Workers Press no. 745

workers press

MUGER AND UN ON COURT

'RULE OF LAW

ABOLISHES ALL

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

BY G. HEALY

of the National Industrial Relations Court, "There would be no freedom.'

What is at stake in the between railway dispute the arbiter in determining wages.

And it the trade unions are deprived of such a right, unions and the government is then what is the nurnose of trade unions?

Put another way, if the capitalist state surely the direct opposite of this by law can determine wages, then are we of the corporate pious platitude. not close to the image state of pre-war Italy and Germany?

Is it not through the rule of Of course, the fighting strength of the class still but law, Tory law, that freedom intact, WOrKIng

NIRC

reactionary trend of the un- and democratic rights of the mistakable. If this Tory brainchild con- tinues its rule hv decree' over wages and trade unions and the working- working conditions, then the consequences class are being taken away?

must be faced. the meanderings of the basic Let us follow Such rule by decree' is rule of law Without the learned judge. element of a Ronanartist dictatorshin.

he 'there would only be licence for The days of bourgeois-democratic gov- says, to impose their beloved by the few powerful persons in Britain, ernment will on the majority'. cit not brease y retormisis are numbered. this which is taking place in the Industrial While Sir John Donaldson spelt out the Relations Court? of democratic rights in the destruction WAS IT not Tory Sir Geoffrey Howe, QC,

NIRC

his Lord Widgery colleague Was Solicitor-General, who, behalf of the iving the green light to legal slaughter the main architect government was by the paratroopers in Derry drawing up the Act? The the 'main responsibility for WAS IT not the same gentleman who on slaughter' on Bloody Sunday in Derry was, Wednesday applied to the Court (itself an he intimated, decision of the Rights integral part of the Act in orcer to Use march. Civil oraanizer. TO the same Act he was intimately responsible demonstrators marched, nobody hadn't for? would have been killed. True enough, and if railwavmen and Both Howe and Donaldson are indeed the came logic, other workers were content to take what- part of a small of powerful men the Tories throw them, then sop is to take away the bar- whose main aim Cver there wouldn't be any need for the NIRC.

gaining rights of the trade unions.

It's all so simple. according to the legal Because it the lory government succeed.

the rules drafted by *rich and powerful'. of 12} per cent in the in imposing a ceiling If we are prenared to alow them to take dispute through such direct use Tal mers away all the basic rights of the working the Act, then it becomes the main class then nobody gets hurt immediately.

We will simply have accepted the status

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diligent ot clayed -and provided we are slaves, our Tory masters can afford to be

ON T&GWU

Tolerant There is a close relation between the activities of the and the

NIRC

Widgery Tribunal. Let Heath take the floor. Speaking in parliament, also on Wednes day afternoon, he said: INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY APRIL 21, 1972 • No. 745 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL, RELATIONS COURT

Solicitor-General Sir Geoffrey Howe leaving the NIRC after government moves against the railmen on Wednesday key" approach *The "ow to Cannot co the stage where it allows the IRA or the Provisionals tọ establish control troliced that longer by either RUC or the

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controlled by gunmen. That is the differ- and the Secre- approach one that ence tarv of State for N Ireland is endeavouring to pursue.' Now that Widgery blessed the has Sunday, are brutal ritual of Bloody Sundays the DIooey way -une inal solution' *the Ulster Catholic problem' ot perhaps? On the evening of the same day he 1922 ace ressed committee une Savoy Hotel with his customary arrogance.

IR LEAGUE

ving the NIRC after government moves against 'We have got this Bill, we are going to use it, and we will see this through.

The class logic is inescapable. Rule by decree through the NIRC with the Paras as the Imperial Guard to do the shooting.

Heath promised that his government would change history. And at the United Nations in 1970, he promised civil war, too! He is keeping that promise and the challenge is unmistakable. Either the organizations working class through its unites to create the industrial and political conditions to make this government resign or it will do everything in its power to organized strength of smash the working class.

workers press

WIDGERY AND UNION COURT

'RULE OF LAW'

ABOLISHES ALL

BASIC

RIGHTS

BY G. HEALY

'WITHOUT the rule of law', said the President of the National Industrial Relations Court, "There would be no freedom' What is at stake in the railway dispute between the arbiter in determining wages. And if the trade unions are deprived of such a right, unions and the government is Put another way, if the capitalist state surely the direct opposite of this by law determine wages, then are we can image of the corporate pious platitude. not close to the state of pre-war Italy and Germany?

Is it not through the rule of the fighting strength of the Of course, working class b intact, but the Tory law, that freedom law' trend of

NIRC

is reactionary the un- democratic rights of the and brainchild con. stakeser tinues its 'rule by decree' over wages and trade unions and the working- working conditions, then the consequences class are being taken away?

must be faced. the meanderings of lane Such rule decree' basic Let us dge. Without Bonapartist dictatorship.

the rule law element of he says, • be licence Ior bourgeois democratic gov- There would only he cave powerful -persons impose ernment in Britain, beloved by the few Their Is it not precisely will on majority'. reformists, are numi the this which is taking place in the Industrial Relations Court? Struct Sin of demonadio ripets in the destruction democratic rights WAS IT not Tory Sir Geoffrey Howe, OC colleague

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Was Solicitor-General, who, on behalf the giy the theatrooners it green light legal slaughter in the main architect Derry. governmen, Was drawing up the Act? 'main for the The responsibility same gentleman who on WAS 11 not the slaughter' on Bloody Sunday in Derry was, applied to the Court (itself an Wednesday he intimated, the decision Tone of the Act) in order use Civil Rights organizers the same Act he was intimately responsible nobody hadn't marched, cholstalls for? wolla have beer kee enou dire the same logic, railwaymen and Both Howe and Donaldson … indeed take what- other workers were content to of a small of pose tuber part group them, then take away the evel

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LIe wrose mall all 15 LO there wouldn't be any need for the NIRC.

gaining rights of the trade unions.

les drafted by the rich and povertil.

Because if the Tory government succeeds rules drafted by 'rich and powerful'. in imposing a ceiling of 12t per cent in the them If we are prepared to allow to take railmens' dispute through such direct use all the away tne Act. then it becomes Hiall class then nobody gets hurt immediately. Weavell and have a ced here.

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of slaves—-and provided diligent slaves, our lory masters can attord to be

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Tolerat. close relation between the There 1s a See P. 12 activities of the NIRC and the Widgery Tribunal. Let Heath take the floor. Wednes- 011 day afternoon, he said:

FRIDAY APRIL 21, 1972

No. 745 • 4p

MITTEE OF THE

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAG

Solicitor-General Sir Geoffrey Howe leaving the the railmen on Wednesday 'The "low key" approach cannot go to the stage where it allows the IRA or the establish control of an Provisionals to area so that it is no longer policed by either the RUC or the Army but only controlled by gunmen. That is the differ- ence in approach and one that the Secre- tary of State for N Ireland is endeavouring to pursue.' Now that Widgery has blessed the brutal ritual of Bloody Sunday, are more Bloody Sundays on the way-the "final solution' of 'the Ulster Catholic problem' perhaps? On the evening of the same day he addressed the 1922 Committee at the Savoy Hotel with his customary arrogance.

R LEAGUE

ving the NIRC after government moves against 'We have got this Bill, we are going to use it, and we will see this through The class logic is inescapable. Rule by decree through the NIRC with the Paras as the Imperial Guard to do the shooting.

Heath that government promised history. And at the United would change Nations in 1970, he promised civil war, too! He is keeping that promise and the challenge unmistakable. Either the working class through its organizations unites to create the industrial and political conditions to make this government resign or it will do everything in its power to smash the organized ..strength . the working class.

PAGE 2 Workers Prosa, Friday April 21, 1972 '

VORLD

moved

FIERCE

fighting raged troops into the town behind at last 12 tanks. in the S Vietnam provin- US pilots said anti-aircraft fire cial capital of An Loc around the town heavy was so that supply and medical evacua- yesterday as the libera- aircraft could tion not tion forces won a series through. of victories in their 22- S A Vietnamese transport US and C-130 day offensive. plane shot..down. over transport were Overrunning a strategic An Loc yesterday. The American Higbee, an town in S Vietnam, they also destroyer was yesterday reported three in captured towns heavily damaged by bombs from Cambodia Vietnamese neighbouring E MiG fighters, N and damaged US Navy ships while the 'Oklahoma City', ship of the Seventh Fleet, in a combined air-sea attack, slightly damaged. the first of its kind in the Until the US Navy now war. operated with off impunity Loc, 56 miles N of Saigon of • Vietnam, bombarding An coast and besieged weeks, and for two shore targets acting attack floating airbases. came under on three regiments of liberation fronts yesterday. Liberation Two

URUGUAYAN

workers THE INVITATION to Mrs Golda official Meir to pay an visit to during a one-day Gener Bucharest suggests that Rumania against the murder of be to play the honest may Middle East broker the workers by troops last Mon the Arab between Israel and One hundred thousand ountries Is the only E European country mourners tollowed the cortege have broken off relations of the seven murdered workers not to with Israel the time of the at whose coffins carried were 1967, war in June, six-day high from the shoulder Rumania is well placed to play headquarters Monte- to the the role of a go-between.

five smiles video cemetery, Indeed it have been may away. suggested by Egypt's President Placards on the funeral Sadat during Ceausescu's visit to ass murder the slog and seven The initiative Cairo recently. "Seven and murderers followed a brief visit to Jerusalem Communists were shot!'. deputy Foreign by Rumanian Minister, Gheorghe Macovescu. The shootings are a continua- Israeli daily 'Haaretz' The workers' tion of repression that the move be suggests may organizations which began the first step towards the renewal Friday. between the Soviet of relations Bomb attacks made by were Union possible and Israel. It is 'death squads' on the right-wing Soviet bureaucracy has that the editorial offices of two left-wing sought Ceausescu's help in break- and police made. a gun- papers ing the Middle-East deadlock.

point search of CP headquarters, the Meir "expected that It is arresting over 100 people.

visit will take place early next President Bordaberry forced month before Nixon's visit to Uruguayan through Moscow Middle-East the parlia- where will be high on ment measures for a 30-day state questions the of emergency. agenda. The dally fight against the Torles. £20.28 for 12 montha. (312 lasues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 lssues) {5.07 for 3 months (78 lasubs) If you want to take Workers Prees twice a week the rates are: {1.56 for 3 months (24 Issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: 186a Claphem High Bl Circulation Dapl., Workers Press, London, SWá TUG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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Amount anciosad £ yesterday troops the overran strategic S central Vietnamese • town of Hoai An, near the main E coast highway. Hué, further N, also came under pressure yesterday when liberation forces attacked Fire- base Bastogne, which guards the approaches to the city. In Cambódia, liberation forces captured three towns on Penh-Saigon highway, Kompong Trabek, Tchipou and Prasaut. N of the main highway, a pro- vincial capital, Prey Veng, was 'cut off surrounded yester- and day after Cambodian puppet troops abandoned its only road link in the face of a big libera- tion force spearheaded by tanks.

¡ These victories give control of a 40-mile stretch of the Highway to the liberation forces.

orkers occupied their factories General Strike on Wednesday er of seven Communist Party ast Monday. 2" Immediately, the death squads" and fascist youth movement, Uruguayan Youth Arise (JUP) went into action with a series of those attacked assaults. Among were Juan Crottigini, vice-presi- dential candidate for the Broad and Carlos Democratic Front Quijano, director of the left-wing 'Marcha', weekly, Leaders of the National Con- vention of Workers, who. called demanded the General Strike, restoration of individual liberties ' lifting of the 30 days' and the 'state of internal war'. The Uruguayan CP and the union leaders supported the Broad Front in the elections last November: The present repression warning should serve as a the Chilean Stalinists who have also subordinated the working class to a Popular Front alliance.

Froht was thectorally su cesslar, electorally successful, the same reactionary forces that are at work in Uruguay are pre- repress the Chilean paring to working class. Yesterday, the Chilean daily Ultima Hora'; a supporter Allende, commented on the situa- tion in Uruguay: 'The law of the jungle is now in full force in a country which was for years com- pared with Switzerland and other stable full democracies' Allende, who never ceases to praise the democratic traditions of Chile, is opening the way for law the jungle that same which is the law of capitalism, to murder Chilean workers.

BITTER divisions and jealousies tearing apart the United are Nations Conference on Trade

(UNCTAD)

and Development which has brought 3,000 dele- gates from 141 countries to the Chilean capital of Santiago.

the S The appearance of Korean Foreign Minister on the rostrum in the main conference hall was the signal for a walk- out by the Soviet, E European and Chinese delegates. government had The Seoul usurped a seat which should have belonged to N Korea, a Soviet spokesman said.

GEORGE MEANY, AFL-CIO CHIEF

GEORGE MEANY, right-win CIO (US equivalent of the TU he does not believe in strikes some voluntary method of se 'impartial' arbitration. 'I don't think strikes mean what they used to, he told the Senate Labour Relations sub-committee, which is dis- cussing a Bill to outlaw major transport strikes. Meany: confirmed that his union leadership was considering a plan to avoid strikes through voluntary agreements to use 'impartial' arbitrators. Part of this plan involves ex- tending contracts for six months beyond their date of expiry while an arbitrator tries to work out details of a new contract.

While he was prepared to see the unions enter in voluntary along these lines, agreements Meany said, he remained opposed to legal restrictions on the right PRICES in the United States rose at a yearly rate of 6.2 per cent in the first three months of with only this year, compared in the last three 1.7 per cent months of 1971. This acceleration of inflation comes at a time when President Nixon's Pay Board is trying to hold wages down to increases bf 5.5 per cent a year. Nixon's policy - now clearly amounts to wage cutting, and it is backed üp by the certainty of big increases in unemployment over the coming months. Figures released by the Com- merce - Department showed the number out of work. will con- tinue to grow. The unemploy- ment figure is already close to 6 million. The figures show that the rate

BY TOM KEMP

A proposal by the advanced capitalist countries that the 25 least developed should be singled out for special consideration has proved to be divisive. the Latin Only Haiti among American countries will obtain but others special assistance, believe they should be included.

chief Egyptian delegate The made a scathing attack on Israel, saying it was responsible for the continued closure of the Suez Canal which was harming the Arab countries: ght-wing president of the AFL- the TUC) has told the Senate strikes any more and hopes for d of settling disputes through to strike, which would be 'utterly unworkable in practice'.

Meany's eagerness to be of service to the crisis-ridden US employing. class clearly indicates the corrupt and reformist char- acter of the US union leadership.

THE FOREIGN Office has con- that two emissaries of firmed Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith have been in London to contact' "maintain during the period before presentation of the Pearce Commission report on the Smith-Home deal. Spanish

UNDERGROUND

workers' organizations are plan- ning to call a General Strike and a massive May Day rally in defi- ance of General Franco's fascist regime. of growth of industrial production declined by close on 10 per cent over the last six months.

This is despite the substantial trade and economic concessions which the US has gained as a result of the dollar devaluation on December 18 last year.

The devaluation, combined with upward revaluations of the other main capitalist currencies, was designed to give US goods an advantage on world markets.

These measures have created a situation of cut-throat trade war internationally and growing • the main capitalist recession in centres. The US has repeatedly expressed its view that the is not December 18 agreement enough and is demanding further concessions from the other states involved. Dutch Economics Minister Professor H. Langman warned that the international monetary crisis and the trend towards protectionism were hitting the less-developed countries.

He called for freer access to markets in the richer countries. He did not say that Holland also stands to suffer from trade restrictions and needed markets in the less-developed countries.

"multinational He defended the corporations' — no doubt having Royal Philips, Unilever and •Dutch Shell in mind-as playing "a useful ale....

Shell gets its sums wrong

THE

SHELL

group, Britain's second largest company, is to make hundreds of workers re- of a 'disastrous decline' in, world demand for chemicals and oil. News of the sackings was given at yesterday's annual meeting by retiring chair- man Sir David Barran. During his chairmanship of the multi-million pound company Barran drew a salary of about €50,000 a year plus expenses.

least 400 people are

SHIPBUILDING

orders, would continue to a 'very low level' until world trade recovered, the Shipbuilders and Repairers' Asso- ciation said yesterday. Association figures released yesterday show that the number of ships on order was down from 312 in 1971 to 237 this year.

But figures showed that in • the first quarter of 1972 shipbuild- ing firms secured orders for 17 merchant ships-seven more than in the : corresponding three months of last year. Soclalist 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 Soclalists Meeting

DUNDEE

Working class unity and the fight against the Tory govern- ment. AUEW Hall, 26 Southward Rd.

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

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

WILLESDEN: Monday Aprll 24, p.m. Labour and Trades 8 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 Rd, Dartford. The Industrial 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 Aprll 27, 8 p.m. St John Ambulance Bri- gade Hall, Lea Rd. YS May Day rally. N LONDON: Thursday April 27, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', High Rd (nr White Tottenham 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, 'Aberfeldy', Aberfeldy 8 p.m. St (nr Blackwall Tunnel). N Ireland. Workers Press, Friday April 21, 1972 PAGE 3 Pressmen back rail fight worrying that one could get £20m profit slump sums by such large Shell, it This was not just THE RAILWAYMEN gained applied to the whole dusty backing The yesterday from invere decline means 1,000 lay-offs Chemical suffered from Britain's journalists. Over One of the few 400 delegates and the annual

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• a•»care• co meeting the National expected to be sacked from the ventures, which been used to.

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Union of Journalists rose to group's headquarters Water- looked extremely hopeful. David said that the oil at He said he thought feet cheered the oil their and the next industrv appeared have got 1,000 will go within three years, division its sums wrong. the turning resolution supporting Barran said. corner towards better times, crease in demand betting ar three rail unions against the although he saw little hope in But his estimates very increase in demand government. the future for Shell's conservative- ike his politics! increase was an over eeming cent and 8 John Morgan, delegate checa sector. Profits slumped by £20m last Commenting on possible price 'My from Swansea said: per cent. reces- increases aid he vear _one word sales Barran sup- father is a railwayman. He sion and the dollar 1971 the completely reversed. Again ported the of Contederation He works harder than I do but that Again pledge. Drusu Industry s prices expected 1972 to be a disapooint mating demand would rise by 7 But he could give no guaranted I earn twice as much as he ing increase at all. Baran said it was cent, there Shell would underpaid. year WItHOUT the sort not forced and I am does spectacular growth have increase its prices aller uy. Work that out. 'Railwaymen at this moment need as much sup- Preston plane-men port as they can get.' The journalists now join the engineers, the miners and the Scottish TUC in backing the railwaymen's fight/ get big backing Feathered girls

TWO

YOUNG

both engaged to marry British soldiers Found were early feathered vesterday lance

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

Coalisland, Co Tyrone, N Ire- land. The girls were found after an A CALL for a one-day General Strike in support of of BAC workers the anonymous phone call to one girl' soldier fiancé They a nay claim by 3,500 British Aircraft Corporation factories in the Pres Tyrone to ton were area seen in is under- employees is to go out to workers in the Preston mass meeting re. of shock. It state They that cently. have noTh were district. bundled into a car while out to- now won district-wide gether on Wednesday night.

support. The local Confedera- of Shipbuiding and tion Engineering Unions has decided to ask workers leave their in the factories May and soli- demonstrate darity with the BAC em- ployees have been strike for I1 weeks on 127-per-cent for increase. Today the BAC workers from unree Preston, Samlesbury and Warton will hold their own acuusualion streets of Preston. No strings They are demanding pay increases paid workers with €20 rate for 40 hours minimum a week. They the are Insisting payment be made without productivity strings. The workers- —who have workers on the BP oil refinery

CONSTRUCTION

but all the employers. Labour So MPS stewards London, becoming more and site at Llandarcy will meet today to decide severely curtaned te pro- 'It is duction of military air- k for a sub-contractor, Simon Let Th The men but were unable to contact more clear Britain They in the the Opposition spokesman ployers, backed by the say suo-contraclor. award out to have been mounting pickets though KeeD govèrnment, are

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pace the increase in their action has not received official trade union with the labour move. wick. Beswick is also chief the cost of living over the officer for the ment. Inereiore it 1s vital 1z months. that all workers unite to vasu AC combini CHILE'S debtors have secured an agreement from Management defeat this attack,' he said.

so lar are the Allende of heroets fith interest th Smash must eight The have interest per 20 per cent share in BẠC.

of tough folows three days

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WOrK agreement measurement systems as a Yesterday stewards' Other are bargaining in Paris, which included an undertaking first step spokesman said that foreign firms taken over increasing the Vickers with per cent compensate international law'. productivity and Preston fight was not usi ana brusn-Leylana anotne.

WIll Repayment is to begin on January 1, 1975.

Last week a delegation against

BAC

management, 50 per cent. Ford speed-up

BOOKS

leads to lay-offs Moscow Trials Anthology ABOUT 5,000 car workers Paperback, 62p Ford's, Dagenham, have at WORKERS in the car industry

MAX SHACHTMAN:

been laid off because of a Behind The Moscow Trial Paperback 75p dispute inyolving speed-up.

ROBERT BLACK :

president of the Stalinism In Britain Trouble began at o Traders, said disrup- p.m. on tions of production could 121—cloth {2 Wednesday when raperoack L1 management longer

LEON TROTSKY:

tolerated tried to cut tne manning revers Death Agony of Capitalism the door line assembly the body plant. (The Transitional Programme) rail dispute. The company attempted Class Nature of the Soviet State ploitation of the work force. withdraw two or three men from Pamphlet 20p the line. They refused, however; troubled plant, In The In Defence of the October and worked on. for instance, management wants Revolution rampniet 15p force by labour then halted on The Theory and Practice of the orders w the The line several hundred Revisionism Pamphlet 15p Couldally. A mass meeting in the body Postage up per book, sp pe The night shift also went home shop yesterday decided to stay pamphlet. Order from : when the same incident was pro-

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THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

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

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

If you want a copy of the Draft Manifesto write to the Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani- festo discussion.

RAY HALL

T&GWU, Co-op milkman, Ports- mouth. read the Draft Manifesto 1 have with and agree every single demand made in it. • не e re Rights that have been promised by the reformists for far too long.

retornism Was going these rights. Capitalism would have done sse will by now. not give in—it has to be crushed.

The Socialist Labour League is they aly to air the working truly appeal to all

CLOT

leftists and the revisionist middle class. of Labour The traitors the be elected that Party must SO they can exposed what be tor they are- of the work- now class. time for a new leadership of the working class. It essential that the is also Stalinists are exposed. Ihey have are

SHOE

Tael bolt— tney threat to the revolution biggest in the guise and by their betrayal • revonoæer. harm to the revolution than any other party. There my union, the T&GWU, a considerable number of people who think the execu- tive council know what they are doing, and are in full contro of the situation. But their wipolicy of non-co- Industrial operation Relations has been

ACE

to be folly. But on realizing their mistake, been made attempt has rectify this. Jast meet follow proposed that the the lead of the

AUEW

obtaining nri Dledge from une Labour tarry repeal the - Industrial Relations Act and that if this pledge was support from Labour hands Party funds. 'As It says in the Charter of Basic Rights: Propor housing The smug answer given from

SYLVESTER WILLIAMS

thing the working class the chair was: 'We do have not folion We are the biggest been waiting for tor a long time

ALEW

tne mem iber, Decca Radar, union and they follow us.

revo Battersea, SW London. lutionary party to defend the Then I was told that members The trade unions. trade union of the executive council had met Harold Wilson with and had leadershin is under the infuence I have worked for Decca for just been told that af the For true representand they certain three Before I was yalls are not true representative Act would be revealed. unemployed for over a year fact, there were some good Lne Class That was quite parts of the Act the Drain Maciesto represents was living on £5-a-week un- the working class every This kind of attitude will not employment benefit for all those People in this working respect cass countly. After world complete refusal form the the that ane oven

TOTI

of there was absolutely nothing left matter, should not have the need unity between che for food and clothing. for decent standard to struggle Lne alike file but from the leadership, The I was able of living and for. the only way just what the ruling class expression. live from donations The right to decent housing is to maintain their power relatives and friends. I was pay- The All Trades Unions Alliance ing f5 à week. rent. another Uasic has a clear role to attract trade Where I live in Brixton, KnOW Being out of work was not for with children unionists in common purpose; living Work of trying. the wasusu private accommodation not available. system with united working

WHO

was Da vine 24 a week renT class. Unity is the Suddenly the place came under weapon we ideal the council's need take • programme compulsory pur- October!' working class. 1' think' it's some- chasing order and she was moved

• ALL TRADES UNIO

National Co Including the Charter c luxury-It's a basic necessity" out. Her rent increased to £7 with electricity and week gas extra. After a few months she was moved out of that accom- to a flat modation and moved where she has to pay f8 a week on top of charges for electric central heating which amount to about another £6 a week She • can't work. She gets Social Security which you can imagine leaves her with nothing to feed and clothe the kids.

The house I am living in is property. Recently also council the rent has gone up. For the last 11 years, although we fre- quently asked the council to decorate Half the houses in the have bluntly • refused. street have been condemned.

In the winter the water seeps off the walls and the draft from open windows and gaps in the doors makes it feel if you as were living in Siberia.

: UNIONS ALLIANCE

I Conference • Charter of Basic Rights These are the things that the working class people should really fight to improve and to prevent happening in the future. from the Charter of As it says in Basic Rights: 'Proper housing is luxury - it is a basic not a necessity.' Before I started working in my political Decca, although views were socialist, I really hadn't given much thought to taking a stand on any particular issue. But having seen the nOW Socialist Labour League and the All Trades Unions Alliance, 1 am in favour of the principles and will support them wholeheartedly.

The Young Socialists' Right-to- Work rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, was a great experience, as was the YS Scarborough con- ference. I am now looking for- ward. to the summer campi

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• Preparations by Spain's Min- istry of Labour to repress working-class opposition and the increased activity of Pinar ultra-Falangist Blas. were exposed in Workers Press earlier this year. The killings at the El Ferrol ship- yards were part of the Franco regime's concerted movement against " the revolutionary upsurge of Spanish workers.

Pinar continued his work in March and April with a series of meetings with army generals and a propaganda campaign among army officers. His men have criticized Lt-Gen Diaz Alegria for being a 'univer- sity general' and have called for his withdrawal from the leader- ship of the army general staff.

They have been recruiting widely the barracks for the para- military 'Warriors of Christ the King' Franco's 'liberals' have in the meantime continued their wave of repression against workers and intellectuals. director Cinema Manuel Summers has been sent six months for to prison for 'insulted the Catholic naving religion'. Public Prosecutor has asked that writer Luciano Rincón be given 1l years' imprisonment for insulting the head of state and five years for distributing illegal propaganda. In Madrid 60 workers have

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The 1,000-strong strike is part struggle last of a waged since October. Four 'representatives had already been sacked when events were brought to a head with the jail of Manuel release from • Camacho, a leading CP militant and Perkins worker, after serving • a five-year sentence for illegal trade union organization.

Shortly before his release, Franco's special branch tried to get him to admit writing a letter circulating among Perkins' workers. Workers' representatives saw the Perkins' management and asked for Camacho to be given his old job back: they were threatened with immediate dis- missal for daring to broach the subject. The workers struck for three days but returned after the 60 men were sacked. A tense situa- tion continues in the factory.

Meanwhile the Spanish CP intensifies its overtures to the Spanish Alongside a army. description of the • El Ferrol events, the latest issue of the Party's paper carries an article by executive member Mauricio Perez headed: "The People and the Army Must Begin a Dialogue.'

Perez recognizes that illusory Stalinist road to demo-.

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Soñor Pinar: continuing work with army army guaranteeing , 'the full and civilized exercise of all freedoms'.

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday April 21, 1972 the Liaison Committee for The 50th Conference of the Unions Defence of Student National Union of Students fight conducted sham which ended in Birmingham executive posts for elections on Friday April 14, took in the union. place in a week in which the a full At no point-during and the Tory government day's hustings for elections push- were again 9.30 employers continually from almost forward against the the ing until midnight-was question of the defeat of the working class. raised by It is no accident that on the Tory government any of the eight Liaison Com- last evening of the conference, Exchequer mittee candidates. Chancellor of the the It was this refusal to chal- Barber for Anthony second time in three months the Tory government lenge both the 'drew the sword' that characterized deliberately all and revisionists working class in his Stalinists the railwaymen's along the way. the speech on And the Liaison Committee, claim. pay which had arrived in Birming- Three months ago it was the 'left alterna- ham posing as a Stalinist and Neither is it accident tive' to the an day, dominated execu- that earlier in the mine- right-wing ended the last ley and the union's e Gorm- tive, up on workers' coming to an agree- union's executive evening Party Communist passed a unanimous resolution ment with president Digby Jacks. the railwaymen 'any pledging They joined him on they asked for. with help whether week the Throughout the three votes on executive should have confer- the Port of Liver- dockers in negotiate and the Transport and agreement to pool ence Department of Union the General Workers' with Education and Science. laboured under a threat ot a on this from the National After the first vote £5,000 fine Industrial Relations Court.

amendment, the executive, found them- Yet the decisions taken at their surprise, were far defeated the issue on the NUS conference selves of mandated to removed from the realities and therefore the struggle that is now build- discussions whatso- have no the working between ever. ing up A re-vote was hastily called Tory and the class for by executive supporters. ment. result of this and time again When the Time ballot announced, the throughout the four days reso- was position had been reversed in defeat calling for the of the executive. government and favour of the Tory Jacks then that the return of a Labour govern- put forward International consist- approached Socialist member and Liaison ently only by the Southampton Jim Scott delegates from the Committee delegate, university London, from Enfield, and Young Socialists Students' 'deal' on the basis Society—-were voted down.

asked for a that whichever side won 'the Said Brian Prangle, summing best of three' votes would be Southampton the up on de- proclaimed victorious. amendment in the crucial On the floor of conference on proposed government bate Committee spoke the Liaison attacks student union on the move, but the against financing: won the final count I have two questions to ask.

execute of over this Tory with majority First; why 23,000. is government doing what it Digby Jacks pledged to the that doing and why is it Young conference that he wouldn't Southampton and the 'sell-out' in negotiations. Socialists the only ones are And, of course, the capital- who want a fight to remove ist press is happy to label this this government?' trafficking with Stalinism And he warned: the heading "Trotsky- hamsters under "Those political who do not warn students and ist'. The International Social- of the workers constantly Liaison ists who dominate the facing them will be tasks Committee have their founda- proved by the tide of events tions in the Cliff group, which to be guilty of the greatest be- Trotsky- was expelled from the the working class trayal Fourth International ever perpetrated. ist 1950 the basis that they "To defend any democratic on could not defend N Korea and rights today means to pose the China US imperialism question of power. This is the against task.' because they were not workers' 'state capitalist'. And, as Prangle said, that states but evening of the On the first was the task that the reform- conference, IS members of the and Stalinists ists, revisionists Liaison Committee proposed avoided throughout the con- that Eamonn McCann be ference. allowed to come to speak to The International Socialists, that the Group the conference and International Marxist free evening-Wednesday-;,be and their assorted 'left-centrist' utilized for a special discussion and reformist allies the Above: students demonstrate Tory against Mrs Thatcher, Education Minister (far right). Right: Digby Jacks addresses student conference last year.

on N Ireland at which he uld be would speak. The move was defeated. A Young Socialist member who opposed this proposal was almost immediately threatened with physical violence from IS Liaison Committee members.

accused YS members were of siding with the Stalinists and right-wing-in spite the fact that they had already announced their critical sup- port for the Liaison Committee in the forthcoming elections!

"leadership' This cannot prepare students for the tasks them in the coming facing period. If students are to win grants which will give them 'their right to decent living stand- ards, their fight for the right to control their own finances and for full political autonomy, it can only be done in the common struggle to mobilize the working class and students in the building of the revolu- tionary party and to force the Tory government to resign.

be achieved This can only today in the building of Young Students' Socialists Societies in the colleges and universi- ties.

PAGE & Workers Press, Friday Aprll 21, 18 The world economic depressic with the Wall St crash in the German capitalism with speci it into a social and political c in the defeat of the highly-o movement and the coming to fifth part in Tom Kemp's se Germany's war economy. The coming to power of the Nazis in 1933 made war in- evitable. Hitler had made no of that in 'Mein secret Kampi. The ruling class as a whole realized that Germany could not live under the Versailles system and saw war, or at least a war-like Germany, as necessary in order to open up markets and economic territory for indus- try. The confidence of the ruling class in Hitler was based on the fact that he shared their objectives and provided a policy for their fulfilment. It was a policy which comported certain risks-principally of a general military line-up against Germany before she was ready for war.

But Hitler was not the apostle Armageddon. He of some new knew Germany's limited means and intended to establish mastery over Europe and 'tomorrow the world' by a step-by-step advance.

Defying one clause of the another, Versailles treaty after he set Germany on the path of re-conquest military power and of territory lost in World War I.

This met with general approval, especially it encountered as feeble and disunited resistance from Britain and France. The class these ruling impressed by countries was Hitler's ability to prevent social revolution in Germany and create economic the conditions for revival. They saw in a re-armed Germany a barrier against Soviet Russia and some sections hoped that Nazi military power would used only in the crusade against Bolshevism. Hitler's policy of limited war, blitzkriegs, against, isolated calculated opponents, win the approval of industrialists They only and military men. became when Hitler nervous seemed to be going too fast and the fear of a war on two fronts loomed up. In fact, Hitler gave expression to tendencies inherent in German capitalism at which this time arose out of the economic crisis of the 1930s and expressed the contradictions of imperialism.

that We have already seen German recovery was based upon heavy government spending and a huge addition to the national debt. Fear of Germany led to an arms race and growing tension in which exacerbated Europe was with each of Hitler's moves-the of the Rhineland, occupation intervention in the Spanish civil war, the occupation of Austria, the threat to Czechoslovakia, the campaign over Danzig and Polish corridor. The conditions for war were created as the 'victors' who had the Versailles benefited from Treaty's settlement of Europe and the world found themselves under challenge from the now well-armed A peaceful settlement of these pril 21, 1972 epression of the 1930s, begun in the autumn of 1929, struck th special severity. It plunged litical crisis which culminated highly-organized working-class ming to power of Hitler. This mp's series deals with Hitler antagonisms out of the was question. But it is also evident that Hitler did not want or pre- pare Germany for an all-out war or the kind of war which finally took place. As for German capitalism, it accepted the risks war because war was in the logic of its development. War became the only way out. In this, German capitalism was different from other no any national capitalism. But because of the peculiarities of German history and the nature of the Nazi regime, it was brought out there in the sharpest form.

There was no pretence about desiring peace and disarmament.

Nazi ideology glorified war and prepared the youth directly for the slaughter. ' German capitalism found a new market in the re-armament boom which the Nazis alone were able to bring about because of their Willingness to defy the Versailles settlement. The financ- ing of the Nazis' economic programme brought Germany to the brink of state bankruptcy.

This was the essence of the difference between Dr Schacht and the, Nazis. Expansion after 1936 had required the issue of a mountain of paper obligations by the state which added to its indebtedness and contained the potential for a runaway inflation and the collapse of the whole financial and monetary system.

War offered a way out of this Situation, which had, in any case, been largely brought about by preparation for war. War offered a way out by making it possible to impose taxes and restrictions would not be acceptable which in peace-time even under" Nazir rule. But war also offered the prospect of continued orders for German industry for armaments and other supplies. Likewise, war opened up the prospect of gaining new markets opportunities and investment through the acquisition of fresh territory for expansion. Given the state of the world market in the seemed to be no 1930s, there other way of expanding external trade. Of course, war offered no real solution to the contradictions of German capitalism: it merely postponed the day of reckoning which neither the Nazis nor the ruling class cared to contemplate.

A series of predatory, limited wars offered the prospect of post- poning that day for a long time.

This was Hitler's programme. It was the programme of the bank- rupt who makes a last throw.

This programme was accept- able to the German ruling class despite some doubts which, were confined mainly to the military men: It was an alternative to another depression into and plunge economic breakdown bringing the danger of social revolution.

risks and the The war, glittering of prospect victory which would give Germany the mastery of Europe, were well worth taking in order to avoid such a catastrophe..…

CONTINUED TOMORROW"

As the application of the In- dustrial Relations is Act showing, the law is not a neutral arbiter. It is, and always has been, the instru- ment of class interests, used to defend the economic supremacy of the ruling class against attack from the working class. In 1563 parliament passed the Statute of Artificers, a compre- hensive measure to protect ruling-class pockets against the effects of massive inflation and currency depreciation, and a shortage of hired labour, by regulating wages. Unfortunately this book con- tains no broad account of early wage regulation, still less an attempt to interpret this history 'incomes in relation to modern policy. No general conclusions are drawn about the links between economic and legal history.

Instead, we are presented with three essays on one aspect of the Statute of Artificers, containing such a mass of detailed, technical evidence that the wood can scarcely be seen for the trees.

Nevertheless, the book cannot help touching on vital topics. The Statute of Artificers was the main instrument of Eliza- bethan policy in the field of labour'. Its stated aims were to 'banish idleness, advance hus- bandry, and yield unto the hired person both in times of scarcity and in times of plenty a con- Like all Proportion venient of wages'. such legislation, the statute brings clearly into focus the class alignments of its day.

In the 16th century, English economic society completed the transition from feudalism to an • economy making general use of money, under which production takes place for profit rather than for mere subsistence. Peasants began to receive wages, rather than simply per- "labour services' for the " Ce forming big landowners. With their new new supply of money, many of them rose to the status of rent- paying tenants. The more pros- perous could even buy their own land. Of course the money economy did not work entirely to their advantage, as profitability some- the large land- times required owners to enclose (fence in) their fields and turn to sheep farming, evicting peasants from land they had ploughed for centuries.

But by 1563 the peak of the enclosure movement had passed.

It had never been as devastating as the 18th century in effect enclosures, since in the 16th century a peasant still had a good chance of 'living at his own contemporaries hands' described' it. This meant either self-employment as a craftsman, converting a patch of or else into small farm, waste land large enough to sustain one man's family. of Only a small number forced to seek peasants were as landless labourers on work 'other. people's farms.. There was,

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in fact, a shortage of hired This created some diffi- labour. farmers who culty for those needed extra workers, especially as the labourers who were avail- rather a able in strong were position when it came to demand- higher This ing wages. was the Statute of Artificers where came in. Besides making some attempt to prevent the drift of workers to the towns, the statute laid down that legal maximum wages were to be established annually, for workers all over the country, by the local Justices of the _Peace. Punishments were laid down, both for paying wages above. the maximum and for receiving them.

When fixing wages, the Justices were supposed to take the price of food into account as well as the employers' requirements. But since, as Minchinton says, these the same gentiemen * were time the magistrates, the police, the army recruiting officials and the landlords', it is not surprising that prices played little part in their 'prices and incomes policy'!

When he drafted the Statute, 'un- * Cecil wrote angrily of the reasonable wages demanded by servants in husbandry'. During Statute's 200 years of the the operation, complaints along these lines are far more common than attempts to use the Statute to wages in times of great raise scarcity. For example, the Privy Coun- 'We are cil recorded in 1625: informed that it is a thing usuall amongst workemen employed in such labours to exact great prises and high rates, when the worke any perfection growes to or then either take their finishing, owne unreasonable demands, or deserte the worke, and so put the workmaister to some extra- ordinaries.' The 1563 Act was not without precedents. As early as 130%, the of Labourers had Statute a maximum attempted to fix wage. The labour shortage at this date had been caused by the Black Death-and the 'unreason- able demands' of the peasants had burst forth into the Peasants' Revolt eight years earlier. There is no doubt that the Elizabethan government, also, looked upon Above: tenants paylng the Lord their rents. In the 16th century many peasants rose to the status of rent payers. wage control as an urgent ques- tion of security. Although the Statute of Arti- ficers remained on the statute book until the early 19th century, its operation changed in accord- ance with changing economic and political circumstances. In the l6th century, it was - designed by a government repre- senting large landowners to keep hired labour cheap and plentiful.

Large enterprises for the manu- facture of woollen cloth, begin- ning to develop at this time, did not receive the same encourage- ment. In fact, in 160% so far government went as to establish a legal minimum wage for the workers of this industry.

The most consistent attempt to enforce this legislation, and • to punish employers who underpaid spinners and weavers, occurred 'personal rule' during the of Charles I, 1629-1640. For the 'new men' who had made for- tunes out of wool manufacture were, of course, supporting the Puritan cause. They rewarded when were Cromwell promptly abolished the minimum But the legal wage. • maximum wage for agricultural labourers stayed, and was rigor- The bourgeois ously enforced. revolution was won in the name of property owners, not that of landless peasants. decline of the The eventual Statute of Artificers in the 18th century reflected a change in the position of wage earners, as the Industrial Revolution gathered momentum. Both agriculture and industry becoming more were highly capitalized and more com- petitive. As small farmers were squeezed out by a new wave of enclosures, the number of land- less labourers grew. At the same time, their barg- aining position had weakened.

Opportunities for workers to live 'at their own hands' had greatly declined. New organizations for collective defence of living standards had not yet arisen. The inability of labourers to en- 'unreasonable force demands', together with the growth of com- petition, led entrepreneurs in industry to agriculture and demand a 'free market' in wages as well as prices. Wage regula- tion by the Statute of Artificers soon lapsed. But in class society, no government can afford to ignore labour policy for very long. The new worker-employer relation- ship of capitalism presented new threats to the ruling class.

The old legal maximum wage of Artificers the Statute of merged without a break into new laws against 'combinations' con- and spiring to raise wages, trade against the growth ...of unionism. The continuity of present day incomes' 'brices and and in- dustrial relations' policy with that of previous centuries is the main lesson to be drawn from this book.

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Constant 'I don't know the rights and wrongs or tuls lalest pay 'Sunday Express' pute, wrote fashion editor Anne Edwards last week. live People ,glass who 1n would be well advised houses not to throw stones. Edwards can never resist it.

Amid thoughts about soft, make-up colours strange, ncw and the battle of the bulge we read: sick and tired of am mealy-mouthed militants lead- or other, tell- ing some strike "regret ing us how much. they, the inconvenience to alLY public". 'Why don't they come right out with the truth and say their aim is always to cause us the maximum inconvenience in order to get the maximum pay.' As is well known the rail- waymen's pay is on average £17 a week- many are on Outy £14 and the 'maximum' they are asking for is £20. We wonder how this com- pares with Edwards' pay. Then there is the question A third of the of productivity. total number of rail jobs have been axed and productivity forced up. We note Edwards' contribu- 'Sunday Express' tion to the remains more or less constant.

Words Indonesia stands for fighting oppression and injus- tyranny, tice in all forms of manifesta- convinced that tion. am Indonesia shall continue sup- the and implementing United Nations resolutions aiming at liberating the African people who still under ale colonialism suffering under the yoke of the filthy apartheid system and racialism' Thus spoke Indonesia's Foreign Minister, Adam Malik, the other, day on the occasion of the international day for the racialism abolition of as declared by the United But Fighting words. Nations anyone with even the shortest will recall how Malik and his henchmen presided of over Te e salette estimated 1 million communists Chinese Them dlaclly only a few. years ago.

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The General and Municipal Workers' Union's latest journal had an invitation brochure to join a mail order firm. The Craig, of Peter company' Lancashire, must be Chorley, well connected with the union.

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Committee of the Fourth International held its fourth international conference from April 10-15. Delegates from eight countries participated, some of them travelling many thousands of miles. First concern of the confer- ence was the urgency given to by its proceedings the trans- economic and political formed changes in the months since the measures of United August_15 States President Nixon. In the US and in the capital- Europe, ist countries the working class have moved into struggle under conditions where of taking power the question cannot be avoided. Only the forces of the Inter- these changes. to prepare Every tendency - including some falsely claiming the name Trotskyists-based themselves on the theory that the capitalist boom had made it no longer pos-: sible for the workers of the advanced countries to achieve the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism. the conference resolution As international perspectives on points out, this theory of 'neo- capitalism', a capitalism without fundamental contradictions, was only the surface impression of middle-class of opponents Marxism. With this theory they turned to other social forces - the Stalinist bureaucracy, the colonial nationalists, middle-class 1968, the students-as the the overthrow of capitalism. This was really the politics of protest and radical propaganda in the capitalist countries. Since May-June 1968 in France, working itself the class thrown into chaos and confusion all those who based themselves on these revisions of Marxism.

the Inter- Consequently, only national Committee is able to put a revolutionary inter- forward national perspective at this stage.

conference Manifesto The in Workers (printed tomorrow Press) urges revolutionaries in every country to recognize and upon their historic re- to act sponsibilities, to fight in every struggle of the working class for building of revolutionary the Marxist parties. Now the full fury of the crisis has been unleashed by Nixon's measures, it is necessary to pre- for the most explosive pare economic and political conse- Manifesto. says the quences, becomes massive Trade war slump. Great industrial and financial concerns quake and crash. Whole break- national economies face down. War tempts big business as the solution, and at the same Revolution time frightens them. counter-revolution appear and first in one country, then in another. reformist and Stalinist The bureaucracies, tied to imperial- ism, can only lead the masses to disastrous defeats. These same bureaucracies assist the imperialists who are driven by intensified competition to turn upon the working class in their 'own' countries to destroy their basic rights and organizatións.

Never was it more urgent to build working-class revolutionary parties based on the Transitional Programme of the Fourth Inter- national. This period now brings out the full meaning of the long struggle, since 1953, the of International Committee against revisionism, which Pabloite abandoned the building of such parties. In this overall perspective, the conference proceeded to discuss in detail work of the the national sections. It is a question, in each country, of working out a concrete programme of struggle to enable the working class to emerge as a politically independ- ent force, by breaking it from present domination of the Stalinists in countries such as or Italy, and France Greece, the social democracy in • from other countries. such as 'Britain.

Aor 21, 1972 Discussion on the United States, centred CONFERENCE also discussed the work of Trotskyists in the United Workers States, although League, which works in sympathy with the IC, is prevented by !S law (the Voorhis Act) from join- ing the Fourth International.

In this presidential election year, the conference considered that the long-term fight for a US • based on the trade labour party unions could be and must be taken forward decisively.

Not only are US trade union- ists being subjected to the in- ternal measures - pay freeze, from restrictions--flowing legal August 15, but the presidential candidacy of the ultra-right wing George Wallace is the spearhead of a big attack by the capitalist parties on the unions. strength of the It was the American working class, particu- larly in the steel and automobile industries, which made Nixon's August 15 decision inescapable.

It had become impossible to continue with both domestic in- and dollar convertibility flation at fixed prices and parities.

In this campaign situation, a to mobilize trade unionists for the formation of a labour party,- to defend the unions and the independent interests of the working class, is the correct path for US Marxists. Within this fight for a labour party, the Workers League must battle independently the socialist programme which it and proposes for such a party, at the same time come forward only consistent fighters as the for the labour party. This central theme, the fight to lead the working class to poli- tical independence, was the basic orientation of the discussions on the work of the sections. On this basis, plans were made for the International Committee to.help ...fo

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MADe UNCT s, centred around the need for a labour party directly in the work in each country. IN GREECE, for example, the most effective way to break the working class from the counter- revolutionary influence of Stalin- ism is to demand in every struggle that the Stalinist parties break from treacherous their alliances with capitalist parties.

Particularly, the Partsalides- Theodorakis Stalinist tendency must be exposed and fought for its extreme turn away from the working class and its demands.

FOR IRELAND, the conference discussion • emphasized the im- portançe of the revolutionary unity, not only of the workers of N and S Ireland, but of Ireland and Britain in struggle against the Tories in both countries.

In situation such as in Ireland,, the that prevailing essential emphasis must be on the recruiting and training of revolutionaries, particularly among the young workers, who able to break from the are nationalism syndicalism and which have always dominated in the Irish working class, neither of them able to challenge the basic ideological grip of the church on the one hand and Protestant Unionism on the other. THE CONFERENCE main reso- lution and Manifesto draw atten- tion to the heroic revolutionary colonial struggles . of the countries. After bearing the brunt of im- perialist exploitation, repression and war ever since the 1940s, the •able oppressed peoples are now to mount an offensive, especially Bangla Desh, and Vietnam, in which shakes imperialism to its elp..foundations, foundations, and, now, combines... ar -

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with the struggle in the advanced countries. dismissed those who All Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution as outdated now find it confirmed on an international scale. colonial countries, In these the qualitative task of building Trotskyist parties founded on the fight to develop Marxist theory presents itself with equal urgency to the situation in Europe and America. CONFERENCE discussed the section in Ceylon work of its (the Revolutionary Communist League), where the degeneration and revision of Marxism in the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (which the capitalist coalition in joined 1964 while still affiliated to the "'United Secretariat'!) Pabloite had led to open betrayal to im- perialism. Conference carried unani- mously a resolution condemning imprisonments in Ceylon, the carried out by a government in renegade - ex-'Trotskyists' which Stalinists and participate with capitalist parties. ANOTHER resolution concerned the struggle in Argentina.

It condemned the campaign of kid- . napping and individual terrorism which culminated in the shooting of the hostage Fiat representa- tive, Sallustro. Carried out by a tendency . be claiming Trotskyist to (actually affiliated to the Paris Unified Secretariat), this action completely contradicts the pro- gramme and methods of struggle of Marxist parties, the principles Marx, Engels, fought for Lenin and Trotsky. Right at the point where the industrial workers of Argentina nes... are building up mass actions, this middle-class individualist terror- ism avoids •thé fundamental problems of leadership and mobilization of the class, substi- heroism tuting for it personal "propaganda by deed' and and opening the door to savage re- pressions. IN CONSIDERING the future work of its youth commission (set up in 1966) the conference drew attention to the split which has occurred in the International Committee after the international youth rally which met in Essen, W Germany, last June. The AJS (Socialist Youth Alliance, youth organization of Communiste the Organisation Internationaliste OCh),' then the French section of the IC) at that rally put forward the programme setting up a centrist. inter- national youth organization.

This inyolved their rejecting an amendment from the Young Socialists, which called for the develop dialectical fight to materialism as the only basis for a revolutionary Trotskyist youth movement. THE CONFERENCE dealt at length with the political lessons this split. Essen been by the dispute over followed Bolivia. There, the counter- revolutionary which over- . coup threw the nationalist regime of Torres and bloodily repressed the working class had cruelly ex- posed the descent into centrism of the

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(Revolutionary Workers Party) led by Guillermo Lora and sharing the political conceptions of the OCI. At this point, the OCI, far.

from pulling back from dangerous positions, persisted in them and solidarized with Lora against the International Com- mittee. The conference endorsed the positions taken by the IC in breaking from the revisionist leadership of the OCI. It would be impossible for revolutionary in this period to co- Marxists exist the same international organization as those whose false theories and opportunist actions prepare defeats for the working class. IN PLANNING for the future, commissions at the conference guidance comrades gave to struggling to establish new sec- tions in places as far away as Australia. The international summer school in was planned, which several hundred comrades from many countries will partici- pate. One of the main issues at this school will be the history of the Fourth International and the International Left Opposition.

special commission was .A appointed to begin this work. They, and the individual sections, will bring together the prelimi- nary results by the summer. This no academic pursuit: the is history of the International em- bodies the theoretical lessons of all the vital experiences of the working class in our epoch.

Another resolution on future tasks instructed the International Committee to draft rules for. its functioning founded .on original statutes of the Fourth International (1938) which would facilitate centralized work and guidance to the national sections.

IN THE five days of the con- ference, delegates worked together, not in an atmosphere of mutual compliments and abstract schematic formulations, but rather in an intensive struggle to , problem examine every to its roots, by relating it to the great historical transformations in the and objective situation the theoretical struggle made urgent by these changes. In this sense, the Fourth Con- of the ference International Committee ended on a note of optimism, an high revolutionary optimism tempered by determina- tion, above all else to devote every nerve and every muscle to task outlined by Leon the Trotsky: to resolve the crisis of revolutionary leadership of the working class, the only road to resolving the historical crisis of humanity caused by decaying capitalism. ....

Engineers' pay: Even East Anglia is hotbed of struggle SEVENTY FIVE axle assembly workers at the Standard Triumph, Radford plant, Coventry, near decided yesterday to continue- their week-old strike and not to meet again for one week.

One of the assembly shop , stewards, A. Harban, commen- ted: "The 'claim of our assembly workers is for an approximate increase of £2.50 to bring us in line with the average assembly bonuses paid at the main Can- ley factory. 'We are an assembly gang away We have from the main plant. • right been discussing this claim back to last November. "The company says that if we to increase our were prepared production by 15 axles a day they would negotiate an increase in pay, but all they offered us in exchange was 4 per cent of our bonus, which would be precisely 27p a week. We are not having this' MEMBERS of the Road Haulage being recom Association are mended to seek increases of up to 5 per cent in their charges.

The 17,000 Association mem- bers have been told by their chairman, William McMillan, that a recession in trade had a severe effect on the haulage industry.

Members should immediately review their costs, he said, TOOLMAKERS at CAV's Acton factory, N London, have gained a temporary victory over man- agement's attempts to create a new toolroom out of the control of the militant toolroom commit- tee. Shop stewards have been given verbal assurance that they will be consulted in future about any proposals affecting toolroom work. The assurance came after a work-to-rule and several walk- outs.

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9.20 REVIEW. The Blues Accor- E ANGLIA is not normally considered a hotbed of class struggle, but since March 29 1,600 engineers have been locked out of the largest factory in the county's big- gest city. The factory is Laurence Scott and Electromotors. The city, Norwich. And Hugh McKenna, one of the locked-out workers' leading shop stewards, is a dele- to this week's National gate Committee of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. It's the first major dispute we've had in the district for as long as I can remember,' he told me on the eve of the committee's key wages debate. submitted our pay claim --based on the national claim.

drawn up at National Committee last year—in January. Then after whole series of meetings in a which the company refused to offer more thán the Engineering Employers' Federation had at national level we agreed to ban overtime and payment-by-results working. 'Exactly an hour after we stopped PBR, the company locked us out.' Hugh and the other stewards in the factory were 'surprised' by the company's action, he said.

'We had never said we were working to rule or anything, with all that that implies. All we were doing was asserting our right to take our own time over our jobs. 'If the company had wanted a settlement of this dispute, got round the table, could have didn't. but it *This indicates to me that it is not just this particular em- ployer we are facing, but an action by the EEF. "This is the main EEF firm in IT 12.15 Apollo 16. First moondrive.

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FROM DAVID MAUDE IN EASTBOURNE

the area. Scott's is obviously setting the pace for others.'

The pay claim was submitted in January in the context of alterations to an existing pay structure; the alterations were allied the demands made in to the national claim. Neitber the stewards nor full- time officials could obtain an improvement in the company's hirst offer, which was exactly in line with the Tory government's undeclared 7t-per-cent pay norm.

Since the lock-out the stewards have made several attempts to get talks involving full-time union officials going again, but have met a complete blank wall.

They proposed a meeting under the chairmanship of the Lord Mayor, they approached bishop's industrial the local

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began this week Hull and service between Esbjerg. The service will be jointly operated by Ellerman Wilson and the Danish company, DFDS.

1he terminal 1s scheduled to be operational early next year when a new ferry, at present under construction, comes into " service..: being under- The project is taken at a time when Hull dock- are fighting a bitter struggle ers against further redundancies.

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6.01 Report West. 6.18 Report Wales. 6.35 Bonanza. 7.30 Film: Workers Press, sly chaplain. They wrote to Nor- wich's two MPs, to Labour leader Harold Wilson and even to Tory premier Edward Heath. There was no response. One effect of this series of events was to pull out onto the streets of the town last Thurs- week an unprecedented demonstration of factory wor- kers, many of whom had loyally supported the company for 30 years or more. The other was to confirm Hugh McKenna's support for the plant-bargaining strategy adopted by the union in January.

'We'll back, to the never federation after this,' hé-says.

Hugh admits that there were, and are, two alternatives facing the national committee: plant- level action, or 'putting 1 million I would like inforn Fill in the form below and

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12.30 Weather. HTV West as above except: 6.18- 6.35 Report West. HTV Wales and HTV Cymru/ Wales as above except: 4.15-4.30 Cantamil. 6.01-6.18 Y dydd. 10.30- 11.00 Outlook. ANGLIA: 12.15 London. 3.45 Yoga. 4.10 News. 4.15 Cartoons.

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10.30 Probe. 11.00 Film: 'Merrill's Marauders'. ATV MIDLANDS: 12.15 London.

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5.50 London. 6.00 Today. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 His and hers. 7.30 Jason King. 8.30 Shirley's world. 9.00 London. 10.30 Film: 'Homicidal'. ULSTER: 12.15-1.15 London. 1.45- 3.50 London. 4.30 Romper room.

4.55 Thunderbirds. 4.50 News. 5.50 London. _6.00 Reports. 6.35 7.30 Crossroads. 7.00 London. Jason King. 8.30 His and hers.

9.00 London: 10.30 Documentary.

ors Pross, Friday April 21, 1972 PAGE 11 shoulders to the door' in a national strike. Despite the lock-out, he comes against a national strike. down "There's always a danger of breaking the door.' the Although from same divisional of the committee AUEW, national-committee dele- gate Ron Davis feels the in on strategy has caused chaos in the union. He hoped on Monday night that the committee would decide to put the claim back to national level in an attempt to establish minimum conditions there. Wages questions would be fought out locally, however. A shop steward at RHP Bear- ings, Chelmsford, Ron pointed out that workers at the English Electric Valve Co in the town had voted to strike from next Monday if no satisfactory offer on the claim was forthcoming.

nformation about w and send to NATIONAL

ALIST: LABOUR LEAGUE,

H ST, LONDON, SW4 7UG.

11.00 Film: "The Ballad of Andy Crocker. YORKSHIRE: 12.15 London. 1.15 Light in. 1.45 London. 2.15 The the song. 2.30 London. singer, 3.45 Jimmy Stewart. 4.10 News.

4.15 Crossroads. 4.40 Zingalong: 4.55 Flaxton boys. 5.20 Flint- stones. 5.50 London. 6.00 Calen- dar, weather. 6.30 Partners. 7.00 London. 8.00 Hawaii five-o. 9.00 London. 10.30 Film: "The Mark'.

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6.30 Partners. 7.00 London. 8.00 Dr Gannon. 9.00 London. 10.30 Film: 'The • Mark'. 12.45 News. 1.00 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 12.15-1.15 London.

1.45-3.15 London. 3.30 Kiri. 3.45 Crossroads. 4.10 Dateline. 4.55 Lost in space. 5.50 London. 6.00 Dateline. 6.20 Cartoon. 6.30 His and hers. 7.00 London. 7.30 Andy. 8.00 Hawail five-o. 9.00 London. 10.30 Conference re- port. 11.00 Late call. 11.05 Film: "The Trunk'. GRAMPIAN: 12.15-1.15 London.

1.45-3.20 London. 3.38 News. 3.45 Women today. 4.10 Smith family.

4.40 Zingalong. 4.55 Rainbow country. 5.20 Ivanhoe. 5.50 Lon- don. 6.00 News, weather. 6.05 Mr and Mrs. 6.35 Crossroads. 7.00 London. 7.35 It takes thief. a 8.25 Melody Inn. 9.00 London.

41.00 10.30 Conference report. Film: 'Bride of . Frankenstein'.

12.25 Epilogue.

PAGE 12 Workers Pross, Friday April 21, 1972

APRIL

unemployment yester- are still of work for the fourth consecutive month. The figures showed that the decrease tinuing high unemploy- The huge number o the month of 4,308. But, redundancies are or wholly unemployed IS • continuing to rise This There adjusted, the tinuing unabated. seasonally clearest proof that lasers Sui were Ulster is still hardest during March. This government talk reflation is just a propa- by brings total hit unemployment. the ganda smokescreen. The three total

ICAISLCTCO

60,000, The figures, employed year creating mass unemploy- ThIS with 97,000 the Department of Em- per cent of the working compared ment. same period last The ployment, total population. the right to work, 1,005,144 the year. keynote Wren oloyed, decrease Britain showed a slight Press Young

ASSOC

•ocialisis 12,149 on the decrease in its total ation's political country-wide previous month. except the pondent wrote yesterday: only by unemployed won getting the Tories out of 'the number of wholv "The where unere sharp increase of 2,372. unemployed totalled undismayed by the con- office.

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

SHOP FLOOR leaders of Manchester's engineering yesterday workers said that they would not be intimidated by cash backing given to local employers.

Commenting £lm on NW given employers b Engineering Employers the Alec Federation, convenor Reese said: "The gauntlet has been thrown down and we ready to accept the are challenge. Mr Reese works at the Bred- FOUR HUNDRED men sacked Stockport- bury stee works. -LI10 by C. A. Parsons of Newcastle GKN plant which was the first £530.24 so far of 27 Manchester factories to be for 'refusing to work normally' staged a work-in yesterday.

Reese added: 'The pas Mr THIS month we need our greatest just getting claim ground, it the the fac tech- been

LOTY-

anected as a resun or une put flm into this fight they mus of determination of this Tory govern- supervisory have money waste would the AUEW-have been working- inch to the ment give an not to presume they also had enough to to-rule protest against railwaymen. We have been forced PaY This management plan to make 1.000 10 our riSe appeal government is opening men redundant in June this year.

readers, help us the flood gates. The employers intimidating call are and the . 1 ories We need to Fund a ban on the use of telephones, everyone with another target by anarchy. general go-slow, and with these dilticulties. Roylance, of convenor John week. We know It is a 300 who employees

_DOX

ment, but under Parsons warned that if the factory occupying their are fight Illusion that the Timperly Cheshire, said Man- concine continued they would ateye. to bundred begin sackings immedi- Torles will not be touah.

had been picked because CHester dismissed This political situation, ately. were it was there that the employers feel, special effort. So and a 300 requires Tuesdar meeting most resistance lurtner Raise on Wednesday. ao all out today. only get deter. call as you can for our April Appeal my Eight hundred men at the as- minea now Fund and if you can, add some- feeling is that we have nothing works Reyrolles thing extra yourself. Post every sociate to lose and everything , to gain Hebburn backed Tyne donation immediately to:

BEF

president, carlisie. Workers Press April Appeal Fund Will walk. said the cash support had been out to hold a meeting of support.

186a Clapham High St because of the admirable given London SW4 7UG. by employers And at Coventry a mass meet- solidarity' displayed workers in Lancashire and Cheshire 'We felt it only right that the ARMED FORCES are to Federation as should whole ratsons mel. 11½-per-cent rise backdated April 1972. With members Nels Haye 7-per- Wages for the work-in are be- the carried this heavy burden for so cost-of-living ing guaranteea by the Celi … crease but the Rolls-Royce men agreed awarded last year the latest rise The unions are insisting that 50p levy and that has member means services pay settlements must be made on all donation of t500 from one-up by 18: per cent in two three of the main points of the local funds. years. claim. for a f4 wage in- eases hour crease, week and

LATENEWS

WEATHER

longer holidays. latest employer to make

NEWS DESK

will be cloudy Inree polnts with scattered showers. Most of Davies and Metcalfe, 01-720 2000 Stockport. They have given their England, N Ireland and wage AWesooveri

CIRCULATION

crease, a 37l-hour week and tw spells but in N Scotland a few 01-622 7029 likely. extra days' holiday a year.

showers are will be beratures

CONFEDERATION

of British normal, but it will be rather cold STUDENTS at the London Film in SE England. Industry lift are threatening School yesterday overwhelmingly Outlook Saturday and decided to support any industrial their attempis to control Da Ces

CBI

President John Partridge Sundav: Mostv dry with Federa. action by unions in the the three and near normal has given unions periods tion of Film Unions to fight the temperatures Becomin closure of Shepperton studios, montas to respona to an apped.

old and showery in N Scotland for . wage restraint or Middlesex. The fully The ion. meeting federation's advice to member- lUC policy Dasseo their down keep prices year which calls Blackpool last He said nationalization of the wil be abandoned. for railway workers without compensa- film industry extreme Rail tion and under workers' control.

above the cost of living.

GERMAN Chancellor Willy NIRC: New. 'orders were made Brandt arrived in Britain yester- making it clear the Court's ruling day on blacking applied to all British ports. in T&GWU: The has asked

TUC

union Victo LondOn. o meet the TUC's Finance and Feather said the unions Committee next not oppose movement of labour General Purposes within Wednesdav discuss from Country lo and will make known own the Market so long as there war response the following day.

full employment.

BY DAVID MAUDE

BRITAIN'S biggest union, the Transport and General Workers? Union, was fined a further £50,000 by the National Industrial Relations Court yesterday for con- tempt of court. They have until May 4 to pay.

This swingeing fine comes £5,000 fine of the on top imposed three weeks ago for the same offence. Court president Sir John Donaldson imposed the fine haulage after road firms complained that their lorries blacked still being by Liverpool dockers. And he warned that if the continued the union contempt could face seizure of its entire £22m assets until the contempt purged. was Sir John said: 'I cannot over- Rycroft of Craddock emphasize gravity John Brothers outside the Court union's conduct. "The courts first fine of £5,000 T&GWU or anyone acting been than the had much smaller would have been the case if the on its behalf.' had believed the court union The effect of the sequestration understood the gravity of its order he was applying for, if the action. proved, would contempt far It that now appears simply be. to take possession of from seeking to purge the con- 'all that the union has down to tempt, it has allowed its members its last piece of the last nail in it.? to continue property' until the contempt was The complaints had been made cleared. Heatons Transport by two firms, followed There then legal Ltd of St Helens and Craddock to whether the based arguments as Brothers, which is at effect of the sequestration order Wolverhampton. would be hold the five- to union's Yesterday morning, the until the decided assets contempt was panel of judges man cleared or to exact a fine the evidence unanimously to take dockers' court might decide. the relating both to 'The result of the first course defiance of their order last Mon- would be disruptive in the. and the day continuous nature extreme of the ordinary business of the contempt. of the union, Sir John Donald- Richard Yorke, OC, was Heatons' behalf, to son commented. allowed. on blacking at Then Yorke to the present evidence of Liverpool docks and at Preston sec well. There as were existence F. Flanked by lay judges A. affi of

OBE,

R. oth Blacktaws, Davis and C. Robinson, might decide to con-

CBE,

the NIRC president put sid Craddock hearing back the of question of At issue was Brothers' motion on the grounds whether last action that necessary witnesses had not wa: yet arrived in London. of when the They had been subpoenaed to From March attend 'in the small hours of this had court order morning', he told the court.

aga from He also read a letter the Jack Tones saying that while the Heatons' occasions on T&GWU would not be attend- had been vehicles the ing the court in line with TUC def 'I do wish to point out policy: that the union is not acting in Heaton Robert and 'reg contempt of the court. Opening the first section of he his for Heatons of these instances. case, counsel said that on Monday, April 17, two company vehicles were sent nec to Liverpool docks. and the con- The first 'arrived at Alexandria tair dock at 8 a.m. and after a one- Yorke also to the and-a-half-hour wait was turned orig away by men who claimed to be joir acting on behalf of the union.

workers' on Mersey- The second was sid turned away 15 minutes after it arrived at acti Langton dock 10.30 at a.m. prelude to Neither lorry was carrying con- tainer traffic. also affidavits were Five tion for legal costs to be awarded sworn submitted. the T&GWU might against be from Robert. These were made when the issue was con- Heaton senior, joint-managing cluded. Evidence of blacking outside director, Jack Appleton,

T&GWU

shop at the steward also taken in Liverpool firm who drove the first lorry on Brothers' that day, the driver of the second motion. vehicle and both their mates.

All Besides summonsing two man- four workers claim they had been agers of

ACT

Ltd of Services turned away by men who said Liverpool, the court also called they were acting either with Ronald Milward, transport behalf authority from or on of driver from Craddock's Wolver- hampton depot. the union. Said Yorke: He gave evidence that on two 'All this company is trying to had occasions his lorry been blacked at Royal Albert do is its normal Dock, carry on London. business. in sympathy with the It is not seeking to penalize action of the Liverpool dockers.

Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists

MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION

Sunday May 7 ASSEMBLE: 1.30 p.m. The Embankment, Charing Cross MARCH: via Trafalgar Square, Plccadilly, Regent Street, Oxford Street, Tottenham Court Road, Euston Road MEETING: 4 p.m. St Pancras Town Hall.

WE DEMAND THE RIGHT TO WORK

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN!