Workers Press no. 877

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 1972 • No. 877 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TORIES WILL TELL TUC LEADERS

FUND NEEDS

£1,044.94

CUT WAGES

WITH ONLY

6 DAYS LEFT

WE CANNOT stress enough the now for raising our Fund There are Fund. only six days and it will take of the

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one toughest struggles so far to com- plete the target. Ne appeal to every one of you, By DAVID MAUDE Our Industrial Correspondent

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up the fight dear readers. to TaKe TORY MINISTERS will tomorrow now before it is too late.

The very high price increases leaders: either help us hold your members' wages are greatly way below the rise in the cost of living or we will packets, we know naT. Workers Press Is the only means throw hundreds of thousands of them out of work.

we have of fighting back against grow. For whatever diplomatic sugaring premier Heath nese nuce Increases. ing unemployment and all the his colleagues use as a sweetener, this is the real ingredient of the vicious Tory with the employers and union needed to Downing Street. effort is raise the outstanding £1,044.94.

Chancellor Anthony The Fund can be raised If we chief Sir pull out all the stops. not Douglas conn Davies and treasury Allen met on Saturday to plan their strategy

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leave a stone Unturned. mere ever possible raise extra for the talks. amounts and send to : Encouraged by last -Thee unem loyment anding Workers Press a further jump in hard-core unemployment and September Appeal Fund signs that the union men are already respondIna 186a Clapham High Street to their demands, the Tory leaders decided to press London SW4 7UG. home their advantage. They want real undertakings about agreement to a torm or voluntary incomes poncy.

hold down all future pay increases to a miserly cent.

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same time Heath has ruled out any pos- sibility of a trade with the TUC over the Indus- Miners trial Relations and Housing Finance Act in order

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to get their co-operation in wage restraint. Tenants will thus face the full the *fair rents' and LP force which will eventualv double the of much council housing, cost when comes into operation week neXt back YS And the National Industrial Relations Court, which summer holidays back from its the same day, will plunge straight programme of marchers union-bashing. has almost 100 unle items on its case-list. Many of these are unfair dismissal cases,

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General Workers' Union fined £55,000.

LEEDS TO SHEFFIELD

The Tories" strategy for to- morrow's talks is not com- promise. but the threat of un- employment. the heads of the union Over and

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leaders tomorrow Heath will hold the if elective co-operation forthcoming, not much needed finance will be withheld from the steel and electri- coal, rail, city-supply industries.

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER. MONDAY SEPTEMBER 25, 1972. No. 877 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TORIES WILL TELL TUC LEADERS

FUND NEEDS

€1,044.94

CUT WAGES

WITH ONLY

6 DAYS LEFT

WE CANNOT stress enough the for ralsing our Fund There

HOW

Fund. are only six days and it will take of the toughest struggles so far to com plete the target. By DAVID MAUDE Our Industrial Correspondent Ve appeal to every one of you

OR WE

dear readers, to now before It is too late.

The very high price Increases leaders: either help us hold your members' wages are greatly way below the rise in the cost of living or we will packets, we know Workers Press Is the only means throw hundreds of thousands of them out of work.

we have of fighting back against all one premier Heath whatever diplomatic sugaring Ing unemployment and the his colleagues use as a sweetener, this is the real ingredient of the vicious Tory with the employers and union government. needed to Downing Street. eltort is raise the outstanding £1,044.94.

The Fund can be raised If we chief pull out Il th stops. not John Davies and Treasury Sir Dougas Allen met on Saturday to plan their strategy unturned. Where.

PUT UP

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to get their co-operation in wage restraint. Tenants will thus face the full the *fair rents' law, and LP force will eventually double the WiCH of much council housing, cost it into when comes operation back YS week. And the National Relations Court, which comes summer holidays back trom its the same day, will plunge straignt into heavy programme of marchers union-bashing.

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but a signincant number concert ale adons the section of the law under which the dockers were the Transport aneu alla

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fined General Workers' Union €55,000.

LEEDS TO SHEFFIELD

The Tories strategy for to- morrow's talks not com- but the threat of un- orosc. employment. over the the heads of the union and leaders tomorrow Heath will hold the ultimatum if effective co-operation that not • Iorincoming, finance will be withheld from the steel and electri- coal, rail, city-supply industries. A sC Kan" mate. which Would _cut in. vestment and therefore jobs, may also mooted. Sir Allen doubt be counted on to remind

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Marcos arrests opposition politicians and guerrillas Crackdown on Arabs by West German police PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday September 25, 1972 stewards' committee

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the dockers' and Communist Party fights bitterly Stalinist Reid and Airlie, im- the punicers sinkes dune orevent outsion Icaucis, splitting of the upper Clyde making the Tory government posed the

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shipbuilders, the Stalinists strategy which has resulted in resign the thousands jobs being the British In the strike, of Com- Icccul munist Ridley 'butcher' plan and Party Stalinists supported becomlng • OIe• more and more exposed in the Aldington talks. And the the Act nelatlons Communist Party been accepted the

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ulU CuCill. Stalinists in deals which the London stewards not dlulls Stalinism is not the job avone " cer ca to co! yards have been split and the political the strike after the Transport It is a con- General Workers' Union men confused. revisonsls ciale. and sciously counter-revolutionary this the Stalinists Gks ciciai nca voltal point, force, which represents end it. blame the workers, calling then peaceful reformist road-to- The Stalinist stewards were tweeN Cobe youtos determined not to mobilize the socics! rettencl interests" and wanting the Soviet bureaucracy. It sets out 'dirty Caus DOLICely stewards to carry out deliberately to smash working- challenge the union leadership class the Tory

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and the Tory government. Icololalllc And in blaming the workers, the builders covemneri occause In the strike the Moscow bureaucrats desire Stalinists are supported by the Stalinists mouthed left • Dhrase: peaceful co-existence with revișionists. Thệ Internationa long the strike was Worker Heath and the 'Socialist lories. Socialists decared on August 2o that the This coveruenl Icialls London dockers were 'un- Omce only decause oi tne sup- •emano cn worthy of their stewards'.

port it gets from the Labour strike. And when „tna earer. trade Yet ship's betrayal confused the Yet . 1972 has tremendous and union leaders. oCCH demonstrations of and file, the rank Conouos ouceo cconol V ar key involving crisis, every major strike oralnists arean Class mutanl struggle conflict London Leeds and Liverpool miners. Talwa men Hacker This who led the call for a return builders, shipyard workers and with the economic others. crisis Diec se v widu oralnisl

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At Upper Clyde Shipbuilders the to obscure. In strike the gives such batt es the characte MARTIAL law was im- posed throughout the Philippines at the week- end and least 20 at people, including opposi- tion politicians and journalists, were detained charged

ARMED

POLICE

in Manila. 2,000 workers demonstrating outside the Citröen factory in President Ferdinand Spain, at the Vigo, northern weekend. Marcos said the measures management claims 1,800 directed were against in- have returned to work and creasing subver- COu VISoU demanded the nas sion: 'I have had to use this labour-force returns before it will in order lose power resume nol lo necona ns demand for a 44-hour our civil rights,' he said.

and re-instatement of nine week I have prayed for guid- sacked workers Workers' representatives am confident that sav ance 800 working and have with God's help we will attain that are to work repeated that no return a reformed society and a new will TaKe brace Uste. Marcos and brighter WOlCH are re-employed. men 'We must start with the said. At least 2,500 Hare rs ir been elimination of anarchy and the Vigo mausuies Have 110W and maintainance of given for nicmiccal nouces ucal Two Maolst guerrillas of the New Peo their sympathy order' Marcos is one strikes. of the About 100 miles north of Vigo, nOSI viruenl alli-onl in El Ferrol, Franco's birthplace, munists in Asia. 3oI1S fascist police were also in regime is main- huge tained Ameri- They broke up a demonstration protesting against oen eins nana-ouls alu military trial of eight shipyard strong -arm gangster held in jail last methods. workers since The president's army reorudiy s strike own WolCi annost Marchers carried posters and ousted him in the early position has become distributed leaflets reading. 1950s and never creas ney SAaKV

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with military courts'. 'Down his rigged re-election in ocen COmPactely registered 1969. Rising prices, destroyed. mulCi protests by the Danish and Norwegian and dustrial The Huks, led by the olas laliul governments at President Pom- growing Philippine Communist bogy in order to mo unrest Spain's entry -Didou's support ior the population have Party, have gained ize army are whatever to the common Marker ex• ground absolute

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pressions of fear that such forth- the months, according Certainly the sUcia. Dast talk influence right may had. Marcos aides. stories being 'No' vole Cne recienua The most active quer bv government minis CO Ca. terTonsm. to be held in both countries this endemic the Philip- rilla force is a faction of nave an unreal all. and next weekend on EEC entry since the war, has the original One claimed the H Seat, The recent disclosure by pilica called were planning the nare uo u d CW ocak 11icul Car comeany Jointty owied in recent months. Fiat and Franco's neope sanny nonier olanie. by the Italian Marcos wants to off- pro-Peking Stalinists. the presidential that they made government, load the blame for these The yesterday and overthrow Marc £10}m pronts last vear. in spite claimed Marcos Ame pre-dse a reo develooinciils w ds ot the hatter sirike in the bar.

the underground guerrilla using communist hol mne ore-caws celona plant, can only accelerate Spain's entry into Europe.

THE WEST German govern- Munich have been ordered to egypt nas retallatea dy sayıng leave. They include Magdi el that unless 'the ill-treatment and of Social Democrat ment student who helped restrictions nawialy. Lupuse Willy Brandt has started to West police negotiate German with aes nian

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crackdown on Arabs working querrillas after the attack on the ceased within 24 hours, Egypt will resort to the same measure and studying there. Olympic team. and Kelations betweer rolow ue conce amouncc. ment the West German Nationa The harassment and detention Bonr were nestoree recenu and observers of Arabs has raised protest Union of Students accused after seven years •diplo- authorities of persecuting Arabs forecasting another Devoudl 41 C Twenty-five Arabs living since Killings.

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of a step in the struggle for political power. At the same time-as is demon- strated in Ulster-the ruling for counter- class prepares révolutionary dictatorship and therefore every betrayal leaves working class open to serious dangers. the Reformist trade unionism, how- ever militant, must inevitably compromise with the Tory government. Without revolu- tionary leadership, trade union struggles win. The cannot task in the unions. central today is to replace Stalinist and reformist leadership with revolutionary leadership.

That is why the basis of Trotsky- is the insistence of the Socialist Labour League on the continual training of cadres to Stalinism understand as an counter-revolu- international tionary force. Stalinism slaughtered the leader- ship of the Russian Revolution the Moscow Trials. betrayed the Chinese Revolu- tion Chiang Kai-shek in to 1927. It subordinated the New People's Army captured in Manila which swoops accom- panied Marcos' decree martial law of was Senator Benigno Aquino, leader of the opposition Liberal Party, contacts accused of clandestine der to mobil- with the guerrillas. seize Yesterday in Manila troops were posted in the scare offices and ng circulated newspaper radio stations and were ent ministers also reported to have moved into the univer- ned the Huks sity of the Philippines. to use All passengers leaving to bomb ential palace the country were re- row Marcos. quired to obtain special hose arrested travel permits from the -dawn police president's office. United Nations In the a debate on "terrorist violence' has been brought onto the agenda plenary session next hotly-contested following a debate. Many African and Middle East countries opposed the suggestion of the debate while the Soviet countries abstained. Opposing the resolution Cuban General Strike to the Anglo- Russian Trade Union Com- mittee in 1926. It delivered the German working class to Hitler in 1933 and the Spanish workers and to peasants Franco in 1937. Stalinism has not changed. Those who pay lip-service to condemning the crimes of Stalin but who refuse to ex- amine the Moscow Trials and historical of record Stalinism in order to fight it and defeat it today are little more than liberals. This is the role of the anti-com- munist, centrist_International Socialism group. By refusing to fight Stalinism, in particular by refusing to raise the question of bringing down the Tory government, they align themselves with the Stalinists in practice in order to keep the working class within the limits of reformism. It is the task of a revolutionary workers' paper to fight these false policies every day. That is what Workers Press has done and will continue to do.

NONE OF the outstanding issues between the main capi- talist countries are resolved as.

they gather in Washington for International Monetary Fund's annual meeting today.

Tension is heightened by re- ports that President Nixon will open the conference with a 'bombshell' announcement of protectionist measures directed against European and Japanese exports. According to Pierre-Rinfret, Nixon's campaign adviser on economic questions, the meas- could include a 150-per- ures cent import surcharge on steel, cars and electronic goods.

• See Tanaka's Peking visit p.

12. ambassador Ricardo Alarcon Quesada said that what the as- sembly should deal with was the 'criminal' activities of the United States in Indo-China and else- where and the violence of the 'slavery of colonialism'.

US representative George Buch said his country and people were 'gratified' by assembly's the action.

MORE TORY WEAPONS

AGAINST WORKERS

Kent miners on unofficial strike in 1970 queue for the last money they were to receive till they returned to work weeks later.

Part 23 of a series on Picketin The Tories have launched political offensive against the working class.

The Industrial Relations Act is the cornerstone. Other laws also aim to seriously weaken the fighting ability of the working class. These include: The Immigration Act This attempts to separate black and white workers into units apart and hostile to each other. Enoch Powell is in no way an 'outsider' of the Tory Party on this subject. On the contrary, he spearheads their racialist attack. He has long been a keen Industrial advocate of the Relations Act. In February 1969 he attacked the draughts- men's union's closed shop at Esso's Fawley plant as 'injus- tice and tyranny which the law present condones and at suffers' adding: 'Who are we to martyr ourselves and our shareholders to resist and expose it.' He forecast Tory legislation to withdraw im- munity from enforcement of the closed-shop saying: 'Only when this is done will firms like Esso be free.' ("The Times', December 22, 1969.) The Social Security Act Numerous restrictions have already been made in pay- ments of benefit to families of workers on strike and the Tories are threatening more attacks to come. Under the Act of last year, payment for the first three days of unemployment is abolished and the £4.35 of a strikers' income, including tax rebate and strike pay, pre- viously disregarded, is cut to £1. This that the means income of some workers on strike can be £3.35 short—a blatant case of getting at strikers through their families.

The Act also makes the money paid after a striker has returned to work, to carry him up to pay day, recoverable through his employer. At the Minister Keith Joseph time, described the Act as 'distinctly political, and with distinct political overtones' not go far enough, and the unions should be made to pay. The fact is, that in a dispute the Social Security system acts as an arm of the state and the employers to back to drive the workers work. That strikers' families are the Tories' target was indicated by Keith Joseph, Minister of Social Services, who said earlier this year: "There is a great deal of resentment from supporters on both sides of the House about payments of public money to the dependants of strikers.'

Some measures the Tories are considering are the en- forced repayments of benefits after a strike is over, a ban on welfare payments to strikers after they have rejected arbitration and deferment of tax refunds until a strike is over. The Night Assemblies Bill As originally planned, this was to make it a criminal offence to hold any gathering Picketing by Bernard Franks Kent miners on unofficial strike in 1970 of over 1,000 people (later amended to 5,000) in the open air for any period of three hours between midnight and 6 a.m. without first applying to a local authority for con- at least four months sent without guaran- before, and teeing certain financial security. Wide powers would be given to local authorities to ban such an assembly on the basis of the site being unsuitable. Any- assembly, holding an one giving notice of one or allow- ing land to be used for one in contravention a fine of £400. The Bill also provided for a 'code of practice' to be cir- culated to local authorities by the Secretary of State advising on the conditions which should control the holding of such an assembly. Even if only aimed at pop festivals as claimed - though the term does not appear in the Bill - it would constitute more discrimination against young people. However its restrictions are laid down in general terms which could equally apply to trade union or political rallies.

Admittedly, these do not often occur at night; but with entire industries on shift work, or, for example, with the advent of an emergency, the situation could very different. Proscribing organizations An extremely sinister piece of legislation for the entire labour movement this was recently given a formal first reading in the Commons. Introduced by Conservative Ronald Bray, it would: 'Proscribé the establishment re in 1970 queue for the last money they were of offices, depots, accommoda- tion addresses or locations within the United Kingdom, by any person or organization whose declared intentions may prejudice, militate against, or be in any way hostile to the United Kingdom and the safety of citizens of the United King- dom or British Common- wealth.' Bray spoke of his concern over the proposal of the Pale- stine Liberation Organization to set up an office in London.

Workers in Britain should un- reservedly oppose the Bill if indeed it were only aimed at this organization. However, the Bill is in fact couched in the most general terms which would make it available against virtually any workers' organi- zation — union, strike com- mittees, political parties and so on. All of these are regularly said to be involved in actions endangering 'the country' or 'the public interest, particu- larly during national strikes or a state of emergency. According to Section 1. (2) of the Bill: 'The activities to which this applies are the establish- Bill ment or operation of offices, depots, accommodation addres- ses or other addresses or loca- tions within the United King- dom, and any of the following activities ancillary thereto- "(a) the collecting or obtaining of monies, equipment or other goods or materials for the pur- poses referred to in this sub- section; '(b) the passing or transmitting to any other person or organi- zation of monies, equipment or other goods or materials for those purposes; and '(c) any other form of activity intended to encourage, facili- Workers Press, Monda they were to receive till they returned to work i tate or otherwise promote the collection or disbursement of monies, equipment, goods or materials for those purposes.'. bo Also (2)-(1): •A proscribed person or organization shall be liable on conviction to forfeit all monies, other equipment, goods and materials collected or obtained by them for the of Section 1(2) of purposes this Act.' A proscribed organization would be liable on conviction to a fine of up to £10,000 and The Night Assemblies Bill was aimed n trade union and political rallies as well.

35, Monday September 25, 1972 PAGE 3 to work weeks later. a proscribed person to a fine of up to £5,000 or imprison- ment for up to five years, or s' both. The fight to defend every strike and nullify these Acts is made first and foremost by the struggle to defeat the Tories and elect a Labour government which will be committed to its repeal and to implementing truly socialist policies.

TOMORROW: REFORMISTS

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• aimed not only at Pop festivals but at

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday Septemi

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Next month the annual general meeting of Dollar Land Company will be held. At this unusual gathering the accounts for two years, 1970 and 1971, will be presented. The chairman of the com- pany, John Tyzack, industrial consultant, took over two years ago when the company had no directors at all. Now he has a couple of partners, plus a battalion of angry shareholders who are confused about the mysterious crash in the once glamour company's fortunes. One newspaper columnist recently described Dollar Land as one of the longest running melodramas in Britain outside 'Coronation Street'. however The parallel, appropriate, disguises the in- tense wrangling that has gone the scenes in a on behind business story which glaringly reveals the way both the police and the Board of Trade (now Department of Trade and In- dustry) are prepared to let unseemly business behaviour run riot. Only in the past week has a glimpse of the company's workings been provided by the Ombudsman, so-called the parliamentary watchdog. In his report he criticizes the departmental authorities.

for not investigating the com- pany's affairs. Despite persistent requests, successive government minis- ters, both Tory and Labour, refused to launch an official inquiry, although it was plain to everyone in the City of Lon- don that all was not well inside the embattled company. Even after the Stock Exchange suspended quotation of the shares in 1969, the President of the Board of Trade, Roy Mason, refused to budge. It has now been revealed that even the Ombudsman's report was delayed in publica- tion. It was completed in July, but not published until September 11. The delay has not been explained. One explanation for its hur- ried appearance in print might be the revelations made in the House of Commons on August 3 by West Ham North's Lab- our MP, Arthur Lewis. He alleged in the House that crooked companies had fleeced shareholders of millions pounds. And he named 'the most glaring ones'—including Dollar Land. He described it as 'the most notorious'. "The shareholders were sent entirely false pros- , informa- pectuses and wrong tion and from that day to this they have never been given any help, assistance or protection.'

The former directors, honour- able men, were moved out by 'American gangsters'. They had sought an inquiry, but no action was taken, he added. • Registered in this country, the idea of Dollar Land was to raise money in Britain to buy prime real estate in the United States. At this timethe late 1950s-Us property was being toted around as the safest and most lucrative buy on earth.

This was the same concept promoted by Jerome D. Hoff- man and his Real Estate Fund y September 25, 1972 of America, which also crashed spectacularly some years later.

(Mr Lewis also named REFA in the House last month as one of his 13 'notorious' com- panies.) The company first came to the notice of the authorities in 1960 just over one year after it was floated. A bid was made at a meeting instigated by Edward de Courcy, pub- lisher and company director, to oust the chairman and board of directors. Their rowdy attack on the board was well received. After all, the company's initial per- formance was less than satis- factory. Offered in January 1959 at 28s a share, the price slumped to 17s 18 months later. This meant a drop in total share value of more than Elm, a disastrous start for the infant property company. At the shareholders meet- ing at Caxton Hall one sub- scriber said that the profits forecast in the prospectus was 'near criminal'. The men whose heads were on the block were the chair- man, Mr John French, of Lon- and Yorkshire Trust, which floated the company at 28s a share, and directors the Earl of Mansfield, Sir Ernest Lever, Mr Francis : Blake, Mr Clarence Hampton and Mr Paul Boggis-Rolfe. circular to share- In a holders de Courcy said the company" had stagnated': There was £400,000 of surplus funds still dormant while unimproved property remained unused. This, he maintained, was in striking contrast to the 'brilliant moves' of then Mr Charles, Sir Charles now Clore. Opportunities to buy property had been mishandled.

However, ‹Courcy's de attempt to unseat the board have himself and three and associates in their installed jobs was defeated. But the board did agree to call in out- side accountants to conduct an independent inquiry into the group's affairs. Those who follow these mat- ters will recall that de Courcy went on in his business career and a few years ago was jailed on corruption charges. Then followed series of boardroom putsches in which the directors kept coming and going like Jumbos at Heath- row. One of the first 'saviours' on Mr Joseph the scene was Tankoos, a Canadian property man. After pouring a modest into the amount of capital group he issued a statement to shareholders astonishing for its frankness: 'But we not putting are into the hock- Dollar Land shop business. If anyone thinks are risky, well, I the rates shouldn't be here today to put £200,000 into your com- pany. That's the way I trade.

should also tell you that nine-tenths of all the talk in the real-estate business comes to nothing' But he went on to remind shareholders: 'We intend to make a great deal of money out of Dollar Land, and if we do you will make a lot of too. We are putting money, £62,500 into the company with- out hope of recall. And if we do make a great and glorious thing of this, we are stuck with it.' Tankoos brought with him American property wizard, Mr Elliot Yarmon. Chairman John ind French was exuberant about Roy Mason then President of the Board ( the acquisition of such talent: 'Mr Tankoos and Mr Yarmon expect to make a great deal of money out of their options. If they make money, so will the rest of the shareholders.'

But by 1967 City account- ants, Peat, Marwick and pro- perty experts, Edward Erdman, had to be called in to investi- gate the group's affairs.

Following the detailed report, Tankoos and Yarmon resigned. After criticizing the purchase of anumber of pieces of US real _estate, the report declared: 'It does not seem to us appropriate to re- appoint Mr Tankoos and Mr Yarmon as general managers.'

At the next annual meeting in 1969 it became clear why so swift in the report was dealing with the North Ameri- cans. Shareholders were told that there was "a substantial error' in the consolidated balance sheet of the trouble- torn group: Net assets attri- buted to Dollar Land for the year to December 31, 1967, had been overstated by more than flm. only worth Assets were £2.1m and not £3.2m as stated in the balance sheet. The new chairman, Mr A. E.

Gottesman—by this stage John French and the rest of the board had been voted out— told shareholders the error was 'due to a misinterpretation made by the auditors, Charles Impey and Company, when they were restating at market value rather than cost the amount of the group's invest- ment in joint tenancies and associated companies.' By this stage in its ten-year out career, Dollar Land, the once le Board of Trade rejected an official Inquiry in proposition, glamour was regarded as one of the most controversial outfits ever to set up in the property business.

It had been plagued with legal actions—one long-running case in the US cost those con- cerned about $6,000 a day.

By early 1970, after six years of Labour rule, pressure mounted for an official inquiry.

On February 18, 1970, Arthur Lewis asked Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody, parlia- mentary secretary to the Board of Trade, if she would make an official inquiry in the com- pany's operations. The board was 'considering it', she replied.

On February 22 the Tory 'Sunday Telegraph' reported: 'There is bad news this week for the long-suffering share- holders in Dollar Land. After looking at the evidence and taking legal advice, the Board of Trade has decided not to appoint an inspector to look into the company's affairs. An inquiry is clearly necessary as we have argued strenuously in columns for many these weeks' When the then President of the Board of Trade, Mr Roy Mason, an NUM-sponsored official MP, rejected an inquiry, he was not merely slapping down the Tory press.

A formal application for an investigation had also come from 100 shareholders who had signed a petition expressing deep anxiety about the affair.

The deputation to the board was headed by Mr Lewis who for a acting as proxy was housewife in his constituency.

Two months later, on April 29, Lewis put a question in the Commons to Mrs Dun- woody: • "The Sunday Times" has "The been mentioned, but Sunday Times", the "Sunday Telegraph", the "Daily Tele- graph" and all the newspapers Inquiry into Dollar Land reported to the Board of Trade for years that Dollar Land Holdings never issued com- pany reports and completely avoided the Companies Act.

Why does the Minister not take action with regard to the scandal of Dollar Land Hold- ings?' She replied: 'Mr Lewis has discussed this case with me and with various shareholders of the company. Board of Trade powers to • take action are clearly defined and when we have evidence we will take action.' Pressure continued until, on June 7, ten days before the General Election, the Ombuds- man announced he was making an investigation. stage the share By this quotation had been suspended more than a year, •no• dividend had been paid since 1965 and the last accounts covered only up to 1968. Even these accounts were difficult to fathom; the auditor's report was heavily qualitied because they had been unable to get information 'which would have enabled them to form an opinion' of the accounts.

In his report published last week the Ombudsman states: 'Although I recognize that they [the Board of Trade] gave the matter careful consideration at the time, it seems to me that, in the circumstances of this case, the discretionary deci- sion of the department not to appoint inspectors in 1970 reflected an error of judge- ment.' When the ruling class wants to take legal action against trade unionists, immigrants or working-class youngsters, it has not the slightest inhibi- tion. The drawn-out contro- versy of Dollar Land is ample confirmation of the class of law and account- nature ability in capitalist society.

FURTHER

SCANDAL IN

THE FIFTH

REPUBLIC

The of revelations corruption government in France by former civil Gabriel Aranda servant have not as yet involved any leading ministers in Pierre Messmer's govern- But they have ment. added greatly to the at- mosphere of corruption Surrounding the Fifth Republic. scandal around After the Chaban-Delmas and with the prospect of bitter struggle against the working class the autumn, M. Aranda ground for the man activity to 'purify' French pollies. Aranda, who last caused a stir in 1962 when he published which purported book to show that Mussolini had in fact been a Soviet agent in a communist plot take over to the world, has aimed this blow at the French government out sales oi horror alis 'fanatical Arab nations' and the Gaullist

CONCHOLON

party he supports. He has now accused several members of the Gaullist UDR of using their positions to help business friends get govern- ment contracts. It seems that Gerard Sibeud, deputy for Drome, used la sent by Aranda's boss, Minister Chalan- AlbIn don, to get planning permis-

US STUDENTS

FORCED TO

DROP COURSES

Education budget cuts throughout the US have forced hundreds of thou- sands of American youth to leave college for good.

In New York alone col- lege vacancies for the term stand autumn at 300,000 because of the numbers of students who have had to drop their courses. At the same time some major New York colleges have increased tuition fees by $300, forcing many students already enrolled to leave College has enrolment dropped throughout the coun- The national try. average reg- istration per cent 1.3 1s only last year's figure-the lowest in the last decade.

In 13 western states, 98,000 students did not register for the term beginning in septem- Many others have been ber. arop tour-year favour of the less courses in expensive two-year ones. sion for a supermarket. Be- tween the ministerial heading and the minister's signature he stuck a statement which he himself wrote, granting per- mission to start the building.

The affair reached the cabinet and M. Chalandon de- manded sanctions, but his Jacques Chirac, colleague, intervened to explain that the affair must be stifled if the UDR was not going to lose a seat in parliament. This is the level of Aranda's tales. On Monday, Pierre Messmer stated on French radio that he had asked Aranda to appear before a judge if he was so sure of his position. Christian Fouchet, Gaullist and former Minister, has slowness in pursuing alleged corruption and called for early elections: 'If the present climate is not purified by rigorous action, it will be necessary as soon as possible to call General Elec- tions and give the choice to the people. If not, there is a risk that we shall reach point when the usual political procedures will not. be. sufi- cient' the man who Aranda, worked himself up from run- ning a pastry shop to a Stock Exchange financial expert by the age of 29, is stirring up much more with his revela- tions than they might seem to merit. Top right: M. Aranda stirring up the affair to cabinet level. Right: Pierre Messmer, French PM.

In Chicago, 12,000 youth at college now have to extra $30 annual tuition tax.

City government sources pre- this in dict will bring an annual profit of $300,000, which, they say, will be used to bring more guards on to college campuses. And in California registra- tion for courses in major col- leges has dropped drastically and athletics programmes are to be reduced by 15 per cent.

These cutbacks have been accompanied by a rash of jus- from scientists tifications whose 'theories' all lead to the conclusion that some youth either cannot learn anyway, because of the 'wrong' back- ground, lack of intelligence, or because well-known 'fact' that minority and black youth are all stupid from birth. example of One such 'theories' is the report from the Harvard University research team, headed by Pro- fessor Christopher Jenck. He received a $500,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation to study the 'effects of social con- Above: US students. Those who can't me ditions on a student's learning capacity' report stated that Tenck's 'the character of a school's output depends largely on a single input, namely the char- acteristic of its children.

*Everything else-the school budget, its policies, the char- acteristics of its teachers—is either secondary or irrelevant.

We do not find those [schools] with • fat budgets turning out more skilled alumni than those with inadequate budgets?

Presumably a return to the teaching standards of the log- cabin days of Abraham Lin- coln would not have any Workors Press, Monda o can't meet the expense, leave.

Why not then effect either. do away with school build- ings altogether - it would save considerable expense!

Such is the logical conclu- sion of the proposals of US capitalism for the education of the country's youth. But the deep and revolu- tionary crisis of the economic system today lays the basis for the development of such reac- tionary theories among the ruling class. In Germany in the 1930s, Hitler did away with the need for education alto- gether—he had the concentra- tion camps and the gas chambers. 39, Monday Seplember 25, 1972 PAGE 5 Stringent austerity measures are contained in the new bud- get introduced in the Dutch parliament last week by Fin- ance Minister Roelof Nelissen.

The discussion inside the cabinet on the Budget mea- sures was so heated that two members resigned in protest against the rundown in educa- tion expenditure. The cuts were part of a package of measures aimed at reducing the budget deficit estimated at £400m. They will impose a further heavy burden on the working class, which has already been hit by steeply rising prices.

Over the last two years, according to the Dutch Cen- tral Planning Bureau, bread 14 per cent in has gone up groceries 9 per cent, price, meat 12 per cent, shoes 23 per cent, clothing 12 per cent and furniture 20 per cent. Under the Budget, income goes up 1 per tax cent round, value-added tax rises 2 per cent to 16 per cent on most items and a staggering 4- 5 per cent on essentials like food. The Budget is likely to go through the parliament despite the split in the ruling coali- of various tion, composed right-wing religious parties. A General Election is to be held on November 29 to resolve the parliamentary crisis.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday September 25, 1972

BY ALEX MITCHELL

The cast in an amazing has important connections with the Poulson case, so too court room melodrama the Labour Party. has will gather in the York- Take T. Dan Smith. During his evidence Poulson said that shire town of Wakefield more than €155,000 in various today. Shortly after 10 fees were paid to Smith. ơ'clock the county court Hunter had Mr Muir press Poulson for an explana- in bankruptcy will go into tion Smith's relationship session. Asked if with the companies. Into the witness box will the vast sum was 'a gift', Poul- 'Well, I haven't step John Garlick Llewellyn replied: son and Poulson, a bankrupt architect.

details, never got any have, of any accounts for him.'

After the formalities the OC for the trustees in bankruptcy, Mr Muir Hunter, will resume the relentless interrogation of his adversary. Hunter: Mr Poulson, In the four public sessions under a statutory obliga- held since July, Poulson has tion enforceable by the powers given extraordinarily an of this court to give a true graphic and frank account of and fair explanation of your business activities, which affairs, and you are going to at one time made him the head sit there as a former leading of the architectural largest architect running an enormous practice in Europe. business and say you have no Poulson i While has been the purpose idea and as to describing the rise and fall of £150.000 advantage. of paying his empire, the political reper- to man seven years, been felt cussions have which is £20,000 a year-You throughout the country. have no idea? Think, try again.

Reginald Maudling, the What was Mr Dan Smith doing deputy minister and prime for the Poulson organization?

Home Secretary, resigned while Yes? Edward Heath sent in Scotland Poulson: I can't think of Yard's fraud squad to investi- I just can't. It's no sir, any gate the Poulson affair. good. Heath explained the to Hunter: Look, know you of House Commons that not? You this man, do you Maudling had thought it was know him quite well? inappropriate for him to stay Poulson: I haven't seen him as Home Secretary with Com- for-I haven't seen him since mander James Crane, head 1969. hunting the fraud squad, Hunter: You mean he left through the files and accounts the ship when the drink ran of of in group companies out; it that what you are sug- which he had played such an gesting? important decision-making role.

Poulson: No. Tory Although the press Hunter: Poulson, Mr you wailed and screamed that their are not doing yourself justice.

'Reggie' had hounded been The sum you paid to Mr Dan from office, it is now clear Smith his companies or that their can be no return to ceeds the whole of the unpaid for Maudling the power in income tax for which you are foreseeable future. liable in your bankruptcy. It was announced only a few Poulson: I see that now, sir.

days ago that Maudling Hunter: You mean that you not attend the Conservatives' of spending money, were sort annual conference Black- at as the saying is, like a drunken month, the first he pool next sailor, caring not what it was has missed for decades. for? chairman of Maudling Poulson: No, there is no Poulson's overseas company suggestion of that. and a director of two others; Hunter: What you are say- at one stage almost the whole ing is that you were paying Mr Maudling family-Mrs Beryl money Smith for to Maudling, daughter, Caroline, consideration that you can re- and son, Martin-were share- call and would you, therefore, holders in various subsidiaries.

like to say that this was a gift Commons After the heard well? All of these as were the Minister's Prime state- gifts? of ment there was a series Poulson: No, no. and sick-making Hunter: Not gifts? You will unctious reason? speeches from the Labour not say any other Party benches. The Labourites Poulson: Well, I don't know extended their sympathy to what to say, sir, I just don't Maudling, and James Callaghan know what they were except perhaps even suggested that that they are just absolutely the House was acting too ridiculous. quickly in accepting his resig- Hunter: You did, at one nation. In Callaghan's view Official Re- stage, say to the there seemed no need at all ceiver that thought that you for Maudling to get out. Dan Smith would recommend difficult It is not to see you to and you said: people why the Labourites were so It didn't work out, with their got anything out of it? Nothing over-generous understanding. Because if the positive to show and yet you went on paying him. Had you hierarchy of the Tory Party any other reason to pay him, Mr Poulson? (Poulson's reply was in- audibie) Hunter: I think the witness is not feeling very well. Would this be a convenient moment to rise, sir? " The registrar: It would cer- tainly be a convenient moment to rise. Poulson was taken to a local hospital where his' condition was diagnosed as 'severe shock.'

No doubt there was shock also in the top echelons of the Labour Party, to which T. Dan Smith had easy access for such a long period. At the height of his career Smith by appointed was Harold Wilson as chairman of the North East Planning Coun- cil and in the 1964 and 1966 General Elections he was a public relations consultant to the party. At various times in the 1960s it was rumoured that, like Frank Cousins, Smith would be drafted into the Labour government. Although this remained unfulfilled an proposition, Smith enjoyed the closest reiations with the Labour leadership and it was said that 'Mr Newcastle' had a 'hot line' to Wilson at No 10 Downing Street. In a nine-day trial at the Old Bailey last year Smith was acquitted of corruption charges involving Labour-con- trolled Wandsworth Council.

The leader of the Labour group, Alderman Sidney Sporle was given six years in a separ- ate trial. Smith, who protested his innocence throughout the case, said afterwards that he would return to the north-east to serve the people of the region.

The other leading Labour figure linked with Poulson is Alderman Andrew Cunning- ham, the Newcastle - based • regional officer of the General and Municipal Workers' Union. Since 1967 Cunningham has been on the 28-man National Executive • Committee (NEC) of the party which is headed by Wilson. The NEC is the highest policy-making body in the party and Cunningham served as chairman of its all-import- ant finance committee. Apart from being a union bureaucrat, Cunningham is a man of many parts. For in- stance he is chairman of the Newcastle Airport Committee and chairman of the Tyneside Passenger Transport Authority -both of which employ mem- bers of So he his union. shares the distinction of being both union representative and boss at one and the same time.

A fervent spokesman for law and Cunningham order, also the Durham Police heads Authority. Last week at the quarterly meeting of the police authority two attempts were have removed made to him from office because of the 'bad publicity surrounding his con- nections with Poulson. But chairman Cunningham the of ruled resolutions out order and then stormed out of the meeting. The resolution seeking Cun- ningham's removal was made by local magistrate and backed by 14 other members.

Afterwards Cunningham said: I have nothing to say. Consult your lawyer? (?) If the police authority is about Cunningham, concerned then it can be stated that his the

G&MWU,

union, giant isn't. At the most recent meeting of the regional committee a motion was unanimously passed voting complete confi- dence in their local officer. The passing resolution of the The cast of Poulson people. Top: Mr and Mrs John Poulson. Above: •Mr Newcastle' T-Dan Left: recently resigned Mr Mr Reginald Maudling. Right: and Mrs Andy Cunningham. wasn't without a touch of the bizarre. Instead of holding the meeting at the union head- quarters in Newcastle, mem- bers of the committee were ferried in cars to an unknown destination to conduct their deliberations. demands There have been that Cunningham and his wife, Freda May Cunningham (Mrs Cunningham local magi- is strate), should give up all their public appointments. Their links with the case considerable. Cross- are examined by Mr Hunter, Poul- admitted that Mrs Cun- son ningham was employed in his office as an adviser on interior decorating although she had no training in this work; Andy Cunningham drew salary from the Dan Smith organiza- tion; and there were records the Cunninghams had that been on two holidays abroad ›aid for by Poulson, the one to Estoril, Portugal, costing £256. When inquiring about Mrs Cunningham's job, Mr. Hunter was at his most waspish. Hunter: To be quite frank about this, was it a sort of sinecure that you created for Mrs Cunningham? Poulson: No sir. Hunter: Just let us consider, Workers Press, Monday Sor Mr Poulson, the date. Accord- ing to Mrs Cunningham, she employed for was SO period October 21, 1969, to January 31, 1970. Well now, in June 1969, which you will re- member, you were informed by your three senior assistants that you were insolvent. Do you remember? Poulson: Yes, sir. Hunter: And then during the rest of the year there were increasingly feverish attempts to restructure the business?

Poulson: Yes, sir. Hunter: And, of course, there was a great shortage of money, was there not? Poulson: Yes, sir. Hunter: At a time when the whole business was running 8 Press, Monday September 25, 1972 PAGE 7 into the ground . you thought fit to employ a retired schoolteacher and the wife of an alderman, as an administra- tive assistant and adviser on interior decoration — is that what you are saying? Poulson: Yes, sir. When the last hearing on August 7 was being wound up, Poulson promised the court that he would spend the ad- journment sifting through his remaining papers to try to find answers to some of the more baffling aspects of the affair.

public sessions The four held so far have been expen- sive for the ruling class—one deputy Prime Minister has re- signed, two senior civil ser- vants have been suspended, member of the Labour Party's NEC is being called upon to resign from all public posts, a leading Labour power-broker is placed under a cloud, two MPs, Norman Roberts, Labour MP for Normanton, and John Cordle, Tory MP for Bourne- mouth, are called upon to account for their business interests. On previous form, there will be more news from Wake- field today.

ORIGINS OF RACIALISM

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday September 25, 1972

PART FOUR:

BRITISH

WORKERS

AND THE

AMERICAN

CIVIL WAR

By a special correspondent The American Civil War of 1860 was not started to free the slaves.

It was the outcome of a struggle between the old plantation-owning oligar- chy of the South, and the new vital, capitalist class of the North who wanted to expand their influence, labour supplies and mar- kets. In the movement for secession, the Southern States not only defending

WELC

they were also break- Slavery, ing up the Union and endanger- ing the future development of industry. In the course of the war, however, the emancipation of the slaves was inevitable, though President Lincoln dithered, trying hesitated and not alienate the slave to owners in the border states by end of slavery. declaring the British The ruling class sided with the South. Their interests were bound up with the cotton trade and the block- of Southern by ports Federal ships, the prevelling exporting of cotton to Britain, filed them with dismay. Serious consideration was the possibility British intervention on the side of the South. number of prominent trade union and labour leaders were prepared to along thousands workers t with but under. stood what Marx was express later. "labour Cannel emancipate itself in the white where in the black it is sKIn branded.? In spite, of constant propa- ganda the press in support of the South, the pro-Confeder- stand of ot their aLe « some leaders, and the enormous British suffering workers, particularly in the cotton towns, who were being laid off of the Federal result blockade, the working class as a whole refused to support the call for British intervention on the side of the South.

ANGRY

'Under these circumstances,' Marx wrote in a report to 'Die Presse', 'the obstinacy with which the working class keeps silent, or breaks its silence only

LOOSERS

vention and for the United States, is admirable. "This is new, brilliant proof the indestructible English excellence of the popular ilasses The visit to England of J. D Mason and John Slidell, two of the Con- representauves federacy whip support for the South, who had trying earlier sponsored a bill in Con- gress legalizing the return of escaped slaves from the North, occasioned angry working-class which workers outbursts in threatened to flog them if they ever got their hands on them.

It was also the reason for nuge working-class meeling 1n London at which the following resolution was passed unani- mously: meeting resolves that the agents of the rebels, Mason lay September 25, 1972 Lincoln at first refused to arm slaves, and Slidell, now on the way from America to England, are absolutely unworthy of the moral sympathies of the work- ing class of this country, since they are slaveholders as well as the confessed agents of the tyrannical faction that is at once in rebellion against the American republic the sworn enemy of the social and political rights of the working class in all countries.' The meeting also sent a message of support to the American government to declare 'their sympathy with the United States in their titanic struggle for the main- tenance of the Union; to de- the shameful dis- nounce honesty and advocacy of slave- holding on the part of "The Times" and kindred aristo- cratic journals; to express themselves most emphatically in favour of the settlement of all matters that may be in dis- pute by commissioners or arbitration courts nominated by both sides; to denounce the war policy of the organ of the stock exchange swindlers, and to manifest the warmest sym- pathy with the strivings of the Abolitionists for a final tion of the slave question, Solu- In America itself, as earlier in the West Indies, the slaves played a vital part in their own emancipation. Not only were there slave uprisings numerous before the war, but once it started hundreds left the plantations and made their way North. They hammered on the doors of the Federal army, demand- ing to be allowed to fight.

Although Lincoln at first refused to arm them, eventu- ally thousands were organized into Negro battalions, where they served not only as privates but several rose to become high-ranking officers. • They fought like tigers, losing some 68,178 men out of a total of 186,017 serving soldiers. but later was forced to recruit them Thousands more acted as or spies behind messengers, the enemy lines, dug roads and" built fortifications. There were many testimon- ials to the courage of the black soldiers who knew they were fighting for their whole future.

It would have been mad- ness, wrote Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1863, 'to attempt with the bravest white troops what !!! success fully accomplished with black ones." At a mass meeting of trade unionists in London in March 1863, Professor Beesly said, to great applause: "There are two classes of workmen, both infinitely below you ... in organization and in social position, but still work- men, and therefore irrevocably bound up with you. I mean the agricultural workers of England and the Negro slaves of America..

The slaveholding aristocracy of the South understand this per- fectly. "They maintain in the most open manner that slavery is the natural condition of labour, that society is divided normally into and slave - owners slaves ... I am far from im- puting to our upper classes the design or desire to buy or sell you like cattle. 'But I think the greater part of them even of those calling themselves Liberals, are of the opinion that you have got a great deal more independence and freedom of action than is good for you. 'I don't pretend to say what of freedom they modicum think ought to be conceded to you, but trom what we know of human nature I think we may safely say that if they could fix it now at what they pleased, the next generation of them would discover that even that modicum ought to be still further curtailed and so on, until at length you would differ from Negro slaves in nothing except the colour of your skins.

'That model Tory, George Ill, could not bear the idea of cruit them to the Federal Army. Above: part of a emancipating our West Indian slaves because it savoured of the Rights of Man. 'He was a particularly stupid man; but even the brutes have instinct, and his instinct told him that if the black labourers got their rights, the next thing would be white that the labourers , would be wanting theirs. The defeat of the South and the emancipation of the slaves did indeed give a tremendous impetus to the development of working-class struggle America. On November 2, 1865, in a mass meeting of Boston workers held to celebrate the victory, Ira Steward, one of the leaders of the eight-hour- day movement, proposed a resolution which was passed unanimously: we rejoice that the rebel aristocracy of the South has been crushed, that ...

beneath the glorious shadow of our victorious flag men of every clime, lineage and colour are recognized as free. 'But while we will bear with patient endurance the burden of the public debt, we yet want it to be known that the work- ing men of America will de- in future a more equal mand share in the wealth their in- dustry creates ... and a more equal participation in the blessings of privileges those free institutions, de- fended by their manhood on many a bloody field of battle.'

The American ruling class, frightened by growing the strength of the trade union movement, seeking to divide the working class and terrified of the unity of emancipated blacks and poor whites in the Reconstruction Period at the end of war, strained every nerve to stir up racialism.

They helped to organize and finance the Ku Klux Klan as an organization led by ex-slave owners, to beat, torture, burn and murder blacks and any : part of a Negro battalion.

whites who sided with them.

They literally drowned that unity in blood. In Britain, the capitalist class worked long and hard to inculcate racialism into the consciousness of the working class. But if there is a tradition of racialism in backward sections of the working class today—a heritage of years of imperialist domination of both colonial and British workers-there is standits opposite internationa standing of the character of the class struggle.

In 1861 Marx pointed out • that the 'political spokesmen, moralists and theolo- jurists, gians of the slaveholders' party had already sought to prove, not so much that Negro slavery is justified, but rather that colour is a matter of indiffer- ence and the working class is everywhere born to slavery.'

In spite of its enormous sufferings, in spite of the treachery of some of its older established union and more leaders, 112 years ago the working class British recog- nized the unity of its struggle with that of the black slaves in America. The racialists today should take warning. The indestruct- ible excellence of the British working class is not dead.

It has shown itself time and time again in the great wave of strikes which have swept the country in recent months.

Postmen, council local workers, ( miners, engineers, railwaymen, dockers, and now building workers have all come under the Tory attack. In the struggle to build Councils of Action to fight for the bringing down of the Tories, in the fight to develop a revolutionary leadership to take power, the racialists, the servants of the ruling class, will be defeated. It is this struggle that the right-wing fears when they talk about anarchy, riot and blood- shed. It is their own defeat which they foresee and which drives them to frenzy.

For several months Gen- eral John D. Lavelle of the United States Air Force carried on his own private war against the North Vietnamese. As commander of all USAF activities in south-east Asia, Lavelle went beyond his or- ders from the top to attack the official outside targets schedule. To do this he took advan- tage of the bureaucratic reg- ulations governing the bombing of the north which are des- igned primarily to protect the presidential prerogative.

If Lavelle is now being haul- ed before a Senate sub-com- mitte for showing too much zeal in the air war against the north, this is the primary rea- son. Nixon is jealous of his com- mander-in-chief privileges, which allow him to determine when and where every last bomb dropped in North Viet- nam will fall. Unauthorized genocide is not to be coutenanced, only the officially-approved version.

So the Washington commit- tee is rather reluctantly drag- ging the facts out into the open-and at the same time covering up for the rest of the US top brass in Indochina.

None of this would have happened if Sgt Lonnie Franks, a 23-year-old radar specialist, had not written to his congressman expressing his doubts about the way Lavelle was running the show. As a result of Franks' efforts, the general was rel- ieved of his command in April and brought back to Washing- The story which is emerg- ing at the Senate hearings is bizarre testimony to the in- dredible bureaucratic murder- machine which the US has built up. Rigid rules govern the bombing of the north, which can be undertaken on orders from the top. But under cer- tain circumstances pilots are allowed to undertake what are termed 'protective reaction strikes' They can attack North Viet- namese air defence installa- tions if they are fired on from the ground or if the pilot gets a warning on his dashboard that anti-aircraft missile an or radar installation is tracking him. Lavelle had the truly Orwel- lian idea of the 'planned pro- reaction "strike'. tective His pilots simply selected their tar- gets, bombed them and then returned to base where they reported they had been attack- ed from the ground. To maintain the necessary secrecy about these missions, 200 men at Udorn airbase in Thailand were employed full- time drawing up falsified re- ports on the flights to send on to Washington. True reports were drawn up separately and filed for Gené- ral Lavelle. Officers above him in the chain of command ought to have known about the de- ception because of the 'fan- tastic increase of missions over a short period of time'.

according to Sgt Franks. But if they did know, they kept singularly quiet about it.

One senator described what had happened as 'a complete breakdown structure force'. Lavelle's excusin that tions was last year the North had begun face-to-air ground control rada the Previous! seen guided to thei separate radar Lavelle explained meant the sent towards its tar alerting the plane's In the labyrinthir the US elle told the Senate that: 'A more logical appeared to be aircraft were unde surveillance by the radars netted togeth missile units, constantly us. When pressed officers 'that radar was acti times and that you fore entitled to stril Lavelle replied: words, no sir. Two contested missions took place 'netting' and the dis them centres on question. Sources explain i using an attack aga base at Quang Lan ember 7, 1971, as a excuse for his ac that in Decembe e North Vietnamese linking their sur- to their missiles atrol radar net. the missiles had installations. that this missile could be ds its target without e plane's pilot. byrinthine jargon of urder-machine, Lav- le Senate committee • logical judgemer o be that since U under constant e by the air-defence ed together with the the system was against activated ressed on whethe r explained to high interpretation was activated at all that you were there- General those intested Novembe ok place before thi id the dispute about different res on a explain it this way gainst a Mi lang Lang on Nov. 971, as an example General Lavelle asked for and received permission to carry out what is described as escorted reconnaissance an mission over the base. The per- mission was necessary because the airfield was in an area that navy, rather than air force, pilots generally patrolled. But the MiGs at Quang Lang had become increasingly active and were viewed as posing a threat to air force planes approaching North Vietnam from the west over Laos. The reconnaissance mission was flown, the US planes were fired upon and the accompany- ing escorts attacked the field.

That type of mission and res- ponse was authorized and is within the rules of engagement that were in force at the time.

Informants say it was always a good bet that reconnaissance planes would be fired on around Quang Lang and that extra escorts were sometimes sent aloft so that the US planes could get in reaction, a heavy 'protective attack after the initial enemy firing had satisfied the rules of en- gagements. Lavelle is not alone in his paranoid desire to blow North Vietnam off the face of the earth. It is shared by the en- Us command, not least by its commander in chief.

But like the tidy-minded bureaucrats who organized Hitler's 'final solution' to the Jewish question, they believe in doing it by the book. Workers Press. Monday September 25, 1972 PAGE 9

MUTINY

One section of seafarers who what was going on. must often face hardship and However, the paper counter- danger to earn their livelihood attacked by suing Schauss for are, of course, the trawlermen.

evidence. It false won the And now it is not only icy seas and the court's ruling case that they are expected to face established that Mme Frieden- to bring back fish-and the Kinnen could not have failed owners' profits-but also the to see the priest naked. 'Cod War' off Iceland. The legal battle continues Seven Fleetwood trawlermen with appeal by Schauss an who refused to return to the against his perjury conviction.

Icelandic fishing grounds after The minister, in her resigna- incident an with a gunboat tion letter, said she could not have been accused of mutiny.

'recognize the justness of this The men were deck hands legal decision'. on the 'Boston Explorer'. Their She added, that| however, refusal to return to Icelandic the affair had placed her in a after towing the waters came delicate position 'calling into disabled sister ship 'Boston question the credibility of Attacker' of the part public authorities, either the way trawler returned executive or the judiciary'.

home. Their to Fleetwood. Mme Frieden-Kinnen was in charge of the Ministry of Pub- One of the deck-hands, Raymond Brooks (27) of Back Health, Family and Youth lic Church Street, Fleetwood, told Affairs! reporters:

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'We are not mutineers. We had been repeatedly harassed idea that the building Any by the Icelandic gun-boat deal agreed by the union "Aegir" while we were fishing pay. week will enable and could not go back to the eaders last workers to keep pace with the We acted in the same grounds. cost of living must be knocked interests of the crew and the owners.' on the head. Construction men's standards But the owners had radioed before the strike were back the boat's skipper instructing they when the Where were that they must carry on fishing.

industry's last package deal And the deck hands who began in February 1970. And refused to do so have been store when he price rises in reported to the port's disciplin- the lories enter Europe next ary committee. year can easily swallow up the proposed new rates. Transport General The two-year deal will bring Workers Union? The union craftsmen's basic rates by June nas 50 far been strongly aligned 10, 1974, to £29-f1 less for 'our' with trawler-owners 40 hours than union members Will it against the Icelanders. wanted now for 35. Labourers, itself now align with them at present still rated a miserly members who are against its £17. would get only £24.60 in accused of mutiny'? two years' time. The new rates from Septem-

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ber 18 will be £26 for crafts- A nudism scandal involving a men and £22.20 for labourers.

priest and a student of religi- Next June 25 these will be has brought raised to £27 and £23, with ous instruction the downfall of Luxemburg's bonuses £2.60 guaranteed of Mili- only woman cabinet minister, and £2.20 respectively. Mme Madelaine b Frieden- correctly describing tants are Kinnen. this as a phoney since men The affair back whose incentive bonuses al- goes to August 1969 when a Luxem- ready push their earnings over burg 'Journal the guaranteed level will not paper, the D'Esch', reported that a local see a penny extra. Equally phoney is the much- priest and religious instruction teacher, Father Francaois Raas, vaunted 'threshold' agreement practised due to come into effect next nudism in public with one of his pupils, Eugene October. Schauss. This states that if the retail farm prices index rises more than 8} The scene, Mme Frieden-Kinnen per cent in the where period August 1972-August 1973 both craft was staying, alleged to was witnessed by the and labouring will be have been rates bumped up 20p for each 3 per government minister. Both the priest and the cent beyond that level. pupil sentenced Even if the rate of price were on charges of indecent behaviour increases doubled in that time following the report. But Mme the most workers could expect Frieden-Kinnen sued the news- get is just over £2. Since paper for libel and won this is a once-for-all payment the On Schauss's evidence the rate could double case. again further adjustment. the court ruled that there was without no proof that she had The deal is therefore a trap.

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THE REAL

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BY JACK GALE

The minority of back- ward workers who march behind National the Front shouting 'Enoch, Enoch!'-especially those the Transport and General Workers' Union - Should wake up to the real truth about this man.

For Enoch Powell, Tory MP for south- Wolverhampton west, is not only hostile to the immigrants — he Sales unions and the welfare ser- vices. February As long ago as 1969, Powell pledged that a Tory government would legis- late prevent unions to enforcing a closed shop. About this time a group of Powellite Tory councilors 1n Lambeth joined blacklegs in dustbins clearing during a council workers' strike. And even earlier-in 1968- Powell railing was about union "tyranny' when a car- was sacked from the penter Esso refinery in Fawley, after being expelled from the Amal- gamated Society of Wood-

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In December 1969, he launched a vicious attack on striking teachers who he 'bullies and denounced toughs. Speaking, the annual at dinner of the Holborn and St Pancras South Conservative he declared: Association, 'The teaching profession has dealt a shattering blow for law- lessness and anarchy.. • here the dishonourable have WC method of the bully and the who break the rules tough deliberately and rely on force and numbers to get away with It was, he said, 'an example ill of lawlessness, faith and indifference to duty. ay September 25, 1872 was followed a few This weeks later—in February 1970 —by a denunciation of the Pay Bill which was Equal having its second reading. This, he claimed, marked 'a black day in the Commons'. It was about this time that group of Birmingham businessmen pledged £92,000 to finance 'Powell Premier' campaign. misguided dockers Those who joined in pro-Powell against immigration marches might reflect on the fact that the leader of these business- Marcel Everton— men • was who owns a container hire company. In August 1970, Enoch Powell declared himself dis- satisfied with the Tory in- in Health Service creases charges. He wanted the ser- vices axed. Writing in the Sunday Express' on August 11, he proclaimed: 'Only if the charges result in the corresponding public service itself being reduced, has state expenditure been cut. "This might perhaps happen as a result of the full price for school meals; but probably the only true cuts in the whole of health and education are the abolition of school milk and welfare milk. 'In the same way, it is only if lower housing subsidies in fact result in councils building fewer houses that the state sector will have contracted; otherwise housing will remain half-nationalized as at present.'

In the 'Sunday Express' of January 3, 1971, he openly bankruptcies and called for sackings: If the shock of ceasing to inflate causes bank- ruptcies and Powell's real policy for the working class was spelled out clearly in that article. He said: 'And people will scream: you're cutting health, you're education, you're cutting punishing the old, you're running down the public ser- vices. But where there is will, there's hope, and honest money is to be had at no other price' In the 'Sun' of March 5, 1971, this Tory right winger called for an end to old-age pensions: 'I see the automatic old-age pension as something which gradually disappears-certainly as a prime instrument of main- tenance of the elderly... the flat-rate benefit is obsolete.

It's clumsy and it's wasteful.

It's repressive of real saving.'

In the same article, he advocates an end to council house-building and to housing subsidies: 'I see no argument for either subsidized housing or building houses on public account.'

And he wants denationaliza- tion of the mines and named by the buyers: 'At the right price there's a big future for a limited coal industry... and the railways ditto... What they are worth now is simply what a purchaser thinks On top of all this, Powell wants the full restoration of the grammar schools, new systems in educa- selective private enterprise tion and universities. backward And if any workers think this is out-

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weighed by his hostility to immigrants, they should remind themselves that Powell's definition is a wide one. example, It includes, for Irish workers in this country.

Powell's policy for Ireland is the south and exclusion repression in the north. On April 22 this year, he told Conservatives at Keith, Banffshire: "The beating of the enemy is the duty of the gor- ernment.' And he spelled out his plan for dealing with 'the enemy' (i.e. the Irish working class): (1) Sever or control abso- communications, lutely all direct or indirect, between Northern Ireland and the Republic. (2) Re-occupy and thereafter area occupied by police the the 'enemy' (i.e. the Catholic areas). Restore the police in Northern Ireland in morale, authority and armament, and more than their much former inadequate numbers.

(4) Require all who reside or travel in Northern Ireland to at all times means of carry identification. (5) All citizens of the Irish Republic to be classified as aliens. It was this police state policy which enabled Powell to share a platform with the Ulster right wing Vanguard leader Craig — who later William organized a joint demonstra- tion with the National Front.

Indeed, the National Front is enthusiastic about Powell.

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alana Above: Heath with Powell-Tory MP, enemy of unions, welfare services and immigrants. In April 1968, when Powell launched his notorious attack on immigrants,Mr. A. K. Chesterton, the Front's policy director — and pre-war lieutenant of Oswald Mosley, announced: What Mr Powell has said does not vary at all from our views.' And Mosley himself, speak-.

ing from Seine-et-Oise, said: 'Mr Powell is saying nine years later what I have always said.'

Last week's anti-immigration rally of the right-wing Tory Monday Club was marked by open collaboration with the National Front, which supplied of considerable number stewards. The Monday Club, although not counting Powell among its members, is enthusiastic about him. Its current newsietter 'Monday News' says: 'One man remains outside the government who might give it the required addition of strength. Some of his eco- nomic ideas are not helpful, but thankfully, these have paled besides the significance of his role as the greatest sur- viving "national" Conserva- tive. 'Mr Powell, almost alone, understands the great mysteries of what a nation feels and wants. If the govern- of "liberal" Conserva- ment tives is to survive beyond the next election, some accom- modation must be reached with Mr Powell and what he stands for.'

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THE BASIC right to picket is coming in for a three.

sided attack-from the Tory government, the National Industrial Relations Court and big employers' associa- And this pressure is stampeding the gentlemen at at getting trade unionists to toe the picket line.

TUC general secretary Victor Feather has already handed the Tories half the battle by seeming to admit that picketing is some kind of criminal activity.

Speaking last Friday he said: "The trade union movement has never said and never will say that it is above the law of the land' After considering reports from various unions, the TUC will produce a booklet on picketing, he said.

Jack Jones, general secretary of Britain's largest port and General Workers', has also jumped into this 'law-and-order' At a press conference last week he talked about finding 'a trade union solution' to the 'problem'. He even dragged in the Tory slander that much of the trouble on picket lines is fomented by 'out- will be done and will be seen to be done within the union,' he added. Jones has already initiated action against members of his union preparing to police sold out the national docks strike. Now he is picketing. The Tories and the employers will be delighted!

While the trade union bureaucrats grovel before the Tories, the speech last week Attorney- knife is being sharpened. In a major General Sir Peter Rawlinson announced that one inquiry into lawful He hinted that new laws might be on the picketing was continuing.

way; in any case, fresh instructions would be given to the police.

When the National Industrial Relations Court resumes from its summer recess, fresh picketing be cases are almost certain to the early listings. Any among by taken employers action against pickets now has the legal of the House of Lords backing has found that trade which unions are responsible for the of its members. Political attack pressure to supplied in poser forwarded also dossier to Secretary Maurice Employment Mac- WATFORD: Monday tor September Builders' 25, millan by the Master p.m. Trade Union Hall Woodford Federation. During the bitter 12- (upstairs room), Watford Road Junc week building workers' strike, ¡opposite station) 'Force the Tories to the employers gathered signed resign. statements which allege 'intimid..

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Name Address 88, Monday September 25, 1972 PAGE 11 Ben Murphy, whose film career began with one line in Dustin Hotfman's 'The Graduate' now says a lot more as Kid Curry in 'Alias Smith and Jones' on BBC 2 lonight.

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday Septem ROY JENKINS completes his carefully - orchestrated campaign of self-promotion with an appearance on the BBC programme 'Panorama' tonight. It coincides with the publica- tion of a book of major speeches he has made in the past few months on the way forward for the Labour Party. resigned the Jenkins, who party's deputy leadership over the Common Market, has been making a number of important public appearances recently in giving which he has been radical gloss to his deeply rightist philosophy. In his final speech on Satur- day, a week before the start of annual conference party's at Blackpool, Jenkins warned party becoming against the solely representative on one class. Labour's 'biggest danger' at General Election is the next appealing 'solely to class interests and class emotions'. If the party remains party a of the working class 'it will cut itself off from many of its potential supporters who do not identify themselves as working class or see their problems in class terms' He says the 'old idea of a proletarian battle against an élite of parasites is out of date.

Jenkins is here espousing the purest forms of class compromise.

Having long ago left his own origins—he comes from class a miner's family — Jenkins now to raise the standard of seeks not only compromise, but coali- tion politics. Jenkins, the man who led 69 into the right-wing Labourites lobby with the Tories to take Britain into the Six, is a direct ally of Edward Heath. With the Tories preparing for on the working huge attacks class there is no place in the Labour Party for Jenkins and his hangers-on. Kakuer Japanese premier Tanaka arrives in Peking today to set the seal on the re-establishment of diplo- and the relations matic cementing of commercial ties with China. The visit follows an abrupt turn on the part of both govern- following President ments Nixon's economic measures last August and the rapproche- ment between Peking and Wash- ington. During his visit Tanaka will be heavy bodyguard of security men.

He will have five days of talks with Chinese premier Chou En- lai and may well meet Chairman Mao Tse-tung. towards The rapid moves restoration of Sino-Japanese relations come at a time of great economic crisis for the Japanese ruling class, which hopes to gain and sources of raw markets material in China. They are even prepared to risk complete rupture of relations with Formosa as of the part price of a deal with Peking. The regime Chiang Kai-shek island has denounced Tanaka's visit as 'illegal' and a flagrant violation defence treaty of the 1952 between Formosa and Japan.

their part, the Chinese For Stalinists hope to avert the threat Japanese resurgence militarism by cultivating close relations with Tokyo. Tanaka's visit has been preceded by a series of pilgrimages by Japanese ay soptomber 25, 1872 MERSEYSIDE dockers yester- day decided unanimously to hold a one day stoppage on October 22 in protest against the 'vicious' Housing Finance Act introduced by the Tory government. The stoppaze was recom mended to a mass, meeting by both the Transport and General Workers' Union docks district committee and the shop stewards' committee. Introduction of the hated Act, which will eventually double council is rents, THE RIGHT-TQ-WORK marc] lively demonstration through youth who had marched about Newcastle were joined for the ( members. It was a fitting finish to this fight against the Tory government's unemployment policies in one of Britain's most depressed areas. day before the Only the marchers had come into the city to read the headline on the local paper: 'Christmas dole for 1,000'.

Hundreds of shoppers and youth cheered and clapped as the marched passed through the streets to a meeting. There, they that workers heard the news Clark and North George trom East Marine had donated £10.

This followed the shock reve- lation on Friday that 1,100 men at the engineering factory would be made redundant. Cliff Grig, a delegate from Sunderland trades council, said he was proud to join the march and to convey his trades coun- cil's greetings. trades council had not His been able to send a full bion becate send te sants mea- ing organized to fight the £1.20 expected under the increases Housing Finance Act. "The Labour council has done a deal over our rent with the government, he said. 'We have to show up the Labour traitors.

THE JAPANESE government is concerned that its growing ties with China should not interfere in its relations with the Soviet Union. On Thursday, Tanaka took the unprecedented step of sending a personal letter to Soviet Communist Party chief Leonid Brezhnev expressing his desire for close relations with a the USSR as well as China industrialists all of whom have 'four conditions' Ch accepted the imposed by the Chinese. These are that the firms in- of volved break their ties with South Korea, Formosa and South Vietnam and their associations f raw with American firms. The fact me • that the powerful Japanese are prepared monopolies accept these stringent conditions di indicates the desperate position Nixon are in after the they shocks'. • Their hopes of opening up an market instant consumer are tempered by the realization that China is unlikely to want to run up big debts with Japan and have few assets with which to pay for the goods. But the Japanese are particu- interested in the mineral larly by a deposits of North China, panese especially the very rich and as be the dockers' demand for a 35- £35 basic hour week, pay, holidays. increased average earnings for signing on and increased sick pay. District committee delegate, strenuously opposed by work- Jimmy Symes, told the meeting communities that agreement had been ing-class on 8 Merseyside. reached on shifts from to and from 6 to 10 p.m. But this has not stopped the 4 p.m. Labour-controlled council from But the had only employers offered fl on the basic. implementing it from Monday, Today the modernization October 2. will dis. Yesterday's meeting also committee resume report on the cussions and a further report- heard port held. modernization committee back meeting will be and K march on the north east coast ended on Saturday with a hrough the crowded Newcastle city centre. Unemployed d about 100 miles in seven days from Middlesbrough to or the demonstration by local youth and Young Socialist the mining Workers They weak and hungry in many are "Tories"? villages they passed through had discipline full support. Right-wing Unity and was given the other hand, needed in the Labour movement Labourites, this is what the Right-to- had used their stab-in-the-back and Work march had shown the way methods. forward to. 'We also met a whole layer of fake-lefts, people who talk, Dave Jones, YS National Com- but mittee member, said the march have no action to back it.

"The march put its ideas into had been a 'tremendous success'.

come through It had shown all the contradic- action. have as a disciplined fighting force.'

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of the It was always the union's hold a ballot Electrical and Plumbing Trades intention to on Union is expected to order registration. This policy was five London registration under the changed when the ballot on Industrial Relations Act when it dockers were jailed for contempt of the National Industrial meets today. Relations Court. Its 419,646 members are likely Frank Chapple, EPTU general to be recommended to vote for president, then secretary and the Registrar a return to the register.

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appetites of Japanese business they could be gravely (SLL national secretary) mistaken. The Tapanese are rapidly ex- panding their armed forces under from the monopolies, pressure alarmed by the loss of markets States. This is an Historical materialism today in the United Tuesday September 26 ominous sien that the old plans for military domination Asia

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are being revived. And the No. 1 Mount Pleasant of such plans has always target Liverpool 1, 7.30 p.m. been China. SOCIAL SECURITY office clerks-now operating national overtime ban—could take strike action soon if their demands for more staff are not met by the govern- ment. Many. ofices could reach breakdown point within the next ten days with many of the five million supplementary benefit claimants unable to get money.

Strike action now depends on the outcome of today's talks between the Civil and Public Association, the Society Service of Civil Servants and the Depart- ment of Social Security. The unions' demand for 5,000 more staff has been met with an offer of an extra 1,100. It was as 'miserable' rejected and 'derisory'. Recruitment, the unions claim, has not kept pace with the grow- ing amount of work which largely results from the Tories' creation of one million unemployed and new legislation aimed at restrict- ing benefits. Last year, clerks worked 1.7 million hours of overtime, includ- ing evening and Sunday work.

The government has recruited 3,200 casual workers. But they have been used at the counters without any real training, say the unions. During the 1970 election cam- paign, the Tories pledged to cut- back the civil service. It has succeeded overall to the tune of 13,000 fewer workers. Strikes could start first this week in areas of high unemploy- ment like Scotland. They will be in the civil the first strikes service.

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Last week the power workers' leaders cut their pay demands, precisely in line with the scheme for flat-rate increases discussed with the Tories and employers at Chequers 11 days ago. Then unions representing the govern- ment industrial workers agreed to arbitration. The Tories' hard line is further strengthened by the policies of the Communist Party. With almost 2,000 more Scottish workers Joining the ranks of the hard-core unem- ployed this month, the Stalinists' refusal to fight the Tories at the upper Clyde shipyards has split the yards, allowed in speed-up and eroded the right to strike.

Those who say that the Tories have been forced to retreat are liars and misleaders. They are playing for time, until the work- ing-class is softened up by the treachery of its leaders.

The working class can, must and will defeat the Tories. But it will do so by settling accounts and Stalinist with the TUC betrayers. The Tories' arrogant demands for tomorrow's talks reaffirm the of building Councils of urgency Action in each area with the aim of mobilizing the working class to force the Tories to resign.

And they lay added stress on the importance of the All Trades Unions Alliance conference on October 22, the central theme of which will be the building of new, revolutionary leadership.

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