'MORNING STAR' DOUBLE-TALK

'A MOST unusual situation' is how yesterday's 'Morning Star' described the 'no-strike' sellout at Clydebank.

There are, says the Stalinist daily, 'many discussions and speculations' about the blunt declaration by Boilermakers' president Dan McGarvey that the Marathon deal definitely involves a four-year no-strike pledge.

But there can be no doubt that McGarvey's statement is accurate. The relevant clause reads: "The unions and management agree not to resort to strikes, work stoppages, lockout or other industrial action either before or after arbitraThe 'Morning Star'-clearly under pressure from its readers —is now attempting to interpret this crystal-clear formula to mean that there might be 'confrontations' arbitration were not agreed upon.

We say that the Morning Star' is deliberately misleading its readers. After last Friday's Clydebank meeting, James Reid declared:

'It is a good agreement. No one in their right senses wants a strike for the sake of a strike.' Reid is a member of the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party and speaks on its behalf.

'No strikes' is now • the line of the Communist Party. And that is the essence of the Tory Industral Relations Act.

As yesterday's Workers Press pointed out, Marathon workers will be subiect to a system of procedure ending in binding arbitration and if they do not hold to that, they can lose six months' bonus.

And even the 'Morning Star' is forced to admit that the boilermakers' differential will go. This, again as we pointed out yesterday, destroys a vital weapon on Clydebank since it is the boilermakers' traditional militancy which forces wages in the yards.

No amount of twisting and turning by the Stalinists hide the fact that they have voluntarily accepted all the essentials of the Tory Industrial Relations Act. And this makes nonsense of the one-day strike against the Act called by the National Liaison Committee for Defence of Trade Unions.

Heath's government wants to use unemployment to destroy trade union rights-particularly PROFESSOR Jaroslav Sabata, former secretary of the Communist Party in Brno, Czechothe most basic right of all, the right to strike, won over 200 years of labour struggle.

The Stalinists have already permitted the labour force at Clydebank to be slashed from 3,200 to 2,000 with further massive redundancies immediately ahead. In collaboration with the 'left' McGarvey, they have produced a situation in which a mere 500 men will work on-and will have virtually no trade union protection at all.

While the 'Morning Star' cheers on the dockers and builders, it covers up a total abandonment of workers' rights In practice. Workers Press warned against this from the start, while the revisionist 'Socialist Worker' declared that 'Militancy can win at UCS'.

Backed wholeheartedly by the revisionists, the Communist Party Stalinists isolated UCS struggle and collaborated with the Tory strategy of dealing with the working class section by section.

Above all, the Stalinist fought bitterly to prevent the UCS conflict from developing into a united working-class struggle to bring down the Tory government.

They refused to demand that the TUC mobilize the working class in a General Strike to place in office a Labour government pledged to socialist policies (including nationalization of the shipbuilding and ancillary industries) as the only solution to unemployment.

Instead CP industrial organizer Bert Ramelson, Reid and James Airlie presented a capitalist millionaire the answer the problems of thousands of Clyde workers.

Now, as this crisis deepens, and the Heath government prepares to use its emergency powers against the rising milltancy of the working class, only a fight to unite the working class against the Tories can bring victory.

The Tories now have the whole force of the state at their disposal without having to answer to parliament or anybody.

The working class is strong enough to beat them-but only through the building of a revolutionary leadership which will expose and challenge the Stalinists every single day.

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