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DAVID MAUDE AND PHILIP WADE

A NATIONAL docks strike broke abruptly and unofficially yesterday as police arrested five London dockers on charges of contempt of the National Industrial Relations Court.

High Court tipstaff Mr James Dorling arrested four of the dockers outside Midland Cold Storage Depot, East London, in a three-minute operation to the accompani- ment of Hitler salutes and shouts of 'Sieg Heil' from pickets. Even before the police moved in dockland came to a halt with dockers and lorry drivers deciding to strike in support of the jailed men.

mid-afternoon there complete shut- was a down at London's Royal, India and Millwall docks and Tilbury was expected to shut down last night.

The Port of London commented: 'Everything's at a standstill'. Rechnitz, The lorry men's leader, Eric announced that his pickets in London would cease operations. He added: I have told my members to call off of the arrests, They are the pickets in view an with trade and trade interference unionism as unionists we must fight against the Industrial Rela- tions Act together. At Midland Cold Storage, the company which the launched the action against dockers, men gathered all afternoon awaiting the police. USDAW workers from the company called off a rival picket outside the firm. 'We are all united now on this question,' one

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picket said. We stand with our fellow trade unionists in this. Later of them joined dockers protecting some three of the jail-threatened An emergency meeting of the Port of London shop stewards committee at lunchtime decided call for national docks proceedings strike until legal against the five are lifted.

Their iailing follows months of litigation in the NIRC. the Court Court. of Appeal and the Dockers have boycotted all court proceedings. The present case against steeards members of the seven shop committee was the Hackney-based brought by Midland Cold Storage. firm, July 7, Sir John Donald- On the court president, issued son, an order against the men calling on them to stop blacking nation- firms whose lorries ally crossed their picket line. Thursday On the company went back to the NIRC to com- plain that the men were defying TONY MERRICK (35), married court's orders. In yesterday's the with two children, member of Donaldson judgement said the

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He has been court 'has no alternative but to docker for 13 years now work- restraint to physical at Nine Elms ing Cold Store: the dockers' against leaders. 'We don't accept this sentence.

(See full court story Page 12). Through the years the dockers Immediately the court rose the have had to fight for their rights. Pentonville would do me tipstaff, Mr James Dorling, took the Hackney fine. We're not martyrs. There taxi to police Not Just 40,000 of station to present the warrants are us. seven." for arrest. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JULY 22, 1972• No. 824 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE •We're not martyrs-there's 40,000 of us

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grandfather and great grand father. 'How do you explain to your children that you're going to prison for something you be- lieve in? This covernment throwing down a challenge to the whole trade union move- And it ment. will be taken out and Already me cocks are it could spread quickly.

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140.000 Docker-pickets outside Mid- land Cold Storage yester- day. Another picture p. 12

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ALL OUT ON

THE DOCKS

INCORPORATING THE N

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY WORKERS PRESS REPORTERS

DAVID MAUDE AND PHILIP WADE

A NATIONAL docks strike broke abruptly and unofficially yesterday as police arrested five London dockers on charges of contempt of the National Industrial Relations Court.

Hight Court tipstaff Mr James Dorling arrested four of the dockers outside Midland Cold Storage Depot, East London, in a three-minute operation to the accompani- ment of Hitler salutes and shouts of 'Sieg Heil' from pickets. Even before the police moved in dockland came to a halt with dockers and lorry drivers deciding to strike in support of the jailed men.

By mid-afternoon there was complete shut- down at London's Royal, India and Millwall docks and Tilbury was expected to shut down last night.

The Port of London commented: 'Everything's at a standstill'. announced that his pickets in London woRld Citze Rechnitz, operations. He added: I have told my members to call off They the pickets in view of the arrests. are an with interference trade unionism and as trade unionists we must fight against the Industrial Rela- tions Act together. Cold Storage, the company which Midland At launched the action against the dockers, men

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gathered all afternoon awaiting the police.

workers from the company called off a rival picket outside the firm. 'We are all united now on this question, one 'We stand with our fellow

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picket said. trade unionists in this. joined dockers protecting Later some of them of the jail-threatened three men. An emergency meeting of the Port of London shop stewards' at lunchtime decided committee for national docks to call strike until legal proceedings against the five are lifted.

Their jailing follows months of litigation in the NIRC, the Court of Appeal and the High Court. Dockers have boycotted all court proceedings. The present case the against stevards commit seven of shop committee was brought the Hackney-based firm, Midland Cold Storage.

On 7, Sir John Donald- July the court president, issued son, an order against the men calling on them to stop blacking nation- ally firms whose lorries crossed their picket line. On Thursday the company the NIRC to com- went back were defying plain that the men TONY MERRICK (35), married court's orders. In yesterday's the with two children, member of Donaldson judgement said the the

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He has been court 'has no alternative but to docker for 13 years now work. restraint' resort to physical at Nine Elms ing Cold Store: the dockers' against leaders. 'We don't accept this sentence.

(See full court story Page 12).

Through the years the dockers Immediately the court rose the have had to fight for their rights. Pentonville would do me tipstaff, Mr James Dorling, took There Hackney fine. We're not martyrs. taxi to the police 40,000 Not just the of station to present warrants are us. for arrest. seven.' INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY JULY 22, 1972 • No. 824 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE 'We're not martyrs-there's 40,000 of us'

DEREK.

WATKINS

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married with two children. Works for P. Wallis: 'I think all workers will come out in support of us including every trade union. The Tories want to put us in our place, but we will win. The Tories have too much to take on and I hope they resign. Now they know they've got a fight on their hands.'

MANY MORE

Docker-pickets outside Mid- land Cold Storage yester- day. Another picture p. 12 From next Monday Workers Press will be publishing an important series of articles on the rise of Stalinism, the purges and repression of the Stalin era and the reason for the bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet Union.

The articles begin with an examination in detail of the first independent analysis of Stalinism to come out of the Soviet Union, Roy Medvedev's 'Let History Judge'. They show both how what is valid in Medvedev's work confirms what Trotsky said about Stalinism at the time and how it falls short of what is required. Make sure that you place your order for the Workers Press now.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday July 22 DUTCH premier Barend Biesheuvel was yesterday trying to form a new cabinet following the defection of one of the five coalition parties. His right-wing administra- tion lost its majority when the Democratic Socialist (DS 70) Party withdrew its support.

The Party disagreed with proposed cuts to meet an esti- mated deficit of £400m in the 1973 budget. Biesheuvel has proposed steep increases in value-added tax and cuts in civil service expediture to overcome the deficit. The tax increases, in particular, will bring about a considerable in- crease in living costs. The opposition parties have called for elections by November, but Queen Juliana was yester- day expected to summon Biesheuvel to form a new ad- ministration. The Dutch cabinet crisis is the latest indication of growing poli- tical instability among the Com- mon Market countries. It follows the French cabinet reshuffle and the resignation of German Finance Minister Karl Schiller. There is now no country with- in the Common Market with a stable government-a state of affairs which contributes con- so face the then omic naility from the United States. THE CENTRAL Committee of the Cuban Communist Party has affirmed that an improvement in relations with the United States is impossible while US policies remain unchanged. The statement comes in a full- page resolution published in the official newspaper 'Granma'. The resolution was passed at a plen- ary session of the Central Com- mittee-the first since 1968.

The plenary session heard a report from premier Fidel Castro on his recent extensive trip to Africa and eastern Europe. The resolution condemned what it 'President Nixon's termed arbitrary aggressive policy.

However the key passage will be read by the US leaders as a broad hint of Cuban willingness negotiate a detente with to Cuban officials have America. already held a number of pri- vate talks with Washington offi- cials with this aim in view.

A US government delegation recently visited Cuba for the first time in more than ten years.

In addition, during his tour of Latin America earlier this year, Castro noticeably was more in his attacks on restrained Nixon. A detente between Castro and Nixon would be in line with the May summit meeting in Moscow.

Castro and the Soviet leaders claimed to have reached 'com- accord' plete on international questions during the Cuban leader's visit to the USSR.

ay July 22, 1972 A glassware factory and living quarters Henry Kissinger and the Noi Paris 'peace' talks on Thursday political and military question The Americans want a cease- fire before opening discussions on these questions. This would enable the US to step up still further the diplo- matic pressure for a compromise deal. North Vietnam, on the other hand, will not consider any of hostilities until the cessation agrees to withdraw US and out the Thieu govern- throws ment in Saigon. The Americans insist that the Saigon regime is nothing to do with them-they only supply aid, to the they claim. According General Office in Accounting Washington, US military aid to Vietnam in fiscal year South 1971 amounted to $1,900m the total $400m more than reported to Congress. Not surprisingly, the North in Paris Vietnamese delegation treated the US assertion about its relations with the Saigon gov- ernment with contempt. In an effort to boost its crumbling credibility the South Vietnamese government is trying to take the offensive in some of the areas liberated by the North Vietnamese offensive earlier this year. But in Quang Tri, where puppet troops are still trying to recap- ture the provisional capital, they are now in danger of being cut off from their bases. infantry North Vietnamese units are closing in on the main road linking Quang Tri with Hué,.

down which the Third Division fled in confusion two months ago. Meanwhile, the US Air Force is continuing its bombardment of the area around Quang Tri.

This bombing is among the heaviest ever seen in Indochina- clear indication that the a Americans and the Saigon regime are desperate to break their run of defeats in the current fight- ing. FRIEDERICH FLICK, million- aire head of one of West Germany's biggest industrial concerns, and convicted Nazi war criminal, died aged 89 in a Konstanz hospital yesterday.

Flick, last of the great Ruhr barons, served three years of a seven-year sentence handed out at the Nuremberg war crimes trial after World War II. As the head of one of Germany's biggest heavy industrial concerns he had helped Hitler to power in 1933.

Flick took control of many enterprises in occupied Europe and relentlessly squeezed profit from workers who were reduced to slave conditions. 1 quarters in Ngo Quyen district in Haiphong bombed on April 16, 1972 s to have been made in this week's secret talks between Dr the North Vietnamese representative Le Duc Tho. At the 'hursday, North Vietnam remained firm in its demand that questions should be settled in advance of any ceasefire.

Rescuers work in Dal dong street, Dong da quarter in Hanol, destroyed by a US 'Shrike' missile on April 16, 1972 ACCORDING to than 44.000 shells at targets in study pub- a lished in Hanoi this week, North Vietnam. The the combina- American Air Force has dropped tion of bombing and shelling has more than 83.000 bombs over damaged or destroyed more than North Vietnam April of 32 health since 60 schools. centres, this Thousands of year. these some 30 churches and pagodas, several dozen state farms and bombs anti - personnel are small factories and a number of large factories. The study lists 135 sorties Other revelations about the carried out against the dykes of of the barbarism American Red River delta, air the damaging offensive appeared in yesterday's 58 important earthworks and 46 York Times'. The 'New paper hydraulic installations. revealed forces that made Quang Binh province alone two attempts in 1966 and 1967 has suffered than 1,000 more to start huge fire storms and raids. burn the guerrillas out of their forest sanctuaries, but the forest Over the period the same Seventh wouldn't burn. Fleet has fired more US- ments, taxes and cred

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sec- visit that a joint The talks Peterson Soviet trade commission Peter retary set Peterson severity of the econon was up. yesterday opened talks crisis in both the Sov told that with Soviet foreign renot ero settlement of the Soviet Union and America. Nikolai trade minister Union's lend-lease debt recent months Patolichev in a bid to would appear the bureaucracy has boost bilateral trade Commission's agenda. itself than more following President Discussion would take willing to make mic arrangements whi Nixon's recent Moscow place on such questions facilities in are of direct benefit as business visit. copyright each the Nixon country, It was during Nixon's and licensing arrange- tion. DR JAN TESAR, a promi- nent historian and opponent of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia was jailed for six years on charges of subversion in Prague yester- day. Jiri. Mueller, a 30-year-old student leader and supporter of former Communist Party leader Alexandr Dubcek, was sen- tenced to five and a half years' imprisonment the on same charge. Rudolf Battek, a well-known liberal sociologist, was sentenced to three and a half years.

Jaroslav Jiru, an engineer who Czech secretary was Students' Union, was sent to prison for two and a quarter years. Stanislav Furek, a former army officer, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, suspended for three and Pavel years, Mares, a computer engineer, was sentenced to also one year, suspended for three years.

All were accused under article 98 of the penal code dealing subversion. They with were accused of printing or distribut- ing illegal leaflets, mostly before last year's parliamentary elec- tions. The trial of this six-man group was one of a series being held in Prague in the past few days of supporters of the reform- ist former leader, Dubcek. Sources said the defendants at the trial of the six largely ad- mitted the activities of which they were accused but denied they constitued subversion.

More trials of Dubcek sup- porters are expected to begin in Prague within the next few days.

Thirteen people have already been sentenced in the current series of trials. CANADA is building an atomic reactor on Formosa will supply enough which plutonium in one year for the Chinese Nationalists to make an atom bomb. The $35m research reactor will be ready for operation some- time next year. It is being built and is in north-west Formosa capable of understood to be producing about 22lb of plu- a year - more than tonium enough to make a nuclear weapon. Experts on nuclear weapons say it would be easy for the Chiang Kai-shek regime to into divert the plutonium weapons production. The reactor is fuelled by natural uranium, freely available on world markets and subject to no controls.

It takes 13.2lb of plutonium in the form of a 'tamped sphere' to form the critical mass re- quired to cause a nuclear ex- plosion. Nuclear reactors of the type being built on Formosa are already operating in Israel and India. The Indian research reac- tor has already produced over 200lb of plutonium and the Israeli reactor 88lb. These figures, released by a panel of US experts, headed by former assistant attorney general Burke Marshall, indicate that India has enough plutonium for 16 atom bombs and Israel enough for six. Chiang Kai-shek will Soon have all the facilities to join the club. and credit. The most recent case • reflect the was the considerable he economic sale of Russian gold to h the Soviet the US Treasury. America. In the But whatever the out- come of Peterson's talks has shown than ever they will make no make econo- impact upon the US ments which balance-of-payments de- ficit, figures for which it benefit to administra- to be published are early next month.

The seven-year-old hospital no one's even sneezed in...

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THURSDAY, JULY 200, 1972

Four pence (1p) 190th lear-to. lol CBI ready to extend 5% • voluntary I price restraint Britain's major companies are to he asked to hold price increases to 5% m below for another three months when the roluntary price restraint initiative ends at the nfederation of British Industry Marathon Police inquiry at take-over Ninewells urged held up used this picturesque front-page Illustration oh weeds growing ald, standing for seven years, but it has never seen a patient. The the Ninewells hospital Dundee, following Mr weeds growing at 'Herald' reports that only the laundry and engineering workshops Hamilton in the Fraud Squad investigations into the Popson Commons appeal In te are operating. So who was it built for? And why has it never to be included The pound construction been used when there is a shortage of hospitals?

bankruptcy. multi-million Include it in fraud probe-MP his alleged SEVEN YEARS after with Yorkshire architect

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building of Dun- the Poulson. Ninewells gees MP William Hamilton their relation- governed and hospital began, only has received an anony- other they may 1960, tnings and alleging accept any gift Pottinger was the laundry mous letter reward from individuals Secretary at the civil engineering workshops scottish

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Depart Scottish servants have Home oeen oreanicallulls are in action and the volved with the hospital are brought into con- cost has skyrocketed builders, Crudens Ltd. tact with officially. him £21,419 and Rover re- from £10m to an esti- cart The conditions on Poulson's vealed mated £18.2m. wil Ca senion Civilser. Halcil seiclaly al bankruptcy. vants take up posts with

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Unice. suspended last week for TURN TO p.10 Now Fife's Labour are strictly companies No Clyde Marathon jobs on Monday parliament's law until after THE FIRST batch of summer recess. be 151 workers to the worst happens these unemployed until men sacked from the Clyde- _comes ve October. The CP Stalinists will bank yard of the now de- based Marathon Manufac- sidestep almost certainly turing Co to rehire the men funct Upper Clyde Ship- problem Dy allowine unle hello 'work them out after the end of the Glasgow builders will not start of Fair (holidays). athe tizme is stil work again on Monday enabling understane But the promise depended on as planned. MPs are £12m the stage and Nandoul

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Tories. • and now the aid has off holiday on • ve The Communist Party-led hit August a snag. Robert Smith The Industry Bill under which shop stewards committee at the men in- has letters to the money the yard had accepted the was no ver given nas been overtaken by the parlia- forming them not because their for redundancies in return for and fears are work Monday timetable Illcurtal y a promise from the Texas- will not be available'. jobs will not become growing that It Bob Dickie im- mediately met Marathon's presi- PRINT WORKERS from the occupied Briant Colour Printing dent-elect James Company's the Fox, plant the the Od Kent Road will stage Londor new chiet of a stallo LUtdy • The mail along flee Street to desk newel Green The Briant min overanons Could

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march along Fleet Street to Clerkenwell comment until he returned from the US. visit to have been in control of their premises for than a being told the lactory was lacing Dankrupicy and the stal was being stewards are made redundant. This week the firm's main creditor, paper merchants arrange a meeting with the liqui- Robert Horne, take legal action against the work-in.

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ENGINEERING shop stew- ards in Liverpool have con- negotiations the over the roposed arbitra asked to hold price increases to 5% or ion panel for settling strike untary price restraint initiative ends at the The stewards' latest shop has called the quarterly executive council of the Amalga- Union mated of Engineering Workers to withdraw immedi- wait head Wage index ately from these discussions.

will be motion, which 12.3% rises forwarded EC, the the to stewards note that the state- ment made by CBI chief W. O. Campbell Adamson that the two sides are working towards an 8- per-cent guideline for pay increases, means the whole pro- posal is a Tory wage-freeze under ut it has never seen a patient. The another name. The motion demands that the e laundry and engineering workshops mobilize the whole union mem- it built for? And why has it never bership forward with to press hortage of hospitals? increases throughout the wage industry. finally calls on the AUEW leadership to take the initiative and call a special congress of thaT positionize police total opposition economic policies line with In the September 1971 Congress

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from the British decisions. Medical Association meeting in Southampton yesterday called on

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday July 22

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The settlement of the engineers' and wages hours claim at Holset Engineering, Hudders- held, is typical of the gains flowing meagre from the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers leadership's strategy of referring the fight to district and plant level. Holset workers 'won' a 37$- hour week, in place of 40 hours, one day's extra holiday after four years' service and not a penny was gained on wages. And some of the 24 hours already been grabbed has back. The five-minute after- noon tea-break has been replaced by a "tea-service' to be drunk while working. Also the 'hand-washing time' has been cut from five minutes twice a day, to four minutes twice a day. No further reduction in hours can be discussed for three years and there are to be no talks on pay for 12 months.

The settlement, accepted by.

shop stewards after a ballot, contains a clause that: 'The labour force agrees to co- operate with management on of work- the implementation measurement techniques and accepts time-study' 27-year-old Mike Day, a worker at Holset's says: 'We could have got a lot more than that. The shop stewards say they were let down by the rest of the district and that no one else got anything on hours. ву лиу 22, 1972

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To 'But the fight has been dodged all the way down the line. The pay claim was passed down from national level and then, when it came the district, no district action was taken. The buck was passed on to plant level and the shop stewards and in the different convenors plants just accepted what they the best they thought was could get. 'When the pay claim was to at the shop be discussed stewards' quarterly there was a vote of no confidence in the district committee over the sacking of convenor at a Brook Motors. "This was defeated only by chairman's casting vote the and the meeting broke up in disarray. 'Now the management is in to take advantage moving of the lack of fight by our leaders. Recently a number of Holset shop stewards and selected foremen were sent on a three-day course on work- measurement organized by the management. 'It's hard to say anything about Scanlon that hasn't already been said. But he's passed the buck by not leading any action at national level.

'The Communist Party has done nothing. They've put up no fight on the district com- mittee or anything else. They've given no leadership.

In fact, they've done all they prevent any developing can to as they showed by their oppo- sition to the Councils of Action. 'When a Council of Action resolution went to the district committee from Huddersfield No. 2 AUEW branch, it was

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Top: Mike Day (right) at All Trades Uni last week. Above: Hugh Scanlon left on the table—no one was prepared to speak on it. 'At the last trades council meeting the secretary and pre- sident-both leading Commu- nist Party members-blocked any discussion on the Coun- cils of Action. When the ques- tion was raised, they closed the meeting. 'But we're going to bring it up again at the next meeting and we'll make it harder and harder for them to wriggle out of it. «The experience of the engineers has shown the need for Councils of Action and we're going fight here to against the right wing and the Communist Party to get one functioning' Mike Day travelled to Lon- don to take part in the

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Trades Unions Alliance lobby of the TUC recent lobby of trade union leaders organized by the All Trades Unions Alliance. 'It's a scandal that these so- called leaders should be run- ning to talk with the Tories.

weren't put there for They that. The Tory government is to destroy the unions, out nothing could be clearer than that. The demands of the lobby-to force the TUC to break off talks with the Tories and call a General Strike to force the government to resign - is the only way forward for the working class. I'm convinced that thou- sands of workers will rally round this programme-despite the TUC leaders (including those who talk "left") and des- pite the Communist Party which covers up for them.'

Management at the Joseph group's Lucas Birmingham engineering factories has drawn up a tough new negotiating procedure which it wants unions to agree. It is feared - that the com- pany may try to link accept- ance of the draft agreement— a fundamental attack on many established trade union rights - to the recently-accepted £3.25 pay deal in the plants.

Said Lucas-group one steward: 'If this were applied at my tactory, trade unionism would cease altogether.' The draft agreement would provide for a number of restrictions on the activities of shop stewards. If agreed it would not only lay down that no steward should be under 21 and have than one year's less service with the company, but it would allow the company the right to raise objections to the appointment particular of individuals. The unions would have to undertake to discuss such objections. Stewards, in any case, would be elected by company-organ- ized ballot in works time-a departure from the usual pro- cedure of election at mass meetings. agreement would also The commit a steward to a state- ment that to the best of his ability he will ensure that workers comply with all agree- ments entered into between his union and the company. His own observance of these would also be required. The draft contains a clause that both parties agree not to resort to legal sanctions to enforce it, so such statements presumably have no would force in the courts. But this in no way means the provision would be tooth- less. A further clause in the draft reserves the company's right to withdraw its recogni- tion of stewards who fail to observe negotiated agreements.

The draft continues: 'The company may provide facilities for meetings of all shop stewards outside work times where such a meeting is requested' , says Clause II 4d (i) graciously. It goes on to make clear that such requests will only be considered if 'the subject for discussion is not detrimental to the company.

Accommodation within the also be con- factory would sidered for special meetings of stewards during working hours, the draft says. subject of such But the meetings would have to be made known to the company in advance. And even . then they would only be allowed with the permission of the per- sonnel manager. Meetings of the rank and during working file hours be would further even restricted-in fact they would be almost ruled out. 'The generally company speaking will make neither time nor facilities available for the whole or part of the works force to meet' (Clause II 4d (111) ). 'During negotiations there may be occasions when it is thought necessary a meeting might be necessary, then the company should decide when such a meeting may be held.'

Even the subject-matter on union notice boards would be under company veto if the draft procedure were agreed.

A clause states that the com- pany reserves the right to object to and remove docu- ments it does not like.

ALREADY THEY'RE ASKING

HOW LONG CAN HE LAST?

For the first time since last autumn, Italy has a fully-functioning govern- ment. But the press is already predicting that it will not last long. The average duration of the 33 cabinets that have held office since the war has been nine months. The 34th, headed by right-wing Christian Demo- Giulio Andreotti, how- crat ever, is thought likely to col- lapse sooner than most. Based on an alliance be- tween the Christian Demo- crats, and the Liberals, the government is strong only in number, with no less than 84 ministers and under-secretar- ies. It rests on slender majorities in parliament and is further weakened by factional in- fighting with the Christian Democrat organization. When the premier presented his government to the Cham- ber of Deputies and the Senate he enumerated so many urgent problems to be tackled that a heckler shouted: 'You are re- citing the telephone directory?

The government's main priority, outlined by as Andreotti, is to try to tackle the economic crisis and re- cession by hitting out at the working class. Factories are closing, un- employment is growing and the lira is under heavy pres- sure on the foreign exchange markets following the decision to float sterling. This takes place against a background of rapid class polarization, in which sections of the middle class are moving towards fascism. In his inaugural address Andreotti quoted Christian Democrat founder de Gasperi on the fascist threat: belonging I ask the youth to the Italian Social Move- ment to show pity for their country. We desire pacification but we do not want-and we cannot accept and tolerate- the return of a system, the re- turn of fascism and all its myths.' He spoke of taking 'public against military-style action organizations of fascist type and inspiration, against those who encourage them, against those who finance them and against the political groups that guide them'. But the purpose of this speech was to establish the government's preparedness to hit out equally against the left as well. However, with a majority of only four-his total on a Senate vote of confidence last Friday-Andreotti lacks the strength to play the Bonapar- tist on any scale. His regime is a creature of parliamentary manoeuvre which has little popular base.

Andreotti's promise to govern 'without vain preten- sions, but also without any inferiority complex' is already wearing thin. The parliament is playing ducks and drakes with his legislative programme: last week the Chamber of Deputies postponed (not for the first time) a planned series of tax and postponed im- reforms plementation of value-added tax for an additional six months. Revised income tax pro- posals were shelved for a year, until January 1, 1974. The basic weakness of the government is that Andreotti the General Election of May this year solved nothing: it left the main parties with Workers Press, : Top: Giulio Andreotti. Above: founder of the Christian Demo- crats, de Gasperi much the same distribution of deputies as before, giving them little option but to work out new combinations and coali- tions along the lines of their predecessor parliament. Andreotti's cabinet marks a sharp turn to the right on the part of the Italian bourgeoisie.

But it is impotent to solve the crisis of Italian capitalism.

In the last analysis this will not be resolved in the mini- sterial antechambers and - the parliamentary corridors, but in direct conflict between the working class and its enemies in the factories and on the streets. r8 Press, Saturday July 22, 1972 PAGE 5 By John Spencer American big business is aggressively demanding new anti-union laws for the war against the labour The most movement. vocal demands for changes in the law come from the so-called Labour Law Study Committee, originally formed in 1966.

Many of the committee's proposals bear a striking re- semblence to the British Tory Industrial Relations Act.

In a recent interview with the 'New York Times', Carl H. Hageman, chairman of the Public Information Sub-com- mittee of the Labour Law Commitee, explained the aims of his organization. Hageman is also a vice-president of the Union Carbide Corporation.

'We just can't continue as we have in the last six years,' said 'without be- Hageman, coming a second rate power and facing economic stagna- tion.' Represented this com- on mittee is a Who's Who of American capitalism, including the American Smelting and Refining Co, the American Telephone Telegraph and Corporation, Bethlehem Steel, the Columbia Gas System, First National City Bank, Ford Motor Company, General General Electric, Dynamics, B. F. Goodrich, Humble and Oil, R. H. Macy Co, Olin Corporation, Sears Roebuck, the 3M Company, and Union Carbide. These are the corporations which raked in record profits ın the first quarter of 1972 running at an annual rate of $52.3 billion. But this is only the beginning. More is required for the capitalists. The aim of their innocent-sonding study less committee is nothing than the destruction of the trade unions, throwing the working class back 50 years or more in its rights and living standards. Among the proposals on which the Labour Law Study Committee is demanding legis- lation are the following: (1) To limit the use of picket- ing economic weapon, as an so that it is used only against the party with whom a union has a dipute; and outlaw all picketing to force an employer to recognize a union. (2) To guarantee an oppor- tunity for employers to dis- cuss unionization with their employees. (3) To require a secret ballot whether to strike, vote on when requested by the union, the employer or 10 per cent of the employees. (4) To limit so-called coalition bargaining by groups of unions. (5) To prevent a replaced striker from claiming any status as an employee. (6.) To let Federal Courts re- quire unions to honour all terms of their agreements.

When ATT, GE, Ford and the others speak, their repre- Washington sentatives listen. Whichever candidate of is elected the bosses in November he will attempt to implement all or part of these slave labour 'reforms'. This is the situation which makes the bulding of a labour party so urgent.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday July 22, 1972

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Cheyne Walk on the servants, Frank Steele from the Foreign Office and Philip Chelsea Embankment Woodfield of the Home Office.

ranks as one of the most MacStiofain spoke for the he said, 'that fashionable areas of Lon-

IRA.

'We hope,' discussions now intended the don. No. 96 is a huge may lead to the settlement of white residence politely this dispute between our two The republican move- obscured by two trees in peoples. this meeting ment views as- the front garden. an opportunity of participation A circular blue plaque on in devising machinery whereby the front wall informs passers the will of the whole of the by that it was once the resi- people of Ireland may be dence of Whistler, the 19th ascertained.' century English painter. Today MacStiofain then read out the occupier is Paul Channon, the the IRA's proposals In | the Guinness millionaire "Peace plan: They were: Channon West is Tory MP for Britain should make a pub- Southend and junior lic declaration that it is for minister attached to the Ulster the whole of Ireland, people office of William Whitelaw acting and voting as a unit, to Aged 37, he went to Eton decide the future of Ireland.

and became president of the 2. The republican movement Conservative Association called on at the British govern- Oxford. was an officer in He ment to give an immediate Horse Guards (the the Royal declaration of its intent to Blues) and he now belongs to withdraw from Irish soil, such two of the most exclusive clubs withdrawal be to completed in the country White's and on or before January 1, 1975.

the Turf Club. 2(a) British troops be must It was to his home that a from withdrawn immediately arrived on Fri- strange convoy sensitive areas. 7. The day, July men who His statement continued: stepped out of the limousines 'We call on the British govern- Special Branch- driven by ment to give immediate effect and filed through the portals of for to general amnesty all the political luxurious mansion were all prisoners, inter- the leadership of the Provi- nees and detainees and all per- sional IRA. sons on the wanted list.'

They went to the upstairs Whitelaw was at his most panelled and booklined walls genial. He referred scathingly of the study. A few minutes 'silly to the season' of the later the door opened and the Protestant marches which wanted Ulster' 'most men in would begin July 12. on shook hands all round with the hope you understand our diffi- Tories' Ulster supremo William culties with the 12th timuly coming this year Whitelaw. The group who then settled upon Any moves my down the regency-style part might bring about a worse chairs were: situation.' staff of the Pro- Chief of Holding the out speedy Sean MacStiofain, visionals, release of remaining detainees, his second in command, David he added: 'Give me the time O'Connell, Belfast brigade and the opportunity and I will commander, Seamus Twomey, surprise you gentlemen with Derry commander, Martin which I will the rapidity with the McGuinness. and two Belfast staff officers, Ivor Bell, At this stage the meeting adjutant of the Belfast brigade in was interrupted bizarre staff, and Gerry Adams. One of Whitelaw's aides way. Adams' at the asked if anyone presence would like a talks was perhaps the secret drink. It was whisky and soda most bizarre. When the ori- time. The Provisionals soundings taken ginal solemnly declined saying they were about a meeting with White- were 'on duty'. law, the Provisionals needed There was a further discus- Ulster. go-between in sion, this time centring on the with some poli- fighting man constitutional Mac- question. essential. said the tical experience was Stiofain best contri- It was agreed with the Dublin Tory bution the government command that the man for the could make to the situation job was Adams. But he was rescind the principle was to involved Long Kesh having been Government in. in the lifted earlier this year amid of Ireland Act. full-throated cheers from the 'We have had talks with capitalist press that this 'gun- many shades of Unionism and was now behind bars. satisfied man' that there is are O'Connell contacted White- such realization that growing law and asked if Adams could a declaration (rescinding of the be released. Whitelaw agreed. Government of Ireland Act) by the British When Adams was told that he would government was free to go he refused to bring home to many Unionists believe it. He would not leave the realities of the situation.

the concentration camp fear- Whether the realities of the Finally he trap. was Tory government- -not to men- ordered out of Long Kesh by tion the of this actual place the British army and the Pro- meeting brought home -were visional commander the at to MacStiofain were not dis- camp! closed. Representing the Tory But a few minutes later, gov- at ernment were Whitelaw, Chan- about p.m., the talks non and two senior civil adjourned into two separate rooms, Ten minutes later the talks resumed with the Pro- visionals presenting a state- ment. It read: 'We require to have in our hands, or at least in the hands of an agreed third party, on Monday next at 9 a.m. a letter indicating that the British gov- ernment will accede to the pro- posals contained in points l and 2 of our peace proposals.'

Whitelaw for argued an extension of this deadline-at least until Monday week. " After some argument it was agreed that: 1. A bi-lateral suspension of offensive operations would con- tinue until July 14. 2. In the event of a resump- tion of hostilities, 24 hours' notice would be givęn. 3. On July 14 a further meet- ing would take place at which the British government's sub- missions and documents reply to points 1 and 2 would be made known. 4. In the event of the docu- being unacceptable to ments the Irish, they would be at offensive liberty to resume operations without notice.

As the guests departed Whitelaw stressed that there should be no press leaks. On this point the IRA asked that if the ceasefire broke down, would they be at liberty to speak to the press? Apparently Whitelaw's last words were: That is fair enough. If the truce ends, all bets are off.' The Provisional leaders then Ulster the way returned to they had arrived. They were driven to Northolt RAF base and flown by air force And- over to Aldgrove airport.

Even while these astonishing discussions. were in progress the British army was stepping up its campaign against the Catholic minority. The flash- point was Lenadoon Avenue where Catholic families were attempting to squat in vacant housing. As angry families stormed onto the streets to support the action, Twomey pleaded with them to 'cool it' At one point he entered an army billet to attend talks with senior officers, army Whitelaw aides and a senior member of the extremist Loy- alist group, the Ulster Defence Association. On Sunday, July 9, with massive army reinforcements firing gas and rubber bullets at the crowd, Twomey tele- phoned O'Connell and the abortive truce was off. It was scarcely 50 hours since he was amicably shak- ing hands with the Vister supremo, Whitelaw. In the next week ten IRA men were shot dead by the troops and 58 wounded, eight of them seriously. Five of the dead were members of the Official IRA who have main- tained a truce with the British army since over a month ago.

Within days of this debacle, Twomey gave an interview to the German news magazine 'Der Spiegel'. Without appear- ing to learn anything from the Whitelaw experience Twomey said: "This lying Whitelaw, who MacStiofain. O'Brady David O'Con- Above right: No 96 Cheyne nell. Walk, Chelsea, where the meet- ing took place flew specially to London for negotiations promised us everything. He gave us all pos- sible guarantees. But when he Eives a deterent lang arge.

orders to his he army We will never again enter the trap of this so-called statesman and his scum of an army. For good here I Cousi in Ireland: "Beware the dog's bark and the stench of the Englishman." I personally will never again trust the word of an Englishman. 'Does that mean no more negotiations and no more cease-fire?' Twomey: 'No. Never again. From now on will fight we and do nothing but fight. We had ceasefire. Whitelaw signed it with his own hand in the presence of two witnesses, two solicitors from Belfast and Dublin. But he has still broken every word of his undertak- ing. Even being published intonnell was telling 'Sunday Press' Dublin: 'We still hope for a positive from Whitelaw approach on our proposals which he said would give to his Cabinet The ball is now in colleagues. Whitelaw's court.' That the lives of Catholic families is in the hands of such petty-bourgeois nationalists the severest condemnation of the republican leadership.

E 'On the reports I have read far, blame can attached to the the army or security forces for this latest, very Wilson, Opposition leader in the House of Com- mons after the invaded army Catholic parts of Belfast kill- and wounding civilians. replied the Tories retary, William Whitelaw.

Louis Scullion, aged 21, mould disagree with friendi- ments friendly exchange. He can't express his disagreement because he's dead - shot by the British The circumstances of his death utterly condemn the lies of the Tories, Labour Party leaders and the press. Workers Press corre. spondent in Ulster has inves- tigated his death which went totally unreported in the capi- talist and tele- sity corner vision. Unity has special geographic significance you'e from the Catholic Unhy Belfast. Left: shrine at spot where Louls Scullion was killed lorkars Press, Salurday July 22, 1972 PAQE 1 Flats stand to hold discussions and where several of the major flashpoints of the war have erupted. On the night of July 13, without warning, a series of shots rang out. The shots from . the sandbagged came army post directly opposite the Louis Scullion corner. dying. His friend received a flesh wound. When a car drove up to rush the two boys to hospital;.

intervened. They the army stopped the vehicle and searched it. When the driver pleaded to be allowed to get on with his mercy mission, one of the he dies, soldiers said: I hope The army later issued a saying statement that the youth had been shot from a passing car. Later this was altered to 'he was caught in crossfire'. Like many of the young boys in the area, Louis Scul- lion was a member of the Pro.

visional IRA. The uncompli- cated explanation of his death is that an army sniper picker him up on the night sights or his SLR. He recognized him.

And shot him dead.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday July 22, 1972

IRELAND:

BRITAIN'S

BACKYARD

BOOK REVIEW

of the Irish Working 'A History Class.' P. Berresford Ellis. Victor Gollancz Ltd. 352 pages.

£3.50.

BY JACK GALE

When Harold Wilson sent the British army into Northern Ireland in 1969 —to the ecstatic applause of the International Socialism group - there was a dearth of books on the history of Ireland. This has been more than made up. Mr Ellis's book, the latest product of the industry, al" tempts to review Irish history standpoint of the trom working CaSs. itself somewhat Deschiblng immodestly as 'the first major study of Irish history from the day July 22, 1972 standpoint of the working class since James Connolly's "Labour in Irish History",, ', the book has some merit in this direc- tion. It covers the early history of Ireland from the Celtic clan system to the successful move by the Irish Catholic Church and the Irish aristocracy to hand Ireland over to Henry II.

(In fact, Pope Adrian IV granted Henry a 'Bull Lauda- biliter' in 1154 permitting him to 'enlarge the bounds of the Church, to teach the truth of Christian faith to the ignorant and rude, and to extirpate the roots of vice from the field of the Lord'. All Henry II had to do in return for the privilege of serving his God in this way was pay an annual sum to the Papal coffers.) The so-called "final solution' to the Irish question did not • 400 years. occur for another 'plantation' This was the system, which simply involved driving the Irish from their lands and replacing them by English colonists. Once again the Catholic Church had its dirty finger in the pie-the plantation system was devised during the reign of the Catholic queen, Mary Tudor (1553- 1558). Ellis deals with the Wolfe Tone uprising of 1798 and the Emmet rebellion of 1803 (which sought to nationalize Church property). Both of these have been discussed in some detail in recent Workers Press series. And it is refreshing to see that canting Catholic hypo- Daniel O'Connell, des- crite, cribed accurately as opportunist politician and betrayer of the Irish people'.

In the early 19th century O'Connell and his associates turned away from the life- and-death struggle of the Irish and concentrated on masses Emancipation' — a 'Catholic subject of interest to bourgeois place-seekers only. in opposition to It was O'Connell that a revolutionary tendency-centred on Fintan Lalor-was to arise. This ten- crushed in dency the was 1840s, with the Catholic Church once more on the side of British imperialism. In the words of one of the Irish leaders, John Mitchel: 'When the final scene was gathering itself to crush us, body were the clergy as a found on the side of the enemy. They hoped for their union with. Church ina monarchical and aristocratic England rather than in an Ireland and revolutionized and having republicanized; taken their part, they certainly did the enemy's work well.?

most valuable section The of Ellis's book is that dealing with Marx, Engels and the Fenians. arrived in Marx England in 1849, the year in which the Encumbered Estates Act transformed the hated Irish middleman into a new native landlord class. Coming as it did immedi- ately after the Great Famine (which killed a million Irish poor and forced another million to emigrate) and the defeat of the 1848 rebellion, the effect of this Act was, as Marx pointed out, to 'charac- terize Fenianism by a socialist tendency and make it a "lower orders" movement'. Marx drew the conclusion this that the English from working class should demand the repeal of the Act of Union.

In a letter Engels in to November, 1867, he wrote: 'What are we to advise the English workers to do? In my opinion they must include as a clause in their platform the Repeal of the Union. It is the only legal and so only possible form of Irish emancipation which can be accepted as part of the programme an tes , English party. Marx devoted enormous energy to the plight of the Irish masses. Writing • the 'New York Tribune' in 1859, he declared: "England has destroyed the of Irish society. conditions First of all, she has confiscated the lands of the Irish, then by "parliamentary decrees" she has suppressed Irish industry; finally, by armed force she broken the activity and energy of the Irish people. In this way England has created which the social conditions allow a small caste of robber landlords to dictate to the Irish people the conditions in which they are allowed to hold the land and live on it.?

Marx argued that only the expropriation of the landlords by nationalization of the land would solve the Irish agrarian question. There is no doubt that a significant socialist tendency developed in the Fenian move- ment. The Fenian newspaper, 'The Irish People', declared in 1865: 'We make no appeal to the aristocracy . . . they are the willing tools of the alien government whose policy it is to slay the people, or drive them like noxious vermin from the soil. The people must save themselves. 'Something more even than a successful insurrection is demanded. And what is that?

An entire revolution which will restore the country to its rightful owners. And who are these? The people. 'Every man has one simple object to accomplish. It is to rid the land of robbers, and render every cultivator of the soil his own landlord. 'Our only hope is revolution, but most bishops and many of the clergy are opposed to revolution . . . when priests The Easter Rising, 1916: street barricade in Dublin turn the alter into a platform, when it is pronounced a mortal sin to read "The Irish People" a mortal sin to even wish Ireland should be free, when priests call upon the people to turn informers, when bishops and priests are doing the work of the enemy .. they are bad politicians and worse Irishmen. Some of the Fenian leaders —in particular, James Stephens who fought on the French barricades against Louis Napoleon — joined the Inter- national Working Men's Asso- ciation (the First International) and it Gustave-Paul was Cluseret, the defender of the Paris Commune of 1870-1871, who led a Fenian attack on Chester castle in 1867. Marx, however, was critical of some of the Fenian tactics.

After one bomb explosion in London, he wrote: This last escapade of the Fenians is very stupid . ..

It is not to be expected that the mass of the Londoners who have shown much sym- pathy with Ireland will allow themselves to be blown up for the greater honour and glory of the emissaries of the Fenians!' Marx constantly stressed the importance of the revolution- ary struggles of the Irish masses for the English and European revolutions. In a letter to Engels in December, 1869, he declared: It is to the direct and absolute interest of the English working class to get rid of their present connection with Ireland ... The English work- ing class will never do anything before it has got rid of Ire- land. The wedge must be driven in Ireland. That is why the Irish question is of such importance for the socialist movement generally? A month later, he wrote: 'If England is the fortress of European landlordism and capitalism, then the only point from which a strong blow can be struck at official England is Ireland. Ireland is the fort- English landlordism. ress of

If it falls in Ireland, it will inevitably fall in England also.'

Above all, Marx strove for the unity of the English and Irish workers. Addressing the General Council of the Inter- national in 1870 he explained: 'In all the big industrial centres of England a deep antagonism between exists English and Irish workers. The average English worker hates the Irish as a competitor who lowers his wages and level of living. He feels national and religious antagonism towards him. He appears to him in the same light as the much black slaves appeared to the poor whites in the Southern States of North America. This antagonism between the pro- letarians of England is arti- ficially cultivated and main- tained by the bourgeoisie. In this antagonism lies the real of maintaining its secret power' Ellis covers in some detail the role of Parnell (an Irish aristocrat who had no desire to add a land policy to his programme), the growth of the working class, the organized Dublin lock-out, the Easter Rising and the years of Partition-all of which | have been discussed in recent issues of Workers Press. But it is in his final chapter —'The Northern Revolution'— that Ellis's weaknesses are revealed. Captain Terence O'Neill Captain Terence O'Neill, who succeeded Lord Brookeborough as Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1963, is described as 'reasonably liberal. In fact, O'Neill-like every other mem- ber of the Northern Ireland Cabinet — was a member of the Orange Order. And Ellis insists that the Protestant workers are and must remain consistent sup- porters of the extreme : right, despite the problems facing all workers, regardless of religion: the economic Whatever problems of Ulster, it was almost exclusively from the Catholics that political oppo- the 47-year-old sition to government had to come.' Above all, however, Ellis's account of the activities of the Civil Rights Association is totally uncritical. Gerry Fitt and Eamonn McCann led 2,000 unsuspecting marchers into an obvious police trap in October, 1968, where they were brutally batoned Nevertheless, this experience led to an enormous growth of the CRA all over the Six Counties, but the leadership (including the Stalinist Betty Sinclair, described as 'a veteran communist') produced only a reformist programme limited which did not even call for of the the bringing down O'Neill government. It was on the basis of this reformist programme—calling on the O'Neill Tories to end discrimination in jobs, housing and franchise - that People's Democracy was born. Just how this type of leader- ship betrayed the working class was shown in November when Derry. The march banned by O'Neill's Minister for Home Affairs-the arch Craig. right-winger William Squads of riot police moved in, licking their lips in anti- cipation of another blood-bath.

But to their surprise 15,000 people turned up. Ellis's description of the outcome cannot be bettered: '15,000 people gathered, out- numbering the surprised riot squads. Only Hume's brilliant Eamonn McCann speaking at end People's Democracy "long of march' from Belfast to Derry, early 1970 prevented blood- diplomacy shed and the police refrained from interference. to say, Hume's Needless "brilliant diplomacy' was un- availing two months later when Civil Rights marchers were ambushed at Burntollet Bridge and beaten into unconscious- ness. In July 1969 Protestant right - wingers and police launched the siege of the Bogside. was after this that the British army went in. Ellis, of course, subscribes to the idea that the British army played a progressive role in 1969, becoming reactionary only in 1970 when Catholic were harassed and workers searched, arrested and tor- tured, while the Unionist extremists - like the UVF, ostensibly disbanded — were allowed to do as they liked.

Like the International Social- ism group, Ellis argues that 'progressive' the army was under Wilson and 'reactionary' under Heath! The fact that the Labourites have consistently supported the role of the army under the Tories, remains unexplained -as does the tricky question of the role of the state machine under social democracy. Ellis's The last section of book is a mass of confusion.

For instance, the difference "Official' and between the 'Provisional' IRA is presented as one of strategy—a disagree- 'defensive' about ment or 'offensive' violence. It is inevitable that an author who shares the re- visionist view of the British army should also share their pessimism about the role of the working class. A strong political development of the Irish working class is, accord- ing to Ellis, 'unlikely' Such lack of confidence in the working class contradicts Ellis's claim to have produced a Marxist history of Ireland.

That has still to be written.

Workers Proza, Saturday July 22, 1972 PAGE 9 The property bonanza roars on survey of working habits in Germany is producing some despite statements issued every day by various disquieting findings. A system banks and of variable hours, housing societies that the mar- working dipping. as 'Gleitzeit', ket is Take Victor known is com- 44-year-old boss of mon in many factories there.

Lownes, and bene- This means that an the Playboy Club, employee factor to the flower people.

is obliged to work 40 hours a spread At the end of April he week, but can these bought 56 Cumberland Terrace, hours out throughout the week as he likes. Over a time, how- Regent's Park, and a lease this has virtually with years to run ever, now a ten-hour, four-day £85,000. Now he's sold it for become week for everyone. £106,000. I only went in it once,' he said. four-day week Although a the effects sounds nice, German worrying many Including travelling doctors. times, it means that hundreds Speaking of houses the on of men and women are away market, you may like to take from home for 12 hours or of the peek at the home more a day. Dowager Marchioness of For a great part of the year, the Cotswolds. Tweeddale in many workers do not see day- This modest little gaff is in light for four days a week, Fotherop at Oddington near the end of it are and by SO Moreton in the Marsh. It was exhausted they are not able 35 years ago in local built enjoy the extra leisure day.

ti Cotswold stone. In any case, in order to try It has everything you need and keep pace with inflation, really. A 10-acre park, five many workers spend the extra and reception rooms seven day in a second job trying to bedrooms where you can put earn more money. up the in-laws they when German doctors are con- drop in. cerned sharp increases about There is also a detached disorders and dis- in sleep staff cottage where Jeeves can orders of the digestive system, hang his hat and a flat in the lungs central heart, and stable block for the game- family system. And nervous keeper. relationships are under great If you're interested the going strain: £70,000. price is about But Trade union leaders in Ger- anything up to £100,000 won't many have been talking about be knocked back. the need for a shorter working blaming their week, and refusal to fight for this on their members' lack of enthusiasm.

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Maudling and the press prose since the Coronation in 1953' PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday July 2 There's no one who can bribe or tw Thank god, the British journalist.

But seeing what the man will do Unbribed, there's no occasion to.

IN 'THE TIMES' on June 5 appeared a lengthy historical article on the circumstances under which Fleet Street conspired to suppress the abdication of King Ed- ward VIII in 1936. 'The Times' the newspaper top people' of the gave details of this scandalous connivance with the ruling class with all the piety of some Jesuitical order. catholic, Devout Roman William Rees-Mogg, editor "The Times', declared: 'A situ- ation such as we described to readers of "The Times" on Mon- day would not occur now- adays. • Couldn't it? On Tuesday of this week on the same centre pages another act of flagrant suppression of The issue news was committed. was Reginald Maudling's associa- tion with the Poulson case.

The half-page article A letter from Mr Maudling to his con- stituents' did not, of course, mention Poulson. It was a long, turgid piece about the state of by the the world as viewed deputy prime minister. With the hindsight of what was to be announced by Edward Heath that same afternoon, one article paragraph from the makes ironic reading: "The twin problems of inflation and violence are both products conflict. There is a of social clash of interests, made more articulate by modern knowledge and modern education, exploited sometime by the malicious, but fundamentally part of the tex- ture of changing human life?

Anyone with half an eye could see that this curious piece of journalism by a Cabinet minister was in face a valediction; it was Maudling's shot as he parting into political disappeared oblivion. No hint No one is going to seriously suggest that 'The Times' was not fully aware of this fact when it Secretary's took the Home lengthy 'letter' and agreed to publish it. Of course they knew he was going to resign. Did 'The Times' , hint of it in Tuesday's give edition? Not a dicky bird.

Indeed, the only comment on the Poulson case was by political editor David Wood, who informed readers: 'No minister, no politician at Westminster believes for a moment that Mr Maudling has anything to answer for.'

Wood struck a theme which has been echoed by the rest of the capitalist press throughout the whole saga. His opposite number of the 'Daily Mail', Walter Terry, wrote the day after the resignation 'MPs of all announcement: shocked. Labour's parties were deputy leader, Mr Edward Short, said the last thing anyone wanted from the Poulson inquiry was a witch-hunt.' colleague, Gor- Terry's lobby don Greig, described the scene in Commons with some of the the most purple prose seen since the Coronation in 1953. "Two places Heath was Sir Alec Douglas Home, stunned and distressed.

He cupped his face in his hands and rolled his head in horror and disbelief. 'He twirled his spectacles. He stem. He put his sucked at one hands over his ears as if to shut it all out, and all the time head rolled from side to side in some sort of funeral rite.'

description defies . Greig's credibility. Home attended the meeting which took Cabinet place five days previously at which the 'Reggie had to go' ibe or twist, -Anon

A SPECIAL

REVIEW

BY

ALEX MITCHELL

'Wasn't he Chancellor of the Exchequer? Was that another bust?' ing piece of drivel. Marks, that Ifhe decision was Raken. was earlier, rolling about the chamber clutch- manifested hang more æ coen his skull-like this Street editor, was in a position te resignation would not have taken ing know exactly Maudling's place. be something to do with an VIlly About two appalling migraine It wou c mpstund to pset end complalni. Dusilico asoulialvs. vears aeo ne was orerea a coll campaign against But there was more than one history of the Home Secre- and ended with sick Tory Minister the House Maudling began 1n relationship with Jerome the Poulson affair. Lah y inal alcan col viis tc Real Estate runa lulllal s began largea sn ahe act that years say that kobert carr, an intimale anc ne •t America. tre onsnore runo friend of the Home Secretary, was based which Maudling. was the first than ooked a paler shade of grey and intelligent president. W ds 1101 C "lances most of his MPs mour lu TenOW the vaulted roof of the chamber.'

æn vor v æn be d! his The 'Express' to carry various jobs man, with apparent Lochhead, wrote about spectace Colourlll language. ish enough not . to conceal eltael fact from anybody!' word "shame" took on a Marks read a synopsis of the and refused publish 'Jealousy' and 'smear campaign' material mening Commons new the the the was Marks But over at Ud.y al LC1 LL y yeolcuay 'Evening Standard' resignation what a It was the open- 'shabby giant's'

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were another part of the Beaverbrook reaction wrote: trom 1112

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press -a different line being jealousy.' was deathly hush spurred bi mouse eneund peddled. The City editor, Davic Mr Edward Heath, wearing a "There fitting pall of w ds announced Mr Maud- Malbert, wrote: shame hanging over the House of "The Commons yesterday afternoon unanswerec one the Minister question over the y tid h 'But it summed up the when Malo dolly is: why form Mr Reginald Maud- ling mood PrOTOURO reprel over announceu associations? Here the circumstances that had lost ling's resignation such strange •nome the government front bench the Secretary. that a smear Wha aeslor r statesm Exchequer Chancellor the campaign had worked. friendly and familiar figure, the whose great performance shabby glant wo onv a ren 'It has not often been the case his detractors days ago sat with a chubby smile deal better than that the announcement of a Mini- allowed, a man of acute intellect as the Prime Minister dealt with resignation sterial Chac been and a great deal of charm.

greeted with : of dissent from us suon linc cracs. cries of his attach House. 'My Derek Marks, the both sides of the Ye1 explanation But it was Hoffman and his ment to Jerome ex-editor of the ay asoress. suce was me case vesterudy.

who turned in the most astonish- 'One could not help thinking services to vr rouson the believe retired, Metropolitan Police in- the Commons olIc FROM p.3 vestigating squad. rule governing the con- who took high positions duct of civil servants with Crudens?' The relationship de-

NOW

has Hamilton asked: veloned when Pottinger asked Kenneth Baker replied that the 'Can you be quite was seconded to the police investigation was Secretary, banlalllcllaly Scottish Tourist Board sure this being rue Poulsor Service Depart-

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obeyed? Can you work the with ment, to extend the affair but he added tha Lale the House for instance the ruea raser on police inquiry into £3m winter sports centre Pottinge involved, top civi JuKs Detwec. Aviemore affair would have been investigation servants and Crudens. disclosed unless there Highlands. be extended to it. Tory Secretary had been the bankruptcy With two senior civi for Scotland Mr State case in Wakeheld? seryants suspended Campbell im- Gordon police pending investig. mediate v wrote Liaison the leader of the Commons Home aLONS Cano Robert Carr insisting Secretary forced to re. sign, Baker went on that the two civil ser was consul- Poulson that he hoped named the vants say Bovis architect tant anonymous letter had had 'Will you He said: recent event. Ltd, left the civil service and caused disquiet among holdings undertake to allow tne Health Minister Sir the public about joined Crudens at dates Metropolitan police Keith family civil service out any WhiGN Tulle [of Poulson] and ottinger's job vesticallon suggestion of mal- 'The and to cover toe case or lo amteeily involving was to halse will mim. the Ninewells hospital, Dun- honesty Civil planlict Ninewels hospital con- dee, and the association Service i British the biggest What came of that tract. public liaison presumably Will OI Lwo senior civIl asoc unearthed by After Baker explained vants, one now dead and life, he told the House ther company that nearly went summed up in two words: business naivete.' This amazing theory will cause a rash of anxiety among share- holders of Sir Arnold Weinstock's combine, the merchant

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bankers, _ Kleinwort Benson, and the Dunlop Pirelli rubber group where Maudling also held directorships. It also flatly con- of Maudling tradicts the view held down at 'City Press', the newspaper of the City of London.

They seem to think Maudling is the greatest financial genius since John Maynard Keynes- which is an unfortunate yardstick in these troubled times. In a front-page article the 'City Press' declared: Bankers resent attack on Maudling'.

'The City of London looks on Maudling (who was a Reginald successful chancellor) as the one man in the Heath Cabinet who really understands the manage- ment of the economy. He is known as an expansionist who favours a sensible prices and policy and a floating wages pound. Without him the Heath Cabinet would be desperately short of the talent that is re- quired to cope with our desper- economical situation ate now that inflation is running wild.

Hardliner And finally to 'The Guardian' which lazed onto the scene with an obsequious editorial about Maudling. The 'liberals' of 'The Guardian' whined: 'Mr . Maud- ling's resignation is a bitter blow to government. For Mr Maudling's personal position there must be great sympathy.

Mr Maudling stood at the head of a small group of Ministers dedicated who were more to reconciliation, less committed to abrasiveness than others.'

This view of Maudling as the 'radical Tory' is answered fully 'Stand- the by John Grigg in ard'. He writes: 'The idea that he [Maudling] stood for "con- census" policies in a cabinet hell- "confronta- bent on policies of tion" is very largely mythical.

Though by temperament more of an appeaser than Mr Heath, he has been fully associated government's policies with the both before and since he came to office! By any standards Maudling was a hardliner. Ask anyone in Long Kesh concentration camp. That, you will recall, was just one of Maudling's ideas in the 'quiet revolution' of the Heath govern- ment.

'BBC 1

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Yellow Cricket.

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ex-Texas Rangers aged 8.05 NEWS. Sport, weather. attempt to recapture past 8.15

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glories by cleaning up a 8.35

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Dorothy Provine. High am- Collection. bitions of racehorse

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trainer. show Jumping and horse racing on Saturday afternoons, take time out to at 3 p.m. He plays the accident prone Augustus 'Red' Pirdy in 'The Yellow

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9.00 SCOTT ON TRAVEL.

son. After two unsuccess- Comedy. ful marriages Hilda Crane is urged to marry girlhood 9.45 FOR THE NATION. Gulben- admirer Russell Burns. kian Museum of Oriental Art.

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Cel 10.20 THE ROADS TO FREE

PONFETTLAST YEAR'S

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CHANNEL: 11.00 Matins. 12.05 family dog. 1.48 Training the Weather. 1.50 Avengers. 2.45 Film: 'In the Nick'. 4.40 London.

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cess- HTV Cymru/Wales as HTV Wales plus: 5.35 Nabod Y Gair (repeat). Ho ANGLIA: 11.00 Service. 1.20 Challenge. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 2.30 Film: Idle on Farming. Parade' . 4.10 Dr Locke. 4.40 Lon- 7.55 Film: 'Lydia Balley'.

don. 9.30 In for a penny. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.05 Saint. ATV MIDLANDS: 11.00 Matins.

1.40 Horoscope. 1.45 Yesterdays. 2.15 Sport. 3.15 Film: 'The Girl in the Headlines'. 4.40 London. 7.55 Lo rs Press, Saturday July 22, 1972 PAGE 11 ULSTER: 12.40 Skippy. 1.10 Lon- don. 5.10 Primus, 5:40 Who do you do? 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Scarlet Angel'. 8.25 Results. 8.30 London. 11.25 Frighteners.

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11.50 Make a wish. 12.15 Woo- binda. 12.40 Lidsville. 1.10 Lon- don. 5.10 Primus. 5.40 Who_do do? 6.10 London. 7.00 you McMillan and wife. 8.25 Cartoon.

8.30 London. 11.25 Journey to the unknown. 12.20 Weather.

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FUND

ONE DAY TO

IT IS within our grasp. One more day and we know you will do it. An all-out last minute fight and we will be there.

The decision taken against the dockers yesterday is just the start of a showdown by the Tories against the whole of the working class. Over the next few weeks, Workers Press will be decisive as workers everywhere fight back against this Tory government. Therefore every penny you can raise for our July Fund will be Important. We need these extra amounts to help the holiday period. us over With one day left before our summer school begins, let's make every eitort to complete our £1,750 target by then. We know you will not let us down.

every donation immedi Rush ately to: Workers Press July Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. AN AMENDMENT to the gov- ernment's local government bill seeks to give teaching staff legal "assaults from suf- protection fered in the course of duty'.

Labour MP Barry Jones told the Commons that violence in and that schools was growing teachers were getting kicked and punched by pupils. In 1960 six pupils assaulted their teachers and there were 38 cases involving parents. By 1971 the number of assaults by children had risen to 38 and the number by parents to 4l.

city

POLICE

described Belfast centre as a 'disaster area' after a wave of bombings in the Oxford Road districts Street, Cavehill yesterday. out of Eye-witnesses coming the busy shopping areas said there everywhere, some bodies were without limbs and with arms and legs lying around'. Late yesterday police estimated 13 people had been killed.

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Workers Press day July 22, 1972 consider the report, but at the delegates THE SPECIAb.commit- off the tee looking into dockers' the called most crucial meet- job prospects and other is that of dockers' docks strike on a vot ing Thursday. of 49 to 32. problems the delegates ports publish its interim Liverpool dockers have will The report Tuesday. called a day-long strike report on jobs crisis has This will follow its and special train compiled by Monday chartered at cost of meeting on and Irenera £800 will bring afternoon to put the men to Union secretary Transport finishing touches to the lobby of Jones and former Tor House. report. MP and deputy When the docks dele- The National Joint man of the Tory Part Council Port June for the gates last met on Lord Aldington. Transport Industry will 14 lobby angry Aldington is Tuesday to shouted strident abuse meet on several other registered workers.

MORE THAN 70 ships were stewards When refused, shop idle at Mersey docks yester- the firm threatened to use unreg- the 10,000- as entire istered staff workers. labour force struck There is, strong however, a further manoeuvre over a manning dispute. fear that the is aimed at driving a wedge between The dockers came out in sup- the dock- clerical workers and port of 1,600 workers who have week at one ers. seen on strike all Smith Coggins are planning to the port's of major cargo- number of their office sack handling firms, A. E. Smith Cog- workers and Monday 800 gins. staff throughout the port The dispute does not directly

HICH

will go on strike in protest. affect the entire port labour On of this there are force, Merseyside dockers top but merger talks between the port's feel that the employers who four cargo-handling firms, Ocean are backing Smith Coggins have Port Services, Port of Liverpool taken them on over an issue of Smith Coggins and Stevedoring, principle. the Mersey Docks and Harbour the right This to

CONCIS

Company. traditionally done clerical jobs Clearly a major saving in such Smith by registered dockers. a merger would be the central- the firm Coggins' stewards say izing of accounts and paperwork insisted on new manning arrange- lead to general which would which one docker in ments cut-back in clerical jobs.

the large had to take work of

COLD STORAGE

LOATED

BRIS

away their rival pic Depot workers take on hearing the NIRC's jail threat

WEATHER

IN ENGLAND. Wales, Northern and central Ireland, southern UNITED NATIONS Association Scotland it will be a generally United States of the has day with outbreaks of cloudy announced an agreement with its which will be heavy and work rain, Soviet counterpart to thundery in places. together on common projects and Scotland will be Northern publish each other's results in an ground' mostly dry with some bright or effort to seek 'common spells. The first sunny sensitive subjects. will be 'parallel statement' issued Temperatures near such normal. Washington this week dealt Outlook for Sunday and Monday: of implementing the with ways Some thundery showers. Sunny four-year treaty on the non pro- intervals chiefly liferation of nuclear weapons. in ine norin. Warm inland. Plans for further studies on pro- tecting the environment and on regional collective security were also arrangements announced.

EOUITY.

-the actors' trade union appeared before the -yesterday National Industrial Relations Court on its application for post-entry, closed shop agree- ment covering the whole of live' The referred the theatre. court union's application to the Com- mission on Industrial Relations.

gates who chairman of the Port of London Authority and le national chairman of the banking on a vote and National group, Grindlays. rt on the has been When he took over Transport the PLA a year ago, | Workers' Aldington thought the rationalization process ormer Tory • was moving too slowly; puty chair he has increased the number of redundancies from a proposed 1,200 is also this year to 2,000. The Liverpool dockers, too, could face a jobs crisis. Ocean Port Services, controlled by the giant Ocean Steamship Company is pulling its Far East trade out of Liverpool and switching it to Southampton's container depot.

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have already asked to transfer 600 of its 1,250 labour force the port's to temporary unattached register. redundancies on With these the horizon, some dockers tear that the Smith Coggins. move is an attempt to split the two sec- tions by suggesting dockers are further jeopardizing staff jobs.

At a mass meeting at Liverpool Pier Head chairman of the shop committee, Jimmy stewards Symes, accused the firm of pro- voking the spread of the dispute.

He told 4,000 port workers: 'We will recommend a return to work when we get complete satisfaction.' r rival pickets at Midland Cold Storage MIDLAND and Barclays yester- day followed the earlier lead of National Westminster when they raised their 'base rates' by 1 per cent to 7 per cent. It is a move automatically raises which the cost of overdrafts. Lloyds, the last of the Big Four seem certain to follow with a similar move. The cheapest overdraft rate for the most reliable industrial concern is bound to rise to 8 per cent.

Ordinary borrowers will have to pay 10 or 1l per cent for the privilege of a bank loan.

A NEW MOVE was being made in London yesterday to end the three-week white-collar workers' strike in the South Wales tin- industry. Department of plate Employment conciliation officers meeting British Steel Cor- were poration officials and representa- the Association tives Clerical, Technical and Supervi- sory Staff. The talks come soon after the decision of 1,000 white- collar employees at the Ebbw Vale works to join the 1,300 already on strike at west Wales tinplate plants. • See Monday's Workers Press for special article.

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE NATIONAL Industrial Relations Court yesterday ordered the arrest of five Lon- don dockers accused of 'in- tentionally' defying injunctions to end their blacking of the Midland Cold Storage Com- pany's Hackney depot. Making the order President Sir John Donaldson said the of London's joint shop Port Bernard stewards secretary Steer had made it quite clear he had no intention of obeying the court's orders. He added that Steer was 'scarcely more enthusiastic for the High Court than for the In- dustrial Court'. Donaldson said it was not the first time someone had told the and the public that the press court's orders would not be obeyed, but gone onto observe them scrupulously. What matters is whether or not this court's orders meet with compliance. That is what the present application is about.'

The five men were Bernard Victor Turner, Anthony Steel, and Merrick, Derek Watkins Cornelius Clancy. Charges against two other dockers, Ronald and Edward Hedges, were dismissed on the grounds that in- there was evidence of sufficient their having broken the NIRC's orders.. Giving judgement Donaldson said the court had no alternative 'physical but to resort to re- straint on the five dockers.

'The purpose of this Court is promote good industrial to re- lations and none of us imagines for one moment that the making of committal orders will achieve this result; he said. 'But the issue is far greater than good industrial even re- lations. The public at large through a properly-elected parlia- • the industrial ment has set up court. It has given this court the power and the duty of pro- tecting the rights, of all workers, unions and employers in accord- ance with law. What at stake was was whether the dockers were to be allowed to opt-out of the rule of law. pick and choose, 'Can they relying upon it for the protection of their homes and families, but rejecting it when, tem- even it obstructs their porarily, industrial objectives, he asked.

It is a very simple issue, but vastly important for our whole way of life is based on acceptance of law? In the court's view there was ample evidence of breach of its picketing ban in the case of Derek Watkins, Tony Merrick Cornelius Clancy. Derek and Watkins, he said, a party was to the uttering of threats referred private to in the affidavit investigator Gary Murray.

There had been similar evid- ence against Tony Merrick and Cornelius Clancy. While there was no evidence that either Vic Turner or Bernie Steer personally uttered threats when they visited the picket line, the court accepted the submis- sion of counsel for Midland Cold leaflets making Storage that threats were issued with the authority and on behalf of the two men. Turner was chairman and Steers secretary of the joint shop stewards' committee, he said. The breaches that had taken place were serious and deliber- ately committed, quite literally in contempt of the court. The court had no reason to believe that Turner, Watkins, Merrick, Clancy or Steer were willing to abide by the truce it had ordered.

They had rejected the constitu- of their tional processes own unions and the joint negotiating machinery of their own industry.

Each member of the court had this conclusion with reached regret, Donaldson claimed.

The lay judges party to his order were Ray Boyfield, once an official of the TUC, and Herman Roberts, former indust- rial correspondent of the 'Birmingham Post'.