Workers Press no. 679

workers press

LONDONDERRY-WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2

DAY OF DEFIANCE

PLESSEY

SUPPORT FOR

JOBS MARCH

SHOP STEWARDS at Plessey's Hilton Rd works, Sunderland have decided to back the Young Socialists' Right-to-Work marches and appealed • for cash among the 1,500 workers. And students at the 2,000- strong. Sunderland Polytechnic gave the go-ahead to their union to organize a dance for the marchers on February 18. • For other Plessey, factory and student support see p. 12.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY FEBRUARY 3,

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

ONE OF THE 'BLOODY SUNDAY' VICTIMS WHO WAS SHOT

IN THE BACK BY A PARATROOPER'S BULLET

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

PREMIER

TORY

Edward of the youngest in the Heath has selected Lord Chief British army. Justice Widgery to head the He remained in the Terri- tribunal of investigation into torial Army until 1952 when Rossville The his legal the massacre. career became capitalist has acclaimed press pressing. his appointment. The of his appoint- terms ment that the tribunal But they have all omitted is regarded as a court of law.

to mention one feature of the Laws of contempt will apply learned judge's past history. and this will severely restrict At 35 he was lieutenant- the freedom of the press to colonel. When he dis- was write about the events of last charged, he brigadier, Sunday. was RUARY 3, 1972• No. 679 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

the S, Faulkner A General Strike paralyzed to secede to that he will be insists not all of Ireland. And in Britain 'bombed' into a United Ireland.

workers staged demonstrations •Bloody Recently Lt-Col Colin ("Mad and strikes against Mitch') Mitchell, former com- Sunday'. mander of British troops in Doctors who attended the Aden's Crater district and now post mortems have testified that Tory MP for W Aberdeenshire, 'between four and seven' of the told 'Guardian' interviewer dead had been shot in the back that list 100 of suspected and that some of them had been terorists should be compiled.

shot more than once. "Okay, he said, 'and you just At the funerals London- start shooting them the derry, an estimated 25,000 should like to intro- weapon Mary's St mourners packed duce is the machine gun built the Creggan Estate church on TV You say into every Camera and the surrounding streets.

to the IRA "Come out and let's People lined the pavement up talk" .. and then shoot the to ten deep along the route lot.* to The 'Guardian' the creetery. They stood quietly same Liberal the freezing, driving rain. urges cancellation of the demonstration relative of one of the dead men Newry the on shouted: *Let the world know grounds that there might be •they murdered my husband.'

shooting. "Talk' pontificates the "Guard- The British Embassy in Dublin ian', 'remains more hopeful than flames was in as we went to bullets.' press yesterday afternoon. Bernadette Devlin's onslaught Surrounded by a crowd esti- the hypocrisy of British on 200,000, mated at about the 'democracy' is absolutely justi- -already the object of a building- which is why Enoch Powell fied, gelignite attack on Tuesday night is demanding to know why the -was under a barrage of stones Speaker did not discipline her.

and petrol bombs. Right-wing Labourite Reginald There were deafening cheers as Paget also required to know why three youths scaled the balconies Miss Devlin apologised. had not smashing in windows with heavy did But the Tories dare not hammers. One of them hoisted to discipline Miss Devlin because an Irish tricolor on the embassy's they know that she has over- flagpole. whelming support outside parlia- Chants of 'British out!' greeted ment. She is getting no support the burning of no less than three inside however. Wilson's effigies of Tory premier Edward call for all-Party talks Ireland Heath. on remaid cheater to Heath. In the Republic, shops, stores And So Labourites and factories were closed. Eric schools the banks, maintain their silence. were and Heffer, for instance, MP for the universities. Public transport ser- Liverpool constituency of Wal- vices were curtailed. to make his In all the major towns of the ton, has yet views known this Republic thousands of workers on matter which must hundreds of his have marched in demonstra- concern consident Morning Star, tions of hostility to the British the And demand evee government. now, does the not • In London, 300 construction withdrawal of all British troops. workers of all nationalities Still committed to the peaceful staged a half-day strike at the road to socialism, CP the merely World's End building site, asks for the withdrawal of the Chelsea. British and for other Speaking in New York, Dards Irish troops to remain in their bar- Republic External Affairs Minis- racks- -in Ireland! ter Patrick Hillery declared that • The Ministry of Defence Ireland may move to get British announced yesterday that more Ireland. He troops out of of the notorious paratroops declined to elaborate. would be sent to Ulster over the But Eire's Prime Minister Jack weeks. Further details two next Lynch has said that though the of the new troop developments Derry tragedy would never be will be given later. forgotten, it would be forgiven in time'l Meanwhile, the Tories, both in London and Belfast, remain defiant. Brian Faulkner has threat- backlash' ened *Protestant declared 'those and that we Foreign News 2 also have their basic represent Miners' history 4 will defend them'. rights and Discussion on ATUA British Home Secretary Regi- nald Maudling has said that Manifesto 5 internment will go on and that Review of film 'Family participating in the anyone Life' 6 & 7 planned demonstration at Newry Spain 8 Sunday will face 'grave on con- Stalinist crisis sequences. - 9 Despite the suggestion of Miners' interviews 10 former Ulster Home Secretary TV programmes 11 William Craig that the Bogside and Creggan should be allowed

workers press

LONDONDERRY-WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2

DAY OF DEFIANCE

PLESSEY

SUPPORT FOR

JOBS MARCH

SHOP STEWARDS

1 Plessey's Hilton Rd works, Sunderland have decided to back the Young Socialists' Right-to-Work marches and appealed for cash among the 1,500 workers. And students at the 2,000- strong, Sunderland Polytechnic gave the go-ahead to their union to organize a dance for the marchers on February 18. • For other Plessey, factory and student support see p. I2.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY FEBRUARY 3,

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

ONE OF THE 'BLOODY SUNDAY' VICTIMS WHO WAS SHOT

IN THE BACK BY A PARATROOPER'S BULLET

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

TORY

PREMIER

Edward of the youngest in the one Heath has selected Lord Chief British army. Widgery Justice He remained in the Terri- to head the tribunal of investigation into torial Army until 1952 when Rossville The his legal career became more the press has acclaimed capitalist pressing. his appointment. The terms of his appoint- that the tribunal ment mean But they have all omitted is regarded as a court of law. to mention one feature of the Laws of contempt will apply learned judge's past history. and this will severely restrict lieutenant. At 35 of he was a the freedom the press to colonel. When write about the events of last was dis- he charged, he was a brigadier, Sunday. RUARY 3, 1972 • No. 679 • 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

S, Faulkner A General Strike paralyzed secede to the to he will all of Ireland. And in Britain insists that not be 'bombed' into a United Ireland.

workers staged demonstrations Recently Lt-Col Colin ('Mad and strikes against 'Bloody Mitchell, Mitch') former Sunday'. British mander of in attended the Doctors who Crater district Aden's and now post mortems have testified that Tory MP for W Aberdeenshire, between four and seven' of the told 'Guardian' interviewer dead had been shot in the back that list 100 a of suspected and that some of them had been terorists should be compiled.

shot more than once. "Okay', he said, 'and you just At the funerals _in london. them start shooting the I should like to intro 25,000 derry, an estimated weapon Mary's mourners packed St duce is the machine gun built church on the Creggan Estate TV camera. into every You say and the surrounding streets, the IRA "Come out and let's to. talk" People lined the pavement up •.. and then shoot the lot.' deep along the route to ten to "Guardian' The the cemetery. They stood quietly same Liberal freezing, the in driving rain. urges the cancellation of relative of one of the dead men Newry demonstration the on grounds shouted: Let the. world know that there might be shooting. • they murdered my husband.'

"Talk' pontificates the 'Guard. The British Embassy in Dublin remains more hopeful than flames as was in we went to bullets' afternoon. press yesterday Devlin's • statist Bernadette Surrounded by a crowd esti- the hypocrisy British on 200,000, ( the mated about 'democracy' is absolutely justi- building-already the object of a fied, which is why Enoch Powell gelignite attack on Tuesday night demanding to know why the —was under a barrage of stones Speaker did not discioline her.

and petrol bombs. Right-wing Labourite Reginald There were deafening cheers as Paget also required to know why three youths scaled the balconies Miss Devlin had not apologised. smashing in windows with heavy But the Tories did not dare hammers. One of them hoisted to discipline Miss Devlin bécause an Irish tricolor on the embassy's they know that she has flagpole. whelming support outside parlia- Chants of 'British out!' greeted ment. She the burning of no less than three is getting no support inside it however. Wilson's effigies of Tory premier Edward call Heath. for all-Party talks on Ireland the Republic, shops, stores remains conciliatory to Heath. In the closed. So And "eft Labourites and factories were their silence. the banks, schools and maintain Егіс were Heffer, for instance, MP for the •universities. Public transport ser- of Liverpool constituency Wal- vices were curtailed. all the major towns of the ton, has yet to make his views In known this Republic thousands of workers on matter which demonstra- hundreds of his have marched must concern tions of hostility to the British cAnd Ene Morning Star" And the even government. demand does the now, not • In London, 300 construction withdrawal of all British troops.

workers of all nationalities Still committed to the peaceful staged a half-day strike at the road to socialism, the CP merel World's End building site, withdrawal asks for the of the Chelsea. paras and for other British Speaking in New Fairs inis Irish troops to remain in their bar- Republic External Affairs racks—in Ireland! ter Patrick Hillery declared that Ministry • The of Defence Ireland may move to get British announced yesterday that more Ireland. troops out of He of the notorious paratroop déclined to elaborate. vould be sent to Ulster over th But Eire's Prime Minister Jack next two weeks. Further details the Lynch has said that though of the new troop developments Derry would tragedy never be will be given later. 'it would be forgiven forgotten, in time'! Meanwhile, the Tories, both in London and Belfast, remain defiant. Brian Faulkner has threat- backlash' ened 'Protestant and declared that 'those we Foreign News also have their basic représent Miners' history rights and will defend them'. Discussion on ATUA British Home. Secretary Regi- nald has said that Maudling Manifesto internment will go on and that Revlew of film 'Family participating the anyone Life' 6 & 7 planned demonstration at Newry Spain Sunday will face 8 on grave con- sequences. Stalinist crisis Despite the suggestion of Miners' Interviews 10 Ulster former Home Secretary TV programmes 11 William Craig that the Bogside and Creggan should be allowed

SADAT BLURTS OUT CP TREACHERY

PAGE 2 Workers Pross, Thursday Februa

AROUND THE WORLD

BY JOHN SPENCER

A NEW and even more becomes clear that the inoperable and breaking d Amid hectic scenes on the currency exchanges, the dollar has been driven down to the bottom of its parity • range against European currencies and the gold price has leapt way above its previous record level to reach $48.60 an ounce at yesterday's fixing. Exchange dealers said con- ditions were 'pretty hectic' • It is 'people hair-raising,' said one, won't deal. You put in a quote and they put the phone down on you. It has been a very frustrat- ing morning.' The most ominous sign was the rumoured heavy buying of gold by the Italian central bank.

With their government crisis still unresolved, the Italians are pre- liquidate their huge pared to dollar holdings for gold, even at the present prices. The build-up of crisis is com- ing to a head even before the Washington agreement of Decem- ber 18 has been implemented. Market chiefs are due Common American Treasury to meet officials today for talks aimed at finalizing the Washington con- ditions. says it will not raise America the gold price until the Europeans guarantee to open their markets to US goods. Today's talks are the second round of negotiations aimed at clinching the deal.

ignited the The spark which present crisis on the exchanges was Nixon's announcement that the 1972 budget deficit would top $25,000m. It caused constern- ation among foreign officials and bankers. Raymond Barre, the Common Market's top monetary expert, warned: 'When notes that the one currency realignment has not to any return of until now led capital to the United States, and when one considers the present credit and budgetary policies adopted by the United States, speculative pressures fresh against European currencies are to be feared.' between the Fluctuations European currencies different the Common could break up Market, he warned. Barre clearly considers that even the 4.5 parıty per cent fluctuations allowed under the Washington rules will not deter speculation. His views were echoed by Dr Otto Emminger, vice-president of Bundesbank. In a the W German sharp statement following the Paris meeting of the Organiza- tion for Economic Co-operatien and Development, he said the effect of the new dollar parity US payments balance on the would be less than had been hoped. found out that in 'We 1972 the adjustment effect of the Washington realignment would be rather small, he said.

This explains the importance attached by the US to tomor- row's negotiations with the Com- mon Market. proving impossible for is It • the capitalist powers to over- come the post-war international monetary system's collapse preci- President Nixon's by pitated August 15 measures. The dollar is no longer con- vertible into gold and thus ceases to be a reliable store of value. Four months of haggling finally produced the Washington deal between the Group of Ten The main currencies powers. were realigned against a devalued dollar. But this has failed to stop the decline. The strength of the interna- tional working class is the big- preventing the barrier gest employers from resolving their crisis. lay February 3, 1972 • more severe financial crisis is emerging as it Washington currency agrement is i the recent king down.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

EMILIO COLOMBO, the Italian premier, has admitted defeat in his efforts to form another coalition government, plunging the country into its most serious post-war political crisis.

The crisis has been brewing for and months, came to head in January when the Re-

BANGLA DESH

removed publican its party from the centre-left support

RECOGNITION

The Republicans coalition. want harsher measures against the working class.

BY SIX

President Giovanni Leone now rules without a government. but AMBASSADORS of Britain and it thought unlikely he will call election. With the the six Common Market coun- snap of the exception neo-fascist France, Italy, W Germany, tries- Social Movement Italian

(MSI),

Holland, Belgium Luxem- of and none the parties favours an Luxembourg last electon at present bourg-met in The italian Communist Party, night to prepare a joint state- eager to attract middle-class sup- ment announcing their intention for its parliamentary port recognize BanglaDesh. formist is among programme, those opposed to an election.

statement is expected to The a more left- It wants to inin be immedi- made public almost collapsed version of the wing ately and actual recognition will coalition. the be made individually by seven countries concerned within One of the key issues which sparked of time of each the present crisis was short space the referendum of divorce due orner. be organized by right-wing Roman Catholics in late spring.

JOBS STRIKES IN F

Instead of openly confronting the CP the clerical reactionaries, will 'split claims the referendum

DEMONSTRATIONS

against nation' the unemployment have become a The Stalinists' bureaucracy daily occurrence in Paris this the unions and in parliament has Yesterday the

CGT.

held back the week. consistently organized working class in CFDT and main teachers proclaimed accordance with its unions came out in the streets, of the 'parliamentary strategy following the strike by press, to socialism' TV and radio journalists the The marks the current crisis previous day. bankruptcy of the parlia- utter system in Italy and mentary Sackings have been announced faces the working class with the number of and in a newspapers stark choice between the struggle 'Paris-Jour' close for power and the rise of a new the daily following strike against re- fascist regime. dundancies. building The of alternative revolutionary leadership against

FRENCH

and the is employers the Stalinists and reformists tough forward for the government are taking a the only way line towards wage demands made Italian workers.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

AS HE prepares to leave for round of talks with another Moscow, Soviet leaders in Egyptian President An war Sadat has revealed new evi- dence of Stalinist treachery in the Middle East. He told Egyptian at troops there Sunday that Aswan on 'misunderstandings' with were the Soviet leaders last year over of former vice- the mass trial president Aly Sabry and other and the abortive left wingers coup in the Sudan. difficulties sorted These were visit to Moscow during his out in October. Sadat said. He said Russians had the been told by Sabry and others that I had sold out the country to the Americans'. But, he added. told Kremlin leaders he he the

SADAT

would sell himself to the not ST PETERSBURG Ja LONDONDERRY Jar ON JANUARY 9, 1905, approxi- mately 67 years ago, Tsarist troops under the leadership of the Grand Duke Vladimir fired into a demonstration of un- people in what was armed then the city of St Petersburg, killing and wounding 4,600 persons. The world's press at the time declared that the Russia of January 10 was no longer the Russia of January 8. As sub- disclosed, sequent events revolutionary history was very much embodied in the cold- blooded massacre. The January 30 Londonderry blood bath, we would suggest, is also revolutionary history in the making. As Lenin said 'Our Father the Tsar... played at war quite seriously' in St Petersburg. So too, the Tories at Westminster and Stormont had planned the Londonderry operation exactly as it took place. Picked detach- ments of troops were carefully into one-sided thrown the battle while those in command had all the 'legal arguments' ready as to who fired the first shot. But as one commentator said, does it really matter? Did it really matter in St Petersburg in 1905? Not a single piece of tangible evidence has been produced by the army to show there was the slightest attempt by any of those who lay dead in the gutter to use armed force.

But then again the army doesn't need such evidence. Killing is its business and it enjoys the full support the of 'little fathers' of Westminster, Wilson and Heath. We are convinced that for the future of British capitalism it is the writing on the wall. The not a sign of massacre was strength, but of weakness. The in Ulster reflects the CrISIS rapidly deteriorating economic capitalism. crisis of world It was, in effect, this crisis which was fired out of the barrels of the guns last Sunday in Derry.

English workers have had a grim warning. Because it is they,

IN FRANCE

nst in both the private and public sectors. Although pay talks have been going on between the trade unions and employers in a number of industries for some weeks, little progress has been made. Faced with growing com- petition and falling orders em- ployers are forced to oppose wage demands. They are being supported by the government, which is concerned with the negotiations for a new contract for thé nationalized Renault concern and on the railways.

The miners' pay claim will also be considered this week.

Americans, the Russians or any- one else. This reply had helped sort out misunderstanding and the the way for agreement cleared USSR and Egypt between the about arms and when they would be delivered. Sadat's speech is a damning exposure of the Soviet Stalinists' politics. With Sadat's aid, Sudanese dictator Jaafar Numeiry drowned the July coup in blood.

Left-wing officers and leading communists like Abdel Khaled Mahgoub were shot after sum- mary trials. The trade unions and the Communist Party were driven underground. The Sabry trial had a similar consolidating significance, the hold of the right wing and crushing the left in the Nasserite Yet the Soviet movement. even more than the working class in Ulster, who are really Tory government's the firing line. That is why the Young Social- ist's Right-to-Work campaign and marches have such great significance in the coming weeks. We must work night and day to build a revolutionary leader- ship which will put an end to this doomed system of capital- its Tory overlords ism with and its Labour flunkies. old- It is understandable that Irish revolutionaries should feel the need to avenge those who have been slain. We address ourselves especially to the IRA's Official wing: The military implications of are always sub- revolution ordinate to the political pre- parations. After 1905 Lenin • did not turn to the use of military tactics to avenge what happened in St Peters- burg. On the contrary, he dug more deeply into the theoretical and philosophical implications of what happened in those dark days. His most vital book, in the struggle against idealism, 'Materialism and Empirio- Criticism', was the outcome of such careful deliberations.

The successful social revolution of 1917 was the result. The Official IRA's cadres have waged an extremely important a revolutionary struggle for political solution to the prob- lems in Ireland. It would be a grave mistake if they turn away from this course. Indeed, this is what the Tories at Westminster want. They are looking for excuses to split the working English Irish and classes in the coming days.

The time is rapidly approaching when both classes can hit the common enemy together. It would be very wrong to im- pair this vital possibility.

Irish revolutionary, forces, many of whom are grouped around the should. study carefully the Bolshevik reaction to the 1905 Revolution.

TWO OVAMBOS

SHOT DEAD

TWO MORE Ovambo tribesmen are reported killed by police in Africa, bringing the : total number of deaths there to eight in the past five days. Four others were wounded during the same period. claimed trouble in Police Ovamboland was being fostered by 'agitators' from the sW African People's Organization (SWAPO). Many Ovambos are still on strike against the con- tract labour system, despite modifications to the system agreed between the S African government and the puppet tribal chiefs. leaders' only concern was that Sadat might be moving towards the Americans. The rest was all a 'misunderstanding'. Sadat's also explains speech why the Soviet leaders suddenly dropped their campaign of pro- test against the Sudan repression late last year, and reopened rela- tions with Numeiry. Only this week Omdurman Radio reported that Dr Uthman Abu Qasim, Minister of Co- operation and Rural Develop- ment, had received the Hun- garian ambassador for talks on the utilization of a loan which Hungary has granted the Sudan.

It appears it is quite permis- sible for the Arab leaders to go on murdering communists so long as they don't upset the balance of power in the Middle This what Stalinist East. peaceful co-existence means.

Using the unions' strength

AN IMPORTANT

point emerges from the interview given to the Workers Press by. Post Office union leader This Tom Jackson. is his assertion that. the Socialist Labour League is wrong to advocate the unions using their strength to force the Tories to resign and return a Labour Government with socialist policies. Jackson says: I know that as far as the SLL is concerned this will be another brickbat to throw at me.' Our concern is not to throw brickbats. We are delighted that Jacksón has been drawn on this most fundamental question. He enables everyone to see absolutely clearly the path dangerous opened up by the thinking of

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

TWO REPORTS on shipbuil upper Clyde will be delivere Secretary for Trade and Indust They are expected to form the basis of the Tory plan to 'butcher' the bankrupt Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. feasibility One report covers studies on Govan, Linthouse and Scotstoun divisions of UCS and the other is a detailed survey of the financial requirements of the Tory-created Govan Shipbuilders Limited, which is to pick up the after the Tory butchery pieces is completed. (A third report on Clydebank, prepared by a private manage- ment firm is still under way.)

At present Govan Shipbuilders is in no position to take over any section of the old UCS. In parliament recently Davies ad- the total capital mitted that resources of the company were two £l shares! The directors of the company under Lord Strathalmond are government for a asking the loan of at least f20m to get the project off the ground. But six months ago when the "work-in' began, the same goy- ernment refused f6m to keep UCS going. The crisis in the newly-formed company was openly revealed yesterday when the 'Glasgow Herald' reported: 'The board of Govan Ship- builders may resign if the gov- ernment refuses to meet their financial needs for retaining viable merchant shipbuilding on the upper reaches of the Clyde.

The board's main fear is being as under-capitalized as UCS and having to share the same fate of being . unable to pay their way and going into liquidation.' On Tuesday and yesterday w SON, secretary of the Union o some of the points raised trade union leadership the at this stage of the class struggle.

Jackson's argument is this: if you use industrial action, say in support of the miners' fight, to deteat the government, this will lead to a bigger majority for the Tories at the subsequent election, this majority will extremé right-wing, worse than the the present one against working class or 'neo-fascist'.

Therefore, we must conclude, the strength of the unions must not be used against the govern- ment, even though that govern- laws to ment is passing new shackle the unions and creating mass unemployment. Two days after Tom Jackson

UGS BIGGEST

HETREAT

PICKETING AT THE £24

shipbuilding prospects on the lelivered to John Davies, the 1 Industry, this weekend.

DAVIES: TWO REPORTS

PRESIDENT of the Hull Stu- dents' Union, Phil Morris, has resigned from office because of a decision by students to con-

DASHING

SUCCESS

JACK DASH, the former Com- leader, Party dockers' munist lectured to upper school boys at Eton on Tuesday night at the invitation of the college's Keynes Society. Verdict by the school: successful 'One of our most meetings.' erday we carried an exclusive inter Union of Post Office Workers. Today expressed his opinion, the Tory perpetrated mass government murder in the streets of London- derry. According to Jackson we must not organize against the Tory gunmen for fear we provoke into extreme right-wing them policies. Is it 'throwing a brickbat' if we say that this means: do not defend yourself, or your attacker into doing will be provoked even worse things!? Tom Jackson knows as well as his members do that the Tories need to crush the miners just as they were able to defeat the postmen, and that they will be ruthless once they absolutely put this behind them. AN T THE £24m BASS CHARRINGTON SITE THE STRIKE of 300 building workers at the giant Bass Charrington brewery site at Runcorn, Cheshire, is in its second week with no sign of a settlement. The workers, all employed by Monk & Co, are demanding £l an hour for all workers employed by the Monks on the site. This is the latest in a long line of disputes and sackings at this £24m brewery site. The workers say that this is the fourth have been time they sacked in the last 12 months.

The whole labour force was dismissed on Friday, January 14 for refusing to operate the firm's bonus scheme. All the reinstated by men were Thursday, January 20, but found on returning that the management had drawn up an interim bonus scheme which the would be meant men working harder for less money.

A meeting last week voted withdraw labour until the to management agrees to the £l- an-hour demand. Picketing has been 100 per cent successful and the men feel confident that they can win. tinue a sit-in at the univer- sity indefinitely. After hearing a majority deci- sion to prolong the sit-in, Morris left the student union building saying: 'I do not want to be president of a union that has its own death wish.' On hearing of Morris's resig- nation the student body at the meeting gave three cheers.

The occupation is being staged in protest against the university's holding of £1.5m worth of shares • in the Hull firm of Reckitt and Colman. The company has large sub- sidiary interests in S Africa.

Lt-Col Basil Reckitt, the firm's chairman, is on the university's council. Workers Proas, Thursday February 3, 1972 PAGE 3 e interview with TOM JACK- that fascism is their ultimate imposing this crisis weapon for . Today Cliff Slaughter takes up on the working class. Jackson is blind the fact to that in Germany, because of this Heath wants to prove to the policy, thé reformist leaders, European monopolists that within he working the system, the British working ended concentration camps class. alongside the revolutionaries.

Tom Jackson is of His line is the surest sign of not one politically the babes in the wood, the bankruptcy of reformist He knows that one of The politics. speaking. day is past when the principal reasons for Hitler's these reformist loaders colde et accession to power in 1933 was a tew crumbs from the table that the social-democratic capitalists going through a boom.

léaders in Germany took line Now they are reduced to a argu- identical with his: don't show ments about how to persuade the the real strength of the workers, enemy to attack us in the nicest because it will drive the middle possible way. the arms of fascism class into This kind of leadership, if and provoke big business.

lett unchallenged, would prove • Neither they nor he would as fatal in its consequences for the British working the that start trom fact the class did as ruling class's attacks come of from the pre-fascist policies the their acute economic crisis, and German reformists and Stalinists.

TUC LEADERS will take no action until May against the executive of the General and Municipal Workers' Union, which has decided in favour of registration under the Industrial Relations Act.

The

G&MWU

executive is believed to have taken its

NO IMMEDIATE

decision in a spirit of arrogant defiance the TUC's against

TUC ACTION

official deregistration policy. It is understood that only one divided question the ten-man

AGAINST

committee headed by former

TUC

chairman Lord Cooper: when to try and split the trade

G&MWU

union movement. One wanted faction pre- the union's ostensible This still leaves the executive wait-and-see attitude until Sep- six vital weeks in which to pre- tember, when it would announce its ground for the pare con- registration to the

TUC

ference, however. annual conference. And until

TUC

secretary Victor Another wanted to Feather official come receives defy the

TUC

straight out and notification no action will even General Council's so-called June be contemplated from that 30 'deadline'. quarter. The hawks, apparently led by The TUC General Council has Cooper, are believed to have won SO far avoided clash with and their noble Cooper, general given despite his frequent secretary the job of drafting the statements in favour of registra- documents necessary for by claiming that wait-and- Lon, conference of the union special is his official see unions policy. on March 23. Even though this. policy has 24-mán meeting of the changed, it will take no action

G&MWU

general council until after March 23. on March 16, however, could over- By the time it has been turn this decision. And officially some notified of whatever officials of the union-Britain's decision is taken there, the third largest-believe that they first General Council meeting will; this year's new intake onto which could discuss will be it the council is said to be April 26. more Which leaves just two left-wing than previously.

months to the deadline. Make the Tory Deptford Engineers' Club (opp government resign. New Stn). Cross Tory *Fair Rents' and Housing. Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employ- N LONDON: Thursday Feb- ment and repeal all laws against ruary 10, 8 p.m. Town Hall, the unions! Edmonton. Reformism and trade unions.

CROYDON:

Thursday Feb-

WILLESDEN:

Monday Feb- ruary 3, 8 Ruskin Hse, 14, ruary Trades Labour Hall, High Rd, Nwo Coombe Miners' Strike'. Unemployment and the capital- ist crisis. DEAL: Thursday February 3, 7.30 "The Lord Warden', Mill Rid. Feb- ruary Albert', York Way, Kings Cross. Aber- port miners and Ulster Poplar (near Black- workers.' wall claim tunnel). Engineers' pay SW LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 15, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Wednesday Manor Clapham Baths, Clap- Room Il, ham Manor St, SW4. 'Support Hall, E Ham. miners and Ulster workers.

Support miners. Force Tories to resign. 16, 8 р.m. Mechanics Churchfield 8 p.m. Recreation Centre, Bedford World economic crisis. SE Thursday ocialist Labour Leagl pecial course of lecture LIVERPOOL, 8 p.m. Tuesday February 8 and 15 Essential Marxism Economics and Politics

PAGE 4 Workers Press; Thursday Februa After the sell-out of 1921 (Black Friday), the miners' declined. The conditions average wage per shift worked went down to less than half what it had been in 1920- 1921. Indeed, the miners were worse off than they had been before the First World War. There was unemployment and there was victimization. Then in April 1923, the coal-owners told the miners that thé only way to obtain a better wage was to work a longer day. In January 1924, the first Labour government took office- under Ramsay MacDonald. But this government continued the attack on the working class (for example, J. R. Campbell, editor of 'Workers' Weekly', was arrested). the election in Labour lost the same year, largely as a result Letter forgery. of the Zinoviev About this time there was short-lived boom in coal exports, due to the occupation of the Ruhr by French forces and the cessation of production there.

In these the miners voted to end the long wages agreement. After a drawn-out series of negotiations the coal-owners conceded a new wages agreement in May 1924, which gave substantial increases to the miners. about this time it also was that A. J. Cook became Secretary of the Miners' Federation.

A member of the Communist Party for a short time, Cook had been one of the group in the Rhondda Valley responsible for bitter Cambrian Combine He had been imprisoned strike. in 1918 for his strike activities and again in 1921 for his part during the lock-out. Conditions were soon to turn against the miners. The Treaty of Versailles, at the end of the World War, had imposed re- parations on Germany at the rate of £150 million a year.

Coal reparations were also , due and Italy to France, Belgium every year for ten years. This destroyed Britain's coal export trade. Things were made worse in when Churchill restored 1925 the gold standard. The standard of living workers was all forced down. In June 1925 the coal owners Miners' Federation of gave the Britain notice of their Great intention to terminate the wages agreement of the previous year.

They demanded an immediate cut in miners' wages and an end to the guarantee of a minimum This meant that there wage. would be no end to the extent to which miners' wages could be reduced. The government nominated the First Lord of the Admiralty C. Bridgeman) to act as (W. mediator between the owners and the miners, and set up a court of inquiry. The Miners' Federation re- fused to co-operate with this committee, since its aim was to cut wages and increase hours.

The TUC General Council de- clared its support for the miners movements went ahead to and Alliance of create an Industrial heavy industry and transport unions, which would act jointly to defend the hours and wages of their members. The newly-formed Transport Workers' Union and General voted to strike if necessary in support of the miners, and ASLEF also voted full support.

But already leadership was being placed in the hands of the top bureaucracy. Discussions took place between the miners' execu- tive and a special committee of the miners' the TUC, leaders declaring that they 'placed their case unreservedly in the hands of the General Council of the lay February 3, 1972 TUC as the supreme Trade Union Committee' A special TUC conference then agreed to put an embargo on all movements of coal in the event of a miners' lock-out.

On July 30, 1925, the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, uttered his famous to the statement miners: 'All workers in this country have got to take reductions in wages to help put industry on its feet? The same evening instructions were issued for the embargo on coal movements to be put into force. These instructions were as follows: 1. Wagons containing coal be attached must not to any train after midnight on Friday, July 31, and after this time of coal must not be wagons to any industrial or supplied commercial concern, or be put on the tip roads at docks for the coaling of ships. 2. All coal en route at mid- night on Friday to be worked forward to the next siding suit- able for storing it. 3. Any coal, either in wagons stock at a depot, be or may utilized at that depot for the purpose of coaling engines for passenger and goods trains, but must not be moved to another depot. Coal Exports: All tippers and trimmers will cease work at the end of the second shift on july 31. Coal Imports: On no account may imported coal be handled from July 31. General: A • general stoppage of men handling coal on other classes of tonnage on Friday midnight. All men on canals, waterways etc. engaged in carrying coal will cease Friday midnight, with the exception of men who have coal en route, who will be allowed to take it to destination and tie up.

Safety men for pumping etc. will be permitted to work for safety purposes only. All men engaged in delivering coal to commercial and industrial concerns will cease Friday night, July 31. Men delivering for domestic purposes will cease at 12 noon, Saturday, August 1.

For the purpose of carrying out these instructions the mem- bers of the organization herein concerned shall, from each district, establish small sub- committees so as to co-ordinate policy in giving effect to same.

This was signed by the leaders of ASLEF, NUR, Railway Clerks' Association, T&GWU and the TUC Special Sub-Committee.

The effect was immediate. An emergency Cabinet meeting was called. The government offered a nine months' subsidy in return for which the coal-owners would be willing to withdraw their notices. A full inquiry was to be held, but there was no doubt that the government had yielded to the embargo threat-this was Red Friday, July 31, 1925. But all the anti-labour forces were alarmed and warned. Wal 333 72ST Not only were the government and the coal-owners concerned— the Labour leaders were, too.

It was Ramsay MacDonald who declared: 'The government has simply handed over the appearance, at any rate, of victory to the very forces that sane, well-considered, thoroughly well-examined Social- ism feels to be probably its greatest enemy' Throughout this period the Communist Party fought amongst miners, particularly in the Miners' Reform Movement (later to become the National Miners' Minority Movement with its own paper 'The Mineworker'). The Miners' Reform Movement programme was: one union for all miners (instead of the Federated Districts); affiliation to the Red International of Labour Unions; no wage cuts; and a six-hour day.

The inaugural conference of the National Minority Movement itself (in August 1924) had been attended by 270 delegates, rep- resenting 200,000 workers.

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to ine Nation The forces of reaction were on the move, however, and recog- nized the danger represented by the small but influential Com- munist Party. In October 1925-three months after Red Friday — 12 leading Communist Party members were arrested and charged with un- lawfully conspiring to utter and publish seditious libels and in- citing people to commit breaches of the Incitement to Mutiny Act of 1797. Communists - Inkpin, Five Gallagher, Pollitt, Hannington and Rust-were sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. The other seven were told that they would be bound over if they undertook to have nothing more to do with the Communist Party! When this offer was re- jected, they were sentenced to six months' imprisonment.

But the Communist Party was already becoming tainted with Stalinism and lining up against Trotsky. In the Autumn of 1924 the d

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When Party members some ventured the opinion that a book ought not to be condemned before it had been read, Andren Rothstein declared in 'Workers' Weekly' that 'they have a terrible deal to learn yet before they become real Communists'. The next article in this series how the growth of will trace Stalinism in the British Com- it munist Party rendered impotent before the TUC bureau- cracy and contributed to defeat of the 1926 General Strike.

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

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AUEW, Gestetner's, Tottenham, N London HAVING read the Manifesto and agreeing with it as far as it goes, I feel that it provides the only for the principled programme mobilizing of the working class in the struggles which are already taking place and the struggles ahead. raises the The Manifesto demands that will raise the con- sciousness of the working class to higher levels at each stage. I feel that the Manifesto is embodiment of Leon Trotsky's 'Transitional Programme' It is relevant to the situation the British working class finds itself in with the advent of the economic crisis of capitalism and its effects, i.e., Ulster, unemploy- ment, Common Market etc. funda- The which crisis, mental, forces the capitalist class to attack all the basic rights the has gained over working class 200 years of bitter struggles.

resist The working class will these attacks at every stage it is strong and ork because confident. However, workers are being betrayed by a leadership that will sink or swim with capitalism.

Without the right leadership which is prepared to implement the programme set out in the Draft Manifesto, this willingness of the working class to fight will be frustrated. And with the help of the Labour traitors and their stable matés, the Stalinists and Inter- national Socialists, the British working class will be condemned to fascism. It is, therefore, imperative,

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s of any protest movement the Tories that the Manifesto is widely read and its policies adopted - by trade union branches and trades councils, as it is the only docu- ment published by any organiza- tion that attempts to provide a principled means to mobilize the working class and raise its con- at this historical sciousness juncture. At the beginning of my appraisal I referred to the fact that the Manifesto did not cover certain important points.

I feel more stress should be put on the historical role of the working class, i.e., the British that it was the first to fact emerge as a new class in the late 18th century, as well as its truly revolutionary traditions.

There should be, overriding all other demands, an all-embracing demand: "That the British working class has the right to determine its own future' Without this right it has no future. This demand could be illumin- ated only by giving a glimpse or forecast what a socialist Britain would be like. visions or Not with Blake's Owen's idealism, but with an optimism that stems from the knowledge of the tremendous social advantages of a socially- planned , economy, a highly- developed, technological, indus- trial complex with the skilled workers to match it. The British working class write its coula, trom then on, own history and, by its example, help spread the socialist revolu- tion and inspire its comrades the world over.

JAMES BUTTERICK

Leading hand, Bird Eye cold store, Hull I have read the Manifesto and find it very practical. There is a great need for an alternative Workers Prose, Thu Ka.Rike.

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e Tories have pressed ahead.' Above: as all others ever do is party, sell out the working class.

The Tories are prepared to sacrifice human life rather than spend capital. The figures for unemployment are scandalous. The Tory government represents only big business and must be brought down at all costs.

The only way this can be done is by a General Strike. But the working class lacks the leader- ship. Many of the union leaders don't seem capable of leading the working class. These men before they must be replaced give in to the Tories, as they have done in the past.

DAVE THOMPSON

AUEW steward, Vauxhall's, Ellesmere Port, Liverpool I think it is all pretty logical.

Workers I've showed it to say it's great. But then comes the question of how to get it.

I think we've got to get people who want it inside the trade union movement. We have to shake out the trade unions and replace the present leadership with people determined to win the Manifesto. I see the All Trades Unions Alliance as an alternative to the TUC. We've got to try first and foremost to make our organ- izations work for us. We can't play about with the capitalist set-up. That is why I support the demands for nationalization under workers' control as realis- tic demands. The Labour Party played about.

If they were really going to do anything they would have done it in 1945 when the workers had guns. Anything goes to remove this government in view of their record. A General Strike with a specific demand for their resig- nation is justified. To get it we have to shake the unions and another leadership. The get Prose, Thuraday Fabruary 3, 1972 PAGE 8

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Workers say: What chance have we got with leaders like this?' These leaders have played protest politics. Regardless of any protest movement the Tories have pressed ahead. The Communist Party, although there are some genuine in- dividuals in it, seems to have been preaching revolution so long that it doesn't know when it's on the doorstep. It seems more anxious to get married to the Labour Party than to fight to end capitalism. We need another leadership based on the Manifesto.

JAMES KOZIOL

Warsop Vale miner, N Derbyshire There is not much I want to add to the Manifesto. It says what I have been thinking for some time. The Tory Party is definitely against. the working class. This is clear in everything they have brought out. But also Jenkins and Victor Feather and the TUC are not supporting the working class. The TUC leadership should be replaced by people who think more like workers. There is a lot of complacency in the working class. I was talk- ing to • old collier at work an who said that if this was happen- ing years ago they would have downed tools. In those days it was all for and its individualism each man for one for all, but now himself. My father, who is a miner, has never voted for strike action before, but he did this time to give the union some strength.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday February 3, 1972

FILM REVIEW

BY BRIAN MOORE

The issues raised in 'Family Life' directed by Ken Loach, written by David Mercer and produced by Tony Garnett are important. of an unhappy and The story uncertain girl, incapable who is through the of breaking oppres- sion of her family, who is torn contradiction of what by the she wants and what her parents who is defeated in think is right, and into this struggle of the only way madness the contradiction, is a resolving powerful one. Janice, the desperate heroine comes from of the picture, what could be described as a normal suburban home. He father is a reliable, dependable worker, a depressed defeated man who lost all fight years ago. Her of those mother, one domineering women, repressed, assertive, as if motherhood itself upon her some kind of confers divine right over her family.

The their contours very confined by experience are deadening conformity to what is considered and proper correct withinare, e as it were, embalmed bourgeois within require- ments of matrimony and respect- ability. The authority that they wield over their daughter serves almost bulwark fend off the as lives. of sheer monotony their They are victims of prudery and puritanism. When Janice gets pregnant the her parents fuel outrage is fired. It is mother 'who knows best' and it is mother who the abortion insists on that sends Janice headlong into acute depression. At point do her parents no concede to independent her an life or feelings or wishes.

When she argues back, asserts herself, this is treated merely as an example of her wilfulness, her disobedience sluttishness, her and finally her 'illness'. There must be something wrong with her and the GP recommends her to a psychiatrist. In the at is Britains nbional terrible and arbitrary lottery health service, Tanice is fortunate 'experimental' to be sent to an hospital, run wing of a mental by a young psychiatrist. doctor, There she tells the don't feel there's "me" to it choose for when comes to making a big decision'. The treatment takes the form of informal therapy sessions where the patients dis- openly cuss their problems and predica- It's ments. ( therapeutic com- munity. But whether such treatment is told, effective never we because the management com- of the hospital decide to mittee has throughout the film is with down the wing. Janice is close a young art student, now given the orthodox treat- reassure her, tell her currently practised in our ment to be the does not have mental hospitals. onformity of the and frightened she Resisting she must learn to fight back is sedated and given what must It is the art student who per- be the most barbarous of inven- suades her to leave the hospital tions, electro-convulsive, therapy.

and to come with him. Electrodes connected to are In what is one of the most her head and literally she is given horrifying scenes in the film shock. Though conselects the body contorts in conscious, flat, like Once over, is spasms. wheeled on a trolley and placed and wrench Janice away. him, back to the mental home.

the side of the 30 or by They are an arm of the state other patients, unconscious from Now like a vegetable Janice is the same treatment. wheeled out before an audience 'Made well' in this way, she is and of medical students as an exhibit from hospital released of schizophrenia. allowed time on she reset s course As if talking about a machine tranquillizing drugs. the that the lecturer points very environment IS mechanical faults. destroying her, and in no time What the the familiar arguments and explores is the nature of capi- demands are made on her. oppression through down hit pose is she a Her talist set on a ideology and morality. path. She attacks he The family, as a nuclear social with a knife and is re parents admitted to hospital. unit embodies and expresses requirements and contradictions There she strikes up a rela- of the system. tionship with male and is advised young Behind bourgeois concepts patient not to madness lie the authoritarianism pursue it. In retaliation she tries of the state and its demands of to smash up the ward. a conformist behaviour. The one relationship that she with Anti-social behaviour is there- defined mad. The questions who tries to fore film go beyond, raised in the the drab therefore, th the purely reformist demands humane a more mental patients. for treatment and The political issues are revolutionary. Mercer's script reflects David of one of the most much the work psy- very chiatrists R. D. Laing, David break into Cooper and Aaron Esterson.

squad, It's important to go briefly from into their theories and relate them to their subsequent development. patient went 'mad, they The said, because unconsciously they were made a 'scapegoat' to pre- "sanity of the rest of serve the the family. The mad one' was trapped in her to contradictions series a flm concretely 'double binds' and was incapable of discovering his own autonomy through its self. The patient himself or becomes contradiction, and this himself and splits takes on conceal himself. the another role to expresses a process of hiding the contradictions It is "self' which is considered to be that bad or rebellious element at i.e., odds with the goodi family or the of the requirements society at large. Tony Garnett, producer Psychiatrist R. D. Laing Laing perceptively noticed that schizophrenics, according to their families, started off life as 'good' "bad' and then became went 'mad'. The orthodox treatment that they receive in institutions takes the form of punishment the bad. The hos- cutting out reproduces the authori- Dital tarianism and oppression of the home situation in more barbaric form. As Esterson said on television the other night, mental most hospitals perform the same func- tion as the police. The importance of Laing's and work the others' cannot underestimated. They set out to find the relationship between the oppression of society and the internalized way that it is by "schizophrenic'. the They reiected all theories of They it genetic disease. saw therefore as a social and political relationship. They set out to between establish connection Mary and Freud. Stalinist thinking has domin- for ated this question years, of rejecting Freud and theories the unconscious, it substitutes a deter- • mechanical and purely minist conception of personality, leaving out precisely a dialectical understanding. no accident that the It is forms of treatment in the Soviet Union are same kind of the mechanistic 'solution' as used in our hospitals. Neither is it an accident that political dissidents and opposi• ionists are designated 'mad is the The unconscious repository of the material experi- ences of the world. It stands in a dialectical relationship to the conscious. The process of analysis ad- Freud the un- vocated by covering of these earlier uncon- scious experiences that imprison, the patient were, as responses, actions and fears that are no longer appropriate to his It is a contemporary situation. dialectical and materialist process. What Laing leaves out of his thinking is the living reality of the class struggle itself. He only concentrates on the oppression but like the of capitalism, he can find uptopian socialists, no way through into socialism.

Workers Press, Thursday He takes only one opposite.

Above Janice Such a blind alley has led Mr Ca through an insistence on nim, from and spontaneity, subjectivism Loach into all kinds of metaphysical and theories of drugs, madness mysticism. the so-called mad are That present victims of capitalist oppression, For that they embody sharply the Janice social, political and psychological with t contradictions oppression a hint only the negative side of the 'doing struggle. the fa resolution of she dr The the con- tradiction is found in juxtap not Laing's later theories, where he and which advocates the discovery of self through the healing process of Nev madness itself — the subjective great film m 'tRo. The real resolution is unfuss perfor found in • the ultimately deter- cliff, I mining battle of the classes and Malco the victory of the socialist revolution. That is the key really In : question. Without this understanding most film there is only floundering on the confin wilder shores of idealism.

most Such a contradiction is neither scious really resolved in the film in my view and explains some of count the tension or uncertainty in its It i

A series by our Spanish corres

GENERAL FRANCO'S

fascist government today faces an unprecedented chal- lenge from the Spanish work- ing class. as 500 collective agreements come under nego- tiation for almost 2 million workers. Already strikes have hit the car plants of Chrysler in Madrid and Fiat-Hispania in Barcelona as workers demand higher wages and better working conditions.

These important strikes come at the end of a year in which industrial and professional have engaged in the workers most open confrontations with the fascist state. There has been unrest and riots in the Asturian mines, among teachers, doctors, construction workers, car recently, workers and, more Madrid University students.

Under Franco's dictatorship workers have no right to strike, to publish anything in support of their actions, or to organize any meetings of any kind. If they do engage in these activities, they are liable to imprisonment, tor- sedition ture and charges of under Article 218 of the penal code: 'Employers and workers who, with the aim of acting against security of the state to the prejudice its authority, to upset its normal authority, or national production, suspend or alter the regularity of work, are criminals.'

The regime recently circulated memorandum containing a a series of further instructions for dealing with industrial strikes. On official notepaper of the Ministry of Labour, the docu- ment was sent to the state-run union organization, the Sin- dicatos, the police and the army.

A copy was smuggled out of and has come into the Spain possession of Workers Press.

The document is headed 'Criteria for a possible situation of conflict and is stamped 'secret confidential'. The issuance and the instructions clearly in- of dicates that the regime is becoming more alarmed by the growing militancy leading to a General Strike. The motives for such a strike movement are clearly grasped by the fascist bureaucrats: 'The in- crease in the cost of basic neces- sities has created strong pressure of a psychological nature which is translated into demands for large increases... very wage before the expiry of a great num- of collective agreements, periods of great social tension can be foreseen in the coming months, whose seriousness will depend on how these situations are confronted.' The Sindicatos is instructed to remain in 'constant contact' with the ministry's labour offices and both told 'suspend to are immediately all discussions collective agreements' as soon as situations the workers create which the document describes as using 'force'. is The state-controlled union ordered to collaborate directly with the civil governors and the police to prevent 'massive meet- ings and factory meetings'.

The government sets itself the following tasks: 'Accurate information on illegal activities, meetings etc. and the preventive arrest of the wherever organizers of these possible... as much information as possible should be sent to the Labour authorities and to the Sindicatos. "The prevention of illegal propaganda. • 'The stopping of the organ- ization of pickets at factory gates is basic to the reduction of conflict? The document goes on: 'A labour conflict is always a h correspondent political problem and a problem of public order even when it looks just like a work problem.

The government authorities must do everything possible to stop this from happening. Its instru- the Labour must be ments Offices and the Union Organiza- tion [Sindicatos], as well as the organs of public order. In no way must the Governor hesitate at the beginning on the pretext that there has been no disruption because in of public order, labour conflict order has already been disrupted and constitutes in itself The ministry includes further plans for strangling press free- dom: 'In the directions given to the communications media place of preference must be given in the coming months to the silencing or the maximum reduction of the greater part of news or in- labour disputes. formation on Everyday we see that news on labour disputes is the only news that the press never tires of...

then, These, Franco's are repression brutal plans for to maintain the capitalist order in In sharp contrast are the Spain. illusions about 'democratic development' which are culti- vated by the Communist Party, which is more or less in charge of the leadership of the illegal Workers' Commissions. (It should be pointed out that this leader- ship has been thrown into crisis the large-scale industrial unrest last year.) General The most recent Assembly of the Workers' Com- mission combined this militant call—'Our fundamental task is to move with determination towards a General Strike' - with the following bureaucratic carte blanche for ending strikes: ... We have to elaborate collectively a programme and perspective of struggle and the means to attain this, but we must always bear in mind during the course of the struggle the need to open up democratic avenues of negotiation which will enable to end the strike us without disagreements properly or disputes, and to be in a posi- tion to restart the strike when the avenues of negotiation have been exhausted.' The treachery of the Com- munist Party leadership in Spain demonstrated even was more clearly by Santiago Carrillo, the Party's secretary, who has openly declared this non-revolutionary policy: 'No one-and above all the Communist Party- is not thinking of carrying through a "communist revolution" today in Spain.' Tomorrow's article will show how Stalinism is doing its utmost to betray working class struggles in Spain. We start with one of most vital sections, the Asturian miners.

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Carrillo: Not thinking of car- rying through a revolution.

INTERNATIONAL

YOUTH NEWS

BY GARY GURMEET

EDITOR OF 'KEEP LEFT'

Strong police action coupled with degrading and diciplin- ary treatment is on the way for thousands of unemployed youth in the country. This can be the only conclu- plans to put its experimental sion drawn government work scheme into operation.

The scheme, initiated by the National Association of Youth Clubs, starts working this month in eight of Britain's high-unem- ployment areas. At the same time London magistrates have called on the Tory government to break youth detention centres at weekends in all major towns. They say the centres would be one of the 'most valuable and least costly weapons in the limited armoury provided by the penal system for dealing with young offenders' And on Merseyside an appeals said court Judge has youth be sent to prison for should long periods, regardless of their age. Lord Justice Lawton said youngsters would not be excused from prison because they were The sooner they under 21. realized they were in grave risk 'for a of being sent to prison , the better it would long time' be for 'law and order' in Britain.

The experimental work scheme was announced towards the end of last year when the Department of Employment agreed to inject fim to make the idea possible.

Cynically referred to as the 'community industry, it will em- ploy around 60 youth in each area to do work of 'social value'.

The operation is not to provide employment for school- leavers Its jobless youth. object is to train them to accept the situation created by the Tory government. E. Balmer, deputy co-ordinator of the scheme, says the operation is aimed at stimulating young- to do 'reasonably imagin- sters ative' jobs. 'It is not going to solve any unemployment that's problem, for sure, he told Workers Press.

"This not the reason for was choosing high-unemployment We youth, both areas. want boys and girls, to work in a "real industry". 'A great deal of work needs to be done on the environment.'

So local authorities in some of Britain's most depressed areas the government calls them 'development areas—will be pro- vided with a cheap labour force to do work which other workers have refused. The scheme will ensure the Never let the facts spoil a good story, runs the old Fleet St adage. The 'Sun' and the 'Daily Mail', to name but two, have certainly taken it to heart. British- When workers at Leyland's Oxford car plant struck after a safety dispute with the management, they were instantly pilloried by these two papers.

Both ran the story on their front pages-pushing the Sir Gerald Nabarro saga into second place-and both did their best streets are clean and the gutters Compulsory labour s cleared of filth. reminded of Hitler's All the 'community' work will dealing with youth be done in co-ordination with a 1930g. Bottom: Sati local 'voluntary support group'.

ing police. The 'industry' will be run like other, 'code any with of And this operatio industrial practice similar to that come effective of any good employer. atmosphere of incre The eight areas chosen are harassment against t Newcastle, Sunderland, Teesside, Two of the by Liverpool and Mexborough referred area to of S Yorkshire. In Wales it will magistrates are alrea be centred on Newport and SW ation in London and Monmouthshire. Two more areas This cheap for Scotland have not yet been 'caters' for youth who announced. 'anti-social' mitted These, according to include breac trates, bation, hooliganism, National co-ordinators were peace, failure to pa last month. This chosen month some traffic offences. they will move into the regions In short, the administrators and to appoint enforce violent d 'group leaders'. the and streets The fact that the scheme will servility in the facto employ only about 400 youth in public schemes which locality dubious. The work scheme each 1S itself What it could create is a small of the compulsory la of people, trained in created by group, 'social conscience' and isolated youth in the 1930s. which pre- of his general poli trom the militancy bring about vails in places with soaring un- his fascist dictatorsh employment. Management to put the workers in the most unfavourable possible light.

wanted the cars rollers with The 'Sun' described the strike testing in itself a dangerou 'the daftest ever, as quoting as the cars travel or management representatives for at up to 60 miles an this opinion. The reader was pre- sumably supposed to hold up his When the men tri hands in horror at the thought they were told to c of people striking because of structions or get o puddles of water. They went. The puddles were at the end The 'Mail' and Si of the Marina production line give the impression c and drivers who take the cars ninded' walk-out. ] from the end of the track to mindedness, workers testbeds were involved in the tirely on the manage That's about where the strike. 'They could have set resemblance between the stories without any and the facts ends. meant stopping the Water is a prime safety hazard few minutes while in a highly-automated plant like was mopped up. But Leyland's do that, Cowley factory. Only one a fortnight ago a puddle formed unionist commented. on the floor of the same build- When transport u ing (the QT block) at the other Cliff secretary end of the Marina production Mail, Press Weds in the line. Wednesday and the 'Sun' had That puddle was 'live'. The water had run over an electrical gotten' the story. junction box and electrified did not bother to pr metal stanchion standing nearby.

Small said. Naturally the drivers were not But even the 'O prepared to take chances when couldn't resist inject the second puddle appeared. Not gratuitious innunend only did the management want could be read to im them to drive through the unions had discussed puddles, ( but, they wanted the action against cars driven further than usual fact, the question raised. without extra manning. Workers Pross, Thur Readers of the London 'Even- Standard' ing treated were last Friday to a confession of faith from the paper's new City editor, David Malbrook.

In case them, missed you here are some of the highlights: Lloyd George knew my father: "In the last few years a sur- large prisingly number young people have emerged as brilliant entrepreneurs. Only a decade ago, such achievements at their present age would have been considered astonishing' Setting the record straight: "The popular image of the tycoon is not prepossessing. But it is often too grossly distorted. I shall show that there are as many diverse and interesting types of people in business as there are in the law, teaching or theatre, the any other occupation.' The boss's hidden talents: 'Did you know that one of the most successful young tycoons today started adult life as a music student? Or that the head of a prominent stores chain is the country's leading marine biologist? Or service Is a of Hitler's method of that the chief of a famous h youth (top) In the food stores group is a qualified om: Saturday morn- civil engineer?' Radical thinking (City-style): "The world of money operation is to be- eats within •an and drinks ideas. It is contro- of increasing police versial, sometimes acrimonious, against the e youth. critical. The City is by always the type centres no means the tight-knit com- the London munity, reactionary and hide- are already in oper- bound, of even a decade ago.

ndon and Manchester. A good deal of radical think- ap form of detention ing is expressed in some seem- youth who have com- offences. ingly pompous establishments.

to the I shall present the facts and magIs- breaches of pro- join the arguments.' liganism, breaches of Down with oppression! (City- ire to pay fines and style again, I'm afraid): 'I believe the form of the Tories are out to capitalism we have in this violent discipline on and a humiliating country can survive only if the factories and the there is equity between the nes which they create. strong and the weak. The City ‹ scheme reminds one Takeover Panel has done much pulsory labour service to muzzle the more savage Hitler for German jaws. I shall give warning from le 1930s. It was part time to time when I discover eral policy used to installation of some oppression or injustice.'

dictatorship. apparently tested. the on with wet tyres- traver on the rollers A Japanese soldier stumbled , travel on I miles an hour. out of the bush the other day and surrendered. He wondered e men tried to argue, told to carry out in- whether Roosevelt was still or get off the job. alive. Apparently, he is now due il' and 'Sun' tried to for £54 back pay. (They don't pression of a 'bloody- pay too well in the Japanese The bloody- army!) , workers say, was en- This is a joke story com- le management's side. the other old i have settled all this pared with It trooper who has turned up in just line for a Lima, Peru. while the water Klaus Altmann, a natural- d up. But they didn't ized Bolivian businessman, has leading trade been asked to leave the coun- try. This follows pretty power- ansport union district that Altmann, ful evidence Small rebutted who came to Lima last Octo- the 'Oxford Nednesday, the 'Mail' ber after 20 years in Bolivia, already 'for- is a former Gestapo chief They simply His real name is apparently ther to print what Mr Klaus Barbie who was in charge of the French city of n the 'Oxford Mail' Lyons during the German sist injecting its own occupation. innunendo. Its story It is strongly believed that ead to imply that the Herr Altmann Barbie does not discussed disciplinary the drivers. wish to take up residence in question was never Lyons if he is deported. Prose, Thuraday Fabruary 3, 1972 PAGE 9 Sir Gerald Nabarro MP, seems to have got his class lines a bit mixed up following his con- viction for dangerous driving.

On discovering that even if he wins his legal battle to clear his name he cculd be £1,000 out of pocket, he was heard of blustering about the high cost of justice. No one would argue with that. What is a little outfacing is the right-wing Tory's follow-up. "There is one law for the rich and one for the poor— and a poor man can rarely get justice', he waffled through his handlebars. Nabarro, of course, is far from the latter category. His business interests include pub- lishing, machine tools, unit trusts, advertising and market- ing. And, according to the 'Daily Mail' diarist Nigel Dempster, he has been getting a lot of his legal advice buckshee from friends. READERS of the new, tabloid Workers Press will have no need of the following piece of useless advice. It does go to show, how- ever, what fascinating things to out in the they get up stockbroker belt when they're not counting, their profits.

'Sir, 'a 'Financial Times' correspondent wrote a couple of weeks ago, 'before reading a daily paper, open it at the middle and secure the sheets with a hairgrip, top and bottom. "The grips should be about three inches long (Woolworth sells them) and can be salvaged over and over again. "The occasional (two-page) er- half-sheet does require a little Sellotape to hold it in placeif it cannot be dis- carded. "The newspaper can then be read as a book, without the sheets coming adrift.' The UK Press Gazette' comments that: 'For reading a BOOK, of course, you pull out the pages singly and then Sellotape into a •sheet large enough to require a three-inch hairgrip at top and bottom.

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday February 3, 1972 Comments on the recent article 'Miners and the Tory g Workers Press by Wheldale colliery miner and Socialist I Brian Lavery, have been flowing into our office. Today w Wales. Look out for other contributions from other coalfiel

IAN YEATS

talks to Oakdale Lodge chairman

DANNY CANNIFF

is a

DANNY CANNIFF

suspicious man. In 30 years as a miner he has seen the Labour Party go from bad to worse, trade union leaders make an art of facing both enough ways at once and 'dirty tricks' by the Com- munist Party to fill a library.

he As a man principle does not expect to be popular.

unofficial During last year's first to split strike he was the Welsh coalfield leading the by colliery Oakdale back work to after it became clear the battle was lost. In 1972 an official national coal strike offered more tavour- able ground and he has thrown weight solidly behind it.

his But his support is conditional.

He believes Tories show-down with the miners SO that they can get at the entire working class, and as far as he is concerned a General Strike to defeat them is the only answer. Brian Lavery's After Mer Can 'The Canniff said: article, man has got it sewn up right.

'The trouble with leaders in Party and the trade the Labour unions is that no one wants to nationalized basics and discuss wages norm in the get down to the problems. industries down to per cent can hold them 'When talk the that they about SO up unions supporting the miners or a shining example to the rest of the economy. you've to anyone cIst of they've got mil- 'Lawrence Daly should be ask- realize which all the other unions lions of pounds they're ing not to afraid to lose. touch coal. Then think it 'The Tory government hasn't would mean coming to a General had half the opposition from Strike. That's the only way. the unions Labour had when they 'And then of the return They could were in power. Labour government prepared to blackmail doing Labour out its constitution-with carry wanted they but they what socialist policies. won't work with the know it think workers' control Tories. would be an answer to the prob- •They know if they take lems we face in the mines today.

the Tories they could either lose 'One of the arguments used in forced their position or be 1947 was that we didn't have the take over; they fear being pushed technical men, but we've had forward. the el head generals and ["left" and Scanlon 'Jones Coal Board. forces on leaders of the transport and what they know don't know engineers' unions] | part of ale about coal. They're as conservative as that. don't those power. They In want to lose their positions.

full well that 'Scanlon knows if he takes the engineering employers it would mean taking the Tories and he doesn't want that Scanlon has done by 'What bargaining recommending plant could bust the union.' Mr Canniff has been a mem- 25 ber of the Labour Party for years 'on and off'. He dropped couple of times through out disillusionment. He said: "The trouble with the Labour Party is that it's got too respectable. We've been pander- call the to what you might ing middle. 'We haven't had one Labour MP come and out clearly sup- port the miners, and they only spent a couple of hours on the of Com- House strike in the mons. 'Evéryone, right, is every Tories under threat the trom like and demonstrations the Young Right-to-Work Socialists' marches are needed to show this UP The Tories want to hold the Tory government', written for cialist Labour League member 'oday we print another from S coalfields each day on this page.

'Nationalization was most cer- tainly a gain from private enter- prise. 'One of the biggest things out was ending the fear of a man whether he'd get not knowing work next day or not. 'A man can speak today where before he couldn't-he was victi- mized. You could be sent.

down the road just for answering back.

remember the day it hap- pened with the NCB flag hauled up over Oakdale and the man- ager, George Wrexham, telling us it was our pit. 'But in reality we had the same people. 'The compensation is what has crippled the pits. There'd be plenty of money to pay wages and modernize the mines if we didn't pay the money back.

MINERS

'Workers' control is a big thing, we'd have to make the decisions and I wonder if we'd be big enough to do it.' Danny Canniff is Welsh-Irish.

His father left Ireland to work in the Welsh pits at the turn of the century, and today, with the words of James Connolly never long from his lips, Mr Canniff is, in a sense, as much involved with his ancestral home as with Wales. They seem to have plenty of in keep money to army Northern Ireland,' he said bit- terly. 'Yet they can't pay us.'

He said: I believe in com- munism but not totalitarianism.

I'd never agree with the wholesale slaughter that's gone on in what they term communist countries. No one could convince

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me that there's not one voice of dissent Mr Canniff has been fighting the Communist Party in South Wales for years warning about their policies. 'Have you noticed how quiet they [the CP] are this time' ', he asked me. 'Not a peep out of them. 'Before this strike they could always fall back on saying we were outside the rules. But this strike is just what they don't want-it's official. 'People are disillusioned with the two main parties [Labour and Tory] and the Communist Party is no alternative leadership.

'I think the Socialist Labour League's policies realistic. are All they're asking for is a fair crack of the whip!' Left: Pickets at the NCB's W Wales headquarters at Tondu: 'No trouble getting coachloads'.

MINERS

Your thoughts on the strike and its relation- ship with the Tory gor. ernment are welcome. Any letters should be sent to: The Editor, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG

VICTORY for the miners' strike is essential to every trade unionist, engineers' leader Jim Conway writes in the latest issue of his union's journal. "The miners' fight is our fight, he says Conway also claims that anot Engineering Amalgamated The Union of Workers has announced its full support the miners. He 101 LACh Passes tne "anconment of its own national claim it had nothing do the WitN The AUEW national-committee decision to go for plant bargain- ing was designed to ployers 'one more chance level', secue JOCaI conway says. 'Strike He warns: action to avoid, but think will Culleyel araw back from such acuon • No comment.

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

WORKERS at Churchill's machine tool factory in Altrincham, near Manchester, are stepping up their

CONWAY

fight to oppose the plant's closure.

Management proposed to shift part of works tne Coventry. Workers have The dally already drawn up tentative paper that plans to stage an occupation. leads the As of their campaign the Torles. workers marched through Altrincham Contingents Kearn's trom £20.28 for 12 months (312 issues) Record-Electric and Richards. and {10.14 for 6 months (156 Issues) other factories on the £5.07 for • 3 months (78 Issues) heath Industrial Estate swelled the march to over 1,000. If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: Banners proclaimed No £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues).

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DAGE 12 Workers Press, Thursday February 3, 1872 Television union leaders support YS jobs marches THE GENERAL council of Association of the Cinema- tograph, Television and Allied Technicians

(ACTT)

has decided to support the nation- wide Right-to-Work marches being organized by the Young Socialists. This makes the union of tele- film workers the first vision and in Britain to give such backing.

Meanwhile, with the of the march only two days away, support is building up through- oul lie countly. The first contingent of young assured marchers are send-off when they leave

GLASGOW

Saturday for the long journey London.

ABERDEEN

No. Amalgamated Union of Engineer-

ULSTER UNIONS

ing Workers' branch voted has the local dis- suboort anu askcd trict committee enter fight. The branch donated £3.

STILL PLEAD

Aberdeen University technical staff students and several departments

FOR REFORMS

nave raised £10 and Professor J P Cornford, Professor Edinburgh University, has given £5.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS IN BELFAST

Other support in Scotland has come bree

COC

LEADERS of the N Ireland poration's. foundry

LARKFIELD

and

GARAGE,

trade union movement mained firmly on their knees Where £3.60 has been collected Arrangements accommo. yesterday and begged the dating the marchers in the NE reactionary Stormont govern- advanced. already arc well NEWCASTLE Trades Council ment to end its war against has voted support Ulster workers. for the march and agreed to find accommoda- At conference in Belfast- tion. ironically titled 'Peace and Pros- At the Byker bus depot, New- delegates representing castle, men have perity donated t7.05 special fund for the 250.000 workers adopted a paign. which proposed no ac- beyond mere pleading with the A big boost to campaign the Faulkner government for re yesterday was work given. when the at the

TORNS.

Plessey factory Not- at Beeston. It included: No demand for the withdrawal Next week the shop stewards' British

LOODS

committee will be asked to No call for unconaltonal repea.

the in of a of the Special Powers Act, merely orcallzalon in the 4,500-strong collection its replacement by other oppres- factory. sveeds alone guide on the limited Chow reforms proposed could ever The Miners' Strike achieved under British im and the Tory government perlalist mile

DENABY

One delegate, John Freeman Denaby Main Hotel ('The Drum') of Amalgamated Transport the and General Workers' Union Denaby Main, warned. Yorkshire "This document will not be Thursday, February 3, 7.30 p.m.

worth the paper it's written on

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

National Right-to-Work campaign Glasgow march starts

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5

Assemble Greendyke Street off SALTMARKET 12.30 p.m. Unemployed and employed are invited to

JOIN THE MARCH THROUGH GLASGOW

RALLY 2.30 p.m. Woodside Halls St George's Cross Trade unionists, Young Socialists and other speakers

MARCH TO LONDON

March begins from Woodside Halls, 5 p.m. to Pollockshaw Town Hall, Pollockshaw Road le shall call at all major towns on the way, converging ondon durina the weekend March 11/12 fo

MASS RALLY AT THE EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY ON

MARCH 12

unless means of implementing it are detailed.' He added that demands made by the N Ireland Committee of the Irish Confederation of Trade Unions in 1968 were totally ig- by the reactionaries of nored Stormont Hill. I believe the N Ireland move- ment should give consideration to adopting the same tactics as the British trade union movement adopted over the Industrial Re- lations Bill.' He reminded delegates of the contempt Stormont has for off- cial trade unions. 'This government took 40 years official trade to recognize the union movement, but only took 40 days to recognize the Loyal- ist Workers' Association,' he said reterring to the Protestant ex- tremist group seeking to divide Ulster workers. Brendan Harkin, chairman of the N Ireland committee, called for an end to civil disobedience and imprisonment without trial.

On this basis, he said, all-party talks on a solution to the crisis could proceed. He said the war in N Ireland was a working-class civil war, but excluded completely any reference to the war the British army is waging against Irish workers. Bill, Blease, N_Ireland ICTU organizer, said that the most powerful weapon a worker could possess was a trade union card and the ballot box. 'These more powerful are than bullets,' he said—a remark which will no doubt be appre- ciated by the relatives of the trade unionists who were gunned down in Derry last Sunday.

The Committee's programme proposes legislation civil on rights, security and liberty, housing, as well as measures to fight unemployment. The Committee will now carry their paper reforms to Stormont and once again be ignored.

On his return from leading a TUC General Council delegation to the conference, Victor Feather will be arranging to see Home Secretary Maudling for talks about the Uister situation.

Feather, Post Office workers' leader Tom Jackson and trans- port-union chief Jack Jones went to Belfast 'to identify ourselves to the conference and to make ourselves as much aware of the situation at first hand, the TUC secretary said. A sharp attack on part of the programme was launched by Joe Meehan, leader of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union. He criticized the movement's lack of initiative on internment when 650 out of 700 internees were members of organizations affiliated to the ITUC.

BOLSOVER MP DENI

MPs JOIN PICKET I THIRTEEN MPs sponsored by the National Union of Mine- workers joined miners picket- ing Battersea power station yesterday. One of them, how- ever, was Roy Mason, Minis- of Power in the last ter Labour government, and one of the Labourites who saved the Tory government last year by voting for the Common Mar- ket. One of the MPs-Alex Eadie of Midlothian-told the press: had say that 'Reports I have some power stations are hang- ing on by a thread.' The miners, from Stoke-on- Trent and Kent, are mounting a 24-hour picket at Battersea.

No coal is getting into this power station', one of said them, Ted Brough, from Florence Colliery, Stoke.

Not all the NUM-sponsored MPs joined the picket, how- 'other com- Those with ever. mitments' were Norman Pent- land (Chester-le-Street), Alan Fitch (Wigan), Albert Roberts (Normanton) and Alan Beaney (Hemsworth). THE POWER supply situation and the possibility cuts were reviewed at a 45-minute meeting of the Cabinet Emer- gency Committee yesterday.

There is still no indication whether a state of emergency TRANSPORT union chiefs will boycott the Tories' National In- dustrial Relations Court today.

Car Collection Co Ltd, a : London delivery firm, is making an application to the court under the Act's provisions on bargain- ing rights. The Transport and General Workers' Union has been in dis- pute with the company on this Issue for nine years. Now Car Collection wants an investigation by the Commission on Industrial Relations to scotch the demand for a closed union shop. Yesterday the T&GWU made it clear it will not be attending the hearing. I doubt very much if we shall

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shop stewards will recommend to a mass meeting of 6,000 car workers at Linwood, Scotland, today that they end their month- long strike. This followed talks with management in London which produced 'more satisfactory offer'.

? MP DENNIS SKINNER WARMS HIMSELF

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is contemplated, a move which would need a Cabinet decision.

A routine Cabinet meeting is taking place today. Emergency powers are not required to bring in service- men, but they are needed for the requisition of transport and other about the use of power by industry and householders.

The question of coal stocks is being kept constantly under review by a special department established by the Depart- ment of Trade and Industry when the miners' strike began.

THE NATIONAL Executive of the NUM is to recommend postponement of its national conference due in July. It was dificult to make arrangements for the conference 'in present circumstances, explained union President Joe Gormley. Gormley has a lot to worry him. Even if we got into talks acceptable and an proposal was put to the executive, it is problematical whether the lads accept it, he com- would plained. The executive has decided to plan a lobby of parliament for • week' after next and to call upon other unions to sup- port it. even have anyone there as an observer', a spokesman said.

will shortly be prelimi- There nary private hearings on two similar applications. In the first by C A Parsons Ltd, the Newcastle engineering company, five employees' organi- zations have been made respond- ents. The other private hearing will be application by the National an on Union of Bank. Em- ployees-the first union to defy the TUC's ban on co-operation with NIRC. NUBE wants bargaining rights at United Dominions Trust, and ASTMS have been made re- spondents to the application.

WEATHER

N Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland will have most showers, but also clear or sunny intervals. The showers will be more frequent in w districts, especially near coasts. Sheltered E areas and also S England will become mostly dry during the day. Extreme N Scotland, Orkney and Shetland will be dull with rain, but it will become brighter Temperatures will be near nor- mal in all parts. Outlook for Friday and Saturday: Some rain or showers at times.

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