Workers Press no. 677

workers press

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE LONDONDE

was a deliberate a The whole operation was planned militarily and politi- cally in the Cabinet office.

When Ulster premier Brian Faulkner slipped London •into last Thursday he saw both Heath and Maudling to discuss the final details of the plan.

The shooting down of civilians-most of them hit in the back-is the latest and most murderous phase of the Tories' campaign to intimidate the N Ireland working class. In Britain the same govern- ment is preparing another kind of war against trade unionists.

Their aim is to the starve miners into submission and the Industrial Relations Act is gradu- ally coming into operation to strip unions and their members

13 NAMED

The 13 who died have been named as: Michael McDaid, of Tirconnell Street: Hugh Gilmore, of Garvin Place; John Young, of Westway; Gerald McKinney (35), of Knockdaragh House; Gerald Square; Donaghy, of Meenan James Wray (23), of Drumcliffe Avenue; Patrick Doherty (21), of Hamilton Street; Bernard McGuigan (41), Inniscarn Crescent; Michael Kelly, of Dun- more Gardens; Jack Duddy, of Central Drive; William McKinney (27), of Westway; William Nash of Dunsee Gardens; and (19), Mellhenney, of Phillip Kevin Street.

PEKING

PAKISTAN'S

President new Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is currently in Peking, where the authori- ties have organized a tumultuous welcome. He is seeking further military aid and economic assistance from Stalinists Soviet the Chinese who yesterday attacked the Union and India for supporting BanglaDesh. •See Serious clashes P.12

INCORPORATING THE NEWSL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE SOC

Westminster. of hard-won rights. Yesterday Londonderry was like a morgue city. Nobody went to work and the streets were deserted except for small crowds of people holding heated discussions. The common enemy of the entire community is the British army. Workers Press warned as long ago as October 26 that the army was moving towards another 'Sharpeville' Further evidence of their intentions came in December when the army, with Cabinet's approval, altered the Yellow Book which L governs firing regulations. On Sunday afternoon the First Battalion, the Paratroop Regi- ment, did not even observe these permissive regulations. They fired at anybody. The demonstrators were marching to protest peacefully against internment. They were opposing the introduction of the fascist-style Special Powers Act which enables the police and army to pick up innocent people, detain them and them torture and then dump them in intern- ment camps. 'paras' The specially were brought from Belfast to London- derry 'to deal with' the demon- strators. A Fleet St defence corre- spondent told Workers Press yes- terday: It's quite obvious why they brought in the paras. The army beliéved that the local force stationed in Londonderry was too "matey"- with the people. They wanted a group of soldiers who could be brought in to do the dirty work." This savage intervention by the army now makes the fight to get the Tory government out of office the most urgent task. those, And like the Com- munist Party, who refuse to fight for the ending of the Heath government, must bear responsi- bility for Sunday's massacre.

GOVERNMENT AND Opposi- tion whips dragged Mid-Ulster MP Bernadette Devlin off Home Secretary Reginald Maudling in the Commons yesterday. Calling him a 'murdering hypocrite' she hit, scratched and pulled at his hair. The Palace of Westminster was blanketed in high security yesterday as Maudling announced the setting-up of an inquiry into Sunday's shootings. Labour Harold Wilson nodded leader approvingly from the Opposition front bench as the announce- ment was made.

IE NEWSLETTER

• TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1,

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE CEN

ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES?! Lu Monday. March 21, murder was committed at the small African township of Sharpeville, 36 miles from Johannesburz. The nationalist government of the Union of South Africa, under its prime minister Henriek Verwoerd, is directly responsible. But there are those in Britain who are accomplices, too.

at

THE OCTOBER 26, 1971,

STALINISTS WIN R

CLYDE SHIP VOTE

A MASS meeting yesterday allowed UCS shop stewards' leaders to release yet another ship-the bulk-carrier New Westminster City' They did so after James Reid, Communist Party spokesman for committee, the stewards told them that the Texas-based Mara- tbon Manufacturing Co were serious about making a bid for the threatened Clydebank yard.

Proposals for negotiating with

UARY 1, 1972

• • No. 677 4р

UE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

January Fund cl £1,427.54• IT REALLY was a magnificent fight. Our Fund once again this month went well over the target—£177.54 over the top!

We cannot thank you enough.

The enormous struggle each month for the Appeal Fund and the overwhelming amount of £10,500 raised for our 2nd Anniversary Fund has enabled us now to produce the 12-page tabloid. Our first Issue today will give us every opportunity to cover in the best possible way the situation in Ulster, the miners' strike in fact every ES?! Lucky not to be shot in the back, off by his hair. at women and children numbe and 162 were wounded, but unoffe the deaths at 170 and the injured at 400 fire on unarmed demonstrators with sub-s Sten guns and rifles. They used Saracen

ALEX MITCHELL

R 26, 1971, WORKERS PRESS HEADLINE

IN RELEASE

the oil-rig company were also endorsed by the meeting. On November 4 last year, Reid pledged that no more ships would be released until every job in all four divisions of the old consortium was guaranteed.

This pledge the latest of. many-has now. been broken •and the carrier will leave Govan today. Yet Marathon has promised only to announce a de- cision on Clydebank within the next fortnight. nd closes at 27.54 - Magnificent major question facing the working class today. Your wonderful support, which Is always with the paper, gives us great confidence to go forward with the expanded Workers Press. Let's go from strength to strength, expand our circulation and push ahead as never before. And finally, just a reminder - February's Fund starts today. Post all your donations to: Workers Press February Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. te back, a Derry youth is dragged

YOUNG SOCIALISTS'

NATIONAL

RIGHT-TO-WORK

CAMPAIGN

For detalla of the start of the first jobs march from Glasgow next saturday, February 5, will be given in tomorrow's

WORKERS PRESS

Foreign News 2 Miners' history 4 Discussion on ATUA Manifesto 5 Why we're joining the Right to Work march 6 & 7 Hoover and the FBI 8 TV review 9 Tom Jackson on the miners' strike 10 TV programmes. 11

workers press

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE LONDONDE

was a deliberate a government at Wes The whole operation was planned militarily and politi- cally in the Cabinet office.

When Ulster Brian London into last Thursday he both saw Heath and Maudling to discuss the final details of the plan.

The shooting down of 13 civilians-most of them hit in the back—is the latest and most murderous phase of the Tories' campaign to intimidate the N Ireland working class. In Britain the same govern- ment is preparing another kind of war against trade unionists.

Their aim is to starve the miners into submission and the Industrial Relations Act is gradu- ally coming into operation to strip unions and their members

13 NAMED

The 13 who died have been named as: Michael McDaid, of Tirconnell Street; Hugh Gilmore, of Garvin Place; John Young, of Westway; Gerald McKinney (35), of Knockdaragh House; Gerald Donaghy, of Meenan Square; James Wray (23), of Drumcliffe Avenue; Patrick Doherty (21), of Hamilton Street; Bernard: der Inniscarn McGuigan (41), Crescent; Michael Kelly, of Dun- more Gardens; Jack Duddy, of Central Drive; William McKinney (27), of Westway; William Nash Gardens; (19), of Dunsee and of Phillip Mellhenney, Kevin Street.

BHUTTO IN

PEKING

PAKISTAN'S

President new Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is currently in Peking, where the authori- ties have organized a tumultuous welcome. He is seeking further military aid and economic assistance from the Chinese Stalinists, who yesterday attacked the Soviet Union and India for supporting Desh. Bangla •See Serlous clashes P.12

INCORPORATING THE NEWSL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE SOC

of hard-won rights. Yesterday Londonderry was like Nobody morgue city. went to work and the streets were deserted except for small crowds of people holding heated discussions. The common enemy of the entire community is the British army. Workers Press warned as long ago as October 26 that the army moving was towards another 'Sharpeville'. Further evidence of their intentions came December when the army, with Cabinet's approva., altered the Yellow Book which governs firing regulations. On Sunday afternoon the First Battalion, the Paratroop Regi- ment, did not even observe these regulations. They permissive fired at anybody. The demonstrators were marching to protest peacefully against internment. They were opposing the introduction of the fascist-style Special Powers Act which enables the police and army to pick up innocent people, detain them and them torture and then dump them in intern- ment camps. The "paras' specially were brought from Belfast to London- derry 'to deal with' the demon- strators. A Fleet St defence corre- spondent told Workers Press yes- terday: It's quite obvious why they brought in the paras. The army believed that the local force stationed in Londonderry was too "matey" - with the , people. They wanted a group of soldiers who could be brought in to do the dirty work' This savage intervention by the army now makes the fight to get the Tory government out of office And those, like munist party, who refuse to fight for the ending of the Heath government, must bear responsi- bility for Sunday's massacre.

GOVERNMENT AND

Opposi- tion whips dragged Mid-Ulster MP Bernadette Devlin off Home Secretary Reginald Maudling in the Commons yesterday. Calling him a 'murdering hypocrite' she hit, scratched and pulled at his hair. The Palace of Westminster was blanketed in high security yesterday as Maudling announced the setting-up of an inquiry into Sunday's shootings. Labour leader Harold Wilson nodded approvingly from the Opposition front bench as the announce- ment was made.

IE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1, 1872 O

No. 677

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

January Fund cl £1,427.54 IT REALLY was a magnificent fight. Our Fund once again this month went well over the target-£177.54 over the topl We cannot thank you enough.

The enormous struggle each month the for Appeal Fund and the overwhelming amount of £10,500 ralsed for our 2nd Anniversary Fund has enabled us now to produce the 12-page tablold. Our first lasue today will give us every opportunity to cover In the best possible way the situation In Uister, the strikein fact miners' вувгу ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES?! Lucky not to be shot in the back, off by his hair.

ALEX MITCHELL

THE OCTOBER 26, 1971, WORKERS PRESS HEADLINE

CLYDE SHIP VOTE

A MASS

meeting yesterday endorsed by one meeting. company were also allowed. UCS endorsed shop stewards' On November 4 last leaders to release yet another year, Reid pledged that no more ships ship-the bulk-carrier -'New would released until every Westminster City'. job in all four divisions of the They did so after James Reid, old consortium was guaranteed. Communist Party spokesman for. This pledge the latest of the stewards committee •told many-has now. been braken' them that thé Texas-based Mara- the and carrier leave thon Manufacturing Co were Govan today. Yet Marathon has serious about making a bid for promised only to announce a de- the threatened Clydebank yard.

cision Clydebank within the Proposals for negotiating with next fortnight. nd closes at 17.54 ~ Magnificent major question facing the working class today. Your wondertul support, which is always with the paper, gives us great contidence to go forward with the expanded Workers Press. Let's go from strength to strength, expand our circulation and push ahead as never before. And finally, just a reminder -February's Fund starts today. Post all your donations to: Workers Press February Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. 1e back, a Derry youth ls dragged

YOUNG SOCIALISTS'

NATIONAL

RIGHT-TO-WORK

CAMPAIGN

For detalls of the start of the first jobs march from Glasgow next saturday, February 5, will be given in tomorrow'a

WORKERS PRESS

Foreign Nows 2 Miners' history 4 Discussion on ATUA Manifesto 5 Why we're Jolning the Right to Work march 6 & 7 Hoover and the FBI 8 TV review 9 • Tom Jackson on the miners' strike 10 TV programmes. 11

Ovambo strikers PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday Februa

ARGIND TIF NOR.:

MOROCCAN

OFFICERS'

TRIAL STARTS

OVER 1,000 Moroccan military personnel went on trial yester- day on charges of trying to over- throw the monarchy last July.

failed, 98 Before the cớup people were killed in an attack King Hassan's palace at on Skhirate, near Rabat, and in sub- sequent fighting an estimated 350 rebel army cadets were killed According to the Moroccan news agency MAP the accused men are charged with an armed plot against the regime, the life of the King, the Crown Prince members of the Royal Family. They will stand trial before a military tribunal at Kenitra, 25 miles N of Rabat. Ten officers said to have led the coup were executed by firing squad three days after the at- tack. The accused at the present 100 officers trial, who include and NCO cadets from the Aher- moumou training school, also face the death penalty. The investigation into their case was led by Gen Mohammed Oufkir, Hassan's torture expert, who was sentenced to life im- prisonment in France after the murder of Moroccan left-wing leader Ben Barka. Italian fascists chai

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

ITALIAN authorities have for the first time invoked a 1952 anti-fascist law to order the 42 rightists trial of mass charged with trying to re-form the banned Fascist Party.

The trial, which concludes a long' judicial investigation into the Ordine Nuovo (New Order) organization, comes amid wide- spread indications and fears of a fascist upsurge in the present Italian political crisis.

without Italy has been a for more than government a week, with premier-designate Emilio Colombo trying unsuccess- fully cobble together to a coalition. The Italian Social Movement (MSI) is expected to gain heavily if the government is forced into an election. advocates—in public

MSI

at least-the 'parliamentary road' to fascism, while Ordine Nuovo is dedicated to the armed install- ation of a new Duce. Investigations into Ordine Nuovo began in 1970 when the press reported the group was training young men to use sten guns and dynamite at para- military summer schools. The Italian state has tolerated fascist countless provocations over the last three years without taking any action.

GUISEPPI PINELLI

Yet thousands of socialists and communists have been arrested in the course of street demon- strations and clashes with the police-many of them to be fined or imprisoned under laws dating from the fascist epoch.

Ordine Nuovo was implicated in three 1969 bombings aimed at creating a favourable climate for d'état known to have а соир been planned in collusion with the Greek colonels and the CIA.

On December 12, 1969, a blast killed 14 in a Milan bank.

Several witnesses and diver- sionary suspects have left a grue- some trail: lay February 1, 1972

PAPER STRIKE

THOUSANDS OF French jour- nalists went on a 24-hour strike yesterday in a nationwide protest against the state of the news- paper industry in France.

No Paris morning newspapers will be published today and only a few provincial dailies were planning editions. Evening papers and the state- run television and radio services will be hit by a strike today.

News agency journalists produc- ing French domestic services struck yesterday afternoon.

The walk-out was sparked by the closure last week of the tabloid daily 'Paris Jour'. The owners closed it in retaliation against a strike over the dis- missal of 33 journalists.

s charged Anarchist railwayman Giuseppe Pinelli, acquitted earlier in the year after an attempted bomb frame-up, was hauled in by the again police. Three days later he 'fell' to his death from a window in the Milan police station. Pietro Valpredi, arrested the same time, is still in prison awaiting trial years later. He is in poor health due to a rare circulation disease and has already had some toes amputated. young German who wit- nessed the bombing and recog- nized three fascists at the secene has been locked away in a psychi- atric clinic. • Two other defence witnesses were killed in a road 'accident' thought to have been the work of fascists. • Another man who knew too Ordine Nuovo much, director Armando Cabzolari, disappeared a fortnight after the bombing. He was found a month later head down in a well, drowned in three feet of water. Cabzolari was known to the fascist leadership's oppose policy of provocations. • Even the chief prosecution witness, a bribed taxi-driver who claimed to have taken Valpredi to the scene of the bombing, was murdered the following summer.

evidence weak it was SO would not have stood up under cross-examination. The fascist defendants do not have to answer for these crimes. They are charged simply with having founded, organized and directed the political move- ment Ordine Nuovo, a move- ment defamatory to democracy and its institutions, based on the exultation of the principles, symbols and methods proper to the dissolved Fascist Party.

The charge against the fascists is an attempt to placate demands for a full reckoning with Ordine Nuovo. That task cannot be carried out by the corrupted and crisis- ridden Italian machine state time and which has proved again its partiality towards the fascists.

BY JOHN SPENCER

SOUTH African police have Namibia (SW Africa) over according to official reports f Police commissioner Gideon Joubert said yesterday that . when four men were killed 100 Ovambo tribesmen, armed with pangas, bows and arrows and other weapons attacked police near Ondobe on the border between SW Africa and Angola. Two other Ovambos were killed by police last Friday. The South African government last into the week sent troops lands Ovambo's tribal in the northern part of the territory.

Newspaper reporters have been refused access to Ovamboland.

Two weeks ago, the apartheid government announced a new labour deal for the Ovambos, who launched a mass strike in December against hated the "slave-labour' contract system. Some have since returned to

OVAMBO WO

N

VIETNAM

and the National Liberation Front have offered to negotiate an agreement with the Cam- bodian government covering the liberation forces' military presence in the country. Reuter reports from Phnom Penh that the N Vienamese initiative confirmed was yesterday by Stalinist diplo- mats attached to the US puppet regime there. The Soviet embassy denied that it was involved in the negotiations. A committee, headed by Lon Non, brother of dictator Lon Nol, is reported to be studying the offer. The Cambodian govern- ment's forces have been routed in a series of battles around the capital, and the regime is now maintained

MORE FOREIGN NEWS P

ce have killed six strikers in ) over the past three days, eports from Cape Town. work, but the majority of the 13,000 strikers are still opposed to the deal. Attempts to recruit strike- S breakers having failed, the African regime is now using force to drive the Ovambos back work. The working to new system gives minor concessions, but preserves the basic elements of contract labour. Jan de Wet, the commissioner general native peoples SW Africa, said last week that 12 people had been arrested in two days for what he cailed 'agita- intimidation' and tion in Ovamboland. He said about 70 miles of the wire border fence between SW Africa and Angola had been cut and flattened and cattle kraals, used by white stock inspectors, burned in the same area.

AMBO WORKERS IN THEIR COMPOUND

chiefly with the aid of US air power. Agreement along the lines suggested by the Vienamese could result in the partition- ing of Cambodia along simi- lar lines to the division of Laos following the 1954 Geneva conference. Chinese pressure could be behind the move, which comes just three weeks before President Nixon is due in Peking. Prince Sihanouk, leader of the Cambodian Liberation Front, recently attacked the Soviet Union for starving the Vienamese of arms. He told the New York Times' magazine that: It difficult would be for the USSR not to help N Vietnam, Continued on page 11

NEWS PAGE 11

STALINISM

AND THE

BOGSIDE

MASSACRE

THERE IS no hypocrisy like Stalinist hypocrisy. Anyone who doubts this conclusion should contrast the editorial of Monday's 'Morning Star' with the grotesque postur- ings of Stalinist spokesmen at the National Union of Stud- ents' conference. Only hours before the paid ter- rorists of British imperialism turned the Bogside ent leader Steve Parry, with the full support of his leader - Digby Jacks — viciously attacked a Trotskyist motion which called for a campaign to force the Toriés to resign.

Not only did Parry unequivocally this policy, he also oppose garnished his unpalatable rub- bish with a reference to Trot- skyism which showed that the witch-hunt against current Trotskyism is not confined to the reactionary capitalist press alone. Parry's words immortalize the hypocrisy and opportunism of his party more eloquently than anything we could have said: "This motion means b ... all, means nothing. The Trotsky- ists are a sectarian group. ...

There is no point in going for action if you militant direct don't know what it means. •.. This is a perspective for destroying the student move- ment.' The distortions of Parry not- withstanding, most delegates to the conference know that it is the Tory government- not Trotskyism-which is hell- bent on smashing the stud- ents' movement as well as the civil rights movement. Any leadership - and this includes the present Stalinist leaders in NUS and civil rights —who ignore the Tory threat and refuse to take the neces- sary steps to eliminate it are betraying the movement and facilitating the attacks of the Tories. As the Trotskyist delegate explained - and as Sunday's massacre so bloodily testifies— there can be no withdrawal of from Ulster without troops the defeat and resignation of the Tory government by the organized working class. Ulster is no exception—no more than Rhodesia or the Hon- duras. The same ruthlessness which informs Tory policy in these colonial territories is also présent in strike and the creation • of over a million unemployed. Parry, the Like Jacks and 'Morning Star' too covers up for the Tory government in hypocritical and most unprincipled manner. The 'Star' editorializes: 'Those who died in Derry yes- terday were the latest victims of the brutal and repressive policy of Westminster and Stormont governments. ... It is they who must be called to account by the How? The editorial ends by calling for the 'withdrawal of troops' and a 'Bill of British Rights'. • Like Parry, the 'Star' deliberately evades any men- tion of Tories making the resign. Even its call for the withdrawal of troops' is com- pletely unprincipled since the CP Congress last November explicitly rejected such a demand in favour of confining British troops to their bar- racks. The entire record of Stalinism in relation to Ulster and Tory- Sunday's bloody ism stinks. events confirm the simple and irrefutable lesson of 18 months of Toryism: build the Social- ist Labour League, smash Stal- inism and force the Tories to resign.

BY AN INDUSTRIAL

REPORTER

A MILLION already on the dole and the government- sponsored labour shake-out continues. According to information just out from the Department of Employment, output per in the production in- person dustries is still rising.

Last month's official unem- ployment figures showed the other side of the Tory coin: jobs had been destroyed at a rate of almost 1,000 per day throughout 1971. The productivity figures reveal in advance the real face of an expected from announcement Minister Robert Employment Carr today. In the House of Commons last week, both Carr and Tory premier Edward Heath hinted at new national formation of a training agency to streamline the process of processing people to fill gaps in the labour market.

Their workhouse philosophy is planned unemployment. Output per worker in all pro- duction industries was 6 per cent higher at the end of the third quarter of 1971 than a year earlier. The figure for the utilities gas, water and electricity supply, where the Tories' offensive against wages has been fiercest —were higher than the average.

The link between the govern- ment's wage norm and unem- ployment is starkly revealed by the figures. Labour cost per unit of output in the economy as a whole actually dropped at the same period. exist for believing Grounds that all the D of E figures-like the unemployment totals them- selves-underestimate the true situation. According to a survey pub- lished in mid-December last year by "The Guardian', productivity per worker per hour ran 8 per cent higher over the whole 12 months than in 1970. • An ominous pointer to the drift of Whitehall thinking on unemployment appeared yester- day in "The Times'. The paper's industrial editor, Maurice Corina, reported that the rise in the cost of unemploy- ment benefit and supplementary allowances was more than gov- ernment planners anticipated.

Are we soon to see action to rectify imbalance - 1931- the style ?

LEAD TESTS

IN BRISTOL

BRISTOL'S £14m Imperial Smelt- ing Corporation plant at Avon- mouth has been closed for ar extended maintenance period to enable lead poisoning tests to be carried out. Blood samples will be taken from thousands of men, women and children and lead levels monitored. The city's Medical Officer of Dr Robert Wofinden, said: Smelting works leaves a good deal to be desired.' The Western 'Daily Press', Bristol's morning paper, has called for a public inquiry into the Avonmouth catastrophe.

LAY-OFFS AT

JAGUAR

JAGUAR cars of Coventry said yesterday that about 2,500 car assembly men would be laid off by today because of a strike by 500 clerical staff. Both day and night shifts will be involved.

The clerks have reiected the management pay offer adequate.

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

TRADE UNIONISTS througl operation in Britain are locker battle with a new organization tomorrow under the Industrial Named after the company whose workers it says it will represent, the Union of Kodak Workers is said by its oppo- nents also to have been planned and financed by Kodak. The militants' greatest fear is that a precedent could be estab- lished at the US-owned photo- graphic firm which could spread once the Tory law becomes fully operative. 'Up to now Kodak, which im- ported resistance to trade union- ism into Britain with its capital, 'Workers' has recognized only Committees' Representative at its six piants. The WRCs are not eligible for registration under the new Act.

So the UKW emerged, and has been circulating all 13,000 wor- kers in the combine with . its proposed rules and literature set- ting out its qualifications as a replacement. Ironically, to get the selt-styled union off the ground Kodak has had to give equal facilities to five TUC unions who have been fighting for recognition for years.

And a national officer of the As- sociation of Cinematograph, Tele- Vision • and Allied Technicians, Brian Shemmings, told me they have been 'signing people up like mad'. The danger was, he said, that the Kodak union would concen- on recruitment in unor- trate organized inorder to areas established sole bargaining agen- cies. the non-registered where TUC unions were weakest. At the weekend, the ACTT general council, which has been leading recognition fight, moved to simplify its entrance procedure to help the recruit- ment process along. Peter Ellis, ACTT branch secretary at the Kodak plant in Harrow, Middlesex, describes the UKW as 'a boss-prop outfit'.

He poured scorn on its claims to be an independent organiza- tion, claiming that: • The considerable legal bill in- curred in drawing up its rules had been footed by the company.

• Permission for use of a Pinner, Middlesex, council flat as the UKW main office had been arranged by Kodak lawyers.

'We have already complained to the Department of Employ- ment about the company's at- titude to this organization', he said. "They are investigating it now? Influence The UKW's expensively- printed rules cast some doubt on whether it can be, as a cover- ing letter to Kodak workers claims, 'an organization ... in- dependent of any management influence'. For instance, the executive committee, comprised of the chairman and vice-chairman of each of seven branch commit- tees, can veto any branch deci- sion it considers in breach of rule. Branch committees are selected not by a vote of the whole mem- bership, but by a series of elec- toral groups decided by ... the branch committee.

PONDENT DAVID MAUDE

throughout the f56m Kodak e locked in a key recruitment ization which plans to register dustrial Relations Act. 1834)

HULL FACES STANDSTI

DOCKERS' leaders in Hull yesterday scornfully rejected a threat from the employers that strikes over jobs could 'dig the grave' of the port.

The 2,600 Hull dockers yester- • letters signed by day received chairman of Geoffrey Cullington, the local employers' association, claiming that they were on a suicide trail. He appealed to the men not to proceed with a threat weekly one day stoppages unless 300 the unattached men labour pool are reinstated in work. Arthur Atkinson, treasurer of the port's stewards' committee, told Workers Press yesterday morning that the letter was just the same old bull we always get from the employers. "They're trying to make us pay for the shortcomings of their system', he said. 'Well, we're not having it.' More than 1,000 dockers have been without jobs each day te cently. They get f34 a week while waiting for work as long as they are under allocation to an employer. In the unattached pool, how- ever, men draw only £20 a week, and unless the 300 are reinstated by February 14 the token strikes will start. Last night, the stewards heard the national a report from stewards' committee meeting on Saturday which discussed the • employers' national drive to throw men into the pool.- • Hull could be shut down completely soon by a strike of crane-drivers and lock-gate operators - members of the National Union of Railwaymen -against the closure of the port's Albert and William Wright docks. By the closure 170 NUR members would be made redund- ant. Workera Prosa, Tueaday February 1, 1972 PAGE 3 STRIKING draughtsmen who have been picketing a West Country vending-machine plant for the last eight weeks yester- day faced a new threat to their livelihoods. On strike for a substantial, the seven all-round pay increase, have their jobs are being advertised as vacant.

Autonumis Ltd-the Tetbury, Gloucestershire, subsidiary of the London Rubber Co-refused their but attempted wage claim, to split the draughtsmen with counter-offer. The however, men, held to- gether. And last week the picket- line swelled to 30 as union mem- bers the demonstrated in area support for their stand. The main issue in the strike has now become 'effective recog- of nition' the draughtsmen's union. According to a spokesman for the technicians' section of the Union of Engineer- Amalgamated Workers yesterday, ing London Rubber has always strongly resisted trade union organization in its plants. •Now it looks as if Autonumis get rid are trying to of it al- said. •At the together, he moment our lads aren't particu- larly worried-even with a mil- lion out of work no good crafts- man is going to shift to the wilds of mid-Gloucester in a hurry. But I suppose you can always blacklegs if find seven you look hard enough and high pay enough' But this. it appears, is

STANDSTILL OVER GUARANTEED JOBS

what the cisely company loes not want to do. Their pre-strike offer to the men would have given only one man any real increase £6.50. Four others would have received much smaller amounts and the union representatives two nothing. Make the Tory government "Aberfeldy', Aber- resign! feldy St, (near Black- Engineers' wall tunnel). pay claim. Return a Labour pledged to restore full employ-

DAGENHAM:

Wednesday ment and repeal all laws arainst February 9, 8 p.m. Il, Room the unions! E Ham Town' Hall, E Ham. Support miners. Force Tories to resign. SW

LONDON:

Tuesday February 1, 8 v.m. Small Hall February

LUTON:

Thursday Clapham Manor Baths. Clap- St, SW4. ham. Manor "The Genéral Strike. the unions. SE

LONDON:

W LONDON: Tuesday Feb. ruary 1, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert', February 10, 8 p.m. Room Wharfedale Rd, off York Way, King's 'Right-to-Work Cross. Rents and Housing. New Cross campaign'.

CROYDON:

Feb- N LONDON: Thursday Feb- Thursday Town Hall, Ruskin Hse, Coombe "The Miners' Edmonton. Strike. trade unions. WILLESDEN: Monday Feb- DEAL: Thursday February 3 "The Lord Warden' ruary 14. Trades and Labour Hall, High Rd, NW10 Unemployment and the capital- E LONDON: Tuesday February ist crisis. Socialist Labour League Special course of lectures Lecture Room 1 Digbeth Hall, Digbeth BIRMINGHAM, 8 p.m.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 1

Historical Materialism today given by Q. HEALY (SLL national secretary)

PAGE FOUR Workers Press, Tuesday Feb Every gain the miners have ever made has been •the result of bitter struggle against their em- ployers and their political representatives. One of the greatest episodes in the miners' gallant his- tory is the fight for the minimum wage which took place in 1912. The minimum wage emerged as a national issue during the Welsh Cambrian Combine strike of 1910-1911. Trouble arose over the rate for a new seam at Ely pit owned by Cambrian Col- lieries Ltd. A few dozen men were in dis- pute but in September 1910 the owners locked out the whole employed at the pit. By a 800 Coalfield ballot, the South Wales Miners' Federation called out all the 12,000 men employed by the company. By mid-winter 30,000 Welsh miners were on strike or locked out. The Home Secretary was Win- Churchill (then a Liberal) ston and he placed General Sir Nevil Macready (later to command the in Ireland) in Black and Tans charge of both civil and military forces. Infantry kept at the were ready at Swindon station and Metropolitan Police were 500 sent to reinforce 600 Glamorgan Constabulary. At Tonypandy attacked by strikers were mounted police and troops with drawn bayonets. the Union Then, as now. leadership did all it could to hold back the rank and file and the Cambrian Combine Commit- tee issued a statement declaring had their leaders been that 'palpably fooled' and were giving their members 'spoof assurances'.

'The surrender policy of our apologetic leaders stop' must declared the Committee. that a coalfield It was then South Wales conference of miners called for a national stop- guaranteed page to secure a minimum wage. But the leaders of the Miners' Federation turned and this down decided to accept no further responsibility in the dispute. The Cambrian men remained on strike right through to the autumn of 1911 when, early deserted by their leaders, they were forced to accept the terms of October 1910. The strike suffering ended in misery and and 3,000 men were not taken back by the employers at all.

But the issue of the minimum broke out again in the wage following year. ballot A vote favoured strike action by 443,801 votes to 115,921. Meetings with ended in dead- the employers lock. miners' stoppage on A a before scale never was seen imminent. The Government was worried. The year seriously seen the first before had national railway stoppage, as well a large-scale seamen's strike as which completely paralysed the ports of London and Liverpool.

circumstances the In these Asquith Prime Minister - invited the whole of 'the Miners' Federation of Great Britain Con- ference (170 strong) to the Foreign Office to meet himself, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the President of the Board of Trade.

assured the miners Asquith that the Government approached the question without 'any pre- judice or class bias' and more- like the majority of the over, the Government employers (1), believed the principle of a mini- mum wage in the coal industry to be 'just and right'. All he for was "reasonable asked latitude' in relation to particular rates in the districts. But the Union officials had already cut the district rates as low as they dared in an unavail- ing attempt to get the employ- ers to negotiate. A special con- MEGB in Feb- ference of the ruary 1912 had fixed minimum district day-wage rates on a scale from 4s lid to 7s 6d. Anything lower would an actual mean reduction in the rates earned at mo: pits. The Government proposed the esday February 1, 1972 Top: Churchill. Bottom: balloting Miners history: a seven part se 'principle' of a basic minimum rate but would specify no actual figures. Asquith further pro- posed district conferences to fix with Government , the rates, representatives present empow- ered on points on which there was a failure to agree. Even this was turned down by the Scottish, Northumberland and Welsh employers. The rest of the coal-owners accepted the Government's suggestions which 'was scarcely surprising several of their most since prominent members sat on the Government benches. But the miners rejected the Government's scheme and on March 1; 1912, a million miners strike. Despite came out on repeated efforts by the Govern- • negotiations ment to resumed, the miners refused to balloting on coal strike January 1912 • part series by Jack Gale the employers until the meet principle of the minimum wage had been accepted. Eventually, Asquith promised the miners that he would intro- duce a bill to compel the mine- owners to pay a minimum wage.

The miners stipulated their terms. They were: (a) No resump- tion of work until the bill became an Act of Parliament; (b) a time limit thereafter of one month to settle the details; (c) the rates of wages to be retrospective from the date of the resumption of work; (d) the 5s for adult workers and the 2s for boys minimum to be in the Bill: (e) a minimum rate in each of the 17 districts of the MFGB.

On March 19 Asquith intro- duced the Minimum Wage Bill in Parliament, but it did not include any figures and was therefore unacceptable to the age MFGB. The Bill passed its second sed reading against the opposition of the Conservatives but Labour Party amendments tabling actual figures were defeated by the combined opposition of Liberals, Conservatives and Irish Nation- alists. The Bill became law on March 29 and was thereupon accepted by the coal owners.

By insisting on continuing the strike for precise figures, instead of merely the 'principle' of a minimum the miners wage, would now be fighting Govern- ment policy. This alarmed the MFGB leaders who, instead of stepping up the fight, called for a further ballot on whether or not to go on with the strike.

Lenin commented, "The gor- ernment pretended to be neutral,: intervened in the negotiations the workers and between the capitalists, pretended to yield to the workers, secured the recog- nition in Parliament of the prin- ciple of the minimum wage, but, as a matter of fact, took the side of capital and did not do any- to secure this minimum thing wage.' The miners' leaders gave no lead. The MFGB Conference declared: "This conference does not advise, but leaves the ballo...

paper for the men to use their own judgement? The ballot form, however, was so worded as to encourage men to accept a return to work. It "Are you in of favour read, resuming work pending settle- ment of the minimum rates of wages in the various grades by district boards the appointed under the Mines Mini- mum Wages Act?' And yet-despite all the pres- sure of the Government and the weakness of their own leaders— the miners voted to continue the by 244,011 votes strike to 201,013. despite this vote and But despite the fact that at that time there was no rule demand- ing a two-thirds majority, the leadership called off the strike.

They said, 'Seeing that there is no provision in the rules or regulations of the Federation to guide this committee as to the majority required to continue the strike, except the resolution held passed at the Conference December 21, 1911, that a two- thirds majority was required to national strike, declare we a agree that the same majority be required to continue the strike; seeing that a two-thirds and majority is not in favour of the continuance of the strike, and acting that vote, we upon advise the resumption of work.'

(April 4, 1912.) The miners had been cheated victory by the cowardice of full of their leaders. Nevertheless, a new day had dawned. As Lenin explained: "The most outstanding event in the past year has been I the If the railway miners' strike. strike in 1911 displayed the "new spirit" of the British workers, the miners' strike certainly marks a new epoch. 'In spite of all the prepara- ruling classes for tions of the "war", in spite of the strenuous bourgeoisie to efforts of the crush the resistance of the dis- obedient slaves of capital, the strike was a success. 'The state of organization of the miners was exemplary. There was not a trace of blacklegging.

Coalmining by soldiers or inex- labourers was out of perienced the question. And after a six- bourgeois weeks struggle the Government of Britain realized that the country's entire indus- trial life was coming to a stand- • .. The Government still. yielded. Prime Minister of the "The most powerful empire the world attended a dele- has ever seen gate meeting of the mine-owners' striking slaves and pleaded with them to agree to a compro- mise.... British The Government, which usually feeds its workers with promises of reforms "some day", now worked at top speed.

• law was In five days a new rushed through Parliament, introducing a minimum wage, i.e.

regulations establishing rates of pay below which wages cannot be reduced. 'It is true that this law, like all bourgeois reforms, is a miser- in part able half measure and merely a deception of the work- because though fixing the ers, lowest rates of pay, the employ- ers grind their wage slaves down all the same. 'Those who know the British labour movement, however, assert that since the coal strike the British proletariat is no longer the same. 'The workers have learned to fight. They have discovered the path that will lead them to vic- tory. They have become aware of their power. They have ceased to be the meek lambs they so long seemed to be to the satis- faction of all the champions and extollers of wage slavery.

In Britain a change has taken place in the relation of social forces, a change which cannot be expressed in figures, but which evervone feels.'

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On November 6 last year a national conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance decided to adopt a draft manifesto to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. Since the conference a country- wide discussion has been initiated in League branches, in the AIVA, in the Young Socialists and among Workers Press supporters.

From today until the Right- to-Work rally at Wembley Pool on March 12, we intend to carry a full page each day devoted to your comments on the draft manifesto. We have received more than 100 con- tributions to this vital discussion. Now we want at least another 100. Workers and their families, youth, students and the un- employed are all invited to join in this discussion. If you haven't got a copy of the draft manifesto write to Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch.

JOHN EYRE

T&GWU shop steward, Annesley, Nottinghamshire.

DOES THIS Manifesto mean separate party? If so what will be the attitude of my union?

A clause was inserted at the last rules revision conference to say that nobody could hold office in the union who belonged to an organization they thought was 'against union aims. It was ambig- uously worded and could be used against anybody. I agree with most of the mani- festo, especially on the MPs who with the Tories on the voted Common Market. David Mar- quand (Labour MP for Sutton- in:Ashfiełd) has said in the press he will not vote with the Tories again. But the damage has been done. The trade union movement, not the Labour Party, is the only thing we have got that can defeat the government. If we get péople into leading positions in the trades unions we can get something done. In the Labour Party it is more difficult. The people the Lab- our Party set up are sent to college and educated in a way that doesn't fit them to represent the working class. There are plenty of good lads, the mines, in particularly from the area who could represent us far better. The case with a lot of people in the Party is they want to get on in the Party and get status.

•If I did, as a shop steward, what they do, I'd be straight out. The Labour Party is now ask- ing for an election liaison com- 'mittee with the local trade unions, but when it's got its councillors elected we have no control over them. For a long time I have lived with the idea you could live system and get with the the best out of it. But there is nothing in it. In the long run you have got to lose. We have put our wages up here by union action, but in the long run our firm (part of a large group) is closing down and moving next June. I can see that the economy of the world is cracking up, but beyond that my mind is a blank.

What is to be done about it?

DAVID ELLEY

G&MWU leading hand, Birds Eye cold store, Hull. THIS IS the first document I have seen that states the true position of the Tory government —a government that has no legal right to rule and must be fought and destroyed not just asked to step down, as they will never do this willingly. Labour The members who voted with the Tories should be disciplined. The collaboration between the two parties is now obvious. The Common Market will do the working class no good at all, but will join together all the big capitalist monopolies. The Tories are now trying to make up their profits by out- right attacks on the working class. Collaboration with these forces and reform can only lead to defeat on a mass scale. 1972 will be a hard year, with con- frontations with the Tories i.e., miners and engineers. If these sections of the working class defeated, the Tories will are turn to the rest of the working class with a new vigour; they must not be allowed to win at any cost. The formation of the revolu- tionary party is a must to the working class as any other party of the day will implement prac- tically the same policy as the Tories. What is needed is a party to take the lead of the working class, and lead them on to vic-

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tory after victory without look- ing back- —ie the SUL. The Workers Press the mouthpiece of the working • class. It states its case fully and truth- capital- unuke me daseo ist press. completely the agree with Charter Rights. These Basic should exci of having without fear them taken away. 1972 must see offensive by workers a great the as they arallist Will definitely try to lead one against The union leaders must surely the exposed battles Let the working class learn Cone. trom me basti aereats and look towards the future, socialist future.

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avoiding a confrontation with the government. I feel these people undercurrent of see the the by working the class move towards socialism and are acting in a counter-revolutionary man- ner. We've got a situation the present miners' strike, the engineers' claim wage etc. • is an ideal situation to which get this reactionary government out. But the leadership, being what it is, is deliberately throw- ing away the advantage. I think we must educate our- selves in Marxist theory. Produc- tion for profit can only lead to slump • as in the 1930s — even worse. The Workers Press gives enlarged picture of what us an Is actually going on. I'm really elated that the Workers Press is expanding. I think more and more people in the developing situation are going to demand answers and the Workers Press is the only paper that gives these answers.

I think building this Marxist revolutionary party is essential.

This system, capitalism, is bank- rupt. When I heard about the redundancies at GEC, the first thing I said was: "That will mean more Workers Press copies sold in Coventry! Workers Press is the only paper that has enlightened me to the situation in we are today.

JIM FLEAMING

Vending machine fitter, made redundant in January. I ACCEPT the ATUA manifesto as a whole because I think a revolutionary party today is not only justified but a must. But I Press, Tuosday February 1, 1972 PAGE 5 feel the document was a bit mild.

It could be written in a sharper tone. The feeling at the ATUA con- ference in Birmingham was much stronger than it is expressed in the document. But I don't think anybody could drastic propose any changes the programme. to Without the Right to Work, for instance, we could lose every- thing. And housing - which affects me most. It follows on from the Right to Work. But today, whether you are working or not does not make any difference.

Workers simply can't afford to buy a house in this system.

build the revolutionary party is going to mean intensify- ing our work. We have to get workers organized street by street. The trade union leaders are going their own merry way. When they go into any set of talks they go with the slogan 'get them back to work'. There is no question about defeating this Tory government.

And they have to be replaced by a Labour government, not the Labour government. It's a waste of time from the word go with the present people at the top. The only big danger I see is the changing feelings inside the working class. When it comes to the crunch people tend to retreat. The union leaders, of course, use this because they themselves are retreating all the time. Workers often hesitate and yet they are the ones prepared to start the ball rolling in the it I first place.

PAQE 6 Workers Press, Tuaaday Februery 1, 1872 John Barrie, Bernadette Murray, David Barclay and Phyllis Davle at Clydebank yard of Upper Clyde

LEAVING GLASGOW FEBRUARY 5 RALLY IN LONDON MARCH 12

Next Sunday David, John, leapt to 3,600. They are on the march in for young Phyllis and Bernadette will Because life a city still marked by the walk out of Glasgow with people under Heath's rule depression because the 40 or 50 other young people.

is a succession of bad jobs, hungry 1930s are no longer a threat in Glasgow, they Their destination is low pay and eventual long- Their, aim is to have arrived. London. term unemployment. defend the right to work. Glasgow 15 per cent of Once more workers must For, like the pioneers of the teenagers are on the 'b'roo.

fight Tories retain the live hungry 1930s, these teen- In Alexandria, Dunbarton- right to in human thing in shire, where Phyllis and decency. agers have one common-unemployment. Bernadette live, the labour They walked for work in Why are they reviving exchange report NO vacan- the 1930s and it roused the this tradition of protest?

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Because families like John and the Tories and their prospect in Tory employed Britain is NIL. Youth un- Barrie's, where EVERYONE STAYED in power. employment in Glasgow was -mother, father, brother, The Glasgow march, which is the first of several 2,200 in January last year.

sister-is on the dole with NO prospect of work. that will This January the figure has converge on d of Upper Clyde Shipbuildera. Phylite and Berna London for a mass rally on March 12, will be a march with a difference. Lads like David Barclay, whose father is in the UCS work-in, are not walking to provide a TV-room spectacle for sympathetic liberals or to give the comfy Labour MP more ammunition for his• endless battle of words with Heath. He is marching to rouse people, wherever he goes, to come together behind the one great aim that every British worker wants action to force this illegal government of the monop Phyllie and Bernadette at the occupied Plessey facton olists out of office. In the interview David says, 'If we want jobs we have to get the Tories out.

It's the only way to defend the right to work? Workers Press agrees and that's why we're backing the march all the way. We hope you, the readers of this paper, will as well.

The forces are there-at UCS, Plessey, Fisher-Bendix, on the coalfields and in the engineering factories. They must be mobilized. The time for bold initiative to get the Tories out is

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get this government out. I think people feel. I don't STATUSNo job. pushed are d. think all the young people Vale HOME-Renton, of will Renton be Leven. Unemployment 15 per cent. FAMILY-Father, three

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years out of work. sion of its ol n STATUS-No job. succes- HOME-Renton, Vale of lay blond to iobs. one che had to stay feed the Leven. Unemployment 15 dishes and manager per cent. This was overtime, but she got FAMILY-Father six money. 10 the firm months out of work. In another, pressing her keep * lentes. her lives Renton, Bernadette in targets as an inspector of mile away trom the Alexandria began Plessey works, where the auer to hually see went she left.

than face accumving rather Finally England went the dole again. Vote shee girl refugees Each week she gets f3.60 from with "The Vale'. tried Hull the Labour Exchange. This goes and Bradford but could not get to her, mother, who gives her a job. sixth month enough for some cigarettes and this is ber dole. Like Bernadette she She can't go out anywhere to march because She can't afford nice clothes and think it's a good thing to stand has no prospects Like She left school a year and a Plessey for a decent inh down the road, half ago. think workers should do I had about five jobs. Mostly this. Men in the factories in the industrial estate.

come along Show one Be mament. the march with They specialized low-paid us and labour-slave labour. I got about I blame the Tories for this to a week. unemployment. Everything Her grandad, a local coun- tells her about the hunger going up and people's wages and money is going down. They just marches he saw and helped put the rents up for the old aged "Renton - half of "e says it's a good thing we pensioners them can't afford it. marching. happen can't The world I would like to se again, he says. is one where I had money, a job I've been for ten jobs in seven that I liked, where every months. But there's nothing now. work- ing person decent standard. That's why we're going exchange anymore. to London. 'Every Friday there are hun- I think people will back us to dreds of us. The last start they shut down throwing hundreds of men out of wor sent me to there was a waiting list of 34. It gets you down. You get bored and fed up just helping round the house. It got on my nerves so they sent me to the doctor's. She gave me a tonic. But she said: "It will be a job you're needing" stupid remark-I "Will said you get me one then?"' The cause? 'Heath. No one need to answer that question. We should get him out. I think it would be easy to get him out if all the workers came together. 'When I was at work all the girls thought like this anyway. I think the march could start this off.'

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STATUS-School-leaver, no job. HOME-Castlemilk estate, where savage unemploy- ment drives youth to violence. FAMILY-Father a welder, sacked by UCS, now part of the work-in. David left school three months ago. He's not been to see the officer, not youth employment because of cynicism over the efficiency of the service, but simply because school-leavers just don't get jobs in Glasgow anymore. 'There is massive unemploy- ment up on our estate. Most of my friends have stayed on at school because they would come Workers

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of men out of work. out and bounce straight onto the 'Before had to sign on you three times a week and assistance. or "The lads just hang around the every time they sent you to the Castlemilk jobs section to get fixed up.

streets. At night on "chippie" 'Now there is only the open could be they In tor a naturally that becomes the year and they would not pass SO centre of attraction. the jobs slip. You and you ask "Then the police come along they just tell you there's nothing doing—it's a slack time they and move us on- sometimes with say. dogs-that's why there's violence.

"un- *They call father my The march -all that way- employable". -that means he lives doesn't frighten me, because I Glasgow in and he's over 50. will think workers back us. They don't bother getting him People are beginning to wake up.

down to the exchange every week A lot know there's only one way token appearance to get rid of this government and every three months to sign on, that's a General Strike. Then there are the great jobs People have got a bad shock the a chance the our b. offer. brother they younger here - everyone knew up nOW They when it passed soins mil but wanted him to work nine hours when passed million *ridge for lo a week. night shift — in a mark I think it really began to the

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bite. There's hardly family old Tory game plenty on the dole without the dole keeps wages down. now-that's what those figures "This march is like the Hunger mean. Marches, but with a difference. think shift we can the We have an aim to start a big Tories. But we have to mobilize this govern- movement to get all the workers- -that's the centre This ment out. is important— of this If the

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march. unemployed as get the a section don't shift-and I doubt if they and you will get the demoraliza- will- we'll have to rid of get tion of the 1930s. them.' 'We are making them a part attack working glass to set Heath general the

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"The response so far has been STATUSNo job. Every marvellous. time HOME-Glasgow. Highest down to the "b'roo" we get some rate of unemployment for young lad or girl to sign up and 32 years. all the big factories are sup- porting us. FAMILY—Father, brother "This is not the 1930s—look at and sisters, unemployed. the solidarity developing around Since he sound me work. miners' strike- -that shows then he's found no work. the workers are ready. "This movement single going. I was on the "b'roo" when will go from strength to strength- that's why was 16. The changes unemployment doesn't between down is that knowled in me now and then is fantastic.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday Februan

BY ALEX MITCHELL

A couple of weeks ago Louis 6-X, a Black Moslem minister, noticed something fishy about premises opposite his mosque in Baltimore, Maryland. investigation he On closer discovered one of the windows apartment had its glass of an with covered by brown paper small holes cut in it. Behind this crudé camouflage he could see hands moving and some large mysterious apparatus.

some other Moslems he With knocked on the apartment door, but got no answer. When they forced the door were confronted by two they white men with guns drawn. The returned and Mosléms fled minutes later accompanied. by a posse of police. The arrests were carried out in traditional US cop few fashion--with tear-gas a bombs and a charge using sawn- off shotguns. But on 'pacifying' the two men, the police found to their horror they were FBI agents.

As the crowd built up outside, a mock arrest was staged and the were whisked away. two men Sun' Police told a 'Baltimore reporter that 'Harry Smith (40) James Morgan (35) had and been apprehended. They didn't and haven't appear in court been heard of since. The local police commissioner, Donald Pomerleau, and the head of the Baltimore FBI bureau, Farrow, have both Thomas refuséd to comment. The incident reveals the ex- tent of the FBI network and the power it wields in conducting its investigations. and lawless The supreme of the FBI is a authority reflection of the immense power FBI's chief, J. wielded by the Edgar Hoover. Hoover, now 77, has run this secret police outfit for 47 years . which he's served eight during bullied 16 presidents and attorney-generals. ago a decision Four months was taken at the highest levels of the Nixon administration to dump Hoover before the election journalists, Two American year. Evans and Robert Rowland Novak, described what happened: «The worked out scenario called for a dramatic summit the White House meeting at between president and director in which Mr Nixon would praise for his Hoover and then ask resignation. The meeting took but the President never place, asked spoke his lines, never Hoover to quit. situation under- 'The bizarre lines one of the major arguments After 47 for Hoover leaving. years running the FBI, Hoover's political independent power that the so formidable even President shrinks from asking him to quit and will not even in an consider removing him (Lest it be thought that Nixon election because wants to shift Hoover he's too much of a hardliner, it should be stressed that, on . the contrary, the President was act- consultation with his ing in extreme anti-Communist friends in the Goldwater faction of the Republican Party. They want to Hoover with someone replace more efficient!) own private plan is Hoover's to remain in office until 1974 to his 50 years' service chalk up and to officiate at the opening of the new £40m FBI headquarters.

With the spate of secret state documents now surfacing, it was only a matter of time before some of the inside Hoover story New York emerged. In the Review of Books' last week a agent, Robert former special Wall, revealed a number of inci- dents. which clearly demonstrate vicious the reactionary nature of this organization. 33-year-old former Wall, naval officer, concluded after his

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'My attachment to the experience has shown me that the FBI, in its pursuit of blacks, the anti-war movement, college activists, was not an im- y February 1, 1972 Nixon of orthodoxy, a police guardian force which sought to cause harm to movements that boldly the policies of the questioned government. 'It engaged in these activities not simply because of the political prejudices of the director and • his staff but, to a large extent, to justify its own existence. Each attack on our- spoken critics of American institutions intended to was show the FBI as the indespens- able protector of the public' Wall's article details how the arranged frame-ups,

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kept surveillance militants and foreign embassies and harassed members of the public who associated themselves with anti- administration movements. 'There are hardly any limits on the bureau's activities in compiling political information, Wall says.

Referring to the FBI's infiltra- tion and intimidation of the so- called 'new left, Wall says: 'But in its intelligence and counter- intelligence work the new ng in activity left it was engaging that clearly was political. More- over, in trying to suppress and Eldridge Cleaver national police Power Black created ize' Jase hours day. boot man the last. should ever Nobel Prize. And after was the about and drinking. justified Lus which it Cal. ary opinion a broad-based national venent macieo as a force.' publich Panthers were t single threat to the America. And 'Having bureal cely the word for it. on to admit: In th Carmichae the determined y. The IN eched 24 even Martin Wa. word who have received the assassination Who eaker storie women is slanderous attack, said: sane ixing with and taking he Reds showed the extent to mobilize reachon Stokely Carmichael Davis case. A day after the San Rafael court shoot-out in which Jonathan Jackson, a judge and were killed, the two convicts FBI placed Miss Davis on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted' list. She was described as 'armed and dangerous.' This hysteria was whipped up in spite of the fact that she had no previous criminal record. From the television series of the same name and countless 'B' movies, the FBI is presented as great crusade against racketeers. But since Hoover began his marathon term of office, organized crime has in- creased ten-fold in the US.

Clearly, therefore, Hoover's service to the ruling class is not gang-busting. He is a witch-hunter general.

He has a basic staff of 18,500, but there are tens of thousands of pimps and stooges on the pay- roll. His annual budget is £115m.

The gigantic filing system and records office contain the finger- prints of 100 million people- half of the population. But only a quarter of these dossiers Angela Davis relate to crime; the rest could be termed 'political'. Hoover's main task atthe moment is to build up his intelli- network abroad-in spite gence of the fact that in most countries, including Britain, it is illegal for othér state's police forces to given operate. He has just been to increase his out- permission puts abroad to 27, a move that has seriously upset his rivals in the CIA. These expansions in the work of the FBI are a direct reflection of the growing militancy and un- rest among workers and students and the professional classes. Hoover is getting tooled up for a return to the 1940s and early 1950s when, as Robert Wall those who describes, were called Communists, pinkos, reds, commie symps, fellow travellers and sundry other names were being "discovered" and routed from all levels of American society. Hoover, on the other hand, new global FBI as la sees the servant of the American people, working round the clock to pro- their rights, lives and tect property!

According to the Oxford dic- tionary, the word 'patent' means 'conferring an exclusive right or privilege' , and the 17th century was certainly one in which the various trading of companies Europe conferred them- upon exclusive right or selves the privilege of landing on the shores of any non-European nation and proceeding monopolize and to export the available wealth.

In effect, they conferred upon themselves a patent of the uni- scramble for verse. In the piece of the territorial cake these nations engaged heartily in inter- necine rivalry, but this was in no way to be compared with of these powers did what each to the natives of the countries whose resources they stole.

It was during this period that St Francis Xavier described the Portuguese as having learned to conjugate the verb to rape' in but the all its tenses, same applied to the British, the Dutch, the Spanish, the French etc.

this impression from Part 380t Now, you may not have the BBC British Empire series, entitled 'Remember Cawnpore', produced by Michael Weigall and purporting to deal with the and history India of more especially with the Great Indian Mutiny. You may have had the impression that after two and a half centuries of the relatively calm, benevolent presence of the British East India Company, who asked nothing of the natives but the right to trade, those uncouth, pagan Indians suddenly began to run around the entire country in with chapittis their hands, bent on exterminating every Englishman (and good God, the women and children too!) in the most horrific manner possible.

The method of Weigall and his writer, René Cutforth, was rather like that of a Cecil B. de Mille epic based on blood, gore and breath-taking courage, except that instead of de Mille's habitual cast of some thousand extras, the BBC was limited to a few dozen valiant English actors changing uniforms at lightning speed to appear as someone else in the next sequence.

There was much poetic camera work and symbols pregnant significance like With a lone vulture sitting on a tree, zero degree of political and historical understanding and deep identification with the perennial White Man's Burden. The Black Hole of Calcutta in which a few British men and died atrociously cannot women be condoned, but it did stem from native grievances and not out of the blue. And even then, did it justify British retribution in the shape of the seizure of Bengal and the dominance of the whole of India?

BY ANNA TATE

was clearly The programme not too interested in the cause but what blind of the native, arrogance led Weigall to insinuate New Year's that suddenly on Day, 1857, the Indian Mutiny broke out, again out of the blue?

It may have been unexpected for the British; they may indeed have felt in the words of the programme 'that the unbelievable was now happening' and that this was (note the understatement) 'a period of intense gloom'. But for the Indians it was the necessary which followed years explosion of exploitation and humiliation. Nor was this the first out- burst. There are many confronta- from which choose. tions to Some years prior to this there had occurred the incident which the English ruling class chose to call the Barrackpur Mutiny and which Indians rightly insist on calling the Barrackpur Massacre.

High-caste Bengali troops had refused to be sent by sea to fight the Burmese on behalf of the British — the recalcitrants were ordered on parade and shot by two British regiments. humiliation and domin- The ance of native peoples knew no bounds, and liberal his- even now contend that the torians East India Company and British governors of India, such as Lord Dalhousie, deliberately set out to instigate wars in order to annex further territory. An instance of this cited by Richard was Cobden in the House of Com- mons in 1852, when he said: 'Lord Dalhousie begins with a the Burmese for less claim on. than €1,000; which is followed by the additional demand of an apology from the governor of Rangoon for the insult to our officers; next his terms are raised to £100,000, and an apology the king's ministers; from then invasion of the follows the Burmese territory... - ought not we to advertise in "The Times" for a governor-general of India who can collect a debt of £1,000 without annexing a territory...?' And we might well ask the BBC whether they ought not to have advertised in "The Times' for a producer who might have devised a programme on India in which his talents for the visual might have been matched by a modicum of talent for objectivity.

On the other hand, Part 2 of the series, the "Sugar Slaves', produced and written by Dominic Flessati, demonstrated of an honest, the possibilities liberal investigation, albeit con- fined within the time limitations from which all the programmes suffer. He managed to convey only atmosphere in- not formation on the social, political and historical forces at work in the colonization of the West Indies. Tonight's Part 4 on Canada is also produced by him, and on the basis of his last con- tribution should be well worth watching. What emerged from the 'Sugar Slaves' was precisely that rivalry for gain which characterized the expansion overseas of the Euro- pean trading companies and the natives to which extent were merely the cattle from whom a certain amount of labour could be extracted after which they entirely • expendable. One were in three of all slaves died of ill- treatment or suicide during the first years breaking-in' three period. Vast fortunes were made this way by the English in colonial slave owners, who then home to buy themselves came social and political power.

But above all what Flessati must be congratulated on is that he avoided any over-emphasis on the liberals of the League for the Abolition of Slavery. With •in- sight, he pointed out that slaves had promoted the sugar boom which, in any event, was coming to an end as cotton took prece- dence. It was therefore not sur- prising that it was the House of Lords which pronounced slavery illegal. In with the cotton kings.

thing is clear — had One Michael Weigall been producing the 'Sugar Slaves' we would have had quite a change in emphasis —probably 40 minutes on the marvels of the British abolition- ist liberalism and about ten minutes on the slaves. Workers Prose, Tueaday February 1, 1972 PAGE 8

WORKERS

NOTEBOOK

THE JUDGE

Bachelor judge, Mr Justice Stirling (64), was hearing a case about an unfortunate man who alleged his love life had been ruined after a surgeon cut off his testicle without telling him The judge asked: 'What is so special about a testicle?'

A report from _Justice, the British section of the International Commission of Jurists, said that some judges were not sufin. ciently acquainted with modern trends.

MERCURY

The 'Sunday Mercury', described as 'the Midlands' own Sun.

day newspaper', had a great front page recently.

The headlined story said: When a union convenor gave up his job with a Midland was not surprised to receive company, he a tarewel present from What he did not expect workers. was a gold watch from the managing director—with a compli- ment for being tough. The article went on to describe the touching story of Mr Stanley Nugent's farewell from the Midac Dust Control com- pany in Birmingham. The 'Mercury' reporter says: 'Since Mr Nugent took on the task of convenor of the firm's 120 workers lost six days' work through industrial dis- the men have on v putes in 18 years. 'That's some record. Last night All is explained, however, when the story says: Mr Nugent, a Communist Party member who was a shop steward core by the presentation.

"I was shaken to the I had not expected anything like that"?

Why not?

COP

Any doubts about racialism in the police force? The following sordid little episode revealed Metropolitan Police Office papers for 1922 at the Public Record Office should help dispel them. The issue at stake was whether J. McDonald Robertson, late Army Service Corps and a 'man of colour', i.e. a West Indian, should be granted Scotland Yard. by a laxi ariver s icence The yard initially refused The Commissioner of Police of the metropolis, W. Horwood, wrote to the Home Office in explanation. I would point out that there are many arguments against the licensing of coloured men, and, although the racial question which concerns such cities as Cardiff and Liverpool does not affect London to any great degree at present, it is possible that similar difficulties to those which are known to exist in the towns mentioned may arise, here in the future. 'Ladies might object to being waited on by coloured omnibus conductors and as regards taxi cabs, it is probably very doubtful Whether members of the public, especially ladies, would be will- ing to undertake journeys into the outer parts of the metropolis in a vehicle in charge of a coloured man.'

As it turned out, however, a few Labour MPs raised embar- questions. In the House of Commons, the Home Secre- rassing tary, Edwart Shritt, gave the directive: 'British subjects cannot properly be refused licences on the ground of colour alone, provided that they possess the qualifications usually required for the grant of such licences.' Robertson got his licence.

Nevertheless, 1932, the Yard still had in en years later, doubts. Concerning an application from another coloured man for a taxi cab licence, the commissioner's office response was 'as people in the country are not accustomed to being waited on by negroes, it is doubtful whether a woman passenger calling a cab from a rank would care to entrust herself to such a man, especially on a dark night.'

1922 ruling, however, still held and the applicant was Shritt's accepted, the commissioner taking care to warn that there 'must of course be proof that the man is a British subject we are not taking it purely on his own statement.'

GARFIELD TODD

Question: Order? is Rhodesia's Minister of Law and Answer: Desmond Lardner-Burke.

Question: Who threw Garfield Todd, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia, in prison? Answer: Desmond Lardner-Burke.

Who is Question: Garfield Todd's private solicitor? Answer: Desmond Lardner-Burke.

THE BAKER

'Three surgeons were discussing their countries' medical feats.

The first, an American, said that in his country they had per- formed a lung transplant on an old man, and within 16 months the man was looking for a job.

'The second surgeon, a German, said that in his country o man had undergone a leg transplant, and within 17 months the man was looking for a job.

'Not to be outdone the third surgeon, an Englishman, said that in Britain complete body had been transplanted from Bexley to No 10 Downing Street, and in 18 months one million men were looking for a job.'

'The Bakery Worker' where this story With apologies To originally appeared

PACE 10 Workero Prosa, Tuesday February 1, 1072 HYDE PARK, LONDON, March 4, 1971: Post Office workers confront union leaders who have just called a ballot to end their strike. Tom Jackson, their general secretary, faces chants of 'Sell out!' and 'No!

No! No!' Here, in part one of an exclusive interview, he talks to industrial correspondent

DAVID

MAUDE about the lessons of the postal strike for the miners today. DM: You said recently that Secretary of the Union of Post the miners were in danger of Office Workers Tom Jackson of experience repeating your talks to reporters on the platform year if last they were not of one of the glant Hyde Park supported by the eflectively meetings during the 1971 of the labour rest movement, postmen's strike. Below: A what is your opinion of the SO placard is erected showing TUC's failure co-ordinate opposition to the settlement.

action? supporting T]: I was very sad about what General Pur- the Finance and poses Committee of the TUC did but the other rather about that, factor is that the surprising miners' leaders themselves seem to be asking for no more than they've got. The difficulty for our union, which I'm would be de- sure lighted to be of some assistance, because they are standing where we stood last year, is that the miners' leaders don't appear to of help want any sort of any description. They have asked for money so we agreed to send them now, difficulty here. We had a £1,000 at some meeting yesterday. our membership which by and large We're also running. January 27]. voted Tory. branch collections for them which will be sent direct to their this Had nominated we headquarters. political fight against the govern- which support ment, then the DM : [Miners' president] Joe we had from our members would Gormley's initial reaction to the in many cases have disappeared.

TUC decision was that he What the strike did, of course, 'very dis modited that although in the long run was to politicize he later modified view our members in way which after talking to Victor Feather.

wouldn't thought possible have What do you think the

TUC

before it took place. a year should have done for you last So this was simply a question year and what should they be of how you win against a govern- doing now? when large number of TJ: We could have held out your members are in fact gov- for last year if we'd have And I'm ever ernment supporters. had the money. that our members, certain now, just looking for are an oppor- It really was simply money tunity against this far vote as we were concerned. The government. Post Office recent deficit has proved that we really were mak- ing inroads into Post Office pro- DM : At the

UPW

special fitability and financial viability. conference a month you made an attack on unions who you said were 'more concerned with their selfish own auto- Write off were than they with nomy the interests of the advancing movement as a whole. You about were talking public-sector The government certainly will that unions write that debt off as part of the point, but don't you think the price they had to pay for defeat- criticism to same ting us last vear, and I think that Confederation Ship- the the government will write off the building and Engineering £200m-worth of machinery that's Unions, abandoned which underground at the moment national action on their claim of the price for defeating just at the start of the miners' part the miners. strike? I assume you would say the miners' strike is a struggle My view is that the miners the government? of against take stock their ought to situation, get the files current TJ : What I think Yes. ought out on our strike last year, see to have happened-and I think that they are saying exactly the it's irretrievable this year-is same things as I was saying last what I told the

TUC

public year and realize that didn't we service unions on August 13 last This win. meions for bigger call said should we come to- on other unions physical gether and present a common assistance. claim. DM: One of the things that The TUC should have said: saying last year was you were 'Right, for this coming year that you didn't consider your public-service workers will have strike a direct confrontation a common single claim to defend with the Does government. their standards.' living Then it what you've just said mean should have said to the unions, you have revised that opinion?

having cleared this claim through TI: No, no. You put me in government: ast year'-Tom Jacksor "The next thing you must do is individual fight your own em- ployers in the way you know best? This was really a defensive rather an attacking than mechanism. It was designed to produce circumstances where nobody in the public sector was worse off this year than they were last year. They're going to be now.

And that's inevitable because of the settlements which have taken place. I think unions made a tre- mendous mistake in not accept- ing our proposal, because I think there's profit in . first of all slap- ping a single claim down on the government and 'That's sayıng to defend our living costs' and then letting each union have its autonomy in doing what it can outside of that general settle- ment. That's what I had in mind, but of course there was hardly a supporter. The bloke who followed me to the rostrum was Gormley, who said Not Joe likely!' Break Law Once the trade union move- ment had decided last year that there was nothing more to be done in relation to unified claims, then inevitably we got off on this year's round in exactly the same way as last year. DM: How far would you say the Industrial Relations Act enters into the calculations of union leaders when they are making the kind of decisions you are talking about? TJ: There isn't an executive now which when meeting doesn't consider what the liabilities will be if they break the law, but I don't really think that's entered into the current situation.

Sympathetic strikes are still ckson DoXIT.. MY unti Denmisstore Therefore it will be this to happen

IPIM TIDIYZ

TrONATON comes alte will not only trade union DM: take wouldn't subscribe one reason

THAT

TUC's attitude strike- for nOW-'s lor some kind of from the governm Act? ing the Act in relatic fo sulops registerea the seamen's sort of This came ally Cucen off for anything else. Neither did I th stage that we were be pawns in some they binsuc esstul. to Since Relations Act member that a conneitl We haven't had to decision vet ol There are sures on trade astarmessires wnı nize, and which I fac own organizatior from membership 28. t will be possible legally that up sort of COl only be test solidarity but a test it then you view that tor own attitude thev're looking kind of concessions government on the rubbish. ment of Employment considering in relation to closed unions 1r s sort of situation. of ough. There a sort wasn't of this being traded I think at ally re were being used sort battle let's face to have been totalle after February ries will he in a mosi the Industrial agains the satisfied as that a hard enougt with unions personally in favou had to make that when: 1t come ay I shall be voting tremendous to recog- hich I face my but Council if decided that they would register. I couldn't hold my head up again. • What is remarkable is the change of attitude that has taken place. Cynically, all of us at the TUC last year saying: Well, were Christ, they're going to register; they're going to follow that hasn't In fact taken place and it's a tremendous vic- tory for TUC solidarity. If, by giving extra time to unions who are teetering on decision, we can use it ta point out the advisability of not regis- tering, then I think that's a good thing. DM: Do you think it's pos- sible for any individual union in the present situation to win pay rises without organizing in the trade union movement as a whole to make the govern- ment resign. TI: Yes, I think the miners might win if they can maintain their solidarity for the next eight weeks or so. We'll then be approaching to three something like two million unemployed largely as a result of the inability of coal to get through to industries which use coal. I think the miners can entirely on their own if win they have that sort of determi- nation. into They are bound to run financial difficulties, and if this happens I hope that the trade union movement will do rather better than they did for us last year. But I do really think that the miners are a special sort of case.

previously there I mean were regarded as the sort of praetorian guard of the working class.

And there still is a conscience I think about 1926, despite the fact that all of those who were involved in the sell-out are in fact dead and gone. I hope we can capitalize on it and produce the circumstances in which they can win. For most other unions I think it is almost impossible for them to win without some concerted action on the part of the trade union movement. As to bringing the government down, I think that a govern- ment going to bat following a mini-General Strike in an elec- tion would probably win hands down. That's the nature of the British voter. I don't believe that the trade union movement can force General Election and hope that the left will win it. The right will win it. My guess is that if we come to that situation we are one step nearer fascism than we are socialism. DM: In other words, as a longstanding social-democrat you are in principle resigned to permitting the government to run its full term of office?.

TJ: I think we have a duty to struggle for those who are being badly treated by the government -and that includes the trade union movement itself through the Industrial Relations Act.

Doubt But having said that, I believe there that would be reaction against trade unionists in a ballot-box situation following either a General Strike or a mini- General Strike. undoubtedly This would strengthen the hands of those in the government whose natural inclinations are to the right rather than to the centre of the Tory Party. Your readers will probably be- lieve that in fact you can win the overthrow of the government at the barricades, and then on from there to take power.

Well, I beg leave to doubt that philosophy. • TOMORROW the Common Market, productivity dealing, un- employment and "brickbats' from the SLL.

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American dispute the a final decision the on on W whose strike has para- coast, within 40 days of appointment. lysed 24 ports for 114 days are The union leaders, however, due to resume deadlocked talks are conducting the strike be- as with employers today. fore on a partial and inadequate President Nixon basis. They have once yet to call out them back again trying to force their who the control members His compulsory and arbitra- of Canada Mexico. TO WOrK. tion Bill US dockers is now on its way have been picketing through Congress. the frontier to stop trucks headed for Mexican ports, where Nixon drove the dockers back members of their union are still to work for 80 days last year work their leaders' in- on under the infamous Taft-Hartley structions. anti-union law. This time, subject The Canadian dockers at Van- he wants to three-man them arbitration couver have refused to handle to a board by the Secre- diverted and have appointed cargoes tied tary of Labour which will make up over 40 ships.

GIGANTIC ARMS BUDGET

INTRODUCING the new defence the US. budget for 1973 Washing- The defence department bud- in a US ton television Mereen, Laird get for the coming year totals defence Melvin €32,700m £2,400m above the secretary 1972 budget. said special attention was being paid to speeding develop- 'Our chances (of getting the up long-range ment of America's through congress) are submarine force very good, Laird told the inter- nuclear so that it could operate from close to viewer.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

PACHEDO ARECO'S Uruguayan dictatorship con- tinues its campaign of repression against the left following the presidential decree against 'subversive' literature. It has imposed a ban on the reporting of strikes, occupations, marches and demonstrations as well as guerrilla activities.

The Tupamaros guerrillas have from a traditional song, •Cielo de resumed activity. Last Friday los Tupamaros' which had been 'executed' they prison. security banned by the government.

chief Rudolfo Leoncini. He was It also contains a peasant pro- shot down from a passing car as clamation broadcast over a radio he leaving his home in station which they occupied was in Montevideo about 250 miles to the suburb. Leoncini was described as "in- N of the capital and 'war com- credibly harsh' by inmates of the muniqués' for weeks. recent Punto Carreras prison where he Meanwhile, dispute is still a Tupamaros worked. The had between the raging government warned that they intended to party and its opponents over the recount of the votes for the Nov- take reprisals against those re- sponsible The for the torture and ember elections. results of murder of arrested of the recount have not been made militants the guerrilla organization.

but must be public, concluded The latest issue February 15 of the Tupa- when local underground governors and the new parlia- maros' paper ex- plains that they took their name ment must be sworn. in.

FIFTEEN

armed and hooded had infiltrated the staff.

robbed the Once inside they tied up the urban guerrillas State National Development guards and cleaners, slipped into bank in Buenos Aires and later the basement through air con- telephoned the press to claim ditioning ducts and burned their €170,000 haul. way into the safes with oxy- But bank officials checking the welders. acetylene safes after the raid yesterday fear Before they painted leaving that almost double that amount slogans, turned taps and on gas could be told their captives missing. they Were Police said the robbers, mem- leaving bombs. bers of the 'People's Revolu- They vowed in their call tionary Army', had been admitted 'return the money newspapers to to the building by comrades who to the people'.

BY A CORRESPONDENT

AN ABORIGINE

• leader has warned white Australians they had to change their attitudes towards his people if they wanted to avoid another S Africa. Pastor Frank Roberts told a meeting that if there were no change, racial violence would in- crease. 'The Federal government has immoral a diabolical, way of which treating assimilation, the government is trying to wipe out my people' Relationships between . Abori- white society had gines and deteriorated during the past ten years, he said, because Europeans and Australia monopolized allowed Aborigines no control over their own destiny. S Australia was the only state which recognized Aboriginal land rights, he said, adding that South Wales govern- the New ment would be approached to set up an electorate to represent Aborigines in parliament, similar to the Maori electorates in New Zealand. IN AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Citizens Association Racial Equality (CARE) said yes- terday that unless the New Zea- land government took some action, it would try to send a representative non-government to Rhodesia to investigate the detention there of former Rhodesian premier Garfield Todd and his daughter Judith.

CARE secretary Tom Newham said that unless the New Zealand government acts, a public fund will be launched for the inves- tigation. He said his organization had asked Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake to act to obtain the immediate release of the New Zealand born Todd and his daughter. If a representative had to be financed by the public, he will also be asked to observe the activities of the Pearce Commis- sion, now testing Rhodesian acceptability of the recently- concluded Anglo-Rhodesian set- tlement terms. • Continued from page 2 which belongs to the Socialist family of nations. But I have seen the jet planes, the radars, the mis- siles. None of this is up-to- date. In terms of both quan- ity and quality, the Russians Hanoi have not given a quarter of what they have given the Egyptians. 'Why? Because the Russians don't want Hanoi to win. They will give the Vietnamese just enough to keep them from losing the war, but not enough to enable them to win it.' The Prince, who was inter- viewed in Peking, did not refer to the Chinese Stalinists' equally treacherous policies of peaceful co-existence with im- perialism. But these pose just as great a danger to the in Indo-China. revolution

MOON DEATHS

CAMBODIAN troops killed two people and wounded at least 50 others in Phnom Penh yesterday as they fired at the moon to pre- vent it being eaten by a giant frog. They were trying to stop eclipse of the an moon in accordance with ancient. super- stition. EGYPTIAN president Anwar Sadat is believed to be in Mos- cow for talks with Soviet leaders on the Middle East situation.

Cairo newspapers said he would be asked on his return to address a special meeting of workers', students' and farmers' represent- atives. The visit follows student demonstrations in Cairo demand- ing action against Israel.

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Rt Notts miners back PAGE 12 Workera Press, Tuesday February 1, 1972 FISHER-BENDIX workers at Kirkby, Liverpool, are to end their sit-in strike tomorrow morning and return to work on Monday. At a méeting in the mass 730 plant, workers who have occupied the factory since Jan- 5 voted to uary accept a deal reached on Saturday at a meet- ing between shop stewards and chaired by Labour management leader Harold Wilson. The deal was under considera- tion yesterday by the board of

JACK SPRIGGS

Electrical Industries, Thorn the parent company. It has still to be approved by national officers or executives of the trade unions involved. It provides for a working-party to produce a report on produc- tion the Merseyside factory at by March 25. A group of miners' pickets yester It continued guarantees

DIO•

station. duction of radiators and heaters until the end of 1973. The agreement also concerns the letting of half the factory another engineering firm area to likelihood with the of jobs for Fisher-Bendix workers. Senior Jack Spriggs convenor told the mass meeting the settle- ment was a victory for common- thanked other sense. trade and Merseyside Labour unions

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SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE,

186A CLẠPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4.

Name Address ats yesterday turned back all vehicles which turne Ion. The picket line comprised miners from the Ke A 200-STRONG National Union of Mineworkers' branch meeting at Thoresby colliery, Not- tingham, yesterday, unanimously endorsed a motion originally carried by miners from Wheldale pit, Castleford. The resolution calls on the

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executive to demand that all other unions black coal supplied inside and out- side power stations with the exception of old-age pension- ers, hospitals and schools.

It goes on to call on the NUM • to bring together all other unions in a joint struggle behind the miners' claim to make the Tory government resign and elect a Labour government which I will legislate workers' control of the pits and the ending of compen- sation payments. Safety men were withdrawn from two more pits nationally yesterday as the miners' strike hardened into its fourth week.

and their While the Tories agents stepped up their campaign of slander and press intimida- tion, strikers strengthened their picketing campaign in several areas. Meanwhile union leaders con- cerned about their public image pledged help with the delivery of 'priority coal' to local authori- ties, doctors and the Health and Local Government Ministries.

More than half Britain's 289 pits-152 all told—had no safety cover yesterday. There was full cover at only 31. From tomorrow, two British Steel Corporation blastfurnaces The Miners' Strike and the Tory government

AYLESHAM, KENT

(Near Canterbury) Tuesday February 1, 7.30 pm The Old Working Men's Club (The Legion) Burgess Road Speaker: A Yorkshire Miner

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hich turned up at the Battersea power om the Kent fields. at Corby, Northamptonshire, will be taken operation out because of a fuel shortage.

Iron output will be reduced by about 75 per cent, but tube- making will continue for the time being using stocks of steel in hand. News of any lay-offs among the 9,500 workers may come on Thursday. There were clashes between strike pickets and clerical work- Coal Board's ers at E Wales headquarters at Ystrad Fawr, Hengoed, Glamorganshire, yesterday. About 200 of the 300-strong staff complement failed to reach their offices. carrying officials to A car Maerdy colliery, in the Rhondda was held up for 70 minutes.

Arthur Hawkins, chairman- designate of the Central Elec- tricity Generating Board, has described the pickets as 'extrem- ists' But who are the real extrem- ists? Are they not the members of the Heath government who have decided that miners and their families should be starved of a living wage? And for 'unwarrantable as interference' , who is disrupting the lives of millions of people by a vicious wages policy which sets out to destroy the standard of living of millions of working- class families?

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01-622 7029 SW ENGLAND will have occasional rain, but there may be bright intervals and temperatures will be a little below normal. Central Wales and W Mid- England, lands will be cold with snow at first, but it will turn to rain later. E and N England, S Scotland and N Ireland will be very cold with periods of locally moderate or snow heavy. N England and SE Scot- land will be rather cloudy and SERIOUS clashes between Bengalis and Biharis broke out in two Dacca suburbs over the weekend and the districts have been placed under an indefinite curfew.

Sixteen Bengalis were killed in the fighting and more than 50 injured, accord- ing to United Nations sources.

There were no figures for Bihari casualties. The fighting is rumoured to have begun when Indian troops, who have been guard- nig the suburbs since the Pak- istan surrendered on Décember 16, opened tire on members of the Mukti Bahini.

Units of the Bangla Desh army were moved in to take the place of the Indians.

Up to half a million Biharis have been cooped up in the two suburbs of Mirpur and Mohammedpur for the past weeks afraid to venture out because of possible repri- sals from the Bengalis. The majority of Biharis Pakistan against sided with the BanglaDesh movement. Yesterday was the deadline for the guerrillas who fought against the Pakistan army to hand in their arms. Several did so on Sunday at a ceremony at Dacca race- course attended by Bangla Desh premier Sheik Mujibur Rahman. guerrillas, however, Most have shown no signs that they will obey Mujib's call. China yesterday made another attack on India and the Soviet Union for support- ing the independence Bangla Desh. It accused the of trying to countries two legalize aggression. An article in the Peking 'Peoples Daily' said Pakistan was a sovereign state and the national question in it was the affair of the Pakistan people themselves and should only resolved without be any foreign interference. A WORK-TO-RULE and over- was reimposed by time ban 2,500 insurance workers in Man- chester yesterday. Clerical and administrative staffs at the Co-operative Insur- ance Society will also consider a fresh wave of selective strikes when they stage a mass meeting today. The work-to-rule, which had been operating for some months, and selective strikes involving 110 employees in key depart- ments, were called off 1l days when the management ago promised to improve its pay offer of 9 per cent of the total wage bill. But the workers union, the Association of Scientific, Techni- cal and Managerial Staffs, recom- mended them to reject the im- provement as 'marginal', and to continue six-month-long the dispute. Last week, all the staff were given a month's notice because of the union decision. The origi- nal claim was for a 15 pen cent rise although workers are now prepared to negotiate on a • basis of 12 per cent. very cold with snow at times, particularly later in the day.

NW and N Scotland will have bright intervals and some snow showers and it will be very cold. Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Some snow in the N and E probably turning to rain. Rain or showers in the SW. Becoming less cold gen- erally. Probably mild in the sW. Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapiam High Street, London, S.W.4.