Workers Press no. 854

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1972 • No. 854 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

LEAP IN HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYMENT

NEW DANGERS IN

JOBLESS GROWTH

FIGURES to be released by the Department of Employment later this week will show yet another leap in hard-core unemployment- workers who have been without a job for six months to over a year.

the Researchers at much lower at 3,850. Light and the so-called have Department other words the size Citizens Defence Council launched an investigation of now organizing the of the long-term pool

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1972 • No. 854 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

LEAP IN HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYMENT

NEW DANGERS IN

JOBLESS GROWTH

FIGURES to be released by the Department of Employment later this week will show yet another leap in hard-core unemployment- workers who have been without a job for six months to over a year.

the Researchers at Light and the much lower at 3,850. Department have In other words the loe Citizens Defence Council noW organizing the launched an investigation pool of the

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north west, ample evi- into the growing pool of groWIng al c each month dence of this developmént.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuosday August

AROUND THE WORLD

THE CURRENT VISIT of C Leonid Brezhnev to inspect th harvest in Siberia and other re the USSR is the clearest pos deep crisis now gripping Soviet The extent of this crisis is clear.

aimed at a current target of 190 mill experts now predict that the figure year's figure of 181 million tons, p 160 million. The crisis centres on the European area of the country which is climatically much more suited to wheat growing than many of the far eastern regions.

It is because wheat production has fallen by over 15 per cent in the European area that greater efforts have once more been made to raise output in the virgin land areas which Brezhnev is now visit- ing. It was in these areas that Nikita Khrushchev embarked on his in- campaign famous New Lands which led to widespread soil ero- sion, affecting some 20 million hectares in Kazakhstan alone by the late 1960s. And it is clear that very few measures have since been taken to guard against wind and water erosion. Far from resolving the long- agricultural crisis, standing Virgin land Khrushchev's schemes made the situation worse.

Once there was no new land to acquire, increased production had to come from higher yields, to be ensured by greater fertilizer out- put. But resources were completely inadequate to raise the output of either machinery or chemicals and by 1963 state grain procure- ments were more than 15 million tons below what was réquired.

It is a measure of the current crisis that the bureaucracy has been once more forced back to the virgin lands in a desperate attempt to resolve its acute pro- blems. Even the official Soviet press has been forced to refer how- ever guardedly to the implica- tions of the present situation. A widespread campaign is now in progress against the waste and ISRAEL and Jordan may be sneaking a separate peace set- tlement behind the backs of the Palestinians and the other Arab states. Both parties have made public denials, but there are persistent reports from jerusalem of active discussions. Moshe Dayan has General dropped broad hints already negotiations with King about Hussein, who has said he is optimistic peace will be restored next year. peace, whatever the Such a terms, can be concluded only on ruins of Palestinian legitimate national people's demands. Various schemes for a settle- ment have included the forma- tion of a Jordanian administra- tion for the occupied West Bank, which would continue under Israeli occupation. This would effectively stifle any independent movement of the West Bank Palestinians, who ay August 29, 1972 T of Communist Party leader pect the progress of the grain ther remote eastern regions of est possible indication of the , Soviet agriculture. is clear. The present five-year plan : 190 million tons. But many western le figure will be seriously below last 1 tons, perhaps falling to as low as misuse of bread. 'It is necessary to respect every piece of bread' said 'Pravda' a recent edi- torial. Jail sentences have also been handed out in the Ukraine and elsewhere for the dumping of mouldy bread. Vechernaya Moskva' also recently asserted in Moscow over the last six months 114 tons of leftover bread had been delivered as feed for farm animals—'a bitter sight to those the bread who had to heave away. Brezhnev: Touring virgin lands And while the press has been hasty to assure the working class that the words 'no bread will never be heard again as they were in the war, there have been many hints that be a 'diffi- 1972 will cult agricultural year.' Citizens have been reminded: 'The bread that lies on your would find themselves caught biggest between their two enemies - Zionism and the Hashemite dynasty. Hussein's position has been strengthened by the marked turn to the right in the other Arab states-notably Egypt's expul- TRANSPORT workers one of th in Parma, Italy, stopped Sunday an was being work for two hours yes- in Rome terday for the funeral of murdered left-winger arrested with murd Mariano Lupo. Saturday. Italian police have Three arrested two have been fascists charged r stabbing Lupo (19) to death. He was a memo grievous br ber of the left-wing a friend o Lotta Continua organ- victim. ization. Lupo, Naples police arrested from Sicily A sovlet poster telling peoplo to attitude' tor from either Canada table unites all who take part in chases or its creation.' the US. Because of their sheer size, Despite the large-scale move- American wheat sales abroad are ment of tractors and other machi- nery from the west to the now forcing up domestic east, week, US bakers the harvest which is now being price. Last asked the Prices Board to sanc- gathered in is running into con- retail siderable difficulties. tion increases in bread arrange- prices. Under existing Estonia: Harvesting of barley, the Administration has ments, winter wheat and rye has been been subsidizing its Russian sales hit by bad weather which has bushel. by almost cents a flattened many crops. Such is its anxiety to build up Western Siberia: Party officials its gold stocks in preparation for are particularly worried by the its struggle against European situation here where again heavy capitalism. wind and have destroyed The grain sales also have many crops. crucial •Politixo significance Chita Oblast: Bad weather has policy part Nixon's of forced the postponement of the rapprochement with the Kremlin harvest for three weeks bureaucracy. They give Nixon a because of adverse weather. influence lever to the develop- ment of the Soviet economy.

It is in this situation that the Soviet bureaucracy has been But the Russian agricultural forced to turn to America for crisis reveals above all the deep- wheat supplies. Last July, during of the 'theory' of ening crisis Nixon's visit to Moscow, agree- socialism in one country.

ment was reached for the US to impossible It is to solve Russia with $750m-worth supply Russia's agricultural crisis in of wheat the next three over isolation from the world eco- novel feature of the ycals. Climatic and geological agreement was that much of the factors are such that output can payment was to be in gold.

only be increased within narrow But since July American sales limits and this, at the of cost have far exceeded even the high enormous waste and maldistribu- level agreed in Moscow. Current tion of resources. sales, at 400 million bushels this The crisis of Soviet agriculture year, are now running at $1,000m can only be solved the when a year. This is equivalent to one resources of the the rest of quarter of total American output.

world- -many of them far better It far exceeds in size any of suited to grain production-are the deals which Soviet leaders integrated with the USSR as part previously made for wheat pur- of a world socialist plan.

sion of the Soviet advisers and tities of Soviet military aid. the right-wing the The Democratic Popular Front coup in Sudan. for Liberation Palestine signs of There are also con- has accused 'a certain wing in siderable tensions among the rul- the resistance movement'-which circles in Syria, which until it did not name-of involvement ing now has maintained a 'left' stance in mediation attempts with Hus- and is still receiving large quan- sein. of the youths on outside cinema in The main fascist party, and Parma on Friday night. the other the Italian Social Move- being interrogated According to a police ment (MSI), claimed the Rome after being five reconstruction, five killers had recently and charged fascist youth had earlier been expelled from its murder there on drawn up at the cinema Parma branch. The mur- in cars for the attack. der 'a barbarous, other fascists The killing is was part of uncivilized act of hooli- been arrested and a wave of fascist violence causing with against the extreme left ganism'. in Italy. Continua rievous bodily harm to Lotta This attempt to evade blame friend of the murder recently exposed a mili- the will fool nobody familiar with fascist tary-style train- tile-layer ing camp in the Dolo- the brutal traditions of rom Sicily, was stabbed mite Alps. Italian fascism. OVER 300 staff employees on strike against the sack at Davy and United Engineer- ing, Sheffield, may return to • work tomorrow if their union representatives can win a three-month stay of execution on redundancy notices. The union, TASS (technical and supervisory section of the amalgamation), is engineers' advising men to accept a man- agement offer of to £1,700 redundancy compensation. The men struck last week after management had sent redundancy notices to 180 of the staff.

Among the strikers is 52-year- old Ron Lewis, a TASS member who has worked at Davy's for 26 years. He has refused the manage-.

ment's £1,700 'blood money'. Like many of the others, he is demand- ing immediate reinstatement.

In a statement to Workers Press, Ron Lewis said: 'In 1964 there was an all-round, 10 per cent reduction in the workforce at the factory. At the time the managing director stated in the local press that he "couldn't afford to worry about the 10 per cent at the expense of the other 90 per cent" 'The next lot of redundancies was about 12 months ago, when about 80 people from all sections were sacked and no positive move was made to protect the liveli- hoods of the redundant people at the time. The joint shop stew- ards' committee is dominated by the Communist Party. 'About three weeks ago the announcement was made that 180 staff would be made redundant.

should be mentioned and that the "shouldn't redundancies be acknowledged"! The crunch came on August 17.

Said Ron Lewis: 'We were cal- led individually into the office and confronted by two of the management. They informed us that there was no place for us in the reconstructed company.

"They are now concentrating on smaller mill plant and not on longer-term capital equipment. In other words we had gone back to the sort of size the factory was 26 years ago when I joined.

I put forward a motion last Friday demanding that our offi- cials instruct the district com- mittee of the Confederation of and Engineering Shipbuilding Unions to call all their members out on strike if one of our mem- bers is made forcibly redundant— or any other worker in Sheffield.

'The divisional organizer of TASS, while admitting that every- thing I said was politically right, claimed that this was not the time to take up the matter on a political basis. Due to this lack of leadership, my proposition was heavily defeated. I've never agreed with any redundancies "volun- whether tary" or forced. To agree with, and actually campaign for, voluntary redundancies is agree- ing with the whole principle of it-the very thing we are fighting.

'Many will have no prospects ever getting a job possibly of again—as in my own case. I'm 52.

And who wants to employ me at this age? 'Our present leaders will either have to fight on a principled poli- tical basis or resign and be re- placed with a leadership prepared to defend our basic rights.'

Asked at a recent mass meeting what would happen at the end of the proposed stay of execu- shop committee chairman ment will go ahead.'

CAN AFFORD

While dockers return to work after their bitter fight against the Tory government, the police and the Jones leadership of their own union, they might spare a thought for Sir John Donaldson. The president of the National Industrial Court Kennons spending the long legal vaca- tion—it lasts until October- down on his 40-foot ketch. Heath Like he keen yachtsman and he will be idling the eight to ten away next weeks on the south coast.

He can afford such an idyllic holiday on his salary. When he took the job eight months ago nis wage was t14,00V. Tories But since then the have increased it to £15,750- about f35 a of all week. Building workers all over the country are at present out in massive numbers trying to get just £30 for a week while Donaldson gets a £35 increase of Heath's pen. 'at a stroke' But then the Tories always look after their kind. Donaldson has a long asso- Tory ciation with the Party. It began when he was at Char- terhouse, exclusive public an during and continued his university studies at Cam- bridge. In 1938 the president of the Federation of University Con- servative and Unionists' Asso- ciation was Edward Heath. In 1940, two years later, it was an ambitious young Tory student, John Donaldson. After the war he went into local government politics and won a the Croydon seat on Borough Council as a Cool- date of the Upper Norwood Electors' Association. Although the association claimed to be 'non-political' no was surprised when Donaldson took the whip of the madonut Tory. which he lett and-out When he left the council and threw himself into his legal career Donaldson became a prominent member ol the Inns of Court Conservative and Unionist Association.

It is this body which is res- ponsible for giving birth to much of the Tories' most re pressive legislation. Asked about Donaldson's fellow member the legal profession said: 'John is man who feels would He of destiny. sense like to mould society! After six months as head of Tory court, he has shown the trade unionists just how moulded. And wants things they won't have it!

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DEVALUATION:

ONE CASE FROM 1967

The decision to devalue the pound last month accelerated the slide towards total a collapse of world trade. No one now has any confidence in any of the world cur- rencies. For merchants and traders, devaluation poses the possible loss of huge sums of money, the question arises Decade of the parties to which international commodity trans- action shall bear the loss aris- ing out of devaluation. This will depend largely upon the currency in which at payment ine wnen came due, the purchase price be measured. was to The previous devaluation by the thovember 1967 verem tra Wilson in threw traders into confusion and finally cost them millions of pounds. was one in- A specific case and volving a cocoa company a Nigerian company over the interpretation of 14 contracts for the sale of Nigerian cocoa.

All the contracts were open at the time of the devaluation.

Both companies agreed that at the material time the mode of discharge permitted payment 1967 Before the sterling. In devaluation the Nigerian pound and the pound sterling were exactly equal in value. After devaluation, the pound sterling was worth between 14 and 15 per cent less than the pound. Nigerian The buyers paid over the obtain money sterling to delivery of the cocoa. But they

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ress, Tuesday August 29, 1972 PAGE 3 Wilson paid under protest and soon Wilson began an action against the Nigerian company. They sought the return of a sum of money equivalent to the difference in sterling be- tween the purchase price measured in Nigerian pounds and the same price measured in the same number of pounds sterling. It was argued by the buyers that documents showed that an agreement had been made to make payment in pounds against it- sterling measured self and not Nigerian pounds.

The sellers denied this. Eventually the case reached the Court of Appeal, where the sellers' case was upheld. The House of Lords agreed with this decision. Therefore the buyers had to hand over enough pound ster- ling to make up the stipulated pounds. number of Nigerian The devaluation bill had landed at the feet of the buyers. Britain's entry. favourite hotel of The British MPs in Brussels is the Metropole where you can pick up a tasteful room for just under £10 a night. The restaurant which they frequent is the Comme Chez Soi-Heath is a regular cus- tomer-where the menu is as rich as the bill. A meal might be typical pâté de la maison (75p), steak poivre (£1.50), little au spinach (20p), sauté potato (20p), green salad (30p) with a touch of local wine (£1.50).

With coffee you might like a brandy (60p). An excellent little meal for only £5.05. If you want to stay for the floor show and a magnum of champagne it will cost you an extra £14. A couple of glasses later the bill can go nearer £30.

But on Heath's salary—he get just over £20,000—this is just a flutter.

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PAGE 4 Workers Pross, Tuesday August The British army in Ulster is now using a sophisticated range of electronic sensors devel- oped by the United States in the Vietnam war. Although the devices have been employea Ior 1o months, their use was not admitted until the army invaded the no- go areas on July 31. In Vietnam the surveillance devices have been dropped all over the Ho Chi Minh trails and they have been accom- panied by anti-personnel mines.

• has not Although the army yet reached this stage in North- ern Ireland, the electronic sensors have been used to trap a number of IRA men around the border area. The longest-used surveillance equipment is the ZB 289 ground surveillance radar—a man pack' designed for stand- ard infantry patrol use. The 'New Scientist' has just revealed that they were intro- duced early last year. It can even discriminate between humans and farm animals. The radars are now set up in the 3,000-yard stretch of countryside between Donegal and the Creggan Heights. The Provisional IRA once made great use of this area for many bring supplies in. months to It is claimed by the army that the use of the ZB 289 sets has considerably disrupted ly August 29, 1972 The ZB 298 ground surveillance radar the supplies of explosives, forc- ing the IRA to turn to the use of highly toxic explosive materials which are unsafe to handle. Two other ground sensor systems, Tobias and Iris, are licence-built modifications of US designs. Recently intro- duced, they are used in con- with ground surveil- junction lance radar. Tobias is a seismic intruder alarm system. It is small and portable and can be used in all weathers. Sensors are buried beneath the ground-up to 20 on each channel-and are vir- tually undetectable. A walking man can be detec- ted 50 metres from the sensor, the army claims. The system gives visual indication of move- ment on each channel on a dis- play unit. An aura! pick-up, through headsets, enables the Although the public ex- amination of Yorkshire architect John Poulson does not resume until case are continuing. Action is being taken by the creditors' solicitor to recover the many thousands of pounds worth of gifts-furs, jewellery, holiday cruises-which Poul- son lavished on MPs, civil servants and local dignatories.

The lawyers are invoking Section 42 of the Bankruptcy Act to try to recover money from these favours. Already the first summons served on George has been Pottinger, a Permanent Under- Secretary at the Scottish Office was suspended on who the orders of the Prime Minister.

Pottinger is still on full pay.

The summons claims return of £21,400 which is the sum Poulson allegedly gave to Pottinger because he was 'an old friend'. Pottinger has also been served with a court order pre- venting him from selling. his luxury home overlooking Muir- field Golf Course, near Edin- burgh. ice radar now used in Ulster operator to recognize the nature of the movement. Iris (infrared intruder sys- tem) is an electronic trip-wire effective over distances of up to 200 metres between its two component parts, a beam trans- mitter and a sensor. Interruption of beam the causes an alarm to be triggered at a remote monitoring unit and the beam itself is said to be virtually undetectable with- out interrupting it and turning on the alarm. All three devices are manu- by Marconi-Elliott factured Avionic Systems Ltd, a GEC- Marconi electronics company. Their use by the army in Ulster is one more sign that the capitalist state machine is geting tooled up to take on the working class here when moves to challenge the power of the Tory government.

RECOVER THE GIFTS

It is thought that similar summonses on • Will oe served prominent figures men- other tioned in the case. Lawyers are possible considering the recovery of the £22,000 paid to Genée Adeline Theatre Trust, East Grinstead, at the request of former Home Secre Reginald Maudling. tary of Maudling, an ex-director the Poulson group, resigned as Deputy Prime Minister when it was announced that Scotland Left: George Pottinger on the first summons. Above: John Poulson (left) and Maudling.

LEYLAND

ON THE

MOVE INTO

EUROPE

The whole tendency of the British Leyland Cor- Motor poration 1972 has been one of trying to raise cash to meet debts and finance new operations. Last September, BLMC had current debts suppliers and others of £239m. It had also borrowed to the tune of £88m from the banks, mainly Barclays.

BLMC

aso owed another £32m in short-term The burden interest was massive, running at about £17.5m a year. The banks were worried about their money and BLMC had short-term liquidity problems. In this situation Lord Stokes decided on a policy of selling factories and assets

CLO

with a view to financing Casil. operations inside the Common Market. sale, of course, such involves the Thornycroft heavy transmission subsidiary Basingstoke to the American- owned Eaton Corporation. The 50-acre site which Ull the factory stands has been sold English and to Conti- nental Property company. The whole deal is planned to net BLMC £5m. It was not that Thornycroft was unprofitable. In the three years to 1971, it paid £554,000 in dividends to BLMC, and its sales have risen by £2.7m-an increase of 48 per cent. fact. it profitable was made it possible for BLMC to ahead with aton. with such a deal Yard's Fraud Squad was going to probe the bankrupt com- panies. He says he did not accept a salary from his chairmanship of Polsons international company; instead he had a sum of money paid to his wife's favourite charity, the Adeline Genée Trust. There are more than 70 cre- ditors in the case, the largest being Inland Revenue the which is owed almost £200,000.

• golf course. He has already had his ulson (left) and Maudling.

Lord Stokes Eaton At the same time, sack about 600 plan to workers when they take over from October 1. In the last three years almost 30,000 BLMC workers have lost their jobs through closures and mergers of this kind. This year's funding opera- tions by BLMC began in Feb- en ruary when they raised £50m from existing shareholders by selling them new BLMC shares.

In the same month they sold Maudslay the Motors to American-owned North Ameri- can Rockwell corporation for £4.5m. By May it was clear what BLMC, headed by Lord Stokes, were up to. For the group acquired Innocenti of Milan in Italy. They will assemble Minis and 1300s there. The complete purchase cost £5m.

A RIGHT-WING HERO

• • . ‹ '• Left: Robert Welch, founder of the John Captain John Birch was American Baptist an minister turned intelli- gence officer who was killed in China by com- munist troops just ten days after the Japanese surrender of 1945. He has become the Horst Wessel of the American right.

Robert Welch, sweet a manulacturer, wrote a book in 1945 called The Life of Tohn Birch' which described the dead officer as the first casualty of World War Three, the war against communism. In 1958 Welch founded the John Birch Society and has been its leader ever since.

The Society is perhaps the most influential far-right orga- nization in America. It is espe- cially prominent in Alabama George Wallace's governor American Independence Party and the party's two presiden- tial candidates are both Birch- ites. Several state governors have given backing to the Society, proclaiming John Birch Day on captain's birthday. the dead Since the Society first came into public view in 1961, there has been a certain amount of speculation about who he really was and how he met his death.

but the government refused to publish an official version.

Welch believes that the United States is at least 60 to 80 per cent under communist control. According to him, pre- sident Eisenhower was a 'dedi- cated, conscious agent of the communist conspiracy. Not surprisingly he has woven into his conspiracy theory, the charge that the facts of Birch's death were i the John Birch Society. Top right: Wallace. A deliberately suppressed. Welch's view of Birch's death runs something like this: 'With his death and in his death the battle lines were drawn in a struggle from which either communism or Christian- style civilization must emerge with one completely triumph- ant and the other completely destroyed. 'Partly for these reasons, but even because John Birch, all his short but outstanding career, so typified America, we have named our organization in his memory? The US Army records on Birch's demise have been secret for the past 27 years and were only released as a result of a liberal campaign for 'free- dom of information' They make it clear that Birch did indeed provoke a group of Chinese Red Army soldiers into killing him and wounding his Chinese adju- tant, a . It Tung, by being demanding, threatening and arrogant. They give considerable detail of Birch's mission at the time he was killed. As summarized by Wesley McCune in the 'Washington Post', the documents show Birch as an archetypal, imperi- alist. Even the American autho- rities whose comments form part of the file conclude that the Chinese gave him what he deserved. Nine days after Japan's sur- render, Capt Birch was assigned to lead a small group of US, Chinese and Korean personnel to Suchow, in the interior of China, to collect Japanese files Nallace. Above : US advisers' Instructing Nation and check the airport for the Office of Strategic Services.

Although the war was sup- posedly over, this territory was occupied by Japanese and their puppets, and there was still hostility. Nationalist forces under Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek had been fighting the Japanese, as had Communist Chinese forces under Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai. Gen Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of US forces in China, was also chief of staff to Gen Chiang, and the United States had an observer group at Communist headquarters in Yenan. The two Chinese forces were not co-operating but, never- theless, both were supposed to know the location of American missions. In this case they did because the not area was occupied by the Japanese.

The Birch group found the Japanese co-operative on the first day of the mission, but was warned of danger if it pro- ceeded into the Communist area. Despite the warning, Birch led his group forward, and they encountered some Com- munist troops. fluent in Birch, who was Chinese, was allowed to pass, but according to the records Lt Tung noticed that Birch's attitude was a little severe'.

He told Birch he thought his conduct was 'dangerous,' but the captain replied: 'Never mind. I want to see how the Communists treat Americans.

I don't mind if they kill me, for America will then stop • the Communist with movement atomic bombs.' Nevertheless, Birch let Tung do the talking to the next two groups, and there were no inci- dents. Workers Press, Tu ng Nationalist troops in China in 1945 At Hwang Kao railroad sta- tion that afternoon the Chinese were more belligerent. Tung reported that fact to Birch, who reacted by taking a hands-on- hip stance and telling one of the Chinese: 'Well! So you want to disarm us. 'At present the Americans have liberated the whole world.

and you want to stop us and disarm us. Are you bandits?'

By this time the Birch party was surrounded by 60 to 70 armed Chinese. After some delay, they told the party it could proceed, but Birch refused to be satisfied until taken to the commanding officer. When a Communist soldier started to lead them back where they had just been, Birch grab- bed him at the back of the collar and said: "After all, what are you people? 'If I say bandits, you don't have the appearance of band- its. You are worse than band- its.' A short distance further, the leader of about 20 armed Com- munists ordered his men to load their guns and disarm Birch. Tung tried to intervene again, but was shot. He lost conscious- ness after hearing another shot and hearing Birch say he was hit in the leg and could not walk. A third shot apparently killed Birch, and he was bayoneted as well. Both men were left for dead, but Tung was rescued and returned to an American base, where he was interrogated at Press, Tuesday August 29, 1972 PAGE 5 length. He lost an eye and a leg. The others in the Birch group were detained nearly two months. They reported later than they were treated fairly well.

Three of the Americans made out a joint report which sub- stantiated Tung's, especially as to Birch's attitude and the warnings he had been given.

Birch's body was recovered from a shallow grave, and atter a Catholic service was buried with military honours on a hill- side near Suchow. A ten-page report on the in- cident,. submitted to Gen Wedemeyer by the judge- advocate for the theatre and dated November 13, 1945, relied substantially on the eye- witness account by Tung. It concluded that 'although Capt Birch's conduct immedia- tely prior to his death indi- cated a lack of good judgement and failure to take proper pre- cautions in a dangerous situa- tion, nevertheless the actions taken by the Chinese Commun- ist army personnel fell short of according the rights and privi- leges due even to enemy prison- ers of war and constituted mur- der. It added: 'The shooting was done maliciously ... the kil- ling was completely without justification.' With that conclusion, how- ever, was the following state- ment: been announced to the Com- munists, Nationalists or the Yenan Observer Group ... and because the Communists were still in battle action, it was entirely proper for them to hold Birch and Tung until satis- fied that they were friendly groups. Further, in view of Birch's attitude and actions, the Com- munists were to a degree pro- perly resentiul at being termed "bandits" and were not in- clined to be immediately help- ful.' The report also said: 'From Lt Tung's testimony, it seems clear that Birch was in no mood to treat with the Com- munists and that his actions toward them were belligerent and contemptuous.' Wedemeyer wrote on August 31 to Mao Tse-tung about the incident, expressing gratitude for past co-operation and ask- ing for a prompt investigation and report. A reply from Yenan asserted that Birch and Tung had approached from the enemy's direction, had cursed the Com- munists who challenged them, and were shot in self-defence.

About ten years later, Wede- meyer wrote an article for Robert Welch's new journal, 'One Man's Opinion', and soon was listed on its editorial advi- sory committee. In 1958 Welch secretly organized the John Birch Society and changed the name of his magazine to 'American Opinion'. Wedemeyer remained as an adviser through the October issue of 1961, several months after the rightist organization became public. But a few weeks later he told 'Newsweek' magazine that he had left Welch. I knew John Birch as a cap- tain in China,' he said. 'He provoked the attack on himself; he was arrogant. I warned Welch not to make a hero of Birch. 'That's why I quit... I think Welch is a dedicated, fine Ame- rican, but he lacks good judge- ment.' Ironically the military records which were finally released were held up a few additional days so that their disclosure could not cause embarrassment dur- ing President Nixon's trip to China.

388, Tuesday August 29, 1972 workers Press. Tuescav Aloust 29. 1:77 PAGE SELL-OUT? It's a case for the BRISTOL

FLYING. PICKET

PICKETING!

-DEFEND YOUR

BASIC RIGHTS

son has a much greater chance of being done Ever since the Heath government came to to death by someone wearing a state uni- power in Tune 1970 it has directed a series form than by any demonstrator or striker' of attacks against the right to picket.

The issue picketing has recently Its Industrial Relations Act has a section become the centre of legal actions in the which deals directly with the rights of work- National Industrial Relations Court.

ers to call out their brothers in other indus- Was it 'legal' for dockers to picket con- tries in support of their struggle. In Tory tainer bases? In the event the court and the terminology such solidarity action can be 'an employers ducked the picketing unfair industrial practice' punishable in the question and imposed orders on the men for "black- industrial court. This section of the legisla- tion is regarded by many Tories as too tame- ing. Starting in Workers Press tomorrow, fisted and they are demanding more speci- Bernard Franks, our specialist writer, will fic laws to outlaw pickets.

important series on the The cries for such legal powers reached be presenting an laws of picketing. Many trade unionists will two climaxes this year—in the miners' strike remember that it was Bernard Franks who recently in the dockers' strike.

and more wrote a definitive work against Measured- Remember the crescendo of protests after Day Work, which has since been reprinted Midlands engineers took the day off to rein- several times. pickets outside Saltley coke force miners' This is an exhaustively researched series.

and the huge battalion depot, Birmingham, For miners, dockers, engineers, Post Office of police assembled there had to march workers, dustmen—in fact for every section away? of the trade union movement, which will Predictably the liberals or 'The Guardian' joined the clamour against 'violence' and 'in- inevitably be thrown into combat with this hated government-this series makes indis.

timidation' on the picket-line without men- pensable reading. tioning that the violence and intimidation In many senses the picket line is the front the state and its police force.

comac from line of political struggle today.

Workers Answering these wild distortions by the should know their rights and how they were capitalist press Dr Raymond Challinor said they can be better equipped to won so 'The Guardian': defend them. 'As an historian I have been very in- Writing very theme in 'Where on this terested in vour editorial campaign against is Britain Going?' Trotsky said: working-class violence. During the past 200 countries the police defend the right of the years it is possible to cite countless other strikebreakers to injure and kill the striker, examples of newspapers expressing the same as is well known, the law of the viewnoint. sanctity of human life is not extended.'

'The principal users of physical force in • Order special copies so you won't miss society have never been the workers but the striking miners this vital series of articles, starting page 4 and the police. impossible escape the conclusion that the average per- tomorrow.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday August 29, 1872 abortive The Bolivian revolution of August- September 1971 which brought the CIA-sponsored regime of Col Banzer to power has had a consider- able impact on the Trotskyist movement.

Not only did these events prove the complete bankruptcy of the revisionist forces of the Unified Secretariat in Latin America, but they also revealed the theoretical degeneration and blatant political opportunism of the Lora-Lambert tendency within the International Committee of the Fourth Inter- national (ICFI). These grave events gave a vital fillip to a discussion the philosophical and on political roots of the opportunism of the POR (Revolutionary Workers' Party of Bolivia) and its subsequent betrayal of the Bolivian proletariat.

No development of Trotskyism we believe is possible without an understanding and assimilation of the lessons of the revolution and counter- revolution in Bolivia 1970. In the interests of such a discussion statement on the POR. It has been submitted for publication by the Greek section of the ICFI. Bolivlan miners ( With its document "The The abstract truth of the necessity for the struggle for Bolivian Revolution and dialectical materialism is trans- the Deviations of the formed into its opposite when

POR'

off (published in it remains cut from the concrete material reality which Workers Press from June it reflects. 29 to July 5, 1972) the For us, an enmity towards 'Workers' Vanguard' of theory is inseparable from a rejection of internationalism.

Greece wanted to present The disdain of the

PCR

to the ICFI its positions leadership towards the struggle for theory is inseparably tied on the latest events in to the disinterest it has always Bolivia and on their shown towards the building of reflection within the the Fourth International, its Fourth International. persistent refusal to base revo- lutionary work in Bolivia on We however, must, see the foundations of inter- clearly that this document is national revolutionary perspec- something more than a simple tives. presentation of the Bolivian The struggle for the develop- problem or a simple political ment of the science and phila- placement in regard to it: it is of revolutionary Marx- sophy at the same time the partial ism be undertaken cannot result and manifestation of a fruitfully in a vacuum, nor in whole of a certain approach, the solitary studies of isolated political methodology, not at learned scholars, nor the in all new, as much within the local office of some national Greek as in the world workers' suffering from the party movement. characteristic political myopia Marxist criticism must not of the leading group gathered confine itself to a criticism of around Lora, far as inter- as conclusions, but advance to an national political developments understanding of the way in and internationalist responsi- which these conclusions were bilities are concerned. sharpen the reached, to Marxism is always developed method of its criticism by through only permanent making a criticism of the struggle against its opposite, method which was followed.

of the rejection Marxism every kind of revisionism struggle which does not unfold Deviations of the POR in the field of academic sword- The 'Workers' Vanguard' but on the battleground play, criticism of the POR does not of class conflicts, for the build- ing of seem to have set out from this revolutionary parties working which will lead the point. In the introduction to the class to power and mankind to document, find, the first truly human civiliza- we as methodological 'explanation' of tion. the deviations of the POR, its And all those who take their abandoning '... of the struggle weapons for present-day con- for an understanding of dialec- flicts from the arsenal of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, are tical materialism as a theory well aware that 'in the present of knowledge', ...its prag- adaptation epoch, an international epoch, matist circum- stances and its negligence and a national revolutionary party disdain of Marxist theory'. This can be built only as a part of is all the document has to say.

an international party. (L. D.

Afterwards it returns to the Trotsky, 'Centrism and the Fourth International'.) empirical events. 'Workers' Van- Does the Only by starting from an guard' believe that with the international strategy and an ceremonial of international programme, recitation principle which credo on the basic are organizationally of the ICFI on revolutionary expressed within the inter- the whole subject of nati socialism of a world party of socialist the revolution, dialectical revolutionaries in each country materialism IS exhausted? Without showing see in a scientific light their the principal cause of this anti- national peculiarities and con- theoretical stand? Or, to look cretize, under local conditions, at the question from its other the tactics and strategy of the side, does the 'Workers' Van- smashing of the bourgeois guard' believe that an essen- state. tial theoretical development of Marxist theory was developed the POR would have been pos- within this inter- sible, had taken the nationalist framework, it up within for the world struggle for theory, but carried the struggle it the stifling party, the International, against out within localized framework where liquidationist trend, every Lora's leadership had confined against every attack of bour- (and still does) the Bolivian geois ideology from without or Trotskyist movement? from within. • miners during street fighti Guillermo Lora of the Between the Marx and Engels | Bukunin anarchists of the First Interna through the fight of Trotsky reformists traitor Internati Second against petty-bourg for the building of munist Internationa the struggle national Left Oppr Trotsky against into a Stalinist bure building struggle the tionist attempts thread runs withou The the proletariat tolerate breaks. Often, in times and defeats, guard remains conc small minority gro waiting for Save ich the tionary it to the head of guarding all and practical experi movement workers found embodied in This does that the Marxist is t into a museum guar To the contrary, International national Committee to surpass storms and Stalinist to defeat all attempts at adaptin national to tionary defeatism al armed on the threst ney revolutionar because for three all fronts of the clas defended Marxism genuine way: by de further. ading grou reet fighting in 1970 ora of the POR struggle of Engels against the narchists at the time st International: and e fight of Lenin and the sociai- of the nteratonal and tty-bourgeois leftism Com- or the ternational; between the Inter- and degeneration inist bureaucracy for of the Fourth International against the liquida- of Pabloite the red same without a break. rldwide struggle. of does not of retreats the Marxist van- But it current, next revolu- will bring ve which head of the masses the theoretical cal experience of the which is novement odied in Marxism. not at all mean arxist is transformed eum guard. contrary, the Fourth and the Inter- ommittee were able the imperialist Stalinist brutalities, the revisionist t adapting the Inter- counter-revolu- eatism and to arrive the threshold of this olutionary epoch, decades, in the only ay: by developing it in this whole process of the defence and development of Marxism, within the struggle for overcoming the world crisis of revolutionary leadership and the building of the Inter- national? Only within this concrete framework can the question of abandonment of the the struggle for theory by the leaders of the POR be posed these internationalist About responsibilities not taken up by the POR, about the nega- tive international role which it the Workers' played, Van- guard' (WV) says nothing in its document. And as we shall see, is this not an accidental omission. Lora's leadership, at the time of the big split in the Fourth International in 1953, maintained a completely Pab- loite stand with regard to the nationalist MNR government which finally prostituted the Bolivian revolution of 1952.

On the Latin American level, behind movision his wienest revisionist policies, against the ICFI, and bears full responsibility for the liquida- tion and disfiguration suffered by the Latin American Trot- skyist movement at the hands of Pablo, Posadas, Mandel and Maitan. He came into conflict with the Pabloite Secretariat, pro- ceeding clearly from local criteria and aspirations, while on the other hand he refused repeatedly to take up the struggle of the ICFI for Trot- skyism in Latin America. When he reapproached the ICFI he again took as his starting point the problems which the Pabloite faction of Gonzalez Moscoso created for him. He always was and is in opposition to any attempt whatsoever to base revolu- tionary activity on internation- alist foundations. This shortsighted localized view and anti-internationalism are at the root of the oppor- tunist adaptation of the POR to bourgeois nationalism, the horizon of consciousness of the local national bourgeoisie.

So we see that in the final analysis, without revolutionary theory (and development of theory) not only can there be revolutionary practice, no there can only be practice (or inaction) adapted to the limits of bourgeois society. The POR did not act as a revolutionary leadership in the latest revolutionary situation in Bolivia because it lacked the theoretical weapons which are acquired only within the theo- retical and practical struggle of the International, only in tie arena where the working class, international entity, as an struggles against the world- wide system of oppression.

This connection between the anti-theoretical and anti- internationalist stand of Lora's group, between the struggle for theory on a national and inter- national level and the revolu- tionary practice of the Inter- national and its sections, does not seem to have been noticed by the WV. The crisis of capitalism This weakness in grasping the dialectic between the inter- national and the national is also evident in the main docu- which lacks the first ment, distinctive characteristic of a Marxist document: the correct historical dimension. In the lengthy diatribe on counter - revolutionary the bourgeois nature of the Torres dictatorship, this regime is nowhere placed as it should be within its international framework. There is only a reference to the fact that this was a coup d'état that took place within this world crisis of capitalism, which the WV characterizes as 'cyclic'. This assessment by the WV certainly does not surprise us.

In 1966, at the 3rd Conference of the ICFI, when this group was still a minority within the EDE, it agreed with Robert- son that we were at least 10 years away from a crisis of capitalism. So from that time, the posi- tion of the WV concerning the world economic situation was diametrically opposed to the ICFI's analysis. In one of the group's docu- ments again, after April 21, they talk about a crisis which, when at some time it acquires social depth, the dictatorship in Greece will fall ... But in the latest document which we are now studying, we see again that they con- tront the present-day crisis of capitalism as though it were one of the periodic crises which the process of the of capital has accumulation experienced up to now, and which have always been fol- Marx's analysis lowed, as points out, by periods of rela- tive stabilization until the next crisis, and so on. Such a characterization of the present-day worla econo- mic crisis, which in the final analysis foresees that sooner or later the crisis will be sur- agreement. International strategy The ICFI, on the contrary, has based its international entirely strategy on an different assessment. Today's crisis, the collapse of the world monetary system and of all the economic and political relations based on the decisions at Bretton Woods, are more widespread and deep than any that capitalism, in its whole history, has known before now. We are on the threshold of the greatest revo- lutionary earthquakes that class society has ever known.

It is certainly not enough for a Marxist to acknowledge the crisis that imperialism is undergoing throughout the world and from there to con- clude mechanically that for this reason 'therefore the Torres coup took place, for this reason 'therefore a revolu- tionary situation was created in Bolivia' etc. The most essential point of a Marxist analysis is the one where it is shown how in every concrete situation and under particular conditions the general trend of the epoch manifests itself. That is, how the need that imperialism feels on a worldwide scale to come into total conflict so as to smash the militant decisiveness of the oppressed masses, in order to survive, in the one through case passes con- spiracies for Common Markets, in another wears the mask of the populist demagogy of the Velasco junta in Peru, or of the popular front in Chile and in yet another passes from the regime to Banzer's Torres coup. The truth is always con- crete, Lenin said. This presentation of the concrete, the highest point of a Marxist analysis, is not the empirical conception of the fact (something Marx raw called 'the imaginary con- crete'). The scientificness of Marxist thought consists of conceiving the concrete as 'the combina- tion of many determinations, as the process of a composi- tion'. (Marx, 'Grunderisse'.)

Revolutonary action needs as its guide concrete theoretical analyses using Marxist method and not formalistic abstrac- tions and schematic generaliza- tions. In the WV analysis we see Torres and his regime placed not within the material con- ditions of our revolutionary epoch, but a statue hovering in timeless, unhistorical some circle of Dante's : Hell, keeping company with Chiang Kai- shek, Bella, Castro, Ben Boumedienne, Nasser, Gaddafi, Bandaranaike, Aref, Papan- Suharto, Makarios, dreou, Sadat, Hussein, even Thiers.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

Trotsky (second from left) with a group of revolutionaries under arrest and on their way lo exile in Siberia after the events of 1905.

TROTSKY ON 1905

Trotsky (second from lefl) with a grou '1905', by Leon Trotsky (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press. 488 pp.

{4.95.)

BY JACK GALE

Trotsky wrote the essays comprising this book while in a Tsarist prison after the crushing of the 1905 revolution. At the age of 25 he had been the leading figure in the St Petersburg Soviet. Lenin was to describe 1905 as 'the dress rehearsal' of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.

Trotsky says it was the pro- logue in which 'all the elements of the drama were included but not carried through'.

1905 grew directly out of the Russo-Japanese war, as the revolution of 1917 was to be the direct outcome of World War I. With a mass movement be- hind it, the liberal bourgeoisie frightened the monarchy. Peasant uprisings to seize the land occurred throughout Russia and revolutionary stir- rings occurred in the army.

Above all a new form of proletarian organization emer- ged: the soviets, in which workers organized themselves seperately from and in oppo- sition to the bourgeoisie.

as Trotsky However, ex- plained in his 'History of the Russian Revolution', the re- volutionary forces were going into action for the first time th a group of revolutionarles under arrest and.

and they lacked experience and confidence. Workers' consciousness de- veloped in a contradictory way.

In January 1905 a strike in the Putilov works began involving 140,000 workers. Yet while this strike was on the Petersburg workers marched behind Father Gapon to pre- sent a petition to the Tsar: 'Sire! We workers, our children and wives, the help- less old people who are our parents, we have come to you, Sire, to seek justice ana pro-.

tection. •Sire, our strength is at an end! The limit of our patience has been reached; the terrible moment has come for us when it is better to die than to suffering intolerable continue torment. They were, in fact, to die. Trotsky describes the march on January 9 to present the petition: 'As agreed, the march to the palace was a peaceful one, banners or without songs, speeches. 'People wore their Sunday clothes. In some parts of the city they carried icons or church banners. 'Everywhere the petitioners encountered troops. They begged to be allowed to pass.

They wept, they tried to go round the barrier, they tried to break through it. 'The soldiers fired all day long. The dead were counted in their hundreds, the wounded in their thousands. An exact count was impossible since police carted away and secretly buried the bodies of the dead at night.' In the space of one day, the • working masses, united at first in an appeal to an idealized monarchy, were to unite later in the recognition that the pro- letariat and the real monarchy were mortal enemies. But it was precisely the realization that it was not enough to shake Tsarism, but that it had to be smashed, that forced the liberals to back away from the revolution.

The 'progressive' bourgeoisie rrest and on their way to exile in Siberia after and a large part of the demo- intelligentsia moved The monarchy was able to isolate revolutionary elements in the army, and use the loyal units to suppress the workers and peasants. The working class was not strong enough in 1905 to take the power. But it could not have conquered in 1917 with- out the help of the experience gained 12 years before. But 1905 was invaluable not only for the development of Trotsutionaroin experience We Trotsky points out: Marxists were already armed with the scientific method of comprehending historical pro- cesses.' The period between 'Bloody Sunday' (January 9) and the October strikes which huge sparked off the revolution was the period in which Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution was formed. Trotsky argued that the though Russian revolution, directly concerned with bour- geois aims, could not stop short of those aims. The revolution could not solve its immediate bourgeois tasks unless the working class took the power.

But the working class, once it had the power, would not remain within the limits of the establishment of bourgeois democracy. It would be com- pelled to make inroads into bourgeois property relations.

Trotsky explained, would into conflict not only with bourgeois groups but also with the broad masses of peasantry, even though it had come to power with their support.

The theory of permanent re- volution was an internationalist theory. Trotsky writes: 'The workers' government will from the start be faced with the task of unit- ing its forces with those of the socialist proletariat of western Europe. The permanent re- volution will become, for the Russian proletariat, a matter of class self-preservation.

'If the workers' party cannot Workers Press, Tu eria after the events of 1905.

show sufficient initiative for aggressive revolutionary tactics, if it limits itself to a dictator- ship that is purely national...

the united reactionary forces of Europe will waste no time in making it clear that a work- ing class, if it happens to be in power, must throw the whole of its strength into the struggle for a socialist revolution.'

The Russian working class could not overcome its conflict with the bourgeoisie and the peasantry except through a world proletarian revolution.

The revolution would not only have to go beyond the limits of bourgeois democracy but also beyond the national and state boundaries of Russia.

This meant, Trotsky con- cluded, that the Russian re: 'strive volutionaries had to consciously for the Russian revolution to become the pro- logue to a world revolution' In this book, Trotsky does not seek to give a complete factual history of 1905. Instead selects those events and institutions which, he says, 'summed up the very meaning of the revolution'. He concentrates mostly on the last three months of 1905 which began with the great all-Russian strike and ended crushing of with the the December rising in Moscow.

From the earlier period, he deals mainly with the brief "liberal' period which he de- scribes as 'that honeymoon of rapprochement between the government and "the public"', and which came to an end on Bloody Sunday. He then covers the events of Bloody Sunday, the tran- sition from liberalism to revolution. The section on the October strike, which forced Nicholas • lat Il to make the concessions of October 17, was written for a Petersburg revolutionary paper while the strike was still con- tinuing, and is reproduced here almost without change. The second part of the book begins with the arrest of the Soviet of Workers' entire not Deputies on December 3, 1905, Press, Tuesday August 29, 1972 PAGE 8 which began the era of counter- revolution. The trial of the Soviet was turned into a Deputies demonstration. working-class When it was announced that one of the defendants had already been executed before the trial began, the courtroom full of workers stood in his honour and the case could not proceed until the tribute was over. Workers waiting to be called as witnesses sang revolutionary songs outside. When they took the witness stand they greeted the defendants first. Trotsky deals in • detail with the court trial and then with his own exile to Siberia and subsequent escape. After the arrest of the Petersburg Soviet (its members spent over a year in gaol and then were exiled 'in perpetuity') all revolutionary organizations in Russia fell victim to the counter-revolution. As the counter-revolution gathered speed, the sentences became more severe. the members of the When Yekaterinoslav Soviet of Wor- kers' Deputies were tried in 1909, dozens of them were given hard labour and 32 were sentenced to death. In addition to this invaluable material, some of which has not appeared in English before, Trotsky's book contains three important appendices. These deal with: • His refutation of the Men- shevik conception of bourgeois revolution; • An exposition of his own theory of permanent revolution; "The • An article entitled Struggle for Power, , published in 1915, in which Trotsky argues that the political re- lations which became clearly outlined in the 1905 defeat would find their culmination in the successful revolution.

This book is an indispensable weapon in the struggle for the development of Marxist theory.

The publishers would be per- forming a valuable service if they brought out a paperback edition.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Tuesday August 29, 1972

WHATEVER HAPPENED

TO RENTAVILLAP

14 per cent Rent a villa Villaparties ector, Lawrence John Cullen.

promised them a He had failed to attend for return. was a group of companies 140 interview, Gillvray said.

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Agency anger TV AMERICAN-OWNED United wide news agencies, has provok which has turned into the first while. The degree of UPI's hosti- lity to the National Union of Journalists-and to all other unions—is now revealed for the first time. Captured docu- ments have left even those experienced in fighting news- paper managements gasping.

The dispute began two months ago when the father of the NUJ chapel Mark Grantham recruited into the union five Americans who worked the foreign corres- pondents desk. They wanted to join in order to get some bargaining strength in their negotiations with man- agement over their own pay and conditions which were separate from the rest of the chapel. The NUJ wanted them in in order to get an all-union shop. UPI's first move was to sack Grantham on the spot. The NUJ replied with a threat to black UPI copy throughout Fleet Street and beyond and Grantham was at once reinstated. Then the management pres- sured the five new members in- dividually to get them to leave the union. They were warned that would not management tolerate them remaining on the privileged dollar payroll and get union protection as well. It was made clear their future with UPI was now in doubt. They were given ten days to either not seek to change their dollar payroll conditions; or to UPI is owned by the Scripps- Howard newspaper chain in America. It ranks second to the Associated Press among US news agencies, and operates in 40 to 50 foreign countries on a world-wide basis. Generally, UPI tries to make progress at the expense of Reuters, and Agence France-Presse service, cheaper presumably possible by working made their overseas US staff that than other much harder agencies. In London, for example, AP American-hired staff enjoy the same work conditions and union membership rights as British staff, but also keep the dollar-payroll privileges.

This is also the rule for go wholly onto the British pay- roll and lose all their conces- for working away from sions home; or to be transferred at once back to New York. The main issue in the argu- conditions was ment on the length of the working week. NUJ 40-hour agreements specify a week including time for meal breaks on day shift and a 35- hour week including mealtimes on shifts beginning after midday.

The foreign correspondents desk worked . 45-hour week as a a minimum, day or night. In the negotiations which fol- lowed, pressure was brought to bear on UPI because they were in breach of undertakings given to the Department of Employment that any Americans who were granted foreign work permits to work on Fleet Street would abide by NUJ hours. Meanwhile, management's pres- sure had apparently also borne fruit in that one of the five decided to quit the NUJ. But confidential UPI corres- pondence reveals that the case of Gordon Joseloff was not all that it seemed. A letter from manager Richard European news Growald to New York editor h. L. Stevenson, headed 'The fall and rise of Gordon Joseloff', sug- gests that Joseloff is really more management's side than the on union's and should not be sacked.

But more important, it shows what management thinks of men who join unions. Gordon Joseloff did a stupid thing in the London • bureau walk-out. Although acting bureau manager, he did not in- form UPI of pending NUJ walk- out plans. Should he be fired? Answer: no.

Why not. 1. He quickly realized he had been duped by the union. 2. He had acted all along sin- cerely in the belief he was aid- ing UPI by working to moderate the NUJ radicals. United Press International, one of provoked a dispute with the journal he first officially NUJ-backed strike o 3. Within a day of the three- hour walk-out he withdrew from union activity, telling the union he no longer would support any action by them and followed up by resigning from the union and telling them (as well as us) that in any further dust up he would continue working and with the intention of defeating the union in such actions. Were we to rid London of Joseloff, we could not get a repla- cement in the near future (the union-buttressed British govern- ment barriers on issuing UPI work permits for foreigners) and we quite likely may face a strike situation in which we will need the services of those relatively few Unipressers with work perm- its or British nationality (to elude work permit bans)... British newsmen working out- side Britain. Recently, UPI moved its centre of European operations out of London to Brussells on the direct insistence of the president of the parent com- pany in America, Jack Howard, and against the advice of the • board of UPI in subsidiary New York. The reason: to get away from the power of the British trade unions, particu- larly the NGA. The real danger with such anti-union companies is that they will eventually move their operations . to countries like Portugal where they can rely on a police state to protect them from the demands of trade unionists. 9. Firing Joselofi now would probably wipe out what little chance there is of the London FIVE (Sudhalter, _ Wright, Hol- lander, Gibson, Smith) moving away from a position in which they see themselves as the Sacco and Vanzettis of some star-crossed nonsensical crusade to gain the status of trench-coated TV-type foreign correspondents. We must deal tough as hell [term of with these wowsers abuse], but being corralled by the work permit cursenot even the Russians go near the strictures put on the freedom of UPI by the British-behoves us to take the toughest course in a way that will cause the smallest ripples.

That is, if we do not fire Joseloff, we would give the five no ammunition poltroons feeding their martyr complexes and plunging toward endless co- operation with the NUJ radicals.

Firing GJ would, I feel, further inflame the five and make them union militants. The last sentence provides in UPI's own words startling proof of the need to build unions to protect men from arbitrary dis- missal once they have begun to question their conditions of work. The earlier section on UPI's hostility to British work permit regulations indicates that there is much for Michael Foot, MP, who has said he will investigate the matter following approaches from the NUJ, to look into.

There are also clear hints that UPI never intended seriously to negotiate with the NUJ, but all along was looking for a show- down. The way the talks were conducted added to that im- pression. At an eventual summit meet- ing arranged with Ken Morgan, NU) general secretary, the chiet of UPI operations in Europe, Julius Humi, failed to even show and which ordinate. It could been sent by malacemenu who cal elaborate mainly ment of about ending which by

UPI

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BBC 1

9.45 Joe. 10.00 Robinson Crusoe.

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MARILYN MONROE TEN

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9.00_London. 11.20 Division four.

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ews. 11.20 Epilogue.

Right-to-Work strike closes B-Leyland plants PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday Augus hack

BY IAN YEATS

THE POLICE Federation has criticized cells at two Division Liverpool First equipped soccer grounds with huge steel shackles to restrain violent fans. The hoops are bolted to the wall and prisoners can be chained or handcuffed to them. Federation chairman Inspec- tor Reginald Gale said: "The public are not going to like this sort of thing. I believe it will cause a lot of repugnance.

This will do the police image no good. 'There will be many people who will "After the say: shackles what next?"' Gale is dead right. The same people might also be wonder- ing why he is more concerned about the police image than the methods they use. One of the reasons might be that it was the police who designed the shackles in the first place. Not only that. They are standard practice in Liver- pool police stations. An example of the shackles installed at the Anfield (Live"- pool) and Goodison Park (Everton) grounds Designer Chief Supt Bob Grant said: 'It is an indication of what we feel is necessary in case the situation gets any worse.' It might be inferred from this that the police are pre- pared to go to any lengths to maintain law and order. There are certainly those who agree. Dennis Follows, secretary of the Football Association com- mented: 'If we ask the police if the methods they use are in accordance with normal prac- tice.' He was backed by the 50,000 Citizens Protection strong Society founded a year ago after Blackpool Supt Gerald Richard- was shot. A spokesman son said tougher measures were even if the police necessary image had to suffer. Shackles, concentration chambers. Appa- gas camps, rently it all comes down to if the public will wear it, it's all right. 01-622 7029 01-720 2000 Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by 186a Clapham High

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answered the stance of feigned those workers who

BY DAVID MAUDE

Leyland's indifference. Levland

SETTE

Cull

WIDESPREAD

strikes of bine shop stewards' committee The strike - in support yesterday. closed down the British. 1.200 workers who are occupying Scotland, the Bathgate Transport Equipment Leyland car and heavy. croft, at Basingstoke- in a bid to truck West ana tractor plant Lothian was at a standstill, with vehicle groups yesterday -was an extremely save their lobs- all 3,400 workers out political one. workers staged as an from within Hit by shrinking markets and Further financial trouble, the heavy-vehicles division came solidarity unprecedented deep company from and Mid- Lord Stokes defence of the Calmudia Dialls action in 8.000 workers the sell off the Basingstoke factory firm and its site Leyland Motors tactories, Leyland right to work. to an American and were on strike. (for the • company • a PrODCILy Major of the Also involved here was a domes sections Geralled hackerole see bore ri jobs were to go immediately £437m combine were hit. 344 manno disoute and Tractor more later. anGl The companv which attempted Birmingham, stopped with 2,000 convenor for most of last week to foster Thornvcrott backlash Gordon Owen-Jones right-wing Austin-Morris car Workers Press: Leyland's Tone key the strike maintained un- this rationalization division, there was normal work- accustomed reticence on the sub- are doing in ing at the sprawling Longbridge, ject. agreed they is carrying our government poncy to the fullest extent.'

COLICA

were trying to ignore it.

So big issues were at stake for morning. Good reasons exist for British London builders to march on HQ Jaguar -- stewards U. C

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to sell

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piecework? + THE TEN-WEEK-OLD Jaguar will car strike at Coventry. go on-because stewards feel Bri- tish Leyland is not paying enough to buy out piecework.

Shon stewards hold the dan.

gerous claim that they have no rooted objection Measured- Day Work. but they had hoped to win a to bring their pay on par with other workers at the lactory. Scottish bullders during Although figure has been load of codswallop from the plat- LONDON building workers— stewarus alc My members want come for rises would give about 20,000 on strike in form. which are track workers around £48 a week.

out told -will march on the

OUT

ocen the capital- do so' management has federation head- So fai the employers' Rice condemned the union lead- offered £44- -which many already quarters tomorrow. national calling 101 110 earn- -plus a lump sum paymen riking for tem will have been stuke company weeks agreements. striking claim for t30, 35-hours, and three Talks between management and Corporation workers the their weeks' holiday. demand separate nine hours on Saturday, although this their first real major they have nOT Told battle for years, Socialist Labour League been cruelv misled. normal meeting tomorrow. The union leaders have refused

FOUR LECTURES

, call a national strike and now officials are almost to send 20,000 back to work

THE THEORY AND

latest vice Mal ratual s

PRACTICE OF MARXISM

offer be accepted and that there nothing more to gain deals, many only giving basic. given by : 100

HEALY

This strategy has had the Less than half the 2,000 strikers the per Com- (SLL national secretary) cent

SUDDONI

atrender ast weeks mass munist which now des- that a nag med barters aid to Marxism as the theory of the lording stak as "strike cribes knowledge in the VictorIes ded meeting might Tuesday September 5 Not wanting to embarrass the tavourab to mer new orcl.

union leaders enter fight or Marxism Development of with the •Charter gerup has Tory the struggle has not Tao on Stalinist Tuesday September 12 Teeth talk prouder out d new r paper during the strike. Nature of the capitalist Hull Sunday, meeting of 600 building workers, crisis Tuesday September 19

THE

DEPARTMENT

of Health Telecond opened and Social Security has cale for cake. They Tuesday September 2ie Historical materialism today British discussions rejected Dental Association decided call every

AEU HOUSE

National Health Service dental Duncer. 10ca of age from 18 years authority, out on strike today and chardes Mount Pleasant instead of 21. tomorrow Laurie Rice, convenor at Spoon- Liverpool 1, 7.30 p.m. Changes would mean ailera- tions to the National Health Ser-

NUIS

contaclor. 'We've had a told the meeting: vice Act. Leeds women indignant at £2 offer the Common Market.' before agreement THERE IS bitter resent- The union hasn't the come Mrs was reached, said: ment among manners even lo £2 was accepted workers ic Leeds about and tell us. 'The salt haven't given us a rise. their union's decision to on the hasis o tie resi And Mary Wood, This offer hardly covers of the country lt having me heiste accept a ta-a-week pay another it. the living in- accepted we rise.

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ACCULIV

We're just back told what crease. were never The Leeds workers board mem ders Shol o square one. other areas said. demanding have come down to the had been Wilkinson, Why should we be Sheila and let factory floors Tane 12LL. 101 16-year-old, 22p-an-hour dictated by the but the full claim of f6. everore vote. (women over Seeds has

LOWS

wiel doubt if some of them Oradis press tant militant Leeds the biggest Id Workers know what factory tailoring work in told of 35p hour for the force floor looks like now? National Union Britain! We want a new Tone same Job said: In of soaring Tailors and Garment can't live on what we executive board. The view Workers' executive has f2 is nothing We're entitled to a lowest-paid workers, get. no mandate to settle for these said the women, •ecent waze. mall anything less. employee Mrs Anne Stead, who basser lal aren't cerang who checks work). militant Unless women Mrs Una Ambler, was clothing clothing machinist at C. and M. It's disgusting the workers are in Sumrie's one the offer,' she went strike in leeds ama wit supported by me Rus- largest factories in the 'We'll be on the bread fought against bands families they or

WULACIN

being led back to work can't live? when into line we district, Sald. But at the Cowley assembly Oxford, more than half plant, workers the 8,000 production away, preventing stayed any production at the factory. Those who did report for work were sent home. The BMC Service and KD (export) plants at Cowley were also shut. Body-plant. workers worked normally, however.

At the Thornycroft factory, Owen-Jones said the Gordon sit-in workers were encouraged by the response to the strike call.

" 'But this is only the first stage,' he said. 'What we need now is financial action backing to keep this going for ever and a day if need be. It's time for the trade union in the combine movement show its teeth. If we don't, no one's job is safe.' negotiations be ditched and that they also be called out. But J. Mortimer, Union of Con- struction, Allied Trades and Tech- regional secretary, said nicians' the Industrial Relations Act pre- all-out strike. "The vented an strike is not what we want; it's a settlement,' he said to heavy barracking.

ALL TRADES UNIONS

ALLIANCE MEETINGS

TUC MUST BREAK OFF ALL

TALKS WITH HEATHI

MAKE THE TORY GOVERN-

MENT RESIGNI

NOTTINGHAM: Tuesday August 29, 7.30 p.m. People's Hall, Heathcote Street. "Victory to the building workers'. WANDSWORTH: Tuesday August 29, 8 p.m. Selkirk Hotel, Selkirk Road, Tooting. 'Lessons of the docks strike! DUNDEE: Wednesday August 30, 8.00 p.m. YMCA Constitu- tion Room. Lessons of UCS and the Docks Strike. PRESTON: Wednesday August 30, 8 p.m. Railway and Com- mercial Hotel, Butler St (nr railway station). 'The Tory government and the building workers'

EAST

LONDON:

Thursday August 31, 8 p.m. Festival Inn, Market Square, Chrisp Street Market, E14. CAMBRIDGE: Thursday August 31, 8 p.m. Red Cow (behind the Guild Hall). 'Lessons of the dockers and Builders' strikes'.

DAGENHAM: Tuesday Septem- shawe Avenue, Barking. sons of docks strike, Ucs jobs fight.' SLOUGH: Tuesday September 7.30 p.m. Slough Com- munity Centre, Farnham Rd 'Force the Tories out! Expose the traitors in the labour and movement!" trade union Speakers: Frank Tomany and Brian Bailey, both in a per- sonal capacity.