Workers Press no. 920

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THE WAGES

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETT

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BY DAVID MAUDE

THE SECOND WEEK of the state pay law begun with a work-to-rule by 400 Nottinghamshire hos- pital workers, signalling growing preparation by the trade union rank and file for battle with the Tory government. Reflecting this mood leaders of the technicians' section of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (TASS) have joined the white- collar Association of Scientific, Tech- nical and Managerial Staffs in deciding for official action over pay.

The week has also begun, however, with many union leaders and the left Labour MPs flat on their backs before Heath.

the £4-plus claim of Britain's Talks on 250,000 hospital workers are due to Friday. take place on Union leaders have already been told that the talks cannot lead to any increase before the Heath's 90-day freeze, end of despite the fact that the workers involved are extremely low paid.

There are no guarantees that hospital wages will not also be hit the extension of or the promised follow- freeze up legislation. MILITANT shopworkers plan to lobby. pay talks today be- the Union of Shop, tween Distributive and Allied Workers and the Multiple Grocers' The Association. £1.80 a grocers have offered week for shop assistants and

USDAW

£2 for managers. is and f5 claiming £3 for the involved. 120,000 workers Also in the this are 50,000 queue manual week gas workers. the hospitals has Anger in been increased by the knowledge that the 900,000 council manual whose wages normally workers, the pattern for hospital

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Hospital ancillary workers on who have ancillaries, but recent lobby at their pay talks in strike power, are to get greater London. their £2.40 increase. Sam West, National Union of Public Employees branch secre- tary in Mansfield, told Workers 'We've already had a number Press yesterday: of instances of sporadic action, understand the frustra- and we 'We're not doing any more that leads to them, tion work for nothing. Heath says NUPE spokesman told Workers he'll pay for productivity.

Well, Press. *But we're pointing out 30 to cent down we're to our members that it's essen- on tial to run out the talks.'

don't we're productive nOL But Heath says know who is. The

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leaders clearly we're frozen. accept the Tories' right to dic- tate not only pay, at a time of 'It's my job to get something rocketing price increases, but all for my members and if we have trade union activity. to do it this way we'll do it.'

By merely asking for But NUPE's executive, which excmp- tion they, in fact, accept the organizes the majority of hospital principle that che state pay law yesterday sent ancillary workers, remains. out circulars urging a brake on industrial until negotia- In other words, it would still tions are completed. be illegal for other sections of workers to take, or threaten to Union leaders apparently think take, 'any action with a view they can persuade a majority of induce or influence to compel, the employers negotiators to a breach of the freeze. make a joint approach with them Minister Health Sir Keith to But besides being given despite Joseph, the fact that the NUPE credence by three of them represent Joseph's tive, this is also the position of department. "Tribune' group of the Labour MPs. They hope by this means to pressure Joseph for an exemp- tion from the pay laws.

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Showing the Speakers : committee FILM WORKERS at Shep- perton, Middlesex, yesterday voted to occupy the studios if there is any attempt to break them up or force through redundancies. A mass meeting of about 150 workers—members of the cinema technicians' • theatre employees' and electricians' unions-adopted a five-point programme including nationalization without compen- sation and under workers' con- trol. Lion International, which owns Shepperton, was bought for £5m earlier this year by asset-stripper John Bentley. Recently Bentley's company, Securities, Barclay announced for the contraction of plans operations and 180 redundancies.

Yesterday's meeting opposed all redundancies, insisted that Shepperton and its 60-acre must fully operational and be kept for its called nationalization along with other studios in finan- cial difficulties. The studios must be used only for film production, the resolution said. No planning per- mission should be granted for property development. the meeting Overwhelmingly, voted in favour of the principle that the studios should occupied until these demands are met. It also demanded that a mass meeting Federation of of the Film Unions be recalled to en- dorse these demands and pledge to implement them. A action

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turned previous meeting down action on these lines.

AS US presidential en vo y General Haig flew home after Saigon, Phnom his talks in Penh (Cambodia) and Seoul (Korea), the South Vietnamese 'Tin Song' carried newspaper the headline: No signing of a peace agreement in sight*.

Cambodia's exiled Prince I a visit to North Sihanouk, on Korea, denied Paris rumours that China and North Vietnam would exert pressure on him to give up the struggle against the Phnom Penh government. Speakers:

G. HEALY

(SLL national secretary)

CONNIE FAHEY

(Wilmslow tenants' leader)

CORIN REDGRAVE

(Equity)

ROY BATTERSBY

(ACTT)

ALAN THORNETT

(Deputy senior steward Morris Motors Assembly, Cowley, Oxford)

GARY GURMEET

(Editor Keep Left) Chairman:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central Committee) (Union and tenant speakers appear in a personal capacity) Admission 15p NDA (SLL Central Committee) WE (Deputy AUEW convenor, CAV) FAHEY (Wilmslow tenants' leader) ERS (Young Socialists' national nd tenant speakers in a personal capacity.)

workers press

THE WAGES

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLET

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE SECOND WEEK of the state pay law begun with a work-to-rule by 400 Nottinghamshire hos- pital workers, signalling growing preparation by the trade union rank and file for battle with the Tory government. Reflecting this mood leaders of the technicians' section of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (TASS) have joined the white- collar Association of Scientific, Tech- nical and Managerial Staffs in deciding for official action over pay.

The week has also begun, however, with many union leaders and the 'left' Labour MPs flat on their backs before Heath.

Talks of Britain's on the £4-plus claim 250,000 hospital workers are due to take place on Friday.

Union leaders have already been told that the talks cannot before the lead to any increase of Heath's 90-day freeze, end despite the fact that the workers involved are extremely low paid.

There are no guarantees that be hospital | wages will not, also of the hit by any extension follow- the promised freeze or up legislation. MILITANT shopworkers plan be- to lobby pay talks today the Union of Shop, tween Distributive and Allied Multiple Workers and the The Grocers' Association. offered have £1.80 grocers and week for shop assistants

USDAW

£2 for is managers. claiming £3 and f5 for the 120,000 workers involved. in the this Also pay queue 50,000 manual week are gas workers. in the hospitals Anger has been increased by the knowledge that the 900,000 council manual workers, whose wages normally for hospital the pattern Hospital ancillary workers a on have ancillaries, but who recent lobby at their pay talks in strike power, are to get greater London. their £2.40 increase. West, National Union of Sam Public Employees' branch secre- tary in Mansfield, told Workers 'We've already had a number Press yesterday: of sporadic of instances action, and we understand the frustra- 'We're doing not any more that leads to them, tion for Heath work nothing. NUPE spokesman told Workers Well, e'll pay for productivity.

Press. 'But we're pointing out 30 to we're cent down to our members that it's essen- on the staff we should have. If tial to run out the talks.

productive don't we're not know who is. But Heath says leaders The

NUPE

clearly we're frozen. right to dic- accept the Tories tate not only pay, at a time of It's my job to get something rocketing price increases, but all for my members and if we have trade union activity. to do it this way we'll do it.'

By merely asking for exemp- But NUPE's executive, which they, in the tion tact. accept organizes the majority of hospital principle that the state pay law ancillary workers, yesterday sent out circulars urging a brake on action until negotia- industrial words, it would still In other tions are completed. illegal for other sections of be workers to take, or threaten to Union leaders apparently think 'any action with view take, they can persuade a majority of induce or influence' comne. the employers' negotiators to a breach of the freeze. make a ioint approach with them Sir Keith Health Minister to But besides being given Joseph, despite the fact the NUPE execu- credence by three of them represent Joseph's this is also the position of tive. department. the 'Tribune' of Labour group MPs. They hope by this means to for pressure Joseph an exemp- tion from the pay laws.

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Showing the developments and gains since the first issue of Press. Workers September 25. 1969 Speakers :

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CONNIE FAHEY (W

ALAN PEERS (You committee) (Union and tenant s FILM WORKERS at Shep- perton, Middlesex, yesterday voted to occupy the studios if there is any attempt to break them up or force through redundancies. A mass meeting of about 150 workers-members of the cinema technicians', • theatre employees' and electricians' unions-adopted a five-point programme including nationalization without compen- sation and under workers' con- trol. Lion International, which owns Shepperton, was bought for £5m earlier this year by asset-stripper John Bentley. Bentley's company, Recently Securities, Barclay announced for the plans contraction of operations and 180 redundancies.

meeting Yesterday's opposed all redundancies, insisted that Shepperton and its 60-acre must be kept and fully operational called for its nationalization along with other studios in finan- cial difficulties. studios must be used The only for film production, the resolution said. No planning per- mission should be granted for property development. Overwhelmingly, the meeting voted in favour of the principle the studios should be that occupied until these demands are met. It also demanded that a mass meeting of the Federation of Film Unions be recalled to en- dorse these demands and pledge implement them. action to

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meeting turned previous down action on these lines.

AS US presidential envoy General Haig flew home after Saigon, his talks in Phnom and Seoul Penh (Cambodia) (Korea), the South Vietnamese Song' carried 'Tin newspaper the headline: 'No signing of a peace agreement in sight'.

Cambodia's exiled Prince Sihanouk, on a visit to North Korea, denied Paris rumours that China and North Vietnam would exert pressure on him to give up the struggle against the Phnom Penh government. Speakers:

G. HEALY

(SLL national secretary)

CONNIE FAHEY

(Wilmslow tenants' leader)

CORIN REDGRAVE

(Equity)

ROY BATTERSBY

(ACTT)

ALAN THORNETT

(Deputy senior steward Morris Motors Assembly, Cowley, Oxford)

GARY GURMEET

(Editor Keep Left) Chairman:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central Committee) (Union and tenant speakers appear in a personal capacity) Admission 15p NDA (SLL Central Committee) WE (Deputy AUEW convenor, CAV) FAHEY (Wilmslow tenants' leader) ERS (Young Socialists' national id tenant speakers in a personal capacity.)

Israel: Split over PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday November 14, 1972 have

SHARP DIVISIONS

appeared within the Israeli leadership over the future of the occupied territories snatched in the June 1967 war. General Moshe Dayan, who for the assimilation of the stands bank, Gaza and Sinai west strip areas into a greater Israel, has been sharply attacked by two chieftains of the ruling Labour Party. Yigal Allon, vice-president the Finance Minister Pinhas council. and Sapir have warned that annexation of the would the conquered territories endanger identity of Israel as a Jewish state. Their view is apparently shared by number of other party leaders, including the Foreign Minister. Annex- Abba Eban, would ation of the occupied territories mean incorporating Smilen Israel, they point out. In the opinion of Sapir and Allon this Dayan: Gret would citizen status mean giving territories would retain their Jordanian people

A TO

ПОСТІА would while remaining under Israeli existence of the Israeli state and citizenship able eventualiy be it through at the top of the force of numbers. Behind the dispute Israeli ruling group is the recognition that Sapir has already expressed concern about the number of Arabs neone have not abandoned within the did the valesma Israeli boundaries and the extent to which and will not abandon their struggle against Israel. is at present denen.

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pronouns the Zionists dent on Arab labour. Military victories won by over the Arabs superior force of arms are in favour of a by Davan's compromise settlement would not Which have cettled The •weston the of separate Despite the treachery the Arab establishment alow Palestinian bourgeois the regime on The WeST Torean. possibly by agreement with King Hussein. guerrilla struggle continues with the sup- accessible of the Arab The

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Israel, but its people would not be The more the Zionists conquer territory, Dayan, on the other hand, explosive becomes their Israeli citizens. the more wants a de facto annexation under which Dayan's collion inhabitants the conquered Sapir and his wing of the ruling party the HENRY FORD II and three Ford directors had high- level talks over the weekend with representatives of the Spanish government in Madrid.

On his third visit to Madrid within a year, Henry Ford was able to discuss very concretely plans for setting up a Ford factory in Spain aimed at the Euro- Henry Ford Il and pean market. Ford's earlier visits The Spanish Minister of Industry, López de Letona, who visited Ford Detroit earlier in the has begun a revision of Spanish legislation year, conditions and industrial investment, on factory which will make it easier for American corpora- tions to set up plants in fascist Spain.

The discussions be- Ford's leading the are Letona and Ford way for the American car tween are believed to have laid MononAlac the basis for the firm

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Communist a dele- establishment of Ford in leader Leonid from Party gation eneral Spain. Brezhnev is to Motors' board of directors pay an began their first round of official visit later this Until now, the only between collaboration with month to Hungary, Ford and Spanish López de Letona. industry where the party AnNA has been the car- ship is seriously divided These moves by Ford components sector through over the application of are a serious threat to the the Spanish conglomerate, jobs workers in Ford economic reforms. Serna-auto. Since Germany and the adoption in firms which dozen Britain who have trade 1968 of January what was under the Serna- come unions and the Economic auto umbrella which are well above the Mechanism', there has been haan components ents no supplying paid in carveron a superncial appearance of Gord fortoriac Spanish factories. prosperity. for several months. A Serna-auto spokesman told the Spanish Press: •Both sides very ArA satisfied with this arrange- The quality and mant. cost our components of have also aroused the of interest other inter-

THE

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strike and lobby pay talks. national firms, but through of wave continues to valley spread tha …tha capa- lone production strengthen through- Loire, 16.000 building city we have not been out on dormita tha • NA chunha for ahia agreements treacherous Communist an increase of 60 centimes with evervbody.' Party policies. honr In other words, the have only offered 30 cen- More than 8.000 potash rush to take advantage Most of the builders times. by miners in Alsace-Lorraine the low-wages received have been on strike for a celebrated their fourth Spanish under the builders week; Franco's is well week on strike for regime Cholet are in their third decent wage by occupying underway. week of strike. the pit-heads yesterday. While In Marseilles, 7.000 car-component firms in Britain They have chartered workers in the naval ship- are closed down, Spanish firms com- special train to take them yards have been on strike October 24 Paris Thursday since arainst many they have too Paris demonstrate throush insecurity of employment orders. SOVIET premier Alexei Kosygin has approved a new regulation prohibiting use of the telephone for 'purposes contradicting state in Moscow interests sources said at the weekend. The move is part of an attempt to clamp down on the opposition, par- ticularly the active Jewish movement hom. Aon : Foc in the Soviet Union. The new regula- for the very fear the used tion apparently teing as 1S existence or israel. Within itself, the Zionists also justification disconnecting the tor face a new militancy in the working class, telephones usued by people the expressed in a series of strike battles in authorities regard as troublemakers.

defiance of anti-union laws.

Israel is a reactionary imperialist state dis- Oppositionists' telephones were the of a number towns during conected Palestinian peop both It 1s President Nixon's visit to Moscow as a interests of Arab and Jewish of any manifestations means preventing be no can There

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Jewish severa •iscontenl. Fast this Zionist

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have had their phones cut off to hinder overthrown by the action of the working their with foreign journalists contacts class. and friends The building of a revolutionary Marxist overseas. The Kosygin party, uniting both and regulation AraN jewish approvea oy the common imperialist outlaws a ns. It could Become an optoe, wide range telephone workers against only road forward for the

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working for example, class in tne Middle Last.

state over tne telepnone that there were food shortages price rises in particular arcas. The „rew indication how widespread is the authorities' Soviet surveillance The teleonone network. sune telephone has been widely used by the Jewish Movement has for Leave Istae. highly-placed contacts abroad.

The KGB secret police are also suppress enorts clandestine magazine Chronicle of Current Events', which cir- curates manuscript These efforts have so far been unsuccessful and correspondents yesterday that the issue of the 'Chronicle' had appeared Triazine estatail on trials Ukraine, which dissidents Sentenced to prison for up to 15 years.

rd Il and Spanish Industry Minister Lopez de Letona, on one of one case 40-year-old art rlier visits to Madrid.* Alexander received seven years in a labour camp. and three exile years' 'Chronicle' what 'statements the Ukraine's right to self-determina- tion'. The KGB campaign against the 'Chronicle' began early this year with nationwide of house-searches and questionings.

least six suspected con- tributors known Wide differences in wages Lo lave The reality is somewhat been arrested, but the 'Chronicle' different. for the work are has continued to appear. much causing dissatis- rampant, nation stocks have been run down тастол. while others become To diffi- have aisguise The culties of the smaller and shortages kinds are making it diffi- sub- less efficient plants, cult to achieve plan targets.

siales are being pala our The

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went even further than. East While of the a section kuropean econome bureaucracy calling for forms on the Soviet model

THE

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meeting SunCIer Centated COme by giving wide powers to trol on the old Stalin central bankers from ten individual wants and link model, another thinks that capitalist countries richest ing wages to the profits of more scope still should Switzerland basie. WaS over- each. pérmitted market shredded Nixons uncertainty about

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forces to operate. President post-election development along monetary une •IL- come of the West German these would unes mcdo elections this month. closing some plants and produce unemployment. many indic- nere have been ations that Nixon plans to open What that CCI LaALI another and even tougher phase the NEM has failed in its central objectives and that of world trade war and demand foreign further currency revisions Hungary's trade working favour American and bad business. con- situation has eleno red ditions. Hungary displays all the One of Group of en bankers described the meeting as symptoms economic These bitterly fought "routine, very routine. following strikes meet with the

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110111 bureaucratic mismanage- Viners sala tnat the question Stalin-

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of the Stahmist pollen es of pegging the the unhearindicats ists who beg the Pompidou further-indicat- the Stalinist policy not carried to start à real the

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He unar With growing working- refused to give guarantees ing class. class discontent and hostil- about when and at what rate the They separate these pound will be ixed ly to mercasing mequally strikes from periodic the Hungarian leadership The other bank representatives The protest one-day general be thinking United States had been expe ted Japan and must uncom- fortably strikes they call in order ot the events French weaken the when working The demand «ernite timetaole working-class's struggle class rose up and began Sir este OrBrien. the British representative, against rising prices.

BSC and government tightlipped on figures Steel jobs: 50,000 cut

BY STEPHEN JC

MORE MASSIVE redundanci to be announced when the verdict on the industry's futu Both the British Steel Department of Industry were about reports that the plann jobs by 1975 may be more A spokesman from the Department said: 'We really can't speculate at The plans submitted this stage. by the British Steel Corporation are under government study right now and is an announcement expected soon'. The plans involve the pro- jected steel output of between 28 million and 36 million ingot tons by 1980. The government is known to favour the lower level since the rationalization which will follow entry into the Com- mon Market is uppermost in its mind. The spokesman admitted yes- terday that the Common Market plans were a major factor affect- ing the eventual government decision. All the signs indicate that the redundancies will be far larger than originally envisaged.

In Scotland the decision not to build the sought-after integrated mill at Hunterston, plus the rapid closure of open-hearth furnaces, Will mean 18,000 redundancies by 1980. Other places under threat of closure are Shotton on Deeside, where a 12,800 steel workforce supports a community of 55,000, and Corby, Northants, perhaps the biggest steel town in the country. But there will be a wholesale rationalization throughout the industry as the open-hearth method is phased out in favour of the more modern basic oxygen plant which only requires one- fifth of the open-hearth labour force. SOUTHAMPTON container dock was brought to a stand- still yesterday over the dismissal of a shop steward.

Pickets were on duty at the dock gates and at transport pre- mises in and around the city.

About 1,700 lorry drivers are thought to be involved in the dispute. The strike call came from a mass meeting of 500 of the men on Sunday after shop steward Norman Phillips claimed he was dismissed for refusing to drive a its container load lorry with lashed on with chains instead of being locked in place. The men decided to stay out until he is reinstated and are seeking the support of South- ampton dockers. Last_September the Transport General Union and Workers' resolution that con- passed a tainers should not be chained. Norman Phillips, of Townhill Park, Southampton, says that five

COLLIERY

official Edmund Gibbs (59), was killed yesterday in a pit accident at Oakdale Colliery in Monmouthshire. Mr Gibbs was a deputy from Cefn Forest, Blackwood, South Wales.

The accident involved the pit cage at the bottom of the shaft.

HEN JOHNS

undancies in steel are expected en the government gives its y's future next month. Steel Corporation and the ry were tight-lipped yesterday a planned 50,000 cut back in • more than doubled. Areas mapped out for expan- sion include Lackenby, Scun- thorpe (Lincolnshire) and Tees- side developments all geogra- phically located to suit the link-up with Europe. A sharp change in steel policy occurred • when Tories decided to withhold funds and sabotage the planned £4,000m long-term investment pro- gramme. The recent performance of the industry has been • poor. In the year ending March 1972 a £61m trading surplus was eaten away by interest payments and other financial items. But home sales fell by 24 per cent, the most severe decline in the UK since the war and a direct reflection of the recession in British industry. No one can doubt that com- petition within the market will be fierce. At the present

BSC

behind shelters 8-per-cent an tariff barrier. This will be gra- dually reduced until it disappears in July 1, 1977. The European pricing system will also bring problems. This allows firms to lower their prices from a calculated base to meet foreign competition. This sys- has been named the "jaws tem of hell' because of the temptation to reduce prices to uneconomic levels. On top of this, all investment plans will have to be submitted to the European Coal and Steel Community-a body which dis- approves of expansion plans that do not earn profit. years ago he was driving a chain- fastened container truck when the chains burst and the load fell on a passing lorry. • Pickets were out at St Peter Port Harbour yesterday as Guernsey's 67 dockers started a strike over pay and conditions.

They said that they would be strict amount of about the essential cargo allowed through the port, but they were not interfering with general cargo for Alderney or Sark. The men,

T&GWU

members, have rejected offers up to £2.50 a week more on their basic rates of £26 and £21.

IRISH Labour Party leader Brendan Corish yesterday travelled to London for talks Mr Harold Wilson with and other Opposition leaders. Corish was accompanied by his deputy, James Tully, the party's spokes- man on northern affairs, Conor Cruise O'Brien, and general secretary Brendan Halligan. Corish also expected was .to meet TUC leaders, including general secretary Victor Feather.

Another doomed steel plant TEXTILE unions are seeking another round of talks with Lord Kearton, chairman of Courtauld's, in an attempt to the closure of the f7m stop weaving factory at Skelmers- dale, Lancashire. Fred Hague, general secretary of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association? has to said yesterday: 'Everything be resolved before the weekend: About 800 members of the association are among the 1,000 workers to be sacked if closure goes ahead. Kearton has given the unions until Friday to forward counter-proposals. put 1933-1934 £1.43 1934-1935 £1.43 1935-1936 £1.25 1937-1938 £1.25 1938-1939 £1.25 1939-1940 {1.05 These extremely vital years 1929 and 1940—1 Union-are now availab 28 Charlotte St

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ess, Tuesday November 14, 1972 PAGE 3 ALL SORTS of rumours are being spread among printwork- ers about the recent victimiza- of John Lawrence, the tion Father of the Chapel at the Press Association. It is • being said, for example, that he was not really victimized at all and that an inquiry is being set up investigate some unspecified to misdemeanours he is supposed to have committed and which had nothing to do with our re- cent ten-day strike over a pay claim. The 'Socialist Worker' (in an otherwise sympathetic report) has lent credence to one of these rumours by assertine suspended that John Lawrence has been on full pay'. In fact our FOC was, on the third day of the strike, sacked -without either notice or money in lieu-for alleged 'breach of contract' which was defined in his letter of dismissal as 'refusing to do the work for which you were employed'. As all 220 members of the NATSOPA Clerical Chapel were on strike and therefore 'refusing to do the work for which they were em-. ployed' and as only the FOC was sacked, this is one of the clear- est cases of victimization that has ever been. Our strike ended on October 26 and since that time the Lon- don Clerical Branch has twice decided to meet the PA manage- ment to seek the reinstatement of the FOC, but their decisions have been set aside by Mr Bri- ginshaw, the general secretary, who has so far given this Chapel no reason as to why he has thus prevented the branch from act- ing on behalf of a victimized

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The matter is now in the hands of the Executive Council which does not meet until De- cember. Meanwhile John Law- rence remains unemployed with- out either wages or dole money as his dismissal comes under the heading of industrial misconduct.

Victimization is a weapon used for centuries by employers to break those who fight for justice for working people. John is the latest in a long line of such vic- tims. Those who try to cover up the brutality of his victimization are no friends of the workers— even though they call themselves socialists and even hold high office in the trade unions.

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THE CLOSING OF THE

DEANSTON TEA WHARF

PAGE 4 Workers Praze, Tuaadey Nover

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPO

A £1.75 per ton surcharge imposed by shipping lines on goods passing through London is being blamed for the closure of what was, until recently, one modern of the most wharves on the Thames. Wharf, When Deanston Silvertown, closes at the end of January next year it will throw 42 registered dockers and 51 other workers onto an already overcrowded labour market with little more than an £800 terminal grant. Some of the dockers say they have already got jobs in outside industry, others hope to ind at container work depots and the rest will be reallocated to other employers under the terms of the Jones- Aldington report. A few of the non-registered workers have been offered jobs by Deanston's owners at Avon- mouth. But for the rest the future is bleak. Deanston, run by City tea merchants P. R. Buchanan and Co, was the last tea wharf on the river. When it was opened in 1969 the whart considered . was highly sophisticated. But now, says chief superintendent John Letts: It has become increas- ingly clear that the producers are not keen to use London- bound ships for getting their tea to the UK.' One reason for this was the £1.75 per ton imposed on all through London by cargo shipping lines, he said. day November 14, 1972

RRESPONDENT

Buchanan's is part of the £11m James Finlay mercantile and banking group, whose shootin' and fishin' chairman, Sir John Muir, is a co-director Heath's friend Lord with Aldington of National and Grindlays Bank. Aldington is chairman of the Port of Lon- don Authority. Last year the Finlay group profit of made a pre-tax £975,000 out of its 447 British workers, but its margins are falling and Buchanan's have been told it can no longer bear the cost of the drop in tea cargoes. As a consequence the com- pany, which has been handling tea in the London docks area for close on 100 years, is to shut up shop. It plans to switch its business to its Avonmouth warehouses. None of the reasons for the closure can be laid at the door of the workers who will be thrown out of their jobs.

Besides the particular_loss of trade in London, John Letts draws attention to the general shrinkage of tea consumption in Britain. One factor here, he thinks, is the increasing use of tea-bags which require less tea. Another difficulty was the new computerized tea-grading machine installed at Deanston from the outset. The machine-a big helter- skelter apparatus that sorts tea chests as they are unloaded from barges and then conveys lohn Lotte. Dosnston chic ter-mile from the River, the them onto lorries-wa: posed to handle 4,000 cl have nevel this mach able to get handle more than 2,000 day, says Letts. Thi has not been with our do They have always don best.' John Letts, Deanston chief superintendent. Top: Reaching back a quar.

ter-rile from the River, the Deanston warehouses due to shut In January.

Regardless of the efforts, however, the wharf is to close. shop stewards been

COTT

raised the issue of to surcharge with the 'The fault Aldington committee. claim is responsible it the their ariving trade London.

EXPANSION

FOR THE

FAR EAST

TRADE

Containers Ltd, Overseas one of the three big consor- tia, has just taken delivery of its 20,000-ton container from Crane Fruehauf. To date the orders placed by OCk with Crane Fruehauf have been worth f15m. And there are plans for more ex- pansion to meet the containeri- zation of the Far East trade.

It was OCh, who with ACT, set up the Containerbase Fede- which runs six of the ration, largest inland clearance depots.

All but two of the bases em- dock non-registered ploy labour. Originally the main partner in the OCL consortium was the shipping firm

DUI

has Ocean Steamship now taken over due to its promi- nent position in the Far East trade

BALLOT ON

NUJ

STRIKE FUND

National Union of The Journalists is to ballot its members on the question of setting up a strike fund.

It is proposed to raise the levy on a quarterly basis of and the initial El per member target is for £250,000 after 12 months. For many months expendi- ture by the union nas Deer rising ahead of income. Nearly one-third of benefit fund in- begin- which at the ing of 1972, stood at £205,000, have had to be sold to clear bank overdrafts. Last year the accounts over- all were in the red to the tune of £38,000 and the houre ls raise this year, expected to increase despite the In sub• scriptions made in July. Unemployment benefit, in- £10 creased week last April, is reported to be run- ning at record levels. In the past increased expen- diture has been cushioned by borrowing from the widows' and orphans' fund. But in ten NUJ has built up a years the £174,000 debt in this direction.

The recent strike at Inter- national Publishing Corpora- and tion was the final straw pressures mounted quickly for more income ll tne umon Was to remain effective in industrial disputes.

NO FREEZE

ON LAND

How to make money fast! A Birmingham property develop- which bought company three-and-a-half acre site at Sutton Coldheld two vears ago for £2,700 has sold two acres of it-for £81,000. Properties Ltd Larkcroft bought the land at an auction after another firm had lost an appeal to build on it. Now has decision been reversed. Said director Noel Nelson: 'We bought the land in 1970 because we thought planning be would certainly Culscil men's obtained in five or ten years. It has come before that and I am very pleased' have building firm plans to A the £1.75 erect 17 four-bedroom houses which will sell at over €13,000.

Jones- government's They The 90-day for freeze on wages and prices sale of from affect the coes land and houses.

HOW THE KREMLIN MADE

MOSCOW SAFE FOR NIXON

Brezhner and Podgar Nixon, Kosygin,

BY JOHN SPENCER

When President Nixon visited Moscow in May this year the Soviet leaders were at great pains to ensure that no- thing should mar his trip.

They brought out the finest wines and foods for banquets in his honour and he and his suite were given the best accommodation. All this was duly noted in the western Press, where the visit was pictured as the be- ginning of a new era of US- Soviet harmony. But it was not the limit of the Soviet leaders' care for their imperialist guest. The latest issue of the under- ground Soviet opposition jour- be nal 'Chronicle of Current Events' details , 'some curious activities on the part of the Nixon's authorities' during stay. Their article, headed iron- ically 'In Honour of Nixon', a number of describes how leaders of various opposition subjected to groups were strong-arm treatment by. the secret police. The police precautions began 11 days before Nixon's plane touched down at Mos- sow Airport. T. S. Khodorovich, a mem- ber of the Action Group for Defence of Human Rights, A. S. Volpin, one of the group's consultants, and 15 activists of the Movement for the Right of Jews to Leave for Israel were summoned to Mos- cow district police stations.

They were required to pro- mise that during Nixon's visit they would not commit "anti-social acts'. They all de- clared that they had not in- tended and did not intend to commit unlawful actions. Volpin and another Action Group member, G. S. Podya- polsky, were sent away from Moscow on urgent business trips for the duration of Nixon's visit. KGB got to work Then the in earnest. On May 19, three days before Nixon's arrival, they ber d Podgorny in the Kremim.

While they win began disconnecting opposi- tionists' telephones. In Mos- cow the telephones of Pyotr Yakir, Academician A. D. Sakharov and V. N. Chalidze, all prominent oppositionists, were cut off. So were those of 13 mem- bers of the Movement for the Right of Jews to Leave for Israel. When Chalidze asked the telephone service when his phone would be mended he was told: 'There has been some com- plicated damage to the cable.

It will be repaired on May 29: That was the day of Nixon's departure! Several telephones were dis- connectad in Kiev, and in Riga Professor Branover's telephone was cut off until after the beginning of June. In case anyone should in- sult—or worse still throw something-at the arch- butcher of Indo-China, special precautions were taken along the route of his limousine.

In Moscow and Leningrad,' "The Chronicle' reports, 'citi- zens living in houses which overlooked streets along which Nixon was due to pass were forbidden to go near their windows on the relevant days.'

The wife of one opposition- ist in Kiev was ordered by the police to sign an undertaking that she would not visit the city centre and public places for a period of four days.

She was threatened with proceedings for 'breach of the peace' if she broke the under- taking. In cities off Nixon's including Minsk, Riga, route, Vilnius and Kishinyov, several Jews were required to give written undertakings that they would not leave the cities for the duration of the visit.

Some Jews were forced off planes and aircraft bound for Moscow by the police. In one case the husband, a Russian, allowed onto a plane was while his wife, a Jewess, was stopped. Ticket offices of the state airline Aeroflot in some cases refused to sell tickets to Mos- cow-bound Jews. nobody has Since 1970, been able to buy an airline they wined, dined and talked, oppositionists Oppositionist Yakir _ telephone cut off. Right: Chalidze. Below: Volpin-sent out of Moscow.

ticket without producing his internal passport-which con- tains details of 'nationality'.

The harassment did not end there. Five activists in the Jewish Movement to Leave were arrested on the morning of May 21 with another man and driven off to various pri- sons outside Moscow. The police had no legal grounds whatever for this action.

Three more peopie were imprisoned in the same way and for the same reason over the rext two days. They were all held in prison until May 31 without charge being any brought against them. At police stations their re- latives were told that the rea- for the arrest son was 'breaches of the peace in the past and intended breaches in the future. 'The Chronicle' adds: 'Their wives were con- Workers Press, Tuosd sitionists all over Russia were given strong-arm stantly, openly and crudely shadowed; the police agents burst into telephone booths, got into lifts and sometimes tried to enter the apartment to which their prey had gone.'

The prisoners were taken to their local police stations on May 31 where KGB employees told them they had been iso- lated to possible prevent breaches of the peace during Nixon's visit. Like so many other KGB this was illegal actions, Soviet law does not provide for preventive detention. There were similar arrests in Leningrad and Kiev while Nixon was visiting those cities.

oppositionist, One Moscow Alexei Tumermän, was held throughout the Nixon visit at a psychiatric hospital: He went on hunger strike and on May 24 wrote a letter to Nixon re- questing him to raise the 88, Tuesday November 14, 1972 PAGE 5 trong-arm treatment by the secret police.

question of civil right in the USSR' with his hosts. He might just as well not have bothered. Nixon had no intention of raising any such issue with the Soviet leaders, though he has based his en- tire political career on denun- ciations of the evils of Soviet rule. All that is strictly for home consumption. He has no dis- agreements with the way the Stalinist bureaucracy treats its opponents and does the same American oppositionists to when he is at home. The question of the bureau- cracy's flagrant anti-Semitic campaign was never raised by the Americans during Nixon's visit. George McGovern after- wards claimed that Nixon had missed a 'golden opportunity' to do something concrete for people on whose misfortunes he had touted for votes.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday. November 14, 1972

BY ALEX MITCHELL

ostensibly guards the public The Institute of Direc- interest against the ravages of the organization tors, speculation. Nigel which represents Britain's At the time Broackes, the other fastest gun boardrooms, held its an- City, and head the nual conference last week Trafalgar Investments, is given Whitehall in the baroque surround- a part-time job as chairman of a procurement ings of the Albert Hall. And also in the back- board. thousand them Hour ground John Bentley, a protégé packed into the tiers of seats of Jim Slater, the man who which go right up to the domed asset-stripped the toy industry The list of and ceiling. men and is now card he British like Whose Who on commerce and women Lion, announced wants career—in politics as a The the industry. captains, Tory MP. knights and the lords of British Walker's speech, the first he were all there. capitalism has made since assuming his The 43,000-strong body was dealt with new supremo role, founded in 1903 and is open the evil practices in the money- director anyone who is a world. It is certainly making of a public or private company.

a subject to which he could A Press release states, how- His new turn some attention. that membership is not ever, recently department Was automatic: 'The council scruti- accused of failing to take nizes each application with an crooked against com- eye to the candidate's fitness panies which had fleeced the membership,' it says. for public of millions' the con- In previous Among the companies cited ventions have been smug, self- in the House of Commons was beanfeasts congratulatory Real Estate Fund of America, audience cheers which the the offshore property fund (it enthusiastically in reply to was registered in the banana facile rubbish ab inter genius.

of Liberia) run by republic and integrity ingenuity Jerome D. Hoffman, now serv- It's a big business. British ing two years in the US for warm affair with one or two fraud. mortgage joke speakers thrown in The first president of the keep everyone humoured. fund was none other than the Secretary, ex-Tory Home Reginald Maudling, who, on of the Institute's resigning the job, said it feature 'a good and sound investment.

annual seminar is the luncheon Everybody More year after arrangements. than box. The Maudling resigned fund a lunch in the given boxes arrive at 11 a.m. in a crashed spectacularly leaving and are dis- refrigerated creditors all round the world.

tributed to the 4,000-odd par- Without referring to the This means that the embarrassing Maudling inci- ticipants. audience can remain seated in dent, Walker said: 'We need and stuff themselves to see that the consumer enjoys the hall This with "modest' meal. a proper system of protection, and this we will do. year's menu: Mousse de foie gras, breast of 'We need, in fact, to have salad, cold tongue, a framework which encourages chicken, stilton cheese the good firms and clobbers muscat grapes, the rogues.' and a quarter bottle of Travel and The remarks about changing Rose. Free cigarettes monogrammed matches too. laws to meet these company of requirements sent a shiver the apprehension through Albert Hall. But they could This was the second year all relax. A second later the attended. Workers Press has sprightly minister (42) added: Last year we had the spectacle 'We need have also Slater, head the of Jim where the entrepreneur system Slater Walker finance industry, from small beginnings, can, talking about business ethics.

make a major impact upon our It fairly had us rolling in the They are the seed 'commerce. aisles! for future economic This year featured the other bed half of that partnership-Peter growth. We want to see the young entrepreneur have a go.'

Walker, the new Secretary for It sounds enough. innocent Trade and Industry, was the But in these circles this sort of statement is the wink, wink Heath promotion and nudge, nudge that business Cabinet. is as usual. The relationship between big business and the Tory Cabinet The property speculation, the and uncontrolled play remarkable. roaring is now quite of the share market will pro- Walker ioins the Heath Cabinet Not socialist ceed. and is thus forced by law would think it otherwise, be- his partnership in the give up cause there has been so much City of Landon's fastest money- divi- hypocrisy lately about making outfit. other placed in dend controls and He then gets crypto-socialist charge of the department that to inhibit the 'freedom' of the City of London. Walker himself started as one of the small entrepreneurs that he wants to encourage. Not that he mentioned this to his audience. His only refer- ence to his past was an anec- dote about his schooldays when, at 14, he formed a group 'Walker's called Anti-Labour League'. This fraternity special- ized in putting Tory literature in the desks of Labour masters.

But he didn't mention that at 16 he joined the General Accident Assurance office near Gloucester as little more than an errand boy. couple of ycars later, A while serving National Service, he spent his time peddling insurance to squad- dies. Via unit trusts and his partnership with British- Leyland accountant Jim Slater, he has established himself as a multi-millionaire. 'Never has there been a time when the young Dick Whitting- tons had a greater opportunity to succeed,' Walker told the Institute of Directors with all the passion he could muster. But Walker's enthusiasm for the future-'we can achieve a new commercial greatness out of all proportion to our size and then see that the fruits of that greatness are applied to create a society in which the quality of life, the elimina- tion of poverty, the improve- ment of the environment is of dimensions that it gives such Britain a new leadership, leadership that is truly admired' — had been blunted by a previous speaker, Alistair 'The Guardian's' cor- Cooke, respondent in America. Cooke's contribution was a meandering, and cynical humorous account of various politicians in America over the past couple of hundred years.

concluding His remarks. however, were the thoughts of troubled by the next a man in American politics. stage They were a distinct departure from his normal apologies for 'American democracy' which have bored millions of radio listeners for the past 30 40 years. He said: 'Mr Nixon says that in the last four years violence has been cooled, the Republic is troubled but calm. Unfortu- nately, the President of the United States, since that bad Dallas, is particularly day in insulated from a close look at any part of the United States, except the interior of the White House and Air Force One Ithe presidential jet], or any inter- course with its citizens. 'Anyone who has travelled much around the whole nation in the last year or two is cer- tain, I believe, to be staggered by Mr Nixon's complacency. My own fear is that the great calm is a great lull. I wonder about all the embittered and disaffected, all minorities the the blacks, the students, the women, the best of the young who raised Cain four years fear that this vaunted ago, calm could be the dead centre "The Alistair Cooke, Guardian's' correspondent in for more America than a quarter of a century, brought some sobering thoughts to the He warned about conference. of corruption in high places and described how four or five of Harding's Cabinet President advisers were sent to jail.

Richard Marsh, former Labour Transport Minister and noW Tory-nominated chairman of British Rail, told the confer- many years I was ence: For a member of the executive of the Fabian Society. The insig- nia of that radical organization was a picture of a tortoise and the slogan-"The Inevitability of Gradualness". That may sound surprising for an orga- nization campaigning for radi- cal change in society, but it is, I think, very apt.? of the hurricane. I believe we are living through a time not unlike the headless halcyon days of President Harding, except that our complacency is fearful instead of smug. It is the complacency of the double-locked door. 'Harding provided a welcome change from the puritanism, the idealism of Woodrow Wil- Harding's during And son. reign there was the same stolid indifference to corruption, until four or five of his cabinet officers and advisers went to jail. There was the same in- difference to the vast sums spent by corporations in elect- ing the tribune of the people.

'Then, as now, people con- cluded that one party the public till, wouldn't rob the other would. The Republic was never calmer than in the twilight of Coolidge's reign.

brewing But volcano was a ind it burst under him on And then all the Hoover. smug frauds, and the all-wise tycoons, and the smart boys Workers Press, Tuesday Nor ran for cover. 'We may in the next four years go through bad, even terrifying, before the times leaders worthy appear. next But it is, I believe, bound to happen again.' When he finished Cooke re- but ceived appreciative an round of applause. nervous The point was that Cooke had been consciously not very talking only about the United States. Being too polite to upset his the audience he was using American experience to issue a grim warning of the explo- sive times in front. The cor- ruption, the unbridled exploi- tation-these are not only symptoms of the US. It's hap- pening in government here. In the police force too. When the chairman made his closing remarks the dele- for the myriad gates rushed exits. It was belting with rain outside. The Rolls-Royces and Bentleys purred in a long line Press, Tuesday November 14, 1972 PAGE 7 Secretary Peter Walker, the new for Trade and Industry at the Directors' annual Institute of conference last week. to pick up the fattest cats. A second layer caught taxis and the lower from breeds the board rushed for the room nearest underground. Newspaper sellers outside did a brisk trade. The head- line screamed: 'Man grows one million years older.' There was a bizarre moment when one thought this had some- thing to do with the Institute of Directors convention. It turned out to be a story of the discovery of a prehistoric skull in Kenya by National Geographical Society. The man who shouted to a taxi driver: 'Bring the bloody thing over here out of the idiot' re- rain, you bloody minded one that similar ex- could have been cavations conducted at the Albert Hall with just as last Thursday momentous results.

Last week, the Soviet shipping delegation and eastern European representatives in Spain held a cocktail reception party in Madrid to cele brate the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The reception had official authorization from the fascist authorities and was the first ceremony of its kind in Spain since the trade unions and parties of the working class were destroyed in the Spanish Civil War. The 'Morning Star' and British Communist Party remained absolutely silent on this crime against the working class as they have been on the whole develop- ment of the counter-revolutionary pact between the Kremlin and Franco. Today our special writer on Spanish affairs. Juan Garcia, continues

THE SPANISH FASCISTS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday Nover Last week, the Soviet shipping brate the anniversary of the l ceremony of its kind in Spain: Star' and British Communist P ment of the counter-revolutior his series of articles exposing St One of the most obnox- ious aspects of the rela- tions between the Franco regime and the Stalinist bureaucracies is the con- stant procession of artists and folk-dancing troupes from eastern Europe to entertain the doubtful cultural tastes of the Spanish bourgeoisie. Alfonso Paso, one of their favourite playwrights, who usually has six or seven plays performed in Madrid being theatres, recently stated at a meeting called by Falangist Blas to be a Pinar that Spaniard, one had to be a Catholic' East European artists owe their talents to the property- relations established by the 1917 Russian Revolution. In Spain, they use these talents often as part of cultural festi- vals whose purpose is to boost a nationalist pride in Spain.

Go to a Holy Week testival in Seville, 'Anniversary of an Peace' festival in Madrid, and more likely than not some eastern European act will be appearing. Mezzo-soprano Elena Obrast- sova, accompanied by pianist Erogin, delighted Alexander fascist music-lovers the at International Music Festival in end of Barcelona at the October. Reading the review by the Catalan composer Xavier Mont- salvatge one would think the Tsar and Rasputin still pre- sided over Russia. 'Elena Obrastsova reveals in every inflection of her singing, that which we sometimes des- cribe a little simplistically as the Russian soul, as the pal- pitation of Slav feeling in every word, every phrase,every ... Now cadence of melody that the exchanges between Spain and the USSR are in- creasing, will it not be possible to consider the return of Elena Obrastsova . ..?' If Montsalvatge continues in that vein, who knows perhaps he will get an invitation to go to Moscow to give lectures on his 'art of composition'?

He has already told his fans that Elena is intending to give a series of recitals which will include many of his own songs.

All these trips are arranged by the Ministry of Information and Tourism. This Ministry is the public relations department of the regime; it creates the image of 'happy, sunny Spain; Spain bull-fights flamenco', which brings tourists and the foreign currency to Spain. The Ministry is also in charge of training the servile journalists who gloat over the virtues of His Excellency, Franco, and every visit by an East European dignitary to the Catholic fatherland. This was how one of them, day November 14, 1972 hipping delegation and eastern Eurc of the Bolshevik revolution. The re 1 Spain since the trade unions and pa unist Party remained absolutely siler volutionary pact between the Kremli osing Stalinism's friendship with the One of the acquisitions of the Spanis Tourism is the old 'rebel' surrealist pa Salvador Dalí. Here, Dalí presents Fr General's Palace in Madrid—a daughter, Maria del Carmen Trendy Polish composer and welcomed by the Catalan composer X airport. Penderecki attended the recei in Barcelona. Julio Trenas, described the end of the ceremony commemorat- ing the 39th Anniversary of the Falange on October 29: 'The Head of State pro- nounced the final word: "The meeting is over". Up top, in the public gallery, someone began singing "Cara al Sol" ("Facing the Sun"-Hymn of Falange) which was im- mediately sung by everybody.

'Three Ministers-don Licinio de la Fuente, Señores Allende and Garcia Ramal-raised their arms in salute. When the hymn finished, Generalissimo • was Franco, National Head of the Movement, shouted three times the ritual cry of "Spain! Spain!

the Spain!" , which everyone re- peated. To great applause, followed by the Prince of Spain, the Head of State left the hall. In the street, the masses were waiting enthusiastically. The was shining and it was sun Sunday. Just like October 29, 1933.' The Spanish working class, of course, have no democratic rights whatsoever. While they have been able to follow every rn European representatives in Spa The reception had official authori s and parties of the working class w ely silent on this crime against the : Kremlin and Franco. Today our sp vith the fascists. he Spanish Ministry of Information and realist painter of the 1920s and 1930s, esents Franco with his latest work in hadrid-a portrait of his great-grand- • Martínez Bordiu de Borbón.

Right: id musician, Krzysztof Penderecki, is mposer Xavier Benguerel at Barcelona the recent International Music Festival detail of the growth of Stalinist-fascist relations in the Press, all they can read of the working class is the latest imprisonment or shooting of workers for illegal combination and propaganda. The fascist Press makes the most of this. During the recent strike in Vigo, reports on the strike were juxtaposed with of Madrid-Moscow reports relations. There was also speculation on what the trade pact would mean for the Communist Party of Spain, whether it would lead re- to a strengthening of secretary Santiago Carrillo, with his 'relative autonomy from Mos- cow', or of the Lister group.

The best answer to this campaign to demoralize Spanish workers has been the record of militant strikes over the last 12 months-unparalleled since the days of the Second Republic. TOMORROW: the military alliances of Spain.

Trade unionists are still talk- ing about the trip to Bucking- ham Palace made by mem- bers of the TUC, the CBl and big business. Among those union present trade were leaders Victor Feather, Hugh Scanion and Jack Jones. The Duke of Edinburgh chaired the discussions which came right in the middle of the Downing Street talks on inflation. The purpose of the talks for a study was to arrange industrial rela- conference on tions being planned for 1974.

The Duke has already held similar conferences in Oxford in 1956, Canada 1962 and Australia in 1968. A Press statement on the study con- ference says: "The aim of the conference is to bring together men and women under the age of 45 from management and the trade unions to con- sider what they can do to improve the relationship be- tween industries and communi- and between individuals ties and their work. "These will be people who in the future will be respon- sible for decisions_likely to affect their fellow citizens?

The Industrial Society is in charge of administering the 1974 which will conference, be held in Oxford. Chairing the conference will be Sir James Dunnett, GCB,

CMG,

under- permanent Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence. Why should a leading figure from the former War Office be heading such a meeting?

No one can answer. Except to say that Dunnett's previous civil service experience has also also been with the Minis- try of Labour from 1962 to 1966. He comes from a powerful ruling-class family headed by the late Sir James Dunnett.

His other sons have all achieved prominent places capitalist society. Sir George Dunnett is chair- man of International Molasses and he was chairman of the Sugar Board from 1956 to 1970. The other Denzil served with the Dunnett, Foreign Office until he was the Board of seconded to Trade in 1967. His overseas appointments included Buenos Aires, Elizabethville and Madrid. With the Duke of Edin- family, burgh, the Dunnett Stokes, Lord Sieff and Lord Lord Melchett at the top of this outfit, it will be an interesting conference. Then, again, 1974 is a long way off. The ruling class often takes pride that the British bobby is not armed — not usually armed that is. One wonders therefore what the purpose of advertisement that that enthusiastic appeared in guardian of 'law and order'— 'Police', the monthly journal of the Police Federation.

Thé latest issue gives over promoting page to snug-fitting shoulder holsters .. (with gun) from a wide range of security equipment and accessories all finished in high quality leather. 'Please send your 10p postal order for our new catalogue showing full details,' reads the blurb. It's a sad commentary on our times,' says the magazine's editor Anthony Judge. One of the candidates to suc- ceed the late Cardinal Tisserant as a member of the French Academy is Father R. L. Bruckberger, author and film producer. Bruckberger is regarded somewhat as a Rabelaisian figure, often seen in Paris restaurants. After World he . War II, served in Algeria as chaplain Foreign to the . Legion. In 1950 he wrote that if Roman Catholics in Europe acted in full accord with their religious professions, they would pro- mote and join a crusade to put down atheism in Russia. They would, said Bruck- berger, 'take the Protestants along with them as their Foreign Legion'.

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186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG. The military rulers of Greece have their sights set on expansion of trade with Africa and the crea- tion of a new ministry to deal with Asian and African trade is under consideration. Greek vice-president Styli- anos Pattakos has just finished a 21-nation tour of the conti- nent and Athens has received three visting heads of state General Jean Bedel Bokassa of the 'Marxist' Central African Republic, General Mobutu Sese-Seko of Zaire and Wil- Tolbert of Liberia-all liam noted reactionaries. So far African trade with Greece has been very limited mainly in Africa's - and favour. In 1970 Greece ex- ported $21m to the continent, approximately double the 1965 figure, while its African im- ports were $86m. The Greeks mainly trade in building material, pharmaceu- tical products and food. But there is now a big drive sell manufactures. Trade to and promotional organizations —notably the Hellenic Export SA, under the auspices of the National Bank of Industrial Development—are all concen- trating on the African scene.

of The Athens Chamber Commerce is also offering to plan visits to and from the continent. The latest move is Pattakos, from who has universities, opened up the strictly under the heel of the colonel's dictatorship, to pre- selected young Africans. The Athens Chamber of Commerce is also offering to plan visits to and from the continent. The latest move is has from Pattakos, who opened up universities, the strictly under the heel of the colonels' dictatorship, to pre- selected young Africans. The Greeks, of course, are not the only ones who have a keen interest in this sphere.

The Chinese bureaucracy has for long courted the 'left' lea- ders of Africa. Trade has so far been in China's favour to the tune of over $70m and this year's sur- plus is expected to be even greater. China has become a major trading partner of several countries, notably Tanzania and Zambia. Since the Cultu- ral Revolution, however, the character of the drive has altered significantly. Instead of attempting to develop revolu- tionary movements in Africa, the Chinese bureaucracy has developing concentrated on mutually beneficial trade chan- nels. One of her major commit- ments is the $300m Tanzam railway project in Zambia.

Other commitments for 1972 include $31m to the anti- communist Numeiry regime in Sudan for an agricultural im- plements factory. One of the attractions of Chinese aid is that while their factories may cause mirth in western capitalist circles, they are labour-intensive and there- fore make a greater impact on the vast under- and unemploy- ment problem in Africa. Workers Press, Tuesda Zatre's Mobutu, a noted right-winger, Above : Greek vice-president Pattakos, ju: The completely untenable economic position of many African states, still completely in the pockets of imperialism, highlighted recently by was President Sekou Touré (above) ef Guinea. He has just introduced an aptly named new currency "sily. But the new called money has inherited the prob- lems of the old Guinea franc.

This was supposed to have an official par value of one Guinea franc to one French franc. But on the black mar- ket-reflecting more truly the domination complete of French imperialism-the ratio was 333 to one. The new 'sily' is supposed to be worth ten old Guinea francs and therefore officially ten French francs. But not on the black market-there trade in the 'sily' goes on at vastly devalued rates. Touré has said this traffic has created several million- 'some of whom have aires, died of heart attack' . For the ones who survive he has intro- duced the death penalty! 3, Tuesday November 14, 1972 PAGE 9 i-winger, who was received in Athens.

attakos, just completed an African tour.

The great VD is scare always good propaganda for brigade. One the Longford wonders how they would treat the latest statistics to come out of Kenya. These show that per cent of students at Nairobi university have the disease. They are flocking to the treatment centres to be cured free of charge. Many return for more treatment after their first bout; one student is re- ported to have been back 29 times! DrI Mugo Gachuhi, a re- search fellow compiling a re- port on sexual behaviour in Kenya, says that the students contract the disease not from prostitutes, but 'good-time secretaries' who are difficult to trace because they are afraid uf coming forward for treatment. The report has already been taken up by right-wingers in Kenya who have used it as an excuse to launch a general offensive, aimed particularly against the left-wing groups on the campus. President Idi Amin of Uganda-on the surface a moralist-has also chip- stern ped in. He has warned his own students to abstain lest they infect the entire nation.

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Tribute paid to rainwear COVENTRY engineers want their union leaders to call a national strike if the union's funds are seized for refusal to €5,000 fine imposed pay the by the industrial court. The city's No 8 branch of the of Amalgamated Union Workers has Engineering passed this resolution: 'In the event of any action being taken against any mem- ber of our union or the any of our sequestration of funds due to the refusal to pay the £5,000 fine imposed by National Industrial the Relations Court, this branch demands that the EC calls a national strike. 'Further, to call upon the whole trade union movement for a General Strike for the removal of the Tory govern- ment and the replacement by a Labour government pledged to repeal all anti-working class acts and to implement socialist policies. "This branch is not pre- pared to see the struggle and sacrifice of the pioneers of this great union laid to waste by this Tory government.' EDINBURGH general branch of Britain's largest white-collar ASTMS, has passed the union, following resolution to go for- ward to the union's special rules conference at the Imperial College, London, next Saturday: That this conference totally opposes the wage freeze recently decreed by the Tory govern- ment. This action constitutes a major attack upon the interests and living standards of the working class as a whole and clearly provides the basis for the formation of a corporate state in this country. 'We consider that such an attack can only be answered by mobilization of the the mass Labour and trade union move- employing ment against the classes, in order to force the Tory government to resign.

'We therefore call upon the National Executive Council to demand the immediate recall of the TUC and Labour Party con- ferences in order to unite the workers' movement in this struggle and to plan a campaign directed towards forcing Tory government from office and the election of a Labour govern- ment pledged to a socialist pro- gramme? The Journal of International Marxism Committee of the Four

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From Left Opposition to F Workers Press, Tuesda WOMEN STRIKERS at Barbours' rainwear, South Shields, voted unani- yesterday to continue their mously three-week-old strike for union recog nition. into tok meeting heard Joe their determination to could have serious im out. tor ever it neces. Mills, and plications for future sary.' win this strugge The trouble occurred strikers. The Angry trade unionists General Workers Shields have when Social Security police South Union regional officer, in Was accused Cared other issue That denied une oca ries pay tribute to their law to throw out single strikers their basic collaborating with struggle. girls who were asking rights to make a claim Barbours' management 'You the only The emergency beneht. for beneht are 101 DreaK Yesterday the country Jack have abused their The women say the firm 1n get money from the Grasby, secretary of powers.' has offered them South® Margaret after the Shields Trades Clark (18) choice back to callyels

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Want. hedocuarters coi une cole mass meeting about the incident. Margaret, trainee The strikers strikers. He Workers has father. appealing for for financia cutter, from the Press: Her mother help can be It was clear earns to i 'Legitimate claims for that the sent to: meeting recenT week ane- she das TUC Strike Fund, rough handling of the single girls have been brother still at school. police be would be suicide 143 Westoe Rd girls by the refused "It Social officials. South Shields, Security sidered by the local Lo co Dalk witnoul unt office has strengthened This kind action union. We will stick it Co. Durham. IN A PEP-TALK to police tion, Mark said their 'public population know too much about Metropolitan Police image' had to be improved.

in the police officers, What is colon force : today. And no amount of Commissioner Robert Mark high said, time' Tory propaganda can cover it up.

has said the force is now 'that we have not only per suaded the public but believed perhaps the most essential • Scotland Yard said yesterday ourselves that the police service social service of our time'.

that 'normal extradition proceed in today's society fulfils a pur- hand' following Speaking the annual at pose no less admirable than the the meeting of the Metropolitan detention Western Australia professions of medicine, teaching of former drugs squad detec- of the Police Federa- and the law tive sergeant. In particular he stressed Norman Pilcher, for whom a better with the relations warrant week He Press. officers TaliSt sala alleging conspiracy pervert the of justice, course was and to ments to the Fremant e delanet ae r with reporters from the capitalist arriving by sea on Saturday with media. his wife and two children.

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A HIGH COURT judge yes- terday refused an open hear- ing into an appeal by two men against a five-year-old conviction for murder. Dennis • Stafford (38) and Michael Luvaglio (34) are appeal- ing against their conviction for the murder of Angus Sibbett, a fruit-machine dealer. They were convicted Newcastle upon at Tyne Assizes in 1967. Sibbett was found shot dead in a car in the village of South Hetton, County Durham. Appeal moves were rejected by the Appeal Court. But following a public outcry further repre- sentations were made to the Home Office. The then Home Secretary, Reginald Maudling, referred the case back to the Appeal Court. Yesterday's hearing in private before Mr Justice Croom-Johnson was to hear fresh evidence and to re-examine some of the witnesses who gave evidence at the original trial. Strafford is a category "A' security prisoner in the high wing at Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight while Luvaglio prisoner at Wake- category B' field. There were tight security pre- cautions at the court as the two wearing dark suits, men, both were taken from a police van.

Outside the court Joe Stafford, the father of one of the con- victed men, said: "To some extent this hearing is the fruition of my hopes.' PICKETS were on duty at the Midland Cold Store, Hackney, despite London, yesterday a weekend statement from the Vestey Organization that the company intends to return to the National Industrial Relations Court. ke information about low and send to NATIONAL

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BRITAIN

clocked up another deficit on the balance of trade last month, though the debt was far less than in September.

A sharp increase in exports, partly due to the backiog caused by the dock strike, slashed the deficit from a revised September of £134m to £47m in figure October. Imports continued at a high level of £955m compared with £966m in September. A Department of Trade official said that the picture on trade was still confused by the dock strike. The back-log on imports had almost been but cleared, still one on exports. there was This means that exports are likely to decline in the next months.

With an expected surplus of £50m on "invisible' trade items, Britain's trade balance is thought to be registering a small surplus, compared with hefty deficits in August and September. GAS-FIRE workers in Liverpool official backing will today seek for a four-week battle to rein- state two shop stewards. At a meeting with regional secretary Transport and General Workers' Union, Doug Farrar, Robinson Willey, strikers from will complain that Mill Lane, their picket is being broken with union support. firm's management is The using letters from

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district organizer Glyn Llewellyn to persuade drivers to cross the picket line. THE BOMBING of Cabinet ministers will not get rid of the capitalist system, the jury in the 'Angry Brigade' trial at the Old Bailey was told yester- day. Anna Mendleson, one of the eight defendants told them: 'My politics are not the politics of bombing.' In her final speech Miss Men- dleson said she did not know how her fingerprints came to be on paper found with a bomb in Manchester. She explained the way in which she was living at that time in Colchester during her seconc year at Essex University.

'We lived in a big house and shared everything. Half the time know the people didn't you around you. You would see one one day, then person never again.' Fourteen finger and palm im- been pressions had found on different items at Manchester, she added, but eleven prints were never identified by the police.

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And in their desperate search for a way of not fighting Heath, they moving towards are an alliance with the most reaction- ary sections of the Tory Party.

"Tribune'-ites, seems, The it believe 20-25 Tory MPs can be persuaded to support exemption the farm hospital and workers. So the Labourites will support a 'rebel' Tory amendment asking for the farmworkers' £3.30 in- crease to be treated as a special case, in the hope that the Tories back a similar one from will them on the hospital claim.

This is an extremely dangerous proposal. There are no 'ways round' the Tories' pay law, as suggested by ASTMS general secretary Clive Jenkins. State pay control can only be stopped by bringing down the Bistered listed workers ess Office. sW4 7u Street, London, 186a Clapham High (TU), Printed by Plough Press Ltd.

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WHO IS sending the letter-bombs received over the last few days by Jewish businessmen in London, Glasgow and British other cities? Scotland Yard has said that 'a high degree of sus- picion' falls on the under- ground Palestinian Black September organization. But Arab none organizations, includ- guerrilla ing Black September, have claimed responsibility for these attacks. Mr Said Hammami, London representative of the Palestin- ian Liberation Organization, yesterday • said all the signs pointed to Zionist involve- ment in the terror campaign.

He pointed out that if Black September had been responsi-

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This showed how many people had handled the different parts and pieces. She maintained that the police singled out her and Jim had Greenfield as candidates for the 'Angry Brigade' for definite reasons. 'It's basically as a result of the fact that I knew Ian Purdie and had met Jake Prescott on four occasions. Jim had also met and known them,' she told the court.

When Purdie was arrested in February 1971 after the bombing of Tory Minister Robert Carr's house police came down the heavily on left-wing households.

she added, the only But, evidence police had was that Purdie had bought her a train ticket and that he and Prescott had visited her at Wyvenhoe, Essex in 1970. 'We were not involved in any government and replacing it with a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. The first task of this government would be to repeal the Indus- trial Relations Act and the pay The idea of exemption--quite apart from the fact the Tories have no intention of granting it —is a cynical diversion from the fight to force the Tories out.

Yet this is precisely the logic of the position adopted last the TUC Economic week by Committee, which refused recall Congress, call together union executives or even hold a special General Council meeting to fight the pay law. TUC secretary Victor Feather even made clear that if there • were signs of concessions from Tories, the union leaders the would be prepared to go back to talks on a deal with them.

No doubt hoping that working- 'class would opposition soon die down, he said an invitation to such talks 'should not come too soon'. Feather is living in a Tory dreamland, which at this junc-

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WE MUST begin to press ahead with the campaign to raise our November Fund. Throughout the working class, the movement is growing for higher wages in order to defend a basic standard of living. The Tories will be forced to use their laws to keep down A major confrontation wages. ble they would have had no reason to deny their involve- ment. believe that this is the work of Zionists themselves,' he told me. "The Zionists were the first people to send letter- bombs. They alone stand to gain by the present campaign.'

He added that historically the Zionists had frequently practiced terror against their fellow Jews. Iraqi Jews fled to Israel from Baghdad in the 1940s as a result of a series of explosions in the city's Jewish quarters.

"The explosions were after- wards proved to be the work of Zionist terrorist squads,' Hammami said. It was planned by David Ben Gurion to force them to emigrate to Israel' A similar method was used to drive Jews out of Alexan- dria, Egypt. Mr Hammami said the Zionists felt a growing gap between themselves and world Jewry. ' trial jury is told

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plot or conspiracy with Jake Prescott or lan Purdie.' Witnesses had also told the court Miss Mendleson had not been in Manchester when the there in bomb was found a carrier bag with the paper with I did not know how the "Angry Brigade" was organized.

And I could not have joined them. We didn't want bombing, we didn't and don't feel a need for bomb attacks on Cabinet ministers-although we might understand the feeling behind it' She also had to explain why a internment communiqué on * Angry stamped with words Brigade' was published at her house at Amhurst Road. Miss Mendleson argued that the prosecution first maintained that the leaflet had not been con- nected with the explosions and ture in the class struggle is a perilous place to be. The TASS decision recognizes that there are to be no con- cessions. A union spokesman made clear that the TASS executive's decision to proceed with pay strikes would involve several hundred members, but was only the most spectacular 'business as expression of a usual' policy on a wide range of issues. 'We're not interested in fancy or "ways round" the footwork law, although if the employers want to give us money that way, we won't refuse, he said. 'We'd prefer that people join us in opposition in principle.'

So far as it goes, the TASS executive's decision to go ahead with pay strikes is to be sup- ported. But mobilization of the entire labour movement will be neces- sary to force the Tories to resign.

This is the issue before every trade unionist today. The fight to destroy state pay control and remove the Tory government places at the centre struggle for of the stage the alternative, revolutionary leader- ship in the unions. Mass working-class resistance to the Tory price-increases and wage-dictators creates the con- ditions for actually building this leadership.

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between this and government workers everywhere cannot be far away. Workers Press is vital in the immediate period ahead. paper must demonstrate to thous- ands of trade unionists, up and down the country, that only ill revolutionary leadership "The Zionists want to give Jews the idea that even if they are very far away from Israel, the Arabs trying to kill are them.' He added: 'We would never kill any Jew in Britain OI elsewhere simply because they are Jews or Zionists. Our duty is to contact them and persuade them of the need to unite with the Arabs against the Israeli state. We stand for coexistence between Jews and Arabs. 'We are for the destruction of the Israeli state because it is a racialist state. "The kind of terror now being waged through the post can only serve the purposes of the Lionists, who are des- perate to retain their hold over Jews inside and outside Israel and will resort to any means to do this.' bombings. Miss Mendleson said now the prosecution had changed its mind.

The fact she had helped draft the communiqué was the result of her own emotional reaction to in internment without trial Northern Ireland. In August 1971 police came to Amhurst Road and arrested Miss Mendleson and Mr Greenfield on a cheque book charge. 'But the first time I saw the guns and explosives the police say they found at Amhurst Road was at Albany Street police station. I just stood and looked-I couldn't get any words out of my mouth. 'Obviously can't put into words what I think of the police who did that to me, she added.

At the end of her three hour speech, Miss Mendleson, who is defending herself said that if convicted she would not change.

The case which has lasted six months is expected to finish in three weeks. tast India 1 EastIndia Doci senT noon tackle this Tory government.

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Collect as much as you can. Post every donation immediately to: Workers Press November Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG. THE PLANNED closure of the Lucas CAV factory at Fazakerly, discussed last Liverpool, was night by Labour MP for Walton, Christopher Eric Hefter and Chataway, Industrial Develop- ment Minister. The closure of the factory-in Heffer's constituency — faces 1,000 workers with the sack. They have staged an occupation which entered its sixth week yesterday. Production was back to normal at the Lucas Aerospace factory at Netherton when 400em- ployees returned after a one-day token strike in sympathy with the Fazakerly men. As the Tories seek to impose a corporate state and smash down the living conditions of the working class, the Labour and trade union leadersassisted by the Communist Party-refuse to lead any struggle. The central task, therefore, remains the building …a revolutionary leadership in the working class. This raises the key question of the fight for Marx- ism in the trade unions. Political tendencies such as Socialism the International group oppose the develop- ment of Marxist consciousness in the unions and instead substitute a worship of spon- taneous rank-and-file mili- tancy. In practice they line up behind the Communist Party to keep revolutionary politics out of the unions. In a vital series of Workers Press articles, Mike Banda, a Socialist member of the Labour League Central Com- examines the tactics mittee, strategy of the Interna- and This tional Socialism group. important series—beginning on Saturday, November 18- must be Studied by every trade unionist. Lucky number programme

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