Workers Press no. 832

workers press

AS TUC SIGNS NO-STRIKE PACT WITH CBI

TORIES PREPARE

EMERGENCY LAWS

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTE

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE TORY government was expected to introduce emergency powers against the dockers' strike as a matter of urgency yesterday. The crisis group of cabinet ministers around Edward Heath were expected to meet yesterday evening and there were plans to rush ministers by air to the Royal yacht 'Brittania' to get the Queen's Assent to the emergency proclama- tion. Under the Emergency Powers Act 1920, the government can take steps necessary to secure 'the essentials of life, to the community'. These can be any measures it thinks fit, including sending troops onto the docks to shift perishable cargoes and the introduction of price controls. The Act gives the govern- ment sweeping dictatorial powers and the Tories need only seek parliamentary consent within seven days to ratify the state of emergency decree.

As the Tories were preparing this move, TUC secretary Victor Feather signed with the head of Britain's employers, CBI director W. O. Campbell Adamson, a joint pact for stopping strikes.

The document to which the two men put their signatures set out the details of the 'independent Conciliation and Arbitration Ser- vice' the TUC and the CBI hope to start operating from Septem- ber 1. Eventually the service- by Feather an alternative to -seen as 'confrontation' in industry—will have a full-time director and staff. Victor The costs of the service will Feather and the TUC split down the middle. Half General Council think they can of them, in other words, would illusions amongst of use many come out of union subscriptions.

created by the their members, release of the five jailed dockers, Also yesterday, Feather, Adam- to launch full-scale collaboration Sir Frank Figgures of the son, with the government. National Economic Development Office and Sir Douglas Allen of • They think the process can

T&GWU

the the Treasury met to plan the be assisted by agenda Monday's three- of next secretary Jack Jones's continuing sided talks on pay and industrial attempts with the port employers relations. to find a formula for ending the docks strike. The agenda is part of a shabby manoeuvre to shelve the issue of The anti-working dangerous, TUC's the Industrial Relations Act dur- class character the ing their talks. Union represent- manoeuvres is amply proved by and Tory premier Heath's description atives also met employers government officials at an NEDC of Tuesday evening's discussions.

meeting the economic pros- They were positive, constructive pects of medium-sized firms.

and valuable', he said. Yet while Heath was turning This orgy of class-collaboration this conciliatory face to the took place as the terms of the 4,000 Feather and Jones, extra being state of emergency were British troops were consolidat- drafted. ( At a press conference ing their grip on the Irish work- called to announce the signing ing class and government spokes- of his stop-strikes pact with the launching a fierce

CBI,

men were Feather said it had been attack the unions the achieved in a very short space on House of Commons. of time with an absence of ran- and complete cour unanimity At the end of a heated debate about the need for conciliation Act on the Industrial Relations industry'. in he co-authored with Em- then ployment Secretary Robert Carr, on: 'Confrontation He went Solicitor-General Sir Geoffrey means bloody noses for every- Howe ranted that the want conciliation unions body and we and settlements' would 'have to learn to live with democracy'. Feather was quick to claim on After the Labour attacking

CBI

Adamson's behalf that the leaders for political opportunism 'misquoted' cowardice, had been compounded director Telegraph' 'Sunday repeated: "There must be accep- recent in a which said the unions tance by the leaders of the trade Interview movement that and the employers were working the laws of only of this land with a pay-rise norm are not made at 8 per cent in mind. Congress House.

• THURSDAY AUGUST 3, 1

HE NEWSLETTER

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

It is in these spiteful, arrogant words that the authentic voice of Toryism today is to be heard.

And even behind the relatively diplomatic cadences of Heath, who on Tuesday evening had good reason to be pleased with the union chiefs, lurked the clear threat of a state of emergency.

The Tory leaders know the future their of system balanced on a knife-edge.

The rising price of gold- yesterday it reached the stagger- ing level of $70.50 an ounces steadily undermining the last inter- remnants of post-war national monetary co-operation (see page 2). This opens up the immediate prospect of the formation hostile monetary blocs along the lines proposed by the French and the Italians. Such a develop- ment could only heighten the trade war and the credit crisis, jobs threatening and living standards throughout the capital- ist world. Ulster reveals the scale of the response the Tories are pre- pared to make if they feel the movement of the working class in such a situation makes it necessary. In this context the union 4p GUST 3, 1972 • No. 832

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

UPPER

leaders want talks with Heath, but not with their own members.

Feather and his right-wing supporters refused to recall the TUC, despite the support of unions with a majority member- ship for this call. Jones will not recall his union's biennial conference de- spite the grave threats it faces under the Act. Rather than vigorously lead his 40,000 docker members in struggle to defeat the employers, he rushes into further private discussions with the employers' leaders.

The working class must de- mand: • Break off all talks with the Tories. • Recall the TUC. Convene an emergency bi- ennial conference of the

T&GWU.

Extend the docks strike to a General Strike. Force the Tories out. • Return a Labour government pledged to repealing the In- dustrial Relations Act and nationalizing docks, road trans- port, banks, basic industry with- compensation and under out workers' control.

BUILDING

ORKERS

We won't accept pay deal say angry builders Union - employer talks on the building workers' pay claim ended without any agreement late yesterday afternoon. thousand- strong lobby of builders stood outside the meeting.

They were angry at the latest offer. See p12 for full report.

workers press

AS TUC SIGNS NO-STRIKE PACT WITH CBI

TORIES PREPARE

EMERGENCY LAWS

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE TORY government was expected to introduce emergency powers against the dockers' strike as a matter of urgency yesterday. The crisis group of cabinet ministers around Edward Heath were expected to meet yesterday evening and there were plans to rush ministers by air to the Koyal yacht 'Brittania' to get the Queen's Assent to the emergency proclama- tion. Under the Emergency Powers Act 1920, the government can take steps necessary to secure 'the essentials of life, to the community'. These can be any measures it thinks fit, including sending troops onto the docks to shift perishable cargoes and the introduction of price controls. The Act gives the govern- ment sweeping dictatorial powers and the Tories. need only seek parliamentary consent within seven days to ratify the state of emergency decree.

As the Tories were preparing this move, TUC secretary Victor Feather signed with the head of Britain's employers, CBI director W. O. Campbell Adamson, a joint pact for stopping strikes.

The document to which the two men put their signatures set out the details of the 'independent Conciliation and Arbitration Ser- vice' the TUC and the CBI hope to start operating from Septem- ber 1. Eventually by Feather the service-seen an alternative to 'confrontation' in industry—will have a full-time director and staff. The costs of the service will Victor Feather and the TUC be split down the middle.

Half General Council think they can of them, in other words, would illusions many of use amongst come out of union subscriptions.

their members, created by the release of the five jailed dockers, Also yesterday, Feather, Adam- to launch full-scale collaboration Sir Figgures Frank of the son, with the government. National Economic Development Office and Sir Douglas Allen of • They think the process can

T&GWU

the Treasury the by the met to plan be assisted agenda of next Monday's three- secretary Jack Jones's continuing sided talks on pay and industrial attempts with the port employers to find a formula for ending the relations. docks strike. The agenda is part of a shabby manoeuvre to shelve the issue of The anti-working the Industrial Relations Act dur- TUC's class character the Union represent- manoeuvres is amply proved ing their talks. by and Tory premier Heath's description atives also met employers government officials at an NEDC of Tuesday evening's discussions.

meeting the economic pros- They were 'positive, constructive of medium-sized firms. pects and valuable', he said. Yet while Heath was turning This orgy of class-collaboration of the this conciliatory face to the took place as the terms 4,000 Feather and Jones, extra state of emergency were being consolidat- British troops were drafted. At conference press on the Irish work- ing their grip called to announce the signing ing class and government spokes- pact with the of his stop-strikes fierce had been launching a

CBI,

Feather men were said it attack the unions in the a very short space 'in on achieved House of Commons. of time with an absence of ran- and complete unanimity cour At the end of a heated debate about the need for conciliation the Industrial Relations Act industry'. In he then Em- co-authored with Secretary Robert Carr, on: 'Confrontation ployment He went Solicitor-General Sir Geoffrey means bloody noses for every- want conciliation Howe ranted that the unions body and we would 'have to learn to live with and settlements.' democracy. Feather was quick to claim on After attacking the Labour

CBI

Adamson's behalf that the leaders for 'political opportunism 'misquoted' had been compounded by cowardice', he director 'Sunday Telegraph' 'There must in a repeated: be accep- recent interview which said the unions tance by the leaders of the trade and the employers werę working union movement that the laws with of only of this land are made a pay-rise norm not at 8 per cent in mind. Congress House.'

HE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY AUGUST 3, 1

• CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOI

It is in these spiteful, arrogant words that the authentic voice of Toryism today is to be heard.

And even behind the relatively diplomatic cadences of Heath, who on Tuesday evening had good reason to be pleased with :the union chiefs, lurked the clear threat of a state of emergency.

The Tory leaders know the is future of their system balanced on a knife-edge.

The rising price of gold yesterday it reached the stagger- ing level of $70.50 an ounce-is steadily undermining the last inter- remnants of post-war national monetary co-operation (see page 2). This opens up the immediate prospect of the formation of hostile monetary blocs along the lines proposed by the French and the Italians. Such a develop- ment could only heighten the trade war and the credit crisis, jobs threatening and living standards throughout the capital- ist world. Ulster reveals the scale of the response the Tories are pre- pared to make if they feel the movement of the working class in such a situation makes it necessary. In this context the union GUST 3, 1972 • No. 832 • 4p

'HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

UPPE

leaders want talks with Heath, but not with their own members.

Feather his right-wing and supporters refused to recall the TUC, despite the support of unions with a majority member- ship for this call. Jones will not recall his union's biennial conference de- spite the grave threats it faces under the Act. Rather 'than vigorously lead his 40,000 docker members in struggle to defeat the employers, he rushes into further private discussions with the employers' leaders.

working The class must de- mand: • Break off all talks with the Tories. • Recall the TUC. • Convene an emergency bi- ennial conference the

T&GWU.

Extend the docks strike to a General Strike. Force the Tories out. • Return a Labour government pledged to repealing the In- dustrial Relations Act and nationalizing docks, road trans- port, banks, basic industry with- out compensation and under workers' control.

BUILDING

WORKER

(TRANES

We won't accept pay deal say angry builders Union - employer talks on the building workers' pay claim ended without any agreement late yesterday afternoon. A thousand- strong lobby of builders stood outside the meeting.

They were at the angry latest offer. See p12 for full report.

Two-tier system goes by the board Gold bursts its $70 PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday August 3, 1972 THE 'FREE MARKET' gold price broken through the $70-an- ounce level: in London yesterday being quoted at $70.50 before the morning fixing.

This is more than twice the cannot be maintained the US had any intention of buying back the The two-tier svstem for much longer with 'such gap banks. à. Wide official price which was in opera- donars Coe dr COntd prices. between official and free market And would hardly consider liquidating its already the beginning of the depleted gold stocks. tion until this on the gold markets United :'Financial Times', the year. The official price fixed by the dlates nas naten

'LACL

Ildy SelL Lulc some of its own reserve holdings on the open original impetus the

TOI

•resenr .ool American Treasury is now $38 an buying on the bullior market market. have come from sources in the In reply to a question from Senator Jacob ounce. salit sin oe retar Tuscay George Schultz United States _ reasur circles said Washington on that his extremne tensor a eolod the One of the factors driving up department will consider selling gold was demonstrated in Tokyo unofficial the Franco-Italian yesterday. stock market, which had price competitive ucensed GOnCoC

USCIS

proposal that a new official price should slumped prices. Tuesday Hedoneo o accoro ocak ol circulated that Japan e set within the Common Market.

The The sale of gold in this way from US sharply when a rumour would the would be asked to revalue the yen again assets not only breach two countries are sala to want a price for

ICOCLYC

Tadashi 1968 would of governor Sasaki Common Market transactions of destros Bank internal albu ally apas. lingering hopes US will some day „ thattne was o cer co stace Sorcidi

TOICS

COlL about $70 an ounce. He said restore convertibility. ference to reassure jittery investors. have the meeting of the Group Ten finance Dolar holders been unable to bus e cen a níee were xe l wo cc n ministers due held in agreement under which to be Us reasury sance HucIs I. and sell their last year. The 'temporary " suspension of con- central banks agreed to buy senten sars lowas a rouene mccoo co vertibiity anounced by resident on tha summoned to discuss yen revaluation, as reserves

OLICC

rumoured. Washington. day is clearly intended to be permanent..

AMERICAN Navy planes have bombed Haiphong shipyard for the first time in an attempt to

BY JOHN SPENCER

stop North vietnamese vesseis imposed Professor Milan THE SIX and a half year sentence for sub version of the on blockade the Huebl is the most severe of the 31 prison terms handed out in the current wave of country's ports. is the premier ship- trials in Czechoslovakia. Professor Huebl, a former Central CommitteeR LLapuuuE member of North victnal ana Ils who was rector of the Communist Party school until purged from office after the yard sules ano rebas saaow. used to unload 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion, is the most important defendant tried so far.

Chinese Du pico Before August 1968 he was a one-year suspended anchoicd OsOLC aVUil given mines. friend Gustav close of

SCALCICC.

Pilots from the aircraft carrier marked by he was 'Saratoga' claimed Husak, the Soviet puppet vigorous protests outside the had left flames. who replaced Alexandr Dub- court by about 40 friends of the vare ocen Hanoi's Foreign Nunsu salo une as Party first secretary.

cek protested that the accusco, lIcy US had also deliberately bombed courtroom was closed Husak himself is currently The Haiphong, residential public in violation of Czechos- taking vacation the destroving 400 homes and klllıng on lovak law and wunding great many Black Sea at the invitation of Only the wives of the defend- the Kremlin. ants were admitted and police The statement said hundreds even kept out Karel Bartosek's conducted in con- demolition anti- AS nar and

• LOIS

ditions of semi-secrecy, with the had travelled had

SISLEL.

wno personnel DOnDS been observers excluded, Ostrava to watch trial and dropped seven residentiai of the witnesses, having Jaros- of the over the week- Huebl city Was accuscu ai cas lav Sabata, former head of the *illegal nun iched anel denaina. end and on Monday. documents' and sent them euseo to testify against Professor Huebl abroad. on the grounds that the proceed- edited said to have was the clandestine magazine

WCIC

uncolsuLuuonai, of which daughter copies ane nis Hana re cue to stand trial themselves for were found at his home when he subversion in a few days' time. was arrested The January. of trials indictment also cited the names une currenu wave Zidar, former Czechoslovakia are aimed at de- Ferdinando HUSAK: On hollday ITALIAN railwaymen went on for active support Comesooenl a 24-hour strike yesterday eve- Dubcek Italian newspaper ''Unita' CP Lne burtal- Valerio Ochetto, cracy, which opposed the August nine lor Deuter pay and woik- another invasion of 1968 and the subse- ing conditions. Italian journalist. the quent 'normalization'. The stoppage of Zidar and, Ochetto were said ToTal Vladimir

SCOTLAND

Yard 215,000 workers the nation- have acted . zidar couriers for Ochetto. one of the alized expelled Italian journalists cited out from London's Heath- railways is in suppo Huebl. ( was ex- Protessor court, stated Tuesday that row Airport yesterday bound for £10 .on ali lounu Day lIDC penea czechoslovak r the defendants Adelaide, month and demands for recruit- February and O and held was Prague

DOUCU

Aubuaa au unc ment of more railwaymen and an arrested January and in totally subversion. request Harold in innocent end casual labour. He said the French CP Commissioner of Police there, prison for 44 days betore being made clear that the Prague have seen not investigate allegations The last deported.

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ardillo! were of strikes and dis- According to the prosecution, of his force arde number ane Dno derendas • Lne menDers putes in Italian industry parti- had transmitted Huebl's true supporters in Czechoslovakia that South Aus- they It is alleged "pluralist which tralian police officers caused cularly since Pelikan, GocuneLs anti-trade union cabinet former director Czech tele- death of a man by throwing him nCW ot Democrat living exile in hendeo in LO sobon larnace. IHO anVer Giulio Andreotti. Rome. Earlier week newspaper Huebl did not deny having workers ended a nve-week stop- sent the documents to Italy, but he maintained that they page wnich nad preventea publ- were cation of most Italian dailies.

THE

JAPANESE

Defence previous five-year plan sent to the leaders of the Italian which has just ended called for the Party, particular Agency omnısı Enrico Berlinguer the Italian spending country s military Agency spokesmen said the CP be more than doubled in the general vould probably be schiclaly. fourth five-year "defence build Sentenced to 20 months im. to £67,500m taking per- closer prisonment at the same trial was ocramnne Starlld LnIS sonnel expenses into account. Karel Kyncl, television month. com- The Agency urged an outlay The current proposals are a mentator under Dubcek, accused of £60,000m and scaled-down version between now slightly ,of 'subversion against nike ued 1976. the republic'. the origina t72.50um blan FOUR Iranian nationals accused

TEDO-CLL

The™ increase of 205 per cent over forward by Agency. main charge against their the oI being members or Tne o- sistan Liberation Front were shot tellow-derendant, the astonan by firing squad Iran Mon- Karel Bartosek, was that he had on articles from the translated trial betore a military uay aller Communist French Party tribunal.

DICOS

'Political

UNION

leaders yesterday leader of the Australian Coun- This brings to ten the number the TOl pubilcatlon of Iranian guerrilla fighters shot Monthly'. recommended oil cil of Trade Unions. urged the retinery call off the strike in Bartosek vigorously contested bv the Shah's repressive military workers to call ofi a month

WCELU

for that this return guarantee which long strike which has almost machine since asr weekend.

chalec was orouztl would their against him on the basis of motoring embloyers halted private trained made by Professor threat of legal action. were Australia. Huebl Tory William before being during interrogation neighbouring irac allu Robert Hawke, 'left'-talking McMahon sent back across the border.

retracted. was sauer bartosek on

THE

CHRYSLER corpora- tion has attacked the claim that British motor manufac- turers had been caught on the hop in the recent up- surge in the demand for cars.

Chrysler UK deputy manag- ing director, Donald Lander, said the company welcomed competition, but launched an attack on the militant labour force. 'What does concern us, he said, 'is the way in which output is continually affected by the in- dustrial action, and it is this any other factor rather than which is really damaging the industry's opportunities.'

Chrysler, which made a six months' loss of £1.3m, faced a prolonged pay strike by workers Linwood, last at winter. This, and the strike, caused a loss of 28,000 vehicles. Production dropped by 12 per cent instead of rising by 4 per cent as planned. Chrysler's reaction is in con- trast to the gloom from British- Leyland which has been severely the influx of foreign hit by models. Like all the big British motor manufacturers the company saw share of the home market its decline sharply during July.

Though sales increased, the share of the home market in July was 28.7 per cent compared with 33.5 per cent during the same month last year. One of British-Leyland's big- gest headaches is the resistance to attempts to introduce a form of Measured-Day Work at Long- bridge and the Triumph and Jaguar plants in Coventry.

Ford, which has turned in the with a best 1972 performance production of record June and 10,000 vans, 60,000 cars does not face this problem.

MDW

has been in operation there for some years now and output has been pushed up. The other ailing car firm is Vauxhall which returned a six months' loss of £2.6m. Its share of the market continues to diminish. It stood at 9.5 per cent in June-below the 10 per share most manufacturers cent consider necessary for ultimate economic survival. Vauxhall's problem is one of models which steadily decline in from Ford in the com- mercial vehicle market. The British manufacturers are planning a counter-attack. But there are signs already that the explosion of demand caused by the Tory hire purchase conces- sion is slowing down. Hire purchase sales of new cars fell back 28 per cent last month over the June peak. Hire- in purchase deals new cars totalled 26,079-18 per cent above the July 1971 level.

Salisbury was Chief Constable of North and North East York- shire last year when Det Chief Supt Robert McGowan, who flew out yesterday, spent five months investigating a murder on Tees- side. Salisbury specifically asked for the services of the Lanarkshire- born detective. He is accom- panied by Sgt Charles Det O'Hanlon. trimmed after protests was from the parliamentary opposi- tion. The military build-up is a direct response to the rapidiy deteriorating situation of Jap- anese capitalism which has lost its best markets in the United turning States and is now greedy eyes on its Asian neigh- bours. recall parliament on Friday take emergency powers against the strikers' unions.

Hawke said he was confi- dent the back-to-work recom- mendation would be accepted at strike meetings in the main cities.

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TV THE POLITICS of coalition received a boost yesterday from Labour peer, Lord Wigg, General in the Paymaster Wilson government. Speaking at a 'Yorkshire Post' luncheon at Harrogate, Wigg urged Heath, Wilson and Jack Jones to join British in industrialists 'working together' sort out the to country's ills. "They or their like should sit with the Prime Minister down and leaders of British industry like Lord Stokes or Lord Kear- men dedicated not neces- ton, sarily only to the sanctity of smugness of huge profits or the their balance sheets.' Today's essential and urgent was for leading need, he said, of goodwill, conscious of men nation's interest rumediate the together and define problems facing Britain today.

Society was now split as it had not been split for genera- tions and a new basis had to be found for solving the country's , doubts and difficulties.

Wigg engineered Wilson's successful bid for the leadership of the Labour Party and became his head of national security— in charge of MI5 and MI6. His speech yesterday concretizes a climate which is already cloud- ing the political scene. Consider these facts: • It was Labour votes which kept the Tories in office during crucial Common Market the divisions. Labour consistently supports the Tories' policy of out-and-out military repression in Ulster.

• The TUC leaders spend more time with the Tories and the heads of British industry than they do leading their own mem- bers in their struggles against Tory laws and Tory wage- cutting. • Jack Jones has been busy over the past weeks cobbling together a jobs deal on the docks with Lord Aldington, an ex- deputy chairman of the Tory Party. When Wigg calls for closer collaboration between Labourites, • TUC leaders, the Tories and the CBI, he's not suggesting any- thing that is startlingly novel.

week oing on every day of the

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LATIONS ACT

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE 'DAILY TELEGRAPH'

yesterday to prop-up its falterir Young Socialists' summer cal three the paper suggests that visited the Essex countryside a 'linked' with the camp and Labour League to 'engineer' a The anonymous reporter tails to present any evidence to support these wild accusa- tions. But judging from the camp stories run so far, a hallmark of the "Telegraph' appears to be its complete contempt for the facts. With yesterday's feeble effort, the have paper appears to abandoned printing bizzare accu- sations about guerrilla warfare and Nuremberg rallies. It is concentrating on the more mun- dane distortions connected with any campaign to persecute the left and trade unionists.

The Home Office, claims the "Telegraph', has disclosed that the SLL' is attempting to engineer a General Strike. This, of course, is a lie as anyone who bothers to read Workers Press, the daily organ of the SLL Central Com- mittee, will readily confirm.

day, throughout the Every recent clash on the docks, the League has called for the TUC, the union leaders and the labour organize movement to a force the General Strike to government to resign. This call has been openly pub- lished in almost every edition of the Workers Press for the last times three weeks and many since the Tories came to power in June 1970-so much for the conspiracy. The Socialist Labour League 'engineer' a General cannot Strike. Such a strike can only be an expression of the mass move- ment in the working class-one that at the present time force the Tory threatens to government out of office.

It is of course not the object of the witch-hunters to publish the truth. Their main aim is political—to excite an atmos- phere where a pogrom can be launched against the lett and militant trade unionists.

This campaign is well under-i Ten right-wing Tories way.

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ANOTHER LAW

RAPH' attempted once more faltering campaign against the mer camp in Essex. On page sts that Tilbury dockers have ryside and that this is somehow p and a bid by the Socialist ineer' a General Strike. have already brought out a Bill proscribe and penalize to they consider organizations he 'hostile' to the United King- dom. One of the sponsors is Harold Soref, the Tory MP who led the witch-hunt of our summer camp.

The Bill received its first read- ing in parliament yesterday and is ostensibly aimed at preventing foreign left-wing organizations headquarters setting up Britain. But its wording would allow the state to take action against socialist organization in any Britain. • the Proscribed Called Organizations and Persons Bill, it reads: 'To proscribe the establish- ment of offices, depots, accom- modation addresses other "or locations within the United King- dom, by any person or organiza- whose declared intentions tion may prejudice, militate against or be in any way hostile to the United Kingdom and the safety

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of citizens of the United King- dom or British Commonwealth, presented accordingly? Tory MP Ronald Bray told parliament the intention of the to, 'proscribe any Bill was organizations and persons in- volved in these hostile activities, to impose penalties on those in- volved and make certain types of activities illegal. Moneys col- lected would be impounded and refunded to donors upon suitable proof being produced. I submit that a Bill to prevent this country becoming a haven for revolutionary activities essential' Bray warned about 'vipers' in our bosom' and added: I have not time for British people who owe no allegiance to their native land. The government is not backing the Bill. But it is an indication of the drive by the extreme right for more repression against organiza- within the labour move- tions ment. • And the Home Office has promised to review regulations governing the establishment of headquarters by political organi- zations. After the 1968 General Strike in France, the Gaullist govern- introduced laws which ment banned nine left-wing organiza- tions, closed down their news- made membership papers and of them illegal.

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WESTMINSTER,

of the one wealthiest : council in areas Britain, has some 10,000 house- holds lacking one or more of the basic amenities such as bath- room, WC and kitchen, accord- ing to a survey published by Westminster City Council.

But 77 per cent had all the amenities. About 2,000 households suffer conditions, from overcrowded of and there is a shortage and unfurnished furnished privately-rented accommodation.

Aim of the survey was identify the needs of people who live and work in Westminster's central area. People in the worst housing are the elderly in conditions unfurnished • privately - rented accommodation and the young in furnished premises, according to the survey. But most of the people inter- viewed preferred to live in the area. Only a third of those who planned or wanted to move said they would leave the central area. HIGH COURT judge Mr Justice May yesterday expressed ..sympathy for four student squat- ters, then ordered them out of a flat in Kentish Town, -London, within Martin days. seven O'Reilly (24) told the Judge they could not afford accommodation vacation grants. £5-a-week on Lidco Investments Ltd were granted possession of the flat and £30 costs against the students.

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TORY PRESS WANTS 'LAW

AND ORDER' ELECTION

PAGE & Workers Press, Thursday August Ever since the jailing of the Pentonville Five, the political atmosphere in Britain has changed markedly. From the moment TUC leader Victor Feather called a one-day national strike, we can assume reluctantly, against the dockers' imprisonment the is- sue for the Tories was plain: 'Who rules Britain'? The July 27 - decision of dockers' delegates meeting in London to call an indefinite national strike over the in- soluble problem of jobs rein- forced the challenge. With recession clawing down profits and emptying exchequer coffers, the wage battles of the miners and the railwaymen coming at the end of a bitter two-year offensive fought by practically every major section of the labour movement pushed the government to the edge of the precipice. The dockers have brought them to the very brink. The Tories are already pincered by the twin forces of working- resistance and inflation class created by shrinking markets.

Now the dockers have thrown unemployment in the Tories' faces with more force than any other section of the working class. It is one thing to be able to shake political heads over ris- ing unemployment while doing nothing about it, but quite another when a section of the labour movement paralyses the country's docks until concrete steps are taken. With the calling of the one- day strike last week, working- class pressure the bour- on geoisie-maintained at white heat throughout the winter and spring - erupted into the phenomenon of virtual dual power. The law courts were keenly aware of the implications of the dockers' fight for their right to work in flagrant dis- obedience of the National In- dustrial Relations Court and both Mr Justice Megarry and Sir John Donaldson stressed that what was at stake was the rule of law itself. Only one step behind them were the Sunday issues of the Tory press, two of them main- taining that the crisis was so grave that Heath should call a law-and-order autumn election.

The 'Sunday Telegraph' got closer to the heart of the matter than anyone else. Who governs Britain was certainly the issue posed by the brazen defiance of the NIRC, not only by the dockers but by the entire trade union movement, it said. And 'people' were alarmed at the readiness of some sections of the com- munity to challenge the rule of law. But, added an editorial: 'Overshadowing everything is the present Gadarene rush into inflation. Another stiff round of price increases, including the second rise in railway fares has coincided within a lear, with the other turbulent events of recent days. The CBI's price restraint policy has been breached by a major car manufacturer and is due to expire in October anyway.

The outlook is alarming "The Observer' took up the cry. It is the extremity of this docks dispute, its escalation to the point of national crisis, that is most alarming. Coming on top of earlier struggles over the claims of power workers, miners and railwaymen it im- ay August 3, 1972 plies a breakdown not just of social machinery our our methods of settling such dis- putes but even of our will to settle them, a breakdown of our social cohesion and of the consent on which that must rest.' Neither 'The Observer' nor the 'Sunday Telegraph' per- mitted themselves to detail the prospects which the destruc- tion of concensus politics by recession and the substitution • of open class war implied.

Peregrine Worsthorne, usually so sharply perceptive of 'the stage we have now reached' managed to inject a broad streak of almost puzzled reluctance into his: "The challenge to all of us faith of is: to restore the public men that rational, re- sponsible behaviour is politic- ally worthwhile. That faith is badly damaged and unless re- demo- paired parliamentary cracy must cannot be re- stored. All Tories know that.

The employers and their gov- ernment are forced unavoid- ably to take on the working class: Some might like to pull back from the brink, but his- tory and the logic of capital prods them forward. By no means all the Sunday papers shared this nostalgic reluctance to call a spade a spade. The 'Sunday Express' said: 'There should be no doubt as to the issue that now confronts the country. It is a simple ques- tion as to whether this coun- try is to live by law or the brute force of anarchy. 'Unless there is a quick re- turn to sanity and respons- ibility this week, Mr Heath should go to the country to seek a further mandate from the people' In a front-page article, Don Perry spoke of the danger of street battles and of mobs storming parliament. Ministers were discussing how soon they could move police and troops to deal with such situations, he said. The prospect of Ulster in England, which only a year ago might have seemed a fig- ment of Lord Carrington's imagination, has suddenly be- come the common currency of Tory leader writers. The need to rally the bour- geoisie in these 'dark days' is a much more potent reason for the beatings of the Press barons last week about the loss of their papers than all the claptrap about democratic freedoms. The Sunday papers certainly didn't miss the first oppor- tunity. And along with the squeals that British democracy had never been so severely threatened by 'the few, came the inevitable witch-hunting of the left. 'Ministers' wrote Perry, 'be- lieve that a loose alliance of revolutionary groups, includ- ing the CP, Maoists and anar- chists with left-wing militants unions from the trade determined to turn strikes into periods of serious economic chaos.' The 'Sunday Times' weighed in predictably behind them: 'If the law as passed is to be vulnerable to the quasi- violent dissent of a forceful minority then the whole sys- tem of law-making is in peril.

'Only one section of people would benefit from that devel- opment and it is not one led by Mr Feather or Mr Wilson.

It is the communists, the Trot- skyites, and anarchists whose object is to overthrow the democratic system.

ANTED

Top: The Pentonville Five. une Unlike The Observer' and 'Sunday Telegraph', "The Sunday Times' , as always, took the bull by the horns. The rule of capital and its political and constitutional instruments were being threatened. The time had come to hit back. Said the lead: "The country faces a major attack upon its constitution principles and freedoms, an attack, once it is perceived for what it is, to which there can only be one reply. "There is a developing psy- chosis which feeds upon itself that the country is indeed now becoming ungovernable. Only the government can extinguish this, not by submitting, but by setting about a calm campaign of re-education. 'It is possible that this at- tack will be successfully resis- nville Fire. Above: Mr VIc Feather.

ted by the present parliament.

But it may be that a full resolution cannot be made until a General Election.'

The sword has been drawn in Britain since the winter. It has been drawn and wielded in Ulster since 1969. As the employment of large numbers of police against pickets at Ellesmere Port and now at Briant Colour Printing shows, it is beginning to be wielded here. The clamour is mounting in the Tory press for an autumn election so that if the Tories win-with a new government team reshuffled into the public eye during the summer-the sword can not only be drawn and wielded but a serious bid made to deal a death blow to the working class and its organizations.

SPAIN'S NEW

FASCIST

IDEOLOGUE

BY OUR SPANISH CORRESPONDENT

Over the last two years, Blas Pinar, a man dedi- cated to the fascist ideals of Jose Antonio, has come into greater promi- nence in Spanish politics.

of the National A member Council of the Falange, he is the recognized leader of that section of the Spanish ruling class which immediately wants methods of the civil working class. against the Franco's and government Spanish employers are firmly in favour of such an orientation. The Spanish Communist Party, other hand, tries on the Pinar and Spanish portray isolated lascism historical anachronism, which the will quietly leave scene under the pressure of a 'demo- cratic centrist pro-European tendency': 'The monocolour govern- of ment, the upholders the bunker spirit, the high priest which came of the structures out of the war, are in grave straits.' The new military-style Prime Minister in France, the growth of for support the Italian fascist movement under Almir- of ante and the prominence military men under Heath's government show precisely the opposite tendency in esalithigh Capitalism recurreN priests' of Pinar's 'calibre' to crush the working class as the the only solution to inter- national crisis. At a celebration meeting in

US EXPECTS

HELP THE $

The Hakone negotiations are a prelude to Nixon's talks Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka (right), who succeeded Sato (left).

RESPONDENT

Barcelona in January, Pinar made an appeal for a return to National the ideas of the Revolution which inspired the 'best youth' in the 1930s. His interpreted in speech was many quarters as incitement to a 'coup d'etat' against a govern- ment which was too soft on those who wanted to form political parties and foment the class struggle. The July issue of 'Fuerza Nueva' ('New Strength'), the glossy fortnightly magazine runs, is the which Pinar organizer of this movement which encourages police strike- breaking and attacks on any group in opposition to the Franco regime. A certain Felix Esteban writes in a letter: 'I am a young Andalucian who loves Spain and national syndical- ism . . . Everybody used to call me backward and "fascist" but thanks to God I now have many Falangist friends who oppose this.' movement On June 20, Pinar pre- sided over a meeting held on the premises of 'Fuerza Nueva' of secondary school pupils from middle-class homes. Pinar is organising them as an active fascist youth movement.

Seated in front of the flags of Spain, the Falange and Tradition, Pinar told the many clad in the youth, fascist blueshirt and red beret, of the need to prepare prelude to Nixon's talks with the new a (right), who succeeded Sato (left).

Above: Blas Pinar at school, organizing struggle for God and the a Fatherland. This would be a struggle against those who wanted to introduce 'horizontal', that is, unions, independent trades 'when it is well known the economic and social disasters to which these unions lead and when already many countries consider the vertical unions as the only solution to the terrible problem of strikes'.

These ideas were explained by Pinar at greater length in a still unpublished interview given to Le Monde' in February. "The partiocracy is a luxury which no country can permit itself. The climate of per- manent civil strife in those countries where there is free- dom for parties is a continual stimulus for our rejection of the party system.' for the This struggle establishment of the Falange takes various forms. One is the organisation of shock groups of managers and back- ward workers in factories to American negotiators at bilateral trade talks with Japan in Hakone opened the talks with a demand for a rise in Japanese the US, imports from according to the 'Nihon Shimbun, an Keizai economic daily in Tokyo. They asked the Japanese to agree to purchase US aircraft worth $300m and an extra $160m-worth of enriched 'emergency' uranium as measures to help the American trade balance. The United States has already taken drastic 'emer- gency' measures for precisely this purpose — imposing a 10 per cent import surcharge last August, lifting it only when the yen was revalued by over and threatening per cent tariffs against a whole range of Japanese goods. These measures have not succeeded in putting the trade balance back in the black. In fact the figures for the first half of this year are expected to be even worse than last year's, which were the worst ever. The Tokyo newspaper pub- lished a list of the demands the Americans were making at the conference and the replies the Japanese were likely to make to them. It said the United States would suggest that Japan buy nine to 11 airbuses at about $16m each for delivery about 1975, paying in advance for some of them, and that Japan 20 amphibious aircraft and 100 fully-equipped heli- Workers Press, Th organizing pupils for his fascist youth movemen!

beat up and intimidate workers in the Workers' Commissions— illegal embryo trade unions.

Another is to attack those bookshops which sell left- wing literature. Windows are broken and books torn or burnt. In a recent assault on the "Tres i Cuatre' bookshop in Valencia thousands of pounds worth of books were burnt.

The Falange also enjoys ex- posing teachers and intellectu- als with left-wing views who thus get the sack. They have just led a campaign against two teachers in a secondary school in Valencia, 'who not only showed hostility to the regime in Spain, but also with- out any hesitation gave their classes a clear Marxist inter- pretation'. The local administration was blamed for being too soft, although the teachers were suspended from their jobs: copters for the maritime safety and various other agency organizations at a cost of about $100m. Japan's reply, the paper added, would be that its air- lines and other domestic air carriers still have no specific programmes to use airbuses and that the maritime safety agency has no plans to incorporate equipment such as that proposed by the United States into its activities.

However, it predicted, the Japanese side would agree to the uranium purchases pro- vided the local electric com- panies — the ultimate pur- chasers—could raise yen loans at a minimum 4.5 per cent interest to cover the purchase.

The Japanese would have to pay by May, 1973, while the actual uranium would be stored (generously, free of charge) for up to eight years by the US Atomic Energy Authority. The uranium is useless to the Japanese in the short term: it represents almost ten years' supply. These desperate measures do exhaust the American not appetite, however. Other requests are even more com- prehensive. They include various steps to liberalize tariffs and other restrictions on import of com- puter main frames, computer computer parts, large-scale rawhide, beef, oranges, bulk truit juice, miscellaneous beans, and peanuts. The list ranges, as can be seen, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Obviously the US government wants to aid its Press, Thursday August 3, 1972 PAGE 5 movement. 'Who tolerates so many. teachers who do not hide their beliefs? Why are many other companions unemployed who have shown the loyalty? Is not there enough document- ation to prevent such situ- ations?' British trade unionists should take note of the presence of Pinar's men in the International Labour Office which recognises the fascist vertical union and has recently elected two Spanish fascists to its leader- ship. As Pinar comments, this is something unprecedented since 1937, and it is a 'question of honour for the Minister of Labour and union organization to make social justice the centre of our policy. It is well-known that several Labour MPs think vertical excellent institu- unions are as if many tions. It looks Stalinists and social democrats in the ranks of the TUC and bureaucracy of the European trade union movement are of the same opinion. electronics industry, which is complaining about bitterly (labelled 'unfair') competition from Japan. The US farmers, too, have obviously been lobbying heavily for concessions from the Japanese. American farm surpluses are building up at a rapid rate, just as in the 1930s.

The talks in Hakone, in fact, scarcely be dignified by can the name of negotiations. The only question involved is how far the Japanese will capitu- late. This is in the spirit of the style of American eco- new nomic diplomacy ushered in by the Nixon measures of August 15 last year. According to the Tokyo paper, Japan was ready to go part of the way at least to cutting its own throat on US instructions. Enlarged quotas of computer parts and other electronic goods would promised; expansion of other quotas would be 'studied'.

The American government is also pushing for Japanese permission allowing more US capital into the country. It wants agreement that Ameri- can firms be permitted to carry out processing and pack- aging of bulk drugs, cosmetics and camera films through wholly-owned subsidiaries in direct with competition Japanese industry. This would allow the US firms to escape tariff barriers. The Hakone negotiations are a prelude to Nixon's talks with the new Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka on Hawaii later this month. The Nixon- Tanalia talks can be expected to proceed in similar vein.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thuraday Augual 3, 11

BY PHILIP WADE. PART 2

The Tory government's decision to wind up the British steel industry— it without any leaving viable, independent future—was prepared by the policies adopted by the last Labour govern- ment under Harold Wil- son. Labour leadership The decided to nationalize the steel industry, the second time they have done this. But the way it carried through only was served to facilitate and assist the processes we are seeing today. Firstly Labour paid £600m to the old in compensation Firms like Colvilles owners. received £50m, Dorman Longs £46m and the Steel Company of Wales the massive £120m.

In order to make such pay- ments, the British Steel Cor- which was poration, estab- lished to run the industry, incurred annual £45m an burden in interest payments.

this, Not only but 200 firms were left untouched by headery Algual 3, 1972 the plan. They included some considerable enterprises like Thomas Firth and John Brown, the Sheffield-based engineering and steel groups. Many of the most profitable specialists and alloy steel makers were not brought into the nationalized steel sector. The private sector was freed from any restrictions such as was im- price control which posed upon the public sector.

Most importantly the con- trol of the industry was placed not in the hands of the work- ing class, but directly under control of out-and-out Tories. Lord Melchett became the chairman. This high Tory was on holiday in the south of France when the urgent mes- sage came from the Labourites in London that he was wanted to preside over BSC. Old Etonian Julian Edward Mond, third Baron Melchett of Landford, comes from an old capitalist family. Before taking over steel he was a director of Guardian Insur- British Field Products. ance and on the board of His father was Sir Henry Mond, of Mond Nickel and Imperial Chemical Industries.

He had been a Liberal MP, but joined the Tories when father crossed over to them in 1926. In January 1969 Melchett gave an indication of the times to come for British steel- He announced plans workers. for 50,000 redundancies by 1975 and the closure of several plants. But so rapid has been the the industry devastation of that this has been target reached almost three years before its deadline. When they assumed power the Tories were so overjoyed with the prospect facing them that they decided against de- nationalization, the policy they adopted after the industry's takeover by the post-war Labour government. The old owners had had a for handout most generous their largely outdated plant. More importantly, the most profitable had been sectors left in the hands of private enterprises. after hiving off a few So, profitable side-line operations carried on by BSC, the Tories set about drawing up the vir- tual elimination of the public sector, spending public money to modernize just a few key plants. It was in May this year that the Tories spelled out doom for steel. Mr Tom Boardman, the Minister for Industry, rose in the House of Commons to and unput tarest up to 1980.

investment announce He said amid Labour uproar that the forecast for output by 1980 was between 28 million and 36 million ingot tons. It was clear from the rest of his statement that the lower figure was the one the government had in mind. BSC had been thinking of over 40 million tons by 1980 and an investment programme of £4,000m the next over decade. The largest proportion of the money allocated would be for a major new 'green field' steelworks capable of producing up to 15 million tons a year. Boardman told MPs that only £200m was to be invested in the period 1973-1974. At this rate only half BSC's investment programme would be reached. Next year's allo- cation was in itself a cut-back of £65m on current spending.

Most significantly the money was to be spent on five key steel-producing centres and nowhere else. Boardman named the Anchor scheme at Scun- thorpe, Lackenby on Teesside, Llanwern and Port Talbot in South Wales and Ravenscraig in Scotland.

NO FUTURE

Areas like Shotton in Flint- shire and Corby in Northants were not even mentioned. In other words, they don't have any future whatsoever in Tory plans. As 'The Times' put it the following day: "The closure of older plant in order to con- financial centrate more resources on larger, advanced steelmaking centres inevitably means adding to the 40,000 the Cor- redundancies since poration was set up? the govern- Above all else, ment has made it clear that no new major plant — producing something like 15 million tons and costing at least £1,500m— would be built in Britain.

This plant was to be BSC's attempt to launch itself into modern steel-producing with plants something like the size of competitors in Europe and Japan. Tories' decision, The of taken in the course, was middle of absolute collapse of manufacturing investment in Britain. Little steel was being ordered, or, come to that, any other products like machine tools. The last hope of the Tories and the ruling class in Britain which they represent was the Common Market. Governments in the Six in any case said in 1970 they January were opposed to BSC's entry into the Common Market in its present form. Last October Lord Melchett himself made a speech in the House of Lords in strong Market favour of Common entry. He made it clear what the perspectives were: 'Nothing could put our development regions, our areas and the employment of our peole in greater jeopardy than turning our backs Europe at this moment.' of his The key section speech related to the develop- including ment of industry, steel, over the next ten years.

'We shall also need to con- template joint enterprises in manufacture in Europe, because technology has already led us to the need for very large investments which in some cases may be beyond the scope of our limited national resources, he told the Lords.

(My emphasis, P.W.) I see more vigorous expan- sion inside the EEC giving us the indispensable springboard : for the rationalization and modernization of our steel industry,' he concluded. (My emphasis.) In other words, the turn to Europe spelled death for the British steel industry. BSC is 50 per cent bigger than any comparable group in Europe. The Commission January • 1970 its document envisaged the EEC being dominated by some ten big groups, none having more than 12-13 per cent of the total production of crude steel.

So the Tories looked at the situation this way. British steel was both backward and was bankrupt, British as was capitalism. No money could be found to modernize it. So, being pushed along all the time by the wishes of European capital, he decision the decision was taken to wind it up. Competition inside Europe will be fierce as far as BSC is concerned. At present,

BSC

shelters behind a tariff barrier of around 8 per cent. This will be progressively reduced in preparation for Market entry and finally disappear on July 1, 1977. In addition in 1973 BSC will have to begin operating a pricing system similar to that in Europe. This basically allows firms to lower their prices from a calculated base to meet foreign competition. This kind flexible system has been named 'the jaws of hell' because of the temptation to reduce prices to uneconomic levels. On top of this, all invest- ment plans will have to be submitted to the European Community. Coal and Steel ECSC officials are known to disapprove of expansion plans going ahead while plants that make a loss are still operating.

DISASTER

Over 40,000 workers have made been redundant by it was British Steel since nationalized in 1967. That leaves just over 190,000 pro- duction workers. On present plans the final figure could be as low as 90,000. BSC chiefs are known to have figures of up to 100,000 more redundancies over the next eight years right in the front of their minds. There are 118 open-hearth furnances. These will go. Scot- land has 34 and these are all Workers Prose, Thurade being shut. That's what lies behind the massive 7,500 to 10,000 redundancies announced for Scotland last month. Places like Shotton in Flint- shire and Corby in Northants will close eventually. Instead, as pointed out, production will be concentrated in hive key cen- tres. For areas like Shotton and Corby, closure equals disaster.

With a total labour force of 12,800 supporting a popula- tion of 55,000, Shotton would face a complete economic and social collapse. town steel, with 13,000 workers employed in the tubes and steel plants. Many of the migrants workers from are Scotland who travelled south in the hope of jobs and secu- rity. What is posed here is the end of British capitalism. Without a viable, in- basic dustry like steel for its manu- facturing industry, there can be no future for it. It is not just the Common Market entry that is involved, although that played an activa- ting role in its final collapse. If one country cannot pro- vide the resources for the development of industry it must be planned on an inter- national scale. But this is im- possible in a capitalist system where each country insists on developing industry for profit rkers Pross, Thuraday Augual 3, 1972 PAGE 7 Left: Lord Melchott, who, on be- coming chairman of BSC in 1969, announced plans for 50,000 re- dundancies. Right: Corby, where closure equals disaster. and on the basis of competi- tion. What is required is the fight for a socialist united states of Europe in opposition to the capitalist conspiracy of the Common Market. That means taking up a fight against the leadership of the steel unions, like the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation. This union, along with the others, has put up no fight against closures, although its leaders have intimate, inside knowledge of the Tories' plans.

A new, revolutionary leader- ship has to be built in these unions, one which can take up the political fight against the Common Market conspiracy.

Steelworkers fighting to defend their right to work must join with other sections of the trade union movement in a fight to remove the Tory government. Its replacement by a Labour government forced by the mass movement to carry through socialist policies of expropria- tion of the basic industries under workers' control and without compensation would be the first step along the road to a socialist Europe.

PAGE 8 Workors | Thursday August 3, 1972 The book by Roy Medvedev translated as 'Let History Judge: the Origins and Consequences of Stalinism' (Macmillan £5.75) is the first independent attempt in the Soviet Union to under- stand the Stalin era which has come out of that country. It is a damning indictment of Stalin and Stalinism which confirms which Trotsky wrote about the bureaucratic everything degeneration of the first workers' state. From the great tension under which it is written, its passion drawn from the sufferings of millions of people, is also a testimony to the fact that the conquests of the October 1917 Revolution have not been destroyed. Medveder writes as a communist intellectual, an oppositionist who is harassed and persecuted for his struggle to tell the truth as he sees it. His book has great merits and deserves a careful study both for what it provides in the way of corroboration for the Trotskyist analysis and what it leaves out. On some crucial questions the book is fundamentally wrong. This series of articles submit Medveder's book to detailed scrutiny with the aim of pursuing the struggle against Stalinism to the end. It will deal in particular with his errors and omissions and point the way for a more rounded analysis which must begin with the works of Trotsky which are cited in the footnotes.

BY TOM KEMP PART 6

at least the correct step in the circumstances."

CONTINUED

The right turn is not seen as coming from essentially the method as the 'third same period' of ultra- excesses nor can it be recog- eitism, ized for what it was There is no need to decide who invented the new turn. It Dimitrov, been may have as sugests, but there Medvedev were others in the communist parties and in the leadership of Comintern who were capable of inventing it. Much more likely it arose of One of the weaknesses empiracally in the practice of 'Let History Judge' is its of number countries after analysis of the right turn in the victory of Hitler, when the Comintern policy which took danger became fascism There place in 1934-1935. acute. for were, of its Because Medvedev is unable ence in France from the time signs emerg- ence in i to explain the reasons for the of the fascist riots in Febru- period' policies of the 'third 1934, and France was one and their philosophic roots he of the first countries in which is unable to explain either the it found expression even be- which followed, right zigzag fore the 7th Congress the adoption of the of the leading to Comintern of August 1935. Popular Front policies. like There is no doubt, however, him, many anti- that Stalin quickly made the Stalinists of the 'new-left' while the former policy his own and imposed it was гуре, the big mistake the on communist parties as obviously a if firmly as he had done the latter was, not a success, Top: Into the thieves' kitchen' of the Li look Sovlet diplomacy, Stalin and Laval policies of the 'third period'.

Medvedev skates over the in the Popular Front period most cursory way, yet it bears in examination relation to has written about what he Stalinism in the 1930s. While the remnants of the Opposition being • were smashed, the Moscow Trials being staged and were hundreds of thousands of loyal , were being im- communists prisoned and murdered, Stalin winning support and was applause from many 'demo- and liberals crats' for the ' of the League of Nations In 1934. Litvinov lea and Laval concluding the French pact 1935.

of his foreign moderation policy and its corollary, the Popular Front. Defence of the bourgeois status quo More than a shift in tactics involved. The German was events indicated, as Trotsky soon to point out, that was Stalinism had swung defini- tively to the defence of the bourgeois status quo; it had become a counter-revolution- ary force. Without understand- Itvinov leads the delegation. Above: Now ing this, the nature of the Popular-Front tactic and the so-called struggle against war and fascism proclaimed at the 7th Congress cannot be under- stood. There was, of course, a shift in diplomatic policy on the part of the Soviet Union about after which came Hitler's consolidation of power in Germany. •Until then Soviet diplomacy had looked to Germany as a force counter-balancing to Britain and France from whom the main danger to Soviet

General Staff of the Comintern at Its Se liatti (Italy), W. Florin_ (Germany), Chel (Czechoslovakia), W. Pieck (Germany), interests appeared to come. At first the taking of power by Hitler did not change this orientation. Diplomacy as national state question had by , this time definitely superseded world revolution as the goal of Soviet foreign policy. The bureaucracy wanted peace and security. It feared foreign up- heavals and adventures. Above all it feared the spread of revolution. Only when the Third Reich appeared to constitute a mili- tary threat did a change in Soviet foreign policy take place. In September, 1934, the Soviet Union entered the 'thieves' kitchen' of the League of Nations and for the next few years became a mainstay of that organization. Even be- fore this, Soviet representa- •tives, headed by Maxim Lit- vinov, had appeared at inter- national gatherings and were working their passage as re- sponsible statesmen ready to guarantee the status quo.

The first fruit of the 'new look' in Soviet diplomacy was Moscow in May, 1935. As it was a military defence agree- ment it required Soviet sup- port for French military preparations. This was un- grudgingly given. In a joint declaration issued from Moscow it was stated: 'M Stalin understands and fully approves the national de- fence policy carried out by France to maintain its armed forces at the level necessary for its security From that day the French Communist dropped its opposition Party to militarism, adopted the tri- colour and the Marseillaise, and became ultra-patriotic.

The pact with France initi- ated a period of about four years during which, as World War Il drew rapidly closer, Soviet policy was and the formation of an alliance with Britain and France against the Axis powers. In May-June 1936 the Communist Party French stifled the revolutionary up- surge of the French working class after the electoral victory of the Popular Front. Stalin went on to betray the Spanish in Revolution 1936-1939. Communist Parties everywhere prepared the masses for the coming war by enlisting them on the side of their own bourgeoisies, as long as they were actual or potential allies of the Soviet bureaucracy..

At the same time Stalin 'prepared' in his own way by unleashing an unprecedented campaign of terror and murder which disorientated and de- moralized large sections of the Soviet population. Deep in- roads were made into the com- mands of the armed forces and I at Its Seventh Congreas. Seated left to right: any), Chep Shao-yo (China). Standing: O. Ku Germany), Dmitri Manuilsky, Stalin's personal d the whole officer corps was decimated. On the surface Stalin • was still looking for an alliance with the 'peaceloving' capital- ists in Britain and France and the policies of the communist parties were turned towards support for bourgeois de- mocracy and a search for allies as far to the right as seemed possible. In fact, the ruling classes of these countries were by no to have the means anxious Soviet Union as an ally. They feared the effects this would have on the working class. It was not Stalin they feared, but the Russian Revolution; not the bureaucracy, but nationalized property relations of the and the successes planned economy. Certainly they mistrusted Stalin and hesitated to do a deal with him; many hoped to unleash Nazi Wehrmacht against the the Soviet Union. Negotiations with the Nazi government As the danger of war in- creased and the governments capitalist of western countries hesitated to enter into a defence agreement with the Soviet Union the Soviet decided to bureaucracy abandon the policy it had pur- sued since 1934 and do a deal with Hitler themselves. Stalin had hinted at some • change in his speech to such the 18th Congress of the CPSU in March 1939. Then, in is in- May, Litvinov ('peace divisible') was dismissed.

As Medvedev points out, in the next few months, 'many Soviet ambassadors were re- called and a good number of them, along with many offi- cials of the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, were arrested'.

At the same time negotiations were entered into with the Nazi government which re- sulted in the announcement of a non-aggression pact between the two countries on August 23, 1939. Medvedev does not examine Soviet foreign policy by revo- Marxist criteria. lutionary Something of the officíal think- ing pervades his account. He the Nazi-Soviet pact as sees the lesser of two evils, the other being isolation. 'Many biased western writers make it seem that the Soviet Union unleashed Hitler by signing the pact. I do not intend to justify Stalin's entire policy. I have already shown how he obstructed a united front in Germany, decimated the Comintern, dissolved the Party, Polish Communist killed the best Red Army com- manders. All this greatly facili- tated Hitler's drive to war.

nd But the non-aggression pact to right: G. Dimitrov (Bulgaria), P. Tog- g: O. Kuusinen (Finland), K. Gottwald ersonal deputy. should not be added to the list of Stalin's errors and crimes. The Soviet government was compelled to sign the pact because Britain and France had been encouraging German fascism, and were frustrating the negotiations for a mutual- assistance pact with the Soviet Union'. (Emphasis added) In fact the signature of the pact represented a continua- tion of Stalin's policy of manoeuvring between rival blocs of capitalist powers in order to preserve the status and Soviet preserve quo national frontiers. This policy as a whole was counter- revolutionary and narrowly nationalist. It saw no role for the working class other than as a pawn, manipulated by the communist parties, to reach these goals. In tact, Medvedey. "shares as he that position insofar too sees no role for the work- ing class as a revolutionary force. He shares with the bureacracy the view that the Soviet Union could • be de- fended by pacts with bour- geois states and military means alone. He does not see the counter- revolutionary nature of the bureaucracy and its policy in the external field. He accords little or no weight to inter- national factors. His own critique of Stalinism remains ideology bounded country. To condemn the pact with Nazi Germany does not mean to say that a pact with Cham- berlain and Daladier would It is to condemn the whole policy of and manoeuvres alliances which had previously brought the Soviet Union into the League of Nations and turned its diplomacy, under Litvinov, towards of collective security based on acceptance of the existing, imperialist, division of the world. The alternative to the pact was not a different pact with the so called 'democracies, but a revolutionary -foreign policy which the Stalinist bureau- cracy and its stooges in the foreign communist parties and the Comintern were congeni- tally incapable of carrying out because they were thinking of defending their own interests as a privileged ruling stratum, not of advancing the revolu- tion against capitalism.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

• With the Communist Parties moving to the right in accord.

with 'peaceful co-exist- ance ence and the Soviet policy of a European Security Pact, the Popular Front is being built up again and it is even in order now to denounce the error of 'the third period'. Workers Press, T The business interests of the judges on the National Indust- rial Relations Court continue to blossom. Take Mr John Arkell. He has just been elected chairman of the council of the British Institute of Management— hardly an outfit noted for its sympathy towards trade unions.

Since leaving the BBC as administration, director Arkell has picked up a number of lucrative directorships.

He sits on the • board of Boots, the Coates Group and the United Kingdom Provident Institution. He is also chair- man of the Air Transport and Training Travel Industry Board. Twice-married Arkell (63), will take over the chairman- ship of BIM from Sir Basil Smallpiece at the annual meet- ing of the institute on October Smallpiece former was chairman of the loss-making Cunard empire. picking Another man up directorships like they were going out of fashion is Sir David Barran. vie've another one to add to the list we produced just over a week ago. Barran, formerly head of Shell and one of Britain's highest-paid executives, has already moved onto the boards of the Midland Bank, British- Leyland and the Burton Group.

Now he joined the has Drayton Corporation and the Drayton Group. This appointment will add some more pocket money to his pension. At Shell he re- ceived more than £70,000 a year. • Press, Thursday Augual 3, 1972 PAGE 9 Lucky old Jack Jackman. He is the director of Manchester airport. The council met the other day to decide whether His Excellency should live in a council house or a £19,000 house which he wanted in Knutsford. The airport recommended to the finance committee that £20,000 be allocated to see that Jackman was given some- where decent to live. Councillor John Gilmore from Openshaw was immedi- ately on his feet. He said that before spending £20,000 the investigate council should whether there was anything suitable in their own housing stock. This motion was defeated by 48 to 44 votes. Jackman will now get his Knutsford mansion. Manchester is a Labour council. Great was the jubilation in when Nicholas some circles Ridley, the 'butcher of UCS' was dropped from the Heath ministry. But as we said at the time, vere there are plenty of other Sir Ridleys in the Tory govern- ment. Michael Heseltine, Minister for Aerospace, has been appointed to take over respon- sibility for shipping. He takes over from Michael former Noble, who was a chairman of the Scottish Tory Party. It was politically embarrass- ing for the Tories to have Noble wielding the axe on the the true Heath school. Enter Heseltine. Below: Michael Heseltine

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Two government departments try to end case Strange moves to mufile Poulson PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday Augus TORY PRIME Minister Edward Heath's claim that will only rise 75 per rents cent in 12 months under the new Housing Finance Act is a distortion of the real situation. In a letter to Harold Wilson, leader of the Opposition, Heath says his estimate for increased rents due from 8 million tenants in England, Scotland and Wales is 'the best But the figures include 4.25 million tenants who won't be affected, either because they are claiming supplementary benefit or are private tenants who fall out- side the Act. Millions of council tenants face a fl-a-week increase this Octo- ber and another 40p in April 1973. Only 500,000 are expected to qualify for rent rebate, and there is no guarantee tenants will opt for a mean-test to obtain a reduction. Heath's figures also attempt to pull in private tenants who won't be affected immediately under the Act. He also fails to take account of the 50p many have already paid from tenants April this year. Finally, government estimates by Labour MP Frank obtained earlier this year show Allaun that within a few years council will double. rents In line with the Tories' at- tack on municipal housing, there a sharp fall in the has been number of council houses started in the second quarter of this year. - were 19 per cent Numbers down on the first quarter and 10 per cent down on the same period for 1971. THE SELF-APPOINTED squat- ters' leaders of yesteryear are fast becoming the respectable (and workers of well paid) social today. Many of them work hand-in- hand with local councils, often for homeless acting as agents people seeking short-term accom- modation. Some of those who recently were never out of the news- exploit for or one papers another, are now known to be making big sums of money as landlords by renting out flats themselves. Never more have been easily swallowed up by the system they were supposed to have declared war on. latest example is Jim The Radford who led many a squat.'

Now he has just finished a two- year course in community work at Goldsmith's College, London, to become director of the Black- friars Settlement at £2,650 a year. The point, says Radford, is that squatting itself has become respectable. The Settlement has hundreds of them as clients and 14 local authorities have agreed to let them short-term use property.

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Larry Cavanagh, d G. Healy, SLL natlo day August 3, 1972 QUESTIONS are to be asked ment's attempts to get th adjourned indefinitely. When 1 Tuesday, lawyers representing headed by John Davies, and th son, applied for the question adjourned. And late on Tuesday, after a day-long hearing, the former Home Secretary and deputy Minister, Reginald Prime Maudling, issued a statement deploring the fact that Poul- evidence was being son's heard in public. During his evidence on Tues- day Poulson said that he had committed what a QC said was a criminal offence to 'save the face' of the ex-Home Secretary.

Mr Muir Hunter, QC, for the trustees, was questioning Poul-.

son about his business dealings Technical with International Construction Services, of one Poulson's companies, of which Maudling was the chairman.

Mr Hunter referred to a draft letter in which the Pontefract architect agreed to 'eliminate' £300,000 ITCS owed Poulson's organization. The letter was to Manuing.

addressed 'My Dear Reggie', , and was signed by Poulson, he claimed, at the suggestion of Maudling. Mr Hunter asked: 'What was the reason you did it, bearing in mind this • is a criminal offence? Was it just to save Mr Maudling's face so that he should not be associated with a company which had a very large debit balance?'

Poulson: "That was the sugges- tion made to me.' Poulson he signed the said letter on the advice of Mr Nigel Grimwood, his solicitor. Mr Hunter: 'Why did you purport to sign away the sums owed to you by ITCS?' Poulson: 'I am very sorry I cannot answer. Mr Grimwood did not explain to me.' Mr Hunter: 'Was it intended to be just a sham?' Mr Hunter, was it intended Mr Hunter: to be real and have real effect?'

Poulson: I don't know what effect it was. I was in a state. I had lost everything. Whether you believe it or not is up to you.'

Mr Hunter: 'You have a mode escape other than fainting.

of Would you like to say you did • these things under the undue influence of your solicitors?'

Poulson: 'Under the advice of the solicitor, because I had never contemplated action to this effect.' Poulson claimed he was owed much greater sums of money than he owed. 'I did not know the difference between then insolvency and bankruptcy until it was explained fully later?

Mr Hunter: 'Did you then seek to pay your customers?'

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Speakers: vanagh, dock worker SLL national secretary .... • asked in parliament about the Tory govern• get the Poulson bankruptcy examination When the hearing reopened in Wakefield on Some of the senting the Department of Trade and Industry headlines on , and the Attorney General, Sir Peter Rawlin- Maudling's unprecedented uestioning of architect John Poulson to be statement

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Good Nart S0. 10 * 11 chese reports we rarest. win with the carpond *This man is talking bunkum' hal 10 Poulson: 'Yes." "The legal principle is that no Mr Hunter: 'At this time what should one issue statements were doing with interfering with commenting money you your or on a witness's evidence when the Poulson: 'Doing business.'

case is proceeding. But this case Mr Hunter: 'Including finan- is, I suppose, fairly unique. cing your wife's companies?' The applications for the Hunter Mr 'You Later said: adjournment of the hearing were were prepared to pay money into refused by the court. wife's and Mr Maudling's your In submitting that the case companies, though Cored income ta of 1600070u Mr Hunter said should proceed, that in his 28 years at the bar Poulson: was owed greater he had never known of such • an sums.' application. Mr Hunter: If it came to 'One is by Mr Saffman (for Mr choice between paying indefinite Poulson) for an Maudling and wife's your com- of adjournment on the grounds and income paying your the the institution of police tax, chose to the the second by Her you

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investigation, companies?' Majesty's the government - by Poulson: 'No, sir, I was never Attorney-General and the Depart- in any doubt at that time that I was owed sums very much in It The was quite safe. revenue had had large sums The revenue could with more like me! (In the original bankruptcy petition it was revealed that the Revenue Inland Poulson's was biggest creditor.) Shortly after 6 p.m., Maudling ANOTHER 19 unions learned brief statement via the issued a Press yesterday that they had been national news agency, Association. The statement said: suspended from the TUC for *I have seen preliminary reports refusing to come off the Indus- of what Mr Poulson said today trial Relations Act Register.

at his bankruptcy hearing.

Among them were the 316,000- ust these reports are correct, 1 Shop, Union Distribu- strong must make quite clear that tive and Allied Workers and the what Mr Poulson is saying does Union Bank Em- National of not correspond with the truth.

ployees with 90,000 members.

wish to make the most More 35 have than vigorous protest against this form failing now been suspended for of procedure which allows Mr to comply with the deregistration Poulson to make any allegations and barring future instruction he likes about me, without changes by affiliated policy notice. and in my absence, and 19 will unions the be the last without any opportunity for me taken batch to have action to refute them. against them. Legal correspondents said the The stage will be expul- The General Council terminology and of sion.

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character Maudling's present. formulating intervention is at its was One policy on this issue ready for the unusual. lawyer told Workers Press: Congress in December. ment of Trade and Industry— who also desire an indefinite adjournment on grounds which I have so far failed to under- stand. 'It is perhaps singular that a debtor involved in such a notorious bankruptcy case, who collapsed while being examined and is now applying not to be further examined public, should have his application sup- ported by the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and on behalf of the Official Receiver and by the Attorney-General.

"This country is outstanding in the matter of bankruptcy law— the public have the right to hear every single debtor and creditor has the power to ques- him. Why has this great tion scandal or alleged scandal burst on this country and its public?

adjournment 'During the between June 13 and July 3 the Official Receiver and his officers, with what appears to be excep- tional diligence and devotion to public duty, prepared a schedule on which they had been working night and day of a list since 1962 of the presents that Mr Poulson appears to have made to his friends. These came to £334,000 of which €155,000 had been received by Mr Poulson's old friend, Mr Dan Smith, former chairman of the Northern Eco- nomic Planning Council. I asked about certain payments and it about Mr Dan was questions Smith that attracted attention.

'Having set the country on fire attracted the attention and measured by the presence of the the representatives of press it is now desired today, that none of these matters should be pursued in public-not even for the benefit of innocent people who may have been falsely traduced. It may well be that Mr Dan Smith has an explanation for some of the enormous sums which have been paid to him.

'He has at least produced one contract of service. Similarly there are persons referred to who had explanations as to what pay- ments were for. None of this is in public at to come out all while the police investigation goes on. The public is to wạit to hear of these until there are committal procedures and trials.

'They are talking as if Mr Poulson is going to be prose- cuted. This is most unjust. I see no reason to believe that Mr Poulson will be prosecuted for anything outside bankruptcy, but there may be two or three things on which he could be prosecuted under the Bankruptcy Act.'

The court adjourned until next Monday when Poulson will con- tinue his evidence. They are likely •to reiterate their earlier position that the suspended union must come into line by December 31 or face expulsion. But this will meet strong opposition at the Congress. The Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers is calling for the immediate operation of rule 13, which lays down expulsion for unions who flout the General Council line. Some unions have already changed their minds on registra- under pressure from their tion membership moved by the jailing of the dockers. The electricians, led by right- winger, Frank Chapple, has deregistered and Civil Service the shop workers and are attempting to change their policy before the Congress.

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ONE THOUSAND building workers from all over Britain lobbied talks yesterday their claim for £30 and a 35- hour week. Union leaders had misin- formed the men, the police as to the location of the meeting. In the end the lobby had to march from New Cavendish Street-London • headquarters of the National Joint Council for the industry-to Bedford Square, the building, employers' HQ a mile away where the talks were taking place. They broke down after two hours with no agreement reached. Speakers at the lobby said that men were walking out on sites all over the country in defiance of the union's selective strike policy. Others demanded the resigna- tion of the union leaders if they accept the latest offer. This was greeted by cheers. The employers have offered a two-year, two-stage deal. This would give craftsmen £23 imme- diately and £26 next May. Lab- would get £19.60 and ourers £22.20 next year. have No concessions been offered on hours and the deal is only a little better than the offer made when the strike began.

Alan Brown, shop steward on the strike-bound Queen Elizabeth hospital site, Birmingham, said: 'This is a back-handed deal.

'We want £30 for a 35-hour week now—not in a one or two time. And we won't go years' back until we get it. 'The union leadership have to sort themselves out. Or we will put new people in their place.

He told me that the strike would be extended to building workers who line foundries with bricks in the Birmingham area.

They were also seeking support from railwaymen and other trade unionists. Dennis Johnson, chairman of the Bristol strike committee, told definitely "The offer is me: unacceptable. We have not come all the way here to be sold out.

We are determined to go it alone if the union leaders settle.'

Forty-two sites are shut in Bristol, involving the entire cen- tral area. 'This deal is no good to us,' said Alex Lee, strike committee member at the McAlpine hotel site, Gloucester Ra, London.

'Every single building worker says he won't accept it. We have been out now for six weeks and we can stay out for six months if necessary.'

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aday August 3, 1972 DOCKS shop stewards yesterd Jones-Aldington committee, w formula for ending the national The meeting was attended by one representative from each the seven ports national associated with the port shop stewards' mittee. At its meeting on Saturday the committee agreed to press for two stewards from each port to sit on the committee, but this working was turned down. The dockers from London sit on the committee with union leaders and port employers. Heavy picketing main- was tained by dockers around the yesterday in a bid to country seal off all but emergency sup- plies, or those agreed by the unions on humanitarian grounds.

The London stewards esti- mated that they had a total of about 300 pickets out. target' Yesterday's main was Quay, near Colchester, Hythe but dockers were also on duty Whistable, Har- at Folkestone, wich, and Midland Cold Storage.

emphasized that A spokesman was no let-up, either, in there the picketing of all the London docks themselves. about 3,000 In Liverpool, dockers were urged at a mass meeting to stage mass pickets of several small unregistered ports, such as Heysham and Glasson These Lancaster. Dock, near working "flat out, stewards were said. Stewards told the meeting they had agreed to allow a 40-strong shore gang , to break the strike and handle a children's educa- tional cruise liner, the 'Uganda', due to dock today. The ship will land about 600 schoolchildren and embark another 60 for her next cruise.

The dockers have agreed to load food and stores for the trip, so that she can sail on Friday.

16 stevedores who handle ships at Scarborough left a meet- ing of Hull dockers yesterday to make application to join the Transport and General Workers' Union as regular dockers.

About 200 Hull dockers went to Scarborough on Tuesday and stopped a timber ship discharg- The harbourmaster has ing. closed the quays. 100 lorry drivers About demonstrated outside the city hall where the dockers held their meeting. A plea for the shipment of Channel Island tomatoes to be résumed was turned down at Southampton by dockers' dele- gates yesterday. Afterwards, one of the Chan- nel Islands' delegates, Maurice Le Main, from Jersey, said: 'We were not really disappointed be- cause we appreciate the position the British dockers are in, fight- ing for their livelihood.'

About 400 of Manchester's 1,100 dockers met yester- day. After hearing reports from delegates they decided to hold a further meeting the day after the next national delegate meet- ing. It was estimated that between 500 and 600 vessels were still stopped around Britain yester- day.

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yesterday put their case to the ittee, which is trying to find a national strike. THERE WERE sporadic shooting and stoning inci- dents in Ulster yesterday as people living in Catholic areas of the Province adjusted themselves: to the second day of the blanket presence of British troops. Saladin and Saracen arm- oured vehicles roamed Catholic neighbourhoods in Belfast and Londonderry with turrets revolving and foot patrols of troops and Royal Ulster Con- stabulary were moving on all streets. In Belfast shots were fired in the Unity Flats area and near the Europa Hotel. Hundreds of troops were rushed to the Short Strand area when Catholic and Protestant gangs clashed after loyalist workers at the Sirroca factory had been stoned from the Catholic district. In Londonderry, Ulster GOC Gen Sir Harry Tuzo 'drove off at speed' when his car was Five hundred stoned. girls at the Rosemount shirt factory which overlooks the Bogside refused to work because troops were using the roof as an obser- vation post. The number of troops on the streets was cut to 1,500 in a bid to overcome the 'barricade mentality generated by army brutality last August. No. mass searches or arrests were carried out, although arms and munitions were taken from selected houses. Soldiers went out of their way to make them- selves popular, especially with children. 'The Guardian's' Belfast corre- spondent, Simon Winchester, speculated yesterday that if the situation remains quiet until after the Apprentice Boys' Rally on Saturday week, most internees will be out of Long Kesh.

Tory intentions behind the unprecedented 'Operation Motor- man', launched at 4 a.m. on Tues- August 1 were not to physically eliminate the IRA, but to make it impossible for them to continue to operate. While the , root causes of Catholic. unrest remain un- creating these changed, condi- tions is likely to mean the con- tinued presence of most if not all the present 21,000 soldiers.

In Derry yesterday troops were requisitioning more premises at strategic points and clearly pre- paring for a long stay. Meanwhile the declarations of

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renewed guerrilla activity by both wings of the IRA expected by some observers, failed to materi- alize. On the contrary, the Officials in a statement issued through the Irish Republican Publicity Bureau in i Dublin, said they would not be 'drawn into an open conflict' and recommended instead the ostracizing of British • troops. Belfast Provisional IRA leader all Sean MacStiofian has urged his men not to engage the army in shooting incidents. Rural raids individual on loyalists directed from a new field headquarters in the wilds of Co Donegal are unlikely to have much impact or command much from support even Catholics. Many Provos are thought to have gone to ground in Ulster.

Eire Justice Minister Mr Des- O'Malley said yesterday mond that Eire laws might shortly be changed to allow them to step up their anti-IRA campaign and he warned that IRA units attempting to set up across the border would be raided. The Provos are almost cer- tainly short of arms as a result of the army raids and the drying up of overseas supplies. In Dublin yesterday three men thought to Provos carried be out a daylight robbery for eight guns. Meanwhile the Whitelaw administration in Ulster is once again turning the face of friend- ship to the Catholic population, keeping the army on a tight rein and dealing promptly with all Catholic "complaints' at Stormont.

Their efforts are being aided by the leaders of the Social and Labour Party. Democratic While criticizing the army's iron fist' invasion of the no-go areas Mr Ivan Cooper made a blister- ing condemnation of IRA terror.

After midnight talks with Eire • Wednesday the SDLP leaders on announced that despite the army "invasion' it is still willing to about talk. to Whitelaw the future of the province. The dis- cussions are expected to take place on Monday. Eire premier Jack Lynch has the SDLP leaders been urging to get round the conference table with Whitelaw ever since his last.

summit with Tory leader Edward Heath. RAIL UNION leaders yester- day met the British Railways Board to warn that industrial action could follow if it per- sists with a proposal to cut jobs over the about 20,000 next four years. Union of Rail- The National waymen wants the cuts achieved through voluntary retirement than compulsory sever- rather ance. The board has agreed to most unions' demands of the increased redundancy payments, but has refused to give a pledge on the demand for no compul- sion. The NUR conference last month instructed union's the leaders to back their demand for no compulsory redundancies by strike action if necessary.

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and Libya agreed to merge their two coun- tries 'by stages' following talks Anwar Sadat and Col betwen Muammar Gaddafi in Benghazi.

A simultaneous announcement of the historic decision was expec- ted from Cairo and Tripoli.

The Tories badly need com- munal agreement in Ulster and there is evidence that much the tactics will be used to same curb Protestant extremism.

The Life Guards yesterday raided a Protestant house in Belfast confiscating rifles and machine guns. Whitelaw has also called for details of the 100,000 arms certificates issued to Ulster- is believed to be He men. sceptical about the need for so many guns in urban areas.

William Craig's Vanguard movement has lost ground to the Protestant Loyalist and Association of Workers, led by Belfast docks convenor William Hull and Ulster Defence the Association. The LAW, fully backed by the UDA, is about to launch a new political party to contest all future elections.

The Heath government hopes that if Ulster can be kept quiet until the autumn and democratic political forces encouraged, the projected all-party peace con- ference will be possible and per- haps controversial even referendum on partition. The LAW and the UDA are unlikely to come round to the idea of Irish unity, even though some politicians have begun to sound out Eire ministers about the prospect of making the Republic 1 acceptable to more Protestants. . The ground is being prepared at the very least for a coalition- style administration of the north the imperial underpinned power at Westminster and with the backing of the green Tories in Dublin. It is also opening the gates to new developments in the Ulsrer working class. Whatever the form of any future administration significant inroads in Ulster, no will be made into unemployment, low pay and substandard hous- ing. Even now the Province virtu- ally survives on Exchequer hand- outs to Harland and Wolff and other key sections of industry.

Political developments in Ulster pose more sharply than the need for an end to ever sectarianism and for workers on both sides of the Irish Sea to unite on a common programme to force the Tory governmer: to resign and replace them with a Labour government pledged. 1o carry out socialist policies, which alone can solve the problems thrown up by recession and the worsening crisis world capitalism.