Workers Press no. 865

workers press

TORY JOBLESS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLET

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY DAVID MAUDE

TORY LEADERS will this week threaten to throw hundreds of thousands more workers out of their jobs unless union leaders agree to help them cut real wages.

In a bid to take full advantage of last week's TUC declara- for co-operation with the National Industrial Relations tion Court, the government is already mounting pressure for a secret agreement with the TUC which would endanger the pay claims of millions of workers.

They hope to clinch the deal at Thursday's meeting at Chequers premier Heath's luxurious country house in Buckinghamshire- with members of the TUC General Council and the employers' organization, the Confederation of British Industry. The all-day conference has been arranged to discuss three or four papers, said by 10 Downing Street to be about 'improving the position of the lower-paid' and 'reducing the level of increase in prices', prepared by a joint working party over the last month.

But Heath will also throw in a conversation-stopping Treasury report which says that joblessness could rise to 1.4 million in the next 12 months unless claims are reduced.

He may also refer to another report, from the same source, which says that price rises may soon cut off British firms from home as well as foreign markets. These reports- -carefully leaked to the Tory press for publication -are followed up today yesterday by the Bank of England. In its quarterly bulletin, the Bank calls for rapid government action against inflation.

Earnings are rising again, it says, and 'there is a great danger that prices will likewise'. "marked lasting Moves for and moderation' The are urgent. Chequers talks could 'help to- wards this'. The of this purpose stage- managed propaganda offensive is clear. It is to hand the union leaders, who have already demonstrated their loyalty over the anti-union

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Act, the whip push their TO CK members into line on wages, too.

The Tories are convinced that last week's expressed opposition restraint to wage the TUC is so much hot at air. And they have good rea- son for this conviction, because not single union leader, either right or left, objected to Thursday's talks going on.

As a sop to the consciences of of the 'lefts', Heath will some probably offer his guests at Chequers form of some Joint 'review' or the workings of the Industrial Relations Act.

This review - on which the General Council would be repre- sented along with the

CBI

and the government-would form the of the backstage deal substance on pay. Then the union leaders would proceed half-heartedly the into autumn round of pay claims with Extreme right-wing demonstrators outsic the aim restricting them to already-agreed norm of 8 the per cent. The immediate intended vie- Last March's Budget from of the deal would be the Chancellor Barber, who has now tims 1 million local-authority manual workers and the 110,000 power chairman Heath's workers. Advisory Committee Policy, opened the way for massive The Tories know, however, export of capital from Britain.

that any such deal with the On March 22, Workers Press leaders can only buy them time while they complete their was the only newspaper in real Britain to warn about the effect preparations to hit at the work- ing class. of this. 1.4 million is certainly a gross •British employers,' we said, underestimate of the number 'will now join the stampede to of workers the Tories and the CBI take advantage of cheap labour know will be thrown of in these countries, using the out work by their decision for entry threat of capital movement to the Common Market — a intimidate the workers in into subject which the

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Britain through the creation looked both ways last week.

of more unemployment? INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1972• No. 865 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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In other words the Tories have broken whatever already private on assurances employmen Foreign News they plan to give the union Thursday and After Brighton ... staring the union Picketing series leaders in the face. Japanese-UK trade... The upshot of the retreat at therefore, Brighton, tion by the union leaders for a THE EXPECTED 5,000-strong extreme right-wing march against immigration flopped dramatically yesterday when only 300 turned up. Stripped of their Smithfield supporters the marchers from Kent, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Leicester and a hand- ful of London boroughs were predominantly middle class. Organized by Immigration Con- trol Organization leader Joy Page, fête-day accents could be heard the length of the short shouting "Asians out column Enoch in'. The demonstrators were almost exclusively National Front, with contingents from Colin Jordan's British Movement and the National Independence Party: Letters demanding an end to all coloured immigration were handed in at Enoch Powell's home in South Eaton Place, at Buckingham Palace and Downing Street. Only 300 largely middle-aged and middle-class demonstrators walked behind National Front banner in LEICESTER on Satur- day. National Front organizer Mar- tin Webster's car broke down on the motorway so Leicester Dun- lop shop steward Paul Dickens took his place. In READING eight youths and a girl were arrested when left wingers clashed with 50 marchers entry of passport against the holders from Uganda. native to these cowardly, dis- credited men a subject which will be the centre of the dis- cussion at the All Trades Unions Alliance conference on October 22.

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workers press

TORY JOBLESS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLET

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTF

BY DAVID MAUDE

TORY LEADERS will this week threaten to throw hundreds of thousands more workers out of their jobs unless union leaders agree to help them cut real wages.

In a bid to take full advantage of last week's TUC declara- tion for co-operation with the National Industrial Relations for Court, the government is already mounting pressure a secret agreement with the TUC which would endanger the pay claims of millions of workers.

They hope to clinch the deal at Thursday's meeting at Chequers —premier Heath's luxurious country house in Buckinghamshire TUC General Council and the employers' with members of the organization, the Confederation of British Industry. The all-day conference has been arranged to discuss three or four papers, said by 10 Downing Street to be about 'improving the position of the lower-paid' and 'reducing the level of increase in prices', prepared by a joint working party over the last month.

But Heath will also throw in a conversation-stopping Treasury report which says that joblessness could rise to 1.4 million in the next 2 months unless claims are reduced He may also refer to another report, from the same source, which says that price rises may soon cut off British firms from home as well as foreign markets. These reports-carefully leaked to the Tory press for publication yesterday- -are followed up today by the Bank of England. quarterly bulletin, the In its Bank calls for rapid government action against inflation.

Earnings are rising again, it says, and 'there is a great danger that will do likewise'. prices Moves for 'marked and lasting moderation' The are urgent. Chequers talks could 'help to- wards this'. The purpose of this stage- managed propaganda offensive is clear. It is to hand the union leaders, G who have already demonstrated their loyalty over the anti-union

NTRY

Act, the whip to push their members into line on wages, too.

CK The Tories are convinced that last week's expressed wage restraint opposition to at the TUC is so much hot air. And they have good rea- son for this conviction, because not a single union leader, or 'left, either right objected to Thursday's talks going on.

As a sop to the consciences of of the 'lefts', Heath will some probably offer his at guests some form Chequers of joint "review' or the workings of the Industrial Relations Act.

This review - which the General Council would be repre- sented with the CBI and along the government-would form the substance of the backstage deal on pay. Then the union leaders would half-heartedly proceed into the autumn round of pay claims with Extreme right-wing demonstrators outst the aim of restricting them to already-agreed 8 the of per cent. immediate The intended vic- Last March's Budget from tims of the deal would be the Chancellor Barber, who has now 1 million local-authority succeeded Reginald Maudling manual key workers and the 110,000 power chairman of Heath's Committee Policy, workers. Advisory on for opened the way massive however, The Tories know, export of capital from Britain.

that such deal with the any On March 22, Workers Press leaders can only buy them time while they complete their real was only newspaper preparations to hit at the work- Britain to warn about the effect of this. ing class. 1.4 million is certainly a gross •British employers,' said, we underestimate of the number of 'will now join the stampede to Tories and the CBI take advantage of cheap labour workers the know will be thrown of in these countries, using the out, threat of capital movement to work by their decision for entry the Common Market - into intimidate the workers in

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Britain subject which the through the creation looked both ways last week.

of more unemployment.' INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1972 • No. 865 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

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The stampede is already with a government secret DaCu underway. they know plans misery, hardship and repression for their members figures Latest reasury This the powertul that investment abroad in the possible argument for the bulld- first half this totalled of year ing of the revolutionary alter- £727m. This is almost as the average for a full year in the previous three years.

In other words the Tories have already broken whatever private on assur alices Foreign News they plan to give union leaders on Thursday- -and the After Brighton evidence staring the union Picketing series Jeaders in the face. Japanese-UK trade The upshot of the retreat at Brighton, Bonhty the union leader for a prepara- THE EXPECTED 5,000-strong extreme right-wing march against immigration flopped dramatically yesterday when only 300 turned up. Stripped of their Smithfield supporters the marchers from Kent, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Leicester and a hand- ful of London boroughs were predominantly middle class. Organized by Immigration Con- leader Joy trol Organization Page, fête-day accents could be heard the length of the short shouting 'Asians out— column Enoch in'. The demonstrators were almost exclusively National Front, with contingents from Colin Jordan's British Movement and the National Independence Party. Letters demanding an end to all coloured immigration were handed in at Enoch Powell's home in South Eaton Place, at Buckingham Palace and Downing Street. Only 300 largely middle-aged middle-class demonstrators and Front walked behind National banner in LEICESTER on Satur- day. National Front organizer Mar- tin Webster's car broke down on the motorway so Leicester Dun- lop shop steward Paul Dickers took his place. In READING eight youths and a girl were arrested when left wingers clashed with 50 marchers against of passport the entry holders from Uganda. native to these cowardly, dis- credited men—a subject which will be the centre of the dis- cussion at the All Trades Unions Alliance conference on October

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday September 11, 1972 What After Brighton we think WHATEVER the Tory papers say, the so- Workers', were left virtually isolated, at- as the figures show the majority of the there a call only from a minority of movement condemned this to mooze me surerom or me movemenu wcaKCI than at any Time

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the left revealed their true colours.

He could for example, have examined demanes or Te-cal coo chem, with exposure, as take loner ond the position Tos ved—ue nra a act one a secute and of opposition against any co-opera- of the fundamental shift of forces Brighton tion with the Industrial Relations Court.

to his cost during the dock the Stalinise of me working cy broke was jack Congress General Council won s Deep in this swamp of opportunism is ro non-co-o•cra Ull more men riy ended a reset and engineering a return to work in the dock the 1 costall Terms membership leaders. And at Branton the CP's role wa: and still more were prenaring to go before the got misbegan to pushed back anti-com- and the right-wing nese une aracted DUdst the clauses government used working once was mere a car to Dreak on rcauon May, soon after had More important, the two big unions, unira. callic anti-working class intentions only too clear is the lesson of Brighton.

the AUEW and the Transport and General abandoned opposition to the court-then Zionists step up Puppet Divisions troops are hang over badly mauled

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what could be the stami _or a new visive as lorean rainisters rom the six members and four appli- the gather for starting election. Vietnamese TOday French President Georges Pom- so-called pidou the Chancel- Isael s Munich Saturday, but failed to reach number of out. agreement discussed concent sallulls rhady. Tne • SummIt october Pompidou said meeting neo security the Rome LeUdlol. Brandt that he hoped ot smael Troods na. neena wee ave TO WOrK Tosses package of basis for the basis for in a 1961 was unorecedented sunce forthcoming summit ot anti-terrorism to inmict lurtne.

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According to The survey will not include est- one those who staying with imation there are now a alc and friends, relatives in bed- total of 50,000 homeless and-breakfast accommodation, people in Britain. No ac- squatting WILd their families in empty houses.

curate figures exist and Many of these are families the Department of with children over 16, child- Health and Social Sec- less _ cooles are nor en- urity is proposing a sur- gible for local authority tem- vey of common lodging porary accommodations and those families who are terrified houses and hostels in that apply for local Il they authority London to find out how they will help be separated split up, the men many people are without their Irom women.

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alle a home. children taken into care.

proposed Reactions to the Attempts are being made by survey among social workers various voluntary bodies and others trying to deal with ensure that the resulting figures the ever-growing problem of include all those who have no been homelessness have fixed address, but who happen described as ranging from the be in reception centres, 'cynical to the exasperated'.

police cells and hos- pitals when the census is car- Numerous 'head-counts' of homeless been ried out, or who are just living people have carried out since Dickens' day, rough, a ta do da a Side 13 1111h

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but little has been done to alleviate the situation. With a Tory government in power, we can safely assume that the coming survey will be no different from its predeces- sors. The present rocketing pro- while ensuring perty prices, that the landlords and specu- lators are having a bonanza, means that thousands of fami- lies are being made homeless.

At one time homeless fami- were regarded as 'prob- lies lem families' because they were considered to be inadequate, immature people unable to cope with providing proper homes for their children.

Today this attitude can no longer be sustained. As one social worker put it: 'Many people who become homeless are by no means inadequate.

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Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Workers Press, Monday September 11, 1972 PAGE 3 The TUC-CBI conciliation and arbitration service has taken pressure off the Tory govern- ment at a time when it should have been maintained, says en- gineers' union leader Jim Con- way. Writing in the September The 1,000 more redun- issue of the Amalgamated dancies announced by Union of Engineering Workers' journal, Conway says that the Rolls - Royce recently government has persistently show that none of the confrontations sought with real questions facing the the unions. He goes on: 'Because of our aero-engine firm have yet determination the government been answered. being forced back, was but now they have been rescued.

Rolls-Royce has two com- "The petitors, minimum price the both Americans. But

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should have demanded the markets are insufficient to was a series of amendments to Not all three firms. sustain the Industrial Relations Act. enough aircraft are now being The government even made a built to maintain adequate pro- few encouraging but noises, duction runs all of the time.

the end result was that we got Pressure is already building nothing.' up for the Tories to sanction a This is unaccustomed mili- merger with either Pratt and tancy from the right-wing Con- Whitney or its rival General favour way, who is in of Electric to ensure that Rolls British entry into the Com- does not completely flounder Market. mon under the impact of American competition. The speculative question is with which firm would Rolls be better off. Until recently, Pratt and Whitney had 80 per cent of the civil aircraft market. Its engines were in almost every airliner. It was guaranteed a huge business in and spares large profits. serious Then it ran into trouble with the monster engine for the Boeing Jumbo jet. Pratt and Whitney are still facing law suits over the deal.

In the recent period, Rolls and General Electric have broken their rival's near mono- the capturing poly, engine orders for all three air buses going into production. Boeing is now also talking about a super-jumbo version of the 747 using General Electric engines, not Pratt and Whit- ney. Top: Jim Conway. Above: Ernie When Rolls-Royce went Roberts; both contending General the bankrupt, Electric ballot for AUEW general-secretary.

approached them with a take- ship. over offer. Pratt and Whitney also approached Roy MP them, but After Jenkins because of the snags with the helped keep the Tories in did jumbo engine, not have power in the key Market vote the cash to go through with Conway October, wrote any deal. of him: 'He could have pur- sued Party popularity as too many others have done, but he stood by what he believed be right? to Conway's new stance is, of course, entirely unconnected With competition between with month's second next the three engine firms hotting ballot for the general secretary- up, however, it cannot be long ship of the

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PAGE 4 Worxers Press, Monday Septem Part 11 of a series on Picketin One of the most notor- ious detective agencies in Britain in recent years was that run by Barry Quartermain, an ex-RAF man who specialized in evicting squatters for local councils in London.

In 1969, families desperate for somewhere to live pied council-owned houses which had lain unoccupied for months, or even years. The councils, including the Greater London Council, Redbridge and Haringey, called in Quartermain and his team who smashed their way into the premises and ejected the fami- lies, including women and children. One report in 'The Sunday Times' stated: 'At 6.30 a.m. on April 21 Mr Quartermain led his largest eviction raid on three premises in Ilford. After smashing their way into the house a bailiff punched one of the squatters breaking his jaw.

Mr and Mrs Fleming and their three children frog- were marched down the stairs and onto the street.' According to a report in 'The Times' Quartermain conducted investigations using divorce electronic listening devices—-*a bug in the bedhead'-and also specialized in 'investigating agitators and finding the real motive behind a strike'. Said "The Times': 'In such cases he gets eight or ten of his men on client's the payroll in to strategically-placed jobs.'

Today, the Industrial Rela- tions Act actively encourages this particular breed of hired labour spy once more. The recent case of men from the firm 'Eurotec' being hired by the Midland Cold Store, East London, secretly to col- lect evidence against picketing dockers for use in the National Industrial Relations Court con- firms the Act to be a series of police state measures against organized workers. For the Tory government this is the state of things to come. Acting entirely legally and creditably as far as the Court detectives concerned was Christopher Burch, Garry senior partner in Murray, a Eurotec, and William Lastett admitted to: • Minute-by-minute surveil- lance of pickets. • Telephoning workers and their wives and posing as a freelance news researcher to obtain evidence. • Secretly tape-recording con- versations with workers on the picket line. • Secretly listening to and recording a conversation in a public house. • Secretly following workers home and elsewhere on foot and by car. • Photographing the picket line. According to evidence, their brief was ascertain the to names and addresses of the persons regularly picketing at y September 11, 1972 Picketing by Bernard Franks the gates of the company in to ascertain Waterden • Road, the affiliations of such persons organization, and to to any report fully on the activities of such persons in the picket line. Evidence given in court by concerning photo- Murray, graphing, stated: 'All the subjects named above were actively engaged in the picketing. Merrick appeared to be in command.

Various photographs were taken of the pickets as they were leaving to visit the BRS establishment down the road, where we assume that they are using their toilet facilities, and these photographs will be available shortly' (From the transcript Murray's of evi- This was obtained by dence. Workers Press and published on July 8.) When asked by the judge who he had claimed to be workers' when telephoning wives, Murray told the court: I confirmed I was a free- lance and news reporter wanted to find out their feel- ings. I told them I'd been speaking to their husbands who had given me permissiot to talk to them. (Workers Press, July 7.). The spies in this case ob- tained information and tested out the picket line by driving up in a vehicle and threatening to go through. The next step will be to hire thugs who, with police sup- port, will attempt to break the picket lines in true Pinkerton style, on the basis of these being illegal under the new law. Company police Mention has previously been made of the Coal and Iron Police and the railway police of the USA. Similar bodies were created by private companies in Britain in the middle of the last century to maintain industrial discipline, in chiefly the ironwork and rail construction industries.

An earlier example was when in 1797 the West India Company created a private river police of 200 men armed with cutlasses. Their duty was to patrol the Thames in rowing boats protecting the company's property and keeping order on the river. In 1837 the Lanarkshire ironmasters equipped and paid a body of 40 policemen to pro- starving weavers whom tect they were hiring at low rates, from assaults by the workers whose wages were being under- cut. The regular workers lost the struggle and ended up by having to work longer hours.

It may have been that the employer gained on the deal, even allowing for the wages of the police; but in general, capitalists are prepared to spend vast sums of money on defeating workers, far beyond the amounts they allege to be impossible to find to pay higher wages. Engels also writes of a where, in 1843, a Man- case Top: Eurotec detectives Gary Murray (Cel whose evidence In the National Indust conviction of the Pentonville Five. Above chester brick-making firm, set 12 Pauling and Henfrey, armed guards — ex-police and ex-soldiers - to guard the premises against strikers. The workers themselves ob- brick tained arms and attacked the yard as a military operation. A pitched battle ensued. Engels commended the bravery of the strikers and remarked that these workers 'possess revolu- tionary courage and do not shun à rain of bullets' In general, though, British employers have been afraid to develop this system as a coercive force to any great extent, as, following any vio- lence, the continued existence of such a corps on the premises would be taken by the workers as a provocation. Instead, the employers preferred to leave it to the union leaders to dis- lurray (contre) and Willlam Laslott (loft), nal Industrial Relations court led to the ve. Above left: Henry Ford I.

cipline employees on their behalf. book that gives an One account of how such bodies continued to develop in the United States is 'The Flivver Sinclair. King' by Upton Written in 1937, and read by thousands of Ford workers throughout the world, it has available recently become again. The book tells of the rise of the Ford Motor Com- pany from a back-street shed to a billion-dollar industry.

It tells also of the 'Social Department' with a staff of 50 employed to keep a check on morals and character of em- ployees — the workers called it the 'Snooping Department' The book also describes the 'Service Department'. This was under the control of Harry Bennet, an ex-boxer whose job it was 'to organize and train the 3,600 private police who guarded the gates of the plant, work in watched the every department, reported violations of many hundreds of regula- tions, and mingled with the as spies, detecting men grumblers, and kickers, union "Red organizers and agita- tors"!' At one stage, the spy-mania was so bad that three men standing talking together were a 'conspiracy. The service men searched lunch boxes for sedi- tious literature and 'they even pried open sandwiches in the search'! Sinclair says that such work was not only carried out inside the plant: If a labour leader came to town Henry's service department must know where he went and with whom words, In other he talked. Henry Ford's army set up an intelligence bureau, with spies and counter-spies, essential in every war.' He adds that Ford's army pulled off its share of rough stuff' such that a former judge and then Mayor of Detroit from his own could state knowledge: 'Henry Ford em- ploys some of the worst gang- sters in our city? It was this army that along with regular police opened up with gas bombs and machine guns on unemployed demonstrators at the Ford plant in March 1932, wounding about 50 and killing four men. Ford's extreme right-wing leanings were shown in his virulent anti-Semitic and anti- communist campaigns between 1920 and 1927, launched through a newspaper called "Dearborn Independent' and through Henry Ford's own book 'The International Jew: the World's Foremost Prob- lem.' Today, the mainstay of the Security Service at Ford's of Detroit is 30 ex-FBI men.

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Department of Trade and Industry officials, re- cently in Tokyo for trade negotiations with their Japanese counterparts, were unlikely to get any response in their at- tempts to curb rapidly. increasing exports to Britain. The talks, led by DTI trade expert Sir Max Brown, _fol- lowed up Trade Secretary John Davies' visit of three months ago. UK manufacturers of ball- polyester fibre and bearings, colour TV sets were certainly looking to the mission to bring some respite from the pressure of Japanese competition, which has already caused considerable redundancies in the Ransome, Hoffman and Pollard ball-bearing industry.

But Tokyo is unlikely to grant any worthwhile conces- sions as she is increasingly forced to look to British and western European markets to compensate for her difficulties with the United States market.

Last December's yen-dollar parity change, together with Nixon's tougher President trade attitude, is likely to cut back a part of the 31 per cent of total Japanese exports which are shipped to the United States. By comparison Europe is as yet untouched; last year barely 7 per cent of Japan's exports went to the Common Market and less than 6 per cent to the European Association Free Trade countries. Japan's share of all OECD- country exports (all the lead- ing industrial nations) to western Europe was a bare 3 per cent in 1971, hardly any advance on 1968, whereas its share of OECD exports to the US had risen from 17 per cent to 22 per cent over the same period. This turn towards the Euro- pean market is reflected in the latest trade figures issued by the Japanese Ministry of Inter- national Trade and Industry (MIll). Iotal exports were up 27 per cent from a year earlier. Among major items, machinery, foodstuffs, chemi- cal products and textiles in- creased sharply. While exports to the US gained only 5 per cent on the previous year, they rose by almost 50 per cent to Europe.

Anglo-Japanese trade is still terms. small relative Although the two countries rank third and fourth in the world export league, they do very little business with each other-only 2 per cent of the imports and exports of each.

Up to 1970 the growth of imports and exports was steady and relatively balanced.

But last year, with Japanese economy in reces- sion, their industries found themselves with considerable excess capacity. Japanese ex- ports soared by 50 per cent whereas British exports to Japan edged up by only 8 per cent. This year the divergence has further widened, with a 34 per cent increase from Japan and in the only 3-4 per cent opposite direction. Here alone is an indication of the relative competitiveness of industry in the two countries. The Japanese have utilized the technique which brought them such dramatic results in the US market in the 1960s.

This is to concentrate their fire on a very narrow front and to take advantage of the economies of scale to under- price their rivals. Fear on the part of British manufacturers is perhaps in greatest the consumer- electronics industry. Imports of record players rose by 126 per cent last year and imports of radios and transistors more than doubled. The colour TV market is still in its infancy, but Japan- ese penetration has been re- markable. Total imports of Japanese IV sets rose by 264 per cent last year and a fur- ther 174 per cent so far this year. Two Japanese companies have been licensed to make large PAL colour sets and anxiety is felt when the UK market for sets begins to level off. The DTI has been monitor- ing the situation in 30 other industrial including areas cars, where Japanese imports quadrupled last year and have by a risen similar amount so far this year. Some attempt has been made by Japanese business to avoid antagonizing the British too much. Efforts have been made to devise 'orderly mar- keting arrangements' — cartel whose purpose arrangements is to avoid damaging rates of increase in export shipments.

But a cartel to control exports of black and white TV sets was dropped when the West German cartel office declared that it would be illegal there.

It is possible that the British delegation to Tokyo threatened some joint EEC action against the Japanese if they stand ed firm. But there are several Workers P difficulties involved, as the Tanaka government is aware.

First, not every European country has been equally hit by the threat of Japanese penetration. In some cases their industries better are able to compete. Secondly, general policy in Brussels at this stage seems to favour agreements between industries rather than governments.

EEC-

Negotiations on an trade treaty broke Japanese down earlier this year on the very issue of a common EEC safeguard clause. In any case, as the trade war hots up, so must the divi- sions within Europe on trade money questions. and The French in particular will be joint unwilling to take any action which will help

EEC

the British when they have been so critical of the decision to 'float' sterling and the un- of the Heath willingness government to join them in an anti-US trade policy. is always the Then there fear of retaliation by the Japanese to any British re- strictions on Japanese imports.

Under considerable US pres- Japan's import policy has been armewhat liberalized over the last two years. But that policy could easily be re- versed at the expense of the British. With the Nixon administra- tion now making open threats increase tariff barriers to against British exports once Britain joins the EEC, the prospect for British exports looks bleak on all fronts, to say the least. landay 8i

• 11, 1872 PAOE 5

In radio broadcasts marking the anniversary of the Japanese surrender in World War II, Russian speakers have claimed considerable credit for the defeat of imperialism. It was the victories of the Russian armies in Asia, accord- ing to the broadcasts, which laid the basis for the victory of the Chinese Revolution and for the growth of the National Liberation Movements in south-east asia. One broadcast by the Russian historian and sinologist and beamed Klimov, Standard Chinese, Cantonese and Shanghai dialect, praised the role which had been played by the Chinese Communist Party in 'presenting a united front' to Japanese aggression, but said that Chinese attempts to credit Mao Tse-tung with the victory over the Japanese were 'propaganda'. Klimov claimed that Mao's policies had "sabotaged national unity and war against the Japan'. In fact, of course, it was Joseph Stalin who agreed at the Potsdam Conference that Chiang Kai-shek should be ruler of China. Stalin urged the Chinese Communist Party to enter a coalition government under the premiership Chiang. A recent national opinion poll whose results have just been published shows that many their Canadians feel that country's economic depend- ence on the United States is harmful and dangerous. Canada supplies cheap elec- tric power and raw materials to the USA. Recent editorials in Canadian newspapers have quoted the prices at which Canadian goods are sold on the US market-they are often below world prices. The controversy has flared up with new force following a from the well- statement known US sociologist Profes- sor Herman Kahn. Speaking to Ottowa of an seminar Canadian government officials, Kahn threatened Canada with the rejection of its raw materials and electronic power if it persisted with its efforts to achieve economic independ- ence. Kahn is known to have rose connections with US government circles.

War 17. 1917.

OUCH

LDr

BANULADESH

WORKERS

DEMAND

THE RIGHTTO

STRIKE

RELEASE

ALL

POLITICAL

RISONERS

NOW

Enayetullah Khan, editor of the left-win in Conditions Bangla Desh are bad. The econ- omic crisis has reached critical proportions. Star- vation, corruption and jobbery are widespread. Many people in government and administration taking are advantage of their position and They are indulging in powers. smuggling, in expropriating for their own property per- use by claiming that it sonal "abandoned, and has been many other forms of corrup- tion. They are also seeking to use to hold their political powers back or divert opposition to, and resentment at, this cor- Corruption on such a ruption. large scale could not take place without political patronage.

They hide behind a smoke- their accusing screen by opponents of being Chinese or American Central Intelligence Agency men, or even of being collaborators with Pakistan.

There are undoubtedly some collaborators in Bangla Desh and some are being protected by people inpower from Our newspaper the the danger beginning took up of the government's left-baiting and witch-hunting which was name of the carried out in the of the sovereignty country. They accused us of being colla- borators with Pakistan, but it was impossible for that to stick of three Ours was one papers banned by the Pakistan funds were regime and our of frozen. The government Mujibur Rahman has Sheikh i

TOD:

Pakistan captured arms, which later had to be handed in.

The army Left: Enayetullah Khan. has just fought a patriotic war and so cannot just be used by the government to suppress the Deople.' Workers Preas, Monday September 11, 1972 PAGE 7 tor of the left-wing Bengali paper 'Holiday', has just arrived in this country from Bangla Desh. In this exclusive interview he describes the fight against corruption and oppression in Bangla Desh.

threatened us but we can with- line, and they arrested the Russia and also the under- In the early days after inde- stand this editor of 'Haq-Katha'. We have hand dealings with America pendence, because our (which addi- record, our principled position survived so far. League_in stas excenenl and well The government has created allies in the Awami League).

tion to witch-hunting through because are Collaboration Order private armies in the form of known. But we are not com- The right wing developed an We know they would (Red Brigades) ideology of • Mab bind Sere The launched of placent. Lal-Bahini programme led by Rab the attack if they felt strong which wing of the

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lett, physical 1S a and rejected this and called for the lefts. Thousands were killed in enough. (the trade union organization).

scientific The the They have also got the Awami establishment socialism through social revo- border districts like Babna and government uses League Volunteer Force whose Jessore. This could carried head any revolutionary oppo- members go around brandish- lution. not be too far because of the resist- threatening In June the factions held ing and We answered this government critics with extinc- separate conferences in Dacca. ance to it. in an Mujib official' But they did use a section of '65 Million Col- attended the being saboteurs aruce caed

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laborators!' We demanded that conference, but the 'rebel' the and the police, in independence' addition per- government clear But the left forces have sub- conterence was much larger.

to some indian stantial support among the The lefts carried slogans onnel, ments at Arrai, in the Rajshaei mop left ele- working class and peasants and the not use it to throttle opposi- against government and tion and to settle political and this has repelled the onslaught against Mujib's alleged border district. com- of the Lal-Bahini, personal scores. which had plicity with corrupt elements.

The leader of one of the Our have suffered total in They warned that if Mujib 'Marxist-Leninist' Ab- people government backing groups, occupation and struggled another in Tipas for their attack on left-wing trade continued to give patronage and wastested This April and May. such ele- Biswas, was gives them unionists last and protection another, •to There strength. They found things weren't as ments, he would no longer were many crush all opposition easy as they had hoped. remain father of the not nation. arrests. Rab declared: 'We called you The Bangla Desh people are of 'Haq- Recently an editor Right-wing trends in the of the nation and for Katha' (a paper of 92-year-old government continue, but they the father now desperately looking peasant leader Maulana Bhas- cannot get away with it today we are withdrawing that title an alternative leadership, but they basically this has hani's tendency today.' still to take proper was arrested becaust under the Collaboration Order weak. This shows that even with- shape. However, as the issues and army and is still in jail without trial.

The police in the Awami united left League itselt Clear. How can the government sud- their shape are not people are radicalized opposition may be around the present being discover completely at the beck and call that man corner. Alreadv three organiza aenly ane woo to une socals revo who has been out of jail and of the government for repres- tions Maulana Bhashani's lution. for The official Chhatra League running paper eight sive measures. The police are National Awami Parti months is a collaborator?

He still weak and unorganized. and the Lal-Bahini planned to the Bangla Communist Party, has been jailed because he is The army has just fought a break lefts' conference, and the BanglaDesher Com. Ine critical of the government.

and but it The Party (Leninist)-have patriotic war cannot i ga Secretary too large. munist •so be used by the • ban lovernment has tried just Organizing of the called for democratic left unity.

'Holiday', ment to suppress the people.

Awami They extended League-who is also have this Corps offer to other left groups su 'Haq-Katha', 'Ganasakthi' There is a balance of terror chief of the Volunteer in Bangla Desh. The experience —led a march of the 'Mujib- as the Krishak Sramik a lett-wing pader Charan-atra group) and (an of armed struggle has given the ists' and a clash ensued badi Dal (the Peasant-Worker In Socialist confidence and which he was manhandled. He Party) the unattached opposition paper).

masses and to The Organizing Secretary of many cases they have kept was rescued by the left lead- 'rebel' Chhatra . League. in the Awami League demanded their arms. As the food crisis gets worse, last June that these We were cautious from the But later day, these groups are already work- papers the same should be closed down because, while the lefts were marching very beginning because we saw ing together on basic opposi- he claimed, 'they told that dissenters even the to pay their respects to the lies tion issues. itself about the government', and Awami League were monument the Bengali This provides the opportu- 'maligned our friends' Language Movement Martyrs, (that is, attacked. nity for the opposition to unite the Bangla Desh India and the Soviet Union).

In they were attacked by armed and to give the people a proper 'If the government student of Volunteer He said: Chhatra members the lead. Rab received doesn't take action, the people of the Awami League) Corps. knife wing will.' This split. Soon after independence injury. FOOTNOTE: Workers Press private armies against us.

is pleased to publish this inter- radical wing rejected the Resentment is growing even manifestations of jobbery and within the camp of the Awami The government banned view of course, rep- 'Ganasakthi', pressurized 'Cha- the slavish League and they do not spare resents the views of Mr Khan's authoritarianism, India own ranbatra' into taking a softer attitude towards and even their members organization.

HOW THE MOROCCAN

REFORMERS KEEP

HASSAN IN POWER

PAQE & Workers Press, Mondey Sopran Morocco, one of the last countries in Africa to be subjected to colonial rule when divided between France and Spain in 1912, is now in the mid- dle of a period of intense class struggle. The August 15, 1971, mea- of President Nixon, sures which opened up the trade and tariff war, and the struggle for markets, spelled doom for the feeble Moroccan indus- tries. All guarantees of a stable price for her phosphates and agricultural produce have been removed at a stroke. As result the native bourgeoisie attempted to reduce the workers and peasants to bind- ing poverty, destroying their political rights, parties and organizations. The unsuccessful attempt to ay Sapromber 11, 1972 overthrow King Hassan in August arose from divisions in the Moroccan ruling class in the face of growing resistance from workers, peasants, stud- ents and the unemployed to the attacks made in the interest of imperialism. In July of last year, General Hammou attempted to bring an end to Hassan's absolute rule and establish a military dic- tatorship. The desperate resur- rection of this strategy by It Amakrane with the support of General Oufkir, arose from failure to stop the forward movement of the masses. Hassan has maintained his position for so long only by continuing the Bonapartist policies of his father, Moham- med V. Mohammed supported French colonial rule through- out the early years of hostilit the independence I But Hassan's champion of fighters of Mozamb and limbabwe querade as a sherif ant med, now carries with the masses. Now only the the opposition lead the workers ting an end to The leaders Front (NF), Istiqlal, the Natior ropular the Moroccan Unic (MUL) foster the i reforms can be Hassan. Worse than tha late and abet the of the illegal left, t years of the t struggle, only break Iliance in 1953, after of hostility to Istiqlal, endence party. sa the se as liberation s a sherif, a descend- prophet, Moham- carries little weight the treachery of ition leaders prevents and peasants put- Hassan's of the National which

(NUPF)

and ecan Union of Labour ster ine ulusions tnai be from won than that, they iso- persecution gal left, the Moscow- backed Communist Party and the Maoist Liberation and Socialist Party. The National Front was formed • in July 1970. The NUPF, which split from Istiq- lal. in 1962 under the leader- ship of Mehdi Ben Barka, ostensibly to fight for social- its way back to ism, found the fold, when it formed an alliance with the same group. Then, together with the MUL, the leadership of the under reformist Mahjoub Ben Saddik, they pledged themselves to a programme of minimum demands. Under the pressure of the masses, however, the National Front was forced to organize a boycott of elections held in August 1970 under a consti- tution granted by Hassan the previous month. The military took alarm when 45 per cent of all voters abstained in one w- particular area. of the reds millions from by place. ten comman trial of leftward- turned th the plead elections the were occan Royal Morocca appealed Strike of students The of scores and cal the of preventer from file. Hassan replied by the ants and students like to collaborat san, but are At the same they refuse the overthrow ridden, semi-feudal thus open up the of a dangers dictatorship. urgent the Moroccan mas: other countries, is of Dracoice party principles the political indel une massed working class to le peasants, students ployed in the takir lowing the nbezzlement of hund- of millions pounds phosphate mining off- government first attempt to over- assan and establish dictatorship he coup failed to gain from the army ranks, crushed it, executing 1,400 He then turned to his real enemies placed 193 members leftward-moving, sec- he NUPF on trial on charges urned their backs on to new constitution elections. Meanwhile, ndants at Marrakesh tured and five con- ember last year, Mor- showed thes pared to fight. Dock ohammedia and Casa. on a 15-per-cent wage and the staff of the Airlines Moroccan The nigher e increases proposed n (as much as 25 per industrial workers). while NF nth led to a General students After Mohammedia tudents took lashed back arresting dozens of into the consider- were made. These the right to organize immunity trom campus and the : scores of imprisoned NF this workers prevented the organ- entering nt set up under th Carim Lamrani. rey set up a 'commit- with Hassan's nable to foist such a he militant rank and il, the conference of ccan Union of Labou solutions condemning of a socialist society the 'problems and economic order tionalist leadership o workers, peas- students would dearly ollaborate with Has are forced to retreat nd-file pressure time, however, se to lead a fight for of the crisis- mi-feudal regime and up the door to the fà right-wing mili- question facing ccan masses, as in all ntries, is the building revolutionary ed firmly on Marxist which can fight for cal independence of prepare th lass to lead the poo students and unem- the taking of power.

The growing crisis of the Soviet economy, now in the second year of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, will be a main item at the September 19 session of the Supreme Soviet. It will probably be pre- ceeded by a plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU at which Brezhnev will report on his tour of the agri- cultural areas, many of which face their worst harvest for years. The policies required by the Stalinist 'theory' of 'socialism in one country and decades of bureaucratic mismanage- ment are taking a heavy toll.

The promises of Khrushchev to catch up and outstrip the capitalist countries during the now look increasingly 1970s ridiculous. Instead, the bureaucracy is driven into greater dependence on world capitalism as it be- comes increasingly unable to solve the problems caused by separation from the world market and its own misrule.

In all the most technologically advanced fields, with few ex- ceptions, the Soviet economy is lagging badly behind. Its relative backwardness is shown by the pinning down of enormous resources in low- yield agriculture which is now not even able to supply the basic the food supply of population. There are glaring chemicals, weaknesses plastics, electronics and mach- ine-tools. The industries closest to the consumer make the worst showing of all. In variety, quality and durability Soviet products are far behind the standards which are accepted normal in the capitalist as world. To establish modern industries in fields such as and plastics, the motors bureaucracy has had to turn for assistance to the big capitalist concerns. As for competing on the world market, this is quite out of the question for all but a few Soviet products. Soviet industry is outclassed in the production of machinery and machine - tools. It cannot supply consumer goods which competitive in price or are quality with those of large- scale capitalist industry. At the best it can open up some markets in the less-developed countries. In fact the traffic is mainly the other way. To meet Soviet workers' demands for more and better consumer goods, there are growing imports from Eastern Europe and even from the West. The bureaucracy cannot even develop the vast natural resources of the Soviet Union, especially in remoter areas like Siberia. For this it re- quires large quantities of sophisticated plant and equip- ment which Soviet industry is unable to supply. It needs to make huge investments in transport and other facilities Brechnev: agriculture faces worst harvest for years. in what are largely uninhabited regions. So it turns desperately to Japanese and other capitalists and proposes joint prospects to open up new oilfields and develop mineral resources.

The much - advertised "economic reform' which placed more power in the hands of plant managers and gave greater importance to the profits of the individual enter- prise has clearly failed. There are signs that the bureaucracy is now turning back to stricter control by the planning organs and may be considering a re- organization of the whole economy. However the bureaucracy twists and turns it cannot evade the pressures which bear down on the Soviet economy from the world market and reveal the bankruptcy of "socialism in one country'.

At the same time it faces the demands of the working class for an improvement in the supply and quality of consumer goods and an end to bureaucratic privileges. The harsh measures meted out to dissenters and the bloodless purge of the Communist Party itself through the mass ex- change of Party cards indicate that the bureaucracy stands in fear of the coming political revolution. More than 80 per cent of Polish schoolteachers have themselves reached only secondary - school level and many schools are dilapidated, over- crowded and lacking in equipment. Textbooks are in chronically short supply and in many areas secondary schools have set up improvised pavement markets prescribed where texts are sold. In Warsaw there are re- ports of used textbooks being sold for up to twice as much as the new purchase price, be- books are not cause new available. This year, as in other years, the state publishing and distri- bution enterprises have totally failed to meet the demand.

This is the background to the recent plans announced to overhaul the school system. This plan includes the aim of providing the possibility • for all 'promising' Polish children up to the age of 18 to com- plete secondary school, though it does not say on what basis these will be selected. But Polish education has suffered from 'years of stagna- • according 'Zycie tion' to Warszawy', a leading Warsaw daily newspaper. 250,000 of the About 300,000 teachers country's lack any higher education. The average teacher's wage is not only the lowest of any other profession, but is even below the national average. It is roughly equivalent to that of an unskilled labourer. The situation is worse in areas, where just over rural half the population lives. The son of a farmer, according to 'Zycie Warszawy', is doomed to stay at the lower rungs of the educational ladder. Qualified teachers are re- luctant to go to these rural areas, where there is hardly any basic living accommoda- tion for them. A growing feature of educa- tional life in the towns is the growth of private tutoring, which obviously favours the better-off. Newspapers fre- carry advertisements quently for private tutors charging 100 or 150 zlotys an hour. is equivalent This to ten hours' pay for the average worker. Workers Press, Monday September 11, 1972 PAGE 9

NO UNITY

Several delegations who turned the weaknesses of the declara- out for last week's Glasgow tion they put out we supported demonstration against the it. Industrial Relations Act, But these weaknesses seem called by the Liaison Commit- to me to be basic, because the Liaison tee for Defence of Trades Committee seems to Unions, were amazed by the be content either seek to attitude of the organizers.

amendments to the Act or For instance group of of the Act. The real a repeal Scott- striking engineers from question, however, is the Lithgow's at Greenock found removal of the Tories, who are themselves refused permission the architects of the Act-and to speak from the platform.

also of the 'fair rents' Act and Which provoked strike-com- all other attacks on the work- mittee secretary John Fisher to ing class. remark: "There is no solidarity Workers have proved their or unity here'. willingness to struggle over the Among other workers who past eight months, but milit- of the were sharply critical ancy alone is not enough.

day's events was Willy Doch- They political require erty, an engineers' union shop leadership to unite these Prestcold steward from and militant struggles against the chairman of the Paisley Rents' Tory the enemy: Action Committee. He raised government. The Liaison Com- particularly the fact that the mittee refuses the to raise upper Clyde shipyard leaders political question and there- had pulled no one out. fore provides no leadership.

Iohn Fisher later told Work- in the was seen This poor ers Press: the September 5 response to We've been on strike now demonstration. for three 1,100 months Why weren't the UCS work- Forty-eight have been men. ers on the march? arrested on the picket-lines.

The co-ordinating commit- We were hoping for assist- tee at UCS say it was because ance here today as we feel we they had other problems. I say are being isolated, but the Liai- that every worker has a prob- son Committee wouldn't let us lem today and that is - the speak. Tory government. As a matter of fact we only The UCS co-ordinating com- found out about the march by mittee were not on the march chance- -no one told us about because they were more con- it- and we came up expecting cerned with signing deals with a big demo against the Tory the Tories at Marathon and But no one here government. Govan Shipbuilders. I support the demand for a so much as mentioned the y question of a General Strike.

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SEA-LAND

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tivity drive its against Mr J. Scott Morrison, execu- tive vice-president of Sea-Land, workers to raise capital said previous development in for container dev- new enabled productivity had his elopments. company maintain freight prices at 1966 levels in some The whose company, tainers are a familiar sight to cases British dockers, are now call- Stable rates ing for greater production in the of cargo to bring lower LaLCo Immediately feeling the blow but transport in the United.

States was now suffering from are Boston dockers, in Massa- chusetts, where Sea-Land said capilal starvauon, recently. handles at least 25 per cent the tonnage the "If there is to be any hope entering of stable or lower rates in the port there. The company has just announced the ending of future, transportation must invest in the 33-knot ships, the operations throwing electronic classification yards hundreds of dockers out and the computer control sys.

work. tems. Cut in half *The regulators seem almost totally unaware of the role of inyestment improving the In efficiency The shutdown announcement of productivity and came after the company refused transportation,' Morrison $1 pay the additional per warned. dockers' ton handled the With the company short of pension fund; something speci- capital. Sea-Land is now fied in the last contract.

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If there is one thing the middle-class reformers hate and fear - even more than the wrongs they try to right — it is the thought of the over. throw of the capitalist system in which they play the role of loyal pro- testers. Such an organization is the Howard League for Penal Re- form. Not that it hasn't done some sterling work in connec- with trying to humanize tion an institution which is basi- meant to be inhuman. cally Certainly it has played some part in bringing to light some of the worst aspects of the prison system and in agitating against such barbarities as hanging and flogging. But prisoners in the jails all around the country are trying to improve their own now conditions. And their upris- ings are part of the whole growing struggle of working to get rid of this people oppressive Tory government and defend their basic rights.

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Top: 170 prisoners Joined this rooftop protest at Peterhead jail, Aberdeenshire. against it is just one short step-but it is a step which could upset all the comfor- table, middle-class ways of the penal reformers. Unfortunately for the Howard League, however, the Tories are not going to listen to mere pleas. They are out for a confrontation with the working class and they intend to use the police and jails to try to intimidate those mili- tants who dare to stand up for their rights. The reactionary campaigns being on 'law and waged order' are paving the way not only for the changing of the Judges' Rules, but also to harsher sentences and even the possibility of a return to hanging and flogging. There can be no fight for prison reform, or to defend any working-class rights, with- out a fight to defeat the Tory government. The mass of working-class prisoners, who often are driven to petty-crime out of desperation, anger and frustra- tion, cannot fight it out in the jails. Their struggle is part of the growing movement in the working class as a whole to force the Tories to resign.

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LECTURES

THE THEORY AND

PRACTICE OF MARXISM

given by

G. HEALY

(SLL national secretary)

LIVERPOOL

Development of Marxism through working-class struggle Tuesday September 12 Nature of the capitalist crisis Tuesday September 19 Historical materialism today Tuesday September 26

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ANOTHER 500 workers are likely to join the 141,467 (6.6 per cent) without jobs in Scot- land. At least 300 workers will be made redundant when Reyrolle Belmos Ltd closes its electrical engineering plant at Bellshill, Lanarkshire, at the end of the Belmos, part of the Reyrolle group, blame the closure Parson on the depressed of the state market. Employment prospects in the Bellshill area are already bleak.

The automatic temperature con- trols firm, Ranco, has announced workers 29

KNITWEAR

in border factories will strike from the end of September unless improve employers their on 'final' pay offer of £2 a week.

stoppage involving the 5,000 workers seems more than likely following an 80-per-cent majority last week in vote favour of strike action for a £6- a-week increase and an extra week's holiday a year. Municipal The General and Workers' Union executive will meet this week to decide how much notice to give manage- ments of the intention to stop work. However, it is also reported that the union officials and man- agement are considering a com- promise settlement put forward by local MP David Steel because, it is claimed, a strike last- ing five or six weeks would result of firms closing in a number permanently. Soclallst Labour League

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given by

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LONDON

Marxism as the theory of know- ledge Sunday September 17 Development of Marx/sm through working-class struggle Sunday September 24 Nature of the capitalist crisis Sunday October 1 Historical materialism today Sunday October 8

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ALLIANCE MEETINGS

BRACKNELL: Monday September 11, 8 p.m. Priestwood Community Centre. HULL: Monday September 11, p.m. Church Hall, Wayne 7.30 The Bransholme (opp Road, Swallow'). 'Fighting the Tories' Rent Act.' LEEDS: Tuesday September 12, 7.30 p.m. 'Peel Hotel', Boar Lane (upstairs room). 'A policy to win in the builders strike.' GLASGOW: Wednesday Septem- ber 13, 7.30 p.m. Partick Burgh Hall. 'Stalinism, UCS and fighting the Industrial Relations Act.'

MEDWAY: Wednesday September 13, 8 p.m. 'The Greyhound', Rochester. Rochester Avenue, 'Defeat the anti-union laws. Force the Tories to resign.' PRESTON: Wednesday Septem- ber 13, 8 p.m. 'Railway and Com- mercial', Butler Street, near rail- way station. Victory to the builders'. SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thursday September 14, 8 p.m. Deptford opposite New Engineers! Club, Cross Station. 'For the Tories to resign.' SWINDON: Sunday September 17, 7.30 p.m. 'Locomotive Inn', Fleet 'Join the fight to force Street. the Tories to resigr.' the closure of the Tamochside factory, putting 800 men on the dole. A spokesman for Belmos, which has been in production at Bellshill since 1919, said that not all the 330 Bellshill employees will be made redundant. The 300 to be sacked will be drawn from the Bellshill, Blantyre and Both- well factories which altogether employ 1,300 people, he said. The aim of the reorganization was to enable the firm to expand in the markets.

BY PHILIP WADE

THOUSANDS of building wo £30, 35-hour week claim will Thursday when they meet th for fresh pay talks. They will have to be on their compromise the claim or send it to conciliation service, which George the Union of Construction, Alliec helped to set up. There are now 300,000 workers on them penniless as the dispute enters Despite the undisputed mili- tancy of the building workers in their first mass action for half a

SPECIAL ATUA

MEETINGS

CENTRAL LONDON:

Inaugural meeting of the entertainments and press unions.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER

17, 7 p.m. 'The crisis of technology and unemployment.'

SHAFTESBURY HOTEL

MONMOUTH STREET,

WC2. Speakers: Roy Battersby (ACTT. In a personal capacity). A London docker.

KENT:

WEDNESDAY

SEPTEMBER 13, 8 p.m. 'Victory to the Creffield workers. Defeat the anti-union laws. Make the Tories resign.'

THE GEORGE AND

DRAGON

SHIPBOURNE ROAD

TONBRIDGE, KENT.

LIVERPOOL:

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER

17,10.30 a.m. 'Crisis in the car indus- try. Fight for the right to work.

STORK HOTEL

QUEEN'S SQUARE

Speakers: Alan Thornett (deputy •senior steward Morris Motors, Oxford. In a personal capacity). Mike Banda (SLL Cen- tral Committee). IN DUNDEE, over 100 textile jobs will be lost in the next few months due to a rationalization programme announced by Sid- law Industries Ltd. The firm says that between November 1 and March 31 it will merge the activities of the Rock- well works of the Boase Spinning Company Ltd - recently • taken Sidlaw-with those of over by Sidlaw's Denburn works at Brechin. The Rockwell works in Dun- dee, which employs 185 people, will be closed. ding workers on strike for the m will lobby union leaders on neet the employers in London on their guard against attempts to end it to the wage-cutting TUC-CBI George Smith, general secretary of n, Allied Trades and Technicians, orkers on strike for the claim, many of te enters its 12th week today.

century, grave dangers now exist because the union leaders refuse to call a national strike.

More and more company deals being signed by union are leaders, backed as usual by the Communist Party members who also support the selective strike strategy to try and avoid a fight with the Tories. As a result, the workers con- cerned are being ordered back, many on the basis of deals which in any case fall below the claim for a £30 basic wage. Taking advantage of the union leaders' failure to enlist any sup- building for the workers, port the Tories and now the police have moved into action to break the strike. The Tories have made it extra difficult for strikers claim to Social Security and plan to starve builders back. Meanwhile the police are moving on to picket lines, union arresting members and escorting scabs through.

The Tory press is now indulg- in wild stories about pickets go- ing on 'orgies of destruction' and using 'intimidation' to spread the strike. Those on strike must learn the lessons of the other great indus- trial struggles this year. Faced with a Tory government deter- mined to defeat them, militancy alone-of which there is no lack -is not enough in such a poli- tical battle. A lead was given from last Friday's Wigan conference of 13 north-west action committees. Condemning local and company deals and the

TUC-CBI

machinery, it called for a new in struggle leadership forged against the common enemy which is organized in the Tory Party'.

passed without The motion, dissent, demanded a national stoppage for the full claim and for the 'trade union leadership this struggle into to escalate a General Strike against the Tories to ensure the return of a Labour government pledged to socialist policies, including the nationaliz- ation of the building industry'.

All building workers must take up the fight along these lines.

SOCIAL SECURITY supplemen- tary benefit staff threaten an overtime ban this week to give weight to their demands greater recruitment. They claim the low intake is forcing them to work long hours of overtime.

Government officials are seeking early talks with the Society of Civil Servants and the Civil and Public Services Association.

Workers Press, Monda

BBC 1

9.45-10.00 Mary, Mungo Midge. 1.30 Pogles' wood. 1.45- 1.53 News and weather. 4.00 Pixie and Dixie. 4.10 Play school.

4.35 Adventures of Parsley. 4.40 Jackanory. 4.50 . Deputy dawg. 4.55 Blue Peter. 5.20 Frog prince.

5.45 News and weather.

6.00 NATIONWIDE.

6.45 TRANSWORLD TOP TEAM.

Winnipeg v Llanelli. 7.10 Z CARS. Connor.

8.00 PANORAMA.

9.00 NINE

O'CLOCK NEWS.

Weather. 9.25

THE VIEW FROM DANIEL

PIKE. Philomena and the Tattie-Hawkers.

10.15 FILM 72.

10.45 MASTERMIND. New brain game.

11.10 INTERNATIONAL

LAWN

TENNIS. American Open Championships 1972.

12.00 LATE NIGHT NEWS.

12.05 Weather.

BBC 2

11.00-11.25 Play school. 5.35-7.00 Open University. 7.30 NEWSROOM. Weather. 8.00 HIGH CHAPARRAL. Ebe- nezer. 8.50

HERBERT'S MIS-

A. P. LEADING CASES. Regina versus Sagittarius. Lee Montague and Judy Parfitt becom tonight's Thirty-Minute Theatre play on |

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 1.55 Yoga. 2.20 Film: 'Two and Two Make Six'. 3.55 Puffin. 4.10 London. 6.00 News.

6.15 Pursuers. 6.45 London. 10.30 Name of the game. 10.55 News, weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 1.53 6.00 Diary. 11.13 News. News. 12.35 Faith for life.

SOUTHERN: 12.55 News, weather.

1.00 Play better tennis. 1.25 My 1.50 three Farmhouse sons. kitchen. 2.15 Bellbird. 2.30 Film: 'The Mating Season'. 4.25 Lon- don. 6.00 Day by day. 6.45 Lon- don. 10.30 Man of the South. 11.00 News. 11.05 Theatre of stars. 11.55 Farm progress. 12.25 Weather. Guideline. ANGLIA: 2.00 Yesterday. 2.30 London. 3.00 Houseparty. 3.15 Yoga. 3.40 Cartoons. 3.55 Rom- per room. 4.20 News. 4.25 Lon- don. 6.00 About Anglia. 6.45 London. 10.30 Brian Connell. 11.00 Journey to the unknown.

ATV MIDLANDS: 2.05 Good after- noon. 2.30 Horoscope. 2.35 Women today. 3.00 Film: 'The Lawyers'. Young 4.10 London. 6.00 Today. 6.45 London. 10.30 Name of the game. Weather.

ULSTER: 4.00 Romper room. 4.20 News. 4.25 London. 6.00 Re- family. 6.45 ports. 6.15 Smith London. 10.30 Monday night. 10.35 Film: 'City of the Dead'.

YORKSHIRE: 1.45 Whicker with- in a woman's world. 2.15 Bell- Me as, Monday September 11, 1972 PAGE 11

ITV

11.20 Teachers. 12.25 Women to- day. 12.50 Freud on food. 1.15 Bellbird. 1.25 Enchanted house.

1.35 Skippy. 2.05 Castle haven.

2.30 Good afternoon. 3.00 Film: 'The Young and the Guilty'. 4.10 Cliff's kids. 4.25 Freewheelers.

4.55 Clapperboard. 5.20 Bless this house. 5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY.

6.40 OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS!

7.30 CORONATION STREET.

8.00 WORLD IN ACTION.

8.30 LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR.

9.00 KATE. A Very Long Spoon.

10.00 NEWS AT TEN.

10.30 CADE'S COUNTY. The Brothers.

11.30 DRIVE IN.

LONELI-

12.00 OVERCOMING

NESS.

9.25 CONTROVERSY.

Chance and Necessity with Profes- sor Jacques Monod. 10.35

THIRTY MINUTE THEA-

TRE: 'THE ARGUMENT'.

Judy Parfitt, Lee Mon- tague. 11.00 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

LATE NIGHT LINE UP.

11.05 fitt become involved in "The Argument', • play on BBC 2. bird. 2.30 London. 3.00 Film: 'The Rising of the Moon'. 4.10 London. 4.55 Arthur. 5.20 Lon- don. 6.00 Calendar, weather. 6.25 Calendar special. 6.45 London.

10.30 Name of the game. 11.55 All our yesterdays. 12.25 Weather.

GRANADA: 12.35 Galloping gour- met. 1.05 Woobinda. 1.30 Cinema.

2.00 All our yesterdays. 2.30 Calling Dr Gannon. 3.25 Cartoon.

3.40 Crossroads. 4.10 News. Lon- don. 6.00 News. 6.25 This is your right. 6.40 London. 10.30 Film: 'The Mystery of the Wax Museum'.

TYNE TEES: 1.45

Bewitched. 2.15 Bellbird. 2.30 Common Market cookbook. 2.59 News. 3.00 Film: 'Life for Ruth'. 4.10 London. 4.55 HR Pufnstuf. 5.20 London. 6.00 Today. 6.25 Armley kids. 6.45 London. 10.30 Name of the game. 11.55 News. 12.10 Greatest fights of the century 12.25 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 1.30 Casebook. 2.00 All our yesterdays. 2.30 Horo- scope. 2.35 Women today. 3.00 Film: 'The Young Lawyers'. 4.10 London. 6.00 Today. 6.30 Car- toon. 6.45 London. 10.30 Late call. 10.35 Name of the game.

GRAMPIAN: 2.30 London. 3.00 News. 3.03 Film: 'Drive A Crooked Road'. 4.10 London. 6.00 News.

Julia. 6.40 Cartoon. 6.45 6.10 London. 10.30 Odd couple. 11.00 Songs Alastair McDonald. 11.45 Water dwellers. 12.00 Bell- Meditation.

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday Septem shop

LEADING FORD

stewards and officials are expected to clash next week when they meet to discuss future pay-and-conditions policy. Yesterday a meeting, of 300 stewards from all over the coun- demands they try agreed 11 implemented when the want current two-year agreement expires next March. As expected they called for a big wage increase, a cut in the working week and the abolition of the penalty clauses agreed by their negotiators in 1969.

ten is But demand number likely to be most bitterly con- tested when union chiefs meet representatives of the combine's joint works committees next Monday. This is that in future all decisions of the Ford national negotiating committee joint (NJNC) must be referred back to the works' committees 'to be decided by the rank and file in the traditional manner. A backlash from the 1970 secret-ballot settlement, this by the demand will be feared officials as an attempt to under- mine their power to make deals with the company behind the backs of the Ford workers.

The demands agreed by yes- terday's stewards' meeting in Coventry were for: 1. A substantial all-round in- crease in pay. 2. A 35-hour week instead of the present 40. 3. Four rather than three weeks' holiday. 4. Pensions to be on a par with stafi pensions. 5. 100-per-cent of average pay for lay-offs, without penalty clauses. 6. Holidays to be paid at shift rates, rather than • at the flat Measured-Day Work rate. Alongside these economic demands go five non-economic: 7. The agrement should last for 12 months only. 8. There should be no freeze on other claims for the duration.

9. Manning levels and line- speeds must be mutually agreed.

10. AIl NJNC decisions must be referred back to the joint works committees. 11. The principle of status quo must apply in relation to any change in work-patterns (mean- ing that there should be no change in such patterns without prior union agreement). After a report from the Hale- wood factory in Liverpool, where transmission 2,000 workers struck on Friday against transfer of work to Europe, yesterday's meeting resolved that plants joint action should consider against transfers. The meeting also came out against the check-off system for payment of union subscriptions.

An attempt to specify a £10 minimum for the pay demand was defeated by about five to one.

OVER 200 workers have just en- tered their third month of strike action at the Speke, Liverpool, factory of Machines— Manisty part of the Reynolds Chains group. Management has just re-opened negotiations with strikers follow- ing the recent settlement at national level of the Confedera- tion of Shipbuilding and Engin- eering Union's claim. But the offer is only £1.50 in response to the f6, 35-hour week plus fringe benefits claim of the men. Management also sought the replacement of piecework by a shift bonus system. Despite threats to close the die-casting shop permanently, the offer was rejected by the strike committee who said the shift bonus system would reduce the earnings of about a third of the workforce. A campaign for support on the Speke industrial estate has just raised £2,000 for the strikers and the AUEW district committee is organizing an area levy. ay September 11, 1972

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

IN BELFAST'S Shankill Roa much scarcer than usual as th approach. This follows the rel members to work with them.

The long Protestant-para honeymoon - enhanced by the Ist Battalion's murder of 13 Catholics in Derry on 'Bloody Sunday' (January 31) broken down as the - has troops have shown the British parliament's teeth. Law-and-order tactics also apply Protestant to 'extremists' of the Ulster Defence Association and there have been serious shoot-outs in several Belfast in the last week.

Today all 13 members of the UDA council are due to meet Vanguard leader William Craig.

UDA chairman Jim Anderson commented: 'There is an 80 per cent likeli- hood that we will establish A statement on Saturday from 150 UDR part-time soldiers said they had agreed unanimously to refuse to carry out their duties until the paras had left the dis- trict around their homes.

They said that they would never again work with the para- troopers and warned they would not be responsible for the action their members if the paras maintained their present tactics.

If the UDR members continue to refuse to carry out duties they could face mutiny charges since unit, they are a British army although recruited locally.

Many of the notorious B-Specials, who were disbanded in 1969, joined the UDR. Since last Thursday's shoot- ing incidents, which in two Protestants were killed and two others injured, the UDA have been allegations of repeating brutality by the paras. The two dead men were 30- year-old Bobby Johnson, who it seems was celebrating his hrst week's pay after nine months on the dole, and Robert McKinney, a textile-mill manager. Neither was a UDA member. Parliamentary party members of the Social Democratic and Labour Party will meet the Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath at Chequers tomorrow for discus- sions on ending internment and other that might concessions 'produce a solution to the North's present problems. After months of brutal reprisals, torture and terror from the British army-with the full consent of the Tory cabinet- Hume, Gerry Fitt and the other SDLP leaders now make pleas to this cabinet to end internment and 'situation' in solve the Ulster. Rather than challenge the power of this hated government, the SDLP now aims to give credibility to the so-called peace manoeuvres of the Tory • gov- ernment and its armed forces.

BRITISH-LEYLAND manage- ment will meet union officials and shop stewards from the Thornycroft factory in Basing- stoke on Wednesday. Over 1,200 workers took over the factory on August 15 to prevent Leyland from going through with a deal to hive-off their subsidiary. The American-owned Eaton Corporation — which paid £2‡m for the factory—had planned to sack almost 350 workers on October 1. Leyland—which also sold the 50-acre site on which the fac- tory stands for another f2}m in a fund-raising operation — an- nounced the deal in June without consultation with the workers.

Protestant-para honeymoon is over Ulster: Paras play it cool IN BELFAST'S Shankill Road area yesterday army patrols were much scarcer than usual as the paratroopers pursued a new low-key approach. This follows the refusal of 150 Ulster Defence Regiment Immigrants a buffer against dirty jobs

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

DIRTY

JOBS in Britain are being done by coloured workers, while white workers with more money,

OOS

according to a race relations expert. Far from threatening the com- munity, immigrant workers alc

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une system UD. John Stephens told a joint con- ference of the University of Keele and Wolverhampton Community Relations councu vesterdav. He is a director of the indus. trial unit independent the Runnymede Trust research foundation in race relations.

'The ordinary man has gained from immigration, said Stephens.

'n the West Midlands dread.

fully fune by sians viols unpleasant are being white élite as toolmakers

WULKCIS

sucu high and

TOV

stanoares good wages. 'All the hundreds of small car- which component sur- Tactorles vive oll Aslan apoll ale ill lall contribulng to the prosperity ol our élite carworkers at Jaguar or Vauxhall. 'The National Health Service the social structure of the -ano hospitals survive thanks Talks on occupied Leyland plant have Thornycrof workers pointed out that Eaton only has iush lone r leono toe lose y enough close altogether. They down until occu•auon WIll conunue the deal is cancelled. Two weeks ago thousands of British-Leyland workers struck the dav factories sverdl in protest against the hiving-off sixth Leyland subsidiary since the merger form the combine. Yesterday, works convenor at my patrols were ed a new low-key Vanguard efence Regiment leader William Craig uniting with UDA? Commonwealth doctors and Spanish and Portuguese domestic staff.' Stephens claimed that with immigration the white had main- tained his position. Without it, drastic reorganization of the country's workforce would be necessary. This would involve a general levelling out of wages, bringing down the level of the élite workers. Immigrants are to be found in the unskilled, dirtier and more unpleasant jobs, according to Stephens. Even when in white-collar work they tended to be at the bottom end of the scale and there was also evidence that immigrants fairly represented in were not smaller firms. He said it was a myth to argue that the ordinary man bears the brunt of immigration. 'Those sectors of the popula- who are most fearful tion of immigration are those unaffected ' he said. by it, 'Indeed, it is likely that racism is most vociferously expressed precisely among those sections of the working population who are the most insulated from contact with immigrants' Gordon Owen- Thornycroit, management had cut Jones, said off the power on Friday night but the workers had since restored it. All Leyland security men had now been withdrawn. 'We are still very confident, he told Workers Press. 'But I don't expect a great deal to come out of this meeting at York on Wednesday. 'Leyland's are now having trouble with transmission supplies because of the blacking through- out the combine. I hear they are 45 per cent down at the Leyland plant in Lancashire.' He added that they were now concentrating on spreading the black and raising financial sup- port for the occupiers. BUILDERS employed by Peter Cameron of Aberdeen will strike tomorrow following the again firm's failure to pay a £30 a week guaranteed wage as specified in a deal signed recently with union officials. The 600 Cameron workers were some of the first to return on the basis of the UCATT's separate company deal strategy. ASIAN students arriving from Uganda should be given free places in Britain's universities, says the National Union of Students. Local authorities will be pressed to provide grants for students without residential re- quirements for financial aid.

PETROFINA (UK)

Ltd upped prices from midnight on its petrol, fuel and heating oil pro- ducts. Wholesale petrol prices, increase by $p a gallon, deisel fuel and burning oil by ‡p, gas oil by 0.3 and fuel oil by 0.1p.

Floating of the pound made the increases 'regrettably inevitable'.

TEACHERS will soon be able to 'value-for-money' holidays get the National Union of through Teachers' £100,000 project, 'The Professional and Educational Travel Association'. It is being set up by the NUT's wholly- subsidiary owned company, Schoolmaster Publishing Com- pany, and the cost will not come out of union funds. PROP — the Preservation of Rights of Prisoners—-has called on inmates to postpone protest action while Home Secretary Robert Carr considers four demands sent to him on Satur- day: I. Carr's personal assurance that the definition of law and order will apply equally to prison governors, staff and prisoners; 2.

An immediate end to discip- linary proceeding, and reinstate- of remission lost ment ate inquiries into all allegations of staff brutality, and an assur- that guilty staff would be ance dismissed from the prison ser- vice; 4. Carr's personal attention to PROP's proposals for reform of the penal system.

FOUNDER PROP

member Douglas Curtis (36), now a stu- dent at Cambridge University, said he was leaving the execu- tive committee and withdrawing trom membership, partly because organizer of the way national Dick Pooley had 'displayed an astonishing degree of irrespon- sibility on some occasions. We have five members the on national executive and Dick Pooley has been operating with- out reference to the committee.

Curtis, who was press officer for the group, was paroled from Dartmoor after serving 32 months of a five-year sentence.

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