Workers Press no. 742

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MINERS SUPPORT

A group of workers discuss the ROBERT HEATON, joint managing director o f Transport (St Heatens Helens) Limited, yesterday held prolonged talks with officials of the National Industrial Relations Court.

When the court opens today, Heatons are ex- pected to file applications alleging contempt of court THE NATIONAL Indus- trial Relations Court yes- terday granted a second interim order to a Wol- verhampton haulage firm against the Transport and General Workers' Union. The order is against the blacking of lorries belong- ing to Craddock Brothers,

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cuss the blacking of Heatons' lorries at against the Transport and General Workers' Union. Heaton flew by personal private aircraft to London yesterday after his lorries had been turned away at Liverpool docks. He confirmed to re- porters that he was taking fresh contempt proceedings against the union. who are embroiled in a container row with Liver- pool dockers. Two weeks ago a T&GWU official and two shop stewards were charged in a Bootle magistrates' court with blackmail involving Craddock lorries.

At yesterday's hearing Sir John Donaldson, presi-

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lorries at the Liverpool docks "What else can we do?' he said. After a previous action the court president, Sir John Donaldson, fined T&GWU €5,000 for failing to lift the black on Heaton's vehicles. There has been speculation that in fresh contempt hearings the court's fines will be "drastically increased. dent of the NIRC, said the company should put in particulars of its com- pensation claim against the T&GWU within three days. The union has ten days to put in evidence and a date will be fixed for a final hearing on May 2, the day the new interim order expires. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY APRIL 18, 1972• No. 742 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

RAILMEN

WHY NOT

AUEW?

AS WE GO to press the government is consider- ing use of the Industrial Relations Act against the railway unions. This will mean a legally- enforceable 60-day cooling-off period, with or without a state of emergency.

The Tory Cabinet is seriously All the and dilly- marking ume preparing to take on the trade dallying about the need to take on unions in an all-out conflict.

government has amounted EnIS nothing less than disarming the This is what lies behind the working class their of anxiety of the TUC chiefs.

greatest need. They know that the shadow of No matter how fast the trade union 1926 falls all of leaders retreat, the more they find aspects over way blocked by the government.

their relations with the government.

They The Tories are determined to have it Tories also know that if the out with the working class over the succeed in setting the norm for pay next few months. increases, then that is virtually the It is time to call a halt. An alliance end of trade unionism. Because if a of engineers, miners and railwaymen union must accept the freezing of could create the industrial and political by capitalist wage u creases conditions to make the Tory government, then what is its purpose ment resign. in going on? The miners have spoken out in Meanwhile the legal implications of The favour of an alliance.

SUCH

the Industrial Relations Act are engineers are in conference in East- Trans- beginning to roll against the bourne. An resolution

CHICKSO

More fines arenermost certainly on one.

General Workers' Union. urging such action could bring them into the fight. way. Time is now the This is essence. Here,

TUC

also, the deeply the only way to stop Tory offen- IS the involved. The Either that, sive. or allow them to go appear, does because it is SO full speed ahead to smash the power policy. of the trade unions.

WHAT ARE SCANLON AND CHAPPLE

UP TO?

Our industrial correspondent David Maude looks at recent merger rumours

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workers press

MINERS SUPPORT

A group of workers discuss the I ROBERT HEATON, joint managing director Heatons Transport (St Helens) Limited, yesterday held prolonged • talks with officials of the National Industrial Relations Court.

When i the court opens today, Heatons are ex- pected to file applications alleging contempt of court THE NATIONAL Indus- trial Relations Court yes- terday granted a second interim order to a Wol- verhampton haulage firm against the Transport and General Workers' Union. The order is against the blacking of lorries belong- ing to Craddock Brothers,

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cuss the blacking of Heatons' lorries at the Liverpool docks against the Transport and «What else can we do?' General Workers' Union. he said. After a previous Heaton flew by personal action the court president, private aircraft to London Sir John Donaldson. fined

T&GWU £5.000

yesterday after his lorries the for had been turned away at failing to lift the black on Liverpool docks. Heaton's vehicles. There He confirmed to been speculation that re- has in fresh contempt hearings porters that he was taking fresh contempt proceedings the court's fines will be against the union. 'drastically increased'. who are embroiled in a dent of the NIRC, said the row with Liver- container should company put in pool dockers. particulars of its com- Two weeks ago pensation claim against the

1&GWU

official and T&GWU within three days. two shop stewards were charged The union has ten days a Bootle in magistrates' to put in evidence and blackmail court with date will be fixed for involving Craddock lorries.

final hearing on May 2, the yesterday's hearing day the new interim order Sir John Donaldson, presi expires: INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY APRIL 18, 1972 • No. 742 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

RAILMEN

WHY NOT

AUEW?

AS WE GO to press the government is consider- ing use of the Industrial Relations Act against the railway unions. This will mean a legally.

enforceable 60-day cooling off period, with or without a state of emergency.

The Tory Cabinet is seriously All the marking time and preparing to take on the trade need to take on dallying about ine amounted unions in an all-out conflict.

government nothing disarming This is what lies behind the working class anxiety of the TUC chiefs.

greatest need. They know that the shadow of No matter how fast the trade union 1926 falls all of leaders retreat, the more they find aspects Over their way blocked by the relations with the government.

They government. The Tories are determined to have it Tories also know that the with the working class over the succeed in setting the norm for pay

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next few months. increases, then that is virtually the It is time to call a halt. An alliance end of trade unionism. Because if a of miners and railwaymen engineers, accept the freezing of union must could create the industrial and political wage by capitalist increases conditions to make the Tory government, then what is its purpose ment resign. in going on? The miners have spoken out in Meanwhile the legal implications of such The tavour of an alliance. Relations the Industrial Act are are in conference in East- engineers Trans- beginning roll against the bourne. emergency resolution An More fines are almost certainly on one General Workers' Union. urging such action could bring them into the fight. way. Time is now the This essence. is Here,

TUC

the only also, the deeply Tory offen- 1S way to stop the involved. The

T&GWU

in failing to sive. Either that, or allow them to go does it is

TUC

speed ahead appear, full to smash the power SO ecause policy. of the trade unions.

WHAT ARE SCANLON AND CHAPPLE

UP TO?

Our industrial correspondent David Maude looks at recent merger rumours

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PAGE 2 Workera Pross, Tuesday April 11 TURKISH premier Dr Nihat Erim resigned yesterday, only hours after the departure from Ankara of Soviet presi- dent Nikolai Podgorny. His resignation and that of his government was accepted by President Cevdet Sunay.

On the eve of Podgorny's 'goodwill' visit, Sunay asked for power to rule by decree and declared his intention of suspend- ing political activities.

The dispute was shelved during the Soviet leader's visit in order not to embarrass Podgorny.

Turkey is interested in closer economic ties with the USSR, industrial which financing a considerable development on scale. The Soviet leaders are repressive undeterred by the character of the regime. Erim's resignation clears the Sunay way for the army under to take control. Influential mili- tary sections support the extreme right-wing Nationalist Action Party which wants an end to what remains of the Turkish parliamentary system. The National Security Council, military and made up of top political leaders, is to meet on Saturday to try and resolve the CrISIS. A military takeover in Turkey would have the blessing of the United States. Erim visited to consult Nixon's Washington advisers last month. During his visit, Podgorny told Sunay that the development of co-operation between Turkey and help.

USSR

the would ensuring international security'.

army grows JAPAN'S National Defence Council, headed by Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, yesterday decided to send about 2,900 troops to the island of Okinawa by the end of this year. The United States is due to hand the island over to Japan on May 15. It has been occupied by the US since 1945. By the end of June next year, 39 Japanese F104) fighters and ground-to-air Nike-Hawk some missile will also be units . the island under stationed on Japanese control. Japan's 'military commanders seeking are actively means to post part of their rapidly-growing army overseas. The reversion of the Okinawa them gives opportunity to widen the base of their operations. Secrets man: Ten years

MICHAEL HINCHLIFFE

(39) was sentenced to ten years jail at the Old Bailey yesterday for allegedly passing secret to Russia while he documents worked at the British Embassy in Algiers. A SECRET committee yesterday pri appealed to world public opinion to save the and the red cross Alexandros Panagoulis, the Greek death for soldier sentenced to premier trying to kill George Papadopoulis in 1968, from torture and 'slow extermination'. pri unsigned typewritten • In an letter to foreign news agencies in Athens, the committee announced its formation and said it would work to put end to the an 'inhuman torture inflicted daily pri Panagoulis in his military tos on ay April 18,1872 Josoph McCann WORKERS PRESS and the Socialist Labour League express their deepest condolences to the friends and relatives of Joseph McCann, a leader of the Official IRA in Ulster. The cold-blooded shooting of Joseph McCann in British paratroops has the Derry Markets area by revealed the grisly meaning of direct rule to Protes- tant and Catholic alike. Stormont has gone, but the terror and repression of British imperialism remains.

Having succeeded in neutralizing the Social Demo- cratic Labour Party and Civil Rights leaders and in splitting the opposition with direct rule, the British army now proceeds with its main task: the elimination of the IRA leaders. The Rev lan Paisley, who only a few weeks ago was bellows the Provisional IRA, his solicited by being calling on the army to launch a massive these areas of Catholic residents. At the same time the Catholic hierarchy compounds division and con- fusion by calling for a truce in N Ireland.

-aided by the silence of All the reactionary forces the SDLP and the Civil Rights leaders and the servility

BERNADETTE

DEVLIN

and Frank McManus, two

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Westminster MPs, have been sentenced to six months' jail for taking part in a demon- PRESIDENT Kennet 13 at February stration on anti-strike measures t Enniskillen. appeared court Neither in tories and mines thre Enniskillen yesterday when at they were due to appear. Mr Richard Chambers, prose- His anti-strike campaign said it was a deliberate, cuting, has the backing of the class- the calculated challenge collaborationist leaders of the authority of the court. McCrea the Mr Elliott, resi- trade union movement. said McManus dent magistrate, out the strikes but himself to •Plans to stamp had nobody "While he said. blame. under way,' prohibited Three others, Michael Farrell, in strikes not are People's Demo- Zambia, union leaders must en- a leader of the Enniskillen men, sure that good industrial rela- cracy, and two Kieran Tracey and Vincent Fee, without resorting to tions exist were also jailed for six months.

strikes. Enniskillen march The Basil Kabwe, general secretary Northern Resist- called by the Zambian Congress of of the with ance Movement, group Trade Unions, said initially that close connections with the Provi- the announcement had come as Bloody sional

IRA,

just after his or- a big surprise because Sunday. had previously ganization About 20,000 people gathered informed of the govern- heen in a housing estate in the provin- ment's plans. cial town in County Armagh to defy ex-Premier Brian Faulkner's the But he welcomed meas- ban on all demonstrations.

ures, saying the spate of unofficial McManus and Miss Devlin, great source of strikes was Farrell all addressed crowd the anxiety to the congress. after a short march through the He called for a tripartite com- mittee of employers, government Friday Northern Last at a and trade unions to investigate Movement press con- Resistance the causes of unofficial strikes.

Farrell announced that ference, they would not attend court to Kabwe added that the damage of Ulster test the impartiality to the nation's economy being could William Whitelaw. illegal strikes supremo, caused by This is the second time Miss condoned by any think- not be Devlin has been She ing trade union leader. to prison. served six months following the 'The culprits must be brought Londonderry riots in 1969.

when they to book, especially established ignore the standards of negotiation, the advice of the trade union leaders and the laws of the country,' he said.

Kabwe's witch-hunt against 'unofficial strikers' was joined by Edwin Thawe, the mineworkers' general secretary, who endorsed prison'. the ZCTU secretary's remarks.

The calling itself committee, the 'Committee for the Salvation Chakulya clarified his plans at of Alekos [diminutive of Alex- a press conference in Lusaka.

He said his life andros] Panagoulis,' announced that 'agitators and of was at the mercy a malor- ringleaders' of wildcat strikes the commander of the military would be sacked instantly.

Athens. prison in Boyati, near 'A committed inside Most strikes in various indus- crime 1S cell independence have the specially-built where tries since Panagoulis detained. Human been illegal, he said. Since Jan- 1S there have been life is at the mercy of a major uary this year who submits Panagoulis- -his im- more than 30 illegal strikes, by Chakulya's. the victim-to inhuman costing prisoned count. the letter claimed. country thousands of pounds.

torture,' attacked the He particularly of the Stalinists, who call on Heath to pass a Bill of Rights-are now seeking to isolate and destroy the most militant and courageous elements of the IRA in the same way as the Free State politicians did in 1921-1922. Direct rule, as we have stated many times before, is a cover for the naked dictatorship of the British army and the deprivation of democratic rights barely con- cealed by the fig leaf of an advisory commission and the release of a few internees.

The murder of Joe McCann and many more like him by the British army is a poignant and tragic reminder of the burning necessity to force the Tories to resign and replace it with a Labour government forced to withdraw every British which must be soldier and civil servant from Ireland. The unity of British and Irish workers is an absolute pre-condition for the defeat of the Tories and the liberation of Ire- land and its urgency is made unmistakably clear by the imposition of direct rule.

Only those who fight consistently for this aim can ensure thatiJoe McCann did not die in vain.

ires to combat a series of walk-outs in fac- A copper refinery in Zambia-one of the industries which has experi- enced strikes. Their militancy forced the man- recent four-day bus strike in the agement to reinstate the sacked Lusaka, which he capital, worker and dismiss a staff mem- described 'vicious and in- as humanistic' who they claimed was re- because it had in- ber sponsible for sacking him.

convenienced travellers. Kafironda, Mufulira The emplovers lost no time in At in Chakulya's province, the provincial governor deeds matching to was howled down by strikers at words. At the Lusaka workshop factory of the United Bus Company of the local explosives paralysed Zambia. whose has mechanics were stoppage seven quarrying throughout the area.

dismissed after summarily three-day strike. The governor intervened after the strikers had refused to listen Their union leader, Fenio Baka Transport appeals from leaders of the and Allied to union Workers. to return to work. said the management was making a great mistake' in The 500 strikers told the gov- thinking the ceven ring- were they would not change ernor leaders. their minds as a result of any- thing he had to say. The union would not stand by and see its members threatened.

•The management has treated he said. us like children many occa- on At the Zecco factory in Lusaka, sions in the past and we are now 500 workers struck for two days not willing to brook any non- sense any more' the strikers said.

in support of a sacked mechanic.

AUEW National Committee - Eastbourne presidential address yesterday to the national committee of the Amalgamated Union of He was surprised by the fact that the Indus- trial Relations Act was not only now law, but being enthusiastically implemented. And he expressed sur- prise at the 'inactivity' when reporting 'Not the •ecson most Cycl union officials and dis- back to their areas. dedicated critic of the Act could tricts on the national Dav And he attempted have cubarcel 0• I claim drawn up by the only the completion of the imply that the Illahly parliamentary schedule, but committee last year. resolutions accusing the betraying main part his eadership were alibi seemine v entousiastic 110t speech was directed of ciary the extent lor inacuvity. £5,000 imposing awdy Calicoll The council's the execitive the by decision made view and his own was still committee January to and possibly sequester that plant-bargaining the £22m abandon the fight for whole woe best were clalm al namonal lever and approach, he said in pre- pursue plant bargaining. ground for the the palilis wares acoale to lake place Involved later this week. Strategy Dealing with the issues of disputes procedure The TUC General Coun- 'No cil, Scanlon told dele- district has even woere have been encountered gates, was obliged considered much less with the Engineering itself operated the completely originally envisaged,' employers' rederation totally in this prob- and nationally, referred this em' was an action Callica. draft procedure agreed with against all low unions. Everyone was he British-Leyland. But Scanlon would not 9a10 •visions 'In of three opinion there had been on specify what action weeks we have established thought the

TUC

should but che national committee, principles which that procedures would LakC. Guncoll decisions once reached are he sale. Unions which registered based. binding members and "This compared with the used two fruitless years spent in the National Industrial abortive Relations Court should Shop stewards could not discussions be blamed Where Those tHe recordon suspenaca, ne said. officials or district commit- But approaches for talks tees showed little initiative.

from the government One union the He added: What is even were never less we- come, he concluded. surprising моте the so-called While many no meaningful On mergers he urged militant" districts have all «COr delegates to conterence emerge while the Act been eltner to do their utmost loyally effecting settlements remained on the statute to achieve policy challenge firms seeking book. 'this is not one union for all engineer.

which the useful contribution that IrOm rcasonabic offers have not been forth- and govern- coming. neul canol Hake the much-needed efforts to He made a sharp attack economy members who had voted standards abandonment of the and social services, includ- for educa- fight January, naulondi but then criticized the cousina keauons act

THE

SMALL

family of Heatons company Transport (St Helens) has been in the headlines complained to since it National the Industrial Relations Court that its lorries were being Liverpool blacked dockers. The firm is owned by Mr and Mrs Heaton and R. R. D.

Heaton. 420 shares, its 140 are each held by Mr and Mrs Heaton and the remain- •ing ing by R. R. D. Heaton. family are also The same Ware- directors Heatons Helens) and housing (St Father and son Heatons Heatons Distribution Services. Lancashire road company in dividends. Another for haulage firm whose lorries are Transport Annual returns Heatons 1 he Bishop's Wharf, had blacked is Transport were not filed in 1971.

Group 1971. (The company are therefore a subsidiary or me canado- IL OWIld 1967 Companies port Development Group. sidiaries, including violating the Haulage and Warehou Act). Charles One of its directors, and Pollitzer Koad figures Harold Palim, a director Latest available how- Molo Transport show that in the year end- of the Road Haulage Association ever Harper and Sons. Ltd and of the Liverpool United 1970. the alludly employed 116 people and made Warehouse Access nosocialiol Because of a trading profit of 1379,222. £61,518 from Ltd. links in the In 1970 Bishop's Wharf made dustry, many dockers b a lurnover the Haulage €33,887 dion received of £112.977 from Road a trading pront tney from rents and hire its turnover of £487,987 and paid may involved £71,385 of its profits to its parent, manoeuvres, on Mersey: charges. Workers Press, Tuesday Aprli 18, 1972 PAGE 3

DAVID

BASNETT,

officer senior industrial General of the and Municipal Workers' Union, has welcomed union-ICI the agree- ment which ignores the Industrial Relations Act. Basnett, who is the union's national industrial officer for the chemicals industry, says the ment 'provides further evi- dence the irrelevant Act nature TAnA new when it comes to keeping good industrial relations.

"If such agreements the one at

ICI

can be TrON Ann. ployers, much the better.' The agreement, the first with a company of the size of IC. came into force February 28, the National Industrial tions Court came into operation. month's Thre Basnett boasts: journal, received widespread press coverage.

In a statement to the news- papers, I stressed the irre- levance of legal interven- industrial tinne Tea. tions.' Basnett should tell this to Jack Jones of the Trans- port and General Workers' and Liverpool …Tha dockers. Within of the Scanion speaking at Eastbourne yesterday.

weeke Act coming into effect, they have been the subject applications to the National Industrial Rela- tions The T&GWU now faces a £5,000 fine for contempt of court. And Basnett while being so smug about the

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deal with

ICI,

he should read the company's annual CLYDE Port Authority want more redundancies report. revealed big trading dockers this year. Their annual report among losses and the chairman Jack Callard, announced claims that too much money is being paid out to that this vear there dockers who are no longer required by stevedoring be further cutbacks in the companies but receive fall-back pay under the _more than the

WORK TARGA

8,000 sacked last year. National Dock Labour Scheme.

In the same article Bas- nett also reveals the way The report gives an example of James Spencer & right-wing trade union Company who paid out £250,000 last year to workers leaders are viewing the re turn of a Labour govern- employed but whose services were who were still not required. ment. He savs. "The Act hopefully will only be with us for, at the The report says: It is hoped that during 1972 arrange- ments can reached which most, three years, will hernica the Labour Party has Cou- com- reduction anahle further volintary be effected in the dock labour force to mitter …ThA nAyt the satisfaction of both employers and to repealing government those which men.' spokesman said vesterday against the basic interests union of the trade more union move- that arrangements for nata redundancies and better severance pay ment'. "a matter for discussion'.

Basnett and his boss, would ne Lord be Rationalization on the upper reaches Cooper, of the Clyde last year led to voluntary happy with the repealing of sections radundanciac of 440 emplovees 011t come total labour force of 1,100. The Act, but the working class repealed authority made £500,000 profit last year wants which was a record one for business.

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PAGE & Workers Proes, Tueaday April 18, 1972 In this second article CLIFF SLAUGHTER examines the way the 'Militant' Socialists Right-to-Work marches. The 'opposition' to the 'Milit- mistakes of the British Com- ants' at the Labour Party YS munist Party and the Comintern in 1926. Conference, apart from The 'preparation' General en was pathetic half-dozen right- Council, left the wingers, came from the group supposedly kept in line by 'lefts' calling itself "Chartist'.

Communist associated the with They concentrate their fire on Party through the 'Anglo- for calling a. preparation for a Russian' ( Committee. These links, General Strike, and on making

TUC,

these 'grassroots' in the links with certain members of substituted for independent were the armed forces. revolutionary leadership. The They attack Grant's group for results are well know. but talking about revolution According Knight, to writing doing nothing to prepare for the in 'Chartist' the

SLL

has They conquest of power. moved effected a sudden change of line, for Jenkins' the resolution dropping General Strike. This irresponsible slogan expulsion. the 'Chartist' is caught in sniping at the SLL is the surest Grant. Reporting trap as of the dangerous our Empire Pool rally at the opportunism inherent in of Right-to-Work end the 'Chartist's' position. 'Chartist' marches, the paper We had another example at the Socialist Labour Grant's 'Militant' meeting in Walls League that it has no 'roots in Scarborough. Knight, interven- the Labour Party, whereas discussion, remarked ing in the has established itself "Militant" that Grant's boasting about his at least as part of the similar success reminded him of class movement'. declarations by the Socialist Here again we have the Labour Labour League. Party equated with the working- an unprincipled This is side- 'Chartist' For class movement. which supposed swipe to the of organization Is divert from criticism Grant and its struggle to Knight is attack- C011Crle the right wing. Marxist leadership through inter- ing the SLL in order to play vention every working issue, Grant at his own game. the but whether it stays In The

SLL

forward put the Labour Party!' prepare ting general Strike policy make the The Socialist Labour League

TUC

working-class in every against the Tory government on poses, struggle, the question of political the Industrial Relations Bill. This which must go through power, policy was very carefully worked the road of a Labour government, vot and explained. forced by the working class into year of the Labour In the last socialist policies. government, the strength of the workers in the unions had forced withdrawal of In Place of Strife', and now it was necessary to fight for the mobilization the whole trade movement, unions and Labour Party defeat the Tories on this issue.

We can say beyond any shadow The correctness of the League's of big class batiles tea sing espion doubt that in the succession policy was borne out. only by the failure of the the conquest of powere by negatively TUC and of the Stalinists to 'Kill working che Labour Paroy will reformists lead the the Bill', but positively by the who eventual spread of this demand be rejected and the revolutionary among millions of workers.

party will have to lead the work-

'TUC

class, under its own banner. The policy of call ing This is the essence of Marxism General Strike make the Tories resign.' could be in this epoch wars and correct Not to only together with the fight for revolutions. accept this, 'Chartist' is concerned, the alternative as far as revolutionary is to go the same way as Grant.

party. of The slogan of 'Prepare the The successful introduction Strike, the daily Workers Press and then General while the at of the Charter time those of Basic Rights same not opposing liquidate the the Alexandra Palace rally who independent and February 14, 1971, were the revolutionary party, is to repeat on form the fatal essential steps in this direction. in even worse

HEEL

1828, General, Strike: TUC, linka for revolutionary leadership.

YOUNG SOGIALISTS

MAYE

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TAKE RE

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1 41 2 * P Top: Young Soclalists on the Right-1o-W Above: Young Centrists of the 'Militant' Because 'Chartist' chooses i very deliberately to ignore this central question, it sees a 'change of line' the single on question of a General Strike. But the revolutionary party must take the issues which the up and working class must fight, adopt a programme of transitional demands which enable the work- ing class to see their immediate needs in terms of the struggle for power and alternative leadership.

There is no doubt that, as we lull in have seen, the inevitable the anti-Industrial Relations Bill fight after the TUC Special Con- ference last March was followed by a profound political develop- ment in the Labour Party-on the Common Market issue-and the rapid growth of mass unem- ployment. clear that, with the was Industrial Relations Act coming into operation, the revolutionary party must lead a fight to forge unity of the employed and un- employed. We have always insisted that the Right-to-Work campaign was, above all, directed at a struggle by the organized movement to Tories to resign. force the We have at all times called for the mobilization of Right-to-Work marches, forging unity 'Milltant' group who opposed the Right-to-Work movement industrial and political, to bring this about. And we are the only ones to have done this.

from Behind the criticism 'Chartist' lies a very non- In Marxist method. an article written for the LPYS conference they say: one, that the labour for a movement must prepare General Strike; two, that in such a strike the army will be called in, so work must be done for three, solidarity from soldiers; that were we unable to count on getting support from the work- ing class internationally, our own conquest of power as a class in this country would be a hope- less prospect.' ('Young Chartist Briefing'. Page 2). not of This is the method, intervening in and studying the living movement in all its con- tradictions and changes, but of making everything pre- The Chartist conceived plan. scheme of 'General Strike--win the ensure inter- soldiers - national support all guaranteed before we ME

CUTH

Ity of the employed and unemployed.

ht-to-Work campaign. Grant's rounded-out than socialist policy'. No Marxist party can know in advance the concrete stages of the revolutionary struggle. It is • to necessary warn against illusions of victory in the miners' strike and to prepare the next steps. But these steps consist, of an im- first and foremost, placable struggle against every betrayal of the class-collabor- ationist leadership of the trade union leaders and the building of the revolutionary party. Such a party, into which the SLL is transformed, now being must be able to initiate and carry through independent campaigns on basic issues such as the Right to Work and to carry through the struggle against reformism and Stalinism every issue on every day. Only the SLL fights in this way. The Young Socialists have been guided always by the necessity of the independent revolu- building tionary leadership. It is because 'Militant', 'Chartist' and reject this centrist groupings perspective that they remain tied to the reactionary Labour Party and trade union leader- ter ships.

Sixteen thousand auto- mobiles are reserved for the exclusive of the Hungarian Stalinist bureau- cracy and having one to ferry him around is the cherished ambition of every official careerist. There are going to be a lot disappointed of bureaucrats next year, however, because the Party leadership has decided to slash the number of official cars by half. top leaders feel The the situation is getting out of hand.

All sorts of upstarts are getting into official cars who have no right to be there. As their decree puts it: 'With the increase in the number of used by state cars organs, institutions, enterprises and co- operatives, the principles of expediency and economical use have not been sufficiently observed.' Not only are they trimming the number of cars, they have also tightened the limits on the type of work they can be used for. For the disgruntled lower echelons lose their due to coveted privelege, there is a carrot to make them try harder.

The decree lays out plans for Fifty-five after the years the October Revolution, heirs of Nicholas the Bloody, Tsar of the All the Russias, still haven't quite given up hope. Grand Duke Vladimir Lord the Kirillovitch, main now claimant to the Romanov throne, is living as a US pensioner periodically Madrid, commuting to the New York headquarters of the Steering Committee of the Monarchist Front. All-Russian He recently issued a manifesto to the Peoples of Russia which with must have been greeted signs of relief from Leningrad to Viadivostok. It finally resolved the ticklish question of the Tsarist succession, in dispute ever and his family since the Tsar executed in Ekaterinberg were -by the Bolsheviks. In his manifesto, after analys- ing the present situation of his emigré destiny to various towns of our troubled 'and villages planet, the Grand Duke comes to that conclusion of their heirs, the absence Russian throne will now inevit- ably pass to the female issue of the Imperial Family. This is his elder daughter the Grand Duchess Maria Vladi- will, after his who morovna demise, become Guardian of the Imperial Throne with all the rights and functions connected with that office. The manifesto further states that the Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna has already taken Janos Kadar, Hungarian prime minister extending the socialist brigade movement to encourage work competition. Modelled on the Soviet Stak- hanovite system of the 1930s this is a well-tried means of for selecting likely careerists quick promotion up the bureau- cratic ladder. The government decree con- which stipulate tains measures the awards and bonuses to be won in work competition. On May 1 every year, the Enterprise te of 'Outstanding Co-operative'-to- •Outstanding gether, of with a sub- course, stantial cash prize-ls to be Tear Nicholas W an oath on the Holy Gospel to be faithful to the Imperial Family with the obligation to observe the enactments on succession to the throne as contained in the State Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire. The Will of the All-Highest received the official monarchist stamp of approval at an inter- national emigré congress staged seedy French seaside in the resort of Dinard. After Vladimir Kirillovitch dies, there will be no argument over the throne. Maria will take over as Empress and all other claimants can stand aside. awarded to the enterprise judged most successful. Winners of these awards pete for the Red Flag of the Council of Ministers and National Presidium of the Council of the Trade Unions (sic) with even bigger bonus an attached. Individuals who want to scale these dizzy heights can try for the titles of 'Socialist Labour Hero' 'Outstanding Worker and ... and cash bonuses. Hungarian workers can antici- pate an eager flood of budding bureaucrats rushing to work each day—on foot. Dinard One speaker at the the pious congress expressed certainty that the day will come when the Most August Family will have the opportunity once again of being crowned in the ancient Kremlin. didn't into details He go about the timetable for this event, however, and some of his ageing audience must have been left worrying whether they should rush off and polish their boots and get full court dress made for participation in the ceremony. saying goes, hope AS the 'springs eternal. Workors Press, A letter from Ceylon. The working class in Ceylon is moving rapidly against the wage-freezing government's and industrial rationalization policies. The government last year took steps to down expenditure cut on social welfare benefits such as the health services, education, etc. In the January Budget heavy taxes were imposed on consumer goods. These measures were aimed to cut down expenditure on imports. inevitably opened This policy the door for wide-spread black in marketeering all basic con- sumer goods. This, in effect, was nowing more than planned wage- cutting. The first signs of the resist- ance to these attacks have now been seen among the workers in the private sector. The Stalinist Communist Party social and democratic Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) lead- ers have been unable to curtail this radicalization. Hundreds of workers in various factories have forward come demanding higher wages and other concessions, forcing , their leaders to call strike action.

Out on strike for separate wage demands are workers at the Maharaja Organization - the largest hardware manufacturing company in Ceylon-400 workers at Asbestos Cement Ltd; 150 workers Mackie Stores at industry); about (umbrella another 100 workers in a textile plant, Stores; Mohideen 400 workers in Asian Cotton Mills; about 175 workers in Freuden- berg (textile factory); and 300 workers in the biggest tourist hotel in Ceylon. All these workers belong to controlled by the trade unions the Stalinist and LSSP leaders.

At Kundanmal's Company, the country's largest clothing factory, the Ceylon Union Mercantile leaders, the revisionist Bala Tam- also forced to call poe, was strike action which has now been on for several weeks. Tampoe is presently collabo- rating , with all kinds of ultra- reactionary elements among the bourgeois, parliamentarians, such as Gamini Dissanayake, the right- wing United National Party (UNP) member, and Prins Gun- asekara, (ex-SLFP MP). This alliance has been formed to 'fight for civil rights' by send- ing petitions to the Prime Min- ister. of Ceylon The working class -tied to the coat-tails of the capitalist class through the for- mation of the coalition govern- ment could not act independently for a long time. But today, with the devalua- tion of the dollar, enormous eco- nomic burdens are forced on the semi-colonial and economy create a situation where the polarization of class forces is unavoidable. Under such condi- ora Press, Tuesday April 18, 1972 PAGE 5 tions the collaborationist policies of the LSSP, CP and Pabloite leaders are being exposed clearly.

The

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government, con- scious of the inability of its part- ners, prepares today for another stage of the counter-revolution- ary attacks on the left groups.

Steps have already been taken to tighten the emergency regula- tions in the guise of a new bomb which followed surprise scare, searches at the university stud- ents' hostel. The government still imple- ments the ban imposed on all left publications and a strict censorship is used on all news.

Heavy expenditure on security measures were allocated in the new Budget. the working class But as becomes more and more aware of the treachery of their lead- workers have taken the ers, insome of the initial steps unions to get rid of their reform- ist leaders. In the government press and in the Bank Employees' Union, have overwhelmingly workers rejected their LSSP leaders and elected a new leadership.

This is an unmistakable symp- tom of the radicalization now taking place within the unions. It opens up enormous possibilities for the revolutionaries to struggle into these unions in order to train a new leadership with revolu- tionary perspectives. Communist Party a In the large section of workers have joined a campaign to force their leaders to break away from the coalition government. Now the Stalinist leaders, adopting. traditional in their opportunistic way to this mood, have made demagogic speeches criticizing government policy. At the same time the Party secre- taryship retains a ministerial post.

Mrs Bandaranaike But has taken immediate steps to disçip- line her servants. demanded that the Stalinist CP leader, Dr S. A. Wickremasinghe, explain his public criticism.

What is evident with all these developments is the new upsurge within the working class against the betrayal of their traditional leaderships. The conditions created by the economic crisis have reached such a point where class-collaboration and reformism are impossible. This situation has created a question a workers' of peasants' government as the only alternative to the bourgeois coalition governments formed since Ceylon became ever "independent'. opportunity has the Today arrived for the revolutionaries to mobilize the working class to force their leaders to end all forms of collaboration with the capitalist class. In this way the revolutionaries smash can reformism and build a revolu- tionary leadership.

PAGE 6 Workers Preas, Tueeday Aprll 18, 1972

BY DAVID MAUDE

we are told. Last year the AUEW overs vave setthe wirtuan ake.

Merger is in the air mania well have again, but this time the flirta- spent out t7.5m. but onlv Econo- road to a 2 milion membership in zoom in subscripuons. tion everyone is talking about scale needed just as Recent years have also seen between two powerful and bite-collars lieds. spate of mergers the building business, rituals started for trade unions rather than a engineers brace of industrial giants.

The earnest ours It is not just jus phrase glib, journal- the of Lord William Car- that the

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The union's late tion are the Amalgamated Unles courting couple ron, was associaton made between President. 1 the Amalgamated these developments and the trend LIci greater and greater Willl 1.J port makers WaS million card-holders, and object of attention. world of big capi. Tne callull sil 450,000-strong Electrical and But romance failed Plumbing Trades Union. and after the joint talks blossom, In an interview last week with began down. Vincent Hanna of the 'Sunday It tney do nnally get togetner. DrOKe British industry will face Times',

AUEW

President Hugh movine towares is presenr rece- hefty challenge rati cousith the foundryworkers, new Olic Call calico and member, nts trom telling sentence: who now prolificity trade

LIC

be serious is recnnical ana supervisory sec unions can storiest what truth behind tion. when try- these are union Besides the which ing nesosate mergers on the order of the dayl parallel talks with agreements particularly at plant How are they viewed by the evel with Of course he has other things also no secret that the But thev leaders- along No Sonat the same bureaucratic plane.

enzincenue WHOl with those of the Transport and Metal Regardless anything else General Workers' Un Workers Mechanics (46,000 members).

which may be in Scanlon's mind Municipal General and The

AUEW

also held talks significant that irst several

OLICTS

'Why with the NaTone Union response for some time been Casting "To Vehicle Builders before their merge?' not fight around for likely marriage part- recent merger with the T&GWU employers better'. neThe As far as the T&GWU, already roponent of tl of Scanion

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Tans iew that while the class strugg Britain's biggest is con- modern-day union are enormous, is irreconcilable, it only breaks out overtly when the 'balance of terror' becomes weighted in fav- our of the workers or employers, by say, the Industrial Relations Act. Presumably the logical exten- sion of his statement to Hanna is that union mergers help redress the balance and contribute to class peace. Scanlon went on to explain to the other no Hanna some of doubt sound organizational and financial reasons why union lead- 'almost a compul- today feel ers sion' towards increased size.

Let us examine the nature of this compulsion in class terms.

leading union official As one 'These Workers Press of the are not the the formative of trade supported by They are mer- of are this standpoint. and Jim retary of the section union proposal of with principle franki the right-wing merger. three seats on executive, with the posts of pre..

sident and general secretary open election by the whole mem- to bership. present executive If all the •members held down their jobs in the AUEW, this would consider- the ably strengthen the grip of union. right wing on the whole And since Scanlon has made clear he might stand down to facilitate could have the merger, Chapple a clear shot at the presidency.

Left-wing opinion in the union pulled two ways be appears to on the subject. balance it is Although on against for directly political rea- those who talk sons, there are grimly about 'having to face the economic facts'. There is also some support for Chapple's insist- ence on a full merger and a com- mon rule-book. The method on both sides of short-sighted, the argument is totally inadequate and completely empirical; issue cannot be the decided on these grounds.

Shortly before his murder by a Leon Stalinist in 1940, agent the following in Trotsky wrote pamphlet "Trade Unions in the the Epoch of Imperialist Decay': 'Monopoly capitalism does not competition and free pri- rest on vate initiative but on centralized The capitalist cliques command. mighty trusts, at the head of synidcates, banking consortia, etc., view economic life from the very same heights as does state and they require at every power; the collaboration of the step latter. 'In their turn the trade unions in the most important branches themselves industry the possibility deprived of competition the profiting by the different enter- between prises. "They have to confront a cen- tralized capitalist adversary, inti- with state mately bound up Hence flows the need of power. so far the trade as unions- reformist posi- they remain on tions, i.e. on positions of adapting themselves to private property-.

adapt themselves to the capi- to talist state and to contend for its co-operation. the eyes of the bureau- 'In cracy of the trade union move- ment the chief task lies in "free- ing" the state from the embrace of capitalism, in weakening. its dependence on trusts, in pulling Above: the Manchester engineer- over to their side. it ing sit-ins which have tolled the He went on to stress that these death-knell Scanion's 'bal- of conditions 'leave almost no room ance' class forces. Far left: of workers' democracy at all for Hugh Scanlon, AUEW president.

old which, the good days, in Left:

AUEW

Jim Conway, gen- ruled the free trade when on Right: EPTU sec- eral secretary. constituted the economic arena, retary Frank Chapple leaving the content of the inner life of lab- Department of Employment our organizations'. The two slogans of the struggle for revolutionary trade unionism, Trotsky were: complete, of unconditional the from the • capitalist unions 2,000-odd local branches were state and trade union democracy.

closed last year-the most down The second was inseparable from since 1939. The ultimate aim of first. the the right wing is thought to be These are the real forces at with 1,000 branches regional work behind these 'merger moves full-time Postal secretaries. from the top' as Scanlon's very ballots are now union policy, revealing Vincent comment to despite the enormous cost-esti- Hanna showed. mated at £100,000 a time.

As every electrician is forcibly of usually Even in the minds reminded every well-meaning union officials, these trade life, the impact of union developments are sometimes half- the state on the EPTU has been justified by the argument that in and considerable. In discreet in loves or muth-nationa com - 1961, the High Court ousted com- in power Communist Party members from panies, the unions have to become of the leadership after evidence big, efficient, go-ahead organiza- ballot-rigging and installed right tions. wingers in their stead. This is not the issue. Since then, the right wing has The struggle for revolutionary which the steadily tightened its grip.

trade strugnism through been which Local branches have only struggle defend their workers today can closed down. Industrial branches determined fight against all demands full-time branch hard-won rights, with secre- have been most taries secret ballot by post has become set the unions the requirements decaying capitalism and its the order of the day, if there are of elections at all. state machine. sit- What is well- Manchester's engineering perhaps less National Industrial that militants in the ins and the known is Relations Court have tolled the

AUEW

discern similar trends death-knell of Scanlon's 'balance' there. No less than 71 of the present of class forces.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tueaday April 18, 1972 The world economic depression of the 1930s begun with the Wall St crash in the autumn of 1929, struck German capitalism with special severity. It plunged it into a social and political crisis which culminated in the defeat of the highly-organized working class movement and the coming to power of Hitler. This series of articles deals with the economic aspects of the victory of Nazism, and goes on to examine the connection between the Nazi regime and monopoly capitalism and will conclude with an analysis of Nazi Germany's war economy. Part 2 by Tom Kemp capitalism Germany rested The decision of the German in upon such an alliance. ruling class to call the on The fact that Nazi economic Nazis take in to power policy from 1933 gave the state January 1933 arose from their a central directing role has pro- belief that every other solu- duced much confusion about the of the German economy tion had been exhausted. The Malue in the Nazi period. alternative which stared them The that the Nazis view in the face was social collapse of created a torm society and revolution. which was non-capitalist still has some adherents today, despite all The big industrialists and the the of economic con- had accepted the Wei- Junkers tinuity from the Weimar period, mar republic and worked through through the Nazi era to post-war it as long as it suited their ends.

Federal Germany. The same But they regarded 1t With con- banks, the same firms, the same tempt. Hitler promised to restore families remained in command.

the authority of the state and to of A particularly crass version authority of the reinforce the the theory that the structure of boss in his factory. Nazi Germany was not capitalist, What the capitalists and land- but of represented a new form lords wanted was the restoration forward by society, was put of profitability and this could be James Burnham in his influential done only under a stable govern- book "The Managerial Revolu- ment able to crush the working- 1940 after he left the Trotskyist movement.

written class movement. Hitler did within This office. short time after assuming suppressed The Nazi state trade working-class parties, and other unions, co-operatives organizations. single Labour under Front set up Nazi direction. Through the of persecution the Third Reich removed Jews, German competitors for the middle and provided :class scapegoat onto whom Germany's ills could be blamed. Jewish businesses were taken over by 'Aryan' firms. Hitler's backers expected him to deliver way in which they could understand: through their balance sheet. The test of the new regime, as far as they were concerned, was whether it could profitability testore to industry. This required the opening up of a new market both at home and in the world economy.

Only possible for then would it be expand industry to invest and once again. Big business realized by 1933 the survival of capitalism that He advanced number of left to market could be not the reasons, including elimina- forces but required massive par- tion of unemployment, the ticipation by the state, by a state growth of state control. having led by man in whom they and its younger leaders ability could have confidence. He to inspire fanatical loyalty. That Adolf Hitler, man, said these were 'sufficient to re- quickly showed his big business Nazi fute the opinion that backers that their confidence was Germany is a type of capitalism misplaced. The 'anti-capital- not and to show the that it is, on ist' elements in the National contrary, an early stage of a new programme were aband- Socialist type of society'. on June 30, 1934, oned and, the According to the advocates of a 'second revolution' German capitalists had in the Nazi leadership were ruth- reduced to impotence by a new lessly killed the infamous in ruling class of 'managers' which 'Night of the Long Knives'.

wielded effective power and exercised the Hitler recognized the largest share of con- control over the instruments of straints which the capitalist economy imposed. production. At the same the Burnham conceded time, ruling class had that the to leave the making of major policy rocess was not completed when decisions to the Fuehrer, while le wrote and that some capital- the bureaucratic ists had fused themselves into the apparatus was taken over by Nazi new order and become party 'managers'. The He considered appointees. survival of that Germany had a head-start over countries, from other apart Russia, 'in getting ready for the managerial world system'.

By adding together some bits and pieces acquired from surface impressions, Burnham was able to depict the German economy in a way very different from its real aspect, as shown by many serious The studies since he wrote. character of the German economy after World War II had broken out, let alone in the pre- war years, as we shall see, was far from conforming to very Burnham's image. The German industrialists ex- pected Hitler to restore profita- bility. They were prepared to accept that the state should play a more energetic role in the that some of the economy and directing positions should be filled by men who came up the Nazi party. through Top: Nazis outside Jewish-owned shops Defend yourselves! Don't buy from the J Front. Left: Hitler with Welmar preside But the means of production were not only not owned by these new men, they were not con- trolled by them either. Respect and support for pri- vate property, and thus for the industrial dynasties and banking families which owned the main means of production and the in- stitutions of finance capital, were basic to National Socialist policy in practice from 1933 to 1945. All policy, including the granting of war contracts, was based upon profitability and private ownership. Nazis did After 1933 the industrial revival initiate an in the which next few years, brought unemployment down to a nominal figure. How was this done? Not by a miracle or by of establishing new form economy, but strictly by operat- according to the laws of ing capitalism. There is some evidence that a revival was beginning even be- fore the Nazis took over and the Brüning government, before its fall, had put some public works in hand. Essentially what the Nazis did was to open up new markets for ed shops with signs reading. 'Germans!

from the Jews!' Above: the Nazi Labour ar president Hindenburg. - heavy industry, especially industry, through state orders both for public works-such as motorways and urban develop- ment and by rearmament. This enabled profits to be made, in- vestment began to recover and more jobs were created. It will be recalled that by 1932 industrial production, and espe- cially the production of capital goods, had fallen to a low level.

Some measure of recovery could be expected in any case in the normal course of the cycle.

There is no doubt that the Nazis gave the recovery a hefty helping hand, but no evidence that what they did was incom- patible with , capitalism or dis- tasteful to the employers.

Trade unions were outlawed and the working-class organiza- tion broken up and their leaders killed or imprisoned. The Nazi Labour Front assured the capi- talists of a docile labour force on a no-strike basis. In fact, recovery took place to the point of full employment without a rise in wages to the ad- employers,.. for CONTINUED TOMORROW

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Name Address ee of the 4th Intert Sallustro pictured in the ERP's so-called peopl and the winning of the next 'gen- election' eral by Lanusse sup- porters. The ICFI condemns this das- tardly repression of democratic rights and demands the uncondi- tional release of all political prisoners, but we do not condone the substitution of individual terror for a mass campaign in the working class internationally to secure the release of prisoners and the downfall of the dictator- ship. The ERP's bankrupt tactics are SEVENTY-NINE employees of the P&O Group's Strick line have been made redund- ant. This follows a management decision to integrate the Strick Line's 16 specialized general cargo ships operating to Ara- and Persian ports into bian P&O's general cargo division.

As these plans develop there will be further redundancies in other parts _ group, a spokesman said yesterday.

Commenting on the situation, chairman Ford P&O Group Geddes, said: 'Regrettably, developments such as this inevitable if the are Group is to improve its financial performance. 'They involve decisions nobody likes taking. However, they come as a necessary and continuing part of our organization, which is aimed at increased efficiency.

'I believe that it is only by way of these measures that the com- improved level of profitability, an progress pany 18 foot leap to freedom TWO PRISONERS escaped from the long-term wing of Walton Jail, Liverpool, early yesterday.

They sawed through the bars of a cell and climbed over the 18-foot wall using a hook and a rope. They are Walter Lee (28), at Newcastle last sentenced November to eight years for rob- bery and burglary, and William Alexander Strachan (22), sent- enced at Leeds last July to seven 'yeats for burglary:.. abandoned the working class and the construction of independent Trotskyist based parties on Marxist theory and have subordi- nated themselves the bour to ¡ternational geoisie and the labour bureau- cracy. That is why the co-thinkers of the ERP in Bolivia-led by Mos- have capitulated coso com- of pletely to the patriotic front General Torres and their ex- supporters in the Ceylon coalition lead the repressive campaign against the rural youth with the direct support of imperialism and Stalinism. the crisis of imperialism As intensifies, these revisionist express clearly the abject groups prostration and disorientation of the petty-bourgeoisie before monopoly capitalism. Thus their the colonial and terrorism semi-colonial countries is comple- mented in the advanced countries by sectarian abstention in political struggles of the working Class. In Britain the International Marxist Group refused to the Labour critically support Party in the General Election of 1970 and assisted the return of the Tories. Ligue Com- In France the ministe advocates abstention in the referendum on British entry Market and into the Common facilitates the victory of Pompi- and the European dou mono- lled people's prison' polies. The ICFI appeals to all those workers in Latin America as the logical and ultimate product well as members of the Unified of the petty-bourgeois revisionism Secretariat critical of who are of the Unified Secretariat led by this adventure to reject the road Ernest Mandel. It is no accident of individual terror and join the that Mandel's followers reject ICFI in its struggle to build the method of the proletarian the alternative revolutionary to the revolution and resort to petty-bourgeois and of bourgeois individual- method bureaucratic reformism. It is also instructive that ism. Mandel's supporters deplore the

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Argentina. April 14, 1972 These revisionists long ago THE ENGINEERING union's executive council will take no action over a complaint that the union did nothing to oppose 66 redundancies at Omes Faulk- ners, Colnbrook, Bucks, factory.

On March 23, the day before sackings, which included the and League the convenor, AUEW works Colnbrook and Poyle branch sent a resolution to the execu

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tive council saying: Working class unity and the "The works convenor and fight against the Tory govern- shop stewards and maintenance ment'. also branch secretary Mr our F. W. Tomany were allowed to AUEW Hall, 26 Southward Rd.

redundant without any be made Sunday April 23, 8 p.m. support from the executive coun- cil or district committee.

Speakers: 'Surely in these circumstances G. Healy, SLL national some positive action should have secretary been taken.' David Barclay, YS Glasgow— Now a letter from the AUEW's Glasgow - to - London Right-to- Peckham headquarters advises Work marcher Mr Tomany to get in touch with Slough district committee.

The Colnbrook and Poyle branch have already sent a reso- lution to the district committee

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'why allowed 80 asking they AUEW members to go redundant

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token without even support. They have received no reply.

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Tuesday April! 15-man About seven of the 18, 8pm. The Aberfeldy Anner.

Aber- district committee are Communist Blackwall feldy Party members. Poplar. YS conference and the No fight against the Industrial Re- Slough 4 hranch of the AUEW has adopted a resolution lations Act. expressing concern 'at the lack of

BANBURY:

Wednesday April action of district the committee 'The White Hart'. 19,8 pm. in the Omes. Faulkners' redun- dancies...

AEI clerks spearhead pay-jobs fight for Merseyside shop-floor workers

FROM PHILIP WADE

IN LIVERPOOL

THE 500 clerks at Liver- pool's English Electric plant yesterday voted to continue their five-week-old pay strike.

They rejected management dismissal threats unless they return to work. "The actions of Sir Arnold Admin- The Clerical and Weinstock fellow and his istrative Workers' Union has directors in axing the number declared the strike official and jobs from 240,000 204,000 to have earned him the title of the is paying double strike pay.

axe man of Liverpool. Well, mad Plans made the were Arnold, we have got message union's weekend conference to for you: "You have chopped off spread the strike to other plants one head too many; here, there- Sir Arnold Weinstock's

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fore, is a taste of your medicine, AEI empire. an axe. We hope you will accept And to Wein- as a gesture it in the same spirit as that in stock's savage in the com- which you gave cuts the axe to many workers"" bined labour force since the 1968 merger, the union has sent him After yesterday's mass meeting present- a strike committee member said: Ray Edwards, the union's 'We are staying out until we told get our pay demand of f6-a-week assistant seciciary,

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ference: increase.

BY IAN YEATS

THE ONLY way to fight 'anarchy' was to toughen up the law the Tory Lord Lord Hail- Chancellor, said at the week- sham, end. his speech On Monday its reality as a body of ruthless was rammed home by a hang armed men ready, and today, willing kill in defence of 'em editoria in 'em and flog capitalism. the 'Daily Telegraph' which It is also a grave warning that concluded: when the tough talk is followed what is going on today by tough action, whatever funda- done will be done strictly within.

is something far more the letter of the law. mental than , crime The bourgeoisie is arming itself civil dis- Violent picketing, showdown with for the coming obedience and the no-go areas the working class. represent of N Ireland one of the The law, in the form aspect of the disease; a general Relations Act, is to be Industrial tendency of "re- on the part hammer the used... to try to or? spectable people" flout to unions and a new Criminal Jus- ignore the law in minor mat- tice Act being hurried through ters represents another. parliament will be used to try to smash political opposition.

*If modern communities are to Yesterday's editorial Times' be defended against urban somewhat deceptively limited it- disturbing maxim guerrillas, the self to 600 words of waffle about take life that it is legitimate criminals, leniency and loopholes only in self-defence but also not in the law which they felt could the defence of property must "illiberality'. be accepted. The time for restat- be plugged without Naturally they were in favour these brutal truths is long ing of legal severity against greater overdue. 'offenders', but Hailsham's speech This is civil war talk. It strips bourgeois state of all demo- clearly not merely about the was pickpockets and car thieves.

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bara Ward. The company has offered £1.80.

The 3,500 manual workers at the Liverpool plant have now been laid off. Their stewards feel that the clerks are a test case and that the company is preparing for a new showdown with the entire The company is work force. trying to make an example of the clerks to force through more redundancies. Stewards claim that it is more than a coincidence that John Brazier, secretary of the joint shop stewards' committee, was sacked last Thursday during the confusion over lay-offs. He said: 'If society is not to descend into anarchy and tyranny it must be a law-abiding society and to be law-abiding it must be more law respecting than it is at present. If it is to survive, a society must retain the intention to en- force its rules against all comers and at all costs.' The "Daily Telegraph' stressed the point. It said much of the trouble today sprang from growing reluctance on the part of those who bear authority to use it' The Tory government cer- tainly agrees. That is the reason for the new Bill to give, as 'The Times' notes, magistrates and judges 'new opportunities - and new responsibilities. Let there be no mistake. The society Hailsham and company refer to is the bourgeois order, the apparatus of capitalism; the anarchy they so clearly fear- political opposition from the working class. CHANNEL: 12.45-3.50 London.

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12.01 Faith for life. Bogardo is in 'The Blue Dirk Lamp' on Independent TV in the London area tonight at 7.25.

Workers Prose, Tu Brazier, deputy executive member the Technical and Supervisory Staffs section of the AUEW, was dismissed because of alleged bad time-keeping.

THE Clerical and Administra- tive Workers' Union (CAWU) has changed its name to the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Com- puter Staff (APEX). The company has also termin.

ated discussions over 30 out- standing redundancies embracing TASS members. Lord Chancellor Hailsham SOUTHERN: 2.05 Katie Stewart.

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Peter Martin, AUEW chair- man of the shop stewards' com-' mittee, feels that some men have been locked out rather than laid off. He claims his own maintenance section had work in hand when they were put off last Thursday.

'All the other unions in the plant have pay claims in the pipeline.

The treatment they are giving the clerks shows us what they have in store for other unions, he said. Since the merger took place,; Weinstock's rationalization has decimated English Electric's work force. Four years ago there were 10,000 workers at the plant; now there are only 4,000 left. In 1969 contingency plans were made to occupy the factory in reply to the heavy redundancies. But the plan was abortive. Last year over 1,000 workers lost their jobs at the plant.

The switchgear section took the brunt of the sackings, losing 50 per 750 workers, more than cent of the total on that section.

Stewards now feel the fight is coming up when the question of saving the factory from entire closure will be posed in its sharpest form. 'Liverpool is becoming second only-if not equal to-the treat- ment meted out to the ABI workers at Woolwich when they shut the plant down,' said Peter Martin. attitude 'Weinstock's is summed up by the profit fore- he made the other week. casts They're going up to over £80m and he said this has been a bad year. 'The demand for nationaliz- ation of this combine was carried unanimously at a mass meeting in 1969. That decision still stands as our policy. The demand now has to be linked with getting this government out and nationalizing GEC and the rest of the big monopolies,' he said. At the closing session of the CAWU's annual conference in Scarborough, £620 was collected for the English Electric workers' hardship fund. Gun'. 8.30 Des. 9.00 London. 11.30 White line. YORKSHIRE: 1.00 Rovers. 1.25 Pied piper. 1.30 Origami.

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PAGE 12 Workers Prose, Tueaday April 1 THE WAGES fight in the engineering industry spread to NE Scotland yesterday when 370 AUEW members at the Cleveland Twist Drill factory, Peterhead, struck for a £4-a-week in rease. meeting ut the weekend A unanimously rejected the man- agement offer of £1.50. The company claims to have had a strike free record since it opened 16 years ago. Engineers in the Aberdeen district agreed last week to allow four weeks for factory-by-factory negotiatious for the full national claim. If these negotiations are un- successful there will be a district- wide strike. THE AUEW engineers' section, whose 52 national committee votes dominate policy making 1.4 million for the whole amalgamation, has suffered a 27,000 membership loss over the last year. Membership of the section now stands at 1.2 million. Voting for position on the key standing orders committee took place yesterday morning at the opening session of the annual national committee conference at Eastbourne. Always taken as an indication of the political line-up at the committee, it appeared to show a left-wing gain of two to three votes over last year. The broad "left' could prob- ably muster about 25 hard core votes in a straight fight with the right-wing. • See Scanion bluster, p. 3.

Leyland strike on body men ABOUT 2,000 car workers at the British-Leyland body plant at Cowley, Oxford, yesterday voted overwhelmingly to con- tinue their policy of working 'without enthusiasm'. about 40 Only workers wanted to accept the manage- ment pay offer. For the past week the body plant men have been suspended each day for their go-slow tactic in support of a wage demand.

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of Hanoi and Haiphong, resumed earlier this week on orders from the White House, will have no immediate effect on the course of the war in S Vietnam. Sources in Washington have estimated it will take up to six months before the N Vietnamese troops fighting there feel any • effect from the damage inflicted on their supplies by President Nixon's B52 bombers. Liké President Johnson's bomb- ing raids from 1965 to 1968, the on the N current attacks are simply a vindictive attempt to defeats for the seek revenge S Vietnamese inflicted on the forces. As long ago as September 1966, Johnson's Defence Secretary Robert McNamara concluded that 'Operation Rolling Thunder' -the bombing of the N-'had no measurable direct effect' on the situation in S Vietnam; nor had it stopped supplies reaching the liberation forces.: McNamara's advisers pointed out that the raids cost one air- man every 40 sorties a figure which must by now have been sharply increased as the N Viet- sophis- namese acquire more ticated rocket and anti-aircraft defences. Like Johnson, Nixon wants to break the Vietnamese will fight. But he has even less chance of achieving this than his ill- fated predecessor. His attack on N Vietnam is a measure of the desperation of imperialism faced with US revolutionary which enemy refuses to give up. A N Vietnamese Communist and Party government state- ment issued yesterday morning the US 'want to secure a said position of strength while they are suffering heavy setbacks on the battlefield in a bid to compel us to "negotiate" on their terms' Nixon's resumption of bomb- ing was sharply attacked yester- day by both the Soviet Union and China. The US ambassador in Moscow called the was to Foreign Office to receive a pro- test note, but the Soviet leaders pains not to jeopardize were at the visit which Nixon is due to make there next month. DeePublished Workers Press.

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Johnson (right) was told by his Defen that bombing had 'no measurable dire S Vietnam. The Soviet leaders have even dropped some of the May Day slogans against the war in Indo- China- particularly the demand 'Hands off Vietnam'. The May Day siogan on Indo-China now reads 'immediate cessation of air raids and bombardments of the of territory the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and of the barbarous war'. The Chinese leaders are equally concerned not to upset their honeymoon with the Nixon administration. Chou En-lai, who acted as Nixon's host in Peking last month, said US air strikes The 100 inspectors at Alvis Limited, Coventry, who have been on strike in support of a £6 wage demand will return to work today to allow negotiations proceed. inspectors to The walked out last Wednesday.

WEATKER

GENERALLY cloudy in E coastal districts at N England, N Ireland, W and N Scotland will be mainly cloudy with fog • on coasts and also on hills. Some by sunny spells afternoon. Wales, central and S England, will be dry with sunny spells.

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his Defence Secretary in the late 1960s rable direct effect on the situation in over N Vietnam would not save America from certain defeat in Indo-China. He called on Nixon to 'stop escalating the war and resume negotiations at the conference . table'. In Paris, theN Vietnamese • Xuan Thuy, an: chief negotiator nounced that Le Due Tho, Hanoi politburo member, would arriving in Paris in time for the next round of the peace talks with the US. no further details Thuy gave but Le Duc Tho's previous inter- ventions in the Paris peace talks have been to introduce new initiatives froin the N Vietnamese side. IN CAMBODIA yesterday, the capital Phnom Penh came under mortar and rocket attack from liberation forces who have estab- lished themselves on a nearby hill. The other side of the border, at An Loc, 60 miles from saigon, relief forces sent to try and break the N Vietnamese siege of the town again failed to make progress up Highway 13 towards the. town. Socialist Labour League and Yo

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DRAUGHTSMEN at C. A. Parsons electrical engineer- ing firm, Newcastle, who were sent redundancy notices at the weekend, handed them back yesterday. This followed an 800-strong demonstration staged by the local branch of the Technical Staffs section and Supervisory of the AUEW through the corridors of the head office at Eaton in support of the 250 who were to lose their jobs.

The men are to carry on with their work-to-rule as before.

If the management continues to issue redundancy notices, the men plan to begin a daytime sit-in strike inside the offices.

To guard against lock-out, the men have asked for the support of the gatekeepers, members of Municipal General the Workers' Union. Since the end of last year the fighting force has been work against management proposals to make more than • 1,000 men redundant.

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