Workers Press no. 927

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FINE DEADLINE RUNS OUT FOR ENGINEERS

UNION FUNDS

FACE SEIZURE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER •WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 22, 1972• No 927• 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE INDUSTRIAL court ultimatum to the leaders of 1.2 million engineering workers—telling them to pay a £5,000 fine for contempt — ran out at midnight.

All engineering section assets of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers now lie open to the ancient procedure of sequestration: seizure by commissioners who then exact the fine by force of law.

The TUC General Council meets today at paper were present. Union secretary Jim Conway was said to be ill. a time when every union's right to run its own affairs is under challenge. What do the In their place, assistant secretary Ken Brett was 'There's nothing to say. sent to say: so-called leaders of Britain's 10 million Scanlon was in fact closeted with his bank organized workers propose to do about this?

manager. One indication 11th-hour TheRe Lances arrangement to daad, Is unal al an meeting of the AUEW engineers' executive where union Co-op, yesterday, this crunch situation provoked no money rom account at tne signuy embarrassed by the thought of black-coated com.

discussion or planning of a campaign against doorstep this morning missioners arriving its Tory architects. In fact as acmanas SpoKesman

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accountants Price commissioners, Water- une The executive has said prevented from house, explained yesterday, such no paying the fine voluntarily by decisions embarrassing scenes will occur.

of union, their policy-making national committee. But there was no atmosphere But Price Waterhouse will have "commandeer or cerance EDel

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quarters after yesterday's meeting.

quired to cover the fine'. president Hugh Scanlon was "too busy' Peckham Road was best summed

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he view from foess, ak dough reporter from every national ne the- walk down a flight of stairs and talk the words a silver-haired executive member who, as he sat supping his lunchtime pint, passive resistance, cecared. From the ranks of the union

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Socialist Labour League the situation looks rather differ- ent. Already executive nas been bombarded with resolutions

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from important branches urging active resistance.

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fight to force the Withouta orles resign.

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number of engineering workers

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see little difference between pas-

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direct sive resistance ane CO-

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persed by the TUC operation with court,

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They ask: what about. the next fine- -and the next? As long as

• WORKERS

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the Tories are left in office to operate their Industrial Relations

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Act, what in essence divides the

SUNDAY

AUEW's policy from that of the Showing the Transport and General Workers'

DECEMBER 3

developments and the Union which goes to court? 7 p.m. first issue re19690 The demand of trade unionists Everyman Theatre on today's General Council meet- ine must be:

LIVERPOOL

• Halt this retreat. • Stop talking to the Tories who Speakers: are dany destroying basic trade

MIKE BANDA

union rights or get out and make (SLL Central Committee way for leaders who will.

JOHN HOWE

(Deputy AUEW convenor, CAV) Congress must immediately be

CONNIE FAHEY

recalled to decide a policy of (Wilmslow tenants' leader) action to remove the Tories from office and elect a Labour govern-

ALAN PEERS

(Young Socialists' national committee) pledged repeal the to

HICHE

(Union and tenant speakers in a personal capacity.)

Industrial Relations Act and Details of other provincial meetings see p.

legislate socialist policies.

EMBER 22, 1972• No 927 • 4p

IE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

LABOUR MPs whistled, and there were shouts of Resign' yesterday when Minister of Agri- culture Joseph Godber told the Commons that between June 1970—the date of the General Election-and October, this year, the food index rose by 22 per cent. Marcus Lipton (Lab. Lambeth RAILWAYMEN'S leader Sir Sidney Greene broke into two week holiday yesterday in a bid to settle the one-day drivers' strike which threatens to halt rail services tomorrow.

He attended talks at the British Rail headquarters in Marylebone, where drivers" leader London, Ray Buckton was meeting Board chiefs over the question of high speed trains. The drivers' union ASLEF threatened the one-day stoppage after British Rail management an exprimental high- moved speed train at Derby on Friday.

This broke the ban on the trains by ASLEF, which is de- manding a review of pay struc- throughout the tures industry and improved manning levels before taking part in test runs.

Before attending the meeting Mr Buckton met with his execu- tive over a proposal from British Rail to isolate the issue of high- speed trains from the general question of pay throughout the industry.

BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY

A TAPED interview given to a radio journalist last weekend may be used to convict Sean of membership of MacStiofain the IRA, prosecutor Mr Gerard Buchanan, said in a Dublin Court yesterday. MacStiofain protested his defention and against an- nounced that he was on a thirst and hunger strike. PICKETS representing the 1,000 workers occupying Lucas's CAV Brixton) described the reply as "scandalous confession a ignominious and dishonourable failure on the part of the government. 'Coming from this new style of government solemnly pledged to keeping prices down and closing the gap between pro- mises and performance the gap is getting wider all the time'

BRITISH RAILWAYS

BOARD

Sir Sidney Greene After the meeting, he said that the unions were not - Luddites but were approaching the Board with an open mind. There is, some doubt whether however, there is time to call off the strike.

The has strike also been caused by the frustration drivers feel over the delay on talks to review their pay level. British Rail has been promis- ing these since May. factory at Fazakerley, Liverpool, yesterday escalated their cam- paign to stop blacked supplies reaching Liverpool's Ford and Standard-Triumph car factories Lucas's Victor aerospace and works. BELGIAN cabinet met in emer- gency session yesterday amid growing differences between the two coalition parties over rela- tions between French-speaking and Flemish communities. The cabinet has been split for several weeks over the question.

workers press

FINE DEADLINE RUNS OUT FOR ENGINEERS

UNION FUNDS

FACE SEIZURE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER O WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 22, 1972 & No 927 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE INDUSTRIAL court ultimatum to the leaders of 1.2 million engineering workers—telling them to pay a £5,000 fine for contempt — ran out at midnight.

All engineering section assets of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers now lie open to the ancient procedure of sequestration: seizure by commissioners who then exact the fine by force of law.

The TUC General Council meets today at present. Union secretary Jim Conway baber were was said to be ill. a time when every union's right to run its own affairs is under challenge. What do the assistant secretary Ken Brett was in new diace sent to say: There's nothing to say. so-called leaders of Britain's 10 million closeted with his bank Scan lon was in fact organized workers propose to do about this?

manager. One indication is that at an Ilth-hour here Rhe Lanio Pecks arrangement to dirad

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meeting of the engineers' executive at the Co-op, slightlv yesterday, this crunch situation provoked no Honeston account embarrassed by the thought of black-coated com.

discussion or planning of a campaign against doorstep this missioners arriving its morning its Tory architects. cash. In fact spokesman

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City accountants Price commissioners, Water- The The executive said prevented from has house, explained yesterday, such no paying the fine voluntarily by decisions or all lour embarrassing scenes will occur.

of the their policy-making committee. But there was atmosphere But Price Waterhouse have no commandeer alre quarters after yesterday's meeting.

quired to cover the fine'.

AUEW

president Hugh Scanlon was 'too busy' The view from Peckham Road was best summed to walk down a flight of stairs and talk to the by the words of silver-haired executive Press. although reporters from every national news- member who. as he sat supping his lunchtime pint.

declared: It's passive resistance, really' From the ranks of the union Socialist Labour League

:NEW:

the situation looks rather differ- enl. Aeron execurve been bombarded with resolutions

CELEBRATE

:FILM:

from important branches urging aclive resistance.

3RD ANNIVERSARY

Without a fight to force the i orles resion. growing

OF WORKERS

number of engineering workers

THREE

difference between pas- see little

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sive resistance CU

YEARS

operation with the court, advised by the TUC.

BUILD THER

OF

REVOLUTIONARY

They ask: what about. the next hine- -and the next? As long as

• WORKERS

left in

PARTY

the Tories are office to operate men mosa sea o

PRESS

Act, what in essence divides the

SUNDAY

AUEW's policy from that of the Showing the Transport and General Workers'

DECEMBER 3

developments and Union which goes to court?

since 7 p.m. issue 5. 1969 0 The demand of trade unionists September 25. Everyman Theatre on today's General Council meet- ing must be:

LIVERPOOL

• Halt this retreat. • Stop talking to the Tories who Speakers: are aally aestroying basic trade

MIKE BANDA

union rights or get out and make (SLL Central Committee way for leaders who will.

JORN NOwE (Deputy AUEW convenor, CAV) Congress must immediately be

CONNIE FAHEY

recalled to decide a policy (Wilmslow tenants' leader) action to remove the Tories from office and elect a Labour govern-

ALAN PEERS

(Young Socialists' national committee) pledged to repeal the IcIl (Union and tenant speakers in a personal capacity.)

Relations Act and Industrial Details of other provincial meetings see p. 12 legislate socialist policies.

EMBER 22, 1972 • No 927 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

LABOUR MPs whistled, and there were shouts of 'Resign' yesterday when Minister of Agri- culture Joseph Godber told the that between June Commons 1970-the date of the General Election and October, this year, the food index rose by 22 per cent. Marcus Lipton (Lab. Lambeth RAILWAYMEN'S leader Sir Sidney Greene broke into a bid to settle the one-day drivers' strike which threatens to halt rail services tomorrow.

He attended talks at the British Rail headquarters in Marylebone, where drivers' London, leader Ray Buckton was meeting Board chiefs over the question of high speed trains. The drivers' union ASLEF threatened the one-day stoppage after British Rail management an exprimental high- moved speed train at Derby on Friday.

This broke the ban on the trains by ASLEF, which is de- manding a review of pay struc- throughout the tures industry and improved manning levels before taking part in test runs.

Before attending the meeting Mr Buckton met with his execu- tive over a proposal from British Rail to isolate the issue of high- speed trains from the general question of pay throughout the industry.

BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY

A TAPED interview given to a radio journalist last weekend may be used to convict Sean membership of MacStiofain of the IRA, prosecutor Mr Gerard Buchanan, said in a Dublin Court yesterday. MacStiofain protested his defention and an- against nounced that he was on a thirst and hunger strike. PICKETS representing the 1,000 workers occupying Lucas's CAV 'scandalous confession ignominious and dishonourable of the failure on the part government. 'Coming from this new style of government solemnly pledged to keeping prices down and closing the gap between pro- mises and performancethe gap is getting wider all the time?

LITEH BARNAT

OARD

Sir Sidney Greene After the meeting, he said that not Luddites, the unions were but were approaching the Board with an open mind. There is, however, some doubt whether there is time to call off the strike.

The has strike also been caused by the frustration drivers feel over the delay on talks to review their pay level. British Rail has been promis- ing these since May. factory at Fazakerley, Liverpool, yesterday escalated their cam- paign to stop blacked supplies reaching Liverpool's Ford and Standard-Triumph car factories and Lucas's Victor aerospace works. BELGIAN cabinet met in emer- session yesterday amid gency growing differences between the two coalition parties over rela- tions between . French-speaking Flemish communities. and • The cabinet has been split for several weeks over the question.

Nixon reveals real platform No jobs-No housing-No schools PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday Novem THE AMERICAN working class now faces a crisis situation. Richard Nixon is not wasting any time in pressing ahead with his plans to smash the trade unions and destroy the living conditions of millions of workers. Though the elections are over, the greatest political tasks lie before the labour movement.

No time can be lost in mobil- izing the full strength of the working class through a Con- gress of Labour which must build a labour party based upon socialist programmes and against take action now Nixon's attacks. The urgency of the situation is by Richard Nixon exposed himself, who, in an interview with "Washington Star- News' held just before election and published last day week, outlined in chilling detail his grand design for taking away every right won by the work- ing class over the past 40 years. With unequalled arrogance, this spokesman of the bankers and industrialists declared: "The average American is just like a child in the family. You him some responsibility give and he is going to amount to ON THE EVE of the pre- liminary meeting to prepare the European Security Con- ference in Helsinki, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has unveiled new war plans against the Soviet Union.

The plans laid before the Assembly meeting in

NATO

Brussels provide, among other things, for the laying of mines at the mouth of the Baltic to be activiated in case of war with the USSR. The mines, supplemented by shore-based missile batteries, would be used to bottle up the Soviet fleet and prevent it enter- North Sea and the ing the Atlantic from the landlocked Baltic. This was only one of a number of similar proposals at the NATO gathering, which was also urged to send warships to the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans to protect oil supplies from what was described as 'a serious Soviet threat'. 'The NATO government should the military authorities of give for NATO permission to plan the surveillance and protection, south of the Tropic of Cancer, of seaborne supplies to Europe, says the organization's political committee. urged a permanent It also the western naval presence Indian Ocean to counterbalance Soviet influence in the area and steps to keep the Russians from closing off the oil-rich Persian Gulf. NATO was founded in 1949 to prepare World War III for the reconquest of the

USSR

and Europe for capitalism. eastern 200 delegates gathered be- The hind closed doors at NATO head- quarters in Bonn are discussing the tactical and strategic details of these plans. preparations are made Their worsening necessary by the economic crisis of world capita!- ism which cannot and has never reconciled itself to the conquests of the 1917 October Revolution.

World • capitalism requires markets, sources of raw materials and, above ali, new outlets tor its capital in the USSR, eastern Europe and China. Hence the excitement generated on Wall Street by the recent visit to Needham, of James Moscow chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. lay November 22, 1972 something. He is going to do something. 'Il, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled, and weak eventually very individual.' Boasting that he never promised 'a whole bag full of goodies,' Nixon stated that nearly all the social welfare programmes in- stituted during the 1960s will be dropped. While deploring the decline of the 'work ethic,' Nixon pledged that he will personally super- vise massive job cuts through- out American industry and particularly among federal employees. 'Masses of civilian employees who are getting in the way of each other,' he stated, ' ... are going to have to take a thinning down.' In the same malicious vein, Nixon declared that

HUD,

HEW, (housing and health de- partments) transportation are all too fat, too bloated.' Ad- mitting that his administration has decided to eliminate thou- sands of jobs, Nixon made it clear that moral considerations, would not stand in his way: 'We are going to try to do it in a way that will consider the

BY JOHN SPENCER

At a Press conference in New York yesterday, Needham esti- mated that the Russians need $100,000m in capital for the con- tinued development of their economy. He has asked a newly- formed advisory, committee on international markets to look into 'ways for Wall Street to answer this need'. export from the west Capital to the Soviet Union on anything like this scale would be a direct threat to the foundations of the workers' state, the nationalized property relations, the state monopoly of foreign trade and all the gains won in struggle by the Soviet working class.

The Stalinist bureaucrats are driven along this road by their fear of the Soviet working class.

see the import of foreign They capital as a bulwark against the political revolution in danger of the USSR. Needham and his Wall Street friends are slavering at the mouth over the prospects opened up for them by the Stalinist bureau- alone, explains their this version' to the idea of peaceful co-existence with Moscow.

For them the arrangement of capital exports to the USSR is a step-and only a step-along the road to their ultimate ambi- tion: the restoration of capitalism in the USSR and the enslavement of the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. in the Sam Russell,, writing British Communist Party's 'Morn- ing Star', notes that the Helsinki 30th meeting on the opens of the Battle of anniversary Stalingrad. He writes that the conference is essential 'to ensure that Europe is protected against any recurrence of that nightmare.

This is the crudest Stalinist :... *" individual, but have to The we accomplish the objective?

ake Make no mistake about it. In the full flush of his election victory, is talking about Nixon war against the working class.

In less than a week, it has become that the second crystal clear Nixon administration will be nothing like the first. His talk about creating mass unemploy- ment and slashing all social programmes are no idle threats.

The plans Nixon has for the working class are already being carried out. • In Detroit, the city administ- ration is threatening to shut down the school system in December, and deprive. work- ing class youth of education.

• In St. Louis, 25,000 are being thrown onto streets as public housing facilities are eliminated. • In Newark, the Gibson admin- istration is the verge of on declaring the city bankrupt.

These developments prove that the Nixon administration is determined to make the United States a country where millions of workers will have no jobs, no housing, no unions, no security in their old age, and where their children have no future. deception. Did Stalin's infamous pact with Hitler in 1939 'ensure' against the invasion of the Soviet Union? While Stalin shipped vital and grain the Nazis, oil to massing his troops Hitler was for the drive to Moscow. Stalin entrusted the defence of the Soviet Union to the 'good- will' of the Nazi dictator and cost the Soviet working class 20 million dead. While the big- gest blows of capitalist reaction were being prepared, the work- ing class all over Europe was lulled to sleep with lying talk of mutual security and the sanctity of treaties. The European security con- ference plays the same treacherous role. Behind closed doors the NATO powers prepare for war with the Soviet Union. The chief architect of these plans, President Moscow and Nixon, is fêted in . his re-election hailed as triumph for 'peace-loving, realistic foreign policy. the Meanwhile bureaucracy bargains with the representatives of Wall Street, the arch-enemies of the entire world working class, to open the USSR to foreign capital on a scale never known before: Their running-dogs in the communist parties of western Europe proclaim the advent of a 'new era' in Europe. The European • security con- ference can • neither ensure the security of the USSR nor guaran- tee peace in Europe. The danger spring from does not war what the Soviet leaders describe circles, but from "bellicose as the irreconcilable contradictions of the capitalist system of production. peace in There can be no Europe so long as capitalism and bureaucracy remain. Those who claim the contrary, as the British Communist Party does, are con- working sciously deceiving the class and laying the basis for new and even more bitter con- flicts in the future. European capitalism has been the cradle of two world wars.

Egged on by the United States, NATO is preparing a third.

The of Soviet defence the Union is inseparable from the struggle of the working class to build revolutionary parties to overthrow capitalism all over the Continent, the rule overturn of the bureaucracy in the de- workers' and formed states realize the demand for a Socialist ist United States of Europe.

The Congress of Labour must be All the attacks on the working. convened immediately to take class flow from character the crisis. Under the attacks— of capitalism in action against big unemployment, speed-ups, wage capitalism business uses productive power of controls, in social pro- the vast industry for profit, not to serve grammes — and preparing the the people. alternative by actually organ- labour pledged izing party Nixon and big business are say- socialist that to programmes ing that the corporations can- will meet the crisis. they lay not function unless We propose that the Congress of off millions the and destroy Labour defeat Nixon's Pay living conditions of the work- Board and productivity drive ing class. by organizing national General This workers Strike There means that can action. iS no defend themselves only through other way to stop the govern- of industry the nationalization ment's robbery of open under their control. Only this kers, its stomping upon the the economy be right to negotiate decent way organized and de- planned, contract and inhuman speed- the of interests veloped in ups. working people. By controlling The Congress must answer the the economy, the working class threat of massive unemploy- will it that everyone see for the 30- and fighting schools ment by has a job, that for 40 decent hour week hours' pay. housing are built and 30-hour We make the living conditions assured.

must week the of the land and The Congress of Labour must that may work everyone the unite all sections of the working benefit from productive class in struggle against Nixon capacity of the country. There must be real job training for around this programme. youth. We urge every trade unionist to The Congress and take up the fight for the Con- must reject fight any attempt to turn back gress of Labour in his union.

the living the clock on Reprinted from the November 20 Billions ditions of workers. for "Bulletin', Wor- education, of the must be spent kers League of America. housing and medical care. STRIKING potash miners continued to occupy pits in Alsace, France, yesterday as their strike entered its fifth week. Their trade union leaders resumed negotia- tions in an attempt to reach a settlement.

Over 6,000 miners and their wives marched through the town of Mulhouse on Sunday to show their determination to win a decent living A local Gaullist deputy had claimed no wage. one supported the strike The silent demonstrators carried a single banner with the slogan: 'We will overcome.'

offer last Friday to discuss The miners rejected a company possible increases in 1973 and demanded an improved offer for 1972. The managing-director of the nationalized mining company said a 7-per-cent increase was enough for 1972. But miners know that prices have already risen 'L'Humanité' The daily by 9 per cent this year! reported yesterday that co-opera- The Communist Party has con- President tion between Spanish fined the French struggle simple President Franco and question which claims Pompidou has not been limited wages be resolved by pressure on to police activity against the government. Basques, but has been aimed at the independence of the French the miners' demonstration On trade unions: through Paris last Thursday, the said: main placards simply 'The vertical unions [of fascist 'Negotiations'.. seeking the Spain] have been The corporatist policy behind support of the Paris government to try to limit the influence of the government's hard line is the big French trade unions concealed by the Stalinist Spanish who have admitted they among immigrant leaders, workers.' would have accepted the present terms had they been offered at Pompidou The government the beginning of the strike.

tries to cover up these reaction- of social ary moves with pieces Yet the Stalinists know full like the law legislation, pro- well that the police are interro- weekend posed by at the gating trade unionists and that Minister of Social Affairs Edgar seven trade union representatives Faure. before in Lyons are to appear the for courts organizing Faure's new law stipulates that demonstration and distributing an employer must give reasonable leaflets. explanations for sacking workers and gives the workers the 'right' to appeal in court of law against unfair dismissal.

SYRIA's air defence system yesterday Israeli shot down an The employer can also take a which fell in the Bazzaniya demand plane worker court and area of the Israeli-occupied terri- breaking compensation for the tory, a Syrian military spokesman of a work contraci, said. Israeli aircraft bombed The law pleases certain trade Syrian advanced army post, union bureaucrats who have been wounding a soldier, and one and demanding protection against half hours later bombed dismissal of militants. 'heavily areas' in populated It is, in fact, a cover for more southern Syria. the spokesman attacks on the working class.

said.

Workers Press, Wednesday November 22, 1972 PAGE 3 Mersey dockers Labour's low-profile' treachery to decide on THE Industrial Relations pression being carried out Comment by ALEX MITCHELL against the working class Act and the state wages is the leaders not members of there has been certain meaning Bill now before

TUC

pay-law fight parlia- Wilson's the of shadow-boxing veneral annount both ment are

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-that they feel the law the Opposition Front union Trace poratist-style pieces of shout should Bench, but there been movement accept the obeyed. Tory government's legislation. no ical opposition moug- out all our proceedings.'

poratist measures?

BY DAVID MAUDE

They bring the threat of what the Now let us see that he leadership courts, and same doing Both these examples spell he laws says unlimited nnes 1S jail for trade about the state one thing. coali- wages LIVERPOOL dockers' shop stewards are to Bill tion them unionists who try fight interest between third Віп ол- decent right Dumng the lories the Wilson hold a vital meeting today to decide whether preservation No da. stage leadership. • We have warned independent

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The ot the strong their standard living. Chancellor of the persistently trade unions and the right to fight it out with the Tories state pay- Exchequer defend their Yet the face of these piracy the labour by asalliol historic strike action, picketing and congratulated Tine

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• •g unnon movemen control. the trade unions, the ites the 'low particularly relation blacking. Labour Party leadership opposition they Common Market These are the very rights given entry. At issue is an 'agreement in principle' to grant Bill. During the passage of thi scen Cavel and surenzus onwner tie There had been posture. Euronean Communities Bill.

entire trade union move- the port's 10,000 dockers a 35-hour working week First of all relation tain amount shadow- Wilson led a phoney war ment and the Labour Party -a cut of five hours in their present arrange- Industrial he said, but words while, all along, to Relations boxing, and its finances welc bull. Act the real Ooposition. Witt arrogance On Monday 'One significant night the being achieved Wilson Is Labour bureaucrat were BBC I's 'Panorama', Harold the through the votes and asking the work- May, the Made by the port empio in agreement Wilson advised trade Bill—and union the public abstentions of the Jenkins- 200 ine Class work abandol basis on which the dockers agreed leaders to wil have noted it-is that ites. and bow obey une

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years or struggle the new Seaforth container terminal to the north of the force,' Wilson said, 'it there has been steam The same coalition exists doison and the tories saye dictatorship. docks. Up to that time the terminal had been blacked. the the Opposition from the over Ulster: there not Wilson and employers have declared that they should obeyed whit difference be- Now, however, the Labour benches. the will not implement the agreement because of the Tories been one or the undefeated, determined, have ween here have partes law. suggestions by trade union to lurid phrases, the policies of brutal re- working class. pay-control Since definite was ever reached, a spokesman Pit pay blackmail Walk-out emp overs

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over three formed of he said. sion, over coal sales A final agreement on pay and Coventry hours, - 025. • ne November has still to be with the joint agreed port's suspensions But the agreement on hours

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

MINERS' leaders met 'Until inflation 18 success controlled, no industry, or have read Since the employers

BY OUR OWN

with National Coal Board individual can feel months' already Six Arthur Hawkins said the

CORRESPONDENT

Seaforth

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work Board's coal consumption could lucralive OUl representatives yesterday perity,' he said. of it, there will clearly necon. 10 to STRIKE ACTION over the sus-

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• 111 siderable pressure from the rank to discuss the future of 20,000 year- min- The coal industry is not im -Saleguaraing and file for a fight. pension of the convenor, secretary mune. As labour-intensive the industry, including industry, it vulnerable not even certain that more and steel stores shop steward has i hope the cli wise Illally. and capell shut Renold Chains, Coventry.

wage rates for the next mented at the end of the pre- the industry to respond to what- 90-day law, since the now necessary to beat sent em- Shop stewards' secretary Bill 12 months. inflation.

DIOYCIS

alc DIC Dalik on against it _The basis ОТ ТRЄ sounding-out government's planned follow-up The union is that government the Board's possible response legislation. malace. hinancial ment wanted to avoid paying us

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a pay be tormu- The hold-up on the agreement try would depend labour lated in mid-December. Union announced relations. Was stewaras meeting last week. No imme- chiefs have already postponed Is uncy diate antion forthcoming, figure to the claim 'The overtime ban, then the putting a sion that tead been bedit up posi utterly wrecked the posi- number of stewards twice. The miners' annual our they conference sought rises of £5 auerwaros tial were threat

MUSTAI

incensed by the decision. years. government many June to £7 and shorter hours. actually the occuloed Tne and industry have to put Dockers will be watching man's and superintendent's offices that right, he said Meanwhile the pressure on the however, to closely, see to moderate their chal- Henders Another there ade "This kept the factory in work.

Icadels Lake

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of intimida- claim is increasing. lenge after recent retreat leaders ting has been manacener the blacking of Yesterday Central Electricity for Market. chief Derek Lne firms. Board Generating Board Ezra has chiet made a series, of speeches out- lining Ior sale of British coal in Europe. Writings 'The factory then walked out, any baltie

WRITINGS OF

LON TROTSKY

WInO nave of Leon Market countries (1939-40) "The steel stores members and Trotsky walked again say- lowever. ing they would remain out long the suspension the on stewards The firm (1838-3 1933-1934.. .... £1.43 Immecuately sent tne rest or tne 1,000 workers home. 1934-1935 .. £1.43

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on the coalneids.

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1935-1936 ... £1.25

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arensire they military court yester- 1937-1938 £1.25 day officer and five relical

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LAs _onensive sentencco di have feet over the NCOs to suspended prison terms 1938-1939 .. £1.25 ES Stalinist leader claim and last week to five months for tortur- of up of Scot- prisoners 1939-1940 ... £1.05 the captured during a Mick McGahey, The NATO exercise a mines. promised raise productivity court ruled that the accused had after warning Copit closures without other motiva- tion except bullying or sadism.

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PAGE 4 Workers Pross, Wednesday Movi Michael Banda c Dialectics and apologetics Marxism unequivocally repudiates IS leader Mr T. Cliff's assessment of the historic task facing revolutionaries. It is not, as he says, to raise theory to the level of practice, but consists of over- coming the contradiction between the maturity of the objective revolution- ary conditions and the immaturity of the pro- letariat and its vanguard.

('Transitional Programme of the Fourth Inter- national, New Park Pub- lications.) This means, first and fore- most, a constant struggle between the theory and prac- tice of the revolutionary party in order that the political consciousness of the vanguard, and through it the vast majority of workers, can be raised to the level of the historical task: the conquest of power. This also presupposes a continuous struggle of the van- guard minority against the ideas in dominant bourgeois the working class. The Marxist prognosis does not base itself on a fatalistic acceptance of the status quo in society or the consciousness which such a situation gener- ates in the majority of workers.

On the contrary, and unlike the revisionist empiricist who accepts implicitly and exclu- sively what his senses tell him -i.e. 'facts' and the identity of things as they are-Marxists cannot content themselves merely with what their per- ceptions inform them. They do not dismiss facts, but grapple with the contradictory reality which lies behind every fact.

They criticize the facts in order to transform them. The empiricist does not wish to go beyond what things seem to be-their appearance. The Marxist, on the other hand, seeks to discover the essence of things through a process of perception, abstrac- tion and practice. In this cog- nisive process, practice is the decisive criterion of the truth.

It is only in this way that the contradictions within every- thing can be revealed, their manifold relations grasped, that a more profound know- ledge is gained of the lawful- ness and necessity of every process and the scope for sub- jective control, i.e. leadership, enlarged. is the nub of the This Marxist theory of knowledge which is cogently expressed by Hegel in his Doctrine of Essence' quoted by Lenin in his Philosophical Notebooks: 'If now the primary Deter- sday November 22, 1972 da continues f the tactics and e International minations of Reflection— Identity, Variety and Oppo sition — are established in a proposition, then the deter- mination into which they pass over into their truth [namely Contradiction] should much more so be comprehended and expressed in a proposition: all things are contradictory in themselves, in this meaning, that this proposition as opposed to the others expresses much better the truth and essence of things ... 'But it has been a funda- mental prejudice of hitherto existing logic and of ordinary that Contradiction imagination is a determination having less essence and imminence than Identity; but indeed, if there any question of rank, were and the two determinations had to be fixed as separate, Contradiction would have to be taken as the more profound and more fully essential. For as opposed to it Identity is the determination only simple immediacy, or of dead being, while Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality and it is only in so far as it contains a Contradiction, that anything moves and has impulse and activity? (Lenin's emphasis.) (Lenin's 'Collected Works', pp. 138-139 Vol. 38.)

Cliff ignores crisis What Lenin presents in the quotation from Hegel is more than confirmed and very clearly revealed in a comparison be- tween the method of Cliff in 'Socialist Worker' article his and that of Trotsky. In his article, Cliff has only a passing reference to "deepening crisis of capitalism'.

Nowhere is there even an attempt to explain the titanic conflicts which will lead in-.

evitably to an attempt by the Tories to establish a corporate state and ultimately to social revolution. (Significantly, • the word corporate neither state nor revolution occurs once in the compass of his article.) Thus after a lyrical des- cription of the spontaneous militancy of the workers, Cliff virtually dismisses the need for a conscious leadership by re- one paragraph - the serving concluding one-to the ques- tion of the party: is 'Because the ruling class highly centralized, its ability to manoeuvre is much greater than any individual section of the working class. Therefore the need for a revolutionary party, to repeat, as a school of strategy and tactics, and at the same time an active com- bat organization, will become more vital than ever.' ('Socialist Worker' , August 5, 1972. Our emphasis.) Everything here is wrong and centrist to the core. The manoeuvrability of the ruling class is determined not so much by the fact that it is 'central- Trotsky in 1921. He was convinced the E ized', but mainly because the ruling class has a very acute sense of its desperate political situation flowing from the insoluble crisis of the economic analysed the system. Trotsky crisis of the capitalists in his Third World speech to the the Communist Congress of International in July 1921: 'If the further development of productive forces was con- ceivable within the framework society, then of bourgeois revolution would generally be impossible. But since the further development of the productive forces within the framework of bourgeois society inconceivable, basic is premise for the revolution is given. But revolution in and of itself signifies a living class struggle. The bourgeoisie, even it finds itself though a contradiction with complete the demands of historical pro- gress, nevertheless still remains the most powerful class. 'More than that, it may be said that politically the bour- geoisie attains its greatest powers, its greatest concen- tration of forces and resources, of political and military means of deception, of coercion and provocation, i.e. the flowering strategy, at the of its class when it is moment most immediately threatened by social ruin . . . Let us not forget also that the bourgeoisie hnds itselt face to face with mortal danger, after having accumulated colossal political experience. "The bourgeoisie has created destroyed all sorts of and regimes ... All this varied and rich experience which has entered into the blood and marrow of bourgeois ruling circles has now been mobilized by them in order to maintain themselves in power at any cost' ('First Five Years of the Communist International'. Vol.

II, pp. 4 and 5. New Park Publications. Our emphasis.)

The politics of the capitalists antedates that of the workers.

This, however, is a relative ced the European working class must take powe advantage which can and will be overcome only to the extent that the conscious vanguard 'must train its own proletarian "class politicians" who will be skilled as the bourgeois as politicians'. ('Left-Wing Com- munism'. Lenin. p. 6l.) The task of the party In contrast to the bourgeosie the working class remains politically tied to the apparatus of reformism and Stalinism and, through this apparatus, to bourgeois politics. No amount of the trade union struggle can alter this fact. Only the re- volutionary party, fighting for political power and based on Marxist theory, can solve this contradiction. Trotsky urged the European communists in 1921 to set up communist parties with the principal aim of setting up the dictatorship of the working class because he was absolutely convinced that the insoluble crisis of imperialism and the class contradictions in Europe threatened the working class with barbarism. The victory of Hitler proved how correct was his struggle against opportun- ism and for new leadership.

There is no such urgency in Cliff's pedantic analysis which determines his conception of the party, not as the instrument of proletarian dictatorship, but a 'school of tactics and as 'combat and strategy' as a organization', i.e. an organ- ization that fights but does not seek to conquer power.

Morover the necessity for this party, according to Cliff, is not present now, but only in a future sense. Thus there is neither 'vitality' nor 'impulse' in Cliff's analysis because his outlook eliminates all real contradiction and motion.

That is why there is no independent practice of the why revisionists and they accept uncritically and, in the take power—or be faced with barbarism.

case of Mr Cliti, euphorically, the spontaneous practice of working the Class their as i starting point. That is also why enriched IS theory is never and becomes a sterile dogma.!

This is the surest path to scepticism and subjectivism.

The history of revisionism is a brilliant demonstration that those who reject the con- flict of thought and practice eventually end up by com- pletely and arbitrarily separat- ing the unity of thought and being. This method opens the door to the most reactionary forms of idealist thought-to the substitution of intuition, myths, etc. for reason, to the rejection of materialism and to prostration before complete the capitalist class and its state. The differences with Cliff, therefore, are clear and un- bridgeable. They are: (a) a complete rejection of the Trotskyist premise that 'the objective prerequisites for the proletarian revolution have not only ripened they have begun somewhat rotten' get to ('Transitional Programme'); (b) a blind indifference to the prospect of a major catastrophe threatening the working class in the event of the failure of the socialist revolution; (C) a total rejection of the Marxist principle that the 'Chiet obstacle in the path ol transforming the pre-revolu- tionary into a revolutionary is the opportunist state character of proletarian leader- ship', , Stalinist and social democratic (Transitional Pro- gramme'); (d) a conscious refusal to see the historical crisis of man- kind and the substitution of the 'self-mobilization of the working class, ie. capitalist ideology for conscious the struggle for dialectical material- ism and for the raising of the political consciousness of the working class to the level of the revolutionary tasks.

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GEORGES MARCHAIS

TALKS TO THE TIMES'

Like Maurice Thorez before him, Georges Marchais, secretary of the French Communist Party, has chosen the arch- bourgeois, top people's newspaper 'The Times' owned by multi-million- aire Lord Thomson, to make an authoritative policy statement. Ins a famous interview 26 Thorez laid down years ago, the main lines of the French 'road to socialism'. Acting on Stalin's instructions, every Communist Party, including the British, drew up programmes of reforms to be attained through parliamentary means.

The intention was to remove any lingering suspicion in bourgeois political circles that communist parties in- the tended to carry out a revolu- tion. It was hoped that they would continue to be accepted by partners • bourgeois as parties, as was already the case in France where Thorez was deputy Prime Minister. At the time, Thorez drove to Party meetings in a big official limousine with a police motor-cycle escort. services in restoring His bourgeois institutions were spoken of highly by General his memoirs. de Gaulle in Perhaps President Pompidou will have to find similar com- "The pliments for Marchais. Times' interview certainly prepares the ground. Nostalgia for the good days when communists held portfolios ministerial was in the recently expressed book 'When We Were Mini- sters' by some CP veterans.

Marchais evidently hopes to follow in their footsteps. That is the purpose of the electoral pact and common programme drawn up in association with François Mitterand's Socialist Party. Marchais' interview says nothing new. But it does make plain, for the benefit of 'public opinion' in Britain and in other countries, that a Communist Party-Socialist Party coalition government would in no sense be revolutionary. "The Times' Paris man Edward 1 Mortimer quotes: Marchais: 'The nationalizations pro- posed in the programme affect less than 1 per cent of exist- ing firms' he said, re-assuringly.

Thee CP will respect 'democ- racy, meaning the institutions of bourgeois parliamentarism in the form in which they exist under Fifth Republic's con- stitutjon, tailored to the needs of the Bonapartist General de Gaulle. And Marchais said categoric- ally: 'Obviously by applying this programme we shall not establish communism or even socialism, in France.' But if there is, as he says, a capitalist crisis and he wants to intro- duce 'democratic and anti- monopolistic reforms of un- precedented scope'-with only 1 per cent of firms nationalized -what can this be but an attempt to reform capitalism?

In the common programme, given ample the CP has guarantees that it will accept a multi-party system and will relinquish office if it is voted out. In the run-up to the March 1973 General Election the Party is seeking to win the greatest possible 'unity', not of the working class, but of 'ali French men and women, what- their religious beliefs, ever their philosophical opinions, their former voting habits. Union: that is the key word of all our activity'. The same plea is constantly being made in the CP's daily 'L'Humanité' and every con- cession is made to the Socialist Party and left-wing radicals who support the common pro- gramme. In the November 16 issue, Rolan Leroy says that everything must de done to preserve these still fresh links.

The political battle is not - a question of "polarization', ery but of 'opposing the people to a handtul of those who profit from the present system. It is sterile confrontation not a which is taking place, it is the future of the country which is at stake'. At the same time, party goon squads strike viciously at left-wing groups which oppose class-compromise policy. The French CP wants to lead the working class behind a coalition to preserve bourgeois rule, not to overthrow it.

Clearly the CP does not in- tend to fight for working-class power. It also hopes that if the common programme does win majority support, Pom- pidou will call upon it to form a government. "The latter', ', said Marchais, 'would take a grave responsi- bility, and would be behaving undemocratically, if he most did not take account of the wish expressed by universal suffrage, and therefore if he did not appoint left-wing a Prime Minister.' This appeal to the good in- tentions of the man who, even more than de Gaulle himself, was responsible for holding the state , together when it was May-June threatened by the 1968 General Strike, is a good indication of Marchais' politics.

He would be happy to serve as Prime Minister under Pom- pidou, as Maurice Thorez served deputy Prime as Minister under de Gaulle.

Failing that, "we shall not make any excessive demands' No, the French CP is led by moderate men who sincerely desire to play the parliament- game of ins-and-outs within the framework of Bonapartist constitution under which the Prime Minister is chosen by the President of the Republic. In fact Marchais is careful to say nothing at all about this reactionary constitution, reactionary even by bourgeois standards, under which France is now governed. It places great powers in the hands of the President and the ministers he chooses and keeps the use , of parliament to a minimum.

Again, in reply to Mortimer's question about the Party's position on the Common Market, Marchais gives a straightforward reply: "The left-wing government will have a double aim with respect to EEC: on the one hand, to take part in the con- struction of the EEC, in its institutions and its common policies with a view to freeing it from the domination of big capital, to democratize its institutions ... ' and so on. Whatever conditions Mar- chais adds, this means support -accepting the EEC as a 'reality' and pretending to change it from within. But if the Socialist - Communist has no policy to government fight capitalism in France, how fight this powerful can it line-up international of big capital? Market hoads meet with Mea democratizing about the

EEC

amalgam of representatives of monopol Referring to Britain's forth- coming entry, Marchais tells 'The Times' readers: 'We want to strengthen the bonds of friendship and the co-operation development between France and Britain on the basis of the national inter- ests of both countries. don't panic if we are So elected, he says in so many words, quite respect- we are able people, always ready to uphold 'national interests' and play the diplomatic game according to the rules. Marchais' statement is fully .

in line with the Stalinist policy laid down by Thorez in 1946 and pursued by the French with tactical adaptations, CP, ever since. It does not set the working-class power. goal of It seeks admission to a bourgeois government and offers all the necessary guarantees of good behaviour.

That is not to 'say that the bourgeoisie in France or in Britain accept the protestations of Marchais at their face value.

Behind Marchais they see the Kremlin bureaucracy; but they see the strength of the also working class which the Socialist- election of Communist coalition next March would represent. They will remain deeply suspicious of Marchais, though they will take what advantage they can • of his concessions. The more intelligent recognize that Marchais may have a key Workers Press, Wednesdi Heath. Above: Marchais who talks Institutions, the most reactionary i monopolists and big business.

role to play in holding back working class-as the CP and its unions did during the the May-June 1968 events.

If Socialist-Communist a election victory in March 1973 sparked off a great working- class upsurge, like that which followed the Popular Front victory in May 1936, they would have to count on Mar- chais in the same way as at that time they counted on Thorez. It was Thorez and the communist leadership of the CGT (unions) which finally got the workers of the out factories and enabled the authority of the employers to be restored. The same thing happened in June 1968. In between, when, after 1944, the French bourgeoisie demoralized was and discredited, it was Thorez who, with the slogan of 'one police, one army, one state' disbanded • the partisan form- ations and provided the basis for the post-war revival of French capitalism. In fact, in this statement to 'The Times' we can see once again that while Marchais is trying to delude the working class, he is also offering. his services to the bourgeoisie.

full He does this with the support of the consent and Moscow bureaucracy which desperately needs to make a capitalist deal with the countries of western Europe to finalize the division of Europe and provide a guarantee against revolutionary upheavals. Wednesday November 22, 1972 PAGE 5 The dependence of Amer ican imperialism on im- ported raw materials is heavy and that it is grow- ing rapidly is shown in a recent sensational Depart- ment of the Interior re- port. By 1985 the US will be dependent upon imports • for more than half of its supplies of nine of the 13 basic raw materials of modern industry.

These include iron, lead and tungsten. Already in 1970 the US was dependent on imports for half of its supplies of six of these raw materials. Imports of energy fuels cost $8,000m in that year, but this will soar to $31,000m by 1985, it is esti- mated. The report says that the economy will become more and more sensitive to events outside its control for supplies of industrial and strategic raw materials from foreign coun- tries. It fears that foreign sup- pliers will unite to force up prices as 1 US dependence in- creases. What the report does not say is that US capitalism's need for vital raw materials has been an important factor in its expansionist policies the past two decades. over Intervention in the affairs of foreign countries, especially in Latin America, by_US forces and the Central Intelligence Agency has been frequent.

It is not a question of keep- ing down trade barriers, as the report suggests. US imperial- ism will be forced to take political steps in order to se- cure supplies without which its industry or military mach- ine can be maintained. More interventions by the CIA against governments like that in Chile and open mili- tary operations by puppets or by US forces can be expected. The Greek colonels' military junta continues to crack down on every aspect of life in the country with decree upon decree. One of the latest measures is aimed straight at car drivers and taximen, ordering strict disciplinary measures against them. Drivers 'who are not pro- well- mannered or behave perly' will lose their licences for from ten to 30 days, according to the edict issued by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Mer- chant Marine. Police have been asked to be 'severe' in their control of drivers. The chief victims are going to be taxi-drivers who will now be prevented from work- ing if they fall foul of the colonels' regime. One taxi-driver said it was not the first edict aimed pri- marily at them: "There is also a ruling calling for fines of 500 drachmas (about £7) for taxi-drivers wearing sandals mer at the airport,' he said.

PAGE 6 Workers Press. Wednesday November a de

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Once an officer of the Japanese Imperial Navy recalled the reasons for the genocidal war started by his nation in Asia. The most important ques- tion was oil,' he said. It was feared that as we expanded bit by bit the country would eventually face the fate of a consumptive patient who dies by the a miserable death roadside: Japan dared to soil and the secure resources of south-east Asia.

This, I_ think, was the main reason Japan started the war.'

Japan's catastrophic defeat by US imperialism put an end lednesday November 22, 1972 to her Asian ambitions. But almost 30 years later, now, she is casting a greedy eye over her old south-eastern possessions and again the greatest prize is oil. So far the invading armies have been equipped strictly with briefcases. But the state- ments of the more exuberant enthusiasts of the new 'friend- ship' policy with the nations of the South China Sea have a distinct whiff of power about them. Take this war whoop from the Mining and Coal depart- ment of the Ministry of Inter- national Trade and Industry

(MITI):

"The grand pulsatory motion of the overseas resources development is a spearhead to of expand the horizon the Japanese economy in the 1970s to every corner of the world, and is a mighty motif to give the dreamful vividness to national spirit of development, construction and enterprise.'

Japanese capital has a par- ticular desire to capture the oilfields rich below the coastal shelf that runs from South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines to Vietnam, Thai- land and Burma-now recog- nized as possibly the world's richest virgin oil source.

President Suharto Already of Indonesia has picked up a $300m loan for oil develop- ment from the Japanese gov- ernment and industry and will supply Japan with 58 million sulphur kilo-litres low crude oil over a ten-year period, starting from next year. Of the 330,000 square kilo- metres of new oilfields secured by Japan, approximately 300,000 lie in Asia and the Pacific. The Japanese began to bank- roll the Indonesian govern- ment in 1958, When Prime Minister Kishi, an A-class war criminal, pumping started $223m official war reparations and $400m private war reparations into the country.

This led to the formation of the Indonesian Lobby' within the Japanese capitalist class who bought concessions for leading companies in Sumatra.

The oil dam was opened by enormois bribes. Corruption was practiced on such a scale that it gave birth to a new Indonesian word • 'corrupshi'. Since the bloodbath of 1965, when Suharto took power at the head of the army and wiped out the Communist • 'corrupshi' has Party escalated. Now Japanese oil interests have penetrated into Vietnam, Thailand, Burma and even the Yu-tia Isles, close Tiao to mainland China. The reasons for this plunder of the Pacific are Asia and two-fold. First, Japan has an ever- growing and ravenous hunger for raw materials and is not a especially oil. This feature unique to Japan. It was Lenin who noted in his •Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism': "The more capi- talism is developed, the more the need for raw materials is felt, the more bitter competi- becomes, hunt for raw and the tion more feverish the materials proceeds throughout the world, the more desperate becomes the struggle for the acquisition of colonies.'

On a world scale, oil needs outstripping resources. are Consumption in the 1970s and 1980s is expected to be. twice as in the last 110 as much years. On top of this there is demand for low a growing sulphur oil. This, together with the offensive of the oil exporting countries, is forcing the mammoth companies to search further and further afield for new deposits. But the problem in Tapan is particularly acute. Her eco- nomy is totally dependent on material supplies from raw abroad and her annual 180 million tons of oil is entirely oil imported. Even her so, stock is only enough to sustain Japanese industry for 45 days -far less than the margin in other imperialist western countries. But by 1980, Japanese oil imports are expected to soar immeasurably supplies desire for 'independent the Export or perish.' The 1950 was massive support from the US primarily to build up Japan as counter-revolutionary wark against the revolutionary movements in Asia. The international oil com- panies wanted to set up wholly-owned refining sub- sidiaries in Japan, but the Americans persuaded them to limit their share to 50 per cent.

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But as a compromise the foreign companies who put up the money won the right to supply all the crude oil-so- called 'tied oil'. Even when completely independent oil allowed companies were to flourish, they were forced to borrow capital from the inter- national giants and enter into obligation to buy tied oil.

At present the 'tied-oil', more expensive than the 'free oil', accounts for 75 per cent of Japanese supplies and the Japanese business community is eager to cut loose from this paralysing dependency. The move is not entirely unwelcome by US imperialism, which is trying to discharge some of its Asian burden onto Japan — the so-called Kata- gawari policy. Characteristically Japanese economic development into the free areas has been en- couraged by massive govern- ment help. The Petroleum Development Public Corporation is charge fostering new schemes. It used to put up 50 per cent of the capital needed by any exploring company and by 1971 the cumulative direct investment of the

PDPC

amounted to $200m. But this government assist- ance is quite insufficient. The Japanese monopolies are now at establishing enter- aiming prises large enough to sustain funds the enormous capital needed to open up the fields to exploitation. immensely Already an powerful group is being formed. It incorporates most business interests and big threatens to bring down the law barrier against the mono- poly erected by the Allies after World War II. can be Its vast extent gauged from a remark made by Kobayashi Chu, chairman of Arabian Oil, one of the Japanese independents. He has a plan for the joint development of a 'one trillion a year holding company for promotion of overseas the Workers Press, Wednesday No development, not only of oil but also of gas, uranium and metals'. The various other

PDPC

will be involved with 20 odd private giants and the holding company is supposed to buy out five of the 'indepen- dent' oil-exploration companies not affiliated with the Zaibatsu groups (Japanese cartels).

According to the Ministry of Industry the aim of this and other developments will be to improve Japan's status 'in of the conception the Pacific Economic Sphere, a new economic block incor- porating both underdeveloped countries as well as advanced countries, and, above all, Japan should play a leading entrusted role, her, to combining development of her and economic co- resources operation in Asia'. In short, Japan will be boss economic empire of a new with its fulcrum in Tokyo.

This is bound to mean a rapid of Japanese extention political and military influence in south-east Asia. The future oil needs will be supplied by an unending convoy of tankers Press, Wednesday November 22, 1972 PAGE 7 Suffering caused by the 'war for oil' in South East Asia. Left: Japanese Petro-chemical plant. (photo-Japan Information.)

through the South China Sea.

The implications have noted by the already been president of the Japanese Weapons Industry Association and chairman of the board of Mitsubishi Electric Company, Ohkubo Yuzuru. He reminded the world: In order to secure stable oil transportation from abroad, the maritime defence force the Fourth Defence Plan must be made Build-up what it is today.' The words do not fall on deaf ears. Last October the Japanese fleet had a war game. A total of 22 warships, four submarines, 46 other vessels, 60 planes and 1,700 soldiers were deployed in the East China Sea. 'Hostilities' began after a tanker loaded with Japanese 'torpedoed' to oil had been the bottom of the ocean and oil refineries raided by 'guer- rillas. The Navy won. There once was an officer of the Imperial Japanese Navy who said the cause of the last war was oil... but that was a long time ago.

OF LEON TROTSKY

A review by Tom Kemp. The years 1939-1940 PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday November 22, 1972 The volumes of Trotsky's writings so far published for the several respects from the two period after 1935 differ in The selections are grouped under headings already reviewed. according to country or subject rather than being in chrono- through This makes it possible to follow logical order. Trotsky's thought on a particular topic, such as the Moscow Trials. On the other hand, the notes do little more than indi- cate the source of the articles, thus leaving the reader to find organizations and out for himself about the many persons, events which are referred to. In addition, there is no index.

Apart from the faults of editorship, these volumes are still to e highly recommended because they bring together writing rhich are otherwise virtually inaccessible or, in certain case!

have never been available in English before.

were much in vogue in 'left' In the last months of his the 1930s. Trotsky circles in life, covered by this showed that in dealing with volume, Trotsky was ab- the theories of the permanent and 'socialism in sorbed by three main revolution one country, Geddes had com- questions: The character mitted a number of errors of and consequences of the a kind which could only gra- war which had just be. tify the bureaucracy. He dealt similarly sharply gun, Stalin's attempts to with one John Stuart Hamilton kill him and the struggle who wrote a letter to the 'New inside the American York Times' also claiming, on basis of a sentence in an Socialist Workers' Party the article of Lenin's dating from against the opponents of 1915, that he stood for 'social- country. Marxist dialectics. Trotsky ism in one had no difficulty in exposing incidental references Only lie, which had been in- this are made to the latter in this vestigated by the Dewey but of his writings, selection which found Commission, as course, the theme of follows: separate book, In Defence 'A careful study of the rele- of Marxism'. It is an indis- material has vant historical this pensable complement to convinced this Commission which does not ac- volume, that Lenin's actual view on this subject was that while the revolution could tri- socialist Trotsky had expected the initially single umph in war for many years. The fact country, it could not be ulti- that it came after the making successful without the mately Nazi-Soviet pact of of the of successful socialist re- aid August 1939 also came as no volutions elsewhere. For many years he surprise. It went on to say that at had pointed out that in order the Moscow Trials, prosecutor defend the bureaucratic to Vishinsky falsified the had regime, Stalin would seek an position both of Lenin and of understanding with Hitler. Trotsky on the question. Writing on the pact on Sept- Comintern accuse the ember 2, 1939, Trotsky said: of concealment of school not 'If Germany succeeds with one quotation', Trotsky added, the Kremlin's help in emer- 'but of the systematic falsi- ging victorious from the pre- fication of ideas, facts, quo- sent war, that will signify tations in the interest of the mortal danger for the Soviet Kremlin ruling clique. A codi- Union? fied collection of such a series He recalled that after the of falsifications, is "The His- Munich Dimitrov agreement Communist Party tory of the had put forward a timetable of the USSR"... I take upon of Hitler's aggression which myself to prove before any showed offensive an against that in impartial commission the Soviet Union in the the library of humanity there tumn of 1941. is not single book more dis- "History", honest than this which serves now not only as the basis of In his articles on the pact, political propa- ganda, but also as the directive Trotsky emphasized that the for Soviet painting, sculpture, Soviet bureaucracy ignored films and so on. the interests of the working theatre, Dealing with the invasion of 'In reality', he class. wrote, Finland by the Red Army, 'there is no government in the whole world which at the pre- Trotsky said that it indicated Soviet leaders had moment would fear the that the sent lost the confidence of the revolution more than the pri- masses who saw it as an act of vileged caste ruling the Soviet The Kremlin does not violence and it 'thereby faci- Union. consider itself safe and revolu- litates the mobilization of world public opinion Precisely against tions are contagious. Kremlin fears re- the USSR by the imperialist because the volution, it fears the war that That is why it will leads to revolution'. the last instance, On a number of occasions more harm than advantages to the USSR' Trotsky wrote to the Press or analysing issued In the possible statements concerning published lies and distortions course of World War Il. Trot sky convinced that Nazi which had to be unmasked. He was Germany wrote to the 'New York Times' would be defeated, but that before that happened to statement made expose by a well-known foreign its drive for world domination L. R. Geddes, would topple many things in respondent, G. who had maintained that Lenin Europe. 'Only propagated a new world coali- the theory of "can crush "socialism in one country'.

tion', he wrote, the Geddes' German army through a analyses, basically war The favourable to the Kremlin, of unheard-of proportions.

Bovier tank In operation on the Soviet Union. Above: Hitler reviewing troops, in the Oder be totalitarian regime crushed only by a tremendous attack Gtaman workers part of the As we know, with the bene- of hindsight, although ine this proposition first part of was realized, the second was Trotsky had unquench- nol. able faith in the revolutionary potential of the working class.

He was not wrong as far as Hitler inve austern front after lewing troops, in the Oder secto poss ine revolunonary released by the war we cerned. In any case, if one es Trotsky's writings stat without isolating of this kind trom body of his thinking obvious did that he the coming revolution as in any way an automatic process.

Otherwise his entire life work at this time, directed to the building of the Fourth In- ternational, would have been meaningless. As he puts it in the Mani- festo of the Fourth Inter- national on the war, the following years, if not decades, held a future of wars, up- risings, brief interludes of truce, new wars and new up- risings. 'A young revolutionary party must base itself on this per- spective. History will provide it with enough opportunities and possibilities to test itself, to accumulate experience and to mature. The swifter the ranks of the vanguard are fused the more the epoch of convulsions bloody will be shortened, the less destruction planet suffer. will our 'But the great historical pro- blem will not be solved in any until a revolutionary case party stands at the head of the d the proletariat. The question of tempos and time-intervals is of enormous importance; but ilities it alters the general con- perspective nor the direction of our policy. "The conclusion is a simple one: it is necessary to carry on the work of educating, and nines organizing the proletarian van- fully, tenfold guard with energy. nents Precisely in this lies the task whole it is of the Fourth International'.

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One man said to be doing One state where the pace is being set for the abolition of of commercial tele- well out vision is Peter Cadbury, chair- basic and elementary demo- man and managing director of is California, cratic rights the Westward channel. under the leadership of right- Cadbury (53) has just wing Governor Ronald Rea- Hollywood brought a £32,000 Piper Seneca former gan, plane. actor. Reagan is currently leading Not as if the television magnate needs the extra plane.

the campaign for the abolition He already has another small of the farmworkers' right to aircraft together with a heli- organize a union in the state.

His other campaigns copter. include Cadbury all these runs the restoration of the death necessary flying machines from penalty, while judges have just his tiny 700-acre property at sanctioned the of a lie- use Californian Winkfield Row, Berkshire.

detector in the Said Cadbury: I'm starting courts. an air-taxi service. As per- Now William Farr, once sonal toys my planes are ex- 'The Los Angeles reporter on pensive and by putting them Times' has just been given a in a business I'll be able to prison sentence for refusing to claim depreciation and various reveal the source of a news costs off my taxation.' story. This is the second case Nothing like saving the tax- of its sort in recent months.

payers money, especially after derives from The the case all those prosperous years en- mass murder trial of Charles joying the 'licences to print Manson and others in 1970. money' in the shape of com- Farr received a copy of a pro- mercial television franchises.

secution witness's statement from one of the lawyers and story on it wrote a news which appeared in his paper.

You might think that the In' a main leading article Catholic all its Church, with 'The New York Times' wrote gold and treasure, would be last week of 'fresh evidence of for 30 able to provide amply the speed with which consti- convent aged at nuns tutional protections for free- Houston, Texas. Bible, The of the dom Press are being after all, tells us that charity hacked away'. It described the begins at home. case as a 'powerful new Not, in fact, so. The nuns threat' have been forced to apply for state old-age assistance because their convent has run out of Their bishop has said cash, should they accept welfare payments if they are eligible.

The nuns live at the Sacred Heart Their order convent. directly under the operates Vatican, but receives no money from Rome. Each convent operates independently and its funds come from members' in- comes, mainly raised through teaching. Fewer women are now enter- ing the order, raising the age, and the Houston average nuns' income is not sufficient of to meet the rising costs looking after elderly members.

Mother The Superior says The great acupuncturists of the the convent has no retirement world Chinese. Sur- fund. Amazed welfare officials are the in the Texas state prised, therefore, to learn that Austin, needles are going to be stuck capital, have described the as unprecedented. into the crippled frame of application George Wallace, the Alabama The nuns are entitled to £32 a month if their application is Bomber. Watch it, Wallace, this could be a red plot!

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186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG. The wedding of Mike Siros. Special Br Mike Sirros, the social worker who was deported to Algeria on a visa charge, is continuing his writs against a High Court Judge, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and a Special Branch detective. All three parties named in the writs have taken counter- action: they • have asked the courts to strike out the writ.

These actions will be heard jointly by the Master in Chambers over the next few weeks. Following these private hearings the matter will be by a Queen's Bench heard judge and later in the Court of Appeal. How Sirros (26), his common law wife, Pauline Conroy, and their son, Cormac, were de- ported is a remarkable case- study of the process of the judiciary. Sirros was born in Greece, but travelled on a Turkish passport. He is now stateless.

He first brushed with the law in November 1971 on a driving licence charge. It was later dropped. But this trivial case led to his being held in custody for almost six months.

In December 1971 he was found guilty of overstaying his visa and fined f50 and re- commended for deportation.

He was released from cus- tody pending the consideration of the Home Office. When his appeal , against deportation dismissed was Sirros found himself thrown in jail by Judge Oswell Sea- wright Macleay. appeal against his On imprisonment Sirros won and Macleay's judgement was severely criticized. Another judge said Macleay must have been 'confused' and made a wrong order. Sirros was kept in Penton- ville prison from May until September while he shopped around from one country to the next looking for one to adopt for his new 'home'. No less than 14 countries turned him down. Eventually Algeria stated that he could stay thereon the condition that he married Miss: Conroy, a polytechnic lecturer and mother of his one-year-old son. A brief wedding ceremony was held at Camden Town Hall at which dozens of Special Branch detectives were pre- sent. Sirros was then whipped back to his cell. later, again Three days Workers Press, Wadnesd pecial Branch detecties whip hand culled Sin under armed escort, he was taken to Heathrow to join his wife and family to be deported.

Before he left Sirros, through his solicitors, issued writs against Macleay, Mr Robert Mark and a Special Branch officer named Sergeant Moore, alleging assault and wrongful imprisonment. His lawyer said the case 'would be prosecuted' in Sirros's absence. been Although there have denials that his case is 'poli- tical', his friends say that he has been victimized by the law because of his contacts with community action groups. Pauline was arrested last year when police made massive raids in north and west Lon- don. She originally appeared in the dock with the Stoke Newington defendants charged with conspiracy to bomb homes, including Robert Carr's.

But at one of the first magi- strate's hearings, the police asked for Miss Conroy to be discharged because of lack of evidence against her. The Tory government's inflation Bill is not a tem- porary "freeze', but an attempt to impose perma- nent state control over wages as a step towards the corporate state. Support for this view comes from a leading bourgeois eco- nomist-Frank Blackaby, de- puty director of the National Institute • for Economic and Social Research. Writing in week's issue of last 'New Society', Blackaby says: 'We in this country are in the early stages of a new major field of intervention in the running of our mixed eco- nomy-intervention in the set- tling of relative incomes. We are moving gradually towards a situation in which it is the other government, or some body to which it delegates its powers, which will be the final arbiter about how much dif- ferent jobs, occupations and professions are paid.' Blackaby dismisses all talk of 'temporary' measures. There can, he says, be no return to the old days: 'The first step is to argue that some form of incomes policy is likely to be the norm, and periods of free bargaining "from now on. the exception 'Certainly, the present pro- posals are put forward as temporary. But does anyone believe that, in a year's time, the government will be happy po • Wednesday November 22, 1872 PAGE 9 culled Stros back to his call.

to abandon the whole exercise and go back to free bargain- ing? This seems most im- plausible' 'One-fifth of the employed population works in the public sector. It would be very diffi- cult for the government to go back to a position of passivity about the wage claims in this sector. But equally it is not viable as a long-term policy for the government to inter- sector. So here is another force making for a permanent state of incomes policy.'

At the basis of this wage- control scheme lies state con- trol over trade union action.

Blackaby wants a system where the government would not have to yield to what he calls "bargaining strength': This, he says, is rationaliza- tion of 'the present ad hoc system, in which arbitrators are brought in at the last min- ute to make rushed decisions -decisions which are usually just cosmetic concessions to bargaining power.' And Blackaby really gives the game away when he says that only the security of pro- fit, based on rigid control of wages and trade union action, will make Britain an attractive imposition for world capital.

'A country running an effec- tive incomes policy, in which there is some countervailing power to bargaining pressures, is likely to be a relatively attractive country for inter- national business.' Of course, such a state of.

affairs requires one thing—the defeat of the working class. Blackaby hopes for 'another potential ramification - that economic policy may increas- ingly, over the decade, become a kind of compact between the three estatesgovernment, CBI and TUC' But the determination of the working class to fight for wage rises blew such a com- pact apart and forced the gov- ernment on to the road of confrontation. Thus, the imposition of state control of wages is not just an economic measure but Involves severe political bat- tles. And Blackaby recognizes this: 'Incomes policy, as a per- manent institution, is a big game, not a minor conjunc- tural device. It is likely to have ramifications which spread right through the eco- nomic and political structure.'

Blackaby's article shows that serious bourgeois econo- mists are well aware of the implications of Tory policies.

It is only the trade union lea- ders, backed up by the Stalin- ists and their revisionist hangers-on, who spread the myth that the 'freeze' is tem- porary.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Wednesday November 22, 1972

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First strike in history of the university colleges Olga from theother Oxford OXFORD University is a place bad ones. One is visible to all academic relics emerge from enclaves and follow the mac ornate silver lollipop-down to Lord for their exceeding good On the way they might pass Olga Hastings. She represents the other Oxford of low pay and super exploitation. Olgay and one other woman clean out students' bedrooms, the stairs and the don's flats at St. Anne's college. For her labours she gets £5.60 a week— as much as the average about professor pays for his port each week. Workers like Olga are the minions that have supported this training camp for the ruling class ever since the first college was founded seven centuries ago.

But now the revolt against the "scout, era of the skivvy the and the faithful retainer is on.

The new mood among the university's 4,000 manual staff broke to the surface more than ago when Frank two weeks Keen, a handyman at St Ande's College, was sacked. The authorities claimed that Mr Keen had to go as part of an drive. But the economy Anne's workers think differently.

Frank Keen pioneer of was a the unions and made sure every- in each department he one visited knew their rights. The workers say he's been victimized.

For its own part the National Union of Public Employees sees the move as a desperate attempt by the die-hards in the univer- sity administration to stop their drive to organize Oxford's 39 colleges. Wealthy despotism far the union has pene- So trated 22. In some, like St John's, it has not met any resistance.

But at others, reactionaries have blocked progress. At St Anne's head example, department refuses to employ workers who express a desire to join NUPE. The militants are doubly plagued by the crushing weight of tradition. Oxford was built by the medieval ruling class and successive class élites have moulded it to their require- ments. are islands of The colleges wealthy despotism. The lont comes from accumulated endovi ments of land, property and shares, managed by the college bursar—a quaint name for the man who minds the treasure chest. Some are financial wizards and some are dummies. One Oxford bursar is reputed to have made a million speculating with the funds during a recent currency crisis. But another unloaded his college's lucrative lana for a dud investment dura inter-war years. still regarded with undisguised con- tempt and hatred. At Oxford misdemeanours with young boys can be forgiven, but bad financial management is a damning sin.

But usually the business is " tot a place of two traditions-both e to all each Sunday when the e from their dusty book-lined he mace-which is a kind of down to St Mary's to praise the g good fortune. Frank Keen, a handyman em- ployed by St Anne's College, Oxford, was sacked over two weeks ago. His dismissal caused the first major industrial dispute in the university's 700 years hig tory. The college has now climbed down somewhat and an independent tribunal is looking into Keen's case. Here STEPHEN JOHNS describes the back- ground to this unique dispute.

more mundane. Most cash comes from land and property, Hold- ings are often enormous-it is said you can walk the 70 miles Magdalen (pronounced from Maudlin) College to Cambridge and never leave college land.

At Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, the dons go out on junket. They hire a an annual coach, get in stocks of cham- pagne, chicken and pheasant and drive off to Grimsby. There they inspect their property and play the 'humble' squire to inhabitants. It sounds feudal - but that exactly describes the prevailing atmosphere at Oxford. The main aim of the Oxford bosses has been to create within each college a servant caste to cater to the every need and whim of the 'young gentlemen' who spend a leisurely three years within the cloisters. The linchpin of this system is the 'scout'-a male general fac- totum who is called to do any-

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Tony Cross, university leader of NUPE. thing from polishing class undergraduate's one Cressino the Oxford's many balis and serving at table. Some Attitudes vary. have servility

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insanet in their characters, others have imbibed some of the attitudes of industrial Oxtoro— eo. in terms Workers Press, Wednesd of militancy, by the British- Leyland car complex at Cowley.

Equally, many more enlight- ened students abhor or are embarrassed by the prospect of being waited by a on grown who have But others, man. absorbed the public school ethic, exploit their position of power eagerly—practice for later life.

But slowly the grip of the reactionaries is being broken.

The first serious attempt to unionize the staff came two years' ago from the Transport General Workers' Union. But this drive was beaten back by the anch authorities. But NUPE, which began its campaign over a year ago, seems here to stay and the per- response over the Frnk Keen roes, issue has demonstrated the depth • of of feeling to make a break from virg the past. older Mr Keen has been backed . by ined the vast majority of the St have Anne's staff and a good propor- es of tion . of the students and lec- turers. Pickets virtually shut off erms Wednesday November 22, 1972 PAGE 11 Loft: Olga Hastings probably earns a much in a week as a cleaner in Oxford university as • don will spend on his port.

Below left: Students helped the pickets along with cups of tea.

all the college's facilities last week and workers at five other colleges came out in sympathetic strike. Some of his strongest backing has come from the women cleaners like Mrs Hastings, treasurer of the St Anne's NUPE branch. "The wages in the college are & disgrace. We get 28p an hour— we have turned this down,' said. 'On my cleaning squad there used to be four women, there are now two, so even if we da get an increase we will be work- ing harder. Hostile to unions 'I think it is true to say that there is resistance to the union in the college. Mr Keen did the repairs and he would tell people he met to stand up • for their rights and back the union. A lot of people didn't like him this, because said Mrs Hastings. One of the key men in the NUPE drive is Tony Cross, University secretary. of the branch. Mr Cross is a 'scout' at St John's. 'The attitude of the colleges varies. Some like my own have a pretty reasonable approach, but in others the die-hards put up a hell of a fight. The governing bodies of the colleges are not the worst obstacle. The main trouble occurs at lower mana- gerial level - some heads of department are completely hos- tile to unions. 'The other snag is to break some of the staff from the past.

There used to be the bowing and scraping attitudes, often the Job went in the family-there are still scouts in Oxford who earn as little as £12 for as much as 60 to 70 hours a week.'

Encrusted privilege Lodge porter Albert Baughan represents the new attitudes. He is the shop steward at Balliol college, which is 50 per cent unionized. I was a steward at the Cowley car factory for 25 years-you can imagine the change it was to work in the college. People looked up to the bursar as God: it was very hard break to through. But the university can't keep it up. For a start they can't the staff they want. Few get people are prepared to accept the old conditions and low especially the young ones, pay, told me. Unions have come to stay in Oxford. But so far they have only a tiny impact on the des.

potic, almost medieval way the lofty rulers treat their staff.

It will take more than unions to break up the encrusted privi- lege built into the Oxford system over seven centuries of class rule.

INDIAN Press Trust yesterday reported three people were killed and two injured when police opened fire on rioters at Ongole in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. A local offi- cial was injured when a crowd demonstrating against govern- ment rules on employment in the state threw stones. ..." 4th i 14124%

ULSTER: Army tactics go beyond harassment - priests 'Campaign of violence against civilians'alleged PAGE 12 Workers Press, Wednesday Nov THE CATHOLIC Church in cerned that security measure present intensity will wreck their peace efforts. For months Catholic priests have been storming against the IRA and violence in a bid to restore calm to the streets of the province's riot- torn towns and cities. But army brutality, coupled with a spate of unexplained assassinations, has led Protes- tant and Catholic communities virtually to isolate themselves in semi-armed camps patrolled by their para-military own security forces. The identity of the assassins who have murdered well over 100 people in weeks is past blurred by the fact that the kill.

ings are carried out by plain.

clothes Protestant soldiers, extremists and hard-line Pro- visionals. However a report by more than half Belfast's Catholic priests alleging a 'campaign of violence community the civilian against by the Regular Army' has blown the lid off the military's con- tribution to continuing sectarian tension and distrust. The 65 priests claim that soldiers in uniform and plain clothes have shot at innocent civilians, that homes have been raided repeatedly at all hours and that arrested men have been subjected to beatings and in- human treatment. Ill-treatment of civilians, they has sometimes been used say, deliberately by the army to pro voke the IRA into breaking their cover. They add that when complaints made against individual are soldiers they are not adequately dealt with and that their efforts to bring about peace among the civilian population are being PROVISIONAL IRA Chief of Staff Sean MacStiofain has been charged with membership of an illegal organization less than an hour before he was due to be released from Dub- lin's Bridewell police station.

The Dublin government seems determined let not to MacStiofain slip through its fingers and, if proved, which it almost certainly will be, the charge brought under the Offences Against the State Act maximum penalty of carries a two years' jail. Seamus Twomey, the Pro- frustrated by the army's be- haviour. Army security techniques in Belfast, which has borne the bulk of the terror, are markedly those in other different from towns. In Derry, since Operation the military have Motorman, a low-profile approach adopted designed to create an atmosphere of normality and win the con- fidence of the Catholic population.

The two communities are phy- sically separated by the River Foyle and since the Catholic population gave short shrift to the IRA's plan to bomb what was essentially their Derry to the ground, terror there has been limited. In Belfast, where the two com- munities live cheek by jowl, bombings and shootings have Registered as a newspaper at the Post Office. Published by Workers Press High Street, London, Clapham 186a

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irch in Ulster is clearly con- neasures maintained at their wreck rather than encourage been widespread and security is now oppressive. In the city centre only main streets are completely open with steel gates and two-man army patrols at both ends of all side streets. At sectarian flashpoints in suburban areas corrugated iron barricades effectively seal off the two communities. The city is virtually blanketed with troops moving on all streets at all times foot and in on armoured vehicles. Catholic homes, at least, are searched without warning at all hours of the day and night.

Some families are so used to visional IRA's Belfast brigade commander is being tipped to replace MacStiofain while he is detained. Twomey principal was speaker at a 1,000-strong pro- test rally in O'Connell Street, Dublit for the immediate re- on Monday which called lease of MacStiofain. • Hard on the heels of Tery leader Heath's second "co- operate-or-else' warning to Protestant organizations, Ulster loyalists are to speed up moves of to form a new political party alternative to the as an ro Unionists. the searches that even if the front door is forced open in the middle of the night they stay in bed while the soldiers search around them. The object is to intimidate and harass the IRA and particularly their supporters to the maximum and the army says that where as before Motorman there were about 80 explosions and 800 shootings a week now there are 20 and 100 respectively. But the Belfast priests claim 'the army campaign goes a lot further than harassment and is directed against both Protestants and Catholics. A spokesman said: 'Innocent and unarmed civilians, regardless of sex or age, are being shot by soldiers in and out of uniform.

'People are arrested daily in their homes, places of work, social clubs and on the streets.

Many of those arrested are sub- jected to beatings and inhuman treatment' Father Brian Brady of St Below: one of the stark photographs l format book of pictures he took in Uls is reviewed in tomorrow's Workers Pr own caption to the picture reads: 'An pinned down by the gas, starts curs batons, hustle him into the back of a Joseph's College of Education told a Belfast Press conference of instances where soldiers in plain-clothes had shot civilians. He said: 'On April 15 two brothers called Conway were going to work when they were shot at by people in civilian clothes. 'Daniel Rooney from the St James Street area was shot dead companion seriously and his wounded and the army admitted that a patrol in civilian clothes had shot them although the army said the two men had guns. I am convinced from witnesses that these people were unarmed.

"There was John Kelly of Rosnareen Avenue. The army admitted they shot this man by accident, but said Kelly was struggling with a soldier when the gun went off. I do not be- lieve this is true?

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workers in the machine shop at GEC, Stoke, Coventry on strike are Over- piecework prices and earnings.

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have been laid off. factory convenor Jack Sherring- ton told Workers Press: 'We think the company is making its own interpretation of government wage control the Bill. It is offering prices and say- ing that the workers must accept them. • In yesterday's Workers Press we said that Chrysler shop ste- ward John Worth 'remains sus- pended on full pay. In fact Mr Worth has been reinstated, but under the threat of losing , his shop steward's credentials.

MERCHANT SEAMEN yester- day became the first workers to shop under the get a closed Industrial Relations Act.

At a five-minute hearing the National Industrial Relations Court approved closed-shop London proposals for the 45,000 men prepared by the National Union of Seamen and the British Ship- ping Federation. The union, with support of the Shipping post- Federation, applied for a entry closed-shop in March. The court referred the matter to the Commission on Industrial Rela- tions. who reported favourably on the proposals in July.

ographs in Clive Limpkin's new large- ok in Ulster. Published by Penguin, It lorkers Press centre pages. Limpkin's eads: 'An onlooker, helping a woman tarts cursing the soldiers. They draw ack of a Plg and he's driven off.'

Father Brady said that many people are afraid to make com- plaints against the army in case there are reprisals. He added that even when full details have been given of military violence against people who have no involvement in any political 'redress' movement, has been refused. An army spokesman denied all the charges and said: 'Allegations of this kind seek to shift the blame for inconvenient measures from the terrorists to the security forces. It seems to me that these priests are very much playing the IRA's game' Despite this denial there is doubt that the army is little operating its own assassination squads, spying on the civilian population, going in tor system- atic harassment and is guilty of brutality and sustained treatment of prisoners. 00 East India 1 East India Doci Doors open 12 noon

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