Workers Press no. 787

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RAILMEN'S LEADERS

INTO

ACTION

BY PHILIP WADE

THE RAIL DISPUTE is on again - but only just.

The union leaders yesterday decided somewhat re- luctantly to renew industrial action in support of their already-watered-down pay claim.

From midnight next Tues- day the unions will impose a ban on overtime and rest- day working. These sanctions will create "inconveniences" but nothing government and British Rail the isn't already well prepared lor and indecision weakness At the at tal of the three unions-

ASLEF.

Union of Rail- the Transport waymen and Salaried Staffs Association- -Will only strengthen the hand of the which is hell- government, Tory bent on defeating the railmen.

The reluctance of the union léaders to give leadership at this

IMPORTANT

FEATURE SERIES

Cliff Slaughter today con- tinues his important series of articles with 'Centrism and the working class' TOMORROW: Inter- national Marxist Group off (IMG) . writes the working class MONDAY: Centrism and the crisis of reformism TUESDAY: The political independence of the work- ing class: Make sure you follow each day's instalment of this theoretical series.

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

is on again - but only just.

sterday decided somewhat re- strial action in support of their ay claim. crucial hour was shown in a com- ment by the TSA's Percy Cold- rick. After a three-hour joint meet.

ing at London, Unity House, yesterday Coldrick said: 'We sin- cerely hope that Mr Marsh will consider the situation and say he is prepared to negotiate instead of leaving it to us. And Sir Sidney Greene of the NUR asked reporters: What can Greene went on to reveal his fear of the determination of his own members when he said: What do were even greater dan- There gers expressed. Their next meeting, the union with Victor chiefs said, was Feather of the TUC. Feather is the who man refused to back the Post Office workers when they went into Tories early battle with last year and he is the man who is now refusing to recall the TUC —despite a majority vote to reaffirm opposition to the Indus- trial Relations Act. In going off to see the TUC chief, Greene said: 'We do not want to transfer this row from ourselves and the Railways Board to somebody else in the TUC.

On past form, Greene should have not the slightest fear on this count! The new industrial action is being called at a time when the other trade union leaders, par- ticularly Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, are in flat-out retreat.

On the docks, Jack Jones 1s trying to get another postpone- ment of the national docks strike while at the same time entering into collaboraton on the cord question Lord tainer Aldington, the chairman of the Port of London Authority and ex-deputy chairman of the Tory Party. As we report in another part of the paper (page ten) Scanlon has been in the Midlands encou- raging his members to engage in which have the stunts same proved so treacherous in the Manchester pay fight.

THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JUNE 9, 197

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

Greene and Buckton visiting the TUC ye: The employers who have given nothing in Manchester away must be delighted that Scanlon is being such a vigorous advo- cate of plant bargaining.

The actions of Jones and Scan- lon have ensured that the rail- men stand isolated in the sights of the Tory government. of the strength But the 230,000 railmen can win the day, just as the determination of the miners smashes the Tory 'norm' in January and February.

The rank and file of all unions engaged in transport and goods trafficking must rally to the sup- port of the railmen. What is required now is the unity in action dramatically demonstrated at the Saltley coke depot in Birmingham during the miners' strike when engineers joined pickets to close down the plant. The other urgent need is to build Councils of Action.

As the Tories launch their offensive it will be up to these Councils to defend the working class and to prepare the fight to get the Tories out of office.

All members of the labour and trade union movement should join these councils to see that the railmen win. 28 Charlotte St

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E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

e TUC yesterday afternoon PORT employers yesterday called on the Transport and General Workers' Union to call off the national docks strike planned for next Fri- day. The appeal was made during a meeting of the port in- dustry's National Joint Coun- cil held in London. Late yesterday the council broke up into two groups as union officials began to discuss a formula put forward by the employers. The final decision on whether the strike goes on or not rests with the docks delegates who will meet at Transport House next week. LONDON'S Royal group dockers voted yesterday to stage a one- day strike next week. Liverpool men have already

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voted in favour of strike action to coincide with the national docks delegates' conference next Wednesday and Thursday. About 1,000 Royal men yester- day voted to accept their shop stewards' commendation for a strike. Bernie Steer, chairman of the stewards' London shop port committee, said the time for compromise was past. SEAN O'Brady, publicity direc- tor of the Provisioal Sinn Fein, was freed when he appeared in Dublin District Court yesterday.

The court was told no evidence would be offered against him.

At the same time Joe Cahill, Belfast leader of the Provision- was remanded in custody until next Wednesday charged under the Offences Against the State Act.

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RAILMEN'S LEADERS

BY PHILIP WADE

THE RAIL DISPUTE is on The union leaders yesterday luctantly to renew industrial as already-watered-down pay clain From midnight next Tues- day the unions will impose a ban on overtime and rest- day working. These sanctions will create "inconveniences' but nothing that the government and British Rail isn't already well prepared for.

The weakness and indecision at the top of the three unions— ASLEF, National Union of Rail- and the Transport waymen Salaried Staffs Association-will only strengthen the hand of the Tory government, which is hell- bent on defeating the railmen.

The reluctance of the union leaders to give leadership at this

IMPORTANT

FEATURE SERIES

Cliff Slaughter today con- tinues his important series of articles with 'Centrism and the working class' TOMORROW: Inter- national Marxist Group (IMG) . writes off the working class MONDAY: Centrism and the crisis of reformism TUESDAY: The political independence of the work- ing class: Make sure you follow each day's instalment of this theoretical series.

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

, is on again — but only just.

sterday decided somewhat re- strial action in support of their ay claim. crucial hour was shown in a com- ment by the TSSA's Percy Cold- rick. After a three-hour joint meet- London, ing at Unity House, yesterday Coldrick said: 'We sin- cerely hope that Mr Marsh will consider the situation and say he is prepared to negotiate instead of leaving it to us. And Sir Sidney Greene of the NUR asked reporters: 'What can Greene went on to reveal his fear of the determination of his members when he said: own 'What do There were even greater dan- gers expressed. Their next meeting, the union with Victor chiefs said, was Feather of the TUC. Feather is the who man refused to back the Post Office they went into workers when Tories early battle with the last year and he is the man who is now refusing to recall the TUC —despite a majority vote to reaffirm opposition to the Indus- trial Relations Act. In going off to see the TUC chief, Greene said: 'We do not want to transfer this row from ourselves and the Railways Board to somebody else in the TUC On past form, Greene should have not the slightest fear on this count! The new industrial action is being called at a time when the trade union leaders, par- other ticularly Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, are in flat-out retreat.

On the docks, Jack Jones trying to get another postpone- ment of the national docks strike while at the same time entering into collaboration on the con- Lord with question tainer Aldington, the chairman of the Port of London Authority and ex-deputy chairman of the Tory Party. report in another part As we of the paper (page ten) Scanlon has been in the Midlands encou- raging his members to engage in which have same stunts in the proved so treacherous Manchester pay fight.

THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JUNE 9, 197

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

Greene and Buckton visiting the TUC ye The employers who have given nothing Manchester away must be delighted that Scanlon is being such a vigorous advo- cate of plant bargaining.

The actions of Jones and Scan- lon have ensured that the rail- men stand isolated in the sights of the Tory government. of the strength But the can win 230,000 railmen . the day, just as the determination of the miners smashes the Tory 'norm' in January and February.

The rank and file of all unions engaged in transport and goods trafficking must rally to the sup- port of the railmen. What is required now is the dramatically unity in action demonstrated at the Saltley coke depot in Birmingham during the miners' strike when engineers joined pickets to close down the plant. The other urgent need is to build Councils of Action.

Tories launch their As the offensive it will be up to these Councils to defend the working class and to prepare the fight to get the Tories out of office.

All members of the labour and trade union movement should join these councils to see that the railmen win.

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E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

a TUC yesterday afternoon PORT employers yesterday called on the Transport and General Workers' Union to call off the national docks strike planned for next Fri- day. The appeal was made during . Port in- meeting of the dustry's National Joint Coun- cil held in London. Late yesterday the council broke up into two groups as union officials began to discuss a formula put forward by the employers. The final decision on whether the strike goes on or not rests with the docks delegates who will meet at Transport House next week. LONDON'S Royal group dockers voted yesterday to stage a one- day strike next week. Liverpool men have already

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voted in favour of strike action to coincide with the national docks delegates' conference next Wednesday and Thursday. About 1,000 Royal men yester- day voted to accept their shop stewards' commendation for a strike. Bernie Steer, chairman of the stewards' London shop port committee, said the time for compromise was past. SEAN O'Brady, publicity direc- tor of the Provisioal Sinn Fein, was freed when he appeared in Dublin District Court yesterday.

The court was told no evidence would be offered against him.

At the same time Joe Cahill, Belfast leader of the Provision- . in custody als, was remanded until next Wednesday charged under the Offences Against the State Act.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday June 9, 19

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AROUND THE WORLD

By our own reporter THE Vietnamese offensive against the US-backed Saigon regime has been slowed down by the mining of Haiphong and the massive bombing raids on towns and supply lines. The South Vietnamese relief column battling its way to the besieged garrison at An LoC, 56 miles north of saigon, 1s continuously being harrassed by National Liberation Front and North Vietnamese forces.

Saigon claimed yesterday that' its forces had consolidated their positions around Kontum and Hue. US bombing raids Heavy were carried out and supersonic jets operating over North Viet- nam struck within 20 miles of the Chinese border. Recent arrivals in Peking from North Vietnam say that damage and casualties in the capital and serious in Haiphong are more the government has ad- than mitted. is also expressed Concern about the effect on communica- tions of the US 'smart bombs, electronically-controlled to find their target. Diplomats in Peking are sug- gesting that Nixon is bent on a policy of 'Verbichtungsschlacht' annihilation-in North -total Vietnam. This would require saturation bombing by the 200 B-52 planes available to the US Command in South-East Asia. Between 35 and 50 additional B-52s have been sent to the area which means that over half the US heavy bomber force is now committed to the Vietnam war.

a mission each plane On normally carries 84 500-pound bombs inside the bays and 24 750-pound bombs in wing racks.

June 9, 1972

ION PROMISES ON JOBS, P

HIJACK

US sources still credit the Vietnamese with North capacity sizeable offensive despite the measures taken to stop the flow of supplies.

New attacks have been launched . in Cambodia, where the fighting has a predominantly guerrilla character. for a slow- A further reason ing down in the offensive may be differences of opinion within the Hanoi Politburo. While one wing wishes to North Vietnam's scale down immediate goals, another, repre- sented by First Secretary Duan and Truong Chinh, wishes to push on with the offensive.

Speaking in Peking, the exiled Cambodian leader, Prince Noro- dom Sihanouk, said he was in- alterably opposed to any Geneva- type conference to end the war.

He said that it would mean partition of Laos and Cam- the produce three Viet- bodia and nams-North Vietnam and a South divided between Saigon and the NLF. The Prince said that a con- • proposed by ference had been the Soviet Union but that he.

North Vietnam, the NLF and the Pathet Lao opposed such a meeting and had asked China to do likewise. The British Communist Party has campaigned consistently in favour of reconvening the Geneva conference. It was at Geneva in 1954 that Vietnam was first partitioned and the Saigon puppet regime brought into being. Sinahouk said that he had wanted to meet Nixon while he was in Peking but the president had declined. He claimed that his forces in Cambodia now had more Ameri- can than Chinese arms, bought from corrupt Lon Nol com- manders and agents and paid før with genuine US dollars pro- vided by China.

BS, PRICES

Solve our problems at your expense - US trade chief

BY A FOREIGN

CORRESPONDENT

A NEW international trade charter extremely favourable to the United States was proposed by Nixon's chief negotiator, William Eberle, in a speech at Rutgers Uni- versity, New Jersey. Main object of the charter would be to bar the major in- dustrial nations from imposing restrictions on imports. Presented by Eberle as neces- it is fight inflation, sary to clearly a means to prevent dis- the European crimination by Common Market and Japan against imports from the United States. According to Eberie, countries should not impose trade restric- tions to deal with domestic prob- lems or finance social policies. In other words he wants them to their control abdicate over economic policy and enable US capitalism to solve its balance- at their of-payments problem expense. Nobody is likely to be taken in by the liberal phrases in which the charter is clothed. It represents a move in the trade war since the restrictions which Eberle wants removed are those which harm US trade. He nothing about tariffs says other obstacles to trade imposed by the United States. Another of Nixon's top ad- visors, Dr Henry Kissinger, is in Tokyo in a bid to restore some harmony to US-Japanese rela- of the tions after the shock August 15 measures, which were a blow to Japanese trade, and the failure to inform the Sato govern- ment in advance of the visit to Peking. Resentment is still building up in Japanese ruling circles against Yankęe high-handedness and the treatment as a second-class ally.

Washington officials attribute the utmost importance to the trip.

That proverb more than once you have been told Vhich says that all that glitters is not gold True: but I think this proverb even fitter Gold's always gold although it may not glitter.

THE unchecked rise in the price of gold has taxed the theoretical powers of 'The Guardian's' John Palmer bey- ond their limits. It's bound to go down in the economic history books as 'the great gold gamble', he says.

'Once again the market both in London and in the Continental centres was dominated by speculative buyers who now have the bit well and truly between their teeth,' he told his readers yesterday. They won't even listen to reason now either: The market has now worked itself up into such a speculative fever that in the short-term at least it is unli- kely to pay much heed to warning voices.'

This is too much for the versatile Palmer, who combines his cam- paign against gambling on the bullion market with a lead- ing position in the 'state-capitalist' International Socialism group. He is also- -and perhaps this has more bearing on the matter—a practising Roman Catholic.

Palmer has been pillorying the speculators in the columns of 'The Guardian' for the past three weeks. On May 17 he noted dealers' reports of 'a growing specula- tive element' in the building. By May 18, they were helping to push the price up 'more obviously than in past days'.

and by June 7, Speculation was 'renewed' on May 31, the speculation had become a 'fever'. Now the specula- tors have become 'gamblers'. It really is disgraceful how the race-track element are moving in these days! Palmer's indignation, however, is quite misplaced. Predicting a rise in the gold price is about as risky as naming the winner of this year's Derby. The rush to buy gold results from a well-founded cert- ainty among the buyers that the metal is undervalued in relation to paper currency, and that in a period of ramp- ant inflation and impending commercial crashes, gold is more likely to retain its value than paper. Palmer's aver- sion to speculation can't be based on business considera- tions. Perhaps he feels that it, violates the Holy Will. After all, didn't Our Lord drive the money-changers out of the Temple with scourges? strikers, left-wing groups and dis- contented peasants. It was given added weight by Home Minister, who told tha officials at Pabna on Tune 5 that the government was determined to put down the elements sponsible for lawlessness in the country. All anti-social elements, irre- spective of party affiliation and social would not be status, said. He warned offi- spared, he cials that failure to 'rise to the occasion' in enforcing the law would be followed drastic by against the officials con- cerned. The six-month-old government is quite openly preparing to crush its the left. _ opponents on has promulgated SHEIKH Mujibur Rahman, already decrees strikes. severe against 'has Now it is openly inviting its threatened to shoot officials to gún down its left- social elements' as part of the wing opponents. Awami League government's campaign for 'law and order'.

at a big public Speaking THE PEKING 'People's Daily' in at Dacca racecourse meeting an editorial welcoming the estab- Wednesday, he said a cur- lishment of diplomatic relations on Greece imposed area with the colonels' few would on June 7 said nothing about poli- the by throughout area tical developments that in country. country since 1945. He did not say whether vic- A home service broadcast went tims would be tried before being one better and ended its outline shot by firing squads or whether of Greek history in 1830 when of soldiers squads police or independence from Turkish rule would be given freedom to open was achieved. fire on suspects in curfew areas.

The Maoists must be afraid of The threat is extremely sini- letting the Chinese people know ster, however. The Awami League regime what kind they are ot 'anti- generally uses the term establishing good diplomatic rela- elements' social to refer to tions with.

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS in Barrow A WARNING that an Upper develop in the shipbuilding Furness was issued yesterday.

The threat of a possible permanent closure of the mammoth Vickers shipyard, which employs half the town, came on day four of a pay dispute which has brought Barrow to a virtual standstill. A spokesman for the firm said the question of the yards closure now 'loomed large'. He said: In November, our chief warned the people of Barrow that an Upper Clyde situation could develop if exces- sive wage claims were presented.

"This is a simple matter of financial prudence. The dispute is preventing the payment of Kent students fight canteen redundancies

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

KENT university action com- is today organizing a mittee public rally in the town in sup- port of its campaign against proposals to reorganize college catering services. The students occupied the university's Cornwallis building at Canterbury , ten days ago in against redundancy protest threats to 98 kitchen staff and a 10-per-cent rise in residence and meal charges. University authorities pro- posed the redundancies and increases after being told by the University Grants Committee the situation where that the services : were losing £100,000 a year must stop. College catering.

they said, must balance books without being subsidized by grants. On Wednesday, the authorities warned the 2,300-strong student body of 'serious consequences' if catering facilities were disrupted again. The authorities allege 'violent picketing by students forced them to close down the catering week services over a ago. Students deny the allegations.

university spokesman has warned that 'disrupters' would be liable to the full disciplinary pro- cedures of the university.

In their statement, the authorities also announce that they are recalling the 300 canteen staff sent home on full pay after the incident. Drafted by the vice-chancellor and Masters of all four university colleges, the statement says con- ditions for the return were agreed at a meeting between college committees, the students' union, catering staff unions and the Association of University Teachers.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETING

Support the dockers and rail- waymen. Build Councils of Action WILLESDEN: Monday June 12, 8 p.m. St Michael's Hall, cnr and Knatchbull Rds,

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• Upper Clyde situation could building town of Barrow-in- instalment credit on work in progress.' But the union struck back at this threat yesterday. Boilermakers' leader Bob Proudfoot said: I believe the firm are provoking this conflict with government backing. "They • want to promote a crisis so they can get their hands on some of the govern- ment money for shipbuilding.'

The dispute is over a claim by 1,200 boilermakers for a £3.75 wage increasewithout strings.

the yard since the New when the firm offered their 8,500 manual workers a rise of £1.75. The boilermakers rejected this and went on strike after a management provocation nine weeks ago. Vickers-the warship builders —have a near monopoly of em- ployment.in Barrow. The dispute has caused un- employment the town to rocket from 3.4 to 30 per cent.

This will increase next week when 500 staff still working in the complex will be gradually laid off. FRANK SINATRA has left his suite at the Savoy Hotel, The Strand, and nobody appears to know where he has gone. Law authorities in the United States are awaiting to serve Sinatra with a subpoena order- ing him to appear before the House of Representatives committee on crime. The committee wants to know about Sinatra's role as vice- president of Berkshire Downs race track in Massachusetts as part of an investigation into alleged criminal influence on sports and horse-racing. Sinatra was the first major public figure to be invited to the US Embassy when Ambass ador Walter Annenburg took over in 1970. In his home town of Philadelphia Annenburg owns a string of FORMER Ulster Minister of Commerce, Robin Bailie, yester- day resigned from premier Brian Faulkner's 'shadow cabinet'.

He has also announced that he is giving up his Unionist seat at Stormont. Bailie said: 'I take this step not in a mood of ultimate hope- lessness about the future of our country, although I have deep forebodings about the present situation, but in the immediate future I see my most construc- tive work lying outside the realm of party politics, free from out- worn titles and from instructions which no longer function.'

He added that Northern Ire- land faced issues fundamental to its future which demanded imaginative 'thoughtful, and radical consideration' which he to give them preferred aside from 'the immediacy of day-to- day party politics. Ploketing T&GWU headquarters yesterda

BY PHILIP WADE

INLAND container depot workers yesterday blamed transport union leader Jack Jones for taking no action to save their jobs. About 30 of them demonstrated in pro- test outside the Transport and General Workers' Union headquarters in London yes- terday. Their firm - London East (ICD) Ltd, Chobham Farm-is laying off 30 of them this week and another 30 next Friday.

The lay-offs follow intensive picketing Since May 1 few lorries have London dockers. reached the depot. The dock pickets said that loading and unloading of con- tainers carried out inside the newspapers, particularly horse- racing and tipping publications.

"Mo' Annenburg and Sinatra are close friends. By our industrial correspondent MOVES by the non-TUC Telecommunications Staff Association for recognition in the Post Office will come to a head with hearings at the National Industrial Relations Court in the next two weeks.

On Wednesday the court is to start hearing appeals by the Post Office against two in- dustrial tribunal decisions in- volving five TSA members over their right to take part in union activities. The following Tuesday the TSA's application for bargaining rights for its Post Office members will come before the NIRC for a preliminary hearing. The dates were fixed yesterday when the court heard an appli- cation by the Post Office for the transfer from an industrial tri- bunal to the court of a claim by P. F. D. Orchard, a TSA repre- sentative in the Isle of Wight.

Christopher Bathurst, for the Post Office, said Orchard's claim of was one about 70 by TSA members in various parts of the country, all concerned with their rights to carry on trade union activities in their own time on Post Office premises. At present the Post Office does not recognize the TSA-all negotiations are conducted with the Union of Post Office Workers. Orchard complained that the Post Office was guilty of an un- fair industrial practice by stop- him carrying out union ping activities by the permitted Industrial Relations Act.

industrial tri- Bathurst said bunals had decided that TSA members were entitled to carry Workers Pres • yesterday, the unlon mon publicize what they depot should be done by regis- tered dockers. Now depot men — all the T&GWU members-say the firm has told them they will eventuals sacked. The company applying for a licence to employ registered dock labour instead.

Shop • stewards were trying , to meet Jack Jones and other union officials to try and find a com- promise. 'I blame, Jack Jones for all this,' depot picket Jim Lovett We don't told me yesterday. want a war with the dockers.

They've all got the same problem as us. I sympathize with any man out of work. But Jones has made по attempt to sort this all out; he's just let it drift. We are all mem- bers of the same union . so we deserve equal treatment.'

on union activities in the Post Office outside working hours.

Those cases, and the others pending, all involved the same issue of principle, and the Post Ofice wanted all the pending cases suspended until the court had ruled on the law. Orchard, who represented him- self, said it was three months since he applied to the industrial tribunal and his case had still not been heard. Discrimination against him continued. R. S. Urquhart, solicitor for the UPW, whose general secre- rkers Press, Friday June 9, 1972 PAGE 3 what they claim is a union-created spilt.

All of the pickets said a com- promise solution had to be found.

Most of the men had worked ai the depot, which has the biggest single shed container complex in Europe, since it opened three- and-a-half years ago. Added Jim Lovett: 'Surely it would be better to register us give some and also of the dockers' jobs. In that way we'd all win. We don't want a split, jobs. we're Bot to fight for our Other pickets also blamed the T&GWU leadership for allowing the situation to develop to crisis point. Action committee member Dave Ayris said: "The union is not doing its job, and we all pay our contributions to it. We want working but to see everyone they have got to save our jobs.'

tary, Tom Jackson, was at the hearing, said that although the were being pending cases brought by individuals they were of a deliberate TSA all part policy. After discussion, it was agreed that none of the pending claims should be transferred to the NIRC, but the court's chairman, Sir John Brightman, said it was highly desirable that none of the pending cases should be heard by the tribunals until the court had decided the appeals against the previous decisions.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday June 9, 1972 Part three of a six part series on revisionism by Clif Slaughter. Central Committee member of the Socialisi Labour League. ing class to bureaucracy, and The 'International Marx- through that, to imperialism.

In Üpper Clyde Shipbuilders, tion from the fight for a the Stalinists Reid and Airlie, carrying out the CP line, and Labour government, re- industrial Bert its organizer placing it with the cen- Ramelson worked might and trist slogan of 'a workers' to make sure that the main government based on the of the yards, occupation enthusiastically supported in trade unions'. strike action by thousands of Every class-conscious worker Clyde workers, was trans- formed into the abortive 'work.

must study carefully this role centrists and fight it in' and, above all, it was com- of the separated from the consciously. By centrism we pletely fight against the political position working-class mean between revolutionary Marxism Tory government. Reid and Airlie appealed to reformist and ihe open demonstrating workers not to treachery of the Labour carry anti-Tory placards and to leaders. Workers hitherto trapped in remember that their only con- and trade the saving of the reformist purely cern was yards. The IS and IMG added union politics must go through and their support by struggle proclaiming a process experience on the way to revo- that militant struggle alone lutionary Marxism. This is one would bring about the eventual kind of centrism--the working victory. is the outcome? What A class moving left. with this road But the slave-labour contract an along American monopoly subsidized worker meets the opposite kind from by the Tory of centrist, in motion government, virtual four-year strike no pledge, and 2,500 jobs lost. In reformism; at the are same crossroads for a while, addition, has unemployment increased in the West of Scot- the naked and to eye, to 'common sense', they appear to land by 17,000 since July 1971.

Stalinists be in the same political posi- Thus the and cen- implemented purely tion. The professional centrist trists the already formulated many reformist policy, with has inevitable results. left-sounding slogans and which sound like a Most important, the anti- demands the Tory support for the Clyde forward worker step to who is moving from his pre- action has been criminally dis- sipated and diverted by the viously fixed reformist concep- Stalinists and centrists, leaving tions. Tories the precious time the they needed to set about their of the Indus- implementation trial Relations Act. Earlier, the IS and IMG had similarly supported the Stalin- and opposed the SLL, ists. in the fight to prevent the passage For example, workers coming Industrial Relations the struggle on basic issues into Bill, as it then was. find themselves sold out by 'Kill the Bill' was the crude their union leaders, in whom protest slogan of the Stalinists, their confi- had placed they working through their Liaison They therefore respond dence. Committee of for Defence to propaganda about the need Trade Unions'. By restricting and to have regular elections recall of trade union officials isolated militants, actions democratic control by and rejecting the SLL's demand to mass meetings. make the TUC mobilize for a Certainly such demands are united General Strike to defeat the Tories and their Bill, they democracy, inner union TUC leadership off the let the but by themselves they are hook, with no demands placed insufficient the entirely for upon them. struggle in the unions, which essentially a political fight is for a new leadership.

IMG

International The or Socialist centrist says to the demands will workers: these unite the maximum number of workers: non-political even At all times in this campaign therefore don't bring in any political demands, the IS and IMG remained with but allow the Stalinists and the Liaison unity to grow on these mini- mum demands. Committee. the on spurious All the consequences of this grounds that it represented the of are shown clearly in the record militancy in present stage of the struggle since the elec- the working class, and always of the Tory government. the tion ignoring counter-revolu- We find the IS and the IMG tionary role of Stalinism. the Indeed, the IS were the first to working closely, with Stalinists of the Communist put forward the treacherous Party, can't kill the Bill, the most consistent we we should ignore it. force subordinating the work- Top: UCS stewards with Reid and Air struggle alone would bring victory. Abc The manoeuvres of propa- ganda the groups among is sub- minority of militants stituted by these centrists for • bold revolutionary policy which will enable the working in struggle, class to break, from the reformist leadership and build a revolutionary party for the conquest of workers' power. The latter purpose is expressed in the demand: mobilize the full strength of the working class to bring down the Tories and replace them with a Labour govern- pledged to socialist ment policies. d and Airlie (centre). I S and IMG added sup ctory. Above: CP industrial organizer, Bert R All this cuddling up of the Stalinists revisionists to the has the great theoretical advan- tage of clarifying the political tendencies and their attitude to the revolutionary role of the working class. This clarifica- tion is an essential part of the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolu- tionary party in late 1972.

There must be no equivoca- tion about the role which the IMG has played objectively through this collaboration with the Stalinists. Stalinism is the main counter-revolutionary force in the world today. Their 'Kill the Bill' campaign, in dis- added support by proclaiming that militant r, Bert Ramelson. arming the working class against the Tory attack, was carried out as part of their counter-revolutionary work.

The centrists of the IMG cannot escape from the posi- tion in which their revisions of Marxism have placed them.

Having begun with Pablo's theories that mass pressure would force the Stalinists to play a revolutionary role, they have developed into open collaborators in the bureau- cracy's counter-revolutionary policies. This, and nothing less, is the objective role of centrism in this period.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

Argentina's one-time ruler, Peron: the The Moreno (La Verdad) faction of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT) of Argentina has recently liquidated itself into the Socialist Party of Argen- tina (PSA-Coral faction).

Moreno took this action based on a repudiation of Trotskyism. Moreno has been the main supporter in Latin America of the Socialist Workers Party's minority within the Pabloite United Secretariat. The other faction of the PRT supports the United Secretariat majority led by Ernest Mandel. The latter faction organized the ERP which was recently in- volved in a number of kidnap- pings and urban guerrilla activities. This step, taken by Nahuel Moreno, old-time leader of the PRT, is linked to his whole anti-Marxist method. He tionary party. Instead he has engaged in a frenzied search for a substitute in centrism, bourgeols nationalism and in the trade union bureaucracy.

Moreno and his group the Peronista move- entered ment with the excuse that it would fight for Trotskyism in- side the Peronismo. In the early 1960s, 90 per cent of the Argentine workers were under the influence of Peronism. This centrism lasted for more than seven years (1957-1964) in which the so-called 'fight for Trotskyism' was abandoned, and the Moreno group was the one who accepted the hege- mony of Peron. 'Only a madman can argue against the magnificent role that Peron played inside our movement, Moreno stated in that period. In their paper ron: the Moreno group was the one group wh • Obrera' (June 28, "Politica 1960), they even went further and held the position that Peron favour of workers militias and workers control even after Peron 'saved the fatherland,' giving a hand in the guerrilla coup d'etat.

In 1964, Moreno joined ranks with the FRIP, a petty- bourgeois group and together founded the PRT. By this time, the Moreno group had split from the In- ternational Committee along with the SWP on the basis of 'integration into the Castroist current'. The abandonment of Trot- skyism and the attack on the permanent revolution went even further. In the book of Moreno's, 'La Revolucion Latinoamericana, he exposes his view clearly: 'Life has proved the gaps, omissions and mistakes of the Permanent Revolution. The dogma that the only class that can resolve the democratic de- mands of the working class is false. Sections of the middle class and the peasantry, in some occasions, have proven themselves as the revolution- ary leaders. History has proven false the theory, that in the backward country the working the revolutionary class is leadership' Moreno, in his book, points out that the Transitional Pro- gramme brings together the European revolutionary ex- perience, but that this pro- gramme does not even mention guerrilla warfare and deals superficially on the very question of the peasantry, nationalism and democratic de- mands. In July 1969 the Moreno fac- tion (La Verdad) was expelled by the majority, the PRT-ERP.

The PRT-ERP was recognized as the official section of the Unified Secretariat and the Moreno group was recognized group who accepted Peron's hegemony.!

as a sympathizer. It was no accident that the SWP became a strong sup- porter of the Moreno group.

Guerrillaism had ceased to be a nice thing to speak about, it had turned into the 'modus vivendi' of the PRT-ERP. With right turn to capitalist the politicians in the past years, the SWP felt uncomfortable belonging in the same move- ment with the terrorists of the

PRT-ERP.

Moreno has taken SWP poli- tics to its logical end. After its liquidation in the PSA (Coral), it is looking forward to form- ing a 'socialist front' with the other PSA under the basis of support to Peron, but with a 'socialist programme' and in "radicalize the that way masses'. The independence of the working class from bourgeois nationalism is dropped. Sup- port of a 'progressive' bour- geois who would poltician radicalize' the masses is sub- stituted. The politics of Moreno are as opportunist and liquidation- ist as that of the PRT-ERP faction. In fact they are the same in method as those of in Bolivia, supported Lora within Argentina by the 'Politica Obrera' group. All these various groups start from Latin American considera- tions and thus cannot free themselves from the national bourgeoisies of these countries.

The Trotskyist movement in Latin America must begin from international perspectives particularly learning the lessons of the struggle for the Marxist method against Pabloite re- the Fourth visionism within International. This struggle is now beginning in several Latin American countries. "Bulletin', Reprinted from the weekly paper of the Workers League. Workers Pres By John Spencer Eye witness reports from the central African state of Burundi indicate that the ruling Tutsi aris- tocracy has embarked on systematic butchery of the Hutu tribe who form 85 per cent of the coun- try's population. The Hutus have for genera- tions been virtual serfs of the Tutsi who rule by intimidation and repression under President Micombero, a general. All the provinces of Burundi are under military governors appointed by UPRONA, the only legal party. According to official figures issued by radio from Bujum- bura, the capital, 50,000 bodies have been recovered by volun- teer corpse collection squads.

The radio is trying to claim suppression of a Hutu the plot to exterminate the Tutsi, but Europeans returning from Burundi tell a different story.

Bujumbura radio claimed earlier last week that on April groups of foreign merce- 29 naries numbering about 10,000 poisoned and armed with machets, knobkerries, auto- weapons and Molotov matic cocktails swarmed into Burundi in order to exter- minate the Tutsi. It told in graphic detail how a contingent of 4,600 rebels was involved in fighting around Bujumbura and 5,000 were active in other areas 'mutila- ting children, massacring and raping. 'Many who the rebels had not earmarked for extermina- tion chose to die rather than murder their brothers; others chose to flee,' the radio said.

It even gave the text of a leaflet allegedly issued by the rebels which called for the kill- ing of 'all Tutsis the extermination to the last of all Tutsis, be they soldiers or leaders', , ministers, governors, commissioners, administrators, party officials and added 'mas- sacre them with their wives and children and do not hesi- tate to disembowel pregnant women'. The exaggerated language of this leaflet gives the game away-and eye-witness reports confirm that the Micombero military regime is engaged in a clumsy effort to cover its own tracks. undoubtedly There was some kind of rising by Hutu tribesmen, but it had little mass support and was quickly suppressed and from then on rkers Press, Friday June 9, 1972 PAGE 5 the Tutsi have been extract- ing a horrifying revenge on all members of the oppressed tribe. Dr Charles Henneghien, a Belgian physician recently returned from Burundi, told the following story: 'In Bujumbura, though the insurrection was quickly put down, for there was no popular ression took place blood and very quickly turned towards the systematic elimi- nation of the leading Hutu.

'The four Hutu ministers in the previous government were immediately executed. Then of came successive waves arrests according to lists drawn up in advance. "The army and the security forces arrested people in their homes or their places of work, because by May 2 things were almost back to normal in Bujumbura. 'With very few exceptions, all the persons arrested were Hutus. They included civil ser- vants, office workers, nurses, teachers and secondary school pupils. 'After several days of arrests it became clear the prison of Mpimba and the military camp to which the prisoners were taken could not hold them all.

Then we saw the first truck- loads of corpses... 'An active part in the rep- ression was played by Rwagasore Revolutionary Youth (JRR), the youth move- ment of UPRONA. In this tiny country, with few resources, the administration has already stopped taking on young people coming out of the schools.

'Eighty per cent of the population is Hutu, but the majority of students and gra- duates are Tutsi. "These privileged unemployed who have built up in the capi- tal form the shock troops of the JRR. According to one person who was arrested and then released after several days it was JRR members armed with bludgeons and arranged in two files . who received the prisoners when they descended from the trucks at the military camp..'

Micombero's regime is backed by Congo's General Mobutu and the Organization of African Unity. Its repression is testimony to the subjection under which the Hutu people are kept-described by Hutu students in Belgium as 'Tutsi apartheid' . Such a regime can itself only maintain on the basis of unparalleled bloodlet- ting.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday June 9, 1972

BY ALEX MITCHELL

The the UDA have The UDA, however, transcends In a period of just over men in both been shown drilling up and down these secrecy, three weeks a new armed the streets of Belfast and we on sce check people mapons on fent with weapons. Sentries ter comes of the sory sin the force has presented itself aftermath the govern- or on Northern Ireland's decision to declare direct into certain Protes. streets — the Ulster tant areas of the city. rule Westminster TrOM The first aspect of this new Who is behind the emergence Defence Association. force is the amazing speed with of the private army is very much which it nas been got togetner ooscure Its sinister uniform is now This is not to say that the but this can be sala--ine men familiar from television and had calling the shots have deranie Loyalists have not always considerable they newspaper photographs-face organization: the and B-Specials and the Ulster Volun- wealth. ther and masks, sun glasses force

(UVF)

have long are almost certainly members of teer denoting the extreme right-wing various armbands vigilante-style operated as rank and platoons. rorists. bourgeoisie who have nnally lost faith in their own puppet poli- ticians. ( premiers - After successive O'Neil, Chichester-Clark and Faulkner-they have decided that for the protection of their pro- privilege an armed perty and militia is necessary. The hand of these aristocrats and industrialists be seen can when one item is investigated— the ready supply of expensive arms which have suddenly found their way into the hands of the

UDA.

For despite what the capitalist press says, Ulster is not brim- ming with arms, except those belonging to the British army.

The Official IRA, for example, Derry today has fewer arms in that it did at the start of the civil rights campaign in 1969, due to army discoveries of two small arms caches.

SMUGGLING

And the Provisionals have an weapons behind estimated 120 the barricades in the two Derry 'no-go' areas. But in its brief few weeks no set the

UDA

history squads have except to obtained boxes of ted with' the automatic SLRs (high velocity semi-auto- ment. tic rifles). How do these weapons find their way so easily Affairs Ulster and Loyalist into into hands? main airport and the first The 1969. docks are manned by members of the Ulster Defence Regiment, include the military body set up to as- sociation, the Loyali sist the British army in its 'peace- keeping'. of There scarcely Constabulary Catholic in this body. single Young lodeed, Catholics ws joined appeals following the Royal Black British been government have shot or threatened by the IRA In other words there is very Billy little incentive on the part of the

UDR

the smuggling of to stop

(LAW),

arms to the UDA. Who are in the ranks of the

UDA?

The mostly men are Master 18 drawn from the to 25 age Grand Their 'officers' are under 30 in the main although there are Dickinson R. Derry number of ex-soldiers involved Lee in training programme. Der Brown A journalist recently in the John Protestant areas swears that the County man drilling UDA volunteers had English accent. There is an- an of the ex-major from the British other Captain advice who openly army gıvıng of the wears his officer's 'pips' with his civilian battle dress. The organization has published sociation); Lott: William Craig, leader bers of the UDA in their pi London's embankment, Johi trict Orange Lodge holds the political objectives, (Ulster Unionist Association). that it is 'associa- At a big rally at Ormeau Park Belfast in March, the Vanguard move- in Craig told his supporters: 'We are going to also "pledge allegiance' do more than just talk. Whatever Craig, the ex-Home shall do. of duty requires, we Minister who was in the police when the riots occurred in Derry in Groups affiliated to Vanguard the Ulster Loyalist As-

LIQUIDATE

sociation, the Loyalist Association Special the Ulster the Association Council, the Unionist Lodge of Ireland Preceptory and As the crowd hushed, Craig Apprentice Boys. continued: 'We must build up with Craig is president dossiers on men and women who Hull, of the chairman are enemies of this country be.

Loyalist Association of Workers manse one the politicians and en (LAW), and representatives on the politicians men, central council are: the enemy, our job to liquidate would be The Rev Martin Smyth (Grand and District of Belfast When the Vanguard came to G Dickinson Grand Master ov Lodge); London's Embankment for Grand Orange Lodge); A. demonstration last month it was Deer Grand Master National Front of County the pro-fascist Lodge); which appeared as a co-sponsor.

Grand Orange John Brown (Grand Master Indeed, John Type, Speare of Grand editor of the NF paper, Antrim Orange Lodge); J. Molyneaux MP, (head head, appeared on the platform of the Royal Black Preceptory); and addressed the crowd as one of the main speakers. Austin Ardill (chairman Ulster Loyalist Associa- Tyndall's theme was that there tion); H. Petrie (LAW), G. Green should be 'no surrender to the Sier Special Constabular mis.

IRA,

surrender to com- Brian munism'. Workers Prose, Friday Juno 8, 1872 PAQE 7 Illiam Craig, leader of the Vanguard movement with Vanguard members on the day of the Ormeau Park rally. Above: Mem- so bankment, parTyary on the Natonal Frod dask oks, eRe trin Sally, GrandMaster of the Beast tind Die masks and dark glasse s arrive at the rally. Below: meeting inge Lodge holds the umbrella Tyndall, last now the flak stood Van- weekend no guard ganiza with the deputy chairman of the NF, attention at wait- arricade organization'. spoke Leicester at ing for a in anti- ar response, a the scene speak neporters on leaflet away and differently. They were not drunk, any. handed out the Leicester joined them. and they ov say, were under Committee Against Fascism Soon stones and bottles were influence at all, it was the good Tyndall writing being hurled at the troops. The quotes captain's. 1962: The Ss man has been our soldiers replied water Meanwhile at his rally

WITH

down model-an SS state must be our cannon and this beta bullets the road, Craig was telling the clash William aim During young men para-

TOWN

This then the rotesticl political Craig addressing military uniform who had Was par- the body of the march about 500 ticipated in the march: 'People bourgeoisie is arming. yards away. will ask why we have assembled The first concrete show today in such large here strength came last weekend when numbers?

UDA

the marched in Derry 'We are here to protest at the against the 'no-go' areas. disgraceful and order is being administered Which The march was prevented from

ORDER

in this city. holds when the put up 'We army demand action immedi- the quarter- strong barricades on would say to the mile long Craigavon Bridge across Whitelaw administration that the River Foyle. they living time. Ne borrowed The barricades stopped the marchers crossing How order was restored is main body of estimate the strength and deter Ardill, the Bogside Captain mination of the Loyalist people.'

TOWN DE E

brought out the taste a former has been Saturday Unionist MIr march for new mont, walked onto the Craig- action TRe bridge amid the angry Vanguard and the supported by

CIVILO

The fighting between troops

UDA

UDA began when five He was soaked with purple The organizers have vowed to Van- dye from the army carrying water cannon rally Diamond, Walen means crossing Craigavon Bridge as neonsky persuaded we vownu the ae sebar UDA tearaways to return to the main and coming within a few hundred One senior de- demonstration. They obeyed his man the Bogside 'no-go' yarus through loud-hailer, manded, commands. area. Aric on of bard made e vanen endeadolenslater bridge because Protestants on vention, Captain Ardill said the Vanguard the toe Grink of having their first the other side wanted to rioting youths under the hear were influence of drink and they bad taste of it. Lucill.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday June 9, 19 "The Nun-Runners', by Sonia Dougal. Hodder and Stoughton 1971, £1.90, 192 pages. Sonia Dougal; a convert to Catholicism, intro- duces her account of the recent 'trading' in Indian nuns with an uninten- tionally cynical quotation from the Bible: 'What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and suffers the loss of his own soul?' She proceeds to unfold a tale of profiteering priests, whose financial gains in the recruiting of poor Indian girls in European to fill vacancies convents have been systemati- cally white-washed from the Vatican downwards over period of years, and are pro- bably continuing to the pre- sent day. If any further proof is needed that the 'liberal' facade of religious bodies, so eagerly embraced by the British Com- munist Party, conceals a cor- only rupt edifice which can undermine the fight of the international working class against its oppressors, then this book provides it. The corruption of religion les not merely in its self-abas- ing precepts ('Blessed are the poor', etc.), but in the material fact of the vast wealth of the Roman Catholic Church. A section of Vatican officials dedicate themselves to manag- ing Fapal investment in Italian industry; while every cupboard and vault of the Vatican itself is bulging with gold and jewels of immense value. Throughout the centuries, the church has fostered the convenient belief that 'giving' June 9, 1972 (to its own ministers) is an act of prayer. It is not hard to imagine the motives of over 4,000 Indian girls who have allowed them- selves to be 'exported' to Euro- pean convents, mainly from the southern state of Kerala.

majority The not came because of a mystical religious 'vocation', but because their own country has been so im- poverished by imperialism.that it cannot offer them education, or even the certainty of suffi- cient food to keep themselves and their families alive.

European convents wel- comed them with open arms, since the number of 'authentic vocations' in Europe is on the If improved living decline. • education are standards and making inroads on the reli- superstitions of gious Euro- peans, then what better source of convent postulants than the under-developed countries of Asia? Not surprisingly, many of the Indian girls, who had had no preparation for their trans- portation abroad to "dedicate their lives to the service of God, found it impossible to adapt to their new surround- ings. Rival convents were reluctant to admit that 'voca- tions' might not be genuine. But at the Florentine convent where Sonia Dougal was a teacher, acute homesickness brought one girl to such a degree of mental and physical breakdown that there was no alternative but to send her back to India. While accompanying this gıri home, the author saw a little of the reality of Indian poverty and of the complacency of the Indian clergy. One priest, Fr Cyriac Puttenpura, girls by the 'exporting' was hundred, receiving money from their families, as well as amounts from European con- vents, which were well in excess of the required air fares other expenses. His own and profits ran into thousands of pounds. The author expected such tọ raise a sordid dealings storm of protest within the European Catholic Church.

But from the first monk in whom she confided her story, she received the following res- ponse: 'When you are as old as I am... things like this don't surprise you. I have heard of our mis- similar things from sionaries out there in Kerala.

There's nothing you can do It's their mentality! about it. They can't grasp the essence of Christianity-charity has only a relative significance to them ... Then there's the money problem: they want Above: the author, Sonia Dougar.

Right: the Mother House of the Florentine Convent money at any cost and they are convinced that the Euro- pean has got it and that he they should help them. If can't get it out of him fair means, they'll get it by foul.' So much for the 'eternal' truths of Christianity! The author clearly shares this monk's imperialist assumption of superiority, for despite her to expose the determination nun-running scandal, she writes in a later note: ... if there was any ques- tion of exploitation, it was surely on the side of the Keralese people who were exploiting the nuns.' A she question never is: How did the answers European convents find sums approximately £250 per nuns in the girl to "import' first place? Her defence of the nuns, and her continuing loyalty to a Church which she herself proved rotten to the core, form part of a clear political position. The doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church fitted with her in too neatly class prejudices for her to discard them, despite her touching descriptions • of 'torments of conscience', when she uncov-

ered facts so discreditable to the Church. The Vatican eventually insti- tuted a half-hearted inquiry into the affair, to be conducted by Fr Villangaden, a candidate selected by the Cardinal and Bishops of Kerala. His report that all was well was gratefully received at the Vatican, which prepared to let the matter drop. But unfortunately one of the author's pupils had let slip the fact that Fr Villangaden 'sends girls himself!' Poor and uneducated though they were, the Indian girls shared none of their teacher's surprise at the vatica's Nearly in the Collyance affair: everyone Kerala sends girls," one girl said, laughing.' (p. 147.)

Hoping to jolt the Vatican further into action, without discrediting the Church too much, Sonia Dougal next told correspondent to a 101 01 rom a Roman Catholic news The paper. correspondent offered her, $75 for the story, it then proceeded to tout around the

USA

and Fleet Street, seeking the highest bidder, pretending the 'expo- sure' had been his own work.

Profiteering extends to every sector of the Church, includ- ing its press. Before uncovering this latest fraud, the author took her Indian girls on a visit to Peru- where for the first time gia, thev had a chance to sample of the some sécular pleasures Europe, life such and visits to the theatre cinema. Their natural enjoy- ment of this new environment and increasing neglect of such early essentials as morning Miss convinced Dougal once and for all of their inabi- 'European holi- lity to grasp ness'. 'These girls were hundreds of years behind thei the reli- attitude to ana 165.) gious life.' (p. For the ultimate 'good of the Church' it essential that was should be they received

BOL

into the Florentine nuns convent (and at a secondary it seemed that level, convent life might not be for the good of the girls, either!)

AUTHENTIC

The double-dealing of the Rome correspondent having come to light, the indomitable Miss Dougal proceeded herself to tramp the length of Fleet Street, trying ensure that the story should come out with much authenticity pOs sible (i.e. laying blame on the 'Keralese people were winG exploiting the 'nuns'). Also, it had to be 'her' story. Even- tually it appeared on the front of the 'Sunday Times, page August 23, 1970. Whether the author received a sum of money in return for conscience' is torments ot not disclosed. Neither the why she also found it reason to appear on tele- necessary Four of the Indian aspirant nuns at the Florentine convent vision and write a book on the subject. Even she is not able to claim that her efforts met with unqualified Despite a success. temporary ban on 'nun-runn- ing', yet another belated Vati- can report •did not satisfy many of those directly involved the affair (Postscript). still denied that priests had been profiteering and gave no guarantee against future abuses.

should be sur- No socialist prised at the Vatican's mani- test failure to correct its 'mis-.

takes'. To root out such scan- destroy the aals would be to Church itself, since its fun- position as a bastion damental of the ruling class relies both wealth and superstitious 'belief' in the divine origin its doctrines. Such 'belief' is a bitterly Marxists' hostile opposite to struggle for a materialist under- standing of world history, and of the revolutionary role of the working class today. The peace- making activities of priests in Northern Ireland, coupled with their openly expressed fear communism, merely one are of the contemporary example political position of the Church. Only the development of a socialist India, based the overthrow of capitalism in the major imperialist countries, can supply the economic and educational needs of that country and put a final stop to the 'nun-running' story.

NOTEBOOK

SOCIETY

1972 Believe it or not, the follow- ing titled item appeared in one of the capitalist papers the this is not trom The We repeat, not from Times society column in 1872, but 1972: "The Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, eldest of son of the Duke and ouchess Hamilton, is Miss to marry Sarah Scott, daughter of Sir Walter Scott of and Lady Eckington Manor, Ripe, Lewes, Sussex. Their engagement was tonight from the announced home-Lennoxlove Duke's Haddington, East House, Lothian.!

EXPERT

UNFOUND

Alan Campbell, QC, MA, has written a book on the Indus- trial Relations Act. The blurb says: 'This work, by a leading practitioner in this field. designed is to assist those who have business before the new Industrial Court..

etc.' Last Monday the learned counsel went to the court to bat for the Expanded Metal Co Ltd, Hartlépool. There were three reasons, he said, why Sir John Donald- son should grant an interim injunction restraining the

AUEW

from calling all its members at the plant out strike in support of 19 welders.

The welders' strike was an unfair industrial practice, other coming out support 1n 111CH against their will but in res- the trom Drosure

AUEW

would compound the unfair practice and thereby commit an unfair practice themselves. And all the men would be in breach of their contracts of employment. Donaldson the warned learned counsel that the court

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orkers Presa, Friday June 8, 1972 PAGE 9 had already held that in some nstances (e.g. Gaymet) a strik ithout notice might not be al unfair industrial practice and that the court had in fact held this. The learned counsel, with great, if condescending, res- pect said flatly that the court had been wrong The company's representa- tives sat behind their (without doubt) expensive champion with barely-concealed grins on their faces. The grins broadened when Campbell adminished Donald- that the object of the son Court was to put an end to strikes and that was just what his clients had and it was just a question of putting the boot in. Donaldson; change of tactics Alter lunch (he obviously hadn't made himself clear) Campbell took Donaldson over the clauses in the Act he was 'relying' on once again: He and the representatives of the company then slumped smugly in their chairs to hear the union caned. After all, Campbell was the expert. He had written a book. Several, in fact, over the years. At three o'clock the judge- ment came. First submission— unfound; second submission— unfound; third submission— unfound. We wonder if Mr Campbell will be revising his book.

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HUGH SCANLON'S

Stephen Johns will examine in detail the Manchester engineer- much-vaunted gallop into ing pay struggle.) Wednesday Coventry night, he yaced 300 shop steads the Midlands has left to discuss the pay claim. He was engineers deeply con- forced to admit that 'up to now there has been no break in the cerned about the pay ranks'. employers' fight they are about to Nevertheless he proposed to continue exactly the same course enter. of action for the Midlands of that plant-by-plant negotiation In two meetings, at Bir- and Coventry, now made not the slightest dent mingham federated firm Scanlon, the president of the in major throughout the country. Amalgamated Union of Hiding behind his national Engineering Workers, has committee's decision for plant-by- attempted to persuade which plant negotiation, he and the wisdom of engineers of his executive council fought hard Scanlon 'I plant-by-plant bargaining.

passed, said: to get well aware that there may be Early in January, Scanlon and differences opinion of concern- the national committee dropped policy of national the the ing the national claim thus abandon- committee. ing men to the onslaught of the of 'But the issue tonight, employers' organization. national whether or not it was a correct Both meetings were poorly decision, for is not a matter attended by local shop stewards.

debate.' speech which In lengthy The Birmingham meeting de- cided with lengthy delaying dealt one-day strikes to start by the Engineering Em- action after June 26 if local employers ployers' Federation, he made no did not make 'substantial' pay of reference to the actions the concessions. only Tory government and After the two-and-a-half-hour fleeting reference the to private meting Scanlon said the Industrial Relations Act.

token would be carried strikes Scanlon complained that while out each Monday. knew about the everybody recommended "This is the miners, railwaymen and dockers, deadline, would emphasize. very few people knew about These They not decisions. dispute in engineering. are recommendations to the other He then said: "But if the unions and to the members.'

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Name Address Scanlon: bosses haven't broken ated firm, then that would force the engineering employers meet the union again. When one steward commented that the engineers should have been called out with the miners to bring down the Tory govern- sneered: You ment, Scanlon • a forget your opening line.

'You should have said to me: "As a lackey of the capitalists, • But if why did you seil out?" we had wanted to sell out, we would have recommended accept- ing the engineering employers' ofier. 'That would have really been selling out.' The meeting carried a resolu- tion from the district committee which reads: 'District committee instructs all convenors to pro- mote the national claim with all the militancy they can muster, with the assurance that they will receive full official support from district committee if they with- draw their labour'. Scanlon warmly welcomed the resolution. By our own correspondent A TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union branch at the giant Ford factory at Hale- wood, Liverpool, has passed a resolution supporting the form- ation of a local Council of Action. The resolution was passed at Wednesday night's meeting of the union's 6/559 transmission branch in the factory. "This branch', it said, 'endorses the decision the Liverpool Trades Council of setting up a Council of Action to defend the dockers and the unions against the Tories. 'This is fully justified in view of the onslaught on savage workers' basic rights being waged by this government.' The same branch also con- demned its leadership for co- with National operating the Industrial Relations Court for a recall of the TUC to fight the Industrial Relations Act and the government. The decision to pay, it said, the was contravention democratic decision of the TUC.

'The leadership should work for the recall of the TUC to reaffirm the policy of no co- OVER 330 jobs are in Daventry, danger at the Northants, machine-tool fac- Herbert-Ingersoll. tory of Alfred Herbert, the parent firm, has decided, with what appears to be government approval, to call in a reçeiver.

The announcement on Monday that the most advanced machine- tool company in Britain, Herbert- Ingersoll, of Daventry, had finally collapsed is the clearest indic- ation of the bankruptcy of British capitalism. Herbert-Ingersoll is an Anglo- Americar firm, with 44 per cent , owned by of the shares being Alfred Herbert of Coventry anc 43 per cent by the Ingersoll Milling Machine Co. of Illinois.

The state has a 13 per cent shareholding through a £l million made to the company in loan 1970 by the now-defunct Indust- rial Reorganization Corporation.

Tory government's The position seemed to be made clear tee 'Daily Mail' on June 6. by said: "The The city column government agree with Herbert- potential profits Ingersoll that were too distant and too shadowy to be worth keeping the firm alive. The company has lost over WORKERS at Osram GEC's unanimously to return to work on Monday. They agreed to accept a man- agement proposal giving increases of £1.50 a week unskilled to workers and £2.20 to skilled workers. operation with the Tory court in view of the dangerous situation on the docks and the railways.

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'Furthermore that the the should work to create EDINBURGH General branch white-collar union of the ASTMS has passed a resolu- tion calling on the Edinburgh and District Trades Council to set up Councils of Action embracing all workers' organ- izations in the area. The resolution also calls on the TUC General Council to re- convene the TUC in order to reconfirm the policy of no co- operation with the Industrial Relations Act established at last September's TUC. The resolution condemned 'the retreats which were carried out in its by the General Council decision to co-operate with the Act, as this violates the policy agreed to at last September's TUC and seriously undermines the struggle of the working-class movement against the Tory gov- ernment. It went on to endorse the campaign to build Councils of Action throughout the country 'in order to unite all sections £4m since it began operations in January 1968. Herbert-Ingersoll was the technologically advanced most machine-tool firm in Britain. The firm's failure is blamed on lack of orders, and 180 workers have lost their jobs in the past year.

Rugby district Jim Hunter, secretary of the AUEW, told the that although the local press work situation in Daventry was not particularly bad, if Herbert- skilled Ingersoll closed, have great would workers difficulty in getting jobs.

overspill area and This is an workers have been brought, here from other parts of the country.

The situation should have come under the "lame duck" category and qualify for government help' Barclays Bank Ltd, which is the has in main debenture-holder, fact put Herbert-Ingersoll in the hands of Cork and Gulley of who are said to be London, Britain's leading company under- takers. While they decide what to do with Herbert's, and the future of workers, of Daventry's 330 • Kenneth Cork will act as receiver and manager for Barclays Bank.

• See Saturday's Workers Press pages six and seven for a full investigation into the l Herbert- Ingersoll collapse. The new deal also includes pro- posals for two day's extra holi- day a year—one to be conceded this year and the other in 1973.

Management previously offered the 250-strong workforce £2.00 to skilled workers and £1.20 to the unskilled. Yesterday's return-to-work deci- sion, however, was tempered with a resolution to fight inside the fac- tory for a further pay increase by the end of the year. political and economic conditions to bring about the resignation of this government in order to Labour government return a policies.' pledged to socialist and organizations of the working class in the common struggle to defeat the Tory government'.

The Councils, insisted the branch, must embrace branches, Party Trades Councils, tenants' associa- tions, unemployed workers and all socialist organizations of the working class. The branch has also passed a resolution calling for their union to come off the Tories' trade union register. The resolution is addressed to the executive council via the No.

council and 12 divisional demands the convening of an immediate special rules revision conference for the purpose ol amending rule one, in order to allow the wishes of the majority of the membership, expressed at the 1971 and 1972 ADCs that ASTMS should not be a regis- tered trade union under the pro- visions of the Industrial Rela- tions Act, to be fully imple- mented.!'

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This signature-hunting is the CP's only response to the vicious Tory rent Bill. HOUSEWIVES should boycott beef while prices stay so high, the National Consumer Protection Society said yesterday. 'Let's give the weekend joint a rest and sub- a chicken, stitute it with spokesman said. Consumers should also eat nuts, lamb, fish, eggs, cheese and minced beef-if beef must be eaten at all. 'Many housewives are in a cookery rut and some diversification may be a good thing. Let's go back to the cook- ery books for some new ideas and show that we can be independent of beef.' The 'watchdog' society-formed early this year-wants consumers courts and a Ministry of Con- sumer Affairs set up. Workers Press, Friday June 9, 1972 PAGE 11 world. 9.00 London. 10.30 Film: "Dracula'.

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MICHAEL BANDA

THERE seems to be no en crawling and conniving of t and Labour Party leaders in Ul While British troops carry out block searches of the Catholic ghetto and savagely hunt down and torture IRA Provisional supporters, the SDLP leaders are now openly cavorting with Ulster's imperialist viceroy in his po- grom against the Provisionals.

Whitelaw's policy is a judicious mixture of repressions and con- cessions. Every release of Official IRA men and civil rights sup- porters from Long Kesh is com- bined with a ferocious repression of the 'die-hards'. In this way Whitelaw hopes to isolate and break up minimum with the opposition life to the "security' loss of forces. Central to the success of is the collaboration his policy of the SDLP. Every release of internees is bait for nothing than more Whitelaw's Bonapartist trap- inducement for the and an 'Ben-oui-ouis' (as the Algerians used to call the quislings) to integrate themselves in the new imperialist administration. The latest release of 50 inter- nees by Whitelaw produced the The

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у Липе 9, 1972 no end to the treacherous ig of the Social Democratic rs in Ulster. 'We also foresee that, without adequate prior discussion on the ways of ending civil disobedience, many problems may occur which will cause hardship. 'Accordingly, without prejudice to our commitment, we will be seeking discussions immediately civil with servants to ensure when internment ends-and we now foresee its end-that such problems will be obviated.'

Whitelaw, using internment as a bargaining weapon, has said that he cannot bring internment an end 'until violence has to come to an end. It is therefore men of violence and they alone, are responsible for the who continuation'. This reactionary argument has taken by the been now • up SDLP in its statement: •We are confident, as we have an end said before, that to make the ending violence can of internment more rapid.

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among students and white liberals in South Africa con- tains great dangers for the African workers. The black population could easily be led into thinking that the church and campus demon- strations provide some sort of leadership for their emancipa- fascist-style tion from the apartheid system. This illusion could bring the Africans onto the streets and it would be fatal. For this is what the Vorster They would like. government would welcome another Sharpe- ville to smash with machine-gun bullets and truncheons any organized resistance by the Afri- can population. The so-called 'oppositionists, like heart Christiaan surgeon Barnard and Helen Suzman MP, are tied hand. and foot to the apartheid state. They can offer the African masses nothing.

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Clapham Whitelaw As a reward for this piece of gratuitous boot-licking a Stor- mont spokesman on Wednesday credited the SDLP and Official TA with est face part' recent peace manoeuvres. It did not belong exclusively to the women of Bog- side and Andersonstown, he said.

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statement Bonaparte 'le petite' Whitelaw has released another 18 detainees from Long Kesh. This brings the total freed . to 538. There are still 288 internees and 113 detainees. Vorster whips It up Barnard threatened to quit South Africa if sanctions were taken against his brother Marius for his speech at a big public meeting on Tuesday. In fact, the latter called on to follow Dr his listeners Vorster's advice and work through the ballot-box. The government has now clamped down on all demonstra- tions until July 8, and has in- voked the Riotous Assemblies Act to enable it to imprison and deport its political opponents. AN OFFICIAL of the General and Municipal Workers' Union yesterday gave evidence for the police against miners' pick- ets on trial for alleged offences during their national strike in February. Mr Dereck Scarlett, an opera- tions foreman at Longannet power station, Fife, was in Dunfermline Sheriff court as trial of 11 miners, a draughtsman charged with 'mobbing student rioting outside and Longannet on February 14.

He said that as he arrived at pickets the main gate he saw congregating at the gate.

A miners' delegate approached him and asked for his support in the dispute. Scarlett told him he intended going into work as he had been instructed. He said that another delegate By our own reporter A LIST of 137 'Angry Bri- gade' suspects was produced by the chief of Scotland Yard's fingerprint department at the Old Bailey yesterday.

Mr Justice James was the only person in court to look through the list, and afterwards announced that the names of none of the eight accused were on the list. The 'Stoke Newington Eight'- four men and, four women—are accused of conspiring to cause explosions. Théy are: James Greenfield (23), Anna Mandelson (23), and Hilary Anne Creek 22), all unemployed; John Barker (23), translator; James Stuart Christie (25), gas board foreman; Christ- The demonstrations have been organized by the all-white National Union of South Afri- can Students and the Cape Town Student Representative Council. • The : National Union of Students and the Anti-Apartheid Movement plan to picket South Africa House in London today in protest at South African police action against students.

The NUS is also to appeal for donations to a fund set up by a South African student organiza- tion. with a megaphone told the crowd Sc hat he was going into work.

There was a hell of a lot of shouting and general roar. seconds before the crowd had forward or compressed surged the police cordon to the extent they were soon around the car, he told the court. Asked if his car was touched, Whiskey men to str WORKERS of the Johnny Walker whisky plants in Kilmarnock and Barleith voted overwhelmingly at yesterday a mass meeting to strike in support of a wage claim.

Negotiations with the Distillers Co broke down last week and notice of strike action under the Industrial Relations Act was served on Monday by the Trans- opher Michael Bott (24), youth leader; Catherine McLean (21), printer; and Angela Weir (24), telephonist. They have all pleaded not guilty to the conspiracy. Some have pleaded not guilty to various charges of possessing guns and ammunition. In his opening, prosecuting counsel described the accused as revolutionary anarchists who sought to disrupt the democratic society of this country. Det Chief Supt John Chaffe, Yard's finger- head of Scotland print department, said in evi- dence he was sent photographs of fingerprints. alleged to have • These were been those of two accused, Green- leld and Mandelson, which were said to have been found on the of an unexploded wrappings device, found at the office of the Consulate in Manchester Italian in October 1970. The finger impressions were sent to London for comparison with Scotland Yard's selection of fingerprints in they could case be identified, he said. There were two million finger- prints in the general section at Scotland Yard and there were also special sections of identified and unidentified prints, relating offensives to certain types of such as explosives and explosive devices. The Manchester police they were told the impressions had sent had not been identified and they were filed away.

The fingerprints were not com- pared with those in the main col- he said, lection, and added: "This was overlooked in this case, I must confess.' The judge: "That may be so.

It should have been done and was not?' Supt Chaffe: 'Yes' Answering prosecuting coun- sel, Supt Chaffe said that after the fingerprints had been com- pared subsequently with two million prints in the main sectinn. the prints of Greenfield would have been found. Supt Chaffe said that a special squad was set up at Scotland Yard to investigate the series of explosions and shootings. 'I have given to a list of the suspects my department,' he said. The judge said he did not object to counsel in the case seeing the list. Mathew told the judge: 'This • confidential may be a highly document," he and suggested should get instructions concern- ing its production in court.

'It may be of the greatest im- portance that the names should not be promulgated to anyone other than you.' The judge was handed the list of 137 names and, after looking through it, announced that none of the accused was mentioned.

Scarlett replied: 'There was some rocking. I got the impression they were : trying to turn me round or push me backwards. 'This rather hastened my deci- sion to decide to withdraw. It seemed to me at that time that I would either be involved in a serious accident or my car could have been damaged.' o strike port and General Wrokers' Union.

According trade group inion, the company has offere rises varying from 60p to £3.20p a week. We feel the company should increase their ofer to a more realistic sum,