Workers Press no. 666

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What we think Black Africa in revolt THE SPECT the Wien This " is mossane of *Ikelele Africaere, continuous chant of No.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

More to can re tool 70 struck. THE HOUSE of Commons debate yesterday on 4s a result of this massive i was to pearte Comonso the miners' strike proved to be nothing more than a monumental talk-in.

and censultation naing From the Labour benches came a torrent The Tory speakers were of pious irrelevancies. meat about and the n least refreshingly honest - - they espoused class war! cent miners' trike in state are clean The Opposition "attack T&GWU statement is creating was millionaire confusion acrimony in Harold Lever with the Tories greatest threat Britai the Com- acialists get black mon Market. regimes. Social Democratic reformists Prime Rhode i when a go on N° Behind the hatred to the con- e heunder he shador stitutional than rod rural oblem tremendous comfort at these increasing naunting bizarre Hourish of utter ruthless Boisie. the world miners for the duration of the strike. as lons s the 1926 are las thi costs have as the amin MPS Predictably the

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totalling £261 these same did confirm two • The T cias have declared

BY DAVID MAUDE

DOCK union leader Tim O'Leary yesterday iving. attacked next week's proposed nationwide 24.

hour strike against the threat to jobs at most of Britain's major ports. made at eners beat demea de the his allack cass instead of the 54 fore-

YOTE TORIES 007.

General Union's docks and water ways committee in London where 800 dockers have just se hee mamining the actions een tola tney will lose une bs by the end of the yea a ants a reductio O'le pos a programme hot per cent- TIMes refied to convene to convene , dock jobs hac of chieved ahe PIA cons for the alic high vin toreatorats. Similar Cal el were were arbitra- treacherou ion or courts of inquiry kene and Mail wor into made by the en

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 19, 1972

Continual pollce intervention has prevented effective picketing

WEST DRAYTON, MIDDX

WIVES

BITTER

TrON AN AR MINERS picketing Europe's largest coal depot

ABOUT NCB

at W Drayton, Middlesex, said yesterday that scab lorry drivers were taking out hundreds

PAY OFFER

of tons of domestic coal.

And they claimed that the action of the National Coal Board in employing lo non-un men to load. delivery tor

SLOCKS

was keeping

WINERS

Tne only thing supplies moving.

APORT THEIR HUSBA

'It's disgusting,' said Sam vice-chairman. coventry mune ioace. neres-

CLANN

ley. were union

ANI

ther men we could have pulled them out and all this ut This plant, union labour handling union, coal. 'We're taking it up with the committee. DuTt after the strike we'll insist that there union labour at this depot. to d Tarrison me pickets had close scab workers irvine to drive lnei lorries into the depot with- out stopping. picket leader lan drivers all non- union men and were getting no co-operation at all from them. '150 lorries nave left about si to hours. appealed them not

FIFTY

housewives from Rol sover, the coal so move London to their support for their conserved When Call husbands and were met sioners and hospitals. of Commons mine st and the House of Do Dow mine they'll al LEC

SLOCKS

out and ViPs and then went to eye blame us. but its une mer- bitter hencouarters to dune m ICLLeTS. Chants Insisting on sansty- the NCB's paltry ing their own customers. WHose Rusband 1926: *I was ter remembers

'WRONG

witchens and my father wio wa.

'However long they strike miner. they drivers sar Butts. 'We're right union and strike. My husband is a and I work in the Cola 80t miner they've they

DOLI UH

social security under get and laws. f2 is to take a drop in our to accent

W45CO

should be lion wrong. we're Two coach- behind of striking miners and their wives from Kent lobbied belies. DICKeLS

WCIC

the start of the emergency debate une Torced watch ne piessly miners' strike. merchants' lorries piled the high with left deliver But bulk tanker Coal talks stopper T&GWU drivers cross miners' picket lines.

'We can't mount a mass picket, sale brown De- cause the police say that MINERS' leaders have Scotland Britain, and in said to a halt

TUC

agreed to general Wlal Hallel. a member Victor Feather's secretary the Scottish miners' executive.

invitation to meet the Coal The district simke commil this tee Board morning oi the Lothians area

TOT

meet today to extend the ban 'talks about talks'. on oil. said yesterday to me Sam Harrison stalls cannot be stared on burners power sala vesterday of the trade general secretary union movement was enaued here if there are too many call us together'. Oil supplies stopped disperse were thew'll

HAS.

that But added den Tai said the 25 here yesterday useful talks must include were too many! any possibility of an improved representatives yesterday accused pickets of intimidation offer. Grangemouth this move Ald be viewed in the coal- run or rorto met black- be ot the ScotuSa execuave Would powen station listed from all NCB devots fields he replied: the. Cockenzie picket line. if they crossed the picket see why anybody don't Asked if electricity was the lines. should read anything sinister But Sam Harrison said: miners' concern, don't If were at the mor unless lucy care lennyson alice police say. surely are concerned with the MINERS IN Scotland stopped we'll have LuS COal essential oil supplies to power country because our strike 1s to savell nancies writes against the government." Johns Edin- from stephen He was is akin after s after I think we'll win burgh. strike, but the TUC should turned they's had clear that call It's Oil tankers everybod Cockenzie power outlaw General aydy ally Edinburgh bring fraternal station outside They've offered us allegiol independent tribunal to iudge DICKerS alter Seculy, DUl action. by scottish miners senders. Eneir claim. 'Our aim bring the not go "We'll back unti

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generation of electricity in we get the full amount.' The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government Dee 18 13 days to raise £536.20 cash for January deal £1,250 Fund

EVERYWHERE,

in Rhodesia, Britain, Ireland, and through- out the world, the enormous strength of the working class

BY JOHN SPENCER

Is making Itself felt. The magnificent support we THE WASHINGTON agree- receive each day for Workers the growth Press expresses ment on currency realign- mass movement. It of this gives us great confidence to ment is breaking up only a go forward now to the ex- month after it was reached.

of the next pansion paper month to a 12-page tablold.

The agreement - involving We must keep up this big revaluation of the main struggle. Make January's Fund cur- the dollar, Our total rencies against our best effort yet. combined with a rise in the at £713.8050 press stands gold price- be -nas yel Keep pushing this tigere right as fast as can, operated fully. Yet it is already proving impossible to put into Post all donations to: up. effect. Workers Press Persistent selling the January Appeal Fund, foreign exchange markets is 186a Clapham High Street, driving down the dollar's price London, SW4 7UG in relation to other currencies, while the price gold is being pushed up to record Cash backing levels. Italian central bank The was forced to intervene in for YS jobs market Monday the on to maintain the agreed relation- between the dollar and ship campaign the lira. In W Germany, Belgium and Holland, the dollar fell below

CAR WORKERS,

its newly-agreed official central gineers, clerical workers, rate. , railwaymen, garment The Group of Ten meeting workers have all sent in a month in Washington ago messages of support along has done nothing to restore with financial aid for the confidence in the dollar.

Young Socialists' •Right- One banker was quoted yes- to-Work' campaign. saying the meeting terday as "may just turn. out to have been reprieve before the The Transport and next crisis'. Union General Workers' US branch at Oxford, Sharp reductions in 5/55 carworkers interest rates are discouraging representing British-Leyland's Austin- dollar-holders in Europe from Morris assembly plant at repatriating them to the US. Cowley, has given its At the same time, there are support. fears in capitalist growing circles that America will de- In London, the Divi- value by even more than the sional Council of the Asso- amount agreed at Washington, Tech- Scientific, order undercut in to its Managerial Staffs nical and competitors. representing clerical workers These considerations in the area has voted to have support the campaign and to deterred holders of "hot' unemployed from their sponsor one money moving marcher with a £25 dona- funds back into dollars, tion. •spite the December 18 agree- Engineering union Since August 15, when branches, Coventry No. 5, President Nixon stopped sell- Ilford No. 3 and Deptford, ing gold for dollars, there has SE London, pledged have been no stability in the re- support and donations. En- lations between currencies.

workers' shop gineering Even the stewards Decca and ever-optimistic Morgan Carbonite in Batter- 'Times' economics editor Peter Jay is now forced to admit: sea, London, have con- "The tributed to the fund. US authorities are never going to restore the shop convertibility of the dollar in- stewards McAlpine's gold whether or not the to Bloomsbury site, Russell official gold price is raised Square, ( London, unani- as agreed on December 18.'

mously agreed at their And there is no guarantee works committee to raise at that the US will raise the least f25 from the site for let aton beare ones. the campaign. legislation before Railwaymen in the Swan- until Europe agrees to tear No.

NUR

branch sea down its tariff barriers against have backed the campaign goods. and have raised a collection Nixon is taking an extremely of f5. aggressive line against the Common Market, spurred on In Leeds, garment workers by the rapid development of in the city's No. 1 Tailor the and Garment Workers recession throughout capitalist world. union branch have added their voice to those sup-

• PAGE FOUR COL. 5

porting the campaign.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

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workers press What think Black Africa in revolt revolution which unmistakable This " is the a Rhodesian and the Pearce continuous 's African work force in act india e was forced "consultation. The Gwelo Be in shaband of Roodesan Stitutional settlem growing - andreas the Mind a prices l offload the he crisis unlike 1961, the # 9V regime of the site's projecte

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE HOUSE of Commons debate yesterday on the miners' strike proved to be nothing more than a monumental talk-in.

From the Labour benches came a torrent of pious irrelevancies. The Tory speakers were at least refreshingly honest espoused - they class war! The Opposition 'attack' confusion ate aris reating led millionaire Was Harold Lever when. ConTusIon banker the me ones reacuonary plans get Britain into the Com.

SCANLON,

the mon Market.

HUGH

ene abandoned gineers' chiet. has atomizing pay The hrst Labour speaker in votions| claim, his the debate, members' demanded Prime struen the the Tories. Edward Heath: class most *When are you going to do something in this strike and' her and you s to i'se sector engineers the Into nerdiy cozens The hamber was half-empty when to be fought under the shadow spoke. the industrial Act. Other Labour C1S. The Tories are drawing tinguished themselves tremendous comfort at present bizarre trom the activities these flourish selfishness. men. have But what's afont ic a Tory onslaught against not only the miners for the duration of the but the whole work- ing moodied class. Stake. If the str Tory strike lasts as long strategy against the miners is as the affair this could MPs could • Amighty

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earnings totalling £26 these same salaries Der cent increase.) debate however did essential features connim

IWO

the Dresent Wilch today enters

ITS ELI

day. The lories have declared all-out class war the today working-class

BY DAVID MAUDE

he brunt of LuC Standa vages fight jobs, decent union leader Tim O'Leary

DOCK

yesterday attacked next week's proposed nationwide 24.

The Labour Party and the hour strike against the threat to jobs at most of Communist Party retorm ists totally paralysed Britain's major ports. enter the fight with the miners because they evade the His attack was made at central political demand of th a meeting of the Transport

GET

1975 instead of the 54 fore-

THE TORIES OUT

and General Workers' cast. Union's docks and Since late 1967 the authority water. „ot the trade ways committee in London, has cut back work force its where 800 dockers have just from 12,500 to the current level of 8,700. examining the actions been told they will lose their of three mem jobs by the end of the year.

now reduction Was a drop over 6.700 O'ne-posit ungramme thor per cent-—inside five years

VICTOR FEATHER,

of the programme one-bonne But it seems certain that "UG has retused …to convere had been defending dock jobs the latter of this cut a meeting of transport unions nut out discussion in toe tor will not chieved in • to fight alongside the miners. norts. but that some stewards And now written of industrial pea he has and committes memhers had the Tories pleading for the PLA claims for the earlier jumped the gun. reconvening Energy was expected ones. Ap Tory Council, badv "he meena Lunch's explanations trade union to cace a for a national bureaucrats. docks delegate conference the severity of discuss the crisis which will unexpected His latest threaten 5,000-6,000 iobs trade, in

SUND

shift the ports by mid-June. owners speeded -10 Into containerization and the faster As the T&GWU men were con- turnrounds nianned tor there were further ventional cargoes. of the crisis from He confirms that discussions geeds of arbitra. Treacherons are taking nace both localls and nationally to achiava tha necessary reductions of regis- letters to the transport tered dock workers osten- that ing workers' leader. has told ibly through the 1947 Dock ten-15 more berths miners h union Labour Scheme aust expected are ArnActed hand the year The plans and of the Did friendship'. Oririnally 1,200 iobs were threatened. scheme, however the figure 2,000, is with Lunch. further head to only 45 have been absence berths London made by the employers.

NUMBER 666

eWoLETTCR SO

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 19, 1912

Continual pollce intervention, has prevented effective picketing

WEST DRAYTON, MIDDX

WIVES

BITTER

From IAN YEATS MINERS picketing Europe's largest coal depot

ABOUT NCB

at W Drayton, Middlesex, said yesterday that scab lorry drivers were taking out hundreds

PAY OFFER

of tons of domestic coal.

And they claimed that the action of the National Coal Board in employing 16 non-union men to load delivery stocks for was the keeping thing Conv supplies moving. 'It's disgusting, said or Harrison, vIce-Chaltan coventr! mine loare. neres

CLAN

AND

Jev. Chev could have men we Dulled them out and put a stop This is an

NCB

plant there non- union labour handling union.

co We're taking it up with the liaison connolttee

•OUT

atter the strike we'll Insist is union labour that there at this depot' Harrison to.d Becke Tund by se down Jorries into tne debor wita' out stomping. Ian picket leader Said Brown: 'The drivers are all non- no co-operation at all from 150 lorries have left abpeed hours.

" DOU

yye ve them nOT Bolsover, Derbyshire, came to FIFTY housewives from move the coal so that stock!

support for their London yesterday to demonstrate their be conserved for pen- pen- husbands and sons ioners and hospitals. • in tho minero strike "net were me s,renes the the House of Commons No 10 Domenig four miners' group. stocks they'll anout thamt ock

MPS

St and the NCB mer- hand were bitter about headquarters Chants InsIsun: SalisLy- offer. Mrs the NCB's paltry ing tneir own customers. Whitwelle soup kitchens WOrKS

'WRONG

and my father who was and i rememier the 'However long they strike a miner. We won't give in now.

"The drivers say they 'We're don't belong to do we're right behind them. calc Mirc

SOTEIS

unon and strike. My husband is a miner and I work in tne thev ve got TO usev * et is social security under the new are told or tace the sack. to take drop wages and laws. But wrong. principle. Two coach- we're behind miners and their wives should be union members. from Kent lobbied Six-man oaos oi strki. start of the emergency debate on the narliament at the forced mer chants miners' simke high coal the with depot. But all bulk tanket deliveries stopped atte1 T&GWU drivers refused to cross miners' picket lines • ad Botn, mas. picket, that police say Cause Scotland and in Britain, for

MINERS'

leaders have said that matter, to a halt, TÚC agreed general to otish miam member Feather's Victor Scottish executive. secretary invitation to meet the Coal commit- of the Lothians will for area Board morning thic tee "talks about talks'. meet todav to extend the bar on omi. NUM president Joe Gorm- Without these supplies the Sam Harrison ley said yesterday that the thẻ power coa butners general secretary of the trade statione cannot he started off mavement 'was entitled union each day. if there are too many here call us together'. they'll hid the 23 They Oil supplies were stopped But added that and here yesterday Gormley after Transport

TWO

any useful must include talks Workers' Union •reneral were too many. the possibility of an improved the Police esterday accused rentesentativec trom niskuts of intimidation afte.

offer Grangemouth rennery the Firth of Forth met members Asked how this mov Cant (rivers Ware toid theyr the Scottish executive would klacr wonc ne vewe ę oe cod Cockenzie power station listed from all NCB depots fields he replied: they crossed the pickst ed .it electricity 'I don't see why anybody was the chønd q member But Sam Harrison said miners' concem. into it unless they want to!' the Tennuson renlied. 'We james care wiat rev nee cnne wiłh the moline sau were dna MINERS IN Scotland stopped disruption of industry in thic comethina essential oil supplies to power country because strike to say about who handles yesterday, the government. stallons s speaki Tohns Edin- think this •rebien

TON

after we'l Lothians strike, but the hurgh. meeune Oil tankers were turned miners had made it clear that everybody Call Cockenzie would awar Dower ther out aw General Sture we want hring station nitcida Hoinhurah attemni "hey've oftered us traternal sympathy, pickets after independent tribunal to judge but we want the interventior Dy .OUT Scottish miners' leaders. their claim. aim bring the 'We'll not back until of electricity

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we get the amount. generation that leads the 3p 13 days to for January

EVERYWHERE,

In Rhodesia, Britain, Ireland, and through. out the world, the enormous strength of the working class

BY JOHN SPENCER

is making Itself felt. The magnificent support we THE WASHINGTON agree- recelve each day for Workers Press expresses the growth ment on currency realign- movement. of this mass great confidence to gives us ment is breaking up only a forward the now to ex- go month after it was reached.

the pansion of paper next 12-page tablold. month to a The agreement - involving We keep up this big must revaluation of the main struggle. Make January's Fund rencies against the dollar, our best effort Our total yet. with a rise in combined the £713.80—80 press stands at gold price-has yet to be fast can, and on 88 you operated fully. Yet it is already right this figure keep pushing proving impossible to put into Post all donations to: up. effect. Workers Press Persistent selling the January Appeal Fund, foreign exchange markets is High 186a Clapham Street, driving down the dollar's price London, SW4 7UG in relation to other currencies, of while the price gold is being pushed up to record Cash backing levels. bank The Italian central forced to intervene in for YS jobs the market on Monday to maintain the agreed relation- between the dollar and ship campaign the lira. In W Germany, Belgium and

CAR WORKERS,

en- Holland, the dollar fell below its newly-agreed official central clerical workers, gineers, rate. , railwaymen, garment The Group of Ten meeting workers have all sent in in Washington a month ago messages of support along has done nothing to restore with financial aid for the confidence in the dollar. Young Socialists' 'Right- One banker was quoted yes- saying the meeting to-Work' campaign. terday as 'may just turn out to have reprieve before the been and The Transport next crisis'. Union General Workers branch Oxford, Sharp reductions in US 5/55 at interest rates are discouraging representing carworkers at Austin- dollar-holders in Europe from British-Leyland's Morris assembly plant at repatriating them to the US.

Cowley, has its given At the same time, there are support. capitalist growing tears 1n that will de. circles America In London, Divi- the value by even more than the sional Council of the Asso- • amount agreed at Washington, Scientific, Tech- ciation . •of order undercut its to nical and Managerial Staffs competitors. representing clerical workers These considerations have in the area has voted to support the campaign and to deterred holders of 'hot' unemployed from moving their sponsor one money with a £25 dona- funds back into dollars, de- marcher tion. •spite the December 18 agree- ment. Engineering union Since August 15, when branches, Bord es. 3 and Depto 3, Coventry No. President Nixon stopped sell- inen no stability in here res SE London, have pledged been stability the support and donations. En- lations between currencies.

gineering workers' shop stewards Even the ever-optimistic at Decca and 'Times' economics editor Peter Morgan Carbonite in Batter- London, have con- Jay is now forced to admit: sea, 'The US tributed to the fund. authorities the going to restore Building workers' shop convertibility of the dollar in- stewards McAlpine's at gold whether to or not the Bloomsbury site, Russell official gold price is raised London, Square, unani- as agreed on December 18.'

mously agreed at their And there is no guarantee works committee to raise at that will raise the least £25 from the site for has said it will mit stratioe the campaign. said it will not put the legislation before Congress Railwaymen in the Swan- Europe until agrees to tear No.

NUR

branch sea down its tariff barriers against backed the campaign have US goods. and have raised a collection Nixon is taking an extremely of £5. aggressive line the against Common Market, spurred on In Leeds, garment workers by the rapid development of in the city's No. I Tailor Garment Workers' recession throughout the and capitalist world. union branch have added their voice to those sup-

• PAGE FOUR COL. 5

porting the campaign.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

We will be marching from

GLASGOW FEBRUARY

5

LIVERPOOL FEBRUARY 19

SWANSEA FEBRUARY 19

To a mass rally at

EMPIRE POOL. WEMBLEY

on MARCH 12

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PAGE TWO

Workers Press, Wednesday January 19, 1972 By Anna Tate AFTER WHAT seemed like an eternity of prepa- ration (in fact, three years), the British Empire series, poetically entitled 'Echoes of Britannia's Rule, began its 13-week run on January 11 with a devoted to programme Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

It was not so much an 'echo' as a celebration, a the 'high tribute to 1897, noon' of Empire, the 'zenith', the 'apex'. Yes, there it was, after all the knitoes-in-the-back passed down the corridors 101 nast two to tree years, l du abject mediocrity British The empire. actionary and it was, to be sure. Stalwart Not that expected had that Tom Haydon, Queen Victoria writer and of this particular sec would necessarily adopt the

BBC,

after to the Lennist inesis or impellasu But to get back mos commented of the programmes: the mom the stage of capitalism séries of expensive aocumentary all time at the BBC CYCl Ahe' imperialism endeavour group radicals nave Ated there incredibly undistin- controllers of industry which issued a burean in crucism channel for 1s0 his 1. his webbie Masco of their surplus wealtn and seeking toreign head of Features at the miles of actual take Singer, toreien investments the sell at home goods capital they can- That would have been too of a BBC much to ask stalwar But one what leasu was nave noped lor coherence, communication other Ever the running over surface phenomena (largely upper middle-class phenomena at inali was what we got. the attempting convey period, what the televisual imagery, politics paraphernalia 1ke Dollea blant i did the pe has tele self, did programme look as it was thrown togethe thouen as cheaply as possiole! the series consists Tale spees the reason lor Grotesque splashing Let is they whe Radio Times. Ous equally there it on a thinking £24.50. which should be read in a heavy accent, American are scared of that making you adventure. glorious They History is people people like you! What they mean 15, The real British Empire in London's squalid East End.

easy' instalments. Fourth Internationa Behind

EDITORIAL

The International Committes and the struggle for power on

BOLIVIA:

O Lukacs Revolution and counter-revoluti

LUKACS:

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REVIEW

footage in far-flung corners also not aware that Ireland 'had the world vast and ever been part of the Empire. at expense with what looks like vast con- There will therefore not be any fusion. mention of Ireland in the series.

And, what is more, there will be another grand the in four producers shape of the Middle East. Such this series has tackled the sub- 'oversight' or ignorance mis- ject with any attempt at inde- hap, call it what they will, would For his pendence and clarity. seem to smack of tidy, uncon- dogged integrity he was awarded scious policy-making. and pressure at with harassment This was Dominic Tom Haydon's 'Oh, the Jubi- every turn. lee' reflected all these tendencies.

Flessati, who compiled Part 2 side of the the Sugar Slaves. His It fell over on the on distinguished itself from anecdotal 'anecdotal' being gramme that of Tom Haydon not only by trendy television producer's for social gossip, the of the euphemism use medium, but also by its exposure chit-chat of great people.

exploita- of the sheer brutality, and which is tion profiteering Empire. The Endeavour the true face of the content of the Flessati film jus- tifies a separate view, for we When Her Imperial Majesty now endeavour to find Victoria cried out in the film general line of approach in the 'How are!' one had kind they séries as a whole. the impression she could have been speaking of her BBC pro- 'Subject peoples Of course, Haydon con- ducers. trived just now and then to stick not-very-nice

TATA

statistics The BBC issued a statement of the over gradually grandiose, principles which claims: 'We are self-congratulatory picture.

not setting out to justify British Empire, nor to belittle it.

Just few seconds WeT We will try to strike a balance devoted to such facts as, in 1896, and fail- 92 per cent of the wealth of between achievements We will avoid Great Britain was owned by 10 ures. over- sentimentality. Although the cent people; per of view will colonial wars were fought in this British point gen- it will not period which was known as Pax erally predominate. be to the exclusion of the Britannica; 11,000 dervishes were of the subject peoples? Get that! killed 16,000 wounded and in -'the subject peoples'. the year of the Jubilee as Kitch- ener fought for the Sudan.

Perhaps the BBC wasn't aware that they are no longer 'subject'?

Yet Haydon still managed to impossible Does that seem convey the notion of a vast terri- you? It's quite conceivable really torial gained largely if you think that the series through the great spirit of Vic over all Editor. Morgan-Witts, Max torian its peoples endeavour. was heard coming from far and near to pay during to sav the course of last year: 'Do you homage to their Great and Good they have closed Queen. mean the Suez Canal?' The working class of England The planned this he portrayed same who ignorant brutes blood of gigantic historical enterprise, was lusting for the the

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By Anna Tate AFTER WHAT seemed like an eternity of prepa- three ration (in fact, years), the British Empire series, poetically entitled 'Echoes of Britannia's Rule, began its 13-week run on January 11 with a devoted to programme Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

so much an It was not 'echo' as a celebration, a to 1897, the 'high trinute noon' of Empire, the 'zenith', the 'apex'. Yes, there it was, after all the knifings-in-the-back, passed down

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commented atter of the programmes: the monopoly stage of capitalism expensive Bloody documentary séries o triba wori do in to like even i tume at the bol radicals imperialism have After the incredibly issued a bulletin in criticism undistin. the great from euish his Part 1. his the hasco words sternest insat foreign wealth very echo cata brigh 16255 and seems Aubrey miles of foreign off through actual investments Cinder hand of Features at the take the goods canital they can- not sell at home. have c would been of a stalwart one mian+ least have hoped for was a semblance informative coherence communication than other a at that was leat ase urning into t Victoriess polit. id the pe rante bones together programmes each of them hud- £50,000, peter at which mally spends on such projects.

more Part of the re the rancon for the caries ic co. by Time-Life (Interna- financed thà mer tionall who make profits from words and pictures.

Grotesque ire bringing out seconde your series. your book. which there thinking auch stropinic cindan seemed like bet die Britisi men they the Empire'l Empires le tike yoto 'Historv is deople What they mean is. hickon i people like Brito mile who they The real British Empire In London's squalid East End.

excu namen •Behind ON power footage in far-flung of also not aware that Ireland 'had Cones of the Empire'. the world at and ever been part with what looks like vast con- There will therefore not be any mention of Ireland in the series.

fusion. And, what is more, there will be It seems very much as if only another grand omission in the of the four producers of of the Middle East. one shape Such this series tackled the sub has 'oversight' or mis- or ignorance with any attempt at inde- ject will, would hap, call it what they For pendence and • clarity. his of tidy, uncon- seem to smack dogged integrity he was awarded scious policy-making. with harassment and pressure at Dominic Tom Haydon's 'Oh, the Jubi- every turn. was Flessati, compiled Part lee' reflected all these tendencies.

who It fell the Sugar Slaves. over on the side or the anecdotal 'anecdotal' being a that of Tom Haydon not only by trendy television producer's the euphemism for social gossip, the more creative use chit-chat of great people.

medium, but also by its exposure of the sheer brutality, exploita- profiteering tion and which Endeavour the true face of the Empire.

The content of the Flessati film jus- for we tines a senarate When Her Imperial Majésty now endeavour to find Victoria cried out the film arel one had general line of approach in the 'How kind they séries as a whole. she could the impression have been speaking of her BBC pro- Haydon con- 'Subject peoples ducers Of course. trived just now and then to stick few not-very-nice statistics The BBC issued a statement of the gradually grandiose, OVer principles which claims: 'We are self-congratulatory picture.

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July 1960: SOME Workers Press readers may have seen episodes of Emile Zola's 'Germinal' on television. A story of a miners' strike in the 19th century, this novel expresses the sufferings and degradation - almost de- humanization - forced on miners by the coal-owners in their never-ending search for profit. Are these days long since gone? Is capitalism more 'human' now? Perhaps. Perhaps that's all long, long ago. Treatment aren't treated like ani- Men mals these days. Or are they? Is it all away? How far SO far away? On July 28, 1960, at 10 a.m., too much gas accumulated on a coalface at Six Bells Colliery in man THE UNITED STATES Inter- nal Revenue Service has a seven-man unit to special collect information on 'extrem- ist political organizations.

This was revealed by former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Robert N. Wall. Other FBI activities included monitoring the telephone of the Israeli Embassy, planting infor- mants in a liberal research in- strife stitute and fomenting between radical groups by send- ing anonymous letters. Wall has written full account of his experiences which is appear in American to an journal. He says he is disillu- sioned with the American way of life and intends to move to Canada. FBI spokesman, who An on the would not comment revelations, confirmed that Wall had been a special agent.

•Wall said that when an *extremist organization' appears spend, the to have money to information is passed on to the Inland Revenue. Misleading infor- circulated to New mation was Left organizations with the inten- tion of fomenting dissensions.

During the six-day war Wall was detailed to listen in to the Israeli Embassy's phone; other Arab the agents monitored embassies. He said he found it the difficult to understand accents. in also took part He an of "liberal' investigation a called Institute research group It was fol- for Policy. Studies. lowed by individual investiga- tions of those who worked for or received money from it. The FBI secured its records from a bank without a subpoena and had them photo-copied. Wall said resigned that from the FBI after investigating the Centre for Black Education, which his superior insisted was a cover for guerrilla. training.

He said he found no evidence that it was any such thing. When a memo to that effect, he sent, he reply was that either the agent was naïve or he had beer duped. didn't have a car and I couldn't drive, pal lent buta me a cal and another pal drove me down home. 'When I got home we were told that everybody on the tace was dead. At the pit there was a list of names Some had against them. question marks meant that those without ques- tion marks could be recognized, marks with question

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be recognized. There couldn't was a question mark against my Dad's name. "The bodies were brought up They that were put night. old stables at the pit top some identified. and they had to be There were a lot of wives there, but mostly men went in instead the women- -Teller neighbours or friends - just to spare the women from having to do it. 'When I went in and looked dad. at my all there was was flesh and bone. had charred "Aye" look and I said one couldn't really recognize him for I said "Àye" but because SuLC I couldn't bear to look any more.

Recognizable "They could tell who was dead by the numbers on the lamps, but they had legal requirement for identification.

I didn't them all, and see might have some of them been recognizable. But, my Dad, all that looked recognizable was the shape of his skull. If I'd been in a rugby scrum I'd have been able pick out my Dad's head. And that was how I did it then. of his face "The features were There was a smell non-existent, all over the room like burning. out and I came sick. I can't remember much else about was 20 years old, then. Taffy says "But this is no sob behalf of on miners. Miners have had much time for sob stories looking or over their shoulders at sad yes- Wales. The result was. an explosion. *But the public must be made There were 47 men working aware of the price of coal. And the face. I don't mean in cash but in lives, say exactly what half-eaten and in Nobody men can away rotten, diseased lungs. Miners it like down there that was tend not to think because lived or talk about it' to tell the tale. 'Taffv' King is now on strike All that can be said for cer- at Bilsthorpe Notting- 47 Colliery, ( that the tain some of IS hamshire. They died were lucky. in ment The the blast. unlucky caught in the ball of fire that swept round the face immediately afterwards. Even today with modern "Taffy' King was work- technology miners work Graham ing at Steetly Colliery, Worksop, in conditions Notts, that day. He told me: unimaginable to other *I was work and somebody workers. at said there had been an explosion in Wales. I was surprised about Right: Working on a it and then an hour later i got a from telegram my mother. wet seam at "Dad said in Canderrig Colliery. Come possible"

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6THE TRIAL proceedings today conducted with have been procedural infringe- numerous which ments. The indictment, in 'slanderous' is used 33 the word times and the word anti-soviet' concrete times. Contains of which facts indications slanderous among those com- western correspon- municated to dents and which materials of during the those taken from me Vladimir Bukovsky search and which allegedly

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Workers Press, Wednesday Januar collected for the ANDREW HORSBURGH will recently strike in Spain. be 66 in March. He began his Asturian miners' I told him of the coal exported working life before he was 14 from Poland to break the strike -down the the pit driving and that the Polish government ponies to and from the narrow were now trying to get coal into seams. Britain. He was not surprised.

A lifetime of work down the "They did the same in 1926.

generally wrecks man. *They brought coal over-and Only a handful finish their days from Poland. It's even miners- dis- without some permanent always the same, Baldwin or ability from the decades of toil. Heath, Tories always try to use Few get any compensation workers of one country to Mr Horsburgh was invalided break the strength of the out last year with an arthritic workers at home' back - the doctor said it was Nationalization was a great because of the 'knocks' received day for miners like Andrew and at the coal face. he still views it as a reform.

'But,' he told me, 'arthritis is In the days of the private an industrial disease. The not the men worked owners, under Coal Board gave me nothing.

a contract system or were on get £1.50 a week pension which piecework. I paid for myself. "This was a system where one Andrew says he would never man earned money at the expense let his sons work down the mine.

of another. strikes. 1922 and 1926. We were have It was a vicious the weapon owners used to turn man against betrayed both times man, the way we are paid now is 'Churchill sent the troops up better. The more the money is 1926. Then round here in the shared out between men like miners had to scramble the brothers the on to neater tips hunting for scraps of coal.

socialism, and that's what I stand 'The soldiers used to patrol for, he said. with fixed bayonets, but some of But otherwise nationalization them were you know, was a failure. human, *It didn't benefit they used to give us a bag the miner. two. But I'll never forget what The Labour government took it that man Churchill did. over but paid massive sums to 'Now the owners and we - the look how this strike started. payers, and the miners - have 'The TUC didn't organize the been paying people even other. unions. They should have since. This should be" stopped settled all the problems of right away. "This strike, like all miners' the coal before the moving strike. They they have strikes, Tories. say is against 'confidence in the miners' Our fight is always against the struggle. Lories. the country will never he "They give us sympathy just right until we get rid of them. like they did in 1926' I came to that conclusion 45 The Loanhead miners' welfare when I years ago those san bayonets marching up and down.

club where I met Mr Horsburgh Only those witnesses named by another, unpresented. stands have been With thvited rosecuti on the reprisal against me the court. And what they want to frighten those who kind of witnesses were they?

try to tell the whole world abou Well. their crimes. before my arrest former school comrade was sent They do not want to 'carry to me, a certain Nikitinsky who filth the izba' out of [peasant works at Sheremetyevo hut] as to on the appear now world arena as customs Innection section and who was entrusted able defenders of the oppressed. with provoking me to a crime- Our society is still sick. arranging for underground print- sick with fear which has brought in down to from the ing equipment come us from ahraad Stalin But the of process In all probability, Nikitinsky, public's spiritual enlighten- tha who did military service in the ment has already begun and cannot be stopped. security forces, was sent by KGB officials. The public already under- But the ill-starred provocateur stands that the criminal is not did not succeed in doing this.

the one who carries filth out of Then the investigation, and the izba but the one who makes then the court too, tried to make him he indictment, ove haw this point And however long I have to of the indictment. here spend in detention how Nikitinsky was not up to renounce my convictions and this task either. will express them, availing myself What were all these provo- of the right given me by article crude procedural 125 of the Soviet constitution, to nationa and violations needed for, this stream all who want to listen to me.

slander and unfounded will naht regret olity that legality and accusations? justice. And What over the short period—one year, was this trial needed for? Only to punish one person?

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Sex-change vicar? BRENT Labour council's plan to provide contraceptive pills to women of 16 and over has run into opposition from the local Catholic heirarchy. The council's offer to meet the churchmen turned down was and the Catholic Dean of Brent, the Rev C. E. McMenemy, 1n his sermon last Sunday, told his parishioners that he wished he was a woman so that he could lead such a protest to the town hall as they had never seen before. 'Eccentric' Mr Hughes HOWARD HUGHES, the multi- millionaire, recluse, has a phobia about germs. And he plans to have himself immediately after death frozen in the belief of future revival.

His theory is that he can be when a cure is found unfrozen for the disease that killed him.

This ancedote appears in a Hughes published biography of on Monday. The book, edited by Robert Eaton (Lana Turner's ex- husband), describes Hughes as 'mysterious and eccentric.

Apologists are useful PRAGUE has found a useful apologist in the ultra-Stalinist journalist and novelist ames with Aldridge. In an interview 'Rude Pravo, the Czechoslovak Communist Party daily, pub- lished January I1, he on defended the Warsaw Pact inva- sion of August 1968. According to Aldridge, Czech- oslovakia was threatened by a restore capitalism: plot to the original idea was British and the whole thing was masterminded by the Intelligence Service. The CIA did the dirty while work the W Germans acted as go- betweens. Aldridge sees something ter- ribly sinister in the visits made by Czech to western countries intellectuals before 1968.

published after 'In articles 'one their return', he said, can trace exactly the changes out and trends that were in tune with the plan thought up in England, regardless of whether they were infiltrated with these trends directly in England or in W Germany, Austria or else- where.' This is the great conspiracy theory used by apologists for the Moscow and Trials the Stalin's whole of policies. It resembles that of some bourgeois politicians who every see in strike or revolution the evidence of a plot organized, according to taste, in Moscow, Peking Havana. In Aldridge's case, he still has to explain why the policies put forward the at time of *Prague Spring' had such an enormous popular appeal after nearly a quarter of a century of "socialism'. Ihe idea of this, and pre- sumablv the Hungarian Revolu- tion of 1956, the riots in Poland in 1970 and the Berlin uprising of 1953, all being the work of British Intelligence, has some- thing pathological about it.

Perhaps Aldridge has been taking his own books too seri- ously, or perhaps his hobbies of and underwater trout fishing swimming have something to do with it. In any case, it is very convenient for the Czech bureau- cracy to find a foreign author to give an explanation of the it has events of 1968 which hardly dared to put forward itself.

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July 1960: SOME Workers Press readers episodes of may have seen Zola's 'Germinal' on Emile television. A story of a miners' strike in the 19th century, this novel expresses the sufferings and degradation - almost de- humanization - forced on miners by the coal-owners in never-ending search for their profit. Are these days long since gone? Is capitalism more 'human' tong, Pegaps. Perhaps that's all Treatment man off THE UNITED STATES Inter- nal Revenue Service has a special seven-man unit to collect information on 'extrem- ist his was resealed tby former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent Robert N. Wall. Other FBI activities included monitoring the telephone of the Israeli Embassy, planting infor- mants in a liberal research in- and fomenting strife stitute between radical groups by send- ing anonymous letters. full Wall has written a account of his experiences which appear in an American is to journal. He says he is disillu- sioned with the American way of life and intends to move to Canada. FBI spokesman, who An the would not comment on revelations, confirmed that Wall had been a special agent.

•Wall said that when an 'extremist organization' appears spend, the to have money to information is passed on to the Inland Revenue. Misleading infor- mation was circulated to New Left organizations with the inten- tion of fomenting dissensions.

:the six-day war Wall During was detailed to listen in to the Israeli Embassy's phone; other the Arab monitored agents embassies. He said he found it to understand the difficult accents. also took part in an He of "liberal" investigation a research group called Institute for Policy. Studies. It was fol- lowed by individual investiga- tions of those who worked for or received money from it. The FBI secured its records from a bank without a subpoena and had them photo-copied. he resigned Wall • said that from the FBI after investigating the Centre for Black Education, which his superior insisted was a cover for guerrilla training.

He said he found no evidence that it was any such thing. When he sent a memo to that effect, was. that either the the reply agent was naive or he had been duped. The price of coal and I couldn' 'Our fight rd another pal deone me docar home. body on the fac the names is always couldn't • a quesuon mark agalnsl brought up at niti es • e idene ed. against the thestly wor triends spare the women from having to 'When d. ent ln and looked cal had charred saio Aye" Tories' I couldn't bear to look any more.

Recognizable Coned, numibe who on legal reguirement for identifcation.

-Scottish Miner 123011 room lke ickin c 5 201 i cant old, terdays. t ne result was. an t onh men h cn gu h man, were 47 men working Nobody can Miners or talk about it tend not to think this, momein in ecause that ct sbme aid fone en Bisth orie Coliay, Roterike taf", hanshite. Thet cky of the blast. immédiately afterwards. Even today with modern King Graham b d merap. tecnnoioov mmners work Notts, that day. Conons unimaginable to oine and somebody workers. id Were h had bee Wales and enen an our ate oe Right : Working on a Come ald Son a as possiblesion. Canderrig Colliery. Come Bukovsky speaks Alexano Valeri Shalan oticas soker ain and on his trial Part two apere and teat daste, yel ted prisons where opositionists are held.

pecil sateehospitals as relatives and coald confirm m i8 tis and Whicg o® Potin nd Colice? duriegethy Vladimir Bukoysky

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10.50 Workers Press, Wednesday Januar ANDREW HORSBURGH will collected for the recently strike in Spain. be 66 in March. He began his Asturian miners' I told him of the coal exported working life before he was 14 from Poland to break the strike driving down the pit and that the Polish government ponies to and from the narrow were now trying to get coal into seams. Britain. He was not surprised.

A lifetime of work down the 'They did the same in 1926.

mine generally wrecks man. 'They brought coal over- -and Only a handful finish their days Poland. It's even miners-from dis- without some permanent always the same, Baldwin ability from the decades of toil.

Heath, Tories always try to use the workers of one country Mr Horsburgh invalided break the of the was strength last with an arthritic out year workers at home.' said back- - the doctor was Nationalization great Was because of the 'knocks' received day for miners like Andrew and at the coal face. he still views it as a reform.

'But,' he told me, 'artritis is days of the In the private an industrial disease. The not worked under owners, the men Coal Board gave me nothing: get £1.50 a week pension which piecework. I paid for myself.' "This was a system where one Andrew says he would never man earned money at the expense let his sons work down the mine.

of another. have seen the big two *It was a vicious weapon the strikes, 1922 and 1926. We were owners used to turn man against betrayed both times. man, the way we are paid now is Churchill sent the troops up better. The more the money 1926. Then round the here in shoteers the between like men miners had to scramble the brothers on to tips hunting for scraps of coal.

socialism, and that's what I stand 'The) soldiers patrol used to for,' he said. with fixed bayonets, but some of 'But otherwise nationalization them human, you know, was, a didure. WCle didn't they used to give us a bag benefit | the miner. But I'll never forget what The Labour government took it two. Churchill did. that man over but paid massive sums to 'Now look this the and we -. the how strike owners tax- started. and the miners - have Vaycis 'The TUC didn't organize the been these people ever Payllg other unions. They should have since. This should be stopped settled all the problems of right away. the "This moving coal before the strike, like all miners' strike. They they have strikes, is against the Tories. say Our fight 'confidence' the miners' is always against the Tories, the country will never be struggle. *They give us sympathy just right until we get rid of them. like they did in 1926 *I came to that conclusion The Loanhead miners' welfare when those ago saw club where I met Mr Horsburgh bayonets marching up and down.' Only those witnesses named by stands another, unpresented. the been With the reprisal against invited tos etut co have the court. And what they wänt to frighten those who try to tell the whole world about kınd ot witnesses were thev?

their crimes. Well, before my arrest, former school comrade was sent They do not want 'carry to to me, a certain Nikitinsky who filth the izba' out [peasant OI works at Sheremetyevo hut] sO as to appear on the

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In all probability, Nikitinsky, the public's spiritual enlighten- who did militarv ment has already begun and service In une state security forces, was sent cannot be stopped. by KGB oflicials. The public already under- stands that the ciminal But the ill-starred provocateur is did hent suce ein vestigatio n this.

the one who carries filth out of Then and the izba but the one who makes investigation, then the court too, tried to make it filthy. however long I have to him into a witness on this point And of the indictment. We saw here spend in detention will never how Nikitinsky was not up renounce my convictions and will express them, availing myself this task either. What were all these provo- of the right given me by article crude 125 of the Soviet constitution, to cations and procedural violations neded for, this stream all who want to listen to me.

of slander unfounded will fight for legality and and accusations? only that And l regre Tusuce. What was this trial needed over the short period-one year, for? Only to punish one person?

two months and three days- there during which I 'principle. was at liberty, 1s kind of 'philosophy' here.

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10.20 Schools. 3.45 4. En antenine:: Early. Crossroads. Dateline: ednesday January 19, 1972 PAGE THREE Sex-change vicar? BRENT Labour council's plan to provide pills contraceptive to women of 16 and over has run into opposition from the local Catholic heirarchy. The council's offer to meet the churchmen was turned down and the Catholic Dean of Brent, the Rev C. E. McMenemy, in his sermon last Sunday, told his parishioners that he wished he was a woman so that he could lead such a protest to the town they had never hall seen as before. 'Eccentric' Mr Hughes HOWARD HUGHES, the multi- millionaire, recluse, has a phobia about germs. And he plans to have himself frozen immediately after death in the belief of future revival.

His theory is that he can be unfrozen when a cure is found for the disease that killed him.

This ancedote appears in a biography of Hughes published on Monday. The book, edited by Robert Eaton (Lana Turner's ex- husband), describes Hughes as 'mysterious and eccentric'.

Apologists are useful PRAGUE has found a useful apologist in the ultra-Stalinist journalist and novelist James Aldridge. In with an interview 'Rude Pravo', the Czechoslovak Communist Party daily, pub- lished January 11, he on defended the Warsaw Pact inva- sion of August 1968. According to Aldridge, Czech- oslovakia was threatened by a plot to restore capitalism: the original idea was British and the whole thing was masterminded by the Intelligence Service. The CIA did the dirty work while the W Germans acted as go- betweens. Aldridge sees something ter- ribly sinister in the visits made countries by Czech to western intellectuals before 1968.

'In articles published after their return', he said, 'one can exactly the changes trace out and trends that were in tune with the plan thought up in England, regardless of whether they were infiltrated with these trends directly in England or in W Germany, Austria or else- where.' This is the great conspiracy theory used by apologists for the Trials and Moscow the of Stalin's policies. It whole resembles that of some bourgeois politicians who in see every strike or revolution the evidence of a plot organized, according to taste, in Moscow, Peking Havana. In Aldridge's case, he still has to explain why the policies put forward at the time of the 'Prague Spring' had such an enormous popular appeal after nearly a quarter of a century of 'socialism'. The idea of this, and pre- sumably the Hungarian Revolu- tion of 1956, the riots in Poland in 1970 and the Berlin uprising of. 1953, all being the work of British Intelligence, some- thing pathological about it.

Perhaps Aldridge has been taking his own books too seri- ously, or perhaps his hobbies of trout fishing and underwater swimming have something to do with it. In any case, it is very convenient for the Czech bureau- cracy to find a foreign author to give an explanation of the events of 1968 which it has hardly dared to put forward itself. DC e

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Workers Pross, Wednesday January 19, 1972 35,000 GEC jobs cash slashed since

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merger of currency . direct

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as there are STOCK begins the New Year with a characteristic is going flourish — he is to sack another 1,100 men trom is giant General Electric esterday steel World prote Corporation lad fallen this mass LOCAL and national union officials were making sha in, Be drop a second bid last night to end a major Scottish the

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do men have been pul pay strike which has brought chaos to the Greece a total *it Both ray and Britain ot 35,010 Chrysler car combine. out of worillion workers are government- Their success depends "Major From STEPHEN JOHNS IN SCOTLAND nmercial tallure which on whether they can break erger stock €890m the new wave of militancy i Three factors have affected cartel Chrysler's reported a $108 Heath caward Linwood plant near Glas- Dusseldorf say waris, Ladie LOw. end Officials tried last week a ts norease instead. rofit las some stewards fea month. com and lorcea management to Predictably the manniem ot "hryslers will come bac • of E82m with chom remove some of the strings aor the old packagen exchange Tyre plants • year. on a t4 ofter but the oJ00 Chryslèr rejected parity. workers this unanimously on Friday.

Hurting screech to halt She factory door .. The tike id ure factors N Ireland are shop stewards. which has been le to protect profits. ycal e performance last year. the over tree country. men, to a ce the without in social securine the with the the engine tough at plana tevel to the men 10. But the Linod men wait Weakness nothing to do ith group 8 sacked is from head office persuade Clauses And the vote The capitalist press the latest 44 The 3,500 Bate 9 strikers ироп in rise. Middlesex, onth disputes are india Wembley among with Engineers unications systemeral com- that the critical of

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Seamen and miners on joint picket outside the NUS head- quarters demanding more positive support for the pit strike (see story below). Coal talks

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flared scenes at Dover the yesterday after SEVERAL hundred Kent and driver of a coal lorry struck Warwickshire lobbied a picket the head miners over with parliament after- an iron bar. The injured miner yesterday noon 'bring home taken Dover to our was to hospital „lo representatives the for treatment. serious situation confronting the In the ensuing incident miners', as Betteshanger NUM police arrested three miners. president Bill Morris put it.

major talking point SEAMEN and miners staged among the lobbyists was the joint picket outside the of

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take a 'more positive line' in 'It's about time he got off support of the miners' strike.

the fence, commented Derek Streeton. 'But don't want London we seaman Jack Raw- lins told Workers Press: to go to any kind of arbitra- tian. 'We are fully in support of William the strike. We will give it as Tills sported large placard demanding much support as we can. solidarity action from other 'We're lobbying the He trade unionists. pointed tive to ask them to give fuller out that while production in support to the miners' strike. the Kent coalfield had If it it we will comes to rocketed the last over few take the position that we can't wages had gone down. years, supply labour to scab ships.'

'We want some action from MPs to help us change this Commenting on the TUC's situation,' he said. position Jack said: 'I would hope that the TUC would take a more positive position, in the same way as we are asking our executive to do here today, which would entail financial and physical contact. Seaman Stephen Devreux said: We want to register disgust at the whole position of the NUS. This lobby is in solidarity with the miners.'

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how- The executive, ever, refused a request from miners' receive pickets to miners' delegation to ask for support for the strike.

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the success or otherwise of the whole gamut of their policies for Britain in the next few years The Tories want to cut wages, smash the trade unions with their Industrial Relations

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Act, create even higher levels of unemployment mass to intimidate the working class have to get up at 4.30 in the and to get into the Common morning and they're getting Market on any terms so that home at five o'clock at night.

the big European They're not recompensend for capitalists fraternal hands join the number of hours they're can of friendship' to fight workers.

working. The class lines, therefore, 'At time we one were drawn quite clearly: the second in the wages table. reactionary plans of the bour- Now we're 14th—they say. I geoisie the fight of against we're 19th. say hats being done to im- the miners on behalf of the entire working class for prove it? Are we going to decent wage and the right to change this sort of thing on work. own? our On the of outcome the 'The NCB is to blame. It's miners' fight hangs the future around and said only turned of this government. negotiations have ceased. Ezra Despite the treachery in the "That is that" and has said trade union and Labour we should be saying "That is leadership, the conditions are that". We'll get nothing out arbitration. rapidly building for the up of Tories to be forced out of the NCB 'Behind is the office. Tory government. Our fight is with them. They have to got Camp protest We can't beat them on go. own. We've many SO unions going separately for REFRIGERATOR workers at the same case. 'We LEC Refrigeration should be unified. Ltd, May- Every union with claims down, Londonderry, pay have staged a should together walk-out in come out protest against the united against the government.

of a new opening 'What the TUC has done is internment camp at Magilligan, Ireland. inadequate. It smells of Co Derry, 1926. Why should other we workers' spokesman on stoe coal movements day en Monday stated that two-thirds of the '100-strong work force stop movements when Victor Feather has to left the factory. only the word and industry 'This half-day say stoppage rep- be stopped? resents one of the only ways can 'We all either drown or left by which our workers can swim. And if we don't defeat express their condemnation of this we'll all the present repressive policies, government drown. he said. 31 unions now

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organizations have been registered as trade unions under the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act. A spokesman Firance and General Purposes government said 120 had organizations Committee. been removed from The seamen's union is still the pro- with employers vistonal register at their own having talks and request. about the closed shop hoped to The

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had also may not attend. know the registration position • The Bank Employees' Union of all unions by next Monday.

—one of the first on the full But this now looks impossible.

register—has referred its claim Lord Cooper's General and for a sole bargaining agency Municipal Workers' Union has in the United Dominions Trust postponed its decision and he to the National Industrial Re- will . not be Mon- lations coming to Court set up under day's of the TUC Industrial Relations meeting the Act.

MOSCOW

lawyer Vladimir Shveisky has appealed against the imprisonment of oppo- sitionist Vladimir Bukovsky earlier this month.

The appeal was lodged on Monday with the Russian Federal Supreme Court. tional tendencies. The Stalinist Bukovsky (29), was sen- also taking part in press is seven years. lanuary 5 tenced the clamp-down. to ACademican AndreS Valeri physicist imprisonment with and followed by five years' exile Andrei Sakharov to a remote region. unofficial civil of an rights Не was sentenced after attacked yes- committee, was semi-secret trial at which he 'Izvestia'. terday by US accused the court of reviving Noting that visiting Stalinist He practices. has Congressman James Scheuer become known abroad for had been to see him in Mos- publicising the fact that sane the cow, government detained in said he oppositionists are paper had hoped to mental asylums. obtain 'slanderous information Bukovsky's has sentence about Soviet reality Pravda' been Last week's followed by increased launched the present campaign police activity against other members of opposition groups.

with an article attacking In the Ukraine, at least six oppositionists, and trying people have been arrested in establish an amalgam between Maoists, 'revision- Kiev, and another seven at them and Among "bourgeois ideologists' Lyov. them is the ists', noted Ukranian critic Ivan and the US Central Intel- Dzyuba, accused of Ukrainian ligence Agency. nationalism. In Moscow, police recently SEE INSIDE for part of searched the homes of eight Bukovsky's speech the to people suspected of opposi- court. W coast dockers resume strike PORTS from San Diego after. 100 days, the Nixon up to Seattle along the American administration invoked the Taft-Hartley coast closed down Act to force a 13,000 dockers yesterday as return to work. resumed their 100-day This expired at Christmas, pay strike interrupted by a govern- and International Long- the 'cooling-off' shoremen's and Warehouse- ment order. Talks contract men's Union have since tried new down in San Francisco broke unsuccessfully to get agree- on Monday night and Pre- ment on a new contract with sident Nixon's troubleshooter the employers. Counts was on his The Nixon government now J. Curtis way to Washington yesterday has no further powers to order recommend legislation to the dockers back under exist- end the strike. ing law and is thought almost The dock dispute began at appeal to Congress certain to the end of June last year, and for more powers. workers press

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