Workers Press no. 711

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RIGHT-TO-WORK MARCHERS ENTER LONDON

A CREDIT TO THE

WORKING CLASS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MARCH 11, 1972 • No. 711 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE London. THE FOUR Right-to-Work marches have now entered Between them, the marchers have walked approximately 1,300 miles, sometimes under the most difficult weather conditions.

Not even the most decisively smashed, two consecutive days on of road. outraged opponent working the the because Class where the Socialist Labour Here recognized tnat these young marchers are their kind of marchers, have made a vital League can deny the 'Young Socialists. contribution to the building socialist Sincerity of have revolutionary leadership Ine marches prepared young people placed the Young Socialists conscious v renecung right the desires undertake such in the fight Tory everywhere the cam- in against the responsibility the government. why paign for the right to work fight for basic principles.

widespread support is they have emerged, poli- But such sacrifice, than tically much stronger decisive. only great as 1l1s, Was unne wher when maey started. aspect of the principles They have experienced one major revolutionary Perhaps, are transformed into in marones. even leadership greater, was the unstint- material this. Marxists, which struege In Ine nanas or

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ing support they the working class, the highest point of theo- from of received tens retical development. thousands ordinary When observer the marchers may

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and trade unionists appear isolated from the handshake and say wel Labour members Party working class, but the hard come to the marchers, you will on the road. have placed that without vource. TacL The bureaucratic world its support, they could not te camp of of bans and proscriptions have remained the working class. Spanish yard worker shot dead of them SPANISH police opened day of clashes between injured, some fire demons rating police and workers seriously, when the police on the shipyard workers demonstrating against the opened hre Ferrol, Coruña dismissal of six work- demonstrators with sub- yesterday 38-year-old mates from the yards. machine guns and pistols.

killing father of four Salvador Armed police blocked There had been unrest Rey Rodriguez and critic- off among the 4,000 workers several maor access ally wounding a youth, roads and guarded at the Daniel Niebala. bridges tension which the awara in workers mounted the Ferrol town are Flying battle station shops are demanding a differential.

flags three Spanish wnere all te na val shuttered and transport destroyers anchored just officials Government had come to a standstill.

the shipyards at hurried meetings

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Coruña Bay in the second Over 20 workers were to discuss the situation.

YOU MUST BE THERE THIS WEEKEND

EMPIRE POOL

WEMBLEY

SUNDAY MARCH 12

GREET THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS WHO HAVE MARCHED FROM GLAS-

AT 3 p.m.

LIVERPOOL, SWANSEA,

SOUTHAMPTON

AND

DEAL DEMANDING

GOW,

RIGHT TO WORK

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

JOHN HOLDER, PAUL JONES, MOLLY MALLOY DANCERS, GEORGE MELLY,

SPIKE MILLIGAN, ADRIAN MITCHELL

SLADE * McGUINNESS FLINT * VINEGAR JOE * ROCK

"N ROLL ALL-STARS

COMPERED BY JOE MELIA AND STUART HENRY

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CH 11, 1972 No. 711 4p

F THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

LONDON

ENF

THE GREAT Glasgow march reached its destination-Lon- don-yesterday. approximately 12.30 At p.m. the head of the column into the northern passed fringes of the capital. Keith Radford, leader of the Newcastle contingent made a statement: "The journey is We have the not over yet. climax at Empire Pool ahead.

But this moment is a great occasion. •My own feelings are a mix- ture of joy and elation that the youth through have carried this political task with such courage and determination.

I speak for all of the com- rades on the different marches, but particularly the Glasgow

LONDON BOROUGH

JOBLESS WILL RISE

boys who have come over 500 miles. *This proves one thing. That the youth and the working ımn class who supported them every mile of the way want an to this illegal and end reactionary Tory government and replace it with a socialist administration. I am sure that all the marchers will return to their areas to carry forward this fight, build Young Socialist branches, run those branches, and create revolutionary a party in Britain.

• FOR NEWS OF OTHER

MARCHES SEE DIARY pp. 10 and 11 AND ARRIVAL IN LONDON p. 12.

workers press

RIGHT-TO-WORK MARCHERS ENTER LONDON

A CREDIT TO THE

WORKING CLASS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY MARCH 11, 1972 • No. 711 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE London. THE FOUR Right-to-Work marches have now entered Between them, the marchers have walked approximately 1,300 miles, sometimes under the most difficult weather conditions.

Not even the most decisively smashed, consecutive Jays was two outraged of the road. opponent the working class where the the Socialist Labour recognized that these young Here marchers are their kind marchers, have made a vital League can deny the contribution to the building Young Socialists' socialist Sincerity of have ine marches revoll calls young people prepared placed the Young Socialists By consciously reflecting the desires workers undertake such right everywhere the the fight in responsibility the

L OLY

government. why naign for the right to work fight for basic principles.

widespread support is they have emerged, poli- But such sacrifice, decisive. tically much stronger than ollly go e wen miev slartcu aspect of the principles They have experienced one major revolutionary what Perhaps, are transformed into marches. ever leadership unstint- greater, was. the Illaltila strells this. for Marxists. strugglenn 'Ano ing support they working class. the highest point of theo- from of received tens retical development. To impressionist thousands ordinary When ooserver une marchers May (vOu give and trade unionists appear isolated from the handshake and say wel Labour Party members working class, but the hard come to the marchers, you will placed the road. that without have lacl rellallis yuulscI. The bureaucratic world its support, they could not the camp of remained than the working class. of bans and proscriptions more Spanish yard worker shot dead of SPANISH police opened day of clashes between injured, some them demonstrating fire police and workers seriously, when the police on fire the shipyard demonstrating against the workers Ferrol, Coruña dismissal of six work- demonstrators with sub- yesterday 38-year-old mates from the yards. machine guns and pistols.

killing father of four Salvador Armed police blocked There had been unrest Rey Rodriguez and critic- off among the 4,000 workers several maor access ally wounding a youth, roads guarded at the yards and over a pay Daniel Niebala. EI bridges tension the aware o mounted the Ferrol workers in town are Flying battle station demanding a differential.

where shops are flags three Spanish naval all une and shuttered destroyers anchored just transport Government officials had come to a standstill.

the shipyards at hurried meetings

OTT

Caned Coruña Bay in the second to discuss the situation.

Over 20 workers were

YOU MUST BE THERE THIS WEEKEND

EMPIRE POOL

WEMBLEY

SUNDAY MARCH 12

GREET THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS WHO HAVE MARCHED FROM GLAS-

AT 3 p.m.

SOUTHAMPTON

AND DEAL DEMANDING

GOW,

LIVERPOOL, SWANSEA,

RIGHT TO WORK

AT 7.30 p.m.

RELAX AT THE STAR-STUDDED SHOW WITH LARRY ADLER, RAM

JONES, MOLLY MALLOY DANCERS,. GEORGE

MELLY,

JOHN HOLDER, PAUL

SPIKE MILLIGAN, ADRIAN MITCHELL

SLADE * McGUINNESS FLINT * VINEGAR JOE * ROCK 'N ROLL ALL-STARS

COMPERED BY JOE MELIA AND STUART HENRY

JOIN THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

SUBSCRIBE TO WORKERS PRESS-FORMS P. 3

• No. 711 • 4p CH 11, 1972

F THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

LONDON

THE GREAT Glasgow march reached its destination-Lon. mil don—yesterday. At approximately 12.30 p.m. the head of the column passed into the northern fringes of the capital. Keith Radford, leader of the Newcastle contingent made a statement: The journey is not over yet. We have the climax at Empire Pool ahead.

But this moment is a great occasion. •My own feelings are a mix- ture of joy and elation that the carried through youth have this political task with such courage and determination.

'I speak for all of the com- rades on the different marches, but particularly the Glasgow

LONDON BOROUGH

BLESS WILL RISE

boys who have come over 500 miles. "This proves one thing. That the youth and the working imn class who supported them every mile of the way want an to this illegal and reactionary Tory government and replace it with a socialist administration. I am sure that all the marchers will return to their carry forward this areas to fight, build Young Socialist branches, run those branches, and create revolutionary a party in Britain?

• FOR NEWS OF OTHER

MARCHES SEE DIARY pp. 10 and 11 AND ARRIVAL IN gow LONDON p. 12.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday March

AROUND THE WORLD

BY JOHN SPENCER

FEAR OF ANOTHER dollar money markets. Heavy sellin has driven down the dollar's The 'Financial Times' re- ported yesterday: There is now growing concern in US business circles that the dollar's usefulness as an in- ternational currency may be curbed as a result of current monetary trends in Europe and elsewhere. 'This has encouraged large switch cash companies to balances into European and other currencies, contributing to the dollar's weakness in the last few days.' In order to support the rate the Washington agreed at Finance Ministers' meeting and December 18, European Japanese central banks have been forced to buy millions of unwanted dollars and add them to the hoards already crammed in their vaults. Since August 15 last year the central banks have been unable to convert their dollars into gold at the US Treasury. The non-convertibility of the produced dollar has an un- precedented crisis in the sphere of credit. There is now no means of knowing day to day what will be the value of paper money.

addition, the Common In Market countries are taking steps reached under agreement an form earlier this week an anti-dollar bloc and keep out the unwanted US currency. which The big corporations have previously taken advantage market of the Euro-dollar to raise funds by loaning their dol- lars out for interest now fear they will be cut off from this source of liquidity. world trade The decline in since August 15 has already hit and increased their them financial problems. Their efforts to manipulate the markets have also been hit by the competitive cutting of rates, especially in W interest Germany. To these problems is now added the fear that they will be left with big dollar holdings as the US currency undergoes il further devaluation. Their intervention the over days recalls the 1968 past few March crisis which brought into being the "two-tier' gold system four years ago. It was heavy gold buying by the major US firms which finally forced the US Treasury to stop selling gold on the free market at the old price of $35 an ounce.

The two-tier system lasted 40 months. Then the efforts central bankers to redeem their dollar holdings at $35 an ounce Nixon to close the 'gold forced window altogether. The full effects of the August now surfacing 15 mensures are of an enormous in the form credit crisis. This is taking place despite the December 18 agree- ment which satisfied neither the US (because the revaluation was far too small) nor its rivals (whose demand for convertibility has not been satisfied). It is possible that the US government is planning to allow the present crisis to worsen with- out intervening. This faces the European and employers with the Japanese stark choice between accumulat- ing still more dollars to maintain the December 18 parities or re- valuing their own currencies once pricing their exports again and out of still more markets.

The US. Administration has made no effort to aid the Euro- peant and the Japanese to over- ••.• lay March 11, 1972 • dollar devaluation is producing y selling of dollars, much of it by lollar's value in all the main capita come the crisis on the money by the markets supporting dollar. The Treasury under-secretary Paul for affairs, monetary Volcker, yesterday described the panic a little speculative as Hurry. He said the Treasury De- partment had not been in touch with foreign governments over the situation and did not plan any policy to counter it.

In other words, the US is throwing the entire burden of the crisis onto the European capital- ists, who are forced to accumu- late dollars in order to prevent a revaluation of their own new currencies. This would tend to price their out of world markets. exports Already, under the December 18 agreement, they have been forced

RENAULT OFFICIAI

RENAULT official " Robert Nogrette, kidnapped by i Maoist Wednesday, was released in the student quarter vesterday after being held for 48 hours. The kidnapping by i group calling itself the New Popular Resistance'• movement. was in p retaliation for the shooting of a worker by a security young guard. Two huge protest rallies were held in Paris. The kidnappers had demanded NORWAY'S Labour govern strongly in favour of entry int in a massive 680-page White P that entry is necessary to saf economic as well as political The alternative would be industrial stagnation and threat to full employment. It would be impossible to i national develop petro- chemical industry outside the Market. This industry is planned to use oil front the North Sea and to make possible regional develop- ment. The also claimed report that Norway's 40,000 fishermen had nothing' to fear from entry, but suggested that a new policy on fishing limits would have to be worked out. tries to disarm The report opposition by showing that mem- not harm Nor- bership would way's social security system, lead higher undermine to rents. regional development or threaten jobs. The government also asserts that entry will lead to a relaxa- tion of tension in Europe and enable relations with E Europe to be improved. Opposition to Common Market entry is strong latest opinion polls show only about one-third in favour. A referendum is likely to be held in September after the party their have made congresses then will there decisions. Only be a parliamentary vote. ... ducing panic on the world's of it by big US corporations, 1 capitalist centres. to accept a 9 per cent upvalua- tion of their currencies against the dollar. The European capitalists can- not free themselves from the The US tyranny of the dollar. has power in the present situa- precisely because of the tion dollar's weakness. It is a debtor nation on a scale never before seen in history and it has every onits intention of reneging creditors. The crisis of the international credit system faces some of the biggest capitalist enterprises with the prospect of being unable to pay their debts. •It is preparing the ground for a catastrophic series of financial crashes and an enormous inten- sification of the class struggle all over the capitalist world.

ICIAL

the reinstatement of workers sacked from Renault as the price of Nogrette's release. Police mounted an extensive operation in and around Paris in search of the kidnappers and detained 39 people. The incident gave the Stalinist CGT leadership a further oppor- tunity to condemn the 'leftists' and ingratiate itself with middle- class opinion. Union chiefs hastened to express their dis- approval on the state radio.

government has come out ntry into the Common Market White Paper. The report claims , to safeguard Norway's main olitical interests. WORLD central bankers meet- ing in Basle this weekend for talks on the dollar crisis will be joined by top US and Common Market officials. Arthur Burns. chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board, Inter- Monetary Fund presi- national dent Pierre Paul Schweitzer and EEC commission vice-President Raymond Barre will be sitting in on the bankers' discussions.

Top of the Basle agenda is likely to be the current position markets world the moner where the dollar is under heavy pressure. There is also likely to be dis- cussion on the Common Market plan for a monetary bloc with stabilization of the EEC curren- cies against one another.

... AS THE Right-to-Work marches set out, we were told 'Sunday Telegraph' that the International by the Tory Socialism Group was the 'best buy' on the left.

is not surprising, therefore, that as the marche om Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea. Deal and Sotti ampton converge on London for the biggest rally in the history of British Trotskyism, the IS group is again dragged out of the bargain basement.

In yet another 'Plain Man's Guide to the Left'— this time in yesterday's 'Guardian'-the plain man is again told how sectarian, dogmatic and factionalist the Socialist Labour League is. At all costs the workers from every major city, every industry and almost every trade union in Britain, who will gather at the Empire Pool on Sunday, have got to be played down. What better way than to present them as thousands of 'sectarians'? Particularly as 'The Guardian' has studiously ignored the growing volume of support from factory after factory in the length and breadth of the land, often involving local Labour and Communist Party branches acting in open defiance of their national leaders.

All of this found no reflection in 'The Guardian', nor in any other capitalist national daily. Instead, we are told that the IS, 'is credited with a highly effective leadership'. Well, well, well. What is this supposed except perhaps that they are what the 'Sunday people? Indeed, 'The Guardian' man seems worried, be- offer a 'job lot', cause he goes on to his liberal enthusiasm for IS to link it up with Tariq Ali's paper. He tells the plain man that the 'International Marxist Group's' shining success is its paper, 'Red Mole'. The SLL's 12-page daily is, of course, not a 'shin- ing success', despite its increasing circulation and its over-subscribed fighting fund of now consistently £1,250 per month. Perhaps that is why the Workers Press masthead was not carried by 'The Guardian' page which was graced with the 'Morning Star', 'Socialist Worker' and Red Mole' mastheads, not to mention those of such influential papers as the Gay Liberation Front's 'Come Together' and the Women's Lib's 'Shrew'.

And the plain man is carefully told that the Communist Party daily, that IS publishes 'Socialist publishes the 'Morning Star' 'Freedom' Worker' weekly, that Anarchists publish weekly _the and that the Maoists publish The Worker monthly.

The Socialist Labour League, however,, merely 'publishes the Workers Press' which every 'plain man' making a crust scribbling in Fleet St knows comes out once every two years.

They must not tell Mr Plain Man that Workers Press comes out 12-page tabloid every day and they don't mention at all the as a 'Keep Left' which has a monthly circula- Trotskyists' youth paper will soon of 21,000 and become a weekly. That way you tion don't have to explain how 'dogmatic sectarians' can achieve such things. But, above all, the plain man has to be confused about what the International Group is con- Trotskyism is. sistently presented as a 'Trotskyist organization'. It is no thing. It holds the view that the Soviet Union, E Europe and China are 'state capitalist. the Kor or maintaine 1950s, this meant that the During present leadership of nothing to maintained that there was China and the and they refused choose between United States, of N Korea and China. over the campaign for the victory to reactionary US and UN-backed Synghman Rhee regime in the S.

Trotsky spent the last years of his life in bitter struggle against this middle-class, non-revolutionary tendency. The differences be- and state capitalism are principled and deep.

tween Trotskyism It is for this reason, as we have explained before, that we re- fused to allow IS to manoeuvre with the Right-to-Work marches.

It is, of course, a deliberate lie to declare that the League "is others take part in its activities' including the let reluctant to Right-to-Work campaign. an avowed an unprincipled alliance with We refused to have anti-Trotskyist organization which sought to divert the marches from their purpose-the building of a revolutionary party to lead the working class to the overthrow of capitalism.

Today, as the trade union leaders crawl to the Tory govern- more determined to working more and ment, the class grows fight on wages and jobs. the growth That is the basis of the success of our campaign, of our paper and the development of our youth movement.

That, of course, is why the capitalist press presents lies and distortions about the SLL, while desperately seeking to wrap up the middle-class groups in shiny gift paper and red ribbons.

RUMOURS are rife in Central Latin America of a CIA- inspired coup to overthrow the Costa Rican government of President José Figures. Presidency Minister of the Gonzalo Solorzano declared in a broadcast speech that a group of Costa Ricans is being trained in Guatemala as part of the anti- Figures plan. The climate of tension has been stepped up by government order to train more volunteers 'to repel any invasion or subversion against the constitutional order".

There is also a state of alert along the coasts and at all air- ports, including private airfields.

Guatemalan under - Secretary for Foreign Affairs Obiols Gomez has flown to Costa Rica for talks with the government.

The Guatemalan Foreign Minister declared in Guatemala City that this mission is 'not to give satisfaction to the 'Costa Rican government', but to make clear that neighbouring country has nothing to do with the invasion plans. Everything points to the 'Free Movement' being Costa Rica behind the coup plans. The FCRM have taken advantage of the recent establishment of diplo- matic relations between USSR and Costa Rica to launch a big campaign against 'com- munist subversion' and against Figures' softness. The FCRM wants a more openly repressive regime against working-class and student oppo- sition; and more ties with imperialism. The alleged organizer of the coup is Colonel Renato Delcore.

He studied in the United States and has close ties with the Pentagon and the CIA. leader, Frank Another FCRM Marichal Jimenez, is reported to be in permanent touch with US military personnel and

CIA

agents. He has recently estab- lished close ties with important in Guatemala military officers and El Salvador. The FCRM has the support of Guatemalan Congressional chair- man Sandoval Alarcon. Despite the rumours of US involvement, Washington recently sent a shipment of light weapons against the invasion after a favourable report from the US ambassador in Costa Rica, Walter Ploeser. Curiously enough, Ploeser has just handed in his resignation in order to 'return to private life'.

French selling to Indonesia FRENCH deputy Foreign Mini- ster Jean de Lipowski arrived in Djakarta, Indonesia, this week to his Indonesian opposite meet number, Adam Mallk. A main aim of Lipowski's visit is to open up new markets and fields for French investment industry. Trade between the two countries is at present running level, but the French at a obviously think there is room for well growth as for the sale as of arms, including jet planes. It is probable that President Suharto will visit Paris in the autumn. Lipowski. was accompanied by of important delegation an officials hoping to open up new investment fields markets and for French industry. French firms are interested in oil, copper, rubber and • mineral generally. Trade be- resources tween the two countries is run- ning at a modest level, but the •French see a prospect of profits , also hope to sell arms, in- and cluding jet planes, to Suharto's regime. It is probable that he will make an official visit to Paris in the autumn. After the two-day official visit minister stayed on the French for a conference of French am- bassadors in the area summoned to consider policy in the light of the Nixon visit to Peking.

THE GREEK Students' Union in London has called on the Cyprus Communist Party

(AKEL)

to organize the self-defence of the Cypriot people against the threat of a right-wing backed by the Greek and Turkish military regimes. In a resolution passed at an extraordinary general meeting this earlier month. the Union states that: 'Cyprus is under the immediate threat of a coup, directed by the colonels of Athens. 'Grivas is the executor of the plans of the junta and American imperialism in Cyprus. That is, the plans for dividing Cyprus Greece, Turkey, Britain among and the USA. 'Makarios' government is con- trary to the dictatorial plans and to the dismemberment. But to oppose the junta, it must call upon spirits which frighten it more than the colonels. "That is, it has to call upon the people to defend it—it must arm the people of whom it is frightened. It is afraid that, after having crushed Grivas' gangs, it will not stop there, but will destroy the whole of the old rotten regime. 'The union believes that the AKEL must not wait for Makarios in Greece to act. The EDA waited for Papandreou to act, and the dictatorship was imposed.

The AKEL must take the initiative to organize the self- defence of the Cypriot people, because before long it will be too late. 'The AKEL must demand that Makarios surrender to arms groups that it must immediately form. 'It must demand at once-as demand-that the we already • take immediate government action for the arrest and im- prisonment of Grivas.' University of London Union March I 1972

THE HUNT

for Nazi war criminal Dr Josef Mengele has intensified Peru. He is in be hiding believed to in remote spot in the Andes mountains. Mengele is said to be linked with the murder Peruvian Luis Banchero businessman, Rossi. The Peruvian authorities him in connection want private •Rossi's the crime. secretary is under arrest.

Some Germans on "the wanted list for war crimes took refuge in Peru after World. War II. Many joined existing German com- munities in remote areas and have taken out Peruvian not citizenship. of Police seem to keep clear the German "colonies' into which •few visitors from outside penetrate. In any case they are in remote areas. Mengele is wanted for his part in gruesome and sadistic murders carried out while he was camp Auschwitz doctor at con- centration camp. If he is really in Peru he will be well protected which by the German colonies, have efficient intelligence an network. The chance of picking him up seems remote.

CORRECTION

Tuesday's review of 'The Coming British Revolution' by Tariq Ali omitted to mention was Jonathan. Cape, at published by £2.95. THE LEGAL machinery whick Relations Act has begun to m Tory-appointed National Indi has heard its first case, brought four men who went on strike.

Sydney Schreiber, head of the Kaymet Company in Peckham, S London, sought an application under a section of the Industrial Relations Act that allows for an award of compensation or an order banning the industrial action.

He complained that four of his staff led a strike at his works began at 5 p.m. on which Wednesday. Schreiber said he had been given only half an hour's notice that the staff were walking out.

The four men-Victor Florey, David Lay and Edward Billson of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and John Turner Society of of the National Metal Mechanics — were sub- poenaed by agents of the court late on Thursday afternoon.

One of the men was leaving his home with his wife when a taxi drew up. He was given the summons and told to be at court at 4.30 p.m.-20 minutes time. As there was no chance of him making, the law courts in that time, the agent gave him a lift to court in his taxi! The four men denied in court that they had encouraged or coerced anyone to strike.

They said it had been voluntary action on the part of the employees and followed pro- longed pay talks which culmin- ated in the firm offering only 7 per cent. The court chairman, Sir John Donaldson, said: 'We are : very struck by the fact that all of you have been assisting in this business for many years. It seems to us lamentable that you have got at loggerheads. 'It does seem to us that there is a basic misunderstanding here as to what is the law laid down by the new Act. 'You four men think-wrongly,

MRS EVELYN

KING,

a Tory MP, said yesterday Britain should learn from Turkey on how to treat drug-pushers. She was referring to the case of Timothy Davey, the 14-year- old schoolboy who has been sentenced in Istanbul to six years' jail for selling hashish. Timothy was held in prison for more than six months before being brought to trial. Mrs King said that parents, teachers and hospital nurses knew that we could not be lenient with drug-pushers'.

She said Timothy was con- victed of selling enough hashish to lead to 'family misery, mental breakdowns and suicides on a hideous scale. 'If ever there was a case which called for an exemplary sentence, this is it? She said Turkey and the "both United Nations agencies seemed more civilized in their approach than do the British'.

• A Turkish senator and his chauffeur were charged yesterday with smuggling 322 lb of opium into France. The senator is Kudrey Bayhan, 58-year-old member of the Turkish right-wing (Tory) move- ment, the National Movement Party. Mrs King has made no com- ment on the senator's arrest.

Workers Press, Saturday March 11, 1972 PAGE 3 ry which backs up the Industrial

STEEL FALLS

in to move into operation. The al Industrial Relations Court THE FALL in steel production, brought by an employer against which amounted to over 1971 million compared tons in with 1970, continued in the first two months of this year. Weekly February output in we think-that not you was down 329,800 tons com- . to coerce anybody into striking but January pared with 429,500 in that providing you behave peace- 519,400 and tons in February fully may encourage others.

a fall of 36.5 per cent. last year, The British Steel Corporation 'We don't agree. We think as explained the big drop as the law now stands you are not being the miners' due to strike and entitled to organize meetings and says that production strikes is rapidly arrange even on it voluntary basis without giving returning to normal. As points out, however: •At present proper notice.' depressed levels of demand The court made no order there was only a slight interrup- because informal discussions finished tion to deliveries of were initiated between the men steel'. and Schreiber. The unmistakable long -term Yesterday trend sheet metal downward in steel official said one of the most workers' he would production is be meeting Schreiber to re-open important indicators of the pay talks. He said the first brush depressed condition of the British Further the Act 'had been a real closures and with economy. experience for us all!' sackings must be on the way.

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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, LYME GROVE BATHS, Shepherds Bush, W12. 7pm

MARCH

THROUGHOUT LONDON

MONDAY MARCH 13

Assemble: 10 am, Speaker's Corner, Marble Arch March: I1 am through West End to the Temple.

MARCHERS'LOBBY

OF PARLIAMENT

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

RALLY

EMPIRE POOL WEMBLEY

SUNDAY MARCH 12, 2 p.m. Speakers: G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) CLIVE NORRIS (National Secretary of Right-to- Work Campaign) JOHN BARRIE (YS leader of Glasgow march)

CHRISTINE SMITH (YS

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

ALAN

THORNETT

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

SIDNEY BIDWELL, MP

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

Larry Adler. McGuinness Flint. Ram John Holder.

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BY OUR SPANISH CORRESPOND

The conflict between Spanish psychiatrists and the Franco regime has broken out again.

They returned to work last year after a national series of strikes and occupations after the local government authori- ties agreed that there would be no cut back in the number of beds in the main clinic in Madrid and guaranteed that there would be participation by the doctors in the organ- ization of the psychiatric service. The new conflict has started in the Psychiatric Hospital in Oviedo (Asturias). The local authorities have refused to allow doctors to participate in running With its team of 30 doctors and 1,300 beds it is considered to be one of the best in Spain.

Twenty-six doctors occupied the hospital on January 8 when the Oviedo authorities refused to allow the doctors to have any say in the selection of new doctors.

This refusal followed a state- ment by the chairman of the local authorities in November supported doctors' he that participation. But he replied to a letter from the doctors in the local press with one accusing the doctors of using violent methods against the state and of abandon- ing their patients. On January 15 the Oviedo doctors actions were endorsed by the psychiatrists of San Pablo hospital in Barcelona and the hospital in Francisco Franco Madrid. They stated that any against the Oviedo reprisal psychiatrists would be interpreted reprisal against all as

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psychiatrists. The medical staff of six hospitals in Barcelona pro- claimed their solidarity.

Also on January 15 over 100 student nurses locked themselves in Oviedo General Hospital in protest the unilateral against suspension of the general rules for their profession by the Civil Governor of Asturias. By the 18th there were 300 nurses occupying the hospital and they had been joined by student nurses in the San Pablo hospital in Barcelona. The Minister of Education intervened in support of the Civil Governor's actions. -. t A psychiatrists group of occupied their hospital in Cordoba in S Spain and 100 doctors began an occupation in Oviedo general hospital. On the 19th a series of resignations began with the Director of the School for at Oviedo Nurses general hospital. On the 25th the chairman of the management board of the hospital Mr Fungeda resigned and gave up his vice-chairman- Oviedo local authority. He said he was 'fed up with defending the interests of provincial social services and only receiving in return insults and absenteeism'. director of the general The hospital has also resigned. This demanded has been by the doctors and nurses. When the management board stopped emergency cases being treated, the doctors called a mass overwhelming meeting and an voted for a policy of majority full participation in running the hospital and training students in faculty in the of medicine Oviedo university. the Meanwhile, psychiatrists write individually to decided to the management explaining that they considered that their labour contracts had been rescinded because their work contract and conditions had been modified. On February S, the authorities told them oficially that their 'résignations' had been accepted and the doctors were given few hours to leave the hospital premises. When they heard the news, the nurses decided to strike and occupy the hospital. They were then told they had been sacked and the fascist police marched them out of the hospital.

Immediately afterwards 70 auxıliary stafi decided to join doctors and nurses outside the hospital. Inside there were 1,300 patients, four doctors and about a tenth of the nursing staff.

The sacked psychiatrists fear the authorities will recruit psychiatrists who will restore the old 'lunatic asylum' methods in the hospitals. A wave of solidarity actions has begun in support of the sacked psychiatrists throughout Spain. Doctors in Toen (Ore and Bermeo (Basque provinces) Leganes (Madrid) have organized strikes as have the doctors in the Conception Clinic in Madrid.

The paralysis of medical ser- vices in Oviedo and the renewed conflict between doctors and the fascist show the fascists' state patients for and contempt doctors. It is also certain that the doctors need more than the particip- programme of workers' and democratic control ation offered by the Spanish Com- munist Party. Top: the Psychlatric hospital at Oviedo. Below: doctors demanding nurses who are say In the running of the hospital Workara Prosa, 8 » tho docka 1 The US dock strikes that began in 1971 will result in a permanent loss of perhaps as much as 20 per cent of ship- ping traffic diverted through Canada, according to Helen Delich Bentley, chairman of the Federal Maritime Com- mission. Preliminary figures show that prior to last year's extended long- 'approximately shore strike, of export 368,000 short tons liner-type cargoes were diverted Canadian ports, through Mrs Bentley said. 'This represents some 21,000 20 ft container equivalents and a sizable amount of non-contain- erizable cargoes,' like lumber and tractors, she added. In remarks delivered before the sixth annual Maritime Management Institute seminar, Mrs Bentley said high US labour costs and railroad shipping fees A fascist movement has been launched at California's Stan- ford University, one of the richest and most élite cam- puses in America. The programme of the Students for Responsible Action is to reinstate army training, to halt war protesting, to expand defence harday March 11. 1972 PAQE 5 Above: Baltimore are driving away a sizable share of traffic. upon contracts in force 'Based in 1971, she said, 'I am told it $143 gang-hour for costs per container handling at the port of New York' In Montreal, she added, the cost per gang-hour was only $49. To compete with the Canadian shippers, Mrs Bentley said, 'our own railroad managements must take another look at the rate picture as it exists and as it needs to develop. 'They must be willing to shave the rail rates in order to recap- ture that traffic which has been lost and retain current traffic.

'We must develop an atmo- sphere to labour peace, our trans- and labour port managements unions must, either voluntarily or requirements under the legislation, abandon strikes as a disputes in method settling this industry, so vital to our nation's progress,' she said.

research and to end 'irrational acts'. At a recent rally the organizers thinly disguised their reactionary plans behind a plea for campus members to be allowed the 'right the choose'. The SRA will hold a 'series of forums' as part of their campaign to 'resist the left'. These forums will not be for the constructive dialogue as pased.

They will be actively used to build the fascist movement and to drive left the liberal organiz- ations off the campus. A leading figure behind SRA is William Shockley, a professor well known for his racialist views.

saturday March 11, 1972

YOUNG SOCMISTS

WE DEMAND THE

RIGHT TO WORK

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Dear Comrade Norris, Excuse this method of communication, I can use no other. Please let me com- pliment all the marchers on their wonderful achievement on reaching London. How I would have longed to have marched in with them as my two brothers are resi- dent in Wembley and would have accommodated me. I'm an old Wembley resident myself. Your Scottish marchers will remember me particularly as they marched into Leeds on Thursday, February 24 on their way to Leeds University.

Yes, I was the 74-year-old blind man with his white stick. I'm delighted you made it boys. For obvious reasons I cannot write longer letters. If I could not see you I knew you were there and that I was with you that night. I am still and always have been scab and blackleg-proof and hope that all of you remain the same all the days of your lives William Ewart Gladstone Wilson, Tyneside organizing secretary National Un- employed Workers' Committee Movement 1926-1930; delegate to Welsh Miners' March to Parliament 1927; Marchers' leader section of 'he Great National Hunger March including many Jarrow marchers in 1929; and spokesman for the Tarrow marchers on députation to the House of Commons

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BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDI

The royal soul of King Ina of Wessex must look down well satisfied at that vast financial enterprise known as the Vati- can City and its overlord, Pope Paul VI. Way back in the early 8th century he imposed a yearly tax of one penny on every family living in his kingdom towards the upkeep of the Pope, and set the papacy on the road to El Dorado with 'Peter's Pence' Peter's Pence, along with many other forms of taxation, was assiduously collected in by Holy Rome whose investments now span a variety of firms-from the Instituto Farmacologico Serono, currently engaged in making the pill, through IBM, General Elec- tric and Bethlehem Steel to a lavatories for firm making export to Hungary. Corrado Pallenberg's book 'The Vatican Finances' published by Peter Owen at £2.75 aims to lift the veil of secrecy from the Vatican finances as part of a drive to persuade the powers rational there that more approach to its publicity would help the Vatican raise more money for its good works and dispel rumours about the Pope's millions. His history • of the Vatican history of finances is the institution whose only eternal and unchanging feature has been its drive to make money, encour- age lavish living for the ruling- class and to keep millions Catholic peasants and workers throughout the world in a state of abject ideological and material oppression. the Middle Ages and Through the Reformation, the Popes enjoyed real luxury. Leo X (1513.

1522) loved amusement. employed 683 courtiers and ser- vants, ranging from a court jester to a keeper of elephants.

The money was raised through the sale of papal indulgences and supposed to bulls which were save the purchasers' souls from in Purga- Hell or a few years tory, depending on the price he could pay. As this did not raise enough, special taxes, known as 'montil were created. These were taxes imposed on such things as flour, salt, or olive oil and were sold to contractors who bought them for a lump sum. Despite the efforts of Luther, Cromwell and other pioneers of the bourgeois revolution, the Papacy survived and successfully adapted its institutions to the capitalist system—a process of is adaptation which pursued eagerly by the present Pope.

This adaptation could have clearer than in 1929 been no when Pius XIth signed the Con- cordat with the fascist dictator Mussolini, which gave birth to the Vatican City State. The Holy See was recognized as a sovereign state, exempted from taxes and with permission railway and to have its own radio stations. All insults against the Pope were to be dealt with as insults against Mussolini.

religious Under the Concordat education was introduced into all state high schools with Church- chosen teachers. Divorce was outlawed. In return all newly- appointed bishops had to swear allegiance to the Italian state and priests had to intone a day March 11, 1972

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prayer every Sunday for the gov- ernment's welfare. Last but not least, Mussolini valued the papacy so highly that he paid about £17m into Vatican coffers from government funds. These negotiations with Musso- lini carried by the were out lawyer Francesco Pacelli, brother of Eugenio Pacelli, then papal in Germany nuncio and the future Pope Pius XII. A look at the Pacelli family fortunes reveals the persistence of another ancient papal tradi- tion, that of nepotism. Two of the Pope's nephews, the Princes Carlo Marcantonio and Giulio Pacelli were particu- larly favoured by their uncle. (Their title bestowed by was Mussolini for recognition as their father's negotiation of the Concordat.) His favourite Carlo had posts bestowed upon him in almost of Vatican finance every part organization, which he still retains. Outside the Vatican he represents the holy finances as President of the insurance firm Compagnia di Roma Riassicura- zione and of the two publishing firms Gherardo Casini and San- soni. Marcantonio is on the board of directors of the powerful building and real estate com- pany Generale Immobiliare. He is also on the boards of a flour and spaghetti firm i with a capital of billion lire and the flour two millionaire Antonio Bondi as president. He also has straight director- ships on General Insurance, Cer- amica Pozzi and on IANA, which built the Hilton Hr-tel in Rome.

Plus XI: signed the Concordat Giulio, the third brother, represents Vatican finances on the board of one of Italy's big- gest banks, the Banco di Roma. bank's president is former The president Italian Catholic Action and the vice-president is Mas- simo Spada, top of the Vatican lay financiers. Giulio is a vice-president along with Spada of Italy's biggest gas industry. He is president of pharmaceu- one of the largest tical companies in Italy, as well as head of a company specializ- ing in hydraulic works. A glance at the firm Generale Immobiliare confirms the Vati- can as a stronghold of capital- ism. Until recently the Vatican had a 15 per cent controlling investment in the company: as Pallenberg puts it "to all intents purposes Immobiliare is a and kind of subsidiary of the Vati- can'. In 1969 the firm had a capital of 67 billion lire and was build- ing blocks of offices and develop- ing luxury residences all over Italy. In the early 1950s, Immobi- liare pioneered entry of Italian real estate into the international market. In France the company has developed site on the Champs Elysees with money sup- plied, not directly from Vatican, but from an outpost, the Immobiliare International Company, with a capital of $20m, located in the house of another bible-thumping regime, Monrovia, Liberia. Through the Monrovian Com- pany, Immobiliare develops rest- dential sites in Canada, the USA and Mexico. have Italian governments sporadically been forced to revoke part of the Concordat that exempting the Vatican from taxa- tion. At the moment taxes are being paid, but if we look at the papal fraud in November 1963, we must wonder how long this will be for. At the time the Vatican began secret negotiations with the minority Christian Democrat government of Giovanni Leone to get the taxes removed. No men- made in public or in tion was parliament of these negotia- In a note Ambassador tions. Migone acceded to the Vatican's demands. Finance Minister Martinelli sent a circular to the Associa- tion of Registered Companies and the Association of Banks exempt- ing them from 30 per cent tax on the dividends from shares.

Not only had this not been signed by parliament, the govern- ment had resigned eight days before the circular was signed and therefore Martinelli was no longer Finance Minister! Successive governments brought the scandal into the Moro's However, when open. centre-left coalition proposed tax in 1964, the Vatican threat.

ened to throw all its shares on the market. The stock market was in the grip of a crisis with severe having dropped shares an average 40 per cent. The Vatican could have destroyed the govern- ment as well as big sections of tax • was economy: no imposed. That the Vatican. represents one of the most important sec- tions of Italian capita! is indis- putable. It is able to enjoy this only because of the position of international acquiescence Stalinism which is engaged in a dialogue with the Church.

Capitalism in Italy was guaran- teed a future after World War II by the Italian Communist Party which disarmed the partisans and agreed to respect the Con- cordat line with Stalin's in policy of peaceful co-existence.

The only changes taking place in. the Vatican are aimed at making it a more rational capi- concern and giving it a talist better public relations image.

Let us consider a passage from •Populorum Pope Paul's Pro- gressio' • much publicized by liberals and Stalinists alike: 'But unfortunately, under these new conditions of society a sys- was instituted which con- tem sidered profit as an essential of iconomic progress, factor competition as the supreme law of the economy and privat possession of the means of pro- 'duction as an absolute right without limits or corresponding social values. This unbridled liberalism led to a dictatorship which was rightly denounced by Pius XI as the origin of "the imperialism international This demagogy is no money". more than the stock-in-trade of "attacks" on right-wing fascist capitalism, reflecting the fear of the petty-bourgeois of the power of international capital' The Pope, by making this kind of the horrors attack on capitalism hopes to organize the in the Church in middle-class defence of the capitalist system.

The real Vatican interests are revealed by its financial expert, Monsignor Caprio, speaking , On the 'revolution' in the Church finances which 'now must appear to be poor": 'Controlling interest in a com- pany is no longer necessary. Modern stock markets have made it possible to have safe invest- ments without control of the company's management. Today our investment criteria are the following: security of principal; of income and since increase market ups and downs are inevit- able, speculation is strictly avoided. It is not true that we are shifting funds around order to diversify. We do not have specific policy to a invest liquidate in Italy and abroad.' The truth is that the cobwebs of feudalism are a bit embarrass- ing when you are dealing with merchant bankers of this the world, and gold sceptres and crowns in excess give the wrong image which is bad business.

This article on the Cali- fornia-based Lockheed Cor- poration is reprinted from the latest issue of 'Bulletin' weekly newspaper of the Workers League in America.

The recent cut in the aero- space contract from 12 per cent to 8.3 per cent imposed by Nixon's Pay Board is the beginning of a plan by gov- and employers to ernment rescue the industry at the expense of the workers. The tremendous growth of the aero-space industry was the pro- duct of the post-war inflationary boom. Sixty cent of its per business comes from government defence contracts. With the end of the boom, the US government was forced to cut defence spend- ing. This immediately plunged giant defence contractors such as Lockheed, McDonnell, and North American into huge debt. In the face of this imminent disaster the Tory government in England was forced to take over lay out Rolls-Royce and an estimated $5m daily to keep the production of the TriStar engine going, while Nixon fought desperately for $250m in govern- from the - pl ment-backed loans banks to keep Lockheed above water. These stop - gap measures worked out at the highest levels of government met with an all- out campaign by General Electric and McDonnell Douglas to throw Lockheed and Rolls wolves. GE campaigned against the Lockheed loan on the phony basis of 'Buy American', meaning should build the TriStar engine and reap the profits.

McDonnell Douglas fought the loan on the basis of the principles of 'free enterprise', meaning it wanted to cut the competition DC-10 out of the market. It was this internal war, reflect- ing in the sharpest way the crisis throughout the industry, and not any hostility to the employers or tender concern for the employees that split the Senate down the middle on the Lockheed yote, with Democrats and Republicans lining according up to the corporations they served rather than on party lines. No one in Congress made when a peep Lockheed, after the failure of Rolls-Royce, laid off half of the 18,000 work force in Burbank and Palmdale, California, in- volved in the TriStar project.

But then neither did the IAM (union) bureaucrats. Instead they launched a massive campaign financed and directed by Lock- 'Save Lockheed'. The heed to company produced bumper stickers and buttons urging Con- gress to pass the loan gurantee

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K300: Nixon fought desperately for governm banks to keep Lockheed above water.

and the labour bureaucrats duly distributed them to the ranks. Floyd Smith, head of the IAM, organized demonstrations at un- employment offices and actually raised $36,000 from the workers' pockets to pay for 'Save Lock- heed' advertisements. An indication of the em- ployers' gratitude to the ranks given by board chairman was Daniel Haughton the night after the Senate voted approval for the $250m loan guarantee: 'We must start from where we are today and increase our efficiency on programme and activity? every In other words, lay-offs, speed- up, plant closures, wage cuts.

Lockheed's strategy is to shave off all non-profitable operations, leaving a few defence projects, basically putting all its marbles in the TriStar basket.

Roy A. Anderson was recently promoted to senior-vice president for finance to oversee the opera- tion. He told 'Business Week' (January 29, 1971): 'We are looking at all our operations to determine whether they are carrying their load.' Lockheed recently closed down four plants in the South which were produci workers Costo inte streets. That is just the beginning.

Since 1970, Lockheed's employ- ment has declined from 97,700 to 74,000, a drop of 24 per cent. A Lockheed worker at the Sunny- vale, California, plant told 'Bulletin' the work force there has dropped from the 1968 peak of 27,500 to 14,000, and layoffs are continuing. Another worker at Sunnyvale who was laid off over the Christ- mas holidays said men with up to five years seniority are being laid off. Others with higher seniority are being 'bumped', that is, forced to take lower classifica- • government backed loans from the ve water. Below: Lockheed TriStar tions at lower pay scales. He explained that if he gets called back, he'll have to take a pay cut. 'We got absolutely nothing,' he told 'Bulletin'.

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benefits, and they won't give me unemployment insurance because I got $400 in retroactive pay when I was laid off. I never asked the union for anything, but when I got laid off, I called the leadership for advice on where there were jobs. They didn't even try to help.' The logic of the 'Save Lock- heed' campaign, of class collaboration, is to sit on Nixon's Pay Board, the only purpose of which is to destroy the trade unions, and not lift a finger when it rips up a contract. But Lockheed cannot be saved. Haughton and company's expressed optimism is nothing but a phony show to hide their desperation and lull the workers while they sharpen the axe.

Clearly, there is no way Lockheed can stave off bank- ruptcy. The question is whether Lockheed's thousands of workers are to suffer starvation on the company's account, or whether a new leadership is going to be constructed in the IAM that will fight to mobilize the entire trade union movement in a political offensive against the govern- ment's union-busting attacks.

There is no way out under The fighting deter- capitalism. mination of the 1,000 Lockheed workers at Sunnyvale, California, who shouted down union officials at the demonstration last month against the Pay Board, who demanded strike action against the government, must now be brought together with the struggles exploding throughout the labour movement and turned into a fight for power.

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Workers Press, Saturday March 11, 1972 PAGE 9 the audience looked as if they were past their prime when the paper was founded. Sir Gerald Nabarro, well- While they waited to watch MP known Tory and former the antics of the hearty KGB motorist, rocked the House of 'artistes' for the Commons on its heels recently sent over occasion from Moscow, by accusing a Labour MP of the audience were treated to using the word 'bloody' a feast of reaction from The outraged Nabarro the platform. claimed to have heard Dennis Skinner Skinner, himself Labour MP, drew miners' applause with accusing the Prime Minister story about how the local vicar turned up of 'picking bloody your clients' at miners' during question time. victory Perhaps all Apparently he hadn't. He'd celebration. after said it to the Speaker, the miners' could which struggle provide is only a little less sinful than the for opportunity saying it to God. dialogue with the church?

In fact One of it's The the notable worse. most Speaker can order you out of contributions came from N House Ireland Stalinist Edwina of Commons, whereas God can only Stewart, who is a leader in the order you out of Heaven. Civil Rights Association. So Labour front-bench •We need action from Heath.

spokesman Harold Lever inter- ... she said We need it now vened. Skinner really must to loud applause, as if the Sir Gerald: outraged at the Dennis Skinner, miners' MP : 'bloody clients' time off from rocking parllament apologize for saying "bloody' Tories weren't providing to the Speaker. But he didn't, 'action' enough Ireland in Skinner insisted. already. Then the Speaker, known as Her main complaint about Selwyn Lloyd before his the Tory leader's policy was canonization, intervened. that he was jailing peole when Apparently, not only can you he should be negotiating with not say 'bloody', you can't say them. 'clients' either. So Skinner "The question is, who is apologized for saying 'clients'. Heath going to negotiate with Jolly hot time in the House, when he's jailing all the people hey what? that are going to make terms and talk with him?' Mrs Stewart, whose declared 'basic democracy', aim IS together with 'trade unions, Mr Skinner took time off from the N Ireland Labour Party, the foundations rocking of the Alliance Party and Liberal parliamentary democracy the Unionists' [sic] is determined other day to speak at the not to witness the outbreak of 'Morning Star' anniversary revolutionary struggles in Ire- rally in the Festival Hall.

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support linked to fighting all Harlow provides modern town hall facilities Marchers' warning will not be lost on Watford PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday March

BY OUR OWN REPORTERS

STEPHEN JOHNS, IAN YEATS,

DAVID MAUDE, PHILIP WADE

AND GARY GURMEET

TRADE UNIONISTS in Slough —just a few miles out of Lon- don — greeted the Right-to- Work marchers from S Wales and the West in the teeth of official hostility from local Labour Party and Communist Party leaders. Members of the local tenants' association helped Young Socialists prepare the marchers a meal. We heard news of firm back- ing from workers at Britannia Ford car plant Cables and the at nearby Langley. Again, as in Bristol, Oxford and Reading, the support we re- ceived in Slough and during our earlier stop Bracknell hard fought for, but firmly poli- tical when it came. If the Tories have as yet suc- ceeded in bringing only the spectre of mass unemployment these areas, the trend is to clear. Joblessness in Bracknell has doubled to 1.3 per more thar! cent since the Heath government took office two years ago, while in Slough it has increased by almost one-third in the last year.

At the last count the number of workers over 18 registered as wholly unemployed was 335. In Slouch it was 1,26l. Youth un- emplorment is proportionally much higher. One of the big features of our march has been the predomi- nantly friendly response we have received along the way from many thousands of motorists.

And the road to Slough with extremely high an volume of traffic was no exception. ()ne couple slowed to hand a march big apples, steward box of while another turned back miles along the road to donate £2 to the campaign funds.

We reached Slough footsore and in semi-darkness, but well pleased with our 24 miles pro- Considering had gress. we started late because of dole col- lection, it was a fine effort.

It had been well worth the detour to Bracknell to meet trades council members and march with them through the town's industrial estate and main shopping centre during i busy lunch-hour. Collections by the trades coun- cil plus donations the from Bracknell branches of the trans- port workers' and electricians" unions paid for a cafe meal in the town centre. As we were eating. trades council assistant secretary Terry Pearce told me that the support of local union activists for the was interlinked with campaign their campaigns against the whole range of Tory policies. 'In a town like this, where un- employment is relatively low at present, there's always a tendency to separate things off jobs from wages, rents from prices--which we're constantly fighting against.

•That's one of the reasons why we welcome the Right-to-Work campaign', he said. Despite the low local unem- ployment percentage, jobs were an issue of increasing concern.

'Already there's some short- time working again at Sperry- electronics Rand, the people. where they pushed out 1,000 only ago. It's an inter- six months national company, of course, and many of the lads fear that with Common Market they entry, might shift lock-stock and barrel into Europe.' Himself an electronics worker at Ferranti, Terry pointed out the very precarious nature of em- ployment in the industry.

Bill White, a painter for the Bracknell Development Corpora- tion and vice-chairman of the trades council, said that any idea that workers in would the area enjoy special privileges under the Tories had to be scotched.

'Once you're here', he pointed out, 'all your eggs are in one basket. If you get the chop here you're no better off than if you're stuck out in some mining village Wales-probably a lot " in S ' worse. Secretary of Watford trades coun- cil, Bob Mills, leads the Liver.

pool-London marchers thrnunh the town. day March 11, 1972 "That's why it's a bit difficult at first with a campaign like this; people try not to look at the situation, they feel they have hang on to what they've top, to In April, the rents of most of 25,000 Bracknell's workers many of whom were drawn to the new town from London by the prospect of cheap housing will rise by 50p. they fight this rise and When the growing threat to their jobs, thousands of Bracknell workers will remember the Right-to-Work marchers. IN HARLOW, like Stevenage, the Labour Council rallied round to give the Glasgow- London marchers support and accommodation. We slept in the modern town hall. had the run of the kitchen facilities and a business plus telephone. Again these arrangements were made at extremely short notice.

The first news of the march 10 Harlow when the Came advance team led by miner John Hampson approached the town authorities. The Harlow public relations officer, Derek Hawes, provided a and when list of church halls NS Stone Manganese convenor Bob Bank: Woolwich plant. Also seen are steward we drew a blank there, he con- tacted Labour councillor and Labour Party agent, Jack Arnott, who arranged the quarters in the town hall. In addition the lady mayoress put up the giris on the march at her home. The councillors were also re- sponsible for collecting a total of £12 from the AUEW district committee and workers at the British Oxygen factory in Harlow.

At our evening meeting Mr Arnott welcomed the marchers. 'It is tremendous you have come so far from Glasgow. I knew Glasgow in the 1930s and saw what unemployment did to the working class. 3ob Banks (right) hands over money to marc e stewards (| 10 r) William Massey and Bobby 'We have the same type of now as we had Tories then. is a throw-back to the Heath 1930s,' he said. Charles Adams, AUEW shop steward for 25 years, was made redundant in July with 250 other workers the Harlow GEC at plant. He said unemployment was i 'crime' in civilized society.

'The right to work under capitalism is decided by a small class of people. 'I myself have witnessed this,' he said. 'My father was on the dole for ten years.' Despite the statements, the speakers divided the fight for the right to work from the LABOUR and Communist Party members and the Lon- don Co-operative Society com- bined to give the Liverpool- London marchers a fine recep- tion in Watford on Thursday.

As we approached the gigantic works outside Odhams printing town, we were met by a delega- tion from Watford trades 'coun- cil. including its chairman, secre- tary and executive members.

Executive member Dennis McGrath was one of the Com- Party members who munist into town for marched with us a meeting in the shopping centre.

After a joint open-air meeting, the marchers were led by trades and Labour council secretary Party member Bob Mills to the trade union hall where we stayed the night. Several trades council members had taken the day off work to finalize the arrangements for the meal which they had laid on for us. The trades council had raised the money to pay for the food, cooked by ICS members. For the past number of years.

Watford has basked more or less comfortably in the light of the boom. economic Much of the prosperity came from the town's biggest employers, the two Odhams and Sun printing houses,

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y to marcher Tony Dawson outside the and Bobby Locke. See story march.

struggle to build a new leader- ship in the working class.

Many of them defended the existing 'left' leadership, and the marchers, who have had plenty experience of the practical bureaucracy in the labour move- sharply attacked this ment, perspective. Marcher Ray Jackson from difference Leeds said: 'The big between now and 1926 and the 1930s is that we have a revolu- and we are tionary movement determined to build a revolu- tionary party. 'Our march shows that the youth of this country are pre- pared to lead the working class take power." to which between them employed over 6,000 workers. Nevertheless, the nagging in- security of unemployment has begun to arrive here as well.

Unemployment is above the 1,200 mark. And Benskin's are closing their brewery down later this throwing several year, hundred more out of work.

As Chris Norwood, trades council chairman, put it at the precinct meeting: 'The warning these marchers bring should not be lost on this What has undoubtedly town. happened in the rest of the economy will happen here before too long. 'Many Watford workers them- selves came from areas of high • the NE or unemployment like Scotland. People have become inclined to accept full employ- ment and don't realize those days are over. 'There is no need to address this reality to the marchers because they understand the problem. We could do no less than welcome them to this town,' said Mr Norwood. Watford has been our last overnight stop before we march into the outskirts of London at Harrow. Liverpool, February 19.

is almost three weeks and • 280 miles away now.

STEWARDS at two big fac- tories in Woolwich stopped work to greet the Kent jobs day marchers on the second of their stay in the town.

Between them they raised £75 for the Right-to-Work campaign from factory collections.

• The Young Socialists went to the 600-strong Stone Manganese Marine Lta factory after a night in accommodation given free by workhouse. 'Just shows what they think of us', said one marcher gazing down from a first floor window into a prison yard of workshops.

Despite its forbidding appear- the building was well- ance, heated and and mattresses blankets provided by the council made us comfortable. At the Stone Manganese fac- which has already con- tory, tributed £10 to the campaign, works convenor Bob Banks came out with two other shop stewards and handed over another £5.

He said: 'I think its very necessary for somebody to show the government that the present unemployment situation is cloud- ing everyone's future. The Labour Party has been deplorably lack- ing, but the jobs position won't this government change until withdraws and makes way for someone who is going to do something about it.' And joint shop stewards' com- mittee chairman Bob Hock told marchers: There are the a number of us on the committee who have serious doubts about the ability of the present Labour leadership to carry out policies which would allow us to return to full employment.' Committee secretary Bill Massey said he supported the march because like many others he was worried about the local jobs situation and he criticized the Labour Party for not doing 'nearly enough' about it.

About 2,000 people are un- 'employed in Woolwich and in four years the numbers have increased by over 30 per cent as machine tool, bottling and engineering factories have closed down. 'There is not much else left to go now-apart from the town hall, the manager of the local employment exchange told me.

In the last four years Wool- wich has lost nearly all its big the SE London employers: Consultation Group Industrial has largely failed to redress the and businesses that situation remain-food packing, machine tools, plastics and components- on the whole employ less staff.

'The bottom has fallen out of vacancies,' the exchange manager told me pointing to 54 notified during the last count. 'Not even weather affects the un- employment figures now. Most of the men on my register won't jobs until get the general economic situation improves.'

The 1,300 building workers at Thamesmead are worried about redundancies-some have already been sacked at the Communist Party-dominated site and con- venor Bob Gordon promised to raise the Right-to-Work campaign at the next works' committee meeting. Virtually every man going into town's crowded the labour exchange to collect the dole showed interest in the campaign and marchers sold several tickets for tomorrow's Empire Pool, Wembley, rally. Sainsbury's 600-strong At shop stewards, all the factory led by joint T&G/USDAW branch chairman Gerry Dunn, stopped work to greet the marchers as way onto the they sung their company's premises. Said Mr Dunn: 'We deplore the actions of the Tories that have created this situation and we applaud these marchers as brave enough to march and stand up and be counted. These men have shown they will not sit back and take what the Tories give them. They are doing some- thing about it.' •. Many of the stewards bought tickets for tomorrow's rally and has raised a factory collection more than £50 for the campaign.

0.00 Wie Bitte? 10.30 Zarabanda 11.55 Weather. 12.00 Double Deckers. 12.25 Dastardly and Muttley. 12.45 Grandstand: 1.10, 1.40 Fight of the Week highlights; 1.25, 1.55, 2.20 Racing from Chepstow; 2:10 South African Grand Prix report; 2.40, 3.20 Table Tennis-England v Czechoslovakia; 3.00 World Figure Skating Championships; 3.30, International Athletics European 4.30 In- Rugby Union County Championship door Championships; 3.45 Final, Warwickshire v Gloucestershire-second half; 4.40 Final Score. 5.05 We Want to Sing. 5.35 News, weather. 5.50 Dr Who.

6.15 IT'S CLIFF RICHARD.

7.00 FILM: 'HOUSE OF BAMBOO'. Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi, Cameron Mitchell. Gls set up protec- tion racket in Tokyo after World War II.

.8.40 THE DICK EMERY SHOW.

9.10 THE BEFRIENDERS. Dense Forest, Hungry Wolves.

10.00 NEWS, Weather.

10.15 MATCH OF THE DAY.

11.15 BRADEN'S WEEK.

11.50 Weather. ввс 2 10.05 Open University. 2.00 Film: 'Carmen Jones'. 3.40 Private Lives. 7.15 Westminster. NEWS, Sport, Weather. 7.35 7.50 RUGBY SPECIAL. Final of the County Championship. War- wickshire v Gloucestershire.

8.40 UP COUNTRY. George Hamilton IV.

9.10 ONE PAIR OF EYES. Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles; a smog-bound city of the future.

10.00 IN PRAISE OF WATERCOLOUR. Part 6.

10.15 MAN OF STRAW. Part 6. A Loyal Subject.

11.00 NEWS, weather.

11.05 FILM NIGHT.

'THE STORY ON PAGE ONE'. Rita 11.35

MIDNIGHT MOVIE:

Hayworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young. Policeman mur- dered by his wife and her lover.

ITV

Sesame Street. 12.00 Grasshopper 10.55 Road Report. 11.00 Island. 12.15 Joe 90. 12.45 News. 12.50 World of Sport: 1.30, 2.00, Racing from from Sandown; Ayr; 1.45, 2.30 2.15, 2.50 Racing 3.05 Women's Hockey-England v Scotland; 3.50 Results, Scores, News; 3.54 Wrestling from Watford; 4.45 Results. 5.05 News. 5.10 Both Ends Meet. 5.40 Sale of the Century.

THE COMEDIANS.

6.05 6.35 FILM: 'THE TRAP'. Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise. Crime thriller. 8.00 HAWAII FIVE-O. Cloth of Gold.

9.00

SATURDAY VARIETY.

10.00 NEWS.

10.10 AQUARIUS. The Pursuit of Happiness.

11.10 THE ODD COUPLE.

11.40 ALL OUR YESTERDAYS.

12.10 NOTHING IF NOT CRITICAL.

The "largest theatre in the world'-seen In Britain, Sweden, Norway and Denmark-has ingmar Bergman's "The Lie' on BBC 1 Thursday. TV drama Gemma next This new venture for stars Jones as Anna Firth. All regions as BBC I Magnus. • 11.25 except: Mainly Come Dancing. 12.00 News, 5 Disha Day. 10.52 Wales: N Results. Match 5.45 Sports Irelands 11.15 News Come weather. bentoniny 4.55 5.45 News, Scotland: Sportsreel. 11.52 weather Sportsreel. Sportsreel. England: 11.52 Weather

REGIONAL

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CHANNEL:

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Thunderbirds. 12.42 Weather. 5.10

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12.00 12045 London. 3:30 5040° Randall 1ommy and Hop- Cooper: 30* 5.40 Secret service, Sale C. 9.00 London. of the Comedian Filma Adventure®. Dontury. 0 9.00 Who Do 00 London. 10.10 10.10 Sky's the

UFO.

News. 11.10 11.40 International detective.

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11.35 Beagan Gaidh- coverers. 12.20 HR Puinstuf.

5.10 UFO.

11.25

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12.10 Comedians,.10 8,05 9.00 Captain Scarlet. 12.45 1t.4d Yesterdave. Timmy 12.1! scopen takes thief 5.10 6.30 6.05 Both ends Sale 7.00 Film: of the century. "The Soldiers'. 2: 001.10 HoI London. terda 245 H0.58e Hawaii five-oh! Dick ville Bonanza. 11.40 knows? 6.00 Comedians. Dyke. Van Weather. 7.00 Company'. o. assho Primus 10.10

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12.00 Avengers. 12.55 Epicall.

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BBC 1

9.00 Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan. 9.20 Wie bitte? 10.00 Zarabanda.

Believing. 11.30 Boomph with Becker. 11.45 11.00 Seeing and Play Tennis. 12.10 School Swedish Style. 12.35 Metrication. 1.00 Croesi'r Bont. 1.25 Farming. 1.50 Children Growing Up. 2.15 Made n Britain. 2.24 News headlines. 2.25 Sound of Laughter. 2.55 Ask Aspel. 3.15 Film: 'Chlcken Every Sunday'. 4.45 Skating. 5.20 Anne of Green Gables. 6.05 News, weather.

6.15

PAUL: ENVOY EXTRAORDINARY.

6.45 SONGS OF PRAISE.

7.25 ENGELBERT. With The Young Generation.

8.10 FILM: "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD'.

Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford. Lawyer defends Negro farm worker charged with raping white girl.

10.15 NEWS, weather.

10.25 OMNIBUS: VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY.

11.15 AD LIB: Television.

11.45 Weather.. вВС 2 35 Open University. 7.00 News Review, weathe USIC ON 2: Kyung Wha Chung plays Mendelsohn with t 7.25 London Symphony Orchestra.

20 THE WORLD ABOUT US. La Camargue. Efforts made ave a Mecca for the birdwatcher and an invaluable pla for research. 9.10 DANIEL DERONDA. By George Eliot. Part 1. Temptations 9.55 ALBERT. Portrait of Albert Parsons, proprietor of a smal strument factory in Rhaeadr

0.15 THE BLACK AND WHITE MINSTREL SHOW

10.55 UP SUNDAY. A last look at the week by Line-Up.

11.20 NEWS, weather.

ITV

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6.30 ADAM SMITH.

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50 POLICE

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday M The five Right-to-Work marches from Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea, Deal and Southampton are in London for tomorrow'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 Melia 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

NODDY HOLDER

DAVE HILL

JIM LEA

DON POWELL

LATE NEWS

Onstered as a newspayer at the Pose Published by Workers Street, Clapham High London, 186a

SW4 7UG.

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

SW4 7UG.

March 11, 1972

AN ENORMOUS

cheer The reception we after town sneak. went up from the Liver- and its organizations to ing to the youth and received from the labou pool-London marchers demand for the trade unionists and movement yesterday was our gathering support exception the we crossed the Hert-

WUIN

Torosure porter ino the notning but enthusiastic

TOT

lavourable London of and in many cases over- 'Those members we've had all the way Harrow at 11.55 yester- Labour Party and whelming. the Harrow Labour Party Communis Said march Hence Young supported sent a delegation out te It has take miles 21 Christine Smith as we uS Socialists knew us and and 280 of crossed boundary days the into town policy only one for a meal was the Middlesex: It LO reac

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which they had paid for

WILL

London, journey we were great that employment. They arranged our which took able to walk so far. • The the fight the determination with all Today working-Class areas complete the final leg o notcles. They England. through. support our fight our journey when the NW, the Black 'All defend right to work in London for us know the Country, through Acton march nave achieved somen une lories are se and passing through destroying.' and Shepherd's Bush. s the Pankhurst With them held right outside No. was Wool- shined its buttons this march to wich Barnfield Tenants' 10. when secretary With Woolwich, brighter than Kent best so Deptford Mr Mike Potter Greenwich, Socialists before we vo into central Lon and NE they set out on the last don people will really Kent несклан "Ine barn- day of their 80-mile that we are serious see field tenants are fighting hurst said: Wem- march into London. about what we're doing.' Tories rair Kents ane will make carS usel Dey rally Hours before the Act been lights and motorists and fantastic climax to the Right-1o-Work commit- dole myself since drivers hooted as marches. Everyone's lorry October. ee called a speca lace looking forward to hues night meeting take to marchers six feet apart 'Ihis is the way to ater two weeks on tH running of the over and straight show people what needs road but it is only ramrod march in earnest done. think step towards what we're turned into Camberwell March leader Les Green. working ior. sundays rally spould De marchers in Birmingham: ON the last day before the Dunlop engineers' shop stewards.

Pressed apprentices will of Steel-Fisher, Kingsbury • Rd, joint number marchers enter London, sup- shop donated £5; stewards also attend from Dunlop port for the Young Socialists" Parti British-Leviand's zaDour transilisslulls Bentley Club will send 15 dele- division donated MeTTO Right-to-Work "campaign still politan-Cammell joint shop dona- stewards f5. flowed in. And the following new tions have been made to the Kingswal

LONGOO

Donations included: Gestetner College Further Education Essex Plating Com- students union are sending a 41- workers Carburettor T&GWU and SU

AUEW

Wandsworth. ti.I): Light- Empirt members strong ing section electricians on London Pressed-Steel Fisher, Common Pool, Wembley on Sunday and underground E2:

T&GWU

1/804 Lane, T&GWU members collected delegation with banner branch f2: Stone Manganese shop and lobby of parlia- stewards at £7.40 was handed over to the ment on Monday. carton. Triang's Wandsworth £20; London College of Printing £50 Greek sueenis in

LOACON

Ford shop stewards' committee Southampton £5: Aylesbury LATE yesterday the Swansea- of the trade union leaders with and District Trades Council E5.

London marchers entered "This wheeling and dealing at saville, Reader in Eco nomic History at Hull University, No Downing threatens secretary dona- made a personal everyone's jobs. has also Right-to-Work campaign. said: tion of fs towards the campajen.

•Politically, this is the most rally—but crucial of the whole stage Manor Place Penrose campaign. denots who placed a levv on this it-are week's packets, collected 'The Empire Pool rally is the spearhead £17.05 only answer to the secret dealing The following organizations in Birmingham are delega- sending tions to the rally: Ten delegates British-Leyland's trans- from measures Missions alvisione Pressed Steel Fisher, Common factory: from in France

A BACKGROUND

paper about BW3 from rort prepared by MEASURES to stimulate indus- of Railwaymen and will be ready

WEATHER

trial investment have been an- Sidney Greene, general secretary, French Finance nounced by

EASTERN

districts Great told conference at the a press generally cloudy Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing.

Road Britain will be head- LUDLUl with occasional rain They consist principally of cuts quarters yesterday. steel. and ester distrilts will be mainly on hills. snow He said that after the three medium- and long-term rejected the. Rail- rail unions interest rates and greater free- offer dry with sunny spells anter Board's on Ways clearance of early morning mist dom for insurance companies to wednesday, they were askee lO and fog patches. prepare a paper to explain their lend money directly to industry.

Temperatures will be near the seasonal normal in the W, but it Lase In addition, commercial banks •We told the Board "You have will be cold in E areas. will need hold smaller com- got to find some more money and Bank pulsory deposits at the Outlook for Sunday and Monday: will produce a paper" France. Some showers in the SE at first, said. perhaps with verwise maintain efforts fog patches and sunny morning profitability in industry come at No Party job SE, near periods. Rather cold in depression is the a time wnen normal temperatures elsewhere.

IS unemployilcut -Kitson French employers have disturbed for some time by decline and many (business ALEX KITSON, a senior trans firms are seriously short of funds.

official and Labour's union Although the measures валова execute may help some businesses to keep scotched rumours yesterday that off bank- he intends run for the post profits stave of Labour Party general secretary.

ruptcy, Nicholas, arrest the decline in the economy Sir Labour's which is part of the international present general secretary, is due to retire. crisis.

GREET THE

MARCHERS WHEN

THEY REACH

LONDON

Saturday March 11

GLASGOW-TO-LONDON

10.30 Scotland arrives a.m. 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

£1.250 MARCH

FUND STANDS

AT 188.83 EMPIRE POOL, Wembley—we're nearly there. The tremendous marches from Glasgow, Liver- pool, Swansea, Deal and south- ampton have almost arrived.

All our enemies said it couldn't be done. But the determination of these Young Socialists on the march is a clear answer. No- thing will stop the working class fighting back. This Tory govern- ment will be made to resign.

Workers Press is completely behind this great fighting spirit of these youth. Use the paper this weekend to mobilize mass support to welcome the marchers this Sunday at the Empire Pool.

This weekend is also the best time to raise big support for our Appeal Fund. Don't waste a moment. Collect as much as you can and post to : Workers Press March Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. AS A full overtime ban went into operation at British-Leyland's the statement 'This is a serious declaring: emergency? The company's newspaper said: 'It could set back the corpor- recovery and injure its ation's competitive power. 'In the first week of power cuts alone we lost between half and of three-quarters our potential production. These hold-ups have come on top of a series of strikes this which have already year of caused serious losses pro- duction in some plants. 'The remedy is a long period uninterrupted production, of completely free from hold-ups of any kind! Read squads ASSISTANT chief constable of Nottingham, Leonard ('Nipper') Read, is to be national co-ordin- of regional crime squads, ator the Home Office announced yesterday. was No 2 under Com- Read mander John Du Rose in the police squad which put the Kray twins, Ronald and Reginald, and brother, Charles, their elder behind bars. But when the investigation immediately ended. Read was transferred to the relatively obscure post in Nottingham.

ALL CHARGES against Cathal Goulding, Michael Ryan, Tony Garland and Sean Hefiernan were dropped yesterday when the prosecution Dublin said that no evidence would be offered. The men, leading members of the Official IRA, were charged with being members of an illegal organization. They were charged a day after the Aldershot bombing. A fifth man, Sean Kenny, the Official's representative United the States, was remanded on bail on four charges.