Workers Press no. 929

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

ABOUT

10,000 teachers Margaret Thatcher to grant the claim in full. marched through central Led by NUT vice-prend London yesterday in a dent Morris and column which at one time other officers of the union, stretched from Lincoln's the demonstrators went of Com- Inn Fields on to the House to Waterioo mons to lobby MPs. Station. Extra police had been The marchers from 28 brought into the city centre boroughs London were from outer London bor- staging a half-day strike in oughs and mounted police Tory protest against the checked crowds outside parliament. government's offer of an extra £15 against their Many teachers said they claim for a £300 special believed the half-day strike London allowance. would persuade the gov- ernment to Increase Its A letter was handed in offer for fear that the Department of Edu- at the London teachers' militant cation and Science asking tactics would spread to Mrs Education Minister other aneas of Britain. of

SECRET

talks between the The closely-guarded venue the talks is villa bequeathed United States and North Vietnam the French Communist Party to their fourth amid entered day cubist painter Fernand Leger. by tight security in a villa near North Vietnamese air defences Paris yesterday. shot down B52 yesterday of the North Le Duc Tho bomber which crashed over Vietnamese Politburo Pre- plane met Thailand. The giant $8m high altitudes and sident Nixon's security adviser flies at very Gif-sur- had previously been thought Henry Kissinger at Yvette. Versailles. ground attack. near immune to THE GOVERNMENT is to set

MORTGAGE RATES

created a up an inquiry into the revolt by the House of Commons row in Labour voung doctors over General Medi- yesterday when leader Council fees. Sir Keith Harold Wilson asked the Prime cal Toseph, Social Services Secretary, Minister if interest rates would said independent committee be kept down during the 'freeze' would look into the provisions since they affected millions of for the regulation of the medical replied that it families. Heath He hoped that doc- profession. was necessary to change interest tors who faced suspension from rates to control the supply of National Health practice would pay up. money. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24, 1972• No. 929 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Make the Tories resign

TORY

LEADERS

met yesterday to patch up their shattered majority after their decisive defeat in parliament over the new immigration rules. But the peace moves will be abortive. The Tory Party is fragmented. The right wing, extreme Wednesday's responsible for curbed. defeat, will not be have the They now strength to hold the Heath govern- ransom and under- stability. They will mine its go on using their power. The the split exposes great the Tory govern- weakness ment. i a nanal or reacuonary Tory MPs can rock the Tory administration founda- to its working class une topple them altogether. This Is the main lesson or meat's humiliation in Parliament.

The contrast between the gov- ernment and the working class sharp. The Tories para- their lysed by confusion, DUT tne working class dent and determined to fight. Yesterday it was the teachers who took action over the gov- ernment's decision to hold down wages by decree. While they went on strike and denvers cated out do pet rail drivers came out

CCHIL

solid for a wage rise and against technical improvement which leads to redundancy. weekend Tories At the the their greatest challenge may race all. The Liverpool dockers have had their award of On Sunday hour week frozen'. they meet to decide what action take. Ins s a spontaneous move- ment by the working class the against government.

DOLI

the teachers' leaders and Ray of drivers Buckton the train were Torced Lo sancuon muted action to prevent outbreaks of longer unofficial stoppages. In fact prevailing mood the the Labour trade ana union either one Headersis complete surrender or collabo- ration.

THE

COLLABORATORS

are

TUC

by the represented He went behind the secretary. BER 24, 1972 • No. 929 • 4p

E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

backs of all trade unionists and began secret negotiations with the Tories only days after Heath had announced the pay laws.

THE SURRENDER lobby is re- presented by so-called left-wing union leaders like Jack Jones of the transport workers and Hugh Scanion of the engineers.

They say they oppose talks with the government and are 'against' state control of wages. the But what are they going to do about this attempt by the Tories to rob workers of their basic right to a standard of living? The answer seems to be NOTHING. Neither of these men has suggested any campaign at all against the Tory measures. By their silence and inactivity they are sentencing the working class to poverty. Wages will be pegged while the cost of living sky-rockets. Meanwhile in Parliament the Labour Party, led by Harold Socialist Labour League

3RD ANNIVERSARY

OF WORKERS

PRESS

BUILD THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

SUNDAY

DECEMBER 3

7 p.m. Everyman Theatre

LIVERPOOL

Speakers:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central Committee

JONHOWE

(Deputy AUEW convenor, CAV)

CONNIE FAHEY

(Wilmslow tenants' leader)

ALAN PEERS

(Young Socialists' national committee (Union and tenant speakers in a pers Details of other provincial meetings s Other provincial mee Wilson, lenge the Tories. Its own alter- natives are but a watered down version of the horrors devised for the working class by Heath and his ministers. The issues are clear therefore.

The government has been de- feated. It cannot hold its majo- rity together. It is weak and unstable. Only the cowardice of the Labour and trade union leaders keep it in power.

The working class is strong. It wants to fight. But it is con- tinually frustrated and diverted by the rotten bureaucracy which sits on its back. The task lies immediately ahead. Delay now would be fatal. The government can only find new strength by swinging violently to the right and gang- ing up with the big monopolies in Europe-if it gets the time.

The most urgent question, therefore, is the building of a revolutionary party to mobilize the working class in a united struggle to bring the Tories down and replace them with a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

SARY

THREE

YEARS

OF

WORKERS

PRESS

Showing the developments and gains since the first issue of Workers Press. September 26. 1969 committee) in a personal capacity.) neetings see p. 12. al meetings see p.12

workers press

INCORPORATING THE NEWSI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

ABOUT

10,000 Margaret Thatcher to grant teachers the claim in full, marched through central Led by NUT London yesterday vice-presl- in a dent Max Morris and column which at one time other officers of the union, stretched from Lincoln's the demonstrators went Inn Fields to on to the House of Com- Waterloo mons to lobby MPs. Station. Extra police had been The marchers from 28 brought into the city centre London boroughs were from London outer bor- staging a half-day strike in oughs and mounted police protest against the Tory checked crowds outside parliament. offer of government's against extra £15 their Many teachers said they clalm for a £300 special belleved the half-day strike London allowance. would persuade the gov- ernment to Increase Its A letter was handed in offer for fear that the at the Department of Edu- teachers' London militant cation and Sclence asking tactics would spread to Education Minister Mrs other angas of Britain. The closely-guarded venue of

SECRET

talks between the the talks is villa bequeathed United States and North Vietnam to the French Communist Party their fourth day amid entered by cubist painter Fernand Leger. tight security a villa near North Vietnamese air defences Paris yesterday. B52 yesterday shot down a crashed Le Duc Tho of the North which bomber over Pre- $8m Vietnamese Politburo met Thailand. The plane glant adviser sident Nixon's security flies at very high altitudes and Henry Gif-sur- thought Kissinger at had previously been Versailles. immune to ground attack. Yvette, near MORTGAGE RATES created a THE GOVERNMENT is to set up an inquiry into the revolt by row in the House of Commons young doctors over General Medi- yesterday when Labour leader Council fees. Sir Keith Harold Wilson asked the Prime cal Joseph, Social Services Secretary, Minister if interest rates would said independent committee an be kept down during the "freeze' provisions would look into the affected millions of since they for the regulation of the medical families. Heath replied that it doc- profession. He hoped that was necessary to change interest from tors who faced suspension control the supply of National Health practice would rates pay up. money.

IE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24, 1

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCI

TORY LEADERS

yesterday to patch up their shattered majority after their decisive defeat in parliament over the new immigration rules. But the peace moves will be abortive. The Tory Party is fragmented. The extreme right wing, responsible for Wednesday's defeat, will not. be curbed.

They now have the strength to hold the Heath govern- ment to ransom and under- mine its stability. They will go on using their power. exposes the great The split weakness of the Tory govern- ment. If a handful of reactionary Tory MPs can rock the Tory administration to its founda- tions, the working class can topple them altogether. This is the main lesson of Heath's humiliation in Parliament.

The contrast between the gov- ernment and the working class is sharp. The Tories are para- lysed by their own confusion, but the working class is confi- dent and determined to fight.

Yesterday it was the teachers who took action over the gov- ernment's decision to hold down wages by decree. While they went on strike and demonstrated in London, the rail drivers came out 100 per cent solid for a wage rise and against technical improvement which leads to redundancy. At the weekend the Tories may face their greatest challenge of all. The Liverpool dockers had their award of a 35- have hour week 'frozen'. On Sunday they meet to decide what action to take. This is a spontaneous move- by the working class ment the teachers, government. Both against the leaders and Ray Buckton of the train drivers were forced to sanction limited action to prevent outbreaks of longer unofficial stoppages.

In fact the prevailing mood the Labour and trade among union • leaders is either one of complete surrender or collabo- ration. THE COLLABORATORS are represented by the TUC general secretary. He went behind the BER 24, 1972 • No. 929 • 4p

E SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE:

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

backs of all trade unionists and began secret negotiations with the Tories only days after Heath had announced the pay laws.

THE SURRENDER lobby is re- presented by so-called left-wing union leaders like Jack Jones of the transport workers and Hugh Scanlon of the engineers.

They say they oppose talks with the government and are 'against' the state control of wages.

But what are they going to do about this attempt by the Tories to rob workers of their basic right to a standard of living? The answer seems to

NOTHING.

be Neither of these men has suggested any campaign at all against the Tory measures. By their silence and inactivity they are sentencing the working class to poverty. Wages will pegged while the cost of living sky-rockets. Meanwhile in Parliament the Labour Party, led by Harold Socialist Labour League

3RD ANNIVERSARY

OF WORKERS

PRESS

BUILD THE

REVOLUTIONARY

PARTY

SUNDAY

DECEMBER 3

7 p.m. Everyman Theatre

LIVERPOOL

Speakers:

MIKE BANDA

(SLL Central Committee

JOHN HOWE

(Deputy AUEW convenor, CAV)

CONNIE FAHEY

(Wilmslow tenants' leader)

ALAN PEERS

(Young Socialists' national committee (Union and tenant speakers in a pers Details of other provincial meetings si Other provincial mee Wilson, has no policy to chal- version of the horrors devised for the working class by Heath and his ministers. The issues are clear therefore.

The government has been de- feated. It cannot hold its majo- rity together. It is weak and unstable. Only the cowardice of union the • Labour and trade leaders keep it in power. The working class is strong. It wants to fight. But it is con- tinually frustrated and diverted by the rotten bureaucracy which sits on its back. The task lies immediately ahead. Delay now would be fatal. The government can only find new strength by swinging violently to the right and gang- ing up with the big monopolies in Europe-if it gets the time.

question, The most urgent therefore, is the building of a revolutionary party to mobilize the working class in a united struggle to bring the Tories down and replace them with a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

SARY

THREE

YEARS

OF

WORKERS

PRESS

Showing developments and gains first issue of Workers Press committee) in a personal capacity.) neetings see p. 12. al meetings see p.12

PAGE 2 Workers Pross, Friday November 24, 1972 Tories Westminster and the at What The main enemy is Green and Orange Tories in Ireland.

The IRA- -and those who uncritically support it-play into the hands of the Order friends Orange and its we by dividing the Irish working class on the grounds of religion.

CURTS

has been the of the British policy think class for British imperialism ruling 300 Indiscriminate bombings alienate sup- port from Britrin They enable tas in lreland well as in Britain. Tories strengthen their re- to They confuse

DICOOLVE

LCONULCO

and divide the working class.

Terrorism is essentially a middle-class the right to self-determination of Catholic and Protestant,

A READER

writes: In your "What workers- method of struggle. substitutes we Think" of October 21 you state: north and south-must de united Laund. individualent here deedo for "We are implacably opposed to in- British the with the working class con- dividual equally We will not join in the hypocritical their common enemy, the terror against sciousness in the only social force the arrest of members crocodile who have opposed tears of those Tory government. Ihis requires the

TO N

capable of defeating capitalism-the unleashed the British the construction of a revolutionary party of organizations misguidedly army, engaged in terror". Would you have the Royal Ulster and lans, BaCK Constabulary, the Specials, the cake and eat it or not have your Ulster your cake and not eat it?

Ulster Volunteer the Orange Defence and ation Vanguard Ser- *Perhaps both sides at Volunteers and the once. If not, please give an explana- vice Corps. but WOlk weapons. tion at your convenience. The responsibility for the terror and shed Northern Ireland in were suffering of the people of Ireland created by. British imperialism. In rests squarely with British imperial- these circumstances—while we dis- Northern ism and its servants in agree with terrorist methods the Ireland and the south. Ireland has been subjected to brutal Murder, exploitation for centuries. starvation and execution have been the lot of the Irish-who Terrorism divides the Terrorism will halt British im- the terrorist methods of the

IRA

working class not one of the most oppressed as hate and plays into the hands of its perialism in Ireland. Only the united and to demand at the same time people in the world. Catholic Pro- that its members enemies. In order for British im- working class, and be released from perialism testant, The majority of the people of Northern to be defeated these linked with its brothers in bourgeois jails. The main enemy is Ireland are still denied a basic right methods be rejected. All will be able to defeat the British imperialism. Britain,

MUSI

CP tactics sabotage French strikes Pathetic protest

THE

SABOTAGE

of • In Jeumont-Schneider, 60, dis- retirement at main demand is for the cent, their Mauberge, militant struggles is the aLLe

CUSSION

general picture through- weeks of partial strikes completely blocked. franc minimum on riot law case out France. and stoppa ages, the work- rate and derisors there is Alsace, 4 per cent for Vednesday, after force has been on all-out those complete deadlock six more weeks stoppages SUIKe

WWO

weeks. ver wee chio strike and strikes and the lock- Their demands are: than the minimum. the out of 373 workers, cent Polaba These demands men and NINE CARWORKERS' representatives from the Berliet-Citröen The Stalinist leaders at a foundry in Merville, 60. the hour culcucul al factory at Vénissieux in the Rhône will appear before the Lyons Lave France, voted employ- ShOw manded to be seen to return to work. ment and trade union up as a complete fraud chief court next Monday charged with breaking anti-riot laws.

No one will rights. power earn people's 1,000 francs Messmer mier less In the Atlantic Ship- democracy' than advanced This legal attack on trade unionists who organized wiet

VISTIS

neard. demagogy makes oner caletories VArOS saint Nazaire, Strasbourg tomorrow. will °CP 3-per-cent 7,000 workers are electoral cam- demonstration in support of a wage claim is a dangerous deve- rise. volved in daily The paign of the Communist claimed sectional

CGT

has de- lopment in Pompidou's onslaught on trade unionists' domestic clared that Party - Socialist employers Made stoppares. rally big retreat. employers are discussing risen so far this year by Union of the Left. rights. French Communist Party The leadership the trade Machine-gun federation is_giving every Pompidou. support it can to The CGT and CFDT (Socialist Party) federations

LAC

en• gineering have called campus national 15-minute stoppages against the trial. pathetic action orolest VIOLENT CLASHES between fascist police and coincide one-day

CET-CPD

strike valley e called by the Madrid University students followed the ban- Rhône called ning of a student meeting in the Faculty of Law of the gional conmittee

LES

CFDT.

earlier this week.

• L'AVENIR DU BASSIN POTASSIO

Their the statement praises The special division—a branch of the armed police

- LA DÉFENSE

persistent struggle i government work- -made its first appearance Which carries machine-cuns

- LEURS

this vear whel on Tuesday, groups of students con- DE employers and

L EMPLOI

REVENDICATIONE

erged on the Faculty open up real negotiations They erected barricades across the roads leading to their demands'. ine campus ana stonea the ponce.

ne wavers was soon surrounded by police in jeeps, armoured cars The bleak and on horse-back. of prepa- French CP's cover-up cored by the tator rations The special division guarded the entrances to the ‚faculties while the Social Investigation Brgade searched SulD

CHICLOU

The polash miners from Alsacedeadlock In five-week strike.

sent out 'rebellious' students inside.

raure of Social Affairs, by CP deputy More fighting with the police for Vénissieux Marcel mayor broke out demon- students Houel. Bolivia: State of siege declared strated down Princess Street to- wards the centre of the city.

Houel plea Bewith with raure to persuade the employers The University Rector has attacks their issued note welcoming the stop on em-

BOLIVIAN

Hugo dictator government balances on the army, only another "real TOrV-WOlC police 'facilitate presence of ployees alla "could" Banzer, yesterday imposed the Bolivian Socialist Falange manoeuvre against the workers tions'. the circulation of traffic and root and National Revolutionary and peasants of Bolivia. of state siege and claimed out groups of people, whose The fact is that. the French Movement showed that open conspiracy Danzer. 1 orIes. ral Mastersoro aggressive violence there was an Such a development-it would and the generals in Banzer's army to nego- to overthrow his government.

emolovers are

LACY

were not unversity students the 182nd palace revolution are all rabidly anti-communist and tiate and grant concessions. This friend of the machine-gun The new law which bans all in the 147 years of Bolivia's his- anti-working class. is hand-picked the rallies and like Heath in Britain, demonstrations And, Franco which Dalli at the Bolivian Pompidou combine state cleariv almea deal is to even der signed working class. control Guerrilla gets 15 years with the Soviet Union. wares allacks on trade unionists' basic rights. Yesterday, in factor workers La Paz were on a 24-hour strike

BASS-CHARRINGTON

dis- The •CP partial-stoppages against the massive use Tre A 34-YEAR-OLD African closed a f10m plus jump in pre- We Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) and the of living caused by the demnane Sales through their for the minimum rate recerve overwa wanare r1c also terrorist' activities from 1962 to hotels and shops is already francs, an DuUs to £440.5m 1972. compared vide ana wake bv Evidence £385m in 1971. Profits for the was given that control. September 30 had been ended rose Mzimela year £48.9m It breaks East Germany, the Soviet Union down the militancy against

SOIL TOI

and Chinso to for guerrilla the freeze there would have been of living stand. war workers whose increased dividend. Share- ana students were arrested rapid infla- ards rana Atrici … are asailis alla tion and encourages hard-line of a party holders collect a same-again final nere have aso been rumours ninodesa. me was one who of guerrillas who fought Rhode. cent making 20 per employers are not oI 14 Irom sian troops in 1967. cent for the year. lucatence

LACI

Lacuics.

Pickets outside the site at Mi

FROM PHILIP

BUILDING WORKERS at Wi east London struck yesterday i officials' lack of support for p out four weeks. They later lobbied the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians' headquarters in Clapham demanding official backing for the painters who are the lowest paid on site.

A petition handed in to union leaders declared no confidence organizer in local Horace Manning, a Communist Party member. He was accused of 'lack of responsibility in safeguarding the trade union organization on the site' New rates agreed at the end national dispute in of athe September gave most men on site a rate of 93p an hour. But the painters, who work for Road Decorations, were left with 654p an hour when they came on site later. 'At one point we went back agreement had been after an reached' said Harry Hardy, painters' steward. 'But we had to come out again when they only paid us 65kp for an eight-hour day. 'Since last week we have been regional trying the to get organizer down here,' he added.

Federation steward Tony O'Brien told Workers Press why the site had struck for the day in support of the painters.

This comes from the last strike which was sold out by act

SUMMONSES

against three men accused of manslaughter after the Battersea big dipper crash in May were adjourned at South Western magistrates court, London, yesterday until February 7 at Wells Street court.

The men, appearing on sum- alleging the man- monses slaughter of five children, are: John Patrick Chamberlain Collins (29), a fairground pro- prietor, of Colcot Road, Barry, Glamorgan; Frank George Etches engineer, (64), of Black- an borough Road, Reigate, Surrey, and lames Valentine Hogan (41), big dipper manager, of Foulser Road, Tooting, London. Collins was not in court, but the other two were.. Reporting res- trictions were not lifted.

site at Mile End yesterday

OM PHILIP WADE

S at Willett's Mile End site in terday in protest against union it for painters who have been Painters' steward Harry Hardy the executive and the so-called "lefts" in the Communist Party.

'Since then, the backlash has been with the employers taking on every section of build- ing workers before Christmas.

'We had a struggle here and won a victory, with new rates of almost t1 an hour. we organized the site with almost 100-per-cent trade unionism. Then the painters started to come on site so we supported them. "They had their f5 bonus cut and were worse paid than the labourers. They've been out five weeks and we can't tolerate this position. It will lead to an all- out stoppage if we don't get action, he said. FOREIGN CARS are taking an even firmer grip on the British market. They account for nearly a quarter of new registrations, according to figures issued today by the Society of Motor Manu- facturers and Traders. British makes accounted for 76 per cent of the market in October com- pared with 83 per cent a year ago, although this year's figures have been compiled on a slightly different basis. Renault led the foreign contingent with over 3 per cent of the market, closely followed by Fiat. There were 32,580 newly-registered imported cars in October, compared with 19,512 the year before. British- Leyland topped the British con- structors' list with 30 per cent of the market to Ford's 26 per cent and Chrysler's 10 per cent.

ELIOT JANEWAY, the right- wing American economist, believes that Britain faces a bath of inflation' early in the New Year. He described the timing of Heath's state plan pay as 'particularly unfortunate.

"The trouble is that it comes back-to-back with the decision to go into the Common Market.

The twin tax increases of VAT and Corporate Tax will inevitably bring a jacking up of food THE TUC has produced a book.

let with valuable information on the state of Britain's man-made fibre industry. Prepared by the TUC textile and clothing industries com- mittee, it is the first of a series different of case studies on sections of the garment industry.

The UK man-made fibre in- 1933-1934 • £1.43 1934-1935 • ... £1.43 1935-1936 £1.25 1937-1938 £1.25 1938-1939 £1.25 1939-1940 £1.05 These extremely vital years 1929 and 1940—1 Union-are now availak 28 Charlotte St

BOOKS • PERIO

Workers Press, Friday November 24, 1972 PAGE 3

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THREE road haulage firms-Heatons Transport of St Helens, Craddock Brothers of Wolverhampton and Panalpina of Hull—will go back to the National Industrial Relations Court today, possibly to seek compensation.

The hearing will be in private to 'seek the court's directions'. The nature of the fresh applications to Sir John Donaldson is not made clear, but it is strongly tipped that the three firms will be pressing claims for compensation. During the months their lorries were blacked the firms claimed to have lost prices. Agriculture, which is the thousands of pounds. In any of most eflicient section the compensation claim they will British cation The situation id will forced inflation. ask that the Transport and into explosive.' General Workers' Union He pointed out that there was should pay for these losses.

now enormous upward pressure on food prices throughout the It was the court action by two world. of Heatons the firms, and 'Japan will buy any amount of Craddock's, which resulted in red meat and food, from fines totalling any £55,000 the on

T&GWU.

in and any currency, source. the West securities sells in In recent weeks dockers in exchange. In efiect, she is buying the north have lifted their something selling nutritious and sanctions on both Heatons and us raffle tickets—cleaning us out.'

Panalpina, but Craddock's has life' been 'blacked for because of a criminal court action against million three dockers' leaders. dustry, producing 1,351 Ib in 1971, is one of the largest Although the were all the world. in blackmail acquitted on charges, It the huge examines con- dockers decided the that Crad- capital in small centration of dock's lorries should be never monopolies and sharp fluctu- released from the blacklist.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday Novemb Michael Banda c An organization within the unions which helps the working class forward in its struggle against state control of unions, against the treachery of the reformist bureaucracy and for political power can be a powerful support weapon to the construc- tion of a revolutionary party. This is precisely what Trot- sky meant when he wrote in the "Transitional Programme': •. the sections of the Fourth International should always strive not only to re- new the top leadership of the unions, trade boldly and resolutely in critical moments advancing new militant leaders in place of routine function- aries and careerists, but also to create in all possible in- independent militant stances organizations corresponding more closely to the tasks of mass struggle against bourgeois society; and, if necessary, not flinching even in the face of a direct break with the conser- vative apparatus of the trade unions.' But these tasks are based on prognosis diametrically a opposed to that of the state capitalist International Social- ists: As the Transitional Pro- points out, trade gramme unions 'do not offer and in line with their task... can- not offer a finished revolu- tionary programme; in con- sequence they cannot replace the party. The building of national revolutionary parties as sections of the Fourth Inter- national is the central task of the transitional epoch'. The rank-and-file road to defeat The "central task' of the IS group, however, is the construction of permanent rank-and-file bodies which 'do not aim at a complete eman- cipation of the working class by the overthrow of the capitalist system' and which base themselves on the idealist theory that the spontaneous conflicts of workers 'will clarify • (Socialist Worker', their ideas' August 5, 1972.) Such bodies are reformist- centrist and syndicalist organs which, instead of aiding the working class to liberate itself from the ideological filth of Stalinism and reformism, in fact bind it even more securely to the bureaucratic apparatus.

These bodies are not an an- cillary support to the party— they are a reformist alternative to it. That is why IS leader Mr T. Cliff can call, without the slightest embarrassment, for IS members 'to strengthen all existing rank-and-file industrial and trade union organizations'.

It does not require much in- y November 24, 1972 da continues of the tactics and he International telligence to know that in- variably this means strengthen- ing Stalinist-controlled bodies such as the London Action group and 'Flashlight' tendency in the EPTU, the Charter movement in the building in- dustry and the Liaison Com- mittee for the Defence of Trade Unions. All these groups are com- pletely opposed to a campaign to get rid of the Tories and deliberately restrict the scope of the militants' struggle to putting pressure on the bureau- cracy and reforming capitalism.

the docks strike this policy led IS to denigrate the dockers in order to defend the reformist policies of the shop stewards. As one IS docks steward supporter blurted out at an All Trades Unions Alliance meeting in East Ham: 'You'll never get a General Strike in Britain because the working class are a thick lot of b-s.'

This man was neither drunk nor facetious. He meant what he said-and never retracted what he said. Support for these bodies reinforces the reformist illu- sions of militants in a para- doxical way. On the one hand it deprives them of a generalized political knowledge of capitalism and its crisis and thereby strength- ens the belief that you can't overthrow the system. On the other hand it en- workers to believe courages that real wages can be con- stantly raised and democratic rights defended by militancy exerted on an industry-wide basis. To the extent that syn- dicalists organize workers on an industry-wide basis as an alternative to the party, to the same extent do they accentuate the division of the class and prevent the class from seeing its historical role as the grave- digger of capitalism. Syndical- ism strengthens Toryism. Such is the dialectic of rank-and- file-ism as practised by Cliff When the Russian Econom- ists' spokesman Martynov tried to justify an exclusive reliance on economic struggles as the only way to develop the political consciousness of workers, Lenin replied: 'Everyone agrees that it is necessary to develop political consciousness of the working class. The question is how that is to be done and what is required to do it? The economic struggle merely "impels" the workers to realize the government's attitude to the working class. 'Consequently however much we may try to "lend the economic struggle itself political character" we shall never be able to develop the political consciousness of the workers [to the level of Social Democratic political conscious- ness] by keeping within the framework of the economic struggle, for that framework is too narrow ... Class political consciousness can be brought to the workers only from with- At the conclusion of this yoar's nationa Stalinist shop stewards. But the IS poll the dockers and defend the shop stewa out, that is, only from outside economic struggle, from outside the sphere of relations between workers and employ- ers. The sphere from which alone it is possible to obtain this knowledge is the sphere of relationships of all classes and strata to the state and the government, the sphere of the interrelations between all classes.' A case history To savour the essence of the reactionary method and out- look of the Cliff group it is necessary to read the history of the Merseyside Building Workers' Movement by the IS writer Martin Barker (Inter- national Socialist, Vol. 32.

Spring 1968). From the be- ginning to the end this essay is permeated with a spirit of cringing subservience to wages militancy and absolute scepti- political cism towards the capacities of the working class.

Here we can quote only two extracts: 'We now summarize may our conclusions about what the attitude of the rank-and- file movements should be to- wards the unions; it appears that the majority of the unions cannot be reformed, because the period of union irrelevance has meant that they have been integrated into the state system; the rank and file have neither the consciousness nor the interest in carrying through such a reform, due to the frag- mentation of class conscious- ness. 'Rank-and-file movements, being composed primarily of political militants, who have the consciousness to under- stand the role of the union bureaucracies, must in the long term aim to take over the functions of these unions by proving themselves in local activity. The aim and reason for this appearance of rank- and-file movements is to re- cruit the fragmented working "a national dock strike, Liverpool dockers vote !

le IS policy of strengthening Stalinist-controlled hop stewards' reformist policies.

class; and this cannot be done by attempting primarily to re- form unions, since if the unions could be reformed then the already be workers would united. "They are not, and the role of the rank-and-file movements is first and foremost organize inter-site and inter- factory solidarity, which will itself entail opposing the cracies, Of the union bureau- actions After surveying the history of this movement the author concludes: "The first stage was wrong, since it stressed one aspect of rank-and-file activity, the negative aspect of opposing the bureaucracy without union developing the positive aspect of taking over the functions of the bureaucracy. To fight the union hierarchy would not have involved the mass of the members and the attempt would have foundered as only one section could have been involved at a time. The third stage has to be one that over- comes the fragmentation of the struggle; and most important, it has to involve them in day- to-day issues. "The second stage was wrong because it stressed the isola- tion of the militants by de- manding a high level of consciousness from the start, instead of working to develop one by drawing on the day- to-day experience of the workers at the only level they understand at present — site- level. "The third stage therefore must be one that is centred entirely on local activity, developing support for dis- putes, and thereby laying the roots of inter-site solidarity.

It must not demand a high level of consciousness from the start, and must therefore involve the mass of the wor- kers at a level of their under- standing? This article, incredible as it may seem, was written in the last period of the Wilson government, after the devalu- ation of sterling of the ncomes Board anc Royal Commission Unions was where does single reference to th and monetary crisis preparations of the 1 aided by the to crush the the power of the sho Instead we improbable and fant that the unions integrated InTO that the workers consciousness bureaucracy or government, (c) that to demand a high le sciousness from that workers can ize the K after betrayal by th led them to denigrat Prices and oard and while the Trade sitting. ence to the economic ary crisis or to the is of the ruling class, the Labour leaders unions and break of the shop stewards' (a) the have and fantastic claim were alread the fight the Labour t, (c) that it is wrong a high level of con from workers, (d) basis local d (e) that they must on their own level of and only told they like to hear. of the Inter- cialists this is known on-sectarian, flexible 1g readiness to ex systematically' and ory to the level of however, will re of IS for class and its master the ideas of cialism and through rical process. saying in is way is that social- educated mystifiers cultivated ex- ool boys like Foot r the working class encourage their id let them remain gnorant and chained of says. them receive a and train- they will only abuse reformist our bove all keep the from influencing

ED TOMORROW

A COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY CONFERENCE

BY JOHN SPENCER

Preparations for an all- European Security Con- ference are rapidly gath- ering speed following the conclusion of the treaty between East and West Germany ratifying the country's division. preliminary , The consulta- tions aimed at drawing up an agenda for the conference opened in Helsinki, Finland, on Wednesday. They were pre- ceded by a two-day meeting of Market ministers in Common an effort to draw up a con- certed platform for the con- ference — probably staged in the Finnish capital in June next year. For months there has been intense diplomatic and pre- paratory activity between the various European governments.

They have all been invited to take part, as has the United The only government States. which has not yet agreed to attend is Albania, but the pro- Peking Enver Hoxha regime may well send an observer to watch China's interest. The Spanish fascists have not only been invited, but according to Madrid sources they have already held pre- liminary consultations with 16 other European governments, including Soviet bloc states, except East Germany. The colonels' military dic- tatorship in Greece has also taken an active part in the preparations for the conference, including cordial diplomatic exchanges with representatives of East European Stalinism.

These facts alone indicate conference's the . character. According to the Soviet govern- ment it will bring together the European states to discuss 'common problems their the realm of security. 'problems What the are which unite the bureaucracies of eastern Europe, the 'demo- of France, cratic capitalists Germany and Britain and the military and fascist dictators of Greece, Spain and Turkey?

The spokesmen of the Soviet bureaucracy invariably answer this all-important question with vague generalities which con- ceal the very concrete reasons driving the Kremlin to seek a deal with the European bour- geoisie. Kiril Mazurov, a member of the Soviet Communist Party's politburo, speaking in Moscow on the 55th anniversary of the October Revolution, said the successful staging of a security conference will create new possibilities for all-Euro- co-operation based on pean principles of equality, non- interference and good-neigh- bourliness'. Again, the Novosti Press commentator I. Plyshevsky, writing from Helsinki, says: 'There now exist prerequisites for establishing a firm and lasting peace on the entire continent. 'The key to this peace lies in introducing into the practice of international relations the principles of peaceful co- existence between states with different social systems. Many problems in Europe have been are being solved on • the and peace is the division agreed between Europe of Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Truman at their wartime conferences in Yalta and Pots- dam. The Soviet leaders want this division confirmed for all time. The landmarks along this road are the Soviet-German the German-Polish treaty, treaty, the four-power agree- ment on Berlin, the traffic treaty between West and East Germany and the normalization treaty signed this month which brought all these into force.

On the backs of the divided working German class the bureaucracy plans to erect a whole edifice of 'peaceful co- existence' which, in its very Workers Press, Frida essence, is directed against the interests of the entire European working class. They aim at the eventual dissolution of both the Warsaw Pact and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the institution of a single security system. With the aid of the western communist parties, the Soviet leaders are deluding the Euro- pean workers into the idea that war can be abolished by the manoeuvres of diplomacy. But war is inseparable from imperialism and the decay of monopoly capitalism in Europe basis for is daily laying the Treaties and mutual war. security pacts are no more able to prevent this objective pro- cess than prayer and fasting.

The Soviet leaders hope to by the imperialists placate guaranteeing them against revolution in the west. That is peaceful co-existence what means. For these bureaucrats the struggle of the working class is the main threat to 'European security. For many years the Soviet Union has been calling inter- mitently for the staging of a European Security Confer- ence. Its plans received a new impetus only with the almost upsurge of the simultaneous French and Czechoslovak working classes in 1968. 088, Friday November 24, 1972 PAGE 5 France, May 1968 showed the question of power was on the agenda. Inset: police trained to deal with the working class.

The European employers recognized that May-June in France marked a new stage in the working-class struggle. For the first time since the war the question of power was firmly on the agenda. • At the same time the Stalinists saw in the Prague Spring the threat of the political revolution not only in eastern Europe, but in the Soviet Union itself. The purpose of the European Security Conference the organization of counter-revolu- tion in Europe. This will not ensure the security of the USSR or guarantee peace in Europe. On the contrary, it will lay the foundations new more bitter conflicts.

Defence of the Soviet Union is inseparable from the revolu- tionary struggle to overthrow capitalism all over the con- tinent and smash the political stranglehold of the bureaucracy workers' in the deformed states. The only way forward for the working class lies in the construction of revolutionary parties to realize the demand for a Socialist United States of Europe in struggle against capitalism and Stalinism.

BY PHILIP WADE

When you are next drink- ing a pint of Courage feel happy in the knowledge that your beer has just been taken over tain's sixth largest busi- ness. And if you buy a packet of Golden Wonder crisps in pub, rest assured they are also in the safe hands of Imperial Tobacco, or Imps as they are known to the intimates of the Stock Exchange. Imperial Tobacco is now one of Britain's most powerful £777m conglomerates. The group is comprised of about 70 companies and subsidiaries.

The dominates, for group example, the British fish and market poultry through ownership of the giant Ross Foods firm. If you put sauce on your food that will be manufactured by Imperial Tobacco. In 1967 they bought out HP Sauce and Lea and Perrins-the Worcester sauce people. Canned foods might be bought from Smedley's, an- other part of Imperial Tobacco.

Young's Seafoods, the Albion Bottle Company, Bewlay Pro- perties, British United Trawl- cold ers, store operators United Carlo Gatti and Steven- sons and Slater Ltd, Finlay, the retailers and the horticultural mail order firm Lowland Bulb Company are still more parts of Imps' empire. In fact the company-which employs almost 90,000 wor- kers- stretches into nearly" every part of people's lives.

At the head of this powerful industrial and commercial empire stands Sir John Part- ridge, former president of that other combinethe Confeder- ation of British Industries.

Of course Imps are leading members of the CBI whose • 1,500 member-firms employ almost 7 million workers. And no doubt the group will loyally obey the CBI directive order- ing members not even to trade negotiate with the pay while the unions on Tories' state wages legislation remains on the statute book.

Sir John Partridge, knighted by Edward Heath, although no longer CBI president, re- and mains a most powerful significant figure politically.

This shown clearly was when he participated in the Downing Street and Chequers talks with the TUC leadership on the subject of controlling wages. Into those talks came the voice of a man who controls a conglomerate which last year had a near £1,276m turnover and profits of £80m. Elected CBI president in the year the Tories returned to Partridge is a power, man ruling class that matters in circles, and one who is fond of a 'unity of of speaking interests' between the working and the bourgeoisie. class This corporatist sentiment is, of course, one to be heard ever-increasing volumes in among big business and some union leaders trade as the between the confrontation classes steps nearer day by day.

In his 'imperial welcome' to Courage workers and manage- ment, he introduced his philo- sophy to them all: 'As in every case where two businesses come together the key to the future lies in the quality of human relationships at all levels and in the develop- ment of common purpose, he wrote. In his presidential remarks for this year's CBI annual Workers Press, Friday No report, he was at it again with talk of the need to 'convey to the public at large the true objectives of responsible in- dustrial and commercial man- agement — objectives which span the interests of investors, employees, customers and the community at large'. The true class position of such men was, however, per- fectly revealed in his other remarks in the report. There was much talk of 'efforts in both the public sector and the private sector to in- resist flationary In 197 Pay settlements. he gave us all a taste of what was to come when he welcomed the dis- appearance in June 1970 of the enfeebled Labour government which had been unable enforce the anti-union laws sponsored by ex-"Tribune'-ite 'left' Barbara Castle. "The change of government in June led to a welcome effort lower the level of pay to ; his report for the settlements, year said. 'While a significant damping down of pay settle- ments could not come over- night, every effort must be to achieve it in made the shortest practicable time' The Industrial Relations Bill 'an essential and long was overdue measure', while re- lations between CBI staff and government officials continued to be excellent' - which is hardly a surprise. When Imperial Tobacco was set up in 1901 it was at the response of a number of British capitalists to competition from their_fast-expanding rivals in the United States. The American Tobacco Com- pany had a near monopoly in the USA and its strategy was to overrun the British market by acquisition of all the prin- cipal domestic manufacturers, one by one. At the turn of the century, British manufacturers, although already powerful in their own right, formed a fragmented and divided industry. There were some 500 individual tobacco manufacturers and in the retail trade between 300,000 and 350,000 shops specializing in tobacco products and ancillary goods. T3 Press, Friday November 24, 1972 PAGE 7 Once threatened by American capitalism, the British moved swiftly. A meeting of 13 lead- ing British companies was arranged and Imperial the Tobacco Company formed. After 1918 the company be- gan its road to becoming a conglomerate, buying here, there and everywhere. First under the net were two com- panies, one which supplied the paper for the cigarettes and the other the packaging for the various products. During the following 40 years, the company bought out leaf suppliers and handlers and merged the group's smaller manufacturers. In 1927 a financial interst chain of tobacconists» Finlay was acquired in the shops and kiosks, eventually taking over Finlay's in 1963. It was in 1930 that Robert Sinclair was acquired. Origin- ally a tobacco wholesale firm, Sinclair's is now the biggest business of its kind in the north of England and Scotland and handles household and confectionery, fancy goods, toys and stationery, in addition to tobacco. Today, where from time to time, including the original 13 founder companies, there were 22 tobacco manufacturers under the Imperial umbrella, only four- there are now W.D.&H.O. Wills, John Player & Sons, Ogden's and Church- mans. And it was during the 1960s that the group began to diver- sify completely outside tobacco become one of Britain's to most powerful conglomerates.

All the food firms previously mentioned were acquired, and moves were made into plastics and printing. Now under high-Tory Sir John Partridge, the company intends to defend every penny of its capital through attacks on the basic rights of the working class. When the Tory government is made to resign through the mass mobilization of the work- ing class, Imperial Tobacco nationalized under must be workers' control and without compensation by the returning Labour government. 275 ML

OF LEON TROTSKY

A review by Tom Kemp. The years 1939-1940 continued PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday November 24, 1972 The volumes of Trotsky's writings so far published for the period after 1935 differ in several respects from the two already reviewed. They are printed on a large format page and consist mainly of facsimile reproductions of articles which appeared in the Trotskyist Press and other journals in the United States, together with a few items translated into English for the first time. The selections are grouped under headings according to country or subject rather than being in chrono- logical This makes it possible to follow through 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 out for himself about the many persons, organizations and events which are referred to. In addition, there is no index.

Apart from the faults of editorship, these volumes are still to be highly recommended because they bring together writings which are otherwise virtually inaccessible or, in certain cases, have never been available in English before.

In a number of articles Trotsky to its wrote a reply criticisms. He had to emphasize written about this time, was not calling for that he Trotsky took up the ques- support for the petty-bourgeois tion of the right of self.

Ukrainian nationalists, nor was the demand inconsistent with determination for the the slogan of defence of the Soviet Ukraine which not Soviet Union. only retain their validity Trotsky's proposals for the Ukraine also raised the ire of today, but have an appli- the exiled followers of Keren- cation national to the sky the grounds that it on question in general. would weaken the Soviet Union Not did militarily. only this Lenin's Trotsky refers to Russian betray their Great letters and the articles on chauvinism, but they came near national question written to the Stalinists in proclaiming Stalin when he against was that Trotsky's policies served People's Commissar of Nation- Hitler. the early 1920s, alities in The answer to the bourgeois be writings which were to democrats, well as the as brought out into the light of sectarians, was given by events day by the bureaucracy itself themselves: particularly by the after 1953 when it found a fact that so many Ukrainians scapegoat for its own crimes welcomed Hitler because the in the person of the then dead oppressed bureaucracy had dictator. them and denied them inde- The bureaucracy proved un- pendence. able the national to solve doubt, There is no then, of the Ukraine. problem In- where the responsibility lies deed, policy aggravated its for the continuation of reac- nationalist feelings in a way nationalist currents tionary which gave scope for reaction.

Ukrainians among inside as This was shown during the Soviet well outside the as of the Soviet Union invasion Union both in the 1940s and in June 1941 when the advanc- at the present time. Nazi troops were greeted ing On May 24, 1940, an attempt as liberators by many Trotsky's was made life on Ukrainians. by an armed band of Stalinists It has been shown since the leadership of under the of then by the emigration Mexican David painter Ukrainians during and many Siquieiros. The assailants fired after the war where they have, Trotsky's machine-guns into in general, become support for off with bedroom and made reaction. one of the guards, a young These developments can be Sheldon American, Robert of the laid at the doorstep Harte, whose body was later Stalinists. As Trotsky put found in a lime pit. 1940: 'Nowhere did restric- in and repression tions, purges, in general all forms of bureau- cratic hooliganism assume such murderous sweep as they did in the Ukraine in the struggles powerful, deeply- against the rooted longings of the Ukrain- ian masses for greater freedom and independence.' In this the sympathies way of a large part of the Ukrainian population were alienated from which they identified socialism with the rule of the Stalinist And the part of bureaucracy. Robert Sheldon Harte the Ukraine which was in the Soviet Union could not act as Trotsky analysed this event rallying centre for the in some detail and showed why Ukrainians living under alien Stalin required his death and rule in neighbouring countries.

attacked those who tried to cover up for the GPU murder squad. few days before his A completed assassination he Trotsky therefore called for full-scale of the investigation struggle establish a to an workers' and intended independent peasants' Ukraine which might Mexican court which to was try some of the gang who had Soviet subsequently join Federation been arrested. equal terms. on This proposal was opposed by The concluding section of of the Oehler this volume consists sectarian group, earlier split from Trotsky's and which had last articles the Fourth International of and letters, which re- some The Ukrainian question. Suppressed by called for an independent workers' anc mained unfinished when he was struck down by an agent of Stalin in study on August 20, 1940. They include an analysis of famous the Tanaka Memorial in which the Japanese Prime Minister in the 1920s, Baron Tanaka, had sketched out a plan for world conquest. Although its authen- ticity has questioned, been Trotsky insisted that it was genuine. document had been The procured by Dzerzhinsky, then head of the GPU, through a functionary who had direct access to the secret archives of the Japanese Foreign Ministry. Photocopies of the document were made and sent by two or three different routes to Moscow. When arrived and was translated Trotsky was still a member of the Political Bureau and was head of the Committee on Far Eastern . Affairs. It there- fore came directly to him.

The question then arose of what to do with such a docu- ment. It was decided that it could not be published by the Soviet government or even by the Comintern, but should be leaked to the American Press.

The Japanese then denounced it as Chinese forgery. ressed by the bureaucracy, peasants greet Nai rkers' and peasants' Ukraine and answered se Moscow subsequently remained silent about the Memorial and its part in obtaining it-no doubt, as Trotsky points out, in order not to give offence to the Japanese. Writing before Pearl ed, Harbour andate Japanese drive fo"" estabfish a co- prosperity sphere' in Asia, Trotsky concludes his article "The course of by sayıng: events in the Far East in recent years has corroborated the Tanaka programme to such a degree as to preclude any doubts about the authenticity of this document.' It indicated the main lines of the war of conquest which 'the Japanese militarists and their monopolist backers were soon to embark upon in the Pacific. As his last letters collected Trotsky here show, corres- ponded at this time with many of his supporters, especially in the United States, on a variety of political questions. Bonapartism and fascism were phenomena which Trot- sky repeatedly returned to and analysed afresh. He was doing so in August 1940 and it is greet Nazi troops as liberators. Trotaky swered sectarian and chauvinist critics.

appropriate that this volume should end with a literal tran- script of notes which he had dictated to a Russian steno- grapher and had never seen in manuscript or been able to correct. This article" concludes the series of reviews of present the 'Writings of Leon Trotsky' so far published. A number of gaps still remain to be filled in and will be eagerly awaited.

The first four sf those which have appeared-for the later years—are, as has been pointed out, incomplete. What is really required is a full series of collected works. Until that becomes possible, these valuable volumes make a addition to Trotsky's writings in print and they should form part of every Marxist library.

Although an attempt has been made in this series of reviews to bring out the salient points and the main lessons of Trotsky's writings, represented by these as by no volumes, they have been exhaustive. The means reader is invited to make his by reading own discoveries them for himself. That is the only way in which Trotsky's contribution to Marxist science can be grasped.

NOTEBOOK AND THE GENERALS

'Conservatives', one of the new taken by Miss Pat Healy, social correspondent of 'The boys in the Tory Cabinet once service Times'. wrote, 'surely must strive for Miss Healy garbed herself in a large reduction, in the long of the public social corduroy run, trousers, grey and a tattered man's services.' cardigan The author of those lines is coat and descended among the the man Heath has appointed social outcasts of the East End.

the housewife's She recounted her to pose as story in friend as Minister for Trades almost Enid Blyton-like tones and Consumer Affairs. in half-page article a on Geoffrey Howe, He is Sir concluded by who, as Solicitor-General, was sayıng: chief architect of the Industrial and-out always tempered was Relations Act. Our quotation by the knowledge that I could transfer from a pamphlet he make charge tele- comes wrote in 1961 called 'Principles rescue if I phone calls for became too desperate. in Practice'. I kept out of trouble by con- stantly moving on, but it soon became apparent that a life in the open is very tiring and that will have not everyone energy to keep moving. This is such disgusting non- Is Miss Healy saying that life in the sewers is quite tolerable providing you're nimble enough to stay a jump in front of the law? Is this her only conclusion about the wretched existence which now thousands of people endure in Britain in have to the 1970s? These liberals go into such discover what situations to call 'the real truth'. they In point of fact they only satisfy some personal whim of their They discover and learn own. nothing. Howe believes really practising what he preaches.

1969 he became a mem- In ber of the Council of Manage- Royal family a shining ment of the Private Patients' Plan, of the three big example to the nation one private medical insurance schemes which hit the National Health Service by expanding Speed case warning goes to Windsor Castle and catering private practice for the well-to-do who want to jump the queue for NHS hospital places. Consumers - everybody — take cover!

NOR OUT

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STALINIST CRISIS BY JUAN GAR

The 'democratic' election of Salvador Allende as the first 'Marxist' Presi- dent of Chile was the in communist parties throughout the world. Here at last was concrete proof of the correctness of the parliamentary road to socialism.

No matter that Chilean demo- cracy allows only 40 per cent the adult population to No matter that, after vote. Brazil, the armed forces in Chile were most favoured by US military aid of all Latin American countries. Allende was the epitome of staid 'socialist'-bourgeois the politicians whose common- sense so pleases the Stalinist bureaucracy. The radicals and fashionable lefts who had become tired of the harangues and cigars of Castro in Havana now turned their eyes to Santiago de Chile and spent their vacations pot- tering around Chilean copper- mines and chatting with affable don 'Salva' Fidel Castro duly came to pay his respects, not hesitat- ing to use his prestige to tell miners to produce more their wage and ease off demands. It was true that inflation was tearing away at the annual rate ot 130 per cent, but your 'socialist' President had pre- pared for that by setting up local price and provisions con- trol committees. Then, in October this year, the lorry-owners' federation decided to strike against the proposed nationalization of transport in the southern pro- vinces. Four weeks later, Allende yielded to all the right-wing demands of the and Christian Democrats brought three Generals into his cabinet. Head of the armed forces, Carlos Prats, is now Minister of the Interior and second-in- command to Allende. When Allende leaves this week to speak in the United Nations and later to visit Moscow and Cuba, Prats will be responsible for Chile's "peaceful road to socialism' Stalinist apologists have been quick to defend this latest 'contradictory' development on the path to socialism. One Paul in the British this to say • on the Generals accession to power: 'Is this not a sign of weak- ness? Or a surrender? Or a betrayal? . . . The entry of these officers into the govern- ment, strange though it seems, is an indication that the right wing has been out-manoeuvred and defeated in this engage- ment of the class battle' It seems strange indeed to those trained in the school of Marxism who see a capitalist army as an instrument of the employers for repressing the working class. Olive now re- veals that such an army, in Latin America no less, is the best guarantor of socialism.

As Chilean ambassador in France, Communist Party poet • AS Pablo Neruda has said: for our army, we love it. It is the people in uniform.' How has this people's army acted in the past? One of its first battles was the Pacific war between Chile and Peru, which was a battle for nitrates. The Chilean fought army loyally to enable its ruling class take over the land it re- to quired went so far as and occupying Lima, the capital of Peru. Workers Press, Frie

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L roops of the Palace Guard hardly a po Such exploits were consolid- ated in 1907 when the army intervened to put down a strike movement in Iquique, with the bloody 3,000 massacre workers. Olive cannot claim that the growth of the Chilean Com- munist Party has boosted the army's love of democracy. • When General Carlos Ibañez del Campo was in power from 1927 to 1931, he illegalized the CP. A supporter of Mussolini, he limited the freedom of the Press and brought the iron heel of order down on striking workers. Even the experience of the Popular Front in Chile was another object lesson in the anti-democratic traditions of this semi-colonial country. In the last stage of the Popular Front, in 1946, Gonzalez Videla triumphed in the presidential elections with CP support.

Three CP ministers in Videla's cabinet lasted pre- cisely two years when the CP was made illegal under a 'law for the defence of democracy'.

Thousands of Party cadres were deported to concentration camps in northern Chile, and Party members were struck off the voting register. The Chilean Stalinists turned to 75-year-old General Ibañez rescue them from this to embarrassing position of ille- gality-after all, were they not a respectable _pillar of society.

In 1952, Ibañez was duly elected, in part because of his promise to repeal the 'defence of democracy' law. He im- mediately shelved any attempt to repeal the law and used the armed forces see him to through his term of office up to 1958. Having seen where illusions in a democracy-loving army has led the CP we led thesider Olives pain that 'many in the armed forces see that national independence is linked with national econo- mic development free from the Press, Friday November 24, 1972 PAGE 9 ardty a people's army. Above: Allende control of imperialism and in particular the United States'.

All the leading échelons of the Chilean army were trained in US military establishments.

$23myworth of military aid was poured into Chile between 1960 and 1966. Prats' predecessor, Schneider, recommended that every Chilean army officer should time at the infamous spend US anti-subversion school in Panama, and Schneider was murdered by a tendency in the Chilean army which thought he was too left wing! Stalinists like Olive deliber- ately conceal such facts. They have all concealed the joint manoeuvres between the US and Chilean navies during the recent strike, with the approval of Prats, who has always in- sisted that the US military mission should remain in Santiago. The falsification of truth by the Stalinist Olive goes as far as stating that the right-wing lorry strikers returned without their political demands being met. In fact, Allende offered not to nationalize transport on the second day of the strike. His early concessions were rejected by strikers and were only accepted some three weeks later after the Generals had been installed in office.

By inviting the military into the cabinet, Allende put the forces of counter-revolution firmly at the centre of state his power. The Stalinist media has ranted about the dangers of a CIA coup in Chile. After the panic over the ITT cons- • came the Kennecott piracy embargo on Chilean copper.

Yet their man in Santiago has handed power over to CIA- trained Generals. No doubt, in the constitu- tional traditions of General Ibañez and Gonzalez Videla, they will soon attack the legality of the CP and all working-class organizations.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Friday November 24, 1972 Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign CENTRAL LONDON (Press and Entertainments Branch): Sunday: November Royal p.m. Shakespeare Rehearsal Rooms, Floral Street. The Fight for Speakers : Shepperton'. Yvonne Roy Battersby Smith

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АСТП), corin Redgrave (Equity), all lead Ing members of their respective speaking in a personal unions capacity. Monday

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Fighting the Tories' rent Act Clay Cross councillors

ON-THE-SPOT REPORT

BY PHILIP WADE

THE TORIES opened their against the Labour council Cross, Derbyshire, yesterday, w district auditor arrived to exan housing accounts. He was met by defiant tena are 100 per cent behind t councillors who have con refused to implement the hat rents' Act. Under instructions from the gor the district auditor has the power to the councillors for all the missing ren since the Housing Finance Act came into force on October 2. Over 1,300 tenants were sup- posed to pay increases of up to £1.09 and the amount missing is about £11,300 so far. If the councillors are landed with the bill, it will mean their automatic disqualification from the council, leaving Clay Cross workers without any elected representatives at all. And if the government obtains orders compelling the court council to implement the Act, refusal could mean jail for con- tempt. For 18 months now the councillors have voted ll to nothing against putting up rents.

For this they have been singled out by the Tories for attack.

In a town where unemploy- ment is a staggering 18 per cent, following the closure of many local collieries, fight the Tories the council determined and has called for support from any action is local miners taken against them. The Tories are traditionally hated. In the early 1960s there was one 'Independent' councillor left and the Labour Party wanted him out. They claimed he was no 'Independent' but went to Tory group meetings. The man sued and it cost Clay Cross Labour Party £3,000 in the courts. The money was raised locally on the streets of the town.

A few years later the same man was co-opted on to the county as an alderman, as a council Tory. Arthur Wellon, the council leader told me: WORKERS at John Banner's BY department store in Acton Vale, west London, lifted their occupation and returned morning to work yesterday having won out against man- agement threats to close the store and sack them. The management has reversed an earlier decision not to pay the 35 staff for time lost last Saturday and are also paying them wages for the time when they occupied the store on Tues- day and Wednesday. Last Saturday workers at the store finally went home after a week of arguing for decent heat- ing standards at work. Heating had been switched on for the first time the previous Thursday, but two days later, they claim, the place was still relatively cold. and their offensive erday, when the to examine the nt tenants who hind their 11 e consistently the hated 'fair the government, ower to surcharge issing rent revenue Some laws you could fiddle round. This time we have to enough enough. The say government is deliberately set on the course of conflict with the working class. The Tories tried to take on the unions and were pushed back.

Now they have wooed the TUC and found out about the word 'inflation' at the same time as they are bombarding us to put rents up with wages frozen.

Even if the Tories deport us, Wellon : Council leader Arthur Torles' deliberate course of con- flict. it won't make any difference that's as strong as we feel. Most councillors or even for the power itself. But when it comes to the question of principles you've got to get out of the administrator's clothes.

In Clay Cross, the Labour group dictates to the officers.

We've had so many battles with them, to the point where they've refused to sign cheques for us.

r's BY SARAH HANNIGAN Transport and General Wor- kers' Union shop steward at the warehouse, Harry Tait, said: 'When we returned on Monday morning the management was very shirty over the walk-out and they refused to give us our pay for Saturday. 'But, said Harry, 'we would accept that we should lose not a day's pay. 'So we decided on a work-to- rule and a ban on overtime. The place ground to a halt on Tues- day afternoon. 'Then the management gave us an ultimatum that if we didn't go back to normal working and forfeit a day's wages they would close the store on Friday and sack us all. 'We decided as a committee to press for an occupation.'

Within an hour all customers had been cleared out of the shop and management soon followed As far as I'm concerned this everyone in the is the stand labour movement has got to take.

If we are left isolated, on our own, we could be jailed. Unless the whole of the trade union and working-class move- ment takes up the lead, then all we've done is to prove a point.

There's got to be a clash with this government where someone loses and someone wins. Of course nothing can be solved while the Tories remain in. We will have our problems when the Labour government gets back and they will have nationalize the basic industries just like the conference resolu- tion demands each year. But this can never come through compromise or with people sitting back—that's not on. Unless our people and their leadership say no, can't win. we The tenants are solidly behind their councillors. One housewife, Mrs Doris Scaysbrook, who lives new Danemoor estate, on the told me she found it difficult manage without having an- to other fl on the rent. She has four children at school and her husband, an ex-miner, is partly disabled and can only work now as a labourer. He was unemployed for 18 months until récently. What with bus fares, school meals going up in April, and school uniforms it's no good . Му husband is not a big wage-earner now they say he can't get and an increase. Heath promised so much, but he didn't take long to turn the tables and go back on his word.

but not before two had locked themselves in the cash office and had to be 'persuaded' to move out. It was not the first occupation at the store since it was opened at Easter. Just over six months ago when the new employees decided to form a union, they were met with undisguised hostility. Banner's is owned by Whiteley's of Queens- way, reputed to be the oldest department store in London and one which until recently never had a trade union. Eventually Banner's agreed to recognize a union but then went back on their promise. The ten porters who at that time were fighting for recognition occupied for two the store hours and management gave in and accepted the union. Since then the workers have built up their strength to 100 per cent among the staff at the manager has also store-one joined their ranks. Workers Press, Frida There are attacks on everything.

It's going the road to the 1930s, what with all the pits shutting down round here. There'll be a lot of support for the councillors if the Tories attack them. A lot of people are thinking about it and more will when it actually happens.

We've lived in a house with no bathroom and this place was a big improvement and the rent was quite cheap. This government must be got Mrs Doris Scaysbrook: This gov- ernment must be got out. out and if Labour gets in they'll have to take off this rents job for a start. And I think they should take over these big firms making all this profit and pleas- ing themselves. sure. They'll be One thing is in dead trouble if they take all this away from us here. • See tomorrow's Workers Press for a full, on-the-spot report from Clay Cross. HOSPITAL ancillary staff — in- cluding porters and cleaners— Merseyside plan. a series on of 24-hour strikes. Liverpool Royal Infirmary is one of ten hospitals which will be hit. The first of the strikes, over pay and the freeze, will start at 10 p.m.

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186a CLAPHAM HIGH ST, L Name. Address ross, Friday November 24, 1972 PAGE 11 THE FOUR-DAY strike of 60 and storemen maintenance men at Renold's Chains Ltd, Coventry, over the indefinite suspension of the works con- venor Dan O'Connell and shop stewards Bob Moore and Jim Conway has ended. The men voted to return after hearing the convenor's report.

to the strike had led total shutdown of the factory, which employs 1,000 men and women. O'Connell told the meeting that at a day-long works con- ference on Wednesday the man- agement finally agreed to lift the suspension of the three men forthwith. O'Connell said: 'I've no doubt that it was your firm action that made the firm climb down.'

DELEGATES at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's assembly in Bonn have spent much of the six-day meeting urg- ing closer ties between the European members of the alliance and the United States. The meeting, taking place at the same time as the 34-nation pre-conference European on Security in Helsinki, had as its theme the need for greater cohesiveness in NATO to meet the 'Soviet threat'. Republican US senator Jacob Javits, who addressed the nicet- ing yesterday, spoke of the danger that the alliance would 'Finlandized' unless the US and its European allies held together.

'If there should be an unravell- ing of the alliance in the years just ahead, the decade of the 1970s could be the decade in which western Europe began the route to Finlandization because the nations of western Europe- isolated from North America— could not stand up to the sheer weight of the USSR the on Eurasian continent,' he said.

Many of the European dele- gates have expressed alarm at the recent US detente with the Soviet Union. Together with the massive trade deal concluded following Nixon's the visit, detente is seen as an example of bilateralism damaging to the interests of European capital.

The tensions within NATO reflect the growing economic struggle between the Common Market and the US. The EEC countries see the US-Soviet deals a threat to their economic as hegemony in Europe. Javits said that these tensions, exacerbated, could drive if wedge of catastrophic proportions between the transatlantic part- ners. ke information about low and send to NATIONAL

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Tories fiddle the jobs count PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday November 24, 1972 With this shored sear

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The delberately worder ol people unemployed in fiddling the books: ployment Secretary Maurice Britain. This was clearly October the number Macmillan And yet. as every worker revealed When s0100 cavers ULl were issued yesterday for growing not falling! work was 1s, 4o. but with- very encouraged total this the month or NovemDer unemployment any and heartened by them?' 'new' been slashed by using methods of figure has IS 807.092. november Workers As Press counting the jobless. according The Tory fall of 22,510 on In October persistently argued, The new job- there were adult unemployment figures the October ngures. wOrked SO been distorted always nificently the vesterday's oficial gistered unemployed. that it was for 22 Department of Employment first time years- Ihis month there Is none.

vor or lie lowest NUR members back locomen High-speed rail strike 100 per cent solid THE ONE-DAY strike by the locomen's union ASLEF yesterday met with 100 per cent support from the An empty destinations board at union's 29,000 drivers. Out of 16,000 scheduled train deserted Paddington station journeys, British Rail only managed to get 12 away by yesterday. midday, all driven by NUR members.

Departures But most NUR members clearly supported the strike by

ASLEF

as they provide of all about 10 per cent drivers. by The strike was called ASLEF after British Rail manage- ment had moved the new, high- Derby without speed union members. The union is demanding addi- tional payment before any mem- the 155-m.p.h. drives new called the Train

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much protest against the train itself. the delay in negotiations of moving Buckton,

ALSEF

general Rav secretary, said that he had Te- ceived letter yesterday from British Rail now offering two meetings question. on the specia we're on strike they've 'Now given us what we wanted for The response to the months. 100 strike beer ausolutely per cent and is very, very couraging. 'The ballot imposed by the Relations Nanonal they say, thi I spike on behalf say, that I speak behalf members.' he added. Mr Buckton said Press attacks the strike expected. on were first 'arrangements . . . tor the working party trul meeting REGION by region, this was the 7. always hurts.' place. • on November picture yesterday: Richard Marsh's statement that With none of the

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basselses, untruth', he added. all yesterday. And there is likely mostly commuters into London. be- the ALSEF today On October 20 chaos EASTERN-Nothing moving executive met and discussed the cause of the backlog from the all,' the Although message. strike. of goods Wals Lall tion down for a one-day strike.

• Meanwhile, in a radio inter- overnight, all passenger were cancelled yesterday.

After a visit the same day to view, former Labour Minister headquarters, Richard Marsh, none only British Rail British thing meeting And on poor e said: chairman, DUCKlOn we can do is apologize and wish and drove the received a letter, the first _para- tie had never got to this situa- of which confirmed West Midlands and Birmingham's 20,000 commuters had to travel ERIC HEFFER, Labour MP for PARLIAMENT will debate the Walton, has resigned from the geet Wednesday. Leader of ten was

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SPECIAL SHOWING OF THE 'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM.

A film made by ACT showing the five Right-to-Work marches call. Bv morning, e:TY 10L had Liverpool, Deal and Southampton single driver reported for Swansea, Empire Pool, Wembley, work. to London, ending with a huge rally at on March 12, 1972.

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Only passenger trains managed three Engineering to get away. Workshop, Swindon (in a personal capacity).

a clapham tich Stret, London: • We demand the right to work!

*Clapham wish S Street, Make the Tory government resign!

1Lo0); • Build the revolutionary party!

180b Clapham t of sharp sible figure. it Our view was upheld that Em- when statistics from the ry Maurice 1971 Census were released mented last week. le figures: These showed that early last year there were 1.3 encouraged million out of work when the 'official' figure was only Press has 1 million. Now the Tories are in- the cruder gures have troducing even storted in true censorship of the unemployment position. west pos-

BY DAVID MAUDE

THE BATTLE against closure at CAV Fazakerley, Liverpool, Will not be won just by sitting- in or by talks with Tory Ministers, a mass meeting at the factory was warned yester- day afternoon. Senior shop stewards reporting back from Wednesday's meeting with Development Minister Christopher Chataway called for a big tightening up of the picket- ing campaign they have begun at Merseyside car factories.

The meeting overwhelmingly decided on complete participation by all workers engaged in the seven-week-old occupation of the factory in the picketing campaign.

Dave Martin, engineers' union convenor at the factory, reported that Chataway had been told unequivocally that the 1,000 workers would stay on the •site which until the Lucas combine, owns it, agreed to keep them in employment or alternative work was found. A meeting with the company would take place, soon he said.

meeting in- Yesterday's mass that the leading shop sisted stewards must be involved along- • union officials in such a side meeting. On Sunday, the stewards will appeal mass meeting of to a Liverpool dockers for their sup- port in blacking Lucas products.

The dockers are among the many sections of workers on Merseyside and elsewhere who are giving financial support to the occupation. Others include Lucas Transport workers in the Midlands, who are also blacking. transport of work normally done from the factory; Vauxhall carworkers from Elles- mere Port; Merseyside construc- tion workers; and engineering workers from the Fisher-Bendix factory at Kirkby, Liverpool, who answered closure threats them- selves some months ago with a similar occupation.

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