Workers Press no. 709

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTF

BY G. HEALY, SLL NATIONAL SECRETARY

THESE ARE great days. We are scarcely 72 hours away from the Empire Pool Rally with the four Right- to-Work marches entering the outskirts of London.

The Southampton marchers, who have joined up with their Swansea-London comrades at Reading will jointly enter London at Southall. Liverpool-London marchers will enter at Harrow.

The Deal-London march has already entered via Erith and last but not least our terrific Glasgow-London marchers, five weeks on the road, will enter at Enfield.

union members who want to see the this hated resignation Tory government will join with us in declaring how proud, how very proud we are of the Young Socialist marchers.

For it is their tenacity, determination and devotion to prin- launching vital to the struggles of the the revolutionary party working class in the coming period.

But we are not here for the backslapping. The great gain of the march is that it has provoked the fiercest controversy and from the ranks of hostility Let us give our opponents. become a by-word for Stalinist three examples. and contempt for cynicism the fighting capacity of the working invoked the The

TUC

class, only opposed the not circular' and infamous "black marches. but claimed that some banned the Right-to-Work trade unionists were 'kidded' into marches in all the trade unions. supporting them. It treated the Hunger Marches Here is the authentic voice of in the same way in the 1930s.

kind the of bureaucrat who • The Labour Party NEC pro- could Stalin. • In see no. wron scribed the marches and forbade the bloody butcher of the 1917 its members to have anything to October Revolution. do with them. This is the Here is the voice of the same refused body which to lift cowardly bureaucrat who covered 63 MPs little finger against the Stalin's crimes, for cringed up the Tories for who voted with died about and whined after he entry into the Common Market how nobody told them of the last October. terrible things that were being No one is proscribed in the done' and then. when the storm Labour Party for cuddling up to of liberal conscience blew over, Young It is only Tories. the the forgot all about what promptly Socialists who call for a cam- happened make the Tory govern- paign to And when its ballot- own ment resign who are proscribed.

ETU

rigging members in the opened the door for the judiciary • The Fleet St yellow press, of Party, to instal an ultra-right-wing mouthpieces the Tory leadership in that union in 1962 a black-out on all has imposed they again moaned and groaned news concerning the marches.

nobody told about how them" Every class conscious worker, ballot surplus about the of whether he agrees with the SLL papers that were floating around.

and the YS or not, knows what It is no accident that the He action such as this means. Communist Party finds itself in knows also that to join such a the same camp as the

TUC,

camp is to join forces with the Wilson-dominated NEC the of class enemy. Party and the the Labour The Communist Party leader- capitalist press. Because Stalin- ship. whose 'peaceful road to socialism' verbal protests against

• SEE BACK PAGE

the Tory have government INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MARCH 9, 1972• No. 709 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE, SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

C SQUADRON

2is SPECIAL AIR SERVICE

•REGIMENT

(ARTISTS) VOLUNTER

Marchers posed outside the headquarters of the Special Air Services Regiment during the hike between Hitchin and Stevenage. The SAS is the secret military unit which Is in counter-revolutionary activity in places like Trucial States in the Persian Gulf, Malaysia and Thailand. Some of the the teen- agers from Ulster chanted against onicacier rank Kirson. nead or minary intengence stanoned in belast who is closely connected with the SAS. • SEE Diary pp.

10 & 11.

YOU MUST BE THERE NEXT WEEKEND: BOOK NOW FOR

EMPIRE POOL

WEMBLEY

SUNDAY MARCH 12

GLAS-

AND DEAL DEMANDING THE

SWANSEA,

SOUTHAMPTON

LIVERPOOL,

RIGHT TO WORK

AT 7.30 p.m. RELAX AT THE STAR-STUDDED SHOW WITH LARRY ADLER

HOLDER, PAUL JONES, GEORGE MELLY.

SPIKE MIL

RAM

JOHN

FLINT,

VINEGAR

JOE

AND

THE

SLADE,

McGUINNESS

LIGAN, ANNIE ROSS,

ALI. STARS

ROCK'N'ROLL

AND STUART HENRY

COMPERED BY JOE MELIA

For full details and ticket application form, see p.4 *Shot at story not invention-Sgt

PARATROOP

sergeant training in Cyprus. His platoon he agreed that the snipers must setter day denied inventing had moved into the Bogside and have been *very bad shots firing' fired three soldiers. intense miss the

SLOT

shooting Bog- believed he was one of the first so clers te siders on 'Bloody Sunday' soldiers to open fire trained man could hardly miss The He alleged that his men came from that position'. anonymous sergeant was under fire from the Rossville 20-year-old giving evidence on day 15 ot the ribunal that corp Widgery inquiry he one-man rats area and war tolowee was oral tole the the killing Coleraine into of 13 'the most intensive firing I have shot down a man a fraction of a workers in Derry on in N over such a second after he thought he saw youth and 30. short period of time. him throw a petrol bomb. anuary said he had arrived in Ouestioned bv Mr Tames Mc.

SHel Ireland only that morning from Sparran, for some of the relatives, The hearing continues today.

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTF

BY G. HEALY, SLL NATIONAL SECRETARY

THESE ARE great days. We are scarcely 72 hours away from the Empire Pool Rally with the four Right- to-Work marches entering the outskirts of London.

The Southampton marchers, who have joined up with their Swansea-London comrades at Reading will jointly enter London at Southall. Liverpool-London marchers will enter at Harrow.

The Deal-London march has already entered via Erith and last but not least our terrific Glasgow-London marchers, five weeks on the road, will enter at Enfield.

We are sure that our readers and all Labour Party and trade of this hated see the resignation union members who want to Tory government will join with us in declaring how proud, how very proud we are of the Young Socialist marchers.

and devotion to prin- For it is their tenacity, determination ciples which has blazed the political trail towards the launching struggles of so vital to the of the the revolutionary party working class in the coming period.

The great gain of But we are not here for the backslapping.

the march is that it has provoked the fiercest controversy and hostility from the ranks of Let us give our opponents. become a by-word for Stalinist three examples. and for the cynicism contempt fighting capacity of the working

TUC

invoked the The class. only opposed the not "black circular' and infamous but claimed marches. that some banned the Right-to-Work trade unionists were 'kidded' into marches in all the trade unions.

supporting them. treated Marches It the Hunger in the same way in the 1930s.

Here is the authentic voice of the kind of bureaucrat who • The Labour Party NEC pro- could see no. wrong Stalin the bloody butcher of the 1917 scribed the marches and forbade its members to have anything to October Revolution. do with them. This is the same Here is the voice of the same refused body which to lift cowardly bureaucrat who covered 63 MPs little finger against the for Stalin's cringed UD crimes, Tories for voted with the who and whined after he died about the Common Market entry InTO how 'nobody told them of the last October. terrible things that were being No one is proscribed in the done' and then. when the storm Labour Party for cuddling of liberal conscience up to blew over, Young the Tories. It is only the promotly forgot all about what Socialists who call for happened. "paign to make the Tory govern- ballot- And when its own ment resign who are proscribed.

the

ETU

rigging members in opened the door for the judiciary • The Fleet St yellow press, of the ultra-right-wing mouthpieces Tory Party. to instal an leadership in that union in 1962, has imposed a black-out on all groaned they again moaned and news concerning the marches.

'nobody told them' about how Every class conscious worker. the of ballot about surplus agrees with the SLL whether he papers that were floating around.

and the YS or not, knows what accident It is that the action such this means. He as Communist Party finds itself in knows also that to ioin such a the

TUC,

camp is to join forces with the the same camp as the Wilson-dominated NEC of class enemy. Labour Party the The Communist Party leader- capitalist press. Because Stalin- ship, whose "peaceful road to socialism' vorbal protests against Tory

• SEE BACK PAGE

the government have INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY MARCH 9, 1972 • No. 709 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE, SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

T SQUADRON

2lm SPECIAL AIR SERVICE

REGIMENT

(ARTISTS) VOLUNTE'

Marchers posed outside between op eclal Aur services Regiment curno ine nike Hitchin and Stevenage. The_SAS is the secret milit ary unit which involved in counter-revolutionary activity In places like Trucial States in the Persian Gulf, Malaysia and Thailand. the the teen- some of Brigadier agers trom Ulster chanted Frank Kitson. aaltol neda or munary ienigence stauoneo in dewast, who is closely connected with the SAS.

• SEE Diary pp. 10 & 11.

YOU MUST BE THERE NEXT WEEKEND: BOOK NOW FOR

EMPIRE POÖL

WEMBLEY

SUNDAY MARCH 12

MARCHED FROM

AT 3 p.m. GREET THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS WHO HAVE

DEMANDING

SWANSEA,

SOUTHAMPTON

LIVERPOOL.

RIGHT TO

WORK

LARRY

AT 7.30 p.m. RELAX AT THE STAR-STUDDED SHOW WITH

ADLCK

JONES. GEORGE MELLY.

SPIKE MIL•

HOLDER.

PAUL

RAM

JOHN

FLINT

VINEGAR

JOE

AND

THE

SLADE.

McGUINNESS

LIGAN. ANNIE ROSS.

STARS

ROCK' N'ROLL

ALI.

AND STUART HENRY

COMPERED BY JOE MELIA

For full details and ticket application form, see p.4 *Shot at' story not invention-Sgt ' O' sergeant training in Cyprus. His platoon he agreed that the snipers must

PAKAKU-

Bogside and sester day denied inventing had moved into the have been 'very bad shots' intense he fired soldiers. fring' on three -he the

SLUL

bunilc. shooting Bọg- believed he was one of the first oloners t st s wa gree siders on 'Bloody Sunday' soldiers to open fire trained man could hardly miss ivins evidence on day 13 t The anonymous He alleged that his from that position'. ot tạs men under fire from the Rossville -year-old tribunal that at he inquiry told the one-man weeen rias area dne wad onoweo was oral TRoUna Coleraine into the killing of 'the most intensive firing I have second after he tha uract ne sa a workers in Derry in N such a thought youth and over second short period of time'. janual.y bl owccrol bolu said he had arrived in SHel WTCSHOeO DYaes yve. Ireland only that morning from Sparran, for some of the relatives, The hearing continues today.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday March :

BY JOHN SPENCER

COMMON MARKET finance of an anti-dollar bloc at their night, they announced a five-p union involving the six memt Britain. The proposals envisage the 'independent creation of an monetary zone' to be the first step towards a single Com- mon Market currency. To this end the Ministers agreed to reduce the permis- sible margin of fluctuation between member states' cur- rencies from the present 4.5 per cent to 2.25 per cent.

To ensure that these margins can be maintained, the Common also plan to Market countries introduce tighter exchange con- unwanted to keep out trols dollars. The plan for monetary unifica- Common Market is tion of the deeply reactionary. It serves the giant of mono- interests polists who want the elimination of national restrictions on their scope of operations. similar plan last A year foundered on the antagonism between the French and German was finally and employers wrecked by the Nixon measures of August 15. Monetary unification within the Common Market implies the impenion of a ruthless die- tatorial regime against every worker in Europe, in order to facilitate the monopolists' plans effects of the overcome the and world economic crisis. Tuesday's announcement of sparked the biggest wave dollar selling since the signing of the Washington currency agree- ment on December 18 last year.

All the major European central banks were forced to buy dollars agreed rate and to support the prevent the US currency going through its parity 'floor' Overall, they are estimated to have bought in at least $150m on Tuesday afternoon alone. The dollar also fell on the Tokyo forcing the central exchange. bank to intervene. to create a rival The decision bloc in opposition to the dollar widen the existing gulf must between the European and American employers. another major represents stage in the disintegration of the Washington three - month - old deal. The agreement is proving unworkaole because the Ameri- refuses to government can restore the dollar's convertibility with gold. Convertibility cannot be restored because there are claims worth $50,000m against the US gold stockpile, and less than $10,000m-worth of gold in stock.

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Name Address ay March 9, 1972 finance ministers took a major step t their talks in Brussels earlier this a five-point plan for progress towar × member-states and the four applic

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totally different basis from the pre-August 15 arrangement.

Connally has also made it clear that Washington will make no effort to stem the outflow of dollars to Europe and Japan which has continued unabated despite the December 18 agree- ment. rope last thate months have European central banks repeatedly been forced to absorb dollars in order to support the agreed rate. In effect, under the Washing- the Us capi- ton agreement, talists acquired a renewed licence to export capital to Europe in the form of worthless paper.

In exchange for their dollars, buy into they European can and finance, industry, banking

W GERMANY'S

Ruhrkohle mining combine lost 50m marks (about £600,000) in January of this year alone and recorded an estimated deficit of 350-400m marks (£4.2m 1o. £4.8m) in 197l.

The company, owned by some of Germany's biggest industrial- in ists, was formed 1969 10 bring together the various Ruhr coal interests into a single cartel.

It runs virtually all the mines in the Ruhr and emoloys 180,000 workers. The workers are already on short-time because of previous financial losses, caused mainly by a sharp decline in demand for DESPERATE FOR new mar- kets, the Tories sent Minister Joseph Godber to promote trade and investment in Latin America last week. But equally desperate in the House of Com- mons, they dragged him back to vote in the Common Market division last Monday. The Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs had travelled thousands of miles for a 40-minute talk with Argentine Fresident Lanusse. He was to have gone on to Brazil, information about low and send to NATIONAL

LABOUR LEAGUE,

H ST, LONDON, SW4 7UG.

or step towards the formation ier this week. On Tuesday s towards European monetary r applicant countries, including The Common Market plan lead to must retaliation from America, possibly in the form of tariff barriers against European •goods, or a further devaluation of the dollar. is also hoping The US to recruit to its own 'dollar bloc' for a fight against the Common Market. The formation of mutu- ally hostile financial and trading blocs is a direct result of the breakdown of the post-war monetary system and signifies an intensified battle for markets between the major capitalist states. coal from the crisis-hit German steel industry. Herr Hans-Helmut Kuhnke, chairman the Ruhrkohle board, said the 'continuation of the company will require exten- sive and effective consolidation measures'. Further short-time working in the second half of this year might be imposed as a result of the 'depressing' situation, he said. Four more pits and three coking plants are to be closed in the next 12 months, displacing 10.000 workers other Ruhrkohle mines, and leaving the with just under 40 company mines. but expressed the hope to return there 'fairly shortly' Dealings in Latin America- preserve of British once imperialism-are now only 5 per cent of Britain's total trade.

The area has long passed under US domination. Before 1914, Britain held two- thirds of the foreign investments • there. Today it is no more than 4 per cent. few giants like Shell Only a have been able to retain a foot- hold. The growing middle-class is dominated market consumer by American products or Japanese imports. British entry into the Common Market will mean that less meat and other foodstuffs will be bought there. With British capitalism badly in need of new markets, it is not surprising that a top Tory Minister should have been sent out to the old stamping-grounds see what morsels to can picked up. There seems to be a hope that growing hostility to US domination will provide Britain with the possibility for re-entry to some lucrative pro- pects. for City pressure new Latin America- approach to which resulted in Godber's fore- shortened visitis doubt no based upon many illusions. The fall in demand is hitting the countries in the area very hard and political discontent is grow- ROY JENKINS, deputy leader of the Labour Party, has just been awarded the Charlemagne Prize for his efforts to get Britain into the Common Market.

To one group of people-the international bour- and the geoisie Jenkins capitalist press is acclaimed as a 'man of conscience'. He is described as being statesmanlike' because he crossed the floor of the House of Commons and voted with the Tories on October 28 to get Britain in the Market.

Another group of people, the working class, look upon Jenkins and his role in a completely different light. In voting with the Tories he joined with the ruling class in Britain and Europe in the Market conspiracy. He acted contrary to the explicit policies laid down by his own party's conference at Brighton, the TUC and the Parliamentary Labour Party itself. Jenkins has received £600 from the Lord Mayor of Aachen for 'services to European unity'. From the working class Jenkins, a miner's son, gets nothing but contempt.

THE ICI agreement with leaders of 73,000 manual workers that the Industrial Relations Act will not be used in the company's industrial relations must be viewed with caution. A joint statement issued by the company and the 'neither party union says wishes agreements to be ... it is in the interests of the com- legally binding the trade unions and the employees that all pany, members of weekly-paid staff should be members of their appropriate trade union' Mr David Bassnet, a negotiator for the General and Municipal Workers' Union, has said 'the problem is not only that of the Industrial Relations Act's irrel- evance, but that its use can destroy good industrial relations'. And Mr John Miller, Transport and General Work- declared: 'I am pleased that a ers' Union negotiator, major company like ICI recognizes that good indus trial relations should be based on voluntary collec- tive bargaining'. But this-presented as a gain for the workers in Star'-is dangerous yesterday's 'Morning compla- cency. A few weeks ago ICI shop stewards held a national meeting to discuss the serious threat of redundancies in ICI plants.

annual report issued a week ago, the And in its giant consortium announced that there woula be fur this year following the 5,000 ther big redundancies recorded last year. Has it not occurred to the trade union officials and the Stalinists that the ICI management may well be they want without it? If ICI can get what with redundancies in a situation of can get away and inflation, then the growing unemployment Industrial Relations Act will cease to be "irrelevant.

In fact, the TUC line-uncritically accepted by the Stalinists- -that the Act is irrelevant and prejudicial to 'good' industrial relations played a considerable It dis- part in undermining the campaign against it.

arms the working class—why fight against an 'irrele- vant' Act? In fact, the Act is a weapon in the necessary employers' armoury and it will be used. ICI workers must be on guard. THE SYRIAN Communist Party reactionary, anti-communist bour- joined National Front geois elements. has with the ruling Ba'ath Socialist The Ba'ath Party in the past ruthlessly Party and other nationalist has persecuted organizations. munists. like its counterpart in Iraq. It led the country into Two leading Communist Party Federation with Libya and Egypt members visited President Hafez last year. Tuesday to sign the al-Assad The Federation played a major Front's Charter. part in the counter-revolutionary the Sudanese provides suppression of This document for Communist Party last July.

of 18-member the formation The Syrian CP's entry into the central leadership headed by National Front is the fruit of President Assad and including for continuous Soviet pressure other members from the nine an alliance with the Ba'athists.

Ba'ath Party and two each from Lebanese CP At the congress Socialist Union, the Arab the orchestrated by in January, the Syrian CP, the Socialist Unionists Kremlin, Stalinists the Arab Socialist Move- and Arab offered the olive branch to ment. the nationalists, supported The central leadership to Federation, and toned down their external look after internal and support for the Palestine libera- political issues, co-ordinate co- , calling instead for tion struggle, between the Ba'ath operation a political solution in the Middle Party and the four organizations East. and establish national unity The alliance with the Ba'athists the country. makes the Syrian communists hostages to the Kremlin's policy Front, By this the joining Communist Party of peaceful co-existence and its has sub- uncritical support for Arab bour- of ordinated the struggle the Syrian working class to the most geois nationalism.

BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

A NATIONAL dock strike l Tilbury dockers against being the hearing on Tuesday, Bern i Stewards' Committee, comme afford to give in. A SPLIT is now threatening to develop among SE London Labour Party members follow- ing ihe recent resignation of Ray Gunter as Labour MP for Southwark. With the redesigning of elec- toral boundaries, the old SE London constituencies of Peck- ham and Southwark will come together to be represented by one MP. And veteran Labour MP for Peckham, Freda Corbett, has : announced that she will not be seeking re-election either.

Corbett is one of the 69 Labour MPs who supported the Tory government's move to enter the Common Market and at the recent censure debate, in which the Tories won their biggest majority of 47, she was missing.

Gunter's resignation has com- balance of the pletely upset forces now vying for the Peckham seat. Labour's parliamentary chief whip and MP for neighbouring Bermondsey, Bob, Mellish, hoping for a quick by-election and that the new Southwark MP can step directly into the can- didature for Peckham at the . next General Election. For this to happen, Labour members from the old Southwark division and those in the new Peckham constituency have to agree on a candidate they both support. Until now the chances of this happening have been small.

Mellish is supporting Mr Albert Murray, former Labour MP for Gravesend and previously a Southwark and London County councillor. In Peckham there are at least six possible contenders, the most popular of whom is reported to be Mr Henry Lamborn, local Greater London Council member who has the backing of Freda Corbett. SINCE there's no profit in waste, capitalism doesn't really care what happens to it. The employers certainly see no per- centage in spending good - money to get rid of it safely.

And, under present laws, neither the government nor local councils have any direct control over the industrial waste tipping.

Almost all solid toxic wastes are disposed of by tipping, with only minor quantities being in- cinerated • Or dumped at sea. Many tips are totally unprotected, which means that children can roam over them at will. Now the Royal Commission Environmental Protection on says that a technical committee began work as long ago as 1964 and reported a serious position in 1970 when it called for 'urgent action'. strike looms following the dismiss st being sent back to the unattac y, Bernie Steers, secretary of the I commented: "This is a redundanc While the appeal was being beard, 10,000 London dockers struck work for the day. On average, 2,000 men a day are on the Dock Labour Board's unattached register in London, where they re- ceive a 'fall-back' payment, which means that their wage is almost halved. It is likely that the employer involved in this caseT. Wallis Smith Coggins-will keep the men on for about a month, while there is still some work, but after that they will go to the pool. Tuesday's appeals were re- garded as a test case for the rest of the Port of London Authority.

Dockers now fear that other em- ployers will start sending men to the unattached pool. Phase Two, Under Devlin dockers were promised that no- one would have to spend more a fortnight on the un- than attached register. But, according David to Marks, chairman of the Tilbury stewards' committee: "This shop has not worked out and now ibe are trying employers to send back hundreds of men. They are breaking the spirit of the agree- ment and this is a fight we must win." Meanwhile, the London En- closed Docks Employers said in a statement that business was 'attracted by dockers doing their work more efficiently than the next port. Future jobs might be jeopardized and dockers ought to 'think very carefully' where their real interests lay. THREE MEMBERS of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain have resigned executive posi- tions because of the union's decision to register under the Industrial Relations Act.

This followed a ballot of the members in which 275 votes were cast in favour of register- ing and 71 against. About 800 ballot papers were distributed. Following an open meeting on executive council Monday night, three senior officers resigned. They are: Stuart Hood, inter- The report received little pub- licity and is still not being given priority the adequate says Commission. The public faces risk from water pollution, fire, explosion, poisonous fumes and, of course, cyanide barrels. New controls are planned for 1974-1975, but the Commission believes that this is too late. And there is a danger legislation will be further postponed. At the moment, information waste is kept about industrial secret—-ostensibly to protect. com- panies from losing trade secrets if rivals have access to the waste.

This is rarely necessary says the Commission, and the main value of this secrecy is to pro- tect industry against the risk of common law actions. dismissal of an appeal by 40 unattached register. Following of the London Dockers' Shop undancy issue and we cannot This threat must be treated with contempt. Only the greatest national unity and a determina- tion to see the fight through will prevent the employers now cash- ing in on Devlin. It is quite clear that, while the union leaders have been sell- ing Devlin to their members, the employers have been steadily pre- paring for a showdown. They feel that the time is ripe to force speed-up and intensify discipline on the docks.

EQUITY

ABOUT-

TURN

ON ACT

union, Equity, the actors' which was granted de- registration from the Industrial Relations Act last November, has completely reversed its policy. The 45-man governing council has voted by a narrow majority to apply for registration.

The union's about-turn is policy of non-co-operation TUC'S direct breach of the with the Act and is bound to be deplored by many of the mem- bers. Equity general is secretary Gerald Croasdell, who has had a long-standing kinship with the Communist Party. national secretary; and two vice- chairmen, John McGrath and Ray Jenkins. Mr McGrath, the play- wright, was head of the guild's film committee and Mr Jenkins was chairman of the television committee. They have issued a statement saying: 'The decision of the Guild not to de-register under the Indust- rial Relations Act is contrary to the policy of the TUC of which the Guild is a member and question of nerefore poses principle who find or those themselves in a minority.

'We believe that as a result of its decision to sacrifice the price of trade union solidarity by not de-registering, the Guild will find itself isolated from the other trade unions in the enter- tainment industry and in par- ticular from Broadcasting Unions of Film and the Federation Unions at a time when concerted and unified action is essential.

'The decision cannot, in the long term, therefore, best serve interests of the individual Guild members. As trade union- ists we believe that the trade union movement is concerned with more than conditions of employment and that it is only by presenting a united front to employers and, if necessary to that the livelihoods government, and standards of workers of this country can be defended. 'We find it impossible to con- tinue to serve in office or on the union council of executive which has breached TUC policy.

We therefore have no option but to resign from office and the forthwith, council, which we do executive Workers Press, Thursday March 9, 1972 PAGE 3 WHITE-COLLAR workers in the electricity supply industry gained an 8-per-cent wage increase yes- terday. A national conference of the measurements and productivity 174 branches in electricity payment schemes. NALGO instructed its negotiators the But, in fact, unions to accept nothing less than the throughout the electricity indus- rise given to other workers in the accepted the try govern- nave Manual ment's 7-8 industry. workers re- per cent pay norm. a 7k-per-cent Frank of cently received Chapple's the norm at the height of the award. The conference also decided to strike has now affected miners' demand the re-negotiation of re- only his own members but not cently-concluded clerical work the

NALGO

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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 a 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

HANWELL COMMUNITY

CENTRE,

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

MARCH

THROUGHOUT LONDON

MONDAY MARCH 13

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

MARCHERS'LOBBY

OF PARLIAMENT

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

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

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The appointment of jesus Reyes Heroles as head of the Institutional Revolutionary Party heralds a new phase in the repression of students and workers under the regime of President Luis Echeverria of Mexico. Heroles replaces Sanchez Vita, who has been accused of pro- landlords in Hidalgo tecting State of which he is governor.

Another, more serious charge, 1s that Governor Vita was hnancing armed bands of thugs known as 'Porras' who have been carrying out acts of brutality on student campuses. These accusations played a part in Vita's retirement after only 14 months of what should have period of been six-year administration. Heroles, a 50- year-old economist and left-wing militant in his far-off student- declared in his inaugural days, speech that he was a 'supporter non-reformist revolutionary and against the upper reforms' off the profits classes raking from the national economy.

However, despite these radical phrases, Heroles' opinions differ very little from his 21 prede- cessors in the 43 years of the IRP's existence. His defence of the capitalist status quo was up in reference summed to a students and guerrilla organiza- tions: 'Those who try to interfere the rule of the law with are nothing than trouble- more makers' The extent of Heroles' liberal- ism was tested a few days after inauguration. Education his Minister Bravo Ahuja a four-day made the visit to Sinaloa state capital, Culiacan, whose university has been closed by a student strike since the middle of October. The conflict has its origins in April 1970 when Governor Valdes Montoya appointed Gonzalo Armienta as rector in the face of strong student opposition. The students say that both Montoya Armienta are fascists and" and of the enthusiastic supporters Porras. The students have de- manded the removal of Armienta and the institution of a rep- resentative council in which students and teachers have an equal say in the running of the university. After Bravo Amuja's visit, student leaders eight were released from prison. They had been jailed on February 10 after the rector had called the army onto the campus to occupy most of the schools and faculties.

On their release, the student leaders declared that their release 'an: of demagoguery' act was aimed at winning student support several other at a time when students were still being held in different towns in the state.

They condemned the sending of brigades of the para-military group, called the 'Falcons', , from City attack the Mexico to students at Sinalo. They would not resume their studies until all their demands had been met and 'as long as the police con- tinue to govern the campus.

the The dispute spread at weekend of February 26 when students at seven state univer- sities began 72-hour strikes in support of the demands of the

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Sinaloa students. Students in the National Autonomous University in Mexico City demonstrated in protest at the decision of their university council to prolong until March 15 the holidays which were due to finish on February 7 in order to prevent demonstrations in support of the Sinaloa students. Students in the state university of Sonora have now occupied the main university building after a mass meeting had demanded that the rector resign. The militancy of the students has been further inflamed by the recent declaration by the. rector of Sinaloa that he has no in- of yielding to student tention demands and that the students demanding his resignation are 'communist agitators and spokes- for a tiny minority of men students'. Now that the 'liberal' face of Senor Heroles has failed to make impression on the Mexican an students, no doubt the traditional Echevarria brutality regime will be used against them.

Meanwhile, the Second Latin Conference on American the Spreading of Culture and the Diffusion of Education was being held in Mexico City. Apparently the only discordant element was which the Brazilian delegation preferred the sights of the city to the wordy debates. The Cuban delegate, José Portuondo, de- clared that the conclave was a militant one, with all the dele- 'anti- gates agreeing on an imperialist' position. Top: Mexlco's President Echever- Below: Right-wing ¡ 'Falcons' rla. firing on student demonstrators In Mexico City. Workers Press, T When Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was gunned down on May 31, 1961, many people were naive enough to believe that a new chapter of Dominican history had opened up. But 1l years after the dic- tator's death, the presidency is still occupied by a man in the same mould: Joaquin Balaguer, a political veteran who has been described as more of a Trujillo • Trujillo himself. than six years of rule, In his Balaguer has used the same tactics of terror and corruption as those which earned Trujillo's regime notoriety as one of the most hated dictatorships in Latin America. The CIA and the United States State Department, which brought about Trujillo's execution, left intact his henchmen in the army, police and ruling class. The people who worked with continue to fill top Trujillo jobs in the armed forces, govern- ment ministries and diplomatic service. What is more, they have back their confiscated won i property. The has government distinguished itself by an almost unbroken chain of abuses, politi- murders, disappearances, cal searches, ( and massive arrests peasant evictions. Dominican lawyers have de- scribed these acts as systematic violations of human rights, the people Trujillo-type rate behaviour, and Balaguer main- tains he heads a democratic government threatened by sub- versive extremists. A few facts, will show the real situation. The Dominican Repub- lic has a 50 per cent unemploy- ment rate, while US companies enjoy rich pickings from their ultra-generous concessions.

The Gulf and Western com- panies, who have been exempt from taxes for 20 years, rule almost the entire E region of the country and they have big hold- ings in some of Dominica's basic industries, sustria tobacco.

Major and com- companies have been mercial placed in the hands of American S Puerto Rico investors. The Sugar Corporation owns a giant sugar mill complex at Romana.

In another such complex, Gulf has established a virtual mini- state with its own administra- tion, police and legal system.

Licences for the construction of casinos and beach hotels have been granted to prominant Mafia leaders. Profits from the increased rate of foreign investment have served to enrich regime supporters and Despite the currency realign- ment agreement signed Washington on December 18, the outward flood of paper dollars from the United States continues almost unabated.

This is causing serious prob- lems not least for the W German which faces the government, yet another revalua- prospect of tion of the mark if it cannot stem the influx of US paper.

In order to try and encourage dollar holders take their money elsewhere, the Bundes- bank has lowered its prime interest rate from 4 to 3 per cent.

At the same time, the govern- imposed new exchange ment regulations requiring all firms borrowing money from overseas to deposit part of their borrow- ings with the bank. These deposits are to be frozen and will not accumulate interest, making • credit more expensive to obtain. r8 Press, Thursday March 9, 1972 PAGE 5 maintain business leaders who close links with their American counterparts. But the investment bonanza has not helped to solve the country's major economic prob- lems: a decrease in agricultural production, a major jump in imports, particularly of luxury goods, and a drop in exports.

The overseas debt has risen to $400m. instead of solving And the economic troubles, the Balaguer government is concentrating its efforts on the biggest wave of terror unleashed since Trujilla held power. Balaguer has given public backing to right-wing thugs carrying out a violent campaign Santo Domingo slums which backed the constitutional revolution of Colonel Francisco Gaaman in 1965. An armed group known as La Banda carry out day-and-night searches, kidnaps and murders of opposition leaders. They have the support of police patrols.

The majority of La Banda's members are recruited by police from among , the hordes of un- employed who snatch any opportunity for work. former left sym- Many are pathizers or infiltrators who hunt • their former comrades in down a skilful plan devised by CIA experts. ( The 1965 revolution, besides people's demonstrating the willingness to fight for their rights, also did the security men a great service. Now they know the militants and the process of wiping them 'out is that much easier. Balaguer has stated that he may run for the presidency again.

If he wins it will be his third term in office since 1966 when by means of fraud, police terror, and Organization of American States diplomacy, he first was placed in what he calls the hot seat. And it looks as though the heat is affecting him, he has already told his supporters to put forward his application for the 1974 elections. By openly entering the lists Balaguer has increased political tension on the eve of the seventh anniversary of the 1965 revolu- tion. The Balaguer government, with massive American backing, claims it is enjoying 'un- precedented prosperity. But beneath the surface of Dominican society grave con- tradictions are building up. Seven years ago they come sud- denly surface and to Balaguer lives in perpetual fear that this will happen again.

Foreign borrowing by German business has grown at a tremen- dous rate in reaction to the gov- ernment's attempts to restrict domestic credit. Since 1965, the proportion of industrial finance borrowed abroad has doubled from 8 per cent to 16 per cent.

The amount of money borrowed abroad (mainly, in fact, the so-called Euro-dollar market) has risen from the equivalent of just over 20,000m marks in 1968 to 52,000m marks last year. In other words the growth of the Euro-dollar pool has virtually nullified the government's efforts to restrain domestic inflation by restricting credit. The US has done nothing to share the burden with the Ger- mans. In fact, dollar interest rates on the New York market have been kept deliberately low in order discourage the to return of dollars from overseas.

And in the six weeks follow- ing the Washington agreement of December 18, the dollar pool in Germany actually grew by the equivalent of 2,000m some marks. The dollar is close to its floor in all the main parity financial centres, and dollar- holders have every incentive to dispose of their holdings where they can. The obvious weakness of the Washington deal •and the inability of the central banks to go on indefinitely absorbing in- coming dollars to maintain the parities of their own currencies can only add to the crisis in Germany and elsewhere.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday March 9, 1972 TWO teenage Right-to-Work But seeing on Meanwhile back on the road with marchers walking along the to Oxford... •Sportsnight nothing like the real thing. The outside Young marcher: 'Have seen Wembley Pool? ou rain-swept road first and abiding impression Oxford. ever It's I've the size of the building.

'No, his mate. One asks: 'Have we got Johr Says never even been to London. I huge. 'Well, at Wembley? Lennon It is 150 yards long-that's I saw it on television think no!' replies his male tersely about one and a half football 'But we've got everybody else' once! -and 80 yards wide. The Highly likely. The Empire Meles Well, he's correct. Pool, not to be confused with ceiling is 80 feet high. Let's put it this way-we've animation tet it all shose Wembley Stadium, was opened on Wembley a snow

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largest organization to thosi Britain's Sunday which other 1934 as rally. It's as socialist organization in Britain indoor swimming pool. construction? A mere of big as the could bring together.

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cost elevisands and that television must It is a show staged, produced Today the pool has been and presented •TO- The hire of the pool costs expanded into something quite fessionals in a tribute to the thousands, but the production of different. is regularly courage ana aeterminalon during of the show has been television the members of the five Right- reatureo on possible by voluntary made the Horse of the Year show or to-work marches assistance. All the performers indoor tennis championship, or Everyone who is participat- performance waiving the are ing in the Wembley production basketball, badminton. fees they normally charge.

It has also been the scene of is in complete agreement with only But artists aren't the five-a-side football clashes as right of everyone to the basic people in a show of this size.

well as huge, indoor pop con- And are have job. There are the other highly pro big recent opposed to the Tory govern- certs. fessional people who make it of professional boxing match the deliberate policy ment's pool packed 10,500 fight fans.

all possible. creating mass unemployment.

Below: the Right-to-Worl Above left: Vinegar Joe. Above: Slade.

Larry Adler Compère Joe Melia w: the Right-to-Work march on its way to Wombley Workors Proo Ram John Holder Mike Hurst who did lighting 'Hair' for the musical is in charge of the lights. Equipment Hire Marshall Limited of Kentish has Town donated the most expensive, sophisticated sound equipment.

one of Bill the McCrow, most talented designers in the business, in of is charge designing the stage with huge and larger-than-life posters Canadian-born Mr banners. McCrow designed the sets for such acclaimed films as 'Family Life', "The Body' and 'Unwin, Wittering and Zeiberg'. He was art director for the film 'Kes'. He was also designer for the Socialist Labour League's last mass indoor rally against the Tories at Alexandra Palace on February 14 last year. Compere will be Joe Melia, the Young who compered Socialists' summer fair to raise money for the victimized men at Pilkingtons in July last year.

Mr Melia is currently starring Brecht's 'The Threepenny in Opera' which he in plays Macheath. it that all these 'How is highly talented people are coming to Wembley to play for us?' asked the marcher. His mate looked puzzled. I don't know. I always thought like that all lived that stars their own individualist lives?

This may be so of the past— the boom years-when actors, dancers and actresses, singers; theatrical technicians lived off But the the train. gravy economic crisis hit. them too.

orkers Prace, Thursday March 9, 1972 PAGE 7 and the tele- Actors Equity vision union, the ACTT, have probably the highest unemploy- ment among their members of any union in the country.

Members of the television and theatrical world have become acutely aware of un- employment. This was the overwhelming impression gained by the three main organizers of the Empire Pool rally, playwright Roger Smith, actress Maggie Nolan and film director Sean Hudson.

Maggie explains: 'We were to start off pretty cautious with. We phoned a few of the really big names in the pop world and told them exactly what the marches were about.

They said: "You don't have to us about unemployment tell and exploitation. When do we appear?", 'But Wembley is a huge place. Can we fill it?' We're going to try. No one should worry about that.

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Larry Adler McGuinness Flint Ram John Holder Paul Jones Vinegar Joe George Melly Spike Milligan Slade Rock 'n Roll All Stars Comperes: Joe Melia and Stuart Henry

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday March 9 Who is General Chiang Kai-sh

BY JACK GALE

UNDER direct orders from Moscow, the Chinese CP agreed to the following terms for collaboration with Chiang Kai-shek: To hand over to Chiang a full list of its members in the Kuom- intang. That communist membership of any committee should be lim- ited to one-third—a permanent minority. That communists were banned from being head of any Kuomin- tang or governinent department.

That any instruction issued by the Communist Party to its own members had to be approved in advance by the Kuomintang.

These terms were accepted, Chiang had staged a though coup in the southern base of Canton and arrested more lead- ing communists and trade union- ists. (News of this was rigorously suppressed in the Soviet Union.)

Chiang Kai-shek Stalin prepared to go was farther than that. When even challenged by the Left Opposi- tion, he admitted that he had instructed the Chinese Commun- ist Party by telegram to restrain the agrarian revolution in order to preserve 'unity' in the Kuom- intang.' In fact there were frequent discussions between Borodin and best way Chiang on the to limit Communist influence in the Kuomintang." The communists permitted all centralized in be power to: hands. the Chiang's When northern military expedition got under way, all Party and govern- ment offices were subordinated to in China him. This established precisely that bourgeois control over the mass movement which Lenin' had warned against.

Meanwhile, Chiang postponed the final bloodbath because he the communists. still needed Meanwhile the key to success in the nationalist campaign was the strategic city of Shanghai.

there a powerful Here was workers' movement and the com- strong. As the munists were northern expedition nationalist approached, the Shanghai work- responded with an unpre- ers cedented strike wave. But, as 350,000 Shanghai out into the workers poured Chiang halted his army streets, 25 miles outside the city.

There was nothing to prevent taking the city - but he him waited until the reactionary Gen- Li Pao-chang slaughtered eral the Shanghai workers. (Li was later rewarded by Chiang with the command of the Eighth Nationalist Army.) • before this hap- One month pened, Stalin had written: 'The Kuomintang is an anti-imperialist party which is waging a revolu- against struggle the tionary imperialists and their agents in China'.3 Yet despite the wholesale mas- sacre of Shanghai workers, they rose again. This time they took Shanghai. Then - under the of the Moscow-directed orders Communist Party, they handed the power to Chiang Kai-shek.

y March 9, 1972 , Kai-shek? Part 2 no further Chiang now had taking actions Shanghai showed that the work- ing class had become a danger which even the Stalinists might not be able to hold in check.

And so the destruction began.

the In February, General Union of Kanchow was smashed its leaders and murdered. In March Chiang arrested any com- munist and left-wing leader in down Nanchang, closed unions and students' association and suppressed all newspapers.

The same happened in Kiu- kang, in Nanking, in Wuhan and everywhere Chiang's troops were in control. But in Shanghai, half a mil- lion armed workers were mobil- ized. Chiang had 3,000 troops, many of whom were sympathetic to the workers. Meanwhile, according to Isaacs* Chinese bankers and merchants offered $15m on condition that he suppress communist and lab- our activities. The communists, however, wel- comed Chiang as a liberator and on April 12, 1927, he showed his gratitude. Armed soldiers, assisted in places by foreign troops - particularly the French attacked union and labour head- quarters, shooting everyone they found there. One who escaped by the skin of his teeth from the headquart- ers of the General Labour Union was Chou En-lai. the communist lead- Too late, ership called for a General Strike which was answered by 100,000 workers. They were shot down in the Streets. Chiang had taken over. Incredibly, the Communist wrote to Chiang Interrational Kai-shek complaining that he had *broken his agreement' and ask- ing for a meeting to preserve 'revolutionary unity! Even after the Shanghai mass- acre, Stalin continued to defend policy of collaboration with the Kuomintang. He wrote: 'Chiang Kai-shek's is often appraised by the coup Opposition as the decline of the Chinese revolution. That is a mis- the coup was take. Of course, to result in a partial bound defeat for the workers in a num- ber of areas. merely partial and 'But it is temporary. In point of fact, with Chiang Kai-shek's coup, revolution as a whole has entered a higher phase of development.

Chiang Kai-shek's coup was one of those zig-zags." So, after the Kuomintang had openly emerged as the party of the bourgeoisie, Stalin advocated 'left' the collaboration with Kuomintang! The Chinese communists work in obediently sought to subordination to the 'left' Wang who was based Chiang-wei, at Wuhan. They suffered exactly the same fate at his hands as they had at Chiang Kai-shek's."

Trotsky analysed the role of Stalin not as consciously coun- ter-revolutionary - he did not make this characterization until Stalinism worked for the victory of Hitler in 1933 — but as the fruits of a fundamental departure from Leninism: "Together with the new condi- tions of existence the bureau- cracy acquired new methods of Party thinking. The Bolshevik led the masses. The bureaucracy began to order them about. ... The bureaucracy was compelled to resort to con- mand in order to secure its own of the interests against those masses. ... The Moscow leaders began quite seriously to imagine that they could compel Chinese bourgeoisie to move to the left of its interests and the Chinese workers and peasants to the right of theirs. Shanghai April 1927: Chlang Kal-shek's Workers storm a shop in Hankow durin The Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon. It was ta in 1927 to protect British property and 'Yet it is the very essence of revolution that the exploited as exploiters invest well the as their interests with the most expression. If hostile extreme classes could move along diag- onals, there would be no need for a civil war. Armed by the authority of the October Revo- lution and the Communist Inter- national • the bureaucracy transformed the young Chinese Communist Party from a motive force into a brake at the most important moment of the revolu- tion." The crushing of the Chinese workers and peasants set back the revolution by 20 years. It also assisted Stalin to strengthen lus er: in the Suvet LIon move on to the purges nd no.

al-shek's massacre of the Communist Party. A kow during the wave of strikes that broke out It was taken over by a British Expeditionary perty and assist Chiang against the communist.

ders of the Bolsheviks in the 1930s. Trotsky and his supporters had right all along in their been of warnings about the role Chiang Kai-shek. •But when Oppositionists expressed hope that their cor- rectness against Stalin's policies would strengthen them,. Trotsky had to tell them that it would struggles, he Political not. explained, are won not by the correctness or otherwise of ideas by the development alone, but of material forces. The defeat of the Chinese Revolution intensi- fied the isolation of Russia and thereby strengthened the bureau- was the fate of the Left io be beaten back Upposition t Party. Above: a prisoner ls beheaded broke out in 1927 ditionary Force which landed in China ommunists. and isolated by the very defeats it predicted, fought against and analysed.

TOMORROW:

STALIN SUPPORTS CHIANG

KAI-SHEK AGAINST MAO.

" Stalin: 'Collected Works', Vol.

10, p. 18. = Isaacs op. cit., p. 97.

3 Robert Black: 'Stalinism in Britain', p. 65. New Park Pub- lications. • op. cit., p. 172 = Stalin: Collected Works, Vol. 9, pp. 264-265. " For a full account to this see Harold Isaacs' 'Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution', Chaps XI- XV. " Trotsky's Introduction to Isaacs,

BY JOHN SPENCER

The Tory decision to inject £35m into the bankrupt Upper Clyde Shipbuilders was welcomed as 'an act of courage' by the Fleet St press.

The mood is epitomized by "The Guardian', which greeted the news with an editorial to the effect that: (The) remaining uncertainty cannot alter the glad fact that the government has changed its mind for the better. Yesterday's announcement reflects a prac- tical government concern for the problems of the Upper social Clyde, a concern which was not detectable before. This could be start of a regional policy may be more enlightened which generally, and not just on the Upper Clyde.' 'The Times, saw. UCS. as "another special case... an example of ideological commit- ment being abandoned in the face of political and economic reality'. The 'Daily Telegraph', like the Stalinist 'Morning Star', saw the decision as 'victory right down - * for the Communist-led the line "work-in" by the employees who refused to let the government close the money-losing yards.

The 'Glasgow Herald' opined that 'what cannot be denied is that the revival of the yards has been undertaken primarily as a social exercise and represents triumph for the work-in and its leaders • «Scotsman' The described Mr McGarvey 'a gratifying Davies' move as decision and one that does the Minister credit. And 'The Guardian' said that: 'Many people deserve credit for their this change, the workers, shop stewards, and their leaders to take sack who refused for an answer; the boilerinakers' leader Mr McGarvey, who_per- suaded Texans that the Clyde was competent; finally the gov- ernment itself which has admitted that some lame ducks are worth curing. No politicians enjoys the of his own words. Eating taste these was an act of courage' The reader might well ask why papers which have never the slightest interest in shown promoting the struggle of the working class and defending the right to work should suddenly heap such bouquets on heads of the UCS Stalinist leaders. There is no such euphoria, for example, oyer the success of the Young Socialists Right-to-Work ... Nicholas Ridley, architect of original plar marches which have been greeted either with deafening silence or snide hostility from the majority of Fleet St.

The answer is to be found first and foremost in the reactions of the trade union leaders and the shop stewards themselves. It can hardly be maintained that the certain loss of 1,700 jobs (at distinct Clydebank) and the probability of losing 2,500 on top of this figure fif the current talks Ti with Marathon break down) is a victory for the working class.

It sounds, on the contrary, suspiciously like the original Tory plan to 'butcher' the up by John Davies, Jards drawn aide Nicholas Ridley. The bare facts make nonsense of claims like that of the 'Scots- man's' Chris Baur, who wrote that Davies' announcement was 'the last rite spoken over the grave of [the government's] lame duck philosophy. The reports of the reactions to the Davies' injection cash maries are not simply regenerate make ing a 'lame duck'-certainly not the terms that originally on 'lamed' it. 'The Times' in an interview with former

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chairman Anthony Hepper points out that sum promised by Davies is the nearly six times the amount UCS originally required to keep out of the bankruptcy courts.

It says: 'As Mr Hepper points out, the government have now committed more to money Upper Clyde Shipyards than the amount the Geddes report was suggesting in 1966 should be spent by government the on whole of the British shipbuilding industry put together.' Hepper described as in a IS 1 of 'anger and bitterness', state and his story a tale of 'appalling vaccilation by individual minis- ters'. But this is simply to miss the very tangible gains for which the Tories are prepared to pay out, which were just there not before UCS went bankrupt.

These gains, which are not in the least in the interests of the UCS workers, are spelled out by the 'Scotsman' as follows: The trade unions... made a working with the agreement company a few days ago, which no doubt was a condition of government support. Since the unions have energetically defended their right to work, it must be hoped that they will will to show the same co- operate in improving productivity and making Govan Shipbuilders a stable, expanding company. By taking the Scotstoun yard into the group, the government have long to meeting gone a way union demands. The unions should not prejudice the deal by insisting on keeping Clydebank.

Heavy unemployment on Clyde- side has stimulated government iginal plan to butcher the yards.

generosity; it should also pro mote union realism.' 'Union realism' certainly was on display all down: the line. 'The Times' wrote: "The govern- ment's final acceptance of the proposals... is subject to... the reaching of agreement with the unions. But Mr Davies clearly considered that there would be few difficulties there.' Times weht od to reports he? As 'The 'The improved relations be- the government and the tween unions were shown when Mr Davies ended his statement with a "well justified tribute" to Mr Dan McGarvey, president of the Amalgamated Society of Boiler- makers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers. He said Mr McGarvey had played a con- sistently ful role, Constructive and help- similar 'constructive A and helpful attitude' was on display from the UCS shop stewards' leaders. 'Glasgow Herald' The reported that: 'Shop stewards were delighted last night about the government's decision on Govan Shipbuilders, but said they still wanted some concrete proposal for Clydebank.

'Given this, we shall give every co-operation to ensure ship- building is a success on the upper reaches of the Clyde, Mr James Airlie, chairman of the UCS shop stewards' co-ordinating committee, said. "The govern- ment's decision was a first step and left only Clydebank to be dealt with. If Marathon take over Clydebank, I certainly welcome the statesmanlike decision of the government.'

Nobody went into too much detail to explain just what 'every co-operation' could mean, though it has been clear from the start that wanted government increased productivity, sharply no strike clauses and a docile and obedient labour force.

As far as the stewards are con- cerned, the 'statesmanlike' Tory butcher has come into his own with a vengeance. As for Clyde- bank, the Minister's 'statesman- ship' had made an impression on the stewards here too. The 'Scotsman' carried the following pertinent passage: It is the • Clydebank yard which is the linchpin in securing the future. Mr Reid said last night: "When Mr John Davies talks of being guardedly optimis- tic about the future of Clyde- bank it means ordinary in people's language that he is confident."' One thing Davies can cer- tainly be confident of. That is the 'realism' of leaders like Reid, who can be relied on absolutely to sell the government's tatty package as a 'victory' to the working class. In this endeavour he has the 100 per cent backing of the Fleet St press. Workers Press, Thuraday March 9, 1972 PAGE 9 just over £2m, most of the value must attach to the lease- hold interest which must be a A book just out by Malcolm long one. This means that the MacDonald, son of the the leasehold rene- value rose gade Labour Prime Minister, from £2.5m in 1955 to about describes how Jomo Kenyatta £20m Very good this year. of Kenya beat investment, father. Amen.

the bottle. MacDonald claims that when Kenyatta was transformed he 'suddenly realized that his hopes of being able to lead Does Sir Frederic Seebohm, his independence people to deputy chairman of Barclays were restored'. Bank, read Workers | the At this point, MacDonald Press? He said the other day: says, 'Burning Spear' didn't the indications 'All to seem touch another drop. point to a serious monetary crisis in 1972. The rest of the world is being asked to make loans to finance America „TO that country's overseas ex- penditure. 'A situation in which the dollar might well cease to be freely convertible into other currencies could occur. The private sector would then not be willing to be paid in dollars for its exports or commercial transactions.' Sir Exactly, Frederic, exactly. Jomo Kenyatta This anecdote comes as a surprise to a recent visitor to The Queen, during her Asian Nairobi who saw the ageing has been examining tour, 'Spear' being helped out of the 'massive male fertility statue'.

Hilton Hotel by a couple of It appears that the god-figure bodyguards. has been polished smooth by the touch of many hands. The confrontation between the and Oueen the fertility You can't beat the church for symbol occurred in Borneo. It making a few fast pounds.

is not revealed whether Her Church The Wales Majesty Princess Anne or recently sold Bush House, the stroked it or not. large

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A Reuters report said that premises in the Strand, for £22m. The freehold the visit also featured a meet- tribesmen. was bought by the church for ing with primitive about £2.25m asked less than three Al medicine the man months ago. It purchased the Royal a four- to pay party leasehold in 1955 for £2.5m figure fee to keep the rain Since the freehold cost only away. Labour Research Depart- ment has drawn up a list of leading 12 of just company While the rest of us battle executives who get more than against the Tory 'norm' and £30,000 a vear. Top of the list, Nicholson, gets more the soaring cost of living, the Mr F. D. boardroom boys than £1,000 a week, more than get along quite nicely thank you. many people get in a year!

COMPANY

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Vaux and Associated (f) F. D. Nicholson Breweries 52,121 Consolidated Goldfields J. D. McCall 50,238 British Electric Traction Sir John Spencer Wills 47.205 Co. Plessey Co. Sir John Clark 45,000 Adwest Group F. V. 39,654 Waller Distillers Co. A. F. McDonald 34,400 United Dominions Trust Sir Alexander Ross 33,896

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begin to draw lessons PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday March

BY OUR OWN REPORTERS

STEPHEN JOHNS, IAN YEATS,

DAVID MAUDE, PHILIP WADE

AND GARY GURMEET

WE'RE AT Stevenage which is a day's marching distance from our des- tination - London. Here the Labour- controlled Urban District Council have made most us welcome. They have put us up in really superb accommodation at the Bowes Lyon youth club, reputed to be the biggest in the world. The Labour chair- man of the UDC, Michael Cotter, arranged this with only two days' notice and the management committee of the club supported the move unanimously. Under socialism there would be centres like Bowes Lyon in every town run by the youth. It has a gym, a games room (darts, and table snooker, billiards a discotheque, a rifle tennis), range, a theatre, a TV room and rooms-in all 30,000 meeting feet for the youth of square Stevenage. The staff threw all these facili- ties open to the marchers free and we can all use the towns swimming baths free in the morning. We're having a day off march- ing tomorrow and campaigning in the towns for a big meeting at night. The advanced team got a good reception round the factor- les- particularly from the local ICI plant and a building site has invited down a speaker from the march and promised money.

The one snag we meet now is convincing that the workers youth really have marched all the way from Glasgow. Sometimes they only believe it when they see the banner. The political de- of the marchers- termination some only 16 and comparatively new to politics--clearly makes impression tremendous 0) n many experienced workers and shop stewards. Now the walking part of our campaign is almost over it is opportune to describe how the Glasgow campaign was organized.

The responsibility for all the problems and arrangements fell on the committee of ten, elected on the first day at Kilmarnock.

and added to as people from new areas joined us. It meets twice a day, at night and in the morning before we set off. The committee decides who should go in the advanced party.

who should sell literature and papers, who should collect, who sick to walk, and the is too discipline of the march. But, of course, all these often complicated arrangements can only be carried through success- fully if there is a degree of poli- tical understanding about the struggle of working-class youth. only there This must not be among the committee, but among the marchers and it is the duty members of the committee especially develop other to marchers politically. two committee I talked to members from Scotland. member, Committee Jim Lundy (18), froin Renton, in the Vale of Leven, told me at the start of the march he had not joined the campaign solel! out of politics. I thought it would be a bit of a lark and an experience. But I think everyone has made a poli- tical advance. It's a great experi- ence to talk to shop stewards everywhere we go, and listen to they feel about the fight what against the Tories.' Archie Thomson, also from : single biggest Renton, said the had been the exposure of lesson the Labour Party right wing.

I never had much respect for Wilson. But it wasn't until we got into places like Carlisle and saw the Labour Party line up with the Tory Party to realize just what was going on within the labour movement. You had this great from workers every- support where, especially the mines and Labour Party people-yet many the right wing were attacking us like this. It's a lesson I'll never forget' said that Jim the hardest I the committee struggle of all on was to decide on loyalties.

'Everyone their own friends and it's natural-at least under çapitalism—to stick by them whatever. But on the march lay March 9, 1972

BREAKFAST AND WO

with discipline vou have to make i choice. The relationship is not for the personal like this, but whole march and our aims and this is the standard you must apply.' is Archie adds that the aim youth to want i socialist to get life and not just a social life.

'In Renton, a lad might put i brick through a window because he's fed up with the way he lives.

We have to get them into an organized fisht for socialism. That has been a bis battle on the march. It's still a big battle with me. I admit it. Jim adds: 'We have to take their hatred of the system the the police push us way that around and turn it into some- political. Then thing we will really have a force.' For Chris Condon, another committee member, from Ulster, been a big ex- the march has perience of the British working class. 'To talk to workers in Britain like the miners gives me great confidence in the struggle in Treland. The workers here are fighting the same war the workers are in my country.

But the British working class is big and powerful and it can deal with the Tories. that the majority I have seen of British workers are against the troops in Ulster. Many of them said to me that Ulster is just a training ground for over here. These experiences make me think the British and the struggle of Irish workers is a unified one'

THERE WAS

thing that one kept the Southampton-London terrible marchers going in weather conditions from Basing- stoke. It was the knowledge that at Reading--our next stop--we would meet the Swansea con- tingent. The two marches are then to join and walk towards London.

marchers The Southampton were eager to discuss some of their experiences with the Swan- sea comrades. After our unexpected welcome at Basingstoke by the mayor and later at the local Labour Club, nothing seemed impossible.

'Said march leader Dick Clarke:

AND WORKERS PRESS FOR THE GLASGOW

LAURIE SMITH

SOVEX,

ERITH, CONVI

LONDON MARCHERS' MEETING OUTSID

SHOP STEWARDS and workers at two factories in Crayford and Erith turned out to greet the Deal-to-London Right-to- Work marchers on Tues- day. Handing over a £10 dona- tion from Vickers Ltd AUEW shop stewards' funds, con- venor Bob Hall said he completely supported the campaign for jobs. 'Our march through Basingstoke has made a big difference. The we received at the response Labour Club to our policies showed this.' We reached Reading just as workers were clocking out from factories and banner, our although soaking wet with the rain, attracted considerable attention. After a day of rest at Reading.

with the together we prepare. Swansea marchers for our final "assault' on London. The next stop is Slough, one of the most industrialized areas on the out- skirts of London.

GLASGOW-LONDON MARCHERS AT THEIR

YOUNG SOCIALIST:

WE DEME

1972

H, CONVENOR AND COMMUNIST PARTY MEI

G OUTSIDE THE FACTORY

'Work is never given to the working class with any security or accepted right,' he said. 'Work is incidental to profit.' Mr Hall condemned TUC leaders for not initiating a campaign against the Tories' unemployment policies.

Secretary of the AUEW Well- ing No. 1 branch, John Chiles, who also works at the 1,000- Strong Vickers' factory, pledged £5 from branch funds. He said: the support marchers, but they should have been organized by the TUC or - ex the Labour Party. They are scared of taking on this govern- ment. •Feather is going to turn the other cheek until he's forced doing something. There into shouldn't be a Tory government The trade unions and . the today. Labour Party should have shifted themstrike Relations Act in the Industrial Relations. Support for the march grown as it nears London and the sight of workers waving from fac- tories and offices and even hold- ing up copies of the Workers Press at their windows is becom- ing daily more familiar. The Young Socialists marched from Crayford to Erith, where AUEW convenor and Communist Party member Laurie Smith led a deputation of shop stewards out of the 120-strong Sovex fac- tory to welcome the march.

He praised the determination

WE DEMAND

THE

RIGHT

TO

WORK

THEIR STEVENAGE STOPPING POINT.

GALISTS

ARTY MEMBER, SPEAKS AT THE DEAL:

of the youth in marching dozens miles through hostile •Tory territory and stressed that the marchers were in line with the AUEW resolution on the right to work, which originated in Erith.

the town was Everyone in worried about the tuture, he said, and particularly about. jobs.

Unemployment is increasing at breakneck pace as major tradi- tional industries close down.

As he spoke, a mile away 500 workers at Sebel's toy factory expect to be served with redun- dancy notices on Monday. The Barclay Securities Ltd., owners, have said the entire factory will close in June. Workers, 50 per cent of them women, voted overwhelmingly at a mass meeting last week to in- and union struct stewards officials to 'resist' the shutdown.

Support for the Right-to-Work campaign also came from Erith College of Technology where students have agreed to raise a collection. The Kent column marched to Erith from Dartford where they Monday by greeted on were SOGAT officials at their district headquarters where they spent the night. The union provided a late- night feast of sandwiches, hot sausage rolls and tea and area secretary of SOGAT's N Kent branch, Bill Pierson, told the marchers he was completely be- hind them.

Wallingford LabourParty invites us back for discussion

LUTON

rank-and-file trade unionists made sure we given the weren't cold shoulder intended by the AUEW district committee, the trades council and the Labour Party. right-wing and the The Stalinists combined on the trades council to postpone a decision until the week after Wembley.

district committee The ruled branch motions of support out of order and the Luton Labour Party wrote to the trades council reminding them the Young So- cialists was a proscribed organ- ization. Despite this hostility from the leadership' of the local labour movement, we weren't frozen out like they wanted. Vauxhall AUEW workers gave us £25 as did NUVB workers. And the NUVB shop stewards' committee gave us another £20 for our evening meal and break- fast. Vauxhall stewards have also brought ten tickets for the Em- pire Pool, Wembley; rally.

AUE W

other Numerous branches and an ETU branch also gave financial support to the cam- paign. Luton has been the boom town of boom towns. It now has a war it was nearer Unemployment here is 30,000. still comparatively low at 3 per the national , well below cent, average. But things changing. are Slowly but surely the recession is feeling its way into sectors of the motor industry, the life-blood of Luton's rapid expansion.

The first firms which have hit are the smaller, com- been ponent manufacturers. As orders car industry, a fell off in the number of small firms either cut back production or closed down.

Of the gigantic car plants, Chrysler's is in the deepest crisis and workers there have been on short-time since October. I spoke to Ken Lennon, AUEW steward at Chrysler, when he joined other stewards at a meeting to welcome the marchers into Luton. 'Chrysler workers have set the pace in this town as far as wages go. Only last January we won another £5-a-week increase. But it's no use if you're on short- time. 'Luton will be no exception to the slump, I realize that. Big coming upin struggles are Chrysler's in the near future,' emphasize his Ken. To said point, he was laden with copies the Redundancy Payments Scheme thrust upon him by management. 'There will be a lot of opposi- tion to compulsory redundancies and shop stewards will have to thinking along political start lines. 'That's why your Right-to-Work campaign is necessary. I've no- thing but praise for the marchers and nothing but contempt for the Labour Party and trade union leaders for the audacity to pro- scribe you. 'Feather and Scanlon know that without this capitalist sys- tem they'd be out of jobs. This whole march to me is part of the fight to change the whole system', ', added Ken, who is sell- ing 12 tickets for Wembley.

Vauxhall NUVB steward Liam Flaherty had some harsh words to say about the black-out on the march by the national press and the 'Morning Star'. It's not so much what you're marching for, but who you're marching under. They all know you're a Trotskyist movement. If you were marching simply as 'un- The Redunde Payments Scheme Hastives

KEN LENNON, AUEW STEWARD

HOLDS UP BOOKLETS ON

SCHEME DUE FOR

LIAM FLAHERTY, NUVB

STEWARD, VAUXHALL.

employed youth you'd get some coverage. 'But the only way workers can get their principles right is by studying Trotsky, Liam, who came to Luton from Scotland in 1964, after losing his job, told me. More support for the march came from Arthur Royal, AUEW steward at Vauxhall. 'Every worker has a basic right to work-to keep himself and others fed. If you haven't this right, you're on the scrapheap' Arthur knew only too well the meaning of unemployment. He came to Luton in the 1930s from West Hartlepool, of a town 60,000 where 14,000 were on the dole. think vast 'For myself I changes will occur in the work- ing class. If we're going to sur- vive, we'll have to kick the em- ployers', , Arthur told.me. Evidence of changing times in Luton came from 26-year-old Cliff Moodie, who was laid-off in WALLINGFORD, a small town of some 7,000 people, made the Swansea-London marchers welcome on Tues- day. Members of the local Labour Party were on hand as soon as we arrived from a 22-mile hike from Oxford to serve us with tea and then dinner. They supported us despite the national ban being organized by the Party leadership at Transport House and the TUC The Redundancy Payments Scheme PRaised Quee

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LUTON PLANT

LETS ON THE REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS

DUE FOR OPERATION IN THE COMBINE.

ARTHUR ROYAL, AUEW

STEWARD, VAUXHALL'S,

LUTON.

the power crisis and never got his job back. 'They wanted me to sign on at the Labour Exchange but they wouldn't give me my cards. In the end they froze me out of a job and money.' So far all Cliff has been offered is _a government re- training scheme or a job in a warehouse earning £19 a week when he used to earn over £30.

met the Young Socialists only the other week and I agres with the policy of forcing the Tories to resign.' Cliff used to be of a Black Panther secretary group in London. He was arrested during the Mangrove restaurant disturbances in Notting Hill gate and is still awaiting trial. I've broken off with the Panthers because the government forced We're fighting me to. capitalism in any country-black We shouldn't be or white. divided—we're all working class,' said Cliff. Though a Tory-controlled town, Wallingford has a Labour mayor, Geoffrey Bradburn, who welcomed the marchers to their overnight accommodation at the Community Centre. Main employers in the area, he told me, were the Harwell and Culham Atomic Energy Centres, Habitat furniture the firm and a few light engineering factories. Many workers com- mute into Oxford and Reading for work. 'The Labour Party isn't happy about your campaign at all,' he told me. 'But while it may seem corny to say so the local Party is supporting it because of feel- Workers Pross, Thuraday March 9, 1972 PAGE 11

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ago Culham's budget was halved we learned in Wallingford.

Walking with his children along the river bank he had been At an evening meeting at the keeper: told by an irate game hall, Mayor town Bradburn Get you'll frighten out, my IN- vited representatives of the Young nheasants.' Socialists back to the town to almost feudal hold another meeting to discuss Alongside this arrangement, at Culham, research theoretical and political questions.

police to eject Right PAGE 12 Workers Pross, Thuraday Ma The five Right-to-Work marches from Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea, Deal and Southampton converge on London for next Sunday's

GIANT RALLY

at the

EMPIRE POOL,

WEMBLEY

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and the E was ejected rally. delegation from the Clydebank He yard of UCS yesterday stewards for after Right-to-Work ation marcher Billy, McCaus- explained lan had appeared before marches ha the joint shop stewards' widespread the labour 1 co-ordinating committee to request further sup- He port for the Right-to- specifically mersdale Work campaign. Party had The committee had march thr earlier agreed to meet town unde the delegates the and leading branch banr chairman, James Airlie, At this Stalinist interrupted called on Billy to speak.

Billy stated that he Billy to get was a member of the Billy rea letter of su Young Socialists, the the co-ordi youth movement of the Trotskyist Socialist mittee Labour League, their £100 c which also had organized the which Right-to-Work marches. appeared in He had returned from ing Star' an the Glasgow-to-London This impl march to raise further support in the working money had class for the marches false preten

A LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Sir. I have read about the just 'misunderstanding' so-called the UCS co-ordinating when committee donated £100 to the Right-to-Work marches of the Young Socialists. My first reaction was for the YS to give the money back with the message to put it where I would like to put the Tories.

My second reaction was not one of real surprise. When I and a delegation from Pilkington Rank-and-File Committee went 1o appeal to Airlie and com- pany at UCS we were promised Dear Bro Norris. At a meeting of the branch the following resolution was carried: •That this branch support in its entirety the principles of the Young Socialists and call for a donation in support, and for a the represent delegation to branch at the mass rally.'

moved and further It was carried that a £10 donation be sent and a shop-floor collection held. Yours fraternally, P. Shaw, NUVB Ellesmere Port No. 4 branch secretary, Vauxhall Motors. resolution

THE FOLLOWING

was passed at our branch meet- at Garston Hotel held on ing March 1. 1972. •At a recent meeting of this support to branch we pledged the Right-to-Work march throughout the taking place country. It must be emphasized.

however, that although we gave

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d the Empire Pool He asked the con mitte to clarity i position on whether He thanked the wards for their don- not it supported t Right-to-Work. At th of £100 and plained that: the point Airlie and shouted: arches had received despread support in 'We are not havir e labour movement. any Tom Dick or Har mentioned coming in here deman ecifically that Skel- ing explanations. I a Communist making irty had escorted the brothers. Leave the ya their arch through now, or we will thro wn under their CP you out.' anch banner. He turned to anoth At this point Airlie steward and said 'Mal terrupted and told sure they are put rig Ily to get to the point. out of the yard gates' read the out The delegation mer support which bers called for the rig e co-ordinating com- to be heard on the bas sent with had issue of the right eir £100 donation and work, but were shout the advertisement down. • subsequently 'Morn- They were escort peared in the meeting ¿ Star' and "Tribune'. from the stewards, both This implied that this two whom refused to discu oney had been won by what had happened. Ise pretences. a lot of support. But we got none! This is not a question of sour grapes. I have been donating to fund every the UCS fighting week since I started work seven months ago, even though! do with the policies of not agree the co-ordinating committee.

with the principle But I am of the workers at UCS to fight against the Tory plans to 'butcher' the yards. mewhat What really angers I'd like to say is unprintable and you'd get done for obscenity- remark in the advertise- is the Star' that ment in the 'Morning 'our name is being used as being support to the march itself, this in no way should be construed as support for the movement or organization behind it, i.e. SLL.

•We of this branch will always support any actions taken highlight such social and that exist political problems (such as unemployment) irrespec- tive of the organizing body with- organization out that body or assuming, as in the case of the Right-to-Work march, that we are aligning ourselves with their politics. Yours fraternally, Bro. W. Moses, branch secretary, 6/559 branch T&GWU. Bathgate return NINE-WEEK strike at

THE

British-Leyland's Bathgate works, Scotland. ended yesterday when meeting of 3,200 shop a mass accepted a pay floor workers deal worked out last weekend in London which gives pay rises of It i week. A skilled man will receive £39.47 for a 40-hour week and a labourer £31.79. Mr John Boyd, Amalgamated of Engineering Workers Union executive council member, urged the return to work. He emphasized that the Bath- gate workers could not hope to achiere parity with car workers in the foreseeable future because trucks did not make money.

Bathgate had never made a profit and to give truck workers parity could bankrupt British- Leyland. Leyland spokesman Jack Smart said: 'The rexed question of our future will not disappear over- night. Only the months ahead will prove our ability to ensure the continuation of the Bathgate unit.' At the yard gate one the com- of them told a police- its man who appeared to be whether or on permanent duty at ported the the gatehouse: 'Donald, K. At this see these two don't get stood up near these yards again'. Afterwards not having McCauslan said: k or Harry 'The Communist ere demand- dominates the ions. I am Committee and they know we are right. ve the yard they have will throw perspectives themselves so they won't give us to another They said Make denied us the right to e put right speak and make clear ard gates. our position. ation mem- "The "Morning Star" or the right advert was a deliberate on the basic the whole smear at e right to campaign to bring down ere shouted the Tories. These people by the are terrified re escorted movement of the work- ing class. by "That's why they are of hostile to the Young d to discuss Socialists.' supporters of the Young Socialists'. The real question is 'Do you principle of support the Right to Work?' If so, say so.

This backtracking by the com mittee and this shameful attack on young people marching for and against the Tories is jobs something which many workers are reading about in advertise- 'Morning Star' (in and ments "Tribune'). And they won't forget Yours fraternally, Gerry Caughey, Chairman, Pilkington Rank- and-file Committee.

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of success the five Right-to-Work marches are a clear answer to all those Stalinist and reformist traitors in the working class. Trade everywhere have unionists opened • their doors to these Young Socialists on the march.

This is the voice of the work- ing class fighting back and all the cowardly trade union and labour leaders in the world, could not halt this determina- tion. Workers Press Is fully behind these youth. Use the paper now in every way to mobilize a mass turn-out and great rally of wel- Sunday at the next come Empire Pool, Wembley. So press ahead with our fund this month.

our paper right out in Keep front. Send as much as you can to: Workers Press March Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. breakdown RAIl pay talks broke down after British Rail vesterday cffered 74 per cent and the three rail unions demanded 16 per cent. committee 'The executive were very annoyed indeed at the offer, said Ray Buckton, secretary of the foot- general platemen's union. ASLEF. 'We thought the board would realistic.' The two-day be more talks broke up and both sides are now considering the posi- tion.

GREET THE

MARCHERS WHEN

THEY REACH

LONDON

Saturday March 11

GLASGOW-TO-LONDON

arrives 10.30 a.m. Scotland Green, Labour Exchange, Tottenham High Rd MARCH through Tottenham to Stoke Newington

LIVERPOOL-TO-LONDON

arrives 10.30 a.m. Woodfands Ave, opposite Police stn, Acton MARCH through Acton and Shepherds Bush

SWANSEA-TO-LONDON

arrives 10.30 a.m. Hayes Bridge, opp Hambrough Tavern, Uxbridge Rd MARCH through Southall

DEAL-TO-LONDON

arrives 10.30 a.m. Elmington Rd, Camberwell Green MARCH through Brixton

• FROM PAGE ONE

ism is a counter revolutionary capitalist class of the agency in the workers' movement.

Far from our proud Trotskyist revolutionary heritage being an obstacle in the campaign for the 'right to work', it was, in fact, a decisive considerable and advantage. The more we were banned and proscribed, the more support we got on the narches from rank- unionists and , . and-file trade Labour Party members. working Why! Because the class 1s up in arms against the Tory and is government beginning to see where the real inside hides out the enemy leadership of the Labour and trade union movement. As the working strives class to establish its political indepen- dence, the more those workers- of whom are coming into some politics for the first time-begin to appreciate Trotskyism which is the application of Marxism to the major problems of the day.

Here we have the real political strength of the marches. is permissible for any It worker to agree or disagree with the Right-to-Work marches on the grounds of political strategy it is not tactics. But per- or missible to join the enemy, like the Communist Party has done, in whipping up hostility to the marchers. Real class can be the basis of socialist built on principles, whose application all requires the at times establishment of a class front against the common enemy.

To suggest that class-conscious workers were 'kidded' into sup- porting the marches is the CP pouring contempt upon sincere trade unionists by inferring that they cannot recognize the main Tory enemy and his agents.

With the marchers about» to enter London, our entire cam- Right-to-Work paign for the must be switched towards the sale of tickets and the appoint- delegations for the of ment Empire Pool. We are sure our readers will leave no stone unturned in wel- coming the marchers in this way.

Technical college teachers offered 7.5 pc ABOUT 50,000 further education teachers belonging to the Associ- ation of Teachers in Technical Institutions have been offered a 74 per cent pay rise. The ATTI is believed to be about to recommend acceptance.

originally The management the offered 7 percent and are claiming 12 teachers per cent.