West India dockers attack

SHOP STEWARDS at London's West India dock yesterday joined stewards from the Royal group in condemning today's anti - immigrant march to the Home Office.

A steward told me that there was no steward who would back the march by a group calling itself the Smithfield Workers Against Immigration.

Leaflets have been given out urging dockers to demonstrate against the entry of Ugandan Asians expelled by the military regime of General Idi Amin.

On Tuesday, stewards from the Royal group attacked the march and said they would have nothing to do with it.

I've never felt racial at any time, John Lynch, West India steward said yesterday. 'The situation has always been that the working class are slaves in one way or another.

I am against any worker being opposed to another worker because he is coloured. The Tories are helping to stir up racial feelings because it's always been their policy to divide and conquer.

'A lot of Tories have no time for Edward Heath and would rather have Enoch Powell. But the Tories will never disunite because they want to keep the power.

'There's said to be basic truth that we're a small island and not everyone can be king of the castle. But some people in this country own thousands of acres of land which cannot be built on.

'Only one man told the truth about the Tory Party, even though he never always stayed to the "left" , and that was Aneurin Bevan. He said they were vermin, and he was right,' said Lynch.

He said he knew what the Tories were like from his family's experience.

They had originally come from Ireland during the potato famine in the 1840s and his grandfather had died in a workhouse.

'Who are these Tories? Men TATENEWS Office. egistered workers Press l 186a Clapham High Street. London, SW4 7UG.

Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), 180b Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG. like Lord Vestey mad e his money when his family was in the slave trade. He owns the Ulster Bank and builds his ships outside the country because he is such a patriot!

'This racial issue is being found for economic issues.

'Let me tell you this. If we get rid of all the coloured people there will still be one million unemployed because of the way the Tories are closing industries down.

'Men like Powell and Nabarro think that only one thing can split the working class and get the Tories popularity and that's the racial issue.

"They used to get the King and Queen to come down this way and take our minds of our empty stomachs. Now they use racialism, and papers like the "Daily Express", the filthiest one going.

'Look in Northern Ireland. William Craig, a Tory who supported the Industrial Relations Bill, and who is against the working class and strikes, has set up a private army.

Yet no one has invoked law against him because he good Tory. The Tories are greatest men of violence of added Lynch.

The Smithfield demonstration today comes at a time when extreme right-wing groups in • Britain have launched a national campaign to whip up racial hatred and split the working class.

It is aimed at fooling workers by saying immigration is the cause of unemployment and bad housing when it is the Tories who have closed factories, deliberately stepped up unemployement and attacked housing conditions and rents.

The Smithfield campaign is being led by two meat porters, Danny Harmston and Ron Taylor.

Harmston led the 1968 proPowell march. He once stood as a candidate for the British Union Movement, led by Sir Oswald Mosley who organized fascist and pro-Hitler forces in Britain in the 1930s.

Harmston was also a member of the National Socialist Movement, the predecessor of Colin Jordan's British Movement.

London dock stewards who have stood out against the march strike a blow for working class unity and follow the traditions of the dockers who in the 1930s battled it out on the streets with Mosley's Blackshirts when they tried to march through the East End of London.

WEATHER

AN ANTICYCLONE will remain slow-moving over western parts of the British Isles as a weak trough of low pressure moves South over the North Sea.

Northern parts of Scotland will have occasional drizzle while in South East Scotland and eastern parts of England it will be rather cloudy but dry. Elsewhere it will be fine after early mist or fog patches and sunny periods will develop in most places and although warm, there will be sea breezes near the coast keeping these areas rather cool.

Eastern parts of England and Scotland will also be rather cool while in northern Scotland temperatures will be near normal. Outlook for Friday and Saturday: Mainly dry with • sunny periods but cloudy with some rain in West and North Scotland. Rather cool near the east coast, otherwise temperatures near, or a little above normal. John Lynch at West India docks y