruling parties of Egypt the delegate, set the tone to extending and Syria and discussion in report which invitation to further meetings to stressed the need to support the Iraqi rulers. November 1967 resolution of the UN security council. In fact, the congress offered calls for the tripartite resolution. full support to poitical settlement of the Middle federation recently formed East question, with Israeli with- tween Syria, Egypt and Libya, a all federation which is clearly aimed drawal the territories trom occupied in the June 1967 against the socialist revolution in for the Arab world. Support resolution involves the complete abandon- was the close collaboration ment of the Palestinian people's Egyptian Anwar Dremier for with the fanatically legitimate national demands Sadat •anti- of their of the return communist Colonel Gaddafi snatched by the Zionists.

the which helped smash Libya declaration The final of the left-wing coup d'état in the made clear that this congress is indeed the cP's policy.

Sudan last year: Communist Party Sudanese It hit out • particularly at the Abdul Mahgoub was secretary executed in the blood purge that left wing the Palestinian liberation movement: followed, with together 'Congress takes positive majority of the party's central the November of stand on leadership. Thousands Security Council resolution and munists are now rotting in regards as incorrect the general Sudanese jails. itself, the Egypt Sadat rejection political solution In of certain parts the Arab regime has carried out a ruth- Nasserite liberation movement and the pro- less purge the voking artificial leadership's left wing. ot controversied between the political and military The recent trial of Ali Sabry struggles. led to savage prison sentences.

In other words, as far as the Yet the ruling Arab Socialist Stalinists concerned the are Union sent Lufti al-Khuli Palestinians will have learn as the Lebanese live with Israel, and. their delegate to to to the must be sub- with full speaking military must sub- congress rights. ordinated to t which will Similarly, Suhayl Sukkariyah, a the Arab bourgeoisie, of Syrian member the Socialist quite content the Israelis Arab Ba'ath Party national com- pre-1967 lines. withdraw to the Sadat (left) and Gaddafi.

THE FUNERAL of Marshal The purge of the opposition Chen Yi Foreign Minister of and increasingly dominant China-was for role of Chou En-lai in the gow the occasion ernment is connected with the announcing the new leadership rapid rightward evolution of the of China's ruling group last Chinese CP after the curbing of week. the cultural revolution and the Since the cancellation of the thousands of youth to exile ot National Peoples' Congress the interior from the towns.

1n September speculation has been This in is linked to turn about mounting purge Chinese serious crisis in the s China's top leadership" and the whereabouts of Marshal Lin Piao economy One reason for announcing the the presumed successor to Mao may well he the fact new fict as well as Chen Po-ta, Mao's that the Russian authorities president ghost writer and of after some hesitation Academy - have the Chinese of the finally identified of Sciences. victims of the Trident crash radio Last an- Mongolia four months ago as the nounced the new which 64-year-old Marshal Lin. 25 omitted almost half. of the Wile obscurity saishan els members of the Chinese CP causes Lin's Politbureau. Prominent the abortive escape the evolution of among indicates Marshal Lin, oreign policy omissions were Yen Chun (Lin's nd Chen. Chen Po-ta. that wife), Huang Yen-sheng, chief of veteran -were the general staff, Fa-hsien, Wu commander of the air force and macy' were seeking Hsieh Fu-chih, chief of public rapprochement with Russia to strengthen China's armed forces.

security forces. CHARLES CLARK (90), who workea nis stands Kiaenavon's local pils. ınsıde his crumbling NCB cot- lage. He sole remaining lne inhabitant of this row of houses, where he has lived since 1914.

a lot IVOR JONES believes in It's not 1920 now. reople nar walking lotnine tnen *ye were That's he coal. why barefoot. 800. Wher Coal is a veg 10% ehose sinad three works in the pit as his Medicines, uIel le nyions and. crowns to last me father did before him. even margarine •COnl We coal. snoula tnik ol 1 tnink nanonalizing these.' heats his home his with wite watee coal. to be pushed around ano ooe his не сіль " maT 'Andrade that Not 'We e rike down a needed it. Wer control of like this natural sast dabre. t become redilist economy couid NatiOlldlizcu i 6. and a crippled brother don t think it will ever awindle to know onat will Bur i don Ben Nitr ti as nst. which once made everything trom DIt to locomotives disappear.

ee but: you hafy days Barnavon wir the fn soaster work week overtime. They're counting over- million with craftsman' lle as wases. think tais strike coula I e e dins oue or eight TO1 Dul l Blaenavon coal? sailed Nationalization, was a ey've had uple are har broughat in aizat onh wat bee in after cnows if w Capee lt ase Fais đown so we'll get sener Cue che doled tho oave spent Buto'se Dus Theya Country struggles onl pit emaners and iron masters.

portig mo new euronits and to eat gras: "They tose tilion our fighing tradition because bronat Security Ba ihe cas caled a sana bose Tray pel be going out and otning golng 1 IE thi ll in new equipment but they took its safety try to stop ture of defiance. Ire the cost out ol us Dy increasing "Tonypandy. theyse ond energ n ted oma ind! productivity. 'Asd we still dave to ne mate coal but there'll be man riots if they do: every lions pounds owners. The Dits a profit Lown make evt. u's r me it was stopped until they take man. His om the Ton. But for the Man that from mind lived and at ers nite old coa- , Jones will die in neither he the coal. bui KnOW when some who sold out nor anyone else Will ownets tney our une literally starve. down money they coal Said Mr Jones, 'We've been products. males are pald living wage.

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Workers Press. Monday Januar

BY IAN YEATS

Ivor Jones at the Comrades Club in Blaenavon.

'We are" the producers. We dues to the union since paying due the Even 1926. Where has the money are best money. if they gave us the 59 we asked gone? for I'd only £4.50 after tax get *We've got no strike pay but and i lot of the rest would be our national officials get £60,000 swallowed by the cost of living.

a year for expenses!' The Welsh coalfield is at war.

The 400 Blaenavon "The men have Tory government is the been warned that their already permanently could close if pit At a crowded bus station they refuse to allow safety men cafe across the mountain from to work. Blaenavon the hub-bub of voices But the time has come when dead and radio is stops the will turned up for news of the strike.

miners longer go the for Every head is raised. down pit starvation wages. 'Ezra's only offered Outside carloads Us of pickets Robens what promised 60 strong the valleys _us two years ago', he said. watching the scab lorries trying to move stocks. "They sell coal at the pit head for f6 a ton but 200 yards down If their leaders stand firm the road selling merchants there's not a man not prepared it for f14 a ton. to go the whole way. YORKSHIRE: 11.00 For Schools.

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PAGE THREE

Incomplete works publisher Manuel

SPANISH

Lara, who made his millions under the fascist regime of Gen Franco, recently had a brilliant publish idea: why not the general's Complete Works?

it After doing his sums, became clear that many millions were to be made by publishing the 'Caudillo's' of two tomes speeches and messages which would find an automatic sale to bodies, unions, official state town-hall libraries etc, etc.

Immediately Lara hired a team "scholars' of to prepare the Complete Works. When this work was well under way, our humble financier sought Franco's Franco authorization and caused tone Prado causeanco's furore in official residence. The chief had seen an outline of the edition and was most annoyed to see that it included his most extreme fascist texts of 1934-1936, including the years his messages to Hitler and Mus- solini. It even had the famous Seville in which he speech offered a million Spanish soldiers for the defence of Berlin'.

this was 'unpublishable' All said the Prado. Most apologetic- ally Lara had to abandon his lucrative project. No doubt Lara would be most pained if he knew that Franco's self-imposed censorship arose from the 'Saviour of Spain's' wish not to upset unduly his friends in the Stalinist bureaucracies in Eastern Europe... Donald's the threat ONE OF the main forces work- ing against the transformation of Chile into a socialist state has now been revealed as... Donald Duck. Duck-who masquerades as a children's cartoon character -iS a threat to Chilean reality with his stance as an advocate of bourgeois imperialism, according to a book published recently.

Entitled 'How to read Donald.

Duck' by the literary critic Ariel Dorfman and Belgian socialist Armand Mattelart, book the reveals that Donald is a danger to a socialist nation and a threat minds of young to the com- munists. Apparently a best-seller in Chile's capital Santiago, the work fearlessly exposes that there than •casual reasons' are more for the lack of parents for the Donald Duck nephews - Huey, Louie and Dewey. It seems that the reasons' are that Duck has a sado-masochistic relationship with the nephews.

The writers conclude that this 'aberrant world' is created to shield readers from the 'normal sexuality of children?. important Other chapters reveal examples of Donald's skin- fint uncle who takes advantage of people to make his fortune.

In the light of this investiga- tion other so-called harmless characters being are now "investigated'. In some circles Tom and Jerry are being casti- gated as sado-masochistic.

in his pocket, have With the penetrating researches surely President Allende will trouble no with his "peaceful road to socialism' even in this period of crisis for the world capitalist system. Who knows where it all might end...?

READERS

LETTERS

WELCOME

The Editor, Workers Press, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4.

The Stalinist Crisis the THE WORLD Stalinist press mand, addressed congress, of the achievements praising gave extensive publicity to what he termed the 'corrective Syria congress of the movement' prest- the 1n. under recent dent Lt-Gen Hafez al-Assad.

Lebanese Communist Party- Party The Syrian Communist is also illegal. not because the party has a Clearly, Stalinist policy. in the follow- particularly massive abandon Arab countries is to ing, but because it is now the of independent every vestige organization of the working class, only legal Communist Party in favour of complete capitula- tion in the Arab world. the reactionary national bourgeoisies. The persecution meted out to This was reflected even more Arab the other clearly in the discussion on the communists in the did countries not Palestinian liberation movement. organizers inviting representatives Gennady Sizov, the Soviet from the ruling parties of Egypt for the delegate, set the tone and Syria and extending an discussion in which report invitation to further meetings to the stressed the need to support the Iraqi rulers. November 1967 resolution of the offered UN security council. fact, the In This for resolution calls full to the tripartite support East question, with israeli wide be- federation recently formed Israeli with- Egypt and question, Syria, Libya, a witn tween drawal from the territories federation which is clearly aimed occupied in the June 1967. against the socialist revolution in Support for this the Arab world. resolution the involves complete abandon- It was the close collaboration of the Palestinian people's Egyptian. Anwar premier legitimate national for the fanatically demands Sadat with •anti- the of their Colonel Gaddati of return territories communist snatched by the Zionists.

which helped the Libya smash The final declaration of the left-wing coup d'état in the made clear that this congress Sudan last year. is indeed the CP's policy.

Sudanese Communist Party hit out particularly at the Abdul Mahgoub was secretary left wing of the Palestinian executed in the blood purge that liberation movement: the followed, together with 'Congress takes positive majority of the party's central stand on. the November 1967 Thousands of leadership. Security Council resolution and are now rotting in

MUTESS

regards as incorrect the general Sudanese jails. itself, rejection political solution In Egypt the Sadat ot a of by certain the Arab regime has carried ruth- out Darts liberation movement and the pro- Nasserite less purge of the leadership's left wing. voking artificial controversies between the political and military The recent trial of Ali Sabry struggles. led to savage prison sentences.

In words, as far as the other concerned Yet the ruling Arab Socialișt Stalinists are the Union sent Lufti al-Khuli Palestinians will have learn Lebanese delegate the live with Israel, and. their congress with full speaking military struggle be sub- ordinated to rights. the requirements of Similarly, Suhayl Sukkariyah, the Arab bourgeoisie, which will member of the Syrian Socialist the Israelis quite content withdraw pre-1967 lines. Arab Ba'ath Party national com- to the Sadat (left) and Gaddafi.

THE FUNERAL of Marshal The purge of the opposition Chen Yi-Foreign Minister of and the increasingly dominant Chou in the gov- for role of En-lai China-was the occasion connected with ernment is the announcing the new leadership rapid rightward evolution of the of China's ruling group last Chinese CP after the curbing week. cultural revolution and the the Since the cancellation of the exile af thousands of youth to Congress National Peoples' in the interior from the towns.

September has been speculation This in turn is linked to about in mounting purge crisis in the Chinese the China's top leadership and economy. whereabouts of Marshal Lin Piao One reason for announcing the —the presumed successor to Mao well the fact new list may be as well as Chen Po-ta, Mao's that Russian the authorities— of ghost writer and president after hesitation have some the Chinese Academy of finally identified of the one Sciences. victims of the Trident crash in Last week Peking radio an- Mongolia four months ago as the nounced the new list which 64-year-old Marshal Lin. omitted almost half. of the 25 Chinese CP While obscurity still envelops members of the Lin's Politbureau. the causes of Marshal abortive evolution of Prominent the escape the amona Marshal Lin, Mao's foreign policy indicates omissions were Pota-a Yen that Lin and Chen Chen Po-ta, Chun (Lin's chief of Stalin-worshipper-were wife), Huang Yen-sheng, veteran diplo- the general staff, Wu Fa-hsien, opposed to the and and seeking commander of the air force macv' chief of rapprochement with Russia to Hsieh Fu-chih, public China's armed forces. strengthen security forces.

CHARLES CLARK (90),

who worked his time in most of stands local pits, blaenavon s inside his crumbing NeD col labc. He is the sole remaining inhabitant of this row of houses, where he has lived since 1914.

Said ney hanes There but notting the hen. new. Pe walking IVOR JONES believes in money every should be That's why he men coal. the pit as his fied in those six months. whe nauonalized coal ls a veze- works In half tation. started naa CosteLlo, father did before him. nylons crowns to last me. there's with more acter- heats ater with home mination than aver there coal to be pushed around a no more going cooks a coal he fire. told Club Not Comrades like this natural gareliable.

economy could brother on titlan n a very ot them cow workers, vee crippled has ¡ones We ars let 'But pits don't an whats m and trades Pace one happen. In a Know • locometres sense historv repeats itself.

was the finest towr blaenavon with craftsman's local prideasted like they did in hadt one all the trades here. We Nationalisa back nrst bessemer and Serenes as on laesar coal e they se reak? salicu real gain. people are hard support of the transport unions Blaenavon They've had to be. down so wei red the support.

well. Anyone with a Day claim go down they go based, any- but the lories will do against the And thing thi eat grass if they could.

Blaenavon workers They'd owners wouldn t Dit owners and iron masters.

pits and might That fighting tradition has putting in new equipment.

make Bonalization came inhae stin broken again is batery men as an sided se casses: Twe only nationalization on the east naa me same Dosses ture of defiance. equipment they

LICW

econd i increasing 1 to Tuse phe a. Bs in von mind of ing force. the mind mean and woman in move coal lions there'l riots if they do.' Ma there Ivor Jones embodies as much miners wonderine why not getting His istor hey for trends on. But for the miners Told coas of friends and when relations nee her there wourd got coal by literally starve. miners are Jones, Said Mr t We've been

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diver HoBo Far. 5.20 Botims: 5.30 12.10

BY IAN YE

Ivor Jones at the Comrades Club in paying dues to the union since 1926. Where has the money gone? 'We've got no strike pay but our national officials get £60,000 a year for expenses!' The 400 Blaenavon men have already been warned that their pit could close permanently if they refuse to allow safety men to work. But the time has come when no longer the miners will pit for starvation down the 'Ezra's only offered wages. us what Robens promised us two years ago', he said. "They sell coal at the pit head for £6 a ton but 200 yards down the road merchants are selling it for £l4 a ton. THEATRE. 'They Don't All Open Men's N Ireland: 6.00-6.20 Scene around 6.45-7.10 Sports on Monday.

six. 11.37 News, weather. England: 6.00-6.20 Look North, Midlands Look East, loday Points South Today, spot: West West. Weather. 11.37 light South News, weather. Merseum. Ica break. 2:35 Workers Press. Monday January

IAN YEATS

rades Club in Blaenavon. 'We the producers. We are are due the best money. Even if they gave us the f9 we asked for I'd only get f4.50 after tax and i lot of the rest would be swallowed by the cost of living' The Welsh coalfield is at war.

'The Tory government is the enemy. a crowded bus At station cafe across the mountain from Blaenavon the hub-bub of voices dead and radio is stops a turned up for news of the strike.

Every head is raised. Outside carloads of pickets 60 the valleys strong roam watching the scab lorries trying to move stocks. If their leaders stand firm there's not a man not prepared to go the whole way. YORKSHIRE: 11.00 F0*3.Uu Piea Schools. 2.s5 ung.os Yoga. Alone. Pipers. 3.35 Calendar News. ( 3.4> rarmhouse 4.401 оде 4.15 Dick Van Dyke. Once time. 4.3> pon a HR Pufnstui. Boffins. ,.20 5.50 News. 6.00 Lalendar, weather. 6.23 Country calendar. 6.45 London. 10.30 Un- touchables. 11.30 All our yester- days. 12.00 Weather. GRAMPIAN: 11.00 For Schools. 3.37 Grampian News Heaalines. 3.40 Junkin. 4.10 Yoga. 4.40 Boffins. 5.50 News. 4.55 Rovers. bear. 5.20 6.00 Grampian News, 6.10 weather. Country Focus. 6.35 Cartoon time. 6.45 10.30 Grampian London. News Special, 11.15 University chal- lenge. 11.40 epilogue.

SCOTTISH: 9.35

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Schools. Lucy.

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The Tales of Edgar Wal- Half. 11.15 lace. 12.10 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as HTV Wales plus: 8.00-8.30 Yr Wythnos.

Monday January 17, 1972

PAGE THREE

Incomplete works

SPANISH

publisher Manuel Lara, who made his millions under the fascist regime of Gen Franco, recently had a brilliant publish idea: why not general's Complete Works?

After doing his sums, became clear that many millions were to be made by publishing "Caudillo's two tomes of the speeches and which messages would find an automatic sale to bodies, official state unions, ( town-hall libraries etc, etc.

Immediately Lara hired a team of 'scholars' the to prepare Complete Works. When this work was well under way, our humble financier sought Franco's Franco authorization and caused furore in the. Prado - Franco's official residence. The chief had seen an outline of the edition and most was annoyed to see that it included his most extreme fascist texts of 1934-1936, including the years his messages to Hitler and Mus- solini. It even had the famous Seville speech in which he offered 'a million Spanish soldiers for the defence of Berlin'.

All this was 'unpublishable' said the Prado. Most apologetic- ally Lara had to abandon.

lucrative project. No doubt Lara would be most pained if he knew that Franco's self-imposed censorship arose from the 'Saviour of Spain's' wish not to upset unduly his friends in the Stalinist bureaucracies in Eastern Europe. Donald's the threat ONE OF the main forces work- ing against the transformation of Chile into a socialist state has now been revealed as... Donald Duck. Duck-who masquerades as a children's character—is cartoon a threat to Chilean reality with his stance as an advocate of bourgeois imperialism, according to a book published recently.

Entitled 'How to read Donald.

Duck' by the literary critic Ariel Dorfman and socialist Belgian Armand Mattelart, the book reveals that Donald is a danger to a socialist nation and a threat minds of young to the com- munists. Apparently a best-seller in Chile's capital Santiago, the work fearlessly exposes that there are more than 'casual reasons' for the lack of parents for the nephews - Huey, Donald Duck Louie and Dewey. It seems that the 'reasons' are that Duck has a sado-masochistic relationship with the nephews.

The writers conclude that this 'aberrant world' created is to shield readers from the 'normal sexuality of children'. important Other chapters reveal examples of Donald's skin- flint uncle who takes advantage of people to make his fortune.

In the light of this investiga- tion other so-called harmless characters are now being 'investigated'. In some circles Tom and Jerry are being casti- gated as sado-masochistic.

With the penetrating researches in his pocket, have surely President Allende will no trouble with his 'peaceful road to socialism' even in this period of 109Р crisis for the world capitalist system. Who knows where it all might end...?

BENDERS

PTERS

WELCOME

The E 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4.

PAGE FOUR

Workers P Monday January 17, 1972 Cliff Jones talks to Workers Press at his Gilvach home

SCOTLAND

His support for the miners

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

began Ramsay could be used as a substitute not entirely without an element of self-interest Tor coal.

THE

electricity hoard in "There is a lot of sympathy wOrkers Scotland have tried every of thei for Jackson, the present a stare two the miners. like trick to break the dirty own calm an el postmen's leader. made a 2000 miners they • have Chao vears miners' strike by keeping point he on savage redundancy and are fuel supplies flowing into notern productivity. well power stations. The biggest department in the the industry now "manage- Their desperate action the called that hey organize it. exposes

DOAST

efficiency have enormous stocks of coal job is to scheme away how keep Industrial tha generators get rid of ma whatever the running. was the case why

COST.

used if we Board enormous expense and trouble division At Portobello at the

IT'S

very The enginer are hin ranks that makes the Act o ome coal ob hiring bid dangerous. COnVOyS merce Tire contractors for the whale mechanical engineers and the "I'm going electrical engineers. road trom ı00 meet no fonk a station, on on the north side all other people are facing the gc WAl 'Worrero the Horth Every day coursees rent same attacra Really Cockenzie station on the up the miners' strike, it's ntra strike • we're under the ment up-1 also attempt people are going hammer let's Scotland's from Vicker's SUDDIeS • it's the was mines,

BROT

and interor or wate 1930s now, you know why even bring in fuel from miner that have del beer head grade closed but still have heaps low coal at the pit The answer is simple. Mam- moth Cockenzie are fedaby n DOWer 15 trait then...and now dav. Inads black qaz! coa movement MonA thic 'Daily Mirror', May 1926: the miners' strike is peculiarly getting through. enormous

'THE

government cannot daily supply to keep stocks Now that the strike on, capitulate represents †ho hose that any to end it will haranining and must refuse to have to start to keep • afrech the nher are intimidated lapsed burning ¡tune parented editorial Cockenzie птес in another lasts ery Toni headed the government, the sai are likely marginal pits miners' strike itc greates1 some the average man and that tor impact has been therefore the close woman throtonont the coun 'Its effect on jobs solidarity other tong-term on" thA worse Be will prepared accict Andid he tarat has he tha than the aftert Tutte in the : the work maintaining post office workers' strike.'

rank localities. miners the Most alone cross picket Most leaders 'Daily Mirror, January 'Morning Star', January 14, lines'- -instruction. 1972: 1972: But the ground IT WILL be a tragedy if the solidarity and unity this crite s strike is allowed mole this a short and savage wil which successful miners wanted "coal does strire to a finist tragedy and their miners' immediat. not move miners families demands. We Now from within the power the strike "They will face much hard against the Tory gov cotiona thara ic toll of link.

ship. They which will speed the will get stake ernment ing their claim to that of the tragedy defeated and the when it is and imposing a work Cav government country. like that ren aced. side chaos. will take caused nmediat which "The Times', May 1926: the At militant tha workers anc not dinburgh' Portabello

THE

millionaires. prevent power station the Vickers, mining Ramsay enaineer s stomace Party state. failed. Communist The «tawari for mo ha wac randu dustry thi ment, May 5, 1926: to back the miners. monsibility rests with the early days the minore karaiice that Party

"THE

Communist Board were hiring consider reduction workers against could contractor warne the to limit ind in an editorial on Ma.

their hands on. May I and of ottomnt heino made struggle to 3, Unless counsels the and itc expense, enormous self-defence character the prevail we have to foot Canese reason once ee battle has been capitalist bill in the andl TeW OUrS told me that manage- ITa domestic menace vic- nation since approached Portobello hung nuAr thic and hit the fall of the Stuarts the station's if they payi 'Sunday Times', January off the articulated lorries Not a penny d marion Not second on the supplie 1972: use ol mines with- Notinnalize tha that are ucad to start un 'EVEN in the out compensation middle under coal burners have mysteriously workers' control war against cinna thA strice malon

WEATHER

LATENEWS

SLOW-MOVING

trough

NEWS DESK

lie Nto Saver avnentar 01-720 2000 western districts

CIRCULATION

England will be 01-822 7029 It will casional rain at first. with brighter some become Western showers of England and Set showers will remaIn ancinnal mactly rather Tomnar generally will be nea normal. Tuesday Outlook and Some Wednesday: rain but becoming mainly chowerc the pomining nana normal in the W but becoming colder in the SE. Speed-up increases

S WALES

lung disease deaths in pits up as a result of CLIFF JONES' lungs PNEUMOCONIOSIS kills 4,000 miners speed-up and nel nachinery. IAN YEATS talks to one o each year in Wales alone. The rate of are being eaten away. of the dread lung disease its victims about his experiences and As the years go by his caused by breathing in coal dust as his support for the week-old miners' you work deep in the earth and choking -has gone gasping will get worse until one Rean r i ovt tho soup day he'll have nothing to a 100-yard face It was drillisan blew the left to breathe with. ancill ris Socatie Ear Ine ologest ining said Cliff at his see for their tiredness'. indan moree Gilvach counci home e er a dizid - Ta a walk eating the tronser 7 ell. the time * the it was all blackour tommy tin right coal in. they đon carr a da ? chit, haree be duszou lust ins year-oa diferent now. You freeze with all the air. orner work l that us ot shove tee v dein g 1 the were tons a shit

CAN'T WORK

Clif e. His as full of dus terrific in affected. But, hi welc tho here sa tou or Koehng per cent ne cani work ts viny fatal power-loadersars- made cit tod ai Tike cotine the du e neo bles the ach tears dramaical Chirt says, it's all such kelsh minera ee ie do en e It's a all electri

E MIDLANDS

could be knocked out or fight to a finish' productivity Ii Cift first went into the pits DESFORD colliery employs •Last year was the biggest let-down. at as roll have ses about 650 miners ond they unanimously Kend oul been chickenend to bul their £5-£9 were 30 to 40 mer Claill e the Toies tine aged 36, has Press hos. '1926 was like that, really bee wille tho sat idé reparin 'Acceptance thought that in his

BLED FOR YEARS

died 'But of the 20 „s"on 'behal" xiloia tinu of contro —not cause most lads want haltweve been bled for years a ion, because mist ! Right-wing threat after Chilean poll

BY TOM KENI

CHILEANS went to the My face is polls in two crucial by. to the 195 embasss Party has obro constiutiona elections yesterday, as also been incon intact—Sadat the 'left' government ol hiet Salvatore Allende faced PRESIDENT Anwar Sadat of Chile moununs challence speeches sEns from its opponents con- threatening Tae sensine ad cal terac Trolllne tie conuress aid Senate. offens oreakothendo Allende fosa, trom Da dea e i oa that or Interior about this Sadl claimedace about wee Erei Spiro T on ' oltegs

MINERS STRIKE

-DAY NINE

• the crew of the coal ship 'Alain LD', berthed in Cardiff docks workers press Board Idono for the expander 26

CENTRAL LONDON

Wednesday January 19 7 p.m.

ALL TRADES UNIONS ALLIANCE

MELTINGS

Make the Tory Tota poverament

CROYDON:

Thursday January 20, Spm. Rd, Ruskin House, Coombe Roturn a Labour govers Croydon. Support the ment pledged to restore full miners. employment and repeal all laws against the unions.

DAGENHAM:

Wednesday

READING:

Monday 26, 8p.m. Room 11, january January 17, 8 Trades East Ham Town Hall, East p.m. Club, and Labour Minster Ham, *Right-to-Work cam- St. "The Right to Work'. paign'. WILLESDEN: Monday Jan- 55, Op.mo All Hallows Hall, uary 24, 8p.m. Trades and 8p.m. Hallows Labour hall, High Rd, Willes- *Right- Devons Road, Poplar. den NW10. 'Back the miners', to-Work campaign'. 'Force the Tories to resign!'

W LONDON: Tuesday January SW

LONDON:

Tuesday 18, 8p.m. Prince Albert, January 18, 8pm. Small Hall.

Wharfdale Rd, off York Way, Manor Clapham Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4. Kings Cross. 'Back miners: Force Tories to resign'. 'Right-to-Work' campaign.

SOUTHALL:

Tuesday

LUTON:

Thursday January January 18, 8 pum Indian 27, 8p.m. Recreation Centre, Workers' AsSoCiation, The Old Bedford Rd, Luton. Featherstone Rd. 'Right-to-Work campaign'.

-miners' strike'. LONDON: Thursday January W LONDON: Wednesday 20, 8p.m. Town Hall, Edmon- January 19, 8 The pie. 'Support the miners'. Greyhound, Becklow Rd, ton, Acton W12. January 27, 8 p.m. Room 2

LONDON:

CORBY:

Wednesday January Centre. The Right-to-Work 8pm. Civic Deptford Engineers' Club, New Cross Stn. "The opp Right-to-Work campaign' campaign. Socialist Labour Loague Special courses of lectures of ATUA November 6 conterance to In line with decision build revolutionary party Lecture Room 1 Digbeth Hall, Digbeth BIRMINGHAM, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY JANUARY 18

Essential Marxism

TUESDAY JANUARY 25

Economics and Politics

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1

Historical Materialism today Mid-Hall Woodside Hall, St George's Cross GLASGOW, 3 p.m.

SUNDAY JANUARY 23

Essential Marxism

SUNDAY JANUARY 30

Economics and Politics given by G. HEALY (SLL national secretary)