Workers Press no. 723

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DIRECT RULE

FORULSTER

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORY government plunged further into crisis yesterday by deciding to introduce direct rule of Ulster from No. 10 Downing St. Within hours of Edward Heath's statement in the House of. Commons, Protestant extremists. were marching the main streets of Belfast, there was a revolt in his own party at Westminster and three infantry battalions were put on standby for Ulster. The introduction of direct rule can only mean a step up in army violence; it also means that the whole of Ireland is pushed a step further towards civil war.

Heath told parliament the transfer of all powers to London was 'an indispensable condition for progress in finding a political solution in N Ireland. Parliament will, He went on: therefore, be invited to pass before Easter, a measure transferring all legislative and executive powers now vested in the N Ireland parliament and government to the United King- dom parliament and a United King- dom minister. This provision will expire after one year unless this parliament resolves otherwise.'

He announced internment was to continue: 'We must retain the to arrest and intern those power who there is good reason to believe are actively involved in terrorism and violence. Immediately he spelled out his intensive programme for more repression and bloodshed in Ulster, Opposition leader Harold Wilson was on his feet praising the Tories. He said Labour would give every facility for getting the legislation through. He said the package was 'well directed' and went on to praise the new Tory supremo in Ulster, William Whitelaw. 'We are sorry to lose the Lord President who, as leader of the House, has served the House well. All of us would wish him well in this new and tremendous task he has taken on.' (Only the day before, the same Whitelaw refused to give Wilson an answer to a direct question on the raids on homes of members of IS, IMG and other groups. See What We Think, p. 2.) Almost before the speech was completed 6,000 Protestant dock- yard workers downed tools and marched to City Hall. Their political mentor, William Craig, has already made a declaration on behalf of his Ulster Vanguard Party predicting 'violence if necessary'. (See profile of Craig on centre pages.)

Announcing the resignation of the Brian whole Stormont Cabinet, Faulkner said the Ulster crisis had reached a 'serious and sad situation.

I fear that many people will draw a sinister depressing message and from these events. "They may ask—if Belfast is to bow to violence today, where will it be next year? Birmingham? Battersea?' After his speech in the Commons Heath met privately with Ulster Unionist MPs. James Molyneaux, MP for S Antrim, walked out say- ing: I had heard enough so I simply

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IN DUBLIN yesterday, President of all, but are another of Way Provisional wing the Sinn Fein saying that martial has been OI law welcomed Heath's statement as an introduced and that a few internees *advance'. will be released, he said.

Rory O'Brady said that the William Craig, leader of the right- SUSa pension of Stormont did go wing Vanguard Movement yesterday SOme way towards meeting the Republican appealed for a two-day work stop- demands. He appealed to Protestants page in Ireland beginning on that their future the Monday. was with people of Ireland with But the N Ireland trade union regional government. made *stay-at-work' movement However Cathal Goulding, appeal to all workers. The N Ireland Official IRA Chief of Staff, rejected the

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Committee an- Heath's proposals which he nounced that it was important that said were tantamount to declaring martial those in employment and in posi- law in N Ireland. tions of responsibility should remain *They are not political initiatives at their work. walked out.' He added: In a mis- consider this spineless act taken attempt to appease devious capitulation to violence.'

gunmen, Heath 'done has Munich" and With a Protestant and right-wing like Munich this will be followed by backlash on his hands, Heath moved further and greater demands.

swiftly to prepare for a step up in Five of the eight Ulster Unionist military violence. MPs at Westminster said later that While he was preaching 'new they would oppose the second read- initiatives to bring peace to Ulster, ing of the N Ireland Bill.

4,000 troops standing by in were Nicholas Winterton, Tory MP for England flown Ulster, to Macclesfield, who will vote against bringing the total occupation army the direct rule legislation to 18,500. said: "!

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GAS repair work was halted all management which have led to over the NW yesterday after Gas 16 suspensions. Board employees turned down a After talks with Hodkinson, General and Municipal plea to call off their two- Workers' union Union Lancashire week Stockport strike. organizer Jack Wilkinson asked a mass meeting Over 2,000 gas repair workers of Stockport strikers to return Merseyside, Greater in Man- to work. chester, N Cheshire and as far He the 14 shop was sure north as Blackpool are on strike N Cheshire stewards from the in sympathy with men suspended would area receive 'sym- from the Stockport gas distribu- pathetic' hearing. tion department. Hodkinson had made it clear.

Frank Stafford, was suspended that the strike however, would and told he would lose money have to end and that he had no and job for allegedly status power to reverse the suspensions.

refusing to do overtime. Angry workers have rejected chairman and demanded NW Gas Board these pleas to Hodkinson offered

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SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Instead of bloody making a pact with the Tories, the Labour leaders immediately should be campaigning bring this to wretched government down.

The Tories today are a govern- ment of crisis. On Ulster, unemploy- ment, the Common Market, wages, industrial relations and Rhodesia their policies are in tatters.

Heath is only kept in office by the collaboration of the Labour and trade union leaders. If the Labour and trade union

WILLIAM CRAIG,

leaders were to take up a genuine leader of the extreme fight against this it government, would not last in office another five Vanguard right - wing minutes. Party, declared yester- With the Industrial Relations Act day: "Ulster is closer being applied against workers up to civil war today than it and down the with the country, was yesterday. He has engineers locked in a mammoth pay called for general stop- clash, civil war and bloodshed on frightening scale threatened in pages starting Monday. Ireland, the removal of this govern- On today's centre pages ment becomes the most crucial Alex Mitchell writes a demand of the hour. profile of the ex-Stor- The working class must be cabinet minister mont to this mobilized to force end an government and a General Election.

advocating Ulster's UDI: *William Craig is the Protestant backlash'. Pages 6 and 7. Suspended sentence for O'Kane

SEAMUS O'KANE

arrested in London. taken to Aldershot and Belfast later moved to on a warrant, was given a suspended sentence in Belfast yesterday on chequé charges. O'Kane. unemployed Londonderry, of was sentenced eight to for months, suspended three years, after admitting five charges of obtaining a total of £152 false cheques in Belfast in 1968 and 1969. A solicitor said full restitution had been made. Socialist Labour League

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DIRECT RULE

FORULSTER

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORY government plunged further into crisis yesterday by deciding to introduce direct rule of Ulster from No. 10 Downing St. Within hours of Edward Heath's statement in the House of. Commons, Protestant extremists. were marching the main streets of Belfast, there was a revolt in his own party at Westminster and three infantry battalions were put on standby for Ulster. The introduction of direct rule can only mean a step up in army violence; it also means that the whole of Ireland is pushed a step further towards civil war.

Heath told parliament the transfer of all powers to • London was an indispensable condition for progress in finding a political solution in N Ireland. He went on: 'Parliament will, therefore, be invited to pass before measure transferring all Easter, a legislative and executive powers now vested in the N Ireland parliament and government to the United King- dom parliament and a United King- dom This provision will minister. expire after one year unless this parliament resolves otherwise' He announced internment was to continue: 'We must retain the power to arrest and intern those who there is good reason to believe and violence, involved in terrorism are actively Immediately he spelled out his programme for more intensive repression and bloodshed in Ulster, Opposition leader Harold Wilson was on his feet praising the Tories. He said Labour would 'give every facility for getting the legislation through' He said the package was "well directed' and went on to praise the new Tory supremo in Ulster, William Whitelaw. 'We are sorry to lose the Lord President who, as leader of has served the House the House, well. All of us would wish him well in this new and tremendous task he has taken on. (Only the day before, the same Whitelaw refused to giye Wilson an answer to a direct question on the raids on homes of members of IS, IMG and other groups. See. What We Think, p. 2.) Almost before the speech was dock- completed 6,000 Protestant and yard workers downed tools marched to City Hall. Their political mentor, William Craig, has already made a declaration on behalf of his Ulster Vanguard Party predicting 'violence if necessary. (See profile of Craig on centre pages.)

Announcing the resignation of the Brian whole Stormont Cabinet, Faulkner said the Ulster crisis had reached a 'serious and sad situation.

I fear that many people will draw a sinister depressing message from these events. "They may ask—if Belfast is to bow to violence today, where will it be next year? Birmingham?

Battersea?' After his speech in the Commons Heath privately with Ulster met Unionist MPs. James Molyneaux, MP for S Antrim, walked out say- ing: 'I had heard enough so I simply

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

IN DUBLIN yesterday, President of at all, but another way of Provisional of Sinn Fein has the wing saying that martial law been welcomed Heath's statement introduced and that a few internees as an 'advance': will be released, he said.

Rory O'Brady said that the sus- William Craig, leader of the right- Stormont did go pension of some wing Vanguard Movement yesterday way towards meeting the Republican for a appealed two-day work stop- demands. He appealed to Protestants N Ireland beginning on in that their future the was with Monday. people of Ireland with But N the Ireland trade union regional government. 'stay-at-work' movement made However, Cathal Goulding, appeal to all workers. The N Ireland Official IRA Chief of Staff, rejected Committee

TUC

of the Irish Heath's proposals which he said nounced that it was 'important that were tantamount to declaring martial those in and in posi- employment law in N Ireland. tions of responsibility should remain 'They are at their work. political initiatives walked out.' He added: In a mis- consider this spineless act - a taken attempt devious capitulation to violence.'

•to as beane and Heath has 'done Munich" With a Protestant and right-wing like Munich this will be followed by backlash on his hands, Heath moved further and greater demands.'

swiftly to prepare for a step up in Five of the eight Ulster Unionist military violence. MPs at Westminster said later that While 'new was preaçhing. they would oppose the second read- initiatives to bring peace to Ulster, ing of the N Ireland Bill.

4,000 troops standing by in Nicholas Winterton, Tory MP for England be flown Ulster, to to Macclesfield, who will vote against bringing the total occupation army the direct rule legislation said: to 18,500.

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GAS repair work was halted all management which have led to over the NW vesterday after Gas 16 suspensions. Board employees turned down a After talks with Hodkinson, General and Municipal Workers union plea to call off their two- week Stockport strike. Union Lancashire organizer Jack Wilkinson asked a mass meeting Over 2,000 gas repair workers of Stockport strikers to return in Merseyside, Greater Man- work. to N Cheshire chester. and as far He 14 was sure the shop north as Blackpool are on strike stewards from the N Cheshire in sympathy with men suspended would 'sym- area receive the Stockport gas distribu- from pathetic' hearing. tion department. Hodkinson had made it clear, Frank Stafford, was suspended strike would however, that the and told he would lose money have to end and that he had no for allegedly and job status power to reverse the suspensions.

refusing to do overtime. Angry workers have reiected NW Gas Board chairman these pleas and demanded to the

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William Hodkinson offered know why have refused to back the strike with investigate disciplinary mea- new sures launched by the Stockport dispute pay. RCH 25, 1972 • No 723 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Instead of making bloody the Labour pact with the Tories, should immediately campaigning bring this wretched government down.

ment of crisis. On Ulster, unemploy- the Common Market, Rhodesia their policies are in tatters.

Heath is only kept in office by the collaboration of the Labour and trade union leaders. If the Labour and trade union

WILLIAM CRAIG,

leaders were to take up a genuine leader of the extreme this against government, it would not last in office another five Vanguard right - wing minutes. Party, declared yester- With the Industrial Relations Act day: 'Ulster is closer being applied against workers up to civil war today than it and down the with the country, was yesterday.' He has engineers locked in a mammoth pay called for general stop- clash, civil war and bloodshed on a pages starting Monday. frightening threatened scale Ireland, the removal of this govern- On today's centre pages becomes ment the most crucial Alex Mitchell writes a demand of the hour. profile of the ex-Stor- The working class must be mont cabinet minister mobilized to force end to this an advocating Ulster's UDI: government and a General Election.

'William Craig Is the Protestant backlash'. Pages 6 and 7. sentence for O'Kane

SEAMUS

O'KANE,

arrested in London, taken to Aldershot and later moved to Belfast on a warrant, was given a suspended sentence in Belfast yesterday on chequé charges. O'Kane. unemployed of Londonderry, was sentenced to eight months, suspended for three after years, admitting five charges of obtaining a total of £152 by false cheques in in 1968 Belfast and 1969. A solicitor said full had restitution been made. Socialist Labour League

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AROUND THE WORLD

BY JOHN SPENCER

PRESIDENT Nixon has decla defence of his wage-freeze poli sentatives on the Pay Board es 'norm'. Four of the five union repre- including sentatives, George Meany, head of the AFL-CLO, resigned after the . Board majority voted a 30-per-cent cut in the Pacific dockers' recent wage increase. The four who walked out represent 14 million workers. They include steelworkers' prest- dent I. W. Abel, the machinists' union's Floyd Smith and Leonard Woodcock, head of the Auto Workers' Union. They cited last month's 0.5 per cent increase in the cost of living as evidence that the Board is an instrument for cutting real wages.

The price of meat and other food- stuffs rose by a staggering 2 per cent in February-the largest monthly grocery price rise in 14 years. said the increase Meany Nixon's price policy- showed mediated by another board which is supposed to hold prices to a 5-per-cent annual rise-is a sham.

'While prices are going up, workers' wages are being held down,' he said. Nixon has ordered the Board reducing the to carry on, business representation from five to one to balance the gap left by the union chiefs' walk-out.

The lone union representative is Frank Fitzsimmonds of the Teamsters' (lorry-drivers) Union.

Announcing his decision to keep the Board going, Nixon said: 'This is a fight to a finish and with the support of the American people, we will win it. 'I shall not be deterred by the disaffection of a few union leaders.' Nixon's decision to carry on with the Pay Board means there will be a collision with the each the Board unions time decides to slash a negotiated wage rise. Already the dockers are talk- ing in terms of a national strike against the Pay Board decision on their recent settlement. Israel backs Kingdom ISRAEL has signified its willing- ness to accept King Hussein's plan for a federal kingdom on both sides of the Jordan, although it firmly rejects the borders he proposed last week. The plan is strongly opposed Libya and Syria. It is by Egypt, also possible that opposition to will help to heal the the plan breach between Iraq and Libya.

BIG European companies, parti- cularly in W Germany, have lost as a result of dollar heavily and chaos of the devaluation international money markets.

According to a report in the 'Wall St Journal, one company alone — Bayer AG — lost income worth over $2lm as a direct result of the monetary crisis last year. Bayer makes chemicals and drugs and exports 55 per cent of its production. Its export pros- pects were badly hit by the revaluation of the mark last May, and further affected by President Nixon's 10-per-cent import levy imposed on August 15:..

US WAGES: FIGHT

PRESIDENT Nixon has declared a 'fight to the finish' against the trade unions in defence of his wage-freeze policy. He was replying to the walk-out by union repre.

sentatives on the Pay Board established last year to hold wages to a 5.5 per cent

FIERCE FIGHTING

AROUND PHNOM

FIERCE FIGHTING continues around Phnom Penh in Cam- bodia as estimated three all divisions Vietnamese troops clash with S Vietnamese ranger and armoured cavalry unILs. Saboteurs blew a big hole in a heavily-defended concrete bridge connecting Phnom Penh with side of the Tonle Sat the river. The left in a car, explosives, the city and many people shook ned. Tearing renewed. „rocket Eleven people and ground attack. be concerned believed to the which killed soldier blast. _one and one civilian, were arrested. US officials in Saigon a big say offensive be launched soon to discredit Nixon's Vietnamiza- tion policy. Swedish roreign Minister Indian troops in Bangla Desh battle

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have troops used in Bangla Desh to assist local forces to deal with a group of armed Mizo rebels.

It was claimed that the Mizos, who seek greater autonomy from India, had crossed the frontier into Bangla Desh. India accused them of receiving arms from Pakistan. the Mizos overran two police checkpoints earlier this month, killing and policemen injuring Premie

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olners. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has repeatedly warned that 'anti- are out to disturb stare elements the peace and set up a parallel government. The BanglaDesh government and the Indian Embassy in Dacca nave anoriv relected Charges the American press that Indian had completely troops never pulled out of the country.

Dollar moves mean huge cash losses in Europe Bayer gained some $8m on the monetary changes, from cause totalled about $35m. figures do not I hese resulting from account Tor Josses the US levy. Lufthansa AG recently reported that Hay nave al d deficit last year despite a 10-per- cent increase in its traffic volume. the mark upward floa cost the company tne ecuivalert of $70m to $80m. The huge loss occurred primarily because inter- national mares are SCl dollars and an unchanged dollar fare netted fewer marks after German revaluation ish' against the trade unions in to the walk-out by union repre- • hold wages to a 5.5 per cent Krister Wickman described this policy as being aimed at pro- inning here caned his ing it, when outlined his government's policy in parliament.

The Indo-China war was the foremost example of how a global interests super-power's conflict with the poor could people's struggle for better con- ditions'. He claimed that US bombing raids were increasing in intensity. A Defence Department spokes- man has denied a charge by US Senator Mike Gravel that plastic bombs are used in Indo-China. Senator Gravel said that when pieces of the bomb entered the body they. could not be detected by X-raye and made medical treatment difficult. take place in Elections may Bangla Desh later this year after constitution has been a new drawn up. The constitution is to be pre- pared by an assembly composed of members. of the National and Provincial assemblies elected in December 1970. when Bangla Desh was part of Pakistan.

It will thus be dominated by members of the Awami League, whose leader is Sheikh Mujib.

THE FIRST anniversary of the brutally-suppressed left- wing uprising in Ceylon sees 14,000 young political detain- ees still languishing in the British exporters also stand to lose heavily under the December 18 agreement. Rolls-Royce 1971, the government-controlledcom- pany which is producing RB211 engines for the Lockheed TriStar, will now lose £20m-£25m because its contract with Lockheed is in dollars. Each engine costs about $lm, but the dollars are now worth less in sterling than before. For the US rivals of European capitalism, the boot is on the other foot. Lockheed clearly considerably stands to gain from the realignment, as do others •buying foreign products with dollars. IF THERE is violence on Sunday's demonstration organized by the Anti-Internment League, the full responsibility lies with the |Tory government.

Following a Cabinet decision, the Department of the Environment announced that Trafalgar Square could not be used for demonstrations concerning Ulster.

The ban takes away the basic right of free assembly; members of working-class communities in Ulster can be shot dead and British workers cannot demonstrate against the murders. In preventing groups in Britain from demonstrating against Tory policies in Ulster, the government is en- gaging in calculated provocation. The police will be in Trafalgar Square in full strength on Sunday just waiting for the chance to attack and arrest demon- strators. The government would like to have another Gros- venor Square punch-up to whip sections of the middle class behind a law-and-order campaign and thus also behind its new Ulster plans.

The Socialist Labour League contingent on the march will not enter the Tory trap in Trafalgar Square.

against the infiltration of We will guard our ranks plainclothes police and other provocateurs.

We will be marching on the following political pro- gramme: • End internment • Withdraw the troops from Ulster • Defend democratic rights • Make the Tory government resign.

IN THE House of Commons on Thursday, the Leader of the House, Mr William Whitelaw, now Tory supremo in Ulster, was asked very directly the reasons for the of members of the Inter- police raids homes on national Socialists' group.

The question was put not by some obscure back- bench crank, but by the Leader of the British Labour Party, Harold Wilson. This is the second time the Labour Party has tried to get the Tory front bench to make a parliamentary statement on why 60 homes were raided.

When Wilson was snubbed, Mrs Shirley Williams, the Shadow Home Secretary, said: "It is not a crime to belong to the International Socialists and it is not a crime to express their views.'

But this too failed to shift the Tories: Whitelaw said no statement would be made on the incidents. By refusing to comment Whitelaw is demonstrating the government is. completely behind the stepping up of political repression against left-wing groups.

Although our own differences with the 'state capital- ists' are absolutely fundamental (see pp. 10 & 11) we reiterate our headline of last week: 'Hands off Is'. internment without trial. Perera coalition government's prison recently visited London to seek camps. aid from the Tories for the held with- The detainees are Ceylon regime. out trial because the government Since the arbitrary revolt, has no charges against most arrest, mass internment, censor- would stand them which up in ship and suppression of demo- open court. cratic rights have been the order In the weeks after the uprising, of the day. Newspapers regularly blank thousands of young people from appear with spaces 'cen- by the Competent the rural areas were herded into sored Authority. and makeshift camps to prisons People's of Foreign observers even break the back the Liberation Front (JVP). of Liberals like Lord Avebury Amnesty have International The JVP, composed mainly of been denied access to the prisons and workers students voung and even run out of the country.

'Guevarists'. described took as The army has been placed on Sirimavo against Mrs up full alert and military forces are Bandaranaike's coalition because still combing the central jungles election it has betrayed its to try and root out remnants of promises and tied Ceylon firmly the JVP guerrilla forces.

to world imperialism. Popular hatred the against Supported by the pro-Moscow coalition is growing as continued Stalinists and the renegade Trot- drives prices inflation astro- Sama skyists of the Lanka nomical heights, and workers are Samaja Party (LSSP), Mrs Banda- stripped of their basic democratic military aid from ranaike sought rights. US, Pakistan, Britain, the India, The international labour move- Union to China and the Soviet demand the immedi- ment must put down the revolt. release of the detainees in The LSSP, headed by Finance Ceylon and fight the conspiracy Perera, Stalinism Minister Dr N. M. have of imperialism and to the Ceylon working • become, with the Stalinists, the strangle enthusiastic supporters of class! most

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

WORKERS occupying the small Lancashire firm of St Helens Plastics are condemning their union for abandoning the fight for the right to work. The occupation, one of the most bitter in Britain so far, began on March 2 after all the firm's full- time and part-time employees were faced with the sack as part of a deal to sell the plant the to Linpac group. Since then we have been fighting out,' The sion will occupat cabackin me. union not give oficial backing. suppose they look upon us like the employers do as unemployed men. But we don't think this. We are fighting for the right to work.'

This lack of official from the support comes Transport and Workers' Union, General which, at executive level, stands for a campaign against unêmployment and has a special section for the unemployed. The redundancies were announced when workers reported back to the plant after being laid off two days during the miners' strike. notice on the main gate told them to report to the canteen where they were told that the firm was selling its factory and plant to Linpac. 34 full-time workers all The were sieen their cards and asked got a week's in lieu of notice, The new firm said they might re-employ to leave. them on a selective basis in three, six and nine months' time. The angry men replied with the occupation. This is not a token action-the workers hold the keys to the plant and have successfully forced the security men and their dog to withdraw.

The spokesman told me: 'What we do know is that Linpac own another factory in Featherstone.

Workers there in the General and Municipal are Workers' Union. They earn about f16 a week and we earn £26. But we will not give in. Our spirits are high. We are not prepared to go on the dole.

We want to live like decent human beings and have Workers keep in touch a good standard of living.'

A HUGE slump in British dent of the Chamber of Shipping, said British shipping was disclosed yester- shipowners were in The Chamber of Shipping danger of 'missing the day. boat' on shipping orders. United Kingdom of the re- UK The order book for ported that 42 ships, totalling owners had risen by only per 419,000 tons were laid up on cent period in which the In a February 29 through lack of world order went up by 50 employment. cent. This "compared with 14 ships 'Frighteningly large' he sums, laid up in February last year.

added, would be needed to re- equip fleets with up-to-date ships World recession has hit some countries even harder. In Greece and equipment. The Chamber of Shipping had the number of ships lying idle is told the government that British 144 (649,000 tons) and in Liberia shipping could achieve the it is 66(656,000 tons). not profitability for necessary 1m- Altogether there are 592 ships mense investment needed in new work throughout with no the ships. world. Last year there were 162.

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In touch via the firm's Inter-com British tobacco companies lin cigarette manufacturers hav possibility of some sort of a t the Piccadilly, Carreras, Guards and Dunhill group, have held talks with the Dutch Turmac Tobacco Company, Martin Brinkmann AG Germany and Rothman's of Pall Mall Exports. The aim of the talks is "to seek a basis of co-ordinating the interests of their respective com- panies in view of the expansion of the Common Market. McKinseys, the American con- have been brought in sultants, to 'investigate and report on the matter'. A Carreras spokesman com- possibility menting on the some sort of a merger said: "The talks could lead to anything or they could lead to nothing.

'We have pulled in McKinseys , the balance intlation and tilting of payments far into the red, this week's Tory budget can be seen as a last-ditch bid to trigger an investment boom and stimu- late export industries. But the continuous downturn production revealed in in January's figures gives the lie to Tory claims that their past economic and fiscal measures done have anything to lift Britain out of recession.

since of Ever failure Barber's mini-Budget, business circles have growing shown scepticism about the likelhood of 'recovery. This week's announcement of 1,014,511 unemployed mirrors the employer's hard-headed deter- their sails mination to trim according to the weather.

They will not wait long to see if the latest Tory 'incentives' work. The problem, as every business- man knows, is not investment, but markets. Their only chance of surviving the overproduction crisis currently tearing at the fabric of world capitalism is to continually increase production efficiency. When Hunt says he expects to see 3 million unemployed before British industry has a chance of effectively competing world markets, he is speaking for the whole of big business. sackings but Not only mass increased productivity and wage cutting are. now. absolutely. in- escapable for every capitalist., Workors Press, Si

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nies linking up with European rs have not ruled out the it of a merger. to advise us on what the possi- bilities are. It could be a few months before another announce- ment is made,' he added. Rail talks resume Tuesday PAY negotiations for 200,000 railway workers will be resumed next Tuesday between the three railways unions and the British Board. The unions are hoping for an improvement to Tuesday which described as 'final'. WITH unemployment at the 1 million mark, the Tories are to encourage the jobless to • move around the country looking for work. Robert Carr, Secretary for Employment, has announced de- tails of a new employment trans- fer scheme to help workers move to jobs away from home. The scheme, which comes into force on April 5, is designed to provide financial aid to workers unemployed who are or threatened with redundancy, and who are willing to move outside their area. pending Lodging allowances, household removal, are increased and the present £100 miscellane- ous expenses grant is replaced by a £600 rehousing grant for trainees government obtaining their first job in their training trade away from home. In addition several conditions around the present scheme are relaxed as the Tories step up their attack on the right to work. • Press, Saturday March 25, 1972 PAGE 3 men meet on rents

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councillors from all over London meet today to formulate a common policy on the Tory govern- ment's 'fair rents' Bill.

The councillors have already been considering the legal ad- vice sent to them by the Labour Party national executive on how to lessen or neutralize the rent increases due in October.

The document was sent to all Labour-controlled councils and those which Labour expects to capture in the May elections.

The essence of the strategy is non-co-operation with the Bill if it becomes law and an assur- ance that the next Labour govern- ment would repeal the Act, re- store housing subsidies and seek a higher level of house-building.

One method of frustrating the Bill being considered is to reassess every property on an individual basis and claim that individual rents are already fair.

The Labour Party has also advised councils to publicise the tenants' right to make represen- • tations, to put stickers in the rent books to stress the increases are being forced on them by the introduce Tories and to rent rebate schemes in April, even if are not increased in rents October. The Housing Finance Bill is near the end of its committee stage in the House of Commons.

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ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

SHEFFIELD: Sunday, March 26, 7.30 p.m. YS premises, Portobello, near Jessop Hos- 'The enginéers' pital. pay claim'. WILLESDEN: Monday March 27, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High Rd., NW1. 'Right- to-Work Campaign and the fight to force the Tories out.

LEEDS: Tuesday March 28, 7.30 p.m. Quarry Hill Flats Com- munity Centre. "The engineers' play claim'. W LONDON: Tuesday, March 8 p.m. Prince Albert, Wharfedale off York Way, Kings Cross, back from Wembley Pool'. SOUTHALL: Wednesday, March 29, 8 p.m. Southall Community Centre, Bridge Road. 'Report back from Wembley Pool'. N LONDON: Thursday March 30, 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arms, High Rd., N17 (off Tottenham White Hart Lane). 'Report back meeting from Wembley and the Scarborough conference'. 5 EAST: Thursday, March 30, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club, nr. New Cross Station.

'Report back from Wembley Pool'.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NATIONAL RIGHT-TO•WORK CAMFAIGN

PRESENTS

Written by Tom Kempinski Directed by Corin Redgrave

AT THE

YOUNG VIC

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The Cal, ofi Waterise Rd, •Londe SWI SUNDAY MARCH 26 7 p.m. ADMISSION 25p (YS MEMBERS) & 50p Followed by a lecture: •The English Rerohition today given by G. leaty, SIl national secretary,

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday March 25, 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 making a huge success of the YS annual towards conference at Scarborough on April 8 and 9. Scar- borough becomes the next signpost on the march to build the revolutionary party in 1972.

Steve Jones joined the Right- satisfied him. first When he came on the to-Work march for *a good it after march was only very time, a good laugh ... and to Young casual contact with the see what it was all about'.

Socialists. Over three weeks on the road.

Steve came with a belief that however, changed dramati- he for freedom. youth are looking cally. Some of the constraints imposed Starting out on February 19 as the on march by police and an energetic and skilful exponent capitalist-press surveillance irked of the drop-out philosophy, Steve him. Pool entered the Empire 'After bit I realized that Wembley on March 12 as a lead- was wrong', he says. ing member of the Swansea- 'The people I've spent a lot London march committee. of time with on the road shove 'Even the first wandered on a label on communism • because I'd wondered what of what happened in the Soviet Workers into', he told Press Union: they think it interferes before travelling back from Lon- with their freedom. don to his home town of Neath 'Also they think that all poli- last week. ticians are iust in it for them- 'When we arrived at a pub in selves. Skewen-halfway between Swan- 'All my family are strict Lab- of sea and Neath-a crowd .. our, but up until the time I came workers had turned out to cheer the I'd on march, only voted Then of us in. right out the And that for Plaid once. was blue they made a collection for Cymru. us in the bar. •But seeing those Labour MPs 'Now if we'd been just a group we lobbied in parliament last of long-haired youth we wouldn't Monday-how frightened of us have got that kind of response and they were- our questions from trade unionists. and comparing that with the that really *Another thing I'm support we received, con- surprised me was when we went through vinced we can win in Chippenham, the Tory town to the labour movement. which tried to shut us out. 'It's all over for this system There was a real feeling amongst older really. Even among the for the marchers of hatred the things like the Queen people Tories and hatred for capitalism.'

don't hold any sway at all these Steve days. It was after Chippenham, 'We that he deeply can't wait years and years says, became until the Tories die off, we've got interested in what was happening march and what it was to get them out now. on the 'And the only the work- trying to do. way 20, he has already had ing class will do that is by get- At out in front now and doing variety ting of jobs. mainly as We must do it ourselves.'

building labourer. None of them it. John Williams had something to say to his train-driver father when he went back to the Rhondda valleys last week.

An • unemployed building Treherbert in the worker from Rhondda fawr, John (20) was never very interested in politics before he marched from Swan- sea to London for the right to work. But after three weeks on the road, and after meeting his MP Westminster last Monday, at determined to build he's now a big branch of the Young Social- ists in his area. 'I'm not just saying I'm going it, I'm going to do to to try do it', he says firmly. I've never voted in an elec- yet. But my father's tion supported the Labour always Party and particularly Alec MP for Rhondda W' Jones, the Some of the Swansea-London marchers treasure the memory of John, normally taciturn, standing up in a House of Commons com- mittee room after meeting Jones in his and other MPs declaring deep valley What a accent: bloody shower!' The five-month period since John last had a job is the long- est he has ever been out of work.

any trouble 'I'd never had finding work before the Tories ', he says. 'But since then came in', they haven't been offering any- thing. was offered a place in a government training centre once, but even that was never pushed through.' John says: 'I suppose I blamed generally on the the situation Tories, but before I came on the this wasn't really a very march hard feeling. I certainly And didn't know what to do about it. When first approached by the Young John Socialists, was against the idea of marching.

A few weeks before he had walked with his friend Geoff Hurst some 26 miles in one day in a bid to find work at the BP oil refinery sites at Llandarcy and Port Talbot. The purpose of a march to London was hazy.

When Geoff and another friend decided to participate, however, John decided to go along.

'I must admit even when we started out I thought it was just a protest against unemployment', he said. 'But then we got such a great response from all the ordinary people we met. That really sur- prised me, really started me thinking. 'The first time it really got through to me was at Rolls-Royce where we had 2,000 workers out to cheer us past and they gave us tremendous backing. 'As we went along, I got to feel more and more bitter about the Tories, what they are doing Northampton: 'We were all together, al and the people in the Labour Party who are allowing them to do it" "for all For the John-as marchers — Wembley was the climax. "The night when we met all the other marchers at Northamp- ton very good', he was says. 'We were all together, chanting and singing. All fighting for the same thing. 'The Empire Pool was some- thing different—we looked out as we marched in and there were 8,500 people cheering us.

'At first I thought most of them must have come to hear the pop groups later, but then there was the collection. €1,000 the Right-to-Work campaigr in just a tew minutes. 'I think everyone who went through all that feels far differ- ent about things now than when we set out.'

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gether, all fighting for the same thing.'

Above right: Dictator Lanusso, By our foreign correspondent Argentina has been ruled by a military dictatorship since 1966. Immediately upon tak- ing power General Juan Carlos Ongania proceeded to send military forces into the universities, purging all leftist, progressive democratic or professors. Though Ongania to came power with the support of some trade union sections of the hierarchy. and attracted some popular following on the basis corporatist of his populist proceeded ideology, he to violently repress strikes, to inter- vene in unions and to jail or purge thousands of trade union militants. The closing of 'unprofitable' sugar mills in the province of Tacuman led to massive confron- tations between the military and the workers. By the beginning of 1969 it appeared that Ongania had con- solidated his corporatist-style state. His law and order was praised by investors as a model for Latin America.

URBAN

In May 1969 the dictatorship's social peace was shattered by one of the most massive violent urban uprisings in the hemisphere. In Cordoba, industrial workers, un- employed and semi-employed dwellers and slum white-collar workers took over city streets, and held off the army for several days. The incidents which ignited the killings by the uprisin! were he police of the students (Pam pillon in Cordoba, Aldolfo Bello in Sante Fe, Juan José Cabral in "Corrientes and Blanco Rosaria). The Cordobazo-as the Cor- doba workers' uprising of May 1969 is commonly known-was outpouring of spontaneous hatred toward the Ongania dic- tatorship; it was the people's to declining salaries, response police-state repression and the thousand - and - one indignities that the regime imposed on the people of Argentina. With Ongania's image of law and order severely shaken, the military high command met and decided it was necessary to change leaders in order to main- tain the system. General Roberto , who clalms to want to 'democratize' Argentin Marcelo Levingston was elected 'President' by the Commander-" in-Chief of the armed forces.

Parallel to the development of massive working-class resistance, least five urban i at guerrilla groups emerged and dealt the government and its supporters a series of military and political blows. growing opposition from The all sectors of the population, the economic deterioration of the situation and the growing politi- cal isolation of the milifary forced Levingston to grant some marginal concessions-a psuedo- campaign nationalist political 'Buy Argentina' to promote 'national industries' (that were already in large part in foreign hands) and partial lifting of the government enforced wage freeze.

The police and the repressive forces, under constant attack from all began to take sides, 'justice' into their own hands: selective terror emerged as of social control. new means Known professionals were threat- ened and in some cases kid- napped and assassinated. The Argentine of the counterparts 'squadron of death' Brazilian began to act. The disintegration of the Levington regime became appar- ent by the ninth month in office: even lower-level police officials of the Interior began to join the popular demonstrations. In March 1971 a second Cordobazo took place and the central government had to fly in federal as the army to police as well control of the city. regain General Lanusse replaced Leving- ston. Lanusse has followed a policy of marginal concessions while maintaining and strengthening the bureaucratic-repressive apparatus of the police state. Recognizing the military government's low level of popular support and prestige, he legalized the non- revolutionary opposition parties, returned Eva Peron's corpse to her husband and promised free elections in three years.

At the same time he declared that the anti-guerrilla campaign an internal war and put the was army in control of the hunt against the 'subversives'.

The officially condoned selec- tive terror by the police-right- Argentina, signing a of suspected cuciid the arrests anun yllluus especially suruclure. off as Coer Lanusse's undertake „a Tne police and assassinations too shares the political official Willt torture. are striking oenaviour. BuIe lack some sectors has made state? The democnauze Given the tion of the to direct growth of

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possible to conversion of Brazil. That type pass over the aroused with war is the cratization- can lead road. • his unsts Dosure was kidnapped agents

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one Zenteno). arestea. the turn up enforcement, of marginal the not between the susncod assassins' be- and end at indi- 'subversive' ot mass the even more vicious. Is Argen- belies alls and radicaliza- acuvt the into corpse of an which be- anTiDatoy demo- . to LeITOr down this militant trade ex• use of torture, daylight along

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Workers Press, St with Allende From that day nothing is known of them. Repeated inquiries concerning his whereabouts have received virtually a deaf ear from all pub- lic ofhicials — including President. On March 8, 1971 Diego Ruy Frondizi, the nephew. of a former President of Argentina, his friend Manuel Belloni and the chauffeur Ruben Greco were gunned down by police-unarmed. The police justified this murder they by stating that were 'suspected' of being guerrillas. In fact they were supporters of the nationalist Peronist movement, which has several million mem- bers. On July 13, 1971 Juan Pablo Mestfie and his wife Mirta Elena Misotich were kidnapped by secret police agents while leaving the house of her parents.

Two later his body turned days up in a grave with two bullets in the back. The police said it was a plain case of suicide. Mirta Elena Misetich is still missing, despite Lanusse's promise that she would be re- turned safe and sound. Apparently thère is some dis- agreement among the assassins as to who is and isn't on the list. On June 2, 1971 Dr Verd and his wife Sara Palacios were arrested by police, who brought their two daughters to Dr Verd's sister. Subsequently the police denied having made the arrest and the Home Secretary claims • . self- was a case kidnapping to get publicity.

On October of 1971, a psychia- trist, Enrique Pujals was arrested his wife's letters to the President requesting information have gone unanswered. The terror goes on. The arbi- trary and violent nature of these officially / condoned selective assassinations has alienated the professional classes. The line separating the police from the political underworld has been deliberately blurred; as a result all arrests and all police- have become suspected men gangsters. It may reach the point where many Argentines will think it is the better part of wisdom to resist rather than risk arrest -and possible death. Workers Preas, Saturday March 25, 1972 PAGE 5

SECRET

DOSSIERS

ON FIAT

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against Fiat, The files are basic political cacan

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criminal smua aculon Bersrnotret Conviction jail . senténces. prison found , guilty aruc 'office reveal three years. The dossier Ceresa employee But av ocals olundered such an found to soon Ceresa, caoler real was pauly spy •docy •cineal the better floodgates. secret be keeping ville' and the has been ence far best thing get the Laoc Public than 400 more T his SUll disinterested case. Ivan Montone. its early stages. will have to the 77 to The accuscu Carabinieri commissioners, Niccolo Giola officer .Umberto Cuttica responsible fol espionage office. The files the on have beer policemen agents paid by the workers. on far its It was and its own scheme. But way oden or months of H» venices. pany spies

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police CHOnD mpany officials, face investigations And expected against corruption, reveal- crets', and 'unauthor- investcamons a mean och Teces ted ine ear yine tire carrying the new ino irer ver gations into eventually whethe cecced. ral charges and bring so far include police

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and several flat among them chairman Gauder ne co-eirecror cenera la and the personnel erto Cuttica. alleged to c tnte- Fiat's workers end Carabinieri Carned omany's pay roll d document also intormers wno were company to snoop Fiat has tried a fatherly image as were of e-grav one with hrms na tor many workers social welfare workers were in no or contused by tnis tude. In the first six for instance, ed the loss of nearly legations about com- more

aturday March 25, 1972 simply because the Tory British Westminster have been army policies which sincerely dedicatea. He wanted a large-sc in Ulster-he got 1L. the repression -he got it. H kill—he hot wanted internment- Craig thal sense man represenls Ul: Tory mentality In spondin Belfast bc their who fear in Ulster to build his base. profession Craig or the long long-servi Unic man

BY ALEX MITCHELL

elected to being. tore 1960. years declared: We Crate has been one of te most At Ormeau Park in Belfast Craig uncerstand Craig its the Party's ch just talk. Ulster's nolitics became last weekend the Ulster Van- nivic lall been moved Into ever me cal or uly 1cculco we detached house in Belf guard, the extreme right-wing consistent outspoken shall do.' righ men for the extreme of the Unionist Party, turned As the crowd hushed, Craig 1969, continued: must too fine a point on it, Mi on a public show of strength.

'Wa dossiers on men and women who ball murror salar About was impressive. of Craig. enemies di c 75,000 turned out. cause one day, ladies and who is drawing massive crowds wherever he travels, has become the The man who summoned the limousine wielding the biggest man recenl and who fired the the enemy our 100 would be to liquidate meeting Protestant backlash. have included a Jaguar, i whip Crathe flag-waving and into Chrysler). duuicuce been more silent speech Craig. The sent Craig has William shiver Cheering was He has a boat on or through liberal circles in London: une past ycals, In a stony, expressionless voice lakes and enjoys shooting. govern- aged 37, he In was and the Home appointed of carrying Affairs and took his place in Craig is Captain Terence O'Neill's cabinet.

Ulster's le army In effect, Craig was wanted Home Secretary: responsible for • rights (or Catholic the police and civil of them!). • wanted lack Within a month of taking ority to ministerial office Craig showed He it. his stamina-and his attitude to got it. the working class. He attacked the is the unions for not giving proper he true accused and the ter and service un- employed of refusing to acquire to the to 30 new skills or travel 20 urgeoisie fits and miles for jobs. reatened When the trade union leaders complained about these remarks, Craig told them: 'Grow up, • от, siduousl failing that, for the good of all, volitica take a running jump off a great solicitor, height' g chair Craig's brand of hardline nists be politics was revealed even more Stormont explosively in October 1968 dur- he later ef whip. Civil rights marchers spacious Craig's ban on parades and came st which with large squads flagpole into collision m which of baton-wielding police.

flutters. civilians were injured six political street battles. photo- Television cameras, y's grass graphers and reporters captured his sleek scenes of police officers openly models Daimler marchers. But as beating up through Ireland shock swept e of the ' and Britain, Craig went on radio pronounce: 'I am quite satis- to police used fied that the was absol- more violence than and, in fact, utely necessary restraint.' showed considerable the word 'police u transpose 'troops' the for state- ment is almost identical to what General Ford said after the 'Bloody Sunday' massacre in the this year.) same town in January began a spirited Craig then defence of the police, the B- and the local govern- Specials ment arrangements which ensured Protestants. for the privileges the Rev lan le also joined Paisley in attacks on what would 'popery'. The be described as chal- outbursts were as a seen lenge to O'Neill's fragile leader- ship. In the event, in December Craig was purged from 1968, the Cabinet. letter to Craig telling In his of his dismissal, him O'Neill I have known for. some said: time that you were attracted by the ideas of a UDI (Unilateral Declaration Independence) of nature. On at least two occasions it has been necessary to ask you from your to delete comments which attempted to speeches show that we could manage on .. or that we should our own with contemplate breach Britain. But it was a measure of Craig's strength that within months of madness' effect, his dismissal, O'Neill himself was of In Ulster become ousted. In the backroom proposed that man- Kingdom which ended O'Neill's of the United oeuvres played or, as he put it, a 'Smith govern- premiership. Craig dominant role with another hard ment'. When he lost the leadership right-winger, Brian Faulkner. Maior 26 four On contest by votes coming to Dower announced: Chichester Clark took 1971. Craig Tames March •I will support Mr Faulkner Craig and to isolate steps the policies wingers long as he pursues who he clique of right if the this country needs. But correctly saw as greatest follows the line of the Chichester threat his tenuous hold on to his Craig Clark administration, we Stormont. For part, not hesitate to fight him. Unionist strong- hornetormed 'We are facing In November last vear holds declaring: of the formation the most determined attack announced auer Vanguard. body Ulster made in our history dactant Ulster and all that Ulster means Lovalists and Orangemen, line cated to 'the Loyalist to us. the constitutional status "The burning overriding the arm. sideration of the govern- party roma

MATA

month operation on a month ago to strengthen security formal mont ic arrangements. A special division with the aims if men is needed by force necessary of highly-trained country and even by making the supreme to cose with armed subversives.

When he refused sacrifice. to support propaganda leaflet said: of confidence motion Chichester Clark he was drummed that every Lovalist is essential but Unn Party. Once should unite mATA destroy for all time this evil only a matter of months again, Unity Clark, under elapsed before Chichester midst. there for all toppled. guard another premier, With the Unionist Party Lovalists. Make up your torn Craig and to the asunder with factions. prove now. Protestant decided to mount his first serious that the long-awaited for backlash is no myth.' the leadership. At attemnt At the opening rally in Lisburn this stage his political proposals mobilization he called began to show degree of all Lovalists defent irrationality: one newspaper said: to •The Craig form evil conspiracy which threatened doctrine Workara Proca, Saturday the country's existence. Above: 'And God help those who get MP, se Ist at Li in we our way, mean business' he added. 'We must Left: up civi look to ourselves for the Loyalists of this province should stick London sink together.' together or cessive At another meeting in London- derry he told the faithful: Lodge): (head you that before can promise March is out, notice will have ceptory been served on all and sundry man that Ulster is not for sale.' On Associa the face of it Craig's Vanguard (Loyalis Mr G has wider support than group Consta the Rev Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party, another offshoot Mr Bri of from the official Unionist Party.

dedi- Associ: which already Joini Organizations affliated with Vanguard Mr Bil have include the Ulster Loyalist Asso- into Loyalis ciation, the Loyalist Association It i of Workers, the Ulster Special

RUC I

Constabulary Association, the gives Council, the Young Unionist overto Ulster Defence Association, the party evoked Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland.

the Roval Black Precentorv and rally Protest help the Apprentice Boys. format elected Representatives to serve on the central council are: wore 1 the Rev Martin Smyth (Grand glasses Master of Belfast and District irom Grand Orange Lodge): the Rev who, R. Dickinson (Grand Master of picture Derry Grand Orange Lodge); Mr Crai of Co hand Lee (Grand Master the Grand Orange Lodge); Derry remair 'an Mr John Brown (Grand Master of Co Antrim Grand Orange intend

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday March

BY TOM KEMP

THE MASS deportation of about 1.5 million people to remote parts of the Soviet Union during World War II is one of Stalinism's lesser- known, but still important crimes. These people, from eight dis- tinct nations, including the Volga Germans, the Crimean Tartars and a number of Asian minorities in the southern region of the country, were packed into cattle trucks and dumped in remote eastern areas. About 500,000, mostly children and elderly people, died in tran- sit. suppression The of these nationalities' rights, the abolition of their national autonomy and the deportations were kept as secret as possible. Even today, the rights of the Crimean Tartars and Volga Germans have not been fully restored. Even before the German attack the Soviet Union in June, on 1940, the Soviet bureaucracy had reason to doubt the loyalty of N Caucasian, nationalities.

the The region suffered heavily in the purges of the 1930s when thousands of Communist Party members were arrested and many executed. One report puts the number of arrests at 120,000.

Unrest in the area gave the lie to the Stalinist claim to have solved the nationalities question.

Hatred of the bureaucracy was exploited by religious and nationalist elements. Undoubtedly the Germans were welcomed as liberators in some places and soldiers from recruited among the population. When the Germans had been driven out, collective punishment General Grigorenko of the Red Army ay March 25, 1972 imposed on the was entire population, regardless of its be- haviour and including Communist Party and Young Communist League members. NKVD (secret police) forces were then sent in, headed by the notorious First Special Service Division.

This the picture which author Robert Conquest* pieces together: 'The method employed was for the units to be brought into the area some weeks before the operation with the purpose of making detailed plans and familiarizing themselves with the When position. action com- menced each village was sur- troops, and rounded by armed a number of soldiers detached "operational" to accompany the security-police officers each detailed to round up the families in a given group of houses.

'In the case of the Karachis and the Kalmyks, the decree was formally read in the villages and each family was allowed 100 kilograms of property, including food. The inhabitants were then assembled in the fields or other where they convenient. places remained, often for a day and night, before the transport columns appeared to take them to the railroad.' The Chechnes were treated rather worse. The round-up took place when the villagers were celebrating Red Army day. Many were shot down when they pro- tested and they were allowed only 50 kilos per person. Many died during weeks-long the journey. Conquest is a leading anti- Soviet and anti-communist writer.

He makes the best of crimes and brutalities of Stalin and the bureaucracy. He tries to trace back to Lenin's time. For them Top: Khrushchev, Bulganin (In uniform) (secret police). Left: Lavrenty P. Berla, this reason, while his book con- useful information tains most about the history of the nation- alities concerned, its assumptions conclusions. have main to treated be . with considerable caution. After Stalin's death the bureau- to make amends, tried cracy carrying a certain amount out of rehabilitation and restitution far the N Caucasian as as nationalities were concerned. But no indication that there is Khrushchev anyone else or opposed Stalin's orders at the time. Some of those most closely concerned deportation with orders were shot, together with their chief, Beria, in 1953.

Others, such Serov, who as had been awarded the Order of Suvarov, First Class, and later became a Hero of the Soviet Union for his part in the de- portation of the Chechen-Ingush, continued to hold high office.

So did others who had been deeply involved. It years after the was many that deportations the bureau- cracy at last admitted that the indiscriminate accusations against the nationalities had been un- founded. A decree of 1964 re- habilitating the Volga Germans , 'arbitrariness blamed them onto during the period of the cult of Stalin's personality' withdrawing the The decree accusations against the Crimean Tartars did not come until 1967.

It said: 'After the liberation of the Crimea from the fascist occupation in 1944, accusations of the active collaboration of a section of the Tartars resident in the Crimea with the German groundlessly usurpers were levelled at the whole Tartar population of the Crimea. These indiscriminate accusations in res- pect of all the citizens of Tartar who lived in the nationality Crimea must be withdrawn, the more so since a new generation entered people has of Nevertheless, neither the Volga Germans nor the Crimean Tartars have been permitted_ to return n uniform) and Seror (centre). Seror was P. Berla, Stalin's last chief of Police, 'liquidate their former homelands. to Meskhetians, formerly The resident in Georgia, were not freed from MVD control until 1956 and even then were not allowed to return home. Like the Tartars, many have been trying to get back ever since without success. In other parts of the Soviet Union there were also deporta- tions during the war, but they did not include whole peoples.

Measures against the nationalities were part of the Stalinist terror aimed first against the Trotskyists and then against all those sus- pected including of opposition, for instance, former prisoners of war. Stalin undoubtedly feared the nationalities and simply abolished they enjoyed the rights which as a result of the policy estab- lished by Lenin after the Russian Revolution. One has only to ask whether Lenin would have taken which Stalin the measures ordered against the nationalities; in the light of his approach to national question and his the practice-including his opposition the Stalin's methods in to Caucasus - the answer is defi- nitely no. the bureaucracy, which Even supported Stalin's measures admit the time, had later to that they were senseless. It does not even try to claim that they military on were necessary of grounds or for reasons A police security. apparatus was able, during a full- which deport millions scale war, to was surely able to of people care of the minority of take that there may have traitors been. Stalin and the bureaucracy not only mistrusted the small minority nationalities, they sus- pected the Soviet as a masses whole. As a parasitic and usurp- ing caste, they can only maintain their rule by police terror and repression. And, as General Grigorenko in the course of his put it, courageous campaign on behalf of the Crimean Tartars:

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security chief, head of the 'liquidated' in 1953. Right: Joseph Stalin.

You think vou have onlv to deal with honest people. This is What was done not the case. to your nation was not done by Stalin alone. And his accomplices are not only alive but holding responsible offices' They still hold their offices.

But they have taken their revenge on Grigorenko, not with a bullet or a prison sentence, but by having him declared 'insane' by a KGB psychiatrist and put away in a mental ward. The Tartars struggle continues and today has become an important part of the opposition movement to the bureaucracy. Providing that it is used with the a full recognition of authority's hostility to Leninism, this volume, like his previous study of the provides purges, much useful information about Stalinist the crimes of the bureaucracy. There are guilty men in the British Communist Party's King St headquarters as well as in the John Kremlin. Party secretary Gollan and all the apologists for the bureaucracy's crimes must also be called to account. They must be forced to say where they stand on this question as well as on the Moscow Trials.

Honest Communist Party mem- must demand that they explain how these mass deporta- took place and why tions restitution took so long and is still not complete. They must be called to account for their own complicity in this disgraceful business. All socialists must demand the full restitution of the rights of the Tartars and other nationalities oppressed by the bureaucracy and the release of Grigorenko and other oppo- who have carried on sitionists this fight in the Soviet Union as communists and supporters of Lenin's nationalities policy.

* 'The Nation Killers' by Robert Conquest has just been published by Sphere Books Ltd at 45p.

The capable and graclous whites ins guns which faced the wrong way.

The British Empire, Part 11, entitled with unique aptness 'The Gift of Endless Dreams', contrived to plumb even more profound depths of nonsensical, anecdotal, im- pressionistic reaction. In dealing with an immense 4 and vital subject - British colonialism China and Malaysia, the rise of Japanese nationalism and the onslaught of the Pacific War-BBC producer Tom Haydon somehow managed his attention to concentrate almost entirely on the not only biased, but also exceedingly banal and boring opinions of a small upper-middle-class group English gentlemen and their ladies. Were he merely presenting an account of the exaggerated pre- tensions and inflated egos of a particular former ruling clique, a clique sheltering behind the defence mechanism of nation- alistic nostalgia, then the pro- might have gramme. passed muster: but given a vast historical panorama with which to deal. it seems possible that Tom Haydon scratched his head and came up with a few 'angles'. Haydon's mind was obviously burning with sole question: By what magic did a small group of white rulers direct thousands of square miles of territory and millions of people in relative calm, without massive revolt? The answer is not magical at all, residing as it does in the lag in consciousness of exploited peoples under certain ' historical circumstances. Tom Haydon's programme. however, painted a different picture—-that of the justice and benevolence of British colonialism. Not that Haydon questioned Mao Tse-tung's evaluation of the western colonial powers as having arrived in China 'with the Bible in one hand and opium in the other'. The facts now corroborate this view so clearly that it is the most re- accepted by even actionary of historians. But in the case of Malaya and Singapore, the intention has always been to uphold the notion of happy native peoples gov- erned by capable whites, until the Japanese came along and smashed the idyllic harmony. Haydon did

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whites Inspecting Singapore's defences Includi

BY ANNA TATE

little to dispel this view. To paraphrase Mao's dictum, Tom Haydon arrived in Singapore a BBC Producers' Hand- with book in one hand and his liberal illusions in the other. The truth is very different. In dealing with the Malaya cam- paign and the fall of Singapore, the programme did not attempt any objective analysis whatsoever.

Nothing was mentioned of the world depression which had led to the rise of Japanese nation- alism, militarism and the drive for expansion. England had for long dominated the East for profit, now Japan sought to corner those resources under the blanket of a Greater Asia Co- Prosperity Sphere. Japan, armed with the more violent openly militarism of Nippon nationalism, rapidly gained the ascendent, since the ruling class in England, and Winston Churchill in particular, preferred to disguise their ințent behind open-door policies and co-existence, as long as it was someone else's door and another country's existence. What resulted from this grossly hypocritical posture that was thousands of British working men and sent into women were suicidal holocaust, together with thousands of colonial peoples, in • of the biggest one military blunders of all time-the Malaya campaign. In the spate of post-mortems which have • been conducted on the great failure by a galaxy of colonels and brigadiers, the one blaming the others, only points of military detail have been argued, not the political implica- tions. Part ll of the British Empire series carried on that tradition. Optimism was built on the of the famous 15-Inch es Including one 'sure I am' of reassurances Winston Churchill, who was only sure of anything from a position of almost total ignorance, cloaked chauvinistic phraseology. Although the Japanese threat had not appeared overnight, but been maturing for over a decade, Churchill could still say when War brake out: 1 confess that my mind whole Japanese menace lay in a sinister twilight... If, on the other hand, Japanese aggression drew America, I would be content to have it.' The point is that the western powers had watched over the agony of the Chinese people as Japan proceeded from July 1937, to carry out a full-scale invasion of that country. The same western powers watched, without intervention and with no great sympathy; watched in the hope that Chinese resources and markets would satisfy Japanese appetites. They then exploded with self- righteous indignation, caught un- awares as Japan French overran Indo-China, proceeded on to the great rubber and tin arsenal which Malaya and from was there to the oil-rich Dutch East Indies. This was beyond the bounds of fair play. Undemocratic behaviour. Unfortunately, how- ever, it was also the logic of the capitalist system which is pro- foundly anti-internationalist and based on fierce competitiveness.

It was by deliberately drawing a blind over this logic that the Winston Churchills of the world were able to hide behind the notion of 'sinister twilights'.

This is why Churchill only heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour when his butler Sawyers brought him a radio to the dinner-table at Chequers. As one historian has described the "The BBC had beaten scene: Churchill's own intelligence ser- vice by hours, with news that came as a profound-and to Churchill an almost exhilarating Churchill led to the death of 138,708 British, Indian and Australian troops during the Malaya campaign, but this aspect situation did not pre- of the occupy Tom Haydon. For him, and for liberal thinkers like him, sentimentalism has become a substitute for history. Workers Press, S If you've been thumbing through the finance pages of various national newspapers lately, you may have come across a prominent advertise- ment for London Life Assur- ance. The advertisement is remarkable because it features a large-size photograph of Mr city Patrick Sergeant, the editor of the 'Daily Mail', and contains his personal recom- mendation for everyone to rush out and take policies with London Life. We seem to recollect the same debonair city editor also recommended Bernie Corn- feld's Investors Overseas Ser- vices (IOS) as a red hot tip.

Bernie 'Cornfeld: another hot tip One aspect of 'entry into the Common Market which shouldn't be overlooked. In a letter to the 'Economist' this week, Mr D. A. Walker of Yorkshire reveals: Sir-An interesting theory.

on one effect of Britain joining the common market: (a) Eventually the duty on wines will cease and vin ordinaire will be sold in supermarkets at around the same price as it is in France — thus becoming the drink of the working classes. (b) The predicted price rises public houses as result of them opening continental hours will push the price of beer up to the point where it is largely enjoyed solely by affluent the more sectors of society. re Press, Saturday March 25, 1872 PAGE 8 International Telephone and Telegraph; one of Ameri- ca's most powerful private communications corporations, is currently involved in a scan- dal involving top people in the Nixon administration. It has been claimed that the Justice Department's anti-trust division dropped three anti- merger suits against ITT after being favourably impressed by a donation of $400,000 to the Republican convention. The ex-head of the depart- ment, Mr John Mitchell, has stoutly denied the charges.

Which is not surprising since Mitchell resigned two weeks ago to become Nixon's cam- paign manager. And it also just so happens that Mitchell and Nixon were previously partners in the same Washington law firm. None of these scandals has seriously influenced the com- pany profitability. Last week ITT shares rose $2.6 to $61 a share. The giant conglomerate reported worldwide revenues of a record $7.35 billion in 1971, or 13 per cent above a re-stated $6.48 billion in 1970.

Its net income was up 12 per cent to $406.8m, or $3.45 a share, before an extraordinary $70m charge to reserves for the loss by expropriation of its partly-owned Chilean telephone subsidiary. Earnings in 1970 were $362.5m, or $3.14 a John Mitchell: denled charges share, adjusted to reflect com- panies acquired through pool- ing of interests. No wonder they could afford • to give way a few bucks to Nixon.

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WIDE SUPPORT FROM LABOUR MOVEMENT

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday March 25, 1972 AS JOHN BARRIE, leader of the five- week Glasgow-London Right-to-Work march said at the Empire Pool, Wembley, rally on March 12, the Young Socialists Right-to-Work cam.

paign has written an imperishable page in the history of the working class.

These marches established the in- contestable fact that the basic rights of the working class cannot be defended or extended by the traditional reformist leadership of the working class.

The campaign of slander and distortion by the right wing and the consistent-but unsuccessful—operation of the proscription list and the black circular by the Labour Party NEC and the TUC strengthened the conviction of every marcher that the creation of a new revolutionary party to lead the working class to overthrow capitalism and smash the Labour traitors was the most vital need of this epoch. To ignore or belittle this task or to object to those who try to carry it out is to betray the working class and defend bureaucracy and imperialism. This is precisely the task of 'Socialist Worker', of the International Socialism the mouthpiece After trying, unsuccessfully, to join the group. Right-to-Work marches and convert them into yet another protest against the Tories, the state fraud now capitalist tries to The Glasgow-London damn the YS campaign with a mixture of distortion, malice and faint praise. IS policy on the right to work, Michael since it flows from a completely non - Marxist reformist and Banda analysis of capitalism, is diamet- SLL and YS rically opposed to That is why there could policy. revisionists, they cannot be with this no agreement marginally solve the problem of revisionist group. unemployment. The IS position on unemploy- Does this mean that Marxists ment is based the false and oppose the struggle for the 35- the Utopian assumption that hour week or an end to overtime the capitalist system Of What working? not Course throes of a mortal and insoluble we maintain is that an exclusive determined by objective crisis reliance on these minimal trade laws and that the capitalist class demands. will confuse union be forced full can maintain workers about the nature of the through industrial employment economic crisis as well as the militancy. of and cause unemployment non-class attitude to the This ultimately lead the militants into is abundantly right to work a reformist blind alley. IS vealed the seven-point in As the Transitional Programme Industrial Conference Resolution.

of the Fourth International unemployment. on correctly states: deals la con- No productivity 'The Fourth International does venient volte-face since IS in the of not discard "minima premands the advocated acceptance past old demands the to productivity deals on the grounds have degree which these the couldn't be that such deals of their preserved at least part defeated!), a £25 minimum wage.

Indefatigably, forcefulness. week, 35-hour working no rights defends the democratic work-sharing redundancy with of and social. the conquests of and the reactionary principle workers. full work or first-in, last-out), this day-to- 'But it carries on the right (this renders to pay the framework day work within organize the work meaningless, of the correct actual, that is, the and unemployed support thoroughly Union Claimants' (a reformist exercise in condescend- nationalization and ing charity) workers' control. under Nowhere in this resolution is reference there even passing

SCOTLAND

or a demand for a campaign to Standard Telephones, and force the Tories to resign E Kilbride replace it with a Labour govern- T&GWU, Dumfries ment pledged to socialist policies.

that matter, Nor. for AUEW, Annan outline the task of authors Polkemmet Pit, W Lothian leader- revolutionary creating a for the working class. Cumnock Baroney pit ship Their leading industrial spokes- Dalkeith pit made Davison, Chris man, Massey Ferguson, Kilmarnock that there was exceedingly clear no necessity to force the Tories Ibrox bus garage, Glasgow employment and full out; that Woodside AUEW, Glasgow Toryism were compatible: Kilbowie AUEW. Glasgow 'We have to make the demand 35-hour week for a carints If the trade union. NE AnA 35-hour movement enforced NE Marine and Clarks week, it would create 1 million Swan Hunter's Wigan yard Isicl.. ('Socialist overnight' jobs 1972. Worker' February 5, Swan Hunter's naval yard what If this seems ridiculous, Revrolles of the would readers think South Shields trades council following gem: Sunderland trades council «The fastest to cut un- way Peterlee trades council today in Britain employment would be for the trade union NW fieht for end to an movement Allied Mills, Iroby Bootle to overtime working.' (January 29, Bird's Eve. 1972.) Fisher Bendix, Kirkby twaddle. This is reformist Kraft, Kirkby Under conditions of falling profit Hygena, Kirkby collapse the and rates Dickenson's. Kirkbi and credit structures monetary Otis Elevators, Kirkby of capitalism, a shorter working CAV. Liverpool week or an end to overtime will Lucas, Liverpool. only spur on the monopolists to Lockheel's, Liverpool and the intensify rationalization IRO site, Bootle of their canital-intensiveness Plessey's investments. Crompton colliery In the context in which these advanced by. the demands. are w-London Right-to-Work march revolutionary perspective. In SO far as the old, partial "minimal" demands of the masses clash with the destructive and degrad- capitalism and this occurs tendencies decadent at each step-the Fourth Inter- national advances a system of transitional demands, the essence which is contained in the fact that ever more openly and decisively they will be directed against the very basis of the bourgeois regime. The old "minimal programme" is super- transitional pro- seded by the framme, the task of which lies systematic mobilization of the masses for the proletarian revolution.' Further on Trotsky makes crystal clear the purpose of these demands: 'The question is one of guard- ing the proletariat from decay, demoralization ruin. The question is one of life or death of the only creative and pro- gressive class, and by that token of the future of mankind.

'If capitalism is incapable of satisfying the demands inevitably from the calamities arising generated by itself, then • let it "Realizability" or "un- perish. realizability" . is in the given instance a question of the re- bu Grove St building site Stanlow oil refinery site, Ellesmere Port Vauxhalls, Ellesmere Port Leyland Motors, Leyland BAC, Preston Docks, Preston Docks, Birkenhead Dunlop's, Liverpool Wigan trades council Duries site, Skelmersdale Durants. Skelmersdale

SWINDON

AUEW district committee Trades council

CSEU

British Rail works committee

YORKS

Haythorne Davey, Leeds Sumrie's, Leeds Baird's, Shipley Daniel Doncaster, Sheffield Barrow colliery, Barnsley Saville colliery, Barnsley Glasshoughton colliery, Castleford Wheldale colliery, Castleford ICI AUEW, Huddersfield Fenner's strike committee, Hull Saltend site, Hull Bird's Eye, Hull Kelley's, Chesterfield lationship of forces, which can be decided only by the struggle.

'By means of this struggle, no matter what its immediate prac- tical success may be, the workers best come to understand the necessity of liquidating capitalist slavery. ('Transitional Programme' , New Park Publica- tions, pp 15 and 17.) task of Marxists is to The integrate the minimum demands within the Transitional Pro- gramme and seek not to to counterpose the minimum to the transitional programme as the revisionists do. This slavish allegiance to the minimum programme by the IS group found its most sinister expression the miners' during Having strike. for months de- nounced the SLL demand for a campaign to force the Tories to "sectarian' 'divisive' resign as 'premature' and 'ultimatistic', the 'IS, in 'Socialist Worker' the seven-week strike did during • every- thing possible divert the to niners from the political impli- rations of the strike and confine the struggle exclusively to the question of wages.. this way the IS group In played its traditional role as a 'left' adjunct to the union bureaucracy and the greatest

OXFORD

Banbury Export Packing T&GWU stewards Morris Motors 5/55 T&GWU, Oxford 5/60 T&GWU Pressed Steel BMC Service Whitney trades council

MIDANDS

Indian Workers' Association Derby IWA, Wolverhampton Plessey's, Nottingham Nottingham busmen AUEW Coventry district committee Rolls-Royce, Ansty, Coventry Coventry district DATA British-Leyland Alvis, Coventry Keresley miners British-Leyland Transmission AUEW shop stewards, Birmingham British-Leyland Pressed Steel- Fisher, Birmingham T&GWU shop stewards Lucas AUEW shop stewards, Shaftsmoor lane, Birmingham Dunlop AUEW shop stewards, Birmingham Bentley labour club, Bentley

LONDON

Newham ASW painters and decorators POEU Post office tower branch committee opponent of socialist politics within the mining industry.

All the IS demands do not threaten the existence of this decadent system, but in fact are designed to foster illusions that . .

can be It perpetuated by militancy and more rank-and-file pressure on trade union leaders.

Now we can see clearly why the IS paper gave no publicity to the five marches and why IS members actively opposed the march in trade union branches and shop stewards' committees as in the Linwood Chrysler plant.

Their hostility makes mockery out of the Socialist Worker's' simulated concern and admiration for the YS marchers and also explains why their in anonymous correspondent, with capitalist keeping many reporters, deliberately minimized the attendance at the rally of 8,500 by as much as 3,500.

It is doubtful whether IS an although reporter was present, one was invited, since the report talks of four marches when in fact five contingents entered the Empire Pool under their own banners! (Our estimate of 8,500 is based on ticket counterfoils-.

not on inventive imagination.)

The omissions, however, are by no means the most obnoxious Foster and Wheeler's, Northfleet power station Stone Manganese Marine, Charlton. Sovex, Erith Vickers, Crayford Sainsbury's, Charlton Sainsbury's Blackfriars Triang's, S Wimbledon • Decca Radar, Battersea P. B. Cow Industrial Polymers, Streatham. Garton's Glucose, Battersea RACS, Wandsworth Ford's, Croydon Express Dairy, Cricklewood Witton James, GEC factory, Wembley POEU Met. NW branch Lucas Aerospace, NW10 Beck and Pollitzer, W Hampstead Vivasol Precision, NW10 Hendon bus garage Gestetners, Tottenham Garrick International Telephone Exchange Bellings, Enfield Brimsdown power station Vauxhall's, Luton Ford's, Basildon

BRISTOL

Rolls-Royce, Bristol BAC Bristol Smelting Works, Bristol Docks, Bristol

feature of this liberal-opportunist tendency. In keeping with state- capitalist tradition, the report continues: 'The fact is that the consider- able number of experienced industrial militants who need to be brought together into a revolutionary organization . .

were hardly represented at the rally. No doubt this was because sectarianism of the organizers in refusing to allow in the organized , participation campaign by other revolutionary organizations besides the SLL all the fantastic lies Of the IS, this certainly lays claim to be the most ludicrous.

Some 8,500 to 9,000 people mostly industrial workers with considerable industrial experience —attend a rally to declare their readiness to fight for real revolu- tionary principles and the IS states that trade unionists 'were hardly represented'! To quash this grotesque lie once and for all we publish the evidence of some of the industrial representation at the conference.

While we do are still many industrial militante admit that who still adhere to Stalinism and social democracy, we are also aware that the rally and the marches have helped to convince many such militants about the correctness of our policies and methods. That is why many Labour Parties defied. the NEC pro- scriptions and many trade union branches and trades councils turned a blind eye on the black circular of the TUC and wel- the marchers into one comed provincial town after another.

We are confident that in the coming period thousands more will rally to the banner of Trotskyism and swell the ranks of the YS and the SLL to form the revolutionary party. Intelligent and politically honest readers of the report in 'Socialist Worker' will readily is nothing more than cover for incredible distortions: 'Even more disappointing was the failure of the speakers to put forward any real programme for linking the fight against unemployment to the day-to-day struggles of organized workers on the shop floor.' (Our emphasis.)

'Any real programme'? The SLL. has been the only organization, particularly since the July measures of Wilson in 1966, to relate the fight against daily unemployment to struggle against inflation, inten- sified exploitation, etc.

Before the ATUA was formed, its predecessor, the Oxford Liaison Committee, outlined a programme for this struggle. At every stage we were opposed by the IS group, who viciously attacked the SLL demand for the replacement of Wilson by a new leadership. They collaborated openly with the Stalinists and the Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions in opposing every lobby of the YS against the Prices and Incomes Act. In the fight against Barbara Castle's anti-union White Paper, these rascals covered up the TUC through their support for the Liaison Committee.

Today the only comprehensive programme for the working class which links the struggle for political power with the daily struggles of the trade unions is the Draft Manifesto of the ATUA and the Charter of Basic Rights. The Draft Manifesto begins correctly by spelling out the political and economic implica- tions of entry into the Common Market and the consequences of the Roy Jenkins-Heath alliance for the labour movement. This is crucial to the under- standing of : the situation in Britain and the tasks of building an alternative leadership to Wilson. It is instructive-if not revealing—that for all their demagogic talk, the IS could not take a decisive stand on the Market. Common *How can i socialists' remain indifferent to the greatest con- spiracy of the European mono- polies to drive living down standards, create mass unemploy- smash trade union ment and organizations? Tell us Mr Protz!

The IS programme, since it is from the strategy of separated taking power and building an alternative leadership in the class, actually retards the development of socialist consciousness, enables to remain in the right wing opens the door for power and fascism and war. That is the meaning of the : IS attack on the Empire Pool " rally.-

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ANTI-UNION LAW

HITS PORTWORKERS

- PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday March TRANSPORT and General Workers Union secretary Jack Jones heard Tory Transport Minister John Peyton claim at a port employers' lunch in London yesterday industry could not afford to carry surplus labour.

Peyton praised the govern- ment's decision to give more cash to the National Dock Labour he said, this Board because, would enable 'improvements ir

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION B!

DOCKLAND - already simmering towards a national strike in a fort- night's time — has been brought to boiling point by the first-ever order of the National Industrial Relations Court against a trade union. The order is a temporary one telling the Transport and General Workers' Union to stop its docker members in Liverpool blacking' con- tainers handled by a local transport firm. But next Monday the order could be made permanent, open- ing • T&GWU leaders Jack Jones and Tim O'Leary to the threat if they refused of imprisonment to comply with it. A second threat they face is of considerable discontent in the ranks of the road-transport sec- of their union, caused by tion their own opportunist policies.

The NIRC has brought several long-forgotten chickens home to roost. Containerization is a key issue in the row over dock jobs which to halt the industry • threatens from April 7. According to G. E. 'Bill' Tonge, of the National the chairman Association of Port Employers, containers, pallets, roll-on roll- off and other new cargo-handling techniques bear chief responsi- cut-back of job bility for the opportunities this year. Nationally 3,000 jobs are threatened.

The haggle about whose job it is to load and unpack con- tainers - giant, reinforced metal boxes carrying 20 or 30 tons of cargo at a time-has been going on at least five years. Its first major outburst 1n Britain, however, was when the , of Liverpool to a port came standstill in July 1969 over the use of non-registered labour at a container base in nearby Aintree.

It was in the course of that strike that dockers first came up

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lay March 25, 1972 scheme for ral the severance registered dock workers'.

He warned: 'We must not lull ourselves into the belief that in the modern world industry can carry labour surpluses and avoid being fatally weakened as a result. • It is here that the National Dock Labour Board and the local boards have a great responsibility and the onerous task of fixing the size of the register. I believe that if the scheme were operated by all concerned

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leaders' looking against their both ways on the issue. In May 1968, three T&GWU officials — Jones (then assistant general secretary), dock secretary O'Leary and Ken Jackson, the recently-resigned, road-transport secretary — signed an agreement Sir Andrew Crichton's with Containerbase Federation.

This provided for the Aintree manned by non- depot to be registered labour: lorry drivers rather and general labourers than dockers. But the first the dockers themselves heard of it was when the deal was repro- duced in the local press at the start of their strike. Nothing was really settled by the formula which ended that strike after four davs: Crich- ton's agreement remained intact.

And although a whole series of unofficial stoppages, one-day .other actions token strikes and have taken place since then, the issue is still not resolved.

On Monday and Tuesday of Liverpool dockers last week, campaign aimed opened at ensuring that work on loading unloading of containers was and carried out by registered labour.

T&GWU members had formed a joint committee of dockers and road-transport men to launch the campaign. They made the point in broadsheet that the answer to the problem could not be found by Merseysiders alone. 'The exercise on March 20 is platform for. designed as. national action,' they said.

From that date hauliers operating from Merseyside docks were invited by the T&GWU to asreement. The main sign an clause read: 'It is agreed that the company will not undertake a work con- that would involve the tract stuffing and stripping of con- tainers, other than those done by of customers' labour at point manufacture or reception (this being work normally done by • registered dock workers), with- out prior consultation with the appropriate officer of the union.'

Heaton's Transport (St Helens) is a and Ltd transport ware- housing firm. It delivers and

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with determination and goodwill it could be the means of provid- ing the ports with an efficient labour force of the right size?

Peyton said the employers have made progress in tightening up on the docks, but he stressed that there was still a need for employers to rationalize their •own numbers. 'Things are a good deal easier and 'simpler when the whole operation, shed and ship, quay: shore vehicle is carried out by one operator who controls all -the labour force and equipment.'

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from the collects containers dock and has containers brought to its warehouse for packing and unpacking. On Monday the firm, whose of drivers members are arrived

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Gladstone at Dock, Liverpool, with a con- tainer. They were refused per- mission to unload because the company had not signed the agreement. The same thing , happened on Tuesday. Managing director Heaton Robert Samuel then decided to use the Industrial Relations Act against the union.

Things moved swiftly. day That same • the firm's solicitors applied to the National Industrial Relations Court for an interim order against the union.

sought three The company remedies in court: a declaration that the T&GWU's action was unfair: an injunction to compel , the T&GWU to stop the action compensation for traffic lost as a result of the 'blacking'.

Only 48 hours after the soli- 'citors sent their letter a hearing was arranged at the NIRC for Thursday at 2 D.m. By 4.15 p.m.

order chad been interim the granted. which is un- The union, registered, made no appearance in court which is its privilege.

President, Sir The John Donaldson, eventually returned prima facie case of to say a unfair action by the union had been made out under S 96(1) of the Act. The clause reads: It shall be an unfair industrial practice for any person, in con- templation or furtherance of an industrial dispute, knowingly to or threaten induce induce • to another person to break a con- tract to which that other person is a party, unless the person SO inducing or threatening to induce the breach of contract- a) is a trade union or an em- ployers' association, or b) does so within the scope of his authority on behalf of a trade or an employers' associ- union ation. Sir that T&GWU ohnsaid officials had knowingly sought, on the face of it, to induce Heaton's drivers to break a contract which Heaton's had with another com- pany, namely to deliver containers to Liverpool docks. As far as this section was con- trade union meant cerned, registered union. So the T&GWU, which remains unregistered, did not fall within the scope of sub- section (a). An interim order made was against the T&GWU in London instructing them to tell their Liverpool members to call off the "blacking', until the case could in full on Monday be heard March 27. The T&GWU is not compelled to make an appearance at the NIRC. But if the order is made permanent they will be in con- tempt of court if they do not comply with it. The question of compensation also comes up on Monday. In taking the T&GWU to the court, Robert Heaton has placed before the leadership of Britain's biggest union precisely the sort of challenge it wants to avoid.

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The Docks and ‚Waterways Committee has now dropped from its programme of SEMI-SKILLED workers at Bred- The decision national executive. steel works, Stockport, could take up to two weeks.

bury Cheshire, waiting anxiously were yesterday to hear whether their

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engineering tool- union would back their occup- and makers press setters at ation with strike pay: Long Eaton, Derbys, are Pressac, Doherty, ex-steel Andy an on official strike for a £3-a-week worker, and Stockport claim. pay General Municipal of the and Workers' Union, said a request for £6 a week dispute benefit for Lucas to before the the men was now raise cash LUCAS, the car components firm have announced £30m cash- raising operation by offering shareholders one new share for every five currently held at 380p.

About f11m would go towards redacing bank and borrowing short-term loans and the re- mainder will be used for increas- ing working capital and im- proving manufacturing facilities.

Lucas that reported profits for the six months to the end of January had hit new half-time peak of £8,812,000, an of £1,739,000 the increase over period last year. Group sales increased by £7.1m to £164m. demands the immediate on its call for general jobs issue of nationalization the industry. So unofficial national has the stewards' committee.

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Yet this is now crucial. In London, there are currently 604 unattached on the men The Hull figure is 273. register. Employers the capital's in OUR total now stands at £706.46 docks forecast that by enciesed and we have seven more days they will have a surplus June to the end of the month. We ask addition of 1,097 dockers, in to all of you, to help our readers, the men already in the pool.

with a big effort this week- us This figure includes up to 100 end to complete our target on men employed by T. Wallis Smith time. Coggins and Southern Stevedores, the As employers become strengthened by the use of the still whose are going Act, all the the Industrial Relations through procedure under 1947 Dock Labour Scheme. forces of the working class are needed more than ever to fight But the first group- about 50- back. Workers Press is vital to strong-have now become a test fight. So go all out today. this for the whole industry. case Don't waste a moment. Collect they become unattached on April much for our major port could stop as as can

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