Workers Press no. 864

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FORWARD FOR ALL

TRADE UNIONISTS

RENT ACT EXAMINED p. 11 BUILDERS ON GUARD p. 3 BUILDERS' NEWS p. 12 EIGHT MONTHS of strikes- have provided trade unionists in every major struggle has be unequalled determination and The strength to conduct these strikes grew out of the knowledge that they were fighting employers who were backed by a Tory govern- ment determined to deprive labour of its basic democra- tic rights. Behind the Tory onslaught lies the biggest economic crisis since 1929. It is a crisis created by falling profit rates and univer- sal inflation, which had depreci- ated paper currency to the point where Nixon has made the dollar gold inconvertible with and Heath has been forced to float the pound. The ending of the Bretton Woods agreement by Nixon on August 15, 1971, now means that the Tories cannot postpone the crisis, as the Labour government did, by borrowing from the In- ternational Monetary Fund and the European bankers. They must now seek to solve the crisis by the most ruthless strike - breaking, wage - cutting, speed-up and rationalization of industry. Inflation and unemploy- ment will increase as the Tories enter the Common Market. This is why the Heath Cabinet created the National Industrial Relations Court, in which three judges can represent the interests of the employers and, by decree, decide the level of wages, pen- alize stewards, sequester union funds and outlaw strikes, picket- ing and working to rule. The Tories have given the judiciary tremendous legal powers, short- circuited parliament and taken the first step towards dictator- ship. The purpose of the NIRC has been made crystal-clear to trade unionists in the rail and dock strikes. But the union leaders, despite their previous decisions not to recognize the court or to INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1972• No 864 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AFTER THE BRIGHTON TUC

THE

BRIGHTON TUC marked the willingness to fight gress-again including CP mem- oile by the ranks during the miners' bers-unanimously voted for a definite swing to the right.

Tories, dockers railwaymen's and talks with the precisely The leaders of millions of trade The reformist 'left' when the Tories are preparing struggles. unionists are bent on total col- and the Communist Party totally the legal destruction of trade laboration with the Tory govern- failed to mount any challenge to ment and its anti-union laws.

the right wing. Despite leading serious developments, the This open co-operation with the positions in some delegations Trades Unions Alliance is hold- state machine means virtual ac- CP backed a compromise ing its fifth National Conference the ceptance of the corporate state.

Town Hall resolution on 'non-co-operation' Birmingham on Yesterday, All opposition to the Tories' October 22 with the Industrial Relations Act the attacks the working class which was easily defeated.

On

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National Committee has been officially dropped, des- the main resolution, the Con- issued the following statement: EIGHT MONTHS of strikes-the greatest movement of its kind since 1926- Helicopter airlifts have provided trade unionists with many important lessons. What has been proved in every major struggle has been the capacity of workers to organize and fight with lump' builders unequalled determination and tenacity against the employers.

See story p. 12 operate the Act, refuse to match the economic crisis and the at- determination of their mem- tacks the government social bers. wages, housing

SCEVICES,

They have consistently evaded and means •Ene working class is left leaderless the responsibility OE confused while Tories the political leadership of the the union Tory Party. Consciously man bulate and traitors choose

MOST

The release of the Pentonville favourable time and conditions Five demonstrated the power the next attack. for the workers' spontaneous struggle.

This assisted by all reucal House those Who nonE conscious y the €55,000 fine prevent the working class

I CHIPUSCU

the and General Transport mobilizing against the Tory Workers' Union and reintroduced Labour nanion left, the Com- ernment the hated leaders e of Taff Vale and trade union leaders nothing to munist Party and the revisionist UnOl Tories. In chasence tre as Way groups. the union leaders exploit the follow behind hese groups limitations smuggie of the workers tad ens spontaneous the spontaneous militancy of the working while shet and, able loryism to continue.

occasional make These leaders, aided by the union leaders. they only Parliamentary Labour Party, re- order Political cont workers fuse mobilize the entire conclusions and to strength of the working class to fighting for revolutionary leader fight the Tories. By their collaboration with the seen de Pen tond -as Confederation of British Industry depot and ville, ana toeir retreat ocrore une soy- neaaDy dOCKS. Lincolnsare ernment, they prevent an essential condition every workers tor drawing political conclusions But militancy by itself of the cannot advance the level of poli- the nature ory aDoul they this government. way understanoing une legitimize workers and prepare them for a the retormist musion that the Tories inherently generalized national struggle are class. working • to the against the whole superior the nus cass-colaboratonist onlo was une lessol ophy was succinctly outlined b abortive General Strike of May- Smith, president of the June 1968 George

TUC,

he told the Sep- All Trade Unions The wner Israeli jets bomb Arabs tember 1972 Brighton Congress kers in all maeot it Alliance, mill- been that the Tories have tries, rejees the termir i tant workers major indus- the need compelled to recognize ideas and

ISRAELI

air Bared camp at about 4.45 p.m.

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co-oDerauve errore ot these groups and nguts for force planes minded delegates: we must revolutionary political leadership yesterday struck at Palestinian local ume. Accordine to recent imagine that are an Syria United Nations figures never in the unions. of government' Lebanon. Among the targets 11,000 fight of camp about alternative Central to this is the

LOTH

no difference between against all theories spon- operation reprisal talestinian rerusees this outlook and taneity. In this way, the Alliance shootings spokesmen that the The Munich earlier ISrael! German Labour leaders who this week wine refugee Aviv claimed "guerrilla the struggle pioneered conunues Syria and allowed Hitler to take power.

by Lenin to break the Russian camp northern seven HICal Tripoli. retreat ot these leaders Lebanese Lebanon nad been

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workers press

FORWARD FOR ALL

TRADE UNIONISTS

RENT ACT EXAMINED p. 11 BUILDERS ON GUARD p. 3 BUILDERS' NEWS p. 12 EIGHT MONTHS of strikes- have provided trade unionists in every major struggle has be unequalled determination and The strength to conduct these strikes grew out of the knowledge that they were fighting employers who were backed by a Tory govern- ment determined to deprive labour of its basic democra- tic rights. Behind the Tory onslaught lies the biggest economic crisis since 1929. It is a crisis created by falling profit rates and univer- sal inflation, which had depreci- ated paper currency to the point where Nixon has made the dollar inconvertible with gold and Heath has been forced to float the pound. The ending of the Bretton Woods agreement by Nixon on August 15, 1971, now means that the Tories cannot postpone the crisis, as the Labour government did, by borrowing from the In- ternational Monetary Fund and the European bankers. They must now seek to solve the crisis by the most ruthless wage - cutting, strike - breaking, speed-up and rationalization of industry. Inflation and unemploy- ment will increase as the Tories enter the Common Market. This is why the Heath Cabinet created the National Industrial Relations Court, in which three judges can represent the interests of the employers and, by decree, decide the level of wages, pen- stewards, sequester union alize funds and outlaw strikes, picket- ing and working to rule. The Tories have given the judiciary tremendous legal powers, short- circuited parliament and taken the first step towards dictator- ship. The purpose of the NIRC has been made crystal-clear to trade unionists in the rail and dock strikes. But the union leaders, despite their previous decisions not to recognize the court or to INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1972 • No 864 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AFTER THE BRIGHTON TUC

THE

BRIGHTON TUC marked pite the gress-again including CP mem- willingness to fight by the ranks during the miners' bersunanimously voted for a definite swing to the right.

Tories, dockers' railwaymen's and talks with the precisely The leaders of millions of trade The 'left' when the Tories are preparing struggles. reformist unionists are bent on total col- and the Communist Party totally the legal destruction of trade laboration with the Tory govern- failed to mount any challenge to ment and its anti-union laws. the right wing. Despite leading serious developments, the This open co-operation with the positions in some delegations, Trades Unions Alliance is hola- state machine means virtual ac- the CP backed ing its fifth National Conference a compromise ceptance of the corporate state.

Town resolution on 'non-co-operation' Birmingham Hall on Yesterday, All opposition to the Tories' October 22. with the Industrial Relations Act the attacks on the working class which was easily defeated.

On

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National Committee has been officially dropped, des- the main resolution, the Con- issued the following statement: EIGHT MONTHS of strikes—the greatest movement of its kind since 1926— Helicopter airlifts have provided trade unionists with many important lessons. What has been proved in every major struggle has been the capacity of workers to organize and fight with 'lump' builders determination and tenacity a gainst the employers.

See story p. 12 operate the Act, refuse to match the economic crisis and the at- the determination of their mem- tacks the goyernment on bers. social services, housing wages, They have consistently evaded ane mmd ants moeans une working class is left leaderless the responsiblltv Chaserone and confused while Tories the political leadership of the Tory Party. manipulate the union Conscsy and traltors choose une

MOST

of the The release Pentonville favourable time and rive demonstrated the bower for the next attack. the workers' spontaneous struggle. This assisted by all Icuical But House Lords who fight those ConscIous v £55,000 fine reimposed the prevent the class

WOLKIL:

the Transport and General Tory nobilizing against the gov- Workers' Union and reintroduced Labour and trade union left, the Com- the hated principle of Taff Vale, and trade union nothing the leaders did munist Party and the revisionist UnIOl. challenge the Tories. In this war gluuos. the union leaders exploit the follow behind unese orolos limitations oof the workers tad ens the spontaneous the spontaneous militancy of the working class and, while sth ey stagae able Toryism to continue.

criticisms Шаке occasiullal the nese leaders. •acedoy union leaders, they oa so oniV Parliamentary Labour Party, re- dravons political coent order workers fuse entire conclusions and mobilize the fighting for revolutionary leader- strength of the working Class to fight the Tories. ile saiey see By their collaboration with the at Penton- Confederation of British Industry coke depot and ville, Keadby docks, Lincolnshire- ane menr retreat belore luce suv- ernment, they prevent an essential condition workerc Ior every drawing political conclusions But militancy by level of poli- of the Tory the nature cannot advance the aDUll this they government wal uical uncersta omng tne legitimize the reformist workers and prepare them for a 1EUSlon that the Tories inherently generalized national struggle class. working against the whole ruling class.

to the superior the nis ciass- coraborauonist omllo- •was Tne Jessot sophy was succinctly outlined by abortive General Strike of May Smith, president of the June 1968 in France George

TUC,

he told the Sep- All Trades Unions The wiet Israeli jets bomb Arabs 1972 Brighton tember Congress Alliance, ers ih alp meseor si m11- that the Tories have been tant workers in major indus- compelled to recognize the need reformist ideas relects the IrIcs. effort' and

ISRAELI

air force Bared camp at about 4.45 p.m.

TOr co-overave ot these groups ana ngals lot alanes minded delegates: .. political leadership yesterday struck at Palestinian Tonile dimations . we sousi A CCorolne to receni imagine that are an camps in Syria United figures, in the unions. of government' Lebanon. Among the targets of 11,000 alternative form camp houses about Centra to this is the noht Palestinian difference refugees. against all theories spon- nere DeLweel une operallon- reorisal

IUI

Tel this outlook and taneity. In this way, the Alliance Munich that The The shootings earler STae l snokesmen German Labour leaders who this week-was refugee Aviv claimed ten 'guerrilla struggle pioneered the conumues in Syria and allowed Hitler to take power.

Lenin to break the Russian camp near northern -seven Tripoli retreat The aircraft hit the Nahr El- Lebanon-had oi unese renders LeDanese wnrce DeCH

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday Septem The government must impose a compulsory incomes policy this winter, declares an editorial in yesterday's "Times'. This leading capitalist newspaper rejects any compromise wages policy that might be negotiated with the TUC leaders. Such an agreement, it says, would not be worth having in terms of its impact on inflation'.

In other words, a powerful sec- tion of the ruling class • legally- demanding a total, enforced wage freeze. 'The Times' is unimpressed by Thursday's

TUC

resolution pay restraint. The rejecting important thing, it says, was that 'it was clearly understood at Brighton that the Downing St talks would go on'. Just what was involved in the unanimous TUC decision to continue talks with the Tories, was revealed when 'The Times' declared that the talks 'are an essential prelude to a com- pulsory policy. What has happened is that a wing of the Tory Party-en- . by the collapse of couraged the TUC's opposition to the Act and Industrial Relations the failure of the union leaders to develop the miners, • rail- dockers' waymen's and struggles into a fight to bring down the government - is determined to go even more strongly onto the offensive.

The more the union leaders crawl before the class enemy, the more arrogant he becomes.

The Tories see the purpose of their talks with the TUC not only as a smokescreen behind which compulsory wage a freeze will be prepared, but as a means of lining up the union 'sell' it to their leaders to members. The talks, says "The Times', "will give the best chance of the widest possible acceptance by by the trade unionists and public at large of a decreed policy'. This is a major step towards corporatism. The union leaders to be used to persuade are their members to accept direct state legislation on wages.

'The Times' underlines this by saying that if the unions do not fall into line, Heath should he go to the country. This means, bluntly, that the

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ANOTHER Pentagon lie about the bombing raids over North Vietnam has been exposed by a young air force sergeant.

Sgt Lonnie Franks, who first reported the unauthorized bomb- ing of North Vietnam ordered by Gen John Lavelle has attacked air force claims that the general was involved in ordering alone the raids and said more than 200 men were involved in falsifying bombing reports. Gen Lavelle was relieved in March commander of the as Seventh Air Force based in Thailand after Franks had revealed he had ordered wide- bombing of supposedly spread 'off-limits' targets in the North.

ay September 9, 1972 central task of the government is to transform the unions from organizations that defend workers' wages and conditions against the employers and the state, into organizations which transmit the edicts of the em- ployers' state into the working class. Trotsky warned of this in Trade Unions in the Epoch of Im- Decay' when he perialist declared that the unions would either be transformed by Marxists into instruments of revolutionary struggle or they would be transformed by the capitalist class into instruments of control over the working class. There is no doubt that the present trade union leaders will seek to collaborate with the latter process, as their predecessors in Germany to collaborate with sought Hitler. 'The Times' can contemplate the prospects of an electoral vic- tory only because the top men of the TUC and the unions have left the working class leaderless and confused by actions like the sell out of the dockers' strike. They have been assisted in this the Communist Party, which has consistently covered up for the 'lefts' like Jones and Scanlon and held back the working class from breaking with them. The revisionist groups, like the International anti-communist Socialists and the Inter- national Marxist Group, have lined up with the Communist Party. Calling only for 'more militancy, they then turn on the working class and blame them, rather than their leaders, for sell-outs and defeats.

But the strike struggles of the last eight months have shown the enormous strength of the working class. They have also shown however that for a decisive victory over is needed the Tories more than militancy, however deter- mined. For that, a conscious Marxist leadership is required —a leadership that can only be built in struggle against the including union leaders, 'lefts' and their Stalinist and revisionist allies. The conference of the All Trades in Birming- Unions Alliance ham on October 22, Will be a major step in that ight. Yesterday Franks revealed in interview with the 'New an York Times' that pilots and tue key Udorn officers at air- base spent up to three hours a day falsifying the highly-classified reports on the bombings before routinely sending them to higher headquarters. 'Everybody knew we were falsi- fying these reports,' the sergeant said. 'Everybody was doing it. I "why" and they on saying kept said "That's the way we do it"; He said more than 75 so-called protective reaction strikes were secretly on Lavelle's carried out orders. 'The only reason I waited so long before doing something was that I honestly thought somebody else would do it,' Franks said. 'I was the lowest-ranking guy there.'

BY JOHN SPENCER

RESPONSIBILITY

for the

FULL

Olympic killings at Furstenfeldbruck military airport was laid West on Matthews and

BLACK

American athletes Vince Germany yesterday by the Egyptian chatted who stood victory rostrum while the band played the 'Star- government. Spangled Banner' at the Olympic medal ceremony, the Olympic In a strongly-worded statement the official trom Lave DeCI Dalicu lor Games. Cairo government spokesman, Dr Mohammed 'The the Zayyat, said: government The two athletes won gold and silver medals in Federal Republic of Germany acted in an banned trom and unsound fashion and it must Un Winc bear the consequences.' the 'spirit and ethics of the Olympic tradition'.

He said German bullets had killed the nine Matthews said on television afterwards that he Israeli hostages at Zayyat rejected did against German national accusations not sane to accentor anthem because a distortion I could not do so with a clear said these government and Collett explained: 'Our behaviour conscience'. an effort by Bonn to evade its responsiondes n of the white the incident. Stand Americans to the black Americans.

He added that Willy Brandt, the German chan- cellor, had phoned Egyptian premier Dr Aziz Sidky 'When the national anthem was played I could there and I cannot with the not stand on luesday nignt to suggest Inal une guertilas anu I wish they true. hostages be flown to Cairo in a private plane.

1 don't believe that they were. we have lif potentlal

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thing is that this telephone call 'The strange but don't think beautiful took place at a time when German officials- accord. Have . officials- County. ing to statements by responsible German Earlier the IOC had sent a letter to the were planning on ambush for the guerrillas belonged to NATO airport that American military Vlympic team caels expressing alspicasure over LIe and which led to the regrettable results which took 'disgusting display of your two athletes during the gold medal ceremony'. place,' Dr Zayyat declared. Egypt yesterday ordered special mosques repose

COLL

martyrs killed treacher- ously by the West German follows Cairo Staleilicil remarks by Conrad 101 Bonn government, claiming Arab helpful Egyol, nad not been very in response enolls solve the hostages crisis. HAROLD WILSON, leader of the British Labour Party- -and Ahlers' claim, it Contrary like his West German co-thinker Brandt a fervent pro-Zionist police the German 1s clear LOaT set out from the start to kill the —has demanded Draconian international measures against so- them into guerrillas, called terrorism and attacked the Tories for 'dragging their floodlit trap at the airport where feet' over this issue. trained snipers could them down. by His hand strengthened had intention They deliberations the reactionary guerrillas with the Union Congress ol ine Irades this week, the Labour chief has Palestinian fighters they hostages come out with open hatred for the fate sealeu the struggle of the Palestinian as well. fighters against Israeli domin- ation and declared his hostility to the Arab revolution. Outdoing the Tory government is his call for extreme incasure against the Arabs, Wilson unveiled a plan fo Forces mit ary counter-terrorist' forces

DIUSN

ano national campaign to hound the Wilson: Outdoing Tories Palestinian guerrillas. should that British Wilson's demands are nothing immediately withdraw from case mome police-state hounding of foreign as urge ov the Israelis, should stop arms and the establish- sales to Egypt and cancel the pro- BLACK US army private armed social bu udus jected specific egyptian purpose Billy Dean Smith, charged WILd counter-revolution. rorelgn minister killing officers He with two said legislation should be himself Wilson has introduced if necessary to with fragmentation completely with the blood-stained Palestinian Liberation Organ- grenade in -Vietnam last verman social-democratic govern• Izauor s Longon is being tried before regime year, men Lionist sponsors ... take active measures which has usurped the Palestin- military court in Fort against terrorist groups'. and robbed them ians' homeland Bill for Ord, California. which this purpose, of all their rights. would bar all 'undesirable foreign Smith (24) is accused on two The same man who remained revolutionaries' from Britain, already before the . Commons. She Ugandaw Asians now emerges end about two of attempted murder and Wilson also said the judge has three of assault. The without hesitation death penalty meET

SHOUIC

I STOD

ILS

UL. LalC ruled tual feet' in international talks on hi- of the

CONCSOR

demanded by The jacking and take the issue and witch-hunt the victims of not be imposed as a result of imperialism. of the 'legalistic debating cham- Court decision. Supreme His demand for the expulsion 551 ver UnLO specially convenes PLO-whose action conference national the London 'fragging' incidents in Vietnam security forces with power to act. spokesmai has deplored the in the last four years, In there should be Munic] action- -puts him the Britain, . IN But the in 86 deaths full-time sane Chauvals come case Is the ever and anti-terrorist unit, fully extreme right-wing Monday Club to trial in the United States. trained and conducting and the National Front. regular The Pentagon is plainly bent This betrayal of all trackercises arains. scaperbal basic ines for the discontent and anger Israeli counter-subversive unit fully in the tradition of the officer caste in Lydda airport. British Party and of operating at social-democracy internationally.

11S rcacuiullal y Ine bulk or tae prosecution the statement for bourgeois national- case rests on the fact that a ism of the sharp turn to rights of the British working class found in grenade pin was the British demonstrates the the Labour cleares when her possible fashion thinking the 40cl Culels arrested. was clearly visible at the top the British Tine cIrcies Brighton. labour bureaucracy.

Builders on guard!

BY PHILIP WADE

BUILDING WORKERS on s will have to be on guard next' ployers for the first time in five ONE is a straight compromise at the national joint council, with leaders signing a two-year deal which falls below claim. THE OTHER equally danger- ous possibility is the reference of the claim—with the agree- ment of both sides to the TUC- CBI conciliation service.

Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians' general secretary George Smith played a léading as TUC General role Council chairman in the crea- tion . of this new wage-cutting body. As far as the union leaders are concerned, it could represent a way of getting off the hook as any decision made by the TUC- CBI service would be binding on both sides. The decision to hold next. was made at Thursday's talks the TUC itself in informal meet- ings between union leaders and the employers. It is thought some more cash will be offered, but nowhere near enough to meet the full claim. With the dispute coming to the end of its ilth week, with almost 300,000 builders out on strike, there is widespread dis- illusionment with the conduct of the union leaders. Not only have they refused to strike, call an all-out national but also failed to ask other unions for support. Now the Tories, taking advant- age of builders' isolation, are planning to starve them back.

Orders have gone out to Social Security offices about payments strikers. At the same time, police, encouraged by the Indus- trial Relations Act, are provok- ing pickets and escorting scabs through to work in line with adverts issued by the employ- ers. Many builders see the main question as the fight for 100-per- cent trade unionism on sites and the abolition of the 'lump'. That means they are involved in a full- scale battle with the Tory gov- ernment which would welcome a defeat for the building workers as part of their anti-trade union offensive. Building trade union leaders retreating and call a centralized, be told clearly to must national strike. No more com- pany agreements—which serve to weaken the strike further-must be signed. Above all, the TUC must be made to mobilize the full weight of its 10 million members in a General Strike to force the Tories to resign and elect a Labour gov- ernment pledged to socialist poli- cies. That is the only perspective for building workers. CARWORKERS at Chrysler's Coventry car-assembly factory have voted in a secret ballot to accept a new speed-up deal.

New top rates for day-shift workers under the 12-month agreement are now £45 for a 40-hour week and nearly £52 for night-shift workers. A newly- incentive scheme introduced based on the number of cars produced is said by the company to be capable of producing up to £2 extra a week. ALSATIAN GUARD dogs with private security men were yesterday patrolling a Coventry building site. The four men and their dogs by -employed Regional Security Services-were patrolling at the entrance to the Ernsford Grange site, a 'S on strike for the £30, 35-hour w id next Thursday when union leaders

FLEET STREET

grounds for optimism in ICI's latest profit figures yesterday, but in fact its results are certain to spur the company into further rationalizations and job-cuts.

Pre-tax profits for the first six months of 1972 slumped to £56m from last year's £83m.

Sales rose to the record level of £829m-an increase over last year of £62m—but this was more than offset by the inflation of production costs by £76m and a £13m rise in the depreciation of old plant. The depressed profits epito- mize the weakness of British capitalism with a trade war now engulfing all its markets.

Nixon's August 1971 measures effectively excluded ICI from lucrative US market in the

ICI

Callard: Pro. chairman Jack ducing where It's cheapest.

artificial fibres and plastics, intense pharmaceuticals, while competition in textiles from low- priced Japanese exports diverted to Europe and the UK forced fibre prices down by polyester 14 per cent. is Much • of ICI's production geared to the textile industry- from the basic constituents of dyes and artificial fibres to the finished articles. So they were substantially hard hit in this sector. Substantial rationalization of the dyes, petrochemicals and arti- ficial fibres divisions is reflected increased depreciation in the charges. It also led to 5,000 re- dundancies during 1971 and an private housing scheme. Stanley Matthews,

UCATT

' regional organizer, accused the building firm of employing a 'political police force. A spokesman for the de- velopers, Hartwood Con- struction, replied: It is un- hour week claim leaders meet em- in new

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estimated higher figure for 1972.

Despite this the wages bill rose by £35m over the 1970 figures.

However the biggest factor in the world- increasing costs is wide overcapacity in plastics and artificial-fibre manufacturing due to the slowdown in expan- sion of world trade.. More ruthless rationalization measures can be expected, there- fore, especially in the UK, where cost inflation has been highest in the chemical industry. Labour A reply to some centrist critics By Cliff Slaughter All are avallable from 186a Clapham H Or The Paperback Contre, 28 Charlotte Workers Press, Satur fortunate that we have had to resort to such methods of protection? They claimed a squad of pickets had earlier this week descended on the site and knocked over some piles of bricks. Left: One of the Alsatians being used to patrol a Coventry site following picketing by local builders on strike for the national demand. A UCATT official has labelled the guards a 'political police force' The volume of manufacturing Europe, ICI's plants Australia and the USA already threatens to outstrip UK pro- £449m, are now larger than the UK market at £386m. £298m of the foreign sales were also pro- duced abroad. As ICI chairman Jack Callard in July, where the product can be made at minimum cost'. entering With Britain the Common Market, he said, 'there will be increasing flexibility about where plants will be located' IÇI has been preparing for Market entry since 1960 when they formed IC Europa in order and to integrate manutacturing sales operations based at plants in Holland and West Germany.

A series which appeared in Workers Press in June, 1972 is now available as a pamphlet in Labour the Socialist League Pocket Library.

'WHY A LABOUR GOVERNMENT?

A Reply to some centrist critics.'

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

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ress, Saturday September 9, 1972 PAGE 3

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

AT LEAST 1,000 London docks jobs will be threatened if the New Zealand meat pro- ducers go ahead with plans to switch their trozen meat trade to Sheerness. This blow comes just after the announcement of the closure of Borthwick's wharf, first revealed in Workers Press. A week earlier Nelson's Cold Vestey Store, owned by the tamily, said they were going out of business. Between them they employed a total of 227 dockers, bringing the total loss of jobs from store closures in London this year to almost 500. Dereck Fechney, UK director of the New Zealand Producers' announcing the possi- Board, bility of a move to the Medway port of Sheerness, said that ship- owners and producers were dis- satisfied with the high costs and low productivity in the Royal group which handles their trade.

meeting is Next week a planned between the Producers' Board, the New Zealand Dairy Board and the shipping lines in- shipping volved to discuss the pattern. By the middle of the month the Producers' Board is due to announce its plans for the new season. News of the Sheerness move followed the recent announce- ment from the stevedoring firm Scruttons Maltby an immediate 10-per-cent increase in handling charges. This increase however, does to meat-handling apply not charges. They blamed the need for the rise on the national docks strike and the cost of the ones- Aldington settlement. The Port of London Authority, which has refused to comment on this development, has already reduced New m Zealand meat charges by £l a ton, after nego- tiations with PLA staff to allow grade tallying of the meat to be carried out only by the over side tally clerks (OSTs). In addition the PLA has spent £200,000 in the past two years berths and dockside improving facilities for the trade.

However, the leading light of trade, the London meat Lord Samuel Vestey, thinks that the PLA 'will have to do something about the rates' if any meat business is to remain in London.

Lord Vestey's family owns two of the main shipping lines in the New Zealand meat trade - the Blue Star and Port shipping lines —which will be involved in next week's discussions on a possible move to Sheerness. THE MERSEY Docks and Har- bour Company could be head- ing for a £2m loss this year after a profit of £1.8m in 1971.

The loss is expected to be fore- cast in the company's interim statement later in the month. A hint of the anticipated loss is contained in the latest edition of the 'Port of Liverpool News' which says that the dock strike cost the Authority £l.6m in lost revenue. Trade, which is about 10 per down last year, has cent on been hit by a fall off in Irish and the building Sea traffic strike has held up the construc- tion of the new f50m Seaforth dock. The expected loss coincides with negotiations for the authority's take-over of the three stevedoring firms on Merseyside-A. E. Smith Cog- gins, the Port of Liverpool Stevedoring Company and Ocean Port Services-which employ at least 6,000 men. It is thought that the govern- ment has been approached to help the company buy these concerns since they have very little spare cash to carry through the deal.:

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday Septem Part 10 of a series on Picketin With the rapid develop- ment of legal trade unions after the repeal of the Combination Acts, capitalism had to develop new types of organiza- tions and methods to try and weaken the unions and break strikes. Spying activities still con- tinued, especially in the newly forming socialist organizations.

Blacklisting of workers by em- intimidation into ployers, signing a non-union document starting work, wide- before spread recruiting of scabs im- ported with strong police pro- tection during strikes and the setting-up of bogus unions were all well-developed prac- tices by 1900. But the main advance in modern professional labour spying and violent, systematic strike-breaking occurred in the United States. This was the National Pinkerton so-called Detective Agency. In 1842, Allan Pinkerton, the son of a Scottish police sergeant, emigrated to the USA to avoid arrest in Britain as a Chartist rioter. At first he fol- lowed his own trade as a cooper, but soon took work as a lawman for the United States Postal Department and later as Chicago's first detective.

He resigned in 1850 to open one of the world's first private detective agencies. He hired out men for detection work and set up 'Pinkerton's Protec- Patrol' contracting to tive supply uniformed guards to individuals and business con- cerns at rates of $3 a day for an operative, $8 for a super- and $20 for his own visor services. He adopted the motto 'We Never Sleep' and an open eye as an emblem--hence the term 'Private Eye' eventually applied Far to all similar agencies. from inhibiting his work, the outbreak of American Civil War gave Pinkerton a new outlet for his particular talents and he set up a secret service for the Federal side- the first in US history - in 1861. One of his jobs at this time was preventing attempts on the life of Abraham Lincoln. Both his sons became spies in the service with himself as spy-in-chief and holding the rank of major. After the Civil War, Pinkerton left others to continue the espionage organ- ization and concentrated on the detective agency. Strong links were formed with the police departments in build- ing up dossiers and files. Banks all over the country were sup- plied with information from his card index svstems. Scabs and police were pro- vided to supplement the "Coal and Iron notorious Police' of the Pittsburgh ay September 9, 1972 Picketing by Bernard Franks region. This was a body set up in 1865 and was made up of thugs and criminals with im- pressive uniforms, riot sticks and revolvers. They were used to break up miners' and steel- men's strikes and union organ- izations. Similar 'operatives' were supplied for the railroad police. The Pinkertons could always be relied upon for their own particular brand of tyranny, including beating, kidnapping and murder, especially when the aim of the action was not just to break a strike, but to break a union as well. Their 'detective work'-spy- ing on workers and infiltrating unions to supply evidence to the employers and the courts of illegal actions—-was liberally sprinkled with their own in- vented stories so as to guaran- tee conviction. Sometimes the lies were so crudely blatant, even the courts could not acquitted stomach them and the victims. In 1876 Pinkerton won the undying gratitude of the mine owners when one of his spies, James MacParlan, who had been working under cover in a Society of Irish miners- known as the Molly Maguires —gave evidence which resulted in the leaders of the organiza- tion being arrested and put on trial. The Maguires had developed as a counter to wage-cuts, starvation, ruthless mining officials and per- verse brutality of the Coal and Iron Police. Twenty Maguires were hanged on the evidence of the Pinkertons, the Coal and Iron Police helping with the executions. The mine and railroad owners in the area immedi- ately celebrated this victory with a 10 per cent cut in wages all round for their workers.

Pinkerton died in 1884. His sons carried on the business and by 1890 had involved the Agency in 70 major industrial disputes. In that year, while trying to break a strike at Vanderbilt's New York Central railway, their agents were involved in killing five people, one a woman. Thoroughly hated by the US working class, 2,000 Agency by then had trained, active men and 30,000 reserves — totally more than the standing army! In 1892, the agency was in one of the involved bloodiest battles in American labour history. Henry Frick, manager of the immense and powerful Carnegie Steel Com- pany, set out to break the trade union and cut wages at the Homestead, Pennsylvania, steel mill. He locked out 4,000 workers, refusing to take on any union labour. The workers and their families, with further 9,000 from other plants on strike in support, picketed the plant and took over and ran the surrounding neighbour- Top: Allan Pinkerton. Above : the Coal : hood. Frick called the Pinker- who sent 300 armed tons thugs to start up the plant again. They attempted to enter the works by the river on two barges drawn by a tug; firing at the pickets and killing a number in an attempt to drive them away. The furious strikers returned the fire with rifles, dynamite, • and even a cannon. A white scabs was flag shown by the shot away. Eventually, a union man, waving, the Stars and Stripes, talked the pickets into letting the Pinkerton men still alive go free. strikers and seven Nine Pinkertons were killed in the action and most of the remain- 300 invaders seriously ing victory for the injured. ( strikers, in spite of the deaths, rapidly changed to it was defeat by the abject cringing of the union leaders before the employers. Scabs were drafted the Coal and Iron pollce fire on miners at Wes in protected by a massive force militia. The plant of was non-union and the declared Iron and Steel Workers' Union was destroyed. The American labour movement was set back many years. The subsequent Senate inquiry included testimony as to the types that Pinkerton's hired: Senator Gallinger: Then yo did not find these men whom the Pinkerton's employed very high grade of men, did you? Private detective: They were the scum of the earth. I have known him to employ ex- convicts. He has a man, man- that ager of his agency now, was run out of Cincinnati for blackmail - Charles Wappen- stein. Senator: They were irrespon- sible men, of little account as a class? Detective: There is not one of ted them that would not commit rs at West Shenandoah Colliery 1875 murder. Senator: Would you from your knowledge of these men be inclined to accept without verification the reports they would make? Detective: I would not believe any detective under oath with- out his evidence was corrobor- ated. Senator: Does that apply to yourself? Detective: Yes sir. It will apply to myself. The story of the Homestead struggle is given in Leon Wolfe's book 'Lockout', pub- lished in 1965. By 1964 Pin- kerton's had 13,000 full-time employees working from 45 earning $30m branches and profits a year. Outside of the USA terri- tories Pinkerton's operate in Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and Kuala Lumpur.

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BREAK-OUT THAT FAILED

Strikes and riots broke out in Argentina recently following the murder of imprisoned 16 • urban guerrillas. On August 15, 25 political prisoners of the hated military regime of General Alejandro Lanusse broke out from Raw- son Federal Penitentiary.

These included members of Revolu- the ERP (People's tionary Army, which is affilia- ted to Pabloite United Secretariat), the FAP (Peron- ist Armed Forces), and the Montoneros (another Peronist commando group). The break-out largely was unsuccessful. Only 25 out of the 120 prisoners in Rawson joined in the attempt. Six of the escapees hi-jacked an air- liner and succeeded in getting to Chile. escaped guerril- When the las arrived in Chile, Salvadore 'Con- Allende-the so-called stitutional' Marxist president— declared: 'Chile is a constitu- tional country and they will have to abide by Chilean laws.'

The question of their asylum Argentina or extradition to . would, said Allende, be de- cided by the Chilean courts.

These courts, of course, are composed of the same con- servative reactionaries who where there before Allende took office and would almost certainly have sent the escapees back to Argentina to face death. Only after protests and demonstrations in Chile and in , the United States did Allende reverse his position, grant the escapees the status of political refugees and arrange for them to fly to Cuba. According to reports from Argentine 19 other escapers were stranded because only one car was waiting to take prison to them from airport in Patagonia Trelew (southern Argentina). They finally arrived at the airport after the plane had left and were recaptured. Seven days later—on August 17—they were brutally shot down at Trelew naval-air base in an alleged 'escape attempt'.

Sixteen died and the remain- ing three were seriously wounded. These murders sparked an immediate reaction throughout Argentina. Top: captured al Trelow airport, three of the guerrillas who were by policefrom lett later slain | Maria Antonia Berger, next her a police official, then Mariano Pujada and Humberto Badell Segundo Suarez. Above : General Lanusse. main trade union The organization,

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the (General Confederation of Labour), the country's large Peronist movement (followers of the exiled dictator Juan Peron), and students through- out Argentina were involved in the protests. Violent clashes with police occurred in Buenos Aires, Cordoba, La Plata, Corrientes, Tucuman, San Sante Luis and Rosario. In Cordoba (an important car - manufacturing centre) where the trade unions called a 14-hour strike, the

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headquarters were raided by and altogether 673 police people were arrested. Para-military police forces also smashed their way into the CGT headquarters and the Peronist headquarters in Buenos Aires. In an attempt to crush the growing opposition Lanusse regime rushed through a decree imposing jail sen- tences of six months to three years for publishing or distri- buting material connected with 'per- illegal organizations or sons or groups notoriously dedicated to subversive activi- ties or terrorism'. The background to this ex- plosion is the desperate crisis of the • Argentine economy. soared Unemployment to the million mark last June (out of a total population— including those of non- working age — of 24 while industry million) operated at only 60 per cent of capacity. In the first six months of 1972 prices rose by 37.3 per cent while workers' purchasing power dropped by 12 per cent. Yet the International Mone- tary Fund denied a loan to Argentina on the grounds that the level of wage restraint was inadequate. situation, lacking In this political leadership, urban guerrilla and terrorist groups have sprung up in the last tew years and there have already been insurrections in five pro- vincial towns this year before the present upsurge. The Lanusse regime is seek- ing to broaden its base by the 'Great National so-called Agreement' (GAN). This is an attempt to establish an agree- ment between the main politi- cal forces (Radicals, Peronists and the military) and cement this through parlia- mentary elections next March.

The military dictatorship forced to seek to been stabilize itself in this way by the growing struggle of the in recent years, begin- masses ning with the May, 1969, riots in Cordoba and Rosaria. These riots, which involved Workers Preas, Sature students, both workers and were sparked off by rises in food prices. Only the intervention of the army saved the regime then headed by General Juan had Carlos Ongania, who seized power in a military coup in 1966. Under Ongania wages were frozen and democratic rights But the events of removed. May 1969 were followed by a strike of car workers in Cor- doba in June. Other strikes took place in September, 1969, in defiance of government de- crees banning strikes. The inability of the Ongania regime to hold back the masses led to a further military coup in June, 1970, led by General Roberto Marcelo Levingston.

Levingston could not But maintain control either. further wave of strikes in October 1970 forced govern- ment changes. Attempts at re- these pression following strikes sparked off another rising at Cordoba in March 1971. After this came yet another military coup placing Ale- 'strong Lanusse, the jandro man, in power. To pacify the workers and the youth Lanusse promised political and economic re- forms, including the return of the exiled Peron. This only served to increase the mili- tancy of the masses. In Sep- tember 1971, 5% million workers went on strike and in February and March this year the whole nation was halted by a two-day General Strike.

Lanusse is now striving to present an appearance of 'de- mocracy' through the promised elections while at the same time preparing brutal direct oppression. Peron's refusal so far to to Argentina to take return in Lanusse's elections part weakens the latter's attempt to stage a 'democratic' sham.

198, Salurday Saplember 9, 1972 PAGE 5 Nevertheless, the Peronists of waging are incapable revolutionary fight against Lanusse. More treacherous, however, is the attitude of the Pabloite made, ERP which has no attempt to win the_ working class away from the Peronists.

Peron in no sense repre- interests of the sents the working class, despite his un- doubted popularity. He was a product of a short-lived period immediately after the war during which Argentina was economic in favourable situation. grip of British im- As the perialism in South America was weakened, the Argentinian bourgeoisie was able to take advantage of the rivalry be- British and American tween interests. On this basis, concessions could be granted to the work- ing class, whose support Peron needed. By 1950, however, the Argentine economy was on the greatly dependent Representing United States. the national capitalist class of was unable Peron to resist tion, since the only way to do this would have been to mobi- lize the working class. By 1955, no further cruce sions were possible and Peron regime fell. Yet the Pabloite revision- ists of the ERP could declare in the January-February (1972) issue of 'New Left Review": 'The ERP does not engage in ideological debates with Peronists' In the same article, an ERP leader claims that his move- ment is influenced by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao Tse-tung, General Giap, Che Guevara and Castro. the determination Despite and courage of the Argentine workers and youth, victory will only be theirs when a _ party is con- revolutionary which can win the structed leadership of the masses.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday september : By Philip Wade The upsurge of the work- ing class in response to the Tory attacks has brought building workers into mass action for the first time in over half a century. Up to 300,000 building workers all over Britain have joined the selective strikes which are coming to the end of their Ilth week. Afraid of a fight with the Tory government, the reformist leadership the building unions has refused to call an all-out, official national strike.

Regional action committees —not elected by the rank and file-have been given autonomy to call whoever they out want. In some areas, like Hull, building workers have had to for fight action committees 'permission' to come out on strike. The union leaders' policy means that only one-third of Britain's building workers are out in a dispute which is crucial to the survival of the building unions themselves.

Although the majority of the saturday September 9, 1972 900,000 strong workforce in the industry is unorganized, it has been proved throughout the strike that this question is settled in practice, in an actual fight for a decent living wage and 100-per-cent trade union- ism. Many men — unorganized before the strike-have joined the unions in the course of the struggle. line with selective In strikes, however, George Smith, general secretary of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades Technicians (UCATT), and who is also chairman of the TUC General Council, has tried to get some builders to return to work on the basis of sepa- rate company deals. In fact he was given a full- page in the Communist Party's 'Morning Star' on August 18 in which he was allowed to justify this policy, which has been met with hostility among builders.

If building workers are today isolated, then the respon- sibility lies mainly with the Not only do they Stalinists. oppose a national strike but also desperately attempt to halt the instinctive rank-and- file drive towards a showdown with the Tories. Every wages battle involves political fight with the a Tories. They are now aiming to have issued hit back and orders to the Social Security officers to hamper and harass the builders. Yet the Stalinists insist that their only quarrel is with the employers. This conscious policy holds back the develop- ment of the consciousness of building workers. But that is the method of Stalinism. From their concep- tion of peaceful coexistence with capitalism flows class compromise and a complete reformist outlook. Beginning without any confidence in the working class and its ability to fight, they say the building have workers not strength to launch a national strike. For the same reasons they restricted the fight of the Upper Clyde shipbuilders to a work-in, producing ships free facilitatie foth the employers, facilitating the sacking several thousand men and the signing of a four-year, no-strike deal. By the CP's actions in the dispute they 1l-week builders' prove that their "Cl rter' group more than a cover for the union bureaucrats. The strikes which began at the beginning of July followed year-long tortuous negotiations building

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eno over. With basic rates for most building €20 only worKers week (£17 for labourers), the £10 unions' demand for increase and a cut in the work- ing week met stiff resistance from the employers. For they knew that almost 200,000 building workers were already unemployed because of the economic recession. In addition, they had another weapon they wanted to against workers: 'the lump'.

Despite changes in the law, upwards of 300,000 men in the industry before the strike began self-employed without cards. The big our allle cards. employers Inausury ano loerr ated this. It was a big weapon against organized trade union- ism on the sites. Because of the lump', poor

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Workers Press, Saturday S Above left: Merseyside bullders, joined dockers, by march in support of their claim. Above: picket line the at Bass on Charrington, Runcorn. Far left: Hyde Park, August 8, the vote for National Strike action which Stalinists quickly "forgot. the Left: Bristol flying picket in Lon- don on August 2, when union leaders met employers and only the massive lobby at the back and front doors prevented a deal being signed. organization and unemploy- ment, building workers' wages lowest of the were some British industry throughout before the strike began: A recent Department of Employ- of earnings in ment survey industry showed building workers in 16th place. So in an industry which accounts for four out of every ten deaths in industry, the building workers are involved than just a wage in more claim. No doubt the one workers' determination. In areas like Bristol-previously militancy unknown for its builders-a successful among miners Picked flying based the roused model, has workers to join the strike.

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When the operatives' side of the national joint council were AR on the point of signing the - compromise deal with the a employers, giving a basic of 18 Press, Saturday September 9, 1972 PAGE 7 only £23 and a no-strike clause, the strike wave grew and a massive demonstration took place in London on August 8 which made the union leaders change their minds. An industry with such low wages, high unemployment and death rates, and 'the lump', of its the question poses nationalization under workers' control and without compensa- While the big private tion. they will employers exist always try to use the lump to weaken trade unionism. And they now have the backing of Tories' Rela- the Industrial tions Act. This involves a fight to force of the Tory the resignation government. This cannot h..

carried through without the support for the builders from the rest of the working class in a General Strike called by the TUC A Labour government must be returned to power pledged by the mass movement, organ- ized in Councils of Action, to carry out policies of socialist expropriation of the basic industries, land and finance.

In the struggle for the real- ization of this perspective, a new principled, revolutionary alternative leadership must be built throughout the building unions, sweeping aside the reformists and the Stalinists who cover up for them.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Septem By Jack Gale Thirty years ago, in Sept- ember 1942, the Nazis decided to destroy the Warsaw ghetto. The time had come to put into practice the words of Adolf Ley, one of the leading exponents of fas- cist ideology, who had declared: regard the 'Europe can settled only Jewish question when the last Jew leaves the Continent... we swear that we will not give up the struggle until the last Jew in Europe perishes and we make sure that he is dead indeed.' The Nazis had overrun Poland in 1940. Thousands of Jews were deported to Ger- many where they died in the gas chambers or were worked to death as slaves. were to learn These Jews the truth of Himmler's boast: 'All Jews we lay our hands on in this war will be extermin- ated without exception.' In Warsaw and some other big cities, ghettos were created.

Jews were herded into one crowded sector and surrounded with walls and barbed wire.

Anyone attempting to cross to the non-Jewish sector was shot or — if caught alive — hanged near the walls as a Saturday September 9, 1972 The Warsaw Ghetto warning to others. (At Lodz, a medieval refinement was intro- duced-their heads paled on top of the walls.)

Goebbels had described the ghettos as 'chambers of death'.

Sabbath On the Jewish and Days, Nazi troops Holy invaded the ghetto to beat, torture and kill. Hundreds died of cold and hunger, especially in the winter of 1942-1943. They were

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allowed coal rurniture, doors and bannisters had to be chopped up for fuel. Every morning columns of men set out to work under for Hitler Nazi supervision, had decreed: 'He who has been condemned should before his death be not only destitute but should have been completely exploited' Others left the only ghetto. to meet inevitable death. From the time of its establishment 300,000 to its Inal collapse, Jews were removed to concen- tration camps from the War- saw ghetto. pointed It out, must be that for as long as however, possible the bourgeois leaders Jewish the community sought to avoid the fate of the poorer Jews by collabora- ting with the Nazis. organized Jewish They squads on behalf of labour their fascist masters and main- tained for themselves a privi- leged standard of living even within the ghetto. In the end, however, not even this abject crawling could save them. In its final days the Warsaw contained about ghetto 500,000 people - equal to in each liveable about 15 Universal starvation room. reigned. Hungry children roamed near the walls over which non-Jews from the other side would throw food. But guards on the walls shot at those throwing the food as well as those collecting it.

On September 6, 1942, the Nazis decided to destroy • the ghetto. All inhabitants remain- herded by alive were Waffen SS units into a block bounded by four streets. Those suitable for work were assigned to heavy labour for German firms, the first were to be transported in cattle wagons to the death camps. But the Jews fought back.

Two resistance groups came into existence — the Jewish Fighting Organization and the Jewish Military Union. Arms were collected or brought into the ghetto through tunnels.

In April 1943, General Stroop was made commander in charge of forcing the Jews out of the ghetto. But the Jews, led by Mordechaj Aniele- Top: the Nordhausen labour camp whe underground in a munitions plant. Above wicz ('Malachi') inflicted con- in men and siderable losses tanks of Stroop's forces.

Nazi forces In fact, the could not win by conventional fighting and Heinrich Himmler ordered that the ghetto should be set on fire, buildings blown up and the Jews bombed from the air. Yet, even when every build- ing was in ruins, the resistance groups continued to fight from the cellars. Artillery, aero- tanks had to be planes and used to destroy the bunker at 18 Mila Street, which was the of the Jewish headquarters Fighting Organization. that the It is significant forces used by the Nazis were not ordinary army units. They of the consisted of units Waffen SS and SD, the Wehr- Hitler's police, and macht, auxiliary SS formations com- camp where Jews were forced to work ant. Above : Hitler. prising Latvian and Ukrainian nd fascists. Out of 70,000 people living ghetto in in the Warsaw September 1942, less than 2,000 were captured alive.

Stroop's report of the action April 25, 1943, read: on 'Altogether 1,690 Jews were captured alive. Dally, many were blown up and buried in the bunkers and, as far as it is possible to ascertain, were burned. Not one of those cap- tured was allowed to live?

Some sought to escape through the sewers, into which the Nazis tossed grenades and injected gas-methods which were to be used again in the later Warsaw Rising. A few hundred escaped and many of those were to die in Rising or in Warsaw the partisan fighting in other parts of Poland.

TV Review "Good old Bill' Palfrey, the man who gave you Alsatian police - dogs, Panda cars and radar speed-traps and would like to give you back the gallows, has retired. An event, you might think, to be quietly celebrated with a few million gallons of his favourite drink, champagne, in every corner of the land.

For as 'Bill Palfrey, Copper' (BBC-1, Tuesday) amply_ re- vealed, the former Chief Con- of Lancashire is no stable friend of the working class.

It was one of those half- hour documentaries that are 60 minutes too long. From the first unctuous line of narrative ('Bill Palfrey is what you might call a copper's copper') to the last syco- phantic shot of two Panda-car enthusiasts listening to his farewell message as they drive along (one, incredibly, turns to "Good old the other and says Bill'), it must have brought agony into millions of pure living-rooms. It was so bad that after two minutes of watching the vital nerves necessary for switching off the source of the pain be- came paralysed. Produced by John C. Miller

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with Derek Manchester, in Hart and nar- interviewing the programme rating, Was the that it notable for fact never once even hinted at even of the slightest criticism its subject. Not single hard was asked. question What did emerge about the who, with the Bishop man spearheaded the Blackburn, law and order marches in the almost north west, came out by accident. William Palfrey, brought up in small Devon. à became a policeman in 1926.

His recollections of his first impressions of the Inaustlal He north were interesting. seems to have been particu- larly struck by the time when, walking down Accrington High the Lord Mayor with Street one day, a road-sweeper called out and addressed the Mayor as Joe. (The Mayor's name was Palfrey called Joe Hargreaves. him 'Your Worship'). In 1927 Palfrey sustained a bad knee injury, and attributes his recovery to the power of prayer. Miller and Hart, how- did not take the ever, oppor- self- tunity presented by Palfrey's diagnosis to explore strong religious bent. whiff of his politics But a came through strongly. Sent to France at the end of the war, he was first put in charge of re-establishing_law and order in the city of Cher- bourg. Later he assumed the mantle of Chief Public Safety Officer in Paris. In this latter guise he was partly responsible for organiz- ing the release of prisoners from concentration camps set up by the collaborationist Vichy government. it was in discussing And this work that he made the strange comment: 'What we wanted to be. sure of was that we didn't release the security prisoners' . He did not elabor- ate on the political complexion of these people, incarcerated in the camps by the Nazis, who de Gaulle didn't want out either. 1951 saw Paltrey turning his hand to his first innovation— the use of Alsatians. There- after followed police frogmen, Panda cars, personal radio and radar traps in fairly quick succession. But it was with his insist- ence that Joseph Sewell should hang for the murder of Black- pool Charles policeman Richardson that Palfrey really hit the headlines. And in his interview with Hart, he insisted on the point: 'When a policeman is mur- dered, they're hitting at the whole fabric of society.'

Workers Press, Saturi Every year a number of people die because they have diseased or defective kidneys. The use of kidney machines is a short-term help, although the patient still suffers much of the exhaustion and weak- ness associated with such illnesses and in addition must put up with hours of discom- fort and inconvenience whilst he or she is 'hooked up' to the machine. The only hope of a long- term improvement which, if successful, gives the sufferer the chance of living a normal active life again, is a kidney It is transplant operation. that the essential, however, kidney is used within a very short time of being removed from the donor. Usually when donor and re- cipient are in different areas, the kidney is sent by road with a police escort to ensure rapid travel. Sometimes, how- is not possible ever, this where long distances are in- volved. Professor Roy Calne, , surgeon, has Cambridge re- vealed that over the past five years he and his colleagues have been trying to negotiate with the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) of the and representatives armed forces for kidneys to be flown by air when neces- sary. It appears that while the prepared to co- forces are operate, nothing can be done because such journeys would have to be paid for by the

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and they refuse to meet the cost. So, in the meantime, every a number of people year die ... NATSOPA, the printing union, and the white-collar ASTMS have jointly set up an organ- ization called Union Travel to provide a 1973 programme of holidays abroad exclusively for members and their immediate families. This offers jet flights of BEA Air Tours and Yugoslav Air- • lines holiday centres at to good prices by cutting out commercial advertising and agents' commissions. A laudable venture. But an advert announcing the scheme shows that holi- days may be had in Italy, Yugoslavia, Majorca, and the Costa Brava. ess, Saturday September 9, 1972 PAGE 9 It seems to have escaped the notice of union secretaries Messrs Richard Bringinshaw and Clive Jenkins, that the Costa Brava and Majorca are in Spain. Spain, every worker as is ruled by a fascist knows, dictatorship which brutally trade unionism. suppresses Beatings, jailings and torture are regularly handed out to strikers. Socialists who fought Franco in the 1930s are still languishing in his jails.

No trade union should sponsor a scheme which bene- fits such a regime.

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and ASTMS must immediately members demand that their unions do not organize holidays in Spain.

By John Siamance 'Keep Left', the paper of the Young Socialists, was pro- scribed by the Labour Party National Executive Committee in 1962. It continued to appear as a monthly and built up its circulation to 22,000. On May 13 this year it began appearing as an eight- page, four-colour weekly, and has continued to appear each financial week without or editorial difficulties. By contrast, the Labour Party Young Socialists claim to have a paper called 'Left' But it looks as if its days are numbered. In 197l it was decided to continue publica- of Left' for a further tion year as a monthly to see if it could be made viable. Now the Party's 1972 Report reveals that the subsidy on the paper for 1971 had reached loss €1,600 and that the expected in 1972 was £1,100.

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ON OCTOBER 2, millions of council tenants all over Britain will have to pay another £1 on their rents under the hated Tory Housing 'fair rents' Finance Act. The Act is aimed consciously at destroying the basic right to decent housing at reasonable Like_ unemployment, the rents. Industrial Relations Act, and rising prices, the Act forms part of the Tories' attempt to drive down the living standards of the working class. In the next period municipal housing will be eliminated and every worker subject to property sharks if he wants decent housing. Only 40 Labour councils are refusing to implement the Act.

Another 345 have collapsed be- fore the Tories and will pass on the rent increases. The Labour leadership, led by Anthony Crosland, told local councils they could do what they liked. Be- tween them they have perpetra- ted a gross betrayal of the work- ing class. The Housing Finance Act and its Scottish equivalent will: • Impose an obligation on local councils and new town corpora- tions to impose a 'fair' rent for the first time. A 'fair' rent is one geared to market value—in other

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UNION LEADERS

at Brighton yesterday set out to whitewash the great Labour Party rents retreat. But their consistent refusal to own fight the Tories is directly responsible. The TUC urged Labour coun- cils not to impose increases due under the Housing Finance Act.

It unanimously endorsed a resolution which backed any refusing to implement council the Act and demanded nation- alization of the land. But speakers ignored the wholesale collapse of Labourite opposition to the Act-with 345 of Britain's 385 Labour councils now committed to implementa- tion-and its background in the spineless policies of the TUC leadership. In moving the motion, en- gineers' executive member Bob Wright hoped that councils 'wavered' in their which had opposition would reconsider their position. "This Congress will pledge to those councils who have refused implement this legislation both material and financial help,' he said. 'The government could not work this Act if every Labour council refused to accept it.'

who is helping the Wright, remain in office Tories by participating in the TUC-CBI conciliation and arbitration ser- vice, said the next Labour gov- ernment should restore the 'social concept' to housing policy.

'Nationalization of land and indeed the building industry is an essential feature of control of LONDON bus and underground fares a day. London Transport says about 15 | Bus fares containing a Ip are being roul underground minimum fares will go up

BY PHILIP WADE

words, what private landlords would charge. • Average rents will double on the government's own estimate.

In London, rents of $3.50 (plus rates) will rise to over £7 (plus rates. Following next month's fl • increase, rents will rise 75p next year and go on rising until the 'fair rent' level is reached.

• The rents will be fixed by a committee of property men and lawyers and there will be no appeal from their decisions.

• Subsidies to local councils from the government for housing —now about £200m a year-will be run down. Councils refusing to operate • the Act can be stripped of their housing powers which will be taken over by a Tory-appointed Commissioner. Councillors can be fined and surcharged for fail- ing to put rents up. • The hated means test will be imposed on a universal basis for those wanting rebates. It will be earnings of assessed on gross the highest-paid member of the family. The effect will be to cut prices and profits, the specula- tors and the property sharks.'

agri- of the William Page, cultural workers, also called for public ownership of the land. 'Once men stole sheep from the common and they were put on the scaffold. Now men steal the common land from the sheep Housthor Lord elevated to the The discussion of this key issue facing the working class was shoved to the fag-end of Bob Wright: Moved motion Congress. Because of time, no delegates from the floor were allowed to speak. is quite clear from the It cavalier way that support for tenants' organizations was posed that the TUC will only offer verbal backing to workers who resist rent increases.

Once again the leaders of the organized labour movement have abandoned their responsibility to the working class. nd fares are going up again from Sun- bout 15 per cent of fares are affected.

being rounded up and about one in five rill go up to 10p. the rebate when wages rise.

• Housing revenue accounts will surplus and half of move into this will be taken by the govern- ment. In three or four years tenants will be paying an extra £500m in rents. • Private tenants—1.3 million of them living in controlled proper- ties-will find their tenancies beginning decontrolled next January and their rents doubled.

Undoubtedly tens of thous- ands of tenants will refuse to pay the increases month next and launch rent strikes instead.

But there is a grave danger they will be isolated and led into actions which in can no restore the basic rights to way housing. of dis- No amount organized protest will defeat the Tories. The real question is the con- struction of Councils of Action alongside mobilize to tenants trade unionists and other sec- tions of the working class in a campaign to force the Tory government to resign. Only the return of a Labour government pledged to socialist policies of nationalization under workers' control and without compensation of the land, build- ing industry and building societies can restore tenants' basic rights.

A MOVE to reduce the power over the of the big unions election of TUC General Council members was defeated yesterday.

Printers' leader Vincent Flynn argued for the election of General Council members by the unions in the particular occupational groups only and not the whole affiliated membership. Victor Feather for the General Council asked Congress to reject the move. He said no big unions like the T&GWU and the AUEW had one third of the organized membership. only comprised They one- sixth of the General Council.

AEROQUIP UK of King's Nor- ton, Birmingham, is planning to move production of oil seals to the main Cardiff plant within a leaving more than 300 year, people without jobs. About 35 of the company's workers have been offered jobs in Wales. Labour MP for Birmingham, Northfield, Ray Carter, has the Tory Secretary for written to Trade and Industry, John Davies, asking him to the encourage company to remain in the Mid- lands because of the 'difficult employment situation'. He says: 'The announcement a time when the comes at Birmingham unemployment figures, after showing a tendency to fall a few months ago, have now started to rise dramatically.

In August, for example, unem- ployment in the Birmingham area went up by over 2,000 in the month.' An Aeroquip spokesman said: 'We are moving because of esca- lating costs and a Workers Press, Saturday September 9, 1972 PAGE 11 Soclalist Labour League

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Historical materialism today SEPTEMBER 13, 8 p.m. Tuesday September 26 'Victory to the Creffield

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Organize General Strike PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday Sapto

DELEGATES

from 13 north-west action committees yesterday voted for union leaders to call a national strike of building workers and for the TUC to organize a General Strike to bring down the Tory government.

They declared that the unity of the working class and the forging of a new leadership 'can only be developed in struggle against the common enemy organized in the Tory Party'.

A Labour government had to be returned pledged to socialist policies, including the nationaliz- of the entire building ation repeal of the industry, the Industrial Relations Act, the rents' Act the 'fair and expropriation of all private land- lords. The motion put before the

BY IAN YEATS

A BASILDON, Essex, buildin non-union workers over picke site, ofi Laindon Link, where major site in Basildon to st workers' claim of £30 for a 35 All 24 men at the site work on the 'lump' without union cards and claim they already earn £50 a week without join- ing the strike. Pickets from all over Essex turned the barbed-wire at up capped gate for the first time on Wednesday to speak to workers as they drove onto the site in their cars. They were thwarted when it was discovered the men had gone to work an hour earlier. The next morning the non- union men arrived in a convoy of company trucks escorted by police. One hundred police lined the pavement while five of the 70 pickets on duty approached the company van. Drivers waved them clearing and police began away site. The five a path onto the pickets sat down in front of the van's wheels in protest and were immediately arrested. •Undismayed pickets were at their posts again yesterday, but neither cars nor vans appeared.

The mystery was solved when amid clouds of dust a Bell Jet Ranger helicopter landed on an between the half- open space completed houses and five workers got out. Through the ten-foot high wire across the site mesh fence entrance pickets watched the land and take off six helicopter times until all 24 'lump' workers were on the site.

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There were demands for big delegations from the region to be sent to London next Thursday union leaders when meet em- ployers to discuss the £30, 35- hour week claim. Delegates also demanded the TUC break off talks with the Tories and failing that UCATT building employer is using a helicol er picket lines. The Globe Constru where 172 houses are being built, i " to stop work in support of the for a 35-hour week. Ex-RAF pilot BIll Regan : Small price The helicopter airlifted the men home last night. UCATT shop steward Ben Wilkinson told me: Using a at helicopter shows the length to which was indispensable to the to go? He added: 'All of the men inside are non-union. They say they are earning more money than us, but if it's so good on the lump why don't we do it.

'The reason is we want the security of a proper wage and an employer. These lump men will get a union card or be have to squeezed out.' a firm's The plan to use helicopter to beat the pickets was the brainchild of Bill Regan, chairman and managing director of Globe Construction. An ebulliant ex-RAf pilot, Regan claims the £100-a-day cost of using the helicopter is a small to pay for keeping price the wheels of his construction business turning. He said, 'There has been no trouble but there might have been and that is why I decided to use the helicopter.' Wearing a blazer with an RAF the breast badge on pocket Regan told me with a sweep of his arm: I'm British and I'm a free man and I will not be dictated to about how to run my business. 'I've much right to got as keep my site open as any man has to come and work for me.

I've got the best labour force in the world and I'm building the best and cheapest houses in the whole of England.' Tall, fair-haired Regan said the helicopter would be company used for as long as pickets were general secretary George Smith should pull out himself. Condemning company deals, a who called the meeting, said: have now criminal men got records from legal picketing.

If we sign company deals the union will be against us too. Who is pulling the strings in this society?'

But Billy. Jones, chairman of the Merseyside action committee, Communist Party and leading member, told the meeting that we agree to company deals but they must be ratified regionally before the men go back. *Personally I wish it had been

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day when builders the facts about helicopter to fly Cameron's where I Construction Ltd ing a company agr built, is the last Charles Kelly refus the Cameron of the building microphone saying Cameron workers.

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at the gate, which yesterday were being rigorously controlled by Basildon police. Pickets said they would return to the site in strength on Monday.

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from the influence of unions capitalist politics by building a revolutionary • party; a struggle which was indispensable to the victory of the October Revolu- tion. By our struggle we have suc- ceeded in establishing the central ideas of Lenin in relation to the unions: taneity of the working-class movement, all belittling of the "conscious element", of the role of the revolutionary party means ...a strengthening of bourgeois workers'. ideology the among 1 ('What is to be Done'.) 2 It is not enough that the class struggle becomes real, consistent and developed only when it embraces the sphere of politics... Marxism recognizes a class struggle as fully developed, only if it does "nationwide" not merely embrace politics but takes in significant the most thing in politics-the organiza- tion of state power' The highest form of working- class struggle is the political struggle of working the class and the highest form of political struggle is the struggle for poli- tical power by the workers. The national, but our union says it's regional strike. We must be Is there any likelihood realistic. in the near future of employers claim?" agreeing to this said Jones. He refused the to accept resolution saying he could not speak for his committee and whether the meeting questioned was official.

'STRIKERS

throw out union The Newcastle three Liverpool men leit help' screamed the the meeting before the vote was about the Journal' yesterday taken. The resolution was carried of the Tyneside decision boiler- absentions nothing with 20 to until their makers stay OUl by delegates who 171 per cent cost-of-living claim expressed, supported the policies has been met in full. were not mandated by their but The 'Journal's' about anxiety committees. the overwhelming rejection of demand was also supported A 'help' the officials' in the five for national conference of yards is Swan Hunter certainly action committee delegates as boilermakers' The heartfelt. soon as possible. is unprecedented and the action The delegates also agreed to of intensity the feeling against meet weekly in Wigan on Fridays officials has reached boil- union Labour Club the at central at ing point. 11.15 a.m. They have rejected local official, Jack Oliver's plea to go back while their demand was negotiated. They will stop all subscriptions to their Society pending a satis- dispute factory solution the they have appointed their and own shop stewards as negotiators.

meeting One resolution at the —proposed but put to the not that full-time officials votewas should be banned from all future mass meetings. expected By week it is that all of Swan Hunter's yards, the ship- with the exception of repair yards, will be completely

IR OWN CORRESPONDENT

shut and 8,000 workers laid off.

officials Union and company executives are pinning all their P ANGER erupted in Aberdeen yester- hopes the of boiler- return 1 builders demanded their leaders tell makers' president Dan McGarvey Peter about agreement s where men are back at work follow- from Brighton. from the men's scath- Judging apany agreement. Local UCATT official ing remarks on the Govan and Marathon agreements published elly refused to answer questions about in Workers Press, the hopes of situation and unplugged the the management seem to be ne saying the matter was one for the entirely misplaced workers. Cameron's the first to were

BUILDING

sign the so-called Scottish agree- societies, whose assets exceed £10,000m, yesterday ment. raised their The men are being paid f30 a lending rates by per cent to avoid a 'very week only if they earn a f5 bonus mortgage famine'. Those the basic rate. wanting on lhey are not homes will now have to to buy receiving the expected guaran- teed £30. pay 8t per cent interest.

Union officials are desperately AN INQUIRY is now likely to hoping Cameron's will not break be held Transport and the off the agreement as they have General Workers' Union into the threatened. 37 men dismissal this week ot UCATT officials failed to show from the Metallic Manufacturing at a meeting arranged by Company's factory in Ardrossan, up management the Haymarket Ayrshire. Pat sa Frey, or one of the Woodrow site, Taylor Leicester, sacked said: had a men, Wednesday, when a secret on verbal agreement with the man- ballot forced a return. agement that it would be a case scaffolders I have been Taylor Woodrow first out. claimed that only 20 men at the vorking here for four years, but were employed by meeting the they have continued to employ firm, the work for sub- people who have been with them rest contractors. for only months.' The ballot was held with the clocking-in numbers of the em- Registered Pos the bottom the Published ployees at Press, paper. This brought a 36-34 vote 186a High Street, for a return on Monday of men 1806 Clapham Plough Press 1 London. (1U). who joined the strike ten weeks 180b high street, ago.

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of the All Trades Unions vital experiences of the last eight aim Alliance is to build a new leader- months, to analysing the prob- ship the which will lems of political leadership • in In unions the unions and to advancing the fight to win economic demands struggle for the implementation and, above all, educate workers the theory and practice of of the programme of the Alliance in the Charter of Basic Marxism and expose, in practice, outlined in Rights and the Manifesto adopted the limitations economic establish November 1971. struggles and the in of the political struggle The Charter of Basic Rights primacy for socialism. includes complete opposition to The practical experience of the sackings, to all forms of produc- racialism, dealing, months has shown tivity to to last eight cuts, to the Com- militant trade that social service unionists Housing, mon Market and the those forms of struggle which Immigration and Industrial Rela- rely. exclusively picket-line militancy are inadequate.

tions Acts. This defence of basic rights is The economic crisis, the entry inseparably tied to the struggle Common into the Market and for campaign to force the the urgent political tasks posed Tories to resign and to elect a demand im- before the unions Labour government. peratively not only new form a Such a government must be of practical struggle but also a forced to nationalize, without correspondingly of higher form compensation and under workers' working-class organization. This control, all the major industries, is the revolutionary party of the land and banks; withdraw British working class. troops from Ulster; withdraw There is other to way

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and Common from the establish the political indepen- Market; and repeal all reaction- dence of the trade unions from ary legislation. the reactionary union bureau- We cordially invite all trade and the ideology the cracy of union branches, shop stewards ruling class. and district committees to send All Trades Unions The delegates and/or observers to the Alliance has decided to call conference. conference on October 22 which September 8, 1972 will be devoted to discussing the