Workers Press no. 673

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY JANUARY 27, 1972 • No. 673 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TUC AND THE MINERS

DENI

TALK, TALK

50.000

WDERS

BUT NO

REAL

SHOP STERN

COMMITTEE

FACE

OF TUC

ACTION

LONDON

BY ALEX MITCHELL

he council decion do. THE CAPITALIST PRESS yesterday declared not have union backing. that Victor Feather of the TUC had at last come ofi the fence on the miners' strike.

MOVING TO PIERHEAD MEETING

Sweet talk witnot

MINERS

• MINERS

the 18-day-old national Feather said. ARE SuPPORT more cash i can solve it.'

BETWE

HEAD

cian, rite

JOBS

afternoon. sidings when the maina this 5 specia

MARCH

we hase Sidney MINERS, dockers, engineers strike. and building workers filed Hier strongly 40,000 ›.000 strong through 1ver.

pool yesterday a in un employment Climb right to work. dockers join jobs Count on these discames. inrows council tell. protest that th the rea

NUM SECRETARY LAWRENCE DALY AT DAGENHAM YESTERDAY

we doned

TUC BACKING US

FORTY THOUSAND dock ers struck yesterday against the orowing the negative attitude'. -says Daly Jan Fund industry. then deadloc Almost there! sake were so there aken miners er this year. builde mem- they march need to eliminate creating a more flexible situ- tutory he miners' secretary adde actories are guara deck labour scheme.

since a few wooks a fin 1978

TUC

stoppage. secret talks invong ur secret invol tea union union Let General coat a c Ministry. *He described a Tuc state- support Toriementage- defeat cutting policy. yesterda three per MDW talks at Workers repeat them today Longbridge has alongside the miners mea British same refused as callo Worker Cres te the hil transport unions is a class issue and Steel fish chiefs ins Oxford last not or aple coal, coke • PAGE FOUR COl 7 year. • Potention or le mastil howards to negotice on th

COLLIERY CLERICAL STAFF

picrois arrangemen gresent which must be answered im

DEFY UNION-MEET PICKETS

700 revear de shone endure ne where shush to let foot Her London head niner one mimes women in cab citer side o linkirecording Cables Seen done words new turn header. STEM Siting elected from • Day to so tot 40 hour FOUR MEN and four womer their returned Liverped new pay system. intendeduld to find the reason was sterday's Mornin say secretry the Hones also kn Star Tim the Bit and * talks with he emergen of blowing cleri Etheridge is joint chairman.

Yesterday a girl screamed scuffles that leads the fight against the Tory government

LEYLAND AND TRADE

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the

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UnIs government workers everywhere. factory decided

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ing up for the campaign in district pool buldersto used commitic the LONDON area.

AUEW

the provide accommodation tor and

DIVIL

A 2,000-strong mass meet- the unemployed marchers nationa stewards Fireston when tee, representing Company workers, which has with

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National passed port for the Conference merenht to solution Supportio discussing Dewards support Trades Council Trades Council COnCICLE

LEC

campalen and nave taken 3u therefore decides to set notes wan aces concern ne mokers to • cel or une masc rising unemo ovment among sub-committee make Wembley Pool on malv all sections of the working preparations nor the aucer March class. campaign, WITh W LONDON the "The right to a decent job special attention ot raising finance with basic Ltd has sup Hing to th we campa and and the Brough than on unemployed workers the march

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A million unemployed to- see the "Right-to- issued the wall stating sup- 'Right-to- Pork" campaign... 'We inal un empo ment is a weapon o The emp overs and tota campaign em- unite ployed and unemployed in remove the Tory They committee the factories in the alla DrovIde assistance riremen DrIxion, London have pledged sup port. donated £10 and pledged its for ampaign

BY MICHAEL BANDA

THORNTON

HEATH

and General iransport NIXON'S FRAUDULENT eight-point plan to Union bus branch has sent in f5. end the Indo-China war yesterday met with an The shop stewards' com immediate, predictable and brusque response mONDON, mittee esterners. has agreed from Hanoi. support the campaign organize collection and Radio Hanoi, in a Viet- coach-load of dele led to the resumption of the es to tae namese Wembley Pool Hanuace broadcast

ATTACKS

said a ceasefire would mean Vietnam and the stepping up the people air war all over Indo- Vietnamese China Young Soclailsts' Student 'will have to accept another But the bombing's failure Society puppet govern- Amancan to stop the flow 'Some cand ment in Saigon and at the Sounded the com- to

SUPPORT OUR

same time the Laotian and poli- domestic

RIGHT TO WORK CAMPAIGN

the Cambodian would peopie tical crisis ad- have accept officials a he w wite HOuSe

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27

mitted American colonialist policy.

much when ther complained reporters that Engineering Theatre 'If Nixon does not want to public debate had University College, Gower St, eno the war. then American prisoners will not be allowed home and the prisoners workers subject Americar become longer every Nixon's treezins

VICIOUS

8 pm unemployment of with- becoming On thus trion increasing sCeD. opaque Speakers: drawing said ost Nixon's electioneering schemes.

ROGER SMITH

William Westmoreland *to LicA US Army Chief Staff, the people believe that ther and Vietnam presently

SARAH HANNIGAN (YS)

con US with and Viet Sultalls on how 1amese zenerals Plus showing of Workers Press going -- while Keep une wat film on Ulster Nixon talks peace.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NIXON

have good he mericar, on a pull-out still

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collains We will be marching from the fact is that the US wants FEBRUARY t0

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-road-worthy vans, cars can or venices. (reasonable hire will be considered) ine machinery was in lieus nands Accommodation.. Senate chairman Juyen would cooking equipment government in before *was of the Tinned food Saigon gov- ernment' he broadcast concluded b Finance.. emering the monael tion Front's ish capos top a Brass/jazz bands gramme, simultaneous withdrawal Please tick box where applicable.

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REAL

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Black on movement of coal.

members not to A statement from NUR does not have union backing. one licensions with il sane

• THEN 50

stopping carrying it. collieries strike se the Trees! 40,000 dockers join jobs protest FORTY THOUSAND dock. ers struck yesterday againsi une growing unreal recunaancies industry. Hewith therm ployers ok dests by Tune er this need to eliminate the sta, tory cheme. rin. 1970, secrets talks Ministry. Come ral Her London headquarter. ader for 1o, dons Moda pose of age obey was ational stewards on her er Londo from secretay, the uniones and Manchester docks INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY JANUARY 27, 1972 • No. 673 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TUC AND THE MINERS

TALK, TALK

50.000

BUT NO

SHOP SICH

COMMITTEE

ACTION

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE CAPITALIST PRESS yesterday declared that Victor Feather of the TUC had at last come off the fence on the miners' strike.

MOVING IO PIERHEAD MEETING

•Sweet : talk' the

• MINERS

18-day-old national 'Only ЛЛЕ

SUPPOR

suke, rearner more casn can solve it.

HEAD

Feather made these remarks

DOCHEN":

EF , Wann

JOBS

With

MARCH

MINERS, dockers enge building workers strongly poul yesterday agalist empioyment and . L01 to vet the Thered in over Money ide yesterdays rue en era employed miners led the workers hourol in

NUM SECRETARY LAWRENGE DALY AT DAGENHAM YESTERDAY

1 ney i TUC BACKING US Sendix from LeSSE Plas and otis Elevators -says Daly Liverpool Jan Fund hare state wen Almost there! Weike week i the oard ment de on the 'more flexible' strike were also there. 57.72 no last big elor settlement Lawrence Daly To darry en Though all Liverpool build- gesture nent share sites dol 1,211 complete our tar.

Racon s Failed t creating a more flexible situ- I he miners secretary addec counci tor a one-ca closed were Britain's polyment services. stewards union the militaied the siastic reception. MDW talks at repeat them today: Longbridge short this weeks Ge stewards have ta e the overnment Workers Press Appeal Func must be hoping en in Ortord 194 London, SWa 7UG. Fisher on haiting , coal, coke • PAGE FOUR COl 7 Measured-Day Work pay pol oil subalties ycal. The hush-

COLLIERY CLERICAL STAFF

hush decision 4o soposa on. shop stewards area dements present piecework

DEFY UNION-MEET PICKETS

Opposed by this decision s secto have From IAN YEATS encouragement national desires

TWENTY

readers Workers Union deled administrativ chion to gat pro rames Cables lind recordin troublice following the reign. Board's W four women Bridgeadters at Tondu, near and to marator a call : 500 miners of conspiring to cause they re e anyould ting, restrictions were 'yes erdads Mornit • на пір Saad, A no the reason is no Let port the

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nations British-Leylane the e that their haterian ele stevandaridge miners' which not cross Dick Yesterday a girl screamed The daily paper that leads the Tory government

LEYLAND AND TRADE

COUNCIL BACK YS JOBS

SHOP

STEWARDS

CAMPAIGN

British-Leyland Standard COlEN TRY "passed factory have overwhelmingly a resolution Work" day: how ster full camDayu more pledging

SUDDOT

101 this lowarus orunzlnk cown une out bocalsisi reacuonar LOrY "They marching TO- YONk' alt covernment and the ren ace for temselves, The 300 the DuT

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ment Stewaras di This covernment wOrkers everywiere factort decced Take with a lahonr The Trades Council has pledged to colecuions. will also be also mace conation to CalDar n 'Right-to-Work' welcomes the support cam. launched Siven lor ocal nals "Right-to-Work" VArIOUS InOnS -enzineer- build- big sunnort is nom 1 end transport venicle Cambal?! ITOl ing up for the campaign in bulders-to district pool used committee the LONDON area

AUEW

Pre ide empooyed miar . 2,000-strong mass meet- unemployed nationa stewards commit. ing of Firestone when they tee, representing Rubber passedand Company Tyre workers, which is overwhelming has with

AUEW

National Sup passed port for the Conterght ta esolution Conference Callarl Supurels discussing olewarus campaign: Trades Council Trades Council concrete suD Dort

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camnaien and have taken 50 therefore decides to set notes witi dees concern the tickets to cell tor the mass risine unemo ovment among sui-commilttee make Wembley Pool on rally of the working preparations for the "Right- all sections March class To- Work' camnaton. with Also in I W LONDON the "The right to a decent job shecial attention ot raising shop stewards' committee at with decent is a basic finance campaign, Trico Folberth Ltd has right the finding campaign nd in employed and the donated unemployed ce basse and workers SE

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pledge for support shop Right-to-Work preparations enzimecrls We sending stewaros ai otone con mass "Right- must allow tue mave orencedi SUDDUr ories to use meno o menı WOrKerS mass the cam- Wembley and limance tor to-Work" ana tRe ns cercons rally paign. 12. smash free trade Act To+ on Marcni The

LONDON,

unions. avervone Inreatened Mitcham

AUEW

branch "Right-to- A million unemployed to- see the has issued they reily resolution stating . Work" YS recornize that employment is a weapon of that a une emslovers and campaict unite em D oved unemo oved angnt to remove the government is essential. They have called the local engineering district committee factories in 20ea provide assistance campaign. Brixton, Firemen London have pledged sup- DOrt. of the meent® CROYDON Trades Council. donated tt ano necgeo 1t6 support campaign. tor „ The From same area. the

BY MICHAEL BANDA

the

HEATH

THORNTON

and General NIXON'S FRAUDULENT eight-point plan to • Union bus branch has he shop 5 end the Indo-China war yesterday met with an shop stewards' com and brusque response immediate, predictable aesleltl

.ONDOI

has agreed from Hanoi. the

SUDDOKL

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SUPPORT OUR

S onlv com. same time the Laotian and sunn les thf poli- domestic

RIGHT TO WORK CAMPAIGN

nONCA the Cambodian people would tical crisis. have accept White House officials new

THURSDAY, JANUARY 27

much when the! mitted as American colonialist policy.

complained reporlers Engineering Theatre 'If Nixon does not want to revealec beace Darwas end the mill thi American University College, Gower St, because ine budac devate nad be prisonel necome distorted" WC1 home and the American workerc- -cl hect list wil become longer every Nixon's vicious freezing 8 pm day.' and unemployment are drawing Usquestion scep On the with- Speakers : opaque troops, Ine Con election that mentarv 8a10 was

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Vietnam con- present v

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US Viet- ciltina with and namese generals how going - while Plus showing of Workers Press the war film on Ulster Nixon talks peace.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NIXON

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PAGE TWO Workers Press, Thursday January 27, 1972 1893: Featherstone deaths By Philip Wade IN JUNE 1893 the mine meeting. owners demanded a 25-per- cent cut in the wages of about taken to call troops from York.

480,000 miners after the sell- Captain Barker anst 28rdshire ing price of coal had fallen Staffordshire trymen by about 40 per cent. The Regiment arrived at the colliery at 4 p.m. but found no disturb- Miners' Federation of Great Their arrival ance. caused great Britain, which had about excitement and by p.m. huge had gathered the 250,000 members, resisted colliery after a march through the demand and in the last the week of July the employers Riot act locked the miners out. A deputation demanded that The lock-out had been the military should depart.

six weeks when ning troops Featherstone, Captain were called to After some rioting small W Riding mining town if Barker agreed to the the Yorkshire, deal with angry miners would leave colliery to miners at Ackton Hall pit.

followed premises. The soldiers, crowd, the marched back to the railway station shortly before Troops called 8 p.m. But a Pontefract magistrate, The miners, employees of Lord the scene shortly arriving Masham, were protesting against ordered the back after, soldiers continued the the colliery. An chormous 'smudge' workers to load an crowd gathered once and inferior class of and the Riot Act of 1714 was read. the fact some cenT The crowd was ordered to dis- away for sale. perse. Remaining together for On September 7, 1893. 200 they miners marched up to the were liable to penal servitude for office and demanded ager's an life. end to the practice The man- By 9 p.m. the crowd had not ager, Mr A. I. Holiday dispersed. The magistrate fled ten miles Pontefract to to the troops to open ordered fire. get some additional police pro- Gibb James Two tection. (22), and James Duggan (25), were killed and 16 others were He got no help as 269 police had been drafted to control wounded. subscribe! The dally paper that leads the fight against the Tories. {17.12 for 12 months (312 Issues) £8.56 for 6 months (156 issues) £4.29 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.32 for 3 months (24 issues) £5.28 for 12 months (96 issues Fill in the form below NOW and send to : CIrculation Dept., Workers Pross, 186a Clapham High St., London. SW4. - - -- I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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Name Address 'Featherstone' Asquith-Home Sec the shootings The two men are buried in a just simple cemetery outside Featherstone. On the gravestone of James Gibb the inscription tells how he was shot through by soldiers who charged the locked-out miners'. The Featherstone shooting caused widespread anger among the miners. Featherstone Asquith' was the nickname givén to the Liberal Home Secretary of the time. Victorious The miners' resolve strength- ened and the lock-out lasted 15 weeks in all. In the end the miners victorious. They were returned on the old wage rates.

No cuts had been inflicted.

A step forward had been taken in the expansion and consolidation of mass trade unions. Today, almost 80 years later, Ackton Hall miners are again locked in bitter struggle for a decent living. Lord Masham has gone. But the sign- outside the colliery which says the pit is held by the NCB on behalf of the people is viewed with some justifiable cynicism by the men on strike.

The shootings are embedded in the consciousness of Feather- Underground miners. stone worker Eddie Wilkes has worked at Ackton Hall for 30 years and he told us precisely where the men were buried and the name of the colliery manager of 1893.

"The lesson I draw from 1893 is this. Whenever you have a Behind

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IT IS

A truism to say that men living in small mining dominated communities are by the pits that close in on them. In New Ollerton, N Notts, I know one miner who literally opens his front door, crosses the road and goes down the pit. But it is than just noTe physical proximity that volved. If you live in New Oller- ton the only real jobs that spring Thoresby, mind are those in Clipston or Ollerton pits; there is little else to do. 57 Clarence

SISSONS

aged job loading coal has a grinding wagons the surface at Thoresby miles cold. He few down the road. has worked there 42 years. His father worked at Clipston for 52 years and his Colin has worked at Ollerton son pit for the past 17 years.

No reward That makes Ill years that the Sissons family has churned profit, the old coal first for owners and later for the coal board What reward have Clarence and had? What have his family the pits paid back for consum- their lives? "Nothing! And feel bitter, wouldn't you? I've just and got a home basic living. All my lte people have got lot of money out of me on the çheap,' Clarence declared.

Wage slip To prove the point he showed us his wage slip. Clarence's take-home pay was working only for five shifts in the first week of 1972.

His rent had been deducted by whole the NCB. ror a week he was expected to survive on such a degrading sum. I've nothing to look to look forward to now.' said In eight years' time I retire and I shall of £300 for get a lumo lifetime in the pit. That's pitiful h-Home Secretary at the time of isn't it? the shootings. You should get at least f15 a week when you retire, like the My father wasn't so lucky. He all from got nothing at 52 Tory government the working the coal board after years down Clipston.' class is persecuted and hounded,' he told us. Yet Thoresby colliery is reckoned to be one of the most 'I think the Tories are setting upon us in the same pattern as they used to deal with Africans 100 years ago with threats, starvation and blackmailing.

'We're being taken back to days. She said Lady Astor's miners were earthworms and get- ting too much. But I'd take of any MP's per cent wages- cent of mine is nothing. per 'In my opinion the TUC is not giving us the backing we expect.

It's fine talking about sympathy, we want than that.

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the Party But Labour also let down when they were in power, in my view.' Resigned Eddie resigned from the Featherstone Labour Party man- committee when 69 agement Heath Labour MPs voted for over Common Market entry.

If those Labour MPs hadn't voted with the government, we wouldn't be fighting the Tories now, he said bitterly. We're fighting for decent living wage now, said Eddie who takes home f15.50 a week. 'It's a disgrace when a man has who worked full week has to get Family Income Supple- ment to make up his wages. It means taking his dignity away.

Every man is entitled to his Thoresby pickets: T'll stop out with eeds and the right to a job.

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Speeches and sabotage from Colombia's guerrillas

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ACTIVITIES in Colombia, S America, are assum- ing menacing proportions. Com- mandos of the National Libera- tion Army have succeeded in occupying a number of towns and villages for a few hours, carrying out sabotage and mak- ing speeches before withdraw- ing. Colombia, which has a popu- lation of about 18 million in an five times larger area than Great Britain, is ideal terrain for guerrilla fighting. President Misael Pastrana's government has ordered emergency measures throughout the country. Troops and aircraft have been deployed to deal with the threat. Wiped out Not long ago the government proclaimed that the guerrilla movement had been wiped out. It is now admitted that various organizations, are still operating.

One leader, ex-army Major, an Manuel Velez, has been reported killed no less than three times.

The government is now trying to rush through a new pro- gramme of legislation to deal with its growing problems. These include, besides the guerrilla threat, a huge foreign debt bur- den and the growing discontent of the masses whose living stand- ards are falling while prices rise ever higher. Divisions The economic crisis has pre- cipitated deep divisions within the ruling oligarchy and para- lysed the It government. IS believed that the President and his cabinet will seek a way out dictatorship, by resort to open declaring an economic emergency and a state of siege as is per- mitted under the new constitu- tion. Elections are due to be held on April 16 for the Provincial Assemblies and Local Councils.

If the government fails to win these elections that may be the signal for open dictatorship or a military coup. Meanwhile the guerrillas are making the most of the govern- ment's disarray to harass it in outlying villages and small towns and are trying to establish a firmer base among the peasan- ury. deficit of Yugoslav trade THE YUGOSLAV trade deficit rose by 20 per cent in 1971, according to figures released by the Federal Institute of Statis- tics. Exports increased by 8 per cent, but imports rose by 13 per cent. According to the Institute, the balance showed signs of improve- ment in the second half of the year. Of the constituent repub- lics, Serbia led the way, followed by Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia- Hertsegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro. The Soviet Union was Yugo- slavia's most important trading taking about partner, one- seventh of the country's exports.

Next came Italy and W Ger- many, who also sent consumer goods into Yugoslavia. The report says nothing about the export of workers, who left to find jobs in European capital- ist countries owing to unemploy- ment and poor wages at home. Also, the Yugoslay economy is faced by a mounting foreign pay- ments crisis which means chronic infiation and falling living stand- ards for many workers. This helps to explain the out- burst nationalist tensions which threaten to destroy the unity of the Yugoslav republic and the series of compromises with capitalism made by the Tito bureaucracy.

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fore a Vienna court charged businessmen German to procure orders for building these with helping to build concen- death disposal contraptions and for and furnishing the blue tration facilities at camp lethal crystals (used for gassing) Auschwitz which killed mil- The crematoria contract by the firm of I. Topf lions of people.

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and Sons of Erfurt, manufac- of heating equipment. pleaded Both have not This letter from the firm, guilty. Dejaco, an architect been buiding dated February 1943, who has since 12, ex- plodes the myth that the con- for the Roman cathedrals tracting firms did not know that Catholic Church, told the the camps were involved in mass did what I was I just court: slaughter. It reads: told! "To the Central Construc- The case is expected to last weeks: Since the about seven. tion Office of the SS and half the end of the war about police, Auschwitz: trials in Austria have ended acquittals. Under the SUBJECT: Crematoria law, former Nazis mav and 3 for the camp. juries which hear the cases. Indictment Both defendants were officers in Nazi SS units in charge of the concentration

AUSCHWILL

in Poland. The indictment camp says they drew up plans and built four gas chambers and the killing crematoria jewish prisoners. Dejaco and Ertl admit build- chambers, but the put Ing gas the blame on orders they re- ceived from their superiors. The prosecution that case is without the complicity of ex- builders and archi- perts, such as tects, the Nazi extermination could programme been carried out. The people numher of slaughtered Auschwitz will at never be known. The camp com- mandant, Rudolf Hess, convict, estimated in an affidavit that million— total was 2.5 million gassed or incinerated and 500,000 from starvation and disease. In his book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' William Shirer writes: *Speed was an im- factor, especially at Auschwitz, where toward the end the camp setting new records by gassing 6,000 victims a day.' To introduce these hideous facilities, ( Nazis called for Victims of Auschwi The ITV 9.00, Sez Les with Shirley Bassey

BBC 1

9.38 For 12.55 Tresarn. 1.30 The Herbs. Schools. 1.45 News, weather. 2.05 For Schools. 3.45 Conflict at Work. 4.15 Play School.

4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Blue Peter. 5.20 Dr Dolittle.

5.44 Sir Prance- lot. 5.50 News, weather. 6.00 NATIONWIDE. Your Region tonight.

6.50

TOM AND JERRY.

7.00 OWEN MD. God's Acre Part 2.

7.25

TOP OF THE POPS.

8.00 THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Old Time Music-Hall.

8.50 DO YOU REMEMBER? Robert Robinson looks back at July 1958. 9.00 NEWS, Weather. PLAY FOR TODAY. 'The House on Highbury Hill'.

9.20 10.20

24 HOURS.

11.15

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Above left: Walter Dejaco and Fritz of a guard at their trial in Vienna.

countered We acknowledge C. H. Kori the receipt Didier of your order for five triple proposals with letter which pointed out that it had furnaces, including two elec- provided furnace facilities at tric elevators for raising Dachau and Lublin which had corpses and one emergency 'full satisfaction in prac- given elevator. A practical instal- tice'. lation for stoking coal was The letter said: also ordered for and one transporting ashes.' (Following our verbal dis- The designers the from cussion regarding the de- Didier Works, Berlin, livery of equipment of the camp suggesting a superior simple construction for the product: burning of bodies, we are submitting plans for For putting the bodies perfected cremation into the furnace we suggest which operate with coal and simply a metal fork moving which have hitherto given cylinders. Each on furnace full satisfaction. will have an oven measur- We only 24 by 18 inches, suggest two ing • toria furnaces for the build- as coffins will not be used.

For transporting the corpses ing planned, but we advise from storage you make further in- the points to to the furnaces quiries to make that we suggest sure two ovens will be sufficient using light carts on wheels.

for your requirements. and we enclose diagrams of these drawn to scale? the effec- We guarantee tiveness of the cremation ovens as well as the dura- bility, the use of the best "material and faultless our workmanship. Awaiting further your will word, be at your we service, Heil Hitler! y C. H. Kori GmbH The Zyklon-B used crystals for mass extermination were repictered under patent of Tha I. G. Farben, the giant chemical today one firm which of Germany's most powerful phar- maceutical firms Complicity In concluding his chapter on the 'final solution', Shirer 'Before the post-war TArITACI trials in Germany it had been generally believed that the mass killings were exclusively the work of relatively fana- few tical SS leaders. But the records of the courts leave doubt of the compli- no city of of German number businessmen, only the not Krupps of and directors the I. G. Farben chemical trust, but smaller entrepreneurs who out- wardly must have seemed to be the mact and decent prosalc men, pillars—like good business- men evervwhere—of their com- ns of Auschwitz

TODAY'S

PROGRAMMES

ввс 2 11.00 Play School. 5.35 Open University. 6.35 Rosla and After.

7.05 OPEN UNIVERSITY.

7.30 NEWSROOM. Weather. 8.00 THE SHADOW OF THE TOWER. The Crowning of Apes. The pretender to the English crown prepares to invade.

8.50 EUROPA. 'Lelsure'. 'Pace of Life'.

SHOW OF THE WEEK. Dave Allen at large.

9.20 10.05 NEWS, Weather.

WORLD

10.10

CINEMA :

'THE MIND

OF

THE CHILD'.

Les Olvidados'. Young thug determined to show his proficiency in crime in the slums of Mexico City. Directed by Luis Bunuel and winner of the Grand Prix at Venice in 1951 11.25

LATE NIGHT LINE-UP.

ITV

10.20 For Schools. 232 Yesterdays. 3.00 Houseparty. 3.10 Tea Break. 3.40 Marcus Welby. 4.40 Origami. 4.55 Atom Ant. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY.

6.45 CROSSROADS.

7.10 FILM: TIP ON A DEAD JOCKEY'. Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Jack Lord. Smuggled currency.

9.00 SEZ LES. Les Dawson, Shirley Bassey.

9.30 THIS WEEK.

10.00 NEWS.

CINEMA.

10.30 |

11.00 PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.

11.30 SCOTLAND YARD MYSTERIES.

THE POLARIZED SOCIETY.

Workers Press, Thursday Januar aco and Fritz Ertl seated either side WHILE the trial of ex-SS officers Walter Dejaco and Fritz Ertl continues, other Auschwitz veterans live in comfort and security. One is Franz Bernhard Lucas, a gynae- cologist and specialist in women's ailments. He is alleged to have selected thousands of Jewish women for the gas chamber. He volunteered for the Brown Shirts as early as 1933 and was sent to Auschwitz in 1944. He now runs a private practice in N Germany.

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3.10 Yoga. Horoscope. today. Rupert Bear 4,55 London 00 6.00 Today. 6.35 Crossroads. Sky's the Limit .. 11.00 Wizard" Film: Diamond London. Marcus Welby. Thursday January 27, 1972

PAGE THREE

African slavery THE MINERS' strike in Namibia (SW Africa) continues. Namibia has been described 'the most exploited territory as in history'. British companies involved heavily in that exploita- tion include Shell, BP, Barclays Banks, Standard Stewarts & Lloyds and Wimpeys. By far the largest profiteering company is Rio Tinto-Zinc which was given permission by the last Labour government to open a uranium mine near the coast. The head of RTZ is Sir Val Duncan who, also under Labour, prepared a report on the re- organization of the Foreign Office. The International Court of Justice has ruled that S Africa's presence in Namibia is illegal and that members of the United Nations should recognize the fact. Britain continues to ignore the ruling as does America whose companies also operate in the area. That was some party

SOME

people just have to cele- brate in style. And millionaire art dealer Reese Palley is no exception.

His birthday party guests danced in the aisles of two specially-hired jumbo jets dur- ing their trip across the Atlan- tic. When Mr Palley and his 730 friends, clients and employees flew into Orly, the Paris airport was swamped by the sheer weight of the number of revel- lers. It was the start of the big- gest birthday party the city had seen in years. No Mr Palley introvert, ordered the two huge airliners to be parked nose-to-nose in front of the passenger terminal at Orly. He then mounted a rostrum to display his birthday cake to the assembled guests. But disaster struck and tor- rential rain made them flee the tarmac scattering behind them Palley's specially-produced party face-masks. A cavalcade of 35 buses and four luggage trucks took the dishevelled merrymakers in con- voy to the Paris Intercontinental Hotel which Mr Palley virtually took over for four days. I got the idea months seven ago and I've been working on it ever since. This little party $250,000 (about cost me £100,000), he told reporters. The guests had to endure four days of parties all over Paris, a reception hosted by US ambas- sador Arthur Watson and a final birthday splash taking up two hotel ballrooms. Mr Palley organized the birth- day bonanza to coincide with the opening his of new Paris art gallery which will specialize in porcelain 'birds of peace'.

He is said to have amassed his fortune from selling the birds.

Woman's own

WOMEN'S

liberationist and Greet, globetrotter, Germaine has announced in Australia that she hopes to start an inter- national newspaper staffed en- tirely by women. The paper would be financed by the proceeds of her highly lucrative book 'The Female Eunuch', she said. Greer

and sabotage trom Colombia's guerrillas

GUERRILLA

ACTIVITIES

in Colombia, S America, are assum- ing menacing proportions.

Com- mandos of the National Libera- have succeeded in tion Army number of towns occupying a and villages for a few hours, carrying out sabotage and mak- ing speeches before withdraw- ing. Colombia, which has a popu- lation of about 18 million in an times larger area five than Great Britain, is ideal terrain for guerrilla fighting. President Misael Pastrana's government has ordered emergency measures throughout the country. Troops and aircraft have been deployed to deal with the threat. Wiped out Not long ago the government proclaimed that the guerrilla movement had been wiped out.

It is now admitted that various organizations, are still operating.

an ex-army Major, One leader, Manuel Velez, has been reported killed no less than three times.

The government is now trying to rush through a new pro- gramme of legislation to deal with its growing problems. These include, besides the guerrilla threat, a huge foreign debt bur- den and the growing discontent of the masses whose living stand- ards are falling while prices rise ever higher. Divisions The economic crisis has pre- cipitated deep divisions within ruling oligarchy and the para- lysed the government. It is believed that the President and his cabinet will seek a way out by resort to open dictatorship, declaring an economic emergency and a state of siege as is per- mitted under the new constitu- tion. Elections are due to be held on April 16 for the Provincial Assemblies and Local Councils.

If the government fails to win these elections that may be the signal for open dictatorship or a military coup. Meanwhile the guerrillas are making the most of the govern- ment's disarray to harass it in outlying villages and small towns and are trying to establish a firmer base among the peasan- try. deficit of Yugoslav trade THE YUGOSLAV trade deficit rose by 20 per cent in 1971 according to figures released bs he Federal Institute tics. Exports increased by 8 per cent, but imports rose by 13 per According to the Institute, the balance showed signs of improve- nent in the second half of the year. Of the constituent repub- lics, Serbia led the way, followed Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia- Hertsegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro. The Soviet Union was Yugo- slavia's most important trading taking partner, about one- seventh of the country's exports.

Next came Italy and W Ger- who also many, sent consumer goods into Yugoslavia. The report says nothing about the export of workers, who left to find jobs in European capital- ist countries owing to unemploy- ment and poor wages at home.

the Yugoslav Also, economy is faced by a mounting foreign pay.

ments crisis which means chronic inflation and falling living stand- ards for many workers. This helps to explain the out- tensions burst nationalist which threaten to destroy the unity of the Yugoslav republic and the series of compromises with capitalism made by the Tito bureaucracy.

RECO

The Editor, Slanh y FORMER Nazi SS officers tenders. From records found at the camp after the war, it was Walter Dejaco and Fritz Ertl clear that the contracts were eagerly sough staad: here had appearing be- are currently chronicler has stated: been some lively competition fore a Vienna court charged among German businessmen to procure orders for building these with helping to build concen- and disposal contraptions and for furnishing the blue tration facilities at camp lethal crystals (used for gassing).'

Auschwitz which killed mil- oh by the tomi was Crematona lions of people. won of I. A. Topf and Sons Erfurt, manufac- turers of heating equipment.

pleaded not Both have Dejaco, This architect letter from th43, firm, guilty. an dated February 12, who has since been buiding ex- plodes the myth that the con- cathedrals for the Roman tracting firms did not know that Catholic Church, told the the camps were involved in mass court: 'I just did what I was slaughter. It reads: told.' The case is expected to last "To the Central Construc- Since the about seven weeks: tion Office of the SS and end of the war about half the police, Auschwitz: Austria have trials war ended acquittals. Under the

SUBJECT:

In• Crematoria 2 law, former Nazis may serve on and 3 for the camp. which hear the Cases Indictment.. officers Both defendants were in Nazi SS charge of units in the Auschwitz concentration Poland. The indictment camp in and they drew built four gas chambers and the crematoria used for killing Jewish prisoners. admit build- Dejaco and Ertl ing the chambers, but put gas the blame on orders they re- ceived from their superiors. The prosecution that case is without the complicity of ex- perts, such as builders and archi- the Nazi tects, extermination could programme have been carried out. The exact number of people will slaughtered Auschwitz never be known. The camp com- Rudolf Hess, mandant, an ex- an affidavit convict, estimated in that the was 3 million- total 2.5 million gassed or incinerated 500.000 from and and disease. In his book "The Rise and Fall the Third Reich', William L. Shirer writes: 'Speed was an im- portant factor, especially at Auschwitz, toward the where end the camp was setting new records by gassing 6,000 victims a day.' introduce these hideous Victims of Auschv facilities, Nazis called for the ITV 9.00, Sez Les with Shiriey Bassey

BBC 1"

9.38 For Schools. 12.55 Tresarn. 1.30 The Herbs.

1.45 News, weather. 2.05 For Schools. 3.45 Conflict at Work. 4.15 Play School.

4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Blue Peter. 5.20 Dr Dolittle. 5.44 Sir Prance- lot. 5.50 News, weather. 6.00 NATIONWIDE. Your Region tonight.

6.50 TOM AND JERRY.

7.00 OWEN MD. God's Acre Part 2.

7.25 TOP OF THE POPS.

8.00 THE GOOD OLD DAYS. Old Time Music-Hall.

8.50 DO YOU REMEMBER? Robert Robinson looks back at July 1958. 9.00 NEWS, Weather. 9.20 PLAY FOR TODAY. 'The House on Highbury Hill'.

10.20 24 HOURS.

11.15

PEOPLE LTD

Above left: Walter Dejaco and Fritz of a guard at their trial In Vienna.

We acknowledge receipt C. H. Kori countered the of your order for five triple Didier with letter proposals which pointed out. that it had furnaces ators to roasic facilities provided furnace tric raising elevators Dachau an satistaction and Lublin which had corpses and one emergency given prac- elevator. A practical instal- tice. lation for stoking coal was The letter said: also ordered and one for transporting ashes' (Following our verbal dis- The designers from the cussion regarding the de- Didier Works, Berlin, wrote livery of equipment of the camp suggesting a superior simple construction for the product: burning, of bodies, we for submitting plans our 'For the bodies putting perfected cremation ovens into the furnace we suggest which operate with coal and simply a metal fork moving which have hitherto given on cylinders. Each furnace full satisfaction. will have 24 by 18 inches, measur- oven We suggest two ing only crema- as coffins will not be used.

, toria furnaces for the build- For transporting the corpses ing planned, but we advise from the you to make further in- storage points the furnaces quiries to make sure that we suggest two ovens will be sufficient using light carts on wheels, for your requirements. and we enclose diagrams of scale.' these drawn to We guarantee the effec- tiveness of the cremation ovens as well as the dura- bility, the use of the best ""material and faultless our workmanship. Awaiting your further will word, we be at your service, Heil Hitler! C. H. Kori GmbH The Zyklon-B used crystals for mass extermination were registered under the patent of I. Farben, G giant chemical the firm which is today W of Germany's most powerful phar- maceutical firms. Complicity In concluding his chapter on the 'final solution, Shirer 'Before writes: the post-war trials Germany had been in it generally believed that the mass killings were exclusively the work of relatively few fana- tical SS leaders. 'But the records of the courts leave doubt of the no compli- of German number of city businessmen, not only the and Krupps directors of the I. G. Farben chemical trust, but smaller entrepreneurs who

OUL-

wardly must have seemed to be the most prosaic and decent of men, pillars—like good business- men everywhere-of their com- ms of Auschwitz munities.'

TODAY'S

PROGRAMMES

BBC 2

11.00 Play School. 5.35 Open University. 6.35 Rosla and After.

7.05 OPEN UNIVERSITY.

7.30 NEWSROOM, Weather. 8.00 THE SHADOW OF THE TOWER. The Crowning of Apes. The pretender to the English crown prepares to invade.

8.50 EUROPA. 'Leisure'. 'Pace of Life'.

9.20 SHOW OF THE WEEK. Dave Allen at large.

10.05 NEWS, Weather.

.10 WORLD CINEMA: "THE MIND OF THE CHILD'. 'L

vidados'. Young thug determined to show his proficier Bufuet and whe et of the Grand Cit at venice in 1951.

11.25 LATE NIGHT LINE-UP.

ITV

1o.ak. S.40 Mardus 23aly 4er0 rigam 4055 A At 1.20 Break. 3.40 Marcus Welby. 4.40 Magpie. 5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY.

6.45 CROSSROADS.

7.10 FILM: 'TIP ON A DEAD JOCKEY'. Robert Taylor, Dorothy Malone, Jack Lord. Smuggled currency.

9.00 SEZ LES. Les Dawson, Shirley Bassey.

9.30 THIS WEEK.

10.00 NEWS.

10.30 CINEMA.

11.00 PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.

SCOTLAND YARD MYSTERIES.

11.30

12.00 THE POLARIZED SOCIETY.

Workers Press, Thursday Januar aco and Fritz Ertl seated either side WHILE the trial of ex-SS officers Walter Dejaco and Fritz Ertl continues, other Auschwitz veterans live in comfort and security. One is Franz Bernhard Lucas, a gynae- cologist and specialist in women's ailments. He is alleged to have selected thousands of Jewish women for the gas chamber. He volunteered for the Brown Shirts as early as 1933 and was sent to Auschwitz in 1944. He now runs a private practice in N Germany.

REGIONAL

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name o "The he Diamonds Wetty Wizard': 11.30 don. 11 museum. Pritich Thursday January 27, 1972

PAGE THREE

African slavery THE MINERS' strike in Namibia (SW Africa) continues. Namibia has been described 'the most exploited territory as in history'. British companies involved heavily in that exploita- tion include Shell, BP, Barclays Banks, and Standard Stewarts & Lloyds and Wimpeys. By far the largest profiteering company is Rio Tinto-Zinc which was given permission by the last Labour government to open a mine near the coast. uranium The head of RTZ is Sir Val Duncan who, also under Labour, prepared report on the re- organization of the Foreign Office. The International Court of Justice has ruled that S Africa's presence in Namibia is illegal and that members of the United Nations should recognize fact. Britain continues to ignore the ruling as does America whose companies also operate in the area. That was some party SOME people just have to cele- brate in style. And millionaire art dealer Reese Palley is no exception.

His birthday party guests danced in the aisles of two specially-hired jumbo jets dur- ing their trip across the Atlan- When Mr Palley and his 730 friends, clients and employees lew into Urly, the Paris airport was swamped by the sheer weight of the number of revel- lers. It was the start of the big- gest birthday party the city had seen in years. No introvert, Mr Palley ordered the two huge airliners to be parked in nose-to-nose front of the passenger terminal at Orly. He then mounted a rostrum to display his birthday cake to the assembled guests. But disaster struck and tor- rential rain made them flee the tarmac scattering behind them Palley's specially-produced party face-masks. A cavalcade of 35 buses and four luggage trucks took the dishevelled merrymakers in con- voy to the Paris Intercontinental Hotel which Mr Palley virtually took over for four days. I got the idea seven months and I've been working on ago it ever since. This little party cost me $250,000 (about £100,000), he told reporters.

The guests had to endure four days of parties all over Paris, a reception hosted by US ambas- sador Arthur Watson and a final birthday splash taking up two hotel ballrooms. Mr Palley organized the birth- day bonanza to coincide with the opening of his new Paris art gallery which will specialize in porcelain 'birds of peace'.

He is said to have amassed his fortune from selling the birds.

Woman's own WOMEN'S liberationist and globetrotter, Germaine Greer, has announced in Australia that she hopes to start an inter- national newspaper staffed en- tirely by women. The paper would be financed by the proceeds of her highly lucrative "The Female book Eunuch', she said. Greer

PAGE FOUR

Workers Press, Thursday January 27, 1972

MINERS'

DISCUSSION

. IN MONDAY'S Workers Author hits Sadat Press, Wheldale colliery Allend Socialist promises miner and at My two

FOR DISCUSSION AMONG MINERS

a hangm Labour League member Brian Lavery opened a weapons discussion on "Miners Lai probe and the Tory govern-

MINERS"

tant studender ment'. Here two York-

AND

against Israel shire workers ex- pit

THE

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Sai War •not mere table,

A TORY

sadat press their views but a

GOVT

THE INITIAL US army investigation into the Moscow to Pere pont Defeating ed to go 1968 My Lai massacre centred more on an armed confrontation between Lt William Calley and a helicopter pilot than on the killing of Vietnamese

MINERS' STRIKE

cord had ben broken on: I civilians, states prize-winning author Seymour Hersh.

DAY 19

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GOLD THORPE

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SEND

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TEEL

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TUC

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were evacu sixth Vir Peters was invalided he Sovie gosla via. We lott of does hesita

GEORGE PETERS

EDDIE JACKSON

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JACKSON

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LONDON:

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LONDON

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paign.

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN SCOTLAND

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HEAD JOBS

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