Workers Press no. 714

workers press

WILSON MAKES IRISH SPEECH FOR HEATH

THE STENCH OF

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY MARCH 15, 1972 • No. 714 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE What John

COALITION

saw Bloody

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Sunday' OPPOSITION leader Harold Wilson flew back to London late yesterday from Dublin and an hour later was on his knees with Heath at Westminster Cathedral praying for peace in Ulster.

He gave Heath a full report on his talks

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT

with Premier Jack Lynch, leaders of the opposition parties and the newly conse- crated Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Dermot Ryan. At Dublin airport Wilson told the press that if Heath's Ulster proposals had merit, the Labour Party would support approved the "shoot-to-kill' them fully. instruction. Wilson said thatte known that noW Party felt the gov- when in office Wilson had not

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Y ds conuncenc Drans Crawl

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sumcient enery. uD tor internment ony the on the wrong lines, or were election in June 1970 inter- take being pres rupted these plans. with which the acuon Also during office Wilson party 'might consider' breaking Cabinet was nead or Ine bi-partisan policy security committee reviewed the barbarous Ulster. and interrogation Not since the 69 Labour

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MPs voted with EnE tories reason believe last October to get Britain he would. Market common

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objected to

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nas coalton DeCI UIster posed so blatantly. his speech in Dublin The capitalist on Monday, Wilson broke unanimous the ice Heath's long- SUll S awaited 'initiatives. Irish crisis TOn inune After three of behalf of the Tory Party. years Wilson is a long-standing slanderous ane outrageous attacks on the IRA, Wilson and devout broker for the acknowledged that the

IRA

ruling class. 'well-disciplined and Wilson who was a was 'tightly-knit' group. originally sent British He suggested that Ulster at the the troops should revert to the behest of the Tories in role Unionist Party in 1969. beace-keebins and 'cease arresting people And it was only a mat- Wilson's Predictably, of months before he ter have caused an Stormont where Faulkner brian Has atta caed the to understand

MANY

failing understand 'realities of life in une

THANKS

But Wilson made Seath in the sanely after AT THE Right-to-Work rally the Privy council. The hints about at the Empire Pool, Wemb- talks with the

IRA,

about ley, on Sunday a total of loosening internment, pull- {1,181.7 was raised in a ing some TrOODS

NATIONAL UNION OF SEAMEN'S SECRETARY BILL HOGARTH (R) COMING

streets as outlined by Wil- magnificent collection. The

OUT OF THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT AFTEF

precisely part

PRESENTING THE DRAFT AGREEMENT WITH THE BRITISH SHIPPING

Right - to - Work SUll campaign Heath's "package'

FEDERATION.

ANGRY SEAMEN

CLAIMED

THIS MOVE MADE

THEIRS THE

Wilson is consciously and committee wishes to thank

FIRST 'SCAB' UNION IN THE COUNTRY. • SEE REPORT P. 12.

deliberately the audience who gave so the generously, the organizers Strike pay to be reviewed-Joseph simplv to test the extent of the rally and the artists of the Protestant backlash.

short it was a speech and comperes who made which Heath, because of his

SECRETARY

Social on be paime of the Hobie to review the operation of Services, Sir Keith Joseph, of public the evening such a great payment Social Security party tes to stormont and the 1971 in the light of the ex- the occupation army, could denendents success. SalO Common. oine make. So Wilson made yesterday there was of strikers. He added the perience during the miners not government has undertaken deal of strike. great resentment it for him.

FORMS P. 11

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THIRTEEN - year - old John Carr yesterday told the Widgery Tribunal in N Ireland how he saw two men shot down out- side his home in the Bog- side on 'Bloody Sunday'. One of the men shot had his bands above his head, John said. John's father sent him upstairs when the shoot- ing started. He could see Glenfada Park and part of Rossville St from his win- dow. The boy told the one- man inquiry into the kill- ing of 13 civilians in Derry on January 30 that he saw a group of about ten men.

*They all scattered except this one. He put his hands above his head. The soldier put his gun to his shoulder and shot him and he fell on his side and then he turned over, lay on his back and blessed himself, John said. I saw the man lying on the ground. Another man was running towards him. Just as he bent over, he was shot.' Then John saw a figure laying 'half on and half off' the kerb. *A soldier ran towards him and put his boot in his side and pushed him off the pavement with his foot. Then he ran on.

Asked if he saw any other soldiers, other than that one, he replied, 'No'.

John, at St a pupil Joseph's Secondary School, Creggan gave evidence for 20 minutes. Chief Supt Frank Lagan of Londonderry Royal Ulster Constabulary said he pleaded with the army not to let the paratroopers go in to the Bogside to make an arrest operation.

Lagan said that when Brig Pat McLellan told him at about 4 p.m. that the paras wanted to go in, he told him: 'For heaven's sake hold them until we are satisfied that marchers and rioters are well separated.' He said that the Brig did not reply, but left the office for a short while. I assumed he was going into the ops room to pursue my suggestion. After a short interval he returned and told me, "I'm sorry, the paras have gone in":' 5 P. 11

workers press

WILSON MAKES IRISH SPEECH FOR HEATH

THE STENCH OF

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

WEDNESDAY MARCH 15, 1972 •

No. 714 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

What John

COALITION

saw Bloody

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Sunday' OPPOSITION leader Harold Wilson flew back to London late yesterday from Dublin and an hour later was on his knees with Heath at Westminster Cathedral praying for peace in Ulster.

He gave Heath a full report on his talks

AARONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT

with Premier Jack Lynch, leaders of the opposition parties and the newly conse- crated Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Dermot Ryan. airport Wilson told the that At Dublin press if Heath's Ulster proposals had merit, the Labour Party would support approved the 'shoot-to-kill' them fully. instruction. Wilson sald that _ it the now known that Labour Party felt the gov- when in office Wilson had Was antills sufficient conuncenc olalls Wild energy. up for internment. on the wrong lines, or were election in June 1970 inter- being pressured Which take rupted these plans. with the acuol Also during office Wilson party 61Ci 'might consider' breaking Cabinet was pedo Lne bi-partisan policy security committee the Welco reviewed barbarous Ulster. and interrogation Not since the 69 Labour

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techniques in adel. Mrs voted with the ories no reason believe last October to get Britain thạt he Common Market the objected to torture nas coalliol pontics posed so blatantly. his speech in Dublin capitalist The sings i- Monday, Wilson broke unanimous the ice Heath's long- interven- Sull awaited 'initiatives'. Tion In Iris is r After three behalf of the Tory Party.

years slanderous Wilson long-standing and outraceous attacks on the IRA, Wilson and devout broker for the acknowledged that the

IRA

ruling class. swilson Britio who was d wen ascibinca anu was 'tightly-knit' group. originally sent Ulster at the to the in behest of the lories Unionist Party in 1969. 'cease arresting people'.

And it was only a mat- Wilson's Predictably, ter of months before he have caused an uproar in Stormont where Faulkner brian Las attacked the understand

MANY

failing understand 'realities of life in N

THANKS

But Wilson made the speech after the sanctity Heath in AT THE Right-to-Work rally ith he TRA talks at the Empire Pool, Wemb- about tne ley, on Sunday a total of Joosening internment, pull £1,181.7 was raised in a off ing come

TOODS

NATIONAL UNION OF SEAMEN'S SECRETARY BILL HOGARTH (R) COMING

streets as outlined by Wil magnificent collection. The

OUT OF THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COURT AFTER

precisely part

PRESENTING THE DRAFT

AGREEMENT WITH THE BRITISH SHIPPING

Right - to - Work campaign SULl Heath's 'package'

FEDERATION.

ANGRY SEAMEN

CLAIMED

THIS MOVE MADE THEIRS

THE

Wilson is consciously and committee wishes to thank

FIRST 'SCAB' UNION IN THE COUNTRY. • SEE REPORT P. 12.

deliberately drawing the audience who gave so Unionist the generously, the organizers Strike pay to be reviewed —Joseph simov to test the of the rally and the artists of the Protestant backlash.

In short, it was a speech and comperes who made which Heath, because of his

SECRETARY

Social on both sides of the House to review the operation Services, Sir Keith the evening such a great Joseph, about payment of public Social Security Act party des to stormont and dependents 1971 in the light of the ex- • He added the the occupation army, could the Common: success. make. So Wilson made yesterday there was of strikers'. perience during the miners not government has undertaken strike. great resentment it for him.

FORMS P. 11

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THIRTEEN - year - old John Carr yesterday told the Widgery Tribunal in N Ireland how he saw two men shot down out- side his home in the Bog- side on 'Bloody Sunday'. One of the men shot had his bands above his head, John said. John's father sent him upstairs when the shoot- ing started. He could see Glenfada Park and part of Rossville St from his win- dow. The boy told the one- man inquiry into the kill- ing of 13 civilians in Derry on January 30 that he saw • a group of about ten men.

"They all scattered except this one. He put his hands above his head. "The soldier put his gun to his shoulder and shot him and he fell on his side and then he turned over, lay on his back and blessed himself, John said. I saw the man lying on the ground. Another man was running towards him. Just as he bent over, he was shot. Then John saw a figure laying 'half on and half off" 'A soldier ran the kerb. towards him and put his boot in his side and pushed him off the pavement with his foot. Then he ran on'.

Asked if he saw any other soldiers, other than that one, he replied, 'No'.

John, a pupil at St Joseph's Secondary School, Creggan gave evidence for 20 minutes. Chief Supt Frank Logan of Londonderry Royal Ulster Constabulary said he pleaded with the army not to let the paratroopers go in to the Bogside to make an arrest operation.

Lagan said that when Pat McLellan told Brig him at about 4 p.m. that the paras wanted to go in, he told him: 'For heaven's sake hold them until we are satisfied that marchers well and rioters are separated' He said that the Brig did not reply, but left the ofice for a short while. 1 assumed he was going into the ops room to pursue my suggestion. After a short interval he returned and "i'm sorry, told me, the paras have gone in"." 5 P. 11

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday March 15, 1972 surrounded A government offic BERNADETTE Devlin forcements SW then boarded the airport at the MP was yesterday sent France Miss and escorted her city as back to London by the Devlin flew in. car to a Royal Morocc She had fiown out of Airlines plane French authorities when London in an Air France leave for London shor she flew into Bordeaux headed for ' afterwards. plane ou. for a speaking engage- All the other were asked The French ment. passcusers to leave. the aircrait ministry had Heavy police when it landed. known in advance rein- NATO's NAVAL Commander in the Mediterranean, Admiral Gino Birindelli, is to stand as a fascist candi- date in the Italian General Elections on May 7.

He is to head the Naples list of candidates for the Italian Social Movement (MSI), which the restoration of stands for fascism in Italy. NATO post on He left his Monday be by to replaced Admiral Francesco Brunetti, now in charge of the NATO forces in KING HUSSEIN of Jordan the central Mediterranean.

has proposed that The Admiral is seeking elec- refugee-crowded Gaza Strip be as a deputy and as a tion both linked to the E and W banks He said he had decided senator. federal of the •Jordan in a to stand 'because I resara unis 'United Arab Kingdom'. particularly critical

NATO.

link the for national life and for His to proposal Is It is a moment in which the fate Israeli-held strip and the W of the alliance, which even with bank, both occupied by the with its imperfections has guaranteed Israelis since the 1967 war, the E bank of his own kingdom.

peace for 20 years. could be put in serious danger by the disinte- making his Before suggestion gration which seems to have public, Hussein informed Tel our national community. struck Washington, Moscow and Aviv, Birindelli's open declaration of the Arab leaders. his fascist allegiance comon. Hussein's scheme proposes that strated the growing ties between of the two banks should each MSI and the the highest levels have its own government and an of the Italian state machine.

King with elected parliament, Hussein the supreme head of the

NATO.

which helped organize There would also be the colonels coup in Greece in federation. a federal parliament. 1967, accused two was years similar later of In his notes, the King explained preparing operation in Italy. of that the plan was an image of national union Nobody knows how the future many the banks and more fascists are concealed in the between to the wishes of the

NATO

responded levels of the top of the occupied W bank. people mand, but there is everv indica- Birindelli tion that Admiral is King Hussein had held consul- not alone. with Jordanian tations officials Palestinian person- This move makes nonsense of Cand and the plan the Communist Party's attempts expected to announce it at to salvage a new lease of life for press conference tomorrow.

the thoroughly Italian corrupt republic. Instead of a programme for Maoists working-class power the against fascist threat, acting ite general lose out secretary Enrico Berlinguer called at its congress on Monday for Popular Front with government alongside the CP participating the socialists and 'left' Christian Democrats. He said the Communist Party would join such government Communist

THE

MARXIST

threat because of the 'right-wing Party has been routed by Prime democracy' and added that a to Gandhi's Con- Minister Indira Popular Front would have the India's gress Party in state of possibility popular enacuns elections. social reforms. With 158 results still to come In his desire to win votes in 4 sea cont of 120 in Wenan the Congress Party from the middle class, Berlinguer roundly condemned the left- has been most wingers who went on the streets powerful party in W Bengal since in Milan on Saturday to break up 1967. a fascist meeting. In a statement issued by its He the Party had also said leadership the election was extend nationalization. plans to déclared invalid. Vote-rigging claims appear to be an attempt to divert atten- tion from the realities of the massive defeat. One major reason for the turn

MORE

against the CP is that one crucial wing is pro-Peking and supported

FOREIGN

throughout Yahya Khan the liberate BanglaDesh. struggle to

NEWS P.10

Gandhi's Mrs biggest vote- her decision catcher was to military of launch invasion Bangla Desh and drive out the Pakistan army. occupying

BERNADETTE DEVLIN

ment official Miss Devlin would not be allowed to ed the plane enter d her in a France under the terms al Moroccan of a banning order dat- ing from May 1971. to No reason. has been ndon shortly given for the ban and all efforts by her lawyer nch interior in Bordeaux over the last few had, made days to have it lifted failed. advance that Zambia fares BUS FARES went up without notice in parts of Zambia this week. Three conductors trying to collect the new fares were beaten up by passengers in the capital Lusaka who thought they were being cheated. Habash warns collaborators GEORGE HABASH, leader of the Popular Front for the Libera- tion of Palestine, warned in Beirut yesterday that those who run the forthcoming municipal the Israeli-occupied election in W bank of Jordan will be treated as collaborators. He was speaking at a press conference at a Palestinian ref- ugee camp in a Beirut suburb on the outcome of the Front's third conference, held in Lebanon recently. Dr Habash said the Front re- jected plans for a liquidation of the Palestine case, and also the 'American imperialist attitude which seeks to make of these proposals a means to the final of the case and to liquidation strike at the entire Arab masses'.

He added that the Front be- "strategy of the lieved in the long-term popular war of libera- as the only way to libera- tion tion'. It rejects all plans for a Palestinian state.

KING NOL

CAMBODIA'S Marshal Lon Nol in as swore himself yesterday first President and compared his that of the deposed power to monarchy. 'The chief of state is in the pusition of the king as chief of executive, legislature and judiciary, he told newsmen the ceremony at directly after the state residence of Chamcar Mon. • I have said I am no longer chief of state. I have become the President', he added. 'The Presi- dent is responsible for all affairs.'

He also squashed hopes that he might promulgate a republican and constitution categorically ruled out the the returh of national assembly, stripped of its legislative power last October and dismissed last Friday when the Marshal. took over as the head of state. 'I will always abide by the law—the old one', he said. 'The only difference is that there will be no parliament, but the execu- tive will replace it." THE CAPITALIST newspapers, without exception.

have treated the Right-to-Work marches in two ways they have either ignored them or distorted their purpose and aim. They remain bitter enemies to the end. Their report of Monday's clash between the unemployed youth and Labour MPs was in the lowest traditions of big-money journalism. 'The Guardian' in particular.

We accuse This paper called the great campaign to mobilize workers everywhere to force out the Tories a 'five-week trek to nowhere'. Now, with the 'Morning Star', this newspaper has come out and comforted members like Stanley Orme, Eric Heffer and other 'left' MPs who got such a stormy reception from the youth for evading every issue posed by unemployment. lan Aitken pounds the lobby of parliament for his wealthy masters at The Guardian', and this is his version of what happened on Monday. Apparently 'representatives' of the Socialist Labour League gained access to the House of Commons disguised as unemployed youth. They then promoted a riot before shocked Labour MPs who had come to express?

naive concern' for the marchers.

Furthermore, the main, but, according to The Guardian', quite illegitimate concern of the assembly was, what were the Labour MPs doina to aet rid of men like Roy Jenkins who were organizing a right- wing faction to subvert party policy?

Yet no campaign for the right to work can be successful if it does not deal with men like Jenkins.

On that lobby were 200 unemployed youth (despite Heffer's they were They had come 500 miles to ask these questions: • What programme did the MPs propose to defend the right to work? resign? • Did they agree with the attempt to persecute the marchers by Transport House?

• And were they for the expulsion of the real traitors in the movement-the pro-Common Market MPs?

Throughout the country these youth have asked similar questions to Labour Party members, shop stewards, miners and other workers.

They have listened patiently to direct answers and have argued and discussed in a principled way. On Monday end. Not one of those MPs patience came to an could give a straight answer to any of these key questions. And as one S Wales marcher said, the great march through the country had taught them that the working class is prepared to fight-one hour in parliament proved that the 'left' leadership is ready to run.

STALINISTS BLAST OFF

ABOUT THE UPPER CLYDE

ACCORDING to the Morning Star', the Stalinist daily, Workers Press and 'The Times' papers that spread defeatism and In a classic Stalinist distortion despair among the UCS workers.

they example our opposition to the work-in policy as proof of this. Yet no other has been to such lengths or devoted paper i as much copy to the UCS struggle as the Workers Press-and opposed 'work-in' it position is clear. We the because our with Tory dovetailed slash the Ucs labour exactly plans to force, lower wages and step up productivity on the upper Clyde.

We campaigned for a genuine occupation and against the policy the Stalinist-led stewards' committee shop com- promise and peaceful co-existence.

The 'Star' repeats this feeble slander after James Airlie, a Communist demand for four- Party member, declared that a Clydebank year; no-strike contract from the prospective buyer Stalinist would be 'no obstacle' to agreement. In addition, the leadership has accepted the Ridley report.

The facts are plain. The Govan-Scotstoun-Linthouse complex is expected to provide 4,300 jobs.

If the Clydebank deal comes employed by Marathon Manufacturing.

off, 2,000 workers will be This means a total of 6,300 on the upper Clyde. In the days before the work-in there were 8,500 at UCS. At best, therefore, 2,200 jobs will be lost. This is what the Stalinists are ready to accept and this is almost exactly what Nicholas Ridley, the architect of government policy on shipbuilding, first proposed.

With the hiving off of lucrative assets to other combines, Ridley estimated there would be at least 1,000 redundancies on Clyde. work would the upper The men who remained at get standards. lower wages and work harder under deteriorating This is exactly what is happening on the Clyde now. The reformists and their Stalinist allies are, as always, trading jobs, wage-cutting and speed-up, to avoid a fight to encouraging bring this government down.

We say these are policies that lead to defeat and demoraliz- ation and the Communist Party and their paper have been the major instruments in promoting them.

FEBRUARY'S balance Tory analysts commentators are of figures placed in the Barber tax talking in terms payment• cuts of last July sterling indicate that British are maJor proving totally mis- tion within trade is sliding inexor- Such taken. a move ably deficit, into further lead Instead of stimulating despite mass un- inside the making investment and employment and the Market which is stri British industry more Tories' savage attacks to keep the curren the "refla- competitive, on wages. of all its member tionary' mini-budget, in rencies within fact, has stimulated the The figures show limits-as the first : 'visible' trade influx of goods without deficit on to a bloc against making it any easier for of £32m, though this is dollar. British manufacturers to covered by a surplus on Common compete overseas. invisible bankers are talking (through Britain's insurance, scheduled stiffening their banking and other finan- entry into the Common anti-dollar stance cial operations) of £50m.

Market will next year harsh controls The long-term trend, intensify all these prob- capital inflows if the however, is downward. lems. It the means does not manufac- government will Imports •of British the continuing tured goods continue to have to foot a consider- of dollars to Europe grow while the volume able portion of the EEC At the weekend, of exported goods budget direct drain - a Buropean slowly declining, though on the balance of pay- affirmed their export prices have risen.

ments. mination to The high hopes which Capitalist economic Common Market censors

FLEET

STREET'S

tame poodle, the Press Council, has attacked printworkers bitterly 'in circumstances -for striking amounting to censorship'.

In the annual report published today, Lord Pearce, the council's " chairman, four such stop- says pages were noticed in 1971.

Showing the how sensitive interference ruling class. is to ? with propaganda machine, its Pearce, back • Lord from just Rhodesia where he was testing Smith- 'acceptability' of the Home deal, goes on: 'The trouble arises when those

ANTI-CLOSURE STEE

• concerned in the of production the newspaper, because of -foreknowledge their employment decide that what is - gives them, about to be published is objec- Gloom over •tionable to them. Instead of awaiting publication and then submitting their pro- ‚test to public judgement as they prospects and any other members of the public are entitled do, em- to sought immediate British-Leyland's *ployees have GLOOM about prospects for 1972 was the mood redress satisfied and. when not with the editor's have in the Fleet St response, press yesterday, delayed or stopped production.' after the flop of its bid to raise cash from existing £24m extra Stripped of its legal verbiage, shareholders. the statement simply means that when printers have been asked Only 17 million of the 53.77 to produce virulent anti-working- million shares on offer were •class material they have refused, applied for. Slater Walker and quite legitimately. other City establishments who But workers striking in defence underwrote the issue will hang of their class ..is quite un- on to the rest for now but may acceptable: it is of soon start cutting their losses.

an abuse privilege and an assault upon the very freedom by which they lize, • On page 11 today we examine adds Lord Pearce. apparent concessions the to No mention is made, of course, unions i in a new Leyland pro- of the constant censorship im- cedure and the agreement posed by the bosses of Fleet St's dangers of the proposed deal.

capitalist press. World's End ITA censors chippies out

THE

Independent Television Authority has appointed six new

THIRTY-FIVE

and carpenters members to its general advisory labourers claim they have been panel. the World's End locked out of The panel acts as a censoring Chelsea, London. building site in device all on programmes in- Employed Martin Grant by and cluding drama, current affairs and Co Ltd, sub-contractors, they advertising. told by were management last Without even seeing the World Wednesday that they would be •in Action 'South of programme, working 40-hour week on the Border' on the IRA, the ITA minimum pay as from Monday.

banned it. This was in response to the The new appointees to serve chippies' demands for new rates for two years are: and targets. They were then sent Anderson, a teacher Mrs M. home. children of deaf and of wife The men have now raised their the medical officer of health for Cardiff; Mrs A. demands to fl an hour minimum J. Dann, former Chippenham with revision of targets and were mayoress of and of General to have talks with management member the Svnod of the Church yesterday. of England; Miss J. Elder, a Mr D. Quinn, the federation Glasgow shopkeeper; E. Grierson, of Hexham, steward at the site, said that nó Northumberland, barrister and work normally carried out by would be done and that author; Mr L. W. Inniss, a social the men their materials were blacked worker in Birmingham; and Mrs He was seeking assurances that M. M. Mather, headmistress Hensingham they would work the same hours Infants as the rest of the site. Whitehaven, Cumberland. already rencies against the dollar and said they terms of a ling devalua- would take all necessary • three years. steps to avoid another move would revaluation of their further crisis currencies. Commón The European ich is striving counter-measures against he currencies the dollar are producing member cur- a marked fall in share narrow prices on Wall St. the first step On Monday the Dow- against the on interest for the successive day Market despite reassuring state- e talking of Federal ments from their present Reserve Board chairman stance with Arthur Burns and chief over economic adviser ows if the US Herbert Stein. stem uing outflow Wall St is clearly to Europe. ready for a getting of the second devaluation the dollar and paying bankers deter- little attention to o defend the Nixon government's Market cur- spokesmen.

URE STEELWORKERS LOBBY PARLIAMENT

THE TUBES division of the thi British Steel Corporation at Newport in Monmouthshire has until April 7 to get the government to reverse its plan to close down the plant. Tom Golightly, district secre- tary of the Amalgamated Union said of Engineering Workers, yesterday that the time had now 'for the boys to start come pushing'. He said the anti-closure cam- paign had been through all the proper channels. On Monday a delegation from the 50-strong factory lobbied Labour and Tory MPs at the House of Commons.

Mr Golightly was on a special deputation Secretary to Wales Peter Thomas, who is also Tory Party chairman. He said: "The Minister gave us a full hearing. He seemed to be very impressed by the strength of our arguments.' On January 7, BSC announced that the plant would close throw- ing 1,100 steelworkers out of a job. BSC gave the unions and workers three months for 'con- sultation' after which the factory will be phased out of produc- tion. A statement from the anti- closure campaign says: "To swell our local dole queue by a further 1,100 will lessen considerably the of those already un- chances employed of finding work. More and more men will be competing for the few jobs that become available, and Newport already has 3,100 unemployed cent of the population. Or 5 per • The number of jobs lost Workers Press, Wer

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDEN

SERIOUS DANGERS now fa ing workers as a result of t policies on pay. In Manchester, shop stewards representing some 200,000 have engineers threatened a work-to-rule from March 27—with bans on overtime and piecework- if the local employers refuse their claims. These are for a £4 increase, 35-hour week; extra a holidays and positive pro- gress towards equal pay for women. through redundancy in Wales last year was 21,200, the Depart- ment of Employment announced yesterday. The greatest losses occurred with metal manufacturing, elec- trical and mechanical engineering and textiles. The 1971 total is more than double the 1970 • figure, which was 10,000. The figures also show that 8,600 Welsh workers have been threatened with redundancy in the past five months. And in the first two months of this year a further 3,100 workers were hit by redundancy. Press, Wednesday March 15, 1972 PAGE 3

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i now face millions of engineer- ult of their leaders' mark-time Since this is the first area in the country to take a firm action decision since the on calling-off of the national claim the decision is bound to be a pacesetter. But despite the rejection of the claim and a threat of lock-outs Engineering Employers' by the Federation in the city, calls for strike action withdrawn . were after opposition from union officials. The recommendation on the bans was put by John Tocher, district secretary of the Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions last and year's chairman of the Com- munist Party. Tocher later claimed that 'at this stage, we cannot rule out strike action'. In Sheffield, where the EEF is equally engineers, adamant against the demands, the CP- dominated district committee of Amalgamated Union the of Engineering Workers has watered them down. Instead of the original AUEW resolution asking for a £6 to £8 increase, a 35-hour week, equal pay, an extra week's holiday and other fringe benefits substantial' they are asking only for increases and an extra day off.

The ground for this retreat, of course, was prepared by the AUEW national-committee res- olution which abandoned the national claim and allowed plant bargaining on 'all or part of the claim which is acceptable to the district committee and the mem- bers concerned'. It is this resolution-voted for by almost all the CP members the national committee on which fathered Manchester's token gesture of struggle.

Such limited action can only wear out the militancy engineering workers at a time when the employers are keyed up for struggle. It is simply marking time. As we revealed in yesterday's Workers Press, four days before the Tories capitulated to the miners the EEF was preparing to sack millions of workers given a nod from the government.

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PAQE 4 Workers Prass, Wadnoaday March 15, 1972 The five Right-to-Work marches organized by the Young Socialists have climaxed their fight against the Tory government by a massive rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley. Now a new stage of the fight opens up. All the determination and political consciousness raised during the nationwide marches is today turned towards making a huge success of the YS annual conference at Scarborough on April 8 and 9. Scar- borough becomes the next signpost on the march to build the revolutionary party in 1972.

In the coming weeks this page will be devoted to interviews with the young marchers.

15 an English Revolution already in Robert Wright, who years old, joined the Liverpool- Cromwell's time. Another thing I have found out is the difference London march at Coventry. He between us and the International and left school last summer Socialist group. since then has only worked for 'If we're going to deal with restaurant. one week in the the young workers system, Robert got the sack from that will want to know what's going job and has been unemployed on. When we build up the move- since. can't have youth just ever ment we •I know that the Young Social- thinking anything. 'We've ists are trying to bring down the train them in got to Tories and smash the system be- the right ideas—not those they've got from the capitalist system.

cause under this capitalist system there is no future for us.

This 'After the march I'm going to march has been part of building see what I can do about building up Coventry YS. We have to go lead the up a movement working class when we do bring out around the youth dole and Scarborough in socialism. Comterence of the Your campaign for I must admit I have learnt a Social- When I first lot on this march. ists. joined the YS I used to believe 'After the youth have seen this spirits and all those sorts of I think they'll in march, be en- things. thusiastic to find out about us because it was and to see the sort of things we don't now, explained that God, for example do. And that's when we can start can't exist because we can't training them in Marxist theory sense him with our five senses.

—which is the only theory going to win the revolution.' I also learnt there had been Joe McCallum was one of the original Glasgow Right-to- Work marchers who walked every mile of the long trek to London. The experience has transformed him politically.

For four months he's been out of work. Before that Joe was kicked from one low-paid job to another. In London he hit rock bottom and had to spend night in a Salvation Army hostel while he searched the city for employment. This experience and the life his parents lead Glasgow's on enormous and bleak Easter- house estate made Joe 'aggressive' to the capitalist system. He was seeking some way of expressing this hatred of a life of exploit- ation when he came in contact with the Young Socialists.

Thẻ march was his first experience of the campaign to build a revolutionary party to lead the working class in Britain.

tough baptism It a in was socialist politics, but Joe came through developed a trained young fighter ready to lead his class. his impressions of These are the march. When I first started the cam- paign I just felt aggression towards Now I the system. realize that you must have disciplined organization to unite the youth and the older workers against capitalism. I was really looking forward to the march in the first place. I had got to the stage when had decided to do something about my opposition the to system. At first I was going to join the Young Communist League, but then 1. met some people from the Young Socialists.

They were the only group really proposing fight organized an against unemployment. I think the most important effect of the campaign the on marchers themselves is that it drew them out of their shells.

There were a lot of boys on this march who were very political, but they are political now after their experience.

The first big thing was that we started out from Glasgow in the middle of the miners' strike. The first part of our journey was through the Ayrshire coalfield.

I know the talks we had with the miners impressed me and the other boys on the march. You saw here a group of workers in struggle, coming out to back us— not out of charity, but because our policies to they agreed with get the Tories out. The marchers saw the power of the working class through the miners' meetings and their own power in the way the miners rallied round. This was directly political in a real way. The other big eye-opener was the Labour Party. Our first big confrontation in Carlisle was where the bureaucrats in the party got together with the _ us. out. This Tories to keep showed me and I think a lot of other lads that there are enemies within the working-class move.

ment as well. But this was balanced with the really great reception we got from Labour Parties elsewhere. At places like Castleford, Rugby and Stevenage the party came forward and helped us tremendously-I think these kind of people represent what the Labour Party is supposed to be.

The main problem of the march is that many of the youth began little consciousness. They with hated the system alright—when they were confronted with the police, for example, they would fight back in their own way and it. I generally get arrested for know I used to be like them.

Through the march they learn to fight together and that an individual solution to oppression is bound to fail. This is really the key to their political develop- ment. It's difficult for some of these Glasgow lads to take discipline.

Even. if it's a discipline of a socialist movement that they are beginning to agree with and fight for. In Glasgow you are born or quickly learn, you have to fight to survive. You give up, and you go under. So they have streak of individualism, coupled with loyalty for their own kind and a bitter and deep hatred of the system and the Tories. The biggest lesson of the march is this-young workers and un- employed are prepared to fight against capitalism. They are pre- pared to organize for this and begin to build the revolutionary party. The other big lesson is that the working class is prepared to respond to such a lead.

I was working in Stepney in London before I had to go back home for an operation. I think I'll go back there and organize a big Young Socialist branch from the lads I know in that area. The march has been the to me experience -of life -time. marcher Angus Birkenhead wait two Harvey had to months after leaving school last summer before finding a job. Five weeks later he was sacked after taking time off to help his mother who had fallen ill. Still only 15, Angus has been on the dole since November. 'At first I thought it was protest march for work. I had a vague idea who the Tories were but I didn't know much about them. 'But during the march I've learned about the Tories. Youth like me, the working class, can't get jobs because we have been stopped by Heath. I'm thinking differently now about plenty of things. I think about others for a change instead of myself. We've been helping each other on the march. It has me saying stopped I know everything. 'When I get back I'm going to start a Young Socialists branch in Birkenhead. I think there are unemployed youth more Birkenhead than there are in Liverpool. "They need organization and that's what the Young Socialists are for. If we leave things alone we'll never get the Tories out.

'My beginning will act as their beginning. We will have to get the youth to a certain standard and then as they go out cam- paigning they will learn more.

I also think older workers will be attracted like a magnet to our policies, like they have been on the march.'

Two courageous Soviet oppositionists have just mended a two-month hunger strike because of their detention in one of the KGB's psychiatric prisons.

Their strike went unreported in the British Stalinist newspaper 'Morning Star': On the day it ended, the paper carried a dispatch from its Moscow correspon dent detailing without comment the contents of a Soviet CP Central Committee resolution.

The resolution, according to the 'Star, called for 'increasing the role of work collectives in the struggle against survivals of the past, violations of the laws and rules of the socialist community.

How do the British Communist Party's co-thinkers in Moscow-all of them trained in the Stalin school of bureaucratic rule—actually conduct this 'struggle'?

This article, based on material drawn from the samizdat magazine 'Chronicle of Current Events' (available in English translation from Amnesty Inter- national Publications, Turnagain Lane, Farringdon St, London, EC4) describes the reality that the 'Morning Star' is so anxious to conceal.

Victor Fainberg and Vladimir Borisov, two Soviet opposi- tionists, are reported to have ended a two-month hunger strike in a Leningrad psychi- atric prison. their Their hunger strike is second such action in less than a Last year they held out ycal. without food 80 de- for days manding improved facilities, access to their lawyers and the opportunity take their cases to court. their latest strike They began when their jailers broke their allow these promises to They ended it only they assured they when were Vladimir Borisov would be re-examined Their team' of psychiatrists headed by of panel psychiatrists. Prof Daniel Lunts of the KGB's families were called in to help Serbsky Institute. This has persuade them to end the strike.

man headed the 'politicals' department are held in the so- Both men hospital' of the Serbsky Institute since the called 'mental entirely because early 1950s under Stalin. His de- of their anti-Stalinist known as the partment political views. 'special diagnosis department'.

Fainberg, a 41-year-old Victor declared fine arts specialist from Moscow, was Lunts who General Pyotr Grigorenko insane of was one seven oppositionists Red and pronounced the who gathered in Square on same Vladimir Bukovsky, verdict on August 25, protest Warsaw another leading oppositionist. against the His so-called 'diagnoses' simply of Czechoslovakia. medical the Together with Pavel Litvinov, wrap up in jargon son of the famous Soviet conclusions already reached by diplo- mat. Larrissa Bogoraz, wife of the the KGB. Lunts' panel declared Fainberg writer Yuli Daniel and the poet of be 'unsound mind'. Their Natalya Gorbanevskaya, he sat on to decision meant he could be tried the parapet in front of St Basil's in absentia by a secret court and Cathedral and unrolled banners 'Long live free condemned to compulsory with the slogans: 'medical treatment' and independent Czechoslovakia'; Christmas Eve 1968 the 'Down with the occupiers'; On Czechoslovakia, Moscow duly carried 'Hands off for city Fainberg and ours' out this trial, ordering freedom and your mental hospital 'of •Freedom for Dubcek'. to a special the authorities Their small demonstration was type. Apparently brutally attacked feared bring him to public by plainclothes trial because of the injuries he KGB men who shouted 'They're as result of the all tists and 'Beat the Anti- sustained KGB's attack in Red Square. Sovietists' tore the banners Instead they diagnosed of the demonstrators' hands.

him as out suffering from "schizoheterdoxy Victor Fainberg was beaten up meaning that he didn't agree with and his teeth knocked by Stalinism. fellow the KGB men. hunger-striker, With fellow- His five of his six Vladimir Borisov, is his demonstrators he arrested serving was KGB 'mental second held charge of term in and on hospital. This 28 - year - old 'flagrantly violating public order'.

Leningrad electrician was locked Five of the demonstrators were for four years in the sentenced to exile or imprison- away Leningrad psychiatric hospital but Fainberg was singled ment. KGB for under article by the the after a secret trial out 70 of the Soviet penal code.

dreaded punishment of all.

end of October 1968 he This article covers all forms of Ạt the 'forensic what the regime considers to be was brought before a Larissa Bogoraz-Daniel and Pavel Litvino A special psychlatric prison-hospital in C Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuly Daniel agitation' — i.e., 'anti - Soviet attacks on the bureaucracy.

Four years of torment in the psychiatric jail did not change Borisov's views. In May 1969 he signed an Appeal to the United as a member of the Nations Group for Defence of Action Civil Rights. He also demanded the release of General Grigorenko. On June 12, 1969, he was arrested by two doctors sent from the 'hospital'.

They told him: 'Listen Borisov, you're quite normal; you don't lunatic to be sent to a want your ideas about politics, change asylum, do you! Better He was taken to a local clinic where the doctor told him: 'I am hospitalizing you not on my own initiative but in accordance with orders. He was sent to Leningrad's Psychiatric Hospital No 4. The next day he was inter- viewed by Dr Vladimir Belyayev, the chief Brad ho is in charise of Hospital No 4. When Borisov asked why he had been brought there, Belyayev replied: 'It was reported to us that your behaviour had changed: had become and you nervous excitable.' Belyayev refused to say who made these 'reports' Later, Borisov was brought before a "commission' similar to examined Fain- the one which berg. The commission, in accord- with ance KGB instructions, found that further treatment Workers Pross, Wadi vel Litvinov spital in Oryol on the road between Kiev and Mo essential'. He was trans- was another psychiatric ferred to hospital where the head doctor, a woman, told his wife that he needed treatment because he did not behave as a normal person should. Borisov's wife objected that this was not a symptom of illness but a question of his personal to which the doctor opinions, replied: 'Maybe, but he was unlucky; he is down on our register. What may be a system of opinions in a normal person is a sign of ill- ness in your husband.' Shortly after his transfer to this hospital, the KGB instituted criminal proceedings against Borisov for signing the letters rights and human defending Grigorenko. General was sentenced to be confined for compulsory treatment in mental hospital 'of special type' Unlike a sentence of prison or exile the 'psychiatric' sentence is indefinite. Borisov and Fainberg have been fighting a courageous battle for their freedom ever since they were railroaded into the mental hospital. Hunger continuous striking, involving resistance to forced feeding and appallingly brutal reprisals from guards, is the only the hospital means at the disposal of the prisoners in these terrible institutions. The horror of these 'psychiatric prisons' is vividly described by General Grigorenko, who has raza, Wadnoaday March 15, 1972 PAGE 5 Vladimir Bukovsky ev and Moscow Pyotr Grigorenko personal experience of the KGB treatment. .: I met people who had •. landed in a psychiatric hospital without being mentally ill. I was especially saddened by the tragic case of engineer Pyotr Alekse- yevich Lysak. 'Because he had spoken at a student meeting against the ex- pulsion for political reasons of a students, he had number landed in a psychiatric hospital and, at the time of my arrival, had already been there for seven years. this wild 'Bitter anger at injustice, at his ruined life, had his being, and he permeated would write complaints daily naturally never reached which their destination, but found their way into his hospital file and were used as an excuse for further "treatment". "(People who do not admit their illnesses are not usually discharged from special psyciat- ric hospitals.) I tried to drum this truth into his head. During one such conversation I said in irritation: "Your reasoning is so unreal that i'm beginning to doubt your normality" a sudden, 'He stopped all of looked at me with an expression I shall remember to the day of my death, and asked in a barely audible voice and tone of bitter reproach: • "Do you really think that a spend seven years man can here and still remain normal?""

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday Marc

BY JACK GALE PART 2

On the eve of the 1926 strike, the right wing of the trade union movement desperately sought for a compromise. As J. H. Thomas of the Railway- men's Union said: When the verbatim reports lof the last discussions with the govern- ment] are written, I suppose my usual critics will say that Thomas was almost grovel- ling, and it is true? all my long experience-. 'In and I have conducted many negotiations - I say to you-and my colleagues will bear testimony begged it-l and to never I begged and pleaded like pleaded all day today' Some TUC members even wanted to accept a 'compromise that involved an extra hour's work and a wage-cut of 13 per cent.' this time. Baldwin had By his of abandoned pretence 'neutrality. He demanded that the owners' the miners accept terms in full. Baldwin was con- fident. The employers and the ready. They government were Friday' to full had used 'Red advantage. On September 25, 1925, the Organization for the Maintenance of Supplies was set up. Ostensibly an unofficial movement, it had a great deal of official backing. It headed by Lord Hardinge was former Viceroy of of Penhurst, India, and its Council included Admiral of the Fleet, Lord jellico. The OMS declared that it was backed by 'certain funds placed by a few patriotic citizens at the disposal of council. our claimed to register and classify about 100,000 people to m intain supplies of food, water and fuel. The aristocracy turned out in force during the strike. The Hon Lionel Guest drove a train Liverpool St and Yar- between mouth and sometimes it got there. Lord Monkwell operated the Lord Marylebone signal box. Portarlington worked as a porter at Paddington as did the Master Cambridge University Hounds at Dover. They Drag 1 Lady Cooper could hear the heads snee: sday March 15, 1972 not the only ones. were To enjoy the ultimate in high- class rail service it was necessary to take one of the infrequen: Westminster Under- trains to i Station-if you were ground lucky Beverly Nichols as guard 4156 might be on board. The train was run by Con- servative MPs. On alighting, you would be welcomed by station- master Lord Huntingfield, Tory member for Eye. Rail foreman the Marquis of Tichfield, Tory member for Newark, examined the coupling joints while, with luck, your luggage would be.

borne away by Sir Victor War- render, Tory member for Gran- On leaving the tham. station, your ticket would be clipped by Major Ruggles-Grise, Tory mem- ber for Malden.' The bulk of the OMS, how- made up of little ever, • was middle-class nonentities. Students, in particular, were ac- tive, frequently being encouraged to blackleg by their tutors..

at least one academic institution • College, University London- it was alleged that students were told that their scabbing services would be remembered during examinations. the OMS was 'un- Although official', it got plenty of official support: OMS bus drivers were provided with wire netting round their cabs and a policeman to ride at either side. But, in addition to OMS, the government made its own exten- sive preparations. On November 20, 1925 six months before the subsidy was due to run out--the Emergency Powers Act was in- voked. country was divided into The divisions, each under a len Minister acting as a Civil Com- behalf of the mussioner government. Eighty-eight Voluntary Service Committees were appointed to local maintain services during the strike, and were authorized to exercise all the government's powers to 'preserve order'.

The government had pre- pared code word -'Action'-to set these committees in motion.

eads sneezing. AT****** Top: Soclety friends who turned out in cloth. Bottom: bowler-hatted volunteers But it also increased the number of special constables from 98,000 to 226,000, plus reserve and 18.000 men.. Military, naval briefed police forces were to guard docks, power occupy and • stations and telephone exchanges, road, rail and and to maintain water communication. By May, 1926. the government had 200,000 vehicles at its dis- a special posal through agree- ment with private operators.

It had accumulated enough also coal stocks to last five months.

appointed day drew As the 'near, troops armed with were moved into London tear-gas and and the provincial centres. The to take over the army prepared of and the distribution food navy prepared to work the docks J. M. Thomas ed out in force during the strike. Lady Louls volunteers unloading milk churns in Hyde Park.

and distribute petrol. Warships position in took up the Tyne, the Humber and the Clyde.

Despite this show of strength, members of the ruling many class still trembled in their beds.

aristocratic lady shrilled One that she 'could hear the tumbrils rolling and heads sneezing (sic) into the baskets."? The strike began on May 3.

state moved Immediately, the into action. Communist Party had The planned to bring out a daily edi- 'Workers' Weekly'. tion of its The first edition appeared on May 3 and on May 5 police raided the press and took away vital bits the printing machines. The church weighed in. The Roman Catholic Arch- bishop of Westminster (Cardinal Bourne) denounced the strike at High Mass. 'There is no moral justification for a General Strike of this is a direct chal- •character. It lawfully constituted lenge to authority. It is therefore a sin against the obedience which we owe to God, who is the source of that authority. 'All are bound to uphold and the government, which is assist the lawfully constituted authority of the country and represents, therefore, in its own appointed sphere the authority of God him- self.' TUC had prepared The nothing. But even so, the govern- ment could have been defeated.

dy Louls Mountbatten holding the dish- Hyde Park. all its thorough and Despite serious preparations, it deadly could not have survived against a General Strike with a determined leadership. Some figures show what was happening. On the LMS railwar, the authorities needed 15,062 drivers-they 207. They got needed 14,143 firemen-they got 62; they needed 9,979 guards- and they got 153. Out of 3,933 London buses, not one moved on the first day, and the most OMS ever got going was 526. The emergency measures and the scab services were inade- quate. But not so inadequate as the leadership of the TUC. They conducted a ballot vote on the strike. The voting was 3,653,527 for a strike and 49,911 votes against. They waited cap in hand Baldwin's door. Baldwin used the action of the 'Daily Mail' workers in refusing to print an editorial against the miners to kick them out. They immediately drafted a the printers' repudiation of action. It was too late-a flunkey told them that Mr Baldwin had gone to bed. The strike was on.

As the 'Daily Mail' said in its eve-of-strike leader: "Two govern- ments cannot exist in the same capital. One must destroy the other, or surrender to the other.

The TUC leaders knew that.

They surrendered. 1 'Cartoons from the General Strike. Michael Hughes Light of 2 Lady Diana Cooper Common Day'.

'THE

NECESSITY

OF

SOCIAL

CONTROL'. By Istvan Mészáros.

Isaac Deutscher Memorlal Lec- ture, 1970. Merlin Press. Cloth 80р. Paper 30р.

BY TOM KEMP

The content and style of this lecture represent a special kind of and dangerous pseudo-Marxism which today gains support from limited numbers of intellectuals and students in the tradition of the New Left. Its twin in- spirers are Georg Lucaks, whose assistant Mészáros was for six years, and Isaac Deutscher, in whose memory this lecture was delivered.

The ambiguity begins with the of the lecture. What title control'? "social meant by Mészáros explains: 'The function social control had been of alienated from the social body and transferred to capital which then acquired power grouping people in a hierarchical structural-functional pattern, in accordance with the criterion of a greater, or lesser share in the over production and control distribution'. Everything in this basically idealist formulation leads to con- fusion. So far as it is compre- hensible, it reverses the process of development, making politics the determining factor and com- pletely disregarding the nature of capitalism. Every page of Marx's writings tells a diametrically opposite evades the Mészáros story. question of exploitation, just as he avoids speaking about the struggle. For him what is class objectionable about capitalism is "alienation' that it is irrational, not exploitation is its primary weakness. Georg Lukacs Compare what Mészáros says, passage is typical of and the öthers, with what Marx writes in 'Capital' Vol. III: "The specific economic form, in which unpaid surplus labour is pumped out of the direct the re- producers, determines lationship of rulers and ruled, as it grows directly out of produc- tion itself and, in turn, reacts upon it as a determining element.

Upon this, however, is founded the entire formation of the community economic which grows up out of the production relations themselves, thereby simultaneously its specific poli- tical form. It is always the direct relationship of the owners of the conditions of production to the Top: Isaac Deutscher. Above : Karl Mar direct producers... which reveals the innermost secret, the hidden basis of the entire social structure, and with it the politi- cal form of the relation of sovereignty• and dependence, in specific short, the corresponding form of the state. (p.772.)

To speak about 'social control' —a term which has no place in the Marxist scientific vocabulary —without first analysing the specific form of the is state simply to obscure not only its class nature, but also the need for revolution. No wonder that Mészáros goes on to assert that 'the Power of control invested in capital is being de facto re- transferred to the social body as a whole [sic], even if in a necessarily irrational way, thanks to the inherent irrationality of capital itself.' All criticisms the which Mészáros has to make of capital- ism flow from this "irrationality.

He never considers it as which system of exploitation depends upon the extraction of unpaid labour from the working class which then goes to support the ruling class and its state.

No doubt his audience appre- ciated his virtuoso handling of his criti- sociological jargon and cism of objectionable-'irrational' —aspects of capitalism and the shallow theories of its latter-day apologists. They could then go home with a warm glow from the feeling that their own preju- dices had been confirmed, while remaining absolved from having ta do anything in the way of practice. Somehow 'socialist alternatives' are emerging, but, as Mészáros are talking about says, 'we major trend of social develop- and not about some ment, mechanical determinism that announces the immediate collapse of world capitalism'. This rejection of 'mechanical determinism' is completely his thinking spurious; is governed by determinism in the that of other same way as Kautsky-style 1 Marxists. As for the immediate collapse of • Karl Marx capitalism, what he rejects here is the evidence for the crisis of capitalism and the need to pre- pare for its revolutionary over- throw. As another example, , we may give Mészáros' assertion that find a capitalism can no longer way out of its contradictions in war and that it is this which • aggravates the internal crisis of capitalist countries. The world crisis of capitalism, and with it the actual dangers of war, are thus ignored. The drive to war is part of capitalism's in- escapable contradictions.

Despite his reformist position, Mészáros maintains that he is a Marxist. In his final peroration he insists on the only programme which is really practicable : 'the Marxist programme of radically "from top restructuring, to bottom", the totality of social institutions, the industrial, poli- tical and ideological conditions present-day "the existence, whole manner of being" of men repressed by the alienated and reified conditions of commodity society. (The quotes are from Marx.) It sounds fine. But it very carefully avoids using the term "revolution'; nothing says about the working class as the only force capable of overthrow- ing capitalism; the question of revolutionary leadership is never raised at any time in his lecture.

Mészáros, who lived under Stalinism in Hungary for over a decade, can say nothing about its counter-revolutionary role or what his perspective is for 'the Marxist programme' in E Europe and the Soviet Union. Apart from a few witticisms at their expense, he evades equally the role of the reformists _in mis- leading and betraying the work- ing class. Needless to say, Mészáros says nothing about Trotsky or Trot- skyism. He runs away from every political issue and opposes the building of a revolutionary party and the Fourth International in the true tradition of his acknow- ledged intellectual mentors.

Workers Press, Wedneaday March 15, 1972 PAGE 8 In 1971 he earned a cool

SERVE

£62,000and that was after deciding not to take a further Two members of the Parachute €102,000 to which he is en- Regiment have just been jailed titled under a profits salary for five years for armed rob- scheme. bery in Co. Down, Ulster.

But chairman Aisher is not are Private Michael a selfish His fellow man. Wainhouse and Private Costas directors do not have to miss Georgiou. They raided a post out on life's little luxuries.

office while carrying pistols The pay of all the directors and stole £93. taken together has more than What I want to know is doubled-from £101,000 to whether they will serve their £222,000. And among ten new time in Crumlin Rd Jail! directors there are three of the Or what about Long Kesh? 30 per Aisher boys! (About

COMFORTING

cent of the company's shares are owned by the family) Commenting on the Aisher Services to consumers in the boys' success, 'Pop' is reported Soviet Union have long been to have said: notoriously poor. But at least "That's what a family's for, one is now being raised to the isn't it?' highest standards of efficiency —a modern crematorium has

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been brought into service at Nikolo - Arkhange, half an Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Mini- hour's hearse ride from ster of Education, was invited Moscow. to dinner recently by Mr Tom In design and equipment the Howarth of St Paul's School, new crematorium is far ahead Professor G. H. Bantock of anything formerly seen in Leicester University and Mr Soviet Union. After en- the R. R. Pedley of St Dunstan's quiries in countries, many school. undertakers turned to Britain the world leaders in the as field. It was installed under the supervision of British tech- furnaces, nicians and with lifts and other morbid acces- imported sories from this country. No expense has been spared in providing the Soviet citizen with a decent funeral. Similar be ser up installations are to in other cities. The Russians want to encourage cremations because of their convenience and because burials are often difficult because the ground is often frozen. SO So, the Soviet citizen who has to put up with a low level of service when he goes shop- ping or wants a domestic Margaret Thatcher appliance repaired will have These gentlemen the are the comfort of knowing that leading lights of the newly his end will be attended to formed National Council for with the very latest technology the Preservation of Educa- though capitalist -even tional Standards. Growing out origin. of the 'Black Paper' group, the Council's aims include:

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• Preservation of the public schools. At Marley Company Limited, • Preservation of the gram- the building materials manu- mar school system. facturers, the Aisher boys are • Re-introduction of selective given a very generous crack of examinations. the whip. • Retention of corporal This is seen to by the com- punishment in schools. Owen Aisher. pany chairman • Restricted entry to univer- 'Pop' Aisher has the reput- sities and colleges. of being one of • Opposition ation the 'discovery' to highest-paid executives i n methods of learning. • Reduction of British industry-so highly welfare ser- paid, we hear, that he finds vices in schools. the label a potential embarrass- The of the dinner? venue ment. The Reform Club.

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Widespread demonstrations after Spanish killings become more arrogant PAGE 10 Workers Press, Wednosday Ma

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

AN ALL-WHITE jury is now assured for the frame-up trial of black militant and Com- munist Party member Angela Davis after the prosecution objected to Mrs Janie Hemphill, the only black person on the jury panel.

The only possible way in which avoided is if the jury selection all-white now process eliminates all 150 mem- bers of the panel and a new group has to be called. Prosecution and defence both have the right to challenge 20 prospective jurors without giving a reason. One hundred and fifty pos- STRIKES and demonstrations of solidarity with the workers of El Ferrol have been taking place throughout Spain despite a harsh police clampdown.

Police killed two striking ship- yard and injured 30 workers others when they opened fire on a demonstration in El Ferrol last Friday. - There was a series of strikes in industrial centres and univer- sity students stayed away from their classes. Fifteen workers at El Ferrol

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDE

CHILEAN capitalists, backed by American im- perialism, are preparing to oust the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende in Chile. On Saturday, March 4, they - held a meeting at a ranch on • fo a big estate near Chini- huevear near Santiago, the Chilean capital, to discuss the next stage of their. strategy. attended by important It was Frei's leaders of Eduardo Christian Democratic Party, the fascist 'Fatherland and Freedom' organization, and representatives of big business and the right- wing press. The gathering, planned secretly since early February under the This is the time for slogan action', decided to lay the basis for a unity organization against 'SÓL'— government called the the word means "sun' and its 'Solidarity, stand for initials Order and Liberty'. Among those present was Alwin, Senate Chairman Patricio member of a leading the Christian Democrats. Others were former Treasury Minister. Andres Zaldivar; Jaime Velasco, leading CDP ideologist, former party chairman and ex-director of the CIA-financed Congress for Cul- tural Freedom in Latin America and Gonzalo Fial, editor of the CDP magazine 'Que Pasa?' Representing the traditional Senator Francisco right were: Bulnes, Julio Phillipi, Foreign Minister of ex-President Jorge Enrique Campos Allessandri, Menendez of a powerful clan of rural landlords, and Braun Menendez Behety, the Argen- lesday March 15, 1972 sible jurors have been called and so far the selection process. has occupied three weeks. Defence attorneys have frequently said that this is the most critical part of the trial of Miss Davis on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy Marin In incident Civic Centre shooting 1970, in which August 7, on three people died. wasn't Although Miss Davis there, she is charged with supply- ing the guns, which under Cali- fornia law makes her respon- sible for the deaths. Another possible juror was recently excused because he Da feared he would lose his two jobs if he were to vote for acquittal. Clifford Defayette, a postal car were arrested on Friday after the civil governor of the province had blamed 'communist cells' for the strike demonstration.

At Sestao, near Bilbao, 3,000 workers from the local naval shipyards demonstrated on Saturday with placards inscribed 'We ask for bread and they give us buliets' At Valladolid, some 200 people demonstrated shouting 'Socialist Spain' and slogans against General Franco. In Galicia the majority of en- gineering workers are on strike,

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tine-Chilean financier. on hand were Supreme Also Court judge Jose Maria Wysa- guirre, Bar Association president- Alejandro Bascunan Sergio, building industry magnate, the Fontaine Aldunate brothers - Jorge, president of the Industry Federation, and Trade and assistant editor of 'El Arturo, Mercurio'-the spokesman main for US interests in Chile, Manuel Valdes and top leader of the big landlords and spokesman for the fascist 'Fatherland and Freedom' party, Jaime Errazuriz. The meeting followed closely Allende's the defeat of on nationalization measures in the Chilean Congress and the deci- sion by American judges to freeze Chilean assets in the US follow- ing a plea from the American companies which have copper been nationalized. on the freezing Commenting 'Que Pasa?" of Chilean assets, asserted that 'foreign companies have the right to invoke signed six years ago contracts by former president Frei. In the same issue Mario Arnello of the National Party claimed that 'con- stitutional guarantees are not enough to defend freedom and democracy from Marxism-what is needed is a mobilization of the Chileans'. At the same time the right- wing press has launched a big against . Communist campaign Party infiltration into the Chilean army-to consolidate the sup- port the right already enjoys in the army. The right wing intend to step up this anti-communist propa- ganda in the press while they continue to deepen the constitu- tional crisis of the Allende regime. They have denied Allende's right to attempt to veto the anti-nationalization legisla- tion through appeal to the

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employee and part-time worker in a liquor store, also said he was afraid of possible hostility against him. dismisse peobee have asked to be because they. can't afford to take the time off work.

When painting contractor was dismissed for financial rea- sons defence attorney Leon Bran- ton said he was sorry because he didn't want see Miss to Davis end up with a jury of all older, wealthy: people simply because others could not afford it.

All indications are, however, that this will be the case. Angela Davis will not get a fair and impartial jury. She is a political prisoner and only mass action by the American working class can save her. including the Astano factory in El Ferrol itself. Representatives of the official state unions (Sindicatos) at this factory have protested at the way the Bazan workers were treated. In Madrid, policemen clubbed and chased university students in the streets and arrested an undetermined number. The stu- dents fought back with stones and oranges. On the outskirts of the capital, 800 workers at the Perkins Tribunal Court and are clearing impeachment the way for an move against Allende for depart- ing from the constitution by his attempted veto. Behind these parliamentary manoeuvres are the preparations for a coup and civil war. The election of Allende's government was a response to the rising mili- tancy of workers and Chilean peasants. This mood is not satis- fied by Allende's parliamentary programme and exhortations to productivity, especially more when the right is being allowed to prepare te defeat the govern- ment quite openly. This is the reality. which is reflected in a luke-warm way through the columns of the left- press in Chile. The left- wing 'Clarin' noted wing daily on March 4 that as the right-wing moved towards an impeachment, they could push the country to civil war since the 'anger of the would escape from the masses control of the leaderships of the parties'. • On the same day, another left- 'Chile Puro. , carried wing paper, the editorial criticizing an Popular Unity government for its softness: "Let's finish off this sordid confrontation in which the government follows the letter and spirit opposition has law while the of the law into a cover for sedition, the converted 'El Siglo', organ of the Chilean Communist Party, on March ?, announcement in carried an large letters to be cut out and used as a poster reading: 'Chileans alert: the reaction- on the law and aries trample . threaten civil war to reconquer their privileges. Let us defend the government and its achieve- ments.' These statements indicate not only the militant mood of the masses prepared to defend their

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THE UNITED STATES govern- ment has given a red carpet wel- come to a delegation from the brutal and repressive Haitian government. of State William Secretary Rogers will lead American senior officials in discussions with the Haitians — indicating the Us Administration is very interested in extending relations with the Caribbean state. In 1962 President Kennedy cut off major development aid to Haiti because of dictator Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier's policy of political murder and terrorism.

But President Nixon's adminis- tration has given extensive tech- nical and military aid to the regime of the late dictator's son, Duvaller, Jean-Claude : who became president when his father died last April. The Haitian delegation in- cludes M. Luckner Cambronne, Minister of Interior and National Development and one of the most powerful men in Haiti. in truck factory began a sit-in on Friday demanding that the man- agement reinstate a fellow-worker who had just been released from prison after serving five years for "illegal association' in charged Police Barcelona several hundred workers who answered a call for a demonstra- tion against the El Ferrol shoot- ings in the industrial suburb of Tarras. Faculties at the universities of Madrid, Valencia, Bilbao, San- tiago de Compostella, Barcelona and Oviedo remained closed.

gains from a right-wing coup, but also the vacuum of leader- ship in a Chilean working class policies tied to the Stalinist peaceful road to Chilean socialism. This Stalinist leadership centres the attention of the masses on parliament and plebiscites when thousands can that these see institutions will not defend them.

Allende's speeches prepare to hand the masses over to bloody defeat. On March 4 he warned: The Chilean revolution is in the balance... We do not wish to have recourse to violence, so there are only two ways open to us to demand the dissolution of congress and the other, to hold a plebiscite, but not a plebiscite of the kind the opposition wants.'

On March 9, Allende toured Taltal nitrate . zone. In a the speech and to the workers inhabitants of Taltal, he thanked the Christian Democrat municipal councillors for having voted in favour of declaring him an adopted son of the city and then affirmed his belief that Chile to socialism, was on the road although the Chilean road was one 'that will not be repeated easily elsewhere'. the point, To emphasize he made an extended eulogy of the Chilean bourgeois democracy: "The Chilean way is possible because the congress has been in existence for 100 years because the people have always had the self-expression and right to bècause the armed forces have always respected the law.'

would be wrong to see It Allende's policies as the fruits of complacency. regime, His heralded by every Stalinist hack as the successful practice of the peaceful road, consciously dis- the before the arms masses approach of a right-wing take- over.

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ABOUT 250 students • are now occupying Ravelin House, the administrative department of Portsmouth Polytechnic.

The occupation of administra- tive buildings follows a sit-in started last Tuesday at the Poly- technic's social work department in protest against overcrowded conditions and limited facilities for social workers. Occupation of the administra- tive offices has, however, been opposed by the majority of the social workers who want to limit the occupation to their own de- partment in order not to affect the running of the Polytechnic as a whole. Social workers decided to sit- in following the threatened arrival of scientific equipment in department's already over- the crowded lecture rooms. Staff and students have been that their present accom- told modation will be taken over before the end of their present courses. This would mean the fragmen- tation of the social workers' sec- tion and their removal from col- lege facilities like libraries and tutors. The lack of accommodation for the course would mean that the present education methods of seminars, lectures and tutorials would be changed to lectures only. Students are not prepared to accept this with examinations only seven weeks away. They are demanding that if they must vacate their present premises . offered they are superior and adequate . accom- modation for the section as. a whole. This must be agreed by staff and students and not dic- from Polytechnic admini- tated stration, they say. The students also demand that there is no cutting back courses as a result of the occupation. The social work section was started about seven years ago at N London, Highbury College, with eight students. Since moving to Portsmouth it has grown to students ten full-time and 60 part-time students and staff.

All members of the section are whose mature students ages from 21 to 53. Accom- range modation for the course has always been considered inade- quate; but requests for improve- have until recently been ment stifled with the promise of a which will not, new however, four or five years. • Great Yarmouth borough council has for the second year running decided not to make a grant to the University of East Anglia at Norwich. Until 1970 the council con- tributed £4,000 The original decision to decision with- taken after hold funds was students staged an anti-apartheid sit-in. The chairman of the council's finance commitee said yesterday the decision to withdraw the grant was a stand against the weak and incompetent admini- stration of the university'.

Yarrow ballot UNION officials on the upper forcing Clyde are a ballot of 2,000 finishing trade workers at the Yarrow naval shipyard. This is despite a vote to reject a latest management offer of £3 at a mass meeting of over 1,000 Yarrow workers yesterday. Shop stewards are still asking the men to turn down the offer which comes after six. week strike which has closed the yard—once a part of UCS. The ballot will be held today as pay talks between the boilermakers' officials and management con- tinue.

procedure agreement UNION CHIEFS are on the point of signing with British-Leyland a new, improved, faster pro- cedure agreement-with a new, improved, faster sell-out clause.

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leading shop stewards in the car, bus and truck combine the of a to terms new procedure disputes which interference with their electoral could be ratified within the constituencies which was feared next two weeks. at stage of the negotiations the final is contained in draft. after of Stewards will be 'to Arrived at months expected at support of all secret discussions between Pat all times act in Lowry, industrial - relatións relevant agreements' the director Leyland, and at The new procedure would Confederation of Shipbuilding maintain or set up plant-bargain- Unions, these and Engineering ing committees comprising man- the hands of terms are now in and agement representatives Workers Press. would shop stewards, which act as the final domestic stage of the The which is agreement, replace the 50-year- designed to procedure. York Memorandum the old One external stage- -plus a so-

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fore up last year, covers called 'peace' clause-ls also nine foolscap pages as against the provided for. 20-odd originally put forward by Lowry. In a section dealing with the principles on which plant Its main pointsexpected by should the cedures be based, the accepted by company to be that where draft agreement says all 14 shortly unions -are: negotiating body has no joint final been established, the An. guarantee that apparent domestic stage of negotiations there will be no changes in pay shall be plant conference conditions without prior or management, stewards involving union-employer agreement.

officials. and full-time • A two-stage procedure which For all plants the external stage can be completed in 20 working extended would called an days, but with plant conference and could in- volve national union officials and • An escape-route back to horse- and national industrial-relations trading between company executives of Leyland. officials after the national union has been procedure proper It is here that stewards who exhausted. the craft have seen agreement become suspicious. The draft • deal confirms the rights of signatory unions, The extended plant conference whether registered under the should be the final stage of the Act Industrial Relations or not, procedure, leaving either unions to represent and negotiate for the or management free to take what- hourly-paid workers in the com- deem ever action they necessary bine. to settle the dispute. But it isn't.

It recognizes workers' rights to 5.4, clause in section on elect stewards to act their Con page seven of the draft, provides behalf, with the proviso that they procedure that 'after the above must be 20 years old and have 12 exhausted either side has been months' service with the request nevertheless may pany. special meeting involving repre- sentatives of the corporation and would still have Stewards to officers of the unions from 'national ask permission supervisors before moving from their section.

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The employers' refusal to grant status quo-the principle that there must be union-management agreement before changes in pay ‚or working conditions—was the main reason for the CSEU's to tear up the 1922 decision agreement. But a section in the new draft agreement with Leyland, stewards believe, does appear to guarantee the principle: 'Where an employee (or group of employees) or the management of the establishment wishes '(i) to change the terms of a written agreement (provided that such change is not debarred by the agreement itself, (ii) to change an established custom and practice, or • (iii) to introduce new terms, 'a claim shall first be raised through the agreed procedure. No action or change shall be im- plemented until agreement has been reached or, alternatively, the procedure has been exhausted and five working days' notice has then been given of such action or change. With a procedure lasting only 20 days, of course, status quo would be much less of a burden to Leyland than at present.

In addition, stewards point out that clause (i) of this section could have sinister implications for the construction of future agreements. Leyland could start insisting on deals under the Measured-Day Work pay system in which only the benefits and not the principles are negotiable.

Finally there is the "peace' clause, which lays down that there shall no industrial action by either side until the procedure is exhausted and five working days' notice has been given. Because of its still-precarious economic situation, Leyland has had to back down from several of the demands it is understood to have made in the course -of negotiations — control over stewards' constituencies, for instance. But in the last analysis, one of the stewards' main reasons for considering the draft agreement an improvement on the York Memorandum is not contained within the document itself.

This is that whereas previously application for conferences had to be made to the Engineering Employers' Federation, now they go direct to plant management.

Stewards warn, however, that with the Industrial Relations Act in force Leyland's most likely strategy if the new procedure is agreed will be to stonewall con- sistently inside the plant SO as to get round the table with union national officials. As one senior steward in the Midlands commented: "This could be their escape-route back to York' Workers Press, Wednesday March 15, 1972 PAGE

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PAGE 12 Workers Prose, Wi ENGINEERING employers yes- terday came out into the open with just a few of the Dracon- ian measures they demanded from the Tory government during the miners' strike-and added a new tirade against picketing. The monthly newsletter of the Engineering Employers' Federa- tion hinted at the fult story which was told in yesterday's Workers Press: that four days before the Wilberforce settlement the EEF sought permission to sack millions of workers.

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obligations upon the were the employers arising from Guarantee of Employment Agreement, the : Contracts of Employment and Redundancy Act" Payments the newsletter reports blandly. In a front-page thinkpiece, however, the EEF attacks "col- lective bludgeoning' by the min- 'a pickets and calls for closer look at the payment of supplementary benefit in strike situations. Urgent government action to lay down a dividing line between peaceful picketing and industrial intimidation is demanded.

The Federation the Says a 'sorry episode" miners' strike - was not of itself a success. But it developed from a conven- tional strike into a mass action of doubtful legitimacy. This concept of picketing has grave implications ; the EEF says. •It points the way for any other group of people to realize their aims by similar means.' The Industrial Relations Act offers remedies in certain circum- stances but in general the law on picketing appears to be patchy and blurred, the newsletter says.

There is a strong case for the clearly into government to put dividing the line perspective between peaceful picketing and industrial intimidation. 'If the place of the old spectre of the Christmas railway strike is not to be taken by the new grimmer spectre of successive winter blackouts and shutdowns.

this is a job that needs to be done with some urgency.' • See page 3, engineers pay story. A DEPARTMENT store in Gos- ford. near Sidney: Australia, had so much shoplifting trouble that signs all around the it put up store reading: •Please beware of shoplifters'. somebody's Now stolen the signs. Meanwhile in Melbourne, a taking two bank taxi driver tellers from one bank to another asked them to get out and push sud- the taxi when it stopped denly. But when they got out to sped off with £2.000 push he they had left in a canvas bag in the back seat.

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HIGHER living standards and profits meant an immediate ex- pansion of the economy, TUC general secretary Victor Feather told a luncheon of the Drapers' Chamber of Trade in London yesterday. STRIKE action by 180,000 print- workers moved closer yesterday when the National Graphical Association rejected an 82-per- cent pay offer to its members on provincial newspapers and in general printing. to turn down their A vote part of the employers offer was unanimous on the 35-man NGA executive. Leaders of the other three unions involved will be meeting later this week. Tomorrow the NGA leaders will meet again to consider what action their 70,000 affected mem- support of bers should take in basic-rate their claim for in- ceases of E3-£4 across the board.

Bonfield. NGA John general secretary, would not be drawn • whether the executive vesterday would reimpose last week's over- time ban or go a stage further.

"The offer falls far short of what we should be prepared to ANGRY SEAMEN accused their leaders of making the National Union of Seamen the first scab union in Britain after a perfunc- tory 1-minute session of the National Industrial Relations Court yesterday. They had heard chairman Sir John Donaldson rule that the court had seen the draft agree- ment between the NUS and the

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He said unions and employers had a common interest in seeing boom conditions restored and he warned the 200 guests that with- it housewives would be out forced to cut their purchases and profits would plunge. settle for. I expect a militant from our branches and reaction regions.' The latest offer-40p a week better than the previous one- arises from Monday's meeting with the Newspaper Society and the British Federation of Master Printers, described by Stanley Clarke, chairman of the em- ployers' joint negotiating team, as 'the last opportunity to reach peaceful settlement. would: give craftsmen another £2.40 a week on top of the present basic rates of £22.68 in London and, £2.88 and £21.75 in the provinces. would be main- Differentials lained, meaning proportionate increases for other workers.

The offer, I per cent over 15 months, works out at about 83 per cent over a year--little more than the Government's unofficial pay rise norm. employers" British Shipping Fed- cration for closed-shop arrange- ments to operate among seamen.

It complied with the Industrial Relations Act, he said. •Everybody knows the NUS belongs to the employers,' said one union member afterwards. "It was the first to register. under the Act. There could be whole- Sale walk-outs to another union after this. The British h seamen is one of the lowest paid in the world and in the last two years with the introduction of general purpose ships has been unemployment going up all the time. 'This decision boxes the whole thing up.' Union and Federation repre- sentatives were satisfied with the court's decision and the draft will now go before agreement the Commission on Industrial Relations. The CIR will have to be satis- fied that a closed shop is neces- sary to secure orderly and effec- tive industrial relations in industry: to maintain reasonable terms and conditions of employ- ment: to ensure that collective agreements are honoured: and to enable union organization to be effective. The Commission will report its findings to the court, which will then allow time for a ballot, if one is sought. Then, if there is objection, the court will no approve the proposal. The union has about 50,000 members: the Federation, com- prising about 250 shipowners, the greater part of represents Britain's shipping industry.

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1972 YOUNG SOCIALISTS 12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE Saturday & Sunday April 8/9 Grand Hall, The Spa Dance to 'BRAVE NEW WORLD' Saturday night 8 pm also see a star-studded show Cost approximataly £4.50. For tickets apply to John Simmance, National Secretary, 186 a Clapham High Street, London, SWA YUG