Workers Press no. 722

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HARD CORE UNEMPLOYMENT SHOWS REAL TORY POLICY

JOBLESS TREND

STILL UPWARDS

Royal group dockers vote for April ROYAL DOCKS stewards in London yesterday expressed bitter dis- appointment with the attitude of their union leaders towards the fight against redundancy in the ports. An afternoon mass meeting of about 1,000 men from the group of docks endorsed the stewards' call for strike action from April 7 if any men from T. Wallis Smith Coggins are placed on the unattached register.

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INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

for April 7 action Jimmy Carpenter, chair- man of the Port of London Authority stewards in the group, described Wednes- day's meeting between the stewards and leaders of the two docks unions. •We got no direct answers when we asked what would happen if men go back to the pool on April 7, he said. The union officials apparently don't consider that being in the pool means being made redundant. *Well, we do. And we

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER © FRIDAY MARCH 24, 1972 • No. 722 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE should say these into back DrOUSHIL

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appointed with the attitude of the trade unions. "They should be UsIn their industrial strength to back us up. Bernie Steer, leadins steward in the Nation: Amalgamated Stevedores assured and Dockers, men unal COCKeRS in most parts of the coun- try were already committed

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MITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY ALEX MITCHELL

increase in the unemployment trend.

The monthly statistics issued by we have turned the level. But think the Department of Employment put corner and will make progress of. the Tory apathy the overall total out work at And face in the

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1,014,511. of about This was a decrease what do the trade union leaders have to 606,758 February the over when Say. Tory locked government out the and Jack Jones, Transport hundreds of thousands of workers in General Workers' Union, said yesterday: gloomy indeed. It indicates the miners' strike. Is very that the Budget measures are unlikely to The figure of 'hard core unemploy- do the job or to act fast enough.'

be •We shall certainly ment is the one which gives the lie goes our campaign to cut Stepping continuous Tocy claims about LO hours improved holidays to win mounting various "packages and create more Jobs "mini-Budgets' to halt unemployment.

reformist pipedream totally ignores the world economic crisis which forms the The 959,455 wholly unemployed is an and Britain's background to the succer increase of 300 in a month when the huge unemployment. And it avoids the figure usually drops by some 13,000.

central political demand to force the Tory government, the job-snatchers, out o Unemployment has nor reached pe office. cent of the total number of workers.

were announced, TUC After the figures of school-leavers still without number Victor Feather said he general secretary jobs is 7.035-but this is only the number Minister for Industrial hoped the that has bothered to register.

Development and Industrial Develop- What is clear from the figures Is that Board would urgency ment the employers used the lock-out to

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power into their tasks. camouflare further sackings

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I spoke to Mr Gordon Richardson, the Men who were laid off during the board's chairman, .5, Zurich earlier new did not get their jobs. shutdown of the importance and told him back. which the unions attach to rapid progress The huge level of unemployment in industrial and regional development.

directly related to poor investment in the 'I told him, too, that he would have the engineering and textile incustues fullest possible co-operation in this work.'

have borne the brunt of the slump. This attempt to stimulate weeks Duazer Is local investment; may temporarily appear to reduce the number out of work in the coming months but Barber's latest memployment. (See What We Think p. 25 make major The regional figures are: Per No. Area

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South East REGINALD MAUDLING, the Home 23,248 (3.6) East Anglia 55,342 Secretary, told the Commons yester- South West (4.1) West Midlands 108.701 (4.8) day it was not yet possible to make a 50,736 (3.6) East Midlands the Ulster initiatives. 59,466 (4.8) statement on Yorkshire Humberside He said a statement would be made to North West 149,566 (5.2) 89,779 parliament as soon as it was possible Cabinet held pro Wales (5.7) Meanwhile the 152,745 (7.2) tected sessions yesterday. Scotland 45,685 (8.8) Heath left No. 10 Downing. St afternoon N Ireland talks with Opposition HOLe private that the leader Harold Wilson. The statement also showed Wilson who has fully backed every item number of redundancies for February of Tory policy in Ulster, is a crucial figure -600 per day. This compared with 18,000- 26,300 a in The Provisional wing of the IRA yester- and Mr a die. year 23.000 in anuary Commenting on the figures, Smith, the parliamentary under-Secretary day admitted responsibility for Hane Employment, said Britain had 'turned Donegal Street blast, Belfast, on Monday

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killed. 'Proper the corner' on unemployment. Making the walch six peopie were speech he has made on numerous and adequate warnings have been given before bombing operations that could Smith declared: all occasions in tne past, can be cured maically it is geig to take unemployment cause loss of life or injury to civilians, the statement said. *This practice will Cond time to bring it down to an acceptable unluc.

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HARD CORE UNEMPLOYMENT SHOWS REAL TORY POLICY

JOBLESS TREND

STILL UPWARDS

Royal group dockers vote for April ROYAL DOCKS stewards in London yesterday bitter dis- expressed appointment with the attitude of their union leaders towards the fight against redundancy in the ports. An afternoon m ass meeting of about 1,000 men from the group of docks endorsed the stewards' call for strike action from April 7 if any men from T. Wallis Smith Coggins are placed on the unattached register.

SUBS

INCORPORATING THE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

for April 7 action Jimmy Carpenter, chair- man of the Port of London Authority stewards in the group, described Wednes- day's meeting between the stewards and leaders of the two docks unions. We got no direct answers when we asked what would happen if men go back to the pool on April 7; he said. "The union officials apparently don't consider that being in the pool means being made redundant. 'Well, we do. And we

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY MARCH 24, 1972 • No. 722 O 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE men should be ay lnese the brought back into Houserv. appointed with the attitude ot the trace lo. "They should be their industrial strength to back us up. Bernie leading Steer. a steward the Natona Amalgamated Stevedores assured the Dockers, anu that Royals

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in most parts of the coun- try were already committed

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лІТтЕЕ OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY ALEX MITCHELL

by The monthly statistics issued But I think we have turned the level. the Department of Employment put will make and Comer plug-cos work the overall total out of at And the face Tory apathy 1n the 'acceptable' levels of unemployment, 1,014,511. This was a decrease of about nave to 606,758 when the Tue sace Icaucis over February say? Tory locked government out Transport and Jack Jones, of the hundreds of thousands of workers in General Union, yesterday: Workers' Sale the miners' strike. •This is very gloomy indeed. It inalcates unlikely to that the Budget measures are The figure of 'hard core' unemploy- do the Job or to act last ment is the one which gives the lie He 'We certainly goes on: shall cut working our campaign to Tory to continuous claims about hours and win improved mounting 'packages' various and create more jobs. 'mini-Budgets' to halt unemployment.

reformist pipedream totally ignores The 959,455 wholly unemployed is an the world economic crisis wich loris cue background to the Budget and Britain's increase of 300 in a month when the And avoids the auce figure usually drops by some 13,000.

political demand to force the Tory central job-snatchers, out government, It of the total has now of workers: pee of the total number of workers. once. After the figures were announced, TUC number of

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Victor Feather said he secretary general jobs is 7,035—but this is only the number.

Industrial for hoped that has bothered to register.

The new Development and the Industrial Develop- What is clear from the figures is that urgency would put great Board the employers used the power lock-out to into their tasks. camouflage further sackings and redun- 'I spoke to Mr Gordon Richardson, the were laid off during the Men who Zurich earlier uallico. chairman, board's new power shutdown Jobs ala not get Loen today tonich the unions attach to rapid protece ack. The huge level of unemployment in industral ana resola developineal.

directly related to poor investment in the 'I told him, too, that he would have the and textile industries which engineering fullest possible co-operation in this work.

borne the brunt of the slump. This nave week's Budget is an attempt to stimulate local may temporarily investment; work. appear to reduce the number out or the coming months but sper test measures The regional figures are: Per Area cent NO South East REGINALD MAUDLING, the Home Anglia

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South West Secretary, told the Commons yester- Midlands West day it was not yet possible to make a Last midlands the Ulster initiatives. Humberside statement on Yorkshire 149,5 He said a statement would be made to North West . parliament as soon as it was possible.

89,779 North Wales Meanwhile the orv Cabinet held pro tected afterd on seath lesterday.

Early the sessions 1n No. 10 Downing St (8.8) N Ireland with private upposition leader Harold Wilson. The statement also showed that the Wilson who has fully backed every item number of redundancies for February was 8,000-600 per day. This compared with of Tory policy in Ulster, is a crucial figure in any deal. 23.000 in Januarv and 26.300 a year ago The Provisional wing of the IRA yester- Commenting on the figures, Mr Dudev the under-Secretary day admitted responsibility for Smith, parliamentary The Donegal Street blast, Belfast, Monday on for Employment, said Britain haa turned the corner' on unemployment. Making the which six people were killed. "Proper has made numerous and adequate warnings have been given he on same speech all bombing operations that could before occasions in the past, Smith declared: 'No pretends that unemployment cause loss of life or injury to civilians, the can be cured magically. It is going to take "This statement said. practice will con- time to bring it down to an acceptable

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AROUND THE WORLD

MEANY QUITS

NIXON'S

PAY BOARD

THREE UNION representatives have walked off the United States Pay Board, causing a major crisis for

GEORGE MEANY

President Nixon's wages policy.

The Board, set up to hold statement voted in favour of El Ferrol last year ten

AFL.

their decision, the the dockers' wage cut. 5.5 wages wait form, imposed er lo a CIO council said: 'It Meany and his col- is the fines duty leagues are report our LO 30 per cent cut in now tnat we nave Toremost avocate. won hope wage for fairness, class-collaboration in the lucrcases

FOLLOWING

earlier this month by US movement. the or justice on the walk-out of shipyard Board Their strike This decision forced Auto workers' presi- workers at El Ferrol, luctantly undertaker Meany, head of Wood- the face of mounting George dent Spanish HaVe pressure from the cock will announce later ranks. the AFL-CIO. the largest detained 45 people or US union, to But it rob. call this week whelner nels charges of illicit asso 'council of quitting the Board. any emergency cover lor nis wage- ciation and dissemina- This would leave only freeze policy. against the Nixon War both tion of illegal The dockers on government. one union reoccalve pledged propaganda. With his

AFI.

sitting, Une Coast

CIO

colleagues W. sters Frank Fitzsim- strike action against tne Severa! the Board decision Abel of the Steelworkers monds. detainees believed Nixon with Five of the other ten the ale ana roya oman or ine mernbers on machinists, Meany has Board members renre orosocci Communi Spanish decided to leave the Pay and five sent business battle unions with the Party. 'ommunist All in election year. the 'public interest'. Dora immeatalely. omers illegal Workers' Com- will missions. headed

SOVIET

delegation been about the time it by Leonid meeting take to normalize rela- of about £300 Fines Brechners with China, last meeting on llvichen is holding talks imposed have on Simo soine Peking about the the border wis held it border dis- November and ended policy stalement Ines or up to disoo on indicated without agreement. The ali dre more con- 12 others. oute. altival Wel which ciliatory This nicial Row China Newe reported border The strikers returned the strengthen- rosulted clashes in October 1969 work Ing o China s position Monadi the following the Nixon after dispute over sub- after broke difficulties sackings whịch visit and the sequently confirmed that Soil De- with Mos- Iween the Soviet bureau- occurred separate talks which nive arisen over Clanes and Peking. the ratification the the police who shot two COW &00Ul Tiver navila" W workers dead and While tion had broken down agreements witn iniured 50 others and that Union has no illusions Germany. Allende strikes af WHILE HOLDING off a right-wing President his rule, challenge to Salvador Allende of Chile is striking blows at the left. And he is getting full support from the Communist Party.

Stalinists are using all The compromise nation lizar the for Secret Conversations clea their influence on the working his nationalization with the Christian hold up • Democra the develop- resolve the dead- class lo. prevent proposals which are, In ally last opposition to of the Chilean revolu- the President and of be Wechared by ment ock between welcomed by the Com- They called for tion. the houses will 4 lass fears which rally in the capital, Santiago, which led their suspension 10) rally. revolution in Chile as much a yesterday. until next luesday. he does. Allende isobviously working Allende banned women's protest march nich as parked at

NEW OFFENSIVE

Decembel sparked clashes leading to the imposition martial law

IN INDO-CHINA

He also sacked the Socialist Party mayor of Santiago follow- accusations that excessive used against a march President Nguyen Van 1OrCe was

GUERRILLAS

struck at of 300 cripples dictator and sang anti- on mne rresiaen- being town in the Mekong delta.

S tial palace calling for a relaxa- war songs. controls on Vietnam, yesterday, of import student of one down a police compound and mother orthopaedic said her son only wanted peace Showing his 'impartiality, the for military a housing estate the The end to President ordered inquiry and families accused have already spent nve occupation ..of N Vietnamese troops continued Into une peasalll months in prison awaiting trial.

the dig estates in the s Cam their pressure around The Popular Unity government bodian capital deploring the illegality while their biggest-yet com. maintains that attack earlier mando and rocket that pore are exa rareat no in the week. Guerrillas have been threat hitting targets heel- security in the area. areas in a co-ordinated offensive.

S Cambodia wing he rent. screams attack in that a 'state of anarchy prevails „the in the area and is calling for the command post of an 's viet-

RUSSIAN

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Orthodox 35 Viet- forcipe re•ression of Ine idols regiment armoured Church's submission to the said to the killed. groups be behind namese

TOODS

were Allende's Minister bureaucracy is denounced in takeovers. Rockets destroyed fuel tanks Vis nestese staring area NE del Canto Herman a letter attributed to novelist une interior. has flown to the spot to make a were of Saigon. Two cargo ships Alexander Solzhenitsyn. report. Bloom Penin. blown Christian in a narbour The allegations by Washington writer standpoint that collionist Moscow Patriarch, says that

TEN

STUDENTS

on trial the giant International Telephone acquiesced church has corporation Saigon the and Telegraph for wal Ine be slashed their wrists in court.res- allowing Russian children to Allende ported •LOd accused. deprived right to carry terday.^ smeared messages ottheir being elected in 19/0 nas giver on their fathers' faith. the President a boost. on

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Walls. THE STANDING ovation which Labour MPs gave -Tory Trade and Industry Secretary John Davies in the Budget debate on Wednesday is an insult to the in- telligence of the unemployed, the pensioners and the entire trade union movement.

'The Times' commented: 'Not for many years has a Budget been generally welcomed so fulsomely from the Opposition front bench.' The plain fact is that the so-called reflation so vigorously applauded by the _abourites will not work. It cannot work in a situatior where the capitalist world is plunging into recession and the dollar is no longer convertible into gold.

The Labour MPs seem to think they are back in the Macmillan era of 'stop-go'. In fact the period of in- flationary boom ended definitively with President Nixon's decision to close the 'gold window' on August 15 last year. Budget is a calculated, cynical Tory Barber's manoeuvre aimed at putting the giant monopolies in the best position for Common Market entry so that they can then come back. alongside the European cartels against the working class. The monopolies can now shift their capital freely into areas of cheap labour on the continent and in the sterling area. This gives them a powerful stick to beat their workers into accepting wage cuts and worse conditions.

The smaller businessman has been given just the bank- enough concessions to keep him out of ruptcy court so that the big boys can fleece him more thoroughly at a later date.

The meagre sums doled out to pensioners and low-paid workers are simply icing on the cake. By the time they get their rise the pensioners will have watched it eaten away by in- flation, which will also devour the workers tax cuts.

No wonder, as the 'City Press' put it: 'The City are highly delighted with Mr Barber's 1972 Budget. ...

The paper went on to detail some of the juicy perks which will fall into the City money-shark's laps. As a result of the cut in capital gains tax, it says: 'Many trusts which have been sitting on large capital gains they dared not realize will become extremely active in the market.' And again, this time as a result of the tax allowance 'Banks which have had money to on loan interest: lend and have been short of customers can expect queues of well-heeled clients ready to borrow money to the limit and take it back into the market place.

For this, Davies passes among the liberal parlia- mentary ignoramuses as 'the best socialist we have'.

The Labour leaders treacherously clown around in the Commons while the Tories ruthlessly sharpen They are their knives against the working class.

clearly revealed as the servile footmen of the Tories and big business. near the place where Feltrinelli's A CAMP tO Stampede electors found. stampede electors body was Italy is being fed with a The press for the right-wing into voting stream of such stories which bear and neo-fascist parties by claims hallmark of a provocation to that urban guerrilla the groups were further police repression planning to step up their activity.

justify against the left. police claim that there Milan The death of security police are being is a link between the reinforced by 3,000 reservists Giangiacomo left-wing publisher by Minister of Feltrinelli in a bomb blast at the called up the Interior Mariano Ruoor, as foot of an electricity pylon with gets under plans for guerrilla warfare found the election campaign climate of increasing in the flat of a man for whom way in violence. they were searching. Although the ministry said the They include plans for com- street-fight- police were being strengthened to mando-type training. make them more effective 'in the kidnapping of ing and the crime' the of the people'. struggle against 'enemies CRS in belonged Carlo security police, like the The flat to France, are very much concerned wanted, Fiorini who is among of strikes and other reasons, because he insured with repression demonstrations. which abandoned the van was faiths by the crimes and arbitrary 'We are losing the last traces methods of the bureaucracy. Con- and signs of a Christian people', ditions of life, instead of leading 'Surely that can- the letter runs. of religious to the disappearance not fail to be the chief concern have permitted them to of the Russian Patriarchate?'

beliefs, survive. The letter attacks the Patriarch like for taking up the For the believers, not cases ot priests who had been victimized the Solzhenitsyn, who see at the restrictions Church as part of the and protests Orthodox placed upon the clergy. the corruption Russian heritage, other and time-serving of its leaders Şolzhenitsyn and many for Soviet citizens have been thrown have long been a matter back traditional disgust. upon their

PLANS to hold a pop festival near the village of Tollesbury, Essex, have been called off by the organizers, Great Western Festivals Ltd. •The company is headed by Lord Harlech and actor Stanley Baker. Their effigies and those of organizers other two were lynched by villagers in a mass protest against the festival on Wednesday night. Mr Baker said it was 'most unfortunate' that a number of local people assumed they would go ahead 'whether or not 'the site was suitable, especially as i have stressed that Tollesbury was only one of a number of sites which we had under consideration?.

He said the final venue for the month. 'We are determined demonstrate that festivals can be the good events that everyone would like to see.' See Night centre pages: Assemblies Bill: It's not just a question of pop'. 4411

MICHAEL BETT

EEF SHUFFLE

The Engineering Employers' Federation is losing its director of industrial relations to private industry. Michael Bett is leaving the EEF to become personnel director of Sir Arnold Weinstock's GEC group. He takes up the appoint- ment on July l. Bett's replacement is G. A.

industrial relations direc- Peers, tor of Aberdare Holdings Lim- ited. From 1961 to 1967 Peers was with the Ford Motor Company at Halewood and from 1967 to 1970 with the British-Leyland Corpora- tion at Longbridge, Birmingham.

BY IAN YEATS

TODAY

66 men at Omes Faulkner's Ltd Colnbrook, Slough, Buckinghamshire, fac- tory, including AUEW con- venor Frank Tomany - walk out of the gate for the last time. Management claim a sharp fall in February profits aggravated by an AUEW ban overtime to counteract unemployment is to blame. The factory stewards' shop committee

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and the district committee say Slough that no action could have been taken to fight the redundancies jeopardizing every job without in the factory. But Mr Tomany (41) charged yesterday: 'I don't think Omes Faulkner's would have shut. They closed their Barnes fac- tory in 1971 and geared up this plant to concentrate all produc- tion here. 'The company has not made Profits have absolute loss. an just slipped back. Pratt Engineering Corporation, which owns the factory, grossed £500,000 pre-tax profits last year and paid out an 18 per cent divi- dend to shareholders. On March 14 Mr Tomany led 62 men from the maintenance department where he worked on sit-down strike against the a sackings. Next, day all the men were locked out. shop The 1l-man stewards' committee passed a resolution, proposed by Communist Party steward Derek Howes, alleging that opposition in the plant ruled out any possibility of backing from the remainder of the fac- tory's 439-strong work force.

But, said Tomany: 'Workers won't take any action they are given direct unless leadership. "The tactics of the Communist on the shop Party members stewards' committee backed by the district committee, which has about seven of its 15 mem- bers in the Party, was to give the minimum leadership and con- stantly stress the danger of the factory closing if we put up a fight.' AUEW - Slough district CP.. secretary George Currell denied that the Mr Tomany's claim decision not to fight the re- dundancies was influenced by the Party for political reasons.

The maintenance department was isolated when they went out strike, he claimed. "They on took the action on their own and the other departments did not respond. And , management yesterday refused to be drawn on Mr Tomany's other claim that he had been victimized for his principled record of defending workers' interests. FOUR HUNDRED aero- components workers in W London are fighting pro- posals to shut their factory and build offices on the site.

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186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG. Omes Faulkner's personnel di- rector Mr I. Lawther said yester- day: 'I can make no comment at all.' But Mr Tomany alleges: "The redundancy list was drawn up indiscriminately by management and no other trade unionist was on it except me.? He added: 'The real tragedy of this situation is that when men see their convenor put out of the gate with no fight, they think if it can happen to him it can happen to me and they lose faith in the union.' The 66 men leave the factory today amid a storm of accusa- tion from workers, trade union officials and Communist Party members. Next week Workers Press publishes an exclusive investiga- tion of the facts behind the Omes Faulkner's sackings. Palmer Aero Products, Pad- dington, claim that if planning permission is granted more jobs will be created but shop stewards have lodged a formal objection to the conversion plans with the City of Westminster. The stewards argue that the proposed development would be 'contrary to the public interest' They say: 'It would deplete still further the number of engineer- ing jobs available in the dis- workers reside many engineering where trict, A subsidiary of the £25m BTR Leyland rubber and plastics group, Palmer's make filters and precision hoses for aircraft fuel and hydraulic systems. The 420 workers at Padding- ton have the backing of the Westminster Tenants' Association in their fight to keep their jobs. Last year, BTR made a net profit of almost £3.5m. Its 10,000 employees gave it a return on its capital of 15.4 per cent.

Print lay-offs A HUNDRED Leeds print- workers face redundancy in coming weeks from the city firm of James Petty and Sons Ltd, which has just had its first bad financial year in two decades.

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YOUNG SOCIALISTS'

NATIONAL RIGHT-TO-WORK CAMPAIGN

PRESENTS

'The English Revolution' Written by Tom Kempinski Directed by Corin Regrave

AT THE

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The Cut, off Waterloo Rd, London SW1 SUNDAY MARCH 26 7p.m. Followed by a lecture: 'The English Revolution today' given by G. Healy, SLI national secretary kora Press, Friday March 24, 1972 PAGE 3

TUBE

Investments steel and engineering profits fell group's £3m in : 1971; mainly because capital goods ordered 'failed even to meet reduced output levels'.

Overall pre-tax profits finished up at £200,073,000 and the com- pany paid a 19-per-cent dividend for the year. In their annual report, the directors say trading conditions were no better abroad than at home. Key sectors slumped badly. Trading profits in machine-tools fell from £833,000 to £579,000 and steel tube profits were down from £9.3m to £5.5m. Aluminium dropped from f4.4m to returns £1.7m. Yarrow boilermakers reject offer A THOUSAND boilermakers at Yarrow Shipbuilders on the Clyde have rejected an improved pay offer of 7p an hour more.

The men-who went back to work last Monday with the 2,000 finishing trades men after latter had accepted a £3 a week rise — originally came out on strike more than six weeks ago at the start of the dispute.

They agreed to to return. work to allow negotiations to but were laid take place, off when the finishing men struck.

who have The boilermakers, already rejected a : zz ofter, are thought to be looking for a set- tlement similar to that obtained by the finishing trades.

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BUILDING

THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

Have you read the Draft Manifesto adopted by the All Trades Unions Alliance at the national conference at Birmingham last November? Have you expressed your views on the document in a letter to the Workers Press?

The Manifesto calls for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into This historic and vital task must be fully discussed and a revolutionary party. understood throughout the workers' students, the unemployed and people in the professions are invited to express their views on the Manifesto.

If you want a copy of the Draft Manifesto write to the Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani- festo discussion. In recent months the firm has Jim Lundy's brief association with the Young Socialist move- been taking more ousinicss. but simultaneously reducing. the ment has taken him through force. of the Which size turbulent experi- of some pretly for better profits, Maker ences. course. but the workers are con- He's marched 500 miles from sequently subjected to super- London, he's fought Glasgow to explo resenn. it out-politically-with resented being worked to of Labour MPs at the House of death,' says Jim. 'It became such a terrible job.

started Commons nes it was probably better having no take interest in seriously joo al all. pollics. i his the plant Jim ana some It's a far cry from the sweat of mates often and poverty of life in the vale of of politics. always the subject Leven. Jim and his three brothers Tories.' he said. No. hated the with their mother in a coun- live body has any time for them in Cil house on a large estate. jim our area. the only member of the was the practical, Was that could family living struggle of the Right-to be called 'a job'. eldest Work march which transformed brother, for instance, earns f9 a unformulated hatred into objectives. The week working in a pub. dennile decent Manifesto is 'You can't call that a cocumert walca read avidly. ''Nobody job,' says Jim. Not that he was argue with this much better off. He worked for a Lali said firmly. No wool-packing firm. For 90 hours document.' he £21. working-class bloke can managed to earn ansacree with the principles in But to get this above-basic salary I think the building of a revo- we k and our nig ses had work seven days late. unonary bartv is une most essen• tial thing facing the working class The employs for prchlep today. destroyed else can capitalism extracting Tnictori if anyone abour. wants to leave You can see what the capital- about 30 men queuing dic doing everywhere for the job.

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All Trades Unions Alliance at ber? Have you expressed your Socialist Labour League into ‹ must be fully discussed and rade unionists, their families, ssions are invited to express the Workers Press or contact r correspondence in the Mani- Above: Jim Lundy (right) on the march from Glasgow trying to undermine the working class. On the Common Market, they're leading everyone up a If you listened to blind alley. the capitalist press you'd I think the the Common Market was thing that had ever greatest happened to this country.

'But it's just the opposite. If they get away with the Common Market, the working class will be worse off than they've ever been.'

the marches One thing that the Manifesto and studying is the distortions in taught Jim the capitalist media. was looking 'The other day I at one paper and it had almost with a full page on a bishop an actress. It was just a load of rubbish. 'We marched from one end of the country to the other and they never wrote a line about US. 'Now I've started to see that most of what goes into the press is just bloody lies. It is deliber- ate too. It keeps workers in the about what's really going dark That's why I've come to on. respect the Workers Press. At know you're reading least you the truth.'

ARCHIE THOMSON.

Unemployed since last July, is from Renton, just outside Glas- gow. He was one of those on Right-to-Work march from the Glasgow to London. I think the first point that has to be made about the Manifesto is that we're not only fighting the Tory government, but the traitors in the trade union and labour movement as a whole. This is a very crucial point.

You can get rid of Heath quite easily if those traitors were put away. These men bring middle- ideas into the working class class. They tell us peaceful co- existence with capitalism is fine and that you'll socialism get sometime in the future. This came out clearly when miners' saw the leaders you retreating when they could have brought about the downfall of the Tory government. Another thing brought out by the Manifesto is that it aims to unite workers not only here, but in every single country in world in the fight for socialism.

Communist Party Yet fights for Britain and for Britain alone, and this cannot be right.

which Another thing correct is the point about the role of troops in Ulster.

They have to be withdrawn immedi- ately. The troops are causing tension among harassment and all workers. 'The Tories try to make out it is a religious battle. This is rubbish and people are begin- ning to realize it's a class battle, and that the troops are in there to meet the needs of the Tories the Protestant stronghold, and which is not the same as the Protestant working class.

As far as the Common Market is concerned, you can see the cost-of-living and the present Tory wage limit of 7 per cent when prices are going up 11t per cent. My mother used to buy a I lb of butter at weekends and cakes and things like that. That's 'The troops are causing harassment ar all been cut out of her shopping list. And this is before the Com- mon Market. The Tory government was elected on false promises. Heath said he would cut unemployment, the cost-of-living and give big tax reductions. A lot of women were baited by these promises.

Now Heath could promise the moon and he'd never get these votes again. I've always thought any Tory government was illegal as far as the working class was concerned. are not and will The Tories never be for the interests of the working class. In that sense they will always be an illegal govern- ment whenever they're elected.

I think the working class are beginning to see what will hap- pen as the Tories step up their attacks. They know if they can ban one demonstration like the one in Trafalgar Square, they'll be moving to smash the workers altogether and impose slave con- ditions. the Manifesto says, the As first thing we have to do is get rid of the traitors within the The real thing we movement. picked up from the miners' strike is that there had to be an alterna- tive leadership built. You just couldn't recall Wilson and Jenkins and expect them to carry out socialist policies. We don't want those men back. But if we can build the right leader- ship then the policy of returning a Labour government pledged to socialism is correct. Manifesto and should bo great It is really and truly a read and followed out by every trade unionist and worker who believes in the best interests of the work- ing class. • out the needs of the It sets it should working and class a tremendous therefore get response. has to take up the Our party fight the full road to get rid of the Tories and their capitalist system. asment and tension among all workers'

NICARAGUA:

KEEPING IT

IN THE

FAMILY

Washington has good reason The family holdings were con- to protect Anastasio Somoza, owned estates the fifth dynasty to rule the Republic central American of Nicaragua. They be can will Tacho held he continue the lure until shot at a family tradition of suppress-

DOWCI

recesuion commary lustice or tee ing all and of opposition allowing US imperialism exploit the country's wealth.

by a somoza body- sus priate plane and ser gent US In the century the roclaimed Walker. president 'one who Villiam pirate valle enjoyed the support of southern slave-owners. today ine The In 1912 the US took control latest DOWeL manoeuvre of the finances, trade and armed was announce- the car bry Anastasio forces of Nicaragua. would be country During their occupation, that American forces combined "democratized' through elections.

with outright election-rigging The Nicaraguan Conservative Adolfo Diaz was sauceter see a vack elected with of 4.000 on March 30, 1971, to guarantee the strong man's 'democratic votes to city, only 8. population opening'. the this pact, Con- secone arrest According to people were allowed to ent Diaz servative leader rernando Aguerc February 1926, when anarader be the Liberal Para from faced challenge leader of the

SCIOUS

attacked the the graduate West Point, ALl Deras Pacific coast city of Chinandenta exchange for 60 of the 100 seats they aerial bombardment which killed driven in the legislature. So the Conservatives and burnt down half hungrees ane Liberals elected in the each Anato ye no Sonora elections have to reform the for 13th time constitutión Somoza facilitating National alucie Guara, the President's re-election.

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exchanged Conservative from Will 1936. somoza In April 15 to September 1974 dent the the National the oI will once vhen Anastasio Somoza Guard robes The President. Republic. The again residenl quickly In the cemocratic eecuon Somozas' the Liberals in many places flourished. whisked off ballot-boxes in order made his elder son the Tacho director of the military academy une

COUL

alllly armed garrisons. and chief of staff of the The main obstacle to these forces. His •secono son occanut Pis so ter is opposition from the and President of the Chamber Somoza was Daughter verules. exploited Somozas her profile not Torcolen. fortune of some amassed a appeared on Nicaraguan nave do 43um.

NORTH SEA

GAS RAFFLE

joined in the rush to the Wednesday March 15 will go Porth See. down as one of the greatest Take a glance at the map and Tory giveaway days, of all you'll find some time-as far as the leaders of comers to oil and gas prospect- big business are concerned, ing. For example, in the northern that is. section the National Westminster For it was then that 66 com- Bank will soon drilling in learned they panies and groups blocks 3/1, 3/6 and 3/19.

for were successful as applicants the Not many miles 246 blocks the North Sea bankers one of Lord Thomson's where they could explore for oil to move companies is preparing

INTO

achion. Doviously The cost of a six-year explora- papers are proving a too hittle block covering 250 square meper licence? €12,500 dull and not at all profitable these days Monsanto Textiles have been involved, the amount was mere granted a share in a W of Shet- compared the DIll block. up in that Lanes ouners riches uney of the world will include More than Darl convanes the Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation sine bonds and in groups applied for the Trust and Bankers and production Lne national. expected to begin in about two In fact the prospects of large years time. The North Sea scramble was pronts Drought tne big maustrial companies running. Exploration Newspaper Tanlasue. include

ICI,

Courtaulds, groups, alstillers, banks, mining finance houses, in- Associated Newspapers and Dun pers, in- lop. nationalized trusts, And days of course, no operation austries course, world's biggest oil companies would be these _connoiete were all successful in obtaining without the appearance of the fast gro House. property a piece of the action oil Slate Canadian •ano American Walker Securities seems groups are strongly represented to Ôil Com- missing. and even the iranian Anastasio Somoza: Fifth member of the : taxes on their many holdings.

US companies pay less than 1 per cent tax a year on the millions of pounds they extract each year from the exploitation of gold and timber resources.

In the midst of this plunder, the average Nicaraguan peasant and worker has a life expectancy of less than 50 years and 50 per cent of their children die before reaching the age of five. Only It came as no surprise then to lat see mounting speculation in the shares of these companies before and after the announcement. The giant oil companies did very well out of the allocations. Shell have 34 blocks on their own and 11 have 28 new with Esso. BP blocks to search in, 19 of them on their own. As a whole the allocations covered the western approaches to the Bristol Channel; an area north of Orkney and W of Shet- land; ind a scattering of blocks parallel to the NE coast of Scot- Workora Prose, F er of the Somoza dynasty to (rule Nicaragua 5 per cent of boys and 0.5 per cent of girls receive secondary education. To fight resistance to this oppression, provided $11m worth of military aid between 1950 and 1960, as well as training in counter-insurgency for 4,000 Nicaraguans. maintains an The US now estimated 40 military advisers in Managua. land, mainly near the border with Norwegian waters. The giveaway completed the fourth round of licensing which has covered 282 blocks in all.

At last 224 exploration wells will be drilled in these areas over the next six months, involving ex- penditure of more than £200m.

revenues from the But the fields already discovered on the British continental shelf will be over €5,000m. The prospects for future discoveries are excellent.

And with the marked upward trend in oil prices, total revenues ro Pross, Friday March 24, 1972 PAGE 5 These forces have been occupied in fighting the liberation front led by Carlos Fonseca, many of whose followers have in been brutally tortured Nicaragua's jails. However, the opposition to Somoza is stubborn; the front has been fighting since 1958.

And with all his American aid, Somoza has not been able to destroy this opposition. Jack Callard, NIcl Charman (centre) and the Board of Direc- tors of ICI presenting their Annual Report to shareholders last week could reach £50,000m at the end of the period. deduction of ex- Even after ploration and develpment the profits will be expenses, immense for the companies with the concessions. As things stand at present, all the companies involved have been given a licence to print money.

PAGE 6 Workers Prose, Friday March 24, 1972 By means of the neutral- sounding_Night Assemblies Bill the Tory government is preparing heavy blow a against the right of assembly which will hit hundreds of musicians of and tens thousands of their fans. Alfred Put forward by (Jerry) Wiggin, Tory MP for Weston-super-Mare, the Bill will outlaw pop festivals and other gatherings of more than 3,000 people unless certain stringent conditions are observed. Festival organizers will have to give four months' notice and financial security to the local authority, which has an abso- lute veto over whether the gathering can go ahead. Wiggin's original proposals were even more far-reaching, but they have been modified after consultations with the Department of the Environ- which has now agreed ment to back the private members' Bill. Wiggin, a 35-year-old former army major, is the spearhead of a virulent Tory campaign the name of to blacken pop festivals and have them legally outlawed. Wiggin is no fringe back- woodsman. After less than a year in the Commons on leav- ing the army, he was appointed parliamentary private secre- of Minister tary to the Defence. Like his Minister, Lord Carrington, Wiggin went to Eton, where such proletarian activities as pop festivals are regarded as beyond the pale.

The campaign has received extensive from the coverage Tory 'Daily Telegraph', , which speaks for the outraged coun- try gentry, who fear such fes- tivals will shatter the expen- sive quiet of their select rural retreats. The Tory government dis- motive, of claims any such course. The Minister of Local Government and Development, saying: government wanted to help the "pop" fes- tival maintain its popularity by preventing it from becoming a nuisance to others or a health hazard.' taking in this bland After solicitiousness from the Tory official spokesman, readers are their advised to turn open Daily Telegraph' for March 7, where they can read the fol- lowing balanced editorial com- ment: What do • fes- these pop tivals mean? They mean that a horde of strangers, usually of alien and uncouth and some- times of terrifying appearance and habits, descends on some small village, outnumbering its inhabitants perhaps 500 times over. 'They mean a stentorian noise, to many vulgar and hate- ful, spreading night and day over à wide area. They may mean serious risks of fire, dis- ease and pollution. They mean damage to property and, Weeley last year be any guide (poor Weeley is threatened again!), hundreds of tons of rubbish. "They mean violence: plenty occurred at Weeley and more may reasonably, where a hund- red thousand or more, some armed, are gathered together in various states of chemical and auricular derangement.' Quite clearly, these people hate the youth and want them corralled into the cities where they belong, leaving the coun- tryside for the ex-majors and Tory landowners. The savage ignorance of the Tory newspaper's editorial barely required comment. It is of an attack, the as one paper's correspondents put it, on 'the right of all law-abiding, hard-working and respectable people to gain harmless plea- sure in hearing the music they enjoy, whether in their homes "live performance"' or in True enough, but this is only part of the story. The Bill will apply to all kinds of night gatherings, not just pop festivals. In the words of its promoter: "This is not a Bill to stop pop festivals, but to overnight control large assemblies.' Asked specifically about trade union gatherings, Wiggin said: 'It may be right to waive the requirements of the two main clauses of the Bill for •certain assemblies of this type, to public at some risk even health, though not at any risk.'

Or again, it may not-just Tory the government as chooses to determine. Incident- ally, neither Wiggin nor any of his co-thinkers have produced a scrap of evidence to back their extravagant claim to be protecting 'public health'.

will destroy the The Bill livelihood of many pop musi- cians, who rely on appearing at festivals to make a living their and pay for often extremely expensive gear.

have Their prospects savaged by already been another Tory measure of a similar type: the proposed law student union finances. on groups rely on the col- Many lege 'circuit' for much of their income and fear that if finance is taken out of the students' control they will be unable to mount concerts and dances.

The sinister character of the Night Assemblies Bill is under- lined by the latest Tory deci- sion to ban áll meetings on from Trafalgar Irish issues Square. the There is now unprecedented position where Tories can shoot down the workers in N Ireland and the British workers are denied the demon- traditional right to strate against them in the cen- tre of London. Major Wiggin's Bill is part of the same relentless trend towards a dictatorship of the Tory élite over the working class. August 1970: five day pop fes- tival on the Isle of Wight. The Tory Night Assemblles Bill will outlaw such gatherings.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday March 24,

BY JACK GALE

William Dudley Haywood was one of the toughest fighters the American labour movement ever produced. He certainly frightened the life out of the more 'respectable' socialists, one of whom de- scribed him as a bundle of primitive instincts... useless on committee (!]" That was probably true. 'Big Bill' Haywood was a leader of the Western Federation of Miners and they didn't go in for much committee work. In 1901, for example, the WFM organized a strike in the gold and silver mines at Telluride, Colorado, for a uniform work- day with a minimum wage. After a month the owners of mines the Smuggler - Union opened a mine with scabs who were sworn in as deputies and armed. So the local union official wrote out on official promptly . notepaper an order for union 250 rifles and 50,000 rounds of ammunition and sent it off to Denver. The firm firm in obliged, and a few days later, as the scabs were returning from nightshift, the strikers attacked them from ambush. After several hours, the scabs raised a white flag. The union secured possession of the mine and, as Haywood cryptically in notes somewhat his autobiography, the scabs 'escorted over the moun- were tains? In 1903, the miners struck in district of the Cripple Creek Colorado for the eight-hour day.

The state governor pronounced 'in a state Cripple Creek to be rebellion' and insurrection and declared martial law.

The militia, in fact, took over completely-miners were dragged from their homes and locked up in bull-pens for weeks on end.

of the strike In the course Mine-Owners' Association the hired thugs to blow up trains and stations and blamed it on the miners. mine-owners three Two were murdered and this was also blamed on the miners, possibly with more justification. ultimately This strike was broken with the assistance of Federation of the American Labour miners' unions. Three years later Haywood together with two other miners' leaders, Moyer and Pettibone- was arrested and charged with planning 26 murders, including that of an ex-governor of Idaho.

case rested The prosecutions entirely on the evidence of one agent provocateur, Harry Orchard.

Haywood and the others were held in jail for 18 months await- ing trial, and during that time the President, 1. R. Roosevelt, openly pronounced them guilty.

set for May 9, The trial was 1907 and a verdict of guilty was universally expected. But labour organizations raised $250,000 for the defence. And one week be- fore the trial 100,000 workers marched down Fifth Avenue in New York and another 8,000 nearby Lexington down the Avenue. The three accused were found not guilty. was from the Western It Federation of Miners that the famous Industrial Workers of the World (the 'Wobblies') originated.

On January 2, 1905, a secret conference was held in Chicago.

Haywood was chairman and he declared: 'The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working class in pos- session of the economic power, the means of life, in control of the machinery of production and distribution without regard to capitalist masters." March 24, 1972 The IWW admitted workers 'irrespective of race, creed, colour or sex'. Above all it did not have big membership fees — a device used by the AFL to keep out the unskilled. It declared it was out to 'smash all labour from and fakers Gompers Mitchell down'. Mitchell was the AFL miners' union leader. From 1906 to 1916, with Hay- an organizer, the IWW wood as engaged in some of the bitterest open fights between capital and labour ever fought in the US.

opposed not It was frequently only by the capitalists and the state forces, but also by the which more than

AFL,

once 'Wobbly" supplied scabs during strikes. In 1906 the IWW organized workers in every job at Goldfield, minimum Nevada, and won a wage of $4.50 a day. In 1907, six-week fight of 3,000 after a workers in Colorado saw-mill they won the nine-hour day and wage increases up to $2.50 a day.

In 1909 they led 8,000 Pressed at McKees Steel Car workers Rocks, Pennsylvania. After 11 weeks and a pitched battle in which the constabulary was put to flight, complete victory was won. Fresno, California, the In Wobblies succeeded in organiz- ing the orchard workers, despite having over 100 workers arrested.

The biggest strike the Wobblies ever organized was the Lawrence in Massachusetts, strike from January to March, 1912. They led 35,000 mill workers in bitter battles with the police and won wage increases of from 5 to 25 per cent. the During World War 1, Wobblies mounted mass anti-war demonstrations, particularly after the entry of the USA in 1917.

As a result they faced severe which mounted in oppression intensity in the post-war years when the American ruling class lived in dread of revolution. They- with characteristic faced this often out-facing those courage, who jailed them. One of them, John T. ('Red') addressed a five-hour Doran, speech to the jury which jailed He concluded him for six years.. by saying 'It is customary with Speakers to

IWW

take up collection; but under the circum- I think we will dispense stances, with it. This revolutionary spirit won the admiration Lenin who sought the affiliation of the IWW to the Communist International as 'a profoundly The leaders of the Communist International held the anarchist organizations that emerged from World War 1 in great respect and sought patiently to win them to Marxism. (See, for example, Trotsky's pamphlet •Marxism the Trade Unions' and and Lenin's reports the 2nd to Congress of the CI.) The IWW had gone through before major splits the two formation of the Communist International. • At its formation in 1905 it was influenced by the revolu- tionary developments in Russia.

Indeed, at its foundation con- ference, Haywood declared that would grow until it the IWW included a great majority of the American working people and 'those working people will that rise in revolt against the capital- ist system as the working class in Russia are doing today'" This conception of the role of the IWW led to a major split at its second convention in 1906, awaiting Haywood while was trial. Charles O. Sherman, the first general president the organization, and his supporters were kicked out on the grounds that they were 'not in accord Painting of striking c Haywood facing the with the revolutionar The second was the break the henni Canc Party the 4th 1908

SLP

Jecausuc restncred hallot box pollt break with unionists 'politicals led political action Lenin tried Communist ned with ultra-leftisı Workers toe in Britain. But political groups, som vor erc organ172t1( mpatient of work trade unions Shop Ste mittees in Britain. deciared Lenin to 'the political prolețarians who volutionary and masses them. П10 'The 2nd Congress International nunist organization striking coal miners, metal m acing the bayonet to the righ volutionary programm of the IWW with Daniel De he 4h Conise Labour Convention in had an ultra- concesuoi but the reformist trade and the narrow neces case the abandonment of altogether orrec this the 2nd Congre International he there deal ltra-leftism of groups Communist Germany and addition these oups, some of the best rganizations were al f work in reactional with • reformist , for example the IWW in America Shop Stewards' Com- clared this to be due ltical inexperience quite re- and connected with i friendly and patient while making ions on principle congress of the Thir com. 3, metal miners, steel workers and railroad wo o the right, and, Daniel De Leon, left, with Marx in the Anglo-Saxon countries, even if the Industrial Workers' of the World and the Shop Stewards' Committees do not immediately affiliate to the Third International, to pursue a very friendly policy towards these organizations, to establish closer with them and the contacts that sympathize with masses them, and . to explain to them in a friendly spirit-on the basis toise enderent me le tions, particularly Russian Revolutions-the three erroneousness of their views as set forth above, and not to desist from further efforts to amalga- mate with these organizations to form a single Communist Party."

America, however, only a In few of the IWWs came over to communism. Haywood was one.

of the The witch-hunt raging post-war years in the US, how- ever, forced Haywood to emigrate Russia in 1921, where he to lived until his death. The attempt of the Communist International after 1919 to win over these militant workers was part of the urgent attempts of Lenin and Trotsky to build up mass organizations of the work- ing developed class led by revolutionaries throughout the world, but especially in the industrial advanced countries. These efforts failed, despite the rapid growth of the Communist Parties in some countries, such as Germany, France and Italy. The defeats of the Italian working class and of the Ger- ilroad workers. In the foreground, Bill with Marx's writings. man workers between 1919 and 1923 were due to the betrayals of social democracy and the in- experience of the revolutionary leadership those countries. After that, of course, came the development of Stalinism from a conservative instrument of the bureaucracy into a conscious counter-revolutionary • force. This involved abandoning the struggle waged by Lenin and Trotsky to build a trained cadre roots in the masses in with like Britain and countries America. Today events like the recent miners' strike in this country and the dockers' struggles in the US represent a powerful upsurge of the working class once more.

The key to this situation lies in the theoretical and practical pre- paredness of the revolutionary vanguard. History is again offer- the revolutionaries the opportunities that it did in the years after World War I. 1 Ramsay MacDonald 'Syndi- calism' " 'Bill Haywood's Book'. 3 Louis Adamic 'Dynamite. The Story of Class Violence in America', p. 157. * James P. Cannon 'The IWW: the Great Anticipation', , p. 29. 5 Proceedings of the First Con- vention of the IWW', p. 580.

6 Cannon op. cit., p. 12.

- Lenin 'Theses on the Funda- mental Tasks of the 2nd Con- gress of the CI

After the revolution the Soviet regime employed a number of economists who had been associated with the Mensheviks of the Socialist- Revolutionaries or Narod- niks). A few of them had spent short periods in the Bolshevik party before the revolution. Simply because there were no supporters of the Bolsheviks able technical deal with the to problems involved, they actually played an important role not only in amassing and processing statistical and other data, but in contributing to the also technique of economic planning which was then in its infancy.

Although Soviet official sources in the 1920s accorded these men their due, they later passed into died in Stalin's obscurity or jails. A handful did re-emerge after 1956, by which time they were old men. Lenin had encouraged some of leave the Mensheviks to Soviet Union in the 1920s. Those who remained did so for motives which no doubt varied and can- not be known for sure. Did they serve the Soviet regime loyally?

Did they believe that by staying on they could influence policy in the direction they desired? Were they plotting against the regime in league with their co-thinkers abroad? Naom Jasny, himself a Menshe- Soviet Union in Vik, left 1933 and subsequently made a as a bitter opponent reputation not only of Stalinism but of the Soviet and the Revolution new regime as such. His own writings, while often revealing uncomfort- able truths which the Stalinists preferred to have concealed— such as the crisis in agriculture which followed forced collectiv- ization, are too full of prejudice to be trustworthy. In this, his last book, he writes a kind of collective memoir of Narodnik those Menshevik and economists in the Soviet govern- service whom he knew ment's through their personally or writings and information supplied "by others. To that extent it is a useful and unique contribution to Soviet history. The Menshevik and other bourgeois economists played a leading role in the financial and economic branches of the admin- istration during the period of the New Economic Policy when some features of capitalism were restored. They more or less made during their peace with Stalin this period, no doubt hoping that Union would move the Soviet permanently onto more 'moderate' course with a mixed economy or even the restoration of capitalism.

'SOVIET ECONOMISTS OF THE

TWENTIES'. Names to be remem- Naom Jasny. Cam- bered. By bridge, 1972. Price £3.80.

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In their preparation for plan- ning, either on annual or a an five-yearly basis, men like Gro- man, Ginzburg and Bazarov, with whom Jasny deals in most detail, made an important contribution.

They were close at this time to Bukharin and the right', upon whose support Stalin depended.

In 1931, after Stalin made his panic turn to forced collectiv- ization and industrialization, on the basis of far-fetched targets, the Menshevik and Narodnik economists became an embarrass- ment. Most of the former were disgraced, arrested and put on a case which made an trial in international impact. was based largely The trial upon confessions by the witnesses or the accused. The indictment was that the defendants had in sabotage of the engaged economy and had conspired with Mensheviks abroad. A serious error was made in the claim that a prominent Menshevik leader in exile, R. A. Abramovitch, had visited Moscow in the summer of 1928. He was able to establish in a German court that this was a lie. However, even to Trotsky, who in exile, the charges was then seemed to be plausible, though in Above: Bukharin, theoretician of the Bolshevik Party, and editor of 'Pravda'. the light of the later trials of the Bolshevik leaders in 1936, changed this opinion. The Men- let sheviks were off fairly lightly-the heaviest sentences were for ten years in prison-and purpose of the for the trial, Stalin, was to throw blame for economic hardships on to these former high officials of the Soviet state who had supported his policy during the closing stages of NEP. It is worth remembering that Narodnik Menshevik and economists did play an important role in determining economic policy in the 1920s and that Stalin only threw them overboard when they had served their pur- pose. After 1928 they certainly opposed Stalin's turn, just as they his firmest had previously been allies against the industrialization policy of the Left Opposition. of course, shares their hostility to Trotskyism. One defendant in 1931 was accused of being called upon by Dan, a prominent Menshevik leader in exile-who later, inci- dentally, came to accept the necessity for Stalinism after rejected Bolshevism-to having support the Trotskyist opposition.

Like most of the evidence, this was no doubt invented. Of the economists mentioned, the best known outside Russia is the theorist of the long wave, N.

D. Kondratiev, a supporter of the Narodniks who was arrested in 1930, appeared as a key witness in the Menshevik trial the follow- ing year and then disappeared from view. His view of economic development as taking place in cycles of expansion and of controversy, in which Trotsky joined. Jasny also refers to Professor Kondratiev's Tugan-Baranowsky, teacher, author of perhaps the first scientific study of the trade is still cycle in Britain which translator. Tugan- awaiting • who had been Baranowsky, a ; joined Petlura's "legal Marxist' white government in the Ukraine.

Stalin threw over the Men- shevik economists not because they were traitors, but because they saw crucial flaws in the : industrialization forced draught 1929. They had policy after embarrassment; he become an framed them and put them in jail because, after the defeat of the Left Opposition, there was no place for discussion and debate about economic policy interesting is an Jasny's book unique of intellectual curiosity, its kind, to which all students of Soviet economic policy in the 1920s will have to refer.

Workers Press, Friday March '24,

1972 PAGE 1

least £10,000. On that valua- the Coun Sermon's com- tion, mission will be £212.50. Now follows excerpt How did the mayor-elect an from Edward Heath's 'compas- come to be appointed agent for society'. Mrs Rachel a transaction involving his own sionate Rees (88) became seriously ill council? after falling According to the council and unconscious McCall: We welfare home in clerk Robin over cal Dowlais, S Wales. Her doctor have a roster of estate agents recommended that she be in the town, and it is sheer immediately admitted to St luck that he was picked to handle this particular sale.'

Tydfil's Hospital for emergency It is the first time I have treatment. But Mrs Rees lay acted for Winchester corpora- uncon- scious at the home for three It is obvious tion. why they days. Finally, after some fuss, picked memy offices are so close to the site.' lady admitted. the old was Four hours later she died.

The Merthyr and Aberdare Hospital Management Com- there weren't mittee says News that Metal Traders, beds to admit her the enough immediately. Dr Geoffrey Tay- ore-dealing firm, has gone bust stiff lor, the local consultant geri- has been treated with atrician, said he had warned upper-lip in the capitalist press.

weeks ago of the 'great short- writers, with of 'The age of beds for geriatric cases say it in the S Wales valleys'..

Guardian'. to a f4m crash. be the It cannot understood mineral the prices. past year the of metals, wolf- fixed and on As the deteriorated unable the to the com- of Sir Kelth: Health Minister.

unsecured borrowing We await to hear what the 40 Sir former building tycoon, Keith Joseph, now Health Min- ister, intends doing about this A spokesman for bankers and the other several hund- Baring said borrow- Brothers red thousand. old folk who ings were spread over a 'sub- are cast onto the scrap heap stantial' number of institutions.

when capitalism has wrung out 'No one bank is up for a large its last ounce of sweat and amount,' he said. blood. The City of London reacted stoically to the collapse. London Metal Exchange official said Metal Traders' total turn- over on the exchange was 'negligible' when compared In 1958 Winchester city coun- of cil paid Mrs Lucy Eames (74) with the total amount business. £78 for her three-bed- just Nevertheless, no one could detached house. Six roomed why Metal Traders neighbours were forced to sell explain under a weren't baled out by the similar properities merchant banking fraternity.

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Contempt for Budget on the dole PAGE 10, Workers Press, Friday March 24, 1972 been glee in THERE MIGHT have banking circles following Tuesday's Tory Budget announcement. But any sign of rejoicing was markedly absent yesterday for people on Britain's dole queues. They signed on as usual in the atmosphere created by the latest mil- lion-plus unemployment figures.

For 40-year-old redundant worker ames Shears no Budget at any time has ever made much ditterence to his lot: 'It never does any good to a working man.

How can it? It's only a small amount of pushed from one spot being to money another,' he said. 'One thing they will not do, of course, is to The Tories are not trying to do control prices. anything for the poor man.

All they want is to make their own position safer?

Twenty-year-old Joseph Steven from Brixton, 'The Budget is a gimmick.

They London, said: want people to think they are doing this and that so they get the votes at the next election.

'But one thing they can't kid anyone with is It's and the unemployment. going to go up slightest difference. Budget doesn't make the 'They've tried to make a big thing out of the purchase tax But what can you reduction. buy with f5 a week anyway?'

COUNCIl. house Glas- will be raised in gOW not of parliament enacting davance the now "fair rents' legislation.

The convenor of the Labour corporation's housing committee has tabled a motion certamn 10) be passed recommending takes before place rent review Housing the of the passing (Financial Provisions) Scotland Bill.

JOSEPH STEVEN

Coun David Donnelly said the if Bill law, was CyCl local authority were to operate it doing the be they would government's dirty work. the The Bill, similar to Housing Finance Bill in England, plans for an increase in municipal 1972-1973 of £24 rents during which can either be achieved by i rise of 48p from June or an 75p week from increase of October.

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

in danger THE BURNHAM Com- PROMINENT local Conservatives mittee on teachers' pay have written to the Prime Mini- Patricia backing Dame is attacked today for its ster Hornsby-Smith for the new seat treatment of for which 'cavalier of Bexley-Sidcup, Heath's name has been suggested.

the 13.7 per cent claim Bexley i and Heath represents Dame Patricia, Chislehurst, both for £250 a year flat-rate being affected by re- seats distribution. increase. 'The Friends of Pat' say that been Teachers have workers many local party singled out for worse treat- that Dame Patricia has 'a sider just claim and moral right to the ment than any other group new seat. Seventy per cent of the of employees in the public electorate in the new constitu- sector, says Edward Britton.

ency were her constituents.

the general secretary National Union of Teachers 'They have been offered less than the government's own second they salaries norm: and have not been allowed the basic freedom to negotiate their own like other employees. salaries Britton says. has sent an open letter to He all MPs, chief education officers and chairmen of education com- mittees in England and Wales chemical workers

ABOUT 300

President Morris have threatened to go on strike today unless the management of Yorks, Selbv.

LEADING

Communist their factory in Party opens meaningful pay talks.

member Max Morris will be next work for | & E year's president of the National The men Limited. Union of Teachers. In the Sturge In a statement Morris said union's recent elections yesterday, management negotiations would not be started was elected as senior vice- president.. He is headmaster. of duress'. The 'under company School, Willesden High called the men to lift the London comprehensive: strike threat. London as bad as Scotland for jobs

MARYLENE

f2.50 a week for the fat

BARR

me £1.80 a week on the for two months before I Then travelled from shared. there (20) Social Securitv. JenT •comane ano woen "Today, Scotland home and when we I first came here I was to London was meals at work. went to the Labour Ex looking for job for two years ago looking change, told live they another four months. for just couldn't Today she WOrK I'm the moment Inal AT looking work on it. 1 had tor Tuesday to find a job. of going back Into London because again. But they're supposed to home. was cheaper to travel.? Marylene from. Doom help ind us work. work nere, we aennitely from Marylene the las, thinks will he e tos br mats miles 'We've Tory been

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was trained by Glasgow, 'The for al c rents bureaux today and they the GPO as a telephon- the people to blame for have nothing at all round here are terrible high unemployment. London There's just no future snit offer.' The Tories should be for anyone all and workea at the Ministry Marylene's friend, of Defence in _ Whitehall thrown right then they wonder how out. for the magnificent wage Marlyn Buchan from definitelv blame all this poverty Tnere c Dundee, who is 19, of £l2 a week. them. When I left Britain. left them because Scotland I had tried to also an unemployed tele. 'They will hardly give I just. couldn't live phonist. She came they paidi the WOlk ever were. • 40 L London about year the Social Security. They money Now its lust tne same Marylene said. down here as it was up ago. want to put down mond as lie time and i- living in Rich- there. because you can't find a They met each other 'When in the Labour Exchange job. vOU are I'd like £3 a week in employed they act as when they were both to see this Cost _ me fares fault. In looking for work before. government cleared out get was your and back. I was paying Scotland they only gave Was unemployed duaca Teachers 'singled oul

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Saturday, March for worst treatment' 5. p.m. "The Plough'. Right-to-Work marches.

SHEFFIELD:

Sunday, March 26, 7.30 YS p.m. *premises, Hos. corrodello near gessod "Thè pital. engineers' pay threatened arbitration claim'. even be- fore making an offer, in an WILLESDEN: Monday March to dictate the form as alleiipl and Labour well as the size or our call. Hall, Rd., NW1. 'Right- Britton says after a series of Campaign which to-Work and the meetings, never fight to force the Tories out.

approached senious • nerollalioll, the issue has been referred W LONDON: Tuesday, March move with which 28, Prince Albert, the unions had no choice.

off York whartedae Under present circumstance Kings Cross, N.I. 'Report have no confidence in We back from Wembley Pool'. arbitration which tribunal two-to-one against the Sach 29, 8 p. Wednesday werened teachers,' he says in appealing for March Southall p.m. negotiations and justice Centre Bridge community for all teachers Road. 'Report back from Wembley Pool'. Farm teachers' March

LONDON:

Thursday, 30, 8 p.m. Bricklayers pay raised A rmns l ottensam 17 (off White Hart Lane). ABOUT 800 teachers employed 'Report back meeting from accultural institutes have Wemblev and the Scarborough been awarded a 7.7 per cent pay

EDWARD BRITTON

conference'. rise by Farm Institute Panel • Committee.

EAST:

Thursday, March the Burnham of the attacking the atutude The with 30, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers — I Jime Burnham Committee. recent settlements to university Club, New Cross Station. nr. 'In the past, injustices of this and technical teachers —will cost back Wembley from to bitterness and kind have led £135,000. Agricu tural Pool'. the teaching teachers are paid from £1,375 to oTO- fession, and I do not recall £2,355 a year. when had occasion A NEAR £500.000 improvement 12 months ended which more cause for resentell.

September, while the pre-tax lifted profits of Associated We asked for a hat-rate in- of peak reached a new risneries, the trawing ana tood: crease this occasion in order on concern, to record levels last compared

WILD

to help those hardest most £1,719,784 in 1970. y call. ot living. which has Until his or une Cost appointment as gone up 8! per cent in the past announcement earlier this under John Minister for l rade We drew to the month of a two-point increase in year. navies. Tn e per cent in food dividend 15 cent was of 13 Associated Fisheries was Michael ¡crease followed up yesterday with news prices over Noble Under parliamentary year Tne phenomenal increase in housing or big jumps in sales and earn- regulation Noble gave up his scal says the letter. ines on the hoaro on Turnover was up by over fllm.

but he still retains an 'The management. instead of answering our reasoned to more than tslm. during -the •• interest in ine company.• case

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

Work and other forms of produc- WITH THE passing of tivity deals. the Industrial Relations 'The Prices and Incomes Board, Act, the time is now ripe in its 1968 report on payment- amazed 'managerial initia- by-results systems, was for to find management so indifferent tives' on pay and pro- growth to unit labour costs, earnings, differentials and so on.

cedures, says a CBI chief.

But he light in perceives This recognition of the the welter of ignorance. new times we are living in 'All this is now changing; job- evaluation is spreading, measure- comes today from Richard of effort has improved; ment O'Brien, who, as chairman of attention; manning is having the Confederation of British Measured-Day Work is becoming popular [with whom?] Industry's employment policy as more fail to achieve committee, speaks as an expected results in many cases; eminent representative of big anomalies are being brought to business. managements think in light as also a direc- terms of job evaluated wages and O'Brien, who is tor of the powerful Delta Metal salary structures,' his article con- tinues. company, elaborates a strategy to be used by big business manage- O'Brien urges management to of driving down and consider the many advantages ment in pay the this strategy and why they should conditions and shackling with the Industrial Rela- learn the lessons quickly: unions 'We are now able to produce tions Act. In fact the whole article has more per head than we were a to be taken as a severe warning few years ago, and no doubt we shall comparable improve- by trade unionists make employers' intentions as they pre- ments in the immediate future.

He then openly admits that the pare for the Common Market.

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enormous increase in the number Writing the quarterly 1n of unemployed workers has been Review, O'Brien opens with amateurism' because of manage- blast at 'continuing in large part ment's 'new initiatives'.

dealing with workers. in "The It continues surprising present unemployment figures must only in part reflect how directors lack of volume from a this function (personnel stagnant gIve they also be management) its due importance economy; must the line, he says. reflection of the improvement in down and the O'Brien then asks what managerial performance implications of this for employment policy must embrace.

direct first, he replies •Pay must come output per man. He O'Brien emphatically. then 'goes In other words, con- on to elaborate the case for speeding firms that the intensified produc- tion drive has cost thousands of the replacement piece- up work payments by Measured-Day workers their jobs while those I would like information about and send to NATIONAL Fill in the form below

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Amount enclosed £ working are producing more per man. The other part of his article is mainly devoted to a call for man- agement to get down and impose procedure strait-jacket agree- ments all round which can tie down the unions within the framework of the Industrial Relations Act. 'Procedures do not eliminate conflict; they make it easier to contain and therefore less likely to result in industrial action,' he before revealing his true says intentions in the following para- graph: "They offer (procedures), through the process of discuss- ing drafts word by word and sentence by sentence, the oppor- tunity to involve shop stewards officials in meaningful discussions with management on their respec- tive rights and obligations.'

In the remainder of his thoroughly thought-out article, the CBI man says management also has to get stuck into other aspects of industrial relations if they're going to make anything of their business prospects.

They have to launch a train- ing programme, not just for themselves, but for workers on the shop floor as well. If new industrial relations procedures are required, super- visors and shop stewards will need in-company training (often assistance),' with outside writes. And another thing that has to be straightened out is the contract of employment. O'Brien calls for harmonization and con- contracts by indi- solidation of vidual companies. 'Others may be able to advise us; they cannot do the job for us. With the passing of the Act [on Industrial Relations] and the issue of the Code [which accom- panies the Act], the time is ripe for managerial initiatives in the employment policy field,' he con- cludes. big preparations of The business to step up their attacks on the working class in prepara- tion for Common Market entry which are outlined by O'Brien are confirmed in a different way by another article in the CBI Review. It is by the managing director of a plastics firm which set up, in Belgium last year. He writes enthusiastically over seven pages the about opportunities British businessmen to make more profits in Europe.

G&MWU

THE 850,000-strong General and Municipal Workers' Union—-the third largest in Britain-voted unanimously at a special con- in London yesterday to deregister under the Industrial Relations Act. The G&MWU executive at one time and favoured registration yesterday's decision to back TUC policy was made alongside an escape' clause under which the 'watch the position union will carefully'. The matter would be recon- sidered if deregistration prevented the union giving members satis- factory service. Cadbury profits jump 22 p.c. A 22 PER CENT jump in profits was reported yesterday by Cad- bury Schweppes, the drinks group and foods and biscuits manufacturers. Profits for 1971 surged ahead nearly f4m from £17,220,000 to a new peak of Sales jumped just £21,140,000. over £18m to a record £296m.

Cadbury chairman Lord Watkinson was a former Tory Defence Minister and a member of the Macmillan Cabinet. He is of the a vigorous proponent Industrial Relations Act and a pro-Marketeer. Cadbury gives generously to the Tory Party coffers. Workers Press, Friday March 24, 1972 PAGE 11 BBС-1 9.38-11.55 Schools. 12.55-1.25 Canu'r bobol. 1.30 Mr Benn. 1.45 1.53 News and weather. 2.05-2.25 Schools. 4.15 Play school. 4.4l Jackanory. 4.55 Crackerjack 72. 5.35 George Best. 5.44 Crystal tipps. 5.50 News and weather.

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STOCKPORT

SIT-IN No. 2 PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday March 24 IN AN historic first judgeme National Industrial Relations ( the Transport and General Wor blacking action by Liverpool d port company. The order lasts until Mon- day morning when the case will be heard in full. The T&GWU, an unregistered union, did not appear in court.

Previous NIRC orders have individuals named and shop stewards. NIRC president Sir John Donaldson said the company, Heaton's Transport (St Heiens) Ltd, had made out a prima facie case of unfair action by the T&GWU under Section 96(1) of the Industrial Relations Act.

AFTER a week on strike for every point of the official en- gineers' wage claim, 350 workers at the Birmingham Battery and Metal Company are still awaiting official endorsement. The Birmingham W district committee under the chairman- ship of Communist Party mem- ber Dick Etheridge is not due to meet for another week, and pickets at the gates in Selly Oak in Birmingham vesterday were Newport tube works reprieved BRITISH Steel Corporation is to postpone closure of its Newport tube works, timed for the end of the year with the loss of 1,000 jobs. News of the reprieve came yesterday from Newport's MP Roy Hughes (labour) after he and the Shadow Welsh Secretary.

George Thomas, had met Lord Melchett, the BSC chairman, and chiefs other corporation London. Hughes said: "This will give us a breathing space. We must press now for capital investment at the plant to ensure the future.'

Yesterday's meeting was the climax of a campaign to save the works. News of oil drilling off the Welsh coast was regarded as a crucial factor in the late stages of the campaign.

LATE NEWS

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railway unions' pay claim are to be on Tuesday, resumed it was announced yesterday afternoon.

STUDENTS at Lancaster univer- yesterday occupied the sity administration office and compu- ter centre. This followed the an- nouncement that the university authorities are to charge English lecturer, Dr David Craig, with •disruptive activities mass meeting of 1,000 students voted hearing that to occupy after Craig, a Communist Party mem- ber, faced dismissal. For the past week about 1,200 students have been on strike over the termination of contracts of of the other members two English department. March 24, 1972 Idgement against a union, the ations Court yesterday ordered ral Workers' Union to suspend erpool dockers against a trans- This section deals with induce- ment of or threat to induce a breach of contract. The sought the company interim order following action by dockers Gladstone dock, at Liverpool, on Monday and Tues- day of this week. They turned back container lorries from Heaton's, demand- ing that all packing and unpack- ing of containers had be to carried out by registered dock workers. lanking shop steward's 10 al quarterly meeting last night to much-needed backing provide for the fight. 'This firm will follow any in- structions from the Federation' said AUEW convenor Leonard Tisdell. ( 'We fighting the whole Federation and we appre- ciate this.' Figures of £l6.15 basic for a mill-operative ind £19.79 take- home pay for skilled man, show that the firm is paying little over the nationally agreed minimum rate. 'Not fighting the claim nation- ally makes it a lot harder for firms," the smaller said crane 'We are driver Frank Voice. fighting all the emplovers and the government.' A meeting of the mass strikers is planned for next Mon- day. Mr Tisdell said he thought the district committee would be able to organize a sub-commit- tee meeting before then to en- dorse their strike. Engineers ultimatum ENGINEERS in Leeds have given firms there until March 31 to come forward with settlements of their claim. Some of the 20,000 production workers involved have already been offered the unacceptable national figure of £1.50 on basic The AUEW district com- rates. mittee claims offers of £4 and better holidays from others.

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NW Scotland, N Ireland, Wales and NW England will be rather cloudy with some local drizzle early and late. E England and E Scotland will be mainly dry with some bright intervals. S Wales and remaining districts dry with of England will be sunny spells after the clearance of morning mist and fog early patches. Temperatures will be near or rather above normal. Outlook for Saturday and Sunday: Dry with sunny periods and rather warm in most places ' moth occasional rain - er drizzle in NW Scotland and near normal temperatures.

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THE ENGINEERING pay bat at a second plant occupied tl Davies and Metcalfe were told drop their ban on piecework broke down on Wednesday. • had taken a : But the men unanimous decision earlier to meet a challenge and the occupation began at 4.25 p.m.

yesterday afternoon. Convenor Eric Wolridge made minutes after the this statement suspension notice was served: 'The action is certainly long overdue. The main point to us we have an honourable is that claim. We have never been as unified as we are now. This is despite the fact that many of us have had a rough time as far as short-time working is concerned.

But this has not dampened our will to fight.' he events leading up to the occupation began when the man- representative agement approached individual workers asking them if they were pre- pared to work normally. He met with a total refusal. Shortly before 12 noon the called to hear stewards were managing director Richard Met- calfe read a prepared statement on the suspensions. After the meeting management closed all facilities to shop-floor workers. Canteen facilities and food was denied to the men and heating and lighting in the the plant was shut off. Workers have drawn up a three-shift system to man factory round the clock. All the shop stewards will be first shift in case of any intimida- tion. Less than a mile away at Bredbury steelworks, members of the General and Municipal Workers' Union were waiting to executive 'hear whether their would grant them dispute money.

Official backing is expected after a decision by the Amat- gamated Union of Engineering Workers to make the Bredbury occupation official. Next Monday more lock-outs when 200,000 expected are workers in the greater Man- chester engineering industry join the 5,000 Stockport workers and ban piecework and overtime.

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