Workers Press no. 910

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EXCLUSIVE BY ALEX MITCHELL

VICTOR FEATHER, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon were among a group of trade unionists who went secretly to Buckingham Palace or Tuesday night to have talks with the Duke of Edinburgh on industria relations. The Duke chaired the hour-long meeting of trade unionists, CBI leaders and representatives from banks and big business.

The aim of the study group' is to conference on industrial relations and manage- ment in 1974. The whole exercise is being spon- the Industrial sored Dy Society, corporatist- style organization which "harmony' promotes on the shop floor. The Tuesday night meet- ing was kept out of all the newspapers. nationa Court Circular published Times' each day The and "Daily Telegraph' con- working hand-in-glove with centred on resolving the tained the the Tories to introduce a problems between no mention of state pay plan. Duke's meeting With ment ane toe sace unons leaders the working would be naive and Lord Melchett, chairman class and big business. misleading to pass off these of the British Steel Cor- simply This is odd: the socia poration, who ransack- very occasion. Circular is supposed to be jobs throughout the ing detailed and accurate In times of national eco- steel Inaustry the Royal tion for Common Market nomic and political accolnt ericis Family's daily activities.

the Royal Family will come fight Yesterday's circular says Lord Sieff, head of the ferociously against the that. Queen. multi-million pound Marks tene rising militancy of the panied ubv the Duke Spencer and group opened the new session of worring cass. to Torv Party contributes funds. narlament. treven men. In the 1931 economie tions that on Tuesday George V played a Industrial Society said yes- spokesman crisis night Edward Heath made actually crucial role a visit to the Palace. forming the National Gov- terday the discussion But there an. of the tri- talks between the Roval Family and both sides of industry. The trade union leaders have also kent amet about the Royal they those keeping. are Present Scapin apart from Feather, included Frank Hones. Chapple (electricians) and Alan Fisher (council workers) whose members Tory cages hammere. currently under the Sitting around the Duke's table with these trade unionists were: Mr W. O. Campbell Adam- son, director general of the Scanion and Jones on their way to see Heath yesterda

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Jack Jones is no stranger Edinburgh to The or the Industrial Society- they me t there at a lunch in 1970. that the Duke's chat with the union leaders trade must be viewed. The occasion marks an the overt intervention by monarchy maximize labour pressure on lengers. The trade union leaders being bounced from Ramsay "When MacDonald ernment under talks at Chequers. Heath's MacDonald. arrived that night, look- residence, to No. country Writing about the period "scared 10 Downing and Street, to ing un- Geoffrey Trease in 'This is Buckingham Palace. balanced" King's the Your Century' says: private secretary noted, he Before going to the talks "Though modern with the Duke, Scanion was surprised and flattered sovereign often seems little His went to the Café Royal in learn that in more than a wuhher Regent Street to mingle stamn Maiesty's opinion Mae-or's manito lead whe for the decisions of his with averitive from maid ininisters, there have been industrial firms and speak through this country few occasions like this, the platform and that the Con- crisis same when one has felt com- Enoch Powell. nelled to take the initia. himady promised to back What the working that day July class is witnessing today 31, 1931] the King told his It is in the context of the present economic private secretary is a right royal mugging the Concerntite and much deener non cricic. Than of their leaders. Liberal leaders... that experienced in 1931,

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

After a key general council

TUC

meeting, secretary Victor TUC LEADERS returned for Feather denied that ulti- any Tories more talks with the matum had been given by the control of wages over state government. vesterday showing clear signs The implication was that the unions were refusing to pick that the growing mass move- up challenge laid down deal was the ment against any Prime Minister an Monday to beginning to have an impact.

control accept merely voluntary entered Downing of price rises or have wages held Street at 3.30 with no back by law. so D.m answer to Premier Heath's ulti- After the meeting, which all matum on the control of wages

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workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDA

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTE

EXCLUSIVE BY ALEX MITCHELL

VICTOR FEATHER, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon were among a group of trade unionists who went secretly to Buckingham Palace or Tuesday night to have talks with the Duke of Edinburgh on industria relations. The Duke chaired the hour-long meeting of trade unionists, CBI leaders and representatives from banks and big business.

The aim of the 'study group' is to prepare a conference on industrial relations and ment in 1974. The whole exercise is being spon- sored by the Industrial Society, cornoratist. style organization which promotes 'harmony' on the shop floor. The Tuesday night meet- ing was kept out of all the newsonvers Court Circular published each 'The Times' day and 'Daily Telegraph' working hand-in-glove with 'resolving the centred on con- tained no mention of the the Tories to introduce a problems between manage- Duke's meeting with the ment and the trade unions. state pay plan. working and thA

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naive Lord Melchett, chairman class and big business. misleading to pass off these of the British Steel Cor- talks simply social very odd: the This is notation. ransack. occasion. Circular is sunnosed to he ing jobs throughout the detailed and accurate industry In times of national eco- steel prepara- the Royal Common Market tion tot nomic

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Family's daily activities.

entry. the Royal Family will come of mothballs Yesterday's circular says out Siefi, head of the Lord the Queen, that accom- Terocioust multi-million nound Marks rising militancy of the by and Spencer group which nanted working class. opened the new session of Tory Party contributes to It parliament. even men- In the economic tiong that 1 Accel spokesman tor the arisis night Edward Heath made Industrial Society said yes- crucial role actually a visit to the Palace. forming the Natiõnal Gov- discussion Teren Tone But there no an- nouncement trin partite between the both Roval Famil sides of industry. The trade union leaders also kept quiet about have Royal company the

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are keeping. Yet those from present, apart Scanlon Feather, and included Frank Jones, Chapple (electricians) and Fisher Alan (council workers) whose members are Currentl under Tory wages hammer. Sitting around the Duke's table with these trade unionists were: Mr W. O. Campbell Adam- son, director general of the Scanion and Jones on their way to see Heath yesterda

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Jack Jones is no stranger to the Duke of Edinburgh or the industrial Society_ they me t there at a lunch In 1970. that the Duke's chat with taf trace Headers must be viewed. marks an The occasion overt intervention by the monarchy maximize on the nressitte leaders. The trade union leaders are bounced heing Trom Ramsay 'When MacDonald ernment under talks at Chequers, Heath's MacDonald. arrived that night, look- No. Writing about the perio "scared and 10 ingham PalSce. Street, to ing un- Geoffrey Trease in This is Buckingham King's balanced" as the Your Century' says: Before going to the talks private secretarv noted. he "Though modern was surprised and flattered with the Duke, Scanlon sovereign often seems little the Café Royal in learn that His than a rubber stamp more Regent Street to mingle Majesty's opinion was the with executives from major tor Gecisions "the only man to lead the ininisters, there have been through this Inclustrial arms and speak like this, few country Enoch Powel. the same platform as crisis", and that the Con- when one has felt com- servatives and Liberals had pelled to take the initia- already promised to back What the working tivEarlier him. that day 31, 193l} the King told his class is witnessing today his It is in the context of private secretary sum- the present economic is a right royal mugging Conservative and much than non the crisis, deeper of their leaders. liberal leaders.. That experiencedi

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

After a general council key

TUC

Victor TUC LEADERS returned for meeting. Feather denied that any ulti- Tories more talks with the given by the matum had been control of wages government. ovar стата yesterday showing clear signs The implication was that the unions were refusing to pick up that the growing mass move- the challenge laid down by the ment against any deal was Monday prime Minictor beginning to have an impact.

voluntary control accept merely They entered Downing rises or have wages held of price 3.30 Street er Heatis back by law. With answer to Premier ulti- After the meeting, which all matum on the control of waves

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PAGE 2 Workere Propa, Thuradey November 2, 1972 What that the government, CBI, and TUC Tories cheer the have far as they come as have voluntary agreements.? towards only factor left out of "The The we Gurdian's' analysis the working And the 1922 Committeemen Cass Han h be over-opumisuc think the working class think corporate state kicked into line as easily as Victor Feather and his team. 1972 has seen enormous class battles over wages, rents and the Industrial Relations Act. Only the Labour Tore u trom dedeat. The aesd tsi- defeat. …trom responsi-

ENTHUSIASTIC

cheers greeted Ever since its formation, the committee leaders. Like the men of 1926 who bility for the attacks now being pre- waited on Tory premier Baldwin cap Edward Heath when he told the Tory has weekly and leading Tory pared against the working class rests 1922 Committee that he Ministers have been invited to ex- in hand until they were kicked out on these leaders who have back-bench squarely plain their policies and listen to the flunkey, Street bi would act determination and of Downing this bosses' government to W1tn петреа resolution' if the Downing Street tri- views of the ranks. The 1922 Com- Feather and pathetically company remain in office. hope find partite talks collapsed. mittee is the most powertul pressure® to with a compromise lobby within the Conservative Heath. The Tories can and must be brought Parliamentary Party. The Prime Minister promised 'an en- And the 'left' Scanlon down. spent Tuesday tirely new, • rational and peaceful dashing from Enoch Powell to the Throughout the Heath government, dis- • No more talks! Mobilize the entire method of the entire Duke of Edinburgh, instead of satisfaction has been growing among nily ine determination of the work.

movement behind every trade union economy'. national To the Tories who want wage claim! this means no wage rises, no strikes The •ack wooesmen line on pickets, strikes, tough im- and no freedom for the unions-all ing class to fight for wages that has • No state control migration and 'law and order'. Now, voluntary or otherwise yer wages. under the direct control of the state.

blocked the moves towards coalitior they hope to get it. that lay behind the Downing Street The 1922 Committee takes its name A fight on these lines will create a situ- The glorious vista of the coroorate Lalks. from the year it formed. At ation in which the Tory government state, which they have dreamed As 'The Guardian' said yesterday: It that time lory back-benchers telt can be forced to resign and a Labour decades, their clubs tor

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leadership was insufficiently is as much to the credit of the evolu- pledged uner now seems to open up before them.

I CLullCU of developments the tion of thinking in Britain- -in which socialist policies, including nationaliz- aware he dav of revenge for the miners Wilson has played an honourable the of Mr country-especially growth ation of all basic industries without strike, they think, is here.

the Labour Party among the working and influential the comensation and workers' part-as to class. They have little to fear from the TUC present Prime Minister's initiative

CO LEO

Trendy Pierre in a 'socialist' link-up

BY JOHN SPENCER

THE RULING Liberal Party is now in a minority in the Candian parlament following a general election Trudeau with in which it lost 47 seats.

Nixon: Trade The result is a major defeat for trendy premier war politics Pierre Trudeau who will now have to rely on the downtall? support of the 'socialist' New Democratic Party if he Allende looks to generals is to form a government. The NDP won ten seats at the election to bring its total of MPs to 32 and now holds the balance between the Liberals PRESIDENT Salvador independence of the new Prats has said that he bossibie cabuei and the Progressive Conservatives who now have also as Allende of Chile was members. will 'continue 'disciplined Chilean army from and fight to many seats as the Liberals.

yesterday contemplat- However, the resigna- socialism elected bring ing the reconstruction marked victory aLCLY GUVeLI Lilouel

NDP

David Lewis leader menl parlament, on Ils nead. a new cabinet 101 . nemsaibeno- Making But a section of the This capitalist aas sala ne will not enter a crat Opposition and the settle with striking coalition, but secret bargain-.

army leadership is intent whose leadership army striking employers. lorry owners. Allende

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ing between the two parties W ak Lallicl They The and preparing colleges in the already under CIVIl wal millary way. The strike has Állende has already con- sure grain the working

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NDP is particularly eager to destroyed the Allende cenedu TO The transnori class. used the gain the portfolios of foreign illusions about democratic Chile owners' non-nationaliz- Allende Stalinist theory of the wanls affairs and the treasury.

Com- ation demand cheques &10 bring two military parliamentary road spread the officers his socialism put the ulalcu zovermnen! These key munist Party. of the reiationshipt ministries cabinet. But vIllually in the nands ol most mem- under military because cuntly the armed forces. DC- Allende's don't bounce cabinet resigned en bloc pers ol dis own Doclaisi role Chilean generals have «ween anaer ane Te unite• Party are against such iso role by to to ratity States, which has been The Presi- the Tuesday. They tradition- this role forming

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ally demanding a big reduction in dential Press Agency steps think with adopt coalition the said necessary TWO OF of the largest Ameri- cantaulal exoons sunce aucusı the resignations radical pose to the left generas.

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15 last year. law and order. can banks are hoping to open of the Chilean CP. mean that his days are were ulenacd elve Allende a free hand in Army Commander-in- Allende turning numbered President as once in Moscow the neat Trudeau's campaign- Chiet negotiations with Chief General Carlos propaganda about future and become the first US point in the election ing •r culle Canadian dream': the idea banks to have a presence in the Soviet Union since 1922. Paris talks spinning out to O1 d ununeo ConILy orecteo particularly against Quebec The banks are the First French-Canadian separatism.

National Citv Bank and the Chase Manhattan Bank and at But this present issue over- November 7 both shadowed are applying for what by mounting TALKS between the United office North cc mea re oresenlauive emoiovmenl an s eomces States and Vietnam which would put them in day-to- caused by an economic crisis resume in Paris today with day contact with Soviet trading which Trudeau has proved un- the American election only a manufacturing authorities.

ana able to overcome. Thieu The the and nic to brok more days the situation will have week The United Dallks move

JOHOWS

away. in no position block were changed completely recent conclusion of a huge trade States has been spinning out Vietnam settlement if the United in the White Hou se for to sond between Moscow will be hack o•ddev. Strength grows the discussions on peace the orates reall wanted to dso wcl io coclc Chinese journal added. a free hand treaty and refused on Tues- witg reao ro more Char ten umes me the current level of trade by the end day to sign a draft treaty.

Thieu has been speaking out . Wal Carinca of the decade. The increased so enthusiastically in Indo-China vote for the vituperatively more anle more

NDP

for the last four Chase Manhattan is involved in reflects Charzes yearş against the draft deal.

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from and that As Dr Henry rianoi Kissinger drags financing Soviet-US ing anger orain Cass acalast President Nixon did want Yesterday he described it as deals entered into by the bureau- anti-union legislation and out une laiks witnour commol na early end to the Vietnam Trudeau's sell-out and a surrender and said the United States, this cynical cracy an: strike-breaking The effects he would 'never accept a peace scenario appears more and the agricultural wal reooe s more actions. But the NDP leader- described at shey coe! American that offers South Vietnam the likely the USSR. to be lead this Nixon's

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Ship now intends to allilllaliz claims that could not sign communists' He e oth soviet e ters for us movement behind Trudeau. there calilicu peace onensive. because Soviet He is being aided Mos- wild were 1/ z munon Ineu s againsi puppet Saigon regime. Thn eletion has resolved the deal: whose advice to the North machinery and capital equipment nothing Canadian 'Everybody knows what sort open up waee are expecteo lo vicluamese is kees laikine. ine WASHINGTON sources are still the next few months. Their of stuti is Nguyen Van Thieu. In leaders are very eager TUlle cass Wc ow Taces Kremlin offices Moscow vill probably the prospect of a weak and their mutual relations he has spreading the idea that peace is see Nixon back in the White House, even US which will anae dnate one tener ete- coalition just around the corner'. if it means be part of a big commercial alelac. not be able to stand up to the and never of war for the people compiex plannea under ine terms a len more cavs. unev sav. ane lour vear of the trade deal. American economic offensive. versa,' the Peking paper said.

we'll be there... But in a few of Indo-China.

Fighting the Tories' rent Act Walker puts squeeze on: Labourites retreat MANY OF THE Labour coun not to implement the 'fair re sure from the Tory governmen and Walsall in the Midlands d had split on the question, som In Wales, two of the five rebel Labour town halls, at Cwmbran and Ystradgynlais, have gone over to pushing through the rent increases.

And now thousands of ten- ants in the area are faced with the possibility of having to pay back rent from Octo- ber 1 when the Act came into force. And the Department of the Environment revealed yesterday that another four Labour coun- cils in England had told the they would imple- government ment the Act. This massive retreat flows from the fact that the councils have all received letters from Environ- ment Minister Peter Walker giv- ing them 28 days to fall in line or face penalties under clause 95 of the Housing Finance Act.

This clause outlines the powers of the Minister to instruct : Commissioner to take Housing over all the housing functions of a rebel authority, cut back subsidies and fine any councillor who stands in his way. had the These letters have effect of making certain Labour councils for their lives run rather than put up a fight against the Tories and their non-elected bureaucrats who plan to run the town halls undemocratically.

Apart from Walsall and Eccles, the Labour councils who have just told Walker they will also implement are Carlisle, Don-

CATHOLICS

Belfast's in dock area yesterday were blaming Protestant extrem- ists for the Hallowe'en ex- plosion that killed two baby girls on Tuesday night. Paula Strong (six) and Clare Hughes (four) playing were around a bonfire when 100lb of explosives blew up in a mini- car parked nearby. badly The bomb • damaged Benny's Bar in Ship Street and about a dozen adults were in- ured, none seriously. No warn- given to any of the was local residents. Residents reported that three masked asked children men where Benny's Bar was before parking the bomb car-indicat- ing that they knew youngsters were at play in the vicinity.

Two other people killed in the city 17-year-old were Catholic, James Kerr from Twin- brook, who was shot in the Lisburn Road. British soldier A shot was dead by a sniper in the New Lodge Area. He was named as Private Richard James Sinclair (18), of the Ist Battalion Queen's Regi- ment. He came from Alford, Lincs, and was single.

BY PHILIP WADE

ur councils in England and Wales 'fair rents' Act are about to change ernment. Already this week, councils lands decided on implementation, af on, some voting with the Tories.

Icaster, Newton-le-Willows and Skelmersdale. That Will leave just six in Eng- land and three in Wales who are refusing-as out the 'fair rent, yet-to carry Act. The six in England are at Camden, Bedworth, Halstead, Barrow, Conisborough and Clay Cross. For five of the councils in England, Walker's notice will expire at the end of next week and the week after that for the last of them. 21 firm • IN SCOTLAND, the 23 defiant Labour councils were given 14 days to fall in line by the Sec.

retary of State. So far, it was revealed yesterday, two, Stewar- ton in Ayshire and Tranent in East Lothian, have told the Tories they will change their policy. But the others seem to be remaining firm, despite the fact that the government can take over their housing powers.

The only difference with Eng- land is that a public inquiry has to be held before an authority can be held to be in default.

Notice for all the defiant authorities has long expired. And the seriousness of the Tories' intentions is shown by the fact that they have already fixed inquiries into four councils - those at Glasgow, Falkirk, Lan- ark and Kirkcaldy. VAT prices fear THE IRISH Republic yesterday introduced Value-Added Tax amid widespread fears that shop- keepers will use it as an excuse to mark up prices. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has urged its branches and trade councils to act as price watch- dogs. The Irish have adopted a fixed-tier VAT system to replace wholesale and taxes. turnover VAT rates range from just over 5 per cent for food, clothing and other essentials to more than 30 per cent for luxury items.

Trawler £7.80 claim ABOUT 400 trawler maintenance engineers at Hull went on strike yesterday over a demand for a £7.80 pay rise that would give them £40 a week. They have rejected a £2.85 offer.. Workars Proas, Thuraday Novambor 2, 1972 PAGE 3 While Labour councll after Laool coldel tasdeoe na Tory "fair rent" Act, tenants like Wales who originally decided those in Manchester seen here change their minds under pres- are fighting Tanse ren meets Increases. 'Many more tenants councils at Eccles in Lancashire are beginning see there Is a tion, after Labour councillors ight with the Tory government, Wilmslow sir-no connie raney, delegale yesterday. CAMDEN-the only Lon- don borough still refusing to implement the Housing Finance fixed Act-has special council meting for next Wednesday to discuss the question again. The council received its letter the Tory govern ment on October 16, so it wil by dol lave ennen the meeting is held. Led by Mrs Millie Miller, councillors have meeting with effects the Act Camden. But, put it yesterday: told he were see us Pine ne before the letter expires.

At its last council meting, did actually Camden not l iti did not allow any motion the subject from the Tories.

TORY

HOUSING

demolished at 70,000 a year Minister and sentative of the government con- Julian Amery claimed yester- claimed council house bulding sciously setting would replace them. of the very destruction day that local councils should "fair able all Britain's but these are Just the omcial win une to clear slums. On top of that are at least rent' Act, left all this out.

slums within ten years. 4 million dwellings classed But as un- counci tenants paving up "The latest housing survey f1 since Sasaclory Wande tune week more description of slums. October will be happy to know buzaesu

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Icdusuc request, he told housebuilders These mostly dwellings that Amery thinks are the increases London. built before 1914 and have las!

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ether no batn or wash basın, lor within 700,000 slums being example. But Amery, repre- Work that one out.

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A TORY WITCH-HUNT

ON BUILDING STRIKERS

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday Novem Robert Carr, the Tory Home Secretary, has already hinted that special police flying squads may be estab- lished throughout the country to smash pickets.

French-style

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This force will be specially armed and trained. Preparations for this para- military development have going on in the back- been ground over the past nine months, particularly since the: Saltley coke depot incident, in Birmingham, when police had to bow to the superior strength of miners and engi- neers. The campaign to step up physical violence against trade unionists is supported by the Tory Party conference, the financiers of the Tory Party in big business, the Fleet Street Press and several powerful employers' groups. This week the National Fed- eration of Building Trades sent a dossier to Employers Carr on alleged violent picket- ing during the recent 12-week builders' strike. The employers claim to have information on cases of per- sonal violence, injury, arson and damage to buildings and plants. Where did the federation get its information from? It says that the cases are from news- paper reports and private memoranda from its own members! Building workers will treat these sources of informa- tion with the contempt they deserve. The Federation's 'facts' fall into the same category as the statement by Len Neal, chair- man of the so-called 'inde- pendent Commission on In- dustrial Relations under the Industrial Relations Act. Neal, a former senior full-time offi- cial of the Transport and Gen- eral Workers' Union, said after the builders' strike that money for pickets came from 'dubious sources' He went on: 'I am not talk- ing about Red Gold from Mos: cow. I am saying it is not trade union funds which are being used. It is money being acquired from other sources and I am not prepared to go any further at this stage.'

the building Neal and employers' federation both know there was no conspiracy by the builders' pickets.

As one of the most viciously exploited sections of workers the country, the men revolted against the miserable offer and stuck out for a £30; 35-hour week. When their craven leadership refused to declare a national strike, they had no choice but to call on workers on all sites to join their fight for a decent wage increase. In its report to Carr the Federation says it hopes that its dossier 'will assist the government to find ways of removing this threat to the British way of life' What barefaced hypocrisy!

The 'British way of life' that this Federation wants to pre- is the way of life of serve exploitation of the working class, unemployment, and soaring cost of living, which results in cuts in the standard of living of millions of work- ers. lay November 2, 1972 Top: pickets and police at Birkenhead du Len Neal, chairman of the Commission It should be remembered that the members of this Fed- eration belong to one of the of most ruthless sections employers in the country. It is they who have been respon- sible for the biggest land price hi-jack in history. Take Taylor Woodrow, one of the best known names in industry, the construction which last year celebrated its 50th birthday. The company owns 84.5 per cent of Mytons and also operates Swiftplan F.

Gibson and Company (New- castle), Taylor Woodrow Con- Taylor Woodrow struction, Company, and many Property others. In the first six months of 1971 pre-tax profits rose a staggering 60 per cent from £1.7m in the first half-year of 1970 to £2.7m. Chairman and managing director, Francis Taylor, received an annual of £35,967 - a mere salary £720 a week. Many of Tay- lor's employees would have to anhead during the bullders' strike. Above: mmission on Industrial Relations.

work 20 years to earn as much as he does in a single year.

The company gave £10,000 to the right-wing organization Aims of Industry, £5,000 to British United Industrialists and, for service to the build- ing employers, the Tory Party got £1,825. Taylor, Sir Robert McAlpine, Sir Kirby Laing are the power- ful men behind this witch- hunting report. It is therefore not surprising that there are some startling omissions in their dossier. • There is no mention of the Federation leaflet which was around the sites distributed stating: 'Police protection may be requested if you want to work and are prevented by pickets' • Nor are there details of the police attacks on pickets, particularly the incident at the London Stock Exchange site when a number of men were arrested. • The dossier does not give details of the elaborate and expensive protection which Federation members used to get around peaceful pickets. In Essex one firm chartered helicopter to take non-union- ists onto the site. Encouraged by the employ.

ers a number of lorries tried to cross picket lines and in some cases men were injured.

• There is no reference to what happened to Mike Shil- vock, chairman of the Charter group in the Midlands, who was assaulted in his home by four right-wing thugs. His arm was broken and he was kicked and punched in the head - and body. What is so dangerous about the Federation's communica- with is not the Carr tion dossier itself. It is the reac- tion of the Union of Construc- tion, Allied Trades and Tech- nicians'

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leader, George Smith. Instead of com- pletely repudiating the dossier, Smith suggested that the TUC 'violence' should investigate which occurred during the 12- week strike. This is a total evasion of leadership. In seeking a TUC-sponsored inquiry, Smith is caving in to the witch-hunting tactics of the bosses. Just as Jack Jones has initiated a far-reaching inquiry into so-called violence outside the docks delegates meeting at Transport House, now Smith the same reactionary starts trend in his union. Under the pressure of the ruling class these reformist trade union leaders are being transformed into policemen of their own union members. The trade union bureaucracy has no fundamental disagree- ments with the the capitalist system; they are part of it.

This is equally true of the Party reformists. As Labour the Federation's dossier went to Carr a few days ago, Mr Hilton, the Labour William MP for Bethnal Green and a director of the other bosses' organization, the Federation of added his Master Builders, voice to the reactionary clam- our for 'law and order'. Hilton, Co-operative- sponsored MP, said his outfit was also sending a dossier to Employment Secre- Carr and tary Maurice Macmillan. But, he added, his report would contain constructive sugges- tions. 'We want to review the pro- visions of the Industrial Rela- . and other tions Act pro- visions relating to picketing and make suggestion on • this giving the official leadership of the unions more authority in such situations. 'After all, it is the official leadership of the unions that seek to control situa- must tions such as these.' Like Len Neal, Hilton is a former trade union official.

After being Labour Party agent to the late Lord Kirk- wood from 1949 until 1952, Hilton became research officer for the Building Trade Opera- win... tives. Since then he has become a management man and, in 1969 became director of the Master Builders' Federation. When the capitalist system into is thrust crisis these Labour Party reformists and trade union bureaucrats rush to help the master. That is why George Smith says at the TUC congress at Brighton that the trade unions must never regard alternative themselves as an government. That is why Jack Jones works • hand-in-glove with Heath and Lord Aiding- ton. The greatest task of trade unionists today is the build- ing of a revolutionary Marxist leadership which will not com- with promize • the ruling class and will carry through the fight for socialism. This task is the responsi- bility of every class-conscious trade unionist.

BY OUR FOREIGN CORRESPON

Faced with a wave of strikes in many industries and services the Israeli government is planning to crack down hard on workers' basic rights. According to Gideon Ben- Israel, the government's chief labour relations officer: 'We are faced with a spiralling situation that is out of con- trol. The government has no alternative but to crack down.'

He was referring to a situa- tion where thousands of workers have walked off their jobs over recent weeks to de- mand higher wages and fight the rising cost of living.

The strikers range from lorry-drivers fighting a new anti-pollution regulation to doctors opposed to the appointment of a non- physician to head the largest medical insurance scheme.

WORK-TO-RULE

The major ports, Haifa and Ashdod, have been crippled for weeks by strikes and tour- ists arriving by air have faced the effects of a customs work- to-rule. Aviv flourmills are Tel closed and the firemen are threatening to strike. Six of Jerusalem's ten cinemas are , on strike. The bulk 'of the strikes are unoflicial—and they are mak- ing gapıng holes in the col- laborationist policy of the leaders of the largest union, Histadrut. One labour relations expert A shortage of raw materials is holding back the achieve- ment of planned increases of production in Poland, accord- ing to articles in the Polish Press. Industry has been called upon to consume less and un- favourable comparisons have been pointed to between Polish and foreign industry.

For example, Polish machines are 30 per cent heavier than comparable foreign types. The electrical power industry re- quires 4.2 grams of fuel to generate 1 kwh while the figure is 3.3 in West Germany and 3.5 in Italy. The steel industry needs more coke to produce a ton of pig iron than any West Euro- pean industry.

RESPONDENT

says: 'The workers in a given factory have discovered their own power to strike in spite of the industry-wide agreements between the national union and the government.' Accordingly the govern- ment has sought to back the union chiefs' collaboration . with legal sanctions. Earlier this year the Knesset legislated to make national contracts legally binding.

FINES

Employers can . noW sue strikers for damages caused when they strike against the contract: already heavy fines have been imposed on one group of workers, the main- tenance engineers of the El- Al airline who struck earlier this year. While inflation is rising at about 23 per cent a year, wages have not kept pace. The average rise in hourly wages last year was about 17 per cent. Though the class struggle in Israel at present the takes form of economic conflicts, the wave of strikes spells trouble for the Zionist leaders.

They feed attempt to are workers with the illusions of Jewish nationalism and the need to fight the Palestinians are, as the overriding necessity.

But the more territory they annex and the more the treacherous Arab bourgeoisie loses heart for struggle with Israel the more the working class at home begins to strike its own blows against the government. Workers in a processing plant in Milejon Sweeping measures are called for to deal with the situation if the growth of in- dustrial production is not to be halted. The crisis in raw material Top: Postmen strike in israel on last year. Above: Golda Meir-the strike wave spells trouble for her government. Right: Histadrut head- quarters—the strikes make gaping • in the union leaders' holes laboration. In Milejowo, Poland. and fuel supplies in Poland is another example of the one- flowing sided development from 'socialism in one country' which afflicts all the East European economies. col

WASTAGE IN

TURKMENIA

CHEMICAL PLANTS

The chemical natural of the Soviet resources republic of Turkmenia are going to waste according to Orazmuk- hanedov, chairman of the Council Ministers of See session Septeme ber session Supreme Soviet. The tallure to install com- prehensive processing of raw materials means that utilizable chemicals such as magnesium chloride, magnesium sulphate and magnesium bromide al c run to waste. The losses amount to hundreds of thou- sands of tons a year. It seems that the waste will 088, Thursday November 2, 1972 PAGE 5 ittl continue for some time because an experimental pro- cessing plant will not be built to handle the salts until 1974 and it will be some time after that before a complex for the production of potassium ferti- lizer will come into produc- tion. There are also complaints that the gas deposits contain- ing large amounts of hydrogen sulphide and helium are not being tapped. So while Soviet agriculture is in crisis, partly for lack of fertilizers and other chemical products, and chemical the industry lags chronically be- hind the needs of the economy, the bureaucracy is unable to carry out a planned develop- ment of available raw material supplies.

'Once booming Italy, with its cars, its tourism, its motorways, is this week- end facing the gravest economic and industrial crisis since the end of the war. Unemployment is rising. Production is stagnating. In- flation is rampant. Strikes are getting out of control and ministers are government warning that the situation has reached "the utmost gravity"!

This was Laurence Wilkin- 'Sunday Express' the son, Rome correspondent voicing the views of the right-wing leaders of Italian government and big business last weekend.

Italian Wilkinson quotes government statistics showing a f45m trade deficit for Sep- tember, compared with a sur- plus last year. 2, 1072 Wilkinson is convinced the country faces a major disaster.

Leopoldo Pirelli, He quotes president of the tyre company, who savs the continuation of the state of crisis is 'beyond the most pessimistic expecta- tions'. Pirelli's own merger with the British Dunlop company is creaking at the seams as a result of the Italian firm's £9.7m loss this year. Pirelli, however, is not alone. Mauro Ferri, Minister of Industry and Commerce in the Christian Democrat govern- ment of Giulio Andreotti, de- scribes the general economic 'of picture exceptional as gravity, while Treasury Minister says it is 'grave'.

The lira has been under pressure to devalue ever since the sterling float in June- the past few days the over central bank been has desperately supporting the en- feebled currency to maintain its obligations to other Com- mon Market members. At the same time there iS dissatisfaction in growing business circles with the per- formance of the Christian government - a Democrat right-of-centre coalition which has so far proved too unstable to take on the working class.

The feeling in Italian big business is reflected in Wilkin- son's article. He blames workers' militancy for the crisis: and economic social ... such is the power of the unions today that no major in- dustrialist dares to stand up to them.' Premier Andreotti was in the Soviet Union this week and Wilkinson expresses the hope that the Kremlin leaders can be prevailed on to promise 'let-up of the trouble- stirring campaign. :. which has helped bring Italy to this pass'. In fact, the Italian Com- munist Party which leads the country's largest trade union organization dedicated to iS preserving Italian 'democracy' and has done its best to ex- haust militant workers in partial strikes for economic demands. The Party has a programme of 'structural reforms' which are allegedly going to restore the relative prosperity of the post-war boom, but without overthrowing capitalist system. It is openly touting itself as a coalition partner for a future coalition with the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats. However, employers thowing increasingly impatient with the post-war democratic forms and are openly calling for strong government. Prime candidate for this task must be Giorgio Almir- leads fascist who the ante Italian Social Movement (MSI).

Together with other far-right organizations the MSI has re- cently gone on the streets in a number of cities following its election successes. There have been bloody clashes between the fascists and workers' organizations ir which number of people have been killed. In the courts the fascists are treated with cases share in their hatred of and communists their desire to crush the unions. Last weekend the fascists were celebrating one of the key dates in their calendar, the 50th anniversary of the March on Rome which brought dictator Benito Mussolini to power. On October 28, 1922, fascist bands gathered at three points around Rome in a prearranged coup which brought down the Liberal weak of government premier Luigi Facta. The fol- evening King Victor lowing Emanuel III invited Mussolini to form a government. Within three years the were crushed, unions workers' organizations driven and the deep underground fasicst corporate state was fully operative. Big business, which had financed Mussoli- itself ni's movement, threw into an untrammelled pursuit of profit. The fascists of today are on the treachery of relying the Stalinists and the reform- ists at the top of the Italian labour movement to pull off have a similar coup. Ther organized a series of terror bombing campaigns to stam- Dede the middle class into their arms. Yet their situation is not the same as Mussolini's was.

The Italian working class underwent 23 years of fascist rule before and during the war and it has no intention of returning to those days with- out a ferocious struggle.

It was the workers' detach- ments of the armed partisans which during the war brought down the fascist regime and finally captured and shot the Duce himself. He ended hang- ing upside down from a garage roof in Milan. The only thing that stands between Almirante and a similar fate is the Italian Communist Party. Its leaders fill the heads of their followers with illusions in parliament and democracy and try by every means to blunt the fight- ing capacity of the working class. the fascists held When meetings during their election campaign the Stalinists urged workers to keep streets and above all not to offer violence in the face of these provocations. Leftist organizations which did try to fight the fascists were de- nounced as provocateurs. The CP's position strength- ened the fascists because it did nothing to mobilize and force educate only which can fight this menace the working class. Instead the CP relies on the courts and the machinery of the capitalist state to 'curb' the MŚI and its sister movements. This is not simply an error on the part of the Italian CP.

It policy accords with the in- terests of the Soviet bureau- cracy which is very eager for better relations with the Italian employers. The Krem- for example, lin has signed, a huge contract with Fiat to build a car plant in a town appropriately named Togliat- tigrad. the then Palmiro Togliatti, general secretary of the Com- munist Party, played a crucial role in restoring Italian capi- talism after the war, when thousands of armed workers were knocking on the gates of power. In accordance with the Yalta and Potsdam agreements between Stalin, Roosevelt (at Yalta), Truman (Potsdam) anc Churchill, Itals was assigned to the 'western' (i.e. capitalist) sphere of influence at the end of the war. Stalin was meti- culous in carrying out his side of the counter-revolutionary bargain. If Italy was in the US- ause it British sphere of influence, Workers Press, Thursday 1 Left: The general staff of the Milan fascis working class underwent 23 years of fascist World War Il and has no intention of underg ferocious struggle. Above: Present-day fascist I Below: Past fascist leader Benito Mussolini.

that meant the Italian workers be denied must the oppor- tunity of overthrowing capi- talism. Accordingly Togliatti was flown back to Italy from Moscow to enter a coalition government and put private property back on its feet.

He even tried unsuccessfully to put Victor Emanuel back on his throne, but the proposal down in a national was voted referendum. As Minister of Justice, Togliatti reorganized the police force-today used to break strikes and protect fascist meetings. He also negotiated a revision of Mussolini's concordat with the Vatican, leaving that key institution of Italian reaction in the commanding constitu- tional position it holds today.

WITH POPE

The Vatican is currently challenging the divorce law passed two years ago which gives Italians for the first time a limited right to civil divorce.

Under Togliatti's concordat the Church has an almost abso- lute veto over legislation in such spheres as marriage.

There have even been rumours that the CP, which has so far supported the pro- oт8 Press, Thursday November 2, 1972 PAGE 7 fascists in 1944. The itallan 23 years of fascist rule before and during Intention of undergoing it again, without a Present-day fascist leader Giorgio Almirante.

divorce lobby, is about to lean the other way in the interests of conciliation with the Chris- tian Democrats. The Italian employing class is incapable of completing basic democratic even the task of secularizing marriage.

Right through the 19th cen- tury it quailed and grovelled in front of the Papal power, finally plucking up courage to fight the pontiff only in the 1860s. But by this time the Italian workers were already emerg- ing as an independent class and threatening the foundations of bourgeois society. Hence the compromise leaving the Pope with the Vatican city and the power to interfere in the lives of all Italian citizens. Having definitely passed over to the side of the capitalist order in Italy, the Communist become Party has equally incapable of resolving basic democratic tasks, let alone taking the working class to power. This is the chief danger to the Italian workers for whom the urgent task of building alternative revolutionary lead- ership in struggle with Stalin- ism is now posed in its full scope. This is the only way that another and even more deadly March on Rome can be prevented.

OF LEON TROTSKY

A review by Tom Kemp. The years 1934-1935 continued PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday November 2, 1972 A series of volumes covering Trotsky's writings in the period of his exile from the Soviet Union, 1929 to 1940, is in course of publication by the Pathfinder Press of New York and is available in this country. It is, of course, ironic that the pub- lishing house of the Socialist Workers' Party, which has aban- doned Trotskyism and Marxism in any form, should turn to the reverential task of bringing out writings which are a con- demnation of their own political degeneration. Many years ago Lenin spoke of those who try to turn revolutionaries after their death into 'harmless icons'. This has, for a long time, been the position of the SWP. Aside from the motives and circumstances of their publication, these volumes provide an invaluable addi- tion to the literature of Marxism which we strongly recommend to every reader. The two most recent to appear in the form of books of over 370 pages for the years 1933-1934 and 1934- 1935 are priced at £1.43 each. Four others in a large format, mostly reproducing items directly from the sources in which they were first printed in English, covering the years 1935- 1936, 1937-1938, 1938-1939 and 1939-1940, cost £1.25 each. In this article, which reviews the volume for 1934-1935, and in those which are to follow, the attention of prospective readers will be drawn to the problems dealt with by Trotsky in these writings and particular items will be discussed in more detail.

Of importance for today's ber of their supporters in the Communist Party. the articles in tasks are It opened a new reign of this 1934-1935 collection terror which was to culminate which Trotsky devotes in the Moscow show trials and the purges which completed to the struggle against the destruction of the Bol- the centrist groups and shevik Party and penetrated into every of Soviet parties which had corner life. Trotsky and his wife were appeared in a number of deeply anxious about the fate countries. These met of their relatives and friends still living under Stalin's rule.

periodically at confer- Trotsky denounced the ences organized by the and arrests as an amalgam International Labour warned that the Kirov affair would be used to open up a Community, one of which the new stage in struggle took place in February against Trotskyism the in 1935. Soviet Union. The further evi- dence of the degeneration of Trotsky made lengthy a the Stalinist bureaucracy made analysis of the centrist move- Trotsky it for to necessary ment and particular the claimed reply those who to origins and of the evolution that the Soviet Union had now German

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(Socialist ceased to be a workers' state Workerin Party which, or after and that the bureaucracy had supporting become a new ruling class.

Fourth International, now In 'The Stalinist Bureaucracy opposed it all along the line.

and the Kirov Assassination' In the course of 1934 the he continued the analysis of Stalinists dropped the term the nature of the Soviet Union 'social fascist, the Soviet which is rendered more precise League of Union entered the important in the theoretical Nations and the communist article "The Workers' State. parties began to move to the Thermidor and Bonapartism'. right. As Trotsky summed up articles necessary Both are the new turn in 'Where is the understanding reading for the Soviet Bureaucracy Leading development of Trotsky's the USSR?': thinking on these questions.

"The diplomatic retreat The same can be said for the before the world bourgeoisie three other articles on Bona- and before reformism; the which this volume partism before the economic retreat contains. These are bound up petty-bourgeois tendencies with the question of how the within the the country; conditions for fascism are pre- political offensive against the pared which had been vanguard of the proletariat— pletely confused by the Stalinist is the tripartite formula such theorv of 'social fascism'.

of the new chapter in the Most of the contributions in development of Soviet Bona- this volume arose directly out partism'. of Trotsky's fight to assemble the cadres for new revolution- parties and a new inter- ary His audience was national. Dramatic events were taking restricted his aim one, place in the Soviet Union pedagogic and polemical. While as Stalin set out to destroy his some were printed in opponents. One of first the public organs of the movement, victims was bureaucratic a others appeared only in satrap who may have had am- internal bulletins and were not Stalin bitions to displace always translated into English.

or have been part of an opposition In is the popular contrast to him within the bureaucracy.

entitled 'If article America Whatever Kirov's true role Should Go Communist' which it is now known since the 21st he wrote for a mass circulation Congress of the Communist weekly magazine which Party of the Soviet Union that sketches in broad strokes what Kirov would Soviet was assassinated be possible in a on Stalin's instructions. America. It ends humorously of 'one final In At the time, with prophecy: Course. Kirov appeared to be a faithful the third year of soviet rule in was said America. Stalinist. The killer to be a member of the Zinoviev opposition and Stalin displayed The most important as well The show grief. as the most contested of the every assassination made the policies he recommended for was for arrest of of course, pretext the the movement was, Zinoviev, Kamenev and a num- 'the French turn'. By June, Stalin at the funeral of Kirov in 1934.

trial of thousands of members of the C 1935, on the eve of his forced departure from France he was already able to make a preliminary balance-sheet.

By then the Popular Front had come into existence. The Soviet bureaucracy had made a military pact with French im- perialism and the French Com- munist Party had become patriotic defenders of the bourgeois republic. 'To defend the USSR, the pins its hopes bureaucracy upon its political agility, upon Litvinov's diplomacy' France the military alliance with and Czechoslovakia, but not upon the revolutionary 'Open Letter to the Workers of France'. 'On the contrary, it is afraid lest the French and Czech workers - frighten the new allies by their careless actions. It sets as its task to • brake upon the class put a the proletariat in struggle of "allied" countries. the Thus the source of Stalin's betrayal is the national conservatism of the Soviet bureaucracy, its out- right hostility to the world proletarian revolution.' in 1934. The assassination of Kirov was made Communist Party. Trotsky proclaimed: "The ele struggle against war is un- thinkable without struggle against one's own imperialism.

The struggle against imperial- ism is unthinkable without the struggle against its agents and the reformists and the allies, Stalinists. It is necessary ruth- lessly to the working- purge organizations, class both political and trade union, of their social-patriotic traitors to the working class, whatever be their names: Leon Blum or Thorez, Jouhaux or Mon- mousseau.' As Trotsky had foreseen, within the next year the French working class was to undertake decisive struggles which might have brought it to power, but efforts these treacherous leaders. Readers will discover from in this volume that 1935 Trotsky received an invitation from some students at Edin- burgh University to stand as Rector. He refused, saying that part in he could not take vas made the pretext for the arrest and elections which were expressly non-political. He added: I would consider it a crime toward the working class and a disloyalty toward you to appear on no matter what public tribune not ander the Bolshevik banner. You will find, I have no doubt, a candi- date more in conformity with the traditions of your univer- sity? Such considerations were not taken into account, of course, by one James Reid in Glasgow. This volume will be found an invaluable guide by those undertaking the task of build- ing a revolutionary party today. It shows how closely Trotsky followed every turn development in and the workers' movement as well as the general world situation. It shows the patience with which he expounded and sought to convince those he thought winning for the move- worth ment. In short, like its companions, it is a must for every reader of Workers Press.

TOMORROW 1935-1936.

International fraud operations It seems that the coppers' running into millions will be nark does not always come out the crime of the deodo On occasions, in fact, on top. out with the worst according to police chiets he comes the US and Europe. Britain, of all worlds. The FBI claims to have more One such man is a Mr John than 1,000 fraud operators on Blogg, serving three currently The so-called 'off- years in HM Prison, Notting- its files. shore' fraud operation is be- ham, for handling stolen coming increasingly popular, property. Mr Blogg and the of But enlargement the was also a police informer before he was Common Market is expected to encourage this even more.

caught (and that does not Already there is a maze mean he was spying on other interlocking fraudu- policemen theft). complex involved in So when he arrived in Notting- lent companies, some in 'tax- haven' countries and some in ham the word went round. He thus appealed to have the main commercial centres of Europe and the US. his because he sentence cut International agreement on was being closely watched and fraud laws is so behind the was unable to enjoy the light relief' of prison life-such as times that it is often almost watching television. impossible to untangle. The first 'off-shore' major This time the law was not fraud was discovered in the so majestic to Blogg. 'If a man US ten years ago. This was a •wants to have the benefits that deal involving the sale of land apply to a police intormer, it in the Caribbean which proved is for him to avoid engaging in activity,' to be a swamp. the judge criminal Soon after, a fake science told him. The appeal was dis- fund was set up, aimed at get- missed. American from ting money soldiers in Europe. The most up-to-date method is to have several different bases in different countries and deal around. 1970 it was found that a pro- A South Wales couple and their 27-year-old company with head- son were perty ordered at Cardiff High Court Luxembourg had quarters in Monday £21,451 moved into Mayfair, London.

on to pay When investigations began it towards the costs of a trial at which they were cleared. was found that the parent wife company was registered in the Roger Jones, his Maureen their Bahamas with branch in and son a Liberia and sales and manage- Malcolm were found not guilty Switzer- last May on charges of ment companies in con- land. The administrative offices to defraud and of spiracy were in London. handling metal. The When inves- stolen tors tried to get their money trial cost £30,000. were passed from Judge Powell back they Watkin declared that their means were one country to another. When Dr Clifford Noe was far in excess of the limit for sentenced to seven years last legal aid. Malcolm Jones was week for his part in an Ameri- ordered to pay costs of £7,625 can off-shore operation, it was and Mr and Mrs Jones £6,913 revealed had been that he each. because he tried to Mr Alun Jones, for the son, caught cheat a City restaurant over said: It is perhaps not with- His out note that a person of more the cost of nine meals. notoriety original international public be scheme can acquitted by a jury and have a multi-million dollar was costs awarded to him.' affair.

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The Sunday pundits went all out this week to fright- en the middle class and bash the union leaders into line behind the Tory plan for state control of wages. The alternative to a deal— depending on whether you • Times', bought "The Sunday the 'Observer' or the 'Sunday Telegraph' — were said to be the collapse of the govern- ment, bloody social conflict or 'a Gadarene rush over the precipice'. Even the most watery-eyed liberals came beating the drum for Heath. Gone were the last preten- cynical sions to hard-nosed, probing after the squalid truth the big-deal nation- behind alism of the politicians. One Nation was the flag, bash the workers the rallying-cry.

Nora Beloff of the 'Observer', whose recent legal action against 'Private Eye' helped to tighten the restraints on reporters ferret- ing out and publishing confi- dential documents, raised the spectre of Enoch Powell. Some Tory MPs, 'not all of them from the extreme right, she reported, had been quietly urging Mr Powell to drop the immigration issue and make himself available as a credible alternative leader. he had Earlier this year expressed an interest in this possibility. But, Miss Beloff added with apparent regret: 'The Uganda Asians have revived his almost obsessive preoccupation with race' If this one-time Fabian had her doubts about Powell, she had none about Heath and his state pay plan. Hewing to the 'Observer's' editorial line ('It would be a great pity if the tripartite talks... broke down', she wrote: Mr Heath's talks with 'If the unions and employers col- lapse, as they may this week, serious and there is a imminent risk of runaway inflation, further collapse of sterling, massive strikes, vio- lent pickets - all making Britain virtually ungovernable.

In a long 'probe' article in the same paper, David Wilson and Frances Cairncross did their best to present union chiefs Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon as the dynamic duo who had forced the talks to the brink of collapse. (Scanlon, his mind razor- sharp, is the toughest nego- tiator, the hard professional among a group of men...' 'To gasps all round, Jack Jones says he would not mind some- thing like wartime controls [on prices] And so on.) Jumping off from this highly fictional-sounding framework, Miss Beloff plunged on to transform the two union from Batman and leaders Robin into the Augers of Approaching Anarchy. 'The Prime Minister,' she wrote, 'is still hoping against hope toughening up and Hugh Scanlon reserved for Heatl doing, Wilson has "U" responsible to come into him and share in British the And with a final plaudi 'Mr Heath, confrontation and staked hi tical reputation of partnership elusive conce Sunday bined length brevity of editoria summing-up its Street although its devoted just the subject, prevent the down hard in the I Just how Beloff's dream suggested by respondent declared: who If Heath answer all problen OSSe morrow it becomer level any at could easily 'We would be not merely but a trade growth the doubt the collapse Faced with thi the frank, forthrigl 'Sunday jess where its knew will be disappointi sif editorial, the cence remarkable plan the name of objective phoney price control]'. It left to i was Telegraph' spit fire and brims! paper's the Peregrine express the real gu ine top lorles. the more delicate their Fleet Street a The prospect of break have the courage It victions. with wage ulsion if it canno by consent.' The header doubt compulsion some Workers Press, Thurs unexpected the of Jack Jones Scanlon was only a applause was for Heath. 'What he after what Mr described ask le trade union leaders nto partnership with take a genuine le managemen of she conomy Beloff concludec al plaudit: ath, having tried out tion and discarded it, staked his own within still ncept of One Nation. com- with reportage editorial analysis in of the Down- But leader column ust three paragraphs this did not coming 'elusive' Miss ream might be was economics cor- h totally fails to find inflation the has committed solving, either to- r in a few days, then s very difficult to see which the pound ly be pegged. talking about a fall in sterling, de crisis, an end to with this prospect, clearly duty lay It appointing, said the union acquies- coverament' e plan is withheld ir an essentially objective [statutory left to the 'Sunday leader writer to editor, assistant worstnorn e real gut-feelings of as opposed to delicate impulses of t Street advisers. said overnment, an contemplating the of breakdown, must of its con- ahead must go restraint by com- it cannot be secured ader continued: 'No will lead to er clashes. It is no ass, Thuraday November 2, 1 pretending good country's inflationa will be cured tical edict. have to be fought. 'Inconvenience hardship strike will be no lor surrenaer • • . "The government hoped, is preparing emergency for example, a ill But Ministers the heavier the nation to a sen its true interest lie by highting Saliy Election on this iss The government had no immediate power strike, he sa the issue was far m one or who capital or labour. Take this passas article: 'Old veterans lil economy do not di Far from it. •‹caso• ocur ve] 'Might not the t , an oppo lifetime they takıng Ovel stock lock, ı ec ne c " because he was ro core and social. The very las want to give him and decent burial. They the city, as a warnil are the masters no Worsthorne discuss the governs parliament or House?' and the come If the talks brea said, the Tories to pin the unions. But doing so 'there will cut, leaving what he can in the such was laikıng implementation faith wield naked, ruling-class power. 'One would like he wrole, being situ, their way dark. the have paypa re for precisel had plenty tuality. This is the doomed, but We may not have informed last Sund were certainly wart ember 2, 1972 PAGE 8 the that inflationary madness red simply by poli- These battles will or even resulting from a be no justification vernment, it must b reparing all possibl -against, measures- power strike. will also have rallying duty of to a sense of where terest lies, if neces- General n this issue.' ernment knew they mediate answer to a ke. he said. For him vas far more nakedly 1o holds the power: is passage from his terans like the free lo not die every day. it. Such momentous seldom. OCCUrvery not the trade the family and barrel. They old boy intentionally e was rotten to the incorrigibly anti- • very last thing they give him is a quiet ant to put his head and parade it around s a warning that they asters now.' nossibelity of call- went on country, alks break down, he will attempt the as they are here will be a power g everybody to grab an in the dark' situation le, who a few weeks about tne of 'policies d properly be called cialist and the need man', back talls Tories' ability naked, repressive, to think,' ould like 'that the lories. would know arole best even all, they After of time to r precisely this even- the language of a desperate class. been much last Sunday. But we inly warned.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Thursday November 2, 1972 ber 7.30 D.m. Blackburn Road, Victory to the Arthur Lees strike. Defeat the freeze. Build the Councils pay of Action'. Speaker: John Dods- worth of the Arthur Lees strike committee. Paul Littlehales, AUEW district committee. (Both in a personal capacity. Max Sand, allas Nevada Smith (Steve GLASGOW: Thursday November escapes from a Louisiana prison camp 2, 8 p.m. Partick Burgh Hall.

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Telegraphists incensed as UPW signs behind their backs Downing St talks excuse for THE 21-MONTH jail sen- tence passed on 19-year-old Jacqueline Paddon for taking, a friend's baby for 15 minutes is savage and inhuman. Miss Paddon, an: unmarried mother, whose own baby was taken away by the authorities when three . months old, has been receiving treatment for mental illness. The friend whose baby she took - Mrs Doreen Walsh - said Miss Paddon was sobbing and hysterical about the loss of her own baby. Mrs Walsh, who did not wish to prosecute, pointed out that it was the police who pressed charges. 'Prison is not the place for a girl like her, said Mrs Walsh. 'Locking her away won't help-she needs help for her sad mental state' Also serving a 21-month sen- tence is 23-year-old Pauline Jones who took away baby Denise Weller, last year.

Miss Jones had been abandoned by her boyfriend and had a miscarriage at seven months.

She looked after the Weller baby with great care, but was nevertheless sentenced to three years' imprisonment, reduced to 21 months after a public outcry. 01-622 7029 01-720 2000 FINDINGS of the National Ports Council inquiry into unregistered ports lying out- side the National Dock Lab- our Scheme will not now be published until early next week. The inquiry report, which is strongly believed to recommend no extension of the scheme, was delivered to Transport Minister John Tuesday Peyton after- on noon. The case for nationalization of the docks and transport industry

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By Stopher Johns and lad Yeats Price: Thirty perce UNION LEADERS have s three-year deal with the Po which paves the way for a 36 cut in the overseas telegraphis in return for flat-rate payments £95 each year. The deal-agreed by the Unio Office Workers' executive over the both rank-and-file members an officials-aroused a storm of opp London's Electra House overseas c quarters when copies began yesterday. Not least of the telegraph- ists' grievances was that the executive's main argument for signing the deal was the TUC- CBI - government talks at Downing Street. Advance warning of the kind of reception the deal would get reached, UPW head office at Clapham earlier this week. On Tuesday • the executive is lieved to have conceded a secret ballot of the grade to endorse its actions. The deal, which covers Britain's 4,600 overseas telegraph operators (OTOs), was in fact signed last Thursday.

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This discovery came as salt in the wound at Eiectra House.

Even branch committee members who have previously defendec jackson and the executive were Balled terridden hot the verd overridden on the very day that the branch had formu- lated a detailed policy on the issue. A lengthy resolution passed by a substantial majority at last Thursday's branch meeting in- sisted on four main points: No redundancy. • No speed-up or work-study.

• A shorter working week.

® The impossibility of separ- ating the fight against unem- ployment on the Post Office from the fight to force the A statement from the NPC yesterday said the report was only a preliminary study. Final recommendations would be made by the end of the year.

Although not recommending that non-scheme ports like Felix- Dover, stowe, Harwich and Shoreham are forced to register, the preliminary report is thought to suggest they pay 7 or 8 per cent of their total wage bills to the National Dock Labour Board, administers the scheme. which Scheme ports pay 144 per cent.

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now put together in a useful pamphlet which makes vital reading for dockers and all workers fighting for the right to. work. Available as below 30p have signed the Post Office for a 36-per-cent graphists' grade, ayments of up to he Union of Post over the heads of bers and branch 1 of opposition at verseas cable head- began circulating Jackson: Had to sign Tories to resign, and to elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. While this policy was being debated at Electra House, Jack- sitting down with son was Post Office telecommunications director, personnel R. Davies, and Eric Doyle, of the Post Office Management Staffs' Asso- ciation. The irreconcilable con- tradiction between the branch policy and the deal these three men signed is obvious. The main points of the deal are: DIVISION of Electra House into separate managerial units, intro- duction of a new computer for correcting telex and, . messages later, automation of all relay- ing work through a Telegram Retransmission Centre. WORKERS from the Robin- sons and Willey gas-fire fac- tory, Liverpool, will today picket their local union head- quarters to demand that their recognition strike is made official. Three hundred of the 400 workforce walked out just over a week ago aftér management dismissed three shop stewards who were trying to organize the workers into the Transport and General Workers' Union. Yesterday a full-time official of the union, Frank Housley, attempted to get a return to work. Under his scheme two of the stewards would be suspended full pay and independent on arbitration would examine the case. rejected Housley's and decided to press the plan rank-and-file demand for re- instatement and union recog nition. Pickets outside Transport House, Islington, Liverpool, today will demand that the union make the dispute official. The Robinsons and Willey workers are seeking support for their fight in the area. Workers Press, 'Thurs

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.HALF-YEARLY PAYMENTS of between £37.50 for second-line OTOs and £47.50 for top opera- tors with additional amounts after the first year for any future measured improvement in pro- ductivity. The UPW executive claims that no OTO will actually be made redundant during the first year, but admits that 500 jobs will be lost as a result of the first stage of the deal alone (sub- division of Electra House and the introduction of the revision computer). But OTOs insist that this argu- ment is a sham. In the first place, they point out, it betrays the principle of the fight against unemployment.

The number of jobs available is cut, thus making it that degree more difficult for the 800,000 unemployed to find work. They also claim, secondly, that 'natural wastage' , a ban on re- cruitment and a six-month cam- paign of disciplinary sackings have been used by the Post Office to create the impression that no one had actually been * got rid of. Like the agreement itself, the recruitment ban was imposed without the consent of the branch Electra House com - mittee. And again like the agree- ment it came in with the full backing of the UPW executive.

What is left in the background is that the final aim of TRC is to get rid of 1,700 jobs by autumn 1974. his • telecommunica- Jackson, tions assistant secretary Kim McKinlay hope to sell the deal and the rest of the executive on the basis of increases of be- tween £5 and £25 in the Post Office's original offer of £70 a year all round plus other fringe improvements. They also say they are satis- fied that the share the tele- graphists will get of the savings the Post Office makes in the first are in line with union year policy, which is to demand 50 per cent of all wage-bill savings for those who remain at work.

This also is contested by the OTOs. They say official union policy is against bonus pay- ments, and that if any payments are to be made they should be on the basic rate. ess, Thursday November 2, 1972 PAGE 11 is Jackson's clinching But it for ignoring the tele- argument graphists' branches and signing that is likely to the arouse fiercest controversy. A circular : sent out to the branches Monday of this .on week is worth quoting in full on this point: Members will know that at the time when this agree- ment was finalized, the govern- the CBI and the TUC ment, were jointly taking part in dis cussions on a prices and incomes policy. At the time this report is being prepared, no indication has been received of any agree- ment. What is known, however, is that the government have been insisting that any produc- tivity agreement of this kind will not be separately paid out- side of any flat rate figure which might be agreed between the parties. This would mean that the deal could not operate and that money arising from the agree- ment would not be paid in addi- flat-rate tion to any payment which might be decided. If no agreement is reached in the talks with government there is every reason to expect that a compulsory wages policy will be adopted by parliament. In this case too the extra money arising from this agreement would be lost to our members. The executive council would not take the risk that our mem- bers should not benefit in this way. It was therefore necessary that the agreement should be made before the government talks were concluded or before the talks broke down and a compulsory incomes policy was insisted by government.

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Post all donations to: Workers Press November Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London; SW4 7UG СИНИРИОН LIVERPOOL dockers yester- day defied an order from their union leader Jack Jones to lift the kan on the Merseyside h ulie.s Howitt Transport.

Joint owner Olive Howitt said that dockers yesterday had turned back another lorry. This is despite the National Industrial Relations Court ruling which on ike transport and Gen- erai Workers' Union to get the ban lifted. irs Howitt said there were no pians to speed up the court's de- cision to give the union seven days to reverse the ban. 'We are stiil hoping for a negotiated set- vie nent,' she said. Howitt's vehicles were banned on Merseyside docks after two of weir drivers claimed they had been fired for striking in support of the five dockers jailed in Pen- tonville by the Industrial Rela- tions Court. TORY RULE has brought record increases in prices,, rents and, according to figures released by the Department of Employment yesterday, the number of work- ing days taken up with strikes.

Workers were on strike for a total of 22,202,000 days in the first nine months of this year the D of E admits. This alone, was well in excess of the figure for any ful! year since the General Strike of 1926. 1972, in fact, could be well on the way to doubling the total for the previous post-1926 record 1971, during which year, 13,551,000 days were taken up with strikes. The number of strikes has not grown to any large extent (1,795 in the first nine months of 1972, as against 1,765 in the same period last year). But the length of strikes and day November 2, 1972 A CALL for the nationwide Immediate backing came from stewards at the Lucas Industrial all blacking of Lucas Equipment factory which shares products in every. industry theerpool, she CAV. the site Fazakerley, same issued yesterday by was yesterday shop stewards at the occupied Contact was made afternoon with Liverpool dockers • factory CAV - Lucas and Lucas group factories in the The shop stewards' committee Midlands.

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Fazakerley issued their call in reply Dave Martin told Workers Press statement from the Lucas com- 'All that from the occupied plant: bine earlier this week Equipment and is to proceed with its closure Lucas Industrial other Lucas Merseyside factories' plans.

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

INDUSTRIAL action by clerical workers on the national Press spread throughout Fleet Street yester- day. Telephonists, secretaries, advertising copy-takers and counter-clerks—all members of the print union NATSOPA—were among those involved.

father (branch secretary) of the The action is against the Thomson House clerical chapel recent pay settlement between Publishers' declared: We feel that this is Newspaper the find the fair and reasonable and and the Association print employers' offer of a £2 minimum unions, which gave increases of Clearly derisory. have we an around 8 per cent. obligation to our lower paid that their members to ensure For relatively highly-paid pro- standard of living does not fall duction workers this meant an during this coming period €5.50 £6.50 of to per (remember that this two- But for clerical staff 1s a week. on year agreement). lower pay it brought only £2 to £3. was more bad news for There Fleet Street the yesterday in NATSOPA members want to journal 'Advertising Quarterly'.

keep the 8 per cent, but with a In real terms advertising ex- minimum guaranteed increase of 1969 and penditure fell between over £4. from £544m to £518m, 1971 the decline of 5 per cent, the journal A memorandum from said. members,

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In circular to general secretary the Richard Briginshaw said Anthony Wedg- union supported of Press wood Benn's criticisms chiefs last month. 'This is a national problem for our people and democracy in this the number of workers involved especially a time at substantially. increased has Conservative govern- when 1,353,000 workers joined strikes the dirtiest is planning 1- the January this country election ever on September 30 this year as against In a cry of "Who Rules?" We can 937,000. "Do they or do the Press bosses?"; The D of E figures also show contributed how workers have to keep up the pressure to REGULAR MEETINGS between defend their living standards.

Mr William Whitelaw, 1,590,000 Ireland, They show that for Northern and workers Social Democratic and received increases in Ulster's arranged Party, will be basic weekly rates of pay in Labour September totalling £6.67m.

This following their Stormont talks well the figures for Belfast yesterday. in over August when the total The six Social Democratic MPs appeared guardedly pleased after 2.25 £5.44m shared among million workers. two hours of talks with him.

In the nine months to Septem- 1972, 9,165,000 workers ber 30, Registered as at the Post dews porkers Press, Published basic obtained Wetaily rates totaling $22.77m increases Hish Clasham In

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1971, the first nine months of et. London: Ploush Press workers got a total 7.54 million High Street, of £12.81m. 7UG. supplies and products were blacked on this site as from Il a.m. today. 'Lucas has a responsibility to Merseyside. They must change their minds on this decision.'

The CAV shop stewards' com- mittee told the company that its reiteration of the closure decision had forced them to escalate their to black all Lucas country products. Above left: Asian workers on the picket goes through the picket line with an 'En

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hosiery workers on strike since Friday for a . £5 a week increase on their basic rate of £20.35 have been sacked by the Mansfield Hosiery Company, Loughborough.

khey are picketing the lactory.

Most of the strikers are Asian immigrants and make up the bulk of bar-loaders and runners- on at the factory. They are paid £20.35 basic, the rate of at while knitters, who are mostly white, earn more than *35.

been a Dhiru Patel, who has bar-loaders' representative for three years, said they were told Union by the National Hosiery Workers that the seven days' notice they had given would make the strike legal if not

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bar one of the 37-man General attended, Feather com- Council mented: 'The General Council view is that these talks are about prices and inflation and in particular about food prices and rents.

'We are anxious to know what the Prime Minister has to say about other things we have put on the table; like pensions, divi- dends, mortgages and so on?

When pressed for an answer to Heath's ultimatum, he said: 'It seems to us that there is a danger of this becoming a dialec- tical exercise about statutory or voluntary and all the legislative jargon.' Other General Council mem- bers were tight lipped when they left the meeting. Alan Sapper of the cine tech- nicians said his demand to call off the talks stood. Asked if he • pressed the point he replied: 'I am not dumb.' Feather said that two or per- haps three Council members had indicated that they wanted the talks to end, but that only one spoke out and that no vote on this proposal had been taken.

Feather said that machinery for statutory control of prices did exist but there was no such machinery for statutory control of wages. The men who stopped the Dave Martin stressed that the machines in the factory were being kept in running order, because rapid deterioration would follow if they were kept idle for a long period. 'We believe that this factory will remain open', he said. 'If the management cuts off electricity supplies and we are unable to run the machines, then the inevitable of the plant will be deterioration the sole responsibility of the Lucas management' he picket line. Above right: A lorry driver ith an 'Enoch Powell' button In his lapel.

official. But now they have been dismissed. Picketing appears to be having some impact. Mr Patel said that about 95 per cent of work inside the factory had been stopped. Eighty workers at women another branch of the firm in Loughborough have come out in sympathy and there will be demonstration today in the town.

The racial aspects of the strike are clearly apparent. 'Only white people are work- ing in the factory now, he said.

A white resident in the area "The supported the strikers: cost of living has gone up?, she said, 'and people deserve the right to a living wage? complete breakdown between government and the TUC the were Hugh Scanlon of the en- Jones. They gineers and Jack stayed behind after other General Council members had left and the general secretary im- met mediately before his statement.

Scanlon's proposal — for an approach to • the Tories to see what concessions they were pre- unions' pared to give on the sheet of demands, was substan- tially the one that carried the day. After his own union executive Tuesday, Scanlon • meeting on said that it would only be pos- sible to say whether a package involving control of wages was or off if the government on replied to these points. This is an extremely dangerous move that disguises trade union co-operation with state pay con- trol, which the package en- visages, as some kind of victory for the working class. It also deflects the growing move among the rank and file to break off all talks immediately. So long as they do continue the Tories are gaining advantage and preparing their own offen- sive, which will involve statutory control of wages. This will be into allied to a move Europe and the export of capital and investment where to areas workers are not organized . and have low wages.