Workers Press no. 688

workers press Answer the TORY lockout-LABOUR must

FORCE A GENERAL

'NO SMITH DEAL'-8,000 MARCHERS

DAILY ORG

THE TORY government has thrown to the working class and its trade un massive power shutdowns, it has d Lock-out. State of Emergency regulat of each week means millions of work —deprived of their livelihoods.

Behind this ruthless decision are all the plans the Heath gov- ernment has been preparing to destroy living standards and working conditions which have been gained through trade union struggle since the war. It is now class against class—no holds are barred. Listen to Heath speaking to a Tory rally in Liverpool on Friday night: From next Monday a great part of British industry will be on half time.

Millions of men and women will be put out of work as their factories close down. Some jobs will be permanently 'The miners' leaders are now pre- paring to put literally millions-yes, millions-of their fellow workers and fellow trade unionists out of work.'

with all the Tory He concluded menace he could muster: "They could go back to work. They should go back to work. But every family in the land will suffer if they do not.'

The class clarity of this completely new situation has taken the reformists and class collaborators by surprise. They've spent the past 48 hours in concert with sections of the employers bemoaning the fact that the government amassed sufficient coal stocks to defeat the strike. If the government had been better pre- pared, the reformists would have been the very people who would have stood by while the Tories attempted to eco- nomically suffocate the strike. But this reformist treachery has been knocked on the head by the rapid development of class-consciousness over the past year.

The miners have learned well the lesson of the postmen's defeat. They are not prepared to stand by idly and watch the government organize scab herders to deprive them of their living. They instinc- tively grasp the life-and-death nature strike and have waged their their picketing accordingly. Heath and his Cabinet, it must be said, in kind. They have replied are immediately concerned with the state of the economy, the balance of payments or British capitalism's position in world markets. They are prepared to endanger everything even to the extent of wound- and company profits and dividends ing through forcing bankruptcies — to carry their single, vital historical task-to defeat the miners. If the miners can be smashed, the Tories will feel they are strong enough to go ahead with the Industrial Relations Act, entry into the Common Market and creation of pre-war levels of un- employment. THIS SAME class ruthlessness was behind the Londonderry massacre.

THE SAME political guns that claimed 13 victims on Bloody Sunday are now being pointed at the heads of the miners.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDA

LY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

thrown down the gauntlet rade unions. By enforcing t has declared a General regulations for three days of workers will be laid off

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THE SAME Cabinet which took deci- sions on Londonderry, took decisions to shutdown power supplies throughout the country, endangering people's lives.

THE SAME government that deprives miners of social security benefits, also deprives the relatives of Magilligan and Long Kesh internees of benefits.

The gravest mistake would be to under- estimate this government's determination.

For them, everything is at stake. Satur- 'Daily Tele- Tory circles: The confrontation with the miners, however it turns out, should teach the government a sharp lesson. It is to be hoped that it will lose no time in taking the necessary steps to ensure that when the next trial of strength occurs the issue will not be in doubt. Action must be taken, and quickly, to amend the law with regard to the payment of supple- mentary benefits to strikers and their families. There must be strong penalties in future for obstructive and violent picket- ing, which also needs to be more rigorously defined. We have called the government unprepared. It would be wrong to do so without drawing atten- tion to further dark possibilities for which it must also be ready.

Indeed, it is not mere panic to see looming in the future the ingredients of something like a second General Strike. Are we prepared for this?

Here we have the leading Tory news- paper in effect calling on the government to prepare a General Strike.

Now contrast this language of class conflict, this exhibition of the cold, brutal language of the ruling class, with the MONDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1972 * No 688 • 4p

IMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

the wishes of the people; it has introduced

HE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

the Industrial Relations Act in the face

ILIST LABOUR LEAGUE

of opposition of the the overwhelming taken Trade UnIon movement. school milk, increased the price of backsliding of the leadership of the trade school meals, increased dental and optical Engineers' and labour movement charges despite its promise of A Better leader Hugh Scanlon has denounced the Tomorrow'. "blackmail. But if Heath power cuts half "blackmailers', Scanlon In deciding to shut down of company are could swiftly be arraigned for aiding and British. industry three • days week beat and attempting the abetting! miners into submission, Was theories have absolutev no not on it Thic recommendation mandate. They are now ruling in Britain that the engineering unions extra-parliamentary way. and Ulster in an claim? Didn't from the national wate such this seriously weaken the miners in the There is only one answer early stages of their fight?

call upon the Labour and leaders trade union to launch an Frank Chapple of the electriciand and immediate campaign to make this gov• plumbers' union excused his retreat in the The government's ernment resign. settlement (7.75 per cent) sav- nower nav jobs of millions of Threat The ing that this left the way treat open to workers and the demands of the miners the "special case Heath has miners as a can only be met by a General Election. by accented nannies gesture In this sharpening situation Pening political treating the miners as a "special case' on the wages chopping block!

the Young Right-to-Work marches now assume paramount Harold Wilson's only contribution Ac a direct challenge to the imnortance been far has to complain bitterly that government, they have already received traditional class. wide support from the labour and trade Heath doesn't crade the 10 Downing collaboration summit at No. union movement. Tha mass rally at the Wilson's St with the miners' leaders. But Empire Pool, Wembley, on March 12 appeal to class compromise totally ignores biggest anti-Tory gather- must become the today's economic realities.

ing held since they. came to -Dower June 1970. the Tory Cabinet is the high In reality. The demands of the hour are clear: bankers, brokers and command businessmen of the City of London. • Make the Tories resign!

war on the working • Replace them with a Labour govern- Likes all enemano staffs, it pledged the basic responsible ment restore right to work! electorate. to • Nationalize the major industries with- government lost its mandate out compensation and under workers' office almost as was as it remain soon control! elected. did it betrayed the when • Repeal the Industrial Relations Act!

housewives sky- and prices did when • End rocket: created more internment and withdraw the than million unemployed when its troone from histor election manifesto promised to reduce the • No to Common Market entry!

numher out of work, it did on when it stampeded the country into Europe after SLL Central Committee February 12, 1972 promising not to do so if it was against

THOUSAND

demon- strators marched from different rallv of Tandon toa in Trafalgar Square yesterday against the settlement with the Rhodesian racialist regime.

The lamanctrotion was organ- ized by the Rhodesia Emergency Committee. embracing organizations from the Methodist Church and Liberal Party Communist Party and Inter- national Socialism. CP steward fro steward from

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-welcomed the presence Britnim. of churchmen at the rally *All those who be claim to Christians Conservative Cord is desd red imber that the is described in the Bible as OUR Father,' he said. *In Rhodesia they are violating basic premise the of their own theology.' Natbnal Fron members of the About members the march before they were hustled away by police.

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY FEBRUARY 14, 1972 • No 688 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Answer the TORY lockout-LABOUR must

FORCE A GENERAL

ELECTION

THE TORY government has thrown down the gauntlet to the working class and its trade unions. By enforcing massive power shutdowns, it has declared a General Lock-out. State of Emergency regulations for three days of each week means millions of workers will be laid off -deprived of their livelihoods.

the wishes of the people; it has introduced

STATEMENT BY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

Behind this ruthless decision the Industrial Relations Act ion the face

OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

the the overwhelming opposition are all the plans the Heath gov- Lace Union movement. take away school milk, increased the ie is promised a Bacter ernment has been preparing to THE SAME Cabinet which took deci- backsliding of the leadership ol tae trade school meals, sions on Londonderry, took decisions to labour movement. Engineers' Scanlon has denounced charges despite its promise oI A Tomorrow'. working conditions which have Heath the country, endangering people's lives.

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half Scan on deciding shut hackmallers cown THE SAME government that deprives been gained through trade union could swiftly be arraigned for aiding and British industry three • days a week benefits, also and to beat the into abetting! miners struggle since the war. It is now of Magilligan and Was it use ones are not on his class against class—no holds are Long Kesh internees ol Denels.

mandate. They are now ruling in Britain that the engineering unions retreated and 1 ne gravest mistake would be to under- from the claim? Didn't government's determination.

this seriously at stake. Satur- anto all Listen to Heath speaking to a Tory Daily Tele. A tre momentars thinking, in powerful Liverpool Friday night: unappie or tue rally in Tory circles: 'From next Monday a great part of settlement (7.75 per cent) say British industry will be on half time.

no heat laser ine the government a sharp lesson. It is to marche 1OW balalloull a airect chalenge to tnt menu doest a sace me he their Downe The mercury aL lIk 12 ramizes. March must become the biggest anti-Tory gather- tonys economic reanues, manity the ba Cabin brokers hand 61669 move The demands of the hour are clear: defined. have yv e Task is al-oll war or me worko cass • Nationalize the government lost its mandate to by Class out compensation and under workers' House ves and alone pres to y

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troops from unste and WItH ccalcu more •ader in erect clo • No to Common Market entry!

to Precontrast rais take: If the government had been better pre- the reformists would naive conflict, this exhibition of the cold, Eurode after who would have stood people promising not to da so if it was against attempted while the eco- the But this

'NO SMITH DEAL'-8,000 MARCHERS

reformist treachery has been knocked on the head by rapid development of class-consciousness over the past year.

The miners have learned well the lesson

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waged strike have Their picketing accordingly. The demonstration ized by the Rhodesia Emergency mained concerned ta the sate ot Campaign Committee, embracing replied concerned with He Mendaisi mumcolatery Church and Liberal Party to the the economy, the saance ol paymens o Communist Party and Inter- British capitalism's position world

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of churchmen at the rally If the miners can be smashed, the Tories will feel thev are strong enough to 'All those who claim be to ahead with the nonstra Kanons Christians in the Act, entry into the Common Market and Party should remember that the of the of pre-war levels the Bible as Lord is described in employment. OUR Father, he said.

THIS

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class ruthlessness was In Rhodesia they are violating behind the Londonderry massacre.

the of their own basic premise theology. THE SAME political guns that claimed • About 60 of the members 13 victims on Bloody Sunday are now National Front staged being pointed at the heads of the 1 counte demonstration the march miners. they were hustled away by police.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday February FINANCE Ministers from Fr many hope to draw up a join economic and monetary uni Chancellor Willy Brandt and dou at the end of last week.

This would later be put to other Common Market mem- bers. But though Bonn and Paris satisfied with the two were leaders' talks, it was emphasized that there would be much hard any concrete bargaining before and closer financial steps economic integration could be announced. In a statement after his two- day talks with Brandt, Pompidou claimed: 'W Germany and France more united than ever are their policies, both bilaterally with respect to the con- and struction of Europe.' He stressed Britain's important role in a closer EEC union.

The next European summit will be next weekend's Pompidou- Heath meeting. An enlarged EEC summit will also be called to meet in Paris.

revealed week's talks Last France's anxiety to reduce the margin of fluctuation permitted between European currencies. In return it is ready to see taxes, capital markets and budgets in- cluded in common policies.

In the French view, these closer ties are the only way in Europe can resist the which United States, a question given greater urgency by the fear of a further early dollar devaluation.

Franco-German relations have over the been none too good past year, mainly because of con- over monetary questions. flicts In Paris, too, W Germany has a : US often been seen as satellite, too dependent upon the umbrella and American nuclear ground troops for its defence to play a genuinely European_role.

But on both sides of the Rhine it is felt the US will no longer support European capitalism.

So the talks took place in the shadow of the US and with the growing strength of the working class in the background..

With this in mind Pompidou also declared that there was the two agreement between countries on Bonn's E European policy and that they wanted the proposed European Security Con- ference to be held as soon as possible. With this present E-W detente, European union becomes more definitely a protection society for the ruling class against the working class. And they want to drag the Stalinist bureaucracies into this policing job. As Heath told the United Nations in 1970, the principal danger . international not (between capitalists) but civil war (between classes). Spanish students at MASS MEETINGS were held in many faculties in Madrid univer- sity at the end of last week in support of locked-out medical students and university reform.

Armed police have broken up these meetings in their usual brutal fashion. Within • half an hour they forced all students out of the Philosophy Faculty.

y Fobruary 14, 1972 AMERICAN B-52 bombers carried out 13 waves of attacks suspected National against Liberation Front and N Viet- namese positions in the Central Highlands of Vietnam at the weekend.. It the biggest single was bombing attack in Vietnam for more than two years. The attacks, aimed at points around Kontum city, took place from Friday noon until dawn on Sunday. With President Nixon's Peking visit only a week away rom France and W Ger- p a joint position on the ary union discussed by dt and President Pompi- FEW international bankers are happy about the French pro- posal for a 2 per cent fluctua- in European currencies tion. against the dollar. At present they can fluctuate 4½ per cent band, within a making the maximum range for any two currencies 9 per cent.

Central bankers in informal discussions Zurich before: gr in today's routine Bank of Inter- national Settlements meeting A TOP Indian official has com- plained that the enlargement of the Common Market will have an adverse effect on the trade of developing countries. Mr H. Lal, secretary to the Trade in Ministry of Foreign New Delhi, pointed out that they would be robbed of trade preferences under the General- ized Scheme of Preferences put THE ANNOUNCEMENT that Juan Peron is willing to run for the Argentine presidency, which he held from 1946 to 1955, is seen as a tactical move to try to unite his badly-split followers.

BRANDT FOR

POLAND

A EUROPEAN security con- will top the talks list ference when W German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Poland later this Party year to see Communist leader Edward Gierek. want closer Polish leaders economic and technical links with W Germany to assist in over- coming serious internal problems.

ts attacked Attempts at organizing demon- strations were prevented by the police who were using new armoured cars and patrolling the campus with sub-machine guns.

Elsewhere in Madrid, in the Spanish Foreign Ministry, Polish diplomatic delegation was concluding talks with Franco's representatives. (see p. 1I), the American com- mand claims the NIF is pre- paring a major offensive in S Vietnam, But there is still no sign of the offensive actually taking place. The New China news agency stated yesterday: 'The fact that the Nixon administration is accelerating the preparation for a new military adventure while talking glibly about a peaceful settlement furnishes added proof that its profession of peace is fraudulent.'

SOVIET STAFF

TOLD TO

LEAVE PARIS

THREE MEMBERS of the Soviet embassy staff in Paris have been ordered to leave France, accord- ing to 'France-Soir'. It claims that the embassy's No. 3 man, Alexei Krokhiné— said to be a KGB general-and two secretaries were asked to following information leave divulged by Oleg Lyalin who de- fected from the Soviet embassy in London. There is no official confirm- ation from the French govern- ment and Soviet officials were not available for comment.

heard that narrower margins might make the systems more unstable than at present.

If a 2 per cent change proved inadequate to correct an un- balance and a bigger devaluation was necessary as a crisis step this would throw the system into confusion. But some think that ore: greater rigidity in currency move ments can be achieved by tech- nical means. m- into operation by the Common Market six, Britain and Japan last year. • He charged that restriction on exports from developing coun often imposed tries were violation of the General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade. India had had trouble in this respect with items like cotton and jute manufactures. The Peronistas are still an im- in portant force Argentine politics and will be permitted to I their own ticket in the run on March 1973 elections, the govern- time they ment says. The last contested, in 1962, they won a landslide victory, but the elec- tions were annulled when the army took over. The 76-year old ex-president's willingness to enter the election was expressed by his personal representative, Hector Campora, when he arrived in Buenos Aires after a two-week visit to Peron in his Madrid exile. Campora is secretary-general of the Justicialist Party, the main Peronist organization. He said that Peron wanted the elections to be brought forward to this year. Neither he nor Peron's third wife, a 40-year old ex-night club dancer, have been able to unite the warring factions claim- ing to support Peron. Argentine is ruled. at present by an army group led by General Lanusse, which took over in June, 1966. It has undertaken to re- store 'democracy' and last year lifted the ban on political parties.

It is unlikely that it will change the date of elections, especially as this will improve the Peronists' prospects, RESOLUTIONS in favour o Right-to-Work marches have following AUEW organ brackets): South Shields' AUEW No. 1; de Hebburn No.. 2 (finance promised): Glasgow District Committee; Dundee; Kilbowie (Clydebank); Aberdeen No.

(£3); Pilton, Edinburgh (£10): Erith District Committee; En- field District Committee; Totten- ham No. 6; Charlton (£2.50); Dagenham No. 3 (£5); Plaistow (£2); Gladstone Park No. 1 (£2); Dartford No. 8 (f2); Ilford No.

3 (to organize collections in the factories it covers). Mitcham; Deptford (£1); Bér- mondsey (£2 and a delegation to Wembley); Camberwell (£1.52); Erith technical and supervisory Workers S section London Junior Committee (pledged to raise at least £25); Watford DATA (£2); Balham 290 (£I); Harrow, shop section (£10 accommodation); (17 Harrow, technical section and accommodation); Sunder- land DATA (finance promised); Slough No. 4 (£5); Swindon 350se (£5); Portsmouth Leigh Park No.

2 (£5); unanimous support from 100 Portsmouth AUEW shop stewards; Swindon District Com- mittee AUEW; Swindon 'New' (El); Swindon Penhill (£3.20); Swindon Walcot (£4 and a special meeting on the march); Swindon No. 8 (£3.55); Watford DATA (£2); Adefield and Garston AUEW branches are organizing collections; Liverpool 21; Brad- ford No. 4 (E1); Bradford No.

5 (£1); Bradford No. 8 (£2); Bradford District Committee; Shipley No. 1 (£l); Thornbury (£1). Acocks Green, Birmingham (£4.60); Washwood Heath No. 1; Shelwood No. 2; Coventry No. 5 (£3); Stratford No. 2 (£5); Bir- mingham No. 27; Solihull (50p); Stopsley, Luton (£5); Warwick 249 (£2); _ Bury Park, Luton, covering Vauxhall car workers: Coventry 322 (f1); Coventry 49, 59, 73, 74, 75, and 45; Coventry District Committee

AUEW.

Coventry AUEW 25 has sent £2.25 and will collect at each meeting till the end of the marches. Warwick No. 2 and Lutter- worth, Warwickshire. (providing meals); Nottingham No. 1 DATA.

Leamington Spa No. 2 and No.

8 (£5 each). Leamington Spa No.

9 support the march and two other AUEW branches there are donating £l each. Trades Councils are not only sending money, but undertaking responsibility assistance, particularly accommodation.

Trades Councils offering help with accommodation include: Sunderland, South Shields, New- castle, Barnsley (also arranging a concert to raise funds and a reception), and York (also hold- ing a collection). Several Trades Councils will take part in stages of the march.

Lancaster will send delegates and a banner to the Liverpool rally.

Wigan, as well as donating £5 and providing accommodation and food, will send a contingent to Wembley. Watford Trades Council will provide accommodation and a reception in its own hall and has donated £5. Hounslow, Middle- and Hemel sex, Hempstead Trades Councils have promised money and Trades Councils from whom donations have been received include: •Croydon (E10), (£5), Hayes Ealing (£2), Lambeth (£5), Tod- mordon (£5), Walsall (£4).

Oxford Trades Council is sending a delegation to meet the main body of the S Wales march, as is Bracknell (Berks) Watney and is circulating its District affiliated branches for support.

Coventry, Harringey and Leamington Trades Councils have voted to support the march and Walsall Trade Union the Activists' Committee has offered well as a accommodation as reception and entertainment.

Nottingham busmen's T&GWU.

5/92 branch has sent £10 and a vour of the Young Socialists' s have been received from the • organizations (donations in delegation from the branch will greet the marchers. Renfrew's 79/4 T&GWU has donated £10.

The Vale of Leven Protest Com- mittee on Unemployment has voted £10 and £3.60 was col- lected at the Larkfield garage in Scotland® Bus workers at the Byker depot in Newcastle have col- lected £7.85 and the S Croydon

T&GWU

1/338 branch. donated £5. New Cross bus garage in London sent £20. The T&GWU chemical branch at Dagenham (1/1805) has sent in £2 and is collecting more.

The 1,000-strong Liverpool

T&GWU

6/599 supports march, and the Nottingham District Committee of the T&GWU has appointed a sub- committee to handle arrange- ments for helping the marchers in the town and provided it with £25. Gatwick T&GWU sends £25, Thornton Heath. T&GWU bus branch donates f5 and London's 5/104 T&GWU is to hold a collection. Embattled miners are in the unemployment fight, too. Whel- dale NUM branch is sending miners to join the march as it through Barnsley, the passes Yorkshire headquarters of the

NUM.

Monkwearmouth NUM lodge, Sunderland, is allowing marchers free use of its hall and men from Eppleton NUM lodge, Co. Dur- ham, will carry their banner with the marchers through Hetton-le-Hole, between Sunder- land and Hartlepool. Murton lodge Colliery Mechanics Association, Co. Dur- ham, is supporting the march and Crompton NUM branch in Lancashire has donated £5.

And so it goes on. £5 was collected at Lissan Rd Labour Exchange in London. ASTMS branch at LSE has sent f10.

BOC

workers Tottenham at collected £3.50. Leeds 507 ASTMS branch is providing £15 to sponsor a marcher. Leeds No.

1 UPW has collected £1.60. Sheffield No. 1 ASW (Painters' Branch) sends £5. The Head Office Branch of the Overseas Telegraphists: UPW (London) support the march. So do the Garrick International Exchange and Paddington UPW branches. The list goes on and on. Croy- don

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donated f5. Hemel Hempstead EETU/PTU supports the march. So. do Brixton firemen. And the Central London branch of the NUJ. And - the Coventry Aero branch of the

EETU/PTU.

workers McAlpine the at Gloucester Hotel site, in Lon- don, have sent £11.50 and the McAlpine works committee at the Bloomsbury site has pledged at least £25. Luton Co-op sends £2. Luton CEGB workers £6.50. Leeds No.

1 Tailor and Garment Workers are in favour of the campaign.

The London Divisional Coun cil of ASTMS has agreed to sponsor one marcher with f25.

Southfield NUPE has sent £2.50..

Croydon NUFTO sends £7.50 Tottenham NUFTO No. and 9 £2. EETU/PTU members employed by Speke Corporation have col- lected £1.83. Wigan AUBTW donates £9.50. Manchester EETU/PTU (lift and crane) branch members col- lected f2, as did electricians from Winsford. Southampton boilermakers have donated £10 and Southampton shipwrights another £10. Railwaymen at Swansea No. 1 send £5, Paddington Railwaymen have donated £15 and are hold- ing weekly collections, while West Brompton ASLEF is send- ing a delegation to Wembley.

• We thought we would be able to complete the list today, but it keeps on growing. More details tomorrow.

Wllson: a question of how to. make capit

BY AN ECONOMICS CORRESPOI

Star economist of the Labour Party's 'left, Thomas Balogh, has addressed himself to the unemployment problem in a recent New Statesman' article. first point is that, 'full His fundamentally employment altered the relative power of the classes but without any change in class stratification'. It did this 'industrial by abolishing the reserve army and increasing trade union bargaining power.

At the same time the growth of monopoly power enabled the big firms to pass on higher wage costs in price increases. By this whole 'the he says, means, mechanism of the balancing economy is paralysed'. Again, according to Balogh, this recognized by was not Tories in this country and Republicans in the USA; they restore the balance hoped to through a slight increase in un- employment'. Instead, their policies made matters worse.

Balogh assumes that the ruling class wanted 'full employment'.

Not only was this not the case —he should go back over the files of a journal like The Economist' or examine past writings of the economic pundits -but the Tories were always determined to change 'the rela- tive power of classes' and drive back the working class. Labour leaders supported the same policy between 1964 and 1970, beginning with their attack on the seamen's strike and continuing through the wage freeze and the attack on the trade unions set out in 'In Place of Strife'. with the rest of • the Along Labour Party intellectuals, whether they stand on the right, like Crosland, or on the 'left' like himself, Balogh is only interested in a reformed capitalism.

Their differences, reflected in his article, are only about the means to make the system work better. Indeed, he spells out a policy of class collaboration which workers will have to give up their improved bargaining power in order to permit British capitalism to deal with the crisis. •In my opinion,' he writes, 'the achievement of a balanced and steady but more intense expan- depends on sion the deliberate creation of a national consensus not merely on incomes but on social ambience in general. This can only be achieved if the trade unions are conscious of steadily advancing social justice and accountability Such nauseating stuff is, of course, meat and drink to the sentimental left intellectuals for "New Statesman' •is the fount of all wisdom. But what nonsense it is and what third- grade economics! nake capitalism work better

IRESPONDENT

Has Dr Balogh forgotten that over 1 million there are now registered unemployed, that the days of 'full employment' under capitalism are definitely over and that the system is plunging into a world-wide depression? True, conditions under the which capitalism's usual reserve army of labour virtually dis- appeared were very unusual and represented more than a cyclical phenomenon. Those conditions were in fact linked with the increased power of the working class as a social force, and not merely a reflex of full employ- ment' as Balogh makes out. Fear of the working class, i.e., so-called of revolution, led to 'full employment policies' being adopted, very reluctantly, by the ruling class after 1945. Dr Balogh • his friends the Oxford Institute of Statistics did not have as much influence on the • course of events as they may believe. Keynes Furthermore, capitalism's whole inflationary drive after 1945, made possible by the Bretton Woods agreement, was fundamental to the process. The results of the break-up of the Bretton Woods arrangements visible all over the are now world and can be seen in un- employment statistics in every country. is Like many others, Balogh concerned with finding a recipe for saving capitalism, once again with the help of a right-wing Labour government. He proposes tax reform, an extension of public ownershind social accountability 'workers' participation in decision-making and profits'. All good 'left' stuff, but all to be done within the framework of capitalism. This kind of programme has nothing to offer the working class. And, modest as it is, when Balogh was advising Harold Wilson in the last Labour gov- ernment, it was not even attempted. Dr Balogh, who received a life peerage for his efforts, should indulge in a little self-criticism and even begin to teach himself some political economy.

BY TOM KEMP

'How Quickly is Capitalism Dying?' asks last week's "Tribune' in what it pro- claims as 'the first in a unique dialogue between socialist economists on the future of the capitalist system. The first contributor, Michael Barratt Brown, does not even agree with the way in which the question is posed. 'I do not see capitalism as an old man dying— either fast or slowly' he opines, 'but as a system of production which is very much alive.'

DESTRUCTION

It is true that he adds that it can no longer contain the forces that it has generated and is increasingly turning those forces towards man's destruction'. But if that does not mean that this is an expression of crisis and decline which could well be described as a mark of senility, then words have no meaning.

Far from being alive and well, capitalism is a system which has long outlived its historical useful- It entered, at the time of ness. the First World War, an epoch of wars and revolutions, the epoch of imperialism which is, at the same time, the eve of the pro- letarian revolution. As befits a revisionist econo- mist, Barratt Brown writes about without mentioning capitalism the labour theory of value (which he presumably thinks is out-moded), the exploitation the working class or the class struggle. He sees the problems of capitalism being essentially as technical, and thus leaves as an open question the possibility that it can find some way to over- ailments which the come admits afflicts it. He fails to examine capitalism as a world system, in the epoch of imperialism where it becomes a fetter on the development of the productive forces and can accurately be described as senile or in decay. He sees it very much as an insular Englishman who thinks that British capital- ism may be given a new lease of life by laws passed in parliament.

THREAT

He does not examine the political conditions under which capitalism was able to survive two imperialist and the wars world economic depression of the 1930s. This would involve the role of Stalinism and reform- ism in betraying the working class and conditions creating salvaging a system whose con- tinuance is a threat to humanity.

What he is saying is that capitalism has not collapsed and he does not believe it will—it is, 'very much alive'. He after all, does not and see the scope nature of the crisis-which was postponed by the inter- only vention of the state and by so- called Keynesian policies of the past 25 years. He is' unwilling to admit that these policies are now no longer able to overcome the contradic- tions of capitalism (a phrase he carefully avoids using). Barratt Brown's reformist assumptions prevent him from making a scientific analysis of capitalism. He writes like a petty bourgeois, and essentially British, reformist who is trying to avoid accepting any responsibility for overthrowing capitalism. If future contributions to this "Tribune' series succeed in main- taining this standard, they will prove, at any rate, thing: one the bankruptcy of these reformist economists, themselves surprised and thrown into crisis by the failure of the Keynesianism to which they had become addicted during the boom. .. Workers Press, Mor Ferdinand Marcos The Philippines appears to have embarked on a new territorial quest-its second in the last seven years. With its claim to the E Malay- sian state of Sabah (formerly N Borneo) still unsettled, the Philip- pines has now turned its atten- tion to the United States island of Guam and the territories Marianas. Carlos Foreign Secretary Romulo has ordered a study into the possibility that Manila has a claim to the American terri- tories. islands, More than 7,000 stretched across the S China Sea, form the Philippines archipelago.

Romulo's move follows recent disclosures by the national ar- Domingo chives Dr ments suggesting that Guam and Marianas the formed part of Philippines territory. the One such document was Treaty of Paris in 1898 in which Spain ceded the Philippines and Guam to the United States, ac- cording to Dr Abella. This will be the second time the Philippines has dug up cen- to lay turies-old documents claim on new territory. In 1963, it claimed Sabah as its own territory based on what it described as historical docu- ments. It said that Sabah was 'leased' to the British govern- ment in 1878 by the then Sultan of Sulu, Jamalul Agham. The Sabah claim erupted into Make the Tory, government resign! Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employ- and repeal all ment laws against the unions! WILLESDEN: Monday Feb- ruary 14, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High Rd, NW10.

Unemployment and the capital- ist crisis. SOUTHALL: Tuesday Febru- ary 15, 8 p.m. Indian Workers Association, 18 Featherstone Rd 'Victory to the miners'.

W LONDON: Tuesday Feb- 8 p.m. 'Prince Aork Way, kings Cross,Suff Albert, Wharfedale Ulster port miners workers.' Socialist Labour Special lect Common Hall, Hac (off Dale SI

LIVERPOOL, 8

Tuesday Februa C. Slaughter (SLL Centr Pross, Monday February 14, 1972 PAGE 3 an open diplomatic rupture be- tween Malaysia and the Philip- pines, but the two countries later agreed to restore normal rela- tions. The Philippines insisted on a world court setlement, but failed to get Malaysian agreement for a judicial solution. the Diplomatic sources say claim is now being worked out 'at the highest level of diplomacy' between Manila and Kuala Lum- pur. Abella's sudden discovery from the archives could be the begin- ning of a controversy between the Philippines and the United States, which maintains a major air base on Guam. At a public hearing conducted by a committee of the constitu- tional convention assigned to re- write the country's 36-year-old constitution, Abella said Guam was specifically mentioned in the Treaty of Paris. Guam and the Marianas wére at one time under Spanish rule, Catholic priests there and the were under the direction of the Bishop of Cebu province in cen- tral Philippines. Daily Manila Chronicle' The said in an editorial that Abella had made a 'sensational disclosure that deserves further study, research and documentary evaluation' The English-language news- paper added, however, that if the Philippines could not recover Sabah from Malaysia, it would seem 'doubly difficult' to recover Guam and the Marianas from the United States. It is believed that Dr Abella's testimony could add new troubles for the country, apart from the resultant embarrassment should the government fail to prove its claims. SW LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 15, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Baths, Clap- ham Manor St, SW4. 'Support miners and Ulster workers.'

ACION: Wednesday February 16, 8 p.m. 'Mechanics Arms' Churchfield Rd, W3. 'Support miners and Ulster workers.'

LUTON: Thursday February 17, 8 p.m. Recreation Centre, Old Bedford Rd. World economic crisis.

SE LONDON:

Thursday February 17, 8 p.m. Room 2, Deptford Engineers' Club (opp New Cross Stn.). 'Support miners and Ulster workers.'

N LONDON: Thursday Feb- ruary 17, 8 p.m. Town Hall, Edmonton. Reformism and trade unions. ist Labour League cial lecture • Hall, Hackin's Hay off Dale St) ERPOOL, 8 p.m. ay February 15 SLL Central Committeo)

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday February

THE FIGHTAGAINST

UNEMPLOYMENT

PART 5

BY JACK GALE

IN addition to the 10 per cent cuts in the dole, the National government changed the benefit rights regulations.

Statutory benefits were limited to 26 weeks in a benefit year and a Means Test was imposed all claimants for transi- upon tional benefits. Under the 1931 Economy Act, 852,000 people immediately came under the Means Test which was by Public Assist- administered ance Committees, appointed by County Coun- the Borough or cils. (The old Poor Law Boards if Guardians, which at least had the small merit of being elected, by had been replaced the Tories in 1929.)

PERSONAL

The Means Test took the form of printed questionnaires about personal in- family resources, vestigations before administrative committees and visits of Means Test officers to the home.

Among items which the claim- ant had to reveal were wages of other members of the family, the names and addresses of their em- bloyers, income earned by the other members of claimant or the household from service or disability pensions, work- war men's compensation, trade union or club benefits, sick benefits, old age, widows and orphans pen- sions, deposits in savings banks National Savings certificates, or income from lodgers and a host of other questions. Means Test investigators were claimants empowered to follow and members of their families to check on the statements given.

The general practice was to assess the total family income and to deduct from the scale of the applicant all income which exceeded 10s: for each member of the family over sixteen and 3s for children. Obviously, this meant that some people received no benefit at all. Hundreds of thousands of people were cut off from benefit in the three months between November 1931 and February 1932. No wonder that 1932 was a year of incessant street battles between the unemployed and state forces. London, Glasgow, Dundee, Manchester, Castleford, Bristol, Tyneside and Liverpool all ex- perienced pitched repeated battles on the streets. In September, a fight between unemployed and police in Birken- head lasted for three days.

Lorry-loads of police repeatedly attacked working class tenements in the middle of the night, beat- ing up the occupants and drag- ging them off in police vans. One block specially picked out was Morpeth Buildings. Over 100 workers were treated in hospital.

Forty-five workers were put on trial and received sentences of up to two years' imprisonment.

In Belfast, workers fought with stones and pickshafts for days on end against mounted police and armoured Troops of the cars. King's Royal Rifles were called in and two workers were shot dead. While this was going on the organized

NEWM

another hunger march on London. Over 2,500 marchers reached London on October 27 and over 100,000 gathered in Hyde Attlee speaking at Park. This une police broke out in of Whitehall were arrested recommended in benell. Ine statutory genuinely Clause. _anour tor 1932 ended gistered January, By was up again- stered Lime une chose to stop Schemes. class was School Association 1932. The

IOT

increase mainly causes of malnu oreanized Hunger being unemployed ang 1,000 marched This did zovernment most its Royal What was ployer was ment made in October, 193. to ployment £26,750,000. operation A total the Hunger left Hilal clicis congress But the government. women ot the the thousands to caused their in the declared Government Ing at the Hyde Park rally o fighting with the vicinity many leaders nission on Unemploy- its report which eductions Shortening of the seeking compulsorv unpaid the unemployer 2,840,000 re- employed—plus hun- figure -2,903,000 regi This was the government op the Public Work ition of the working cav. definite alnutrition is show economic depres- loubtedly lowered the homes many tributed to the above but airectly, aggravating other malnutrition. the NUWM County series bigges 2,000 marched Edin- prevent the recommendations of ommission -they be. May, 1934. the unem- the state- by the Henret • November, 1933. cuts in unem benefit totalled addition the f the Means Test hac of £54,500,000 taken without jobs!' the background of 1934. 500 on Janu- Glasgow on the February Le NUWM. Stalinists had long e anti-capital ›t the eariv 1920 y presented a petition MacDonald's National tioners as representa- unemploved men and country ana of hunger mar- arrived in now desire to repre 'eat cutterino has heen unemployed and Means by the olies Act and the cuts and intention the those continue hrough the Unemploy. ark rally on Novembor 8, 1931 ment Bill at present ament. ano even miseries of th present class thereby. 'Wherefore honourable forth urce niover men and wome drawal of the Unempl and stead the of a Bill to give dece provide ance trade union rates ployed are who tioners as ever pray etc.' October, place Forfar, Maesteg Part Two Insurance Act, new benefits ranging from were imposed. the (South Wales, erland and the unemployed, the effec strophic For example, one daughter ana living parents the 23s. per week. and

DOLLS

one calente 32s. If the father work as well the redu be 34s. per week. By mid-January unemployed throughout Britain in cuts. Valley. were On all lia Lended a conc Cous Ior surike action On January employed invaded Commons and government ployed he the they called for strik dockers. Labour leaders

TUC

ever i ne took Malcres. The weekend of saw some In South eonia were Oi ebruar Merthyr or 8, 1936 when the Hunge present before par- the worsen ries of the working • of their petitioners to set and unen- and women the with : Unemployment Bill, introduction give decent mainten- the enduring such peti- 200| bound duty will hunger marches in Monmouthshire, Atoneer cuts zing from Is. to *Distressed Areas reside, Cum- West of Scot families were effect was cata- ple, if two sons and were men over with reduction would If there three were earlenter. e ta reduction would he father was out thousands of were marching dailv Britain in protest January in the Rhondda streets in the 26, 1,600 delegates Wales confer- s' Federa- leadership resisted action not withdraw Shields defied marches and where

COCKS

for strike action by e, the TUC and the were as cowarou Coun- the send of February Wales 300,000 march. women

"ATFORM

the Hunger March reached The same Llanelly Town Hall. In Tv Lancashire, Derbyshire Sulle Cheshire, Midlands were similar demonstratio On February capitulated cut the Act, To save face th mass climb repare entseat me li deleat liscredited National go doubt called on February rallies from Scottish hunger ma the crucial leadership and it w • Stalinist. the coned Period' and were of the Popular Front. Not

CYCL

disrupt friendly the church the trade A dest by 'excesses ployed, taken Stalinist simply states: March 1935, unemployed Not word more muct marched The come from employed alike. police tought town halls, ment to retreat an‹ it into panic. What else those had a figh government,

NUWCM

'not until thrown' (see first series)—then, reached London. the day, 30,000 Tyneside hrough the night. Nottingham Cumberland the Yorkshire ablaze with nonstrations. overn ithdre under imposed Part Act, and hose coverner delav of two weeks an oediatel 1934 Act government. that union leaders do so, they could have le government down. there. pay of demonstrations February 24 resulted ir in Aberdeen, Bolton conger made to Glas ch 24, the unemploye ted in London 160,00 was "Statinists 'Third 11ra- еt1 d were on the path of of could be at the the allowed on bureaucracy. were alarmed unem- THe the heat had to be Wal Hannington 'From ane enci struggle of rapidly subsided'.3 to be more has hạd unemployed and time unemployed Workers soldiers. They

UAB

the thes and hallower itself. forced etreat and had thrown se waste ne to do? the head the had been prepared the bring had lived they had original aim of the cease trom capitalism overe article in this only then, the Without that, there was ward. nowhere else to go. So, in Hannington's cynical phrase 'the struggle subsided'. It is more correct to say that the unemployed were abandoned by their leadership. That is the reason - and the only reason - for the National government being returned again in the General Election of November 1935. On July 10, 1936, the National announced • revised government UAB scales and regulations. Due to come into effect on November changes gave inade- 16, these quate increases—never more than Is per week-to some categorjes but imposed unemployed severe cuts on others. It was this scale which pro- voked the world-famous Jarrow Crusade, a march on London of 200 men organized by the Jarrow Town Council. At the same time, the NUWM organized another national hun- ger march to London. The goy- ernment issued a statement con- demning the marches and say- Minister would meet ing no them. Instead of denouncing this NUWM, headquarters instruc- ted all contingent leaders to read out the government proclamation to the marchers and take a vote on whether to proceed!

UNANIMOUS

The fact that every contingent voted unanimously to proceed reflected the determination of the rather than the leaders' ranks, strength. The March reached Hunger I Hyde Park on November 8, 1936, and was greeted by a demonstra- tion a quarter of a million strong. But the main speaker was Clement Attlee, leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party, the Labour Party, and had refused to support the march!

Due to the intervention of Labour MPs, the Minister of Labour, Mr Ernest Brown, met a delegation of marchers but all that could be gained, with a quarter of a million people on the streets behind them, was a promise - subsequently broken -to spread the introduction of the new rates over 18 months.

This was the swan-song of the inter-war unemployed movement.

Hannington attributes: decline to an 'improvement' in unemployment figures. It is true that in 1936-1937 unemployment fell slightly due to a general world trade. By recovery August 1936 unemployment was down to 1,613,940 and by June, 1937, it was 1,356,598. But by August, 1938 unem- up again to ployment was 1,759,242 and by January, 1939, it had reached 2,039,026.

Yet in these years the mass demonstrations and class actions of the unemployed-particularly turn to the ranks of the the employed workers through their unions—was replaced by stunts and gimmicks. The leaders had the unem- lyingdown ployed traffic at lights, invading posh hotels, hold- ing funerals, mock chaining themselves to railings, running onto. football pitches with ban- ners, disrupting Crufts dog show, etc. They even submitted a peti- tion (for Winter Relief, not for King jobs) Majesty to His George the Sixth. Amidst these futile activities, the movement withered and died and in September, 1939, the employed and unemployed alike were herded into the forces to fight for the glorious Empire which had starved their families the last great patriotic since conflict. truth is that the trade The unions and Labour Party leaders had never had any heart for the fight against unemployment.

And the Stalinists, by • 1937, were well trained. For them, everything was subordinate to diplomatic requirements of the their masters in the Kremlin.

Stalin sought friendship with the leaders of the 'democracies' (as he later sought it with the leaders of fascism). Mass action of the working class had no place in this scheme of things.

great march of 1936 So the was the last show of working class strength. 'Diplomacy' took The unemployed were over. allowed to rot. And in the Sec- ond World War, they were allowed to die. 1. Wal Hannington 'Ten Lean Years' p. 100: 2. Wal Hannington 'Ten Lean Years' p. 109. 3. Wal Hannington, op. cit. P.

140.

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

Coventry toolroom workers on

DISCUSSION

ON THE

ALL TRADES

UNIONS

ALLIANCE

DRAFT

MANIFESTO

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

Until the Right-to-Work rally at Empire Pool, Wembley on March 12, we intend to carry a full page each day devoted to comments on the

YOUL

Draft Manifesto. We have received more than 100 con- this tributions to vital discussion. Now we want at least another 100. september 6, 1871 at a mass meating during i Workers and their families, youth, students and the un- employed are all invited to join in this discussion. If you haven't got a copy of the Draft I Manitesto write to Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch.

LEN FARMER

EEPTU shop steward, London Electricity Board, Stratford, E London (In a personal capacity). A priority for the working class of the Labour is the question leadership. Those Labour MPs who voted for the Common Market must be no case for removed; there is defence of this treachery.

They are a party to the Tory conspiracy against the working class. If such people are allowed to continue, they could repeat their action on other important issues. In the trade unions, many of the leaders who have done a good job in the past, now want to compromise a principle. They have outlived their usefulness as representatives of union members way for more and must make progressive young men. think right that the to organize comes before the right to strike and that only a General Strike, called by the TUC, can defeat the Industrial Relations Act. In the nationalized industries, at no compensation should be paid to the previous owners. Most of • during the serles of one day strikes which tr were bankrupt these industries and in a state of decay, with run down stock. In the Charter of Basic Rights, section five, the third paragraph adequately expresses my feelings on the Tories' welfare policy.

C. EDGE

Unemployed. Ex-BSA and OX-Lucas worker, Birmingham I agree that it is an illegal gov- ernment. Every opinion poll has shown that most people are against the Common Market but despite the fact that this is sup- posed to be a democracy Parlia- ment has taken the decision to go in and 69 Labour members have voted with them. Jenkins and the others should be expelled and not allowed to in any con- stand for Labour stituency in the British Isles.

It's because the Tories are waiting for Market entry that there no investment. The Market is a conspiracy against the working class: they will have to push the clock back until workers are virtually owner by the capitalists. They need a mobile working force. If you're over 40 years and not able to move around curope, you'll be unemployable.

We have to defend our basic rights. But protest and letter- writing will never get anywhere because this government takes no notice of protest. A General Strike is the only way to change things. is different It from 1926 because the middle Class, especially the students, will sup- port us much more. We have to call for a Labour victory, though the Labour Workero Prosa, Maru & which took place last year to protect the 'To leaders have always sold out because they have done well out of the capitalist system.

They are not a majority, how- ever, and they will have to be thrown out. The mood of the Party is against Labour the have leadership, but they to keep unity when facing the Tories. If a Labour government was elected, the traitors would soon be thrown out. We need our own independent organization to fight for the working class, but the working class is frightened—that is what holds them back. I can't see the immediate prospect of an inter- national working class party, since I have a hard enough job surviving myself and the majority of the working class is the same.

They aren't interested in the plight of workers in other countries when they have enough problems of their own. But I agree that don't need we reforms-we need a revolution.

BEN JUMAH

T&GWU convenor, Vitamol Precision Lta., N London I don't agree with the word illegal because the Tories were duly elected but I think they have misused the trust the electorate gave them. I agree about throwing out the Labour traitors but let's not forget Wilson himself was in favour of going into Europe and he only changed his mind be- cause of pressure from working- class people. As a worker from a colonial country I definitely agree that the only way to fight capitalism is on an international scale.

rosa, Monday Fabruary 14, 1972 PAGE 8 ct the 'Tool Room Raté' Workers in Britain are now going to face hardship and on their rights attacks which the workers in the colonies have been suffering for years. This means there are going to be big opportunities to link up the fight against capitalism inter- nationally. I also agree with the building of a revolutionary party which must win and educate the mass especially at shop-floor level. them understand the problems facing them and the solution to them.

DAVID HEITMAN

ASLEF driver, Cricklewood ralis depot Tory is This government definitely illegal. It has attacked the working class on all sides and taken the country into the Common Market. As far as I know, the majority of people are against this. But I do not think that the majority of people realize yet that the Tories have planned the attack on basic rights. The Labour traitors who voted with the Tories on the Common Market should be expelled from the Labour Party along with any abstainers. The Manifesto calls for the launching of the revolutionary party. This is absolutely necessary now. The Tories driving are down living standards, , with the Industrial Relations Act behind them. Workers have to have 1 leadership that shows them the We'll never achieve way. socialism through the ballot box.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday February 14, 1972

DEREK'S

DOLE FIGHT

There are two dates which important Derek are to One is his birth- Dalrymple. day—he will be 18 28. The other February March 10, 1969. On that day he left school and took a job.

Like majority children Derek class wanted out of the get class room and the chance to earn a secome Why apprentice electrician. electrician? Derek was handy had been repair systems once radios belonging his dill friends. : Derek, says electicu asondes me wacte• work 1t.' But after answering a number advertisements and Derek dis- little was of getting apprentice Lualite the in tool the Basil pare Note Ancasonere was come-down Dig

TON

Derek, figured if Bot hutna would be keeping abreast his classmates out on £10 a week. r1c slallcu auly Was ODeI ano cose The

ITONT COOT TOI

tourists staying there. rotten says 10h Derek. around nothing the job vorld. most eight months before lastea chucked it 11l. job was nexL arv more interesune nie became Caboama shop assistant in a store Junction with a starting After Derek since can Terender. He sent the medical certificate to his boss and assumea that SalS absence would excused. he returned to work three boss days certificațe received Derek appeared before an Appeals Tribunal.

'With rent £3 and dole {3.06, you'd think I had a watertight "They are trying 1o bleed us back sald he wouldn't

DUL

fired. had They told him the appeal would give me £3.06. You'd think I had been makins « curious senous honus Werer WaS taker take TOUr weers ano emoovment ano considere• electrical firm Battersea. asked for an increase then work was available if diligently Derer wasn't apprenticeship, but benefit until the tribunal heard which could provide the ga him the chance of enter- his After weeks appellant with resources.

£1.60 trade. ahes For the last two weeks Derel unhappy lace week. has been £3.06 work. Derek was given cover the cost of the tribunal know He's been undry. Then be going at week the other said his the laundry. he menial tasks to do and asked his landlady and keeping fed by they hearing to tried another iob somewhere borrowing from his friends. workers wele d

WOR!

I hadn't heard of exploited. month, 'Borrowing-it's a terrible ATTer arautent h took ve weeks. thing with the foreman Derek was dis- The scene at tribunal is hat one eithe do, said have This last October. best described in own about these said jobs, they came When I ask lot money. words. bad shape, but hes not demoral.

may financiallv Deres They workmates held the tribunal down at church hall trying. Briti been ized. He's secretary of the • local When he left the electrical immediately that I wasn't goins was told to be there at 11.30 a.m.

Right-to-Work 'the Sou Socialins Derek he organized by assumea Lial our e never went una arte to ger any proper assistance.

from with would job p.m. room next Nune walting •WaS monoce the newspapers as hed done was like going bit sceptical YS polic: before. to the dentist's. There were about yourself. got to out jobs, Derek says from five old mah 1ook. You've got be "But now the Tory policies are S London factory to the next he talked whispers job opportunities discovered that claim felt like saying to him, Everyone vul "Why don't you go out Bri ton tor youngsters in the very was with a representative of people dica sudica. Baterseaob around non-exstent. ane! But while Derek was experienc- the Trannbedi amades Contel ism ing one we were in, bitter betore called The outside nothing are after another, his landlady was treasurer the tribunal under 101 ressing for the rent-f3 a and 2 to might well kill ourselves rele da ele decided would cover haur the pavement, was get ris to Toe nont for capitalism, • nrst task 1s signed on dole. was shaking out get and ohe woll LIt Callic first he received over, I remember the room was a Rolls Labour govern.

LIC

WECK

InLO £2.55. and drove off. Now what AS LuIS wa. v carpeteo Kovce must told restore ment tc patently It was like a court Four does he know about unemplay.

Derek full that the applied fe supplementary bene- them were sitting at a table ment and living on the dole? working class has a chance received the of the and we sat Three na oficial Derek nve decerty. €5.85, which facing them. I don't the ceck of othe letter fron Work marsa orell e him ends the clerk just like make describe was Supplementary to-Work march, But a month, the local Appeal Tribunal. after being with the lores joining in DenCHls the tribunal rejected Derek's 'The march the SOCa Chall lal will show cut his weekly monocle brigade vered ainc Dav. aopen cor da macrease m suboe that we mean ment £3.06. ois leth the rent suit and he wore a monocle.

business, he added was taken Derek most of the talking. 'Reasons for decision' with 'We explained how clerk wrote: See Workers tomorrow's Supplementary Opinion frente hd o Press for the first part of a series was Tribunal. security was on workers rights. ng to bleed us back to work, but we are going to stick It out.' Above: miners picking coal at Abertyssy colllery In Wal

MINERS

living father disease the miners strike hardens and money gets scarcer, some of the single men coming bitter at the refusal official of the Social Security officials happ discretionary to use their po cases to make allowances Ebbu cases of hardship, and at afraid the refusal of their union lord h: to give them any financial help. the Of several Natione any advice also the married men and those with families travelli somerning 10L acoendents manage comerined have few shillings in their rely Pockets e who Welsh today, withou valleys single mens often сат. in even of one uy miners' the offi- welfare institute, Scraped lorenner enoug! to provide hot soup for WOrK. underg not liv wards, know related how told the Sonal Seen too to thi nearest office Pontem me disk ere money woke 'The they there, Gwyn back told They if stic claim about cost and who is going to repay unions Barry is receiving compensation

LOWI

for would received

New machinery for containerization such as this at Balmain, Sydney, Is forcing redundancles on the wharves. Foreground: bullding PAGE & Workers Press, Monday February Unemployment in Australia tops 120,000the highest in ten years-inflation is rising at an average rate of over 9 per cent-the worst in 15 drawn. Add to these a number of ather factors, like the attempts impose forced redundancies to on the wharves, and the sacking of 1,200 car workers by General Motors Holden, and you have a shows that the position which world crisis is spreading deeply throughout the Australian economy. That much said, the import- ant thing now is who is lining up where on the class line? It say that would be good to Australia's Labour leaders are preparing, to a man, for the big battle to defend the Australian working class, that they are swinging the battle onto the offensive to force out the Tory government. Unfortunately this is not the case. Just where the union leader- ship stands both Stalinist and reformist-was made quite clear when New South Wales govern- ment busmen were allowed to be isolated and defeated after ending just three-week strike, before Christmas.

SINGLED

OUT

Since then the wharfies have been singled out by the Tory for battle, Federal government and, the government hopes, for defeat. The retreat of the Waterside Workers' Federation (WWFD) national leadership is already al- most total-before the battle has begun. even But this is not the case with the rank-and-file members who . nail to are fighting tooth and reverse leadership decisions over voluntary redundancies. The issue has been brought to a head with the introduction of containerization and the posi- tion of unstable world trade. This has led to what the employers and their government consider to be about 450 'surplus' men on the wharves in the main ports excepting Sydney, which still has to have its 'surplus' counted.

Since 1967 a rather vague "agreement' has been in existence between management and unions.

Under this arrangement the unions accepted severance pay for redundancies and a number of older men left the wharves.

But the men are increasingly questioning the redundancy policy and last September the tri- annual All Ports Conference, the highest policy-making union body, decided to accept no com- pulsory redundancy, and to fight for a 32-hour week for 40 hours' pay. This was around the time that employers were being pushed by the government to enforce re- dundancies. Idle time' (no-pro- ductive labour time) on the wharves was costing employers about f3m a year. Employers loaded a bit more bait onto the hook by offering an increase in severance pay for voluntary retirement. In a postal vote the union's bor y February 14, 1972 New machinery for containerization sucl also face sackings. Federal Council took the bait and the hook by agreeing to the voluntary and new • agreement hacking up the dock labour force that goes with it. At stop-work meetings to ex- plain the deal, the leadership pushed for acceptance. This was rejected by the NSW ports, including Sydney, but ac- cepted by most of the others.

This failure can be blamed di- rectly on the union bureaucrats who eloquently advocated accep- workers jumping onto tance of the scrapheap during a time of growing unemployment. Sydney's wharfies, particularly, rejected the proposals with no hesitation and called for an over- time ban and no co-operation.

• It is also understood that Mel- bourne Federal Council members ... ation such as this at Balmain, Sydney, Is forcl ait voted against compusory retire- ments when the vote was taken earlier this month. But Charlie Fitzgibbon, WWF secretary made it clear he is with the bureaucracy and not with the working class. Instead of resisting redundanc- ies, fighting for the government's downfall and for control of the wharves and all other industries by those who are employed in them, he called for acceptance of redundancy offers on the basis that it was all the men would get out of the employers.

He has made no reference to the right of wharfies to work or to fighting the government.

There is clearly a crisis of leadership in the Australian working class which is being re- vealed more each day. y, Is forcing redundancies on the wharves. | Everything the rank and file does shows its willingness to fight. But it can be misled by its leadership, as some men have on the wharves over the redundancy issue.

OUTRIGHT

BETRAYAL

The biggest danger is outright betrayal. This is taking place now among the WWF leadership.

In spite of indications that those branches of the union who voted in favour of increased re- dundancy did so in some state of confusion and are now swing- ing into opposition behind the wharves. Foreground: bullding workers new NSW branches, the Federal' leadership is going the other way. At a recent Sydney meeting the national committee vote in favour of redundancies was an increase over the one taken earlier in the month. Unless workers in every in- dustry force their leadership into accepting full, uncompromising for wharfies in their support fight for a job, then they, like the busmen, will be isolated and defeated. All the union leaders must know this. To refuse to fight the battle anything but this on level is to hand over the workers to the Tories, just as readily as if they were doing it for cash payment.

The arrest of 22-year-old Jan Sling in Prague has height- ened the divisions in the ranks of the British Com- munist Party. Sling was arrested because he protested at the arrest of others who, like him, were critical of hacks placed in the Stalinist authority in Czechoslovakia after the Russian invasion of 1968.

He is accused of being in touch with foreign journalists.

Sling is the son of Otto Sling who executed during the was Slansky frame up trials of 1952.

Jan's mother—Marian—was also arrested in the Slansky purge and was held in jail for two years.

The crisis created in the Stalinist ranks is reflected by the publication in the January 21 'Morning Star' of a statement by Marian Sling, who now lives in London. 'Jan's arrest is important as it is the first time children of the victims of the trials of the 1950s have been arrested, declared Mrs Sling. Artested with Jan Sling was Jan Vik. Mrs Sling says: 'This also applies to Jan VIk. His father, Vaciac VIk-an old Party mem- ber-was accused of Trotskyism in the frame-up trial of the so- called Grand Trotskyist Council.

He died one year after his release. According to Mrs Sling, there have been three waves of arrests in recent months, the first of which was concentrated in Brno.

It was the Brno arrests in October 1950, of Otto Sling and other Brno regional Party com- mittee members that led to the trial of the so-called Anti-State Conspiracy Group-better known as the Slansky Trial—in Novem- ber 1952. Of the 14 men brought to trial, Il were executed a month later.

They posthumously re- were habilitated in 1963. Other arrests include recent journalist Jiri Lederer and the former rector of the Party poli- tical school and former Central Committee member Milan Hubl. The 'Morning Star' of January 21 carried an editorial on Jan Sling which declared that Jan's father was 'unjustly executed during a period when many communists in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere were the victims of a policy which tragically departed from communist prin- ciples'. What the 'Morning Star' does not say is that the murder of Slansky, Sling and the others was supported all along the line by the entire leadership of the British Communist Party. All it says is: "The policy of handle problems of trying to dissent under socialism by arrests and trials is not only regrettable and wrong, but self-defeating. Further information the on arrest will be anxiously awaited.

We understand their can anxiety. For the men who hailed the murder of Slansky-as they had hailed the murder of the leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution in

BY JOHN SPENCER

the 1930s, as they had hailed the Stalin-Hitler Pact under which communist refugees from fascism were handed over to the SS, as they hailed the invasion of Hun- gary in 1956— are still there, many of them still in the leader- ship of the British Communist Party, Gollan, Ramelson, Palme Wainwright, Rothstein, Dutt, Kerrigan. When did they discover that the murder of communists was 'regrettable'? None of these men can speak out today. But that does not mean that there are not people still in the British Communist Party who hanker for the good old days when trials were mere formalities and criticism meant a bullet in the back of the neck. The 'Morning Star' of Jan- uary 26 carried a letter from one George Smith referring to Sling 'anti-state and his comrades as and anti-socialist elements'.

No nonsense about trials from Mr Smith. Of they're course guilty, they were arrested weren't What more proof of guilt they? could you want? And in the 'Morning Star' of January 31, I. W. Baker is equally outspoken: "This issue should not have in the "Morning been raised Star"; he says. 'We are helping the enemy? The classic answer given to anybody who criticized the Moscow Trials. E. A. Edwards of Oxford also knows the verdict in advance: 'How much longer are we to tolerate in the "Morning Star" sympathies for and virtual sup- port of those elements Czechoslovakia who continue to carry out anti-socialist and anti- working-class activities?'

But there are some people in the British Communist Party who little squeamish about are a judicial murder. Someone-some- one nice and safe has ta be trotted out as a safety valve for them. Who better than Monty John- stone, the Party's permanent orotest man and 'expert' on Trotskyism? The bloodstained Gollans and Ramelsons can't open their mouths, but what Comrade? 01 are worried about people being • ourse. are ersecuted. Of course, there's a regime of terror and arbitrary arrest. But didn't the 'Morning Star' carry a letter from Monty Johnstone protesting about it?

In his obligatory letter, pub- lished on January 31, Johnstone pleads: 'We must not make the same automatic. presumption of guilt as we did 20 years ago.

'Past experience, writes this experienced man, 'and our com- for justice, munist concern should lead us wholeheartedly to support the "Star's" January 21 editorial and to protest against Sling's imprisonment and the growing number otber poli- tical arrests in the tecent period in Czechoslovakia.' But 'past experience' does nat appear to lead Johnstone 'whole- heartedly' to examine his own past nor to break with what caused it. For what was Johnstone him- saying at the time of the self Slansky frame-up? In 'Challenge' on January 10, 1953, he wrote: 'Slansky, former general secre- tary of the Czech CP, and 13 guilty of associates were found spying and sabotage for the US and satellites. Many were shown to have acted as spies in the labour movement since pre- war days. These people un- willingly confessed their crimes in the face of the irrefutable testimony of fact, documents and the evidence of witnesses...

'Such activities can and must be rooted out in this as in other countries wherever this takes place; through the vigilance of workers the movement is rendered stronger and healthier.'* It is not enough for Johnstone to cry 'mea culpa' and pose as sort of political virgin some today. Smith, Baker and Edwards (and all the members of the Sid French tendency) are simply say- ing now what Johnstone and his stablemates in King St were saying then. Johnstone's function in recent years has been to tour the areas, particularly the universities, explaining how the Khrushchev speech of 1956, the rehabilita- tions of 1963 and the British Communist Party's mild criti- cisms of the invasion of Czecho- slovakia in 1968 were proof that a new day had dawned and that Stalinism was no longer Stalinism.

Above all, his role was, and remains, to head off CP mem- bers from a real historical and theoretical examination of Stalinism since this would lead to a break from it. The arrest of Sling and Vlk is proof that Stalinism remains, but that it is in growing crisis.

Youth like Jan Sling and Jan VIk are rising against the bureau- cracy throughout E Europe and the Soviet Union. Stalinism will be destroyed. Neither Gollan and Ramelson nor 'Honest Monty' Johnstone can save it. * See Robert Black 'Stalinism in Britain' p. 250. Workers Press, Mo Spanish Carlos barrister, Garcia Valdes, has got himself into trouble in Madrid. While defending his client— accused of 'illegal association' —Valdes said a confession had been extracted under duress.

The Public Order Court, where he was appearing, has replied by charging Valdes with 'showing contempt for the Spanish nation'. The Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, will be paying an official visit to Spain later this month to bring greetings from the Tory gov- ernment to the fascist regime.

Sir Alec Unemployment in Ireland is now the highest for 13 years.

The Lynch government has sought to alleviate the prob- lem in the traditional Tory way -recruiting for the army.

The Ministry of Defence has been working on a profile to establish just who is try and the typical young soldier in the Irish army. of 300 recruits A sample were interviewed during a 'demographic and attitudinal research'. According : to the weekly 'This Week' the magazine career soldier of tomorrow is as follows: He is 18 years old. He is County Westmeath, from where his father has a small farm. His uncle is a soldier stationed in Mullingar Barracks. He did reasonably well at school but was not anywhere near the top of the class and did not, as they say, 'get much out of it'. At the moment he Press, Monday February 14, 1972 PAGE 9 helps his father on the farm.

He takes a drink on the quiet. He watches television quite a lot. He goes to dances.

His favourite programme on is either "Cannon'

RTE

'Cade's County'. He normally doesn't bother to read any Westmeath the entertainment pages. He has a transistor radio which he tunes in at night to either Radio Luxembourg or BBC 1. Very seldom to RTE. He goes to the cinema in Athlone at least • week. He particularly once a 'enjoyed 'Kelly's Heroes' and "The Devil's Brigade'. And any good war or western programme. One would be amazed by the extent of his knowledge of hand- guns, carbines, bazookas and the other technicolor trappings of such spectaculars. He plays Gaelic football and has also gone to see many of Athlone Town's home games. He is a quiet ordinary lad who sometimes doesn't get on too well with his father on the farm for all the usual reasons. He realizes that he didn't do too well at school and now would. like to be serving his time to some trade. All this information Is now being fed to • the public rela- tions luminaries to include in their 'Mighty Rangers' recruit- ing drive. Only question still unanswered is who are these lads going to be shooting — the British army or their fellow countrymen? When Bernadette Devlin assaulted Reginald Maudling in the House of Commons, the incident was front-page news around the world. Everywhere except the Soviet Union. The Soviet news agency, Tass, reported the parliamen- debate but not Miss Devlin's physical attack.

The Tass report said Miss Devlin repeatedly tried to put a question. It went on: 'But the Speaker refused to give her the floor.

Under pressure from the wave of indignation the Home Sec- retary had to promise an inquiry into the events in The comrades obviously thought that the incident should be censored in the interests of the 'peaceful road to socialism'.

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Monday Februar Eddie Cowell (left) and Jack Muncaste Easington colliery, near Sun- derland, was the only pit in Co Durham to join the 1970 unofficial strike. Now, for the first time in many years, the entire coalfield is out solid, reflecting a new-found determination among miners to fight the continual blackmail of pit closures in Durham. "They've been saying to us for colliery if you and that don't accept this or that. They pits regardiess ot closed the , Easington what we did anyway, Eddie development worker Cowell told Workers Press.

'A lot of men became fright- ened of losing their jobs, espe- cially as there is not much work in Durham as it is. But now our attitude is that we have nothing to lose. 'As I see it the government is content to let us sweat it out starve us back to and try and work. The strike has already cost pounds, but them millions of they're not bothered. The Tories haven't offered us anything be- they intend to try and cause smash us. 'The government definitely has an objective and that is to try and defeat us. But we've lost a lot of wages already and now we're prepared to stick it out.

'We must get the Tories out.

All they intend to do is to force up the cost of living even more with the Common Market. Even if we get an Il per cent increase, it only means we're standing still.

Every worker in Britain feels this. I think there could be an ay February 14, 1972 Muncaster (right; from Easington colllery, Su election shortly. We should all be demanding another election im- mediately. If the NUM leaders got up and made such a call they would find a lot of support with The whole working all workers. the same about this class feels government. 'I believe the miners will win, but the TUC has been a little in organizing , support for slow us. We should try and get a General Strike to try and beat this government.' Eddie thought there were many differences and between now 1926. Workers were better edu- cated and the trade union move- And the ment was stronger. young workers of today wouldn't stand a sell-out or a return to the 1930s. He then told us what would happen if the Tories tried to cut the dole and social security: 'Workers will not allow them- selves to be starved. There would be a revolution and an uprising against the Tories. No man will go back to the 1930s.' He told us he had never used the word revolution before the strike began. 'As you say, it a serious thing to talk in that way, but I mean If the Tories keep up their am- bition to smash us, they'll have the whole country out against them. You can see what hap- pened in Londonderry and I don't think that is a religious ... .: olllery, Sunderland question. the Tories intend If going against us I don't all the way know where it could end. I agree a Labour government should end all the compensation and interest payments we make every year. The old owners had enough under private enterprise out of our fathers and grand- fathers. 'And it is right to put the col- lieries under the control of the miners. In 1948 we used to have manager and under- one one manager. Now we've nothing but managers and deputies all over the pit. It would be a good idea to have elected miners running the industry. 'I don't know if parliament could do such a thing, but the Labour government should try.

The miners built the Labour Party so they owe us something.

'Your Right-to-Work marches sound a good thing. I've a 16- year-old. lad who can't get a job. He has been here, there and everywhere looking. march through the town with it if it comes through here,' said Eddie. His friend Jack Muncaster, who works at Eppleton colliery, added: Vic Feather should call for a General Strike. But these union leaders won't commit themselves and want to sit in the middle.

You could be right-we might need new leaders.'

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DAY 3

In a blistering attack on the TUC and its general secretary S Wales NUM vice-President Emrys Williams said their failure to give leadership was the sole source of the trade union movement's weakness.

He told me in an exclusive in- terview: 'Vic Feather is always emphasizing the TUC is a loose only loose federation, but it's they • don't give the because leadership. 'It's not the fact that we're separate that is the problem. The crux of the matter is that, as the co-ordinating committee, of the trade union movement, the

TUC

does not act strongly enough. •Feather is prepared to see the on the Tories, but miners take he's not bold enough to call out all the unions. He could call out the transport unions as a first line of attack. 'But all he's done is to set himself up as a mediator between the miners and the government, trying for a compromise they won't accept anyway. "The miners came out on strike because of their low wages.

I don't think they'll be beaten.

Vic Feather They'll soldier on alone, if neces- sary, but the miners are so en- trenched they would rather see the industry close than go back.

'Since the strike started there's been an acceptance by the miner that he's being deliberately put against the wall by the Tory government. "There are not many left who believe the miners could treated as a special case.

The miners have been a special case for 20 years. This fight is not just about wages. It's political' Mr Williams' second broadside ripped into the Labour Party, of which • he has been a life-time supporter. He said: "The Labour Party leaders haven't made a public statement about the strike, yet here is the ideal platform them to call a General Election.

We're not getting any deeds from them and very few words.

I am certainly with you that there must be a change in the leadership of the party. At the wi .... '.". "

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DAY 36

moment the leaders are on the right and the grass roots are moving rapidly to the left.

'I think the labour movement has swung more to the left in the past five or six years than in the last 20, but the Labour.

Party today is not carrying out true socialist policies because of its tie-up with the establish- ment. "There's only one way out for the miners, or anyone else, and workers' that's control. As miners we've always been fight- ing for the implementation of Clause Four the Labour Party constitution and that is workers' control. 'But we can't have workers' control without a political solu- tion. If there was a truly social- ist the miners are government ready. We could take over any time. When nationalization first came in, in 1947, we thought it was all we dreamed of, but it was just a change of name.

'A Labour government carrying out a mixed economy policy is just pacifying . the capitalists at the expense of the workers.

Mr Williams said there was a comparison between the econo- mic climate of the 1920s. and 1972. Stanley Baldwin 'The Tories' wages policy is absolutely the effect of the re- cession. Heath has taken a lesson from 1926. the Baldwin government of Asked if the miners' leaders might bend before the Tories' tough line, Mr Williams said: "There seems to be an opinion being : expressed that the NUM national executive are militant. The national leadership are still as reactionary as they've ever been. "They will try to sell us down the river, but the grass roots will not allow it. If they try to compromise, the miners' anger, which is at the moment focused on the Tories, would be trans- ferred to the NUM leadership.

'There would be immediate anarchy and I think the men would go on with the strike, against their own leadership' Returning to the leadership of the trade unions generally Mr Williams said: 'We are mystified why the trade unions don't give us more support and it has caused apprehension among our members.' Turning to the question of building an alternative leader- ship in the labour movement Mr Williams said: "The policies of the Communist Party are almost identical with the left wing of the Labour Party and they don't go beyond the belief that you can obtain socialism without revolution.'

Mr Williams believes that the Labour Party can be changed from within into an instrument capable of achieving socialism.

"I have been a left-wing social- ist all my life and my aspiration is to see. a Labour government with genuinely socialist policies?

Sinister dealing planned on Peking trip

BY A DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT

PRESIDENT Nixon leaves Washington on Thursday on the first leg of his trip to Peking, where he is expected on February 21. As the representative of the world's most powerful imperialist state, his task is to win concessions from China which will help stifle revolution in SE Asia and the Pacific.

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STRIKES

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side. They want a written guarantee to this effect.

GEORGE MEANY,

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AFL-CIO,

the more detailed information about US of the equivalent says the oilfield, the the plans for strikes 110 Шакс pipeline and a traffic map of the and ought to be eliminated.

surrounding area. At the same interview with the maga le an us they News are critical the zine and soviet demand for bank loans of Report' Meant favours binding Japan to finance arbitration, voluntarily aoreed joint development. upon, as a substitute for strikes.

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ay on the first leg of his trip to ne representative of the world's concessions from China which Most sinister aspects of the talks is that the Maoists may be willing to bargain away the destiny of their 'allies' Indo-China and N Korea. Concessions on Vietnam peace terms will be one of Nixon's main aims and he has some juicy bait for the Chinese dip- lomatic recognition, the return of Formosa and economic aid.

Chinese acceptance of this first visit by an American presi- dent is regarded as an historical diplomatic success. For 20 years, the US has shown bitter hostility to Mao Tse-tung's regime and financially backed old Formasan the Nationalist dictator Chiang Kai- shek's intended invasion of the mainland. A 50-strong American advance party has made detailed prepara- tions for Nixon's visit, which is expected to include four days in the capital and three at Mao's Hangchow retreat. The trip will end in Shanghai on February 28, Nixon but says he expects a little time for. sight-seeing.

The Americans believe that the Maoists - are Teady for 5.

"friendly and frank talks', but will concessions want over Formosa and American bases in the Pacific if an agreement is to be reached. Beginning of dialogue Nixon sees • the visit as the beginning of a dialogue unlikely to produce instant solutions to outstanding differences. He aims to take advantage of China's weakness-the internal upheaval following the 'cultural revolu- tion' fear of , the the Soviet military build-up in Siberia, and anxiety about Japan's growing power. At present the US has no diplomatic relations with China.

These cannot be restored long as it continues to recog- nize regime Chiang on Taiwan and backs it with mili- tary supplies. Although business deals are not likely to figure prominently in Nixon's talks, it is certain that the Americans are interested in the potentially enormous Chinese market, especially in view of their growing trade deficit. If the talks improve relations, an early result will be a pro- cession salesmen seeking orders.

JOURNALISTS'

JAIL PROTEST

ITALIAN journalists placed a half-page advertisement in Le Monde' last Friday calling for the release from a Prague jail of their colleague, Valerio Ochetto.

Held since early in January, Ochetto has not been permitted to receive visitors or consult a lawyer. The advertisement claims that he is probably the only in journalist the world being held in a foreign country for his ideas and his work. The Italian communist journa- list Ferdinando Zidar, just expelled from Prague, said that he had been questioned about alleged contacts with various dissident elements in Czecho- slovakia as well as with Ochetto.

He had denied all the charges.

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RISKS

are being taken Chinese medical specialists will President Nixon's health if about be called in The necessary. during his China visit. He will possibility of the of use be accompanied by his personal acupuncture techniques has been physician, General Walter Tkach, envisaged. internal and specialist in In addition to these medical medicine, Dr William Lukash.

Nixon precautions, will be Hospitals along the route accompanied by ce stone pois have been alerted to deal with of service is secret men. any possible illness. Chinese hos- assumed the Chinese will be able pitals been inspected and to cope with crowd control approved Dr Tkach and during the visit.

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the about fight against the Tory govern- voted on ment at the were conference of the Liaison Com- mittee for the Defence of Trade Unions in London on Saturday. The conference was attended by 550 Communist Party mem- and supporters. 1,033 cre- bers dentials had been issued.

A duplicated 'declaration' cir- committee's culated by the amended Stalinist leaders was from the floor, but no vote was taken on it. It calls for another one-day protest stoppage on "May l for *struggle confrontation' and against the Tories. But there is no mention of forcing the Tories to resign. It demands 'mass action in- cluding industrial action' to com- pel the government to implement TUC and Labour Party economic policies. The declaration calls for 'maxi- mum pressures' the TUC on leaders to implement congress decisions on non-registration and non-co-operation. Alan Sapper, general secretary of the Cinematograph and tele- vision technicians' union (ACTT) and a member of the TUC Gen- eral council, said: 'It's easy to say that we must have a general strike to throw out the govern- ment and institute socialist policies. But that's words .

We've got to have a policy for the present, not the now and theoretical future.' Chairman Bill Jones, himself a former General Council member, asked the conference to choose between 'either a General Strike or a General Election. 'Don't try and kid yourselves we're in a revolutionary situ- ation,' he said. stands at £452.16 LET'S press ahead as quickly as we can with February's Fund. At the moment it stands at £452.16.

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ay February 14, 1872

ENGLAN

OVER THE BORDER INTO ENGLAND-THE MARCHERS GATHER ROUND THE SIGN THE Enniskillen march

FROM ALEX MITCHELL IN ENNISKILLEN

and has been advocating with against internment He full circle. joked with re- ended without incident British army. whole demon- porters before disappear yesterday afternoon. Miss Bernadette Dev- stration was over in ten ing. Into The lin, MP told Workers All the with the comment: hour cir- while late in Tense Press that all Crumlin not are see cumstances when Mr Mallo the NRM of Road-the high-security amender Frank McManus MP de- she had agreed to speak Banners had prison in belast. clared: It after the march. VUIl armed gowp ol soldiers manded the end powerful, the Tion to march Earlier, road on the centre of the city'. Stormont and the end ol from Belfast Ennis- internment. As the entire area was completely Two the area of Kilmacornick killen, ringed by surprise visitors crei housing estate where th managh, I was stopped Eire Cab- troops ana koyal wister were counter and exhaustively assembled. Constabulary Mr Mc- inet Minister Mr Kevin marcier Manus's than Boland Belfast MP They were statement armed WIl 110 7,000 Kennedy, bullets of Mr Paddy who engal umes. Near North and automatic weapons. the outskirts of marchers very apprehen- wanted Devlin for alleged Republican helicopter Enniskilen Mis leading circled the area. received special atten- However, the Asked if he The march was called tion from the army feared Column. slanals the Northern Mr Kennedy ten minutes she back McManus side "I'm petrified. Now simply said: Resistance had to stand at the I am here how on earth regarded road The Willi over her the left wing the soldiers went and then am going to get out Darlicauc Civil Rights Association by inch. again?' vehicle inch diverted tre

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MINERS TO FIGHT

FOR BASIC RIGHT

YOUR RIGHT

VAUXHALL

To a job to organize,

SACKINGS

all the gains made by the working class

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CHARTER

VAUXHALL

Motors announced the axing of 800 jobs

MINERS

determined to ree trol alc 186a Clapham High St, continue their strike until the gunstao e TrUC London, SW4 7UC nearly one tenth of the labour the Coal force. chief Board see reason, union A management spokesman said Lawrence Daly said yesterday.

the shrinking

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orden

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Situ National Union of Mine- ation 'will become even more was speaking difficult'

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octaclaly

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preliminary Dunstable factory has al- yesterday afternoon with mem- ready been on a Three cav week bers of the court of inquiry into It since January 21. has 'the

RIGHTS

dispute which start in potential output of com. biggest

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pudlic tomorrow. vehicles of any plant li mercial Mr Daly said that if the court's Europe. mos Also it it and on license i l Trader executive weekend final abandon-

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considered branch sell could be alicito

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engineering frm-

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meetines accentance or leecuol of the oldest in the town. Three could be decided within two workers hundred will lose their three days of the inquiry report.

when the firm closes Employment Secretary Robert

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das one a bet you pared lead April. the Carr yesterday attacked miners' 'quite unprecedented picketing.

WEATHER

Interviewed on BBC-radio, he don't to argue if said: from

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isolated wintry but this is strictly legal or not, showers in the Nand W, Scotand this was never the sort of picket patches will be which has been allowed alc pected in central and E Scotland.

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law, for the been protected by purpose of industrial disputes.'

NW and Engand, except SW, will be dry. Fog patches are The National Union of Public

STRIKE PLEDGE

expected at hirst. Employees yesterday pressed the NW England, N Ireland and N

TUC

to consider action to bring settle no-strike 'a speedy and satistactory, wil have isolated wintry wales guarantee of the ment to the miners' pay dispute'.

showers on coasts, otherwise it Marathon Manufactur demands will be mainly dry. TUC secretary he a exas ol-ne company. wul.

S Wales and SW England will Victor Feather, secretary make on union leaders if it buys Fisher said: 'We feel the be dry at hirst becoming cloudy the has now reached with rain in places later.

situation

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point mild over woere me covermcal Marathon's US will he most of Reports fron policies threaten not only The England and Wales with near- headquarters in Houston suggest standards of the iving normal temperatures elsewhere that the company will want not millions those also ot but a pledge and DUl only the Tuesday • sualalla industries. workers in ourer that £50 fines will be imposed 01 Feather is in Miami. Sunny periods after. workers breaking it. coming colder. When leading stewards return

NEWS DESK

talks today Glasgow with Minister Johr 01-720 2000 Davies, shipyard workers will cer • Clapham tainly know whether

CIRCULATION

Street, of the topics was one this 01-622 7029 Marathon discussed Right-to-Work By Stephen Johns - DAY SIX-Carlisle WE CROSSED the Scottish border today and marched ' into Carlisle with our heads high. The campaign waged by the Labour Party leader- ship to keep 45 unemployed youth out of their town has failed. As we crossed the river into the city centre a new rectuit, an unemployed labourer, joined the column. The Party in Carlisle has allied with the Tory education itself every hall, committee to lock school and union headquarters to We're quartered the marchers. outside the city limits in Long- town parish hall. A final confrontation came on Friday. The advance team went to the Party headquarters down for a last bid to get accommo- were being fed dation. Pickets there so we sent down the two miners with the team. They were disgusted at the re- ception they received. The Party bureaucrats were sympathetic-of they could do course - but nothing. They refused to explain why they opposed a campaign for the right to work with the aim of building a movement. to get the Tories out. we've been, the Wherever section of the movement taking the political initiative has been the local trade union branches.

Naturally they clash with the Labour Party squires. This rift is of fundamental significance. The Party and the right wing are utterly divorced from develop- ments within the working class- hence the fear of our march.

This is particularly apparent in Carlisle. Tory unemployment about to strike this town in a very direct way. The brewery and state- pubs here the were owned. The city was noted for its cheap excellent beer (20p a pint). But Heath has awarded the big backing brewers, who put cash with this. behind his party, pubs are thriving industry. The being hived-ofi to the big private combines and the state brewery over 300-will shut employing down soon. Back to the Labour Party. The Party final irony came when members approached a group of marchers in the town. 'Would they be interested in coming to speak at the Labour Party's. con- ference on unemployment?'

Carlisle marks our first week on the road. I must say I felt among the youth proud to be when we crossed that bridge quarter of a mile past Gretna and saw the sign for England— we had come over 100 miles.

I recalled a remark Corin Red- grave made on the first day of the trek about Cromwell's New Army. I'm sure when the Model workers' army in Britain is built, many of the youth on the Glas- gow march will be in its front ranks. Before closing today's diary, I would like to refer back up the route to Annan and pay tribute to the workers of this town and especially the Solway branch of Union of Amalgamated Engineering Workers. They spent all Friday arrang- ing accommodation for us. We were to get food from the can- Chapel Cross nuclear of teen power station, but the manage- ment refused the facility at the last minute. But the local trade unionists rallied round and sat the whole march down in a local transport café for supper and a breakfast to see. us through to Carlisle.