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CENTRAL London branch of the National Union of Journalists yesterday considered a proposal recommending that the national executive committee expel Herman Roberts, an honorary member of the union, because of his membership of the National Industrial Relations Court. The grounds of the complaint were that his membership of the court was inconsistent with the unions official policy of non-co-operation with the agencies of the Industrial Relations Act. The motion was lost by 25 votes to 31.

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Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG. WHAT WE THINK Army paves way for civil war AS ANOTHER 1,200 troops prepare to leave for Ulster it is becoming painfully clear that the bi-lateral truce between the IRA and the British army was a deadly trap for the anti-Unionist forces.

"Peace', said the dictator Mussolini, "is only an interval between wars.' For Ulster supremo William Whitelaw and the Army gorillas, the 'peace' in Ulster-'the peace of the just', the IRA hopefully called it— was nothing more than an interval between one phase of repression and another.

'Direct rule' was the scaffold. The 'truce' was the noose-for the Provisional IRA. In the two weeks of the "truce' the imperialist conspirators gained valuable time which they used to establish a political bridgehead, via the Social Democratic and Labour Party and the Catholic Church, in the Catholic ghetto.

The barricades began to come down and an atmosphere of disarming tranquility was deliberately created by the media and the army. No doubt on instruction from Brigadier Frank Kitson's psychological warfare department cartridge belts were stowed away, faces unblackened and fraternization resumed with Catholic residents. But behind the facade of simulated friendship new imperialist conspiracies were being hatched.

The Ulster Defence Association was given semi-official status. Its mobile patrols were given full freedom to roam unchallenged in the Protestant 'no go' areas. Its leaders-including convicted murderers like Gusty Spence—-were allowed to arm, train and parade with impunity and to provoke and intimidate Catholic workers living in the Protestant areas.

The UDA leaders-many of whom are ex-British army men-took advantage of the IRA retreat and the 'truce' to escalate their campaign and amplify their sectarian demands. While opposing 'direct rule' publicly, these bandits secretly welcomed it because it gave them all the scope they needed to create an extra-parliamentary para-military force-and to create new links with the British army.

real purpose of the 'truce' and the extent to which UDA and British army should be granted as a matter of urgency, Mr Justice McGarry was told in the High Court yesterday.

Applying for an interim order banning dockers from picketing at the Midland Cold Storage depot, Waterden Road, Stratford, Mr Alan Campbell, QC, said:

'An order of the NIRC has been breached and is being breached. Our only relief is to seek refuge in common law. It is not to be believed that even dockers put themselves above the common law.

"That is a step which would require very careful consideraHe claimed the NIRC had become a political shuttlecock which, encouraged by others, the dockers had made plain they would defy. But he said there were no political elements in the court of chancery and no one had ever suggested that its law should be disobeyed.

He said: 'If it is we shall have a situation of anarchy where the rule of law stands at the crossroads. Indeed it at the crossroads, already stands Campbell quoted two statements he alleged had been made by dockers' leader Bernie Steer to "The Times', 'Daily Telegraph' and the 'Sun' in which he was claimed to have said: 'Carry on doing what we think is right.

The court will not dictate to us.

WEATHER SOUTH EASTERN districts of England will be dry and warmer.

Wales and south-west England will remain cloudy with occasional rain or drizzle.

Scotland, Northern Ireland and the remainder of England will have rain at times with temperatures near or below normal.

policies have been synchronized is revealed by the events around Lenadoon housing estate. First, the UDA drive Catholic workers from their homes and create a homeless problem. Then they intimidate and prevent these same tenants from occupying flats which have been legally allocated to them (the Catholics).

When the IRA tries to rehouse the homeless, the UDA retires and the British Army instantly appears and barbed wire barricades are put up to deprive Republicans of their legitimate rights!

And when the Provisional IRA is forced by the savage, brutal and intolerable provocation to end the truce and recommence hostilities, the UDA abandons its demand for the return of Stormont and openly calls for the establishment of military dictatorship.

The IRA Provisionals have stated that the British army is an 'instrument of UDA sectarianism'. This is not so. The UDA statement welcoming the prospect of government by 'martial minds rather than political brains' is a muted echo of the political ambitions dominating the minds of the army top brass. The UDA is the ventriloquist's dummy.

In this context the IRA had every right to reject the truce and fight back-however tardily. Workers Press, while criticizing the policies of the IRA which led to the 'truce'; nevertheless supports, unreservedly, the disruption by the IRA of the cynical and fraudulent 'truce' of imperialism. We also support critically the withdrawal of troops (not in 1975, but now) and the release of internees and political prisoners in Ulster and Britain. For the same reason we condemn categorically the unprincipled and cravenly middle-class reformist attitude of the Official IRA and the 'Morning Star' to the breaking of the 'truce'.

The Official Sinn Fein in Dublin have Myant's apologetics for Whitelaw were historical interests of the Irish workers— 'regretted' the Provisionals' decision to echoed by Bernadette Devlin MP. On Protestant and Catholic-and British resume fighting. Their statement alleges Sunday she criticized the Provisionals for workers are now more urgent than ever. that 'the resumption of offensive action accepting the truce breaking the Tuesday she They will only be secured through a joint will take the pressure off Mr Whitelaw •• • criticized them Having made their peace with imperialism, 'They could have gone on the defensive to force the Tories to resign. This is the these reformist-nationalists have no without breaking the truce.' she said. If we wanted to play really rough, they wouldn't know what hit them.' Campbell laid heavy emphasis on the fact that picketing, which he said included threats of intimidation and physical violence, was a flagrant defiance of the law. In his view it warranted urgent attention.

He added that the organization and scale of dockers' pickets was the exact counter-part of the operation mounted by the miners last winter.

The picketing of Midland Cold Storage is costing the firm £2,000 a week and tonnage handled had dropped from 1,900 to 61 tons a week.

Campbell asked the court for an injunction against seven Scanlon invited to Peking THE Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers has been invited to send a delegation to China in September.

The invitation came in a relegram asking for the delegation tu be led by Hugh Scanlon, the president, and made up mainly 'Let's talk' plea by Greene ON THE eve of the TUC Economic Committee meeting Sir Sidney Greene, general secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, yesterday appealed to the government: 'Make it possible for us to talk to each other.' He was willing o talk, but what was the government going to do desire to make difficult-or to and Tuzo.

named dockers, including Bernie Steer and Vic Turner, and also against the joint shop stewards' committee of which they are secretary and chairman.

The order would compel them to cease all picketing and packing. He said evidence accumulated by agents of Eurotec, a private detective firm, provided cast iron case against the dockers.

In view of the decision of the NIRC not to move against three dockers' leaders a fortnight ago, Campbell said Midland Cold Storage believed they needed detailed and particular evidence on pickets' activities.

The eight respondents are accused of conspiring to injure the company through unlawful of rank-and-file members. *We have accepted in principle and details have to be discussed.

We believe this is the first such invitation to come frora China to any trade union-certainly for many years, said Scanlon.

Reg Birch, a member to assist the union movement in the dialogue?

Sir Sidney told the NUR annual conference in Scarborough that the government had to inspire people to do something about the present position.

I am prépared to meet the Government, but I think they Whitelaw's job any more embarrass Ford Whilst correctly reproving the Provisionals for having secret talks with Whitelaw and accusing the British army of employing agents provocateurs to innocent people and inflame sectarian passions, the Officials conclude by the most pathetic display of capitulationism:

The close co-operation between the British army and the UDA over the last week surely should have warned the antiUnionist forces against the position of At least 16,500 British troops, aided by the most brutal police force in the British Isles, stand menacingly over the Irish workers and the Official Sinn Fein says 'Don't fight!' The same line of prostration before and peaceful co-existence with Whitelaw and the UDA is preached by the Stalinist 'Morning Star'. The decision of the Provisional IRA to end the truce, says the 'Star' editorial 'is wrong and wholly to be regretted'. Why? Because 'it gives the ultras and men like ex-Prime Minister Faulkner excuses to oppose the introduction of genuine democratic measures [!!], to step up demands for the use of force by the British troops against the anti-Unionists and to justify their own use of force'.

The 'Star' editorial is supplemented by a vicious and distorted account by Star reporter Chris Myant: "1hc Provisional IRA today faced wide condemnation among anti-Unionists for its return to offensive actions against the British army. Its excuse, army violence in the Suffolk area last night, was considered ludicrous and stupid because it fell into the trap laid by the right wing.' Myant's apologetics for Whitelaw were echoed by Bernadette Devlin MP. On Sunday she criticized the Provisionals for accepting the truce. On Tuesday she criticized them for breaking the truce! 'They could have gone on the defensive without breaking the truce.' she said.

picketing and intimidation of customers and suppliers by threats, violence and the imposition of a nationwide black against vehicles crossing their lines.

They are accused of conspiring to induce the firm to break its contract with customers and suppliers and of inducing them to break their contract with their 57 employees.

The pickets are also accused of committing nuisance, threatening unlawful conduct, including physical violence, and obstruction of vehicles.

Campbell is asking the court to ban all picketing-lawful and unlawful—until the dockers or their representatives appear in court to clarify their position.

union executive has visited China in recent years as chairman of the pro-Peking Communis: Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

Arrangements have been completed for a visit to Paking by Tory Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas Home later this year. ought to make possible for the trades union movement to meet them. They have in condifficulties in our way nection with the Industrial Relations Act so that now when you take any action you do not know whether you are going to land up in court' said Greene.

The only people who believe this fantastic and implausible rubbish are those reformists who believe the Tory leopard will change its spots and maybe even its fangs. and claws—with sufficient persuasion. Irish and British workers, however, will remember that similar calls for restraint were made by the Stalinists three years ago in order to defend the military occupation of Ulster. Then we were told that the British army was the alternative to the UVF and the B-Specials and that the army was there to guarantee the implementation of Callaghan's reforms.

Now workers are advised to lie low and accept Whitelaw's Bonapartist measures as an alternative to the British army and the UDA. What will they say next?

If Irish workers had followed the Stalinist policy three years ago, Ulster would today be saddled with a fascist military dictatorship and the working class smashed.

The Stalinist attack on the Provisional IRA reveals British Stalinism in its true counter-revolutionary colours. In this attack Stalinism not accidentaly is joined by the spokesman of the Labour Lords Lord Shackleton and Liberal Lord Byers who congratulated Whitelaw and appealed to the 'moderates' i.e. the Stalinists, Official IRA and Civil Rights leaders, to 'try and tone down the atmosphere and get rid of violence'.

A defeat for the Provisional IRA would be a serious gain for Whitelaw and would strengthen the hand of the Tories in Britain. All those who refuse to defend the Provisionals, all those who stand by Whitelaw in this conflict, are committing an act of unpardonable treachery to the Irish and British working class. They must be exposed and routed.

The defence of the basic rights and truce! struggle of the Irish and British workers policy of the Socialist Labour League.