Workers Press no. 738

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE!

From our industrial correspondent DAVID MAUDE TWO MERSEYSIDE road hauliers were yesterday granted a per- manent order by the National Industrial Relations Court telling the Transport and General Workers' Union to stop blacking their lorries at Liverpool docks. But no move for further contempt pro- Outside the court, I. S. ing of 'unfair industrial ceedings will be made Heatons solicitor practice' by Lawton,

BIVCIDO0

against the union dur- Craddock dockers. read a siatemen predared Brothers, Wolverhamp- managing director Bon-thered firm with a demoi ing the next week in an Heaton which •ap- sympathizes Bootle, sought a tem- to reach preciates attempt against the with the dockers over the order DOrary negotiated settlement of problems they feel confront

T&GWU.

them'. the containers row. the Councel for com. Andrew Abdela, told As the company would At a hastily-convened take contempt action criminal no Donaldsor DrO• press conference after the the this ceedings connected with 2031nst cockers hearing, the lawyer for the week, he hoped they would case were A hearing by the NIRC call off one of the firms, Heatons blacking Transport Helens) these radiances, might reciprocal But he gesture said that Heatons normal be prejudicial. was Limited, said: commercial activities' therefore adiourned 'As an indication of its which includes the packing and unpacking con- faith, further (Last Friday two Liver- tainers at their St Helens action will be taken pool dockers the and a full company this week so that time union official appeared depot-would continue their and the dockerc Kontie macistrate s What union can consider the court blackmail now happens by the rests with the created charges.) dispute situation cabinet' 'inner orders." the which went into secret ses- Tenderse maine The Meanwhile, however, the sion Transport House were made Det- necessary orders were given yesterday. brief public manent the court chairman hearing of applications by John Donaldson, for fining In another three weeks companies the two Transport and General the Heatons and Bishop's an order for seizure Workers' Union the sum of Wharf Limited of Warring- assets will union £5.000. ton. Richard Yorke, for the not paid. two companies, When the deadline for heard been expired yesterday, nothing payment from the union and the The signs yesterday were Donaldson initiated the 'unchanged". that talks between Heatons situation was of the machin- next stage and 0101a c ery to get the money trom resume in Liverpool today.

Yorke's On application the

T&GWU

which is Industrial leave the

WAS

aranted Heatons to apply for com- The confrontation be- Relations Act in line with the Act tween the courts and the under

TUC

policy. Densalon later at a nate CaId Intone Began WHen the company was keeping Heatons refused to sign making after- the compensation model las arreement noon recon- as possible'. Bishop's Wharf the packing and unpacking vened the court to hear a waived claim of containers dockers to com- said. work. he application complain pensation, HeW THURSDAY APRIL 13, 1972 • No. 738 • 4p

VIMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Both Robert Heatons (senior on left) -joint of St owners the Helens container company-leave the National Industrial Relations Court in London yesterday after obtaining permanent order blacking of their lorries against by Merseyside dockers.

STATEMENT

yesterday afternoon by the

BY DAVID MAUDE

T&GWU's Finance and General Purposes Commit-

TUC

tee said that the question General Council. of which is to be consulted by payments or non-pay- £5,000 fine the T&GWU at its meeting ment of the would be further consid- the previous day. "Meantime', ered at the next meeting of the state- the committee on April 27.

ment continued, 'the union That meeting will hear a will continue to seek of the solution of the current dif- report on the views

FROM PHILIP WADE

JIMMY SYMES, chairman of the Liverpool shop stewards' told committee Workers Press after *If we are taken to task the court hearing. for our stand, I think the "The only way out for stewards are prepared to Heatons is if talks with take it on. "This is a fight for jobs, they result in them sign- We'll the the biggest one we've ever ing agreement. had. We've talk for any time on that not shed all that blood on the docks to basis. SIT-INS began at two more tory on the Trafford Park engineering factories in the industrial complex walked Manchester area yesterday.

out. One involved an engineering firm in Stock- Union leader Bernard and the other Panter said theré were now port, printing machine factory in 23 two strikes and sit-ins, Manchester city three lock-outs because of centre. And employees at a fac- the Amalgamated Union of ficulties in Liverpool and other ports through normal negotiating methods, while recognizing that the deci- sion of the NIRC has made it extremely difficult for the union's officers to secure satisfactory solu- tions. *The imposition of the fine was 'unfair and unjust', the statement added lower our standards now. "The men are with the stewards 100 per cent. We are united. If we lose this might as well one we pack our bags. See p.12 for picture of Symes leaving Tuesday's talks abortive with Heatons. Engineering Workers' month-old work-to-rule and overtime ban. The action is to back up the AUEW's pay claim, abandoned nationally by the union's executive and now fought for on an area basis.,

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEI

From our industrial correspondent DAVID MAUDE TWO MERSEYSIDE road hauliers were yesterday granted a per- manent order by the National Industrial Relations Court telling the Transport and General Workers' Union to stop blacking their lorries at Liverpool docks. But for no move further pro- contempt Outside the ing 'unfair industrial court, ceedings will be made solicitor, practice' by Tawton. Heatons against the union dur- dockers. Craddock read a statement prepared a. Wolverhamp- director by managing ing the next week in an ton-based firm with a depot "ap- Rohert Heaton which Bootle, sought preciates and sympathizes attempt to reach the dockers the with over porary oreer negotiated settlement of

T&GWU.

problems they teel contront them'. the containers row. Counsel for the com- Abdela, told As the company would Andrew At a hastily-convened bally action take contempt pro- Donaldcor press conference after the ceedings connected with against the dormers hearing, the lawyer for he hoped they would the week, case were Heatons call off the blacking one of the firms, A hearing by the NIKC Transport (St Helens) these might reciprocal gesture. aid that Heatons horne prejudicial. was Limited, said: activities therefore adjourned. commercial which includes the packing of its 'As an indication and unpacking of con- further (Last Friday two Liver- good ta1th. Helens action will be taken by the pool dockers and a full- at their st Tainers continue. depot-would that time union official appeared companv this week so the dockers and in Bootle magistrate's What consider the court blackmail now happens union can the dispute rests with the by the created charges.) situation

T&GWU'S

cabinet' orders." 'inner which went into secret ses.

orders against The the Meanwhile, however, the Transport House

T&GWU

sion at were made net. necessary orders were given brief public yesterday. at by the court chairman, by of annlications hearing John Donaldson, for fining two companies In another three weeks General and Heatons and Bishop's order for seizure of

THA

an Workers' Union the sum of of the will assets union Wharf limited of Warring.

€5.000. take effect if the fine is still ton. Richard Yorke, for the said not paid. two companies, When the deadline for nothing had payment expired yesterday, nAAn heard from the union and the The signs yesterday were Donaldson initiated the 'unchanged'. that talks between Heatons situation of was the machin- neXt SHe and union might ery. to get the money trom resume in Liverpool today. Yorke's i application the

T&GWU

which On leave was the Industrial granted hovcotting Heatons to apply for com- The confrontation be- Relations Act in line with the under the tween the courts and TUC policy. bensation at a later date. said unions began

WRAN

Heatons refused the company was keeping sign Darly Done da after- model making vesterdav comnensation tha as possible'. Bishop's Wharf noon recon- the packing and unpacking vened the court to hear a waived any containers dockers' claim to com- work. application complain- • pensation, new he said THURSDAY APRIL 13, 1972 • No. 738 • 4p

MMITTEE OF THE

SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE

Both Robert Heatons (senior on left-joint of the St owners Helens container company-leave the National Industrial Relations Court in- London yesterday after obtaining permanent order blacking of their lorries against by Merseyside dockers.

STATEMENT

yesterday afternoon by the

BY DAVID MAUDE

T&GWU's Finance and General Purposes Commit-

TUC

tee said that the question General Council, of payments or which is to be consulted by non-pay- the £5,000 fine the T&GWU at its meeting ment of would be further consid- the previous day. 'Meantime', ered at the next meeting of the state- the committee on April 27.

ment continued, 'the union That moetiag-will hear a will: continue ta. seak.a report on the views of the solution of the current dif-

FROM PHILIP WADE

JIMMY SYMES, chairman of the Liverpool shop stewards' committee told Workers Press after the If we are taken to task court hearing. for our stand, I think the way out for "The only stewards are prepared to Heatons is if take it on. talks with "This is a fight for jobs, they result in them sign- We'll ing the agreement. the biggest one we've ever had. We've shed all talk for any time on that not. that blood on the docks to basis. SIT-INS began at two more tory on the Trafford Park engineering factories in the industrial complex walked Manchester area yesterday.

out. One involved an engineering firm in Stock- Union leader Bernard and other Panter said theré were now port, the printing machine factory in and 23 sit-ins, two strikes Manchester three lock-outs because of city centre. the Amalgamated Union of.

And employees at 'a fac- ficulties Liverpool and negotiating methods, while that the deci- of the

NIRC

has made sion difficult CAll Culc 101 union's Olcers secure satisfactory solu- tions imposition the 'The une was unlal ana unjust the statement added lower our standards now. the Tune hier stewards 100 per cent. We are united. this we ose might well pack our bags.' • See p.l2 for picture of Symes Tuesday's abortive talks with Heatons. Workers' Engineering month-old work-to-rule and ban. is to back up 10e the claim, abandoned nationally the union's executive and now fought for on an basis.

'attack liberty' claim stuens Assembly was Mujib suspends Assembly PAGE 2 Workers Press Thursday Apfll 13, THE OPENING session of the Bangla Desh Con- stituent Assembly was abruptly suspended on Tuesday night only 24 hours after it had begun discussions on a new national constitution. A decree read out at the Tuesday sitting end of the simply stated President Abu Sayeed Choudhury had accep-e ted the advice of Prime Mini- ster Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to prorogue (suspend). the Assembly since there was no other business at hand. Assembly members had pre- viously been told officially that a draft constitution was ready sees PRESIDENT Nixon flies to Ottawa today for talks with Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, but is not expected to negotiate on the serious trade differences be- tween the two countries. Washington officials say his talks will be of a general pot tical nature. But they are likely to be overshadowed by the trade issue which has brought a sharp frost to US-Canadian relations. badly hit by the Canada was 10-per-cent import surcharge imposed on August 15 last year.

Washington conference At the realignment last on currency December, • its representatives refused to make any concessions in exchange for devaluation of the dollar. US Treasury Secretaty John Connally, who will not be with the presidential party, has pro- voked Canadian anger by de- manding tough restrictions on Canadian exports to the US. provoked Trudeau His attitude to remark: 'With friends like Mr who needs enemies?' Connally, The US is by far the biggest foreign market for Canadian with unemployment goods and already standing over 8 per cent, the Trudeau government is ex- tremely reluctant accept to terms that would American ensure a sharp rise in the number.

out of work. у АрПі 13, 1972 Assembly. and would be placed before the to be considered by a 34- member committee hastily estab- Jished as the Assembly broke up.

dominated almost entirely by the Sheikh Mujib apparently de- Awami ( League. suspend cided the session Out of more than 400 mem- to because of sharp political bers, out- there are side the League, six independents differences over the constitutional the and representing arall. one National Awami Party of One top memne ot the ruling A wami League said an influentia Maulana Bashani section of the party was strongly The opposition-together with opposed to the draft because an influential section of the of Awami League itself—is demand- some its provisions were elections to a National 'blatantly individual ing fresh against liberty' Assembly with new mandate, The emergence of these sharp but Mujib premier has SO far differences the little indication whether raises whole given question of the status of the Con- such an election will be held.

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

COMMUNIST PARTY participation in a future Italian gqvernment would benefit all W Europe by making the country more stable, general secretary Enrico Berlinguer claimed in Rome on Tuesday night.

ag to journalists at the Foreign Press Association. He said Italy's instability stemmed from 'imbalances' in the country's development since the war.

These would be put right by 'economic and structural.

reforms', carried through by a broad based popular govern- ment, he said. Such a government could help the democratic development of W Europe. Berlinguer poses as the savi- insistence immediate with- on our of Italian bourgeois democ- from the drawal North Atlantic mortal crisis racy, which is in Treaty Organization. as i result of the world eco- line with Kremlin Instead, in the nomic recession and European Security policy, he said

NATO

could growth of class struggle in withdrawal from be achieved in stages through Italy. broader policy of ending the Bourgecis democracy is decay- of military blocs. whole system Italy ing in hecause a prowins One of NATO's leading Italian sector of the employers is turn- Gino personnel, Admiral Birin- fascists of the ing towards the

MSI

delli, is standing as an Italian: Social Movement

(MSI)

* candidate in Naples: brute resolve the crisis by force. He spoke at an election meet- Yet his Party advances the ing in Florence on Tuesday night treacherous illusion that an alliance of the workers parties "left' wing of the with the em- class (disguised as left- ploving Catholic political forces') wing threat of fascism. can fight the of -Popular Front is This type fact nothing more than a in is powerless to micht rascin IN MILAN, ten members and and reaction because it ties the of the left-wing supporters politically to the working class Operaie Avanguardia group employers and lulls the workers' Tuesday trial went on on vigilance with phoney promises with spreading charged 'ten- of reforms. dentious news liable to disturb CP leader made it quite The the public order. clear his firmly organization The charge, under a pre-war committed to preserving capital- fascist law, followed publica- To the middle woo class, of a leaflet on the death tion it has even dropped its previous of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the left-wing publisher whose body OPPONENTS of Chilean Presi- dent Salvador Allende marched streets of Santiago. in the last night in an attempt to show that public opinion mostly against his 'full speed ahead to socialism' policies. Allende has accepted the chal- lenge, and has called out his for a Popular-Front

YUGOSLAVIA

has asked the supporters Common Tuesday. Market to counter-march next open The opposition led by parties, liminary talks soon the en- powerful Christian Demo- largement of its trade links with the have a Community, both the according crats, majority in to For Brussels. houses of parliament. their in "march for democracy' they have Boris Snuderl, Yugoslav repre- has asked the sentative in Brussels, chosen the eve major United Nations Conference for trade deal with on • new Trade. and Development the wider. content than the present: Sis third since 1964—in Santiago.

which agreement, expires Premier Sheikh. Mujibur Rahman relyin Enrico Berlinguer which provoked large-scale street fighting. The clashes, which paralysed the centre of Florence • when for several hours, began fascist strongmen attacked left- wing demonstrators who were jeering Birindelli and the MSI leader Giorgio Almirante.

was found in mysterious cir- to an elec- cumstances close tricity pylon wired for sabo- tage near Milan. The leaflet said: 'Feltrinelli was killed by fascist or police provocateurs and later taken to the place of the alleged sabotage which did not take place. The charge carries maximum penalty of three months' imprisonment. year's time. The Yugoslavs are particularly mounting concerned at their trade deficit with the Market countries. Snuderl said imports from the EEC were rising far more rapidly than exports to the He said the trade deficit had risen last year to $717m from ent 5615m in 1970. an relying on old elections for majority SAN QUENTIN prison guard, Sgt Joseph Murphy, told the Davis trial in San Angela Jose, California, that prison policy is to shoot to kill escaping convicts-regaraless of whether they have taken hostages. Murphy, was the senior prison officer on the scene in August 1970 when a small truck carry- ing three escaping convicts and their hostages, and driven by young Jonathan Jackson, made for the exit of Marin County courthouse. The escape effort ended in a killing hostage hail of gunfire, Judge Harold Haley, two of the escaping convicts and Jonathan Jackson. Miss Davis is accused of mur- der, kidnap and conspiracy by allegedly providing the guns for the breakout attempt. Murphy, speaking of the official prison policy regarding escapes, said: 'We don't consider hostages as of escape. In other a means words, if hostages are taken, there will be no escape possible.

The prosecution is trying to show that the first shots at Marin County came from the truck.

But Murphy's statement makes it clear the police were under orders to open fire in the event of a breakout. faces World War | attack THE Soviet press yesterday gave fresh impetus to its bitter cam- paign against the writer Alex- ander Solzhenitsyn, printing let- ters denouncing him for his latest novel 'August 1914'. The letters appeared in the Gazette' weekly 'Literary , organ of the Soviet Writers' Union. One Soviet asked: 'What kind of writer is he if he digs in rub- bish dumps and slanders his country?' The chauvinistic attacks accuse Solzhenitsyn of glorifying Ger- man militarism and belittling the Slavs. His book is an account of the Battle of Tannenberg, in which Tsarist troops were heavily defeated by the German army in World War I. Stalinist leaders have The turned the imperialist World War I into a 'patriotic' war. This was never the position of Lenin and the Bolsheviks, who called unequivocally for the defeat of Tsarist armies in their the struggle with German imperial-

Sit-in at PSF body plant Marina bodies are now halted between the ex-Pressed Steel Fisher plant and British-Leyland's assembly lines Workers Press, The TWELVE HUNDRED Maxi and Marina workers at ban and work-to-rule and were formally su British Leyland's Austin-Morris car body plant at for the third time. So far, 4,000 production Cowley were continuing their sit-in yesterday after in the assembly plant have been laid off becau rejecting a final pay offer. The men arrived to find the ower on for normal production. But they refused to raising basic to £44.20 for day ift their month-old restrictions, including an overtime £52.73 for night workers.—Press Association BY

OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

DAVID MAUDE

ALREADY in serious financial difficul ties, British-Leyland has been hit this week by an unprecedented sit-in at its Cowley, Oxford, car body factory.

The action involves 2,350 workers on the key Maxi and Marina production lines. It has shut down all work on these models at the neighbouring assembly plant.

Sitting-in started on Monday. It was preceded by month of production which halved production for the two models of 1,000 Marina bodies are now halted between the ex-Pressed Steel Fisher plant and British-Leylan bodies being day. even now the dispute is seen as the most serious confrontation since review should have taken four hours a week, said the described them as a retreat Sanke cent many body-plant 70 per meet union representauve

ONCI

Ironically, the struggle from the MDW section year. pieceworkers had given next WOlle takes over the place the factory until January effectively put the firm out very high rates of pay for of annual of business. what they was the

ICVICW

12 Work pay Micasured-vay Their opening statement Stewards security Ihey and local agreement which was sup- was that they could not expecting officials heard were posed bring industrial the to see themselves negotiatin some of their losses unde at a story time and again And Cowley 2,350 the review, for meetings durin bevalalcly comes a acrory Where Their stewards insisted the following wOrKers And successive owners have that: wanted talks in conjunction often held it up on March y the work SO. as a sym. with the assembly • The March 29 offer was bol of class peace. 1971, way a real answer to in no A DAILY picket is being At issue is a claim sub. Lemmer staged outside the Stan- mitted dard Telephone and nis was Ior increases o must accept the same Cables (STC) factory in senduve or une WOrKELS OL ofter as the £10-a- London by draughts- This • calls for a was a breach of the Gren week pay increase on top demanding ruary 1971 agreement and

HICO

of the present £42 flat rate, amount to just 74 and 131 would destroy the power wages. renewed guaranteed earnings during per cent respectively. of the 5/60 branch. 90 But only 11 th ha 20 any shut-outs, a new com- Thariday, Simpson works by

STC

pany pension scheme and- end over director David scented that what the com- taken strike action as part with the national out letters to every 'gradual' campaign. 35- pany was alming al was an claim _ a Curances attack on their much-prized The with dispute hour plus improve- waxe WeAr guarantee at 80 involved in the claim. ments in holidays and shift management cates back Their tone cente of average earns. was last September when the negotiations through- allowances. must yearly pay review normally Dat restrictions Was Particular emphasis immealately takes •ace being placed by shop oliday if worker insisted on separate talks.

wrote. Unless there is an The men are asking for stage resumption stewares immediate dance for workers nise and £38 the struggle on the guaran- davs' unpaid holdav. And normal workers over 30 years Now that *Leyland has tees. company this and old. rid of the claim, but offered made a condition of settle- alternative but to. take piecework very action.' management sometimes earnings level, they Simpson is one of Ley- also must - remove accepted by workers at the inard-cot The men defence insecurity that assembly plant, despite from Chryslers. it. did to wait long opposition not have nerce demanes He laye

LLULL

engaged in a work-to-rule First negotiations on the continued at an average of for him to act. stewares

WILL

resorted to a sit- and even A leaflet handed out by

ALL TRADES UNIONS

the pickets says:

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

To the STC work force: the climb Thursday April ladder of success? Then: Doptford Engineer: Club, New Cross Rd • Work hard. (nr Now • Accept responsibility. Cross stn). Report back on OVER 2,000 car workers in including £1.50 on the basic rate, YS conference. • Get promoted. exchange (TOr the W of Scotland yesterday Thursday April the details of the deal. , 8 pm. Bricklayers Arms, We tried it. And found pm. accepted the Measured-Day less than when ex-Communist we enced Tottenham High Rd (nr White McKenzie - an we started. This is why we Work principle, despite Party candidate for Clydebank- Hart Lane). Report back on have withdrawn YS conference. that airen

EWO

warning that it would lead Birmingham factories he was sure STOCKPORT Monday April 17 MDW could benefit workers.

to big redundancies. 8 pm. 'Manchester Arms'

CBI

Partridge leads The He attacked movers of an British leads the The decision came at a mass gineers' pay claim. amendment + whe cal cal astodis of meeting

LONDON:

Tuesday April the as the council of presidents the Albion truck 'The Aberfeldy" Aber- rupters' and "Trotskyists'.

UNICEF

the union of Blackwall federations tunnel industrial Albion Poplar. YS conference and the Redundancies at the hearing sub-convenor the European Community- fight against the Industrial Re- Jimmy McKenzie say that he works are now very likev. The opened London vester could guarantee no redundancies plant has been on four-day work- lations Act. day at the CBI headquart- the last. ten weeks-in. the meeting accepted a £4 rise, Pross, Thursday April 13, 1972 PAGE 3 mally suspended luction workers ff because of the wn a pay offer y workers and ish-Leyland's assembly lines At 10 a.m. on Monday morning, they were told thất the restrictions were still in operation, they would not be paid and would be sent home. They refused to go. The : sit-in had begun. the largely Despite strike-free record of the body plant and its tradi- tions of good attendance and sound workmanship, there can be little doubt about their determination to struggle. All the votes to continue the action have been nearly unanimous. Each morning the men clock on and start work operating the restric- tions agreed by their union branch. Management in- them they will not forms be paid and they stop. At night they queue up to clack off. On the wall of a nearby cafe, an old newspaper cutting is pointed out as summing up what they are fighting for. from Clipped the September 1934 issue of "The Conveyor',, rank-and- file paper which led the recognition fight, it says that workers at the plant 'cannot be satisfied with the slightest infringement by the management of the agreement'. [recognition] They aren't. fact management's move to intro duce MDW dates from that time.

Militants fear that the first to suffer will be time workers in the • main- toolroom, inspection and tenance departments. The majority union in i the plant is the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers whose official palicy is now to oppose productivity dealing. The Albion decision follows agreement on MDW at Rolls- Royce, Hillington, steered through by convenor George McCormack, a leading CP mem- -in... ber in the Glasgow area,

PAGE 6 Werter | 1 12, 1972

BUILDING

THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

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

The Manifesto calls for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into This historic and vital task must be fully discussed and a revolutionary party. understood throughout the workers' 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.

T. SAWYER

sace set out to griers

P. T. SAUNDERS

personal gain T&GWU member

NUPE

member, he says Tine • gorv at the expense of the pro- Southampton main aim must to force the gress trade union oi ine …nove- Because of the crisis of capital- resign. lories to ism the capitalist class are We must not forget that there are Let of them have they smash the

VEL CO

dangerous enemies of the working knighthood if that what and back to Take une

COUL

class in the Labour Party.

these These leaders, plus fascist tions of the 1930s, Wallt.

4IIL0N

Wilson and The subtleness dictatorship. hide the replaced by prepared company those Their is outdated and system fact that they began many of the the wishes of the rank carry out rotten through and through. policies the Tories are now of the unions. and file that they can out. .oner us now call yuls The miners have shown us destruction mankind I think entry into the Common Wits the that starvation, war and the wiet unions are Market canned organized they are unbeatable.

atomic bomb. Hate Industria. Relations Act The Tories are now showing What is needed is an organiza- the their teeth through the Industrial follow tion that will but an end to this WaS Only Relations Act. last efforts system once and for all. governments dedicated Eatene or ramen as peat bind working coverickl Over the last allol socialism must elected, the working class leaders have party ready to make rapid that proved they cannot under and extension of nationalization repeal

LADONE

covernnenl not do what is historicalv neces- but the Act in its entirety, can workers' control. a party with the sary. The Tories have of the believe this? well-being and the future of the we working as their. main The Communist Party and the the dirty Labour Party and both are scen object. Labour. work ane sectons fight Party are well canister revolutionary Let's also rid ourselves of the and will succeed. reTormist Dalild-

ALL TRADES UNIO

Including the Charter mentary road which will get us nowhere. The various middle- class groups like the Interna- tional Socialists and the Interna- tional Marxist Group can offer us nothing except Tariq Ali, the Anti- single issue politics of the .

Internment League, and the initial support of the IS for the British troops' attack on the Irish work- ing class. The trade union leaders and the TUC refused to fight the Industrial Relations Act and to call a General Strike. They only tell us to 'ignore' the Act.

The T&GWU have been fined £5,000 with the possibility of all their assets being taken over by the court, and they tell us to 'ignore' it. All these people have two things in common - their con- tempt for Marxism and dialec- tical materialism, and their refusal to fight for the Tory govern- ment's resignation followed by the election of a Labour govern-

• UNIONS ALLIANCE -

I Conference Charter of Basic Rights Yorkshire miners picketing the Skelton Grange power statlon during the miners' strike earlier this year. ment pledged to socialist policies.

Just at the time when man- kind must make its greatest-ever step forward to world socialism you have all these organizations with their inane mumbling and utter confusion. These people will only betray the working class, like they and their historical counterparts have always done. The Socialist Labour League is the only organization with a clear record and clear-sighted views. This is because they are the only ones who continue the work of Lenin and Trot- Marx, Engels, sky and the fight for the theory that will lead the working class.

The time hạs long been ripe for the building of a revolutionary party and when it is done vic- tory will be certain.

JUST OFF THE PRESS - ORDER NOW

The famous Man in the Iron Mask languished for years in the Bastille on the personal orders of Louis XIV. He was a victim of the lettre de cachet, the private Royal warrant sentencing a man to indefinite imprisonment. The Revolution tore down the Bastille and abolished the lettre de cachet. But today, 180 years later, Minister of the Interior Raymond Marcellin faces charges that he has revived the hated system in a new guise. The victims this țime are political refugees from Portugal who have fled their country to seek asylum in France. Most are young men avoiding the military draft that could send them for four years to Angola, Guiné-Bissau or Mozambique to fight premier •Marcello Caetano's colonial wars. Since 1960, more than 70,000 young Portuguese of military age refuge in France. have taken Many are deserters, others left before their call-up papers came through. At home they face five years in prison followed by eight years in a 'crime Penal battalion for their Until last month all they had to do was find their way to France, show their identity cards, and pay 40 francs for a residence and work permit. But not any more. They still get a residence permit, but the magic letters MOE which allow them to seek a job-re ges longer written on it. The young refugees, many of them almost penniless, have to wait up to four months while the Interior Ministry decides whether they can work. The new system was introduced following talks last year between Paris and Lisbon.

The official excuse for the talks was to sign an agreement regulat- ing. immigration. In fact, the Portuguese asked France to help the tide of draft- them stem dodgers and deserters.

TWO PAMPHLETS AND

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TORIES ATTACK

THE UNEMPLOYED

The Social Security Swindle No Portugal badly needs men to continue the African wars. By its own account, the Portuguese army is losing ten soldiers a week in the African territories. This figure is widely regarded as a gross under-estimate. french From the now on, authorities will not accept deserters as political refugees. They will have to prove they are Above: Marcello Caetano wanted for some 'political' offence Angolan army. Bottom: as well. operation In Angola. If they don't get registration as political refugees, they can try and remain in France illegally. But then they can be handed over to the Spanish police for transfer back to Portugal. In the last few weeks, several Portuguese illegal immigrants' have been handed back to Caetano in this way. fate of those The who do manage to obtain registration as refugees is not much better, how- They have few legal rights, ever. are specifically barred from play- any part in politics and can ing be shunted round the country on the orders of the Interior Ministry. And even if their papers are in Marcellin order, has still the power, under so-called 'emergency procedure' to deport them with- out giving any reason. He simply has to declare that the unfortunate refugee is 'not authorized by the Minister of the Interior to reside in France'. In other words, the lettre de cachet of good King Louis' golden days. in in the aftermath of evidence the May-June general strike of 1968. he has More recently, preferred to keep them in reserve, from discouraging refugees France rather than settling in expelling them they once are there. But the Portuguese deserters the most vulnerable are among political refugees and Marcellin obviously feels free to push them around, especially as this cements French with the Portuguese ties dictatorship.

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SACKINGS AT OMES FAULKNERS

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re- committee commended plant action And at Omes Faulkners in- stead of halting employer ThA his tracks, the Stalinists preached the risk and ultimate fight redundancies-result 66 people sacked Sacked AUEW convenor Frank Tomany te stalinis. factory against turaphically the cause betrayal constitutec principles of the policies 'British Road to Socialism', we publish detailed, account of how the redundancies came about. Mr Tomany claims that CP the factory shople By Ian Yeats. Part 1 through its members on stewarus formed of continuous all the old forms of dealing and Omes Faulkners Ltd, Coln- part mittee and Distric drive by the firm for pro schop Committee (DC) of the AUEW, Slough, factory was brook, approach sharp revolutionary efficiency to Omes Sputted stifled opposition best of the known one recent falls in profits. trade union problems period leading. Over a COl organized in SE England. great crisis late 1970 union At this point of siderable period up to As sacking of But Friday, factory were in the leadership the 66 by: 24. p.m. at the of the working men necollalois 66 people, including the insidious treachery March with class, the firm's shaky Stressing able practice FPTU shon steward and the employer they claimed British Road financial position and the danger

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convenor, were the best ever. the of Stressan the dutility of oppos- • total shutdown. without anything being done to Socialism', with all its reverence Suddenly everything changed democratic pro Sam for bourgeois prevent it. ing management where the cacker bru stewara Communist Party members cesses, is exposed for all to see.

Roe it to me: pany's trading position We

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factory strict and on the was oneting "o". management other choice. the getting At Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Committee the Stalinists met uncompromis- Sough CP of both com- members be could Claimed that nothing force with fawning belly they urged Omes Faulkners fitted into the ing mittees do not deny about the reclaeances the Tories. Result: national pattern. From crawling to caution of the Loes ot duezeu endangering the entire without Coventry economic crisis and it not dill the remain hundreds danger that the firm could close forcing the be illt and an remainder pressed hard their too was and 1s CP's campaign The opportunity the hilt bosses-backed to be workTorce finally paid off when, alter one mobilize the working Mr Tomany levels three majo the Tories-on the offensive

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department at the factory staged cha Faes against Slough DC and class against trade unions the rory covern- a strike against the redundancies, aralliol and all its policies, in- to lead a fight against ment Failure the working class. shop stewards' cluding mass unemployment.

factory will al voted CP resolution and noW refused to back emplovers effective from March 24. At Sheffield, instead of maxi- them: negotiate only on their terms Failure to by see ok re- the clear demand mizing the strength and therefore Redundancies bad been on the some of done overturning of fighting for f6-a-week pay the cards for some time and they redundant men being sent out largely to a firm. non-union • Failure to lead a fight against what he alleges was the victim- ization of a convenor. Mr Tomany accuses Omes Faulkners management of singl- him because of his ing out consistent tough line in negotia- tions about pay and conditions.

for the firm and Spokesmen for Slough AUEW district com- mittee deny the allegations.

In fact the management re- fused to whether comment on not Mr Tomany had been or victimized, but personnel man- ager Mr S. Eden told me he did not think the company was taking a tough line with trade unions. At least once before the com- pany has felt obliged to defend itself from charges of hostility to trade unions. 1970

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In October members at the firm's Barnes (now closed) staged a factory three weeks' strike after they attacked claimed management the union by unilaterally ending whereby practice a nine-year

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stewards represented clerical workers. was settled, but The dispute during October 15, the it. on then Omes Ltd put out a letter 'We are expressly pointing . out: not anti-trade union. But Mr Tomany (41), married with three children, told me at his Stanwell council home: •I realized right from the start I was being victimized. I've been management call a what the maverick hecause T've always gone up and represented" the men. •Management told me that the the agreement reached during year I was convenor [1969-1970] was disastrous for the company and I cost them at least £21,000 sack.

in legal aid settlements.

'When Omes Faulkner an- nounced the 66 redundancies on the were March 13 names selected indiscriminately—not on first-out or the basis of last-in, of all those over 65, or any principle at all. management deny *Although opinion it was an act it. in my of victimization to put my name as AUEW convenor on the list.'

Mr Tomany's dismissal came only days after he was re-elected convenor by the Il-man factory after stewards' committee shop an absence of over a year from the job. members hold three of the Il seats and may influence one more.

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"The stewards He told me: of no confidence passed a vote convenor Derek Howes in CP and his deputy and elected me by a majority of seven to three- of the two being CP members third who always tered with committee them. 'With redundancies in the air, men could see the skids were going under the factory and they wanted somebody to rep- resent the shop floor.' Mr Tomany claims the return to office of a man management fight tooth and knew would nail against the redundancies made him a candidate for the sack had established his repu- He as a hard bargainer in tation 1971. 'In the two years I was not things sliding convenor, were back . What we had gained in 1970 such as the agreements holidays at Christmas and on throughout the year, on orange suggestions juice and on a were being knocked on scheme, the head by management. "The CP line has been that the company could not afford but the all these agreements, maintenance department fought alone to get them back and we did.' At least since 1970 Omes noted Faulkners has been throughout the SE as a highly- organized factory with some of the best pay and conditions in the area. The maintenance department -completely dismantled after the March 24 redundancies—led by steward Frank Tomany was the core of this union organiza- tion. With Mr Tomany's record of militancy before them and dis- satisfied with the efforts of CP convenor Derek Howes, it was that perhaps natural once a major fight over sackings began to loom he should be re-elected convenor. Redundancies at Omes Faulkners in Slough, Colnbrook factory Bucks, had been rumoured for several months. Management claimed profits were falling and that something had to be done to slash their costs, which they said had risen steeply in the past four years.

On March I0 they met the factory shop stewards and AUEW district secretary George Currell telling them outright there had to be up to 80 redundancies or 17-per-cent wage-cut. Their hand was almost cer- the fact that tainly forced by from January 24 AUEW con- Frank Tomany enforced venor in his shop the AUEW Slough District Committee rule that because of the high level of should unemployment no man work more than 40 hours a week.

Mr Tomany claims overtime became an issue in his shop after Faulkners their Omes shut Barnes factory in the summer of last year and moved a number of machines to Colnbrook.

He pressed for more men and improved facilities but instead the management began sending work out to Gay's of Hampton— also a member of the Pratt Engineering Corporation to which Omes Faulkners belong— and almost entirely non-union.

Mr Tomany twice wrote to the district committee, on Tanuary 30 and on February 2, complain: ing that work was being sent out to a non-union firm. To date he has received no replies. Party hold The Communist about seven of the 15 seats on the district committee and may influence one more. Currell, CP district George told can't secretary, me: answer questions on issues which.

are subiect to DC meetings and decisions' Tomany's view, expressed Mr in his second letter to the DC Workers Prose, TI on February 2 was that • 'being • 'in view of union members out of work and short of work we would have to insist that this work would have to go to a union firm ...

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Although Currell would specifically not comment on the allegation, Frank Tomany claims he was told by DC not to make trouble about work going out because of the knife-edge state of the company. Even with work beginning to go out of the factory to Gay's, was still a substantial there amount of overtime-in some cases up to 20 hours a week— when the DC clamped down.

Mr Tomany was now fighting on two fronts-trying to stop management sending work out of factory by preventing all his work normally done by his department from going out in favour of taking on more men putting and at the same time pressure on the DC to back him.

He claims his position was by the considerably weakened his asking DC's insistence on management for a daily estimate of overtime. "The DC was deliberatley putting me on the spot-with so much overtime being worked. If I hadn't done what they asked, they would have taken my card away. But the effect of it was kors Prose, Thuraday April 13, 1972 PAQE 7

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A EF Left: Omes Faulkners Ltd. Above, sacked AUEW convenor Frank the agminst Stalinism in the factory.

led fight against to make me unpopular very with management,' he told me.

His daily requests for over- time estimates eventually drew management's fire and he alleges he was told they couldn't spotd, all day acting as an, office boý for him. With the overtime ban biting hard, Omes Faulkners were now faced with an urgent need to rationalize and at the same time find a way round opposition from the trade unions. Talk of sacking was rife and Mr Tomany's insistence that this could be avoided by WOrK- sharing served only to fix man- agement's eye firmly on his department as the first victim of their emerging re-organization plan. On March 7 at a meeting of factory shop stewards, a vote of no confidence was taken in CP convenor Derek Howes and his deputy and Frank Tomany was re-elected to lead the sackings fight. Mr Tomany now began to draw the fire of the Communist Party as well as management.

the vote He told me: "After of no confidence in the CP con- venor at the factory, the Party were losing could see they control' On March 10 the blow fell.

issued their Omes Faulkners ultimatum sackings-or-wage-cut and a wave of fear shot through the factory.

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TOMORROW

THE RISE OF JUAN PERON

PAGE & Workers Proze, Thuraday April Part 2 on Argentina. By our fo The Argentinian proletariat was created out of immigrant workers — mainly from France, Italy and Spain-who brought the experience of • fo working-class organization in Europe in the form of trade unionism and anarchism. The Argentine rulers had to to work the import labour modern meat-packing plants as well as other industries.

This process continued until the 1930s, when miğration from the land provided new sources to build the working class. The trade unions established by the immigrants had extended amongst craftsmen in the 1880s.

They were encouraged by a visit of the Italian anarchist Enrico Malatesta. An exception to the influence of anarchism was the workers' union, the railway Fraternidad, founded after a visit by a delegation of American trades unionists. These unions were the victims of splits and conflicts and were based on layers of skilled workers attracted by the wages to be earnt in the Argentinian boom.

The anarchist federation FORA split in 1901 when a group founded the socialist-minded UGT (Union General de Traba- jadores). In May 1910 anti-trade union gangs burnt down the anarchist headquarters publishing and house of the anarchist daily 'La Protesta' during paper, independence celebrations. anti- The anarchists had called an patriotic' general strike.

There was a similar response to the militant struggles during World War I and after, as shown in the Semana Tragica of Jan- uary 1919. Engineering workers had gone on strike for a wage day April 13, 1972 y our foreign correspondent.

increase. Many were shot and wounded in battles with police and blacklegs. The day after, solidarity strikes were called and a general strike of for the day of the funeral. Police and troops were present at the funeral where they shot at the crowds of workers who had come to mourn the dead strikers.

The Socialist Party which grew the UGT together with was modelled on European lines in the reformist tradition of the Second International. The Com- munist Party was formed from a split in the reformists' ranks.

In 1922 the FORA 19 (so-called after the split at the 1915 Con- gress) formed the USA, the Union Sindical Argentina.

In 1926 the railworkers' and other unions led by social democrats formed the Confederacion Obrera Argentina. The Communist Party worked with the anarchist block until 1929, when they formed 'red' union their own in with the policies of accordance 'Third Period' Stalinism: the Committees for class unity.

In 1930 the USA, COA and some independent unions came together to form the CGT (Con- federacion General del Trabajo), of the French along the lines CGT. The CGT included rail- workers, engineering, municipal, and building trades textile workers. The two railway unions had over half the membership and after 1935 the general secre- tary was always chosen from the Union Ferroviaria of railworkers.

This source of friction, was a and in 1942 led to a further split in the history of the Argentine working class and the formation of CGT1 and CGT2. The Stalinist ultra-left policy prevented the Argentine Com- munist Party from making any inroads in these sections of workers. In 1936, with the swing in the Comintern to the policies of the Popular Front, the Argen- tine Stalinists entered the CGT.

capital As poured out of Europe into Latin America in the late 1930s, so industrialization intensified in Argentina and the in size. working class increased Trade membership and union trade unions began new to flourish and a wave of militancy swept through old and new sec- tions of the working class.

The Union Obrera Textil (tex- tile workers' union) expanded its membership from 45,000 in 1936 to 100,000 in 1941. The Federa- cion Obrera Nacional de Con- struccion (FONC), founded in 1936, had 40,000 members by 1941. The radicalization of the Argentine masses is well illus- trated in the growth of this union. It was organized as result of a general strike in the building trades in Buenos Aires in October 1935 incorporating some smaller trade unions.

The FONC was led by the Stalinists and was their first real penetration into the Argentinian trade union movement. In the first week of 1936 the union was involved in organizing another in Buenos Aires general strike in support of negotiations with the Department of Labour over conditions of work and union recognition. During the strike, pitched battles between workers and police were fought out in the streets of Buenos Aires: four police were shot, one worker was shot and 200 workers arrested. The union's leaders were finally bought off. The employers were not in favour of this new unionism and the truce was short-lived: another strike was called on October 18, 1937. The police moved in immediately arresting the strike committee and closing down the union offices. On October 30 the five strike leaders faced a threat of deporta- tion under the infamous Ley de Residencia placed on the statute books in 1902 to rid Argentina 'subversive of and unwanted aliens' — a carte blanche to any member of the remove working class which was entirely immigrant in character. A CGT commission intervened to get the men back to work with a slight wage increase and a statement that the conservative General Agustin Justo's regime had promised there would be no deportation. On their return to work,

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members found their leaders had been deported to Italy to be handed over to the tender mercies of fascist dictator Mussolini. An immediate strike was called, but came to nothing as the CGT refused to back the action. The action of the CGT leader- ship reflects the growth of a especially in the ord estabished trade unions which had devoted themselves more to co-operation with the capitalist state and the development of social welfare leading the than programmes working class in struggle.

The growing opposition be- tween this bureaucracy is evident in the growing influence of the CP in the building trades, although the Stalinist leadership was only verbally to the left.

Thus, in. October 1939, FONC called a strike for an across-the- table wage increase to counter the 10 per cent increase in the cost of living. The employers and the gov- Right: Hypolito Yrigoren, Argen- tina's president who was ousted by a military coup in 1930. Left: Yrigoren's successor, José Uri- buru. ernment refused to negotiate with the FONC leaders and nego- tiated a 10 per cent increase with the CGTU But it was to be distributed in the form of a family allowance and not as a wage increase.

This was rejected by FONC which issued a strike threat— only later to accept a com- promise by fixing a minimum wage for different trades.

The overall radicalization was also expressed in the increase in the number of strikes: in 1942 there were 113, double the num- ber of any year going back to 1936. In 1943 there were 85.

The Argentine military had ousted the representative of the Union Civica Radical, President Hypolito Yrigoren, in 1930 Argentinian capital strengthen against opposition during the Depression. •The strike wave obviously worried the same military men.

General Sosa Molina com- mented after the mass working- class demonstrations in Buenos Aires on May Day 1943: 'An enormous mass, carrying red flags, fists held high, singing the International, augured a really tragic future for the Republic confronted with that danger...

Molina called for a national revolution based on social justice.

The man to carry out this task —Juan Dumingo Peron. Peron to mastermind the next was coup and, within the space of a few years, to refashion the Argentinian labour movement •Peronismo, Still dominated by which is and the shadow of Peron himself.

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lingering Liberals with illusions about the Tories' intentions in the field of 'law and order' should pay more attention to the lessons the Tory press is trying might and main to rub home. If they have any doubts left after Ulster and the Industrial Relations Act, they should turn 'Sunday Telegraph' for to the April 2, which ought to remove any remaining misconceptions.

it's no fault of If it doesn't, "Telegraph's' leader-writer, the his who gets message across concisely and in the plainest of language. He is commenting on Turkish the shooting ten guerrilla fighters and their three NATO hostages in the village of Kizildere. If there was a Michelin guide terrorists instead for for tourists, Turkey would be cate- detour" to as "worth a gorized avoid. Nowhere else in the world do the state authorities give an ' impression of such decisive deter- mination to resist blackmail and strike back without any agonized liberal conscience: of searching the In the 'Telegraph's' view, this attitude of president Cevdet Sunay's barbarous military regime deserves the highest praise: •... what is significant is the extent to which decent, reason- able people here would wish to see more countries following the terrible and Turkish example, tragic as may be the fate of the innocent victims, such as the British radar technicians. • 'This reaction is both inevitable and desirable. Western civilization far more seriously today is threatened by a supine indiffer- ence to the forces of anarchy and subversion, by a willingness on the part of lawful authority to cave into violence than it is by any danger of excessively brutal repression or tyranny' The editorial ends on a note of praise for the Sunay regime (its military president has just his faith demonstrated by demanding full ap democracy • dictatorial powers and threaten; • ring'•to 'consign • the • National * . Wi Assembly to the dustbin): 'Who would have thought, a hundred years ago, that Turkey would ever have much to teach Britain about the arts of govern- ment? Yet today it is fast becom- ing the model to which many eyes are turned with growing envy and admiration. In a world challenged by anarchy, the mailed fist, alas, will always be more attractive than the bleeding heart.' A franker statement of the increasing desire of the British employing class for a fascist-style strongman could hardly be found.

The hundreds of trade unionists communists and currently in Cevdet languishing Sunay's the Tories jails are just where would like to put British militants and communists. The 'Telegraph' is not speaking for itself alone. Six days after editorial this appeared, another right-wing 'Economist', Inder her elevoted A Term ts devoted two pages Violence' to the same theme as the 'Sunday Telegraph'. The article gets off to a flying start by raising the bogy that 'fairly small criminal or psycho- pathic (cum - bogusly - political) groups' (like the Pentagon or Paratroop Brigade?) could the shortly be threatening to destroy of some city's 'large segments population' with modern weapons.

The blame for this situation apparently lies at least in part 'Economist' 'the spiritual as fathers of the brutal murders of three British technicians by Turkish political bandits last week'. The reason is: "The demo is almost always anti-democratic. It tries to replace judgement based on reasoned argument (which is what democracy has to be about) by judgements bullied by at least ation, degree of yelled intimid- some To protect democracy, in this Tory version of 'Alice in Wonder- land', you have first to deprive people of their basic democratic rights. This includes not just the but right to demonstrate, ••. demo or token strike or any other form of group togetherness' who want to organize Those these activities-which regretably are still legal-should be asked weigh the advantages that they think the world will gain from their indulging in this form of enjoyment, against the evidence that the main real con- give society sequence is to another imperceptible shove along the road at the end of which half- a-dozen Turkish psychopaths can say they consider it their "basic right and a debt of honour to execute the hostages"' Having tried to induce people to abandon their legal rights, the 'Economist' moves stage on two: it wants firm application of the law to deal with such offences as 'obstruction of the highways, councillors refusals by local Or leaders or other trade union law, dignatories to obey the illegal picketing, rent strikes'.

should it be Finally, ever menaced byTurkish-style terrorists, the government should put up 'total resistance'. Just like regime of General the Cevdet Sunay. Adolf for that matter, Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

why imitate the After i all, imitators when you can try and imitate the real thing? Britain, where the But working class fought down the for the rights its centuries en- joys today, certain people will find that writing articles is one putting. them into the Practice quite another.

Workers Press, Thursday Aprll 13, 1972 PÅGE 9 All good British Liberals love apologize to the President was Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia's made last night at a meeting president. smiling And of members of the sO, some apparently, do all his subjects.

executive. Witness the following item from Lusaka Radio last week.

'Last night's meeting Committee "The Executive resolved that each member of the National Union of should give his views to the Zambian Students is to make who would then secretary to President joint apology compile them for presentation Kaunda for a circular written during its to the commission by the Union's sitting in June. The executive secretary, describing the one-party state has also asked all college stu- dents throughout Zambia to is an evil system. The Union's vice-treasurer submit their views on the one- said... that the Union's secre- the Union's party state to secretary.' tary had written the circular without the backing of the And he'll make sure it The doesn't happen again.. executive. decision …TO General Praphat Charusathien, to the effect that the Vietnam Thailand's deputy dictator and war would spread not to Director of National Security, Thailand had but great significance 'for the free world is under few illusions about and the people of SE Asia'.

the Vietnam war. He toid a press conference Very until one that the S Viet- Thailand last week pressman asked had been would agree to send troops to namese troops 'routed' and had help S Vietnam if requested.

sustained their Leaviest losses since the The National Security Direc- beginning of the war. tor replied that Thailand was However, he still cherishes to send not in a position the illusion that Thailand will help the troops to since situation in the country iteelf stay capitalist if S Vietnam falls. was critical and needed troops Bangkok Radio quoted him to safeguard the country.

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Fighting the Tories' Rent Bill PAGE 10 Workers Proza, Thuraday April 13,1972 The Tory government has introduced to parliament the Housing Finance Bill which will double council rents.

The hated Bill will destroy the right to decent housing at reasonable rents for millions of working- class families. Like unemployment, the Industrial Relations Act and the rising food bonanza, the Bill price forms part of deliberate Tory, down the policy to drive standard of living of the working class.

UNDER THE BILL:

BY PHILIP WADE

What will also happen is that the of will as price property Hents to more and more peopie are alven• on estate agent thinks a property ONE OF the most powerful to the market. Is world. Many

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tenants' associations in S people on this wlll double on gov ernment's like 50s. We've London £3.50 (plus mae. trel Colas. Jolo London is the one covering our back to the wall. can't It we rates) will rise to over {7 (plus rates).

afford the rents would be new Coldharbour Estate in New impossible find another house. • RENTS FIXED by committee of property. men and would NO _one entertain lawyers. No appeal. They have the right to inspect mortgage. Ponalty •for obstructing. thom: a Yet tenants could be £50 fine. "it has "1.600 mem. Düshed out of their houses if the Tories think

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Mall y raising rents October with a compulsory you apply for a rebate, you could be Increase of the campaign against the offered accommodation which will probably be sub-standard.

• COUNCILS REFUSING to raise rents and operate Tory plans. all housing the Act can be deprived The Tories are turning the clock Housing covernment Hous no 102CK Sobered Chairman Derrick Wiles social necessity-like a hospital bed.

has been involved in the Council housing was supposed be to buy their own houses. It has given lot of people over their years. He told me what he saw as the aims of the Bill ernierinne Now it's going be week to the way the struggle What really lies behind this Bill?

would develop.

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will move Well, it's Tory policy to sell council accounts into and halt of this be surplus taken by lory-controlled DIODCIty. It is an attack on council years tenants wil councils in the future I think you be paying an extra million. In rents. tenants to bring their stan- could see many of the houses sold off to estate agents and

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dards of living down. It is also million or inem-living democracy, une uke. In controlled propertles: Decontrol begins from blow against This is a government which argues January and their raised to rents will be because all the rights are being about nothi they did They make Ireland, fair' levels the tenants taken away …trom decision, like with

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Bill was cut on the short by the and from the council. and then they carry it out.

Torles on March 29. It has now And with censorship If an elected council press House retused

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stage of Commons. Three implement the Bill, the government things the i1ke more days are the report and third Com- people have yet to realize reading Housing goes to the House Call Drille They're what's missioner happening. take over

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publicly-quoted Instance company talling below LodI MILLIONAIRE Labour MP, stems from the sorry financial which consider of Maxwell's family- observed when erve altairs of his Sudan aid should be Robert Maxwell, has taken histor owned Pergamon out a second writ against the company, menting upon company in the press.' Press. Trade of and

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on Maxwell further 1cnt rant he pals shine ops ion, Maxwell his Although has sharp no dalh reveals the second Slapped by but there business practices report, it is nowhere near as scarcely hint of criticism. cynical as the first one.

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We're losing all our rights in this country. And we're being pushed into a corner where we could lose a lot more. But the working class as to give them up is not so slow like that—it will be a hell of a job for the Tories to take them all away. won't be able to fight Tenants this on their own. We have to have the support of the trade unions. It's got to be a common fight-after all, everybody's pocket will be hit.

Already the Bill has forced tenants' associations much closer together. Our association has gone out and set them up where they existed before and revived never the older ones which have fallen by the wayside. In the past the vast majority of tenants' associations have remained non-political; that is, not giving full support to any political party. I don't think this will change com- pletely. Nevertheless, as a whole they will have horizons, to broaden their looking more deeply into things and becoming involved politically.

In my opinion, the return of a Labour government will be the only answer. But you have to admit the last Labour government was a big disappointment to a lot of us.

The first thing tenants will expect is a repeal of this Bill. They will also have to do some- thing about interest vast charges and land prices councils have to pay if they want to build new houses. supplies INDUSTRY was faced with shutdown when power total cuts hit all parts of Eire yester- day after 600 power station workers struck in support of a pay claim. Less. than a third of normal electricity supply was available the government imposed • after rationing and domestic use was being restricted to three hours in 24. Automatic power stations were being used to provide emergency power to hospitals and other priority services. The Irish Republic govern- ment has banned the use electricity for. floodlighting, advertising, window display lighting and heat in commercial premises and places of public entertainment. Consumers have been urged to use electricity only for essential purposes.

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THE NIGHT Assemblies Bill which permits the banning of pop festivals and assemblies of more than 3,000 people took another step towards the statute books yesterday. Mr Jerry Wiggin, the Tory MP sponsoring the Bill, said he would amend his Bill in view of the government's decision to introduce a code of practice governing pop festivals. The capitalist press immedi- ately seized on Wiggin's com- ment to suggest that the Bill will be watered down. This is far from the case.

Under the new amendments a clause granting leave for appeal will probably be in- cluded. But leave to appeal to whom! The lory government, of course! Wiggin moved the adjourn- ment of discussion on the Bill until next Wednesday. ฿ВС 1 9.45 Che the nder 10130 Co2 _10.10 Cham- Parsley. 10.30 Canoe. 10.55 Magic Roundabout. 12.55 Tres- News, 1.30 Joe. 1.45 arn. weather. 2.50 Good Sailing. 3.20 The Countryman. 3.45 Working with Youth. 4.10 Parsley. 4.15 Play School. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Blue Peter. 5.20 Boss Cat. 5.44 Hector's News, House. 5.50 Weather.

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Working-class children and members of a commune meet in the country. BAC men want 'no strings' pay rise

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zel a ust sellener. Warton ve accept fixed Many feel that BAC's Preston yesterday al une rreston and Samlesbury plants, us. If we would be an strings voted to continue their BAC's military division, our wages will be rates, inted-dationork ta Meas- 10 - week - old are demanding 14* pay at a applauded later stage. workers strike. increase to give in the packed City Hall men who his They accepted a shop minimum. at ultimatum. receiving financial sup-

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orean • tee to expel a leading regard to the miners' izer, Ernie Leslie, who April 7 Ernie Leslie militant from the strike and also with incipally was made a Justice the Peace. 'interterence' recommending Rav Davies of The Kinks makes his acting debut Distance The Long Player' Hamburg. Episode 2. Play for Today on BBC 1. Lois batte plays is wite.

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Mawr. Place. 4.40 Nuts and bones. 4.50 Mir! cors Press, Thuraday Aprll 13, 1972 PAGE 11

A WARRANT

was issued for the arrest of a detective yesterday after he failed to surrender to bail for trial at the Old Bailey on corruption charges. Detective Sergeant John Sym- onds (35), of Thornton Heath, Surrey was charged after an in- vestigation by "The Times'.

Michael, Sherrard, OC, defending, said Symonds had sent him a letter on March '28 saying: I am still most unwell and not fit enough to continue instructing you. Sherrard said it was believed Symond's frame of mind might have been adversely affec- ted by the strain of the past two and a half years since 'The Times' allegations. i senior detectives Two other were recently jailed for up to six years on charges relating to the same article on police cor- ruption. PORTSMOUTH Corporation was yesterday granted order an ten named students in against the High Court allowing it to repossess the administrative centre as Portsmouth Polytechnic —occupied for five weeks as a against serious over- protest and 'undemocratic crowding government' of the college. About 50 students picketed the hearing with placards demanding con- sultation. as Make a wish. 5.15 London. 6.00 News. Police file. 6.25 | dream of Jeannie. 6.55 Sky's the limit.

7.25 Film: 'McCloud-Flith Man In a String Quartet'. 8.50 Sylves- ter. 9.00 London. 11.00 On the line. 11.30 See our next thrilling instalment. TYNE TEES: 1.15 Bird's eye onlow 1.45 Racing. 2.15, Dísabled.

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Vietnam Gls' tarmac mutiny PAGE 12 Workers Press Thursday April 13

BY JOHN SPENCER

SOME American ground troc out on patrol at the big Us t front line of N Vietnam's off 'It's too dangerous .. we don't know the area. this is not a defensive ' the men operation shouted in an altercation with their colonel on the tarmac of Phu Bai airbase.

The heated argument began as Gls from a unit of ground troops flown to provide secu- rity for the base were being assembled into trucks to start patrol. from the Some of the men 1961 Light Infantry Division told reporters nearby, including tele- crews, they had vision camera Hatly refused to go. grew angrier The arguments when Col Fred Mitchell ordered the men into the trucks. Eventu- ally he drove them back to the camp and the group stood in a ring round him for several min- utes as the arguments continued.

The then convoy was assembled again, with the colonel apparently winning the day and all the men seemingly on board.

The journalists were not allowed near the camp. Phu Bai is near Hut, which has been under pressure from N Vietnamese troops moving cast- wards from the foothills near the Lantian border. The mini-mutiny there sums up the feelings of the remaining US combat troops, who have no stomach left for fighting the war. Much the same goes for the S Vietnamese soldiers as well. Don- aid Wise, writing from Saigon in yesterday's "Daily Mirror' said: '1 saw shaky S Vietnamese soldiers being hit over the head by their officers to keep them going. They were approaching the enemy cau- tiously to say the least . : despite Collapse of morale, superior equipment. and air supre- macy, accounts for the failure of Vietnamese counter-attack north of Saigon. Two days ago eung-ho US Mai- Gen Jim Hollingsworth wis had the boasting that his forces N Vietnamese on the run: 'We're 'em all going to kill before they get back can Cambodia where they came from.

Our artillery and helicopters have

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01-622 7029 RAIL ACTION: The footplate- men's unien. ASIEF. has asked the other rail unions to join them in i work-t-rule, overtime ban and non-co-operation policy from midnight Sunday following On the breakdown in pay negotia- tions with British Rail. Already Southern and Eastern Region go-slow action has created havoc • with London's rush-hour traffic.

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ay April 13, 1972 nd troops staged a short-lived mut ig US military installation of Phu m's offensive. the ground with dead covered communists' But yesterday Reuter's Jose Katigbak cabled reporter from the strategic Highway 13 where the N Vietnamese are advancing towards the capital that the counter-attack 'appeared to be losing momentum'. Katigbak himself pinned was down on the Highway by heavy Chairman of the Liverpool shop stewards' Jimmy committee Symes leaving talks on Tuesday with Heatons container company of St Heiens, Lancs. The talks- on the Merseyside dockers' black- ing of Heatons' broke lorries down and the company yesterday went to the National Industrial Relations Court in London. See page 1. OCCASIONAL light rain on parts of the E coast will soon clear and most districts will have a mainly dry day with bright periods.

Rain, however, is likely to spread to most W districts during the evening. Temperatures will be near the mid-April normal. Outlook for Friday and Saturday: Rain at times but becoming mainly dry in the SE with sunny normal periods. Temperatures and becoming rather warm in the S. ed mutiny and refused to go f Phu Bai, not far from the rocket, mortar and machine-gun fire from a N Vietnamese ambush.

The S Vietnamese column is still far short of its declared objective, the town of Loc Ninh, 68 miles from Saigon. The Saigon regime has thrown its cadet including reserves, troops and the presidential palace guard, into the desperate coun- ter-offensive.

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the National at Union of Students' conference should said their union "take membership of the Movement for Survival. During the discussion at the Birmingham conference on envi- ronment and pollution an amend- ment was thrown out from South- ampton and Reading Universities stating that deterioration in the environment is primarily a class issue. Instead, delegates passed an amendment which instructed the executive to 'press for a govern- ment inquiry into patterns employment and an alternative aimed policy employment at reducing needless production'.

This was part of an amend- ment proposed by Imperial Col- lege. London, which also gave support to the 'basic prin- full ciple embodied in the reaction.

ary 'Blueprint For Survival".

amendments passed Other blamed damage to the environ- and • over-population ment on urged 'all governments' to give to encouragement any- body attempting to combat the over-expansion of population'.

Brian Prangle from Southamp- University condemned the ton and urged dele- final resolution gates to throw it out.

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European. Airways yesterday warned pilots work- ing-to-rule that they may face the sack. The airline said that if it could not provide a satisfactory service to customers because of increased pressure by the pilots, then action would be taken to dispense with the services of those pilots not prepared to work normally.

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•What this motion seems to say is that if capitalism is cleaned up we can leave it there to go on exploiting workers', he said.

Our only objection to the cap!- System "seems to be that it is dirty. This resolution doesn't poisoning in lead talk about workers' bodies from the condi- tions they have to work in, it doesn't talk about coal dust in miners' lungs or asbestos dust which kills off workers. 'Pollution', he added, 'is a class is not the fault of question. It the working class—it is the fault of capitalism. Socialist Labour League and Y

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Party Labour yesterday opened floodgates the to give the government a hand- when the majority some referendum Tories oppose a on the Common Market in the Commons next week. Edward Heath is absolutely to the opposed referendum because it would mean a deci- sive defeat of his plan to rail- road this country into Europe, An anti-Market Tory MP, Mr Marten, will, propose Neil referendum amendment during the debate on the European Com- munities Bill next Tuesday or Wednesday. Ex-deputy leader of the Labour Party, Roy Jenkins, and a coterie of his right-wing friends already resigned positions in the Shadow Cabinet so they can vote with the Tories. • But despite the clear intentions of the Jenkinsites, no Labour • MP demanded their expulsion at yesterday's PLP. Nor did MPs demand that a three-line whip be enforced during next week's debate.

the size of the A hint of Labour right-wing revolt could be gauged from the PLP's voting on the referendum question. The meeting decided by 129 votes to 96 to support Neil Marten's resolution. Last October 69 Jenkinsites voted with the Tories for entry to the Common Market.

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