Workers Press no. 834

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TORIES READY FOR PORTS SHOWDOWN

SUPPORT DOCKERS

AGAINST EMERGENCY

SENIOR CABINET Ministers state of emergency they hope w being moved into the docks w ing, but at the same time step committees which have been s Each of these committees can call on the government work. Inter- ference with any steps a com- mittee dubs 'essential ser- vices' becomes an offence of sabotage. In other words, under a cover the Tories of unconcern, are busily assembling the weapons to smash the strike if the union leaders fail to get it called off next week. Members of the Jones-Alding- committee yesterday con- ton tinued their search for guaran- tees of jobs from port employers, container firms and companies at present using unregistered lab- our. The prospect of Transport and General Workers' Union docks delegates being recalled before Wednesday or Thursday next receded, however. And around the ports yesterday the emer had definitely hardened gency dockers' determination to fight to a finish. In Liverpool, for instance, shop stewards heard reports that dockers who had worked an emergency ship for the Isle of Man and paid the money to charity had been denied Social Security benefit for their fami- lies. A resolution on the issue is expected to be put to a mass meeting in the port on Sun- day. This kind of experience increases the likelihood that even if the docks delegates call off the official action, it could continue unofficially. The national port stewards* committee is committed to meet- ing immediately after any dele- gate conference to consider strik- ing on until all unregistered ports are brought within the Dock Labour Scheme and dockers are granted all groupage container work. And even if both the dele- gates and a majority of stewards accepted a re-jig of the Jones- interim, Hull and Aldington Liverpool at least are in a mood to continue their action over the unregistered ports. The danger is, however, that while the Tories are sharply aware of the threat to their power implied in the strike, the dockers' own lines of policy are as yet unclear. For the third time in eight months, Heath and his Cabinet have taken on a section of the working class which has the ability to defeat them and force

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

BY DAVID MAUDE

inisters met at Downing Street yeste hope will break the dockers' strike.

locks was being played down in WI ne steps, were being taken to call t been set up in each port.

Some of the pickets at the World's End s them from office. As in the case of the miners and the railway- men, they are relying on the trade union and Labour leaders to hamstring their members' strength. This is the treacherous time- table of these reformists early next week. 1 On Monday, when he should be out whipping up the maxi- mum support among his 1.6 mil- lion members for the dockers' struggle, T&GWU secretary Jack Jones will be sitting down with the Tory chairman of the Port of London Authority, Lord Ald- ington, to review progress finding return-to-work formula.

2 Later the same day he is expected to go with his fellow-TUC leaders to Downing Street for further talks with the Tories and the employers about pay and Industrial Relations.

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• SATURDAY AUGUST 5, 1972

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et yesterday to tighten the strike. The prospect of troops n in Whitehall after the meet- o call together the emergency rid's End site yesterday Tories' debates the emer- gency measures. The debate is expected to be short. Because of "special circumstances' murky Harold Wilson and his named 'shadow Cabine+ aptly- have decided that Labour MPs will not raise a single squeak about the powers taken. In fact they will support them. Jones knows as well as his 41,000 docker members that his talks with Aldington can find no real solution to the jobs crisis in the industry. He is well aware that the employers' intention is to force another bitter dose of unemploy- ment down his members' throat.

Both Jones and Victor Feather of the TUC know the • Tories have decided to try and inflict a defeat on the working class in the dock strike. The more the TUC leaders talk to the Heath Cabinet, and the ST 5, 1972 • No. 834 4p

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more Wilson supports its emer- gency powers, the more arrogant it becomes. What is now required is all- out solidarity action with the dockers by every section of the -a General Strike working class to force the Tories to resign.

• Break off all talks with Heath! • Recall the T&GWU biennial conference to demand the nation- alization of the docks and trans- industries under workers' port control without compensation!

• Form Councils of Action in each area to mobilize solidarity action with the dockers! Recall footing the TUC on emergency to call a General Strike !

• Return a Labour government pledged to repeal the Industrial Relations Act and nationaliza- tion !

BY OUR OWN REPORTER -

BRICKLAYERS and labour- ers yesterday picketed the Cubitt's World's End, Chel- sea, building site demanding the reinstatement of a shop steward and a labourer. About 40 workers employed by sub-contractor Mark Prince of Walthamstow, North London, struck on Thursday night when the two men were dismissed.

Pickets scotched claims that the men were 'inefficient' and said they were victimized.

Sacked labourer Gabriel Charles had only been working on the site nine days. I'd been on the dockers' march to Pentonville and the building pay lobby,' he told Workers Press yesterday.

The steward, John Fontaine, who also attended the lobby, joined other stewards late yes- terday afternoon in reinstatement talks with the sub-contractor. The whole site is likely to stop if the two do not get their jobs back. Next Tuesday, the World's End other building men will join workers in a demonstration from Speaker's Corner to lobby new talks on their claim for pay a E30, 35-hour week. Talks on the latest offer, which would only give an immediate rise in basic rates of £3 for craftsmen and £2.60 for labourers, broke down last Wednesday as 1,000 men stood outside the meeting. Building workers who enter their seventh week of selective strikes on Monday are determined sell-out of their to prevent a claim. There is talk of many areas going it alone if officials sign the deal. Twenty-four sites noW in London. Bristol and stopped Birmingham city centre sites are totally closed and there are plans shut-down in for a complete Manchester and Liverpool.

The strikes have led to many new recruits to the building unions.

workers press

TORIES READY FOR PORTS SHOWDOWN

SUPPORT DOCKERS

AGAINST EMERGENCY

SENIOR CABINET Ministers state of emergency they hope w being moved into the docks w ing, but at the same time step committees which have been st Each of these committees can call on the government at any time to provide troops to do dockers" work. Inter- ference with any steps a com- mittee dubs 'essential ser- vices' becomes an offence of sabotage. In other words, under a cover of unconcern, the Tories are busily assembling the weapons to smash the strike if the union leaders fail to get it called off next week. Members of the Jones-Alding- ton committee yesterday con- tinued their search for guaran- tees of jobs from port employers, container firms and companies at present using unregistered lab- our. The prospect of Transport and General Workers' Union docks delegates being recalled before Thursday Wednesday or next receded, however. And around the ports yesterday the emer- definitely hardened gency had dockers' determination to fight to a finish. In Liverpool, for instance, shop that stewards heard reports dockers who had worked an emergency ship for the Isle of Marity had ident denied Social Security beneht for their fami- lies. A resolution on the issue is expected to be put to a mass in the port on Sun- meeting day. This kind of experience increases the likelihood that even if the docks delegates call off the official action, it could continue unofficially. The national port stewards' committee is committed to meet- ing immediately after any dele- gate conference to consider strik- ing on until all unregistered ports Dock are brought within the Labour Scheme and dockers are granted all groupage container work. And even if both the dele- gates and a majority of stewards accepted a re-jig of the Jones- interim, Hull and Aldington Liverpool at least are in a mood to continue their action over the unregistered ports. The danger is, however, that while the Tories sharply are aware of the threat to their power implied in the strike, the dockers' own lines of policy are as yet unclear. For the third time in eight months, Heath and his Cabinet have taken on a section of the working class which has the ability to defeat them and force

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY AUGUST 5, 197'

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

BY DAVID MAUDE

inisters met at Downing Street yesterday to tighten the • hope will break the dockers' strike. The prospect of troops locks was being played down in Whitehall after the meet• ne steps were being taken to call together the emergency been set up in each port.

Some of the pickets at the World's End site yesterday Tuesday them from office. As in the case 3 on parliament Tories' of the miners and the railway- debates the emer- they the The men, are relying on gency measures. debate trade union and Labour leaders expected to be short. Because of to hamstring their members' murky 'special circumstances' strength. Harold Wilson his and aptly- named 'shadow Cabinet' have This is the treacherous time- decided that Labour MPs will not of table these reformists early single squeak about the raise next week. taken. In fact they will powers 1 On Monday, when he should support them. Jones knows well his be out whipping up the maxi- as 41.000 docker mum support among his 1.6 members that his mil- talks with Aldington can find no lion dockers' members tom T&GWU secretary real solution to the iobs crisis struggle, Tack in the industry. Tones will be sitting down with He that the the Tory chairman of the Port aware emplovers' Lord Ald. intention force Zof London Authority, is to another bitter dose of unemploy- ington, to review progress in finding return-to-work ment down his members' throat. formula. Feather Victor Both Tones and he

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2 Later the same dav of the know the Tories with have decided to try and inflict a expected to his go fellow-TUC leaders Downing the working class to defeat on in Street for further talks with the the dock strike. The more the TUC leaders talk Tories and the emplovers about to the Heath Cabinet, and and Industrial Relations. the Dav ST 5, 1972 • No. 834 • 4p

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more Wilson supports its emer- gency powers, the more arrogant it becomes. What is now required is all- out solidarity action with the dockers by every section of the working class—a General Strike to force the Tories to resign.

• Break off all talks with Heath ! • Recall the T&GWU biennial conference to demand the nation- alization of the docks and trans- port industries under workers' control without compensation!

• Form Councils of Action in each area to mobilize solidarity action with the dockers! Recall the TUC on emergency footing to call a General Strike !

• Return a Labour government pledged to repeal the Industrial Relations Act and nationaliza- tion !

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

BRICKLAYERS and labour- ers yesterday picketed the Cubitt's World's End, Chel- sea, building site demanding the reinstatement of a shop steward and a labourer. About 40 workers employed by sub-contractor Mark Prince of Walthamstow, North London, struck on Thursday night when the two men were dismissed.

Pickets scotched claims that the men were 'inefficient' and said they were victimized.

Sacked labourer Gabriel Charles had only been working on the I'd been on the site nine days. dockers' march to Pentonville and the building pay lobby,' he told Workers Press yesterday.

The steward, John Fontaine, attended the lobby, who also joined other stewards late yes- terday afternoon in reinstatement talks with the sub-contractor. The whole site is likely to stop if the two do not get their jobs back. Next Tuesday, the World's End join other building will men workers in a demonstration from Speaker's Corner to lobby new talks on their claim for pay a £30, 35-hour week. Talks on the latest offer, which would only give an immediate in basic rates of £3 for rise craftsmen and £2.60 for labourers, broke down last Wednesday as 1,000 men stood outside the meeting. Building workers who enter their seventh week of selective strikes on Monday are determined sell-out of their to prevent a is talk of many claim. There areas going it alone if officials sign the deal. Twenty-four sites are stopped in London. Bristol and Birmingham city centre sites are totally closed and there are plans for a complete shut-down in Manchester and Liverpool.

The strikes have led to many new recruits to the building unions.

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CAPITALIST LAW AND

When dockers joined printworkers out- Tory was Party in tule vund side the Robert Horne factory South ana order cowae nette ane ns nane - week ago, of truncheon- Home Secretary, Reginald Maudling, London a 4 ocC root out crime stated their intention to waving polce turnea up to smash peace•

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every conner latta. Arthur Lewis myth of these latter-day 'Untouchables". gave details In parliament two days ago he came o ulle ve oe e ecove be interest

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director? his another Dilouil. evidence com TeutTe features of the REFA One of other NOne and the various monies octe MeTCa. commons revelations

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Not So 3 protest and seek Monday's Sarr. WrOTe LeWIS police This would create a difficult slow, however, are the SO Ledoue coronimen. and the forces of law and order when Registrar. situation presiaing LiTe Veiled Czech Workers' strength criticism of intensifies currency British CP bemoaning the operation of the

THE MILITANT

crisis resistance basic law of value, and the anar- of the working class, especi- chism which from ally in Britain, is at the heart THE CZECHOSLOVAK Stalinist press is engaging in of the international currency a veiled but bitter polemic with the French, Italian ol proaucuon. which crisIs cacicu and British Communist Party leaders over the current to force a massive new and decisive stage. wave of purge trials. It was the decision of the Tory National Industrial Rela- displayed mear can de reacaca CP leaders, who no A typical broadcast Ull respect for the facts when Rudolf jail the tions Court not oustuouve. Colle Prague radio's English ser- original three dockers the Slansky and his comrades were Stalin's Chobham Farm case at the end

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vice on Wednesday justified of June which led directly to the trials on the grounds that the run on the pound. Nesbite mer conno cisl The

NIRC

was taken the accused had violated the the britst acuul tions abroad a sign oI teor country's laws. The fact that weakness in oy aale nad claLlons class. labour of the and face of the working wOrKine Class most ot them were well- ons aude float' sterling. he decision to svsten. i as taken after the foreign exchange known opponents ot the had diminished breached Ticils occupation ICocLYCo Warsaw Pact Duroscan collulls $6,082m, enoloves central banks. on the tree Gecaranon both the December 18 interna. was described as a 'coin- oreer to bue downere tional currency realignment deal cidence'. Market's own Common and the Wal war Currene arraleeucus Kalll explain why the Czechoslovak reces It exposed the impossibility nis ais lo held the were in secret establishing stable monetary rela- tlals indict- main capitalist the breakuuwi. nasis extremely Vakuc tions between Tse ments and 'confessions. without any fixed rela- westen bress as mne onme mover countres class tionship between gold and paper But the radio ploughs grimly on without bothering about these money. monetry crisis. As a result, the gold price has trimes. acos. Czechoslovakia. now deen arven lor tne nist lime vate Cuencv consolidation of the custem-nase. "ine over $70 an ounce. In London socialist position zeeroslo =. fell back yesterday with understand- vakla has to s6/.75. but nobody Is now of the ot of many sluc ng „none coc

WUIKCIS

any doubt tnat the price will rise capitalist countries. But it runs again. The capitalist world the wishes of certain counter us to abandon our naro-won anxiously awaiting opening who have positions in the Sudan' after the adventurers •onlical of the Group of len meeting due butchery of the Sudanese com- lost their vision and aspirations.

Washington hen sloe Tentee states. This can only be a reference by Genera munisu ¡cdaer. September 25. witn moe monelar. the leaders of the British Com- Numeirv. demands The meeting will fac issued In this c leader Ab de who have mardered Sudan gold munst rally in the a ser mild complaint about the Lidls Special Drawing Rights scheme Under nrice which coverns transacuon.

alstusslul Falber, Mahgoub had beer the UP s assISt- movine 10- between central banks under the ton next montas mie employels wards sectarian positions' in re- two-tier system set up four years rine a Star ced aill lation 'Numeiry's democratic previous "MOrTIC ago. revolutionary regime of progres.

Friday to the effect that: In particular the French Savs. hasledu LuCse oleval alluis 'There is an absence of official sivc onncers Italians are pressing for such a une The British otherwise Italy but according who because information, STanISTS.

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treat this Stalinist stooge as defendants be forced to devalue the lira and most of the Icalo succu reDOrLS legitimate of representative the further disrupt the appear to have been accused of tEl s cur- Dowel confessed bankrunts who lead the producing and distributing leat- Czechoslovak working class. have rency system. people's rights in last never condemned these cynical They have even hinted broadly 1els sentiments of Bilak's. autumn's elections. It the reports NLF switches on attack in Mekong Delta on the nature of the trials are The Czech press claims that by the proceedings and sen- true, drawing allenion lo une riagut be greatly de- to their opponents are de- tences ale trials plored.' tracting from the defence of the from the west.

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forces tween five and 12 miles Tri. victims of This statement is a tribute to class the fom thoon. About 2,000 South piled • made erv South Vietnamese guns in the hills to the Faber's powers judicial de- Greece, Ulster and Vietnam.

Vietnam- marines gainst South Vietnam- west of Quang with its careful quali- troops Ese tachment The worned winned

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liberation Mekong Delta of Viet- the troops Quang toll of suburbs laking a deadly nations (!l . • . accorolne lole will cut the road and strongly en- appear to have been ports Ham yesterday. Ii the reports ... are true DR KOFI BUSIA, the former trenched deprive the capital of liberation They have Ghanaian prime minister, now masser bombings from the vital lood suppiles. KOrCe

CILS

etc). 6,000-strong outside the living in exile at Oxford, has The South Vietnam- walled citadel. apparently this Cai Lay, even of having to switch All clear been declared a wanted (OW 1 ese are to Ilan by mealy-mouthed evasion which district with a 17-mile Redemption the citadel have so far the ruling vanona. much for the Czech Stalinist exta lorces averl w capulls straddles the mas souad Council. An official this danger, while failed. range are aug in deeply. nothing less miles south about leaders. Wnlo Walll Accra yesterday said the same time they con- The Marines have It is the first time these than ot complete condemnauon Dr west of Saigon. weapons have been used Counci satished drive also been unable une was the 'criminals' tried in Prague.

nue lc IC- Busla should be detained in the There was fighting all capture the Tar norli sever zure InDerdlon Soull what they have interests of national security and to expect from the servile Britsh This is Thursday be- provincial capital Quang troops' route day on ouDDIy his own safety.

Fragile manoeuvres to Ulster peace' ENGINEERS' president Hugh Scanlon may curtail a visit to Russia starting next week in order to resume formal pay talks with the employers.

A forthcoming trip to China could also be affected. The talks are likely to be arranged quickly after a board meeting of the Engineering Employers' Federation in 12 days' time.

Leaders of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering.

Unions are expected to endorse.

Scanlon's report that there is a basis for fresh talks at their meeting the following day.

This new burst of activity on the claim-lodged a year ago this informal month - follows an meeting on Thursday between Scanlon, CSEU secretary Jack Service and EEF chiefs. Both pay and the possibility of a new disputes procedure for the industry were discussed. acanton: Moscow trip off leaders yesterday seemed CSEU The feeling . among to be that the EEF is anxious to settle the pay dispute, which the union has proved men claim very expensive to the employers.

EEF

sources claimed anxiety for a settlement was strongest on the union side. Talks on the union's claim for substantial pay increase, an increase in basic rates, improved holidays, equal pay for women and other benefits were workers by the unions in broken. off • employers' January after the refusal to raise their first offer of £1.50 on the skilled man's basic rate of £19 per week. The union's demand was for £5-£6 on the basic. • been Since then unions have pursuing the claim at plant level.

Plant convenors in Birmingham are meeting on Monday to plan their next moves on the claim.

On the eve of the CSEU con- ference in June, the EEF indi- cated a willingness to improve on its first offer. But later the same week they announced they were not prepared to 'come anywhere near' the claim. The building employers are currently hoping to settle their pay dispute with the unions with a re-jig of their offer of f3. on basic rates. 28 Charlotte St

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Taverne (seated centre, with light-colo DICK TAVERNE, QC, the Lavour MP for Lincoln, who has been flung out of his con- stituency, is thinking of launching a new party. The Tory press says the 'Centre Party' will be pro- European, mildly radical and include number of a Jenkinsites. Taverne may hoist this banner against the official and stand Labour Party candidate at the next General Election. The proposal ludicrous. right-wing Labourite, Another Desmond Donnelly, tried the.

same stunt at the last election and was firmly trounced by the Labour voters. THE POLITICAL line-up for ' Ulster supremo William Whitelaw's all-party peace conference began to take shape yesterday. Although it was unlikely that the Eire government would be allowed to take part in the conference, yesterday's London talks between White- law and Irish Foreign Minister Dr Patrick Hillery were ex- pected to lead to fresh agree- ment on measures against the

IRA.

Tory government needs The Dublin's help to stop the IRA from using bases in the Repub- lic as springboards for the kind of border and guerrilla attacks mounted between 1956 and 1963.

In addition the Eire govern- ment has agreed to call in all

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light-coloured hair) at a Lincoln constituenc!

Subsequently Donnelly went off and joined the Tory Party.

an alternative which This is Taverne might like. to consider.

After all he has been voting consistently with the Tories on the Common Market, the corner- stone of Heath's political pro- gramme, thus keeping this anti- union government in office.

Meanwhile in Lincoln itself the constituency Labour Party is in considerable ferment trying to choose a replacement candidate.

of the front- At least one runners is in difficulty because he voted for the implementation of the Tories Housing Finance Act by the local council.

The question being posed is this: If we got rid of Taverne for supporting the Tories on the

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arms in the Republic and similar steps are in hand in the north.

There have already been across-the-border bomb attacks at Clogher, Clady and Newry, but the Leinster House govern- ment is pledged to the toughest the IRA. If measures against simple harassment fails, Justice Minister Mr Sean O'Malley has made it plain the government will alter the law to permit them to deal heavier body blows.

This would be an unpopular course for the Lynch government to take. Even though the ruling Fianna candidate in the Fail Cork by-election hung onto the seat for the government, it was by a mere handful of votes and premier Jack Lynch, whose party does not command a majority in the Dail, continues to hold office

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Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Workers Press, Sat onstituency party meeting Communities Bill in European parliament, how we now can accept a Labour councillor who votes for their 'fair rents' Bill on -the local council? : Predictably, the Tory press is continuing promote Taverne bandwagon. 'Financial In yesterday's Times', political editor, the 'Watt, said: David 'His views the Common on be right or wrong. Market may But the fact is that he is one of the outstanding politicians in his generation and he is a genuine socialisț. A party which will not even try to accommodate him and a leader who dare not lift a finger to help him is indeed in a mess.'

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by a precarious margin. Dr Hillery was urging White- law yesterday for speedy action remedy the problems of to Catholics in the north, especially the 'no-go' areas. The longer unrest among Ulster Catholics goes the on, greater the danger to Lynch that southern sympathy will turn into a threat to his own government.

Hillery's arguments against Stormont regime another in Ulster will fall on sympathetic ears. The coalition-style politics pursued by Heath and Wilson at Westminster in their efforts to impose 'peace' on the province will almost certainly be repeated at the all-party conference.

Having come round to the idea that Whitelaw and the army mean business in Ulster the SDLP (Social Democratic and Labour Party) has not only abandoned its early hostility to the conference, but yesterday swung right round to urging Whitelaw to hold it as soon as possible. The slender political credibility of the SDLP Catholics among depends on immediate action.

all their relatives They want freed from Long Kesh, they want the army out of their children's and schools and their estates, most of all they want steps to remedy the appalling economic triggered their situation which protests in the first place.

On the other side of the sec- tarian William Hull's fence Protestant and Loyalist Workers' Association has launched itself as the Loyalist Workers Party, backed to the hilt by the Ulster Defence Association. The Protestant workers in these organizations find small appeal in the UDI perspectives William Craig's Vanguard Movement. They are only too Press, Saturday August 5, 1972 PAGE 3 OVER 6,000 prisoners yester- day took part in a 24-hour strike for better conditions and the restoration of rights.

They were responding to a national strike call made by newly-formed

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the 'prisoners' union' At Lancaster Prison, 60 men down in the tailors' shop, sat while 250 sat down in the work- shop at Birmingham. Over. 400 sat down in the exercise yard at Havering Prison. information tele- PROP said phoned to their office gave other figures, including: Dartmoor 50 Oxford 80, Leeds 1,000, Wandsworth wood Scrubs 750, 800, Liverpool 600, Bristol 270, Manchester 450, Durham 400, Parkhurst 500 and Wakefield 450. 'If there is no response to our demands for improved conditions and restoration of rights and the authorities still refuse to negoti- ate them we shall organize walk- outs at the open prisons,' said a PROP spokesman. ABOUT 250 men will be made redundant by British Rail's plans to withdraw its freight wagon services from Southampton docks next spring. The decision will axe about ten trains which run in and out of the docks each day.

They carried 300,000 tons of freight in 1971, providing reve- nue of almost £1.2m—which was more than £400,000 short of its direct. expenses. Almost two-thirds of the total rail freight handled at the docks imported fruit, meat and iS canned of which goes depot at South' Lambeth. This depot is planned to close, making about 220 men who work there redundant. aware on which side of the Irish sea is the goose which lays the golden eggs on which Ulster in- dustry and their jobs depend.

Although Brian Faulkner's Ulster Unionist Party and the Labour Party will be included among others in the peace con- ference, agreement between the SDLP and the LWP seems likely to dominate. It is only a result of agreement here that some sort of coalition administration will emerge. The chief whip of the SDLP, Mr Paddy Devlin, has welcomed the LWP stating there were vast areas without contention where the working classes of both sides could work together about social and economic progress. But the LWP leaders and the reformists of the SDLP will fare than. the Unionist no better in the past in solving Party Ulster's problems. Agreement between the parties now can only be the foundation fully-fledged Bonapartist a regime in Ulster, backed by the of the imperial power at troops Westminster. When all is said and done, the issue remains recession and how workers in • Britain and Ireland are to resist the attempts of employers and their government to ride out the crisis of their system at the expense of the to working class. With unrest among Catholic and Protestant workers in Ulster at boiling point as more factories close, unemployment mounts and povertyfanned by inflation- the peace must be increases, fragile and temporary. The only way out of this vicious trap lies in the unity and mobilization of British and Irish workers to force the Tory government to resign and return a Labour government which must be made to carry out socialist policies.

PAGE & Workers Press. Saturday AuGust 'Anarchism and anarcho-syndi- calism'. By Marx, Engels and Lenin. Lawrence & Wishart for Publishers, Moscow. Progress Price 90p. This book brings together in a convenient form a selection of writings by Marx, Engels and Lenin criti- cizing anarchist theories and policies. Some are extracts from well-known works, others are difficult to hind and • seldom appear in the standard collections. Marx and Engels hammered out their ideas in constant con- flict with the anarchists of their day, such as Stirner and Proudhon. The history of the First International was bound up with the struggle against Bakunin and his followers.

The sum of the anarchists' policy is the abolition of the state and of all authority. This means hostility to the political practice of the working class any form of party and organization and discipline.

In the article Indifference to Politics', which Marx wrote for Italian supporters of the Inter- national in 1872, he makes a two-page summary of the essence of anarchist thought.

If the anarchists were to put their ideas forward in that straightforward way, he says 'the working class would soon tell them where to go and would feel highly offended by bourgeois doctrinaires these and displaced gentlefolk who are stupid or naïve enough to forbid them every real method of struggle because all the arms to fight with must be taken from existing society, and because the inevitable conditions of this struggle do not unfortunately fit in with the idealist fantasies that these doctors of social science have defied under the name of Liberty, Autonomy and Anarchy'. The social basis of anarchism is to be found among artisans, small masters and the self- employed and it is given. expression by declassed intel- ay Avaust 5. 1872 lectuals. It therefore flourishes in less-developed countries and has never gained much hold on the industrial working class.

That does not mean to say that in certain periods of social crisis, even in advanced countries, anarchism may not . active and dangerous play an role. This was seen during the student revolt in France in 1968. What is more, the revi- sionists, notably the Pabloite 'Ligue Communiste', made a series of unprincipled com- promises with the anarchist currents led by people like Daniel Cohn-Bendit. is to be good A deal learned about the methods of the anarchists from Engels' account of the Spanish revolt of 1873, entitled 'The Bakun- inists at Work'. When put to the test they found themselves taking part in a bourgeois revolution and sitting on revo- lutionary committees on which outvoted and they were impotent. Lenin This episode, to which Lenin at the time of the reverted 1905 Russian Revolution (see pp. 189-196), recalls the role which the Spanish anarchists played in tail-ending thè bour- geoisie during the Spanish civil war, 1936-1939. The preface to this collec- tion, which • was prepared in Moscow, mainly confines itself to summarizing the views expressed by Marx, Engels and Lenin. The author, one N. Y.

Kolpinsky, apparently was instructed to work in an attack Trotskyism if he possibly on could, which he does in a poli- tically illiterate reference to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Strangely enough, at the Second and Third Congresses of the Comintern, to which he refers, important speeches were delivered by Trotsky; in full accord with Lenin con- demned the left sectarianism with which some of the sec- tions of the International were plagued. Subject to these reservations about the preface, this volume makes a useful addition to any workers' library of Marxist A classics. W

LIFE IN THE FACTORY

-BY SPANISH WORKER

DE LA IGLESIA NATXIONDO MARTINEZ

The six accused of the Burgos Trials who were sentenced to death but later reprieved after an international campaign Juan is a 23-year-old engineering worker who has taken a leading part in the fight for Workers' Commissions in the Spanish working class since the age of 16. He has just finished his com- pulsory period of 18 months in the Spanish army. He told Workers Press of his struggle for independent trade unions and of his experience as a conscript in Franco's army.

started an engineering Juan apprenticeship when he was 14 in a small factory employing 250 workers. As soon as I started in the factory, I had to work a 48-hour week and they paid me £1.50 a week: After two this was raised to £3, years, but although I still had two years of my apprenticeship to go, I had to do the work of an adult worker. It was then that we started a Workers' Commission in the factory as we could see that in other factories workers were getting better conditions and money through building an organization in opposition to the fascist union. But we were dominated by the ideas of a young Catholic Workers' Association which, along with the Communist Party and centrist tendencies, were taking hold of the move- ment of the Spanish working class to make sure no political put forward demands were and that the Workers' Com- missions worked through the official system. As a result of pressure from the fascist the Commission, trade union official put in for a rise. The company offered a weekly increase of 30p to the wage of f6 a week that adult were getting for a workers 50-hour week! The workers rejected this and called for an increase of at least £1.25 and struck for an hour in support of their was the first demand. This strike in the factory for years.

The boss said he was going to give nothing and the repre- sentative of the Commissions in the fascist union told the men it was impossible to do any more. factory There were some meetings and short strikes, but The im- we got no increase. portant thing was that we had started our own organization in the factory which could call meetings and strike actions.

happening This was generally in the 1960s in Spain.

Workers were building illegal organizations to fight for a decent standard of living.

This movement took a big leap forward with the struggle against the Burgos trials which became a national movement of workers against Franco's government. What happened in my factory during , the trial was this. We went into work one morning and a picket of youth belonging to the Communist Party entered the tactory.

They talked to workers of the need for a sympathy strike and said that a strike was being organized in the area on that day. They said that what was needed was a General Strike against Franco. The Workers' Commission called a factory meeting and after a lot of hesitation, it was decided to strike. The six accused of the Burgos Trials wh We all left the factory and started a mass meeting outside the factory to discuss the strike and then the meeting broke up into small groups of workers discussing the fight against repression and for independent unions. The factory was very quickly surrounded by police and the secret police saw the which tried management, of workers get a delegation into the factory, but the men refused. The strike was a big step forward as was the defeat of Franco's attempt to kill the Basque separatists. However, two weeks after the strike, I was told to go to the management's office to collect my wages. I was con- fronted with the management and the fascist union officials who gave me the sack. What has happened since then and the big strikes in the Seat (a subsidiary of the Fiat motor company) and in the building industry is that the Communist Party has done everything possible to divide and weaken the workers' movement. They broke up the struggle in the engineering industry by calling for regional strikes at vi Trials who were sentenced to death but later re different times during the negotiations of the new agree- ment. And although textile- workers were involved in a struggle for wages and against rationalization, the CP refused a joint strike of textile and workers engineers-so much for the CP's General Strike! After getting 'the sack, 1 was unemployed for a time until I was 21 when I was called up into the army. They decide by lottery where you go —whether one and a half years in the army or two years in the navy. Conscription is a big blow for workers and their families.

If the father of the family is ill or dead, it means the sons the family and, cannot keep anyway, it's just the time when you finish your apprenticeship.

In theory, everybody has to do the 'mili', but after three months in the training camp, most of those from rich families vanished from sight.

The officers run a bribery racket and let these people go home. the army they try to In brutalize you. The officers are violent and anybody who is at Workers Press, Sati ut later reprieved after an international campaig all disobedient is beaten— some young workers are beaten to death. In barracks, there is every a section of the military police -the military investigation service--which keeps a close eye on everybody. They are suspicious of any- body who reads, even if they only reading the legal are fascist newspapers. It's difficult to read newspapers on the "pay' they give you. Until January, the pay for an ordin- ary soldier was 25p a month.

In January, this was put up to 75p. With that you have to pay for all personal expenses, soap, shaving material, is that many workers' families send their sons money or parcels to help them survive.

With this exploitation and use of the regular troops against striking workers, it is necessary to try to organize soldiers in Commissions along- side the Workers' Com- missions. In my barracks, we started a group of seven soldiers which organizing in the discussed army and getting into contact with the Workers' Com- missions. After the use of Press, Saturday Auaust 5, 1972 PAGE 5 I campaign troops in the Madrid metro strike and the shootings in El Ferrol, a lot of such groups t Spain. started throughout We got into contact with another soldier in another barracks who said he had a commission in his barracks.

Again we met the opposition of the Communist Party to the organization of the working class. We wanted a meeting of all soldiers in the barracks in province to discuss our organizing conscripts as part of the working-class movement.

This soldier was in the Com- munist Party and had contacts in other barracks, but he refused to help us. The Com- munist Party, with its peaceful road to a democratic Spain, is conscript not interested soldiers. It wants to organize officers who those want to build a modern 'democratic' army in Spain, a national army independent of American aid.

The Communist Party even has a programme of economic demands for these officers, officers who get at least £50 a week! This is very dangerous for the working class. A new leadership must be built in the in working-class Spanish opposition to the of Communist Party.

PAGE 6 Workers Press. Saturday August 5, 1972 go into 'If you the bar The capitalist press be downstairs, will find you near • hysterical came who give money none res during the Miami con- to the Democrats and the Re- of the Demo- Manv of the same vention publicans. people will be here in a couple cratic Party. Their fury of weeks for the Republican was with the unions who Convention. declined to throw their 'Maybe this convention is the thing that will force : us to behind weight ex- have labour party. I have George Mc. preacher, been for one. Abel said that when the Govern, the senator from national

AFL-CIO

holds its South Dakota. meeting at the end of August, At one incredible press con- labour tone question will be raised. 'objective' party ference some of the 'It's my feeling that if we completely lost commentators are going have coalition their cool and began shouting to 'Why don't governments we ought at trade unionists: have a labour party,' he stated you him your votes? gIve Abel's sentiments were also Aren't you in tact supporting George Meany, echoed by Nixon by your actions?'

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president the McGovern's anti union he told a news confer- wien record-adequately spelled out 'The AFL-CIO will re- ence: in an AFL-CIO document pub- from frain endorsing eltner lished this page-—is So on candidate for the office of that the damning of United President …Tre steamrollered into fused to be States.' supporting him. said that these cir- Meany What Miami did cumstances 'call rather for the prove, for maximum however, is the urgency concentration the unions to construct their the of effort election

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own Labour Party. and representatives scalls whose records commend them This was certainly the con- W. Abel, the working people of to clusion drawn by president of the powerful Steelworkers. United interview with the exclusive 'Bulletin', weekly newspaper League, of Workers Abel the said: think we have just reached the to point Party. The have Labour Democrats take it for granted that we are going to come and them around support sooner or later. Who says we can't go somewhere else?'

Speaking in the convention hall to the thousands of dele- Abel brought the gates, break between the veloping labour movement and the party into the open when he assailed the nomination of Maaou, Prandbet Above: George McGovern: of the

AFL-CIO.

"You can your will seriously con- You may win the votes of sider a Labour Party' self-styled the the but anti-labour snobs, Asked by 'Bulletin' the not America, he declared.

the question of a Labour Party raised, Meany When interviewed by Bul. 'Bul- been hael 1C- plied: David letin' reporter 'The position of labour over Abel said: the years on the labour party has treated 'Labour been That this convention. has been very simple. poorly at didn't want to expend all am a member of the platform we rent yu to g a labour committee, and since the con- vention started, have not been consulted about anything.

country, when we were able to of America, bring workers That is, when they except despite our dissatisfaction started to talk about money.

I don't think you can trust with conditions, a better con dition than workers have in any of these politicians. Look any other part of the world.

one of the delegates here used 'But if we get to the point steelworkers' When he ran for office when we can no longer bring union. those benefits to the workers as a Democrat, we supported him and helped him with with of America under the present except for two-party system, you can bet funds. Now, wher will get together with him and your life we seriously consider a labour party? talk about old times, one wouldn't even know he had Under from re- pressure stated that he the he connections with any porters, would vote for either labour movement. Sure, he has not George McGovern or Richard consider what we would Nixon, and Meany then added good voting record. But when he chips are down, we can't I only wish Norman Thomas Top: Senator George McGovern under were alive? resident of the powerful United Steelworkers count on him. George McGovern's trea- cherous anti-union record was detailed in a 'white paper' circulated at the Miami convention by the AFL-CIO. The document is a complete indictment of the tradical Prairie' image of the Democratic candidate. Senator McGovern has populism' adopted the 'new as a key campaign slogan. Yet the record shows that he has repeatedly wrong on TIAtAr affecting legislation working people and the trade union maramant In 1959, McGovern voted Landrum-Griffin Bill, for the which was opposed by organ- ized labour. The overwhelm- of non-southern ing majority Democrats voted 'no'-among Govern under umbrellas. Above: I. W. Abel, United Steetworkers. them Democrats from neighbouring states as Senators Anderson and Metcalf Montana and Senator Burdick of North Dakota, as well as four Democrats from Minne- sota and five from Wisconsin.

McGovern voted In 1960, against raising the minimum to $1.15 and extending wage coverage to 1.4 million retail workers. He was one of only five non-southern Democrats to vote 'no'. In 1966, McGovern was one of only five northern Demo- voted deny who to crats minimum to wage coverage 1 million workers in 1' some retail and service firms with of less than gross sales $500,000 annually. McGovern also voted arainst raising the minimum wage to $1.55. he voted 1966, Also in against an amendment requir- ing states to provide eligible workers a minimum of 26 weeks of unemployment com- for 20 pensation coverage weeks of employment. Only northern Democrats five other voted 'no'. In the same year, McGovern was one of six northern Demo- crats to vote for a Dirksen amendment to cut appropria- tions for the Departments of Labour and Health, Education and Welfare. In 1968, the man hailed as the candidate of the young voted, along with Republicans and southern Democrats, to table Javits amendment a which would have provided in appropriations $52.1m to the Labour Department for summer jobs. McGovern and 14(b) or the Case of Great Plains Wheat, Inc. After the Democratic sweep in 1964, a Bill was introduced to repeal section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act. The conser- vative forces mounted a fili- buster to prevent the repeal Bill (HR 77) from coming to a vote in the Senate. On October 11, 1965, Mansfield invoke closure. moved to McGovern voted against closure-and the motion failed Two more closure motions were made - on February 8 and 10, 1966. McGovern voted closure the first time, against it the second time- the only Senator to switch his vote. He explained that the first vote was to indicate his opposition to filibuster in general, while the second vote indicated his opposition to the repeal Bill. McGovern is quoted as say- ing: 'It was a straight political in isie United States Seriate United States in the I voted against my conscience.'

What was the politics of McGovern's decision to vote 'against my conscience'? In February, 1964, President Johnson sought to end a mari- time union boycott of wheat shipments to the Soviet Union of such shipments would be pledging that 50 per cent carried in US flag ships. This been the original had under- standing when President Ken- nedy had approved the wheat , programme, but several giant wheat export companies sought to increase their profits by seeking a reduction in the 50 per cent requirement. The wheat companies con- tinued to press for a reduction.

On May 19, the companies' expressed in views were a from Great memorandum Plains Wheat Inc. to the Special US Maritime Advisory Committee. Meanwhile Paul Hall, pre- sident of the Seafarers' Union, had sent Senator McGovern a the union's of statement position. Mr Hall received a reply from Senator McGovern dated May 24. It was word for word, page atter page, identical to the statement of Great Plains Wheat Inc. Senator McGovern was clearly serving as a mouth- organization piece an founded to promote foreign and domestic wheat sales.

The 1957 Civil Rights Act was the first civil rights law to be enacted by Congress since the days of reconstruc- tion. McGovern was absent Workers Prose, Saturday on the votes leading to pass- age of this Bill in the House.

In 1959, when the House passed the Rooney Amend- ment to the Justice Depart- Bill Appropriations ment (H.R. 8385) to extend the life of the Civil Rights Com- mission for two years and appropriate $500,000 to it, McGovern was absent - and dia not pair. When the Civil Rights Act of 1960 was up for final House approval, McGovern was absent -and did not pair. 1960, McGovern voted In against the McDonough Amendment (to the Housing Bill) which would prohibit the National Mortgage Federal Association from purchasing where discrimination housing was involved. One month later, McGovern the Powell voted against Amendment to the School Construction Bill requiring that facilities built under the Act be open to all students with- out regard colour, to race, origin creed, national or religion. )n June 15, 1964, senato McGovern oined 22 othe Senators - 18 of them from southern and border states, in a last-ditch effort supporting to emasculate the voting rights of the landmark provisions Civil Rights Act of 1964. The McGovern-supported amend- rkers Press, Saturday Auguel 5, 1972 PAGE 1 ini ment was defeated 62-23. On May 13, 1968, Senator McGovern joined in support- ing punitive legislation that sought to disqualify anyone convicted of participating in a riot from Federal employ- ment for a period of six years.

This legislation was a thinly veiled effort to punish blacks who had participated in the disturbances that followed the Martin Luther King assassina- tion. The Atlanta Constitution of June 7, 1972, reported that McGovern offered two major the south in concessions to meetings governors at the Democratic conference Houston. One to discourage was frivolous challenges to dele- gations to the national con- vention. The other was a promise 'to push for a change in the 1965 Voting Rights Act which requires southern states including Georgia to submit state reapportionment plans to the Justice Department. (Portions of Georgia's 1972 plan were turned down.) When McGovern's stands on these issues are combined with his votes on minimum wage, youth employment and other economic issues of concern to working people, the result is a record that this 'liberal' is a bitter enemy of the labour movement.

PAGE & Workers Press, Saturday August 5, 1872 The book by Roy Medyedev 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 indictment of Stalin and Stalinism which confirms damning about the bureaucratic everything Trotsky which wrote 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 not been 1917 Revolution have the October conquests of 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 and what it leaves corroboration for the Trotskyist analysis out. On some crucial questions the book is fundamentally This series of articles submit Medveder's book to wrong. struggle detailed scrutiny with the aim of pursuing the 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 7

He does not analyse these he does

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agreements, though of their deal with some effects, notably in France and Greece. In the former, it was Stalin imposed the policy of who support for General de Gaulle by which was carried out Communist Party secretary Medveder deals only Maurice Thorez on his return briefly with Stalin's post- Soviet to France from the Union, while Palmiro Togliatti war policy, which was called the Italian to on based, in the first place, support the Badoglio govern- on the agreements made ment. Medvedev's treatment of the with the British and French situation in 1944-1945 American governments suffers from his non-revolu- for a division of Europe He thinks tionary approach. into spheres of influence that the National Front of the Resistance could have taken made at the conferences after the liberation of power • of Yalta and Potsdam. Paris the Communist with Top: The Yalta, Three Power Conference Churchill, Truman and Stalin, July 1945.

Potsdam broke down, because neither Party in the minority and pro- bably under the presidency of de Gaulle. He says: "The whole situation~ including the presence of the Anglo-American forces and the rapid revival of bourgeois parties and newspapers and of private industry-made it im- possible for the communists to destroy the coalition and rule by themselves.' Communist In fact the Party played a definite counter- in 1944- revolutionary role 1945 in which it set out quite deliberately to re-establish the bourgeois state and permit the discredited and debile French conference. Churchlil, Roosevelt and Stalin, Fel July 1945. The Cold War began when the agre e neither imperialists nor Stalinists were prep ruling class to preserve or re- gain its property. The rapid re- vival of private industry-and the bourgeois press - was made possible by the policy of the Communist Party. Where the working class went into action, it held it back. It disarmed the partisan for- it controlled mations which and amalgamated many of them into the regular army and the police (including later the notorious strike-breaking CRS Compagnies Republicains de Sécurité-which in Marseilles was composed at first largely of Communist Party members and supporters) under the slogan 'one army, one police, Stalin, February 1945. Above: Potsdam.

the agreements reached at Yalta and were prepared to make concessions one state'-the bourgeois state of the Fourth Republic. There can be no analysis of the French situation which does not begin trom that point.

It was not just a question of elections, as Medvedev believes, but whether the working class was to be mobilized or not.

The Communist Party enlisted it on behalf of the bourgeoisie and entered the government to safeguard capitalist private pro- "The strike, Thorez perty. , 'is an arm of the trusts.'

cried, With all the difference in the Greek situation the role of the Stalinists was the same.

Stalin had agreed with Chur- chill that Greece was in the

Above: Tito and secretary. The first greal imperialist sphere. The Greek communist leaders acted on that basis-to prevent revolu- tion-with the full authority and approval of Stalin, although meant the bloody sup- that pression of the Greek working by the British class army. That is why Churchill, in the well-known quotations from his memoirs, which Medvedev uses, noted with pleasure the which his actions support received from the Soviet Union. As Churchill put it: ''The Times" and the "Manchester Guardian" pronounced their censures upon what they con- sidered our reactionary policy.

Stalin, however, adhered strictly and faithfully to our agreement of October, and during all the long weeks of fighting the communists in the streets of Athens not one word from of reproach came "Pravda" "Izvestia"' or What Mededev does not adequately bring out is the fact that Stalin carried through this policy of betrayal quite deli- berately and coldbloodedly in France, Greece and Italy, just as he had done in Spain dur- ing the civil war of 1936-1939.

Nor was this merely Stalin's policy. The pathological character of the purges, the costly mistakes of the war period, the vindictive and in- human treatment meted out to returned prisoners of war— these, no doubt, were the result of Stalin's particularly per- verted mind. And even then we must ask why was he able to carry out these arbitrary acts.

What were the social forces which produced and sustained such tyranny? The enduring agreement with the imperialists But with foreign policy there is an important difference. It expressed not the whims of Stalin, but the needs of the ruling bureaucracy which he represented and to which he had become indispensable. The bureaucratic caste as a whole stood to lose from the spread of revolution into central and western Europe after 1944. It sought to do a deal with . the victors in the imperialist camp on the basis of a territorial division of the continent and the recognition of definite of influence and spheres interest. It was not a policy which was at all interested in seeing the working class con- quer power because this would have encouraged the Soviet working class to carry out the in the political revolution

USSR.

In China, where Stalin advised the Communist Party to support Chiang Kai-shek, a revolution did take place des- and against this policy. pite This is an aspect of Stalinism which the Maoists, who con- tinue to worship stalin, are at a loss to explain. Yet it was no more than the corollary in Asia to the policy which he first great split in Stalinist camp was able to impose more suc- cessfully on the communist par- ties of Europe. Only from this angle can the post-war policy of Stalin be understood either in its first phase, when he hoped to reach agreement with enduring an the imperialists on the lines of Yalta and Potsdam, or in its Cold War phase, when wartime co-operation had broken down.

In Eastern Europe, although Stalin expected that the imperialists would allow him to have his own ring of buffer states in which the influence of the Soviet Union would be predominant, he had no inten- tion, at first, of deposing the existing ruling class or over- throwing capitalist property relations. What was shown in Eastern Europe, as had already been shown occupied Poland in 1939-1940, was that the bureaucracy could not co- landlords. The transformation of pro- perty relations became inevi- table and these countries became "bureaucratically" deformed workers' states ruled by a local bureaucratic caste dependent upon the support of the Soviet Union. Certainly Stalin tried to con- vert these states into 'an ex- tension of his personal domain', as Medvedev puts it. Contra- dictions emerged between the interests of the national bureau- cracy in each country and those of the Soviet bureaucracy upon which they were modelled and whose basic characteristics they shared. Each ruling bureaucracy began to put down acquire its own roots and national pretensions. Some of its members came into collision with Stalin. Tito, who had the firmest local base, incurred his wrath most of all and the first great split in the Stalinist camp took place. In the other Peoples' Democracies, the years from 1948 to 1953 witnessed a series of great purges, directed by Stalin and organized under the control of the NKVD, which decimated the leader- ship, filled prisons and the established a reign of terror.

Stalin's policy towards the national bourgeoisie in the colonial semi-colonial and countries went through a num- ber of zigzags, including some 'left' adventures during the early part of the Cold War.

Medvedev, while he is able to point to some criticisms made of the national bourgeoisie dur- ing the Stalin period, is surely wrong in maintaining that he was not prepared to support any of the bourgeois leader- ships. Stalin's policy towards the national bourgeoisie, in the early stages of the Cold War, reflected a left adventurist turn which was imposed on the communist parties. This did not mean that Stalin had given up the policy of 'peace- ful co-existence' but that he had made a tactical shift, using the communist parties in coun tries like Indonesia and India to put pressure on the bour- geoisie as instrument of an Soviet foreign policy. The implication of Med- vedev's position is that the Soviet Union should have pur- sued a more conciliatory policy not only towards the national bourgeoisie, but also towards the imperialists. He criticizes not 'peaceful co-existence' as a betrayal of revolution, but the alleged abandonment of 'peaceful co-existence' by Stalin, all the time looking at foreign policy from a national point of view. Medvedev's discussion of Stalin's foreign policy, perhaps more than any other part of his book, brings out the essen- tial weaknesses and contradic- tions in his position. He has no real alternative to bureaucracy, he is proposing an alternative for it. He wants it to reform itself, to become more 'liberal'. He loses sight of the integral connection tween foreign policy and the • internal regime. Through all the changes which it underwent in Stalin's day, Soviet foreign policy ex- pressed the needs and interests of a privileged, parasitic bureau- to preserve its cracy seeking rule by reaching an agreement with world imperialism on the basis of an agreed division of spheres of influence. The Cold War began when the agreements reached at Yalta and Potsdam broke down because neither imperialists nor the Stalinist bureaucracy were prepared to make the concessions which would have enabled them to work. This was not a question of policies, but of conflicting social systems, shown most sharply in Germany and ex- tending to the whole of East- ern Europe. could not remain This area in the Soviet sphere of influ- ence and yet retain the con- nections with world capitalism which it had previously. The Soviet bureaucracy could not afford see capitalism re- there, which meant that it would once again become a field for capitalist investment, come inevitably under the domination of the United States and be a spring- invasion of the board for an Soviet Union itself. Yet the moves which Stalin was forced to make enhanced fears in the capitalist world that the Soviet Union intended to spread revolution on the bayonets of the Red Army and into Western Europe. sweep Stalin had no intention of doing this. He probably didn't have the means, having already betrayed the working class in that area and assisted in the restoration of bourgeois pro- perty relations. The measures taken in East- ern Europe especially the pur- ges and show trials, not only encouraged the western organized countries, from in 1949 the North Atlantic Ireaty Urganization, to pre- pare for War, but they also fed the flames of anti-com- munism. We come back, indeed, to the methods of Stalinism which alienated large number of workers and middle-class people who could, after the war, have been won to the side of revolution. Revulsion against Stalinist methods was strongest in Ger- many where, before Hitler, the communist movement had had the deepest roots. What Hit- ler could not destroy, Stalin largely did in the post-war years and it was to be decades before the German working class would once again come onto the political scene.

Medvedev has not told the full story of Stalin's crimes, not least of which was to throw back the European revolution and lead many to identity the cause of com- munism, which is the libera- tion of the working class, with its oppression by the bureau- cracy.

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Workers Press, S Another Communist Party show-biz personality has joined the James Reid hot gospel group. Jack Dash, once the leading Stalinist in London's dockland, has now taken up painting. His canvasses have a strong religious motive. •My art is primitive. What skills I have, I have stumbled on myself,' he says. Dash, who claims to be a materialist, is working on his important most work - a portrait of Christ— 'the first communist. I like good Christians,' he 'Sun' told the newspaper recently. An old friend, the Bishop Stepney, Trevor Huddleston, is giving Dash his first one-man exhibition at a Surrey church. Huddleston, you may leading crusader Light' campaign, which wants to stamp out 'moral decay' and has as one of its leading lights the anti-communist Lady Bird- wood. Jack Dash Dash was portrayed smiling angelicly in "The Sun', , paint- brushes in hand. The story of peace and love was timed nicely to coincide with the outbreak of the national dock strike. 'Old soldiers never die ..

they simply fade away, says the song. And when the old soldiers are high-ranking offi- cers, there is a noticeable tend- ency in more than one capital- ist country for them to fade quietly, upon retirement, onto the staffs or boards of the com- panies which supply their forces with aircraft and muni- tions. here in Britain ques- While tions are being asked about a Press, Saturday August 5, 1972 PAGE 8 the business connections of MPs and about payments made to top civil servants, over in West Germany some interest- ing facts have been researched on how the military men are spending an active retirement.

As many as 18 generals have been found to be supplement- ing their pensions, so to speak, by working as lobbyists for armament and aircraft inter- ests. For example, General Wer- ner Panitzki, recently retired as head of the Luftwaffe, now works as a lobbyist for the air- craft firm Europavia. Then there is General Schli- chting, former deputy head of the Luftwaffe. He used to fly Messerschmidts, both in the Condor Legion, which Hitler sent to Spain, and during World War II. Perhaps developed a sentimental attach- ment to the company which made the aircraft, because he works for the Messer- now schmidt-Boldkow-Bohm com- bine. General Kurt Fischer, a gen- eral staff officer in the Nazi Wehrmacht, was, until recently, the commander of the West German anti-aircraft corps.

He is now employed as a lobbyist for the Swiss arms firm Hispano-Suiza. By a co- incidence, this firm has the con- tract for supplying anti-aircraft West German to the guns armed forces. The former commander of the West German fighter squad- is General Dietrich- rons Adolf Hrabak, He now helps to sell aero-engines for Daim- ler-Benz. To round off our examples, there is General Hellmuth Mader, formerly head of the Bundeswehr Troop Office. Dur- ing the war, General Mader was commander of the 'Greater Germany' division on the Rus- sian front. After the war, a Soviet military court sentenced him to 25 years imprisonment for his part in the killing of civil- ians. However, in 1955 he was repatriated to West Germany and promptly reinstated in the Bundeswehr. General Mader now spends his retirement as the main military lobbyist for the huge 'Rheinmetal' steel combine. And so the list goes on. Of could course, similar lists undoubtedly be compiled for other capitalist countries. But then, after all, the war profit- business is a highly able one, so perhaps it is only natural for the generals to see that they get something out of it, and can look forward to some security in their old age!

LEON TROTSKY:

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BY AN INDUSTRIAL REPORTER

FORMER

Communist Party member and mine- workers' union leader Will Paynter is among the dozen union officials, aca- demics and employers who are being invited to staff the 'independent Conciliation and Arbitra- tion Service' set up by the TUC and CBI. Paynter was secretary of the WIll Paynter, former NUM chlef National Union of Mine- 1959 to 1968. workers from pits' The labour force was from 658,200 slashed to 391,900 in the same period, Almost half without a fight. the country's pits closed.

was presumably this record It which qualified him for an joined by former be motor- Commis- invitation the to Join industry troubleshooter Sir Jack sion on Industrial Relations in Scamp. 1969. On the union side, John Bon- Paynter resigned Last year field, secretary of the general from the

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made clear they would not co- In a statement issued from his operate with the CIR because of Bonfield union's headquarters, the Act. 'Seeing that I have said: never Yet along with those of all been consulted either formally or the other potential conciliators informally about whether I would who being approached, wish to join such a panel.

. the Paynter's name was cannot complain, I feel, unanimously

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advance of receiving it. Also on the list is a founder only fair to add It is, perhaps, member of the Labour that I am position to suvell- ment's much-despised Prices and accept such an invitation in any Incomes Board, Peter Trench.

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PEARCE DUFF, the custard powder firm, is to close its factory in Bermondsey, South London, adding to the long list of shut-downs in the area costing thousands of jobs.

The 214 workers—/0 per cent of them women-were given the news this by week company chairman Hugh Bidwell, who was brought in as managing director two years ago. Pearce Duff's premises, a five- block standing on a storey quarter-acre, site, would be out starting gradually phased next March. Operations would be trans- ferred to a new factory on a six-acre site at Dunstable, Bed- fordshire, by June 1974. The firm, the third largest in the custard powder market with an annual turnover of about £2m, started at the Bermondsey fac- tory in 1847. "To put ourselves on an equal footing with our competitors...

to consolidate we have our resources and manufacture under one roof,' said Bidwell. The company is also phasing out operations at their Annan, Dumfriesshire, factory. On hearing the news, Jim Little, secretary of Bermondsey Trades Council, said he was shocked: "The closure will be a to employment blow serious prospects in Bermondsey for young people.' Another factory in the area closed down for good yesterday.

About 45 workers have been laid off : by United Glass En- gineering Ltd in New Cross...

THE TORIES on Wandsworth council who oppose opening a new office for the local community relations council are haunted by 'the ghost of the National Front', says a Labour councillor.

Wandsworth's planning committee has recommended would be in a very difficult posi- tion on many other applications.'

allowing the community brought an accusation This council to use an empty house Mike Labour member from as offices for the Tooting Williams. 'I think the ghost of Youth Project-an advice the National Front (the ultra- still haunts right organization) centre. Tories have: objected he Tory benches, he said.

The 'Whenever there is an item would because they claim it Council for office dealing. with the allowing in a mean Relations they area and could cause Community residential oppose it. In the past five years disturbance noise and to have not been dents living nearby. these premises Dennis conforming the need they Tory leader Alderman to intended for because they Mallam said: To start the rot were have been vacant.' would like this mean that we YOUNG LIBERAL chairman Peter Hain is to con- duct his own defence against a private prosecution on conspiracy charges at the Old Bailey.

His decision has been taken with his after consultations He counsel and his parents. yesterday assured the judge that he would the not turn trial into a public meeting.

The prosecution is led by the Bennion barrister Francis on organization called

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behalf of an in the Irish army 'Freedom Under Law'. stoned British was who

LOUDS

the pro- six months' It is concerned with sentenced to impri- the plan- yesterday. tests organized against sonment in Belfast (17) of Britain by Coyle of Dublin, ned cricket tour Patrick the all-white South African team.

found guilty of riotous was Bernard Gillis, said The judge, behaviour in Belfast. Coyle he recognized the sincerity heard that The court behind Hain's that he anxiety had been crowds on succes- in what he should be free to say sive days and stoned troops.

thinks is right. the the summing-up But in asked would not be jury decide about racialism in sport, but about conspiracy charges. He said it would be the had himself Hain devoted to some other cause, like the home- but had committed trespass less, the course of the campaign.

in upright- 'It would not be the ness of campaign alice said trial, but the trespass, on the judge. A GROUP of Britain's top em- ployers are to launch a govern- ment-backed investigation of company law. will be

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be Home The aim suggest no Office inquiry into the death of new legislation ready for entry Gerald into the Common Market. officer Purton, prison at his Trade Minister Michael Noble found hanged has appointed six employers to home two weeks ago. man the Companies Consultative 'A full inquiry was carried out Home Group task will be to whose by the and the coroner of com- Office does not propose to take advise the reform and other action, pany legislation any a spokesman sala related administrative questions. yesterday. Fraser inquest decided that Pur- They include of An Brothers-the merchant of Hatherall Road. Maid- Lazard ton himself bankers connected with ex-Tory Kent, killed stone, Edward Du Party chairman because of worry over an investi- Cann-H. Holmes of Unilever, brutality by gation into alleged offiçers Maidstone the soap and food conglomerate.

other at pri- he was principal offi- F. Murray of Prudential where A. son, and C. L. cer in the hospital. Assuran oldings, Baker, of of Purton had Dunlop one. the But relatives once served by called on the Home Office for a many companies Reginald Maudling. full-scale inquiry into his death. least 6p compared with 5p.

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Corporation, the and He was 'cautiously optimistic' multi-million pound paper about the outlook for the rest combine, announced packagıng of the trading period but sounded first half better-than-expected profits yesterday. one reservation. about the He worried was The which only last rou forecasting of effects continuing unrest in month earnings the industrial relations field and £6.8m produced of around pre- inflation. profits for the six months of tax UK It essential to the is £6,932,000. businesses that our economy the total sas only +4,917,000 In the same year remain competitive with those of This is particu- other countries. the UK larly true when about Martin Richie, predicted higher the 1S Common Market' higher the has already . dividends. this year—-a total.of. at he said.....

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Michael Rennie, Claude Rains, Fernando Lamas. An encounter with pre- historic monsters. 8.35 IT'S LULU. With Dudley Moore, Roberta Flack and Segment. 9.20

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Stalinists praise Marathon pact which threatens bonus Clyde agreement PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday August 5, 1972

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

SHOP STEWARDS and union officials have agreed to a four-year deal at the Clybebank shipyard which virtually outlaws strikes and establishes pro- cedures for settling disputes by bind- ing arbitration. The deal, signed yesterday by 13 also accepted by 2,000 unions, was Clydebank workers after a recommen- dation from the leading Stalinist shop steward James Reid. After the meeting Reid said: 'It is a good No one in their right senses agreement. wants a strike for the sake of a strike.'

Yesterday's moves mean the Texan oil-rig builders Marathon Manufacturing are finally Clyde. But they also signal launched on the the end of further resistance against re- dundancies and management strike-breaking.

ON STRIKES the unions have agreed to machinery This settle disputes by arbitration. must to be mutually agreed but the arbitrator's findings will be binding on workers and management.

The bonus system can be used against any un- official disputes. Workers will lose 10 per their cent bonus paid every six months if they have more than 140 hours off work during the period without a legitimate excuse. Stalinist stewards Jam One Clydeside union official admitted yesterday who has yet to sign th that it could be used by management against un- official strikes. It may be seen as a deterrent promise of future employment workers breaking, from Marathon. to stop at national procedure, he said.

The unions and stewards were stampeded into agreement after ON JOBS there Marathon warned that any more qualall- tees for Clydebank's 2,000 labour would end of delay thousand their Clydebank project. force. About of them face the dole at the end of Marathon will undoubtedly use September. Marathon will take this threat against any group of on 150 workers immediately and workers who resist their plans in the future. But it is the Stalinists hope to employ 500 within two months. on the stewards' co-ordinating means another pledge to This committee who have given them the labour force has been broken.

the whip hand. Stewards said they would only The 'work-in' technique they accept proposals which 'cumula- devised was designed reach this end. It meant confrontation tively' cover the four divisions of Upper Shipbuilders and could be Clyde with the government all the men in them. avoided for months and months Now Marathon can pick and while jobs and conditions were choose who to employ. At the traded in a bid to get private employers to buy the yards.

end of September, 450 Clydebank men will leave the yard to com- This eventually led to the of the UCS labour plete work on two vessels for splitting up the UCS liquidator at the Govan Marathon force between and yard. Govan Shipbuilders. They are likely to lose their But more important it meant that the fight to save jobs jobs as this work finishes.

was Another 500 men will work for gradually lost. Marathon, but this Over 2,000 workers have al- means an immediate jobs crisis for the ready left the yards and they may be followed by up to 1,000 more thousand Clydebank workers. -this out of a total labour force They must the dole only bon thee on of 8,500 employed last June when sustained vague

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his he dewspaper e she Post Registered Published Press, 186a Street, London (TU) Printed interban Plough Press Ltd. ston. Street, wards James Airlie and James Reld with bolleri to sign the deal during negotiations on the wo the consortium went into liqui- dation. This result has been dubbed in Stalinist circles as a 'victory. In fact the redundancies are about the amount envisaged in secret plans drawn up by the Tories to destroy UCS and sell its assets off to whoever wanted them.

This betrayal had the effect of diverting a mass movement building up around UCS in the early days. It could have been directed against forcing the Tory government to resign. Instead it kept in safe reformist was channels. Meanwhile a total of 32,000 redundancies occurred in Scotland during the first seven months of the 'work-in'. Stalinists' political role The even gained praise from the UCS liquidator Robert C. Smith.

He reveals that at its high last October, only 390 men were in- volved in the work-in, and the total slumped to 177, despite more redundancies. He pays tribute to the 'restraint' of the co-ordinating committee.

In his report to the UCS credi- issued on Thursday he tors writes: 'It is greatly to the credit of

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Workers must realize the lesson of the UCS struggle and see clearly the hand of Stalinism.

The Communist Party will always combine with the trade union bureaucracy to sell jobs and conditions to avoid the ulti- mate political struggle to remove Toryism, which is the only way can defend their rights. workers LESNEY, the 'Matchbox' toys firm yesterday clinched a £1.2m European takeover deal. The group is buying out the West German Edor firm which already acts as the sole distributor of Lesney products in Germany. Lesney says the deal will enable it to consolidate its share of the German market by direct toy participation.

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Speakers Larry Cavanagh, d G. Healy, SLL natior 'OFFICIALS of the Department of Trade and Industry are just not up to investigating com- panies which allegedly fleece the public out of millions every year, according to stock- broker Martin Moir. He told a press conterence yesterday that he supplied notes for Arthur Lewis, the Labour MP who attacked the Depart- ment in the Commons on Thurs- day. He said that in many cases company law was ignored in Britain. There was virtually no use of power and no use of prosecution against companies which broke the law. He accused the Department of *a sort of 19th century laissez faire attitude, which assumed that if companies published things they were all right.

But some companies, as had been shown, did not even bother publish. 'It is a great danger in our society for civil servants to do nothing when it is obviously their duty to do something.'

They gave the impression by their existence that there was some protection for the investor and shareholder, when in fact there was none. Backed by details of his own attempts to induce the Depart- ment to take up particular cases, Moir's remarks should provide much food for thought among the Tory 'law and order' brigade in the City of London. (See What We Think p.2.) You son ATTORNEY-GENERAL Sir Peter Rawlinson yesterday explained in Commons written reply why counsel appearing for him had applied for an adjournment of the bankruptcy proceedings in- volving John Poulson at Wake- field. He said: 'I instructed counsel to appear for me in support of the application for an adjourn- ment because I wished to seek to ensure that nothing should be said or done in the bankruptcy proceedings which might pre- judice any possible prosecution resulting from the current police investigations into the affairs of Mr John Poulson. behalf I was not acting on of the government, but in pur- suance of my constitutional res- ponsibility for the fair adminis- tration of the criminal law?

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LL, RED LION SQUARE

NDON, WC1.

JC TALKS WITH HEATH

TO THE DOCKERS

3 AND TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES

HE TORIES RESIGN

Speakers: vanagh, dock worker SLL national secretary