Workers Press no. 892

workers press

STALINISTS IN EVEN MORE TREACHERY

CP SUPPORTS TUC-

TORY PAY POLICY

DAILY O

BY OUR POLITICAL CC

THE TORIES have gained a new al regulation of wages—the Communist treacherous new turn in Stalinist t editorial column of the Party newsp DOCKS SHOP STEWARDS on Mersey- side are recommending the lifting of the seven-month-oid "black' on fat wagons from Heatons Transport (St Helens) Ltd.

This was announced by stewards' chair- man jimmy Symes after a meeting with representatives of the Liverpool and St Helens road haulage sections of the Trans- Workers' port and General Union. Heatons had been threatening to go to the National Industrial Relations Court if there was no action on the black yester- day. Jimmy Symes said the decision to lift the blacking concerned only flat wagons and if Heatons decided to go into con- tainers they would have to negotiate with the docks shop stewards' committee.

They had had an assurance from Harry Hull, secretary of the St Helens T&GWU branch, that he would instruct his mem- bers to withdraw their labour from Hea- tons if they ever stuffed or stripped con- tainers without prior discussion.

*We feel sure Mr Heaton will not do any stuffing or stripping,' said Symes. I am advising our members of the decision and recommending they lift the blacking.

We expect the blacking to be lifted from tomorrow? on

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE

ICAL CORRESPONDENT

new ally in their campaign for state nmunist Party. Hard evidence of this linist policy came yesterday in the newspaper, the "Morning Star".

Said the 'Star': 'One of the big steps needed today is a statutory minimum wage such as that called for by the TUC (Wednesday, October 11, 1972).

The Stalinist leaders have been moving in this direction for some time in practice. The turn was decisively clinched with the rotten compromise on jobs reached earlier this week at the upper Clyde ship- yards. Now the Communist Party chiefs have swung in behind the campaign by the backdoor method of supporting the TUC General Council's proposals for an "alternative' to the £2 limit on pay rises put forward by Heath. Yesterday's 'Star' pointed out enthusi- astically that the TUC had repeated demand for a wealth tax—a call supported by the labour movement and fought for by the Communist Party'. But the 'Star' editorial, which presum- ably bears the stamp either of editor George Matthews or his assistant William Wainwright, did not tell its readers that both this and the TUC call for a statutory minimum wage form part of a negotiating platform which accepts the principle of state regulation of wages.

ARESSE

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IRSDAY OCTOBER 12, 1972 •

No. 892 4р

MMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEA

The rotten compromise devised at Blackpool ove with oil-rig chief Wayne Harbin (second from rig collaboration. Also in the Blackpool meeting we makers' president Dan McGarvey (r).

Neither does its page one lead by indus- trial correspondent Mick Costello. Instead Costello boosts another plank from the TUC platform; its farcical but extremely dangerous call for 'statutory action to hold down prices'. Costello also mentions verbal demand from "left' engineers Hugh president Scanlon for *an end to the Industrial Relations Act' before any agreement with the government, but fails to make clear that Scanlon is in favour of the talks continuing. The purpose of this kind of coverage is first to disarm militants in the factories while the Tories move closer and closer to a fully-fledged system of state wage con- trol backed up by a fully operational Industrial Relations Act.

UR LEAGUE

kpool over the Clydebank-Marathon shipyard deal d from right) is part of the whole CP strategy of eeting were the CP's James Reid (I) and boiler- Having obtained the union leaders' sup- port for the principle that the state calls the tune on wages, a government propa- ganda campaign is under way to win for legal middle-class support controls. Key parts in this campaign are played by attacks on 'violent' picketing (see Carr's speech, page 12), the entirely phoney initiative on prices and promises of a tax bonanza ...'in five years' time.

It is at this point that the second prong of the Stalinists' attack comes into play, directly stifling and undermining the wages movement in the factories on the ground of 'unity" behind the union chiefs. No one should be taken by surprise by this turn. Backing for state regulation of wages is, as Workers Press warned last month, the logic of Communist Party executive member James Reid's attack on the boiler- makers' pay struggle at Govan Shipbuilders Ltd. Said Reid on the opening day of the TUC conference in Blackpool: 'We are in no doubt that the majority of boiler- makers have been deceived by people who want to apply the concept of the rat race to the trade union movement'.

His fellow-Stalinist James Airlie said that the boilermakers' sectional struggle threatened to destroy the 14-month struggle for jobs on the upper Clyde.

While Reid and Airlie were speaking, Stalinist union leaders and TUC delegates were helping the right wing guarantee the continuation of the talks with Heath by removing from the agenda of the confer- ence every obstacle in their path. In the conference debate on economic policy not a single Communist Party member chal- lenged the idea that the talks should go on. All this was certainly carefully planned by the author of Stalinist policy on the upper Clyde, Communist Party industrial organizer Bert Ramelson. The Morning Star' staff, meanwhile, worked to keep centrist opinion in the Party happy. To do this they developed the militant-sounding but thoroughly equi- vocal position that no one would be able to understand why TUC secretary Feather did not break off the talks with the Tories.

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workers press

STALINISTS IN EVEN MORE TREACHERY

CP SUPPORTS TUC-

TORY PAY POLICY

DAILY O

BY OUR POLITICAL CO

THE TORIES have gained a new al regulation of wages—the Communist treacherous new turn in Stalinist P editorial column of the Party newsp DOCKS SHOP STEWARDS on Mersey- side are recommending the lifting of the seven-month-old 'black' on flat wagons from Heatons Transport (St Helens) Ltd.

This was announced by stewards' chair- man Jimmy Symes after a meeting with representatives of the Liverpool and St Helens road haulage sections of the Trans- Workers' and General Union. port Heatons had been threatening to go to the National Industrial Relations Court if there was no action on the black yester- day. Jimmy Symes said the decision to lift the blacking concerned only flat wagons and if Heatons decided to go into con- tainers they would have to negotiate with the docks shop stewards' committee.

They had had an assurance from Harry Hull, secretary of the St Helens T&GWU branch, that he would instruct his mem- bers to withdraw their labour from Hea- tons if they ever stuffed or stripped con- tainers without prior discussion.

'We feel sure Mr Heaton will not do any stuffing or stripping, said Symes.

am advising our members of the decision and recommending they lift the blacking.

We expect the blacking to be lifted from tomorrow? on

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY O

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE

ICAL CORRESPONDENT

new ally in their campaign for state amunist Party. Hard evidence of this linist policy came yesterday in the newspaper, the 'Morning Star'.

Said the 'Star': 'One of the big steps needed today is a statutory minimum wage such as that called for by the TUC' (Wednesday, October 11, 1972).

The Stalinist leaders have been moving in this direction for some time in practice. The turn was decisively clinched with the rotten compromise on jobs reached earlier this week at the upper Clyde ship- yards. Now the Communist Party chiefs have swung in behind the campaign by the backdoor method of supporting the TUC General Council's proposals for an 'alternative' to the f2 limit on pay rises put forward by Heath. Yesterday's 'Star' pointed out enthusi- astically that the TUC had 'repeated its demand for a wealth tax—a call supported by the labour movement and fought for by the Communist Party. But the 'Star' editorial, which presum- ably bears the stamp either of editor George Matthews or his assistant William Wainwright, did not tell its readers that both this and the TUC call for a statutory minimum wage form part of a negotiating platform which accepts , the principle of state regulation of wages.

UNITIA

IRSDAY OCTOBER 12, 1972 •

No. 892 • 4p

MMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEA

The rotten compromise devised at Blackpool ove with oll-rig chief Wayne Harbin (second from rig collaboration. Also in the Blackpool meeting we makers' president Dan McGarvey (r).

Neither does its page one lead by indus- trial correspondent Mick Costello. Instead Costello boosts another plank from the TUC platform; its farcical but extremely dangerous call for 'statutory action to hold down prices'. Costello also mentions verbal demand from 'left' engineers' president Hugh Scanlon for 'an end to the Industrial Relations Act' before any agreement with the government, but fails to make clear that Scanlon is in favour of the talks continuing. The purpose of this kind of coverage first to disarm militants in the factories while the Tories move closer and closer to a fully-fledged system of state wage con- trol backed by a fully operational up Industrial Relations Act.

UR LEAGUE

kpool over the Clydebank-Marathon shipyard deal d from right) is part of the whole CP strategy of eeting were the CP's James Reid (I) and boiler- Having obtained the union leaders' sup- port for the principle that the state calls the tune on wages, a government propa- ganda campaign under win IS way to middle-class support for legal controls.

Key parts in this campaign are played by attacks on 'violent' picketing (see Carr's speech, page 12), the entirely phoney initiative prices and promises of a on tax bonanza ...'in five years' time.

It is at this point that the second prong of the Stalinists' attack comes into play, directly stifling and undermining the wages movement in the factories on the ground of 'unity' behind the union chiefs. No one should be taken by surprise by this turn. Backing for state regulation of wages is, as Workers Press warned last month, the logic of Communist Party executive member James Reid's attack on the boiler- makers' pay struggle at Govan Shipbuilders Ltd. Said Reid on the opening day of the TUC conference in Blackpool: 'We are in no doubt that the majority of boiler- makers have been deceived by people who want to apply the concept of the rat race to the trade union movement'.

His fellow-Stalinist James Airlie said that the boilermakers' sectional struggle threatened to destroy the 14-month struggle for jobs on the upper Clyde.

While Reid and Airlie were speaking, Stalinist union leaders and TUC delegates were helping the right wing guarantee the continuation of the talks with Heath by removing from the agenda of the confer- ence every obstacle in their path. In the conference debate on economic policy not a single Communist Party member chal- lenged the idea that the talks should go on. All this was certainly carefully planned by the author of stalinist policy the on upper Clyde, Communist Party industrial organizer Bert Ramelson. meanwhile, The "Morning Star' staff, worked to keep centrist opinion in the Party happy. To do this they developed the militant-sounding but thoroughly equi- vocal position that no one would be able to understand why TUC secretary Feather did not break off the talks with the Tories.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday October 12, 1972 Hanoi dampens

WHAT WE THINK

peace' vote-catcher Press freedom

AMERICAN

tion for presidential elec- presiden-

BY JOHN SPENCER

Dr Dons tial envoy Henry the Kissinger stayed election 'con- in Paris yesterday for a the frame fourth day hon troCanand the seera- Cambodian libera- of private the Paris, forces could simply the talks with North Viet- hypocrisy has regime' simply are

SUDDLY

namese Le negotiator the bombardment of North shortage creater a cemous result remastare- Duc Tho. and South the of The price ca ital. against Van Thieu. offen- rice has current Deralion The duration of the was plot- sive. 50 pe current series of talks- cent in the last six months the longest in three years and there thriving The liberation forces laid down their arms- Nore venam diplomatic contacts have bene neer HaCK

CYCL

'indeed Kissinger and outskirts Saigon higher prices. Was South Vietnam and are rice crop has been insolent, and un- HYPOCRISY, humbug and cant-they are national char- re- North has year as a result drive this acteristics of the British ruling class. And the working to speculation

JUNI

US pro- Against che subject or the freedom ed he press!

class has been subjected welter of this on them out. Vietnam «Troin that settle- Tive averages arellen by The situation of the US- Dosals, ment may be near. cultivation fallen have thut plan backed Lon Nol regime for It all began when Anthony Wedgwood Benn, the Labour Apart from about 60 in the The even nore per cell 'government the final minutes themselves, however, there perilous. main growing provinces a vardaamas. week's party conference of result of the drought and at blackpool. kesponding to evidence capital, Phnom Concord. the political bandwagon son bein Dick Tad out, enormous Penh, is closely invested to show that the two sides the war The of set- and his close have moved any closer though North Mr tor Lincoln, benn reminded workers in lne meala together, that they had a responsibility when the labour move- raised four government of South Viet- Vietnam has atto-colonialism actise outs

DOCH

attempt ment faced an onslaught from the Tory press.

acute pressure from Mos. nam, which has COnsISt' tions. cow and Peking to come to settlement ently demanded Vietnam. His exact words are worth recalling: terms with Nixon. US hopes that denounced the the or ane bout cal and millary I sometimes wish that trade unionists who work in the questions together. him An official Hanoi Radio proposals and The iate cadstire fed ae votes, even though he has broadcasters, deception and perfidy' described the on mass alC Writtis of coming to said no intention secretaries, printers described latest they ran ceasenre and ThomsOn aoso lutely Immedlalt House: would remember that they, too, members counter to the overall terms with the Vletnames.

proposals as a plan to keep Iollowed by the witnarawai have advanced by the of US troops and a six- unless capitulate movement and they solution workus class Ine pupper period of prepara- his demands. month bility (loud applause) that tact in Saigon provisional Want Issael about us revolulullaly Benn, totally Could. Tanaka changes his US bombs character. Within 48 reformist was

BOUTS

rushing into print capitalist hit French do an print- calling that industrial action envoy in presses. Hypocrisy was mind on tariffs upon hypocrisy when the piled Wilson, Harold Hanoi ola-slazer. the entered scene to repudi- ate Benn. Wilson fell himself over barons THE FRENCH diplomatic mis- assure ut press Officials are Ted industries and not be premier Kakuei curb exports.

JAPANESE

sion building Hanoi was Dolla sized not working out an alternative pros would industries the Tory Press. And, Tanaka said yesterday he during by bombs increase imports second shattered able to stana a revall. incredibly, on to gramme to went might consider imposing ation only nine months after the American air raid on the Nort trade about the great heritage CuLL if •We will Vietnamese capital yesterday. Tober exports December surcharge on surplus which is running at over Icvalualivl. of the i 'freedom oI ine press • €3,000m a year. additional measures were not change tne par levels His statement could have been A French seri- by ourselves singly,' Tanaka und yake another revaluation of personal solici- needed in future to curb the ously injured and I four Vietnam drafted his under by Japan pledged. the Goodman. country's growing export TOr. ese emboyces taken over doubles as chairman the which forced to were trapped in the debris.

surplus. the last year by the Japanese Newspaper Publishers' dollar with the to cut exports have bally government France immediately denounced Earlier this week he had ruled December's over per

LON

cent JasU the bombing 'deplorable' Britain's ludl In fact Goodman, Finance Ministers' Finance Ministry proposal delaying tactics for benefit with the US The lodged a most silent figure, gave vent Washington. for 10-per-cent surcharge to of foreign opinion. Catastropae st Benn state. em bassy in oreeter to his views on tne catastrophe faces its ambassador in Peking to pro- ment me an exu corunlal y wlci- industry genuinely forced to ceed to Hanoi to investigate the view in the West German cost nserver last olD- cut its exports. day. le server. the interview gave the United On the other hand, because he to the it clear The raid States announced nace was 'Observer also of living jumps repeated meetings with the France was playing host there must of private talks bet ad. that be who helped sell British Liom to Japanese hypocrisy More from man Nixon's special President and immediate Sharo Kissinger, surplus. the The Tanaka vie Hanoi representatives asset-stripper John Bentley and WEST GERMANY'S cost of month. government, meanwhile, has its on a to latin to sell sad hesit ho tried The package includes proposals back to the wall. Vietnamese peace settlement.

living last month showed its for biggest increase prices alle Incomes policy newspaper come tolerate cuts public in certain and industrial action suggested for more than two decades, tariff reductions sec- Basque organization 'Any action of this kind Benn. official statistics according to to admit cheaper tors of trade whole press would Wiesbaden.

CIUSC

released in overseas goods. down. inis is very alarming. e September entiresee ver The proposals were drawn up Like Wilson and Benn, Goodman Economic September was by the banned in France is a so-called socialist (he the highest since the Korean war rinancial roncy co-oromalin: peerage from Wilson). n1S. and the issue of rising prices Committee, set up in Rome at is not alarmed that the news- a key one the the Common Market Finance has become in is controlled by industry paper meeting last month. He is not curreur eecuor camoarcu. avunsters THE FRENCH Minister of from living in provinces close to a nanalul ot Dalulls Ministers Meanwhile senior economic The in aereed alarmed that these Fleet Street Spanish border ano ones officials from the nine co-ordinate their the Interior, Raymond Mar- principle presses are, free only one have been served with expulsion the efforts to combat inflation, fore- free to propa- orders forcing them leave they are Markel countres Have lare cellin, has signed a decree Workown the ruling groundwork ror a maor anu-l new allacks views of Lie cunty ulculale.y. flation' package to be adopted by workers' •standards banning the Basque national- class. EEC ministers at the end of the throughout western Europe.

The Spanish Basque resistance What is about the instructive ETA, which ist organization is that Benn's to fascism in Spain has received cull cul widespread sympathy and sup- is waging a powerful under- moutnine Moscow fetes the Shah for their felløw-Basques should prompt such a dispro- ground struggle against the of outrage sense over te corder marmance. Sne Pompidou government is de- the and their Spanish fascist regime.

1 ORICS

termined to put a stop to these agents in fleet Street and THE SHAH of Iran and Empress This the other Labour Party The decree ofo ince des with a raman nave been retco at a state was doe so stepping repression banquet in Moscow and the who currently The latest series of measures Wil- wIll chan After the General Election the Basques today down to serious dis loggerheads the Iraqi against Spanish and Basque get son received almost £200,000 Shere side beth border artere December the serializ his cussions on problems of interest' begar 1970 Tells. for have been many arrests Sunday runs one Tactfully Burgas the shah, WId

TOT

The time Tr12 over the past. two months.

the most tyrannical regimes countries settle their ETA members. The scope of pro- limes; George brown receivea official differences, 'We earth, ten-day he are tests France against the trial a similar figure from the same IS The ban. on • ETA is a new Crossman visit to the Soviet Union; representa- Richard cuestion. Was Loe stage in collaboration between At the banquet in his honour tions' by Franco's Foreign Min- write Timese the French and Spanish govern- weekly Colunt 101 entertained the top being solved peaceful means, ister Gregorio Lopez Bravo. he was by 'The Woodrow which has been forged with Minibutes Callaghan 'Daily bureaucrats

LITOULI

aut over the past two years. Party. chief Leonid Brezhnev, legitimate The French police have since appears

VLITIOT,

Alexei Kosygin of the made considerable efforts to im- regularly in "The People', etc.

premier and Spanish exiles in France have Podgorny. peoples' President Nikolai When these Labour ab-called Press been hounded Marcellin's •rement LODeZ recuests. Shah said: *Press Tass reported that Podgorny police and Their collaboration partly for least one in- called for friendly relations aimed at smoothing the speaking way freedom they are Stance over the border Soviet Union and its standing Spanish entry the Franco behalf of the ruling class for authorities for torture Commor

LWCC LIG

the continued propagation of southern neighbours, and imprisonment. newweer MarKet- -a goal waich rompiaou Fleet Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. now turned border of endorsed his recent press propaganda by

BLON

Many exiles have been barred Notably he omitted Iraq, now conference. Street.

Estate 'commandos' Fifty-strong group backs defiant tenant dety the rent man

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

TENANTS in the Ardwick area of Manchester launched a second successful 'commando' raid on the Tory rent increase yesterday.

The confrontation came on the Bennett Lane estate, Ardwick, when the rent man tried to get one tenant, Mrs Lilly &'Brien, to go into her house and pay the rent increase.

He accused the ratoss not of demonstrators group 'intimidation'. But Mrs O'Brien had other ideas. She said she wanted to pay her rent outside and firmly refused to pay the increase. The rent man threw up his left, Trustralon ahol threatening to call the police.

About 50 per cent council tenants to be refusing appear Ard- pay the licicase wick area, a centre of milltant social worker with old resistance Manchester now in Carol Williams, people, Mrs week of 92p second House flats, Hayward increase. old-age monte• une bucal o luc pensioners. Yesterdav demonstrators Becausecurity the shouted slogans and sung songs Social 'fair rents' Act. against the sioners are not drawing the rent extra benefits. But They heard tenants' leader Joe uncrease still have to pay it. Potts "t we this theyhere is pay say. Torosa Potts, one of the tonant crease now will paying we one campalgning in Ardwick year. We have to take a my estate who has been charged 5p a week extra and has been stand somewhere.' We will not be tools -councillors ot the lories- fault, because we stand of the penalty clauses LABOUR councillors in after the group meeting. are prepared and we Bedworth, Nor hants- SO a00- as socialists. between Coventry and social that I could in no go ial it necessarv, Cllr Harold Jones, but it is the government Nuneaton a National al c pas WinO aSo that has of it,' said Cir Joues. said Union of Mineworkers' dancer or reeso en and down,' decision not to imple- Tom branch secretary, said bills. the Tories' would, ould not let us sees necessary, Act nad LuC Labour would not show resign the been implemented, nuance cowardice run away group if it not had shot the ind meet- At Its last ever occallit this fight, Bedworth council ing,

1IO1O

as sullic 1UL councillors seem decided against imple- oI Ine creasee men resistance want to 'We prepared Long people had al C ago But since then eight fight our bates of the controlling Sane and did in the miners' strike of feudalism, injustices Labour have the dockers did and as against law of the although wavered o the over land as it then stood. ycal group meeting Monday night reaffirmed The ront to pickel, and aDOU fove theo were failed." the release history leaders have had •I O continue the fight. Many seven voted against and autorics Both are prepared to of the one abstained, leaving call for industrial action slender majority SOlE Wales miners withstood the threat of Three. councillors, 'withhold jail in the 1920s. Members the tenants who Cllrs Tom we do against the Tory threats stand majority, A be Ellis and Harold Jones, rent macrcases to 'We are fully aware spoke to workers rress Council of Action to hold rents demo THE NORTH LONDON Coun- cil of Action is to organize a demonstration against the rent the men proved different.

It was necessary to build an basis increases Those like the Communist alternative leadership the the trade mobilizing union ae noted movement in the area to fight called for deals held Council Richard secretary the Tories and return a Labour back the strike Goldstein explained since and opened that government pledged to social- door

LACH

last

LAC

• Liact leadership ist policies. leadership. union had moved It was the outcome oI a suc cessful on Tuesday night

PAPERBACKS CENTRE

unionists, alichuca tenants, youth redeserta tives of socialist ten- dencies. Dave Norman. treasurer of the of 28 Charlotte St local Union Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians' branch, the the sall London W1 was that leader- bullaing strike shipe tol denismeeting that from

BOOKS • PERIODICALS • NEWSPAPERS

beginning tae ship said it would not be suc- The determination of cessful. Workers Press, Thursday October 12, 1972 PAGE 3 The rent man at the Bennett Lane estate tries to get Mrs Lilly O'Brien to go Inside her flat to her rent. But she pay defiantly stands on her door- pay the step and refuses to increase. This, with her allowance for told to get it off her son.

would have the rent increase, "This exposes the Tory lies made a total increase of approxi- about helping the pooresi £2. she is families, said Mrs Williams.

mately Kut only receiving an extra £l from the I talked to one old woman of Social Security. West Gorton estate, Mrs Eliza- beth Shaw, who was also suffer- 'This is the they are way ing under the new legislation.

said Mrs getting round it,' Williams. "These She had three sons to - keep.

people are frightened and intimidated. It is One recently went on to the dole have impossible to pay out this kind and normally this would meant an increased benefit of f1.

of money' TENANTS from all the big housing estates in Mersey- side are on the move against the Housing Finance Act implemented by the Liverpool Labour council.

At a meeting of the Merseyside co-ordinating committee— set up by the trades council and comprising of tenants' com- mittee, trade union branches and working-class organizations -it was reported that Speke, Halewood, Netherley, Bootle and other estates rent offices were being picketed.

In Netherley, 2,400 people have agreed to withhold increases.

On the Cantril Farm estate, workers to organize nationally almost 100 per cent is to fight the Tories. reported. • At Warrington, Lanes, tenants have been warned they will be At some rent offices, the pay- evicted if they get f10 in arrears.

ment of without the in- crease is being accepted without But at others officials question. are applying pressure on tenants -especially frightened old are age pensioners. Delegates from the trade unions spoke in support of the called for tenants and several EVERY FAMILY of four paid an £4.54 a month in average of local rates towards the cost in 1969/1970. But government the cost of services provided in rapidly towards the Tory gov- both to private house- return, ernment. They were now carry- holds, commerce and industry, ing out decisions of the state to amounted to £47.70 a month for control wages and showed their claims the De- everment of the Environment.

corporatist position on every partment of the issue. Rate income from domestic The next meeting of the Coun- ratepayers was about 44 per cent cil £1,515m-of the £6,986m of Action was arranged for -or December, which early before the England and Wales erst in 19691 local government rents demonstration. 1970. £2,397m This compared with spent in the early 1960s.

Taxpayers contributed £2,049m £1,344m via government grants, came from lenders and £1.240m from fees, charges and sales.

NOW OPEN

The Department the said figures showed 'a very substantial Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs increase in real terms in local 9, aim.-6 p.m. government services' during the Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. decade. Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. education in Spending on 1969/1970 was £218m in capital expenditure and £1,895m on cur- rent spending.

THE JAY LOVESTONE

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday Oct From Stalinism... to the CL Jay Lovestone, as secre- tary of the infant American Communist Party, had established •links with Stalin and with Nikolai Bukharin when he was the most prom- inent leader in the Com- munist International. On frequent trips to the Soviet Union, Lovestone had intimate discussions with Bukharin and became his chief American affairs. adviser on The relationship provided Lovestone with prestige. And and politically his own Moscow's rightward turn were parallel. So the end of 1928 presented him with problems. Stalin broke with Bukharin, who was leader of the right-wing the faction, the advocate of sup- port for the kulaks, of support for the Kuomintang in China and of siow stabilization in order to build 'socialism in one country. But with the internal policy of conciliating the kulaks bringing the Soviet Union into difficulties, Stalin serious decided on a new 'left' swing, to bring forced which was collectivization and the ultra- left policies of the so-called 'Third Period', could not Lovestone go along with this turn, though he did try for a time. Stalin's first blows against the 'right danger' were against Brandler and Thalheimer in the German CP. Lovestone, issued a declaration 'wholeheartedly the endorsing and expulsion of Brandler Thalheimer' ' Furthermore, in March 1929, despite Love- stone's associations with Buk- harin, he agreed together with Gitlow to introduce a resolu- tion denouncing Bukharin and calling for his formal removal from the leadership of the Comintern, Lovestone proposed a cable of congratulations in referred to the which he Bolshevik : leadership, headed by Comrade Stalin'. In later years, when he testified before the reactionary Committee, Lovestone Dies was to say: 'I was not only a personal friend of Bukharin, but I had fundamental agree- ment with him on international questions, though on Russian questions I had agreement witho Stalin and not with him.'

Lovestone was prepared to support Stalin on 'socialism in one country and to carry on him, even if it supporting attacking his 'friend' meant Bukharin, in the hope of keep- ing his position the American Party machine. But it did not work. Already he had been attacked in the Party as the 'right danger', although Mos- cow had stood by him at first along Now he could not go with the 'Third Period' turn.

Its implications for the American Party meant he must go. The new 'left' turn in Com- intern policy involved denunci- of existing workers' ation organizations as 'social fascist' In the United States. the Com- munist Party had begun to make some headway with a rsday October 12, 1972 the CIA. By Charles Parkins. Part I Top: William Z. Foster, an oppo- nent of Lovestone, was nominated for general secretaryship of the Communist Party at the 1929 Convention. Stalin (above) was amused by Lovestone's arrogance in the Comintern.

'Save the Union' movement to mobilize the rank and file in the American Federation of Labour (AFL) unions against corrupt right-wing leaderships.

But on March 15, the 'Com- munist International' carried an article by Lozovsky, head of the Profintern, which attacked the 'Save the Union' slogan for 'over-evaluation of the fascist

AFL'.

Part Five The new turn to be was towards dual unionism and abandonment of work inside the existing unions. Lovestone tried to go along halfway with the new policy, but he could not fully accept it, and at the Sixth World he Congress became engaged in bitter rows with Lozovsky, as well as being identified with Bukharin.

Once he had recognized what the Comintern policy was Lovestone did his best to iollow its zigzags faithfully.

When the California CP sent a California letter to the Socialists, challenging them to debate, pre-election a Party's Political Committee took the California comrades severely to task for sending this letter, to the 'ever more ¡ascist' Socialist leadership.

But Lovestone's difficulty in. st following Moscow's line whole- heartedly was to prove too much, if not for Lovestone, then for Moscow. Lovestone could not move far enough, nor fast enough, and his last-minute : Bukharin decision to attack came too late. Generally speaking he was prepared to accept whatever policies he conceived as useful to his position. He had gone along with Stalin and Stalinism from this point of view. But this was not good enough for a Stalinized Comintern, which complete subser- required vience. Stalin might appreciate Lovestone's arrogance towards his own Party in America, but he was not amused when the Lovestoneites displayed the same arrogance in arguing in the Comintern. Two Comintern special rep- resentatives-Philip Dengel, of the German CP, a strong "Third Period', Thaelmann supporter, and Harry Pollitt from the Communist Party of Great Britain - arrived at the America CP's Sixth Convention in March 1929. They brought with them a set of proposals which, while critical of Love- in stone's leadership, insisted that there was no serious difference between him and his opponents in the Party and therefore insisted on the liquidation of factions. On the other hand, they also demanded that William Z. Foster should be appointed general secretary of the Party. At this Convention, the ful Lovestoneites were openly C attacked as 'Bukharinites' by Foster's supporters. The Love- stoneites responded with their resolution denouncing Buk- harin, in an effort to keep hold of the Party. They also decided that while accepting the Com- intern's political line; they would reject its 'organizational proposals, that is to say, the change in leadership. At this Convention, some 90 per cent of delegates were Lovestone and supporters Lovestone was able to retain a majority in the new Central Executive Committee and the Political Committee. The only change in leadership was that Gitlow became leader in place of Lovestone—no change at all.

Stalin had sent a cable to the Party demanding that Lovestone should come to work in Moscow. Lovestone knew that this meant in effect, exile. Now, after his apparent success at the Convention, he decided instead that Gitlow, Bedacht and himself should head a delegation to Moscow for talks with the Russian leadership, and to appeal against Comintern decisions.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

FOR BREAD

Soviet citizens who have for weeks been the target of a campaign to econo- mize on bread, got their first official hint at the weekend that the USSR is purchasing wheat from abroad. Pavel Lobanov, chairman of the Lenin Agricultural Aca- demv. said in the vouth paper •Komsomolskaya Pravda' that despite the worst weather con- ditions for over century 'there will be no less grain in the the country than annual aver plant the plen covered plan'. covered y cal the years 1966-1970. He quoted Soviet Commun- ist Party chief Leonid Brezh- nev as saying during his recent tour of exhortation in Siberian grain areas the final analysis everything the ruling politburo this year was ala at that the aimed rhythm of life, the standard of subov to the population of the is not worse but bet- country, ler unan last year •

MACHINES

Brezhney toured Siberia and Kazakhstan the end OI August after it became clear that the harvest European in Ukraine had and the failed badly. He urged the local Party chiefs to take every possible measure to ensure that as much grain as possible was brought in. But the Soviet press has since indicated that bureau- cratic mismanagement and the early onset of snow have created adverse conditions for the harvest in the east as well.

One of the main problems is lack of sufficient mechanized equipment and adequate trans- port for the cut wheat. Washington reported earlier this month that the Soviet Union bought between 950 and 1,000 million bushels of wheat from the west up to the end of August of which the bulk was from the United States. According to calcula- tions based on official figures, the annual average Soviet grain production is 187 million tons, more than the harvest which foreign analysts have been predicting this year. Their estimates forecast a yield of something like 160 million tons—a shortfall of 30 million tons on the planned target. Meanwhile there is a drive to economize on bread.

Newspapers printing are recipes to use up stale bread and there are complaints about people who throw bits of the food out of train precious windows. Military units are cutting thinner slices and even the use of bread to clean suede shoes has been condemned in the press. In his 'Komsomolskaya Pravda' article, Lobanov said that almost a third of the winter grain crop froze last winter because of poor snow cover and had to be replaced with spring crops. Then the Volga region, the south and centre of European parts of the Russia and Ukraine all suffered from severe drought in the summer.

These are the heart of the European grain-growing area.

In the Virgin Lands of Soviet Asia the last of what to be an excellent reported harvest is being gathered in.

But even here there are big harvesting difficulties. The season in the Virgin Lands is short because the grain ripens late and autumn rains start early. This year the crop has ripened a week later than usual-and snow has begun to fall already. is wet and reports The grain in the Soviet press indicate a desperate struggle to get it dried before it rots. There are still about 2.5 million acres of grain to be harvested_ out of 54 million sown in Kazakh- stan. Workers Prose, Thu Above: Castro (right) continues 1o give

BY OUR FOREIGN CORRESPON

The Federation of Miners in Cerro de Pasco in Peru has published a letter describing the treatment meted out to imprisoned strikers by the 'revolutionary gov. ernment of Velasco, friend and ally of Fidel Castro. The part of a letter was campaign among the Peruvian to free the working class Cobriza miners. After the massacre of a number of miners, several in the others were held security prison in Lima with- out food and communication with the outside world for three days. The miners were beaten, interrogated and then driven handcuffed to the airport from where they were flown to Jauja in a transport aircraft.

From Jauja, the arrested strikers had an escort of Peru- vian armed soldiers who led them to the Sepa penal colony in the Peruvian jungle. The Federation's letter from the miners relates the life in the penal colony: 'The authorities deceive us every day; they tell us lies; said that at Christ- they even mas we would get letters and presents from our families.

It was all lies. Christmas was just one more day for us.

We have no money, the old dirty clothes which we came in, no shoes because they have been destroyed by the rain and the mud. We get our dinner separately from the common criminals. To make it edible, we try to get herbs and tor- toise eggs since they only give us fritters and unsalted rice.

Sometimes we do not eat. Press, Thursday Oclober 12, 1972 PAGE 5 3s to give his support to Velasco

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'We are forced to go on woodcutting expeditions in the jungle, endangering our lives on the swift-flowing Urubamba and Sepa rivers, since already several canoes have capsized.

'There is danger from snakes and spiders every day. Only yesterday we saw a common prisoner who had been bitten by a snake; he was hovering between life and death. 'There is no medicine or attention. At the medical moment, we are almost all in bed with fever and diarrhoea.'

The imprisoned miners describe how they rejected charity from a government backed agency: 'At Christmas, we refused to join in the pompous, official ceremony which was organized during which sweetbreads and toys were handed out. We even refused old shirts and trousers given out to prisoners by the JAN [a government agency for 'helping' prisoners] ... since it which give is the big firms their cheques to the JAN as a gesture of thanks to the gov- ernment which defends them.'

Fidel Castro and the Peru- vian Communist Party con- tinue to give support to the supposedly left-wing military dictatorship in Peru. The Cobriza massacres and the im- prisonment of miners were a warning on the real nature of Velasco's policies, which did not go unheeded in the Peru- vian working class. The miners wrote from the El Sepa penal colony: From the little that we know, a really revolutionary government has never been seen to attack its own people, the working class and let children starve. But...if people think that this is a revolutionary government, we respect their opinion, but we shall continue fighting for a real revolutionary process...

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Thuraday Octobar 12, 1872 On the night of August 28, Norman Rayford, an organizer of the National Union of Hospital and Nursing Home Employees, was shot and killed on a picket line outside the Metropolitan Hospital in Philadelphia. Rayford was one of the leaders of a strike at the Delaware Laundry Factory. The laundry was set up by a number of Philadelphia hospitals, including the Metropolitan, to cut costs.

The shooting is seen as the violent culmination of attacks on the local union branch, 1199C, which has been organizing in the hospital service since 1969 with Norman Rayford in the • leader- ship. The new laundry refused to recognize the union and began supplying its services to hospitals as far away as New York.

Rayford was shot dead by John Daniels, a security guard from the Diamond Security Corporation, which has been moving the scab laundry and guarding the blacklegs. Daniel claimed that Rayford lunged at him with a knife and he fired in self defence.

Rayford was left in the hospital driveway for 15 minutes after he was shot in the chest and pronounced dead inside the hospital.

A knife supposedly belonging to the victim was found near the -without fingerprints. Secretary-treasurer of the union in body- Philadelphia, Henry Nicholas, said: 'He [Rayford] never carried a knife to my knowledge, I think this is an attempt to cover up an murder as self-defence? No charges have been apparent brought against the guard. The shooting comes at a time when the state is hitting out with hospital increasing violence against workers in the service. Gale, and Another union organizer, Barbara was beaten up other pickets were intimidated with gun threats.

Workers in the poverty-striken social services are becoming more militant and unionized. They are refusing to stand by and adjudicate the demolition of what little health services remain for the working class. That is why medical institutions are taking on an increasingly oppressive character.

Just as men in state prisons are battered into obedience, so the ill are treated like damaged used cars that need to be recondi- tioned for a few thousand miles more service. Patients are stripped of all their rights and treated in a regime which is totally at the of wealthy In this special report mercy the private sector. VIRĞINIA STRICKLAND examines the growth of security guards at US hospitals and who is behind them.

He and the psychiatrist indi- Security guards at Lin- cate that the radicals' actions coln Hospital, New York caused demoralization of staff.

City, recently called in The appalling conditions city police to help drag they work in and the hopeless.

Lincoln ness of the patients they patch 23 struggling up are sly have hinting very employees out of the hos- apparently have nothing to pital chapel. The medical with it. Walker says Lincoln Hos staff — including several problems evolved bital's doctors - were about to because the staff unrest wasn't show revolutionary 'nipped in the bud'. He did his in the revolutionary film, defiance of part to nip a film in the he's the bud. court injunction. The one who rang the police. administrator says proudly that Lincoln Hospital is a delapi- the hospital has been 'quiet as dated relic founded in 1898 and partly renovated in 1936.

church' since the security guards and police raided it.

It is the only medical facility for 350,000 available the In the five years, people living in poverty in the American hospital security slums of the Bronx. guards have changed The staff, like acter. handful of sleepy Some hospital South African-born Dr Gabriel watchmen, checking to see that lights and Koz, head of psychiatry, blame out certain WOrD doors were closed, have become 'personal problems' for low medical standards and a steady disciplined private police forces in many hospitals.

Pro- decrease in outpatient visits. In 1969, several young radical fessional directors security command the private housemen and registrars joined with who are now local political groups known as and Health radio patrol the Young Lords two-way cars and, at more and more hos- Unit Movement Revolutionary of the resignation pitals, guns. and forced For Reese Hospital the the heads of psychiatry, obstet- vast Michael Reese and rics and gynaecology, and Medical Centre, Chicago, has a paediatrics as well as seven 36-man force 32 hospital directors. to cover on 66 The Dr Koz was the next head buildings acres. 'Medical force has two patrol cars, a of psychiatry. In pair of mopeds-and is armed.

World News', he says he used Security have the same strong arm tactics to bring the men control' authority to 'enforce the law' 'under the lack of as Chicago policemen. because he sees Lindberg Bell, chief of the spine and discipline' shown by hospital force and the hospital administration as security of former responsible for this sort The staff members 'anarchy'. had begun to 'enjoy strikes and Hospital Security, thinks his hard line is one of turmoil.' merely fired the reasons they've had com- them all and brought in new- problems. His paratively few more co-operativepeople. do and Andrew Walker, the hos- men arrest people enforce law and order. pital's associate director, Chief Bell says another rea- agrees that the lack of decisive leadership force has administrative son his been able Dr Koz to hold down violence in before took ' over SO psychiatry was responsible for large an institution is that his the drop in medical standards.

security department under- stands the value of getting tor of Chicago involved in the community. He points out that the results of man w violence in the area will famous any end up in his hospital's casu- to his c alty department, so it's essen- all the in orde tial to know ahead of time ing of what's going on. which In order to get information refers 1 -'intelligence' he even calls it Chief Bell's security depart- security interest ment makes an intensive effort maintain good community Cook to is not relations. How? By sponsoring police 1 Little League baseball SiX K-9 for teams. More than 70 children from the immediate neighbour- centre hood either wittingly or unwit- -the tingly make up the medical neighbo centre's small-fry intelligence security the Un team. The application of police its owi up to t tactics is not a spontaneous Many John security occurrence. directors are former police police officers who are merely putting new directo their training to use. Melvin May, security direc- securit York municipal hospitals, lospital, Harlem Hospital including police- Centre. Of his 750 men, 384 on the • force re permanent hospital securit e needs officers. he rest are callec has had provisionals [sic]. Murphy was chief adminis- patroll- Iospital trative officer at the New York Academy before he ds. He Police rate of retired ten years ago. He sends all of the permanent Harlem 'rather Centre officers through a three-week training in force special Chicago programme at the Academy. There the security men learn iating a about the use of force, self- medical defence, and laws of arrest, canine Two search and seizure, narcotics, and evidence. They are also ; have to take finger- Il. And taught how prints and administer first aid.

is, with backs The course even includes Black 'e. and Spanish-American history.

hospitals former What reason do give for turning what used to ifies the be administrative minor security responsibility into a specialized mmands field? cal New William Moran; security director at Bridgeport Hospital explains that more anc They're kept there for patients and visitors. In fact. three guns have been safe in his months. They federal officer here' Because the increase and visitors notiante has Moran fivey. nurser added duty. must he on veapons the lookout armed visitors. attract obstetrics has interrupted in the middle of delivery by fathers threatening the doctors should anything happen to mother or baby dur- ing birth. So now nurses watch for conspicuous bulges under the jacket of any expectant father. If a gun or knife is spotted, Security is called immediately to come take the weapon away. Despite all this danger, Moran doesn't believe in arm- ing his guards. He asks what they could dr with a 38 calibre pistol in a six-foot corridor. They only carry 20- inch truncheons. Ironically, the reason most hospital administrations give for building up security forces is to 'protect' staff members. Some hospitals find their midnight shifts depleted of nurses because the women are afraid to travel to hospital unless their husbands or boy- friends can escort them. When Boston City Hospital had an outbreak of muggings and purse-snatchings last spring, employees blamed drug addicts coming to the hospital's methadone maintenance clinic.

patient in April, a the clinic was shot — and 2,600 hospital employees threatened to strike unless the metha- done clinic was removed from the hospital. Hospital administration moving complied by the its undesirable' clinic and patients to a basement across the street and stopping metha- done prescriptions for patients to carry home. At Cook County Hospital, Chicago, hospital personnel complain constantly about being followed by strangers on hospital grounds. Early this year a nurse was forced into a car, driven away, raped, and hospital. returned to The attacker was not caught. Now lighting in the hospital's parks creased well-lighted and carries chuttlo caruing people between the hasnital the two farthest car narke Gang wound. buiperation the suards on the runt security sto bursting into the out after the incident, refusin until were that better bettered oe chor finally They 1 ten city policem oremann Was denartment Tinala andthar ardarad to duord the corridors of the administra- tive hundina in andition the increased men. hysteria not about mugging same scare propaganda which arousec fears-the whom dissent is will it be Lincoln and other rehabilitation centres.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday Octobı 'Parliamentary reform' and the work The right to vote in General Elections was finally granted to all British men and women over the age of 21 in 1928. By this date the working class had built its own trade unions and Labour Party and had campaigned for 'parlia- mentary reform' for over 150 years. In 1793, Tom Paine wrote: 'The natural rights of man, civil and political, are liberty, equality, security, property, social and . resist- protection ance to oppression .. . Liberty consists in the right to do whatever is not contrary to the rights of others. Equality consists in the enjoyment by of the same rights everyone ... All citizens are admissible to all public positions, employ- and functions. Free ments nations recognize no grounds of preference save talents and virtue ... A people possesses always the right to reform and alter its Constitution.?

this 'Declaration of Rights'. designed as a frame- work for a new constitution after the French Revolution of 1789, Paine echoed the rationalist arguments of Ros- seau and Locke. and But the American French Revolutions, and still fundamentally the In- more dustrial Revolution in Britain, had fill m such begun to apparently abstract declara- tions' with a new and danger- ous content. Demands for liberty and equality, and for even 'property', could no longer be confined to the bourgeoisie.

In crushing the feudal governments of absolute monarchy endowed with di- vine right, the revolutionary bourgeoisie began to stir sec- tions of workers into political activity. Once firmly estab- lished in a poșition of eco- nomic and political supremacy, bourgeoisie the no longer the universal talked about 'rights of man' They turned on the mass of working people whose sup- into port had helped them and combined power, economic exploitation with political oppression. The nature of the 'parlia- mentary reform' movement in Britain is of great importance to working-class revolutionar- ies today, who find temselves checked in every direction by the conservatism of Labour Party and trade union leaders.

These leaders use the fetish of 'parliamentary government', 'the rule of law' ', 'respect for the opinion of the majority, etc as a barrier to prevent the development of a class- conscious political fight against the Tory government. The Tories represent the oldest, most-experienced capi- talist ruling class in the world.

It would be a fatal mistake to lay October 12, 1972 the working class, by Jane Brown imagine that the successful winning of the working-class 1928 marked some vote in kind of truce, and a pledge to share political power with the working class in the future.

The early capitalists put up a solid wall of resistance even to admitting newer members of their own class into the parliamentary fold, because they feared that such a step would encourage the demo- cratic pretensions of the work- ing class. Only when the dangers of resistance seemed greater than ted 1832 Act. By tying the right to vote to the possession specific amount of property for the first time, this Act left the working class completely out in the cold. It an expedient measure, was which consolidated the ruling class in the face of the mass working-class Chartist on- slaught of the 1840s. In the latter half of the 19th century, certain sections of workers did win the vote. One of the main reasons was that by this time the unprece- dented wealth of Britain, 'the world, workshop of the enabled the capitalists to offer limited reforms and higher liv- ing standards to workers with- out (so the majority thought) putting their own supremacy in danger. They hoped that the en- franchisement of the 'respect- able' working class would pro- vide one more bulwark to their existing prosperity, by quelling tendencies to 'social divisiveness' surviving from an earlier age. Such complacency was ended by the 'Great Depres- sion' at the end of the century.

It produced the unionization of unskilled workers and the radicalization and politiciza- tion of existing trade unions, which together with the found- ing of socialist groups, led to the launching of the Labour Party in 1900. In the years, the of the Liberal Party was in complete disar- ray. On the one hand it tried stifle working-class mili- to tancy with the reforms which marked the founding of the welfare state. On the other hand it furiously resisted de- mands for further extension of the right to vote (especially for women), and gave the em- ployers military backing in their attempts to smash the strikes of 1910-1914. economic basis for The 'sharing power' with the work- ing class had been whipped away from beneath the capi- talists' feet. But only the Tories were quick to grasp the new political reality. In 1914, the outbreak of World War I, a culmination of the economic crisis, saw the class collabora- tionists of both the Liberal and the parliamentary Labour parties tamely following the Tories into an orgy of patrio- tic 'self-sacrifice'-the sacri- fice of working-class lives and of hard-won working-class rights. Above: street fighting during the Frer liberty, equality and even for property wi Another measure of 'parlia- mentary reform' emerged from the blood-bath and in fact gave the vote to more people at once than any preceding measure. At all costs class- collaboration within the 'Mother of Parliaments' had to be maintained and the power of reformist trade union officials restored. For the new Soviet Republic in Russia was spreading a dangerous ex- ample into Europe ... From 1918 onwards, the British capitalist class showed its ability to 'use' the workers' vote for the maintenance of its own power. 'Capitalism has learnt with complete success to live in harmony with democracy and rules the instrument of uni- versal suffrage just as it rules the instrument of the Stock Exchange', , commented Trotsky bitterly. At the same time as the Labour and trade union leaders obediently held work- ers back by exhorting them to British democratic respect traditions, the capitalists were the first necessity to ready at such traditions dispense_ with (as the Tories' role in Ulster, 1914, had already shown), if their rule was directly chal- lenged. The defeat of the General Strike in 1926, with the con- nivance of the : labour bureau- cracy, made it unnecessary for the British ruling class to re- sort to fascism in the 1930s, as did their counter-parts in 'democratic' Germany, Italy and Spain. The prosperity of the post- war boom helped them to maintain some sort of faith , the French Revolution-the rolo of the roperty with a new meaning, dangerous to the b in the power of workers' votes to secure economic and social gains for them. The great inspired by Wilson's hopes election in 1964 demonstrated this. Six years of betrayal be- cause. once more capitalism could not afford 'reforms' did not prevent many millions of workers coming out to vote for the Labour Party in 1970.

Barely 1 million "floating votes' brought the present Tory government to power.

the Such figures illustrate futility of dismissing parlia- ment and elections as some irrelevance in the sort of present situation. The current slogan of the revisionist International Marx- ist Group—'a workers' govern- based on the trade ment unions'-is as treacherous as the Stalinists' peaceful 'parlia- mentary road to socialism'.

The IMG and the anti- communist International Socialists subordinate them- selves to the reformism of the the bureaucracy and spon- taneous level of working-class struggle against the Tories, the cover of 'left' under phrases. Of course such 'leftism' does not prevent them from joining hands with the Stalinists, who believe that socialism merely an 'extension' of demo- cracy, and who, in turn, seek alliance with Labour MPs in their apolitical campaigns to 'Kill the Industrial Relations Bill!' and 'Save Upper Clyde Shipbuilders!'. Workers Press has As explained consistently, these unprincipled alliances expose the working class to enormous dangers. 'The attitude to gov- ernment is the acid test for all who claim to be revolution- aries.' (SLL Political Commit- Statement, August 26, tee 1972.) the masses began to fill demands for s to the bourgeolsie. In a situation where the world economic crisis once again is forcing the capitalists, their back to the wall, to attack working-class organiza.

tions and rights, the Socialist Labour League alone advances the slogans-'Force the Tories to resign! Return a Labour government These slogans create the maximum unity in the working class, and pose the immediate political task. Without the removal of the Tories there can be no defence of any of the rights of the working class.

This is the basis for the launching of a revolutionary party to put an end to capital- ism by taking state power.

Such a party must lead the working classes to break with the illusions of reformism and parliamentary democracy built up over hundreds of years.

But the break will only come through mass political experi- ence by the working class of 'reformist' another Labour government in an era of capi- talist crisis; and, at the same time, through the development of Marxism in the most ad- vanced layers of the class.

The study of the movement of British history, of the strengths and the weaknesses which it has instilled into the working class, of ruling-class tactics, of the changed eco- nomic position of Britain in relation to the rest of the world-all this is essential to the development of a Marxist strategy today. as Trotsky • wrote in of political development Britain presents great distinc- tive features of its own, result- ing from all her past history, and in large measure standing athwart her future path...

CONTINUED TOMORROW

A few weeks ago Work- Press ers published review by film director Roy Battersby of Assassination of sky, directed by Joseph Losey, which tonight in London. Top: flim directors Joseph Losey of Trotsky': Above : Assassination • Work- Battersby called his review "The Second Assassination of lished a Trotsky' and attacked the film director as an attempt to exhume Trot- of "The sky the better to show that Trotskyism itself was a corpse.

f Trot- Ihe corpse of a gallant and y Joseph courageous man - 'the great Russian idealist as the distri- opens butor's synopsis described him —but a corpse nonetheless.

seph Losey and Roy Battersby discussing The sky: Above: Trotsky on hls arrival in Mexico.

In a television interview shortly before the screening of the film at the Edinburgh fes- said that tival, Losey his interest in the subject stemmed from 'an inescapable awareness that life is political'. Monday's discussion between Losey and Battersby on 'Film '72' showed Losey as determined as possible to escape all the political impli- cations of his material. Losey pleaded that the exigencies of film finance and distribution compelled him to concentrate on Trotsky's death as the central fact of his life; and that the requirements of this limited perspective obliged him to concentrate on 'the facts that were known at the time' • The 'uncertainty' of these facts, according to Losey, forced him to deal with the victim and the assassination as two complementary halves of dualism in human a fatal nature. Finally, Losey claimed that the justification for the film was that it filled the gap in the 'universal almost ignorance' about Trotsky and that if it hadn't been made 'we wouldn't be here talking about it'.

The function of film-making is not, of course, to provide a subject for criticism. the function of criti- But cism in this instance is to ruthlessly expose Losey's half- baked apologias or necessity, the falsity of his selections of the facts and the use of these 'facts' as a skeleton for a crude essay in psychologism. To ignore the political les- sons of Trotsky's life, his fight for the building of the Fourth International is, willingly or unwillingly, to contribute to the catalogue of lies which Trotsky spent his life expos- ing. That, of course, is a con- tinuing struggle. Losey's film tries to bring down the curtain on Trotsky but — despite the 'universal ignorance' which Losey treats as simple ignorance-hund- reds and thousands of workers and youth are now setting out to lift that curtain and neither this nor any other assassina- tion can prevent it. Workers Press, Thu It looks as if 1984 will start a little early. A swiss pharm- aceutical company has reported 'anti- the development of an aggression' drug which makes people less angry and violent and more docile. There has been a lot of controversy over the use of psycho-surgery, that is the removal of part of the brain which produces permanent in personality changes and, many cases, the eventual deter- ioration of the personality altogether into a 'zombie-like' The 'advantages' of the state. use of a drug instead are that it is said only to dampen down aggression without introducing any other character changes, and its effects are not per- manent. The ethical considerations about psycho-surgery which have bothered some doctors are thus by-passed. It will be some time before the drug will be ready for marketing, but it has already been suggested that its intro- duction into the drinking water supr'ies could have a marked effect on reducing aggression in society. imagine! No violent Just picket lines, no demonstrators clashing with the police, no bored and frustrated youth engaging in "rowdyism'. Just unemployed workers quietly collecting their dole money, overworked and underpaid workers speeding up the job without a single complaint, and one getting worked up about any of the aggressive attacks of the Tories on the working class, youth or im- migrants. It would be a bosses' paradise.

FUND

New revelations in the Repub- lican spy campaign against the Democrats show that John Mitchell, while he was Presi- dent Nixon's attorney-general, controlled a secret fund used in the operations. Beginning in the spring of 1971, almost a year before he left the justice department to become Nixon's campaign manager on March 1, Mitchell personally approved with- drawals from the fund, says the 'Washington Post'. The news has come from the Press, Thursday October 12, 1972 PAGE 9 Mitchell same sources involved in the investigation of the notorious Watergate Hotel affair in June when Republican year were caught red- hirelings handed planting microphones and stealing documents in the Democrat's Washington head- quarters. Operations around the Watergate were organized by the Committee To Re-Elect the President, headed by none other than... John Mitchell.

Now information has reached the 'Post' which claims to show in detail Mitchell's control of a secret intelligence fund of between $350,000 and $700,000 while he was still attorney-general. The Grand Jury investigating the Watergate afiair has shown that one of those indicted, G.

Gordon Liddy, the former Nixon committee counsel, withdrew well in excess of in cash from the $50,000 Mitchell-controlled fund.

When the 'Post' story broke, the 'New York Herald Tribune' phoned Mitchell for his comments. He is reported to have said: 'All that crap, you're putting in the paper?

Jesus! Katie Graham [pub- lisher of the 'Post'] is gonna get caught in a big fat wringer that's published. Good Christ!-that's the most sick- ening thing I've ever heard.

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built base for Sea Oil Services, the P and O Group's newly- formed oil rig supply organiza- tion. Most of the development, on the River Esk will be undertaken by the Montrose Harbour Trust at a cost of £1.5m. Sea Oil Ser- vices, £lm base, financed by the P and O Group, will be located on a 16-acre site on the south bank. The first supply vessels should be operating out of Mont- rose by next Spring. AEROSPACE Minister Michael Heseltine (39) was fined £20 in his absence at Maidenhead, Berks, yesterday for exceeding the speed limit on the M4the motorway he officially opened last Decem- ber. Police said he travelled 98 to 100 mph. play 'Scarborough' has Loulsa Martin s Daniel and Brian Deacon (In back- ay job happiness begina to disintegrate.

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THE TORY government's anti-inflation package drawn up in consultation with the CBI and the TUC was attacked by Enoch Powell last night as 'nonsense from top to bottom'. He said the scheme was as sensible as trying to control corn prices in a famine by executing the merchant. He told the Scottish Building Contractors' Association in , is more in Glasgow: 'Nothing the national interest than that a reasonable stability of value should be restored to our money.' In effect, Powell was advocat- ing even more drastic measures by the employers and the gov- ernment against the working As everyone knows, in a capi- talist economy, the only certain way of bringing down corn prices during a famine is to in- crease supplies of corn. In contemporary language Powell is arguing that the only to toney is of torease alue supply of goods and service—in other words more productivity wrung from the working class.

In tune with all classical bour- geois economists, he said the root cause of inflation was undisput- ably too much money chasing too few goods. If prices generally rise, it must mean an increase in the supply of money relative to the supply THE AMALGAMS between sections of the Tory Party and the extreme right wing con- tinue to multiply. In recent Workers Press articles we have shown important political links between the Monday Club and the National Front and the National Front and the Loyal- extremists, ist the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).

Another connection worth noting is between the two jour- nal, Monday News', the monthly nêwspaper öf the Monday Club, and 'East-West Digest', a vehemently anti-communist edited: by booklet Geoffrey Stewart-Smith; Tory MP for Belper. In recent issues we find these two journals exchanging articles.

THE 'Daily Telegraph' yesterday published an article repudiating material in a National Front leaflet which claims to be repro- duced from the "Telegraph'.

The anti- immigrant leaflet says: 'Do you wonder. why the price of private housing high? The "Daily Telegraph" has revealed that each East African immigrant male Asian comes of goods and services and since the supply of goods and services Is not diminishing the cause must be the increase in the süpply of money.' Stated in full, Powell's answer to restoring value to the pound is to reduce the money supply and push up productivity.

He concluded: 'One would have thought that, at least in the 20th century, a government, and a capitalist government at that, would know better than to ignore or defy the law of supply and demand.' BUILDING WORKERS at the Cubitt's site, World's End, Chelsea, London, are still out on strike against the refusal of a sub-contractor to pay the by rates agreed union new leaders at the end of the 12- week pay dispute last month.

They were only back a few hours on September 18 when the dispute began. Another issue involving the sacking by another sub-contractor of two men has since been settled.

Effectively, the men working on the multi-million pound housing estate for Kensington and Chelsea council have been out nine weeks, originally for the £30, 35-hour week claim.

In one of these cases of edi- 'East-West torial co-operation Digest' reproduced a Monday Club item on the Counter In- formation Service (CIS) report on the affairs of Rio Tinto Zinc.

The article mentioned Release,.

the Notting Hill-based voluntary organization which gives material to drug legal assistance addicts. Since publication Release has briefed lawyers : to issue a writ against the Monday Club.

Stewart-Smith, formerly of the 'Daily Express' , is one of the most extravagant right wingers.

into Britain with an average of £10,000 capital. "These people need a roof over their heads and they are over the odds prepared to pay to secure a home' In a statement yesterday, the newspaper said: No such story has ever appeared in the "Daily Telegraph"? Although there is no strike pay from the Union of Con- Allied Trades and struction, Technicians, the determination to win the dispute remains solid. Pickets said yesterday it was a fight against Cubitt's attempts to weaken the unions on site. More talks took place with stewards pressed yesterday union officials as them to in- volve other Cubitt's workers.

Many see the main danger their strike coming from to enforced isolation by union leaders. 'We don't want to be left out here to roast on our own, was the way one picket 'We urgently need put support? It was revealed in The Sunday Times' earlier this year that he had been associated with the formation of private a army called the British Military Volunteer Forces. A former student of Win- chester and a product of Sand- hurst, Stewart-Smith engaged in detailed discussions to send the private army to Vietnam to help US imperialism. "The Sunday Times' said secret meetings were held at the US Embassy in London and the then President, Lyndon Baines John- 'conditional son, gave approval' for the scheme.

Earlier this year the 'army' was disbanded and its founder, Paul Daniels, commented sadly: 'I had looked upon him [Stewart- Smith] as some sort of god; the cream of England. I feel that he betrayed everything I believed in for the sake of his career.'

The career Daniels referred to Stewart-Smith's was surprise defeat of George Brown at Belper in the 1970 General Election.

Once into parliament Stewart- Smith obviously decided abandon some of his earlier associations. He now has important con- nections in the Monday Club, a monthly rabidly right - wing of political friends to cultivate. Daniels, the 'frustrated military leader in search of a war, will no doubt be on hand to support his 'god' if the need arises.

Workers Prose, Thursday October 12, 1972 PAGE 11

THE

POLICE

Federation yesterday rejected the govern- ment's wage - pegging economic package. Labour MP Alf Morris, federation's the parliamentary spokesman, warned in London of flagging morale and a manpower crisis if any attempt was made to 'shackle' policemen the to current pay policy. Morris, MP for Wythenshawe, said that chaining the police to the £2 limit would comfort and amuse the underworld by spread.

ing a deep sense of injustice.

Directing his words to the Tories Blackpool conference which yesterday debating was law and order, Morris said: It is all very well to condemn of violence and insist on crimes the rule of law—but those who challenged do so must now be to put their money where their sentiments lie. 'Otherwise, all their speech- making is nothing more than hot air. There is a deficiency of 13,000 police officers in England and Wales. The police service are severely overstretched and even problem areas had a shortage of police cover. 'The position now is deeply serious. 'As well over 100,000 police officers will not be represented at the Prime Minister's meeting

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PAGE 12 Workors Press, Thursday October 12, 1972 By Sarah Hannigan TRANSPORT and General Workers' Union officials in north Wales yesterday accused Courtauld's manage- ment of 'provoking' the clashes outside the Deeside Mill, Flint, on Tesday. Three times during 34 hours about 50 women pickets battled with policemen in a bid to stop lorries entering and leaving the factory. Two women were injured as police dragged them on the ground away from the entrance where they had tried to lie down to stop lorries carrying yarn out.

Over 120 women have been unofficial strike at the on Aber Works- -next door to the Deeside Mill-for three weeks over a bonus dispute. When the majority of the 950 workers at the two mills voted to return to work two weeks off ago, they were laid again because the women, who refused the decision, kept up to accept the picketing. This the Courtauld's week management decided on a limited IN A NEW crack-down on the Deeside work at the to Mill and 250 workers were taken picket, Tory Home Secretary Tuesday back and morning Carr yesterday said he wan five lorries tried to start moving work and police to enforce the law firmly into out of the fac- tory. The former Securicor director wl Yesterday Mr Tom Jones, the Industrial Relations Act throu T&GWU's Wales regional secre- told the Tory Party conf ment, tary told Workers Press: Blackpool that he would also dis 'We are getting written state- chief constables what further ments from all those involved in might take 'to defeat violence' in the fighting. As far as we can disputes. see it appeared that the police used more force than was neces- Assembled ranks of Tory women sary to achieve their objective.

woodsmen cheered as Carr told them: • 'We are asking the Chief Con- it stands makes it absolutely clear that stable for and intimidation are illegal.

the area to investigate the situation, but we are putting Talks with the police were the blame on the company be- because of 'disturbing evidence' of intir cause they invited the police to the said recent building strike, of come there and number replaced Reginald Maudling as Home Se lorries. This provoked the situa- because the Carr made it clear that in the tion stewards have been doing their well for fight "illegal' picketing, Job against three weeks. 'the police will have my full sup- The police had to know port. 'It was also a stupid thing to 'they and feel have our sup- do because had already we port. arranged meeting for this afternoon (Wednesday) Law and order first between was the the stewards and the company' item on the Tory Party's agenda yesterday. It was the signal for Mr Jones went on: 'At the up and let the right-wing to get meeting shall making we be off tirades against all and sundry.

strong observations on what hap- pened yesterday. Britain, said a Mrs Sally Pret- john, had been subjected to 'an "These girls have been brainwash- unhealthy process on strike before. OI They are ordi: and ing by trendy progressives working-class women de- the mass media and the press.

fending their bread and butter- like this She added: 'The morbid nothing has ever hap- pre- pened in North Wales before.

occupation with the rights of the murderer, the criminal and the 'If we do not get satisfaction callous dis- anarchist and the we will have to consider an en- of regard for those forces our tirely different form of action and police has become a national altogether,' he said. obsession and obscenity. This, Mr Jones said, would be But the essence of these out- an all-out strike if no agreement bursts really was only revealed was reached. by Carr who directed his fire The struck originally against the working class and women over the inadequacy of the bonus its militancy. offered them by Courtauld's. The right to picket has They said they couldn't earn a been pared down by the already decent bonus with the terms the Relations Act and Industrial company was offering. National enforced through the Industrial Relations Court.

one hand the On the Labour and trade union leaders are being drawn into agreement with

SECURITY

operation was Tories over state control of mounted at the Blackpool Winter the Gardens, when Tory wages. the con- ference opened. At 8 a.m. staff At the same time, however, the and detectives made a thorough Tories plan to isolate the rank- of the building. They search whipping the middle- and-file by looked beneath the platform and class into line with scare stories about 'shop floor extremists" even searched the organ mechan- and expected It ism. is that the consequences of unbridled the will be repeated each inflation. operation morning of the conference.

About 50 Party stewards care- Registered at the Post fully checked the credentials of blished ewsp peorkers Press. once the 5,000 delegates and Press 186a Claphamswi High Street, London, They as they entered. 7UG men warned that. people they must 1, no. (TU), B Clapham by Press wear their official badges at all 180b ligh Street,

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times. A FINANCIAL appeal in ist policies and the nationali- zation of Lucas was defeated workers' support of the 30-14. occupation at Lucas's CAV The next step in the cam- Fazakerley factory is to go paign will be to send out dele- in out to workers on Mersey- gates to contact workers combine the the outside side. north-west. Lucas factories The first Workers in set ofi last throughout the north west will night and expected to visit the CAV Lucas complex be asked to subscribe fighting fund and shop stew- at Acton, west London, today. for a fixed Later teams will visit the mine ards are aiming levy each week. Lucas factories in the Birming- The fund was set up on ham area. night by a meeting of The spirit of the 1,100 Tuesday shop stewards in the occupying workers continues Lucas be north-west. to high. decided to ask Shop steward Pat Mullane They also Mersey- told been stuck workers throughout side to pressurize their firms in the personnel department Faza- for place orders the arranging the occupation to closure the last two days. Kerley factory due for 'But yesterday I went on to next April. the shop floor and the feeling A resolution calling for the defeat of the Tories and their Lads came up was tremendous. to me and said they were de- replacement by Labour termined to beat the combine.

government pledged to social- LORD CARRINGTON, chairman of the Tory Party launched yesterday and merchant banker, blistering attack on Harold Wilson and the Labour leadership. In his opening address to the Tory conference Wilson and in Blackpool, Carrington declared that his colleagues were hirmly in the pockets of the Party of being militants. He accused the Labour 'increasingly on the side of the law breakers and wreckers'. He said that at its conference last week the Labour Party had taken 'a gigantic stride' to the lett. He produced no satistactory evidence to sub- stantiate this ludicrous assertion.

on the right to Indeed, the Labourites this year prostrated them- selves before the Tory offensive on the Common ecretary Robert Finance Heath's Market, the Housing Act, wage he wanted the plan and even went so far as to ignore the question of unemployment. v firmly. To cheers from the Tory faithful, rapturous rector who piloted "Let Carrington declared: make mistake Mr Wilson and his colleagues are firmly ct through parlia- about it, militants and the big the pocket of the bat- ty conference at talions. They have traded their principles for poli- also discuss with tical survival. The Labour Party has been taken action they over by the left. ence' in industrial Turning the roaring inflation deliberately to accelerated by Tory policies, Carrington said: fight to curb inflation is inextricably "Our tied and back- defence of the sort up with our of civilized, The law as tolerant and sane society we have shaped for our- obstruction selves down the centuries.

"Will industry, the unions and even the Labour be fixed Partyafter their terrible irresponsibility of last up of intimidation in week-now come together with us voluntarily and unselfishly in a free society in a fair accommoda- the man who Home Secretary. tion of interests to curb inflation?'

FORD WORKERS on the over-

GLASGOW

Transport Depart- head camshaft (OHC) engine line ment's 700 maintenance workers' Dagenham complex are to in the strike has now affected about one this discuss of the meet morning to third city's buses and 400 their next dispute platform staff and a moves The 500 men over track speeds. transport drivers. Dundee ouses first the line walked out on have also been severely reduced on Friday claiming that Ford's had as corporation maintenance men speeded up the track. Earlier this their unofficial strike week they all received letters £3 wage demand. The Ford from the management situation was discussed yester- threatening that they day the unless at a meeting of city's would all returned to work they establishment committee. be sacked.

FROM PAGE ONE

the government- McGarvey and appointed UCS liquidator Rob- Both Ramelson and the 'Star' ert Courtney Smith, the details seem to have received their of a deal

LULLCHI

reward this week. emerged. The liquidator would be given Last Tuesday Wayne Harbin, head of the Marathon Clydebank basin Manufac- use of the for turing Co which has fitting-out for two extra weeks. A now taken shipyard, the Clydebank night steelfixing shift be over would arrived in Britain threatening to The immediate threat of pull clo pull out of the whole deal un- several hundred redundancies threatened would disappear. less the work-in at yard was called off. the The Stalinists hailed the deal The following day Christopher Then, 24 hours later, as a villury. Chataway, Tories' Economic Stalinist the came backing for the Development Minister, Tory visited campaign for state regula- Clydeside and met industrialists tion of wages. including local Marathon chief This turn must sharpen the James Fox. campaign in every factory and dockside, Thursday found Harbin build- visit- yard, on every ing Fox, then flying to Blackpool and housing estate for it sile Boilermakers' the All Unions talks with Trades Alliance Society president Danny McGar- October national conference on vey and shop includ- 22. stewards, Reid and Airlie. Reid only there that the Ing It Is declared afterwards he felt cer- enormous betrayals being pre- tain the work-in could be called by the pared union leaders, the off. and the Stalinists revisionist On Sunday, after further talks who support groups them Fox, Reid, between Airlie, be answered. This sums up the feeling of us all, he said. One outstanding problem is whether the Fazakerley men will supply other plants in the group from their central service department. This question was still under discussion yester- day. First campaign in the north west came yesterday when support was morning, pledged by stewards at the Dunlop factory in Walton.

Dunlop workers are them- selves sending a delegation to their company's Midlands plants to ask for financial aid for the CAV men. Donations to support the Fakakerley men should be sent to: he Treasurer, CAV Sit-in Committee, c/o AUEW House, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool 1.

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This month, we feel that our paper is more important than ever. While the TUC accepts state control of wages, the Com- munist Party and their paper, the 'Morning Star', back them up all the way. Only Workers Press speaks out against this corporatist policy. The issue is not to argue for a wages policy but to mobilize the whole of the working class force this government to resign.

This is the only way workers can defend their standard of living.

So let's make a special effort for our Fund this month. Show your determination to fight back against this treacherous leader- ship. Raise all you can and post Immediately to: Workers Press October Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High St, London, SW4 7UG. Socialist Labour League

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