Workers Press no. 860

workers press

RANKS DEPRIVED RIGHT OF EXPULSION

TUC CLIMB-DOWN

ON REBEL UNIONS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

FROM JOHN SPENCER IN BRIGHTON

MILLIONS of trade unionists have been deprived of the right to expel the collaborators who have registered un- der the Tory Industrial Relations Act.

At Brighton yesterday the TUC was poised to suspend 32 unions which have defied Congress policy and accepted state control under the Tory Registrar.

But they will remain 'in the family': the General Council has pledged that it will not allow other unions to recruit their members.

And a series of backstage manoeuvres be.

the General Council right wing, the tween *left' union leaders and Communist Party mem- bers and fellow-travellers in leading positions that there on union delegations have ensured will be no real challenge to them in tomorrow's debate on the Act, either.

After listening to rebel spokesmen general secre- tary Victor Feather hoped yesterday afternoon they would 'make it possible for their suspension be lifted' before the end of the year.

Congress went out of its way to spare the rebel The delegations any embarrassment.

vote on sus- pension came at the end of the day's session and there was to be no enforced 'walk out' Other. unions were not allowed to speak on the appeals: The gesture of suspension is a cover behind which the union leaders can make their own peace with the Tory government and its anti-union laws.

George Smith, the TUC TUC's talks with he justified the •ambiguous formula that unions the CBI and the government (see should face the discipline of page three report). Congress for 'using the facilities of the Act. Yesterday morning the General General Council Council voted 20 to 11 not members support a resolution calling for privately admit that this formula immediate operation of Rule 13 will leave the interpretation of in the event of any union using policy entirely in their hands. 'any of the facilities of the Act.

In an attempt to stop the right- moved wing majority continuing to This resolution, to be allow appearances at the NIRC, Wednesday by Hugh Scanlon on Scanlon says he will attempt to of the Union Amalgamated refer back the relevant section Engineering Workers is a heavily of the General Council's report.

emasculated amalgam of resolu- tions on the original order paper But this manoeuvre will in no way restore the TASS demand: Leaders of Association of

AUEW

the motion itself fore- and Cinematograph, Television shadows the payment of fines Technicians, who Allied are through the setting-up of a joint seconding, have allowed their fund to penalties im- for "a meet any policy nationwide union posed under the Act. campaign, including if necessary action to bring this The squalid industrial manoeuvring down and fight which will lead to this formula government to for the return of a Labour gov.

being put to the Congress to- ernment comested to genuine morrow directly implicates mem- dis- socialist policies to bers and fellow-travellers of the from the composite. Communist Party. appear This means that nowhere It is believed that the key

TUC.

points of the ACTT motion were the agenda of this year's whose 10 million affliated mem- dropped, without consultation the with his delegation, by general bers are facing perhaps gravest threat to their jobs, secretary Alan Sapper at a com- wages and trade union rights in positing meeting at the weekend.

their history, is there a single No attempt seems have real call to action against the by Sapper been made to insist Tories. that his independent union's A demand from the technical and section (TASS) supervisory of the engineers' amalgamation, for opposition to appearances be- BLACKED car components from fore the National Industrial Re- Kent, were not handled by fork-lift tru tions Court or payment of fines, Liverpool, plant yesterday and 2,000 wo dropped. had been began walking out during the of a fork-lift driver who ref sacking Instead the union's leaders Creffield lorry was then turned away by have swung behind the weak and

WSLETTER • TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1972

ENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

position expressed in be an amendment to the

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motion. Yet his position have must ers been tacitly endorsed by at least one CP member at a subsequent delegation meeting. In the case of TASS, deputy secretary Ken Gill and the other CP members in the delegation are known to have favoured acceptance of the composite formula. Both so-called tactical moves will be considered by many thousands of union members as a completely unjustifiable inter- ference with the agreed policy of their annual conferences.

Yet the CP hails the fact that the compromise allows 'unity' be- tween Hugh Scanlon and Jack Jones of the Transport and General Workers' Union, who has already paid £55,000 in fines to the court. (See page three story on Jones' Sunday-night attack on his docker members.) The Morning Star' yesterday attempted to present this man- oeuvre as a 'challenge' to the TUC General Council. In reality, the Stalinists have already en- sured that tomorrow's debate will be a sham battle. from Crefield Engineering, Tonbridge, rk-lift truck drivers at Ford's Halewood, 2,000 workers in the transmission plant le afternoon. The dispute followed the who refused to touch the goods. A 1 away by management. 1 5, 1972 • No 860 • 4p

• SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Bollermakers' president Dan McGarvey side Stalinist James Reid at an Impro terday. (See What we thrink p. 2.)

A FORMULA aimed at solving the conflict between boiler- makers and Govan Shipbuilders was being thrashed out yester- day on the Clyde. Scottish boilermakers leader James Murray met local officials of the union and Archibald Gilchrist, managing director of the company, to find 'a formula of words' that would be put to a mass meet- ing of men tomorrow. The boilermakers want a guarantee from the company that any pay deal will be made retrospective to the date nego- tiations start. After seeing leading shop stewards at the Brighton TUC yesterday, boilermakers' presi- dent Danny McGarvey, said he hoped the issue would be settled very quickly. "The problem rests fairly and squarely with the boiler- makers; that is, are they now going to destroy the good work that has been done over the last 14 months?,' he said.

McGarvey (left) makes a point to Clyde- an Impromptu meeting at Brighton yes- Shop stewards' leader James Reid said he was happy to concur with McGarvey's state- ment. This was a repeat of Reid's own attack on the boiler- makers made in the Tory press on Monday. However another obstacle has arisen. Twelve boiler- makers have been refused per- mission by local union leaders to go to the Scotstoun yard centre for retraining. McGarvey said that this was union policy which against had already accepted flexi- bility and interchaneability. He said Murray would be giving an instruction to today's mass meeting on this issue. Company chairman Lord Strathalmond has said that if he does not get the boiler- makers' pledge to sign a deal he will be unable to advise the board meeting at 10.00 a.m.

today that the company should start work on September 11.

workers press

RANKS DEPRIVED RIGHT OF EXPULSION

TUC CLIMB-DOWN

ON REBEL UNIONS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1972

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIA

FROM JOHN SPENCER IN BRIGHTON

MILLIONS of trade unionists have been deprived of the right to expel the collaborators who have registered un- der the Tory Industrial Relations Act.

At Brighton yesterday the TUC was poised to suspend 32 unions which have , policy and accepted dehed Congress state control under the Tory Registrar.

But they will remain 'in the family': the General Council has pledged that it will not allow other unions to recruit their members.

manoeuvres be- And a series of backstage the tween General Council right wing, une 'left' union leaders and Communist Party mem- bers and fellow-travellers in leading positions union delegations have ensured that there will be no real challenge to them in tomorrow's debate on the Act, either.

After listening to rebel spokesmen general secre- Feather hoped yesterday afternoon they • Victor tary would 'make their suspension 101 be lifted' before the end of the year.

Conti ens any embarasment one re ton sue delegations vote on sus- end of day's session and at the delle there was to be no enforced 'walk out.

Other. unions were not allowed to speak on the appeals: of suspension cover behind which the turion leaders can make their orn prace with the Tory government and its anti-union laws.

TUC

George the president, made this e uauca lil ambiguous formula that unions position be expressed

AUEW

me ene de coveruerL ioce discipline amendment to the Sooued page three report). Congress for 'using the facilities motion. of the Act'. Yesterday morning the General Yet his position must have Council voted 20 not to General Council members been tacitly endorsed by at least resolution calling for privately admit that this formula one CP

SUDDOLL

arennden u seatem Rule 13 interpretation of delegation meeting. immealate operaton willt ente …Tne the event of any union using policy entirely in their hands.

In the case 'any of the facilities of the Act In an attempt to stop the right- Sep ter Ken Gill and other wing majority continuing moved the delegation This resolution,

ICLDCO

LO Oti Hugh Scalon at the NIRC have favoured Wednesday by aHOw noveaannces are KROWnI • LO Scanlon says he will attempt to acceptance the composite Union Tine Ama amater back the relevant section formula. Emailied Work gamo resily of the General Council's report.

emasculated amalgam resolu- Both so-called tactical moves But this manoeuvre will in no will be tions on the original order paper consiacica many

TASS

way restore demand: thousands members of Association of Tne

OTUMON

Leaders the

AUEW

motion itself fore fereome inter- Cinematograph, elevicion hadows the with agreed policy payment of fines Allied Technicians who are their through the setting-up of have allowed a oll otre anua conclcaces seconding fund to meet any penalties im- Yet the CP hails the fact that

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nauolwide posed under the Act. including if necessary campaign, the compromise allows 'unity' be- this industrial action bring The tween Scanlon and Jack nanoeuvrin down and to fight lead his formula the and Iransport coverucal Tulca for the return of a labour gov.

the Congress General Workers' Union. who has already paid £55,000 in fines to socialist and fellow-travellers of the court. policies appear from the composite.

Communist Party. (See page three story on Jones' that nowhere believed that the key Sunday-night his This means It is alLak

TUC,

the agenda points docker members.) ot lnis vear s ot the All motion were 10 million affiliated mem- dropped, without consultation 'Morning Star' The yesterday perhaps the delegation, bers facing his by general present this attempted to man to threat jobs eravest toen secielaw nai aooer al a com• challenge' oeuvre the positing meeting at the weekend.

TUC

General Counci. In realitv history, there No attempt seems to have the Stalinists have already sured that tomorrow's debate will been made by Sapper to Ical Call LU Tories. be a sham battle. independent umal A demand from the technical supervisory section

(TASS)

engineers' the amalgamation, be- Tonbridge, components from T• o•poson lo doocałalles

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_car rene o arcineerine fore the Kent, were not handled by fork-lift truck drivers at Ford's Halewood National Inaustria: Ke- tions Court or payment of fines, plant yesterday and 2,000 workers in the transmission plant Liverpool, had been dropped. Dedan walking out •mne une anemon conne ols oute Tonowe• sacking of fork-lift driver who refused to touch the goods. Instead the union's leaders Creffield lorry was then turned away by management.

have swung behind the weak and • 5, 1972 • No 860 • 4p

• SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Bollermakers' prosident Dan McGarvey sIde Stalinist James Reid at an impror terday. (See What we thrink p. 2.)

A FORMULA aimed at solving the conflict between boiler- makers and Govan Shipbuilders was being thrashed out yester- day on the Clyde. Scottish boilermakers' leader local James Murray met officials of the union and Archibald Gilchrist, managing director of the company, to find 'a formula of words' that would be put to a mass meet- ing of men tomorrow. The boilermakers want a guarantee from company the that any pay deal will be made retrospective to the date nego- tiations start. After seeing leading shop stewards at the Brighton TUC yesterday, boilermakers' presi- dent Danny McGarvey, said he hoped the issue would be settled very quickly. The problem rests fairly and squarely with the boiler- makers; that is, are they now going to destroy the good work that has been done over the last 14 months?, he said.

McGarvey (lett) makes a point to Clyde.

an Impromptu meeting at Brighton yes- Shop stewards' leader James Reid said he was happy to concur with McGarvey's state- ment. This was a repeat of Reid's own attack the boiler- makers made in the Tory press on Monday. However another obstacle has arisen. Twelve boiler- makers have been refused per- mission by local union leaders to go to the Scotstoun yard centre for retraining. McGarvey said that this was against union policy which had already accepted flexi- bility and interchaneability. He giving said Murray would be an instruction to today's mass meeting on this issue. Company chairman Lord Strathalmond has said that if he does not get the boiler- makers' pledge to sign a deal he will be unable to advise the board meeting at 10.00 a.m.

today that the company should start work on September Il.

What we think - Rail strike shakes PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tueeday Septem YESTERDAY'S blistering attack on Govan boilermakers by the Communist Party stewards' com- of brings the wheel mittee betrayal on the upper Clyde full circle. occupation When the so-called began on july 30, 1971, the seit- appointed co-ordinating commit- tee was pledged to the retention of all four yards and not a man down the road. Now they have signed agree- ments with the Marathon Manu- _ Company and Govan facturing Shipbuilders Ltd which not only contain no hint of jobs guaran- tees, but which were drawn up with the specific understanding that only about 4.700 men would eventually be employed-half the figure 14 months ago. The drastic slashing of the would have been workforce impeded without the seriously stewards' agreement on the 'rapid of work practices elimination' unconducive to maximum man- power utilization. The Tories were dealing with men to whose lips such promises came easily. Now the chickens have come The first 12 of home to roost. 144 men left in the work-in turned up at Govan yesterday to begin a retraining course which Will eventually equip them to work with the new company's 1,200 boilermakers. The snag is that not only are these extra men, but under the terms of the procedural agree- they not merely retain ment their old skills but full use of basis of them well on the as total job interchangeability.

In this new species of worker the Govan men see a threat to their jobs and for this and other equally fundamental reasons refuse to sign the agreement.

Stalinist Clydebank convenor and work-in leader James Reid immediately turned on them.

condemned the boiler- He makers' action saying it was 'a question of wanting to put so called sectional interests before the interests of the broad mass of their fellow workers'.

He added: 'We fought for 14 months for the principle of the right to work and have argued that no one has the right to deny men that principle. This applies to the government, the employers and to any section of the work- ing class.' For a man who has personally presided over the loss of over 2,000 jobs, this is obscure hypocrisy. If the boilermakers are fight- now it is precisely because ing the job security that Reid and the rest of the stewards were supposed to have has won proved to be non-existent in the face of their acceptance of maxi- mum job mobility. With this shameful record of collaboration at his back Reid has the nerve to say: 'We owe it not only to our fellow workers but to the Scottish community and to the ordinary people who magnifi- have , supported us so cently to make it crystal clear that we are not nor will ever be party to a betrayal of everything we ever stood for' He went on: 'We earnestly hope that decency, common sense and sanity will prevail. We hope that those individual sections who have deceived the workers because of their attitude to go it alone will find the true effec- tive answer from the great mass of the UCS and What he does not say is that if the great mass of the UCS workers have gone along with the agreement, it is largely lea у seplember 5, 1072 because they have never laid eyes on it. By invoking the sanction the stalinisters pet the sarate the Stalinists hope the boilermakers and force them to climb down. Reid and James Airlie's accusa- tion that the boilermakers are sectional selfish and pursuing is a interests diver- deliberate sion. The Stalinists know better than anybody that the deal has been rejected not only because of the boilermakers' fear for their jobs but because they have dis- covered it contains no specific wage and bonus rates and no provision for retrospective pay- ment. The boilermakers have not had a rise for two years because of the work-in, while the cost of living has skyrocketed. Yet Reid said: We are in no that the majority of doubt boilermakers have been deceived by people who want to apply the concept of the rat race to the trade union movement.' The fight for higher wages, the rat race which Reid spurns, has always been the very foundation the trade union movement.

of • boilermakers' stand is not The testimony to their greed so much as to the way the Stalinists have •as the vehicle for Tory acted strategy to use unemployment to drive down wages and conditions . of work. Now that they have seen the agreement that the co-ordinating committee signed, hundreds of realize that the boilermakers Stalinists' insistence on the fight for the right to work has been a cover for their complete sur- render on all other issues.

With even their own stewards in favour of the deal, the boiler- makers have been driven to wage what appears to be a sectional fight. In reality their lead should be followed by every man at UCS who now looks forward to a period of unprecedented exploita- tion by their new employers. Their stand has laid bare the final bankruptcy of the Stalinists' so-called fight on the upper Clyde. And their determination in the teeth of all odds gives the final lie to the Stalinists' claim that it was never possible to defend the right to work on the Clyde throughout Scotland General Strike to mobilizing a force the Tories to resign.

In June, July and August 1971 thousands of workers tens took to the streets in defence of the right to work at UCS and Moved that will and le the boilermakers energy to bring down the most reactionary employers' govern- ment since the war was always there. That it never found expression is a political crime that must be laid fairly and squarely at the door of the Stalinists. They put themselves into the lead of the fight at UCS only to betray it at every turn. The inescapable price of their reformism in the face of inexor- able market forces and a ruth- less Tory government has been to drag them from one side of the class fence to the other until today they have ended up in the same camp as the government and the employers, with Reid Airlie making statements and indistinguishable from those of Govan boss Lord Strathalmond.

Workers' militancy alone was not sufficient to -overcome this conscious treachery. The crisis at

UCS

that of the whole working class can be seen more clearly than ever before to be crisis of revolutionary leadership.

THE

24-HOUR strike of Ital- ian railwaymen was due to start last night further threatening the already unstable two-month-old coalition of Signor Giulio Andre- atti. The railway workers are de. manding pay increases, stati in- and massive investment creases in the rail system. Industrial struggle is certain to intensify during the autumn as the contracts of some 4 million industrial workers come up for

BY JACK GALE

NORTH VIETNAMESE troo tured a vital government Rang of Pleiku. The Americans calle and unsuccessful attempt to re This defeat is the most serious military setback to the South Vietnamese gov- ernment since last June. Heavy fighting is also taking place on the north-east approaches to An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon. Meanwhile, the South Viet- namese government has an- nounced a new 2,000-man PRINCE SIHANOUK said yes- terday that China and North Vietnam had found new ways to transport supplies through North Vietnam to the southern battle- despite the American fields aerial bombardment. "The bombing is having some effect. There are less weapons getting through but we have still got enough, he said. Chinese Premier Chou En-lai has told him that in the event

FOREIGN NEWS

FIERCE CLASHES were expec- ted yesterday throughout Chile between supporters of President Salvadore Allende and right- wing Christian Democratic National Party members. Union leaders have called on workers to down tools and join the parades and rallies to mark second anniversary of Allende's electoral victory in which he obtained 31 per cent of the vote and defeated the Christian Democratic candidate Radomiro Tomic. Popular Unity leaders have warned of a 'September Plan'

BRITISH

Prime Minister Edward Heath strongly called on his Irish counterpart Jack Lynch to crack down on IRA activities operating from the south. Both are in Munich at the Olympic Games. Heath was in a tough mood when the two men met for an hour-and-a-half at the British Consulate General for talks on the Northern Ireland situation.

The talks come one week be- fore Heath is due to meet lead- ers of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. They also precede the all-party conference on the future of Northern Ireland ar- ranged for later this month by Ulster Supremo William White- law. renewal before the end of the year. Some 300,000 chemical work- ers are threating a 24-hour walk out on Thursday in protest over a breakdown in negotiations for a new labour contract. Sections of the lower middle class are also being hit by Italy's economic crisis. Butchers, grocers and greengrocers in Rome are to shut down this week in protest 60-day against an emergency price freeze imposed by civil au- SE troops advancing into the Cent it Ranger base at Plei Me, about 20 m ans called in two flights of heavy B5 pt to repel the North Vietnamese a armoured drive across the routes used by the liberation forces between southern Cam- bodia and the western Mekong Delta. In Cambodia, government forces have still made no progress towards breaking the grip of the liberation forces on Highway Two, the main link to the south from the capital, Phnom Penh.

of the war going on another four years, China would con- tinue to make all-out efforts to assist the Indo-Chinese peoples until final victory. There has been a new agree- ment between the Soviet Union and China for the trans-shipment of Soviet war material through China to North Vietnam to ofi- set American mining and block- North Vietnamese ading of orts and the renewed US bomb- ng campaign. domestic and organized by foreign reactionary groups aim- ing at the overthrow of Allende's regime. President Eduardo Former Frei, whose Christian Democrats ruled from 1964 to 1970, has issued a statement saying that if the Popular Unity called its people onto the streets 'then we, too, should do the same because we are the biggest single party and we also have the right to occupy the streets'. As well _as Northern Ireland, the Heath-Lynch talks were ex- pected to cover entry into the Common Market. This is Heath's first meeting with Lynch since the signing of the EEC accession treaty in Brussels last January.

Heath and Lynch will both have separate talks with West German • Chancellor Willy Brandt later this week. Heath is also due to meet West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel and the Bavarian right wing leader Franz-Josef Strauss.

Another key 'Olympic' meeting involves Willy Brandt and the French President Georges Pomp- idou. thorities two weeks ago. The shopkeepers claim the freeze is often forcing them to sell food less than the price they pay the wholesalers. Andreotti's centre-right coali- tion of Christian Democrats, Lib- Democrats, erals and Social supported from the outside by the Republicans, is already torn internal wranglings apart by about the introduction of colour test television. It seems unlikely to last for long. le Central Highlands have cap- out 20 miles west of the key city eavy B52 bombers in a desperate amese attack. Liberation forces cut the high- way at several points along an 18-mile stretch last week.

Cambodian troops also failed to free Highway Five, the only road to the north-west, which supplies Phnom Penh's rice.

Some liberation army forces within 12 miles of are now Phnom Penh. In Laos, North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao troops now control 80 per cent of the country, leaving only the major popula- tion centres and land along the Mekong River bordering Thailand in government hands. that Diplomatic reports say Prince Souvanna Phouma's gov- ernment intends to try to regain some of the territory it has lost over the last three years in northern Laos and the Bolovens Plateau in southern Laos. This strengthen the would govern- ment's hand in a hoped-for con- ference between the two sides.

In the latest exchange of mes- sages, Pathet Lao leader Prince who is Prince Souphanouvong, Souvanna's half-brother, rejected the Prime Minister's call for a international cease-fire under supervision. He has also rejected a suggestion that military and political problems should be dis- cussed separately. In turn the government has refused a long-standing Pathet demand that the United States stop bombing operations in Laos. The Pathet Lao claims that since President Nixon took Americans have office, the dropped more than 3 million tons of bombs on Laotian territory. Without this bombing, of began his course-which at request in 1964 — Prince Souvanna would be unable to keep the battered Laotian army in the field. Prince Souvanna also faces a political threat from rightists in the National Assembly who have called for a complete government reorganization. But all the foreign powers- including China—connected with the 1962 Geneva Agreement, which placed Prince Souvanna in office, have indicated that his government is the only accept- able one for eventual negotia- tions on the Indo-China war.

Prince Souvanna has stated that his government needs two conciliation, to achieve 'national more years with the Pathet Lao.

TRADES UNION

THE DOME BR

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN BRIGHTON

TUC PRESIDENT George Smith yesterday defended the General Council's talks with the Tories and the employers, despite the fact that his own building union members are locked in bitter struggle with them over pay. Smith, general secretary of dealing with problems through the agreed exercise of free will.

the Union of Construction Allied Techni- Then he returned to the re- Trades and actionary core of his argument: 'We cians, insisted: must 'When spoke about the never imagine that we are an alienation which is expressing alternative form of govern- itself at every level of the com- ment.' he said, could al- munity, In his address opening to most have said that there is a Congress, he said that union degree of normlessness prevail- leaders had to make certain ing which threatens the whole their views were delivered and of our social fabric in a manner heard throughout the land. which does not conform to any Therefore representations to classical exposition social government were a particularly revolution class struggles.' essential part of their respon- lies behind What this, of sibilities. the course, is unaccustomed He claimed that the Heath rough Smith had been ride government, which had ap- given by his members his in 'hell-bent peared on pursuing attempts to settle their pay abrasive policies' had now been claim piecemeal. 'compelled the to recognize combined with his re- But need for effort, co-operative understanding and intelligent approach amic and social i present to our econ- In a clear bid for the support UPPER CLYDE shipyards will of the ele- conservative of Congress not be joining in tomorrow's ments he talked the darkly about 'what is happen- Communist Party-controlled ing to workpeople out of econ- Committee the and the omic circumstances Defence of Trade Unions. disturbances social condi- i was revealed tions in the United Kingdom. Clydebank of Festival at Brighton by the Shades the of convenor, Light! Ross. Defending the TUC-CBI con- Mr Ross said that it was not ciliation and arbitration the existing service, whose panel of arbitra- appropriate in circumstances for the men tors includes a former director to the National Federation of join in the protest which is of Building Trades Employers, he against the Industrial Relations said they could lead to a reli- Act. able, independent method of He also revealed that the doing A

PUBLIC

attack who have been on militants in the trade many things to besmirch union movement who the of trade the policies of unionism that they oppose official the leadership only splitting the move- ment?' has been launched by head of the veiled Jack Jones, This was a Transport General and reference to angry Workers' Union. attacked dockers who Speaking at a poorly- Jones after docks dele- Jack Jones 'Tribune' attended voted his gates on meeting in Brighton on recommendation to call always accept the de Sunday night, Jones off the national recent the appealed against what strike. sions of 'thugs made it he described Jones also Council. even as and anarchists' within clear that he was pre- have been arainst pared his the ranks. to make because a split He called trade union a prisoner of the delight on our opponen unionists resist any right wing: Jones' to speech union has "My keynote of the solits in their ranks. own made it clear that it ence. intention has Under the unity he has made series which in 1972 ls now available as a pamphlet in Socialist Labour League Pocket Library.

NHY A LABOUR GOVERNMENT

• Reply to some centrist critics By Cliff Slaughter Price 5t Other titles in this series include: The Case for a General Election A reply to some By Alex Mitchell. The Ulster Dossier centrist critics The Social Security Swindle which includes the All Trades Unions Alliance Draft Manifesto and the Charter of Basic Rights By Cliff Slaughter

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E BRIGHTON

George Smith marks about the government, it shows just where the Con- gress right wing is moving.

In 1919 Lloyd George had to tell the TUC leaders their place. If a force arises ..

which is stronger than the state ... it must be ready to take on the functions of the state, or withdraw and accept the authority of the state, he challenged. Today the union leaders convey this mes- themselves age to their members without any prompting from Heath.

Communist Party-dominated stewards' shop co-ordinating committee at the yards had not called for the men to sup- port the strike. This complete capitulation is despite the fact that James Airlie, the Stalinist who is second in command to james Reid on the co-ordinating com- mittee, is also chairman of the Scottish Liaison Committee.

At a meeting last week in Glasgow Airlie called on all stewards to mobilize the men in their factories behind the protest. pact with Hugh Scanlon of the engineers over the Industrial Relations Act. This effectively scotches any possibility of the TUC taking a hard line on appear- before the ances National Industrial Re-. lations Court or pay- ment of its fines. pt the deci- The "Tribune' meet- General ing had an abysmally en if they attendance. low The against us, room was half-full, with split would about 40 people, at the opponents? start. Later this rose to eech is the to hear Labour the confer- Party Wedgwood le name of Benn make a speech on as made a the Common Market. 28 Charlotte St

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Workers Press, Tuesday September 5, 1972 PAGE 3

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

LABOUR leader Harold Wilson is to meet his Shadow Cabinet in London today to discuss the party's posi- tion on the issue of the Uganda Asians expelled by General Idi Amin. Wilson, who has declared his complete and total support for the Tory government's policy of appeasing the racialists, returned overnight for the meeting from a three-week holiday in the Scilly Isles. He has issued no statement condemning the statements of several big Labour councils that they have no room for the Asians statements which have been shamelessly used by the Tory press to whip up racialist propaganda.

And in a statement yesterday to the 'Daily Express', which has been at the centre of this campaign, he had this to say of the expelled families: "They must be spread as widely as possible and their entry period phased over the maximum perind.'

TREMENDOUS

In other words, the Labour leader will up fight against the racialists within his

INTEREST IN

own ranks and is prepared to blanche give carte to whatever calculated humiliations the Tory

LIVERPOOL

have in store may for the Asians.

LECTURES

If Labour 'lefts' like Michael Foot, MP, do not roundly con- demn this unprincipled, oppor- tunist and dangerous at today's with Wilson meeting Tremendous Interest has been they will stand exposed as its Liverpool allies. shown series of leblures starting ho for night. Already In Leicester Labour large num- today, bers of tickets have been sold.

councillors led by Alderman If you are Interested in obtain.

Edward Marston will try to tell Uganda ing your ticket please contact: members of the Tories' BIll Hunter. 58 Leighton Vlew, Resettlement that Board the Liverpool 8. Tel. : 051-709 7734.

city has reached 'saturation point' for immigration. Socialist Labour League

FOUR LECTURES

chairman Charles Board Sir

THE THEORY AND

Cunningham will be led on carefully-staged of the

PRACTICE OF MARXISM

Highfields area of the city which given by is obviously designed to attract publicity for the

G. HEALY

maximum Labourites' claims. (SLL national secretary) 1. Marxism as the theory of Meanwhile the extreme right- knowledge British Movement, led by wing Tuesday September 5 Colin Jordan, who week last 2. Development Marxism of notably escaped arrest after dis- through working-class struggle rupting a Leicester council meet- Tuesday September 12 took ing, advantage of this 3. Nature of the atmosphere to call air and capitalist on transport workers who might be crisis Tuesday September 19 involved in the resettlement pro- gramme to withhold their labour 4. Historical materialism today in protest. Tuesday September 26

AEU HOUSE

Every trade unionist will reject these ravings, but they must also Mount Pleasant fight against those take up the. Liverpool 1, 7.30 p.m. in their ranks who create the conditions under which they can be made.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday Septem Part 6 of a series on Picketing t In 1914 the Defence of the Realm Acts were passed (DORA I & II), giving the King wide powers to issue regula- tions to the Admiralty and Army Council 'for securing the public safety and defence of the realm'.

They virtually enabled per- manent rule by martial law and included the right to court martial civilians who were alleged to be obstructing the war effort-'in like manner as if such persons were subject to military law and had on active service committed an offence' court martial section The was repealed the following year allowing trial by jury once more, but the emergency powers remained. In June 1915, the Ministry of Munitions was set up, and the first of the Munitions of War Acts were passed. This designated certain 'con- establishments' trolled where munition work was carried on and where all strikes and union rules and practices claimed to be restricting output were suspended. To work any such rule was made an offence. The Act required any dispute be- tween workers and employers to go before the Board of Trade, the decision of which would be final and binding.

No wage increase could be paid without the agreement of the ministry. A munitions worker could not change jobs unless he held a certificate from his last employer con- senting to the change. The wearing laws authorized the of badges or other distinctive marks by persons on munition work. The Acts also enabled the government to commandeer any factory required for war work and issue orders to the workers employed. Amendments in 1915 and 1916 put a fine of f5 a day workers for munition on striking and provided for non- union labour to be brought into closed-shop factories. To get round the especial hostility of workers towards the com- pulsory dilution of labour, whereby semi-skilled and un- skilled labour was brought in to do skilled work, it was stipulated that employers must promise that this was for the duration of the war only.

Munitions tribunals were set up which would consider against appeals by workers being refused a certificate to change jobs and which also imposed the fines. It under the also was Ministry of Munitions that a special secret service to spy and report on industrial unrest and political organizations was set up, later to be incorporated into the Special Branch of the

CID.

Any action, speech or pub- showing true lication nature of the imperialist war was suppressed—and the cul- prits charged with 'discourag- ing recruiting' or 'spreading raided • Police false news'. houses and seized books and pamphlets of a left wing and They could anti-war nature. also ban any public meeting.

A heavy press censorship was from the beginning. imposed Within a month of the first Act, 345 establishments were declared controlled, including the main armament and ship- firms. ping The list was gradually extended to tool- makers, then all major firms ay September 5, 1972 keting by Bernard Franks Top: a woman munition worker gauging workers were brought in to do skilled w the demands of unemployed munitions in engineering, iron, steel and chemicals, together with makers rubber goods, of optical instruments and certain textile and printing works.

By the end of the war 5,600 factories controlled, were employing more than 1.6 mil- lion men and 600,000 women.

The enormous powers the to the state had been directly con- ceded by the union leaders.

union In March 1915 trade leaders had met with the • voluntarily government and agreed to industrial peace for the duration of the war. From the conference a declaration was made, known as the Treasury Agreement, in which the leaders of 35 trade unions recommended to their mem- bers changes in working con- ditions and customs to enable accelerated They output. further proposed that there should in no case be any stoppage of work on munitions.

or gauging shell сазев. Employers were forced skilled work was only for the duration of the n munitions workers for & 40-hour week.

This agreement enabled the Munitions of War Act to be passed. It was in answer to this betrayal by the union leaders that the shop stewards' movement arose, led by the Clyde workers whose Mani- festo said:

'THE SUPPORT GIVEN TO

THE MUNITIONS ACT BY

THE OFFICIALS WAS AN

TO

ACT OF TREACHERY

THE WORKING CLASS.

"Those of us who refuse to be sold have organized the above committee representative of all trades in the Clyde area, determined to retain what the repeal of all the pernicious legislation that has recently, been imposed upon us . . • More and more strikes broke out to protect rights and con- gathering momentum ditions, towards the end of the war.

A terrific struggle was needed after the war to repeal the re forced to promise that "dilution of labour" n of the war. Above: lanks in the Glasgow salti Munitions of War Act, not finally achieved until August 1919. massive struggles of The 1919, the rail strike, the Scottish General Strike, the fight against military inter- vention in Russia against the have Bolshevik Revolution been recently documented in Workers Press. It was in this year that the British ruling class performed one of its most savage acts of imperialist repression and murder and showed its true face to the world's workers.

In India, on the basis of the alleged existence of anarchical revolutionary and conspiracy in Bengal and other states a special Emergency Powers Act was proposed, including trial without jury and internment. Opposition to this by the Indian people was ruthlessly suppressed. In the city of Amritsar the General Dyer proclaimed labour' where unskilled or semtekilled agow Saltmarkol, 1919, sent to suppress martial law and ordered troops to open fire on an unarmed crowd killing 450 and wound- ing 1,500. At a subsequent enquiry Dyer admitted that the demonstration could have been dispersed without viol- ence, but added that his attack would have been even more violent if he had not been restricted by space. He said that his avowed purpose was 'to strike terror into the whole of the Punjab'. To this end nd he had refused all aid to the rue wounded after the massacre.

He was mildly admonished of for his action by the House of Commons, but the House of Lords 'deplored' this treat- ment of the General as 'unjust' and as 'establishing a precedent dangerous to the preservation in the order of face rebellion'. Four months later in Britain the Emergency Powers Act was passed. led CONTINUED TOMORROW

Mombers of the National Council of the fascist vertical unlon, a state run body which organizes workers and employers. Ramal Is in foreground.

SPAIN'S FASCIST 'UNION'-

IT'S A CRIME NOT TO JOIN

Members of the National Council of the

BY OUR SPANISH CORRESPON

Don Enrique Gar c i a Ramal is Minister for Trades Union Affairs in ment. He is the head of the fascist vertical union which organizes Spanish employers and workers in the same organization to promote the harmony of capital and labour and ensure that the national life flourishes. Workers have to belong to this union and it is a crime for them to build their indepen- dent organizations, like the Workers' Commissions. Ramal expressed the philo- sophy of fascist trades union- in a speech he made ism recently in the northern town of Lugo: 'Can't you see how the standard of living is going up?

Haven't you noticed how people's tastes and habits are improving, how they always want the best service and quality? 'I don't think that any problem can be solved by wage-increases, but by the creation of jobs which are sufficiently remunerative. I think the capital of Lugo should create wealth. The capitalists should build up industries. Capital is by nature rather nervous; the job of the government, the job we are doing at the is to moment calm it down' These bland remarks, which are not unlike the statements of reformists in the British movement, are the labour Spanish explanation of the police murder of workers in El Ferrol and Seat: the best way to keep capital calm is to shoot striking workers and repress trade unions. The agreement signed by the National Union of Employers and the National Union of Technicians and Workers in the Union for the Wheat gives some idea of Industry the quality of life that some of Ramal's members enjoy.

Approved by the Ministry of Labour on August 23, it establishes the following basic ist rates: earn about ma Technicians will ncil of the fascist vertical union, a state run bo

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£42 a month.• Administrative workers will earn between £30 and £42 a month. The bakery workers themselves will earn the magnificent sum of £25 or £26 a month, depending on whether they work in a bakery mechanized not. or Apprentices will earn £10 month. These wage-rates are worked six-day 48-hour out for a week. This tremendous exploita- tion is the achievement of Ramal and Franco's police state. It receives the support of the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union which is con- stantly entertaining the techno- of the fascist regime. crats Recently, an industrial engi- Manuel de Aranegui, neer, who for many years was a local head of government in Alava, left for Moscow at special invi- Supreme tation from the Soviet 'to visit Moscow and have exchanges with leading Soviet citizens' Before his departure, Arane- gui told the press: 'I have always had good relations with that sector. When the Foreign knew I Minister was going with this invitation, he encour- aged me to go. I shall use my fortnight there to improve relations.' The working-class struggle against low wage rates, and the growth of the Spanish-Soviet Union friendship, of course has thrown the Spanish Commun- ist Party into crisis. One of the first manifesta- tions of this crisis was the development of Maoist tend- encies in the Central Commit- of Santigao Carrillo's tee party. It is understandable that in the early 1960s workers and students in the conditions of fascist Spain might see a revo- lutionary alternative in Mao- ism. After the Nixon-Mao talks and Mao's butchering of Asian revolution, the the Spanish Maoists cannot claim their ignorance of Chairman Mao's peaceful chat with Pre- sident Nixon, head of the 'Yankee imperialist system which backs Franco'. However, the latest issue of 'Vanguardia Obrera', the monthly organ of the Com- munist Party of Spain (Marx- does manage to ist-Leninist, remain silent on the Stalinist manoeuvres of Mao. ite run body which organizes workers and empl Maolsts proudly display this picture of in tube stations and discussing with pa their paper "Vanguardia Obrera'.

It also describes the vari- ous trips abroad of the 'arch- revisionist' Carrillo as 'inter- trickery, without national accounting for his visit as a leader of a Party delegation on an official visit to China.

This deceit and falsification matched by a typically adventurist practice. The CP (ML) proudly relates how tire- its militants painted lessly revolutionary slogans on the walls of tube-stations and per- suaded passers-by of their cor- how they threw rectness, or Molotov cocktails at the build- ings of the fascist unions.

Essentially, the Maoists have no differences with Carrillo. He wants 'national reconciliation'; they want a 'Federal Popular Republic'. Both defend the •Stalinist policy of the Popular Front: the Maoist journal declares: "The Spanish people is republican ... to get this solution, must create a we broad Patriotic Revolutionary anti-Fascist Front.' Perhaps that is why many Maoists decided to rejoin Car- rillo after his visit to Chair- man Mao. Workers Press, Tues and employers. Ramal is in foreground.

picture of its members painting siogans ig with passers-by on the front page of

RIDDING

MADRID

The Madrid Office of Health and Social Security has just completed 'Operation De- ratization 1972'. Madrid and its river Manzanares is in- famous for harbouring rats.

With the scant attention paid to disposal of rubbish and waste in Spain's capital, the rats multiply and in the heat of summer become a great threat to health, espe- cially of those who live in its slums. But is was probably fear of the loss of tourist trade that could result from a bout of the plague or any other such infection which led to 28,000 pounds of raticide being spread around Madrid's sewers and streets. If the municipal were being rodent operatives paid by the tail, they must have made a fortune, since exterminated they almost 300,000 rats. ross, Tuesday September 5, 1972 PAGE 5 Leaders of Germany's extreme right met last week in Munich to secure an electoral victory in November. They prepared collabora- tion between small openly fascist tendencies and the (Christian

CDU-CSU

Social Union-Christian Democratic Union) coalition party. The right wing is determ- ined to defeat the SPD-FDP (Social Democratic Party Federal Democratic Party) government of Willy Brandt.

The main hero of the West German right wing is CSU leader, the Bavarian dema- Franz Joseph Strauss. gogue Strauss is already notorious for his vicious anti-working class policies. In previous elections in Bavaria, he had the backing of NPD (neo-Nazi) voters. He has called for cuts in government expenditure, and says that West Germany requires unem- ployment to tame the unions.

Above all his attacks are against communism launched and against Brandt's policy of detente with the Soviet Union.

Last year a scandal erupted was exposed when Strauss red-handed bribing members of Brandt's coalition to join his own ranks. Today's situation is much sharper. Brandt's government is extremely weak. When the CDU-CSU opposition tried to topple Brandt this spring, it was only • the enormous class action of West German work- ers that kept him in power.

The employers now aim at gaining control of the govern- ment. This is why the right the secret wing was able in Munich talks to achieve a cer- CSU leader, Strauss. tain agreement as to their elec- toral policy. The CSU is seeking alliance with the NPD, and its off- shoot, the 'Action Resistance' Resistance, group. Action led by ex-Nazi, Dr Peter Kleist, organizes raids on the prem- ises of the trade unions, social- ist and communist parties.

Two other right-wing groups,

AKON

and

MUT

were involved in the talks, Strauss's close friend, Dr Frey was also there. The following points were agreed: 1. Small groups such as AKON and MUT would vote directly for the CDU-CSU. The slogan, 'United People's Front' should be used as a rallying point against the left. A witch-hunt was to be conducted against the SPD's 'communist lean- ings. 2. This witch-hunt was to be financed by the CSU and industrialists who stand closc to the CSU. 3. The NPD would stand can- didates, but would tell its sup- porters to give their first vote to the CDU-CSU candidates and their second vote to the

NPD.

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BY JOHN SPENCER

The speed and intensity of Japanese economic ex- pansion in Asia has 'sent chills through its neigh- bours' according to the 'New York Times'. Japan now dominates the economies of the capitalist Far East in a way which has not been seen since the days of the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere of the 1930s. Its domination is sowing the seeds of great inter-imperialist conflicts and raking up all the questions left unsolved by the Pacific War of 1941 to 1945.

It was certainly one of the major issues on the agenda at the recent meeting between Nixon and US president Japanese premier Tanaka on Hawaii. On what has since the war aday Septamber S, 1972 regarded as a United been States sphere of influence, Japanese industry has moved in with startling speed The 'New York Times' says: 'Its steel builds virtually all the buildings in the region, its cars and motorcycles dominate the . roads, its ships fill the ports, its radios bring the news and its advertising keeps both the region's press afloat and its cities lit up at night.' America's economic in- terests in the area are growing at a snail's pace by comparison with the Japanese, who are increasingly beginning to dominate South East Asia politically and have plans to dominate it militarily as well.

The strategy of Japanese was frankly out- big business by lined in the mid-1960s Fujino Chujiro, president of Mitsubishi, the country's lar- gest trading firm and one of the big three Japanese monopolies: has its EEC. 'Europe Ámerica is sufficient within We coloured peoples itself. who have become the world's problem people must even now unite our strength. I believe the old Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere was essentially right.

The only trouble was that Japan looked only to its own advantage and resentment of this persists still. 'From now on we must meet a new age by changing our thinking both about giving aid and about being aided.' 'sphere' There new-style forecast by Chujiro has already taken shape and like the old it is based on cornering sources of raw materials and markets for finished goods. The missing factor - a enforce powerful army to Japanese hegemony-is being rapidly developed in open defiance of the post-war constitution which outlaws Japanese rearmament. Japan's share of the world market has increased enor- mously in the past ten years.

Its share of exports to the United States has all but doubled as has its share of the South East Asia trade.

At the same time, it has been steadily building up trade with Europe and now forces a chorus of outraged European capitalists complaining about dumping. Japan's huge trade surplus with the United States rep- half that resents more than country's total trading deficit with the rest of the world.

One of Nixon's prime pur- poses in summoning Tanaka to Hawaii was to deliver a categorical ultimatum: cut your exports or we cut your throat. The US, which has already forced Japan to revalue the yen by over 16 per cent in a move designed to slash Japan's exports to America, is now an im- threatening to build pregnable wall of tariffs against the country's goods. The inevitable moves to- wards protection in the other major capitalist countries must drive Tapan consolidate to even further its position in Asia. Already it is the predomin- industrial in the ant power area, head and shoulders above the other countries. It buys virtually all the raw materials that are for sale in Asia and is making a con- certed effort to tie up as much as possible through long term contracts for the future.

Since 1967 Japan has been the world's largest importer of raw material; two years ago these imports accounted for 44 per cent of the country's total imports. By 1980 on present trends, Japan will absorb 30 per cent of all the world's raw material exports. Japanese demand for major materials raw accounts for between 10 and 20 per cent of all consumption" in the capitalist world, second only big bus to the US. Japanese industry's rapacious demand for raw materials is only the other side of its appetite for markets. export - oriented, Intensely the big Japanese corporations are closely integrated with the state in a centralized machine for conquering foreign markets while keeping down the standard living of the of working class. has enabled a rapid This increase in productivity-based in part on the post-war re- building of factories and plant to ultra-modern specifications -and the maintenance relatively low wage rates.

To organize this drive, the Export Council, Supreme chaired by the prime minister and composed of government and business chiefs, determines goals of exports to be achieved.

item bv item and country by country. There are state facilities for collecting export information • from all over the world.

In addition, the state is extremely active in promoting and formation mergers cartels, restricting imports and limiting the influx of foreign capital-all measures to pro- tect and build up domestic big business. The trading companies them- low in order to sharpen com- petition with foreign firms.

These aspects can be seen in every imperialist country, but they are more marked in Japan, where the state has played a very large role in industrialization since the days of the Meiji emperors. The Japanese employers have proved adept at extremely turning the disaster of war- defeat into a powerful time advantage. The devastation of the war was only the first of a number "scrap and build' cycles of which have kept the country's industry modern extremely and competitive. They were also able to make a great deal of profit from supplying the requirements of the US war machine in Asia war and -first in the Korean afterwards in Vietnam. At the same time, Japanese big business undertook a drive to export determined the countries of capital to South East Asia, at first under the guise of war reparations.

As one commentator put it: 'Previously the maintenance of markets was used as an excuse for waging a war; now the during the crimes committed war have been used as an ex- of for consolidation cuse markets' The price to the Japanese working class is enormous. Their wage rises are far less than the degree of increase in labour productivity which is made possible to a large extent by capital from the banks and government funds. There is also a rapid in- crease in the cost of living which hits the working class hard. for Hence the appearance the first time since the war of bitter strike struggles, like the important seamen's strike this summer which tied up Japan- ese shipping for almost three months. The Japanese workers are forced to pay out of their own pockets to maintain the low price of Japanese exports: ex- port prices are held down by while decree government Workers Prese, Tuaeday Sa manufacturers are left free to raise their domestic prices.

The mechanism can clearly be seen in the Japanese "aid' programme, which has been one of the spearheads of the country's expansion in Asian markets. This 'aid' is predominantly in the form of long-term loans, frequently with stiff re- payment conditions attached.

In most cases it is simply an accounting device to allow re- cipient countries to pay for their imports from Japan.

The 'aid' money in these or less cases goes more directly into the pockets of the Japanese corporations con- cerned, leaving the recipients only with debts. Japan is more and more US aid taking the over 'burden' in Asia, moving in as equal partner in such enter- prises as the Asian Develop- ment Bank. Japanese imperialism, both through 'aid' and through direct investment, already owns the biggest slice of Thai- land and Malaysian industry and is well on the way to achieving the same status in Singapore, India, Pakistan and the Philippines. Japanese in investment other Asian countries is now 18 Prose, Tuaeday September 5, 1872 PAGE 7 Japanese The background 1o expansion: a parade showing the of build military forces, up which has full backing of the United States. Above: Tanaka.

ahead. From 1951- invested only 1970 three $2,700m abroad. In that figure will be years $10,000m. In the background, the of methods coercion are being readied to maintain the pre-eminence of Japanese capi- tal in Asia. The latest defence budget is up on last year 22 per cent the military chiefs and are clamouring advanced for weaponry on a vast scale.

trade The American war measures against Japan must intensify enormously the drive markets the class for and struggle at home. The combi- nation of militarism and trade of revival the war puts the fascism Japanese on agenda for the ruling class.

Japanese imperialism cannot hope to overcome the closure of the US markets decreed by breakup of Nixon and the world currency relations.

But it is being driven in- exorably along the same road as it took in the 1930s-the of and road militarization 'export or die'.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday Septen Part 2 of a series on Science a John Craw At the end of the 18th century, as British capi- tal's enslavement of the industrial working class was beginning to take its modern form, a wave of terror swept the ruling class. Support for the French revolution and demands for alleviation of the lot of the factory labourers were wide- spread among intellectu- als and within the young working class itself. The state went to work, suspending Habeus Corpus passing the Combination and Act, but it desperately needed ideological backing. This is where the Rev Thomas Robert Malthus came on to the scene. He was able to provide the comforting argument that the misery of the masses was not due to any defect in the system of pro- duction, but arose from in- exorable natural laws: they starved because they bred too fast. his 'Essay the In on Principle of Population, as it the Future Improve- Affects ment of Society' (1798), he . 'the possible existence denied of a society, all the members of which should live in ease, happiness, and comparative leisure; and feel no anxiety about providing the means of for themselves subsistence and families.' The Christian gentleman argued like this: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man ... This difficulty must be felt some- must necessarily where; and be severely felt by a large por- tion of mankind.' basis, Malthus On this opposed the Poor Laws, which, would increase he declared, population without increasing the food for its support. to face these conclusions quite happily: 'A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society want his labour, has do not no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be is. At nature's he where mighty feast there is no vacant tells him cover for him. She to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he do not work upon the compas- sion of some of her guests. If these guests get up and make room for him, other intruders immediately appear demanding the same favour? from the (This passage second edition of Malthus' 'Essay' was tactfully omitted from later editions.) After the great success of his 'Essay', Malthus went on to become a leading political against economist, Ricardo that the wealthy play a productive role by consuming the surplus pro- duced by the rest of society!

Marx and Engels never lost Part 2 of a series on Science and the Environment by John Crawford an opportunity of denouncing these ideas. Engels called them 'this vile and infamous doc- this repulsive blasphemy trine, Marx against man and nature. 'Essay' showed that Malthus' than 'is nothing more superficial plagi- schoolboyish, Sir James of ary De roe. Stuart, Townsend, Franklin, etc. single and does Wallace, ( not sentence contain himself. thought by ('Capital', Vol I. p. 616.)

For Marx, a law of popula- tion' could only be related to a particular stage In particular, he described the way capitalism, driven forward search profit pushed up the productivity labour, but in such a way that too man being workers con- were thrown to market for the the job needs of capital. But 'an abstract law of only for population and animals, and only plants in so lar as man nas not laler- fered with (Ibid, p. them'. 632) Revival The 'argument' of Malthus -that population goes every geometrically, doubling years, while up arithmetically, supply gues adding. the same amount each dis- —had been year-

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credited. Engels writes about it in 29, (to Lange, March letter 'We start from the premise which that same torces have created modern bourgeois society Ine mass modern machinery, colonization, railways, world trade- and which through the are now already, work- permanent trade crisis, ing towards its ruin and ulti- these same mate desuraclol means of and ex- production suffice to change will also re- the relation in a short verse raise the produc- time, and to of each individual tive power so much that he can produce enough for the consumption of two, three, four, five individuals. century and a half But after Malthus' best-seller, his ideas once more began to re- vive. The new Malthusians, of course, could not argue the Engels had exaggerated rise in productivity, especially they Instead, claim that it is accompanied expansion an even grealer population and, even more of loudly, modern produc- that tion has i brought with it the overwhelming the danger natural resources of the are good vy nere would have denied Malthus could that techniques ever improve sufficiently to enable subsistence to catch up population growth, his 20th century descendants cry out in much that there is too

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technology, too much industry, much affluence. too The difference is significant, difference for it reflects the between capitalism in its the and ascencancy Sallie system in its death agony.

The similarity even 10Oe however. Both Mal- portant, thus and his modern disciples driven of by terror are Top: Thomas Robert Malthus. To him the misery of the masses not due to any defect in revolution.

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a 'vile and infamous doctrine'. Above: conditions of the working class during the late 18th century.

LETTER AND REPLY

Dear Editor, As I am neither a 'Trotsky- ist' or a 'Marxist-Leninist' I only buy the WP' out of curiosity, and because, in this benighted neck-of-the-woods it is the only 'militant' 'left- wing' paper I can lay my hands on. I am always glad to see your itinerate Comrades in my Tory Blimp, ex-officer dominated 'local' where, so I am told, the only sales take place in the 'saloon' bar-and not amongst the Proles. But, once as an anarcho-syndicalist, take exception to the peculi- Review' 'WP' Aug 5 p. 4, of 'Anarchism and Anarcho- Syndicalism' by the three god- of social fascism- fathers Marx, Engels and Lenin. Everybody knows that it the authoritarian Marx was who split the First Inter- national when he broke away from Bakunin and ran away to London to form splinter which, following the group, path of parliamentary reform- ism, paved the way for the Lenin, dictatorships Trotsky, Khruschev, Stalin, Castro, Mao et alia. Your reviewer states that the Spanish anarchists 'tail- ended the bourgeoisie' (I take this to be a euphemism) dur- ing the Civil War (1936-1939).

If I may be permitted to use another èuphemism, 'spherical or in fluent Spanish, objects, 'Cojones!' The two million anarchists (CNT-FAI) were the main re- sistance to Franco and the in the Stalinists Barcelona (1937) Uprising, and on the Aragon Front where they were virtually and blockaded starved of supplies by the Stalinists. And who were the greatest of them all? Durruti-shot in the back by the SIM? Federica Montseny-as gentle as Durruti wild. And was Garcia Oliver, whose oratory stilled the pigeons in the Plaza Catalunya. We even allied with the POUM. ourselves We hate the Tories. We sup- port the workers in their struggle. We oppose the In- dustrial Relations. Act. We despise this government. We also reject and despise the alternative. What is the use of a non-revolutionary and perfectly • futile 'General Strike' to get rid of the Tories if the only alternative is the return of yet another reformist Labour government? Look at their record. IRA' is The Barbara Castle's baby-under pressure from the Gnomes of Zurich. The Labour Party is not a tra Socialist Party. There is only Party in this one Socialist country, and that is the SPGB.

(Which we also reject). Party has The Labour broken more strikes and sent more troops into the docks than any other party in power.

• They deserted the Inter- national working class and supported the first imperialist world war, while the TUC its rules for the suspended 'duration'. • They nearly dragged us into the second IWW over Munich.

• They supported this war without reservations. • The Attlee post-war govern- ment introduced military and industrial conscription "peacetime' • They nobbled the Social Services, and introduced pre- scription, teeth, and spectacle charges. • They fathered the Industrial Relations Act. • Over 60 of their members support the Common Market.

Top: Bakunin. Above: Warx.

What a shower to support!

At least, with the Tories we have an honest adversary. We know who our enemies are.

There are no divided loyalties sentiments about or sloppy 'upsetting' the government, or 'rocking the boat. As Malatesta asked: 'Vote!

What for?' • Only those who are hoping to ride to power on the backs of the working class are asking for votes. (As always).

Just one more suggestion.

Could your readers have less and industrial dreary disputes in issues fundamental like Women's Lib, the sexual revo- lution and the future of the family, instead? Yours fraternally, Gavan McCarthy

PETER JEFFRIES

It is entirely appropriate that McCarthy, self- a anarchist, professed should Join with every revisionist and reformist in opposing the con- sistent campaign by the Socialist Labour League for removal of the the Tory government and its replace- ment by a Labour government pledged to a socialist pro- gramme. We alone have fought along this line because we believe that under revolutionary leadership it is entirely pos- sible for the working class to deal with the reformist traitors who have for so long dominated and misled its movement. And it is only by forcing the Labour leaders to take office that this campaign be brought to a high can point. While McCarthy can declare his 'hatred' of both the Tories and the Labour leaders, he offers not a hint of an alterna- tive programme to that for which we have fought. Indeed, to the extent that the Tories constitute an 'honest adver- sary' he is presumably in favour of them staying in office as against a Labour government! Not only is this a line which will be treated with justified contempt by the millions of workers who have been locked in bitter struggle against the also Heath government; it indicates how in a period of sectarian phrases, can • turn very opposite. We must warn McCarthy and all those who share his position: it is always the extreme right who demand that 'honest' politicians should come forward to lead the nation in its hour of crisis.

And it is also no accident that in countries, many notably Italy, an important section of the fascist move- ment had started life on the left, extreme anarchist as opponents of Marxism. The struggle between Marxism and anarchism has been a long and bitter one. It dates back to Marx's polemics against Proudhon in 'The Poverty of Philosophy' (1847).

The consistent line of anar- chism has always been based on a hatred of revolutionary politics in the working class.

Because the anarchist, a petty bourgeois sees 'authority' as main the he con- enemy, sistently struggles to turn the working class away from the building of a revolutionary party which alone can enable it to take power and establish its dictatorship over the de- feated capitalist class. This was the fundamental difference between Marx and Bakunin during the period of the First International. While Marx insisted upon the need for a political struggle, to raise the understanding of the working class, Bakunin fought bitterly to confine this struggle purely economic level against the employer. Thus his opposition to the demand of the International for the legal eight hour day and his support for the slogan of the eight hour day, to be won against each separate em- ployer. 'split' the Certainly Marx International — in order to drive out Bakunin and his petty-bourgeois trend and pre- pare for the Second Inter- national. But we must point out to those ignorant of the history of the International fought that whereas Marx openly against Bakunin, thrashing out the issues at professed 'freedom' 'democracy' who fought in the most under- hand, secret and authoritarian manner through his group Social The Alliance for Democracy. is serious Much more McCarthy's slander in lumping together Lenin and Trotsky Stalin, Khrushchev, with Castro and Mao. Trotskyism represents the only trend which continues the work of Lenin against the degenera- tion of the Soviet Union and Stalinism. His hatred of Marxism also our correspondent to forces distort the real lessons of the Spanish Revolution. While it is true that large numbers of anarchists provided the forces against struggle Franco, it was the mis-leader- ship of the anarchists which, amongst other things, allowed the continued existence of a parliament in Republican Catalonia, despite the fact that workers had occupied many of the large factories and established a workers' militia.

And when he says: We even allied ourselves with the

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he reaches perhaps the lowest point of distortion.

For he deliberately fails to tell us that the anarchists, re- nouncing all their professed 'government', opposition to key mini- the popular front sters dominated by government which then pro- Stalinism ceeded to disarm the working class and prepare for the vic- tory of Fascism. So his hatred in of Stalinism is of an entirely fraudulent nature. What the anarchists hate is not Stalin- ism but Communism. McCarthy's So despite pleas, Workers Press will not only continue to give its un- rivalled coverage of all in- dustrial disputes which has won it such wide support in the working class; it will at the same time continue to take the theoretical .up struggle against the anarchists and all other defilers and opponents of Marxism. Workers Press, Tues A power behind last week's London Festival for Jesus (apart from Jesus himself, who apparently had difficulty • Com- undoubtedly ing) Lord was Longford. The 66-year-old anti- pornography peer — once just plain Francis Pakeham — was up front with the hallelujah- ing dolly birds from the King's Road on Thursday afternoon.

answered the Anyone who call, made on leaflets handed out by the organizers in advance, to 'watch the river •.. at 4 p.m.' on Thursday would have seen Longford and his friends sailing up the river in a rather hysterical attempt to recapture the 'Dun- kirk spirit' In view of some of the stranger claims made by the same leaflet, it is worth record- ing one of Longford's less pub- licized activities on behalf of

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'Britain is in danger of being broken apart at all levels', began one paragraph of the leaflet rather strangely.

'With violence, crime, venereal disease and divorce statistics constantly rising, it is high got down on time we our knees and asked God for another miracle in our land.'

Longford has been visiting regularly and corresponding moors murderers Myra with Hindley (29) and lan Brady.

He claimed earlier last week that after three years of his visits and letters Miss Hindley is 'certainly now devout'.

At this rate Longford should have Britain's cleared all prisons in only another 88,000 for VD Then and years. divorce • • • Below: Longford (right fore- around).

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'Build Councils of Action. Defend the right to work. Stop rents in- creases. Make the Tories resign.'

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ROUND-UP BY PHILIP WADE

THERE is now almost a complete collapse of opposition to the Tory fair rents' Act by Labour councils through- bitter reac out Yorkshire, providing tions from thousands of tenants.

Sheffield Labourites brought the betrayal to a head last Tuesday when 41 of them voted with 17 Tories for the implementation of the Act. On the same night, the Labour council at Bentley, near Doncaster, voted nine to five to impose the fl increases under the Housing Finance Act from the beginning of October. But delegates from the powerful North York- shire and Barnsley Panels of the National Union of Mineworkers have declared they will strike if any tenant is evicted for non-payment of the rent increases. And Woolley NUM branch has already passed a motion calling. for the formation of a Council of the heht against the Act and for the resignation of the Tories.

On Saturday 400 Barnsley tenants ceremoniously burned their notices of rent increases, together with an eihey of lory Prime Minister Edward Heath (se Associ- picture). Members or the Athersley Tenants' ation had earlier lobbied Barnsley's Labour MP Roy Mason voted for the who on the Commor Market-and promptij pay were TOTe TOnE •I fought the Bil increases. in parliament, but it was passed and that's the end of the fight,' his was Bentley tenants hold a meating outside the local councll chamber the council is in inspiring message. an one lice defying the law. member Anne Bunting told committee

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hated rented ins would be prepared to go to happened, real rather than raise the broke through. announced anger Mrs Carol Walker, another committee member, rents, he said. There's been also prepad d to to to all over these increases.

agreed with Councils of Action: council chamber on Satur.

discus- day. SIOn. Wever Ward the When it the working class. This get three least I'll day there. Under the The followed crunch, however, meals a vote not a Labour council meet- Ted the children, the time abad herd one lobby of the Labour voted for Mass Club council by tenants particu- when Tine about.con. meeting, shouted angry trolled finance committee A third committee member, Mr C. Stones-a Ny NU, President of Bent- decide the miner at Woolley Colliery-commented: of the local Labourites. the 'The meneaton the fright- want us on floor, but they Eventuallv. l orles The council meeting. get there if we keep fighting. The Only two months ened Labourites called the won't Gordon Ward clear the gallery. social but function of a tenants' association is Cllr Even the five 'oppon- police to not assured We have to get and only By the time thes comes Tenang els Could

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at Liverpool, are day strike Friday against company plans to transfer large amounts production into Europe. The action has now been endorsed by plant meetings in- all volving 11,000 workers at the complex. THE RIGHT WING in is being meeting mass the National Union of arranged for Friday at the Top Rank centre in central Liverpool.

Journalists will not easily recover from the defeat Air show inflicted it at the on £1.75 demo weekend the over question of registration GOVERNMENT industrial work- under the Industrial Re- ers will demonstrate when the Minister Farn- Prime visits lations Act. borough Air Show today, to show Heath how they feel about the Despite unprecedented £1.75 a week pay rise they have all campaign by the Tory press to been offered. Trotskyist whip up anti Workers at the Royal Aircraft - Establishment Farnborough hysteria within the NUJ in at have formed an action committee and despite all recent weeks, to carry out a 'programme of dis- the publicity given to the pro- the ruption' at show. faction, the registration re- Nearly 200,000 government called conference of the union industrial workers mainly in voted to deregister by 177 to naval dockyards and ordnance 130. factories- to increase strike -plan action and working-to-rule if the More than that, the delegates offer is not improved. to the special delegate meeting 17 Executives of the held in London at the weekend Brighton involved will meet in pushed the right wing even on Thursday to decide if the dis- than had further back the go to arbitration by pute should delegate meeting annual at TUC-CBI service. the Rank- new Tenby in April. and-file workers are bitterly has- It was in opposition to the tile to the idea. hall, London, Workers Press THE DEPARTMENT of shown wage-deduction was Social Security has shocked notice. It said anything the and angered many London docker in question earned over dockers by planning to £24.30 would be stopped deduct from their until £4.25 was repaid. wages 'Some dockers got £13 have supplementary benefits paid said Ted Hedges, to pay back,' during their recent strike.

a shop steward at the Store. 'None of this Dockers with and us knew was happen children received the money to going to when we their families, but at paid the Every- maintain money. Nine Elms Cold Store, Vaux- one is in arms about it.

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Tenby ADM decision to deregi- the NUJ, in spite of the ster result of a referendum on the that the right wing matter, organized a petition among the more backward branches to get the matter re-debated at an

SDM.

But apart from reaffirming the Tenby decision, the SM also passed a motion instructing the executive in future only to hold referenda when required by rule or when instructed to do so by a delegate meeting. This takes away from the executive the right to hold a referendum on an issue when it suits them, which is what they did originally on the registration question, contrary to all the rules of the union. General secretary Ken Morgan and the rest of the executive were eventually only saved from motion (for having a censure put the union in confusion be- cause of the referendum stunt) Ted Hedges, a member of both the London Port shop stewards' committee and the national port shop stewards' said the Tories committee deliberately trying were ill-feeling create Asian immigrants. 'What is happening is that are being taken off our eyes the question of dock unem- ployment.' The blurb for 'Bill Palfre former Chlet Constable of Z cars, Panda cars an as the man in charge of during the Pilkington gla the law-and-order march wing reactionary 'Festiva 11.35 • News. 12.10 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 11.00-12.30 London.

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6.00 Today. 7.00 Film: 'The Workers Press, Tues by a dubious declaration of the motion 'lost' by president Harold Pearson. Pearson refused a scrutineered count on the vote.

But the real issue was not so much the sowing of confusion as the complete absence of any leadership from the executive over the registration question.

Although the executive called on members to vote for deregi- stration 'out of loyalty to the in fact issued the TUC', they limpest of statements against registration and failed to call a single 1 meeting to debate the issue. They calculated (correctly) that in the absence of any dis- cussion, and under the full blast press and propaganda against the union being outside the law, a middle-class majority could be found to vote for registration. But the active trade unionists in the NUJ have now twice re- versed this betrayal by the leadership. And in doing so they have re- affirmed the sovereignty ADM on the union's affairs, as opposed to deciding things referendum. The next step for journalists to achieve by delegate mocracy is a change of rules, to make the full-time officials the union subject to regular, three-yearly re-election instead of being in for life, as they are at present. With a growing catalogue of disasters to the executive's credit-from the wages issue to the Industrial Relations Act-it cannot be long before there is a general clear-out. 'Bill Paltroy, Copper', tonight's BBC 1 docume onstable of Lancashire was 'the man who piol da cars and two-way radios', but many workers charge of the police who several times clashe Ington glassworkers' strike in St Helens and p der marches in the north west-the forerunner ry 'Festival of Light' campaigns.

her. Desperadoes'. 8.30 Queenie's 9.00 London. castle. 11.50 Stories worth telling. Weather.

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BY OUR OWN

REPORTERS

TWO HUNDRED and fifty workers voted yesterday morning to continue a strike at the Grove Hill works of Co, Armstrong Patents Beverley, near Hull. They stopped work on Thurs day afternoon after Transport and General Workers' Union convenor Jean Jepson had been suspended by the management.

The previous day she had called a mass meeting at the fac- tory which had agreed that no machinery must be moved out of the factory and the work was not to be speeded up. After the meeting the manager called her into his office and said that she would be put off pay.

She refused to go into manage- ment offices unless she was accompanied by a full-time union official. this After another shop steward, John Sullivan, went with her to see the management and he was ordered off the premises.

When the workers heard this on Thursday they walked out.

On Friday the shop stewards had a meeting with management, who agreed to lift the suspension but wouldn't give guarantees any about the moving of machinery or speeding up the work. The workers say they will now stay out on strike until they get these guarantees. 1 documentary says the 1 who pioneered the use y workers remember him nes clashed with pickets ens and prime mover of forerunners of the right- ie's 7.00 Film: 'Border River'. 8.30 Queenie's castle. 9.00 London.

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BY JOHN SPENCER

THE TUC voted overwhelm- ngly yesterday to suspend 32 unions which have registered under the Industrial Relations Act. a combined The unions, with just membership under of 500,000, will remain suspended until they come off the register.

If they remain on they can expect to come up for expulsion next year. Three card votes on individual appeals by unions against sus- pension showed clear majorities between 5,935,000 and 7,436,000. Show-of-hand votes on the other six unions which took advantage of their right to appeal were also overwhelming. unions The suspended remained in their seats until the end of the session, but were asked not to come back today.

Replying to the appeals, Victor said that in the last Feather analysis the decision was one of principle, and not so much one of detail. 'Don't let us forget that when the rope has been stretched far enough the majority has the right to decide, he told delegates.

Delegates of the Confederation of Health Service Employees Ltd walked out to a slow earlier handclap after general secretary Frank Lynch had mounted the rostrum to announce. 'I am here to tell you this is not an appeal.

I will not take part in this tra- vesty' The arrogance of the right was best expressed, however by Bill Hogarth of the National Union of Seamen, who said: 'We con- sider we are a special industry needing special treatment'.

The seamen had been exempt from various Acts in the past and the Tories had given them special • shop permission for closed the Industrial Relations under Act. For this reason his con- voted to register. had ference Hogarth attacked 'the sort of unity that grows out of the barrel of a gun' and he asked 'are you judging this case on the dictates of our problems or on 'as traditional as Tolerance, Auld Lang Syne', was in danger of being choked, he said.

Bank employees' leader Leif Mills pointed out that his union Industrial had supported the Relations Bill in 1971 and the Act at its conference this year.

dictate union 'Who is to policy?' he asked. 'Is it to be the members of the individual unions who may happen ta be in the majority at a particular time?'

Gerald Croasdell, of Actors' Equity, appealed on the grounds 'defending its that Equity was very existence by registering and seeking a closed shop under the Act'. He hoped the TUC would prove big enough' to allow Equity to continue in member- ship, despite its registration.

Many of the unions on the TUC's list made no attempt to defend themselves. LAMBETH Council of Action yesterday called for a series of public meetings held in con- junction with tenants' associa- tions to mobilize the fight Tories and their against the so-called 'fair rents' Act.

The 100-strong meeting over- whelmingly passed a resolution which will be circulated to all local trade union branches and trades councils demanding mobil- . of the working class to ization force the Tories to resign.

The meeting passed a second resolution calling for the Workers Press, the 'Morning Star' and all to be other labour newspapers granted special dispensation to publish at times when trade unionists stop work as in the case of the imprisonment of the five dockers. Speakers stressed the urgency of bringing all issues affecting workers together in a single lay September 5, 1972

BY PHILIP WADE

MIDLAND Cold Store pickets-knowing that up to 1,00 dockers face immediate redundancy through closures— denounced their union secretary Jack Jones for his collabor Lord Aldington. Since the Jones-Aldington report, and in fusion following the returning to work by dockers, the have moved fast. It seems almost certain that New Zealand meat prodi shippers will be pulling out of the Port of London in the ne Later this month the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board ships to a not yet completed berth at Sheerness. First ther to be the 'Southland Star' next week, but the start of the nev ments had been delayed by the builders' strike.

When they do start, however, the arrangements will raise seriou about the jobs of the 750 London dockers employed by Thames : (1965) Ltd, mainly on the New Zealand meat trade.

Both the 'Southland Star' and owned Thames Stevedoring are Lord Vestey, whose Midland by Cold Storage company initiated the legal moves which jailed the Pentonville Five. Thomas Borthwick's Deptford wharf—which also handles meat end of the close by the —Is to year with the loss of 153 jobs.

Vestey Nel- Another concern, close by son's whart, is also to off 50 1973. another putting said Jones and dockers. Vestey had been told about Aldington the shut-down. Pickets at Midland yesterday told me they had also heard that of the Chambers wharf, part Hay's Wharf giant group, was also going to close. 'About all I've got to look forward to is going on the labour said a Royal exchange, group 'But the men still don't docker. They want to know about it. must wake up before it's too late.

'Where all these men going to be employed?' he asked.

'None of these wharves afford to take me on. And there us outside the are no jobs for Dockers i picketing the Midland docks the way things are.

Cold Store yesterday. 'We went back to work for Give it four years and nothing. these docks won't exist as we 'This is a repetition of Devlin, know them today.' said one of the Borthwick men. correcting said the other, 'No,' Two pickets were dockers him. It's worse than that. Our doomed Borthwick from the have allowed this union leaders 'The direc- wharf. One told me: trouble develop since Devlin told the National Dock tors Phase I. They knew all this was Labour Board about their plans going to happen and should have Yet far back as early Tune. as jumped on the Vesteys then' we've only just heard about it.!

Tuesday 1,350 of the Last Borthwick men yesterday held dockers the national 1,623 on meeting and instructed mass unattached register temporary stewards to find out the actual were Londoners. date set down for closure.

Although no clear picture can Borthwick dockers were also yet be obtained of the effect of informed at their meeting that the Jones-Aldington terms, the an official Transport and General London Dock Labour Board is in Workers' Union circular was out receipt of 650 applications for asking for the picketing of cold from the voluntary severance stores and other places to called off. industry. What do you do when you've

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she asked, adding: "The lesson of Northern Ireland is the lesson of programme aimed at replacing defeat.' the Tories with a Labour gov- From Clapham branch of the which they said must Socialist Labour League, Mike ernment out socialist be forced to carry Banda that the trade warned policies. union bureaucrats and the leaders Party of the Labour were not from Labour suggestion going to fight the Tories but he Party Young Socialists that abie organized said individual fights on a whole rent strike should lead could series of issues only in Lambeth to help tenants face to defeats and demoralization.

the immediate prospect of heavy Te said: 'We want a clear pro increases was given no support.

he working which gramme Sarah Hannigan from Clapham class can be rallied Young Socialists said that she Referring to the plea for rent had the outcome of rent seen "The strikes he added: most strikes in Ulster. important thing is not the action side The To Yet governe the preparation for action She govern- but ment is not ot going to and that agitation and means paying rent. propaganda' get away not, His admendment to the main They already have their plans in leaders of Northern Ireland for getting the resolution calling on Social back through the trade unions and the Labour money Security or other payments Party to expel all racialists was any they can get their hands on.

carried unanimously. to 1,000 London ures — yesterday ollaboration with and in the con- s, the employers at producers and the near future. Board is sending st there was due the new arrange- se serious questions Chames Stevedoring

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A MASS meeting of over 300 building workers in Sheffield yesterday voted over- whelmingly for the union leaders to call an all-out national strike and for them to cut off all building suppliers.

The meeting also demanded that the refractory workers - those that line blast furnaces with bricks-also be called out on strike for the £30, 35-hour week claim. Once more the decisions were taken in the face of hostility from the platform.

I'm not against a national strike and I'm not for it either, said Sheffield UCATT official Hylton Steward, trying to please everyone all the time.

But he revealed his true position when he added: 'If a national strike was called 50 per cent only would come out and we would look stupid.' But the vast majority of those disagreed present completely with him and went on to pass the motions. As the dispute entered its l1th week yesterday with about 290.000 out on strike-a picket was arrested by police at the Trollope and Colls site in Devon- shire Place, London. The majority of the 100 employed workers by sub- contractors had refused to cross the four-man picket line. But a few did and when a picket-the of Camden council convenor workers-tried to persuade them the police arrested him not to, for obstruction and insulting behaviour. He was due to appear before the magistrates yesterday.

A site at Wai rena, between Lancaster and Morecambe, been stopped thanks to solidarity workers with by factory the building strike. The site, a new building for Bros, plastics firm Storey had been visited by pickets but work was continuing. A meeting of Transport and General Workers' members em- ployed by Storey's in the nearby factory and warehouse declared that they would black the new building unless scab labour was

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"t leave It to the end In Morecambe, the Heysham er, let's immediately power station strikers, who were ush ahead. the first out in the area, have conterence at been joined by workers from the is week poses no college of education and Bal- Tories lenge to the moral Road school sites and a ustrial Relations Act. number of others. on to suspend those The strike has also stopped register remains just work bridge reconstruction on • The real Issue is to for British Rail. I the unions to force ment to resign.

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