Workers Press no. 873

workers press

TORIES' POLICIES SAVAGE STANDARD OF LIVING

OVER 200

maintenance staff at the House of Par- liament staged a one-day strike yesterday in sup- port of the government industrial workers pay claim. Pickets were out at the entrances to parliament backing up the 250,000 other government workers fighting for substantial increases. Tourists were surprised to see only a small version INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1972 ® No. 873 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE By DAVID MAUDE Our Industrial Correspo THERE ARE just 74 of Britain's 194,000 nousual workers wi be meet working days to go decide the next steps in their fight for a substantial before the Tories take pay

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Britain into the Common Directly and indirectly the out these two struggles will Market - and trade come or the affect pay prospects over unionists will need to use million workers: Ford's. every one of those days in and on the railways struggle for wages. All of these struggles are toda through Every worker's standard The timetable of the battle alone of living is threatened by the is enough to show why: ruthless series price 1 Today the House of Lords planned by the Creases will give Heath's European government on the eve of, Communities Bill its Third Read. and immediately after, and it will pass no law That Market entry January reaconary relic should be the body to give 1, 1973. its final endorsement law the Whatever

TUC

and the an insult to every Labour Parti Labour leaders may say to the member. a But come are need the therefore, conuary. Bill. the from righ obvious that the most deter- Party battle for Parnamentary mined and united helped flout last year's conference wage increases is going to be a decision by refusing to discipline over necessity pro-Market three months. Tories handed the Com

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mons majorities. Tomorrow union chiefs repre- 110,000 But once Bill goes on the workers Sedge their be Statute Book the lesson claim oore men Dens

JHUD

the increases of £5.50 for a 35-hour learned: onlv the remova of week-a claim estimated at 40 Tory government can defend against the

DC CHL

At the same time the leaders

FROM IAN YEATS IN GLASGOW

FEARS ARE mounting at Glasgow's Clydebank shipyard that the first batch of up to 1,000 men will find themselves on the dole in the next ten days.

All day yesterday Clydebank shop stewards were making frantic efforts to

COVERNNE

set up a mass meeting of men at all four Upper Clyde Shipbuilders' T C former yards to consider the gathering crisis.

OFFICIAL

But Govan shipyard workers have blown cool on the idea and their stewards have

STRIKE

already turned down one request for a joint meeting Clydebank shop and stewards James Airlie the UC. Communist Party of chairman oncas o Marathon Manufacturing Co, yester- owner: in a bid to find a solution aThe Tollowed meeune or une stewards on Monday at which there was bitter opposition to the Stalinists' leadership of a ferr trouble Hared dILel une compicuon bound for work in New Zealand and news that three bulk nearing completion at Clyde- carriers bank would be finished elsewhere.

UCS

Robert spokesman TOl Smith it had always understood that of the Union Jack flying its own workers is terrible over the Palace of West- and it's time we slung them uDstream minster. Blackleg out. The unions allow- One of the carriers will be towed upstream this labour are week and shop stewards say work two others ing the government to pick September 3000 unable the normal large one. each section one by could be completed b one.' This completion of the four vessels as part of the EPTU shop Monty Alter A. Wells, UCATT shop final winding-up on Clydebank as a shipyard will engineers of th that between 850 and 1,000 be Secretary added: I'm mean men will steward

COR

said that many oenis men vinced sacked called E17.5 For 4bhocrs. basic wage o all-out strike, everyone far Marathon has taken on only about 200 of the 2,300-strong workforce would out, but at come 'We're dissatisfied And company spokesmen have stressed they are ver moment olle

IS CO

with the the unions ordinated and that is the in no bosiuon to enov me oulk ortne men una are fighting this claim. The responsibility of the leaders

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of the unions. governments Correspondent ent 2 On October 2 the Tories' • Housing Finance Act, which will eventually double council rents, comes into operation.

Again the collapse of Labour opposition paved the way for this attack. And again only the end- ing of Tory rule can now beat it back. second wave of the pre-entry onslaught on wages when the Confederation of British Industry price-restraint policy finally staggers to an end. This will shatter the last vestiges of the Tory claim to have reduced the annual rate of retail price increase from 8.1 per cent in February to 5.8 percent in the last month for which figures are available, July. The underlying upward trend wholesale prices (from 5.4 to the 7.8 per cent over same period) will decisively reassert itself. And on top of this there are increases in the cost of steel (ig already announcements of per cent), electricity (15 per cent) and road haulage (10 percent), all of which will in turn force up the price of almost every commodity. 4. In the New Year a further increases bringing wave food prices of the Market countries will wipe out all the wage rises won over the last year. Chief item here will be the introduction of Value-Added Tax (VAT). This will add at least 10 per cent more to retail costs. As miners and railwaymen have already found with their claim, last year's and many of building workers thousands recognize, clearly the purely trade union struggle for more pay is no more than a temporary defence. No sooner are wage they are increases won than éaten up by prices. But no trade unionists can have any truck with the TUC and Labour Party right-wing's argu- ments that this means there must be state intervention in the wages struggle. This is dangerous nonsense. As long as capitalism exists, prices will remain the monetary ex- pression of commodities' value and will tend to fluctuate vio- lently in periods of boom and slump. Workers have no alternative but to fight to defend and im- prove their and wages con- ditions in the situation in which they find themselves. Today this struggle requires not just sectional militancy, but the maximum unity of all unions in action to force the together Tory price sharks from office and replace with them a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. The fight to build Councils of Action in each area, bringing together representatives of trade union branches, tenants' organiz- ations and working-class political groups behind the campaign to force the Tories to resign, is urgent. It is essential to the success of the wages struggle today.

• Victory: to the government industrial, and all other pay claims. • No wage freezing. The TUC leaders must break off their talks with the Tories and the CBI now. • Build Councils of Action to lead the fight to force the Tories. • to resign. Elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. No Wilson- style wage restraint, no entry into the Common Market con- spiracy.

workers press

TORIES' POLICIES SAVAGE STANDARD OF LIVING

OVER

200 maintenance staff at the House of Par- liament staged a one-day strike yesterday in sup- port of the government industrial workers pay claim. Pickets were out at the entrances to parliament backing up • the 250,000 other government workers fighting for substantial increases. Tourists were surprised to see only a small version INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1972 • No. 873

COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

By DAVID MAUDE Our Industrial Correspor THERE ARE just 74 of Britain's 194,000 government industrial workers will be meet working days to go ing. to decide the next steps in their fight for a substantial pay before the Tories take

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Britain into the Common Directly and indirectly the out- come of these two struggles will Market — and trade affect the pay prospects over unionists will need to use 2 million workers: ford's. local councils, hospitals and pits, every one of those days in and on the railways struggle for wages. All of these struggles are today political. through anu Every worker's standard The timetable of the battle alone is enough to show why: of living is threatened by the ruthless series of price Today the House of Lords 1 planned by the Cicabco will give Heath's European the eve government on of, Communities Bill its Third Read- and immediately after, will pass into law all lu That Market entry January Teachoney relic should be the body to give 1, 1973. the final endorsement law its Whatever

TUC

and the an insult to every Labour Parts Labour leaders may say to the member. i but coom right so left the therefore, collary. from right obvious that the most deter- Labour Party mined battle for and united helped flout last year's conference wage increases is going to be a by refusing to discipline over necessity Tone pro-Market three months. handed the com mons majorities. Tomorrow union chiefs repre- 110,000 But once Bill goes the workers on Sodge their be Statute Book the lesson must members' claim the increases of £5.50 for a 35-hour learned: only the remova week-a claim estimated at 40 Tory government can defend the against At the same time the leaders

FROM IAN YEATS IN GLASGOW

FEARS ARE mounting at Glasgow's Clydebank shipyard that the first batch of up to 1,000 men will find themselves on the dole in the next ten days.

All day yesterday Clydebank shop stewards were making frantic efforts to

GOVERNME

set up a mass meeting of men at all four Upper Clyder Shipbuilders' ". U former yards to consider the gathering crisis.

OFFICIAL

But Govan shipyard workers have blown cool on the idea and their stewards have

STRIKE

already turned down one request for a joint meeting. James Clydebank shop stewards Airlie and of the

UCS

Communist TalLY Culauran stewards' co-ordinating committee met owners, Marathon Manufacturing Co, yester- in a bid to find a solution.

day The the stormy meeting of

TAKS

Torower stewards on Monday which was ferry proude narco dILe bound for work in New Zealand and news that all three bulk carriers nearing completion at Clyde- bank would be finished elsewhere

UCS

Robert spokesman for No b cor it had understood of the Union Jack flying its own workers is terrible over the Palace of West- and it's time we slung them Blackleg out. The unions allow- One of the carriers will be towed upstream thi minster. are week and shop stewards two others ing the government to Dick off the normal large one. each section one could be completed by one? This completion of the four vessels as part of the EPTU shop Monty Alter Clydebank as a shipyard will A. Wells, final winding-up on _UCATT shop engineers 01 th that between 850 and 1,000 will steward, Secretary added: mean men said that many or his mell called sacked vinced that ll they basic wage o Marathon has taken on only about 200 all-out strike, everyone far £17.50 for 40 hours. of the 2,300-strong workforce would come but out, •We're dissatisfied And company spokesmen hav stressed they are with the way the unions ordinated and that in no position to employ the bulk of the men until is are fighting this claim. The responsibility of the leaders

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attitude of the unions.'

"WOLLELS

Correspondent 2 On October 2 the Tories' Housing Finance Act, which will eventually double council rents, comes into operation.

Again the collapse of Labour opposition paved the way for this attack. And again only the end- ing of Tory rule can now beat it back. second wave of the pre-entry onslaught on wages when the Confederation of British Industry price-restraint policy finally staggers to an end. This will shatter the last vestiges of the Tory claim to have reduced the annual rate of retail price increase from 8.1 per cent in February to 5.8 per cent in the last month for which figures are available, July. The underlying trend of upward wholesale prices (from 5.4 to 7.8 per cent over the same arty period) will decisively reassert nce itselt. And on top of this there are already announcements of big increases in the cost of steel (15 per cent), electricity (15 per cent) the and road haulage (10 per cent), : be all of which will in turn force up the price of almost every commodity. 4 In the New Year a further bringing food prices in line increases wave with those of the Market countries will wipe out all the wage rises won over the last year. Chief item here will be the introduction of Value-Added Tax (VAT). This will add at least 10 per cent more to retail costs. As miners and railwaymen have already found with their and. last year's claim, many thousands of building workers clearly recognize, the purely trade union struggle for more pay is no more than a temporary defence. No sooner are wage increases won than they are eaten up by prices. But no trade unionists can have any truck with the TUC and Labour Party right-wing's argu- ments that this means there must be state intervention in the wages struggle. This is dangerous nonsense. As long as capitalism exists, prices will remain the monetary ex- pression of commodities' value and will tend to fluctuate vio- lently in periods of boom and slump. Workers have no alternative but to fight to defend and im- their and prove wages con- ditions in the situation in which they find themselves. Today this struggle requires not just sectional militancy, but the maximum unity of all unions together in action to force the Tory price sharks from office and replace them with a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. The fight to build Councils of Action area, bringing together representatives of trade union branches, tenants' organiz- ations and working-class political groups behind the campaign to force the Tories to resign, is urgent. It is essential to the success of the wages struggle today.

Victory - to the government industrial, and all other pay claims. No wage freezing. The TUC leaders must break off their talks with the Tories and the CBI now. Build Councils of Action to lead the fight to force the Tories, to resign. Elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. No Wilson- style wage restraint, no entry into the Common Market con- spiracy.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday Septembor 20, 1972 Spain: What The shoes Bread and we freedom' begin to pinch think marchers hosts their he is baton- to change ways, wasting his time. Monday's papers appealed to the Japanese businessmen's showed Heath trying, like one of the protect their markets with tarl walls Ugly Sisters, to fit foot into and protectionist measures. The result- an undersize slipper. For British capital- ing trade war has already reached an charged ism, as well as its prime minister, the advanced stage. lokyo ne said. It a coulryls golg build up a great trade surplus and shoe has certainly begun to pinch.

at the same time damage trade in other Like Heath himself and the other Kodard Heath. They listen politely to won't get a stable leaders of world capitalism, Tanaka is driven by the worsening economic their visitors' complaints and then do

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

crisis to desperate measures. There is and the United States acted jointly, he no turning back from the struggle for 'Observer' comments: 'Japan's

ABOUT 15,000

WORKERS

mastery between the major capitalist said. there was a danger of the growth fear of being shut out of world markets have now joined the strike of powers. was an important factor in the events which could harm al the nations of Quoted in the 'Observer' at the week- leading up to World War II. The same Citröen workers in the northern Japanese expressed the basic basic contradictions al c Spanish town of Vigo. Twenty.

No doubt Heath said much the same dilemma facing the Tokyo government: ing themselves with full forces.'

thing to premier Kakuei Tanaka yester- 'We depend almost entirely on fuel and And the big monopolies of Japan are three factories and shipyards are materials imported from abroad already preparing to meet them with a now shut down by sympathy world trade and monetary affairs.

and the only way we can pay for these build-up and a ruthless action. is by selling our manufactured goods struggle against their competitors over- abroad. Our survival depends on free and seas. Healn nas about as mucn cnance Yesterday, 200 women Japanese big business who have heard access both to foreign sources of raw of turning the tide as King Canute.

children from families of car- loudly and less materials and foreign markets: any matically from a succession of Ameri- interference with either would be our workers demonstrated through ruin.' In a phrase, export or die.

the streets demanding that the But if Heath hopes that by repeating But to export, in the present situa- employers concede the workers' his warnings -like some Shinto prayer tion of world recession Japanese big exorcise the spectre demands. — 10 business must cut its CODeL OUT Japanese competition and persuade his of vital markets and struggle against with batons charged one Police group of workers who were carrying placards reading 'Freedom' and 'We want bread.' These police of 2,500 are part Artillery routs Amin's planes strike-bound force drafted Vigo. mounting •are guard on shut-down plants and public manning transport services. the fascist Representatives union are manoeuvring for

THE UGANDAN

including ten British journalists.

air return to work. But negotiations Contradictory reports with have force yesterday launched Among them is award-winning been 'Sundav Times' photographer Don a ready uoser une another bombing raid on resignation representative Mclullin who was on an assign- Tanzanian township from inside Uganda and by police attack the ment for the papers of the fascist union. headquarters Richard with reporter of Bukoba, near the two Nazazille claimed it was incy being usta for an illegal meeting. countries' north - west ahe Six-Day war, hoara, his fram Six-Day war, Biafra, Vietnam Madrid, three ot tne new frontier. This leaves the other question colonel in the Uganda army. rectors appointed by last Friday's Oyite-Ojok has ame bangladesa.

I WO

years aru -what IS happening in Uganda?

been living while he wounded taking Council of Ministers took up their was In a previous raid earlier this It is now clear that a rebel exile in Dar es Salaam with photographs in Cambodia. Ugandans Obote and DOS UOIs wavestly last dis- a number 5Uu- Was ycal Madrid. President Obote's supporters have are reported Dissed with aisgrace Irom entered Uganda. Ugandan army. to have been killed. Police visit Their aim is to take advant- obsessional about

223 102 FEE

1n One of the three is Munoz tne country and draw secuons or anudly las was Alonso. Alonso is well-known as a hard-line Falangist. Other visitors to the Madrid From their earlier successes colonel managed escape Reports camous yesterday were une once around the of Tanzania. Sub- millary ouloost sanctuary who patrolled the buildings where sequently there were reports that students sat the September Amin squads examinations. the border hunt his

OYCL

The fascist authorities are not military rival. paying the same attennon to oreanizationhe courses as they Ugandan tọ statement presence country at date of he pelle must be raising great mower the new university term nas not concern in the military junta.

been fixed and the outline of new •ї intenda courses has yet to appear.

Meanwhile Amin in is keeping 80 Europeans detained, Photographer Don McCultn

ULUC

Soviet Political prisoners 'Shoot-to-kill' aid for in New Orleans herded together Spanish political accord their victims the status of If the THE POLICE chief of New suspect turns around collieries politicial pres the constitution if and appears to have a weapon in prisoners in Greece Orleans said yesterday that a his hand, the squad has orders now been concentrated in the they are to annested. new unit to fight street crime to snool to Kill. state-u wned

HUNOSA,

the Korydallos would have orders to 'shoot The all-volunteer unit has been coalmining company the has announced a pro- suburbs of Athens. slalca only Luree monus aco to kill'. Holullas. night Superintendent 322 202 phe cent of the mining process.

for mechanizing 25 gramme Giarrusso the Police superintendent Clarence ecause move seems Giarrusso said his will lead to programme in The dark wilco into scion the sacking of Asturian miners retuse to submit an unreasonable they think suspect is armed within the next few weeks highly they should give three word he 'a what called Hunosa has purchased six new order: 'Police- coal-mining drills of the 'Kon- dangerous iob. and from Russia LyDi It has also led to some specu- sending a •elecaton so-called lation among liberal circles that nicians to Moscow to study tech- "resisters" make up their minds the Soviet pits. colonels nical innovations in lllay to recognize without quali- some or all of Ovambos go on trial about to fication whatever the (1968) A visit by Russian technicians the prisoners. con-

SAFE BRI

Asturias act in the future Io Hasi

SULULON

next January or February. WiShtul Nest Drama, yeeday abused or muder, assault and the Hunosa spokes thinking According to yesterday accused The 'possible indication LuCy W111 were laid after clashes with police who ways increasing coal produc- tried to break a mass reaay to do anyuning of the son.

SULL

aralist tion with machinery. Indeed strike of Ovambo workers in January this year.

NIRC welcomes T&G friends shall ye know them

BY JACK GALE

AS 1,000 UCS workers at Clydebank face the threat of the dole before Christ- Communist Party mas, stewards James Reid and James Airlie are now reap- ing their reward in the form of fulsome praise from the capitalist press.

A paper not renowned for its support of the working class 'The Times'-burbled away through its northern industrial correspondent Bill Shakespeare yesterday: •Shop stewards like Mr Jimmy Reid and Mr James Airlie. who led the UCS work-in, can now look back on one of the most successful, and possibly one of the most commendable exercises in effective industrial action ever staged.

AIRLIE

'They managed to put maximum on both the govern- pressure in ment and public opinion their struggle to save jobs in the yards without resorting to a strike or bringing existing contracts to a standstill.

example of a •The first real workers' take-over in Britain has since been widely copied. but rarely equalled in terms of the organization, discipline and disruption lack of brought about by those involved.' (My emphasis J.G.) behind the delight The reasons expressed by this leading paper of the capitalist class is not hard to find. Here was a move- ment of some 8,000 workers which could have presented serious problems. But, thanks to the Communist Party, the danger was averted. The Stalinists preserved 'existing contracts, ensured 'lack of disruption', finally and abandoned the fight for jobs and conditions altogether.

REID

And now, with the publication of the terms of employment at Govan Shipbuilders. the bosses' rapture is complete.

For the deal, as well as accepting a pay rise substantially less than was asked for (see yester- day's Workers Press), also in- cludes clauses giving under- takings of full union co-opera- tion in a number of measures designed to increase produc- tivity and cut costs. Moreover, to quote 'The Times' once again: 'The unions have also agreed to a review of the company's planning, program- ming and work-scheduling pro- cedures (clearly designed to achieve greater flexibility of labour) as well as joint discus- the "feasibility and sions on desirability instituting incentive work - study - based schemes covering all manual workers".' And, of course, the boilermakers' differential has also gone.

So the Stalinists have gone the whole hog. Sackings, speed-up, mobility of labour, no-strike and Measured-Day pledges Work. Tory The entire government strategy of 'butchery' has been imposed on UCS because of the collaboration of the Com- munist Party at the expense of many a Clyde workers' liveli- This is the Stalinist hood. 'peaceful road to socialism' in action. No wonder 'The Times' is grateful to Reid and Airlie.

The Tories have a lot to be greedy about. Workers Press, Wednesday September 20, 1972 PAGE 3 YS Right-to-Work campaign

YOUNG SOCIALISTS

NORTHEAST REGION

MARCH

RIGHT TO WORK

MIDDLESBC OUGH

TO NWCASTLE

LABOUR PARTY

coming to the north. I can't goods!' The not delivering the reception, however, memoes After and old-age pensioners see it happenina Old VUlC flanks was very lively. many bit- warmly supported the Trom une machcommittee pensioners, WItn and a rousing rendition 1926 Young Socialists' seven-day paper about a factory start- the Right-to-Work song, the bought copies of Workers Teesside that will Right-to-Work' norti-easi over Press. souinwares march on its third stage employ 1,000 people. But it hilly countryside for Shad- doesn't open for produc- Mr W. Reid, a blind pen- from Maswell Durham forth. tion for years. By that two sioner living the one of City: This is a denonulated pit could be 15,000 ume unere many o• miners contaces village, bearing the scars of After the youth on the dole.' that lined our route, wished miles, successive Hiery hope marchers arrived Lud- well: His remarks were sup- Shops have been CIOSUres were fellow them out. We have always worin. Where inev ported by Labour houses deserted nalled up, welcomed Arm- been true Labour.' Partv member Matt Conrov: and buildings by Party strong, Labour have rebuilt. Leaving Sherburn at 3.30 'When we pay our taxes been I10 L memoer ano Charman investing are The sulleino workers. who live o.m. me marca Taceye the local ex-Servicemen's future of children. We in the newer houses, miles steep hills and Club, and given free drinks traffic to Durham the Newcastle. heavy expect at the end of away process Once but bv 5.00 p.m produci-a City. OnCe Said John: 'I don't which youth has been set nothwards to Sher- workers were startled see we before chants 'Tories Out!' possibility full burn, last town the every ycal invest millions in the "Right the old This ployment. •esole what me is similar echoine around Tories about jobs Work". The are Shadforth. walls of the castle town.

BY PHILIP WADE

New stage in union's TWO TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union collaboration as full-time supported the officials dismissal of two drivers by a Liverpool transport official appears firm, it was revealed in National Industrial the two men, James Jones and Brian Howitt's all the arivers were Relations Court yester- Dean. taken back, with the exception of Jones Dock stewards Ther alleged that hones and Dean. day. Was not competent to do his job and imposed a black the firm's Transport that Dean had disobeyed The firm, Howitt Alfred Blyghton: Sir John pleased this period, John Jones refused to go and was During to see him of Bootle, sacked the men on August 1 when they laid off said to have gone to Liverpool Inomas and Mathew Tickle. two was ad- dock stewards for support, claim- more road transport officials, ten minutes when it because of their drivers confirmed the men's dismissal as tour ned sides. ultenon he tween ing he was sacked because of his the docks strike at that time.

sides. the two support for their strike.

saloonave begun in the An action was Sometime after August told the company they could not returned,

MISS

• caroline

CARON.

dock NIRC because Liverpool Harold Verrinder, order Verrinder to get the black- case to ce adjour for the asked for the LIverpool shop stewards imposed a Diack

T&GWU

adjourned without of the

TOZO

removed. demanding on the firm's lorries transport group, went with Jones also contacted Lew sides TIme Loat

DOLE

reinstatement of the two sacked demand the men's reinstate- Lloyd, the docks district secre- could try and settle the dispute.

men. It is now thought that regional ment and according to the com- tary, but claimed he refused Yesterday's hearing also

T&GWU

pany threatened the alternative involved take action secretary

JOUR

rallal the new stage in blacking on the docks. against Verrinder. will now intervene in the dis- marked of with T&GWU's colaboralion At the end of the dock strike, Yesterday's hearing only lasted pute. and recognition of the court. For the first time they were directly

PAPERBACKS CENTRE

represented by a full-time union official from Transport house. Alfred Blyghton, who He was heads the union's legal depart- -pearance, Sir on Donald on.

28 Charlotte St Donaldson, Tues, Wed, Thurs Mon,

NIRC,

president rupted counsel for the transport London W1 r s a.M.-1.30 p.M. firm to openly record the fact.

Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. 'It is the nrst occasion we dave had the pleasure of Mr Blygh-

BOOKS • PERIODICALS • NEWSPAPERS

ton she bench) would hike to wel three ton's company. Friday-9 a.m.-7.30 p.m.

PAPERBACKS CENTRE

come him,' he said. asked if the matter Sir John with- possioly be settled could court's intervention.

CHARLOTTE ST

replied that the would like to see the matter settled by conciliation 28 offered the firm discussions on moe quesuon. • Howitt Transport Ltd, a sub- sidiary of Howitt Brothers, was interim orders against

GOODGE ST

the T&GWU against the blacking

→ TUBE

of their by Liverpool dockers lorries.

TOTTENHAM CT RD

the are situated on Liverpool estate and laid off all their drivers August 1 on At because of the dock strike.

the same time they dismissed

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Wednesday Sep!

Part 19 of a series on Picketin Other Police and Army Methods There are no lengths to which the ruling class will not go in order to capitalism and save defeat the working class.

Millions of dollars, pounds, yen, etc., are every year in spent developing scientific weaponry for 'defence' which ultimately are systems for use to sup- press workers and peasants throughout the world. Action by United States forces in Vietnam and British troops in Northern Ireland, in addition to being direct acts of imperialist repression, also as testing and training stand grounds for the most diabolical war systems. These range from 'crowd control' and 'interrogation' to slaughter of outright mass civilians by saturation bombing. Huge secret police systems in most countries for exist watching and apprehending who workers and others threaten the state. Most capi- talist countries have developed special riot police and sections of the army to deal . with demonstrations and, they hope, uprisings: the National Guard in the USA, the CRS in France, various sections of gendarmerie and para-military organizations • elsewhere equipped with the latest in anti-personnel weapons—prob- ably tried out first by the US forces in Indo-China. A recent 'New Scientist' article on 'Bringing the Toys from Vietnam' by Home Robert Barkan examines equip- ment originally used and tested and which is now in there operation in the United States.

It includes: • Use of outdoor sensors to detect sounds, footsteps and outside prisons and vehicles universities, industrial and government establishments as well as the private home of the elite: 'War-tested sensors have been placed under the White House lawn and in the yards of President Nixon's other homes... • A surveillance radar system originally for penetrating jungle, now being developed to see through brick and cinder- block walls, to be used in controlling 'civil disturbances'.

• Night-vision devices en- abling police to see in the almost dark - 'developed during the 1960s for spotting the night-fighting Vietnamese guerrillas, the devices were esday September 20, 1972 Picketing by Bernard Franks declassified in 1969 and gener- ally made available to police departments in the United States'. • A television system which can 'see' in starlight. A Justice Department study recom- mended 24-hour surveillance of 58.5 miles of Brooklyn streets with 140 of the cameras, surveying each street once a minute in order to 'test the effectiveness' of the system.

• A total surveillance system - a process which links 50 watching television cameras with a computer which can ring an alarm if any event is seen to occur which is not pro- vided for in the computer's memory bank. • Mobile television surveil- of television lance - use cameras placed in civilian vehicles to watch places, people or events. Barkan says that Delaware state received a grant of thousand several dollars from Justice the to obtain the Department equipment, including rental the vehicles which, the for grant stated, 'are to be used as the basis on which patrol is to be conducted under covert conditions: e.g. uni- forms of dry cleaners, sales- public etc, utilities men, making it possible to be in a neighbourhood without being obvious'. The trouble with many of has been that these systems they cannot tell the difference between important and non- important events — everything sets them off. Barkan reports that in Washington sensors set off by rabbits, and dogs tree branches ring at the police 'that police station so often seldom pay much attention any more' Martial Law Trotsky wrote: "The essence • consists of of Bonapartism this: basing itself on the struggle of two it camps, "saves" the "nation" with the help of a bureaucratic-military dictatorship.' ('Whither France?') period of In capitalist …a crisis, when the ruling class that only by inflicting sees major defeats on the working class can it maintain its rule, then any proclamation of a state of emergency enabling the arrest of trade unionists, suppression of workers' pub- lications and the use of troops to move fuel and food and maintain communications, is always a possible halfway house to a permanent state of martial law and rule by decree.

This does not mean that martial law is simply a stronger system of law than any other.

On the contrary, as y. H. Morgan, KC, Professor of Top: an American riot control squad. Right: tracking equipment (top) and outdoor censors (be- low) in use in Vietnam. Law and a Brigadier-General, wrote in the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' (1929): 'The truth of the matter is that the term martial law is really an anachronism and legally means nothing at all...

A proclamation is not neces- sary to justify resort to martial law, nor is the resort to martial law justified by it. It is all a question of fact.' On behalf of the capitalist class the 19th century judge Fitzjames Stephen defined martial law as: "The assumption by the officers of the Crown of absolute power exercised by military force for the suppres- sion of an insurrection and the restoration of order and lawful authority.' The recent statements suggest that such a measure is seriously being considered by sections of the capitalist class.

But capitalist society is in a fundamental crisis which no amount of 'surveillance' can alter. The world's working under revolutionary classes leadership are capable of defeating the capitalists, what- ever the devices. TOMORROW: Picketing and the Industrial Relations Act.

(IN the city of El Ferrol del Caudillo, as a result of discussion over a labour agreement in the National Bazan Firm, a group of workers, towards the end of february of this year, tried to put pressure on the management in order to achieve certain politically- subversive ends and when they failed, they led some short strikes on March 2, 3, and 4. This forced the management to take steps to sack six producers and this in turn provoked a mass meeting of producers which caused the police to intervene to disperse the crowd. But these workers did not give up their position and on March 9 they provoked an illegal demonstration the tone of which was subversive and intimidating, showing aggression towards the police which tried to break it up. Consequently, when the police were killed and several repelled this attack, two demonstrators were wounded as a result of which military jurisdiction made extensive inquiries. Behind the disorders were Manuel Luis Fraga, Manuel Amor Deus... All of these are now in prison.

They are well-known militants of the Communist Party; they harangued their companions, headed the demonstrations and gave out Since these acts can be described as crimes of propaganda illegal combination, articles 172, 173 and 174, public disorders, according to article 248, illegal propaganda, according to article according to article 222, all from the Penal 251, and sedition, Code, and since there are rational indications of their criminal their trials can be .. signed Señor Don behaviour, prepared laime de Gante y Moreno and Señor Don ‹ Jaime Santos Briz, judges and Magistrates.

Issued by the Public Order Tribunal, Madrid April 4, 1972.

bureaucrats fêted

BY JUAN GARCIA

are every time they visit the country.

The archaic and legalistic These 'in the workers are care' of commander Fraguela, statement from the officer the Military an in learned fascist judges Unit

(SIM)

Information in refer to the tremendous Carranza military prison. They not allowed to have any struggle launched by El are visitors or receive correspond- Ferrol shipyard workers ence from their relatives, who earlier this year for high.

themselves have been intimidated. er wages and reduction in When the only son of one work speeds. of imprisoned the workers. they fought Manuel Amor Deus, was killed Because on 25 workers in the middle of July in a car these questions, were imprisoned by the Public crash, Deus asked to be able Order Tribunal, 50 to attend the funeral. Fraguela were sacked, 200 were arrested and refused permission the on fines have been paid to the grounds that his couid send at of £30.000 and value over the funeral lead eight workers are still waiting conflicts. i Ato ober tried by: 'Thii ted stor de horstrations military and strikes: which forced the tribunal, exes Meanwhile the : Franco •head of civil government in signs trade deals. with Galicia to allow Dena to go to regime Soviet ... Union, whose the the funeral, which became a Top: president of Soviet Red Cross g massive demonstration against Franco's government. This brutal repression of the Spanish working class guaran- tees a high rate of exploitation is the best recommenda- and tion for Spain's entry into the Common Market and friend- ship with the Soviet Union.

The Franco regime has a very different approach to the representatives of the Soviet bureaucracy-as can be seen in the successful trade talks in Paris. A particularly obscene exchange was the recent visit of the president of the Soviet • Trovan, Red Cross, Madejda and the Minister of Public far to Health in Armenia, Vladimir Zvjaguin. ms Trovan was a speciatiguest * he pat the Sherry Festival in Jerer / ei in de la Frontera, in the south of i ret to " Spain. Here she was feted by a the landlords and the Domecq gets flowery official welcome. Above: which has lived family absolute luxury for over 100 years surrounded by often living crowded peasants huts together mud and In Laves. She attended an early morn- ing mass to welcome and bless this year's grape crop and the the highpoint Festival, symbolic grape-crushing As the hrst spurt of sesson. precious liquid emerged, pre- the of Nued over Saint Gines de la Jara, patron saint of the wine merchants of Jerez, thousands of messenger messages verse famous Spanish poets. jerez to Malaga and From Malaga from to flowery official weldome at Barcelona she was of the president the Provincial Assembly. In Barcelona, Trovan visited, Wadnoeday September 20, 1972 PAGE 5 me. Above: El Ferrol shipyards.

among other things, a blood bank and the Picasso museum.

This museum-and bookshops which sell books of Picasso's paintings — are favourite target of the fascist gang, the Warriors of Christ. The Spanish authorities did not take their Stalinist friend to the model prison in Barce- where prisoners told lona a recent delegation of the Inter- national Red Cross visiting Spanish prisons that they could not eat the food they were given and that late at night they were beaten and made to make confessions about their supposed crimes. However, the friendship of .Stalinists and fascists will not be sufficient to defeat. the *Spanish working class; This is *the lesson of the present wave of strikes in Galicia, only six months after the repression of ed, the shipyard workers.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Wednesday September 20, 1972 Five months shop (Jones) just at the corner ago Divis the Towers of and Workers Press was the soldiers were passing by in a first newspaper to reveal bullet Saracen with a rubber gun pointing out of the win- the latest refinement of dow but fired it when they in the British army was a battery that hit the Northern Ireland. This is child. straight to cut a rubber bullet in sent these boys down again to look for this two, bore a hole in it and battery, but the fighting was insert a battery. and it im Was possible for them to back get When the gun is fired, the they there recover it. But irst part of the rubber bulle did pick up the half of the drops and it away rubber bullet and to gave it battery which does the harm. been cut in me. It had clearly We have now received eye two. I had heard of a person witness accounts of the effects being injured with a battery of this barbarous practice.

last week but I took no notice victim The Francis of this, until I saw the injuries Rowntree, aged If years. that this child had received.

would be interesting to Up to the present time I had Com- views of the near the of child- seen a good number Party and the anti- who had been struck with ren communist International bullets none

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Group - Socialism both of them had injuries like this whom enthusiastically sup- ported the sending of British troops to Ulster in 1968.

the soldiers managed noW This is what happened to batteries from the rubber fire Rowntree. Francis First the bullet guns and they explained Mrs account of Mary Ken- that the bullet is cut in half, nedy: is inserted in. the battery first, the pointed cartridge On Thursday, April 20, about 3.45 p.m. two of my children came in and said that there had been a wee boy in- lure down at the tront of the flats. I went down the stairs and asked two older boys to bring him up to the flat.

They carried him and • He put him on the settee. was time unconscious al the was bleeding from the mouth. There big great dent WaS across his forehead as if the was broken at the side DONe appeared of his temple; it to me as if his forehead had col- lapsed. There was a deep dent the side of his eye leading His ear was down to his ear. enlarged and very discoloured, almost black. His was scalped from his hair line at the back of his ear right round to the back of his head. There was not much blood from the wounds on his head, he was not cut -more crushed there. much- All the blood coming was from his mouth bright red and gushing and gurgling in throat. seemed have the with my body and commenced to massage his lungs at the back to get some of the blood out of his throat. find his pulse We triea to rubbed his chest He ana little seemed become easier then but did not regain consciousness. I asked the wee boys that brought him up what had hap- him; said thất they he had been standing at the Top: British soldiers in action Ulster. Left: A rubber bullet vic- tim on Derry's 'Bloody Sunday' , Richt: Hussa. bullets collected teries used as on the streets of Derry. half of the rubber bullet then put in. When the gun 1s fired the impression is given of a rubber bullet being shot fact missiles two out but in are ejected and the battery Is lethal being heavier and more would travel at a faster speed.

In my opinion this explanation the is consistent with boy's head. McCabe from St Father Peters came into the flat while we were attempting first-aid on the boy; he looked at him, his then shook head and administered Lee ast les While Mrs Kennedy was what she could to help the 11-year-old victim of the the British heroic John army, Giffin, Colin 33-year-old leader, was called in. youth Mr Giffin states: reached the flat. Inside

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ous on the settee. He appeared very shape. badl There was blood coming from and his ears and nose even to be seeping either appeared from or into his eyes. At first his head appeared to have in, his front left side caved temple and side of his head He appeared to have been scalped along the left side of his head because the hair and skin seemed to be missing.

his head As I watched started to swell. I wanted to take him in my car right away to the hospital but one of the ladies present said it would be too dangerous to move him.

The swelling of the head was a dreadful thing. It did swelling not appear to be evenly, This all happened in almost unevenly bumps. • front of all our eyes. When the ambulance went away I went looking for wit- There one boy was nesses. who was close to the boy I heard Rowntree and when his name as having been beside the child I went to look for him. He told me that he was standing very close to Rown- tree when he was hit. He said the rubber bullet was fired at a distance of between 3-6 feet.

I know this boy person- and ally see no reason why he should lie about this, especially as this was just im- whole mediately after the had happened. There thing a second whom I was didn't know. He had picked up the front half of a rubber bullet on the scene where the child was shot. I asked him for it but he would not give it to me. As a youth leader in Divis Flats I have seen innumerable people hit with rubber bullets, but never did I see anyone as badly injured as young Rowntree Finally, Mrs Theresa Rown- the boy's mother, tree, scribes what happened at the hospital: My I1-year-old son Fran- cis was playing in Lower Clonard Street, at 3.30 p.m. when I left to do some shop- ping. Later on he was seen Workers Press, Wednesday Ser playing in Cairns Street.

When I returned home at 4.30 p.m. there were two waiting for me. boys young A man in Divis Street had told them to come and tell me that my son had been taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital and that he had been seriously injured. A man drove me to Hughes' Bakery where I saw my hus- band and I then went on to the hospital about arriving 5.10 p.m. I saw a Mr Ruther- ford there. He told me that my son had serious head in- juries but they did not know to what extent till they X- rayed him. My husband and a friend, and I waited for the results of the X-ray. A Mr Fannin and Mr Rutherford took us into the office about 5.30 p.m.

and told us he was very ser- iously ill. They did not hold much hope for my son. My husband was told that his brain damaged, to what was extent they didn't know. They said that they were going to operate on Francis immedia- tely and that we were to re- turn at 7.30 p.m. When we returned we were told that he had not been op- erated on as he was in too bad a state. He was in an in- tensive-care unit and was re- ress, Wednesday September 20, 1972 PAGE 7 blood transfusions. ceiving sister told us that he The would go to the theatre about 8 p.m. returned home and We o'clock, we got about a phone call to go to the hos- pital as they weren't happy with him. My son was in the operating theatre at this time.

We went to the hospital with Father Darragh and we told by a Mr Bynne were that there was no hope and that if he did survive he would be mentally deficient.

We were allowed to see my son at this time. He was un- recognisable. A lady who took him into her home and gave first aid, came on Thursday eve- ning to inquire after my son.

She said. 'Do not believe any- one that tells you he was hit by a rubber bullet. It was a battery? 'It shaved the hair right off him,' • said her sister who was also on the scene. We asked how this could hap- pen. She had been told by some of the boys who were at the scene that a rubber bored bullet cut in two, and a battery is inserted into hole. When the gun is the fired, the first part of the rub- her bullet drops away and it is the battery which does the harm.

THE POTSDAM

SELL-OUT

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday Sop The key question facing American imperialism in Asia after World War II was the future of China. US President Harry Tru- man was anxious to know whether the Kremlin would be friendly to the Chinese Nationalist gov. ernment of Chiang Kai. shek and abstain from aiding or encouraging the Chinese communists. More precisely, he wanted to know whether Stalin would co-operate with the American government in bringing about political and military unity in China under Chiang. This was raised by American diplomat Harry Hopkins in his third talk with Stalin on May 28. 1945. On this occasion Hopkins was accompanied by Averell Harriman, US Ambas- sador in Moscow. Stalin said that he too thought it desirable that China should be unified and become an integrated state and that 'we should all occupy ourselves with helping China to achieve unity' At a later point in the talk he remarked: 'The United States must play the largest part in helping China to get on her feet, the Soviet Union would be busy with its own internal reconstruction and Great Britain would be occu- "1 pied elsewhere. Harriman then went on to ask a series of pointed ques- What would the Soviet tions. attitude be if China was not unified when Soviet troops en- tered Manchuria? Would the Marshall [Stalin] consider it possible in that case to make the necessary arrangements with Chiang Kai-shek? Stalin answered without pause. The Soviet government did alter the to not propose sovereignty of China over Manchuria or any other part of China, and the Soviet Union had no territorial claims on China, either in Sinkiang or elsewhere. About Chiang Kai-shek - who had butchered the Chinese Communist Party in 1927 — Stalin had this to say: 'In regard to the Generalis- simo (Chiang) . . . he knew little of any Chinese leader, but he felt that Chiang Kai-shek was the best of the lot and would be the one to undertake the unification of China. He no other possible leader saw and that for example he did not belieye that the Chinese i communist leaders were about the unification of China."

Vastly: encouraged, Harri- * ac is man pressed on. •Was Stalin going to ask : en esday September 20, 1972 Top: Churchill, Truman and Stalin Stalin honoured the Potsdam agreement Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek (above left Chiang Kai-shek to organize the civil administration when Soviet entered Man- troops churia! He would, stalin re- plied: in Manchuria, as in any part of China where Soviet troops went, the Chinese civil administration could be set up by Chiang Kai-shek. 'Chiang could send his repre- sentatives to set up the Kwan- tung regime in any areas where the Red Army was ... the Soviet government was pre- pared to talk with the Chinese and if they wanted representa- tives in the artas where. the Red Army would ibe, they would be quite prepared to accept them tr •* It is quite clear:that Stalin envisaged a 'government of at the Potsdam conference, 1945.

agreement to the point of supporting the above left). Above right: Mao Tse-tung.

national unity' in China along the lines of those he was work- ing for in eastern Europe. Despite the eulogies to Stalin regularly sung particularly by present-day Maoists, Stalin was totally opposed to revolution in China. It was not his fault that the Chinese masses could not be kept within bounds. After years of suffering under imperialism, Chiang Kai- shek, the war-lords, the capi- talists and the landlords, the Chinese workers and peasants were in no mood to be kept within Stalin's limits. ca: In fact, Stalin clung to Chiang Kai-shek even longer than the Americans did! Even after the fall of Peking to Mao Tse-tung's forces on January 31, 1949, Stalin refused to recognize Mao as the new ruler of China. Two months later, he was still negotiating with Chiang Kai-shek over the north-west province of Sin- kiang. When the later capital of Nanking was captured April, 1949, the United States the inevitable and accepted stopped retreating along with Chiang. So did all the other western diplomats. In fact, the only embassy to cling to the fleeing Nationalists was that of the Soviet Union, faithful to the last to its agreements with imperialism. Elsewhere in Asia, Stalin was equally willing to co- operate. On June 6, 1945, Hopkins had a further talk with Stalin.

Brief mention was made of Korea. Hopkins said the American government thought it would be desirable that the tour most interested powers share in the trusteeship over Korea—the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, China (Chiang Kai-shek's China, of course). The duration of this trustee- ship, said Hopkins, could be left open. It might run five years, ten years, perhaps as long as 25 years. & Stalin said he fully agreed 1 .. He went even further. Hie s said. there was a tendency. "among small nations to exploit and even to create quarrels between the Great Powers for their own ends. The great powers, he said, must be on guard against the danger of this happening again: 'After all,' he observed, two world wars have been begun over small nations'!5 War was now no longer any- thing to do with imperialism.

It was a matter of small nations manipulating large ones! But one of the most disgust- ing acts of betrayal by Stalin- was the support, from communist parties throughout the world, for the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At the request of the United States, Russia entered the war against Japan. The dropping of therefore, the bomb, became a 'progressive act' hailed in the English, French and Italian Stalinist press-'Daily Worker' 'Humanité' and 'Unita' - and throughout the Stalinist world.

Unable to preserve imperial- ism in eastern Europe and China, Stalin could still seal his friendship for it in the blood of the Japanese working class. 1 'Potsdam Papers, Document quoted in Herbert Feis 26° 'Between War and Peace' p.

112. He + 3 Tbid: »: мірі 1 • Feis op, cit, p. 115 :5 Feis op. cit. p. 118.

In this month's 'Films Russell, the British film director, makes great play in an interview about the revolutionary nature of the artist and of art. Yet anybody watching his 'Savage Messiah' (ABC 2, Shaftes- bury Avenue) can see for himself that Russell knows nothing about the subject. The film recounts the brief life of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, a young French painter and sculptor, who, Russell thinks, greater genius than was a Moore or Picasso, and who died in the trenches of World War I in 1915 at the age of 23, just prior to the first exhibitior of his work. It revolves primarily around two subjects: the role of art and the artist, and the sexless, brother-sister relationship Gau- dier had with a 38-year-old would-be writer and Polish woman, Sophie Brzeska. work has been Russell's dubbed the cinema of excess and one of the few good things one can say about the film is that there is less excess than in "The Devils' or 'Women in Love'. By Russell's standards it is almost sober. If these parts of the film are this is pri- at all satisfying, marily due to the playing of Dorothy Tutin as Sophie, who manages to overcome the of Christopher restrictions Logue's script to give a pretty taut, moving portrayal of the woman, and to the unostenta- tious camera-work of Dick Bush. But in its portrayal of the artist himself, the film is as self-indulgent as one might expect from Russell, who sees the cinema as a means of working out his own hang-ups, so far as one can tell. purely Gaudier gives authorit the ant tr literary Scott arust as a trolled clearly sees the far valid point. But in film having to ends meet, ages odd tramp Britain talist glimpsed screen. artist he élitist as any ticular artist

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'outsider' in terms. to the but plays the person, Russell and this greater revolutionary and Russell is any make as still man- this semi- with occasionally is just as other inflated of the role. Russell does wider working class Above: Scott Anthony as the young French painter and artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. or even examine critically the role of the artist in capitalist society. He simply posits that the artist should be given the opportunity and the money to express his genius. This is all the more obvious when one considers a throw- away scene towards the end of the film. A group of workers demonstration against stage a the war and in favour of work and bread, but it is seen in a glimpse, in the distance, with- out making any political point and is almost as quickly for- gotten. In other words, the film is deliberately designed to reduce the problem of the artist, his relationship to the working class and even the revolution to the level of caricature, to debunk the whole notion struggle and the class the artists role in that struggle.

I am a communist, Bloomsbury-type freak intones, but she is simply another self- indulgent fancy of Russell's.

For him revolution is debased to the level of style, of fashion, of trend. It is a typical be- trayal. in talk The film abounds about art, but it is for the most part simply Russell talk- ing about himself and his own indulgences. All it amounts to is that Russell should be left to himself with all the money and time to make a lot of mediocre films about his. own fantasies. It is interesting that the film should arrive now, when the strength of the working class is becoming greater and the crisis of capitalism more acute. Russell makes a film about a so-called revolution- ary artist. But he cannot rise above the level of half-baked, sterile protest and can only pander violently anti-working to the class attitudes of the society he laughingly claims to attack.

Workers Press, Wednesday September 20, 1972 PAGE 9

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The Ministry of Labour Staff in the middle of Association, which organizes staff who help administer the Needless o with the work- Industrial Relations Act at the Department of Employ- ing class of Manchester, except ment, has deregistered. that some them may be used to build it. They can build

MOULDY PIES

it, but they won't be allowed More and more cases of food inside once it's finished.

contamination being re- are Its purpose is to ported each year, according to wealthy patients from Britain the report of the Association and from overseas. of Public Health Inspectors.

A consultant in close con- 8,020 cases were reported in organization 1969, 9,260 in 1970 and 11,522 behind project-the in 1971. American Medical International Most bread, Incorporated-has suggested cases concern milk, cakes, and cooked meats.

that Americans may find treat- Comlaints about food ment at the hospital, plus air mould, especially in bread, meat pies, fares, still cheaper than treat- ment in the United States.

and confectionary, also are rising. Noise, too, is a rising health Factory hospital hazard. levels have operate along the same lines as built to the point now up where nearly a million people made deaf after 20 opened by AMI some years ago will be Fees there range from £100 years. £150 per week.

SECURITY

current fee for treat- ment at the Private Patients A conference of management Home of the Manchester Royal consultants held, appro- priately enough, in Gleneagles, Infirmary is around Perthshire-has been told that management staff need Meanwhile, sick workers- senior and in the United and non-mat- both here more material erial rewards. States-just have to wait.

director H. E. Managing

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Roff believes the top men should have bonuses and share The north east of England has options as well. He also sug- the highest unemployment rate that international com- after gests the British Isles in panies should vary the place this is driving Ulster. And where executives were placed young lads into the army.

provide what he order to in Army recruitment has gone discreetly calls 'the most fav- 50 per cent in some up by ourable net after-tax result. parts of the region. According The chaps also need job- Colonel Peter Mander, to security Army Careers Officer for New- satisfaction, status, and promotion. and Northumberland, castle 'An management urgent 181 boys in that area between burbled need of time, the ages of 15 and 17t our were Roff, 'is to recognize the true accepted into regiments in the potential of these rewards and first two weeks of September.

to use them to obtain signifi- Tunior recruitment in the higher levels of Sunderland, Peterlee and Eas- cantly exe- cutive performance. ington areas is also well up.

Williams, 'Darky' Major

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THE DOCKS settlement has been slammed as being infla- tionary by the Road Haulage Association in the latest issue of its journal 'Road- way'. The RHA, which has itself just and increased defied the CBI charges by up to 10 per cent, says that the Jones-Aldington re- port is less than a triumph of conciliation. The statement said the RHA had no wish to exacerbate a de- licate situation, but it would be doing less than its duty if it did not speak out on behalf of its for whom scant members thought had been given by those responsible for the terms of the settlement. The Jones-Aldington report was concerned solely with pre- serving the jobs of a relatively small number of men for whose services the demand was declin- ing, 'Roadway' said. wagged a dog 'No tail ever more vigorously,' it added.

This is hogwash. The "dog' that the RHA is talking about the powerful multi-million- are aires who made huge profits out of dock labour since the begin- ning of the century. Port employers were already carrying surplus labour, it said, and one informed observer had forecast that in five years' time there might be only two ployers left in the Port of Lon- don. The editorial ended with an expression of anxiety about the National Ports Council inquiry into unregistered ports wharves. The inquiry, part of the docks settlement, is due to report later this year on whether these ports should be brought within the national dock labour scheme.

The RHA vigorously defends the unregistered ports and com- plains that 'the principle of the freedom of the haulier to gage those who he thinks fit is at stake'. COMMON MARKET meat prices have risen dramati- cally over the past year and now increasing meat short- ages are likely to push prices even higher. Butchers in Paris have fore- cast that by April next beef prices could £2.50 a kilo (£1.04 per Ib) while a large steak from better quality cost as much could meat as £3.30. And British farmers are only too eager to get into the Com- Fill in the form below and

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Name Address esday September 20, 1972 Right: Petra Markham plays Mikki in Episode 3 of 'Ace of Wands' or Thames TV at 4.50 Later on in thi evening, at 8.00, we take an hila- rious look at 'A life in the Day of Charles Drake'-that's him below in the boater. The hour-long show includes Acker Bilk and his Para- mount Jazz Band among the guests.

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11.28 News. 11.31 Faith for life.

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2.00 Freud on food. 2.20 Cartoon.

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7.30 London. 11.30 What the 11.45 News. 11.55 papers say. Guideline. 12.00 Shirley's • world.

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11.00-1.00 London. port 1.30 News. 1.32 Cartoon. 1.40 veal in Paris was 30 per cent higher than 12 months previ- ously, while a month later in September veal prices were 49 per cent up on those in Sep- tember 1971. Last week's average whole carcass price was about 40p a lb, but better-quality cuts were much dearer. Beef prices have also shot up -average French prices are also at least 30 per cent up on those 12 months ago. In Britain too, veal prices went up 10p alb from 35p to 45p in the last week. For workers in Britain these prices will mean a severe under- mining of living standards and wage increases won in the past 12 months of struggle against the Tory government. It is on these price increases and in- savage creasing unemployment that the Tory government is basing its strategy for entry into the Com-.

mon Market. LINCOLN'S fleet of 58 buses was agair fourth successive day by strike action.

144 drivers and conductors has been public transport came to a halt on Sa nine months of conductor Ronald Bowl The men had returned to work for o out again—this time over the dismi allegedly was caught smoking in his c

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9.38-12.00 Schools. 12.30 Nai zin- dagi naya jeevan. 12.55-1.25 Hed- diw yng nghwm nant yr eira. 1.30 Andy Pandy. 1.45-1.53 News and 2.05-2.25 Schools. 3.00 A chance to meet. 3.35 M Ste mind. 4.00 The mole. 4.10 Play school. 4.35 Parsley. 4.40 Jack- Deputy anory. 4.50 dawg. 5.00 Laurel and Hardy. 5.20 Joe the gladiator. 5.45 News and weather.

6.00 NATIONWIDE.

6.50

TOM

AND

Old Rocking Chair Tom. 7.00 ANIMAL STARS. Lions.

MISSION

7.25

IMPOSSIBLE.

The Bargain. 8.10

SOFTLY,

SOFTLY: TASK

FORCE'. Killer.

NINE

O'CLOCK NEWS,

weaer.

9.25 TILL DEATH US DO PART.

9.55

FRANK SINATRA.

A Man and His Music. 10.45

MIDWEEK.

Preview of the Longford Report on Porno- graphy.

11.30 LATE NIGHT NEWS.

11.35 Weather.

BBC 2

11.00 Play school. 11.25 Liberal Party

5.35-7.00 OPEN

Assemoly. 7.30

NEWSROOM

AND

CON-

FERENCE

REPORT.

8.10 The Prisoner. 9.00

BETJEMAN

IN

AUS-

TRALIA.

Pomp and cll- cumstance. 2.40 Liberal Schools. Party. 4.00 nomoer

TOOM

4. v News London. 6.00 Reports. 6.35 Lon- 7.00 Dick Van Dyke. 7.30 10.30 Sonas LOndon em embered. 11.00 London. 11.30 World War 1

YORKSHIRE:

9.30 1.00 London. 2.00 Liberal Party 2.30 London. 5.20 Primus. 5.50 6.00 6.35 Calendar. weather oon London. Protectors. London. 10.30 Blue light. 11.00 11.30 Spyforce. 12.25 London Weather.

GRANADA:

9.30 1.00 London. 1.30 Grass- Galloping •ourmer island. Supercar. Liberal Party. 4.00 Cross- 2.15 5.20 4.20 News. London.

TOCOS

5.50 Place. oncon bul What's 6.30 Survival. Smith family. .30 London. 10.30 Chicago teddy bears.

11:30 What the papers say. 11.45 Amazing world of Kres- Cutback noted in research

BY OUR OWN REPORTER

BRITISH industry is cutting down on research and develop- ment says the National Research Development Corporation in its annual report out yesterday.

Fewer new projects were sub financial sup mitted last year port. it savs. 'Our experience this year suggests there Is a re uc. the of industry to cance on part Decome involvca in tue ilalcıl.

of long-term projects, or to raise the level of its support of its own development research and projects even suffi- grammes and to keep pace ciently with cost inflation.' During the year the Corpora- s. There were 96 the pee ton

HALO

projects. vious year. LINCOLN'S fleet of 58 buses was again idle yesterday—halted for the fourth successive day by strike action. A mass meeting of the city's and conductors has been planned for today. The city's public transport came to a halt on Saturday following the jailing for nine months of conductor Ronald Bowler (38) for stealing 6p in fares The men had returned to work for only two hours when they were out again—-this time over the dismissal of driver Sid Batty who

ITV

9.30 Schools. i2.05 Rupert Bear.

12.15 Liberal Party Assembly.

1.00 Freud on food. 1.25 Bell- bird. 1.40 Woobinda. 2.05 Castle haven. 2.30 Good afternoon. 3.00 Liberal Party Assembly: 4.10 Hatty town. 4.25 Little big time.

4.50 Ace of wands. 5.20 Survival.

5.50 News.

6.00 TODAY.

6.35 CROSSROADS.

7.00 THE SMITH FAMILY. Am- bush.

7.30 CORONATION STREET.

DRAKE

ler. 8.00 THE

CHARLIE

COMEDY HOUR. A life in the Day of Charles Drake.

Old 9.00 VAN DER VALK. Destroy- ing Angel. 10.00

NEWS AT TEN.

LE. 10.30 TONY BENNETT. At the Talk of the Town with Sarah Vaughan.

SK 11.00 A CLASS BY HIMSELF.

The Bleasham Memoirs. John Le Mesurier, Peter Butterworth, Richard Stil- goe. RT. 11.30

EYES

FILM:

'THE

OF CHARLES SAND'. Peter Joan Haskell, Bennett. Barbara Rush, Sharon Far- Bradford Dillman, rell, Adam West. Supernatural thriller. 12.50

TOO DIFFICULT

THE

FILE.

9.25 FILM: 'THE PRISONER OF

SHARK ISLAND'. Warner Baxter. Gloria Stuart. Harry Carey. A doctor who helps Abraham Lincoln's assassin is sentenced to life imprisonment. 11.00 NEWS ON 2, Weather.

11.05 LATE NIGHT LINE-UP.

.00 TYNE TEES: 9.30 London. 1.00 Saint. 1.59 News. 2.00 Liberal Party. 4.25 London. 5.20 Primus.

5.50 London. 6.00 Today. 6.35 7.00 Protectors. 7.30 London. London. 10.30 Chicago teddy bears. 11.00 London. News. 11.45 squad. 12.40 Junkies are Mod people too. SCOTTISH: 9.30 London. 2.00 Liberal Party. 2.20 Horoscope.

2.30 Women today. 3.00 London.

5.20 Cartoon. 5.25 Crossroads.

5.50 London. 6.00 Scotland. 10- day. 6.30 Survival. 7.00 Whicker.

7.30 London. 11.30 What the papers say. 11.49 Late call. 11.55 Sounds like McEvoy.

GRAMPIAN: 10.58-1.00

London. 1.38 Schools. 2.50 Cartoon. 2.57 6.00 News News. 3.00 London. and weather. 6.10 Grampian week. 6.35 London. 1.00 Me and the chimp. 7.30 London. 11.30 Hawaii five-o. 12.25 Meditation. SHEFFIELD: Thursday Septem.

ber 21, 7.30 p.m. Manchester Hotel, Nursery Street. 'The builders' pay claim and the fight against the Tory Rents Act.'

MANCHESTER: Thursday, Sep- tember 21, 7.30 p.m. The Milton Hall, Deansgate. Defeat the Tory Rent Act. WATFORD: Monday September 25, 8 p.m. Trade Union Hall Woodford (upstairs Road (opposite 'Force the Tories to station). resign.' SOUTH WEST LONDON: Tues- Small Hall, Baths. Clapham Manor Street, SW4.

'ATUA

national confer- ence.' HOUNSLOW: Thursday Septem- ber 28, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Bath Road.

Powell raises the 'fascist'

BY MICHAEL BANDA

ENOCH POWELL has two major obsessions. When he is not inventing reactionary racial myths and invoking Anglo-Saxon chauvinism against Indians, Irishmen and Common Mar- ket garlic-eaters, he is usually busy advancing reactionary panaceas to cure inflation. Both these forms of Powellism have one thing in common: they are aimed essentially at exploiting the prejudices Powell: Pan of backward workers and sibility for 'managing public the insecurity of the finance' and that 'trade union middle class in the leaders would bear the interests of the big mono- sibility for the results to them- selves or those who employ them, polies. of the economic decisions that they take'. In his speech at Leaming- Powell ended his statement on ton Spa on Monday, Powell a deliberately ambivalent note: returned to the theme of accidentally, inflation: not I am far from arguing that, after the talks between the because one view leads to fascism CBI and TUC on this very and the other to parliamentary democracy, that settles the ques- subject had yielded little of tion which of the two views of tangible importance. inflation and its factually correct? Powell said there were two ways of dealing with inflation.

Is fascism then the answer to The first leads to fascism, the inflation? Powell will not answer other leads to parliamentary But what he in a categoric way. democracy. has said so far should leave trade unionist in doubt about The first viewpoint, he his strategy. asserted, is to give the govern- He is telling ment power to cancel 'excessive' the trade union by inflation and leaders that if they don't wage increases agree treat the 'real workers' militancy to unions as the to restrain villain of the piece'. and help keep the level of money supply down, then the ruling On this reckoning the govern- class will have no alternative but ment had obviously lost the to go for fascism.. power to control money supply If the Powell has in past and this power had to pass to new institutions which would, in opposed voluntary or statutory incomes policies, it is because effect, 'exercise of the he felt that the only way to cut major functions of government'.

by a down wage demands was The opposite view was that floating pound, unemployment parliament had the sole respon- and retrenchment in government ARMY REPORTS of last

FROM OUR OWN

Sunday's killing in Derry,

CORRESPONDENT

Northern Ireland, of 19-year- old Michael Quigley are against a demonstration in Bel- contradicted by eye-witness fast Ulster Defence by the accounts of the incident.

Association. As the march proceeded up Army have in- statements Fanad Central Drive towards sisted that Quigley, armed Drive the IRA opened fire which with Armalite rifle, shot an the army returned. Quigley was Guardsman David Bell in the shot twice in the back as he stomach from the junction of fled for with everyone Tremone Gardens and Fanad else. Drive in the Creggan Estate.

Soldiers picked him up, threw The patrol of a Saracen returned him the on duty the fire. and armoured car and took him Quigley fell dead to the crowd army post about 20 minutes gathered round him removed the weapon. drive from the estate. They later and The army say they picked his body transferred him to the Victoria later, without the rifle, in Barracks in the city centre and up Bridge the Craigavon from there -two hours later — nor an delivered him to the mortuary at army checkpoint. Eyewitnesses say that Ouigley, Hospital. Altnagiven who worked The hospital confirm that the as a printer in Protestant office supplies firm, body was not taken the ward or examined had been taking part in a demon- casualty by stration that dav from the Bog- staff but their on arrival, side to the Creggan in delivered to the mortuary.

protest

THE ONCE

fiery Independent Strabane, that protests -such as MP for Mid-Ulster, Miss the one earlier 'in the day when Bernadette Devlin, has than 300 children now more were appealed for people in Northern kept home from school-were "passively Ireland to resist' the the most effective. British and the RUC and The children were kept away army local halt the almost nightly hecause of hitter feeling stone- throwing cláshes with troons. against what they claim was the On Monday night she told a wrongful arrest of Tames Logue, 500-strong meeting in who charged with the open-air was owell: Panacea blic expenditure - not legislation alone. integral Unemployment is to em- Powell's policy to combat inflation. 'There is no soft option: if the shock of ceasing to inflate causes bankruptcies and unemployment that is how it has to be... The day has to come, when faced with higher prices, the govern- wont play. ment says: won't pay. I shall cut down."

Only then does the government "finance inflation"? cease to ('Sunday 1SVn. Dont be fooled in 1973 Express', January By Enoch Powell.) Powell's concern for the trade unions as not being responsible inflation thoroughly for spurious. When he threatens the union leaders with the spectre of fascism he is merely clarifying and concretizing his previous views on the role of trade unions in capitalist society. As he said in November 1970 in a meeting in Wolverhampton, the trade union was 'a social and performed phenomenon social function and that the law and the state were here regu- lating social relations of citizens with one another'.

In fact in Powell's final scheme of things, there is no scope for free trade unions at all!

Army headquarters in Lisburn yesterday said they will not move out of Belfast's Royal Vic- toria Hospital despite IRA threats to begin hostilities against the hospital. They claim that the army is using the hospital as a base for raids and attacks and therefore they would shoot on sight armed soldiers or RUC Special Branch men within its confines. They say they will also destroy the army's routes into and out of the hospital. The army has admitted housing troops in disused offices within the hospital grounds, but say that the only army and RUC men in the hospital are those who 'are with directly concerned guard and duties affecting the sick injured'.

IRA

however, statements, claim that the hospital basement used for secret security was meetings and that the canteen and snooker room were also used by armed soldiers. attempted murder of a British soldier. Logue was charged after army claims that a blast bomb had been thrown at troops during rioting on Friday night. About 30 minutes before Devlin's meeting, Logue was released on £1,000 bail and two sureties of f250 each. Workers Press, Wednesday September 20, 1972 PAGE 11 ANOTHER tame-cat report has been produced with the intention of trying to limit pollution.

Headed by Sir Eric Ashby, the committee which produced was set up to look into river and estuary pollution. It calls for legislation to con- trol the fouling of the waterways and beaches and says that bodies fighting pollution should be more unified. The committee also changes in the law dealing with industrial waste and sewage dis- charged from all ships in tidal waters. Under capitalism the rivers and into oceans giant which all filth is poured. And no number of liberal reports can do halt this. anything to The case for rationalizatien of the docks and transport industry Stephen Johns' and lan Yeats' timely articles on

SEA

LAND

CONTAINERIZATION

now put together in a useful

SEA

/ LAND

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Lord Melchett: Overstated

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

A MASS rheeting of over 8,000 Mersey- side building workers yesterday over- whelmingly rejected an action commit- tee recommendation to return to work, Stalinist chairman Billy proposed by Jones. Bomb kills Israeli official mount a guard on the Israell embassy in London after the

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

Labour Party spokesman resterday told Workers Press that Wilson had made no statement about last weeks terror bombing refugee Syria and camps Lebanon by the Israeli planes, waich. accoralue o une ralesune Liberation Organization, 300 people died.

WEATHER

IT WILL be mostly cloudy with isolated showers south-east England and East Anglia. Wales, Northern ireland. east and south Scotland, also the remainder of England will 8. with mainly dry sunny spells. West and north Scotland wil be mostly cloudy with rain spread- ing. from the west during the da Temperatures will be near nor- mal, except in south-east and East Anglia, land where will be • lalner cord.

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

LORD MELCHETT, chair- man of the British Steel Cor- poration, has said reports of a multi-mililon pound steel- works venture in South Africa are 'overstated'. He has told former Labour cabinet minister Judith Hart that had 'absolutely the corporation no commitment' in the project.

But the multi-millionaire Lord Melchett, who heads the Tory- controlled corporation, did not deny discussions relating to a potentially valuable ore field had taken place in South Africa.

In fact the South African Iron The meeting pool, followed a r 8,000 Mersey. centre which ca yesterday over- delays. action commit- return to work, lengthy rec A cluded talks with chairman Billy £30 claim, was si and file.

FROM PAGE 1

obsolete facilities at the yard are torn down and replaced. At lunchtime yesterday ship- yard workers said they would await developments, but there are widespread fears on two counts. FIRST, that once the 1,000 men go out of the gates the same men may not be re-employed.

AND SECONDLY, once the yard is dismantled, there is no guaran- tee new facilities will ever be built. told Angry shop stewards Clydebank convenor Reid at they would Monday's meeting rather drag heavy lorries across the gates and occupy the yard once and for all than be put out in the road. It is understood the Stalinists intend to propose to Marathon and even three-shift that two- working is adopted to avoid redundancies. Marathon UK chief James Fox refused to comment yesterday, but the company said from the and Steel Industrial Corporation confirmed recently that negotia- tions have commenced between BSC and West Germany's Thys- sen and Kloeckner groups.

A BSC team has already visited the site of the proposed export harbour at Saldanha on the western seaboard. Melchett's Despite guarded denial of the whole scheme, the project is intimately linked with BSC's perspective of savaging British steelmaking plant and jobs and producing abroad in countries like South Africa, where workers are paid slave- labour wages. leeting at the Pier Head, Liver- lowed a march through the city rhich caused widespread traffic thy recommendation, which in- Iks with local employers for the full 1, was shouted down by the rank The action committee will now try and arrange another mass meeting in the Boxing Stadium on Thursday. BIRMINGHAM building workers yesterday voted to return to work by next Monday following a 2,500-strong march through the city centre. But they also passed a resolu- tion calling for the resignation of the union leadership. Ken Barlow, UCATT regional organizer, who spoke for 45 minutes, said the regional coun- cil and the regional action com- mittee of shop • stewards were recommending a return. Soclalist Labour Loague

LECTURES

THE THEORY AND

PRACTICE OF MARXISM

given by

G. HEALY

(SLL national secretary) Historical materlalism today Tuesday September 26

AEU HOUSE

Mount Pleasant Liverpool 1, 7.30 p.m. outset they would not be able to burden their payroll with men for whom there would be no jobs for at least 18 months.

The men already on the pay- roll are being used for demolition work. Reid is also near certain to plead with the liquidator to allow the carriers to be finished at Clydebank, but with work at Govan in short supply the prospects are dim. This exposes the treachery of the Stalinists' policy, which split the UCS workforce by signing separate deais with Govan Ship- builders and Marathon. Many Govan workers believe the Clydebank stewards stole a march by obtaining £l an hour from Marathon and signed their own death warrants by agreeing to accept redundancy pay.

They also feel that their own company may not see mid-decade and they expect a run-down at the two other UCS yards-Lint- house and Scotstoun. The employers have sought to US PRESIDENT Nixon is likely to open next week's International Monetary Fund meeting with a threat of intensified trade war if Canada Europe, Japan and do not 'help America'. Dr Pierre Rinfret, economic adviser to Nixon's election cam- paign, said today: "The United States is prepared to launch a trade war . what would happen to its eco- nomy and the economies of the Market, and Common Japan Canada if it launched a far- reaching and brutal trade war.

considering, Rinfret 'We are said, 'a 150 per cent border tax textiles and steel. on cars, Europe is kidding itself. This is not an election gambit; this is a fundamental posture' CHENG TZU-TAI, the state- less architect taken uncon- scious from a plane at Heath- row two weeks ago, was again remanded in custody when he in Bow Street appeared magistrate's court yesterday.

application by Cheng's An Mr Benedict Birnberg, lawyer, was refused. It would be 'totally inappropriate, the magistrate said. Cheng, who was convicted in New York conspiring to assassinate General Chiang Kai- shek's son-Taiwan's prime minister-fled to Sweden while on bail. He was on his way back to the United States from Stock- holm when he was taken off an international flight at Heathrow.

Mr Birnberg told the court that Cheng was of yesterday good character, married with two children and an architect of some distinction. TALKS on the pay level of over 100 storekeepers at CAV Acton, West London, threaten to upset a recently-concluded site wage deal. Because of their hostility to the storekeepers' demands, the convenors of the 2,700-strong invited to factory have not been the talks. Development of Marxism struggle through working-class Sunday September 24 Nature of the capltalist crisis Sunday October 1 Historcal materlalism today Sunday October 8

EAST HAM

TOWN HALL

Lister Room Barking Rd, 7 p.m. further deepen split by this granting a general £3 wage in- crease, which under the single- clause of their agreement rate will mean £4 to some workers.

They hope by this means to ensure that few men will be anxious to rock the Govan boat.

As Archibald Gilchrist, chief executive at Govan Shipbuilders Ltd, observed after Monday's mass meeting which accepted the wage deal: 'There is no doubt that a substantial amount of sympathy shown by the workpeople was in these yards with the difficulties the company will be facing with getting off the ground at a time when the market is so low' Reid and Airlie drummed these same arguments into their men from the beginning as a means of heading off any real fight against unemployment and bulldozing them into accepting derisory agreements with the two new companies. Now, Clydebank, the at chickens are coming home to roost.