Workers Press no. 791

workers press

TORY POLICY

AND THE RAIL

SETTLEMENT

DAILY ORI

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

RAILWAYMEN'S leaders have declared that the 13g per cent settlement agreed with British Rail is a 'victory'. This is dangerous talk, because it is a victory which opens the door to new attacks. It is absolutely essential that the working class makes a sober estimate of exactly what the Tory Government is doing. Any com- placency will prove fatal.

There is not the slightest doubt that the Tories, once they saw the over- whelming vote of the railwaymen for industrial action, and considered the prospect of a simultaneous dock strike, pulled back from their declared policy of confrontation. But they only want to gain time in which they can prepare to smash the organized working class. The Tory government has had to face the fact of the unbroken strength and resistance of the rank and file of the unions.

Now it stakes everything on the trade union leaders. Already deep into talks with the Confederation of British Industries about of 'co-operation', these leaders new types have given every encouragement to the Tories to think that they will allow themselves to be used in the coming months to divide and weaken workers, to keep them from a fight which could make this Tory Government resign. On the railways and in the rail workshops, on the docks, and throughout manufacturing industry and public services, the Tories are rationalization. encouraging speed-up and in Combined with the decline constant investment and international trade war, this will soon bring a very sharp rise in unemploy- ment. On

BBC

radio yesterday, . British Rail chairman Richard Marsh blandly admitted that 'a lot of railmen' will now lose their There is nothing in jobs in the near future. this for the unions to feel pleased about ...

he added. With this strategy in mind, the Tories, with the help of the union leaders, are buying time in the rail settlement. They do not like paying up. They do not like retreat- ing in face of the strength of the railwaymen.

But they know that much more is at stake: they intend to tame the working class through massive doses of unemployment and attacks on the unions—on their way into the Common Market. The decision in the Appeal Court in favour of the Transport and General Workers' Union can be in the same light seen (see p. 3.). Here the union leaders are absolved of responsibility for industrial action led by shop stewards. But the stewards themselves and the rank and file who take action, remain directly liable under to penalties the Industrial Relations Act.

Today, as the dockers' national delegate conference meets, it is necessary to warn

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •

WEDNESDAY

ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF

the unions to feel pleased about... a lot of railmen will —- Richard Marsh Rail Board Chairman against a compromise, of the type agreed on the railways, which again gives the once Tories the precious time they need.

The Tories are only able to re-vamp their policy, making small concessions and living to fight another day, at a time when their help policies are in because of the ruins, given to them by the union leaders.

These leaders tie the strength of the working class down to the level of a few wage concessions which will be wiped out by inflation and unemployment within months. The Tories could be forced to resign and give way to a Labour Government pledged to socialist policies if the trade union and Labour leaders would mobilize the organized workers for this end. On every issue, Tory policies have proved utterly bankrupt. The promises to cure inflation and rising prices have actually resulted in the highest rate of inflation ever known.

The policy of holding down wages in the public sector has been smashed to smithereens by the miners and railmen. The Tories' policy in Ireland creates a greater crisis every time it is modified. They have made civil war an immediate prospect.

Trade Secretary John Davies' proud decision to let 'lame ducks' die has been consigned to the museum. They can be forced to resign! But the right-wing trade union leaders, together with Wilson and the Labour leaders, do not want an election, they do not want to be in office.

Having themselves failed to deal with the working class in 1970, they want the Tories to finish the job. This treachery of the Labour leaders exposes the working class to the greatest dangers. By not fighting for an election now, they leave it open for the Tories themselves to decide the timing of a General Election, with the balance of payments plunging into deficit, in these emergency: circumstances seeking a more right-wing mandate from the frightened middle classes.

Trade unionists everywhere must refuse to allow events to take this course. The NESDAY JUNE 14, 1972 • No. 791 4p

TEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

greatest crime of reformist leaders, helped by the Stalinists, is always to dissipate the strength of the working class, to keep it away from a fight with the real enemy, the Tory government, and then plunge working class into battle on terms decided by the enemy. There is no time to lose. In every town up and down the country Councils of Action be set up for struggle against the must government; councils consisting of trade unions and factory committees, working-class tendencies, tenants' political parties and associations, unemployed workers, and all those who will unite to force the Tories to resign. This is the only answer to the complacency which the trade union leaders are trying cultivate, which serves the a complacency interest of the Tory Government.

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

THERE WILL be more redundancies at the Clyde- bank division of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders arising out of the yard's takeover by the Texan oil-rig builders Marathon Manufacturing. This has emerged from pre- liminary talks on the takeover between Marathon representa- tives and UCS shop stewards in Clydebank. Mr James Fox, who will become the president of Mara- thon Manufacturing (UK) after the takeover on June 24, said after meeting stewards: I am afraid there must be some redundancies. It is incon- ceivable that this will not happen.' Marathon will employ several hundred of the 2,100 yard labour force immediately to work on oil rigs and reconstruction of Clydebank's east yard.

They hope to be fully opera- tional and employ 2,000 in about two years. Meanwhile other workers will be employed finish- ing off orders at Clydebank for the UCS liquidator. Mr Fox explained his company would basically require steel- workers, but also electricians, pipe-fitters, engineers, painters and certain other tradesmen, but not carpenters at anything like their present strength. Shop stewards' leader James Reid said after a brief talk with Mr Fox that he was convinced the remaining problems could be solved round the table with the company. UNION LEADERS made their peace with the law yesterday while road-hauliers fumed at the Appeal Court's decision to repay £55,000 in fines to the Trans- port and General Workers' Union. The Court had confirmed the unions' lawful approach, claimed TUC general • Victor secretary I have consistently Feather. stated that unions are not above the law.' Jack Jones, Transport and General Workers' Union general secretary, called for the Indus- trial Relations Act to be 'put on ice right away'. Undeterred by the Court's decision he must pay his share of £50,000 costs, Jones claimed it had vindicated his union's oppo- sition to the Act. Industrial re- lations problems should be dealt with by normal negotiation and independent, voluntary concilia- tion, he said. But Robert Heaton snr, joint managing director of the St Helens haulage firm which started the action in the National Industrial Relations Court, was furious. I should think now we are very close to anarchism', he said.

*It seems the shop stewards can do what the hell they like-and the unions can keep quiet. I can see there being no control at all -there is not so much as it is.'

workers press

TORY POLICY

AND THE RAIL

DAILY OR

BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

RAILWAYMEN'S leaders have declared that the 13g per cent settlement agreed with British Rail is a 'victory. This is dangerous talk, because it is a victory which opens the door to new attacks. It is absolutely essential that the working class makes a sober estimate of exactly what the Tory placency will prove fatal.

There is not the slightest doubt that the Tories, once they saw the over- whelming vote of the railwaymen for industrial action, and considered the prospect of a simultaneous dock strike, pulled back from their declared policy of confrontation. But they only want to gain time in which they can prepare to smash the organized working class. The Tory government has had to face the fact of the unbroken strength and resistance of the rank and file of the unions.

Now it stakes everything on the trade union leaders. Already deep into talks with the Confederation of British Industries about new types of 'co-operation', these leaders have given every encouragement to the Tories to think that they will allow themselves to be used in the coming months to divide and weaken workers, to keep them from a fight which could make this Tory Government resign. On the railways and in the rail workshops, on the docks, and throughout manufacturing industry and public services, the Tories are encouraging speed-up and rationalization. in Combined with • the decline constant investment and international trade war, this will soon bring a very sharp rise in unemploy- ment. On BBC radio yesterday, British Rail chairman Richard Marsh blandly admitted that 'a lot of railmen' will now lose their 'There is nothing in jobs in the near future. this for the unions to feel pleased about ...

he added. With this strategy in mind, the Tories, with the help of the leaders, union are buying time in the rail settlement. They do not like paying up. They do not like retreat- ing in face of the strength of the railwaymen.

But they know that much more is at stake: they intend to tame the working class— through massive doses of unemployment and attacks on the unions—on their way into the Common Market. The decision in the Appeal Court in favour Workers' of the Transport and General Union can be in the same light (see seen p. 3.). Here the union leaders are absolved of responsibility for industrial action led by shop stewards. But the stewards themselves and the rank and file who take action. remain directly liable to penalties under the Industrial Relations Act.

Today, as the dockers' national delegate conference meets, it is necessary to warn

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY.

ILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF

the unions to feel pleased about... a lot of railmen will — Richard Marsh Rail Board Chairman against a compromise, of the type agreed on gives the the railways, which once again Tories the precious time they need.

The Tories are only able to re-vamp their policy, making small concessions and living to fight another day, at a time when their policies are in ruins, because of the help given to them by the union leaders.

These leaders tie the strength of the working class down to the level of a few wage concessions which will be wiped out by inflation and within unemployment months. The Tories could be forced to resign and give way to a Labour Government pledged to socialist policies if the trade union and Labour leaders would mobilize the organized workers for this end. On every issue, Tory policies have proved utterly bankrupt. The promises to cure inflation and rising have actually resulted in the highest prices rate of inflation ever known.

The policy of holding down wages in the public sector has been smashed to smithereens by the miners and railmen. The Tories' policy in Ireland creates a greater crisis every time it is modified. They have made civil war an immediate prospect.

Trade Secretary John Davies' proud decision to let 'lame ducks' die has been consigned to the museum. They can be forced to resign! But the right-wing trade union leaders, together with Wilson and the Labour leaders, do not want an election, they do not want to be in office.

Having themselves failed to deal with the working class in 1970, they want the Tories to finish the job. This treachery of the Labour leaders exposes the working class to the greatest dangers. By not fighting for an election now, they leave it open for the Tories themselves to decide the timing of a General Election, with the balance of payments plunging into deficit, with unemployment dividing the working class, with scares about a national emergency; and these in circumstances seeking a more right-wing mandate from the frightened middle classes.

Trade unionists everywhere must refuse to allow take events to this The course. NESDAY JUNE 14, 1972 • No. 791 • 4p

ITEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

greatest crime of reformist leaders, helped by the Stalinists, is always to dissipate the strength of the working class, to keep it away from a fight with the real enemy, the Tory government, and then to plunge the working class into battle on terms decided by the enemy. There is no time to lose. In every town up and down the country Councils of Action must be set up for struggle against the government; councils consisting of trade unions and factory committees, working-class political parties and tendencies, tenants' associations, unemployed workers, and all those who will unite to force the Tories to resign. This is the only answer to the complacency which the trade union leaders are trying to cultivate, complacency which a serves the interest of the Tory Government.

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS

THERE WILL be more redundancies at the Clyde- bank division of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders arising out of the yard's takeover by the Texan oil-rig builders Marathon Manufacturing. This has emerged from pre- liminary talks on the takeover between Marathon representa- tives and UCS shop stewards in Clydebank. Mr. James Fox, who will become the president of Mara- thon Manufacturing (UK) after the takeover on June 24, said after meeting stewards: 'I am afraid there must be some redundancies. It is incon- ceivable that this will not happen.' Marathon will employ several hundred of the 2,100 yard labour force immediately to work on oil rigs and the reconstruction of Clydebank's east yard.

They hope to be fully opera- tional and employ 2,000 in about two Meanwhile years. other workers will be employed finish- ing off orders at Clydebank for the UCS liquidator. Mr Fox explained his company would basically require steel- workers, but also electricians, pipe-fitters, engineers, painters and certain other tradesmen, but not carpenters at anything like their present strength. Shop stewards' leader James Reid said after a brief talk with Mr Fox that he was convinced the remaining problems could be solved round the table with the company. UNION LEADERS made their the law yesterday peace with while road-hauliers fumed at the Appeal Court's decision to repay £55,000 in fines to the Trans- port and General Workers' Union. The Court had confirmed the unions' lawful approach, claimed TUC general secretary Victor Feather. I have consistently stated that unions are not above the law? Jack Jones, Transport and General Workers' Union general secretary, called for the Indus- trial Relations Act to be 'put on ice right away'. by the Undeterred Court's decision he must pay his share of £50,000 costs, Jones claimed it had vindicated his union's oppo- sition to the Act. Industrial re- lations problems should be dealt.

with by normal negotiation and independent, voluntary concilia- tion, he said. But Robert Heaton snr, joint managing director of the Helens haulage firm which started the action in the National Industrial Relations Court, was furious. I should think now we are very close to anarchism', he said.

'It seems the shop stewards can do what the hell they like-and the unions can keep quiet. I can see there being no control at all —there is not so much as it is.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday June 14, 1972

WHAT WE THINK

MORE STALINIST TREACHERY

It can Bill Clyde Ship- can be forced to abandon the Industria said: It can be made inoperative.

COMMUNIST

Party John tions and hoper secretary Liaison builders the Stalinists were in the fore- the Housing Finance Bill And the splendid Friends' House Keatons AcL destroyed. Gollan's speech front the struggle prevent etc. Committee «onterence showed Monday remarkable night 1s with it call for solidarity and action, leaders' politics Thus the political the exposure ol specimen of reformist evasion and and so-called unofficial in- and to persuade militant unionists that the workers is blunted and the reactionary bureaucratic double think.

Tories were amenable to pressure.

political plans of the Tories are facilitated cucue mousera acron. Gollan's showed This is a monstrous deception.

We say The My as ritating Star' headed its report the speech the of summarzed that detaches struggle of the rally as Stalinists was the employers respect, changed because Terenom LOn- that it •ang munist rally-Time Now to Black No. 10'.

the government could be forced give theme by one quaver witn one eye on acalost me act mom me source to lorce Hastings the the Tories out. then they could also This phrase sums up succinctly the ware concessions abundantly talks, Gollan made make the Act inoperative is to make curably of the induced make 10 reformist to ponnical Con- the cessions. the goernment operate me to objec- clear Home Loren Done.

WAUSC

of British Stalinism would remain firmly make government inoperative means this wretched tive last sinister corollary the two years

LOIV

Ture based reformist protest most leadership on struggle for been save the credibility of the has been and to still That channs is not anerspensand re-routing the fundamental leadership 'left' leaders by change Cynical for cass claytall ano boncy in tne unions an a cucuous t, enri deliberately Industrial Relations back to the increase in political consciousness.

of workers into in the pollucal stuckles

DOLLY

the Both Gollan and his Liaison Committee Act, and ignoring recog- the channels of industrial protest.

necessary and thal unorcover.

1 OLIC

reject such a struggle in favour of so-called need not be forced to resign; in fact they nition of the NIkC by Jack Jones, Gollan In the agitation on the Industrial Rela- acuon onc-ads strikes, protests of the Court This Moscow casts its surest betray the the way mutants „une union leaders. The reverse side of the 'indus- trial action' is a more coin per-

LOLL

collaborallel between trade union leaders and 'X for Nixon employers. This is precisely what is con- tained Gollan's No. As he plained it: It essential, stop all attempts to change approval for their create new A0S- Nixon and THINLY-VEILED support for the re-election of US named "conciliation" machinery for US "ruling circles praise the Boye st st off the get expressed by Richard Nixon has been President indication of the clearest hook. Downing should counter-revolutionary Moscow Radio following the summit talks in Moscow re- backed the rigat-wing the Moscow summit and the treat ended.' earlier this month. by Moscow as described deals- Gollan's demagogic demand "nistoric aacements in relation to Downing St is but In the course of a lengthy broadcast discussion on the there. o scarable conceptions st cort forthcoming elections, commentator Valentin Zorin expressed makes of the Scanlon's conception British hypocritical results of the Moscow talks remarks the view that the on the which is hardly different CP Gollan, who from credit side of the Republican Party' and that this 'naturally' That or reatner. London rally Stalinists' told the same issuen or the saar by affected the election campaign the 'Star Monday. ClUX the same issue disa Veinen Vietnam, and 'may affect its outcome.

BY JOHN SPENCER

The Ken Graves thus: 'Or cues- sharpest between Nixon's potential rivals in tion conciliation machinery and Nixon intended exploit Soviet Unior advocated by the government election Ine emphasis] with the genocidal war in Viet- shows.' saidi If conciliation machinery is wildl the outright lie: the fate of to be the weakest points the WIll Nixon the broad• Moscow summit and the Republican American working to have any degree of success, cass laced administratis viciously antonsider it would need be totally in- namely Cast • remarks demonstrate Con- administration of the Soviet leaders. On May 23, clusively that the Vietnam war government" dependent of in Vietnam North Wal army secondary issue for entirely is an 'Quan Doi Nhan Dan and the deterioration that telling the tne Circles al c What Was newsbaber that position, increasingly aware Tories at Hastings that the country's economic une nremun burcaulials anu was made the statemachl the realities of the world today. were as said. Trev are une orocess or sub condemning the porting the re-election the Radio The broadcast villing and able ever de- Clearly Moscow une Soviet leaders: chief butcher of the Vietnames that the spokesmen do not share clear. signal • demands of worker: this escalate use consider 'Communists always of the

NATI

Zorin "The bureaucracy will wake and avoid the kind and went nOT ol national

VICW

the of his the revolution of each witnessed during stand way Hallul decision to support the callie o confrontations •os uve trenas delivilico an inseparable part of the world European Security Conference miners' strike. Washington's election. It spells out the message

LIC

They set Gollan revolution. it will not be long before ciot ee pend on he result of the irreversible, which was implicit from circles une • canoe reveal the interests continue the summit national strike on the engineers' National azallis. begins anscover world of har- 'credit side' interests of the Tory govern- claim, covered all by mining _ or une revorallor election campaign talks despite the nor place an individual nation's ment and the trend' of the Star', the Republican leader the bombardment of Stalinists bours and above interests of Heath's foreign policy. Edward common the will stay in House North Vietnam. ample evidence bureau much less CP the letter fear of the fighting poten- bears out une world revolution, It the Can swallow a nominee of the Demo- the sub- the camel of support for Nixon, by the British serve national seinshness tial displayed crats will replace him. Hanoi's Wallles duvul of the world revolution:' why should Gollan expense it strain at the gnat The last thing other the Soviet ordination revolu- workers concerned tion to the national requirements The Soviet indications of support for Heath! or Scanlon bureaucrats not want al c Boycott No. this force with the collaborate Unemployment and Italian employers! is true It this relaton lo Britain trebly true the international scene. CP play into fascists' hands Gollan's speechvisit coming after the delegation was soon Soviet Union devoted Barcelv the Soviet betrayal of the Praise oviet namese people. He Soviet policy peace Union careruv ontone to men tion that 'peace' with Nixon and Brandt death and devas- sympathetic hearing. GROWING unemployment in rece Times scale Vietnan The commented: 'Italy's Europe is the inevitable con- never perore seen Asla, not given sequence of the breakdown of world that they appreciate these Dykes, power plants, hospitals the international monetary aimculties, orivate v mey habita- oi human -every and the of admit the force of the argument, division •volelll tion intend to do very much the capitalist world into nat they stroyed while and a material re people denied food trading mutually-hostile The big monopolies which Gullan vicious blockade allu blocs. control the Common Market are pares of the soviet oligarace is the hardest- Italy MOOd involve country within the selves in attempts to overcome Vietnam', hit by unemployment Italy the chronic the the Common Total Market. Ull- Visio siluation well over threat trom sharpest disagreement Tine unere between 500,000 regarded the fascists and the extreme the Soviet Union and Nixon mark right. shows. the editorial Monday d Fascist Threat in Italy the Council of Ministers meeung visacreement public knowledge that the Soviet Luxembourg on Monday, the headed complained the New in complete political spoke eaders are Italian Attila with this modern 13T&11i arallis! une reminact acCUru Italian workers by the other leader Giorgio Almirante that and re Lien utmost Common Market countries. *the month gave secure his presidential election only solu- victory! charged that when reprieve and other when Gollan talks of 'step find unemploy- countries uon to a nagging natonal crisis 'On President workers Leone nina is solcare wild blan Andreotti : Searching desperately for coalition menu une loret he We are condeme that the Vice fools nobody Andreotti Guilio are the first to be sacked, designated and formists in the the Italians first foreign premier-elect, the leader

COT

TO e behind Almirante's bombastic addition,

MSI...

• threatened a fascist take- said it will which has support workers to (from outside if need be) a and which he hinted 'gov- threats. namese people Ger- might get MoRoDouSIS WIl WIn complained Lucil the democratic

EEC

are already demonstrating imperialism out of indo many and France prefer to em- ernment of

SUDOOTT

TOM

elements will not come to the they will do that that they China, but Yugoslavs or Turks rather nation's armed forces.' based ploy 109 i point Hild ullly British 'three and Andreotti's The paper composed of the despite rescue or lalan bourceols achiu

IVIOSCOW

for the CP, that search Stalinism, not because or them " ne imes comments so lal Iruless and the Catholic se linists Church. frantic British workers must draw the adds the Italian this is because such workers are coalition bankrupt an Growing efforts lesson for short pious hope that 'Mr Almirante's unemployment and employ ICoCUC appropliale bring the the Italian play end probably outburst help Darlamentary svstem Stanist treachery TraCTS and. mOSU parliamentary to produce into the hands of the MI and building the Labour system demand less through together Trace the League and transforming it into danger to union activity. acceptable A similar lne is being reucted solullon by the Italian Communist Par big bourgeoisie is the reality Italian request did not hut

Master of Rolls reverses NIRC decision on blacking THE TORIES should aban- don the Industrial Relations Act 'before it is too late', Local Government Officers' Association Ellery Clayton pleaded yesterday. In his presidential address to the Association's annual confer- ence at Eastbourne, Clayton said: It is surely not too late for a sensitive government to change its mind and • to abandon the road to destruction of all that has painstakingly built up, over between employers generations and workers to resolve their differences in free unhampered collective bargaining.' The Act was a law that must be obeyed, he said. 'But we don't have to co-operate to make a bad law work, we may suffer from it and we must expose its weaknes- ses, its inflexibility and above all its unsuitability to achieve the objects for which it was passed.' : Clayton told the government • would 'embitter' industrial they relations and destroy bargaining machinery, if it continued on the same course. Heath should scrap the National Industrial Relations Court and return to a strength- voluntary machinery for ened bargaining with ultimate recourse to independent conciliation.

NALGO or the TUC would be willing to talk on these lines.

He also called on the govern- ment to halt unemployment. The threat of unemployment, he said, would not revitalize British in- dustry, whereas full employment would. 'I urge the government to heed our call for a rapid expansion of all public services, to release the money, needed for a public ser- vice programme that will have the immediate effect of providing jobs throughout the country, and the long term effect of a massive improvement in our social con- ditions.'

STRIKING

glassworkers at Rockware's Doncaster plant who are demanding a 15p-an-hour wage increase have only been offered 66p a week with produc- tivity strings. Since rejecting this offer, which called for a 1 per cent in- crease in factory performance, the workers have been mounting a 24-hour picket at the Wheatley Road plant. In a letter to all General and Municipal Workers' Union mem- bers in the factory, management spokesman N. A. Nichols said there was no guarantee against redundancies as a result of the proposed deal. The next mass meeting is on Friday. Workers Press, Wednesd THREE Appeal Court judges yesterday ruled that the Transport and General Workers' Union was not responsible for the blacking' of container firms by its docks shop stewards.

In doing so, it on the disagree with his sible officer within the one hand overturned the colleagues. union nas told nis members judgement of the to keep within the law? National Judgement was reserved Industrial last Friday after a Lord Denning said the nine-day Relations Court and on threatened dock hearing T&GWU's on the the laid the OUTe Friday would perfectly appeals. stewards themselves open were Talon These were against find. the full force of any doing what they could for ings of contempt of court further the men. legal complaint Transport cases Helens) Ltd Heatons by the firms concerned. But (St the Court was only with the and LorD said Mester of cracaock bros. Wolverhampton; the fines consequences • black

KONS

con. of £55,000; the Liverpool and Hull court's sidered the £55,000 fines called for retusal to vary its decisions: imposed sentempt of the NIC the Ane ITS cecision tor union was liable the The should be set aside. companies for unfair whether the union was to The Industrial Relations made responsible for Act did specifically the the shop stewards or not.

In another appeal challenged the union The evidence, as far penalized TOr court's ruling that they registered, he said. went, showed lau guilty of officers of the union had therefore a matter for not countenanced any ing of Panalpina lorries at breach of influenced least Hull docks. by the NIRC. political considerations'.

Lord Denning opened his All the In fact they had called judges-Lord judgement, which for resumption of normal Buckiey and Lord Justice Denning, Justice

LOUK

prepare, But still arree cavs to working. the setting the scene in which Roskill-agreed allow blacking went on to dockers were getting the T&GWU's appeals The NIRC had held that and angrier at the against eight decisions of anatic! union, was not which container revolution. the NIRC. registered the Act, under said the dockers' did responsible Bucklev tor Was group of the T&GWU had 'with some doubts and Sio• slewares done everything it lawfully He thought 'But he [the regrets'. shop stéwards had come lo cel ure

WORKACK

steward] is not paid

LIYCI DOU

to the dock workers. implied union. He an WILd authority of the union', but 'I stress the word law- officer of the union only did feel sufficiently fully;' he added. 'So far official, said Lord not Denning contrmed in his as i can see, every respon the tween BEA and the British Air- The BALPA executive also has

BEA

will reply to

SHOES

management's latest pay line Association decide about oret What to co today after the pilots' union exe- without agreement, the Associa- recommendation by the pilots ask 1,400 Federation that decided its International cutive has studied the results of ton world-wide a ballot of members.

DRA

menders wineter Lnev there shole be wanted to accept the offer or to one-day stoppage of air services strike. unless the United BEA has offered an increase of June Throughout April the pilots £800 a vear to too men to bring Nations effective steps Lakes their basic pay to about £8,850.

operated a work-to-rule in sup- combat hijacking. Three weeks ago, when talks be- port of their claim. Speaking

BRITAIN'S

bakers— to reporters, 'inevitable'. Rank, Hovis, man Joseph Rank the Group chairman Richard yesterday will shareholders they wheat Courage ouncer increase WOrd increase the price bread by prices and said that if the coir yesterday's annual mucculls a loaf from June 26. London that 'although tinued increase their The makes selling Mothers rOU

WACO

present rale. anotner once 111- Deers weIt well. higher Pride, Hovis and crease before the end of the year would go up because cannot be ruled labour costs 'remain a problem

GUIL

le added that he expected the four to sakin before HARD on the heels of the bread 2801b trade by

DITOES

growin sack the loaf price increase forecast came marked in the second half of in- The increase announcement from Courage, the year and he had 'every con- creases. is likely for one of Britain's biggest brewers.

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• Wednesday June 14, 1972 PAGE 3 Lord Denning said he union's had studied the rule book and could not accept the NIRC's finding that the union could be The made responsible. stewards had not protessed to be acting on behalf of the union, nor did the union hold them out as having authority. At no time had the union delegated any task or duty to the stewards in this case; they did the blacking on their own. his judgement In On May 12, NIRC president Sir John Donaldson held that the essence of the stewards' position was that while chosen by the shop floor 'he is the represent- ative of the union'. So long as he remained steward, management was entitled to assume he was on the union's acting behalf. 'The law is plain', he said. 'The union is account- able if its officers, officials, representatives or shop stewards work in breach of the law.' But Lord Denning stated yesterday: 'I do not think a principal is liable for the wrong done by his agents; there is no authorization by the the principal unless the agent is carrying out a task or duty delegated to him.

'In this case the union has at no time delegated any task or duty to the shop stewards. They did the blacking on their own and the union are there- fore not responsible for it.'

This reverses Donald- son's statement-quoting the law as established by the Taff Vale judgement of 1901-that the principal answerable for actions of any agent he has Lord put in his place to perform that class of action. The NIRC president re- narked on March 12 that f the opposite view were he law 'the law would indeed be an ass'. Lord Denning said that if the union had been registered under the Act it would undoubtedly have been in the clear. Its rules would have provided expréssly that the shop stewards had no authority to call for industrial action on their own initiative. Also, the shop stewards be guilty of unfair would industrial practice but the union would not. union registered 'A unregistered is not respon- sible for the conduct of its shop stewards if they call for industrial action, if, in so doing, the shop stewaras outside the are acting scope of their authority.'

Lord Denning concluded: 'It is a pity the unions did not from the very outset appear before the court and put its case. Now it has done so, I trust they, and all others, will put their case before the courts in the future should the occasion arise. It

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Wednesday Jum June 3, 1972 Dear Editor, With reference to your article 'Capitulation threat on rail and docks', by David Maude, your industrial correspondent. • Mr Maude has Surely by now learned not to take any notice of what the capitalist press has to say on any matters that can aflect the present capital- ist government. Of course he is quite correct in quoting what "The Sun' published, but, 'The Sun' did not quote fully what the NUR spokesman said. The recent ballot, called for by the government and backed by the BRB, was soundly de- feated by the rail workers. They gave their union execu- tive a massive vote of confi- dence, thereby enabling their unions to call for more in- dustrial action. If the pay talks that are due to resume next Tuesday fail, then I feel sure that the rail unions will call for some kind of in- dustrial action. I am a member of the NUR, and am employed as a guard working from the Medway Towns. I and many others are only too willing to take part in any action called for by the NUR. If it means a fight to the finish, to get what is ours by right, then fight we damn well will! When I fought the seat Medway Ward in the last municipal elections, I had published the usual election propaganda, which contained the fact that I am a member of the NUR and a keen trade unionist. If you remember, the elec- tions were in progress whilst period was the cooling-off operating. Which meant the public were fully aware of my industrial relations opinions.

They did not hold that against, as was proved by me seat for winning the Labour Party. Therefore when the press say the public are against me, as was proved by me winning the seat for the fact that Medway Ward con- tains a large number of com- muters. Perhaps they voted against me, perhaps not. The fact still remains that the capitalist press as a whole is very biased present favour of the in government. Also, selfish as it may seem, others like me, pay no 1, and regard to public opinion. That in itself does not feed and clothe my wife and small son!

Even if it was decided to only ban overtime and rest- day working, the BRB would be very hard-pressed indeed to run a service at all on the Southern. If every guard alone were to have all his rest days off there would be absolute chaos. This was admitted when the Southern manage- ment called for rest day work- ing, as and when required.

Of course, they did not ad- mit this until they had foxed every other depot into believ- that Gillingham guards ing agreed to the proposal. had Which we certainly had not.

we had to agree Of course when other depots fell into the line with management. Gillingham depot has, along with • Brighton, acquired the esday June 14, '1972' incorrect reputation of being militant. We are NOT. It's just that we all stick together.

When one man is in trouble, then we all fight his case with our union representatives, i.e.

they get the full backing of the branch members. Now here are a few facts about our pay claim which no newspaper has yet published.

Perhaps you will be the first, but I really doubt it! this year Early it was agreed that we should work rest days as and when re- quired. Which in some cases means hardly any! I have only three in 14! This worked means in effect a reduction of 20 per cent, or £6 a week.

They offered us 12t per cent, which means they are still 76 per cent better off than last year! That they cannot dis- pute! Our last pay agreement was due to expire on April 30 thereby enabling the new agreement to start from May Marsh said all along that the agreement would new start from May 1. Then came the crunch, in the form of Ted Heath. He insisted that the agreement should start from June 5. We sincerely believe that this was done to split the unions, which did not happen.

All he succeeded in doing was making us stronger! As we have proved! If I were to steal five weeks from my employers, I pay would undoubtedly be im- prisoned. Perhaps we can get Heath put inside. Yours sincerely, D. E. ANTHONY, ClIr

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We grateful to Cllr are Anthony for his last points about the rail pay claim, as for his conclusions on the local election result in the Medway towns. Workers Press has never doubted the deter- mination and fighting spirit of the railwaymen or the wide- spread which exists support for their struggle in the labour.

movement as a whole. What we drawing were attention to in the piece he mentions-published on Tues- day, May 30 - were the desperate attempts of the union leaders to avoid a show- down with the Tory govern- ment. As the events leading up to last Wednesday's breakdown show, these attempts con- tinued right up until the last moment and despite the six- to-one ballot vote. I and other reporters on the paper followed these events per- sonally throughout so we are by no means dependent on what the Fleet Street press says. In fact we are constantly exposing their lies. But just listen to Sir Sidney Greene last Wednesday — a week after his members had demonstrated in no uncertain terms their eagerness to fight.

I 'We did all the negotiating,' he told reporters, 'while they just sat there and kept on asking if we were willing to compromise. Above : Sir Sidney Greene of the Right: Richard Marsh of

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British Rail. 'We told them we would be in- prepared to accept an crease from June 5 with a lump sum payment to cover the period between May 1 and June 5. We even knocked £500,000 off the lump sum to- day but they didn't want to know? These are not words quoted out of context, distorted, chopped out of a longer speech in which Greene says he is going to fight. They are an abject plea to the Tory government: Our members want to take you on, please let us off the hook!

remember, even And before arriving at this negotiating position, the union leaders had already • cut their claim from 16 to 12t per cent. Cllr Anthony does not take up the second warning issued in our May 30 article-that of retreat on the docks. Is not that warning now amply justified? Haven't the Tory government, the port em- ployers and the leaders of the Transport and General Workers' Union been cynically manoeuvring for the last three weeks and more to split the dockers from Cllr Anthony and his fellow-railwaymen?

Doesn't this open up the danger of a far worse betrayal of the railmen than befell the postal workers last year?

Militancy and willingness to struggle are absolutely vital, and we have never questioned that they are there in abund- ance. But they alone will not win this struggle.

SPAIN: WHERE STALINIST

FALSIFIERS NEVER GIVE UP

The foreign editor of the 'Morning Star, Sam Russell, recently wrote a series of articles on the situation in Spain, after paying a visit to the country. This was his first visit since he sent dispatches from the Republican lines during the civil war. In these dispatches, Russell completely the covered over Stalinism and betrayals of launched bitter attacks upon ventured who any anyone criticism from the left of the policies of the class-collabora- tionist Popular Front. Over 30 years afterwards, Russell and the British CP's daily are still defending the same policies and falsifying the truth. Russell describes the Spanish CP as 'standing out like a beacon... with a Free- dom Pact which would unite all genuine opposition forces from thẹ Communist Party to Conservatives and Mon- archists around a series of basic demands'. Having tried to woo his readers with descriptions of bloody clashes between police and workers and students in Cuatro Caminos, a working- class district in Madrid, he backs Spanish CP secretary Santiago Carrillo's solution an alliance of the working class with such extreme right organizations as the Carlists.

This treacherous deceit is continued in his treatment of Spain's possible entry into the A true Common Market. not begin Stalinist, he does with a rejection of the EEC as an anti-working-class con- spiracy, but says it will not accept Spain because 'a fight to present the Franco regime with Top: Franco helr Juan CP's Carrillo Carlos. Above : alliance with ex- who proposes treme right 'Carlists'. as "European" in any sense is just not on. He then argues that Tory premier Edward Heath should fight against Spain's entry into the Common Market and fight for a completely democratic Europe' Although dwelling the On 'illegality' of Franco's fascist regime, Russell fails to men- tion in true 'Star' style the recognition given to Franco's government by Moscow and the Eastern European bureau- cracies. Even while the 'Star' was publishing his articles, this recognition, in the form of commercial relations, was in fact strengthening. • On May 12 in the Seville shipyard of 'Astilleros Españoles' , in the presence of the Polish vice-Minister for Industry, Dr R. Pietraszek, a 14,000-ton bulk-carrier was Polish handed over to the Steamship Company. After the necessary papers signed, the Spanish were national anthem was played as the Spanish flag was lowered and the Polish national anthem was played as the Polish flag the hoisted. This was was fourth ship built in the Seville yards for the Polish merchant navy. • In Moscow on • the same day, the 20th anniversary of Mashinoexport, the firm organ- izing Soviet foreign trade. its president Vsevolod Vorontzov made the following revelation: 'Spain is one of our clients and recently acquired indus- trial machinery for making construction. This steel for year Spain will put on an mining exhibition of our equipment.' • On May 24 it was an- nounced in Madrid that the Spanish branch of the Rio has Tinto Zinc monopoly started exporting $300,000 of worth of superphosphate lime to the Soviet Union.

Great hopes were expressed for this trade given the recent development of the exploita- tion of phosphates in Bu-Craa, in the Spanish Sahara. • Also on May 24, for the first time ever, a Soviet citizen title of doctor received the Honoris Causa from a Spanish ignominious university. This professor from academic, a received university, Moscow his title from Granada univer- sity. Spanish The press and Franco's Ministers are con- this tinuously gloating over opening up of trade with Eastern Europe. On June 5, the Minister of Trade, Fontana Codina, made the following statement in the Cortes (Spanish parliament): "The rapprochement with the eastern countries is one of the most interesting aspects of Workers Press, Wedr our commercial policy. At the end of April the balance of trade with this area is favour- able to Spain. Exports to the countries of the east were to the value of 2.8 per cent of our total exports and 1.42 of our total imports: the products exchanged are extremely diver- sified.' The generals and politicians have of capitalist Europe once that shown more than they are not worried about Franco's fascist state, that on the contrary they want to get rid of democratic rights and impose a Franco-type dictator- ship on the working class in their countries. • The reality of the Common Market is a move towards dictatorship_ not towards 'democratic Europe', as Russell suggests. The Spanish armed forces are being drawn into increasing 'European' activity which is certainly a preparation for an onslaught on the working class in Western and Eastern Europe. During May, a contingent of Italian Admirals and teachers and students from the Italian School of Naval Warfare spent a week visiting their Spanish counterparts. As part of the get-together 12 boats and 1,000 men from the Italian and Spanish navies were involved in joint man- oeuvres in the Mediterranean.

This was the first of a series of such manoeuvres. In June there will be manoeuvres with the French navy and later on with the Portuguese navy.

It is hardly surprising that Admiral Richard G. Colbert commander-in-chief the new of the forces of NATO in southern Europe should make the following statement at his first press conference given in the general barracks in Naples: 'Without doubt there would be advantages for all the coun- ress, Wednesday June 14, 1972 PAGE 5 tries of the alliance if Spain and other countries of western Mediterranean played a bigger part in the defence of this territory... Similarly, at the Council of Common Market Ministers on June 6 there was very little breast-beating about the lack of democracy when Spain's relations with the EEC came on the agenda. French Foreign Minister Schumann fought hard "justice' for Spain, declaring: I do not think it right that Spain may be the only country in western Europe, whose pro- ducts, at the moment of the broadening of the Market, will not be sure of free entry into the Community. feeling equally This was a shared by President Mansholt who has earned himself some- thing of a reputation as an with his protest anti-fascist against the Greek antics colonels. He expressed the fear that if a solution is not found before the end of the year, 'this would be like throwing Spain out of the English market' Russell's articles express the same double-dealing and cover- ing up of the real political developments in Europe as is expressed by the British CP on domestic developments. As European capital moves closer to fascist solutions, as the Tory government begins to destroy democratic rights, the Stalinists defend their mem- bers and friends who get round the table with the ruthless defenders of capital, whether it be Maurice Macmillan or the Spanish Minister of Trade.

ry sure 14, 1972 PAGE 6 Workers Stephen Johns investigates the Vickers dispute.

At the tail-end of the periodic battles at the pay yard. 1930s depression, James days it But several ago Craven, à die-hard ship. Vickers finally happened. building boss, threatened locked their gates and Barrow, drab community which Barrow with economic ex- squats on the tip of the Fur- tinction. Lancashire, ness peninsular in found itself with a 30-per-cent The workers in the town unemployment rate-the high- were about to elect a Labour est in the country. council after years of poverty has The ruthless measure they and unemployment terrified the local middle class.

lid, warned Craven, the grass Traders complain-one would grow green in the slip- fectioner bewails a disastrous ways of Vickers. fall in the sale of cream cakes The called his bluff, men -and a 2,000 drop in circula- the Tory stranglehold broke tion has encouraged the local and the Vickers slipways con- press to sermonize the workers tinued very much in use, sup- in editorial after sickening plying warships and subs for editorial. the navy's war effort. campaign, But this which Thẹ threat of closure has includes intervention by of been repeated down the years the Barrow-born emissary the of the high point of the Archbishop Canter- bury, has not impressed the labour force. They remain un- daunted by a prospect of life without cream buns, the local Tory paper and the blessing of the church. A laconic Eric Montgommery who represents 2,500 Vickers engineers, put it this way; We are expecting a long dispute.

From the company's point of view it depends on how lon they can afford to keep the yard shut and starve the other workers into putting pressure boilermakers-—that's on the in the equation of struggle Barrow? The count-down to closure November when began last management and unions began talks on the local wage deal due for renewal in December 1971. The best the firm could do was to offer a miserable £1.75 increase. This was re- and in January the jected 9,700 manual workers and craftsmen began an overtime ban. It was then the firm set its sights on defeating the em- ployees. Their first move was to withdraw £2.50 bonus a awarded for co-operation with a deal which involved partial flexibility of labour in the yard. The local Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering and threatened Unions met strike action if the bonus was not paid. But to the 'horror' of the union officials, the engineers threw out the strike call by a and narrow majority smaller unions in the Confed followed suit. Only the boiler- makers voted for action. They refused to operate the flexibility clauses, welder a was sent home and they struck on April 10. Now there is maximum pressure on them to renounce their 'greedy' ways (joined last week by the chair- man of Vickers, Lord Robens) and let everyone get back to work. But the boilermakers are determined to stick it out and they have lodged a counter- claim for a £3.75 rise with no , 1972 s productivity strings. Bob Proudfoot, their district delegate, who has been com- pared to Hitler in the local press, is unmoved by the cam- paign to villify his members: 'The firm's offer amounts to a 6.4-per-cent increase. How can I accept that for my mem- bers when since 1970 the approximate increase in the cost of living has been 16 per cent plus, he told me. 'We have helped to make millions for this company over the vears-the rewards can't o all one way for ever.' The local Confed leaders know there is a lot more than £1.75 to this battle in Barrow.

This offensive by Vickers to bring Barrow to its knees has the hallmark of a government- backed confrontation. A closure of the yard after a seven-week stoppage is un- precedented. In 1968 the en- gineers were out on strike six months, yet the gates re- mained open. All workers (in- cluding the staff) claim there is work still to be done.

The truth is that Vickers, with government encourage- ment, want to inflict a sharp defeat on the work force to soften them up for Common Market entry. This is the No. 1 consideration in the firm's • 1972 strategy. weeks Ministry is reto wrote entard Redshan: chairman 'Failing return to proacho. must become increasingly in come see thin secret memo light from the government to lock out the labour force and break une bollertakers ow an increase in profit o • vear oi tzm to to.zm. .

improved performance €21.1m of the major towns Britain, prospects Karrow's improved nadi radicall still bright the future is with order book money-spinning per- ormance make contracts ever more delectable to Robens, Redpath and their board members. Vickers make no secret of their keen desire to get into the EEC. Company teams have toured Germany, Norway and the holy of holies, Sweden, to examine continental methods of working and behind the dispute looms current a bigger battle over a new 'con- tinental' deal Vickers want to introduce at Barrow. In May, during the present dispute, the firm unveiled their new plan. It turned out to be the most savage attack on shipbuilding wages and condi- tions yet devised. It proposed: Complete flexibility and interchangeability between crafts. • A clause outlawing any re- fusal to work overtime. • An extension of the work- ing week to 42 hours. • A four-year, no-strike clause. • Freedom to train unskilled workers in any trade and a vir- tual end to apprenticeships.

• The right to bring contract workers into the yard regard- less of the unemployment posi- tion in the district. • The right to contract any work outside the yard. For these breathtaking con- cessions, the firm is offering a £3.50 bonus that could be withdrawn at any time, plus £1.50 good time-keeping bonus. Both the engineers and the flatly re- boilermakers have jected the proposals. It is the most pernicious document I have ever come across in my entire time as a unionist, trades Mr says Montgommery, who started his life as a boy at working Vickers. 'We realize the real aim is an attack on wages and jobs.

We have to ask ourselves why they want this flexibility. The Geddes report, which is the most authoritative report on shipbuilding yet produced in that this maintains country, total flexibility could only in- about 4 crease efficiency by per cent. Clearly it is with tewer men and a great intensi- fication of effort that Vickers want to meet the prospect of the Common Market.' The drive for this • deal— which has full Tory backing- Workers Presl is the real key to the present If the boilermakers dispute. can be forced to accept the deal will be imposed on a de- moralized labour force. "The local officials recog- nize this, Mr Mont- says 'This is bound to gommery. be a long dispute and we are prepared for that. But the scrap with the boilermakers is the first stagebehind only this is the real fight to main- conditions in these yards, and tain employment, wages The battle of Barrow has therefore enormous import- ance-not only for the town and its 64,000 inhabitants, but the whole of British shipbuild- ing. If Vickers succeed they would be the first shipbuilding employer to entirely dismantle the rights and protective prac ices so closely guarded by shipyard workers for decades.

They would have achieved what Govan Shipbuilders and Marathon Manufacturing are only half-way towards-an all- kers Press, Wedneaday June 14, 1972 PAGE 7 Left: the big pay off. Vickers' workers queue at the closed shipyard to collect their pay-lt could be their last for a long inside Vickers' Above: time. yards. purpose yard labour force which can be kicked on and off the dole at will, and one which is driven to meet fierce productivity targets by the threat of a substantial loss in weekly earnings. This is indeed a prize well worth the temporary closure of the yard. The fact that this first shut-down is Barrow's history measures the importance of Market entry with a suitably docile labour force to big firms like Vickers.

The Barrow people are used to the tough life-they only won union recognition in 1948 -and they have accepted this latest challenge without emo- tion. But the fight in this grim and remote Lancashire town has national importance to the working class. Vickers are only the front- runners in the big capitalist race into Europe. No less than the men on the Clydeside, the shipbuilders of Barrow and their families are now in the front line of the political fight to resist the Tory policy of the big monopolies.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday June 14, 1972 The King's subjects, in the view of the press lords of the day, were the last people who about the be told ought to Royal scandal-and in fact the news finally broke only a result of an indiscreet public remark by a provincial bishop.

This illustrates a general the principle about the way Tory the Royal papers treat shower Family: the constant of banal non-information about them is simply a smokescreen sordid conceal the reality. to This, after all, is about the only way the Tory press could write about these wealthy para- Rich veins of hypocrisy sites without provoking a storm concealed be- lie just of republican, not to say revo- neath the paving stones lutionary sentiment. The matter at issue is clearly They of Fleet Street. the class-con- understood by are mined regular at who direct the Tories scious intervals by its denizens, Fleet Street papers. 'The Times', in its dissection who appear to require a of the reasons for its silence regular dose of cant in while the Abdication crisis was order to survive. "keen brewing, writes of the awareness' displayed by editor richest One of the was 'of the dan- Geoffrey Dawson unearthed, and not for the first had which the gers to crisis time, by the death of the Duke exposed the institution of the Windsor. Over the last Monarchy'. couple of weeks it has proved Dawson had known for three a real gold-mine. months of the back-stage man- For days we were treated to King involving the oeuvrings a neat diet of The Returning and the Baldwin government. Exile (now unfortunately no «The Like the rest of the press, The People's longer with us), this information Times' kept King (a victim of the Establish- from its readers until it could ment), The Woman Who Might keep silent no longer. Been Queen (and isn't have was Dawson's 'keen What even Her Royal Highness) and awareness' all about? The Man of all, this, -best Writing ten years before the Who Gave Up His Throne For Abdication in his book 'Where Love. Leon Trotsky is Britain Going', It was all like some grue- castigated the philistine Labour particularly some fairy story, leaders for their slavish admi- as the press saw fit to ignore ration of the Monarchy: such minor details of the ex- "The they roval authority, King's life as his meeting with the declare. Hitler and his friendships with progress of the country, and the extreme right. works out cheaper than a pre- But it all might never have sident, if all the expenses happened if the Tory press had election, etc., are taken into While the its way at the time. consideration. and American continental speeches from the papers and magazines were full 'Such workers' leaders characterize of details about the divorce of "oddity" lof that aspect of the Mrs Simpson and the King's development] which it British the with her, relationship is impossible to call other than Fleet Street papers of the day a conservative clownishness.

silence. maintained an iron Top: abdication. Centre: 1932, at a trai right: at another training centre—this tir "The royal authority is weak, as the instrument of so long the bourgeois domination is bourgeois parliament, and so long as the bourgeoisie has no need of extra-parliamentary methods of action. 'But in case of need the make use of bourgeoisie can the royal authority with great as the concentration success, point for all the extra-parlia- mentary, that is to say, the real forces directed against the working class. 'The British bourgeoisie itself, when in a similar posi- tion, knew perfectly well the danger of even the most ficti- is centre for unemployed. Above lett: after training right: at another training centre-this time the Nazi training school in Pomerania in 1937.

tious monarchy. 1837 the British "Thus, in government abolished the title of Great Mogul in India, expel- ling its bearer from the sacred city of Delhi, despite the fact that that title had become a one by that nominal purely time. 'For the British bourgeoisie understood that given certain Mogul Great conditions the focus the of might struggle the Indian upper classes against sovereignty.' the British The importance of the Abdi- cation crisis for the employ- ing class lay not in the moral issues raised by the King's pro- the wedding. Above At stake were posed marriage. far more radical questions rela- ted to the status of the mon- with archy and lES relauon the state. In the present period, when the bourgeoise is acuvely pre- paring the extraction a Trotsky Trotsky methods foreshadowed, the monarch key role still has ]L. calculations. So far kept in reserve while the army and the judiciary are pushed into the front line, the there royal family

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INTERNATIONAL YOUTH NEW:

Youth gangs are once again hitting the headlines through- out the US, and particularly in the New York areas of the Bronx and Brownsville — densely populated immigrant ghettos. Here we reprint an article by Abby Rodriguez, editor of 'Young Socialist-youth sec- tion of the American Trotsky- ist weekly 'Bulletin' , analys- ing the reasons behind the wide-scale gang development.

There has been a recent rise in the development of gangs among the youth. In sections of the city such as the Bronx, Brownsville and in other areas throughout the country, these gangs have grown to large numbers in a short period of Black months. The Spades and the Toma- hawks claim to have over 450 members each. Already in the Bronx many have been arrested charged with possession of dangerous weapons and the reported beatings by the police of in- nocent youth are growing.

Police agents and provoca- teurs are busily at work in- gangs and filtrating these supplying them with weapons in order to set them up for raids and frame-ups in the very manner in which the Panthers were set up. The development of some kind of leadership and organi- zation among youth was in- evitable because of the worsening conditions of poverty and unemployment and the lack of leadership from the political tendencies that used to exist. It is from the where the very areas nationalists such as the Pan- thers and the Young Lords* once had a base that these gangs are now emerging, and it is one of the most dangerous turns for the youth and the working class. The break-up of the gangs in the early 1960s occurred be- cause youth needed a means in order to fight capitalisin.

This required a political turn and the nationalists filled the leadership role for a while.

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Some like the Young Lords Party were formed from gangs.

But the deepening crisis of capitalism required another leap forward by their leader- ship. It required the turn towards Marxism and the his- tory of the movement which Huey Newton began but did not carry out, when he turned to dialectics. Because of this the nationalists could no longer provide the leadership required in this new period, leaving the youth now open to all the attacks of the govern- ment. The revisionists and Stalin- ists played a central role in allowing this reactionary turn towards gangs. It was the Young Socialist Alliance and the Communist Party which adapted completely to nation- alism instead of warning of the dangers that nationalism would lead to and fighting to break the youth and turn them towards questions of Marxism. Now the nationalists are completely with capitalism.

The Panthers are supporting the and Democrats very Republicans who support the attacks of the police on the youth and the Stalinists and revisionists have major a responsibility for allowing this.

If there was a need for youth to think politically in the early 1960s, today it is a hundred times more urgent to do so. The gangs today, while members some are political, are not political as a whole.

The leadership which holds positions such as war-lords, peace counsellor, and Supreme, an élite clique whose are decisions are not to be argued or even questioned, as They "Tomahawks'. treat the rest of the members as if they were so much dirt.

But the biggest obstacle is the suppression of political dis- cussions among most gangs which at every point hinders the political development of these youths. This stifling of political discussion is necessary so that these leaders can main- tain their privileged positions at the expense of the rest of the members. This makes these gangs agents of the very capitalist forces which the oppress working-class youth. Many of these gangs are waging a fight against the pushers in the neighbourhoods.

But this fight cannot be effec- tive without a fight against the entire capitalist system which allows and encourages her the use of dope. What is required now is a revolutionary movement built on Marxism and Trotskyism that can lead a fight against capitalism. The only way for- ward for these youth through the Young Socialists who are fighting against un- employment and calling on the unions to do so. The Young Socialists have the only programme which unites all youth and workers on a class basis against the government. The call for a 30-hour week at 40 hours' pay can create more jobs for workers and youth. The call for the building of a labour party made up of workers and youth against the Democrats and Republicans is the only way forward. There is nothing that youth can accomplish by themselves isolated from the power of the working class, the unions.

Gangs will encourage more who attacks by the police would be very happy if this summer was to turn into a gang war between unemployed youth. The political questions facing these youth must be taken up by the members of these and the gangs pro- gramme of the Young Social- ists the only alternative as must be brought up. * The Young Lords are a Puerto- Rican nationalist youth move- ment in the US. Top: Police arrest a youth in Manhattan scuffle. Below: Huey Newton whose black nationalist movement now leaves youth open to all the attacks of the govern- ment. Workers Press, Wednesday June 14, 1972 PAGE 9

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Don Blas Pinar, leading

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Spanish fascist, national adviser to the falange movement and

DICTATOR

of unofficial promoter para- military units, has been speak- Guest speaker at the Interna- ing out once more against the Labour Conference in moral decadence of our age.

tional his Geneva this week is a curious dinner given Al a honour in Guadalajara, he dec- the standards choice, even of the UN-backed International lared that he was going to put Office. Spanish youth on its feet' Labour He is the Shah of Iran, whose For this youth is becoming through traditional solution to indus- problems its use of unisex clothes and trial relations con- sists in putting 'troublemakers' its singing protest rather in front of a firing squad.

than patriotic songs. With his usual subtle grasp of labour A typical sample parallel, this of historical conditions under enlight- be found that in the time of ened monarch is to channed. medieval king San Fer- in a report on child labour sub- the drugs, nando, there were 'no mitted to the conference.

eroticism, It says the bulk of produc- nor Marxist no tion books in shop windows'. CaDe from small reality, industry (In San Fernando's comes reign did suffer from the usual private workshops and home rash of randy nuns and lecher- work. 'Conditions in such work- ous monks in its religious ins- extremely titutions!) shops die generally poor,' the report says, 'and the Pinar rounded off his dia- tribe youth in employment very young revolt against capitalism by against girls is normal. express- ing the fear that 'an effeminate 'Home work is a still more youth is being created so that The girls severe problem destroyed are practically infants and their it be by the Call virile peoples of the East'.

employment and conditions Pinar shares the benefit with work are subject to no con- Franco Blanco trols.' and Carrero that the mass of Spanish youth Thr conference is being held in Geneva. In February the not prepared to be organ- are Shah's aide, Prince Amir Daw- ized anti-communist bands fears they and allou, was implicated in quite rightly case of an Iranian businessman may not be quite so 'effemin- arrested in Switzerland for pos- ate' in dealing with the Spanish sessing suitcases full of opium.

bourgeoisie. escaped The Prince because he has diplo- Don Blas Pinar-new campaign penalty matic immunity.

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Engineers reaffirm fight for the PAGE 10 Workers Press, Wednesday June 14, 1972 TWO YEARS in succes- the NEC to campaign for the return of a Labour government sion now the defence of committed to socialist policies. "This is the only way to get the right to work has back the right to work', Bill Pur- been the first resolution vis, delegate from Middles- brough-one of the hardest-hit areas--told down for discussion at unemployment me after he had moved the resolu- the AUEW's national tion. 'Indeed if the Parliamentary conference. Labour Party had voted against the Tories the Common on In 1971 conference in- Market could have had a we structed the National Execu- General Election already?

tive Council to 'support the As far as he was concerned the right to work as the most im- resolution was the most im- portant on the agenda. portant aspect in the struggle Teenagers educated through against the Tory government.'

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ONC and HNC. levels are It went on: 'Redundancy pay- finding it impossible to get work.

ments are no substitute for work Boys and girls are going straight in a situation where the employ- from school onto the unemploy- class, with the Tories acting ing exchange. And remember, their political spearhead, as they cannot sit in or lock their determined increase to unem- factory gates. ployment by productivity deals 'The North East is a national and closures in order to defeat tragedy. The old labour intensive the working class.' industries are going and the new That resolution became an in- intensive firms don't capital part of the successful bring any more job opportuni- Young Socialists Right-to-Work ties. And all the redundancy pay- launched campaign last winter. ments in the world don't com- The backing of Britain's second pensate for that.' largest for the defence of union In Consett-where steel re- this basic right hammered dundancies hitting the are still home throughout the entire trade trade unions-the ball bearings union and labour movement. combine of Ransome, Hoffman resolution this year took The and Pollard has just announced the AUEW further and called on 27 per cent redundancies.

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Name Address "They trying for work- are sharing. If that fails they will take over the place,' said Bill.

'It's now a question of carry- ing out the meaning of this reso- lution. We have to galvanize the working class into a campaign to bring about the downfall of this government. 'The Tories intend to maintain unemployment to depress our living standards. When Labour is returned they have to carry out Clause 4 and take control of the means of production.'

Len Brindle, convenor at Ley- land's, Chorley, Lancs, plant, said the creation of unemployment was in preparation for Common Market The resolution entry. , only be carried out by could participation in a struggle against the government. Bill Graham from Carlisle warned the conference: "This un- employment began with Wilson's "shaker out" under a Labour What the Tories government. have done is to do what Wilson did-only better. I hope a new Labour government won't try and implement another freeze like the one in 1966 wage The other resolution on the first day of the conference was an executive motion on the In- dustrial Relations Act. The essence of the resolution read: 'We instruct the NEC to all the use resources of our union to develop a mass cam- paign at district and national level including, if necessary, strike action to defeat the In- dustrial Relations Act.' While the resolution also called for complete non-co- operation with the Act and for TUC fund to assist those unions who might have their assets sequestered, it posed no real fight with the government.

The executive had carefully drafted the motion to avoid even mentioning the Tory govern- ment. This confusion and vacilla- tion was compounded by refer- ence to strike action 'if neces- sary. Hugh Scanlon set the tone for the debate with a short speech which lacked any fire and which was permeated with complac- ency. Said the AUEW President: 'There's not much more that can really be added. I covered most of it in my address this morning and the motion is self- explanatory.' Seconding the motion from the

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WANDSWORTH: Thursday June 15, 8 p.m. Selkirk Hotel, Selkirk Rd, Tooting Broadway. 'Build Councils of Action'. LINCOLN: Thursday, June 15, 8. p.m. Co-op Hall, Wragby Lincoln. NORTH KENT: Tuesday June 20, 8 p.m. SOGAT House, Essex Rd, Dartford. Why a Labour government pledged to socialist policies'. DAGENHAM: Tuesday June 20, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Bill Purvis (left) from Middles- brough who moved the right-to- work motion: "The North East. Is a natlonal tragedy' BIll Graham (right): 'Unemployment began with Wilson's "shake-out"' Be- low: Youth on one of the five Young Socialists Right-to-Work marches which were based on the AUEW national committee resolution passed at last year's conference. floor Andy McKay from South Shields said: I congratulate the NEC for putting this motion on the agenda. We are really speak- ing to the converted here. The Tories realize they've created a they don't and monster now know what to do with it. "The worst thing is that we have met an about-face by the TUC leadership and leaders of unions like the electricians who are prepared to register.'

Sid Harraway, a convenor at Ford's, Dagenham, said they had 'spread to endeavour to the atmosphere from this meeting.'

There was a need to confront the government. When this hap- , he added, the NIRC pened, seemed to find a way around the situation where it had to call people to the courts. The only real discussion came after an addendum was moved by delegates from the construc- tion section which called upon a future Labour government to

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Ave, Barking. 'Fight the Tory ¡ents policy'. SOUTH LONDON: Tuesday June 20, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor St, SW4. Marxism and the trade unions'. SHEFFIELD: Wednesday, June Wicker mu New wine Lion. Wicker. 'Build Councils Action'. NORTH LONDON: Thursday June 22, 8 p.m. 'Bricklayers Arms', Tottenham High Road pay back fines extracted from unions by the NIRC. Cliff Arrowsmith from Ports- had mouth said the Tories intended to put the trade unions on the rack. 'We are in a struggle and there's nothing wrong with the addendum. We've always said when we re-nationalize industry we wouldn't pay compensation— which is the same principle.'

But Peter Povey said it was a form of escapism. 'Whether we like it or not we're saddled with the Tory government for another two and a half years and there's по of a Labour govern- guarantee ment after that. It is so much pie in the sky. The EC policy is a credible one.' Scanlon also spoke against the addition to • the motion, saying he never did like retrospective law. The addendum was eventu- ally withdrawn and the EC reso- lution passed unanimously.

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companie: £25.5m on policies last year, 10 paid on spite of the extra £80m premiums, the British Insurance Association reported yesterday.

This compared with 1970's record loss of £31.3m. Premium income rose 'sharply' to £296m, compared with £216m in 1970, but this was not enough to 'off- the effects set of intiation on claims costs, said the report. Claims 1971 increased to 2,158,000 from 2,029,000 in 1970 with the average cost per claim up by 14 per cent. Loss as a per- was 8.6 centage per cent compared with 14.5 per cent A CLASH between workers in 1970. and the Appeal Court over Repair costs increased sharply industrial during the relations was year and while they avoided yesterday when 32 continued to do so, premiums could not be stabilized. Hartlepool's fitters called off "The future outlook' said the threatened strike after a report, both as regards premi- management climb-down. ums and profitability will largely The work for men who be conditioned by the effects of the Expanded Metal Com- inflation.' pany were due to withdraw The warned association later in that car insurance premiums are their labour protest likely against alleged blacklegging to rise by up to 30 per cent this year. by members of the General Municipal Workers' and Union. Their action would have in defiance of the been Appeals which Court granted the company an in- junction strike banning action. Hartlepools district The PRODUCTION at Chrysler UK's of the Amalga- secretary Coventry factories resumed mated Union of Engineer- yesterday after a week-long Workers, Fred Rich- ing strike by 1,000 trim track mond, said management The company laid off workers.

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1,500 had taken the other employees during the member off the fitters' job.

dispute. The strikers had Talks on the situation would protested about being laid off tor frequently The is management continue today. considering a union peace When the case came be- formula dealing with lay-off pay- fore the National Industrial future ments and Relations Court the AUEW wage negotiations. did not attend, in line with

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versed in Burgreave Vestry Hall 'It is a little too early to call this a victory, said Mr Lecture on Marxist philo- Richmond. "There has been Cliff sophy by Slaughter, some movement, but we will Committee Central member have to wait and see what Of the Socialist Labour position management hold.

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CONCERN about official Department of Health policy on services for the mentally ill was expressed by a doctors' committee report out yester- day. Set up by the British Medical Association, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Society of Medical Officers of Health the committee said that no mental hospital should be closed down until alternative services in the community are really adequate and efficient. Department of Health policy is that large mental hospitals should be phased out over the next 15 years and replaced by psychiatric departments in gen- eral hospitals and by community care hospitals. Community care, says the JARROW dustmen have gone on strike after refusing to work they with who man say a scabbed on a strike last year.

Trouble began at the Ellison Road cleansing depot on Mon- day when Herbert Lown was returned to work there. This led to an . immediate walk-out and the dustmen say they will keep their action up until Friday.

Other council workers in the town are threatening a one-day strike. This is the second token time in five weeks Jarrow coun- cil workers have struck over Mr Lown. Workers Press, Wednesday June 14, 1972 PAGE 11

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member committee, is still completely in- being in possession of incrimin- adequate in some local authori- documents. O'Brady ating has ties. the been hunger strike for On last two weeks at Mountjoy jail, Unfortunately, the Depart- Dublin, his under since arrest ment of Health and Social the Offences Against the State Security appears to have planned Act. as if community care was already an accepted service of excel- Since the weekend, his wife lence', the report stated has also been hunger strike "This is seen in the extremely outside Mountjoy. low ratio of mental illness beds considered (0.5 Last week, his brother Sean necessary 1,000 population) in their official Sinn Fein Provisional O'Brady, guidelines, and their policy publicity director, was also of running down the existing released after the prosecution offered no evidence against him.

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BY OUR OWN REPORTER

TRADE figures released yes- terday gave a fresh indication of the continued deterioration in Britain's economic per- formance. They revealed that for the fourth successive month that visible trade with the rest of the world was well in red.

The deficit for May was £43m against a revised deficit of £50m for April. This means Britain's trading performance has grown worse during the three months March to May. The average monthly deficit for this period was £59m com- pared with an average deficit for the first five months of the year of £42m. With earnings from invisible trade such banking as and in- vestment running at £50m per month, this continuing poor per- formance on visibles is threat- ening to plunge Britain's entire trading account in the red.

The City was quick to react to the news-government stocks dropped by up to 50p and leading industrial shares slid back a penny or two. The figures follow the news that industry is not responding to the government's limited at- tempt to revive the economy.

The Deparinent of Industry and Trade has revealed that almost half the firms in manu- facturing industry are even more pessimistic about future invest- ment than they were before the spring budget and publication of the Industry Bill. The DTI survey shows con- fidence over the last six months has deteriorated more sharply than in any comparable period for the last nine years. The level of manufacturing in- has steadily declined vestment since 1970 and the total for the first three months of this year is f10m below the last quarter of 1971. A note of alarm over the level of business activity was sounded yesterday by Robin Brook, pre- sident of the London Chamber of Commerce. He warned that unless Britain improved its industrial relations, investment would start flowing out of Britain to seek markets abroad. Prospects are, however, un- likely to improve. More reflation to change pessimistic attitudes in industry would only further jeopardise the balance of pay- ments and threaten a further devaluation of the pound.

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Inesday June 14, 1972 UNION LEADERS will today try to call off the threatened national docks strike. They will offer dockers' delegates meeting in London a six-week inquiry into pro- viding jobs for men without an employer. BY DAVID MAUDE, Our industrial correspondent Conducted the ost with the port bosses, the inquiry be to docks WOllO and waterways committee this figure by the time their secure work for dockers on the considered report falls due. But dockers evenind temporary unattached register the outcome of both meetings. have little reason for believing Today's delegate statement Issuea yesteraay conference he and the

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Will case a meeting of the morning from expected to ned! a recommenda special union-employer commit- from the committee.

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the thought Dockers from most major should be possible to provide o sweet reasonable however, ports, will be on strike ness in yesterday's statement has number' jobs for usetu: today demanding national omcia been generated by representatives dockers in the container industry.

on the jobs and of precisely those men who have mass lobby of the delegate con- producea ine Jobs crisis in the Generanes orders of the Transport and terence has been called for.

ports. General Union and Almost 5 per cent of Britain's Aldington Lord of the 40,000 dockers registered men- -1,655 out as Lonaon Aulnority-was later dis temporarily unattached In condon cussed by the ports' national terday morning. The bulk of these returned to the pool by Souther men joint council. and Aldington are meeting of the T&GWU clearly hoping for a reduction in Stevedores Ltd, which has links WORKERS at Leadgate Engineering, Consett, Co. Durham on the march against unemployment.

due to close on June 30, but the workers have occupied the premises and say they will stay there.

BRITAIN'S engineers called the Tories on adopt policies of full employment at their conterence in Hastings yesterday. FROM PHILIP WADE in Hastings The country's recordiobless totals the main talking Was "adopt a policy of full employ- point at the Amalgamated Union Bill Anten, Stockport delegate and

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Engineering Workers' ment to questioned whether those _Toe who CUll that every government would ference ensure vote for the endorsed this policy. motion, moved support the WElC Six Wallsend-on-Tyne demands delegate put mandate given to the

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Les were Allen asked forward shorter Daedates site sitting in this room, the government to working week without loss of he said, accepted pay, reduction in overtime, lower without any wages interest rates, reduction in hours. If you're not

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to fight don't put your cuts arms CaDila expenditure cara up. The motion called for also Technical section delegate H direction of industry and specia spelled out the dilema

APART

from rather grants higher facing delegate Invesument and social security benefits and wages The demand fo the rignt to first, will with creating work is one which the capitalis England and higher consumer market'. system cannot really give, Early speakers in the debate said. were at Scotland and Northern Ireland pains separațe the 'Unemployment is rife through- will start dry, with sunny inter- fight for socialism with Capital- our the capilalist world vals, but struggle on 'immediate' demands declining Cloudy weather with ism faced with will spread to outlined in the motion. rate profit. This OCCaSIOn Northern Ireland and West 'Until we achieve socialism the system we wil oniv be broker Scotland later. It will be rather is Allen. And by have unemployment', said change and tear the wien structure down

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control of the means The resolution Outlook mean was carried Thursday and

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of production by the working unanimously. Friday: Becoming dry in many people. places, with Miseldine, Wal. sunny periods. Rain Then he added: moved also WUrLIl al times in lne sourn east. Katner *Having said that, we have an carried calling the cool. obligation in the short term tc give tul support and use all it ameliorate the to back members resourcer the best our defending their right

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i to work. within the economic Workers ability who refused system we live in. work closed o transientee trom Sheffield delegate Herbert merged factories should be sup Howarth the organized ported Sale. labour movement was Miseldine now called for a shar putting forward a programme for advancemen Lectoo can struggle through a reduction in hours and onunemoovnent even attainment of that longer holidays ideal land that lies the Stan Cole, Manchester, said in future- -socialism'. the recent engineering fight in his He noi area the biggest resistance they come out categorically against had met from employers men accepting work-sharing the anana for a reauction lower wages hours. with the influential Ocean Steamship group. Several other stevedoring firms have attempted to throw labour into the pool in recent months, including Wallis, Smith, Coggins Lta, a partnership between T. D.

Wallis Ltd of London and the Liverpool-based company A. E. Smith Coggins. Directors of the partnership also have interests in other firms which have tried to shed labour, including Regent Stevedoring and J. Leete and Sons Ltd. Thomas D. Wallis is chairman of ICD London East, which runs the Chobham Farm container depot currently being 'blacked' by London dockers. He is also a director of Cargo Services Ltd, of Felixstowe, and a member of the London Dock Labour Board. George+ Tonge, chairman of the National Association of Port Employers and a leader of the national joint council, is a direc- tor of at least two • other firms which are being blacked and picketed by the London dockers.

ULSTER Secretary William Whitelaw and the province's army chief, Sir Harry Tuzo, yesterday held talks with the leadership of the extreme right-wing Ulster Defence Association. The fact that Whitelaw is conducting amicable discussions with the UDA presents great dangers to the Republican move- ment. The UDA is a military body Unionist, • comprising Loyalist, Orange Order and other reactionary elements. Late yesterday Whitelaw's office in Belfast would not dis- close the names of the

UDA

spokesmen in the delegation.

Former UDA chairman Harden Smith is in custody in London on an arms-smuggling charge.

The UDA has vowed to permanently set up 'no-go' areas in Belfast and other major centres this weekend unless the army does something to end the 'no-go' Catholic areas-Creggan and Bogside. The additional troops being sent to Ulster by Whitelaw are the First Btn Royal Scots Regi- ment, which is making its fourth tour of duty. The 550-odd men will bring the army's strength in Ulster to 15,000. I/fI

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