Workers Press no. 697

workers press

AS JOBLESS FIGURE REACHES 1,750,000 MINERS TO HOST

MARCH PLANNED

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

UNEMPLOYMENT figures released today may well show that unemployment in Britain has now reached 1,750,000, the highest totals since before the last war.

And in response to these huge new levels of men and women out of work, the Young Socialists have announced the start of a fourth Right-to-Work march.

The new march will start from Deal on the Kent coast on Saturday, February 26, and will converge on London on March 11 with the other contingents from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea. The campaign will culminate in a 10,000-strong mass rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on Sunday, March 12.

that the huge levels of The capitalist press yesterday argued unemployed expected today would be as a result of the power restrictions. But when the Tory lock-out ends, not all the laid off workers will return to their old jobs. Secretary for Trade and Industry John Davies made this clear when he announced his emergency power cuts. Thousands of workers laid off by the Tories' panic will lose their jobs measures permanently. nounced last month-that's about 350 per day. The January unemployment Far from taking steps to hold figure 1,023,583 the was down the soaring unemployment, highest since 1947. Nothing that the Tories are preparing to pursue has happened in the past month their policy of deliberately in- indicates that this basic jobless creasing the number of jobless.

figure has been eroded. On the considerably contrary, it has One of their first targets will be the coalfields where the Tories increased. expected to the line are take that the new wage bill has priced some pits and some miners out Redundancies of a job. This pernicious argument has already been presented - with some success-to the TUC. of redundancies The list Workers must resist this Tory covering January shows the job- intimidation. The fight for the less trend is still climbing: Right to Work is a basic right of British Steel Corporation 1,120 the working class. In taking away redundancies at Newport and 270 a man's right to work, the Tories Rubery Scunthorpe; Owen at take away his right to live.

350 at Darlaston; Port of Lon- don Authority 2,000; Honeywell British Visqueen 370 at Lanark; Tyneside; 400 at Coats Patons 600 Bolton; GEC-Marconi at 1,105 Chelmsford and at Wembley. In all, of total 10,900 redundancies were an- The Young Socialists' national jobs campaign on the right to WE

APOLOGISE

those work presents a real opportunity readers particularly postal for the mobilization of the work- subscribers who may be ing class to get the Tories out.

experiencing delays in the The job-destroyers be must Workers delivery of Press. forced out. And the incoming government's Despite the Labour government must be policy, power-cuts we are pledged to restore full employ- endeavouring to get your copy ment. to you at the usual time.

• Campaign details p. 4. Diary pp. 10 and 11. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24, 1972 • No. 697 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

KENT-MARCH

THE FOURTH Right-to-Work Young Socialists and the march from Deal Kent Workers Press during the coal London will set off this week- strike, have supported ene marches Marchers will assemble The 80-mile march to London Marine Road, Deal Sunday with near begins on about Castle; on Saturday at 2 p.m 20 young and then march through the vanguard. The impetus for town. Kent march A rally will be held at 4.30 has come from three relatively the St new is branches on me nent coast The marchers will be accom- As one of the YS member modated Saturday night said: we watched the Hillside House. the ommer unree marenes CrOSS nE quarters of the National Union countryment we said: "Our un- of Mineworkers. is shocking here. Local miners, who greatly should have too"! appreciatco me support of lne

UNITE EMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYED

LONDON A75

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TIENT TO

ASTMS,

the following motion of support: work is a basic right which can which has already only be kept by forcing this Tory donated 610 to the Right-to-Work "This branch the Kovernment

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once campaign, has pledged to do its Right-to-Work Campan returning Labour

BUYCTIRECEES

utmost to help in the efforts to unite and pledged to restore full employ- DROVISIOn of accommodation and food.

unemployed workers against the ment.'

MINERS BALLOT ON WILBERFORCE

Miners went to the polls throughout Britain's result is expeeted tomorrow.

Our picture shows coalfields yesterday on the Wilberforce inquiry collecting their ballot confers papers terms for ending their seven-week strike. The Betteshanger pit, Kent.

workers press

AS JOBLESS FIGURE REACHES 1,750,000 MINERS TO HOST

MARCH PLANNED

INCORPORATING, THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

UNEMPLOYMENT figures released today may well show that unemployment in Britain has now reached 1,750,000, the highest totals since before the last war.

And in response to these huge new levels of men and women out of work, the Young Socialists have announced the start of a fourth Right-to-Work march.

The new march will start from Deal on the Kent coast on Saturday, February 26, and will converge on London on March 11 with the other contingents from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea. The campaign will culminate in a 10,000-strong mass rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on Sunday, March 12.

The capitalist press yesterday argued that the huge levels of unemployed expected today would be as a result of the power restrictions. But when the Tory lock-out ends, not all the laid off workers will return to their old jobs. Secretary for Trade and Industry John Davies made this clear when he announced his emergency power cuts. Thousands of workers laid off by the Tories' panic will lose their jobs measures permanently. nounced last month-that's about 350 per day. The January unemployment Far from taking steps to hold figure — 1,023,583 the was down the soaring unemployment, highest since 1947. Nothing that the Tories are preparing to pursue has happened in the • past month their policy deliberately in- indicates that this basic jobless creasing the number of jobless.

figure has been eroded. On the considerably contrary, it has One of their first targets will be the coalfields where the Tories increased. are expected take the line that the new wage bill has priced some pits and some miners out Redundancies of a job. This pernicious argument has already been presented - with some success-to the TUC. of redundancies The list Workers must resist this Tory covering January shows the job- intimidation. The fight for the less trend is still climbing: Right to Work is a basic right of British Steel Corporation 1,120 the working class. In taking away redundancies at Newport and 270 the Tories a man's right to work, Scunthorpe; Rubery Owen at take away his right to live.

350 at Darlaston; Port of Lon- 2,000; Honeywell don Authority British Visqueen 370 at Lanark; Tyneside; 400 Coats at Patons 600 Bolton; GEC-Marconi at 1,105 Chelmsford at and Wembley. In all, of a total 10,900 redundancies were an- The Young Socialists' national jobs campaign on the right to WE

APOLOGISE

to those work presents a real opportunity readers particularly postal for the mobilization of the work- subscribers who ing class to get the Tories out.

may be experiencing delays in the The job-destroyers be must Workers delivery of Press. forced And the incoming out. Despite the government's Labour government must be power-cuts policy, we are pledged to restore full employ- endeavouring to get your copy ment. to you at the usual time.

• Campaign details p. 4. Diary pp. 10 and 11. NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24, 1972 • No. 697 • 4p

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

THE FOURTH Right-to-Work march from Deal in Kent to London will set off this week- end. Marchers will assemble on Marine Road, Deal Castle; at 2 p.m. on Saturday and then through the march will be held at 4.30 A rally Ambu- p.m. in the St John lance Hall, Mill Hill. The marchers will be accom- modated on Saturday night at Hillside House, the local head- quarters of the National Union of Mineworkers. Local miners, who greatly appreciated the support of the

UNITE EMPLOYED AND UNEMPLOYE

W LONDON

A75 branch of The branch has also passed the following motion of support:

ASTMS,

which has already donated f10 to the Right-to-Work "This branch the supports campaign, has pledged to do its Right-to-Work campaign in its utmost to help in the provision efforts to unite employed and of accommodation and food.

unemployed workers against the Miners went to the polls throughout Britain's result is expeated to coalfields yesterday on the Wilberforce inquiry colliers collecting terms for ending their seven-week Betteshanger pit, Ke strike.,! The... Young Socialists and the Workers Press during the coal strike, have supported the marches. The 80-mile march to London begins on Sunday with about zon guard unem lomped us tor vanguard. impetus for organizing, the Kent march has come from three relatively new YS branches on the Kent As one of the YS members said: the country, we employment is shocking here.

We should have march a too"?

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Tory government. The right to returning a Labour government pledged to full employ- restore ment.' peated tomorrow. Our picture shows their ballot päpers at * pit, Kent,,:

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday Februar

AROUND THE WORLD

AMERICAN Treasury under- secretary Paul Volcker has asked Congress to empower the President to devalue the dollar by another 10 per cent, of the devaluation on top agreed in Washington two months ago. is currently dis- Congress cussing a Bill to raise the price of gold from $35 to $38 an ounce. Volcker 'told the Senate Banking Committee that further 10 per cent devaluation might have to be considered in time. 'This kind of question

BY A FOREIGN CORRES

MORE than 2,000 police surr of Justice yesterday morning fo Italy's most important political In the dock are four anar- chists, charged with planting a bomb. in a Milan bank and causing the deaths of 16 people. The government has tried to pin responsibility for the blast on 39-year-old Pietro Val- former television preda, a dancer and three of his com- rades. Witnesses in the case have died in mysterious circum- stances and a heavy stench of frame-up hangs over the Rome court. There is a good deal of evidence to show that the bomb was planted by neo- squads commando fascist working in liaison with the police. Driven to bank Against Valpreda the pro- has ranged the evi- secution dence of a taxi-driver who claimed to have driven him Agricultural to the Milan a few minutes before Bank the bomb went off. The driver was killed in an 'accident' last July and was been shown to have since been bribed. The rest of the prosecu- tion's thin dossier of evidence is similarly suspect, indicating an attempt to railroad the four anarchists and discredit the left in Italy. About 5,000 anarchist de- monstrated outside the court yesterday as Valpreda's trial They waved placards began. with slogans such • as: 'Free and 'Proletarian Valpreda', justice' They sang a new anarchist song, 'The Ballad of Valpreda and Pinelli' Guiseppe Pinelli fell to his windows of death from the the Milan police headquarters while he was being questioned blast about the bomb Val- preda is accused of -eausing,..

ay February 24, 1972 can be important and Congress should address themselves to it as part of the monetary reform issue,' he said. His statement means the administration is already con- sidering undercutting the dollar rate agreed in Washing- ton on December 18. Volcker also made it clear that the US will not restore the dollar's convertibility with gold for at least another two years. This remark will not be well received by the United States' foreign creditors, who hold

CORRESPONDENT

ice surrounded Rome's Palace rning for the opening of one of political trials.

•VALPREDA DURING AN.

more than $40,000m in un- wanted paper at their central banks. The absence of dollar con- vertibility is making it im- possible for Britain to meet its debts to the International Monetary Fund. The IMF now refuses to accept dollars in payment of debts and is insist- ing on gold and 'hard' foreign currencies. Tory premier Edward Heath recently complained that the $1,000m British debt could be paid ofi immediately if the dollar was convertible.

TAXI DRIVER WITNESS

CORNELIO ROLANDI DIED'

RING AN ANARCHIST DEMONSTRATION

WHAT WE THINK

Terrorism and Marxism FOR over 300 years the British army has killed, tortured and destroyed in Ireland. The real prac- titioners of terror have always been—and still are -the armed forces of imperialism.

For this reason, Workers Press will not join the out- bursts of moral indignation over the Aldershot bombing.

We address this editorial to the Irish workers, as a matter of political principle. not concerned about the British press and We are television which, in the service of the oppressor, will squeeze every drop of sentiment out of the Aldershot

WE CONDEMN THE BOMBING, AS MARXISTS,

BECAUSE IT CAN ONLY WEAKEN THE STRUGGLE

OF THE IRISH WORKING CLASS TO ACHIEVE ITS

EMANCIPATION.

Lenin condemned the Russian Seventy years ago, terrorists pointing out that 'their predilection for terrorism is causally most intimately linked with the fact that they have always kept and still keep, aloof from the working without even attempting to become a class movement, which is waging its class party of the revolutionary class struggle'. Lenin insisted that acts of terrorism did not weaken the oppressor, but strengthened him, that only the masses could defeat him and that acts of terror did not bring the masses forward but held them back. Workers as a class are not roused by 'short-lived sensations'.

mass movement or the of the 'Only new forms awakening of new sections of the masses to independent struggle really rouses a spirit of struggle and courage in all. holds back this type of The Aldershot bombing development in the working class as a whole.

Last week the Tory government was on the brink of defeat. It had failed to beat the miners. It has failed- class. And despite Derry-to crush the Irish working opposition to growing unemployment and entry into the Labourites into their first Common Market forced the real challenge to Heath. Above all, it was the miners' strike which, by dealing a body blow to the Tories, provided the greatest assistance brotheren by the British working class to their Irish The miners' strike and the fight against unemploy- being crystallized round the Right-to-Work now ment, mark an important stage of political develop marches, ment in Britain. Their significance is the support given to them by all layers in the working class, and not only the most conscious elements active in the trade unions.

It is this total class unity which presents the greatest Tories and thus the greatest of danger to the source strength to the Irish workers.

substituting military action for political action, By the Official IRA has not only turned its back on these developments, not only handed a weapon to Faulkner in the North and O'Malley in the South, but has provided the Tory government with the means of driving a wedge into the working class. Until now, the Official IRA has opposed the reactionary, violence of the Provisionals.

Though its indiscriminate leaders were being hurled into jails and internment camps: in Ulster, Officials gained support and respect by its rejec- tion of blind terrorism. Now it has thrown the gains away.

Lenin said that without revolutionary theory, there Revolu- could be no revolutionary practice. The Russian tion-the greatest revolutionary practice in history-was carried to success, not by those who threw bombs, but by those who studied Marxism and the development of the oppressed classes, and through this won their confidence.

The terror of the oppressor cannot be overcome by terror from the oppressed.

The Irish workers cannot win the Socialist Republic this way.

We have said this from the beginning and we will go on saying it, without making the slightest concession to the crocodile tears of the British bourgeoisie.

LEN SMITH: PEOPLE W

BY OUR 'OWN REPORTER

TRADE UNIONISTS in the pledged their full support for Right-to-Work campaign and f Empire Pool, Wembley, marchers on their arrival in Lo meeting Speaking at a organized by Clapham Young Socialists on Tuesday night, Len Smith, Transport and General Workers' Union full- official for Smithfield time meat market, questioned the union leadership role of the during the miners' strike.

He described the situation in 1919 when the miners' leader, railwaymen the leader of the workers' and the transport leader were sent for by Lloyd George who posed them with the power the Triple Alliance had and whether they were ready to take state power.

'In my opinion if these same people were posed with power today, they would also reject it, just like the leaders did then.'

Announcing his support for the Young Socialists' campaign, Ian Smith, Labour Party a member, said he did not care who was organizing the march. 'After all, if we are honest, we that the people who must say should be organizing this cam- paign are not doing it. "The TUC, ' he said, 'should be for making the funds available instead of us having this march to go round begging for it.'

Mr Smith also denounced the TUC leaders' sham fight against the Industrial Relations Act, for their policy of demonstrations been wnen they should have organizing a General Strike against the Act. Jack Dunne, a leading shop SO MUCH information is classified 'secret' that it is im- possible for parliament to have control over wide areas of executive decisions. A blatant negation of all that even bourgeois democracy is subonsed to be, the situation was revealed by a Commons sub- defence and ex- Committee on ternal affairs. They complained they should

PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE ORGANIZING

THE CAMPAIGN ARE SILENT

in the S London area have port for the Young Socialists' n and for the mass rally at the ey, to greet the unemployed al in London. steward for Sainsbury's S Lon- don depot, also spoke. Workers at the depot have already col- lected £50 for the marchers.

Mr Dunne praised the courage of the marchers in being pre- • pared to brave all the difficulties en route to march to London on this fundamental principle.

He called on everyone, thousand, thousand times, a thousand times, to give their full support to the campaign and to attend the March 12 Empire rally to give them Pool a magnificent welcome. convenor of Tim O'Sullivan, also P. B. Cow, Streatham, brought pledges of support from wished his shop stewards and the campaign every success.

Lambeth Trades Council secre- Mendelson tary Vivienne trades council's expressed the and support for the marchers called on everyone to work to Empire Pool huge make success. secretary of Sylvester Smart, Clapham YS, and Sarah Han- nigan, YS London region secre- expressed the determina- tary, tion of youth to carry forward miners' struggle for the the removal of the Tory govern- ment. resolution, passed unani- A mously, pledged to carry for- ward the campaign and to raise a further £500 for the Right-to- Work fund and to organize the largest possible contingent for the March 12 rally. not be prevented from making their own judgements on the fullest information supplied by the Ministry of Defence. In the committee a report, 'question whether cost escala- tions expressed in per centage terms should be classified infor- mation and believe they should be freer to inform the House of the unit cost of major equip- ment items where they judge highlight this as necessary.. to THE TORY government's ind effect next. Monday. Employm code-a key part of the Indu submitted to parliament earlier This provided for complete employers' control over fac- union organizations tory ballots, through secret lengthy procedure agreements and regular contact with union officials. Carr even proposed em- ployers have a say on shop stewards' credentials. Also in- in this cluded corporatist document are provisions for 'consultative committees' and for 'work- proposals new measurement systems' The Commission on Industrial Relations has also called for the type of conciliation outlined in the code. Speaking to the London Cham- ber of Commerce on Tuesday, Leonard Neal, CIR chairman, said supported proposals for special emphasis to be placed on comprehensive system of 'voluntary conciliation and arbi- tration'. (These suggestions came re- cently from Transport and General Workers' Union general secretary Jack Jones.)

GREATEST

POWER

• Neal, obviously shaken by the miners' strike, added: 'If we settle all our differences sa to those withrizes inevitably by force, the greatest power and organization; equally-deserv- ing groups which cannot brandish the same strength will be left behind. 'Too much reliance is placed on old-fashioned strategy once two sides reach a deadlock.

'The national strike should be outdated, but its effectiveness for short-term gain makes it the first after breakdown resort as opposed to the negotiation of procedures for the avoidance of strikes. Neal called for urgent efforts to reinstate the authority of im- partial and if necessary, com- pulsory' arbitration in industry.

recruited POLICE numbers in England and Wales increased more last year than they have done for the past five, claims Tory Home Secretary Regınald Maudling. There was a net gain of 3,100 men and women to the police and a total increase in manpower for police purposes of over 6,000.

important defence expenditure options. 'In general the sub-committee are convinced that the Ministry of Defence has nothing to fear from a freer discussion over defence expenditure and that greater disclosure would lead to more informed debate' On the issue of long-term costings, the committee say that all figures should be made avail- so they 'can do able to them their work properly. CIR: "compulsory arbitration' Pay talksto be enforced by law? THE TORY government's industrial relation 'code of practice' is to come into effect next Monday. Employment Minister Robert Carr has announced that the code-a key part of the Industrial Relations Act—is the same as the final draft Ex-convicts 'hounded' MORE than a million ex-convicts ale Lucioul lives, according to a report 'Live it down' out yesterday The published réport by Justice Howard for the League Reform and the renal Natonal Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders people who have 11c. al C law on been oroken twice and who have not i minimal at nees of furade least decade with

COCTOR

Case histories include a mar- ried man with three children who refused university lecturesnis In une commonwear. four days before sailing because the university learned that

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

Make the Tory government resign. Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employ- repeal all laws against the unions!

WILLESDEN:

Monday February 28, 8 p.m. incides Hall, and Labour High Road, NW "Labour General Election must force a General Election, Must force : E LONDON: Tuesday 1 February 29,8 p.m. Toynbee Hall, Com St. Aldgate East. merca *Bangla Desh and the fight for socialism.

LONDON:

Tuesday Feb- 29, 8 p.m. Prince Albert, ruary Wings dare B Crisis ok Kings Cross. capi- talism'. e88, Thursday February 24, 1972 PAGE 3 e of practice is to come into • Carr has announced that the -is the same as the final draft

LEONARD NEAL

earlier he was jailed for years house-breaking-his only offence.

In another, a man of 23 was refused a job as a postman because when he was 12 a farmer reported him for tres- pasing and taking eggs-though the offence was denied and the farmer withdrew the charges.

The number of years over which long forgotten offences are resurrected is a sharp warning of the detailed and unrelenting way in which the security ser- maintain records of 'mis- vices creants' of all types. Tain is the boy ouncil of Britain Europe member which does not have a law protecting rehabili- tated offenders. SW LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 29, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Clap- Manor Baths, ham Manor St, SW4. 'Labour force a General Elec- must tion'. ACTON: Wednesday March I, 8 p.m. Mechanics Arms, Churchfield Rd, W3. 'Labour must force a General Election'.

SE LONDON: Thursday March 2, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club (opp New Cross stn). 'The General Strike'. N. LONDON: Thursday March • o p.m. lown Hall, Edmon- ton. 'Building the revolutionary party.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday February 24, 1972

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NATIONAL

RIGHT-TO-WORK

CAMPAIGN

There are now well over one million people out of work in Britain, the highest joblessness for a quarter of a century.

These huge levels of unemployment are as a direct result of Tory policies. The Young Socialists' Right-to-Work cam- is it challenge to policies and, therefore, the paign these continued rule of this government.

MARCHERS

ARRIVE

SATURDAY MARCH 11

The marchers will arrive at the outskirts of London and will be greeted at: EAST INDIA HALL, East India Dock Road, E14. 7 pm

HANWELL

COMMUNITY

CENTRE,

Westcott Crescent, W7.7 pm LIME GROVE BATHS, Shepherds Bush, W12. 7pm

RALLY

EMPIRE POOL WEMBLEY

SUNDAY MARCH 12, 3 p.m. . Speakers: G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) CLIVE NORRIS (National Secretary of Right-to- Work Campaign) JOHN BARRIE (YS leader of Glasgow march)

CHRISTINE SMITH

(YS leader Liverpool march) MIKE BANDA (Socialist Labour League Central Committee) The following in a personal capacity:

ALAN

THORNETT

(Deputy senior steward, Morris Motor) BRIAN LAVERY (National Union of Mineworkers, Wheldale colliery)

SIDNEY BIDWELL, MP

Chairman: CLIFF SLAUGHTER (Socialist Labour League Central Committee) TOP LINE ENTERTAINMENT, 7.30 p.m.

SPIKE MILLIGAN. PAUL JONES. 'STONE THE CROWS'.

'ROCK N

HOLDER.

ALL STARS. RAM JOHN

ROLL

'THE PENTANGLE'.

Spike Milligan Tickets: fl, unemployed 50p Apply to: Clive Norris, ational Right-to-Work Campaigr 86a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7U( Phone: 01-622 7029

MARCH

THROUGHOUT LONDON

MONDAY MARCH 13

Assemble: 10 am, Speaker's Corner, Marble Arch March: 11 am through West End to the Temple.

MASS LOBBY

OF PARLIAMENT

Lobby your Labour MP: 2 pm Meeting: 4.30 pm Central Hall, Westminster

GLASGOW

MAERDY

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NATIONAL

RIGHT-TO-WORK

CAMPAIGN

We are marching from

GLASGOW FEBRUARY 5—LIVERPOOL

FEBRUARY 19-SWANSEA FEBRUARY

19 to a mass rally at EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY on MARCH 12

WANTED URGENTLY

Accommodation Cooking equipment Tinned food Finance Brass/Jazz bands Please tick box where applicable

NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE NUMBER

Please complete above form and post to : Clive Norris, National Secretary, Right-to-Work Campaign 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG Or phone 01-622 7029.

LEEDS

LIVERPOOL

-KNUTSFORD

LONDON

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NATIONAL

RIGHT-TO-WORK

CAMPAIGN

SUNDAY MARCH 12

EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY, RALLY 3 p.m.

TOP LINE. ENTERTAINMENT, 7.30 p.m.

SPIKE MILLIGAN. PAUL JONES. 'STONE

ROLL ALI

THE

CROWS'®

ROCK

STARS'. RAM JOHN HOLDER. 'THE

PENTANGLE'.

Tickets: £l, unemployed 50p I would like to come to the rally

NAME

ADDRESS

I would like tickets Amount enclosed € Please send details of transport to the Empire Pool Complete form and send to: Clive Norris, Right-to-Work Campaign, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG.

BY JOHN SPENCER

the Fidel Cuban Castro, leader, is to visit Moscow next month for talks with the Kremlin leaders. His visit marks the growth of closer relations between Havana and the Soviet Union. It is Castro's first trip to the USSR since 1964, when he was guest of Nikita Khru- shchev. Since that time, there has been tension considerable the Soviet Union. The Soviet leaders' disagreements with Castro were concentrated on two They objected strongly fronts. to the Cuban government's policy encouraging armed struggle in Latin America-summed up in the slogan 'Create, one, two, many Vietnams'. The Soviet leaders were reluc- tant to continue shoring up the crisis-ridden Cuban economy un- less the Cuban leaders were pre- pared the failure of his grandiose plans to raise the country's sugar out- put, Castro had nowhere else to turn. The Soviet policy of peaceful with imperialism is coexistence embodied in the agreements reached between the Soviet Union and the United States at the time of the Cuban missiles crisis in 1963. Relations with Cuba reached a low point at the time of the ill-fated, guerrilla mission of Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967. The Moscow-oriented Bolivian Communist Party refused assistance to the guerrilla band and virtually sealed its fate at the hands of the military regime. Castro has now been whipped into line. From the fire-eating armed advocate of revolution throughout the colonial and semi- colonial world he has become the chief spokesman of peaceful co- anti-Trotskyism and existence, with counter-revolution. relations Castro's evolution gives the lie to the revisionists of the so-called Unified Secretariat (Pabloites) who claimed that the Cuban revolution was a an 'unconscious Trotskyist'.

Nine years ago the American Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) finally broke from Trotskyism fused with the European and revisionists because, according to SWP leaders Farrell Dobbs and Joseph Hansen : To the majority of Trotskyists throughout the world it became increasingly self-evident that the continued division of the Fourth International was anachronistic and that vigorous efforts must be made to heal the split so that united forces could be brought to bear in the promising situa- tion developing in all countries.

"The victory of the Cuban re- volution and the fact that both sides [the SWP and the European Pabloites] through parallel ana- lyses, reached identical conclu- concerning its meaning, sions sions concerning its meaning and powerfully reinforced the trend towards reunification.' the Cuban The meaning of revolution, in the eyes of these anti-Marxists, was that 'uncon- scious' revolutionaries, like Castro, could carry through the historical tasks of the working class, despite the absence of re- volutionary parties of the Fourth International. Cuba, according to the re- was a workers' state visionists, established 'unconsciously' and without a party. Hence, there was no longer any necessity to build the Fourth International or fight for Trotskyist principles. Revolutions could be made even by those most hostile to Trot- skyism, such as Castro. They closed their eyes to the patently petty-bourgeois and Bonapartist character of the Cuban regime. The Cuban workers have no control over the means of production or of the state machine. Castro himself has long made no secret of his hostility to Trot- skyism. At the Tri-Continental Congress in 1966 he launched a major attack on the Fourth In- ternational, much to the joy of the Kremlin. Since that time, he has accommodated himself more and more completely to Moscow's requirements. The decisive turning-point was defeat of Che Guevera's the Bolivian adventure and the grow- ing crisis in the Cuban economy Chis coincided with the first wave of revolutionary struggles in America and Latin Europe (France, Mexico, Czechoslovakia).

The first indication of Castro's attitude to these developments came at the time of the May- General Strike in June 1968 France. He ostentatiously refused to the slightest support workers and students in struggle against Gaullism. Though many of the students looked to Cuba for inspiration, there was utter Havana. Like the silence from Kremlin and their French agents in the Communist Party leader- ship Castro was for the con- tinued rule of French capitalism.

i Czechoslovakia When was invaded Castro expressed his full solidarity with the Warsaw Pact forces. Similarly, he kept silent while the Mexican dictatorship butchered 400 students on the eve of the Mexico City Olympic Games. By July 1969 he was publicly the Peruvian military praising junta's 'revolutionary' qualities- describing as 'nationalist and developmentalist" the repressive consigns striking regime which miners to the horrors of the Sepa concentration camp in the Amazonian jungle. In Cuba itself, the Castroites commenced the public hounding of dissident left-wing critics like the poet Heberto Padilla.

Castro's visit to Chile and Peru at the end of last year marked another major step to the right. Throughout the trip he was extremely conciliatory in his statements about United the States. He gave unstinting back- ing to the Popular Unity govern- ment cf Salvador Allende-an of Stalinists, alliance social- democrats and liberals which has dedicated itself to preserving capitalist in Chile property against workers' and the peasants' 'excessive pretentions'.

Prensa Patina, the Cuban press agency, commented on the tone.

of Castro's speeches: "The Cuban Prime Minister said that contrary to the assertion of some political pundits, the Cuban government had never denied the possibility electoral of victory that an would open the way to a revolu- tionary process. "This in spite of the fact that during main the many years emphasis of the Cuban position was on the armed guerrilla road to fundamental political change.'

The agency also remarked on the change in Castro's attitude to the military regimes of Latin America: 'Castro stated as far back as July 1969 that he believed the process led by Gen Velasco Alvaredo in Peru to be a revolutionary one... Since that time... the Cuban and Peruvian have developed governments healthy economic and social relations and might in the near future initiate diplomatic rela- tions once again.' Castro's in Peru, stop-over after his visit to Chile, did give him the opportunity to cement ties with the military junta.

The visit was marked by mutual congratulations between the two regimes. Castra has now become the chief mouthpiece of Kremlin treachery in Latin America. His visit to Moscow sets the seal on a record of unprincipled betrayal which gives the lie completely to the pretensions of the revisionists.

For the benefit of these people, we can cite the recent polemic against by Boris Trotskyism Ponomarev, secretary to the CPSU central committee and a veteran Stalinist, who took an active in preparing the part Trials of the 1930s. Moscow Here is an extract from his article, published originally in the 'theoretical' MoscOW organ 'Kommunist: • "Trotskyism has become a vulgar weapon of imperialism and reaction,' " said Fidel Castro recently: when describing the Trotskyist's intrigues against the revolutionary forces in Cuba and Latin America. 'The Fourth International, he said, had committed real crime against the revolutionary movement" , isolating it from the masses and discrediting it.'

A quotation which speaks volumes for Castro's role in the Stalinist strategy of betrayal in Latin America. Top: Fldel Castro. Above: Castro descr reactlonary regime as a 'revolutionary n The blood-sucking imperialist has become a popular figure of speech, especially in Latin America where exploitation is at its most obvious and blatant. But for the poor people of Haiti the phrase has an even more direct significance. It is here that the American-owned blood company Hemo Caribbean has its headquarters. In Port au Prince every morn- ing there is a line of ragged donors waiting their turn at the company's blood bank. The firm pays $3 a pint for their blood, a sizeable sum for almost any Haitian, given the country's rock-bottom per capita income.

The blood, bought from the anaemic Haitians, underfed and is then shipped to the United States in the form of plasma and serum and sold through the company's Miami and New York offices. The operation is the result of between ten-year contract Hemo Caribbean director Joseph Gorenstein and the late Papa Doc Duvalier, dictator of Haiti.

The opcration is so profitable that the company plans to spread to other Latin American states, Workers Press, Thurad stro described General Velasco (lett), the rec utionary military govern or anxious to do a gred including the Dominican Republic. The trade in blood is causing in the US Con- some concern gress. Last week 46 Congressmen demanding presented report the passage of a Bill controlling such imports. They are not con- cerned about the ethics of the trade or the effects on the Haitian are worried that donors. They Haitian blood is not subject to health controls and con- may people stitute a threat to receiving it. Their chief concern is virul hepatitis, a disease which is transmitted from to person person by injection with infected or by transfusion of needles infected blood. The disease is rife in the United States, spread almost en- tirely by transfusions of con- taminated blood. Its alarming spread is due to the commerce in blood. person has had Once a jaundice, his blood carries the hepatitis virus for the rest of his life. Where there is no com- mercial traffic in blood, under the British Health Service for example, donors have no incen- lie if they have had to jaundice in the past. Consequently the disease is rare in Britain. On the other hand, the Haitian donors have every incentive to deny ever having suffered from the disease. Other diseases are also likely to be spread in the same way.

Under the US-backed Duvalier dictatorship, the country is one of the poorest and most disease- 38, Thuraday February 24, 1972, PAGE 5 ), the recently ousted leader of Peru's do a great deal for the future of Peru'.

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ridden on earth. Daily caloric intake of the average Haitian is only 1,783, 1,700. below minimum set by the World Health Organization. Per capita income averages $50 a year-less than 25p a week! Malaria and other parasitic diseases are extremely common.

Thirty-five the per cent the malaria peasantry carry organism in their blood. Infant mortality in Haiti is among the world's highest—one out of every four babies dies at less than one year old and the average life expectancy is 32 years. All this misery is concentrated just 600 miles from Miami, America's most ostentatious holi- day resort.

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ended the war with builders The story of Jarrow is the their disposal. huge reserves of Palmer's shipyard. Most of them had evaded story war the taxation and Excess Profits Started in the mid 19th a variety of means by century, Palmer's yard pion- Duty some of them legal. eered the use of screw-driven But after the war naval orders tramp steamers to transport The volume of stopped abruptly. coal, and grew rapidly until British exports, imports and re- were substantially below exports a few years after the end of the 1913 level. Some foreign cus- World War I. tomers had been lost to neutral That Wos a paradise powers.

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than a year, it closed a But Palmer's, in 1920, thought fore a short prosperity was eternal and began during the 1929. It then closed its buy subsidiary shipping up factories good. companies, engineering all when prices were and mines, In at their highest. bad throughout strong Whitworth's had For while production rose, from 1.25 million tons in 1918 to berth out of 12 over 2 million tons in 1920. But yards of the Tyne Iron a by 1921, being building Company contracts were and work ships The Newcastle Shipping Cem- Shipbuilders' Security Lt sold pany simple Octo- organliLalil e shipping and shipbuilding 30 olt of the 96 ship. noroudnour onann. buy up shipyards

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were closed. 92,000 shipbuilding workers were then This was out of a controlled town council decided pur- job. A year later there and were 117,000 -or 60 per cent of on the Jarrow march. Two hun the insured workers in the indus- dred selected out of the were were try. In the NE the figure was 72 who volunteered and many hundreds per cent. to go. Many volunteers, of course, medical one-third In Tune 1930, there were 3,300 meierted on unemployed in Tarrow. grounds. Before they set off, the ag indus- were blessed by Bishop to In june, 1931, there were 6,700 not Gordon of Jarrow, but he hastily re- unemployed in Jarrow. after his superior, the In Tune. 1932, there were 7,248 recanted Bishop of Durham, denounced , keen on —80 per cent of the insured the march as revolutionary mob Bankers' of population was out work. pressure'. Com- 1932, the last ship the launched Palmer's (The God, of course. mon of Nor- went down the slipway. In June, was following a hallowed ecclesi- acked by the fate Bis- astical 1933 Tarrow was tradition- earlier Palmer's decided. perations. was sold to hop of Durham, in 1803, had lent

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ship- out of a total population The Christians, complacent as the 35,000. the face other alwavs The town council sent a depu- man in people's sufferings, were not the see the President of the tation to It march. noninet the n the NE Board of Trade. Mr Walter Run- anac denounced at both the TUC was three simp-o hing family. parrow said himself member ciman, Labour Party conferences Stockton of 1936. Runciman, 'must work out its two own salvation."? The TUC. in fact, sent out cir- strin grants culars-largely ignored-advising 8 Wilkinson ov. cit. 0. 198.

render of 1930. trades councils no to Workers Press, Thuraday February 24, 1972 PA could be course, there not assistance the Jarrow men. A few debate. questions were The march also gets little men- asked and the House moved Wal Hannington's books on to other things... about the period, because 'The men, who unlike the hunger marches-it were enter- was not led by the Communist tained to tea in the House, were disappointed. They rather had Party. imagined an imposing fact, the march sufferec ceremony and a long discussion. But they from the type of leadership i were very sporting about it, as Organized by the had. Labour council and that Jarrow's MP Ellen we explained that was Just how the most important petitions Wilkinson, the march was kept of the past had been presented as politically neutral as possible, to parliament." with assistance being sought from After had and Tories. all, only hucinessmen When a walked 300 deputation of marchers met MPs miles. parliament hardly expect to the House of Commons, 10

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main speakers on marchers teturned to civic dignitaries, in robes As the were and chains of office. turned the whole town of the out to meet them and bonfires Indeed, the picture were lit in streets. But the in parliament when the the scenes Labourites had taken them as far marchers finally arrived as Labourites could go. Nothing is incredible: further was planned. It was tense moment. As mant warchers ase Three years later, the men of could be gOL were summoned to fight were packed in the galleries. Tarrow in secoad world war on behalf of The members, flooded with post- cards and letters from their con- the ruling class that had starved them and ignored them. stituents, to whom we had appealed en route, were inter- 3 Wilkinson op. cit.p. 209.

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PAGE 8, Workers Press, Thursday Februa The first of a three-part series on conditions in the 1930s.

BY BERNARD FRANKS

Unemployment is a direct and indispensable product of the capitalist system of pro- duction. But it is not a pas sive product. It is used as an active weapon to enforce the will of the state and the employers on the entire working class, whether in work or out. Karl Marx, exposing the innermost mechanisms of the system, wrote: "The surplus labouring population is the lever of capitalist accumula- tion, nay, a condition of of the capitalist existence mode of production.' In the 1930s the British gov- financial ernment, faced with and economic disaster, laid siege to the entire working population on behalf of the City, foreign and the employers. bankers virtually leaderless working class and - Labour, trade union Communist Party leaders had consistently betrayed the Labour preceding years movement in faced a massive political attack social welfare, jobs, on wages, strikes, unions and all previously won rights and conditions.

During this decade, unemploy- ment never fell below 1½ million (one in 13 of the working population) and twice it nearly reached 3 million. It was not just Britain, but the the entire world capitalist system which was in crisis, triggered by stockmarket the 1929 Wall St crash. In the first five years of the 1930s, the United States of government spent millions dollars on destruction of com- modities, materials and raw means of production because of so-called 'over-production'.

Unpicked cotton was ploughed and millions up SoWS to prevent over- slaughtered breeding' of pigs. While workers went ragged and hungry, $250m were paid to farmers to reduce cotton and wheat acreages.

In Brazil, in 1932, over 10 million bags of 'surplus' coffee were destroyed. At the same time, in Europe, millions of farm animals were killed and incinerated so the carcases could not be sold. Machines scrapped and factories were closed and left to fall into ruins.

In Britain a company was set up in 1930 to dismantle ship- yards and an Act was put through parliament by the Labour government virtually limiting coal production. The employers in a variety of industries called for heavy tariffs on imports to 'dumping' of cheap stem goods in Britain. Farmers did the same. Fresh milk was said to be heavily in glut, yet was too expensive for the majority of workers who bought the skimmed ('Unfit For Babies' ; said the label) or con- densed varieties. In May 1931 the collapse of the Austrian Credit-Anstalt Bank led to a succession of bank failures and panics in Europe on day February 24, 1972 Top: Wall Street speculators before the top of the already acute trade depression. weak position of the The pound and general loss of confi- dence in British finance led to City and demands the from foreign bankers that cuts from must be made in public spending and, in particular, in unemploy- ment benefit to the 2.7 million out of work. In order to 'restore confidence' in British capitalism and to meet the terms of huge loans asked from the French and American banks, a ruthless war on workers' incomes was to be launched.

In power was a Labour gov- ernment led by James Ramsay MacDonald. It was elected in 1929 on a policy which included ending of the unemployment. This was to be carried out by "rationalization of industry' and a 'drive for maximum efficiency' which was to create more jobs.

What was created, however, was efore the crash. Above: ploughing cotton back more than double the amount of unemployment—it had been 1.3 million in 1929. A committee of capitalists set in 1931 by up February MacDonald to advise on eco nomic measures, estimated that by 1932 there would be a f120m if budgetary deficit of immediate action were not taken.

It recommended cuts in public spending totalling £96m, includ- ing a 20-per-cent reduction in unemployment benefit and heavy wage cuts for government em- ployees. A Royal Commission on Un- employment Insurance recom- mended, on June 4, 1931, a tightening-up of qualifications for dole, increased contributions and a cut in the rate. It argued that unemployment pay was insidiously sapping the whole social and financial stability of the country. MacDonald and the Labour tton back into the ground, southern USA Cabinet had no second thoughts about supporting measures to try and solve the crisis and save capitalism. They agreed to cuts totalling £56.4m. These included: Unemployment insurance: £22m. Roads: £9m. Education: £10.7m (including a 15-per-cent cut in teachers' pay). However, the Tories and the foreign— bankers-English and made it clear that this was not least enough. £25m-£30m At more must be cut, mainly from insurance, unemployment foreign loan was to be assured.

But some of the Cabinet, at could stomach least, not bigger reduction in dole. What would happen to a party of reform which not only could not provide reforms, but must even take back those already obtained?

what would happen to And union support for the trade Labour Labour Party? The the TUC Cabinet approached leaders to try to get them to but even the accept the cuts, right-wing General Council took fright at the enormity of the proposals, and refused. "The General Council are pigs.

They won't agree to any "cuts" of unemployment ог said Sydney Fabian and member of Webb, the Labour Cabinet. A majority of the Cabinet, in- cluding Webb, voted to carry out the requirements of the bankers, particularly as they had. agreed that a 10-per-cent instead of a 20-per-cent cut in dole might be enough. The voting was ll to nine, but the split meant the end which government, resigned on August 24, 1931.

Immediately, MacDonald joined and with the Conservatives Liberals in setting up a 'National Government' to put the bankers' measures through and launch a against the vicious offensive working class. The new Cabinet consisted of four Labour mem- bers, four Conservative and two Liberal members. The Labour members were MacDonald, Lord Sankey, Philip Snowden and J. H. Thomas, head of the National Union of Railwaymen. The National government was by immediately backed the bankers and the employers and an £80m loan was made available jointly by the Bank of France and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Previously the King, George V, had told MacDonald that he was the only man to lead the country and that the Liberals would sup- port him 'in restoring the confi- dence of foreigners in the finan- cial stability of the country. Now, having accepted the job, MacDonald can remark to Snow- den: "Tomorrow every duchess in London will want to kiss me.'

Terrible years followed for the working class. The dole was immediately cut by law from 17s to 15s. 3d for adult men, and for a wife, from 9s to 8s. The Means Test was introduced which demanded that the un- employed must submit to cross- questioning and house searching by the Poor Law Authority. For having saved a few pounds or kept a few precious possessions, thousands had their dole further cut or stopped altogether.

The time during which benefit could be drawn as of right was from over 26 year to cut weeks-a diabolical act against those who had been out of a job the longest. In fact, nearly 20 per cent of the unemployed had been without work longer than this period and many had not been in employment for years.

After the 26 weeks, only so- "transitional payments' called decided by the means test were available. At the same time, un- employment insurance contribu- tions were raised for men at work from 7d to 10d a week.

(Official - figures put average wages during the 1930s at around £3 for a 46-hour week, though workers throughout entire indus- tries were well below this level.)

An Anomalies Act was intro- duced, the main effect of which to strike thousands was married women off benefits. By the end of the year over 170,000 women had been disallowed in this way. Those struck off did not register as no benefit was paid, so were not included in the unemployment figures. A few months later, in 1932, all subsidies for council house building in England and Wales, except for slum clearance were abolished, and drastically reduced in Scotland. In education, expenditure on school-building from was cut £9.2m in 1930-1931 to £2.7m in 1933-1934—and this with 1,500 elementary schools still on a black list drawn up in 1921!

Free places in secondary abolished and schools were replaced with 'special places' based on a means test. The system of free school meals to children of poorer families was tightened up, the meals were to be supplied on a doctor's only report of malnutrition. Wages of police, armed forces and teachers to be were reduced by up to 20 per cent, including a 15 per cent cut for teachers. massive campaign reduction against the was organized by the teachers.

Bernard Franks' article next will describe how the attack on the working class was intensified.

CONTINUED

All the elements of the crisis which is pressing in on the Tory government have been reflected in the pages of the Fleet St press. There is the impotent of miners, rage at the spectacle deter- mination and tenacious militancy 'norm' • to break the incomes barrier which encourages a powerful movement against the Tories throughout the working class. The press were prepared to patronize the miners, just so long as they remained convinced the Tories could beat them. Then the knives began to come out. You had the 'Sunday Times' February 13 urging the' on government to stick it out to the end against the miners. Gone was the liberal handwriting about the miners' special circumstances.

After the Saltley coal depot battle no one could doubt that the Tories were faced not only with the NUM, but with the whole trade union movement.

Under the heading 'Why the miners must not win', the 'Sunday Times' urged the government to even more forceful action (John Davies had already put most of the country on a three-day week).

Is the price of fighting the miners worth paying? the paper asked. it was. It concluded that 'a Otherwise there would be sharp reversal of the limited success against spiralling wages and prices' which the Tories, in their eyes, had gained so far.

Surrender would be an even more damaging and insidious prospect than the imminent national stoppage of industry.

Any recognition of inflation would remove still further the possibility of attacking unemploy- ment and the prospect of expan- sion would diminish'. On the same page, Ronald Butt spoke of the 'almost lethal blow' that might be delivered to 'the • economy and the fabric of British 'this minority' society of by intransigent men. 'The point may come,' he said, 'when the Prime Minister may to choose between the have coercion of a minority, led by men whose motives now seem ,to be predominantly political, "and the safety of the state.'

The fact that the leaders of this illegal Tory government are a minority whose motives are most certainly political appeared to have escaped Butt's attention, but it was graphically borne home overwhelming popular the support behind the miners.

The safety of the capitalist paramount in Butt's state was mind.. 'This potentially catas- trophic strike is, moreover, tak- ing place, he wrote, 'at a time whether when the question Britain is becoming ungovernable lackeys speak can be being allow misled by Ireland, meaning or of destruction the forced way felt strong the barnamenary Solicie history'. He side bill of the Paris with flashing Elysees. order. That when collapsed. height' because the regain their leadership. Gormley red in all: seriousness. and community life the themselves their leaders alne use duress on others similarly, well are captive r silly men ing men in the interests offer execime enough to demand ath demonkup in this bankruptcy But oes at toecans like calls dangerously enublic phase of ou silent the by un- beansons. Le revolutione was supporters not at the It at the final stages of ne stalinis grip the dosence revolutionary ory commentators knew mechanism of betrava could be put into operation in the miners' strike. The 'Daily Express' on Monday drew this conclusion in an editorial on It Wilberforce. direct was appeal to the mine union chiefs • show 'honest endeavour' and to end the strike. It was particularly hard Lawrence Daly and on Harold Wilson. Their statements, the palest of pale reflections of the boiling militancy in the ranks, had got the 'Express' leader writer's back Wilson's "jibes' served no up. good purpose he said. And 'as for Daly's 'deplorable' delay in submitting evidence to the court of inquiry, it was not to be tolerated. "Tactics like these suit only those who seek industrial anarchy,' the paper fulminated.

Plainly the Tories' great worry is that the working class has got out of control, that its bureau- cratic leaders will be pushed too far and break up Heath's crisis- ridden government. The Common Market debate in the Commons, with its slender Tory majority, eight - strong brought this fear even more sharply to the fore. The ultra- chauvinist 'Express', which has entry into long opposed Common Market, was forced out into the open. Their editorial on the morning after the debate gave a , token word of praise to the Tories who "stuck by their anti-Market con- victions. But it also uncharacter- istically praised Heath and the for their firmness in Liberals support of entry. "The insensate which Labour members fury is the directed at Mr Thorpe measure of their frustration,' the 'They are enraged editorial said. that he should have acted accord- ing to his lights instead of con- niving with The 'Express' is exaggerating wildly when it accuses the Labour MPs of a 'greed for power' in its next paragraph. Never have a group of politicians been less eager to seek office. But the basic • class point is clear. The entire employing class — whatever its family quarrels—is united in one thing: its determination to keep the Tories in office and back their strategy for crushing the working class. This is now the consideration overriding all others for Tories who are plainly fighting for their political lives against an un- precedented of militancy wave from the depths of the working will. use the full class. They power of the state to maintain their rule and there must be no illusions either about their deter- mination or the viciousness with which they will reply to the working class. Here's one item find its way into 1 press in t concerns Ulster. Details of the incident nasty ın a Downpalrick week. Four soldiers v have surrounded a and threatened knife. They were have assaulted a Martın Carson. incident The Irish Street in Miss Pauline she was witn DICK she first saw the s and said: security forces. occupying army yo in your Republican One of them droj and said 'You but you won't be Martin Carson caught him down his face. the face and Miss identified Barr as the knife. Barr denied th knife but remember the in he was very He was jailed fo Ifor disorderly bel three montus, current, for assaul an offensive weap Another Hopkins, was indecent behaviou Courts in Belgrad slav capital, of paralysis, District Court pre cilo Preradovic. gave account of the pr recent conference legal experts. The main probl the excessve work on the Preradovic put it number of undisciplined attit the HoLoco. regulations in the law and the inter of proceedings barristers' The pace investigations Workers Press, Thursday February 24, 1972 PAGE 9 cases came before' the 294 Belgrade judges last year. Despite the sterling work of Preradovic and his colleagues, le item which didn't no doubt operating in shifts ray into the capitalist round the clock, 20,000 of these cases are still awaiting 'our boys' in trial. Worse still, some barristers of the particularly try at all costs to prolong the ident were revealed proceedings and work on the according to wnpatrick Court last the judge, they principle that in time memories oldiers were said to grow dim and facts lose their ounded a girl teacher immediate topicality'. In short, her with says Preradovic, 'they cause were also said to retrials' —an intentional mis- ulted a youth called use of rights. Perhaps because of this ncident occurred at appalling pressure of work, the eet in Downpatrick. Belgrade judges are not apply- auline McGrath said ing the full rigour of the law, vith Dick Killen when particularly to cases of econ- saw the soldiers. They Punishments omic crime. semi-circle round her imposed by the courts were We are the last they forces. We are the milder year than have been and below should army you read about the legally permitted maxi- epublican newspapers. mum.' the judge said. He plans hem dropped a knife to call in the Belgrade bar- 'You are pretty now risters for a pep-talk in the won't be in a minute.' near future. Carson said the four im and Pte ]. P. M. he 3rd Queen's Regi- bbed an open razor Roman Polanski is off to make • face. He was hit in and kneed on the Britain. where but Killen also 'Unions are crippling Britain's Barr as the one with industry. They were devised to defend - now they are enied that he had a defeating their own object by he couldn't strangling liveli- their own • the incident since hoods.' Polanski's he says. ery drunk. latest effort is a little number • jailed for six months called "The Vampire Killers'! derly behaviour, and to run con- or assault and having ive weapon. Not many workers expect any- er soldier, Alan P. thing from the church. Bitter was fined £3 for has taught that behaviour. experience whatever might fall from the lips of the Godly is rarely matched by similar outpour- ings from their pockets. • Belgrade, the Yugo- The usual excuse is that the church is there for our political are in 'state a according guidance-in other words to to Court president Mom- keep the capitalist us on straight and narrow and teach us how to bear the burdens of adversity. of the problems to The onference of Serbian extent to which the an agent of church acts as the ruling class is graphically revealed by the case of Karen burden Cooper German • the judges, or, as (31), the "The great ic put it: psychologist and teacher who of cases, the citizens' threw ink at Heath on the day ined attitude to sum- of the signing of the Common Treaty the absence of legal Market in Accession as in the field of civil Brussels. the intentional delay She has been in prison with- edings by individual out trial since January 23 and forced—illegally as it turns out ace of work is too —to pass the time threading bout 70,000 law suits, red string through 500 price and criminal tags a day. 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Thirsk defies ban and does us proud PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thuraday February 24, 1972

GLASGOW-LONDON: STEPHEN JOHNS REPORTING

LIVERPOOL-LONDON: PHILIP WADE REPORTING

SWANSEA-LONDON: DAVID MAUDE REPORTING

OUR RECEPTION on Tues- that of a council by one vote, so called 'Independent'. day Westhoughton, in The town has been really hard between small mining town There hit by unemployment. and Bolton, Wigan was West- used to be ten pits in typical of the warm way we but they're all houghton now closed. Out of four mills only two have been received by the remain. And only the other week Lancashire working class.

Hawker Siddeley's paid off another 200 workers because of last Sunday that It was only falling orders. the Club's Labour Connailed heard the Right-to-Work march Committee man Joe Roberts through. But im- was passing met us at the door of the club: mediately they offered us their 'We were very pleased to wel- premises and a mid-day meal.

the come the young people on march. They can come back any Club president is Cyril Thomas, time they like', Joe, who is also chairman of West- was who miner himself for 15 years, told houghton Two other council. me. committee members also sit on One of the years he spent as a council. Unfortunately, the the control the miner was 1926: 'We went back Tories manage to OUR ENEMIES in the Labour have been confounded Party Party rank once again. The and file in this Tory horse- racing town have turned out wel- and given warm us come. The local Party had the usual from Ron Evers, nor- circular of the Labour organizer off warning the members Party, because it was run by the march organization'. 'proscribed This did not' stop the rank and the march file campaigning TOr however. They established a com- and get mittee to accommodation for the Glasgow- London column. Thirsk Labour Party executive committee member Fred Bendlow (65) was at our sleeping quarters their the marchers on to road. 18th day on the and their courage 'I admire of the their get rid aim-to Tories. It's a great achievement and I speak as a veteran of five Aldermaston anti-bomb marches,' he told me. down The marchers sat Thirsk by the meal provided file they rank and as soon arrived in this agricultural town.

the food. They certainly needed Today's haul of nearly 30 miles of the march the longest of and twice the daily distance Marchers the the Hunger in "This a left-wing Party 1930s. is in recently a Com- Thirsk. We had Fred, until no hesitation to back you,' said Fred. told Party me 'A munist six-man established of the organized by the to support committee was local Labour Party. deal with the arrangements.

At their annual general meet- of in the 'Frankly most us ing they donated the £24 surplus Party are dead against any bans 1971 to fund and If we prescriptions. can marchers. A stall in the market, achieve unity of the working house-to-house collections plus class, we can isolate the right raised another f8. Party wing in the as well as members baked Labour Party defeat the Tories. This is my aim and collected cakes. now. from tonight's three- Apart course meal, they of will be laying 'Particularly on this issue there be breakfast tomorrow and unemployment must on miles of Thirsk We all this meal nine out action. know what to York-our last Tory our way government is up to now. It's kicking people onto the stop before Leeds. dole

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worse terms than when on we came out-they starved us back.

But this time it's been a real victory, the best we've ever had.'

Although the Tories control Westhoughton council, a Labour always returns 'It's been like that since 1901 when Lord Derby, the Tory MP, called postmen bloodsuckers because they, were asking for another two bob a week', said There's no doubt that the response we're getting from the working class and its organiz- ations is an inspiration to the marchers. I didn't think we'd get süch a response, said 21-year-old Alan Taylor from Liverpool, who has

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and creating a core of unemploy.

ment to drive down wages. In Rhodesia and Ireland we can catch 'a glimpse of what could happen to the British working class.' Later at our Thirsk meeting, Joan Maynard, the town's Lab- our Party agent, backed the march. I think the slogan, the right to work, is a very positive one.

Unlike the 1930s, you are not the issue of campaigning on unemployment. The working class are stronger and better organ- ized now than they were in those days. They have had the power... a been on the dole since April me 1971. mistaken. The 'But I was solidarity and the warmth bucks me up. When you see workers like those in St Helens town hall stand up and clap us, it feel proud to be makes you fighting for the working class. 'If we can now build branches of the Young Socialists and the Socialist Labour League in all these districts, it really will be worth it', said Alan. record the Finally, I must we had in Wigan the welcome night before. The AUEW district committee and the Wigan trades: council made all the arrangements for us. And the AUEW lent us their hall for a

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stop the Tories turning us to back to those times.' At 4 per cent, unemployment in Thirsk is relatively low com- pared to the areas we have passed through on the march. But this should be qualified. The pre- dominant industry is agriculture.

This means low wages, bad con- ditions-in fact 'hidden' unem- ployment. If men had jobs to go to they would leave the land.

Instead, what factories do move into the surrounding area employ mostly women workers at cheap rates. The Labour Party exists amidst the town of reaction. On wer... a sea meeting at which £6 was raised.

Over 3,000 workers are un.. employed in the town. 'We are certain the Tories are trying to strangle Wigan', AUEW district secretary Bill Broxton told me.

Over 20,000 miners and textile over the last ten years. Last yeas workers 2,000 more jobs were lost.

The unemployment is so bad that about 30 per cent of all workers in Wigan travel as far as Liverpool and Manchester every day to earn a living. "The youth on the march must ignite the spirit of the working get the Tories out. class and We're fighting for our very existence', said Mr Broxton.

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they have three council compared with the Tories 28.

The MP is the right-wing Con- servative Sir Robin Turton, one of the Common Market rebels, who voted against the govern- ment in the most recent division.

The bulk of the Labour Party vote comes from agricultural workers and the N Yorkshire region of the Agricultral and Allied Workers is noted for its opposed • the militancy. They 'settlement' in the recent wage industry and have spearheaded fights against that the near feudal relic-the tied cottage.

Under this system the agricul- tural worker stands to lose his home as well as his job if he does not accept the low wages and conditions for working archaic on the land. Fred Despite these obstacles, told me that the Party had been gaining ground over the last decade and slowly eating away at Turton's majority. the they have support shown us is any guide, there may day when Turton is come a out of office in favour turned of a socialist candidate.

Our thanks again to the rank and file of Thirsk for demon- strating there is more to the labour movement than paid offi- cials and servile right-wing Labour MPs.

S WALES miners are voting on their Wilberforce-plus pay offer in a watchful mood.

While acceptance of the offer appears to be widespread, they are poised to reply both to a later Tory ambush or to the first hint of betrayal by their own leaders. It is in this spirit that they are Young Socialists' backing the Right-to-Work march. In a strenuous, 26-mile push into the heart of Glamorgan- Swansea - London shire, the passed mining marchers into territory proper At Blackmill, six miles out of Bridgend in the Ogmore valley, Cam Evans laid on mid-morning tea and toast for us at the small cafe he runs with his family.

'Any time,' he told us. I'm all in favour of what you're doing. 'We want to defeat the Tories, sure, and put Labour back-but we want them back to do some- thing, for the working class this time' A full-time miner at Wyndham and Western colliery, Cam added that 'socialism is instilled in the men who work down the pits' and that they were now impatient to achieve it: Our trek along the Ogmore valley led us 800 feet into the Rhondda, where 2,201 workers jobless the January were count. This is 162 more than at the end of last year. Figures to be announced today are_expected by the Department of Employment to show a further big increase. In the Rhondda-Llantrissant- Pontypridd area as a whole un- employment is running at 6.3 per cent, 1.2 per cent more than last year, or 2 per cent above the national average. Six pits have shut in the area • over the last 15 years and at least one other is now on the sharpening the jeopardy list, miners' already well-developed fear of redundancy. A group of miners in the Diamond, Williamstown, 'Black cheered the marchers when Workers Press sellers told them we were not protesting against unemployment as in the 1930s, but fighting for the removal of the Tories. Over 1,000 of the Rhondda's unemployed live in Tonypandy, the grim, granite town where

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CP MINER JOINED MARCH

Churchill troops against sent the miners in 1911. The most modern building we there appropriately was, saw enough, the new Social Security office. In the streets the people responded magnificently to the marchers. The local branch of the Amal- gamated Union of Engineering Workers—organizing workers at EMI factory - the Treorchy donated £5 to the campaign, workers at the British Steel Corporation subsidiary of T. C.

four miles Jones in the town, along the valley from Tonypandy, are to stage a collection for the marches tomorrow. For the last leg of our march, from Treorchy into the mining village of Treherbert, we were miners' by Ferndale joined union secretary Cliff True.

A leading of the member Communist Party, he told me he supported the aims of the march.

'But it's only a start, he said but determined as the tired marchers kept up their chants of

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to "Tories out!' for most of the way.

but his words are open considers the 'What's needed is to mobilize the debate when one marchers' fighting spirit.

mass of the working class against this government.' It is this which is winning widespread support in the labour "Ferndale. has accepted ther settlement movement. Wilberforce-plus 'with open arms, he said.

TYMEWYDD Labour Club, for "The Tory government has been example, supplied the marchers pushed back. We won con- with food for their overnight cessions in the Downing St talks Friday been stay at Treherbert. that we've last fighting for without success for The party members there thus 25 years. those all join ranks with over the country who are helping us Asked whether he thought the break official ban Vicious Tories could have been brought organized by Transport House.

down had the executive of the National Union of Mineworkers stuck out for the f5-f9 original On out of Bridgend, our way claim, Cliff True said: 72, stopped of Mrs White. £1 our collectors and donated 'Two weeks more and the gov- from her pension to the march. would have collapsed ernment With shade the Tories he said by that I mean would have had it will shake the Tories up to concede our full claim.

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PAGE 12 Workors Press, Thursday Fabru BY RENOUNCING their national claim in favour of plant bargaining, the engineering union chiefs have not side-stepped the employers' policy of holding down wages, Mr D. C. Bamford told the Engineering Employers' Federation annual dinner at the Dorchester Hotel last night. Bamford, the EEF president, said the employers would be even more determined to fight wage demands because of the losses imposed on them by the miners' strike. Noting that 'we have promi- nent trade union officials with us tonight--some of them are old friends', Bamford urged them to be 'moderate' in their demands.

He went on to warn: 'Our members have no alter- native but to resist extravagant claims-especially at this time. If this resistance should lead to strike action on a large scale, the strikers will be postponing indefinitely the resurgence their industry' and its ability to provide standard of a rising living for its employees.'

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01-622 7029 day February 24, 1972 applauded by Prime Minister Edward Heath, who also spoke at the dinner. Reviewing the state of the industry, Bamford engineering laid special stress on the reces- sion in capital goods, the spate of closures and bankruptcies in the industry and the rapid growth of unemployment. He said: whole has remained stagnant for almost years, and indeed two production fell somewhat in the second half of last year.'

He was encouraged by signs that the government's reflation- ary measures of last July were working in consumer industries.

'But I have to bear in mind the other 80 per cent or so who produce, or who are concerned in production of, capital equipment.

'The serious unemployment situation has in no way bypassed

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THE TUC yesterday turned its back on the weakly -organized sec- tions of the labour move- ment. The first phase of its 1972 Review claimed Economic that, 'a revolution is sweeping through many areas collective bargaining'. In tacit praise of the aims of the Industrial Relations Act to smash national wage agreements undermine the strength of and the trade unions by substituting plant-bargaining, the review says: 'Moves to company bargain- ing in manufacturing industry generally nearly always involve a several maxima shift to new industry wide negotiated rate the above pounds bargaining with' It adds that international companies private can bring big increases in wages that were not possible before.

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the engineering industry. In the or 11 months to November last year, employment in engineering and decreased by 7t per cent, continued to has undoubtedly fall. Much of this has been caused by the closing down of individual plants, and unhappily bankruptcies in the industry have never been higher. I believe, however, that the bulk. of unemployment in en- gineering has been con- sequence of rocketing labour costs, impelling our members to reduce their labour force, as a proportion of their sales, and to their remaining labour employ and their canital more effectively.

This they must continue to do, particularly at a time when entry into the Common Market will mean stiffer competition for many. •Manufacturing investment fell by 5 per cent in real terms in 1971 and the level of net new

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Ignoring the fact that such settlements are only given on the he basis of shut downs, unemploy- and raised productivity, ment, the review notes 'new perspec- tives are opening up'. In line with its opposition to an incomes policy, and with the miners in mind, it goes on: 'In these circumstances, it is simply possible for the public not set the pattern for sector to in many sectors of wages industry. 'A wise government would be well advised to adopt a more relaxed posture so far as wages in the cerned, Public sector are con- With the fingers of slump having an iron grip round the throats of the Tories and em- ployers, the TUC simply decide to throw the weak to the wolves by making weak appeals for new "postures'. This policy further was ex- posed by TUC general secretary Victor Feather at yesterday's press conference launching the review. He said, as Heath and his ministers have repeated often enough: 'The miners' settlement should not be taken as a yard- stick. The increase was gained on its merits and other claims will be judged on their merits.'

orders throughout last year was persistently below 1970 and even 1969, Bamford continued.

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The real motive behind invest- Bamford said, was not

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reporter ment, acquiring tax incentives or Simon Winchester, told the It 'the investment grants. was Widgery tribunal yestarday general level of profitability and that he was fired at twice, the confidence that new assets will earn a satisfactory return in apparently by an army sniper, a bouyant market. as he attempted to make his 'Pret ere sent and tet ipest.

way from Rossville Flats to invest- is the greater Corner' 'Free Derry on ment? 'Bloody Sunday', Januay 30.

*It is against such a back- Winchester evi- ground that present position with the unions view was giving must dence on the third day of Lord he declared. Widgery's one-man inquiry speech is a frank Bamford's into the 13 civilian deaths in Derry, N Ireland, after a civil statement cf the engineering em- on the eve Plant-ber Divers' rights demonstration. plant struggles. their wage He said he a soldier saw drive for profit they are deter- standing on a street corner 150 mined beat to back the wage yards away put his rifle to the demands the engineering aim. workers. Earlier he described how crowd ran for cover when three or four one-ton armoured per- sonnel carriers swept into the Bogside from William St. 'We all started to run and I saw some soldiers running with the vehicles. thought the vehicles going to were run they possibly around as fast as could and break the crowd up into smaller groups and use gas and arrest people added: "The Winchester ve- hicles seemed to be going very fast. My feelings were that I was knocked down, going to be or There lot of arrested. was a hysteria-a lot of screaming and a lot of shouting.' He described how he saw two wounded in the men fall court- yard of Rossville Flats- -one aged and the other slightly about 18 Neither older. was carrying fire- arms as far as he could see.

Farmworkers turned down FARM workers' claim for a £1.80 £18 for a rise to a minimum of 40-hour, five-day week was the special case as much as miners, National Union of Agri- cultural and Allied Workers secretary Reg Bottini said yes- terday. Mr Bottini out that Worters Paring farm earnings were at least £10 a week lower than the

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average in industry and that they a -42-hour worked week, while most other industries were on a 40-hour week. The claim, rejected yesterday by the Agricultural Wages Board, asks for double time for also weekend and public holiday working for the 320.000 farm- workers in England and Wales.

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