Workers Press no. 900

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A CLASS WAR

OVER WAGES

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY OCTOBER 21, 1972• No 900 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

TORY PRESS CALLS FOR:

BY ALEX MITCHELL

"THE TIMES' yesterday issued a major editorial manifesto on behalf of the Tories calling for class war. Entitled Strikes are bad: inflation worse' the editorial asked its readers to back the government as it entered a winter of confrontation with the trade unions.

Predicting 'great hardships' with no lighting or heating the paper said: "Simply because electrical supply is the most powerful of strikes, to survive it would offer the greatest advantage.

'Unless from time to time we resist strikes, we are inflation. If we allow inflation just to run or it will be destructive not only to prosperity, but to justice inside our society and possibly to our political system.

EMPIRE BA

As the Times' was sounding battle stations, another sector workers -ne Teachers -were refused a baot of see Nati Teachers belonging

LEICESTER

National Association London of the

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out Scroo masters walked

GASSTOONS

wret ment the a promised hondon owes deet pay- a promised allowance. About ment of Whitehal to demonstrate uneratered alast Cit state pay plan. Under specific government instructions the employers have this week refused pay offers to 110,000 electricity SuDDy workers. manua workers. I4.uuu manual atomic workers and 2,000 NALGO government workers. Also blocked the the wage pipeline by 1n Tories are 194.000 government industrial workers. farm- workers, prison officers and the police.

I trade unions, The Times Was of cong the views of Times' the trade unions, was echoing the views of te Dally elegrapn or a lew days earner.

Tory- On Monday the "Telegraph' stated: owned deliver the working class Chequers talks must "The in their present undefeated wished every success. and militant mood. The hope, not the be that Heath has engineered must this package with phoney by buying utCe ume the TUC with some sort of incomes

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policy- ostensibly with his -whether hold tace Common Market chums. voluntary compulsory makes little odds- -they task or ses thg the main will then evolye the radical with which ever working class Robert Powell, measures arc still the George Benson more necessary salvation:° main item on his political UnIS and Terence Alexander. country's agenda. he desperately But *The the Times says needs steer une time

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

government should Britain into the

EEC

on Keen statutory incomes January 1. WEST END actors have been policy 'in reserve'. Heath believes that his "To a compulsory make link with the tied down to a five-year pay deal European policy effective it might be reactionaries will have necessary which gives them no guarantees strengthen position to election first and such an out this onslaught. over rises in the cost of living.

Carly election might leave scars.'

But in the struggles of Having described The deal was steamrollered through Election the miners, dockers, build- General Generals Building tempe workers, railwaymen a special meeting in London yester- British and day. militants (chants, After the meeting the backed be on bie WOrKIng class nas settlement condemned the angrily Tory in do it bathe as a big retreat from the original "no- opinion'. weekly strength to smash it. strings' demand for a £30 unese IMDOTTEnT When the and national con. minimum for pertormances torial statements are ference of the All Trades rehearsals. grim to the Unions Alliance opens The £30 was supposed to WOrKINg EnON Birmingham negotiable', period in which we are but of Actors Equity leaders will be the conquest £25 state power the have accentea instead an immecate build revolu minimum and £30 in January. But the necessity The tripartite talks with fixed increases of f have also agreed to

TUC

Heath, the and the nonary leadersnip will dominate the dis- a year until 1977 CBI are a dangerous time- cussion. The deal was aproved by 318 votes t device. The Tories wasting You 76 at a special meeting of that workers If haven't made Westoni Know won t Equity Gerald Croasdell actors. leader voluntary state wear arransements attend of the deal would wage plan. this truly crucial con- warnee mar a reccuon mean a strike in the West End and this know that despite ference trade unionists They all Britain, efforts to or rearner s OveR

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No cost-of-living guarantee for actors

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A CLASS WAR

OVER WAGES

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY OCTOBER 21, 1972 • No 900 • 4p

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

TORY PRESS CALLS FOR:

BY ALEX MITCHELL

'THE TIMES' yesterday issued a major editorial manifesto on behalf of the Tories calling for class war. Entitled 'Strikes are bad: inflation worse' the editorial asked its readers to back the government as it entered a winter of confrontation with the trade unions.

Predicting 'great hardships' with no lighting or heating the paper said: 'Simply because electrical supply is the most powerful of strikes, to survive it would offer the greatest advantage.

'Unless from time to time we resist strikes, we are accepting T we dow madon st to rue on it will be destructive not only to prosperity, but to justice inside our society and possibly to our political system.'

EMPIRE BA!

As the 'Times' was sounding battle stations, another sector workers. -ine teachers-were being refused a pay offer (see p.12). Teachers belonging

LEICESTER

the branch of the National Association

* THE HOS

out School masters walked Cassoon meard the news ised honon ament we dour part a promised London allowance. About ment ot state pay plan. Under specific government instructions the employers refused 110,000 . pay offers electricity have this week workers. sw manual atomic workers and

2,000 NALGO

government blocked the the workers. Also wage pipeline by are 194,000 government industrial workers, farm- 1ones workers, prison officers and the police.

e trale unions, the Times was of cong the vins oh Times' trade unions, was echoing the views of the 'Daily Telegraph' of a few days earlier.

On Monday the Tory- owned "Telegraph' stated: deliver the working class 'The talks Chequers in their present undefeated be wished every success. and militant mood. The hope, not the engineered that Heath has must be this phoney package with by buying the TUC with some sort of incomes LO ostensibly on with his policy- -whether Common Market chums. Condusory makes little odds-they He knows that the main will then evolve the radical task with Actors leaving yesterday's meeting include Sellin which working class measures ale

CYCL

1s still the Robert Powell, George Benson more necessary main item on his political

LOTS

and Terence Alexander. country's salvation.' But he desperately ax clud. the the times says steer needs The Time keep

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

governatut shoild Britain into the

EEC

on incomes January 1. statutory WEST END actors have been policy 'in reserve'. Heath believes that his To make a compulsory link tied down to a five-year pay deal with the Europear policy effective it might be reactionaries will have an necessary which gives them no guarantees strengthen position to election first and such an out this onslaught. over rises in the cost of living.

Cally election might leave scars.'

struggles of described Having But in the The deal was steamrollered through Election the miners, dockers, build- General tempo ing workers, railwaymer a special meeting in London yester- British militants day. Lenalils, After the meeting Tories working cassias snown the angrily condemned settlement that it will not submit to "public it has the as a big retreat from the original 'no.

opinion'. I oryism- strength to smash it. demand for a f30 weekly strings important edi- and When performances the national con. minimum for torial statements are ference of the All Trades rehearsals. reminder to the grim Unions Alliance in opens The £30 was supposed be 'non- working Cass Directau eriod in which we ar but leaders of Actors Equity negotiable', will be conquest tine iving £25 state power and the nave accented instead build revolu- minimum and £30 in January. But they necessity The tripartite talks with agreed to fixed increases of £3 have also tionary Heath, the the Headersal and will dominate the dis- a vear unti 1977 CBI are a dangerous time- cussion. The de special meet 3 estes to device. The Tories wasting You at a special that workers haven't made won't

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Equity Gerald Croasdell actors. leader wear voluntary state they an this truly crucial con- of the deal would warned mal a reccuor mean a strike in the West End and this know ference unionists that despite of Feather's efforts

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OVel Dullall,

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collaborate, can't so immediately.

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Summit 'partners' united by their weaknesses Sterling moves create A EEC tensions PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday October 21, 1972

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AMERICAN presidential adviser Dr Henry Kis- singer was apparently awaiting fresh instruction from the White House yesterday after his talks with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon. Thieu made it clear he will not accept the political terms demanded by North Vietnam for ending the war and insisted that any change in the gov- ernment would have to be put elections under conditions where he would have control. Kissinger is believed to. have brought a package of proposals Saigon following his secret discussions with North representatives in Paris. mainese But it is not clear how close the PLANS for monetary union within the and North Vietnamese American Common Market have been set in post ous ery are motion again by the summit meeting of Hanoi spokesmen have repeat- edly denied rumours that they the nine heads of government in Paris.

the verge agreement The plans are a sign of the European with the United States. These may set well employers' need to come together for in order to boost Presi- Nixon on the of the mutual support in the

BY JOHN SPENCER

No electors. trade war with the US his marike a 240 Where is cold Balaks strements and Japan. with Kissinger make meeting clear Saigon administra- that the The plan envisages the es- siderable speculation tnal it will be fixed at lower level orensu may be sancer ov tablishment

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the Americans, whom Thieu allow the Tories give their fund by pooling the foreign is totally dependent. exports a slight eace over exchange resources of mem- "partners' on formal entry He has been stomping the bers' banks. The into the Market. country denouncing any Central

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compromise with the liberation fund is to be set up by April City spokesmen freely admit forces and calling for the that cannot be main- exter- 1, 1973, and will be • used to tained at $2.40 for of all support EEC countries' cur- more than Illation The manoeuvres his with Kis- TeW months meets rencies within narrow parity over sterling , indicate that great singer, Thieu attended a dinner limits. tension just below the surface where he is party reported Similar that arrangements ine raris meeting have told guests were

INIXON

The European employers are feeling pressure from Congress made earlier this year, but the driven together by the escalating to end the war and 'this pressure parities agreement on was

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has been transterred to us.

broken within weeks by the America and Japan. But the re British But he was also quoted as say- government which represented Paris gimes are ing there was 'no critical danger' floated the pound. by their own weak- and is said to have been relaxed Bevond vague guarantees that ness. German ane bites and smiling at the dinner.

sterling will eventually be pegged, governments have already fallen Tory Heath gave the moment premier no in- and go to the polls It seems that for alc this at any rate the US is going to dication on lhursday when within next crew weeks. keep supporting in will take place or what the new while the French government is parity will be. elections and and an facing spring. has saigon The pound has been falling with Hanol has economic Imminent cer internal been exaggerated. rapidly foreign questions. On exchange showed Sone EEC's 'image': President hrench The daily Georges Pompidou said he was paper that 'widely evident struck by leads the reticence and lack of enthusiasm' fight against for the Market. In his own refer- ne ones. £20.28 for 12 months (312 issues) (156 issues) z18rc tor • monas £5.07 for 3 months (78 Issues) CHINA said yesterday the Euro- If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: pean Common Market summit in 21.50 for 3 monts (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Paris signified a new step taken Fill in the form below NOW and send to: West European by countries against the two 'super-powers.

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British builders launched a campaign endum entry, only their Japanese 37 per cent of the electorate against counter- voted 'yes'. parts who are scheduled to take 80 per cent of the world market The Tory government, which 1980 if by present trends hopes to play a big part in the tinue.

EEC,

has proved unable to The Japanese, themselves un- settle accounts with the British der pressure to revalue the yen working class and is forced to for the second time in less than pool its problems with the Euro- a year, are stalling until they see pean employers. what sort of monetary package If emerges from the Paris talks.

there is no agreement to peg the

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the Common Market pound parity, then they are likely leaders drove to the summit every possible to try means in sleek French black sedan to avoid a new revaluation.

British cars except for Prime The Common Market Minister Edward Heath, who dis- tries are in no position to Rolls-Royce, and arrived in cuss expansion of their overseas the Italian Prime Minister Giulio They are fighting hold trade. to Andreotti, who drove up in a heir own against powerful_ com Fiat 130. The Prime other petition from he US and Japan Ministers used Citroen DS 23 This sharpens the contradic- cars similar to that of French tions within the EEC itself, where President Georges Pompidou. different national groups the for employers are jockeying positions. Under this guise of The purpose of the Paris meet- control- ling "inflation',

EEC

the heads ing is to fix the battle lines for of state are moving towards the trade war struggle and to common policy to fight the wages agree measures to hit out at the movement throughout Europe working class in Europe It reveals the EEC for what it with the imposition of state controls. of is-—a reactionary conspiracy monopoly capital directed at the Dominating the EEC taiks, however, the question of preservation of private property and the subjection of the Euro- foreign competition. On the of the talks, European ship- pean workers. against the two super-powers,' it New China News Agency noted with said. that the conference, SO countries taking the Maoists display many part, was now rare in the history of their sympathy with the repre- of Europe •The holding of sentatives of the European mono- summit signifies new stel step forward poly capitalists who are plotting a the European in Paris to strangle the workers' taken by countries in their joint struggle movement throughout Europe. ordered The Soviet ambass- celebrations of Uganda's has than 50,000 independence. ador brought a number who do He not of gifts for the Uganda said it was Ugandan citizen- of the Soviet sign dictator, including two to leave the love for people's with photo- albums November by Uganda. graphs of Ugandan army Amin promised to do officers officers who recently who On Thursday, the day his best to strengthen with the ollowing bharom his meeting relations Soviet Amin thanked the Union and pro- he ordered all Kenyan and Soviet government for visionally accepted an from the sending a high-powered invitation Asians to delegation to the ambassador to visit the the country as

USSR

'if time permits'. recent 10th anniversary

Thornycroft leaders reject press rumours Concerted Leyland campaign to discredit occupation

BY PHILIP WADE

LEADERS of the ten-week sit-in at the Thornycroft plant in Basingstoke, Hants, yesterday rejected Press rumours that they have abandoned their main demand for the 'unscrambling' of the deal with the Eaton Corporation.

Twice this week the engineers at the factory have gearbox thrown out British-Leyland proposals aimed at end- ing their occupation. Even the inter- vention of national union officials made no difference. Undoubtedly the determination and principled stand taken by the Thornycroft men against the threat of unemployment and probable closure has shaken British-Leyland.

So much so that there appears now to be a concerted campaign in the Press to dis- credit what the men are fighting for. It suggests that the occupiers have now aban- doned their main demane Tor unscrambling of the hiving-off operation with the Eaton Cor- poration of Ohio. 'Financial Times', for yeoleludy s examole. there was a report that 'workers at the Thornycroft plant have modified their opposition deal seek better compensation and now for transferring sweeping American comean. and more guarantees of orders from British-Leyland'.

As the committee pointed out this statement fact, completely 1S, began encineers W.no August 15 remain firm. The f2tm deal with Eaton be called off and permanent work guaranteed must will beylalius. e one cunt was secred the campaign to vesterdav told committee secretarv. who. he me the sit-in. undermine Leyland. They're trying to dis- No doubt it is courage support for une or dine, These reports have already sown seeds other Leyland doubt among workers. so much that they even ask what we are fighting for.' Tom Lewis said it seemed that was worried about the _Leviano whole sit-in. company, 1 he added, was making a better the Basingstoke cs unter than men's fight sale with the of the factory Eaton The occupation committee was

ULSTER VANGUARD

yesterday considering wherer lo William Craig leader hold Press conference next yesterday defended his the record straight. week to put 'shoot - to - kill' speech AT Ine Motor snow.

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Leyland threw a champagne party made at right-wing must have for journalists which Monday Club meeting CoST boullas. in London on Thursday Basingstoke men are not so sure night. they of Lau recention. 'Who is going to come in Norteen television interview to Basingstoke for fish-and- Ireland chip supper?' queried Tom. insisted: 'When spoke night I spoke for the last official of the Ulster Vanguard.' Craig dismissed as 'abso-

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lute the theory nonsense of his Vanguard second-in command, Captain Austin Ardill, that recurrence his thyroid trouble 01-622 7029 could nave causea nim speak with an unclear mind. Drink was not the reason either, he said 'Last went on: And ne.

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night's speech has, in fact, what I sel already achieved their complacency 01-720 2000 make them realiz? that Ulstel talk wiel about fighting for our rights, the word fight does mean Killing. In his speech io Monday Here's where In the to buy books heart of London's by West End Leon Trotsky Workers Press, Saturday October 21, 1972 PAGE 3 Textile picket over woman's sacking

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women and Wages at the factory, like picketing those throughout the textile girl workers are Most Coll lactor use are extreme ow Fazakerley Liverpool, over the of the women earn only £12 a sacking of Mrs Marie Mulrooney. week and some of the girls take walked out on Wednesday awav as ittle as t7 Mrs Mulrooney National was pay negotiations are when going ahead, but the manarencil accuseu

WULICI

'basic dishonesty' - she had claim that management the taken three-year-old piece of factory has refused see • the the National Union union - thi wabIt Walchai will Tailors and Garment Workers.

sion of the foreman who signed a receipt for it. On the out Last Thursday, the women say, had protection was given to Mana cucul polIcE dis- the material was 25 scabs and one girl was almost covered. knocked down by a car entering was

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Ine plant office the following morning and Shop stewards from the factory sacked. was other factories Morgan Mr. Courtauld group for sup. and ent In the Howard took up the fight for her port. At Fazakerles workers reinstatement and were

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supported occupying the plant hav women opened canteen for the Tune Their and girls. women's use. 'Shoot-to-kill' Craig: PA strikers I was not drunk seek Fleet St sympathy action Club members in the House what we're Situation •ano Commons, Craig said drifting towards. that repeated his warning could mobilize He 80.000 men in Ulster and over Lovast acron added: 'We're prepared to take A STRIKE over pay and victimization slashed kill am prepared to whatever action necessary services from *Britain's biggest Press agency yes- will and those benine ne ensure lnere Is 200 copytakers and staff at have my full support for and stable government in terday. Over Press we shall not surrender. Northern Ireland. Association withdrew their labour Tuesday On He said *Bombs bullets offer of ycotcrudy. dill after management had replied with an nope it never comes to this £1.50 to their demand for a pay increase.

but I want people to under- are experiences. Our people are frustrated and angry.'

action spread the horror the stand other workers at PA yester ening Britain's busiest wire the day news service Bakers go back with leader, John Lawrence, was national and provincial throughout the fired papers Now the strikers countrv depend. Yesterdav are appealing sympathetic the service was severely only half claim

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action from other Fleet reduced and if sympathetic Street workers soredas Could stoo justity their claim the at PA have altogether. Tournasts agreed not to cross picket BAKERS in Glasgow will the workels settlea and most strikers point workers honoured • to improvec return to work on sunday beates their nine-day strike decided to Dennistoun, Tates of decided offer some are inside the build- They have won a minimum pay • accept support ing doing normally of They go back how- and back work. work increase claim. $2.50 claim ever with only the Mr John Glass, a mem. ther Callicu rise negotiated their ber of the unofficial strike have received no backing and stall. their said Machine workers in tibe from union committee, officials the after Graphical Asso-

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They stewards National Workers Union. were recommending action cation nave taken nranch oncia lonnewı Only 24 hours work are out in sympathy. has instructed them to re after return at and electricians of After the work and warnec meeting bakeries they workers in Glasgow voted Mondav beattie s men nad will strike C ОП That Turner acuon Wil overwhelmingly back, he said, they management do not they will 'dismiss go re- medl unofficial had with their no option instate Lawrence. themselves from the cult ploy of PA' action-in recommend These actions are threat.

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BY DAVID MAUDE

The protest of 20 African seamen against pay and conditions aboard two Greek freighters this week again focused attention on the multiple hazards facing this sec- tion of workers. It also brought to light the way the Tory government has worked both to hamstring in- ternational trade union action on any foreign seaman's behalf and to deny him any hope he may previously have had of redress in the British courts.

About three weeks ago the 'Aegis Power' : 9,442 tons, docked at Avonmouth, Bristol.

As soon as it did so, ten crew members went to the local office of the National* Union of Seamen and saw full-time official Derek Tedder.

The men's complaint was that they were earning about a quarter of what they should have been, that they were owed a great deal of back pay and that they had been forced to give up important rights. But the British agents for the company owning the ship, Aegis Shipping, would have none of it. They insisted that was no basis for the there complaints and that these were the work of 'troublemakers' Eventually the agents offered in negotiations with the NUS to repatriate the ten on another of their ships, the 'Aegis Honqur' 9,439-ton which docked about a week later. moment the ship The berthed, however, about eight members of its crew turned up at Tedder's office with almost identical complains.

They too demanded ге- patriation. But, like the men ay October 21, 1872 from the 'Aegis Power', , they would not accept the com- pany offer. They said they believed they would be 'in very serious trouble' . on an Aegis ship once it left British waters. London shipping agent T. Niotis, who handles the British end of the Aegis operation, said he could not understand this. 'Conditions on all our said, "slave" rate.' not He added: 'We are as con- cerned as anyone, more so, to sort out this trouble and we shall keep doing our best to settle the men's worries and convince them to allow us to take them home. But I also dealing with think we are here, ring- troublemakers leaders of groups of men who would never be satisfied.'

But Derek Tedder, who has seen the men's contracts, tells a different story. "The men on the "Aegis Power" were earning between £20 and £30 a month', he said.

'On the "Aegis Honour" rates started as low as £10 and went up to £40. They had all signed contracts giving away all their rights. 'On top of the slave rates of pay, they had 25 per cent of their wages for the first eight months of their employ- ment held back from them.

according to the con- This, tracts, was to provide for any that might be levied fines against them by the master.

'In fact, a great many of the men said they were owed a great deal of back pay. Some men who had been to sea for 13 years were getting only about £40 a month.' the NUS- John Prescott, sponsored MP for Hull East, told Workers Press earlier this week that the men should have been earning at least £85 a month. He said this was four times as much as most of them were getting. He added: Last year the Top: John Prescott, NUS-spon- sored MP for Hull East, points out the seamen should be getting at least £85 a month. Tory government changed the law so that disputes over sea- men's wages from a number of countries-five in all, 1 think -could no longer be taken before the British courts.

'Among the countries affec- ted in this way were Greece and Spain, but when Albert Booth MP and myselt opposed this on the grounds of what chance of justice had seamen in these countries we were slapped down. was continually told by the Speaker, Harvey Ander- that "You can't son it was, pass judgement here on the affairs of another country"!

The dispute at Avonmouth also brings up another point.

96 of the Tories' Section Industrial Relations Act de- clares that it is an unfair in- dustrial punishable practice, by the National Industrial Re- lations Court, for anyone not the authority of acting with a registered trade union to in- duce a breach of contract in furtherance of a trade dispute.'

for the As a spokesman International Transport Workers' Federation in Lon- don pointed out to Workers Press, in the past its only in- dustrial weapon in cases such as that at Avonmouth has been solidarity action from dockers and other sections of workers. Were such a weapon used now the federation would fall prey to Section 96. Meanwhile the world ship- ping slump forces more and more owners into more and more vicious attempts to ex- tract extra profit from already cruelly-exploited seamen.

But as Avonmouth shows, seamen are fighting back.

BANK ON

THE BANK

The recent outcry against in is secrecy planning almost certain to provoke a major roW the at Greater London Council over a proposed develop- ment scheme in the Bank- side area between Black- friars Bridge and South- wark Bridge. The GLC is currently con- sidering plans for the building of a mammoth office and com- puter centre for Lloyds on the South Thames Bank the opposite St Paul's Yet drawings or models o £10m the Edger Scue eur Investments have not yet been snown to te pubnc- the plans are reported to have been known for at least a year.

The block scheme for a 1S 125 ft high, 160 ft wide and 500 ft Black- deep between friars railway viaduct and the Bankside power station. When completed would house Lloyds Comoulel centre Bank and contain 500,000 sq it of offices. The local council and com- fear that the

GLC

may senellie

RUBBER MONOPOLY

KILLS 700

ESSEX JOBS

Two factories in Essex belonging to the London Rubber will be group closed early in the New Year putting almost 700 men out of work. company to shut 1 he 15 down and sell off its Ching ford plant emploving z30 and its Hall Lane works which Produc- employs 566 worKers. tion director, Robert Larkin said the closures were part of a 'production shake-up'. 'Reorganization said; has been due to the continual rise manufacturing 1n costs particularly in terms of inter-site transportation and the final distribution of pro- ducts. 'The company has tried as far as possible to mitigate the effect of the reorganization on In particular employment. there is complete job security least the months at Hall Lane.' London Rubber has been at

STEEL

JOBS

TO GO

The steel foundry and engineering group F. H Lloyd Holdings is to shut its Grazebrook Foundry Dudley, Worcester- at shire, and axe 70 jobs. It says the move is unavoid.

able 'because of the declining trend in the foundry's specia market outlets'. As far as could this tendency loreseen, would continue. approval without their views having even been asked. Southwark Council and the community groups complain that the probable appearance of the development has been kept a 'deadly secret'. Said a spokesman for the North Southwark Community Development Group: 'We only knew this week the plans were going through. I think there has been a deliberate con- spiracy of silence on this issue' And though the scheme is in the Southwark borough, the council cannot block the plans—if it wanted to-since the area falls within the devel- opment area controlled by the GLC. According to a council can only spokesman officials make 'observations' A spokesman for Edger In- vestments has said a model of the scheme does exist, but it is in the hands of the GLC or Southwark Council. He added that to publish details 'at this stage' would be 'premature' and offend the planners. He denied that the block would appear bulky since it was set 70 ft from the river and flanked the railway viaduct. the Hall Lane site since 1941 and at Chingford since 1949.

The company has said the will not affect reorganization the 1,850 workers at the manu- on the North facturing site Circular Road. The Monopolies Commission is currently investigating the contraceptive industry for. alleged monopolistic practices.

This follows an attack on the London Rubber Company by Leo Abse, Labour MP. "This monopolistic company, which manufactures 95 per cent of the rubber sheaths used in Britain, has a long history of social irresponsibility.

'It has protected its inordin- ate profits in the past and present by the most ruthless methods. To ensure no com- petition would emerge it has taken over or crushed almost have entered this all who field.' Chairman of the group is Sir the Lord Edward Howard, Mayor of London. The depressed state of the engineering industry heavy made it impossible to forecast a viable future for the com- pany, a statement said. News of the closure comes just a year after which has a total labour force of around 7,000 made 122 nd foundry workers redundant.

For some time Grazebrook Foundry has been failing to make a profit. The group's last annual re- when overall pre-tax port, profits of £1.47m on sales of £33.24m were disclosed for the year to April 1, 1972 (against £1.87m and £34.86m in the preceding 12 months) said that it had been hit by reduced sales causing it to turn in a small loss.

In 1964, the "Trotskyist' Lanka Sama Samaja Party joined a 'United Left Front' government with Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike's bourgeoi s. Healy, who visited Ceylon during the coalition period, analysed the degeneration of the LSSI in the pamphlet 'Ceylon: The Great Betrayal'—still available from New Park Publications. This four-part series by JACK GALE examines

CEYLON: THE GREAT BETRAYAL CONTINUES

In 1964, the "Trotskyist' Lanka Sri Lanka Freedom Party. SLI in the pamphlet 'Ceylon: The some of the significant politic

PART FOUR

In 1968 a group led by Edmund Samarakkody, a member of the Inter- national Executive Com- mittee of the Pabloite Unified Secretariat broke away from the LSSP (R) and a year later levelled serious charges at its secretary Bala Tampoe, and at the rest of the party's leadership, many of whom also held lead- ing positions in the Ceylon Mercantile Union. Samarakkody accused Tam- poe of being an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency.

A 'Ceylon Commission' then established by the Unified Secretariat found that: (1) Tampoe accepted a trip to the United States in 1967, financed by the Asia Found- ation—a well-known recipient of CIA funds. (2) He attended a private luncheon party at the residence of the British High Com- missioner during the 1966 plantation workers' strike which was also attended by Thondaman, a trade union leader who was playing an strike-breaking role open against the plantation workers.

(3) He attended a dinner party at the West German Embassy in honour of ex-Nazi Kiesinger.

(4) He wrote to Mrs Bandar- anaike in January 1966 in his capacity as CMU general secre- tary implying support for the imposition of curfew in 'violence' in response to Colombo. (5) His union refused to sup- port the strikes that followed ' Lanka Sama Samaja Party joined a rty. SLL secretary G. Healy, who vi n: The Great Betrayal'-still availab : political events since then.

devaluation of the rupee in 1967. While in Washington he (6) held a meeting with Defence Secretary McNamara, shortly to become President of the World Bank. Despite these findings, the Unified Secretariat, at its Third since World Congress reunification', not only voted to retain the LSSP (R) as its Ceylonese section, but also unanimously elected Tampoe to its International Executive Committee. The Commission had con- cluded, mildly, that 'in none of these instances is there any evidence that the party took Commission what the con- sidered a policy consistent with revolutionary Marxism some but went on to say that comrades felt they might be explained in the context of political and trade Ceylonese union life'. Despite the minority report of its Indian • members-who argued that the LSSP(R) had placed itself 'in the camp of as opposed to In the enemy action'-the Com- workers in mission's only ruling was that Tampoe should cease to be the secretary of both the LSSP(R) and CMU. This ruling was placidly is ignored and no one did any- thing about it. On the contrary, exactly the same relations have been main- tained with Bala Tampoe and the LSSP(R) as had previously been maintained with Goone- wardene and Perera of the LSS: That is, completely un- with no principled relations discussion of the real political issues involved covering up serious degeneration. Supporters of the Unified Secretariat are kept ignorant of what its Ceylonese section oined a 'United Left Front' governm who visited Ceylon during the coali available from New Park Publicatio is doing. Its praises are loudly sung in public while, in private, it is admitted that the LSSP(R) has acted and is still acting, in 'inconsistent with a way revolutionary Marxism'. No fight is taken up with Tampoe because to do that would reveal the profoundly anti-Trotskyist nature of the whole of the Unified Secre- tariat. Instead, the October 9, 1972, issueR Hansen's 'Inter- continental Press' reprints without comment a resolution of the Ceylon Mercantile Union the Bandaranaike on re- pressions 'signed by Bala Tampoe, This resolution declares that should devote 'the union special attention in the period ahead to the regroupment of mass forces under the inde- pendent leadership of the working class in accordance with socialist principles' It proposes to do this, without mentioning however, the Fourth Trotskyism or to International. Instead it calls 'all those who value upon human or democratic rights' to join in a nationwide one-day hunger strike'. But 'Intercontinental Press' is not the only Pabloite journal to cover up for Bala Tampoe.

The October 2, 1972, issue of 'Red Mole', for instance, refers to the resolutions of for striking bank support workers from 'the CMU whose secretary, Bala Tampoe, is a member of the leading LSSP(R), Ceylonese section of the Fourth International.

No mention has been made, at any time, in 'Intercontinen- tal Press', , 'Red Mole' or any other Pabloite publieation of the investigation the Unified Secretariat was forced to make Workers Press, Sati AY4266 overnment with Mrs Sirimavo Ban he coalition period, analysed the deg blications. This four-part series by J into the activities of Tampoe and the LSSP(R). Instead, the Pabloites cover up for Tampoe as they pre- viously covered up for Perera.

The same issue (October 2) of 'Red Mole' which shields Tampoe - although leading members of the International Marxist Group must know of proved against the charges him-launches a fierce attack on Frederick Engels. Marx's closest collaborator is accused of parliamentary illusions, revisionism, fatalism, and 'passivity in the face of the class struggle'. We quote from 'Red Mole': .. the profoundly ambigu- • is ous legacy of Engels .. shown both in his great illu- sions in parliamentarism and his revisionist views on philosophy. the question of These two ideas, which in Engels always remained eclec- tically combined with revolu- and Marxist views, tionary built upon by Engels' were Bernstein literary inheritors and Kautsky. 'They lead to a complete fatalism and consequent passi- vity in the face of the class struggle... The philosophical this fatalism, of origins of course, lie in those revisions of nal Marxism introduced by Engels works. Here his later in Engels reverted to the Hegelian idea of a "Dialectic of Nature" 'It is true that there are cer- tain important passages in the Nature" which "Dialectics of go against this concept, but the general effect was to bring about a reconciliation between Marxism and classical materi- .. once this road has alism been taken, the way is open for every possible crude brand of determinism, fatalism and any theory which justifies pas- sivity.' Press, Saturday October 21, 1972 PAGE 5 vo Bandaranaike's bourgeois the degeneration of the LSSP ies by JACK GALE examines Top left: Bala Tampoe, secretary of the Pabloite LSSP(R), a man who is known to have associated with the CIA and who during the April 1971 revolt was allowed complete freedom while thous- ands of trade unionists and mill- tants were jailed. Right: During the April revolt, a mother weeps for her son, executed by the army. No clearer sign of the nau- seating degeneration of Pablo- ite revisionism could be given than this incredible, arrogant attack on Engels in the same issue of a paper which delib- erately conceals the treachery of a leading member of their international, known to have associated with the CIA. The record is clear. This is way Pabloism the destroys demoralizes sup- Trotskyism, and betrays and porters deceives the working class.

That is why the Interna- tional Committee of the Fourth International considers Pab- revisionism loite a major obstacle on the road to revolu- tion which must be destroyed.

to 1966 we declared: 'The development and growth of the Socialist Labour League is directly related to the struggle against Pabloite revisionism and the degenera- tion of the SWP. There can be no compromise on these issues. 'The Socialist Labour League is out to destroy Pabloism and its SWP accomplices. There can be and, we repeat, there never will be a compromise on these questions-the fight will until we destroy the go on Pabloites and the revisionist

SWP."

• The case of Bala Tampoe has, if that were possible, only strengthened our deter- mination to carry out this task. Г 'Problems of the Fourth International'. G. Healy (1966).

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Salurday October 21, 1972

BY STEPHEN JOHNS PHOTOGRAPHS BY P. J. ARKELL

Last week Mrs Chad. of the increase that 3 per cent to 34 per cent of tenants were wick came out of Man- withholding the chester town hall and imposedba is taint. started to cry. Her purse would certainly dispute these figures on the basis of was empty and she had to everence get back home to Moston estates in greater Manchester. In Ardwick, Beswick, Colly- on the northern edge of hurst, Miles Plating and the city. At 71 she is too figure would Hume, the old to walk. estimate is nearer 50 per cent. many outlying districts The sudden and desperate may drop-but not in all. One was caused of cash shortage of the fiercest battles is being by the Tory fought on the estates arounc increases. Altrincham, in Cheshire. Mrs Chadwick is one of the Here, save for the rather many Manchester old-aged standardized buildings, one penalized because could be in the businessman's of delays in the benefit which belt, but opposition to the are meant to make up for the increase has been put as high rent increase. 75 per cent-certainly in one street I investigated, She had to pay the increase.

two. And that took her money for out of three people said they were not paying the f1. and food. Many fares people in Manchester live on a Resistance and struggle brings with it political experi- boiled egg a day and the line between starva- One of the biggest eye- and openers has been the behaviour tion is water thin. Mrs Chadwick is a victim. controlling Labour throughout the Man- There are many more, living groups 93,000 dwellings owned chester area. in the the Once there was a solid wall by corporation, fortu- nately not half so helpless as of resistance, Salford, Stock- Manchester corporation them- Oldham, Ashton ner. The Manchester working class has begun to fight back.

selves all spat in defiance at the Tory legislation. But The city has become the cen- one estate the no renot the by one they have crumbled to the rule of law-even if it is familiar call: 'Hey, Hey unjust Tory law. Only The Eccles stands un- pay!' windows dis protecting the little yellow sign 'No moved, the 5,600 Rent Increase Here and many from council homes the frustrated collector has left The councillors have increase. his after weeks to fall into line. beat meeting the commando Tory squad, they do not the housing tenants chief Peter Walker will put in there to make sure no one his commissioner. harassed into paying the So increase. far there are no cracks The in the Eccles resistance and resistance spreads from the forboding barrack-like David lan. nousing challman he is prepared to schemes in the centre, to the caster says break the law. sprawling overspill estates built Manchester The Housing Finance Act where greater councils meets the flat Cheshire coun- went through most because Labour tryside. enough rene- Everywhere tenants are ades voted with the minority Conservative or Liberal united of outrage group bv a sense government that has to ensure safe passage for the Tory pushed them beyond the limits legislation. of patience. This has provoked a bitter- estates that But ness the on the cane rents are nol an issue in themselves. They have councillors find difficult, if not impossible, become a focus for the general comprehend. They generally dismiss the acti- hatred working-class people in Tory Manchester feel for the vists as irresponsible. subver- Even the title ive or politically motivate government. Their reasons 'tenant' misleading. The trayal are basically quite crude.

tenant, after all, is the young to. defence of housewife faced with rising They prices, the worker whose wages capital political career, pitas a fear of jail. are continually under attack, reputation, the low paid who must subject incident Salford An on themselves to a humiliating council-which meekly climbed test before they down last week escape and reversed the £1 increase and, of course, its decision not to implement the Act-is characteristic: old have been dis- Will Councillor Ivor Zott, carded the employers chair- as useless after a life of exploita.

man of the Labour-controlled tion. housing urging committee (eer Zott tenants posse The size of the revolt is sub- flats in Manchester where resistance to the To ject to much speculation. Joe been known to describe him- Above: The rent man, the Fort Arowick cole Dean, self as a Marxist!). chairman as tenants demonstrate against the Tory Hou LADOlT Manchester's housing commit- • "I about like NALGO, which organize many am very anxious his. You can bring this city to them if they were victimized for refusing to he tee, told, me the sixth day On a halt and make yourself a bankrupt corporation. • "This council meeting is the Last Supper as far as the Lab- Party The is concerned. question of rent and the coun- cil tenants does not apply You are really faced with now. self-preservation the in interests of socialism, and with making sure are not barred from public office for refusing five implement the Act. "I think you should now be bold 'We enough to have had second thoughts about the Act we will and agree to implement it.' It is a pitiful situation." asked if 'Cllr H. Williams Cllr Zott was asking the coun- mind. If so cil to change its he should say so • clearly. say so. I 'Cllr Zott: am trying to protect my career, among other things"! (Extracts (reporter, October 6, 19729) from 'Salford The cry among Manchester The councillors is the same. Manchester Trades Council the controlling Labour met Group on the corporation and promised them full backing if the victimized government councillors (the powerful Man-

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district chester com- group TArowick, a torolocino mittee has also gone on record resistance to the Tory rent increase is flerce. for industrial action if coun e Fort Ardwick collector anneals to the nolce cillors are penalized). gainst the Tory Housing Finance Act. Ünions the Labour collectors, back But Joe. Dean, to chairman of the housing com- ed for refusina to help implement the Act.

mittee, was not impressed I don't think the backing was there quite frankly, he told me. 'When we met the Trades Council one councillor asked if the help they offered would cover in full any finan- cial indemnity he would suffer.

They said no. Now I don't want anyone cheering me into ail. I might lose my house anc I don't want to-_ want to know if they are going to make up that loss.' Mr Dean-a member of the

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and shop floor a worker at AEI's giant Trafford Park works, also doubts if a call to action would get any support from the rank and file in the unions. Colin Davies, secretary of Manchester Trades Council, is vehemently opposed to these views. He says the councillors have adrift themselves cut from the feeling in the wider labour movement. "The Labour councillors, I believe, are out of step with the tenants and even the rank and file in their own Party, he told me. "They simply don't realize the biterness their back has caused on this isacking is reaused historis issue. collapse. They have shown no faith in the tenants or their supporters in the labour move- ment to resist this increase.

'We would not have the situ.

ation today where many ten- ants are left to take a stand alone if they had put up a fight as they promised. is really a serious question.'

On this issue Mr Davies is undoubtedly What correct. fears Manchester tenants do have for resisting the Act are inspired by a feeling of isola- tion. The usual question is 'what happens when they come round to evict me?' Labour councillors in every ward of the city were in a position to go out onto the estates (where people faith- fully return them to office each year) and explain that their council was asking them to resist, that they had the whole strength of the Labour Party behind them and that they would not be alone in the struggle against the Tories.

In these circumstances the resistance would have been near 100 per cent-you don't come across any tenants who actually support the Act!

Instead Labour councillors have abandoned their resist- ance in order to keep • their positions in local government.

This, they say, is protecting socialism councils. local on Just how socialism be can defended by abandoning basic rights won by the working class—like council housing- they do not explain. So the tenants are left alone to face any penalities imposed for resisting the 92p increase.

Joe Dean doubts if the Labour-controlled council would eviction initiate any proceedings. But he does point out that the public auditor can begin his proceedings own through the treasurer independent of council instruc- tion. This would lead to an action in a civil court the where tenant-for what it is worth— would have the right to repre- sentation. The struggle in Manchester so far has been largely con- fined to street action designed to encourage the biggest pos- sible response to the rent increase This strike. has successfully spread the resist- ance, but in itself it is inade- quate. The Housing Finance Act is not just a rent increase. Its root aim is to destroy public • housing. Already Manchester auphohaps the benest do sing England authority Wales - finds the cost of schemes border on the ceiling fixed by central government.

The government allows the cost of each project to exceed a set maximum by 10 per cent.

But future projects in Man- chester will run 20 per cent above the maximum because of land prices and interests charges. • With increase in rents, this cost escalation threatens the city's council dwelling pro- gramme - which stretches to Workers Press, Securday 1976—with destruction. Joe Dean does not think this will happen in Manchester.

He believes the new Tory gim- mick-of subsidies for areas of special need—will apply in the city. But almost every Labour housing chief thinks the same and the Tories have given no evidence of their love for mas- sive council house building programmes. What is at stake in Man- therefore, is not just chester, another Tory attack on living standards, but a bid to deprive the whole working class of basic right. As such the chal- • lenge can only be taken up by the whole working class. Many tenant activists, parti- cularly those influenced by the • and Inter-. Communist Party national Socialist factions in the Manchester fight, maintain that the struggle must be kept to rents only. The logic of this position, of course, is that the Tory government can be 'persuaded' 'forced' abandon its or to plans to destroy council hous- ing. This is an illusion. The Industrial parallel with the immediately Relations Act springs to mind. The massive resistance against this legisla- tion has not forced the Tories to abandon the court—on the contrary it is now recognized entire trade unior. by the leadership. ors Proda, Belunday October 21, TUTZ PAGE 7 Within the resistance to rent Housing increases and the Finance Act there is a big political question. It is as well tenants recognize this. Either this government is forced from office by the united action of working sections of the class, or the tenants will lose of cheap their basic right council housing. The tenants must urgently perspective. It pursue this demands a unity in action with unions trade nighting similar struggles and a firm recogni- tion that their struggle is poli- tical. Tuesday: The tenants' struggle is discussed by their leader, Labour councillors and trade unionists.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Ocfober 21, 1972 ‹Parliamentary reform' and the working class, by Jane Brown

HOW THE

WORKERS

WON

THE VOTE

PART NINE

Engels predicted cor- rectly that the working- class electorate would be- come a mere tool in the existing bourgeois parlia- system unless mentary strength their new was channelled into the crea- tion of a Labour Party. The TUC continued to put on governments for pressure further extension of the Iran- and chise improvement labour conditions. The Reform League of 1866 was perpetua- tea lor a numer or years In a Labour Representation League aimed at getting working men But elected parliament. neither of these organizations fought for independent work- ing-class politics. A few workers won parlia- 1874, (two 1N luculal y ocals three in 1880). But these men Liberals faith- and

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fully 'tail-ended' Liberal Party policies. So Disraeli's Leap in the Dark' immediate posed no threat to the existing economic or political system. of - paid low lilads workers continued to live in bad housing, bad suffer to health, long working hours and unemo ovment. "labour The leaders' were safely harnessed to British im- perialism. They obtained for their followers merely a small wealth portion of the immense reaped from Trade and rree the colonies. As Trotsky wholes the greater success Wille which Britain applied force to the greater other peoples, was the degree "gradualness" of which she was able to realize within her own boundaries' 19th century the In the late difference principle, and even of social composition, be- Tory tween Liberal and the Both parties was minimal. bourgeois parties had become experts at rocking the paria- mentary swing from right to left, and from left to right, so as to give discontented voters the illusion of choice at elec.

tions.

THE IRISH

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But both parties stood firmly for the maintenance.of Britain's position as the lead- capitalist in the Ing power world. The mythologv of im- ('painting the perialism map during was popularized Disraeli's ministry, 1874-1878.

But when Gladstone's Liberal party powel in 1880, his earlier moral out- rage Loe perialism succumbed the economic demands of capital- In 1882 he forcibly ism. Egypt. few annexed or ears wing later whole the Liberal party, led by Joseph Chamberlain, took leading British annexation role in the of African countries. Ireland supposed, by many historians, to have been the main issue dividing Tories day October 21, 1972 • the working class, by Jane Brown from Liberals in this period.

But Gladstone's Land Bills and even his Home Rule attempts, were measures of pure ex- pediency. Davitt's Land League threatened the whole basis of landlordism in Ireland. British ruling-class fears that it might prove an example for the agri- cultural poor in England is re- flected in the fact that the Tory Land Act of 1903 went • Gladstone's further than measures! Even if the Home Rule Bills of 1886 and 1893 had been passed, they would have kept Ireland tied more closely Britain than other to any colony. Gladstone's basic aim was to preserve the unity of the Empire. Politically, he hoped to take advantage of the bourgeois nature of Parnell's nationalism to win him away 'extremism' from the of Davitt's organization. Both Gladstone and Parnell thought the Tories might in- troduce a Home Rule Bill on similar grounds, pragmatic which accounts for the elec- toral manoeuvres of 1886.

Both Liberal and Tory parties after the 1867 Reform Act, that a further measure of parliamentary reform was in- evitable. Indeed, they wel comed it, each planning to win new voters to their ranks, and at all costs to prevent the independent development of working-class politics. The 1884 Reform Act was therefore carried in a very different manner from its pre- decessors. In 1832 and 1867, reform had been chiefly the result of great working-class campaigns, meeting resistance from ruling class which feared the threat to its owner- ship of property and control of the state machine. In 1884 the trade union movement was solidly behind the Reform Bill (as a • demonstration of over 100,000 in London showed).

But they did not force the government to take up the question. Gladstone introduced the Bill simply because he be- lieved it would strengthen the existing Liberal Party. A recently-published book by A. Jones ('The Politics of Reform, 1884') gives a detailed account of the passage of the Bill through parliament. It sheds a good deal of light (un- intentionally!) on the un- principled nature of both parties' political tactics.

Glad- Disagreement over stone's proposals for the re- of seats caused distribution the House of Lords to throw out the first Bill. A second Bill, giving slightly more weight to the traditionally Tory 'county' interests was owing to secret successful, bargaining between the party leaders, Gladstone and Salis- bury. According to the Liberal MP Sir Charles Dilke, if the government was defeated the Tories would 'come in and carry the same Bill'! The House of Commons and the House of Lords was im- potent in the face of the back- stairs deal made by the party leaders. It was in vain for the Liberal 'Manchester Guardian' Top: the Liberal, Gladstone, who sought Charles Parnell, leader of the Irish memb to protest that these methods 'a usurpation of the were office and powers of parlia- ment' Such liberal idealists have never learnt that, in order to rescue 'parliamentary freedom' at awkward moments, its sup- posed defenders will always undemocratic resort to methods! For 'parliamentary freedom' and 'democracy' are not ends in themselves: they are merely the means to an end. If the 'end', i.e. the rule of private threatened, property, seems then no one shows less com- punction about throwing 'de- mocracy' overboard than the parliamentarians. It was Gladstone who first introduced the 'guillotine', to force through his Irish meas- ho sought to preserve the Empire. Above: rish members at Westminster.

in 1881. This means of ures curbing parliamentary debate has been frequently • used by Tory, Liberal and Labour since—e.g. governments ever during the Common Market debate. Backstairs deals between party leaders have also be- come commonplacee.g. over policy for Northern Ireland.

This is part of the great tra- dition of the 'Mother of par- liaments'! In its final form, the 1884 Reform Act gave the house- holders in the counties the same rights as those in the boroughs. The Tories had a lot of faith in the 'deference' of agricultural labourers to the political convictions of their landlords (who had plenty of opportunities to 'influence' re- calcitrants). So they were not unduly alarmed at the large number of new voters, which sent the percentage ot adults entitled to vote up from 16 per cent (1867) to 28} per cent. For the first time working- became class voters the numerical majority of the elec- torate. As usual, the redistri- bution of seats tended to keep the industrial areas under- represented. As late as 1926, Trotsky calculated that it took twice as many voters to elect a Labour MP than to elect a Tory. In 1884 both Liberals and Tories vote. But the 1880s saw the begınning of the change in Britain's worid economic posi- tion which was eventually to undermine class collaboration both in politics and industry.

Production continued to in- crease, but profit levels were falling. People began to talk about a 'Great Depression'.

Its effects were first felt in agriculture. Improved methods of transport began to flood 'free trade' Britain with cheap grain from the United States and with frozen meat from Australia and New Zealand.

Soon, competition began to seriously threaten Britain's in- dustrial and commercial as well. In the supremacy 1870s and 1880s Germany and the USA had increased their output of coal and iron far faster than Britain; and while falling profit levels discour- aged investment in Britain, the industrial countries newer took an early lead in such fields electrical and the as chemical trade, with all the advantages of up-to-date equipment and high expendi- ture on technological research.

CONTINUED ON MONDAY.

Every day for the past few months two policemen have turned out on duty at the Midland Cold Storage depot at Hackney in east London.

They are there, of course, to keep 'law and order' while the pickets are picketing.

This Tuesday there was only one on duty. Where was his mate? 'He's down the road a bit,' one of the pickets replied.

Why's that? 'He can't stand the smell from the Oxo factory. It makes him sick' Send for Dixon of Dock Green! The 'Guardian's' motoring cor- Ian Breach, respondent, just resigned from his trade and revealed all about the cor- ruption in his particular de- partment. His revelations have caused a huge uproar in the circle of sycophants who live around the big car companies.

When the senior motoring correspondent of one large Sunday newspaper heard about the Breach article, he shouted: 'Why don't they do an exposé of the travel department.'

Good point. where But would it all end? You'd have to start on the political cor- respondents. And then, per- haps, the editors and pro- prietors ..• A number of businesses have in the United sprung up States adopting the same tech- niques as Investors Overseas Services, the international off- shore fund started by Bernie Cornfeld. All the leading finance writers spent the 1960s lavish- ing praise on Cornfeld's maverick style. With the virtual collapse of IOS, some of the pundits are rethinking their previous 'Forbes' endorsements. The magazine has business of called one the guiding principles of Bernie's wizardry: • a hole in the fence. 'Find Pick up all the marbles you can and run through the hole.'

D. N. Pritt, QC, who died in May aged 84, still the most craven apologist for Stalinism and the Moscow trials, re- ceived a very fitting memorial service last week. It was held in the Temple Church with all the pomp sur- rounding such reverent occasion. And indeed the dis- of bourgeois law pensers flocked to pay respects to the man who spent his life giving judicial blessing to the Stalin frame-up trials. many High There were Court judges and Law Lords.

Among the worshippers were the Lords Diplock and Cross of Chelsea. On July 26 these two noble Lords, in the com- pany of three _others, found against the Transport and General Workers' Union in the Heatons case and estab- lished once more the precedent Taff Vale of the infamous judgement. Jack Jones and the TUC complained bitterly about the House of Lords decision, alleg- ing it was rushed and took no account of the union's evi- dence. We leave you with Pritt's comments on the first Moscow Trials of 1936, to show what sort of 'judge' he was in his day. once again we can ... feel confident that when the smoke has rolled away from the battlefield of controversy it will be realized that the charge [against Zinoviev] was true, the confessions correct and the prosecution fairly conducted... Below : Zinovlev

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186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG. Stalinist Crisis. By John Spencer The Soviet Union is to help Iran to develop its metallurgy, oil and gas industries and its electric power and transport under a 15-year treaty signed recently. The pact was concluded by the foreign ministers of the two countries in the presence of the Shah, who then left Moscow for a VIP tour of Soviet Asia. The text of the published in the treaty was Communist Party newspaper 'Pravda'. The Soviet leaders have cul: tivated close ties with the Shah who runs one of the most bloodthirsty, anti-com- munist dictatorships in the world. He gained personal power in a CIA-backed coup in August 1953, overthrowing premier Mohammed Mossadeq.

The CIA spent $40m to achieve the coup, according to Fred Cook, author of an exposé of the US intelligence organization. The front man for General the coup was Zahedi, a former Nazi spy who was imprisoned by the British during the war. coup was followed by The • White Terror which con- tinues to this day. In the 19 years since. the overthrow of Mossadeq, more than 5,000 Iranians have been murdered, among them a former Foreign officers. Minister and many Much of the repression was borne by the Tudeh (Com- munist) Party, which supports Moscow. The terror is organized by the secret police, SAVAK, with technical advice from former SS-Brigade Fuehrer Fritz Katz- By Tom Kemp While the French Com- munist Party claims to have recruited over 40,000 new members this year, its Press is under heavy financial pressure.

Workers Press, Satu man, who was in charge of the Nazi extermination of the Galician Jews. His regime has American received colossal handouts, three-quarters of which go on the armed forces. The Shah himself owns 10,000 villages - more than half the country's arable land. He also has the monopoly the opium plantations which are the source of much of the heroin trade. • western An estimated 20 per cent of Iranians under 30 have become addicts since the coup, largely as a result of the activities of the Snah's 'pushers' 1959 his sister, Princess In Ashraf, who recently visited China to a fulsome welcome the Peking bureaucrats, from and is currently being fêted by the Tito regime in Yugoslavia, arrested by the Swiss was police with several suitcases full of heroin. During his visit to the USSR, the Shah was given the full red-carpet treatment. He even went with Queen Farah to lay a wreath in the Lenin mausoleum, with the full of the Kremlin approval leaders. Their wives, together with the inevitable Soviet woman cosmonaut, turned out at a tea party in the Grand Krem- lin Palace in honour of Queen Farah and both • she and her husband later visited the Bol- shoi Theatre, accompanied by President Podgorny and other leaders. At a banquet in his honour the Persian despot exchanged toasts with President Podgorny.

ith He said relations between the 'a model ner two countries were of good neighbourliness Receipts from 'L'Humanité- Dimanche' which used to meet part of the loss on the daily 'L'Humanité' have been falling and rigid economies have been called for. The premises occupied by the daily paper are to be vacated and let to raise money.

'Les The literary weekly Lettres Françaises' has already been closed down for political as well as financial reasons.

Other journals are under sen- tence of death. Meanwhile the Party is turned completely towards the preparations for the March 1973 elections. The aim of sell- ing 590,000 copies of the com- mon electoral programme with the Socialist Party is still very far short of fulfilment. Sales to date amount to 135,000 copies. Party branches have been urged to step up sales. Efforts are being made to extend the reas, Salurday Oclober 21, 1972 PAGE 8 Above: the anti-communist Sha of Iran visiting Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow after signing the 15- year oil and gas treaty. between two nations and two peoples' Similar sentiments were expressed by the Soviet leader and Moscow Radio described Soviet-Iranian relations as 'developing and growing with every passing stronger year' . The pact between the regimes is clear evidence two that this is indeed the case.

In addition to Soviet indus- trial aid the two countries are to balance their trade, which has hitherto been substantially in the USSR's favour. The Soviet Union is now importing Iranian natural gas and the balance of trade is now more even. Under the treaty the Soviet Union and Iran expressed readiness to take part in economic, trade and transport co-operation with other coun- tries in the region. The fields of economic and technological co-operation fore- seen in the pact include ferrous non-ferrous metallurgy, and the oil, gas, petrochemical and chemical industries, engineer- ing, agriculture, irrigation and fisheries. It also provides for geolo- gical prospecting for solid mınerals and oil, training of Iranian technologists, consulta- tions on technological develop- ment and protection of the human environment. Collaboration in the design and • construction of power stations, transmission lines and industrial projects and in expanding transport links is also foreseen. electoral pact and to empha- size its mild reformist nature.

There is thus a contradiction between the Party's claims of big successes and increasing support and the growing difficulty it has in selling its papers. Whatever effect the common programme may be having in some circles, the party is not able to generate much en- thusiasm from the working class in general, the youth or its own mili- even many of tants. Its leaders in the appara- tus of the CGT unions have been , at their old game of holding back the working class and negotiating small wage increases with the government. It wants to prevent a wave of strikes this autumn because it tears that this could destroy its electoral prospects which are based on an alliance with the Socialists and Radicals.

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Gardening today. 12.55 12.25 Collecting on a shoestring. 1.20 Smith family. 1.45 Gus Honeybun: 1.50 Farm and country news. 12.05 Faith for life. 12.10 Weather.

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12.10 11.15 Strange report. Frighteners. 12.35 Weather. Guideline. HARLECH: 9.30 London: 10.35 Time to remember. 11.00 London.

12.25 Talking hands. 12.45 Journey of a lifetime. 1.00 Let 1.25 Love, American them live. style. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Jazzboat'. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Murder By Contract. 9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London. 11.15 Avengers. 12.05 Weather. ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 10.30 Survival. 11.00 London. 12.30 Dr Simon Locke. 12.55 Cowboy in Africa. 1.50 Weather. 1.55 Farm- ing. 2.30 Name of the game.

3.55 Match. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London.. 7.55 Film: 'Seven Women'. 9.30 Stanley Baxter. 10.00 London. 11.15 Department S. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London.

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'Whistle Down the 3.00 Film: Wind'. 4.40 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'The Oscar'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Spyforce. 12.10 Stories worth telling. Weather. ULSTER: 11.00. London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- ing on a shoestring. 1.30 HR Pufnstuf. 1.55 Women only. 2.15 3.15 Film: The Farmer London. Takes a Wife'. 4.40 London. 5.35 y October 21, 1972 6.10 London. 7.00 Cartoon. 7.10 McCloud. 8.30 . London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Journey to the unknown. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- 10.10 Tomfoolery. 10.35 string. Follyfoot.

11.05 UFO.

12.00 Rugby. 12.30 London. 5.10 Rip- ays. tide. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: rom 'Apache Rifles'. • 8.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Mannix.

Ion. 12.30 Weather. GRANADA: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.05 Craftsmen. 10.40 Sesame street. 11.40 Arthur. 12.05 Clapperboard. 12.30 London. 5.10 Big valley. 6.10 London. 7.00 Mr ery. Magoo. 7.05 Film: "Terror in the Sky'. 8.25 London. 10.40 Aquarius.

2.30 11.30 Film: 'Curse of the Cat lon. People'. TYNE TEES: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Tomtoolery. 10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Film: 'Tarzan's Mystery'. 12.30 London. Desert 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Apache Rifles'. 8.30 Lon- 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Car- don. Journey to the unknown. 12.25 Epilogue. SCOTTISH: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Tomfoolery show.

10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Sounds great. 11.30 London. 12.00 Caval- cade. London. 5.10 12.30 Bonanza. 6.10 London. 6.15 Film: The Sons of Katie Elder. 8.30 11.30 10.40 Aquarius. London. Late call. 11.35 Spyforce.

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10.00 London. 11.15 Department YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Let live. 11.00 London. 12.30 them On the buses. 1.00 Farming out- look. 1.25 Calendar. 1.55 Soccer.

2.50 Film: 'Hot Enough For June' 4.35 Cartoon. 4.45 London. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Came A Spider'. Film: Along Farm. 1.55 9.20 Emmerdale 9.30 Stanley Baxter. 10.00 London.

report. 12.10 11.15 Strange Weather. GRANADA: 9.30 London. 10.35 Time to remember. 11.00 London.

12.25 Merrie 12.55 melodies. Corwin. 1.50 Survival. 2.20 Foot- ball. 3.20 Film: "A Window In London'. 4.40 London. 5.35 Black 7.05 Film: Beauty. 6.05 London. 2.45 'Traitor's Gate'. 9.30 Stanley Baxter. 10.00 London. 11.15 Scotland Yard casebook. TYNE TEES: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live. 11.00 London. 12.30 On the buses. 1.00 Farming out- look. 12.05 Something to sing about. 1.50 Where the jobs are.

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PRESIDENT SALVADOR

ALLENDE has decided to sur- render to the demands of the right-wing Transport Federa- tion, whose members are now in the second week of their the Popular strike against Unity government plans for a nationalized transport system in southern Chile. On Wednesday, Allende told bus-owners, who were intend- Troops out in Santiago, Chile's capital THE FRENCH railways came to a halt yesterday as railway workers came out on a one- day strike in support of a wage increase of 8.5 per cent.

The management has offered a 6.5 per cent increase in line with their calculations that prices have risen 2 per cent this year. 'WE MUST increase imports from both socialist and com- munist countries, chiefly of machinery, so as to ensure sufficient modern plant for our economy' said Jozef Hvorecky, chairman deputy the Czechoslovakian State Plan- ning Commission, this week.

He has revealed a crucial problem of the Czech economy, its dependence on foreign trade particularly on imports of and machinery modernize he industry. At the same time require- showed that these ments cannot be met within trading Comecon (the eastern bloc) but only by trade in the world market. Once more the economic facts sky-high the old of life blow "socialism in one dogma of country' so dear to the bureau- cracy. While claiming the usual over- fulfilment of plan targets for pro overall industrial production the first eight months of 1972, he some serious shortcomingncealed admitted that this cited excessive use of materials by industry and the lag in the completion of high- priority investment projects.

ing to strike in sympathy with the lorry-owners, that strike leaders would be released, requisitioned lorries would be returned to their owners and transport would remain in the hands of private enterprise.

conciliatory These moves by followed the call the Democrats for Christian General Strike the against government which has already The CGT, the Stalinist trade union federation and other trade unions which organize the rail- ways maintain that prices will go up by 8 per cent this year if present trends continue. The Stalinists back up their policy of the token strikes with the demand that fares should be increased in order to pay more wages. He complained that the resources tied up in unfinished investment projects and work in progress is tending to increase.

This causes budgetary problems as well as confusion on the sites.

Horecky also admitted that there were 'marketing difficulties caused, above all, by technolo- backwardness of products, gical poor quality and also high prices' As an example he gave the footwear industry where over 100,000 pairs had been returned in the first half of the year owing to faults caused, he said, ire- by using inferior materials.

Not only is the home con- inferior sumer refusing to buy goods, but Czech industry is find- ing it difficult to build up the exports which it needs to buy to modernize machinery the industry. In addition, the universal hos- tility of the working class to the Husak regime is no aid to productivity or the maintenance of standards. Behind the boasts of plan ful- filment are all sorts of distor- which are a result of bureau- wastes and inefficiencies cratic methods and the barriers between the Czech economy and the world market. been answered by 90 per cent of shopkeepers in the capital, Santiago. The strike continues despite Allende's appeals for peace.

In yet another radio broadcast he claimed that the country was not paralysed. three million •More than Chileans are still working for their country' and that their efforts • 'had overcome ANWAR SADAT, the Egyp- tian president, has welcomed the decision of Kremlin leaders to visit Cairo for talks and is eager that the meeting should take place as soon as possible, informed sources in Cairo said yesterday. A joint communiqué issued in in Moscow following a visit by premier Aziz Sidky this week Soviet Communist Party said chief Leonid Brezhnev,_premier Alexei Kosygin and President Nikolai Podgorny have accepted an invitation to visit Cairo.

Their visit is thought likely to take place month. The next Egyptian government, which has turned smartly to the right over the past 12 months, is eager to normalize relations with Moscow. Earlier this year, in a gesture designed to conciliate the Ameri- cans, Sadat ordered 20,000 Soviet advisers to leave the military country immediately. It is not clear whether these military personnel, whose ex- is necessary to operate pertise sophisticated Soviet weapons systems, will now be asked to return.

PORTUGUESE

students and workers will picket the Portu- guese Embassy in London today in protest against the wave of in repression against students Lisbon. Since José Ribeiro dos law student, Santos, a was police on murdered by secret October 12, police have arrested 20 students in Lisbon. Workers Press, saturd fascist conspiracy, he said.

In Santiago yesterday, lorry loads of troops continued their patrols and stood by while fight police broke between pro-Allende and anti- Allende factions with tear-gas.

Christian Democrats' The General Strike is showing the bankruptcy complete Allende's peaceful road to socialism in Chile. Turkish court to give six years for book A. MILITARY tribunal in Ankara, Turkey, is due to today sentence on pass Professor Mumtaz Soysal, six years' who faces over imprisonment and two years' exile for alleged communist activity. This is the third attempt to sentence Soysal, whose two previous convictions on the same charges were quashed by the court of appeal. The charges against him relate to his textbook 'Introduction to Constitution', published the legally in 1968. This book, generally regarded as the standard work the on constitution, has been Turkish decreed subversive by the present government which came to power with the imposition of martial law last year. I would like infort Fill in the form below and

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday Oclober 21, 1972 FAR FROM solving the Tories' ranks demanding their own problems, this month's fall in that these weak-kneed 'con- sensus politics, as 'The Econo- figures the unemployment re- flect the sharp crisis of policy mist' scathingly described them facing the Heath government.

last week, are quickly finished This crisis was pinpointed at the with. Mayor's Tories on these dinner where Action by the Lord Anthony Barber Chancellor lines would quickly wipe out on the fight 76,950 fall in the total laid heavy stress the but admitted number of people registered as against inflation, March that since his Budget unemployed Britain and 'probably Northern Ireland between the there has been excessive increase in the supply September and October counts.

There is of money. every indication that Measures to cut money supply such action is already in pre- paration. Indeed the Financial and raise interest rates—which Times' yesterday suggested that would quickly push up unem- the improved ployment—were urged by Bank unemployment of England governor, Sir Leslie figures together O'Brien. with decision Bank In other words the Tories have Rate, would make it 'politic- been fighting inflation with in- ally easier'. • The Tories' hand may be further flationary policies, but there in the powerful within forced by the slump are torces

BY IAN YEATS

AS 17 SACKED men drove in a convoy of cars out of the gates of the Midland Cold Storage, Hackney, yes.

terday dockers' pickets said their fight for jobs would go on. torpedoed when hauliers, impor- Overnight Edmund Vestey, ters and merchants unanimously one of the joint owners of refused to risk having their busi- nesses blacked by crossing the the depot, said registered line. dock workers would never be But, said Daniels: 'If they had employed at any of his stores.

lads week given my work last they would have been there.

A statement said: "This sug- gestion, apart from the precedent Yesterday neither Vestey nor its sets, would be totally un- Royal group shop stewards and desirable and completely at vari- shift dockers were prepared to ance with established employment their ground and no meetings of policies in the industry.'

the dockers are planned. Vestey's ruthless determination Vestey's 'no registered labour refusing to hold down wages in my depots' announcement co- dockers jobs to registered was incides with a mounting campaign the collapse responsible for on "peace' by the employers not only to of last-minute Thursday specific dockers' de- resist the

T&GWU

national talks with put an end to the mands but to dock secretary, Tim O'Leary.

Dock Labour Scheme National Despite Vestey Organization altogether.

T&GWU

the were claims that This week at Hackney the nothing end the five- doing to picketing battle lines for the first major month-old which the them clash the scheme were has cost over company say drawn up. union officials have left so sene £100.000 week The office staff were dismissed feverish effurts to unturned in Storage from the Midland Cold find a solution. rotter dor after dan bringing Street road total for Tooley transport dockers' pickets adamant Daniels told official David the sackings the changed •We have been doing that yesterday: They they would thing. added as much as we possibly can, but await developments. we have not got any results.'

off The sacked drove Last week after consultation men the depot and immediately from between and branch district planned by action is the re- in the union's officials drivers maining cold store workers.

No. 1 branch unanimously voted to cross dockers' picket lines and Thursday at a meeting with on Royal group docks shop stewards they issued a final warning.

Daniels, the According following afternoon union officials A PROMISED increase in the were told by unnamed dock shop wages allowance for London stewards that if negotiations with November teachers due on the Vestey Organization could be Tory has been stopped by the the picketing would be started because of its talks government called off. with the TUC Angry leaders T&GWU docks and union transport given this message yesterday at section officials immediately set a meeting of the Burnham Com- talks, but all about arranging arranged to discuss their nittee, their approaches to Vestey were 21-per-cent claim. pay turned down on the grounds that Meanwhile outside, 300 mem- pressing for a management was bers of the National Association higher level' 'at meeting of Schoolmasters who had staged Thursday's meeting with O'Leary.

a walk-out from London schools in Meanwhile the drivers' plan to the morning mounted a noisy lobby. break the dockers' pickets was value of the pound on the foreign exchange markets.

Already at its lowest point since the decision to float in June, this is now likely to be further Confidence in the depressed. Tories' ability to deal with the working class will not be en- couraged by a fall in the job- less figures, however transient.

Hard-core unemployment - the 'wholly unemployed category in the Department of Employ- ment's figures-has in fact decreased only 19,750 over the last month. Over 800,000 people are still in this category. And this is the level around which the hard- core figure has been fluctuating for the last 12 months. At the same time, with the latest available industrial production figures showing a 2 per cent

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would weaken the union. In an attack on the growing left wing in the union, who have forced the pace of the claim, he said anyone who insisted on a further fight with the theatre education In September authorities had promised London teachers an allowance offer due yesterday. But Education Secre- tary Margaret Thatcher then told them not to pay up, but instead to adjourn talks until November 10. "The refusal of the government to give clearance for the offer raises serious implications about Committee, the Burnham said Edward Britton, National Union of Teachers' general secretary afterwards. 'Overall the signs are that the government intends to use decline in one month, there is no indication that am into the more recent intake jobs has gone into basic in- dustry. Order-book figures for the key engineering industry-and even more so its machine-tool sec- tor, always a sensitive indicator of the long-term trend—indi- cate that this decline is to continue. The Tories have found themselves unable to break the strength of the working class through unemployment. Recently the influential Engin- eering Employers' Federation.

was complaining that despite a shake-out of 370,000 jobs from member firms 18 over months, the fight for wages going unabated. was on Workers were forcing up their earnings at a rate of 10 per cent a year. In an attempt to buy time until they can gang up next year against the working class with the capitalists of the Conimon Market, the Tories and the employers have been forced towards further inflation.

But this is backed with no new investment and can quickly and dramatically collapse.

The Tories' attempt to buy time in fact enormously intensifies their crisis and can lead to a further huge increase in un- employment in the very near future. Some of the Press Assoclation copytakers and staff picket the PA-Reuters building yesterday over pay and alleged victimiza.

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managements was motivated by political or revolutionary ideals.

He was immediately seconded right-winger by the extreme Nicholas Smith who led the to keep ! the union move registered under the Industrial Relations Act earlier this year— resulted in a move which Equity's from the expulsion

TUC.

Militants were incensed at the tre way the meeting was conducted.

unions in the public sector to impose restrictions on wages and incomes' But Britton made it clear he was not opposed in principle to the TUC-CBI-Tory talks. He could only say that any agreement reached had to in- "restrictions clude rents, on dividends and the earnings of self-employed people'. The Burnham Committee now plan a joint approach to Thatcher to try and get the go- ahead on the allowance pay- ment. It is clear, however, that the Tories intend to stand firm.

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WE STILL have a long way to go.

Our total so far stands at £558.79 and frankly we are concerned.

For the last two months we have noticed that the huge increases In the cost of living have greatly hit at the pockets of our readers.

But more and more people are beginning to read Workers Press.

Our paper alone has fought back against these attacks on living standards and prepared trade unlonists for the government's statutory wages policy. We know therefore, with a great effort over this coming weekend we can turn the situation around.

We also know that when the fight Is on, you have never let us down. So let's go into action Immediately. Raise everything you can. Make It a very special effort. Post all donations immedi- ately to : Workers Press October Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG. After a perfunctory time for question and discussion—most of the comments were hostile to president deal-Equity the George Clarke de- accepted a mand that the five-year package be put to a vote. This was accepted by the floor and the deal went through by 318 votes to 76. The executive was also accused of masking the original demands of the union and boosting the concessions from won millionaire managements of the West End Theatres Association.

Another snag is that the new agreement applies to new con- tracts only, though the executive believes managements will begin paying the new rates to actors already under contract. Other parts of the deal pro- vide for holidays, better payment for understudies and improved contract rights. But on all these issues the concessions fall short of the original demands. The major fear, however, is over possible rises of the cost of living. Many actors felt that they will be completely unprotected , five against this in the coming years.