Workers Press no. 889

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BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE LABOUR PARTY'S rapid drift towards coalition politics with the Tories was totally confirmed by two weekend announcements. • Former Labour Cabinet minister George Thomson and the assistant general secretary of the Labour Party Gwyn Morgan, are to take top jobs at the Common Market head- appointments in Brussells. The quarters were made by Edward Heath himself.

• Professor Nicholas Kaldor, senior economic adviser to the Wilson government, wrote in yesterday's Sunday Times' fully supporting the Heath f2 wage curb. Kaldor said: I have no hesitation in saying that I view this plan with admiration.' The spectacle of Labourites rushing to aid Tory plans is fully in line with our analysis of last week's Labour Party conference at Black- pool-that the party is utterly bankrupt and will not fight the Tory offensive.

Indeed it is out in the open that now Labourites will do everything possible to actually implement these attacks. At the European Com- Brussels Thomson in his £13,000 a mission in de cabinet Tory job—aided by his chief year Christopher Morgan- -will be working alongside son-in-law of Winston Soames, arch Tory and Churchill. Their job will be to bring to fruition the monopolies in of the international strengthening class their war on the working ference staying the Imperial at of Europe. Wilson, Hotel with along It at was an open secret Sir Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Blackpool that Thomson and Nicholas, Barbara Castle Harry Morgan would get the EEC jobs.

Denis Healey. He did not (Heath carefully delayed the an- debate, speak in the economic until nouncements a day after but his hand is firmly seen in the conference broke up.) But a the reply in the economic debate conspiracy of silence was joined made by Healey. by Michael Foot and the other In his speech Healey actually "lefts". commended the Heath plan by Just as they covered up for Now I do not want to saying: the 69 Jenkinsites who voted be unfair to these proposals Tories for entry last He urged the party and the TUC with the 28, so only last week October to continue talks the they let Wilson get another free There is no harm in try- nomy. hand the Common Market. on ing, he said. of Wilson has intention no The conference went on to the taking Britain of pass a resolution calling for Market, nor has he the possi- prices and incomes policy which bility of renegotiating terms of gained victory because the giant he wanted to. entry even T&GWU abstained. As the eco- When Foot and Harry Urwin nomic crisis worsens, the agents of the Transport and General of the ruling class in the workers Workers' Union failed to call unmasked movement are on specifically for the rejection of new scale. the NEC statement at the con- The construction of an alter- they ference, not only opened leadership native revolutionary the door for Wilson to continue is, we repeat, the task of the day.

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HENRY KISSINGER,

President Labour conference for the Tory Nixon's special adviser, held salons of Europe. talks Paris yesterday secret In with the Hanoi delegation to Now to Kaldor and his enthu- the Vietnam peace talks. He was siastic advocacy of Heath's plan Major-General accompanied by of state control over wages.

Haig who last week Alexander Immediately Wilson came to met Nguyen Van Thieu, president 1964 he with power in brought of the South Vietnamese puppet two leading bourgeois him eco- regime, in Saigon. nomists and Labour Party mem- bers, Nicholas Kaldor and CHINESE acting president Tung Nicholas Balogh. Kaldor was the Pi-wu yesterday sent CO.® 'invented' more influential: gratulatory message to President ill-fated Employ- the Selective Idi Amin to mark Uganda's 10th ment Tax (SET) and also regional hoping their friend- anniversary employment premiums. ship would 'develop con- tinuously'. Kaldor was at last week's con- INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY OCTOBER 9, 1972 • No. 889 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Reid calls off work in: A rotten compromise A MASS MEETING of Joe Black, district chair- the work-in. Confederation At earlier discussions be- man of the the former men at tween Marathon president ano Clydebank division of Wayne Harbin, boiler- gineering Unions. who was Clyde Ship- builders will be asked Danny also the talks said: ICauel McGarvey and shop *This has been a moment- Blackpool, today to endorse shop ous meeting as Clydebank's new stewards recommenda-

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four ships at docks on for the lads and we Christmas would Tore prepared co-Operate LO unable work im- press conference ensure that Marathon have to hine mediately with the Ameri- after after yesterday's Glasgow rig-building Stalinist Clyde- in Britain.' can Marathon Manufactur ing Company which has bank convenor James Reid James Fox said on bought the yard. said The World this weeker "In the light of the situa- Weekend that Alter two nours or talk: Glasgow in yesterday be- we

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTEF

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE LABOUR PARTY'S rapid drift with the towards coalition politics Tories was totally confirmed by two weekend announcements. • Former Labour Cabinet minister George Thomson and the assistant general secretary of the Labour Party Gwyn Morgan, are to take top jobs at the Common Market head- Brussells. The appointments in quarters were made by Edward Heath himself.

• Professor Nicholas Kaldor, senior economic adviser to the Wilson government, wrote in yesterday's 'Sunday Times' fully supporting the Heath £2 wage curb. Kaldor said: 'I have no hesitation in saying that I view this plan with admiration. of Labourites rushing to aid The spectacle Tory plans is fully in line with our analysis of last week's Labour Party conference at Black- pool-that the party is utterly bankrupt and will not fight the Tory offensive.

Indeed it is out in the that now open Labourites will do everything possible to actually implement these attacks. At the European Com- Brussels Thomson his £13,000 a mission in In Tory job-aided by his chief de cabinet year Christopher Morgan—will be working alongside Winston Soames, arch Tory and son-in-law of to fruition the Churchill. Their job will be to bring monopolies in the international strengthening of their war on the working class ference staying at the Imperial of Europe. Wilson, Hotel with along It was an open secret at Sir Anthony Wedgwood Benn, and Blackpool Thomson that Harry Nicholas, Barbara Castle Morgan would get the EEC jobs.

Healey. He did Denis not and (Heath carefully delayed the an- debate, speak the economic 100 until a day after nouncements but his hand is firmly seen in the conference broke up.) But a the reply in the economic debate conspiracy of silence was joined made by Healey. by Michael Foot and the other Healey actually In his speech 'lefts'. commended the Heath plan by Just as they covered up for saying: Now do not want to the 69 Jenkinsites who voted be unfair to these proposals Tories for entry last He urged the party and the TUC with the October 28, so only last week talks on the to continue eco- they let Wilson get another free 'There is no harm in try- nomy. the Common Market. hand on ing' he said. Wilson intention of has no The conference went on to of taking Britain the out pass a resolution calling for a he the possi Market, nor has prices and incomes policy which bility of renegotiating terms of gained victory because the giant entry even if he wanted to.

T&GWU abstained. As the eco- When Foot and Harry Urwin nomic crisis worsens, the agents General of the Transport and of the ruling class in the workers' Workers' Union failed to call unmasked movement are on a specifically for the rejection of new scale. the NEC statement at the con- The construction of an alter- they ference, not only opened native revolutionary leadership the door for Wilson to continue is, we repeat, the task of the day.

Market his back stage man- Thomson but also for oeuvres,

HENRY KISSINGER,

President and Morgan to blithely leave the conference for the Tory Nixon's adviser, held Labour special salons of Europe. talks Paris yesterday secret in the Hanoi delegation to Now to Kaldor and his enthu- the Vietnam peace talks. He was siastic advocacy of Heath's plan accompanied by Major-General of state control over wages.

Met guyer Van Thieu, president Alexander. Haig who last Immediately Wilson to 1964 he brought with power in Vietnamese puppet of the South him two leading bourgeois eco- regime, in Saigon. nomists and Labour Party mem- Nicholas bers, Kaldor and CHINESE acting president Tung Nicholas Balogh. Kaldor was the Pi-wu yesterday 'invented' more influential: gratulatory message to President ill-fated Employ- the Selective Idi Amin to mark Uganda's 10th ment Tax (SET) and also regional anniversary hoping their friend- employment premiums. would develop ship con- Kaldor was at last week's con- tinuously. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY OCTOBER 9, 1972 • No. 889 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Reid calls off work in: A rotten compromise A MASS MEETING of Joe Black, district chair- the work-in. man Confederation the At earlier discussions be- of the men at former Shipbuilding tween Marathon president Clydebank division of Wayne Harbin, boiler- gineering Unions, who was Clyde the talks said:

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World' pride themselves on their militancy' WE ARE now at the ninth day of ing an alternative leadership to member of television the month and not the reformist traitors and the sup- aucience reminder lanolr our target Stalinists who cover up for them. porters in Lincoln: *Remember 21.750 Co up. Dick to that vote for Taverne che Severe month now have is a vote for the Tori Taverne is £82.35. So let's step up the cam- would force he action by working class to resign his seat paign immediately. fight to resign. and by-election so- as a called Back us up all the way. Don't weholtalie LaDoul Call didate. lose the fight moment TOr poll conducted for the pro- government «•clooel Maise all you showed that 49 gramme per cent entering can. Post all your donations to : allacks eve the Common Market, laws are would support LInCol volers stiffened against picketing, un- Workers Press Taverne, cent would vote October Appeal Fund the official Labour candidate, and the cost High Street 16 per cent for the of living continues to rise.

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UDA forces Lynch PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday October 9, 1972 LESS THAN 24 hours after Ulster Defence Association threats to carry Republic the war into the unless Eire premier Jack Lynch clamped down on the IRA, the Provisional Dublin Sinn Fein's headquarters were closed down. Following a successful across-the-border arms Since direct raid, UDA vice-chairman Dublin governme Thomas Herron said: claimed to be 'We will continue these more vigorous raids until Mr Lynch stops policy and there ha these

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men tough putting their feet on our territory speeches from and in our country. If it is Minister Des O'Ma Now Eire's Labo good enough for spokesman on On Friday night Dublin Conor Cruise police closed the Pro- said top priority Street visional Kevin to given and second offices Tooter. Blessington book premises in In months. today, O'Brien wa: Street for three Members of the Pro- if the terror conti visionals are now picketing Ireland's 32 coun both buildings. in danger The organization's secre- embroiled in Lynch Walter Catholic-Protestant tary was arrested and be war with both side charged under the Offences against the forces State Against the Act, and order'. which also permits closure Liam Cosgrave, 1 O'Brady: On crest of wave where police suspect build- the right wing ings are being used for un- ing in Dundalk last month, currently lawful purposes by illegal which accompanied Labour leaders ab Repub- organizations. hunger strike by of prospect prisoners at Curragh The Oficial IRA issued lican coalition the raids and accusing the statement condemning military camp. anti-IRA moves: June Provo leaders the kind of action In Tory O'Brady and Green Eire Rory Joe been advocating fo govern- "blatant time, he said. of denial Cahill were arrested under ment of civil liberties'. the same Act but released If the The raids were the first after courts decided there ment has taken 'insufficient evidence' major public move against was threats seriously th the Provos since the riot- apparently have no against them. of restorationist danger

BY JOHN SPENCER

PRESIDENT Tito said in an interview published at the weekend that there will be a thorough purge of the Yugoslay Communist Party ranks--and that some members will be prosecuted.

Interviewed by the Zagreb daily 'Vjesnik', the Yugoslav 'we must be merciless' in the leader said against struggle enemies of the working class. There must be no liberalism or sentimentality, he said.

He said the class enemies 'class enemies' Tito prominent speaks are all those who are against about are members leading members naturally - of socialism, including those who his own Party gives the lie to would like to get rich at the the Yugoslav leader's talk of of somebody expense else's 'socialism'. The Stalinist theory work. Referring to those who of 'socialism in a single country' had already grown rich he which Tito adheres is nothing said: than justification of bureaucratic rule. "Those we must not only expel from the party, but adminis- Favourable conditions for tratively prosecute. We those the who are plundering return what they took away to "self-management' so-called eco- those who created it.' produced. by the nomy are actions of the Tito bureaucracy He said commissions should be set the o ropesty te tall sign.

itself. It has opened the country such, to foreign capital on favourable property entered the people, starting with Party mem- terms, monetary institutions of world capitalism The president bers. said the crossroad such the International Party was at a at as which it Monetary Fund and made the must square accounts with all the enemies of socialist dinar a convertible currency.

development of the country.

This has shattered the mono- Energetic poly of foreign had trade, main measures bulwark protecting Yugoslay already been taken in some in- dustry from the impact of the republics reference to the wave of trials and the sacking capitalist world market. The leaders corruption of of Communist Party wholesale func- in Croatia by and legislation tionaries foreign capitalist firms and the being prepared to help counter emergence of an extremely wealthy the part of layer within opposing trenos on "technocratic and the country is an inevitable con- bureaucratic forces in the country, he said.

sequence. Tito's Tito speaking the deputy Stane Dolanc was as recently admitted that leader of the Yugoslav ruling the LaLe know- bureaucracy, which is the chief has no control or even ledge about the of sources of the danger of a capi- operations talist restoration in the country.

its functionaries abroad. own many of whom have accumulated Like its counterparts in the USSR and Eastern Europe the big in foreign exchange Yugoslav which, under various guises, they bureaucracy appro- can invest in Yugoslavia.

priates the lion's share of the social product. The profits of such enterprises The fact that among the most guaranteed by law are under

BY IAN YEATS

Dublin called policy statement spotlight- rule the command UDA's raid ing the urgency of new and has the border government • claims 'ridiculous' adding: genuinely all-party talks be pursuing Ulster anti-IRA 'We shall on the crisis — in- not even d there have been cluding Leinster House. bother to comment on it.'

Indeed They believed to anti - violence weekend state- are feel that a fresh bi-partisan ments by Provos president Justice Des O'Malley. Rory O'Brady (the Provos peace initiative is afoot in ire's Labour Party which they will be invited said last week they had Ulster Dr to participate. banned all further press interviews) O'Brien has there suggests

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shootings be in their must an element which believes and bombings went stamping out leadership throughout the weekend. current terror in the the book published Late Saturday north has brought them to night 25-strong UDA detachment Brien warns that the crest of a wave. stormed Catholic bar, all article in the Irish rror continues An Press' dispersing after the counties 'Sunday leads with only are of army threatened to inter- becoming the informed speculation claimed bloody that Dublin The

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Provo leaders Protestant civil the latest fighting in two of their members had see been assaulted in the bar.

both sides pitted the north as 'being simply 22-year-old he forces of 'law another round in the con- And Northern mother of three Mrs Olive Ireland tinuing losgrave, leader of McConnell was killed and struggle before the British wing Fine Gael- 12 people injured when finally will want to meet exploded talking with the Provisional

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at a car bomb in the Catholic Falls Road about the conference table again'. area of Belfast. electoral an O'Brady said: 'My in- - welcomed the formation is that the IRA A 17-year-old youth was "This shot dead after an is can continue fighting explo- of action we have indefinitely. Since Opera- sion in Co Tyrone when, the army say, he disobeyed ocating for a long tion Motorman morale has never been so high.' an order to stop. Provo leaders are said to Lynch govern- taken the

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drawing com from Eire: Labour bid for be comfort riously the Prozos British leader right-wing coalition, see y have not. Their p.3. Harold Wilson's Blackpool Tito seen with US President Nixon changes recently Stalinist rule in Eastern Europe.

constitutional introduced to encourage invest- The Rumanian bureaucracy has followed its example and decided ment from abroad. Tito's turn world imperialism has to apply for membership of the towards created an intolerable crisis for IMF and the World Bank, simul- the Yugoslav workers' state and taneously taking powers to driving workers' wages by up to a third.

is the country towards civil war. also Poland and Hungary are be eager follow The bureaucracy reacts to the reported to and in Paris last the Rumanians, emergence of restorationist ten- week Edward Gierek. the Polish dencies in a Bonapartist manner, declared for close col- hitting out at both right leader, It fears of the laboration between the Common left. the anger Comecon, the working class which is suffering Market and East European economic bloc. an actual decline in living stan- dards through rampant inflation, But the working class has yet cuts in social services and wide- these to say the last word on spread unemployment. acute threats to its revolutionary Tito's fear of the Tito is unable to mobilize the conquests. political revolution is clearly workers' movement against demonstrated the To do this by anti- danger. is capitalist Trotskyist trials. to raise the question of political revolution and the overthrow The enrichment of corrupt of his parasitic ruling is one thing. own bureaucrats how- clique. Hence the trials of left- ever-the of restoration capi- wing critics of the regime. in- talism involves inflicting decisive cluding three students from Bel- defeats on the working class.

imprisoned for grade recently The danger of such defeats is Trotskvism', opened up Tito's policy. by But Yugoslavia is the the decisive battles still only most extreme example of the crisis of ahead. BRACKNELL: Monday October 9, 8 p.m. Priestwood Community The ATUA national Centre. conference.' COVENTRY: Monday October 9, 8 p.m. 'Market Tavern', , Junction Street (off the Butts). 'ATUA conference'. BIRMINGHAM: Monday October 9, 8 p.m. Lecture Room 3, Digbeth Civic Hall. 'ATUA conference' WEALDSTONE: Tuesday Octo- ber 10, 8 p.m. Wealdstone Labour Hall, Station Approach, Station Road. 'ATUA confer- ence'. WANDSWORTH: Tuesday October 10, 8 p.m. Selkirk Hotel, Selkirk Road, SW17. 'ATUA conference'.

WILLESDEN: Tuesday October 10, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour Road, NW10. 'ATUA Hall, High conference'. CLAPHAM: Tuesday October 10, 8 p.m. Ciapham Baths, Clapham Manor Street, SW4. 'ATUA con- ference' MANCHESTER: Wednesday October 11, 7.30 p.m. Mil- ton Hall, Deansgate. 'Fight the rent Act! Build Councils of Action!' SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thursday October 12, 8 p.m. Deptford En- gineers' New opposite Cross Station. ference'. LEICESTER: Thursday October 12, 8 p.m. 'Queen's Hotel'. Rut- land Street. 'ATUA conference' GLASGOW: Thursday October 12, 7.30 p.m. Trades Hall, Clydebank.

'UCS and the ATUA conference.'

BARNSLEY: Friday October 13, 7.30 p.m. Community Hall, Laithes Crescent. 'The rents struggle and the ATUA conference. Speakers: (Dodworth Robbie Roberts miner), Chris Stones (chairman, Athersley tenants), Ray Jaxon (South Yorks YS). CENTRAL LONDON (Entertain- ments and press branch): Sun- day October 15, 7 p.m. London Technique, School of Film Speaker: WC2. Royston Bull, pondent of 'The Scotsman' (in a personal capacity). DAGENHAM: Tuesday October 17, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Barking. 'Force Avenue, the Tories to resign.' KENT: Thursday October 19, 8 p.m. 'The Legion' , Burgess 'Reinstate Wil- Road. Aylesham. liam Griffiths fitters. Prepare the ATUA conference.' Speakers: A Griffiths' and leading striker in a personal Kent miner (both capacity) . Socialist Labour League

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Hammersmith's Labour- controlled council in West London has now named some of s the property speculators which it claims has been soaking up improvement grants under the 1969 Housing Act. Only recently the council said that most of the fim of ratepayers' money paid out in grants . last year went to speculators. Ian Gray, chairman of the housing committee, said: 'One firm we stopped giving grants to, Limerston Securities Ltd., of Old Buildings WCl, got £120,000 from the council in three years. 'We now know it was associated with other com- panies speculating in properties in the area' He said the companies were buying up old, red brick houses, converting them into four, six or eight flats with the . council grants and of help then letting or selling them at 3.0 per cent profit. In fact only 10 per cent of all grants issued benefited the existing tenants. Up to 50 or 60 firms have now been banned from receiv- ing grants, and the total number of grants issued has been cut by almost half. CIlr Gray said that the rising house prices caused by the speculators had effectively in- creased the eviction of tenants at a time when the council's waiting list was over 5,500.

Only landlords converting for existing tenants or owner- occupiers can now get grants from Hammersmith council.

Limerston Securities were quite blasé about the whole thing last week. Said Edward Church, a director of Verilo: 'Limerston is a holding company for us and other companies in the area. 'Undoubtedly Limerston did get £120,000 in grants, but we see nothing wrong in this. We make a very good job of con- versions—in fact, better than the council-and have a good name with building societies.

•Most properties we convert A reply to some centrist critics By Cliff Slaughter All are avallable from 186a Clapham H Or The Paperback Centre, 28 Charlott Above: Anthony Greenwood We do _are Without tenants. make à profit of up to 30 per cent on the sale of converted property. I know it puts prices but mortgages up, can obtained easily? Limerston Securities, Breck Investments Ltd and Verilo Securities Ltd all operate in the Hammersmith and Fulham areas. Oliver Aylesford Burge, a director of Limerston is also director of Verilo. Ian a Tickler, a solicitor involved in the formation of Verilo, is a director of Breck Investments.

After being caught by an Act pushed through Anthony Greenwood during the last Labour government- which anyone could have and seen would lead to nothing but speculation - Hammersmith Labourites are pressing the Tories to amend the legislation.

They would have done better if they had put up a the Tories' 'fair fight against rents' Act which they accepted with hardly a whimper, forcing home fl increases on its tenants. A series which appeared in Workers Press in June, 1972 is now available as a pamphlet in the Socialist Labour League Pocket Library.

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The possibility of a coali- tion government between the right-wing Fine Gael party and the Labour Party in the Republic of Ireland has been brought a step nearer by last week's decision to hold talks on the subject. Between them they plan to oust the minority government of the Fianna_ Fail party headed by Jack Lynch when elections are held, it is thought, next year. For the Irish working class, however, the very idea repre- dire threat and a con- sents a spiracy. If Labour does join a coalition with Fine Gael it will mean the working class will be deprived of an independent voice and expression. . Also, of course, in the last analysıs such a coalition will in essence nothing be more than a platform from which to attack the living standards of Irish workers, taced as they already are with soaring prices when Ireland joins the Com- mon Market in January. Last week the Fine Gael party formally decided that for the hirst time in 15 years they would seek coalition talks with the Labour Party. In past there have been un- months official • discussions : between individual members but only now have these been officially recognized. It was Fine Gael's deputy leader, Tom O'Higgins, who announced to the world that they were seeking talks fol- lowing a lengthy meeting of his parlamentary party. "The party discussed for future arrangements general election strategy and the election of an alternative government and decided to hold discussions these on matters with the Labour Party.'

It is now thought the next step will be an elaboration of a common programme to put before voters. The fact that the Fine Gael party-an 'extreme right-wing outfit-and the Labour Party, which many workers vote for, can reach such an agreement is itself an indication of the depth of the political and 28 Charlotte St

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When asked if the Fine Gael proposals would receive a good response from his party, Corish replied that the vast majority of the parliamentary party agreed with his pro- coalition speech made in June of this year.

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THE JAY LOVESTONE

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday October From Stalinism ... to the CLA Serious allegations of CIA influence in the AFL-CIO American trade union organization were made by Victor Reuther, international affairs dir- ector of the United Auto- mobile Workers' Union on May 23, 1966. In an interview in the 'Detroit Free Press' Reuther charged that the AFL-CIO's of international department affairs was involved and that both the AFL-CIO and some of its affiliated unions had 'permitted themselves to be used by the CIA as a cover for clandestine operations abroad'. The American labour move- ment does not have a political party of its own. But this does not mean that American trade unions have been able to stay 'independent' of politics.

Under the leadership of men like Meany and Dubinsky, the world's most powerful trade union movement, and its inter- national contacts, have been used to further the interests of the world's most powerful capitalists. The career of Tom Mboya in Kenya also serves as an illustration of CIA manipula- tions. Mboya was born in 1930, the son of a Luo sisal worker.

Educated at the Holy Ghost College, he _became a sanitary he was inspector. In 1952, made secretary of the Kenya Local Government Workers' Union and in September the following year he became gen- eral secretary of the Kenya Federation of Labour. Also in 1952, Mboya had joined the Kenya African Union, out of which the Kenya African National Union later to emerge as the was country's ruling party. banning of African The political parties by the British authorities under the Kenya 'Emergency' added gave importance to the trade unions as a voice for African popular grievances. In 1954, the unions them- selves were attacked, under 'Operation Anvil', their offices ransacked by the British forces and union leaders rounded up.

A British union official was advising the Kenya govern- ment's Labour Department at the time. He cautioned the Kenya unions against involving themselves in politics. was this alignment of It British labour bureaucrats with British colonialism whicn was one factor in impelling the Kenya Federation of Labour out of the trying pan into the hre, so to speak, into turning.

the American unions for to advice and support. The AFL-CIO was quite prepared to adopt a demagogic "anti-colonial' pose, so long as it was dealing with countries where the dominant colonial- America's ism was that of rivals, Britain and France.

It was Richard Nixon who reported, atter an Atrican tour in 1957: 'American interests in the future are so great as to justify us in not hesitating even to assist the departure of the colonial powers from Africa.

If we can win native opinion ly October 9, 1972 the CIA. By Charles Parkins. Part 1 Top: Jomo Kenyatta (left) and Tom M Nixon said: 'American interests in the fu us in not hesitating even to assist the de from Africa' in this process the future of America in Africa will be assured.' Another representative of American ruling class, the George Cabot Lodge, explained in a book called 'Spearheads of Democracy': 'The obscure trade unionist of today may well be the pre- sident or prime minister tomor- row. In many countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, trade unions are almost the only organized force in direct contact with the people.'

In 1955, Mboya used his office as leader of the Kenya Federation of Labour to act as 'mediator' in the strikes of Mombasa dockers and Nairobi local government workers. He acquired a reputation for pre- ferring to use negotiation and 'contacts' rather than the strength of the labour move- ment. It was in the same year that ca. he came to England, to attend on Ruskin College, Oxford. While Part Two Mboya in 1963. Above: Richard s in the future are so great as to justify sist the departure of the colonial powers there, he associated a good deal the Fabian Society and with had discussions with such people as Margery Perham of the Fabian Colonial Bureau.

Before returning to Kenya, Mboya went to the United States for two months, during which he developed his con- union tacts with American leaders and arranged financial assistance and educational pro- jects for the Kenya unions.

The AFL granted funds to subsidize the administrative costs of the Kenya Federation of Labour. It provided scholarships for union leaders to study in the USA. It financed the building of a KFL headquarters. More subsidies for the KFL were channelled through the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which the AFL-CIO and the TUC had set up in 1949 to counter com- munist influence in the inter- th national labour movement. By the early 1960s, these were amounting to £1,000 a month.

In addition, the Fund for International Social and Eco- nomic Education contributed $25,000 to KFL more than funds. This body, of which George Cabot Lodge was a director, was itself supported by CIA money. Mboya contributed articles to various publications receiv- ing CIA support, such as the International Student Confer- ence and the International Union of Socialist Youth. He also produced a book called 'Freedom and After', ', outlining such ideas as 'African Social- ism'-'Those proven codes of conduct in the African societies which have over the ages conferred dignity on our people and afforded them security regardless of their in life.' He also station explained that his 'African Socialism' would not at all exclude foreign investment, banking, etc. American investment in Kenya began to mount. In 1962, Mboya was Minis- ter of Labour in an indepen- dent Kenya. He introduced an Industrial Relations Charter, which was to set up a perman- and to ent Industrial Court lay down for the unions such duties as supervising discipline of the workers and discourag- ing negligence, damage to pro- perty, insubordination, 'inter- ference with or disturbance to normal work' , and 'abusive or intemperate language' However, this soon broke down and a wave of strikes began. Mboya declared: If the to strike is abused, it right will be removed. The govern- ment cannot see the country held to ransom and do noth- ing about it' He was not the only one to be worried. important An instrument of CIA influence in countries such as Kenya, where many workers are government employees, is a US-based inter- union organization, national er- the Public Service Interna- mi tional. (The PSI was prominent in C the CIA scheme which brought down the Jagan government in British Guiana.) On January

29, 1963, PSI

general secretary Paul Tofahrn to Mboya wrote letter a urging him to do his utmost to avoid a strike. Tofahrn, added that he was sending his special representa-• tive, I. Nynan, to Nairobi to the Kenya unions, and see concluded: "This letter is writ- . order to urge you to ten in drop hints in the appropriate quarter' On February 13, Nynan reported back to PSI "head- quarters that the situation was in hand. 'I was very lucky, getting the support of in my Brother Tom Mboya tries to avoid the strike? .

Funds originating from the CIA continued to be used to influence the trade union movement in Kenya and to support Mboya's political career. In the AFL-CIO's Interna- tional Affairs Department, the man chiefly responsible for African affairs has been one Brown, Irving who became head of an 'African-American Labour Center' in New York.

According to an article in the 'New York Post' on February 'spends 24, 1967, the centre CIA money in Africa'. The overall direction of AFL-CIO international affairs on behalf of the CIA has been in the hands of a man called Jay Lovestone. The Post' article, written by Drew Pear- said: Lovestone takes son, orders from Cord Meyer of the it CIA. The political association between Lovestone and Brown goes back at least as far as the 1930s when Lovestone headed a movement called the Independent Labour League.

Before that, Lovestone was in the Communist Party. In fact, this leading light of the CIA was once general secre- • and attended the Com- tary munist International. in CONTINUED TOMORROW

BY TOM KEMP

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has returned to Bangla- desh to find prices soar- ing and food scarce. The hopes that inspired the liberation struggle have not been fulfilled. Any reconstruction of the shattered economy that has taken place rests on a fragile foundation. What rankles with the masses of poor peasants and workers is the high living and corruption of the ruling clique.

The new rulers quickly established a reputation for incompetence and corruption.

Coming from a small but wealthy bourgeoisie they use their position in the Awami League to feather their own nests and find jobs for rela- tions and friends. Basic economic problems have not been faced, let alone solved. Bangladesh is an extremely underdeveloped country and depends upon the sale of primary products in the world market. The severing of connections with Pakistan has been a serious blow to some sectors of the economy. The tea industry, 70 per The National Council of Ordre Nouveau has just announced its pro- gramme for the forth- coming legislative elec- tion. This is part of the strategy of the National Front of right-wing and fascist organizations in France initiated by a Congress in June. The main aim of the policy of the French fascists, directed at 'silent France' , is to build a racialist : movement which can be used against the French working class. cent British-controlled, has lost a protected market in Pak- istan and now has to sell on the world market at lower prices. The executive of one British firm explained that it costs three takas (17p) to produce a pound of tea which only fetches two takas (12p) at world market prices. "The more tea I produce the more money I lose, he said.

'I don't see how we can sur- vive without assistance from the government.' As high-cost producers the three big British team firms in Bangladesh may be forced out of business. The effects of last year's war and internal chaos is likely to mean that the crop will be about a third down on last year, In any case Bangladesh tea is not of high quality and is only suitable for blending.

The industry's collapse led the unemployment of to 130,000 estate workers and another 500,000 employed in ancillary industries. Of course, the tea industry is only one of Sheikh Mujib's lesser troubles. The country still has to be endowed with a constitution. Relations with remain Pakistan uncertain. The economic future is bleak.

Above : Gabriel Aranda who exposed gov They hope to drive a wedge between French workers and tie millions of Portuguese, Spanish and Turkish immi- grants who work in France.

'In this protection of the community, immigration and the assimilation of foreigners is one of the main problems.

It is no use protecting our fron- tiers if a specific, legal invasion changes the nature and char- The administration is adept at shelving problems and hang- ing on, waiting for something to turn up. Many people still in Sheikh Mujib have faith who, while in England, did deny himself the com- forts of the best hotels.

His role now is to listen to grievances and to hand out consoling words while his Awami League henchmen con- solidate their position and feather their own nests. It is a straight-forward con trick in which the fiderice masses are deluded by the great leader while they are fleeced by the capitalists, land- lords and usurors who domin- ate his party and have the real power. Nothing less than a thorough agrarian revolution, the expro- priation of imperialist con- cerns and the nationalization of the main industries can even begin to solve the prob- lems of Bangladesh. National liberation was won by armed struggle involving thousands of men. It is becom increasingly difficult for Sheikh Mujib to hold the line.

A further confrontation may not be far away in which he will have to show himself before the masses in his true colours. posed government corruption acter of the French nation.'

This statement by Ordre with Nouveau coincides an outbreak anti-Semitism, of connected with the exposures by Gabriel Aranda of govern- ment corruption. Of course, the French fas- cists were most willing to collaborate with Hitler's Vichy regime against the resistance of the French working class!

Workers Press, Mo British aid to the American war effort in Vietnam has repeatedly been denied by government spokesmen. But it is clearly revealed in the state- ment we publish here. The statement was made by Roger Marshall, a 37-year-old Kent prosthetic technician. He worked at the civilian province hospital in Quang Ngai, South Vietnam, for 37 years as an unpaid volunteer with the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers). Mr Marshall, who is a Fellow of the British Institute of Surgical Technicians, trained Vietnamese hospital stafi in all aspects of prosthetics and orthotics (artificial limbs).

He has signed the following statement: In late 1971, I visited and talked with the First Sec- retary of the British Embassy in Saigon about my concern as an Englishman of reports I had heard up country in Quang Ngai of a British police officer who was helping to train Viet- namese police. The British Secretary assured me that there were only a couple of British police officers that had been in Vietnam advising Vietna- mese police on such problems as traffic control. After fur- ther questions by me, he also assured me that Britain in no way, either in country (Viet- nam) or outside of country, was helping with the war effort -or training South Vietnamese troops. Shortly after this visit, two officers of the army of the Republic of Vietnam visited our house in Saigon with some other Vietnamese friends of ours. During the following con- versations, they told our Sai- representatives, Michael gon and Diane Jones, who speak fluent Vietnamese, that they had recently returned from a three-month training course in Johore Baru, where they were trained British by army officers. After further questions and investigations, we learned that in Johore Baru, Malaya, there is a training camp called 'The British Jungle Warfare Survival School' where some 1,500 Vietnamese officers have already been trained. In addi- tion to this, the Vietnamese

BY JOHN SPENCER

The former deputy Minister of the Interior of Georgia has been put in charge of the republic's ization in a new shake- ordered by the up Kremlin. A dispute between Moscow and the leaders of Joseph Stalin's home state has been simmering for months. The promotion of Edward Chevard- nadze to the post of first secre- tary of the Georgian CP is taken generally as an indica- tion that the Kremlin is taking a tough line. ProBs, Monday October 9, 1972 PAGE 5 officers told us that plans were afoot to train other Indo- Chinese _troops. Also they told us that Vietnamese officers had been trained, again by British army officers, at Counter a Intelligence School in Singa- pore. Training covered such methods as interrogation of enemy prisoners, but did not include any methods of tor- ture. On receipt of this informa- tion, I wrote to the First Sec- retary at the_British Embassy from Quang Ngai, but although he received my letter, asking if these facts were true, he did not reply. A few weeks later I managed a trip to Saigon and asked for an appointment to speak again with him. He invited me to lunch with him- self and his wife at their home, and gave me vague answers my questions regarding this matter. He said that if this training facility was a fact, that it was certainly now finished, or in the pro- being finished. of cess thought this a strange and in- complete answer. In january of this year, my Hong wife and I were in Kong, where we had occasion to meet some British soldiers socially. During conversations, one of them mentioned that he had been at a training camp in Johore Baru. Learning that I was working in Vietnam, he told us that Vietnamese troops had been at this camp, and also Green • Beret (American Special Forces Troops) were undergoing train- ing there under the tuition of British troops. When I asked him why people were not aware of this, he replied that the place was 'hush-hush'.

Despite my questions at the British Embassy in Saigon,.

letters hand-delivered to the British Consul in Philadelphia, and to the British Ambassador in Washington, plus letters to various newspapers, I have yet receive satisfactory any reply, or denial, of the above- mentioned situation. Surely, those who are con- cerned about the brutal war going on in Indo China deserve a straight answer from our government regarding serious these charges. Roger D. Marshall He replaces Vassily Mjavanadze who, according to Moscow, resigned at his own request. Mjavanadze (70) was a candidate member of the Soviet CP's politburo. The origin of Mjavanadze's resignation could well lie in the severe criticisms of the local Party organization pub- lished six months ago in 'Pravda'. On August 29, Mjavanadze himself signed a 'Pravda' article dealing with the efforts to overcome the shortcomings attacked by the Kremlin. Mjavanadze has been replaced by a much younger man: Chevardnadze is only 44 and is not even a member of the Soviet CP Central Com- mittee. Nor was he a delegate to the Party congress in March last year. But his career as deputy head of the local secret police over the last seven years has apparently qualified him for the top job: indicating that the Kremlin intends to go over from exhortation to other methods of persuasion in its relations with the Georgian Party.

LONDON: PROFITS SOAR WHILE POVERTY SPREADS

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday October 9, 18

BY IAN YEATS PHCTOGRAPHS BY

London council tenants pay on average £6 a week rent for their homes. The latest figure for prime office space in the centre of London works out at a rental of around £6.50 a square foot. These sorts of figures explain starkly why the dice are loaded heavily in favour of men like Harry Hyams of Centre Point and not Joe Bloggs of Tower Hamlets. A no a working-class bont just out, working-class doners are heading for even londay October 8, 1872

CTOGRAPHS BY MARTIN MAYER

leaner times. Dr David Eversley, who for the last two years has been in charge of strategic planning Greater London with the Council, claims the prospects are bleak. Provide London's workers with jobs, higher incomes and new homes, he says, or face having a revolution on our hands' It is not an idle threat. In a city like Belfast, the heart- land has deteriorated into poverty-infested slum ghettos shared by Catholic and Pro- testant alike. As recession bites, the hearts of other British cities, where workers once clustered close to unemployment while the middle class lived in their suburban villas, begin to resemble Belfast. Middle class householders are still in their rose gardens, but as city centre industry shuts down or contracts, working-class districts are sliding deeper into the mire of poverty. so-called 'swinging' That in the London deep 'pros- perous' south east — where traditionally the sun is never supposed to set—is falling into this category may surprise many. But glittering West End shops and offices are deceptive.

Behind the veneer of opulence lies the staggering fact that in the two years between 1968 and 1970, 80,000 jobs were lost in greater London. So far this year 27,000 jobs have gone Wandsworth In alone and in south-east Lon- don as a whole over 200 firms have shut down. In the past eight years one third of all manufacturing industry has disappeared from the capital. Great chunks of the city like Erith, Greenwich, Wool- wich, Bermondsey and Tower Hamlets becoming an are industrial wilderness. Others, because K and Lambeth, in indivi blackspots like Pomlate it con he ac high ac Ther unemployment initial death of the enclosed docks at the and of the Thomac founge of containa, hanthe downriver. recession is forcing em ployers older industry was situated close to the centre the inner London boroughs have been hardest hit. But it is not merely jobless- ness which is pushing the of London's weekly budgets housewives into the red. general from the Apart effect of rocketing prices and despite the fact that the city contributes 28 per cent of all Britain's tax revenue, over 27 per cent of have men weekly incomes of only £20 a week. cent of all Thirty per have of households incomes less than £25 a week from all sources. Last month government dockyard workers at Deptford disclosed that some of them had basic rates, without over- time, which were as low as £1l a week. Dr Eversley says in his "The situation report: deteriorating. On present trends the time is not far off when half inner London's population will survive allowances, rebates and free services' Many of London's workers in and out of work are un- skilled. Those without skills have work lucky ennueh to often have to find it in the notoriously low-paid service industries sector which now dominates in London. Added to the misery of low pay and unemployment is the problem of slum housing. Private landlords are reluc- tant to invest in homes for poor people when they can sell flats for £35,000 a time in Hampstead and rent office space for £6.50 a foot off Oxford Circus. house-building And GLC has been cut by the Tory gov- ernment in its vain bid to halt the growing tide of inflation.

The operation of the so- called 'fair rents' Act, which will add up to another fl a week to the rent of some Workers Press, Monday tenants, will only aggravate an already intolerable situation.

Even a year ago Eversley's comment that 'the central gov- ernment may allow excessive amounts of office development permits for London, but that does not help the ex-cabinet maker presser' or trouser might have been entirely apt.

Today the bottom is begin- ning to fall out of the offices market just as it has out of the markets for all other com- modities. It is no longer, as Eversley choice thinks, between a offices and homes and getting to grips with curbing speculators. rkers Press, Monday October 9, 1972 PAGE 7 A ... An Left: Lolosworth Buttings. overcrowded slum in Stepney and no garden to sit in. Right: Joe Levy's empty Euston Centre.

Finished In 1970 and already thought to have made $22m profit. Once, in the booming 1950s, he would have been right to say that there was a choice (after curbing the office developers) between building a few good houses or a lot of inferior ones. Today there is no choice.

all As recession deepens, building, whether for offices, shopping precincts or houses, is slowing down. soon it may virtually halt.

SOCIAL FASCISM-

A RECIPE FOR DISASTER

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday October 9, 1972 Part ten of a series by Tom Kemp on the history of the Ger When the world econo- mic depression struck devastating blows at German capitalism in the following the months Wall Street crash in the autumn of 1929 the Ger- Communist Party man (KPD) had already em- barked on the ultra-left course which was to lead working class the to disaster. It was, indeed, in 1928 that Stalin broke with the Bukhari- nite right in the Soviet Union and embarked frantic on a drive to collectivize agricul- ture and carry through forced draught industrialization.

This sudden turn was sup- posed to coincide with the 'third period' in the history of post-war capitalism; the end of its stabili- temporary zation and the beginning of the proletarian revolution.

The sections of the Third International were required to sharply to the left and shift to direct their main attack against the reformist working- class organizations, now de- scribed as 'social fascist'.

Nowhere was this policy adopted with greater alacrity than in Germany, where the

KPD

had manifested strong ultra-left tendencies from the Despite splits and ex- start. pulsions these tendencies con- stantly re-emerged and cer- tainly found an echo in the working class. While the majority of the working class remained faith- ful to the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the reform- big sections were alienated their re- from peated 1914 betrayals onwards. The

SPD

leaders had crushed the revolution in They 1918-1919. had allied themselves with the upholders of reaction. They were the bourgeois bastion of democracy of the Weimar Re- public.

RELIEF

A main task of the KPD was to expose the reformists and break the worker masses away from their leadership. The how this question was The ultra-lefts could be done. always maintained that the

SPD®

bourgeois party. was a was fascist The view that it had been forward. with put Zinovier's even in 1920s. the early opposed the united-front tac- tic and refused to work in the reformist trade unions. While Stalin maintained his alliance with Bukharin. the leadership had accepted

KPD

a shift to the right and many expelled members had been for ultra-leftism. But since its background was largely own left or ultra-left it was not really comfortable in carrying out such a policy. Nor had it brought in much success terms of membership or elec- entered the toral support. It left turn with relief. Then in 1929, with growing and rising unemplovment from the Nazis, there danger was a shift to the left in the working well. The class as period' "third policies had a definite social base in Ger- many at this time. turn to the left The new began in the Comintern with the German Communist Party Above: Soup kitchen in Frankfurt durin Left: Thaelmann emerged as the great le the Fifth Congress held in the of 1928, before summer crisis had begun in the capital- ist countries. In the next year or two it took on a more defi- form and nite was extended into the trade union field.

The German Party had its own domestic crisis soon after the Moscow congress. A Ham- Wittorf. burg leader, was of embezzling Party accused funds. He was close to Thael- who tried hush mann, to up Thaelmann's the affair. ene- the leadership, mies in and the right wing, used the epi- sode to remove him from all his positions. Stalin intervened to sup- port Thaelmann, the Party re- scinded its previous decisions and a struggle began to clear out the rightists. Thaelmann emerged in a greatly strengthened position and was the few built up over next of as the great leader years the German proletariat, the KPD's answer to Hitler. The purge of the right was through in the KPD. carried furt during the German slump of 1929.

le great leader of the proletariat.

Brandler and Thalheimer (who had resided in Moscow since their disgrace in 1924) were expelled along with the other leaders of the tendency. On May 1, 1929, the KPD held a demonstration in Ber- lin-despite the prohibition imposed by the Prussian coali- tion government, which in- cluded the SPD. The SPD police chief, Zorgiebel, ordered the police attack demonstrators. For several days there were clashes with the police in the KPD strong- holds in the working-class districts, ending with 25 dead and 38 seriously wounded. These events, together with the calls from the right parties that it should be made illegal, convinced the KPD leaders that they might have to go underground at any time. It was in this atmosphere that the 12th Congress of the KPD took place at Wedding —one of the quarters in which street fighting had been going one. It was a victory con- whose gress for Thaelmann, cult in the party was going at full blast.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

SUNDERLAND: WORKERS

Wednesday's 'Man Alive' feature film about youth unemployment in Sun- derland was leaden with futility. Not because it was in any sense tech- nically bad, but because in being fetered with the dead-end perspectives of reformism we ended up being told only what we already knew. Twenty minutes of platitudes Tory from MPs and Labour and trade union leaders drove even une stuao audlence wild Weirside's culminating in mayor Leslie Watson interven- ing in the otherwise undistin- guished discussion with sharp 'We want action' Action was the last very of the thing any reformist bureaucrats on the 'experts' dais were in a position to give.

Newcastle Tory MP William Elliot all but brought the house down when he replied, some- what resolutely: 'We are look- ing into it.' leaders, number local civic OI their antennae finally attuned anything which to threatened to tarnish Sunder- land's image as a sure bet for quick developers, welle the hopelessness which • sese pervaded the programme. John Hobbs, director of the North East Development Council, and Kenneth Dyos, voice d local headmaster, both anxiety about pro- TeiT which only the gramme gave impression of Sunderland's in- exorable decay. The 60-minute documentary 'Man opened WilD reporter Jim Douglas Henry telling us that at 8 per cent the of number youth un- employed Sunderland was twice the national rate. At this very moment, he said, there were 2,000 young boys and girls, mostly between 15 and 18, chasing a mere 100 Later anchor Des- jobs. man mond 12 il0 u der-185 there Wilcox us there Were ployed in the north-east.

To illustrate this in detail we heard young Anthony Hayes like talk about what it was being on the dole with nothing do but lie in bed all day with messages run and friends and neighbours looking down on you. explained Headmaster Dvos there were hundreds of school- leavers in kenneln s posiuon- for some no prospects at all, for others jobs well below their potential. All Harry Wilkinson, Amal- gamated Union of Engineering Workers district secretary, could think of was that it was all a criminal waste of human He felt a national

ICOULO.

should programme retraining be launched to provide em- ployers with a pool of trained labour. Knowing better than anyone problem of the immediate school-levers Dyos broke sharply the sayıng Ducol problem could not be put off for future training. The bankruptcy of Wilkin- son's view was finally revealed the disclosure that on industrial behind estate four Kenneth Hayes' home. brand new factories were standing empty and had been for a considerable period.

The implications of this recognized by were at casu Labour MP for Sunderland Fred Willey, said NOTeS., wino what the needed city was work. -now.

2,000 CHASE 100 JOBS

GEORGI

CHAIRMAN: A

ECONOMIC PiI Top: School-leavers. Centre: Ken Dyos. Bottom: George Young.

He said: If private enter- priscies must: respond, prise won't SLale What he did not say was how, if private enterprise could public enter- find no markets, the capitalist prise economy could. Club Monday economic chairman and policy group merchant banker George Young scored points over his rivals by at least having an answer- albeit typically extreme.

'Let them head out into the wide world', he said, referring the youth. 'Go other to parts of Britain or overseas if necessary. Realizing, quite rightly, that the audience might parents in not regara inis as an answer, Young turned his remarks into the realms of blackest reaction: 'There has been problem 11U Ügandan computerizing, 50,000 Asians (to find them a place in society) so why can't we com- puerisers couple of thousand DULC LC d The only recipe for healthy industrs in the tax Young, was system Chances enable industry maximize its profits,

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Ken Dyos. Bottom: George Young.

Tory MP Elliot reassured him that in future instead being thrown about indiscrim- inately (possibly even for reasons) development social grants would, indeed, in future be related to profitability.

Neither mentioned that re- cession was actually cutting down the number of enter- prises and the number of workers in them irrespective of their profits. In fact Elliot did his best to assure every- body that the country was in the grip of a massive reflation and that Tory measures which he did not specify would 'soon take effect. If the programme had a value, it lay in showing in unmistakable terms that no- one could or intended to do anything to solve Sunderland's problem of youth (and adult) unemployment. Dyos made one of the few really relevant comments when he said: 'This is a national emergency.' The film ended where it began —in a political vacuum from which there is no escape without a decisive break from reformism, Workers Press, A Miners' delegates to last week's Labour Party confer- ence in Blackpool contrasted the warm reception given to the Tory mayor on them by the opening day with the con- troversial address made to their own union conference in Morecambe by a city father of the same political persuasion.

To the surprise of none of the local reporters present, of Morecambe the mayor started trying to win the miners' delegates over to an intriguing scheme for lowering their wage claims by insuring themselves against the rise in the cost of living. 'He always does it', one of the locals shrugged. Which may gets so many conferences.

Actually Blackpool's Tories have every reason to welcome the Labourites. Where there's talk, there's brass. The local hotels, restaur- ants, pubs, ta - drivers and shopkeepers probably stand to make about £400,000 out of the fact that both Labour and Tory conferences are to be held in Blackpool for the next two years. The Top Rank centre in Brighton-the only venue out- side Blackpool now large enough-is being rebuilt. "Though neither a prude nor a puritan I find myself broadly in agreement with the Long- ford report on pornography, and definitely opposed to the line taken by our paper. 'Sex has long replaced re- ligion as the opiate of the people and, moreover, its commercial exploitation brings vast and easy profits to the class enemy ... I look for- ward to the day when the magazine stalls of London and Liverpool are as healthy and interesting as those of Moscow and Leningrad.' Letter in the 'Morning Star' 9 Press, Monday October 9, 1972 PAGE 9 The Labour Party is really dedicated to public owner- ship (their polite word for nationalization), they as showed last Tuesday. At the end of Party leader Wilson's Harold keynote speech to the 7lst conference at Blackpool, hordes of dele- gates started pouring out to the bars and coffee rooms to chew over what, if anything, had actually been said. The consequence was that the mandatory debate on pub- lic ownership began in a half- empty hall. Come back! appealed chair- Anthony Wedgwood man Benn, when the debate looked like proving a flop. Some shame-faced delegates slunk conscience-stricken. back, To be fair, it's not really the delegates' fault. If it takes experienced journalists, with the benefit of expert guidance from Wilson's acolytes and stafl, to decide what on earth Wilson was on about and all day to hack together a few paragraphs, how is your aver- age 'first conference' delegate expected to cope without at least a cuppa? And since the more seas- oned conference-goers know full well the Party leaders have no intention of fighting for nationalization (sorry, public shouldn't ownership), why they go for a pint instead of listening to all those pious platitudes.

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Monday October 9, 1972 The race is now officially One which might group claim to have begun the origi- on for licences to run the nal lobby is Wigmore Broad- lucrative commercial casting, a company registered radio stations which are 12 which years ago is now chiefly associated with quiz- to be set up by the man Hughie Green. Tories. Green, who claims to have adverts spent £45,000 pushing his case Last week were placed in most papers by the in recent years, did want to Independent sponsored Broadcasting operate pro- (IBA) inviting grammes along American Authority ap- Lon- lines. plications for stations in Now he plans 'quality pro- don, Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow. and gramming' 'programmes Only contract will be which appeal to the majority, has been informed. the IBA awarded to any single appli- cant. Closing date for entry is This apparently involves round-the-clock broadcasting December 8. For years businessmen and of all kinds--quizzes, music, drama others have been lobbying and other entertain- hard and vigorously for com- ment. Broadcasting's mercial radio. They were en- Wigmore of chairman is Lord Mancroft, couraged, by the course, millionaire and of those who Tory peer successes cap- former head of the tured the franchises for com- tourist described mercial industry. television, by one bright entrepreneur as Another old pressure group 'licences to bidding for riches is Local print money'. There will London Radio Services, founded be two stations and at least a dozen dilove. They are backed by contenders with are in chance of winning the licences.

wealthy Robert Stigwood Among them entertainment organization. are groups backed by Watney's the brewers such well-known are Hughie Green and also somewhat interested eur men as Lord Two leading reason in local Mancroft. some com- independent television mercial radio. They com- are one and of the backers of Artists in panies at least two Radio, headed by national newspaper groups are group London Peter Hall, director-designate also seeking fran- of the National Theatre, chises. and The daily paper that- leads the fight against the Torles. {20.28 for 12 months (312 issues) £10.14 for 6 months (156 issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to: Circulation Dept., Workers Press, Clapham High St., 186a London, SW4 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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Two major companies in the radio and television field plan to bid for one of the London stations. One is Sir Lew Grade's ATV Corporation and the formerly holders of the i. television franchise in London Dear Editor, on the safety of Your article workers and the indifference of many employers (Workers Press, September 28, 1972) is perfectly illustrated by the case of industrial radiographers.

In recent years the use of has in- isotopes radioactive creased rapidly in factories where they are used for such things as thickness determin- ation of a product. By and large these applications, which are under the supervision of the divisional staff of HM Inspectorate, offer little hazard to workers. But there are more incidents of workers being exposed to large doses of radiation in the field of gamma radiology than all other industrial applications together. of radioisotopes put The majority of these incidents occur on pipeline sites. the laying of pipelines, welding occurs at frequent intervals. Before the pipeline is put in use these welds are examined by gamma radio- graphy. This is a method of examin- ing solid objects by passing gamma radiation through them and photographing the shadows cast. Gamma rays are very like X-rays and the technique is similar to that when an X-ray is taken of an internal organ in the body. However in the latter case the operator is highly skilled and now operators of 13 commercial radio overseas stations. Of the two London stations, one will be for broadcasting continuous news programmes.

Not surprisingly this brought the Fleet Street barons run- ning. The two who have so far proclaimed an interest are Associated Newspapers (pub- lishers of Lord Rothermere's 'Daily Mail') and the Beaver- brook group, which publishes, among other things, the right- wing 'Daily Express'. Both groups have formed subsidiary companies to fight for the franchise. and is shielded from the radiation by a protective wall.

In gamma radiography the extract the operator must radioactive source from a lead casket and place it near to the pipe, having previously placed a photographic film on the other side of the pipe. During the actual exposure the radiographer receives dose of gamma radiation, as well as when he is in the process of extracting and replacing the source. Apart from these hazards the radio- grapher is working at the bottom of a deep trench and is in danger of being buried by a collapsing wall and in some cases from drowning in water which collects there. For such a hazardous occup- ation involving the use of a radioactive source, it might be thought that a period of train- ing would be made obligatory.

However, this is not the case.

training for Periods of industriai radiographers have been found to vary between two minutes and two weeks.

At present there are 160 radio- graphy contractors employing between two and 200 people, most of these at the lower end.

This means that the training is usually given by people who may have had themselves little training and rarely possess any professional qualifi- cation. Due to the nature of pipe- Above: Sir Lew Grade Three other groups are also in the running for the news circuit. They include Trident Television and Radio Barbi- can, which is headed by an advertising and executive of the former chairman Council's Greater London finance committee. No doubt the IBA will have some problems sorting out the various contenders. Whatever the result, however, one thing is certain: plenty of money will be made and plenty of trivia pumped out to those on the other end of the sound waves. laying work, very little is done in the winter months and then large numbers of radiographers are simply sacked, more men being taken on in . the summer and these given their 'training'.

It is then that employers who, because they will suffer financial penalties if the job is not completed, put pressure on men to work longer hours and adopt dangerous practices.

In one case a man was told to pick up the radioactive source with a piece of tape instead of the long handling rod-which slows down the radiographic operation. The man received a large dose of radiation to his fingers causing severe damage. More recently employers have realized that more radio- graphs can be taken by a man in one day if the radioactive source which he uses is made larger since less time is then needed for each photograph.

Hence source strengths which were once between one and five Curies are now as high as 30 Curies, bringing corres- ponding increases in the danger of radiation overexposure.

Industrial radiography is un- doubtedly an instance of em- ployers exposing workers to hazards which are not under control and in which workers are sometimes not aware of the dangers. A Leicester reader

THE LEADER of the 1,100 engineers on strike for 16 weeks at Scott Lithgow, Greenock, lower Clyde, has accused union officials of try- ing to water down their claim and force a return to work.

After two hours of talks with Donald Tonner, district secre- tary of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, last Wednesday they decided to continue their strike. Then on Saturday, the Con- federation convened a meeting of shipbuilding finishing trades shop on the lower stewards reaches of the Clyde to outline proposals for a new agreement on wages and conditions. Speaking to Workers Press in a personal capacity, John Fisher, leader of the Scott Lithgow en- gineers, said afterwards that he had walked out of the meeting.

'For us to come in line with the Confed proposals could only mean that we would have to water down our claim under conditions where we would be obliged to return to work and our 16-week strike would count for nothing. 'The Confed claim will be handled by the full-time officials and the strike committee would have no representation. For that reason I refused to take part in the discussions and walked out.'

He felt the Greenock en- gineers carried out had Amal- Union of Engineering gamated was kor satista a line, ase in wages and a reduction in hours.

'The unions have endorsed and re-endorsed our strike. So why should an official of the AUEW come down as a repre- sentative of the Confederation and advise us to return to work in favour of going forward for a local agreement?' Their decision to continue the strike was right, he said.

• The strike must continue. Only a substantial increase will bring the wages on the lower reaches in parity with those on the upper reaches of the Clyde.'

In 1968 wages on the lower reaches were only 5p an hour behind those on the upper reaches. Now the difference was more like 30p. Asians: Labour's THE LABOUR and trade union leadership in Britain had taken a 'cowardly course' over the issue of the Ugandan Asians, the Society claimed yester- Fabian day. The Fabian journal "Third World' charges: 'The claim to represent the brotherhood of nian will appear hypocritical for a movement in which colour prejudice is allowed to flourish through default of un- conditional refutation by its leaders. But the article adds that in placing 'responsibility before expediency' the Heath govern- ment had acted correctly.

Ugandan Asians arriving in London on Saturday night brought reports of panic and a race to buy airline tickets. Store- keeper Dilip Palan (19) said: "There was panic among some since General Asian citizens Amin's threat to search houses.

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12.00 United Kingdom v Canada. ECCLES is likely to be the last Labour council in the north west to resist Tory rent increases. Despite a threat of disciplinary action from gov- ernment housing chief Peter Walker, leading councillors in the Lancashire town say they will continue to defy the Housing Finance Act. Letters from Walker were the government was ready to received by Eccles and Salford take a court action or put Labour councils them giving housing commissioner into the one month to fall into line or area to enforce the rent increases.

face action under Section 'But even if the commissioner 95 (1). did come in, we would obstruct But Eccles housing commit- him in any way possible. We will tee chairman Cllr David Lan- urge tenants not to pay. caster said that their decision 'I do not like to break the would stand and no special meet- law, the hut somewhere along ing of the Labour group was to make line someone has planned. stand. We owe it to our tenants He said: 'This is an who are fighting this struggle' issue of principle. We expected this But in nearby Salford, Labou kind of action and we are not s on the verge of collapse shocked or surprised. come his Wednesday litter to surrender likely Lancaster said he understood HULL dock shop steward councillors who must now be searching their souls? he said, and local Labour council- referring to the possibility that lor Tony Fee has resigned other councillors might follow from the Party group over him and the resign group. the "fair rents Act. 42,000 Last Mondav Hull's council tenants received a de- He accused the Labour-con- mand for another 75p a week trolled city council of going under the Tory Act. against the wishes of the Hull On the same day the Labour Labour Party in implementing group met, and Tony Fee the Act. He described them as moved that they follow the 'dishonest'. lead of the city Labour Party "There are several other who two months ago voted Workers Press, Mc ng Fleet Street reporter who returns to tchen as the ambitious young provincial reet in Arthur Hopcraft's "The Reporters', 7.10 Z CARS. Sins of the Father. 8.00

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11.15 IRELAND. Remember 1690! 11.40 Weather. emergency Labour group meet- ing. There, 1l councillors will demand an end to further resist- to the Tories. Originally ance Salford-an authority which con- trols some of the biggest estates in greater Manchester-voted 16 to 8 not to apply the Act. The Tories on the council abstained.

Ken Harvey, Salford tenants' leader, said he was expecting the collapse. 'Quite frankly I have given up bothering about Labour council- lors who have neither the guts nor the intelligence to torecast the consequences of defying this government. 'I don't think we will bother to turn up to lobby the meeting.

Now the campaign in Salford is on and we will not pay the increases.' Tenants' leaders in Manchester report a growing response to their campaign. Activists are writing or phoning in asking to join in the resistance from the big overspill estates on the out- skirts of greater Manchester, like Marple and Moston. for non-implementation. But Fee claims he was not allowed to speak on the motion. 'Ten people voted with me, but it was over- whelmingly defeated although no count was made against me. 'I believe it is an act of dis- honesty not to do as the Party wants' He will now continue as an Independent Labour councillor to pursue his fight against the 'fair rents' Act.

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NW rent strikes spread PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday Octol WITH the Conservative Party Conference four days away, Enoch Powell made a bid on Saturday for right-wing sup- denouncing the port 'nationalization' of Rolls- Royce, financial aid to the Clyde, Asian immigration, the ban on arms sales to South Africa and the continuation of 'humiliating and futile' sanc- tions on Rhodesia. the Above all, however, Wolverhampton Tory lashed out at Heath's policies on wages and the Common Market. Speaking to the Monday Club of Yorkshire at Ilkley, he demanded: 'Since when has it been Con- servative policy to increase low wages relatively to high wages?'

Heath's f2-per-week wage said Powell, was an rise limit, 8-per-cent increase calculated to produce 5-per-cent inflation: 'Only a very naughty little boy ask why would if controlling wage increases will stop inflation, we cannot control them at 3 per cent to have no inflation at all' Attacking the Common Market from his nationalist standpoint, Powell said that 'Britons' felt a prevalent taste of 'sour and having been cheated'. interference in State free profit-making destroyed 'the whole Conservative case for competition, and capitalism private enterprise', he declared.

THOUSANDS more railwaymen than are threatened at present will lose their jobs if a secret Environment Department report circulating senior now among officials becomes government policy. The 61-page report envisages cutting the present rail network of 11,600 miles to 7,000 miles or under, with eventual reduction to only 3,800 miles not being ruled out. Transport Minister John Pey- ton said yesterday that the report was 'part of a total examination of the railway system'. No one, he claimed, was com- mitted to the plans. 'Decisions are all in the future.' MILITANT MINERS and power fear their leaders may come un pressure tomorrow to soft-pedal p in the interests of a deal with government. A special meeting of the TUC Council has been called to discuss for a deal. Daly, Lawrence National Union of Mineworkers' general secretary, has already clashed with NUM president Joe Gormley over their £5.50 to £7 demand. Daly says the union will be standing firm despite Tory premier Edward Heath's plan for a £2 limit on pay rIses. Gormley insists claim is the subject to negotiations. Frank Chapple, who, as secre- tary-president of the Electrical Plumbing Trades Union is and chief negotiator for the power- men, says the Heath plan is un- acceptable. But Chapple and his negotiat- ing team have already reduced their expected claim for a £5.50 increase on minimum rates--with proportionately more for semi- skilled and skilled workers—to a claim for £5.50 across the board. This is not to say the union chiefs would not have very severe difficulties selling open Registered as a newspaper at the Post Published by Workers Press, Office. 186a Clapham High Street, London,

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day October 9, 1972 Rebel Labour councillors forced to give up positions THE MANCHESTER rents struggle spread to the east side of the city yesterday when tenants on the Clayton estate formed their own association to fight the Tory rises. A cam- paign was launched after a spirited tenants' meeting by 100 housewives and workers.

Speakers urged them not to pay the increases. Clayton tenants' leader Kath Hughes (24), a housewife with three children, told me: 'I am just not prepared to pay this £1.

This money comes straight out of our children's mouths.

Also on Foot's platform were Joan Last d power workers come under TUC t-pedal pay claims al with the Tory the TUC General ) discuss its terms

BY DAVID MAUDE

capitulation to the Tories' pay- curb plans to their members.

On Saturday,. the National Union of Teachers' executive voted to continue pressing its claim for rises of between f5 and £8 a week. A serious fight for these would demands clearly breach both the Tory £2 limit and the tentative £3.38 sugges- tion of the TUC. Reg Bottini, leader of the farmworkers' union NUAAW, said in South Wales on Satur- day that it would be 'utterly unjust' if the Agricultural Wages Board tried to implement the £2 limit against his members.

(The board meets on October 30 to decide its award to the farmworkers. The union is claim- ing f25 for a 40-hour week. Present pay is £16.20 for 42 hours.) But neither the teachers' nor farmworkers' leaders have opposed the principle of state regulation of wages, which is the essence of the Heath plan.

And with their phoney agree- ment with shopkeepers to prices so long as the unions do the same for wages, the Tories are keeping up their propaganda bid to whip up the middle class against the unions. THE RIGHT WING on the Labour-controlled Tower Hamlets council in east London is to punish the 15 councillors who defied the whip and voted against the 'fair rents' Act. After the Labour group's annual general meeting last week, received reprimanding letters which ordered them to give up all positions on the group and offices held on organ- izations outside the borough to

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'This is an old estate. These houses have been paid for several times over. We are not prepared to be pushed around any more.'

The tenants were told by police that they could not hold their meeting inside a local park. But after a vote the crowd moved behind the railings, with the speakers outside. Connie Fahey, secretary of the Manchester and Salford Tenants' Action Committee, called on them to follow the example of the miners and the dockers.

Joan Lestor, Elon and Slough MP, and actor An They can continue to do this only so long as the union leaders continue their treacherous crawling and refuse to expose and break off the fraud of talks.

On every occasion when the working class has challenged the Tory government on pay, it has won substantial increases.

The Post only exception the was Office workers whose determina- tion and militancy were tossed away by the TUC. leaders are What the union doing is selling out to the Tories from a position of strength.

• Hugh Scanlon, president_of the Amalgamated Union of En- gineering Workers, said in Hull Saturday that management on and unions need not always be at'each other's throats. He said at an Institute of Work Study seminar that he was convinced of resolving the con- flict between management and labour, but there was a degree of tolerance in Britain which did not exist in most countries he visited. The tolerance existed when it to choosing parliament, came electing local authorities or trade union officials. But the moment one entered the factory door one became a cipher—an attitude that was a recipe for disaster.

they were appointed by ENVIRONMENT secretary Peter which the council. Walker has sent warning letters The all-Labour council earlier Labour councils to six who are voted 34-16 in favour this year refusing to implement the "fair of implementing the Act. As a rents' Act. He has given them result the borough's 15,500 coun- change 28 days their minds to having cil tenants are to pay after which a government hous another 95p a week. ing commissioner might take over Now thetacktawing hass of all things, attacked the for all the council's housing affairs.

the unity' of the The six are Claycross, Doncaster, 15 Wallsend, are to appeal Salford, Skelmersdale group. against the decision. and Eccles. one, Cllr John Gilmore, managed

TEPHEN JOHNS

to turn up. "This fight doesn't depend There cries of on were protest when he said: 'The rent increase the Tory government the or is not a city council decision, it Party, depends Labour it on. not a housing department like you', she said. 'If people decision, but a law passed by stick together and we show Tories. the solidarity we can win this battle.

The Tories are "The time to fight was at the supermen. 11OL There are as many idiots out of when you elected last election Eton and Harrow as there the Tories.' are Let's from secondary schools. He told afterwards that me these stop dolling our caps to he had moved the resolution not robbers.' to implement the increase on the Three local councillors and city council, but claimed that MP Alf Morris were invited to eventually they had had no choice but only speak at the meeting, but to fall in line. WHOOPEE! But Michael Foot MP, who last week topped the poll for the Labour Party executive, failed to wow some tenants who turned up for a rally he addressed in Roehampton Saturday on (see left). What are you going to do about our rents? they heckled. Foot waffled about 'a plan to keep down price increases' In a bid to turn his 300-strong attention to the Party audience's conference at Blackpool, he said: I think we got considerably nearer to getting a sensible d actor Anthony Booth planned system in which, when you elect a govern- ment, that government will have real power over the financial institutions of the and country over the economy. Was he talking about getting the Tory rent-robbers out? Was he socialism? talking about The tenants were not im- pressed. The way Send for delegates' and observers' cre- dentials from: Conference Secretary, R. Goldstein, 103 Lewis Flats, Dalston Lane, London E8 SPECIAL TRAIN PROM RUSTON, LOMDON, 11.50. COACHES FROM OTHER ARRAS Union. Branch Namos, addresses and No of delegates/observers I enclose € as delegates feos Signature of secretary