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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY OCTOBER 17, 1972 • No 896 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BUILD THE MASS MOVEMENT TO

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

STRIKES against any deal over pay broke out yesterday as the TUC and the Tories met for the sixth time to thrash out a state-regulated wages-plan. The talks at Chequers also received a big no from more trade union leaders who spoke out against any agreement with the Tories involving state control of the pay packet (see page 3).

Both developments highlighted the growing mass movement in the working class which threatens to upset the TUC bid to form what virtually amounts to a coalition with the govern- ment to deal with the economic crisis facing British capitalism.

First resistance came from South Wales where oil refinery workers at Llandarcy went on strike after management refused wage negotiations because of the Chequers discussions. They were joined by steel workers at Pontypool who have been told postpone their f7 wage demand pending the outcome of the TUC Tory initiative. Today Rolls-Royce workers Coventry will hold at appointed day by Tory board against a decision the protest sulke delay pay talks as a result of Heath's wage plan.

The pressure to break off talks and pursue a militant pay policy was also felt at the top of the trade union movement.

Yesterday Railwaymen's leader Ray Buckton joined Clive of the white-collar

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attempt to condemning any Then with the monopones. nold back pay demanas. they will not need Victor Feather or talks at Chequers.

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Council This has already happened with The General might be in a mood of total sur- and it could nappen render, but the strength of the in the power industry. rank and file remains unbroken.

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SMASH TORY-TUC

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY OCTOBER 17, 1972 • No 896 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BUILD THE MASS MOVEMENT TO

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

STRIKES against any deal over pay broke out yesterday as the TUC and the Tories met for the sixth time to thrash out a state-regulated wages-plan. The talks at Chequers also received a big no from more trade union leaders who spoke out against any agreement with the Tories involving state control of the pay packet (see page 3).

Both developments highlighted the growing mass movement in the working class which threatens to upset the TUC bid to form what virtually amounts to a coalition with the govern- ment to deal with the economic crisis facing British capitalism.

First resistance came from South Wales where oil retinery workers at Llandarcy went on strike after management refused wage negotiations because of the Chequers discussions. They were joined by steel workers at Pontypool who have been told postpone their f7 wage demand pending the outcome of the TUC Tory initiative. Rolls-Royce will " Pointed board hold Today workers at Coventry decision by the Tory brotest aralist a delay pay talks as a result or heaths wage plan.

The pressure to break off talks and pursue a militant pay policy was also telt at the top of the trade union movement.

Yesterday Railwaymen's leader Ray Buckton joined Clive

ASTMS

of the white-collar in TUC attempt to condemning any the mon needs victer Then hold back pay demands. they will not need Feather or Chequers. These hostile reactions to the talks at horse-trading at Chequers is cast- The greatest danger is that the iron proof that the working class hold back Will will not De held back on wages. workers and postpone pay battles.

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Council This has already happened with The General might be in a mood of total sur- and It could happen render, the strength of the the power industry. rank and file remains unbroken.

While these fatal delays occur, This strength has dogged the the government will pre- a regime of economic con- paring for lories

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the law alclatorsniD WICe will this courts, the prisons well Picketing unemployment will be used government speculators and who fight for friends of the monopolies.

against workers see p.12 The first big test will come after Wednesday when leaders of the electricity power workers Watershed their meet management over outside the Midland Dockers £5.50 nav claim. Militants in the Cold Storage depot in east Lon- industry say they will impose a The threat of such a corporate dumours the pickering wies i yesterday work-to-rule satisfactory no state structure is now discussed otter is made the Tory Press quite openly in as the alternative to the so-called Such action can only encourage voluntary restraint on wage rises the otter workers „uke moders and strikes. and the Ford car workers with Stirling big claims in the pipeline.

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who control hysterical event,' said a spokes- lilch the any us will most cacuum. All Counci. wenera multant man. ary monopolies (tO attack Tne workers should come to this con- He admited that reports and working -until then they ference and join in this life-and- statements alter alisody. are desperate men. dee cost too be students fins- Queen's That is why the militant visit calculated resistance of workers welc open the wage control should not Desterday for the QC, applied at- her door tor further basis for complacency. The real tacks yesterday Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of the used help rUle Tories over the next The erilous months and into him to resign as MP for control over the organization ing they, can urope where Lincoln. student unions. 6616

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The London Arab protesters wear masks as protection against Zionist extremists and the Iranlan secret police Secretary of State fund-raiser. PRESIDENT Nixon's closest aides sians was Top aides harassed for until the presidential are implicated in the latest revelations campaign began this year. election earlier against the of spying and sabotage He has raised more than 3l0m trom big Democrats' campaign presidential Democratic businessmen and corporations to finance campaign. the Nixon campaign. They organized more than 50 under- cover agents who spied on the Demo- The of these funds are sources Segretti has admitted to Federal investi- closely despite crats, bugged their offices and har- onarger secrer. recenl that went o the hamintende poent de discos ure on one occasior candidates with false their assed California harass candidates with donating people Malice telephone calls. telephone calls and feed them false inform- campaign lunds. a e do arance. to nave emoallass- Even FBI officials describe the activities Seven agents, among, them former questions put to Democrats at their Nixon's secret agents of private army Central Intelligence Agency public meetings. and But they de Dicauic trial after are currently awaiting He also received political sabotage and admit that any crimes committeo ou Tne red-handed Howard Hunt, an Republicans would be impossible being caught placing from saila assistilo listening devices in the Democratic ex-CIA agent and White House functionary who is currently. facing charges in the Party headquarters, near the White Nixon The revelations about the cam- Washington bugging case. House in Washington. myth ounclure unedaDare American "democracy' a regime ano show When Segretti was interviewed by the Now President Nixon's appointments moving towards Bureau of Information, transcripts Federal Chapin, Dwight L. has been secretary, dictatorship. The oi stalemenl. were Manias Ilali cave Kebuoncans are White House officials within 24 hours and to Donald Segretti, a lawyer who received Democrats were developed in the struggle they briefed him he should $35,000 for his part in the undercover the American working class, against the rBi at further interviews.

provocations, political sabotage and trame- Calll Dalsil. up have been brought to a fine art.

of a handful of White Chapin is one The money nerough Berbert Segretti was House channelled Klambach, The Republican election campaign IS a suan envers wio nave He the President every day. admits step e in tute United Nixon S personal lawyer money malor towards The having known Segretti since they were at said have come from the safe of Bonapartist police regime in the the Republican's chief States. Maurice Stans, college together. General Motors' workers fighting Vietnam talks at 'sensitive' stage-Rogers for the right to work WILLIAM ROGERS, the US American B-52 bombers were NEARLY 15,000 workers at A few hours later 3,700 Sunday in action of State, told. workers walked out at the Secretary three General Motors fac- dropped 1,000 tons explosive Doravile. television viewers yesterday the United States senoiv in the area of the fighting tories in general Florida, and 8,500 at the St Louis that negotiations for a Viet- are on strike against sackings ot General Motors Divi- Assembly nam settlement are at a very and speed-ups throughout the In the north, nine miles from SIOn. Au une surikers dre memocr serious and sensitive stage. huge automobile combine. Union. the United Auto Workers' The encent e conve liberation forces have reappeared But he declined to repeat his former Bastogne, Three more factories are close to «•ue They have accused the com- two-month-old prediction strike this week and if the part of the pany forcing Inc. inhuman strikes continue the combine will sentement Derore

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aten workload on its workers follow- November the date of the The South Vietnamese lacco Wild lola soutoow. cost- presidential election. ing mass sackings under its Friday's claiming strikes began when mana nas neen …TOr programme month that the liberation offen- 2,350 walked of the 'We to add strikes are expected this week at do not want the around city has been Fisher body-stamping plant Motors' in Kan- subtract from anything that has

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off 800 nearly workers without Dr Henry Kissinger, flew back to ment is planning legislation Earlier this year the Federation Hanoi from Peking yesterday to taining special penalties any reaucuon In une-soced. for those and Another 800 were laid off be- report on tne lour days ol private WiO nocire ban talks he held with the US • disputes for other than the for disciplinary fore strike lines servicing French terrotories 'legitimate industrial causes'.

negotiator last week. protest against to work the line with a depleted South Vietnamese • infantry Deputy Robert Mul- premier labour force. with doon promised the Crsice eusato du SeCreLar General Motors is spearhead- north Saigon a rugby dinner in Knox said his organization would The Aukland - American car Cambodian border yesterday, opponents apartheid have Beatin mar duracial ing the industry's drive to compete with imported to Saigon military strike if next according turcalcuca cars-particularly from sources. year's South African rugby tour the freedom and rights of society.

BACKED by students and workers from other Middle East countries, Palestinians in London are holding an indefinite hunger strike against the mass expulsions of their countrymen from West Germany. According to the Paris news agency Agence France Presse, West Germany has so far deported 1,500 Arabs and the German authorities are collaborating closely with Israell intelligence. The hunger strike, at the Africa- Europe project centre in Gower • Street, London, is organized by the General Union of Palestinlar Students, which has been banned in Germany together with the General Union of Palestinian Workers. Support has come from the Confederation of Iranian Students National Union and from Iraqi, Turkish, Kurdish and Arab students in Britain. The strikers are demanding four points from the Willy Brandt government: • Immediate lifting of the ban on their unions. • The release of imprisoned Palestinians held since the Munich airport shoot-out.

• The more than 200 Palestinians expelled from Germany be allowed to return if they wish. • A public apology to the Palestinian people. Similar actions are being staged by Palestinians in France and Holland and in Austria the Iranian student organizations have held a 48-hour protest hunger strike against the West German action. The hunger strikers are wearing masks because they fear reprisals both from Zionist extremists and from the Iranian secret service.

They stressed that what they were demanding was a basic human right. 'Our people have been driven out of our land. Our national identity has been attacked. Now in Germany they attack us and take away the right of our students to continue their studies. 'We are even deprived of the basic right to form a union in Germany, said a spokesman.

Japan. To carry out this drive they must implement sackings and force their workers to work even harder. The General Motors' strike is likely to be the toughest battle within the combine since 1970, when a strike over wages closed car plants for more than two months. The issue today, however, is but jobs. Over not wages million workers in the United States unemployed and are backed by the Nixon administra- tion the employers are now using this reserve army of jobless to try to intimidate the working class. Neither presidential candidate has any plans to cut unemploy- ment which has stayed around the present level for more than two years. The struggle for the right to workers work now poses throughout the United States with political questions: above all the building of a labour party with a socialist programme based on the trade unions.

Big Nơ' to Tory-TUC talks

BY ALEX MITC

WHILE THE TUC was neg doors with Heath at Chequers wages yesterday, important denounced the talks. Clive Jenkins, the general se country's largest white-collar would not feel bound by any a the Tories. And in an interview with Workers Press, Ray Buckton, secretary of the general train drivers' union, ASLEF, said the TUC should break off talks with the government.

As reported in yesterday's the ASTMS Workers Press, national executive decided unanimously. at a weekend meeting it would oppose any deal reached with Heath. Mr Buckton told Workers Press: 'We shall oppose any form of wage-fixing. You just can't trust these people. Whatever the figure won't they decide on, be honoured by the Tories. You can't fix prices under capitalism except in the public sector. Our executive has Vic written to Feather asking him to break off the talks immediately! There have been other notes of discord with the Heath plan from several other middle-sized unions: • The Post Office Engineering Union succeeded in passing an resolution at emergency Labour Party conference con- demning Heath's discrimination workers in the against public sector. • Alan Sapper of the Associ- ation of Cinematograph, Tele- vision and Allied Technicians has condemned the talks. When he voted against the Heath plan at last week's meeting of the TUC General Council he was backed by George Doughty, secretary of the technical and supervisery section of the AUEW.

• The Civil and Public Services Association leader, Bill Kendall, has publicly attacked the Tory plan which has enraged his mem- bers currently in wage negoti- ations. A question mark hangs over the attitude of one major union— electricians' Frank Chapple's union. The union's leaders will Electricity Council meet the tomorrow at which the employers are almost certain to reject the new claim. Chapple is on record as oppos- ing the f2-a-week limit, but his KRAFT workers on Mersey- side have donated £100 to support the occupation by the CAV 1,100 workers at Lucas factory at Fazakerley, Liverpool. Shop stewards leading the occupation, which went into its second week yesterday, are well pleased with the initial response to their appeal for solidarity.. They have had several offers from stewards in other fac-

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as negotiating behind closed hequers for state control over ortant trade union leaders veral secretary of ASTMS, the У any agreement reached with regard his ¡opposition, tightly members to the Heath plan as being skin deep. Speaking on a lunchtime tele- vision news programme yesterday Chapple said the TUC had no right to negotiate wage increases for individual unions. 'The TUC has neither the power nor has it ever wanted the power to negotiate wage in- creases for individual unions.

'I think the TUC do have in- fluence with what unions do, but they have been notoriously un- successful so far increased as wage agreements have been con- cerned. 'I don't agree with the idea that you can strike an amount Jenkins: Unanimous of money and say that is what you are going to get.' He said his union's call for an increase of €5.50 a week was justified on a costs basis and of reductions in man- because power in the electricity industry.

The caginess of many trade union leaders with the TUC collaboration with the Tories is a sign of the strength of the working class. nine months In the past workers in many industries have won rises well in excess of the Tory limit. They will certainly fight any attempt to impose state control over wages, especially in of roaring inflation this period and huge price increases.

tories to black Lucas pro- ducts until the redundancy threat is lifted from workers in the Fazakerley plant. But these are still being discussed by the co-ordinating commit- There has been no contact with the management of the factory, who pulled out last Monday when the workers took over the plant, duled for closure next Apri as part of the combine's Com- Buckton: No trust MAINTENANCE electri- cians at Lucas factories in Birmingham voted yesterday to continue their strike. The 230 strikers want an increase in a management offer of an extra £4.25 a week, already accepted by 1,750 mainten- ance electricians in the 12 Lucas plants in the area.

The electricians, who are on a five-grade system, want an extra fl a week for the top grade. The strike, in its second week, is causing a progressive shut-down because electrical plant is not being maintained when repaired faults or develop. The electricians yesterday were angry that the officials went over the heads of stew- ards, calling the meeting via an advertisement in the Birm- ingham 'Sunday Mercury'. TEN THOUSAND Rolls-Royce workers at Coventry are giving their answer to the trade union leaders who accept the principle of state control of wages.

government appointed The board at Rolls-Royce is already carrying out the Tory plan. Local Coventry management has told the unions 'it would be un- realistic to meaningful enter wage negotiations until the out- come of the national talks be- tween the government, CBI and TUC are known' mon Market plans. On Thursday Liverpool MP Eric Heffer will lead a dele- gation of Merseyside MPs in a meeting with Tory Trade chief Christopher Chataway where they will ask the govern- ment to reprieve the workers from the threat of the sack.

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Sit-in Committee, AUEW head- Mount Pleasant, quarters, Liverpool. Oil refinery workers to strike over pay hold-up

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

SOUTH WALES trade union leaders say employers have used the Tory-TUC wage plan discussions to fight pay rises, sparking off one major strike and hardening the men's attitude in another as a result.

in the normal manner until Tory Talks were proceeding Prime Minister Edward Heath announced his £2 state pay plan and the TUC joined the Chequers meetings. At that point negotiations either came to an abrupt halt or proved useless. Over 1,000 workers at BP's Llandarcy oil refinery will strike Tom Jones, today following the breakdown of their pay talks.

Transport and General Workers' Union regional secretary, told Workers Press yesterday that the company had told them they were waiting to see the out- of today's meeting at come Chequers. Here's where "They are not a strike-prone peis le at BP: he added. on to buy books appears occas on were have been a directive from the Confederation of British In- probably the by Treasury. 'At the moment prices are Leon Trotsky field-day. the last having a In month gone up „Thev' ve UN. checked. These workers are all involved with rent increases, rates nouse In the far as they're concerned,' fair as said Mr ones. heart of BP workers claim they have already earned the increase due productivity increasec London's over the past year. That fact only served to embitter them further. West End They are likely to receive sup- port throughout Wales. contado already been have contact Milford WiLo workers Cal Haven. AT

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180 over the British Steel Corporation's Panteg Works are still out for parity with the Llanwern Works effect this would mean rise in weekly wages of about 27.

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Coventry R-R stewards But 250 today, foremen are out on a one-day token strike in protest against the management's refusal to progress their wage review, annual •ve cometer ov ue ere of the month. Managerial staff have backed the re- stand of the foremen by fusin to Parkside heitory 30 Parkside factory blade-shop workers their seventh week entering action support of claim for a revision of piecework DriCes Inairect workers nave given a fortnight's notice of strike action and have banned over- time in support of a Ware Calme Technicians, service engineers and toolmakers are also dis- with DuLe Lilt conDally

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secre tary Victor Feather demanding the breaking off talks witt une coverameri They say they have found that local management's words are worthless, and they are sure that the trom anly orouises ment to control prices would be equally so.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday October From Stalinism ... to the CIA.

'We did not ask where the money came from, because I think we all knew? Paul Tofahrn, secretary of the Public Inter- Services national, quoted in 'Sunday Insight April 16, Times, 1967. We don't know whether the American Central In- telligence Agency ever awarded medals. But if it ever did, then we can be pretty sure that those who planned and carried out the operation in British Guiana between 1962 and 1964 would have been in line for something for a really successful effort. The overthrow of the Jagan government by corruption, in- trigue and racial strife was a triumph for the CIA. It was also probably the clearest case of the use of the network of international union connec- around the AFL- tions built CIO (American TUC) Inter- national Affairs department, as a cover for imperialist intrigue.

Dr Cheddi Jagan and his People's Progressive Party first took office in Guiana in 1953. They attempted a num- ber of reforms, such as repeal of the Undesirable Publica- Ordinance, which the tions colonial authorities had used to ban left-wing literature, and a Security of Tenure Act to protect tenant farmers.

They then introduced a Bill to compel employers to ne- gotiate whichever trade with union had majority support of their workers. On the day that this Bill—a Bill which was opposed by the sugar interests -was due to be passed, Thursday, October 8, 1963, British warships and troops were rushed to British Guiana.

The following day, after 133 days Jagan in office, the government was deposed. 'Her Majesty's government is not willing,' declared the Tory Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttleton, 'to allow a com- munist state to be organized within the British Common- wealth'. The capitalist Press in Britain excelled itself in pro- viding the propaganda to accompany the military inter- example, vention. For the 'News Chronicle' of October

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The Labour Party leaders made one or two mild criti- cisms of the Tories' handling of the situation, along with far stronger criticisms and condemnations of Jagan's 'methods' , and called on the government to provide more evidence about the 'red plot'.

In actual fact, Cheddi Jagan had little in common with Marxist revolution. He was a ay October 17, 1972 he CIA. By Charles Parkins. Part Te colonial leader whose efforts to change Guiana have been bounded by the perspectives of peaceful reform. To the extent that he had Stalinist connections and was influenced by them, this only confirmed his adherence to the 'peaceful road"! It has been which has precisely this opened the workers and peas- ants of Guiana to violence and military repression. Jagan was prepared to go far enough to antagonize the British and American business interests which dominated the country, but not to prepare seriously for a real struggle against them. Under the period of direct oppression, Jagan was placed under a restriction order be- tween 1954 and 1957 con- fining him to Georgetown.

When he broke it he was sen- tenced to six months im- prisonment with hard labour.

His wife also received a simi- lar sentence. In 1955, there was a split in the People's Progressive Party, with Forbes Burnham coming out to form his own party, which was able to get a great deal of the old PPP's former urban support among the mainly-Negro working class of Georgetown. As Jagan's own base of sup- port was mainly among Indian workers and peasants in the rural areas, and as there were certain historical antagonisms between the two sections, the ingredients were there for a dangerous racial split to be exploited by reactionary inter- ests. In 1957, the People's Pro- gressive Party again took office, with Jagan as Minister of Trade and Industry, going on to become Prime Minister when the country was given 'internal self-government' 1961. Faced with difficult problems of poverty, under- development and unemploy- ment, and unable to get suffi- cient aid from Britain or the tried to United States, Jagan get with other agreements countries to assist with loans for industrial development.

He negotiated a scheme with Che Guevara under which Cuba would take wood-pulp from Guiana for paper-making, while providing Guiana with equipment for a hydro-electric project. Since this counted as affairs, the British 'foreign was able to Colonial Office intervene and stop the agree- ment. Following the elections of 1961, Jagan went to Washing- ton for talks with Kennedy.

In January 1962, following dis- • cussion — and a row over whether Jagan should have speaking rights at the UN— British government ES • announced that a conference would be called in May to discuss Guiana's independ- ence. Then the riots came. They were sparked off as a result of Jagan's economic policy. Through the UN, Jagan had received the services an economic adviser-none other Mr Nicholas Kaldor, than Cambridge economist and tax expert, later to become an ad- to the Wilson govern- viser ment in Britain, and now an enthusiastic supporter of the policies of Edward Heath.

The Kaldor package, as adopted by Jagan's govern- ment, proposed a capital gains tax, a property tax, a compul- sory savings scheme and taxes on various imported goods. The merchants, businessmen Part Ten It was quire true tha proposed to remove from Church control a duce secular education practice in most civilise The main opposition t from the Catholics Anglicans. Under t Christian communitie very inadequate educat Dr. Jagan and Mi at London Airp Above: cutting from "Bocialter Outtook and shopkeepers, of course, did their best to pass the bur- den on to the working class through prices and the result- ant increases were often far in excess of the tax burden.

Naturally the Budget was workers. unpopular among Businessmen played on this to create confusion in an already divided working class and undermine Jagan's govern- ment. The Guiana TUC, already under the influence of Jagan's opponents, called a General Strike. There were demonstra- against Jagan. And, tions while 'The Times' and other capitalist newspapers in Britain the USA and , were praising the Budget, business news- papers in Guiana itself were denouncing it as 'Marxist'!

They called on Burnham and bourgeois politician D'Aguiar to form an alliance to bring down Jagan's govern- ment. On February 16, 1962, rioting broke out in George- town in which 56 premises were destroyed by fire, five people were killed, and 41 people injured. (Jagan's real political posi- tion may be judged by the fact that in his political auto- biography, "The West on Trial', he comments that the violence and injury could have been avoided if the Governor, Sir Ralph Gray, had 1 'acted firmly and promptly. It does not apparently, occur to him that the situation might not ue that the P.P.P. ing at nove the schools don, l trol and to intro- Jagan: cation. as was the bers th civilised countries. nationa ition to this came 1951. 1 holics and the ber tha election tem, the non- Santo J unities received St. Pan ducation. Illiter- Outlook' two years belore the people's Pros have arisen at all had it not been for the confusion which his reformist policies created in the masses. same Friday, On that British troops were once more brought into Guiana — this time at the request of Jagan.

I told the Governor that in absence of the a Guiana national army, it was the duty of the British government to come to the aid of a duly- elected government if it was subversion threatened with and insurrection.' The Constitutional Confer- ence was now postponed from May to July 16. When the conference took place and talks between the parties broke down Duncan Sandys announced that if the political parties could not come to an agreement, and if the economic and social condition deterior- ated, Her Majesty's govern- ment might have to consider settlement. 'imposing a Jagan claims that the British in effect government was giving the green light to the opposition parties to sabotage independence by obstruction and violence. Again, it does not occur to him that by re- lying on British troops to maintain order, he was him- self laying Guiana wide open to the use of combined tac- tics of internal intrigue and colonial intervention. In the following year, 1963, the Jagan government intro- duced its 'Labour Relations Bill - based on America's Wagner Act, Jagan says. This Bill provided for a secret bal- lot of workers to decide to mr every ng at the Holborn Hal ers that I went to the ational Youth Festiv 951. No one seems to r er that I also spoke ection platform of the la t. Pancras for Labour." Progresaira Party split In 1955.

which union would be recog- nized in an industry. It also opened the way to legislative interference in union affairs.

opposed by the was Trades Union Council and by the opposition parties. There was a General Strike on April 18, 1963, which lasted for 80 days. During this strike there demonstrations were mass against Jagan's government led by Burnham. Racialist notes distinctly entered the Opposi- tion leader's speeches. The strike paralysed Guiana and cut off imports and com- munications. There was evi- dence that big employers, in- cluding the shipping com- panies were actually colluding in the strike. Thus the peculiar situation arose where em- ployers and reactionary politi- cians appeared to be support- ing union independence and a General Strike! The capitalist Press in Guiana played on racialist di- visions among the people. It was to become a major factor in splitting and confusing the working class, ousting Jagan and ensuring that when Guiana did obtain 'independence'— with a changed electoral system which benefited the PNC and other opposition par- ties and with the

PNC

minority able to form a government with United Force support, although the PPP was bigger-the country would re- main under imperialist domi- nation. Tomorrow's article will reveal that part played by the Love- stone network in all this.

RIFT DEEPENS

BETWEEN CAIRO

AND KHARTOUM

The first summit meet- mon Market to be held in Paris on October 19 and 20 is not expected to achieve spectacular results. It will give an opportunity to judge how deep the divi- sions are between the member- countries on such vital ques- tions as economic and mone- tary union. President Georges After Pompidou's shock announce- ment in June that the summit would only be worthwhile if it could yield concrete results doubts there were about whether it would take place at all. When he gave his final agreement last month he made it clear that 'it will not be a turning point in history, not even in European history'. The French gambit is to force con- cessions to their point of view by threatening to delay pro- ceedings. • In fact there has been little give-and-take in the pre-sum- mit negotiations. France is opposed to the setting up of new institutions and would like to the secretariat see situated in Paris. Divisions between France, Britain and Germany on mone- tary questions remain wide. Chancellor Willy Brandt, who faces an election in West Ger- many has stressed that a com- mon policy to fight inflation must be discussed at the sum- mit. It is on the way to con- duct such a fight that differ- ences appear. While the French are press- ing for a decision on monetary union, the British government will be reluctant to enter into any agreement which ties the pound to a fixed exchange rate.

To go into a monetary union with the pound at the rate now resulting from the float might make it impossible to carry out a big devaluation in the future. The very idea of such a sum- mit was launched by Pompidou after Nixon ended dollar con- vertibility on August 15, 1971.

work out It was intended to common policies against dollar domination of Europe. The divergence of interests between the Common Market members makes it difficult to reach agreement about such a policy.

Each of the other govern- ments goes to the summit with its own aims, some fearful of French influence becoming too strong, others of the Market becoming a tool of the Ger- mans or even the British.

British The government hopes for the support of Italy after Heath's visit to Rome, as well as that of Denmark and Holland. It will try to get fav- ourable treatment for Com- monwealth trade after entry.

The question of the relations with the Warsaw Pact coun- tries may also be raised with a European Security Confer- ence in prospect. Account will also have to be taken of the improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union and the Sino-Japanese rapprochement. Above: Pompidou simmering be- rOW tween Egypt and the Sudan has developed into a serious breakaway by the Sudanese government which seems to be moy- ing daily further away from the Arab camp. Sudan's dictator General Jaafar Numeiry claims it is the trend towards democracy and free speech in Sudan which has led to opposition from Cairo.

The statement is, on the face of it, absurd, as the Sudanese regime tolerates no opposition -certainly not from the left.

But it may indicate that Numeiry is tirid of paying lip-service to the struggle against Israel and wants to secure better relations with the United States. The Egyptians feel that Pre- • sident Numeiry's preoccupa- the tion with non-Arab southern Sudan and his newly- with the restored relations United States underlie recent developments. Sudan has also taken a tough line with Libya-Egypt's partner in the Federation of Arab Republics (FAR) and in a proposed tight merger be- tween Cairo and Tripoli. Soured relations between Khartoum and its Arab neigh- bours to the north followed Numeiry's reluctance to join in an Arab link-up like FAR, which also includes Syria.

Disaffection deepened in January this year when Libya's President Maummar Gaddafi paid a flying visit to Khartoum and told a public rally that there was an imperialist con- spiracy against Sudan and that it should immediately join the Federation. Numeiry was not amused. The Sudanese leader is busy trying to bolster his country economically and has looked to the United States rather than to his Arab colleagues for the necessary hard cash.

Cairo was critical of Sudan's resumption of diplomatic rela- tions with Washington in July, but Numeiry went ahead any- way. Even before relations were resumed, Washington sent £5.7m through the UN Com- mission for Refugees for use in southern Sudan rehabilita- tion projects. There has been further aid since then. The readjustment with Wash- ington followed the brutal of Sudanese com- massacre munists in July 1971. Later the Sudanese government ordered its Soviet advisers to leave.

These were reported to have amounted to only a tew hun- dred compared with the 20,000 Russians that President Anwar Sadat ordered out of Egypt this summer. Relations with the Arab north slumped still lower in September when Numeiry or- dered a force of five Libyan planes flying men and arms to Uganda to land at Khartoum and return home the next day.

The action brought strong protests from Cairo and Tri- poli. A terse message from Gaddafi to Numeiry said: 'May God forgive you.' same day, The Numeiry closed down the branches of two Egyptian companies in Khartoum. He subsequently Workers Press, Tuesday October 17, 1972 PAGE 5 .w.: Above: Sudan's dictator, General Right: Libya's vaalal Numelly- president Maummar Gaddafi.

orders that number gave ot Egyptian university profes- should return Cairo, sors of Egyptian that the number students in Khartoum should be reduced and that some the Sudanese troops stationed in Egypt should be withdrawn.

Sudanese The soldiers, token force that never amoun- ted to more than a few thous- and, had been Egypt for in five years as part of Sudan's the confrontation support with Israel. Cairo reacted with surprise and regret the Sudanese actions and in the latest move said that Sudan might as well recall the reminder of its troops on Egyptian territory.

Relations between Cairo and Khartoum could still grow worse, and observers are won- whether the Sudanese dering the close- will next call for down of Egypt's military academy in Sudan. The academy was moved to Khartoum in the aftermath of continued Israeli air raids after the 1967 six-day war. It could well fall the next victim in the between the two neigh- row DouTs.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuasday October 17,

BY IAN YEATS

While Tory ministers adopt high moral pos- tures over Ugandan President Idi • Amin's 'inhumane' treatment and expulsion of Asians, a shameful skeleton is rattling its bones in their own cupboard. It is a skeleton with which anyone who happened to be Bow magistrates' Street at vasday October 17, 1972 court last Tuesday would have come face to face. In a matter of seconds Mr Cheng Tzu-tai, the man the US government is seeking to extradite to face a • 32-year prison sentence for his alleged murder bid part on Chiang Kai-shek's son, was hustled into the court, told to reappear on October 17, and hustled out again. For nearly month Mr a Cheng has been confined to a cell at Pentonville Prison ever since police took him, unwell, from a New York bound air- craft at Heathrow. be brought Cheng will before a magistrate every seven days until his case comes up at Lambeth on November 21, when American officials will give reasons why he should be handed over to them. He is one of up to 200 men and women in Britain's prisons who have committed crimes but who are imprisoned awaiting deportation. The majority are coloured Commonwealth citizens whose visitors' permits have run out and which, under the new stringent immigration controls, have next to no chance of being renewed. They are normally issued for anything from a month to six months and renewed to take into consideration, for example, college courses.

But they are not work per- mits and since 1967 when immigration controls were generally drastically tightened the number of these issued has been minimal. to Mrs Mary According Dines, general secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare where permits of Immigrants, issued it is skilled are to people and, she claims, almost exclusively white. While it imprisons innocent people for periods of some- times up to a year until all are exhausted, the Tory govern- ment has publicly fallen over itself to be as charitable to the displaced Ugandan Asians as possible. We are, of course, not opposed that. Anyone to should have the right to enter and work in any country they choose, but these two blatant opposites of Tory policy at least question their motives.

On August 7 Workers Press said in a front page article: 'The Tories are" deliberately stirring up an anti-immigration campaign to inflame sections sion struggle against the masters of capital. Evidence continues to mount that we were right.

In speeches in the two space of a week Tory Home Secretary Robert Carr has stressed both the desirability of aiding the underdeveloped world and the moral necessity of extending a compassionate hand to Asians expelled from Uganda. The same man is responsible for imprisonment of Britain's illegal visitors. Apparently the hand of compassion does not extend to the 200 held at Pentonville, Holloway, Brixton and a hand- ful of provincial prisons in- cluding Canterbury-reception centre for illegal immigrants entering Britain via Dover.

'Visitors' to Britain are now running at twice the rate they were five years ago-a direct Tory response to savage immigration policies. More seriously, unlike the bureaucratic laxity which is said to have prevailed in the 1960s, today Home Office officials pounce almost immedi- ately perm! s expire. are caught For any who illegally overstaying their visit given bail and is rarely although all possible avenues of appeal are permitted to be explored, the majority end up being deported. complaint suffered by these detainees not The surprisingly is depression. None has of any means when appeals Knowing his and imprisonment will end. Some crack and send out letters begging to be deported rather than remain in prison.

Since they are not criminals, is optional, visi- prison dress tors are allowed once a day, except Sunday, and prisoners are permitted to work. These conditions apparently vary because, according to a for Cheng spokesman Defence Committee, he is not allowed to work and as a result stays in his cell for up to 22% hours a day. A large number of illegal 'visitors' are returned to Ire- land and America but the bulk of them come from the Indian Sri Lanka sub-continent, (Ceylon), the West Indies and Cyprus. where 'visitors' In cases have reasons for not wanting to return to their countries of origin, a man or a woman can be kept in prison, innocent of any criminal offence, for a year or as long. as it takes to find a country that will accept them.

stark and inhumane This sharply treatment contrasts with Tory remarks about Ugandan Asians. Although it Workers Prosa, Tuaad flies flatly in the face of the government's basically whites- only immigration policy, they are being allowed into Britain in large numbers. Not only are they being allowed in but service houses are being made available to them, top-line hotels have offered accommodation, and a property developer at Stock- ton, Teesside, has slashed the price of luxury flats by up to £2,000 for any Asian who can afford them. All this is commendable. There is absolutely no reason why Asians should not come to Britain and be found homes.

But luxury hotels are cer- tainly not being offered to homeless and poor people already here, nor are luxury flats being knocked down to the working-class families of Teesside. This glaring inequality of treatment whipping is up precisely the kind of racialist orkers Press, Tuaaday Oclober 17, 1972 PAGE 7 Tory ministers adopt high moral of over the arrival postures Ugandan Asians expelled while over 200 immi- (above) grants remain confined in Britain's prisons for breaking immigration controls. backlash the Tories might have expected and perhaps even hoped it would. Tenants in overcrowded and slum-infested North Kensing- ton-where Associated Hotels have offered rooms-are com- plaining. So are families in Stockton. And so are people who have waited for years on lists and municipal housing to now sees countil offering to buy houses to give Asians. These incidents are often.

individually minor. But each is seized on eagerly by the Press and blown up inevitably with racialist overtones. A cynical observer might say that this is precisely what the Tories intended.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday Octob 'Parliamentary reform' and the worl The Great Reform Act of 1832, passed out of fear of attacks on 'property, exhausted the reforming potential of the Whig government. Though the next General Election brought some Radical manufacturers into the House of Commons, it produced no impetus for the kind of social reforms which the workers had hoped to gain from parlia- mentary reform. When slavery was abolished in 1833, £20m compensation was paid to the slave-owners.

When a Factory Act was passed in 1833, it went no- where near meeting the de- mands of the Ten-Hour move- ment. Its most generous con- cessions were the establish- ment of a 48-hour week for children aged 9-13 years, 69-hour week for 13 to 18 year olds, and the appoint- ment of four full-time factory inspectors to enforce the regu- lations! the Act which most But clearly revealed the class in- terests of the reformed House of Comons was the new Poor Law. For the purpose of cut- ting rates aid to owners, able-bodied poor people - mainly the unemployed-was abruptly ended. The only way they could get 'poor relief' in the future was to enter parish workhouses, where living standards were specially designed to be 'ineli- gible' (i.e. unbearable) for all except the totally destitute.

Men had to work for no were separated from wages, families and prohibited their from smoking, drinking or re- ceiving any visitors. When the 'Bastilles', as they were appro- priately called, began in the north to appear England, they were attacked and sometimes burnt to the ground. For periods of unem- ployment during trade reces- sions were unavoidable an part of the lives of factory workers in industrial areas.

The support given to the 1834 Poor Law by Radical MPs taught a basic political lesson to the working class.

A big movement for the de-.

velopment of trade unions, to workers, directly represent was soon under way. It culmi- nated in the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union, by the Utopian founded socialist Robert Owen, which succeeded in recruiting nearly 500,000 members and aimed at ultimately supplanting capital- ist competition with worker- owned co-operative industries.

At every step the trade unions were harried by magi- strates and the police force (established in 1829). In 1834 the most famous case of inti- midation occurred, when six Dorset farmworkers from Tol- puddle were sentenced to lay October 17, 1972 . the working class, by Jane Brown seven years transportation for having taken 'illegal oaths' Massive protests forced the reduce this government to sentence in 1836. But by this time hesitation and lack of funds had caused the GNCTU to split up in a series of local strikes, easily defeated by the employers. It was clear that the economic struggle could not be won by workers turning their backs on the parliament which had refused them the vote. In the late 1830s and 1840s, the parliamentary re- form movement re-emerged in a new, powerful form-Chart- ism. Trotsky summed up the im- portance of studying the Chartist movement for revo- lutionaries today. "The Chartist epoch is im- mortal by reason of the fact that for the space of ten years it gave us in a compressed and diagrammatic form apparently the whole gamut of proletarian struggle, from petitions in parliament to armed insurrec- ... the British prole- tion tariat may and must see in not only its past, Chartism but also its future. 'As the Chartists threw sentimental overboard the preachers of "moral action", rallying the masses under the standard of revolution, so the British people will be faced with the task of thrusting out from its midst the reformists, democrats and pacifists and of mobilizing under the standard of revolutionary change. Chartism was unsuccessful not because its methods were in- correct, but because it came too early ... The Charter set down six political aims: the vote for all adult males; election by secret ballot; equal electoral districts; of the abolition property qualification for MPs; payment for MPs; annual parliaments, to be re-elected every June.

It was drawn up in 1838 by the London Working Men's Association, an artisan group led by cabinet maker William Lovett. It was soon endorsed by the Birmingham Political 1 Union which, like the LWMA, aimed 'to seek by every legal means to place all classes of society in possession of equal social and political rights'. A severe economic depres- sion affected the industrial areas of the north between 1838 and 1842. Probably to surprise, Lovett's the points of the Charter suddenly began to spread through these areas like wildfire, their true content being transformed in the process. The staid proceedings of London craftsmen could hardly be compared to the address delivered by J. Stephens to an estimated 200,000 workers on Kersall Moor, above Man- chester, on September 24, 1838: •This question of universal suffrage was a knife-and-fork question after all . . . and if Top: the Chartists on Kennington Cor Owen. any man asked him what he meant by universal suffrage, he would answer that every working man in the land had the right to have a good coat to his back, a comfortable abode in which to shelter him- good self and his family, a dinner upon his table, and no more work than was neces- sary for keeping him in health, and as much wages for that work as would keep him in plenty, and afford him all the blessings of life which a reasonable man could desire.'

ngton Common. Above: Utopian, Robert he (Tremendous cheers.) This mass hunger movement crystallized around fergus O'Connor's newspaper the 'Northern Star'. It was largest in the north-west, the north- east and South Wales. In these areas it recruited not only ex- ploited factory hands and miners, but also the unem- ployed and those whose em- ployment was being steadily away by the intro- whittled duction of machinery, such as the hand-loom weavers. It was a triumph for such a diverse movement to be able, in 1839, not only to present a petition (signed by 1.25 mil- lion people to the House of commons, but also to summon a National Convention in Lon- don at which workers from all the industrial areas of England, Scotland and Wales were represented. Not much credit is due to the historians who have 'dis- covered' that the delegates agreed on little else beyond the political points on the Charter. By the every act of assembling, they. presaged greater unity for the working class in the future and a higher level of class conscious- than any previous 're- ness form' movement. Indeed, the tactics proposed by some mem- foreshadowed a virtual bers situation of 'dual power', should the Charter be rejected by parliament. Predictably, it was rejected by parliament, by 235 votes to 46. Equally predictably, the Convention was unable agree on what to do next.

Lovett's craftsmen argued for a peaceful campaign which would enlist the support of Radical MPs. O'Connor's sup- rejecting all middle- porters, alliances, called for a class General 'Sacred Strike (a Month') to bring parliament to its senses, coupled with the military training of working men. The Convention had little direct control over its sup- porters in any case. Sporadic strikes broke out in the north, notably the 'Plug Plot. A scheme was hatched for simul- taneous military uprisings in Yorkshire and Wales, but the Welsh Chartists were shot down by troops in Newport and their leader, John Frost deported.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

A guest reviewer 'The Heist' is a typical Hollywood film, a few money-seeking gimmicks cobbled together and starring an array of saw- dust characters who offer little more than those automated horrors in Thunderbirds. Warren Beatty plays the part of a US security expert who has designed and man- ages a burglar-proof bank. The bank, main business of this situated in Hamburg, lies in its private deposit boxes which, unlike their US equivalents, are immune from governmental investigation. (You see what Nixon is up against? all these crooked Europeans.) Beatty hits on the idea of robbing just them, as their owners wouldn't be able to go to the police, and uses his girl- friend — played by Goldie Hawn — to get the necessary information. The Harder They Come' attempts to transpose the gangster - on - the - run Hollywood image to a Jamaican setting. In attempting to exploit the usual adventurist and individ- ualistic tendencies in the black nationalist stirrings that have swept the Caribbean, the film- makers have clearly • come up against the inherent restrictions of the Hollywood mythology which has resulted in some transitional solutions which leave the film in a flux.

The plot is simple enough.

Ivan (Jimmy Cliff-the reggae recording star) a country boy, comes to town, with dreams about becoming a recording artist. He can't get a job, and joins a religious household, and eventually • gets his chance to make a hit-record, only to be defrauded out of the pro- ceeds. He turns to crime, trafficking in marijuana, falls out with the big-men and is hunted down by the police.

She is a call-girl who culti- vates her criminal contacts.

The first half hour of the film is an incomprehensibly tangled pastiche of murders, trallings, sinister journeys and meetings out of which pain- Beatty's fully emerges scheming. The plot separates out into its component parts as various criminal business deals, involving drugs and currency fiddles, reach a climax all at the same time, and all depending on the withdrawal of deposits on the same day the one after the planned robbery. The intriguing possibilities of a multiple climax in which the different groups of defrauded criminals chase each other and likely suspects is quickly passed over and the plot resolves into a long drawn out chase which sequence seems as exhausting to watch as it must have been to film.

The off-beat leading charac- ters triumphing over the pro- fessional gangsters, and the general US expertise over the 'stupid' Europeans are two The first half of the film shows Ivan's progressive aware- ness of the corruption in society. Skilled workers only are wanted in the construction industry. The 'preacher' of the religous household uses the young girls in the choir for his personal pleasures (hilariously portrayed in side looks and in- sinuating glances during religious service). The ruthless domination of record the industry by big business and heartless conditions in the which the reggae records are produced and the police con- trol over the marijuana trade are indirect means for keeping the people under control.

However Ivan doesn't learn from this but follows his own intoxicating dreams. We see him at a cinema watching a 'spaghetti-western' ('Fistful of Dollars' , etc) admir- ing the amoral hero who kills (These films were very popular in Jamaica, inspir- ing a string of reggae hits which eclipsed the usual themes.)

As his amhitions are frustrated he starts to enact his dreams, and the film manages to contrast him living out his fantasies (and the action increasingly becomes improbable) while the author- ities, both official and unofficial, and combine in their clash attempts to eliminate this part their 'means of control' of which has got out of hand.

At one point the police have banned Ivan's record (as he has become a folk hero from the radio and disco's, and have Above: Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty in "The Heist'. familiar Hollywood themes. The police don't figure in the story at all, and the Hamburg manager is a gullible, bank lovable old pervert. The lead- ing figures rob only baddies, they don't beat any- cause anyone's one up or death (nor do we see Goldie Hawn in her alleged profes- sional role)-that's all left to the others, who, presumably, deserve what they get. Nevertheless the suggestive European setting gives it a certain freshness. The different interests fighting over such immense accumulation of dollars in this setting is signifi- cant in itsell, although never explained at all. One gangster exclaims in bewilderment at his empty deposit box: If you can't trust the banks who can you trust?' Despite the sick, slick Hollywood formula, the endless twists and technical contrivances manage to keep your attention through the two hours of the film. drug trade stopped the (because the retailers are aid- ing Ivan in their opposition to the big-men in the business).

Hilton-the boss of the record company—points out to the police chief: if you deprive the people of 'tunes' and 'ganja' you had better catch him quick, or they will all turn on us and you won't stand a chance.

Here, of course, the idealist notions behind the film liberal are clearly exposed. These 'means of control' are purely secondary to the real control of the Jamaican economy by big US/UK com- panies which control tourist trade, plantations and bauxite industry, and use phoney black nationalists to front them. Significantly Ivan does not power' encounter 'black ideology and the only 'Rasta' man portrayed is kindly and helpful.* Even so the 'romanticization' is deliberately checked towards the end. In the final scene the usual Hollywood finish is turned inside out. Ivan, badly wounded, calls on the advancing sub-machine gun armed police to send out one 'bad man' for him to con- front and the determined attitude of the police alternates with Ivan's delusions shown by clips from a 'spaghetti western' • of this clearly The death deluded hero has a disturbing effect which runs so contrary to the expected climax that it seems Hollywood endings, like US dollars, have lost their value. Workers Press, Tue If the management of an east engineering firm of Scotland are to be taken at their word, they must be followers of the old saw about the mountain going to Mohammed. Next spring they are to close their factory at Kirkcaldy, in Fife, and shift production to Falkirk, Stirlingshire. So far, so simple. All too many enter- prises are doing the same sort of thing these days. The story starts to get a little bizarre, however, when they start trying to explain the rationale behind the move.

'This is an expansion pro- gramme,' declares Dennis Hep- burn, managing director of Carron Hydraulics Ltd at Kirkcaldy. 'We are convinced that this decision is the right one on the factors available to We look at this company uS. as being a potential big growth company' Which is a bit strange when you're talking about a factory about to close. 'We would hope to transfer all our Kirkcaldy people to Falkirk, ; Hepburn goes on, nothing daunted. 'We are a group of com- situated in panies mainly Falkirk. The logical thing is to move there where the top management are? In other words, the com- pany down. And just so the man- agement, who can't number more than a half dozen or so, won't have to put themselves out, 80 Kirkcaldy workers are expected to 'transfer' (nice, polite word) themselves, their homes and their families across two counties, 25 miles and a good stretch of the Firth of Forth to Falkirk. You wouldn't believe it if you read it in a book. And there's every indication the Carron Hydraulics men don't either. As Harry Gibson, en- gineers' union district officer, 'We're going to resist says. this.' Press, Tuesday October 17, 1972 PAGE 9 The Jesus movement has cer- tainly produced big dividends for those who have managed to cash in on the man's claim to fame. In the last two years, the writers of Jesus Christ Super- star',_Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, admit they've each earned £400,000 from the show. The who took the man engineers' union to court because its Sudbury branch refused to let him into meetings is a former full-time evangelist, does not believe in strikes... and he's a Tory to boot. Says James Goad, who works at the CAV vehicle compon- ents factory at Sudbury, Suf- folk: I do not agree with strikes, official or unofficial.'

In 1967 he refused to join an unofficial strike. He refused a shop stewards' request to pay the money he earned during the strike to a charity. Then he allowed his membership of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers to lapse by withholding his contribu- tions. Last year, though, he decided he wanted to rejoin to safe- guard his job and smooth the way for possible promotion.

And if the Sudbury branch refuses to let him into its meet- ing on Friday he intends to take the AUEW back to the National Industrial Relations Court for contempt. Recently Goad obtained • an interim order from the NIRC telling the union to admit him. Goad (53) was in the bakery trade for 25 years. He gave it up for full-time Baptist evange- he found baking lism when with his Sunday clashed preaching. But the rates for preachers are even lower than those in less spiritual callings and he joined CAV in 1961 when he found it impossible to keep his wife and children on £8 a week.

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Rents: 28 day Tory deadline Tape-recordings reveal deliberate non-intervention REPORTS of collusion between British and the para-military army Ulster Defence Association have now been backed up by details of tape re- 'Army military cordings of transmissions during fighting in Belfast last week.

Paddy Devlin, Social Democrat and Labour Party MP for Falls, has collaborates with announced he is sending a report on the alleged collusion to Opposition leader existing Harold Wilson to if see Labour-Tory relations underwrites this UDA in Ulster' activity. Devlin alleged that in the last week east Belfast 'Tartan gangs' had terrorized Catholic families by open intimidation and outright attack. And he claimed that where operated, these only token were ob aLly Dalluls served and 'bigots' had com- treedom and DICLe

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petrol-bomb Catholic families.

"This is not an oversight on the military part to let this haD.

pen every night. It is a dellber- ate and calculated policy not to intervene Catholics being attacked, he remarked.

Devlin said he had heard tape military transmissions last Thursday dur- morning mob Belfast's Last na. extract the army officer none commanding east Belfast speak- ing told to patrol commanders, have spoken senior LO a He is now man. going to

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on the streets the trouble.' In another extract the officer saa: seniol

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manl forms me that the UDA now will take action the Tartans. against Thev are to be allowed to do so.'

An Army later asked Dallul patrol The commander The UDA Is given free range by army in east Belfast, claims Devlin. Above: a 'stop and frisk' checkpoint the junction were be down the Newtownards allowed Road. He replied: 'Oh yes: UDA has full move- ment. Said Devlin: *These indicate sinister collaboration be- para-military BY PHILIP WADE Our Housing Correspondent tween mulecal army and security. forces. They indicate dealing constant and

UDA

THE TORY government has sent letters to nearly horse-trading between une and military locally all of it with all the Labour councils in Britain still defying the high-level approval ... 'fair rent' Act, giving them 28 days to fall in line.

'It is essential that these facts Only Conisborough, Yorkshire, Camden, and this military relating to conduct, London, councils have yet receive the Tory the Lave nave heard message. If the decisions not to implement remain, be sent to Mr Wilson to see the Tories can then move in a Housing Commis- policy vhich the sioner. Labour exists between Party the Conservative ang These government- in Britain Blackpool on Saturday that appointed writes this activity. will the goverument would Bor take over all the housing in moving against nesitate •Harold Wilson must be made affairs of the council con- those defying law and to conse- cerned. order'. understand redi joint activity. ot thic Another abominable behaviour threat is, Among the tenants fight- that of surcharges. course, military by their retusal to ing increases by Dasseu on Individual councillors Labour councils-and there untortunate latholle WIlU families and their property in against are the strongest hame VOTe Tine TenT -one Belfast- -while increases could find them- east intensively strongest Joe Potts: Solid areas of landed the selves with the innocent appears people resistance SOul to of west Belfast-is the equal of be in Manchester. Diu or mie Walca the phone any ever perpetrated by should have been collected Newly ringing from tenants. Said Mrs Connie Fahey, struggle to British troops une of the Manches- secretary tenants associauon. cling to colonial holdings.'

Prime Minister Edward been and Salford lenants Bellille LeI Heath wanting details made clear Action Group, yesterday: Earlier this

UDA

leaders admitted that to the to organize the nght against American hIs closing speechi 'All over the weekend Tory Party conference at the Act Vietnam veterans were weapons training to their mem- bers in Northern Ireland.

JAMES

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Labour Scottish beer and Party treasurer and tormer Chancellor of the Exchequer the Wilson government, today becomes a fully-fledged merchant bread in short supply banker. Callaghan is a director of the newly-formed Commercial Bank BREAD was in short supply them an increase of about f2.50 of Wales today launches which Glasgow yesterday because of the float of two million a week on basic rales. ares. Three million ordinary 1I bakers' which began on shares. Monday last THE POSITION was week. unchanged already been issued, shares have the of the Scottish Mas. bar the bank opens doors secretary vesterday so when f its ter Bakers James Dandie said all staff employed by Tennent 30 it will In carol on the big capital Caledonian Breweries. bakeries in have a capital of £5m. About 70 pubs in the managed- were closed. Three in Edinburgh of the bank were also affected, but Mr Dandie Chairman houses civision. mostly in that and were closed as a result of millionaire management gow, and supplies beer magnate, Julian supervisory staff there were con.

the strike, property and other directors tinabout pro verbees Glasgow Hodge, brocuce Dread TrOm brewery alc About are on and Edinburgh have been halted.

Secretary Tonner 10) unofficial strike at the bakeries, The bar staff are demanding Wales, George Thomas, Lord Harlech, and two executives from negotiating rights for the deal Trans- brotesume over aware Union Workers' Bank cluded by the Scottish port and General National

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Chicago. Paddy De , Above: a 'stop and f ofts: Solid hasn't stopped formed touch, how the fight against Fill in th

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Name Address Workers Press, Tuesday October 17, 1972 PAGE 11 Paddy Devlin MP RAY BUCKTON, the leader of the train drivers' union ASLEF, yesterday declared that his union would 'oppose most bitterly' the Tory plan to butcher the rail service.

The government's strategy for the railways in the 1970s is re- vealed in a 61-page 'Blue Book' produced by forward planners in the Department of the Environ- ment. The study that suggests Britain's rail network should be cut from 11,000 miles to about 7,000 miles and 60 million tons of freight transferred to the privately-owned road hauliers.

Buckton Mr told Workers Press he had not seen the 'Blue Book'. 'It is scandalous what they are contemplating, he said. He said it was interesting that the report had been 'leaked' to I find that the capitalist Press. whenever this government leaks anything to the Press it usually turns out to be right.' He said the union was further angered by the fact that the British Rail Board had now decided to carry out a similar survey. 'You'd think that they'd at you'd think least see us, there would be some consultation with us.' But Mr Buckton has not seen BR chairman Richard Marsh since March this year during the wages dispute. He union's said that the counter-proposal was for an in- top and frisk' checkpoint tegrated rail and road system.

of the Tories and nation those who did want not politics brought in to the movement. "The moment you want political to take real added Mrs Fahey, action,' 'it disturbs those little sec- of the tions community which have a nice little niche for themselves.' Ardwick tenants' leader Joe Potts said the resist- ance to the rent increases was as solid as ever. estimate 'We that between 50 and 60 per of all the cent tenants way round Manchester are increases, not paying the he told me yesterday. Connie Fahey: Political All this week the well- 'commando' organized squads will be in action She said a struggle was the estates. preventing on the in now opening up the harassment of tenants tenants' associations by rent collectors. between those who insisted council the fight political And the new was offices be struggle and could only be will also rent with the resig- picketed. successful would like information about Il in the form below and send to NATIONAL

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rank-and-file dockers Short orders not strikes cause ship- PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday Octobe

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MARINE ENGINEERS at the Scott-Lithgow shipyard and _G. Kincaid's engine John works, Greenock, returned to work yesterday after a 17-week strike to bring their wages into line with workers on the upper reaches of the Clyde.

The settlement, negotiated with the management by leaders of the Confederation of Ship- building and Engineering Unions, gives the 1,100 workers an immediate £2 increase, a further £2 in January and again in July next year. A final £2 increase will be paid in January 1974. The deal includes a proviso that no further wage claim can be submitted be- fore March 1974. This clearly shows that the Confederation leaders accept Tory premier Heath's right to dictate wages. president Joe Confederation Black said on Saturday that 'tak- ing into account the possibility statutory wage freeze, the of a majority of workers thought this was the maximum that could be achieved at present. 3,000 finishing A meeting of trade workers accepted the deal last Saturday. The management insisted that the deal was con- ditional on the engineers accept- ing it along with the finishing trade workers-otherwise no in- creases would be paid to anybody and there would be no further negotiations. had Confederation leaders earlier failed to get the engineers to call off their strike in favour of being included in an overall claim with the finishing trades.

Engineers were convinced that, with the support of the finishing trades in an all-out strike, they could have won 94p an hour. The agreement concluded by the Confederation per Stewards who fought SO the tenaciously uphold to AUEW's national wage policy are extremely bitter at the deal.

WEATHER: Most areas will be mainly dry, with some bright in- tervays. Mist or fog patches will occur at first in southern Scot- and possibly in parts of land northern England and Northern will be Ireland. Temperatures mostly near normal. UNION LEADERS have joined a north-east shipbuilding em- ployer in an attempt to beat strikers back to work with the threat of unemployment— although they are well aware the jobs situation has nothing to do with the strike. THE UNION involved is the Amalgamated Society of Boiler- makers, the employer Swan Hunter. STRIKERS are 3,800

THE

Tyneside boilermakers who are into the seventh week of their fight for a £4.72 cost of living rise. According to ASB president Dan McGarvey shipyards will close if the men refuse to return to work. Some will not reopen, he claims. McGarvey's came statement hard on the heels of a threat from Sir John Hunter, chairman of the strikebound company, that a continuation of the strike could ruin shipbuilding on the Tyne as a whole. shop stewards. The strikers' who met yesterday were not im- pressed. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Published Workers Press, Office. by High Street, London, 186a Clapham

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however. press, said that this was because it was

LONDON

dockers picketing policy not to talk to the Press.

Midland Cold Storage at Workers Press reported last Hackney, London, East month that one tendency among the Royals stewards thought the yesterday insisted that their of Midland be blacking • cold action would continue until a called off if Jack Trans- Jones, mass meeting decided other- port and General Workers' Union wise. prove there leader, could was basis for negotiation with owners They condemned reports Vestey organization. the that their shop stewards were This brought denials angry willing call off the picket to of stewards, from another group talks started between the once the but same tendency two docks unions and the com- appears to be on the move again.

and Midland Last issued panies owning Friday Midland UK Storage, where redundancy notices to 27 of the Cold 51 at the store, who are T&GWU picketing is also in progress.

members but not registered Strong contingents manned the dockers. both Midland picket at line Before the notices were issued yesterday morning and afternoon.

some T&GWU transport drivers number of men said that A of break- were talking in terms they had seen stewards at the ing the dockers' picket line. Royal group of docks earlier who But now they are insisting that they knew of no had told them before they deliveries decision to lift the picket.

Midland must withdraw its sack UK Cold Storage, No formal denial had been notices and part of the Hay's Wharf group, issued up to the time we went to Mr Philip Morris (I), former US Air Force captain ings—more than 3.1 in Thailand and Mr James Walkley, a former photo been dropped in in US Army-two of the Intelligence expert in the attacks include larg Conway Hall meeting speakers at last night's activated by sensor organized by International Commission of the incapable of disting Inquiry into US War Crimes in Indo-China. Between military objects. January 1969 and summer 1972-that is, before the most recent further Intensification of the bomb- Report. By DAVID MAUDE Our Industrial Correspondent They decided to stand firm on the worst shape is called in No further Walker. their demands. mass meetings have been called. It is There a 26,500-ton container understood the stewards will ship has been launched and is resist any attempt by the union nearing the end of fitting out. split their leadership to a 105,000-ton This would leave resistance. bulk carrier scheduled for launch at the end of the year. The ASB executive is expected discuss its next move the in to With no hint that any new dispute today, but will find little boiler- order is in the pipeline, mileage in further jobs threats.

Walker would face makers at the dole if they returned even The threat to jobs on the Tyne to work immediately on finish- arises not from the activities of for the bulk ing the steel work the boilermakers, who are merely Fitters would lose their carrier. for their fellow- fighting what jobs a few months later. unionists in other yards have got, but from the world crisis of ship- The situation is only slightly which is hitting less desperate at the Readhead's building every yard, South Shields. yard. Sir John Hunter admits that Of three 15.000-ton cargo his company has received no new liners, the first has been launched orders since October 1970, except and is fitting out, the second is the Admiralty, and that of steel- from awaiting the completion work is beginning to run out at the boilermakers and work by some of the Tyne yards. the third will follow that onto the stocks. If we don't get any more will begin This programme could be com- orders work stop will pleted by mid-1973. the vards and people in he told redundant', hecome Hebburn At a 30,000-ton local paper last week. It could tanker has been products be quite soon.' launched and is a few months The yard which appears to be into fitting while her out, must take back 16 men it has laid off. Eric Rechnitz, chairman of the T&GWU's London road haulage quoted in committee, Was yesterday several newspapers morning as saying he hoped the matter could be resolved without further confrontation'. Some re- ports had him saying the pickets were definitely being withdrawn.

One docker picketing Mid- yesterday told Workers land Press: 'Rechnitz came down here this morning and told me he had that the misquoted been story was untrue. if we 'But he also • said that had a truce he'd run stuff in.

to continue 'Our decision picketing taken at a was mass meeting the other week and that decision stands as far as we are concerned.' Said another picket: 'I don't know what's going on here, but if someone's trying to sow con- fusion it's working. 'Many blokes thought the picketing was off this morning " 3.7 million tons of bombs have ped in Indo-China. Latest indiscriminate lude large-scale computerized bombings by sensory detection devices which are of distinguishing between civilians and bjects. Picture by Christopher Davis another similar vessel is waiting for the boilermakers. Another berth is building a 15,000-ton cargo ship. A second will be started after the first's launch. Wallsend yard has about 15 months' work. The immediate launch of a cargo vessel from 15,000-ton Wallsend has been postponed by the strike, as has that scheduled for early next year of a 251,000 tanker. Due to follow these is a 252,000-ton which tanker should take nine months to a year to build. Most of the naval work is con- centrated at the Neptune yard, which is the only one in the company appearing to have any prospect of guaranteeing employ- ment for more than a year.

Sir John Hunter has called on the Tories to start a system of investment grants to shipowners buying from British yards, and McGarvey's attack on his own members is presumably intended as a gesture of good faith in sup- port of this call. But the boilermakers cannot be made responsible for the crisis of capitalist shipbuilding.

Nationalization of the entire industry without compensation and under workers' control is the only guarantee of jobs in the yards. and only when they drove past on their way to work realized it was still on.' All the pickets were adamant about maintaining their struggle.

'If we have a truce here and let stuff in that's us finished and we might as well walk away,' I was told. Dockers have been picketing Midland for five months, claim- ing work should be available for registered men there. In July, Vestey initiated legal proceedings which led to the jailing of five dockers. Jack Jones has already con- firmed to Vestey that the picket- ing at Midland is unofficial.

And last week dock stewards those

T&GWU

were among who received members new stewards' cards. These revised cards—written with the Industrial Relations Act in mind-bear the explicit statement that only the executive council of the

T&GWU

can authorize industrial action.

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'It's one of our biggest boosts yet, shop steward John Howe told Workers Press. The sit-in force turned out to a 30-car motorcade cheer as brought the staff into the factory from a four-hour meeting at a nearby labour club. About 70 staff are involved in the decision to join the sit-in.

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