Workers Press no. 710

workers press Tory policies 'do not seem likely to bring about a substantial reduction in unemployment-research report

JOBLESS WILL RISE

DAILY O

BY JOHN SPENCER

BRITAIN is heading for still higher unemployment, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research predicts in its quarterly report out yester- day. It says that present Tory govern- ment policies 'do not seem likely at all to bring about a substantial reduction in unemployment. It adds that unemployment will not be reduced unless the economic growth rate is more than doubled from its present level of 1.9 per cent a year. To bring down unemployment, the Institute says, the Tories would have to spending reduce and increase power by some £2,500m- -which is far in excess of anything planned for Chancellor Anthony Barber's forthcoming budget.

The Institute's proposals are the classic Keynesian approach • to reflating the crisis facing British economy. But capitalism cannot be solved by these finan- cial readjustments. tried the President Nixon same United reflationary techniques in the States over the last two years. His efforts a titanic deficit in the US produced balance of payments, forcing him to sever between gold and | the the connection dollar last August. In Canberra yesterday the secretary- general of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Emil Van Lennep predicted that unemployment to rise in all the OECD would continue countries-including most of W Europe, the US, Canada and Japan-at least until early next year. The Institute itself expresses concern over the future of British exports as a result of the international monetary crisis. Exports, it says, are affected by loss of competitiveness and restrictions imposed by other countries. This is borne out fully by the recent experience of the largest British mono- polies. Shell reported the loss of £22m last vear as a result of the currency crisis alone, while ICI profits fell by E14m.

and The continuing ICI reported: powerful influence of inflation throughout the world, and the currency problems of the latter months, provided an unfavour- able background to the growth of world production and trade in 1971/ It pointed out that world chemical pro- duction is now increasing by only 4 per cent a year, compared with an average rate of increase of 8ł per cent per year through the 1960s. The company's profits were trimmed by almost 10 per cent in 1971. Another index is the staggering drop of tools both new orders for machine at home and abroad-indicating a massive decline in manufacturing investment as employers prepare to meet the inter- national crisis. During the first three quarters of 1971 orders for these vital engineering new goods were down 53 per cent on the corresponding period of 1970.

This is what makes the Right-to-Work marches of such vital political importance for the working-class movement. These "single-issue' protest. marches are not a They organized to mobilize the are workers' movement to force the resigna- the Tory government and of the tion election of a Labour government pledged to implement socialist policies.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY MARCH 10, 1972 • No. 710 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

- SOGALSTS

WE DEMAND THI

RIGHT TO WIEL

WE DEMAND THE

DUNG SU

RIGHT TO WORK

SOUTHAMPTON TO

HovIs

LONDON 1972

MARCHES NEAR GOAL

Confed rejects

THE

Swansea-London the TUC of their and on any McGarvey deal Southampton-London Young organizations giving the young marchers help. socialist Kignt-to- work any marchers joined forces moral and financial sup- The Reading on Wednesday for port flows in, see p. 12. On the

BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

last leg of the same page you will find details the campaign as it moves into London. The of where to meet the marchers LEADERS of 100,000 shipyard workers yesterday three other in London on Saturday morn- marches Glas- rejected a proposed new wage structure recommended gow - London, Liverpool-Lon- ing. For a diary of events on all marches see pp. don, Deal-London- 10 and 11. -are all now by boilermakers' leader Danny MeGarvey. The Con- in the Home Counties and still And to be sure of your ticket federation of Shipbuilding unions executive turned for Sunday's great Empire Pool hnding tremendous support m the labour and trade rally, book immediately. down the offer, which would have given shipbuilders union movement. despite a £6 -a-week rise spread over two years, by 15 votes ban by both Labour Party and See details below and p. 4.

to seven. MeGarvel at talk:

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who agreed the deal

EMPIRE POOL

London earlier this month, had hoped quick ratification that he could settle with the employers. But Confederation

WEMBLEY

policy against long- is term deemeals.

SUNDAY MARCH 12

The executive wants across - the - board offer. AT 3 p.m. GREET THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS WHO HAVE MARCHED FROM It also felt the cash

SOUTHAMPTON

AND DEAL

DEMANDING

GOW,

LIVERPOOL,

SWANSEA,

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workers press Tory policies 'do not seem likely to bring about a substantial reduction in unemployment —research report

JOBLESS WILL RISE

DAILY O

BY JOHN SPENCER

BRITAIN is heading for still higher unemployment, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research predicts in its quarterly report out yester- It says that present Tory govern- ment policies do not seem likely at all to bring about a substantial reduction in unemployment. It adds that unemployment will not the economic unless be reduced growth rate is more than doubled from its present level of 1.9 per cent a year. To bring downi Institute says, the Tories would have to reduce power by some £2,500m—which is far in excess of anything planned for Chancellor Anthony Barber's forthcoming budget.

The Institute's proposals are the classic the Keynesian approach reflating to the crisis facing British But economy. capitalism cannot be solved by these finan- cial readjustments. President Nixon tried the same United reflationary techniques in the States over the last two years. His efforts a titanic deficit in the US produced balance of payments, forcing him to sever between gold and the the connection dollar last August. In Canberra yesterday the secretary- general of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development Emil Van Lennep predicted that unemployment would continue to rise in all the OECD countries-including most of W Europe, the US, Canada and Japan—at least until early next year. The Institute itself expresses concern over the future of British exports as a of international monetary result the crisis. Exports, it says, are affected by loss of competitiveness and restrictions imposed by other countries. This is borne out fully by the recent of the largest British mono- experience the loss of £22m polies. Shell reported last year as a result of the currency crisis alone, while ICI profits fell by f14m.

reported: The continuing and

ICI

powerful influence of inflation throughout the world, and the currency problems of the latter months, provided an unfavour- able background to the growth of world production and trade in 1971.'

It pointed out that world chemical pro- duction is now increasing by only 4 per cent a year, compared with an average rate of increase of 8} per cent per year through the 1960s. The company's profits were trimmed by almost 10 per cent in 1971. Another index is the staggering drop of for machine tools both new orders at abroad-indicating a massive home and decline in manufacturing investment as employers prepare to meet the inter- national crisis. During the first three quarters of 1971 orders for these vital engineering 'new goods were down 53 per cent on the corresponding period of 1970.

This is what makes the Right-to-Work marches of such vital political importance for the working-class movement. These 'single-issue' marches are not a protest: mobilize They organized to the are workers' movement to force the resigna- tion of the Tory government and the election of a Labour government pledged to implement socialist policies.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY MARCH 10, 1972 •

No. 710 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

WE DEMAND THE

SWANSEA TO LONDON

RIGHT TO WORK

WE DEMAND

SOUTHAMPTON TO

HOviS

LONDON 1972

MARCHES NEAR GOAL

Confed rejects

THE

Swansea-London and

TUC

of their on any Mccarvey deal Southampton-London Young organizations giving the young Right-to-Work marchers any help. socIalIsi joined and financial marchers forces the moral sup- 12. On the Reading on Wednesday for port flows in, see p.

BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

the last leg of the same page you will find details campaign as it moves into London. The of where to meet the marchers LEADERS of 100,000 shipyard workers yesterday three other in London on Saturday morn- Glas- rejected a proposed new wage structure recommended gow - London, Liverpool-Lon- For a diary of events on 10 and II. don, Deal-London—are all now all marches see pp. by boilermakers' leader Danny McGarvey. The Con- in the Home Counties and still And to be sure of your ticket federation of Shipbuilding unions executive turned finding tremendous support in the labour and trade union ally, book immediately down the offer, which would have given shipbuilders despite movement. 'his is a f6 -a-week rise spread over two years, by 15 votes ban by both Labour Party and See details below and p. 4.

to seven.

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EMPIRE POOL

London earlier this month, had for hoped quick ratification that he could settle with the employers. But Confederation

WEMBLEY

policy is against long- Let caucas

SUNDAY MARCH 12

The executive wants across - the - board offer. AT 3 p.m. GREET THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS WHO HAVE MARCHED FROM

GLAS-

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SWANSEA, SOUTHAMPTON

AND DEAL DEMANDING

GOW,

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RIGHT TO WORK

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MOLLY MALLOY

DANCERS, GEORGE MELLY,

JOHN HOLDER, PAUL JONES,

"If comes to the crunch, will our union

SPIKE MILLIGAN, ADRIAN MITCHELL

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday March 10,

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NAZI WAR criminal Dr Josef Mengele of the Auschwitz concentration camp is be- lieved to be hiding with German settlers in a wild mountainous region of Peru.

Mengele carried out gruesome experiments on living people in the notorious death camp dur- ing World War Il. After Bor- mann, Hitler's deputy, he was the most wanted war criminal, and like him his trace was lost after the war. Lima police confirmed that Mengele was being hunted in Peru. Mrs Beate Klarsfeld, who has been trying to establish that naturalized Bolivian businessman Klaus Altmann is really the former head of the Gestapo in Lyons, claims that Bormann is also hiding in S Peru. The French government's re- quest for Altmann's extradition has been rejected by Col Banzer's government. Reports that Mengele came to Peru at the end of 197l and had made contact with Altmann and other ex-Nazi refugees were received by the judge investigat- ing the New Year's day stabbing of the wealthy Peruvian, Luis Banchero Rossi.

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headed although much of the Speaking in Shanghai, Chinese backing 'until binanolkcaamedNixod volluicd. COUry total victory' in Indo- drew blank his shake-up aimed to settle the control of the Cam- In China. efforts his the between bodian army. to wind up The convention Indo-China problem Minister Marshal Saine The Chinese Premier's and end Chou nad toia Nixon LOn NO expectee promise came in vietnet- China could not act as opponents. work by laying down Vietnam for Wild between republican the appoint- an intermediary aicw 1 ulco Prime Pham Minister of a Tie us CORsEubor Demne •rovisiolld Vạn Dong and exile Chinese liberation move- debated by special president and assembly Prince of Sihanouk former changes are ment. convention Cambodia. it senators and deputies. pected strengthen Chou told me They feared Peking China's duty The aim is to have it Lon Nols nana. was

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the same time build up the image o une resDons De organization well able to run the affairs of the bourgeois state as part of a coalition government That the leadership whv has responded violently against the activity left- wing organizations following the Sorter Rene-Piere former Renault Overney. worker the French CP. ALLOUInY LO " tose. who disturb the estab- lished order. whether in factories the universities, are dave fn e bos o coe government, which is preparing to launch a repression. Is desperately afraid of repetition the revolutionary events of May-June 1968 to appear as the party of tres OrOC. i

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American multi- On occasions this damaged BASQUES and Spaniards living business interests. national nove lo are picketing Swiss Lichtenstein neutral US firms operating in Canada French embassy in Knightsbridge, headquarters to ayoid US laws.

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soeece Filo e toneti viet e recent visit to a White House conference The changeover from national Paris Industrial World Ahead'. to foreign status could cost a 25 forces, Spanish une

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Subsidiaries capital gains tax on the wele. per cent France has tightened up its con- some extent. instrument sale of share capital trols over Spanish political lansiel American apleld ..American arm involved. refugees. what im- culicu their drive foi Among those expelled from Detasa multi-national corporations are as of H rAnCe result . •TRe such round collaboration between the French

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101 @ way according Spanish security services is obstacies, Uer and I would like information about Ganduld• sene resentes His be some- tary of the Spanish Communist threats may thing of a try-on to persuade the Party. FOUR young Administranon to relax anu-rusi Basques- -Luis and tax laws to prevent the cor- Uribarri, Luis Alacala.

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porations from moving their bases José Iriarte Francisco and Cabases-are staging protest omner countuies. probable that many strike in a church in the But it is nunger of them will do so if they think Ne auster s oo oe will them scope for French government's actions.

give send to NATIONAL and their international broadening

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interests and making bigger Student shot profits. ANKARA police shot and killed Sarajevo VW flat where he was hiding yester- day after he had refused a call VOLKSWAGEN is to set up an assembly and accessory | plant in Gogan SulTCnCCT NUlay Yugoslavia at Vogosca near student of architecture, had been on run for 'year from It will have a capacity Dalaevo. martial law authorities. of 10,000 cars per year. +. AFRICANS are being shot down by soldiers and police in Namibia (SW Africa), an Anglican bishop said in Lon- don yesterday. Speaking at Heathrow Airport, Bishop Colin Winter said martial was now operating in the law country. The bishop, who has just been deported by Vorster's apartheid regime, said it was impossible to tell police from soldiers.

"They wear the same khaki combat uniform and carry sten guns,' he said. Four of his parishioners had been shot dead by police and soldiers as they walked home from a church meeting. The official version of the incident, which took place in Ovamboland on January 30, was theer beindice had opened fire attacked by 100 armed with pangas tribesmen and bows and arrows. He spoke from information provided by members of his church who were present. One youth of 19 who took fright was shot at point-blank range by a S African police captain. "Immediately the rest of the patrol opened fire and the youth's head was splintered by bullets,' the bishop said. When other Africans began to run away, police fired on the killing three and crowd more wounded others, one of whom later died. Emergency regulations force Ovamboland are following the strike of 13,000 mineworkers. Hundreds of people have been arrested and are being detained without being charged or the chance of legal aid. The bishop is travelling to United New York to seek Nations help. new UN secretary- But the Kurt Waldheim, is at general present in S Africa holding talks illegal with Vorster on Namibia by the seizure of apartheid regime. Phantom downed THE US command in Saigon yesterday admitted the loss of a Phantom jet in strikes at gun batteries along the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. The two crewmen were listed as missing. N Vietnam has built up heavy air defences along the route over which troops and supplies move S. The US source claimed to have hit two ground batteries which fired on reconnaissance planes. Licensed accidents holiday

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town, Skopje, once the centre of a tragic earthquake, has more recently been the focus of a trial of 15 officials for accepting bribes to issue driving licences.

Most of the driving test com- mission and instructors were selling licences to people who failed the test as many as 15 times. In addition they received expensive presents from the "suc- cessful' candidates. It is alleged that holders of caused false driving licences several traffic accidents in Mace- donia and even several deaths.

Oil talks A TEAM of Japanese officials and experts from business firms is to make a three-week survey of Siberian oilfields. The 15-man team is to inspect the oil reserves in the Tyumen district and consider the possi- bility of a pipeline to link up with a Siberian port facing the Japan seas. It will also hold talks in Mos- -cow about the technical problems involved. If the team makes a favourable report, the Japanese government is expected to approve $1,000m bank loans to cover one third of exploitation of the cost. The Siberian natural resources by Japanese capitalists would then go ahead.

attack on the W German opposition in yesterday's 'Pravda' , accusing it of oppos- ing a detente in Europe. The attack appeared in lengthy front-page article calling for the convocation of a Euro- Conference. pean Security It accused the Christian Democrats in Bonn of being 'unwilling to abandon the ill-fated road to revenge-seeking' , by which is a revision of existing meant as drawn up after the frontiers German defeat in World War II.

•Moscow's foreign policy hinges very much on a reconciliation basis with W Germany as the for a general settlement with the capitalist states to European accept the existing division of the continent. This aim supported • has been by" Social-Democratic Prime Minister Willy Brandt who, as • signed part of his ''Ostpolitik', agreements with the Soviet Union and Poland. Without a ratification of the treaties in Bonn, there is no prospect of a European Security Conference being held. Hence the growing concern in Moscow at the delay.

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planning re-arming Pakistan, claimed Mrs Indira Gandhi at a big election rally in W Bengal. Referring to the US annual foreign policy report, she pointed out that it accused India of responsibility for the war with Pakistan last December. I wonder why they should repeat these lies', she said. 'I think they want to do something sinister in the future and are only preparing the ground.'

Mrs Gandhi also attacked the reference to Kashmir in the Sino- American statement issued after Nixon's visit to China, as an in- tolerable interference in Indian internal affairs. Adapting herself to the radical political climate in Bengal, Mrs praised the 'courage and Gandhi detérmination of the people of Vietnam fighting for their N° freedom. Her main emphasis was on the need for a strong India.

The Bengal election campaign has been stormy with ten deaths far. Polling takes place tomorrow. Tillon in Overney attack 'POLITICAL madness' is how Charles Tillon, a former com- Minister in the French munist government describes the Com- •Party attitude over the munist killing of Rene-Pierre Overney by a Renault security guard.

In a letter to 'Le Monde' say- ing that he had taken no active calling in of part the the demonstration at the Charonne metro station • last week, Tillon compares the CP's policy with denunciation of the Stalinist 'social social - democrats as period before fascists' in the Hitler took power. -In the name of Pompidou's order', he goes on, 'the Com- invented munist has Party "leftist-fascism": In its eyes, all those. who criticize its apprecia- tion of the political situation anti-communist. This become of political madness is form Stalinist. 'But if to say so is to partici- "in a vast enterprise pate political provocation behalf on of the power" I must take my.

share of the abuse of the lead- ing group of the French CP beside all those sufficiently free to salute with • head held high the memory of the worker Rene- Pierre Overney.' Workers Press, Friday March 10, 1972 PAGE 3

BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

THE TUC has advised the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers to refer key bargaining areas to the Commis- Industrial Relations. sion It on has also advised the union to submit evidence on wage councils in the clothing industry to the Department of Employment.

This completely contravenes the 1971 Throughout its history, this has been the

TUC

rer-nave volenuy concemneo s Ine miners decision co-operate with not to crumbs settlement and are extremely hostile to any rore Teromnsn- —O I seek a lew the CIR or any other body with powers during boom periods, but to sacrifice the possibility in the wage settlements nation- working class to the requirements of capital- 7 to allucu aDOVt o- oei-Cen ism when it laces collapse norm. They did this, above all, in Germany under This is the class realty Wich tes beneatn the republic when they co-operated Staldess aad the soot hin the ordo of tes and the desperate retreat of the Labourites Weimar with successive rie s-wing gove co-eris, eier the lengths to seeking with seinl LuCAsL Hitler after It is this reality which has ie cante lo boweroul

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produced the for them-as Trotsky pointed out- Trotskyists® unprecedented support for the laws • of history more powerful than marches and Sunday's HUOn TOYO' the bureaucratic apparatus' Empire Pool rally. class-confrontation is on the cards and Labour Despite the right wing and the Stalinists netvers decua mor mre reromse cor avore it. openty inns up wiln iones LO r O ONDI the campaign, Labour and Communist Party As Workers Press explained on March 6, it members and supporters in the unions have was collision the big oLU- flocked to its support employers and the government which force This is the result of the political situation Heath to settie the miners' strike. Heath had to pay because sections of the big deve oon roodv. une workme cass. docker were war its official leaders, expresses its hostility employers preparing without waiting for their to the Tories by supporting the campaign working class, the Socialist That is why the building ot paramentary representalves These employers are out of line with the party wentol …abour Benemenlo arecalorary of them—-like Engineering this year will mark a huge leap forward fo government. Association president Ernest Bar- Trotskyism. per cent of needed by the end of Labour Scheme in order to London's dock labour force this year. introduce compulsory Oers. This is why bosses redundaney, which they will be the bul lo lo lc-unc do under present have called off the fight against the Tories ments so determined to stick by july, are

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just as the government was on the point of to figures issued by the their decision send annemans after and the 40 Tilbury dockers back to There have so far been collapse the miners' strike employers. one-day strikes the unattached pool. They three connon Market soil. This figure will increase being sent aKAISI with the scheduled transfer shall follow them with back With the economic crisis intensifying, to the of African and Far Eastern halving of national stoppage and consequent Common Market wendo ment noud threatened for next month Southampton's Lade entry leading inevitably to massive price container port. increases, reformists now act consci- addition, em- sune enolove s set LS an Up to 30 per cent of the ployers are bound to seek the pay-off for Devlin and ously to rescue the Heath government and they mean business. changes the Dock preserve capitalism. present work force will not Moscow Trials Anthology THE TWO-YEAR Diploma in indeed posals seek to continue. Paperback , 622p debilitae sh thei teaenes that ss- Higher Education, 1c-Ull1" debilitates teaching profes-

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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- is a challenge paign 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, WI2. 7pm

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THROUGHOUT LONDON

MONDAY MARCH 13

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

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

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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

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A of American group businessmen visited Brazil at the beginning of the year to study possibilities for new investment in the police-state of General Emilio Garrastazu Medici. Cabinet Minister Costa Cavalcanti escorted them to the exploitable Amazon. The fourteen-strong American delegation was headed by Fowler Hamilton, a one-time adviser of President Kennedy and a creator of that instrument of American imperialism, the Alliance for Progress. As they made their way into the Amazon region, Cavalcanti them of the huge oppor- told tunities for foreign capital. The begun the con- government has a highway which struction of cuts Brazil in two from the jungle to the coast, opening the region up for exploitation.

Cavalcanti stated that the jungle could best be handled through the creation of mixed enterprise ventures. This formula has already been used to hand over to US steel the iron reserves in the Para state. But the Amazon has many other riches. In the Naraba zone, the banks of the on Tocantins, there are deposits of diamonds, iron, manganese. The biggest gold deposits are in the Itatuiba region in the N and in Alto Xingu there are • major copper and lead deposits. To the of Para there are huge manganese deposits. Several foreign consortia have already started working on the Rondonia tin and Brazil will soon be a major exporter. The quality of tin from Malaysia, the world's top producer, is seven times lower than the Amazon deposits. Brazilian companies have formed 'associations' with foreign companies to exploit the metal.

In these companies the foreign firm provides the capital and technology and in return receives big tax concessions. These are so high that practi- cally half the investment funds for any project come from the state. The other major attraction is the virtual slave-labour condi- tions in many parts of the region.

Apart from tin and iron ore, major corporations have already been granted concessions for the exploitation of the wood re- Medici: keeps Brazil an open-house for sources in the Amazon, and Deltec Finance Corporation, part of the Rockefeller Empire, preparing to exploit the region's considerable livestock resources.

Foreign capital is already firmly installed in the other sectors of the Brazilian economy.

The motor industry is entirely The Ford in foreign hands. Motor Company is to use new production methods to keep pace with the rising demand for cars and commercial vehicles Brazil. Volkswagen have purchased land in the Taubate in : the Paraiba valley where they aim to build a second factory. They plan to invest $200m in the establish- ment of the new plant and in building extensions their to present one in San Bernardo.

General Motors has registered $8.3m profits in its second year of operations in the country.

Foreign capital controls many other important sectors of the economy. Recent figures show that direct foreign capital in Brazil totals $2,500m, of which 42 per cent comes from the US. Half of this is reinvestment of profits made in Brazil. The next biggest investors are Germany, W Canada, Britain, Switzerland and Japan. Japanese capital is displaying an increasing interest in Brazil.

Recently the Nippon Usiminas company decided to extend its holding in the Brazilian Usiminas Steel Company $63m. This to represents Japan's biggest foreign investment ever. The state-controlled Petroquisa If the United States con- tinues its present external monetary policy there is no chance of getting back to a stable system' French Fin- ance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (left) told a Euro- pean and American business- men's conference at Versailles last week. He warned that failure to international implement the monetary agreement made at Washington on December 18 could have grave political con- Giscard d'Estaing sequences. went out of his way to emphasize the differences between France and the US on monetary ques- tions and showed his lack confidence in American policy.

The prevailing feeling • among the top businessmen was that there should be a speedy return to a stable world monetary sys- tem and world trade. But there was no agreement on what poli- -house for Imperiallst powers an offshoot of Petro- Company, bras, has just announced agree- ment with the Goodyear Tyre Company for the production of rubber, latex and special resins.

bids Takeover have been announced for the Usufarma and Inquibras laboratories: the Brazilian pharmaceutical industry is already principally in foreign hands. British capitalists, rather lag- • ging in the queue for fat profits in Brazil, have outlined plans for the exploitation of minerals and sugar with the installation of factories to make sugar deriva- ties, plastics and detergents in NE Brazil where the government ofier big tax incentives.

The Power Gas Company of Britain and the Mitsubishi Kaisha of Japan have been awarded a licence for setting up a methane plant in Bahia. Brazilian entrepreneurs are a bit worried about the situation.

The plan for the methane plant sparked off a protest in Guna- bara where a Brazilian company already operates a plant.

Coffee industry told bosses Cabinet Minister Pratini de foreign Moraes that interests were threatening to take over the internal market. The government has just withdrawn 30 per cent of the subsidies enjoyed by Brazilian coffee manufacturers who replied that the market was being handed over on a plate to American firms. As far as Medici is concerned, " there is open-house for the different imperialist powers in Brazil. cies were likely to produce this happy state of affairs. Meeting in the shadow of depression and a year of mone- tary chaos the business chiefs were agreed that they would like to see stability rest red to the world monetary system. They called for an early return to a freely convertible dollar and for the manufacture of a mass of 'paper based on new gold', special drawing rights. Chairman David Rockefeller, of Chase National Bank, admitted afterwards that few new sugges- tions had been made to cope with threatening monetary dis- turbances. In the talks on trade the most contentious issues such as the Common Market preferences and agricultural policy were not brought up. But the businessmen were agreed that there should be freer movement for invest- which could only ment capital take place if there was harmony on trade and monetary policy.

The Americans present departed Giscard with d'Estaing's challenge ringing in their ears: "The era of joint float- ing or revaluation by European countries is over. The era of massive dollar support by Euro- pean Central Banks is over too.'

Workers Prese Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev being built up as a great war for hero, greatly concerned the welfare of his troops.

The boost came in a serial in 'New Times' about the Soviet 18th army in which Brezhnev served as political commissar.

A soldier recalls how he went to the front with Brezhney when it was under heavy enemy fire . with casualties. Col many Brezhnev calmed hysterical young lieutenant who was calling on his men not to retreat, seized the only available machine gun and, sitting in a pool of blood, began firing it at the Germans in short bursts. When the ammunition ran out he ordered the troops to get.

their grenades ready and prepare cora Press, Friday March 10, 1972 PAGE 5 for hand-to-hand fighting.

On another occasion when a superior officer ordered him out of the thick of the battle for his safety's sake he replied: 'My place is where the situation demands the speediest execution of mili- tary duty' Praise of this sort, reminiscent of the adulation bestowed on Stalin, and continued in a minor key Khrushchev, under has generally been muted since 1964.

It has now been decided to into sharper bring Brezhnev focus and build him up as an outstanding personality capable of matching up to President Nixon! Leonid Brezhnev during the Second World War. Above: with comrades of the Sovlet 18th army.

PAGE 6 Workers Preas, Friday March 10, 1972

BY JOHN SPENCER

US H-bomb explosion at Bikini A former United States Air Atoll, which Force sergeant has caused a polsoned crew members of the Japanese fish- storm of criticism against the ing boat 'Lucky Dragon'. Japanese government by re- US military spokesmen vealing that nuclear weapons declined Connell based in have long been Hubbard's charge. Capt Tony Japan together with troops Brown, public relations trained to operate them. director at the Yokota base, said the report was incredible.

The of nuclear He said he had never weapons is ultra-sensitive in heard Japan where two atomic that nuclear weapons had been weapons brought the base. At used against

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TO Nagasaki Hiroshima and Misawa and Kadena bases, 1945. Under the US-Japanese however, the authorities kept of 1958, their mouths shut. One official security treaty the would like to Americans are obliged to con- said he study sult the Japanese government the context of the remarks.

Later the US embassy pro- before introducing nuclear into the country. duced an unconvincing denial.

weapons The 36-year-old former GI, It said the US had never Al Hubbard, was master- violated the prior consultation sergeant in the US Air Force the agreement concerning stationed Tachikawa of nuclear air transport weapons, base from 1963 to 1965. His although the embassy refrained job as flight navigator involved from contradicting the detailed charges made by Hubbard. transporting nuclear weapons US bases This implies that nuclear to various America, Europe and Asia, weapons were brought in with using C124 planes. the connivance of the japanese flew Indeed Prime Altogether he more government. Eisaku than 200 missions with nuclear Minister Sato. himself More than 20 of said that he was convinced the weapons. US would not attempt to bring these missions were to the Yokota, Misawa, Johnson and without nuclear weapons Kadena air bases in Japan.

prior notice to the government.

The nuclear weapons Opposition deputies in the One Diet (parliament) grilled of two kinds. was about Foreien Minister Takeo 12 feet long and five feet high alled the B43. and the othel Fukuda last week on the by Hubbard. was contained in a cage called charges raised the 'bird cage' about two feet Socialist Party deputy Yano- high. He said that as a flight suke Narazaki told the Diet engineer he had not been in a troops that nuclear were fifth base to know whether the stationed at in Iwakuni equipped with nuclear weapons were stored in Japan US after though the delivery. weapons, Hubbard, who is now active authorities claimed they were in the anti-war movement, only undergoing training.

"The US military has made his shock revelation at a admitted that nuclear troops rally organized to commemor- were stationed at the Iwakuni ate the 18th anniversary of the Al Hubbard: revealed that nuclear arms have been fiown to Japan base, but said they were training,' undergoing merely Narazari said. 'But actually under- not merely they are going training. They are com- bat troops' He added that US were also undergoing troops nuclear weapons training at other bases in Japan. director Defence bureau Takuya Okubo said he had no knowledge of such troops stationed. at US bases. Narazaki replied that: 'The US • military's replies to the Jap- government on this anese question showed there were nuclear troops stationed at US bases other than the Iwakuni base. 'The US military said, how- presence of that the ever, nuclear troops at the bases did the not necessarily mean presence of nuclear weapons.'

added there He that was evidence to show that nuclear were stored at the weapons Iwakuni base. In addition, the telephone directory Iwakuni base listed an NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical warfare) platoon. 'The directory also lists an engineer corps, a supply oficer, an operation officer and to check The US • an officer assigned weapons,' Narazaki nuclear said. 'This means nuclear exist at the do weapons Iwakuni base.' The 15th corps to which this is thought to unit belongs, in Japan from • war ha have arrived Vietham 1969. early in ases did Similar units are stationed at US hac Yokota and Misaw directes bases. Ezaki, Masumi japan an ergoing haining, ack defence rather than [sic]. front organization, nuclear weapons were stored Hubbard and this fellow pilots.

after delivert Y6ls Hubbard's bombs, ing send the bombs on to Vietnam from Japan. If the bombs were on their US Vietnam, the way to military could have sent them Honolulu and Guam, Via 'shortest and which is the safest' route. us pani constitute relia and 'umbrella', • and military there is every indication that the US found would have strategic value in stationing nuclear weapons so close to China and the Soviet Union.

better This would make nilitary sense than deployins in vulnerable s the bombs Korea which has already once been overrun by N Korea. The whole controversy has burst at a. most embarrassing for the Japanese moment military and the Sato govern- ment. Sato is busy building up and expanding the Japanese constitutional despite army, obstacles. His relations with the US have come under heavy fire recently as a result of the Okinawa reversion treaty has sparked violent which opposition both on the island of Okinawa and on the main- land itself. painful revival of The of Hiroshima and memories Nagasaki is not at all to the liking of Sato and are already colleagues, who dreaming of establishing another 'Greater Asian Co- Top: prosperity Sphere' as a way busy • of the financial and out Japan economic problems crowding demor in on Japanese big business.

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ГЛУБ ДВУКРЫ! МЕЖДУ КИТАЕМ И СССР Stalin persists in collaborating with the nationalists. Portraits on display In February 1946 show Stalin, Lenin, Sun Yat-son and Chiang Kai-shek PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday March 10, Who is General Chiang Kai-shek? Part 3 After, World War II, im- perialism was saved by Stalinism. In Italy and France, armed workers under Com- munist Party leadership handed their arms over to the state while their leaders joined coalition governments to shore up capitalism. in Yugoslavia The Stalinists and Russia stood by while the communist revolution in Greece was bloodily suppressed. Churchill recounts a private session with Stalin in October, 1944: *I said "Let us settle about our affairs in the Balkans. Your armies are in Rumania and Bul- garia. We have interests, mis- sions and agents there. •"Don't let us get at cross- purposes in small ways. So far Britain and Russia are con- as cerned, how would it do for you to have 90 per cent predominance in Rumania, for us to have 90 Chiang Kai-shek per cent of the say in Greece, Yugoslavia?" and 50-50 about While this was being translated, I wrote out on a half sheet of paper : •Rumania: Russia 90 per cent The others 10 per cent. 'Greece: Britain (in accord with USA) 90 per cent. Russia 10 per cent. 'Yugoslavia: 50-50 per cent.

'Hungary: 50-50 per cent.

'Bulgaria: Russia 75 per cent.

Stalin, Truman and Churchill at Potsdam ir March 10, 1972 Stalln persists in collaborating with the i The others 25 per cent. 'I pushed this across io Stalin, who had by then heard the translation. There was a slight Then he took his blue pause. pencil and made a large tick upon it... I said "Might it not be thought rather cynical if it seemed we had disposed of these issues, so fateful to millions of people, in such an offhand man- ner? Let us burn the paper.

" "No, you keep it", ', said Stalin." By this time, of course, Stalin had already abolished the 'Com- munist' International. That rot- ting corpse had been laid in its grave in May, 1943. In America, the Communist Party. leader, Earl Browder, took this to its logical conclusion and proposed the liquidation of American Communist Party.

the The line of Stalinism every- where was full co-operation with capitalism, along the lines laid down by the Big Three-America, Russia and Britain-at the con- ferences of Yalta, Potsdam and Tehran. In Britain in 1945 the Com- munist Party campaigned not for a Labour victory over the Tories, Potsdam in July 1945 with the nationalists. Portraits on display in F but for a continuation of the war- coalition time under Churchill. Britain, said 'Labour Monthly' in April, 1945, 'will require national unity of a strong and united Britain ... by a government . . : which will be representative of the entire country and not only a section. It would be danger- ously unrealistic for the labour progressive movement and opinion to dismiss without con- sideration the need for a national in the transition government following victory in years Europe." In Asia, imperialism faced-if possible-even worse dangers than in Europe. The rout of the British army in the early years of the war had greatly encour- aged the colonial masses so long oppressed by it. The French were to be involved in a bloody war which was to end in them being driven out of SE Asia. And in China? The imperialists - especially America-were worried because the fighters against real the Chiang Japanese had not been Kai-shek's troops, but the Red Army of Mao Tse-tung. The at- play in February 1946 show Stalin, Lenin, Sur titude of Russia, therefore, was vital. President Truman sent Harry Hopkins, a former close adviser for confidential ot Roosevelt, talks with Stalin during the Pots- dam Conference.? Hopkins reported that Stalin supported the American conten- that China should tion be a unified, integrated state-i.e. not split between the communists and Chiang. Stalin also stated that he felt the United States in • should play the largest part in helping China get on its feet.

As Hopkins said: By such amiable and consent to open American aims and stardom in China, he had months before he convinced our Ambassador China, Patrick J. Hurley, that we could count on his aid.' Truman's representative, Harri- man, then asked Stalin a series of pointed questions: What would Stalin's attitude be if China was not unified when Soviet troops entered Manchuria? Would the Marshal (Stalin) consider it possible in that case to make the necessary arrangements with Chiang Kai-shek? Stalin, says Hopkins, answered without pause: 'The Soviet government did to alter the sov- not propose ereignty of China over Manchuria or any other part of China and the Soviet Union had no terri- torial claims on China. This was reassuring to the Americans, since Hopkins' mis- sion had been to extract from talks with Stalin information use to the that would be of Americans in deciding whether it was to their advantage to con- tinue to place their trust in the secret agreements already reached at Yalta. The Americans continued to question the so-called "leader of world revolution': Was the Stalin going to ask Chiang Kai- shek to organize a civil adminis- tration when Soviet troops en- tered Manchuria? He would, Stalin replied: 'In Manchuria or any other Soviet part of China where went, the Chinese civil troops could be set up administration by Chiang Kai-shek.' 'Chiang could send his repre- sentatives to set up their Kwan- tung (nationalist)_regime in any areas where the Red Army was, -enin, Sun Yat-sen and Chlang Kai-shek Soviet government and the was prepared to talk with the Chinese.

If Chiang wanted representatives in the area where. the Russian Army would be, they would be quite prepared to accept them.'

Stalin was as good as his word.

He supported the Americans in their insistence that all Japanese forces should surrender to Chiang's forces and not to Mao's Red Army. Stalin overrode the protestations of Red Army leader Chu Teh, who had large units of forces ready to sur- Japanese render. Stalin kept his forces in Man- churia after the Japanese sur- render and handed over control only when the US had navy shipped half Chiang a million troops round communist-held territory and into Manchuria.

And when the Civil War erupted, Stalin supported Chiang.

Even after the fall of Peking on January 31, 1949, Stalin refused to recognize the communists as the new rulers of China. And in April when. the new nationalist capital of Nanking fell to Mao's Red Army, the only country not to withdraw its em- bassy was the Soviet Union. Even then Russia concluded a 'pact of lasting co-operation' with Chiang regime. As Hopkins had reported: 'In regard to the Generalissimo (Chiang), Stalin said he knew little of any Chinese leader, but he felt that Chiang Kai-shek was the best of the lot and would be the one to undertake the unification of China. He said he saw no other possible leader and that, for example, he didn't be- lieve that the Chinese communist leaders were as good or would be able to bring about the unifica- tion of China." as Chiang Kai-shek ekes out his last days on Taiwan, he can recall the days of glory pro- vided for him by Stalin and re- flect on the fact that, if Stalin had had his way, there would have been different host for Nixon in Peking.

CONCLUDED

1 W. S. Churchill Triumph and Tragedy', pp. 227-228, quoted in 'Stalinism in Britain', Robert Black, p. 193. " See Black op. cit., p. 204.

3 A full account of these talks can be found in Herbert lerbeat Feis" 'Between Wa rand pp. 112f. 4 Feis op. cit., p. 114.

GUIDE TO CAPITAL

Unemployed queueing for jobs in ment to the Investment policies of th The slick style, the appar- ently new and attractive theșis and general air of fashionableness about this book has already achieved for it some influence in left' circles. But while it rejects some of the common dogmas of bourgeois economics, its level is very much that of reformist trade unionism, which is not surprising as the author has worked for many as an economist for years American unions. It offers a explanation new for the inflation of the past decade or so and ties it in with the growth of the 'multinationals' and with automation and the advance in technology. It is pep- pered with facts and figures and features revealing quotes from economists and businessmen which apparently give substance to the argument of the book.

Levinson rejects the view that inflation has been a result of pressure for wage increase or ex- cess public spending. In his view it is bound up with the invest- ment policies of the giant multi- national and corporations the structural changes which capital- ism has undergone under the influence of advanced technology.

He sets out to explain why inflationary pressures have per- sisted despite deflationary policies and industrial stagnation or re- cession and why unemployment has not been reduced by inflation or anti-cyclical government poli- cies. He finds the answer in the policies of the giant corporations which dominate the capital-inten- sive industries. These firms, he claims, because of their monopoly position in the market, are able to fix prices to maximize profit- ability and provide funds for investment. But, because they employ advanced technology, wage costs form only a small part of their total outlay. They push up prices, not in response to wage pres- sures, but to increase the cash flow which permits continued growth. Machinery is substituted for labour, productivity increases and wage rises are easily absorbed.

If demand falls off, prices are not cut to increase sales, but raised income. to The restore emphasis. is. on. maintaining and bs in Los Angeles, USA. Levinson attempts cies of the giant 'multinational' corporations.

BY TOM KEMP

'CAPITAL, INFLATION AND THE

MULTINATIONALS', by Charles Levinson. George Allen and Un- win. £1.50. increasing investment, the bulk of which is financed from sales.

According to this theory the main reason for continued in- investment flation is the and price policy of the giant firms.

The continued rapid rate of tech- nological advance means that equipment rapidly becomes obso- lescent and has to be replaced.

Highly-skilled and trained workers are made redundant so that prices continue to rise even while technology and structural change create unemployment.

Levinson is good at describing certain of the features of mono- poly capitalism and even makes the future for people living under this system sound pretty horrify- ing. But he is a reformist trade union adviser, not a Marxist or a revolutionary. He assumes that capitalism will go on and on. He says nothing about the working class or its revolutionary role. The conclusions he draws from his analysis is that a few reforms are needed, not to replace the system, but to make it work better. He minimizes the international monetary crisis of recent years, discounts the monetary forces behind inflation the and the strength of the working class and assumes that growth is now built into the system. He sees not the essence of the crisis, but few symptoms and ignores altogether the Marxist analysis of capitalist development. attempts to tie Inflation and unemploy- That is why his book remains superficial. He has seized upon some aspects of modern capital- ism and magnified them out of all proportion. He has taken past trends and assumed their in- definite continuation into the future. He does not see the con- flict and the contradiction nor any sign of capitalism's decay and collapse. What it boils down to, then, is a tew arguments for trade union negotiators confronting manage- ment. What he says is that big afford higher corporations can wages and they will be beneficial all round; they would even, he maintains, help to moderate the rate of inflation. This conclusion he arrives at by claiming that higher wages mean bigger sales, which mean greater utilization of capacity and lower unit Consumer prices costs. could be lower, wages could be higher and investment rates still maintained. Marxists this argument For contains elementary tallacies. Workers do not 'buy back' what they produce; it ignores the dis- tinction between Dept. I (means production industries) and Dept. !! (means of consumption industries); it ignores the labour theory of value and the basic contradictions of capitalism.

Levinson's reformism comes out in the final chapter. He jus- tifies pure trade union militancy and puts forward a programme of structural reforms which in- cludes such soporifics as workers' shares and saving funds and 'participation by workers in the decision-making process, through sharing in the power which ownership of assets confers on management'. Implicitly he rejects the struggle to wrest control of the from instruments of production the ruling class and instead calls on trade unions to 'update their analyses and reactions to match the modern shape of industrial activity'. The gloss of modernity on this book, and the fact that it has some interesting observations to make about modern business, should mislead no reader into thinking that it is anything but the old reformist stuff which has been peddled in the trade union movement for years by enemies of Marxism and revolutionary politics. 4. n Workers Press, Friday March 10, 1972 PAGE 9 things for which housewives may be prepared to pay good money?' Why stop at these Dicken- Bernie Cornfeld, the sian policies? tycoon Investors behind the ailing Why not put the teenage Overseas Services (IOS), is still unemployed down the pits? making headlines in America.

Why make them not galley The irrepressible Cornfeld Slaves in the armed forces?

And, if they misbehave, we could always re-introduca the stocks! At a recent meeting of the Central London branch mittee of the National Union of Journalists, Mr Neal Ascher- son of the 'Observer' said that Ron Knowles's views 'did not fair showing in "The get a Journalist"' 'The Journalist' is the NUJ's official newspaper. Allen Hutt, editor of "The Journalist' and a Communist Party In member, replied: of copy fact, every item re- Cornfeld : police suspiclous is just about to open a gigantic ballroom. features all the It usual trendy trimmings flashing lights, colour crazy paintings on the ceiling. But one item is pure Cornfeld. It is a parlour Hashish called simply "The police Room'. The local are believed to be suspicious.

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Labourites into backing action PAGE 10 Workers Press, Friday March 10, 1972

BY OUR OWN REPORTERS

STEPHEN JOHNS, IAN YEATS,

DAVID MAUDE, PHILIP WADE

AND GARY GURMEET

AFTER AN hour-long 'siege' of the town hall by chanting Young Socialists, Woolwich council defied Labour Transport House and the TUC and gave hospitality to the jobs marchers. Earlier Woolwich Labour Party N. Stevens secretary ordered a YS deputation ask- for of the ing support out Party's offices. The Co-op also refused any help. column or more timan 20 Youble But at lunchtime double Socialists in high spirits after walk from Belvedere, their where they had spent the night, marched to the town hall.

Within an hour of an initial Woolwich cold - shouldering Labour leader and prospective Labour parliamentary candidate Cart- for Bexleyheath Mr John wright intervened.

A WOOLWICH OFFICIAL SU

The marchers were invited into the town clerk's department for coffee and then news came that the council would lay on a free three-course meal in their can- teen. In addition they opened a sec- of stage three housing used tion the for London's homeless SO marchers could the night stav and mattresses and bedding were supplied. Said marcher John Strand: l was really impressed. The coun- shows we can do cil's decision have something. Men like these got all the power and we're just a relatively small group of people, yet we frightened the hell out of them! added: It And John Quilty I've fantastic. never anyone shake me so much as the to at the we spoke who men town hall.' By mid-aftèrnoon after a march Woolwich town centre, round with tins were heavy collecting again sold cash and sellers once out of the Workers Press. 10p a Shoppers were donating. leaflets sheet time for single Pool the Empire advertising rally. The overwhelming sympathetic. people were pies on London Transport buses thumbs sign, the UD gave workers waved from those shops High street still the open in with shuttered businesses lined and housewives particularly gave campaign for the funds generously. from stallholders in Hostility stifled market was Woolwich dealer Mike Adams when from his stall, seized a huge red YS banner and led the marchers support round the them', he told me. a right to demand work.' overawed building And an High street worker in Woolwich of turned sharply on a group the sniggering women for asking 'They're marchers. people laugh', he and work snorted angrily Woolwich is one of London's black hardest hit unemployment neighbouring alongside spots Frith. Woolwich Arsenal, which once people. 20.000 employed been levelled to the ground and the council is looking desperately wars of promoting jobs as for one factory after another closes•

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workers, railwaymen, and Labour postmen all welcomed the Right-to-Work marchers from S Wales and the West. support came despite Their and of slander a campaign obstruction by the Communist Party and the Labour Party right wing. We were comfortably fed and University housed the in Students' Union the under of Transport and auspices the Workers' Union. General Tom Hibbard, T&GWU district Fred organizer and Roberts, railwayman and prospective Labour council candidate, marched with us on the last leg of our 19-mile hike from Walling- ford. And at an evening meeting in the broad city centre cross- section of trade unionists turned out to greet the marchers.

Unemployment has only recently started to come back to Reading in a big way-increasing by some 40 per cent in the last year. Te doWnbad Yorkshire coad who started work down 1934, mine in remembers what unemployment is like even mass a job. 'We for those who have work three had three days and days idle', he told me. 'The fight to defend wages, inseparable then and is now. from the fight against unemploy- ment. "That's why we have to support of the kind you are a campaign It's mounting. absolutely essen- tial to protect the working man, whether he has a job or not.'

He later told the marchers: I congratulate your guts and your courage. 'If, at the end of the day, you bring home the message that you have the right to work, then it's all worthwhile.' Christchurch ward Labour Party overwhelmingly supported the Right-to-Work in campaign Transport House the teeth of opposition. And Fred Roberts, the ward's prospective council candidate, condemned attempts to block the march and cast a slur on it.

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when "left" Labour MPs marched with members of the National Front on an anti-Common Mar- ket demonstration, word not a was said. Presumably they con- sider these extreme right-wingers acceptable than more unem- ployed youth. "They've let the right vote for Common Market, but they the don't want us to support you.'

Fred, a member of the No. 1 branch of the National Union of Railwaymen, also condemned as manoeuvre' 'a complete by Communist Party attempt delegates to the Reading Trades Council to stop support. 'Every self-respecting trade unionist must back this cam- paign', he added. Railwaymen from the city's NUR No. 2 branch have also backed the marchers, with No.. 2 branch of the Amalga- mated Union of Engineering Workers, AUEW West Reading, T&GWU 1/163 branch, the local branch of Woodcutting Machinists' Association and the Reading branch of the National Graphical Association. On the road to Reading a meal was provided for the marchers by Tilehurst ward Labour Party.

And with this backing the marchers—now joined by the Southampton marchers — moved confidently into the city.

they For about three miles, chanted continuously the same slogans against the Tory govern- ment they have kept up for the last two and a half weeks.

At the meeting, they were met by Don Courtnage, a member of the T&GWU national executive, who is demanding a special meeting of the Trades Council executive because of the 'viola-!

tion of trade union democracy' it had practised against the cam- paign. And it was there also that Gerry Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League, threw down the gauntlet to the opponents of the march. 'The Labour Party is more frightened of 50 to 60 'Right-to- Work' marchers than it is of the Tory government,' he said.

'When we campaign for the right work campaign to we against all aspects of Tory policy, from Industrial Relations Act to rising rents.' He challenged local Communist Party leaders come forward to 'and debate : their reasons for opposing the marches in the Sut. open.

LIVERPOOL-London marchers are well into Hertfordshire now and only about 20 miles from London. On Wednesday we marched through St Albans on our way to Hemel Hempstead. For most of the day we came through high Tory areas where

ALDER'S CONVENOR ERIC

CAMBRIDGE

LIVERPOOL-LONDON MARCHERS OUTS

STEVENAGE is the kind of in the TV town you see adverts. The people are young, proverbial the houses the 'little boxes' and the shops air of still have a brash affluence. But after a day's campaigning by the Glasgow-London marchers in the town, I can report that Stevenage is straining hard to keep up this prosperous facade.

Things are changing. As one ICk shop steward told me: 'The honeymoon in Stevenage is over.'

And he was there at the begin- ning 21 years ago when the new was started. town Chick Watson from the ICI subsidiary British Visqueen handed over a £15 cheque to the Right-to-Work march. The contribution was particu- larly impressive because the men there only heard about our Stevenage Part ANOTHER leading member of the Labour Party rank and file has challenged the Party's cam- paign against the Right-to-Work march. Jack Pickersgill, secretary of the Stevenage Labour Party and the trades council, told a meet- ing of marchers: 'I am disgusted to hear of the reception you received from some elements in our Party.

These are the people who ought to be dealt with? And he had this to say about the expulsion of Phil Bond Skelmersdale's Labour chairman enough people have seemed to time to play golf in the middle of the afternoon. When they saw the marchers they turned their clubs on us as mock machine guns. Hertfordshire police were certainly on their guard. As soon as we crossed the county inspector border, the chief

STEWARDS' SECRETARY

SID SMITH

ERS OUTSIDE ALFRED ALDER'S PLANT

campaign the day we came to Stevenage. "I know we can't say that un- bad here employment is as as it is in places like Glasgow-but it's starting. • couple of years A could tell management ago you to stuff it and walk into another job. These days if you go out of that door you go onto the dole." Industry in the town is com- puters (ICL), chemicals (ICI), air- craft (BAC and Hawker Siddeley) The and a variety of light industry.

The ICL workers suffered in the holocaust which struck the firm when the computer market year-several last slumped hundred of the Stevenage workers lost their jobs in autumn. other threat to the ex- The Londoners who live in the town is the slump in government con- our tracts. Party secretary of who incurred the Party's wrath file when he welcomed the marchers.

'If they want to come and try expel would delighted. It's a fantastic state of affairs when socialists who have their lives for this fought all Party are kicked out because they support unemployed youth?

At their meeting on Wednes- day, marchers the Glasgow extended their warmest thanks to the whole Stevenage Labour Party and comrade Pickersgill who gave us such a warm recep tion and arranged excellent nan accommodation. appeared with five motorcyclists and several foot police. Not for one minute did they leave our side until we reached our Hemel Hempstead resting point. Hemel is a new town in the worst sense of the word. On one side of town you have the big housing working-class estates. contains Another sector the factories and the centre a few shops. There's very little to do for the youth as in the case of most new towns. On Thursday morning we got up at 6.30 a.m. to go down to Alder's which produces Alfred suspensions for British-Leyland. A number of workers had defied management on the Wednesday and had come out to greet us, but missed us because we were delayed. secretary of the Sid Smith, shop stewards' committee, told me: 'We need more leadership from Labour leaders. this the In particular factory we're living under the threat of redundancy day by day. And in the area 100 schoolchildren have applied to go back to school. I've never known a time so short of jobs, he said. Another worker, Reg Rowell said: 'It seemed that we'd got rid of unemployment and that the 1930s would never return. But now a General Strike is needed to get the lying Tory government out.' Our thanks to all the workers at Alder's for donating over £8 at the factory gate. A big talking point on our Skelmersdale, march has been chairman Phil Lancs, Labour Bond's expulsion from the Labour We all remembered the Party. fine reception he laid on for us on the second day of our march.

'It's wrong he should have expelled because he stood been up for the basic rights of the , said march leader working class', Christine Smith. It shows the Labour Party right wing is not willing to fight for the working class against the Tory government.' Because of this, Hawker Sid- a half of its pro- deley fired duction workers in December BAC missile plant and at the that familiar process of 'natural wastage' is in full swing.

Stevenage employers have al- ready begun to take full advant- age of this rise in unemployment.

At Kodak's, management has begun a company union that will register under the Industrial Relation Act. Chick Watson told me that up to half the Kodak labour force had joined this organization.

In other firms racialism is beginning to flourish. In one factory with a large immigrant work force the shop stewards an appeal for finance rejected with these words: Sorry lads, you won't get anything out of these Pakkies'. He suggested we appeal to the foreman for a donation from the firm and then we were escorted from the premises by a security officer with a N Ireland accent who looked like a fugitive from the B Specials. Elsewhere the response was much better. At the St Nicholas building site, workers Es donatione and and immediate promised a collection and the nearby Carlton site did the same.

The staff at the swimming bath held a spontaneous collection and handed over £1.50 to some of the marchers as they left the baths which they had used free.

In all, over £30 was raised in we got several day and one promises to attend Sunday's rally.

Efforts are being made to run a coach from Stevenage to the Empire Pool. Our thanks to the Stevenage Labour Party who backed uS unanimously and all the workers.

in 'the town. Workers Pross, Friday March 10, 1972 PAGE 11

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PAGE 12 Workers Prosa, Friday March 11 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

At 3 p.m. the marchers will be welcomed at a meeting. At 7.30 p.m. there will be top- line entertainment Introduced by Joe Mella and Stuart Henry. Latest addition to the star-studded bill is the sizzling, stomping group at present nearing No. 1 in the Top Ten with 'Look Wot You Dun'

SLADE

Details of tickets, p. 4.

NODDY HOLDER

DAVE HILL

JIM LEA

DON POWELL

LATENEWS

APPRENTICE miner James Stitt fined f13 at Dunfermline was Scotland. sheriff's court, for allegedly causing a breach of the the to entrance peace at Longannet power station on Feb- ruary 17 and assaulting a police- man. He denied the offences, and told the court that he had been detailed for picketing duties and was arrested 15 minutes after arriving at Longannet. After hearing evidence from a police- Sheriff John Mowat told man Stitt: 1 prefer the police evidence to that of the defence.' newspaper at the Post Registered as a Press. Office. Published by Workers Clapham High Street, London, 186a

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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. Woodlands 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 TODAY sees all four Young Socialists Right - 10 - Work only it day's march London destination their from Empire Pool, Wembley. Support for the determination and courage of these youth is still mounting. the Ashcroft. Dame Peggy internationally famous actress, last appeared in "Sunday, who Bloody Sunday: has given her support to the campaign. Television and film actor and Ralph Bates and lo van actress £40 Girseghan donated have jointly. Film. television and stage actor Colin Blakeley has also made a his moral and given donation support. station railway Al Paddington workers have collected £30 and Rd Durnsford ranwaymen at depot. Wimbledon. London, have collected £16. at Rotax Precision Workers Hempstead. Products. Hemel have donated £20. From the S Wales area of the National Union of Mineworkers comes £10. Also Wales, the joint shop in Chemicals, stewards at Baylan Bay, Port Talbot, have donated £5.

WEATHER

E ENGLAND. E and N Scotland occasional will be cloudy with rain but with some sleet or snow over high ground. N Ireland and central Scotland cloudy with occasional. will be mainly light, rain but some bright intervals may develop in N Ire- Scotland will land later. NW have scattered showers with bright or sunny periods. Mist or fog patches over W and Wales will Soon England clear followed by a mainly dry day with clear or sunny periods.

be Temperatures will near normal in the W. but it will be cold or rather cold in the E.

for Saturday and Sun- Outlook day: Mainly dry. Some wintry showers over E and central Eng- land. Temperatures near normal in the N and W, but it will con- tinue cold over E England.

Bullders strike for bonus OVER 200 building workers at McAlpines National Theatre site, near Waterloo, S London, struck work yesterday morning in sup- port of a bonus increase.

Federation steward Michael .McEvoy said management had been approached on the claim on 'they didn't Wednesday, but want to know. 'So the men decided to stop work today until we get some satisfaction, Mr McEvoy added.

The men are demanding a 20- increase and per-cent, all-round in particular increases on the bonus targets. 'This used to be a six-day a week job', one steward told me.

'Now it's been cut to five.'

The joint shop stewards' com- mittee at Morris Motors, Court- Coventry, have house Green, sent £10. A shop stewards' levy at Lewis' Shipyard, Aberdeen, raised £4 for the campaign.

Aberdeen College of Education sent £5 to be used for accom- modation only. A Right-to-Work Nottingham raised flag day in £38.45. The National Union of Vehicle Builders, Ellesmere Port. No. 4 branch have sent £10. In London, engineers in the office post POEU Metropolitan W branch donated £10. sent f6. The Barrow NUM Fire Brigades Bradford area Union donated £2 and a collec- tion it International Alloys Ltd, Aylesbury: raised £3. W London Young Socialists' Right-to-Work Rally collected £14 and gas board workers at Camden. W London, depot col- lected £2.50 and tenants in the Agar Grove Tenants' Association gave £1.30. After hearing a member of the YS Right-to-Work committee.

Southwark dustmen voted unani- mously to support the campaign.

They decided to impose a 25p levy and this was collected yes- stewards terday afternoon when men received their pay.

Workers at the Rolls-Royce Coventry, have Ansty. factory. agreed to send delegates to the rally at Wembley. And the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' district appointed has committee delegate to Sunday's rally: Print talks FULL negotiations between print employers will unions and held in London next Monday.

involved- The four unions the NGA. SOGAT. SLADE and NATSOPA- are seeking awards of up to f7 a week. for the NGA A spokesman is operating an overtime which ban said: 'All I can say is that we have agreed to meet on Mon- day. We have been sounding out • people. but we hope to make progress on Monday. There has been no new offer from the employers. the News- paper Society and the British Federation of Master Printers.

A GROUP of St Helens work plastics factory and placed a has

THE LOCOMEN'S

union British Rail a five-day gIven ultimatum to re-open pay talks or industrial action may start.

By six votes to two the ASLEF decided in London executive yesterday that if talks are not resumed by next Tuesday, the executive will meet on Wednesday 'when the matter can be reviewed'. ASLEF general secretary Ray Buckton said: "The appropriate action would be industrial action and the type will be decided next • Wednesday.' By the same margin-six votes turned to two-the executive down a call for action on March 17 if there is no acceptable offer by then. The board of British Rail met yesterday following the rejection of the final 9.7 per cent offer made on Wednesday. Machine tool orders 53 p.c. down DURING the first nine months of for machine 1971 new orders tools for both home and export markets were 53 per cent down on the same period in. 1970.

In figures released today the Trade and Department Industry also states that orders • in the final quarter of 1971 were 30 per cent below the 1970 level.

show the The latest figures annual orders for 1971 were worth £134.8m—a third down on the 1970 figure. orders were down Home new 37 per cent for the year and deliveries to the home market were 12 per cent lower. Orders on hand at the end of the year stood at £41.6m-50 per cent lower than a year earlier.

Net new export orders also con- downward trend: tinued on provisional fourth quarter the figure of £12.3m was the lowest for four years. A SPECIAL delegate conference of the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions will be held in London on March 18 to decide whether to accept a 7.7 per cent 50,000 rise offered to pay out teachers at the Burnham Further Education Committee this week.

original claim The teachers per cent increases, was for 25 but the ATTI executive is recom- of the mending acceptance Burnham Committee's offer.

is workers have occupied their laced a poster outside which ight to work'. work for St The men Helens Plastics Limited in Reginald Road. They took over the fitting shop a week ago after being told that the whole work force was to be made immedi- ately redundant. The company has security guards and savage Alsatian dogs patrolling other parts of the plant. Each day the 24-hour occupa- tion is maintained by men arriv- ing and leaving via a fire exit.

is owned The by company Reed, Medway, Sacks of Maid- stone in Kent, which is a sub- sidiary of the giant Reed paper group. Reed has a controlling inter- ', Britain's est in the 'Daily Mirror' largest daily newspaper. Early in January the work force of 55 was told that a take- made by over bid had been Linpac Plastics of Featherstone in Yorkshire. The bidder per- the men that not sonally told only was the workforce assured, but new equipment would mean last Friday when they arrived for work, men were asked to go to the canteen. The company's chief executive announced that the factory was closing down. By 9.30 a.m. everyone had been paid off. But some of the men claim they had been short-paid by amounts from £4 to £14.

They occupied the fitting shop demanded the correct and money. Although the manage- gave assurance the money ment be sent through the post would 48 hours, within men decided not to budge. Breen Kelly, one of the men occupying the factory, told Workers Press: 'We want jobs: We want the right to work. We're staying in the factory until it reopens and men are given their jobs back.

Asked what would happen if management attempted to shift equipment, Mr Kelly replied: "We won't let bag a paper move out of here.' He said the men's action had received full support from miners at the Bold Colliery. men occupying the fac- The tory, all members of the Trans- and General Workers' port Union, have held preliminary talks with Liverpool dockers.

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