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BOMBING RAIDS GAMBLE BY NIXON

AN LOC ROUT

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE SIEGE of Ar turning into a cr imperialism and i The battle for An Loc-capital of the Bin Long province - has been raging for ten days and the town has twice been all but over- run by N Vietnamese tanks and infantry. Only the arrival of 1,000 paratroopers on Saturday saved the gov- ernment garrison from complete defeat as the liberation forces mounted their second major assault at the weekend. The northern part of An Loc is now firmly in the hands of the liberation forces and the surviving members of the government garrison are fighting hope- lessly to carry out Presi- dent Thieu's order to hold it at all costs. ON THE EVE of a city- convenors' wide meeting the engineering pay claim, workers Davy Manufacturing, Darnall, have begun a Sheffield, sit-in strike. On Friday management announced a shut-down in retaliation to an overtime ban. The men began a round-the-clock occupation.

At the city's AEl factory, Attercliffe Common, 400 workers have said that if management does not make a satisfactory offer by to- merrow they will strike. district The AUEW committee, which is domin- ated by Communist Party members, had been des- trying to hold perately back district-wide action in support of the claim on the Manchester pattern.

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THE SIEGE of An Loc, 60 miles N of Saigon, is into a crushing defeat for American imperialism and its S Vietnamese puppet army.

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SHEPPERTON film studios should be nationalized with the rest of the film industry, a meeting at the Criterion theatre, London, decided yesterday. The meeting, called to discuss the rumoured shut- down of the Middlesex studios, carried the call for nationalization under workers' control as an amendment to a resolution drawn up by leaders of the industry's seven trade unions. They had simply demanded government aid on amendment to halt the contraction in the industry. The resolution also called for industrial action to promote studio-based obtain government films, cash for the National Film Finance Corporation and resist studio closures amended to include Shep- perton specifically. It asked the Tory gov- make £5m ernment to available under the 1970 Films Act which would be used by the NFFC to take over Shepperton and pro- mote a programme of new productions.

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BOMBING RAIDS GAMBLE BY NIXON

AN LOC ROUT

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE SIECE of Ar The battle for An Loc-capital of the Bin Long province - has been raging , for ten days and the town has twice been all but over- run. by N Vietnamese tanks and infantry. Only the arrival of 1,000 paratroopers on Saturday saved the gov- ernment garrison from complete defeat as the liberation forces mounted their second major assault at the weekend. The northern part of An Loc is now firmly in the hands of the liberation forces and the surviving members of the government garrison are fighting hope- lessly to carry out Presi- dent Thieu's order to hold it at all costs. ON THE EVE of a city- convenors' meeting wide the engineering pay on claim, workers at Davy Manufacturing, Darnall, Sheffield have begun a sit-in strike. On Friday management announced a shut-down in retaliation to an overtime The men began ban. a round-the-clock occupation.

At the city's AEI factory, Attercliffe Common, 400 workers have said that if management does not make a satisfactory offer by to- morrow they will strike. The

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district committee, which is domin- ated by Communist Party members, had been des- perately trying to hold back district-wide action in support of the claim on the Manchester pattern.

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THE SIEGE of An Loc, 60 miles N of Saigon, is* turning into a crushing defeat for American imperialism and its S Vietnamese puppet army.

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Vote for the nationalization amend

BY IAN YEATS

SHEPPERTON film studios should be nationalized with the rest of the film industry, a meeting at the Criterion theatre, London, decided yesterday. The meeting, called to discuss the rumoured shut- down of the Middlesex studios, carried the call for nationalization u n de r workers' control an amendment to a resolution drawn up by leaders of the industry's seven trade unions. They had simply demanded government aid ion amendment to halt the contraction in the industry. The resolution also called for industrial action to promote studio-based films, obtain government cash for the National Film Finance Corporation and resist studio closures - amended to include Shep- perton specifically. It asked the Tory gov- ernment to make f5m available under the 1970 Films Act which would be used by the NFFC to take over Shepperton and pro- mote a programme of new productions.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday April 17, 1972 CAUGHT between Barber's blackmail and the relentless resistance of the union ranks, TUC general secretary Victor Feather has been forced to make a rare show of militancy against the Tories.

Addressing the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union conference in Glasgow on Saturday, he implicitly contrasted the unity of the TUC on the question o de-registration Jenkinites in the Labour Party. He appealed for, unity and solidarity in the face of 'one of the hardest attacks this movement has ever had to face'.

Commending the TUC ranks for the fact that only 608,000 members out of a total of 10 million had been affected by the registration of some unions, Feather said : 'The divisiveness which was intended by the Act has been nullified and destroyed by the unity of the trade union movement.' reserved for Tory Feather's main barb was the Chancellor's remarks on' the rail If Barber crisis: IS of a General Election and using the unions as thinking a whipping boy for that purpose, he will find that such activities can recoil.'" Brave words, fighting words-but words never stopped Tories from passing the Industrial Relations Act or the whopping £5,000 fine the •Act with implementing against Feather's colleagues in the TUC Jack Jones and is every indication that the

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And there the Tory employers intend to use the Act to the utmost.

It is instructive, to say the least, that Feather, when he did refer to the Act, did so with some embarrassment.

Even after the NIRC judgement he still maintained that 'cynics and wishful thinkers' who believed the Act would 'solve problems, have been shown to be miserably wrong'. This is nothing more than a pathetic attempt to continue the reformist argument that if the trade unions Act then the Tories could not invoke il ignored the and, later, the Labourites would repeal it when or if returned to power. as the What will Feather do if Jack jones, who, 'Economist' pointed out, once thought that a 'climbdown issue might become popular in the on the registration TUC General Council', suddenly passes the £5,000 fine to the TUC to pay? Barber's speech blackmailing the unions the and Act by Relations the of the Industrial activation and direct political the clearest must employers challenge offered to the unions so far. As 'The Guardian' editorial commented on Saturday, Barber converted an industrial dispute into a political conflict 'even if the unions did not want it elevated in this way.

to this escalation expresses most Feather's reaction of policy and eloquently the bankruptcy reformist urgently the necessity for a new emphasizes most to force leadership and a determined campaign the Tories to resign. Said Feather: 'It has done more than anything to emphasize the urgent need for the else completely independent conciliation establishment of a service both nationally and regionally!'

But the task of the unions and the Labour Party is Tory gangsters on the need for lecture the new not to laws on the licensing of weapons, but to disarm these before they murder the unions.

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• Comm demanded free speech f current election campaign wing demonstrators who meetings as agents of 're The CP denunciation came as police all over Italy raided the offices of left-wing organizations and the homes of their supporters. Over 4,800 people were arrested and charged in the course of the police though swoop, most were released on bail. This is the background to the Stalinists' pose as defenders of democracy and fair play. The Italian Social • which Movement, calls "openly for the resto- ration of fascism, is stump- ing the under country heavy police guard holding as new TARIO ALI, former pre- sident of the Oxford Union • who now edits the 'Red Mole' for the revisionist International Group, Marxist is cur- rently visiting N Korea. Hi visit coincides With the 60th birthday of the country's Stalinist leader, Kim Il-sung. To celebrate the leader's birthday, the N Korean Communist Party has reached new heights of grotesque flattery in the Stalin manner. Farlier this week, for example, the Party's Cen- tral School was renamed the Kim Il-sung Higher Party School. The N Korean news agency reported this had been done to 'hand down for ever, generation after generation, the great revo- • idea, the Chuche lutionary idea, of Comrade Kim II- sung, the respected and beloved leader of our party and the Korean people, national peerless patriot, hero. ever-victorious iron- willed brilliant commander, great thinker and theoreti- cian and one of the out- of standing leaders the international com- munist movement and working-class movement, and his immortal revolu- tionary exploits and his minute guidance to, and deep solicitude for, the founding of the central school and its party strengthening and develop- ment. AN

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'death squad' carried out in a its fourth execution month in the E Bolivian city of Santa Cruz on Sat- urday. Local police found a body riddled with 25 bullets bearing a note say- ing: The Death Squad will put an end to all defects in society and to all communists in this town.'

The group has adopted the as the same name Brazilian 'Death Squad' which is responsible for the execution of hundreds of opponents of Medici's police-state. Communist Party has peech for fascists in the ampaign and attacked left- rs who break up fascist s of 'reactionary forces.

provecative meetings in major centres. There have been riots at almost every town where fascist rallies have been held. The CP statement issued at the weekend said: 'Any attempt to hamper by the electoral campaign violating its rules must be rejected. It is inadmissible take recourse to forms to of protest that may lead URUGUAY is pris under a state of siege for a 30-day 'internal war'. Government measures increase the powers of the armed forces and allow the court authori- ties to search and detain suspects without a court order. In a nationwide broad- cast President Bordaberry pledged tough stand the Tupamaros (CM against guerrilla fighters: 'We are not declaring war. It has been declared against us by the subversive groups.' This clamp-down follows the escape of 25 prisoners, including 15 Tupamaros, from the Punta Carretas Nixon and Trudeau during their tal

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NIXON can headed back to Washing- con ton from Ottawa yester- day after two days of with Canada's talks Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. The visit follows sharp disagreements between the two countries over Ameri-

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and Iranian" troops have fought four-day battle with tanks and artillery after Iraqi police patrol an ambushed by was Iranian troops, accord- ing military com- to a munique issued in Bagh- dad. The statement claimed that Iraqi inflicted heavy troops casualties on the Iranian "aggressors' and said they had been repulsed. Iraq's casualties were in to clashes and repressive and indiscriminate police intervention.' The statement added that the 'ultra-leftists' respon- sible for the incidents were pawns of foreign and domestic reactionary forces' that had been plotting for some time to seize power.

This is meant to refer mo to the Greek colonels, who are financing many of the to MSI's activities and train- stre prison last Wednesday and gun-battle on Friday when the urban guerrillas killed a former government under - Secretary, ment several police and a senior navy officer. However. behind the repression lies Bordaberry's fear of the strength of the Uruguayan working class rather than the terrorism of the Tupamaros. The General Strike called on Wednesday • by the 400,000-strong National Workers' Convention (CNT) was the third faced by Bordaberry since his government took office on March 1. The strike, in support of 40 per cent wage increases, backing of dockers, had school teachers and univer- sity students. The govern- ng their talks ON can demands for trade tic: concessions from Canada. The Canadian govern- ment has so far refused to make any concessions to the US demands, des- pite intense pressure from Washington. With over 8 per cent unemployment, Trudeau is in no hurry to commit poli- ecc put at one soldier and two policemen slightly wounded. There • has been ten- sion between • Iran and Iraq for niany years on a variety of issues. Iraq severed diplomatic rela- tions after Iran occupied three strategic islands in the Persian Gulf last November. One of the islands, Abu Musu, was occu- pied by prior agreement but Iran's landings on the others, Greater and ing its thugs. In its anxiety to defend the corpse of capitalist democracy in Italy, the CP is reviving all the slanders of the 1930s about 'fascist agents'. Its statement opens the door for the fascists the workers into lulling the illusion that they will go away if ignored. The crisis-ridden parlia- mentary system in Italy single defend cannot worker against the fascist menace. It can only be met by mobilizing the trade unions and the mass organizations to drive the fascists off the streets. ment has offered 20-per- cent rises. The CNT halted urban and long-distance bus vices, the railways private and state banks, industry, the civil service, education, broadcasting and news- papers. more strikes are Two planned for tomorrow and April 25. in neighbouring As Argentina, the working is fighting bitterly class against a drastic reduction in its living standards and cent cost-of-living 10 per rise and again st political militants. repression of Tupamaros and The tof Popular Revolutionary Army urban guerrillas turn their back on this struggle in dangerous to engage adventurism. rade tical suicide by restricting exports to Canada's largest market. The two leaders agreed their talks that during both sides would review their positions over the coming weeks, but made clear that this does not u is imply agreement on the poli- economic questions.

Lesser Tumb, aroused anger in the Arab world and especially in Iraq. The latest clash fol- lows the signing of a 15- year treaty of friendship co-operation and between Iraq and the Soviet Union. The treaty, covering political, economic and military aspects, was signed on April 9, the final day of an official by Soviet five-day visit Premier Alexei Kosygin to Iraq.

by Peter Read, delegate to the Nat Conference from Luton The National Union of Teachers recently. voted by a huge majority not to register under the Industrial Relations Act. The 2,000 delegates at the union's conference voted under the shadow of the fine imposed on the Transport and General Workers' Union by the National Industrial Relations Court.

Non-registration is an im- portant pointer to the direction in which teachers are being forced despite their to move boom-time and middle-class out- look. The mood behind the over- whelming vote for non-registra- tion ran completely counter to the miserable fence-sitting stance of the NUT leadership. To defend rights and condi- tions in education teachers are being impelled to join the struggle of the working class.

The Tory government aims to destroy the gains made in state education and has begun the onslaught on school milk and blocked secondary meals and school building. Teachers' living standards are in the front line of Tory fire in the public against wages sector. The post-war boom gave rise amongst teachers to a belief in sometimes-interrupted but in- evitable progress in education.

These illusions will shatter as the rapidly-developing world- wide recession forces every ruling class into a ruthless programme to slash labour costs. This in- cludes, course, education expenditure. protest meeting outside The the NUT conference hall during Tory Education Secretary Thatcher's visit was Margaret significant. Many of the delegates attend- ing "were from the most middle- class: areas where Thatcher has blocked plans for comprehensive reorganization. So the new militants came from areas such as Surrey, Chipping Barnet and Kidderminster!

This shows that whatever maybe the appearance, teachers will not passively watch the dis- mantling of gains made in decades of campaigning. The attack on education is already looming very large on the horizon. Roaring inflation and living standards and working condi- tions. Spending axe cuts poise an over jobs and the finance needed due to the raising of the school leaving age. Teaching jobs are to be cut.

The NUT journal The Teacher' headlined on March 31: 'Spend- ing squeeze will cut number of teaching jobs.' The article explained: 'Newly- qualified teachers will find it harder to get a job this Septem- ber. At least three local authori- ties have decided to cut back the number of new recruits they will employ... "The massive cost-cutting where exercise in Liverpool, nearly flm has been cut from education estimate, means the that 151 fewer teachers will be employed •.. *Berkshire, which had one of rate rises in the the lowest country - 2p — will take on 60 fewer teachers in September.'

Teachers face an NUT execu- tive which has no intention what- ever of leading any kind of fight on salaries. Arbitration has been accepted on the current claim without even a protest. general secretary Edward On Britton's own admission, teachers' • the National Union of Teachers salaries have risen only 35.7 per cent since 1965—just one tenth of a per cent more than the cost of living increases — whereas average earnings elsewhere rose over the same period by 50 per cent. The executive's pay claim for 1973 marks an acceptance of the principle behind the employers' divisive scales imposed last year.

These enormously complex gradings divide teachers' pay into five separate scales, plus two more for heads and deputy heads.

This opens the door for keep- ing a great majority of teachers a depressed first scale. In on addition teachers on Scale 2 and above have no interest in the plight of those on Scale 1. Hence the employers hope to achieve their aim of diverting teachers from trade struggle union to seeking individual advance on to higher scales in a fragmented profession. of this, On top each scale could be negotiated separately and the way is open for grading of teachers to fit future slashed expenditure. 'destroyed last year The system consisted of a basic scale with fixed extra allowances for senior posts except heads and deputy heads. This unified teachers by tying all salaries to the basic scale and it is this unity that the em- ployers wish to destroy. At Blackpool the executive proposed a simplified system of 'scales: with about 600: different salary levels instead of 3,000.

This abandonment of the basic of campaigning defence, serious marks an extremely retreat. Its enormous implications have been indicated above.

The executive rested its case on the argument that its pro- posed scales are unified because mathematically linked they are by multiples of £96. The leading Communist Party member on the executive Max Morris, termed this 'ingenious' and proclaimed: 'It's a winner.'

who questioned it Anyone 'should use their brains, he said.

Some : less mathematically- inclined delegates would have preferred the smallest indication of fire from their leaders.

is however The point that ingenious their claim might be, 'the teachers' leaders will con- be treated with the tinue to until they customary contempt are prepared to lead a fight.

Management is determined to maintain its divisive system and will not hand teachers a power- ful means to unite their ranks having just made a major bid to divide them! Similarly the current £250 flat- rate claim met with a blank refusam An imposed per- centage settlement further widen- ing differentials is likely.

Many teachers at present feel that the basic 'has gone for good' and 'we might as well fight from are'. However, this where we the government's ignores that aim is to reduce wages through its scales system and roaring inflation. response of the NUT The leadership to these enormous problems is collaborationist and defeatist. executive are political 'Your realists, says general secretary Britton. He argues, therefore, that the union has no choice except to 'a grossly submit to unfair arbitration' on pay and to accept employers' the 'divide-and-rule' pay policy with hardly a murmur of protest. by the Stalinists and Aided revisionists, the NUT leadership ducks the main issue: to defend teachers' and education wages conditions means an all-out fight against the Tory government.

sizeable increase the lowest scale is incompatible with the. employers' pay scheme, which seeks to slash the salaries bill. Teachers must demand sliding scale of wages to keep pace with the soaring cost of living. The Tory government's con- frontation with the trade union movement and its education cuts mean one vital lesson: trade union leaders! who refuse to organize their members to defeat the government can only betray.

The defence of all aspects. of education revolves around this central question, why the All Trades That is Unions Alliance fights to build a socialist leadership in the unions as part of the preparation for the launching of the revolutionary party in the coming autumn.

As the ATUA has said: 'Only socialist policies of the nation- alization of the banks, the land and the major industries, with- under compensation and out workers' control, can provide the expansion means an education finance and a future for schools and teachers alike.'

This year's conference found the Stalinists moving rapidly rightwards into deeper crisis.

Stalinism in the NUT now has to play out its counter-revolu- tionary direct role through defence of a bankrupt reformist leadership. Stalinist Max Morris Leading for years proposed what became known the Brent resolution as calling for the basic scale.

This Morris - newly- year elected as vice-President - abandoned this line and led the executive's vicious attack on opponents of the leadership's pay policy. me,:. The Stalinist executive mem- Workers Press,

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bers allow the right wing a free rein and bear a major respon- for the position within sibility the union. The executive memoranda on such vital topics as registration and salaries were said to have unanimous executive approval.

with Britton can even say impunity in the middle of nego- tiations for a flat rate increase that teachers will probably have to accept a percentage increase in the end! At the CP's teachers' meeting at Blackpool education spokes- man John Tarver made clear the rightward evolution of Stalinist policy during his reactionary, Utopian and reformist state- ment. The executive's proposed salary structure he said, "takes the structure, of the employers' scales. Tarver claimed that the lowest scale would have to be negotiated first. (This point has already been taken up above.)

ors Press, Monday Aprll 17, 1972 PAGE 3 The Stalinists' faith in negotia- tion with the Tory government was reflected in their teachers' journal 'Education Today and Tomorrow'. a leading article • In (Vol. 24, No. 2) the sole call to "Meantime, action there was: should not be a staffroom in the country that has not demanded of the executive of their unions continuous sessions of Burnham until negotiations over the £250 claim are settled.' Tarver also poured scorn on the suggestion that scales could be used to implement produc- tivity measures and cuts.

It was presumably with these policies in mind that he claimed that 'no one has done so much for the teachers' fight as Max Morris'. Not surprisingly "militants, the pre- conference meeting usually called by the Inner Lon- Teachers' don Association - where the CP is strongly repre- sented—was not held this year.

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PAGE 4 Workers Pross, Monday April 17, In this two part article Cliff S record of Ted Grant's 'Militan Party The Young Socialists held their annual conference in Scarborough on April 8 and 9 with an eight years' record of outstanding campaigning and leadership since their expulsion from the Labour Party in 1964. Before their expulsion they had won the national leadership of the Labour Party Young Socialists by mobilizing working- class youth, independently of the official reformist policy and machine of Transport House.

At the centre of their work, was the building then and now, of the independent revolutionary Trotskyist party, the Socialist Labour League. epoch, this is the In our question of questions. All socialist propaganda and agitation, how- ever left', turns into its opposite, into a deception and a cover for the right wing unless it is part of the struggle to train the youth in Marxism, as the forces of the revolutionary party. One week earlier, the Spa at Scarborough had housed another that of the 'official' conference, Labour Party, YS, the rump who have accepted the terms dictated by the right-wing machine after the expulsion of the revolution- aries-the Labour Party has never been able to run a youth move.

ment under declared right-wing leadership. But they have now found a 'left-talking' group, the so-called 'Militant' (publishing journal of toe same name to the majority the of оссиру National Committee and even a place on the Labour Party NEC.

'Militant' tendency is The formed around a group claiming that their voluntary burial in the Labour Party is somehow revolu- tionary work. Their leader, one Ted Grant, liberally uses quotations from and Trotsky to give Lenin theoretical 'revolutionary' and flavour to the opportunism of this It is time to begin an group. examination of their record.

First what did their of all, 'majority' decide at their con- ference? In an emergency resolution on recent £5,000 fine on the the Transport and General Workers' Union, they 'condemned' the court decision, advocated solid- with similarly arity anyone punished, demanded the next Labour government pay back all fines imposed on unions, and called the trade union upon movement to 'totally ignore' the working the Industrial Relations Act.' They "totally ignore' the real fight against the Act, which is a question of mobilizing the work- ing class movement now to force the Tory government to resign.

What the 'Militants' advocate is identical with the treacherous TUC leaders' own recommend- ation of 'non-co-operation' It is common knowledge that 'non-co- behind this screen of operation' several unions are already participating in the government's Industrial Court and working with the Industrial Relations Commission. On every issue we will find the group issuing its 'con- 'Militart' demnation', but proposing lines of action which fit in perfectly with the requirements of the union reformist and trade bureaucracy. their rump For example, 'Young Socialist' conference 'con- demned' the presence of. British y April 17, 1972 : Cliff Slaughter examines the Militant' group in the Labour troops in Ireland, but it had, nothing to say about the struggle of British and Irish workers to bring down the Tory government.

writing in 'Militant' Grant, class approach and calls for 'a class solidarity, and ends: 'With- troops! For a draw trade force.' defence But union no- where does he call for a fight to make the Tories resign.

To put forward such a policy would, of course, require the fake 'YS' National Committee to such a campaign, actually lead and that would bring them into conflict with the Labour Party machine. avoid such an action is To Grant's main concern. The Trans- port House bureaucracy can put up forever with generalizations like 'A United Socialist Ireland, linked to Socialist Britain, is the sole solution to the problem' This is the role of centrism everywhere. It uses left talk to tracks of the right cover the wing. In the NE, Peter Doyle, 'Militant' chairman of the Labour Party YS and its representative the Labour Party

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actually organized a diversionary activity in order to take workers away from the Young Socialists' Right-to-Work march when passed through this area.

At all costs, the working class look outside the must not 'official' Labour Party framework.

Worst of all at the LPYS con- 'Militant' ference the was rejection of a call to expel Jenkins and the Labour Party MPs who voted in the House of Commons with the Tory govern- ment on the Common Market.

'Militants' voted against These a campaign for expulsion on the that it would solve grounds nothing, since Wilsonites were as bad as Jenkinsites.' Here abstract 'left' correctness ('they're all social democrats') becomes the formula for capitu- ulation, deliberately carried out. Grant and Doyle know very well that the expulsion of Jenkins and his friends would have been the blow against biggest Wilson." Dossible 1 Only two weeks later, Jenkins and his friends resigned from the Opposition Front Bench, in order defeat in to resave Heath from the House of Commons. Grant and the 'Militants' know that the feeling of the working class, expressed in opposition to the Industrial Relations Act, but baulked by the TUC betrayal, behind the Common hooded Market issue and would have been greatly advanced through the experience of a defeat of the right wing. But because such a campaign so-called bring would 'Militants' into a clash with the leadership, Party Labour an excuse was deliberately invented which helped to stop this work- ing-class development. Here we come to the crux of self-professed the matter. Our 'Militants' constantly attack us as sectarians, saying that by being Labour Party we outside the isolate ourselves. They, on the other hand, are in 'the mainstream'. But as we see their own in this case, • oppor- tunist interests as a group to stay in the Labour Party, actually led to policies which are opposed to the general interests of the they who are the It class. 1S sectarians, led to it by the grossest opportunism.' What deceit, to refuse to expel Jenkins because Wilson is 'the same'., Grant. is, always shout- 000

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The Young Socialists, who were expelle conference in Scarborough ing about 'Labour to power'. But why not argue: 'Labour is the the Tories, they carry same as out capitalist policies'?

This is the logic of Grant's position: Grant is actually the legitimate descendant of an opportunist and anți-Marxist tendency in the British Trotskyist movement. From 1941 to 1950, Jock Haston, Revolutionary of the secretary Communist Party (then the British section of the Fourth International) used Grant for his own empiricist road to betrayal and Grant willingly this gave support. First Haston liquidated into the Labour Party and now he ends highly-conscious right- up as a wing chief of 'education' for the anti-communist leadership of the

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electricians and union run by Frank plumbers Chapple. Trotskyist movement in The Britain, now the Socialist Labour League, could be built only in a long and bitter struggle against this method. Grant is repeating the same old formulae. The basic revision he makes is to refuse to recognize the working class as an indepen- dent historical force, requiring independent Marxist leadership.

He sees only the apparatus of the trade unions, the reformists and the Stalinists. For example, at the 'Militant's' own meeting in Scarborough on Grant said to his April 1. followers: 'The election of Scanlon, Jones and Daly was an enormous step forward for the working class,

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197 MA- re expelled from the Labour Party in 1964 m because it reflected a change in the working class.' This is a treacherous way to edention of the role or hese to leaders in refusing to bring the engineers into a national struggle alongside the miners. No mention of their presence, with Feather, at 10 Downing Street a few days after the strike ended. No mention of Jones' virtual advocacy of compulsory arbitration. Above all, no attention to the role of Stalinism in restricting the advanced workers to these union chiefs or of the need to fight Stalinism and_the betrayal of these leaders. The. working class is through its seen only 'reflection' supposed in the apparatus. Just as Grant accepts these leaders as 'expressions of the working class' and proposes no struggle against them, he sO against rejects struggle Jenkins. According to him, the crisis in the Parliamentary Labour Party 'demonstrates the need to refurbish the parliamentary party. (Militant International Review', Jan. 1972) How? By expelling Jenkins?

No, by changing the rules for selecting and recalling candidates.

All this is part of what Grant

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n 1964 meet at their recent 12th annual calls the 'transformation' of the Labour Party. This transform- ation within, Grant counter- poses to the building of the independent revolutionary party.

'Events of the last two and a indicate half decades the is change that enormous beginning to take place in the labour movement. It is trans- formed, hardened and re-trans- formed [?] in the great events that impend today. We are just at the beginning of the process.

The Marxists in the movement look with confidence to the role transform- they can play in this ation. In ighting tor it, they car turn the Marxist tendency from a tiny component into a powerful of the labour movement.' part International Review. (Militant Jan. 1972.) Not accidentally, Grant does not say, 'build the revolutionary but become a 'powerful party, part of the labour movement'.

It will all happen through some general process. Just as Grant at one time decided that Egypt and 'workers' Burma had become states' because of nationalization under bourgeois military govern- ments, so he wants Marxists to accept a 'process of transform- ation of the social-democracy, not a revolutionary struggle to lead the working class against it.

We must warn yet again, the tendency of centrism ir pre- revolutionary period such as this is to move rapidly to the right, providing cover for the right wing's worst betrayals. Continued Tomorrow

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Part three by John Spencer Numeiry regime in Sudan Eight months after the defeat of the July 19 coup d'état in the Sudan, the various Stalinist governments are back on the most cordial terms with communist-killer, President Jaafar Numeiry.

The British Communist Party has dropped its short-lived pro- test campaign and the fate of the Sudan CP leaders no longer figures in its press. Numeiry's relations with China are closer than ever before and the Stalinist diplomats have filtered back into Khartoum.

Some of them never left: the Yugoslay embassy was occupied throughout the and coup bloody aftermath, and Numeiry government for Tito's praised faithfully keeping up its trade obligations while his troops Sudanese slaughtered the workers' leaders. The Stalinists base themselves on the counter-revolutionary idea of 'peaceful co-existence between with different social states systems'. This provides them with the theoretical cover to give aid and comfort to military dictators and anti-communists throughout the world, from Turkey to Peru.

What happened in the Sudan was no 'accident' or 'mistake'.

It followed the grim pattern of international class-collaboration that has cost the lives of count- less workers and militants since the Chinese counter-revolution of 1926. In China, Stalin forced the CP to enter the bourgeois-nationalist Kuomintang. Its leader, Chiang Kai-shek, was feted in Moscow as a member of the Comintern presidium. He returned to China and massacred his CP allies, who had handed over their member- ship lists on Stalin's instructions.

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are fighting to maintain But the Mozambique guese the and mineral mined there. perhaps Frelimo, the olanlalı lls exploit the Afri- natural right important resource their national liberation movement, resources vernaos evel mole Ilusi important. Portugal is protecting cans ana in ine mines. LO SuCK now pene deveooca inere is tu has been fighting a bitter natural wealth Mozam- vulnerable flanks hydro-electric power the the Cabora Bassa dam on the Zam- armed struggle for the last supremacy and apartheid through- oPo Mozam project eight years to overthrow the out southern bunkeis ATrica Des. TIvel ancusc involving British, of Mozambique's 8 mil- leaving Mozam- Many people albroDear ae Portuguese colonial regime.

bique illiterate diseased and inhabitants work African capital on a vast scale lion totally without basic rights. Two-thirds of the cost of the war without quarter, by concessions owned moe vasu Portu- E Africa. the threadbare Portuguese land-owners. On these dam is being borne bu which the rrenmo Quenid Denine bands pitted against guese tracts of land a combination of alctatorship stanes whe e a e Phe la ese coso armed wealth and power of

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plantation agriculture and forced electric power produced. weapons and which provides the and of crops for tribute wcabuls cut anon backed up by the colony's pow- know-how for the Mozam. operates. Protection erful white supremacist neigh- bique war. Other workers are sent under bours, S Africa and Rhodesia.

man the mines and NATO iS protecting the stra. conulali lu cena of ins a stget on 12 tegic port of Beira, through which industries of S Africa- -the Portu guese colonial authorities get El The dam itself is protected by the Rhodesian racialists get their Isouaeel man for these human exports. detachments of Vorster's armed forces most oi wnich sancuon-busuing ou suppucs, least Frelimo four goes to pay for the three colonial the railroad to Johannesburg. bat wi ale lorccu iv lse sepalale say 1,200 colonial admin- the dictatorship which links the trom neir tamıes yor vedr trons . ComDsne a voll Wars Was lls a time under the most appalling S African troops, have joined the with its racialist triends Avar cab ulter-oissou. SUduOs prison-like conditions. Portuguese around garrison Angola and Mozambique in • Atrica. produces Defending the people of the Portugal's war against the Mozambique Cabora Bassa Surdr. people is sisal and ritied, s maize, copra, cashew are quartered the offi- Mozambique nes Anmcani velocas The baux- in the towns of Maque, , Chioco the aluminium ore cial euphemisin big. British,

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"orotecumx nulo. Chicoa and Zumbo. They do not US about $217m a year. The : Portu- African and investments in ite, gold ana precious seunes arc wear S African uniform, but are conspicuous because they speak Afrikaans. The dam is among the guer- rillas' prime targets, and its is already construction way behind schedule because of con- stant harassment by the Frelimo fighters and difficulty the in arranging firm contracts with European construction com- panies. understandably Portugal is reticent about the human cost of the war: official estimates of the death toll in the three Afri- colonies amount to ten can soldiers lost every day. Most of these deaths are officially attri- buted to 'road accidents'.

In fact, the news that leaks through the regime's heavy press censorship makes it clear that the guerrillas are rapidly expanding of and their sphere operation now control the better part of the country's four northern pro- Delgado, Niassa vinces, Cabo Zambesia and Tete. itself makes Frelimo no pre- of the socialism, tence to even 'African' variety once patronized bourgeois-nationalist by Various politicians. Its leaders are studi- about the ously move- vague ment's economic and political for an independent programme Mozambique. They promise reforms, but say they prefer to work these out on the ground in the liberated areas, rather than draw up plans for territories still in the hands cf the Portuguese. can partly be Their reticence explained by the movement's character as a coalition of various anti-Portuguese interests.

But as Frelimo has undergone a result, serious split from which its leaders claim to have present emerged strengthened. Frelimo is almost ten years old. It held first its congress in September 1962, in the wake of the brutal repression of Afri- can strikers by the Portuguese Strikers colonial authorities. in Marques, the Lourenco capital were gunned by down troops demonstrated when they for democratic rights. This basic followed the killing of some 500 Del- demonstrators in the Cabo gado province at Mueda in the far N. The movement's early cadres received training in military and technical questions in Tanzania and Algeria and after two years decided to launch of preparation armed actions against the colonial rulers. Its original force of 250 armed men infiltrated into the provinces Tete of Cabo Delgado, Niassa, Zambesia. The movement and back later that year was set when the Portuguese uncovered its clandestine network of agents Lourenço Marques. from Dr Hastings Opposition who was Banda of Malawi, even towards his present then veering "dialogue' policy of with the African apartheid southern forced Frelimo to regimes, sus- pend operations in the provinces of Tete and Zambesia. Frelimo's policy then as now was to go deep into the country establish base areas, winning and over the local people to the aims of the and carrying movement out systematic propaganda against the Portuguese. Recruits this Frelimo In way, won recruits and a firm basis of popu- lar support. Now the movement "several tens of thousands' claims of fighters—perhaps 10,000 under arms and many others waiting for acquire the means to fight.

In its base areas, its cadres against illiter- wage the battle — by teaching a common acy language, Portuguese - and do what they can with inadequate medical supplies to combat the endemic tropical diseases. Above all, they teach the peasants to stand up for themselves and fight their oppressors. The women, traditionally the most oppressed sector of the peasant population, are taking a part in Frelimo, which leading has special women's battalions them some of the -among movement's best units. With arms from China, the

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Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and other eastern bloc countries, Frelimo was able in 1968 to reopen its fight for control of Tete province, where the vital Cabora Bassa site is situated.

But these. developments were achieved not without serious internal struggle in the move- to a head ment. Things came the death of its founder, with Eduardo Mondlane, killed by a bomb which was almost certainly him by Portuguese posted to security agents. Mondlane, expelled as a stud- Africa for his poli- ent from S tical activities and hounded out of university in Lisbon, finished United his in education States where he became a uni- versity teacher. He was elected the movement's president at the first Frelimo congress. in February His assassination 1969, set off a full-blown leader- ship struggle which brought to a head long-standing differences between factions in the move- ment. As one Frelimo central com- mittee member put it in a recent interview: 'At the beginning any- body who opposed the Portu- guese colonists would join. Some wanted to take the place of the colonial Portuguese in the structure. Some felt they were not earning enough, others felt they would get education with Frelimo. They came with differ- and they were ent motives allowed to stay.' As the movement became established in the liberated areas, its leaders clashed with a sec- tion which wanted to preserve all the main features of the colonial system, but operated it to their own profit. The consummate representative of this wing was Lazaro Caban- dame, the movement's provincial secretary in Cabo Delgado. A substantial land-owner and mer- Cabandame organized chant, the execution of tribunal appointed by the Frelimo lead- to investigate ers charges that he was profiteering at the peas- ants' expense. He later defected to the Portuguese and may have played of in the assassination a part Mondlane, who was killed shortly after Cabandame's defection.

Mondlane's But death only served to bring the basic split of to the fore. The spokesman the movement's most opportunist wing, the Rev Uriah Simango, a Lutheran of priest, became one lead triumvirate to a set up Frelimo after Mondlane's death.

Deserters Against the other two leaders, military commander Samora Machel and 'Foreign Secretary' Marcellino dos Santos, Simango advocated basic policy changes.

He wanted an end to the policy Portuguese of clemency for deserters who came over to Frelimo, opposed the participa- women in the organiza- tion of tion, favoured tribalism and regionalism and wanted Frelimo to expel the Portuguese from and Cabo Delgado province declare it an independent state.

Frelimo's majority opposed this - blatantly racialist and tribalist programme at an Il-day central committee session in April 1969.

Simango stayed in the leadership londay Apoll 17, 1872 PAGE 7 Frelimo's Left: military commander, Samora Machel with recruits. Above: Girl recruits in Niassa Province. for a while with only nominal before finally breaking status Frelimo and leaving Tan- zania to found a splinter move- ment. is now in the United He States support for seeking a policy of negotiations with the Portuguese. The sharp struggle at the top appears to have strength- ened the Frelimo organization on the ground. In 1970 it was able to withstand a major Portuguese offensive in which 35,000 soldiers and drive the used to try were guerrillas out of the northern provinces. The effort has not succeeded.

of Frelimos military where much effort is the Portu- now • concentrated, guese authorities have failed to the confine the guerrillas to northern banks of the Zambesi.

Their campaign, conducted with the utmost brutality, involved the destruction of all river boats and the use of armed speedboats to kill anybody trying to make an unauthorized crossing. The extension of the war to southern Tete opens up the whole of the central provinces to guerrilla activity and the Portu- guese are desperately trying to prevent the Frelimo forces from encircling the Cabora Bassa dam site.

PAGE 8 Workers Preas, Monday April 17, 1972 By Tom Kemp, part one economic The world were not included in the statistics. Probably one worker in depression of the 1930s, 1932. three was unemployed by which began with the Wall Those in jobs could not bargain St crash in the autumn of of hungry effectively when lines outside the factories 1929, struck German capital- men were waitine toure thas hit by ism with special severity. It The country was an plunged it into a social and social catastrophe unprecedented political crisis which culmin- which provided the backdrop for of short-lived crisis ated in the defeat of the series the governments and growing highly-organized working- appeal of the National Socialist movement and the class movement. coming to power of Hitler.

majority of The overwhelming German working class This series of articles will the remained solid behind its organiz- deal with the economic ations. aspects of the victory of The 'free' trade unions and a Nazism, examine the of the unemployed con- majority Party looked to the Communist nection between the Nazi for leadership. regime and monopoly capital- The been political developments ism and conclude with an have dealt with in which the analysis of Hitler Germany's previous series to reader can be referred. war economy. for Hitler The main support German capitalism had only and the National Socialists came survived the shock of war and Already from the middle classes. defeat because of the treachery partly ruined by the inflation and of the Social-Democratic leaders fearful of another collapse of the and the inability of the young shifted their mark, millions German Communist Party to from the traditional allegiance which provide an alternative conservative, parties to the Nazis.

could take the working class to Many middle-class people were power. affected by unemploy- by now ment and falling trade. Business- men went bankrupt; professional their people found practices diminish; peasants were crushed falling prices and between whose repayment In 1923, after the mortgages occupation burden had become intolerable.

of the Ruhr by French troops in an effort to enforce The enraged middle class reparations looked for a saviour who would payments, the mark collapsed in a whirlwind of inflation.

restore their pride Germany Large sections of the German shattered by the 'humiliation' of them middle class saw their savings Versailles, protecting big evaporate almost overnight. Giant the threat l of tne against monopolies on the one hand and firms strengthened industrial position as inflation wiped the organized working class on their the other and provide them with out their debt burden. 1920s, Germany, In the late a scapegoat. like of the capitalist National Socialist pro- the rest The it The world. experienced a boom. did just that: was gramme heavy reparations burden imposed opposed to the Versailles system, with by the Versailles settlement had deal the promised to been scaled down. Loans were and the trade unions monopolies United States and pointed to the Marxists and raised in to the 'lews responsible for meet the payments. the as The 'semblance of prosperity Germany's ills. of the social rested on a very fragile base- -an The depth Hitler enabled to inflow of capital from American catastrophe reach new layers of people with Borrowed on short term, banks. much of this capital was tied up propaganda, the enormous his ' by which were now being long-term investment of in costs industry and public authorities.

met by big-business backers.

Even in the prosperous years, German workers were un- many leaving almost able to find jobs, The 2 million unemployed. of the internal market limitation had to that industry meant Before Hitler came to power in limited export. ( Armaments were and 1933 a number of governments the Versailles treaty under of had grappled unsuccessfully with though some its even DrO- visions were evaded, the scale the slump. Political differences the ruling production remained within class were of arms intensified the question of limited. boom years the who should bear the burden of During the When the of exports enabled the financial crisis. expansion profits and Brüning government took over in make industry to 'rationalization'; meet the crisis the 1930. in it invest of American methods in by deflation: rigid economies and adoption the cutting of state expenditure, industry. St quickly which only made the depression The Wall crash from knocked the supports Brüning fell in May 1932 when "prosperity. The under German withdrawal of US capital brought his forward government put about the virtual collapse of the modest of public programme works, which was carried forward banking system. Papen sharply by its the The market was and inside this time reduced both abroad government. By the Germany. Investment fell to one- crisis was reaching its third of boom level by 1932 The Nazis were its gain- paroxysun. industrial production ing in strength and self-confi- and battling and whole fell by a half. dence it out with position their working-class opponents Germany's relative on the world market suffered. From the streets almost daily clashes in the main towns.

in industrial second place

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she fell The palpable bankruptcy of the duction behind the US, to fifth rank by 1932. policies brought forward by the figures showed over 6 Official orthodox bourgeois and aristo- of million unemployed, but many cratic parties-the alliance heavy industry, the Junker land.

did not bother to register The effect of Inflation: the mark became !

owning class and the army, upon which the Bonapartist regimes of Brüning and Papen rested- opened up the prospect of power for the Nazis. They had by this time the support of about one-third of the electorate and disciplined a private army led by adventurers from the middle class and récruited from the petty bourgeoisie and the unemployed.

By the time that General Schleicher had taken over from Papen, big business had seen the ‹ became valueless value of Hitler's alternative. They saw in the Nazi party a powerful and stable force able to deal with the working class and stave off the threat of revolution.

It was also able, through the ballot box, to give the impression of having a mass base. It was essential both for Hitler and his backers that he should come to power legally, in alliance with conservative the traditional parties. This reassured the army chiefs, the Junkers and those sections of the ruling class and middle class who were dubious both about some aspects of the Nazi's policies - their 'anti- capitalism' for example-and their demagogic and strong-arm methods. Hitler finally took over, When in January 1933, all was forgiven and forgotten in the relief that the danger of revolution • had passed and in a wave of patriotic euphoria which swept across the propertied classes of Germany.

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An important interview with Angela Davis published in United States Black Panther paper discusses the perspectives behind her trial defence at considerable length.

Miss Davis, a member of the US Communist Party, is on trial in San Jose, California, on frame- up charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. - and its governor The state Ronald Reagan are determined to railroad her as an example to other militants who dare to chal- lenge the existing order of capi- talism in the United States.

But as the following review of the Black Panther interview, reprinted from the Workers League weekly paper 'Bulletin', shows, Angela Davis' defence remains tied to black nationalism to the independent and not struggle of the working class: What Angela Davis' contribu- is that she tion reveals remains tied in all essentials to the outlook of black nationalism.

She sees the struggle for black liberation as isolated from the fight of the working class.

From there it is but a short step to the perspectives of Stalin- ism and the complete acceptance of the Front, Popular black Democratic politicians and the reformist survival programme of the Panthers. Socialism remains for Angela Davis an idealist goal completely immediate removed from the struggle. She stated that: 'As has been continually pointed out and is expressed in the concept of a survival programme, if we're ever going to make a revolution, we have to be able to survive.'

She turns to the black worker in an idealist way not as a mem- ber of the working class and the organized labour movement, but as a resident in the community.

'When we talk about the black worker, we tend to fail to see the black worker as a live force in our community, but rather as someone who is hidden away on the assembly line, hidden away in the factory. Ronald Reagan Thus she turns away from the fight to develop a revolutionary leadership in the unions to a community perspective of reform and a call for nationalist forma- tions within the unions: 'Organ- izations of black workers have seen the need to form outside of the structure of the traditional labour unions.' Rather than seeing the rebel- lions and the turn towards Marx- ist theory in the jails as reflec- tions of the strength of the work- ing class and anticipations of developments taking place out.

side the jails among the youth and in the labour movement it- self, she sees the prisoners simply becoming conscious as revolu- because they tionaries are exploited as labourers in the jails.

It is no wonder that precisely at the time that thousands of black youth are prepared to take

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up the fight for Marxist theory Angela Davis can state that she supports Ron Dellums as one who reflects 'the stage that the black mass movement has reached'.

In the same way she adapts completely to the reformism of the Black Panthers: "The recent development of the Black Panther Party has evinced a very profound attempt to seek out new means of involving the community, methods new community, the bringing the black community onto the con- black liberation and tinuum of revolution.' Davis can make this statement in the middle Tammany of a Hall-type campaign by the Pan- thers to register 10,000 voters into the Democratic Party with a rally to give away 10,000 bags of groceries (chicken in every bag). This rally will feature black Democrats from all. over the country around the slogan of a 'vote for survival'. These perspectives make crystal clear the conduct of the defence in the Davis trial. This is why Angela can proclaim a white overwhelmingly middle. class jury as reflecting the com- position of Santa Clara County.

She virtually identifies the trade unionists and unemployed work- ers and youth who find no repre- sentatives on this panel with the crisis-ridden middle class.

Indeed she goes so far as to expect that this jury will give her a 'fair' trial and is echoed by the Communist Party paper 'People's World' which hails the jurors as 'relatively willing to be objéctive about the case'.

All of this can only nean that they intend to rely entirely on the evidence for Angela's inno- cence ignoring completely the class basis for the trial.

Workers Press, Monday Aprli 17, 1972 PAGE 9 'While an NHS patient lay waiting an emergency operation in a Yorkshiré hos- A parliamentary select com- pital, the consultant who mittee has just completed an should have been treating him inquiry into private medicine was doing private work at a and its implications for • the nearby private hospital.'

future of the National Health Service. •It was complete whitewash job with the chair- man, Mrs Renee Short; the Went along to a Labour Party main dissenting vote. Tory majority anti-rents Bill meeting the She said the other day. on the committee had com- pletely avoided criticism Someone handed me any this leaflet. (see below). After hear- of private medicine. Anyone who has recently ing the Labourite various spent any time in hospital will speakers, I was convinced the tell you that the private boys leaflet was their strategy for are certainly getting their cut defeating the Bill! of the The

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PAGE 10 Workaro Prosa, Monday April 17, 1872 they fail and use the money. for There are those who claim B&B establishments, etc., that in a materialistic world office may well feel within their still old- we need the both man and rights to refer fashioned charities to bring woman to their respective recep- dealing warmth into tion centres at the point at which some they next apply for beneht... with people's problems. The If, on the other hand, the officer state, they say, is too remote "unsatisfactory" felt them to be to care. they may well be referred at once A document recently circulated to reception centres.' full- reception amongst its voluntary and There are separate time workers by the St Martin- centres for men and women, so in-the-Fields Social Service Unit. if they are deemed to be 'unsatis- London, shows just how closely would factory, the couple many of the charities are in fact immediately be separated.

incorporated into the state.

In the case of the single male Marked Strictly Confidential' homeless, DHSS can give him a it is headed. 'What do we need overnight in voucher to stay to know about Social Security?'

men's hostel and a small token It outlines the which way in amount (75p) to enable him to sign on for benefit next day.

he charity co-operates with th Department of Health and Socia 'In few where the cases Security

(DHSS)

when people claimant is of undoubted good come to it for help. character, DHSS may decide to St the give him a larger amount to London's West heart of obtain private accommodation. largely deals with desperate, If he applies again, though, he defeated who well men and women may be referred the to reception centre.' have nowhere else to go. It also has number of Conditions at the an increasing reception people who have come to London centres, the document is satisfied.

and have no looking for a job 'while not luxurious, are far from little accommodation and ast believes pee erier dane very This is how they are you believe of the money. writer document, of course, does dealt with: not "single"o person or i either have to stay there. "married" The document goes on to point person couple who. of fixed that 'there discretions are out are abode,' the document involved in those cases, but we stales, 'there are certain problems in- find that those powers are nearly finding volved accommoda- in always applied with accuracy' should Victorian tion... couples the Shades of in charity! first instance, difference be referred to the The only is that in

DHSS

office. those days they did not refer to nearest According the impressions 'satisfactory' to conveyed to the poor the officer by the claimant (and 'unsatisfactory, but "deserving they are usually they and 'undeserving'. Such is pro- accurate) (if "satisfactory") be will usually gress. token payment (in DHSS does have discretionary given a the powers, the region of f6) with which to find document goes private (flat) accommodation.

to give old people an extra.

Dosshouses: 'while not luxurious, are far heating! allowance for diet, special footwear, or clothing, and These special payments so on. are only supposed to last for a six-month period, 'but those who find difficulty in saving from their weekly payment, or rather are incapable (their emphasis) of doing so' may get sympathetic consideration. Stand up all you spendthrift old pensioners who age are incapable of saving out of your lavish £6 a week! You ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

To those who are capable of tra. , work, DHSS, can. give notice that..

us, are far from as bad as most people would belleve' their opinion, there is powers of persuasion in order to when, in suitable employment in the area, get a. person thinking seriously unless work is obtained within about finding. employment.'

four weeks supplementary benefit So the l million unemployed will be withdrawn. had better get the message- -if arrived 'The decision is never you will only just start thinking d reason her it beins at lightly seriously about getting work, you good being will find it—or then again, very reason per- reached, and it is a known fact haps you wont. that in the vast majority of cases However, if they cut off your employment is found quickly and supplementary benefit and leave maintained. you destitute, you can feel com- 'It is easy to sympathize with forted the idea by that the someone who has been subjected decision was not reached lightly.

this ruling, the document It might be cold sleeping to goes on self-righteously, 'it rough, but it is certainly not half IS more constructive ló 'appiy ones as cold as this sort of 'charity'.

Workers Press, 'Monday Aprll 17, 1972 PAGE 11 Post Office jobs Sit-in meeting closed cordon on BSC

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT DAVID MAUDE

Lonesom machines JPs must OVERSEAS telegraphists who want to fight a 36-per-cent redun- dancy threat, made by the Post Office last week, are rapidly learning tackle that they will get no help from right-wing or centrist union repre-

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

sentatives. A HUMAN cordon will ing Post operations at the The Union of main speaker wanted anarchy- works. Office Workers' But the number of dis- ing branch be thrown around any missals under the Post answering. committee London's Brown have an machinery Firth Brown Office's Electra House A challenge to the chair.

or 37 cable COCt option machines Hailsham rapidly increased man's ruling — a common Bas Ltd attempts tò move River headquarters Irom Don late. Militants Und accepted occurrence at faci- today, supposedly to dis- Lanster ol arop-lorge related to the corporation's out of the British Steel lities due to be completed contacter cuss opposition to the answered by the chairman next month. TORY LORD Chancel- reaundancy needs Corporation's River redundancies. closing the meeting and On the table at last Fri.

But lor Lord Hailsham although the work- has walking out. Don works, Sheffield. day's meeting was a resolu- ers told Involved •ve rey magistrates to calling took over and cene ехеси- the vice-chairman The steelworkers have contracts with Signea new make tive the even discus- the company, the sentences oranci deal will accepted a proposal from mem- sion started, blocked stiffer. manage- their shop unics. bers from being sacked in ment official walked in In law-and-order are forthcoming this way. they stop the movement from the BSC He had been officially speech the Devon of machines When informed Steelworkers young branch branch of the Magis- by the member asked private- from he said. If those ponce Tre was over trates' Association, Hail- Hoor what the branch com- present did not leave imme enterprise company until improves sham said 'excessive they are given guarantees mittee proposed diately, the do police of three-shift wowe a new system lenience' was worse about the redundancies, the about the future of melt- Icave

• LIC

oc caree fault than agreed by stewards. excessive severity. While Equity 'misguided' to register sent-

LOU

sevele Or varied on ences Stone and Friday after appeal, there was no appeal those against -union MP who were too

JENKINS,

MR

HUGH

Helle c ball alteration of a piece. court general allowed to MP for Putney, London, whose work agreement. pattern sentencing was has issued statement too low brings former than 400 Equity repeat their action today.

List laWi saying the council of into disrepute. he signed overseas also attacked petition demanding that hallsham Equity, the actors' union, is He 'the idea thạt there Equity maintains

TUC

was is appar. "misguided' in applying for something morally ently been policy of non-cooperation

ICSDCCL-

Machine-tool able registration under among Equity Mr Jenkins, . who is still ence. Came workers' the Industrial Relations member of the Recently Equity "If it is to survive walk-out union's staff, said: Act. all previ- society must simply Coul reveret

1IUL

ous policy and decided to have rules. but must retain Insofar as ] I have always been am endler register under the Act. the intention to enforcè the to advise at all, I advised favour of Equity maintain. the George Meyer willes den, rules against all-comers and a gainst registration and However, a ing solidarity machine-tool special con- with the Iac. all costs. tory, ference wider have never any move- las now been summ trade UnOT i do walked were in case since November 1970 Mr moned for April by ment' protest

SOUS

occasions even against action taken against

HITS

_ine not for the rules, might fitter. will one resume Tenants wont pay 50p work on Tuesday good nave a deal ot sym with bally natural Waslare Several weeks the the man who fallen chance s submitted a l foul stem. per-cent wage claim Man TENANTS at Worsley, society is to survive There are several tenants' The men then introduced a Tempers ran high ala beer near Manchester, to meeting Pem- al wilsour descencing recruitmeol are groups aren WinG into anarchy or tyranny have been campaigning broke Hall, Worsley, last enteci stage a rents revolt. They WOrk-to-we be law-abiding against the new Tory week when tenants repre. will not the 50р figures has been increase which began this a fitter was society and, ployment charges Last rridas sentatives were refused per law- asked when de unskille more mission to speak. sururaca on the work; month nor further refused he laved of late than it has Rising joblessness has the Worsley Coul who damper or rise due in October. proved late. 'The Uniter Tenants' Dre usual rapid career on attempter get ratepayers was scut nome unusuues local Worsley day. times coun- Owner-Occupiers the 'fail There have been renTs cil tion, Tenants' Bill were booed and jeered mass was recentv when i have neoun ersonner l service. been accused A trincham to think the veneer of civil- he telegraphists in other *doing government's Association and Manches- As jumpeit on ants immediately held and the tne words, have shown marked dirty work' by raising the Salford District ization wearing and jumped whole agieed

WULA IO1C

Tenants Association Halulally ana look over tne meeling TV 10.59 News, weather. 11.55 Faith board. 5.20 London

6.00 UTV

Funny face. 6.45 renort

BBC 1

9.45 Trumpton. 10.00 Champion.

TOO.

Once upon a 10.25 Parsley. 10.30 Canoe. 10.55- wheels. 3.2u Out or town. 3.40 Lucy. 4.00 11.00 1.00 Magic rounddooul sure? 1.30 4.25

HOW

can you be so Tood Film 1.45-1.53 News and London. 6.00 News, weather.

•oce Good 3.30 Pursuers. wcallier. Weather.

ITV

Siahts an sounes. with Becker. Play school. , 11.55 4.15 enoe. us marcus velov weaner. ob salened 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Blue Peter 11.55 One 12.15 News, weather. war Lone of helping. 5.44 Hector's Ranger. AcrOllauls Inca Todd

WESTWARD.

5.50 News and 1.15 2.00 nouse. weater. Look 2.30* Australia. Arthur Matinee. Good 4.c NeWS atternoon. Sara and 6.00 Diary. Boy, 6.00

LONDON

THIS

WEEK.

Film: A Girl and Hoppity. Enchanted house. 3.UU GRANADA: 2.30 Dr Gannon. 3.30 Weather. Blke'. 4.40 Rupert Bear. 3.45 Women. nant To ran ant. Yoga. 3.55 Camera Place action. 5.20 Pardon 4.30 Superman Grat- 6.20

MOORE

4.10 News. Peyton

MARY

TYLER

4.40 5.20 Report West. 6.22 Report Wales.

SHOW.

LaRS Smokev the Beal upon a time. 4.51 Clapper Wants You. 5.15 London. 6.00 News. board 6.00

TODAY.

6.45 or ndon. 10.30 Film: 6.25 This right 6.40

6.45 A QUESTION

OF SPORT.

11.50 6.20

CROSSROADS.

Terror 10.30 London Film: 7.10

CARS.

Tessa the weatne 6.40

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS!

Woodpile. West London. as above except: 6.22 This is the West this week.

8.00

PANORAMA.

7.30

CORONATION STREET.

TYNE

TEES:

12.45 Eighteen

HTV

Wales 9.00 NINE O'CLOCK NEWS and

8.00 WORLD IN ACTION.

as above 6.22 t footers. 1.00 Mr Piper. 1.30 • lime 4.15-4.30 Cantamil. 6.01-6.22 weather. 8.30

BLESS

THIS

HOUSE.

2.00 Bird's eye rememder dydd. REGIMENT. A Lion Common Market cook- 9.20

THE

Wives and Lovers. HTV Cymru/Wales as HTV Wales book 3.00 Film 'Dangerous at Sunset. 9.00

SIX

DAYS OF

JUSTICE.

plus: 8.00-8.30 Yr 4.35 News Moonlight' 11.15 Strange Suddenly ... You're In It.

• 4.40 Onct 10.10

TALES

FROM THE

LAZY

mis. 11.15 4.55 ACRE. Judgement Day. Lime

NEWS AT TEN.

10.00 report. 12.10 Weather. 5.20 London. 6.00 To-

10.40 24 HOURS.

day. Brighouse London. 10.30

MCMILLAN AND WIFE.

ANGLIA:

2.30 Good afternoon. 10.30 Times 11.00

11.15 CANOE.

THIS GREEN AND PLEAS

Saint 11.55 3.15 3.45 Yoga. 4.10 News. JOKerS 11.00 News. 12.10 cologue 11.40 Weather. wild. 3.45 Yoga. 4.15 Cartoons 4.25 Rompe SCOTTISH: 3.30 Nuts room. and bones. Clapperboard. 5.20 London 4.55 3.45 simon Locke. 4.10 Dateline 6.00 : About Anglia. Arthur 0.40 London 10.30 Aquarius. 11.30 Theatre.

Dateline 6.15 Dick Van Dyke. 6.45 10.30 London University ATV MIDLANDS: 2.35 Golf. 2.45 11.00 Late call. 11.05 snarenol Out of Vol- 11.00-11.25 Play school. 5.35-7.00 9.20

HORIZON.

Stars. Mr Piper. 3.10 Yoga. Marty Feldman 3.40 Women today. 4.10 Nanny. Open University. canoes.

10.10 FACE THE MUSIC:

4.40 Nuts and bones. .4.55 Skippy

GRAMPIAN:

3.38 News. 3.45 4.10 Junkin. 4.40 Runert

7.05 CHILDREN GROWING UP.

THIRTY MINUTE THEATRE:

0.20 London 6.uvtoday. women. 10.40 Clapperboard London. 10.30 University chal- Bear. 4.55 5.20 'Something For The Child- 7.30 NEWSROOM and weather. 11.00 Randall and Hop. London. 6.00 News, weather. 6.05 No Harold Wilson with lenge. it's no 8.00

FILM: 'A DAY OF FURY'.

Simon Locke 6.35 Cartoon. long nair. It's onella brennan as 11.10 NEWS ON 2 and weather. Cor- rather eccentric 'Judge's' wife London. University Dale Robertson, Mara 10.30 BBC-1's ULSTER: 4.00 Yoga . 4.30 Romper 11.00 Mannix. 11.55 11.15

LATE

NIGHT

LINE-UP.

secona OT day lock Manner W room. 4.50 News. 4.55 Clapper- the Lazy Acre' tonight. Epilogue Ecology.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday April 17, 1972

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN GLASGOW

A DECISION on whether Marathon Manufacturing of Texas will receive government backing in its bid to take over the Clydebank division of UCS is expected within ten days.

Union officials and shop stewards at UCS expect the decision to be favourable. If the oil-rig builders do get the £12m they asked stewards say they will for on March 20, pledges to co-operate with honour in full employers. This means they will ratify agreements already with Govan Shipbuilders for increasing negotiated strikes. and and curbing unofficial productivity bargaining with Marathon over a four year begin 'no-strike' contract. The stewards are already committed to produc- Company, ing four vessels for the Irish Shipping They Clydebank. no matter what happens to say two they will extend these guarantees to Harrison line the UCS liquidator is ships for the Scots- expected to release for construction at the toun division. The new pledge was given to avoid a crisis at workers Scotstoun, 300 shipyard were where work threatened with redundancy •because was running out. The scope. of "these concessions can be gauged About 200 worker: from the fact that the six ships will provide the occupied their pre Govan-Linthouse and

UCS

Scotstoun divisions of Manchester enginee with just under a year's work.

If the two contracts are released, it will mean that exactly half of the orders frozen at the time liquidation of UCS's . will have been freed for The other six, how- building on the upper Clyde. the unlikely are to be completed on ever, Clydeside. Shipping lines have either cancelled their orders because of the slump in world trade or want the boats built elsewhere. Vessels under current construction in the US Company yards Govan, four Irish Shipping are Scots- vessels and one dredger under construction; construction; Clyde- toun, one bulk carrier under

FROM PHILIP WADE I|

bank, two bulk construction, two carriers unace fitting out and one rail ferry fitting out.

THE CONTAIN

Since the UCS crisis began, the shop stewards point today. Hea has co-ordinating committee agreed 10 release frequent pledges that unless lorries to the do seven ships despite for all four vards was found, vessels a solution policy. would be held back by the labour force.

LATE NEWS

WEATHER

CENTRAL,

NEWS DESK

England, Wales and Scotland will have a mainly 01-720 2000 dr! day with sunny Wales and bright

CIRCULATION

W England, periods. 01-622 7029 N Ireland, will be dull or cloudy with drizzle and hill fog.

NEXT STEPS in the five-and-a- Temperatures will be near or 2,350 half-week pal! struggle but Just normal rather carworkers from British-Leyland's cold on the East coast of Scor- Cowley, Oslord, body factory, will, land. decided Outlook for Tuesday be at a mass meeting and Wed- this morning. Perhaps showers nisday: sonic Yesterday the men who work SE England but mostly dry en the Maxi and Marina pro- with sunny spells elsewhere.

back- duction-lines, recerved the Transport and General ing of the Workers" Union 5/60 branch in their fight. For the past week. manage- ment has been suspending the men without pay for eperating oft- work restrictions support ' IT at the Registered Post their demand for f10 a week pay Published Oice. Press. Clapham increases, greater job-security High Street.

SW4 7UG.

and other improvements in line Pros Chapham Plough Press 1. London. (TU), with the national engineering Street. claim. I would like information about in the form below and send to NATIONAL Fill

SECRETARY,

SOCIALIST

LABOUR

LEAGUE,

186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4 7UG.

Name Address workers at the. Kearns-Richards engine heir premises at the weekend. it is th • engineering pay dispute. • See Davy U

P WADE IN LIVERPOOL

NTAINER row at Liverpool docks ay. Heatons Transport (St Helens) | the docks as a direct confrontation If, as expected, the dockers maintain their black, Heatons will almost certainly initiate further contempt proceedings in the National Industrial Relations Court in London.

One dangerous escalation in the dispute could be court action against Merseyside shop stewards. Decks Leaders I spoke to at ..weekend said that if any thc were made against in- mores dividual dockers, would there be an immediate mass walk-out.

In yesterday's capitalist press there was speculation that future against the Transport and fines General Workers' Union would be 'drastically' higher than the £5.000 already imposed. £5,000 contempt-of-court The to attend court to explain it should not pay Their boycott ef the court is in compliance with the TUC policy to co-operate with not the Industrial Relations Act. The has three weeks to union now pay before its assets are seized.

At the same time, the order against the blacking was made permanent. But further action against the union was deferred to see if a negotiated settlement could be reached. Farrar. Manchester- Doug based T&GWU regional secretary, hastened to Liverpool and con- vened talks for Friday evening.

These only lasted ten minutes.

the lifting Heatons demanded of the black and a return to the status quo before talks could begin. The dockers refused point- Heatons walked out. blank and Liverpeel dock leaders are sticking to their criginal position the blacking will not be called off until the firm signs the agree- ment declaring loading and un- loading of containers to be dockers' work. Heatons' continers and general cargo are now blacked at several ports getu Is engineering factory, Altrincham, sit is the 25th sit-in the Greater Davy United sit-in p. 1. I docks reaches another flash- (elens) Limited intends sending ntation to the union's blacking

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Sunday May 7 ASSEMBLE: 1.30 p.m. The Embankmel MARCH: via Trafalgar Square, Picc Street, Tottenham Court Road MEETING: 4 p.m. St Pancras Town Ha

WE DEMAND THE RIGHT TO V

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNME

for self-

A CALL

'voluntary discipline' to avoid clashing with the Industrial Relations Act was issued at the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union conference at the week- end. Joan Lipson, a CAWU execu- tive member, issued the call dur- ing a debate in which the union's annual conference amended its the Act, the expulsion from the TUC of unions who register under it.

Roy Jenkins MP, billed to speak the conference on Saturday, falled to turn up, but yesterday Victor Feather of the TUC made the to Scar- trip borough to speak • to the dele- gates. Cynics who had said the TUC was not serious about fight- ing the Act had been proved 'miserably wrong', he said. He did not explain • what proof he was talking about. (See What We Think, page 2) CAWU president Denis Howell MP, one of the 69 pro-Common Market MPs who voted with Jenkins to keep the Tories in power last October 28, accused the government on Saturday of setting out 'deliberately ... on a policy of confrontation' He did not mertion his own allowing them to con- role on this policy. But Carmel tinue Dersch, a London delegate, an indirect attack on launched it. Moving reference back of the standing orders committee report, she said that an amendment her branch had tabled to a Common Market motion naa deen as 'impertinent' and described excluded from the agenda.

considered those Her branch Labour MPs who had voted with the Tories 'traitors to the labour movement', she continued.

on: We Miss Dersch went consider it is highly impertinent for an MP to take the money of this union and then vote in a way • which is contrary to the best interests of the members of the union. her attempted reference But back was defeated.

• FROM PAGE 1

But ACTT general council member Roy Battersby told the 450 strong audience: 'The cash is just not available.'

If Shepperton closed, he said, it would be 'the açtion of pro- perty developers fighting for pro- The studios occupy about 60 acres of prime development land just outside the green belt and ideal for housing or light indus- try. • Roy Battersby said: 'When we passed the resolution at Black- pool 1971 calling for nationaliza- tion without compensation and under the control of elected representatives, quite were …wes clear it would mean a fight. We knew they would not just hand it to us. 'But we were also clear that it was the only resolution capable of resolving all the contradictions out at this meeting brought today. 'We must show clearly to the government and to the employers that we intend to keep Shepper- and all the other studios ton open.' Seconding Battersby's amend- ment, Yvonne Richards, ACTT, said: 'You cannot divide the situa- tion of the miners, the railway.

men and the engineering sit-ins up and down the country from what is happening in the film industry. That is why nationaliza- tion is so important.' le and Young Socialists

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