Workers Press no. 863

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1972

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN BRIGHTON

DELEGATES at the Brighton Congress of the TUC have witnessed the birth-pangs of a new ultra-right political alliance. From the wreck- age of the old 'boom'-era TUC, a new move- the ment is emerging intent on collaboration with the anti-union laws and the Tory Cabinet. In a word a whole section of the trade union movement has virtually declared itself for the corporate state. Trailing behind are the reformist left and the Com- they will not who have made it clear munist Party, challenge the policy edict of the General Council in the The old TUC of lazy debate, compromise coming year. and conciliation is dead-buried at Brighton.

revealed the been unIS aramatic develooment of the debates, the walk-out by the extreme movement and declarations of Frank Chapple, boss of Trades Union machine. Electrical and Plumbing March 1971 and But the process can De Traced

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special Croydon Congress. There the TUC decided to the Relations Act and its institutions. the Industrial

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But it was careful to avoid any commitment to put these policies into effect industrial against the anti-union laws was action outlawed and any fight to bring down the government and its legislation specifically abandoned.

This co-operation with the Act path towards surrendered and allowed and on May Day this year the TUC unions to go before the National Industrial Relations Court The working class moved in the opposite direction.

workers and the dockers put up stub- miners, the railway born resistance and demonstrated contempt for a court that challenged basic rights. These two enormous pressures the growing -the mutancy ol rank and file and the increasing of the government of to destroy nine indepenaence the trade union movement-have TUC wide open. cracked the The split occurred on the con- ference floor at Brighton.

with wild The week tales in the Tory press about the

EAST LONDON

great left-wing takeover.

These predictions were proved

FLYING PICKET

farcically wrong when the debate on the Industrial Relations Act

TUC

had in revealed that lurched violently the fact •LO

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right. Before this Congress there was of the exact doubt stillsome state of TUC policy over court and payment appearances nines. firmly laws the anti-union ethic of the enshrined as the trade union movement. after union Union leader declared his determina- Header tion to go before the court, and Norman of the Union of Post Office on to went warn that opposition to this line representation Congress. This is of course that claimed would mean ShIS

OWN

UnIOn court could before the be bureaucracy would join -the

TUDDISH.

advantage to their members.

who left the minority Before his walk-out on Wed- banished Congress on the opening day.

had witnessed This rapid degeneration left only been because of Two things have to be borne the performance by in mind about this leap to the ween me resoluton on une neu proposed by Hugh Scanlon, en- right. one ene gineers' president, went crashing They too are hopeless bis split A small section of the move- Their to to cereal. and ment is now openly committed shift the back the In fact Chapple has recognized on co-operation with the state machine. that a decisive breakaway by the of non-co-operation course was right wing has i occurred -and he not a pact of principle but of like Leaders of unions the wants to be first past the post to convenience. bank remained employees assume the crown Ol une new The motion that they lost was Brighton after their expulsion, corporate-state TUC. haunting the bars and hotels ambiguous enougn to spare any- establishing He is, of course, not alone.

one any embarrassment. about Hugh Scanlon could pose Lord Cooper, retiring leader of the 'advantages' of the Industrial the rostrum as the keeper of the the General and Municipal Relations Act. This while al Workers has aso dec ared movements conscience. the same time the TUC leaders Frank personal commitment to the More significant. was The were able masquerade Industrial Relations Act Chapple's threat to register his collabora- him and union and face expulsion from forman Stage. force further civicine ine drainsu like Norman Joe the movement. men HOn WIth

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Gormley of the miners and Dan (avoiding, of course, any scrutiny According to the Tory press, of their own behaviour over the McGarvey of the boilermakers is Chapple's explosion was caused only a thin one. last 12 months). by bomination fit pique over the ot The Stalinists of the Com- of the left in the At Brighton all these leaders • No. 863 4p

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munist Party were a main poli- tical catalyst behind this arrange- ment of convenience. They held strong positions on two delegations that had the tabled motions which challenged both the General Council and the T&GWU. But the Communist Party members and supporters abandoned principle and backed the absymal and ultimately futile compromise. They did not even on the opportunity to insist establish their position amendments. Now the left and the Stalin- ists are claiming two victories.

They say the vote on the Common Market was a blow to the right wing. But this is not so. There were two motions passed on Europe.

One called for a future Labour government to withdraw from the Market if necessary, but the

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CORRESPONDENT

ANGRY BUILDING workers clashed with union officials at the TUC in Brighton yesterday.

About 70 strikers turned up to lobby the delegates and collect money to support the building workers dispute. A heated exchange occurred Construction, when Union of Allied Trades and Technicians delegate Danny Crawford, from Glasgow, told the strikers that the picket-line was not sacred.

He also told the men that it was not possible to raise the strike on the Congress floor.

Transport and General Workers' Union official from London, John Walsh, said he was disgusted by Crawford's outburst. *These men don't want 10 expose the Lump or fight the strike the way it should be.

Other men agreed that a national stoppage should be called.

William Finnegan, T&GWU shop steward from London, attacked government policy on single men. "These lads are getting nothing Security, from the Social he said. "Some have to pay £6 or E7 they're out on the rent and streets. It's time the unions made some provision for them and government bent a little.'

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workers press

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F CORPORATE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTI

Dinisia

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN BRIGHTON

DELEGATES at the Brighton Congress of the TUC have witnessed the birth-pangs of a new ultra-right political alliance. From the wreck- age of the old 'boom'-era TUC, a new move.

intent on the closest ment is emerging collaboration with the anti-union laws and the Tory Cabinet. In a word a whole section of the trade union movement has virtually declared itself for the corporate state. Trailing behind are the reformist left and the Com- Party, who have made it clear they will not munist challenge the policy edict of the General Council in the The old TUC of lazy debate, compromise coming year. and conciliation is dead-buried at Brighton.

been revealed by the This dramatic development has extreme right of walk-out by the the week's debates, the of Frank Chapple, boss of movement and the declarations the Electrical and Plumbing Trades Union machine.

traced back to March 1971 and But the process can be the special Croydon Congress.

There the TUC decided to the Industrial Relations and its institutions. Act boycott these But it was careful to avoid any commitment to put policies into effect. Hence industrial action against the anti-union laws was outlawed and any fight to bring down the government and its legislation specifically abandoned.

This cleared the path towards co-operation with the Act, and on May Day this year the TUC surrendered and allowed unions to go before the National Industrial Relations Court.

The The working class moved in the opposite direction.

miners, the railway workers and the dockers put up stub.

born resistance and demonstrated their contempt for a court that challenged basic rights. These two enormous pressures -the growing militancy of the rank and file and the increasing determination of the government destroy the independence of to the trade union movement-have cracked the TUC wide open.

The split occurred on the con- ference floor at Brighton.

with wild The week began tales in the Tory press about the

FAST LOND

great left-wing takeover. These predictions were proved

FLYING PICK

farcically wrong when the debate on the Industrial Relations Act

TUC

had revealed that the in the fact lurched violently to Lo FOR 3 right. Before this Congress there was doubt the exact still some of state of TUC policy over court and payment appearances with fines. But now co-operation firmly the laws is anti-union the ethic of the enshrined as trade union movement. Union leader after union leader declared his determina- tion to go before the court, and Norman Stagg of the Union of Post Office Workers went on to warn that opposition to this line This is of course Congress. would mean his own union the rubbish. bureaucracy would join banished minority who left the Before his walk-out on Wed- Congress on the opening day.

Chapple had witnessed nesday, the debacle of the so-called left Two things have to be borne mind about this leap to the resolution on the Act in when the Hugh Scanion, proposed by right. en- president, went crashing gineers' A small section of the move- to defeat. ment is now openly committed In fact Chapple has recognized with the co-operation state that a decisive breakaway by the machine. right wing has occurred-and he Leaders of like the unions wants to be first past the post to bank employees remained in of the new the assume crown Brighton after their expulsion, corporate-state TUC. bars hotels haunting the and He is, of course, not alone.

establishing muttering about new TUC which would recognize Lord Cooper, retiring leader of the 'advantages' of the Industrial the General and Municipal Relations Act. Workers has also declared his significant Frank personal commitment the More was The Chapple's threat Industrial Relations Act. to register his him union and from dividing line between and face expulsion Norman Stagg, Joe men like the movement. Gormley of the miners and Dan According to the Tory press, McGarvey of the boilermakers is Chapple's explosion was caused only a thin one. boomination pique over the At Brighton all these leaders of the left in the INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8, 1972 • No. 863 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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that claimed representation could the court be betore advantage to their members.

This rapid degeneration has miserabo ple only been because of the by performance ine lell. They too are hopelessl] split compromised. bid and shift back the the course was • on-co-••erao• not a pact of principle but of convenience. The motion that they lost was enough to spare any. an Dicuous one any embarrassment. Hugh Scanlon could pose on the keeper of the the rostrum as movement s conscience. wile the same time the

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leaders to masquerade as collabora- ¡OrCe ar allisl turtel tion with the laws anl union (avoiding, of course, any scrutiny behaviour over the of their UWIl last 12 months). The Stalinists of the Com- 8, 1972 • No. 863 • 4p

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munist Party were a main poli- tical catalyst behind this arrange- ment of convenience. They held strong positions on the two delegations that had tabled motions which challenged both the General Council and the T&GWU. But the Communist and supporters Party members abandoned principle and backed the absymal and ultimately futile compromise. They did not even insist on the opportunity to in establish their position amendments. Now the left and the Stalin- ists are claiming two victories.

They say the vote on the Common Market was a blow to the right wing. But this is not so. There were two motions passed on Europe.

One called for a future Labour withdraw from government to the Market if necessary, but the

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Angry builders lobby delegates

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CORRESPONDENT

ANGRY

BUILDING

WOrKer clashed with union officials at the

TUC

Brishton yesterday. About 70 strikers turned up to lobby collect the delegate. money SUDDOrL

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workers" dispute. exchange A neated Recurred when Union of Construction, Allied Trades Technicians and Crawiord. ocle ate Glasgow, strikers that foa the picket-lin not sacred. the He told men that Wa. 10 oossibe ld Harse strike on the Congress floor.

Transpor Union walsh, General and Workers official London, John said Crawford's was diskus cd outburst. men

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the Lump or fight the expose the should bei strike way national wuer uel durcca llal stoppage should be called.

William Finnegan,

T&GWU

shop steward from London, attacked povernment policy …ucIC uCu. •These lads are getting nothing the fron Security . Dockal said. sonie nave lo pay to or ti rent streets. tes thme the unioos they're the made SOme DrOVISOL licu a lud government bent a little.'

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday September 8; 1972 What Munich: the day we think a of the Despite Mrs Meir's crocodile tears the Israeli capitalists TrOM Loel shoulder to shoulder with their counter- parts in West Germany in their determina- and the threat they and others like them pose to the rule of capital. police the capitalist governments

NOWA

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FOR

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premier Mrs Golda Meir ot Europe are being invitea to witch-nunt prayer for the 11 Palestinian the Israelis are lead her nation blitzkrieg against neigh- hinting at a new athletes slaın at Municn is an act or ull• paralleled cynical hypocrisy.

bouring ATaD stales suspected Nal- same Mrs bouring guerrillas. In anticipation even the Meir Oniy hours earller West so-called friends of the sent to the WatM personal them. German government for their Egypt etoris (LeDanon Nave from their Arab Stalinist friend and butcher of communists Israeli hostages tree the Anwar Sadat refused to allow the Minister Abba Eban «na rorcien West Cairo from said his country approved killed a In July in Duisberg police shot and guelllas laliual for doubt that their intention was always to use force against Germany. drunken moped rider after he trap airfield and deliberate and refused to stop. after Tine une the guerrillas slaughter them. The landing was cold-blooded massacre at Furstenfeldbruck alca ringed in advance by heavily-armed police bank robbers military airfield by Bavarian police could it ever be. Increasingly anarchists, TEne the Interior called on The international rule of capital will only and even armoured cars and even drunk moped riders have been Israeli Minister of be by action of In recent police not onv ir lumped together as lawbreakers and dealt out monans governments Stall! the Bavaria, but throughout West Germany, and not by branch and cell summary fashion. Anteanonst ponce have shown a tendency to shoot first and irrespective of which innocent people got organizations. actions or individuals, nowever courageous Police forces in West Berlin and in the International liberal opinion has been in the way, and with impunity.

lI necessary ask questions lalel.

shocked by the outraged and manner ten West launched states • In 1971 Bavarian police opened fire on massive nationwide manhunt Arabs the Tor slalc

BULICC

Their behaviour undoubtedly reflects slaughtered hostages and Palestinian a bank robber using a pretty temale clerk suspected belonging even ineir own the growing he sollapse of est tensions German their eagerness to down the arter andes shield. Both died Munich the pilot ame police the post-war 1n society with orcarialons. would have liked to see the killing was necessary to the banners of young Mant communists. •rotestina prevent even more bloodshed.

the killings were torn down and Games carle no ce o me el More important, official willingness to dead. But as they had won at the airfield, by mobs anti- trampled undertoot ali arm the triumphed with • In June this year Scottish businessman police and other shor o nuclear business again terrorist, right-wing. big Talliv. to san son thetr aucions Mr lain McLeod was shot down in his own forces with everything Bavatian police that the After initial deception by the Avery Brundage's announcement that the Israelis were safe 20th Olympiad would go on.

weapons activel onicial to West Germans as pistols. It was thought the flat harboured grave Schreiber As worrying many IS a admitted police ciel Manired anarchists associated with the Baader. preparations of the right wing in Ger- the immedi- police snipers were told to pick the death of the Israelis was The assumed that the advanced than in the even Arabs if they could and warned that the ate acceptance In CirCes Menor sans. Dul Il was Laly Hitler they would abroad of the police action. Eye- next time anyone chance tone bullaing tney the last was leave no possible room would simply be gunned down. power. have. WILLICOs alevulllo IMF stirs trade Tokyo talks S Koreans to curb pull out of war in Japanese REACTIONS to the latest Inter- national Monetary Fund report on Vietnam war goods to possible changes in the world money system indicate that antagonisms be- SOUTH KOREA is to with- tween major capitalist countries are Britain draw all its 38,000 troops in bitter they getting increasingly as Vietnam within six South for vicious trade prepare a war OFFICIAL-level talks aimed at months from December. against each other. sharp increases curbing Yong-Shik Foreign Minister The report, presented by the The only warm support for this Britain Japanese exports proposal came from the Governor Kim announced in Seoul that IMF executive, could come up

BY PETER JEFFRIES

opened in Tokyo yesterday. of Jadeshi the Japan, with no to the Trade John cleal Tory this decision was due to 'the He gold thought War crisis this a wisen Presie Davies visited Tokyo last June • What, if anything is to replace 'losing its value' in world Tine much-improved war capa- when Presi- August gold as the basic unit for world yster being and warned that he was under acy

SDR

of the South Viet- dent Nixon broke the link Utopian "industrial pressure' bilities trade? placed by to impose namese government forces'!

between gold and the world subject import restrictions on view 1s maroly à num- the discipline of other capitalist the extremely low proportion of currency system. ber of Japanese products.

gold in Japan's reserve assets.

South Korea joined the war in countries relation to its The document was supposed to Particularly a re cars. payments deficit? Vietnam in 1965. smooth the way for the ball-bearings, television sets, •alance Equally predictable was South due wash place! place later On the first issue, report meeting, The Africa's the World S yarus. B52 bombers In that prominence month

AVIANLAN

leading Nicolas Diederiche desk-toD

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gold Trinance e ectonc 200 of explosives to Special Draw- tons should be given dropped Minister Dr metal tableware and a few other Tact ir nas owy suaroeneo alcady Rights. suspected North Vietnamese existing differences These that the items. which alt base. said he was glad report troop concentrations around the Washington assets, created by threaten to turn as the two-day confer- with the But cucolon Thanh An one night this into a full-scale battle.

in use for assembly Toyota gold at length and recognized ence began, their But the key basIc of that it has reached a business week WO remarca unanswered by the execu- account and was as a major reserve North Vietnamese anti-aircraft avoided. tive: assel, US lets crews snot aown seven He im- over the central and coastal wenr on urce Crash relatives are North Vietnam and one mediate increase in the, gold price areas of essential step in any world more over raonos. moliclary This brings the number of On the question of the growing

THE

ITALIAN

Alitalia is suing relatives of some state American planes down in sued ShOT US payments tiere the Vietnam war to 3,882. equaly clear divisions. At one victims of acal refers 'one North tal strip has intensifed activity, the report Palermo which 122 people that of the the (clearly cuaslal SuIT died. vIeW esta bos a sale the serie e since they openea their pusa oul A mericans mar adv pressure to DC8 guilt The aircraft, Alitalia state of the mountains late last month make the US deal with its fighting taking travelling from Rome to Palermo, of the company and to allow deficit could lead and heavy DarL ments smashed mountainse antective acsessment place near Kontum dangers of a world recession darkness near the Sicilian capital's forces are Here the US is clearly warning Vietnamese inquiry South and a government Association inder heavy pressure on Hill 211 France and the Common Market the ater

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Diallic Coverca Tien town, south that econ duela seculation near huos had pilots. inquiry saying it Taled five will Son Valley after dollar Te su Deceuber 18, take of the alleged in- vue heared in John Davies days shelling and radio ground The air- adequacy navigation answereo ov an al-oul laut Rome on December US Treasury attacks. That is why of 15 line at Palermo airport Is suing 41 re aves eculoment Volcker, asked Had tie-up with three caravan makers 45 A0tries Virying supones and have not so pro- nor crarted the divisions were deep concluded a compensation agree- Rome, there supplies supoly cuassis lul that the victims' indicated. answered: At 2,500 motor caravans a year.

dealings reDOrT ammunition along Route 19 from menu oul-01-COur! least that deep.' The firms concerned are Dan- Pleiku towards the Cambodian with the company. Tamues lave Dormobile bury Conversions Ltd, frontier has ambushed near An Alitalia spokesman has said criminal Palermo, against been •cace in Where

LOIS

Ltd intended feelings run high about the crash.

international crisis that all trends the lavass nuevosa Thanh An low and broken up.

the British must (Motorised) Ltd. economy The British delegation at the Department neasured. lalest talks Right-wing riots against Chile's Allende Trade by Sir Max Brown ana Inaustry in veste. Secretzrv o rade in te vea.

revealed ment Trade and Industry, while Kiyohiko deputy orders, particularly in the After police sealed off the city mean the wrecking of the field. MORE than 100 people have morelon vice-Minister, penes ure demonstrators warned left-wing Lis seto We 10.5 Japanese delegation right-wing According heen arrested. dozens iniured and cellic. The dis- orders this sector were conference will one killed nightly clashes regrouped asO tariffs Chile, demonstratad week High Ground residential the three of import antiago,

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alower Cent

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Cuss reacuon of hi opulgo uni coalion.

compared on some britsn exports to japan.

with the previous 12-week period. opening up of Japanese distribu Allende against ine Allende regime Here is the clearest expression tion business to British firms anc The dead man is student Mario cules, unousand. (18), of cult and grave' time and warned of the growing crisis of capitalism Aviles Oyarce member mucosure his opponents that if his celebrate second anniversary one of the most basic Japanese imports British govern. Freedom goods. would of Allende's election. Fatherland movement. Inaustres

Camden builders defy officials Builders forge ahead

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

LANCASHIRE strikers in Preston and Blackburn are again raising the vital ques- tion of the union leadership.

At a mass meeting earlier this week Preston builders heard UCATT district organ- izer Tommy Lawton tell them it was the 'the waiting-time period'. And if they wanted to win they had to do something themselves. But many of the militants have become disillusioned with the lack of a clear call by their union leaders for an official national strike. They are particularly angry that the Transport and General Workers' Union has suspended strike benefit because UCATT were not paying any. One picket told Workers Press: 'They should have given the money to the hardship fund or shared it among all the single men. If they can pay over £50,000 to the National Industrial Rela- tions Court they must have lots of money' Mike Gallagher, local UCATT branch who chaired secretary, the meeting, told the men: "The only way we can win is by picket- ing. It will only take a few weeks if we come out together and picket. Then we'll win.

we can change Cor 'The only way is by ing society, he added, our working through the branches to change the leaders.' IN Blackburn the men were at union leaders equally angry and local officials. Strikers pick- eting a small builder in the town who had employed scab two union men told Workers Press: 'We want the union to call an official national strike. We can get everyone out if they did, but some men refuse to come out as they say it's not a national strike. We need a new leadership' Blackburn's corporation build- ers were also eager to come out, they said, but their union repre- sentative had gone on holiday.

Blackburn pickets get angry with workers going into a site.

ALL South Wales opencast mining sites, which produce 60,000 tons of coal a week, are now shut. Over 3,000 men-all covered by the same agreement as the building workers-have come out on strike in support of the claim. In Scotland, the building union leaders' policy of send- ing men back to work on company agreements seems to have run into trouble. employer is One leading believed to be refusing to pay all men the new £30 basic unless they earn a f5 bonus.

Workers Press, Friday Soptember 8, 1972 PAGE 3 CAMDEN CORPORATION builders threw this idea out for the rotten workers had separate negotiations of decided on Wednesday to stay out.

Speakers from the floor compromise it was and voted by 295 their own. to 175 for the following motion : rejected this Their move was not only a victory proposal, sayllg lo lc" turn would be divisive and all build- 'This meeting of Camden borough's for the rank and file, but a defeat for ing workers were involved in this direct labourers calls for an all-out, union officials and Communist Party fight. official national including stoppage, 'leaders'. Then leading Stalinist Max Beyer, all local authority building workers, A full-time Union of Construction, a Camden steward, jumped in with a no retreat on the full claim and no Allied Trades and Technicians' official proposal that they stay out, but begin return to work until the claim is met told the meeting they should all go immediate negotiations with Camden Further we continue strike nationally. back work because corporation council for the claim. But the ranks action in line with this demand.'

But beware of CP and leaders

BY PHILIP WADE

DESPITE the hysterical Tory press cam.

paign against them, the building workers remain more determined than ever to win the full claim of £30 for a 35-hour week.

yesterday announced would meet the building employers at the national joint council next Thursday. The rank and file will have to be on their guard against any attempts to betray the fight. Five pickets were arrested outside the Globe Construction site at Basildon, Essex, yesterday morn- Recrulting al a south London alle.

while police escorted sub-contract workers their jobs ning to crack and that the The suggestion that the claim alleged neutrality Shrewsbury the day Shoclato to he ic- r right cal- of the police in these force 100 before. second-phase matters conciliation service ling for was firmly police outnumbered pickets Only halfway down the opposed by by the the buitding worpose squashed horse's

STONN

concentcor article it reported that aDout

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one the against them'. mouth itself: 'If everyone General and Municipal shotgun was found was like those i-osbie). in Union Iste ard Meanwhile, Building workers will CTne salaist 'sub- Dolce ln _ one oT _ The [the the leadership the London note the of the there accused police welcoming bies' cars. of committee, police action will omcer lold pickels away our right i bre building firm said Taking

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secon• onast . OUl 'this country would be picket. UD for unco lo cover nave to look nara lor talk right back on again.' ue luaoccauy. top leaders' retreat national strike 'seara ion union Pickets Demands are still coming told contrast to the treat- the employers and The •Morning then In fore

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rank and file the Tories, : to pickets inl trom tie Party Coleous THOSe ment meted Communis for leaders they were trying to bring behind the saw the call by the instead right ov bonce. Toe oimun cins take fight and up call Post' and other Tory Builders Federa- leadership their strike yesterday tion for TUC-CBI interven.

papers talked all oul. Mallundi selective strikes strategy.

action. sign lunaly dooul pickels golg Toat TEne On the other hand, the on an 'orgy of destruction' At the same time, any smaller firms begin- rank Teena among The and file is opposite to the expressed in sentiments 'Star' 500 Almost Camden corporation building north London,

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have relected Deas return to work and continue their nine-day the of

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SubDOL. Tony Bergin: Watch Feather pay claim. , 1 ney also called for national Union officials tried have -despite earlier threats out- twice

HOW

get Lnero with iron bar-and to all back to work. (See above.)

imit teir numaers Yesterday, pickets were 'If they settle for Vic Feather Tare oolsta our dispute estate site of J. L. Eve in he'll do the same thot HelenSCATT Streatham Lane, South Pilkington _ 10 to Only men from saic LUpuol. «out ore Bergin, •lamer or te men on fne Iony site are now working. steward «eDuLY Despite Cubitt's World's End site BONCe couraging men to go into who was picketing Eve's. work, the pickets have his that deuol persuaded the vast majority enablee mem saca militants. don't think •sunike arbitration have joined the of this anything immediately. idea. and nor does anvone els We have go my ny pa, els industry our à d a da win them B 227 any never This lot would surely find forth ten toyers, we're Ed618 Hloucll being Iso atee strike. Although the TUC being lobbied for runas, it's stil a CuCSLOn national strike. 'The fight we're fighting

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is for more than money. • 137 It's for 100-per-cent trade union organization. All unions should be united in

PAPERBACKS CENTRE

action malieı dispute COe ana thile know how our leaders said Ton! aul. and if 28 Charlotte St beroln. • naN Y

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been for us lobbying them Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs would have been sold у a.M.-o p.m London W1 Fri 9 a.m.—7.30 p.m. 'Building workers have Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. got to hold out. And want national agreement

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday Septembi Part 9 of a series on Picketing t capitalists The have never been satisfied with the regular police and army alone as a means of repressing the working class. They have called into existence all manner of spies and strike-break- ing organizations as well as private police, armies, and in the last extreme, the fascists. On the basis of 'know your enemy' some of these forces, past and present, which the use in order to employers defeat pickets, demonstrators, workers' defence and political organizations and revolution are looked at here. It should be added though that Marxists have always been contemptuous ot those who mechanically list all the sup- posed forces of capital and pronounce it too strong, too well-armed to even consider a confrontation. Trotsky wrote in 1934: 'The pacifists have long hoped that the growth of military technique would make war impossible. The Philis- tines have repeated for decades the growth of military that technique would make revo- lution impossible. However, and revolutions con- wars tinue. Never has there been so revolutions, including many victorious revolutions, as there have been since the last war which uncovered all the might of military techniques.' ('Whither France?'.) Spies and provocateurs In the early part of last cen- tury when trade unions were illegal, political and labour were so thick on the spies ground in Britain that they often betrayed each other to the authorities by mistake.

Payments to spies were a regular feature of early Home Office records and magistrates also frequently employed them on a permanent basis. Criminals and ex-convicts were often used as spys. They did not merely report what had taken place at workers' mectings — discussions on resistance to wage-cuts, poli- tical speeches and so on-but made up tales of conspiracy and proposed insurrection in order to justify their pay.

In many cases they acted as agent provocateurs, encourag- ing violent acts and riot so that workers' leaders could be got safely out of the way by trans- portation, prison or hanging.

One spy named Fletcher who operated a team of agents was getting £226 for a half- year in 1816. Between 1812 1818 parliament spent and £9,526 0s 9d on this type of spying activity. The police also paid out large amounts. Metro- politan police records con- tained a bill for £986 6s 3d paid to a firm of shorthand writers in 1848 for attending Chartist meetings and taking down speeches. The Chartists were well aware of the prob- lem and any police agents dis- covered would be ejected with much violence. In 1817, 'Oliver the Spy, a paid Home Office informer, September 8, 1972 keting by Bernard Franks toured industrial districts of the north posing as a delegate from the London Physical Force Party and inciting local radicals to an insurrection which he assured them was about to break out in the rest of the country. Very few people were taken in, but in Derbyshire he man- aged to get a few starving textile workers to take up arms and march to Nottingham in support of the Pentridge 'rising'. They were quickly rounded up by a small detachment of and 35 were sub- troops sequently tried for high treason. Of these, Il were trans- ported for life, three for 14 years, and four, including their leader, Jeremiah Brandreth, were hanged. notorious Another agent called Edwards travelled from town to town joining societies and reporting to the authorities lurid descriptions of treasons about to be committed. In 1819 he alleged that in an interview William Cobbett had enthused over the actions of the Luddites and had deplored the fact that there had been no general uprising.

•During the age of Chartism a comprehensive government espionage system existed. Postmasters were required to report all untoward occur- rences in their districts and factory inspectors, appointed under Factory Act 1833, in addition to their in- spection duties, reported from time to time 'respecting the state of the trade, the wages of labour, and the state. of tranquility or excitement in the district in which you act'.

May (Home Office letter, 1837) Two years later they were asked to report weekly respecting the Chartist meet- ings'. The same year a mag's- trate complained of newspaper reporters who refused to make depositions or come forward as witnesses in cases arising out of Chartist meetings.

In 1848 a Metropolitan police spy, Thomas Powell, was in the witness box to give evidence against Chartist con- spirators. Under stringent cross-examination, however, ne admitted to drawing up plans to assassinate police, making implements to cripple cavalry horses, inducing incendiarism and casting bullets. He finally admitted: 'I entered the asso- for the purpose of ciation getting information and com- municating it to the police commissioners. I encouraged and stimulated these men in order to inform against them.'

For the safety of their own spies naturally skins, were reluctant to appear in court. of In any case, the authorities did not want their best agents advertised. Nottingham's town clerk argued in 1814 that not producing a spy as a witness would keep 'the in court source of our information pure and uncontaminated'. Workers themselves against protected all spies and informers by taking oaths of severe allegiance to their cause and making it extremely hot for anyone breaking the vows.

Today, examples frequently The yeomanry, a mounted volunteer fore and Industral disturbances. It was usec peaceful crowd of workers and their far come to light of factory spiest blacklisting and activities the Special Branch which show private and that such state ; is labour and political spying more comprehensive on a scale than ever, and is using methods in keeping with the latest developments of modern technology. Militia and yeomanry Two organizations which, in addition to regular troops, could be called upon in the early 19th century to break up political demonstrations, food riots and strikes were the militia and the yeomanry. The militia was a non-professional mainly con- military force, scripted and not permanently embodied, but made available in times of internal unrest or invasion. A certain amount of training was given each year and the force paid for by a county levy. It was not reliable for deal- ing with internal unrest because its part-time nature meant that members, often workers and shopkeepers, spent most of their lives in the communities which they might be called upon to repress. They were not to be compared with the professional soldiers who were kept some- what isolated from the popu- unteer force, was regarded as the most reliable was used in the notorious Peterloo Massacre d their familles listening to radical speakers in lace in specially-built barracks.

As one writer comments: ...Militia units were usually stationed outside their own counties when embodied, because the men's ties with the people of their own county might make them take the side in civil disturb- wrong ances.' ('The English Militia in Century' by the Eighteenth J. R. Weston, 1968.) The Hammonds in The Town Labourer' give a num- ber of examples of militia refusing to shoot rioters, and even changing sides during the early 1800s. The yeomanry was totally different. A mounted volun- teer force formed in 1794, it was made up almost entirely of small landowners, tenant businessmen, farmers and officered by the landed ger try and aristocracy. Solidly Tory, it was regarded by the state as the most reliable force to suppress minor riots and indus- trial disturbances and to keep order in other cases until the military arrived The Hammonds cite a report to the Home Office about a seamens' strike in 1816, saying that the local militia could not be relied on but that a corps of yeomanry could be raised without diffi- culty at Holdness, which would at rellable force to suppress minor riots Massacre (above) where It charged a eakers in St Peters Fields, Manchester.

be 'worth more than all the regiments of militia in the West Riding'. yeomanry's The most was their notorious action cavalry charge on a peaceful crowd listening to radical orators in St. Peter's Fields, Manchester in 1819. The local yeomanry - con- sisting of Manchester business- men-along with the Cheshire yeomen and a section of the 15th Hussars drove into the gathering of 60,000 people, which, reports of the time said, contained 'an unusually large proportion of women and children'. Brutally cutting and slashing with sabres they murdered 11 people, including two women and a child and injured 600 more, including women. This was the 113 Peterloo Massacre. Both the militia and yeo- manry declined in their im- portance to the capitalist state in the middle of the last century. For regular forces the British ruling class has pre- to ferred concentrate on developing fully-trained and entirely full-time professional troops and police, highly dis- ciplined and under tight con- trol of the authorities at all times.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

The world's largest mus- of Jewish ritual eum objects and culture is likely to be reorganized along 'anti-Zionist' lines following the dismissal of its director, Dr Vilem Benda. •Dr Benda headed the Czech- oslovak State Jewish Museum for ten years until the Prague city council sacked him last month — a decision which he first heard of in the news- papers. Dr Benda, a long-standing Communist Party member ex- pelled from the Party in 1970, was a driving force behind the reorganization of Jewish cul- life in Czechoslovakia tural after the Nazi occupation of World War II. Today the museum attracts nearly 750,000 visitors each year — more than any other museum in the country. its He helped establish unique permanent exhibitions of Jewish silver and ritual which were originally cloth, brought to Prague from all over Czechoslovakia by Nazi looters. They now figure prom- inently in official city guide- books. But the Stalinist leaders of the Czechoslovak Communist are now complaining Party that the museum was not suffi- ciently 'politically engaged' and have been pressing for its pres- entation to promote struggle against Zionism', according to Jewish sources.

The authorities also want the museum to play down the ethnic and cultural particulari- ties of Jews and stress their assimilation modern into Czechoslovakia. All this has an ominous ring for those who are familiar with the history of Czechoslovak Stalinism. Twenty years ago the frame-up trial of Rudolf Slansky and leading other Communist Party functionaries was replete with references to the accused as 'Zionist agents'.

Eleven of the 14 defendants, including , Slansky, were Jews. The bureaucracy then used anti-Semitism, veiled behind a thin-smokescreen phrases about 'anti-Zionism', as means of whipping up popular support among the most back- ward sections of the popula- tion and pinning blame for its own failings on the Jews.

The sacking of Dr Benda who was a supporter of the ousted Party chief Alexandr Dubcek, has all the flavour of a new anti-Semitic drive. It coincides with the wave of purge trials in which over 40 oppositionists have been sent to prison. His successor as director of the museum is Erik Klima, who previously headed the sec- tion in the Czechoslovak State Library, where forbidden books are kept. This fact alone indicates Klima's standing as a hard-line Stalinist. He has been given the job of sacking employees who were expelled from the Com- munist Party after the Warsaw Pact invasion. This purge is expected to affect about eight museum's of the 40-odd employees. Photograph by Abisag Tüllmann Against the opposition of the extreme racialists of nationalist the ruling party, the big South African monopolists have for some time been clam- bouring for less restric- tions on the use of black labour. The big mining corporations, for example, find apartheid has created an artificial shortage of skilled labour, because black workers can only be employed on the most menial tasks.

They also find that workers who are worked for long hours on starvation wages, isolated from their families in vast barracks and deprived of all amenities, are less than willing to put themselves out for their masters. This hits the mining magnates where it hurts—in the pocket explains their book-and eagerness to introduce more effective methods of exploit- ation in the interests of higher profits. Among the most fervent supporters of the government policy, however, have been the leaders of the all-white 'trade unions' which are in reality little exclusive more than associations to ensure the con- tinued privileges of the white labour aristocracy. However, the leaders of these bodies are just as servile in their attitude towards the employers as their counter- parts in other countries.

When William Wilson, deputy chairman of the giant Anglo-American Corporation told a businessmen's meeting that his company paid its black mineworkers far too little com- pared with its white staff, the union chiefs dutifully sang the same tune. • Arthur Grobbelaar, general secretary of the Trade Union Workers Press, Fri Above : unemployed men waiting for jobs in Salisbury, Rhodesia, with little hope of being paid more than starvation wages.

South Council of Africa (TUCSA) said Wilson had clearly tackled 'the problem of revolutionary improvement as vital, bearing in mind that revolutionary chaos is the only other alternative'. He added his own 'sincere welcome' for 'the fact that a section of South Africa's primary industry, with a far from perfect record of meeting social aspirations, human and is facing up to the need for radical change in the interests of a prosperous South Africa'.

awakening of The belated Grobbelaar's hitherto dormant conscience may be regarded as a big event in TUCSA circles, but the black helots of Anglo- American will undoubtedly treat it with the contempt it deserves. Preas, Friday September 8, 1972 PAGE 5 British-Leyland may be in trouble in Britain but its South African operation is possibly in even worse straits. Between September 1970 and September 1972 it made $2m profit, but the figure for the first six months of the current financial year was a pathetic £22,000. £670,000 of this drop was attributed to the currency re- alignments resulting from the August 15, 1971 dollar mea- sures of the US Treasury.

But this was by no means the whole problem and many the company's difficulties are continuing ones. Share- holders have been warned to expect little improvement on the half-year's figures. Sales of all classes of vehicle in South Africa were depressed by 13 per cent last year as a result of the recession in the economy coupled with restric- tions on consumer spending.

The cost of home-produced is going up components as manufacturers are forced into but nonetheless long-delayed, heavy capital spending. And imported components are going up in price, too, as a result of the US measures.

All this resulted three months ago in a major manage- ment shake-up following a visit by company chiet Lord Stokes Irom Britain. Above : Chairman Stokes Chairman Jack Plane stepped down to be replaced by Stokes and in as deputy and chief executive chairman came Basil Landau, a 42-year- from accountant Japanese Toyota company's subsidiary. It has now become clear that Landau's policy is to be almost a carbon-copy of that now embarked on by chair- man Stokes in Britain. A number of the com- pany's more diverse assets—it has interests in such industries as bookbinding and fibreglass —are to be sold off. 'We're dropping them', as Landau succinctly puts it. Then Leyland is to move in to squeeze the last drop of surplus value from the 2,000 African workers at its main plant at Blackheath, near Cape Town. Blackheath is badly situated.

It is the furthest of any manu- facturers' plants away from the main car market in the Transvaal. 'Setting up another plant could cost us f10m', , Landau however, with brutal says, simplicity. So car making will stay at Blackheath, at least for the time being. Presumably most of the workers will retain their jobs. But Stokes and Landau are preparing to drive them mercilessly than even more they are driven now in order to pay for the crisis their com- pany is in.

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BY PHILIP WADE

Last Sunday the Festival of Light brought to a close its second London crusade against 'moral pollution' wich a Trafal- gar Square prayin by about 5,000 assorted petty bourgeois, trendies and American Jesus pop groups. Almost a year ago, shortly after the movement was launched by Malcolm Mugger- idge, Lord Longford and Mary Whitehouse, they were able to muster some 20,000. That in itself is an indica- tion that the vast majority of lower middle-class people are • on waiting the sidelines, watching the ebbs and flows of the class struggle, before 8, 1972 taking the plunge on the side of reaction. The potential enormous power of the working class organized in its unions, has been demonstrated time time again although still in a limited way, since the Festival of Light's first event in Sep- tember 1971. The biggest demonstrations have been those in support of the miners and the jailed dockers. Although the middle class didn't always have news- papers to see the events, they were undoubtedly glued their televisions. Nevertheless, a hard core of middle-class youth, together with a section of the Knights- bridge set and some business- have been brought to- men, 'fight the enemy gether to within' To be at one of the several

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rallies held in London over a five-day period was no joke. The crudity of the 'Festival for Jesus' was easy to laugh at. But the deadly seriousness of those present meant there was more to it than that.

It was a most hostile en- vironment for any socialist to be in. We were told the invisible enemy residing in the hearts 'destroyers of the of men, society' , had to be wiped out. And for a movement created for the middle class-stricken by the break-up of capitalism, who have seen the Empire disappear, the pound float, lose value daily, and money the working class on the move -it just can't stop there.

Two things stood out in the reincarnation of the 'Dunkirk Miracle' which the Festival of Light attempted in London last week. The first relatively

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the response simple: Major-General fervently who the strident tried to whip nationalism of the Empire "Is this the Britain for davs: friends their which my friends save tir gave lives in wild applause. The second was more com- plicated, but implica- more indicative of the „nc kind of movement some very conscious people are trying to put together here. This is the fantastic asser- tion that the entire rescue of the stranded British Expedi- Force 1940 tionary in the of God, somehow work who with a mighty hand de- British livered the valiant from the dastardly Hun. pea-brained Even the most historians bourgeois do not Above left: Lord Longford on the 'Day of the Dunkirk Miracle' Battersea Pier. Above right: Tra- falgar Square pray-in. Left : Towel Hill rally. make that claim. The story British well known how the army escaped from France in armada of rowing boats, steamers and ocean picasure Hitler his preventer generals from moving in with sibler int attempted tanks and the impossible from the wipe an army air. But to the Festival of Light it was a miracle. This is not just bunk, it is bunk which by implication history jects reason, and all the most basic conquests of human culture. It very sinister bunk. And around and about the London Festival I encountered some even more sinister ideas One organizer talked to me seriously about the creation of "supernatural earth' men Here really are back the Herrenvolk. None the real ideologues movement Whitehouse and like Mugger- the platforms during the festi- They seemed content to remain in the background and let the newly-converted Ameri- can pop groups and folk singers have their way. This time the speakers were insur- ance men, estate agents and representatives of the other petty bourgeoisie. 24-page edition of But a 'Buzz', put out especially for the festival, devoted two pages for The campaign to Nationwide Petition for Pub- lic Decency. speech by Mrs And in Mary Whitehouse, which formed part of the feature, be heard loud and were to clear the anti-communist tones of the Moral Rearmament Movement, which Whitehouse joined when she was 24. The campaign petition urged the reform of the obscenity laws to become an instrument for the 'maintenance of public decency' and the inclusion of within these laws. television The further reactionary de- mand was made for the ban- ning of sex education books for schoolchildren Without, naturally, explain- 'public decency' ing what actually is, the article Workers Press, Friday Se launched straight into a speech made by Mrs Whitehouse to a 'prominent Bonn audience' last year in which all her virulent anti-communism and defence of capitalism comes straight out, clear as a bell.

'We would be foolish in- deed not to realize that decad- within culture ence western plays straight into the hands of those who work towards the destruction of parliamen- tary democracy,' she said.

In evidence she cited an alleged directive by the Italian Communist Party which en- couraged Party members to place no obstacles in the path of pornographers because they 'eat at very roots bourgeois society'. Singapore's She praised Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew who described licentiousness as 'an attack on the body and it soul' and criminally was negligent' to permit it. Here the main enemy is re- vealed as the forces of social- ism. Licentiousness turns out to be an attack on capitalism.

is another Here passage sure few of which we are those taking part in the Lon- don Festival for Jesus would disagree with: ors Press, Friday Seplember 8, 1972 PAGE 7 The fight against pollutior f the mind must be waged simultaneously with the train- ing of the body. Today the whole of our public life may be compared to a hot-house for the forced growth of sexual notions and incitements.

bill-of-fare A glance at the provided by our cinemas, play- theatres, houses and suffices to prove this is not the right food, especially tor our young people. 'Hoardings and advertise- ment kiosks combine to attract the public in the most vulgar manner. Anyone who has not altogether lost contact with yearnings adolescent will realize that all this must have very grave consequences. 'This seductive and sensuous atmosphere puts notions into the heads of our youth which, at their age, ought still to be • But if unknown to them . for reasons of indolence or cowardice this fight is not fought to a finish we may imagine what conditions will be like 500 years hence. 'Little of God's • image be left in human nature. except to mock the Creator.' The book? 'Mein Kampf. The author? Adolf Hitler.

MAN AND NATURE

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday Septembe Part 5 of a series on Science ar In his unfinished essay "The Part Played by Lab. our in the Transition from Ape to Man', ('Dialectics of Nature' Pp 180-184), Engels speaks about the re- lation of industry to nature. 'In nature nothing takes place in isolation. Everything affects and is affected by every other thing, and it is mostly because this manifold motion and interaction is forgotten that our natural scientists are prevented from gaining a clear into the simplest Insight things.' Both animals and man change the world around them by their activities. 'But animals exert a lasting effect on their environment un- intentionally and, so far as the animals themselves are con- cerned, accidentally. The further removed men are from animals, however, the more their effect on nature assumes the character of premeditated, planned action directed towards definite preconceived ends. 'Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us.

Each victory, it is true, in the about the hirst place brings result we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first. 'Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a con- queror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature-but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, to belong nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly? The results of the post-war boom have made Engels' words of great importance for our time, together with his remark that 'the individual capitalists, who dominate production and exchange, are able to concern themselves only with the most immediate useful effect of their actions'. The development of the petro- multi-billion dollar chemical industry, for example, meant that thousands of tons organic chemicals of were produced — detergents and plastics, for example-which are not found in nature. soc Bacteria, which have evolved so that they can break down cloth or soapall paper, produced from naturally occurring substances-can do nothing with the new materials.

But the manufacturers are not concerned with such questions. So long as they can sell what they produce at a profit, the monopolies are not responsible for 'side-effects' Natural processes tend to perpetuate themselves through the occurrence of cyclic move- ments of matter and energy.

Man interferes with these pro- cesses, sometimes breaking the cycles completely. But modern industrial and military techno- logy operate on such a scale that whole areas of the globe on which man himself depends can be devasted. In effect, the boom used up large chunks of our planet.

The monopolies 'financed' their expense of expansion at the man's future. What the environmentalists cannot face is that this implies not a cutting-down of industry, but its conscious planning on. an September 8, 1972 ience and the Environment by John international scale and that this demands the victory of socialist revolution. The middle-class protest movements which have grown up around the environment issue-even when they pose as 'anti-capitalist' —really being evade the question through their idealist outlook, just as their predecessors of the anti- H-bomb movement did. At worst, these tendencies frenzied opposition "affluence' a nd industrial growth place them alongside the most reactionary forces of monopoly-capitalism. At best, they criticize the effects of capitalist anarchy from purely individualistic stand- point, that of the isolated 'social individual with a conscience' . None of them— even Barry Commoner-comes anywhere near the conception of the working class as the revolutionary force. The petty bourgeois regards himself as a social atom, for which society exists merely as a mechanism to provide him with the means to live. His life and opinions are his personal affairs, his private property. So he is incapable of grasping his by John Crawford relationship with the natural environment. In his head, the crisis of capitalism appears in the fan- tastic form of a threat to his existence as a private citizen, contradiction not as a expressed in the struggle of the working class for conscious collective control over pro- duction. In cutting himself off in his thinking from the social in which he relations is moulded, himself from the the individualist isolates collective struggle of man with nature. In one of his Economic- Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, the one called 'Private Property and Communism', the young Marx wrote: 'The human essence of nature first exists only for social man; for only here does nature exist for him as a bond with man as his existence for the other and the other's existence for him—as the life- element of the human world; only here does nature exist as the foundation of his own human existence... 'Industry is the actual, relation of nature. his historical and therefore of natural science, to man. If, therefore, is conceived as the industry revelation of man's esoteric essential powers, we gain an understanding of the human essence of nature, or the natural essence of man.' Thirteen years later, in his manuscript known as 'Grund- risse' Marx discusses the destruction of capitalism in these words: 'The result is the creation of a basis that consists in the tendency towards universal development of the productive forces-and wealth in general, also the universality of com- merce and a world market. The basis offers the possibility of n', the universal development of individuals, and real of development of individuals for from this basis consists in the • constant abolition of each limitation once it is conceived of as a limitation and not as a sacred boundary. "The universality of the Id; individual is : not thought or imagined, but is the universal- his real and ideal relationships. Man therefore becomes able to understand his own history as a process, and to conceive of nature as his own real body? The threat to man's future posed by the continued capitalist exploitation of industry and of the working class is very real. It is part of the crisis of entire world an social order, of a particular mode of production, of a particular form of the relation of man and nature, and the socialist revolution is anotner aspect of the same crisis.

In the struggle for revolu- tionary leadership, the work- ing class becomes conscious of its historical role: to open the way for the conscious planning of modern industry. Communism will plan the use of the resources of this planet-and others too-for the benefit of all. The produc- tion and distribution of food, the disposals of wastes, the conservation of stores of en- and materials—all such ergy problems will be tackled as aspects of man's collective relationship with nature.

The limitations which the environmentalists see as 'sacred boundaries' be leaped will over once the real barrier- capital-has been smashed.

Since the signing of the 1971 contract in basic steel between the major US steel producers and the United Steelworkers of America, the cor- porations have under- taken a sweeping cam- paign of job-slashing, mass layoffs and speed- up. US corporations have hidden behind the Pay Board's formula which permits wage increases, if 'justified' by productivity.

In other words, while the wage guidelines are steadily pushed down, jobs are elimin- workers speeded ated and the up. In steel, the success of the employers' productivity drive was given by the Pay Board as the reason for allowing a wage increase at all. At the same time, Nixon has preferred to avoid the possibility of a confrontation with the union which an out- right slash might have meant at this time, biding his time until after the elections.

productivity drive But the which is eliminating thousands and which poses the of jobs decimation of the steel labour force, has been undertaken the full co-operation of with the USWA leadership under president I. W. Abel. The green light for this drive was given by the establishment of the so-called productivity committees as a concession to the employers in the 1971 con- tract. While these committees themselves, according to the Wall Street Journal', have 'accomplished little,' they rep- resent the agreement of the USWA bureaucracy to allow the employers unilaterally to improve productivity. At the same time, every new investment in productive facil- ities that is developed in the geared to the most US is productive furnaces available developed by modern as engineering, furnaces which mean a constant expansion of productive capacity with fewer men. for the Thus, the plans Q-BOP furnace which is 25 per cent more productive than the ordinary BOP (basic oxygen process) furnaces which were announced last year, are not even the latest. Just recently a plan to bring in a new process, known as SIP (submerged injection process) was announced by a Pennsyl- vania engineering corporation.

This process will allow for the reconversion of the out- moded open hearth furnaces, but producing at a tremendous saving in production time, and at a lower cost of investment, than other new furnaces. In mill after steel mill, workers are learning a bitter lesson as technology and pro duction slowdown wipe out jobs, while speed-ups in other working departments make conditions intolerable. The closure of the US Steel mill in Duluth and the prob- able shutdown of the huge Lackawanna works of Bethle- hem Steel threaten to turn industrial cities into ghost towns and create conditions of massive unemployment and poverty• The Lackawanna mill is one of the major employers in the Buffalo area and as recently as two years ago employed 20,000 men. But since last August's con- tract settlement, 11,000 men have lost their jobs, reducing the work force to between 4,000 and 8,000 men. One can see from the almost empty parking lots and lack of activ- ity in the mill that operations are virtually at a standstill.

The BOP facility is the only basic steel producer in oper- ation, and of the 35 open- hearth furnaces previously operating, 14 have been com- pletely dismantled. In the coke ovens, which generally employ the most workers, only two of the seven batteries are in operation.

Already unemployment has reached 12 per cent in Buffalo and the growing poverty can be seen in the deteriorating in the downtown conditions section where empty stores and 'For rent' signs on once-busy main streets bear witness to an industrial the decline of town. In particular, departments in ave mills where there have not been complete production and automation, stoppages such as in the machine-shops, there is vicious speed-up.

The steel companies are hiring brazen new managers whose job it is to crack the whip. the Lorain, Ohio US At Steel works, this drive has taken on particularly arrogant and vicious proportions, as a letter written by a general foreman in the machine shop indicates. This letter, published in the 'Lorain Labour Leader', the organ of USWA Local (branch) 1104, exposes the intent of the steel owners to squeeze every ounce of work out of a man.

Speaking to other managers, the foreman writes: It is your responsibility to into the shop • and get out spend time observing not only safety activity—but what each man or group is doing and how they are doing it. 'Begin checking on the rate Top: I. W. Abel, president of the steelworkers' union who is co- operating with the productivity drive. Above: Nixon. of progress of each job on your turn. Where you find people who are not performing to ex- pectations, you are going to have to begin to 'kick . a few asses, and, if that doesn't work, assess time off.' Disciplinary forced layoffs, overtime and general harass- hirelings of the ment by the steel owners is what workers in mills across the country can now expect. One worker at the Lorain mill told the 'Bulletin', paper of the US Workers' League: 'Since the last contract there has been a lot of pressure from the management and especially since we got these two new bar mills. 'A lot of the guys here are getting pushed beyond the normal limits.' An older worker at the mill told the paper: "The old time foremen, little by little, are getting pushed out. They're bringing in the young ones with the whips in their hands. 'You know what I believe in? 'We ought to have a revolu- tion and set up the American form of government. If you go by the constitution you haven't got any rights. Corporations make plenty of money—but the work gets done by machines and they cut you out. 'I don't care if they have 100 per cent automation as long as we're guaranteed work. have to have money to live on.

'Is the shorter work week needed? You bet. The shorter the better. "They're getting rid of men here under the guise of auto- mation, but it isn't even auto- mation. It's automatically out!

"The managers get a percent- age for "saving,", by getting rid of men. They don't come in manufacture-they here to come in here to save money-- clip, cut, chop. We're non-deductible, them bastards are definitely deduct- ible'. Workers Press, Friday September 8, 1972 PAGE 9

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Philip Alderman Hartley, second-class citizens by the of the Labour- of rapidly chairman 'teeming millions' Brent controlled Council, breeding immigrants. Hartley's answer north London, was born Alderman Germany and was a member to these attempts to split the German of the Social Demo- working class is-silence. And Party until he then he adds' his own warnings cratic Was forced to leave his country be- about overcrowded schools. of Hitler's At the end of the Brent cause persecuuol. Trades Council public meeting ou sodalsts. At a recent public meeting he told member of the called by Labour League that Brent Trades Coun. bOCausl cil he attacked of he considered the Trotskyists members the Communist Party to most principled re- calling the way in which the the labour move- people in ment. Principles are certainly Stalinist policy 'social- fascism' had split the German in short supply in Brent.

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asCo Coluc lo vowci It would appear, however, that Alderman Hartlev has bi You have been yawning lidy no means fully absorbed these recently Tne lolot aucs the World Youth Assembly in Bessons. Following a meeting of the Manchester. completely futile and council's This ecc con genera services sub-committee, Alder- powerless jamboree has been the of a silly battle of words that scene man Hartley said British American with the and Ugandan Asian families come derecauons walkine

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First redundancy notices in Weinstock's wind-down in Lincoln PAGE 10 Workers Press, Friday September 8, 1972

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

ENORMOUS dangers lie ahead of em- ployees of the four GEC plants in Lin- coln who are involved in a fight for jobs. With 2,999 on the dole this month, the Lincoln area has an un- employment rate of 5.6 per cent. Of the youth who left school last month, 220 went straight onto the dole.

GEC is the major employer in the town and with their jobs at risk there is little future for workers. Chamber of Commerce President Peter Lingeman revealed last month that 1,000 people a year are quitting the city.

The threat of big redundancies in the Lin- coln plants started with the takeover of the Ruston factories by English Electric in 1966.

By 1969 English Electric had combined with Sir Arnold Weinstock's

GEC

and a huge sackings of was programme Lincoln under way nationally.

GEC

workers greeted a proposal to move work on the AO diesel to Newton-le-Willows, engine Lancs, with a 3,000-strong protest Guildhall. march to the Already in October 1967, when the still merger a 'The News- rumour in the city, letter' of Workers (forerunner Press) had warned: docks with 'Here, the as on the Devlin plan and in shipbuild- fight the betrayals of against ing with the Geddes report, the Wilson's reformist government, Labour government is using all the Woolwich works the resources of the capitalist was unable to save the plant, state to equip the monopolies for despite vehement and protests battle on the world markets. When local already widespread publicity. •Mergers such as these AEF leaders called for nationaliz- going through on the Clyde and "The News- ation to save the jobs, the north certain • to east are letter' pointed out: result in shipyard redundancies. The same is of the i Devlin "To call for nationalizatio. dow plan, which has reduced em- the docks from essentially to take ployers on means up hundreds handful of the political struzzle arainst the powerful. Wilson most There is no government and its that the Industrial Reorganization Corpor- reason to believe electrical industry will ation. It means a fight for altern- prove to exception.' be the ('The News- ative socialist policies and leader- 1967) letter' October 7, ship, to replace the existing with MPs pledged to leadership February Sure enough, of nationalization' (The policies Newsletter' February 10, 1968.)

6,000 was planning workers, mainly at the Woolwich Then in August 1969 the com- factory. In the absence of a political bine, by then including English Workers pressin une. series which appeared in is 1972 now available as FIve pe a pamphlet in the Socialist Labour League Pocket Library.

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movement developed A big immediately for a sit-in strike of all Merseyside's

. 12,000 GEC

challenged workers. But when politically from the right, the stewards caved in and all the fighting capacity of the men was frittered away. Now in Lincoln the first 380 workers at Dorman Diesels face the sack. These are by no means the last victims in Lincoln of Wein- stock's preparations to go into Europe and of the general slump.

OVER 150 shop stewards at the Enfield, north London engineering shop stewards quartely meeting have voted unanimously to set up a Council of Action in the area to prepare a fight to re- move the Tory government.

The meeting on Wednesday night also decided to send repre- conference sentatives to on September 21, called to form the Council. The shop stewards, represent- ing engineering workers in the Tottenham, _Enfield, Edmonton and Walthamstow districts, expressed their anger during the discussion at the TUC's retreat on opposition to the Industrial Rela- tions Act and the role of leader- ship in the fight against the Act.

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Frank and Rutley are making a modest contribution to solving the housing shortage up in North Wales. They room residence with seven acres of land, a water frontage of 400 yards, a boathouse and a dock in the Menai Straits. In the Menai Straits? Well the house has its own island—Ynys y Big, the Island of the Beak ... And it's going for a song at only £75,000-£80,000! Early in August, GEC chairman Lord Nelson warned that turbine orders from 1974 onwards are at half the level of previous blaming the cutback in years, capital investment by the CEGB.

The fight in GEC Lincoln is therefore a life-and-death fight to defend the right to work. There will be no future for any worker in the town unless this fight is taken up. But despite a decision by the stewards to fight the redundancies taken early in July, full-time union officials managed to manoeuvre a ballot against action on the issue. assembly

VAUXHALL

workers at Ellesmere Port, Merseyside, walked out yester- day over the dismissal of 35 of their colleagues. The walk-out followed a simi- lar one on the night shift. Then the 35 had reported for work, suspended pending were SOUTHAMPTON: Friday September 8, 7.30 p.m. 'The Glebe' ', Corner of Brintons Road and Northam Road. Speaker: Alan Thornett (deputy senior steward Morris Motors, Oxford, in a per- sonal capacity). 'The les- sons of the docks strike and the fight for jobs. BRACKNELL: Monday September 11, 8 p.m. Priestwood Community Centre. HULL: Monday September 11, p.m. Church Hall, Wayne 7.30 "The Road, Bransholme (opp 'Fighting the Tories' swailow'). Rent Act.' MEDWAY: Wednesday September 'The Greyhound', 13, 8 p.m. Rochester Avenue, Rochester. 'Defeat the anti-union laws. Force the Tories to resign! SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thursday September 14, 8 p.m. Deptford Engineers Cludi for the Tories.

opposite New Cross Station. to resign.' SWINDON: Sunday September 17.

7.30 p.m. 'Locomotive Inn', Fleet Street. Join the fight to force the Tories to resign.' A gas turbine plant in the Lincoln GEC-owned group of companies.

By a margın of 1,083 to 1,085 che ballot went against action.

Last week the first few redun- dancy notices were issued and stewards from all four GEC factories in the town met and decided to reject the redundancy terms, planning all-out action.

The lessons of Woolwich and Merseyside are clear. The Lincoln stewards must campaign immedi- ately to reverse the ballot and win a mandate to fight for the right to work. But most of all they must fight politically to remove the traitors in the labour movement who are shielding the Tories from this fight. The removal of pro-marketeer MP for Lincoln Dick Taverne shows that this fight will gain .in the city: What is re- support of a is the setting up quired Council of Action to unite the whole working class in the town to lead the campaign to force the Tory government to resign and replace it with a Labour government pledged to a socialist nationalization of the policy of electrical industry under workers' control without comensation.

the outcome of a works' com- mittee meeting on a dispute which arose on Tuesday night.

Workers from both shifts- members of the Transport and General Workers' Union-are to hold a mass meeting today.

The dispute started over a transfer of labour problem.

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An interview with an AUEW

THE

delegate by

STEPHEN JOHNS

DOME

'Anti-union law motions weren't sharp enough' He points that

BRIAN NUKINCY- &

out machine-tool machine-tools worker to save Boltonis a mem- Invester of the Amalga- needed, but this cannot mated Union of happen under the Tory Engineering Workers' He commented Like militants most yesterday's economic the resolution which called would nave shorter hours, have seen a sharper and and more specific motion condemns any talks on the wage restraint, but does tions Act. not oullaw Turtle But he that accepts the laboration wIth be compromise had to Tory government: reached to get the fully with agree of support the the demand 35- for a General and and four week Workers' Union. weeks' holiday, and "There was some am- Bolton engineer Brian Northey with quite agree in final biguity

AUEW

wage composite', he said. get the final motion which had barakrabl WAnt restralit entirely any not keir given 'But I am not so sure than nothing at all. issue over the last year with and of satisfied that talks am or if we did go before the Act government anyway. will not course, There It's obvious that the provision for payment before the court, the court

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Tories and the I'm sure whether a very sad let-down', he fines. ployers to this will apply to other added. have we had tion of reducing or the machine-tool unions

SUDDULL

stabilizing prices.

T&GWU.

feel. "It amazes me that worker, Brian under- of trade union standably sees facing and the feeling the move am one my delegation, was that allowed this second big issue facing nent exan bie

HOW•

there should be to happen anyway. movement un- is going to go up from pay- Tine ment of fight it our at done neto employment. E4 to £5 this month. fines court you He certainly the works for Thos support appearances 'The motions from Congress.' resolution aLer nyael,

DO LOL.

deal. technical Personally, machine-tool manufac- Housing Finance Act- our said, he proud turers. Over the last 18 it is a scandal the and was way ervIsUry his Labour councils pos- months the have

OWL

but I thidk tobtry more definable line, ition on the Act. He industry in the area has abandoned the fight on and thought was only the lost 3,000 jobs. this issue' Press, Friday September 8, 1972 PAGE 11 nose llves are in danger in the second .30 don. 10.50 Film: 'The Chapman Report. 12.50 News. 1.05 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 11.00-12.30 London.

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THE WIFE of the 35-year-old Taiwanese extradited from Sweden to America who is being held by British author- ities in Wormwood Scrubs prison hospital, flew into London early yesterday morn- ing. Mrs Cecilia Cheng had been given special permission to see her husband. She was met at the airport by representatives of Amnesty International.

When Mrs Cheng arrived she said: 'My husband has been treated very badly. He has been used as a tool in a political affair. My husband has always claimed he is not guilty and I believe him,' she told reporters.

The Swedish Labour govern- ment-which is maintained in power by the votes of Com- munist Party MPs-agreed last week to the US government's demand for Cheng's extradition.

But efforts were still being made in Sweden yesterday to have the order rescinded and for Cheng to be given political asylum. Cashing in SOME PEOPLE can make money even after they are dead, it seems. Sir Headley Dymoke in White, who shot himself February last year, aged 56, after a quarrel with a woman friend, raked in Just another £225,017. The money comes from a second grant of probate land. It makes the total value of his estate £1.239.317.

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FROM PAGE 1

uther calls for entry if the terms are right and after a referendum.

On this key issue, therefore, the both movement is tacing ways and is still not committed against entry. second victory is being A celebrated over Frank Chapple's step towards suspension from the Congress. The Stalinists portray this as a further isolation of the right.

is an extremely The estimation dangerous one. Chapple's move is not a flight into oblivion, but only the most explicit indication of the general trend towards corporatism within the upper echelons of the organ- ized labour movement. the bulk Victor Feather and of Congress are now firmly com- to this The policy. mitted thus be working class will Chapple : Recognized breakaway beheaded of leadership during the most crucial 12 months of its history. This is the enormous challenge facing the revolutionary left.

It is a fact-and Brighton has it-that the more the proved Tories attack the more the trade union leadership join with them and conspire to defeat the militancy of the working class.

Brighton 1972 was not the year of the left but the year of the new corporate-state TUC, when union leader after union leader of the to camp went over reaction.

BY IAN YEATS

A 400-STRONG march against immigration was given a hostile reception by lunchtime crowds in London yesterday. In the Strand, workers tore up racialist leaflets and threw them on the ground. At Charing Cross others gave mock fascist salutes and shouted 'Nazis' • Asked to join the march, a printworker in Fleet Street shouted angrily: 'If end up in a I join you we'd all concentration camp.' Last week holiday crowds had similar march with watched a good-natured amusement, but yesterday workers stared silently offices and on- from shops and "fascists' and lockers shouted 'gorillas' as the demonstrators / September 8, 1972

STEPHEN JOHNS AND JOHN SPENCER REPORT FROM

THE 104th TUC IN THE DOME, BRIGHTON THE SO-CALLED left of the Trades Union Congress have tion to the TUC General Council's treacherous talks with th This was clear from yesterday's set-piece debate on econom in which delegates unanimously accepted a lengthy motion Transport and General Workers' Union calling for : • Planned expansion of the economy.

• Full employment to be made a national priority.

• A 35-hour week in all industries with the target of a 32-h day week without loss of earnings.

The resolution instructed the General Council to refuse any the discussions with govern- ment or the

CBI

which had wage-restraint in view, but in blocked the continu- no way ation of the present round of talks. And from the platform General Council spokesmen made clear has already been discussed this with the Tories. Greene, for the Sir Sidney

TUC

General Council, said the was not going into the talks to sell out the unions or make to back and agreements and come 'be crucified by you'. claimed government the was now trying to 'change gear as fast as they decently can'.

Greene went If the last on: has proved anything it year that the government and the CBI realize they have do now And I am not business with us. saying that in any way. critical welcome it very much. Let's see how far we can get.' The railwaymen's leader said the government had made their talks. demands obvious in the 'They would dearly like to see and salary increases wage figures- -instead of double single international Pul figures. But equally we have to Striking journalists from in London yesterday lobbied TUC delega that if they tell them try to im- pose a figure, the dustrial con mit talking lournalists' union here conflict strikers are demanding a {495 increase li more industrial even present time' than at the Against advocates of breaking sacrifices had be made to he said 'the off the talks, the equality, trade union ensure will be there economic movement would make them.

The when the Industrial Relations government had failed badly on Act is dead and buried' 'it did little unemployment- too Transport and General and it did it too late. Union Tack Workero secretary, was so vague as motion Jones' the resolution, Jones, proposing of open the support Greene's as to attract described report of advocates wage-freezing on good. He called for 'quite the extreme right. mobilization of re- 'massive Alex Donnett, of the G&MWU, unemployed most and de sources' the declared support for wage deal with low Day. to and said it 'mad- It was up to the government to was set an example, said Jones. If ness' to imagine wage increases ing 'Jones out' and 'Red scum passed by behind a loudspeaker Britannia' out, blaring out Dula and 'Land of Hope and Glory'.

There were no other incidents throughout the 90-minute march, led by about 100 The march. leaders chatting amiably with of Smithfield's 2,000 meat-porters, Other with their police escort.

was backed by a strong National police lining the road smiled and teddy Front contingent, nodded sympathetically. Hell's Angels and about Earlier, at a meeting at Smith- children from housewives and field. Mosleyite Danny Harmston Tower Brixton, Lambeth anic and National Front organizer Hamlets. Martin Webster were joined Leader Ron Taylor, a Smith- the platform by Air Vice-Marshal field porter, handed in letters at who had flown Donald Bennett. Square, Smith headquarters a holiday fascist back from Transport General the and Spain to be at the meeting.

Workers Union and the Conserv- Bennett led the Path- special finder force during World War II ative Party, demanding action to halt immigration. and he said: 'Britain is cursed Police hustled the demon- with softie government strators past Transport House as everybody else's interests puts they tried to stop outside chant- before our own. 's have no objec- with the Tories. economic policy, motion from the IT WAS exaggerate British Steel Corpo lishments and empl right winger Dai D Trades Confederati He claimed there w f a 32-hour, four- was 'unmindful o obligations'. And he ational Publishing Corporation magazines UC delegates at Brighton. They are seen union chief Ken Morgan (right). The increase in their next year's salary.

figures could be double obtained without increasing out- put. needed was a set What was of assumptions agreed by the unions, the government linking the 'awards' to output.

referred to Upper Donnett Clyde Shipbuilders as an example of the increasing Tory 'flexibility'.

And Stalinist George Guy from the sheet metalworkers, praised UCS as a 'salutary and great struggle'. , the He stressed that among UCS leadership were 'one or two who have been referred to at so-called this Congress as subversives'. Another Communist Party member, Eddie Marsden, of the AUEW's constructional section, said wage rises were not respons!- ble for inflation. He referred to 'considerable worry within the movement' restraint that wage would be the outcome of the TUC-government talks. which was The resolution, calls for carried unanimously, 'planned economic growth' and for full employment to be made a major national priority. It also wels without 35-38 ot four-day earnings, longer holidays and earlier full pension. retirement on It reaffirmed 'opposition to wage form' restraint any instructed the General Council to 'refuse discussions with the government or the CBI that have this in view. But it is clear from the debate the General Council that sees this motion mandate to as continue and intensify its secret talks with the Tories. exaggerated and unfair to accuse the eel Corporation of destroying estab- and employment in the steel industry, er Dai Davies of the Iron and Steel nfederation told the TUC yesterday.

d there was no evidence that the BSC indful of its social and economic . And he referred to the 'tremendous fight' of BSC chairman Lord Melchett to preserve the industry. 'We have to thank him, Davies said. He was speaking on a attacked the resolution which massive closures and sackings in the steel industry. 'We knew when the industry was nationalized change would be inevitable. The argument is not about the need for change, atmosphere in which but the industry is undergoing it.?

Earlier Alan Hancock of the boilermakers described the huge wave of sackings that has hit the corporation. He said that since April 1971 had been 54 there separate closures in which 18,000 job opportunities had disappeared. Of these 14,000 had gone for another good, he said, and 24,000 were due to disappear by 1975. 'It would be wrong to give the impression that the unions are innocent of these measures,' Hancock said. They had gone along with the cuts in the interest of an efficient steel industry-'that vital thing for this nation'.

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