Workers Press no. 744

workers press

TORIES PROVOKE

CLASH WITH TUC

DAILY (

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORY government yester- day took out an injunction in its own National Industrial Relations Court against the three unions representing a quarter of a million railwaymen.

The court action calls on the unions to lift their work-to-rule which has brought rail chaos throughout Britain since mid- night last Sunday. If the unions defy the court order-which would be in line with TUC policy of non-co-operation with the Industrial Relations Act-they will be open to huge fines and the possibility of imprisonment for contempt of court. The government decision to invoke the court and the Industrial Relations Act follows yesterday's 'high noon' debacle. At midday Victor Feather of the TUC was due at the office of Maurice Macmillan at the Department of Employment to meet the government's deadline on talks.

About 50 press, television and radio reporters outside the department were to be disappointed. Feather didn't show up.

He apparently telephoned Macmillan him rail union that the three telling executives had met and decided against balloting members on the Alex Jarratt award. It was symbolic that Feather didn't rush yet again to the minister's table there was nothing more to be said.

The use of the anti-union Act means that the fight is now not just a wages question. It is a political fight.

Unlike 1926 when the issue was the Tory plans to cut the wages of miners, the issue is the future of trade today unionism. The working class is launched into an historic confrontation to defend its basic rights. The biggest danger in this situation is to underestimate the intentions of Tory government. Since the miners' strike, the Tories have been preparing for this fight with the unions. Behind the scenes the Tories and their backers in the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) have been engaged in the most elaborate preparations to defeat the railwaymen and attack the trade unions with the Act. - It is clear, for example, that detailed contingency plans have been made between the government and the big oil companies of to co-ordinate the distribution fuel when the state of emergency is declared.

Officials of the Department of Trade and Industry have been visiting the com- issuing instructions on the panies and imiting of supplies to essential services— hospitals, schools and key industries.

Before the work-to-rule, British Rail was engaged in a massive operation to restock with coal in preparation power stations for a confrontation with its workers.

There can be no bluff about this, there- fore. There can be no middle-of-the-road position. The Tories are dismantling the last vestiges of the 'boom' conditions in

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTI

preparation for entry into the Common Market. There should be no surprise to find that as this crisis develops, the treachery of the Labour leaders becomes more blatant. As Macmillan and the Attorney-General, Sir Geoffrey Howe, were drawing up the documents to attack the rail unions, Roy Jenkins and his right-wing friends were supporting the Tories on another vote on the Common Market in the Commons.

These traitors to the labour movement who have consistently conspired to keep the Tories in office must be expelled. They have betrayed the working class.

The national executive committee (NEC) of the Labour Party must declare itself on the question of Jenkins and the right-wing.

It must also declare itself on the Tories' use of the Act against the unions.

This hated government must be got out of office immediately. The urgent need of the hour is for the return of a Labour government which will expropriate the banks and big business. The next Labour government must lay the foundations for the socialist state. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY APRIL 20, 1972 • No 744 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BLICK & CO.LTO

INCORPORATED

NSURA

Call national strike on pay -engineers

LIVERPOOL

Yesterday sent a telegram to the nationds engineering stewards committee meeting at Eastbourne demand- ing that they call a national stoppage on the pay claim. Some 60 stewards met or Tuesday night and overwhelmingly passed the motion for national actión.

See engineering stories pages 10, 11 &

BLOODY SUNDAY

P2 As we saw it P12 As Widgery white-washed it

UR LEAGUE

RAIL white-collar union chief Percy Coldrick (left) enters Congress House, London, for yesterday's TUC's summit the battle on between the unions and the govern- ment over the anti-union laws. But the real clash came later in the afternoon in the windowless No 1 when the Tory government court asked the Industrial Relations Court to outlaw the rail work-to-rule.

of the three rail unions Leaders decided to boycott the hearing. Ray Buckton, head of the loco men's he was union, ASLEF, said that 'stunned' by the government's tough action. Jack Jones-who also faces fines from the Court-said the unions had decided to stand together. But Tory while he spoke, the new Maurice Employment Secretary, Macmillan (above), warned in the Commons: 1 think it is fair to remind the House that however one may approve or disapprove of the law, it is the law of the land.'

workers press

TORIES PROVOKE

CLASH WITH TUC

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORY government yester- day took out an injunction in its own National Industrial Relations Court against the three unions representing a quarter of a million railwaymen.

The court action calls on the unions to lift their work-to-rule which has brought rail chaos throughout Britain since mid- night last Sunday. unions defy If the the court order—which would be in line with TUC policy of non-co-operation with the Industrial Relations Act-they will be open to huge fines and the possibility of imprisonment for contempt of court. The government decision to invoke the court and Industrial Relations Act the follows yesterday's 'high noon' debacle. At midday Victor Feather of the TUC was due at the office of Maurice Macmillan at the Department of Employment to meet the government's deadline on talks.

About 50 press, television and radio reporters outside the department were to be disappointed. Feather didn't show up.

He apparently telephoned Macmillan three rail union that the telling him executives had met and decided against balloting members on the Alex Jarratt award. was symbolic that Feather didn't It rush yet again to the minister's table- there was nothing more to be said.

The use of the anti-union Act means that the fight is now not just a wages question. It is a political fight.

Unlike 1926 when the issue was the Tory plans to cut the wages of miners, 'the issue is the future of trade today unionism. The working class is launched into an historic confrontation to defend its basic rights. The biggest danger in this situation is to underestimate the intentions of the Tory government. Since the miners' strike, the Tories have been preparing for this fight with the unions. Behind the scenes the Tories and their backers in the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) have been engaged in the most elaborate preparations to defeat the railwaymen and attack the trade unions with the Act. . It is clear, for example, that detailed contingency plans have been made between the government and the big oil companies fuel to co-ordinate the distribution of when the state of emergency is declared Officials of the Department of Trade and Industry have been visiting the com- panies and issuing instructions on the limiting of supplies to essential services— hospitals, schools and key industries.

Before the work-to-rule, British Rail was engaged in a massive operation to restock with coal in preparation power stations for a confrontation with its workers.

There can be no bluff about this, there- fore. There can be no middle-of-the-road position. The Tories are dismantling the last vestiges of the 'boom' conditions in

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • T

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTI

preparation for entry into the Common Market. There should be no surprise to find that as this crisis develops, the treacherý of the Labour leaders becomes more blatant. As Macmillan and the Attorney-General, Sir Geoffrey Howe, were drawing up the documents to attack the rail unions, Roy Jenkins and his right-wing friends were supporting the Tories on another vote on the Common Market in the Commons.

These traitors to the labour movement who have consistently conspired to keep the Tories in office must be expelled.

They have betrayed the working class.

The national executive committee (NEC) of the Labour Party must declare itself on the question of Jenkins and the right-wing.

It must also declare itself on the Tories' use of the Act against the unions.

This hated government must be got out of office immediately. The urgent need of the hour is for the return of a Labour government which will expropriate the banks and big business. The next Labour government must lay the foundations for the socialist state. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY APRIL 20, 1972 • No 744 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Call national strike on pay —engineers LIVERPOOL engineering Yesterday sent en interin some remands stewards committee meeting at Eastbourne demand.

ing that they call a national stoppage on the pay claim. Some 60 slewdrus Tuesday night and overwhelmingly passed the motion for national actión.

See engineering stories pages 10, I1 & 12

BLOODY SUNDAY

P2 As we saw it PI2 As Widgery white-washed it

UR LEAGUE

RAIL white-collar union chief Percy Coldrick (left) enters Congress House, London, for yesterday's TUC's summit on the battle between the unions and the govern- ment over the anti-union laws. But the real clash came later in the afternoon in the windowless No 1 court when the Tory government asked the Industrial Relations Court to outlaw the rail work-to-rule. Leaders of the three rail unions decided to boycott the hearing. Ray Buckton, head of the loco men's union, ASLEF, said that he was 'stunned' by the government's tough action. Jack Jones—who also faces fines from the Court-said the unions had decided to stand together. But while he spoke, the new Tory Employment Maurice Secretary, Macmillan (above), warned in the Commons: I think it is fair to remind the House that however one may approve or disapprove of the law, it is the law of the land'

orkers Prose, Thursday Aprll 20, 1972 BLOODY (murderous) Workers Press can today publish the results of

SUNDAY

an on-the-ground investigation of Bloody Sunday on January 30—the day the British army shot down 13 innocent civilians in Londonderry. We could not present our findings until today because the Tory government, in setting up the Widgery Tribunal, gave it all the legal powers of a High Court. This meant we were bound by the As we wanted to report it capitalist laws of contempt of court.

STEPHEN JOHNS was This report by gleaned from hundreds of statements of eye- the day after it happened witnesses. It does not pretend to be a definitive investigation. But it indicates conclusively that the armed intervention of the Paratroop Regiment was premeditated and planned.

The killings

ROSSVILLE FLATS

therefore can only be described as murder.

FAHAN ST

ITALIAN

journalist

BARRICADE

Grimaldi, who Fulvio taped and witnessed the

SACKVILLE ST

Derry massacre, summed Bloody Sunday very up simply: 'I have seen many

WASTE LAND

civil wars and revolutions and wars. I have never

- BARRICADE

seen such cold-blooded murder, organized, dis- ciplined murder, planned murder? Grimaldi's verdict the on half-hour London- bloody in derry is amply substantiated by all available evidence. Seventeen-year-old Hugh Below: strindee indictment of the troost Indeed, most 9015a08 clutch his begins Gimore just been stomach where he has has come from the army's own hit by to the coule of he Rose Commanding officers spokesmen. Ross. back cover bothered to repudi- nave scarcely died later ville Flats. Raht: ate charges detail the with friends on the pavement against them. trying to comfort him. The cavalier attitude of the demonstrates that thev are not in fact concerned to cover up the fact of the massacre The the way allack Wad launcned suggests that goal the was mass intimidation Bogside and Creggan. Despite evasions the the Widgery the operation report, was carefully planned by the Stor- 1 orles oI westminster and me badown to the last bullet in back. The thrusts Walle Bogside were launched by troops with vehicles massed streets on the left side the St, thoroughfare of the demonstra- tion. After youth barricade riot at the perfunctory A in dia- end of William St (see pushed troops onto of the ground in tront une waste or a crewed of about 500 es out of a crowd about report five Saracen Whippet sur- • venices Car mounted by a Browning machine and an army truck invaded Sull Cous area More significant, all testify that the soldiers had people who Shooting at Cleariv these

IOI

Cover men had been briefed before they entered the area. defore tre righ fats. park before the The who tered protestors, some nad point shelt- down Chamberlain ered behind wall (D). five men here that four o1 Was and Doys were reportea to nave their deaths. MICHAEL BRIDGES (25), also interviewed hospital. Michael told us how he got his He bottled up after fleeing along Chamberlain St. down behind the

WELC

through the thigh. I thought it rubber bullet first. was said, "You're Suren Sone legs crumpled hir", and my ''He took shelter in a yard in Inside 20 house about men were hiding. Michael the says soldiers flushed them out, lined them against • wall systematically clubbed them.

'Another young fellow came out from the flats with his hands in the air.

T'he army tired at him and he tell and lay on the ground - the victim, Hugh Gilmore (17) above. The other big killing occurred at B- long standing barricade by the Rossville high flats, Bogside. built by the residents of lost their lives. Shots were reported also the Derry

ITOM

tower over the Bogside the symbol of Protestant supremacy in the city. Al rice wenry corner lne Mall meeting with Bernacette Devilin MP and Lord Brockway was about to begin, when hail of bullets sent the crowa diving for cover. The sequence of events seems to be: Man and boy wounded in leg on waste grouna al u. Stone throwers scatter along Chamberlain and side streets William Army thrusts into area before Rossville flats. Rifle and machine- lull, then ten-minute gun hre. more prolonged Ills The army collected the corpses and into the backs • armoured vehicles- or menti ness Others, including priests, displaying obvious

ICDOLL

glee at the slaughter. fellow came out from at him and he fell and This evidence, coupled with the fact that the notorious Para- chute Regiment specially . was drafted in from Belfast to do the job, suggest that the action was premeditated. The army has not yet produced physical evidence to shred of a substantiate that they were fired at or that nail bombs and petrol bombs were thrown. Yet record- the whole event ings of are available. More important, they do not appear to be anxious to do so. Bloody Sunday adds up to a deliberate massacre on the most heinous traditions of Algeria, Vietnam, Kenya or Aden. reproduced The statements, below, are only some of the 250 collected. The extracts so far substantiate this rough recon- struction of the events. Member of the official wing of the IRA: with deals This statement thrusts 2 and 3. It shows the army opened fire on about 500 people — stragglers and stone- throwers on their way to Free Derry corner. 'We began running for Derry corner followed by a Saracen and a Whippet car with a Browning We ran behind the flats on top. firing". At first I looked behind- There was a man with a me. Sterling machine gun. He was not though snipers taking cover as were firing at him, he was just standing spraying the crowd. The scene was hard to describe, there people lying everywhere- were bleeding. Others were behind the barricade.' Mrs Lynch (21): This woman describes the incident where three people died at the barricade B. She observed the killings from the flats.

I saw a man lying behind the barricade and another man lean-

ALEX NASH

was wounded and we interviewed him in the Altnagelvin Hospital. He had been shot in the uns and chest. He identifies the third victim of the incident seen by Susan Porterit was his son Willy Nash, a I9-year-old dock worker. "We were just past the bar- ricade at the flats and this man was shot. Willy, my son, and his friend went over to get him. I heard a shot, it was my son Willy, he got it. I put my I got one hand up. in the hand and then one in the chest. I fell down onto three bodies. I was lying beside them. ing over him. The man called up to me for help and an ambulance.

The man put his arm up to the army and the army fired at him 20 minutes later the army •. drove the Saracens up and about six soldiers jumped out. Two soldiers took the man up beside the body. I then realized there were three bodies behind the barricade.' Susan Porter (17): This girl witnessed the same indictment on barricade B. Again she watched from the flats.

I looked out of the window and saw about six young fellows Lisfannon Park walk from in the air waving their hands when the army opened fire on them. They fell to the ground: 'About two minutes later another young fellow came out from the flats towards Lisfannon Workers Press, TI , Place with his hands up in the air. The army fired at him and he fell and lay on the ground.

People ran out and he appeared to be dead.' She identifies two of the dead Bernard McGuigan (41) and Gilmore (17) both of Derry. Jim McMenamin and Barry O'Loughlin (20). They both witnessed Michael Bridges' wounding. 'Michael Bridges put his hand into the air to show the army that he was going to the little A coloured boy's assistance fire twice at soldier opened Mickey Bridges and hit him in the leg. Betty Villa (31): I saw a young fella running for cover and as he was running he was shot and they shot him again. He made another move and they shot him again. Mathew Connally (21). • 17- He saw John Young, year-old salesman die. Again here is proof that unarmed people were shot dead. Mathew was in a group of people on a mound of waste ground on the rubble before the flats. A boy was shot and lay before them. the 'Automatic fire riddled rubble. Everyone lay flat out on the ground about four stayed on for about a minute and tried to This time the soldiers get him. were still shooting. Young 'A minute later John crawled forward head down. He got within a yard of him and a hit him. He was single shot dead. A youth tried to. move towards the two bodies, but only got out into the open and was shot." endless. The statements are Added to reports by journalists, mainly foreign. Journalists with fewer intérests to preserve, tea are conclusive evidence did take deliberate massacre place. One young demonstrator told me he listened in to the army on his radio after the slaughter.

Thank you Battalion, Parachute Regiment, for your co- operation,' drawled the Oxbridge voice. • Prose, Thuraday April 20, 1972 PAGE 3

A LETTER

THE REAL face of the British army in Ulster is revealed in a letter sent by Brig F. P. Bar- clay, DSO, MC, the Royal Norfolk Regiment, to Lt-Col Derek Wilford, commander of the First Battalion the Para- Regiment. The letter chute to Wilford on was sent February 1, two days after the The letter was massacre. mysteriously intercepted at an Ulster post office and handed to the press. Little Dunham Lodge, King's Lynn Norfolk. February 1, 1972. Dear Wilford As an ex-parachute Brigade Commander I write just to say how proud it made one feel to see the way, on Tinto which your lads went action against those blighters They last Sunday. looked splendid and, as usual, bang on the ball. It seems to me and many others that prompt retaliatory action such this is long as overdue. It will have, I've little doubt, a most salutary effect. I sincerely trust you success- fully weather these thoroughly unjustified but seemingly in- evitable brickbats and recrimi- nations emanating mostly from those who either have no sense of law and order, duty or per- yours. Sincerely, Peter Barclay.

NEWS

See p. 10

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thuraday April 20 The Young Socialists have given back the cheque for £100 which the UCS shop stewards co- ordinating committee donated to the Right-to-Work campaign.

The campaign brought five marches-from Glasgow, Liver- pool, Swansea, Deal and South- ampton-to a massive rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, on March 12. The decision to return the taken unanimously money was by the marchers. In his letter to

UCS

the co-ordinating com- mittee, the national secretary of the campaign, Clive Norris, said: At the time we felt grateful for this act of solidarity which we are convinced repre- sents the overwhelming viewpoint of UCS. The of the majority 'Right to Work' is a basic right affecting all members of the working class irrespective what political difference may exist between them. When our Scottish contingent was on the march just over a week, your committee issued a implied that statement which you were persuaded into giving the donation by some of our being marchers, without you aware that they were members of the Young Socialists, which is the youth organization of the Social- ist Labour League. This, of course, was untrue. Those members who addressed your committee were well known in Glasgow as members of the YS who had sold Workers Press continuously outside the ship- yards. Indeed they were specifi- cally asked by members of your committee if they sold the Workers Press, to which they re- plied, of course, in the affirma- tive. Your repudiation of our strengthened the right march wing of the TUC and Labour Party who had banned and pro- scribed it. It was tantamount to a stab in the back of unem- ployed youth in Glasgow and to the young people who marched for five weeks on the road to London. Unemployed youth hate the Tory government and want to see it forced to resign. Your action only not strengthened the enemies of the working class but it showed a contempt for the plight of the unemployed youth in the W of Scotland. At the YS conference at Scar- borough on April 8 and 9, dele- gates took up a collection of more than £300 which easily compensated for the money re- turned to the co-ordinating com- mittee. During the debate on UCS, one YS delegate said: "The leadership at UCS stabbed us in the back. They can keep their dirty money? Today members of the Scottish contingent on the Right-to-Work march and other YS members give their views on the UCS co- ordinating committee's treacher- ous conduct. у April 20, 1972 Johnnie Young (unemployed youth, of the Renton, one marchers) I'm glad we have given it back.

The committee knew John Barrie was in the YS--he stood outside the UCS gates for five weeks selling papers. But the Tories put in the yard and that's money why they did it. We said we'd give it back and we did! Paddy Callaghan (unemployed youth, Renton, one of the marchers) It was right to give it back, after what they said. They gave the money to the Young Socialists, The YS then denied it. should ask for an apology.

Tom Lindie (unemployed youth, Renton, one of the marchers) After they'd given the monev to us, they said they didn't know who it was for. This is com- pletely untrue and I fully sup- ported giving it back. Colin Barrie (unemployed youth, Glasgow, one of the marchers) We should get them on a plat- public meeting with form at a UCS workers there and ask them explain themselves. They to wouldn't turn up, though. What they did to us strengthened the Tories. Gordon Baillie (unemployed youth, Glasgow) I think that the question of giving back the £100 is one of pure principle. This £100 was donated by the UCS Shop Stew- ards' Committee on the full understanding of who we were and what we were. The Stalinist leadership can't put the cloak over the eyes of the working class any longer. The advertisement that appeared in the 'Tribune' and the 'Morn- ing Star' was reminiscent of the young socialists

YOUNG

SOCIALISTS

-NO

SAY

actions of the Communist Party the early days after Stalin came to power and what they to the Trotskyists in the did 1920s and 1930s. Day by day the Stalinist leader- ship in UCS is being exposed for what they are. That advertise- ment appeared in the papers at a very critical stage in the Right- to-Work marches: was a counter-revolutionary act, aimed turning the working at class against the marchers, against the principles of the Right-to-Work campaign. In that context, it be- came a principle to give the £100 back. Pat Ballantyne (schoolgirl, Mary- hill) I think that the Stalinists were stunned when we gave the £100 back. I hope the workers at UCS think about the Young Socialists' actions and that it brings them closer to the Trotskyist move- ment. Tom McKay (young worker, Maryhill) I agree with giving the £100 back, because workers at the yards should know that thy've been betrayed by their leader- ship. What they said about the YS was an absolute lie. YS mem- bers have been selling papers outside the yards for months, and they made it very clear exactly who they are. The co- ordinating committee trans- formed it into dirty money. To have kept it would have been unprincipled. Frank Judge (boilermakers union, Govan shipyard) I think you did the right thing in handing it back. The lads did the only thing they could do.

What the shop stewards did was a gesture against all unemployed youth. Pete Allan (19, seaman, NUS) The shop stewards at UCS must be very strange people. Nobody in their right minds would say they did not know what organiza- tion they gave £100 to. They knew who had organized the march, but as soon as they saw that the YS successfully was giving a lead to the working class, they kicked the marchers in the teeth. It was quite right to give them the money back.

Sandy Lawrie (18, unemployed,

SOGAT)

It shows what the Stalinists are they Young put attacking the Socialists before supporting the Right to Work. They attacked the YS as soon as they saw how successful the marches were, and that they weren't just another adverts protest. 'Morning Star' and the 'Tribune' were a stab in the back for the only people who were fighting in a principled way against unem- ployment and the Tory govern- ment. George Collier (unemployed, married, one child) Giving back the money was right, but it mustn't be seen as some kind of one-upmanship. No worker be allowed to be must misled into thinking the YS lied.

'I don't believe that experi- enced shop stewards such as Reid and Airlie would agree to donating £100 to anyone with- out knowing who they were.

Giving the money in the first place expressed the support of the UCS men for the marches.

The decision to attack the march came from the Communist Party. I'm sure it was against the wishes of most of the UCS men.

BY JOHN SPENCER

American pilots are finding the skies of N Vietnam more inhospitable than ever before as they drop their deadly cargoes in accordance with President Nixon's instruc- tions. It's no longer simply a question of 'zapping the Cong'—a favour- ite sport of the gung-ho US flyers four or five years ago.

Two weeks ago, Washington learnt to its consternation that 'Pathfinder' one of its EB-66 planes had been shot down over the N by a surface-to-air missile.

It was very bad news indeed for the US Air Force. The EB-66 is no ordinary plane. It bristles with a formid- able array of advanced electronic counter-measure (ECM) equip- its purpose is to and ment smother the N Vietnamese air defences so that fighter-bombers can reach their targets. 'You should never lose an ECM aircraft to a SAM, one former US pilot told 'Newsweek' magazine. 'Not if it's doing its job. This EB-66 was doing its job and still got hit. That's not a good sign.' 'Newsweek' adds that 'the mounting threat from communist N and S Viet- air defences in nam and Laos is causing US air officers serious concern'.

They have good reason to be worried. The N Vietnamese have mastered the evasion tactics used against their SAM missiles by US fighter planes to such effect that they now deal with them like wild game from beaters flushing underbrush' the To evade the SAMs, the US pilots go into a diving turn, the 'split S' manoeuvre, levelling, of several thousand feet below their original altitude. When they come the dive, they find N nut. of Vietnam's anti-aircraft gunners have put up a wall of deadly flak to meet them. Against radar jamming •from the American ECM planes, the Vietnamese use sophisticated tac- tics-switching the radar On apparatus just long enough to their target and sending spot up their missiles before the plane has had a chance to jam radar.

Worse still, from the US stand- Above: Anti-aircraft gun which, with the SAM missiles, is troub- ling American pilots point, is the use of optical track- ing linked to the missiles. This device,' 'Newsweek' is says, comparable to the telescopic sights of a rifle: the operator lines up the cross-hairs of the tracker on an approaching US jet and then simply follows it.

'Any up-and-down or side-to- side movements he must make to stay with the aircraft are fed in- to the SAM system's computer and are converted into guidance missile. The directions for the optical device isn't quite as accurate as a radar, but it is enough-and, unlike accurate radar, it has the advantage of 'invulnerable to jamming.'

being Not surprisingly, Us losses in the air over N Vietnam are be- lieved to be much • higher than last year. 'Newsweek' quotes one saying: outraged US offiecr as We're supposed to be fighting a primitive enemy. But the way things are Workers Press, T A Soviet Communist Party delegation, led by Geidar Aliyev of the central com- mittee, arrved in Damascus on April 5 to take part in celebrations on the 25th anniversary of the ruling Syrian Ba'ath Party. That, at least, was the public for the : visit. But there reason. were other pressing problems to be settled as well. In particular, the delegation came to lay down the law to the Syrian CP which has been split since May last year. At that time, taking advantage of abroad, absence majority of the Party's political bureau launched a sharp attack their general secretary, on Khaled Baghdash. They accused him of building his own person- ality cult and attacked his close with the Ba'athist govern- ment, saying he was liquidating party and destroying leadership over the masses.

Five of the seven Politburo members came out against the general whose only secretary, defender was Yussuf Faisal, him- self a minister in the Ba'athist National Front government.

The Politburo majority drafted its own programme attacking the Syrian government's participation in the Federation of Arab Repub- lies, and conspicuously omitting to blame China for the Sino- Soviet split. The also new programme failed to mention the UN Security Council resolution of November 1967 calling for Israeli withdrawal occupied territories and a from negotiated peace in the Middle East. The UN resolution is the the Kremlin's cornerstone of Middle-East policy. Tarlq All with N Korean Deputy PM in 11 Tariq Ali, of the International Marxist Group and the Red Mole' is currently junketing in N Korea as a guest of Stalin- ist leader Kim Il-sung. This is Ali's second trip to N Korea. His last visit, in the of 1970, cemented summer relations between the close Oxford-trained revisionist and the Korean Stalinists. At that time, the 'Red Mole' reported with pride that: 'Our correspondent recently who 8 Press, Thursday Aprll 20, 1972 PAGE 5 Baghdash rushed back to Damascus to try and restore order in the Party. He went round the branches personally to try and whip up support, but only two areas — Aleppo and Jezırah-backed him. Thwarted in Syria, Baghdash turned to Moscow for support and at the end of 1971 a Soviet delegation headed by Mikhail Suslov arrived in Syria and 'arbitrated' in favour of the general secretary. The delegation's decision was rejected both by the Politburo and by the branches. Accordingly, Arab Communist the Party representatives at the Lebanese CP congress in January this year consulted and decided to were 'freeze' the dispute while a new drafted to programme was replace the disputed May 1971 policies. Shortly afterwards, another Soviet mediation attempt was by Kyril made Mazurov, vice- president of the Supreme Soviet.

That attempt failed as well, and March this year Baghdash slate was decisively defeated in the elections for the central committee. The general secretary decided he had better take the offensive.

He hit back with a public declaration accusing the majority 'deviationism group suspect and anti-Soviet activities.

Baghdash has little support in the party, but he does have one trump card. He is backed by the Ba'athist government. No one knows what threats were made against the dissident leaders, but instead of expelling decidedera, secretary, they have to take him back as head of the Politburo, on can- dition he adheres in future to majority decisions. y PM in 1970: cementing close relations.

visited the Armistice Line in Panmunjom on the 38th Par- allel in Korea reports that at a banquet which he attended the representatives of the Korean People's Army pro posed a toast to the 'revolu- tionary newspaper "The Red Mole" and all its readers'.

Prominent in Kim Il-sung's revolutionary' pantheon is none other than Joseph Stalin.

Where does this leave Ali and his 'Mole?

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thursday April 20, 1972 Stephen Johns re-visits the Clyde This is four The final 'solution' to the ports of the world. the times tonnage produced in crisis at Upper Clyde Ship- the whole of Britain last year. began builders, which in The the the crisis root of 1S June last year, may only be steep fall in the level of world commodity trade. The important weeks away. Hampton Roads trade to Japan in Shipbuilders, the com- Govan slumped coal, example, which hoped to inherit pany 800,000 tons in the first three

UCS

divisions, old three of the months this ve T be launched amidst 2,225,000 tons in the same period shipbuilding worst shumo

TAP

last year. since the 1930s depression. Govan is facing this daunting Archibald Managing director task by attempting to break into has Gilchrist an agreement on of the the tanker smaller end working conditions from The market to produce 30,000-tonners and unions in his shop stewards coast-to-coast trade pocket, but the stewards have specialist fuels. the last minute. pulled back at include Other ideas They say they will not sign until bulk carriers for sophisticated the future of the fourth division, transporting one product, roll-on Clydebank, is secure. and roll-off ships and, if produc- depends Clydebank's survival does increase fast, builders, Texan the oil rig of the possibility improving Marathon Manufacturing, Guild 70,000 So s10,000-tonners.

Govan Scotstoun yards Tory if the government rather will hand over £12m the Texans But these remain ideas will need to develop they gamble. All the very mulca the yard. other shipyards in the world are decision government desperately orders fighting expected and according to soon and there is only one, at Malmo, Clydeside leading Sweden, which is making a pront. official: 'It's in the bag. The hard facts are that Govan Shipbuilders wit get their agren favourable, Govan orders will start life six with inherited from US by the grace ment and begin trading. the liquidator that's just will the end of This signal under a year's work. Beyond that the famous

UCS

work-in, but nothing but vicious competition yards' the struggles of the not utterly depressed market. in an workers. Hill Samuel brutally summed the new company's up In their feasibility cial prospects. study into hinancial Battle Cavan's merchant bankers viability, the found that the operation to maintain commercial prospect. not Private capital would be attracted only in small quantities and then wages for 'emotional' rather than economic They concluded with damning least finality: feel that the "We would be unsatisfactory solution Shipbuilders wholly Under Govan for the company he Marathon they will have to fight government and the owned we recommend strongly that this maintain wares, conditions and righas win running battle adopted. solution empha- masters Only Workers Press since iron world trade began building on the • last century sized slumo in and its shattering effect on ship- banks of the river Clyde.

the factor underlying This is because a factor which building as the little highlighted the whole

UCS

saga. Now, in capitalist press now predominates Govan recognized ts underway. in ship- as the major problem. slump Gone are the days when stewards building throughout the world. To have a chance of survival boasted of and even employers the expanding market for Clyde without massive and continuing loss, Govan Shipbuilders aim to ships. oTt more than double the produc- Says Gilchrist: was never the appreciated tivity of the 4,300 workers they by the men or will employ. Marathon, press that there had been a vast they the labour do buy Clydebank, will if they over-emphasis and more - a I have made the point the same problem. involved in this four-year, no-strike contract. since 1 became crisis facing Govan -Ship- while our labour situation that builders is severe. Their main problems did of exist, Course 26.000-ton most serious problem was the market remains our ship- bulk-carrier. But in the words of the state the world of "Unfortunately the building market.' Gilchrist: yard market situation at the moment always, the It 1S will pay for labour force which seems ce indicated treat re- crisis-with the connivance demand this this surgence kind of ship.' of shop stewards. is a diplomatic way of vast Govan hopes to get describing potential disaster. increase in productivity bv flexibility the dry- Rull arriers sunniv management methods. market. The level of and interchangeability of labour.

cargo laid out this field is down The deal Govan, chartering in 30 рет cent compared with last in two documents drawn up by year. This means the problem a sub-committee of management. lines is union officials and stewards, now facing most shipping how to reduce their fleet-no awaits ratification. Two in the "Charter one is ordering more vessels.

clauses As a result there are 4 million of Employment' point the way work by the tons of shipping laid up in the to more and more same or fewer numbers of men. ability transfer craft journeyman of to one journeyman of as the operate another craft.' In practice existing agreements for interchangeability within the steel trades (welders, shipwrights, caulkers, riveters) will burners, be strictly observed. Further discussion will be held on flexibility within the finishing trades (engineers, painters, car- penters, plumbers etc.). The extent and scope of these changes is still not clear. Just • far things could go how was illustrated by one leading Clyde- side union official who disarm- ingly described a situation where 'it is difficult for a fitter to do a boilermakers' work in an atmo- but if sphere of redundancies, there is an offer of four years' guaranteed employment it would be possible'. Ai- purpose workers Gilchrist himself denies he eventually wants all-purpose yard workers. He prefers the Swedish where kept a man system welding because of acquired skill or natural aptitude, but will 'pick up a paint brush and get crack- ing if steel work runs out.

Both these suggestions caused either mirth or hilarity among Right:

UCS

Govan stewarder. Samn Barr James Airlie James Reid, Bob a visit to 10 Downing Dickie on St last year.

UCS

craftsmen I talked to. The intensify effort is by of work' nextouty whie carrydog out od opera thus: carrying out one cass class of work in order to pro the job.' Unscrambled will not have means an enemicel set aside to do specifically a man labouring jobs. Management- British whether American-would meet a wal.

of opposition if they attempted to go Gilchrist's changes. trump The the unions and the stewards key men will be co-ordinat- members ing committee Reid, Airlie and Sammy Barr, Communist Party the members made team who three who stewards t the four-man negotiated the •ex. So far the bane Shipbuilders. with Shipbuilders way from wit or w al canst flurry some but quarters, Clyde-watcher veteran recog the familial nize ms as one 'left' feints by the Stalinist led committee shop stewards' to avoid a conronlalion 1 hey had to get two silos oil to the liguidator of the and hand them over despite previous would until the held four yards were promise (this has secure broken three times on the Clyde now). Speakase so pid was bert ed release, Reid arche- of the typal union bureaucrat and appeal and 'responsibility'-

TOT

sanity sweeten the medicine he threw the decision Stop Trilks. The talks, however, were over and the agreement is now in the contecernon Shipbuilding and seine int 10 Unions its for own stamp aproval. "the stewards their when Marathon gets this it will fall After to the senates documents legally clause states that the parties duty-bound to honour its clauses.

And this includes the which one before national procedure exausted stewards a then delivery have of pledged

LOUI

time, Irish Shipping orders on what happens to Clyde- *this has been extended to two bulk-carriers liquidator The has released for completion at Scotstoun. The extent of these concessions Govan, Understandably Scotstoun. christ is quietly confident the his side stewards ale Their only stated reservation redundancy. intimate not The documents the many. now working-in will be re-employed, but an earlier submission from clearly company dicates their view on this matter.

should not working-in It assumed that will curreally be automatically re-employed, Workaro Proca, Thurs and shop stewards will be re- draw i quired situation to revert to a strugg where they were workpeople first far fro and shop stewards second.'

are labour The co-ordinating committee ment says there will be no compulsory redunc redundancies. They add there The should be enough volunteers. ing str But this is not the case.

the There were at the last detailed shippi count about 180 men working- speed- in, but only 150 volunteers. The hard-v situation is more serious when practic examined craft by craft. Twenty- dom electricians were 'working- two when only but thanted to the Hards but throughout the yards This by Re surprising with 600 time-served cribed on the Clydeside electricians entitle doles. is no On top of this, it is unlikely workit that the existing labour force capital 6.900 will be entirely absorbed terribl by the new companies. At best ment, 4300 and Govan will take condit Marathon 2,000. Of quite --mak exprol Luxury withol with plants liner indust Clydes traditions the c those But of 'si sibilit There is another problem. The Insi oil rigs Marathon build offer remar of work for the steel maker plenty trades, but not so much for the at a 1 "Th trades with which finishing with its luxury liner new i Clydebank, traditions, is too heavy. More nizing If the redundancies are undoubtedly on our n the way. it, thi It is perhaps premature to

PAGE 8 Workers Prose, Thuraday April 20, 1972

HARMONY

BETWEEN

BIG BUSINESS

AND NAZIS

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, the connection between the and concludes Nazi regime and monopoly capital with an analysis of Hitler Germany's war economy.

Part 4 by Tom Kemp. stage in its share holdings and cartels At early an German capi- through which independent development, talism had begun to eliminate firms adopted common pricing policy. and competiton assume monopolistic form. Besides controlled by The Nazi regime fullv accepted giant firms this structure and, by its policies, veritable industrial dynasties, of the increased the powers of which Krupps was the and For monopolies cartels most famous, there were con- by cartel decree a cerns based upon interlocking 1933, powers were given July eliminate price-cutters by boy- cott and other means. The government was able to impose membership of a cartel to the detriment of small and medium-sized businesses. • Under the Nazis the giant their size and firms increased their holdings in other busines- ses and assumed an increasingly inside the position dominant The growing economic cartels. power of the monopolies meant that the Nazi state depended upon their support to carry out its policies. There obviously no was question of the monopolies being owned by the Nazi state. Legally and in their structure they re- mained private property in the ruling hands of the capitalist class and especially of a few big groups and families. But what about their control, which according to some theor- ists is more important than, and overrides. questions of owner- ship? Here again control of pro- duction through all its stages was in the hands of private business- men and their hired agents, not in the hands of the state.

Early in its life the Nazis had actually carried out a policy of denationalization (or 'reprivatiza- the benefit of private tien') to Jewish businesses enterprise. were not nationalized but handed over to their Arvan rivals, thus speeding up monopolization at the same time. When the state went directly into industry it was to carry out production which private enter- prise was unwilling or unable to undertake. Thus the Hermann Goering Works was set up to make steel from low-grade ores which private producers thought could not be profitably used.

Making the best of a bad job said: 'If the private Hitler economy does not believe itself then the capable of 'doing it, National Socialist State itself will know how to perform this task.'

In fact the scheme was not a success. Apart from this, and some other state enterprises in similar unprofitable industries producing German industry substitutes, Nazis continued under under the the control of private capital. It sold its produce either the on market in the normal way, or it under produced to state order contracts which allowed it to make high profits. In negotiating terms with the bureaucracy of the Nazi state, business always put profits first and struck a hard bargain for its that co-operation. It knew depended upon the state to keep the working class in check and provide the conditions for to expansion. continued "In some cases the industrialists turned the Nazis' proposals down flat. There were, at all times, clear limits to what they would accept. the relationship be- In fact, tween the capitalist ruling class, whose central core was based on the ownership of the big trusts, the not and state was very different under Nazism from that other beourgeois society.

in any The initiative of the political in this the executants, case Fuehrer and his close associates, while crucial in making certain decisions, such as those concern- ing peace and war, was limited by what the ruling class would accept in practice. The resort to fascist dictator- ship was itself an indication of the German crisis, the depth a last ditch attempt to stave off and revolution. But collapse there is no evidence that the "Krupp: head of most Alfried famous German industrial dyn- asty. ruling class as a whole was not satisfied with Hitler's methods least as long and measures, at were yielding results. they as was a practical working There agreement on the main issues, differences over details and some open clashes. But the capitalist class never rules directly, but through an "executive committee, which may be the result of bourgeois parlia- mentarism or of some other poli- tical system. The Nazis did get to power through the electoral mechanism Weimar constitution and of the by their ability to win the sup- port of the traditional conserva- tive parties of the German ruling class. Certainly the state played an shaping important role economic policy and in gearing war economy. It industry to a thus had to build up an extensive system of controls which took of the market the place mechanism in some spheres. But this was no different from what happens in every capitalist country during wartime. In fact, Nazi economic system was reminiscent the wartime measures taken by the Kaiser's government in 1914-1918. The irony was than in 1914- 1918 the wheels of war industry not have turned without could the intimate co-operation of the trade unions and the support of the Social-Democratic Party.

the trade union After 1933 and Party bureaucracy were dispensed with; the Nazi party took its place. The same capital- ists remained in control.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

PEPSI

LV In last week's Sunday Times' there was a truly meticulous pen portrait of bourgeois by your average Greta Lamb. Sitting in a workmen's café opposite the modern, if some- what tinny, Gray's Inn Rd head- of the self-professed quarters 'world's newspaper' best last week, I was struck by how accurately Greta Lamb's account captured the social essence even of many of the 'Sunday Times' literary figures. Relaxed, informal, bright shirts, suedes and woolly scarves, quiet but individual dresses, lazy, rich, concerned, alert, accents, sociable. 'The middle class are so nice, wrote Lamb, 'not touchy and not always standing up for their rights. 'Bourgeois people have soft voices and behave in a civilized way. It is a pleasure to watch them at table. 'Middle-class people like wood, silk, leather and all things that have lived. 'Much that enchants is beloved by the middle class; Georgian and Georgian houses. books, lovely materials, furniture of such lovely proportions that it brings tears to the eyes.

'Most of them appreciate wit (Ustinov, Morley). Subtlety and understatement are the breath of life to them. 'Cricket and lawn tennis are middle-class games. •Bourgeois dislike women glitter' and 'middle-class people sensitive atmosphere are to knowing when they are welcome and when to make a move. 'The bourgeoisie have been brought up to oil the wheels of social intercourse'. Oh bliss! Oh never-ending ¡... By lan Yeats summer! The beautiful bourge- oisie. How strange to reflect that it was one of those beautiful Sun- day Times'-type bourgeois who, using every four-letter word in book, once came close to the smashing champagne bottle a over a colleague's head accusing him of forcing politics down her throat. Even beauty, it appears, is a unity of opposites. But there is more to it than that. Under normal circumstances, with £100 a week going into the bank, perhaps the odd percent- age rolling in from a modest share portfolio and with no rights sufficiently threatened to shout about the 'beautiful bourgeoisie' is content to roll about on its cloth of gold, its brain addled with too prolonged a study of Georgian silver. But take away the cloth of gold and the claws come out. As 'When Lamb herself says: the Persian rugs wear thin and the brocade curtains fray' that is the time to speak out. Let class war commence, you might almost say. Vandals have got over the wire and are stomp- ing about in the flower beds.

But who are the vandals? According to Lamb they are the ones who at table 'sprawl, dis- their crotches' playing they 'hunch' they 'bawl at waiters', they 'handle their cutlery like picks and shovels,' they 'drink when their mouths are full'.

They are the people who like 'plastic and man-made fibres.

'Plastic went straight to the hearts of many of whose houses and gardens were soon full of it.

They will soon demand plastic tombstones (just wipe with a damp cloth).' the people who • They are despoil our countryside with empty ice cream tubs, crusts of bread, chewed sweet gum, papers and cigarette packs'. Their 'babies sit in prams discarding lolly sticks over the side'.

They are the people who 'enjoy jokes (taking the mickey, getting sloshed, false teeth)?

They the people who are 'matches and throw • bottles at tournaments' and 'on homeward journeys "slash" railway seats or drag cisterns off walls. 'Their women are the women who wear dresses of shiny stuff and who have bridesmaids in icy blue and presented with are silver cardboard horseshoes.'

They are the people who get 'cards for everything (thank you, congratulations get well, on your one 'O' level)'. They are the people who enjoy 'plastic and gnomes one-arm bandits, overchromed motorcars and sharp transistors, bawling in pubs on Saturday nights, drink- champagne in braces ing on aeroplanes bound for Spain'. Says Lamb: 'It is hard for a member of the bourgeoisie to bridge the gap and feel at home.

hearts Our bleed. The bourgeoisie may think they look beautiful, but there is not much pretty about their thoughts.

Workers Press, Thuraday April 20, 1972 PAGE 9 One way to do some altera- It you see a man carrying a bathroom: 10 ft cross tions to your on his back down 'Members of a karate club plan the MI, don't turn a hair. It demolish condemned will be Arthur Blessitt. to Blessitt, house only their bare Mr the most using way- hands. York- of Jesus Dinnington, out the American Freaks, is on another tour of shire, karate enthusiasts have been given the choice of two Europe. condemned houses at Bradford After his British campaign, they hope the he France and to make will move to by effort the end of the commence six to eight month.' months' walk carrying his the E European cross to border. When he addressed a rally in Square Trafalgar last week. New list Pan Books from end he told them: 'We're not arrived the other day. It here to get your money. announces the publication of The well-fed, immaculately. 'The Last Starship from Earth' dressed Mr Blessitt is believed The author? John Boyd. But I be living something to on telepathic assured am little more substantial than the forces lamb of God. is no relation to the John Boyd of and engineering tuba- Mr Blessitt In Trafalgar Square playing fame. with followers.

LEON TROTSKY:

Germany 1931/1932 Paperback £1.25- -cloth £1.874 Where Is Britain Golng? Paperback 374p Revolution Betrayed Paperback 624p-cloth £1.50 Problems of the Chinese Revolution Paperback £1.12t -cloth £1.874 Permanent Revolution : Results and Prospects Paperback 75p In Defence of Marxism Paperback 75p Lessons of October Paperback 60p Postage 10p per book, 3p per pamphlet. Order from :

NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS

186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday April 2

WORD

A COURT in Modena, Italy, yesterday cleared Socialist Party two officials of libelling fascist leader Giorgio Almirante by calling him a 'shooter and slaughterer of Italians'. It was the fifth such case which against gone Almirante, who leads the Social Italian Movement

(MSI).

Almirante brought the case over a Socialist Party poster which reproduced a manifesto he signed in 1944 while he was an official of Benito Mussolini's fascist republic in N last-ditch Italy. nearer LIBERATION forces pushed towards Saigon yesterday out- flanking a government force which has been stalled on strategic Highway 13 for more than a week. Government positions less than 23 miles from Saigon were attacked during the night, includ- ing Ben Cat, a town along the Highway, and the government troops' advance headquarters at Lai Khe. fol- The flare-up of fighting lowed a warning from the local forces' Saigon commander that liberation troops in small groups were preparing to launch a new initiative. Across the border in Cam- bodia, the puppet troops of Gen Lon Nol's regime are in full flight from Prey Veng, one of the few E towns still in govern- hands. They were driven ment out two days after the town had been relieved by road. In the same province, there was fierce hand-to-hand fighting Kompong Trabek the at as liberation forces massed to drive the government forces out of the E provinces altogether. This clears the way for sup- plies and men to reach the S frontier Vietnamese without interference from the Lon Nol troops. Gen Srey Meas, overall com- mander of the E region for the Cambodian puppet government, commented: 'We are in a very bad position.

We cannot deny it. As he spoke his troops were in full flight down the road towards the capital Phnom Penh. CHILE is to nationalize the tot • holdings of the US Inter- national Telephone and Tele- corporation. This graph follows reports that the com- pany took part in a plot to overthrow President Salvador Allende's Popular Unity coalition. Allende announced the expro- priation plan at a mass rally of some 350,000 government sup- • Tuesday porters in Santiago on night. ITT has investments in Chile lay Aprll 20, 1972 The manifesto warned anti- fascist partisans they would be shot in the back if they did not surrender to Mussolini's troops.

The court found that the two Socialist Party defendants were using justified in the words Almirante had complained of.

Under threat General a Strike in Genoa, the authorities have also released Paolo Castag- nino, vice-president of the city's Castag- Resistance nino was accused of armed bands and armed insurrec- tion against the state' The charge was brought in the police investigations course of into the death of left-wing. pub- lisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. The former resistance fighter was received alleged to have from Feltrinelli a plan for setting up an extra-parliamentary opposition group. the eve of a threatened General Strike against Castag- nino's arrest, the court suddenly Trepper speaking some years ago LEOPOLD TREPPER, organ- izer of the Soviet espionage Known as the Red ring Orchesträ Nazi-occupied France, is planning action for libel against the director of the French security services, Jean Rochet. Trepper, Moscow with key information about Nazi war plans, is now prevented from leaving cuted as a jew by the Polish Stalinists, he wants to spend years of his life in Israel. secret service The French refused to supply him with a residence permit so that he could leave Poland. Its director totalling about $170m, most of it tied up in the Chile Telephone Company, of which ITT owns 70 per cent. Last September the govern- ment took over ITT's assets and the company is still negotiating compensation. Allende's decision means no compensation will now be paid. also The government planning ITT plot, which was first revealed by Washington columnist Jack hile Anderson. found he was not the man they were looking for. Castagnino arrested in was Genoa on : Saturday only hours after police claimed to have men concerned captured two Feltrinelli in subversive with activities. They are Giuseppe Saba and Augusto Viel, said to belong to 22' group based in the 'October Genoa. Police arrested them after the men's rushing apartment in They claim to have dis- Milan. covered papers and clothing linking the two men with the dead publisher. has The Feltrinelli mystery assumed great importance in the run-up to the General Election of May 7. The police are using the case to create a red scare with wild accusations of armed left-wing bands. Meanwhile the fascists are getting police protection in city after city to stage their provoca- tive electoral campaign. sues attacked Trepper as a collabor- ator with the Nazis, citing his conditions comfortable before his escape detention from the Gestapo in 1943.

Rochet's accusations are treated with by contempt Trepper's former comrades in the Red Orchestra, and by the Soviet, Polish and E German services, which decor- secret ated him for his wartime exploits. What is interesting is that the Gaullist secret service should choose to slander the head of the Red Orchestra in Stalinists assist the Polish order persecution. No doubt the Gaullists have war- time secrets they would prefer kept under lock and key. Tuesday night's rally was held in response to a mass demon- stration organized by Allende's Christian Democrat opponents six days before. The working-class character of the rally contrasted markedly with the well-heeled demonstra- tors on the opposition march.

THOUSANDS of Egyptians whose property was nationalized under the regime of the late President Nasser are to be fully by his successor compensated Anwar Sadat. THE AUEW National Comm unanimously a resolution op down of British Rail. Criticized by Sheffield dele- gate Herbert Howarth for lack- 'teeth', the resolution ing called for a policy of expan- sion, increased capital spend- ing, workshop representation on decision-making boards and use of the railways as a real public service.

AUEW

Several thousand members in rail workshops are threatened with redundancy this year by the impending closures at Barassie, Ayrshire, and drastic cutbacks at Swindon in Wilt- shire. Ayrshire delegate Angus Fox pointed out that the Barassie closure was being carried through by the Tories 'with complete disregard for the already very high unemployment situation in this area'. For workers made redundant there would be little chance of getting another job in the area.

Herbert Howarth called for action involving all the railway unions in resistance to any further closures. against—that With one vote of Len Brindle who is convenor of the Leyland truck plant in Lancashire-the committee passed a motion calling on the govern- ment to halt closures and aim at transporting all long-distance goods by rail. The committee went on to demand a substantial wage in- crease for 200,000: workers. in government industrial establish- ments—ordnance factories, work- shops and naval dockyards.

Liverpool delegate Derek hoped that in the light Gough creating un- of their effect on productivity agree- employment, ments would not be such a prominent feature in government establishments as last year.

'GRIM but determined' was the mood of Birmingham Battery workers as they left a mass meeting at the Station Inn, Selly Oak, yesterday. The 300-strong meeting had voted unanimously to continue their six-week strike until the firm makes a definite cash offer.

The men want a £6 rise, a 35- other hour week and all the original national points of the engineers' claim. The firm's offer of an extra day's holiday and a proposal to negotiate after on wages a return to work was contemptu- ously rejected by the meeting.

There is a growing recogni- tion among a section of the men, that, put it: "Three as one hundred men from Birmingham Battery can't defeat the Engineer- ing Employers' Federation on their own' AUEW district secretary Ted Young was able to parry a grow- ing feeling for district-wide action by telling the meeting that other firms in the district were now in dispute. to Workers In a statement Press after the meeting, he said: 'There are other factories in the strike. They are not district on on the national claim, but they are wages Although the six-week-old strike was made official at the AUEW executive council meet- ing on April Il, the men have yet to receive any strike pay.

Their application forms for full dispute benefit have now been returned by the union's London headquarters Peckham Road because of alleged errors in the way they were completed, and the men have to claim again. Committee yesterday carried tion opposing the Tory run A MEETING of the Tyne and Blythe Confederation Ship- of building and Engineering Unions Tuesday district committee on shop night endorsed a call by stewards for area-wide action in support of the recently aband- oned national pay claim. This followed a meeting on Monday when 170 stewards decided to call for a ban on piecework and the adoption of a non-co-operation policy by the 70,000 engineering workers in the area. Last week claims for shorter hours and longer holidays were submitted to 35 employers.

Most of them replied with an offer of only £1.50. The highest was £2.22. Action is due to begin on May 15 if no further offer comes from the employers. Socialist Labour League

LECTURE

'Essential Marxism' given by G. Healy, SLL national secretary Woodside Hall, St George's Cross

GLASGOW

Sunday April 23, 2.30 p.m.

Soclalist Labour League and Young Soclaliste Meeting

DUNDEE

'Working class unity and the AUEW Hall, 26 Southward Rd.

Sunday April 23, 8 p.m. Speakers: G. Healy, SLL national secretary David Barclay, YS Glasgow-to London Right-to-Work marcher

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

BANBURY: Wednesday April 19,8 pm. 'The White Hart".

CROYDON: Thursday April 20, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe "Croydon. Road, Tory fair rents' Bill. WILLESDEN: Monday April 24, 8 p.m. Labour and Trades Hall, Willesden High Road, NW10. Tory 'fair rents' Bill.

SW London: Tuesday April 25, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor Street, SW4.

Tory 'fair rents' Bill. N KENT: Tuesday April 25, 8 p.m. SOGAT House, Essex Dartford. The Industrial Ra, Relations Act. DAGENHAM: Tuesday April 25, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fan- shawe Avenue, Barking. The engineers' wage claim. SOUTHALL: Wednesday April 26, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Rd. Fight Tory rents Bridge policy. LUTON: Thursday April 21, 8 p.m. St John Ambulance Bri- gade Hall, Lea Ra. YS May Day rally. N LONDON: Thursday April 27, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', Tottenham High Rd (nr White Hart Lane). The engineers' wage claim. SE LONDON: Thursday April 27, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Club, New Cross Rd (opp New Cross stn). Tory 'fair rents' Bill. E LONDON: Tuesday May 2, в p.m. 'Aberteldy: Aberfeldy St (nr Blackwall Tunnel). N Ireland.

FROM PHILIP WADE

THE GIRLING disc brake fa Cheshire, could close by the en a strike by setters. Over 70 per cent of the disc brakes for passenger cars in the United Kingdom are manu- . at this Joseph Lucas factured plant. The closure of the fac- which employs 1,600 tory, workers, would severely cut output of new cars in all the main factories in Britain.

On Monday 30 setters in the standard body shop, all members of the AUEW, walked out when four other setters were trans- ferred to their department.

By Tuesday 70 part-time wor- kers had been laid off. The transfer was made be- cause of a run-down in non- standard and railway brake departments. Contrary to local press reports the setters had not refused the transfer point. blank. For months they had been insisting that adequate manning arrangements be maintained • and that length of service would be taken into account if any redundancies occurred. Just over a year ago 12 per cent of the labour force lost their jobs. It was at that time that management imposed new work- ing conditions in the standard body shop. convenor F. Shaw Former claims that there has been speed-up throughout the factory the redundancies took since place. •There are fears that Girling switch production might to Bouzonville, E France. I have been told that union 3BC 1 9.45 On the farm. 10.00 Cham- pion. 10.25 Parsley. 10.30 Come gliding. 10.55-11.00 Magic round- 12.55-1.25 Arall fyd. 1.30 about. Joe. 1.45-1.53 News and weather.

2.50 Good sailing. 3.20 Country- with youth. man. 3.45 Working Parsley. 4.15 • Play school. 4.10 4.40 Jackanory. 4.55 Blue Peter.

5.20 Boss cat. 5.44 Hector's house. 5.50 News and weather.

6.00 NATIONWIDE.

6.50 TOM AND JERRY. Flirty Bird. 7.00 SPY TRAP. Double Agent.

7.25 TOP OF THE POPS.

8.00 IT'S MURDER. BUT IS IT

ART? Mr Drake asks Ques- tions. THE FRENCH WAY. The 8.30 Blacksmith, the Baker, the Blood Pudding Maker. 9.00 NINE O'CLOCK NEWS and weather. 9.20 APOLLO 16. Moon Land- ing.

9.45 PLAY:

'BILLY'S

LAST

STAND'. By Barry Hines.

10.35 24 HOURS.

11.20 MISTRESS OF HARDWICK.

11.45 Weather. ввс R 11.00-11.25 Play school.

6.35-7.00 WORKING WITH

YOUTH.

7.05 OPEN UNIVERSITY.

7.30 NEWSROOM and weather.

8.00 EUROPA. Witches, Spells and Sorcerers . • • 1972 Style. 8.30

FRANCIS

DURBRIDGE

PRESENTS ... The Pas- senger. rake factory at Bromborough, y the end of the week following officials have the place. seen Wages are low and men are sacked on the spot. And they are already duplicating produc- here, Of a Ford brake we make said Mr Shaw. 'The setters in our standard body shop are probably the most militant the factory. They won't be pushed around. I really think they're fighting a factory battle and I hope they receive the backing of the district committee.' The strike by setters is the first dispute to hit the firm for 13 months. The men will meet union officials morning to this learn the results of last night's district committee meeting which discussed the strike.

COVENTRY

AUEW

district committee passed a motion on Tuesday pledging support to the railwaymen and calling on the executive council to use the full industrial strength of the unions if the government enforces the Industrial Relations Act.

However the committee would not take action in support of the national wage and the claim Manchester workers now sitting.* in and striking for the claim.

Instead it is asking local con- venors for a progress report on

ITV

12.10 Visions • to reality: 12.30 Coastguard. 12.50 Woobinda. 1.15 Jobs in the house and garden.

1.45 Racing from Epsom. 2.15 Houseparty. 2.30 Good afternoon!

2.55 Epsom racing. 3.45 Marcus Welby. 4.40 Nuts and bones. 4.55 Secret squirrel. 5.20 Magpie. 5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY.

6.30 CROSSROADS.

6.55 FILM: 'HOTEL'. Rod Tay. Karl Malden, Melvyn lor, Douglas, Merle Oberon. Stories of the people who ive in the St Gregory Hotel in New Orleans.

9:00 LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR.

Apollo 16. 9.30 NEWS and Touchdown on the moon. 10.00

• THIS WEEK.

10.30 CINEMA.

11.00 SOMETHING TO SAY.

12.00

THIS GREEN AND PLEAS-

ANT LAND-

9.20 SHOW OF THE WEEK:

HARRY SECOMBE SHOW.

With Guests Beryl Reid, Nana Mouskouri and The Athenians, Delme Bryn Jones, Roy Budd Trio. 10.05 NEWS ON 2 and weather.

10.10 FILM: 'PEARLS OF THE

CROWN'.

First of two films by French director Sacha Guitry. 11.50

LATE NIGHT LINE-UP.

TELEGRAMS started to flood in to Bill Anten at Eastbourne on Tuesday. 'No retreat on pay,' they said. Factories throughout the Stockport area wanted to make sure their delegate made their voices heard in the debate everyone is waiting for at the Amalgamated Union of Engin- eering Workers National Com- mittee. First in was a message from shop stewards at the GKN steel- works, Bredbury. The Bredbury works initiated the sit-in strike movement which now embraces 27 factories in the NW area. Hawker Siddeley, Bill Anten's own stamping ground, joined the movement 14 days ago. Greater Manchester's call in the wages debate-unless for technical reasons' Bill and his co- delegate decide otherwisewill be for national strike action failing a speedy and satisfactory answer by the employers to the pay claim drawn up last year.

That does not imply support for right-wing moves at the con- ict individual plant negotiations.

AUEW branches Coventry 25 and Coventry 59 have sent tele- grams to the National Committee members in conference at East- bourne asking them to table a motion for national strike action the engineers' favour of in claim. 59, Coventry 25, Coventry Nuneaton Central and Coventry 8 branches have passed resolu- Trans- tions in support of the port and General Workers' Union • demanded industrial and beve action if the funds of that union by the National sequested are Industrial Relations Court.

Barry Hines' play 'Billy's • Last Stand' BBC 1's Play for Today tonight. John Dudley Foster, Darkly. CHANNEL: 1.45 London. 3.50 Lottery. 4.05 Yak. 4.18 Puffin. 4.22 Funny face. 4.50 Skippy. 5.20 London. 6.00 News, weather. 6.15 Farming news. 6.20 Sports. 6.35 London. 7.00 Film: 'Black Spurs'.

8.30 This is your life. 9.00 Lon- don. 10.30 Maverick. 11.30 News; weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 3.55 Gus Honeybun. 4.18 News.

6.00 Diary. 10.30 Report. 10.59 News, weather. 11.00 Theatre. 11.55 Faith for life. SOUTHERN: 2.05 Katie Stewart.

4.00 Houseparty. 2.30 London. 4.15 Sean. 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 Richard the Lionheart. 5.20 Lon- don. 6.00 Day by day. 6.45 Simon Locke. 7.15 Film: 'Living It Up'.

9.00 London. 11.00 News. 11.10 Gillies Drive-in. 11.40 Stuart Ceilidh. 12.10 Weather. Sing.

HARLECH: 1.00 Phoenix 5. 1.25 Out of town. 1.45 London. 3.50 Simon Locke. 4.15 Tinkertain- 4.30 Crossroads. 4.55 ment. Huckleberry Finn. 5.20 London. 6.01 Report Wales. 6.35 Sky's the limit. 7.10 Film: "The Glft of Love'. 9.00 London. 10.30 The Workers Press, Th ference to go back into national negotiations with the pay Engineering Employers' Federa- tion. Far from it. 'National negotia- tions in the brought us past nothing,' Bill told me. In fact the Manchester resolu- tion was forwarded for discussion way back in January. A few days later, at a recalled national con- ference on January 10, the union agreed to call off the pay fight at national level and go for plant bargaining. Bill Anten is not an opponent of that decision. 'However,' he told me, 'when divisions put in resolutions on wages and these are carried, the national com- mittee is obliged to see that the utmost benefit is given to those resolutions. 'Once we've put in a claim, we've got to bring it about. It's not a question of how we do it.

Achieving aim is our more important.' But he added: 'Having said WORKERS at Gestetner engi- neering, N London, have refused a management request to lift restrictions on normal work- ing as part of a campaign for wage rises and shorter hours under the engineers' pay claim.

In • February the men banned overtime, restricted labour mobi- lity and demanded a 35-hour a redundancy week because of threat which has now been lifted by management. But the 1,200 employees are keeping up the restrictions and demanding a substantial wage 35-hour week and increase, longer holidays. st Stand' gets second showing on …a ght. John Barrett (I) plays Billy and splendour falls. 11.00 Saint. 12.00 Weather. HTV West as above except: 6.18- 6.35 Sport West. HTV Wales and HTV Cymru/ Wales as above except: 4.15-4.30 Miri mawr. 6.01-6.18 Y dydd.

ANGLIA: 1.45 London. 4.05 News.

4.10 Jimmy Stewart. 4.40 Rupert Bear. 4.55 Captain Scarlet. 5.20 London. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.20 Arena. 6.35 London. 7.00 Film: 'Kaleidoscope'. 9.00 London. for paradise. 10.30 Test case 11.15 Cinema. 11.45 Avengers.

ATV MIDLANDS: 1.45 London.

Women today. 3.35 Stars. 3.45 4.10 Family affair. 4.40 Rupert Bear. 4.55 Get this. 5.20 London.

Today. 7.00 6.35 London. 6.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Film: 'He Ran All the Way. 8.55 Popeye. 9.00 London. 11.00 Marcus Welby.

ULSTER: 1.45-3.50 London. 4.00 Yoga. 4.30 Romper room. 4.50 News. 4.55 Forest rangers. 5.20 London. 6.00 UTV reports.

6.15 Tommy. 6.35 London. 7.00 Simon 7.30 Film: "Father of the Locke. Bride'. 9.00 London. 11.00 What's it all about. 11.20 Avengers.

• Press, Thursday April 20, 1972 PAGE 11 that, it's not really for branches to complain about how we carry the decision out as long as we do I spoke to Bill following a victory of a resolution from his division calling for a programme of activity-led by the TUC and the Labour Party-to bring about General Election and the return of a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

What kind of activity did he think would be necessary?

"We had in mind the position where the TUC had to call its against demonstration mass unemployment, he said. The resolution calls for the utmost activity on the lines of demonstrations, campaigns and other actions to bring about the government's downfall. If it is felt that industrial action should take place, so be it. 'We can't accept either that the Tories should stay in office for their full term or that they should pick their time to go to the country. 'At the same time we must be developing within our programme activity the programme of a Labour government must imple- ment on its return to power.

This must include immediate action on unemployment, rents and pensions.' Like Bill Anten, Herbert Howarth is a Communist Party member. And at Davey Manu- facturing, Darnall, Sheffield, he last week the start in his saw division of a sit-in movement that under way similar to in Manchester. A shop steward at the British Corporation's troubled Steel River Don works, he told me: 'We've had a more different discussion on the Labour Party this year than ever before.'

YORKSHIRE: 1.00 Survival. 1.25 1.30 Origami. 1.45 Pied piper. London. 2.15 Carnival of animals.

2.30 London. 3.25 Sound of...

3.40 Ugliest girl in town. 4.10 News. 4.15 Crossroads. 4.40 Nuts and bones. 4.55 Bugs Bunny.

London. 6.00 Calendar, 5.20 weather. 6.30 Shirley's world. 6.55 Film: 'Hotel'. 9.00 London. 10.30 Sport. 11.05 Cinema. 11.35 Drive- in. 12.00 Weather. GRANADA: 1.45-3.50 London. 3.55 Camera in action. 4.10 News. Peyton Place. 4.40 Nuts and bones. 4.50 Make a wish. 5.15 London. 6.00 News. Police file.

6.25 | dream of Jeannie. 6.55 Film: Sky's the limit. 7.25 'McMillan and WIfe: Husbands, Wives and Killers'. 8.50 Sylvester.

9.00 London. 11.00 On the line.

11.30 See our next thrilling in- stalment. TYNE TEES: 12.45 Forest ran- 1.15 Time to remember. gers. 1.45-2.15 London 2.30 London.

3.25 Sound of • .. 3.40 Ugliest girl in town. 4.10 News. 4.15 Crossroads. 4.40 Nuts and bones.

4.55 Captain Scarlet. 5.20 Lon- don. 6.00 Today. 6.30 Shirley's world. 7.00 Film: 'Here Comes the Groom'. 9.00 London. 10.30 Sport. 11.00 Police call. 11.05 Cinema. 11.35 Drive-in. 12.00 News. 12.15 Revolving chair.

SCOTTISH: 1.45-3.25 London.

3.30 Once upon a time. 3.45 Crossroads. 4.10 Dateline. 4.55 Fireball XL5. 5.20 London. 6.00 6.15 Dateline. Cartoon. 6.25 Stuart Gillies ceilidh. 6.55 Film: 'That Man From Rio'. 9.00 Short story. 9.30 London. 11.00 Late 11.05 Cinema. 11.35 Con- call. ference report. 11.45 Beagan gaidhlig. GRAMPIAN: 1.45-3.25 London.

3.34 News. 3.35 Job look. 3.45 Women today. 4.10 Julia. 4.40 and bones. 4.55 Rumblie Nuts jumblie. 5.20 London. 6.00 News, weather. 6.05 Lesley Blair. 6.35 7.00 Plus. Tam. 7.30 London. Film: "The Angel Wore Red'. 8.55 Police news. 9.00 London. 11.00 Viewfinder. 11.35 Conference re- port. 11.45 Golf with Sam Snead.

12.10 Epilogue. "7.1,i .. 4

ENGINEERS BACK

WIDGERY SANCTIONS SLAUGHTER

PAGE 12 Workers Prose, Thuraday April 2 Marathon chief here THE AMERICAN businessman who wants to buy the Clydebank division of Upper Clyde Ship- builders will meet government officials for talks on Monday.

Wayne Harbin, president of Marathon Manufacturing of Texas is understood to want £12m from the Tories as part of a plan to build oil rigs at Clydebank. After a trans-Atlantic telephone call, James Reid, leader of the stewards, said that UCS shop Harbin had held discussions with the Christopher Chataway of Department of Trade and was 'happy' there was a basis for serious talks. Reid said that if 'all was going well' Harbin would accept the shop stewards' offer of talks at Clydebank. Marathon has already stated it would like a four year no-strike contract with Clydebank workers.

Clydebank deal the aired shop steward ill rai negotiated agreements Govan Shipbuilders who hope soon to begin trading at the Govan, Scotstoun and Linthouse division of UCS. Army vehicles crawl up Rossville Street ji THE ARMY murderers who shot dead 13 people in Derry have been exonerated in the Widgery report into Bloody Sunday, pub. lished yesterday. In a blatant whitewash of of January 30, the massacre Lord Widgery, an ex-Territorial Army brigadier, has ignored mass of evidence from trained observers. His one criticism is that some soldiers fired 'recklessly'. The report won unqualified praise from Ulster's extreme right condemnation from civil and rights and republican leaders.

Party president Nationalist Eddie McAteer said the investiga- tion had resulted in a political judgement by a British judge on his 'darling the British army'.

I suppose we are lucky he did not find that the 13 committed suicide, said McAteer. Bernadette Devlin attacked the Widgery verdict that the IRA opened up the firing: Derry on Bloody in was Sunday and I know that the IRA • themselves with dig- conducted nity and discipline which British imperialism, its armed thugs and legal lackeys could never begin understand, being incapable to of such themselves.' contrast, the British In sharp army, Craig's extreme right-wing Vanguard movement Protestant followers of the Rev Ian and Paisley all welcomed the report which is clearly being interpreted as a sanction for army slaughter.

Registered as a newspaper at the Post Published by Workers Press, Once. 186a Clapham Street, London, High

SW4 7UG.

Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), Clapham Hish 1806 Street, i London.

SWA JUG.

day April 20, 1972

ENGINEERS'

union leaders yesterday sent a message of greeting and full support to the The Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' executive was instructed to 'do everything possible to assist the railway unions' in their pay fight. emergency resolution— An carried unanimously by the 52- man National Committee of the

AUEW

section- engineers called on the TUC to unite the trade union movement to back the railmen. Several big questions were left unanswered by yesterday morn- ing's debate, however. AUEW executive councilman Arthur Hearsey, who is rail sub- committee chairman of the Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Unions not told Engineering the it was simply committee passing a paper resolution'.

Lancashire delegate Len Brindle asked where the union would stand if the Tory govern- the Industrial used ment Relations Act. He had some ideas and would interested delegates what tell these were privately. 24-4 на В le Street just before the killings on January 30

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

The report admits that there was no proof that any of the victims were carrying firearms or bombs. Yet it concludes that fired at people they troops believed to be gunmen. Time and time again Widgery comes down on the side of the troops - members of the Ist Battalion Parachute Regiment- and against civilian eye witnesses.

He describes one incident where four men, James Joseph Wray. Gerald McKinney, Gerald Donaghy and William McKinney, killed at Glenfada Park were flats. Four soldiers described as E.

F. G and H were sent into the courtyard to cut off an alleged gunman. Evidence showed soldier G shot Donaghy and the other men were shot by E, F, G or H.

"The Widgery comments: balance of probability suggests that at the time when these four shot. the group of men were civilians was not acting aggres- sively and that shots were fired without justification.' At the very least this appears to be description of man- slaughter. But Widgery merely chastises the soldiers for firing 'recklessly'. The killing began. says the report, after a sniper fired a high- velocity bullet. The next shooting came from troops. Soldier A and soldier B fired three rounds and wounded a John Johnson and Damien Donaghy. the Widgery says against soldiers' evidence that there was no reason to suppose that the two men were trying to light or throw a nail bomb. Yet astoundingly he con- cludes:

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN EASTBOURNE

Moving the resolution, Aber- deen delegate John McConnachie press encouraged said the Tory the government to use the Act and crush the trade union move- ment. 'What we want to get from this conference is a call for the maximum unity and support for the railwaymen. Engineering workers could not stand by and see the railmen picked off. Arthur Gibbard, delegate from Middlesex, said that the whole trade union movement had to be mobilized in the railwaymen's defence. He said: "The old slogan in the trade unions, "An injury to one is an injury to all" must come very much into effect.' Explaining the tactical position of the 22,000 AUEW members in the railway workshops, Hear- sey told delegates that a wage 'Mr Johnson was obviously an innocent passer-by going about his business... and was Ten minutes after this incident the main army thrust into the Bogside occurred, when a convoy vehicles moved along Rossville Street. Despite an absence of physical says: I am evidence Widgery absolutely satisfied that the first firing in the courtyard (before Rossville St flats) was directed at the soldiers. 'Such a conclusion is not reached by counting heads or by selecting one particular witness as truthful in preference to another. It is a conclusion built up over. many days of listening to evidence and watching, the demeanour of witnesses Dealing with the killings at St barricade, where the Rossville some people were shot in the back, Widgery says he is satis- that the soldiers did not fire at a fleeing crowd but at a of missile throwers stand- group vicinity the of the ing barricade. (Presumably all this group was armed when the army opened fire.) Widgery says that when the soldiers go 'all out' to get gun- men the innocent must suffer.

The report—which is an indict- ment of Civil Rights leaders like John Hume, MP, who advised witnesses not to boycott the court—is sure to harden Repub- lican attitudes in N Ireland.

But only the politically naïve can be shocked. Widgery's is an imperialist's verdict on an im- perialist massacre—the exonera- tion of the Paras was predictable.

See pages two and three for the Workers Press investigation into Bloody Sunday. government had offer, yet the had the gall to say that it was the unions' not accepting had been submitted claim on decision and was going to force their behalf early in February.

ballot. of the of that ut the nina ren 'This is the audacity Board had no British Railways aspect of the Industrial Relations yet been received. Act' he said. clearly indicates how the The unions involved were Act can be used against any form attempting to within ane net wins, the next week. of militant action. expected When this tock they left to right- place It was in fact Coven- would no doubt be able to bring winger Jim Griffin from themselves in line with the men -speaking in a later debate— try working-to-rule. the resolution for nOW to criticize SE London delegate Len far enough'. 'not going Miseldine said that the Tory government's intransigent attitude HIlA being felt in was every noW sector of industry.

APRIL FUND:

'Workers having to take are industrial today in action order

A SPECIAL

elementary he to get justice' said. railwaymen The were not

APPEAL

striking but simply working to Brindle told the book, Len the delegates. Their leaders union WE WOULD like to make a very rejected British Rail's final had special appeal to our you, for an extra effort for readers, our Fund this month. Our expenses have risen greatly due to the refusal of the Tories to concede to the rallmen's just This wage claim. has also of distribution affected our Workers Press. We would like therefore to propose that, If possible, we try this ralse additional amounts to our Fund target month and push £1,750£500 more than to up We know from your usual. months in provtous допотовіту that you will do everything pos- sible to maintain our paper.

So far Fund stands at our £490.74. We have 11 days left to ralse this money. Let's not waste a moment. Post all your donations immediately to : Workers Press April Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St London, SW4 7UG. Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists Sunday May 7 We demand the Right to Work!

No retreat from the fight against the Industrial Rela.

tions Act! Hands off the trade unions ! Defend democratic rights!

Withdraw troops from Ulster! Release all internees!

Victory to the Vietnamese workers and peasants For the military defeat of US imperialism!

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN!

ASSEMBLE: 1.30 p.m. The Embankment, Charing Cross MEETING: 4 p.m. St Pancras Town Hall.

G. Healy (Socialist Labour League National Secretary) J. Simmance (Young Socialists National Secretary) M. Banda (Socialist Labour League Central Committee) (In a personal capacity) Frank McCabe (NUM) Roy Battersby A. Thornett (Deputy Senior Steward Morris Motors) C. Slaughter (Socialist Labour League Central Committee) I would like to come to the May Day Demonstration

NAME

'ADDRESS

iease send me details of transport arrangement Complete form and send to J. Simmance. 186a Clapham Hial Street, London, SW4 7UG.