Workers Press no. 736

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MERSEYSIDE dockers yesterday defied the National Industrial Re- lations Court and main- tained their "black' on a company's lorry fleet. All the wheels are now in motion for the first major battle over the Industrial Relations Act.

The dispute has already led to a £5,000 fine on the Transport and General Wor- kers' Union, and a threat that all the union's assets will be seized if it refuses to pay. It appeared yesterday after- noon that St Helens officials of the T&GWU had failed in attempts to arrange a last-ditch the meeting with docks stewards to prevent the dispute escalating further. Meanwhile in London, Attor- ney-General Sir Peter Rawlin- son stepped with both feet into the row when he told the House of Commons that the NIRC was 'the law of the land, and a court of the land'. It was the duty of everyone to obey its orders as they would those of any other court of the land, he said.

Yesterday morning, dockers at Birkenhead and the Alexandra dock, Liverpool, turned away two lorries belonging to Heaton's Transport (St Helens) Ltd.

They were carrying out the decision of a mass meeting on Sunday, which voted unani- mously to continue the black on Heaton's, Bishop's Wharf Ltd of Warrington and Craddock's, a in Midlands firm with a base

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NT Bootle. It was also agreed the further penalized for maintaining the black. The previous day, a Liverpool meeting of docks' shops stewards from all Britain's major ports voted to extend the black nation- ally. And it seems likely that national strike action could fol- low if any Liverpool men are singled out by the courts.

At the root of the dispute is rst dockers' fear of mass redundancy and attacks on wages as a result of the increasing use of cargo- containers. A joint committee of dockers and road-transport workers began

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seeking road-haulage firms' agree- Tomorrow the NIRC will make ment to two conditions: the pack- a final decision whether the blacking is unfair u ing and unpacking of containers under the Act. dockers' and If it should be work, decided this is the case be paid no less drivers should and the blacking continues, the £21-£24 than week basic. union could unlimited refused face an Heaton's and fine. to sign were blacked. It is also the last day tomor- On March 23, the

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on which union can Heaton's granted temporary show why it should appear to order telling the T&GWU to stop not have to pay the fine.

the black on the grounds it was If it neither appears nor pays, on the face of it an 'unfair indus- a March 29 order of the NIRC trial practice' under the Act.

comes into force. This states that The £5,000 fine imposed was in three weeks time the bailiffs for contempt of court when the will move in on all the T&GWU's 'protected' blacking and the both and continued assets

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refused unprotected the to give and exact evidence. £5,000.

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ROY JENKINS MP announced last night he is resigning deputy Labour Party leader. It is expected he will now aid the government in pushing through its Common Market plans. Ulster Unionists and disaffected Tories thought likely to are oppose Heath over the issue of a referendum on the Common Mar- ket. Last night Jenkins called parliamentary lobby journalists to a meeting in Commons. Some of the 'blacked' Heaton lorries inside the firm's St Helens, Lancs, depot.

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1046750 A PICKET was staged out- side S Africa House in Trafal- gar Square, London, yester- day demanding the release of people jailed under the fascist-style Terrorism Act.

Sentences ranged from five eight for crimes' years which amounted to no more than raising funds and provid- ing hospitality. All the convicted belong to the Unity Movement of S Africa. A leaflet distributed by the Anti-Apartheid Movement said that early last year some 200 people rounded up by were Vorster's police in an attempt to smash the movement.

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workers press

TRANSPORT

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

MERSEYSIDE dockers yesterday defied the National Industrial Re- lations Court and main- tained their "black' on a company's lorry fleet. All the wheels are now in motion for the first major battle over the Industrial Relations Act.

The dispute has already led to a £5,000 fine on the Transport and General Wor- kers' Union, and a threat that all the union's assets will be seized if it refuses to pay. It appeared yesterday after- noon that St Helens officials of the T&GWU had failed in attempts to arrange a last-ditch meeting the docks with stewards to prevent the dispute escalating further. Meanwhile in London, _Attor- ney-General Sir Rawlin- Peter son stepped with both feet into the row when he told the House of Commons that the NIRC was 'the law of the land, and a court of the land'. It was the duty of everyone to obey its orders as they would those of any other court of the land, he said.

Yesterday morning, dockers at Birkenhead and the Alexandra dock, Liverpool, turned away two to Heaton's lorries belonging Transport (St Helens) Ltd.

They were carrying out the decision of a mass meeting on Sunday, which voted unani- mously to continue the black on Heaton's, Bishop's Wharf Ltd of Craddock's, Warrington and with a base Midlands firm

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Bootle. It was also agreed the port would stop if union mem- bers are further penalized for maintaining , the black. The previous day, a Liverpool meeting of docks' shops stewards from all Britain's major ports voted to extend the black nation- ally. And it seems likely that national strike action could fol- low if any Liverpool men are singled out by the courts.

At the root of the dispute is dockers' fear of mass redundancy and attacks on wages as a result of the increasing use of cargo- containers. A joint committee of dockers and road-transport workers began

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6D32836 seeking road-haulage firms' agree- Tomorrow the NIRC will make ment to two conditions: the pack- a final decision the on whether ing and blacking is 'unfair' unpacking of containers under the Act. should be dockers' and If decided work, it this is the case drivers should be paid no less and the blacking the continues, £21-£24 than reused week basic. union could face unlimited an Heaton's and fine. to sign were blacked. It is also the last day • Tomor On March 23, the

NIRC

row which the union can granted Heaton's show should temporary appear to why it order telling the T&GWU to stop not have to pay the fine.

the • black the grounds on was If it neither appears nor pays, on the face of it an 'unfair indus- a March 29 the

NIRC

order of trial practice' under the Act. comes into force. This states that fine was The £5.000 imposed bailiffs three weeks' time the for contempt of court when the will move in on all the T&GWU's blacking continued and the assets both 'protected' and

T&GWU

refused give unprotected and exact the evidence. £5.000. ROY JENKINS MP announced last night he is resigning as deputy Labour Party leader. It is is Coment in pusbing through expected he now aid the its Common Market plans. Ulster Unionists and disaffected Tories thought likely to are oppose Heath over the issue of a referendum on the Common Mar- ket. Last night. Jenkins called parliamentary lobby journalists to a meeting in Commons. Some of the 'blacked' Heaton St lorrles Inside the firm's Halons, Lance, depot.

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A PICKET was staged out- side S Africa House in Trafal- Square, , London, yester- gar day demanding the release of 13 people jailed under the fascist-style Terrorism Act.

Sentences ranged from five for 'crimes' eight years which amounted to no more than raising funds and provid- ing hospitality. All the convicted belong to the Unity Movement of S Africa. A leaflet distributed by the Anti-Apartheid Movement said that early last year some 200 people rounded up by were Vorster's police in an attempt to smash the movement. ThE

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ARGENTINE General Juan Carlos Sanchez, commander of the second army corps based in Rosario, was assassinated yesterday, the government news agency Telam reported.

Telam said General, Sanchez, who was in charge of anti- guerrilla activities in the Rosario area, was mown down by machine-gun fire. Sanchez' main task was to track down the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), an urban guerrilla force led Pabloite revisionists, which is currently holding Fiat execu- tive Oberdan Sallustro. frequently The ERP had accused Sanchez of responsi- bility for torturing captured ERP members.

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PRESIDENT Nixon has signed a Bill authorizing the five-year loan of ten destroyers and

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Turkey, submarines Spain, to Greece. S Korea and Italy.

Spain, which will receive five destroyers and two submarines, and Italy, which will receive two will provide the submarines, funds to operate their ships, the Florida White House said at the weekend. Greece, which will receive will be given two destroyers, money for crew training. Turkey, with a destroyer and two sub- marines, and S Korea, with two destroyers, will receive US mili- funds. Some tary assistance $32m was provided in the Bill.

THE 15-YEAR friendship and co-operation treaty signed in Iraq at the weekend by Soviet premier Alexci Kosygin is the latest fruit of the Kremlin's treacherous Middle-East policy.

The pact, similar to agree- and India, ments with Egypt gives the Soviet Union an out- let to the Persian Gulf, where the port of Umm-Qasr will be the disposal of Soviet put at warships. It provides for co-ordination in the political field through regular consultations and for strengthen- ing the two sides defence capa- bility. Neither side may join an alliance or take part in acts which are hostile to the other.

that 'there The treaty states shall develop comprehensive co- operation between the two coun- and peoples in the poli- tries tical, economic, scientific, cultural basis of and other fields on respect for the sovereignty of the state and non-interference in each others' internal affairs'.

The price for this accord between the Kremlin and Iraq's Ba'athist rulers is to be paid by the Iraq Communist Party, which is now completely subordinated politically to the ruling party.

The Ba'athists have held power for nine years. In 1963 they overthrew General Kassem, who was supported uncritically by the ensuing repression, CP. In the thousands of CP members were others tortured and murdered, imprisoned, and the Party out- lawed. Some of the CP leaders have only recently been released from prison to take part in a national front with their Ba'athist jailers . pro-Mos- and the leaders of the cow Kurdish Democratic Party.

Their former comrades of the Communist Party of Iraq (Revo- lutionay Group) who split with the pro-Moscow CP five years ago to demand the overthrow of the Ba'athists are still in jail.

The bourgeois character of the Ba'athist Party is evident from this description by a commen- tator in the French newspaper 'Le Monde': 'The Ba'ath [Party] is made up of various elements: military men of ; conseryative. and, religibus,..'f views: small capitaists won over у April 11, 1972

BY FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

N VIETNAM yesterday clain the air while in the S the Liberation Front said 3,500 Sai had been killed, wounded or c ing near the capital. Radio Hanoi, monitored two US Navy jets were shot Vinh Linh, the largest city ir N Vietnam. This brings the N Vietnamese score of downed US aircraft to 3,' giant B-52 bombers which the US bombing the N. by the idea of Arab unity, but over-radical opposed (0 any support- socialism: intellectuals humanism" inf "Ba'athist which has only too often been discredited by police measures which have little in common with the ideal... Other elements include: 'Ideo- logists of Marxist theories, aim- ing at a socialist society which account of will take specific Arab conditions'. It is difficult, 'Le Monde' says, to see how this last category can co-exist with elements inspired by national-socialist ideas, who have as fascists.' often been described The dangers of the CP's • national front with a party whose members range from so-called •Arab Marxists' to outright fas- is obrious. The Stalinist cists leaders of the pro-Moscow wing delude their followers into accepting the front by raising the spectre of a right-wing coup.

Monde 'Le CP quotes central committee to the effect that a 'putsch' by the conserva- tises cannot be ruled out, the speak of manoeuvres petroleum companies. The Stalinist leader goes on to explain that only a national front will make it possible to mobilize the masses, who, in this way.

will feel themselves to be repre- sented in the centre of government'. 'peaceful co-existence thed undef to the Wedded under pressure from the Kremlin to co-operate with the Ba'athists, the Iraqi Stalinists have obliterated the most important lesson of the bloody events in the Sudan last July. The presence of four Sudan members in dictator Num- CP eiry's Revolutionary Command not inhabit the Council did Sudanese military from brutal repressions against the party and the trade unions. The Iraqi Stalinists: are even more accommodating than their counterparts in the Sudan.

They have said that they will co- operate with the Ba'athists even if they don't get seats in the government. Their collaboration with the butchers of the Iraqi working is prepating a' Sudan-style.

bloodbath in Iraq. ay claimed more successes in S the Vietnamese National ,500 Saigon government troops led or captured in heavy fight- nitored in Hong Kong, said e shot down during a raid on : city in the southern part of tnamese anti-aircraft brigades' total aft to 3,467, including three of the • the US admitted yesterday were Yesterday, N Vietnam also reported heavily damaging four US warships which were shell- ing coastal areas of Quang Binh province. Several US officers and cones ите monk бла и risoners in the hands of N Viet namese forces advancing down the strategic Highway 13 from the Cambodian border, towards Saigon. The fall of Loc Ninh, a rubber plantation town along the High- way, heavily defendad by S Viet namese™* troops, been con- firmed by both sides. President Nguyen van Thieu's persenal guard was on its way to relieve Loc Ninh before the town fell. In the fighting. below the demilitarized zone, the S Viet- namese produced two obsolete Soviet tanks which they claimed to have captured in a tank battle outside Quang Tri. On the strength of this slander evidence, the S Vietnamese com- mander boasted: 'We have beaten General Giap.' Nobody else, least of all the puppet-masters in Washington, takes this extra- vagant claim seriously. The N Vietnamese forces are working their way southwards towards the ancient capital of Huć, while in the central high- lands, Kontum, another key city, is threatened. President Nixon's spokesmen in Washington have repeated his not be thrown into to defend the Saigon battle regime. But his use of B-52 bombers ever the N indicates that the US must pull out all the other stops at its disposal to stave off a crushing defeat for its allies in Saigon. PATHAN leader Khan Wali th . Khan, who proclaimed a breakaway government in Pa Pakistan's NW Frontier Pro- vince at the weekend, held talks with President Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in Rawalpindi yesterday. With the Khan was Maulana whom he Mutti Mahmoud, named as chief minister in his unilateral declaration to a mass rally in the provincial capital Peshawar. Mufti heads the left-of-centre Jamiat • Ulema Islam Party (JUI).

Wali Khan said at the weekend

BY JOHN SPENCER

AN openly racialist campaign the United States is being v revisionists of the Socialist W in political solidarity with the Group in Britain. presidential candidate

SWP

Andrew Pulley spoke in favour of such a party at the recent Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana. His speech makes it abund- antly clear the SWP has aband- oned completely the struggle to break the working class from the two big business parties by raigour Party based on the trade demand raising unions. i He accepts the division of the working class along racialist lines. He told the Convention that: 'Over the past few years, black GIs, black students, black workers and now black prisoners have organized themselves inde- action pendently and taken to redress their grievances.

It is time to generalize from these struggles and establish an independent black community [i.e.' for black capitalists as well workers], that is, black as Black Party.' Convention, said, The he should declare its opposition to both the Republican and Demo- cratic Parties and .. develop strategy for organizing a masses of our people [sic] into for black control of struggles the black community. It is a bourgeois demand which has nothing in common with the interests of the working class, black or white. It is raised by the SWP right at the time when the organized workers are moving major into political battles with the Nixon govern- ment which clearly pose the sid SOVIET President Nikolae Podgorny arrives in Ankara, capital of the Turkish military state today for a seven-day state visit. One major objective of his visit is a mutual pact of non- aggression between the two His host, president countries. Cevdet Sunay, is deeply engaged crush the in. a campaign workers' movement in Turkey following the kidnapping of three technicianns by left-wing

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guerrillas. Sunay has called for a period of rule by government decree to strengthen law and order and has asked political parties to suspend extra-parliamentary activities.

in the ali that all decisions taken province must be with the con- sent of his National Awami in Party and the JUI. No con- spiracy to change this fact could be tolerated, he declared.

His announcement marked the failure of weekend negotiations with Bhutto in Peshawar. The divisions between Wali

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ZANZIBAR leader Sheikh Abeid Karume was buried in a Moslem ceremony on the island yester- day close to the spot where he - was assassinated by: right-wing emigrés on Friday evening.

impaign for a 'Black Party' in being waged by the Pabloite ialist Workers Party, who are with the International Marxist Presidential candidate Andrew Pulley urgent question of building a Labour Party to express the poli- tical independence of all sections of workers. The SWP's policy, because it cuts straight across the unity of the working • class, deludes the black workers into believing they can achieve emancipation along- the side the black employers.

The President urged that the decree powers should be granted to Prime Minister Nihat Erim's government to combat 'continu- ing anarchy, violence and sabot- age'. Dr Erim has said the country was face to face with an inter- national communist plot 'which bring Turkey down on wants to its knees'. Talks by political parties on President Sunay's proposals are expected to continue while the Soviet leader is in Turkey.

The President's proposal has been rejected by all four major Turkish parties — the Justice Party, Peoples Republican Party, Democratic Party and the 'the National Confidence Party.

Khan and Bhutto apparently centre on the latter's plan to extend martial law until mid- August. Wali Khan's weekend declara- tion appears to be a negotiating manoeuvre, but it must encour- the long-standing Pathan age separatist movement in the NW Frontier province.

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Exiled Zanzibarians who sup- port the deposed Sultan have claimed responsibility for the killing. Karume's assassins were in, gun battles themselves, shot over the weekend.

Crucial issues before AUEW National Committee Workers Pres

AN INTERVIEW BY STEPHEN JOHNS

IN SIX DAYS' time one of fight for higher wages, called after a ballot coula only be week, longer holidays, can be won of the membership. the most powerful bodies in throughout the industry. In parti- have had the case when the the British trade union wil be asked National SO UCLeO can the union's Manchester.

Executive to national strike noW call a will meet movement to membership supported by without a ballot, when they felt time did not allow for one.

decide future committee? that strategy 'But One who will lay down interpretaton, or ruies against the employers. was challenged by some members challenge Is Dill Anten-one or the in They got a ruling which court. two delegates from the Manchester This is the Amalgamated should and the convenor of Hawker said that there been area Union of Engineering Workers' tinien would be forced to have nee Siddeley's time or a pant at wood- National Committee a lay ford, near Stockport. Secondly, whole argues body of delegates comprised On Thursday evening Bill Anten led his 1,000 members first from all the important engineer- in the proved 'abortive' in the past.

occupation in the fm's historv.

ing areas of the country.

'You can go back to the negotia- In interview at the Stockport of that date tions Since we But this year's committee will be

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told Deadeuarters. mme had a total of £2 added to the basic It is likelv to that the Manchester delegates would one wilea «hrerence rate. sune •est aremauve to rus take place in the midst of the battle be emergency the kind of action initiated in Man- between Britain's 'We will now raging seeking chester. I don't agree with the for the toughest bosses in the Engineering division by-plant method of fighting,* allow- Employers' Federacion and the the National Committee. we will be cach stewara to pur in a Claim

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seeking for the at his own plant. whole country themselves 'This is The of attention will be and the claim will tend to be dis.

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volvea to sae creame 20,000 Manchester. wnere over chester,' he told me workers locked-out sipated. are Did this the Manchester 'We will ask National Committee their factories in support delěgates be the to recommend to each other district would asking ol a pay call Committee importance. National

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national strike action? The burning issue before the the type of action " Ihs zs now Mr Anten says no. what recommended by the National Com- National wil be Firstly, he argues a national strike action can it take to ensure the mittee.

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BILL ANTEN'S interview with Workers Press raises many of the key issues facing next week's AUEW National Committee. workers in the union's Manchester divi- Twenty thousand sion are now engaged in sit-in strikes in support of the national pay claim 'drawn up by the committee 12 months ago.

reported last Friday Anten's second-line argu- As we resolution tabled by the ment is that nationa. negotiations have in any case proved abortive division for discussion

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1958, adding only f2 to since week calls for national action that time. the basic rate in in support of the claim. But it But this of a The result seems likely from Mr disastrous

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series Anten's remarks that concluded first the deals, could be withdrawn com- leadership under the or right-wing posited out of existence.

late Lord Carron and then by the leadership His central argument against fight

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president Hugh 2-out

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at the committee is that Scanlon in Since the union could face intervention there has not been national involving the union TOnn

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calls the strike without balloting membership. membership. argument is then brought what is currently forward that in Manchester is the experience the happening. 1968, when such strike call 'best alternative', and that other THIS STRIKE is now in- 'It has now come down to a The areas should be recommended to challenged under was rule. definite' was the branch message Gora Sale call president Alf Fellows. *The firm rule says tne committee cal take from meeting of mass strike when 'in their • opinion The vital difference opened up the Thursday after the berweer would not allow this and national strike action, Birmingham Battery workers time holidays, thinking few course, is that only the most yesterday. back. Wolle Crawle DUl none did. court claimed there was time.

tightly-organized, most powertul The men voted unanimously With the Industrial Relations factories in the most tightly When this is made official, I National powerful areas on a proposition from works law and the organized, most 10W Tisdell Industrial Relations very will come out. The vast majority convenor Les nOt much in there is engineering meet again until the company workers will doubt which judiciary left prey to the threats of un- way comes forward with an offer.

the Industrial a similar and employment wou• rue on 1004C Until now the 300 men have Keatons ACL meeting regularly to review been If such a course does become the of Manchester consideration committee, the policy DOSILIOn, DuL Cull Dally has yet to make firm ofter week, let any division however, Is nor exactle neXL in reply to a demand for f6 kind of retreat before the quite clear this will same that be 35-hour rise, week and im- was carried proved holidays. government as etreat. I ory and organized the national •UI claim in the first place?

expect lougnt lor by many serious men- men noW that was bers of the Communist Party. AUEW national executive, due to correct, This allowed meet in London tonight, to make why is Mr Anten's own factory must not the four-week-old strike official.

now sitting in? Havock. STRONG backing for the Tories' Savings banks. these deals made agency-shop arrangements has in the Federation Industrial Relations with employers of Bakers come roma branco or te co- vo-op operative movement. has received an application from ence in June, the union's leaders The Co-op bank has concluded the Bakers' Union for strongly for remaining an agency argue shop in CWS retail bakeries.

on the lory register in order agency

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arreement available only to unions regis- The fate this application, continue these arrangements.

under the Act- with the which would also involve the Under the Act, an agency- Union Shop, deal Union of Bank of Distributive and shop means that workers Employees. nanos on wnerset emer dave

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which has 1,300 mem- not the

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conference the registered union concerned, bers in the Co-op bank, has also lecides to register or not under fee to it in lieu of pay mem- negotiated agency she Trustee donate the money to

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the 'Y'orkshire and the But the bakers have already an agreed charity. rkors Pross, Tuozday April 11, 1972 PAGE 3 in the country to put in their own claim using the tested tactics of the Manchester area. "The shop stewards should be given the go-ahead to take action like we have done. I don't think there is anything wrong in shop stewards getting together in any one district and putting forward a district claim.

We will be asking the National Com- mittee to initiate this kind of action.

To Bill Anten this is the best way of getting country-wide action on the claim. "The employers are determined to hold out in this area of Manchester.

They have made it quite plain that it is not only a matter of the money involved, but that this district claim is a disguised national claim. Well we make no apologies. This is the national claim and now it must be taken up elsewhere' What then about the Sheffield where an area has re- situation, treated from the brink of district action to accepting the executive edict for plant-by-plant battles?

don't know what Sheffield should have done. I believe there was once a proposal for district national executive's role was there, but I do know that I have no com- plaints over their action in Man- chester-they have endorsed our action to the full' think the firm will come forward with some kind of an offer.'

• In tomorrow's Workers Press we carry a special interview with Kieran Quinn, a fitter's mate, and one of the men the 'Battery' is cial, I trying to defeat.

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

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

If you want a copy of the Draft Manifesto write to the Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani- festo discussion. TOM McBRIDE the N London mender district council of the National Union of Railwaymen, he works We • We need an a party. to make people conscious of the whole poli- Testation That The only body I know of which these consistently explaining ex posite ine present Labour and trade union leaders is the Socialist Labour League.

Common I'm against the Market right through the whole issue. with the this, I think, I'm in line of the whole position and the movement executive of the Labour Party who've out against. even, come the work- British entry won't do ing class any good at all.

Market is just The Common another profit-making scheme it's But

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tue cabilalist Class. also move pittie en capitalist forces in Europe coming together to block ana combat any moves moar are made by organized workers as whole. This will become much more the trace movement as time passes. We've Pore preme neg venge been pre this government's reign. You in the way prices. can see have shot up. You've only got to go to Holland France. Belgium or see what the cost of living will be the Market; frankly, don't know how they Hualde there. opposing We Comanin When mann Maker about however, we ElST renenoci the Labour leaders them- Nei did wison hor ange of his when they selves were pals is against entry on Drin- They just say they're ciple. terms negotiated opposed to the by Rippon. But if they'd been in power they'd be in like a shot. you've got Jenkins and Then the 69 renegades We're supposed to live in a Common other countries in the decides to go into Europe with- al- democracy, these people are Market, the type of machinery out any mandate at all from the people of this country? Britain is relatively anuquated that in the trade been more. They're not competitive They'll known that I've often this has ment. been It's well swamped with goods fron London been Heath's subject for abroad. district council, but I've accepted years. If he's got „ne choice to the majority vie decision. and abided by make, he'll for entry every They'll drive all the small firms completely bust and leave the big monopo- But lies-the only ons who will bene- But how can I, in the rank and against the feeling fit-with a clear field. file, believe in democracy in the majority. the Labour movement when The people must have their Then they'll really use unem- highest likes of lenkins we allow "ters to be ployment, if say. leve!s are ignoring it and flouting They'll force workers We should have some form of it? really mobile in referendum. But when say believe that these people work. They won't be worried what I'm really referendum, should either expelled, about me as a skilled person or their constituency parties should something that laiking Ca DOT IS where I'm from. raises all the issues of a General decide believe they Election. And then they'll find candi- Inese people are suitable solution to these Unemployment would be really occupations. dates, what they did last You can see it now, in all the gross if we went in—it would be October and that ese perple m back the 1930s with a time. how salone vengeancé. all that. These people the working man be expected to taken up and against Compared with many of the be used believe in democracy when Heath

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National Co November 6, 1971 Digbeth Hall, Digbeth their own kind. we're faced with all When these threats, we've got to be completely socialist and inter- nationalist in our outlook. Quite regardless of the differences be- tween us we've got to be united if we're to stand up to the capitalist class. The miners have shown the way to the working class.

If their leaders had stuck out, I think they would have won really their full whack and the Tory government. shaken Maybe it wouldn't have brought them down-Heath's word is law in the Tory party-but another week and he'd have had to pay up or go to the country. The engineers' leaders and my own union, however, have shown marked reluctance to follow up

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I Conference Digbeth Birmingham this. And on now you can already see the government and the employers starting to imple- ment the Industrial Relations Act. You've got places in my own district where it's becoming difficult to recruit because of the Act; and as yet we're only in the first stages. Now you've got this £5,000 fine the Transport and on General Workers' Union. In my opinion a special TUC should be recalled in this new situation, and the proposition of action to force a General Elec- tion debated. The SLL has got to get more into the trade union movement its voice heard. It and make must make itself a force to be reckoned with.

BY JOHN SPENCER

The Soviet Union is mount- ing a veritable diplomatic blitzkrieg in Asia which has risen to a crescendo since US President Nixon's visit to China. The Kremlin is pressing for the convening of an Asian col- lective security conference to formalize peaceful co-existence' throughout the continent.

Its actions are motivated largely by fear of an alliance between China and the United States, and it is actively trying to win the various states in the region to its own sphere of influence. The other and even more sinister motive behind the Soviet bureaucracy's plan is the fear of revolution in Asia. Though the USSR supported India in the war to liberate Bangla Desh, it is determined to shore up the shaky Awami League regime headed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman against the revolutionary threat from his own workers and peasants. Similarly, though it has sup- plied a certain amount of military aid to N Vietnam, the Soviet bureaucracy has been accused by Prince Sihanouk, leader of the Cambodian : National Liberation Front, of starving the liberation forces of arms so as to prolong the war. The Soviet government recog- nizes the Us puppet regime o Lon No. in Cambodia and its ambassador is accredited to the beleaguered puppet capital of Phnom Penh. The world crisis and the mounting revolutionary move- ment in Asia has deepened the divisions between the counter- revolutionary Stalinist bureau- cracies in Peking and Moscow.

The Sino-Soviet divisions came most pointedly over the out Indo-Pakistan war last Decem- ber. The revealed India war firmly within the Soviet diplo- matic sphere, largely through a mutual hostility to China, which backed Pakistan. of the Indian The victory troops and the establishment of state of Bangla Desh the new important gain for the was an Kremlin, which supplied the Indian army during the war. But it was a two-edged victory.

While it cemented the Kremlin's alliance with Mrs Indira Gandhi and Sheikh Mujib, it unleashed forces beyond the control of all three. Mujib's first port of call as head of state outside India was Moscow. He was followed by the new Pakistan president Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, to whom the Soviet Stalinists suggested the idea of Asian security pact and an offered their services for a re- India conciliation with and BanglaDesh. Two weeks ago, premier Alexei the prime Kosygin received minister of Afghanistan, the buffer state between the USSR and Pakistan. He, too, was no doubt given details of the Soviet "security' proposals. ' At the other end of the conti- nent, the USSR is equally eager to achieve good relations with Japan, Asia's most powerful capitalist country. Io appease the growing appe- tite for markets and raw materials of the Japanese mono- polists, the USSR has agreed to allow them controlled access to the rich • mineral resources of Siberia. The most recent such deal opens up the oilñeld close to the Chinese border to Japanese penetration. Big Japanese con- sortia are also seeking metal ores and other sources of cheap in- dustrial requirements. Both the USSR and China bave petitioned the Japanese with a view to government getting agreement on Asian security'. Brezhnev, the CPSU secretary.

Brezhnev raised the proposal again at the Soviet trades union congress in Moscow last month, and it was also mentioned when the Soviet ambassador to Thai- land spoke at a conference in Bangkok recently. For their part, the Chinese have returned to the idea, first put forward 12 years ago, of a non-agression treaty between Japan and China, based on the so-called 'five principles of peace- ful co-existence'. Japanese premier Sato has tried to balance between his country's two big neighbours, favouring neither the USSR nor China, but encouraging both.

The reactionary character of these plans for Asian security is best illustrated by the Soviet government's relations with the anti-communist military dictator- ships in Asia. In March, Madame Marcos, wife of the anti-communist Philippines president, was ceived in Moscow with the honours due to a head of state.

She will be followed in June by the dictator of Thailand, General Prapass, who will be making the inaugural flight of a new air ser- vice linking the two countries.

Further S, the Soviet ambas- sador to the regime in Indo nesia, where the Communist Party was systematically annihi- lated seven years ago, has been touring the neighbouring anti- communist governments of Singapore and Malaysia. Both Thailand and Malaysia are combating guerrilla uprisings led by 'Maoist' movements. The Indonesian premier has welcomed the Soviet presence in Asia, while his government continues to de- nounce the Communist Party of Indonesia, and keeps thousands of its militants in 'devil's island' style prisons and camps. It is with reactionary regimes such as these that the Soviet Union proposes to establish its 'collective security' arrangements.

But, as in Vietnam, and Bangla Desh, the plans of the bureau- cracy, like the schemes of the imperialists, against come up the revolutionary determination workers and peas- of the Asian to rid themselves of ants imperialism and its puppets for all time.

PAGE 6 Workers Prose, Tueaday April 11, 1972 The fact of Lenin and Trotsky. that they went unheeded is a sur indication of the weight of hostile ches pressures desnip trotsko.

leadership. Trotsky, writing and speaking of the Third and Fourth Con- of the Communist Inter- gresses national. (otten specincally about The krenco communist roce voted many thousands of words the of the united question but never

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beyond describing it and advocat- ing its use as a tactic. ('First Five Vol. II). Years of the Comintern' In preparation for the Fourth Congress of the Inter- Nor was tus lacuc appucabie national Committee of the Fourth International, the all cases or at all stages in the development of the revolutionary Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League are publishing the four main documents of the Inter- In where the Com. cases munist Party still remains an with the national Committee covering split the insignificant organization an French Organisation Communiste Internationaliste.

the question of its con duct on the mass-struggle front does not assume decisive and organizational practical such Coletivis actions _remain under Tone leadership the old organiz- their which by reason of poweriu. macions cont play the decisive role similariy problem the of the united front does arhse cp countries 110l aliso the nere sult leading organization of the toil- ing masses. Lessons of history We simply take Callllol phrases of the trom une bistory communist movement about the united front, for truths into the present. always a question of understand- the ceve noment or tre (revO- lutionary party relation working development of the class and its needs. This is Wildl Lenin explained „Tne Ciscus on tactics the Third sion (1921): Congress comiten ine nrst stage in our to create genuine com- was could munist party, that we SO KnOW Wion talk have complete contine ve and whom Conc At the we second alll said:

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ouoncalons and teoretical positions e campaigns the outrinino opposition Trotsky concluded: have that already he theoretical education Today being youth this 1930). traineo excusivev task.' supreme ures. mistaken conception of the united Five years later, in the midst they are trained to believe front liscussions about he many by the relations united and as the only principled fighters for tone the all avinkin class building Trotsky Fote the Fourth Inter- organizations a gainst national, and "The task present to Douracols a government of these workers' Leninist prepare cares they will win the of the fasks of the epoch. in exes best elements the working the tasks of our epoch. In this class and in this way bund their requirements sphere. party. clarity, ideo- special ogical honesty and an irrecon- Is this policy sufficient to build to opportunism and to the revolutionary party? On the Committee are contrary: precisely at a time when course, the same centrist of the Fi are emerg. development as the parties of "ane consentae une seccons apparatuses These inherited from ing in struggle from a generation the Comintern. sections, prevented from of isolation and the past : dominance must part

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checking the revolutionary propaganda methods, all the well have their own of the development with •roletarian known cancers specific evolution, its own vanguard; that is the task!' (April tactic of united front fight the Slares. 1935.) the fore and must come against Stalinism and revisionism clash Essen had guarded against. objective conditions different Colocously between on the the concerton Only theoretical training those years after Call

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guard for the sake of alliances revolutionary parties and What are these dangers? We with the remnant of international to do so, only already know their manifestation centrism on the other. building Essen, the Wie matal! basis that the the extreme limit •ne alleno independent revolutionary par- have of the Socialist Labour League vouth movelical ties the central task of our their is and the IC majority to fight this ready inoucares cresulls whole epoch. These parties must the failure to go beyond the tendenc 'central strike : com- demand for a same international organization united front tactic in 1968. These results Again Trotsky's words are each count OCT is making could have perfectly apposite: heen the warnings against these dangers 'The Bolsheviks have no reason theoretical work united front a principle to which the for uniting abound in the independence of the van- the development of guard and Marxist theory are subordinated.

Under today's conditions this is and more equivalent to a new sophisticated form of the liquida- tionism which has been the main of revisionism in the content Fourth International. The history of the struggle for the Fourth International is strewn these with warnings against dangers which exist in the united front tactic, and for good reason. Representative are the following extracts from Trotsky's writings in Germany in 1931- 1932, writings in which he deals fully with the question of the united front, and indeed where the main emphasis was on the of the necessity united front. warnings His therefore carry special weight: "That a workers' party is com- pelled to carry out the policy of the united front-that is not to be gainsaid. But the policy of the united front has its dangers.

Only an experienced and a tested revolutionary party can carry out this policy successfully.

In the policy of the any case, united front cannot serve as a for a revolutionary programme party. And in the meantime, the activity of the SAP is entire now being built on it. As a re- sult, the policy of the united front is being carried over into the party itself, that is, it serves to smear over the contradictions between the various tendencies.

And that is precisely the funda- mental function of centrism.

"To reduce the whole policy of the proletariat to agreements with the reformist organizations or, still worse, to the abstract slogan of "unity", is something that only spineless centrists of Socialist of the the stripe Workers Party (SAP) can do. For the Marxists, the united front policy merely. of the iS one methods in the course of the Under certain class struggle. conditions this method becomes completely useless; it would be absurd to want to conclude an agreement with the reformists for the socialist revolution. But there are conditions under which the rejection of the united front may ruin the revolutionary party for many decades to come There could be clearer no warning to the OCI: ... the policy i of the united front can- not serve as a programme for a • the en- revolutionary party 'IT congress of the Third the fourth If the 1821 congress. tire activity of the SAP is now, being built on it.' And this is centrism. The extent to which this has gone in the process OCI is graphically illustrated by the following extract from their latest policy statement: "What deserves government confidence of the workers?' (Extract from the political re- port for the conference of Feb- ruary 5-6.) 'In a political situation where the struggles of the workers, which are necessary for the im- provement of their wages and against the worsening pensions, of their living and working con- ditions, unemployment, against do not bring the anticipated re- increased sults, prices, super- exploitation in all its forms im- posed by government on behalf of the employers, inevit- ably wipe out every success.

'In a situation where every serious action, even if, we repeat, its point of departure is a par- tial demand, leads to the posing of the fundamental question of each organization is power, obliged to formulate and to pre- sent to the workers the govern- mental solution which corres- the interests of ponds to the workers. The will of the work- ing masses and the youth to win satisfaction of their demands and hopes cannot be doubted, but in order that this will be can realized, an immediate objective necessary: replace the Pom- pidou-Chaban-Delmas govern- ment with another government. A government which would re- aspira- spond the positively to tions of the masses, because it would rest for the support on mobilization workers in of the against the employers struggle and the state. 'The working class expects clear answers from its organiza- tions, the conquest of govern- mental power cannot consist only of a change of ministerial per- sonnel. It is not general phrases against the monopolies, but only through a political and organic break with the French capitalists and all their bourgeois parties that an orientation can be made in deeds and not just words to- wards a change of government.

We shall not tire of saying this over and over again, of repeating it afresh, certain of expressing the will of the working masses.

define It is necessary to clearly the political content and form of the government corres- for the workers' ponding the aspirations of flows from the the workers, this by the because it government. the of which leaning on quences coveranent against the reinforce the general masses struggle which of employers and the state, capitalism against The decide to ing class. will measures If it clearly: take. is not said ment is an 'not one capitalist not because the struggle minister, of the class a sinede represe single representative working will sit along- against exploitation the government, then political struggle side us in demands. would be accepting class- collaboration, and nothing would It is necessary to drive be the done to advance along and with the utmost speed, road the high struggle against government bourgeois cost of living and unemployment, allurgeois einisters. The unit, of for the satisfaction true workers wanting demands. capitalism, of the which 'The only politically respons- bring them together ible thing of the leaders to do is to say to the leaders of the mass organizations their name, must who claim to speak the in- for government.

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combine and unite in a powe tatives of the bourgeoisie in the united front of workers which limited izations, government, even in reject any pros- to carry out number, pect of making any inroads into against the bourgeois governm Socialism is not in some rights in the major property of and obscure future; production, open TO for runaway fight for the the door wide deterioration of living and work- ment represents conditions, to leave un- mediate step 1ng police the lessons touched the structed by Marcellin to defend are assimilating more the interests of capital.

consists in this: if the power capital is not overturned, 'It is only on this basis that ation cannot be abolished.

the government of united formations organizations, for which workers' 12, 1972.) the workers are ready to fight, These the needs of the can meet French Trotskvists cannot av the The workers and youth. necessity of the common struggle Is the policy sufficient for the building of the government revolutionary party? The decisions taken history of the Fourth International gives conse- will be an unequivocal No! What is the to content of the united front? It offensive against the work- must not be simply a matter of generally the govern- aspira- tions for unity, an economic necessity but must state firmly the area the defend itself front agreement of united in the programme of become relation has to the which for its revolutionary party, the expresses revolutionary in- terests of the working class. to drive out, The OCI advances such the utmost speed, the 10 and confines itself programme, and the to the slogan of general of The unity workers' government formed by to fight workers' organiza- the existing organizations tions. Without such a programme ing them together and the door is opened for the social who speak in democrats and Stalinists to impose the at a false 'united front' arrive For this which_ is than nothing more necessary to this reformist treachery. Again and unite in a powerful is not a new question in the organ- history of our movement. Trot- which must undertake the of sky wrote in summer real struggle 1934, in France: e bourgeois government. in some distant 'We criticized Naville for not the will to the revolutionary concretizing workers' of the united govern- content tront, the im- thus permitting the two bureau- today step to be realized, for cracies to seize upon this slogan without great risk. great masses more and more of the With this distortion n this: if the power of tactic of the united front, the not overturned, exploit- OCI goes the over to essence abolished.' ('In- of the revisionism which has for s Ouvrièrs', January 5- attacked 20 the Fourth years International. The difference here is not one of emphasis but questions which Trotsky, rotskyists cannot avoid. of principle. writing on the

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and the Assembly su Lora The united the Torres regime, th government of ported workers' organizations' in which the OCI wants to participate is clearly a government of bourgeois state. Revisionism the door to reformism. arming of the opens masses . . Torres! If this point has had to be There could be no more f explained at length, it is because this reply. Lor the of ting end to consequences error on this score took to its logical ai are truly enormous. party For the practical conclusion the oppo sake of a practical 'alliance' with Lora of the Boli- theo tunistic opposition to POR, the OCI leaders "re- the positions of t vian entailed the Fourth Inter- OCI. It is time to draw all constructing' lessons of this experience, national in Latin America after with those of the Belgian Gener their own prescriptions chose to of the Ceylon coaliti forget even Strike. their own criticisms With of Algeria. su POR's of the capitulation to and policies and programmes, a sp Stalinism in 1970. They adopted the International Committ position the Bolivian on те- of the Fourth International w which totally liquidates volution the independence of the working shown to be absolutely necessa and inevitable. class and the revolutionary van-

PAGE & Workers Tuesday April 11

BY JACK GALE

In the 1920s, workers in the mass production industries in the United States-indus- tries such as steel, cars, rub- ber, textiles, oil and chemi- cals — were totally unorgan- ized. They had no protection against the sack, speed-up, long hours (ten to 12 hours a day) and low wages. If they struck violence from work they faced police, gangsters and professional strikebreakers. Then, in October, 1929, the American stock market collapsed.

In the next four years, produc- tion dropped by 48.7 per cent. In three years, America's national income slumped from $81 billion to $39 billion. By March, 1933, unemployment estimates ranged from 13.3 million to 17.9 million.

In 1931 wages averaged one been in half of what they had 1925. Wages were being cut through- out the land. In a single year (1930-1931) wages in the manu- industries facturing were reduced by an average of 9.4 Miners' per cent. wages were by anything from nine reduced to 16 per cent. Nevertheless, the so-called militant miners' leader -John L. Lewis-advocated no-strike pledge and acceptance of the cuts. Union membership decline membership Union declined United Mine drastically. The Workers had had 400,000 mem- 1920. By 1931 it had bers in 60,000. leaders of the American The of Labour were a narrow craft- restricted union consciousness. They refused to recruit the unorgan- ized in the mass production industries and they had no way of defending even their own members. By 1931 the membership of AFL unions was declining by 7,000 a week. The leaders sought situation to alleviate the offering a no-strike pledge to the employers. It was in this situation that Franklin D. Roosevelt became US President in March 1933.

He gained a totally undeserved reputation as a 'friend of labour' mainly through the praise lav- ished him by conservative on trade union bureaucrats and Communist Party Stalinists. His however, were policies, entirely designed to rescue capitalism.

His first emergency measures included a moratorium on bank withdrawals. This saved the big depositors banks and at the expense of the smaller fry. Big corporations were rescued while workers and the lower middle class were unable to get at what small savings they had. Roosevelt's much-heralded sys- 'public works'the so- tem of called Works Progressive Admin- istration — employed relatively few workers at low wages. The scheme declined between elec- tions and miraculously revived as voting time drew near.

FDR's other 'reform' was the famous Section 7a of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NRA).

This affirmed workers' rights to organize, bargain collectively and free pick union representatives from employer interference. Roosevelt was, in fact, hostile to 7a but agreed to it in order union • leaders to placate the who could deliver the union votes. NRA's real aim was to suspend the 'anti-trust laws' in return for voluntary agreements on and competition. wages, hours "codes These as they were called, operated against the workers by giving the employers

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Review by Tom Kemp The touchstone of any account of the Industrial Revolution is how well it shows the process to have been a necessary outcome of the previous development of capitalism and the carrying through of the bourgeois revolution in the 17th century.

Non-Marxist of treatments this transformation try to explain it in different terms.. In this book we find the stress laid on the surface appearances of economic change. As Dawson puts it: 'The rate of growth and the enormous scale of pro- duction are the essential features of the Industrial Revolution.'

Much of the book is thus an expansion of this point in text and in illustrations. Dawson provides a competent and concise summary of what is now the orthodox academic view of this period. What has to be explained, however, is why, this time, capital at accumulation, if it were not to stop, had to find to a come expression in the unprecedented development of the productivity social labour through the application of new techniques.

This can only be done by considering the primitive assum- ulation of capital which occupied lengthy period preparatory during which a landless pro- letariat was created and the provided for conditions the

'THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION'.

By Kelth Dawson. Panorama of History Serles. Pan Books. 40p.

industrial of an emergence bourgeoisie. For Dawson 'it is refreshing to be able to say that above all the Industrial Revolution rested on the vision, the daring the inventiveness in- dividual human beings'. This is • the standpoint to see it from of the capitalists. It makes it as smooth and orderly as pictures in this book. It would be truer to say that the Industrial Revolution rested of the the expropriation on English peasantry and the ruth- less exploitation of the working class which slaved in the mines 'enable and factories to the industrial capitalists to enrich themselves. No writer dealing with the Industrial Revolution can alto- gether avoid dealing with its seamy side-the grim housing conditions in the early industrial the child labour, towns, poverty and low wages. All these receive a mention in the closing pages of Dawson's account, But he passes them off rather easily: The economic advances to bring were bound radical changes the structure to of society, but no one was able to anticipate what these changes might be and plan accordingly.'

At the end Dawson manages mention Marx Engels to and who, he claims, 'predicted that first proletarian revolution would be made in England'.

'It was avoided, he continues, 'by a combination of good luck, rapidly-increasing prosperity, and intelligent and pragmatic govern- ment? The luck, if luck it was, was all to the advantage of the possessing classes. A reader who wants to know how academic historians see the Industrial Revolution will find that this book will save them reading other bigger tomes and some good illustrations he gets thrown in. If he wants to under- stand what the Industrial Revolution was really about he will have to go back to Marx's 'Capital' Volume One. from the book. Illustrations George Stephenson's Above: Rocket. Below: Spinning Jonny.

Workers Preas, Tueaday April 11, 1972 PAGE 9 I could manage- -said: I trudged the streets of Lon- don town, The history of two leaflets: A I wandered round and round saga in two parts. and round. Act I: The LSE a week ago: A hashish pedlar came to me, He said his weed would set me Walking through the august corridors of learning free. was handed leaflet which announced 'And I was reeling in a daze; on its cover:

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I saw no light through all the Com- munist interpretation.' haze. You A rank-and-file document, I told me Christ was opening it I was thought. On crucified delighted to see that Workers And rose again; I said you lied: Press was liberally mentioned.

Recognition, at last? 'I went into a public bar The leaflet quoted our front- Where were talking of men article which declared: class page war. The main lesson of the miners' I joined a rebel Marxist band And spread strike is that industrial action their hatred through the land.' by itself is not enough. "This mobilized must be under the leadership of This rubbish carried the footnote urging me to "repent Marxism. Time is now and believe the gospel.' much of the The essence. government of Heath has lost What how- intrigued me, a battle, but not the war.

Next was the appeal to write time they and their class must to: be defeated for good.' 'Tony Pearce.' And what is address? But the next page of the his Why the same leaflet revealed that one in Kent, of course. the pub- Mr Pearce is certainly turn- lishers were not reprinting our ing out some literature. material out of respect for its flagrantly political inciseness. The One is anti- authors of the leaflet revealed communist (and says so) while they belonged to a Christian the other pretends to be solely mission engaged in a ministry religious. those already of helping en- slaved by communism'. It went on: 'We see, there- fore, that our nation is facing a grave crisis in which Godless revolutionary forces are aiming at nothing less than the over- throw of the government and the establishment of a revolu- tionary dictatorship. Have fear we anything to from these Bible-bashers? The leaflet explains: 'We are com- manded by our Lord to love However. our enemies. our love for God and for our fellow man demands also that we ex- pose the deeds and intentions of evil men. "Take Paul no says: David Frost part in unfruitful works of darkness but instead expose at last

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has them"! spread to the far-flung corners The leaflet ended with this of the globe-and Australia If inscription: can you use and New Zealand. more of these leaflets please David has just Frost write to for them'- announced he will star in a Christian Mission to the Com- and show in Sydney cabaret World, at a Kent munist Auckland. It will be called 'An address. Evening with David Frost'. What a way to spend an Act II: Speakers Corner, Hyde evening! Park. frantic looking A girl is the standing at entrance to the park pushing leaflets into AMERICA the Beautiful. News everybody's hands. I take one.

It tells me in a bold (mauve- 'A black item from Reuter's:

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force and eight departmental But there's no 'new life' commendations was shot and that I could find, only the killed today by a white traffic words to an awful poem. The patrolman who apparently thought he was a criminal.'

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PAGE 10 Workers Prose, Tuaeday April 11, 1972 Fighting the Tories' Rent Bill No illusions in The Tory government has Introduced to parliament the Housing Finance Bill which double council rents. The hated Bill will will destroy the right to decent housing at Labour's 'opposition' reasonable rents for millions of working.

class families. Like unemployment, Industrial Relations Act and the rising food Bill of price bonanza, forms part deliberate Tory policy to drive down the standard of living of the working class

BY PHILIP WADE

UNDER THE BILL:

• EVERY local authority and new town corporation LEWISHAM Labour Party has charge rent' time. Rents will in S London has had to re- estate agent thinks a property is worth.

think its attitude the to

• AVERAGE RENTS

will double on government's Housing Finance Bill under own rents of £3.50 (plus mass pressure from tenants rates) will rise to over £7 (plus rates). • RENTS FIXED by committee of property men and in the area. lawyers. No appeal. They have the right to Inspect The council, which is council houses. Penalty for obstructing them: controlled, £50 fine. Labour had already voted to implement

• LOCAL

AUTHORITIES

are obliged to begin raising rents on October with a compulsory the terms of the Bill if it Increase of £1 this year and 75p next year.

became law. Fifteen Labour • COUNCILS REFUSING to ralse rents and operate councillors voted against.

the Act can be deprived of all housing These wlll assumed by government Housing But last week a meeting Commission. Refusa supply of the Labour Commissioner with Information could mean fines group of up to £400. decided to reverse this

• MEANS

John Bays outside his Deptford home

TESTS

will decision while tenants from tenants wanting rent rebates. made 'In any case the idea of a means implementation of the Bill when it several associations lobbied It's wrong to have came polores today, ril. Cross Honest canner test is a liberty. Changes in earnings must be notified outside. The whole question Tamily. to be in a position to apply for one, polo at they reant and not every six months, said Mr Bays, who been will come before the coun

• HOUSING

REVENUE

accounts will move employea since last uctober.

what Ine people electea tnem 10 co. cil again on April 26. We're more or less stuck here in We don't vote for the individual, surplus and half of this will taken be by and now they're we vote for what the party stands this concrete jungle three • four Chairman of the New Evelyn be paying an extra £500 million in rents.

Sayille Tenants' is John •If Labour decide "Your rent's going up- -and if you Councis co

• PRIVATE

TENANTS-1.3

Bays. This new estate in Dept- don't like it you can get out." be use to id us sittin back will no good In controlled properties: Decontrol begins redress about the us sitting And we have no ford is entirely constructed in next January and their rents will be raised them Once rent's keer to increases. The new Dressumang slabs. falr' levels. prefabricated concrete fixed, that's that there's no appeal." make them keep their word.

For his three-bedroom maison- Mr Bays babis to

• DISCUSSION

about the Was suelical on the Bill was cut short by the Mr Bays is already paying the basis ette, lack ora clearlead trom The Labour It has now finished its Party locally and nationally the We need. a £7.32 following a recent rates Incividual stage in the House of Commons. Three mittee *aiwhen rents' Bill. more days left for the report and third increase. three coachloads sent reading stages before It goes to the House 'Come October and E9t32. Th Thats it was to pome before we sal our link ne lores will arop tae Dul before £8.32 and next ycal us that what we needed diabolical. of this Bill istor one aim *Mani the Labour councillors could solve Labour government high and as often as ine rones down. I tenants sub•or I Calls when they're in cut al councils talk

LOIS

repayncils possible. to the financiers. It should clear the housing as a social service is But when the ball is in their cour being slate the moneylenders, all he in dress clean debts knocked. Thev re not so nol For example, last year's chairman Tories keep boasting about subport rom tre race unions the charges housing committee always get. But you'll the rebates you can something we'll law should be passed Labour have an increase would orocialmed never the moneylenders from will they accepting has fore The only rent increases way Ilalicis the Yet he Caround

SUCH

auce terest rates. have eight children penelt is it vou social service. I think one way that said Mr Bays. first for the and earn about £15 a week.

the 01c . LO Lancaster sit-in: Police Phenomenal rise papers with the DPP in house prices— 30 p.c. a year! would their 'dis- REPORT naming were both decide on his dismissal. quiet' at the authorities' nine students has been handling The following day, a indone id the sites. the Director affairs. HOUSE prices are now rising for the sent to of about mass they the students voted to They have sent this to at the phenomenal rate of 30 London ana of Public Prosecutions estimate one-third of selling Pro-Chancellor, who the said the Nationwide Building Society cent year, accounted for by land following a student price • University Uni presides over versity Council. building

DIICCS

sit-in . Lancaster While people are being forced yesterday. computer Thy held by the for This was ana to pay £10,000 and over for university. The leader Last year prices rose by 20 per centre believed house, Society's chief that David new But already in the first three of the students' union Last week, university Mr Leonard Ear of Derbv. a promi. Stephen zencid. Hallased, crad communis! secretary months 1972 there beer nent Lancashire Tory, 1lds is among those on the doesn't think they Party member, had been an are bie int increase was nor williams. are but last emerevs Sa10l proceed resigned being price one priced out of the market.

the political Sne biggest increase was for list. ings would be institu- were generally discrimination year. which went before a older properties university able the is Lord that His successor rose sdve hercosaly department. New houses by o per cent. Libunal aralnsi

SLU

the moves against the Greenwood of Rossen- IC. charges 7} per cent in price and moderr dents ¡centined payments could made other staff were part of dale- the former Labour otten be dwellings 6 per cent. police having. taken signifi. of the joint incomes of hus- MP of include to Green- prices new une sane ballera cant part in the said. average band and wife,' wood. condon the sure for alone property The strike organized perhaps

HON OT

The acminista young couples by meetings in tion and computer time eact HA was at one over their entire income Stu- payıng shot above department, brought buildings March 23 prominent in such : activi- London figure out on land and property speculators have never had it sy dents' first time. 20 of the universitv's 2- and March 24'.

CND.

LICS

in house Movement The rapid departments. The good. And this is before the pass- who those They could face ex- has been pace Colonial Freedom, but prices ing of the Housing Finance Bill.

During the strike, the Others might named report, pulsion. 18 months. the he the last went on become organized to

OVCL

students If that goes through, prices will the rate was save first half of 1971 colonia secretart more and lawyer instead. be further inflated consulting attendanve about 4 per the Wilson government. cent. In one second from the involving a critical dis- Dr Craig has now half it had increased to 6 per more driven out of tenants are cussion of their sub- It may be interesting been council housing into the private , suspended on full cell. to watch his role in this advice. pay until his case The society blames land prices housing market. decided. university dispute. proposal Kunt declare univer- the meantime, a A motion for his dis- result of moves by the by building alterations rejected are university authorities to Was misca Mie discusse. Non-strikers Accident change taking place the by the University Coun- in Univer students grounds that it would the adminis. May sity House. register be a diversion from the tration building. This followed a strike understooe ne will nros struggle. ably be legally repre- Strong, doors involving heavy Wednesday, On sented at the meeting. being fitted

BRITAIN'S

chairman newest teachers' or students in tne uni- alt COwI March 22, and versity. They were com- points, The University Coun- various Accident, Britain's biggest motol plaining about: the strike, the university installed te steel being after being Professional Association stro of State at CIl is a body on whicr vice-Chancellor Charles the main Minister the Teachers, has provisionally . regi- various outside interests, made

THE

AFFAIRS in the week's cancer well the STal stered under the Industrial Rela-

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Vice last English Department. that. Craig administrative offices. Was Act. cabinet re-shuffle. At the Perth tions

SITT

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day April 11, 1972 and sat in. Workers on bodies for the Marina and Maxi cars, the men fighting for the national are engineering pay claim in con- of f10 junction with increases a week under their annual review.

A 1,500-strong mass meeting yesterday afternoon voted over- whelmingly to reject the com-

FROM SARAH HANNIGAN IN BIRMINGH/

THE ELECTION battle for National Union of Students' executive posi- tions opened yesterday— on the first evening of the union's Birmingham conference. And the national press and right wing and "moderate' -union executives throughout the country have sprung to

CON

SE Party NUS president Digby jacks. The Liaison Committee for the Defence of Student Unions' attempt to challenge the CP- right-wing amalgam on the NUS has executive been billed as a 'Trotskyist' attempt at take-over.

The press is hoping that if their eight-member slate for top executive positions is defeated, they can then announce that "Trotskyism' has been routed. Dominated by the so-called International Socialists •and their supporters, the LCDSU was formed last November at the NUS Margate conference. Workers Press and represent- atives of the Young Socialists Societies, Students' however, have pointed consistently out that the LCDSU 'left talk against the Stalinists offers no real alter- native for students who seriously want to fight the Tory govern- ment. None of the eight LCDSU SCOTLAND and N Ireland will have showers or longer periods of rain with some bright intervals.

The showers will be locally heavy with hail and thunder. England and Wales will have showers and sunny periods. The will and showers be squally locally heavy, especially in W dis- tricts. Temperatures will be near or slightly below the seasonal aver- age in the S, but it will be rather cold in the N. Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Sunny intervals and showers followed by a period of more continuous rain. Tempera- tures near normal in the S, but rather cold at first in the N.

pany's latest offer of £2.20 for day-shift workers and £10.73 for those on nights. They decided to hold another meeting today with night-shift workers in attendance. Leyland laid off 2,850 workers on Marina and Maxi lines at the car-assembly plant be- nearby cause of this dispute.

IRMINGHAM

candidates has proposed that the fight defend student-union to finances should be linked to a struggle to bring the Tory govern- down. They suggest ment an extended and 'militant' more protest campaign. The Stalinists have already lined up the support of a new group—the so-called 'moderate' Edinburgh Movement-consisting of 15 student union presidents and local union executives.

This group says it is trying to organize a 'more co-ordinated position to the minority who for the want to use the NUS purpose of the Communist Party and the anternationa rowever, it will seek votes for at least two of the CP executive mem- bers-president Jacks and Geoff Staniforth. It appears the CP is the 'lesser of two evils'. • Certainly neither Jacks nor Staniforth is a threa • is why to the right wing. That all delegates should vote for the Liaison Committee candidates.

Panda pilferer A POLICE constable who com- mitted burglaries while on Panda- car duty was sentenced to two- and-a-half years' imprisonment at Cardiff Crown Court yesterday.

Terence Sherrard (29), of Coy- church, Bridgend, had pleaded guilty to five charges of bur- glary. He also admitted possessing articles connected with house- breaking as causing :.well damage to property. All the offences committed were on premises on Bridgend industrial estate. No action .. ENGINEERING workers from the Bentley group of textile com- panies met 4,500-strong in Leices- ter yesterday to discuss next steps in their pay fight.

The demands made on the company by shop stewards are based on the engineering unions' national pay claim. But although workers from came Lough- borough, Colville, Nottingham, Bromley and Leicester to yester- day afternoon's meeting no deci- sion on action was made. BRITISH RAIL has extended until April 30 the 'freezing' of all redundancy notices. The dead- line had been set at last Thurs- day, April 6, to allow a redun- dancy agreement to be settled.

The railway unions- asked for an extension because the pay talks had kept negotiators from both sides tied up. Talks on redundancy are de- signed to ease the lot of those affected under British Rail's plans to phase out 20,000 jobs in the next four years. The men in the body factory, Pressed-Steel Fisher, warned last week that were unless they lifted restrictions the company would take action. David Buckle, Oxford district of the Transport and secretary Workers' Union, said General vesterday the sit-in decision had 'The company have turned off the power and we are trying to get it restored, he said. willing and able In a company letter last week BRITISH RAIL 'chair- the men were Leyland would go out of business man Richard Marsh will if their claim was conceded.

today tell union leaders whether he and his board are going to meet their pay demands... or risk an all-out confrontation.

Yesterday the board spent two-and-a-half mulling hours over the unions' demand that it increase by f8.5m the £30.8m it has so far said it has avail- able for wage increases. The executive of at least one of the unions involved three the Associated Society of Loco- Firemen- Engineers and motive seems certain to call some form if Cory take-over industrial there is of action improvement in the present offer.

THE

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battle for Already militant ASLEF mem- William Cory, and the shipping bers in the S are acting unoffi- giant, reached transport new cially in support of their original joint offer from two rival bidders.

16-per-cent claim. Securities, Jessel the financial After consolidation of bonus headed empire by millionaire earnings into their basic rate, the Oliver Jessel, has agreed to sell Board's present offer would give worth £8.5m another assets to them only 9 per cent. bidder, Court if the bid Line, hit Their action, which com- through. And Court Line goes Rail's British muter services on has agreed to drop its £45m bid S and E regions, involves a work-, for Cory. to-rule, overtime ban, withdrawal of co-operation and double man- fitted with ning of trains not guard's van periscopes. normal'

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European Airways claimed they were still operating normally despite the yesterday An assessment of the Young dispute work-to-rule, pilots' pay Socialists' 12th annual con- now in its second week. Scarborough ference held in full The British Airline Pilots' last Plus the weekend. text of the YS Right-to-Work Association has planned to step up its industrial action next Sat-

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