Workers Press no. 818

workers press

BY DAVID MAUDE

UNION leaders are now frantically covering up on two fronts for the Tory government's class-war preparation. Their anxiety to discuss wage restraint with premier Heath is matched only by their eagerness to help the employers of the Confedera- tion of British Industry stop strikes. Next Tuesday six TUC chiefs — Victor Feather, Jack Jones, Hugh Scanlon, Sir Sidney Greene, Lord Cooper and Alf Allen - will direct their chauffeurs to 10 Downing Street for a special meeting of the National Economic Development Council under Heath's chairmanship. The following day the CBI extremely council, an hard- gathering headed of big capi- talists and state-industry chair- is expected to make men, soothing noises about the possi bility of continuing its so-called price restraint policy. In eight weeks' time, on the eve of the TUC annual con- ference, the TUC leaders plan to start operating a conciliation and arbitration service with the CBI.

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moves take place, These as Peter Jeffries explains on page against a background two, increasing speculation against the dollar in Europe, threatening a further disruption of world trade on which the British economy is utterly dependent. The Tory decision to float the pound, which set off this latest development in capitalism's crisis, was a decision for class war.

The National Industrial Rela- tions Court, having failed to whip the trade union rank and file in line with its first surprise attacks, the Cabinet decided to have a go at the working class with spiralling prices-rises and rocketing unemployment. In the background lies the Sir philosophy of Brig-Gen Frank Kitson, army's Ulster the tactician, whose idea that troops would have to be used in Britain in the event of a significant drop in living standards is now a commonplace amongst the Tory top brass. This is the real economic and political context of the TUC dis- cussions with Heath and the

CBI.

Whatever the intentions of individual union leaders at the outset, the discussions have now become a dangerous weapon in the hands of the Tories for dis- arming the working class in the face of very great dangers indeed.

ON PAY, the TUC Economic Committee held out the possi- bility on Wednesday of slacken- ing the pressure for increases in

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return for government action on prices. A statement by the committee said that there was a serious danger of further price increases following the decision to float the pound, and called for 'an urgent reappraisal' of Tory policy on food prices and rents.

But every banker knows, even not, if the union leaders do that price-rises are a necessary feature of capitalism even periods of relative stability.

Price-controls in a period of violent currency crisis such as at present are absolutely out of the question. To give the idea the slightest credence is to encourage time-wasting dangerous and illusions in the working class.

ON STRIKES, the ideal of TUC- CBI conciliation has been wel- ops comed from right to left of the tain TUC leadership. As we reported in this paper on Thursday, engineers' president ory Hugh Scanlon told an expen- sively-fed gathering of senior managers earlier this week that the fact there was an irrecon- conflict between capital cilable and labour 'doesn't mean we have to be at each other's throats all the time' But the employers, and in particular CBI president Michael Clapham, have made very clear their conception of the purpose of such a service. We must restore government ssi- to the position that in exercising its essential function of economic regulation it can be seen to act

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Bottom of page: Some of the TUC men who'll go to No. 10 Downing St, Hugh Scanion (AUEW), Lord Cooper (G&MWU), Sir Sidney Greene (NUR) and Alf Allen (USDAW) the with impartiality, to hold scales and weigh fairly the claims employed, of employer and Clapham said on July 3. What this means is that sec- tions of big employers fear that, if the government is too widely waging the class to be seen struggle on their behalf day to day, its freedom of 'impartial' action of the Kitson stamp may become limited. By co-operating in the impos- sible charade of an independent conciliation and arbitration ser- leaders help vice the union obscure the Tories'• preparation for such action. There is also another aspect to TUC treachery on these issues.

Even the farthest right of the UC- TÚC Economic Committee were unable to argue on Wednesday for direct acceptance of the Heath proposal for a special joint working party en pay and industrial relations. Given a firm lead by the left, therefore, the mass pressure which forced a partial snub to the Tories could have been to defeat the proposal used entirely. Instead, Scanlon, Jones and printworkers* leader Richard again chose not to Briginshaw press for a recalled TUC and the complete break-off of talks with Heath. voiced Those demands, on Wednesday by a powerful lobby called by the All Trades Unions Alliance, have once again become absolutely vital. Above: Judith Todd in London yesterday

EXCLUSIVE

BY ALEX MITCHELL

JUDITH TODD, daughter of former Rhodesian premier Garfield Todd, said yesterday that Rhodesian authorities were 'glad to see me go'.

Since the Pearce Commission visited Rhodesia in January Miss Todd and her father have been imprisoned and later held under house detention by the Smith authorities. She was told on Wednesday she was free to leave detention and depart from the rebel regime.

She said: 'I don't know how long I will stay in Britain. It could be two years or it could be ten.'

Miss Todd and her father campaigned against Sir Alec Douglas Home's proposals for a settlement with the Smith regime.

If she returns to Rhodesia she will be immediately classified as *a restricted person. She would also face a possible £1,200 fine or a year in jail if she did not abide by the con- ditions of her detention order.

Miss Todd said yesterday after- noon she was prepared to ignore the orders placed on her by the Smith government and campaign politically. If I am invited to write politically about Rhodesia I will do so even if it risks making my father's a little more Sixty-four-year-old Garfield Todd has been in poor health since his detention by the Smith police.

workers press

BY DAVID MAUDE

UNION leaders are now frantically covering up on two fronts for the Tory government's class-war preparation. Their anxiety to discuss wage restraint with premier Heath is matched only by their eagerness to help the employers of the Confedera- tion of British Industry stop strikes. Next Tuesday six TUC chiefs — Victor Feather, Jack Jones, Hugh Scanlon, Sir Sidney Greene, Lord Cooper and Alf Allen — will direct their chauffeurs to 10 Downing Street for a special meeting of National Economic the Development Council under Heath's chairmanship. The following day the CBI hard- council, an extremely gathering headed of big capi- talists and state-industry chair- men, is expected to make soothing noises about the possi- bility of continuing its so-called price restraint policy. In eight weeks' time, on the eve of the TUC annual con- ference, the TUC leaders plan to start operating a conciliation and arbitration service with the CBI.

INCORPORATING THE NE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

moves take place, These as Peter Jeffries explains on page against a background of two, increasing speculation against the dollar in Europe, threatening a further disruption of world trade on which the British economy is utterly dependent. The Tory decision to float the pound, which set off this latest development in capitalism's crisis, was a decision for class war.

The National Industrial Rela- • Court, having failed to tions whip the trade union rank and file in line with its first surprise attacks, the Cabinet decided to have a go at the working class with spiralling prices-rises and rocketing unemployment. In the background lies the philosophy of Brig-Gen Frank Ulster Kitson, army's tactician, whose idea that troops would have to be used in Britain in the event of a significant drop in living standards is now a commonplace amongst the Tory top brass. This is the real economic and political context of the TUC dis- cussions with Heath and the

CBI.

Whatever the intentions of individual union leaders at the outset, the discussions have now weapon in become a dangerous the hands of the Tories for dis- arming the working class in the face of very great dangers indeed.

ON PAY, the TUC Economic Committee held out the possi- bility on Wednesday of slacken- ing the pressure for increases in

• THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JULY 1:

INTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

return for government action on prices. A statement by the committee said that there was a serious danger of further price increases to float following the decision called for 'an the pound, and urgent reappraisal' of Tory policy on food prices and rents.

But every banker knows, even if the union leaders do not, that price-rises are a necessary feature of capitalism in even periods of relative stability.

Price-controls in a period of violent currency crisis such as at present are absolutely out of the question. To give the idea the slightest credence is to encourage dangerous and time-wasting illusions in the working class.

ON STRIKES, the ideal of TUC- CBI conciliation has been wel- comed from right to left of the tain TUC leadership. As we reported in this paper on Thursday, engineers' president Hugh Scanlon told an expen- sively-fed gathering of senior managers earlier this week that the fact there was an irrecon- cilable conflict between • capital labour and "doesn't mean we have to be at each other's throats all the time'. But the employers, and in particular CBI president Michael Clapham, have made very clear their conception of the purpose of such a service. 'We must restore government to the position that in exercising its essential function of economic regulation it can be seen to act No 818 • 4p

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Bottom of page: Some of the TUC men who'll go to No. 10 Downing st ora Hugh Scanlon

(AUEW),

Cooper Sir Sidney Greene

(G&MWU),

(NUR) and Alf Allen (USDAW) on with impartiality, to hold the scales and weigh fairly the claims employed, and of employer Clapham said on July 3. What this means is that sec- tions of big employers fear that, if the government is too widely to be waging the class seen struggle on their behalf day to day, its freedom of 'impartial' action of the Kitson stamp may become limited. By co-operating in the impos- sible charade of an independent conciliation and arbitration ser- union leaders help vice the obscure the Tories' • preparation for such action. There is also another aspect to TUC treachery on these issues.

Even the farthest right of the UC- TUC Economic Committee were unable to argue on Wednesday for direct acceptance of the Heath proposal for a special joint working party on pay and lent industrial relations.

Given a firm lead by the left, nior therefore, the mass pressure which forced a partial snub to the Tories could have been used to defeat the proposal entirely. Instead, Scanlon, Jones and printworkers' leader Richard Briginshaw again chose not to press for a recalled TUC and the complete break-off of talks with Heath. Those demands, voiced on Wednesday by a powerful lobby called by the All Trades Unions Alliance, have once again become absolutely vital. Todd In London Above: Judith yesterday

EXCLUSIVE

BY ALEX MITCHELL

JUDITH TODD, daughter of former Rhodesian premier Garfield Todd, said yesterday that Rhodesian authorities were 'glad to see me go'.

Since the Pearce Commission visited Rhodesia in January Miss Todd and her father have been imprisoned and later held under house detention by the Smith authorities. She was told on Wednesday she was free to leave detention and depart from the rebel regime.

She said: 'I don't know how long I will stay in Britain. It could be two years or it could be ten.'

Miss Todd and her father campaigned against Sir Alec Douglas Home's proposals for a settlement with the Smith regime.

If she returns to Rhodesia she will be immediately classified as 'a restricted person'. She would also face a possible £1,200 fine or a year in jail if she did not abide by the con- ditions of her detention order.

Miss Todd said yesterday after- noon she was prepared to ignore the orders placed on her by the Smith government and campaign politically. If I am invited to write politically about Rhodesia I will do so even if it risks making my father's position a little more delicate, she told me. Sixty-four-year-old Garfield Todd has been • in poor health since his detention by the Smith police. ,

PAGE 2 Workers Press, &1 aday duty 15, AS 3;000 TROOPS engaged IRA attack throughout Belfast, spokesman for Ulster Supremo William Whitelaw's 'office blurted out the sinister motive behind the two-week truce: •We want to finally eliminate the gunmen in this area.. We are taking the offensive against the gunmen.' While his troops blasted the Catholic ghetto with heavy machine guns and rifles, White- law, in London, gave every possible assurance to his back- bench critics in the Tory Party that the IRA would be smashed.

At a Paddington Conservative Association dinner in the House on Thursday of Lords White- law parried the demand of Tory critics for martial law, but did so only because he was desperately dependent on right-wing Labour's help to maintain his political credibility. told his well-stutfed 'Since in Northern Ireland I have experi- enced so many ups and downs that while I may at times feel sea-sick, at least | have learned not to over-react. "Let me also stress that it is not my policy that I am carrying out in Northern Ireland. It is the policy of Her Majesty's govern- ment. It also happens to be a policy which the opposition are giving the fullest support.'

Whitelaw made no pretence at concealing his determination to suppress the IRA and keep British troops in Ulster indefin- itely. 'If the IRA returns to "ferocity" in its campaign,' he said, will retaliate with the same ferocity. 'This is certainly not the course for taint-hearts; for those who are inclined to give As Whitelaw was answering his Tory backbench critics another MP-Mr Peter Tapsell from Horncastle-urged Tory sup- porters in Chertsey to press for even more repressive measures.

Looking for a new Cromwell, Tapsell said: 'It may be Mr Enoch Powell should be appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland as an earnest of our national purpose.

A new and much sterner policy is required. A policy which will ... crush the terrorists.'

As another earnest of his 'national purpose' Tapsell called for the ending of dual citizenship for Irish immigrants in Britain.

His speech, no less than the comments of the Ulster supremo, leave no doubt about the Tories' present intentions in Ulster.

Under cover of the 'truce' they have laid the basis for a stage by stage offensive against the 'no-go' areas and for the

IRA

isolation and destruction of all Republican opposition in Ulster.

Two factors have contributed substantially towards the success of Whitelaw's policy so far.

The first has been the incred- ible confusion and naïveté of the middle-class Provisional IRA leaders who imagined that British imperialism could be persuaded to revoke partition and withdraw troops by negotiation. The second, and far more sinister, has been the unstinting of British Labour support leaders-right and left-and the Stalinists for the barbaric re- pression in Ulster. struggle for democratic The rights of the Ulster workers—now menaced by the guns of the inseparably army-is British. linked to the struggle to break the coalition of right-wing labour and Toryism and build the altern- ative revolutionary leadership in Britain. Wild buying to save dollar Pressure grows for Europe revaluation IN THE MIDST of intense pressure against the dollar, a joint European currency 'float' looks increasingly likely. Only considerable purchases of dollars on Thursday and yesterday by every European central bank has prevented the dollar from falling below its agreed floor' level. on all dollar sales, but this failed revaluation would threaten When the money markets of the to prevent the inflow. the ou ce many exporters out opened yesterday run bank official said that the govern.

American market Winte dollar continued against the have time American ex- advant- the Bundesbank was dollar corresponding and

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the franc to float. aid and allow age forced to come lo lls more has been within five minutes of trad- by the Americans against forced tighten struck ing operations. than will be now less six month: regulations DUlUDC the US dollars. Banks required December On the London market the to increase their reserves held forced a series of revaluations in price of gold rose sharply in currency holdings Europe part of the Washing- foreign trading, being fixed at early by he another 10 per ton currency realignment arrange- $65.20 an ounce. Banque de France has ments. taken There is little doubt that the On Thursday alone it is esti- force behind the huge flow Markets were also main over Tokyo mated that were Europe the of dollars purchased in support operations. nervous vesterdav Under 11Q 0 had take against dollar central bank to was Americans Themserves Tessure than $50m avoid an up- these conditions, while Germany and meaviest Germans and French may try for the Switzerland. ward flotation crisis lies soak the significant developments benine tas cumency Hillie Zurich. Only the growing preparations for pressure, occurred economic and trade war between yield and revalue their Swiss bank week Hallula currencies. Europear imposed an 8 per cent surcharge Amenca. •urose all

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Eagleton to swing unions? THE DEMOCRATIC Party conven- tion at Miami Beach, Florida, yesterday endorsed Senator Thomas F.

Eagleton as George McGovern's running mate in the November presidential elections.

Eagleton, a little-known lawyer from Missouri, was reportedly a compromise choice following Senator Edward Ken- nedy's refusal to run for vice-president alongside the Democratic candidate McGovern has tried to appease his powerful opponents within the Democratic machine. In addition his running sentiment leaders they stand little will also help to appease chance against President some of 'McGovern's among the trade union Nixon.

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Will have been growing

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chief His selection is typica restive about the Sen- George Meany has been and increasing of the most alul s influence which charac- spoken moderation. labour lawyer with is described every candida- Eagleton terized American close ties into the presie Michelect ca 'dove' over the ture. Vietnam war and

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well placed Nixon's funds and support cessions. Senate against soften the anti- the Eagleton's nomination escalation of the war. right-wing EEC backs state aid to computers SUPPORT for state financial aid The Commission also recognizes Calcul, loans were to be made available that the further use of computers to the ailing European computer ine german government nas also also means growing unemov- industry has come in a statement proposed to provide for the increased use ment: technical data calculațed from the EEC Commission. research, processing better utilization and possible developical

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suitware Illake The Commission was looking preparations nOTe Tory government has efficient business management, soccuncally two recent proposals aid the found, huge state hand-outs rationalization of public services tor state only German industries. scientific Cal. LUlUDe a lu Under the second french Plan research.' alve, even for a short period FLAMING PETROL bombs were factory. These 'urban guerrilla' about 200 people methods of the Soanish Pabloites Briefly... when are a complete cover up for the Barcelona demonstrated Stalinists who have yesterday against the dismissal of the rationalization accepted the textile industry. workers

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE AMERICAN State found little Department encouragement from the first day of the resumed Vietnam 'peace' talks in Paris. Commenting on the opening statements by the North Viet- namese and National Liberation Front delegations, a spokesman said: 'We certainly cannot draw any initial encouragement from what were pretty stiff opening statements by the other side.'

Washingon fears its diplomatic arm-twisting over the past two months may have failed to force a change in the position of the Vietnamese leaders. Despite the intensive bombard- ment and the blockade of North Vietnamese ports — measures carried out without the slightest from Moscow and opposition Peking-the Vietnamese fighters show no signs of accepting the US demand for a ceasefire.

Outside the city of Quang Tri, south of the demilitarized zone, there has been fierce fighting for the four days as North past Vietnamese and NLF troops hit back against an invading force of South Vietnamese marines.

The Saigon government and its advisers wanted to retake Quang Tri on the eve of the resumption of talks in Paris. Instead, their forces have been drawn into a trap and are being badly mauled by the liberation forces. American heavy bombers have been flying repeated missions in the area in an effort to stop liberation troops encircling and cutting off the marine force.

Part of their payload includes poison gas — as the Defence Department confirmed on Thurs- day. Commenting on protests from Hanoi about the use of gas shells and bombs, the Depart- ment said the dropping of tear gas and nausea gas bombs did not represent any change in the long-standing US policy on the use of such weapons. Friedheim Spokesman Jerry in referred to a statement September 1969 which said the use of tear gas was part of a continuing effort to use weapons which would hold down casualties. amazing justification' This does not inhibit the Defence Department from dropping Diockbusters on the victims of its gas attacks. Helicopters are also carrying canisters tear-gas to prevent panic-stricken soldiers and refu- gees from dragging them down in efforts to scramble aboard!

'To guard against this very hazardous situation, selected helicopter crews engaged in evacuation operations were issued with aerosol CS containers, an army statement said. FILM WORKERS have occupied the de Laurentis studios Rome, after their owner, Italian film tycoon Dino de Laurentis, gave a surprise announcement that he had sold them to an unknown developer. The Entertainment Union and Film Guilds called a half-day stoppage of all film production in support of the 85 occupying men. Laurentis claims that it is the flight of American capital into Spain and Yugoslavia that has forced him out of business.

Dino-Citta is one of the most up-to-date best-equipped and film studios in Rome. Like Shepperton Studios in London, is threatened which with a similar closure, the Rome Studios and the technicians who work there are thrown out of work in the name of non- profitability. The Freelance Shop of ACTT in London has sent a telegram of solidarity to the Italian workers.

INDUSTRIAL

reporter of Party's the Communist 'Morning Star', , Mick Cos- tello, bears a major res- ponsibility for the 'con- tinuing scandal' of David Maude's exclusion from the Industrial Correspon- dents' Group. This is stated by Royston Bull, industrial correspondent of the 'Scotsman', in a letter 'in this week's 'New Statesman'.

Mr Bull is also chairman of the Central London branch of the National Union of Jour- nalists. His letter to the 'New States- man' marks a further round in the drawn-out history of the Workers industrial Press correspondent's fight for mem- bership of the group. Two weeks the deputy ago editor of the 'New Statesman' Peter Paterson remarked in his column that the 'Morning Star' reporter 'helps keep him [David Maude]. out' of the group. This drew an indignant letter from Mr Costello in which he claimed he was not obstructing the application. Now Mr Bull has written a detailed account of Costello's role in the group over David Maude's proposed membership.

He writes: "The letter from the "Morning industrial Star's" correspon- dent, Mick Costello, does not tell the whole truth, and what is left out is crucial. At no David Maude stage has Costello proposed in the committee, of which he is deputy chairman, that David Maude, the Workers Press correspondent, be admitted to the Labour and Industrial Correspondents' Group. 'And in the absence of any posi- tive proposal, the committee has been able to spin this matter out in the most shame- ful way. 'As one of the few members of the committee with any claim to enlightened political views, major Costello must bear a responsibility for this con- which has tinuing scandal, gone on now for nearly three since Maude's first years application.' L22т 28 Charlotte St

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WAGE INCREASES of up to 60 per cent for 4,000 Scottish building workers have been agreed in Glasgow by repre- sentatives of three companies and the unions. The three companies are the first in Britain to have reached agreement with the unions who embarked their selective on strikes campaign three weeks ago to achieve a £30 a week minimum rate. Tom McCalmont, an official of the Transport and General Workers' Union, chairman of the unions' action committee Scotland, said that at least eight more Scottish firms might come to similar agreements. The agreement gives craftsmen a basic rate of £25, but has a minimum of £30 guaranteed a week. The firms have promised to reduce the working week from 40 to 35 hours 'within two years' days to sive an additional four- holiday a year by 1974. Increases based on the cost-of- living index are also included.

equivalent An productivity drive-meaning a cut back in jobs - is almost certain if the firms are to maintain their profits.

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ABOUT 60 building workers extension, Milford Haven, So ing the site workers camp aft closed. Security men with Alsatian dogs guarded the camp gates and refused to let anyone in except men with hut keys who wanted to remove their belongings. The camp, which housed about 600 of the site workers, was on Wednesday-the day closed after 1,200 men were sacked by Foster main contractors, Wheeler, in a strike over the sacking of 37 workers last Thursday. A spokesman for the strikers said that the men would not have to continue the occupation if the camp was reopened. Most of them have no money to pay for other accommodation, how-

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orkers at the Esso oil refinery ven, South Wales, are occupy- amp after it has been officially ever, because Foster Wheeler sent their cards and their pay to their home addresses when they were sacked. At a meeting at the refinery gates on Thursday, nearly 600 dismissed men decided to con- tinue picketing in an attempt to force talks on the original sackings wet weather over working contracts. The men say Foster Wheeler management is refusing to negotiate reinstatements with officials of the seven unions involved. They are also taking legal advice to see if they are entitled to National Assistance.

A TOTAL of 400 South Wales building workers will be on strike next week • over the builders' national pay claim.

About 70 building and joinery workers in Port Talbot and Swansea will join the strike next week with 300 men who came out last week. The South Wales convenor of the National Joint Council for the Building Industry-the unions' negotiating body-Mr Cliff Richards, said that the main aim of the strike was to create confusion for the employ- ers. However, the South Wales dir- ector of the National Federation of Building Trade Employers, said the small Peter Gatehouse, numbers now being brought into the strike did not demonstrate successful strike action.

8 Press, Saturday July 15, 1972 PAGE 3 BUILDING workers on strike at the Heysham nuclear power station site in • Lan- cashire succeeded in stopping a train from entering the site yesterday morning and are calling on railwaymen to black supplies to the site.

The pickets were under the impression that the railwaymen had already blacked the site, but just before 10 a.m. yesterday, an engine from Heysham sidings was seen shunting a train load of steel rods onto a branch line leading into the site. Pickets raced • to intercept it and found British Rail police were with the train. But after some discussion, the driver un= coupled his engine and took it back to the sidings, leaving. the train outside the site gates.

The building workers at Hey- sham began their strike just over a week ago. They are employed by Taylor Woodrow. About 400 men came out. However, there has been some bitterness over the fact that Constructional Engineering Union members who originally came out at the beginning of the strike returned to work after a meeting the following day. The CEU men's narrow de- cision to return was influenced by the fact that their union is not backing the strike. But they will be out on Mon- day in protest over the sacking of 17 steel erectors. Besides criticism of the CEU leadership, a number of the workers are critical of the sélective strikes policy. They say it would have been better to have had a total national stop- page throughout the industry.

LECTURES

BIRKENHEAD: Sunday July 16, 12 noon. The Royal Castle Hotel (opposite Lairds). 'The Marxist Method and Building the Revolutionary Party' NEWCASTLE: Monday July 17, 8 p.m. Hotspur Hotel, The Haymarket. Lecture given by Come State or An introde in SLL Central to Marxism'.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday July Algerian independence was not granted by the French Fifth Republic, which continued its massacres and genocide after de Gaulle took N power in June 1958. It was wrested from the colonialists by the Algerian people under the leadership of the FLN (National Liberation Front) and the army, claimed President Houari Boumedienne in a tenth anniversary speech recently. He pointed out that the Algerian war had produced conditions of near civil war in France in 1958, with the rebellion of the army against Paris. The French army had mass- acred a tenth of the Algerian population, said Boumedienne.

Speaking of the Evian agree- ments which brought the war to an end and recognized Algerian independence, he said that the French tried to keep country under their own the control by emptying the agree- ments of their real content.

From the beginning', he continued, worked to denounce them.' Since then all outstanding differences with the former colonial power had been settled. It only remains in the future to develop co-operation on the basis of respect for sovereignty, common interests and respect for the fundamental aims of each of the two states.' He added that Algeria was prepared to continue co-opera- tion with France on these prin- Praise for France's foreign policy comes from the Polish daily 'Gazeta Poznanska'.

Reflecting the thinking of the bureaucracy in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, it says that co-operation of those countries with France is an essential element in Euro- pean security. It calls President Pompidou 'realistically-minded' and says he 'has backed and still sup- ports all efforts and initiatives of the countries of the social- ist commonwealth aimed at lasting detente in the heart of Europe'. It writes approvingly of 'the French concept of the Common Market, the Gaullist with thesis of Confederation revived after their adaptation to the realities of the present period'.

It praises the efforts of the French government to trans- form the Mediterranean into a region of peace. Poland and her associates, the article goes on, 'see her ing raay July 15, 1972 ciples, as well as with the European Common Market and with any other states desirous of co-operation. Boumedienne is right in that independence claiming was not 'granted' by France.

Nor did the frontier armies he controlled have much part in it. National independence was wrested from the colonialists at the price of enormous sacri- fices which hardly spared a single Algerian family. The point is, what the masses gained from those sacrifices.

The Evian agreements were a sell-out from the start. To claim now that the

FLN

entered into them in order to denounce them later flies in the face of historical fact. It made peace in order to pre- vent being swept away by the revolutionary forces in Algeria.

The interests of de Gaulle and the FLN coincided on this point because the General also had to make peace to prevent the undermining of his regime.

What Boumedienne has been able to do is to reduce depend- ence on France by bargaining with other rival imperialism for the right to dispose of Algeria's rich mineral resour- ces. Even so, those ties have not been cut: his government still depends upon French aid and French capital. • Speeches of this sort, required for independence day rallies, cannot conceal the fact that he has to give guarantees of good behaviour to the repre- sentatives of world capitalism.

Algeria, after ten years of 'independence', remains a backward, semi-colonial coun- try exploited by world imperi- alism. partnership and close political and economic co-operation with France as an important goal'. Party chief Gierek is now to visit Paris in the autumn.

While Pompidou is tooling up to hit back at the work- ing class, the bureaucracy is giving him their meaning of 'ne is encel came ume which thẹ Fren Parrynsca. Party ISt working class Ir giving him their approval.

The meaning of peaceful co-exist- is spelled the out the agreement Communist Party has made with the Social- hold back the from struggle. of the Algerian FLN (National Liberation Front). Below: De Gaulle and Salan In Algarla

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The stepping up of the Viet- nam means big new orders for American aments manufacturers., Cost of munitions rose by April-June $400m for period and cost of fuel and transport was up by $300m.

Additional orders are going to aircraft manufacturers, oil of companies and makers bombs and shells. Marathon of Texas has an order worth $1.7m for high bombs of 7501bs. explosive Contracts for bombs have to Honeywell and also AMP On of New York. The oil firms to do well out of the include Shell and bombing Humble Oil. The administration will need credits supplementary for planes helicopters. and will Main beneficiaries be McDonnel-Douglas, Bell heli- copters Lockheed and North- rop. Below: De Gaulle and Salan in Algerla International capital loves the colonels' in Greece regime judging by the loans which it hastens to provide to prevent the economy going bankrupt.

In the first half of this year over $100m was provided for the financing of public works.

One loan came from European organizations and another of $70m from a consortium of international banks. Greece is given a three years' grace period and then will have ten years to pay at 7 interest. These per cent terms are exceptionally favour- able for an international loan.

The official press hand-out Today' comments: 'Greece 'Only a country with an extremely sound economy could procure such consider- able amounts from the inter- national money market under such exceptionally favourable conditions.' The loans are rightly seen as an endorsement of the regime by the international bankers./

AFTER THE APRIL REVOLT

A special background series examining the class struggle in Ceylon from 1964 to the present day. Part six.

A special background series ex The so-called anti-capital- ist measures proposed by Perera last year proved futile, as Prime Minister Mrs Bandaranaike re- cently told the private sector employers that the proposed income ceiling of 2000 rupees would not affect 'productive invest- ments. She explained further that the of the other proposal budget, the so-called 'business aquisition act' would be imple- mented only against 'exchange abuses' 'business mal- and practice' In November the Ceylon rupee was directly tied to the dollar. This was a step to move closer to US imperialism as Britain enters into the Com- This move in- Market. mon directly devalued the rupee.

This economic policy of squeezing the masses directly related to the right- wing swing of the foreign policy of the government. First it expelled the North Korean from the country, embassy then it joined hands with US British imperialism to and crush the April revolt. In the face of the Bangla Desh struggle, the government remained on the side of Paki- stan and recognized Bangla Desh only after imperialism gave the signal to do so. Today the government's silence on the offensive of the Viet- namese has torn away the mask of its 'neutral' foreign policy.

This pro-imperialist foreign policy and the reactionary home policy not only created big changes within the work- ing class, but also created difficult conditions for the left parties. These parties could not move further to the right with the government without creating a split within their own ranks. This break-up of reformism and Stalinism is a major feature of the Ceylon class situation today. The split inside the CP is now out in the open. split occurred over a This very vital question for the Ceylon trade union movement —the Criminal Justice Com- missions Bill. Put forward by the right-wing SLFPers it is intended to legalize the Bona- partist powers assumed by the government under emergency.

It is put forward as a Bill which will enable the govern- ment to deal sufficiently with the insurgent movements. But when that Bill enters into the law book, the govern- ment can brand or interpret even a strike to defend living standards, a democratic right, as a revolt against the govern- . try the strikers ment and can under a special body of laws which are alien to the previous system. According to this Bill, no- the Prime body other than Minister can decide what is a revolt against the government and what is not. A verdict given by this special court cannot be challenged by any- body. In essence this is the abolition of the so-called 'independence of the judiciary' converting the judiciary • into a naked force at the hands of the capitalist government against the masses. eries examining the class struggle in All the leaders of the work- ing-class movement knew full well the meaning of this Bill and they could not hide its significance from the masses.

Every trade union leader, in- cluding the LSSP and make left' noises leaders, against it. But one wing of the CP could not stop simply at that.

Though CPer Pietr Keuneman gave his consent to the Bill at cabinet level, the other wing CP around S.A. of the Wicramasingha carried a cam- paign against the Bill within the limits of the Popular Front.

The 'Attha' paper denounced the Bill as fascist. But this was not a campaign to mobilize independently to the masses defeat the Bill. Their aim was very clear: to create a division within the government and thereby to pressurize the government to drop the Bill.

Prime Minister Mrs Banda- ranaike acted very firmly. Under the guise of combating armed 'robbers' who were sup- posed to be looting around the country the armed forces were kept alert and check-points were opened once again. The official paper of the CP, 'For- ? was forced to admit a ward' 'reactionary threat' operating below the surface. Mrs Bandaranaike The battle of the SLFPers was 'the unity of the government' With that manoeuvre Mrs Bandaranaike kept the ranks of the SLFP intact. There was no division, as expected by the Stalinists. So, when the voting time came for the Bill, the LSSP and SLFP members voted solidly for it. This forced the oppositionist CP members to make up their minds. Caught between the campaign they carried out through 'Attha paper and the firm stand taken by the other members of the two CP government group, members ran away from the parliament while the remaining two, Dr S. A. Wicramasingha Sarat Muthettuwegama, and abstained on the 'fascist Bill', as they themselves called it.

. The government expelled three members who did not vote for the Bill and gave Dr Wicramasingha time to pro- vide an explanation. The LSSP fully backed the SLFP decision to expel the dissident Stalinists.

created an This enormous confusion throughout the • especially working class and within the CP. As rank and filers further to the 'left' of Wicramasingha demanded a break from the coalition, the right wing around Keuneman threw all the dissidents off the editorial board of 'Attha' and appointed a new board. After the expulsions the PM, showing • her brutal class • declared that arrogance, 'United Front' discipline was superior to the discipline of ggle in Ceylon from 1964 to the pres Colvin R. de Silva-ex-Trotskyist, who individual parties. If these words express the determin- ation of the ruling class to crush the working class move- ment and bloodily supress the oppressed masses, at the same time they express the great contradiction and the crisis of which Mrs the government Bandaranaike tries to conceal behind the very same words.

After passing the Justice Commissions Bill, the govern- ment adopted a new con- stitution and declared that 'Sri Lanka is now an independent country. Masses did not participate in this 'ceremony'.

This constitution marked a sharp break from the tradi- tional forms of class rule and drafted by ex-Trotskyist was Colvin R. De Silva. The transformation to Bona- partism expressed by the Bill was carried a step forward by the adoption of a new con- stitution. The Public Security Act is now incorporated in this constitution and this means that emergency rule will be the normal rule of the country until the working class defeats li. Colvin R. De Silva • stated that this new constitution has "revolutionary character' because this represents a clear break from the Solbury con- stitution. But he 'forgot' to say that this 'revolutionary' constitution also included the Public Security Act, which the Workers Press, 9 he present day. Part six.

yist, who drafted the government's new Con LSSPers themselves opposed in 1958! But neither he nor any other 'left' leader can erase that memory. from the working class. Workers, increasingly realizing the treachery of these leaders, are now launch- ing a massive onslaught on counter-revolutionary these plans. A showdown between the government and the masses is now on the agenda.

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The pay demands raised by the bank employees, plantation workers and state corporations workers raise directly the question of ending the govern- ment. The workers are deter- mined to fight back. They now reformist openly resist the treachery of the 'lefts' in their own way. In the bank employ- ees' union and in the govern- ment printing workers' union the Samasamaja leadership has been thrown out and a new leadership established. A revolutionary party has a great opportunity to intervene in this situation to train' a Marxist revolutionary leader- ship, in the fire of the struggle against the traditional leaders.

By turning workers who are coming up against the tradi- tional leaders towards the mass labour movement, a force can 8 Press, Saturday July 15, 1972 PAGE 5 new Constitution be successfully built. But in order to develop the political consciousness of the is very working class it necessary to fight against pure trade union militancy and the centrists who adopt themselves to this. Without this political development, no link can be forged with the other sections of the oppressed masses. • The crisis of the Federal Party expresses the dead end and protest of Federalism movements within the Tamil minorities. What they demand objective- ly is the revolutionary leader- ship from the proletariat. Precisely at this point, where all the sections of oppressed masses can be united under the leadership of the working class, the 'left' leaders try to keep the working class subordinated to the bourgeoi- sie, and centrists attempt to keep the working class con- fined to the trade union struggles. The fight against these 'enemies is the fight of the Revolutionary Communist League, the Ceylonese section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.

By demanding the 'left' leaders break from the coali- tion and fight for an indepen- dent Samasamaja and government, they alone raise the question of the political power of the working class and fight to realize it.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

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On Monday last week Harold ' Wilson had a busy time. In the morn- ing he attended the 10th annual congress of the International Confedera- tion of Free Trade Unions at the Blooms- bury Centre Hotel. Reginald Maudling Before he made his opening remarks he joined Tory deputy prime minister Reginald Maud- ling in the front seats for a quiet discussion. It was an un- happy time for Maudling. That same day "The Times' published a leading editorial demanding a full judicial inquiry into the Poulson affair which with Maudling's name was asso- ciated. Was the Labour leader, who is a dab hand at sorting out national scandals of this type, imparting grave advice to his Tory colleague? At 3.30 p.m. he was in the House of Commons when Ulster Secretary William Whitelaw reported on the latest crisis. The army was sending in another 1,600 gun- men to deal with the situation.

Immediately finished he speaking, Wilson was on his feet to congratulate the Tories. He said the Opposition had heard Whitelaw's report saturday July 15, 1872

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with 'great shock and disap- pointment'. Nevertheless, it does not prove the policy is the contrary wrong-on we hope you will have the courage to go on pursuing the policy The Tories cheered when Wilson said: 'On the reports that I have read so far, no blame can be attached to the army or security forces for this latest very grievous development.' Glowing with this fulsome praise for the Tory and government the army, Whitelaw said: 'I am most grateful to you and I entirely agree with you on the last part of what you have said.' If these two rotund figures had suddenly embraced each other, it would have seemed quite in order. After question time Wilson went to Kensington. North of the track, of course. The north- erly part where the streets glide down to the overcrowded ghetto of Notting Hill. We all met at No 92 Lad- broke Grove, the headquarters of the local Labour Party.

the ambitious young men (and women) of the party were there to greet the leader on an afternoon jaunt through the slums, the purpose of which was to acquaint his excellency with the problems of the poor.

That's what the public rela- tions hand-out said, anyway.

More jaundiced observers saw his whisk through the area as an attempt to impress voters about the solid and virtuous candidacy of prospective Labour candidate Mr John Til- ley. 4.25 the grand tour began with Wilson peering into a large tenement where people are living on every floor, land- ing and cupboard. He com- miserated with one or two of them. They look sullen. Wilson fled into the sunshine and was whisked away by the dark blue Jaguar of local Labour MP Mr Bruce Douglas Mann. 4.45 Wilson strolled through Talbot Grove House, a hideous council block that would not be out of place in downtown Calcutta. Half a mile from the Roy Jenkins manse in Lad- broke Square, it is a ferocious indictment of the power of ownership under property capitalism. The old folk who live there came out in ones and twos to gaze upon the strange visitor.

One lady ruffled the feathers of the official party when she began a barrage of complaints: 'My walls are falling in, the ceiling is falling in. Why don't they do any repairs? There's rats in the dustbins. I've seen them. Rats. The rents are going up. They're putting the rents up? Wilson was carefully shep- herded away by members of his entourage. " The one inspiring scene was the children. Young larrikins about 12 to 14 years old. They roved around the well-suited shouting: 'Hey tourists Harold, what you doing down here? Get out of it.' Like an ageing member of Royalty Wilson turned to smile and wave at them. That made them shriek with laughter. 'What's he waving at us for? He must be mad.' Outside a large lorry was trying to negotiate through the limousines. When the driver Wilson he revved his saW something engine and said which to print may be classi- fied as incitement to do a pub- lic harm. Suffice it to say that the driver was no friend of Wilson's. What do you think of him?

I asked. 'Well, he's better than Heath. But he doesn't repre- sent the working man. He's not our representative at all.

He's one of them? 5.10 Wilson reached a 30- acre vacant allotment owned by British Rail which local campaigners want handed over for low-cost council housing.

Negotiations have commenced with BR's chief Richard Marsh and the Ministry for the En- vironment. A small boy pressed up to Wilson and asked for an auto- graph. Without looking at the boy, Wilson signed his name and handed him back the paper. 'Could I have another one?'

he asks. 'What, are you going to do sell them?'-And he's serious!

A representative of the local Housing Action Group pre- sented Wilson with a copy of their redevelopment plan.

we can get this land freed for our use, our housing problem will be over.' He must be kidding. 5.30 Wilson inspected the play projects which have beer established under the immense concrete flyover which crosses the Portobello Road and Lad- broke Grove. Under one of the sections they have even constructed a theatre which stages plays and pop concerts.

Wilson then decided to hold an impromptu press confer- You can almost write ence. "This has been what he said. an all-too brief but impressive tour. I'm particularly impressed by the voluntary efforts which are being undertaken, etc, etc.'

It was ists, all middle-class trendies, gazed in awe and asked such thrusting questions as: 'Will you come again?' and: 'Did you enjoy your visit?' 6 p.m. Wilson clambered into his official car and zoomed back to civilization. He had delivered a number of deathly bromides to the local action groups about what he would do—or what he would try to do. Nobody seemed particularly convinced.

But then nobody seemed to care very much either. The whole was about public relations, not socialist policies No one dared to mention last week's election manifesto produced by Labour which carried not mention a single about repealing the Tory 'fair rents' Bill. At all costs, every- steadfastly One wanted avoid talking politics. accident. A 1 his is not an Wilson and his few years accolytes like Wedgwood Benn and Crosland would bore the pants off audience they any could lock room to Into a relay expansive programmes for the 1970s and beyond. This Bennery is now exposed for the balderdash it really is. The only people who were ready to talk about politics were the working-class families we encountered. People around We're fed up: aren't here going to put The with this much longer. rent increases won't be paid. I'm not paying and neither is my neighbour. I'm an old aged pensioner and I've lived here for 30 years and I'm not mov- either. The council ing can to hell.' go Tory-controlled The Royal Borough of Kensington. and Chelsea is increasing its rents with The first a vengeance. 55p, 5pt more increase even required than is under the Bill. 'If we get Wilson back, he'll have to do something about He'll the housing situation. have to. But as we noted earlier, Wil- son had already gone by this He heading back time. was His home the home. is on other side of the line which divides Kensington between fur-lined Chelsea and the Footnote: At midnight Wilson was again with the Tories. He and Labour's Ulster spokes- man, Merlyn Rees, went to Whitelaw's office for fidential briefing on the crisis.

Workers Prosa, Saturday July 15, 1972 PAGE 7 Mrs Judith Thomas, a widow is one of the overcrowded She lives on first floor of a block in Ladbroke Grove.

rooms-two sleeping in the kitchen in front of the gas stove. Three crowd into the other pokey bedroom and one sleep on he settee in the lounge Mrs Thomas, a West Indian, keeps the place immaculatels clean. The shelves and mantel- with the pieces are adorned colourful bric a brac of such families-everything from the Crucifixion to kewpie dolls Her eldest children are and live away • from home. it is the smaller children one-year-old Harrison. other young aged 10 and 11 are driven onto the streets to play. Any games in the house irritate the neigh- bours. Mrs Thomas has been the council housing list for five years. Recently she

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Tower Hamlets in the East End, offered but Mrs Thomas is reluctant to I've lived in this area for All my friends are here. I'm a widow and to move now would mean the end of all my friendships.' of lack of official Because in her interest predicament- she is categorized as having too large a family and is there- fore case -Mrs Thomas to local neighbourhood ani action groups Monica Mandel Housing Centre Thomas's *They overcrowded Live in accommodation and have no where to go? The overcrowding in Notting He has seen brought about bor the invasion property speculators and the upper who can afford their refurbished accommod. ation. street-by-street cam- paign developers have compressed the working-class community into a tighter and couple tighter ghetto. of revealed years ago survey that there were 2,550 cases householders with more than person rOOm one There of were cases 1.5 persons living more than per room. Statutory overcrowding cases. Other official figures give a dismal insight into the state of working-class the in For the whole of the area. Royal Borough of Kensington Chelsea the and population density is about 72 to the acre.

In North Kensington is double that—134 to the acre and in Golborn the major ghetto area, it is 221 Ten per cent of people have no bath, 68 per cent share; 34 have no per cent washbasin and hotwater, 24 per cent share; 16 per cent don't have an inside toilet, 60 per cent share. struggle Mrs Thomas families thousands of other for somewhere decent to live.

Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested on May 5, 1920. They were sentenced to die in the electric chair April 9, 1927 and that sentence was carried out a few minutes after midnight on August 22, 1927. In the course of those seven years, one of the most glaring exposés of the nature of capitalist justice is revealed. Reprinted from the Bulletin' (April 3, 1972), organ of the Workers League of US. By Nancy Fields.

SACCO AND VANZETTI

PAGE & Workers Press, Saturday July 1 Sacco and Vanzetti were arre carried out a few minutes aft nature of capitalist justice is r Part 7. Perspective An examination of the Sacco and Vanzetti case must be placed in its perspective today.

There exist many similarities between the period of their case and today. However, it is the differ- ences between the two periods that are crucial and will be determining the decisive in course of history either to develop through socialism or to be destroyed through barbarism. In the 1920s, the crisis in the capitalist system had not yet reached its highest level.

It took ten years to burst forth to the surface with the Great Depression of 1929. In the 1970s, however, the crisis has deepened fundamentally and has risen to the very surface of developments. To understand the essential difference, it is necessary to examine Nixon's August 15 announcements to remove gold backing for the dollar, to im- pose import surcharges, to end the system of fixed parities and to impose strict wage controls. The removal of gold from the dollar means that the dollar now is only worth the paper it is printed on-it no longer has any value. Because of the inflationary policies instituted in the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement, approxi- mately three-fourths of the dollars oustanding today are worthless. Thus, the August measures of Nixon cannot be seen as mere "technical adjustments' as the capitalists would like to have us believe. Rather, they are a life-and-death measure for the survival of capitalism itself. The only way that the capi- talists can restore value to their system is by declaring warfare on the working open class and youth. The ground- work is already being laid for this offensive with increasing unemployment, the Pay Board, tremendous slashes in the edu- cational budgets, and Nixon's so-called 'welfare reform' pro- gramme. Jacksonmurdered In George San Quentin prison. The ruling class knows that it must completely smash the standard of living that the working class has fought for and the past 25 won over task of years. However, the confronting that working class is enormous. Unlike the 1920s when only 1 million workers were organ- ized in the craft-type trade unions of the AFL, today over 15 million workers are mem- bers of the AFL-CIO with an additional 4 million in the United Auto Workers and the Teamsters. In the face of this tremendous power, the ruling •class attempts to divert the working class and cover un its attacks with increasing frenz?.

Thus, we see a return to the tactics of the 1920s on a far deeper level. day July 15, 1972 ere arrested on May 5, 1920. They utes after midnight on August 22, tice is revealed. Reprinted from the Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard, Robert The capitalist press, which served as the ruling class' tool in whipping up the hysteria that the way for prepared Palmer's 'red' raids, lays the same groundwork today. This is the meaning of the reaction- 'Daily News' headlines ary which scream about illegal aliens' allegedly taking jobs away from American workers.

As in the 1920s, the govern- is trying to whip up ment racialism and chauvinism to divert workers away from the real issues. Juan Farinas-Jailed for distri- buting anti-war leaflets.

It is no accident that, at this time, there should appear a new campaign against the foreign-born. Thus, the House of Representatives Immigration and Naturalization Committee has been holding hearings in various cities on the question of "illegal aliens' in order to prepare the way for a vicious • They were sentenced to die in th ust 22, 1927. In the course of those s rom the 'Bulletin' (April 3, 1972), org 1, Robert Shelton: 'I believe there is going to law against employing foreign- born workers. Of course, this law will be used dis- to criminate against all Spanish- speaking individuals including Puerto Ricans. At the the same time, Federal Immigration Authority has announced its moderniza- tion of its deportation system in order to facilitate the rapid round-up of immigrants. The memory of the 'Buford' packed immigrants with is again becoming a reality. The government cannot simply rely on its bureaucratic apparatus to deal with the working class. It is for this reason that it encourages the development of right-wing and fascist elements to prepare the way for the establishment of a Bonapartist dictatorship under which the rights of the work- ing class will be crushed.

Thus, as in the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan, under the new name of the United Klans of America, rears its ugly head to begin an active recruitment its im- campaign. Recently, perial wizard, Robert Shelton said: 'I believe there is going to be a violent revolution in this country and Im getting tired of waiting.' Shelton and his compatriots in the Jewish Defence League are there in the background just waiting for the signal to be unleashed by the govern- ment against the working class. These are the forces which the capitalist class will ie in the electric chair April 9, 192 i those seven years, one of the mos 72), organ of the Workers League of going to be a vlolent revolution and I'm gettin use to bolster the body of armed men and to wipe out even the flimsy cover of bour- geois democracy. Thus, the government used the killings of two East Village cops to create a 'shoot-to-kill' atmosphere. There was only one purpose to the page after eulogies which page appeared in the capitalist press: to whip up a facialist hysteria and hostility to mili- tants and to justify the repres- sive measures of the state against the movement of the working class. Of course, the government cannot possibly succeed in its attempts without the com- plicity of the Stalinists and the labour bureaucracy. George Meany, following his mentor Gompers, sat on the Pay Board of the ruling class. At the same time, Nixon ran to China because the ruling class knows it must form an alliance with the Chinese-Stalinist bureau- cracy against the international working class. Today, when the question of socialism becomes a matter of life and death for the work- ing class, the ruling class must move forward to destroy those who strike out against its system and take up the fight for socialism. This is the mean- ing of the murder of George Jackson, the prosecution Angela Davis and the jailing of Juan Farinas. The lessons of the Sacco and Vanzetti case must be assessed 9, 1927 and that sentence was he most glaring exposés of the ague of US. By Nancy Fields.

I'm getting tired of waiting.

of in the light of all these ut developments. The treachery of the liberals in that case must serve as a sharp warning to those who seek to follow the same road in the defence of working class militants today. Communist The American Party, in alliance with its inter- national counterparts, imitates the liberals of the Boston Defence Committee in their defence of Angela Davis. They turn from the mobilization of the masses to the motions of the lawyers and seek to tie Angela's defence to the liberal section of the capitalist class.

But in this period of deepen- ing class conflict, these liberals will desert Davis precisely as they deserted Sacco and Van- zetti. Before his jailing, Juan Farinas pointed sharply to the real meaning of his case and posed the tasks that are funda- mental for the survival of the working class both here and internationally. 'No one can win without a political struggle against the capitalist system. This is true in the fight against the war, the struggle in the prisons, the fight for basic wages, defence of the trade unions and the fight of youth for a decent education and the right to a job. Through a political struggle against the decaying imperialist system, we can beat back all these attacks and put an end to them for good.'

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Senator George Mc. Govern's presidential election image is the champion of the little man'. But anyone with half an eye can see that this story, like so many others told by American presidential hopefuls, is so much eyewash. Take the Miami convention, for example. The battling little Democratic Party had run up a few cool million dollars in debts on the eve of convention.

There were outstanding hotel bills, salaries and the like to pay. Not to mention a debt of $9.3m left over from Hubert Humphrey's unsuccessful cam- paign in 1968. So Richard Strauss, the party's treasurer, was landed with the problem of finding cash on the nail. What did he do? Go out busking round the hotel foyers? Organize a flag day? A bring-and-buy sale? Not a bit of it. He just got on the phone to a few friends.

Within less than a day he had raised $4,461,755. This event, the name of glorified 'telethon' (telephone marathon) allegedly attracted more than half a million donors. All of them battling little men, no doubt. But this was not the end of the Democrats' financial saga. The convention itself has run them up a debt of $100,000.

They are forced to adopt far cruder methods than the rarefied Strauss. The 'New York Times' quoted a weary Democratic official saying: 'When someone calls and says he has his son with him and can the boy get into the con- vention hall, we say: • "Sam we're short of money—we need your help" We're selling boxes, we're selling pages — we'd sell the podium if we could. I think we're working it out.' The big debt accumulated at last year's convention has not endeared the Democrats to traders. Purveyors of goods and services are now demand- ing and getting advance pay- ments, deposits and funds held in escrow. The Democrats' basic prob- lem is they are out of office.

As Strauss puts it: 'Paying for a convention without the pull and prestige of a Demo- crat in the White House-you have to pay cash as you go because we left Chicago owing to $im and you've close got a $9.3m debt that includes IOUs from people who would normally be big contributors— well it's a very substantial undertaking' By contrast, the fat-cat Republicans will start their convention with the necessary cash in hand. They • Start the proceedings with the $165,000 profit they made on the last Republican convention. The Democrat's Presidential Candidate President Nixon has massive ship- approved building contracts worth more than $660m. Five US shipyards will share the contracts for 16 new merchant ships. Under the terms of the contracts the US government will supply a total of $248m in subsidies. These subsidies, which amount to 43 per cent of the total, have been neces- sary to make the prices competitive with those in Germany and the Japan, Netherlands. Since the start of the 1970 programme, the Nixon admin- istration has provided more than $479m for the shipbuild- ing industry to stay on its feet against foreign com- petitors. Any new contracts will have a subsidy of 41 per cent, the administration says. A spokesman estimated that the programme will provide 36,000 new jobs over a three- year period. A $15,000 tomb honouring America's unknown dead of the Vietnam war will be built this Arlington autumn at National Cemetery in Washing- even though there have ton been no unidentified US dead in this war. Cemetery planners say that they have decided to go ahead, in the event one is found.

'We hope there won't be one, Bobbie R. Beller, Arling- ton's project engineer, said.

'But with the number of fatalities and the number of missing in action ... It's possi- ble one will be found in a final sweep of the battlefield.

'If not,' Beller said, 'the tomb will not be used? The tomb, a sunken crypt marked by a pink marble slab, will be placed between similar unknown tombs honouring George McGovern Shipowners in the US are looking forward to new business carrying US exports Firms overseas. can now qualify for tax rebates on freight charges provided their goods carried on US are vessels. More than 2,000 firms have already •so-called set up Domestic International Sales Corporations to qualify for remission of tax. The British government has attacked the scheme in an official protest to Washington. It claimed the new regu- favoured lations unfairly American exporters and snip- pers and would wreck the present international charter agreements, particularly in the North Atlantic. The government's protest note said the new American tax scheme could be the start of a trade war contest between the major trading countries.

It has asked for an early meeting of the General Agree- ment on Tariffs and Trade so the US can explain its position.

dead from World War II and the Korean war and near the first tomb containing the body of an unknown soldier from World War I. Beller said that the army wanted to build the fourth tomb now because the area is scheduled for major renovation and because of President Nixon's call for such a mem- orial. Last November Il, at a Veterans' Day ceremony mark- ing the 50th anniversary of the burial of the unknown soldier from World War I, Nixon recalled that unknown soldiers from World War II and Korea were buried in 1958. 'Soon, Nixon said, 'another unknown may come to rest on this hallowed ground. We pray he will be the last.' Workers Prese, :

WHO ELSE WILL BUY A YA

The Russians' latest turn to commercial contracts with the capitalists seems to know no bounds. Discussions have reached a crucial between the stage Soviet planemakers and Olym- pic Airlines of Greece for the sale of the trijet YAK-40.

Olympic, you will recall, is owned by Aristotle Onassis.

the well-known backer of the colonels' junta. The YAK-40 is a small jet transport currently doing well in western markets. The type began operating local services with Aeroflot in the Soviet Union in Septem- ber 1968 and it is believed that the airline now have about 300 of these aircraft. The YAK-40 is a unique ocal services out of small rougil aerodromes. Aertirrena, in Italy, acquired YAK-40 and used it as a a demonstrator, in June, and, used it to open up inter-city services. services operated from The the old Urbe Airport on the outskirts of Rome to Caselle Airport in Turin. These ser- vices were flown in connection with the 5th International Aerospace Show in Turin, but Aertirrena have plans regular YAK-40 operations.

In Germany, General Air have taken delivery of the first of a fleet of five YAK-40s, and these are to be used on scheduled domestic services.

The first aircraft is to operate Hamburg-Kassel-Munich round trip services twice a day and a once-daily Hamburg-Wester- land service. When the second aircraft is introduced it will fly two round trips a day over Lubeck-Kassel-Frankfurt the route. Bakhtar Afghan Airways has for some time been operat- ing three YAK-40s on domes- services in Afghanistan, tic and Lloyd Aero Boliviano is reported to have ordered five.

Now there is news of Olym- pic Airways' interest in the Soviet aircraft. With the intro- 13 Pross, Saturday July 16, 1972 PAQE 9

Y A YAK-40?

duction of new domestic sum; mer schedules, the Greek air- line began operating a YAK- 40 four times a day each way between Athens and Mykonos and twice a day over the Athens-Skiathos route. is presumed that the It YAK-40 has either been leased or is a Soviet demonstration aircraft. By using the YAK-40, Olympic has become the only both western airline to use Japanese and Soviet-designed and built transport aircraft.

MOON CORRUPTION

Is nothing sacred? Even the All-American boys who went to the moon for Uncle Sam aren't averse to a spot of cor- ruption. It has been revealed that the three Apollo 15 astronauts have been disciplined for carry- ing 400 unauthorized postal covers to the moon and back last July and then turning 100 of them over to an acquaint- ance in West Germany. Appar- ently the moon-stamped enve- lopes were sold for about £625 Aero- each, said the National nautical and Space Administra- tion. NASA said after an investi- gation that the astronauts, and James who had 'exercised poor judgement in their action, would be repri- manded and their actions given consideration in their due future assign- selection for ments. The 300 moon covers not sold have been confiscated by NASA.

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Clothing militants call PAGE 10 Workera I 2у Juty 15, 1972

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

ANGRY CLOTHING workers in Leeds have rejected their union's recom- mendation to accept a £2 pay offer. At a stormy town meeting on Thursday representatives of 15,000 workers in the industry made it clear that the £2 was completely unacceptable. Militants called for national strike action until their demands for £5 for men and £6 for women for full mobilization of the union and help from other workers was were met. defeated after considerable con- One typical reaction from fusion and with half the delegates delegates at the meeting, who out of the meeting. rejected the recommendation 'The membership is in the mood by 23.6 votes to 168, was: for strike said district action, *'£2 is an insult. As soon as you member Frank Pattin- committee this would have money it 'But the national executive oUle The union Workers gone in price rises. 1S must give the lead. In insulting us by asking us to take of Leeds don't want a 1970 it.' when they were left in the for the A resolution calling lurch.? board of the National executive Mr Pattinson was referring to Garment Union of Tailors and and bitter unoffi- the prolonged strike Workers to take clothing action cial strike of Leeds and failing that for strike action This workers two years ago. -was ruled out of order by Leeds- started when workers at Colliers by the platform. walked and the out Amid a barrage of hostile com- the rapidly spread throughout full-time organizer Alex ment, despite attempts by officials city Leeds Yates explained that the to stop it. district committee had no power Chairman of Thursday's meet- to launch an official strike in the who Keighley, Tom Another resolution asking ing was city. The dally paper that leads the fight against the Torles. £20.28 for 12 months (312 Issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues).

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Despite the pathetic size of the current offer, it is the biggest yet made to the clothing work- ers. Under their last deal they got £l last June and 80p in Dec- ember. mitted in march ain The sub- was and employers first offered £1 in October and next March. The 60p current award gives £2 in one lump sum in December. One of the most treacherous arguments used by the platform meeting concerned the at possibility of a wage freeze.

They hinted it might be better to take the £2 now before the Tories halted incomes in general -which amounts to an accept- ance of Tory wage-cutting policy:.

THE СНОВНАМ Farm depot has received a fresh injection of capital and the company management has been restruc- tured. The management of London (East) ICD Limited declined to give Workers Press full details of the financial changes. A mes- sage from the company told us to make any inquiries at Companies House, the state body where all companies are registered. This week Chobham Farm being picketed by depot was workers and lorry drivers who claim that their jobs are being taken away by dockers. When dockers began work- ing on containers on Monday, several employees were given menial tasks to carry out. Five them objected and of the picketing began. In a statement to the 'Journal of Commerce' , the chief executive of Chobham Farm Mr Bryn Llewellyn said: 'We have 52 reasonably happy men at work and we are all hopeful that the com- pany has a long and fruitful future ahead. If the build-up Lin business] continues the way it is now, it looks as though we shall have to take a few more' There is now a danger that the 1970 experience will be repeated.

The Communist Party-dominated clothing workers liaison com- has been revived-and mittee there is talk of guerrilla or one- day strikes. This could easily isolate the Leeds membership in an ineffectual protest movement.

Other militants insist that the national leadership must be con- fronted with the demand for national strike action coupled with a call to involve industries in support of the claim. The rates in the industry are very low. The big clothing firms employ many thousands of women workers and the minimum rate is around £12 to £13 a week.

Conditions are also bad. One girl told me that on her section 100 women had to share one toilet roll and one bar of soap between them. He hoped that at the depot, the largest inland clearance complex in the UK and pos- sibly western Europe, would soon inaugurate a round-the- clock service. Mr R. F. G. Smith, a dir- ector of the company, gave a clearer insight into the future of the company when he declared:

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The currency crisis and the working class WANDSWORTH: Monday July 17, 8 p.m. 'Selkirk Arms', Sel- kirk Road, Tooting Broadway.

CROYDON: Monday July 17, 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe 'Build the revolutionary party.' GOOLE: Monday July 17, 8 p.m.

'The Buchanan', Wetherill St. SOUTHAMPTON: Tuesday July 18, 7.30 p.m. The Bay Tree Inn, New Road. DAGENHAM: Tuesday_July 18, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Avenue, Barking. 'Stalinism and the Tory government.' SW LONDON: Tuesday July 18, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor Street, SW4.

'Stalinism and the Tory gov- ernment.' 'We don't want a repeat of 1970 when we were left in the lurch' workers' district says garment committee member Frank Pattin- son. Above and below: Scenes from the militant 1970 strike in Leeds 'We all see Chobham Farm as being an inland Port of Lon- don of the future. This is one reason it was pointless to resist that registered the demand dock workers should have access to the work at the depot. If you get the right type of man from the docks there is no better person for getting the maximum out of your handling equipment.'

W LONDON: Tuesday July 18, 8 p.m. 'Prince Albert', Wharfe- dale Road, Kings Cross. 'Stalinism and the Tory govern- ment.' N KENT: Tuesday July 18, 8 Essex p.m. SOGAT. House, Road, Dartford. 'Stalinism and the Tory government.' HULL: Wednesday July 19, 8 p.m. Friends' Meeting House, Percy Street. PRESTON: Thursday July 20, B p.m. Railway and Commercial Hotel, Butler Street (near rail- way station). LUTON: Thursday July 20, p.m. St John Ambulance Hall, Lea Road. 'Stalinism and the Tory government.' SE LONDON: Thursday July 20, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers' Club, opposite New Cross Station. 'Force the Tories to Resign.'

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Whitelaw unleashes army PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday July 15, 1972 DEFENDING his wholescale occupation of the Lenad Belfast, Ulster Supremo William Whitelaw announced il mons yesterday that the IRA were now using 'rocket la Whitelaw said there were 'considerable military tWo operations of a clearly offen- sive character' against the army. He went on: "The army, there- fore, with my authority, rega control the ponded by action to the from which attacks areas launched and protect were to themselves and the civil popu- lation' The Lenadoon army post on the edge of the Andersontown district had been under contin- uous attack, he said. 'It was clear that the could not be post- maintained unless the area from which it was being attacked by Accord. occupied. was gunmen the army moved into the ingly, in strength and are now dominating. It is obvious the Tories are now creating the pretext for launching large-scale attacks using the extra troops sent there on all Ulster's 'no-go' areas-with Londonderry the obvious next target. Defence Lord Car- Secretary, also referred to the use rington, of rocket launchers in the House of Lords yesterday. He said: 'We have known for have time that the

IRA

some had these launchers but I cannot because feel the need to they are.' exactly what type they say some form of protection'.

In spite of both these state- Whitelaw replied that in his ments, however, no-one has been job he had to accept 'attacks and able to report anyone so-far who vilification' from all sides. He has been injured by one of these.

hoped that Fitt, with his con- rauton mills, tion Mr time, influence, and others siderable Stratton (Ulster Unionist would clear to those make it Belfast North) said: responsible for terrorist action "Those who live of in us they danger to the a Ireland saddened were Northern are minority community and the but not surprised by the recent whole of Northern Ireland.

turn of events.' Frank McManus (Unity, •Fer- He asked if there had been managh and South Tyrone) asked: change in the low profile approach of the army in view of the con- 'How are the minority to re- Craig, siderably increased IRA activity.

gard the fact that Mr Unionist party Minister, 'Many of us, he said, former 'believe making ferocious

IRA

got be can go about that the has to Catholic, beaten and beaten physically into anti - anti - minority speeches, and the ground.' appears not at all the law? be amenable to Whitelaw replied that the to Said Whitelaw: 'There is army had shown that they must no law against making speeches would respond to terrorist and government the of the against activities. Fitt day. He is entitled to his views.'

Mr Gerry (Republican West) And when Bernadette Devlin, Labour, ( Belfast said that (Independent Mid-Ulster) rose to there had been an emergence of continued intervene, Whitelaw other forces determined to speaking, and remarked to Tory It defeat Mr Whitelaw's efforts. Republican forces. cheers: was not only Attacks had been made on Mr 'There are lots of people who incite to hatred in their speeches, Whitelaw personally and politically by spokesmen of the from time to time. Miss Devlin claimed that there Unionist party, said. the Fear and frustration were being was 'growing fear among Catholic population about the generated throughout the minor- "because involvement of certain individuals communities of the ity and possibly growing numbers of massive wave of intimidation and

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individuals within the Ulster efforts of the illegal Regiment, in the Ulster Defence forces'. Mr Whitelaw was in danger of Defence Association'. A number of these cases had already been allowing the Catholic community of the brought to the attention 'to be weaned back into at least Commanders, she said. giving passive support to the IRA

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ENGLAND, Wales and Northern Ireland will have a few mist or fog patches at first, but these will quickly clear to be followed by a dry, sunny day. Much of Scotland will be dry with sunny intervals but in the far north little light rain a or likely. There may be drizzle is fog patches at few mist or first southern and central in Scotland. It will be warm or very warm on the scotland south but temperatures will be near over normal. Outlook for Sunday and Mon- day: Dry, very warm in most places.

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Lenadoon Estate, Ulster supremo unced in the Com- (right) with his ocket launchers'. THE EIRE government's policy on Ulster was 'cowardice in the extreme, former minister, Neil Blaney, told deputies in the Dail (parliament) yesterday. The Official and Provisional IRA were the poser in Northern Ireland and had been since August and September 1969, he said. The Irish government had 'great and compelling respon- sibilities' to do what it could, if it meant sacrifice,. to even A TORY MP said last night that B of the road in its present policy Military rule would have to be brought back under control, Mr | Oldbury and Halesowen told the C branch of the right-wing Monday CI

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r supremo Willlam Whitelaw t) with his smiling boss bring the people of the north to full freedom of their own the land'. Blaney condemned the 'ostrich- like' condemnation of violence by the three party leaders and said premier Jack Lynch's speech seeking peace by agree- ment was 'whistling in the dark'.

In Belfast yesterday, members of the Ulster Secretary Mr William Whitelaw's team, were due to see a deputation from the Social Democratic and Labour Party. ht that Britain had reached the end t policy of appeasement in Ulster.

• to be imposed and no-go areas ol, Mr John Stokes, Tory MP for Id the Croydon and Eastern Surrey onday Club. Stokes said that the [Tory] party must recapture the leader- ship which the nation so sorely needed - good, old-fashioned flesh and blood leadership with an unashamed appeal to patriot- ism which never went un- answered among all classes and above all in the working class.

A supreme attempt must now be made to reunite the nation, he said. The government's credibility was at stake in its Ulster policy.

The government had lost the confidence of the majority and the whole nation had been shocked by the government not only talking to IRA leaders but by making the services ferry them here. He added: If we fail in urban guerrillas could Belfast, arise in Birmingham, Cardiff and Glasgow. Military rule will have to be imposed and the no-go areas brought within the Queen's writ' FIFTEEN ships in Mersey docks were idle yesterday following a manning dispute involving 1,850 dockers. of JOHN POULSON's firm £368,000 architects won a the contract for work on Airedale hospital at Eastburn, near Keighley, Yorkshire, with- out it ever having been adver- Argus, Bradford, and claimed yesterday. On Thursday, the Tory Cabinet issued a 47-word statement in order to shelve the Poulson which has involved • the case, SECRET legal moves in the Poulson bankruptcy case came to light yesterday. A secret hearing into the bankruptcy was held at Wakefield County Court on Tuesday. Lawyers, accountants and everyone else involved in the hearing were forbidden by direct order of the court even to dis- close that it had taken place.

The moves in chambers could mean that the Poulson bank- ruptcy case will never be heard in public again. The 1914 Bankruptcy Act pro- vides for secret hearings at the discretion of the court in cases where the debtor is ill. Applica- tion for such a hearing under a 1952 rule dealing with illness, can be made either by the debtor Official himself or by the Receiver. reputation of Home Secretary deputy Prime Minister and Reginald Maudling. But yesterday's revelations will revive interest in the issue, which is now under considera- Attorney-General tion by the and the Director of Public Prosecutions. The "Telegraph and Argus' claimed Poulson's Pontefract- based organization was awarded the Airedale hospital job after being recommended by a special Leeds subcommittee of the Regional Hospital Board. A spokesman for the board said yesterday that normally advertisements for the services of architects, engineers and quantity placed in the surveyors were press and technical journals.

Because of the particular work involved in the Airedale project — it was one of the board's largest projects the time at involving 'innovative features'— this was not done. A COMPLETE seven-day ban on dockers picketing Hackney cold store was sought in the High Court yesterday. 'We ask you to grant us this order in an endeavour to bring stability back to a sad and sorry industry ana said also in the public interest,' Mr Alan Campbell, QC, for Mid- land Cold Storage Ltd. The company is seeking orders against Bernard Steer, Vic Turner, and five other dockers and the un- official joint shop stewards' committee of the Port of London.

MOVES are expected in the next few days to try to end the drivers' strike which is paralys- ing Rover production at Solihull, Warwicks. The aim is to settle the dispute before work is due to resume at the factory after the holiday, which car industry began last night. LONDON tally clerks' leaders yesterday agreed to continue for two more weeks the temporary worksharing scheme brought in a month ago, which staved off a strike by 1,500 tally clerks. The extension has been agreed to the pending publication in a fortnight's time of the joint em- ployer-union committee which is inquiring into the jobs crisis in Britain's ports.