Workers Press no. 859

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDA

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

FROM IAN YEATS IN GLASGOW

GOVAN BOILERMAKERS on the Clyde have told the Communist Party-led joint shop stewards' committee to carry out their wishes or resign. The demand came at Friday's emergency meeting of 1,200 boilermakers which threw out the deal reached with Govan Ship- builders Ltd for the second time in 24 hours.

District official James Murray was backed by into force later than stand down. all the boilermakers' 1973. Meanwhile, January said at the meeting the stewards at yards says the agreement, a ceil- it's got aDoUT Tune tney when he pleaded with the ing on be rid of their collars and ties Carmanso Hudy to reverse their necessary. and brietcases and got back Thursday decision and The boilermakers to the cloth cap.' want vote to sign the agree- rise to bring The boilermakers

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stand ment. them into line with the fl has already Coven Tene being paid by an hour Stalinists to frenzy. James leader Boilermakers' they Marathon Wan Airlie condemned their Danny McGarvev will trave it backdated time • LO not only wrong decision as from the TUC in Brighton ot signing the agreement and unrealistic, but some- Glasgow today. Before September can cobaraize said Mr Borg: leaving for Glasgow *We're not the successful of *The boilermakers said: asking the historic fight

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over the the stewards should under- Have acccoice mie Dasis Ol past months for the this agreement. It is some stand themselves that you right to work'. consequential situation that must get guarantees will need some sort. We've told them Has arisen a full meeting and a ballot TURN TO p. 12 To a our ou wishes or vote to get the agreement signed. The stewards argued weakly Friday that although they disapproved of the deal it would be better to press for improve-

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ments after it was signed than jeopardize union unity.

Their de- advice was majority of over 200-180 reiected Cisivey more than at the meeting And Mc- the day belore. Garvey is likely to get the same calment. Joe Borg. one of the leading speakers against the signing, told me: We think it's practically a sell-out.

Nowhere what is there ea the four- Dasc mention of the cast-iron jobs guarantees which were the lvnch pin of the entire work-in. No new wage is quoted for who have these 14 not had a rise for months, but the agreement does include specific of a virtual pay promise for a further years after any new struc ture has been accepted. Clause 5e is almost a carbon copy of the four- no-strike deal the year co - ordinating committee signed with the Marathon

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the Clydebank. sting Sage sales wand existing scales wake bonus schemes to operate on an interim basis while new proposals are aiscussea with shop stewards to come INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1972 • No 859 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE 'Crush Act' say 123 A LONDON Trades Coun cil demonstration "crush Unt IndustrIal Meations mobilized 123 people

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yesterday SUrCeLS afternoon. Led by Ernie Roberts, assistani teneral secretar of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers and brass band, march passed Ine wyest End to Hyde Park without chanting a single slogan. The Communist Party provided the bulk of the mareners. for the march also called for the 'extermination' of the Act. The

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response trade union bureaucracy's retreat from fight against the Act.

LONDON

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LIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BUT IT MEANS A

FIGHT AGAINST LEADERS

BY JACK GALE

THE FINAL agenda for the Labour Party published conference, today, reveals a desire by the rank and file to fight back against the Tory government's offensive.

of Thirty eight resolutions demand extension nationalization implementation through of Clause Four of the party constitution. In addition, a number of Scottish constituency parties call for nationaliza- tion of North Sea oil. UCATT calls for nationalization of the construction industry. Thirty eight demand constituency parties nationalization of the land the only solution as to working-class housing and rent problems.

Nineteen resolutions want a Labour government to cure unemployment by measures including a shorter working week increased holidays and a lower retiring age. Forty nine resolutions demand complete restoration of a free health service and two more call for nationali- zation of the drugs industry. Resolutions from 33 con- stituency parties and five trade unions demand increased the TUC's living wage' pensions tied to level and to rises in the cost of living.

There are 60 demands for repeal of the Tories' fair rents' Act and many calls for support for Labour con- cils who refuse to implement the Act and for any coun- cillors who might be fined.

Thirty resolutions demand restoration of cuts inflicted on education by the Tories-particularly in relation to school meals and milk. Sixteen parties, plus the Boiler- makers Society and the AUEW (Construction Section) declare opposition to entry into the Common Market.

Twelve constituency parties and the T&GWU, the AUEW (Technical and Supervisory), the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers and the National Union Seamen demand of that the Labour government im- mediately repeal the Industrial Relations Act. But Labour rank-and-file Party and trade union members faced fact are with the that their leadership will not accept such policies. Not only the Common Market vote but the very existence of the Tory government itself was secured only because 59 Labour

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MPs voted with the government and a further 10 abstained.

Every Labour Party member knows Tories that the could have been put out of office last October. Eleven constituency parties have submitted resolutions de- manding action against Labour MPs who vote with the Tories conference and also calling for decisions to binding on be Labour government. It is significant, however, that not one trade union has sub- mitted such a resolution. The trade union leaders know that opposite their numbers in the Labour Party consistently ignore conference decisions. They know that the Labour Party's official fight' against the Rents Act has totally collapsed, as indeed has their own opposi- tien to the Industrial Relations Act. The Transport and General Workers' Union calls for repeal of this Act, yet Jack Jones pays its fines in direct contradiction to TUC policy and his own union. Similarly, calls for repeal of the Rent Act mean little when Labour councils up and down the country are imposing its increases on Labour voters.

On every single issue affecting Labour Party members and TURN TO p. 12

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY SEPTEMBER 4, 1972 • No 859 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DO AS WE SAY OR QUIT

BOILERMAKERS TELL STALINISTS

THE ISSUES

AT COVAN

FROM IAN YEATS IN GLASGOW

'Crush Act' GOVAN BOILERMAKERS on the Clyde have told the Communist Party-led joint shop stewards' committee to carry out their wishes say 123 or resign. The demand came at Friday's emergency meeting of 1,200 boilermakers which threw out the deal reached with Govan Ship- A LONDON Trades Coun- cil demonstration builders Ltd for the second time in 24 hours.

"crush neatens District official James mobilized people

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Murray was backed by the streets yesterday into force not later than stand down. afternoon. boilermakers' 1973. said at the meeting stewards the yards Led by Ernie Roberts, says the agreement, a cell- it's they when he pleaded with the earnings may kenera secterin ties rid of their collars and to their of the Amalgamated Union men reverse and briefcases and got back accosal y. of Engineering Workers and Thursday decision and to the cloth cap. The boilermakers Wallt brass band, march vote to sign the them into line with the pay. bring rise The boilermakers stand passed wes ment. End to Hyde Park without a real Tine hour being paid by Marathon James chanting a single slogan.

Stalinists to frenzy. Boilermakers' leader they condemned walll Danny McGarvey will travel Communist Party decision as nacreated 'not only provided the fron the of signing the agreement- bulk of the unreausec.

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sonne Before September The the successful outcome iot leaving for Glasgow he for the march also called Said Mr Borg: 'We're not successful outcome said: "The boilermakers for the 'extermination' of moon asking

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The historic fight accepted the

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the Act. have the stewards should under-

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… TO Use themselves that you uns asteement. It Is some The response re- right to work'.

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consequential situation that union Tine trade has arisen and it will some sort. We've toid them bureaucracy's retreat from TURN TO p. 12 a full meeting and a ballot to carry out our wishes or fight against the Act. any to get the VOLe signed.' The argued stewartes weakly on Friday that although they BO of the deal it would

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better to press for improve ments after it was signed than jeopardize union unity.

SHEK PARAL MORE

LONDON

Their advice was de- cisively rejected ever 200%180 majority of more than at the the day before. And MC®

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Garvey is likely to get the same treatment. gang, or me: we think one of Joe it's practically a sell-out.

Nowhere four- page deal even mention cast-iron iobs guarantees which were the lynch pin of the entire work-in. No new wage is quoted have for these men who 14 for nOL rise months, but the agreement does include specific of virtual promise pay for a further Irecte years after any new struc. ture has been accepted. Clause 5e almost carbon of the four- copy deal the no-strike year

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Ment curing Company at committee igned with

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Manufacturing

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the Clydebank. Govan Shipbuilders want wage and existing bonus schemes to operate interim basis an new proposals are discussed with shop stewards to come 2 0 No 859 0 4p

LIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BUT IT MEANS A

FIGHT AGAINST LEADERS

BY JACK GALE

THE FINAL agenda for the Labour Party conference, published today, reveals a desire by the rank and file to fight back against the Tory government's offensive.

eight resolutions demand extension of Thirty nationalization through implementation of Clause Four of the party constitution. In addition, a number of Scottish constituency parties call for nationaliza- tion of North Sea oil. UCATT calls for nationalization of the construction industry. Thirty parties eight constituency demand nationalization of the land the only solution to as working-class housing and rent problems.

Nineteen resolutions want a Labour government to cure unemployment by measures including a shorter working week increased holidays and a lower retiring age. Forty resolutions demand complete restoration nine of a free health service and two more call for nationali- zation of the drugs industry. Resolutions from 33 con- stituency parties and five trade unions demand increased pensions tied to the TUC's 'living wage' level and to rises in the cost of living.

There are 60 demands for repeal of the Tories' 'fair rents' Act and many calls for support for Labour coun- cils who refuse to implement the Act and for any coun- cillors who might be fined.

Thirty resolutions demand restoration of cuts inflicted on education by the Tories-particularly in relation to school meals and milk. Sixteen parties, plus the Boiler- makers Society and the AW Section) (Construction declare opposition to entry into the Common Market.

Twelve constituency parties and the T&GWU, the AUEW (Technical and Supervisory), the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers and the National Union of Seamen demand Labour government that the im- mediately repeal the Industrial Relations Act. But rank-and-file Labour Party and trade union members faced with the fact are that their leadership will not accept such policies. Not only the Common Market but the very existence of vote the Tory government itself was secured because 59 Labour only

IERE

MPs voted with the government and a further 10 abstained.

Every Labour Party member knows that the Tories could have been put out of office last October. Eleven constituency parties have submitted resolutions de- manding action against Labour MPs who vote with the Tories and also calling for conference decisions to be binding on a Labour government. It is significant, however, that not one trade union has sub- mitted The such a resolution. trade union leaders know that numbers their opposite in the Labour Party consistently ignore conference decisions. They know that the Labour Party's official 'fight' the against Rents Act has totally collapsed, as indeed has their own opposi- tion to the Industrial Relations Act. The Transport and General Workers' Union calls for repeal of this Act, yet Jack Jones pays its fines in direct contradiction TUC policy and to his own union. Similarly, calls for repeal of the Rent Act mean little when Labour councils up and down the country are imposing its increases on Labour voters.

On every single issue affecting Labour Party members and TURN TO p. 12

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday September 4, 1972 Every worker should be warned by Militancy alone will Whatwe 950 saw their canitulatio. maeir recore to imperialism and refusal to defend the G, Cise was. able and Korean conquests By 1968, appear as the main architect of the selling Me wue d. Da Stalinists, Minists. Nobe he the factories, think not defeat the Tories with the along comes rorward as mme most aoject the Communist Party work obstructing the fight to make the build the and to ternative revolutionary leadership.

THE TORY GOVERNMENT remains in challenge the union office only because of the support it re- stainist eater been sore ever ounce le narcest to ooscure me the trade union Labour celves trom workers readers. une unners January to the recently ended dockers' howevel working class : has shown time strike, the reached it has the strength and will to fight the government.

the have devoted must be replaccu But union leaders Amons is exact wat seit into a revolutioner Dares. by Tone cockers attitude of the mer HuzusI 1 lc Partv and by revisionists like International Stalinism. Committee. Group. Cancerous

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Tune government resign. to the existence oi the lory the It is to keep working class away from political Cliff de- that then

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LaNKO Stalke file That benine This treacherons official IS eader Tony unionism and in Will employers disputes resolve calliol neolookin Here sni unions. because or the OLLy defeated the Lause Sures to the perspective of the Socialist Labour 'Liaison Committee' Cliff's political front of struggle which this by corded that the militants take did not will be achieved is the battle to make the eague: that capitalism is in a deep crisis the initiative in running the dispute.

They so every major strike surgic able rank the character of a step in the struggle for file. mnese lessons.nue power. other side of this Iberately destruce the class through that the working class itself is to blame enci strike unle collier. the olit draws a cudlain across.

dock strike. In (TO polIcies lo cereal ne ColDo anno coverinenl. revolutionary dictatorship. Consequently this way, the betrayal of every leadership such from the policy of the shop Tea lessoni strikes exposes the working class to grave ported ones out this work de stewards. the Clift carries dangers. conscious Why did the stewards in London fail such a situation, those who preach to 'involve' the ranks? Because would mintancy and syndicalisn the dockers have mobilization the game of Incall dollar or olner secuions are playing ere ony to dereds. Trudeau Secret deal to sack 4,000 calls an election fore basic ring their se war.

BY JOHN SPENCER

dockers in

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Pierre premier, are: Trudeau, has dissolved parlia-

UNION LEADERS

port For an immediate conference and called general ment all port 30. He election October . Ior • Force the left leaders to break (Ceylon) have took this action after rushing from the government. 4,000 sackings through legislation ordering Force them cut working Sri Lanka striking west coast dockers to hours and give employment to dockers. The dock union leaders dock workers. return to work immediate v.

belong to the Communist Party the Trudeau's decision ends months replace speculation about coalition government with of and the reformist organization, the polls. His Liberal would to the Lanka Sama Samaja should the which defend government has encountered great the hostility from the organized working

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Following closely on see are eve to defend the Port the workers for its attacks basic class and all rights Te oTher of the Jones- oppressed sections and nationaliz acceptance Corporation's pronts. he harbour companies, banks an Heralded when he took office Aldington report on Britain's leaders have accepted Minister has Implemented ruthle docks, the Colombo events elaLes

WOLKCIS

Public Administration Felix implemented ruthless • Remove the treacherous union Dias " ndars aikd working s to spotlight the international leaders who betray the working sending union leaders strike laws tie working class and build a leadership which treachery of these elements Wants

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To a O the government's five- itself His government has repeatedly in this period of international bases year plan. nece events conarm accused rod shod over parlia opposition gramme for every union. economic crisis. of riding Like their British counterparts mentary procedure. the Colombo directors say the or and crusters sir done.

Naulkall 500 lost in port cannot be maintained Stanist leaders Rise in Freedom Parts without at least 3.5 million Saturday that 6, announced on Tons or caro a vear moor cul US jobless have reduced cargo levels No Highway 13 oalk workers wole lost

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below 3 million tons.

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aire In behind-the-scenes discussions

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mothe last Wills emolovers winted orales rOse chiefs voluntarily accepted battle ai c 5.6 ner cento re of 4,000 workers with ditions, were told that by striking force from 5.5 per commere three months' lost their wages as severance Commerce July. regulations The Ceylon Trotskyists emergency Stalinisi

SOUTH

VIETNAMESE

1 ne the demanding left leaders leaders have a. a ready Issued

TOTOWLE

last unemployed at 4.9 million and guerrilla insurrection. The govern-

LOODS

sure co castates notice asking workers to volun- break the claimed this was drop of major battle 40 miles north of Saigon 300,000 on the previous month's of at the weekend. Rival groups in Chile clashes refused to algon give death enemy had been Railmen to killed or captured in the fighting a rubber plantation along near stop in Italy which Saigon

LIKS

when he ing—some of the Santiago, the provincial capital Tere gin a 24 hour str kai this meenie.

president had used tear-gas and AN LoC. Hier to break corporal shot 150 strike evening Salvador Allende water-cannon dead week ago, government Conception on Wednes political support Rangers were Killed. wounded

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police moved claim and against creeping 1970 has thrown groups fighting

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went missing In an ambusa in tne denationalization of the Chile's Popular streets with sticks and same street fighting between pro- The National Liberation Front stones. one of a number Callio! Boyellicul anti Allende the police waited has been pushing towards facing the coalition into renewed government. 1ue also involved in big Daniel Versara, the more than an canital both from the hout „are under HOT are wrangle over while the groups fought the south for more than a week, Communist Ine police claim ine waded shooting was begun by intensifying the panic top in then COlOUR television Vulg militants of Social- 150 the country should adopt.

Ministry of the Interior, more government circles maurelea which President Nguyen Senior civil servants arrests. Yesterdav are Thieu decreed stiff penalties indefinite They had earlier dis- member of the coalition Van and radio hook-up Stacils with along Com- considered against persed student demon-

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Party munist and vari- public order and national recent substantial pay rise claim the situation strators by ew three court. under control. Chilean central groups. government-appointed security.

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IN THE

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TORIES. OUT!

The decision by Man- Labour - con- chester's trolled city council to implement the hated Tory 'fair rent' Act has led to further capitula- tions in the north west. Liverpool city council was the heels of close its Lancashire neighbour in voting majority for imple- by a huge mentation. Earlier threats of the Labour big revolt Dy turned be group to

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nothing more than empty and finally treacherous gestures.

Then the turn of was Stockport Labour council, just a few miles from Manchester.

Eleven labourites well the Tories to ensure 'law and order' in the enforcement of class legislation. In Altrincham, where the Labour group is in a minority, the decision to implement was Tory-Liberal carried by alliance. Cowardly All these aecisions to go with the fl rent in- ahead crease in October and begin the process, rent-doubling have brought stormy reactions trom tenants. Manchester in the tenants Partington district of the city are preparing for a rent strike in October. A survey made by tenants' associations showed that thour per cent were in their withholding rents. They have already decided to accompany any rent- collector who comes

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Partington and back up any householder who refuses to hand over the increase. 'Our fight is just beginning,' said Bosil Higgins, association serretery. Tenants in other parts of the Manchester council's area have already decided to launch a massive rent strike next month. abject and The most cowardly retreat before the Tories at Stockport came where 11 Labour councillors and aldermen crossed the floor with the Tory voted minority for implementation.

Although 20 Labour coun- cillors remained true to their it was pledges made earlier, , itself the council leadership which went over. Shouts of "Traitors' and greeted the decision 'Judas' made at the August 22 coun- cil meeting. Out of the 20 against, 11 walked out of the chamber in disgust. The split in the Labour group was brought right into the meeting by Cllr Bernard Bradbury, who launched a justified attack on his 'leaders' I disown this leadership.

They do not speak for me and the people I represent. I am utterly disgraced at the actions certain members of our party have taken.' Turning to the turncoats in the group he said: 'The electorate should rise and put people on the council who have the courage of their convictions. You are has jumped rats. This party at the first sign of a shot.'

The right wingers who voted with the Tories are accused of aiding another Rachman's charter. series appeared A which in Workers Press in June, 1972 is now available as a pamphlet in Socialist Labour League Pocket Library.

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Cilr Robert Heys, acting leader of the party, apologized for his betrayal. 'I have been approached by colleagues who have asked me if I am pre- pared to go to jail. The answer of course, would be no. I can in a see no useful purpose large number of people being sent to prison.' This is the usual answer of the right wing. The question is not simply going to jail, but leading a fight of the working class against the Tories. That's all Stockport tenants and those elsewhere have ever asked from Labour councillors.

The vote for implementation on Altrincham borough coun- cil was only swung by Liberals who joined the Tories in out- voting the Labour opposition.

Over 3,000 council tenants now face a fl rent increase in four weeks. But when tenants heard the result of the vote they marched defiantly out of the town hall singing: We won't pay the rent' Local tenants made their position absolutely clear in a to the letter local paper signed by leaders of their association. Councillors wasted three hours debating the Act 'because we, the tenants, have no intention of paying the in- crease whether it be fl or a few pence, they said. made for All the excuses 'were found implementation by us to be an astonishing per- formance of a pompous and patronizing towards attitude council house tenants who are obviously considered as third- rate citizens'.

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Workers Press, Mone From now on anybody who uses direct-action tactics to achieve their goal will be liable to prosecution. And such persons can be brought to trial by private individuals, even where the police and the Director Prosecutions believe Public there is no case. That is the unmistakable writing on the wall now that the trial of 22-year-old Liberal Peter Hain is finally over.

The National Council for Civil Liberties seized on the point immediately. Chairman John Tuchfield said: 'The law of conspiracy is still in danger of being extended to such a degree that all organizers of protest will be at risk in almost any situation.' The law of conspiracy is vague and uncertain. It dates from 1354, but was estab- lished for good by the notori- ous court of Star Chamber in 1611. maximum There is. no penalty for found anyone guilty of conspiracy and it is a law readily applied where specific be charges cannot proved but where a general allegation might be made to stick. Hain's case slots into this category. He was accused on four counts of attempting to hinder and disrupt by unlaw- ful means games in England involving South African teams between 1969 and 1971. Evidence linking Hain to specific unlawful acts was thin. di: to non-existent. Most of it was based by the prosecution on his own book 'Don't Play With Apartheid'. 'Unlawful means' had clearly in disrupting been used the South African tennis, cricket and rugby tours and Mr Justice Gillis was at pains throughout the trial to ensure that the jury realized they had.

His remarks just prior to fin- ing Hain £200 with f50 costs make this clear. He said: 'High as the cause to which devote yourself, equally you high is the rule of law.' He that the law went on to warn can under no circumstances be set aside. Gillis was only the last of a long line of judges ranging through Lord Wilbertorce, Mr Justice Megarry and Sir John Donaldson to evince a sudden maintenance of the rule of law. It is significant that the penalty meted out to Hain was of slight concern to his prosecutors who claimed after- wards all they were worried e St

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ress, Monday September 4, 1972 PAGE 3 about was securing a ruling on direct-action tactics. They got it. And in such a way as to illegalize a whole range of hitherto accepted techniques of protest. much importance as Of as the jury's findings was the fact that the case was brought by a consortium of private indi- viduals backed by cash partly raised outside the UK. It was brought by an organization called Freedom Under Law Ltd, registered in November 1971, and pledged to: "Take such steps as it shall think fit in any part of the "Peter Hain world to ensure that in demo- cratic states a) the rule of law is upheld and maintained and generally safeguarded b) the rights of citizens to engage in lawful pursuits free from inter- ference by unlawful means is effectively protected and c) attempts to frustrate the operation of any law or insti- tution established by law are discouraged and prevented."

In a recent advert in 'The Times' the organization said: "The grievances of these hed. Their tactics are not.

democracy. They threaten Their agitation is becoming a tyranny.' a legal precedent has So consciously been set by a private individuals of group not only to defend the inter- ests of South African sport, bourgeois but the state wherever it seems threatened and unwilling or unable to de- fend itself. The Hain judgement means that from now on anybody can be pursued for common law offences by a private group and brought to trial. These two vital aspects of the trial will be ignored by workers at their peril. It is a indication clear of the conscious development of the right wing and of the way the will attempt also bourgeoisie to use their laws to smash the organizations and struggles of the working class.

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PICKETING GOES TO COURT

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday Septemb Part 5 of a series on Picketing by The British law courts and legal system are totally an instrument of capitalist state evolved to play a major in repressing the part working class and pro- tecting private property.

Their role is not merely to carry out rules and in- structions handed down by parliament, but to actually widen and de- velop the attack. This is made possible be- cause in English law, judges' interpretations of legislation and even their casual remarks during a case can become as much a part of the law as the original parliamentary Act and are quoted as such in subsequent cases. Today, the decisions of the Industrial Relations National Court-and on appeal, of the Court of Appeal, or the House of Lords-are all available for judges to use in future cases.

In general, history shows that the courts have used any law benefiting capital's war on labour as a foundation for further repression. Alterna- any legislation tively, with workers' forced through by action to better their rights and conditions, attempts have particularly in been made, times of crisis, to have this entirely whittled away or negated by court verdicts.

Following the 1875 legisla- tion, judges set out to destroy In 1895 the courts allowed the building firm Trollope & Son to recover damages from Trades the London Building Federation which had put them on a blacklist of 'unfair' employers. The union had found out that Trollopes were labour' in employing 'free preference to union men and called a strike. Seven hundred and fifty copies of a yellow poster three feet long, with a black border, and headed 'Trollope's Black List' were drawn up on which were the names and addresses and non-union workmen of These were distributed scabs. to various 'lodges' held to be The action was a conspiracy to injure the mentioned and to workmen prevent Trollopes • ... carry- ing on their lawful trade or business with • that freedom which is the privilege of an Englishman': (Trollope v Lon- Building Trades Federa- don tion 1895.) The following year, a leather manufacturer named goods Lyons successfully obtained an injunction against the small Fancy Leather Workers' Union to stop workers picketing his strike. premises during no question of There was violence or threats involved, but an order was granted to prevent the action and this was subsequently upheld by the Court of Appeal. It was declared that peace- ful picketing was a common law nuisance and constituted a 'watching and besetting' as laid down . by the 1875 Act. (Lyons v Wilkins, Secretary of the Union 1896-1899.) These court findings were the forerunners of the notori- ous Taff Vale decision. on strike In 1901, railmen Taff Vale Co of from the South Wales, organized pickets against scabs imported by a breaking professional strike body, The Nation Free Labour A court injunc- Association. tion was taken out by the company against the pickets 1 September 4, 1972 eting by Bernard Franks on the basis of the Lyons v Wilkins judgement. Subse- quently the House of Lords determined that a trade union was liable for damage inflicted by its officials. This resulted in the rail- men's union having to pay out £35,000 in compensation and costs. A few weeks later another case, Quinn Leathem, re-emphasized the liability of union funds for damages. These judgements were directly • calculated to smash the picket lines, destroy the their attacking unions by finances, and open wide the door to 'free labour'. working- The consequent class anger resulted in a real rise in political agitation and reflected the concern growth of support for the Labour Representation Com- mittee (forerunner Labour Party). The member- affiliated bodies ship of its rose from 469,000 in 1901 to just under a million in 1906.

The Tories also suffered a catastrophic defeat in the General Election of 1906, with the Liberals getting a 220 majority over them. Twenty- nine Labour members were re- turned to the House of Com- mons. The new government reluctant to carry out was promises to annul the Taff Vale judgement, but, as Cole in "The and Postgate wrote Common People': strike of 1911 d Top: the national rail killed when fired upon by troops. Left: | for upholding Lords responsible the Osborne (Taff Vale) case ... to its discomfort, member after member from its own benches rose to explain that he had only been elected upon the specific promise of legislation to cancel that de- cision. The promise had to be fulfilled forthwith ... On the subject of picketing the new Trade Disputes Act said: (1) It shall be lawful for one or more persons acting on their own behalf or on be- half of a trade union ... in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business, or hap- pens to be ... for the purpose peacefully obtaining or of communicating information or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working' It was also enacted that an action taken in a trade dis- pute should not be actionable by reason of inducing a breach contract or interference with trade. The 1906 legislation may have been something of a poli- tical victory for the working class, but, as Engels showed, the rule of the capitalist class is based not on pieces of paper but on "bodies of armed men'.

On August 15, 1911, two workers were shot dead during the general labour unrest in Liverpool-a verdict of justi- fiable homicide was brought in at the inquest. Four days detachment of Wor- later, a cestershire troops were ordered to fire on rail workers at Llanelli, who were picketing against the movement of trains during the national rail strike.

of 1911 during which two pickets were ps. Left: Lord Halsbury, one of the Law ng the Court of Appeal's judgement In Two men were killed and four Justifiable injured. more homicide was the verdict again. In 1912, Tom Mann and - four others were prosecuted under the Incitement to Mutiny Act. The offending 'Letter to British Soldiers' ex- plained: '... you are ordered to murder US as YOU did at Michelstown, at Featherstone, at Belfast. Don't you know, that when you are out of the colours and become a "civvy" again, that YOU like US may be on strike, and YOU like US may be liable to be murdered by other soldiers?' All six offenders were given six months in prison and Sir J. D. Rees MP declared in the House of Commons: If there is any crime which is a great crime, a crime against society, the constitution, against against against the • country, every British subject, it is the crime of urging troops not to shoot. If there be any greater offence, I, at any rate, do not know it.' Certainly, preparations for the coming war, when millions of European workers would be required to kill each other made the refusal to shoot the greatest of all crimes. It was during the 1914-1918 war that some of the most re- pressive legislations since the Combination Acts were intro- duced enabling imposition of military discipline in factories, abrogation of workers' rights and the smashing of the closed shop throughout entire in- dustries.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

Velasco's man on the university investig University students are under attack from the Peruvian dictatorship of General Velasco, which is trying to rationalize the universities and to cut down educational expen- diture. Velasco sees no point in educating youth who are only going to join the impoverished masses of unemployed. Already 40 per cent of youth between 18 and 25 years of age are unemployed. The statutes committee, set up by the government to investigate the problems in is formally the university structure through creating a system of 'student participation'. Dr Jose Tamayo Herrera, chairman of the commission, has said he hopes that 'co- government will be estab- lished, not only by students but also by and teachers, workers at every level of the system: from the university to the highest echelons of the system'. In other words, the perspec- tive Velasco has in the univer- sity is the same corporatist perspective which he is trying to impose on the trade union movement. Students are learning like trade unionists that Velasco's participation is introduced by : and the truncheons the guns of his police force. students in the In une Faculty of Medicine in San Fernando demonstrated and protested against government plans for reorganization which meant that only 600 of the 2,500 students in general studies could enter the Faculty and follow the course of their choice. The police attacked students with tear-gas bombs and shot- guns injuring over 30 students.

'new humanism' Velasco's was more aptly expressed in the new shotguns used by the police than in more facilities for students. The main body of students who follow general studies or the basic course as it is known find that their educa- tion comes to and end after the completion of the basic course. In the Agricultural Studies University,. 500 candidates who passed their entrance examinations were told that there was no room for them.

Velasco's man on the university investigation commission, Dr Herrera. The Stalinists co-operate with him

STUDENTS GET GUN-SHOT

So they had to sit a new examination and only students passed at the second attempt. Velasco commission is The spending nine hours 10W working the new dav

OUL

future for students, or how best to dismantle the universi- The Communist Party ties. and are this work as participating in wounds inflicted by Studenis sumering tom Peruvian police during an attempt to quash campus unrest ara. The Stalinists co-operate with him part of the struggle for "student power'. In this way the CP and its centrist hangers-on attempts to give credence to the so- called process of democratiza- tion that is being elaborated rather than leading a fight against a government body which is preparing to destroy all student rights with the help of the police force.

ds inflicted by shot-gun pellets fired by mpt to quash campus unrest Workers Press, Mondi to Nikita According Khrushchev in his secret speech to the Soviet Communist Party's 20th Congress in 1956, Stalin separated himsell from the people a. & never went anywhere. 'The last time he visited a village was in January 1928, when he visited Siberia in connection with grain deliveries, Khrushchev told the delegates. 'He knew the countryside and agriculture only from films. And these films had dressed up and beautified the situation in agri- existing culture. •Many films so pictured kolkhoz (collective farm) life that the tables were bending from the weight of turkeys Evidently, and Stalin geese. thought that it-was actually so?

Brezhnev, Khru- Leonid shchev's successor, is not quite as remote as Stalin was. He actually visits the countryside on occasion, though admittedly only when there is a really severe agricultural crisis.

The failure of the current grain harvest has sent him rushing to in Kazakhstan Soviet central Asia and to The Stalinists in West Germany have nerhaps reached the high point of political analysis in an official state- ment of August 25. Banner headlines pro- claimed in their newspaper: •For Olympic Games in a re- laxed atmosphereGreetings of the German Communist Party to athletes and guests from the whole world.' At a time when even right wingers such Avery as Brundage feel that the Games will never be the same again, the Stalinists pin their hopes I by on them for international re- as3, Monday September 4, 1972 PAGE 5 Barnaul, in Siberia. Not that Moscow Radio listeners given the were slightest indication that the trip was anything out of the ordinary. The radio simply reported that he had attended a meet- ing in Kokchetav, Kazakhstan, with the first secretaries of chairmen of party obkoms, oblispolkoms, heads of oblast directorates of agriculture and leaders of a number of minis- tries and departments of the republic. It added: "The meeting dis- cussed the fulfilment [read: non-fulfilment] of the national economic plan for 1972. attention 'Particular was devoted to the organization [read: disorganization] of the harvest and the sale of grain to the state [read: lack Not surprisingly the local bureaucrats, trembling in their boots, fell over themselves to ingratiate with the all-highest.

- "The meeting was addressed by Leonid Ilyich comrade who was warmly brezhnev, welcomed by those present, the radio reported. FOOTNOTE: The Kremlin has made plans to buy grain from the US--about a third of that country's total output! Below: Brezhnev — not quite so remote conciliation between nations.

• They write: "The Olympic Games bring together the youth of the world and en- courage mutual understand- ing and peace. That is why the German Communist Party greets the occasion of the Olympic Games in our country.

in our We have done all power to build up the under- standing between the nations, is embodied in the which Olymnic idea? The Stalinists are organizing tours of Munich to point out the historical events in the workers' movement and in the struggle against fascism.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday September 4, 1972

BY JOHN SPENCER

Caetano Four years ago, when a has carried out number of Portuguese living their wishes in this respect, at and working there. crippling disease finally the There are large numbers of opening forced the retirement of colonies to a certain amount Portuguese workers in other Germany, Brazil, of foreign capital through • such Dr Salazar, the British

COLLEC I

schemes as the Cabora Bassa Canada and the US. The youth liberal had high press Dam project in Mozambique to avoid the drati hopes that his successor desert from the Foreign investment has also army give berth - the would adopt been entering Portugal at France wide attracted a more Gaullist recently relatively rapid rate, government by cheap labour and harsh concluded deal with Four Marcello Motor years Caetano regime and now ships police-state laws Caetano, have however, assembly plans, electrical goods deserters back home. changed nothing fundamental To make up the numbers in industries and branches of the the Portuguese corporate Caetano big German and US combines the forces. decreed state and the police repression that reservists could be called students and the against the within the frontiers of back for a second term any working class is was inger the is dictator.

bad as li time up to the age of 45.

Portugal. This assured him the second term of national ser- has This is hardly surprising vice means four more years in continued backing like his the US and the other

NATO

the because vatlallu army. former master Caetano the labour ullLVEISILY countries. did allow malltall was one of the men himself a brief flirtation with force at home, the regime im- prolessor. responsible for building the wholesale electoral forms, but it was ports trom Portuguese regime the of Shupne tad Angola. The trothe solely for purpose present form. drawing out the opposition ships taking men fight bring back the better to crush it. colonies to out Salazar's policy carry labourers for Portugal's roads This was the purpose of the tound campaign for and factories.

DUT

farcical election certain obstacles to this course MPs in 1969, during which of action. certain exiles were allowed to

SHACKS

Salazar had always kept the return to Portugal for a brief Portuguese empire tightly two-week election Call Dail closed foreign against capi- Naturally, the election was talist interests. fils slate rigged, and one of lisbon's a creature of the huge CUF The African workers can be social-democratic candidates, monopoly, owned by the outskirts of the Sores can destine seen on Mario wite was family, Mello which employs main cities, often living in the supported by the more than half the Portuguese shacks building sites in Communist Party on on virtually work-force and 1S mild reform pro- desperately overcrowded con- extremely sole owner of Guine, one of ditions without running water was declared defeated gramme, country's African the three overwhelmingly. any conveniences. colonies. wages are pitifully low, even However, it taught Caetano Based on the crushing of all by Portuguese standards that the militancy workers independent organizations The system is only one step was not despite four both at the working. class, removed from outright slavery decades of Salazar's police home and in the colonies, African workers, fre- rule and alerted him to the palazas rule guaranteed beer need for vigilance against the quently illiterate and without profits and other He discovered any protection under the law working class. clustered smaller companies that the are ruthlessly exploited by the workers not were round the regime grasping Portuguese subjugated and was the costly colonial Caetano has also set in nowever, movement inside Guine, Angola and wars in determined university itself. motion radical • to ster Mozambiaue beginning in the 'reform' designed to stream- up the repression. 1960s undermined this early in Inside the official corporatist line the education system relationship. Portuguese capital the interests of big business unions, which embrace workers powerful enough was not and stamp out the growth and employers under the the support expense and in feeling latter's domination, he found revolutionary the wars were creasingly students the beginnings of a movement through NATO and financed The Lis towards independent working- three universities, American aid. Oporto and Coimbra ar class struggle. There were bon, of foreign Other sections demands for wages, protests being handed over to private also put capital, however, conditions. and the about factory industry courses re- money into the guerrilla move- Caetano ordered the disband- the provide new tailored to ments, both as an insurance in ing of several of the corporatist 'owners' with docile tech- case Portugal was ousted from of anything unions, including those of the ignorant and of Africa means railwaymen, the steelworkers outside their own rigid undermining their Portuguese and the glassworkers. speciality. Tight controls were imposed Many of the courses are shortened to two years over emigration - being particular for men between 16 and 45. and the curricula changed

OPPOSED

with job descrip. The purpose the Wasn ensure steady supply of recruits for tions' of the big employers the armed forces. The controls will take Higher education necessary: is where the industries Caetano's idea was to form were army pay place only £l a month for soldiers want it to and entry to univer- a sort of Portuguese Common- in Portugal and this princely sity will be made many times Gaulle's wealin, more difficult. French Community, controlled sum is frequently docked on At present, in the complete from Lisbon but more open to Even in Africa Vars exces from foreign capital. The plan was the pay is only f30 a month.

absence of grants university education Mello Nevertheless, thousands state, vigorously opposed the all-powerful

CUF.

the net beyond the means of any but a and escape every small middle-class élite Now driven in Determined not Others are abroad TO inch they insisted that Caetano search of higher and the privileges this élite has wages of work traditionally enjoyed are being the screws on the work- peter LuLl class at home in order to Over a million live in France slashed. The entrance examina- alone and Paris is the second being made more enable the wars and exploita-

TONS

are Portuguese city so large is the difficult and the intake of stu- tion to continue as before.

Top: Labon a srael In the old quarter of Pol Above: oppositionist Marlo Soare who gets uncritical support from the Communist Party. Below: agoing Salazar dents drastically. The cut intake of medical students at is being cut from 2,000 to rest are scheduled for use as cannon fodder in Africa. They come back from their service there brutalized and frequently suffering from mental dis- orders brought on by the of the climate, the rigours discipline enforced by the officers and the horrors of the war. Within the army there have been a number of revolts and mutinies: in one case an entire troopship refused to disembark in Angola and the soldiers forced it to sail all the way back to Lisbon. The officers, judged guilty of responsibility for the mutiny, were jailed.

If the army is not enough to crush and break the spirit of the young Portuguese workers and students, there are police literally everywhere. Political rights are non-existent. It is an offence for more than three gather together in people to one place. The police have powers to any home enter and search without a warrant. They can hold a "suspect' six months without trial-and for another six months again if they want most cases the victims to. of the held procedure are incommunicado and are not allowed to see a lawyer. even The police are divided into three sections: the civil police.

responsible for the activities of informers planted in all the factories and universities; the 'ordinary' police, charged with supervising traffic and catching the criminals; and dreaded political police, formerly the PIDE, now renamed the DGS.

The

PIDE-DGS

learned many of its techniques from the Gestapo, but it is now said cruder dropped the have physical tortures it once used in favour of more sophisticated and sinister methods involving drugs and psychological tech- niques.

PIDE-DGS

maintains The five big prisons exclusively for political and they prisoners are always filled capacity. to illegal leaflet Possessing an can lead to a six-month Frelimo, Mozambique's guerrillas in training for the sen- tence and attending an illegal Portuguese meeting (all meetings illegal) warrant five can More years. serious political offences years inute PIDE. can punished up to 25

D'GS

iails. There exact statistics on the number of political prisoners in Portu- Aid though Prisoners' gal. Society is tolerated by the regime. The Society publishes a lengthy list of new prisoners every month. As an added refinement the authorities can simply extend prisoner's sentence for reasons', stretching 'security the term in prison indefinitely.

Ten years is enough to break the strongest spirit and num- bers are released every year so that they longer hanken have the ability to fight back.

Despite this repression, the workers of Portugal have not been crushed. They fight back their unions where the within illegal Communist Party has considerable rank-and-file sup- port. The party has been illegal since its foundation, but its policies thoroughly reformist. for gradual tha works democratization of the regime the 'first step towards In training for their liberation struggles against the 1969 elec- socialism'. In the Workers Press, Monday S tion the Stalinists threw their uncritically behind support Soares, despite the latter's equivocations over the colonial wars and the vagueness of his reform programme. Among the students there are also Maoist and Pabloite tendencies certain with a amount of influence in the universities. They are able to limited range of publish a iterature on specife topics of the day. By far the most important is the development, however, emergence of a small but grow- ing Trotskyist movement both in the universities and among the trade unions. These com- rades are forced to work in great secrecy because of the but repressions, they are winning support among both students and workers.

CRUMBLING

The Trotskyists have led a struggle against the Stalinist supported line by the - revisionist tendencies - which urges militants not to join the army but to go abroad and ars Press, Monday September 4, 1972 PAGE 7 desert. This line separates the militants from the young in workers the army and leaves them without leadership in their struggles against the military regime. Unlike the Trotskyists, the revisionists carry out virtually no activity in the factories or among the workers. They are confined to student circles and thus isolated from the work- ing-class youth. After more than 40 years of Caetano's police-state rule, Portugal is beginning to shake at the seams. The vast expense of the colonial wars can be sustained only by the most ruthless exploitation at home and even more in the colonies.

Caetano is seeking to extend the basis for his regime by establishing closer relations with the Common Market, Britain, and especially with Portugal's 'oldest ally'.

But the demagogic façade of empire is already beginning to crumble and unrest is growing at home as the workers begin to draw breath for a fight.

Like his co-thinker Franco in Spain, Dr Marcello Caetano Will prove no match for the class Portuguese working under revolutionary leadership.

THE DOOMSDAY MEN

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Septem Part one of a series on Science CYNICS have said that the flood of books on the environmental crisis is now reaching the propor- tions of a major pollution problem. In June, when the United Nations held its Stockholm conference on the question, the chorus of doomsday prophecy became deafen- ing. Earlier this year, a group of scientists in Britain issued a manifesto entitled 'A Blue- print for Survival'. It begins: "The principal defect of the industrial way of life with its ethos of expansion is that it is not sustainable. Its termination within the lifetime of someone today is inevitable-un- born less it continues to be sus- tained for a while longer by an minority entrenched at the cost of imposing geat suffering on the rest of mankind.' people declare that These the rapid rise in population now taking place will soon outrun definite limits on the food supply. The rise in indus- trial production in the past few decades threatens to engulf mankind in a global sewer.

There have even been predic- tions that changes in the at- mosphere will lead to a rise in temperature, the melting of the polar ice-caps, and the drowning of civilization.

Opponents of these gloomy prognostications are also be- vocal. John coming more Maddox, editor. of 'Nature' has assembled what he claims scientific massive be to evidence to refute the more pessimistic and sensational en- vironmentalists. The economist Beckerman, and the right-wing Anthony Crosland labourites and Jeremy Bray, have sup- ported him. The arguments of this school of thought amount to a perfect faith in the ability of monopoly capital to cope with any problem that might arise. Men like Paul Ehrlich ('The battle to feed all humanity is over') declare that man's development must run into barriers that can never be overcome under any social or economic con- ditions. But Beckerman and his like have not the slightest doubt that capitalist economy can expand indefinitely. At this point, perhaps, question may occur to you: are we not now seeing capi- talism in a deep crisis, its worst-ever recession? And if so, why is this never mentioned by either side in the debate about the crisis is itself part of the crisis. Franks, in his Bernard articles on world population in Workers Press in May, brought evidence to together ample while the debate show how, goes on, capitalist crisis means that fond is being destroyed or its production held back.

The very fact that neither the environmentalists nor their more cheerful critics talk about the crisis is itself part ef the crisis. A few years ago, the panic about over-population might been dismissed as have a middle-class fad, on a level with vegetarianism or homeo- trend today Lathy. But the attracis the backing of some biggest international of the empanies. This work is spearheaded by the so-called Club of Rome.

This world-wide body has the ay September 4, 1972 Science and the Environment by Jol support of firms like Volks- Fiat and Olivetti. It wagen, has put many thousands of dollars into big-name scien- tific conferences and has financed the work of Forrester Mas- and Meadows at the sachusetts Institute of Tech- nology to carry out computer 'simulation' of the environ- mental process. Some of the results of this work are to be found in the mass-produced book 'Limits to Growth'. A film version was recently shown on television, with a great flurry of publicity.

This tendency for big capital to get involved in the environ- ment game must be taken very seriously. It arises from the understanding in these circles that the post-war expansion of industry is finished, and that definite political and economic conclusions must be drawn from this. Many people have noted the tendency in the statements of writers like Ehrlich and Garrett Hardin towards authoritarian and nationalist conceptions. Ehrlich has declared that the increase in population must be stopped, 'if necessary by com- pulsion'. His recommended methods for defusing the population bomb' inseparable from are dictatorship. US Hardin, editor of the journal 'Science', speaks for US imperialism when he says: It is unlikely that civiliza- tion and dignity can survive everywhere; but better in a few places than in none. For- tunate minorities must act as the trustees of a civilization threatened that is The economic crisis forces the monopolies towards dicta- torship and the attempt to smash the trade unions. political prerequisite for this is the hysteria of the middle class.

The distinguished members of the Club of Rome, consciously or otherwise, are investigating the possibilities of bringing the into debate environmental political service in this context.

The Stockholm conference on 'human environment' should be looked at in this light also.

Observers noted the propa- ganda triumph of Peter Walker, "own' Minister for the our Environment. He helped the efforts of the US represen- tatives to avoid discussion on the environmental con- sequences of US action in Vietnam. While the conference was US bombs were in progress, destroying the dykes, putting North Vietnamese economy in This great danger. was not "relevant by the considered United Nations delegates, nor was the preparation of the French government to explode an H-bomb in the Pacific.

know that, given Marxists planning of production, there are no 'limits' to man's ability to control the natural world of which he is the conscious part. But we should not merely • dismiss the nightmare argu- ments about man's self-destruc- tion with the correct assertion that socialism will solve all these problems. If the forces of production are not released by the socialist revolution, capitalism can destroy mankind. Nuclear war is only one way that the con- tinued existence of imperialism threatens society. The developments in tech- nology today, if left under the control of the monopolies, will pour deadly poisons into the t by John Crawford Top: the Stockholm conference of the conference was in progress preparation atmosphere. Already, the bio- logical systems of rivers and lakes are being wiped out and the oxygen content of oceans depleted, thus amplifying the effect of the dumping of masses of chemical wastes in the in- terests of the rate of profit.

Synthetic fertilizers and in- secticides, the foundation of the new industrialized agricul- ture, are destroying the poten- the United Nations on pollution onference was in progress preparations for the French H-bomb test in the pacific were being madı tial of the soil on a massive Radioactive scale. waste materials, both from industrial and military applications atomic energv accumulate un- measured hazards future xcc atoIs In the interests ot profits civilized life the basis tor being wiped out by the laws The hysteria of the o1 capital. environmentalists is thus the on and environment. Above: while the st in the pacific were being made death agony of capitalism as it reflects itself in the minds of those who cannot imagine a world without capital. We must not ignore what they have to say, for the ruling class will use it, along with all the other ideological effluvia of a rotting social order, in its efforts to cling to power.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

KEEPING IT IN THE FAMILY

Marlon Brando In 'The Godfather'-addi

BY BRIAN MOORE

It comes gift-wrapped, packaged and promoted, the product that like the alchemist's stone turned base metal into gold, or more precisely, the crip.

pling deficits of Para- mount Pictures, into handsome multi-million profits. I mean "The Godfather', currently on show at not one West End cinema, but four— movie of Mario Puzo's multi-million best selling book.

It has grossed more at the box 'Gone with the office than Wind', and, as any movie will tell you, that's mogul some grossing. It comes as an everyday story of Matia folk, except that no one is supposed to mention Cosa the word Mafia or Nostra, under the instructions of Joseph Colombo, the founder of the Italian •Ameri- can Civil Rights League and, incidentally, the head of one York's five Mafia of New families who was gunned down but a few weeks ago on the streets of New York. Instead the organization is • as the 'family' and at known its head is Don Corleone, the ageing patriarch who dispenses a nod of his justice with grizzled head. come the little To him people' of the Italian com- munity, those who have been wronged, abused, suffered in- justice at the hands of the pezzonovantes of the American establishment. The Godfather has a way of making offers 'that cannot be refused'. Your daughter has been wronged, he'll fix it; you want a part in a Hollywood movie, he'll fix it; and all for the price, not of anything as vulgar and insulting as money, but of friendship, the promise her'-adding to the glamour of the myth and n of one binding favour returned at some future date should it be required. For this he'll arrange maim- ings, beatings, or killings, or use his influence amongst his friends in the Senate, Depart- ment of Justice or police.

With all he is a traditional man, a believer in the sanctity of marriage, a lover of child- ren, an adherer to common decency, tender and a flowers. The upholder, in fact, of all the bourgeois values.

When he is approached to provide finance and protection for the hard drug racket, it is of caution his sense decency that compels him to decline the offer. Not that he against has anything a man earning his living, but he feels narcotics trafficking may put the backs up of the authori- ties and influential friends who support him. It is this refusal that sets in motion a brutal round of gang in which the Don warfare, himself is gunned down and • his eldest son eventually massacred. Michael, His youngest son Ivy League and war hero, is is drawn into the tray. It who takes Michael on the responsibility of killing the police Turk and a corrupt officer. He flees to Sicily for a year while the heat is on.

In essence the substance of the film is the waning of the old man's physical powers and the ascendancy of the younger son to replace him. It is he who assumes the mantle of the Godfather in a final bloodbath before moving the family's business interests to Las Vegas.

In this he earns his spurs, the respect of his lieutenants and the right to the title. The gangster has always been a key figure in Holly- wood mythology. Throughout the 1930s and the depression these dynamic impresarios of crime and violence were the yth and not the reality of the Mafia contradictory expression of the American dream, get-up- individual initiative, •and-go, the way in which the poor boy cast off his rags and assumed riches, though the censor never allowed that ultimate fulfil- ment. It was always resolved by a gunning down, the final dying words and the general moral imperative that he who lives by the sword or the Tommy gun dies by it. In reality crime paid hand- somely, of course. The syndi- cate is both an expression of American capital, and an in- dispensable part it. The more developed capitalism is, the more accute will be the penetration of crime and corruption. The peculiar historical, cul- tural and ethnic development of American capital makes it extremely sensitive to the incursion of crime of the Mafia immigration of type. The national minorities who came to America in search of a new life, driven by poverty from their native countries, looking for the streets to be paved with finding instead gold but poverty, the ghetto, and dis- crimination, provided the soil protective societies in which could flourish. The Mafia with its loyalty its silence, its blood oaths, ties, its code of vengeance and its is a pre-feudal secrecy, social organization adapted to the needs of modern capital- ism. That is the essential feature of it. It is capitalism drawn to its logical and violent limits. It is monopoly capital where competition is physically exterminated. The growth from the 'pro- tection' of the minority ghetto and the preservation, and above all violent, guarantee of markets into large-scale rackets mirrors the and syndicates of development of laws 'legitimate' capital itself.

Today American capital Workers Press, Mond enters its deepest crisis ever and at such times the corrup- tion of the system must begin the to reveal itself. Hence interest in the exposés of the Mafia. All the rottenness is coming to the surface. Yet as it does so, attempts are made to explain it away in bankrupt moral terms. And of 'The Godfather' the film does precisely that. The brilliance of the per- formances of Marlon Brando and Al Pacino actually add to the glamour of the myth and not the reality of the Mafia.

The old contradiction between the attraction of the gangster, who strides across the wide modern-day like screen Achilles or Hercules in hom- burg hat and cadillac, vaunt- ing his dignity, bravery and repulsion and prowess, bour- inspired by Christian geois hypocrisy, is unresolved in these terms. The counterposing of the family warfare is the bank- rupt liberal's moralizing finger- wagging. Further, it reduces violence on the screen to a spectacle, depersonalized, but yes, messy, gruesome, rendered totally abstract. This exploits is moralizing that sensation at the same time.

The extent of the family's business interests, the econo- mic basis of the power of the Godfather, the growth of it is swept decades, over aside. The question is reduced to the level of devils and bad angels, good men and As Michael says: 'My men. father is no different from any other powerful man' and we are into the defunct cliché of power corrupts. By keeping it 'in the family' the film con- sciously ducks every issue.

In spite of the pre-publicity ballyhoo, the film remains a brilliant public relations job for the Mafia itself-and as cover for American such a capital in its most degenerate crisis. 088, Monday September 4, 1972 PAGE 9 The Stalinist-controlled North London district committee of the engineers' union is sending out a report to shop stewards in preparation for their quar- terly meeting on September 14.

Discussing the role of the dis- trict in supporting the Penton- ville Five, it lists the following support for the protest strike which followed their jailing: Chiswick London Transport works, Port of London Autho- rity maintenance, London shif repair, Newham borough council, Warwick Wright Motors, Tower Hamlets borough council, London Trans- port lifts and escalators, Park Royal Vehicles and '200 mem- bers at Acton LTE (London Transport workships)'. This sounds great to those not in the know. But the fact is that although 200 Acton LTE workers did stay away, 1,100 worked after a mass-meeting vote went against the stoppage by six to five. Those who worked included prominent Stalinists... some of them on the North London air- committee port district (although in fairness a number of Communist Party members were among those who stayed away). More Two men, both named Constantine, were seen in animated conversation, slap- ping each other on the back and shaking hands. Both are mem- the exclusive Olympic bers of Executive Committee. One was Constantine Andrianov, the Soviet representative, and the other King Constantine of Greece bulwark of the Colonels regime, responsible for tortur- ing and murdering many mem- bers of the Greek Communist Party. They both seem great friends. Transport and General Work- ers' Union officials at Green- field, near Honeywell, say they are delighted. Courtauld's are to build a new flm acid plant at the town. 'We are very pleased. This is what we have fought for all along', said Jack Jones T&GWU leader at Courtauld's textile plant in Greenfield. The existing chemical plant is to be run down and a new plant will be built alongside.

It all sounds terrific. Said Jones: 'Now we have received the news we are much happier about the long-term future of the works.' Stan Bird, the engineers' con- venor at Greenfield, added: 'We are absolutely delighted.'

The flaw in this triumph of negotiation comes at the end of a dry report in a local paper.

It notes: It is thought that about 100 jobs will be lost as a result of the move to the new plant.'

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Monday Septem If any member of the Trotskyist movement should bump into the rotund form of Lord Cooper they had better watch out - the 64-year- old boss of Britain's third biggest union wants to shoot them! The ageing Cooper made this startling admission in an gave to the interview he 'Glasgow Herald'. The paper spread Cooper's ravings on "Trotskyites' across two lengthy columns. journalist According to Colm Brogan, Cooper, the general secretary of the Gen- and Municipal Workers' eral Union, is normally a placid bureaucrat. But one subject gets him really mad—'These Trots, are a complete people, menace,' he fumed, 'and we are very naive about them being here. They are totally against and only want its the system destruction.' He talked of his experience in the Pilkington strike where hundreds of glassworkers were sacked and blacklisted by local employers. "There was one fellow there.

We were watching him all the time. One day he was stirring up trouble in St Helens. The next day he was up at York doing the same thing. 'I would shoot a fellow like that. It's no use trying to win them over. They are not inter- ested.' But the thing that really terrified the Lord the most is the prospect of the Trotskyist movement becoming more powerful. 'What in God's name would happen,' he wails. 'The coun- try can't afford to be ruled by fanatics Later on in the interview Cooper reveals, of course, that the prospect of the country being ruled by Tory fanatics, who jail trade unionists, does not worry him at all. 'We all know the amount of damage industrial disputes can cause the country. The unions, under Labour as well as Tory governments, showed that they could not arrange voluntary conciliation and arbitration. 'It's no good now crying your eyes out if the govern- ment steps in and insists on on doing now what we should have done ages ago.' In fact Lord Cooper admits he almost likes the Industrial Relations Act: 'I have put one of my research workers on to find out why the TUC is so opposed to the Act. I can't find many myself reasons against it. If you are registered, then your power is so much greater and you have the backing of the law.' Finally he amazes us all with a statement on politics.

I am a good Labour man—l don't think I am a socialist. I don't really know what that means.' Cooper is soon to retire and this latest rabid opposition to militants only crowns the deep hostility he has always felt towards any movement inde- pendent of his union's bureau- cracy. the : G&MWU's 1957 At annual conference he warned against the 'unctious philo- sophy that all the virtues lie ay September 4, 1972

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Top: Lord Cooper. Above: what Pliking their local G&MWU with the rank and file. At this time he began plan- ning to transform unions into strong industry-based machines dominated by a powerful cen- tral body which would ordinate' the activities of the movement. He promoted the idea of compulsory ballots as early as 1955 and at the Donovan Com- mission on unions argued in favour of compulsory arbitra- tion procedures that both employers and unions could use. This would be achieved, said Cooper, by the re-intro- duction of the Industrial Dis- putes Order 1951. One of his biggest scares came in 1966. The union had just spent an enormous amount of its members' money pro- ducing 300,000 copies of a pamphlet called 'Why an In- comes Policy?' But his union delegates staged one of their rebellions and very rare passed a resolution condemn- ing the pegging of incomes of low-wage workers (1.e. his own members). Cooper and his general council acted fast. They called a special meeting and within months the offending policy 'Before was overturned. we take we must give', chirped the noble Lord. In 1966 an article in the London 'Evening Standard' told how angry Cooper was over the fight his members had made for better wages and conditions at Ford's. The 2,000 G&MWU members at the car combine paid £6.50 a year in union dues. After the strike were in the scandalous they position of having received £48 in strike pay. According to the 'Standard', suggested that the Cooper union should levy these men and make them pay back the

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2618 at Pilkington workers had to say about 12 the next money over months. In fact the bureaucrats in the G&MWU don't exactly get a raw deal. They are noted within the trade union move- ment for their snappy, if loud suits. In 1967 (a year after the Ford strike) the Royal Com- mission into trade unionism revealed that the union paid an average of £17,500 in strike pay each year-less, in fact, than it spent on cars for offi- cials. The drive for frugality does not appear to have penitrated either. the ınner sanctum Ruxley To w ers (called 'Cooper's Klondike' by the Tory press) is a Victorian_pile off the Kingston by-pass. It is one of the most palatial union headquarters in the land.

There the full-time officials and their wives can sport in 11 acres of lush grounds, play pool or take a turn round the nine-hole miniature golf course —if they get a little fatigued they can always retire to the well-stocked bar. They seem to do very nicely least-better than the -at G&MWU's members in Ford. In this environment, Cooper, once a Labour MP, moulded his views. He will no doubt develop them during his retire- ment, which, incidentally, will be most comfortable. Apart from his union pension, he holds lucrative directorships with Yorkshire Television, the Meat and Livestock Commis- sion, the Thames Conservancy Board and recently he joined the board of the National Bus Co on a £1,000-a-year retainer basis.

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for some time mounted a home-do vicious campaign—orche- The Social Security officials told him he would be assessed the Fleet strated by on the basis that his two sons press - against Street out at work should each give workers' legal rights to nim t4..u. During the first week of the Social Security benefits O'Brien strike conecies the week's wages he was owed.

when on strike. In the second week ne •Te. It has been designed to ceived f5 strike pay and a £4 the strikers and to isolate tax rebate from the firm he the middle class into whip worked for line against the trade union Out of all this he had to pay movement. €10 rent. And during the week Lurid pictures are obligingly back at work Mr O'Brien got painted in the newspapers of nothing and had to live on his subsi- violent ankers savings. while they dized by the state told Workers Press: he 'hold the country to ransom'.

'The dossier I had to fill just the reverse is Of course, to get my 75p was far worse Workers strike are than the Means Test. It took true. entitled to claim for their de- me 20 minutes to complete it.

pendants and have paid for "The Tories come on tele- what they get through national vision and make everything fair by saying that they insurance stamps. look During their recent strike many dockers found it tough Social money. going at the Social Security always thought they were sup- offices. One of them was James posta to pay your lent O'Brien, a 58-year-old docker "This is really having a dig Royal at people. It is a rotten thing who works on Docks in London. to do. What makes me so mad weeks the that people think During the four 1S he drew from money off the strike was on, getting our Social Security, but they the Camberwell Social Security office the princely sum of 75p hoodwinked by a smiling Tory for the second and third Mr on television. wouldn't have been able weeks. In the first week he drew to live if I didn't dig into my savings, said Mr O'Brien. no money. Mr O'Brien's wife I would like information about

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nicians, have refused to official national strike, and signed along the Communist of has the union leaders and rally oppose a polical mignt by bunders to lead to tne aereal ana resig 5, 8 p.m. Co-op Workerso nation Tories. Joe Fellowes, Transport and General Union at the Cubitt's World's End site appeals Barkil militant docks strike, UCS jobs fight.' the • strike ober loller or vantuers lu cools unions

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Tuesday September 5, 7.30 so tar. he calls tor ine oulaing or a new leadersnto in une and support from the rest of the working class for the p.m. White Hart Hotel, near Dry- building workers' struggle.

pool Bridge. Victory to the building workers. WEST LONDON: Tuesday Septem- Whartedale Road, (off York Way: Kings Cross •Stalinism and builders' struggle.'

WOOLWICH:

Tuesday September Queen's Road, rage 18. 'Lessons of the dock strike' SLOUGH: Wednesday September 7.30 Community Slough p.m. Tories out! Expose the traitors in the labour and trade move Speakers: Frank ment! Brian Bailey, both in a per- sonal capacity. ber 6, 7.30 p.m. Salon Hall, Town Hall. struggle the Scott-Lithgow engineers' fight.'

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sap- 7.30 p.m. Trade Union H. (President of Sunderland Trades work. Stop rents in- creases. Make the Tories resign.

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7.30 Basement D. Build Coun Theatre Town Hall. cils of Action. Force the Tories CLYDEBANK: Thursday, Septem- 8 p.m. Der l, Hall, Clydebank. 'Lessons of the UCS struggle.'

RHYMNEY:

Thursday September Working p.m. Rhymney e in Londone rejecter mens Club, Rhymney, workers—the first council bullders to join the strike in Wales. 'Crisis leadership in to return to work. the trade unions.' persuaded men sign SOUTHALL: Thursday September bers,

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Thurs- Because of ship in this strike. including the militants. day September 7, 8 p.m. this fact there is a great deal industry Market Festival Inn, of confusion among the rank- have always looked to the Street, and-file. 'Charter' leadership Square, Chrisp among They were The leadership must be forced the rank and file E14. 'What Market, by the rank and file to call an ones that helped draw up our Stalinism?' to claim. national strike in- all oul. SOUTHAMPTON: Friday building for eight weeks they every But voice 7.30 p.m. worker. Selective strikes are no have kept quiet and not brought September 8, whatsoever in this edition paper. solution 'The Glebe', Corner of London Action Committee, that separate Micalls Road and Henry, Brintons Jack Conga. Unless deals,

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• Kavanagh Northam Road. Speaker: this is done we "lew' lewis and Peter find split and have adapted themselves could ourselves Alan Thornett (deputy George Smith and rest steward Morris senior When Building workers must call for leaders Motors, Oxford, in a per- gone one way, the CP has a national agreement which gives has sonal capacity). 'The les- wage of £30 for a gone with ust 18 the the basic Smith a hull-page ins sons of the docks strike 35-hour week. It important to see that Star gave and the fight for jobs. terview. He was not asked any Communist Party and the the questions at all selective 'Charter' have not given

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strikes or company Ruskin House, us the leadershin and have do concus Coombe fact, all along the 'Morning Sicked upe herike ding workers.

ot the strike began they Star' has made no criticisms of strike! union leaderships. selective anve Insisted HULL: Wednesday September 13, say mey have be ser strikes instead of a national all- Now Sullic 7.30 Church Hall, Wayne p.m. out fight. group SoIl Road, (op Tories® Bransholme on Smith to bring him round to At the same time the Com- *Fighting the swallow') of thinking. But this is led our way Party De- Rent Act. trayal of Upper Clyde workers. good 7,000 Jimmy Reid and other CP mem- On August 8, when building workers the

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my site, came out Germany 1931/1932 Paperback £1.25- cloth £1.87} Where is Britain Going? have once more switched Paperback their line. When 1,000 London building Revolution Betrayed -cloth £1.05 WOrKerS mel Problems of the Chinese Revolution Westminster, on August -cloth £1.87% 17, Lewis and Kavanagh aneroack - Permanent Revolution : opposed calls from the floor that Results and Prospects Paperback 75p national strike. only be In Defence of Marxism because they on Smith Lessons or acrosel Men henry and Lewis Paperback 60p their reputations around made fighting the which took place 13-month Barbican une strike in 1967. But most building per book, 3p per not realize that this workers do strike was lost, WUlL Not only is the CP opposed to loba clapnam nigh street, London SW4 7UG. a national strike, but it also re fuses to bring any politics into Workers Press, Mond Joe Follower London Borough of Camden bartm • last Friday when Camden direct labour rejected union and management pleas this strike. Yet on the August 8 march building workers felt it a political battle because was they shouted 'Heath Out!'

Anyone of us can see that the Tories want to defeat the builders. Now it is time for the builders and the working class to stand up and defeat them.

Building workers must be poli- tically aware of who they are fighting. It's not just a question of a wage claim against the em- ployers. The Tory government are behind the employers every inch of the way. The Tories are waiting for us to be exhausted by the strike.

They want to starve back us and defeat the building workers like they have tried with eyery other worker. The real lesson in this strike is that we have no real leader- ship. In the end everything stands or falls on this question.

What sort of leadership do we need? First it must be a poli- tical leadership with the objec- tive of forcing the Tory govern- ment to resign. The union leaders still want to collaborate with the em- ployers and the Tories. But no worker can afford let this to government stay in office.

We must remember that the work- ing class is the biggest and most powerful force in this country and can make this government call an election. The union leaders be must made to call a General Strike to force the Heath government out.

A Labour government must be put in under conditions where it working class does what the tells it to do. One thing they do is nationalize must building industry to get rid of the lump once and for all.

The Tories have no intention of giving anything to building workers or anyone else. But the building workers can't fight this battle on their own. They must have and urgently need the support of the rest of the work- ing class. Now it's all down to the question of leadership. We must build a new one in the building unions, a political leadership which stands by its obligations to workers.

JOE FELLOWES

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FIVE-DAY London Festival of Light ended in Trafalgar Square yesterday afternoon with a mass the organizers of the 'Festi- val for Jesus' , however, the since Wednesday turn-out has been disappointing. On Saturday a pop concert-led by big-name Cliff Richard— only attracted about 7,000 to Hyde Park. The same event last year brought 20,000 out.

For five days the Festival-with organizers like Mary White- Malcolm Muggeridge house, and Lord Longford - has peddled ideology which has more in common with the Dark Ages than 1972. Spurning semblance of any rational and logical thought, they described Dunkirk as a 'miracle'. 'We are again surrounded and infiltrated. Only this time it is by a subtle and destructive enemy. Today we see the of moral steady erosion increase of values, the lawlessness, the violence, breakdown of family life,' they said. The answer? 'We want to bring supernatural talents out the in peoplé, I was told by one of the organizers. In reality it means that anyone who opposes authority, or to who contributes 'moral pollution' must be smashed • Nationwide Peti- down. "The tion for Public Decency' al- ready calls for strict censor- ship of the media. This paranoia of the petty- the bourgeoisie stricken by break-up of British capitalism finds its echo in the voices of two men. One is Enoch Powell who also talks of the 'enemy within' and 'moral pollution' and is a mortal opponent of the work- ing class. man is Adolf Hitler, The other who said in 'Mein Kampf': 'The fight against pollution of the mind must be waged simul- taneously with the training of the body. This seductive and notions into the heads of our atmosphere sensuous at their age youth, which ought to be unknown to them •. But if this fight is not fought to the finish ... littie of God's image will be left in human nature' SEE p. 11

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Printed by Plough Press Ltd. (TU), High Street, London. 180b Clapham nday September 4, 1972 IN TERMS of breast-beatin and soul-baring, today's event at the TUC will undoubtedly b the most dramatic of the cor terence. Visitors will witness the uniqu spectacle of 32 unions, representing combined membership of half a mi lion, being banished from the fol packing their bags and getting out Brighton. These 'bad boys' of the movemer will get their marching orders f failing to deregister under the Industrial Relations Act.

Their expulsion from the de- bate certainly will give the impression that something im- portant is happening at the 104th Congress, which is exactly the impression the leaders the trade union movement wish to create. In fact not one of the debates this week will really examine the enormous dangers that face all trade unionists in the coming year—still less will any policy be adopted to meet this challenge.

Even the General Council bid to expel the rebels from the Congress floor is ambiguous.

The • Council have not com- mitted themselves to expulsion, despite the prolonged and de- liberate violation of policy by the 34. recommendation before The Congress on this issue ends 'that any suspended union which has not deregistered by that date [December 31, 1972] shall_ con- tinue to be suspended until the 1973 congress, when its position will be reviewed. But it is on the issue of un- employment and opposition to the Tory government that the real bankruptcy of the leadership is revealed. On economic policy, once more, there is a long-winded resolution growth and full pleading for employment. This time there are more 'lefty' frills to satisty unions like the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers; calls for the control of profits and prices, THE TUC is preparing to adopt a weak and ambiguous future policy on co-operation with the Industrial Relations Act.

Congress decides its attitude on Wednesday morning. But already the technical and super- visory section (TASS) of the big engineers' amalgamation has relinquished a demand that unions must not appear before the National Industrial Relations Court or pay fines. This was a direct challenge. to existing TUC policy and the actions of the giant Transport and General Workers' Union.

At a press conference yester- day TUC general secretary Victor Feather would not say THE RIGHT wing in the National Union of Journalists suffered a shattering defeat at the weekend when a special delegate meeting in London on Saturday voted 171 to 160 not to rescind a deregistration de- cision taken by the NUJ annual conference in April.

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voters - unemployment, anti- union legislation, rents, price cuts in the welfare increases, services--these labour and trade union leaders have failed to fight the Tories. The miners' strike and the dockers' strike placed the Tory government in jeopardy. But the union leaders pulled back pre- cisely at that point. The Tory government is still in office and ruthlessly pursuing its attacks on the working class only because these leaders have it time and time again. rescued It is important to pass these resolutions at the Labour Party Conference. But that still leaves lot undone. Two major questions face every delegate and every Labour Party member and supporter: 1) How to bring this government basic right down before every won by the working class is t-beating 's events btedly be the con- ne unique resenting a nalf a mil- the fold, ing out of movement orders for

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN I

Housing withdrawal of the Finance Act and a shorter work- ing week. But on the key issue of further collaboration with the Tory government and the employers it says nothing. Everyone knows that in : the coming months more lip-service will be paid to all the tancy demands in the motion, while the TUC, the CBI and the Cabinet get cracking with their plan to stop strikes and cut wages.

The motion itself represents the kind of pious pleading for the Tories to 'do something' about the economy that has character- ized conference resolutions since the election of the Tory govern- ment in 1970. Two years ago - again at Brighton-Congress was 'gravely concerned' with the figure of 600,000 unemployed. Once more 'demanded' Congress that the General Council press the govern- ment for reflation. This ended in failure. The TUC report for 197} told the gloomy tale of this verbal offen- sive to bring prosperity back to Britain. The section on economic and organization began policy with these words: 'In the field of economic policy, last year cannot be described as of progress. The govern- one ment's policies have been based whether he thought this repre- sented tougher line than a present Congress policy. He is reserving his opinion until Hugh Scanion, the engineers' president, proposes the compos- ite on Wednesday. The composite also clearly en- visages payment of fines since it calls for a fund financed by unions to meet any penalties imposed under the Act. A motion from the Associa- tion of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians, which calls for a campaign including action to bring down industrial the Tory government and return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies, has been com- pletely lost. BUILDING workers in Bradford on Saturday unanimously passed a resolution reaffirming their determination to stay on strike till the full claim of £30 for 35 hours was won. The resolution, moved from the foor, rejected any return to work on the basis of company or local agreements.

savagely torn away? 2) How to make sure that these policies, once adopted at Black- pool, effectzare actually carried into Many, 'lefts' will speak en- thusiastically about socialism. But without mobilizing the working class to bring down the Tories, and force Wilson and company into office pledged carry out these policies, then all that will happen at the confer- ence will be talk. Socialist Labour League policy is to build Councils of Action in every area to unite all sections of the working class against the Tory attacks, and to force the TUC leaders to call a General Strike to drive the Tories out of office. Only a Labour government re- turned through such a working- class struggle can be pledged to carry out the socialist policies put forward by the ranks for the Blackpool conference.

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on its doctrine of disengagement, quite alien to the General Coun- cil's view of the needs of a modern industrial society.'

Presumably in case anyone thought the TUC was going to get really radical and give up its bid to persuade the Tories, the council added: 'Despite this, the General Council's longstanding with the approach to dealing which of the day, government restated was shortly atter the General Election has been main- tained throughout the year.

Since these immortal words, the TUC has been 'dealing' with the Tories for further 12 a months, unemployment is now 930,000, this winter it could be 15 million and we ind the 1UC still begging for reflation.

The policy on the anti-union laws, however, has not remained static. From the peak of opposition at Croydon in March 1971, rè- the Tory Act has sistance to steadily crumbled. Only spon- by workers— action taneous without any call from the top has had any effect on the National Industrial Relations Court.

The biggest retreat, ironically, occurred on May Day, when the TUC 'inner cabinet' gave unions a free hand to appear before the court. But not one resolution on the

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He raged that the decision had "so to be overturned that a flourishing shipbuilding industry can be established on the upper reaches of the Clyde'. Publicly agreeing with Airlie, Govan chairman • Lord Strathal- mond added: 'When customers see this kind of thing going on I am very frightened it is making our job impossible' Strathalmond cannot lay his hands on a penny of the £35m loan from the Tories until the procedural agreement is signed with its near exclusive emphasis on workers' good behaviour in future. So while the Stalinists trumpet shrilly that the whole project is threatened, the boilermakers say calmly that a few days either way won't make much difference to the company, but could be of major importance to them.

They add that shop stewards and union officials are deliber- ately whipping up hostility to their action among other trade unionists at and the the yards general public by issuing con- demnatory press statements.

'They know better than any- body what the papers will make of it, said Mr Borg. shop The stewards, the Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Union and all nine other unions at the yards have given their signatures, but none of their members have had a chance to fully study the agree- ment. Trouble flared the among boilermakers after stewards broke ranks and circulated duplicated copies to all their members.

Shipbuilding for profit on the upper Clyde is finished. To sur- vive even a year or two a vastly truncated manufacturing unit and a docile labour force is essential.

Short the demand nationalization of the shipbuild- ing industry without compensa- and under workers' control, tion capitalist business logic has forced the Stalinists back to surrender every point in the fight and in doing so have been forced willy nilly to link arms with the Tories and the employers. Already 3,700 jobs have dis- appeared from the four yards and agenda this week calls the TUC to task for this abysmal collapse.

Still less does any union call for mass industrial action against the legislation. After all the traumas, jailings and fines, the TUC is back to where it was in 1970 with no positive policy of action against the anti-union laws apart from their original demand a Labour government to repeal it.

A few hearts may flutter if Hugh Scanlon of the engineers presses his demand that there should be no co-operation with the court. But it appears that he and Jack Jones of the Transport and General Workers' Union, whose union has appeared at the NIRC, have come to a diplomatic agree- ment to spare each other any embarrassment. It is in this atmosphere of abject complacency that the Brighton Congress begins.

There will, of course, be fist- waving from • the rostrum, warlike threats and general shouting around-this is all good form so long as the movement does not get committed to a political fight would disturb the cosy that relationships with the Tories and the employers. who walk out to- The unions day will leave little better behind them. now by a mixture of passionate oratory the Stalinists have almost succeeded in foisting on the 4,000 men left at Govan a deal which not only gives no jobs guarantees wage and bonus and no new rates, but which emphasizes in almost every line the urgency of renewed effort to maximize interchangeability and produc- tivity. The boilermakers have called their bluff. They are not pre- pared to budge another inch.

of being taken in by Instead the Stalinists men throughout the yards should read the agreement and throw their weight behind the boilermakers.

LIVERPOOL

LECTURES

Tremendous interest has been shown In Liverpool for the serles of lectures starting next Tuesday. Already large num- bers of tickets have been sold.

If you are interested in obtain- ing your ticket please contact: Bill Hunter, 58 Leighton View, Liverpool 8. Tel.: 051-709 7734.

Socialist Labour League

FOUR LECTURES

THE THEORY AND

PRACTICE OF MARXISM

given by

G. HEALY

(SLL national secretary) 1. Marxism as the theory of knowledge Tuesday September 5 2. Development of Marxism through working-class struggle Tuesday September 12 3. Nature of the capltalist crisis Tuesday September 19 4. Historical materialism today Tuesday September 26

AEU HOUSE

Mount Pleasant Liverpool 1, 7.30 p.m.