Workers Press no. 698

workers press

WE'RE READY

FOR STRIKES

SECOND WARNING BY ENGINEERING BOSS

CLIVE NORRIS, secretary of the Right-to-Work campaign nation- ally and leader of the Swansea- London march, said: Unemployment is now soar- ing towards the level it reached in the 1930s. Twenty workers in the Rhonda where we are now marching, are chas- ing every vacant job, according to these latest neures and 27 most of these conditions are poor and wages low. This news has made the marchers more than ever determined to fight for the downfall of the Tory government. leader of

CHRISTINE SMITH,

the Liverpool - London march commented: I don't think a lot of these workers laid off will get their big in- jobs back again. The creases mean we've got to fight harder against the right wing of the Labour Party and to bring more youth onto this march. We unite employed and must un- employed workers to throw out the Tories now. KEITH RADFORD, aged 20, leader of the Newcastle con- tingent on the Glasgow-London march, said: These new figures are bloody disgusting. They've just sky- rocketed. I am convinced that today's figures will mean that support for the marchers will grow enormously. Working-class communities can now really start, to see what the Tories are up to.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMI

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

AS UNEMPLOYMENT soared yesterday to 1,617,944, the Heath government declared its intention to step up its policies of creating even higher levels of joblessness and wage-cutting.

The jobless figures issued by the Department of Employment show that unemployment for the whole of Britain is now running at 6.9 per cent.

In Ulster the number of wholly un- employed-not laid offhas noW rised to 9 per cent, making it the hardest hit area in Britain.

The official statistics also show that 23,000 redundancies there were declared in January. that the total It estimated was redundancies occurring during 1971 was 336,000—an average of 28,000 a month.

In 1970 there was an average of 18,400 redundancies each month and 12,300 in 1969. On the eve of figures being released, Heath addressed the annual banquet of the most powerful group of em- the Engineering Britain, ployers in Employers' Federation, the at Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane.

He called on the giant industrialists to stiffen their resolve to take on the trade unions and the working class. He called on the employers not to give way in wage demands or 'we will all be the losers'. Yesterday EEF president Mr D. C.

Bamford responded to Heath's battle cry.

Speaking at the EEF general council's annual meeting, he said: "There is little doubt that a policy of militant plant bargaining and the cancellation of the procedural arrangements are intended to expose the industry to a free-for-all in wages and conditions claims.

If the unions are out to test the fibre of our unity, we should leave them in no doubt as to its durability?

He said that member firms had received guidance on how to deal with the action to take when claims and what The unions will negotiations broke down. thus not find us unprepared to meet these pressures, Bamford added.

Bamford making a stronger speech than his own Dorchester Hotel attack told the general council: The prospect that con- fronts a round of costly claims us is up by the threat of disruptive backed action. I am sure I do not need to convince any of you of the importance of standing firm in this situation.'

Tories and the big engineering The employers are now using the breathing space provided by the miners' settlement prepare for bigger industrial clashes to this year. Both Heath and the EEF are openly espousing class war. Under Tory rule workers face two basic alternatives-wage-cuts or the sack. That's why the Right-to-Work marches today assume the greatest political importance.

They form the vanguard of working-class hostility to put an end to this hated government. ETTER • FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1972 • No. 698 • 4p.

AL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

I SAY, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN THE

ARMY.

DAMN

GOOD TRAINING FOR A BUSINESSMAN AND POLITICIAN. In fact John Davies, now Trade and Industry secretary, who was experiences at the Industrial Society recounting his military 1939 and became a com- in London yesterday, enlisted in missioned officer (2nd lieutenant) in the signal corps.

Alfred Robens (seated), on the other hand, never made the forces.

According to 'Who's Who', he was a union official and Labour councillor between 1935 and 1945. In 1951, though, he was Minister in charge of compulsory army service. Perhaps some of those lads became big businessmen and politicians. Especi- ally those sent to Korea, Malaya, Aden, Suez, etc., etc., and never came back. • See p. 12 for Davies' speech.

REGIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES

AREA

JOBLESS

PER CENT

2.7 SouthEast 213,961 E Anglia 26,007 4.0 South West 67,782 5.1 W Midlands 306,635 13.3 E Midlands 126.522 8.9 Yorkshire & Humberside 194,506 9.6 N West 217,869 7.5 North 122.779 9.3 Wales 77,110 8.0 Scotland 218.052 10.1 N Ireland 46,721 9.0

SAYS BERNADETTE

DEVLIN, MP

IT TOOK just seven hours for Westminster to pass legislation to legalize land, Bernadette Devlin, MP, said yesterday. She was commenting to Workers Press the on un- precedented speed with which the Tory government forced through an Act of parliament to give retrospective legality to the army's powers to search and detain civilians. She was the only MP who opposed the passage of the legislation. Miss Devlin said the events in parliament to rush through the Bill showed the fraud of "parliamentary democracy.

'As far as I'm concerned, it's the last straw. The House of Commons has shown that it creates its own rule of law. It isn't concerned about the views or the interests of the people.!

She first heard the Tories intended to push through the Bill at 4 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. *Someone phoned me just as I was about to fly home to Ulster, she said. I raced to the House of Commons to hear Maudling make his announcement.

PROCEDURE OUT

THE WINDOW

It was fantastic. When the debate began at 7 o'clock we still didn't have printed copies was just on of the Bill. It duplicated sheets. 'All parliamentary procedure was just thrown out the window.

Miss Devlin attempted to divide the House on the legisla- But she tion. failed through want of a teller. You need another person, a teller, to divide the House,' she explained.

*But no one would join me.

No one from the Labour Party or the Liberals. *The Labour front bench had told all its supporters to toe the line and they did. Their con- cern was "their boys" in N Ireland.' She went on: The Home Secretary has said that he will review the law in reference to picketing. Is that the law, or are we to understand that that law may be reviewed as this law is being reviewed? 'Are we to ur derstand that picketing is legal until such time as it becomes effective against the Tory government, whereupon laws will be passed to make picketing illegal?

SIMILAR LAWS

IN BRITAIN?

Is such a law to be enacted against all members of the work- ing class in this country who will be forced into conflict with the Tory time government after time? Will similar legislation be enacted to deal with them?

'The Tory sud- government denly found itself on Monday morning with an illegal army in N Ireland. I have always main- tained that it was an illegal army. And no amount of panic legislation will alter that.

workers press

WE'RE READY

FOR STRIKES

SECOND WARNING BY ENGINEERING BOSS

CLIVE NORRIS, secietaru oi the.

Right-to-Work campaign nation- ally and leader of the Swansea- London march, said: Unemployment is now soar- ing towards the level reached in the 1930s. I wenty workers in the Rhondda where we are now marching, are chas- ing every vacant job, according to these latest figures-and in most of these conditions are poor and wages low. This news has made the marchers more than ever determined to fight for the downfall of the Tory government. CHRISTINE SMITH, leader of the Liverpool - London march commented: workers laid off will get their jobs back again. The big in- creases mean we've got to fight harder against the right wing of the Labour Party and to bring möre youth onto this march. We must unite employed and un- employed workers to throw the out Tories

KEITH RADFORD,

aged 20, leader of the Newcastle con- tingent on the Glasgow-London march, said: These new figures are bloody disgusting. They've just sky- rocketed. I am convinced • that today's figures will mean that support for the marchers will enormously. Working-class grow communities can now really start, to see what the Tories are up to.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMI

BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

AS UNEMPLOYMENT soared yesterday to 1,617,944, the Heath government declared its intention to step up its policies of creating even higher levels of joblessness and wage-cutting.

The jobless figures issued by the Department of Employment show that unemployment for the whole of Britain is now running at 6.9 per cent.

In Ulster the number of wholly un- employed—-not laid off-has now rised to 9 per cent, making it the hardest hit area in Britain.

The official statistics also show that there 23,000 redundancies were declared in January. It was estimated that the total redundancies occurring during 1971 was 336,000—an average of 28,000 a month.

In 1970 there was an average of 18,400 redundancies each month and 12,300 in 1969. On the eve of figures being released, Heath addressed the annual banquet of the most powerful group of em- Britain, the Engineering ployers in Employers' Federation, the at Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane.

He called on the giant industrialists to stiffen their resolve to take on the trade unions and the working class. He called on the employers not to give way in wage demands or 'we will all be the losers'. Yesterday EEF president Mr D. C.

Bamford responded to Heath's battle cry.

Speaking at the BEF general council's annual meeting, he said: "There is little doubt that a policy of militant plant bargaining and the cancellation of the procedural arrangements are intended to free-for-all in expose the industry to wages and conditions claims.

If the unions are out to test the fibre of our unity, we should leave them in no doubt as to its durability?

firms had He said that member received guidance on how to deal with the and what action to take when claims negotiations broke down. "The unions will thus not find us unprepared to meet these pressures, Bamford added.

Bamford making i stronger speech than his own Dorchester Hotel attack told the general council: The prospect that con- fronts us is a round of costly claims up by the threat of disruptive backed action. I am sure I do not need to convince any of you of the importance of standing firm in this situation.'

The Tories and the big engineering employers are now using the breathing space provided by the miners' settlement prepare for bigger industrial clashes to this year. Both Heath and the EEF are openly espousing class war. Under Tory rule workers face two basic alternatives-wage-cuts or the sack. That's why the Right-to-Work marches today assume the greatest political importance.

They form the vanguard of working-class hostility to put an end to this hated government. ETTER O FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25, 1972 • No. 698 0 4p.

AL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

I SAY, I REMEMBER

WHEN I WAS

IN THE

ARMY.

DAMN

GOOD TRAINING FOR A BUSINESSMAN AND POLITICIAN. In fact John Davies, now Trade and Industry secretary, who was recounting his military experiences at the Industrial Society London yesterday, enlisted in 1939 and became a com- Alfred missioned officer (2nd lieutenant) In the signal corps.

Robens (seated), on the other hand, never made the forces.

According to 'Who's Who', he was a union officlal and Labour councillor between 1935 and 1945. In 1951, though, he was Minister In charge of compulsory army service. Perhaps some Especi- of those lads became big businessmen and politicians.

ally those sent to Korea, Malaya, Aden, Suez, etc., etc., and never came back. • See p. 12 for Davles' speech.

REGIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES

AREA

JOBLESS

PER CENT

South East 213.961 2.7 E Anglia 26,007 4.0 South West 67,782 5.1 W Midlands 306.635 13.3 E Midlands 126,522 8.9 Yorkshire & Humberside 194,506 9.6 N West 217.869 7.5 North 122,779 9.3 Wales 77,110 8.0 Scotland 218,052 10.1 N Ireland 46.721 9.0

SAYS BERNADETTE

DEVLIN, MP

IT TOOK just seven hours for Westminster to pass legislation to legalize land, Bernadette Devlin, MP, said yesterday. She was commenting to Workers Press on the un- precedented speed with which the Tory government forced through an Act of parliament to give retrospective legality to the army's powers to search and detain civilians. She was the only MP who opposed the of the passage legislation. Devlin said the events Miss in parliament to rush through the Bill showed the fraud of 'parliamentary democracy'.

'As far as I'm concerned, it's the last straw. The House Commons has shown that it creates its own rule of law. It isn't concerned about the views or the interests of the people.!

She first heard the Tories intended to push through the Bill at 4 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. 'Someone phoned me just as I was about to fly home to Ulster,' she said. 'I raced to the House of Commons to hear Maudling make his announcement.

PROCEDURE OUT

THE WINDOW

It was fantastic. When the . at 7 o'clock we debate began still didn't have printed copies the Bill. It was just on duplicated sheets. 'All parliamentary procedure was just thrown out the window.'

Miss Devlin attempted to divide the House on the legisla- tion. But she through failed a teller. 'You need want of another person, a teller, to divide the House,' she explained.

'But no one would join me.

No one from the Labour Party or the Liberals. 'The Labour front bench had told all its supporters to toe the line and they did. Their con- was "their boys" in N cern Ireland.' She went on: The Home Secretary has said that he will review the law in reference to picketing. Is that the law, or are we to understand that that law may be reviewed as this law is being reviewed? 'Are we to ur derstand that picketing is legal until such time as it becomes effective against the Tory government, whereupon will be passed to make laws picketing illegal?

SIMILAR LAWS

IN BRITAIN ?

Is such a law to be enacted against all members of the work- ing class in this country who will be forced into conflict with the Tory government time atter time? Will similar legislation be enacted to deal with them?

"The Tory sud- government denly found itself on Monday morning with an illegal army in N Ireland. I have always main- tained that it was an illegal army. And no amount of panic legislation will alter that.'

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday February :

AROUND THE WORLD

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

DELEGATES of N Viet- nam and the National Liberation Front walked out of the Paris peace talks yesterday in protest Us bombing over the l offensive. clearly The gesture was meant for Peking as much as Washington and indicates growing N Vietnamese con- cern at the friendly welcome accorded to the head of US imperialism and the rumours substantive agreement that was likely. It followed close on the pub- lication in Hanoi of a detailed THE SOVIET moon-probe Luna- 20 is on its way back to earth with samples of rock from the moon's surface. This signal success for Soviet science was carried out without the tremendous ballyhoo which attended the American manned- without risk landings and to human life. It opens the way for further and frequent more less costly probes on a much basis with scientific results comparable with those obtained by the US. Luna-20 carried a drill which went to work after the craft soft-landed on a plateau above the Sea of Fertility on Monday.

After penetrating the soft sur- PRIME MINISTER Mrs Sirimavo China for giving five gunboats to pu in Ceylon. Friendly co-op revolt countries was a model of inter-sta receiving the boats. are fitted with anti- They submarine, anti-aircraft and sur- They face-to-surface missiles. sophisticated navigational have instruments and detection equip- . are capable of high- and ment speed operation at sea. Mrs Ban- Their purpose, as daranaike underlined, is solely to prevent further revolutionary up- heavals. She said: "The boats will be used entirely in accord with our policy of non-alignment and aimed their will use strengthening conditions of peace RUSSIAN poetess and translator Natalya Gorbanyevskaya believed to be one of the editors of the 'A Chronicle of underground Current Affairs' has been released from a psychiatric hospital.

She was arrested in Moscow in December 1969, and declared following July. insane in the She was one of those who took part in a historic demonstration Square on August 25, Red 1968, to protest against military intervention in Czechoslovakia.

Later she wrote a book about Poles to recognize E THE Polish government may be on the verge of recognizing the exist- Common Market, whose ence the Soviet Union and the E European countries have for years refused to acknowledge.

Officials in Brussels are waiting to see whether Poland will take the first steps towards recogni.

tion by selling its cotton textile goods direct to the organization in future. Poland is seeking taiks," with February 25, 1972 record of US atrocities in Viet- since Nixon assumed the nam presidency three years ago. It said that spy-flights and bombing had doubled in that time.

The study was made by a commission which government concluded that the Nixon Ad- ministration had expanded and intensified the war. It said that in Vietnam the weapons used had become increasingly barbaric.

Vietnam's sovereignty had been infringed many times and in an extremely gross manner.

The commission concluded that 'the Nixon Administration had deliberately and systematic- ally violated the US government's commitment to completely and unconditionally end all bombard- ments and other war acts against N Vietnam'. face, it struck denser material.

Drilling was then carried out in several stages, with intervals.

The lunar rock • was then scooped into a sealed up capsule and the craft blasted off on its way back to. earth. The capsule will be detached and will parachute back to earth in Kazakhstan. Scientists believe the rock may be 1,000 million years older than that on the bed of the of Fertility. The craft spent Sea 27, hours on the moon's surface.

Its voyage-part of a planned programme of moon research— puts Soviet science ahead of the Americans in this field. Sirimavo Bandaranaike has thanked ats to put down last year's left-wing ly co-operation between the two inter-state relations, she said when for our country" Bandaranaike's coalition Mrs government-backed by the renegade Stalinists and the former revisionists of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party—is holding 16,000 young left-wing political prisoners. of Reports torture and arbitrary executions are rife and the prisons have been closed both to members of parliament and to Amnesty International representatives. which cir- the demonstration 'samizdat' form-re- culated in copied and passed from hand to hand. She was forced to give up her job and her home was searched.

was. threatened with im- She prisonment in a hospital prison for an indefinite term. Although she has two young children, this threat was later carried out.

She was declared insane by Dr Lunts, the same KGB stooge who declared General Grigorenko 'insane'. ize EEC? the Common Market to fix limits Before the for cotton exports. talks begin, some of the EEC's member-countries want a formal statement from the Poles that they are ready to negotiate with the Common Market commis- sion. In the past Poland and the other E European states have exported direct to the member- countries of the Common Mar- ket without contacting the com- mission. .... Hanoi broadcasts have in- cluded bitter attacks on Nixon since he arrived in China. On Tuesday he was described as 'the cruel enemy of progressive mankind' who cherishes dreams of world hegemony and con- sistently opposed the restoration of China's rights. "Today, how fre- no matter quently he may repeat his claims that he is eager for peace and wishes to usher in an era of negotiations, he can by no means crimes and cover up extremely reactionary nature' the Hanoi radio said. A broadcast in Chinese was entitled 'Nixon is more vicious than the devil' and described how he had sent planes to bomb children who celebrating were the Spring Festival. 'He pays lip- service to peace, while conceal- ing daggers and arrows', Hanoi warned its Chinese listeners.

By their action in Paris and the timing of the report on US war crimes National Liberation the N Vietnamese the Front indicate their fear that the Maoists are ready to sell river in their them down the eagerness to make a deal with Nixon. Meanwhile, serious considera- tion is being given to a non- aggression pact between the US and China following Chou En- lai's Monday speech. There are also unconfirmed reports that a N Vietnamese delegation is to meet Nixon during his stay in China. National Guard collect for Wallace A NATIONAL Guard General in rightist George Wallace's state of Alabama has been charged with forcing sub- ordinates to contribute to his campaign fund in the 1970 elections. Major-General George Reid Doster and others threatened reluctant officers with demotion if they failed to make donations.

On one occasion he said to three officers: 'Gents, I know what I am about to do is illegal as hell, but I've got to have a political con- tribution. I've got to have $100 from each of you.' The indictment says Wallace's campaign fund collected $1,700, though racialist governor probably didn't know. Argentine peso devalued

THE

ARGENTINE

military dictatorship has tightened its grip on the country's dwindling foreign currency reserves with a hidden devaluation measure de- signed to discourage imports and 'non-approved' export transac- tions. The central bank announced that the supply of 'cheap dollars' to importers and exporters would be cut from 70 per cent of the value of a transaction to 57 per cent. Exports of 'approved'-govern- ment-backed—products like meat and other farm produce will now be able to get more favourable terms for their overseas dollar earnings than before. Plagued by: rampant inflation, the Argentine government oper- ates two exchange rates between the dollar and the peso. The government - controlled market offers one dollar for every five pesos, while exchange rate on the uncontrolled free market is 9.60 pesos to the dollar. By reducing dollar sales to "non-approved" businesses, offering more advantageous terms for 'approved' businesses, the government of General Lanusse has effectively devalued the peso by about 10 per cent. 'I'll be Judge, I'll be Jury' said cunning old Fury, 'I'll try the whole case And condemn you to death.'

(Lewis Carrol) Last Wednesday the N Ireland High Court delivered a judge- ment which challenged the right of the British army to disperse a crowd and to stop and search people and vehicles at will.

Within a matter of hours the British parliament had passed through all its stages a Bill restoring these legal rights to the army. All other business was kicked aside and a Bill affecting civil rights was passed in four hours flat, with the support of the parliamentary Labour Party. Wilson had been tipped off two days earlier by Heath that this might be necessary but there was prior discussion in the Commons, nor in. the по parliamentary Labour Party, nor were MPs even aware that this was planned, until the day.

Some N Ireland MPs were in their constituencies and knew nothing at all about it until it was all over. So much for 'democracy'. What happened, quite simply, was that Irish citizens won a case in the Irish law courts, so the British parliament changed traditions of the law, retrospectively. All the hallowed parliamentary ritual were ignored.

And the only MP to oppose the measure was Bernadette Devlin. These parliamentarians, who placidly sit by and watch the figures soar, unable to intervene because of unemployment such insuperable 'lack of parliamentary time' other and obstacles, can move with speed when repressive legislation is urgently required. The unemployed, the homeless, the disabled and the im- poverished—all those whose plight the Mother of Parliaments can never get round to dealing with-can draw their own conclusions. THE TALKS in Peking between the Chinese leaders and President Nixon are secret diplomacy at its most treacher- ous. In the barrage of reports on the minute details of Nixon's visit, not a single hint has yet emerged about what is happening behind the closed doors of the Great Hall of the People. Yet while the leaders toast one another in public and proclaim desire for 'friendly contacts, the. question immediately arises who is going to be made to pay for this friendship? The two sides are reported to be engaged in. 'hard bargaining' and it is not difficult to imagine whose future is at stake. Nixon's prime requirement is Chinese aid to settle the war in Indo-China at the expense of the workers and peasants of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The war has proved a costly failure for US imperialism, which is now banking on Stalinist treachery to succeed where bombs and massacres failed. The Maoist leaders, in their turn, want US recognition and an end to American backing for the exiled Formosan regime of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.

Both sides have already given ample indication of their willingness to co- operate in such a betrayal.

Chiang regime by undertaking his Peking trip, while Mao has watched impassively the latest rain of US bombs on N Vietnam. Behind a smokescreen of rhetorical 'anti-imperialist?

slogans the Chinese leaders have long been preparing to stab the Asian revolution in the back. They lined up with Yahya Khan of Pakistan in his brutal butchery of the Bengali people-alongside the Nixon regime.

In Ceylon, Chinese arms and aid were poured in to assist the bourgeois coalition of Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike to suppress the JVP revolt and imprison her revolutionary opponents (see Mrs B's thanks, this page).

The Maoists eagerly supported the bloodstained military junta of Jaafar Numeiry in July last year as it executed and imprisoned the leaders of the Sudanese Communist Party.

NIXON'S ROAD TO PEKING IS PAVED WITH THE

REVOLUTIONARIES IN CEYLON, THE

BODIES OF

SUDAN AND BANGLADESH.

THE MAOISTS ARE FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS

WHO STRANGLED THE

OF

THEIR HERO STALIN.

SPANISH REVOLUTION OF 1936-1939

AND OPENED

THE ROAD TO HIS COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY PACT

WITH HITLER.

Mao Tsé-tung and his followers, ignoring the lessons of history, still worship at Stalin's shrine. The pursuit of their own bureaucratic interests is preparing a monstrous betrayal of the Asian revolution.

BY IAN YEATS

CHILDREN have died, marriages have broken up and bronchitis has reached epidemic proportions among 96 families living in a damp, dilapidated century old tenement in Labour-controlled Southwark — represented in parliament by ex-Labour MP Ray Gunter. was the local authority We're worth Eighty per cent of the and social workers take helpless. and Tory government nothing. If vou for tenants in the ghetto next no notice (TO housing policies the damp and dirt in a job, you as soon as block are unemployed. Said Mr Riches: 'As which they are forced say you live here they Milk, bread, coal and far as the Tories are you down postal services refuse concerned, it's one law They prevented the It's not a crime to be to deliver to the 112 homeless. It's not for the rich and anothel council - employed wor- flats which cost £2.65 for the poor. They are Kers Trom Taull. looking after the rich. a week to rent. families here have beel flats and council offi- lit more protest fires nos While other Chaucer House, cials were booed. turned down or evicted ard, over in landlords. If by private Tenants' Association Wednesday night 1965 chairman John Riches thes vouve cor caloren Robert Byles told council as stage don't want to know is nonsense. It's a accommodation for Lon- you" "This We'll question. homeless awaiting Riches pointed nottica

LUIL

M T sit down, march permanent owards London Bridge strike, but just burning Hundreds of windows We live like this, but will get either are blocks of everything were are new nowhere. offices there over The And Turnes Alfred and £10 a sq. ft. for

WOOO

Corneded an ex-soldier who serve there are no baths which have never allli and only cold in water Colo en They've wife up with his and got guards and dogs to Crumour family in of Lon- one often barely - furnished make sure nobody gets said: rooms. dons worst suns. "This ridiculous. some cases up. He added: 'We feel

JOHN RICHES:

five children-including we're at the bottom of Rehousing promised, but -are forced to teenagers- ladder. We've the got nothing given. sleep in the room nowdere with their parents in the housing (34), married with three circl same 23-year-olc told me

SNOWI

Mrs Edie Johnson. were all 'We families ve will be re- She told me I came be ised that re- TOLe Would House to Chaucer two there for a few weeks, and ove. noiser over again, but nothing has happened years old) The council just stick wasn't a sticl of furni have been there us i were more than five years. about us. They don't fat and are loo care how many children had to scrub it with morning Tuesaay disinfectant to get or what ages you've got tenants. they are. You can all be of the stink their tether, driven to 'My with unful- sleeping in the same children wen

MRS EDIE JOHNSON:

room as far as they are thin and ill with gastro. of new Children taken away. enteritis and they were concerned. nomes irom the Labour from council staged dra- Chaucer LaKel awdy House's 315 children We're and put in care in Tun-. matic protest. have died in the last 14 bridge Wells. the car was overturned from Not all the tenants "They can't disease ana rammed in benina

ONLON

Day giant garbage tins form- tenants claim are agree that have them back until nightiy pro- barricade brought on by the cold bonfires will solve leave this house, but across it Southwark council and damp. anything, although enrance une flats. Flames leapt 20 ft Said Mr Riches: 'Be- rehouse me served ONCe air from piles cause we live in these attention to their plight.

cause they say there conditions, can't Many tenants stressed isn't other accom- burning rubbish health anything. We're modation.' Tenants claim that what was at stake have and unemployment permanent rank. million, topping a pressure ceal wrenched the TUC's arm to take those out of work the THE TUC has recommended jobless, decision coincides delegate would that a delegate should repre- with the snow-balling success operate tandem WITe the nationwide marches sent the unemployed on local councils' unemployed committees Young Socialists demanding the trades councils. which would have three aims right to work. An important step forwarc in Last in the luC list of func With 13 men after every job linking the employed with the tions, but most important of all, THE Agricultural Wages Board Joe Hodgson, has been the land. Call- rejected increase claim his tougher paigning ir union to cer are in much made by the National Union better deal for the farm worker.

position than the miners. In that and Allied Workers Many of them live in tied industry the Agricultural cot- workers are concen- with big Job-sc •On vy cuntsady. lanco unal LIalca I avelaxt Farm workers are demanding membership farm is about the sack means nomelessness the -which would take Joe told me that, contrary to four or five £18 the 'The farmer up to minimum popular conception, the tied plays on all the of farmworker hve-day —101

WECK

collare is on une weaknesses une love land 1 ney are also asking Ton 1 ne mammoto too• combines -015 Cane for weekend working and now own large factory-farming animals. He "Joe look public holiday working. units and the policy is build to after those horses. bungalows that go with the job 1 ne union rePresells tical workers, near the factory. time to sell 40.0 calmed when …comes that farm labourers are just as A Tory actorms th to sit rid them, they are not Joe's horses.

much government to problem, special case the major the Agricultural maged of units under the control of one Joe, Wage miners since uncur carnitas are dl Was least £10 lower than the indus- owner. Board. findings are binding trial average Where acreage might have the union and the farmers. all Yon, Sheil Social- housed each There equal This week the six farmers, representation Glasgow-London from each side with a group larl Work march been or sini. now live cot- "independents" decide has workers tlec • The through expanses tages, , after amalgamation encour- issue. Of course the independents on-the-spot aged by cultural country. so abouter is bottom always vote with the farmers. Our The farm labourer is reporter was doe anary ome mutant his way through Thirsk for want to get rid of The wage Tane Joe, In the union interview militant farm example, has worked 7.30 to 9.30 the board and conduct all week for £20 that's forward fight to end wage slavery ditions. considered to be good money or on lue land Workers Press, Fridi :65237 CHAUCER HOUSE: Ghetto in Labour-con MARATHON Manufacturing, the Texas company involved in for Upper take-over talks Clyde Shipbuilders' Clydebank yard, has thrown the decision back to the Tory government with a request for a state grant towards new plant and equipment. the committeees would be em- powered to mobilize unemployed at the request of the unions in local action against But this important step must be taken much further. It must be carried throughout the trade union movement to the stage of welding a single organi- zation dedicated to putting an end to the Tory government's vicious anti-working-class policies by forcing its resignation.

The TUC says the trades council's unemployment com- mittees will press local authori- ties to expand employment opportunities through slum clear- ance and to establish part-time education for. unem- courses ployed young workers. But the brute fact is that the worsening slump drives the Tories to ruthlessly slash pro- duction and ban all new invest- ment for any purpose. The TUC says the committees will take up cases of individual hardship and advise on national insurance and social security rights. This has needed doing for a long time. But the writing is on the wall. As unemployment rises and as the economy stagnates, the rights of whole sections of workers will be torn away from them. Capitalism in crisis cannot be reformed or accommodated. The unemployed committees must be turned into fighting instrumerts to defeat the Tory government.

ress, Friday February 25, 1972 PAGE 3 _abour-controlled Southwark.

Marathon's Wayne Harbin Minister for chairman, told Industry Sir John Eden on Wednesday that the company's move was conditional on govern- ment finance for new machinery and equipment. Marathon also wants details of the likely extent and costs of deepening or widening the Clyde to allow construction of oil rigs at the site. Another section of UCS, the Govan division, has already asked for £30m and is still waiting for decision on the a government grant request. The Tory government is most unlikely to grant these huge sums. As 'The Times' put it yester- day: It seems doubtful if the Department [of Trade and Indus- try] can take the responsibility for deploying another huge slab of public money along Clyde- side without a wider re-examina- tion of our national shipbuilding capacity and whether such a sum is justified.' British shipbuilding is in deep crisis. Its share of the world market fell last year from 5.7 to › per cent, despite an increase of 3 million in the total tonnage of vessels launched round the world. The says "The government, Times', must 'come to terms with Britain's declining role in world shipbuilding, deciding the strate.

gic requirements and deploying available resources to strengthen specialization in both the profit- able and nationally necessary products.' The ships Clydebank produces come within neither of these definitions as far as the Tories are concerned. Despite the con- tinued retreat of the UCS stewards and the trade union leaders from their original nego- tiating stance of 'four yards and the whole labour force, , the Tamigovero hands cle turnet Tory funds to the UCS.

PAGE 4 Workers Pross, Friday February 25, 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- paign is i challenge to these policies and, therefore, the 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

COMMUNITY

CENTRE,

Westcott

HANWELL

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 of 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

ROLL

ALL STARS'. RAM JOHN HOLDER.

'THE PENTANGLE'.

Spike Milligan Tickets: £l, unemployed 50p Apply to: Clive Norris, National Right-to-Work Campaign, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG 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

SWANSEA

MERTHYR

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.

CASTLEFORD

LIVERPOOL

WINSFORD

LONDON

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

SUNDAY MARCH 12

EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY, RALLY 3 p.m.

TOP LINE. ENTERTAINMENT, 7.30 p.m.

SPIKE MILLIGAN. PAUL JONES. 'STONE

THE CROWS. ROCK 'N ROLL ALL

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.

Top: Turkish police arrest a student in Ankara. Above left: Prime Minister Nihat Erim. Above right: President Sunay.

Prime Minister Nihat Erim who has held office in Turkey, since March 1971, described as a highly culti- vated man and an expert on international law. Early in his rule martial law was imposed in 1l provinces and the country has been in the grip of savage repression ever since. Thousands of the regime's opponents languish in jail under appalling conditions. Defendants before military courts say they have been subjected to inhuman tortures. The following statement, made by accused Irfan Ucar, is typical of many others. He said at his trial: I was arrested on May 27, in Istanbul. I was tortured at the police station until sunrise. At eight o'clock they carried me to another room, that of the police chief. They tied my hands behind my back with handcuffs and tied my feet to a thick stick. They took me down and started to beat my feet with sticks and truncheons. While three of them were beating my feet in turn, two others were standing on my arms.

had his foot in. my Another mouth and the first one held his truncheon in my anus... 'They were beating my feet for ten minutes and then forcing me to walk on salty water poured on the floor. This torture lasted until noon. 'At noon they put me in a corner and put my feet in a, bucket full of salt water. At when they returned one p.m., from lunch, the torture started again. At three p.m. my feet had been torn about. then They stopped for a moment and one of them said it would be best if I signed confession a l written that I had committed certain crimes. "When I refused to sign, the torture began again. 15 years jail for printing Lenin's works. 'By 5.30 my feet had been thoroughly torn and the bones had started to appear. They ceased - the torture thereupon because at every blow my blood was spurting on their clothes. I was just about to faint. They wrapped my feet with a piece of rag and locked me in a small cell, without any medical assistance. They only gave me water and yoghourt. 'On the fourth day, my friend Ilkay Demir, a student at the Medical Faculty, was permitted to enter my cell and to treat my feet. When they recognized that my feet were going to be gan- grened, they brought me a trained nurse. He gave me some medicine to stop the bleeding of my anus but did not want to touch my Top: Turkish police arrest a student in feet saying that he was not trained in these kind of injuries.

of the police Thereupon one on duty pierced officers the suppurating parts of my feet with scissors. 'Until June 13 I was being cared for by my • friend Ilkay Demir. In my cell there was no bed. I had to sleep on the bare ground. During this period I was not able to move, so that I was using little boxes as a toilet for my natural needs. 'The girls were tortured also in the station, same way at the police One of them, Kadriye Deniz Ozen, said: 'I have been tortured at the police station violently.

They applied electrodes to my They have beaten organs. my feet for many hours. I was tor- tured for • 27 days just as in medieval times.' Two former policemen, them- selves on trial, said that the tor- tures carried on in the Istanbul police headquarters were worse than the Spanish Inquisition. Trained teams of police were intent on obtaining the desired 'confession' from any suspect, by torture. In January the higher military court approved three death sen- tences passed on young people and students by in a court Ankara_last October. The Erim government imposes a rigorous book and press censor- ship. Authors banned include André Malraux, Herbert Marcuse and the 16th century Sir Thomas More-canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church. Here are some recent sen- tences: tudent in Ankara. Above left: Prime Minister N Publisher Suleyman Ego, 15 for producing Lenin's years 'State and Revolution' and Marx Engels and "The Communist Manifesto'. Abdullah Nefes, 7ł years for translating Tse-tung's Mao 'Selected Works'. Yasar Kemal, 1t years for Burns's 'Intro- translating Emil duction to Marxism'. Two university lecturers face trial for translating a selection of Marx's writing, made by British sociologist Thomas Bottomore. Professor Sabahattin Eyuboglu is to be tried for translating More's 'Utopia'. Many left-wing and liberal publications have been banned.

Amongst the trials now going is of leaders of on. one Turkish Workers' Party, another of 27 people for allegedly belong- ing to a secret organization in Istanbul and one of 142, mostly teachers, in Ankara. The case of 226 members of a Revolutionary Youth Federation will open soon.

Raids by police and soldiers private houses take place on without warrant, contrary to the law. On Tanuary 23 a hure search mounted in Istanbul in was which 85,000 police and troops took part. Half a million homes were entered. On that occasion the authori- ties claimed to be looking for 'anarchists' and to be cleaning up the 'rear' in case of war. It was claimed that five members of the Popular Liberation Army, an urban guerrilla group, had been caught. The state of seige has been extended for a further two months. Workers Press, Fr Minister Nihat Erim. Above right: President Sun An oil bonanza now under in the tiny Latin way American dictatorship of revived Paraguay has memories of the short but bloody Chaco war 37 years ago. Oil executives from the Texas- based companies Penzoil United and Victory Oil have recently been besieging the presidential palace of dictator Alfredo Stroessner demanding a 15-year exports from the monopoly on Chaco oil-field. The central bank of Paraguay is reported to be drawing up an agreement with the companies, despite protests from the local industrialists' associations which say the two oil firms are getting privileges no Paraguayan firm enjoys. The firms have threatened to suspend exploration in the country if Stroessner does not grant their demands. The con- cessions they are exploring are located in the western part of the border with country on the Bolivia and include a large part of the Chaco war battlefields.

Exploration has been in pro- gress for some years though the results being kept secret. are However, oil is plentiful. on the 3 Press, Friday February 25, 1972 PAGE 5 sident Sunay. Bolivian side of the border and there is no reason to doubt it exists in Paraguay too. Bolivia and Paraguay fought for control of the oilfields in a brief but bloody struggle in 1935.

Bolivia was fighting on behalf of Standard Oil and Paraguay on behalf of Shell. Shell won the war, but lost the peace Standard Spruille Braden Oil presided over the negotiation commission which gave Bolivia (that is, Standard Oil) several thousand kilometres square which Paraguay had always claimed. Stroesaner

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday February 25, 1972 Stephen Johns talks to the man who organized the hunger march from Jarrow in 1936 In the late 1920s and early has not changed much. The black flows 1930s the Tyneside shipyard

LIVCI

Sulti Hoot walertront. damney began cutting losses bosses eats the rustine cranes their and and empty dock succeeds empty concentraling interests in huge integrated dock. Jarrow is living once again unemploy- The the river yards along Scullion Paddy was The the man close. purge was a in the 1930s who started a cam- began to Tyneside which ansasler 101 was. lilaut wile use Une Jarrow Crusade. capital of tne woria. bur nownere He's 74 now and still a Labour did the capitalist drive Sur- vival make deeper and uglier mark man in Jarroer councilior. but lor ns are. says, he Would be a commune He talks with slow and In 1934, the Palmer yard at about the things measured voice was sold led him to being on hipbuilding restriction against march. there tor a period ycals. It of a national was nara to do noung ine dan was part situation we were poncy perpetrated by a compan.

story formed to the sai boui ding remember caled in Harro- National arrow Securities Ltd. ate-in tre bosnes noter mere.

The marchers passing were This company was willing to through the town and we were buy yards any all the rich ladies in higher market price their furs were in the audience.

eliminate it, competition close 'There had been World or t and speed the drive for survival "News of the told the ana monooory. Princess Marina Greece of Palmer's employed 10,000 in being confined in expecting With its own stee plant. Jarow. London. which was coser earner. arrow *She had the Harley St could the iron are milested tom build battleship from specialist in. of course, but out- Spain. they cide were road. So the authorities got it meant that in Jarrow four five men had

OUL

for I told them this story work. But each marvidual then one Jarrow. trom workman it meant us. I was on the First you received the meagre march berore me dole payment. After dope period adrenans ended woman was the me Who mes me bankers said, and you means tested. the asked why and she told me.

Tor call a visit kul. Board He the the worst slums in Jarrow woula survey your pular posses- the had sions and pernaps suggest nouses clock there on the mantelpiece was a little extravagant for folk out the man was walking Une unfortunate circum- streets until she had the child. When the lady went in to help stances. was bare. this humiliat- the room aventually. were dripping. wet of relief stopped Was walls and the air was frosty.

ane te poor tamities had placed entirely in the control girl the DOOr carpels The first thing the Guardians under the destitute her. Ine mawie and agrancy laws -it happened did was to pur a shilling in the thousands at Jarrow easThat was what it was like for When the Right-to-Work march passed through this town tales at Harrogate Was VisualLe those times. The truth is Jarrow could have heard a pin drop.'

was like that. crusade • ne much very with no politics amalr Devone the main drew from ruling did noying to get thee story) but unemployed

1OIC

radov cerended It. 'You achieved Colid But then littie àọàn v v awful lot. People thought we babies hat's an 'But here, exaggeration there was deal of Sheer ignorance as what was going on in towns like Jarrow. 'Also helped Paddy Scullion, the man who started the darrow Crusade.

spirit. 'You not credit In 1935 Labour won control of see you would this kind of life does Jarrow council. what to I was lucky I came out representatives a man. of school to a job and Tory council before that to send was I proud when I got my first wage a delegation of protest. packet.' When the change other lads did not know But occurred delegations They but they came back to the North work. grew up completely character. East different in They with hope. were no and Some suggested that this shy withdrawn. actually because the Tories thought got to the stage where they did want to mix with Jarrow authorities were playing not You people. became a class of politics- -using unemployment people with a stigma, a separate cause trouble for the government.

So finally species-the unemployed. delegation sentative of all the Eventually, and this is the most terrible thing of all, you the the town made such London. Even the local came to accept utter poverty and not to care about went down. When they got back the people it. The idea for the campaign packed the town hall came from Paddy. the verdict. The delegation told them they had been dismissed by The unemployed the Tories In once more. the • pressed phrase that made history the Tory Minister Runciman, himself a shipbuilding baron, told the of power men from Jarrow that they must at their were sent and work own salvation.' Someone This did me,' not surprise might be I had Paddy recalled. got past the expecting concessions from the playing I government. remember said, "Mr Mayor up and you know it's true to that say repre- wheelbarrow that doesn't squeak 'interests' in gets no oil, we're not squeaking to enough- why don't we take the the local banker down to London men who we are fighting for-the unemployed themselves?" to hear 'I did not propose the motion Workers Prose, Friday February 25, 1972 PAGE 7 Left: Jarrow marchers, 1936. Above: on route. because it's better to could properly food our own He al enormous •we reconsidered the But pinally boots for We have walked to miles taken other clothe 1920 people. actually everyone day and there never. stops happen and agreed and that's how the Jarron single-decker As for civic recep There Was WadI crusade was born.' permanently stocked had ons not 07° 1a SyCl. wendoymen Was though the Mayor image the days. But kept Any Specifically Jarrow most places we went arroy

TOD

had as the creeping epin we had places and each socialist recenton ale would rave no one were very helpful. Excep Labour Party headquarters month, lik is wrong. The team who police Hocal in ere nsas d. The c chief constable had informed him. Jarrow forward to fix went ассонноси- there was bad. had 20 And remember this.. In those It must

LON

une the meet remembered, how loc lads were be days they used to herd us around the Tory Parties' agents.

ever, that 1930s -tha of the night- didn't go 'Out of 1,000 unemployed men as fit day. Teed had as the vouth out for a drink if

WCIC

ould g Oxford or London to get a jc who came forward we picked 200 of today. they a vears, ol the co hon you got no dole. I vanted no we de de who were physically fit poverty, unemployment and near- allowance the doing with

TOT

that. student doctor We starvation. In their condition the chief constable of Mansfield did Market. crusade was a mammoth the way carefully in out not want us on the streets. ermany ment, advance-15 miles a ten minute break each hour.

Listening Paddy arnin realized workers don't what xpect if the Tories a come on the march facec both men they could happen rosecute hate will be prosecuted not defeated. *We local aund ands bealed hards Marches. unlike sullt authorities the Hunger In fac say but it could happen i asked Mr sculion it he ever It terms of distance and in stocked thought those days would return.

again. hand. The sum uney raised was

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday February 2 The second of a three-pari series on 'Conditions in the 1930s'

BY BERNARD FRANKS

for the A shock severe National government was the mutiny of the Atlantic Fleet in harbour at Invergordon on September 15, 1931. It was begun as an action against proposed pay cuts of up to 20 per cent and spread to in- volve 15,000 sailors. On September 21, Ramsay hurriedly MacDonald announced that wage-cuts for teachers, the armed services police and would be limited to 10 per cent.

In all industries employers followed the government's lead and proceeded to cut wages. A to replace national drive agree- ments by local deals was begun so as to break up the power of combined employees and make wage-cutting easier. The con.- a job of the man with dition was not to be much better than that of the unemployed. 'Britain in the 1930s' by N.

Branson and M. Heinemann gives some examples of the conditions prevailing in that decade.

A series of separate reports on of the working the condition class showed the direst levels of poverty. A survey taken on Merseyside covering 1928-1932 reported 30 per cent of working-class families Rowntree's in want. Seebohm comprehensive study in York of families showed working-class that all those on unemployment pay were below the standards of needs and 33 per basic human cent of pensioners were below the poverty line. In 1936 the survey by John Boyd Orr showed that only 50 per cent of the population could afford a minimum nutritional diet and for 10 per cent (4z million) diet was deficient in every con- stituent food examined. Increases in rickets and general malnutri- tion were reported. Many turned to the Poor Law and the workhouses for support.

By 1940 14 million pensioners qualifying for a special were supplementary pension . from the Assistance Board. In 1934 the unemployment benefit cuts were withdrawn, but new Unemployment Act transferred: payment of tran- sitional benefit to a newly set up Unemployment Assistance Board (AB). Thousands were shocked to find even more cuts resulting.

Children who were working were forced to leave home for fear of being the means of further reduction of assistance to their parents. Old people went into the workhouse and some committed suicide for fear of having the same effect on their relatives. The Board was given powers to establish training centres as 'concentration camps' (the Home Secretary's own phrase), and create a system of forced labour, unpaid or at non-union either 'nominal' In this way, rates. the worst-off sections were of the working class chosen to pay the most for the maintenance of the profit system. Unemployment the was not weapon used to only force through wage cuts and break up massive opposition to National government's measures.

In 1927, a year after the General Strike, the Tory government had passed the Trade Disputes and Trade Union Act-a vicious piece of anti-union, anti-working-class legislation. Its main measures were: • Political strikes, general strikes sympathy strikes made illegal. • A criminal liability imposed on trade union officials, shop stewards and members of strike committees involved in an illegal strike. February 25, 1972 • Any workman picketing for an illegal strike liable to arrest for an illegal act. • Contracting-out of paying for political funds to unions purposes replaced with contract- and unions' statutory in Ing. rights to use funds for political purposes withdrawn. • Civil servants prohibited from joining a union affiliated to the TUC or Labour Party on pain of employment and all loss of pension rights. • Employees of municipal or' other public authorities • (like Port of London Authority) on strike to be open to criminal as well as civil damages. This Act was now brought in- to use against strikers and pickets and against demonstrations over the dole cuts, the means test and unemployment. The police were reorganized on a more military basis and became in- creasingly violent in breaking up demonstrations and attacking strikers. General use of blacklegs, com- pany spies and blacklists for vic- timizing workers was in process, encouraged by the Act. But unemployment and the 1927 legislation were not only used to cut wages. Throughout industry a massive rationaliza- tion, speed-up and intensifica- tion of labour programme, begun Labour government, under the was stepped-up. Time-and-motion systems were introduced into engineering workshops, including use of the Bedaux System. Con- notorious veyor lines were speeded up and new, faster and more dangerous machinery installed in pits and factories. and Simplified processes machinery also meant dilution of labour; the replacement of skilled by semi-skilled workers, semi-skilled by unskilled, and by apprentices unindentured who could be school leavers sacked as soon as they were old enough to demand adult wages.

In Walter Greenwood's novel 'Love on the Dole' young Harry Hardcastle, eventually to go on the dole himself and join the for work, views the trudge events in the factory: 'Strange movements were afoot; change taking place every- where. A great deal of the old machinery was taken away and replaced by new, beautiful, mar- vellous contraptions that filled the eye with pride to look upon.

Hundreds of the old faces were missing one Monday morning. A batch of new boys came into the machine shops, and, strange relate, none of them were in- dentured apprentices. Nobody Top: 'HMS Norfolk', part of the Invergordon fleet. Far left: Men of the fleet. Left: Ramsay MacDonald. knew cared. why; nobody Rumour said that trade was bad.

But how could it be with all this new machinery; this general up- set, re-shuffling and re-organiza- tion? All this was more sugges- tive of busy times. Anyway, they couldn't sack him; he was a bound apprentice for seven only two of which had years, elapsed.' In 1932, 150,000 weavers struck against employers' replace- ment of four-loom working by each worker being required to looms. Also pro- operate six posed was a 12t-per-cent cut in pay. The 1927 Act was increasingly invoked against the strikers. Baton charges by police against demonstrators were backed by court proceedings against pickets for 'obstruction'. Leaflets urging solidarity and picketing mass declared illegal and were were confiscated. Relief was refused to the families of strikers and food and coal vouchers withheld by relieving officers. In the mining industry the pit owners used mass unemployment and the effect of the defeat of the General Strike to attack unionism. trade Tremendous pressure was put upon workers to leave the Miners' Federation and to join 'non-political' com- pany unions. The miners tenaciously fought this move and adopted the 'stay- down' strike a method of as winning their demands to be allowed to join a proper trade . union and to enforce negotiating rights for the Miners' Federa- tion. 'Britain in the 1930s' gives some examples of action taken by miners. In the Rhondda, 1,500 men stayed down for 13 days to ensure the right to maintain membership of their union. In Nottingham, police in to deal with drafted were strikers, and six miners were sen- tenced to hard labour under the picketing section of the 1927 Act. During the period of 1931-1934 hundreds of arrests for political offences were made and meetings outside Labour Exchanges banned. Tomorrow, the last of Bernard Frank's articles will show how the working class was betrayed.

BY TOM KEMP

'UNCENSORED

RUSSIA: THE

HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN

THE SOVIET UNION. The an- notated Text. of the Unotticlal Moscow Journal 'A Chronicle of Current Events' (Nos. " 1-11). Edited, Introduced and translated by Peter Reddaway. With a Fore- word by Jullus Telesin. Jonathan Cape. Price £5. In recent years opposition to the Soviet bureaucracy has been growing, especially on the part of sections of the intelligentsia, as shown by the circulation of illegal literature known as samizdat. 'A Chronicle of Current Affairs' with is mostly concerned questions of civil rights and deals in detail with the activities of opposition in its struggles the against the secret police and the censorship. The first 11 issues, which are reproduced in this book, report on the arrest of 37 people, the trials of 85 others and the extra-legal persecution of many more. There are the accounts of the trials of the writers. Sinyavsky and Daniel and the case of the Galanskov and Ginsburg, demonstration in Red Square in August, 1968, against the occupa- tion of Czechoslovakia and the trial and persecution of those, тор & who took part. A chapter is devoted to Grigorenko General of Pyotr whom Reddaway rightly says: 'If one person had to be singled out as having inspired the different within the Democratic groups Movement it is he more than anyone else ... Indeed he be- came, while free, in an informal way the movement's leader' Grigorenko was singled out as dangerous man because he fought the bureaucracy from the standpoint of Leninism. His the old Bolshevik Aleksei Kosterin in March, 1968, was a direct challenge to the bureaucracy. So was his speech Kosterin's funeral at November. Grigorenko continued his courageous campaign on be- half of the Crimean Tartars, who from had been driven their homeland by Stalin. Framed, arrested, declared 'insane' and incarcerated in psychiatric hospitals run by the has police, Grigorenko secret little chance of seeing freedom again. A review of his case just made ordered his conținued con- finement. 'The Chronicle' is a mine of information about the activities of the opposition and the treat- out to critics and •ment meted protesters. This volume is also - unique in bringing together many photographs of oppositionists, some of whom have become well- known outside Russia, taken both while they were free and in some cases in captivity. Abovi ** A group of oppositionists, in- spired in particular the Pytor Yakir, whose historian On shot on father Stalin's was about has n orders, have fought consistently • against rehabilitation the many Stalin. There is a mention in one tains 'Chronicle' • issue of the of a Work book circulating called "Trans- Frenc formation of Bolshevism' which dat- it says is 'a critique of the cover present political line of the party numb from the standpoint of revolu- althor stionary going and pre-revolutionary *Bolshevism'. Th Top and abore: Grigorenko, singled out as a dangerous man.

Above: Soviet writer Yull Danlel before his trial.

things surprising about Reddaway's book is that it of the documents it con- correspondents already been printed in from Moscow. added Press and Canne oul thal the volume 'Samiz- Tormeda in 1969. This buok sonly ducing these texts in Chronicle's' first standpoint is 1969, …• ro becanoer. more avourabe although it refers to the next ten sects than to September, 1971. the book Ot Maxsu. Workers Prose, Friday February 28, 1972 PAGE 9 heroic member of the British Communist Party. Why doesn't that Writing in last Friday's Lon- embarrassing for Messrs. ( Gol- don 'Evening News', Maurice lan and Ramelson? Edelman, MP Labour for Coventry N, whinnies: 'Ministers, and managers trade unionists must consult together reasonable and Because they do, the field is left open to those want to make a wno run for revolution. Most of the striking miners, Edelman tells and Will should know better than he? —think the police are 'good lads'. Especially, no doubt, the 13 Longannet who were hauled the into courts handcuffs! The workers-whose minds Edelman be able appeals lo to well his read very trom Kittlkachorn club, the Queens, Hurlingham One of the more notorious - know that inflation means clauses in the N Ireland Special not more' Powers Act allows the security The recent 47 per cent pay dispense with authorities to MPs, for Hiccase inquests on their victims.

The not for means more, less, lesson has evidently not been Edelman. lost on the dictators of Thai- No wonder he cannot sleep land, who recently played host for thinking of 'the wild men'.

to the Queen and Prince Philip.

After all, wouldn't a Labour Announcement No 78 from government have to hold down the Thai misnamed Revolu. wages? tionary Party (led by premier 'It would bode ill, for Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn) Labour fighting reads as follows: inflation, it the wild men were 'To facilitate control the think that following the and suppression offenders of miners' deserved victory, any- against the Anti-Communism thing goes' Act, the Revolutionary Party Fortunately, Edelman has deems it appropriate to revise friends. In France in 1968, he the section on autopsies con- tells us gratefully 'even the ducted after a death due to ТЕННИ communists' opposed the ex- the action of an official or tremists'. If not for them, by when a person has died while God, the de Gaulle government in official custody. might have been brought down.

'The chief of the Revolu- But, what if-here in Britain tionary Party has thereby - even the communists' can't annulled Section 22 of the keep things in check? 1952 Anti-Communism Act. So Edelman's nightmare text has been grinds 'If the wild men lico Mello substituted: get us by the throat...! should prove an obstacle to the control suppression work of officials, or in the event of it proving detrimental Len Wincott, leader of the to the i officials involved, an 1931 Invergordon Mutiny in autopsy be dispensed the British navy, is once again with. seeking Britain 'In that the Area

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event, Suppression of Communism rom the soviet Union. Wincott, witch-hunted Commander will out report the of the navy after the mutiny matter to the investigating went to the Soviet Union and officer in charge, who will institute an inquiry took out Russian citizenship.

He disappeared during According Lt-Gen Pote the to Stalin Phekanan, deputy-director purges and was not heard of again until after the of the Police Depart- general Khrushchev speech of 1956. ment, Thailand is unstable due Now, aged 65, Wincott can- to the activities of communist to Britain terrorists, both from home and not return unless he is sponsored by a relative abroad, who are stepping Leicester or organization. their activities in various areas.

firm of solicitors say that Win- Royal Could it be that the cott's relatives 'do wish Visit was the occasion not for an to be involved'. exchange of notes on how to Wincott was a devoted and deal with 'subversion'?

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GLASGOW-LONDON: STEPHEN JOHNS REPORTING

LIVERPOOL-LONDON: PHILIP WADE REPORTING

SWANSEA LONDON: DAVID MAUDE REPORTING

WE ARE

benefiting joined us on the road to Man- now chester today. from successful the most 'I'm sick of not working- -I've political intervention made out of 15 months', been work Phil, who is 18, told me when i on the march so far in the what made him join asked him fight for a new leadership in the march. the working class. "The last job I had was as They sacked lorry drivers' mate. Bolton last We arrived in me on the excuse I dropped the night unheralded and mostly un- tailboard driver's foot. on the the young workers. heard of by But within two minutes they had But two's walk an hour or another lad for the job. around town pulled in about 35 Phil is one of Bolton's 4,000 Bolton youth to our meeting.

unemployed. For all of them As a result of the discussion, just 200 there are vacancies. Phil Jackson and Fred Wilson There 230 workers are young

PHIL JACKSON IN THE AUEW HEADQUARTERS

LANCS, WHERE THE LIVERPOOL-LONDON

IN SALFORD.

MARCHERS WERE ABLE TO REST

WE DEMAND

THE

RIGHT

TO

WORK

under 18 on the youth dole. They have to chase only 57 openings.

With 6t-per-cent unemploy- ment, it is not surprising that Robert Employment Secretary Carr got a thoroughly hostile reception in Bolton the other week when he had the effrontery to open a new dole. I've tried to get work every- where' '; said Phil. 'I go down to the dole every day and the same jobs are always advertised.

They sent me down to a ware- and there were 15 lads house waiting there. Tories filled us with 'The promises, yet they have done but lower living stand- nothing ards,' said Phil, who gets £7.60 on the dole. The miners have shown the way to do it. We have to follow the miners and make Heath call General Election. another Judging by the support I've already seen on the march, we will win' The support Phil was referring to came today from members of Walkden Labour Club, five miles out from Bolton, and miners in the club balloting on their pay offer. The president of the local Trades Council George Thompson and local Labour councillor John Ward, who incidentally is com- pletely blind, welcomed us into the club for tea and biscuits.

Battle with MP Both told me of their run- ning battle with local Labour MP John Roper, who was one of 69 Labour MPs who voted for the Tories on the Common Market. 'I told him he should be con- sistent and keep on voting with Tories on Common Market. If Roper hadn't voted for them in the first place, the Tories wouldn't be in now, , said Councillor Ward. The miners' support came in to stay in when decided we Walkden for a midday meal. Some of us went down to the hall where they were balloting.

In a few short minutes they had contributed well over f5. Another £2.70 collected was from a nearby shopping precinct.

Both sums well covered the meal we had in a local cafe. More support came in this evening as we arrived in Man- chester as guests of the AUEW in their new Salford premises.

Waiting for us two were envelopes. One contained £20 for campaign the Right-to-Work Salford from West Labour Party and another £6.60 from en- gineering workers at Barrister Walton & Co. I must also record the £20 from Salford University Students Union who also paid for an evening meal which we ate in their refectory.

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FROM THEIR DESTINATION

WE MARCHED 23 miles today to York-which marks the half way point of our journey to London. At our last stop, Thirsk, we picked up four more recruits and at York a delegation from the waiting trades council was to meet us on the outskirts of the city. Thanks to the trades council, we have got the best accommoda- the march far. tion SO We're spending the night in the local youth hostel, which means • proper beds, baths and showers.

This backing comes once again in defiance of the regional Labour usual bureaucrats. The Party warning was issued to members asking them to boycott the march, but as one rank and filer stated bluntly: 'We decided that paign. HO can stuff it. your cam- we entirely supported The trades council has estab- lished small sub-committee. The funds and the money collec- ted has been enough to pay for the hostel, an evening meal and breakfast in the morning.

Trades council secretary Richard Donaldson, a member of union, shop workers USDAW, had this to say about the campaign: "The best method of defence against this government is attack. What I like about this march is the spirit that the youth show. 'The young people I saw did not remind me of the Jarrow Make the Tory • government resign! Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employ- repeal all ment and laws against the unions!

WILLESDEN:

Monday February 28, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High Road, NW 10. 'Labour must force a General Election.' E LONDON: Tuesday February 29, 8 p.m. Toynbee Hall, Com- mercial St, Aldgate East. 'Bangla Desh and the fight for socialism'. W LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 29, 8 p.m. Prince Albert, Wharfedale Rd, off York Way, Kings Cross. 'Crisis of capi- talism'.

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Merthyr Tydfil marchers. or These were cap-in-hand affairs really, but these lads are march- ing to defend that right the workers lost in the 1930s.'

Len. Driffield, trades council president, echoed these remarks: 'We had no hesitation in backing your campaign. We agree with it because some of us remember the school-leavers had 1930s when humiliating experience of the coming out of school onto the There can be no doubt in dole. anyone's mind over supporting any action that is trying to pre- vent a repeat of this.' Anthony Power, youth liaison officer of the Labour Party joined the march as it entered York.

It's a good thing to get out the streets. There are too on sitting on their people many backsides in the movement over the issue of unemployment, he told me. Like Thirsk, unemployment in York is below national But the percentages average. have been creeping up here as well. The first effect has been a reduction in apprenticęships offered to school-leavers.: The youth can still get jobs, but not the ones they want and many leave their first employment after a short time. And now the increasing level of unemployment in the towns is beginning to remove even the industrial farm stop-gap workers. • See p.3 for Stephen Johns' interview with a farmworker.

SW LONDON: Tuesday Feb- ruary 29, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Baths, Clap- ham Manor St, SW4. "Labour force a General Elec- must tion'. ACTON: Wednesday March 1, 8 p.m. Mechanics Arms, Churchfield Rd, W3. must force a General Election'.

SE LONDON: Thursday March 2,8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club (opp New Cross stn). 'The General Strike'.

LONG-TERM unemploy- ment is now the rule rather than the exception in the Rhondda.. • and will remain so until the Tories are removed from „office. all the jobless Almost workers the S Wales Right-to- Work marchers met on the road from Treherbert to Porth gave us this same message.

More than 1,800 are regis- tered as out of work in the Tonypandy-Porth area according figures published the at to same time as the national totals yesterday. Steel-erector John Hughes, who. lives at Penrhys, just out- side Tonypandy, has been out of work for the last three months.

Married with four children, he said: 'This is not really a bad place, but nowhere's a good place to be unemployed. 'There's just no work at all.

If you want work you have to look for it yourself. But nothing's around.' Ironically enough for a mining area, John was working on the conversion of Aberthaw power station from coal to oil. He was made redundant when the con- version was postponed and has been out ever since. 'I don't think much of this government, I can tell you,' he said. "The sooner we get shut of them the better. I hope you have every success.' Keith Dickenson has been out of work before, but never for so long. The 22-year-old woodcutting machinist has been looking for a job since October when building suppliers, Eastern and Sweet- land, closed throwing 50 on the dole. Most of his friends are also out of work. In fact to have a job in Tonypandy is to be an exception. For the unemployed, the town is a terrible place, he warned the marchers. 'If you've got no money there's absolutely nothing to do. With a number of friends, Keith runs a progressive rock group and they have agreed to help with the campaign by play- ing at concerts in its support.

Along the short stretch from Tonypandy to nearby Porth, the night, we where we stayed first passed the spot where the was cut in the Rhondda coal valleys. It marcher Roddy was Williams—a 'Porth boy' who has been with us since Swansea~ who drew our attention to it.

And as the local branch of the St Tohn Ambulance Brigade tended our third-day blisters, cramps and aching muscles at Aratsa Old People's Hall he recounted his: own experiences of the coal industry. Although only 19, Roddy has already seen the ghoulish face of capitalist rule from close quarters on several occasions. For him long-term unemploy.- ment is a particularly cruel prob- lem since, if he is still out of a three months' time, job in he could face a six-month stretch in the strict regime of a borstal recall centre. This is his story: My first job was on a build- ing site, but 1 only stayed there six weeks before going down the pit to train as faceworker. This was at the National colliery at Wattstown. old it was an colliery-they've closed it now— and what I saw there put me off the pits for life. 'The first bad accident I saw was when a man was smashed to death by a conveyor drum.

'He got his foot caught in the chains and was screaming for the conveyor to be switched off.

Someone did. But there's a delay on those things and it was too late. 'The second time, a bloke was .... We get the message from the Rhonnda: Force out the Tories YOUNG SOC1 SiS

WE DEMAND THE

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VANSEA TO LOND

SWANSEA-LONDON MARCH IN THE RHONDDA

14 months he putting up dowties* to support One dạy, ago, found himself Merthyr the re Too-unDers screw courtroom facing a wel-dressed.

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enough, though. It's mistake relatively young magistrate whose name he made. And as he was never knew casily the charge of breaking and putting Pust ell down sed knocked his second. Un a entering, ne was sentencea lo 1o lower jaw completely out of its months' to two years borstal training and spent the next SUcAcIo "They rushed him to hospital.

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lucky. week. 'It's tod me. Ta beet 'By this time all my family quite there,' Roddy told me. wanted leave. ne lo they closed the pit — it wasn't asking a vear .oole

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productive enough - didn't work, thiths nike in Tok To what that's bother to get transferred some- have to go through it. where ese. 'I was underground for about "Ihe lories and •OR•T InOY 18 months taking don't care, but I'd always thought altogether, ley were responsible ever before home about £7.50 aweek. We've got work, you know, net the y Was narol to gel ing picks and mechanical drill unen on our backs. t Ê11 take-home pa Roddy's Although the hell of borstal is over for Roddy for the moment, third job Was even naucer thaee, mrenthoo envotke dup cking he is still of a mn tne purgatory heavy, red-hot license period during furnace at Rhondda Metals.

two-year which he can be sent back at any £5 drop time mren ar ir e took al What repetitiver a aet per de Beathus on. he was • TOiC. repetitive job when discharged that if he is still aero-zip factory. workless in May he would be in for six months at a recall ceriure. Rhondda * A metal support in two sec Council are Right-to-Work tions which backing the put in under oaign March then secretary and amoers screwed from so the timber ine min VOllS CO a rousls receouion from workers in the Labour Club.

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Right-to-Work marches leave good impression: PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday February COLLECTIONS and levies promised by workers early in the campaign are now pour- ing in as the three YS Right- to-Work marches work their way through the country. Tomorrow the fourth march starts from Deal in Kent.

Reyrolles workers, in the NE have sent £100.08. Levies among building workers on the Drury site at Skelmersdale, Lanes, have brought £33.25. Workers from Merseyside are sending in large donations too: Vauxhalls £50 £25 Leylands Birds Eye Maintenance £21 Stewards Ford Transmission, £43 Halewood In London, Sainsbury's workers have sent f50 and Acton trade unionists have collected magnificent £115. The Aberdeen Students' Repre- sentative donated Council has £35 shop and Lockheed's Chile pays up AMERICAN pressure has forced the Chilean government to agree to pay debts of $93m to the Braden Copper Corporation, whose Chilean subsidiary operated the recently-nationalized Ei Teniente mine. Chile agreed to pay after a New York court had impounded the US assets of the Chilean air- line Lan Chile and other state- including the owned agencies, central bank. The New York court's action affected about $50m-worth of Chilean property in the US.

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extradition. towards Peking, has said he will not why people were not reason Banzer has announced Communist Klarsfeld interested,' says the report release un to 500 poli- Mme Beate Nullailiall the release of 145 poli- Registrants received an average ranty. ao oroves tical jailed prisoners, but has prisoners establishment of what it the basıc of t20 a week in London said he will keep League c acanst AnT- belle'n china alad ohs* 'normal loranecee Communis! Semitism, who has been wüe be ver e àre vąd. after the communists in prison. acuvues Barbie's £18 for the jobs they were. con- campaigning for The exact ngure of sidering in the new

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the February Fund reflects £146.70 growing determination. ower Refect arrived effield University, 7.00 p stop now. hoe days lett to the end of the ILuSL month. let's make February's a record amount. So keep Fund this great effort. Send some- Directed by Corin Redgrave thing extra yourself if you can. Written by Tom Kempinsk Post all donations immediately to: followed by a meeting Speakers : G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) BRIAN SONN ANE (VS edder omare trom cland) (NUM-Wheldale Colllery in personal capacity) London, SW4 7UG. Admission 20p 1 Lo do.