Workers Press no. 680

workers press

HARDENING ON MINERS AND ULSTER

TORIES TO ACT

ON UNION LAW

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

TORY DETERM

this month is har with miners and the wa By February 28, all the major provisions of the new law will be in force together with the Code of Industrial Relations Practice which will guide its use in court. 'The sooner this is in opera- tion the better, Employment Secretary Robert Carr told the House of Commons amid very muted Labour protests on Wed- nesday. A later debate, on an Oppo- sition motion to stop the govern- ment activating the Act's pro- union visions on registration, picketing and sympathetic strikes, was marginally more heated.

But the Tories could not pro- ceed for five minutes with their hated industrial pay or N Jreland policies without the most abject collaboration of the Labour and trade union leaders. • Car Collection Co Ltd, a N London delivery firm, went to the National Industrial Relations Court to make the first applica- tion under the new law yester- day. The Transport and General Workers' Union boycotted the hearing — despite a TUC ruling that it could go if it wanted. See P.12. • While Carr was speaking in . Wednesday, Leo- parliament on nard Neal, chairman of the Com- mission on Industrial Relations, was declaring in Manchester that unions were defying TUC official policy of non-co-operation with the CIR. 'A lot are working with us behind the scenes', he said.

• The source of this defiance is the TUC itself. Although publicly eschewing consultation with Carr over the Code of Practice, it has been in behind-the-scenes engaged manoeuvres on it for months. The final clause in the document was actually drafted by the

TUC.

• Talks with the government over the miners' pay claim are supposed to have been broken off two weeks ago. But TUC sec- retary Victor Feather and miners' president Joe Gormley have been involved in secret talks with Carr at least twice since then.

• Instead of fighting tooth and nail for the Heath government's resignation over the Londonderry killings, Irish TUC chiefs were yesterday trying desperately to fix talks with Home private Secretary Reginald Maudling.

Hence the Tories' lethal arro- towards workers both N gance Ireland and Britain. Speaking during the Commons debate on implementation of the Act, Solicitor-General Sir Geof-

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETT

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAI

SPONDENT DAVID MAUDE

ERMINATION

to anti-union law later the e war in Ulster. frey Howe, who drafted a large part of the law, made little attempt to conceal its purpose.

People were crying out for some way of breaking the dead- lock in the miners' strike, he said. Dublin and Londonderry, February 2, 1972, and the deter- mined picketing of the miners in defiance of their national leaders' policies, how show fragile is the grip of the Tories' agents. And the breadth of trade union support for the Right-to- Work marches which start tomorrow is a measure of the support which can be won for breaking that grip. Foreign News 2 Miners' history 4 Discussion on ATUA Manifesto 5 Actors and the Right- to-Work play 6 & 7 Book review 9 Miners' interviews 10 TV programmes 11

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE LYNCH government in Dublin made desperate moves yesterday to pull back from the brink of open conflict with Britain. There was mounting specu- lation that the Eire premier would make another bid, pos- sibly at the weekend, to get talks with the Tory govern- ment over the Derry massacre, which has thrown his admini- stration into crisis. He met Labour Party leader Conor Cruise O'Brien who re- ported on his talks with Home Secretary Reginald Maudling.

Among the points the Lynch wants to make are deputation demands for an end to intern- ment, the eventual abolition of Stormont withdrawal of British troops from what are de- scribed *highly-populated as Catholic areas. This compromise will not be accepted by the Tories and cer- •

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CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

tainly will not satisfy the Eire people, who, according to O'Brien, have undergone an 'im- and massive' change of mense attitude. He compared the feeling in the Free State to that following the Dublin uprising in 1916.

This attempt at reconciliation is rapidly being overshadowed with the possibility of another massacre. While the Eire parliament be- gan its two-day debate on the Derry killings, civil rights leaders in Newry said the planned march on Sunday would go Organizers said they expected bigger crowds than in Derry last Sunday. The Tories have made it clear they will not allow the protest.

In the Lords, British Defence Secretary - Lord Carrington warned: *I am quite confident that the ban is right and that it must be upheld. The security forces will 1972 • No. 680

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therefore have no alternative but to halt and disperse any un- authorized marches, however difficult it may be. Prime Minister Heath has also intervened and asked leaders of the Roman Catholic Church to use their influence to stop the Newry protest. Whether Lynch will be able to pull back from brink once again and survive politically is doubtful. The Tories are in no mood to compromise over their campaign of terror in the North and talks will not satisfy workers in the Republic. Wednesday's rioting, when the British Embassy in Dublin was burned, was the biggest seen in Eire for a generation. The shooting over the border by units of the Provisional wing of the IRA also suggests that elements in the Free State Army are not unsympathetic to the demands for military action against Stormont.

PICKING

"COAL

The Tory press is already print- ing its predictable pictures of old women shivering over empty grates in order to whip up hos- tility to the miners. Our pic- ture gives a very different story, however. An elderly miner is picking coal on the old tip at Pontlottyn, S Wales, for his next- pensioner. door neighboura Many miners are having to pick coal for their own families because the NCB delayed their Christmas load; but they are all firm on one thing-they won't let the old people go cold. A MINER on picket duty at Keadby power station near Scunthorpe, Lines, was killed in an accident involving a lorry out- side plant yesterday afternoon.

Labour MP Tom Swain warned in the Commons yesterday that this could cause fanother Ulster in the Yorkshire coalfied'.

for more See P.12 Col 1 details.

workers press

HARDENING ON MINERS AND ULSTER

TORIES TO ACT

ON UNION LAW

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

TORY

DETERMI

this month is hard with the miners and the wa By February 28, all the major provisions of the new law will be in force together with the Code of Industrial Relations Practice which will guide its use in court. 'The sooner this is in opera- tion Employment Secretary Robert House of Commons amid very muted Labour protests on Wed- nesday. A later debate, on an Oppo- sition motion to stop the govern- ment activating the Act's pro- visions union registration, on picketing and sympathetic strikes, was marginally more heated.

But the Tories could not pro- ceed for. five minutes with their hated industrial pay or N Ireland policies without the most abject collaboration of the Labour and trade union leaders. Car Collection Co Ltd, a N London delivery firm, went to the National Industrial Relations Court to make the first applica- tion under the new law yester- day. The Transport and General Workers' Union boycotted the hearing — despite a TUC ruling that it could go if it wanted. See P.12. • While Carr was speaking in parliament on Wednesday, Leo- nard Neal, chairman of the Com- mission on Industrial Relations, was declaring in Manchester that unions were defying TUC official policy of non-co-operation with the CIR. 'A lot are working with us behind the scenes', he said.

The source of this defiance is the TUC itself. Although publicly eschewing consultation with Carr over the Code of Practice, it has been behind-the-scenes in engaged it for months. manoeuvres on The final clause in the document actually drafted by the was

TUC.

• Talks with the government over the miners' pay claim • are supposed to have been broken off two weeks ago. But TUC sec- retary Victor Feather and miners' president Joe Gormley have been involved in secret talks with Carr at least twice since then.

• Instead of fighting tooth and nail for the Heath government's resignation over the Londonderry killings, Irish TUC chiefs were yesterday trying desperately to fix private talks with Secretary Reginald Maudling.

Hence the Tories' lethal arro- gance towards workers both N Ireland and Britain. Act, Solicitor-General Sir Geof-

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETT

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAI

PONDENT DAVID MAUDE

ERMINATION

to anti-union law later against the e war in Ulster. frey Howe, who drafted a large part of. the law, made little attempt to conceal its purpose.

People were crying out for some way of breaking the dead- lock in the miners' strike, he said. Londonderry, Dublin and February 2, 1972, and the deter- the miners mined picketing of in defiance of their national leaders' policies, show how fragile is the grip of the Tories' agents. And the breadth of trade union support for the Right-to- marches Work which start tomorrow is a measure of the support which can be won for breaking that grip. Foreign News 2 Miners' history 4 Discussion on ATUA Manifesto 5 Actors and the Right- to-Work play 6 & 7 Book review 9 Miners' Interviews 10 TV programmes 11

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE LYNCH government in Dublin made desperate moves yesterday to pull back from the brink of open conflict with Britain. There was mounting specu- premier lation that the Eire would make another bid, pos- sibly at the weekend, to get talks with the Tory govern- ment over the Derry massacre, which has thrown his admini- stration into crisis. He met Labour Party leader Conor Cruise O'Brien who re- ported on his talks with Home Secretary Reginald Maudling.

Among the points the Lynch wants to make are deputation end to intern- demands for an ment, the eventual abolition of Stormont and withdrawal of British troops from what are de- scribed 'highly-populated as Catholic areas. This compromise will not be accepted by the Tories and cer-

IEWSLETTER •

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4, 1972

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

tainly will not satisfy the Eire people, who, according to O'Brien, have undergone an 'im- mense and massive' change of attitude. He compared the feeling in thé Free State to that following the Dublin uprising in 1916.

This attempt at reconciliation is rapidly being overshadowed with the possibility of another massacre. While the Eire parliament be- Derry killings, civil rights leaders in Newry said the planned march on Sunday would go ahead. Organizers said they expected bigger crowds than in Derry last Sunday. The Tories have made it clear they will not allow the protest.

In the Lords, British Defence Secretary Lord Carrington warned: I am quite confident that the ban is right and that it must be upheld. The security forces will No. 680

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therefore have no alternative but to halt and disperse any un- marches, however authorized of difficult it may be Prime Minister Heath has also intervened and asked leaders of the Roman Catholic Church to use their influence to stop the Newry protest. . Whether Lynch will be able to pull back from brink once again and survive politically is doubtful. The Tories are in no mood to compromise over their campaign of terror in the North and talks will not satisfy workers in the Republic. Wednesday's rioting, when the British Embassy in Dublin was burned, was the biggest seen in Eire for a generation. The shooting over the border by units of the Provisional wing of the IRA also suggests that elements in the Free State Army are not unsympathetic to the demands for military action against Stormont.

PICKING

FOR

•PENSIONERS

The Tory press is already print- ing its predictable pictures of old women shivering over empty grates in order to whip up hos- tility to the miners. Our pic- ture gives a very different story, An elderly miner is however. picking coal on the old tip at Pontlottyn, S Wales, for his next- door neighbour-—a pensioner. Many miners are having to pick coal for their own families because the NCB delayed their Christmas load; but they are all firm on one thing-they won't let the old people go cold. A MINER on picket duty at Keadby power station near Scunthorpe, Lincs, was killed in an accident involving a lorry out- side plant yesterday afternoon.

Labour MP Tom Swain warned in the Commons yesterday that this could cause 'another Ulster in the Yorkshire coalfied'.

See P.l2 Col 1, for more details.

BRANDT STEPS IN TO SAVE GIANT

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday February

AROUND THE WORLD

BY JOHN SPENCER

TALKS

in United States crisis. The talks, aimed at finalizing the monetary agreement Washington on reached in December 18, have been over- shadowed by the renewed • crisis on the foreign exchange markets. William Eberle, President Nixon's trade envoy, said on the eve of the meeting that he was not optimistic about the out- come. The Nixon administration has said it needs an adequate short- term trade agreement with the Common Market and Japan to support a formal application to Congress to raise the official gold price from $35 to $38 an ounce.

Eberle added that if the Common Market failed to agree adequate concessions for - US goods at Brussels, the proposed gold legislation would again be postponed or presented together with an inadequate trade pack- age. 'People who want the gold revaluation should consider the implications of this, he warned.

Asked about optimistic reports on the talks the European press, he said: 'It is difficult to know how this fits in with our discussions. I do not understand the optimism reported in the The Common Market com- missioners had only limited negotiate in mandate to the short term, Eberle said, while the US wanted 'a prompt business- like settlement as opposed to continuing talks'. gold legislation was The originally scheduled to go through Congress during the third week in January, but the Bill was postponed when the first round of Brussels talks broke down: Together with the projected $25,000m US budget deficit and rumours of an even bigger dollar devaluation on the way, post- ponement has thrown the capi- talist world's gold and exchange markets in chaos. The 'free market' gold price is climbing rapidly towards $50 an ounce as dollar-holders in Europe try frantically to dispose of their holdings.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

WEST Germany's social-demo- cratic government is_ planning massive cash injection to a save Ruhrkohle, the almost bankrupt cartel which pro- three-quarters of the duces country's coal output. Economic Minister Karl a leading Schiller, who played part in setting up the combine four years ago, is deep in dis- cussions with Ruhrkohle direc- tors and the North Rhine- Westphalia state government.

A firm opponent of nationaliza- tion, he is determined that the coal industry must stay in private hands. The plan under discussion involves the national and state February 4, 1972 Brussels between and Common ON TRIAL for her life in Cali- fornia, Angela Davis has said she will subpoena the state's right- wing governor Ronald Reagan to testify in her trial on the grounds that she is the victim of a state conspiracy. She appeared in court at San José on Wednesday during pre- trial arguments on whether the state should pay for her defence the trial's venue and whether should be changed. The black militant, a former philosophy teacher, said security precautions and at court prison made it impossible for her to receive a fair trial.• If there is a conspiracy here, it is one that has been conceived and executed by the state of • California to further oppress black people... There is a con- against spiracy sisters and brothers in the state's gaols and prisons' She has been charged with conspiracy to murder in connec- tion with the August 1970 escape attempt at Marin_ County court- house, N of San Francisco, when three people, including the judge, were shot dead. Already nearly $700,000 has been spent on gaol and court- room security for her trial.

PAY WHEN YOU LII

Bhutto has

ZULFIOAR

Ali described his three-day visit to China, which ended yesterday, as 'productive, useful, construc- tive and successful'. He was assured by the Chinese Premier that Pakistan could pay governments paying a total of £800m into Ruhrkohle over the next five years. Despite a ruthless programme of rationalization and speed-up, Ruhrkohle has consistently lost money since it was formed.

Schiller persuaded the 26 com- panies with coal mines in the Ruhr to pool their interests as a of combating stiffening means competition within and outside the Common Market. The former coal owners took shares in the new firm, and were also compensated to the tune of £190m, to be paid over 20 years with interest at six per cent.

The speed-up drive was inten-

EBERLE: NO OPTIMIST

Leyland stoppage down under AUSTRALIA'S crisis-ridden car industry received another blow when yesterday British-Leyland laid off 1,200 of its 3,000 pro- duction workers at the company's Zetland plant in Sydney because an electrical workers' dispute has delayed delivery of components from Victoria. W German production down INDUSTRIAL production in W Germany was down by 12.5 per cent in December compared with November and by 4.5 per cent on December 1970. Part of the drop was due to the metal-workers strike in Baden- The biggest fall Württemberg. in capital goods pro- was duction and in building. Home fell by 9.8 per cent orders and foreign orders by 1.4 per cent.

U LIKE

back its interest-free loans from China 'in ten years, 20 years or even at the beginning of the 21st century. Pakistan has a total debt to China of $307m (£118m) incurred since 1964. Some $200m (£37m) of this was pledged in 1970.

sified in the mines. Over the last five years, the labour force has shrunk by almost half, but total production last year was only 10 million tons below the 110 million tons produced in 1966.

The social-democrats ration- alized the sackings at Ruhrkohle the by citing the large number of foreign workers, including 20,000 Turks, who work in the pits.

Anyway, they say, it Is not hard to find jobs in the kuhr.

The Ruhrkohle crisis is an index of the economic situation in the Common Market. The cartel produces almost exactly half the Market's total coal out- It has been losing put. money heavily ever since it was formed. years' opera- In the first two tion, losses totalled £70m and the financial position was only restored when the coalowners agreed to forego interest on half their compensation money.

Losses were even bigger in per A WORKERS PRESS reporting team has compiled a re- construction of the Rossville massacre that occurred in Londonderry last Sunday. After interviewing scores of eye- witnesses and the wounded, we had a complete dossier showing the bloody events which led to 13 people being gunned down. Now, however, the Heath government has acted to prevent publication of this detailed investigation.

By setting up the tribunal under the Tribunals of Inquiry (Evidence) Act, 1921, the government has given it the status of a High Court. This means that the laws of con- empt apply. And this means that none of our informatior can be published because it would be in contempt of Mr Justice Widgery's tribunal.

In other words the establishment of this tribunal has successfully gagged the press. Government censorship is operating on life-and-death issues in Ulster.

What are the legal precedents for vesting a tribunal with such important powers? The two most recent cases are the Aberfan inquiry and affairs of the Vehicle and the investigation into the General Insurance crash. When the Labour government announced the appointment of the legal inquiry into Aberfan, it was Edward Heath him- self who apparently complained bitterly about censor- ship. But when Heath announced Widgery's appointment on Tuesday, the Opposition leader Harold Wilson made some mealy-mouthed objections to the fact that it was a one- man inquiry. Wilson didn't want a single Widgery in charge—he wanted two or three more. Although our Rossville inquiry cannot now be published, readers will be continually kept informed of events in Ireland in spite of government and army intimidation.

THE US command in Vietnam to have to have knocked out a Laos, fears N Vietnamese number of tanks in the big Cambodia and Vietnam border offensive in the N and Central where N Vietnamese area, the Highlands of S Vietnam later forces for the offensive are being this month. assembled. National N Vietnamese and Hanoi's at the anxiety pros- Liberation Front have troops pect of a deal between Mao Tse- already smashed their way into tung and Nixon to end the war is Muong Laotian the of town reflected in the publication of an opens the road to Kassy which important speech made last headquarters of the neutral- the December by Truong Chinh, 30 the S. ist forces miles to chairman of the National Assem- regular division of the N bly and regarded as one of the filtering Vietnamese is army three top men. through mountain passes to join other forces Washington, he says, is look- concentrated in the panhandle. The total of ing for a way to sabotage the troops will available for the offensive socialist camp, to sabotage then be four divisions over world revolution, sabotage peace 40,000 men. Their arms include and assure itself of world hege- tanks and amphibious armoured mony'. vehicles. By of action, he unity con- Continuous air are tinues, the 'outwit people must being made by US and S Viet- perfidious the and namese planes in an attempt to adventuristic plans of imperial- The disrupt the offensive. ism'. troop movéments along the trails are US asserts that policy heavily protected by anti-aircraft of being ready to negotiate with and US guns missiles. com- notably other countries, the muniqué claims that 12 strikes Soviet Union and China is have been made in the past few to contain these two great social- daThe s Vietnamese also claim ist powers, to exploit in depth the contradictions between these and provoke con- two CounTies tradictions between socialist countries in general'. Such language is not heard in Moscow or in Peking these days.

1971 the effects of German as

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Vietnamese delegation revaluation and the subsequent to the Paris talks has offered crisis began work to formula suggesting currency new some through. softening line. taken of the in Due to cut-backs by its main their seven-point proposals of: particularly the steel customers, last July. They industry, Ruhrkohle's unsold

CALL

for total withdrawal of US stocks of coal and coke rose to troops, but leave Nixon to three times their normal size.

In decide the date. totalled addition, the losses

DEMAND

President Thieu that between £45m and £60m. should resign immediately, but The board said last month it do the resignation not propose would run out of cash by mid.

Saigon of the entire administra- March unless the government tion. stepped and virtually PROPOSE talks in, with Saigon to demanded a hand-out from the a 'government of national set up concord'. government. This would organize The £800m pay-off to Ruhr- elections with a view to forming kohle shows that the a definitive government. present German US Vietnam government is right in prisoners in N the pocket of big business. would be released when troops It will enable had been withdrawn. the US company to nego- William carry on with its tiator Porter described plans for even bigger The the proposal as 'rather frantic'.

sackings miners. board has promised to cut the expressed at the number of operating pits by 20 prospect of a new offensive by per cent before 1975. the N.

BY PHILIP WADE

THE TORY government is now in the process of giving away over 400 oil and gas concessions in the North Sea which will net their owners thousands of millions of pounds. In fact, the whole scheme is another licence to print money. The revenue from the fields the already discovered on British continental shelf will be over £5,000m. Since the prospects for future dis- coveries are excellent and the price of oil is in a marked uptrend, the total revenue could reach £50,000m or more. after deduction of Even exploration and development profits will be the expenses, for the companies with immense the concessions. The recovery of significant volumes of natural gas from well off the Irish coast, together with the results of recent seismic in the western surveys approaches and near Rockall Bank, also make bright prospects for additional discoveries.

Licences for exploring these fields will be given away free of charge, except for a small applica- tion fee which, compared to the potential revenues, is insignificant.

The value of British offshore Jicences is high. The August 1970 issue World Petroleum' quoted an estimate that just six of the 94 British blocks awarded in 1970 were worth f44m. These six blocks were granted for an application fee of less than £50,000. Oil and gas resources are vested in the state and adminis- tered by the Department of Trade and Industry under John Davies. In June 1971 the DTI offered 15 blocks, each about 100 square miles in area, for com- bids. petitive These attracted total bids of £135m from 73 companies and 31 groups. They were eventually sold to the highest bidders for £37.3m.

One block was sold for f21m.

There must have been big the oil lobby pressure from following these deals. For the government promptly offered no less than 42l free blocks and, not surprisingly, has received requests for 271 of these!

The prospects under these blocks are considered excellent and, because of the large num- ber of companies wishing to share in the bonanza, the 26 most favoured blocks have each been requested by from 15 to 28 com- panies or groups. the final awards In practice, will have to be made on an arbitrary basis, with those favoured in the eyes of the DTI obviously coming out on top.

Who knows what sort of man- oeuvres are now taking place in the corridors of power! Whichever way you look at it, the oil and gas exploration com- panies have got it made. For example, British law requires the surrender of 50 per cent of the licence area after six years, but the retained area can be selected in a block so large that it covers the entire productive part of a licence. It has been estimated that oil companies around operating British coasts can expect to make a net profit per barrel three times larger than they would elsewhere. All inquiries about rumours of licences to print money should be addressed to John Davies, the Department Trade Industry, London. A ROYAL NAVY officer facing charges under the Official Secrets Act has been refused permission to visit his daughter in hospital with cóncussion following a road accident. Seven-year-old Donna Bing- ham, who lives in Cowplain, Portsmouth, had just near stepped off a bus when she was involved in an accident with a van.

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

DESPITE SOME facile claims latest CBI Industrial Trends ‹ yesterday, indicates: • A rise in the proportion of firm working below full capacity. • A further shortage of orders.

• A continuing lack of invest- ment. • More unemployment. The survey is compiled from 1,369 replies to questionnaires sent out by the Confederation of British Industry on industrial activities over the last four months and • forecasts for the period January-May, 1972.

A further rise in the already large proportion of firms work- ing below full capacity is re- vealed. In fact, 71 per cent of hrms co-operating in the survey are in this category and there is no suggestion of any increase in manufacturing employment in the next period. The survey states: 'Shortage of orders or sales is still seen as the dominating constraint in output.'

'optimism' Despite about "increased activity', the survey admits: "The increased activity which is expected generally be can coped with in the short run by •the more intensive use of exist- ing capacity' In other words, no more jobs. Forty-seven cent of per participating firms report a fall in numbers employed over the last four months and this is most marked among the larger firms.

Sixty per cent of firms employ- 5,000 workers or more report a reduction of manpower.

The survey comments: 'A further fall in manufactur- ing employment is indicated and again this applies particularly to the larger firms.' Very few firms give shortage of either skilled or any other kind of labour as a factor likely to limit output over the next four months. No less than 84 per cent of the firms said that lack was the main orders or sales factor likely to limit output in this period. Firms with direct exports of more than £10,000 a year were asked what factors were likely to limit their exports in the next four months. Sixty per cent said prices and 52 per cent said 'political or abroad'. economic conditions This clearly reflects the inter- national character of capitalism's crisis. The survey concludes: 'Inflationary pressures remain acute. If prices are to continue to be held, greater moderation of wage demands are needed.'

In other words, the CBI is calling for an intensification of the offensive on wages, against workers in the private sector as well as those in the nationalized industries. 'The need for higher levels of investment will be as great as ever', says the survey, but many firms who sent in replies com- mented that a major reason for not investing was a doubt as to whether, how long, the Or promised improvement in trade would last. Her father, Sub-Lt David Bingham, is in custody at Win- chester prison awaiting trial on ten charges alleging he recorded and communicated information which could be useful to an enemy. When his wife Maureen Con- tacted the prison . to ask if he could be temporarily released under escort to see Donna, the request was refused. Workers Press, I Trends Survey, published on race TWO ORGANIZERS of the right-wing extreme National Front are to face legal action for allegedly inciting racial discrimination. A Race Relations Board statement said the two men are P. W. Aplin, S Hertford- shire branch organizer, and K.

Taylor, N Hertfordshire area organizer. The board said its action followed complaints from D.

Watson of Potters Bar that the two men had induced or incited him to deny coloured children foster home facilities provided for other children.

No date has yet been set for hearing the case which is to. be brought under the 1968 Race Relations Act. Meanwhile the National Front has stepped up its campaign against the coloured community. Leaflets have been pushed through letterboxes in the London area recommending a policy of repatriation. Make the Tory government resign! Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employ- ment and repeal all laws against the unions. E LONDON: Tuesday February p.m. 'Aberfeldy', Aber- 8, 8 feldy St, Poplar (near Black- tunnel). Engineers' claim.

DAGENHAM:

Wednesday February 9, 8 p.m. Room 11, E Ham Town Hall, E Ham. Support miners. Force Tories to resign. LUTON: Thursday February 10, 8 p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bedford Rd. World economic crisis. SE LONDON: Thursday February 10, 8 p.m. Room 2, Deptford Engineers' Club (opp Stn). 'Support New Cross miners and Ulster workers.'

N LONDON: Thursday Feb- Socialist Labou Special course o Common Hall, Hac (off Dale S

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Tuesday February Essential Mar Economics and C. Slaughter (SLL Centi rs Press, Friday February 4, 1972 PAGE 3 STUDENTS AT York and Lancaster universities have launched protest campaigns against the massacre of in- nocent civilians in Ulster.

In LANCASTER 500 students took part in a torchlight march into the town on Wednesday night where they were joined by a further 100 workers and house- wives for a rally in the city centre. An Irish worker who addressed the rally was applauded when he said that the fight of the Irish people was the same as the fight of the British miners and unemployed. The Lancaster Students' Union is calling for the withdrawal of British troops from N Ireland.

Earlier this week they occupied the Senate Chamber in protest against Sunday's killings.

Four Lancaster students were while picketing Hey- arrested sham dock where British troops embark for Belfast. Three have been charged with assaulting a police officer. Students have also been leaf- leting against army recruitment in the Lancaster area where un- employment is high. In

YORK

people were 48 arrested after taking part in demonstrations through the city on Monday and Tuesday and charged with assault. A léaflet put out by the York Students' Union claims that the arrests were selective and one student claimed she saw police picking out marchers known for their political work. The arrested claim they were all photographed before being charged, denied the right to phone a solicitor and allege police brutality.

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A TEENAGER living in the London borough of Barnet is more likely to finish up in the sixth form than his counterpart in Bootle, Liverpool. This brilliant observation has deduced by the load of been liberals who run the educational magazine 'Where?'. Today's produces issue a league table showing the number pupils from each borough of who make it to sixth form.

ruary 10, 8 p.m. Town Hall, Edmonton. Reformism and trade unions. WILLESDEN: Monday Feb- abour Hall, High Rd, Swano.

Labour Hall, Unemployment and the capital- ist crisis. W LONDON: Tuesday Feb- _ 8 p.m. ruary 'Prince York Way, Kings Cross. port miners and Ulster workers.' SW LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 15, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Baths, Clap- ham Manor St, SW4. 'Support miners and Ulster workers.'

ACTON: Wednesday February 16, 8 p.m. Mechanics Arms, Churchfield Rd, W3. 'Support miners and Ulster workers' CROYDON: Thursday Feb- ruary 17, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Rd, E Croydon. See Workers Press Ulster film.

alist Labour League course of lectures n Hall, Hackin's Hay (off Dale St) ERPOOL, 8 p.m. 1 February 8 and 15 sential Marxism mics and Politics given by (SLL Central Committee)

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday February 4,

MINERS: PART 4

The setting up of a Koyal Commission of Inquiry into the coal industry five weeks after Red Friday was the first step in the government's pre- paration for conflict. But the right was preparing in other ways as well-on September 25, 1925, the Or- ganization for the Mainten- ance of Supplies was formed.

Its head was Lord Hard- inge of Penshurst, a former its Viceroy of India, and Council included Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Jellico. On November 20, the Emer- gency Powers Act was in- voked and England and Wales divided into ten Divisions, each under a Minister acting as Civil Commissioner on be- half of the government. The government's position was- clearly stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer — Winston Churchill - who declared on December 10, 1925: It is quite clear that a con- flict of this kind, launched in this way, might easily cease to be a mere ordinary industrial dispute about wages and conditions and might assume a charter alto- gether different from such indus- trial disputes. 'If that were to ensue, then it is quite clear that such a con- flict between the community on the one hand, with the govern- ment at its head, and many of great trade unions on the only end in one other, could way, namely, by the community, whatever cost, emerging VIC- at torious organized over an tion of its citizens. 'We considered, therefore, that should such a struggle be found to be inevitable at the very last it moment, of was supreme importance that it should only be undertaken under conditions which the would not expose nation needlessly or wantonly to perils the gravity of which can- not be overestimated. 'We therefore decided to post- pone the crisis in the hope of averting it, or, if not of avert- ing it, of coping effectively with time came? it when the (My emphasis. J.G.) The state was quick to act.

The Communist Party planned to produce a daily edition of 'Work- ers' Weekly' during the strike.

Ernest Bevin The first issue appeared on May 3, 1926, and on May 5 the police raided the Party press and took the vital parts of away Leading members were jailed (see Red) February 4, 1972 Friday article, Workers Press, November 21). Altogether 5,000 people were prosecuted for acts committed during the strike. 1,200 of these were Communist Party members and 400 were jailed. How did the workers' leaders prepare? The September 1925 Congress of the TUC passed all kinds of 'left' resolutions includ- ing 'our of to one support Chinese comrades', one support- ing the rights to self-determina- tion of all peoples in the British Empire and one condemning the German enslavement of the workers by the Dawes plan.

But despite this and despite •the speeches about the many need for preparation by leaders such as TUC President A. B.

Swales, no steps were actually taken. The trade union leaders placed their hopes in the Royal Commission (the Samuel Com- mission) and shirked their own responsibilities even though the Commission contained no union representatives. The Industrial Alliance of unions in heavy industry and transport continued to grow-on paper. The National Union of Foundry Workers joined and so did ASLEF and the ETU. In practice, however, this Alliance never functioned. Even after the Samuel Com- reported and mission recom- mended cutting miners' the

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urged the the wages, Miners' Federation to continue negotiations with the Mining Employers' Association reduce points of difference to the smallest possible dimensions'.

The miners' leaders met the employers in March and again in April, but the employers wanted not only wage cuts but longer hours as well. In most districts they posted notices in the pits the existing ending contracts from April 30. The miners were locked out. wanted The mine-owners to impose cuts of 2s 8d to 5s lld a shift in S Wales and Monmouth, 2s 10d in Durham, 2s in Scot- land and Is to Is 6d in all other areas. The TUC leaders were on their knees from the They start. pleaded with the government and the employers to suspend the notices that negotiations SO could proceed. J. H. Thomas the right-wing railwaymen's leader reported these efforts on as follows: I suppose my usual critics will that Thomas was almost say grovelling, and it is true.

• I never begged and pleaded like I begged and pleaded all day today' All the forces were state ranged against the miners—not forgetting the church. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster (Cardinal Bourne) declared at High Mass on May 9: 'There is no moral justification for this strike of general character. It is a direct challenge to lawfully-constituted authority.

It is therefore a sin against the obedience which we owe to God, who is the source of that authority. 'All are bound to uphold and assist the government, which is lawfully the constituted authority of the country and represents, therefore, in its own appointed sphere the authority of God himself. On Saturday May 1, the TUC called the General Strike to start on Monday, May 3. All conduct of the strike was handed over to the TUC General Council. On May 10 the TUC, in its paper 'British Worker' under a heading 'All's Well', declared: 'Nothing could be more won- derful than magnificent the response of millions of workers their leaders. to the call of From every town and city in the country reports are pouring into the General Council headquarters stating that all ranks are solid, that the working men and women are resolute in their determina-

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1A MONDAY MAY. 10° sia tion to resist the unjust attack upon the mining community.

'The General Council's message at the opening of the second week is: "Stand Firm. Be loyal to instructions and trust your leaders"? Within 24 hours of this mes- sage, the TUC General Council was suing for peace. Sir Herbert Samuel put for- ward some suggestions known as Samuel Memorandum, the the main points of which were that General Strike should be called off while the subsidy was 'reasonable time' renewed for …a while negotiations were re- opened. Without consulting the miners, the TUC's negotiating committee sought an interview with the Prime Minister, Baldwin. They crawled before him and pleaded with him to help them. ). H. Thomas almost wept before Baldwin: 'Your assistance is necessary ell', .. we want you to help us:..

trust your word as Prime Minister. We ask you to assist us in the way you only can assist us-by asking employers and all others to make the position as easy and smooth as possible, because the one thing we must not have is guerrilla warfare.

Ernest Bevin took up the refrain: I think you will agree in the difficulties we have had before us, at least we have taken a great risk in calling the strike off. It took a little courage to do what have done.' we Bevin pleaded in vain for some crumb of comfort from Baldwin: 'I do not know if I am over- stepping the bounds, but I would like you to give me an idea of whether there is to be a renewal of the mining negotia- tions with us? Baldwin brushed off these timorous appeals with open con- tempt. He gave them nothing: 'Well, Mr Bevin, I cannot say more here at this meeting now. The point you put is one I must consider. In regard to your sec- ond point, there again I cannot say at this stage what will hap- pen. I cannot say exactly what the lines will be upon which my object can best be obtained.'

Bevin begged, obsequiously: I do not want to take up your time, but shall we be meeting upon these two points soon?

Baldwin spurned him: 'I cannot say that, Mr Bevin. I think it may be that whatever decision I come to the House of Commons may be the best place in which to say it." Despite this, the TUC General Council called off the strike and left the miners to fight alone for nine months. They even declared Top: The miners' leaders, A. J. Cook and Herbert Smith (centre) maintain fighting to wages. Bottom: Crowds of strikers In the East End of London. in their statement—without the slightest justification-that they had 'received assurances that a séttlement of the mining dispute can be secured'. They stated that "assumed' that the mining they subsidy would be renewed.

But the government was not bound by the Samuel Memoran- dum. In fact, the first govern- ment official communiqué was to the effect that they would not compel employers to take back workers who had participated in the strike. In some cases, they said, dis- missal of workers would be inevi- table due to the decrease in pro- duction caused by the strike and in view of obligations incurred by employers in regard to volun- teer labour. Victimizations multiplied. Rail- instance, way companies, declared that strikers had broken their contracts and would be taken back only on individual contracts. The TUC feebly requested that the government should stop the attacks on the unions. It must demand that the employers abstain from victimiza- tion. The word of the Prime Min- ister is at stake.' What did the Communist Party do in this situation?

REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

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 ATUA, in the Young Socialists among Workers Press supporters.

Until the Right-to-Work rally at Empire Pool, Wembley 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.

C'CLARKE

W. ROSE

Power workers, Brimsdown Power Station. This Tory government has to go if any of the basic rights of the working class are to be defended and extended. For this we need a programme and the Draft Mani- festo is that programme. I agree with the main point of the Manifesto that this is an illegal government. On the question of the Com- mon Market I think the trade union movement should fight for a General Election and for the expulsion of Jenkins and his gang from the Labour Party so they can join the Tories, where they belong. If we are going to fight for the removal of this government we • alternative to must have an replace them with. The only alternative is Labour government, not a Labour like the government last one, but one based on the Draft Manifesto and the Charter of Basic Rights. That is, repeal the anti-union laws, legislate the basic charter nationalize the banks and and basic industries under workers' control. Nothing short of this.

I believe that to fight for these demands we must fight all those the Labour Party who inside don't and won't fight this Tory government. We must build a new party based firmly on the programme . of the Socialist Labour League (Draft Manifesto) and build this party, in preparation for the working class taking power.

WALLY DOBNY

Shop Steward, Abris, Coventry. I am in agreement with a Com- Market, but under the mon it is a present system • Market for capitalists. Even before we are into the Market you can see what the Tories are doing; they're moving capital into Europe and using the Industrial Relations Act and massive unemployment to break up the unions and the strength of the working class. I'm not sure about the term 'illegal government'. I mean is there a law against saying things 'We'll reduce prices at a like: stroke' and not doing it? I am certain that policies of unemploy- ment are deliberate though.

I think 12 months ago a General Strike should have been called to force a General Elec- tion on the Industrial Relations Bill issue. A good time would have been just after the demon- stration in Trafalgar Square, the a feeling of feeling was there, unity. But this leadership won't do this. The Labour MPs who voted with the Tories should be put out of the party. There were enough Common Market rebels in the Tory Party to have en- abled Labour to have defeated them. The trade union leadership leave a lot to be desired. They always take the easy way out and try to avoid controntation with the employers, and they never attack. It's always a defen- sive role. There's no hope of making the TUC call a General Strike. leaders really revealed The their inadequacy in the GPO strike with the refusal to mobilize workers behind the Post Office workers. I remember 12 months ago Feather forecast a million un-

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employed. He should have made sure it didn't happen. He should something about it have done instead of the load of chit chat with Heath. I think Labour had chance after World War II. They should have nationalized every- thing instead of bits here and there. Two Labour governments since the war and we're farther away from socialism than ever and a revolutionary party is a must if we want true socialism.

FRANK HUGHES

T&GWU Branch 606 Liverpoo docker. The Tories needed to campaign for more unemployment to get Common accepted into • tell us we could Market. They work, • go abroad but to we wouldn't be guaranteed a job, and if Italian or French workers came here there'd be no jobs tur them. In my opinion the Tories got in under false pretences, telling us they were going to slash prices , government's at a stroke. This like Robin Hood in reverse — robbing the poor to give to the rich. It's bound to be illegal.

Jenkins and his supporters should have been thrown out of altogether. Labour Party The truth is most Labour MPs fully support him; they proved that by voting for him as deputy leader. They were just putting on Workers Prose, Fri

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• brave face in the Common Market debate. In my opinion, when the first trade unionist is taken to court under the Industrial Relations Act, the whole working class should down stop al industry and demand a General Strike is called. This would make the union leaders say whose side they're on and show their true face. They keep telling us the trouble's caused by religion in Ireland. But it's nothing at all to do with religion. I think they should pull the troops out, but that won't solve the problems while there's all that and high unemployment Catholic workers don't even have proper voting rights. The Communist Party's in a strong position on Upper Clyde but they haven't made much of a show of it. Instead they've been working hand in glove with the Tories. I'm pleased India supported Bangla Desh at last. The Ben- galis voted for their own gov- ernment and when the Pakistan invaded, they only had army sticks and stones to defend themselves with. The Workers Press is different from other papers, they just say what's happened. The Workers Press explains the background of why things happen and what we can do to change things and put them right. Press, Friday Fatruary 4. 1872 PAGE 5

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stration agalnst the Industrial Relations BIll, the feeling was there to force a General Election.

JOHN BELL

Engineering worker, Nuneaton. Many so-called socialist organ- listed the on izations have slaughts the Tories have made the working class and its trade unions, usually followed by polite calls to resign. They avoid like the plague the real issue: i.e., the need for this government to be reactionary decisively toppled by the work- ing class. It is this 'consistent and un- wavering call that makes the Draft Manifesto and the Charter of Basic Rights stand out like a unprincipled beacon amid the treacherous bleating of the Labour Party and trade union leadership. As a docker I know now, as every docker knows, the Workers Press warnings of the double- dealing of trade union officials on selling jobs out the of dockers and the smashing of the 1947 Act were only too true.

The same shop stewards that ignored and even ridiculed these warnings wondering are now how they can explain it all away.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday Fobruary 4, 1872 Young Socialists' The production opens with Tory the after the Right-to-Work marches wind cabinet Iust 1970 General Election. They their way towards London boasting come leaping on stage over the next five weeks, of their intentions to create mass group of over 40 actors and unemployment, cut school milk, unions and enter the smash the actresses will be putting on Common Market. performances of a new play Heath makes his famous Then around the English centred speech to the United Nations of 1640. Here Revolution the where he declares main

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problem today was not that but of civil part of a rehearsal and inter- international Wal. war. In other words, between the views the players. the ruling working Cass class. Nationally known actors will put He is interrupted by Crom- on a number of performances of New well's Model Army who play during the march the new Right-to-Work enter singing the Carisle on Sunday, February 13t.

weekends. Once more it is Vic Feather song, the rescue as the Tories to By then, after only four short for help: 'No, no, he moans. no, 'The history of this weeks of rehearsal, the group, great nation supporters of the is a history of peaceful change, members and will history of the Socialist Labour League, costpromise and negotiation have hammered into shape their negotiation. him first major production since Enter worker to put of Labour History', 'At a point the which straight: certain Years was first performed at the mass class that holds back history is smashed Palace by the class that takes Alexandra Tally February 14, 1971. history forward,' he declares.

Earty scene. All eves turn towards Petel Sproule. Producer Corin Redgrave r th e ac: keeps a watchful eye. Rehearsals - three act- resses sombrely follow the move- Charles I is about right : Kempinski takes howiuet. The Sc-ne only one not amused S onde Fredericks (far left). Near right : Corin Redgrave takes overall charge production. Here studies script, marking out direction points. Party always puts forward thi: cause the ad estors or his rotten • And Ted should of evolutionary view history. micoe-class. oo romnwer ana in fact, are saying, his Puritan army, were once the What vole nt me ak came progressive class that took the bourgeoisle asundı history forward. power LTOuC! with the established order.

The play then switches directly history Henry VIll's dinner table.

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articulate history spoke à cecca vą a voà vay grave, play centred he Enslish Yy Cre sense aroune ltne revolunon development towards which aims to show the rise Marxist leadership, and an under the bourgeoisie. We want to see how suana ou dsole old feudal order 'In the three weeks of re- hearsal we've had so far there culdally bulld a movement to take th nas been a tremendous struggle to develop our understanding power. 'We counterposing our to gradualist of play Kempinski which takes has played a I rotsky Going". large writing play Ihe with Corin. He told me how the Fabian leadership of the Labour contra sted developed and ears if Years Labour History,' "The play has very much come out of : We had intended some- nearsals mutenaca thing like '600 Years of Labou History" when we first conceived the production. 'But the kight-to-work cam• showed there was no through but smash the stands today. That is why as l why the hid the evitable rise middle Class and how it had to make a revo- lution. 'We are concerned in this play ample, deepens and is ened the rubing ass. twist meeils drew the lessons from Cromwell's which the ranks. begun-that which shows the enormous tensions in society. show that the so-called old hat really.' talked Malcolm the part Tierney Cromwelays Oliver What we're doing during the Right-to-Work campaign conscious political act-some- th the pl for most of the actors play. •Because there is a 92-per-cent Workers Prose, Friday| unemployment rate in Equity, they have been putting on their own plays. But to put on a play where they articulate, demonstrate in'a conscious way, reflecting the class struggle, there is something more than just the sense of a play. 'We've had a big response.

Many actors still lucky enough to be working have contributed lots of money. Theatre companies have asked for meetings on the Right-to-Work campaign. • There is a strong feeling in Equity and it is slowly dawning on actors that unemployment is Actors are usually full serious. "doing their of illusions about own thing", but now it is clear to them they have to be involved politically. "The contradictions are SO sharp in this profession that you can't keep politics out any longer.

Without a job, the whole of an actor's life is meaningless. So he is forced to join up with other workers in the fight against un- employment. 'The middle class see their future as being more and more bound up with the future of the working class as a whole. A cam- paign like the Right to Work is ready-made for them. 'We have been out campaign- ing, when we're not rehearsing talking to actors at matinees and on the dole queues. The response has been good. 'We have special skills. If we become conscious of our task, we have a role to play as agi- tators, reflectors of events around us and those that happened in orkora Prose, Friday Fobruary 4, 1972 PAGE 7 the past where there are lessons for workers in struggle today.

'For a worker to see one of these plays will enable him to identify with demonstrations the processes of exploitation, of the extraction of surplus value, to see it as a living movement.

found that with "200 Years"? As I left the hall, Corin Red- mapping grave was out strenuous rehearsal team for their first performance.

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Oliver Cotton Mike McKenzie Konrad Fredericks Tom Marshall Tom Kempinsk! Malcolm Tierney Mike Cronin Peter Sproule Terry James John Guest David Hargreaves Peter Marinker Martyn Day Alec Heggle Andrew de la Tour Bob Booth Colin McCormack Sebastian Graham-Jones Glynne Lewis Philip Sayer Lisa Martin Kika Markham Marion Reed Julia Jebb Diane Aubrey Terry Callaghan Frances de la Tour Cella Hewitt lan Blower

PAGE 8 Workers Pross, Friday February 4 A series by our Spanish correspondent Spanish coal mine owners, a very parasitic section of the Spanish capitalist class, have for a long time preferred to invest their spare cash in the tourist industry and the car industry rather than modern- ize their pits. ,has been capital Spanish engaged in a deliberate policy of closing down the mines in Asturias and at the same time dispersing and impoverishing this most political and militant sec- ion of the working class.

1,500 jobs In recent years, destroyed annually in have been and mining valleys while coke coal imports have increased to feed the steel and iron indus- tries. Chief imports have been from the United States and the Poland. Stalinist government in and Between 1965 1969 from 1.6 million imports rose tons to 2.2 million tons. In the meantime, coal production has slumped; in the first months of for 1970 coke production, example, decreased by 21 per cent and has been declining ever since. The creation of the giant state- owned Hunosa complex was a preparation for more pit closures wages. It also and attacks on provided a flimsy cover for the former owners-who now make up the bulk of the Hunosa board of directors-to make huge for- tunes in compensation. the back- The directors were bone of Franco's victory in the War. Many belong 1930s Civil to the Spanish feudal aristoc- racy and all of them adorn the board rooms of the main Spanish banks. The Hunosa concept evolved out of an earlier scheme Action' known 'Concerted as through which mine owners were subsidies for the given financial 'rationalization' of their pits.

This rationalization usually meant one thing-more closures. When Hunosa was formed, the old mine owners remained to administer the money that the state was theoretically giving for the modernization of those mines which had been nation- alized. The Hunosa balance sheets certainly make intriguing read- ing. In 1969, for example, total expenditure was 13 million pese- (£76,000). Total loss tas was 1,580,000 pesetas. On new instal- lations Hunosa claims to have spent 2,072,000 pesetas, but there is no indication as to the where- abouts of these installations.

buildings for New account although few 857,000 pesetas, new buildings are to be seen in mining the Asturian valleys: certainly there have been no new or hospitals for the houses workers and their families.

The restructuring of the firm the cost 674,575 pesetas, yet only detectable restructuring' pit closures and the mass was sacking of miners. Another item quite inexplicable-1,159,000 IS pesetas for the purchase of land.

One theory is that this might be on the Costa Brava as sites for luxury flats! teering miner fighting for Asturian .a working subsistence and wage in death-trap conditions. In 1969 a miner's mate earned 8,000 pesetas a month (£48) and a labourer earned 5,000 pesetas (£30). And that is for a 48-hour week. In the Hunosa complex alone, which employs 25,000 miners, there were 5,954 accidents in 1969. Because this figure comes from 'official' statistics, there is to believe it is some reason underestimated. A breakdown of these figures shows that the sec- tion most prone to accidents is of pieceworkers who, because February 4, 1972 low piecework prices, have to ignore normal safety regulations in order to get a living wage.

The Polish Stalinist govern- ment has been the main aid of the fascist government in break- ing the strikes of the Asturian miners. It has also been a big supporter of Hunosa's rationaliza- tion programmes. Workers Press reported on April 25, 1970 that Polish technicians were at work in Asturias helping Franco mod- ernize his pits, l.e. to cut down labour and produc- intensify tion while preparing the closure of more pits, and that Knapick, the deputy director of the Polish Ministry of Mines, in was Oviedo for talks with Hunosa officials. In a recent article, the Span- ish Communist Party has given its full support to this interven- tion: the reformist logic Spanish Stalinism is that Spain's feudal structure only be can changed by the application of bourgeois economic science and that the best purveyors of this particular science are "experts' of that 'socialist' state, Poland. The Stalinist commentator notes that after the visit of the Polish experts there was a meet- ing of the Hunosa board which considered three plans for the future of production in the mines: "(a) Production should be reduced to million tons, 12,000 miners should be sacked the Asturias. Dendanting reduced to 4,000 "(c) The borated purpose were mechanizing the eight tion million tons increase This Stalinist orientate the alization

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• away ing the closure minels ecstasv. their own nationalist want less imported coal. pits should be closed mining valleys be tons sacked pits closed. plan was ela- of commission visited lan valleys for this sole conversa- Hunosa. installations, and of ones; ten years produc id be increased and the with would open the crea- 000 new jobs"! pipe-dream was deliberately dis- A Sturian miners and ration. and to turn their atten- with the Asturian work After the pits • better sales of Polisr or trade with the mable the milit- longer present anish Stalinists' attitude plan' one it hight retormisi based on the that wha Spanish coat and "The Communist Party has always been in the lead against closures. Our position has now been which recommends the of 5,000 new jobs creation through the raising of produc- tion to ll million How- tons. ever, the leaders of Hunosa, the big finance groups of the regime, did not want anything to do with this commission of technicians of Coat rindustry in Polandistry of •... the Poles have made great progress in the mechanization of vertical seams, and in some pits there has been up to 90 per cent modernization. All this rich experience, with the advice that they should produce 1 million tons, was rejected by Franco's government for not coinciding with a handful of bureaucrats and financiers.' Commenting on the fact that the Hunosa board decided to follow the second plan which would lead to 4,000 redundan- cies, the Spanish Stalinist won- ders why a reduction of produc- tion targets was being envisaged, when the Spanish economy was in great need of coking coal.

His answer is clear and to the point: "Their intention is to destroy the revolutionary • force in the mining valleys by closing the pits in Asturias and also the steel industry in Langeo and Mieres (towns in Asturias) with- out creating new jobs for work- ers who are sacked.' Top: Asturian miners. Left: Pro- fessor Rodo, Franco's 'economic overload'. Centre : Gregorio Bravo former Minister of Industry, now in foreign affairs. Right: Franco.

Of course, the Polish Stalinists were not in Spain to discuss the creation of more jobs, but the preparations for the counter- revolution in Europe! They are as frightened by the upsurge of the Spanish working European class as part of the working class as the fascists. The call for a joining of the forces and NATO of the Warsaw Pact is just another part of the elabo- ration of the strategy of counter- revolution. However, the Stalinist bureau- Cracy cannot work out these plans as it wants. The revolu- tionary movement of the work- ers in the Seat car factories and in the Asturias showed this last The Communist Party in year. Spain is in a crisis-ridden state.

During the last miners' strike the Asturian section split in two when a group decided to sup- port the arch-Moscow Stalinist Lister. As these treacheries proceed, Communist Party the British remains silent; not a word of is made against the criticism Polish Stalinists whose strike- breaking activities have led to the starvation and fascist crack- down on the Asturian miners.

TOMORROW: Doctors against Franco.

writings Rosa Luxemburg's are not as well known in this country as they should be.

This volume does some- thing to fill a gap by bring- ing together a selection which shows her, as the editor says, in her role of 'the revolu- tionary political activist working within the German socialist movement'. the Communist Although Party Stalinists from time to time pay hypocritical homage Luxemburg, they avoid to Rosa re-publishing her works and do not encourage CP members to read them. obvious. Her The reason is writings, from beginning to end, are a defence of Marxism against reformism, revisionism, parlia- mentary roads to socialism, the theory of socialism country and everything which savours of bureaucratism.

Already wanted by the Tsarist police for her revolutionary acti- vities when she fleld her native Poland at the age of 18, in 1889, devoted her life to the working-class until movement officers her murder by Guards in Berlin in January 1919.

In 1898 she setled in Ger- many, which at that time had and best powerful most organized working-class move- ment in the world. It was as a popular and influential leader of the left-wing of the Social Democratic Party, then a Martist arty, than shee te the articles pamphlets repre- sented in this book. She quickly recognized the danger to the German movement the revisionist theories of Eduard Bernstein. Claiming that capitalism had changed, revolution wanted to abandon for a variety of Fabian gradual- ism. Luxemburg's pamphlet 'Re- form or Revolution' was a hard- hitting reply which was also a warning to the party. She was a relentless critic of the "parliamentary cretinism' into which the party's Reichstag fac- tion was sliding and which pre- pared the way for the vote for war credits on August 4, 1914 a decision which Lenin himself at first disbelieved. She contributed numerous articles to the party press on the dangers of fallacies and 'parliamentary road to socialism' and the correct tactics Marxists towards parliament.

None is more relevant today 'Social than Democracy and Parliamentarism', which appeared However, in 1904. Rosa Luxemburg underestimated the extent to which the party had already succumbed to reformism.

writes: She 'In Germany, under existing conditions, such deviations in socialist practice from the basis of the class

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WRITINGS. Edited and introduced by Robert Looker. Writings of the Left. General Editor Ralph Miliband. Jonathan Cape. Hardback £3.50. Paper- back £1.50. thinkable: are, of course, un struggle In 1912 she had to repeat and emphasize what for Marxists is obvious: 'Parliamentary manoeuvres and electoral strategies cannot change historical facts, conjure away and bridge class class interests differences.' She warned that the develop- ment of capitalism 'is trampling down mercilessly the last rem- nants of what is called bourgeois and bourgeois pro- liberalism gress'. A little more than two years after those words appeared, her party, like the other parties of the Second International, with the exception Russian the Bulgarians, Bolsheviks and had voted in their great majority for the imperialist war. Luxemburg's whole Rosa as a revolutionaryher career theoretical fight for Marxism and revisionism — left against doubt that she would oppose the war in 1914. Then she had to recognize what she had hardly cared to admit before-the SDP leadership's complete rottenness, bour- its subservience to the geoisie and its support for im- perialism. Like Lenin, she saw that the Social capitulation of German Democracy and the entire Second International made it necessary to build new revolutionary parties and a new International. She dedicated the last years of her life to the preparation for im- the of German overthrow perialism and world revolution.

imprisonment and cost her but it ensures the im- death, perishability of her memory in the international working-class movement. There is no point in glossing over the fact that on a series of questions, whether concerned with the analysis of capital accumulation, the nature of party organization, the national question or revolutionary tactics during the war, Rosa Luxemburg principled had and important differences with Lenin. It is also clear that on certain of these questions she made serious mistakes which could have had adverse if not fatal consequences.

In dealing with these differ- ences the editor of this volume has not been able to avoid the to make same fac- temptation tional capital out of them. Cer- tain of his observations cannot go unchallenged because they rest on a distortion of Marxism- Lenism. self-appointed Unlike some Luxemburgist, Looker does not make much of the differences be- tween Lenin and Luxemburg on questions of party organization.

He admits, too, that despite ber criticism of the Bolsheviks, Rosa 'was committed heart and soul to the defence of the Russian Revolution' and died trying to extend it into Germany. A few pages later he refers to those who hold that the failure revolution of of the German Luxemburg's 1918-1919 was 'because she had failure not created the kind of disciplined party which proved so success- ful in Russia, and her failure to from her neglect do so sprang of organizational questions.

He has no difficulty in show- ing that this is an oversimplified explanation of the failure of the German revolution; all the same, the inability of Rosa's successors to learn the lessons of 1918-1919 led to the defeat of 1923.

It was the failure of the revo- lution to spread into Germany which provided the basis for the degeneration of the Soviet Union.

Looker gratuitously disparages both Rosa Luxemburg and Trot- skyism in his final pagesthe latter, he says, is contaminated with 'evasions on the nature of the Russian state and society and its commitment to many of the more rigidly formalistic features of the Bolshevik tradition'.

What these evasions are re- main undisclosed, do the as features of the Bolshevik tradi- tion to which he takes exception.

short, he arrogates to him- self some superior wisdom which he refuses to share. He thus lines himself up with the 'state capitalists' and other revisionist tendencies who exploit the very weaknesses of Rosa Luxemburg to reject Leninism and Trotskyism. They cover their 'spon- prostration before own taneity', while ignoring and dis- those qualities which torting made her a great Marxist theore- tician. Looker claims that in the 'fer- ment of ideologies' generated by the revolutionary events recent years, 'the crystal voice of Luxemburg is gradually re- emerging'. A reference to the writings of Trotsky and the publications of the Trotskyist movement will show that this statement is false.

They have always recognized her great contribution to Marxism, paid homage to her exemplary life and incor- revolutionary porated her heritage into the struggle of the Fourth Inter- national. Workers Press, Fr Wait for it. The book scoop you've all be waiting for.

The 'Sunday Times' ferrets are digging into the mysterious history of Howard Hughes, multi-millionaire who hasn't been sighted for about ten years. What new facts are great the Philby and Lawrence of Arabia going to exposers unearth? Nobody is quite sure, except that the reporters have an introduction to one of Hughes' close business associates who is willing to spill the beans.

How was the business asso- ciate discovered? He's a confidant of that eccentric millionaire, other Lord Thomson of Fleet who owns the 'Sunday Times'. Fleet St newsmen may impose a boycott next week on press passes issued by the Metro- politan police. Following a June 1970 brush with the Special Branch, 'News of the World' reporter Roy Stockdill has been refused a pass. Stockdill says that police commissioner Sir John Waldron has made clear to 'M his editor, C. J. Lear, that the because of refusal the was previous incident. The details of this are interesting. They expose once a free, again the myth of fearless press and cast an interesting light on the role of the police force. 'NoW" reader handed to the paper what were believed to be secret tape-recordings of Us nuclear-strategy briefings.

Stockdill was assigned to take them to the US air base at Ruislip, Middlesex, and hand them over. Once there, however, he was subjected three-hour to interrogation by the British Special Branch, who refused him permission to call his office and wrongly informed him his paper had been notified. Waldron refused to accept this version when Lear made a formal complaint to him about it. The editor made clear he accepted responsibility for 3 Press, Friday February 4, 1972 PAGE 9 Stockdill's actions and pre- sumed the issue closed. Not apparently. The National Union of Journalists' 'NoW' chapel at the has unanimously backed Stockdill returned and journalists have their passes to the police. Now

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Central London branch will be asked to do the same. Claims that the Industrial Relations Act is going to be a lawyers' paradise prompt the question: Where are these sought-after creatures living now? They're doing Answer. quaite naicely, thank you.

In his 'Daily Mail' column the other day, Paul Callan wrote that top specialist QCs could earn up to €50,000 a year these days. This is more than twice the salary — if you disregard • his various perks, that is—of the man who is shortly to boost earnings even further... Edward Heath. According to Callan, you have to be a pretty mediocre performer in wig and gown to be stuck at £10,000 a year.

Which doesn't say much for those who become High Court judges at £14,000. Who is the man that massages Edward Heath to keep him fit?

The stalwart is a Mr Len Hine. He runs a private gym- nasium Grosvenor at the House Hotel and charges con- siderable sums to keep over- weight businessmen in good repair. It seems that other clients used to upset their exercises, Mr Hine goes to so now 10 Downing St. Hine told the 'Daily Mail': "Mr Heath is a very good pupil, and very fit. He tells me all his problems. At first, with people like him, such as other dig- ambassadors and natories, I feel I have to call them "Sir" or "Excellency" 'But once I get to know them I say things like "Come on, you so and so"! Don't apologize Mr Hine, we know just how you feel.

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Friday February Comments on the recent art Workers Press by Wheldale c Brian Lavery, have been flowi plus some comments from Ke from other coalfields each day

IAN YEATS

talks to Bedwas lodge secretary

KEN JONES

'WE'RE in the middle of a slump and the Tories think once they get into the Com- mon Market they can control class, the whole working Bedwas lodge secretary and ex-Communist Party member Ken Jones told me. •We've got no chance of breaking this government on . out got to have the We've own. support of the big unions.

'The Tories are hell-bent on pushing up unemployment and keeping wages down to get bigger profits. "This bloody-minded, right- wing government has carried out policies that no one voted for.

'This is the first time any big has stood up industrial union against the Tories, who have threatened all the basic rights of The miners "the working class. are in the forefront. If the Tories keep digging in their heels I think we would have a General Strike and then a left-wing, Labour government.

'We're standing out for what If they boys should have. our don't give us the money then let them close the pits. 'After what Tory Employment Secretary Carr has said, I think we could be out two months now. We're not prepared to go back and see the lower-paid men earning £14 a week.

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'I say let's get everybody out and force Heath to make up his mind whether he wants pits or not. 'My personal opinion is that we should pull out all the safety men-get everybody out. 'There are a lot of pits in this country which would flood in 24 hours destroying millions of pounds worth of machines.

'The miners have got to make a fight. We've already consider- able support. we're looking to "Obviously the power workers for support when they start their overtime ban. 'You can't have socialism in a nationalized industry with a Tory government in power, but if Labour get in there must be some sort of workers' control.

It would not be just a matter of putting suggestions to higher board management, but the lads would have some sort of voting rights. 'I think the TUC and the other big unions are biding their time now watching the progress of the strike, but it would turn to a General Strike against the Toriés. "Commenting on the import of Polish coal into Britain Mr Jones said: I'm absolutely disgusted that a socialist country like Poland should send coal when it knows it's breaking a miners' strike. I'm hoping that the Polish miners and other miners in the socialist countries will come out solidly for the British miners.

Comments on the recent article Miners and the Tory government', written for Workers Press by Wheldale colliery miner and Socialist Labour League member Brian Lavery, have been flowing into our office. Today we print one from S Wales plus some comments from Kent and Yorkshire. Look out for other contributions

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TWO MINERS who were on strike in the historic General Strike of 1926 are supporting Right-to-Work the marches Young by the organized Socialists. Harold Beverley was secretary

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Hemsworth Collierv branch Yorkshire from 1951 until the pit closed in 1971.

He started work in the pits in 1921 at the age of l4 and he took part in the General strike at Darton Colliery, near Barnsley.

Arthur started the age nines in 1924 the S Kirby woole on thee …race ar Kirkby colliery. can miners' strike of the (after Black Friday) when father oreanwed SOlD chens in miners' houses at Liver- colliery at Cleveland, Yorkshire In 1926 Arthur on strike WaS at Monkton colliery. recent years he was a member of NUM Tory government, written for cialist Labour League member oday we print one from S Wales ok out for other contributions delegations to conferences of the

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and Labour Party until ho Monkton closed down. Both Harold Beverley and Arthur Moore support the Right- to-Work marches because they know how the working class has had to fight to gain and defend every right it has ever won.

'In Silkstone churchyard,' says 'there's a monument to Arthur, 30 children, aged between seven and 17, who died when Crow- ther's colliery was flooded in the 19th century. 'Written on it are the words "And the Lord sent forth his fire and thunder" 'That's what we've come up from and the young people won't go back to it.' Both these men remember 1926 vividly. Arthur Moore described a scab who used to cyme bathe patty One da ike came back carrying round his neck. The lads had stretched a rope across the entrance!'

MINERS'

EYTHORNE is the mining village closest to Tilmanstone colliery in Kent; it is small, bleak and frequently wind- battered, with panoramic views of the tips. Workers Press spoke to Gordon Roper and his son John, underground electricians in the colliery.

Gordon became a miner in 1946; his rate then was 12s 2d a shift. At nationalization he, like many miners, didn't expect the earth-but at least there could have been more regard for safety: "The minimum roadway diameter the coalface approach is 10 feet — but you really need 14 or 15 feet, particu- larly at junctions. But you should the conditions we work in see now! At a number of places, where the roadway bends, the tubs have to be carried round by the miners! 'In fact, I think it's a lot of bullshit they're talking about safety at the moment. The mines for two weeks' normally stand at holiday time. The stoppage trouble is that conditions are really retarded as against what we thought they would be after nationalization. They have carried on production with no regard for safety' Gordon is what he calls a • dyed-in-the-wool Labour man'; but he's by no means uncritical of the Labour leadership.

Harold Beverley described ntil • how, towards the end of the strike, police used to pick up the scabs at their homes and escort them to the pit, then home again after the shift. "A pal of mine, Jimmy Evans, got three months for throwing stones at the police' But Harold has more pleasant 'We used to sit on memories too. a wall about 7 o'clock at night and the scabs used to come by sack of coal on their with a backs. 'One day one of our lads knocked a sack off a scab's back and his coat accidentally came of with it. The scab left in a bit of a hurry and forgot to take his wages with him. There was £7 there' Wasn't £7 a huge wage for 1926? 'Scab's pay, says Harold.

'Anyhow, it was beer for every- body in Silkstone that night.

"That's how we fought then, and the youngsters today will fight even better'

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To my mind the Labour Party is not sufficiently left of the line to bring in workers' control, which we need. It never has been. But we could argue for hours about what it has done wrong. Although I don't entirely agree with what you say about the Common Market. It's true that another world military power could raise its ugly head, •could be a but I think there great opportunity for uniting the working class.' Asked about the miners' leadership, Gordon was quite unequivocal: I think miners should watch their leaders a good deal more closely.' Could the miners win their strike? 'It's always the same when you come up against these gov- ernment concerns. If the govern- ment of the day doesn't want to concede, then it'll buy up coal overseas, the better to be able to trample us down. I think it'll take the strength of the whole working class to remove this Tory government. 'Otherwise they use one sec tion of workers against another.'

John Roper agrees very strongly with his father.

I used to work at AVO Meters down at Dover. I had my City and Guilds, and I was doing skilled work on coal- winding machines. But I still only got just on £14 a week. But then they stopped making the winding machines — they've expanded though, but they only take women workers, at even lower rates. 'I was laid off, so I had to work in the come down and mine. But even as an electrician down here I only get £14.40 after tax. 'And it's no soft job; you have to take all the muck off the equipment before you can work on it, and often in very confined spaces. I'm absolutely behind this strike. We've got to win. I think that with the rest of the working class behind us, we can, too?

MINERS

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Name Address today confirms 1971 profits of apared with £3.9m the previous Sales were up from £1,021m to £1,177m, but tax and inter- showed charges hefty increase. Post-tax profits of £18.4m still do not solve the com- pany's chronic shortage of £5m was wiped off the value of Leyland shares yesterday by news that it is having to raise £5lm from existing some shareholders through a rights issue of ordinary shares and convertible loan stock. Shop stewards at Austin- Morris car plant at Longbridge in Birmingham have made another dangerous concession to company demands for a change- over to the Measured-Day Work pay system. Flat rate They are to recommend that assemblers 1,000 engine accept a £4 flat-rate payment in place of present piecework rates.

Already the stewards have negotiate MDW and agreed to helped end a strike by 134 women trim-shop workers against the system. The assemblers walked oat for an interim award similar to trim-shop that granted the women pending agreement in the general negotiations. The works' committee quickly intervened to call off the action.

themselves agree, If the they will receive lieu payments giving them about £4 a week extra while the MDW negotia- tions proceed.

RAIL RISE

SOUGHT

RAILWAY leaders yesterday sub- mitted a new pay claim on be- half of their 50,000 members in British Rail workshops. They were told they could ex- pect nothing until May--12 months after their last rise-but were promised further talks in a month. Sid Weighell, National Union of Railwaymen's assistant gen- eral secretary, warned that the unions would not accept 'a set- tlement that treats these workers in the public sector as second- class citizens' He pointed out that a rise of only 11 per cent would allow shopmen only to stand still in relation to the cost of living.

ABOUT 5,000 workers at Sir Arnold Weinstock's GEC plant, Stafford, stopped work yesterday and marched through the town to demonstrate against proposed redundancies. National and local union officials were meeting the man- agement yesterday afternoon to discuss the situation. National ETU official Roy Sanderson told a mass meeting after the march that all the national officials should demand no further redundancies. The work force Stafford at has been cut from 11,000 to 5,500 in three years. The management is now proposing a further 500 redundancies. Workers Press, Friday February 4, 1972 PAGE 11

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Jobs march begins tomorrow Sit-in plants give support PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday February 4 A MINER who was on peaceful picket duty yester- day was killed when a lorry leaving a Scunthorpe power station mounted the pave- i knocked him ment and down. He was Fred Matthews of Dunscroft, Doncaster. near He is married with four children. Branch president, Bill said after the inci- dent: a peaceful picket. We have had no trouble at all.' It is believed that the lorry's load had been blacked was still on board as it left the Keadby power station.

The driver of the lorry was with police yesterday after- noon. The miners' strike and the Tory government

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Manday February 7, 8 p.m.

Raven Hotel Wallgate Speakers : Two Lancashire miners

BY IAN YEATS

A TOP S Wales miners' leader yesterday called for a General Strike in support of the miners. As he issued the call, seven Yorkshire pickets were ar- rested after clashes with police colliery at Kilnhurst near Rotherham and picket-lines at Nottinghamshire power sta- tions were arrested. chairman Derek Coal Board Ezra called in London for third- party intervention in the four- week-old dispute. Wales, Emlyn Williams, S In the Wales vice-president National Union of Mineworkers, told Workers Press: 'I think it must be realized that we are fighting a struggle for all the trade unions.

'After three weeks on strike unless we get immediate in- dustrial support from all the other unions we are going to be isolated.' Referring to a decision of the 250,000-strong Glamorgan Fede- ration of Trade Union Councils in to call upon workers all branches of industry to raise money for the miners, he said:

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01-622 7029 THREE HUNDRED and fifty workers at the Triumph Motors car plant in Coventry yesterday downed tools or left their offices and marched a quarter of a mile to All Souls Roman Catholic Church to take part in "who Requiem Mass for those have died in N Ireland. Organizers of the march and service said they intended being away from the factory for about an hour and had no intention of disrupting production. February 4, 1972 WORKERS at Plessey's factory in Alexandria and Fisher - Bendix stewards Merseyside have on offered support for the Young Socialists Right- to-Work campaign. The first contingent of set out from Liverpool and Swansea on February 19. All three contingents will con- verge on London on March 12 for a massive rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley. The nationwide march is being organized by the Young Socialists to mobilize mass sup- the right-to-work for port demand. As the marchers move South 'I think it's very good, but it is not nearly enough. What the Glamorgan Federation of Trade Union Councils should have done was to call on other unions to support us industrially.

"They could token stage strikes at first going to a General Strike. This is the sort of posi- tive action we want now. Williams that the warned miners could 'end up like the postmen' without support.

'I know this coalfield as well anybody, he 'All the said. as indications are that the miners are entrenched-they'd be even more entrenched if we could see a bit more activity from the other unions. 'The grass roots in the working It's class the are helping. national leadership we criticize.

'Whatever the NUM national leadership may think, the rank and file won't go back now until they've got the full amount.'

He added: The call should be made immediately for a General Strike to support the miners.

'Scanlon and ones are sup- posed to be "lefts", yet all we get from them and the rest of the national leadership is silence.

'We should have had the sup- port of the power workers long

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... town-by-town they and discussions meetings arouse the widest possible sup- port for the campaign. Clive Norris, national secre- tary of the campaign, said yes- To end the soaring terday: unemployment we must end the government which is encouraging it. The Tories must go.

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"In place of the Tories we demand a Labour government pledged to restoring full employ- ment.' Coventry district committee of the AUEW has passed a resolu- tion of support and will ask their officials for the use of the AUEW hall in Coventry for accommoda- tion for the marchers. At Rolls-Royce in Coventry ago, but they've been misled by their decision to delay overtime ban. If we had their could close the support power stations a lot quicker.'

Picketing of power stations coal depots in Scotland is and developing into a dangerous farce. appears that regular It now breaches in the picket lines are occurring. One picket told Workers Press: 'The men are as militant as ever, but we're having the wool pulled over our eyes by our own officials who keep telling us the fight is going perfectly.? A typical incident occurred on Monday at the giant Cockenzie power station, 12 miles from Edinburgh. Four lorries carrying oil were allowed through the lines when the drivers assured the miners that they were acting under the Trans- instruction of their own port and General Workers' Union stewards. Two convoys were allowed through before two T&GWU re- gional officials, Mr R Knox and Mr G Wilson, arrived on the scene. As the drivers approached on their third visit to the station, the officials demanded to see the drivers' union cards. They re- fused and it then became clear to everybody they were 'scabs' Meanwhile inside Cockenzie there is sharp disagreement over whether the scab oil should be used. The management of the station is apparently delighted; it has received sufficient oil to postpone for any serious problem couple of weeks' At the other Edinburgh power station, Portobello, there is as well. danger Shortly after 2 a.m. yesterday about 100 police swooped on the and allowed three oil gates tankers to get through. big picket had been organized in anticipation of the delivery, but it had moved away officials felt that nothing when would be attempted. the joint negotiating committee, which includes both RR factories

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tee that they organize food and accommodation for the march.

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has collect at each meeting until the Congress to act swiftly on legis- marches. The War- end of the to end the strike of W lation

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2 branch wick No. which has now coast dockers donated £2. lasted 118 days. Nixon submitted the legisla- Leamington Spa

AUEW

tion to Congress two weeks ago.

donated fI. branch Leamington He complained that crops were Spa No. 8 AUEW donated £l.

rotting, export customers were looking for other business and Lutterworth, Warwickshire,

ALEW

passed resolution of sup- businesses were threatened with port and local Labour Party.

extinction. He stated that the strike has Both of these bodies will be the American economy cost local factories to contacting $600m and that California, Wash- arrange a meal for the marchers.

had lost and Oregon ington $23.5m. The other major support has Meanwhile, in Canada's London head from the come British Columbia Province, Overseas office branch of the Van- court ordered dockers at Telegraphists, who have passed couver and New Westminster to 'physical resolution offering resume handling diverted cargo and financial support' to the US from strikebound there march. ports. This ended a five-day boycott by 3,000 British Columbia mem- bers of the ILWU. the time of partition. During the

EXPLOSIONS

rocked the Pakistan struggle against Bihari colony of Mirpur in the of Biharis army, majority Bangla Desh, Dacca, yester- sided with Pakistan. and there were reports day The trouble in Mirpur and the that Bengali troops were en- of Mohammed- nearby suburb gaged combat with the is said to have begun pur on beleagured residents. Desh Sunday, when Bangla The whole area was sealed off forces entered the areas to and under curfew. Soldiers man- search for arms. said said to have met ning roadblocks rockets They are being used the were against strong resistance. Biharis-armed with automatic The eminent Bengali dramatist weapons-but there was no offi- and film Zahir Rahain, cial confirmation of this.

director Reporters waiting a barri- is reported to at have disappearec cade on the fringe of the Bihari in Mirpur on Saturday. He had were ordered away. there to look for his suburb gone The Biharis what is brother, who was kidnapped on came to now Bangla Desh from India at December 13 by Pakistan troops.

NIRC APPLICATION DISMISSED

THE NATIONAL

Industrial The company had asked for a Relations Court yesterday after- reference to the Commission on applica- noon dismissed its hrst Industrial Relations after what under the Industrial Rela- tion it claimed amounted to a request tions Act. from the Transport and General Car Collection Ltd was Workers' Union for recognition.

told by

NIRC

president Sir

T&GWU,

The which boycotted John Donaldson that its only the hearing, had informed the purpose was to get relief from court it was not seeking this.

industrial pressure.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

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

JOIN THE MARCH THROUGH GLASGOW

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 Ne shall call at all major towns on the way, converging or London during the weekend March 11/12 for

MARCH 12