Workers Press no. 841

workers press AS DOCK STRIKE ENTERS 3rd WEEK INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY AUGUST 14, 1972• No. 841 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MINERS

LEADER

WARNS OF

JOBS CRISIS

By DAVID MAUDE MINERS' LEADER Lawrence Daly warned yesterday that-like the dockers-his members are in no mood to accept a weakening of their strength through unemployment.

The National Union of Mine- workers' secretary returned from holiday at the weekend in the midst of growing fears that the Tories are pressing for a new, nationwide round of pit closures. He told Workers Press from his home in Hemel Hempstead: •We have suspected for that further some time closures were being planned, but were assured this was not the case. It was made very clear at our conference in July that we would be opposed closures which any reduced the level of coal- beyond production its present level and which not due to ex- haustion. We not going accept the old argument "uneconomic" pits. It's in people government think they Cal bargaining weaken OUr strength through more would them that the miners warn never nave been so conT. of their own power.' and Industry for approval The source of the job and been the was to have fears pits Vietnam jail tortures which nounced paruament last week before the recess. preparation under the But the proposed cuts— National Coal Board 13 rumoured that the future of mining in at Was 50 POLITICAL prisoners are pits Leas were eate marked for closure- were being tortured in South Nearly 210,000 miners enough ipparently not Vietnamese jails, the New are employed in the areas Times' York said yester- inan This is more belleved to have asked for The premier day. Saigon correspondent of the Board's labour force.

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Sidney Schanberg said in- something more drastic. former The draft of the first And NCB chairman terviews

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report, on prisoners which the NCB

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ITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABI

Above : NUM general sec- retary Lawrence Daly who fears for the jobs of his members following a secret compiled for the report National Coal Board. Men leaving the pithead could become a rare sight in Britain If the Torles get their way. workers, peasants, women and children arrested in the past four and a half months since the north Vietnamese army began its offensive had been tor- tured, he added. Former prisoners said a favourite police comment was: *If they are innocent, beat them until they be- come guilty.' No. 841 • 4p

ST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY IAN YEATS

THE EMPLOYERS and the Tory govern- ment realize that whatever the Jones- Aldington Committee recommends will not be enough to end the national dock strike. Now they are mounting an all-out offensive to split the dockers by bullying and intimidating workers at the smaller unregistered ports After 14 days of talks the Jones-Aldington Committee is believed to have come up with only a tiny handful of jobs and not all of these will be available at once. Friday disclosed that by A shock report out on dockers 1975 the number of registered would be slashed from 41,500 to fewer than' 30,000. T&GWU leader Jack Jones is as aware as any employer of the impact of containerization on dockers' jobs and from his position National Ports Council, which on the commissioned the labour-study, he has a front-seat view of all future trends.

The report, submitted by the National Ports Council to 'senior members of the Jones-Aldington Committee, warned that London, Liverpool and Hull would bear the brunt of the cutbacks.

Ports in Lancashire, South Wales and Scotland would also be affected.

Yet while one of the committees on which he sits reveals the loss of thousands of jobs, Jones sits on another with Lord Aldington talking in terms of a few hundred jobs as a solution to the crisis. Jones, the employers and the Tories know the dockers will not be hoodwinked back to work for a mess of pottage like this. Jones allows the employers and the government to talks and engineer a split drag out the Committee's the docks. All the signs point to in his members on a concerted campaign by port employers to intimi- date small groups of workers at unregistered ports into abandoning the fight. Massed Tory police have been used as shock troops against dockers to protect scab workers at like Keadby, Lincs. unregistered ports The threat of military intervention to break the strike was made good at the weekend with the first RAF planeloads of supplies to islands off the Scottish mainland.

Cornwall shopkeepers and the executives from the china clay industry led a 6,000-strong march through St Austell to intimidate a handful of isolated local dockers. The 108 men have shut the ports of Par, Fowey, Charlestown shop stewards and and representing china clay workers have sent a telegram later Jones requesting a meeting than to not Wednesday. At the unregistered port of Harwich navyard 150 strikers have been told there is no guarantee they will be re-employed ends. Chairman of the strike once Harwich Dock Company Phillip Mann dis- claimed phased return missals and a to work had been caused by traffic being diverted from navyard to British Rail's container terminal at Harwich Parkeston.

But Bernard Taylor, shipping and port manager at Parkeston, hotly denies the allegation. He said: 'I have not taken anybody's business. I have kept my word to the unions routed that only regular traffic would be handled and all of my management staff have had a very difficult time making sure that We have turned back a whole train and this is so. Zeebrugge sent whole freightliner ship back to a because they were carrying some black cargo.'

While the port employers offensive gathers momen- tum, big warehouse operators like Vestey and Hay's Wharf, together with the Road Haulage Association have made it plain there are no circumstances under which will employ they dockers. And whether dockers' solidarity is maintained or Tories have left the doubt that they are not, no ready to use their either to send emergency powers troops into all docks or even just into those which would almost certainly after a split- it alone go London, Liverpool and Hull.

The longer the Jones-Aldington talks go the on, danger of splitting the dockers. Tones greater the off the talks immediately and recall the must break

T&GWU

biennal conference mobilize the labour to movement in their support.

• See p. Il. Hull reactions.

workers press AS DOCK STRIKE ENTERS 3rd WEEK INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY AUGUST 14, 1972 • No. 841 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MINERS

LEADER

WARNS OF

JOBS CRISIS

By DAVID MAUDE MINERS' LEADER Lawrence Daly warned yesterday that—like the dockers—his members are in no mood to accept a weakening of their strength through unemployment. The National Union of Mine- workers' secretary returned from holiday at the weekend in the midst of growing fears that the Tories are pressing for a new, nationwide round of pit closures. He told Workers Press from his home in Hemel Hempstead: "We have suspected for that further some time were being planned, but were assured this was not the case. It was made very clear at our conference in July that we would be opposed closures which any reduced the level of coal- production beyond its present level and which were not due to ex- haustion. 'We are not going acceo me oo arguer "uneconomic" pits. It's possible some in people government think they Cal weaked Darcaining strength through more un- warn them that the minerd would them wain nave never been dent of their own power.' and Industry for approval The source opi the job and was have been the pits fears is all Vietnam jail tortures which nounced varlamnent las week before recess. _the preparation under Tone But the proposed cuts- National Coal Board was that the future of mining in 50

POLITICAL

prisoners are CasI

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NCB

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vevartmen! sluucils MONDAY AUGUST 14, 1972 • No. 841 lITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LAB Above: NUM general sec- retary Lawrence Daly who fears for the jobs of his for the loaving the pithead could become • rare sight in Britain It the Torles get that way. workers, peasants, women and children arrested in the past four and a half months since the north Vietnamese army began its offensive had been tor- tured, he added. Former prisoners said a favourite police comment was: 'If they are innocent, beat them until they be- come guilty? • No. 841 • 4p

ST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY IAN YEATS

THE EMPLOYERS and the Tory govern- ment realize that whatever the Jones- Aldington Committee recommends will not be enough to end the national dock strike. Now they are mounting an all-out offensive to split the dockers by bullying and intimidating workers at the smaller unregistered ports After 14 days of talks the Jones-Aldington Committee is believed to have come up with only a tiny handful of jobs and not all of these will be available at once. A shock report out on Friday disclosed that by 1975 the number of registered dockers would be slashed from 41,500 to 'fewer than' 30,000. T&GWU leader Jack Jones is as aware as any employer of the impact of containerization on dockers' jobs and from his position on the National Ports Council, which commissioned the labour-study, he has a front-seat view of all future trends.

The report, submitted by the National Ports Council to 'senior members' of the Jones-Aldington Committee, warned that London, Liverpool and Hull would bear the brunt of the cutbacks. Ports in Lancashire, South Wales and Scotland would also be affected.

Yet while one of the committees on which he sits reveals the loss of thousands of jobs, Jones sits on another with Lord Aldington talking in terms of a few hundred jobs as a solution to the crisis. Jones, the employers and the Tories know the dockers will not be hoodwinked back to work for a mess of pottage like this. Jones allows the employers and the government to drag out the Committee's talks and engineer a split in his members on the docks. All the signs point to a concerted campaign by port employers to intimi- date small groups of workers at unregistered ports into abandoning the fight. Massed Tory police have been • used as shock troops against dockers to protect scab workers at unregistered ports like Keadby, Lines.

The threat of military intervention to break the strike was made good at the weekend with the first RAF planeloads of supplies to islands off the Scottish mainland.

In Cornwall MPs, and the Tory shopkeepers 'captains' of local industry, including executives from the china clay industry, led a 6,000-strong march through St Austell to intimidate a handful of isolated local dockers. The 108 men have shut the ports of Par, Fowey, and Charlestown stewards and shop representing china clay workers have sent a telegram to Jones requesting a meeting later than not Wednesday. At the unregistered port of Harwich navyard 150 strikers have been told there is no guarantee they will be re-employed once the strike ends. Chairman of Harwich Dock Company Phillip Mann claimed dis- missals and a phased return to work had been traffic being diverted from caused by navyard to British Rail's container terminal at Harwich Parkeston.

But Bernard Taylor, shipping and port manager at Parkeston, hotly denies the allegation. He said: 'I have not taken anybody's business. I have kept my word to the unions that only regular routed traffic would be handled and all of my management staff have had a very difficult time making sure that this is so. We have turned back a whole train and whole Zeebrugge sent freightliner ship back to a because they were carrying some black cargo' While the port employers offensive gathers momen- tum, big warehouse operators like Vestey and Hay's Wharf, together with the Road Haulage Association, have made it plain there are no circumstances under which they will employ dockers. And whether dockers' solidarity is maintained or not, the Tories have left no doubt that they are ready to use their emergency powers either to send troops into all docks or even just into those which would after a split- almost certainly it alone go London, Liverpool and Hull.

The longer the lones-Aldington talks so ofjones the danger of splitting the dockers. greater the must break off the talks immediately and recall the T&GWU biennal mobilize the labour conference to movement in their support.

• See p. II. Hull reactions.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday August

THE CLASS STRUGGLE,

Lenin said, is one of the questions fundamental of Marxism. That the Heath gov- has enormously in- ernment tensified the class struggle since the beginning of this year is patently • obvious to every working-class family.

Central to the Tories' offen- sive has been the 'shake-out' industry, in the deliberate creation of mass unemploy- ment. The government and its backers in the Confederation of British Industry have used the fear of unemployment to drive down wages and work- ing conditions. It follows, therefore, that all struggles today are poli- tical because they involve the policies of the Tory govern- ment. The Tories stand at the back of the ruthless British Steel Corporation closures, 'rationalization' of the the GEC-AEl empire in prepara- tion for the Common Market entry and they stand four- square with the Road Haulage Period Employers Federation Association Engin- in depriving workers of decent salaries and conditions. Of the political character of these attacks there is com- agreement between mon a number of tendences in the Labour movement-the Com- munist Party which produce 'Morning Star', and the the of the revisionists so-called International Socialist ('So- cialist Worker') and the Inter- national Marxist Group ('Red Mole'). But while they recognize formally the role of the Tory government in today's strug- gles, they seek to confine their own counter-activities to a level of protesting. Take the UCS work-in, which is perhaps the most glaring ex- ample of this form of protest activity. In his balance-sheet of UCS even the limp 'Sunday Times' Labourite, John Fryer, Those who re- has to write: "battle for 8,500 member the jobs" headlines will notice that up to 2,000 men have vanished since UCS went bust. Some have died or re- tired, but many have either found other jobs, or joined the .unemployed.' Mr Fryer doesn't draw any definite conclusion from his it for research, so we'll do him. The work-in was a fraud.

It did not save all the jobs, nor did it four maintain yards as a single unit. Yet this was the slogan which the Stalinists, James Reid and James Airlie, hoisted over the work-in when it be- gan. But at the same time the Stalinist leadership insisted from the very first rally held WILLIAM WHITELAW, the Tories' Ulster Secretary, has secured all-party talks to be held from September 25 to September 27. On paper the Social Demo- cratic and Labour Party is re- fusing to participate, but inside sources say their 'opposition' to talking is only token. When the whips start cracking John Hume, Gerry Fitt and the to the Tory rush others will master's table. Also present at the talks will Faulkner's be Ulster Brian ay Auguet 14, 1872 in Glasgow that politics be kept out of the struggle.

At every step they diverted attention away from the gov.

ernment. Yet Lenin warned explicitly about the treachery of such liberal activity in times of 'Marxism,' he grave crisis: wrote, 'recognizes Class struggle as fully developed, only if it does not merely embrace politics but takes in the most significant thing in politics-the of And translated into current circumstances, Lenin means the Tory government. We are the only tendency workers' in movement which has called continuously for the defeat of this govern- ment. In doing so we have our face against the set Stalinists and their allies- the revisionist protesters.

Lenin has this to say about them: 'Liberals are prepared to recognize the class struggle in the sphere of politics, too, but on condition-that one organization of the state power should not enter into that sphere. It is not hard to understand which of the bourgeoisie's class interests rise to the liberal dis- tortion of the concept of class struggle. This is • the essence of the irreconcilable division be- tween them and us. They re- fuse to call for the overthrow Tory government and of the thus hold back the political development of the working class. Because they offered no re- sistance to the government, because they to со- want with state power, the exist Stalinists ended up signing four-year no-strike pledge a with 2,000 men already down the road. This is where 'no politics' struggles lead! Have the revisionists taken note of the political balance sheet at UCS and learned anything? No. Despite the • Cruel facts of the work-in still can't repudi- farce, they Stalinism and make estimation of They remain apologists for Reid and Airlie. 'Socialist week's Worker' buried the of the Clydebank deal in a 7. This paltry article tragedy' the no-strike pledge, but makes no direct 1 of the Stalinists or their policies. By tailing the Stalinists and out of every craven deal with the employers the IS assists them in • keeping the Tory government in office.

tomorrow's Workers • See Press for another assessment of the Stalinists' role at UCS Unionist party, the Alliance Group and Paisley's four-man Democratic Unionists. The SDLP is saying that it wants internment ended before attending the talks. There are still 264 internees in the concen- tration camps, a further 47 hav- ing been freed last week.

One of the party's spokesmen, Ivan Cooper, said at the week- end: 'We believe there is only one way forward—talking.'

He claimed that some people in the Official IRA had privately supported their decision to talk while publicly condemning it.

By John Spencer UGANDAN president Idi Amin has no intention of varying his ultimatum expelling the country's Asian minority within 90 days. He made this clear when he snubbed Tory envoy Geoffrey Rippon who has now left Uganda for Kenya and Tanzania and has no plans to return to Kampala tomorrow-the only day Amin is prepared to see him.

Amin has said that an estimated 50,000 British citizens must be out of the country by November 8. The Tory government has not yet said whether the Asians hounded out by Amin will be Idi Amin accepted in Britain. Despite their citizen status the been slave 1968 Britain SACe government's Immi- The gration Tories are these torced nowever. trev WIll certainiy lace stringent restrictions once they arrive. The government is believed to anti-immigrant feeling. successive British governments Their unprecedented proposals has driven the Ugandan be preparing Special camos would reduce the Asian refugees Asians into a terrible trap.

There bases house the war Umce refugees from Uganda. reports And nave alredo y

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beer are they leave the robbed of their citizenship rights police terrorizing Asians and de- when they all os status second-class from them allowed money live only In will be certain parts of the country.

arrive in Councils Leicester, Brad- More to the point, the Tories such actions, but and ford and Coventry have told the taking advantage crisis ministers touring are responsibility are will which Buyeillal Lucy 10 cel their whipping dullios coloured immigrants. isone and Impose a onere has Rippon maintains: gration from other Common- highly unpleasant' reprisals with large human numbers wealth countries. Asian who is not out beings as if they

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OUT

Having already stripped the the by Lic >U-tay that is precisely what the Tories Ugandan of their citizen. propose to do. ship rights- -and thus exposed The only categories allowed to Until now all British citizens them to the mercies after that date of are have had the right to live where racialist dictator who chose Amın-they they Ugandan inde- choose. nitendental probose «Trer right is be abolished the strip every other coloured pendence (and then only if they to 11 Tories have their way. They are citizen their their status with can prove pandering racialist

CYCL

documents and Certall Calc The the country in order to whip up legislation gories of professional employees.

TAGALIST

FOREIGN NEWS

TURKISH workers in mon Market 'guest have fled the area. The originally intervene the Afrikaander dis- workers' the rioters scuene. Der Most of them are em- foreign workers comes cause they considered trict of Rotterdam ployed as cheap, menial time of crisis for there was have been the targets labour according in the of three nights of riot- Coully d Coallion a Rotterdam inspec- government. rectones. of ing by groups groups have been agitat- Right-wing premier Dutch youths. for Biesheuval against them Barent has The Turkish workers complaining however. Luce been WIeN LuCY in this city-centre slum are crowding premature general Turkish that they Learnt That are among the 150,000 out the Dutch. election folowing parlia- other ITOm Since of Holland were the riots began labourers parts southern their •orted on vecescay. many ol swingene •uocer Cuts. way to aero Europe under the Com- the Turkish workers The police did not their countrymen.

AMERICAN

flank Nixon's blockade in the southern part of bardments against the made the heaviest air «ne minine or me coln- delenaers. try's coast and rivers. The American In the Mekong Delta raids of the war over The US south of Saigon, libera- planes -eight- mand extremely wor- North Vietnam at the engined B52 bombers ried by the outbreak of About 1,200 weekend. along a able strength are harass- attacked points ngnuing on a number ol tons of bombs were Vietnamese line stretching 30 miles fronts South Vietnam ing South dropped supply 60 miles On which previously units and threatening to south-east and depots and a new oil considered cut the capital's suDolv norm-west or the costa! secure pipeline running down city Dong Ha, the routes. ATter seven weeks the US from the Chinese bor- command fighting the South Viet- ail- der the frontier libera- nounced. reports arco puppet ally ale with the south. force. ignally failed to tak moving alr

LION

The as ly bbled ipe- marine and navy planes besieged town coast in the the wards the enabled mounted further 200 Quang Tri, despite area of South line nas Vietnam. precedented US bom- nocration forces to oul- stIlkes ax allist Lalsels

FUTURE STRUGGLES

SIT-IN: A

The 13-week occupation of Wyngrove and Rogers engineering plant at Kirkby, near Liverpool, has forged a new link in trade union solidarity, says one of the factory's stewards. In with an herniew Workers Press, Dave Allen said: 'For the first time in 30 become years the men have conscious of themselves their trade union strength. The occupation for over three months has solidly knit us all together in a united fight and

RENT

QUESTIONS

Tories' much- The vaunted rent rebates scheme involves a savage means test. will Just how the scheme is shown in a docu- operate the Ipswich ment released by County Borough Council. application for To make rebate, a three-page question- naire has to be completed. The applicant must give details of 'family circumstances' and COnC All pensions and allowances must be listed and investment 0 70 28 Charlotte St London W1 we have ended the occupation strong and confident. 'We don't regard the occupa- tion as the end of the fight, but only the beginning. It is the springboard for future struggle. For the first 11 days after we went back to work we had stoppages every day against the management's attempt to bring in despotic rules and because of presence of staff on the shop floor who were hostile to us during the occupation. 'Only a few days after we returned work we all downed tools in support of the jailed dockers. The occupation was lifted on July 24 after two full-time income. Item 4 asks the appli- cant to list all uninvested cash in his possession, as well as that of his wife and any tenants. On the final page the appli- cant must sign a declaration of accuracy. This section reads: I declare that the inform- ation given on this application is accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief and that no other income was received by me or my wife/husband apart from that declared.

'I authorize the corporation to make any necessary con- fidential inquiries from my employer or elsewhere to verify the information given.' And across the foot of the document appears this threat typed in capital letters: 'A person who by deception dishonestly obtains a rebate for himself or another is on

* 3ISWNS

• PERIODICALS • NEWSPAPERS

Above: Workers at the Kirkby plant sii-in. officials, Gerry Russell and F.

negotiated Johnson, an immediate £2 rise on the basic, making a minimum fall back pay of £28. The men also agreed to an incentive scheme to be completed on October 31 which will bring in another £3 to £4. They gained extra holiday premiums and an extra day's holiday this year and another two days next year. All men sacked during the so-called for occupation 'industrial misconduct' were reinstated. Dave Allen described the deal as la victory'. Above: Jullan Amery. conviction liable to imprison- ment for a term not exceed- ing five years.' This is Julian Amery's great rents scheme for the under- privileged tenant! If any part of the form is filled in incorrectly - acci- dentally or otherwise — the tenant faces five years' jail.

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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, Monday Auquet 14, 1972 PAGE 3

TUC STRIKE:

A GOLDEN

OPPORTUNITY

WAS MISSED

The National Graphical approached them. 'The National Council felt Association-one of the golden opportunity was main print unions-has being missed for the whole only deferred, not aban- movement to show its opposi- tion to the Act at a time par- strike doned, action ticularly favourable for making Industrial against the the maximum impact,' he says.

Act. The NGA had already sent a telegram to the TUC urging It was TUC general secre- them to ahead with the go Vic tary Feather who despite the pul one-day the NGA to call release of the five dockers.

off its one-day strike planned Bonfield says his National for Monday July 31. Council eventually met for The had decided to three hours on the Saturday ahead with the strike before the proposed strike and against the despite the Act, 'albeit reluctantly', to decided, release of the five dockers the agree to Feather's request.

previous Wednesday. a de- but at the same time. But the

TUC

intervened cision was taken call after they had called off their the TUC to organize a one-day General own one-day Strike, stoppage against the Act. also planned for July 31.

The NGA is hoping for sup- John Bonfield, NGA general port from the National Union secretary, writing in his union of Mineworkers. journal, explains what they told Feather when he first Below: Vic Feather. The PLA now says it is wil-

PENTHOUSE

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AT THE

prices. consultant has come UD

SURREY?

with a scheme regarding the inusual le development of the area. ing marina, a number of office The ground is fast being blocks and 1,400 homes prepared another The report does not make it clear if the homes will be for property bonanza on the But judging by other workers. basis of redeveloping similar schemes, like the one former dockland. Katherine's dock, they at st Southwark council and the are more likely to be luxurious Port of London Authority have private apartments. Now that traffic has moved just published for the plans future of Surrey docks containerized upstream to the There are now 450 acres of Tilbury, the old docks present disused dockland, which are menserves luciauve prizes owned by the PLA. for property developers. I would like information about

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PAGE 4 Workers Preca, Monday Auguet' An international discussic Thesis of the COB' have in Bolivia The events that the POR • never shown broke with centrism and that its adherence to the IC was only an opportunist manoeuvre by Lora. The responsibility of the POR in the defeat of the Bolivian proletariat obliges Trotskyist militants to draw up a balance-sheet of the events the military which carried group of Banzer to power.

defeat for the This was a Bolivian working class because of the incapacity of its leader- ship. Because of his total break with Marxism, Lora and his group always developed an opportunist policy of capitula- tion to Stalinism and petty- tendencies, bourgeois conscious negation of all inter- national perspective and the rejection, consequently, of the building of independent parties of a Bolshevik type. From the congress of the COB in 1970 the POR capitu- lated to Stalinism and to poli- tical theses based the on impossibility of struggling con- against petty-bour- sistently geois nationalism to the extent that an anti-Marxist concep- tion of the latter was devel- oped; the negation of the theory of the permanent revo- acceptance of the lution and the 'theory' of the revolution the acceptance of in stages; the 'theory' of the 'building of and socialism in one country' also the acceptance of the international policy of the Soviet bureaucracy. It was the itself which French section produced the first criticism of the theses of the COB. This criticism concluded: 'Comrades, we tell you, quite plainly, motivated by deep and anguished conviction, that if this declaration becomes policy of the Bolivian the movement and repre- workers' sents its orientation, and if should adopt it lor the POR even if it maintained a long silence on the fact that it con- stitutes the result of a com- only has which promise circumstantial value), then the thesis of the COB can con- stitute a noose around the neck of the Bolivian proletariat since it limits it to Bolivia' When it justifies and backs up completely everything the POR has done, the French sec- avoids tion opportunistically this criticism and in particular its final conclusion: party prepared this 'This was prepared for it, struggle, was able to take advantage of the opportunities and at each stage of the revolutionary pro- cess developed the conditions for the working class to take the power.' Revolutionary Leadership The defeat of the Bolivian was the result of proletariat the prostration of its leader- ship. The POR was incapable of posing correctly (or, rather, it never even posed it) the for independent struggle leadership. Its basic break with Marxism led it to capitulate to the traditional leaderships and the union bureaucracies. It is no coincidence that after the defeat, Lora, in his balance- y Auguet 16, 1812 liscussion article in six parts sheet, leaves out all question leadership. working-class As he expressed it himselt, the *leadership of the workers' movement was correct' and the political policies of the work- ing class were overtaken by the events. But the main leaders of the working class were the Lechin- ists" and the Stalinists.

interview In which an in 'Informations appeared Ouvrières', the OCI's news- paper, he goes so far as to say that Stalinism, pushed by was forced to take up events, revolutionary positions'-the same position of Pablo towards the Soviet bureaucracy, except that 'it has become real' for Lora. What is certain is that Lora always accepted the Pabloite theses on Stalinism, theses which led him to affirm that the Sino-Soviet conflict opened up the possibility that a fraction of the bureaucracy would 'debureaucratize' and 'return to Marxism'; a possi- bility which was reduced to 'the nought by Lora since theoretical discussion did not penetrate to the very root of the problem' This metaphysical concep- Banzer tion of the bureaucracy is what makes him declare that Stalinism is the same as Menshevism, denying the inter- national nature Stalinism of and the fact that the bureau- cracy obtains its power from its control of the means of production and its compromise internationally with imperial- ism. formulation of Lora The that Stalinism is only a bridge petty-bourgeois between nationalism and Trotskyism or the position he describes in the article 'Bolivia between nationalism and socialism'- where he states that the inde- pendence of the proletariat is measured by its movement to the left in relation to petty- bourgeois nationalism-can lead to one conclusion. only That is the handing over of the workers' movement to Stalin- ism and the rejection of the struggle for alternative leader- ship. It is in line with this policy that the POR supported the CP candidate in the Popu- lar Assembly, thus refusing to stand an independent candi- date. Petty-bourgeois nationalism In Latin America the process of the national bourgeoisies has been of such a size that it is relatively easy for left' groups to appear which declare their 'faithfulness' to the theory of the permanent revolution and Velasco (above) Allende and (right) did not even protect the petty-bourgeois government Torres. reject the theory of two stages.

this phenomenon However, is not backed by an under- standing of Marxism, but is result of spontaneous the of evolution. The majority groups-outside of the these Marxist movement and conse- outside an inter- quently national perspective-have re- furbished the petty-bourgeois criticism of imperialism. This criticism is in essence reaction- in and no way touches the actual basis of imperialism.

Such groups have invariably refurbished the Kautskyan con- ception ot imperialism, con- sıdering it as super-imperialism and as exclusively a national question. In this way, they have been unable to break politically with petty-bourgeois nationalism, and have become its critics and its 'left' cover. and Lora The POR, particular, outside the Marxist movement, have refurbished criticism of petty- this left bourgeois nationalism-this is the basic content of the state- ment 'they are limited or in- consistent anti-imperialists' Consequently, a complete break with nationalism is never posed; in fact its 'anti-imperial- ism' is given support. It is no coincidence that Lora should conclude in this article that the governments of Velasco and Allende will defend the workers' state in Bolivia. Logically, Velasco and Allende did not even protect the petty- bourgeois government of J. J.

Torres. • COB. Bolivian Workers' Trade Union Confederation 1 Lechinists. Followers of Juan Lechin, a longstanding opportun- ist in the Bolivian trade unions.

HOFFMAN STORY

WITH TORIES IN AUGUST 1970

Lewis When Arthur raised questions about the Real Estate Fund of America in the Commons recently, the Tory Mini- ster for Trade, Michael Noble, declined to com- ment. What's more, Noble and other government ministers have given the distinct im- pression that the affairs of REPA are almost unknown to them. The Fund, you will recall, was founded by American financier, Jerome D. Hoffman, who is now serving a two-year jail for mortgage sentence fraud in the US. First president of the fund was Reginald Maudling and his appointment was announced in an ecstatic press release in 1969 which headed: was 'Naming a great president.'

The release said: 'We are pleased to announce that the Right Honourable Reginald Maudling, former Chancellor of the Exchequer for Great Britain and a Member of Her Majesty's Cabinet, Member of Parliament and former Presi- dent of the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom, has been elected president of the Real Estate Fund of America. His and dynamic daily activities personalitin construction will assure the growth of American real estate. deromo D. Holtman "This indeed is a monumental milestone for our future and we wanted to share the news with you' Maudling resigned from the presidency to devote himself to Every few years some brave spirit undertakes the Herculean task of cleaning up the New York police force, but up to now it has defied all efforts to do away with corruption. The latest contribution to this losing battle is the report of the Knapp commission, made public earlier this week.

This report proposes that an independent deputy attorney general should be appointed to investigate complaints of police corruption and recommends stricter rules for policemen and abandonment of anti-gambling

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Dear Sir. I have been asked to thank you foi furtrer information about proceedi Yours faithfully J B Smith. for 1970 campaigning the Martin's Lane, and was doing General Election, but he re- brisk business in countries in tained his management shares Middle East, the Africa and in the company for a further South America. (He for- was 12 months. bidden by law to sell his fund It is now known that details in Britain.) of Hoffman's previous brush He left London in a great law with the enforcement hurry at the end of November authorities in New York was 1970 leaving a pile of bad made known to the minister debts. concerned, Mr John Davies, as The letter reproduced above August 12, 1970. early as proves beyond doubt that the this time Hoffman At had Tory department and the the fund headquartered in politicians were fully appraised Thorn House. Upper St of Hoffman's past in inform- and Sabbath laws which invite enforcement of rules requiring bribery. policemen to report meetings The report opens with the characters with underworld sentence: 'We found corruption and a wider range of penalties to be widespread.' for dishonest policemen. It says gambling bribes lead The proposed independent to the most sophisticated and deputy attorney general would widespread corruption. Gambl- for serve five with years, ing organizations pay up to 'authority and to investigate $7,000 (£2,600) a month to the prosecute all crimes involving divided police 'pad', to be corruption in the criminal process'. according to rigid rules among plainclothes detectives Commission head Whitman their superiors. Knapp told a packed press The system is so well organ- conference in his Wall Street ized that a plainc'othes man office that the man chosen for who is transferred to another the Ombudsman-type job precinct receives about two would have to be 'a man of months' "severance pay from courage, a man of confidence, the 'pad'. who doesn't mind taking Graft from narcotics was not beating'. so regular and well organized, said he saw his com- He but individual payments mission as a chance for police- or 'scores' had been known to go men to escape the trap of graft as high as $80,000 (£30,000).

and bribery. Policemen who Street patrolmen dealt in afraid to their were go to smaller payments, the report superiors or district attorneys had come to the Knapp Com- but the number of went on, small bribes paid during were SO mission its two-year and had told of numerous that they added sub- investigation stantially to a uniformed man's the corruption they saw. The report was being studied weekly salary. by New York governor Nelson Among recommendations, Rockefeller whose spokesman the report proposed strict Workers Press,

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Septerber 1970 Limited ou for the oceedings • business riman which • Secretary ation sent to them by a certain Mr Smith who runs a business intelligence firm called Argen (Business Consultants) Limited.

It is known that in his memorandum to the Board of Trade Smith included details of a case which the New York Attorney General's Department launched against Hoffman for a mortgage swindle. Now, almost two years later, the department claims to have only just completed its investi- gation. said he would examine it at length before acting. Acting Police Commissioner William Smith, speaking for commissioner Patrick Murphy, who is out of town, said the document 'requires and already undergoing intensive study and analysis by the police department'. rs Press, Monday August 14, 1972 PAGE 5 Douglas W. Inglish, special assistant to the co-chairman of the Republican Party, has been fired following dis- closure that he was paid $5,000 for helping Washington builder obtain a loan from New York bank. of "clean In this year politics, President Nixon's Republican Party is. anxious to avoid becoming contaminated with too many scandals before the election. This is doubly sc because five Republican aides were recently found burgling a Democratic Party headquarters in an effort to 'bug' the com- mittee rooms. corrupt practices Inglish's came to light last week when it was found that he had helped secure the loan by contacting banking James T. director of the service. Blair, in turn, said that he vice-president telephoned the in charge of government bank- ing at the First National City Bank. The bank later granted the loan of $500,000 to Dr Cyrus Katzen, the Washington builder. Inglish received a $5,000 check for assisting with the loan. The check was made out to him by Cyrus T. Anderson, lobbyist due to come to trial this fall on charges of bribing Senator Daniel B. former US Brewster to influence legislation on 'junk mail' rates. Thomas B. Evans, the Repub- lican co-chairman, said that he is 'opposed to anyone using his connection with the Republican party for an economic gain'.

Evans said that Inglish at first refused to disclose that any government official was in- volved in the loan. 'He wasn't being candid with That is enough to dismiss me. him, Evans said. He added that Inglish finally left him a note last Friday acknowledging that he had contacted Blair about the loan. Inglish (35) was in charge of placing advertising for the Republicans in the party's pro- gramme for their national con- vention, to be held August 21 in Miami Beach. He began working for the Republicans in June at a $25,000-a-year salary. After being told that Inglish had received $5,000, Blair said: 'Oh, God, what a mess.' He said that he met Inglish years ago when Inglish three worked at the Post Office Department.

FATAL FACTORY

A Japanese High Court at Kanazawa has upheld a lower court decision which found that a smelting company was guilty of causing a sometimes fatal bone disease in humans with the effluent from its factory. The High Court ordered the Mitsui Smelting Company to totalling compensation pay €185,000 to seven victims and relatives of seven others who have died. The company said it would accept the decision.

The lower court had found Mitsui guilty of causing 'itai- itai' painful (ouch-ouch) a disease which causes brittle- in bones, by the dis- ness charge of cadmium waste from its factory which contaminated surrounding rice paddies and a river.

PACE • Wer a 16, 1878 By Stephen Johns. Photographs by Martin Mayer.

I went on to Seaforth. The dockers working at the port they shift is (which includes Birkenhead). cargo there In January there were around colossal, but there's no one 10,500. around. It's frightening - a The late sixties had been Liverpool docker's first im- years of labour shortage. Em- of Merseyside's pressions ployers complained they were new container port. not able to get the manpower In June 1969 the Liver- they needed and lobbied to get the register reopened to admit pool dockers celebrated more men. what they thought was a But this was phoney shortage. Dockers realized that victory in the battle over it had been achieved only at containerization. the expense of older and For several years the Mer- slightly sick dockers taking seyside severance pay leaving the port port workers had and not being replaced. One unease day the severance trick might is conventional cargo lost its dominant place to not work the then the temporary tainer on the Irish Sea runs.

unattached pool would swell Now the same process with unemployed dockers. was employers, starting on the transatlantic The too. were not satisfied. They were plead- routes. ing for more labour. But this December Atlantic Con- Ltd was poor substitute the tainers were starting, UK and through their smaller manning scales agent the first cellular run the vast increases in mobility Canard, the they really wanted, and which across ocean while ten miles inland the first big con- the militant Merseyside men tainer base was about to swing had firmly resisted. Now this into operation at Aintree.

situation has caused changed dramatically. The Aintree the ex- most blatant example is offered This Diosion. was ironic by the 500 to 600 men Ocean because the base was designed Port Services want to return to deal with traffic bound for Southampton, to the unattached pool.

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Australia via not Liverpool. steamsontroline of their lines controlled Ocean But the dockers realized Blue Funnel, is to take its Far would that the work there involve stuffing and East export trade away from stripping, Merseyside and ship through and the fact that the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board had Southampton's container berth.

There are other straws in the taken a minority share in the sharpened wind. Before the outbreak of venture their the (The major share- national hostilities, main suspicion. stevedoring holder, and effective owner of Liverpool firms, OPS, Port of Liverpool Steve- the base, was Overseas Con- dores, West Coast Stevedores, tainers Ltd, a container con- Smith sortium. British Rail also had Coggins and the Mersey Docks and Harbour a share.) The struggle was climaxed Board, were talking of merger.

by a strike and a ban on con- They deny of course that this Eventually the Con- would lead to any rationaliza tainers. tion, but the tainerbase Federation - which dockers don't believe them. owned the depot - caved in register the 20 There is good reason for and agreed to The MDHB slashed workers already employed as mistrust. dockers. its non-registered labour force The by 9 per cent last year and is shop stewards were One, Peter Morgan, jubilant. • Smith Coggins, one of the declared: 'We have won not just a victory but a battle.'

port's biggest employers an- nounced four days ago it was This verdict turned out to pulling stevedoring be wildly optimistic. Today the Liverpool dockers find them- operations in Liverpool. This of 2,300 selves facing the first serious will mean a surplus Devlin So the Mersev jobs crisis since and men. Docks this is despite and Harbour Company is faced steep run- down in the labour force over with the task of absorbing the last decade. around 3,200 men-a third of In 1962 there were 13,589 Liverpool's labour force.

determined to reduce losses on its cargo-handling operations of £95,000 last year compared to a £164,000 profit in 1970.

THREAT

Smith Coggins has already announced substantial redun- dancies on the staff side and dockers are already fighting a skirmish with this firm over a bid to rundown manning levels on a number of Yugoslavian boats. The fact that other port employers were backing Smith Coggins on this issue s just before the national strike, another was yet ominous sign of confrontation.

But by far the biggest threat from Seaforth. This comes massive new dock built at the extreme north end of the waterfront can almost lay claim to the title of the second port of Merseyside. The Seaforth development accounts directly for the closure of half Liverpool's dock frontage. existing By September all the old docks from Dingle in the south right up to Pierhead in the centre of the city will be shut-down.

The property men, led by (who else) Harry Hyams, have already begun to move in for the kill. When it gets up to full capa- city Seaforth will handle 8.5 million a year-that is tons half Liverpool's total cargo excluding oil. Half of this will pass through the six giant container berths. The rest will be con- ventional bulk or cargo handled in modern, capital- intensive berths. The grain terminal will take 2.5 million tons a year and the meat berth 1.5 million. The other in packaged trade will be timber - which again needs minimal man handling. What this will mean even- tually in terms of labour can be seen from these figures. Liverpool's trade averages about 12.5 million tons (again excluding oil). Approximately 6.5 million tons of this is handled by 1,000 men employ- ing new methods (modern bulk or containers), but it takes nine times that number to discharge and load the port's 5.7 million tons of conven- tional cargo. The astounding increase in of Seaforth productivity is also exampled by the smaller gangs on the container ter- minals and the faster turn- round of ships. container At a Seaforth berth an Ellerman Papayanni Line boat with 2,000 tons bound for Portugal and Spain can be loaded by ten men in four hours. At a conventional berth it would take 100 men three days to deal with the same load. On the deep-sea trade, ACL hopes to turn round its most modern container liners which 600-700 containers carry (25,000 tons) as well as a fleet of roll-on, roll-off traffic in 24 hours. At a conventional berth it would take 20 men 15 days to deal with a similar con- ventional tonnage. The employers argue passionately that the Liverpool dockers have nothing to fear.

They say the Seaforth cargo will be a new trade, that the of containerization is rate slowing down anyway, and that this, plus a continuéd exodus from industry through the severance, will make the transfer a painless process.

of coursers ignores This, course, main totally the objection to the overall decline in the industry. They do not want to see more labour bled off through severance. Their "surplus' is solution to the shorter hours and higher pay that the employers - one naturally resist. The other big snag is that neither the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board nor the em- ployers' spokesmen can point to where this truly massive increase in trade is coming from. They work on the typical empirical assumption that trade is somehow bound to increase and if the Liverpool dockers behave themselves the port will get its fair share. Above: Seaforth -accounts for the half Liverpool's existing dock frontage. Right: Liverpool dockers Unfortunately, the other ports think the same thing and they all overlook one crucial factor the threatening collapse in international trad- ing relations threatened by the international chaos monetary exchanges. Beneath the euphoria the hard facts on Liverpool are as follows: Bulk and dry cargo, exclud- ing oil, lower was last year than in 1957. Commodities that traditionally require a lot of manpower have declined the For most. example, food and drink imports slumped nave from 4 million in 1960 to 2.9 last year, fruit imports million from 0.2 million are down in 1960 to 0.149 million in 1971 and imports of cotton waste have halved over the last ten years. On the side trade export has fallen from 4 million tons to 3.9 in million last year and exports of fine goods down 40,000 tons are to 89,000. The amount of general cargo which is largely manhandled in fact has fallen from 9.7 million the tons seven years to last yearly total of 5,737, while bulks have remained static at around 4.8 million tons. From these statistics Dry pattern emerges. cargo, Workera Press, Monda excluding bulks, steeply declined. From 'this has of point view been nade worse by the growth of containerization in this secto Bulks have remained static but methods of loading and unloading have been modern- ized. Again this means less labour per ton. The employers speak gaily expanding about horizons of trade. But the figures tell different story and beneath the public relations chatter rumblings there the are of merger and war. Since 1964 the dockers and the Liverpool employers

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have been sparing over modern- ization. Containerization has To make this forced the issue. huge investment the get s, must employers smooth and continuous operations.

It is one thing to sit-out a strike with little capital and fixed costs, but quite another to watch equipment up to flm fall idle and a modern see berth empty of trade. The official opening of Sea- forth has already been delayed The emptyers of militances employers paid for with a promise to introduce a 35-hour week by September. Now the project is halted again The over same issue. big desperate; they know they must smash this resistance of lose money.

The Liverpool dockers are determined. equally Their fiercest resistance has been modernization. The and employers the Transport and General Workers' Union began talks as early as 1962. The trick was smuggle modernization through in principle in the guise of decasualization.

The real goal of the employers was reduce manning on gangs TO and get dockers to move any- where, anytime. Peter O'Hare, the T&GWU district described secretary, the first 'new deal' as one which would make every dockers' street 'sunshine street'. Despite this glowing reference, it crashed ignomin- in October 1964 iously when Cousins Frank was shouted down by angry portworkers in Liverpool stadium.

WORKSTUDY

The employers and the unions then set their sights on Devlin. would need a separate article to do justice to the long and important fight against Devlin on Merseyside.

But in short the employers drive was to get dockers away from paid piece rates towards a tonnage. flat rate payment system-and if possi- ble-—workstudy. The idea was to deprive the of any dock gangs indepen- dence For earnings. over example, on the pure tonnage, piecework dockers to a certain extent could decide when they had earned sufficient, then the pace of work could be dropped.

Another practice was the Two gangs would altern- welt. ate between cargo-handling and rest periods- this was a direct response to the casual system where work and earn- could fluctuate-this in inoc turn put incentive making work last. In addition it would clearly have disastrous been for employers to pay tonnage rate with containers A docker's earnings would then have reflected his true produc- tivity and would have been enormous! But the port bosses were only partially successful their Devlin bid. But the bosses failed-except on the container berths-to make any sub- stantial alteration to manning levels and any talk of mobility Reyibiliti is still nathema to Liverpool dockers The employers have got a shift system and a temporary agreement to man Seaforth, Workera Preas, Monday August 14, 1972 PAGE 7 they enrene v spOkesman pit it this Mayers One way: levies into scheme. course higher our and cannot scheme. admitted limited sumittes Devlin was a brought in shift work and ratien could be made, Buer practice Ideally the employers conception of getting -this true. never came dressed fine about ogether he ioint dockers and orm drivers stewards com. mittee were first to issue a call ste to trike are in ted Stewards a dozen. approximately 100 firms have signed a charter promising they refrain from e Liverpool committee. originally nationalization workers' conol demands in the current strike This wac London the wanted on continet id to concessions primarily be used as a lever to get the dockers to accept tan plans. amnlnvars more fierce bid to slash even labour force will begin. stewards still hold li their original press orwards te they out to the nation factor- the docker that right work characterized the struggle since Dev in

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday August 14, 1972

DEMAND FIGHT

FOR DECENT PAY

The executive board of National Union of the Tailors and Garment Workers' meets on August 21 to decide on whether to accept pay rises oftered by the em- ployers. The executive will hear re- ports from the divisions on the memoersnp s reacuon lo the offer of £2 for men and The minimum rates be increased by £1.60 a will week for 40 hours. The Clothing Manufacturers' Federation offer nowhere 1S near the demands for f5 for men and £6 for women which most branches are clamouring for.

MEETING

In Leeds, the heart of one of the biggest clothing indus- tries the country, workers angrily threw out the union's recommendation for accept- went on to call for ance hey national strike action at a mass meting last month This month's issue of the "The Garment union's journal, Worker', gives the distinct im- deal is all pression that the but signed and delivered.

editorial entitled In an •Highest the pay rise ever, general secretary, Jack Mac- gougan, says: recommended "The agree- which is by far and JUCILe away the largest amount ever negotiated in the industry a single payment, will if accep- • 197 payable on September ted, 18, 'The first offer of the em- reported ployers, as membership earlier, was £1.60 payable in two instalments in 1972 March and CLODe 1973. It will be seen that the patient negotiations extending over many hours considerably improved the position. The final outcome of nego- based on tiations compromise and there will be that the those consider WinO r offer is not enough. The execu- board in its deliberations live took note of the general level of settlements, apart from the

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Unemployment in almost all especially big seaside resorts, like and traditional ones Clacton in Essex, usually goes down in the summer. Clacton is no exception and as holiday-makers and day London and all trippers trom over Essex have poured in, many have lound work ın seasonal catering and a ele- tainment. But even when all this has been taken ınto account, sum- is still mer unemployment running at 4.9 per cent com- with east pared the south region's 2.3 per cent and 3.7 Essex as a whole. The situation is so serious that Harwich's Tory MP Julian Risdale is to ask for develop- ment area status for the town Next winter things can only get the peak year worse Last of the cold season 88 per cent of Clacton's workforce were looking for work. lay August 14, 1972 publicized much settlements on a national basis in recent months and was satisfied that in present circumstances the maximum had been reached.

in- offer represents The creases of a fraction over 10 per cent which does not even meet the cost-of-living rises which have occurred since the Tory government came to power. Ironically on another journal there appears an article which shows precisely why the union membership must reject the employers' measly offer.

It is an article based on a National Economic Develop- into the ment Committee clothing industry. The report states: 'In recent years there has been a steady decline in em- ployment in the UK clothing 1963 industry. Between 1969 employment fell by 9 per cent. At the same time output has been rising ... There is some evidence that in 1970 and 1971 the clothing industry achieved a more dramatic in- in productivity than crease other industries? And here we have the crux of the situation in clothing, as in other industries. Unemploy- ment is growing while the re- duced work force is made to step up production. And now the union leader- ship wants the members to accept what amounts to a wage-cut! The same NEDC report also states: 'Since the early 1960s the earnings of employees in clothing appear to have almost kept pace with increases out- side. But the industry is still characterized by a heavy in- cidence of low pay ..• Before writing editorials cal- ling on his members to accept paltry wage rises, Mr Mac- should read his own union journal and acquaint himself with the true economic position of his members. On the basis of the NEDC's findings and the determined militancy of his members, should take the Macgougan advice of his Leeds district- call a national strike. An American sportswear firm will close down its West of Ireland factory and move to Mexico or Italy, where, claims, workers' productivity is higher in relation to wages.

After accepting incentives to open up at Ballygar, Co.

Galway four months ago, Scurria International now says business is unprofitable the shipping £40,000 of and is equipment garment - making back to the United States where the company is based.

Tony Managing director Scurria said: "This couldn't go on. I was losing money hand fist and I had to close over I am down. absolutely disgusted with the production.'

Three hundred girls work at the plant and one 18-year-old machinist said: 'Remarks made about us being lazy are com- pletely untrue. We were doing our best to make a success of the factory but Mr Scurria treated us like schoolchildren.'

Clearly the girls work no less hard than anyone else. The hub of Scurria's problem is that pressure on profits is so intense that nothing short of slave labour will do. Battles between picketing dockers and Recent events suggest the Home Office has at last slipped the reins of police patrolling picket lines. Memories of Saltley power station have died hard, but the lessons have not been lost. With increasing frequency, whenever 'trouble' threatens, large police task forces are mobilized for what amounts to unarmed combat against pickets. The huge force at Elles- mere Port recently was a be- ginning. But the pattern has been repeated, culminating in the violent dispersal of kers and police. Top: al Ellesmare Port. Belon dockers and printers at Lon- don's Briant Colour Printings two weeks ago. At Montrose Harbour, Scot- land, at the weekend, 150 police were called in to deal with 400 dockers who were picketing Rix Lines Ltd in a bid to enlist the backing of workers for the national dock strike. There were 'scuffles' when police cleared a path through the picket to allow a scab truck driver to pass through.

One officer was trapped be- tween the pickets and the lorry and had to be taken to hospital with leg and back injuries. As pickets moved to halt the lorry, police piled in and ort balone: al Neap Mauso Wan five men were literally dragged away to waiting police vehicles and arrested. Only 24 hours earlier 15 engineers were arrested picket- ing the entrance to Ferguson's Brothers Shipyard, Port Glasgow. The arrests took place in much the same circumstances as those at Montrose Harbour.

When police attempted to escort a scab driver across picket lines, engineers lay down flat on the road beneath the truck's wheels. A strike over pay and hours began a month ago at Scott Lithgow's dry dock on the lower Clyde and now involves 1,000 engineering workers throughout the area.

'Dockers: The impact of indus- trial change' by David Wilson Fontana, 320pр, 60p. A national committee representing docks unions, port employers, and road-haulage firms warehousing companies is suggested as a possible solution to the dock jobs crisis in a new book pub- lished this week. committee, The suggests pondent of could issue general guidelines on the definition of dockers' work. Employers could nego- tiate on union interpretations or suggest their own. Wilson then advocates use of the 'release register' of the National Dock Labour Scheme, .

which allows a docker to give up his registration when taking a job outside the port while retaining the right to priority of selection during any future dock recruitment. Such a plan, he says, would allow the rigid detinition of dock work' 'slowly to be eroded. 'The docker would seek work without any important prejudice to his privileges and the declining band of men on the waterfront could look more readily to the new pastures where progress has directed them.' He goes on: 'Once British dockers begin to take up new jobs, the insecurity which has stultified the Devlin reforms will be removed and fresh attempts can be made to build on the sound foundations of modernization. 'Much needs to be done. Management must learn to manage better, the unions must come to terms with each other and with their shop stewards; port finances must be put on a better footing and the organ- ization of work, with the con- tinuing division between ship, quay and shed labour, must be critically examined.' 'Dockers: The impact of indus- trial change' is a detailed and carefully-researched book.

It sets out in a readable form much of the historical back- ground to the present dispute and can thus contribute to an understanding of the different forces operating within it.

There are dangerous inade- quacies, however. And its con- clusions are pure fantasy.

Stephen Johns has already explained in our series on the containerization, impact of which started on Wednesday, crisis on the that the jobs docks is an inevitable feature of the development of the transport industry under capitalism. The sharpness of the present stage of that crisis arises not simply from the rapidity of technological change, but from its concurrence with conditions of world trade liberal panaceas can alleviate the human result. Street Fleet docks, token become of Worker which lanenzanon.

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ports and basic committee century dency into conflict of conditions can move.' The contradiction Lord the jobs crisis. chairman of IntO had become government, the coyness. avoid tne they than just work. that the e jobs 11,000 dockers serious distant future. Stephen articles that reviacencul

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2,000, even expansions. : unable to reach an agreeme No slump. alleviate laceas can casualties which who is perhaps the 1 and well-informer writer the that saline ome a purveyor of alled by the conflict WOrKeT con- over wante mselves - through ort committee or the the

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ditional dock worl the outside that dockers r right to this share. throughout the onsistently separates the docks from and political hich underlie them, in exactly the same the Jones-Aldington Marx insisted over ('Capital' vol. contradiction of the of production ecisely in its ten- absolute an nt of the productiv ch continually come witn the specinc production tal moves, and alone rking out of this on the docks 1s, as Jack Jones and found, have bsolutely impossible agreed solution to con- saying: We all body's gone too fast iners; it's been too himself points unions and awav trom issue of job rights'. was no accidenta hose involved tried 1CSf because posed far more of secuon ould perform what day's Workers Press er lan Yeats explains than of more 15,000 London's come under reat in the not too Johns has already in the same series of the number of jobs Coltane lationally will be at estimate penelous allowing for n agreement with employers of These two sets of alone pose the dockers afford to let talist class continue the docks? With 900,000 is no. Wilson's talk abou going to new progress has directer plainly search a panace sows further sions. The book's dangers arise from support for the Devli ization scheme and it when dealing recent history of the and shop stewards' m vylison s attituae is best summed u following quote: "The report tour de force. It brilliant analysis was clothed in incisive terms, sparir its criticisms and en precisely-stated action. 'Nothing here of Whitehall fustian condemned so cast-offs, but meaning sions which are emin to ignore.' This admiration s into a cavalier, three missal of the six-wee strike against decasualization 'largely... a battle earnings'. This is far too si strike was part of : movement which for and file raised far wi than just money To dismiss a few lines and then deal just as briefly, with rately, dockers in both thing of a disservice It first fails to ex dockers were decasualization they liked the appall system, but rightly suspected th that went with Devli role officials, particular absurd and deceitful of no redundancy. Third and important in the pre tion, it virtually part enabling through go unofficial leaders around Jack Communist committee. all these vital for the struggle And Hao Sols over ier, three-page dis- le six-week Mersev Devlin-style in 1967 battle for higher The ar too simple. part of a national the rank which for ed far wider issues is Liverpool in just and then go on to but sepa- London is to do ports some- opposed because — not he appalling casual because they the "strings' vith Devlin. it glosses over the rull-ume union particularly their deceitful promises perhaps most n the present situa ignores the Devlin played the by and his Party-led liaison lessons are e struggle today. Workers Press, Monday August 14, 1972 PAGE 9 We can now reveal why the Mr Slynn went on: In a Tories are so desperate to see case like the present, where the council houses sold off to their constitutional authorities are tenants. And it has little.

in investrating, the a mattered common with the idea of a concern Attorney- General that such an investi- 'property-owning democracy' Environment Minister gation should be properly and Peter fully conducted.' Walker and others so often said Sir Peter spout about. was Westminster city council- anxious to ensure that the Tory police investigation as long as anyone can current or cares to remember, and not should not be impeded by any- noted for devotion thing said in the bankruptcy its to proceedings. working-class tenants - has offered 16 them The Official Receiver had just •a adjournment chance to buy their also made own homes. application in his own capacity and Mr Slynn said it was im- The houses, at Telford Ter- were built 18 years ago, possible to describe this inter- race, that of the and directly face the magnifi- vention as being cent architecture of Battersea Secretary for Trade and Industry, Mr John Davies.

power station. Rent and rates far short of £20 'The application was in are not no week as things go. sense esis that all further inquiries made to Last December the tenants this matter should be held were asked if they wanted to in behind buy. Last the letters doors. There week was no arrived informing suggestion the lucky that the public tenants that negotiations could examination should not be re- opened in due course.' begin at around €35,000 a house. Now 16 of the tenants have banded together and are seek- Said ing legal advice. Mrs Joanne Douglas: It looks much as if very they delayed eight months to take advantage of the spiral in house prices. That is not all, however, for the letter warned of a higher price in the near future.

sure you will appreci- ate that in the current market conditions, any figure quoted in this letter must be reviewed if there is a substantial lapse of time between the present date and the completion of agreement with you,' it any said. And for the last word, we Alderman David John Poulson give you of Cobbold, chairman the Mr Slynn, the Replying to housing committee: 'The price Mr Garside, said the recorder, doesn't strike out of me as Attorney-General's position this world,' he said. had perhaps not been made clear last week and he thought it right that the proceedings should record the Attorney- When the Poulson hearing re- General's position. opened this week Mr Gordon Mr Saffman, for Poulson, Slynn, for the Attorney- also entered a medical report General, was at pains to of Poulson's condition when he the explain that government reached hospital after collaps- not responsible for last was ing at the bankruptcy hearing week's application for an in- July 3. on definite adjournment of the Poulson had been found to be suffering from psychological He said Sir Peter Rawlinson shock which was treated with had been represented as inter- librium, *a very strong sedative vening for the government.

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apparently decided to have a 100,000 Coventry to grant increased earnings for Leyland showdown? einciency a engineering arcalen workers euphemism for acceptance of The stewards were aware striking today will be Leyland wanted to change MDW), but there would be no the 24 increases in piecework pay.

system at the fac- joining, for hours, paymenl tory and were willing to dis- 2,000 from Salut car makers after Marathon talks starting cuss its proposals, Mick Jaguar's Brown's Lane, Thursday said. But first they last Richards alternoon weekend. wanted settlement of their Radford, factory. continuing into the (The talks included represen- piecework Clauto Today Jaguar of the 3,000 men laid Any negotiations

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the surikers tatives on enter the eighth week of their off by the dispute.) place Wole Then ave o are higher against the background of the fight for piecework But attitudes are hardening, fight which has too, on the other side. new rates. callngsa Workers Press found when One of the pickets, Don brought the wrath of the Tory press down on their heads and visited the picket-line that the Harron, member of the Amal- gamated Union of Engineering which a local Tory MP tried struggle was increasingly being

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to use in his campaign against just for wages, Workers, experienced seen nOL Coventry's working rights when Security payments but for at Chrysler UK 'Other sections got a rise on complex and is strikers. certainly not enamoured with Leyland boss Lord Stokes is their April this not the why shouldn't we?' the system. determined grant year pieceworkers' demands He told Workers Press: 'Our pickets asked. De- cause he wants them to accept claim for this piecework rise

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far a changeover to the notorious Jaguar commenced as flat-rate, Measured-Day Work back as January this year, be- Mick Richards, the stewards' fore the firm even mentioned pay system. spokesman, explained: "The

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There is little doubt he has Tory 'This demand is the full backing of the toolroom workers, pay cen cal staff, draughtsmen and exhaust divorced from any MDW. We this. As assembly have all had rises of Coventry MP Maurice Edel- demand rise before we between £4.50 and Just will even talk or negotiate on told near-deserted £5. Ilal House of Commons last Tues- before we came out on strike a changeover. of con- foremen got £4. 'Other night, the policy the sections got a rise dav frontation Jaguar's flows 'Now these mostly without any increase in pro- al c of aren't the duction. people who subject Only car trom policy une of confrontation pursued by the the kind fluctuations assemblers have been refused.'

The who, present strike is not earnings we are and In Hones WIll Unions dispute of 1972 at can rely on the first generally. many cases, week. Brown's Lane. Stokes' reply in the local guaranteed 108 the following day vir- 'We think we are entitled The began with press vcal workers tually proved the point: sense Conster. •rocucuon-ime engine blocks having was quite prepared tions. But the has making company Lullivally Troisky's reply to critics of 'Where is Britain Going?' This collection of articles was penned by Trotsky in reply to various critics of his then recently-published Where is Britain Going?' They appeared in the Soviet press of the time and con- corollary and stitute a necessary sequel to that work. Trotsky here dissects the of all the arguments brands of opponents of Marxism: re- centrist, pacifist, formist, Fabian,

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Fear of union chiefs splitting off smaller ports

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major step towards a confrontation between workers and man- agement is expected this week at the shipbuilding yards of Vosper Thorney- crott Lta., Woolston, Southampton. Last Monday, Vosper's laid off 35 Transport and General Workers' Union ancillary workers and at the same time announced a further 360 lay- offs by the end of the week.

These included more ancillary workers and 290 craftsmen.

This follows the strike by 400 draughtsmen over a pay claim and the sacking of 19 ship- wrights for refusing to work with non-union members. Sixty-one boilermakers have been laid off because they would not accept a time-and-motion survey.

Despite these confrontations, the shipyard stewards have yet indicate how they intend to fighting back. No policy has so far emerged apart from an over- time ban and the refusal to co- Draughtsmen members of TASS outsid

HULL DOCKERS

the start fourth week of their strike ready to fight alone with Liverpool and London if necessary. Their fear, one could almost is that say their expectation, Jack Jones will get the delegates to call off the strike on a for- mula that ofiers no solution to the crisis they face. As one of the Hull delegates told me: 'Jones and O'Leary are hoping they can cool things off enough to get the majority back behind them. No one can tell me that those delegates from the small ports are not being got at.?

But after a week of battling in the quiet Trentside cornfields, the Hull dockers do not intend to go back until the 'cowboy' ports that are eating into the trade of Hull and Goole are firmly registered. But there is also the feeling that this strike is more decisive and important than any other since the war.

ARTHUR ATKINSON

a shop steward in the National Amalga- mated Stevedores' and Dockers' 'blue' union told me: •Tas danger facing the docker been there for a long time. It was there at the time of Devlin, which I opposed. The is the threat danger to the National Dock Labour Scheme.

This is right in the middle of this dispute. The results of Devlin were. a remendous cut back in the hrough labour force severance —a kind of slow withering away of the Scheme and a fall in man- ning scales, meaning far higher operate with non-union labour.

Vosper's has an order book worth £150m spread over the years. The biggest next seven single order is from the Brazilian for four Mk10 government frigates worth £100m. The rest of the orders include another Type 21 frigate and a glass-reinforced plastic hulled mine-hunter for the Ministry of Défence. To with the Brazilian cope order Vosper's is spending £1.25m two new building on covered berths and an extended fitting- out quay. Recently announced half- yearly profits showed a sub- stantial rise over last year, but this is mainly due to decreased interest charges. The company has also received progress pay- ments trom the Brazilian govern- ment, boosting the cash flow by more than flm, and cash from a sale and leaseback deal on two of their hovercrafts. The problem facing Vosper's, though, is of cash flow. The firm is hoping that when the Brazilian contract is really under way its payments will cover the costs of the next phase. But work is held up on the YOSPER iN

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The Devlin report bought two years of relative peace. There was the widespread myth that it was designed to help the dockers to security and steady high wages.

Instead the employers used the report to run down the labour force and in Hull develop the private ports and inland con- tainer depots. It is very difficult to work the same trick twice on the Hull dockers. This why the Jones- Aldington report is treated with derision or indifference.

After Devlin, the fine words and soothing sentiments are not enough. There is another important factor in the situation. To the Hull men the strike is not just a dispute in the traditional sense —one where the men stay out, get concessions and go back.

productivity. Now we are in a position where our livelihoods are at stake. We started the fight over this a few years ago by having series of unofficial strikes a against the development of 'in- land ports' here in Hull. At that time the union backed us, but it was basically a sop to get us to call it off. Now there is the Jones-Alding- ton report. There is only one thing that this committee can do to get us back and that is to register every port in the country. We are not afraid of com- Brazilian contracts because the covered berths are not yet com- pleted. Although well ahead of schedule, they are not expected to be finished until November.

Meanwhile work on the keel of of the first Mkl0 frigate, which was laid to qualify for progress payments, is being slowed up.

Prefabricated units the frigate are accumulating and continued is also production dependent on the new berths.

There is doubt that no Vosper's will want new and tough with agreements the unions when the new berths are operational. It is likely that they will press for three-shift working.

Therefore the present con- frontations have come at a con- venient time. Hundreds of men off pay during a work gap would help cash flow situation slightly and would create the right environment for Vosper's to force new agreements through.

Construction union members who work for Condors, the sub- contractors covered on berths, are likely to support industrial action taken either by the Vosper Thorneycroft men or the UCATT and T&GWU mem- bers on the site. actory in Southampton. A feeling of continuity from other major struggles against the government pervades the dockers meeting and the picket line.

The taunt to the scab drivers the private at wharves was: 'Killed any miners today'-an echo of a past, but not for- gotten struggle. The Hull dockers know they are part of a greater movement against the Tories and the em- ployers. The fact that the authorities are prepared to pay out €100,000 to protect some private wharves confirms the suspicion. So all the hatred of the Tory government felt by the working class finds expression in the dockers' battles. They become the front line and begin to realize they are the front line. TOMORROW an interview with Terry Geraghty, Hull port steward. petition from other registered ports, but we are not going to with slave-labour in compete these little wharves. The rates these places are sometimes 50p an hour, there are no rest periods, they work unprotected through kinds of all weather. They are on and off the dole- all the worst kind of features of the casual system. What are we supposed to do-accept all that? The scandal is that the T&GWU has been to these places getting men into the union with these conditions. All that union thinks of is membership. Workers Press, Mo

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What I would like to see the dock workers get is a guaran- teed wage from a levy on con- tainers like the dockers have in the United States. I have never been a fan of nationalization be- under this it cause system changes very little and often means big redundancies. It must be nationalization under workers' control. The same problems arise with modernization. Let no-one say the dockers are against modern- ization. The 'blue' union emerged on this dock from a demand by the men for better methods of handling grain. The employers Press, Monday August 14, 1972 PAGE 11

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don. 11.15 Young view. and the union officials said this was impossible-of course then it did not suit them. Now we are at the crossroads.

The greatest danger is that Jones and O'Leary will get a split. They will get the delazates' conference to reverse their vote and then leave the three bis puits out on their own. It will be an unofficial strike and in this situation the Tories the and the will use troops This world emergency powers. be helping the Tory governmer* but that's no surprise seeing thr way all the trades union leaders are acting now.

MINERS' LEADER WARNS OF JOBS CRISIS IN PITS

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday August 14, 1972 Home prices Rank and file force double in six years the pace for builders' IN TWO YEARS house prices per cent and have sorted ov they have doubled over the last six years. The fastest growth in prices strike UP TO 100,000 building The mood of the men was ex- has been in the south east and sp steward from the Harkin, conurbations, says The The workers are now on Building Societies Association abourers in its year-book 35- large Shephard's market the $30, out today. strike for sile. easy really, At the same time, however, hour week claim. And all- TOUnG easier than we thought. They the assers Lie out strike action is being wanted asking. just societies have also increased.

BY PHILIP WADE

Alan Moon, around per e to Preston called all over Britain. which new delegate to trades cent, total By the end of the week further the concil id: £13,000m for escalation December this the number on strike could really great-the year, had reached f14,000m by mid-1972. reach 500,000 as the move- they will be backed by Com. only are walk oUL, The munist Party, which, while pay- They just wanted the leadership.'

annual total of mortgage ment for a total, national national strike ing lip-service Loe end nast year strike, gathers pace. calls, does nothing about it.

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Southampton regional had doubled since -from 51,245m to nearly €2,750m. Tomorrow the bullding SCl The average size leaders meet in London to decide IN Preston, building workers sub-committee with the tack ot a Husage further have found a new strength and bringing sites out on strike 1961 claim. More than 20 sites have joined Smith, for an all-out they go well over 24,000. Lea Dy ucorre Union At beginning of this secretary of the stoppage. oI Con- Ine stoppage aren Halifax Abbey Allied In the last three days they have last three days and 2,000 men the and усаг called 22 more There strike. Two small factories held Technicians, they firmly out Madonai soreles Tassels alc which supply 750 workers with than those the bullding sites dIC wallow entire business a decade ago. Instead they will try and move strike in Preston now. frames are also out.

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British yards. porter of the plant-by-plant right to work workers Toroues. Heath's demand for more In the mines, the Tory did equally little There are two out the nationalized coal which must industry. for unem- the clusions miners' allacks L10 11101 C officially. from this: union incided with prepar- Ihere can be no alawn ation for the use of troops ation for the defeat miners' leaders • There can be no reform- any aureenerr ist solution of the fight for them by the settled f1 of their redundancies in an industry the dockers, and pay claim when jobs. Any solution which whose labour force has miners earlier this year.

they could WILl

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begin from been halved in the last ten ment-causing moves. has been workers arress dave Droupil •WI struggle The British Steel Corpor- proved right in its warning Tory government. years. TOrce Tine been told that its when

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The argument of Tories to resign from office Any closures through ation has is under these conditions exhaustion be dealt settled on February 18 that these leaders- -and of many must •a 36m •lans lol 1120L 1980 by work-sharing with capacity are their supporters Tar mone Leacherous Minister • Purely sectional struggles ambitious. with unemployment. Communist Party- -was that no loss of earnings by any Here is a vital lesson for stay longer would any group of workers Boardman 1 om suicidal. Tories be 28 all have lost them public sup- todayth dockers

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The leaders enouneers

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Wednesday ship- refused to join the miners As the must demand Thel Labon government told struggle with government left mobilize action must be elected which, im- owners nat office with the power to hit force the Tories to mediately £12m resign. coming preterning desoite LnCIl The NUM must would nationalize assistance Marathon oice STe 0 To 2001T oe con" a no-strike deat sulan struggle which miners, but the railwaymen mitted mont exending a mine policy, plant machinery and astribution not been brought and the dockers place whole in- with dustry under the control o to a satisfactory conclusion.

This week it is virtually ation mining the Liveebank. 1 OrIeS which and coal-distri- workers' not going restore Toe tack ones. une Jedder certain move

LOODS

system of investment the Transport and General onto the docks in a bid to bution without plan industres WIll •socialisi Workers' Union and a sup- break their struggle for the compensation, but of full lines. for ships built halls Coventry stops Pay rise could shatter CAV peace over union Act MANAGEMENT hopes of a not be paid out until they agree OVER 100,000 Coventry workers will strike today a new procedure agreement.

year-long peace at CAV Acton, against the £55,000 fine imposed on the Transport and West London, could be shat- The procedure would allow tered in three ways following General Workers' Union and the Industrial Relations conse doe Con trol over the election and func- post-holiday to

LIC

1CLulll tioning shop stewards.

CAV

Act. work this morning of the fac- stewards who have seen the pro- The strike was tory's 2,700 workers. Paintshop holiday nosa s say ev Virtual called

T&GWU

Shortly before the wind-up effective trade unionism conceded 6325 all- stewards in the city. management at Acton. increse been backed round bay Even if this hurdle is cleared, reply to the engineers' pay claim.

decision Confeder- committee

CAV

extra £1 was granted for nanasanen aces ation Shipbuilding skilled the tent at Acton among skilled timeworkers under Engineering Unions. whose earnings Semi-skilled pieceworkers are 14-01C ded. There will be a mass rally and

THREE HUNDRED

timeworkers are to get an extra paint-shop demonstration through Coventry 50р. British-Leyland's These sections do not qualify workers in than from Triumph Motors, The first source of trouble Austin-Morris car factory basie 3.25. They cold othe Apart Irom could be the fact that workers basic They could soon Longbridge, Birmingham. all the factories are expected to not yet know whether they today to decide whether to con- close the pushing to be at standstill. Public trans. will also halt. stall will get the immedi- week-old increases tinue strike over this opened up the WilS

DULL

timeworkers. piecework prices alery. Triumph

TALOUS

for CAn Lucas partn Birmingham, mann _centre Management of the Longbridge The most serious threat to the last week rejected the . workers Hicculls embodied complex's Trentham strike call, internal drivers still new the 12-month deal, however, who accepted similar increases succule offered a rate of wanted were have been told that they and in the fact that on the last day dissuaded bv shop stewards before the holiday lengthy

T&GWU

convenor Ladie MC- Garry. strike workers Was giy- At the same time it attempted shop stewards setter on the men's terms.

JAGUAR

ing them £3.36 on top of the Saturday rejected a new pay offer to bring in 12 workers trom an general increase. otner section or tne complex wad Ior coventry workers waen tney were already on a Measured-Day met management. The proposals This gives the lab workers, Work rate of fl an hour. will be voted at a mass meet- on whose struggle was Tought 29810s1 the factory amust up tea union leaders ing of 2.000 workers tomorrow.

minute, total instease of hell.

• See page 10 for fuller story.

Keadby talks steward, told Workers Press at Curtain up the weekend that the

TALKS

company are que lo lake the unregistered Neap had had to concede his members' today at and agree to pay out demanos mouse war on we rent. ned on 30 p.c. rise the f3.36 'as a right. Scunthorpe, between dockers,

CIRCULATION

lorry drivers and He said: "The management has the British Steel had a lesson here that even when workers Corporation's Anchor site.

WEST END theatre managers are unev nave me support or some Workers Anchor site getting ready put seat prices elements in the unions, when 01-622 7029 said they will black BSC have group of workers dig their heels as 30 materials carried bv lorries when vale in they can't be beaten.'

tering the wharf, where dockers troduced next April.

NEWS DESK

pickets attacked Wage demands by were actors and sa Caphan dies rect, London: by police at the end of last week.

would also hit prices musicialis 186a Claphams 4 bud As their site nears compenon.

said on uae chairman or west the 400 construction workers at End managers Would besterday. Profit 01-720 2000 Press Printed Plough the plant face hit Anchor redun- margins so prices Clapham Liciche would have to go up. cancies.

AUGUST FUND

£500.16- -NO

TIME TO

WASTE

WE ARE now almost halfway through August and still some distance from £1,750 target. We have not a day to waste. Let's change the posi- tlon at once. Dockers and bullding workers out on strike need the fullest support of the labour movement.

However much Jones and the union leaders try to reach a deal with the Tories, a head-on colli- sion cannot be avoided. Workers Press is needed to mobilize workers everywhere. The Tory government must be made to resign. Our Fund this month, therefore, is doubly important. Al the moment we have outstand- ing £1,249.84. Make sure this is raised by the end of the month.

Collect as much as you can. If raise extra amounts. possible, Post all these immediately to: Workers Press August Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

EAST LONDON: Thurs, August 17, 8 p.m. The crisis of capitalism and the docks struggle Festival Inn, Market Square, Chrisp St, E.14. Support the builders and dockers. Force the Tories to resign. WILLESDEN: Monday August 14,8 p.m. Trades and Labour Hall, High Road, NW 10. PRESTON: Wednesday August 16, 8 p.m. Railway and Com- mercial Hotel, Butler Street, near railway station. 'Support the dockers and building workers.' COVENTRY: Wednesday August 16, 7.30 p.m. Hertford Tavern (Junction St, adjoining The Butts). NORTH LONDON: Thursday August 17, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road, N4. LUTON: Thursday August 17, 8 p.m. St. John Ambulance Hall, Lea Road. Socialist Labour League

PUBLIC MEETINGS

End TUC talks with Heath!

Stop Jones-Aldington collaboration ! Victory to the dockers! Nationalize the docks and transport Industries ! Make the Tories resign !

LIVERPOOL

MONDAY AUGUST 14

7.30 p.m. Stork Hotel St John's Lane Speakers: LARRY CAVANAGH (Liverpool dock worker) ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Ellesmere Port shop steward) Both in a personal capacity Chairman: BILL HUNTER (SLL Central Committee)

MANCHESTER

FRIDAY AUGUST 18

7.30 p.m. Milton Hall Deansgate Speakers: LARRY CAVANAGH (Liverpool dock worker) ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Ellesmere Port shop steward) Both in a personal capacity