Workers Press no. 746

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AVENGE BLACK FRIDAY APRIL 21, 1972

THE DECISION of t thousands of active t In practice it means that the Tories, through the Industrial Relations Act, have legally taken over control of the trade unions. The demo- cratic right to strike-or even work to rule!-in order to improve wages and work- ing conditions has been abolished. Not since the Combination Laws (1800-1824), when trade unionism was made illegal, has the working class faced such a serious crisis. For approximately 250 years, trade unions have been custodians of the basic demo- cratic rights of the working class. Since the 1830s the trade union movement has been dominated by reformist class- collaborationist leaders.

The Taff Vale judgement against the rail unions in 1901 made it impossible for trade unions to function without their own party. In 1906, therefore, the Labour Party was founded.

But almost immediately the same type of reformist leader emerged to dominate the Labour Party. There is a case history behind the retreat of the TUC and rail- way union leaders. Briefly it is this. Reformism functioned effec- tively under economic conditions where the Tory employers could economically afford it. When workers struggled for wages and living standards, they always found their way blocked by these reformist leaders, who thrown a few in turn were crumbs to placate their members.

This performance was always designed to create the impression that it was the negotiating "skill' of the reformist leaders which got the increases and not the deter- mination of the working class to fight. Because of the present grave economic crisis of the world capitalist system the era of re- formism has ended. The Tory government has decided to try and resolve its crisis by fighting it out with the working class through enforcing low wages, un- employment and the Industrial Relations Act. There is a good reason why the TUC and rail union leaders can- not fight the government. As

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reformists and believers in the 'peaceful road' to socialism they are tied hand and foot to Tory laws and cannot challenge them.

Indeed, the more the Tories use the Act the more the reform- ist leaders will retreat. They will they did in 1926 retreat as under conditions where the rank and file are left to fight on with their hands tied behind their back. The struggle for more wages is the basic right of every worker.

But immediately a wages struggle begins an application by the government or the employers to the Industrial Relations Court transforms it into a political struggle. This means the Tory govern- ment and the state sets the norm for wages, with the reformist trade union leaders reluctant to proceed they won't because challenge the law. This rule by decree of a Tory Industrial High Court is con- trary to everything the British has fought for, working class throughout its long history. It is a form of dictatorship via the court house door. No real struggle for more wages is possible today with- out it involving the mobiliza- of the working class tion industrially and politically to make this government resign.

That has been the policy of the Socialist Labour League since the Tories set out to draft the Industrial Relations Bill in the autumn of 1970. The actions of the National Industrial Relations

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railwaymen reacted bitterly yesterday to the Industrial Relations Court order to end their action.

At the militant Waterloo Station railwaymen decided at a meeting yesterday to ban rest day and overtime working.

This will curtail Southern Region services and the station may have to close on Sunday.

Pickets will make sure the action is solid.

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Court over the past few weeks has proved us completely correct as against all our opponents in the labour movement. Training new leaders to replace the reformists within the trade union movement the means education of workers to think and act as revolutionary Marxists.

Militant left trade unionism as a thing in itself will lead into the same blind alley as reformism.

Building a new trade union is inseparable from leadership building the revolutionary party.

These are dangerous days.

Because of the treachery of the reformists the Tories have the advantage of the element of surprise. In the coming months there will be a procession of employers seeking NIRC injunctions. trade unionist or shop steward is safe from prosecution.

The main task is to rouse the working class to realize the great dangers which loom ahead. Mass meetings and demonstrations should be organized everywhere. The demands of the hour are: Defend our democratic rights.

Make the Tory government resign. This is both the hour of crisis and the hour of decision. We appeal to every reader of the Workers Press to immediately apply to join the Socialist Labour League. Help us build the revo- lutionary party and change the leadership of the trade unions.

April 21, 1972 At Charing Cross station, Peter Jupp, deputy secretary of the NUR branch there, told Workers Press: When the Opposition tried to ask questions on the rail dispute in the House of Commons, they were told it was sub judice to the National Industrial Relations Court. So even the party repre- working senting the class's interests can't fight for the workers' rights.' AY APRIL 22, 1972• No. 746 • 4p

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TOCHER: Defied solicitor's letter A THREAT by Manchester engineering employers to use the Industrial Relations Act against the engineers' was knocked back by workers yesterday. A mass meeting of 1,000 workers from the Patricroft, Lancs, diesel engine firm of J.

L. Garner rejected a £2-a-week increase previously pay "accepted' by a management- controlled ballot. John Tocher, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers divisional organizer, who addressed the meeting, deed a solicitor's letter saying the firm would seek an order under the Act against him for induce- ment to break a contract if he attended. It was found that a number of people had voted in the

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William supremo Whitelaw yesterday pledged to tackle the IRA strongholds in Londonderry's Bogside and 'no-go" Creggan areas - the areas for British troops.

A Swindon district committee of the Confederation of Ship- building and Engineering Unions has called for a General Strike *to defend the democratic rights of the trade union movement.

The resolution, passed unani- mously by No. 9A Confederation district committee. calls on the incoming Labour government to fight for socialist policies and the defence of democratic trade union rights.

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MR. ballot who were not affected, he claimed afterwards. *As the ballot was conducted by foremen we did not con- sider it free from intimidation.

*Employers will meet us across the table and not in a court of law,' he added. Shop steward Allan Brown expected Garner's, a federated firm, to stop the £2-a-week increase which they had paid out twice. After their midday meeting the men took the rest of the day off, but will return to work on Monday. The management has been given seven days to come forward on the district claim for £4, 35-hour week and one week extra holiday. If no settlement is reached by then a further mass meet- ing will decide on the ге- imposition of sanctions against the firm. It's a major problem and one we have got to tackle and we will. Im not going to cause un- necessary loss of life. But this doesn't mean the problem is not going to be solved it is, White- law said during a radio interview.

I'm going to pursue terrorists with the rigours of the law.

A resolution deploring attempts to censor news from N Ireland in the last year was unanimously carried by delegates attending annual meeting of the National Union of Journalists at Tenby yesterday. A successful emergency reso- lution from Central London branch deplored the fact that the circumstances of the deaths of 13 people in Londonderry on January 30 had been made sub judice to the press by the gov- ernment setting up a tribunal of inquiry.

workers press

AVENGE BLACK FRIDAY APRIL 21, 1972

THE DECISION of t thousands of active t In practice it means that the Tories, through the Industrial Relations Act, have legally taken over control of the trade unions. The demo cratic right to strike—or even work to rule!—in order to improve wages and work- ing conditions has been abolished. Not since the Combination Laws (1800-1824), when trade unionism was made illegal, has the working class faced such a serious crisis. For approximately 250 years, have trade been the unions of the basic demo- custodians the working cratic rights of class. Since the 1830s the trade union movement has been dominated by reformist class- collaborationist leaders.

The Taff Vale judgement against the rail unions in 1901 made it impossible for trade unions to function without their party. In 1906, therefore, Own the Labour Party was founded.

But almost immediately the leader same type of reformist emerged to dominate the Labour Party. There is a case history behind the retreat of the TUC and rail- way union leaders. Briefly it is this. Reformism functioned effec- tively under economic conditions where the Tory employers could economically afford it. When workers struggled for wages and living standards, they always found their way blocked by these reformist leaders, who thrown a few in turn were crumbs to placate their members.

This performance was always designed to create the impression that it was the negotiating 'skill of the reformist leaders which got the increases and not the deter- mination of the working class to fight. Because of the present grave economic crisis of the world capitalist system the era of re- formism has ended. The Tory government has decided to try and resolve its crisis by fighting it out with the working class through enforcing low wages, un- employment and the Industrial Relations Act. There is a good reason why the TUC and rail union leaders can- fight the government. As not

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tive trade unionists.

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reformists and believers in the 'peaceful road' to socialism they are tied hand and foot to Tory laws and cannot challenge them.

Indeed, the more the Tories use the Act the more the reform- ist leaders will retreat. They will in 1926 retreat as they did under conditions where the rank and file are left to fight on with hands tied behind their their back. The struggle for more wages is the basic right of every worker.

But immediately a wages struggle application by the begins an government or the employers to the Industrial Relations Court transforms it into a political struggle. This means the Tory govern- ment and the state sets the norm for wages, with the reformist trade union leaders reluctant to proceed because they won't challenge the law. This rule by decree of a Tory Industrial High Court is con- trary to everything the British fought for, working class has throughout its long history. It is a form of dictatorship via the court house door. No real struggle for more is possible today with- wages out it involving the mobiliza- tion working of the class industrially and politically to make this government resign.

That has been the policy of the Socialist Labour League since the Tories set out to draft the Industrial Relations Bill in the autumn of 1970. The actions of the National Industrial Relations railwaymen

MILITANT

reacted bitterly yesterday to the Industrial Relations Court order to end their action.

At the militant Waterloo Station railwaymen decided at a yesterday to ban rest meeting day and overtime working.

Southern This will curtail Region services and the station may have to close on Sunday.

Pickets will make sure the action is solid.

TING THE NEWSLEJTER • SATURDAY APRIL

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

has shocked tens of

POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF

UR LEAGUE

Court over the past few weeks has proved us completely correct as against all our opponents in the labour movement. Training new leaders to replace the reformists within the trade union movement means education of workers to think and act as revolutionary Marxists.

Militant left trade unionism as a thing in itself will lead into the same blind alley as reformism.

Building a new trade union leadership is inseparable from building the revolutionary party.

These are dangerous days.

Because of the treachery of the reformists the Tories have the advantage of the element of surprise. In the coming months there will be a procession of employers seeking NIRC injunctions. trade unionist or shop steward is safe from prosecution.

The main task is to rouse the working class to realize the great dangers which loom ahead. Mass meetings and demonstrations should organized everywhere. The demands of i the hour are: Defend our democratic rights.

Make the Tory government resign. This is both the hour of crisis and the hour of decision.

We appeal to every reader of the Workers to immediately Press apply to join the Socialist Labour League. Help us build the revo- • and change lutionary party leadership of the trade unions.

April 21, 1972 Cross station, At Charing Peter Jupp, deputy secretary of the NUR branch there, told Workers Press: "When • the Opposition tried to ask questions on the rail dispute in the House of Commons, they were told it was sub judice to the National Industrial Relations Court. So even the party repre- working class's senting the interests can't fight for the workers" rights." AY APRIL 22, 1972 • No. 746 • 4p

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TOCHER: Defied solicitor's letter A THREAT by Manchester engineering employers to use the Industrial Relations Act against the engineers' was knocked back by workers yesterday. A mass meeting of 1,000 workers from the Patricroft, Lancs, diesel engine firm of J.

L Garner rejected a £2-a-week pay increase previously 'accepted' by a management- controlled ballot. John Tocher, Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers divisional organizer, who addressed the meeting, defied a solicitor's letter saying the firm would seek an order under the Act against him for induce- ment to break a contract if he attended. It was found that a number of people had voted in the William ULSTER supremo Whitelaw yesterday pledged to tackle the IRA strongholds in Londonderry's ' Bogside and Creggan areas — the 'no-go' areas for British troops.

A Swindon district committee of the Confederation of Ship- building and Engineering Unions has called for a General Strike *to defend the democratic rights of the trade union movement".

The resolution, passed unani- mously by No. IA Confederation district committee. calls on the incoming Labour government to "fight for socialist policies and the defence of democratic trade union rights.

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ballot who were not affected', he claimed afterwards. "As the ballot was conducted by foremen we did not con- sider it free from intimidation.

Employers will meet us across the table and not in a court of law, he added. Allan Brown Shop steward expected Garner's, a federated firm, to stop the £2-a-week increase which they had paid out twice. After their midday meeting the men took the rest of the day off, but will return to work on Monday. The management has been given seven days to come forward on the district claim for £4, 35-hour week and one week extra holiday. If no settlement is reached by then a further mass meet- ing will decide on the re imposition of sanctions against the firm. 'It's a major problem and one we have got to tackle-and we will. I'm not going to cause un- necessary loss of life. But this doesn't mean the problem is not going to be solved it is,' White- law said during a radio interview.

I'm going to pursue terrorists with the rigours of the law?

A resolution deploring attempts to censor news from N Ireland in the last year was unanimously carried by delegates attending annual meeting of the National Union of Journalists at Tenby yesterday. A successful emergency reso- lution from Central London branch deplored the fact that the circumstances of the deaths of 13 people in Londonderry on January 30 had been made sub judice to the press by the gov- ernment setting up a tribunal of inquiry.

Puppets beaten all round PAGE 2 Workers Pross, Saturday April 22, A NEW world monetary con- ference in which the less- developed countries would be represented was called for by the Chilean and Chinese dele- gates to the United Nations Conference Trade and on Industry in Santiago. for China, Chou Hua-min, accused imperialist countries of plundering small nations and extracting huge profits from them their develop- which obstruct ment. He blamed the US for shifting its financial and monetary crisis onto the developing countries by prices forcing down the primary products and plundering their resources and wealth.

He accused 'the other super- power'-the Soviet Union—-of the same thing. But his proposals accepted the existing division of the world and offered Chinese national-bourgeois support to governments. In effect he was trying to pre- suade the richer countries to give more aid on better terms.

Ukrainian trade minister Vladi- mir Stazunsky said China was of the 'distorting the policy Soviet Union'. He called on China to co-operate in solving the problems under discussion.

on eve FALLING investment, declin- ing industrial production and rising unemployment. is revealed in the Italian govern- ment's • annual economic review, published in the run the May 7 General up to Election. The review clearly outlines the problems which led directly • to the fall of the 'centre-left' coalition government. The situation is linked directly to the trade war and recession precipitated by President Nixon's suspend the sale of decision to gold for dollars. capitalism, with Italian limited home market, has proved vulnerable to the particularly competition for markets and the growth of slump. months, the last 12 Over according to the official review, fell by 1.3 industrial production independent per cent - though sources have estimated the pro- duction decline more than at twice this figure. Many capitalists have taken their money out of the country illegally. Others are reluctant to despite favourable loan invest terms. Unemployment is rising, though exact estimates are hard to obtain unemployed because many register or join workers do not 'under-employed' the ranks of working on a part-time basis.

the The puts government wholly unemployed at 613,000 and underemployed at million 312,000 out of a 19.5 workforce. Fill in the form below and

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Name Address у April 22, 1972 THE military situation of America's puppet forces in Indo-China deteriorating rapidly under the impact of renewed offensives by the liberation forces. S Vietnamese troops besieged in An Loc, 56 miles from Saigon, came under heavy attack again yesterday, the 16th day of the siege. The liberation troops began their latest drive to take the town wịth a massive bombard- ment by 2,000 than more rockets and mortars. Anti-aircraft fire was SO fierce that no supply or medical PRESIDENT Pompidou's refer- endum on Britain's Common Market entry has talled to rouse much interest despite a huge government - sponsored publicity campaign. In reality a test of support for Pompidou, intended to confuse and divide the opposition, it is expected to show a record abstentions. of the 70 per expected to vote will say 'No'.

The Communist Party has been unable to mount a real cam- paign for a no vote. The Socialist Party, divided on the EEC issue, and most of the 'leftist' groups called for ab- stention. abdication of the fight This against Pompidou left the field free for the CP to avoid the real issues. ON DECEMBER 20 last year we wrote in a front page Think': The 'What We. double life of Paul Foot continues ... We've previ- ously had occasion to point out the two hats worn by Foot as leading member of the "state capitalist" Inter- national Socialists group and "Private editor of joint , the so-called satirical Eye", magazine. 'Nobody in the IS group has yet information about low and send to NATIONAL

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aircraft could evacuation get pilots said. through, American Meanwhile, S Vietnamese high command said tanks and battalion of liberation troops were spotted moving towards the outer eastern flank of the 40- tank government relief column stalled for nearly a week on the road between An Loc and Saigon.

On the other flank of the column there was fighting around Dau Thieng town, where a force of tanks is said to be hidden in rubber plantations. force itself is in The 'relief' danger of being outflanked and cut off in the same way as were the defenders of An Loc. column contains The stalled S Vietnam's 'crack' some of re- CP secretary Georges Marchais' ten-minute TV slot emphasized French national independence.

He put forward no perspective of workers' struggle against the Common Market by the working class of Europe. Contempt jailing EIGHTEEN union leaders in Quebec have been jailed for six months and fined $5,000 for defying a court injunction to essential hospital ser- maintain vices affected by the two-week- old civil service strike.

Talks broke down on Thurs- when trade union leaders day failed to get an offer closer to the 8.3 per cent demanded than the 6 per cent proposed by the provincial government. raised a murmer about Foot's "Eye", involvement with the magazine noted for its a deeply right-wing, anti-working class views.' Yet he continues to pen by-lined stories for their weekly 'Social- ist Worker'. We speculated about the possible these two journals merger of and concluded: "Perhaps we forward to the can look launching of entirely new an "radical" publish- concept in ing-"Private Worker with a Socialist Eye". We weren't far wrong. Three months later, on March 10, 'Private Eye' carried a large advertising leaflet for - yes it- 'Socialist you've guessed Worker'. The advertisement said: • "Socialist Worker" is a fighting paper. It is designed to stimu- late and organize opposition to the present system of society which is not only corrupt, as.

"Private Eye" relentlessly proves, but unnecessary.'

paragraph, apart This obscene revealing the completely from and reformist politics liberal of IS, shows the extent to which publications the are drawn together. This week's issue of Private Eye' carries a letter from the editor of 'Socialist Worker', , Mr Roger editor, Protz, who, as pre- sumably authorized the adver- tisements. But Mr Protz is dis- pleased. He writes:, have spent most of my time in serve regiments, including part of the presidential palace guard.

LIBERATION forces have also won major victories across the border in Cambodia, where the battered remants of two govern- yesterday battalions ment limped into the town of Ta Kauk after a two-day flight from the big offensive of the liberation forces. Many of the government troops were barely able to stand, having lost half their number killed or captured during their headlong retreat. The liberation forces now con- almost the whole of Cam- trol bodia's two eastern provinces which have twice in the past A KEY mass meeting at Br Oxford, car-body plant on Mo out shop stewards' guidance agreed by management and uni Since March 9, 2,350 workers on-Maxi and Marina production-lines at the plant have been operating work restrictions to force 'meaning- negotiations' ful on a pay claim. For the last fortnight they have been suspended each day politics correcting my mistakes, but I can claim to have been albeit small, right on one, issue. I argued five or six years.

ago with those of the left who joined in the adulation "Private Eye" that its attacks the Establishment had on nothing to do with progressive politics but were merely the disgruntled shrieking of a sec- tion of the ruling class that had been denied its rightful place at the pig's trough. "Thank you for proving me right.

You have lined up with your masters and chosen your side of the barricades. It is time for your readers to make their choice, too' But Mr Protz has made another monumental political mistake.

It's not the readers of the 'Eye' he should be appealing to-what about the contribu- •tors? What about Paul Foot, who sits with him on the executive of IS? Why doesn't he demand that out of the 'Eye' Foot get trough - which he correctly describes for its High Tory racialist' attitudes. But Protz, because he and his IS group have not the slightest adherence any political to principles, will not make this demand. Protz's letter of 'protest' is nothing but a further part of the cover behind which Foot pursue: his double-life. No can one is fooled about this.

been invaded from S Vietnam in a futile effort to destroy the base areas there. President Nixon was yesterday holding urgent talks with his military chiefs on the possibility of slowing down or halting the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam. AMNESTY International marked the 6th anniversary of the Greek regime military yesterday by publishing details of 336 inen and women serving sentences for 'communist activities' or other political offences under the colonels' stringent sedition laws.

The government officially denies there are any political prisoners in Greece. , at British-Leyland's Cowley, on Monday may be left with- uidance on a 'peace formula' and union top brass. without pay for refusing to litt the restrictions. Initially they strike for the staged sit-in duration of their shift. The men's chief demand is for improved security of employ- ment under the Measured-Day Work system now operating in the factory. After talks between Leyland's industrial-relations director, Pat Lowry, and" Moss "Evans of the Transport and General Workers' Union, a formula was drawn up in which the company promises to review the 'pattern' of lay-off guarantees. It also undertakes to 'make an improved offer in this area in negotiations which will com- mence not later than 14 days after a return to work'. This could mean virtually any- and certainly does not thing commit the company creasing the corall size of its offer. Also there is no time-limit on the negotiations. • Yet it is understood that after leading their men Buckle and his shop stewards will remain neutral the Monday's mass formula at meeting. ALMOST 10,000 car workers at Ford, Dagenham, are laid off because of the management attempts to cut manning on the production lines. The dispute broke on. Wed- nesday when management attempted to remove two door setters from an assembly line.

They worked on and were then sent home. Now both shifts of the whole body shop are off work and the paint, trim and assembly shop has also been closed down.

Models hit by the stoppage include the new Granada and as well as the Consul ranges, 80 men on the Escort. The assembly line involved in the dispute have decided to meet on Monday morning to review the situation. ANOTHER 2,500 workers at Triumph Motors, Coventry, were laid off yesterday-bringing the total to 5,500—as a result of a strike by axle builders over pay.

A shortage of components has halted all production at the main car assembly plant in Coventry: and has hit the com- pany's body plant at Liverpool

'Lost hours' on Bloody Sunday The day they waited in vain for Mickey McDaid (Michael McDaid. Age 20. This man was shot when close to Young [another of the youths killed] at the Ross- ville St barricade. The bullet struck him in the, front in the left cheek. The paraffin test disclosed abnormal lead particle density on his jacket and one large particle of lead on the back of his right hand. Any of the soldiers considered in connection with the death of Young might equally well have shot McDaid. Dr Martin (government forensic witness) thought that the lead density was con- sistent with McDaid having handled a firearm, but I think it more constistent with his having been in close proximity to someone firing.

This paragraph is the Widgery Report's sole pronounce- Yet every other shred of ment on the death of McDaid. evidence points to the conclusion that he was cold- bloodedly murdered. Of all the 13 killings, McDaid's is thẹ most mysterious. And it reveals the complete cynicism of Widgery's findings. MICKEY McDAID was three dead or seriously injured people a thrifty boy. He worked one paracen replied no dead We have soldiers here". I told him as a barman, but he never was not looking for dead soldiers drank or smoked. On the "We have and ne of 30, no dead or injured here" night January I then ran back up the back Bloody Sunday, he was stairs and after 1ew planning to go to a dance asked me again Lne about the three bodies she had Buncrana with at a newly-found girlfriend. very very dennite about w do havine seen and Like most of the other pointed out the Saracen the had ahe had sen doubts youngsters in the Bogside on about what had that afternoon, Mickey joined scell again Danny, brother's the anti-internment became to the sergeant that shouted worded about disappearance. Bo To to Muleey. certain Saracen demonstration called by the was Their The area was rife with rumours N Ireland Civil Rights Asso- of Pennv about who had been burn, was in the background and shot shouted to him to nauseas accested roy sine When the with me there brutal snatch squads. shooting •starter in as were three front of the Rossville Flats dead in the Saracen. When the rest of the family McDaid was one of the hundreds ran along with returned home, the boy's mother sergeant of the Crossure McDaid, was nol Saracen, woman had worried about his 'He'll absence. turn when me. and saw up lying on top of he's hungry, Toree booles she said and each other. evening

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making 'The bottom body - that of meal. Willan lying When the television a 1S news blood and was smothered. at 6 p.m., oWn. came the family Mickey McDaid on of was top aarkin, Mickey's sister, watch. croweed around MIrS the I anointed the top two pile. Margaret held while and them said: Mulvey anointed the man under- "The television news canne neath Michael being and then Fr Irwin then approached the taken by paratroop deliberately British soldier to asked Saracen. He had his hands above sergeant ano why he lied to me his head. about the bodies the Saracen. positive it was him. was 'His only thebashi od his nears coat and Was the shouted: back his les present alive". We when Knights le Malta itied were so relieved.' About 20 minutes later, how- to enter the Saracen to see if he could assist the men inside. This man had just started to climb IntO saracen woer some say ne seou are sergeant shouted at him: not going was alive when he was taken to there". in army After further exchanges the saracen Cal. of Mata_-man

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fusion. The first independent leave without getting in to the witness of men.' what happened McDaid Later in the evening. at 6.15 rather Eugene's Cathedral, Lon- p.m., after taking an injured don eras. He said: person medical post was in a first floor flat in was the where Irwin 1n Russele the dead attendiured.

Rossvile antel attending eat bodes -naa already deen taken. Around about four ơ'clock This same Saracen drew up came in, the and the very ostressed, bodies taken ana said sne naa seen three men Three were either dead or very seriously Mickey McDaid's body was still injured thrown He had been shot through being into the warm. back Saracen. of a Lne uanzulat 'I rushed down the back stairs The bullet shaped. hole. broke jaw through into Rossville and met his went down into soldier. asked him where the the top of throat, He said right lung unree bodes were and did not know. I asked for the his right arm,' Fr Irwin said. person in charge and the soldier evidence now switches to grunted in the general direction the McDaid family. - When withdrew. two OL ar sercedit. te army "After I told him there were of McDaid's brothers, John and The Rossville St barricade - where Widgery says Michael was shot..

front of him, a boy is crumpled on the ground, hit Workers Prea come home when he's hungry, "He'll (centre). But he never came. When the house, his sister, Mrs Margaret Harkin dead'. Brother John (left) went to identi "The Saracen drew were taken in. Micke John Irwin (left). ever, a priest called at the house.

Mrs Harkin said: *I saw him signal to my brother John and I knew that our Michael was dead.' John McDaid (32) had already been to the morgue at Altnegiven Hospital once. The doctors had told him there was no McDaid amoraine dead. For two hours we "He! said: all certain were that young Mickey was alive.' John McDaid left home second inquiry at the make a morgue. He describes what happened: 'There was a register list of the victims. went straight across to it and this policeman— he's from Derry-roared at me: "Get to hell out of the road.

You've no permission to look at that list". I'll never forget his Orange gub to me dying day. - was brought over to a corpse with a sheet across him. It was Michael. I felt his body. It was still warm. There was a bullet hole in his cheek. I put a medal between his fingers • After the funeral John went to Victoria St barracks to collect his brother's clothes and be- longings. The police handed over a cleaning ticket, two cards, a calendar, a door key and one He refused to take new penny. the penny. The family say he left home with £10 in a wallet and cufflinks. These was wearing were never returned. Who shot McDaid? How was ow- he killed? • St barricade, another stands bewildered, hi d. on the ground, hit by an army bullet.

rkora Press, Saturday April 22, 1972 PAQE 3 hungry, said Michael's mother When the priest arrived at the et Harkin (right) 'knew he was t to identify the still-warm body.

drew up to the nd three bodies warm' - Father The Lord Chief Justice, the Rt Honourable Lord Widgery, OBE, makes no comment what- soever. A peaceful demonstrator is shot dead at point-blank range and Widgery commends the British army for its discipline and restraint. The use of the Paratroop Regiment was 'sincere' and 'there Widgery added: 'Each soldier was his judge of whether OWn he had identified a gunman.'

Yet a breath away in the same report, he says: 'None of the deceased or wounded is proved to have been shot whilst hand- ling a firearm or bomb.' In that case, why was Mickey McDaid shot in the face? If nobody was proved to have been shot while holding a gun or a bomb, how do Home Secretary Maudling's statements in the Commons stand today?

The day after Bloody Sunday Maudling told parliament: "The army returned the fire directed at them with aimed shots and inflicted a number of casualties on those who were attacking them with firearms and with bombs.' Even Widgery, the govern- ment's own Lord Chief Justice, couldn't substantiate Maudling's in the House. wild statement The case of Mickey McDaid is just of 13 which one cases the Widgery report for exposes it is—the legalization of what murder. Idered, his back to the camera. In

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Including the Charter of Basic Rights

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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?

DRAFT MANIFESTO

The Manifesto calls for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into This historic and vital task must be fully discussed and a revolutionary party. movement: trade unionists, their families, understood throughout the workers' 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 Testo discussion. branch. Today we present further correspondence in the Mani.-

BILLY MCAUSLAN

Glasgow Young Socialists.

With the Right-to-Work Can- paign, the Young Socialists fought determinedly and principledly in the struggle agalist 1UL coveranen ano Capilalist system to expose all those in the movement who are pre- sell-out the working Class, these the

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UCS with Stalinist leadership at their conscious, yes, very stifle conscious. ally real struggle against The …lores with their class-collaboration policies of work-in. Foure thine to provide through funds they've received from the labour move- ment free labour to the liquidator endoe nun Cally will his butchering of the shipyards.

Behind Reid and Airlie lies the whole role of the Stalinist move- 1 capitalism deepens ment crisis capitalism and the working class moves forward these bureaucracies struggle, are onven into The Stalinist movement becomes and more openly This counter-revolutionary. crisis leads the Stalinists to play a role international strike- oreakers Poland sent Break T Spain and strikes Britain atter suppression slaughter Be oviet Bereas competes with the •oviet the the back in attemete cracy to Vietnamese te Vietnamese remits workers to deieat the tion. The Stalinist bureaucracy opens for workers the way and attack Larcalen destroy state The October and the Chinese revo the 1930s Stalin the murdered the Kussian Resolution ne not conc destroy continuation of Bolshevism in the Left Opposition and fine today carried on Young Socialists ine stallnist defend and extend the October Factory meeting in Petrograd 1917: the gains of the Russian revolution could not be destroyed by Stalin and the bureaucracy revolution.

The army has taken control of the National Autonomous University of Santo Domingo after disturbances in which more than ten students were seriously injured and 100 to 150 arrested. Police of the Central American fired on students after state charging onto the campus brand- ishing batons and with fixed bayonets. The police claimed they were searching for Tacit Mena, whom they accuse of being the most 'dangerous' leader of the Dominican People's Move- ment. The invasion came after _ a secret meeting between the vice- president of the Republic, Rafael Morales, police chief Nivar Seijas and secretary for the armed forces, rear-Admiral Ramon Jimenez. Seijas and Jimenez were two of the three military leaders who ordered the massacre of six guerrilla fighters months two ago. Seijas 'is on record as being favour of exterminating 'all in rol the elements who put the stability of the country at risk' Army and police have also been in force out against students and teachers in Colom- bia in Latin America as the strike of 120,000 teachers con- tinues. Many cities have experienced joint demonstrations of teachers, pupils and students, with parti- cularly fierce street-fighting Bogota and Madellin. In the town of Villacencio, 14 people were wounded and more than 100 jailed as a result of with fights the police. In Medellin and Bogota, as least 100 . tri have been wounded in clashes. Students on strike in Medellin university are preparing for the their campus has troops since twice been , under military occu- within the space of two pation months. Meanwhile, in the SW province of Tolima, a guerrilla detachment of FARC, revolutionary armed forces of Colombia, fought with troops of the regular army.

Two guerrillas killed. were Army pursuit operations are continuing, trying to find the millionaire Gustavo engineer Bernal who was kidnapped from his ranch on March 31. While his followers throughout the continent lose their lives in heroic, but hopeless adventures, Fidel Castro is moving closer to God. Cuba is being visited by the International Brigade of Young Christians believe in the who 'anti-imperialist' struggle, as they Second Congress told the Cuban Young Communists. The latest OSPAAL poster pays tribute the revolution Christ: it bears a figure of Christ standing against the white wall, with the black barrel of a gun on his shoulder. A favourite poster on the walls of Havana, someone recorded the arrival of the Jesus Revolu- tion in Cuba by writing on the wall of the Hubert de Blank in Havana: theatre Love for Christ means love for humanity, and that means love for the people, Christ was the first revo- lutionary.' A socialist MP has accused the Japanese government of holding secret talks with the United States on deployment of a 'US-Japan naval nuclear strategic unit'. Yanosuke Narasaki told a com- mittee of the parliament's lower house he had obtained a copy of a secret telegram sent last forces, to US naval January Japan, from Washington. Premier Eisaku Sato (left) declined to confirm or deny the report immediately; saying the would reply after government studying the telegram. Japanese flatly defence agency. sources denied there had been such talks between the two countries.

Narasaki read the full text of Workers Press, S President Salvador Allendo: occasional !

The 3,000 delegates at the third United Nations Con- ference on Trade and De- velopment (UNCTAD) in Santiago de Chile-including the delegates from S Vietnam and S Korea-will no doubt forgive President Salvador Allende for his occasional socialist : outbursts as they enjoy a luxurious holiday in Chile in the name of the starving masses of the 'third world'. The conference centre is a massive prefabricated three- storey building of concrete, plastic, glass and steel. It sports a 22-storey tower block con- taining private offices for dele- gations and UN officials, as well as. working areas for press, radio and television. Over 3,000 men worked around the clock to build this highest which the said message, 'special committee had decided was necessary to deploy a it joint naval nuclear unit as a means to block nuclear threat from a third country. The secret message cited the strengthening of China's nuclear arsenal and reinforcement of the Soviet Pacific fleet and concluded 'all measures must be taken to let the talks resume and further detailed instructions will follow'.

The Japanese government has repeatedly stated it will not manufacture, possess or allow introduction of nuclear weapons. It is also constitutionally barred from having an army. But the latest military budget is aimed at doubling the country's military strength to make it the second biggest military power in Asia.

ra Press, Saturday April 22, 1972 PAGE 5 sonal socia building in Chile, spurred on by government wishes to show the world what the new 'socialist' order could achieve. The first delegates had to make their way over straggling electricity cables and loose tiles as workmen made the finishing touches. To add to the pleasure of a comfortable conference hall, delegates will not suffer from the food and drink shortages which are afflicting the people of Santiago. Apart from the restaurants and bars in the con- centre, the Chilean ference authorities have chosen 70 city

'UNCTAD

restaurants as approved'. These cafes for diplomatic gourmets have a reserve of food guaranteed by the and wine agricultural state commerce agency. Cold stores in Santiago and the suburbs are filled with tons of meat, poultry and fish labelled 'For UNCTAD only'.

Rear Admiral Alberto Jimenez de Lucio, Peruvian Industry and Trade Minister, is at present involved in a market study tour which will take him to nine countries in Asia, Europe and North America. Jimenez de Lucio and his team of advisers will analyse industrial planning in China, Poland, Yugo- slavia and Hungary, as well as visiting the United States.

The Peruvian regime hopes to make concrete the agreements concluded with the Stalinist regimes for steel, paper and the cement industries. The Stalinist traders with the Peruvian military are in good company. General Marcos Baca, pre- sident of the state-oil agency announced Petro-Peru has just that a Spanish-French consortium will invest the Peruvian Amazon area, operating over an area of 1,000 square kilometres.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday April 22, 1972 of The Fourth Conference of working class, to destroy it as international slumps, collapse great monopoles and banks, even the International Committee and reduce to mass of national economies, of the Fourth International, poverty. Only in this way the and counter-revolutions, and the can on April 10 to 15, ever-growing threat of world war. meeting each ot explained: 1972, calls upon revolution- hope world Marx stirrive As in recession and trade war. all of the capitalist production moves sections aries in Above all, the conditions under world movement to take up contradictions col- which the to stantly constantly be overcome, only be, ativelyworks are culu undy with every resource they can re-established. ment command the great historic Trotskyism faces its universality challenge greatest since the which perpetually tasks now posed before the towards the Fourth Inter- formation of finds limitations Fourth International. national in 1938. Having success nature, fully defended the programme Entirely new conditions have development of SuCC the Fo of anem against Fourth International and the of itself opened up for the appear mare sna all the greatest barrier to this tendency crisis or revolutonady caesaro political self- which has held back the working thus orangerie own

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dule eadins class since the rise of Stalinism. betrayals stanism PP. destruction. The struggle for working-class revisionism Mass unemployment; attacks power. for the socialist revolution enters athe Inter- by the state machine and fascist Toulate LIt new ano decisive Slat national, the forces Inter with crisis world the organizations. of the mobs on Committee and its by colonial with ssion capitalism the sections must now take leader of US other August 15. • measure and for Concucle Wall of hebting President Nixon. truense powers: military ship in power. the struggle

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"solutions' to which capitalism in Woods, the ever-deepening lav the decay always turns in crIsIs.

convertibility, and open tradiction between the productive trade will the working class forces- first and foremost among dec aration wal. Nowtere be bluto defend i felt extionary foundation of these the working class itself and economic did political relations between the system of capital- building revolutionary imperialism and the working class the conquest of power parties for these ISu. concentralia The final blow was struck against capitalist historical contradictions in Tre the countries since World War of the dominant world all reformist by 11s smashed. currency-the dollar gives thể 15 measures. For August Tine early t 1920s, character to time since major capitalist hrst every the classes country, the ruling class is forced economic poltical endidliel advanced capitalist countries all of the effects of the crisis.

Trade destroy the di c ser foretaste driven confront Nixon's August 15 mel only the of strike: collapse of German positions won in the past by the Well Opel workers class to face, class against face for a struggle This brings strike in Germany, the general the The strikes and political most

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the announced When NIxon Stalinist and reformist ation of the working class basic The derisions of August l) the Trotskyist Britain and Ireland, have shown bureaucracies. contradictions of capitalism burst take that the workers of the advanced movemen sals asunder compromise responsibilit leadership, bullding Cantals. commune Wincen milton 5i established the only asine fundamental event, of don ot makes impact Hillin to bloody dileilaliyc workers the nac concer strength reveals itself and ure class-Coldourallull life are now thrown into question the traditional leaderships.

as ine man source ors exten established relations for and the can am the wo huntera get he Only Fourth International sion and development. problems are Nixon's measures of August 15 dealing will nest suddenly without were made absolutely unavoidable the for Stalinist bureaucracy, basis for tine principal by the wage settlement in the US counter-revolutional y revolutionary struggle force in the world. The Stalinists steel strike and other tha 1m for develop- work consciously repair those battles. It became to pending wage consciolsness, ment of Marxist theory. imperialists in intr impossible both to co the defences which they contain However, the post-war econ- the with the of working strength settlement was result 1945. class and to continue with the not of any strength of capitalism intes is the very feare oollar international role by but a decision class weakened by depression and Crisis attempte contain the

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trade unions into brought international Stalinism and of the direct collision with the govern- Stalinist and reformist parties all ment. They will aim to bloodily sup- world. the over Breton Woods, and and not press and the deformed trade union well "workers They and the new as WOrKerS sales, as the government and bureaucracy, - to ins revolutionary of class war opened parties. This what Sace capitalist countries. will each country are therefore she role of the pore sonin every just as mortal for the

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•WCiC oration with the id of Stalinisn the action of the French working the deirucians if the defeat American The Classy class in May-June 1968 on t no for por Kayas al Brotton Woods, 1944 1 will cell re the Since then, the metal-workers' working can that strength. August 15 measures opens the way for the German working Only through attacks of the employers and the labour government is through the break the with Democratic and American the Republican Parties and the form- broken illusions built up in ation of a labour party based on socialist the road prepared 1 the unions and on policies. now take fronted The 1972 elections new period European capitalist place in entirely an since August 15, which places the the inescapable nece labour party immediately on the to of class. agenda now. The emergence Wallace the dollar greatest the dangers to the labour movement.

countries, Behind the racialist and populist need for demagogy of his campaign is compromize relation programme-the real stable Wallace's the destruction of the prevailed since unions, of and just destruction every right comes following the event gain the unions have won.

right-wing France, Wallace is the spokesman for the capitalist class the scene, strong an all destroy above in a combative way that now must if their system is to demand. the unions preserved. Behind Wallace be are gathering all the racialist and ing class fascist forces. spontaneous the Republican and Nixon and traditional stand with takes the old forms Democratic Parties putting forward ist and Stalinist lea Wallace is him. today what the capitalist class as everywhere to prev for the whole is preparing forward as an inde the future. working class in The defeated be Wallace cannot national union the trade leadership in today, as and to expose and bureaucracy claims, by support- ing politicians in the Democratic treacherous in this way can the Party. The only way that Wallace can take the power. be defeated is through the con- This of this labour party, struction through the break with the two capitalist parties. The fight for the labour party is the central responsibility of the no other way. be the crisis Workers League. This must with fought for the unions in the call for a congress of labour - throw mankind bac this establish party on to socialist programme. It is to this era struggle that the youth and the The be turned in students must 15 has who the Stalinists. fight against and the capitalist parties, openly support and revisionists who seek to side- not fully months later, track the struggle for a labour Black and party, proposing Chicano capitalist parties.

Only through the building of it has 1 the strate party can working class be country reformist stands from the illusions built up in the past and own W the road prepared for power.

more al The Nixon measures have con- This m cratic ri fronted the ruling class of the working European capitalist states with fied at the inescapable necessity of going working takes u to war on their own class. By thrusting the burden of round c A rul dollar crisis on to these the wal Nixon imposes the for the break up of the measure imperia compromize relationships and un- staking which have equilibrium which ( prevailed since 1945. This blow right to time when, at following the events of 1968 in bine to France, the working class enters struggle the scene, strong and undefeated, this ha in ever, in a combative way with its own First The new militancy of the work- signals first, tion al class passes at a through its General The m organizations and working takes the old forms. The reform- ist and Stalinist leaderships strive bourgec of the everywhere to prevent it coming forward as an independent force day by their di The task of the Fourth Inter- the lim national sections is to establish leadership in the working class cracy: and to expose and drive out the governı treacherous bureaucracies.

Only The in this way can the working class France, section mittee, alternative leadership revoluti must be established on the pro- gramme and with the perspectives present of the International Committee of ation i the Fourth International. There is it by the crisis of leadership insolve This wi a ques present period will mean defeats strengt] which will vangual for the working class throw mankind back into a new went. It w The economic situation of which European capitalism since August carried desperate 15 has become truly with a the bourgeoisie itself has ations even eight permitt not fully grasped, Commi months later, the full depths of its crisis. But, in the political as power. essentia in the economic sphere, Workers Press, Saturd before the working class and the establishment of Trotskyist leadership. the French Although bour- geoisie was able to retain power the Stalinists with help of the and the reformists, the founda- tions of its rule were irrevocably shaken by the power of the work- ing class anu nothing in the rela- has tions between the classes been the same since. The defeat the referendum of de Gaulle in in 1969 struck a further blow.

The French bourgeoisie hangs on grimly behind Pompidou in an of scandal and cor- atmosphere which recalls the worst ruption days of the Third Republic.

The German working class, the revisionists written off by as integrated' 'reformist', or as the major factor in emerges the crisis of German capitalism.

The 1969 movement could still formation be contained through of Social-Democratic-Liberal and big coalition concessions in This revived reformist wages. illusions in the working class and in particular the youth but the workers' strike of Decem- metal ber 1971, after Nixon's measures, of spelt the end reformism, which is now breaking up. has been The' working class able to build up an unprece- dented strength within the West Germany and unions in within the framework of the deformed workers' states of the Democratic Republic. It is this strength which the bourgeoisie has now to confront with the help of the Stalinist and reform- ist bureaucracies and all the old relations have to be changed.

German capitalism was rebuilt war as the spearhead after the of imperialism against the Eastern European and countries the October Today Revolution. the role of. the Social-Democratic- Liberal coalition is to help the bourgeoisie the prepare recon- quest of East Germany and the Eastern European countries and the way in West Ger- to pave

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the government tie unions to the state. This where the counter- revolutionary role of Stalinism most ćlearly. Within comes out the radicalization of the working class they subordinate try to this movement to the coalition government. Just the German working as class remained relatively isolated world from the class struggle even after the defeat of fascism the period of the post- and in boom, the collapse of war SO capitalism the German after Nixon measures opens the way German for the working class to find its way back to its revolu- tionary traditions.

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ry traditions t been slow to demon-

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must defeat at it its king class and impose loritarian forms of rule.

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ns that all the demo- ts and conquests of the This requires establishment of lass come under intensi- the independence of the working the bourgeoisie as stations for a decisive class through consistent Stalinism struggle and class battles. against g class with its back to revisionism, through the building pressed into desperate of the This revolutionary party. US German the weight of resurgence of the work- by ing class opens the door for a working class a m; of the Soviet prole- of reawakening ut claims its own llenge the bourgeoisie's hopes for world revolu- tariat's tion and for the political revo- rule; leaders who com- lution against the parasitic Krem- reak up and betray the of the working class; lin bureaucracy. the rule The break-up of reformism now become European country. after the Nixon is measures where the storm- rance, throwing social-democracy into a the European deep crisis. The task of the Ger- revolu- 1968. Trotskvist eared in In the movement is to man trike of May-Tune 1968. establish the independence of the German ilization the entire working class in a threatened the fight for Marxism and in class a break the Ger- social order. The grip struggle to was weakening man working class from the con- talinists y as workers manifested trol of reformism by exposing it beyond in the fight for the demand that rmination to go imposed by the bureau- the SPD the Lib- breaks with a workers' erals in the coalition and forms demand exclusively Social-Democratic nt. an rotskyist movement in based the trade government, on he OCI, at that time a unions with a socialist pro- the International Com- gramme. the In Italy the boom showed it- as unable to grasp lary opportunities which self to be even more fragile. Since the 'hot autumn' of 1969, The situ- themselves. May-June 1968 caught which was a direct continuation rprise and unprepared. of the 1968 May-June events in France, the no accident; nor was it country has been in of numerical merely the grip of an economic, social and smallness of the political -'the crisis unprece- since the pre-Mussolini , as the rationalization dented years. of a question of method Only the heavy weight OCI unarmed and Italian Stalinism's apparatus has t the prevented the working class from it through the events ries of empirical adapt- asserting its claim to power in the debile Italian at any time, opposition to lich never, the bourgeoisie and its main political I it call upon to Christian Democracy. Party take the expression ist to the The betrayals of Togliatti's This demand is heirs have given the bourgeoisie path to their exposure Yorkers Pross, Saturday April 22, 1972 PAGE 7 time to prepare new attacks which will be struck • after the forthcoming elections, whatever their outcome. The panic-stricken petty bourgeoisie are attracted orbit of into the the neo- fascists to whom the monopolists are now turning as an alternative to the increasingly-discredited impotent and parliamentary regime. • The Stalinists are the last line of defence for this rotten • poli- tical system. It is absolutely necessary to place the demand on the Italian Communist Party reak irom all forms of coal tion with the bourgeoisie parties; take the power. Along this road, the Stalinist hold on the work- ing class will be broken.

The bonapartist dictatorship. in Greece is a regime of crisis which is an expression of the world crisis of the capitalist sys- tem. It portrays the future that capitalism has in store for the working class in this period of its death agony, where the bour- geoisie is forced everywhere to pass to the most severe forms of state repression, having no other way to defend its rule.

At the same tie Colonels was the seizure of power by the the advance warning of the fact that the class struggle, in the whole capitalist world, has devel- oped to its most crucial point, the agenda the pro- posing on letarian revolution for the over- throw of the capitalist system.

The colonels cannot solve the problems of Greek capitalism. They are unable to gain popular suppo. On the cabiry, their.

power. On the regime is constantly undermined by the deepening crisis of imperi- alism. Particularly since Nixon's measures on the dollar and the declaration of trade with war Europe, an explosive charge has been placed under the founda- tions of the dictatorial regime.

The closure of a series of basic industries, which employed thou- sands of workers, and the last big increases on the basic price of food are the first products of the crisis in its new stage.

Similarly, the split inside the iunta which came into the open with the sacking of the Regent Zoitakis and the taking of his post by the arch-dictator Papa- dopoulos, is the manifestation of this crisis in another sphere.

crisis Intensification of the August 15 mea- following the sures has created conditions for confrontation between the working class and the dictatorial The Greek Trotskyists regime. for independence of fight the working class, opposing the Stal- inists who would drag it behind the liberal bourgeoisie, and to establish the revolutionary party to lead the struggle of the work- ing class for power. In the epoch of imperialism in the colonial and semi-colonial countries, the most elementar' lemands for national independ ence and democratic rights can only be granted if the struggle in countries carried these is over into the socialist phase.

We the workers and warn peasants of these countries not to put any confidence in bour- geois nationalist leaderships.

The experience of Bangla . Desh • demonstrates the danger of such With the suspension of a step. Assembly Constituent the on April 11, the ruling bourgeois nationalist Awami League has demonstrated that it is an obstacle to the granting of full democratic rights, and the volun- tary and revolutionary reunifica- tion of India on a socialist basis.

In Ireland bourgeois national- ism expresses itself through IRA terrorism. Far from leading to real libera- independence and tion, their exclusive reliance on terror, and opposition to Marx- ism and the revolutionary party, have now resulted in a com- promise with imperialism, remin- iscent of the 1921 agreement.

The imposition of direct rule from Westminster, welcomed by a section of the IRA leaders, threatens the rights of Protest- ant and Catholic workers alike.

Partition, religious divisions, low and wages unemployment will remain, through a coalition of Republican and Orange capi- talism, by the Tory backed government at Westminster.

and semi- In the colonial colonial countries, as in all other countries, the only guarantee of success for the masses in their for national independ. struggles ence and democratic rights is the building in these countries of sec- tions of the International Com- mittee, dedicated to the central strategy of establishment of poli- tical independence of the work- ing class. and the overthrow of imperialism.

CONTINUED MONDAY

PAGE 8 Workara Press, Saturday April 22, 1972 The world economic depression of the 1930s, begin- ning 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 cul- minated in the defeat of the highly-organized work- ing-class movement and the coming to power of Hitler. This sixth part in Tom Kemp's series deals with Hitler Germany's war economy.

conditioned econ- Germany's entry into war in it necessarily the war omic planning for September 1939 brought no between the defeat of France and essential change in economic final calamity of Stalingrad une organization. This was not 1942. in It was hoped that a rapid con- the because country was Russia would bring quest of highly-mobilized for already Germany vast resources in grain, as some people con- war, oil and raw materials and ensure the sidered, because but her final victory over Britain. In the period after the defeat was ex- Poland attack on of France. the Nazis the first of a were con- to be pected sidering a relaxation of the mili- for of limited series wars tary effort and converting part existing preparations which of war industry to civilian pro- were adequate. duction. Armaments production was actually and between cut expected that Britain Hitler September 1940 February and climb down and France would 1941 aircraft production fell by another Munich and sign agree- 40 per cent. declared war, When they ment. Once the Russian campaign found himself in a situation he had been decided for which no real preparation had upon increased, but production was been made. still at a modest rate, on the In fact, Hitler feared that with assumption that the war de- attack would Anglo-French Russia would only last a few prive Germany of the Ruhr and months. thus lop off the most important But on the eve of the attack on Russia, Britain was producing industrial area. Germany. than Huge outlays made more planes were Stocks of infantry and artillery during the period of the small. strengthening armaments were Even the war' in phoney tank force of 4,500 the was only the Siegfried line. Then in 1,000 more than those used 1940, attack in of an spring

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France launched on Holland and Belgium on much narrower forestall such front. to again Hitler met bitter Once opposition from the generals. The rapid occupation of the low the phenomenal countries and of blitzkrieg tactics in success France completely changed the war situation. Germany's rapid military SuC- much as a sur- cesses came as Hitler to the prise to as generals. It gave Hitler Rated idea of his military genius Even more surprisingly, after Russia German ruling the initial victories in and induced in Hitler ordered confidence further reduction of circles in armaments production which easy victories which was to prove fell by 13 fatal. per cent from August December 1941. When the As Hitler's war plans had not German military attack became stale- assumed that the would get far mated during the winter. machine so So flict broke between the next stage had to be again out quickly, The Hitler• and the improvised. of generals who had to be off be- believed that if they had been Britain called cause Germany did not have left alone they would have taken the material and air Moscow by Christmas. amphibious The big surprise for the Ger- it power necessary to give mans came when the Red Army chance of success. The drive to began counter-attack the Fast seemed to be more with- to using heavy tanks, especially the T-34, of the German in the compass which of that were well in advance economy at stage. would German models. No preparations The Russian campaign had been made for a winter cam- be independent of sea-power. It "to Soviet and stocks of also hoped crush paign winter wac Russia quick clothing, provisions and in campaign avan before the end of the war against ammunition were inadequate. From England' according Hitler's the early stages of the Russian campaign the weaknesses directive for 'Barbarossa', dated December 18. 1940. of German military and econo- Nazis assumed that the mic began be The planning to re- vealed decapitation of the leading cadres A produc Mr cariamo Red Army Stalin effort 1938 had seriously we Sened its tion was undertaken in 1942, but it was hampered at combat and that a every stage by the belief, capacity for mainly blitzkrieg would be as successful Hitler's, that the war with Russia as it had been in France.

would soon be won and that the food The idea lunatic and raw material problems • was not SO If the would be solved. as it now sounds. two Europe, It is clear from the history of finest finest armies Bri Burope, been armies German the that economy

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Nazi planning was far from being inside month, why smashed should Wehrmacht efficiency. the not be a model of Business able to finish off the Red Army wanted to keep its civilian mar- before after the kets Nazi leaders, and winter set in open. attack of June 21, 1941? Hitler himself, evidently feared this a fatal losing middle class if course, was support they imposed severe restrictions underestimation of Russia's There fighting and industrial potential on consumption. was an led even greater fear of working-class power which ultimately to downfall the But discontent, conveyed by the the of Nazis. Hitler and Himmier watching Wehrmach Labour Front, which opposed in living standards cuts or harsher working conditions for this reason. Ideology also impeded war mobilization. The Nazis believed that a woman's place was in the home, not in industry, so that large reserves of female labour power were not brought into the war factories. The Germans were also the 'Master Race', so that, as far as possible, the burden of the war was passed on to other countries. Millions of slave workers were brought in to man the produc- lines. Occupied countries tion were plundered so that German civilians would not be asked to make sacrifices. The whole ex- against termination programme the Jews, carried the out at height of the war, not only ab- and sorbed scarce resources handicapped the movement of military supplies, but it deprived the economy of labour war Wehrmacht manoeuvres: which might have been pur lc •rouncuve

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On the other hand, the Ger- man economy had roved stronger than supposed, due some the ot new largery lo concucsl territory. High-grade iron ore, in- dispensable war ind stry supplied be Contillce Sweden neutral at une rale However, 10 million tons a year. stockpiles were never and once the blitzkreg strategy collapsed raw material short- heel of ved Nazi wat e Anile.

proved Achilles' Stalingrad The shock of and bombing the intensified _ oI lme German homeland led to up of war marked stepping pro- The air raids •ucon 10 y4k on German towns, far from break- ing German ad- morale, as the assumed. vocales made people more ready to make sacrifices. Moreover, the effect production was far less Wal than had been hoped. to finish off the Red Army before winter The Nazis counted a good deal upon maintaining qualita- tive superiority over weapon their enemies and making use of more advanced weaponry. While this meant that German arms were often the best, it limited qantitative production. Moreover 90 per cent of new weapons went to equipping new divisions while experienced troops often had to fight with old and less-efficient equipment. In the last two years of the war, despite the growing weight of bombs dropped on Germany production continued in- io

Russian troops at Stalingrad: underestim crease. This reflected the fact that the limited war approach had been abandoned. The bombing offensive was most successful in its attack on Germany's supplies. oil Most vulnerable were the large syn- thetic oil plants using the hydro- genation process. Some 90 per cent of aviation fuel came from the hydrogenation process plants which began to come under concentrated air attack from April, 1944. Although it took less time to restore these plants than the Anglo-American strategists had assumed, production of aviation fuel dropped catastrophically. - According to one historian: 'After June 1944 production of aviation fuel for the rest of the war was only 197,000 tons, not much more than month's one the raids supply before had started? (A. Milward The Ger- man Economy at War', p.121.)

While aviation fuel supplies contracted, aircraft production actually continued to go up, owing to complete lack of co. ordination in planning. Conse- quently, training flights had to be curtailed, the Luftwaffe had reduce the number of its sorties and many planes stacked on air- fields were destroyed by bomb- ing. Germany never again was able and to secure air superiority Anglo - American amphibious landings could take place in S and W Europe with only ground opposition. In the closing , stages of the war it is true that German in- dustry was able to turn out a huge volume of war equipment of high quality. But it was too late to affect the course of the war. This had been decided by the defeat of the Wehrmacht by the Red Army and by the mas- superiority of sive quantitative Anglo-American industrial pro- confirming the view that a new non-capitalist system had been built up by the Nazis. Industry remained in private hands and the Nazis were careful to inter- fere as little possible with as normal functioning of the the civilian market. Nazi planning was weakened by the diversion of departmental responsibility and the lack of an underestimation of Rusal overall plan for war production.

tical tedds and sealousies made tical feuds and jealousies co-ordination difficult. Each sec- tor tended to go on its own way regardless of what was happen- ing elsewhere. As a result some targets were achieved, others were not. But there was not much sense in producing planes and tanks if there was no fuel to run them or no spare parts if they broke down. For most of the war the Ger- man economy was able to over- come what appeared initially to be its greatest weakness.- the shortage of raw materials. In the last stages, when there was no longer any hope of victory, the strategic air offensive • exposed these shortcomings once again, particularly in the case of petrol and oil. It will be recalled that Hitler recognized from the start of the war the vulnerability of the heavy industry complex in : the Ruhr: Germany feared that her enemies could strike hard at this area, knock out a major part of the Nazi war machine and finish off the rest of Germany at their leisure. - In the final stages of the war, air attacks were able to limit coal and other vital supplies finding their way from the Ruhr to other parts of the Reich. But doubtless than shorten this did no more a war which was lost for Ger- many in any case. A contributory cause of the collapse of the German economy was shortage of manpower. With no mobilization of women for industry, labour rapidly became scarce as the needs of the armed forces grew. In the blitzkrieg period fac- tories remained on single-shift working and hours worked were less than in Britain. After the attack on Russia the mounting' toll of battle casualties and the need to mobilize more men to the army produced a manpower crisis. and industrial power was tatal Various kınds of skilled labour and. became a chronical, men had to be brought bac from the forces. Although about 7 mil- lion foreign workers and prison- brought ers were to Germany during the war, their labour was wastefully used. Albert Speer, the Minister of Armaments, put forward a plan for a manpower budget, but it was never applied. Instead the situation became manpower increasingly chaotic. Speer, who took over from Todt as Minister of Armaments after the latter's death in a plane; in February crash 1942, has sedulously cultivated the legend that the German economy would have performed better had Hitler taken more note of his sugges- tions. After spending 20 years in jail he was even able to emerge and produce book of memoirs which has had some success.

However interesting Speer's story of the muddle and confu- which reigned in govern- sion ment circles, his Ministry was not able to prevent the decline and final collapse of the German economy under the strain of war.

It is possible, of course, that if a more effective system of priorities had been applied from the begin- ning, or if the German economy had been geared to fight a long war from the 1930s that the out- come might have been different.

Speer's like other story, detailed investigations into the German shows war. economy, how little foundation there was for the claim that the Nazis had established a new form of non- capitalist economy. They only operated a capitalist economy which they gingerly turned towards waging an all-out war when the blitzkrieg strategy /to which Hitler was committed had failed. To the end the Nazi state interfered less in business and turned economy less the towards war production than the Churchill government in Britain.

The monopolies and cartels, after surviving some mild 'de- Nazification', rapidly re-emerged in the post-war era in W Ger- many. Under a different political dispensation, German capitalism the same historic aims pursues as it did under the Kaiser, the Weimar Republic and the Nazi Third Reich. But that is another story.

Workers Press Planning your summer holidays this year? Here's a point from the N Ireland Tourist Board you might like to take into consideration. 'For the first time as a result of our collaboration we are able to make available to visitors, with a love for gun sports, ane of the recreational activities which is such a feature of country life in this part of the world. For generations, the wide range ot shooting in N Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which, with hunting and fish- ing, has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many the countries, outstanding characteristics of the sport has been that it was not confined to one class.' (From a booklet published for N Ireland Tourist Board and printed by W. & G.

Baird Ltd, Belfast.) Having failed to root our capitalism and corruption _ in Bangla Desh the Awami League government is turning its attention to more easily oper- ated reforms. Out of the blue last week, prime minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman announced that horse racing , had been abolished for ever. He told members Dacca Race Workers' Union that they would be absorbed in factories and plants in the country now that their liveli- hood has been abolished. Drinking is also to go: Mujib announced that this evil would not be allowed to continue in Bangla Desh. 'Drinking and racing do not bring welfare the any Sheikh Makbar Rahmar kers Press, Saturday April 22, 1972 PAGE 9 1. - nation,' he said. "They will not be permitted in an independent Bangla Desh because they are responsible for ruining many families in the country. Sean Bourke, the man who helped master-spy George Blake escape from Wormwood Scrubs, is alive and well and living in Co Limerick. In fact he's so well, he's topping the scales at 17 stone, three stone overweight. He just finished his has second book for Cassells. It's called 'The Scrubbers' and in- cludes some random observa- tions of his time in the Scrubs.

He has sent some letters to the Russian Embassy and asked for "them to be for- warded to 'George' He feels that parts of his book on the great escape have embarrassed Blake-'hence he ignores my letters'. Bourke did not say when he would the real story write about the Blake escape. His first effort begged as many questions as it answered.

A current Clydeside joke: 'Have you heard they're sending Reid and Airlie to Suez? 'Why?' 'To clear the ships out of the canal.

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on Tuesday April 1972, Victor Grayson Keir Hardie Feather, pink faced, reformists pressed and puffing a of Churchillian cigar proportions spoke to at Congress reporters End hane dars hee raikk tere roe e House. and fro-ing the rail dispute. secretary There was the familiar and Victor Feather was the man in the middle-and disarming 'I-know-things-you- the Tories, don't-know' banter with armed with their own 'law of the called who pressmen him land', dealt with him quite contemptuously. This 'Vic'. marked a new aggressive phase in their relations The sense of crisis and tension with reformism arch-proponent whose and its which had been bullaing UD reporters minds middle names happen to include Keir Hardie- three hours wait Illulco the father of reformism.

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England. the Bank of Once again, in tor mis good Illally was disoites reather and first statements his were poised to 'use offices WWe wali be 11th-hour an get •We back', he told three rail British Rail and the about 20 reporters who crowded unions round the table. on the moment stepped from the lift with TUC As member the

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oCLOnOs aLe lc 'I don't really think we will be before 6 p.m: We can't get them talking but Vic can.' tonight someone different Under offering more money. But I don't conditions Feather's that seewith as much nonchalance as the anvone offering more. assulance 'very between the two sides was narrow indeed' might have had he could said muster, calming affect. the his next move in what was now custuuialy But clearly crisis of major pro- reporters on the Nthe, ener eta rieg portions was to cat: $0 and have

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something time 10.30 bim. Asked if the had significance for relecuon ally and their replied casually and with Jarratt proposals re- Feather fusal to call off the work-to-rule, smile: No. no. It is not a time out absolutely were holding thats spen to eathers Dul very much. no prospect of budging. soon back Once Tuesday's TUC meeting disappeared the door, out lingering ended, doubts turned reporters heard what in fact had Macmillan transpired upstairs. CuCkIy

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was soul conironiallon make strenuous attempts to get phrased: "The government could enemies than a discussion among the broken aown ana nopelessiy afford it' not friends deadlocked •talks started again. Tir NUR leader Sir Sidney. Greene But while Feather When emerged even was Feather at had earlier observed that all the 8 p.m. on Tuesday evening after the UsLalls Ucuartcill. negotiating procedures had supposedly having the usual

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tant rot: Victor Feather, TUC secretary under the Industrial Relations Act.' Writing was now appearing fairly decisively on the wall.

When he emerged from the for the second time that day, Feather seemed more at than ever, dishevelled, hair sea ruffled and no sign of a cigar.

His tone was curt and more than a little outraged. was hopeful, he said with inimitable slowness, 'that the

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Sir Sidney Greene government would give an opportunity for discussión on the proposal of the Finance and General Purposes Committee.'

This proposal had been to carry on talking about Jarratt, even though it was known that to the rail unions this still meant £20 a week now. Feather said: 'I still hope the unions will agree to more dis- but reference to the cussions, Industrial Relations Court could now stand in the way.' Things were now getting very difficult. In a matter of hours, future of trade was unionism itself that had become the issue. Weary after awaiting results for 15 hours from discussions which had seemed to stand still, the capitalist press now took the bit ex...between its teeth,...

*... What was Feather going to do now, they-asked. And weren't the long-suffering public entitled to a decision? What Feather was going do next was a question which touched a raw nerve. The BBC in with a plunged mike and said Feather. brushed aside the man and the asking mike. 'You are me questions that make me look so • ridiculous I really can't comment.' Anger seemed now to have taken a hold on the usually smiling, jocular Feather. on the pavement long paused enough to snort: "There are rocks ahead for the trade union movement, but the government will this regret day.' particular He added, one might supgesn wistfully: It would have better if the government had given the unions the opportunity of continuing discussions with- out application to the Industrial Relations Court' Next day Feather was out and about at 7.30 a.m.; all the well- remembered calm and leisure had disappeared from Congress House. Just to ask a question in the press office was like pok- ing a stick at a bear with a sore head. The TUC was up against it.

Negotiations were definitely not on. For the Tories it was a case of blood or surrender. After two and • a half hours of discussion Feather declined to meet the press. Instead he sent down a paragraph one statement saying the TUC backed the action of the rail unions in refusing to recognize the Industrial Relations Court to which they had all been -sum- moned. The TUC Finance and General Purposes Committee went into emergency session at 1.30—with all three rail unions giving the thumbs down to ballot, cooling- off period and Jarratt. Two very significant events in this microcosmic study of re- formism occurred next. At 4 p.m. on Wednesday Sir John Donaldson and his four lay judges filed into the crowded, * in windowless. No. 1 court.

old Prudential building in Chancery Lane. By contrast with the panic and confusion at Congress House, the atmosphere was efficient and cold-blooded. Sir John regretted the absence of the three rail unions-while it was their right to stay away, it might not be in their best - interest, he said. But either way it didn't inter- fere with the legal process. It took just four hours from the opening of the government's submission by Sir Geoffrey Howe (himself the Act's main architect) to the end of Sir John Donald- son's summing up. Donaldson's favourite word is 'forthwith'. He defines it as 'with the utmost possible speed in all the circumstances: And that is just how, the National Industrial Relations Court goes upholding the Industrial about and destroying Relations Act trade union rights. The Tories obtained an order imposing a 14-day cooling off period on the rail unions.

And Feather continued his 'strenuous attempts' to get talks going again. Late on Wednesday night he appeared to be knocking at a locked and barred door. Rail chief Richard Marsh told him coldly that they would have to wait and see the outcome of NIRC's judgement before any further discussions could begin. In other words a trial of strength had begun- and there was no point in talking until it was known who the vanquished were. The London evening news- paper headlines blared out:

'NO DEAL UNTIL UNIONS

Marsh.' OBEY LAW-says At 9 p.m. on Thursday April 20 leaders of the three rail unions meeting at Unity House, Euston, announced, with great reluctance, that they would call off the work-to-rule. From Congress House Feather told the press there would not now be another urgent meeting of the Finance and General Instead it Purposes Committee. would meet in three days time "e said: Highly responsible and decent working men and their unions have been caught up in the trammels of the law, but nobody is squealing. 'The unions will now be look- ing at methods whereby they safeguard their members can lawfully until such time as we can change the law.' Socialist Labour League

LECTURE

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

GLASGOW

Sunday Aprli 23, 2.30 p.m.

Socialist Labour League and Young Soclalists Meeting

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

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

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ALLIANCE MEETINGS

WILLESDEN: Monday April 24, 8 p.m. Labour and Trades Willesden High Road, Hall, 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 Aprll 25, 8 p.m. SOGAT House, Essex Dartford. The Industrial Rd, Relations Act. DAGENHAM: Tuesday April 25, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fan- Barking. The shave Avenue, engineers' wage claim. LEEDS: Tuesday, April 25, 7.30 p.m. Quarry Hill Flats Trade Community Centre. unions and the Revolutionary Party. SOUTHALL: Wednesday April 26, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Bridge Rd. Fight Tory rents policy. LUTON: Thursday April 27, 8 p.m. St John Ambulance Bri- gade Hall, Lea Rd. YS May Day rally.

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Leslie Crowther. 9.00

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Tom Paxton, Mary Travers, John Denver. 10.15

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11.55

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Unmarried teenagers face parenthood.

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10.30 Yesterdays. 11.00

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6.15 A PLAY FOR SUNDAY.

Why Not? 6.55

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7.25 DOCTOR IN CHARGE.

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9.50 POLICE 5.

10.00 NEWS.

THE ORGANIZATION. Ken 10.20 Grist and Eve. 11.20 NEWS. Apollo 16. 11.25

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11.55

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9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London.

11.25 Avengers: 12.25 Weather.

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10.00 London. 11.23 Dangerman.

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12.42 Weather. 12.45 London.

5.10 Primus. 5.40 London. 9.00 Film: 'Hysterla'. 10.30 London.

11.30 News.

11.40 UFO. 12.40

Weather. Song. HTV: 9.30 Tennis. 10.00 Apollo 16. 11.00 Arthur. 11.15 Sesame 12.15 Street. Farming. 12.45 London. 9.00 Film: 'McMillan and Wife'. 10.20 If It Moves. 10.30 London. 11.30 Prisoner. 12.25 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales i as above except: 5.10 Sion a Sian.

ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00 Apollo 16.

12.10 Horoscope. 12.15 Captain Scarlet. 12.45 London. 9.00 Film: 'Murder by Contract. 10.30 Lon- don. 11.30 Dick Van Dyke Show.

12.00 Who Knows? Weather.

ULSTER: 11.00 Apollo 16. 12.30 Enchanted. House. 12.45 London.

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10.30 London. 11.30 Dick Van Dyke Show. Hugh O'Brian and John Mills are in i on Saturday. ULSTER: 12.05 Apollo 16. 1.45 London. 3.15 Film: 'Green Grass of Wyoming'. 4.45 London. 7.53 Sports Results. 7.55 Film: The Spy with a Cold Nose'. 9.30 Stewart. 9.55 London. Jimmy 11.25 Saint. YORKSHIRE: 10.45 Talking hands.

11.00 Confirmation. 12.05 Apollo 16. 1.00 Industrial Relations Act.

1.25 Farming. 1.55 Calendar. 2.20 Soccer. 3.15 Film: 'The Gamma People'. 4.45 London. 7.55 Film: "The Miniver Story'. 10.00 Lon- 11.23 Aquarius. 12.23 don. Weather. GRANADA: 11.00 London. 1.00 1.25 Yesterdays. Mad movies. 1.55 Football. 2.50 Film: "The Years'. 4.40 London. Dancing 7.55 Film: 'A Child Is Walting'.

9.50 Bugs Bunny. 10.00 London.

11.25 Aquarius. SCOTTISH: 12.05 Apollo 16. 1.22 Zingalong. 1.45 Yesterdays. 2.15 'Port 3.00 Film: Scientists. • Press, Saturday Aprli 22, 1972 PAGE 11 10.00

YORKSHIRE:

Apollo 16. 11.00 Yesterdays. 11.25 Make a Wish. 11.50 Skippy. 12.15 Lids- ville. 12.45 London. 5.10 Primus.

5.40 London. 9.00 Film: 'McMillan and Wife'. 10.23 If It Moves. 10.30 London. 11.30 Edgar Wallace. 12.35 Weather. GRANADA: 11.00 Apollo 16. 12.00 Play the Game. 12.30 Comedy Time. 12.45 London. 5.10 On the 5.40 London. 9.00 Film: Buses.: 'Five Steps to Danger'. 10.30 Lon- don. 11.30 Dangerman. SCOTTISH: 10.00 Apollo 16. 11.00 Bush boy. 11.25 White Gaidhlig. throat. 11.40 Beagan 11.55 Clapperboard. 12.15 Tom Grattan. 12.45 London. 5.10 Roadrunner. 5.40. London. 9.00 'Blueprint for Robberty'.

Film: 10.30 London. 10.45 Sport. 11.15 Late Call. 11.20 Seaway. GRAMPIAN: 11.00 Apollo 16. 12.15 Batman. 12.45 London. 5.10 His and Hers. 5.40 London.

9.00 Film: 'McMillan and Wife'.

10.20 If it moves. 10.30 London.

11.30 Strange report. CHANNEL: 11.00 Apollo 16. 12.45 London. 9.00 Film: "The Mob'. 10.30 London. 11.30 Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: Ranger. 12.00 Gus 10.35 Lone Honeybun. 12.05 Rupert Bear. 12.20 Bugaloos. 11.30 Faith for life. 11.35 Weather. • are in 'Africa-Texas Style' on BBC 1 Afrique'. 4.45 London. 7.55 Film: 'None But the Brave'. 10.00 Lon- 11.23 Late call. 11.27 don. Randall and Hopkirk. GRAMPIAN: 12.05 Apollo 16. 1.25 Yesterdays. 1.55 Farm progress.

3.20 Film: "Meet 2.25 Prisoner. Me After the Show'. 4.45 London.

6.55 News. 7.55 7.00 London. Film: 'Assault on the Wayne'. 9.30 Odd couple. 10.00 London.

11.25 Yoga. 11.50 A kind of living. 12.05 Job look. CHANNEL: 11.00 Service. 12.05 Apollo 16. 1.58 Weather. 2.00 'Zarak'. , match. 3.00 Film: Big 4.35 Date with Danton. 4.45 Lon- don. 7.55 Film: 'Night People'.

9.30 Cinema. 10.00 London. 11.23 Aquarius. 12.20 'Epilogue.

News, weather. WESTWARD. As Channel ekcept: 1.20 Homes of history. 1.35 Farm 12.20 Faith country news. for life. 12.25 Weather.

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BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

A FORMER Labour Minist Loughborough that unions sho National Industrial Relations £50,000 fine on the Transport Union. dockers' message was: "black" stays.' And , support for their stand came from the Scottish TUC meeting in Dunoon. Denis Howell, MP, ex-Minister of Sport, told meeting of a Loughborough Labour Party last night that the NIRC would not 'melt away for the convenience of the trade unions'. The MP, who is president of the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union, added: 'It cannot help the trade union cause to allow its case to go by especially as it has default, accepted that the rule of law compels the movement to accept the decisions of the Court.'

Mersey T&GWU officials con- attempts pressure dockers to call off their blacking action against road-haulage firms to the have complained

NIRC.

However, Jimmy Symes, chair- port's stewards' the man committee said the action would continue. 'I think it is a vicious fine,' he said. At this stage it is not going to influence our position. We took this action long before the Industrial Relations Act came in. 'Ten thousand dockers are behind us.' In Dunoon, motion welcoming the stand by the T&GWU against the £55.000 in fines imposed by the NIRC was carried mously by the Scottish TUC.

instructed the The motion organize General Council to "solidarity action' in support of the transport union. A further motion calling on all member bodies of the Scottish immediate TUC. to initiate in support of any trade action unionist or affiliated body vic- timized by the Act was carried by an overwhelming majority.

All forms of pressure, includ- ing industrial action, should be organized in order to defeat the Industrial Relations Act, and have it removed from the statute book, it said.

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CIRCULATION

01-622 7029 • At Coventry more than 2,000 • nol workers at the GEC telecom- munications plant were out on strike yesterday. This followed management attempts to allow staff to carry out work normally done by 120 maintenance men who are on strike over a pay dispute. SIXTY workers at the C. A.

Parsons, Heaton, Newcastle-on- Tyne, electrical engineering plant were dismissed yesterday because, their union says, they supported a protest against redundancy plans. NEARLY half of Lancaster Uni- denied versity students were their cheques yesterday grant after they refused to comply with a new disciplinary undertaking.

They have been on strike over threatened dismissals the of English lecturers. lay April 22, 1972

PONDENT

Minister yesterday urged in ons should co-operate with the elations Court following its ansport and General Workers'

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Lancs GEC plants begin to link fights

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5,500

BY PHILIP WADE

than clerks chan ei aweek. away with less workers in two major week pay rise. They dumped in the person-

GEC

plants in the 'A lot depends on üs,' have been offered nel Liverpool committee says strike are tween £1.50 .and The died 80 per cent vote member Gerry Lynn. sitting-in, heavy ether «hese lor toe strike ended a laid-off strike plant i at Newton-le- year 3,500 negotiations. are manual workers Ine Willows, Warring- struggle for near Some production all pay In a In-s( 2,000 engin- But I must it's up to us. and conditions against .Lon. Lanes. worker wit canns eering third weers of their workers been taid pipeline have we've had say great the Weinstock empire. the

SUDOORE 1OM

lue snot E At the Liverpool male Many floor. Sill threatening clerks, in some cases Lancasure nevan LeTTers 'What me is clerks have just ended the Liverpool with long service, allates take the declaration of over fifth week with their the sack have £17 Hole less tual £80m Clerks Droll official strike for a to-a• unceremoniously week. Some female been throughout the combine been told each plant is losing money.

FACTORY

remember all the we were givel

ENTRANCE

when the

[GEC-AEI

merger took place saying now • good it was going to be. EA But they have tried accept Torce less labour, standstill and work. "The only good thing could come in my that Tory Party out and put back Labour • We would like nanotalk. tion of the heavy elec- trical industry, said Mr Clerks and production workers Mon- meet day to review tion. The clerks have also been touch with the engineering workers. Workers who came the factor with Marshall Leigh, steward, criticized "The

AUEV

formu later mie Some of the Lewisham GEC workers in jubilant mood threw it back at us,' said Leigh.

DOUBLE ACTION AT

executive backed —duer we gave inem support- -and sowed the the seeds for confusing

LEWISHAM FACTORY

NOW.

"There can no doubt about it, the em-

RY IAN YEATS

are organized or national scale. Our ONE HUNDRED workers on strike at GEC (Elliotts), Lewisham, national has of take form London, were told by union officials at a mass meeting yesterday to keep their action strictly within the law and to try to restart answer it. All the engin- deadlocked negotiations with management.

eers should be out. ine crons factory s mace Socialist Labour League and Young Socialists shop have been on official strike '13 over a f4-a-week weeks lor

MAY DAY DEMONSTRATION

wage claim. Last monday ul laa on s. the 100-per-cent union- men in. Sunday May 7 including ized wiring section, We demand the Right to Work!

deputy, one from the EPTU and in EPTU branch secretary.

No retreat from the fight against the Industrial Rela About 40 other workers tions Act! walked out in protest. Hands off the trade unions! Defend democratic rights!

Members of the wiring shop have been staging overtime Withdraw troops from Ulster! Release all internees!

ban. and half-day work-to-rule Victory to the Vietnamese workers and peasants suike osce a week Since allay support of a f6-a-week pay For the military defeat of US imperialism!

35-hour week claim. and

MAKE THE TORY GOVERNMENT RESIGN!

equal pay for women Management has offered all ASSEMBLE: 1.30 p.m. The Embankment, Charing Croas a f2 rise. the workers Present average AUEW wiring seep steward, MARia, Totaga Carr Posa, lon pont Street, Oxford shop stewaru. Dady Speight old me sectio body section MEETING: 4 p.m. St Pancras Town Hall.

wiring Tuesday turned up for work G. Healy (Socialist Labour League National Secretary) despite the lay-off and sat in for a Conse of hours, J. Simmance (Young Socialists National Secretary) were not laid off M. Banda (Socialist Labour League Central Committee) decided to strike because ther (In a personal capacity) considered the trade union officials were being victimized. Frank McCabe (NUM) Communist Party AUEW con- Roy Battersby renor Horace loanson sala there A. Thornett (Deputy Senior Steward Morris Motors) were no plans to call out the entire factory in protest against

CHAIRMAN

victimization C. Slaughter (Socialist Labour League Central Committee) Ine auezed union officials. Workers that confident I would like to come to the May Day Demonstration GEC will be forced to concede Ineir Day Claim and reinstate the laid-off men. NAMt .. components are entering the factorv across the picket line!

ADDRESS

and even supplies of food to the canteen have been halted.

GEC

Osram. Erith. the work force has been locked out Ve. Week after pay dispute. Convenor Foley said the use actor was mie goi Piease send me details of transport arrangements 'for the right to work. Complete form and send to J. Simmance, 186a Clapham High Street. London. SW4 7UG.

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