Workers Press no. 715

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TORIES MAY CALL

SNAP ELECTION

DAILY OR

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORY PARTY managers are carefully manoeuvring public opinion to prepare for the pos- sibility of a snap General Election.

Since the miners' strike the Tories have been engaging in a number of deft public relations exercises to appease widespread hatred of their rule. in at least five This can be seen manoeuvres: • The decision to invest f35m in the bankrupt Upper Clyde Shipbuilders • The leaked' Ulster proposals which are out internment and phase expected to reduce troop activity. Lord Gardiner's report recommending the ban on torture subsidy to farmers • ' The record £70m announced in the annual Farm Review.

Some of the 38 night shift workers at Hunter Plastics Ltd, Woolwich, who struck on Janu- ary 28 after two trade unionists, including a shop steward, were The company has now sacked. shop which set an agency takes direct negotiations out of the hands of the trade unions under the Industrial Relations Act. G&MWU not to register THE EXECUTIVE of Britain's third largest union, the General and Municipal Workers, yester- day decided to recommend that the union should not register under the Industrial Relations Act. A rider added that the matter will be considered further if they find the union is unable to give satisfactory service to members. Yesterday's decision reversed a previous executive decision not to follow TUC policy and to A special the union. register of the union conference next week will be asked to endorse the recommendation.

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ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE Oi Next Tuesday's early budget by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Anthony Barber, which is designed to create a minia- ture spending 'boom'. Leeds with the news that the budget would include tax cuts amounting to £600m.

- Another more subtle part of the cam- Heath's paign can be detected in post- television strike appearance on national viewers to consider what when he asked sort of Britain you want'.

into hands To deal with the engineers and to get hurdles into Britain over the remaining Europe, Heath needs another electoral vic- tory. Playing into the hands of the Tories at all stages are the Labour and trade union leaders. They alone keep this government in office by refusing to fight on unemployment, the Market, the Industrial Relations Act or any other major issue you care to men- tion that affects the working class.

As we said in yesterday's Workers Press, the 'stench of coalition' pervades the Labour Party. Wilson and the Parliamentary Lab- our Party demonstrate day after day that

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theaths rufo to any lengths to perpetuate It is the politics of coalition being pursued by Wilson that represents the most sinister and disarming force for the working class. If Heath does call a snap election, the Labour Party will be without policies-other than those taught to Wilson by Heath!

It would mean that Labour would enter the election fight disastrously handicapped which would put and in conditions the Tories at considerable advantage. Even as Wilson collaborates over Ulster and the Market, the Tory Party is managing the capitalist press to promote leadership splits in the Labour Party. An innocuous and anaemic speech by Jenkins is blown up by every newspaper in Fleet St into sensational articles and solemn editorial comment about challenges to Wilson's leadership. This is good old rag- time Tory stuff. Whenever there is a whiff an election, the Tories start promoting leadership, squabbles and propaganda about the 'party of disarray'. The Labour Party does have a split -and it can be swiftly remedied by the expulsion of the splitters in the Jenkins camp. By coalescing with the Tories and allowing the right-wing to operate as it pleases, the Labour Party is opening the door for Heath to win any election clash.

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OVER 2,000 building workers from Merseyside, N Wales, Wigan, St Helens and the Heysham nuclear power station demonstrated through Liverpol yesterday in support of their demand for a basic £35 a week for 35 hours.

Chants of "Tories out, Social- ism in, echoed through the city centre, reach a crescendo with whistles and cat-calls when the demonstration passed the Tory Party headquarters. The demonstration was called officially by the Transport and General Workers' Union. At Pier Head meeting a afterwards there was a sharp contrast with the mood of the platform and the rank-and-file marchers. Speakers limited themselves solely to the wage demand, con- gratulating the solidarity of the building workers. Said Bill Craigton, ASW dele- If the miners were gate: a special case, then we're an extra- special case? Dissatisfaction with the plat- form was expressed in continuous calls from the crowd to let the rank and file have a hearing from the platform. THE BRITISH Federation of Master Printers and Newspaper Society yesterday announced that their £2.40 pay offer to craftsmen was "final'. In a joint statement they said that any further increase would "seriously endanger' the industry and the employers would resist any pressures from union mem- bers. The statement said that both councils 'unanimously confirmed' that £2.40 is their final offer for a 15-month agreement with the printing unions. And it adds, *Stanley Clarke, the employers' chairman, said that the only obstacle to the settlement is the refusal of the NGA executive to ballot their members offer which on an "substantially improve would their position in relation to other industries and the cost of living".

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workers press

TORIES MAY CALL

SNAP ELECTION

DAILY ORI

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORY PARTY managers are carefully manoeuvring public opinion to prepare for the pos- sibility of a snap General Election.

Since the miners' strike the Tories have been engaging in a number of deft public relations exercises to appease widespread hatred of their rule. This can be seen in at least five manoeuvres: • The decision to Invest £35m in the bankrupt Upper Clyde Shipbuilders • The 'leaked' Ulster proposals which are phase out internment and expected reduce troop activity. Gardiner's report recommending • Lord the ban on torture • The record £70m subsidy to farmers announced in the annual Farm Review.

Some of the 38 shift night workers at Hunter Plastics Ltd, Woolwich, who struck on Janu- ary 28 after two trade unionists, including a shop steward, were The company sacked. has now shop which set up an agency takes direct 'negotiations out of the hands of the trade unions under the Industrial Relations Act. G&MWU not to register THE EXECUTIVE of Britain's third largest union, the General and Municipal Workers, yester- day decided to recommend that the union should register not under the Industrial Relations Act. A rider added reat the matter will be considered further they find the union is unable to give satisfactory service to • members. Yesterday's decision reversed a previous executive decision not to follow

TUC

policy and to A special the union. register conference of the union next endorse week will be asked to the recommendation.

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ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE O

Tuesday's early budget by the Chancellor Next Anthony of the Exchequer, Barber, which is designed to create a minia- ture spending 'boom'. Only yesterday Mr Edward du Cann, a orkshire Post businessmens seminar a delighted Leeds with the news that the budget would include tax cuts amounting to £600m.

• Another more subtle part of the cam- be detected Heath's post- paign can strike appearance on national television when he asked viewers to consider 'what sort of Britain you want.

Playing into hands To deal with the engineers and to get Britain over the remaining hurdles into Europe, Heath needs another electoral vic- Playing into the hands of the Tories tory. at all stages are the Labour and trade union leaders. They alone keep this government in office by refusing to fight on unemployment, the Market, the Industrial Relations Act— or any other major issue you care to men- tion that affects the working class.

As we said in yesterday's Workers Press, the 'stench of coalition' pervades the Labour Party. Wilson and the Parliamentary Lab- our Party demonstrate day after day that

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they will go to aný lengths to perpetuate Heath's rule. It is the politics of coalition being pursued by Wilson that represents the most sinister and disarming force for the working class. If Heath does call a snap election, the Labour Party will be without policiesother than those taught to Wilson by Heath!

It would mean that Labour would enter the election fight disastrously handicapped and in conditions which would put the Tories at considerable advantage. Even as Wilson collaborates over Ulster and the Market, the Tory Party is managing the capitalist press to promote leadership splits in the Labour Party. An innocuous and anaemic speech by Jenkins is blown up by every newspaper in Fleet St into sensational articles and solemn editorial comment about challenges to Wilson's leadership. This is good old rag- time Tory stuff. Whenever there is a whiff of an election, the Tories start promoting leadership, squabbles and propaganda about the 'party of disarray'. The Labour Party does have a split '-and it can be • swiftly remedied by the expulsion of the splitters in the Jenkins camp. By coalescing with the Tories and allowing the right-wing to operate as it. the Labour Party is opening the pleases, door for Heath to win any election clash.

TRANGRORY

AND SENERALE

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OFFICIAL STRIP

FOR UNION

TRI

FORMS

JOIN THE SLL

OVER 2,000 building workers from Merseyside, N Wales, Wigan, St Helens and the Heysham nuclear power station site demonstrated through Liverpol yesterday in support of their demand for a basic £35 a week for 35 hours.

Chants of "Tories out, Social- ism in' , echoed through the city to reach a crescendo centre, with whistles and cat-calls when the demonstration passed the Tory Party headquarters. The demonstration was called officially by the Transport and General Workers' Union. a Pier Head meeting a sharp afterwards there was contrast with the mood of the platform and the rank-and-file marchers. Speakers limited themselves solely to the wage demand, con- gratulating the solidarity of the building workers. Said Bill Craigton, ASW dele- If the miners were a gate: special case, then we're an extra- Dissatisfaction with the plat- form was expressed in continuous calls from the crowd to let the rank and file have a hearing from the platform. THE BRITISH Federation of Master Printers and Newspaper Society yesterday announced that their £2.40 pay offer to craftsmen was 'final. In a joint statement they said that any further increase would 'seriously endanger' the industry and the employers would resist any pressures from union mem- bers. The statement said that bath councils 'unanimously confirmed' that £2.40 is their final offer for a 15-month agreement with the printing unions. And it adds, 'Stanley Clarke, the employers' chairman, said that the only obstacle to the settlement is the refusal of the NGA executive to ballot their members offer which on an "substantially improve would their position in relation to other industries and the cost of living". '

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PAGE 2 Workers Prose, Thuraday March 16, 1872

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No one held without trial-claim S AFRICAN security police chief Tiny Venter burg on charges under the Suppression of Commun- ismenter refused to disclose bow many announced yesterday that no one was being Section 6 of the Terrorism Act,

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held under had been detained without trial under the Terror- indefinite which allows detention without 'We are still investigating the against said. His people who have not yet been arrested.

he announcement came a day after the release Forty-seven people were detained in the October of the of Mohammed Timol, brother Indian raids and nine have been charged under the Terror- Communism Acts. or Suppression he aquarists tenth window: at fohannesburg police SLOLCy while under detention detained October 24 last General said the against them were • venter . charges Ull to furthering the aims of communism who had been arrested year. •uner orsoner furthering the convicted and held in a nationwide security operation at the Anyont of dangerous fled Botswana earlier this week. same time obiects on conamunish They were due to appear this week in Johannes- offence,' he said. Mitchell testifies

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Interial al Telegraph scandal, yesterday admitted he chairman had met the ITT sheeping in Brussels INCREASED investment and sharply at Farm Ministers' cao raeir discussion was buick. theoretical'. productivity on British farms Mitchell Market Com- was testifying Connor competition from mission has proposed price rises Senate to meet commice deal between the Nixon per averaging cent other Common Market coun- and

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under which to rrance and Italy are Opposed paid $400,000 into Repub- tries is urged in the latest large such increases.

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1 1 1 German representatives broadly lican runas in government farm price review.

Commission's plan. able settlement of anti-trust suit.

support the Bhutto to discuss The white paper setting published Tne review yesterday, says that Soviet security plan the market for farm share the depend •rocuct WIll farmers' ability to compete 1517 A SOVIET plan for an Asian The indicates that review sýstem expected away markedly higher prices for farm figure in talks between one be expected within produce can and Pakistan Kremlin leaders the Common Market: Ali Bhutto) renaeni beginning in Moscow today ar 'Some costs will be higher but ¿ securiti the general prospects are clearly Bhutto's visit, expected to last good, it says. follows a similar oniv unree days. trip to Moscow by onelkn muji- Leani The government has wiven the Rahman, Prime Minister of recently. farmers £72m increase in the Alexei Kosygin, the Soviet pre- Bangla Desh. of price guarantees value their listed three principles who supported mier, the basis 101 India in the war with Pakistan Which Cole lor expansion, according Toe last are hoping. for Asian security system: year •eact. white paper. relationship ful co-existence, peaceful settle- working friendly develop- disputes IN THE Common Market itself.

with Bhutto. who took over from men! the long-standing deep divisions General Yahya Khan after the ment of mutually benencial co- operation. Indian victory. over agricultural policy emerged Tories must soften on prices and anti-union law-Scanlon

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT DAVID MAUDE IN EASTBOURNE

à little more co-operative.

PRESENT 'abrasiveness' be- the executive to settle there at Scanlon warned: some point. government and "This doesn't mean they have speak for them- lalis unions might be softened by changed their objectives selves, he claimed. Tory two 'The committee did only national LoaT unev Will concess uns of action the achieving them in different engineers' main issues, pre- the cours executive proposede and this sident Hugh Scanlon hinted bacilities However, he then deliberately now process being yesterday. fought for in each locality.' The the Indus- clusion from this statement. In the stormy period which lay issues were trial Relations Act and prices.

Any government that sought to engineering, localion Speaking at his unions engin- operate its tunetions "in denance eering section women's of and in conter complete abrasiveness these ould be Scanlon said the trade union movement would undoubtedly call forth 'very basic would opposition that the had. issues in any rurtner aiscussions 1 orIes emerge' ith Heats. last he said. AUEW lead

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with Bụt in week's there • was point this abrasiveness for leader's speech- 23 heard physically only sake or e delegates and 1? union Quickly qualifying this remark, women were a was clearly aimed at Scanlon added that there

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stemming WO Tucs Illass Could unions had to stand criticism in the union. which the tried to justify the First, he of could be cooperation with the meanment There meaningful executive's allered abrogation dropping leadership' national claim pay while the cor or industra rea tions legislation now boots. force Members of the policy-making remained on the statute national alledmittee he walca Had that the for a recalled by executive

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real and serious debate' Tories were earnest about con- long. were 'not fools, trolling prices was also needed, equal for _ women said. Scanlon said. urged Day should be made a central issue.

To have accepted the Engineer- vexed issue of dis. The Federation's second concern of the putes procedure in the engineer- ing Employers leader he claimed that was to allay industry, insulting offer would have made engineers been nonsense negotiation. some of the growing rank-and-hle conceded mOre nad government But pay well anxiety about the des- overtures to the Tories. panies the had given executive perate Knowle

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This government has, since its in three years. surprised that if exceeded It per cent Inceoron. Tesson was have back confrontation with our move- take the fight: to the : factories, Equally gone ment', he said. involve membership and act the into national negotiations in since the victory of the the hope of getting some more would Now. ambassadors things imposed obligation miners, it has apparently become we want, we can win'. have IN A 'Times' interview published yesterday, James Reid, leader oi the UCS work-in and national execu...

tive member of the Communist Party, traces the roots of industrial 'trouble' to attitudes and personalities. it seems there are good bosses and bad bosses, bad management decisions and good management deci- sIons. : "If some element in management does We quote: something indefensible, then there will be trouble any- Attitude and not a disputes procedure was way. what mattered.' Reid is apparently moving towards a conception of capitaller «goblety where the class *trugglew is abolished, longer maximize where employers no profits solely and at the expense of the working class and where exploiters merely engage in 'defensible' and 'indefensible' actions.

To prove how sincere he is, Reid ends his state- ment with a panegyric of the Tory government's role at UCS: ' "if the government now agrees to help Marathon take on Clydebank, then what has really emerged is the prospect of a really modern shipbuild- ing industry on the upper reaches of the Clyde. I can only applaud the government's courage in taking initiatives. It and social these makes economic sense." Pause a momént. Reid is speaking of a Tory government that has helped to force over one million workers onto the dole. In his own town of Clydebank unemployment among men stands above 15 per cent and at the shipyards 1,000 redundancies have already been declared with the prospect of 1,200 more.

Those latest remarks place Reid on the extreme right of the labour Indeed the most movement. reformist of Labour MPs rarely bestows such abject praise on the class enemy.

sinister aspect to Reid's There is, however, a praise of Tory policy and his claim that dispute pro- cedures do not really matter. They are primarily a smoke-screen behind which the Stalinists, in alliance with the reformist union leaders, hope to smuggle in agreements which will destroy thę ability of the UCS vorker to defend his wages and conditions remember the Stainist James Airlie has alread promised that strikes will not be allowed to halt progress on the Irish Shipping contracts at the Govan yard of UCS. The disclaimers by both Reid and Airlie that no-strike agreements are an irrelevance because they are unworkable, represent more than com- placency. They are an ultimate act of class-collabora- tion. The Tories are serious. They did not pass the In- dustrial Relations Act for nothing and big American capitalists like Wayne Harbin of Marathon Manufac- turing are not joking when they say they want legally- enforceable contracts with no-strike guarantees on the Clyde. The Stalinists have already agreed to trade jobs.

Now they are preparing to negotiate the govern- ment second line of attack-the destruction of pay rates through speed up as well as working practices.

THE CAPITALIST press continue, to pour out the How they love sickening prose on unemployment. that folk-lore image of the defeated man without a job who staggers from bar to street corner and back.

'The Times' joined in the moaning chorus yesterday of Scotland press with a half page on a Church release on the jobless crisis. Not so long ago the same newspaper commented with glee that even unemployment would economic recovery, given remain high, and that thịs was basically a good thing.

because big dole queues were an excellent aid to greater efficiency. But beneath the overdrawn metaphors and gloomy adjectives, lies a real fear of workers who fight for the right to work. At no time was this better illustrated than during the Young Socialists' Right-to-Work marches.

The this campaign was either ignored or dis- the right to work by mobilizing the whole working class to force the Tories to resign—was hardly ever reported. One recalls that infamous 'Guardian' headline_ 'Five-week trek to nowhere'-which was this paper's the most spirited and defiant comment on one of youth rallies ever held in London.

The Glasgow Young Socialist leader, John Barrie, who had walked 500 miles to rouse the working class, 'indefatigably pessimistic'., This was described as kind of distortion is born out of fear that the men who fight against the dole will not only deal with the Tories but their scribbling servants in the capitalist press as well.

ROBERT CARR, the Emplo a taste of how the Tory gove British working class. Carr n , Dusşeldorf. Although much of the , speech was couched in typical Tory ambiguities, Carr did give a clear insight into the post-market epoch in Britain. He completely accepted that : high unemployment would con- • tinue for the next period. He i said: We can expect to be left still with different rates of unem- ployment in different regions.

We can expect, moreover, that the rapid advancement of techno- : logy will necessitate more people • changing their job more fre- quently. We reaching the are •stage where a significant and growing number of people will find the skill they acquire when young will last them not throughout a lifetime of work. - 'Where people want to find new jobs of the same kind as been doing, those they have information and advice will be sufficient. But where it is neces- sary for them to look for change in occupation during their work- ing life, it will be necessary for many of them to go through a retraining process. 'What we are now proposing is to raise the target for gov- ernment-sponsoring training to 100,000 people a year. .•• The need may turn out to be larger.

I have made the point already that more and more people are • have to change going to not only their job but the kind of job which they do, once or even several times during their work- ing life. 'Although the labour force is remarkably resilient and there is a great deal of spontaneous movement between different parts of the country, between indus- tries, and (to lesser degree) a between occupations, there is little doubt that the government will need to take action to ease and encourage mobility in order to correct the imbalances which are likely to arise. *I am sure that there will also remain a real need for people to be prepared to move about to different jobs in different parts of the country and indeed perhaps in W Europe as a whole. •I think that British workers probably rather less ready are to move about than many work- ers in W Europe. We are how- ever now proposing to try and give more help to those work- ers who either wish or find it necessary to move their homes in order to improve their chances of getting a job.' Carr's speech unfolds the Tories blueprint for the future -if they can get away with it.

millions of out-of- It means work families forced to travel across the country (and Europe, if necessary) to find employment.

The Common Market con- spiracy must be defeated by the defeat of this government.

FOUR HUNDRED workers at the Heysham nuclear construc- tion site in N Lancs are on strike against the main contrac- tors, Taylor Woodrow, over the sacking of 18 men. Constructional workers' union say they were shop stewards having to ask Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers' stew- ards to negotiate for them be- cause the management would not recognize their union. : Employment Secretary, has given W German capitalists ry government intends to try to tame and intimidate the Carr was speaking at a Human Resources conference in

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FOR 13 years coloured appointment in 1958. grove. (47), was jailed three after known workers at a Sheffield: for years he received. pleading guilty to three much steelworks were told charges of corruption. they could do not In the last two The case only came to until they it least £1,0 overtime was at the light when one of he added. paid their foreman told the police. men levy. Mr G. Milner, Cosgrove admitted: pro- At Sheffield Cosgrove have taken money fr Crown secuting, said Court the demanding numerous coloured m this week began the foreman, Thomas Cos- after his the levy soon years. IVeN be considerably increased, he THREE Chinese trade missions said. Britain. One are now visiting arrived yesterday to attend a Senior representatives from a conference and trade exhibition wide of British industry sector oceanography to be held at will be top-level trade on in Brighton next week. mission to the People's Republic of China next month. Another of electrical group The 18-strong London Chamber engineers are touring the country of Commerce and Industry the guests of the British Allied Manu- mission, led by Lord Ebbisham, Electrical and going at the invitation of the facturers' And the Association. China Council for the, Promotion third group is visiting synthetic fibre plants including the huge of International Trade. Imperial Chemical Industries It will include importers and plants. and the main exporters, purpose Department of Trade and explore the possibilities of Industry spokesman said that expanding two-way trade. Chinese mission interested in fertilizer production is due next month. Americans Since the exchange of ambass- announced Monday, adors on trading contacts are expected to British THE AMERICAN Treasury De- On March 1, the 18 men were partment has opened an inves- sacked for attending a meeting about union recognition. Manage- tigation into allegations that ment claimed they had failed to British companies are 'dumping' honour an agreement not to leave textile machinery in the United the job while concreting progress. States. The workers say they warned site management not to pour the 'Dumping' —selling abroad at a lower price than on the home as a meeting was due. concicle After hearing of the sackings, market- -was common. practice during the 1930s slump as manu- the 400-strong site walked out.

Since then, facturers desperately to notices have been strove another 12 men. retain overseas markets. sent to Workers Press, Thursday March 16, 1972 PAGE 3 The 66-year-old Public Trus- tee Office is to be scrapped on the recommendation of a merged with the Solicitor government committee of General's Department. inquiry. The Tories also want all the business held by the The Public Trustee was set at picsent Public Trustee to be hived off up under an Act of Parliament into private firms. in 1906 because of losses in- curred by beneficiaries through Talks will be begin soon with the incompetence or dis- representatives the Commer- honesty of private trustees. cial Corporate Trustees and the Law Society on But now, it incompe the recommen- seems, dation and that settlers tence and dishonesty have been bene. ficiaries with the of trusts now purged from private law firms.

Public Trustee should be given the chance accept transfer quiry the another To rustern government said to trustee free of ex- penist. role' should be examined 'includ- ing the extent to which its tinued justifiable Hutton, formerly existence a director of Hambros Bank now available'. secondment to basis of the inquiry's report legislation will be brought Humbert, forward the Public to stop solicitors and Sir Clifford Jarrett, Trustee accepting new business. formerly permanent secretary And the office will be eventually Social Security. IN A will published yesterday a Busmen's retired company director warned his grandchildren that will have becoming adults conference to fully comprehended the policy of and pillage followed confiscation by the socialist party. discuss offer Donald Robinson of the Hotel. Waldernheath Harrogate, left £33,791. He said he had been BUSMEN are to hold a delegate robbed of much of his fortune by conference to consider a new pay the nationalization of road trans- offer from London Transport.

in 1949 and hoped his port would support 'an grandchildren After prolonged talks honest political organization'.

on Tuesday, the Transport and General Workers' Union bus- men's negotiating agreed to recommend acceptance of the new offer. In February, busmen turned down 74-per-cent increase which would have meant an extra £1.70 for drivers and conductors t in 1958. I1 e2 as £20 and £1.85 for bus operators. Boreham London Transport have re- It is a dreadful story. fused to give details of the new were forced into offer until delegate Basic rates admitted: I £23.15 for at present range from conductors to £26 for one-man oloured men would lose their jobs bus operators. Goring goes MARIUS GORING has resigned Actors' from the no action council of Equity. In an interview with 'The Times' yesterday, Goring objected of a activities to 'the in group LABOUR MP for Woolwich council, led by Corin Redgrave, Christopher Mayhew said yester- he believes to be politi- which day no further action is to be cally motivated. taken by his constituency party Goring said the group was his over abstention the devoted _'Un- to "The Cause' sécond reading of the European specified, but I think we all know Communities Bill. In the all-im- what it means', said Goring.

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1 Workars Prose, Thuraday March 16, 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.

ago Neil Lynch days after the Three troops went in in years August 1969; took a boat and a train to he says. 'At that time my feelings were London find work after to high against the police, very but two-and-a-half years on the didn't have anything against dole in his home of town thought the army. We all they Londonderry, N Ireland. were there to protect us from the B-Specials. When you have had just two jobs lasting a total of 17 months 'Of course, that's all been over for a long in six years, you think you really 'I think the march has made know something about unemploy- -if ment. Especially when to get one me more experienced- that's had to the word--in the struggle to get of the inbs travel you 400 miles. the troops out. But; as Neil points out, know- 'The working class throughout Wales and the parts of England about isn't ing unemployment through showed they the same thing as knowing how we went were behind us for the right to fight it. to So this week he arrived back work. To get the troops out and some work Ulster we need London after walking from into s Was with the Risht-to-Work The ted fight miment out get Tory government marchers after three-week Neil's first and only real job search for some of the answers.

the Like the rest of the marchers, in his home town was BSR record-player factory, which he has changed a lot in that time.

of few five months after Normally poser down he s a man he was taken on there. words. But in Reading last week When he was 18 he worked he marchers chosen was the of for a year in London as a brick- local speaker at a celins layer's labourer taking home £13 trade unionists-winning us an a week. enthusiastic reception. coming on the march,' 19. got four weeks' 'Before potato-picking at £9.50 "I agreed generally with a week, he says, but has had nothing since. the Republican movement---see- 'Since

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closed down, the defence for ing it as only the people in areas like Creggan Derry's closed down. he says Heights where I come from. laconically. 'The docks have gone *In that although to the dogs. They're only hand- sense. supported both wings I saw the ling spuds. I've never been offered a thing Provisionals as most active by the Department Employ- defenders. was always opposed to ment: vou sign on, but vou have 'But the bombing of factories.

There's to look for your own work.

unemployment in Ulster 'Before I came I wasn't much enough without that. interested in the idea of socialism.

spell on the road, didn't mean much. After It his I've Neil's political thinking has be- 'But since got down to listening to things I know that's complicated. come more •I came Derry three what we're fighting for. back to Desie McCormick (above left) and Michael Hughes (above right) were two members of the Ulster dele- gation which travelled to London to take part in the Empire Pool rally. Desie, who comes from Newry, 40 miles from Belfast, a town points out that his area has al- ways suffered great unemploy- ment. I fully support the Right-to.

Work campaign because it is the only ray of hope in an otherwise black future? So spoke Joe Curran (right) convenor of Reids factory Warrenpoint, Co Down, N Ire- land. among a delegation Toe was who travelled across from Newry to the Wembley rally. The real issues affecting workers have been deliberately obscured by the reactionary Unionist government, Joe main- tains. 'The impression that is given in the capitalist media is that Irish workers only think about violence. The the rally and marches, particularly the fight to raise the to make the trip. across to London has enabled us to get down to the real issues which workers can bite on.' Also from Warrenpoint camê 17-year-old Gerry Heaton.

said that nationalism by itself is a blind and dangerous path that Irish workers must cross.

'Because of their particular history and because workers in both countries are now opposed by Tory governments-which in- cludes the capitalist Lynch government — the struggles Irish workers irrevocably are linked with that of their British comrades.' A fantastic experience-this was Kelvin Oakes' reaction to the mass rally at Wembley which climaxed the Young Socialists' Right-to-Work cam- paign. A former miner and ex- member of the Communist Party, he now works as a packer at the Trebor sweet factory in London's Forest Gate. 'The first thing that impressed me about the rally itself was the spontaneous reaction when the two official mineworkers' deleg- ations came in', , he said. 'Although some of the youth had obviously come at first mainly to hear the pop groups later in the day, there was some- thing else there as well in that.

'And when the marchers moved in tired, but obviously determined and disciplined-you could feel how the deeply impressed, audience was whole The CP, he thought, would have been incapable of organiz.

ing either the marches themselves or the events at Wembley.

'This is the new revolutionary movement, he said. 'We've got to have a party. and an organiz- ation willing to really fight for socialism. 'What's happening here is that one youth are seeing that some- capable of doing really something for them.' Transport and General Worker union cardholder, Kelvin 'It has been a depressed area for as long as people remember.

There are people there who have never had a proper job. This has bred pessimism and a feeling of hopelessness. "It's up to the youth really are determined to do it.'

Seventeen - year - old Michael student, faces the Hughes, thousands of same tuture as other youth all over Britain.

On leaving school most young added: "The example of the marches-following on from the miners' struggle-can be an enormous boost to working-class solidarity. "These youth haven't read Marx yet, which they i have to.

under- But they're beginning to stand.' The Young Socialists mag- nificent rally at Empire Pool, Wembley, is over but support for the Right-to-Work cam-.

paign is still pouring in.

We have received £44.30 from a raffle held in the British- Leyland Motor Corporation ser- vice division at Oxford. BLMC service joint shop stewards have sent £6.20. Çowley, Oxford No 10 AUEW branch sent £2. Workers at Rolls-Royce Park- donated £20. side. Coventry, stewards, also in Alvis shop Coventry. gave £20. Coventry Dunlop shop stewards sent £5.

Welling No 1 AUEW branch people go straight on the dole.

There are many Michael knows who have been rotting on the dole for years despite the fact that they have got 'A'-levels.

If this Tory government re- mains, this is the future facing all youth—in England as well as Ireland.' During the last weeks leading up to Wembley about 20 youth from the Newry area campaigned vigorously to raise money to make the trip across. has sent £5. The branch has already gone on recora as sup- porting the Right-to-Work march.

The T&GWU 1/776 branch at Truman, Hanbury and Buxton has sent £10. Students at the London Film School have sent another £10.04.

One of the many messages of support for the Wembley rally came from Ellesmere Port Trades Council. Alf McCabe, the honorary secretary, sent this message: 'We are, as a very small trades council, sending four delegates • from Ellesmere Port in the hope that our small number will help great numbers antici- swell the pated. 'Their cause is worthy of EW praise from every corner of this great country. We wish . them luck in their enterprise through the columns of your newspaper.

'Meanwhile we, in conjunction with other Merseyside trades continue our fight on councils, behalf of all unemployed.'

Franco (left) Is already receiving consi and systematic Constant harassment of Spanish and Basque refugees is_being carried out by the French government in close col- laboration with the Franco regime. It has been noticeably stepped in the last weeks, following a meeting in Paris between Raymond Marcellin, the Minister of the Interior, and Eduardo Blanco, colonel in chief of the fascist security services.

Franco needs Marcellin's assistance to crush the growing tide of workers' struggles Spain, where the illegal Workers' Commissions wield great now influence despite the enormous weight of fascist repression.

The French, whose Common plans involve close Market economic with co-operation Spain, are only too willing to oblige. After May-June 1968, the last thing Pompidou wants to see is revolutionary the outbreak of struggles in Spain. France already gives consider- able military aid to the fascists.

The latest arms deal is the sale of 21 Mirage F-l interceptor jets to the Spanish air force.

With 645,000 Spaniards work- ing in France-many, of them actively hostile to fascist home-Pompi- government at dou's collaboration is a vital link in the chain of repression against the Spanish revolution. for Mar- A particular target cellin's police are the refugees from the Basque country, which straddles the border between France and Spain. The Spanish have received Basques support from their co-nationals across the border, and one of Marcel- lin's prime tasks is to cut the un ving considerable milltary ald from Pompidou links between the two groups.

Among the victims of the French harassment are: Angel. Campillo, member of the Spanish Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), arrested in Bordeaux on February 20, 1969.

was handed over two months later to Spanish police at the border and is now in the Jaen prison, where he is known to have been tortured. Bonifacio Casado, a former Asturian miner, 54 years old and working in Paris as an electrician.

On October 23 last year he went to the border railway station at Hendaye to meet his daughter off a spanish Slace. crossed the Spanish arrested him and frontier, dragged him across the border into Spain under the eyes of French gendarmes who made no effort to intervene. He is now imprisoned in Spain known to have been and is tortured. • Julen Madariaga, one of the founders of ETA, the left-wing Basque nationalist movement. Arrested a fortnight ago by the French police he was_bundled onto a plane for Chile. He is the holder of Chilean passport. Madariaga's wife and family were not informed that he was being deported and their. first news of his whereabouts was a postcard from Chile. • Santiago Carrillo, general of the Spanish Com- secretary munist Party, was expelled from France for allegedly violating his conditions of residence. The Spanish CP has long had its headquarters in Paris.

• Ten members of ETA who escaped from a Spanish jail in January 1970 were split up by the French authorities and put under house arrest. ompidou (above) • Monzon Txillardegi, a member of the Basque nationalist organiz- has also been ation Anai-Artea placed under house arrest.

The French government's per- secution bears down most heavily the politically active on Spaniards. But the police also have an arsenal of legal weapons against all foreign workers France. There are more than 3 million foreign workers, most of them unorganized and many of them exploited by the employers under appalling conditions. The official trade union leaders, notably the Stalinist-dominated

CGT,

have a long history of workers-a neglecting these policy which greatly assists the government in its attacks on the political exiles. of foreign workers are severely limited. They must report regularly to the police and their lives are hedged by a bewildering variety of papers and official forms. the foreign particular, In workers are not allowed to take part in the leadership of trade unions. They may be appointed to local positions (the equivalent of shop stewards' posts), but they can rise no higher. This situation is complacently accepted . by the CGT bureau- cracy, which occasionally mounts a token protest campaign against the worst aspects of it. exiles in errance has highlighted of Spanish again complicity once between the French and Spanish also demon- It governments. strates the inability and unwill- ingness of the French Stalinists their forces in to mrhilize of Spanish workers' defence rights. Workers Press, T Pakistan President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto will pay a three- day visit to Moscow from March 16. The initiative from the Soviet leaders reflects their anxiety to nip in the bud any revolutionary upsurge in Pakistan by giving Bhutto a 'left' face. Bhutto is himself doing every- thing to cultivate the idea that he is genuinely a man of the people. His latest move is to prema- cording civil servants turely retire 1,300 which, Pakistan Minister for Political Affairs, Mustafa Jatoi, has been riddled with corruption and 'a cancer on the body politic. removal, the Minister Their added, 'has been made on the demand of the people and it ful- filled yet another of the Presi- dent's pledges to them.' Bhutto's populist stance is a deliberate and desperate attempt to hold Pakistan together after in Bangla defeat its disastrous Desh by heading off the growing workers and unrest among peasants. Although Pakistan broke off with diplomatic relations a number of countries because they recognized Bangla Desh, she was maintain them careful to with the USSR, even though the Kremlin backed Bangla Desh.

Cloaked wịth the mantle of of champion the oppressed Bengalis, the Soviet Union offers an ideal left' front be- Bhutto hind which he is trying to repair 8 Press, Thursday March 16, 1972 PAGE 5 and expand capitalism in Paki- stan. The arrangement gives Moscow the chance of attempting to hold back revolutionary de- velopments in Pakistan-the task of Soviet-backed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Bangla Desh. It is also a setback to Chinese hopes in the sub-continent for a decade based on the over hostility between Pakistan and India. Growing popular unrest in the only sub-continent has not spurred the Moscow Stalinists to intervene, but it is also forcing national bourgeoisies - only enemies-willy yesterday sworn nilly into each others arms. Indian President V. V. Giri said on Monday that he hoped Pakistan would accept an offer of talks. He added: 'We want this sub- continent and indeed the entire S Asian region and the Indian Ocean to be free from power rivalries and domination and to develop into an area of peace and co-operation rather than an area of confrontation.' Moscow, Delhi and Islamabad certainly agree on this. Mrs Gandhi breathed a sigh of relief after this week's sweeping election gains for her ruling Con- gress Party based on her victory over Pakistan, but peace in the sub-continent is fragile and it is only a question of time before new political eruptions shake the area. Top: President Bhutto. Below: Sheikh Mujlbur Rahman

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday March 16, 1972 Above: Maudling and Hoffman (right) with friends. Below: Former secretary of Nato Paul-Henri Spaak with Wilson. Right: Jerome D.

Hoffman 240444 A Workers Press investigation by Alex Mitchell His disappearance to Tel Aviv Just over a year ago the Real promoted an extraordinary exodus Estate Fund of America and from the board of directors. Fund of the Seven Seas, two internationally promoted off- down. The "fastest-growing, com- in pany in the world' vanished in a shore funds, crashed matter of days. spectacular fashion. The British subsidiary was American financier, Jerome placed the hands of the Hoffman, who built the funds for the 200- liquidators. Sadly into a reputed $100m enterprise, odd employees in London who ended the operation with charac- sacked, teristic gusto. the bankrupt company had only He called together his remain- £100 share capital. and executives: 11 Rome hotel Sales of the two funds were them: things and told suspended - - and were Abboud [his senior vice- worse, demptions. This meant that share- Abboud] Mr Bichara holders all over the world began and me are to take the going cut. But from whomtheir money lamout from whomheir money and and guys •you look after yourselves.' can The company's last outpost at Hoffman left his 1n Buckingham Gate, a stone's throw limousine - without paying the from the Palace, was besieged with letters and litigation Then followed an international What actually happened to the Hoffman's which sales team

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the acquired from clients is not fully British Board of Trade, the Rome known. Some of it put into was fraud squad and the banking real estate in the United States, Switzerland. explained the The rest? Nobody knows. Hoffman, like the other Meyer The US financier, confusion about the state Lansky, sought refuge in Israel. of the company's finances York fact that He New largely created by the backto Arthur Young earlier this and was the auditors, and ycal fraud. He Company, did not produce set serving two-year of accounts-as promised in the now sentence in a state penitentiary.

But this, as we shall see, is not the only promise Hoffman failed to deliver during his mer- curial appearance in the offshore world.

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Now that the dust is settling on the collapsed House of Hoff- everyone is asking-how man, did he do it. How did he snare Reginald Maudling, now Britain's Home Secretary and the deputy his Prime Minister, first as president? How did he catch for his board of directors big international names like M. Paul Henri Spaak, former secretary- general of NATO: Lord Brent- ford, Tory Minister of former Fuel and Power: Brentford's son, Crispin the Rt Honourable Joynson-Hicks, senior partner in one of London's most prestigious law firms: Holmes Brown, pre- Board sident of the New York of Trade: and a clutch of senior White House and Pentagon aides including Kuss, Henry Dixon Donnelly and James Morton?

To a large extent the 'success' He co pu of the Hoffman operation de- pended on the man himself. He is a wildly irrepressible individual.

his publicity material own Hoffman says modestly: 'I'm from Missouri and I'm as stubborn as I'm restless, a Missouri mule. resilient, controversial-these all add to the from up man Missouri.: Hoffman has one consuming vice. His astonishing energy has been devoted single-mindedly to the acquisition of money. One of his colleagues who remembered him as the small-time operator from St Louis, Missouri, once said: 'Jerry lives and breathes money. Anything that interferes with his plans to obtain money, he fights with violent passion. When a business journalist once asked details him for of his fund operation, Hoffman exploded and some kind of said: 'Are you subversive? me alone. Leave You're all trash-dogs.' The primary means of obtain- ing quick money in the American business world is through 'deals'..

It was understandable. therefore.

that Hoffman found his way to the real estate industry where he soon built a reputation as a young man who was very fast on his feet. But the New York property business is an exceedingly sinister line of work heavily penetrated controlled by and the Mafia. Hoffman was first publicly con- nected with the Mafia - albeit tangentially-in 1967. As pre- sident of Institutional Monetary involved Corporations, he was in a takeover bid for a small New York bank. The controlling stock in the bank was held by S. Mort Zimmerman, a financial connected with a entrepreneur of banks in the Deep string South. The transaction fishy was so it attracted the attention of the 'Wall Street Journal' and later the office of the Attorney-General for the State of New York. Zimmerman's unsavoury business revealed in connections are confidential memorandum com- piled by the US Internal Revenue Service (i.e. the taxation depart.

ment).

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One entry on Zimmerman says: currently "This department General investigating Capital Corporation. This corporation is ings publicly-owned a corporation with Mort Zimmerman which tion. controlled and allegedly looted State Fire and Casualty Co. This Wrough Loms Roussell. Roussel, accomplished, part, of Carlos close associate a Marcello who is on the Organized Crime List. Bruno and Angelo John Marcello, both of whom are the Organized Crime List, on owners bonds illegally used zuarantee ssued by State Fire and Casualt Company a means to obtain substantial loans from the Royal National Bank of New York.

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The With these sort of business Federal associates, various and decided to keep State agencies Then, close Hots it happened, it was watch Jerome only a matter of months before their man snooping was rewarded. In March New York Attorney- 1968 the General, Louis J. Lefkowitz, in- stigated Supreme Court proceed- against Hoffman and his Institutional Monetary Corpora- his indictment, Lefkowitz accused Hoffman of engaging in 'reckless, and improvident fraudulent' mortgage scheme. Actually, Hoffman's oftence was fairly straightforward. In June 1966 he had sent thousands of letters to developers and building owners in the United States, Canada and Latin America offer- ing to raise mortgage money at time when the mortgage markets tight. The offer were drew 630 replies. This is how Hoffman cleaned up. He first charged a $500 fee of his 50 sending one employees to inspect the property.

client then came to Hoff- man's plush suite on Madison Avenue where he was told the amount of mortgage money he could get. Lefkowitz alleged that Hoffman then called one of 20 specially-retained appraisers who would give an appraisal for a fee of between $2,500 to $25,000.

all but three of the Then, in applications, the deal mortgage collapsed, usually because Hott- man told the, client he could not obtain the whole amount required or because the terms were impossible. Inevitably, however, Hoffman kept the lucrative fees. Lefkowitz said the 630 clients had asked for more than $1.1 billion from the mortgage scheme. 'The fact is, Lefkowitz said tersely, 'Hoffman never had nor could round that much up money.' 'Daily News' The New York March 23. 1968) took the stor a bit further and declared: 'Mob Financing Hinted in Deals of Lending Firm'. The reporter said a triple investigation had been launched into Hoffman's opera- tion involving the Securities and Exchange Commission, the FBI Federal Attorney- and the General's office. (It is interesting to discover Hoffman's own interpretation of these events. In one of his com- pany publications produced al he said: "The few months ago business [Institutional Monetary Corporation] was an instant success. An official of Ford Motor Company remarked on "quality workmanship". Within three and a half years the com- pany had grown from a one-man, one-desk operation to one with a staff of 125, occupying entire New floors of a building on Avenue. "Real York's Madison Estate Weekly" featured me as front page Man of the Week in March 1967. The boy from Thursday March 16, 1972 PAGE 7 Missouri was now in the Big tisement, ( distribution, League!') purcha sor tom fe State public or from purchase, to York.' To any lesser man, the New York injunction would have

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end to wid business me ni an Not Hoffman. Fourteen practice. months later the incorrigible Hoffman beside was sitting Reginald Maudling in the ban- of London's Waldorf Under the curious and complex launching Hotel at the of his administration of justice in Real Estate Fund of America.

America, Hoffman was And a further six months later called to the swindle answer he proudly proclaimed that he Charges hrought against him by 'the was riding fastest growing Lefkowitz. Instead he agreed to company in the world'. Unable sign what is known as a consent to contain his enthusiasm for his decree. The decree which business Hoffman genius, own Hoffman put his name is a tough, published thousands of publicity four-page docu- The caption uncompromising pictures of himself. It bars him permanently ment. with unconscious irony said: from engaging virtually any I'm growing like a weed.'

business activity in the State of New York. A sample paragraph

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reads: is ordered, It adjudged and decreed that the be defendant restrained and enjoined perman- PART II: How Terome engaging ently acting and trom Hoffman recruited an act and engage or attemnting to as agent, broker, salesman, owner, international sales team director, employee, stockholder, officer, trustee, associate and went into the 'hot partner of any corporation, com- money' business. association and trust . pany, for the issuance, or sale, pro- motion, or negotiation, or adver-

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday March 16, The first of a two part series on the by Jack Gale. The recent long strikes of the American longshoremen portworkers in show that the United States face the same struggle over wages and jobs as their brothers in this country. The US dockworkers' struggle goes back well over 100 years. their first But they did not win real collective bargaining agree- until 1916, when the ment Longshoremen's International Association — American Federa- tion of Labour (AFL) union sup- ported by the majority of New York dockers-won a • wage in- crease and union recognition.

A of strike year stormy struggles followed World War I, but was held back by the AFL leadership T. V. • of O'Conner and Joseph P. Ryan. From 1919 to 1945, the ILA fell increasingly into the grip of Ryan's machine.

Ryan was A rebellion against defeated in 1919 and this was followed two years later by 80 cents to 65 cents an hour wage- and from $1.20 to $l an cuts hour for overtime. Ryan set up his own 'Joseph Ryan Association' P. which solicited contributions from the 'fight communism employers to on the waterfront'. Ryan was not only a raging right-winger, he was corrupt. A New York State Crime Com- revealed in 1953, that mission he took $17,000 of the Associa- tion funds for his own personal use over a five-year period.

While his anti-communism endeared him to the bosses, there was no effective union protection on the job, no job security, no grievance machinery or effective code and a continual practice of 'short-ganging' by the employers. Yet, only a short time before he ordered the State Crime Com- mission to investigate the ILA, New York Governor Thomas Dewey wrote to Ryan: 'On behalf of the people of the entire state, I congratulate you for what you have done to keep the communists from getting control of the New York water- front. Be assured that the entire machinery of the government of New York State is behind you March 16, 1972 's on the history of the US dockers and your organization in this determination.' From 1945 to 1953 opposition to Ryan's collaboration grew with the employers. But throughout this period, 'anti-communism' was used as a cover for attacks on workers' conditions. Waterfront Commission The Act of 1953, for example, was a screening process to weed out militants. This anti-communism, which linked communism with Stalin- ism, had the effect of presenting the Stalinists the real as opponents of the bosses in the of many militants - even eyes when the Communist Party were practising the most open class- collaboration. This is clearly illustrated in the career of the so-called 'pro- gressive' W coast leader, Harry Bridges. Bridges was an extreme patriot in the late 1930s and during World War II declared that the unions had to become 'instruments of speed-up'. He was one of the first to accept automation and containerization, which today threaten jobs on the American docks as they, do in Britain. On the w coast, the dockers were for years without even the protection that the

ILA'

pro- vided on the E coast. All they had was company union known as the 'Blue Book'.

In 1933 the nationwide upsurge the American working class of brought 95 per cent of the W coast men into the ILA. In February 1934, a strike broke out around the demands for union recognition, wage in- creases and a coastwide agree- ment. Involving 100.000 workers and frequent battles with the police, this was the biggest strike in American history since the Seattle General Strike of 1919.

. The strike leaders, however, appealed to the W coast gover- nors and mayors to get Roosevelt to intervene. The Communist Party-ardent supporters of Roosevelt and the New Deal - offered no alter- native. Nevertheless substantial gains were made and it was out of this battle that the International Longshoremen and Warehouse- Top left: Joe Ryan of the Internation: Bottom: Dock strikers in 1934 men's Union grew, the first wave of the Ameri- of the movement can workers that built the CIO in the mass-producing industries.

During the war, however, and immediate in post-war period, the Stalinist policies of Harry Bridges - involving no- strike pledges and wage-freezing —nearly allowed the employers away the gains of the to take 1934 strike, which had to be defended in another major strike in 1948. not prevent Joseph This did Ryan-and his successor Thomas Gleason-from using the alleged 'communism' of Bridges to drive a wedge between the ILA in the E and the ILWU on the W coast.

This allowed the employers to withstand long E coast strikes, and to hold E coast wages down -though another factor in this of thugs was the systematic use gangsters by the E coast and employers. the American Nevertheless, dock worker fought back. In the New York docks, for example, there has never been a "peaceful' contract settlement since 1945.

On September 30, 1945, the the ILA and contract between the New York Shipping Associa- expired. Ryan negotiated tion new contract which was rejected by the men and the unofficial nternational Longshoremen's Assoclation. Top : New York dock strike was on.

The now-familiar device of intervention in the government form of arbitration was used to prevent the strikers winning all their demands, but nevertheless they gained substantially more Ryan negotiated on their than behalf. In fact, from that day to this, between the rank and the clash file and the bureaucracy, backed hy the various arms of the local, state and Federal government has continued almost uninterrup- tedly. During this time the Taft- *80-day cooling-off Hartley has probably period' injunction been invoked more otten against the ILA than against any other union-usually because of un- official strikes. clearly By 1950, Ryan was losing the control he had main- tained for 31 years over the rank and file. In 1951 Governor Dewey in- New York State structed the Crime Commission to make a into thorough investigation 'waterfront crime' These investigations were no more concerned with crime or with the welfare of portworkers victimized by the who were were the later gangsters, than investigations into the Teamsters' ion. Top: Roosevelt. union under the Senate McClel- Committee and Robert lan investigations Kennedy's of Jimmy Hoffa. Their purpose was to ham- string and control unions with a militant membership, particularly in transport. At the same time AFL chief George Meany wanted to expel the ILA and replace it with the ILA-AFL. This was to demon- strate both to the government and the CIO (with which the up- AFL was about to merge) that a 'clean' superior bureaucracy could run the labour movement without tolerating either com- munists or racketeers. ILA members opposed both and the the Dewey hearings Meany take-over-not out of love for Ryan, but to defend their union. After a long and bitter struggle, they maintained their independence, with Ryan discreetly retiring. But a new threat was approach- ing, one now familiar to British portworkers—containerization.

Material for this article has been taken from 'Showdown on the Docks' by Dan Fried, Bulle- tin Labor Series No. 2 Distri- Publications, buted by Labor New York

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Police officers off duty-listen to Mike at a N London public house. The stript Commander Kenneth Drury, head of the press that his suspension from duties has come 'as a great shock'. I'm very upset the over matter, the commander told the 'Daily Mirror', 'but I have no- thing to fear from any inquiry.'

He is on suspension-and on full pay—while his fellow officers investigation into conduct an newspaper allegations that he spent a holiday abroad with strip- club owner James Humphreys.

Humphreys is a former resident of Dartmoor prison. Mrs Joan the Drury, com- mander's said she was wife, the suspension. 'disgusted' by 'We had a good holiday • and everything was completely in- nocent.' Peter Burden, crime reporter of the 'Daily Mail', agrees with Mrs Drury. He was given a full page in his Rotheremere-owned paper to tell the harrowing inside story of the copper's lot. moving piece of What a journalism. Full of sympathy and pathos. Burden wrote: 'Several Scotland Yard detec- tives are this weekend making for their new arrangements summer holidays. Their travelling companions were to have been their underworld contacts-most of them with convictions.

'But now the police seem more frightened than the crooks of being found out. And 1 am not is such a good that this sure thing' in When Mr Burden writes something this disturbed vein, must be up. After all, the head- line describes Mr Burden as one of the 'Mail's' specialist reporters "Mail" 'who give the comparable mark of authority'.

Mr Burden's comprehension of the difficult role of the police- man knows no bounds. He says: of a detective's time 'Much is spent in a murky no-man's land.

It is unavoidable . . . there is no room for the puritan.'

As far as I know there have been no sociological surveys done on the police force to discover the number of puritans who offer the recruiting themselves to centre at the Home Office.

But the 'Sunday Times Colour Magazine' published recently feature article showing members of the vice squad attending a stag night at a pub in N London.

Apart from low-brow a comedian, the evening featured a number of exotic females with enormous breasts who insisted n to Mike Rold, star of the telovision show 'T The striptease act followed.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

on taking their clothes off to the accompaniment of a jazz band.

As the ladies walked around the tables waving baubles the in noses of the officers, it is widely believed that they applauded. Clearly at that no puritans particular gathering. Mr Burden attempted in his article to explain this curious relationship between strip-tease and law and order. He says that good results in crime-busting can only be achieved "by the police getting closer to the world they are trying to destroy. From this thesis, it's a quick step to this conclusion: "There has to be mutual trust between a policeman and his contacts and this can often only be built up on social occasions. Flying Squad detectives say, for example, that mixing with celebrities, crooks and ex-criminals is an essential part of their life. 'The nightclub visits, meals at expensive restaurants, even holi- days abroad result in a steady flow of information and a panel major crime breaks, On when a experts to call n show 'The Comedians' at a stag show An interesting theory.. Mr Burden was not satified with testing our intellects on the intricacies of fighting crime. The following day (March 8) he wrote another piece on the same sub- ject. But this one was straight, unadulterated purple prose.

He began like this: 'There was no Scotland Yard chauffeur-driven car at 103 Bexley Lane, Sidcup, yesterday morning.

told "The The driver had been Governor" was not going to work for a while. Then came a special delivery — a huge bouquet flowers from "The Squad"!

Mr Burden went on to say that the commander, or 'Trumpet' as he is affectionately called in "The Squad', was receiving great sup- port from his colleagues.

Sandra, His daughter, was 'We all know quoted as saying, he has not done anything wrong.'

Scotland Yard The inquiry which has been set up by Sir John Waldron will decide whether he has or not. Meanwhile, another branch of the law is in trouble-this time in • Gibraltar. This item did not receive great prominence in the national press although it is precisely in line with Mr Burden's theory about the police getting close to the action to get information.

It appears that the police in Gibraltar stopped two British boarding a London- subjects bound plane. They found the men were carting along vast quantities of hash. In court one of the men, Donald Rowlands (47), revealed that he was not a drug smuggler but in fact a de facto employee of the Cheshire constabulary. He told the court he was smuggling drugs in an attempt to smash a drugs ring. The story must have sounded highly implausible until into the witness box strode Inspector Stanley Holloway of Cheshire CID. He said the police had paid Rowlands' fare and asked him to travel to Gibraltar to ascertain names and details of a mysterious drugs ring. The local magistrate, Mr John Alcantara, said he accepted that had been helping the Rowlands police. He pointed out that his job to uphold the laws of was Gibraltar. He sentenced Row- lands to six months' jail and his accomplice to a year. citizens we As law-abiding must only hope that Rowlands' unfortunate detention does not create any serious setbacks in police's vigilant cam- Cheshire paign against crime. Workers Press, Thursday March 16, 1972 PAGE 9

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blatant anti-Semitism. The

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manufactured in wert W Germany where anti obviously The recent Semitism very wedding of Prince much alive. Alfonso of Bourbon and Dam- pierre and Maria del Carmen,

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General Franco's grand. daughter, the chapel Franco's Pardo Palace on the The hunt for Nazis in Latin America has temporarily stolen oulskirts ol maaria attractec the gilt-edged aristocracy and the headlines from a significant dictators from over the story a little closer to home.

all world, together with the inter- concerns the W German national jet-set. counter-espionage organization First Lady of the Philip- (which under goes the pines, Imelda Marcos, the leading titie of 'Office for the Begum Aga Khan, Mr and Mrs Protection of the Constitution').

Henry Ford II, and the child- Hubert Schruebbers, the cur- of Paraguayan ren President rent head of this organization, Alfredo Stroessner were all is going into premature retire- there swapping tales with ten- star Manuel Santana result and embarrassing revelations about bullfighters El Litri and his past in the weekly 'Der Antonio Ordonez Spiegel'. Apparently, everybody was During the war, Schruebbers Prince eager Chat with the Nazis served as Rainier and Princess Grace of secutor in the cases of German Monaco, just back from the who had fled Burtons' jamboree in Budapest.

Holland and Belgium and been Nobody spared thought, captured there oy the for the former chief armies. of the Institute for Surveying that he made much National Opinion. Before une effort to conceal this record marriage he was engaged by which has long been known to the Franco entourage to carry his employers, the social- out a survey of public opinion democratic government. to see whether the Spanish Schruebbers In fact has people would rather have as that there 'nothing successor to Franco, Bourbon Stated IS immoral' in what he did for and Dampierre juan the Nazis. He believes that the Carlos of Bourbon. Cock mises all guent of hith communists sent Juan Carlos is getting a bit too rebellious nowadays! The treason anyway. survey showed 'people' the Once his services to the Nazi Carlos. The preferred Juan regime became public property, chief public opinion pollster Brandt immediately got the sack.

however. govern- ment could hardly claim him Asked about his honeymoon suitable man to defend as a Alfonso showed an plans, un- the 'democratic' W German usual sense of realism for a constitution. I have Bourbon by replying: So Schruebbers is leaving found an. atomic-bomb proof next month with a substantial shelter • • • golden handshake, four months During the wedding, advance in of his scheduled students and workers demon- retirement date and protested in strated the That leaves the task of find.

centre of Madrid. Later three ing a successor. The favoured bombs were thrown candidate is Gunther Nollau, through a shop window. who served under Schruebbers

DOLL

before being appointed head of the Department of Public Security in the Federal Ministry The big French supermarket of the Interior. had a doll on chain Carrefour Nollau has always been built sale priced 23.50 Francs and life-long up as social- labelled "Jew'-worthy of democrat. But it turns out that the Streicher days in Nazi Ger- his equally as murky past Is many. as Schruebbers' They have been now re- He applied for Nazi Party moved from the shelves follow- membership in 1942, while he ing the protests of the Inter- prosecuting was serving as a national League Against lawyer in occupied Poland!

Racism and Anti-Semitism. So far, the government has They were on sale alongside comment publicly on dolls labelled 'monkey', yet to other this embarrassing series of re- 'devil' and 'witch'. velations. It is believed to be and Evidently the buyer having great difficulty finding a manager of the supermarket saw no harm in this piece of with a clean record protect tne consulation.

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Guerrillas denounce Hussein's kingdom plan PAGE 10 Workors Prece, Thuraday March 16, 1972

AROUND THE WORLD

KING HUSSEIN of Jor- Deal concocted with Israeli aid?

formally dan yesterday put forward his proposals But it is clear that Hussein, who already for linking the Israeli- hostilities further azalls! occupied W bank of the ana neia talks as long ago summer with Israeli chief of staff General Moshe Dayan, Jordan with his own ter- relies Israel arreement to get us plan federal ritory in a new off the ground. kingdom. Hussein's su••ression Jordan opened road a deal He announced his plans at a special meeting in the alone une unes ne suppests. Royal Palace in Amman at- By staking claim in tended by about 500 Jor- advance the terri- bank danian officials and W bank tories, Hussein intends to ensure the Palestinian people are representatives. kept firmly Collel DC and the Tween tne

LONISTS

His scheme has already been Hashemite the Palestine aynasly. denounced Liberation Organization, which been categorically rejected by had The

PLO

said the had most the des. tinian commando groups. ralesuma masses an accuser the 36-year-old monarch of try- destroy the resistance

SECRET

movement and make Con mandos appear to be subversive armed groups.

HUSSEIN

TALKS

Habash camp splits Under the plan, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan would change United Arab the Kingdom. Command callins its tim en announced their separation from two renons. from Habash's Front. Left Command spokesman Popular Front for the Liberatior • The region W bank including headed split by announcind une alacked sisting of the bank (including George Habash. Habash's group for hijacking the Arab and any other Lufthansa diverted Aden jet The PLFP is on the left wing Gaza Strip) territories uke le ransomed for of the Palestinian month movement, last alla whose population wished to join.

$5m. though its leaders have reluctant.

The spokesman also said, that ly accepted the varidus deals and • The region other guerrilla organizations or jordan, COn• agreements which the Arab Amman prising E bank hi- area. of the had prior knowledge have entangled the with would be the overall capital, jacking operation. querrilas. He accused Habash lertisalem Ine canal Palestine region. The Front unilaterally directing ide the

PFLP

target for the Jordanian murder failing its unlu squads turned September 1970. the loose Hussein's ministers have denied _decisions that the represent The Left Come ind plans to proposals deal with Left Command members hold the near the pro- congress Israel or are leadership tot

OUCT

secret will une set up a new ¡uture lo cicel a

PLFP

occupiers. the Revolutionary and the Revolutionary Popular Front Racialism and anti-communism George Wallace's recipe for victory on home ground George gained Hubert Humphrey, who earlier this month, did

GOVERNOR

his support was badly in Florida as well, of largely from te Solve. five ran against president Wallace Alabama states of the deep Nixon 1968. won poor fourth has romped home Demo- the Democratic tried hard to of the though he Democratic impact among make Cral vote-more concer nominee in the Florida working-class voters had been predicted. President Nixon, the He primary elections. parts of the Senator Edmund only serious candidate in other over 40 per cent Muskie, badly the Republican primary, PerhaDs more signin. WUlL over 80 per cent of of the votes. cant for the campaign as natter uner • WOn a whole is the fact that Hampshire primary the Republican vote. His based campaign, racialist innuendo, communism, won him the support segragationists soulnern

AND

in tne state. He backed by was right-wing exurenc organizations alke John Birch Society consider- which enjoys support in florida. aote

FOR

Wallace notomous enforcing racial for Alabama, usine tae state Tooders to prevent black children white schools. entering his cam- time.

RICA

paign was the issue -the transport from children

ULLC

area to another (TO en. sure that the schools segregated. alc has Stale one of the lowest per incomes the capita one of only US,

HICCUS

key the eight stanoaros for child-labour laws, of the and has one highest illiteracy rates in the US.

GOVERNOR GEORGE WALLACE STANDING UP FOR RACIALISM

In the 1968 election, The presidents of Egypt, Syria and Libya, whose states are united in the Federation of Arab Republics, they have said Palestinian the consult move- * ment before declaring their posi- Ltion en the plan. three Presidents held The private discussions the on Hussein plan 'in all its aspecrs' at the weekend. Their failure to denounce the plan out of hand clearly indicates that are prepared they to sacrifice the Palestinians to ihe hated Hashemite dynasty if they can persuade the PLO leaders to endorse some such betrayal.

Tory Foreign Secretary Sir in an Alec Douglas 1 said Home interview with Israeli Radio ves- terday that he believed Epypt was sincerely interested in peace with Israel. He said this had been made clear to him during his recent visit to Cairo. Peter Katjavivi, a member of the South- an Antl- tion (SWAPO) speaking at Namibia (SW Africa) on Tuesday night Ir THE VAST majority of Ovambo workers in Namibia (SW Africa) are still on strike despite police and intimidation. military At least eight workers have been killed by police since the workers returned to Ovamboland in N Namibia last December. The strike has brought the country's economy to a virtual standstill. It is against the contract labour system which divides and keeps families separated for up to two years earns the black at a time, worker about one-tenth the pay of the white worker and denies him the right to move or change his job.

THE

EXECUTIVE of

ASLEF,

union, the locomen's ignored widespread calls for strike action on their pay claim when they met in London yesterday. • Instead they unanimously decided to keep talking and will accompany the other two rail unions when they meet . the Railways Board next Monday.

Yesterday's meeting had been arranged to consider 'appropri- ate action to further our claim'.

But the one proposal for action —including a 24-hour stoppage- found no seconder. drivers on * the But train Region are already Southern threatening action if there is no settlement by April 10. 'There was no alternative but to go to the meeting on Monday.

shall want negotiations to We decision is continue until a reached, said ASLEF general secretary Ray Buckton. 'We hope the decision will be successful to us. If not, we shall examine the position from then.

The board and everybody know where they want to be and there is no need to break off next week's talks, he added. ASLEF has. demanded rises of 16 per cent. So far they have been offered between 8 and 11.3 per cent. he South-West Africa People's Organiza- an Anti-Apartheld ratty In support of lay night in London. The workers have rejected the new contract labour sys- tem which the S African gov- ernment is trying to foist on them. The new deal leaves the old system untouched in essentials. The Namibians point out that S Africa's illegal hold over the territory is aided by the support it has received in countries, particularly western Britain. British firms with invest- ments in Namibia include Rio Tinto Stewarts Zinc, Box, George Wimpey, Port- land Cement and the SW Africa company.

PLANS DRAWN up by W. Midlands engineering employers during the recent crisis power shatter irretrievably any idea that the capitalist class is committed to a special relationship with white-collar workers.

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CORRESPONDENT

While taking account of

DAVID MAUDE

tactical consider- certain ations, the area branch of the Engineering Employers' Fed- eration proceeded absolutely ruthlessly to map out how to This might make him try to profits against staff defend win other advantages-perhaps higher pay, horror of horrors-to employees. compensate. The relevant documents are The EEF's message its W to in the hands of Workers now Midlands members, therefore, Press. 'give very was to careful con- that the What they reveal is possible sideration to longer- employers were hoping to cover term répercussions' before trying with the legal- their onslaught reduce overheads the at sounding excuse that the miners' expense of stafi. had created 'situations strike But this is obviously just under which were not contem- preamble to ease the consciences plation when the national agree- of the more faint-hearted mem- and understandings ments On ber-tirms. overtime were agreed with staff unions. The document goes on: 'With this important factor duly There can be little doubt that, weighed, however, it of course if implemented, these proposals remains open to a firm to-seek would created a storm of have the agreement of their staff to a militancy among many thousands variation of the temporary con- of white-collar workers. which would allow tract some It cannot be just a coincidence, full lesser amount than the therefore, that a matter of hours for salary to be paid periods they were drawn up. the after when work is not arailable.

Wilberforce inquiry decided to 'The chances of securing agree- make the miners a special case.

ment to this course are likely to What the W Midlands EEF was be much improved if it has been proposing was this: made clear to the staff that the longer-term prospects of employ. • Cuts in salary under the ment at the company are depen- threat of redundancy; dent on both the manual and staff úpon • Precautionary notices that all employees not Insisting would be stopped if their strict rights under their salaries contracts of employment.'

the crisis continued; and In other words, a judicious use • Blackmailing demands for of the word redundancy could free overtime at weekends.

work wonders. So anxious were the employers' In a document on "The Position Staff Employees'? the crack the whip that of em- léaders to ployers' strategists point out that developed the point they at workers these of some length. How about this for sections are for the theoretically entitled their solicitous concern interests of your faithful staff: salary as long as their contracts subsist. 'Even if a company at this This applied even if there was does not envisage any stage departure from the strict terms no work for them to do. with Any interference the the contract of employment worker's 'concept of which salaries paid white-collar under are of employment', the whether or not work is available, security 'could have it be wise and necessary, document says, may adverse long-term effects for when discussing working arrange- ments in the present situation employers through alienation of to sound an early warning that the staff. The daily paper that leads the fight against the Torles. £20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues) {10.14 for 6 months (156 Issues) 25.07 for 3 months (78 lasues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: 186a Clapham High St., Circulation Dept., Workers Press, London, SW4 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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months. Amount enclosed f continued obligation to pay full salary could not in all circum- stances be guaranteed regardless of the length or effects of the current crisis. It is conceivable that, arising from such a warning, proposals could be developed leading to agreement for the payment of some lesser amount than the full salary as a means of safeguarding employment' Apart from the possibility of agreeing a temporary variation in which would allow contracts • some lesser amount than the full salary to be paid tor periods when work is not avallable, the document suggests that a point may be reached when economic circumstances could force them into a situation where 'it would in any case be imprudent to continue to pay full, or even a reduced, salary to staff.

The document suggests the form of precautionary notice which should be served at this point: •Notice is hereby given by the company that your contract of employment will be varied from (insert appropriate date) to the extent that the company from that date, will reserve the right to cease payment of your salary for periods when work is not avail- able to you because of the failure of electricity supply. 'This temporary variation of continue your contract during the period of the current emergency, and until the restor- working is ation normal possible. On the restoration of normal working, the current terms of your contract of employ- ment will be restored.' Charming, isn't it? By this time, the EEF strate- gists had obviously got the old and bit well master-servant truly between their teeth. There was no holding them. It would be appreciated, they wrote, that some white-collar would prefer to treat workers the suggested notice as dismissal and claim redundancy payments.

With the thought of shedding of staff stirring à good number the writers' ruling-class blood, discuss the they went on to prospect of getting a bit of week- end overtime buckshee. During the power emergency, suggested, situ- the document in which it ations might arise would seem entirely reasonable which to make arrangements stood outside the precise terms of the existing national overtime agreements with the trade unions.

says: If staff retained on a It their full weekly salary are able to work on Monday and Tuesday only, but cannot be provided Wednesday, with work on Thursday or Friday, it would seem reasonable to press that they should work a full day on factory is at Saturday (if the work on that day) without any additional premium or consider- ation on the grounds that they have been paid their full five-day salary for three days of work.

'It would hardly seem reason- for staff to be paid five able days' salary for two days' work, and then be paid for Saturday at time and a third-so receiving pay for third days' six and a three days' work' But what if they won't wear it?

the unspoken question. comes Well, the document has the answer: 'It could be that some staff may press for optimum treatment and in such circumstances, refusal to co-operate with the in such cases company may prompt the question of whether it might be more economical simply to tell the staff concerned that, failing co-operation, such for the duration of the emergency the company is able to Brutal, but direct. This is the class real face of the ruling the towards all workers-and sooner we realize it the better.

For this is the degree of deter- mination they take into the next big pay fight: with the engineers.

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Thuraday March A NATIONAL day of action b for equal pay at factory level.

This was the call-carried by 23 votes to one-at the women's conference of Amal- gamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers' engineering sec- tion in Eastbourne. Together with a demand for industrial action, opposed by only six of the 24 delegates, the call now goes forward to the section's full national com- mittee in five weeks' time.

Backed by Communist Party members and supporters, the women's diversionary day every chance of action stands being endorsed by the same • national committee that in Jan- uary called off a united national pay struggle by engineers.

The prime mover of the call, Vi Gill from Sheffield, said she was 'not naive enough' to believe employers would pay up for the women after one day outside the factory gates. She described the move as 'an impetus to negotiation'. • See Scanlon speech p. 2.

Devlin fined

MID-ULSTER

MP Bernadette Devlin and 23 other people were found guilty and given six month suspended sentences by an Ulster court yesterday for marching on the highway on February 6 in protest against internment and the 'Bloody Sunday' (January 30) massacre of 13 people. Miss Dev- lin and two others were also fined £1-5. VIllI

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day March 16, 1972 action by women engineers was TEN MEN at a Woolwich pla seventh week of a fight for th • in trade union activities.

Half labour force cut DURING the miners' strike Tory Trade and Industry Secretary John Davies slapped an injunc- Department of the tion on the Environment's telecom- new munications centre at Cannon St, London, prohibiting the use of lights at night. The Cubitt management re- sponded by laying off the entire 60-strong night shift, but when the strike ended they not only refused to re-employ the men, but axed a further 110 jobs.

When the lists of sacked men were circulated — picked even- tually from the full 340-strong work force-they included stew- ards and militants on the site.

Cubitt's decision to sack half their labour force came in re- sponse to the Tories refusal after the coal strike to continue to subsidize the two-shift system at the site. Union of Construction and Allied federation Technicians steward John Buckner told me: "There was nothing we could do to stop them sacking the 170 men, but we did get them to reinstate the trade unionists and associated with political men parties. Mr Buckner estimates that with the remaining 170 men week-they working a five-day won't work overtime after the sackings-two will be years to the time needed to added complete the building. was the The Cannon St site first in London to obtain a £l- an-hour consolidated rate — but it was tied to the now defunct shift system. 'We're Buckner: Said Mr afraid they will try and take the £l away now and offer us a wages deal based on productivity.'

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TUC

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have be the basis given once again come ending Cononen without trial, particu. of the Tor larly this government cedures. The TUC's completely full employ- due duN rerro TeSLOre bankrupt policy was ment. In an hour-long meet- Some people were elaborated whes further Home Secre- Feather later told WILd duemer they called for the tary had asked where individuals doninas miy Kegınala Maudling reporters yesterdavicten switching general secre be • called date for the end TernIS 0 a bility for see tig from Feather the night dle Stormont Westmin- asked for some modifica- This did not mean the Ther remmer tion in Tory internment after a couple of hours, release of gunmen and poliich Feather was he added intern- terrorists The Irom knee - crawling with ot further when (SUTCClu Internment Frederick Havday. chair. still

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The Thirty-eight the men on night shift at Hunter Plastic Industries Ltd struck on jan- -nalish uary 28 after two trade union- ists, including a shop steward notice acd escorted from sacked minute's were the premises on Woolwich indus- trial estate. Revolution' had been recruiting ne men about 80 of the 394-strong work the force into Transpor Workers' and wenerar actively campaigning improved safety and working conditions at the factory.

Written by Tom Kempinski According to sacked T&GWU Directed by Corin Redgrave photographs up in the factory struck 'Know your 50e mies. the heading first week,

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Unt unionists esconted workers into the with DIck hanoies

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sd that 2 cao d or ad mien CrWa Culllce were going to attack the factory and smash it up.

THEATRE

There had been so much talk the wellbeloved violence Labour Tim Sloane Square in k nae police to protect the strikers.

The T&GWU made the strike London SW1 official, members It our to ena SUNDAY MARCH 19, 7 p.m. all the original have been niled. Ut the strikers, but save given up hope of winning their ADMISSION 25p (YS MEMBERS) & 50p case. The firm has since set up an agency under the terms of SnOD the Industrial Relations Act.

This an elected works gives committee sole negotiating rights We demand the right to work!

for all the men (and unions) in the factory. committee stokesmrl Make the Tories resign! Hennerberry commented: policy of the trade Although the fight the union iae relations Act they are unION nerarco back-peddling and waiting will happen Wildl 'Unless the rank and file fight the trade unions we'l lose we „ ¿re ever vininz have fought for last 150 years.' over the The strike are stag- and

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Minis start up A STRIKE which halted produc- al une ausull- Birmingham, yesterday after talks with management. The dispute started on Tuesday night stopped work crar YOUNG SOCIALISTS 12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

SCARBOROUGH

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and another 1,200 workers were Sennac. Saturday & Sunday April 8/9 Grand Hall, The Spa Yarrow deal Dance to 'BRAVE NEW WORLD' Saturday night 8 pm also see a star studdea snow

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