Workers Press no. 870

workers press

LONDON DOCKS TO

LOSE MEAT TRADE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THOUSANDS of jobs in London's dockland will be axed through a conspiracy by the employers to end the port's traditional meat trade.

In future the huge meat-importing business will be trans- ferred to Sheerness and Avonmouth where non-dock labour is employed in the privately-owned cold stores.

In two weeks the giant Borthwick's meat firm will close its cold store at Deptford, thus closing the sole surviving private cold store on London's riverside. This will throw 140 dockers onto the Temporary Unattached Register (TUR), which is already climb- ing to 1,300. The Vestey Lord Samuel Vestey, is closing its Riverside store, Nelsons Wharf, in November, adding a further 87 to the TUR. Now Vestey is threatening to close his Thames Stevedoring firm which employs 750 at the Royal Group. the surface, the On people New demanding that the huge And Vestey and the other meat Zealand trade be taken have been meat monopolists gradually is the New from London away taking the meat importing Zealand Meat Producers' Board. business away from London. In 2,000 Royal These figures prove it: a letter sent to dockworkers this week, the two New companies who handle the • In 1963 a total of 750,000 tons Scruttons Maltby Zealand trade, of meat (chilled and frozen) came and Vestey's Thames Stevedoring, into London. make these menaces: London • In 1970 the figure had drop- *The poor outputs in last season, resulting ped to 369,000 tons and last year in the in higher have seriously 288,000. costs, the future endangered of this It is traffic in the port. vitally • The total for meat and dairy that necessary between us we (butter, etc) is: products eggs. achieve immediately an improve- 1962, 835,000 tons; 1970, 517,000 ment of at least 50 per cent in tons and 1971, 460,000 tons.

the output per gang. are the men of the NZ Who Overtime ban Meat Producers' Association 50-per-cent demanding this and increase in productivity the with mas- threatening men In the face of this onslaught sive sackings? what is the union on docks jobs, The association, formed in leadership doing? Well, we know 1922, what Jack leader of the comprises seven repre- Jones, from NZ producers Transport and General Workers" sentatives and two government appointees.

Union, wants. He has engineered a deal with Lord Aldington, Tory two of the board And mem- chairman of the Port of London bers at present are from Vestey's Authority which has itself closed and Borthwick's! all six cold stores on the river- side in the last couple of years.

At the Royals, the shop stewards' leadership, dominated by the Communist Party and the Thus the extent of the con- reformists, argued this week spiracy against the livelihoods of that the men lift their overtime becomes much dockers clearer. ban. Vestey's sheep in NZ, meeting But at a mass on slaughter it, ship it, stevedore it, Thursday the ban kept in was store it and then sell it.

force because the stewards could Yet Vestey whose family majority of men not get a clear 'Stability appropriately who wanted it lifted. motto 1s labour' (YOUR lab- arises from This forceful demonstration by -said the our)- in an interview rank and file indicates that other dav: We have no vendetta growing number of men are against registered dock labour.'

dissatisfied with the manoeuvres And he 'We went on: are of their present leadership making strenuous efforts to keep As Workers Press has our business in London. consi- explained, fight for stently the have As we already shown, the right to work on the docks- are call- Vestey and his friends all industries as in requires ing the tune in the NZ Meat political solutions. Producers' Association which is Only through the nationaliza- sending pilot shipments of meat Sheer- tion of the docks and road trans- through Avonmouth and port industries, that is the ex- ness and closing down one cold Since Jan- propriation of the Lord Vestey after another. store 1962 the Vestey group has types, without compensation and uary cold under workers' control, can the shutdown eight stores in dockers' be safeguarded. London. jobs INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1972 • No. 870 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Dockers, onure ore cocumen. upsets EEC trade THE US trade pact with the Soviet Union, expected to stimulate trade worth over 1971, £2,000m by should be ready for signature by the end of the year, according to the White House in Washington settlement outstanding of of dispute between points

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Peterson will simply tie up the loose ends. the deal First reaction to from the Common Market was clearly guarded and it is regarded as another trade war victory for the US. The EEC countries have long been eyeing the potentially lucra- tive Soviet market, but the new deal will inevitably orient much Soviet trade towards the of United States. A number of big US consortia are already negofiating proposals for joint exploitation of Soviet mineral resources and exchanges of technological know-how with Soviet enterprises. The United States is already selling record quantities of grain to the Soviet Union. Socialist Labour League

THE THEORY AND

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GEORGE POTTINGER,

the Scottish senior civil servant named in the Poulson case, has defences in an lodged action brought against him in the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

Pottinger (56) has been suspended on full pay as secre- tary to the Department of Agri- culture and Fisheries for Scot- land. Poulson's trustee in bank- ruptcy, John Priestley, has brought an action in the court Session against Pottinger, seeking the return of an alleged gift of £21,400. No date has been fixed for a hearing. SOVIET UNION and Spain yes- terday signed their first trade treaty since 1936. The Spanish news agency Europa Press re- ported. Quoting Francisco Javier Elorza, Spain's ambassador to the organization for Economic co-operation and development (OECD), it said the pact was signed in Paris. • See page 2

workers press

LONDON DOCKS TO

LOSE MEAT TRADE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THOUSANDS of jobs in London's dockland will be axed through a conspiracy by the employers to end the port's traditional meat trade.

In future the huge meat-importing business will be trans- ferred to Sheerness and Avonmouth where non-dock labour is employed in the privately-owned cold stores.

In two weeks the giant Borthwick's meat firm will close its cold store at Deptford, thus closing the sole surviving private cold store on London's riverside. This will throw 140 dockers onto the Temporary Unattached Register (TUR), which is already climb- ing to 1,300. empire, headed by 31-year-old multi-millionaire, in November, adding a further 87 to the TUR. Now Vestey is threatening to close his Thames Stevedoring firm which employs 750 at the Royal Group. On the the surface, people demanding that the huge New And Vestey and the other meat Zealand trade be taken meat monopolists have been gradually London the New from the away 1S taking meat importing Zealand Meat Producers' Board. business away from London. In 2,000 Royal letter sent to These figures prove it: dockworkers this week, the two New companies who handle the • In 1963 a total of 750,000 tons Scruttons Zealand Maltby trade, of meat (chilied and frozen) came and Vestey's Thames Stevedoring, into London. make these menaces: London • In 1970 the figure had drop- 'The poor outputs in resulting in ped to 369,000 tons and last year in the last season, higher have seriously 288.000. costs, endangered the future of this It is traffic in the port. vitally • The total for meat and dairy that between necessary us we (butter, etc) is: products eggs, immediately improve- 1970, 517,000 achieve 1962, 835,000 tons; of at least 50 per cent in tons and 1971, 460,000 tons.

the output per gang' of the NZ Who the men are Overtime ban Meat Producers' Association demanding this 50-per-cent and increase in productivity the with threatening men mas- In the face of this onslaught sive sackings? on docks jobs, what is the union formed leadership doing? Well, we know The association, in 1922, leader of the comprises seven repre- what Jack Jones, sentatives from NZ producers Transport and General Workers' and two government appointees.

Union. wants. He has engineered a deal with Lord Aldington, Tory board And two of the mem- chairman of the Port of London bers at present are from Vestey's Authority which has itself closed and Borthwick's! all six cold stores on the river- side in the last couple of years.

At the Royals, the shop stewards' leadership, dominated by the Communist Party and the of the Thus the extent. con- reformists, argued this week spiracy against the livelihoods of that the men lift their overtime becomes much clearer. dockers ban. Vestey's sheep in NZ. But at a mass meeting on slaughter it, ship it, stevedore it, Thursday the ban kept in was it and then sell it. force because the stewards could Yet Vestey whose family clear majority of men not get a 'Stability is motto appropriately who wanted it lifted. labour' (YOUR lab. aricer trom This forceful demonstration by our) -said in an interview the rank and file indicates that other day: 'We have no vendetta number of men are growing against registered dock labour.'

dissatisfied with the manoeuvres 'We And he went on: are of their present leadership making strenuous efforts to keep As Workers Press has our business in London' consi- fight for stently explained, the As we have already shown, the right to work on the docks— Vestey and his friends call- are all industries as in requires the NZ Meat ing tune in the political solutions. Producers' Association which is Only through the nationaliza- sending pilot shipments of tion of the docks and road trans- and Sheer- through Avonmouth one cold that is the ness and closing down port industries, ex- Since Tan- of the Lord Vestey after another. propriation store 1962 the Vestey group has types, without compensation and uary eight cold under workers' control, can the shutdown stores 1n be dockers' jobs safeguarded. London. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1972 • No. 870 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Dockers, bontire of the document. upsets EEC trade

THE US

trade pact with the Soviet Union, expected to trade stimulate worth over 1971, £2,000m by should be ready for signature by the end of the according the year, White House in Washington settlement of outstanding between points of dispute tne two countries, including the Soviet lend-lease debt, was appar- enuv achievea curine aree days the Kremlin earlier talks this week. Further talks are be held when US later this month, Com- Peterson secretary peter visits Moscow, the

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elements the deal appear to have been finalized this week and $ 16, 1972 • No. 870 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

a recent Jones-Aldington report, make

OHN SPENCER

will simply tie up the Peterson loose ends. First reaction to the deal from the Common Market was guarded and it is clearly regarded as another trade war victory for the US. The EEC countries have long been eyeing the potentially lucra- tive Soviet market, but the new deal will inevitably orient much Soviet of trade towards the United States. A number of big US consortia are already negotiating proposals for joint exploitation of Soviet mineral resources and exchanges of technological know-how with Soviet enterprises. The United States is already selling record quantities of grain to the Soviet Union. Socialist Labour League

THE THEORY AND

PRACTICE OF MARXISM

given by

G. HEALY

(SLL national secretary) Marxism as the theory of know.

ledge Sunday September 17 Development of Marxism through working-class struggle Sunday September 24 Nature of the capitalist crisis Sunday October 1 Historical materialism today Sunday October 8

EAST HAM

TOWN HALL

Lister Room Barking Rd, 7 p.m. Nature of the capitalist crisis Tuesday September 19 Historical materialism today Tuesday September 26

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GEORGE POTTINGER,

the Scottish senior civil servant named in the Poulson case, has defences in an lodged action brought him in the against Court of Session in Edinburgh.

Pottinger (56) has been suspended on full pay as secre- tary to the Department of Agri- culture and Fisheries for Scot- land. Poulson's trustee in bank- ruptcy, John Priestley, has brought an action in the court Session against Pottinger, seeking the return of an alleged gift of £21,400. No date has been fixed for a hearing. SOVIET UNION and Spain yes- terday signed their first trade treaty since 1936. The Spanish agency Europa Press re- news ported. Quoting Francisco Javier Elorza, Spain's ambassador to the organization for Economic co-operation and development (OECD), it said the pact was signed in Paris. • See page 2

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday Septem moves on PRESIDENTIAL adviser Henry Kissinger met North Vietnamese representatives privately in Paris yesterday for more talks on the Vietnam war. Kissinger has just returned from Moscow where he negotia- ted the final stages of a major trade deal and also discussed the Vietnam question with Krem- lin leaders. There has been considerable speculation that the price of the trade deal may be an intensifica- tion of Soviet pressure on the North Vietnamese to accept a compromise deal on the war.

The Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam recently issued a lengthy state- ment of its terms for ending the war-while US officials saw no change of substance in the terms, they interpreted the statement as a slight shift towards a more conciliatory stance. Kissinger's private meeting with the North Vietnamese yesterday was the fourth since the formal semi-public Paris 'peace' talks resumed two months ago. There has been no public sign that the North Vietnamese have made any concessions to Kissinger in the talks. Last night the White House Raul Castro greets General Javier Tan- talean in Cuba CUBA has agreed to work closely with the Peruvian military junta towards an inte- grated Latin American com- munity and mutual assistance in national development. The pledge came in a joint communique signed by General Javier Tantalean, the Peruvian Fisheries, and Minister of Cuban Raul vice-premier Castro. Tantalean left Cuba On Sunday after a week of talks with premier Fidel Castro and other leaders. He headed the second major Peruvian deleg- ation to visit Cuba this month.

AN ATTEMPT by a former official to blackmail the into French government stopping the supply of jet fighters to Libya adds another scandal to an ever-growing list. Gabriel Aranda, former aide to the Minister of Equipment and Housing claims to possess copies of about 160 letters which show connections between corrupt business and Gaullist politicians.

One has already been pub- lisned by the satirical weekly 'Le Enchainé' Canard which shows a Gaullist politician requesting special favours for a construction company. The government fears that not only Aranda but other top civil lay September 16, 1972 Kissinger aide was due to fly back to Wash- ington to report to President Nixon on the results of his Mos- cow and Paris trips. IN SOUTH VIEINAM, there has.

been heavy fighting around the city of Quang Tri, held by the liberation forces against a series of puppet troops for more than four months. Spokesmen for the South Viet- namese army yesterday claimed that the heavily fortified citadel of Quang Tri had fallen. It is known that repeated strikes heavy by American bombers have reduced almost all of Quang Tri to nothing more than a sea of rubble. The attack on Quang Tri was motion set in by President Nguyen Van " Thiẹu largely for prestige reasons. He desperately needs a symbolic victory to offset the disastrous defeats his army . suffered-even if it means sacrificing hundreds of troops in a bloody assault. The first delegation, headed by General Jose Graham, in- cluded Dr Carlos Delgado, who is the : official leader of the corporatist trade union organiz- ation SINAMOS which has the of the Peruvian® support Stalinists. The high-flown tone of the Cuba-Peru communique is in marked contrast with the reality of the repressive • Peruvian military regime.

It pledges the two countries to work together to strengthen international peace based on social justice and to collaborate in efforts to achieve an inte- servants could publish confi- dential documents revealing cor- ruption in high places. While his blackmail attempt is unlikely to succeed, the affair will add to growing disrepute of the Gaullist regime and undermine the confidence of its own sup- porters. Coming after the juicy scandal involving a Gaullist deputy in the running of brothels in Lyons, the case provides the press with more sensational copy. With an election in the offing ; early next year, these exposures come at a time for the regime. bad Justice ministry investiga- tion is to be held-to stifle the affair. July Pompidou dismissed In Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

GENERAL FRANCO and his Council of Ministers began talks yesterday in San Sebastian on the fight against inflation and preparations for Spain's entry into the Common Market. About 60 miles away, 12,000 workers in 12 factories and the shipyards in Vigo joined the strike of 5,000 Citröen carworkers in the northern port. Fernandez de la Mora, Minister of Public Works, set the tone for the talks on Tuesday during Franco's inauguration of a new section of a motorway which will soon link Madrid directly with the French border via the Basque provinces.

'We shall only reach the social-economic levels of Europe by producing as many tons of steel, as many kilometres of motor- way as they do... Your Excellency is the one who is really Europeanizing Spain? Those European employers who have already taken advan- tage of Franco's opening up to Europe finding that the are police-state is not sufficient to quell the working class. The Vigo Citröen factory has been flooded with so many orders from the Benelux countries that the factory lines cannot cope. The management has intensified work tempos and refused to give the workers the free Saturday afternoon conceded in recent negotiations. Thursday On hundreds of including building strikers, workers working on extensions to the Citröen factory, gathered outside the offices of the state- run unions. They demanded nine workers who had been dismissed should be reinstated before they return to work. The strikers were charged by the local armed police reinforced by coastal police from other Over ten workers have towns. been arrested. Workers in another of Franco's European the Seat ventures. Barcelona, plant in are organ- izing go-slows and short stop- These actions grated Latin American com- Con- nected with the sacking of four munity of free nations. The militants and the recent arrest of two countries also and three affirm their common objectives two lawyers workers for their involvement in last in the struggle for social justice year's Seat strike. and reaffirm their policy of co- national develop- in The indictment order said that oberatoni endeavour. e ment and the lawyers had allowed strikers particular, two to hold illegal meetings in their on the rights countries agreed offices during the strike last of maritime nations to protect October. waters for the develop- their The five were released on bail welfare and well-being ment, of £180 each and are now await- of their peoples. The com- ing trial. Cuba's munique also stated support for the right of these These strikes show that extend their fishing nations to Spanish workers who experience European limits to 200 miles. managements not are the Spanish Com- convinced of Party's view that Spain's munist i entry into the EEC will lead to democratic reforms. They also a blow are against the Paris negotiations in be- tween the Moscow Stalinists and the Madrid diplomats. editor of Sam Russell, foreign the 'Morning Star' visited Spain Delmas-who had admitted to earlier this and wrote not having paid income tax on of articles on the struggle series his considerable income for four of Spanish workers against years-and installed the tough Franco. Why doesn't he repudiate Pierre Messmer to head a class- these negotiations sponsored bu war government. his Moscow mentors? NEW ZEALAND is to introduce government has decided to in- legislation banning political troduce the law following such strikes, David Thomson. Mini- recent trade union actions during ster of Labour, announced the French the nuclear tests in in Wellington vesterday. South Pacific. He told parliament the execu- has But it clearly much tive of the Federation of Labour wider scope than simply barring (New Zealand TUC) had made it liberal protest actions. Any trade clear to him that it would re- action leading to union con- sist the Rationals. frontation with the government The Party (Tory) could be placed under the ban.

THE GALLOPING inflation which afflicts every country has become a main symptom of the international of CrISIS "City capitalism. This week's Press' headline, 'Near Panic 1 Over Inflation' , reflects opinior in the inancial world. It went on to say: "There is near panic this week on the Stock Exchange over the govern- inability to halt our ment's galloping inflation. 'A fierce warning from the Bank of England about the periis of inflation came on Monday, only ten days after a similar broadside from National Institute and quickly pushed the Financial Times İndex down to 496.4, its lowest since July 4' The anxiety of the City gents is understandable. They fear that inflation may become com- pletely uncontrollable with the confidence in public losing as happened in paper money, Germany in 1923. Their sys- tem could not survive such a whirlwind. However, the present inflation is different from that of 1923, which came in the aftermath of wär and defeat. It is par- ticularly baffling to economists because it is accompanied by increasing unemployment and responds to none of the tradi- remedies, or, equally tional frustrating, it takes place in conditions where such reme- dies cannot readily be applied because they would be worse than the disease. The roots of the world-wide, long-term upward movement in prices and continual sapping of the purchasing power of paper money go back to the post-war monetary arrange- the .. established by ments Bretton Woods agreement. Unable to beat down the work- ing class, which had emerged strengthened by the war, capi- talist governments adopted policies of concessions through increased spending and budget deficits which would have been impossible under the gold standard. Every attempt made since then to check inflation by orthodax means has led to recession, unemployment and an aggrava- the class struggle. tion of Faced with a powerful work- ing class, most governments intation erred to accept emil as a necessary evil while paying lip service to the fight against it. But things could not stop there.

The period was dominated by an outflow of dollars from the United States on a massive scale. When the Fort Knox gold reserves had fallen to danger point President Nixon abruptly called a halt on August 15, 1971 and the dollar ceased to be convertible into gold. The world was awash with tens of millions of unwanted dollars, not convertible into gold but into every other convertible at an artificially currency inflated value. The currency arrangements of December while including 1971, readjustment of exchange rates and a small dollar devalua- tion, did nothing to solve the basic problem. Inflation has continued un- checked and almost every- where has tended to increase.

Only the US, through string- ent wage and price controls, has been able to check the up- ward movement for the pres- ent. Other governments, effects of a world recession.

facing have been forced to adopt measures which could only fuel the inflation still more. By lowering interest rates, creat- ing easier more paper money into circulation the governments and banks have been the vehicle for more and more inflation.

Young Socialists begin north-east Right- Inflation eats into workers' liv- ing standards and real wages.

they have fought But since back and, through strike action, won wage increases, government propaganda and tame economists have tried to blame inflation onto them by talk about cost inflation.

Price rises precede wage increases and tend to outstrip them. In continually rising case prices assist industry to main- tain profits because in its present monopoly stage increases in costs can generally be passed onto consumers with a percentage mark-up for pro- fits. Meanwhile fixed charges, such as interest payments, become less burdensome. It is when industry faces its competitors on the world mar- ket under conditions of inten- sified trade war created by the measures and the com- Nixon plete instability of exchange rates that the struggle to con- tain inflation becomes a deci- sive question. If inflation in one country out- strips that in others its exports will be priced out of world markets. The result will be a balance-of-payments crisIs, a run on its money and torced devaluation. This problem afflicts Britain acutely and will • entry into be aggravated by the Common Market. But the French, German, Italian and other governments are equally sensitive to the inflationary threat. The ruling class in each country can only deal with the crisis caused by inflation, which it is powerless to turn off, by smash- ing the fighting capacity of the working class. It turns to the bureaucratic lead- reformist or Stalinist, ership,. this task. The to assist it in programme of integrating the trade unions into the state comes alive. Anti-union laws become necessary. Only by defeating the working class can the ruling class face its competitors in the trade to impose war. It hopes wage freeze which will mean a reduction in the living stand- ards of the working class while enabling profits to be main- tained and increased. no national solution There is to inflation, which has now become a congenital disease of capitalism in decline. There is only the greater or lesser suc- class in cess of the ruling defeating its own working class in order to be in the most favourable position to compete on the world market. When trade union leaders along to discussions with the Tories, whether at Downing St Chequers, on or at 'voluntary to the problem of inflation and prom- ise their co-operation, they are, ot course, betraying the work- ing class in the same way as if they called for support for an imperialist war. class has to fight The working to defend its conditions and living standards, which are being driven down by infla- tion. There are strict limits to what can be done by purely trade union methods. Every worker knows that wage increases are wiped out by rising prices almost as quickly as he gets them. There is no solution to the prob- lems within capitalism. The trade union and Labour leaders.

who say there is only display their treachery. The working class must demand that their leaders break off all talks with the Tory govern- ment and prepare a nationwide campaign which will force it to resign. Once this is done, the working class will be consid- strengthened for the erably fight to elect a Labour govern-.

ment pledged to socialist. policies. YOUNG SOCIALISTS on the north-east of Britain coast begin their week-long march for the Right to Work today from Middlesbrough. Unemployed youth from the high-unemployment areas of Newcastle, Sunderland and Teesside will march for seven days and pass through six main centres. YS national committee mem- ber for the region, Dave Jones, said the campaign will involve

BY DAVID MAUDE

LEADERS of the TUC and th the Tories this week. Alarmed militancy of the working clas ing wages and Ulster policies.

Share prices moved up on the London stock markets yesterday on the strength of optimistic headlines about the union chiefs' talks with premier Heath. The reason for this is clear: Thursday's talks were a gross betrayal of Britain's 10 million trade unionists. Last week the TUC General Council backed a resolution which it claimed meant no wage restraint. Yet in this week's talks with Heath • and the Confedera- tion of British Industries 'all three parties had agreed on the urgency of keeping down wages prices' ('The Times', Sep- and tember 15). This followed a unanimous vote at the TUC— including the Communist Party talk to the Tories and -to bosses. As Workers Press warned immediately these talks were first mooted, the union chiefs have even their demand for shelved scrapping of the Industrial Rela- tions Act. And as we also warned, the TUC's pact to keep the Tories in office is being larded with cynical talk about helping the lower paid. The depth • of the General Council's treachery can be gauged by the statement of the CBI's president after Thursday's day- long meeting. a relative It does mean worsening of the position of the higher paid.' No matter how they may try to deny it, every union leader who took in Thursday's part talks knows this to be the case.

And sections of the capitalist class are demanding more. Yes- terday's 'Daily Telegraph' edi- torial the builders' condemned pay rise as 'horrific', condemned increases even for low-paid work- and expressed scarcely- ers concealed impatience for a com- pulsory wage freeze. Time is running short for voluntary policies combat to inflation. In any case, all these ideas for increasing the pay of the lower paid are, in themselves, inflationary. They are also . ..

egalitarian in a far-reaching way, and to that extent are unhelpful to true economic growth.'

Despite such indications of the employers' determination to freeze wages and create massive unemployment, the trade union leaders are to continue discus- sions with • the Tories and the bosses over the next ten days preparatory to another full-scale meeting on September 26. These talks continue because the only alternative to them is full mobilization of the working the Tory class to bring down government. All the TUC leaders, 'left' and 'right' alike-are im- placably opposed to this-an op- jobless youth from the dole of queues. "They will be marching : for the Right to Work and de- manding the trade unions take action against the Tory govern- ment. 'We • involve older want to workers in the fight for this and the Labour Party took big step Harmed by the gathering economic ng class, they moved to prop up th position which is supported by the Communist Party and the re- visionist groups who hang on to their coat-tails. Yet the union leaders know full well that major class battles are inevitable as the Tories jack living prices and attack standards on the eve of entry into the Common Market. Their talks with the govern- ment, therefore, are in no sense kind of boom era com- some promise. They are aimed at striking blows at the working class. As Feather and his colleagues help the Tories to hold down wages, Harold Wilson helps them over Ulster. The day before the union lead- ers met Heath in the Great Par- lour of Chequers, the Prime Min- ister's luxurious country house in Buckinghamshire, Labour Party leaders were also involved in discussions in the office of the deputy leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons. TWO more directors of the giant P&O shipping group have re- belled against the company's £148m takeover bid for Bovis, the building and civil engineering group. D. Brown and A. B. Marshall told the board yesterday they could not associate themselves with the bid recommendations.

Lord Inchcape, a third director, has already objected to the Bovis Workers Press, Saturda basic right. But this means an all-out campaign force the Tories to resign.' Unemployment has hit the youth hard in the north east.

Sunderland last week the youth employment authorities announced they had 120 vacancies for 2,152 un- big steps towards coalition with onomic crisis and the growing p up the governinent's stagger- This meeting was with leaders of the Northern Ireland Social Democratic and Labour Party.

Since Heath had been unable to find formula which would a enable the SDLP to attend the "all-party' talks on Ireland, Wil- son was trying his hand. Precisely when the working class of Ulster faces its greatest dangers, the Labour leaders operate a bipartisan policy which lays the basis for further military repression. As the economic crisis deepens the Labour and trade union lead- into the arms of the rush ers Tories, willing to perpetrate ever- greater betrayals on behalf of the capitalist system they love.

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186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG. s, Saturday September 16, 1972 PAGE 3 people are out of work in the employed school-leavers. Altogether 90,000 over whole region. The YS passing march through Hartlepool, Peterlee, Chester-le-Street, Durham, Sunderland and Jarrow, has the backing union two bodies. Trades Councils in Sunder- land and Jarrow-Hebburn have both voted to give the march as much support as possible.

WEST BROMWICH Trades Council has voted to convene a special meeting to set up a Council of Action. 'The resolution read: 'We are completely opposed to the attack now being waged by the Tory government against all basic rights. ne campaign must be waged to unite the whole work- ing class in a struggle to bring through a down the Tories General Strike called by the TUC, and to replace them by a Labour government pledged to nationalization.'

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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.

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).

SWINDON:

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER

17, 7.30 p.m. 'Join the fight to force the Tories to resign'

LOCOMOTIVE INN,

FLEET STREET

Speakers: Tim O'Sullivan (senior night steward, Morris Motors, Oxford, in a personal capacity). Member of the Swindon building strike commit- tee. Representative from the Thornycroft (Basing- stoke) occupation.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday Septer Part 16 of a series on Picketin The Workers' Militia The crisis situation in which capitalism pre- pares to call up all its most malevolent forces of coercion and violence, is also the period in which the working class builds its own great units of selt-detence - the workers' militia. Marx and Engels both took time to examine and recom- mend the necessary tactics of the physical struggle of their day. Trotsky wrote of the link between the picket and the workers' militia: 'A strike is inconceivable without propaganda and with- out agitation. It is also incon- ceivable without pickets, who, when they can, use persuasion, but when obliged, use force.

The strike is the most elementary form of the class which always com- struggle bines in varying proportions "ideological" methods with physical methods. The struggle against fascism is basically a political struggle which needs a militia just as the strike needs pickets. 'Basically, the picket is the embryo of the workers' militia.

He who thinks of renouncing "physical" struggle must renounce all struggle for the spirit does not live without flesh' ('Whither France'.)

May 1917 Lenin In con- gratulated the workers of one who had formed region a workers' militia and required the capitalists to pay for its operation, for the hours and days which the workers con- cerned took off to operate it.

He recommended this as an example which should become a model for all Russia. wrote in 1934, Trotsky when the fascists were on the streets in France, of the need to build the workers' militia and arm the working class in the pre-revolutionary period, warn- ing of the great dangers of being too late. To those who said such action was premature in a non-revolutionary situa- tion, he remarked: •This profound argument means the workers must permit themselves to be slaughtered until the situation becomes revolutionary.' To other opponents he wrote: • "To call for the organiza- tion of a militia," say some opponents who, to be sure, serious and are the least "is honest, "This is not an argument but an insult. necessity for the If the defence of the workers' organ-

WORKERS'

izations flows from the whole situation, how then can one for the of

NO U

Call Creation the militia? Perhaps they mean sav that the creation of a militia "provokes" fascist governmenl In that case, it is repression. an absolutely reactionary Liberalism argument. has said to always the workers that by their class struggle they "provoke" the reaction.

The reformists repeat this accusation against the Marx- the Mensheviks the Bolsheviks. These accusa- reduced themselves, tions final analysis, the to the pro- found thought that oppressed do baulk, the not oppressors will not be obliged This the beat is philosophy Tolstoy and Gandhi, but that never and Lenin. "l'Humanité" of [newspaper the French Communist Party] thereafter wants develop LU the doctrine of "non-resistance it should evil by violence" to symbol, take for its not the hammer and sickle, the emblem of the October Revo- lution, but the

DIOUS

goal provides Gandhi which with his milk. Later, not long before being brutally struck down by one of Stalin's agents Trotsky re- an inevitable stage of develop- only betrayal

LOAT

. ana dissipation of the strength and ability of the working class by leaders the renegade door to the success of reaction.

He wrote: 'We may set it down as a historical law: fascism was able to conquer only those countries where the conserva- parties tive labour prevented the proletariat from utilizing the revolutionary situation and seizing power. Germany, 'In two revolu- Even in 1929nd 1923: tionary were volved: 1918-1919 1924. direct struggle for power on the part the proletariat was Stlll possible. In all three cases the democracy and the social Comintern (the Stalinists) viciously dis- criminally and rupted the conquest of power and thereby placed society in an impasse. 'Only under these conditions this situation did the and in stormy rise of fascism and its gaining of power prove pos- sible... Ahead lies a favour- able perspective, providing all the justification for revolu- is neces- monary acuvism. sary to utilize the opportuni- ties which are opening up and to build a revolutionary party.

(From Trotsky's 'Last Article', Fourth International, October 1940.) Top: Trotsky during the Clvil War. He the wrote: 'Basically picket is the embryo of the workers' militia'.

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

Above: in Germany 1918, armed workers took control of the streets of Berlin.

Immigrant workers in Zurich, Switzerlan By Philip Wade In the last ten years over immigrant 8 million workers have flooded into the Common Market countries from southern Europe and north Africa. They provided the bour- of the metropolitan geoisie capitalist countries with a source of cheap and manage- able labour during the period of the boom. In that sense the Common Market proved over and over again one of its true aims: to poor countries, reduce the many just 'independent' poli- tically, to the status of colonial states once more. Direct social, political and economic hegemony of these states was ended. But in their place came, in reality, a new form of colonialism. reactionary bloc of The monopolists was European formalized in the Common Market. Around this bloc a whole number of countries were granted affiliate status.

It was a relationship between master and servant, as can be Switzerland exploited a source of cheap and i from the deep-going seen poverty and degradation which still exists in the countries of the old empires. Today the Common Market is associated with 18 former African colonies of the Six, three Commonwealth countries in East Africa, and Turkey, Greece and Malta. And trading agreements have been concluded with several other nations. Because the economies of these countries have been kept backward, their workforce was forced to emigrate to central Europe to find work and send home savings. They took the jobs which were lowest paid and the most unskilled, like street-cleaning, road-building and underground work. Employers went to lengths to sring them in. eat July, for example, an illegal traffic in immigrant workers from French-speaking west discovered in Africa was France when a lorry carrying 59 of them from Mali and Senegal broke down. Police said they had been smuggled in from Italy and were destined for underpaid jobs on leap and manageable labour building sites in Paris. In France, where there are than 3.2 million more immigrant workers, many of them have been crowded to- gether in ghetto shanty towns on the outskirts of the cities built out of flattened petrol cans. Now, as unemployment rises in Europe, the plight of these workers is becoming ever more desperate. Seeking to head off working the metropolitan is class, the bourgeoisie attempting to stir up racialism.

been several There have clashes recently in France be- Algerian workers and particularly the middle-class expelled from that country after independence. In Holland, extreme right- wing forces have provoked serious rioting against the homes of Turkish workers living in crowded neighbour- hoods. And the Pompidou govern- ment has just introduced racialist legislation to limit the intake of immigrant workers to 150,000 a year from coun- • which it already tries with has immigration agreements.

Workers Press, Saturda By Stephen Johns Airlines who are finding their passenger potential exhausted are turning to a relatively new but lucrative field of air freight. Despite the recent recession common to all forms of freight transport many of the major airlines are convinced that an increasing proportion of cargo will fall into their laps. The development means profits for the big transporters, like BEA, BOAC and Lufthansa, but fur- ther depression for the tradi- tional dockland areas of the world. Lufthansa have pioneered a new service which has taken them to the top position in the European air-freight league, above BEA. Startling results They have just put into ser- vice a Boeing 747F jet which is a purpose-built, all-freight aircraft. The first results are its eastbound startling, on flight from New York to Frankfurt the 747F carries 89.2 metric tons of cargo.

This, of course, is less than a full sea-ship load but Lufthansa can take this kind of cargo across the Atlantic six days a week from the Frankfurt cargo centre, whereas a modern ship can take anything up to 15 to 21 days to make the sea voyage-and this ignores the lengthy wait at the docks at either end of the journey.

The 747F is built to take 28 containers, 8 ft wide, 8 ft high and 10 ft long, as well as palletized and grouped loads.

The costs are higher per mile than the sea voyage, but the saving in time is phenom- The plane has a turn- enal. round time of two hours-and all but 30 minutes of this is taken up by refuelling. Eventually great time savings at the cargo centres are hoped with round-the-clock working and night flights. Lufthansa are planning the full Unemployment among American youth now stands at the staggering figure of 17 per cent, following a 2 per cent jump in August alone. s, Saturday September 16, 1972 PAGE 5 computerization of their oper- ations and have been working for six years on a cargo con- sultancy service in a bid to convince exporters that loads, other than perishable cargo, can be best transported by air.

The only goods still totally unsuited for air freight are bulks-grain, ores or liquids- but now Boeing think it's feas- ible to build a plane that can carry these types of com- modities as well. At present only 0.4 per cent of the North American dry cargo freight travels by air, but the total is growing all the the time. According to Karl Zingel- • a man, Lufthansa's cargo man- ager for western Europe, cargo is destined to overtake the passenger trade as the No. 1 money spinner for the airlines.

'All forms of transport developed as passenger carriers.

Cargo was a side issue,' he says. 'But on sea, road and rail quickly cargo outgrew passengers. The same thing will happen to air transport. We all agree it will come. The only difference among us is as to when. Ten years? Thirty years?

Our passenger potential is nearly exhausted, but the Advance means less jobs The impact of air freight can be exaggerated. Many of the heavier sea-going cargoes are vastly uneconomical to trans- port by air. But with products where the cost-to-weight ratio is high, like machine tools and other machinery that need careful handling, the plane is the best carrier. As always, technical advance will mean less jobs. The freight the airlines win will be lost to the docks and there will be no compensating increase in em- ployment at the airports.

The internal power systems on the cargo jumbo jets allow the two-man crew to store and secure a maximum load in 30 minutes! Total unemployment in the US is now 5 million. But it is clear that the youth are feeling the brunt of President Nixon's declaration of trade war on August 15, 1971. The picture is the same all over the country. In the St Louis area, jobs declined by 12,600 in July. By the end of the year, it is expected that 6,000 more workers will be un- employed. General Motors, McDonnell- Douglas and other firms in the area plan to reduce their work forces. Up to 300 workers a week run out of unemployment benefits and are thrown off the lists. In Chicago, 14,000 were job- less in August, with the figure steadily rising. And of the 3,000 out of work in Cali- fornia's Hunters Point, 2,000 are youth over school-leaving age.

PAGE 6 Workors Press, Saturday September 1 Photographs from SHELTER by Nick I A report issued by Shel ter (the National Cam- paign for the Homeless) on Thursday shows that slum areas get the worst of everything — not only housing, but education, health, unemployment and transport. The report-'Reprieve for Slums'-highlights slum life in London, Manchester, Bradford, Cardiff, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Liverpool.

OVERCROWDING:

In Manchester, there are 50 persons per acre in Moss Side, compared with 19.9 for the city as a whole and 13.4 for suburban Didsbury.

ENVIRONMENTAL

POLLUTION:

In Cardiff grit fall-out in tons 1961-1971, mile, per square totalled 28 tons for the dep- rived Splott area compared with 12.3 for the area around aturday September 16, 1972 IELTER by Nick Hedges the City Hall. Similarly sulphur dioxide per cubic metre of air reached 102 micrograms in Splott compared with 84 for the City Hall area.

MENTAL HEALTH:

Tulse Hill in Lambeth re- corded 24 referrals per thou- sand dwellings compared with Il for the borough as a whole and seven for the Streatham South area.

POVERTY:

This was done by comparing the average monthly expen- diture per thousand primary school children on necessary in Newcastle free clothing upon Tyne and the average for May, 1972, in three West End primary schools. The figures were £49.10 for the city as a whole and £83.70 for West End.

YOUTH

UNEMPLOYMENT:

The deprived area of Man- ningham in Bradford showed a rate of 2.9 young people un- der 18 unemployed per thou- sand of the population com- pared with 1.7 for the city as a whole and 0.9 for the more prosperous Heaton.

EVICTIONS:

The number of possession ord- ers per hundred of the pop- lation granted in 1967 for non-payment of rent was 0.78 in Liverpool as a whole, but 1.19 in the slum area of Gran- by. In the better area of Child- wall it was 0.35.

EDUCATION:

Granby had 4.15 children per hundred classified as educa- tionally sub-normal. Liverpool as a whole had two and Child- wall 0.45.

HYGIENE:

Because sanitation was poor and there was a lack of baths and hot water, 8.94 children per hundred in Granby had to be deloused. The figure for the was 4.98 whole of Liverpool and in Childwall it was 0.58.

Individual case histories • thou-. cited are harrowing: I had another little girl, said one woman, but the ceil- ing fell on her and she died..

The kids had fleas. They were practically running alive, with big holes in their heads and sores and yellow stuff. They had to have all their heads shaved. Another woman said: 'Our house is disgusting inside. The dampness in the house is ter- rible. All we can use is the back bedroom and the back kitchen that's and leaking when it's raining. I've got a nine-month-old baby. It's not right to keep a baby in a place like this. I've had the doctor down nearly every week to see his chest. I've had the sanitary and health people down. The council won't consider us be- we haven't got enough cause points. 'The house is plastered with mice so we got a cat. Once 1 just went out the front and when I came back in the baby was playing with a rat in the pram. Left: this at 43.50 rent family The Shelter people have col- has two rooms and the kitchen lected a mass of useful facts.

landing while sharing toilet and with down- amounts to an Lends stairs. Above right: Manchester condemnation capitalism. Moss Side where the youngel Shelter, however, doesn't see families move out, leaving be- it like that. in the inner city areas to do good, they old, the poor, the disabled and recommend the Tory govern- the unemployed. Right: room ment to finance local authori- where seven children sleep while ties to enable them to 'tackle their parents have only a settee Tve problems multiple with been fighting Tor ordinated solutions', whatever decent place to live for the that means. past five years, but the council They even claim have always Le. So s there's notins. to observed 'the first hint that a pay prepared earn good money and government to a solution to the don't care about the expense Consider problems. as I get some as long place But an immigrant worker decent. We are just stuck in quoted in the it's report sees this rubbish. Nhethei things much more clearly than uitabie or not, you've got t its authors: Even live somewhere. if yor I have rats, bugs are ashamed to turn the key in everything. It's very you've got to live damp. That's why I the lock, send the kids away from here.

somewhere. They've got a lot of future so The bosses, they don't knou the more healthy you can keep how the working half live if i them and away from all these just isn't exposed. It's the same things it is better for them. all over the world. The work- When I get somewhere nice ing half are always lving in poorness. We live terrible.'

and clean, I'll have them back.

Catalonia, and the resulting struggles of workers against unemployment while the armed forces of the state prepared for Civil War.

THE FATAL INTER-UNION

STRIFE ON THE DOCKS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Septem A three part series by Juan ( Catalonia, and the resulting str When major struggles in defence of jobs began in Spain in the early 1930s the employers could rely on inter-union rivalry to weaken the struggle of workers. This was the case in the Barcelona dock strike in 1932.

The drastic drop in exports led to mass unemployment dockers. In among some sections, 30 per cent were un- employed and in others up to 80 per cent. This situation inflamed the rivalry between the social democratic UGT and the anarchist CNT on the docks.

The CNT tied to outflank the UGT through support from the powerful CNT Transport Union of Barcelona. In June 1932, the workers and employers came to an agreement of shifts. This agree- ment recognized the CNT as the union with sole rights.

But the agreement was not put into operation—on July 6 a General Strike was declared in Only coal and Barcelona. perishable foods were unloaded.

The CNT was demanding an increase in the daily rate from 15 to 20 pesetas, the establish- ment of unemployment relief and the organization of shift- working so that no workers would be permanently unem- ployed. On July 25 the strike was settled with the offer of 17 pesetas as well as two pesetas that the employers would pay into social welfare.

This success increased the strength of the CNT, which decided to make a determined effort to clear the UGT out of Barcelona port. The dockers, who were UGT members, refused to pay dues to the CNT and consequently CNT members refused to work with UGT members. Truckers belonging to the CNT transport union would not move the goods handled by UGT dockers. The employers in and sacked stepped the truckers, thus provoking a strike in most sections of public transport in the city. The new inter-union conflict in the docks lasted almost a month, from October 3 to October 29. On October 14 UGT workers signed an agreement with the management to return to work.

At once the CNT attempted to bring out all transport workers in the city, but without success.

finally The CNT workers returned to work on October 29, winning none of their demands. In December, the Civil Governor, Anguera de Sojo, intervened to establish the shift system and that the work would be shared out-45 per cent to the UGT, 45 per cent to the CNT and 10 per cent to the remainder. However, the CNT rejected this settlement since they had in the docks more members than the UGT. After fights with UGT workers and a street battle with the police, in which one worker died and several wounded, the CNT were accepted the governor's ruling.

De Sojo's ruling marked a sharp turn in the policies of the Catalan government. In June President Macia had sup- ported the CNT against the UGT. This was part of the opportunist relationship leadership between the CNT and the Esquerra, the party of the bourgeois Catalan left of Luis Companys. ay Seplember 16, 1972 Juan García, our Spanish correspo Iting struggles of workers against un Above: Largo Caballero, Soclalist Party N The CNT leaders traded the votes of their members for the Catalan petty-bourgeoisie in exchange for support in the unions against the UGT. This suited the bourgeoisie very well, since the workers who against the class- rebelled collaborationism of the UGT— expressed in its highest point in the Ministry of Labour under Socialist Largo Caballero were attracted by the ultra- revolutionary rhetoric of the

CNT.

This rhetoric brought the most dynamic section of the working behind the class wing of the Catalan liberal bourgeoisie. After de Sojo's decision, the Esquerra intervened on behalf of the CNT. One of its news- papers, 'L'Opinio', came out against the decision, as did the majority of the party. On December 23, the governor was forced to resign, in spite of from the National suppor Office and the Barce- Labour lona Chamber of Trade. The quid pro quo from the CNT was participation in the "jurados mixtos, the joint body with the employers, from the beginning of 1933. This lasted until April, when the CNT started third dock strike against the treatment it was getting in the port. The strike lasted a month. However, it did not close orrespondent on how the depress ainst unemployment while the armed Ist Party Minister of Labour.

the port since UGT members continued working and unem- ployed UGT members took over CNT workers' jobs. On April 17 the unloading of coal was stopped when the truckers refused to move supplies. The CNT brought out sections of Barcelona transport in sympathy. CNT members attacked truckers who scabbed by moving coal and several workers were killed. Governor The new Civil intervened, closed down the Transport Union, arrested lead- ing CNT militants in transport shut down various anarchist headquarters. On April 24, trucks arrived coal and other to remove goods. This led to a General Strike of all transport workers with the dockers and to full- scale strike-breaking. Several buses and lorries ventured onto guarded by police. Many of the volunteers belonged to the fascist Estat Catala which focused its attention mainly on the destruction of the CNT.

On April 27, the transport strike ended, but the dock strike continued. 200 CNT had been members who arrested were removed to a nearby prison ship. On May 4, the strike ended.

The CNT returned to work with an agreement that was worse than the one negotiated with de Sojo: 45 per cent of portworkers would be UGT, 40 per cent CNT and 15 per cent non-union, or smaller unions. The CNT represent- depression of the 1930s hit the e armed forces of the state prepared f atives on the docks returned to the 'jurado mixto'. These inter-union struggles wore down the militancy of the working class and pre- vented any development of political consciousness amongst their members. Towards the end of the dock strike, on April 17, the build- ing workers in Barcelona came out on a strike which was to for three-and-a-half last months. It was another strike which showed the willingness of workers to fight unemployment and the impossibility of winning this fight with a retormist programme. The main demand of the building workers was for a 36- hour week to replace unem- ployment, which in 1932 had meant that 50 per cent of building workers were unem- ployed. This was the section of workers most severely hit by the recession and it was the main base of the CNT, con- trolled by the FAI. The CNT building workers' union began by not recognizing the "jurado mixto' for the build- which industry, first ing granted a concession of one peseta a day more, and then, at the beginning of May, an increase of two pesetas and a half-day's pay for days when the weather made work im- possible. it the Spanish province of epared for Civil War. The CNT kept to its original demand for a 36-hour week, rejected the wage increase and restated that the aim of the strike was to give work to un- employed building workers through a reduction in hours.

Some employers considered that the increase granted by "jurado mixto the was excessive and appealed to the Ministry of Labour. In June, however, most employers agreed to the one peseta in- crease, although with the backing of the "jurado mixto', they refused to reduce hours.

When both the Spanish employers and striking build- ing workers rejected a wage increase and 44-hour week in July 1933, the anarchist CNT began a campaign of terror.

Bomb attacks were launched on sites which were scabbing on the strike. When the police a demonstration of broke up in the university strikers square in the centre of Bar- celona, a shooting match broke out in which several workers were killed. The police set up guard- squads for scab-sites, but in July there were only 230 scabs in the whole of Barcelona.

Finally, in August, the strike was called off: the CNT leaders accepted a 44 hour week, com- pensation for periods of bad weather and a minimum daily rate for labourers of 10 per cent. On August 16, the returned to work, workers after all imprisoned strikers had been released.

CONTINUED ON MONDAY

TV REVIEW BY TOM KEMP

An extraordinarily dra- matic and interesting programme for TV might have been devised on the theme of what a Nazi conquest and occupa- tion of Britain might have looked like. The BBC's timid attempt — 'If Britain Had Fallen, screened on Tuesday night for almost three hours—turned out to be a full-scale bore. After constructing a success- ful Nazi invasion of Britain, largely based on German pro- paganda film which had been shot in advance, it went on to deal with what might have happened in Occupied Britain.

Here it fell into a number of largely resulting from errors, fear of taking up the political issues which defeat and occu- pation would have raised.

Also the programme was documentary not dramatic in form. It therefore had to depend upon the reminiscences of middle-aged people from Jersey or the smaller Euro- countries pean which had known occupation, It gave Sir Oswald Mosley the opportunity to deny that unlike his coun- terparts in occupied Europe, he would have been the Gauleiter if not the Fuehrer in the event of a German victory. The same law of libel which prevents one from surmizing Mosley's role, also protects those who were on the list of probable collaborators which the Germans had carefully drawn up. The omission of names from those prominent the Germans intended to arrest forthwith might also give some food for thought. Sir Samuel Hoare was men- tioned as the possible head of Quisling government in al Britain, but there were no offers for a British Petain, though there would have been no lack of aspirants to the role. In fact, the complete absence of any reference to the French surely. the closest situation, guide to what would have been likely to have happened in a defeated Britain, was a striking feature of the programme.

along A serious discussion these lines would have put some life into the programme —and also have made it poli- tically unacceptable. For one thing, the Dane who said that collaboration cut straight down through the social pyramid was wrong. The collaborators of the Nazis were drawn predominantly from the ruling-class establishment. The volunteers for the SS and the Eastern Front were the coun- terparts of public-school types.

Police, army and civil service accepted German orders and carried them out. Occupation did not end the class struggle, but intensified it. The working class suffered most and, after the initial con- fusion, fought back with sabotage and other strikes, forms of resistance. The ruling class profited from German contracts, got rich on the black market and rubbed shoulders with the conquerers with no embarrassment. Although dealing we are with a might-have-been, the French example is suggestive.

What is more, Nazism had plenty of friends in Britain in high places in the 1930s, some of them organized in bodies such as the Anglo-German Friendship Association, or the 'Link.' Nazi policy had obvious attractions for the ruling class and was not so distant from traditional ideology: discipline, racial superiority, worship of physical strength, hostility to socialism or communism. Not only would employers have welcomed the setting up of a Labour Front-the aboli- tion of trade unions and the outlawing of strikes-but it is not difficult to think of trade union leaders of the time who would willingly have operated a 'Labour Charter' as their counterparts did in France.

There was a missed oppor- tunity for a discussion about ch the Industrial Relations Act!

It cannot be doubted that" the propaganda machine of Dr Goebbels would have scored considerable success - though it would have avoided the stupid I married a German boy' commercial shown during the programme. The Nazis were much too serious and political to descend to such a level. There • were a number of themes in Nazi propaganda, not least anti-Semitism, which could have won a response. Sanctimonious public figures and clergy would have appealed for a return to morality and a national revival under Nazi The Festival of protection. Light' would have begun 30 years earlier than it did.

Literary figures, journalists, broadcasters and politicians would have come forward, often as genuine converts to the Nazi cause. Big business would rapidly have made its peace in order to conserve its property and profits. Industry would have been tuned to supply the needs of the Ger- man war machine on the Rus- sian front. Before that happened, in 1940, 'The Daily Worker' might have appealed to the Nazi Kommandatur for permis- sion to re-appear (the CP paper 'L'Humanité tried to publish under German occupation dur- ing the period of the Nazi- Soviet pact). All these things would have been worth discussion. As it was the programme was too long, too slow-moving and insufficiently dramatic to dispel the boredom which grew as the three hours drew towards a close. One theme which came through was that of Hitler's desire to construct a united Europe with Britain as a neces- sary part. The analogy with the Common Market was uncom- fortably close. Can it be that the producer was making pro- for paganda (or against?) Britain's entry? Workers Press, Saturday September 16, 1972 PAGE 9

RUE DE BOVIS

The Bovis Group, the family A joking reference to their firm of Tory Cabinet Minister continued presence on one Sir Keith Joseph, is quickly occasion drew the response: reaping the rewards of closer 'We are staying on to form a ties with Europe. rival TUC.' The company's property After suitable laughter at drollery, division is to this devastating carry out an the £11.5m redevelopment project situation was found to be even in Paris-its largest European funnier. The bank employees meant it seriously. scheme ever. The company has purchased 'There's ourselves, there's a three buildings in the Rue de few other And sane unions. Lafayette which will be con- the housewives; then there's they haven't been organized modation. will eventually 'There's million provide 180,000 square feet of to people who air-conditioned office could get together. space close to the Gare du Nord in The anti-working class at- the heart of the capital.

titudes of these gentlemen Bovis is already carrying out wère now all too apparent. several developments in Some trade Paris, unionists threw including office in some helpful suggestions.

an tower in 'Yes, you could get a lot of Rue de Bercy. The company has also just set up subsidiaries Conservative MPs to join. And in France and Holland. Army Lieutenant - Colonels Sir Keith, haven't got the millionaire union, either. building tycoon and Minister And then there's the priests for Health and Social Security, and bishops, private detectives, Soho of course, dedicated sup- mafiosi, call girls-all sorts of people! porter of the EEC. For obvious The NUBE bureaucrats re- reasons! tired in confusion. Below: Sir Kelth Joseph

NEW TRIO

Hill Samuel, Britain's biggest merchant bankers, are getting ready for entry into the Com- Three new direc- mon Market. tors are to join the board- Americans and a Belgian. two The idea is to 'international- ize' the bank's operations.

The Americans Richard S. are Vokey, recently senior VIce- president of the First National City Bank and for seven years charge in of their operations UK, and Hülbert in the S. Aldrich, until recently vice- Chemical chairman of the Bank in New York. The European is Juan de Liedekerke, who was served with Lazard Frères in France, the International Finance Cor- poration in Washington and then Smith, Barney and Com-

ALL-SORTS

pany. One surprise at the Brighton The new trio will sit along- TUC was the continued atten- side British financiers Vis- dance throughout the week of count Bearstead (of the Shell National Union of Bank family), Sir Charles Clore, Sir the Charles Hardie, Employees' delegation. Lord Kearton After they been and Sir Richard Powell. had sus- pended on the first day for At the top of this pile is their faithful allegiance to the Hill Samuel chairman Sir Ken- Tory industrial relations legis- neth Keith, also a director of lation, it was assumed they Times Newspapers. would all depart, as most of Before Keith's financial wiz- the other 32 suspended unions ardry is proclaimed from the did. rooftops, it should be recalled But Leif Mills and his col- that involved he was in leagues were discovered that ree stending the shareholders night, and subsequent nights, stock Bernard Corn- going the rounds of bars and feld's Investors Overseas Ser- like receptions just all the vices only a few months before other delegations. the operation fell apart.

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WESTWARD. As Channel except: a wish. 11.10 Merry 10.45 Make Gus Honeybun. melodies. 11.35 11.55 Faith for life. 12.00 Weather.

ANGLIA: 9.00 London. 10.00 Rovers. 10.25 Film: 'Geronimo'.

12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'Walk, Don't Run'. 8.30 Julie Adrews. 9.30 London. Villains. 10.30 11.25 Film: 'The Devil's Daffodil'.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.15

You and your golf. 9.45 Collecting on a 10.10 Mountbatten. shoestring. 11.05 Tomfoolery. 11.30 Osmond brothers. 12.00 Elephant boy. 12.30 London. 5.10 It takes a thief. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'The Sons of Katie Elder'. 8.30 Julie Andrews. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 11.25 Film: 'Chamber of Horrors'. Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 All our yesterdays.

10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Man from 12.00 Merry melodies. 12.27 12.30 London. 5.10 Smith family. 5.40 Sale of the century. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'Hotel'. 8.30 Julie Andrews.

9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 11.25 News. 11.35 Spyforce. 12.25 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.00 London. 10.00 Tomfoolery. 10.30 Sesame street.

11.30 Follyfoot. 12.00 Farming diary. 12.30 London. 5.10 UFO.

6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'Taras Bulba'. 8.30 Julie Andrews. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 11.25 Name of the game. 12.55 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as above ex- cept: 5.10 Shut that door. 5.40- 6.10 Sion a sian.

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 2.13 Weather. London. 3.15 Film: 'Interpol' 4.40 Wor London. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London. 11.15 Avengers. 12.05 Epilogue. Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 9.30 London. 10.30 Finest hours.

12.30 Jungle fighters. 1.10 Car- toon. 1.20 Smith family. 1.45 Farm progress. 12.05 Faith for life.

12.10 Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.15 Talking hands.

9.30 London. 10.30 Farm prog- ress. 10.57 Weather. 11.00 Trade winds to Tahiti. 12.00 Cat in the hat. 12.30 Bush boy. 1.00 Super- 1.20 How. 1.50 • Hogan's man. heroes. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Your Witness'. 4.35 News. 4.40 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: "Murderers Row'. 9.50 Cartoon. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.15 Strange report. 12.10 Frighteners. 12.35 Weather. Guideline. ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 10.30 Sur- vival. 11.00 Tribe that hides from 12.15 Cartoons. 12.30 Dr man. Simon Locke. 12.55 Cowboy in Africa. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 Farm- ing. 2.25 Name of the game. 3.45 Football. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Undercover Man'. 9.30 Shut that London. 11.15 Dep- door. 10.00 artment S. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London.

10.30 Finest hours. 12.30 Citizens' rights. 1.00 Champions. 2.00 Soc- 3.00 Film: 'Sea of Sand. cer. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty.

6.05 London. 11.15 Spyforce. 12.15 Stories worth telling. Weather. HARLECH: 11.00 Service. 12.30 Talking hands. 12.45 Journey of a lifetime. 1.00 Let them live. 1.25 Love, American style. 2.15 Lon- 3.15 Film: The Ballad of don. Andy Crocker'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Paranoiac'. • 9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London. 11.15 Aven- gers. 12.15 Weather. 10.00 London. 11.15 Avengers.

12.15 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as above ex- cept: 6.45-7.00 Llusern. ay September 16, 1972 elo- ULSTER: 11.00 Thunderbirds. 12.00 Skippy. 12.30 London. 5.10 Flintstones. 5.40 Sportscast. 6.10 London. 6.15 Branded. 6.45 Film: 'The Spy in the Green Hat'. 8.30 Julie Andrews. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 11.25 Journey to the un- her. known. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 You and your erry golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- 10.10 Tomfoolery. 11.05 string Tarzan Triumphs'. Film: 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 Lon- 0.00 don. 6.15 Sez Les. 6.45 Film: The Return of Frank James'.

6.10 8.30 Julie Andrews. 9.30 Villains.

10.30 London. 11.25 Journey to the unknown. 12.20 Weather.

GRANADA: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Craftsmen. 10.40 Sesame street. 11.40 Arthur. 12.05 Clapperboard. 12.30 Lon- ond don. 5.10 Big valley. 6.10 Lon- poy. don. 6.15 Film: 'Operation Cross- bow'. 8.25 Julie Andrews.

9.30 Villains. 10.40 London. 11.25 Film: 'The Leopard Man'. TYNE TEES: 9.00 London. 10.00 Tomfoolery. 10.30 Follyfoot. 11.00 Film: *Tarzan Triumphs'. 12.25 Cartoon. 12.30 London. 5.10 Rip- tide. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'Two Rode Together'. 8.30 Julie An- drews. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 Lon- don. 11.25 Journey to the un- known. 12.20 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- 10.10 Tomfoolery. 10.35 String. 11.05 Joe 90. Follyfoot. 11.30 Osmonds. 12.00 Cartoon. 12.30 London. 5.10 Bonanza. 6.10 Lon- 6.15 Film: 'Nine Hours to don. Rama' - 8.30 Julie Andrews. 10.30 London. 11.25 Late call. 11.30 Spyforce. GRAMPIAN: 11.45 Beagan qaidh- lig. 12.00 Rumblie jumblie. 12.30 London. 5.15 Batman. 5.40 Pro- tectors. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: 'Shane'. 8.30 Julie Andrews. 9.30 Villains. 10.30 London. 11.25 Shirley's world. ULSTER: 1.30 HR Pufnstuf. 1.55 Women only. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: The Disorderly Orderly'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty.

6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Suddenly Summer'. 10.00 London. 'Last 11.15 Saint. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 Talking hands.

9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live.

11.00 Snooker. 11.40 Skilful rug- by. 12.10 Cartoon. 12.30 On the buses 1.00 Farming. 1.25 Calen- dar Sunday. 1.55 Soccer. 2.50 Film: 'The First Men in the Moon'.

4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty.

6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Up from the Beach. 9.45 Cartoon. 10.00 London. 11.15 Strange report. 12.10 Weather. GRANADA: 9.30 London. 10.30 Time to remember. 10.55 Edgar Wallace. 12.00 Towards the year 2000. 12.30 Merrie melodies show. 1.00 Bearcats. 1.55 Sur- vival. 2.25 Football. 3.25 Film: 'Inn for Trouble'. 4.40 London.

5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London.

7.55 Film: 'Sex and the Single Girl'. .10.00 London. 11.15 All jazz. that TYNE TEES: 9.15 Talking hands.

9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live.

ack 11.00 The tribe that hides from man. 12.30 On the buses. 1.00 Farming outlook. 1.25 Something 1.55 Where the to sing about. jobs are. 2.00 Bigmatch. 3.00 Film: 'Pink String and Sealing Wax'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black ens' Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: oc- 'Up from the Beach'. 9.45 Car- nd. toon. 11.15 é 10.00 London. uty. Strange report. 12.10 Poem.

SCOTTISH: 12.15 Fiddler on the road. 1.00 Out of town. 1.20 Ran- dall and Hopkirk. 2.15 Soccer.

2.45 Film: 'Young-blood Hawke' 4.45 London. 5.35 Elephant boy 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Not With My Wife, You Don't!'. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.15 Late call. 11.20 Strange report. GRAMPIAN: 1.45 Farm progress.

2.15 Soccer. 2.45 Filfm: "Another Shore' '. 4.10 Cartoon. 4.15 Rain- bow country. 4.40 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Lady L'. 10.00 London.

11.15 Untouchables.

BBC 1

11.40 Weather. 11.45 A star to steer by. 12.30 Grandstand. 12.35 Football preview. 12.55, 3.40 Golf.

1.50, 2.20, 2.50, 3.20 Racing from Newbury. 2.10, 2.35, 3.10 Show score. 5.05 jumping. 4.40 Final Disney carnival. 5.15 Mary Tyler Moore. 5.40 News, weather. 5.55 Bruce Forsyth and the generation 2.30 game.

6.45 FILM: 'BROKEN ARROW'.

James Stewart, Jeff Chand- ler, Debra Paget. US army scout struggles to under- stand the Apaches. 8.15 THE TWO RONNIES. Ron- nie Corbett and Ronnie Barker with guests Georgie Fame and Alan Price. 9.00

LAST NIGHT OF THE

PROMS. Colin Davis con- ducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra. 10.10 NEWS. Weather. 10.25

MATCH OF THE DAY.

NIMMO IN LAS VEGAS.

11.25 Derek Nimmo looks at the mecca of gambling. Delmer Daves' sensitive and sympatheti tonight. This 1950 film was quite a rad created by Hollywood as a justification the United States. James Stewart and [ Cochise. ВВС 2 12.05-1.00 Open University. 1.50- 6.30 Cricket. The match of champions. John Player League.

7.00 NEWS REVIEW. Weather 7.25

THE WORLD ABOUT US.

Flyway. 8.15 MUSIC ON 2. Profile in Music—Janet Baker, York- shire Mezzo-soprano. 9.20

TALES FROM HOFFNUNG.

Cartoon. 9.30 MARY. Rhymes and Rea- sons. Mary Travers. 10.15

THE ROADS TO

FREE-

DOM.

NEWS SUMMARY. Wea- 10.55 ther. 11.00

SIX AND

SEVEN

EIGHTHS. A deadly night- cap of bizarre moments. •

BBC 2

3.00 Film: 'Kangaroo'. Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford, Finlay Currie, Richard Boone. 4.20 Arum.

4.50 International balloon race.

5.40 The Violent Universe. Fol- lowed by The Mind of Man and The Restless Earth 8.05 NEWS, SPORT. Weather.

8.15 LOVE AND MR LEWIS-

HAM. Part 3. 9.00 TOLSTOY. From Riches to Rags. Story of Count Leo Tolstoy's life.

SEASWALLOW

10.10

GOLDEN

AWARDS 1972.

NEWS ON 2. Weather. 11.10 11.15 FILM NIGHT. Cliff Robert- son.

FILM: 'GYPSY WILDCAT'.

11.45 Maria Montez. 10.10 Sha Na Na on

BBC2

ympathetic treatment of the American Indlan ulte a radical break from two decades of big, ustification of the genocide carried out in the vart and Debra Paget (above) star with Jeff

BBC 1

9.00-9.30 Nai zindagi naya jeevan.

11.00-11.30 Seeing and believing.

12.50 Farming. 1.15 Made in Brit- ain. 1.30 Steam horse. 1.55 News, weather. 2.00 Chigley. 2.15 Ken Dodd and the diddymen. 2.25 Story theatre. 2.50 Film: 'Wild and Wonderful- Tony Curtis, Chris- tine Kaufman. 4.15 Show jumping from Hickstead. 5.25 Wonderful world of Disney. 6.05 NEWS. Weather. 6.15 A CHANCE TO MEET. The Rt Hon Enoch Powell, MP 6.50

JUDI DENCH APPEALS.

On behalf of Christian Aid.

SONGS OF PRAISE.

6.55 7.25 THE ONEDIN LINE. The Hard Case.

8.15 FILM OF THE WEEK: 'THE

SOUND BARRIER'. Ralph Todd, Richardson, Ann Nigel Patrick. Story of sup- ersonic flight. 10.05 NEWS. Weather. 10.15 OMNIBUS. The Leeds In- ternational Piano Comp- etition. 11.25

KENNETH

HARRIS IN-

TERVIEWS. Stanley Mor- ton, chairman of the Build- ing Societies Association.

12.10 Weather.

ITV

9.00 Time off. 9.30 Collecting on a shoestring. 9.55 The Osmonds.

um. 10.20 Merrie melodies. 10.30 Re- turn to Peyton Place. 11.00 Fol- Sesame street. 11.55 Junior police and five. 12.00 Lidsville. 12.30 News.

12.35 World of sport. 12.40 On the ball. 1.05 International sports special. 1.20 The ITV seven. 1.30, 2.30, 3.00 Racing from Ayr.

2.00, 1.45, 2.15, 2.50 Racing from Red- 3.10 International sports car. special. 3.50 Results, scores, news. 4.00 Wrestling. 4.50 Re- sults service. 5.10 On the buses.

5.40 Best of please sir.

6.10 NEWS FROM ITN

SALE OF THE CENTURY.

6.15

ANDREWS I

6.45

IT'S

JULIE

With Rich Little and Alice Ghostley.

FILM: 'THE NIGHT OF THE

7.45 GENERALS! Peter O'Toole, Sharif. A Warsaw Omar prostitute is murdered dur- ing the Nazi occupation and evidence points to top Nazi generals. 10.30

NEWS FROM ITN.

THE WORLD SPEEDWAY

10.40

CHAMPIONSHIP

FINAL.

Wembley Stadium LONELI.

OVERCOMING

11.25

NESS.

'Encounter 11.30 McCLOUD. With Aries'. . New 90-minute film series with Dennis Weaver as a marshal from the West assigned to the New York Police Depart- ment. an Indlan 'Broken Arrow'-is on BBC 1 les of big, bad, ugly celluloid tribesmen out in the 19th century development of with Jeff Chandler as the Indian chief

ITV

van. 9.30 Morning service. 10.30 Re- ing. turn to Peyton Place. 11.00 Film: Brit- "Tarzan and the Leopard Woman'.

Johnny Weissmuller, Acquanetta.

12.30 Forest rangers. 1.00 Thun- derbirds. 1.50 Brian Connell in- terviews. 2.15 Big match. 3.15 Persuaders. 4.20 Golden shot. 5.15 Aquarius.

6.05 NEWS FROM ITN.

6.15 ADAM SMITH.

6.45 THY KINGDOM COME.

7.00 STARS ON SUNDAY.

7.25 DOCTOR IN CHARGE. The Big Match.

7.55 FILM: THE QUILLER

MEMORANDUM'.

George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max Von Sydow. Spy thriller about two Allied agents killed by a neo-Nazi org- anization in Berlin.

10.00 NEWS FROM ITN.

10.15 COUNTRY MATTERS. The Watercress Girl. 11.15 THE FBI. Passage into Fear.

12.15 OVERCOMING LONE-

LINESS.

12.20 SIX DATES WITH BAR-

KER. 1937: The Removals Person. Ronnie Barker, Josephine Tewson.

AMIDST ALL the discussions about If the a free ice 931,000m doubled, argued Rueff, this would free the 'reform' of the international

COLICI

institutions Countes outside the US. This amount, he suggested, monetary system now taking place in then loaned back US the sort Brussels and Washington, there is 'Marshall Aid in reverse' which would in turn «oW absolutely no agreement on one key the Americans once more to make all world dollar holdings freely convertible into gold.

question: what is to be the future role The would French only _course of gold? intensify the present chaos. All those countries France, with large proportion of their Latest to pronounce on the subject is US held ressition greatly increased, whereas those with a love would ind thei

I COCLYCO

Treasury Britain, Japan evidence this week at the first hearings of joint sub-committee colonial ana semi-colonial countrie on international trade would ind their value the reserves senten and payments into US gold policy, Volcker devalued officially to half its collar stated Administration remained firmly immediately denounced as phasing out gold's He said the importance monetary role. Monetary Fund official Edward Bernstein.

gold 'should and must continue to diminish.

is inevitable that the ever-sharpening conflicts on monetary and trade Sole centre on ernor Greece until remain sie basis or word a pisses namast "Times' feature. remain the capitalism's monetary arrangements. international cannot be stabilized One simple point seems to have escaped most of the 'experts' taking part in the debate: gold, unlike IlKs with gold are not totally severed.' paper, current damental. embodies real value. It is a simple immediately linked to Special Drawies Marx shower hould b tent of value is socially-necessary labour Nigns oks). Inese were tne units createa some three i fos owing the March 1968 monite cative.

small quantity of gold because gold following March 1968 monetary crisis. considerable quantity of labour is necessary to find it, mine, refine and transport it.

in Europe, principally in France. Also giving evi The quantity of money produced depends dence before the US Congress, Jacques Paris only on the speed at which the presses roll. In fact professor and former deputy governor of the bank most 'money' in the international financial system consists only of figures in the ledgers of merchant ol rrance, proposed Inal tne omcial gold price De raised at once to $70 an ounce. This would almost banking houses! double its present official $38 level.

because the british-gold reserve and tate by the US gold stock. After 1934 I would like information about dollar holders were guaranteed rate of fixed exchange ax dills! Us gold-at the rate of $35 to an ounce. It was this basic prop which Nixon knocked away last August when suspended convertibility and left the holders over $40 billion throughout the world without backing for Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL their had assers. pre-

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The following resolution was put by Skelmersdale builders' Action Committee to the north- west Action Committees meet- ing in Wigan yesterday: 'Over 300,000 of us have been on strike for six weeks and some for over 12, without strike pay and enduring great hardship, but clear with the knowledge that this strike would be decisive for the building industry. 'Yesterday the union leaders signed a deal which was a clear betrayal of their members and a victory for the employers and the Tory government. the lump and on hours 'On there is silence. The pay differ- has widened and, most ential important of all, the deal lasts two and a half years. 'As the capitalist system enters daily into deeper crisis, the Tories are forced to attack the working viciously class even more retain their profits. 'In three months we go into the Common Market. Increased productivity and redundancy, will have to be forced on the work- ing class. The Tories use the Industrial Relations Act, mass unemployment, raging inflation the Rent Act against the working class. 'Yet the TUC joins with the CBI and the Tories on talks to end strikes and lower wages. The strength of the miners, railway- men, dockers, builders and other sections of the working class has prevented the Tories from fully the Industrial Relations using Act, even though the union and Party have Labour leaders collaborated in its use. 'We call for the end of class compromise with the employing class and the breaking-of of all talks between the TUC, CBI and the Tory government. 'We totally reject the latest sell-out and completely endorse the decision taken at yesterday's mass lobby in Lendon recom- mending all members to continue the strike. 'We call for a national meet- ing of all Action Committees to mobilize for an all-out national strike for preparation a General Strike to force the Tories resign that a Labour to SO government pledged to socialist policies can be elected. 'We demand that they national- ize the building industry and all the other basic industries includ- ing the banks and the land, with- out compensation and under workers' control, and that they repeal the Industrial Relations Act and the Housing Finance Act. 'Only in this way can the working class defend its basic rights' A mass meeting of Wigan building workers yesterday morn- ing voted by 600 to 10 in favour of staying out on strike.

Bolton Committee Action spokesman lan Hayes said: 'We throw the deal out and we will co-ordinate an attack on the executive committee of UCATT.

We must get them out and draw up new rules and procedures of the union.' Secretary of 9/79 Transport and General Workers' union in Patrick Herlihy, com-

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mented. 'We have been sold out by the union leadership. The men have run the strike here-the union have not assisted in any way. We have built up militancy of the men from scratch. We have got to educate building workers for struggle and we are learning fast.

'This agreement could have signed before the strike been The impression that I started. got is that it was settled before through yesterday probably secret negotiations. 'We have had no say when it came to negotiations. Instead of fighting the Industrial Relations Act the union leadership are frightened of the Tory govern- ment. They are frightened any s, Saturday September 16, 1972 PAGE 11 te hostile reception to the builders' country yesterday. Here are some action may be taken against them.

'The mood of the men in Leeds is that we don't want to go back to work' A mass meeting of 200 buiding workers from Leeds, Wakefield, Barnsley and Sheffield at Leeds Trades Council Club yesterday rejecting passed aresolution Thursday's deal. It pledged to fight for £10 across the board for 35 hours for all men working in the industry, including labourers. • A mass demonstration was planned for today to 'reject the deal. This meeting called on the Action Committee to organize coaches for Monday to continue the picketing. Jimmy Linley was one of the pickets from all over the Mid- lands who converged on Portland Cement Co in Rugby earlier this week. He commented: 'If we lose this battle we will be set back 20 or 30 years. Back will come the lump in force, and we'll have far worse conditions than even now. I don't want to retire to die at 65, I want to live a full life. 'The situation is being twisted by the racialists. As it is, more people are leaving this country in the year than are coming in.

But while people are fighting amongst themselves, they are going to leave the gaffers alone.

In some countries colour is used, in others it's religion. 'But workers learn in can struggle. I was a Protestant at the time of the troubles in Northern Ireland. I got involved in the struggle on the building sites two years ago and in May I joined the Communist Party.

I've been on picket lines with Jamaicans and Indians. Struggle changed my way of thinking.

"This strike has been like fight- ing an octopus. While you are cutting one arm off and maybe stunning it for a few minutes, another arm is strangling you.

There is only one way to kill an octopus - that is straight through the eye.' A mass meeting of over 7,000 building workers at Glasgow Green yesterday morning was narrowly split over a vote of a return to work. Called by the Glasgow strike Action Committee the meeting was addressed by UCATT exe- cutive committee member Danny Crawford. He told the men that the settiement was a 'good' one and that it could not have been ach- ieved without the solidarity of the rank and file. But he said, in other parts of the country there was evidence of 'crumbling' in the solidarity. But when he explained that by June 1974 the craftsmen would be earning all of £29 basic a week there was uproar and he was told to get off the plaform.

Then Communist Party mem- ber Eamonn Monaghan began repeating the agreement, but said he didn't agree with it. Builders should continue with the picketing, he said, and not allow scabs to return to work. 'The fight is to discredit those who sold us out'. But when he took a vote on whether or not to return, he was faced with a narrow majority in favour of going back. • further meeting , is due to be held on Wednesday. About 500 Aberdeen building workers met yesterday and dec- ided to postpone a decision un- til Sunday. Hull building workers are to return to work on Monday, their local Action Committee decided yesterday. A 1,500-strong mass meeting was evenly split on the vote to go back or stay out and on this basis the Action Committee said that the men should start 1 as recommended by their lead- ership under the deal.

RELYING ON UNIONS TO BACK RENT REBELLION

BARNSLEY RENTS

FIGHT BUILDS UP

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BY IAN YEATS

At the Labour coun

TORY

lost revenue, if the Act is Walkers letter Environment Min- to Bir. AT 9 a.m. on Monday October ister, before the disobeyed. Green lors have re decision Paisley 2, Barnsley Corporation warned

BIRMINGHAM

tenants whose rent ust nve city council of serious con• menancer collectors will fan out on their Hovland sequences' if they uncil-59 votes to 43—not the Act voted to take part Cllr Dennis implement the Housing implement the Housing today's rounds of the town's 11,000 demonstration because, (Financial Glasgow council houses.

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In letter Coun- the Rents to And ACI Hundreds cillor Stan Yapp, leader of been At hundreds of homes on Barns- have little t Labour-controlled Councillors in favour of Trades the Glasgow ley's three sprawling estates instead the Scottish Tenants Ay, uncil walker Teners nis one moblemenado the present of the usual greeting they will get an order that the city's coun now liable to a heavy sur- Scottish Tenants' they can cil house rents must go up charge, estimated sociation and the Glasgow at icy reception. for the next for ound t5.000 a month by 55p a week. AUDW district committee As the tiring week goes on housing offi- cers will know the extent of the tenants' Housewife ebellion of against increases to £1 32-strong Labour He added: 'My sources say that all the Molly Wads on the 40-member counci Alderman Brian will not get

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1ory Finance Act and they will be considering For Wildl moves. the that they have voted Tories so that they could achieve Wilte The first step will be send letters to implement the Act. door what they could not I am anythi advizing all asking tenants refusing He told me at the pay we just can incrcase unev are ana warning lieve in the principles 'If any of don't like what ot democracy and electors them pay up. In fact it I'm • Bit let they have the remedy next In a democracy we all nave ine obligation The Athersley £3.5 rent Tenants' Association, to obey the law time. But us that is was

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men ders •raWn TrOm considerable section working class ales Despite the fact that of some homes on the is by far the largest one call Labour vowed the first place. this councillors August were looSI Barnsley. On 10 flat and three estates already reactionary government in 1,000 to jan taller lnan impie more than their normal rents on October rent, coke, expecter ment the Tory Act, in the crunch vote all Asked why he had not resigned rather paving f7 a three raised their for imple- Ald Varlev said say these re others abstained. 'I don't think it would have succeeded il Faced with accountability to Tory audi- individuals had the stood out against tors, housing officials dare not allow such Said Ald Varley: 'It is now our duty to large outstand- Once you break down money remain Impiement the aw stewares wi respect for the rule of law democracy is hood if evic time. ing toI 'The general public should have the in.

finished. orders telligence what would happen deputy town ced ra vickson the nrs. But, move is likely to be court orders against had not implemented, rents We would we had voted against the Act 'We know wilfully If arrears. these commissioners and the tenants culd still would have nave been personally responsible for Ind fight. ing the money and it would not only have class to ban putting in bailiffs. have to pay the increases.' affected us but families as well. asked

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readers, This month we know that there is BUILDING WORKERS lobbied the London Action even more support for Workers Press. Sales continue to increase Committee yesterday demanding a mass meeting in all over the country. the capital on Monday to reject the pay deal and con- Our September Fund still tinue the strike. needs {1.327.81 to complete the target. We are asking you all to 'It seems we have to get 40 the biggest possible Others make Kemp, branches organized to this House over Come weekend Sce help We you Transport and General _ratse penner will do your best. Post all do. Workers' when we can demand Union nationa their resignation.' nations immediately to: building officer, to tell him the Frank Westerman Others in the meeting thought Workers Press two-vear agreement should be

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it no accident that the dea September Appeal Fund committees from the north west be same cav ace mass meeting of 300 Cam- 186a Clapham High Street discussing wages norms resolu- unaniousl tion from Skelmersdale (see page den. Norma lomon workers.

•e. London SW4 7UG cided without a vote to fight to Il for full text). Camden direct building continue the strike until the ful workers came out 650 strong ir They also decided claim to send sir hitle lit was support the claim, even George telegrar Smith and In a two-and-a-half hour meet- though they have separate nego-

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demand recall manded the Union of Construc- employers. regional council discuss Allied Trades and Techni- Lulls employers' offer before they have rejected executive leadership flans attempts get them back. resumndude dwork. sign. NORTHERN Ireland and south they too condemned resterday, builders The national dele. Scotland will be dry but It's still £30 for 35 hours. We une semener Frank Westerman, sates conference held at out, Wil he stay ratner cloudy. alcas "There's no offer on hours and p.m Thursday Septembe

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steward drizzle in places. Al communicatoR saord be to Wigan 47112. Billy Gerrard. areas of remaining 'No Yv ales and one wants this bonus nean wine cry witt sunnY and arr cemenl welc spells after clearance of local holding on until Novem- against or fog patches. mist ber 1974 before fight BIRMINGHAM building workers "There be Temperatures will be near nor- WIl The cost-of-living is just again. yesterday occupied the offices work here on Monday mal Midland Federation of are organizing a Outlook for Sunday and Monday: Builders in John Howard, UCATT steward deal. Dry with sunny periods. Rather our next reservo cere on the same site described the totally moves.' the east. Near

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ment. Their spokesman, Peter The mass meeting of Birming- of the Will do Callial Carter, said: ham building genera counci taked workers vesterda shorter working week to help unanimously to called the resignation 101 reject the agreement, and called George Smith and all the UCATT unemployment. for the of the resignation national 'Now he turns round and tells Plough et. London officers and genera secrelary or sw4 7u Street, us unere can se no reducon the union. acceptance of the offer. hours. None of the lads want to go back on this basis.

At the beginning of this month 42 bour councils were pledged to defy the t and many individual Labour council- s have resigned. Just five miles away from Barnsley, at yland, housing committee chairman r Dennis Eaden has quit after 33 years cause, he said, 'no one can sit on two ols at once.' Hundreds of Labour voters feel they ve little to lose and everything to gain m opposing the rent rises and with • present rate of inflation few believe 'y can afford to wait, democratically, • the next Labour government to repeal Housewife and Athersley tenant Mrs olly Wadsworth told me bitterly: 'They Il not get voted for at the next election.

For the first time in the Barsnley area • working class are beginning to kick.

am anything but political, but they are ing us to pay an extra fl a week and just can't afford it." In fact it is not just another fl on the 5 rent that Mrs Wadsworth and thous- ds of other tenants are facing.

She said: 'My husband's on £22 a week t and we won't get a rebate. But with it, coke, gas and electricity we will be Tenants know the law will be inst them. They will elect street wards who will mobilize the neighbour- od if evictions are attempted and court ders will be ignored. But, said tenants' leader Brian Sefton: e know on our own it is an impossible ht. We know it needs all the working ss to band together. 'If the police move in because we are withholding the increases we Will rely on the unions—in this area the NUM. I think we all realize better than ever before that an alterna- tive leadership is needed and this leadership will come out of a Council of Action.' The rents movement has united different of groups workers in Barnsley as nothing else has, but with 20,000 men working in the 22 local pits many council tenants are miners.

Miner Chris Stones told me: "The unions have got to be brought into this. If industry is brought to a complete stop and there is a General Strike all the way through, the Tories will be forced to resign. Barnsley panel of the NUM has backed the setting up of a Council of Action and there are resolutions before the Trades Council from two branches of the T&GWU and the AUEW. The TUC is committed oppose the rent Act and there is a resolution before the national executive of the NUM calling for industrial action to support the tenants.

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However executive member and south Yorkshire compensation agent Arthur Scar- gill made it clear at a New Lodge Club meeting on Thursday that the brunt of the fight against the Act should be borne by the rank and file. He claimed that 'massive action' by the labour movement in a 'tremendous protest' could force the Tory government to change its mind. Communist Party member Percy Riley called for as many marches and demonstrations as possible to show the Tories how the working class felt and he suggested the setting up of action committees to co-ordinate these activities. But all the protests of the past two years, however militant, have left the Tory government in power to press on ruthlessly with the task of creating the con- ditions for capitalism to ride out the present slump. The of building necessity Councils of Action to defend the tenants and the rights and living standards of all workers by mobi- lizing the whole class in a General Strike to force this government to resign is more urgent than ever.