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INCORPORATING THE NEW:

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

TRADE UNION leaders are standing idly by while the Tory government mobilizes huge forces to crush the five- week-old miners' strike. A meeting of the Emergency Committee under Home Secretary Reginald Maudling took place yesterday afternoon. The Heath cabinet is preparing to declare a state of emergency which would give it power to requisition transport and other facilities and to direct industry and householders about the use of power. The Tories, of course, are empowered to send troops in to move coal stocks without recourse to a state of emergency. As increasingly militant pickets tighten their stranglehold on coal and coke depots, power stations and docks, they come more and more into conflict with state forces. scenes yesterday as 300 policemen, The violent arms linked, tried to get scab lorries through picket lines at a W Midlands Gas Board coal depot, is only a foretaste of what is to come. (See D. 4.)

All over the country pickets are being injured by scab lorries and arrested by police. The warning by Labour MP John Cronin that 'an Ulster-type situa- tion' will develop on the coalfields if the government sends in troops will not prevent the Tories doing just that. But the trade union leaders are leaving the miners isolated, as they did for nine months in 1926. Today is the 30th day of the strike, but the miners still stand alone. This inactivity on the part of Victor Feather and the rest of the TUC leaders means that they are prepared to see the miners smashed. It seems that they prefer this to a direct challenge to the Tory government. Sid Weighell, National Union of Railwaymen's has urged the miners to assistant general secretary; necessary.

stick out for six months.

Jack Jones. Transport and General Workers' Union general secretary, has expressed the pious hope that scab drivers would join his union and respect picket lines. "All we can do to support the miners will be done,' declares Jones.

But all is not being done.

These leaders must be forced to act. Deeds, not words, are what the miners need. Hickleton Main (Yorkshire) NUM branch has called for a special emergency meeting of the TUC to discuss the This is good, but it does not strike. require much discussion. The TUC must be forced to mobilize the industrial strength of the working class to force the govern- ment to resign and ensure victory for the miners.

By their inaction, the union from leaderships, Feather right to left, from to Scanlon, have created a deadlock.

areas to break the deadlock Yet in the local areas, there is and the miners forward carry tremendous solidarity with the to victory. despite the fantastic United action must begin now miners.

NUM

statement by President in all local areas involving Gormley that the Joe strikers miners, railwaymen, lorry drivers, lose public would if sympathy dockers and all other workers. the TV started flickering'. sets This must start immediately.

It Such remark could be only is no good waiting for Feather, calculated to demoralize workers Jones, Scanlon and company. who are fighting alone. They have had five weeks and The resolution from Whel- done nothing. dale (Yorks) and The slogan 'All Power to the Thoresby (Notts) NUM branches calling General Council' paved the way for joint struggle of all to defeat in 1926 because a no to make the Tories alternative leadership been had resign must now become the created when the TUC betrayed.

basis for a campaign in all the This must happen again. not • TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1972 • No. 683

THE NEWSLETTER

• 4p

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

John Foster (left), No. 2 negotlator for the AUEW in the power talks, tells lobbyists during a break in the talks that the offer for craftsmen has been raised to £1.90. See story p. 12.

AIRCRAFT workers at three BRITISH Aircraft Corporation Lancashire factories struck yesterday declared redundant yes- 203 terday in support of their claim another workers its at Christchurch factory. for a 12t-per-cent wage increase.

There have been nearly 1,500 The strike, which brought the redundancies there in the past British Corporation's Aircraft year. military-aircraft plants at Department of Employment Preston, Samlesbury and Warton officials will be at the factory to a standstill, follows a break- today to interview redundant down in management-union employees, in the hope of finding talks last Thursday. them new jobs. THE ULSTER Civil Rights movement day tomorrow and another march-this time at Enniskillen, on Sunday.

people, including Twenty-six some MPs, are to be prosecuted for taking part in last Sunday's peaceful march at Newry. They are expected to appear in court on February 16, when they face a mandatory six months' prison sentence if convicted of breaking Stormont's ban on parades.

Gerry. Fitt, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party - six of whose MPs marched at Newry - said they would regard any punishment which the Stormont administra- tion cares to inflict on us with honour, and by comparison with who others have suffered SO grievously, it is of no account'.

Rory McShane, Newry Civil Rights leader, claimed that the peaceful march, with no con- frontations, proved that the responsibility. for the Derry deaths rested entirely with the British army. Ulster Prime Minister But Brian Faulkner is unrepentant. Condemning the Newry march as "an exercise in irresponsible brinkmanship', he made it clear that he was prepared to grant no concessions. Further breaches of the law, further dangerous assemblies, can do nothing to bring about what we all want-the earliest possible end to the whole cycle of vio- lence and all of the unpleasant including internment, measures, which it has involved,' declared Faulkner. BELFAST'S 100-year-old Crumlin Rd gaol is no longer being used to hold men under Ulster's Special Powers Act. The last of the internees have been moved to the new internment centre at Magilligan camp in London- derry. This follows a recommenda- tion from a Home Office inquiry which designated Crumlin Rd as a security risk because of over- crowding. 800 men had been crammed into a prison built 100 years ago to hold 500. There have been several escapes trom the goal. Tighter security measures were introduced at Crumlin Rd and will continue to apply at Magilligan camp.

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END MINERS'

ISOLATION

INCORPORATING THE NEW!

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRI

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

TRADE UNION leaders are standing idly by while the Tory government mobilizes huge forces to crush the five- week-old miners' strike. A meeting of the Emergency Committee under Home Secretary Reginald Maudling took place yesterday afternoon. The Heath cabinet is preparing to declare a state of emergency which would give it power to requisition transport and other facilities and to direct industry and householders about the The Tories, of course, are empowered to send troops in to move coal stocks without recourse to a state of emergency. As increasingly militant pickets tighten their stranglehold on coal and cake depots, power stations and docks, they come more and more into conflict with state forces. The scenes yesterday as 300 policemen, violent arms linked, tried to get scab lorries through picket lines at a W Midlands Gas Board coal depot, is only a foretaste of what is to come. (See p. 4.)

All over the country pickets are being injured by scab lorries and arrested by police. The warning by Labour MP John Cronin that 'an Ulster-type situa- tion' will develop on the coalfields if the government sends in troops will not prevent the Tories doing just that. But the trade union leaders are leaving the miners isolated, as they did for nine months in 1926. Today is the 30th day of the strike, but the miners still stand alone. This inactivity on the part of Victor Feather and the rest of the TUC leaders means that they are prepared to see the miners smashed. It seems that they prefer this to a direct challenge to the Tory government. Sid Weighell, Union of National Railwaymen's assistant general secretary, has urged the miners to 'stick out for six months, if necessary' Jack Jones, Transport General Workers' Union general secretary, expressed the pious hope that scab drivers would join his union and respect picket lines. 'All we can do to support the miners will be done,' declares Jones.

But all is not being done.

These leaders must be forced to act. Deeds, not words, are what the miners need. Hickleton Main (Yorkshire) branch has called for a special emergency meeting of the TUC to discuss the This is good, but it does not strike. require much discussion. The TUC must be forced to mobilize the industrial strength of the working class to force the govern- ment to resign and ensure victory for the miners.

By their inaction, the . union leaderships, from right left, from Feather to to Scanlon; have created a deadlock.

areas to break the deadlock Yet in the local areas, there is and carry the miners forward tremendous solidarity with the to victory. despite miners. the fantastic United action must begin now

NUM

statement by President in all local involving areas Joe Gormley that the strikers miners, railwaymen, lorry drivers, sympathy would public if Jose dockers and all other workers. TV started the sets flickering'. This must start It immediately. Suci remark could only be is no good waiting for Feather, calculated to demoralize workers lones, Scanlon and company. who are fighting alone. They have had five weeke and The resolution from Whel- done nothing. dale (Yorks) and Thoresby The slogan 'All Power to the (Notts) NUM branches calling General Council' paved the way for joint struggle all to defeat in 1926 because no Tories unions to make the alternative leadership had been resign become created when the TUC betrayed. must now the basis for a campaign in all the This happen again. must not THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY FEBRUARY 8, 1972 • No. 683 • 4p

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

John Foster (left), No. 2 negotlator for the AUEW In the pomer talks.

tells lobbvists during a break in the talks that the offer for craftsmen has been raised to £1.90. See story p. 12.

AIRCRAFT workers at three

BRITISH

Corporation Aircraft Lancashire yesterday declared factories struck ves- redundant another 203 workers terday in support of their claim at its Christchurch factorv. for a 124-per-cent wage increase.

There have been nearly 1,500 The strike, which brought the redundancies there the in Dast British Aircraft Corporation's vear. militarv-aircraft plants Department of Emplovment Preston, Samlesbury and Warton officials will be at the factory a standstill, follows a break- today to interview redundant down in management-union employees, in the hope of finding talks last Thursdav. them new jobs. THE ULSTER Civil Rights movement 'D for day tomorrow and another march-this time at Enniskillen, on Sunday.

Twenty-six people, including some MPs, are to be prosecuted for taking part in last Sunday's peaceful march at Newry. They are expected to appear in court on February 16, when they face a mandatory six months' prison sentence if convicted of breaking Stormont's ban on parades.

Fitt, Gerry leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party - six af whose MPs marched at Newry - said they would regard any punishment which the Stormont administra- tion cares to inflict on us with honour, and by comparison with others have who suffered SO grievously, it is of no account' Rory McShane, Newry Civil Rights leader, claimed that the peaceful march, with no con- frontations, proved that the responsibility. the Derry deaths rested entirely with the British army. But Ulster Prime Minister Brian Faulkner is unrepentant.

Condemning the Newry march as• "an exercise in irresponsible brinkmanship', he made it clear that he was prepared to grant no concessions. 'Further breaches of the law, further dangerous assemblies, can do nothing to bring about what we all want—the earliest possible end to the whole cycle of vio- lence and all of the unpleasant including internment, measures, which it has involved,' declared Faulkner. BELFAST'S 100-year-old Crumlin Rd gaol is no longer being used to hold men under Ulster's Special Powers Act. The last of the internees have been moved to the new internment centre at Magilligan camp in London- derry. This follows a recommenda- tion from a Home Office inquiry which designated Crumlin Rd as a security risk because of over- crowding. 800 men had been crammed into a prison built 100 years ago to hold 500. There have been several escapes from the goal. Tighter security measures were introduced at Crumlin Rd and will continue to apply at Magilligan camp.

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PAGE 2 Workora Prosa, Tuesday Fobruary 8, 1972

AROUND THE WORLD

BY JOHN SPENCER

AMERICAN Treasury secretary John Connally is pressing hard for the forma- tion of a dollar bloc to combat the Com- mon Market on the trade front. Con- nally has emerged as the head of the growing protectionist lobby in the US which advocates all-out trade war against America's competitors.

He wants an alliance of the US, Canada, America and New Zealand. Latin Australia, would operate tariffs and trade Spain which preferences against the enlarged Common Market. particularly hostile to the EEC's plans to He is extend its preferential trading arrangements to Euro pean and other countries outside the Market itself.

The months of hard bargaining since August 15.

when Nixon took the dollar off gold, have proved fruitless, in Connally's view. His plan would split the canitalist world into two protected each customs mutually-hostile blocs, duties and trade deals and each competing furiously with the other for what markets remain.

section of American big business re- growing gards this as the only available course to meet the continuing international monetary crisis and the de- of America's trading position. terioration US and the Common After weeks of talks, the Market finally patched together an interim trade The European countries deal in Brussels last Friday.

made certain relatively minor concessions in return for that the price of gold would be a guarantee raised officially. already clear that But it is despite the temporary rally on the foreign exchanges following

JAN SLING

announcement of agreement the the basic division remains.

French Already the govern-

STILL JAILED

dissatis- ment is proclaiming its faction with the deal, which has still to be approved by the Com- JAN SLING-son of Otto Sling, Market member-states. The mon French a prominent Czech Communist want reciprocal conces- sions from the US. Party official executed in the Another sign of the shape of Stalinist 'Slansky Trial' of 1952 things to come is the amendment -has not been released, as had been reported in the west.

Jan's Mrs Marian mother, London Sling, who lives in announced this after phone call to Prague at the weekend.

Sling was arrested last month, accused of spreading anti-regime form of leaf- propaganda in the lets and a monthly underground newsletter. Others arrested about the same Rudolf Slansky time include (son of the late Rudolf Slansky, Communist Party former Czech secretary-general, who was exe- cuted the 1950s and posthu- in 1963); rehabilitated in VIk, whose father Jan was accused of Trotskyism and also jailed in the 1950s; Jiri Lederer, a journalist, sentenced last week

CONNALLY: TRADE WAR

for to two years' imprisonment 'defaming a socialist Pro- state; Kosik, philosopher; fessor Karel to the Minimum Wage Bill cur- Nepras, Vladimir journalist; way through rently on its the Karel Kaplan, scientist; and Jiri House of Representatives in Littera, former secretary in the Washington. Prague party organization.

The protectionists have quietly the end of the Bill tucked onto a 'buy American' amendment im- posing a complete ban on govern.

GRAIN FEARS IN U

foreign ment purchase goods and giving the President sweeping powers to stop imports

UNION

and management repre- by foreign buyers. still seeking are The President would also be the crippling W settlement empowered to raise tariffs on im- coast dock strike. Pares that impair one el Two began on Sun- meetings 'health endanger day, the important being most- or general well-being' efliciency the dockers' between union pre- of American workers. Harry Bridges, and Paci- sident. fic Maritime Association Presi- Brandt invite dent Edmund Flynn. The second meeting was between negotiators representing ISRAEL has invited W German 1,000 longshoremen who handle Willy Brandt shipments (mainly from chancellor pay grain and official visit to Jerusalem- NW ports) representatives an a W German from grain the first ever by movement companies. head The Employers say they wor- of state. invitation, ried that the 122-day strike may approved by the unanimously for the government coalition parties, was eliminate grain markets Sunday US in Japan, ' Taiwan, Korea and night by Golda Meir. It India. premier was As little headway is made in handed to Brandt by the Israeli likely visit is Bonn. The these meetings, it seems embassy in will Congress act in the certain to arouse opposition from that the W future to bring about many Israelis who regard near the heir forced settlement. German government as Senate majority leader Mike of the Nazi regime.

BISHOP ABEL MUZOF

BY GARY GURMEET

THE TORY government coul a just and meaningful' role in situation, an African nationa London yesterday.

RUMANIAN

LOAN TO IRAQ

RUMANIA is to lend $35m • (£13.4m) to Iraq as part of an allowing Rumanian agreement organizations to for prospect oil in an area E of Baghdad on behalf of the Iraq National Oil Company. The lóan, part of an economic and technical co-operation agree- ment negotiated last November, is to be repaid in crude oil at 2.5 per cent interest.

IN US

DOCK STRIKE

Mansfield (Democrat), has said President may support Nixon's proposal to enact legisla- tion to force the 15,000 strikers to return to work while arbitra- tion takes place. One of the issues remaining is the date on which a new contract would become effec- ive. The union wants new pay rates backdated to November 14.

when Nixon's initial wage-price freeze expired. The management wants new rates to start from the date that agreement is reached. issues Other outstanding include paid holidays and a union demand that workers be vened with prescried medicines.

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EL MUZOREWA IN LONDON YESTERDAY

nt could be convinced to play role in the present Rhodesian nationalist leader claimed in Bishop Abel Muzorewa, chairman of the newly-formed African National Council, said he was in Britain to tell the British government the respon- sibility of a future 'holocaust' in Rhodesia would lie on them.

The Bishop is to meet some Tory ministers next Monday to discuss the Smith-Home settle- ment aver Rhodesia's future.

Yesterday he refused to com- ment on the future of the Pearce now investigating Commission, African opinion on the settlement terms. If the Commission came up with a negative answer, he said, the British government should once again get around a negoti- ating table where Africans would be included. Referring to USA's decision to import chrome into Rhodesia he said: I hope the British government and the Commonwealth, which is dedicated to the principle of non-racialism, will protest in strong terms. MRS Grace Todd yesterday dashed to Gatooma prison, 100 miles SW of Salisbury, after re- ports that her husband Garfield is ill with a chest ailment. The Todd's daughter, Judith, arrested Rhodesian with her father police on January 18, has begun a hunger strike against detention without trial. She is detained in Marandellas prison, 50 miles SE of Salisbury.

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WORDS AND

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ULSTER

THE LONDONDERRY mass- has understandably acre evoked widespread demon- strations and anger. But it must be said that taken by themselves these forms of protest are not enough. If Ireland could have achieved the socialist Republic by martyrdom and anger, it would have already done so many times over. The all-important question of Marxist policy in the struggle against the imper- oppressor is now ialist decisive. Speaking in Hammersmith the night after the killing Ber- nadette Devlin summed up the situation as follows: • It is not our function life to die for Ireland. It is our function to live, work and struggle for a workers' republic. It is not sympathy or feel- ings of frustration that are needed now. You must go away determined to organ- ize and act. 'If you are not in a trade union, get into one. If you do not read books, start to read them. If you are not a member of an organiza- tion determined to bring down, the Tories, join one.

'You must organize, educate and agitate until we bring them down. We must spell that out the message no one will have any freedom until we bring them down.'

This statement is correct enough as far as it goes. But . how is it to be carried into practice? The 'Socialist Worker', weekly paper of the state capitalist International Socialist group, publishes it on its front page in. its February 5 issue alongside an edi- torial which simply calls for ending internment.. and withdrawing the troops from Ireland. There is absolutely no men- tion of calling for a struggle to make the Tory govern- ment resign. Again during the anti-intern- ment march last Saturday, not a single demand was raised to mobilize the work- ing class to force the Tories to resign. The demonstration re- was duced to the level of re- formist protest with the In- ternational Socialists and the Stalinists working hand in glove to keep it that way.

All brands of centrists are notorious for their con- tempt for theory. They think that all they have • to do is ta use left words in order to cover up their reformist opportunism. Thus 'Socialist Worker' see anything does not wrong with combining a statement from Bernadette Devlin alongside an edi- torial which ignores the need to make the Tory government resign. This kind of political swamp does considerable damage to the Irish revolutionary movement. It throws the door wide open for adventures under condi- tions which can educate no one. It throws in the towel at a point where the real struggle against the Tory government begins. The only way in which the • Ulster and miners' struggles against imperialism can be united is through the com- mon action to make the Tory government resign.

DAY TWO-Kilmarnock INSPIRING IS the only word I can use for the reception we received from workers in this Glasgow. We S of town tramped 24 miles-the longest haul of the march-but every step was worth it. The soli- darity at the end of the day was truly magnificent. Mike Banda, Socialist Labour League Central Committee mem- ber, spoke for the whole march when he told an audience of workers and youth in Onthank community 'Once I centre: thought Kilmarnock was just a on the map, but now I name some of the know it contains best workers and socialists in the country. 'Long live the Young Socialists' march—Long live the working class of Kilmarnock.' He was speaking after workers in the town had provided the 50 marchers with hot soup, meat, and cabbage potatoes in the community centre. I know the organizers of the march would like to pay tribute particularly to the ladies of the Massey Ferguson who canteen cooked the food and served it to the hungry contingent. Thanks also to the mercy mis- sion from the Red Cross. Two ladies tended to the inevitable first-day blisters. Above all, our thanks go out to the shop stewards of Kil- and particularly the marnock, men of the big Massey Ferguson plant. They organized the wel- come and the facilities. This is the meaning of working-class solidarity solidarity-a which will eventually bring the govern- ment down and confound the frightened bureaucrats who mis- lead the labour movement.

The audience in the com- munity centre gave a particular welcome marcher Martin to McDonald. He brought the mes- sage of workers' unity from the embattled city of Londonderry.

He told the packed meeting: I witnessed those events in Derry when 13 of our working people were shot down dead by the British army. But we all know that army acts under the orders of the Tory government.

And I also know that this government is persecuting the people here in Britain. It's the same government which attacks the miners and puts people on the dole that shoot down workers in my country. That's why I am on this march-the struggle is the same.' The marchers moved into Kil- marnock after the day's journey in bright sunshine. The children of the Onthank estate ran be- fore the procession joining in the anti-Tory slogans-'We demand the right to work! Get the Tories out!' Davie Barclay from Glasgow got a great cheer from the estate audience when he pledged that the Young Socialists were out to build a movement to get rid of Toryism for ever. This is the feeling of Kilmar- nock and it's given us all a great boost. We are not alone-yesterday proved workers will rally to our standard. Those right-wing bureaucrats way down the route who are organizing against us had better watch out. We will get stronger each day-despite the difficulties-because workers are behind us. it's Cumnock- Tomorrow birthplace of Keir Hardie. We've got the town hall there. SANDY RATCLIFF will tell you a few home truths about that glamorous profession'- acting in films. She had eight weeks' steady work almost a year ago on the film Family Life. Since then, apart from a three-week interlude, life has meant the dole. That's one reason Sandy walked out of Glasgow on the first leg of the Young Socialists' Right-to-Work march on Sun- day. I talked to her midway Glasgow and Kilmar- between nock during the first break on the long journey to London.

Sandy was born in a working- class family in Islington. She has for her won critical acclaim *Family harrowing portrayal in Life' of a working-class girl driven to insanity by home circum- stances and criminal treatment at a mental hospital. This is the first march I think I have ever been on and I'm walking for partly the same reason as these kidsbecause of the massive unemployment. But I'm not as bad-off them. as Young working kids stand no chance at all under this system.

, 'But then there is the political aspect. The situation in Ireland, the slaughter there and the way the workers are being driven down in places like Clydeside where we marched from today, force you to act. This govern- ment has one big plan to crush the working class and we all have to organize against it.' Sandy will be meeting the march again with many more actors at Carlisle. They will put on a dramatized version of the English when the revolution capitalist class in Charles I head off, dealt with the landed aristocracy and came to power. Corin Redgrave, who is one of the writers and directors of the play, marched along with Sandy. It may seem strange at first to be showing a play that deals with the great struggles of the 17th century. What has this got

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to do with this march by unem- ployed youth? •Well I was aware today of the historical parallels between this march and that period.

Cromwell built his New Model Army out of just such material as these young workers on this campaign. They were the ordin- the yeoman ary peasants and farmers drawn off the land.

'Here on this march we have the raw material of another New Workers' Model Army - the Army. It's truly magnificent to see these youngsters marching out to defend this basic right against the Tories. "There is another comparison that you can make. Remember that speech Heath made to the United Nations in the early days -he said the war of the future would be civil war. 'It seemed like a peculiar thing to say at first. But now we see why the Tories can were thinking about these kind of things. 'In Ulster 15,000 troops are used against working-class Irish- men. In Britain a miners' picket is killed. The government are discussing introducing a state of emergency-and using the army to get the coal supplies moving.

*How much longer will it be before we have a civil war situa- tion here as well? 'One thing's certain - this march is for the Right to Work and this is a revolutionary demand because the Tories are determined to deprive the people of that right.' Ken Loach, director of the films 'Family Life' and Kes' completed the trio of film work- ers and actors who led the first leg of the march. I came on this march because you have to do something else talk about unemploy- besides ment. It's meaningless to cam- paign on the question of unem- ployment unless you draw out the political conclusion from it.

'And this is the most import- ant thing about this march—it is a fight for this basic right the way-by organizing and only rousing workers into a mass movement to bring this govern- ment down. Workers Press, Tuesday February 8, 1972 PAGE 3

MINERS

Wheldale, Big support has come in from in the of the NUM the Oxford area for the marches.

Yorkshire, branch voted the Oxford trades has have to support council Young Socialists' Right-to-Work voted the to support campaign marchers now on the fourth day and is organizing a council dele- of their march from Glasgow to gation to meet marchers starting Swansea, off Wales, London. from on number of the will February 19, miners when they come be joining the unemployed youth through the town. as they march through Barnsley.

The council is also urging all its affiliated branches to give financial and moral support to the campaign. Oxford's Transport and Workers' General Union 5/60 branch, representing 6,500 workers in the Austin-Morris car body plant at Cowley, is supporting the campaign. The branch voted to donate £25 'to be administered by the branch officers locally. The 5/104

T&GWU

branch at Export Packing Services, Ban- bury, Oxfordshire, has voted to back the campaign and is donat- ing f25. The marches are also joint supported by the shop stewards' committee Export at Packing Services. (Workers at EPS have just re- turned from successful two- week strike in which they pay increases totalling €3.20 a week.) Response

REG CROSS.

convenor of shop stewards at ICI, Huddersfield, is in favour of the Right-to-Work marches as demonstration to the people and the government that the working class is de- termined to fight for the right to work. "The coming in from support like organizations the Barnsley trades and council the Leeds university Students Union is the sort of response that is needed,

TREMENDOUS KILMARNOCK WELCOME

he says. will certainly fight for fullest support from the Hudders- field joint shop stewards' agree most definitely with the need to bring down the and Ken Loach Tory government. That is the only way to guarantee full em- ployment. 'Another thing that this cam- go along with the Charter paign will achieve will be to put of Basic Rights as a fighting pro- Labour and leaders gramme against the Tories.

The union leaders on the spot. They murder of civil rights workers will have to back it explain or in N Ireland has shown what to all those workers in the Lab- capitalism will do when it is our movement why not. pushed. 'And I hope people do go *Now is the time for all round demanding these kind of workers to unite to bring down answers from the leaders in the the Tories. The Right-to-Work Labour Party and trade unions.'

marches are showing the way.

Make the Tory government Wharfedale Albert', Rd, off resign! York Way, Kings Cross. 'Sup- port miners and Ulster Return a Labour government workers.' pledged to restore full employ- ment and repeal all laws against SW LONDON: Tuesday Feb- 15, Small Hall. the unions! ruary p.m. Clapham Manor Clap-

DAGENHAM:

Wednesday ham Manor St, SW4. miners and Ulster workers.'

February 9, 8 p.m. Room 11, Ham Town Hall, E Ham. Support miners. Force Tories ACTON: Wednesday Februar 16, 8 to resign. p.m. 'Mechanics Arms', Churchfield Rd, W3. 'Support LUTON: Thursday and Ulster February miners workers.' 10, 8 p.m. Recreation Centre Old Bedford Rd. World CROYDON: Thursday Feb ruary 17, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, economic crisis. Coombe Rd. Croydon. See WILLESDEN: Monday Workers Press Ulster film.

Feb- ruary 14. Trades and p.m. Labour Hall, High Rd, NW10.

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LONDON:

Unemployment and the capital- February 17, 8 p.m. Room ist crisis. Deptford Engineers' Club (opp New Cross Stn). 'Support READING: Monday Feb 14, 8 miners and Ulster workers.'

Trades and Labour Club, D.m. Minster St. N LONDON: Thursday Feb. ruary 17, 8 Town Hall.

W LONDON:

Tuesday prince Feb- Edmonton. Reformism and 15, 8 p.m. trade unions. Socialist Labour League Special lecture Common Hall, Hackin's Hay (off Dale St) LIVERPOOL, 8 p.m. Tuesday February 15 given by C. Slaughter (SLL Central Committee)

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MINERS: PART 7

Spencerism was only one pro- duct of the 1926 betrayal.

After the miners' lock-out, the policy of the Conserva- tive government was to solve the problems of industry by imposing longer hours and lower wages on the miners.

But even more than this was involved. For ten years after 1926 conditions in the coalfields steadily worsened.

Longer hours, lower wages and harder work were com- bined with unemployment and widespread malnutrition.

Mining villages experienced appalling conditions of hunger and misery. Earnings fell to well below half of those of 1921, as the following table shows : Earnings per man shift 1921 19s 2d 1926 I0s 5d 1927 10s 03d 1928 9s 3fd 1929 9s : 2zd 1930 9s 3zd 1931 9s 27d 1932 9s : 2d 1933 9s 75d 1934 9s 13d 1935 9s 3łd By Jaunuary 1927 there were 200,000 miners out of work and by July of the same year, well over a quarter of a million-and these were only those included in the figures of workers in- sured under the Unemployment Insurance Act. But large num- bers of men had been unem- ployed so long that they were no longer entitled to benefit un- der the Unemployment Insurance Act and so were not included in the figures. It is safe to say that, including families, well a million over people destitute in the were mining villages. In addition, many workers were denied unemployment bene- fit under the pretext that they 'not genuinely seeking were work'. Applicants for unemployment benefit were interviewed by em- ployment exchange officials. They and were cross-examined any hesitation or confusion used against them. The unemployed worker, under-nourished and ill- clad, and frequently weakened by prolonged privation, was ex- pected to walk from ten to 50 miles daily in search of work.

The miners' leaders were re- duced to pleading for charity for their members. Instead of leading a fight, they organized a Distress Fund, begging for money, blan- kets and food. They even obseqiously thanked —of all people-the 'Daily Mail' for its generosity! The Tories pressed home their • intro- advantage. In 1927 they duced the Trades Disputes and Trades Unions Act. This Bill declared General Strikes illegal, restricted the right of picketing, debarred Civil Service Unions from affiliation to the TUC, and substituted contracting in for con- tracting out of the political levy.

There was tremendous feeling in the working class against this Bill. On May Day 1927, 100,000 demonstrated in London under the slogan 'A General Strike Against Baldwin', despite the fact that the march was boycotted by the London Labour Party. The Glasgow Trades Council called for a general strike against the Trades Disputes Act by 117 votes to 20. But, while the workers were to fight, still willing the lead- ers were not. A special confer- ence of the Scottish TUC re- jected the Glasgow policy by 19 votes and a conference of union ay February 8, 1972 Above: the 1927 demonstration against E executives also rejected strike action. Instead of fighting the Tories and the the right- employers, wing trade union leaders gave in- creasing support to 'Mondism'.

'Mondism' was derived from Sir Alfred Mond, a Liberal MP, •who was involved in the amalga- mation of four chemical firms to form Imperial Chemical Indus- tries. Mond believed in 'rationaliza- tion of industry through collab- oration with the trade union leaders. Needless to say, this in- variably involved increasing the number of unemployed and breaking down of the many conditions working established by trade union action in the past.

The 1928 TUC Conference voted in favour of the Mond- Turner talks (Ben Turner was a leader of the Textile Unions and chairman of the TUC Gene- ral Council) after strong speeches in favour by Walter Citrine and Ernest Bevin. i agalnst Baldwin's Trades Disputes BIll. Below: A joint committee with the employers was formed on which the chief trade union figures were Turner, Bevin, Citrine, I H Thomas, Arthur Pugh, Tom Richards and Will Thorne.

The same conference of the TUC broke from the Anglo- Russian Trade Union Committee voted to investigate 'dis- and ruptive activities' in the unions.

As Henry Pelling puts it in his 'History of British Trade Union- the personal friendships, ism', then formed between business- men and union leaders were later to be of great importance.

In 1929 the second Labour government took office, and stood impotently by while the total of registered unemployed rose to nearly three million. In 1931 the government fell, over the question of cuts in the dole. MacDonald, Snowden and Thomas joined the Tories in the National Government which cut wages and unemployment benefit Ill. Below: Bevin and Citrine the in the teeth of tremendous de- monstrations of unemployed workers and a mutiny in the North Sea Fleet at Invergordon.

Meanwhile, government wage 'cuts were copied by the railway and other private employers. The textile bosses, for example, tried to impose wage cuts of 12} per cent and to increase hours from 48 to 52g. Following 1928 the Communist Party embarked on a sectarian policy produced by the Stalinist "Third Period' theory. While in Germany the Com- munist Party was denouncing the Social Democrats 'Social as Fascists' and a worse danger than Hitler, in Britain Party leaders such as Gallacher were demanding that the unions should disaffiliate from the TUC and affiliate to the Minority Move- ment. Tom Bell argued in 'Workers' Life' that the Communist Party should work to split the existing and form new revolu- unions tionary' unions. When a strike broke out among 11,000 un- organized workers at Austin's Birmingham plant, Emile Burns called for the formation among these workers of a new industrial engineering union. The result of this was that the Minority Movement rapidly de- clined in strength, and by 1933 it was dead. The biggest sectarian adven- ture carried out by the Com- munist Party, however, was the attempt to form a 'revolutionary' union for the Scottish miners.

The Party had already made some important gains among the Scottish miners. In January 1927 they won all five seats on the Scottish executive from the Fife Union, plus the two full-time positions of miners' agent.

They also held both the sec- retaryship and the presidency of the Lanarkshire miners and six out of 1l of the Lanarkshire positions on the Scottish execu- tive. The right wing on the old Scottish executive postponed the annual conference of the Scottish miners because they knew they would be in a minority on the new executive. They then tried to 'use unpaid debts by the Fifeshire Associa- tion (debts contracted by the old right-wing leadership before the Communists took office) to disen- franchise the Fife miners.

Although there is no doubt that the right wing unscrupul- ously flouted every democratic principle in order to cling on to office, the Communist Party played into their hands by pull- ing out of the union. In fact, the right-wing position had been so desperate that they had formed their own break- away right-wing organization in Fife. In October 1928, the Com- munists called a 'Save the Union' conference to which 49 Scottish miners' branches sent delegates.

At this time the Party flatly denied that it intended to set up a new union. A 'Save the Union Committee' was established with its own paper "The Scottish Mineworker'.

wing intensified its The right against the Communist drive Party in all the unions, but especially amongst the miners. Then, in February 1929, the Communists issued, through the •Save the Union Committee', a call for a new Scottish miners' union. The extent of the split that this caused was shown by the fact that in Fife, where the Com- munist Party was strongest and where the right wing had broken away, the Fife miners' executive voted for the proposed new union by only 13 votes to 12.

in fact, enabled. the (This, right wing to recognize the right- wing breakway as the official union in Fife.) The Communist Party-domin- ated United Mineworkers of Scotland was set up at an in- augural conference April 1929. 132 delegates attended.

WIll Thorne Five months later—in Septem- ber 1929the first annual con- ference of the union could mus- ter only 64 delegates—a decline of over 50 per cent. Although the Communist Party continued to hold a strong position in Fife-Willie Gallacher was elected MP for W Fife in 1935—its support declined else- where. By 1935, however, the Stalinist 'Third Period' theory had given way to the new line of a 'Popu- lar Front Against Fascism'.

Not only the Labourites and but 'progressive Tories' were assiduously courted. And so, in January 1936, the United Mineworkers of Scotland was dis- solved. The militants had been led up a blind alley.

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

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

W. JEWELL

Shop steward, member of Lucas Industrial Equipment strike committee I think the most important rights are the rights to welfare bene- fits and education in section five of the Charter of Rights.

We have to resist the attacks of the Tories on the right of working-class children to free higher education. Even so, educa- tion is very narrow; what we are allowed to learn is what the people in power want us to learn. We're deprived of the educa- tion of the people who tell us to turn the handles. Our children leave school for dead-end jobs.

The vast majority are left with no thought of what they want real conception of the and no world around them. The whole capitalist system is geared only to give you the knowledge of the three Rs, SO that you can turn the handles.

I learned absolutely nothing at school, except to accept things as they are and not to question them. I had to find out later that life wasn't just a day-to-day thing, but that you had to think of what was ahead. The whole neighbourhood was taught not to question anything.

It was a conditioning, not a teaching. At school, no one told me real conditions of about the work. Everything you were taught seemed to be in isola- tion. You were educated to be a robot, a computer fixed to do a couple of sums. You weren't geared to think about the real world, where the than bosses had more money you and you weren't taught to think about the reasons for it.

When I went to work, it seemed right that a owned the man shipping line I worked for, and only kicked when I kicked I against the immediate things.

seemed Education separate from life but the knowledge of life itself is real education. The first real ' step is not in the but in the class classroom We should be taught struggle. what we are. The answer isn't better sylla- buses and better teachers. We have to fight for the right to education but we have to end the capitalist system to get it.

ALAN MITCHELL

He Is 16 and an apprentice electrician who works in the building industry in Aberdeen Over a million on the b'roo is deliberate Tory policy. They want to take away the strength of the working class and use the Industrial Relations Act to break the fight for the right to work.

The Labour Party and the trade unions should be making a fight. Feather tut-tuts, serious but takes no action. The miners' strike creates a golden oppor- tunity for a General Strike to throw out the Tories. But with the present leadership it won't happen. The ATUA Manifesto pro- vides the programme on • which to act. There's nothing in it I disagree with. The working class can only take power on a revo- lutionary basis if there is a con- scious struggle for Marxist theory. People who say they are left- wing socialists but avoid the question of communism give in to the Stalinists. They don't want the British people to know that Stalinism isn't really commun- These people are getting ism. more and more reactionary as the crisis of the capitalist sys- tem gets deeper. PAUL McGEEHAN Body plant works, Ford's, Dagenham It is very important to allow workers to decide on the Com- mon Market because the facts are being hiddenso that Euro- pean capitalists can treat Euro- for pean workers like slaves with no rights. In Ireland the small farmer ba the Common cannot survive Market because his produce can't compete with big land- owners. It is like going back to some- thing in the Middle Ages. Back to building walls again for a bowl of porridge or Ip a day—walls to separate the peasants off to avoid embarrassment. Back in Derry, the right to. a Workers Prose, Tuoso job is important, but wages are pathetically low. So even to get the conditions in Britain we have to get jobs otherwise the for everyone, bosses give you bad conditions and money, and threaten you with the sack. Also if British capitalists have the right to exploit countries, then workers have the right to live and work everywhere.

Women must get equal pay for some work so bosses don't use them against men. We're told about . Russians without any rights. But without the right to strike and organize we'll be in internment camps. This is the most backward government that has ever been in power. say we've got Social They but we have no Security, etc, control over it. Taxes are taken straight out of your wages. Standards for old example, are ridicu- people, for lous. Sooner or later they will be saying the older people are not productive, so they'li be put down. Ireland welfare doesn't In internment families. exist for Things won in the past are just being thrown out of the window.

It is our fault if we let them get away with it. We cannot get basic rights from this government. It is a monster which is now controlling uS. To keep our rights we have to fight. At the moment we can fight, like in Fords.. But in Ireland we cannot fight in the factories.

It is cheap labour up to the age of 18, then you get the sack.

No one chances answering the ro- foreman back, like here, for the fear of losing your job. The labour movement is weak back home. We have to have a new party, not like Wilson and the rest of the crowd. We thought troops came to help us, but found out otherwise.

They came to protect Unionist interests. We need a workers' party to unite Catholic and Protestant workers and spread the Workers Press. ase, Tuesday Fobruary 8, 1872 PAGE 5 "They we've got social зау security, etc, but we have no con- trol over It'

PAUL CORMACK

A 22-year-old ASTMS member In the Aberdeen School of Agriculture. He Is marrled with a small baby daughter You can't disagree with anything in the basic perspectives of the ATUA Manifesto. The harder it gets to make ends meet, the clearer it becomes that you either fight or go under.

That's the position the whole working class faces. crisis gets The sharper the the sharper the conflict with the Labour and Stalinist leaders be- comes. Look at the revisionist groups. In the 1950s and 1960s they talked left and called the Trotskyists ultra-left. Now they are forced into all sorts of di- versions to hold the working • class away from revolution.

They like tight-rope are walkers who now have to come down on one side or the other.

There has to be a sharp fight against these people. It's important to win over sec- tions of the middle class to the other- revolutionary movement, wise they will be pushed into re- actionary movements. Everything is coming together today-the free attacks on speech, N Ireland, and so on.

People are waking up to the fact that British soldiers are attacking British peopleturfing them out of bed in the early hours and the hauling them off to internment camps. The struggle for the United Socialist States of Europe is the only answer. This means unitins the working class against al those whoconsciously or not try to divide it. Look at Lawrence Daly. With the miners out in their first national strike since 1926, he gave an interview to the 'Aber- deen Press and Journal' which was just a plea for the middle class to put pressure on the Tories to concede to the miners.

Heath laughs his head off at that.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday February 8, 1 By John Spencer British imperialism has marked the Irish calendar with many a day of blood.

The jubilant paratroopers notching their rifles after shooting down 13 Derry workers are acting in the great tradition of British im- perialism-cold-blooded mur- der, terror and armed sup- pression. There are still many alive in Ireland who remember the days after World War I, when the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries, hired guns without honour or conscience, tried to for Irish crush the demand independence. The Black and Tans were carm the same uesday February 8, 1972 human material that formed the Freikorps and Nazis in Germany, and Mussolini's fascist bands in Italy. Many were former soldiers armies, from the wartime brutalized by years of trench warfare, jobless and ready for any dirty work. into the They were signed Royal Irish Constabulary, a para-military police force of 9,000 armed men. The RIC even with the aid of 30,000 troops had proved unable to defeat the tiny bands of armed Republicans ranged against them. The recruits were new hastily kitted out with the surplus brown uniforms and black leather belts which earned them their contempt- uous name. › * Armed with their carbines and Webley and Scott pistols, they had a single mission- terror and destruction. arrive in The Tans began to Ireland in March 1920 and they were soon followed out there by an even more sinister force-the 1,500-strong Aux- iliaries under General Crozier.

The Auxiliaries were an élite force. They consisted almost entirely of former Army officers. Many had seen service with the expeditionary force sent to Winston Churchill Russia by to fight alongside the White against the infant Armies Soviet Union. Their former ranks ranged from colonel to lieutenant.

More than half had battle decorations, and they • were paid fl a day, a large sum at a time when thousands of ex- officers pounding the were streets looking for work.

They were subject neither to police nor military discipline.

With the Black and Tans they shared a taste for torture.

Prisoners were often in- terrogated with pincers or lighted matches thrust under their toenails. One man, Ernie O'Malley, was tortured with a red-hot poker in Dublin Castle when he fell into the Auxiliaries' hands. A gallant Auxiliary officer, Major King, took a boy into a field in Drumcondra, put a bucket over his head and shot him through it. The gentlemen were having fine sport. By these means, according Prime Minister Lloyd to George, the British govern- ment of the day 'had murder by the throat. They were aided, as today, by a press campaign which represented ruins in Cork $ the Auxiliaries as 'cadets', and "bobbies' Black and Tans as and the IRA as 'murderers'.

what these 'bobbies' Just of was really were made re- vealed on November 21, 1920.

In Dublin that morning the

IRA

killed 14 undercover intelligence agents in a darin where a crowd was watching a game of afternoon crowd at They fired without warning and killed 14 people, including intelli- escape from IRA youth bayoneted in of balbrisgan, of their town. With them died a young prisoner who had no con- the Republicans nection with but had been arrested on 'besides clumsy and indis- suspicion, apparently because his hand shook while he was criminate destruction, actual looting and thieving as well as questioned. being drunkenness and dis- gross Sunday Croke Bloody at order are occurring'. Park was no accident. It had What he wanted was better undoubtedly been encouraged organized and more disciplined the and even organized by atrocities. military top brass. He added that he could not 'feel it right to At a Cabinet meeting ten the days before, Winston Churchill troops when the most brutal manner and find- had presented a memorandum ing redress, they take citing strong representations' action on their own account'.

from the military authorities for of reprisals re- These are words with a system gulated by senior officers.

familiar ring. They are echoed Tory speeches and today in (That is, a system similar to leading articles with exactly adopted by the the one later the same message. forces of Nazi Germany.) The Cabinet threw out "It is thought by Churchill's proposal, but only less such a policy because they preferred future and effec- discreditable more atrocities to be attributed to tive than what is going on the 'intolerable pressures'| on now, Churchill told the the troops rather than blamed Cabinet. deliberate on government He had had complaints that policy. It came to much the same thing. Only ten days later, as we have seen, the Black and Tans murdered 14 innocent spect- ators at a football match. They went, of course, unpunished.

All over Ireland. the troops.

the Auxiliaries and the Black and Tans were taking 're- prisals' as they pleased.

It was common practice to burn down a village or town- ship in the vicinity of IRA ambushes. Thousands were burned out of their homes.

The campaign reached its crescendo with the burning of December 12. Two Cork on days earlier martial law had been declared throughout the South and following an am- bush in which one of their men was killed, Auxiliaries and Black and Tans burst into the city and burned as much as it as they could. Prose, Tuaaday February 8, 1972 PAGE 7 Auxiliaries, the elite of the 'Black and Tans' on patrol in Dublin. which was garrisoning Cork at They took hundreds of gallons of petrol from military the time. depots with the connivance of The Essex Regiment was the and commanded by a certain Major guards rampaged through the city in a drunken Percival, later to win lasting military fame as the man who orgy of looting and burning.

surrendered Singapore to the As fire engines arrived to Japanese. flames, the put out the The massacres, the burnings Auxiliaries and the Tans cut and the whole atrocious policy their them hoses to prevent of the British Army and its operating. mercenary irregulars was Vast areas were gutted and backed hilt from to the the damage was estimated at Westminster. over f3m. Its primary purpose was to for the prepare the way In the House of Commons, partition of Ireland by forcing when first questioned, Republicans to the con- Hamar Greenwood, keen ference table. supporter of reprisals, claimed the treachery of Thanks to that British troops and police the Republicans' bourgeois- were not involved and that the nationalist leadership the citizens of Cork had burned successful policy in was its their own city down. Ireland partitioned aim. was Meanwhile the British mer- and British imperialism re- cenaries were strutting round tained hold the Six its over Dublin wearing burnt corks on Counties of the North. their caps. Bloody Sunday 1972 shows British imperialism The same braggart emblem just as bloodthirsty unofficial and became the cap- treacherous as it was 50 yeare an- badge of the Essex Regiment

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday Februar A series by our Spanish corres DURING the period from 1950 to 1970 European and American car monopolies took profitable advantage of the fascist domination of the working class in Spain. The big car groups established assembly plants throughout the country with the knowledge that one of the major planks Franco's regime is the outlawing independent workers' of all organizations. The companies which moved in to reap vast profits were Fiat in 1950, Renault 1955,, Citroen 1957, Simca and Chrysler 1965 and BMC-Morris 1967. The Seat company, formed in 1950, is a branch of the Italian Fiat and produces company, cars from Italian patents.

The National Institute for Industry has 36.63 per cent of the shares, Internazion Holding Fiat 36 per cent and Spanish banks and pri- vate individuals the remainder.

In 1970, the firm produced 283,678 units and made profits of some 849.5 million pesetas.

These cars were produced by the 24,000 workers in the mas- sive factory in the Zona Franca of Barcelona in Bajo Llobregat.

About 18,000 of these are manual workers and 6,000 are involved in clerical work, management or supervision. There is a three-shift system of working-morning, afternoon evening-and and the workers go to the factory in buses which leave the Plaza de Espana.

discipline Factory very harsh: small armies of overseers supervisors watch and over workers' movements on the shop floor and around the factory.

Since the factory was built in 1950 there have been many con- flicts - partial stoppages, go- slows, the boycott of canteens, etc. The company has unhesitat- ingly proceeded to sack the leaders of such movements. Strike movements and, in parti- cular, the struggle last October have been led by young workers who predominate in the factory.

From May to the end of 1971 the giant Seat car plant was the scene of constant bitter con- flict leading up to what was virtually a General Strike in the city and province of Barcelona.

For years the Seat manage- ment has used a special formula to try to hold down wages.

At the beginning of summer, production is increased to the maximum, so that in winter there is an excess of unsold cars and several thousand workers are through falling over each other lack of work. When it is time to negotiate a new agreement at the beginning of the , year, the company threatens bankruptcy measures, massive sackings, etc.

to justify the low increase offered.

The following is the diary of events in Seat which we have compiled from various under- ground leaflets and pamphlets published in Barcelona. May 14: April's pay is collected, along bonus payments, with amounting to 4,500 pesetas to 11,000 pesetas. Money is between 500 and 1,000 pesetas short in some pay packets, although out- been more or less the put has same as in previous months.

May 15: Nos. 1 and 2 shops strike four hours as a protest against the small bonuses which have been paid out. These are followed by strikes in rotation in all the shops. May 17: For the same reasons Nos. 3, 4 and 7 shops strike for several hours on both day and night shifts. No. 5 shop is the only one which does not strike; they say they will not strike, but they will not vote in next elec- tions. ay February 8, 1972 1 correspondent May 18: Union elections. All shops vote except for No. 5.

May 29: At 8 am, after two hours' work, several workers in the paint shop on the 1500 model line ask the foreman permission to go to the toilet. Foreman says that he has no-one to replace trem and so they cannot go. Several workers go with the union-representative to the super- intendent on the section.. gives the same answer: 'We can- not stop the line, so you will have to put up with it.' The.

workers go back to the section then all go to the toilet, taking tour to six minutes. At the end of the day all necessary produc- tion requirements had been ful- filled. June 2: The firm suspends them without pay for three days. They go to the Labour Court and appeal. On the same day the firm concedes ten minutes every two hours to go to the toilet. Days before the section superintendent had said that Fiat in Italy gave the paint-shop ten minutes rest every hour. June 5: When the workers found that the firm had no authoriza- tion to put on a night shift, they wrote a document signed by all the workers refusing to work at night and gave it to the manage- ment. The firm took no notice its and maintained position. Without consulting the union officials, it abitrarily selected 20 workers from the morning shift to work at night. June 7: Nos. 1 and 2 shops stop in protest at the night shift which the firm now wants to extend because of work require- ments. June 8: No. I shop continues its strike; No. 2 goes back to work.

The union official for the firm meets the management to discuss the workers' demands. The man- agement replies that it has per- mission from the government Labour Office to start a night shift, and asks for a return to normal working. After a meeting lasting 16 hours, no agreement is reached and the official sends the Labour Office a letter asking it to refuse a night shift since the majority of the labour force will work it only under compulsion.

June 9: The strike continues in No. 1 shop. No. 2 stops for an hour in support. Line 114 in shop No. 7 stops and the man- agement orders the line of bodies to stop since there are now no engines for them. At a meeting in No. I shop, which is now police, it is surrounded by decided to continue the strike.

Late in the evening, three docu- notice ments appear the on Labour board: one from the Office, which says that it has in request from the man.- its file a agement in 1964 to have a night shift, another from the firm normal asking for return to working, and the other is a copy of a note sent by the official to the Labour Office. June 10: Holiday: June Il: The strike continues in shop and line 114. The No. 1 foundry out also comes on strike: No. 4 shop and the line for the 124 bodies strike. There is normal working in the rest of the factory. Fourteen workers are sacked and a disciplinary note is issued on four union representa- tives. June 12: The strike continues in No. 1 shop and line 114. In the afternoon the company puts up a notice on all noticeboards, at the factory gates and on all buses saying that all direct workers in No. 1 shop ind on line 114 are suspended without pay on June 14 and June 15. If workers do not return to their jobs on the right shift on June 16, they will be understood to have broken Top: Sit down strike in front of the Tow Seat factory in Barcelona.

Each their work contracts. worker receives a letter with these sanctions. June 15: 300 at mass meeting in union offices. June 16: Men return to work and everything is carried out as normal. But 25 men are sacked and 13 union representatives are suspended without pay with disciplinary procedure pending.

June 17: Work as normal. Union representatives meet management and try to get a compromise on the sackings and sanctions.

June 18: The firm notifies that it is prepared to re-admit Il of the sacked men of its choice and lift some of the sanctions.

July 28: Day when decision. should be taken on sacked men in the Labour Court. The court is postponed until July 3l. From 10 a.m. strikes break out in all shops and the factory is soon paralysed. of the Town Hall in Seville. Bottom: Carworker ach July 29-July 30: Working as normal. Many leaflets are dis- tributed in the factory calling for workers to attend the court.

July 31: At I0 a.m. the trial begins. The Labour Court is surrounded by police and the streets are full of patrol cars, mounted police, and armoured cars. The police allow no one to enter; they say that the court- room is full, and ask people to move on. Car workers demon- strate in the street, shouting, 'No to the Seat trial!' A strike is started in the factory, but the management start to take the numbers of all those involved and the strike ends. August 10: A note in the press reveals that the Labour Court gave a sentence in favour of the sacked men, and gave the firm the option of re-employing them or giving them compensation.

Carworkers on the assembly line of the Those who had been sant- tioned write notes to the Minister for Labour and Union Relations asking him to inter- vene so that they are given back old jobs and to modify their the labour regulation which gives the firm the option of re-employ- ing or compensating. In September, after the holi- days, in all shops an outline for distributed agreement an was for discussion: its main demands were for the reinstatement of those sacked, a 40-hour week, an increase immediate wage 3,000 pesetas and the right to organize meetings and elect their own representatives. They were powerful demands.

The Seat company, backed by the fascist regime, was in no mood to make concessions.

month later bloodshed A erupted.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

Albert Camus, the French writer, whose philosophy of spontaneity has so deeply influenced western intellec- tuals, was above all a moralist.

He said of himself: 'I have tried with all my strength, know- does kill, and its victim is often its first love-truth—for in order to safeguard his own existence his moral world needs to reject history and rationality in favour of the irrational. He was undoubtedly the father of the hippie revolt, the so-called return to nature and spontaneity.

The struggle for truth, justice, beauty, purity and spontaneity dominates Camus world, but although one man can in fact live truthfully, justly and morally his life in relation to society may have little to do with ultimate truth. A moral code which is un- related to the history of struggle becomes merely a personal religion. This is why Simone de Beauvoir rightly described Camus as 'that without justice' ('ce just man juste sans justice'). The metaphysics of alienation which compound his magnificent contribution to art, in turn reduce justice to the confines of his own conscience. at the "Mermaid, The play written in 1949, is a key work in his transition from revolution to quietism. The new translator, Robert Baldick, has taken it upon himself to change the title from "The Just' to the 'Price of Justice', with little philosophical justifica- tion but, no doubt, an emotional one. Equally, Bernard Miles has taken it upon himself to direct the drama with little insight and 'The Price of Justice' by Al- bert Camus. Translated by Robert Baldick.

REVIEW BY ANNA TATE

a great deal of flurry. It is never- theless worth seeing the produc- tion if only for the contradictions it throws up, in spite of itself.

Set in Moscow in 1905,, the play is a good example of how, in his profound search for truth, Camus remained unaware of the degree of untruth necessary to make his own position viable.

The drama centres around group of 'socialist revolutionaries' who are engaged in a plot to murder the Grand Duke Sergei, and who, each in his own way, mirrors aspect of being one human and being revolutionary.

It is a study in reactions to murder within a political context.

In its searching exploration of human emotions, failings impulses it is a fine piece of writing. However, since it is also un- doubtedly a play which not only grapples with problems but poses conclusions, one has to confront the creation • politically. The play is set in a time when the broad lines of anarchy, terror- ism and socialism were blurred, except to those most advanced in their consciousness. There is a deliberate drive in Camus towards equating murder and assassination with social revolu- tion. Out of such an impasse only the exhilaration of despair can evolve. The young poet-revolu- tionary Yanek, who carries the writer's identification, and who kills the Grand Duke, decides against pardon or reprieve.

Camus has said in his 'Cahiers': "The final stage of revolt: agree to kill oneself so to as not become an accomplice of murder in general.' That then is Camus' sense of justice, to be irreproach- able, blameless, pure as Jesus Christ on the cross! It is religious and above all, it gives validity to those who are doing the reproaching and the Essentially, this is a blaming. middle-class morality. There is so much falsehood so much that is personal and into the universal and absolute.

It is not difficult to see why the post-war generation in France, and indeed throughout western Europe, suffering from actual and psychic shell-shock, emerging in- to lands fit not for heroes but tor alienated automatons, saw salvation in the profound per- sonalism of Albert Camus.

But what he calls his 'cry of confidence in man' and his belief 'in dialogues, in sincerity' hides a dangerously detached mono- logue — that of the man . who condemns the human condition but also condemns those who are locked in the contradictions of changing it. By posing false analogies, in all sincerity, he arrives at false conclusions, his own virtue in- tact due to that very sincerity.

Thus we can read in 'Notebook' — 'Marxism, pessimis- tic about human destiny and human nature, is optimistic about the march of history [its contra- diction]. I would say myself that, pessimistic about the human condition, I am optimistic about man' Were the initial assertions true, one might be able to validate but given that what follows, Marxism has nothing to do with • destiny pessimism about 'human and human nature' there is little left of this 'clever' philosophical statement in the nature of truth.

That is why Camus was indeed 'the just man without justice', and he is not alone in that— every present-day social democrat contradiction, suffers the same the same personalistic distortion.

Camus emerges above them only in the strength of his artistry.

Workers Prose, Tuaeday February &, 1972 PAGE 8

WORKERS

NOTEBOOK

PROTEST

then whole action was by over... This is either a very frank admission that the brigadier is 'We are not very revolu losing his grip on his sabre, party, tionary Arthu or perhaps he just had a pre- Jones, prospective Communist monition of something .. candidate parliamentary for Merthyr Tydfil last week.

VINTAGE

I'll they're not! The say Communist Party proposes to fight with yet another one-day protest-this For who still has anyone time on May 1. romantic hang-ups avout vin. John Gollan announced this Merthyr tage cinema star Lana Turner in Tydfil last week now's the time to act. also declared that he was He divorced She's iust been a scotsman talking to Welsh for the seventh time. men and that both had suffered Her are band ex-husbands under "English' (not 'capitalist') leader Artie Shaw, restaurant rule. Crane, baseball As a Scotsman, Gollan will owen team Bob Topping, owner no doubt be aware that Mon- lex Barker, sportsman May I is a Bank Holiday actor day, Faton and Ronald Dante.. Fred Robert in Scotland writer So the Communist Party is calling workers to go on strike on their holidays.

STORMS

As the man said: 'Not very revoluuonary.

ADMIRER

Stormy behind the making of 'Clockwork Orange' appears that It now Malcolm McDowell Defence correspondent of the broke three ribs during shoot- 'Daily Telegraph' is Brigadier ing of a scene in the film.

He W F K Thompson, noted for spent five days in hospital.

his reactionary views. (He is, He's been trying ever since incidentally, to the great admirer get producer/director of fellow brigadier Frank 'Kit' Stanley Kubrick to his pay Kitson, who salary for his days in bed.

is in charge of military intelligence. Thompson millions of each readers week about NATO etc But how does the old cam- himself perform when he's on the front lines? This is his report the day after the Rossville masacre: "Free Derry" was Square at about a quarter to four near the lorry with loud- speaker equipment from which Miss Bernadette Devlin due to speak. Beyond it and in rear of the Rossville Flats very large crowd. was Nothing of note was happen- ing so I made my way back to my hotel to park my car and later walked to the barrier the bottom of William St. The Stanley Kubrick Fair enough.

TRENDIES

But surprise, surprise. We just happened to be flicking Down 'Private Eye', the through the 'Australian Finan- "satirica" cial Review', the newspaper of magazine. there always abundant ammunition the bankers and brokers down to ridicule commercialization.

under, when we came across The japesters of Greek St the following advertisement are always ready Fat, jolly, William to lambast belching the 'trendies' who Rushton, one of the comedians Tparade around earning fat fees at the top of the 'Eye' milieu, while is revealed selling himself in advertising their

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Tuesday Febru On Monday, January 24, we ment' by Wheldale pit work Lavery. Since then we have this article. Today we also a to: The Editor, 186a Claphan

IAN YEATS

talks to Ogilvie Lodge secretary Evan Jones 'EVERYBODY has the right to work and the right to a decent standard of living—not as the capitalists are luxuries used to. I'd like to take the money just from the rich away as they've stolen it from the work- and I wouldn't have ing class any regrets. 'If that's communism and class that's what the working has got to do to survive, then I'm prepared to do it.' Ogilvie lodge secretary Evan Jones broke into a strike com- meeting to talk to mittee Workers Press. 'This strike is political. It's right up against the government and their pay policy. It's not the struggle of miners, it's the fight every trade union in the country. 'I think the Tories are pre- pared for an all-out effort to de- feat this strike. They are using the miners as a stepping stone in an attempt destroy this to country's trade union movement.

They want to break the miners so they can take the unions on piecemeal instead of altogether.

'The TUC has not been nearly firm enough. Our battle today is someone else's tomorrow. They should call a General Strike and push this government out. Jones and Scanlon [transport and en- union gineering chiefs] should give us much stronger support.

'The true facts about Tory policy have now come to light.

Workers are beginning to realize that Tory policy is to lower their standard of living. 'In the last two years the drop in workers' standards of living has been staggering. The cost-of- living has gone up 13 per cent

LETTER

day February 8, 1972 24, we carried an article 'Miners it worker and Socialist Labour Le e have been carrying the commen : also add two letters and welcome Clapham High St, London SW4 7L and they expect us to accept a 7-per-cent wage increase!

'I never agreed with the prices and incomes policy under last Labour government. It's all very well Heath saying now we rises, must all take 7-per-cent but it depends what you're earn- ing in the first place. 'Seven per cent of £30 is a lot more than 7 per cent of £12.

"The Tories say they can't afford to give the boys an in- crease of £6, yet they can give • the Royal family millions.

The people today are fighting for the right to work and the live. But there's right to difference between 1926 and to- day. "The people of 1926 didn't know what it was like to live other than in poverty. But today, and particularly the younger ele- ment, people are not prepared to reduce themselves to the level of poverty their fathers knew.

'We're heading for a revolu- SID HINCHCLIFFE irr Miners and the Tory govern- our League member Brian omments of other strikers on elcome any others. Send them

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tion here, civil war. It's only a tolerance. If matter of time and they try to use troops in this strike there will be strong re- taliation. People are very bitter.

'As far as the pits are con- cerned Heath has got to decide miner a whether to pay the living wage or line the pockets of the rich. He's got to decide whether he a coal in- wants dustry at all. 'The miner has been too loyal for too long. We've been negotia- shillings when other ting workers have quite rightly been asking for pounds. We've always put the country first. 'The lower-paid men are hardly existing-not living. Even when a man's working he has to get National Assistance.

'The miner can't win this But if a Labour strike alone. government is elected after a General Strike, we don't want as before. The the same lot answer is a Labour government TO WIN this strike decisively we have to break with the old traditions of leadership which the passive are bound up with obsolete, acceptance of an legalized trade unionism.

• leaders, If the NUM along to call with the TUC, were other unions out on strike with their members would us, know that respond. But they mass action, translated into a General Strike, would lead to an revolutionary struggle for open political aims. This they do not want, because they identify their interests and privileges with the retention of capitalism. These leaders can no longer the loyalty of miners count on to railroad through their_con- ditional wage settlement policies, which have meant annihilating hundreds of pits, and throwing nearly half a million miners on the scrap-heap. The confrontation between the miners and the government shows up the clear class antagon- the deep divisions which isms, exist between the working masses of wage earners and the capitalist class. The miners' wider claims are -FE irreconcilable with the restrictive

MINER.

PICKETS OUT NEAR OGILVIE PIT

following socialist policies.

'Nationalization is an out- of socialism. standing feature I'd nationalize all the industries and there should definitely be workers' control. The community at large should get the full bene- There fits of nationalization. should be an equal distribution of wealth.' Commenting the Young on Socialists' Right-to-Work marches Mr Jones said he thought now was definitely the time to raise the call for the defence of basic "particularly of the trade rights, unions and the right to strike.'

Like most of the men around him who had spent the night picketing Llewelyn's open-cast level on Fochriw mountain, Mr Jones thought the miners' strike could be long and decisive.

He said: "The men are much harder now after a week without pay than when the strike began.

And some of the wives are more for the strike than the men.'

policies of leaders who fail to recognize the class character of the struggle. They are being dragged along by the mass will of the miners, and strive to suppress the class- consciousness of the rank and file, instead of giving it expres- sion and strengthening its sense of class solidarity. Desperate Victor Feather and Joe Gormley are desperately seeking will sub- solution which ordinate the miners' wage claim to the 'national interest'.

In other words an intensified drive for more production and profit, with further drastic _cut- backs in manpower, and a turther decline in our living standards is posed. This would make the miners' . union the slave of the capitalist machine, and mean a return to the mass poverty of the 1930s. We have to stop this standing firm for the original wage demand. We have to get rid of the Tories, and the only way to do this is for the rest of the working class to unite behind the miners in a General Strike against the capitalist attacks.

NERS STRIKE

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AS A member of the National Union of Railwaymen, I would like to express my support for miners their struggle the against the Coal Board. I feel the NUR leadership are letting the NUM down by not instructing their members to the movement of all coal stop traffic. nationalized industry 00 worker that, although none of us would want the old owners back, nationalization has been a dis- appointment as far as wage rates are concerned. few railwaymen get Only a anything like a decent wage. Signalmen at Leeds City Box are £30. per week, but about on they're the highest paid.

and track- porters Railmen, low as £18.25. be as men can For some, the rate is £17.20 but by the 'Minimum Earnings Level" agreement it has to be brought , to £18.25—but for this a man must not refuse reasonable overtime'. We have a wage claim in for a 'reasonable increase'. It was rejected last week even before the union oflicials met the man- agement. If the 7 per cent norm is imposed on the miners, it'll be coppers for us. The whole trade union move- ment should come in on the miners' struggle. In particular, NUR members - especially mem- bers of the Loco Department— should attend their branch meet- ings and call for the blacking of all movements of coal during the miners' strike. Keith Harding Leeds No. 4 Branch NUR Whilst bureaucratic control of the pits is tolerated, the traitors at the top will strive for a reconciliation between labour and capital. We must force the leadership to fight under our with policies deter- direction mined by us. With this we have to expose clearly the role of the more Stalinists, who pose as the real leaders of the miners. They have infiltrated into official positions in the union, and use their influence to block the main highway of struggle, to disarm ing the miners. In my opinion, these officials will continue to retreat. When their treachery, corruption and manoeuvring fail to weaken the miners' they will welcome the intervention of the Industrial Relations Act like manna from heaven. throw up new leaders, and old will be thrown into the dust- bin of political history.

This is a common fight for common aims. If we have faith in ourselves and each other we shall triumph. Sid Hinchcliffe Glasshaughton Colliery

Sharp class letter by dead picket's

FRED

MATTHEWS,

miner and father of four children from Dunscroft, near Doncas- of the labour ter, was knocked down and active member until my 1iUY Calicit killed by a scab driver outside Keadby power station last During uterime Thursday. A letter from his seen improvements in the conditions working class. 76-year-old mother Ellen was 1 have also

LOWCYCL.

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read tn the miners' national the suiterine Tane fight to maintain and improve the 'rally in Trafalgar Square on standards those who living Sunday. She wrote: produce the wealth It is hight 1 WISH on behat of m vOu • family to express our grat keep the trade unions free, for the will you tude to the whole of the trade be retarded back to the last beli ion novement or mer kno SOns WInO aes en con and considerate action since the actively engaged tinue son Freddie the fight just as Freddie would tragic deal or my whilst on picket duty. nave aone. I have no doubt that this fight 1 mvself have alwavs been an

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Name Address will be won, but it will need the utmost solidarity in the trade union movement and condemna- tion of those who blackleg on their fellow men. My grief at the cut off in the loss of my son prime of his life will probably diminish when this fight has been won against the most vicious Tory government of this cen- tury. Therefore may God be with you all in these critical times whilst you continue the fight which you cannot afford to lose.

Nor can you lose if the whole of the trade union remain movement united and steadfast. Ellen Matthews

ITALIAN

MOVES

DOOMED

ATTEMPTS by Christian Demo- crat leader Giulio Andreotti to issues Andreotti is seeking to patch the coalition of former Christian Democrats, Socialists, Social Democrats and Republi- at least until the General cans, Election due in May 1973.

But he is highly unlikely to succeed where outgoing Prime Minister Emilio Colombo failed and Italy may be forced into an election within the next few .

weeks. IN REGGIO EMILIA a court has acquitted four socialists charged with slandering Giorgio Almir- ante, head of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement and a former official in the Mussolini The socialists reproduced in part a manifesto of May 17, 1944, allegedly signed by Almi- rante, warning anti-fascist parti- sans that they would be executed if they did not surrender.

MUJIB PRAISES

STALINISTS

AND TORIES

BANGLA DESH premier Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has completed a two-day visit to India — his first official visit abroad as head of the new state. Subjects of his talks with Indian premier Mrs Indira Gandhi were: withdrawal of the 50,000 Indian still troops in Bangla Desh, the future of non- Bengali Moslems in the country and Indian aid to rebuild the war-shattered nation. Before leaving for India, Sheikh Mujib announced that he had accepted an invitation to visit the Soviet Union in 'a month or two. Bangla Desh would have close relations with the Russian gov- ernment, he said, 'because of its stand on the Bangla Desh issue'.

Stalinists never lifted a Desh during the war, and kept up deliveries of arms and aid to Yahya Khan for some time after the invasion started. Mujib also praised the role of the British government during the war. But even as he spoke, British Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home arrived in India on a three-day visit to coincide with the beginning of the annual bilateral consultations between Britain and India. According to Sir Alec, there were 'no outstanding differences' between the two countries.

Workers Prose, Tuesday February 8, 1972 PAGE 11

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday Febr A VEILED threat of possible future redundancies was issued yesterday by Chrysler UK Ltd as 6,500 carworkers at Linwood, Renfrewshire, returned to work. Meanwhile national two newspapers have been at pains to point out that a pay settle- ment at Linwood • is not a the • striking precedent for miners. Writing in the Chrysler news- paper about the end of their month-long strike, chief execu- tive Gilbert Hunt warned that 'not only the company but the employees... may haye to count the cost. 'What may now be termed as a victory is really only a new contract which could have been made without a strike and it will in due course bring very serious problems for the com- pany and some of our employees.'

Most of the money lost during the strike could never be made up—so there would be less to invest in new products and new plant. The Chrysler workers last week accepted an offer of an immediate £5-a-week rise, back- dated to January 1, and a further £l a week in October. The deal, which will run until June of next year, has confirmed many miners in their determination to stick out their struggle.

Both yesterday's 'Times' and "The Economist', published on Saturday, were anxious to explain the company's special position and the reasons why the Coal Board is not going to do the same. 'The Times' pointed out that Chrysler was in 'the embarrass- ing position of conceding a large wage increase while a publicly- owned industry is holding out for a settlement less than half as large' Its Business News editorial ended up, however, as a veiled plea for some more authoritarian pay policy than the Tories are operating even at present.

"The NCB, said The Econo- mist' approvingly, 'has no inten- tion of offering the miners f5 or anything like it; nor does it show much sign yet of going beyond the extra £3 a week... that it offered just before the strike began.' Rail hold-up

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rail services into London's Waterloo station yester- day were again hit by can- cellations caused by a week-old Southern Region drivers' work- to-rule. Thirty trains were cancelled, 19 of them in the rush hour, and other services were delayed up to ten minutes. A British Rail spokesman said they expected about 150 train cuts during the whole day.

The unofficial work-to-rule by the 1,400 drivers in the region's SW division is over a mileage bonus dispute. No talks are expected till tomorrow.

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01-622 7029 INTERNEE was missing from.

Long Kesh internment camp, a Ministry of Home Affairs said in Belfast yesterday. Road blocks were set up around Belfast.

Officially escapee not being named, but unofficially he is understood to be Francis Mc- Guigan, brigade officer in the IRA, interned on Provisional August 9. WORKERS at the Imperial Smelting Corporation, Avon- Bristol, voted yesterday mouth, to continue their strike, begun last Wednesday following a re- lead poisoning. The port on has made the dispute,

AUEW

300 contract workers, involving official. asday February 8, 1972 POLICE MOVED in force against miners and other work ing a big Gas Board coke Birmingham. Day 29 of the strike opened with a 500-strong picket of miners mainly Yorkshire massing outside the depot, at Saltley, where the board has 100,000 tons of coke stock- piled. There were clashes as 300 police • attempted, with arms linked, to stop the men halting lorries moving in and out.

Saltley-the last big fuel store left in the Midlands-is crucial to the success of the strike there.

Recognizing this, workers from local building sites and the SU Carburettor plant joined the picket. Only ten men were allowed by® the police to approach drivers, most of whom turned away from the depot as requested. When two lorries broke through the picket-line, however, police fought to hold back the crowd which immediately closed in on them. At least 15 arrests were made.

Two pickets and policeman a were taken to hospital. City police had been put on an emergency two-shift system in- hours' volving an extra four for hundreds of men and duty Special Branch officers were also at it in the be hard seen to crowd picking out likely candi- dates for arrest. the pickets said back in even they. would stronger force this morning.

At Cadeby colliery, S York- shire, a strong force of police escorted a few safety officials— members of the National Associ- of Colliery Overmen and ation Deputies—through a heavy picket line. It was the first safety check there for three weeks. In Willesden, London, yester- day five Kent miners were re- obstruction outside charges of Charrington's coal depot at Neasden on Friday. charged with The men were obstructing the footway and ob- structing Sgt James Miller in the execution of his duty. NACODS members stayed Penrhiwceiber from away S colliery near Mountain Ash, wales, yesterday atter previous heavy picketing. Miners' wives yesterday took the Coal over picketing at Board's W Wales headquarters at Tondu near Bridgend. They linked arms to prevent clerks entering the building for half an hour, then allowed them through. The petticoat picket, about described as 100-strong, - was good-humoured.

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MOST places will have mist or fog patches at first, clearing slowly during the morning, but returning again at night. There will be showers in most coastal districts, but they will be isolated in W Scotland and N Ireland.

will be dry Many inland areas with sunny periods in the after- noon. of Over southern counties England the showers are likely to become more frequent and pro- longed later in the day. It will be mild except in E and N Scotland, where temperatures will be near normal. Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Rain at times in the E.

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TREVOR JOHNSON

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

WORKERS lobbying power w talks in London yesterday calle in support of the miners.

The talks between elec- tricity chiefs and power union leaders took place against a background of a threat of an overtime. ban from midnight last night by 107,000 power station manual workers. On the lobby Trevor was Johnson of the London Elec- tricity Board. They've talked long enough,' Trevor said. 'Now they should call strike action to back up the miners. Anything else would be stab in the back for the a miners. Separate 'But you can be sure if the leaders don't do anything, then and file will. The the rank executive has dragged these talks for so long hoping. the miners would win the fight for them."

Jack Ashby from Westminster district LEB commented: 'It's a colossal waste of time.

We should be getting a wage increase tied to the cost of living. But irrespective of what decision they take today, it will not do the miners any good, because they the two issues, Want to separate During yesterday afternoon's talks, electricity chiefs raised the ceiling of their offer by 15p a week to £1.90. The bottom limit still stands at £1.60. Power workers, however, are claiming rises ranging from £2.10 to £2.70 a week. As we went to press the two sides had been together for half-an-hour after mid- a afternoon adjournment. ATUA miners' meeting

PONTYPOOL

Tuesday February 8, 7 p.m.

Cambrian Club, Talywain, nr Pontypool. Speaker: Yorkshire miner.

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FEBRUARY'S Appeal Fund Is now We beain underway. well with £180.51 and we have £1,250 to raise. As the Right-to-Work march makes Its way from Cumnock to Kirconnell, support i from trade unionists everywhere continues to come In. All eyes on these are march for youth. They every worker to defend his basic right.

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WHITEHALL

LEADERS

THREE MEN appeared at Bow St yesterday accused of conspir- arising out of the Anti-In- acy ternment League march on Satur- caused scenes day which in Whitehall. Grey (24), John Christopher the Anti-Internment League poli- Holland Rd, tical organizer, of Kensington, London; John Foseph Flavin (28), described as a negoti-

JACK ASHBY

ator, of Kenlor Rd, Tooting; and Michael Christopher O'Kane (36), carpenter, of Ryde Vale Rd, Bal- were remanded on bail un- ham, February 14 til their in own recognizance of £100 and sureties of £500 each. They were charged with con- spiracy to contravene Section. Act 1936 of the Public Order between 8.30 and 8.50 p.m. on February 5 in Whitehall. The section covers the use in public places and public meetings of threatening behaviour or the display which of signs are threatening or abusive or insulting, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace. ower workers' pay claim Det Chief Supt James Neville lay called for strike action objected to bail. But after hear- Mr Bernard Simons, ing for the the Mr magistrate, Kenneth decided

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grinders the to allow bail. at

BSA

Heath, factory Small At Marylebone, six men were at Birmingham, who ended a fort- each remanded bail until on April 14 night's strike Thursday, last in their recog- own nizance of £50 and one surety of walked out again vesterday when talks on their pay claim failed to £50. reach During the Two charged with agreement. were behaviour, two with earlier dispute, about 700 threatening pro- duction workers were laid damaging a police van, one with off. but having an a management spokesman offensive weapon and said yesterday afternoon it had officer with assaulting a police not been necessary to lay anyone and with grievous one causing far. bodily harm to a police officer.

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Jaguar assembly Lambeth car was At five people halted at Coventry yesterday and appeared charged variously with 2,000 workers were laid off after assault, using threatening 350 clerical workers walked out behaviour and possessing pay dispute. affensive weapon.

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A storekeepers and One man was given a three- internal drivers at Leyland's Forth suspended prison sentence Triumph, Speke, Liverpool, fac- assaulting olice inspector The others were walked out on Thurs- and fined £30. tory day called off their bonus strike remanded to dates later this yesterday. month, March, and April. Young Socialists Vational Right to Work Campaign from Glasgow to London arrives in

CARLISLE

Saturday February 12

COME TO OUR RALLY

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1:

City Ha arlisle 7.00 p. n see our documentary play

"THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION'

irected by Corin Redgrav ritten by Tom Kempins followed by a meeting Speakers G. HEALY (SLL Natlonal Secretary) Admlasion 25p|