Workers Press no. 764

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

THE May Day Manifesto of the Socialist Labour League warned the labour movement that 'the Tory government has decided to provoke a General Strike and take advantage of the Labour and trade union leaders' treachery to crush the working class'.

We want to reaffirm that warning with all Government sources made show restraint and respon the emphasis we railenions did not cal the clear that sibility in wage demands. can Macmillan had I not call for muster. The past week hero's has seen the Cabinet in inaustrial achon they colla comerning Bog mealing addin welcome when he attended action preparing, step the 1922 meetings long Commitine meeting by step, for an all out the Com. they mons last night to explain confrontation with the Wednesday May 10: After the decision trade Here is the S-minute meeting 30D V

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the record. the rail sory general p.m. agreed their tone of the to renew May 4: The rail Thursday midniaht against work.to-rule for government unions said they were pre- retreat. Thursday unless the Rail nared to accept the Tarratt Board their agreed to de- award of 124-per-cent pao payment from At 12.45 p.m. News of the for mand including increase, National Mav 1 Rela. Industria minimum. but they wanted Macmillan court ultimatum called separ- tions it backdated to May 1. Transport and n and General the ate meetinac with the Rail The said they employers Board and the unions. He Workere endeavoured reported (See story p. 12) would not pay the increas to split before June 5 final Salaried provocation and Staffs Association from the Marsh when Friday May 5: Tory mini- rail union by offering pay- announced that all trains sters met to consider what country throughout they emergency powers workers May hrought halt during the weekend. there

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This until dustrial Employ- action. Despite remaind cilent Cerratar ment Macmillan warned on BBC Tharsday being favour Mav 11. oh d that the situation recalled, was being Tory Cabinet met. Macmil- Congraci spoke in the House the right wing "Very Cariole indeed" lan of In an effort to provide a budge. They know that the Commons and Tastirmar smokescreen behind which to the lower Toripc are preparing for hic Afar push aid which. he said, showdown, the conla under condi. ahead preparing the show- been approved by the Rai tions wher they down, Richard Marsh rail need the element sur- Tory Solicitor-General prise in order to Chief and inhoir renegade antah the declared that the unions Sir Geoffrey working class off Howe *had decided to take on the So Feather and the right requested permission of the National Industrial Rela- wing play the Tory game crate was followed Court disarming the working tions for a com. Macmillan who screamed class pulsory ballot the Railwave The need of the hour is being 'gazumped'" by the Friday May for the

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to be 12: Poli- Tail unions. vened Scanlon once wrote: and Tanne must 8: Monday Mav An *Mr Heath behind Feather. The situa- last night meeting of top- was prenaring the denf tion is too grave for such Torv Ministers rankina important speech manoeuvring. St, Downing called to the trade unions and • Reconvene the TUC. discuss government moves industrial anarent for o Real Reaffirm the decisions to deal with the thrastened delivery in Perth tomorrow September in rela- rail crisis, left no room for conference of Scot- the hope that they would tion to the Industrial Rela- tish Conservativac tions Act. authorize the board to give *Indications are that he in to the unions' demands.

will take the challenge • Call upon the movement up to Tory of trade answer provoca- Tintor Tuesday May 9: The blackmail" course preparing in 4ho tian unions postponed a deci- of a general warning that General industrial a do create sion about the next step in the politica rising nricad and linem. their fight ployment not be tha conditione mold Tory second time in 24 hours. curbed unless the unions government resien. • SATURDAY MAY 13, 1972 • No. 764 • 4p

IMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Solicitor-General Sir Geoffrey Howe and Rail Board chairman Richard Marsh enter the NIRC yesterday.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE GOVERNMENT continued its battle to force a compulsory ballot on rail workers in the National Industrial Relations Court yesterday.

came to their aid by claiming Phe woWelorere had Counsel for British Rail, Peter Webster, been board interpreted by employees to get *maximum slowness' on services throughout the country. gave examples of rail workers who were He alleged to have refused to man trains because of minor oil leaks, dirty windows and toilets that did not flush. To get their ballot, the government has to show that there is a good chance it will lead to a settlement. In written affidavits rail union leaders challenge this. Percy Coldrick, general secretary of the Transport and Salaried Staffs Association, said a ballot would be a costly and futile exercise.

It would only lead to one result, a firm rejection of the offer, he said. Locomen's leader, Ray Buckton, said telegrams and letters showed overwhelming support for the union's action. Some had even urged the unions to take stronger measures against British Rail.

Board chairman and ex-Labour Minister, Richard Marsh, was in court to observe the legal battle.

Court president, Sir John Donaldson, has said the court will sit today if necessary to complete the hearing.

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TORIES PROVOKE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATUF

CENTRAL COMMITTEE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

BY A POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

THE May Day Manifesto of the Socialist Labour League warned the labour movement that 'the Tory government has decided to provoke a General Strike and take advantage of the Labour and trade union leaders' treachery to crush the working class'.

We want to reaffirm that warning with all Government sources made show restraint and respon- the emphasis we can clean ware demands. rail unions did not call for 'Mr Macmillan had The past muster. week they industrial action could something hero's has seen the Cabinet in when he go on canne are doors welcome allended action preparing, step ing meetings long as meeting of the Committee they liked. the Com- by step, for an all-out confrontation with the

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last neil cadialll Wednesday May 10: the government's decision Here trade unions. 15-minute apply for the meeting the record. The une Tall Unions Vallul. tone of the meeting was Thursday May 4: The rail work-to-rule against any government midnight unions said they were pre- retreat.' pared the Jarratt to accept Board agreed to mand At 12.45 p.m. News of the for payment from. increase, including a National Rela- May 1. Industrial but they wanted minimum, Macmillan called Mav. with the Rail the Transport and General ate meetings The employers said they Workers' Union was Board and the unions. He would not pay the increase reported See storv D. 12).

endeavoured to split the betore une 5. Transport and Salaried The final provocation when Marsh Statis Association from the cam e Friday May 5: Tory mini- rail union by offering pay.

that all trains announced sters met to consider what to lower paid throughout the country emergency they be brought to would

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DrO- take if there might was weekend. vided the NUR and ASLEF the of

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outbreak waited until June 5. This Meanwhile the 111- Employ- dustrial action. silent. Despite remains majority of affiliated mem- Secretary Maurice ment

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Macmilan warned on Tharsday May bers being bein 1l: The that the situation was Congress recalled, Tory Cabinet met. very serious indeed'. right wing refuse spoke in the House of to provide a budge. They know that the In an effort Commons and reaffirmed smokescreen behind which his Tories are preparing for a offer the lower the Tories could push condi- showdown, under paid had which. he said, ahead preparing the show- been approved by the Rail tions where they down, Richard Marsh rail Board. need the element of sur- chief and Labour renegade, prise in order to catch the Solicitor-General declared that Howe working class on guard 'had decided to take on the So Feather and the right requested permission of the state' the Tory wing play, game National Industria hea. He followed by disarming the working was tions Court com- for a Macmillan pulsory ballot. screamed class. about the Railways Board The need of the hour is being the gazumped" by Friday May 12: The Poli- rail unions. editor of the "Times' vened once tical Jones must hide and not Monday May 8: An Heath last night The situa- benine seataer. emergency meeting of top- was preparing the draft of tion is too grave for such ranking Tory Ministers at manoeuvring. it out tall Downing 10 St, called to unions and • Reconvene the TUC. trade discuss government moves industrial anarchy for Reaffirm the decisions to deal with the threatened delivery in Perth tomorrow rail crisis, left no room for of last September in rela- conterence or scot- tion to the Industrial Rela- would tish Conservatives Hove Ther authorize the board to give 'Indications are that he in to the unions' demands.

• Call upon the movement will take un the challenge of trade union "economic answer provoca- Tuesday May 9: The rail blackmail" tion for in the course preparing unions General postponed a deci- Strike a general warning that Sion about the next step in rising prices and unem- industrial and politica their for the ployment will conditions to make the not be Tory government resign. curbed unless the • SATURDAY MAY 13, 1972 •| No. 764 • 4p

IMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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Solicitor-General Sir Geoffrey Howe and Rail Board chairman Richard Marsh enter the NIRC yesterday.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE GOVERNMENT continued its battle to force a compulsory ballot on rail workers in the National Industrial Relations Court yesterday.

Counsel for British Rail, Peter Webster, QC, came to their aid by claiming the work-to-rule had been interpreted board by employees to get •maximum slowness' on services throughout the country. gave examples of' rail workers who were He alleged man trains because to have relused to of minor oil leaks, dirty windows and toilets that did not flush. To get their ballot, the government has to show that there is a good chance it will lead to a settlement. In written alidavits rail union leaders challenge this. Percy Coldrick, general secretary of the Transport and Salaried Stafis Association, said "It ballot would be a costly and futile exercise.

would only lead to one result, a firm rejection of the offer, he said. Locomen's leader, Ray Buckton, said telegrams and letters showed overwhelming support for the union's action. Some had even urged the unions to take stronger measures against British Rail.

Board chairman and ex-Labour Minister, Richard Marsh, was in court to observe the legal battle.

Court president, Sir John Donaldson, has said the court will sit today if necessary to complete the hearing.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday May 13, 1972 • Six hundred i outside me tas tors paraded outside the Embassy Grosvenor Loneon. vasterey sident Nixon's bombing of North Vietnam. There were a number or arrests. SOUTH VIETNAMESE troops weeks. It is now almost com-

BUDAPEST

Radio reported on destroyed pletely after nerce and liberation forces were Thursday that Spanish Foreign DaLLica Ministry officials were locked in battle yesterday for parts of the town. talks for on 'questions Hungary of the key town of control Field officers at concerned Chon Thanh for European Security Con- village, 20 miles south of An Loc, An Loc. ference. said yesterday three Stalinists actively North tanks Liberation forces poured shells Vietnamese are were cultivating the support and still inside the town menacing Tone into positions Spanish for this confer- Saigon forces. with the Amencars which aimed at ratifying B52 bomb raids. Heavy South Vietna Rese keep- O1 curope ana reach- 56 north ing ietnamese helicopters ing agreement with the capitalist An Loc, mules Saigon, has been under siege joint policing of the sound nigang went forces for Jiberation Saigon be- sources said the had siegers thar

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An Loc over the 24 hours. previous B52 bombers flew PAKISTAN has finally responded the intense economic demands from the which has hit Pakistan since its to repeated Iccord

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in the war with India last tion forces' positions around the World defeat Bank the and town. national Monetary Fund December. with a Mubashir swingeing devaluation of the Finance Minister At least six South Vietnamese Hassan in radio helicopters loaded with announced

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broadcast that President Bhutto's Its new rate has been fixed at grenades and mortar Includlng Il rupees to the dollar, compared shells, stood by at the Lai Khe Construon Sumerited with the old rate 4.78 rupees, situation of rampant inflation further a devahuation of 56.7 per cent.

command headquarters took after when over unable

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The national debt stood The devaluation was one of the withering ground fire at An deltal. at $3,466m, he said. Loc. sources said supplies Military for An dropped

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The daily bv a C30 Hercules cargo dane paper that but about 40 per cent of the dads the fell the hands of supplies into fight against we meeramon lorces. the Torles. The South Vietnamese admit having lost at least 60 helicopters.

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publication yesterday as workers went on strike and occupied buildings in a second day of protests against the jailing of three Quebec Labour Federation leaders.

The three men - Louis Laberge, of president the The strike, which brought the Quebec Federation of Labour, province to a virtual standstill, was ended after 11 of days by Marcel Pepin, president Canada's industrial order under the Confederation of National relations laws. Trade Unions, and Yvon Wednesday, On workers de- Charbonneau, of the jailings president monstrating against clashed with police in a number the Quebec Teachers' Group of Special Quebec riot towns. —began one-year jail sen- to Sept squads were airlifted tences earlier this week.

Iles, an iron ore port the on after They were imprisoned for con- east coast, workers had tempt of court after urging their taken over the town. The strike members to disregard injunctions there continued yesterday. About 5,000 ordering maintenance of essential metal and con- during strike by struction workers yesterday 200,000 public workers pledged to remain on strike until service last month. the three leaders were released. DELAY in dealing with the other nations would accept a world monetary crisis might lead which did allow system not of restrictive the formation convertibility of the dollar into world trade blocs, Arthur Burns, gold or special drawing rights chairman of the US Federal ('paper gold"). ÜS spokesmen have re- warned in Reserve Board, Mon- But treal yesterday. peatedly - emphasized there will be no return to convertibility He told a conference of inter- least until the huge US balance-of-payments national bankers: deficit is It is not pleasant to contem- American eliminated to satis- world plate the kind of that faction. if might evolve co-operative Burns' fears of the formation efforts to rebuild the monetary of blocs already monetary …are system are long postponed.

realized. The Market Common 'We might find the world has fixed all its members' cur- rencies around economy divided into restrictive an agreed parity blocs, and is discriminating and inward-looking with actively against Japanese imports.

rules of international conduct the United concerning exchange rates and At the same time States further altogether is demanding monetary absent. from all the trade concessions Since 15 last other main capitalist countries when Presidents Nixon ended ear August improve in to the an attempt balance of payments and favour dollar's convertibility with gold, home The repeated attempts to resolve the manufacturers. trade have ended war which Burns discreetly warns monetary crisis in failure. about is already a reality in the post-August 15 world. Burns admitted it was unlikely

SLL LECTURES

Cliff Slaughter, Central Committee member of the Socialist Labour League, will give a series of lectures on Marxism and the Socialist Revolution in Britain on the following dates in Sheffield.

Monday, May 15, at 7.30 p.m.—Economics Monday. May 22, at 7.30 p.m.-History Monday, June 5, at 7.30 p.m.—Philosophy at the Burngreave Vestry Hall Barnsley Road

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port agreement with Britain, in- Tuly of the Spanish Foreign cluding plans for investment of Minister. Lopez Bravo. some £400m yearly. No donht. in exchange for Tory advice on pollution and He was also impressed by the technological development, de la Tory government's "struggle Mora was able to tell the Tories and against pollution' thought one or two things about dealing this had great lessons for Spain.

with recalcitrant railway workers.

Foreien Secretary Sir Alec Last his department year, Douglas-Home had half-hour ended a work-to-rule by workers Franco's meeting with repre- on the Madrid underground by for the sentative as preparation with threatening them con- Britain forthcoming visit to scription into the Spanish army.

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Fighting the Tories' Rent Bill Rents pressure on Labour wards Applauding the call for a General Electior

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are beginning to launch a of campaigns to series get councils in London to co

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of South London's Lambeth Council has threatened resign if the to borough decides implement to the Tories Housing Finance Bill.

Councillor Bill Weston has warned at several recent public meetings he will resign and he has announced he will try to persuade other counciliors to take the same action. Until the Labour majority group on the council has refused to make a final A BOARD reshuffle has taken place in Inter- national Computers Limited in a misguided bid to meet the slump in computer output. Mr Geoffrey Cross has been appointed managing director also joins the board of and ICL's holding company. Cross joins ICL from the Univac division of the American- owned Sperry Rand Corporation where he was vice-president and general manager of all. Univac marketing and service activities in North and South America.

His annual salary will be £25,000. The announcement that ICL 'poached' had American an executive was made by the com- pany's_chairman, Mr Tom Hud- Hudson recently became son. chairman in place of Sir John resigned Wall, who • rather abruptly earlier this year.

Hudson himself is an "import' to ICL. Before joining the firm he director of the was managing American-owned IBM group in the United Kingdom.

ICL

is a semi-nationalized organization. It was brought together as an amalgamation of various smaller British computer firms and given enarmous financial backing by the Labour government. Under the gee-wizardry of Wedgwood Benn, Anthony Wilson's Minister of Technology, consortium have was to established a British computer industry to compete against the Americans. The idea was a pipedream.

al Election accept the government's 'fair rents' Bill. At a public meeting on the Bill called by the Labour- controlled Lambeth Borough Council, a group of Tory councillors, ex - councillors decision on the Bill. There have been suggestions that they would not implement the clause which means they • would put council up by El a week • in rents October. Already in the neighbouring borough, council Wandsworth leader Ian McGarry, two com- a number mittee chairmen and of the Labour group's executive members have handed in their resignations following its decision to enact the 'fair rents' Bill.

And the invasion of senior executives from big capitalist firms means that the future of ICL looks even grimmer. New ICL chief Cross said yesterday: 'Profits-that is my total orient- ation.' Meanwhile figures released yesterday show the rolling depression in the computer industry. Total output in 1971 was 3 per cent down on the previous year. Value of last year's output was £307m which showed a fall of Ellm on 1970's figures. THE SEVEN-week strike at Smiths Industries Limited, Cricklewood, North London, is beginning to bite. The 70 engineers who mount a picket at the gates each day told Workers Press that pro duction is almost at a standstill.

The company is also planning to certain semi-skilled lay off workers, many of them women.

The engineers have been attempting to negotiate a domestic claim of £6 a week since last December. Manage- ment's take-it-or-leave-it offer was £2.40. The strikers' claim is now £8 a week and also a reduction in hours to 35 a week. The Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' district David Palmer turns round to address a gl and their political friends un- expectedly turned up. In all there were about 50 of them at the 200-strong meeting.

They constantly interrupted the Fraser, MP for speakers, John Norwood, and Councillor Ewan Carr, chairman of the housing committee. Fraser was accused, among other things, of turning the meeting into a political one and of inciting' those present to break the law of the land'. The platform generally was criticized for bias and for not inviting a speaker from the other side to put the case for the Bill.

Neither of the two speakers went beyond the technical aspects of the bill and its workings, and neither answered satisfactorily the two main questions from the floor: What will the next Labour committee is backing the strike.

Feeling on the picket line is determined. We are just very learning what trade unionism really is, one worker said.

'We are getting good support from all sorts of quarters. The local GPO was among those who have taken up collections fot us, he said. Workers Press, Hdress a group of Tory hecklers government do about rents and will the Lambeth council refuse to implement the Bill? Fraser ended by saying that the Bill had met with such resistance and pressure from all quarters that 'even now, I believe, the government is on the retreat'.

It was left to the floor speakers answer the taunts the to of Tories present and bring out the real hatred of workers for the Tory law. Palmer, David National Union of Railwaymen member, turned round angrily on a group asking of hecklers behind him how they would like to work 60 hours a week for £25 take-home pay and support a wife and three children and pay the extra rent.

Vic Bennett, a builder, said that one of the purposes of the Bill was to cut the number of new houses being built and that the building workers he knew 111 Militancy at the factory has not been high in recent times.

No mass meeting has been held for the past ten years. The youngest of the pickets is 21, the oldest over 60. 'We are fighting on our own, however, one of them said. 'Scanlon should never have abandoned the national claim.'

ers Press, Saturday May 13, 1972 PAGE 3 were now working on hotel sites where the government was giving away £1,000 for every room in every new hotel. Ted Knight, a council tenant and a member of the local Labour Party, said he saw no reason for inviting a Tory on the platform, but saw the main problem as one of how to force General a Election and get the Tories out.

This drew widespread applause from the meeting-and a number of poker faces, with hands raised trying to stem the onslaught with points of order. The position of the Lambeth Council on the Housing Finance Bill is that although no vote has been taken on whether to im- plens to thing so have, m plans for doing so have made and the council is hoping for support from other boroughs for a policy of non-implement- ation. PARENTS of children at four West London schools who have taken a leading part in demonstrations this week have received letters from the Inner London Education Authority warning that the children are 'harming themselves and damaging their own cause' In a letter to over 3,500 parents who have children at the schools—Rutherford Comprehen- sive, Sarah Siddons,., Quintin Kynaston and Marylebone Secondary - ILEA education officer Dr Eric Briault appealed to parents to co-operate stopping children not attending school. Briault said he was also con- cerned that a large majority of children should have their schooling interrupted by the "activities of a minority'.

A TOTAL of 4,314 complaints made against members of the Metropolitan Police were investi- gated last year, said the Home Secretary Reginald Maudling in a written Commons reply yesterday.

He told Paul Rose (Lab, Blackley) that 1,149 were with- drawn by the complainant: in a further 280 cases the complainant was unwilling to proceed with the complaint: 2,619 were not substantiated: and 266 were substantiated. In these cases an apology was made.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday May 1 No other union in Britain has quite worked itself into a position with the Industrial Relations Act as the white-collar Asso- ciation of Scientific, Tech- nical and Managerial Staffs. Confusion in relation to the Act is rampant throughout the trade union movement — but there's nothing to match

ASTMS.

ASTMS' various policies to the Act are these: • In a show of hands at last weekend's annual conference at Bournemouth, the union overwhelmingly voted to de- register. • But a card vote was neces- sary to permit a change of rules to get the union off the register. The card vote failed by 0.66 per cent to reach the necessary two-thirds majority.

Thus the union stays regis- tered. • But ASTMS general secre- tary Clive Jenkins assured the conference that union the would act to 'all intents and purposes' as a de-registered union. • This, however, did not mean the union would boycott the National Industrial Rela- tions Court. The union would go to court to 'defend mem- bers' interests' • Jenkins has already appeared before both the Tory NIRC and the tribunal. The sum total of these 'policies' is that there are no policies at all. With his accustomed elo- quence Jenkins himself unwit- tingly expressed the confusion

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when presenting the annual report: 'The Act has its pluses and its minuses.' The NEC policy, was a sensible 'pack- he said, age deal'. Deregistration was necessary the "tender plant' to preserve of trade union solidarity, but before the NIRC appearance was essential to preserve mem- bers' interests. He claimed that appearance before the Court in the Thetford case was a victory.

Many delegates, stunned and disappointed by the failure of the amendment to rule to permit de-registration ex- pressed the view that Jenkins' looking-both-ways policy was responsible for confusion in the union. The delegates' mood was very angry. R. F. Stone from Engineering branch Bristol withdrew his motion calling for • complete boycott of the NIRC. He explained that this was because his delegation day May 13, 1972 were so angry at the rule- 'they were pre- change vote paring to walk out of the con- ference'. Such confusion, of course, is fostered by Jenkins. 'I never regarded non-registration as a permanent tactic', he said.

In supporting a call for a recalled

TUC

: conference, he said that this was necessary, not to prepare to defeat the government, but to 'set up a sensitive apparatus to advise us. He made other demands— such as that for • Labour Market Board-which if taken in the context of the present onslaught on the unions, have clear corporatist overtones.

However,

ASTMS

what members must grasp is that there is a clear division of labour in the union. Both the Communist Party and the revisionists, above all the International Socialists group, have consciously worked to oppose any clear policy of linking the fight against the Act to a fight to bring down the Tory government. At last year's conference they opposed the call for the TUC to prepare a General Strike to force the government to resign and have consistently upheld this stand in branches and divisional councils. They therefore find them- selves overthrown by the executive. This became quite clear in the debate on unem- ployment. A resolution from London School of Economics branch called for the TUC 'to lead a campaign for a General Strike to force the Tories to resign and elect a Labour government pledged to a socialist programme'. In supporting this resolution Socialist Labour League mem- were alone in bringing bers before the conference the realities of the economic crisis. They pointed out that the retreat the trade union leadership, in which ASTMS had played a key role when Jenkins was the first union leader to appear before the Court, exposed the working class to the imminent danger of a corporate state. This was the only resolution which made the demand for defeat of the Tory government.

Many Communist Party dele- gates supported the motion, which, although defeated, received a substantial vote. Others opposed it on the grounds that such a call was premature. "There is usNo co-ordination between , a prominent Dublin CP member said after- wards. 'I don't even know who the Communist Party members here are' The executive council opposed the resolution. Their spokesman ridiculed it as a 'call for revolution which ignored the practical questions'. pl Earlier a CP supporter, Harry Fairbrother, had pro- posed a resolution from Imperial College which stated that a fight for a four-day week could 'solve the social problem of unemployment'.

In correctly arguing for a rejection of this resolution, vice-president Len Wells said that it could not be separated from • a political fight. He argued for the removal of the Tories and the early return of a Labour government pledged to implement economic policies which would end unemploy- ment. 'And of course', he said, 'if such policies cannot be carried out under this system, then we must change the system. Such demagogy did not give any explanation how, short of a General Strike to force the Tories' Wells' resignation, 'political fight' was to be con- ducted.

AEI-GEC

Ron Trafford Park, deplored the attitude of the leadership to the General Strike resolution. It confirms their position on non-registration',. said. "Their own policies opened the way for the decision on non- registration. They must be forced to fight in every way to reverse that decision.' Mr Murphy, a supporter of the IS group • voted for the General Strike motion. None of the IS members spoke in ers favour of the motion in the debate. They had issued a bulletin in the morning con- demning a resolution from Manchester containing purely syndicalist demands on unem- as'. ployment and ignoring political issues. A number of IS members who failed to support the General Strike motion apolo- their gized profusely for 'mistakes' to the movers after- wards. Because of inexperience of conference procedure they had arrived back too late.

Of course this was no mistake. Ample confirmation of this was given at an IS meeting the previous evening. Called originally on the demand 'How to fight the Tories', this had been changed to a discussion how to fight against registration (which were, course, different topics in IS eyes). Speakers were IS members Peter Osborne, secretary of the London Divisional Council, and Ian Gibson, NEC member of

ASTMS.

The meeting was a quite conscious attempt to wall off those delegates who were pre- paring to fight for any political struggle. Gibson and Osborne managed to discuss the Act while hardly referring to the Tory government. When this was raised by Socialist Labour League sup- porters it was ignored as being 'irrelevant'. There must be a rank-and-file movement built up at grass-roots level, Gibson claimed. He said that Thetfords could have been won without going to the NIRC because members there were militant. Presum- • weren't militant ably if they it would be all right to use the courts. Clive Jenkins, (centre) ASTMS general secretary. This whole approach disarms workers. Osborne made the amazing claim that the present position of the TUC leader- ship was a mockery of the earlier desire to "kill the Bill', 'but it is of course a continu- ation of it'. Such apolitical centrist verbiage as the IS propogate must be exposed. Many mem- of ASTMS are very bers worried and anxious about the present position in the union.

delegate from East One Kilbride, Jimmy McGregor, said: "The vote on registration could disintegrate the engineer- ing section. There is a danger ot a big defection to TASS.'

In ASTMS there have been massive redundancies over the past year in firms like Rolls- Royce. Austin Morris and ABI- GEC. The middle-of-the-road militancy on which Jenkins has built the union places members now in enormous danger. At every turn he has avoided a principled fight. The union has been growing, steadily unionizing many new sections of workers such as insurance staff, supervisors, areas where staff associations are now encroaching. The fight, of course, is not over. Members must take up the demand for a recalled con- ference to make the necessary amendments to rule. Above all there must be clarity political on the questions to prepare the union to take a stand with millions of other workers for the defeat of the government.

NEW GUINEA: WHO WILL

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDE

After years of promises from Australian govern- ment after Australian government, the territory of Papua-New Guinea is nearing independence. In the life-time of the cur- rent New Guinea parliament both these things will be achieved—self-government in 1972 and independence four years later. The Territory has always been a source of great profit and for, Australian anxiety capital since it was handed over in 1906 by Britain and now they want to get rid of it, but retain the loot. The Papuan's are technically Australians, but of course are allowed onto the white not • Top: Bouganville copper complex —the subject of vlolent conflict between the people and the investors. Interests of foreign Above: New Guinea's Adminis- trator with police

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mainland. The main aim of the Australian has government been to keep the territory and its 2.3 million people as a vast labour reserve for the big firms. With demands for independ- ence growing, however, it has been to train a necessary native bourgeoisie which can safeguard foreign capital while the illusion of independence is maintained. The move to create a privil- eged caste began last year when shares in the multi- million Bougainville mining company (owned by Rio Tinto Zinc) were offered to civil ser- vants. Previously civil servants were not allowed to hold any shares in a company operating in the Territory. was made, to The change quote the administrator of the Territory, L. Johnson, with 'the possibility of conflicting interests in mind'. The head of this tame bour- geoisie is likely to be Michael Somare-chief minister of the new House of Assembly who will become Prime Minister when the country become self- governing later this year.

He was once an angry is young man, but now he busying himself at balancing the conflicting interests of the die-hard planters of the high- lands, the big companies and demands from his own people for real independence. The main issues will be nationalization, and particu- larly nationalization of the big firms like Bougainville Mining, which is expected • to make £54.9m out of the island's cop- per by 1980. Opinions span from the right wing who represent the most reactionary imperialist interests and want to see only a token native private owner- ship of equity, to demands for total nationalization. Somare has to balance these forces to keep his coalition afloat and the Australian gov- ernment is behind the move.

At present copper boasts 9,000 shareholders in Papua- New Guinea, but they own less than 5 per cent of the shares.

see the kind of So one can local 'control' Somare has in mind. To excuse the refusal to act as anything less than a puppet over his country's economy he says: 'We are a communal people.

Land is owned communally.

Individual ownership is a western law and we shall have to change and adjust to the capitalist society. It will take time and education to do this -and any foreign country wanting to come here should bear this in mind.' He also wants to curtail the practice of foreign firms in- vesting in the Territory and promptly exporting the sur- plus earned from native labour abroad to their homelands.

In short, the self-government of Papua-New Guinea will hold nothing for the workers, Workers Press, i peasants and tribesmen-they will be as cruelly exploited as ever. Just how oppressed they are was revealed last year when a delegation from the Australian Labour Party, led by Shadow Labour Minister Clyde Cameron, toured the country.

He said conditions existed which were a blatant violation of minimum standards laid International by the down Labour Organization. White employers often im- posed a two-year contract on workers and failed to pay wages at least twice a month. Other abuses included a failure to pay any benefit to widows of the many men who were killed on the job. Many workers are intimi- dated and frequently forgo an entitlement rather than stand up to the white capitalist.

But resistance is growing slowly—a fact that has not gone unnoticed in the Ter- ritory by men like Dr J. Guise, in ex-sergeant major the colonial constabulary. He re- cently voiced his concern in parliament over the 'creation groupings whose of human objectives would be anti-social'.

He said the forces of the state would have to lay a greater role in 'forging national unity'-in short he proposed a doubling of the police force.

ra Press, Saturday May 13, 1972 PAGE 5 Several hundred French company directors have received the following curious communication signed by a prestigious group of former officers and dignatories. 'Leftist groups have decided to carry the struggle in the be a factories. There must response, therefore, from . the managements of factories. We do not agree with all the ideas and we of Ordre Nouveau, frequently advise them to be careful. 'Nonetheless, we are con- vinced that the members of this movement have struggled alone and without weapons for years against the com- many munist and leftist extreme left.

They alone foresaw the coming of the May 1968 events. But they lacked the means to pre- vent them in time. 'Police repression can to a certain lessen the extent damage done by the leftists. It cannot, however, prevent it.

Only a movement which turns youth away from the the terrorism nihilism and preached over the years by the well-financed leftist groups can do this. is why 'That have we created the Committee of Sup- port for Ordre Nouveau and ask you to aid this movement financially ..• Nouveau is the Ordre French organization. lascist Their circular is signed by General Paul Vanuxem, a veteran of the French Indo- China debacle, Colonel Horace Savelli, a member of the com- de la liberation, pagnons Christian Pigeonneau, a French diplomat, Maitre Paul Leandri, barrister, Francois and a Brigneau, editor of the right- wing newspaper 'Minute'. The wage of the average male worker in West Germany was cut by 1 per cent in the period October 1971 and between according to January 1972, government statistics. Miners were the worst hit.

Cuts in overtime reduced monthly income by 250 Deutschemarks in some cases.

The miners' union is demand- ing a 9 per cent wage increase from June 1 for its 245,000 members. However, regional miners' leaders say that the demand should have been much higher.

Fritz Schlosser, head of the district. committee in Wiebel- skirchen (Saar), said that 'the massive attacks of the em- ployers and the government on the economic and social posi- tion of the working man must be answered by a decisive wages struggle by the miners.

Our goal should have been 13 per cent'. In the Ruhr area, the Gelsen- kirchen - Buer - Hassel district committee originally put for- ward a 15 per cent demand.

The British miners' strike has increased German miners' determination: Fritz Schlosser said that if the companies turn down our minimum demands, we know how to hard as our English fight as comrades'.

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BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT AT THE COURT IN CALIFORNI

her. Branton accused Harris of On March 29, in her first 'a callous and shocking display the jury, statement to of unconcern for the rights of said: Angela Davis human beings'. examining the state •When all the testimony Before case, the events leading up surrounding the events Miss Davis' trial need to be 7, of August 1970, is swiftly set out. On August 7, 1970, Jonathan complete, the prosecutor Jackson, brother of younger will have certainly Soledad Brother George Jack- demonstrated that in escape bid son led daring from the Marin County Court- some way lives were lost house. He taped sawn-off and individuals were shotgun to Judge Harold wounded. But this is all Haley's neck and took him as he will have proven. He a hostage. In a shoot-out in the car will have proven nothing park, Judge Haley, Jonathan and - absolutely nothing Jackson two prisoners from killed. with respect to my guilt?

the court Miss Davis subsequently was just FBI's 'Most With the state case named on the about wrapped up, it is appro- Wanted' list designated and of priate to test the 'dangerous'. She is alleged to The four Miss Davis's forecast. supplied for have guns prosecution has been present- the escape attempt. ing its case for ten weeks and Throughout the preliminary brought forward stages of the trial last Harris argued a political, anti- With little or communist case. so far—as Miss Davis But he apparently intended t on, declared-all that California to launch Ceneral Attorney straight reds-under-the-bed Albert W. Junior, has Harris, ( attack. proved is that 'deaths occurred August 17 last year and human beings were But on 1970, at George Jackson was murdered injured' on August 7, Civic Centre, San by guards San the Marin prison Harris ordered Jack- José. Ouentin. cell searched and This, of course, the defence son's found The prose- an 18-page diary has never disputed. belonging to He long off Miss Davis. admitted in cution way proving the charges they have court the other day that this -charges 'changed brought against her- discovery the whole conspiracy and kid- theory of the case. of murder, If convicted she faces napping. the death penalty.

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If he been short has on facts and evidence, cast iron He has switched from Harris has been big on smear and guilt by political prosecution to one in innuendo, that Miss which he is arguing association. "passionate involvement' The most obvious comment Davis' George Jackson caused one must make about the state with flimsy as her help plot his escape. case is that it is as to Miss Davis' defence Harris is maintaining that the can be. purpose of the Marin Leo Branton, has court- lawyer, fact house escape was to hold the already condemned the George that his client has been kept judge hostage to get Jackson out of San Quentin.

in custody for 16 months with essentially no evidence against The first point to observe Left: Prosecuting attorney A. H. Harris. Centre: Angela Davis with defence accep

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about the diary is that it was written a year after the shoot- out. And even Harris admits that the August 7 incident is not mentioned. The state has linked the diary with three letters Miss Davis wrote to George Jack- son on June 2, June 10 and •August 18, 1970. The desper- ate theory being advanced by Harris is that Miss Davis' 'love affair' with Jackson drove her to being implicated in the murders. Harris told the judge that 'hadn't although the diary changed at all our thinking about the fact of guilt, it had changed our whole theory of the case'. Court Judge Superior Richard E. Arnason admon- ished the jury not to read, hear or see any news reports on the trial. But at the same time he unsealed for publica- tion details from the letters which have been. sensational- ized out of all proportion in the right-wing press. In one of the letters, Miss Davis says: 'I see myself tear- ing down this steel door, fight- ing my way to you, ripped down your cell door and let- ting you go free ... " To Harris this paragraph is the nub of his case. It means, he 'con- that Miss Davis says, spired with other people to bring about the freedom of George Jackson through violent means'. He believes this passage will convince the jury Miss Davis 'had a state of mind by which she would undertake a con- spiracy and she would under- take violent means to bring about the freedom of George Jackson'. In asking the court to read the letters into evi- dence Harris said: 'We might as well pack up and go home if the jury can't read at least portions of it. This is what this case is about.' He said the writings showed 'the state of her mind'. Leo Branton strenuously with defence accepting the Jury. Right: Judge Arnason (D opposed the introduction of the diary and letters. In an angry exchange with Harris he shouted: 'I consider this entire session an obscenity. 'That is how sickening I think this whole procedure is here in which we are attempt- ins to pil into the most inti- most personal mate, expressions of another human being because the prosecution ht: Judge Arnason (Drawn in the courtroom) in this case feels that, without doing he cannot get a that, conviction. walking out of the Before proceedings Branton said: I feel almost like a man who has forced, at gunpoint, to been watch the rape of his mother.

LETTERS

There was a further bitter clash when defence co-counsel Junior, Howard Moore, accused Harris of attempting lobotomy' with 'literary the 'You diary. a distorted are bigotist,' said Moore. It is disgusting absolutely. It is not the things in the letter that are obscene. It is your pawing over it that is obscene, he snapped at Harris. Workers Press has obtained copies of the three letters and we will be reproducing them.

The defence was correct to them being entered oppose irrelevan case. They are tally irrelevant charges against Miss Davis. It is alarming, however, that the defence chose to oppose the letters on 'moral' grounds. Their pleas in court sorieds more lie middle diss shrieks of than a political defence in a blatantly political trial.

Primarily, the letters are political. They range over a variety of topics in a confused talks and urgent way; she nationalism, about black women's liberation, Cuba and Vietnam. How did the prosecution lay its hands on these personal letters? This in itself makes an interesting sidelight into the conduct of the trial. Two of confiscated them by were

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Special Agent Tames McCord (now a Los Angeles attorney) on August 18, 1970, from Miss Davis' apartment. In court the letters denied any he took on August related to the anything murder, con- spiracy. before, lines to of unlawful warrants making an arrest. admitted "looking around' her apartment, although he agreed that this of privacy violation was a rights. Next day he returned with a warrant to confiscate letters and other documents and books, he said. There have been other "irregularities' revealed-parti- cularly in relation to witnesses.

of Take the evidence Lieutenant Robert A. West, a San Quentin prison warder who testified that Miss Davis visited George Tackson on August 4 and 5 with Jonathan Jackson. He said 'a fair skinned black lady' signed the prison register as 'Diane Robinson' but he knew her to be Miss Davis, • sitting in court. Under now cross "examination West mitted that three weeks before coming to court he was a registered member of the American Independence Party since July 1, 1968. (Governor George Wallace, the racialist, ran for the 1968 presidency on the Independent Party ticket.) West told the court that three weeks he had ago changed his registration to the Democratic Party. He said he was primarily interested with 'the issue of the working poor. Under further cross-exami- nation he admitted he only saw 'the backs of the heads' of the two prison visitors. He was asked why he had refused to meet with defence counsel he had met with Harris when --the last time only two weeks ago. 'I kind of look at Mr Harris as my lawyer, West replied.

feel you are on 'Then you the prosecution's side?' Moore asked. 'Yes', West answered. 'You don't think that's un- fair?' Moore asked. 'No, sir,' replied West. Serious doubts on identifica- tion were cast during another session of the trial. The prose- cution presented two witnesses who claimed to have seen Miss Jonathan Jack- Davis with son in'a rented yellow van on the day before the murder.

they The witnesses swore could make 'positive identifica- tions' of Miss Davis. Yet under questioning one admitted that he had told Federal agents he positively unable to was identify Miss Davis when they interrogated him while the other picked out a photograph of Mrs Fania Jordan, Miss Davis' sister, as the defendant.

The capitalist press in California eagerly splashed the evidence of Frank Blumenthal (25) of the Eagle Loan Com- pany who claimed to have sold Miss Davis a 12-gauge Spanish- made shotgun two days before the shooting. 'She told me she wanted to purchase a shotgun-an inex-" for about 35 h paid cash? uy a gun merel y showing identification sucl as a social security caro

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Then asked: a gun son to hit her meg no next witnes was almea naking absolutel sure Miss with the purchasa of the shotgun. said he firm, David Lison, recog- Miss Davis nized i d rank you know you re asked for her auto- lorkers Press, Saturday May 13, 1972 PAGE 7 graph and she said, ' "I'd be happy to". I felt like we had a rapport. She wrote it on my calling card in flowing letters.

Strangely, however, Lifson had lost the autograph. don't know where it is now, he said lamely. I thought I had it in my wallet, but it's gone now?

Branton's handling of Lif- seemed almost flippant. son Instead of engaging in demolition of his evidence he simply said: 'You say you lost Miss Davis autograph. Would like to have another one? tou 'Yes, sir!' Lifson answered.

further questions, your honour,. said Branton as the court rocked with laughter at his joke'. Next week the defence will present its case. There are about witnesses 30 to be called and the jury is expected to retire to reach a verdict early in June. The presentation of the state evidence shows that it nothing less than a frame-up.

But Angela Davis is still not a free woman. Some of the antics of her defence lawyers present the gravest dangers for her future. It is also dangerous for the working class because the Davis trial is a show trial and as such is an assualt on the democratic rights of the work- ing class.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday May 13, 1972 | Pages from Railway History 1839-1972 by lan Yeats.

Part three National Free Labour The struggle which took Asso- ciation which boasted of break- place at Tail vale, South ing 300 strikes using blackleg Wales, in 1900 and which labour. led to the union being all men At the same time, families successfully and their sued for occupying company cottages were thrown had nothing damages, out onto the road. Meanwhile, whatever to do with the Bagnall: 'Richard Bell says efforts fighting determination of made strenuous to secure a return to work on the ASRS leaders. honourable conditions.' When Richard Bell rushed The men were not so much to Cardiff on the first day of concerned with a return to 1,227 men demand- strike by as with the immediate work ing pay rises and the reinstate- objective of preventing black-

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signalman, ment taking and legs their jobs historian Philip Bagnall writes: snatching the bread from their 'When Mr Bell arrived in mouths. Cardiff on the morning of the Eight hundred and forty first day of the strike bent on pickets out day seven were settlement arranging as and night 'in evidence pretty as possible, he found quickly well everywhere when you the men in a very determined according to turned a corner', mood. management, and only a hand.

'He was a man whose mission the 400 blacklegs sent was peace at any price while by the Association managed to the powers behind him-the start work. rank and file-—were in a war- But the Taff Vale Co like mood.' was not going to succumb to having Two earlier Bell had days their business halted by pickets.

persuade tried desperately to Beasley applied for an injunc- of the Taff the management tion-ironically granted the Vale Railway Co to moderate He even took day the strike ended on their position. August 30. Trade Board of President The management followed Ritchie along. But no deal.

208 this up by suing of the Once the strike began he strikers who were held to have wrote to Ammon Beasley, the broken their contracts through Taff general manager of the failure give appropriate Vale Railway Co-'to discuss to strike notice. the conditions for a return to work' The settlement reached by Bell the with company on Bell squirmed uneasily be- August 30 gave the men no- intractability of tween the It promised refer Trade thing. to management and men. the of the signalman's was bad for the railway com- case reinstatement to the Board of pany. The coal strikes of 1893- Trade, abandon legal proceed- 1898 had hit their profits and ings against the men, restore competition from the rival rights, re-employ the Cardiff and Rhymney pension Barry, strikers over the period of one was making further railways month, phasing out any black- disastrous inroads. and refer was reflected in rail- legs still working, This the pay claim to a Conciliation waymen's pay and in January Board to be set up by October men at the Taff Vale, 1900, and Cardiff Rhymney, Barry submitted railway companies had been heard of the Con- a joint pay claim. Ninety-seven ciliation Board and 76 black- per cent favoured an immediate legs were still worki Bell had strike, but Bell had urged them During strike to give the companies more put his name to a leaflet urg- time to consider their demands.

ing them not to be known as All the companies except blacklegs. This was illegal. Taff Vale made concessions, So, on August 30, 1900, Mr 50 in some cases up to per Justice Farwell, with the Lyons cent of what the men were Wilkins precedent of 1896- demanding. This was extremely • 1898 before him, issued an because it split the important buried the injunction restricting Bell and and securely men local organizers from picketing psychological moment for joint —known as watching and be- strike action on all four rail- extending the order to setting ways. the union itself on September When the Taff Vale men in defiance of 5, 1900. finally struck the union on August 19, 1900, The decision reversed was But the on appeal by the ASRS and alone. they fought Taff reversed July 21, Vale management was again on 1901 by the House of Lords determined not only to break the law On December 31, the strike, but to smash peers. 1901, Taff Vale Railway union as well. the Beasley, a fanatical Co lodged a claim for damages union- and a cheque for £23,000 was was the ideal man for hater; paid by the union job. His first move was over on the March 23, 1903. call in William Collison's to Top: Richard Bell, General Secretary of the 54 Labour and Lib-Lab MPs elect Labour Representation Committee.

The outcome of the Taff Vale strike was that the rail- waymen's leaders had negoti- ated a return to work with virtually no concessions.

And in trying to break the strike the company had con- firmed the illegality of picket- ing and established the legal precedent that damages against trade union funds could obtained in the event of strikes.

The first three years of the 20th century saw the employers cock-a-hoop at the thought that they had decisively Westminster In 1906. crippled the power of the trade unions, It was legal to picket and union members dare not strike. The of the repercussions notorious Taff Vale judgement shot through the labour move- In 1906 Labour Representation Committee can- didates returned wert parliament compared with two in 1900 and the Liberal govern- of ment, trembling at the loss working-class votes, passed the Disputes Trade Act, proposed Kier Hardie, by legalis e Taff Vale Judgement. Below: Some of . These Include the 29 members of the picketing and banning all legal action against trade unions.

Reformism now entered a new phase. With the formation of the Labour Representation Committee at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon St, London, in February 1900, it was re- cognized that although the law could not be broken it could be changed - without, of any basic threat to course, the social order.

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American police tapped over a third more phones last year than they did in 1970, according to figures presented to Con- gress last week. By far the largest amount of tapping was done by the York and New Jersey New police, who together accounted for over four-fifths of the offi- cial wire-tapping authorized by the courts. This may simply mean that the police in these two states more conscientious about are getting court permission before tapping a phone, because the total figures reported fall ludi- crously short of the real total.

According to the report, a total of 531 wire-tap orders were issued last year by US state judges, of which 254 were to New York prosecutors, 187 to New Jersey officials and 90 to officials in 1l other states.

Another 285 orders: were issued by Federal judges, spread more evenly across the major US cities. The law per- mits the police to tap a phone for 30 days after a court order is issued, with 30-day exten- sions under certain circum- stances. Some phones were tapped for as long as 300 days, how- ever, the report indicates. The York police use wire- New tapping extensively because the state courts have long accepted evidence obtained in this way.

In most states, however, the courts would not accept such evidence until, in 1968, Con- gress passed the Crime Control Act. Not every tapping operation has to have court approval, however. The Federal govern- switch into the ment can phones of "security risks' with- out anybody's approval-and no figures for the extent of this practice are released.

In addition the police fre- quently tap phones without court orders-taking advantage of the mass sophisticated elec- tronic surveillance gear freely sold in the United States.

American railways have been in a bad way for a their long time but financial position is now • des- becoming rapidly perate. Privately-owned, of many the lines have only been kept in operation with cash pro- vided by Congress. Five lines are already bank.

rupt and another 12 could go broke at any time. Track and operating facilities are teriorating and there has been an alarming increase in the number of derailments. The railways have been losing out steadily to road transport for freight and to the airlines for passenger traffic.

Little has been done to win back trade by aggressive sales drives. For a whole era the railways had a virtual monopoly of transport. They received from New York and Minneapolis were the s strations last week, protesting against harbour. Meanwhile the offensive National Liberation Front goes forwa 'advisers' leaving Quang Tri when It fell the Federal government enormous grants of land as well as favours from the state governments. For a long time some of the biggest fortunes American came from railway promotion and speculation. Bumper profits were made by rigging freight rates and exploiting their monopoly position. Those happy days are now in the distant past. The rail system is now ailing and private enterprise has no solution except the bankruptcy which overtook the great Pennsylvania Central. To save these lame ducks left over from the heroic past of American capitalism, Con- gress is now being asked to grant further financial aid.

The Nixon Administration proposes to provide govern- ment guaranteed loans for the purchase of rolling stock. The rail industry wants a bigger guaranteed loan which would be available for renewing track and yards. Both Bills would permit a Beeching-style close-down of unprofitable lines and both admit that unaided private enterprise is doomed. It is partly to forestall a demand for 'nationalization' that these last minute rescue operations are being proposed. Two big American naval contractors have asked to be released from fixed.

price contracts which they claim are losing them money. They are Litton Industries and Grumman Aviation, both of which rely heavily on defence contracts government for their revenues. Grumman has told the Senate that it cannot fulfil the rest of its ere the scenes of new anti-war demon- ıg against Nixon's mining of Halphong of the North Vietnamese es forward. Above plcture shows US hen It fell to the advancing army.

$2,400m contract to supply the navy with 313 F-14 fighters.

If it is forced to stick to the agreed terms, Grumman says, it will have to close its aero- space plants, throwing 20,000 workers out of work on Long Island. The company's aero- space subsidiary has lost $65m on the contract so far, and lose more stands than to $100m on the next batch of fighters which Congress is likely to demand soon. Grumman's chief banker has threatened to cut off credit and the company estimates it needs more than $500m to complete the contract, signed in 1968. Grumman blames in- flation for its problems, but in fact it seems to have been caught at least partially by its own greed for orders. Grumman cut its bid just before the contract was awarded, hoping to get the over the heads of contract other bidders. In retrospect, the move was not very wise.

has set its face Senate The against helping "lame-duck' defence contractors and is un- likely to show Grumman much generosity. is Litton facing similar problems. It is under contract to build five helicopter carriers and 30 destroyers at its Origi- Mississippi shipyard. nally there were to have been nine carriers, but when the navy cut its order, Litton increase demanded an in the $400m contract, originally worth $1,000m.

One member of the House Armed Service Committec has described the proposed price hike as 'outrageous'. It would raise the price of a carrier from $153m $250m. Troubles are crowding in on who are already 19 Litton, months behind schedule with the carriers. Their competitors are sug- gesting that the destroyers will be delivered late, too. Litton management fear they will run into similar problems to Grum- man unless they get the extra money they want. The irony is that fixed-price contracts were once cornu- copia of goodies for the big defence contractors.. Now the boom is over, however, there is no longer enough to go round and the weakest are being forced to the wall.

Worker's Press, The Muggerishi is at it again.

This time he's decided that man is about to plunge into the new Dark Ages. He told worshippers at St Episcopal Church, Thomas Corstophine in Scotland: 'In- deed order is already breaking down everywhere: the road to the next Dark Ages may prove to be a motorway with many lanes, brilliantly lit, and over- flowing with enlightened hopes and sentiments.' And what forces on earth are trying to return us back That remark about 'trendy clergymen' is a rebuke to one of Muggeridge's big praying pals. We refer to the so-called liberal Dr Trevor Huddleston, the preacher who has per- formed with Muggeridge at orgastic rallies organized by the bible-mad Festival of Light.

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As the voice of the Young Socialists, the paper will cover workers all issues facing young inter- both in Britain and nationally. Selling for 3p a copy, it will 'campaign unceasingly to prepare the youth for the major class battles ahead. It will fight to working mobilize the class to force the Tories out of office'.

In the first issue, the paper carries a front-page report of the Young Socialists' 4,000-strong May Day march. 'Held a month after the YS conference at Scarborough and two months after the 8,500 strong Right-to-Work rally at Wembley, the march confirmed the growth in influence and membership of the Young Socialists.' One major feature in this week's issue is an interview with Radio One DJ Stuart Henry. (Henry was one of the compéres at the YS Right-to-Work rally on March 12.) The world news page has a report of proceedings_at Angela Davis' trial in San José, Cali- fornia. Together with on-the-spot detailed coverage of the London schools revolt, 'Keep Left' fea- tures a sports column which this week reports on the Young Socialists' football league cup final. Young Socialists' work in the Lancashire town of Preston is spotlighted in a feature article.

role 'Keep Left' will play a leading role among youth. It will cam- to defend the hard-won paign rights of the working class-the right to a job, the right to a living wage, the right to strike all of which are under vicious attack from the Tory govern- ment. The paper will publish his- articles every month on torical theoretical which are issues today vitally important for the working class. Central to its campaign and drive will be the extension of the Right-to-Work campaign into the regions, including local marches and rallies. As the main weapon of the Socialists, Keep Left' Young intends to play a big role in the construction of the youth move- ment. It will report continuously on YS branches and activities throughout Britain. How does a paper like 'Keep Left', previously with a monthly circulation of 21,000, not only 13% * 'Keep Left's' editor Gary Gurmeet looks 'Keep Left' as it comes off the press survive where others have SO hopelessly failed, but develop and expand? The answer to this does not lie in some wizardry or sales organizational genius. It can be understood only in terms of the paper's history as a principled fighter for socialist policies whose support among youth is won on thousands of the basis of a fight against the hated Tory government and its boot-lickers in the bureaucratic leadership in the official labour movement. 'Keep Left' has a long-standing tradition in the struggle against the Tories. Twenty years ago it started as a duplicated paper produced by Wembley Labour League of Youth (the Labour Party's youth movement). Its circulation soon extended to other branches of the League of Youth. And when, in 1955, a fright- Party right wing ened Labour closed down its youth section, 'Keep Left' continued its fight to recruit youth into the organiza- tion. 'Keep Left' In 1958 was printed for the first time. It was welcomed at the time by MPs Michael Foot, Allaun, Frank and Konni Maurice Orbach Zilliacus. This was the year of the first march in which Aldermaston thousands of youth took part in the four-day protest against the H-Bomb. 'Keep Left' condemned the Labour Party and . the Trades Union Congress for not going 'far enough' in its campaign to the nuclear tests even get suspended. In 1959—General Election year -'Keep Left' campaigned vigor- ously for the election of a Labour neet looks at a first copy of the weekly government pledged to socialist policies of nationalization, voting rights at 18, independence of the colonies and withdrawal of all troops from other countries.

But a jittery Labour leadership just couldn't stomach a militant youth and when movement proscribed the Socialist Labour League it also moved in to close down the Streatham and Nor- wood youth sections. 1960 proved to be a year of action for the youth. Thousands youth came out on of strike following a lead given by Clyde- side apprentices. It was also the year in which the Labour Party national execu- tive declared its intention of setting up another Labour youth movementthe Young Socialists.

'Keep Left' welcomed its for- mation and published a solemn warning. It drew attention to the fact that the bureaucratic machinery of the Labour leadership could be seen in the organization pro- posals drawn up by it. The following year 'Keep Left' appeared as a six-page edition and organized anti-Tory rallies throughout the country. 1962 — a bright new format, but also the year when 'Keep Left' was proscribed by the Labour Party executive. Continue fighting The Editorial Board declared its intention to continue fighting for socialist policies and Trans- port House continued its cam- crush the paper. It paign to failed.

Throughout 1963 'Keep Left' at the Easter YS national con- ference in Scarborough. Growing unemployment under taken up in the Tories was several demonstrations organized after a campaign was launched by 'Keep Left' and its supporters in the YS. It was this campaign and the development branches of YS through political and social activity that finally gave Keep Left' supporters a majority on the YS national committee and overwhelming for its support policies at the 1964 Brighton YS conference. The Labour bureaucracy then moved in with a vengeance, expelling 'Keep Left' supporters on a wholesale basis and closing down branches. Independent YS Police dogs were called in by the right wing to prevent YS members picketing the Streatham General Management Committee and the first meeting • of the National Committee with a 'Keep Left' majority-was closed down after its passed a resolution condemning the witch-hunt.

This became the split with the Transport House bureaucracy and •Keep Left' spearheaded the independent Young Socialists' movement. Later in 1964, the editorial board announced technical im- provements and the first annual meeting of the paper general witch- impossible under the hunting conditions inside the Labour Party, when to be seen selling or writing for the paper could mean instant expulsion.

Over 450 readers attended this meeting in January 1965 and elected Aileen Jennings as the paper's editor. The 'fifth annual conference of the official YS in Morecambe adopted 'Keep Left' as its official paper and voted for an independent programme and constitution. 'Keep Left' continued to lead the Young Socialists and an- nounced a circulation of 18,000 in 1968. In May 1969 it produced the first 16-page edition.

Consistent The following year 'Keep Left' had built up its circulation to over 20,000. The paper's annual meeting that year decided to produce a regular 16-page paper.

It led the campaign for the 4,500-strong anti-Tory rally at London's Alexandra Palace on February 14, 1971. A special issue of the paper in June that year called for the re-election of a Labour government. answered Tory It anti-union plans with a call for a General Strike to make the government resign. In 1971 'Keep Left' led a big campaign against unemploy- ment with the YS plans for the Right-to-Work marches which culminated on March 12 this year with the 8,500-strong Empire Pool, Wembley, rally. Its annual meeting earlier this year laid firm plans the for development of a weekly paper.

Speaking at the May Day meeting earlier this month, John Simmance, YS national secretary, said: "The Right-to-Work marches were part of our most successful ever. We can see the campaign results of the campaign today in the production of the weekly "Keep Left"' The weekly, he added, was possible only because the Young Socialists carried out a con- sistent fight against Toryism and its allies in the labour movement.

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Blacking: Pressure on in Preston PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday May 1: PRESTON dockers yesterday decided to increase their pressure on blacked hauliers.

Instead of letting lorries into the docks, where they had they remained untouched, are now organizing picket lines at the dock gates to turn those lorries away. the last three days During dockers' leaders have been meet- ing union officials and members of the Road Transport trade of the T&GWU. After group their last meeting on Thursday morning a leading docks shop said: "The RTC men steward categorically state that they don't want to be registered dockers.

'However, if the employers wanted them to become regis- tered they say they'll reconsider.

DUSTMEN on strike at Jarrow, Co Durham, have been asked by borough engineer Roy Stewart to clear the worst of the piles refuge during accumulated their 12-day-old strike. He was offering the men first refusal for the work in return for a payment to charity before he called in outside contractors.

The men's General and . Muni- Workers' Union shop cipal steward Derek Sadler said that they might be prepared to under- take the work. TRENT Polytechnic, Nottingham, students' unanimously union passed a motion on Thursday put forward by staff and students of fine department boy- the art cotting an official internal inquiry instigated by the director into the working and discipline of the department. The inquiry follows recent incidents department in which resulted in the sacking of a laboratory assistant and the disciplining of two others.

THIRTY thousand jobs in the Lancashire spinning industry are threatened by Britain's entry into the Common Market, according to Edmund Gartside, chairman of the Textile Industry Support Campaign. Once Britain entered Common Market, cotton yarn would be treated the same way as a raw material. As such, im- allowed virtually anywhere in the world free from quota restrictions and subject at most to a 'devisory" tariff. I would like inforn Fill in the form below and

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Another leading steward said: "The employers must be laughing at this, but we won't stop the blacking? • A MASS meeting open by union card only to road haulage drivers will be held in Hull tomorrow. The driver members Transport General Workers' Union, will discuss the container issue and a pay claim.

Hull dockers are blacking two local haulage . firms, Panalpina (Northern) Limited and MAT Transport Limited. On Monday an interim order granted against the union and the chairman of the Hull docks shops stewards' committee, Wal- ter Cunningham, will be reviewed in the National Industrial Rela- •tions Court. The order calls on IN ITS most important ruling to date the National Industrial Rela- tions Court yesterday told the Transport and General Workers' Union to discipline or even sack shop stewards for disobeying court orders. The judgement will have profound implica- the most tions in the labour movement.

virtually requires trade It "police- union leaders to act as organizations men' within their or face severe penalties.

The court gave the T&GWU 21 days to obey its decision in the words of Court president Court Sir John Donaldson, the would 'asert its authority in an unmistakable manner' This deadline coincides with the first day of the threatened national docks' strike over the use of containers. Sir John launched an attack the practice of blacking.

on •Blacking the public, damages fellow workers and the employers of those fellow workers. It does not damage those who do the blacking -they draw their pay.

'It is an unfair weapon and parliament has declared it to be unlawful. The duty of trade union officials at every level from shop steward upwards is to lead.

'Leadership takes many forms example, advising, setting an explaining, and using the elected constitutional committees of the union to the full, and when all else fails, using the disciplinary with which they have powers been entrusted by the member- ship'. judgement- In a 27-page arising from the blacking of two information about w and send to NATIONAL

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Ford prices both, Mr Lindsay Alexander due to Chairman, Ocean Steam Ship Co trial practice'. -Ports and Modern ship Opera Hull will Mir Philip E. Chappell, Chair- •uncay s meeuno n rise be followed on Monday evening district between the National Ports Council one commercia man,

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Mr Eldon Griffiths, Parliamen- the first U. was since Ford with lorv tary will parucipale «secretar o veale moved to Dagenham 39 years isters and port employers in a Department of the Environment, seminar organized by Mersey- will also address the ago conference After tax adjustments the loss Productivity Association Chairman Wil Alaculal Sir conference being Steward, is nace in the diastros Haro manac backed by the Mersey Docks and President, Merseyside Producti- announcing Harbour Company the Mer- figures chairman and Association. rora Chamber Commerce Leonard Crossland seyside Is an extreme Apart from Farrar tion Me presented tie polise year's cin-wow retrike ana Inaustry. speakers at the conference represented can reveal that the Federation in the Commons.

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London, sw4 (u Scottish Tories hear 'lame-duck' philosophy the THE TORIES can do Davies said the don't believe in sustain- cessor enterprises best chance of a no more to stimulate ernment enterorise salis. business which we cannot, with face the future. And the economy Trade efficiency and providing certainty, face whistles and Industry Secretary viable future, but we the cat-calls that result Davies told the casi assistanict John jects could our thes nave Dent rule. 'Some concerns-anc Scottish Conservative fairly sure would recently under the pres- springs Party's conference at become viable. sure of other naturally to mind-play Perth yesterday. notably unem Referring to steel and LOn. such a part in nationa He said the ployment. govern- the life Witte eve anu Internationa. ment could not create Hunterston multi- would we nave tha1 Their

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veman they complex don shipas in the case constitute such a catas. markers where did not blow which could provide shipping trophic exist and that the next Uppel Clyde-we Inousanes olexua oos. nauonai interests move was up to indus. he warned: not compound our those our friends heresy is, overseas as to be insup. it what would be other words the pretending portable. unpardonable gov- Tories feel they have away witte 'So we rescue them. be all can emmmnent cost and then see the conc assent provide industry with a to tne creation whole problem surge up "In our rescue opera. mighl be reharis ture whose future must framework tion we not, again for want of naving public cost, salvage the tunity within which thes lacea reality. CHre conse•uence whose interest of those Can expand those who work in 'So possibilities sought Kult it the WE nave manacement and nation's not there and there Tine without equivocation those whose stake recources. been lost t as a result be a slump, then what really has has asocos so be it. He stressed: •We the of that failure

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