Workers Press no. 689

workers press an Ever-hopeful Daly looks

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTE!

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

BRITAIN has been plunged into the most critical conflict of class forces since 1926. And it would be imper- missible to underestimate the Tories' determination to crush the miners.

The Tories are faced with a world economic crisis of enormous magnitude. The balance of trade figures once more have swung into the red: should they give way to the miners' demands, their international position would speedily deteriorate. Heath and his high command have little room for manoeuvre. It is no longer a question of what goes on in the mind of this that minister or trade union or would like to do. In today's what they leader, or becomes subordin- the subjective factor situation, the objective conflict of class forces. ate to has risen SO rapidly, Working-class militancy the wall. its back to the government now has Every Tory and employer knows that the only conceivable excuse for a government retreat would fight the engineers— to be in order to prepare next on the pay agenda. But if the Tories do play will for time, they only postponing the showdown with and the working class million en- the country's different vastly gineers are 280,000 proposition the miners. class is faced The working historic task of with the truly ending the capitalist system. But it has fight fronts: to on • FIRST, make this Tory govern-

BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

ment resign.

BUT

second, with a Labour

MINERS UNION

government elected in its place, secretary Tory traitors in weed out the yesterday Lawrence Daly the Labour ranks. hinted that his executive might recommend acceptance This can best be carried out the of Wilberforce inquiry struggle to force the in the leadership adopt Labour to if they recommendations socialist policies under conditions 'up somewhere near' came are exposed for in which they their claim. their inability to do so.

BBC-radio he Speaking on In short, there are no economic said that if there was to be answers, such as wage increases, dispute, the solution to the The end the present crisis. to would have government go rate of inflation rising so over its wage-rise ceiling of 7 to that any wage conces- savagely 8 per cent. sions made to the miners would He felt the men were entitled be entirely eroded within six months. to the amount they were seeking.

'But if an offer is made some- class is today The working where in between, at the end of of the question confronted by the day it will be the men who power. Its immediate task, there- decide. fore, is to make the Tories resign.

It seems to me that if the court is prepared to come up somewhere INSIDE TODAY: Foreign news 2; these figures near Right-to-Work diary 3; Manifesto and the Coal Board accepts them, chance of the discussion 5; Miners' discussion there is being able to recommend just 10; TV programmes 11. union

NSLETTER • TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1972

ENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI/

acceptance to its members.'

in The inquiry will open Westminster this afternoon and sit as late as it thinks necessary in order to have its report com- pleted by Friday. Yesterday the S Wales execu- tive of the miners' union picked two married members earning less than £20 a week to give evidence. LABOUR MPs were yesterday issued with a three-line whip instructing them to vote against the government motion approving its emergency power regulations.

Liberal MPs were also voting against. A Labour Party executive meeting yesterday unanimously supported the miners' struggle *to defend and improve their living standards, which has won wide public sympathy. The successful resolution con- demned gross government mis- handling of the dispute. 15, 1972 • No. 689 • 4p

E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

workers

AT LEAST 750,000

were shut out of their factories yesterday by the Tories' General Lock-Out (see P 12). Share prices on the London stock exchange fell by £1,000m.

Lock-out organizer Edward Heath has called in TUC secre- tary Victor Feather and leaders of the big monopolists in the Confederation of British Industry for separate talks on the crisis today. miners' leaders Meanwhile, who will this afternoon submit their evidence to the Wilberforce inquiry into their strike, glad- dened Tory hearts by calling for the end of mass picketing.

NUM SECRETARY DALY

FAMILIES TELL

the ONLY HOURS before scheduled opening of the Lon- donderry inquiry, the N Ireland Rights Association Civil announced it would not co- operate with Mr Justice Widgery.

A spokesman said Widgery's long personal connection with the British army precluded him from giving an impartial judg- ment. (Widgery was a colonel in the last war and subsequently became a brigadier in the Terri- torials). • See p.ll Army men in press conference. At Westminster, the Labour shadow cabinet was believed last night to have sidestepped calls for it to table a no confidence motion in the government over the power crisis. however ban on In Scotland, power workers defied a union. today's unofficial strike against their leaders' pay settlement.

Ron Brown, spokesman for the said powermen on the E coast, of the officials discipline threat: "This will be regarded, I am sure, f intimidation. But worse many members as an still, I think it will appear that they have supported the manage- ment and' the this statement, Tories in making

FOOD CONVOY

FOR KENT

MINERS

MARKET porters and print- squashed workers quickly Heath's attempts to split the ranks of the trade union move- ment yesterday by sending a convoy of food vans to the Kent miners. Half a dozen vans plastered with posters saying 'Support the Miners' were loaded with fruit and vegetables in Covent Garden market and, to cheers from the porters, the convoy set off for Deal. The whole operation was, planned and financed jointly by the T&GWU, NATSOPA, one of the print unions, and the Politi- cal Committee of the London Co-op, which provided some of the vans. Speaking for the T&GWU, John Dorchester, shop steward for the market and chairman of T&GWU, No. 1 Region, said afterwards: This is a token gesture for the moment, but if the miners want more we will be sending it. We are giving this support because this strike no longer involves just the miners; it is a matter for the trade union movement as a whole. If Heath thinks he can isolate the miners in this way he is very much mistaken. It may have to come to a General Strike before they win.'

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTEF

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

BRITAIN has been plunged into the most critical conflict of class forces since 1926. And it would be imper- missible to underestimate the Tories' determination to crush the miners.

The Tories are faced with a world economic crisis of enormous magnitude. The balance of trade figures once more have swung into the red: should they give way to the miners' demands, their international position would speedily deteriorate. his high command have little Heath and room for manoeuvre. no longer a question of what goes on in It is trade union the mind of this or that minister or would like to do. In today's what they leader, or becomes subordin- subjective factor the situation, conflict of class forces.

the objective ate to rapidly, Working-class militancy has risen SO back to the wall. its has the government now employer knows that the only Tory and Every conceivable excuse for a government retreat would engineers- fight the be in order to prepare next on the pay agenda. But if the Tories y he will only for time, they showdown with postponing the class and the working million country's the are a vastly different gineers the 280,000 proposition to miners. is faced The working class historic task of with the truly ending the capitalist system. But two fronts: fight on it has to

BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

• FIRST, make this Tory govern- ment resign. BUT second, with a Labour elected in its place, MINERS' UNION secretary government Tory traitors in out the weed Lawrence Daly yesterday the Labour ranks. hinted that his executive might recommend acceptance This can best be carried out the of Wilberforce inquiry the struggle to force the in leadership adopt Labour to if they recommendations socialist policies under conditions 'up somewhere near' came which they exposed for in their claim. their inability to do so.

Speaking BBC-radio he on In short, there are no economic said that if there was to be answers, such as wage increases, the solution the dispute, The to end the crisis. present government would have to of inflation is rising SO rate over its wage-rise ceiling of 7 to savagely that any wage concts 8 per cent. sions made to the miners would He felt the men were entitled be entirely eroded within six to the amount they were seeking.

months. 'But if an offer is made some- class is today The working where in between, at the end of the question of confronted DY who the day it will be the men power. Its immediate task, there- decide. fore, is to make the Tories resign.

that if the It seems to me prepared court is to come up these figures INSIDE TODAY: Foreign news 2; somewhere near Right-to-Work diary 3; Manifesto and the Coal Board accepts them, the Miners' discussion is just a chance of discussion 5; there being able to recommend 10; TV programmes 11. union

NSLETTER • TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15, 1972

ENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

acceptance to its members.'

inquiry will open in The Westminster this afternoon and sit as late as it thinks necessary in order to have its report com- pleted by Friday. Yesterday the S Wales execu- tive of the miners' union picked two married members earning less than £20 a week to give evidence. LABOUR MPs were yesterday issued with a three-line whip instructing them to vote against the government motion approving its emergency power regulations.

Liberal MPs were also voting against. A Labour Party executive meeting yesterday unanimously supported the miners' struggle "to defend and improve their ' living standards, which has won wide public sympathy. The successful resolution con- demned gross government mis- handling of the dispute. 15, 1972 • No.689 4p

• SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AT LEAST 750,000

workers were shut out of their factories yesterday by the Tories' General P 12). Share Lock-Out (see the London stock prices on exchange fell by £1,000m.

Lock-out organizer Edward Heath has called in TUC secre- tary Victor Feather and leaders of the big monopolists in the Confederation of British Industry for separate talks on the crisis today. miners' leaders Meanwhile, who will this afternoon submit their evidence to the Wilberforce inquiry into their strike, glad- dened Tory hearts by calling for the end of mass picketing.

NUM SECRETARY DALY

FAMILIES TELL

the ONLY HOURS before opening of the Lon- scheduled donderry inquiry, the N Ireland Rights Association Civil announced it would not co- operate with Mr Justice Widgery.

A spokesman said Widgery's long personal connection with trom glish an impatided big- the British army ment. (Widgery was a colonel in the last war and subsequently became a brigadier in the Terri- torials). • See p.ll Army men in press conference. At Westminster, the Labour shadow cabinet was believed last night to have sidestepped calls for it to table a no confidence motion in the government over the power crisis. In Scotland, however, power workers defied a union ban on today's unofficial strike against their leaders' pay settlement.

Ron Brown, spokesman for the the E coast, said powermen on of the officials' discipline threat: "This will be regarded, I am sure, intimidation. but we as an still, I think it will appear that they have supported the manage- ment and' the this statement, Tories in making

FOOD CONVOY

FOR KENT

MINERS

MARKET porters and print- workers squashed quickly Heath's attempts to split the ranks of the trade union move- yesterday by sending a ment convoy of food vans to the Kent miners. Half a dozen vans plastered with posters saying 'Support the Miners' were loaded with fruit and vegetables in Covent Garden market and, to cheers from the porters, the convoy set off for Deal. • operation The whole was. planned and financed jointly by the T&GWU, NATSOPA, one of the print unions, and the Politi- cal Committee of the London Co-op, which provided some of the vans. Speaking for the T&GWU, John Dorchester, shop steward for the market and chairman of said T&GWU No. 1 Region, "This is a afterwards: token gesture for the moment, but if the miners want more we will be sending it. We are giving this support because this strike no longer involves just the miners; it is a matter for the trade union movement as a whole. If Heath thinks he can isolate the miners in this way he is very much mistaken. 'It may have to come to a General Strike before they win.'

Kremlin justifies Sudan murders PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday February 15, 19/2

AROUND THE WORLD

published extracts from his speech, dealing opposed Mahgoub's line and favoured total

BY JOHN SPENCER

with the state of relations between the Czech with Numeiry co-operatior 'fraternal' The other cause of the split was Mahgoub's val lico. Bilak justify the in- une projectea leaeration ol tue HARDLINE Czech Stalinist leader decent haste with which the Czech and other Sudan with Egypt and Libya. This was Stalinist resumed with negative attitude' according Bilak and governments to attacked Vasil Bilak has the Numeiry the trial played the game of the tollowing pro-Americans. allu of the the of the Sudan CP leaders. divisions Sudanese Communist Party and CP is shown by Bilak's claim that Sudanese He against the killings was sale revulsioni other fraternal parties' a 'noble reaction', but based on a misunder- its executed leader Abdel Khaled about Mahgoub's preparations were informed standing. It would not have been wise for Mahgoub for their opposition to abandon to overtarow Ivumelry. positIons 'Putsch' the Sudan or e sewnere. the murderous Numeiry dictator- the We would onlv been playing have imperialism, which would game Ewded be Abdel Khaled Mahgoub feared ship. lelighted to the possibility see lose Numeiry betrayea to influencing events by Kremlin discovered his plans. preferred Collalla Made in a speech to the Czech Central to take a chance on what Bilak described as with tne Just struggle or progressive lorces.

By 'progressive forces', Bilak makes clear, Committee October 21 last a badly-prepared putsch without the year, suppor he Numeiry and his reactionary clique Bilak's attack reveals the real attitude eltner or the army or the masses, ratner tnan ot army offcers. of the Kremlin leaders to the massacres 'Sectarian' of communists in the Sudan last July.

counter-revolutionary through through. with the HOr …The sake OT Contacts AMan The Sudan CP secretary comes in bourgeoisie, the Soviet and European why aso explains International Stalinists willing to stand by and watch

IOI

varucula allack. are Stalinist st Panty, have including British positions They were moving towards sectarian Communist dropped their bourgeols willie allu torture communist leaders, outlaw the trade ot Sudanese axallol lic unions and crush all independent organiza- communists. the working class. oncers. Sallel tions 'overthrown a govern- Numeiry nad, atter all Bilak's will of the Kremlin who

SOCCUI

ConC all acule is a calle representing the feudalists and the big claim to mense the butchery in the sudan prominence in past four bourgeoisie'. purge of all oppositior ycals uy a ruless What have they to say about the makes it clear that the Sudanese occupation of Czecho- slovakia.

COLLULY

LUca

DUDDULL

LUI

undoubtedly at Moscow's instigation a section Numeiry condemnation of the The Paris newspaper 'Le Monde' this week the Party's Central Committee dead Sudanese CP leader?

ITALIAN

ICI CURBED

NEO-FASCISTS

IN AMERICA

'BOMBED OWN

ICI'S EFFORTS to make headway in the American explosives industry have been partially blocked by

HEADQUARTERS'

the US government. The Federal Trade Commis-

(FTC)

sion

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

that provisionally

NATIONAL RIGHT-TO-

THE ITALIAN neo-fascist MSI organized a bombing Consent accebted vrael

ICI

WORK CAMPAIGN

requiring sell of the raid against its own headquarters last October, In aerospace divi order to put the blame on left-wing groups. The MSI sions of Atlas Chemical Indus-

RALLIES

also held summer training camps for terrorists in Tries ICI is further barred from to launch Umbria and near Lake Como.

interest in SWANSEA and US explosive: business for ten This revealed at the ITALY'S three main trade union was

FTC

LIVERPOOL

vears.

WILLOUL

federations have agreed dis- to approval. weekeno ov ro-ver-oo anse Angeli, a former MSI member.

September Also cited is ICI's wholly- marches solve unemselves in form organization new united trade owned subsidiary ICI-America ano he was also in an action group

THIS SATURDAY FEB 19

by February called Squadra Azione Musso- 10C St Georges Hall Ill acquired Atlas last yeal lini which was alleged to have about $163m (f62m). The for opp. Lime St Stn bombed the Milan office of the The Federations involved are:

PTC

violated the says Liverpool 3 p.m. communist and Contederazione Generale law vecause World War II monument Italla Del Lavoro (Cull) with 3.4 to petition American Tne Speakers: million members; the Con- Italian partisans last week. commercial explosives indus- federazione Dei Italiana Sinda- Gerry Caughey (Pilkington rank-

(CISL)

Last month, Milan's chief Atlas had Call Lavoraloll WItH sales of $155m and-file committee) ordered the first post- members; and the magistrate i $139m and assets Unione Italiana Del Lavoro Bill Measures (Pilkington rank- of about (£53m). Its Wal (UIL) with 1.5 million members.

and-file committee) Italian constitution explosives sales activity. ne commercial forbids the of Steward vanagh (TaGWU dock $30m (£11.5m), The CGIL has a communist were over fascist party. about 3boum (277m) per year induse cent Bernard Bradley (Ford's con- Eighty-seven mainly Christian people ar- the Democrat (Catholic); and venor) the weekend, Lly. Milan at rested

UIL

divided Social Send Spriggs (Convenor Fisher and weapons, including Jack

TYRE CLOSURE

sub-machine guns, Re- Democrats. docialsts publicans. pounded. Slaughter (SLL Central

CLASHES

(There is also a smaller con- Committee)

MEANWHILE,

and medium federation,

CISNAL-

Confedera- Christine Smith (YS leader of Italian hrms billall

TWENTY-SIX

policemen were zione Ilallana Del Liverpool march) Nazionali Lavoratori- irate a biest ine losure a demon- -0111 -Federmeccanicito combat this has neo-fascist deteriorating It ot a labour situation'. and is ostracized by the others.)

Micheln tvre tactory. Nas Tonned une emolovers Spain, at the weekend. Seven federation Confindustria.

This of course, unity could, detained. Michelin were SWANSEA 3 p.m. immenselv strengthen the italian 'Engineering and metalworking closed the factory following two working' class, but SLL, YS and trade union it is ilkely firms are no longer in a position weeks or intermittent strikes Dy that the

CGIL

Stalinists will the 3,500 tyre workers demand- support state of tension make many concessions to the ing more pay and a new and often of violence which has Liverpool march arrives in right wing. gone without 196 respite since ment St HELENS September, declared Reports say several hundred One condition of lusion could Federmeccanici president Emilio • be the severing of links with workers tried to demonstrate for a rally on political organizations. The Saturday and the town square on Lianoen

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 20

•robaby accedi workers

HONO

ouner lactories The employers are particularly Christian When they Town Hall, 7 p.m. Bruno Storti, Demo- them. tried to Join concerned the seven-month- secretary-general of

CISL,

police wield- at crat etu bators waded in and eare renused see our documentary play old dispute work over of the new secretary agreement at the federation. toe solare

'THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION'

Alta-Romeo firm. The manage. Directed by Corin Redgrave ment that the workers' claime

ASSISTED PASSAGE

demands would total nearly twice Written by Tom Kempinski last year's net profits. followed by a meeting

TO THE DOLE QUEUE

Speakers: Carabinieri entered Alfa- Gerry Caughey, Christine Smith UNEMPLOYMENT in dole. This Komeo d Australia workforce are on the works in Milan early yesterday and Gerry Healy, nonased the end of lanuary below the record Tose al and began to load new vehicles the Socialist Labour its second highest level since the level of 131,396 in January 1962.

relary League) discover end World War II. Yet the that bolts had been loosened on still Australian Lynch claimed the figure was Glasgow march arrives in the railway track leading from seasonal you can be beret on in Immorants. wIll _expecla

NEWCASTLE

the works! Yesterday's 'Daily Express' tions'. mising Australia. carried a Wednesday February 16. The employers are also wor- Greet the marchers at Minister for Labour immigrants. Federal tor says: subsidiary OM Pirelli and the work hard. The ana Nanonal service rainp Lynch alains a cell loo SA subsidiary of the Zanussi says 120,233, Inzys 5.6 8 per cent, of expanding economy needs more Gonnalont han backens million-strong skills-and rewards them SLL and trade union speakers.

domestic appliance group.

AN ENCOURAGING feature of the Glasgow march so far has been the ungrudging help provided by organizations—ad- ditional to those who had noti- fied us of support before the march began. These include the Transport Workers' and General Union District Committee in Dumfries, shop stewards and workers from Massey Fergusons, Kilmarnock, Barrony miners from and the Ayrshire. From Aberdeen comes news that the University Students' Representative Council voted to the march and to support authorize a payment of £35 to the Marxist Society to help the campaign. Also in Aberdeen University, lecturers in the History and Sociology departments have do- nated £11.50. The Michelin site, Dundee, has sent £3. The Pilkington Rank-and-File committee, St Helens, support the march and shop stewards at Plessey's Hilton Rd factory, Sunderland, are taking a collec- tion among the 1,500 workers there. Merseyside docks shop, stew- ards are supporting the marches and are donating £50. Vauxhall shop stewards com- mittee at Ellesmere Port have voted support and financial help.

St Helens G&MWU No. 132 branch at Rocla. Pipes is sup- the campaign and is porting giving £9.09 to the fund.

The shop stewards committee at United Glass Bottles, Deptford, SE London, has voted to support the campaign. Workers on 'D' shift have collected £4.40 to back the marchers. £10 has been received from the Refractory Service site, St Helens, and donations are promised from building workers at Pilkington Bros new factory there. The Liverpoot. Teach ing Hospital site shop-stewards committee has sent £15 and 120 has in from the Inland come Revenue site, Bootle. The stream of support con- tinues unabated. Winsford USDAW branch is to donate and take a collection at the Texo factory and Glasgow North EETU/PTU has supported the campaign. Witney and District Labour Party has also declared its sup- port and Lutterworth Labour Party will provide meals for the marchers. Individual donatións include £5 from Southall, Middlesex, MP Sid Bidwell and £2 from Bruce Douglas Mann, MP for N Ken- sington. Students everywhere are seeing the importance. of joining with workers in the fight against un- employment. Students and technical staff at Aberdeen University have sent €10 and the Students' Represen- tative Council of the University Leeds •University Union building will be available for accommodation and students at Leeds Polytechnic are organ- izing collections and other fund- raising functions. Sheffield Polytechnic students have sent f10 and promised to help in every possible way.

Swindon Technical College Students' Union holding a is sending a con- collection and tingent to meet the marchérs Wales. from Southampton University Students' Union Club has given £25 and St Catherine's College, Oxford, is holding collection, sending a delegation to Wembley and providing a meal for S Wales marchers. Students at the Dacorum College, Hemel Hempstead, _are hoping to be able to use • their premises for the marchers and Aston, Birmingham, University Students' Guild Executive publicising and collecting for the march. N Paddington College of Education is sending £10 and a delegation and support also comes from N London College of Further Education. The London Film School is to organize a fund-raising effort. Garnett College in London has sent £6 and Kent University, Canterbury, £22, with more to Technical Col- come. Norwood lege is sponsoring one marcher and sending deputation a of students to meet the march.

Right-Jo-Work

DIARY

By Stephen Johns DAY SEVEN-Carlisle A BLISTERING attack the leaders of on the Carlisle Labour Party cheers won from the people of this town on Sunday night. Gerry The speaker was Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League. He flayed the party bureau- crats for refusing the Right- to-Work marchers a bed and laid down this challenge : 'As secretary of the Socialist Labour League, 1 ask you present your credentials in the fight and see if they match the un- paralleled record of the Young Socialists'. Comrade Healy, who brought Tene Lencue s greennes marchers, warned that the officers Party's neadquarters would an-

THE TRIAL OF:*

CHARLES I

FROM

SUNDAY'S

PRODUCTION

PLAY

PROVIDES

MARCHERS

WITH

OWN

SONG

swer for the lies and distortions Baldwin Tory had government they have spread break bought time for one year in 1925 to up the by insuluung an inculry into tne issue of the coal subsidy, mean- 'This behaviour by the leader- Party means of the Labour while, building up stocks to meet ship 1926 the threat of national one thing, he said. stoppage 'The British working class have 'Watch Heath He could now. tasks to out. They carry two Tory be buying time with the so-called the must get governmell Wilberforce and relying and they have to the out get the TUC to run like their of the Tory Party within friends did in 1926. thus leav- labour movement out as well.

A CASTOTO

ing the miners in the lurch. 'If they don't deal with the the He challenged the Labourites Wilsonian enemy within Gordon Marxists ranks, there will be treachery criticize necance the Newcas ahead.' were 'anti-constitutionalists'.

they If there bureaucrats 'If there is constitution, were any audience at Carlisle must at least be based on truth in the hall, they silence and consent. This government is kept a strict as the ova- ruling illegal and well they might, maTe date on almost every issue of its tion from the crowd of marchers, policy. city workers and miners was important that we do not confuse this issue.

damning rebuke their anti- wEarier ass attitude Healy "The illegal, government Comrade had therefore the labour HOr tAr movement that the gov- has the right to use every poli- warned the miners ernment could well be tical and industrial weapon in ing for a General Strike.

He its possession to force the Tories minded the audience that the ta call General Election.'

THE

CLIMAX

of our ket of 3.000 singing it In the performance, the between day of rest Carlisle Corin Redgrave said the the play directed the by Tom Kem- these crucial years of was play Redgrave. which he has the 17th and by Corin ninski. century have iust been talking the the class confrontation directed about with some of the events leading up to the today is never lost. The Charloc work with two marchers and it clearly execution opens profound im- —was to set the record extracts from the made thoughts' of Ted Heath straight and show that pression. there an English -his that he It's also given us our was promise would perform' to pro- marching We anthem. revolution. the 'We in foundly alter the course have recorded song are taught 'Demand the Right school that the English of British History, and inevitably remarkable Work' and it will slow his "civil

WAT

be- and gradual. Of course war' speech at th sung in every town Lon- this muth The United Nations in 1970 tween here and don. 1640 With this kind of in events were dramatic, bloody frame For its first mass per- and troduction and formance vou'll have to fundamental. the rise of the work, to Longannet power "The English sorced to British capitalist class is geoisie portraved in a truly liv- station in Fifeshire to- were 20 the whole way way. morrow. ing the They The play ends with The miners who saw erasn power. tonight's needed to develop in- the burghers firmly in performance have taken copies and dustry and turn the power and gloating over will try to ret working class.' future of unlimited the nic- modern Workers Press, Tues

GLASGOW

KILMARNOCK

CUMNOCK

SANQUHAR

THORNHILL

DUMFRIES

CARLISLE

ordon Brown (nearest camera) and le Newcastle welcome expansion. But as they sing their victory hymn, their arms spread out and they begin to crush one another—a hint that all the hopes of per- manent rule, were un- founded and that society always has con- ultimately tradictions more powerful than in- dividual aspirations. I urged the actors to show their work at our March 12 rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, in London, and miner John Hampson agrees. He's bringing a team down from Ayrshire to the London rally on the strength of it: "I could have watched it for another hour; it was great, really great, he told me. ress, Tuesday February 15, 1972 PAGE 3

HALT

WHISTLE NEWCASTLE

AN NAN

HEXHAM

era) and Kevin Weastell get ready for THE Right-to-Work marchers are assured of a big welcome when they reach Newcastle to- morrow evening to begin their journey through the NE. There are plans to bring the marchers through the factory area to the W of the city just as workers leave for home. The Newcastle Right-to-Work committee has been completing preparations prarchers in a city where 19 men chase every vacancy. Factories, labour exchanges and housing estates have been leaf- letted about the meeting arranged for the marchers in the Con- naught Hall tomorrow night.

A jumble sale was held last Saturday to raise cash for the march, and factory-gate collec- tions have been held this week.

Workers Press spoke to some members of Newcastle Young Socialists who have been active in recruiting more marchers to join them in the 300-mile journey to London. Gordon Brown (21) has been on the dole seven months. He comes from Stanley, near New- castle, where a new labour ex- change is being built. A new police station is going up beside it. He was sacked from his last job in a brickworks because he refused to do two men's work when asked by the foremen.

'When you go for a job now there's 40 or so blokes looking for the same opening, so there's not much chance of getting one.

I get £6.76 on the dole and out of that I have to pay £4 board and lodgings. "This is the first time I've been involved in politics, but the YS has proved to me that it is the it says it will do that does what only organization Kevin Weastell has been on the dole for nine months and he is still only 17. 'It's an awful feel- ing having nothing to do, he told me as he was sorting out tickets leaflets and for Wednesday's meeting. 'But it's no use sitting around and doing nothing about it and the YS has come out and given a lead at the right time. I'm looking forward to the marchers coming into Newcastle for them, Planning a big welcome and we're said Kevin. TOMORROW-Pages 6 & 7. More Newcastle Right-to-Work preparations.

PAGE 4, Workers Press, Tuesday Februar

BY BERNARD FRANKS

Introducing Six Part a Series by Bernard Franks on Workers Rights and the Dole. Millions of people in Britain are forced to exist at no more than subsistence level. They are the low-paid work- ers, the majority of pensioners, and dis- multitude of sick abled, all unemployed workers, unsupported women with most children, every worker on strike and a mass of defeated, demoral- ized human derelicts, useless for and there- pront-making labour, fore entirely expendable as far as the owners of the means of production are concerned.

The Supplementary Benefits system, which replaces the pre- vious National Assistance, is said to ensure a reasonable standard of living for anyone unable to an income or live on their carn pension, sick unemployed or - a sort of financial beneht safety net. In tact, it is little more than a last-ditch reliet, a modern version of the Poor Law.

Over 2.7 million people, Or population, one in 20 of the draw some form of this payment at the present time in order to survive. A large number of people, however, who are entitled to payments do not draw them, and many that do are not getting their full allowances-a majority of applicants are receiving 10 to less than their per cent entitlement, according to one organization. Another 30,000 households have their payments deliberately held down by the so-called 'wage-stop' Many deductions. more bring in from work less than the benefit rates anyway.

One Cambridge researcher, A. B Atkinson, estimated 1969 in • to 5 million people, 9 that up per cent of the population, had Supplemen- below the incomes tary Benefits scale i.e. "below the level which the government con- siders to be the National mini- mum', The fact that thousands of when workers do not register unemployed - including many don't who married women bother because they are not eli- gible for unemployment benefit that the official -also means figures for unemployment are always well below the real situa- tion. For those entitled to claim, the reasons for their reluctance to do so are not hard to find.

Some of them are:

STIGMA ASSOCIATED

WITH BENEFITS

Many possible applicants are reluctant to claim from a scheme which still carries reminders of the Relief and Workhouse sys- tems that formed the basis of Assistance during most of the 19th and first 48 years of the 20th centuries.

LACK OF INFORMATION

Workers have to try and fathom out their entitlement and put in a claim.

THE MEANS TEST

An odious prying into the affairs of the poor with the object not of improving their situation, but of ensuring that no more than a subsistence in- come is attained.

FORM FILLING

A mass of forms and general red tape are associated with different allowances. ay February 15, 1972 Top: Crowded Labour Exchange during

MPLICATION OF FRAUD

The existence of secret codes controlling the of operation working of the Social Security AX Codes) system (the A and and a squad of special investiga- tors to secretly probe for fraud, puts all applicants under an atmosphere of suspicion.

DISCRETIONARY POWERS

The local officials have wide powers of deciding whether or ge during the 1930s. Below: Brixton's Employm not money should be paid to a family, and how much it should be. The applicant is not able to claim an amount as of right, but must wait on the official's personal decision of what is due.

It would be wrong, though, to lay blame entirely on local offi- cials. The decisions to make mas- sive cuts in social services have come from the Tory government with its determination to bolster in the British capitalism period of economic crisis and decay. Chancellor of the Exche- quer, Barber, listed on October You

MUST

GIVE

THIS CARD

EACH

STIME

YOU SIGN

: Employment Exhange in the 1970s.

of 27, 1970, how millions pounds would be 'saved' over the coming five-year period by cuts spending, in public other words by battening down on the pensioner and unemployed, the the entire workines class. working The increasing local level stem from this policy.

As long as capitalism exists, the working class, as one part of its struggle, will have to wage a battle to defend non-stop extend hard-won social and wel- fare rights against continuous encroachment. 0971000i anoitadin* 11-1

GENERAL

Starting tomorrow, Workers Press' will carry a six-part series by BERNARD FRANKS detail- ing the benefits due to the unem- ployed, the worker involved in a trade dispute, and the pen- sioner. He will also discuss some of the 1,001 situations which en- able the authorities to stop or reduce the amount paid.

CONTINUED

WORKERS' RIGHTS

A NEW 6-PART SERIES BY

BERNARD FRANKS

REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

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

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

EUGENE DUGGAN

EEPTU membar, BSA, Birmingham Much as I'd like to agree that this is an illegal government, I've got reservations about it because the Labour government had no mandate for half-a-million unemployed either. But there's no doubt it's a fraudulent govern- ment. It was the Labour government which prepared the way for the Tories to attack basic rights with such measures as In Place of Strife'. We should not believe the Tories' claims that they will apply laws against the unions reasonably. Previous Labour governments brought in small moves like the Health Service and comprehensive schools — a creeping form of socialism. But the Tories will attempt to use clauses in the Treaty of Rome to stop state medicine private medicine and resurrect the principle that social on services should be harmonized.

In . the boom period British employers thought they could do better out of the Common Market but they are now forced, out of necessity, to enter. I don't think the capitalists consciously to impose fascism but prepare they will have to respond to circumstances. The Tories' claim that the Common Market will solve un- employment is sheer nonsense- look at the unemployment grow- ing in Germany, one of the most efficient countries. The last time there was a slump, world trade was cut by two thirds and trade was carried out by barter between govern- ments. I think that there will be another recession with vast un- employment and a big growth of nationalism. In such a situation the capitalists would have to develop nationalism and start pushing corporatism — strikes would be unpatriotic and hysteria would be whipped up against them. If a Labour government came back and carried out the old patching-up job it would be a disaster and open the way for a much more right-wing, govern- ment than this one, perhaps led by Powell. The only possible way the working class can have a promis- ing future is through a Labour government with socialist policies because the alternative is the road to depression. When !, hear from Feather and company that the Tories should solve unemployment, they don't seem to have any apprecia- tion of history and who they're talking to. The present leaders talk as if they could run the system better than the capitalists. They must know that capitalism cannot fulfil their demands. They don't want to sound too revolutionary be- cause it might upset the apple cart-they want to do things in a nice gentlemanly fashion, so as not to upset anybody. It's the economic facts of life Workers from Ford's Halewood plant d that are going to be the great disturbers and these characters are not going to be able to stop them. I go along with what the SLL says, that the labour movement should put every pressure on the Tories to resign. How can they tolerate million un- employed, weakening the working class? During the period of the last Labour government some national papers called for a period which Wilson austerity obligingly provided. Then they screamed about a of unemployment crisis level in the country. Today existing we have more than double that number unemployed. There's not half the air of crisis in the papers. • What really nailed the Labour George- leaders me was Brown's statement about the My Lai massacre'stop weeping and get on with the war. You never got statements like that even from the Tories. I had the feeling in the past that the SLL was a bit too strong for me, a bit near the knuckle, a bit too truthful. Sometimes it seems to put me out on a limb but when I look around for somebody else I can't find any- body. There's nothing left in the leadership of the Labour Party to admire. d plant during the ten week long natlonal str Workers Press, Tuar

DAVID MCJIMPSEY

ASWP member London, N4 For me the most important point to emerge from the Draft Mani- festo is the necessity for a Marxist leadership in the Labour movement. The leadership today has been won over to the capitalist system by 25 years of economic boom.

Therefore when the system is thrown into crisis they do not, or refuse to, understand the reasons for the Tories' attacks on the working class. They con- fine themselves to pleading for such things as a reflation of the economy' not knowing that the very existence of the ruling class depends on their puppets in and that no government amount of pleading or protest will steer them from their re- actionary policies. Therefore we must fight for • leadership that understands the capitalist system and which will make a principled fight to end it. In other words a leader- ship trained in Marxist theory.

That is why I believe the building of a revolutionary party is essential. As the Manifesto says, the party will use the Workers Press to expose the present leadership for what it is—a prop for the capitalist system. tonal strike of Ford workers in February and M rosa, Tuaeday February 15, 1972 PAGE 5 There is one point in the Manifesto I would like , ta be elaborated upon and that is the counter-revolutionary role of the Communist Party bureaucrats, for I feel there is a great deal of confusion among the CP rank and file. I would also like greater em- phasis put upon the fact that if the reactionary policies of the ruling class go unchallenged humanity's fate will be cata- strophic. The launching of the revolu- tionary party will herald a new period in the history of the british warking class, a period in which the shadow boxing is over and the working class are coming out fighting.

FORD WORKER

Halewood, transmission section The Manifesto has my full sup- port in its defence of the basic rights of the working class. I agree we need a revolution- ary party, so long as the leader- ship is answerable to the people and can be replaced if necessary.

think Measured-Day Work has got to go because under it they get more and more work and in from people this way keep the work force down. The unions must begin a cam- paign to . kick out MDW. This would help stop the dole queues getting longer and longer.

lary and March last year

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuezday February 15, 1972 It was an exasperated and that Scanlon very enthusiasticany combated that betrayal rather nervous Hugh Scanlon ocanion azuca suoney al tie who rose at a london hotel

TUC

arsen ton neus coon last July to throw in Te0e such as his own members were sponge in the fight against at that moment teal see in Its Tory anti-union legislation.

Too defeat legisla about It's too late now, told he the government itsel if this is necessary an audience including Emplov.

ment Secretary Robert Carr. tre vote 'We've Rubicon. crossed the outlawed industrial action against Just over later, the the Bill. And within hours both • a monta hated Industrial Relations Act Scanlon and

T&GWU

had declared became aw. For all his exasperation and wing; they would abide right nervousness the Metro-Vickers the decision The men who is now

TWO

were demonstrate the extent of their Rubicon CrOssCu DalLiculal agreed before sorte Oute Let 100K secret settlemen Febru- ste Was talks ary 1971 and what he is doing head Gillen.

ULUDC

Dallicy Ford 1zousanas

WON-

vovconted mitter. against à sell-out to unions industry guidelines level bargaining to replace their preparing wing behind move mooted informal tairs between (scan.on silent as Jones. and leaders of the giant kers- Trans- the General Durine une summer was abondoned sender aver a key niners' role and dealing whee ing chief's with the Tories around their so- reasons called rela one this wait On July oppor- Dest outunca ar ms enginels. tunity speaking secon committee with Employment April year, Secretary Rob- Bast Wien

TORONT

calls for straight, all-round ert Carr to do a bit of sounding- pay increase by pointing out that out on behalf of the TUC. which the before would Is were we came in. battle joined. later accom- rive Gaus of panied Feather to a meeting His National Economic the union ment Council. could to raise Illl tales ation meeting tiat that national level. but concentrate IlS main Industry ings locally almost exactly announced onone present policy. Joc-Coll onCe correctly charged the Intormai undertakıng to moderate wage claims was almost cer- sh in the to tainly secret talks with the unions about a new dis- putes procedure. Yet Scanlon prevaricated when have however oCCI Scanlon, it came to the AUEW response like his fellow-unionists by the Act. niacing was under constant oressure from emphasis in state- well his opening sals BanK the ment to committee on the Crossing the trom Artes. dann ouary -or more trion Rubicon was not all smooth going. by the TUC In contrast, Scanlon forced four to carry ot all soccial coniticace instructing sectons not resister the Tories was none moonati decisively over: Wilca de warne• a singie scratcr could 'We are faced with a capital- AUEW remains ist government the most unregistered an vicious sense of the word, he union, all its efforts for saDelegates implementing representing the cannot completely aban- 1.5 members carried his cal for decover ever, series one cav aimed bureauty a one swar at defeating the Bill. Ine meet ing went the ford st fel Which union's month that ing for strike which advice on the anti-union law was then 'Know the Act, then in progress was Despite complete But role Ford's the action calling engineering his ether s1.50 —101

OUL

anti-Bill consider his toker their men vers Inccasins the strikes on March the union now must remem- 1 ay •resicent reused mid-ecemner what torm TUC's action might take place. But he special said tha did pledge that neither the eco- climate the lack would sympathy slalt the unions. ensure DaleI... I with reporters In conversation тет o a Labour covenment

EEF

determined to the principles of later. nowever. «irector. socialism' general Martin Tukes let clin Soon Post e however, the pointer that cranion had said Well, we'll just have to workers in try and get it at plant level' the Tories policy -means acceptance of ope tot betrayed TUC. History will not record Workars Presa, Tuadlay February 15, 1972 PAGE 7 demand his backing. Centre, on the UCS platiom ith tub Er ployment 'We've got a probiem here. Vic ary Vic Feather

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday February 15, 1972

BRAZIL:

THE U.S.

OF LATIN

AMERICA

Brazil has become the hub for US corporations operat- ing in Latin America. This now familiar point was made by Francisco Pinto, member of the Chamber of Deputies, 'tolerated' opposition in by military country run clique. ay February 15, 1972 He went on to say that while Brazil would become a big exporter to other Latin Ameri- can countries, the main benefits would go to parent companies in the US. 'Brazil is becoming the big imperialist of Latin America', he declared, 'without the benefits of imperi- enjoying alism, while it reaps a heavy burden of unpopularity. As representative tion of the Brazilian bourgeoisie, Pinto obviously has big doubts about Brazil's role as cast by the US. The : United Nations Economic Commission has made a similar interme- point about Brazil's diary position between US impe- rialism and the rest of the area.

American branch plants in Brazil advanced indus- are exporting other Latin trial goods to American countries, while Brazilian firms are confined to traditional lines and light indus- try. Thus the benefits of Brazil's 'economic miracle' are pocketed imperialist by US corporations bourgeoisie has while the local to be content with the leftovers.

Advanced industries under are the case foreign control, as 1s with electronics and motor big vehicles. A handful of foreign subsidiaries account for over half the production in these fields. Foreign firms in Brazil| are able to take advantage of low wages and proximity to the market dominate Latin to America. (They are planning to sell more widely in Africa and other less-developed areas.)

In Latin America they take advantage of the Latin Ameri- Trade Free Association, can which is similar to the Common Market. Amongst fields in which these firms are interested is armaments.

A Brazilian plane with American already engines being assembled. Next step will be a helicopter plant operating with Bell patents to sell its products on the Latin American market.

The take-over of Brazilian industry by the multi-nationals since the proceeded apace overthrow of Goulart's govern- ment in 1964 and the installa- of military rule. Many tion small firms have gone out of business or been absorbed.

The army favours formation of huge conglomerates from among 'national' firms, claiming that this will enable them to take advant- economies of large-scale age of production. Bank mergers and concentrations have also been favoured. The lop-sided development of the Brazilian economy and its subordination to foreign and par- imperialism ticularly American social accumulates tensions. Whole areas of the country like the North Eastern provinces are in the grip of growing poverty: One-third of the wealth is concentrated in the mushroom- ing city of San Paolo, which also swarms with poverty-stricken peasants and workers, unable to exist any longer in the pro- vinces. Constructional projects in the Amazon basin recruit labour virtually on a slave basis.

Scenes from the 1964 coup which overthrew the govern- ment of Jao Goulart and in- Brazil. stalled military rule In Above: tanks and troops sta- tioned outside the War ministry.

Below: troops take up positions In the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

which The Kurilies islands, are in an ownership dispute between Japan and the Soviet Union, are coveted chiefly for their fisheries. Lying between the Japanese island of Hokkaido and the Siberian peninsula of Kam- chatka, they have a severe climate and are sparsely populated. • The Southern Kurilies, settled by the Japanese in the 17th century, also possess important mineral resources as well timben reserves. Yalta Conference of At the February, 1945, Stalin secured a promise of these islands in re- turn for the Soviet Union's par- ticipation in the final stages of the war against Japan. The Soviet Union was also to receive the southern half of the Sakhalin is- land which had been seized by Japan after her defeat of Tsarist Russia in the 1905 war. After the Second World War the southern Kurilies and Sakha- were incorporated into the Soviet Union. This was accepted by the Japanese when they capi- Japan's Salo tulated in 1945 and was con- firmed by the peace treaty signed with Western powers in 1951.

As the Japanese have not yet signed a peace treaty with the Soviet Union and have not re- conciled themselves to the lass of these territories, they the pre-condition for signing such a treaty. In 1969 the Sato government chauvinistic cam- launched a paign for restitution of the lost territories, which has a good deal of public support. Peking also backs the Japanese claim.

Main European computer firms will join American in exhibiting competitors machines at the big annual fair of the French Communist Party' daily paper 'L'Human- ite, to be held in September.

Last year IBM, Burroughs and Honeywell-Bull had stands. This will be joined by computers and business make machines, as well as software firms manufacturers of and machine tools and audio-visual aids. The fair, which began as a popular working class event drawing hundreds of thousands for a day out to raise money for the paper, is on its way to a shop window for becoming of the biggest multi- some national firms. It is a piece of class collabora- • off well. tion which will pay Rentals will cost the firms about £70 per square metre and the main fair is only a one-day event.

Total rentals are expected to reach nearly £120,000. This big money is needed meet the to deficit on 'L'Humanité' militants are becoming increas ingly reluctant to sell, and to meet costs of the new luxury palace which the party has had built as its headquarters.

Big capitalist exhibitors, who know they have nothing to fear and his sup- from Marchais porters, are out to . win orders both from Communist-controlled municipalities in France and in the Soviet Union and East Européan countries. A few weeks ago they exhibited their wares in Leningrad and IBM made a big sale.

IT MUST be said that Peter Watkins' new film 'Punish- ment Park' makes one cen- tral point: struggle any against capitalism is hopeless and destined to inevitable failure. The whole situation is futilé and one of despair and more despair. In the end, the forces of order must win They are all- out. fire- powerful. They have the communications the power, media, the politicians, the middle- class, the journalists etc. etc., to back them up. Opposition will be snuffed out in a brutal fashion.

Ahead lie days of darkness.

Watkins first became known to the public as a film maker in 1965 when the BBC, for whom he was working, banned any showing of his 'War Game'. The BBC claimed the film was too horrific in its dealing with the ravages of nuclear war and any one watching it would be fright- ened to death. More than that, however, the authorities objected to the poli- Watkins tical points made. showed, for example, how the good old British bobby turned from traffic director to assassin as he executed civilians during the pandemonium that followed • the dropping of the bomb.

The film eventually got shown, though not on the BBC. 'War Game' was based on the night- mare of all-out nuclear war. The masses became pawns as the big powers move 1 towards a show- down. Permeating the film was the sense of inevitability about the process. War was on the way and the people would pay the price, as usual. That was seven and was one years ago Watkins' first major attempts to deal with serious political ques- tions. But 1972 seems to leave him where he was in his own poli- tical development when you look at 'Punishment Park'. In those seven years he has made no real development in his own political outlook. The is message futility, despair, inevit- same: ability of defeat. President Nixon has declared of national emergency state using his powers under an Act of 1950. Detention centres are introduced and police are given wide powers to apprehend any- one who, it is considered, will probally sabotage national security. 'Punishment Park' is an area of California set aside for the police and the national guard to train themselves in urban

FILM REVIEW

PARK

OF

DESPAIR

BY PHILIP WADE

counter-insurgency. under the ted there •rousal tribunal sist the US •cace ment-Black protest Women's Lib American southern ber the come oack trial, alc vallous rionT defence lawyer The verarcl. centencec or for latter. Fifty miles an desert 1S you can reach stopped ing are a tree

VOU

no one. either arrested. -one The film set of out 'Punishment film shalion Gecarnin ers of ence powers would not response big

VIOLEOL

the nicole As the showed and acores section of real power.

WATKINS:

NOCA

aanras- repression are for 'trial' by con- elements from students, representing FBI agent, execuuve ana The final mem- shall defendants the denied gagged court. The to the wall. DI SUd all choose the across the Пас. forces security Of course it. They down was a ahol

„ LOOD

win. with another with- conseruences Watkins' The state

HATONаI

with detention Coll' execu en simply alliull bourgeoisie ther Cal cedi ill-organized which has no false picture. A No. It is a situation in which the bour- geoisie develops the apparatus of an open police state could oniy arise when the major forces in society, working class and the the bourgeoisie, are moving to- wards a major conflict, But Watkins considers every- thing from the point of view of what is happening now. Taking impressions and glimpses of the can only 'see situation you authority, the state and its all- powerful machinery. At no time can the working class be ascribed an independent In fact Watkins goes so role. far as to include them as villains to the piece. That is why, return- ing once more to the tribunal, we find its final member to be a shop steward from the local car factory. That is not to say you couldn't find such workers. But Watkins strives in the film to make him in representative, enterely a fixed, all-time way, of the US working class. The situation leaves the worker untouched when precisely the opposite process is taking place in America today. The crisis of US imperialism has come home from Vietnam. The dollar is de- valued and Nixon has opened up a policy of trade war coupled wage-cutting, more unem- with ployment and speed-up. That is why we find yester- day's New York 'hardhat' con- struction workers suddenly turn- ing on Mayor Lindsay in violent demonstrations demanding the right to work and a full pro- gramme of public expenditure in the city. Even Watkins' direction can- not save the film. We learn about what is going on through the voice of a TV commentator who is with a crew making a docu- mentary of 'Punishment Park'.

But because there is no devel- opment within the film, save for some pacifists who say it pro- bably means violence will have to be used, the cutting from one scene to another, the background of radio news about the bombing of N Vietnam, the direction be- come meaningless. In the end it drags. The old arguments are repeated over and over again in front of the tri- bunal. No amount of cutting can prevent that. Watkins told a reporter the other day that he felt himself and his films being crushed. Un- less he makes a decisive break from his subjectivism and pes- simism he will undoubtedly fall victim to such a fate., Workers Press, Tues firelll, Italy's giant rubber manufacturing concern, has signed a £3,333,000 contract to supply machinery for produc- tion of rubber accessories for the Soviet Union's automobile industry. The contract was signed with the Soviet enterprise Techmashimport, Pirelli announced. The machinery supplied will complete production lines for automobile rubber accessories at the Soviet Union's Bala- kovo plant, which supplies parts for Fiat cars made under license at Togliattigrad.

The original machinery for the Balakovo accessories plant was supplied by Pirelli under a £21,333,000 contract signed in 1968. This Pirelli statement has some interesting background.

Pirelli has just completed a merger with Dunlop. A direc- tor of Dunlop until he was made Home Secretary was Reginald Maudling. Pirelli part-financed Musso- lini's fascist march on Rome which swept El Duce to power.

The Ceylon government has given permission to the Ceylon Turf Club to hold pony races, thus ending a horse-racing since ban which has existed 1964. This follows another recent decision to allow bookmakers to operate. Bookmakers' offices have sprung up all over the island are being accepted and bets on races run overseas, includ- ing England and India. Will the 'Morning Star' start running the Colombo form guide? 'Guardian' journalist, John O'Callaghan (37), has resigned in protest against the paper's policy on Ulster. His resignation apparently follows a decision by the edi- torial management not to let him cover Irish affairs. In his resignation letter Mr O'Callaghan said: Sunday's Derry shootings brought together the grave doubts I had had for some time about the 'Guardian's' policy on Ireland. During the days since I have become ross, Tuesday February 15, 1972, PAGE 9 oppressed with the feeling that a critical vigilance by at least part of the British press over the behaviour of the troops might have caused second thoughts by Army command- ers about embarking on adven- tures like the one in Derry.

By tradition the 'Guardian' should have been in the fore- front in scrutinizing the Army performance. Armies are effec- tively outside the law - a newspaper's business is to pro- vide any civilian population subject to military rule with a shield. This is a function the 'Guardian' ought naturally to have performed - without needing in any way to condone IRA guerrillas. Instead the paper has come and more more to see the crisis in terms of victory and defeat and has insisted that the IRA must be defeated.

Very little thought seems to have been given to the price of such a victory-which has been that the Catholic popula- tion is now the IRA, and that it is permanently alienated from the British connection, and is ungovernable. Even with this price paid the IRA is very far from defeat. O'Callaghan went on to describe how he made a per- sonal visit to Ulster to see for himself how the British army was acting. He concluded: Whether a vigorously hos- tile segment of the press or television would have gated the effects of Army policy cannot be proved. But with sentiments like 'vigorous and tough interrogation must go on' from the 'Guardian' leader after Compton, and Faulkner praising its sagacity, military leaders could that with even the 'Guardian' behind them there was the widest possible_ lati- tude for their activities. For a liberal there was only If the liberals are baling out of the 'Guardian, what about the so-called 'revolutionaries'?

What about, for example, John Palmer of the Interna- tional Socialists? Far from quitting the capi- media Palmer has recently taken to writing on -wait for it-the economy.

Workers Press frequently mocked the economics writing of Anthony Harris, but with Palmer now entering the field we can only say-with Mis- cellany, hasn't the 'Guardian' got enough joke columns?

LEON TROTSKY :

Germany 1931/1932 Paperback £1.25—Cloth {1.87} Where Is Britain Going ? Paperback 37}p Revolution Betrayed Paperback 62}p-cloth £1.05 Problems of the Chinese Revolution Paperback £1.124—cloth £1.87% Permanent Revolution : Results and Prospects Paperback 75p In Defence of Marxism Paperback 75p Lessons of October Paperback 60p Postage 10p per book, 3p per pamphlet. Order from :

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

186a Clapham Hich Street, London SW4 7UG.

Two Welsh miners say what they think of the article 'Miners and the Tory government', written by Wheldale, Yorkshire, miner and Socialist Labour League member Brian Lavery, which first PAGE 10 Workers Press, Tuesday Febru Two Welsh miners say what t by Wheldale, Yorkshire, mine Monday January appeared on 1

CARS ON NCB

BUSINESS ONLY

Clerical staff picketed by miners. 'We're 'I AGREE with 95 per cent of what Brian Lavery says in his article', Ogilvie lodge secretary Evan Jones told me. 'Recession has always been be- Tories' hind policies. would say Brian is facing facts. 'I think the NUM national leaders have been a bit lax. They should have told the TUC "This is not a battle of the miners alone". Unless the TUC takes the necessary steps to unite the trade 'THIS strike is a test case against the Tories and it's a test for all the unions', , said Ray Sayce, COSA represent- ative at Marine colliery, Ebbw Vale. ridiculous', he said. It's They've given Post Office execu- tives 14 per cent and the Ley- land car workers have refused rises of £7 or f8. Yet they won't give an increase to miners tak- ing home £14 a week to keep a wife and family.' COSA supports the miners be- cause it is a constituent of the NUM and both sections will get the same rise. position 'Seeing the adamant of the Tories I think it's time Scanlon Jack Jones and Hugh said they will come out in sup- port of the miners. 'It puzzles me why the TUC and the Labour Party have kept quiet in this strike. It's all very talking about . support, but well they've done nothing to bring any of their boys out and that's what we want now.' Mr Sayce added: "And why don't Gormley and Daly get on to the CAWU [clerical union] and NACODS [overmen, depu- ties and shotfirers]. If we can't get solidarity in our own indus- try, it's a poor show. 'Whatever we get, the CAWU will have. We're fighting a battle for their wages. This is why there's such a bitter feeling against clerical stafi. day February 15, 1972 , what they think of the article Min re, miner and Socialist Labour Leag January 24 in the Workers Press.

ers. 'We're fighting a battle for their wages toc IAN YEATS talks to Ogilvie l

EVAN JONES.

union movement, the miners will fight this battle alone. The NUM should tell the other unions: "We're in the forefront. It's your duty to come to our aid".

'I think there's a failure on the part of the leadership to bring home to Feather the reality of the need for a General Strike.

don't understand them. They've had the lead from the 'I think the other unions would support us. I won't say their leaders, but I think the men will. at what's happened in 'Look Yorkshire. We don't want to fight our own workmates. If men are going to fight each other, they're going to say let's get everybody out and get it over with. "If Feather and the rest of the TUC don't get everybody out, it's going to be a hell of a long strike. 'Churchill tried to make the men go down the pits at gun- point once before. But the men won't let it come to that. The would rather see the pits men closed than back without go winning this claim. 'The longer the strike goes on, the more they're going to have to offer to get us back. If there's no rise there'll be no coal.'

Talking about nationalization, Mr Sayce said: 'I think nation- alization could be a good thing if workers had more say. Workers' control would make a big difference' Despite the cool official sup- port from other trade unions for the miners' fight, men at Ebbw Vale steelworkers, only a few minutes from Marine away colliery, certainly feel strongly.

Workers say that a collection for the miners among the steel- works' AUEW force has met

ETU

and T&GWU labour with 'overwhelming response'.

cle Miners and the Tory government ur League member Brian Lavery, w wages 100,' says Ray Sayce.

)gilvie lodge, S Wales, secretary membership in no uncertain terms. 'Arthur Horner once said that if the working class stood to- gether there's not a force on earth that stop them. I can believe that's what's needed to- day. 'Capitalism must be destroyed if we're to get a socialist state.

It's impossible to operate a mixed economy within capitalism.

'A government isn't socialist unless it nationalizes all industry and workers' under puts control. 'If Labour gets back to power and doesn't implement socialist policies, they've failed. What we people want prepared are to carry out the policies of the rank and file.' Commenting on the Right-to- Work marches, Mr Jones said: 'It is an intelligent step to take this move to try to bring about a more guaranteed future for workers. In the past all they've had is booms and slumps. 'It goes to prove the enthusi- in people's minds for the asm working class defending its right to work and its right to a decent standard of living.

'The thing is that amazing while unemployment has gone up and down, stocks wages shares have gone up with the gold reserves. The greater the un- employment, the higher they've , gone. Workers' control is the enly answer. 'The Tories have always been known to be prepared to use any weapon against the working class.

But the miners are prepared to see the industry go before they'll return to work for a pittance of a wage. 'When Baldwin asked the TUC in 1926 "Who runs the country?", there's an answer to that-the majority. What we've got at the is minority-the moment the capitalists filling the pockets of the rich at the expense of the working class. 'They talk about the pits not being profitable, but they are.

Labour should stop all compen- sation. The coal owners had their compensation years ago?

MINERS' STRIKE

DAY 37

GREATEST ASSETS

TO SOCIALISM

AM a miner Shirebrook at [Nottinghamshire]

LETTER

colliery

OUT

do not really want to give my views on dispute. The soli- darity gives all our views.

home with vote then a yes What I would like to say Douglas Home be congratu- nucat These condemn Larr apol British the lalcu Icotal lis Maudling so much. men Empire. ism since eate 19209t are the greatest and 1930s. Ireland: Civil War. Let's just have a quick glance Edward Heath (Prime Minister) at the past 18 months. (Rt Hon). His ability when crisis: faces him turn back and Winston Churchill was Market: Britain the Commor go salling back door to Europe for the only amateur American dollar. full Conservative and he had training. Unemployment: One million and climbing. Great stuff! Shirebrook, Notts. Rhodesia: If Pearce can come

CHARLIE

CRAWFORD

(21), Ollerton works as ripper at Notts, and earns a basic

BASIC

wage of £30 a week I am single and I can manage' gets als basic. it has married says, ady-wart with kids, impossible.

DAY_

£18 And a basic taking home 81I.S0 wage mean a man and that's ludicrous. I'm for sticking out. I'll go to the full extent

WAGE

'The first word in the Workers 'Solidarity", on Press Charlie. 'That means everybody: men •a-ware merr COSA and NACODS [the clerical

IS A

staff and overmen's and deputies' all stand unions. together. 'We've stopped the ost of the coal going power sta Into

SCANDAL

rail. Now we

CALCUL

must stob tne asn-wagons conect ing the ash from the power sta- That'll hold them 1$ hours Livid. every mollins.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

Arms', Make the government 16, 8. Rd an up port Churchfield Rd, resign! W3. miners and Ulster workers.

Return a Labour government

LUTON:

Thursday February mented to see full en plays Recreation Centre 8 p.m laws repeal Old Bedford against the unions. economic crisis. Febru- SE

LONDON:

Thursday SOUTHALL: Tuesday ary 15, + Sp,, 3 featherskers • Workers February 17,8 p.m. Room 2 Deptford Engineers' Club (opt association Cross Stn). Rd 'Victory to the miners.

New Support miners and Ulster workers.'

LONDON:

Tuesday Prince Feb- Feb- Wharfedate Red Sup- Thursday ruary ruary 17, 8 Town Hall, p.m. Aork Way, Kings Cross. Ulster Edmonton. and Reformism lace batons port miners DAGENHAM: Wednesday February 23, 8 p.m. Room 1l, East Ham Town Hall. •Labour SW LONDON: Tuesday must force a General Election.

ruary 15, p.m. Small Hall, Clap- Clapham B4. support

WILLESDEN:

Monday SW4. 8 p.m. Trades nam Manor st rebruary miners and Ulster workers.'

and Labour Hall, High Road, NW 10. •Labour must lorce a ACTON: Wednesday February General Election.' Socialist Labour League Special lecture Common Hall, Hackin's Hay (off Dale St) LIVERPOOL, 8 p.m. Tuesday February 15 given by C. Slaughter (SLL Central Committee)

HAM

TWO BRITISH soldiers who deserted to the Irish Repub- lic said they did so because 'we came face to face with working-class people like our- selves who are fighting for Colln Domet (I.) and Michael Hawkins speaking at a press their rights'. conference They told a Dublin press con- ference they both joined the army three years ago because they saw little hope for them in In Coleraine, Ulster, yesterday civilian life. The army, they said, the Lord Chief Justice, Mr Jus- was 'a way out'. tice Widgery, his inquiry began The two deserters are Private Londonderry into the massacre Colin Demet (19) and Private of 13 civilians. Michael Hawkins (21), both He flew in service aircraft from Manchester. the town and escorted to hall by police and armed troops.

Coleraine, 30 miles from Lon- donderry, was chosen as the They. went to a house in the headquarters of Belfast, the one-man Ardoyne, lateR last week inquiry because of its large and the Official surrendered Stormont Protestant community. wing of the IRA. believes the apparently strong After arriving clandestinely in Protestantism it a 'safe makes Dublin, they issued a joint state- area'. ment saying: 'We deserted because we were fed up with the army and what it was doing in N Ireland. We IN Londonderry the Derry com- mand of the Official IRA were sick and tired of the officers issued treating us like dirt. a statement denying responsibility We think for two big factory explosions at that other soldiers most agree with the IRA and would like to the weekend. what they have to do, but 'The Official IRA condemns in the officers aren't interested in the strongest possible terms those what happens to ordinary work- responsible for the explosion at ing-class soldiers. the Tootal shirt factory in Demet told that reporters Springtown Estate. there was a feeling in the army that troops could be ordered to 'By their crass stupidity and striking fire the militancy on miners in mindless those who Britain or any other group that carried out this act have thrown threatened the political establish- than 100 working-class more people on the dole queues.

ment. The dally paper that eads the fight against the Tories. £20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 Issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 Issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: CIrculation Dept., Workers Press, 186a Clapham High St., London, SW4 7UG.' I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

Days required

MONDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

(Please tick)

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

SATURDAY

Or Full subscription (six days) for months. Name .. Address Amount enclosed £ I would like information about Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE,

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4 7UG.

Name Address

BY IAN YEATS

SIXTY MEN have been sacked from the BP re- finery at Llandarcy, near Port Talbot, S Wales, for holding a union meeting on company premises. The sackings coincide with a new tough line pursued by the 51-per-cent state-owned Christmas, since company brought in when they special industrial trouble- shooter to curb unrest over working agreements and con- ditions at the plant. One of the sacked men, Alan Jones told me: 'The trouble we have had has been justined.

There has been a lot wrong with and e , safety the agreements regulations which are mainly American-style. 'But the management told us at Christmas they were taking a harder line on the site and importing a trouble-shooter from contract work in Cyprus' Mr Jones said: 'Dismissing us is an attempt to clear the site and bring in new faces. They are trying to use the area's high un- employment as a threat. We are the most militant union at the refinery and if they could break us, the field would be wide open.?

He added: The TUC never battle against the took up the Industrial Relations Act which condones this type of manage- ment and now we are paying the price.' About 150 men have answered BP's advert for staff, but the engineers dismissed construction —all members of the Amalgam- Union Engineering ated Workers-have been picketing the site for the past month. Said Mr Jones: 'No one has crossed our picket lines and taken a job, even though there is 5t per cent unemployment around here. We have bei: 100 per cent success- ful.' The trouble started back in January when, despite manase- denials of redundancy ment rumours, 11 men were sacked, two who, because of including their seniority, should not have been on the list. Shop stewards called a meet- ing in the site drying room to although discuss the sackings, management had warned before- hand that the meeting would not be allowed on company premises.

Mr Jones said: 'We maintained our rights to hold the meeting on the site and it was in full swing when management burst through said if we did not the doors and leave we would all be dismissed.

'Next day they sent everybody their cards and P45s.' BP has refused to send the dispute to arbitration and after with AUEW officials they talks agreed to remove one of the two from the senior workers re- dundancy list and re-employ all the men-provided they forfeited all seniority rights and severance again from pay and began scratch. A meeting of 20 shop stewards representing 200 men at the re- finery agreed to back the sacked engineers with work-to-rule a unsuccessfully and tried to pressurize BP to get rid of their trouble-shooter. Workers Press, Tuozday February 15, 1972 PAGE 11

BBC 1

6.00 NATIONWIDE. Your Region tonight.

6.45 QUIZ BALL. Soccer stars in quiz.

7.05 TOMORROW'S WORLD.

.30 FILM: "THE HELLFIRE CLUB'. Keith Michell, Adrienn Corri. Adventure centred on notorious secret societ 9.00 NEWS, westher. 9.20 THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Part 6. Raj.

10.15 FILM 72.

10.45 24 HOURS.

11.20 VIEWPOINT.

ввс 2 11.00 Play School. 5.35 Open University. 6.35 Handling Materials.

7.30 NEWSROOM, weather. 8.00 MAN ALIVE. Mission to Yenan the chance that was lost?

9.00 COLLECTOR'S WORLD.

9.20 THE SPACE BETWEEN WORDS. Communications in the family. With therapist Dr. Aaron Esterson.

10.40 NEWS, weather.

10.45 THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST.

ITV

10.20 Schools. 2.35 Time to Remember. 3.00 Houseparty. 3.1 ea Break. 3.45 Matinee. 4.10 Simon Locke. 4.40 Once Upon Time. 4.55 Sooty. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY.

6.40 CROSSROADS.

7.05 FILM: "THE SILENT GUN'. Lloyd Bridges, John Beck, Gun- fighter with a conscience.

8.30 WHICKER'S ORIENT. The Boat People of Hong Kong.

9.00 LOVE STORY. You Don't Know Me -But...

10.00 NEWS.

10.30 ROMANY JONES.

11.00 THE BEST OF THE COMEDY MACHINE. Marty Feldmar with Orson Welles and Spike Milligan

11.30 DRIVE-IN.

12.00 PEOPLE WITH A PURPOSE.

REGIONAL ITV

scred's house. 4.00

CHANNEL:

10.20 4.55 London. 6.00 time. Today. 4.10 Enchanted Crossroads. 7.00 Film: Lottery 6.35 The uffin. 4.25 Secret'. 8.30 London. 11.30 4.20 Dr mon naKe Hamily 6.00 News, London 6. Who knows? "heather 7:05 6.10 Police Homa ney 6.35 Crossroads. 10.20

YORKSHIRE:

Schools. 2.34 Pied Bombay'. 3.00 Met 11.25 11.30 Matinee. 3.35 News. Gazette. 4.15 Crossroads. 4.40 weather. today. En- 4.55 chanted house. 6.00

WESTWARD.

Channel Cole Fan Simon Gus Honeybun. 4.20 News Film: Spur? News. 11.58 11.30 Communicators. 11.55 Londor life. 12.03 Weather. 11.55 Weather. Paith

SOUTHERN:

'3.43.19 Yora. 3.35

GRANADA:

10.18 School Newto break. 4.10 Bird's our yester 4.40 Origam Horoscope. 4.30 Houseparty. eye view. 4.55 London. 6.00 it oneon.

NAWA

6.30 Doctor at large 2000 7.00 place. 7.00 writing. patron "The Film: Film: Pirates 11030 11.00 News. River'. 8.30 London. Living 1.40 Farm progress. 12.10 couple. writers. Weather

TYNE

TEES:

10.20 Schools 2.33

HIV WALES: 10.20 S

3.10 Plas Schools. 3.50 With 2 DUs Ded P3B News. British museum. with purpose. "linkerain. 4.30 Taste house 1035 Lon ment. 4.40 Enchanted 6.01 6.35 Doctor don. 6.00 Simon Today. Locke 6.55 Film: The Plains- Film: Film: '12.00 Weather. don man'.

HTV

6. 1-8.18 Report 1145 Wales and News. 12.00 Being yourself. except: 3.30 West. 4.10 London. 6 00 Note. 6.20 heroes. 6.50 above except: 6.01- "The Feminin Touch' 6.55 Report West. London. Report 11.30 Late 3.45 3.40 break. 4.55 About Anglia, outs 6.35 Lawyers: 8.30 London. Film: 635 therede hansmen. Sum- London, 1 4.10 Room 2314 Living and

DESIGNERS STEP UP PICKET

PICKETING

Multiplex at nearby factories includin C. A. Designs, Sidcup, Kent, Parsons, in has Sovex and I. & E. Halls been stepped this week-the He said: "The support we have UD sixth week of a dispute there.

received from other trade union- ists is truly magnificent. By help- 'he design department at th ing us on the picket lines they rm went on strike when one c their colleagues was sacked for have shown what the unity of the classR attempting to oreanize a union.

really means. Their union, the Technical and Supervisory Section of the Amal- to stage a piriet involving Union Engineering amated of men during this week The next stage of the Norkers has already made the cam- official and the men strike are paien was to get work at Multi lex "blacked' by the trade unio receiving strike pay. Terry Cullinan, one of the movement. He said attempts striking designers, told Workers would also be made to force the Press that support for the government to withdraw con- pickets had come from other tracts from the company.

FLYING PICKETS 'READY ANY TIME' ¡FIFE

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday Februa

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL

CORRESPONDENT

DAVID MAUDE

UNION leaders are close to signing an agreement with British-Leyland which could strength of threaten the shop stewards' organization throughout the engineering industry. Even senior stewards have not yet been given copies of the 24-page draft document pre- by Leyland labour-rela- pared tions director Pat Lowry.

With just over a week to go before the deal is due to be concluded, some of the terms that are known are causing great anxiety in the combine. The agreement is supposed to disputes be a single-company procedure to replace the 50-year- old York Memorandum, which is now scrapped. But both sides see it as a pacesetter for a much wider arrangement. president of Hugh Scanlon, Amalgamated Union of the Engineering Workers, discussed the Lowry proposals with a small stewards in senior of group Yesterday's York last week. 'Morning Star' reported that they were 'well pleased'. That is just not the case.

Workers at a number of plants have already been warned that the deal could cut the number of stewards, give the company par- works committees.

FEBRUARY

RISES TO

YOU HAVE now begun to leap ahead. The rapid growth of Fund February's determination within the work- ing class to fight the Tories.

The more this government hits out with emergency measures, the more hundreds of thousands of workers are joining the struggle to force them to resign. Workers Press is more vital than ever today. It must speak out to trade unionists everywhere and prepare them for this fight.

Back us up all the way. Keep pushing ahead with February's Fund-and let's try and make it a record figure this month.

Post all donations immediately to: Workers Press February Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG.

MIMI

LATE NEWS

NEWS DESK

01-720 2000

CIRCULATION

01-622 7029 PAY TALKS affecting , 380,000 teachers adjourned in London March 2 yesterday after until management refused to increase its present 6-per-cent offer. The teachers are demanding a 13.7 per cent increase. ay February 15, 1972 FROM Its base at West Ham Labour I coalfield keeps a sharp eye on all coal are reported, and If any of our pickets mechanic George Perry. 'The reception absolutely fantastic.' HUNDREDS of thous- ands of workers were laid off yesterday as the Tories' clamp- power down caused industrial lock-out. Worst hit was the Mid- lands car industry with 31,000 car production workers laid off by midday in Birming- ham and Coventry. At least 10,000 workers in the Austin- Morris group of British- Leyland were sent home. plants closed Nine Lucas making 13,000 workers idle. 3,500 men were laid off at the Coven- try Jaguar plant. 2,500 at Tri- umph and 2,000 workers from Rover factories. In Scotland many factories were almost shut down and reduced many others were on production. At UCS, 2,400 men were laid- at the Govan yard off. Babcock and Wilcox boiler- Renfrew have makers at announced that their 4,000 work- ers will be idle for an indefi- nite period; 7,000 at Burroughs Machines at Cumbernauld are on a two-day week. Chrysler, Scotland, has laid- of its 6,500 workers; off 1,000 Scottish Aviation has closed its Prestwick firm, making 1,800 men idle and production was at a standstill General Motors at Lanarkshire, Motherwell, near where 900 are laid-off. Scottish secretary of the Con- federation of British Industry Hamish Grant has announced that the cost in jobs by the end of the week would be more than

WEATHER

CLOUDY WEATHER with rain over S Wales and SW England will spread NE across remainder of England and Wales into N Ireland and S Scotland during the day. Brighter weather, but with will reach N Ireland, showersw and S England from Wales, the W during the afternoon and evening. Central and N Scotland will have showers, but also bright or sunny periods. There will be frost locally with some fog patches in E districts at first, but temperatures will rise to near normal in most parts of the British Isles. Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Rather cold with frequent wintry showers at first, particularly in the N and E Sunny periods in many places later. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Published Workers Press, Office. by 186a Clapham High Street, London.

SW4 7UG.

Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High Street, London,

SWA 7UG.

Labour Party offices In East London a flying : n all coal movements. 'We are ready to go an r plckets need reinforcements they call us li reception we've had from the local people, es

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

a million. Thousands would lose their jobs altogether, he said.

in Scotland will The crisis be worse today power as workers stage a 24-hour strike in solidarity with the miners protest against and in the recent 7} per cent settlement of their pay claim. Officials of the engineers' and electricians' unions yesterday attempted to halt the unofficial action by threatening to discipline any of their members who took part in it. On Merseyside, 3,000 workers at Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port have been laid-oft as a 50 per cent pro- duction cut-back comes into operation. At Halewood, Liver- pool, 10,000 Ford workers will have no work on. Thursday and Friday and no maintenance work will be done on Saturday and Sunday. Hawker-Siddeley Aviation pro- duction chiefs were meeting yes- terday to decide how many of their 6,800 men will have to be laid-off. In Manchester, 2,000 of the 4,000 GEC-AEI workers are idle at the start of a 'day-on, day-off' rota. In the W Riding of Yorkshire, THE TUC told the govern- ment yesterday that their pro- Training posed National Agency should be merged into a central manpower board re- for tracing labour sponsible needs, training and placement.

The new Board would be a partnership between the trade unions, the government and em- ployers. Director-General of the Con- federation of British • Industries Mr W. O. Campbell Adamson told a one-day conference of the British Association for Com- mercial and Industrial Educa- tion that after the setting up of the proposed NPA, the govern- ment and the employers would need considerable help very in re- from the trade unions 'those which moving practices make it difficult to employ people after they have been trained or retrained'. Head of the TUC's organiza- tion department Ken Graham said that the TUC's proposal would lead to a Board with I a flying squad of plckets from the Kent / to go anywhere where coal movements call us In, says Betteshanger colliery people, especially the dockers, has been thousands were laid-off in the steel, textile and chemical indus- tries. Montague Burton's closed its Leeds factory, laying-off 8,000 clothing workers. a CBI spokesman In Wales, estimated that most of the workers in manufac- 348,000 turing industries, out of a work- ing population of 934,000, would be laid off at some stage this week. At Swansea, 770 men at the Ford factory were idle yesterday.

Steel Corporation's The British S Wales steel works are operat- ing at reduced production.

In Swindon, Wiltshire, Vickers have started a two-day week and stopped night-shift working. At least one of the Plessey com- pany's seven factories will close.

In the SW most of the manual workers at Westland Aircraft, Yeovil, Somerset will stay home until Wednesday and are likely to be laid off again on Friday.

Work at Ford's Southampton plant was halted yesterday and it will be closed again today. At the Ford tractor plant in Basil- don, Essex, men will only work three shifts this week and there will be no night working.

overall financial and policy con- trol for training and employment facilities. And he added: 'It should also be responsible for the forward planning of relief works.'

But he warned conference that training must not become isolated from other components of the 'chief of manpower problem which is unemployment. 'Training must be accompanied by measures to end unemploy- ment, , he stressed. • Adding fuel to the emerging Tory plan for a national labour President of the agency, National Institute of Adult Edu- cation Sir Peter Venables told conference that education for life and technical training must be brought together. He looked forward to the setting up of workshops within industrial educational establishments.

He added: 'If people are going to be re-trained and moved about the economic scene like pieces of property, they must be given adequate opportunities to work. mr. OVER A dozen men were arrested yesterday when 2,000 pickets clashed with a 400- strong police cordon at Lon- gannet power station, Fife.

Miners were attempting to stop personnel going into the station. Pickets were allowed to stop each person each vehicle and as they arrived. The majority of personnel decided not to enter, but others did. Scottish miners' president Michael McGahey, who was on the picket, said afterwards that would be making an the union official complaint to the chief constables of Edinburgh and Fife about the provocative police conduct. He added the miners were now determined to bring Lon- gannet station to a halt, particu- larly 'because of the underhand tactics of the South of Scotland Electricity Board in bringing in oil in foreign ships from the continent'. picketed

OVER 100

miners Dunball wharf, near Bridgwater, Somerset, yesterday as a German ship with 800 tons of coal on board docked. Bricks were • hurled at the windscreen of a lorry leaving the port with coal as 130 police battled to keep the wharf entrance free. Pickets from N Somerset, S Wales and Sunderland greeted drivers with shouts of 'scab' and 'blackleg' as they drove away with coal bound for the Midlands.

The miners were later called off as NUM representatives, the wharf owners and the coal- importing company reached an agreement that three ships nOW on their way to Dunball will be allowed to unload their coal. It dockside will be kept on the until the strike is settled.

One picket was taken to hos- pital with a sprained ankle after he slipped on the mud and fell against a lorry.

UNITE WITH THE

MINERS TO FIGHT

FOR BASIC RIGHT

THEIR RIGHT

YOUR RIGHT

To a job, to organize, welfare, housing and all the gains made by the working class

READ THE CHARTER

Free from 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG

THE CHARTER

OF BASIC

RIGHTS

THIS CHARTIN

" or i Mine man report linda Filed.

rusernmen I'm liar is he mind on comber 19. 1 i all Trades i not be allowed 10 r 022255 trade union min i mini. This Charter in and reside met that dou pared in ad l Male the Tors gosernmed troign!

Fight for the Charter of Banie Right!

The case for a General Election

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

POCKET LIBRARY No. 1. 61 pagor Illuatratad. Price 10p,