After dock strike confusion RACISTS PLAN TO SPIT WORKERS

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS EXTREME right groups in Britain have launched a nationa I campaign to whip up racial hatred and split the working class.

The first flashpoint will be Smithfield meat market London.

group calling itself the Smithfield Workers Against Immigration plans to march on the Home Office tomorrow in protest against the entry of British passport-holders from Uganda.

The Ugandan Asians are being expelled by the military regime of General Idi Amin, which is backed politically and financially by the Tory governYesterday members of the organization leafleted London docks in a bid to get dockers to join them.

The people behind this move organized similar campaign from Smithfield in 1968, when a small number of dockers joined the meat-porters and marched in favour of the anti-immigrant views of Tory MP Enoch Powell.

London docks shop stewards yesterday condemned the latest moves. 'We won't be there, said one Royal group shop steward. It is probably organized the National Front and they willl get no support from us?

The Smithfield demonstration is part of a national campaign by forces on the right to whip up racialist and anti-working chase propaganda over the Ugandan Asian issue.

It is designed to coincide the first arrivals within the next few weeks.

The main aim is to dupe workers into believing that unemployment caused by immigration and not the Tory government and the big monopolists.

A sharp increase in racialist agitation and extreme right literature is reported in many large industrial centres.

A leaflet distributed recently by members of Colin Jordan's British Movement at the Leeds labour exchange is a typical example.

'Blacks hired and whites fired seems to be the motto of the alien-loving scum who run the system, ' it reads.

'Unemployment can easily be handled: send the blacks home and give their jobs to white But the first major outbreak promises to be at Smithfield. The campaign there is organized by Danny Harmston and Ron Taylor, two meat porters.

Harmston led the 1968 proPowell march and has a history of right-wing connections.

In 1966 he stood as a candidate for the British Union Movement in Islington. The BUM is noted for its anti-trade union propaganda and is led by Sir Oswald Mosley, who organized the fascist and pro-Hitler forces in Britain in the 1930s.

After the 1968 march Harmston was reported in The Times' as saying: 'Call me a fascist if you like. If being a fascist means wanting to see England back on its feet, then I stand indicted.' Harmston, a keep-fit enthusiast and an ex-boxer was also a member of the National Socialist Movement, the predecessor of Jordan's British Movement.

At Smithfield yesterday Ron Taylor denied there were any political motives behind the march. Surrounded by a group of supporters, he claimed the campaign could snowball as other workers Joined in.

'I don't want any politics, he said. 'We are ordinary English workers. There is simply no room in this country for these people with a million on the dole,' he told me.

He denied that the Tory goverment was responsible for the record jobless figures and said he would not vote for any party since they were 'as bad as each other'.

He said: 'There is nothing racialist about this. We just want to say enough is enough.

In 1970 the vice-chairman of Tru-Aim (Trades Unions Against Immigration) was a man called Ron Taylor. He was listed as a Transport and General Workers' Union member from London.

Tru-Aim is a coalition of rightwing organizations which march in Oldham, In fact threatened to hold a 1,000-strong earlier this year. the demonstration attracted almost no support and was called off.

Support for the Smithfield move is difficult to estimate.

The porters held a mass meeting on Monday and voted for Taylor (In white overall) with supporters yesterday. the march. But a spokesman for the market superintendent said that only about 10 per cent of the 2,000 workers attended.

Almost all the porters I spoke to yesterday were against what the organizers call the 'Asian invasion' and the group of ten to 15 men around Taylor vehemently supported his views.

While I was at the market a middle-aged man in a sequined suit brought news that the "Teds' would be turning out for the march which starts at Smithfield at 1.30 pm.

The rank-and-file of the labour movement and trade unions must declare war on this right-wing propaganda.

Racialism feeds off demoralization in the working class.

The people who bear major responsibility for this are the union leaders who refuse lead a fight to bring down the Tory government that creates unemployment, bad and poverty.

Workers should resist this campaign to stop them from fighting the main enemy: the Tories and employers who close down the factories and the docks.

Those who march tomorrow will find themselves with mortal enemies of trade unionism--the extreme right-wing Tories in the Monday Club.