Workers Press no. 766

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COURT CRACKS

WHIP AGAINS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MAY 16, 1972• No 766 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TAFF VALE

UNIONS

were reminded again yesterday that they had to sack

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

shop stewards who disobeyed the leaders to 'police' their members has clearly orders of the National Industrial become a major legal weapon that the court Relations Court. wil use in aurure cases. In yesterday's action, Panalpina (Services) The came during and Panalpine (Northern) Case won an extension regarding blacking on Hull docks. For on the the blacking of their court soda the lorries. second time within five days the legal essence of the notorious 1906 Taff After hearing that the sanctions against the firm had spread from Hull Liverpool Vale judgement was revived to threaten docks, the effect, Transport General

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made the and Workers Union. The has union until tomorrow to argue Court Sir president John Donaldson said the bans should be lifted.

that after last week's decision on blacking Sir onn made it clear he was

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Liverpool: It is for the union to ensure the pare to listen arguments advanced week's case then the union maintained shop stewards comply with the order make them cease to be shop stewards.

not responsible for "rebel' unat they were shop stewards. Liverpool Diacking case Donaldson relied heavily land the in the Taff Vale But for the

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Ian Hunter, said the was a anti-union law. facts of the Liverpool case did not Ine usuCE rarwell aDD v to the one serore the court.

body was responsible for its The case also offered another which ned a example of even if they out their work the Court's high-speed procedure. Counsel in a manner not intended.

for te mon asked to present evidence on requires rraay. Clydebank deal likely tomorrow A LABOUR agreement for the Clydebank yard of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders is likely to be reached stewards' spokesman tomorrow, shop said yesterday. The talks, which began last offer failed new pay Tuesday between the stop employees the stewards

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Clydebank factory the Singer and the American Marathon Sewing Machine Co Manufacturing Corporation, esterday _LO which wants to take over the today over a wage claim. Talks between management yard were contnung. bkinneshapingthe yard toy aimed and unions building nad been start almost Marathon since Thursday. The shut yesterday megiate v the deal is completed. An agreement wilmentot mean afternoon employees attended government-backed that Une mecunk

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Govan shipbuilders- -based on the their strike decision. Management Govan, Linthouse answered £4 and scotstoun pay UCS-can and hours claim with a f2.50 to operational. £3.25 offer. •

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Sir John Donaldson "Why tomorrow?' not said Donaldson abruptly. He added: It is really not so much a matter of evidence as really doing some- thing. What I want to know is what are you doing or what are your clients doing over the industrial action. He said in his judgement that the union headquarters should be sending out tele- grams to all branches instructing them to get the shop stewards to lift their action.

The shop steward named in the applica- from Walter Cunningham, tion Panalpine, was not represented. Counsel for the firm submitted an article from 'The Sunday Times' in which Mr Cunningham, the chairman of Hull docks shop stewards' committee, said he would not obey the court order.

He now has until tomorrow to stop the blacking face possible penalties under or contempt. The unions must show they are prepared to go as far as sacking stewards if they are to avoid more fines or too sequestration. While the case went on, talks opened in Liverpool over new pay deal for the port's 10,000 dockers and today transport workers' general secretary Jack Jones will meet Secretary Employment Maurice Macmillan over the container dispute.

Harbin sufveys his Clydebank domain

VICTOR FEATHER,

TUC general secretary, has quickly got into his stride as a spokesman for law and order under the Industrial Relations Act.

At the opening of the annual conference of the Post Office Management Staffs Association, Feather said there had never been any question of the TUC not accepting the law of the land': *We have never said we would not accept Court decisions or refuse to obey court orders,' he added. Is Feather concerned about the decrees against unions being issued by the National Industrial Relations Court? *Some people have represented the events of the last two weeks as bordering on a major con- stitutional crisis. I say that such statements are absolute nonsense.' THE Transport Salaried Staffs Association is taking newspaper space asking its members not to complete the ballot form on the they have rail dispute until heard from the union. Percy Coldrick, the Associ- ation's general secretary, told the delegates at their conference in Weymouth that they were also preparing a 'punchy style' leaflet.

It would explain why members 'yes' in the ballot, should reply which asks if the workers want to take part in further industrial action in view of British Rail's pay offer. • See Court clamp on discussion p. 10.

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workers press COURT CRACKS and

WHIP AGAINS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY MAY 16, 1972 • No 766 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TAFF VALE

UNIONS were reminded again yesterday that they had to sack

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

shop stewards who disobeyed the leaders to 'police' their members has clearly orders of the National Industrial become a major legal weapon that the court Relations Court. will use hauture cases. In yesterday's action, Panalpina (Services) The warning during came case and Panalpine (Northern) won an extension regarding blacking on Hull docks. For on the court's ban the blacking of their lorries. second time within five days the legal essence of the notorious 1906 Taff After hearing that the sanctions against the firm had spread from Hull Liverpool Vale judgement was revived to threaten docks, the effect. Transport General COult. the and Workers' blacking ban natonwide. Union. The union has until tomorrow argue Court president Sir John Donaldson said whit the ba the bans should be lifted.

that after last week's decision on blacking in made it clear he was HOL OrC Liverpool: is for the union to ensure the pared to listen to arguments advanced shop stewards comply with the court order week's case when the union mainlaned make them cease to • be shop stewards. responsible for 'rebel' were not case shop stewards. In the Liverpool Diacking Donaleson relied heavily the Taff Vale But counsel

T&GWU,

for the Ian Hunter, which was a landmark in anti-union law. He said the the Liverpoo case did not apply to the one before the court.

reiched une Tunne *arwel body was responsible for its The case also offered another example of which neid a agents, even if they out their work the Court's high-speed Counsel procedure. manner not intended. for the union asked to present evidence on requires

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principie, 1100 rraay. Clydebank deal likely tomorrow A LABOUR agreement for the Clydebank yard of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders is likely to be reached stewards' shop spokesman said tomorrow, yesterday. The talks, which began last • A offer failed neW pay Tuesday between the stop employees • Sin the stewards 9.000 Clydebank factory the Marathon and the American Sewing Machine yesterday Corporation, Manufacturing sunke IrON which wants to take over the today over a wage claim. yard, between management Were co Work on reshaping the yard for and aimed at building oil by the rigs going une surike been will since Thursday. slall allilos l The shut mediately the deal is completea.

yesterday agreement ill mean afternoon employees attended that government-backed une unev

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their strike decision. Management —oasta on une Govan, Linthouse and Scotstoun had pay

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-can claim with a f2.50 to and hours £3.25 offer. operational.

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Sir John Donaldson tomorrow?' Why not said Donaldson abruptly. He added: 'It is really not so much a matter of evidence as really doing some- thing. What I want to know is what are you doing or what are your clients doing over the industrial action. He said in his judgement that the union should be sending headquarters out tele- grams to all branches instructing them to get the shop stewards to lift their action.

The shop steward named in the applica- from tion Panalpine, Counsel for the firm Walter Cunningham, was not represented. submitted an article from 'The Sunday Times' in which Mr Cunningham, the chairman of Hull docks shop stewards' committee, said he would not obey the court order.

He now has until tomorrow to stop the blacking face possible penalties under or contempt. The unions must show they are prepared to go as far as sacking stewards if they are to avoid more fines or too sequestration. While the case went on, talks opened in Liverpool over new pay deal for the port's 10,000 dockers and today transport workers' Jack Tones will general secretary meet Secretary Maurice Employment Macmillan over the container dispute.

Harbin sufveys his Clydebank domain

VICTOR FEATHER,

TUC general secretary, has quickly got into his stride as a spokesman for law and order under the Industrial Relations Act.

At the opening of the annual conference of the Post Office Management Staffs, Association, Feather said there had never been any question of the TUC not accepting 'the law of the land': 'We have never said we would not accept Court decisions or refuse to obey court orders, he added. Is Feather concerned about the decrees , being against unions issued by the National Industrial Relations Court? 'Some people have represented the events of the last two weeks as bordering on a major con- stitutional crisis. I say that such statements are absolute nonsense.' THE Transport Salaried Staffs Association is taking newspaper space asking its members not to complete the ballot form on the rail dispute until they have heard from the union. Percy Coldrick, the Associ- ation's general secretary, told the delegates at their conference in Weymouth that they were also preparing a 'punchy style' leaflet.

It would explain why members should reply yes' in the ballot, which asks if the workers want to take part in further industrial action in view of British Rail's pay offer. • See Court clamp on discussion p. 10.

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PAGE 2 Workers Pross, Tuesday May 16, 1972

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of the 'socialist revolution' in the schools.

old SAU spokesman Simon Stayne Maoist-dominated Schools Action The vast majority of school from South London 'informed the Union plan a one-day strike and have Press Association that he would be children do genuine demonstration throughout London prepared on a press grievances to lay con- schools in support of their de- Discipline, in many cases, is harsh.

ference for £100 and the use of a School uniforms are expensive and mands for the ending school When this offer was not OT room.... parents faced with round he said he would unitorms, canings and detentions upon taken up give individual the of restric- round of price increases can hardly and lifting petty any newspaper an afford with buying for £10. This tions. to keep up terview too was increased fares and declined.' uniforms, of Details the action were costlier school dinners. These sort of adventurist pranks planned at a meeting on Sunday in dealing with the capitalist press The youth complain bitterly of the attended by over ou youtn at ine quality of school cannot, and never will, take work- extremely poor Workers' Music Association Hall. meals which they say are too ing class youth one step forward Westbourne Park West Road, small to keep them going through- in their fight to defend their rights London. out the day. by the decent education won Yesterday's capitalist press, These grievances however have trade union movement in 150 years porting the meeting, went wild in been turned into empty propa- of struggle. 'Schoolkid their witch-hunts of the ganda slogans by the Maoists to To defend these riants today Castros' - 'the boys behind the organize one-day protests-'mass youth must understand that the and school revolution' ('Sun'); The Times'-for truancy' says problems they face are part of the which children have been overall attack now being waged many severely caned, others detained by by the Tory government against These 'red scare' tactics are, of the police and some threatened working class, organizations, rights course, a long-established practice and conditions. with expulsion. The flippant attitude of the SAU of Britain's capitalist newspapers, They must turn their real but the adventurist Maoist leader- Tory has allies the leaders the press within working-class ship behind the SAU have given given them unlimited scope to poke movement, remembering that the them a heaven-sent opportunity to fun at these legitimate demands.

fight to make this Tory government 'The Times' reports, 16-year- indulge in their fantasies of As resign is a serious attair.

POLICE

patrol clashed with demonstrators in Tananarive yesterday and some shots heard after crowd of 100,000 had marched the Malagasy Republic's presidential palace. The huge march followed weekend senols castes Madagasgar involving security forces and who strike policy. The emment's ceclcation death toll is least 24. and 160 people have been injured. 400 About people are wider arrest. Yesterday's marchers included elderly people, children, workers, Container ships in San Francisco-one of the biggest threats to dockers' jobs.

and They civil servants demanded The re ense the suppression of arrested anu hated Republican Security he rorces Thev carried nacards reading 'Assassins, Free our friends kill us all'—a reference Presi- dent Philibert Isiranana's threat everyone sym-

SHOOT

WHO

pathizes with the 'insurgents'.

Teation a reed receive a the delegation marchers

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strikes against the

BY OUR FOREIGN DESK

settle with the government by listen to their grievances and the jailing of three union leaders Woes demonstrators started drift Bill was being rushed As the the Common Front of public ser- spreading throughout the pro- away for lunch to decide on the 200,000 embracing. some through vince, Quebec premier Robert the members of the delegation leaders snap prison callea a

WULACIS

-aLC Bourassa has described the their mote to stand won ut com- Official said sourcet tor uroine mer menders to der But walk-outs as the action of 'a out. incidents had been reported. The a court order to maintain essen.

cent vote to stay tial services during a recent strike.

only casualties were several group of bully-boys'.

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deadersus Calce had this was not a sufficient mandate people who fainted in the They will be released The town of Sept-lles to continue the and urged great heat obey unless they agree to the practically control central square surrounded by under the its members back to work court in future. They have stated of local trade unionists, Quebec Ending the strike opened the that they will not agree to sıgn But a clash suddenly dis- erupted airport is virtually shut down harsh way away ine future between marchers by strike of ciplinary measures against group mechanics, in return for release from prison.

unions On May the three there strike are pickels

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the secondary The Common Front leaders schools, Common Front led main side Laval university, the town 11-dav strike of its 200.000 mem.

jules •ne

LEIS

Lavende •resident of Thetford Mines is paralysed bers last month demanding Quebec Federation Labour, General Strike and up to by a Shots throughout the Marcel Pepin, president of minimum wage 100,000 workers are on strike Confedera- $100 National Irade Unio

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across the province. 600,000 present more Doucenan was Teboned kalee inan TOn. vauDonneru By midday, a relative calm had Friday night, Quebec workers are below this president of the Quebec Teachers Yet on hourassi returned to the city after declared that the imprisoned for appeals minimum wage. WeIl 'calm' and said 'almost for the whole violence 110 une To ycal on contenou Charts • Dreak ine sanke bonnassi clear far island's religious leaders.

oi ine population Is that brought in Bill 19. rushed Key were being policed government in applying the placating Bourassa through National Assembly the climb- by the island's other law the leaders' gendarmes, in an all-night sitting. He added: 'If the union leaders police force. «own in encie tde duduc servce All-night curfews im- don't take advantage of the right deprives workers strike opened the way for ot

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posed Tananarive on Satur- appeal, because they right to strike for two years and on even more repressive measures, day and sundav stay in prison including the imprisonment of the

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Walll lo culpowers ut -who head of student strikes and clashes.

three a new contract if they do not leaders themselves. Mercers-

BY A FOREIGN

CORRESPONDENT

PRESIDENT Nixon has moved to provoke another confrontation with dock- workers on both coasts of the United States. Board last week His Pay ordered a 22 per cent cut in the wage increase recently won by East longshoremen. coast Last month, the Board slashed the West coast dockers' pay rise from 16 to 10 per cent. Both these increases were won only after prolonged and bitter strike struggles, in both of which the administration imposed 'cooling-off' periods under the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act.

Now the Pay Board, from the five union which four of representatives have resigned, has stepped in to cut the dockers' rises. Leaders of both the East unions and West coast had promised to shut the ports if the Board did not pass their increases.

The Pay Board move has put both unions on the spot. They out their now have to carry promises or back down in the face of a direct legal challenge.

Pay Board chairman George Boldt, announcing the pay cuts, said he expected dockworkers to look over our decision, be dis- appointed and then go along with the law of the land'. The leaders have still to reach a decision and are plainly hang- ing back from a fight with Nixon.

months of strike But after dockers action to win the rises, are in no mood to knuckle under.

While the Pay, Board is slashing • increases, their hard-won Price Board, which is supposed to be keeping down profits under phase two of Nixon's economic is assuring big programme, business of a bonanza year.

Businessmen have been assured they need not worry about profit cuts.

BELFAST •PEACE-LINE' OPERATION

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BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE PARATROOP Regime Sunday (January 30) are firml Ballymurphy and Springmartir The operation was led by Lieutenant - Colonel Derek Wilford who supervised the Londonderry operation. A spokesman said the para- troops took up their positions 'with minimum aggro, mini- mum resistance and minimum inconvenience'. Their arrival in the embattled estates was watched with amaze- ment by local residents. At nightfall on Sunday they arrived on foot dark wearing, battle dress. Their faces were blackened. They carried auto- matic weapons or SLR rifles fitted with powerful telescopic night sights. Slung around their necks they carried belts of ammunition if they were preparing for a long siege'. To 'soften up' the residents auxiliary units fired dye, gas and bullets to clear the rubber streets. As the paratroops began their leap-frog through the area, cover of smoke bombs was laid.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE

MEETINGS

Fight the Tories' 'fair rents' Bill WANDSWORTH: Thursday May 18; 8 p.m. Selkirk Hotel, Sel- kirk Rd, Tooting Broadway.

NORTH KENT: Tuesday May

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House, 23, 8 p.m. Essex Rd, Dartford. DAGENHAM: Tuesday May 23, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Avenue, Barking. CLAPHAM: Tuesday May 23, 8 p.m. Small Hall, Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4. WEST LONDON: Tuesday May 'Prince Albert', 23, 8 p.m. Wharfedale Ad, off York Way, Kings Cross. SOUTHALL: Thursday May 25, 8 p.m. Parkway Rooms (Rent office), Raçecourse Estate, Northolt. (next to swimming pool). NORTH LONDON: Thursday May 25, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayer's Arms', Tottenham High Rd (nr White Hart Lane) CROYDON: Thursday May 25, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe LUTON: Thursday May 25, 8 p.m. St John Ambulance Hall, Lea Rd. SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thurs- day May 25, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club (opposite New Cross Station). ÉAST LONDON: Tuesday May 8 p.m. "Aberfeldy', Aber- feldy St, E.14. Regiment, the men who killed 1 re firmly entrenched in a so-called • gmartin Estates in Belfast.

The regiment was sent in to the area to allegedly stop the internecine warfare between the Catholic and Protestant munities on the adjoining estates.

But observers who are acquainted with the special poli- tical role of. the _paratroops are seeing their use in belfast as a dangerous escalation in military violence. Workers Press has been told that the copybook operation on Sunday night is nothing more than • a dress rehearsal for the taking of the 'no-go' areas in Bog- side and Creggan. From the weekend—in which nine people killed and were 100 wounded-it is more than now clear that Heath's direct rule gamble has ended abruptly and disastrously. Stormont The abolition of was designed to pull the rug out from under both the Unionists and the IRA; while both sides disoriented Heath hoped were to initiate talks for a settlement.

The Tory attempt at deception has completely failed. The shoot- and, in ing war has continued the past week, intensified.

A new factor in the warfare is the roving bands of extreme right-wing Loyalists who are being shielded by the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the British army. IN LESS than 20 years work- ing-class people living in the Colville and Tavistock areas of Notting Hill, West London, could be driven out by high rents. This would happen if the present rate of conversion of by the Notting Hill People's Association housing group says. Since 1967, the report states, 40 per cent of privately-rented houses in the area had changed from 'low' rent to 'high' rent.

Two houses in every five had undergone huge rent increases. By in 1972 the average rent unconverted or unadapted houses had reached £5.40. But rents in houses converted to high-standard flats had gone up more than 200 per cent. In

DIRECT

RULE

killed 13 civilians on Bloody called 'peace line' between the Mr Paddy Devlin, chief whip of the Social Democratic Labour Party, said yesterday that an Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) 'execution squad' is at work in Belfast. He said: The execution squad trained, is well well equipped, well supplied with information from certain members security forces-and, as far as I can see, in absolutely no danger of arrest? These are some of the inci- dents which have been linked with the UVF: • The bombing of Kelly's Bar last Saturday in which 58 men and women were injured. • The killing of an eight-year- old girl. • The ambushing of a member Young Socialists, the Irish James Doherty, as he left a café.

The Irish Independent' said yesterday: The RUC have not made a single arrest in connec- tion with any of these incidents'.

The Northern journalists have noticed went - newspaper a readiness on the part of the authorities to specify those acts of violence which are obviously the work of the IRA-and a reluctance to comment on any terrorism for which republicans could not. be responsible.' • 1967 they were on average £4.80; after conversion they were £14.50 Rents doubled in houses adapted to bed-sits. In 1967 they were £4.75-now £9.50. The report gave details of the history of one property in Col- villę Gardens: 1954—Property bought by Davies Investments, £8,000. - 1962—Had yielded to date (from 1954) £62,000. yielded another 1966—Ha d £80,000. 1967—Sold, £52,000. 1968-Sold to Cledro Develop- ments £65,000. 1969- —Sold to Crown Agents, £120,000. 1969 to 1972—Approximate cost of conversion, £300,000. 1972—'No strings' grants allo- cated, £113,313. Workers Press, Tuesday May 16, 1972 PAGE 3 THE Provisional IRA is continuing its campaign to arrange an 'exchange of views' with Protestant leaders in Ulster. 'Craig understood about the nine counties, said that but Loyalists would prefer to see it The 'Sunday Times' has in the context of the British con reported that Provisional nection. I asked him what would be his if Britain attitude got

IRA

leader Ru a i ri tired of the whole Irish question O'Bradaigh 'amicably' and decided to disengage com- pletely from Ireland. exchanged views with Van- Hd sid that in their se they guard leader William Craig would set up their U Wile asked was this UDI, and he said: when they met at a cocktail "It is. The British can move party in Boston, in the out, but they can't force us in anywhere." United States last month.

'I asked did he think the Six A man who heard O'Bradaigh Counties could stand their on tell Craig that civil war was the own two feet in the modern last dand heard the Republicans world. He they could, thought . Craig wanted and reply and and quoted sor some reasons with a plea for neighbourly co- some economic statistics.

operation said he was amazed.

After that discussed the Asked Saturday if the on present situation. mentioned O'Bradaigh occasion was amiable, that civil war was the last thing 'I replied: myself consider an it wanted, and should be amiable person. I don't generally avoided at all costs. He seemed fight with people. I argued that that.' with agree should remove both we North and South and make a fresh start When asked for his views on with a constitution new which did the meeting, Craig said he all in Ireland would not think the discussion was have a hand in shaping. amiable. He he told said 'Craig', he said, 'did not think O'Bradaigh that there could be that the island of Ireland could until the no progress gunmen 'I stand its feet in the were called off. have on modern very little world. He said. he believed time. for those who use 1n guns, said Craig. regionalism within what he called the British Isles, and that the He went on: I said that if richer should help regions the be a united Ire- there were to weaker ones. land, it would have to be because I agreed completely with this, the majority in Northern Ireland that meanwhile except that regionalism should desired it; we take place within Ireland itself.

would be economically and What visualized socially better off as a unit on we were four areas based on the four historic our own; that we should recog- provinces, comprising, in the nize that there were two differ- case Ireland and of Ulster, counties. Those ent communities in Unionists would who were now we should learn to live side by that wider con-. neighbours and co- power in side as good enjoy operate as neighbours.' text.

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PAGE 1 Workors Prosa, Tueaday May 16, 1972 "The Sunday Times' has a reputation as a progressive, liberal and even possibly a 'left' publication. However a study of the paper's editorials since April 1970 rovides a very different picture. In this series IAN YEATS examines the politics of "The Sunday Times'.

many-headed hydra split into 'Less corns would be far more parts than the three trodden on, less feelings formal which sections com- lacerated if each class 60-odd prise its and pages designed to appeal to a wide to itself, wrote kept "liberal' readership. Greta Lamb in "The Sun- But it would be difficult, not day Times' on April 2. to say impossible, to find much 'progressive' about the Business And on February 13, at the News unless, course, one height the most serious regards flinty-hearted business threat to the Tory government realism as 'progressive'.

it came to power on Sinct. the promise And as bright 'The June 18, 1970, Sunday of June 1970 has faded, most Times' lead thundered: 'Why of the light has been squeezed the miners must not win. from the doom- increasingly Sunday "The Like Lamb, laden and prophetic centre Times' speaks, she too, as page writings of Ronald Butt for 'the beautiful bour- says, and James Margach. Persian whose geoisie, rugs wear thin, whose brocade curtains fray'. leader Lumn The "Sunday Times column Yet as the growing threat to might not agree with all Lamb the bourgeoisie posed by slump says, but since they published has forced "The Sunday Times' her article at all we are entitled deeper into the cesspit of black to suppose they agree with at reaction—a process marked in least some of the contemptuous the last three months-little heaped the abuse she on has happened to diminish its working class. reputation among Britain's Wrote Lamb: "To be called bourgeois may sound insulting.

progressives. A good part of the explana- middle. As it simply means tion that the relative class it should be a com- freedom given to feature and pliment. 'Magazine' writers creates for 'For too long the beautiful overall impres- the paper an bourgeoisie have been teased sion of liberality which ob- for having lah-de-dah voices ideological scures its true and posh Noblesse manners. disallows stance expressed through the them retalia- oblige leader columns. tion. Mocked because they are It is certain that many of the servantless and have now staff of "The Sunday Times' static incomes, their politeness see the a genuine them to is too ingrained for paper as alternative other to more give tongue. Mine is not. obviously right wing publica- "Those who wish to, have tions. every right to plastic gnomes far the most decisive one-armed bandits, By and to "The Sunday Times' element in over-chromed motor cars and reputation is its to bawling in stance on sharp transistors, issues like Vietnam, apartheid, pubs Saturday nights, to on Rudi Dutschke, the 'OZ' trial, champagne drinking wearing on Spain-bound with tortures in Ulster braces aero- exposures like the Bernie Corn- planes. feld investigation running close 'Give me the beautiful bour- geoisie' behind. Representing itself the as and soul conscience very of the "The Sun- nation fills its day Times' pages How has a newspaper which week after week with anxiety fills its leader the columns and polluted pigeons, feature blighted landscape, the elderly, very occasionally its the handicapped, slum housing with blatant, anti- pages built and and the homeless, hospital working-class views the deprived maintained a reputation as the cruelty, prisons, of "pro- champion everything and unemployment. It devotes acres of news- gressive'. 'agonies' of the weekend apart from print to the Each falling into the letterboxes of world: Vietnam, Biafra, Bangla Desh, Greece, Mexico, Brazil, all kinds of professional men •The Sunday 'St Ulster and backs and women, any Times' George' willing to take a tilt is snatched eagerly from the news-stands by young at tyranny: Alexander Dubcek, people ranging from liberal to Mikis Theodorakis, Regis but eventually pro- Debray and Alexander left, Solzhenitsyn. gressive. "illiberality" Propped up over the chop Wherever or threatens, scattered illegality' around the worse suey, 'The Sunday Times' springs an oak to common rooms or on table in the lounge 'The Sunday defend the liberal wicket: racial inequality at home and Times' is widely claimed to 'stimulate' and 'provoke' its abroad, injustice in parliament and the law courts, the police, readers to fresh pinnacles of the avant garde as well as censorship, female inequality, to persistently expose inhumanity campus discipline. and injustice. When it comes even to the 'The Sunday Times' is a 'lefts' of the Labour Party, The 'constitution' of 'The Sunday Time!

Cohn-Bendit—appears in the pages of ' Jenkins-the only Labour polltician to the only man they have con- sistently given credit to its Roy Jenkins and then only because he was the next best thing to a Tory. And on November 7, 1971, it eulogized him as the only Labour man in the Party capable of giving it radical and coherent' leadership. Female equality and Ger- maine Greer are of course, well within liberal principles and even though representatives of the 'New Left'-Red' Danny Cohn-Bendit and Tariq Ali- and even the principled Left— Trotsky and Lenin-appear from time to time, they do so only • as a butterfly collector displays his specimens. which The constitution to "The Sunday Times' relates all its policies and all its criteria is undoubtedly the one ham- mered out by the bourgeoisie after the English Revolution and every line the leader day Times' harks back to bourgeois ages of 'The Sunday Times' well within sound tician to get consistent 'Sunday Times' credit writers pen was written by cri John Locke before them. Their defence of the Ibos and the Bengalis and their condemnation of tyranny is with the only consistent liberal belief that all peoples have the right of self-deter- mination - that is to set up their own bourgeois demo- cracy. Their concern for the environment and the deprived is only consistent with those feelings of aesthetic sensitivity and common humanity which all liberals profess, but find hard to reconcile with • the ravages and needs of profits.

Their truculent upholding of equality and democratic rights is no more than a defence of bourgeois democracy against tyranny and internecine conflict (top). Jonn Locke Loto onudo olg sound liberal principles. Right: Roy critical to its survival.

When it to things

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which really do threaten its survival, not to say prosperity — like inflation, strik simes and violence- "Ihe Sundav is in absolutely no doubt as to waere cae esı es cc a study. of its leading articles makes this clear. It has consistently advocated the toughest possible resist- 'inflationary' ance to wage claims. It has championed the reactionary anti-union legisla- which, backed tion bv U1L- employment, is the very centre- Tory olece

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strategy. its And it has thrown weight behind the defence of and order in Ulster, law pro- vided only that the cost is not the collapse of bourgeois justice and ultimately demo- cracy,

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The collapse of South Vietnam's armies and the advance of the liberation forces in Cambodia and Laos is being watched with trepidation across the border in Thailand. Marshal Thanom Kittika- chorn's military dictatorship is making desperate preparations to strengthen its own capacity to resist the spread of revolu- tion. The United States has ear- for marked another $15m Thailand's armed forces, which challenged are already being by peasant guerrillas in the country's western and southern provinces. The Thai Supreme Com- mand Headquarters has drawn up plans for expansion of the army and air force in view of the recent increase in com- munist terrorist activities mainly in the border areas of Thailand and of serious com- munist incursions into neigh- bouring countries'. It admits that 'military re- quirements are now straining personnel resources' and its plan includes provision for re- cruiting more officers and training units to higher stand- ards. In particular, the air force is being strengthened for a 'ground support' role and the has ordered all government units to 'deal with communist terrorists in the most severe manner to protect the citizens Tha

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Top: South Vietnamese Kittikachorn of Thailand's millary regime of Thailand, especially those remote and previously un- protected areas. US Kittikachorn aid to not in the least altruistic. Thailand is a key base for the roops flee near An Loc. Above: military regime B52 giant bombers attacking North the continuation of the dictatorship military President Nixon's ge plans. Workers Press The trade conflict be- tween the United States and Japan is expected to intensify over the coming months with the Ameri cans demanding further action to cut Japanese exports. Despite substantial Japanese trade concessions over the last nine months, the American still far policy-makers are satisfied with the posi- from tion. They want further action to reduce the Japanese balance-of-payments surplus, which stood last at year $3,200m. Tokyo's surplus is Washing- ton's deficit and makes a major contribution to the American balance-of-payments problem. US officials have repeatedly stated that the rest of the world must sacrifice exports and open its markets to American goods in order to rectify the US deficit. The US has been pursuing this demand with great urgency since August last year, when President Nixon ended the dollar's convertibility with gold and introduced a 10 per cent surcharge on imports.

The surcharge was the first shot in what has since become a world-wide trade war. By shutting off the access to American market and threat- ening permanent protectionist legislation, Nixon forced the other major capitalist nations to agree to trade concessions.

'voluntary' Japan imposed textile imports curbs to on the United States, agreed to further relaxation of barriers to imports and revalued the yen by 16.8 per cent. In addi- Japanese tion, the recently agreed to tighten their restric- tions on steel exports to the US. As yet, however, Nixon has little improvement in terms of trade to show for Thanom bombers now th Vietnam and on of the brutal torship is vital lixon's genocidal Sato, Japan's Prime Minister cora Press, Tuesday May 16, 1972 PAGE 5 his efforts. The US is still running a very big balance-of- payments deficit and the Japanese trade surplus may even increase to close on $4,000m this year. One reason for this is that currency changes do not pro- duce quick results in trade terms. And with the election only six months away, Nixon cannot afford to wait. Last month, for example, he anti-dumping ordered that investigations will be made into any foreign product that failed to reflect changed cur- rency values in its export price. This is aimed at pre- venting Japanese manufac- turers evading the full effects of the yen revaluation. Part of Nixon's pre-election is the continued strategy encouragement of domestic inflation and his 'easy-money' policy has encouraged a fur- ther influx of Japanese goods.

At the same time Japan's imports have been cut as industrialists trim their invest- ment programmes to meet the recession. Already the recession • is biting deep into Japanese industry. Company reports out last week show sharp falls in the profits of a number of leading manufacturers. Among them is the Sharp Corporation, a leading electronics company which claims the US measures have cut colour TV exports by 60 per cent. Sharp's sales for the last quarter of 1971 and the first quarter of this year were down 12.6 per cent and the com- pany's income dropped by over 64 per cent. Mitsubishi Metal Mining, one of the country's largest copper firms, saw its sales and profits drop 7 per cent in the last eight months.

Its dividend has been cut from 2.5 to 2 yen a share.

Maruzen Oil profits also fell heavily—by 22 per cent on last year. Only the big banks reported any sizeable increase in profits over the half-year.

PAGE 6 Workers Proso, Tuooday May 16, 1972

BY JOHN SPENCER

The most significant out- This party, which campaigns Giorgio Almirante, its leader, on an openly corporatist pro- has been receiving the plaudits of the Italian come and of Rome's well-heeled socialites appedis General Election last particularly to admirers of the results ever since the came week was the sweeping late Benito Mussolini, is now through. He had predicted the serious political force,

MSI

with would double its vote gains made by the fascist Chamber seats in of and he almost achieved this tne Italian Social Movement. Deputies and 26 in the Senate.

goal. The MSI campaign, con- ducted under an umbrella of police protection at a series of in the meetings provocative main Italian towns, was particularly successful in Rome and the South. It attracted the prestige support of a number of military Admiral figures - including Gino Birindelli, formerly com- mander of NATO's Mediter- ranean fleet. Birindelli was elected in three constituencies and can now nominate two MPs to fill the seats he doesn't want. The admiral gave up his NATO post to stand in the election 'because I regard this moment as particularly crucial and national NATO'. He added: It is a moment in which the fate of the alliance, which even with its imperfections has guaran- teed peace for 20 years, could be put in serious danger by the disintegration which seems to have struck our national com- munity.' Birindelli epitomises that section of the Italian bourgeoisie which seeks a strongman—another Mussolini working cass in Italian comes development 3 situation of taling in yes.

year. The collapse the world monetary system has Italian exoorts i many reporting Lombardi, president of Industry 'evident recession' At the end of last year he said e could see no signs that th ecession attamina nu bleak future talks in with persuade so e Pera cent against valuation the dollar. a 17 great MEe million larly economically. denrived southern regions.

condemned to rot in unempioy ment or employed.r's denunciations bureaucracy and mismanagement have a certain appeal to these sections in absence of any alternative. worth party made its biggest that the election gains These neglected which has mane the middle class by watering down The programme. Stalinists were nowhere to be seen, for example, when the workers of Reggio Calabria engaged in a lengthy struggle with the state authorities a year ago. The Stalinist-led union, the CGIL, was the last to support the Reggio workers when the first big strike erupted there at the end of 1970. The fascists won the leadership of this movement born of frustration and hatred for the regime by default. Police and troops were repeatedly used to suppress the Calabrian uprisings and the fascists were able to pose as the rights of defenders of ordinary people against the state. The MST's demagogic poses and slogans are only a means to an end, however. What the fascists dream of is the com- plete subjection of the Italian working class. That is why the MSI leaders have such admir- ation for the Greek colonels.

Their ties with the Greek regime are extremely close.

Young members of the fascist movement are sent to special training camps on the Greek and there is much islands evidence pointing to financial support from Athens for the

MSI.

Two years ago, secret NATO documents uncovered were indicating a plot to stage a •Greek-style coup d'etat in Italy and crush the independent organizations of the working class. MSI sympathizers in the officer corps were implicated in the plot. The revelation of these plans was a setback for the fascists, who like to cultivate an image of pristine patriotism. It was at about this time that the MSI set out to conquer a bigger parliamentary representation 'respectability' as and achieve a recognized parliamentary party. Its leaders played down their links with the more extreme fascist terror specialists and became zealous advocates of law and order. They directed most of their propaganda against the groups to the left the Communist Party, of accusing them of bombing outrages and demanding more police powers. In these attempts to smear the left they had the willing assistance of the thoroughly police authorities. corrupt Workers Press, Tuasda Milan police turned a blind eye evidence implicating on fascist group Ordine Nuovo in the bombing of the Agricultural Bank on December 12, 1969.

They tried instead to pin the crime on anarchists. Pietro Valpreda is still in prison awaiting trial for this offence and another anarchist, Giuseppe Pinelli, is dead after being hurled from a high window at Milan police HQ.

Other witnesses have died in mysterious and violent circum- stances. Ordine Nuovo (new order) is closely, linked to the MSI, trains its members in the use of sten guns and dynamite and aims at the armed overthrow of the parliamentary system. Some of its members were recently arraigned under a law of 1952 outlawing attempts to • revive 'the principles, symbols and methods proper to the dis- solved fascist party. Similar to the Ordine Nuovo are the so-called "Mussolini Action Squadrons' which also specialize in terror against the left. Earlier this year, Angelo Angeli, a defector from the MSI who also belonged to the 'action squadron', revealed that orkers Press, Tuaaday May 16, 1972 PAGE 7 Left: Chief of the fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), Glorglo Almirante. Above: MSl youth on torchlight parade in Rome.

the MSI had organized the bombing of its own • head- quarters in Milan in order to blame left-wing groups. Liberal pundits are now try- ing to dismiss the Italian fascists as having simply 'nuisance value' because the Christian Democrats have refused to take them into a coalition. This is an imper- missible illusion. The fascist in Italy danger be cannot measured by the number of parliamentary seats occupied by admirers of Mussolini.

It can be measured only by the intensity of the social and economic crisis of Italian capitalism. That is what makes the Communist Party's claims to have won a victory in the and election empty SO reformist bombastic: Their policies ofter no answer to the frustrated middle-class and the unemployed and drive them the arms of the arch- into enemies of socialism and the working class.

PAGE 8 Workers Prose, Tueaday May 16 Pages from Railway History Part five "Throughout the war (1914-1918) members of the National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) showed their concern as responsible citizens with the momentous issues of the times, writes union historian Philip S. Bagwell. And he adds: '... reviewing the whole of the war period it would be true to say that the majority of men showed great restraint in wage demands'.

If they did, it was certainly through no fault of their own.

At the height of the war with Germany in November 1917 and as Lenin's Bolshevik party the working swept class to power in Russia an important factor preventing a national rail strike in Britain was the reformist NUR executive. All over Britain as the rail- ways were denuded of men for the army, as productivity and hours rose, as prices rocketed amid widespread allegations of war profiteering by the capital- ists and as wages lagged be- hind, the railwaymen were de- manding action. District and vigilance coun- cils mushroomed and on March 4, 1917, the railwaymen were making it clear they wanted an immediate 10s rise.

General secretary J. H. Thomas, who had declined Lloyd George's offer of the post of Minister of Labour, or Pensions or Health, and finally Food Controller, in the war- time coalition, was 'extremely reluctant to call a strike while the country was at war' Playing on their sense of patriotism Thomas persuaded the men's leaders to accept 5s.

By July rank-and-file pressure loose again broke with a demand for a fl-a-week increase. This time the demand, from a delegate meeting in London, was coupled to calls for a new post-war national pro- gramme and equal worker.- employer participation on the railway executive. But the railway companies offered 5s and refused to do more. J. H. Thomas rushed round to Downing St to plead with Lloyd George to get the rail- way companies to step up their national strike could not averted. Lloyd George ignored him. In his anxiety to avoid a strike at all costs, Thomas hur- ried round to the Board of Trade-only to be stonewalled there as well. There was no alternative left but to whip his own members into line. At a special general meeting in November 1917 he 'pleaded with the meeting not Pages from Railway History 1839-1972 by Ian Yeats.

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to resort to extremes'. He told have them: 'I will not the leading of a railway strike on my conscience' and added would rather 'slide out of my post as general secretary'.

The men remained unmoved and Thomas was once again on the doorstep at No this time pleading with Bonar Law, was in charge because of Lloyd George's absence on war business. He told Bonar Law that the government put unless pressure on the rail companies, there was a danger he would lose control of the The com- and milk Says Bagwell: panies also saw the danger of control of union affairs from hands Mr tne Thomas and the EC to those of more extreme elements in the divisional and councils they to a resumption agreed . November 261 However, in Liverpool, Lon- don and Birkenhead, meetings were organizea clamouring 10г the fl-a-week rise. The com- panies then refused to talk they unless resumed normal working. Thomas was on the spot— he reservede emotional tones these reserved he told the special of November general meeting 28 that the union faced 'chaos'.

50 to ten ine meeting voted to call off the unofficial action and the companies had ompred paid the 5s they offered in the first place. Towards the end of Septem ber 1918 the whole pantomime was repeated Thomas travelling to one of the areas worst hit by unofficial strikes Cardiff- -and with pleading for the men to God's sake make amends' and go back to work. On September 26, 1918, in the face of unabated rebellion, he played his trump cardhe resigned. The day before, matters had The gov- taken an ugly turn. ernment secured an interim

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injunction ASLER omebitiers and members from picketing and 2,500 men the City of London Rifles and the London Rifle Brigade were despatched to Newport, Mon- mouthshire. But Thomas's resignation had done the trick. After eight years cenerai secretary. during which time he had bent backwards over to paint nim self the champion of the rail- waymen, they invited him to The unofficial strikes stay on. were called off and the rail- waymen soldiered on-empty- handed. If Thomas breathed a sigh of relief that September night, was short-lived. The new post- war parliament, including 179 Too: J. h. Thomas Which Thomas fried to brographed In 1921, Above: Waterloo main llne in September 1919 during the strike company directors, decided its

Unity House. When the rall unions me first priority was to 'inflated . They • prepared for a showdown with the working class. Britain's in post-war competitiveness markets world must be restored at all costs, the gov- ernment said. Stocks were built up in shops and warehouses, an emergency transport plan was prepared and Churchill (then chief at the War Office) sent 'secret' messages to reliable army commanders asking them to assess the impact of the Russian Revolution on their men. By the summer of 1919, 100,000 men in all sections of industry were on strike day and there were every mutinies in the army. At a special general meet- ing of the NUR on July 22, 1919, resolutions were passed demanding Churchill's resigna- tion for secret strike-breaking orders he had issued to the army. A strike for more pay was scheduled to begin on Sep- tember 26, 1919. Thomas strove to prevent it. Says Bagwell: 'From the frequent negotiations on railwaymen's pay throughout the war, Mr Thomas had never failed to produce a compromise settle- ment which, while not gaining the men all they had asked for, had achieved enough to avert a strike.' Could he pull a rabbit out of the hat once again? In 1lth-hour talks with Lloyd George it was crystal clear that the government would not be satisfied with anything less than a direct cut in wages. Lloyd George told Thomas: 'Whatever we lay down with regard to the railwaymen you may depend upon it, it is going to be claimed throughout the country and therefore we have to consider not merely your case but the cases of all the other trades in the Kingdom.'

At lunchtime on September 27 the government issued misleading statement which seemed to imply they would, after all, be willing to talk.

Notes Bagwell: 'Mr Thomas clutched at the straw. He asked for clarification of this offer in the hope of finding a The misunderstanding was soon cleared up. The govern- ment was not willing to talk— except about wage-cuts. The strike was on. The bourgeois parliament, worried by events in Russia, turned out the army and the police to guard vital installations and protect scab workers. Virtu- ally all of Debrett's peerage suddenly discovered a love for manual work on the railways.

Thomas was obliged to say met; Thomas sald 11 which defiance. Lloyd George he to 'If the try: waymen are paign. But he was car summon the the challenge class-war talk. And on Septemb a meeting of Party the Labour Caxton Hall not on the strike as a union fight for wa ditions', but for modern agreed to mediate two sides. The of On ended and claimed that had climbed down the threat that the extended to o tries. What in fact ha was that the union agreed to terms next to them which The agreement although talks meanwhile about n It was not exactl cut the government ally wanted, stipulate mum wage, men earned that the numbers affect tially by this conce have been small. Twelve Thomas' inimitabl saving capitalism f talists was displaye The railwaymen's leader possibility When the Unity painted grim sympathetic struck, The •said have to be prepare strike, industrial upheaval revolution. Looking back behaviour that notes: 'His speeche more more defeatist had been ... He railwaymen were would 1 plunge it society. of the Nevertheless ment's tough working class ground for class so resolution miners was defeat one vote. Thomas went rou ns sald they would have which smacked of Replying directly rge he told the coun- it but was the The deal did Lill. 3801101. ers affected substan his concession would months later inimitable skill in italism for the capi- displayed yet again. sounded out the n's leaders about the sympathy rail unions met House, Thomas strike. said, they would even on Thomas' day, Bagwell speeches were more more extravagant defeatist than they if the were take the would be the end the govern. line with the lass was a breeding class solidarity anc supporting the is defeated by only went round to Lloyd 1,1 have to be prepared for a revolution.

George and advised him to start talks with the miners if he wanted to avoid a strike by the Triple Alliance. Once unleashed there was no know- ing where it would end. Lloyd George took his advice and strike plans were abandoned.

But the affair did not end The miners were being there, pressed hard on wages and hours and on March 21, 1921, they renewed their call for the backing of the Triple Alli- ance in their fight against the coal owners. Says Bagwell: "There could be no mistaking the fact that the active members of the NUR were deeply sympathetic to the miners and felt their cause a just one. 'Many also agreed that un- less the partners of the Triple Alliance stood together they would be defeated piece- meal.' Joint action was planned for April 8, 1921, and then post- poned until April 15. The government mobilized the army and special defence forces. J. H. Thomas was sweating the line. On April 14 his on chance came. At a meeting of coalition MPs, miners' leader Frank Hodges made remarks which the MPs took to suggest the miners might be willing to make certain conces- sions about methods of pay.

An MP inquired if the Triple • Alliance would with agree Hodges. Thomas 'immediately stood up and declared': 'Yes, I am quite sure the Triple Alliance would support Mr Hodges' action.' Says Bagwell: 'At three o'clock that afternoon (April 15—the day of the strike) Mr Thomas ran down the steps of .Unity House to tell waiting reporters that the Triple Alliance strike was cancelled.'

(Our emphasis.) The miners refused to be bound by Hodges' statements, but Thomas accused them of sabotaging all chance of a settlement and carried the railway and transport leaders with him. April 15 went down in his- tory as Black Friday—the day on which the miners were abandoned by the other part- ners of the Triple Alliance and left to fight on alone until ant July 1, 1921. The gap between aspiration and achievement had been closed. Observes Bagwell: 'Mr Thomas received critical and abusive letters after every set- tlement in which he was involved, but on his own con- fession he received far more than the usual number on this occasion.' yd CONTINUED TOMORROW Workers Press, At the Scarborough confer- ence of the General and Muni- cipal Workers' Union in June, there is a stiff resolution down calling for the abolition of the House of Lords. In some quarters the resolu- tion is being read as a piece of very unsubtle criticism of the present leader of the union, Lord . Cooper of Stockton Heath. It surprise, came as no however, to read a letter to the editor in the last issue of the G&MWU 'Journal' praising peerages. After tribute to paying Tudor Watkins, Labour MP, who has just been made a writer says: It is peer, the gratifying still that in our union from humble beginnings we have a few lords.' Who was this stirling mem- ber of the union coming , to the defence of his leader? Mr G. A. Reeves, regional secre- the south-western tary division. Mr Reeves already wears an MBE and JP after his name. He's obviously aiming for the big time. Hail, Lord Reeves of Cardiff? Social Security spies had better watch their step in South Shields. It appears that the SS men have been asking trade union branch secretaries of the AUEW for particulars of any of their members involved in the recent miners' strike who received strike pay. The answer by the local unionists is believed to have been un- printable. Teacher knows best. Or does he? A report is being pre- pared by the National Associa- tion of Schoolmasters on the growth of 'revolution' among schoolchildren. Ron Cockling, a Birmingham headmaster and immediate past-president of the NAS, says the sinister infuences at work are trying 'to use their ideal- ism in a disruptive cause'.

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crisis were turned down by general secretary of the Guild Supporters angered the UPW members wher Percy Coldrick yesterday.

many of them refused to join the bitter eight-week crossing strike, He told conference: 'I am advised that it would the. reach DICKeL

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exchanges. be most improper to comment on these matters But the majority of Vasl while the union appeal is being heard. Legal 53,000 telephonists ıre UPW behind the solid advice is that the whole matter is sub judice and menDels strike. therefore together we must wait a little while.

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• secretary Percy Coldrick (r) se Buckton (1) outside NUR headquarters | SHOP STEWARDS at Read's Tin Works, Bull Lane, Liverpool, have set up a strike committee. General and Municipal Work- ers' Union shift workers at the in support their demand for parity of shitt rates for all hourly-paid workers.

Present rates general are: workers f4 for two shifts, £8 for nights; craft workers f6 for two shifts, £18 for nights.

The strikers claim white collar workers were told to man the fork-lift trucks and machinery at the beginning of the strike.

Because of this the fork-lift drivers also walked out. Last Friday, tollowing a mass meeting which carried a unani- mous vote to continue the strike, management sent letters to all the strikers warning against lost enclosing ballot orders and papers to find out 'the real view of the employees who are absent'.

ignored generally These were or burnt. Despite these attempts, however, the men say the strike has remained solid. Hunter shas bisend ship spain repair Hunter's Wallsend yard on two ships diverted from the Falmouth yard of Silley Cox where there is a and Company pay dispute. The ships represent £100,000 worth of work. A shop steward at the yard commented that they usually would work on a ship from a dispute-bound yard if it had never actually entered the yard. •k (r) seen with ASLEF secretary Ray quarters recently MINERS at two Kent pits have been wondering why their col- leagues at Betteshanger colliery received an extra £2 in their May 5 pay packets—from their union. The mystery was cleared up Betteshanger yesterday when NUM branch secretary Joe Bell told me: 'Our branch has several thou- sand pounds invested. When I asked for permission to reinvest, one branch member moved that since we had the surplus we should refund some of it to the men.' The idea came from Bettes- hanger secretary and Communist Party member Joe Burke who is one of two challengers to Joe Holmes (Tilmanstone branch sec.

retary) in the election on May 24 for president of Kent area NUM executive. The other candidate is Snowdown miner Peter Yore.

FOUR police officers appeared at St Albans magistrates' court yes- terday on summonses alleging assault. Insp. Michael Henry Duke, Sgt Alexander Murray and Constables Robin Eric Bracey and Leonard William German are accused of assaulting Stephen Marriott causing him actual bodily harm on February 26, being 1972 and, concerned him actual todither harau causing bodily The case was adjourned until June 12.

TORY Trade and Industry secretary John Davies' 'we can do no more' speech at Perth on Friday has pro- voked an angry response- from the Party's Scottish executive. Scottish party secretary Peter Allison accused Davies of 'prac- tically ruling out' the possibility develop- of a major steelworks ment at Hunterstone in the Firth of Clyde. 'Failing a major steel-works development at Hunterstone, is highly likely that 10,000 jobs in the Scottish steel industry will be lost by 1975, said Alli- son. 'The executive are of the opinion that the British Steel Corporation is being hamstrung in their plans by the government to such an extent that, in the event of serious competition from West Germany and Japan, Scot- land could within a very short period find itself without any steel industry.' SHOP stewards representing 10,000 London "torry over drivers said at the weekend that they were prepared to take industrial action against the Industrial Relations Act.

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7.30 NEWSROOM, Weather.

8.00 RICH MAN, POOR MAN.

Food. GEC prominent on redundancies list FOR the fourth month running the giant GEC group figures Automation, Kidsgrove, This brings than 50000 in the past monter redundancin include achines plants in Cumbernauld and Strathleven Scotland. Company Maln location Burroughs Cumbernauld & Strathleven, GEC-Elllott Kidsgrove, Staffs Imperial Hull Typewriter British Steel Corp. Ex-Cell-O (England) Litton Mills Pireill road transport commercial sec- tion General Workers Unionort and Union. statement after the meeting on Sunday added they. would be prepared to strike in defence steward union official for carrying out the victimized TV

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HENRY VIII. Jane Seymour.

OLD GREY WHISTLE

TEST. Beach Boys, Magna running the giant GEC group ne redundancies list. In April, ce, 500 workers, at GEC Elliott Staffordshire are due to lose edundancies at GEC to more 2 months. Other redundancies • workers at the Burroughs nbernauld and Strathleven in Category Number Business 900 machines Process 500 controls part-time women 500 employees kegs and drums 140 machine tools 80 yarn makers 62 51 tyres

THE PRIME MINISTER

expected to announce today that he will make a flight in the Anglo-French supersonic Con- corde this week. no confirmation There was from 10 Downing St that Heath would make the flight, but there has been considerable pressure on him to give the project his personal stamp of approval.

It seems likely that his first will be made supersonic trip from Concorde's Fairfield, Glos, base on Friday. Already President Pompidou of France, Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon have flown in the plane and the Duke of Edinburgh has taken the controls.

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BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

FIGURES just revealed in par redundancies which have been the past few years. In London, for example, there dockers four years ago, while tod And under plans recently announc Authority, a further 1,200 jobs will The figures given by junior Employment Minister Dudley Smith were based on statistics supplied by the National Dock Labour Board. The table of figures released in parliament is printed here.

The further rundown London docks can be seen in the number of men accepting volun- tary redundancy. The severance offer was increased two months ago from £1,800 to £2,330. Since then 1,030 men have volunteered to leave the docks. At the end of this week 800 of the 1,030 will formally receive notice to quit the industry.

The new offer is open to lightermen as well as dockers and tally clerks. But it is dockers who employed 4 years ago London 22,000 11,771 Liverpool Manchester 2,020 Hull 3,912 2,061 Southampton YORKSHIRE: 10.20 Schools. 2.32 afternoon. Master Danger man. 4.10 News. 4.15 Crossroads. 4.40 Enchanted house. 4.55 London.

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ra Prose, Tueaday May 16, 1872 PAGE 11 1 in parliament show the huge ve been forced on the docks in 22,000 e, there were more than vhile today there are only announced by the Port of London jobs will go this year. are showing the greatest interest Ics in the scheme. The large number accepting voluntary redundancies is further condemnation of the Communist Party leadership on London docks. They are refusing to put up any principled fight against the contraction of the docks industry. For the port employers, £2,330 is a cheap price to pay for reducing labour. They want the London dockers intimidated by unemployment and more viciously exploited. If the present rate of redundancies continues, the employers will soon have one docker doing the working previously done by two.

employed last employed now year 17,167 15,433 10,116 10,331 1,841 1,518 2,790 2,571 2,196 2,209 TURKISH President Cevdet Sunay yesterday asked Defence Minister Ferit Melen to form a new government after his weekend rejection of a cabinet put forward by Suat Hayri Urguplu. It is understood that Urguplu's included cabinet, which repre- the extreme right sentatives of and left, did not meet with military approval. The military threatened to seize power in March in a bid to put down mounting unrest among students and workers. Now they are demanding a centrist government 'above party interests and able to ensure internal security'. President Sunay clearly expects Melen's government to be more acceptable to the military.

Melen has been acting Prime Minister heading caretaker a cabinet since the resignation of Dr Nihat Erim five weęks ago.

The army has threatened to intervene again if parliament proves unable to appoint an acceptable cabinet.

THE URUGUAYAN

parlia- ment yesterday voted 68-56 to authorize the government to extend its "state of internal war' against the Tupamaros urban guerrillas for 45 days.

The vote climaxed 45 hours of debate during which the 30-day period originally decreed by presi- Maria Bordaberry dent Juan expired, at midnight Sunday.

president had asked The for special powers indefinitely but the the legislative motion which finally assembly approved dawn limited the extension to June 30 unless a public order Bill is adopted in the meantime.

Most of the opposition Blanco Party, plus the left-wing front, Opposition leader voted against. ' Wilson Ferreira Aldunante asserted in the bitter debate that • armed forces wielded the too much power.

Blockade: White Housesplit PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday May 11 SEVEN office girls were yesterday picketing their firm, James Galt and Company, Cheadle, Cheshire, over their dis- missal for deciding to join a union. The girls were employed by the firm last year in a newly-opened computer de-- partment, but when the firm sent round staff notices which they considered to be 'petty' the giris decided they would join a union. The last straw, said punch card operator Elaine James (24) was a ban on smoking intro- duced without consultation.

She got application forms and 40 employees about joined the of Association Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staffs (APEX). The day after they told the firm they had joined APEX, the seven girls, who all work in the computer department, were dis- missed. Yesterday, after only two weeks membership, the girls were on picket duty, carrying banners and lorries from preventing delivering supplies to the firm which makes toys and supplies for schools. Tom Murphy, the union's area organizer commented: It is a blatant case of victimiz- ation. The other girls who joined at the same time are terrified to join the picket line.' One girl, Frances Walsh (19) said they were considering action the firm for wrongful against dismissal under the Industrial Relations Act. Said Major James Offer, one of internal the Galt directors: 'For reasons it was decided to delay the live operation for the com- three months, which puter by necessitated the dismissal of the personnel concerned.'

WEATHER

NORTHERN IRELAND

and Scotland will be mainly dry at first with sunny periods in South Scotland. Rain in and East West and North Scot- extreme will move slowly south land eastwards. England and Wales will be dry with sunny periods except in coastal areas of East Anglia, which will be rather cloudy. Temperatures will be near normal except in South East England and East Anglia where it will be rather cool on windward coasts.

for Wednesday Outlook and Thursday: Some rain or showers.

East England. Temperatures near normal.

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01-622 7029 jay May 16, 1972 PRESIDENT Nixon's closest advisers were split over the decision to mine North Vietnamese har- bours and escalate bomb- ing operations, according to Life' magazine. In its current issue the magazine says Treasury Connally Secretary John firmly supported the Presi- dent's decision, but that Henry Kissinger and Defence Secretary Melvin Laird had doubts, as did officials in the State and Defence Depart- ments and the CIA. During the White House deliberations, 'Life' said: 'Another Nixon aide was heard to mutter, «We not once but several times, ought to nuke 'em"'—an allusion to the use of nuclear weapons.

The reported split demon- strates once again the deep divi- sions in the US ruling class over the Vietnam war. Despite inflated South Vietnamese reports 'victories' over the last two days,.

leading US officers are extremely sceptical that the blockade will bring any military advantage.

Among officers interviewed by Reuter's, William Corson, former commander of the Marine

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE RIGHT-WING Profes- sional Association of School Teachers has claimed that schoolteachers are respon- sible for recent demonstra- tions by pupils. The 3,600-strong Association which is pledged to a no-strike policy claimed that school- children who go on strike were THE HIGHER incidence of bladder cancer among workers in the dyeing trade could be the result of suspect new chemicals being used in the industry. The 35,000 workers in the trade increasingly worried are about the toxic effects of certain chemicals used in the dyes.

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Corps 'pacification' effort in the first sector of South Vietnam, said bombing and mining were 'insufficient by themselves'.

He said the South Vietnamese military and government were suffering from 'a terminal illness' and added that in his view the North Vietnamese were 'going to win'. According to his information, he said, only 5 per cent of North Vietnam's supplies came in by sea, and the US bombing effort was ineffective anyway. The air force had been trying to hit a bridge on the railway line to China for three years, he said, and last week they man- aged to hit it with one bomb'.

Hanoi Radio yesterday described as 'farcical' a report that a North Vietnamese regi- OKINAWA was handed back to Japan yesterday after 27 years under American control-but in the Japanese capital 33,000 demonstrators marched against the United States retaining military bases on the island.

Police estimated that 200,000 people would be joining protest merely following their teachers' example. 'Members of both the National and Union of Teachers the National Association of School- masters have been on strike in recent years, they said. 'Children follow the example of their teachers outside the classroom as well as in it. If they see two large teachers' organiza- tions taking up militant postures, then they are bound to draw

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Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers has dealt with several claims from members who say they've been affected by the dyes.

The union's annual conference meeting in Blackpool this week has called for the banning of any dyes found to be injurious to textile workers. Millil

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mainland rallies throughout Japan Okinawans 12,000 ceremony in Tokyo as police in battled the streets with demonstrators hurling petrol bombs. Other demonstrators marched past the US embassy calling for their own conclusions.' The statement went on: It is high time that teachers who favour strikes and similar actions realized the damage they are doing. Society as a whole will suffer if our schools turn out young people who regard it as perfectly reasonable to throw their weight around to get what they want.' See WHAT WE THINK. A special study is already under way to look into the incidence of bladder cancer among dye workers. So far the links between the new chemicals and ill health have not concretely been established. But the union has found the problem generally increasing in scope because of changes in fashion trends which have led to new dyes, being introduced almost overnight.

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