Workers Press no. 936

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TORY LAW

STEWARDS

ASSA BASER BERE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENT

CAV

DAVID MAUDE.

our Indus- trial Correspondent, presents a four-page feature on the Mersey sit-in strike today on pages 5, 6, 7 and 8.

MONDAY

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE GOVERNMENT is to take new sweeping powers aimed at breaking-up trade union practices used to defend wages and conditions. The measures, which come in under the guise of protecting the con- sumer, add to the dictatorial controls already estab- lished - the Industrial Relations Act outlaws basic rights and the so-called anti-inflation makes wage in- creases illegal. The architect of the new powers, published yes- terday as the Fair Trading Bill', is Sir Geoffrey Howe, who drafted the anti-union laws and is now the Tory in charge of consumer affairs.

The government hopes to give the Bill a second before Christmas and have it reading the on statute book as early as possible next year.

The Bill establishes a welter of complicated legislation on consumer affairs and incorporates the existing power of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Act. But its real aim is contained in section 74 which deals with Howe, who will then the refer Monopolies so-called 'restrictive' practices of and matter the labour and trade unions. Mergers Commission. The Commission will report. Then the pressure will go on to workers necessary for efficient conduct or union cerned to abandon its protective activities, working. even any method that is more stringent than is necessary' for efficient conduct of commercial able Press hounding. The new powers mark the a restrictive practice. touches of the introduce the The aim deprive the plan to corpor- is to ate state into Britain. On every worker of his most vital means issue, basic rights and of the shop-floor wages, struggle, or- stewards way for now a shop rights, to pave the ganization, workers face the edict of the massive speed-up and dictator- state and the Tory bid to rob factory floor. ship right on the of any indepen- them entirely It will destroy every-day dent action. negotiating machinery established by the shop stewards movement This dramatically underlines throughout British industry. the immediate need launch throughout campaign the Issues like mobility of labour, make the and the thousand and one func- Tory government resign and re- tions and powers that stewards place it with a Labour govern- have are now in grave jeopardy.

ment pledged to socialist policies.

Investigations on the shop floor There is no other way out for into trade unionists' working the working class. On every lives will start with the new issue thev face the dictatorial Director General Fair Trad- of hand of this government and in established by the new Bipost ing- one months' time the Tories will offensive launch their biggest of He is empowered launch all, from within capitalist Europe.

to restrictive time for delav. The There is no inquiries into prac- tices' and report to Sir Geoffrey must begin now. campaign NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY DECEMBER 2, 1972 • No. 936 • 4p

E CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Clay Cross Ireland

PHILIP WADE,

our Housing

IAN YEATS,

staff reporter, Correspondent, files a spe- is in Dublin reporting on the cial report on The town anti-IRA Bill and Sean His 10- that is defying the Tory MacStiofain's strike. Rent Act' series on A Crisis of today on pages part 2 and 3. Leadership continues on Page 4. OVER 220,000 hospital ancillary and another 150 at Chester City workers will walk out on Decem- Hospital will begin a similar ber 13—the day which they _campaign on December 13. on a f4 wage should have received United Liverpool Hospital's Their action is 1,200 workers plan to hold a 24- increase. in against refusal of hour stoppage on Monday. protest the Secretary The union claim is for £4-a- Social Services Sir Keith Joseph week across the board basic pay to exempt them control from the Tories' rise, a El compensatory payment wage legislation. by in- for workers not covered staff War- hundred schemes, Two at centive bonus shorter General Hospital, hours and more holidays. rington Lancashire,

FIREMEN

will strike for have had their new one December 11 day a week from national agreement for extra pay A SPECIAL meeting of the Irish Meanwhile at Leinster House Trades Union Congress yesterday the debate the proposed on issued a condemning amendments to the Offences statement Against the State Act entered its the Lynch government's anti- IRA Bill as 'regressive and retro- third day, with no prospect of a grade'. vote in sight. Bill The statement said the There were strong rumours *a the threat to accepted late yesterday afternoon that the norms of civil liberty and con- Dail break might from normal especially of the trade duct, and continue the practice dis- union movement. today. cussion four-hour But the emergency meeting did not discuss MPs possible Otherwise would resume industrial action against the In that case a vote on Mondav. expected legislation. could not be until Ceylon Starting next Monday

GALE'S

JACK

series on 'Renegades from Trotskyism'.

SIR GEOFFREY HOWE ...

Drafted anti-union laws and now comes up with Fair Trading Bill. for working holidays stopped under the Tory Act, even though it came into effect on October 1.

A meeting of General and Workers* Municipal Union stewards decided this week to for a substantial increase press for the 50,000 manual workers in the gas industry. The executive of the Union of Post Office Workers has also pre- pared a claim for a substantial rise which it wants implement- ing from January l. Wednesday at the earliest.

Three thousand students from Dublin's two university colleges technical and colleges marched to the Dail yesterday afternoon to protest against the legislation. The students were demanding the resignation of premier Jack Lynch and Justice Minister Desmond O'Malley, together with the restoration of the gov- erning body of Radio Telefis Eireann.

workers press

TORY LAW

STEWARDS

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENT

CAV

DAVID MAUDE,

our Indus- trial Correspondent, presents a. four-page feature on the Mersey sit-in strike today on pages 5, 6, 7 and 8.

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

THE GOVERNMENT is to take new sweeping powers aimed at breaking up trade union practices used to defend wages and conditions. The measures, which come in under the guise of protecting the con- sumer, add to the dictatorial controls already estab- lished — the Industrial Relations Act outlaws basic rights and the so-called anti-inflation makes wage in- creases illegal. The architect of the new powers, published yes- terday as the 'Fair Trading Bill', is Sir Geoffrey Howe, who drafted the anti-union laws and is now the Tory in charge of consumer affairs.

The government hopes to give the Bill a second reading before Christmas and have it on the statute book as early as possible next year.

The Bill establishes a welter of complicated legislation on consumer affairs and incorporates the existing power of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Act. Pset ion 94l aim is contained in section which deals with Howe, who will then refer the so-called 'restrictive' practices of the Monopolies and matter to labour and trade unions. Mergers Commission. The Commission will report. Then the pressure will go on to workers or necessary for eflicient conduct cerned to abandon its protective the predict- stringent than is necessary for able Press hounding. efficient conduct of commercial a restrictive practice. finishing touches of the Tory plan the The is to deprive the to introduce corpor- aim ate state into Britain. On every worker of his most vital means issue, rights and of the shop-floor wages, struggle, now a shop rights, to pave the way for ganization, workers face the edict of the speed-up and dictator- massive state and the Tory bid to rob floor. ship right on the factory them entirely of any indepen- destroy It will every-day dent action. negotiating machinery established by the shop stewards' movement underlines This dramatically throughout British industry. the immediate need to launch throughout the campaign Issues like mobility of labour, labour movement make the and the thousand and one func- Tory government resign and re- tions and that stewards powers Dace It wiln a bour cover.

have are now in grave jeopardy.

ment pledged to socialist policies.

Investigations on the shop floor There is no other way out for unionists' into trade working the On working class. every will the lives start with new issueR they face the dictatorial Director General of Fair Trad- hand of this government and in inew Bipost established by the ing-a one months' time the Tories will launch their biggest offensive of He is empowered to launch all, from within capitalist Europe.

There is no The inquiries into restrictive time for delay. prac- tices' and report to Sir Geoffrey campaign must begin now. : NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY DECEMBER 2, 1972 • No. 936 • 4p

E CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE

Ireland PHILIP WADE, our Housing

IAN YEATS,

staff reporter, Correspondent, files a spe- is in Dublin reporting on the cial report on 'The anti-IRA Bill and Sean town that is defying Tory MacStiofain's strike. His 10- the series on A Crisis of Rent Act today on pages part 2 and 3. Leadership continues on Page 4. OVER 220,000 hospital ancillary and another 150 at Chester City workers will walk out on Decem- similar -campaign on December 13.

ber 13-the day which they should have received a £4 wage Their in 1,200 workers plan to hold a 24- increase. action is the refusal of hour stoppage on Monday. protest against Sir Social Services Secretary The union £4-a- Keith Joseph to exempt them week across the board basic pay from Tories' a fl compensatory payment wage control the legislation. workers not covered by in- Two War- hundred staff at Hospital, hours and more holidays. rington General Lancashire, strike for one FIREMEN have had their new will day a week from December 11 national agreement for extra pay Meanwhile at Leinster House A SPECIAL meeting of the Irish Trades Union Congress yesterday the debate on the proposed amendments the Offences issued statement condemning to government's Against the State Act entered its the Lynch anti- IRA Bill as 'regressive and retro- with no prospect of a third day, vote in sight. grade'. The statement said the Bill There were strong rumours 'a threat to the accepted late yesterday afternoon that the norms civil liberty and con- ot Dail might break from normal especially of the duct, trade practice and continue the dis- union movement'. cussion today. four-hour But the emergency meeting did not discuss possible Otherwise MPs would resume against the Monday. In that case a vote industrial action on legislation. could be expected until Ceylon Starting next Monday

GALE'S

JACK

series on 'Renegades from Trotskyism'.

SIR GEOFFREY HOWE ...

Drafted anti-union laws and now comes up with 'Fair Trading Bill. for working holidays stopped under the Tory Act, even though it came into effect on October l.

A meeting of General and Municipal Workers' Union stewards decided this week to press for a substantial increase for the 50,000 manual workers in the gas industry. The executive of the Union of Post Office Workers has also pre- pared a claim for a substantial rise which it wants implement- ing from January I. Wednesday at the earliest.

Three thousand students from Dublin's two university colleges and six technical colleges marched to the Dail yesterday afternoon to protest against the legislation. The students were demanding the resignation of premier Jack Lynch and Justice Minister Desmond O'Malley, together with the restoration : of the gov- erning body of Radio Telefis Eireann.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday Decembe A CAMPAIGN to whip- ary up racial hatred against the Socialist Labour League among the black community of Chapel- town, Leeds, has been launched by the Inter. atio national Marxist Group, publishers of the news- paper 'Red Mole'. The attack began in last Monday's 'Mole' with an anonymous article on the fight of the Chapeltown Har people to gain control of a local pre-school play centre called Studley Grange. extensive investigations After involving all sections in Leeds, black community, the of the people who run Studley Grange and the people who control it, we can establish that the report is a complete fabrication designed only to mislead the people of Chapeltown and slander the SLL.

The report states: a) Black people were going to Studley Grange last оссиру Friday. b) The warden of the centre, "Joff' (in fact Joss) Browning had resisted repeated from requests blacks' to resign. c) Mr Browning to be a 'leading member of the Leeds SLL'.

d) Browning's attitude Mr demonstrated the SLL's 'reaction- Socialist Labour League

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DAVE KIRBY

(CAV, Fazakerley, shop steward.)

CONNIE FAHEY

(Wilmslow tenants' leader)

ALAN PEERS

(Young Socialists' national committee) (Union and tenant speakers in a perso Details of other provincial meetings se

NEWCASTLE

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County Hotel Speakers : • BANDA (SLL Central

MIKE

committee) DAVID JONES (YS national committee) BOB MAINS (Unemployed) VINCENT FOY (secretary Jar- row Trades Council. In personal capacity.)

BIRMINGHAM

SUNDAY DECEMBER 17, 7 p.m.

Assembly Hall Digbeth Civic Hall Speakers: G. HEALY (SLL National Secre- tary) / December 2, 1972 ip- ary line' on the 'black question'.

The report, which sets an all- nst time low in 'Mole' reporting, im- pertinently demands we 'disown' Mr Browning. Instead the Workers Press in this news article will expose this slanderous report and on Mon- day will publish a full investig- ation into the Studley Grange affair which reveals a remark- able, some might say sinister, alliance between the IMG and a leading Leeds Liberal. THE FIRST inaccuracy is claim a)-that the black people Chapeltown intended to occupy the Studley Grange Centre.

I spoke to Verly Harriot. Mrs wn Harriot is in charge of the Citizen's Advice Bureau Chapeltown. She is West Indian and one of the leaders of the campaign to change the executive committee which runs the centre from its present predominantly middle-class character to white, the majority to working- give class blacks. She told me: purpose of the The prime meeting [last Friday's meeting at Studley Grange where the occup- ation was to take place] was to see that our voice was heard, so that we could bring forth the issue on Studley Grange.'

The leaflet issued by members of the Chapeltown Parents' and Friends' Association says that control of the centre had to be 'taken'. According to those who drafted the leaflet, occupation neither intended was nor advocated.

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

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SUNDAY DECEMBER 17, 2 p.m.

Woodside Halls St George's Cross Speakers : MIKE BANDA (SLL Central committee) JOHN BARRIE (YS national committee) WILLIE DOCHERTY (chairman Paisley Tenants' Action Com- mittee. In personal capacity.)

WILLIE AITKIN (YS national committee)

PETER

SMITH

(Rover shop steward. In personal capacity.)

CORIN REDGRAVE (Equity. In a personal capacity.) As it turned out, Friday's all- meeting centred on an attempt to elect a new committeé. No occupation took place and none notwithstanding was suggested, the 'Mole' article which ended with the words: 'We will publish details of the occupation in the next issue' ON POINT b)-'Joff' Browning 'resisting demands' from was black people to resign. Joss Browning is, and was, working his notice. He was sacked over a month ago by the Studley Grange executive committeean overwhelmingly white, middle-class body.

no repeated He has had requests' from black people to resign. This again was confirmed Mrs Harriot several and other members of the Parents' Association and another group called the Afro-West Indian Brotherhood. Says Mrs • Harriot: 'The true issue at Studley Grange did not centre on Joss's job or whether he was a good or bad warden.

into it when came we learned that he was sacked. As usual, no one told us anything.'

Another immigrant girl who I spoke to at Mrs Harriot's house was even more direct. When I 'Mole' report, showed her the she said angrily: "This part "repeated requests from blacks* is fest not true because we didn't know anything about joss until he was sacked. For his own part Mr Browning says he has had no requests for his resignation from black people, though certainly there is a strong desire for a black warden.

POINT c) - This claims Mr Browning is a member of the SLL.

Joss Browning is not and never has been a member of the ȘLL. Nor has he any intention of joining nor has any SLL member total asked him to join. His the SLL connection with through the Workers Press, which he reads. POINT d) - The 'reactionary the black line of the SLL on question'. This will be taken up on Monday when the 'line' and 'friends and allies of the IMG' will also be investigated. Suffice to say, the SLL has devoted its entire efforts to building a revolu- tionary party among all workers.

It maintains the question of racial oppression and discrimin- ation is a class question and will not be solved until capitalism is overthrown and a workers' state established. SLL members in Leeds do con- sistent sales in the Chapeltown and other areas and the paper was well known to many black and white inhabitants I spoke to. None of them, however, knew anything about the IMG or the 'Red Mole' There appears to have been little IMG campaign- ing in the area. POINT d)In fact this exposes the real nature of 'Mole' article.

It is to slander the SLL and keep workers, black and white, away from revolutionary politics.

Yesterday a spokesman at the 'Red Mole' editorial office said the accuracy of the report had not been checked. This was left to comrades in the area. * IMG member in Leeds, Rick Hatcher, said the report has been culled from 'sources' at an IMG meeting in Leeds last Wednesday when Tariq Ali spoke.

He would not say who told the IMG branch that Mr Browning was an SLL member. He said he has been aware that Mr Brown- ing was serving his notice, but gave no reason for the report's resisting he was claim that demands for his resignation' He said the information that black people had been demand- ing his resignation came from 'a in of black militants number Chapeltown'. Special Report from Clay Cross By Philip Wade OVER A THOUSAND tenants, trade unionists and Labour councillors are expected to demonstrate here tomor- row in support of the principled and determined stand put up by the council against the Tory government's 'fair rents' Act. On Thursday the 11 councillors have been invited to see the district auditor.

He has told them that up to £7,000 is missing from the housing account.

He believes the councillors may have some 'personal responsibility' for the deficit. Said council leader, Arthur Wellon: 'No doubt he is right!' For at least 18 months, the councillors have been unanimous in opposing Tory plans to smash council housing in Britain. On October 2 they refused to implement fl rent increases for over 1,300 tenants. Before long the councillors could have to foot the £7,000 bill. It could mean their bankruptcy and would certainly result in their automatic dis- qualification, by law, from the council, leaving Clay Cross workers without any elected representatives.

Clay Cross, the small, ex-mining town in north Derbyshire the van ot struggle against the Tory government and its hated Housing Finance Act. There can be no doubt the Tones intend to defeat Clay Cross councillors and workers before dealing with any other 'rebel' Labour councils. The government begins with the pers- péctive of destroying every basic democratic right of the working class. More and more Clay Cross that there workers are compromise in such a fight. Someone and will win will lose. To bring the

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struggle to success regures the mobilization of all immediate workers in support of the council Tories resign. make the its place would be put a Labour government pledged to repeal the Act and out socialist Cally policies. That is why councillors olle *seeking the widest possible sup- port throughout Britain, especially from local who have Cle Chartle Bunting pledged solidarity action if any by councillor touched the Tories or the district auditor.

As the councillors themselves point out, the real question is leadership the of the trom lop Labour and trade union move- ment. David Skinner, of the 11 one told councillors, public meet- 'The ing Thursday: national of the Labour executive Party everything from the vetoing working class and the grass roots.

'The leadership kicking the legs from under us, stabbing us in the back. We must get shot of these men in the parlia- and the

NEC

at mentary party the hirst opportunity- -and that's not far away. 'It's law- not question of and-order. What about those companies that didn't file reports under the Companies Act? And who is going to pay for Poulson's debts and money Cllr Dennis Skinner spent on Tory ministers?'

GEORGE LOWE is an ex-miner.

"The Common Market is going other Clay Cross to make it worse still. I think Like so many we're for that already workers he had to turn to some- paying with the prices. It's taste of Holmewood thing else when what's to come, said George.

colliery closed, the last working pit around the town. "The only thing I can see 1S get shot of this government. to After 26 years as a miner he Clay They're taking on Cross Clay Cross went to work at now. And if they break us they'll pipe works, the town's biggest break the whole lot. employer with 600 men. He made 'And when Labour gets back clear to me that whatever happened he would in we don't want any laws against not pay the especially increase, now that us. There must be no laws against We rights his wages are frozen by law. the unions. back.' "The we got didn't last rise work much because out knocked much off.

GRAHAM

SMITH,

like Charlie so the rent we'd have te Bunting (above), has been goes up I|I= 14 it's only months, down. And food employed for ever isn't it? the them led the you on, COl

COUNCILLOR Charlie Bunting has been out of work for 14 months, ever since he led a strike for union recognition in a local factory. The strike lasted 19 weeks and he and another councillor, Graham Smith, were eventually left out on the stones.

the Tories could ever be because The union was broken and least know Tory Charlie Bunting found it im-

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Blue and that's that,' he told me.

possible to get work. One 'When think of what you was probable black- reason could happen to vou t makes leadership- furious. The listing by local employers and me which split wide open on other was the massive the issues- -just doesn't want 18-per-cent unemployment in know?' Clay Cross which has followed He was in doubt as to what the successive pit closures. reguired labour movement. Today he is thoroughly dis- 'First there has to be a clearing- cabinet. With illusioned with the Labour Party out in the shadow these people you've got no leadership at all levels for leaving chance of getting socialist policies Clay Cross isolated in the fight against the Tory government.

carried onE downfall of the Labour «The Party in the last 50 years has been and still is the fact we have traitors in our camp—and I mean real traitors. They are worse than The same go is obeen to lia- mentary been to the « party. House of Commons and most of them couldn't care and have forgotten what they went there for in the first place. There must clear-out-in no uncertain ng terms. strike at Ingham's radiator fac- for of 'We tory recognition the could have broken the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- back of this government a long ing Workers. Before that nailed was time ago, them the made redundant by British Rail floor. But from February last is where he was a signalman.

we've not had a word from our at. leadership on the Housing I prefer firm to stand with Finance Act: no bark, bite no the rest of the councillors rather no fight. and than give to the Tories. he said. I've already got a collection 'Up here the Tories are carry- ck forms district from the ing their threats. Yet out give st so he doesn't frighten auditor the working class Britain Ist In and we'd have lead chance. its Yet no matter what our leader- "What the majority of Clay ship will still does, the Tories Cross Labour Party members keep hammering the working fear is whether the next Labour lie class. will government carry п- socialist policies. 'What's is er important to me I've sold myself to that never he 'We hope that the trade unions Now we have to get anyone. will back us in our fight.

leadership win this battle,' added i Charlie. Above left: A tenants' meeting in Clay Cross on Thursday. Above right: Mrs Eileen • Skinner. with her children. 'I back my husband all the way-even If I have to go to prison myself.' 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—l Union-are now availab London W1

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Workers Press, Satur MARRIED councillors are be- ing given full backing in their fight by their wives. One is Mrs Eileen Skinner, wife of Cllr Graham Skinner. In fact the whole family is involved in Graham's brother, politics. David, is also a councillor.

And their brother, Dennis, is Labour MP for nearby Bolsover.

'Graham has no intentions of They can't take backing out. anything off him because he hasn't got it, says Mrs Skinner, who lives. in one of the new council houses at a £2.50-a- week rent. 'People just can't afford the rent increases. We would have to go without and should have to cut down on food and a few luxuries. And I don't want to go out to work because I have ITines o

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two young children to look after. 'When the auditor comes to decide what to do, the fun's going to start round here. Everyone in Clay Cross knows this council is for backing the working class. "The councillors are going to need everything they can get to back them. I know someone has to lose this fight —and we're to win, going she told me firmly. 'If it comes to a point where they have to go to prison it'll be like the dockers when they went to jail. We hope other down the workers up and country will come in and help.

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Fighting the Tories' rent Act Special Report from Clay Cross By Philip Wade OVER A THOUSAND tenants, trade unionists and Labour councillors are expected to demonstrate here tomor- row in support of the principled and determined stand put up by the council against the Tory government's 'fair rents' Act. On Thursday the 11 councillors have been invited to see the district auditor.

He has told them that up to £7,000 is missing from the housing account.

He believes the councillors may have some 'personal responsibility' for the deficit. Said council leader, Arthur Wellon: 'No doubt he is right!' For at least 18 months, the councillors have been unanimous in opposing Tory plans to smash council housing in Britain. On October 2 they refused to implement £1 rent increases for over 1,300 tenants. Before long the councillors could have to foot the £7,000 bill. It could mean their bankruptcy and would certainly result in their automatic dis- lualification, by law, from the council, leaving Clas Cross workers without any elected representatives Clay, Cross, the small, ex-mining town in north Derbyshire is now in the van of the struggle against the Tory government and its hated Housing Finance Act. There can be no doubt the Tories intend to defeat Clay Cross councillors and workers before dealing with any other 'rebel' Labour councils. The

Fighting the Tories' rent Act Special Report from Clay Cross By Philip Wade OVER A THOUSAND tenants, trade unionists and Labour councillors are expected to demonstrate here tomor.

row in support of the principled and determined stand put up by the council against the Tory government's 'fair rents' Act. On Thursday the 11 councillors have been invited to see the district auditor.

He has told them that up to £7,000 is missing from the housing account.

He believes the councillors may have some 'personal responsibility' for the deficit. Said council leader, Arthur Wellon: 'No doubt he is right!' For at least 18 months, the councillors have been unanimous in opposing Tory plans to smash council housing in Britain. On October 2 they refused to implement £1 rent increases for over 1,300 tenants. Before long the councillors could have to foot the £7,000 bill. It could their bankruptcy mean and would certainly result in their automatic quais worers via, ut any he cred representatives.

Clay Cross, the small, ex-mining town in north Derbyshire is now in the van of the struggle against the Tory government and its hated Housing Finance Act. There can be no doubt the Tories intend to defeat Clay Cross councillors and workers before dealing with any other 'rebel' Labour councils.

The government begins with the pers-

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How successful have the policies of Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army been since the first civil unrest in Ulster in 1968? IAN YEATS reports in a series of articles based on interviews with leading Republicans, revisionists and reformists on both sides of the border.

IRELAND

THE CRISIS

OF LEADERSHIP

1956 because we did not have

PART FOUR

enough guns. Eventually they did

LIAM

vince the leadership in Belfast and because Sinn Fein was

MACMILLEN

banned we formed the Republican Clubs based on

SPEAKS

the people. involvement with We interested ourselves in everything from high - rise & After 1956 Republicans housin found pedestran could see no future in We out what the people wanted and campaigned the because movement on behalf of that. That was the physical force cam- became active in the now we paign had failed. civil rights association.

The leadership analysed The idea behind our support for the Northern Ireland Civil and what went wrong

(NICRA)

1963-1964 they decided they Rights Association was that if could get the we were not involved with equal distribution of people. Protestants of and jobs Belfast had a tradition We felt we failed in would begin to look elsewhere the gun. other than the connection with England. After August 1969 the Provos blamed us for attacks on Catholics because they said we had hung up the gun in favour of the pamphlet. This forced us into situation where we had to get guns in order to protect people. Previously we had held that force was sectarian and divisive and our attacks were always against military targets.

Then the Provos started on what we call their anti-people bombing campaign which we felt was a disaster and has put us back years. The Provo campaign widened the split between our- selves and the Protestants. People who had been willing to talk to us on common ground were frightened off.

The basic idea of our in- volvement in NICRA was to win the overthrow of the Special Powers Act and to win freedom of expression and communication. We reckoned that given freedom of movement our alternative socialist was credible enough to persuade the Protestants. Our idea would be the nationalization of the factories.

The only people we recognize as non-working class are those who invest their capital here and then take it away after a quick Workers and profit. owners are all workers. The bigger factories would be owned by the state and workers would take all the decisions and in small factories employers could be forced through legislation to pay a proper wage. 'When the Tory government took over in began to escalate,' says Belfast Reput Above: Bloody Sunday when 13 march We have forecast for a long time that Britain had more to gain from a new colony rather than a direct colonial situation.

Since independence Eire has risen from being Britain's ninth best customer to her third. In the end I think there will be some kind of federal deal.

We did not do enough to avoid a sectarian split between Protestants and Catholics, but we were victims of circum- stance insofar as the leadership was so far ahead of the mem- bership which was just coming over from physical force. It has been a big problem getting our propaganda out to the Protestants. When the Tory government took over in Britain, British army intimidation here began to escalate. The Tories see the danger of the Republican move- ment setting up a socialist system. •[Brigadier Frank] Kitson advocated the use of troops against strikes and pickets so he and probably most of the English establishment recognize events in the links between England and Ireland. have an empire attitude. They reacted on Bloody Sunday and at the time of Aldershot in a funny way. There needs to be a tremendous amount of work done in the British working class to try to work up the demand to get the British army withdrawn from the north.

ak over in Britain, army Intimidation here ast Republican leader Liam MacMillen.

13 marchers were gunned down.

The crunch as far as the IRA were concerned came on Bloody Sunday when there were so many people killed.

And people were fed up with not being able to go out for a knowing drink without whether they would get back— they wanted a return to some sort of normality. Then the priests joined in.

They had stayed quiet until the Provos started their bombing, but after that they were try- ing to break support from the

IRA.

A tremendous number of our members have now become political and there is now the opportunity to get out among the Protestants. People are beginning to realize that the only hope of peace is in the 32 counties.

But we are opposed to any extension of Fianna Fail rule.

We would hope to campaign on the platform that even the British withdrew you would have national instead of foreign exploiters. Before the troubles, we were attempting to set up a national liberation front consisting of left-wing trade unionists or anyone who agreed with our policies. At the moment we are in a vacumn and we are making no progress. CONTINUED MONDAY: In- Malachy Mc- terview with Gurran, chairman of the Six- County Republican Clubs.

The occuption of CAV Fazakerley is a story with 1,000 'angles'. For that is the number of workers who have been sitting in the Liverpool factory for the last eight weeks against closure and the destruction of all their jobs. Joseph Lucas, the £179m combine which owns CAV, is adamant about its decision to shut down its production of vehicle pumps at Fazakerley by next April. But with 60,000 already on the dole on Merseyside, the CAV workers are at least equally determined that they are not going.

dustrial correspondent DAVID MAUDE talked to a cross-section of workers taking part in the occupation about their struggle. In this special four page pull-out they explain why they are determined to win.

SITIN STRIKE AT CA/

The occuption of CAl have been sitting in the their jobs. Joseph Luca down its production of dustrial correspondent 1 about their struggle. In The future of the struggle against unemployment on Merseyside will be de- cided at CAV Fazakerley, believes Dave Martin, engineers' union con- venor at the occupied factory. Every worker must join the fight against the Tory govern- ment on this issue. Otherwis: entry into the Common Mar- ket will destroy job prospects throughout the area and leave its men, women and children to rot amidst a maze of rot- ting factories. After eight weeks of sit-in strike, Dave says, the fight has shifted decisively to two main fronts: • Picket lines at Ford, Stand- ard-Triumph and the Lucas combine's Victor aerospace works, where the CAV work- ers are trying to stop the flow of Lucas parts. • Attempts to involve the the working class mass of in solidarity action with the 1,200 whose jobs are threat- ened. The reasons for this shift, explains are firmly Dave, rooted in the CAV workers' experiences during the occupa- tion. Late in September we started to hear persistent rumours of a big cut in labour, with the number of produc- tion workers being reduced to 25 per cent and the possible closure of the factory in the future. We couldn't get any- thing definite on this, but we knew that a number of super- visory staff had been sent down to Simms Motor Units in Finchley, London, which recently the company had bought over-supposedly to help out on a temporary basis.

We decided we should have a look. The news we got was very disturbing. Our delegation to Simms reported back that the had supervisors in question key positions and taken up had already started to buy houses down there. The shop stewards' committee con- sidered this report on Mon- day, October 1. At 2 p.m. the following day the senior stewards confronted the management and asked for a statement of intent. Both the personnel officer and the factory manager pooh- poohed the idea that there was any question over the factory's future. No redun- dancies were in the pipeline, they said. The idea of closure was just ridiculous. what we We told them knew. They said they knew nothing. At 9 a.m. the following morning we saw the general manager. This time the line was different. He said he had statement. of serious a a nature' to put to us. The fac- tory was to close by the end of April 1973. That afternoon a meeting of the stewards' committee de- cided. to occupy the factory- I CAV Fazakerley is a sto in the Liverpool factory for • Lucas, the £179m combin ion of vehicle pumps at Fa AV workers are at least equ dent DAVID MAUDE talk le. In this special four page The gates of CAV Fazakarlay with thei the only point of disagreement was when. Eventually it was agreed we should call a mass meeting of all members the following day, October 4, and ask them to give the senior stewards full authority to start the occupa- tion at a moment's notice.

Some people wanted to go ahead immediately, but a majority thought we should wait a bit. The mass meeting carried the resolution unanimously.

Next day we were told the personnel officer that the company was terminating , the night shift at the end of the week, as from Friday, October and offering everyone alternative employment on days. Paddy Mullane, organizer of the occupation committee's picketing campaign, hard at work on the vital rotas which make sure that no blacked Lucas products leak into Liverpool car factories.

closing This would mean down the heat-treatment de- partment at nights, and since this takes five hours to heat up it clearly meant a big, im- mediate cutback. Up to that point they had been saying the factory would be fully open until April, but now they admitted their plans only required 25 per cent of existing heat-treatment, so the night-time closedown was fine by them. This would have meant up to 400 pieceworkers going on idle time and taking a pay ry for the last eight weeks a at Fazakerley by next April ist equally determined that E talked to a cross-section r page pull-out they explain 1100 - With that dollant placards have bacoma a syl cut of about £12-£14 a week.

We obviously had to react.

On Friday the senior stew- ards got together and decided to recommend that the sit-in begin from 9 a.m. the follow- ing Monday morning, but to tell no one about their deci- sion over the weekend. The first is that the com- pany must have known, when they were telling us there was no chance of the factory clos- ing, what the real situation was. In fact we have docu- mentary evidence that they did, in the form of the holiday rota for the Lucas factories on Merseyside prepared last April. All the details are set out for the other factories, but for CAV there's just big a blank after April 1973. We would have more evi- dence on this, but over the delayed we weekend we understand that the company got rid of a whole load of documents out of its files and destroyed or removed them on the grounds it was 'per- sonal' stuff. And this brings out the second point: the delay in occupying was defi- nitely a mistake. The occupation began Mon- day, October 9, at 9 a.m.

We offered the foremen the chance to join the occupation or leave the site. They all left.

Then we gave management the same choice, and by 12 noon they had left too. Next morning the clerical workers in APEX (Association of Professional, Executive and Computer Stafi) and the TASS members (technical and super- visory section of the Amalga- mated Union of Engineering Workers) decided to join the occupation. Occupation committees were set up to run the can- teen, the finance department, hygiene and all the other as- pects. We were in business.

By that first Tuesday night we had held a meeting of all the Lucas combine stewards in Workers Preee, Salun eeks against closure and the CAV, is adamant about it April. But with 60,000 alrea that they are not going. V ction of workers taking part plain why they are determin come a symbol of Marzayside workers' Aght agal the north-west. This gave us support in principle and finan- cial backing. Then we went out to campaign for the same sort of thing in Birmingham and elsewhere. Towards the end of the second week Eric Heffer and the other Merseyside Labour MPs had started talks with the company and with Chata- Tories' so-called the way, Development Minister, about the implications of the closure.

got nowhere. It was They beginning to become obvious that to move Lucas's we'd have to move the combine.

When the we went to dockers for support in black- ing Lucas products, that was the first question they asked us. What are your own people doing? So the question of what they were doing became crucial. Another question that had to be decided at this time was who controlled the site. Lucas Industrial Equipment (LIE), who share the site here with us, were still working and the management wanted to put in men to run the boilerhouse to make sure things kept run- ning. The occupation committee recognized that this was a key issue and we insisted that we kept control of the boiler- house. We run it on a 24-hour basis. But by week four of the occupation the committee de- cided that we would have to stop LIE, although all the workers there, including the staff, were giving us tremen- dous support with a levy of £l each a week. We stopped all products entering or leaving the site and set up a system of passes —one set for the occupation shift, another for the LIE workers and yet another for visitors. On Thursday morn- November 2, everyone in ing, LIE was offered a pass. Next morning none of the LIE foremen had passes. Pre- sumably they had refused ross, Balurday December 2, 1972 PAGE 5 number of workers who id the destruction of all ut its decision to shut ) already on the dole on Workers Press in- g part in the occupation ermined to win. fight against the dole them on the instructions of although the management, management themselves accep- ted passes and went in. By 2 p.m. everyone at LIE had been laid off. A one-day stoppage of all Lucas workers in the area had been called for the following Friday, November 10. But at about this time a lot of weak- nesses began to emerge. The trades council executive decided to call a meeting of all Merseyside stewards on November 7, but at that meet- ing a number of problems started to come to light. People started saying the date of the stoppage was too near, we had acted too soon, we would get annihilated. A big factor in this was the attitude of the union leaders.

Though they are all offi- cially backing us, except the electricians' union, they would not back the stoppage. The AUEW district committee got a letter saying that while they sympathized with our senti- ments, they couldn't make the stoppage official. So we couldn't get an all- Merseyside stoppage, and only one Lucas factory in the area and LIE, besides ourselves which was laid off, backed the November 10 action. But this taught us another lesson. So far we had been hitting Lucas's with a balloon, when what we needed was a sledgehammer. We decided to escalate. This is where the picketing came in, and why it has be- come so important that it succeeds. picketing The campaign, Dave Martin says, has already begun to show results. But he stresses that it is still vitally important for the occupation to win the widest possible backing in the wider labour movement. Behind Lucas's stands the govern- ment, he says. And the battle against the government cannot be won in one factory alone.

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EVERY

WORKER

MUST

BACK US

Women workers are among the fiercest fight- ers for the CAV occupa- tion. They travel hund- reds of miles to seek support, run an excellent and cheap canteen- which still feeds hundreds each day in the factory- and they even man the gates, where no one goes in or out without their say-so. And there are just a few of the jobs they do with cheerful firmness. When Linda Coltman and Lucas's Sadie Gorman say won't get them out of the factory until the closure deci- sion is reversed, you believe them. Although neither of these young sit-in strikers was very active in her union before, the last seven weeks have been an education. The chief lesson they have learnt is the need for unity of the working class.

"The company wants to send aturday Decomber 2, 1972 our work to Spain, where they can get it done cheaper because the unions aren't allowed to work, explains Linda. 'If we let them do this to us they will be able to do it to every Lucas factory. This is why everyone's got to stick by us.'

Sadie adds: 'People can't close their eyes to what Lucas are trying to do to us. 'We can't give what up we're doing here, because we all know how difficult it would be for us to find another job now. It's not just us. If we go out of that gate, the unemploy- Merseyside will ment on that much worse, and it'll be more difficult for everyone else to get work' By the firm's scheduled date of closure next April Linda, a member of the AUEW, will have completed five years' there as a machine service Sadie - also operator. a machine operator but in the T&GWU - has been working on the Fazakerley site three years. single; to Both girls are them the sit-in means a cut of more than 75 cent in per their standard of living.

Yet Linda (26) and Sadie, a year younger, recognize that there is no alternative-and their minds are made up to win They each have close rela- tives in the building industry and have seen at first-hand the effects of continual un- employment. Sadie went recently to Bir- union's mingham with her delegation in a successful bid to win the support of Lucas transport drivers there. The drivers agreed to black loads would normally have which been carried by men from the Fazakerley site. 'Closure Linda: Insists would be just as bad for the women as for the men. What with unemployment being so high generally, and the Equal Pay Act coming in, we'd be the first to get the push again even if we went to another factory. • "First in, last out" means "last in, first out" as well, you know' agreed, says 'We're all Sadie quietly. 'Lucas will just have to take us back. And that's that.'

WE WERE

TOLD WE HAD

A JOB

FOR LIFE

Les and Amy Windsor have worked loyally for CAV ever since the firm the started . up on Fazakerley site 12 years Neither has ever ago. voted for strike action, although as union mem- bers they supported all three actions which have been taken by the labour force since 1961. Each has always been attachea to their job and proud of their work. Today exactly these qualities have made Les and Amy two of the staunchest supporters Lucas's of the sit-in; until recognize their case, they're not budging. 'We were told there was a job for life for us here, Les remembers. "Then they told us what excellent workers we were.

Now we're all supposed to be strike-happy lunatics and everything they told us counts for nothing. 'We're thrown on the scrap- heap just the same-—and the redundancy pay they've offered us is ridiculously low for the amount of service we've done.'

A skilled machine setter, Les is devastatingly critical of CAV's policies management over the last 12 years. But Les explains that this is not the only reason for the closure decision. It's all politics, he says.

It's the Common Market. If they think they can get the done more cheaply in job somewhere else- Spain or never mind the quality-that's where they'll go. So the couple are sitting in, and in conversation with other members of occupation the Amy, in particular, is quick to knock on the head any kind of pessimism about their struggle. 'The Tories'll make Liver- pool a ghost town...' started of about the couple's a man ...but only if we age-group. ' let them,' Amy finished. She went on: 'We've got to get much wider support. What are the union leaders doing?

It's no good us fighting here if the heads of the unions aren't fighting. If they are, I certainly haven't heard about it. A T&GWU member, Amy was classed as a semi-skilled inspector, but carried out the work many men same as classed as skilled. She recalls the time a Rolls-Royce direc- tor praised her work—on the responsible task of final cam- shaft inspection-but doubts if the gentleman in question would lift a finger to help her now. The couple are typical of a large number of CAV workers, both in age (Les is 50) and views. For years the Tories and counted on their employers their loyalty, but if Heath and would Lucas's thought they just put on their coats and be , loyally sacked then Les, Amy and a whole lot more at CAV availabl are eager and "This ready to prove of bad them wrong. bit sicl agreem

THIS IS A

as the s cerned

VAST

the around

MONOPOLY

manage Prop the Tor

CONCERNED

'bad workers

WITH PROFIT

in the says F that Lu Leaders of the occupation had 12 vehemently deny com- the on pany claims that the governr factory's strike record justifies the decision to develop close. Franny Martin, This T&GWU convenor, lays mean the blame squarely on the worker all thei company itself. "This 'One of the main reasons there have been organizational whose problems is that no one here much Franny had real powers or responsi- shifting bility; they were always down into Ei the phone to headquarters for everything. those c same time there •At the standar was a complete lack of man- union after 4.45 p.m. Yet than h agement shop it'll do. the machine was on As f In some areas you didn't factory even have foremen—if there severe was a problem stewards fre- Franny quently couldn't find anyone young it. thing, he insists, is 'to win this usation struggle'. look a 'What's in- He stresses: had an volved is the whole future of 1 as far any kind of employment on are con- Merseyside. What's required is t wasn't to bring every section weren't workers in the area into this but the fight.' as's and

TAKE OVER

out the rseyside sidered

ALL THE

things, nts out

INDUSTRIES

already le work

WITH

£3m in could another

WORKERS

it was property

CONTROL

course, 1,200 Closure of CAV Fazaker- ping of ley would mean Bill kills. Towner's third redun- onopoly dancy in six years, if is how make', Lucas's were allowed to t means get away with it. Know. estment ing this has sharpened rly into vorkers' considerably his approach d trade to the socialist principles e lower with which he joined the s what Labour Party ten years • at the ago. meant a activist in the party, An ick for and a member of its borough ife and executive, Bill has been tour- le main Workers Press, Saturday I the the wards putting ing

CAV

workers' case and ex- plaining the key role of their struggle in the fight against unemployment on Merseyside.

His message is this: "The decision to close CAV has brought home that there's no for future the old mixed- economy ideas. It would be impossible to deal with the situation in that way. 'We've got to have complete control of the economy. 'There's far too much lip- service to Clause Four; people have got to lay their views on the line. What I'd like to see is confiscation of all in- dustries without compensation and with workers' control.

An electrical fitter by trade, Bill half jokes in deadpan Merseyside fashion about the fact that he moved into en- five gineering years ago he thought because it was more secure. But the bitter humour is in no way a retreat from his vow that this is the last time his future, and that of his wife and three children, will be thrown into jeopardy.

His first redundancy was Liverpool Warehousing, from whose garage operation was closed down after a takeover by the Midlands-based Trans- port Development Group* Then he went to Napier's, an electrical engineering firm not half a mile from CAV which was bought over by ers Press, Saturday December 2, 1972 PAGE 7 Left: a room which was intended to be the hub of the 'Big Brother' monitoring system—telecontrol has become the recreation cen- tre. Fazakerley's refusal to accept telecontrol have spurred may Lucas closure decision. Right: Sadie Gorman (centre) and a group of those taking part in the occupation. Arnold Weinstock's General Electric giant. Ten months after Bill started work there, Napier's closed. CAV stewards' secre- Now Bill Towner, sums up tary, workers in the what many feel is the self- occupation evident answer to their plight.

' he 'We can't just sit here, says. "The blacking and picket- has got to be ing campaign made to bite. The only time this factory will reopen is when we make Lucas's realize it will cost them more to close than to carry on and maintain our 1,000 jobs.' *Transport Development Group's other interests estab- lish a community of interest between the CAV workers and Merseyside's 10,000 dockers.

The owns Buckley's group Transport, a firm which is the picket lines at crossing Liverpool car factories. An- other subsidiary is Craddock the haulage firm "blacked Bros, for life by dockers after at- tempting to get two docks stewards and a union official convicted of blackmail.

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THEY THINK

IF THEY

CAN CRUSH

US, THEY

CAN CRUSH

EVERYBODY

Joe Harrison is one of the 300 workers laid off from Lucas Industrial the Equipment ite tory CAV, on the same site as because of the sit-in. Despite manage- constant ment assurances to the con- there is no he LaYe Days reason to believe Lucas Indus- trial will reopen if the occupa- tion fails and the larger factory shuts. 'In 1961 when Lucas opened up here it was all "factory of the future" stuff, with promises of 10,000 jobs at Fazakerley within a short time of getting In fact there was never going. more than 2,000 at most. 'A lot of people don't realize what's going on even now, but think the really we're in situation as those same workers at Thornycroft's, the subsidiary British-Leyland in They've decided Basingstoke. up shop here alto- they'll sell the gether. land off! of the Liver- branch pool of the AUEW, Joe has to deal with from fellow some moans workers about the CAV occu- pation committee's decision to stop all goods going in and out of the Lucas-CAV site and issue control the whole site. It was in retaliation against that Lucas's laid this decision off

LIE.

Their deçision must be supported, he says.

'It's not just a question of Lucas's,' Joe out.

DULLES

'What's involved is a deliber- ate policy by the Tory govern- ment in relation to Merseyside.

that if they They can crush the working class here, the lot-and they can crush unemployment's the they've chosen to try and do Himself married with three children, Joe Harrison com- pletely understands the pres sures on both the

CAV

workers and his own members.

We're just about surviving,' he says of his own family.

But he insists that the fight must go on. 'Every trade unionist should support the black on all Lucas products,' he says. 'And there must be special responsibility the of Ford's, •al convenors Standard-Triumph and the other car factories to stop getting Lucas supplies by In other means than the lorries the CAV lads are stopping.'

TOO MANY

PEOPLE

HAVE THEIR

HEADS IN

THE CLOUDS

Christmas is coming. But CAV workers who com- plain that there won't be much gift-giving and good cheer for them this year get short shrift from Bill Stanton. 'We're not weakening just because of one Christinas", "There are going to be Cutes. a lot more Christmases the stones don't win this we -and not just for us!' one- Married with three school- Bill is intensely age children, aware that far more is at stake lay December 2, 1072 Women sit-in strikers sort lotters destine support in the labour movement Is one o in the sit-in than just the fate of the 1,200 workers CAV threatened to throw out of their jobs next April. That's important enough, he stresses. 'But there's too many jobs been lost in this city already by people just lying back and accepting redundancy.

We've got to think of our children. The question is: are we going to let the Tories turn Liverpool into a ghost town?

I say no; I hoped from the first we'd sit in. "Too many people have got their heads in the clouds. They think it'll never happen to them. But it means people can be picked off one by one' Unpaid bills are begining to pile up for Bill Stanton, who, as a skilled machine setter, is taking a cut in his standard of living of more than two-thirds to take part in the occupation.

Sur Hke every one of those sitting is, his determination to struggle remains unimpaired.

for ten resis he sold his stalls to CAV • rao he now accuses our money' of 'playing with when they came to Merseyside on a cushion of government grants. Now the game has stopped and the fight has begun. ra destined for the many It is one of the two main prong The Lucas cor tried to buy For when he lo their offer of redi closely, that pay they themselves proposing to give eight years' skilled machine s Making total of the offer government redundan ment, £176 for money Tonice holiday benefit. items were taxable. George say offer. At 53, George sta chance of finding an the unemploymer of Merseysi spot redundancy wouldn't supplement by £1.50 a week unt any shop sewards' comn rain prongs of the strikers is combine uy peace fron ne for £157.16 he looked at of redundancy y, that was all mselves were to give him for work as a chine setter. £806.27 the offer was £412.55 redundancy entitle. for eight weeks' £60.54 fit. The last two Needed orge rejected the eorge stands little nding another job mployment black- Merseyside. The pplement his dol week until he can da' committees and union branches backing th • strikers attack. draw his pension. 'It's the Tories', he says.

"They have absolutely no interest in what happens to the working class. Their profits are what matter to them. "They're out to turn Liver- pool into a disaster area.'

Mrs Rose Bennett is one of those CAV workers who thought they were indispensable to the com.

pany. 'We thought we couldn't be done with- out, she says wryly. Now she is sitting in, turn- ing up for each occupation and punc- shift as regularly tually as she did throughout the 1l years she worked for the company. there is to do, Whatever she does it. If Rose is on the gate when you visit the factory you'll find it as difficult to get past her the most as acking that struggle. The campalgn for suspicious of the men. Like many of the longer- serving workers in the factory, she has shares in CAV. Last year they brought in about £20. But she is now acting determinedly on the know- ledge the closure decision has brought her: that owning a few shares doesn't give stake in the system. 'We've been never SO friendly with the shop stewards as we are now, she says, 'We're not going to be shifted. There's nothing for us outside. We should have the whole of Liverpool with us on this one' Lucas's offered Rose exactly £148 to leave the factory quietly—just over a miserly £1 for each month of service.

The rest of the £771.02 quoted in the letter setting out the company's terms was government redundancy pay, eight weeks' notice money and her holiday allowance. Rose, whose work inspecting camshafts destined for Standard-Triumph was ad- mitted by Lucas's to be 98 per cent perfect,_angrily rejected the offer. 'No thanks, I'm staying put, she says.

The 'Balham and Tooting News paying for the accommodation, and Mercury' had an interest- but the air fares are being ing snippet the other day.

met by ratepayers. How much?

It stated that Mr David About £6,000 for the fares Lipsey had been appointed and another £1,000 expenses.

personal assistant to Anthony Crosland, Secretary of State for Education and Environ- ment in the last Labour There is great irritation in the government. Repairers' Shipbuilders' and was doing Lipsey said he National Association, about an of Crosland's some speeches item which appeared the other and his public relations work. day in the 'Journal of Com- It seems that the ambitious merce, the which paper Mr Lipsey was chairman of the describes itself as the daily Labour Club at Oxford. He paper of 'transport and world then went to the Esher head- trade. of the General and quarters Norman A. Sloan, the associ- Municipal Workers' Union to ation's director, rather wrote do research work. stiff note 'Journal' to the Three times a year he brings complaining about the present- out a journal called 'Public of ation article on the Enterprise' sort of Fabian a Trade Department of and tract in defence of national- Industry's grants to the ization. industry. Mr Lipsey is 24 years old.

The report stated that The 'Balham and Tooting £99,841,000 in grants had been Mercury' News and isn't paid out in the year ended great publication. But it has a March 31, 1972. The figure wry sense of humour. It headed then broken into was up the Lipsey story: 'Up socialist investment grants of new ships ladder'. and those for 'conversions and parts. Sloan said indignantly: 'It is quite clear that' this paragraph the Labour's candidate for will convey to your readers Uxbridge Miss by-election is that these vast sums of money Sykes. To Manuela many have been paid out to this voters throughout the country whereas in fact industry, the She has she isn't a new face. sums referred to were in res- stood five times before. Each pect of investment grants paid of these times she stood as to British shipowners (our Liberal. Maybe she'll have emphasis). better luck as a Labourite?

'Not of this one penny money was paid to the British indeed shipbuilding industry; 1 am quite certain that if you You know the old motto: Get investigate position you the elected to a local authority and will find that a substantial part see the world? of the total investment grants This is certainly being was paid to British shipowners scrupulously observed on the in respect of ships constructed Greater London Council. in foreign shipbuilding yards.

Tokyo The of governor decided to His acid comments are worth ask representaties noting. He is saying, of course, from the GLC to a seminar what Workers Press has been on problems facing big cities.

for months. The big Also on the invitation list stating representatives from shipowners are snatching were city Moscow, Paris, New York and government grants and using Tory-controlled Lon- them to have ships built in Peking. yards in Spain, Portugal, don council entered into the etc. Roll on the Common Market.

spirit of things by sending no There'll be even more of this less than five delegates and Tokyo is sort of thing then. their wives.

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FILM REVIEW BY BRIAN MOORE

'Lavishly inoffensive' per- haps best describes the thinking and purpose behind Robert Bolt's film 'Lady Caroline Lamb', now showing at the Empire, Leicester Square.

With an indifference to history that is breathtaking, Bolt has fashioned one those extravaganzas that has and the shallowness evasiveness belonging to the worst traditions of historical romances which feature end- lessly in women's magazines long-running series on or Radio 2. History is conceived of as a backdrop of production values, balls, stately homes, lavish coach occasionally in the corner of shots spitting their disapproval of the rich. But underneath the dressing is the everyday story of provincial melodrama. Lady Caroline Lamb, played by a lip-quivering and eye- popping Sarah Miles, is a free spirit, capricious, desperately insecure, all sensation and feeling. Her husband is rational, controlled, a man with a future in parliament.

Into her life comes young Lord Byron and her passion and desperation is unleashed.

She knows no discretion, she society. Byron scandalizes her obsession and Byron grows bored. She attempts to kill her- self, stabbing herself in the arm in full view of Byron, the Duke of Wellington and the assembled society of fashion.

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MOORE

Lady Caro is overcome with Above : the rational husband Her with future, played by lan shame and depression. Oglivy. Below: Lady Caroline husband is 'offered Ireland' on Lamb, played by lip-quivering, condition that he ditches her.

Sarah eye-popping As a man of honour his con- science will not permit this, yet when Lady Caroline finds out the score, she gets on boat to Paris and spends the the Duke of night with Wellington, alias Laurence Olivier in a false nose. Rebuffed by him she returns post haste and announces that she will divorce her husband.

He goes to Ireland and she dies 'of a broken heart' in the pagoda of the grounds of her stately home. presented as Byron is a self-conscious poseur, sort of combination of Oscar Wilde and a pop star which is one of the few new insights, if wrong, in the film. Otherwise it is a tasteless soporific for the middle class.

Cliché nudges cliché, banality That intellect. it poses as should be expensively SO served up is further evidence of the bankruptcy of ideas in the middle class. It is set in the period of 1812, a time when Europe was in ferment and war and when the great fear of the English that the ruling class was masses would rise up against them. The most repressive mea- sures were in force, the Com- bination Laws prohibited the of trade existence unions. Throughout the land there was great political agitation.

The Peterloo was in massacre at 1819. But that is something which romance' would 'historical rather leave alone.

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CHANNEL: 11.10 Merrie melo- dies. 11.35 Puffin. 11.40 Bonanza.

12.30 London. 5.10 On the buses. 5.40 London. 7.00 Film : 'Made in Heaven'. 8.30 Variety.

9.30 Upstairs, downstairs. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 All yesterdays. 11.55 our Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except : 10.45 Woobinda. 11.10 Merrie melodies: 11.35 Gus Honeybun.

for life. 12.00 11.55 Faith Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Wildlife theatre. Follyfoot. 11.05 Cowboy in 10.35 Africa. 12.00 Merrie melodies. 12.27 Weather. 12.30 London. 5.10 Persuaders. 6.10 London.

7.00 Film: 'Frenchie'. 8.30 Lon- 10.50 Film : don. 10.40 News. 'Diary of a Madman'. 12.30 Weather. Guideline. London. 9.50

HARLECH : 9.00

Bugs Bunny. 10.00 Tomfoolery 9.40 street. show. 10.30 Sesame Farming 11.30 Follyfoot. 12.00 diary. 12.30 London. 5.10 UFO.

7.00 Film : "The 6.10 London. Feminist and the Fuzz. 8.30 Filn Variety. 9.30 Upstairs, down- 10.30 London. 10.40 stairs. Aquarius. 11.30 Name of the game. 12.45 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as above except: 5.10 Turnbull's finest half hour. 5.40-6.10 Sion a sian. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.15 London.

10.10 Lord Mountbatten. 11.00 Cartoon. 11.05 Tomfoolery. 11.30 12.00 Elephant boy. London. London. 5.15 It takes a 12.30 Film. Variety. 9.30 Upstairs, down- 10.30 London. 10.40 stairs. Aquarius. 11.30 Film: "The Full Treatment'.

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 11.00-12.25 London.

2.13 Weather. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'The Rising of the Moon'.

Golden shot. 5.35 Black 4.40 Beauty. 6.05 London. 8.00 Film : Defiant. 10.00 London.

'HMS

11.15 Spyforce. 12.05 Epilogue WESTWARD. As Channel except : 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them 12.25 Gardening. live. 12.55 on a shoestring. 1.20 olectin Smith family. 1.45 Gus Honey- Farm and country bun. 1.55 news. 12.05 Faith or life. 12.10 Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.15 Talking hands.

9.30 London. 10.30 Farm pro- 10.57 Weather. gress. 11.00 London. 12.30 Bush boy. 1.00 Superman. 1.20 Primus. 1.50 2.15 Cartoon. Hogan's heroes. 2.20 Soccer. 3.15 Fenn Street Golden shot. 4.40 3.45 gang. Aquarius. 5.30 News. 5.35 Black 6.05 London. 7.30 On Beauty. the buses. 8.00 Film: 'Carnival of Thieves'. 10.00 11.15 London. King. 12.10 Weather. Jason Guideline. HARLECH: 9.30 London. 10.30 All our yesterdays. 11.00 London.

place in the country. 12.30 A 1.00 University challenge.

1.25 American style. 2.15 Soc- Love, cer. 3.15 Film: 'The Over-the-Hill- Gang Rides Again'. 4.45 Golden Beauty. 6.05 shot. 5.35 Black London. 8.00 Film: 'Moss Rose'.

9.30 Mr and Mrs. 10.00 London.

11.15 Echo of evil. 12.15 Weather.

HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as above except: 6.40-7.00 Llusern.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London.

10.30 All our yesterdays.

11.00 London. 12.30 Farming. 1.00 The champions. 2.00 Soccer. 3.00 Film: 'One of Our Aircraft Is Miss- 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 ing- Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 8.00 Film: 'The Naked Runner'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Spyforce. 12.10 Stories worth telling. ULSTER: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- shoestring. 1.30 HR ing on a Pufnstuf. 1.55 Women only. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Boys WIll Be Boys'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.58 Sports. 8.00 Film: "The African Queen' : 10.00 London. 11.15 Department S. YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 - You 11.00 London. and your golf. 12.30 Nanny and the protessor.

1.00 Farming outlook. 1.30 Cal- y December 2, 1972 ULSTER: 11.00 Thunderbirds.

12.00 Woobinda. 12.30 London.

5.01 Flintstones. 5.40 Sportscast.

6.10 London. 7.00 Cartoon. 7.10 McCloud. 8.30 Variety. 9.30 Up- stairs, downstairs. 10.30 London.

10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Journey Play to the unknown. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 Let them live.

9.40 Collecting on a shoestring.

10.10 The Osmonds. 10.35 Folly- foot. 11.05 Film: 'Tarzan and the Huntress. 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 10.40 11.30 Mod squad. Aquarius. tre. 12.30 Weather. GRANADA: 9.15 London. 10.05 Craftsmen. 10.40 Sesame Street.

11.40 Arthur. 12.05 Clapper- board. 12.30 London. 5.10 Sky's the limit. 5.40 Doctor at large. Im: 6.10 London. 7.00 Mr.

Magoo. 7.05 Movie of the week. 8.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Seaway. 12.30 Closedown. TYNE TEES: 9.15 Let them live.

lery 9.40 Collecting on a shoestring.

10.10 The Osmonds. 10.35 Folly- ing foot. 11.05 Film: Tarzan and Huntress'. the 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 7.00 3.30 Film: 'Cripple Creek'. 8.30 Lon- 11.30 don. 10.30 Aquarius. 0.40 Edgar Wallace. 12.30 Epilogue.

SCOTTISH: 9.15 You and your Collecting on a shoe- golf. 9.40 string. 10.10 Tomfoolery show.

10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Dave Cash. 11.30 The Osmonds. 12.00 Cavalcade. 12.30 London. 5.10 London. 6.05 Bonanza. 6.10 Hogan's heroes. 6.45 Film: 'The Naked Spur. 8.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Late call. 11.35 O'Hara. GRAMPIAN: 11.15 Beagans gaidhlig. 11.30 Tomfoolery. 12.00 3.30 Woobinda. 12.30 London. 5.10 5.40 Protectors. 6.10 Batman. London. 7.00 Film: 'Sierra'. 8.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Jason King. endar. 4.45 Golden shot. 5.35 3.15 Black Beauty. 6.05 London. 8.00 on'. Film: 'Billion Dollar Brain'. 10.00 ack London. 11.15 It takes a thief.

Im: 12.15 Weather. Jon. GRANADA: 9.30 London. 10.35 to remember. 11.00 Lon- Time ept: don. 12.25 Merrie melodies. 1.00 Saint. 1.50 Survival. 2.20 Foot- 3.20 Film: ball. "The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty.

6.15 Appeal. 6.20 6.05 News. Big question. 6.35 Stars on Sun- day. 6.55 Adam Smith. 7.25 Lon- don. 8.00 Film: 'Our Mother's House' 11.15 10.00 London. Scotland yard cassbook. TYNE TEES: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 You and your golf. 11.00 London. 12.30 Jimmy Stewart show. 1.00 Farming outlook. 1.25 World War l. 1.50 Where the jobs are.

1.55 Shoot. 2.50 Film: "Anything Can Happen'. 4.45 Golden shot.

5.35 Black Beauty. 6.05 London.

8.00 Film: 'The Best of Enemies' 9.50 Cartoon. 10.00 London. 11.15 Challenge. 12.05 Epilogue.

SCOTTISH: 10.15 Master chefs.

10.30 World War I. 11.00 London.

12.30 A place in the country. 1.00 Randall and Hopkirk. 2.00 Scotsport. 3.25 Film: 'Murder Ahoy'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Elephant boy. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: "A Kind of Loving. 10.00 London. 11.15 Late call. 11.20 Rolf Harris show. GRAMPIAN: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- ing on a shoestring. 1.30 Farm 2.00 Scotsport. 3.25 progress. Film: 'Valley of Song'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty.

6.05 London. 8.00 Film: 'Imitation General'. 9.25 Adam Smith. 10.00 London. 11.15 Untouchables.

BBC 2

3.00 Film: 'Harry Black and the Tiger'. Stewart G/anger 4.40 ney Play away. 5.05 The great un- known. 5.55 Man alive.

6.45 TELEVISION DOCTOR.

7.00 WESTMINSTER.

7.20 NEWS, SPORT. Weather.

RUGBY SPECIAL. The 7.35 1972-73 tour of the 7th All Blacks. Wales v. New Zealand.

8.20 WAR AND PEACE.

WHAT DID YOU LEARN

9.05

FROM SCHOOL TODAY?

What's happening in schools, what should be in happening schools, whether schools should happen. Introduced by David Dimbleby. 11.05 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

'NIGHT OF THE

11.10

FILM:

EAGLE'. Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Margaret Johnston. Above : NCO Harry Andrews berates al "The Hill' on London Weekend on Sund inside a penal stockade in the middle ate punishment is being forced to run the mid-day sun. Right Henry, Fonda is Lumet's '12 Angry Men' on BBC 1 also

BBC 2

4.05 Man at work. 4.30 Money at work. 5.30 Horizon.

6.15 NEWS REVIEW.

6.50 NEWS

SUMMARY.

Weather.

6.55 DOUBTS AND CERTAIN-

TIES. Allan Y. Cohen. 7.25 AMERICA. Making a Revo- lution. The American colonists conflict with England as seen by Alis- tair Cooke.

8.15 WIDE WORLD OF ENTER-

TAINMENT.

Deceivers Ever. Magicians and illu- sionists.

9.00 BUT SERIOUSLY - IT'S

SHEILA HANCOCK. With Germaine Greer. 9.30 DEAD OF NIGHT. Smith.

Ghost story.

10.20 UP SUNDAY.

'SHE WORE 4

10.50 FILM:

YELLOW RIBBON'. Johr Wayne, Joanne Dru, Johr Agar, Victor McLaglen. John Ford's western tell- ing about the last days of service of US Cavalry Captain Nathan Brittles.

12.30 NEWS HEADLINES.

Weather.

BBC 1

10.00 Repondez sil vous plait.

10.30-10.55 Avventura. 11.25 Weather. 11.30 Mr. Benn. 11.45 Harlem • globetrotters. 12.05 Bar- rier reef. 12.30 Grandstand. 12.35 Football preview. 12.55, 1.20, 1.50 Racing from Chepstow. 1.40 Amateur International boxing. international, England V. Ireland.

2.15 International rugby union.

Wales v. New Zealand. 4.05 Lancer. 4.55 Final score. 5.15 Mary Tyler Moore show. 5.40 News, sport. Weather. 5.55 Bruce Forsyth and the generation game.

6.45 DIXON OF DOCK GREE.

Whiplash. 7.35

THE HARRY SECOMBE

SHOW.

Guests Arthur Hamilton Lowe, George IV, Wilma Reading. 8.20

FILM: LAURA'.

Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Webb, Vincent Clifton Price, Judith Price. Thriller about a murder investiga- tion. 9.45 NEWS. Weather.

10.00 MATCH OF THE DAY.

11.00 PARKINSON. Michael Par- kinson and guests. 12.00 Weather. berates army prisoner Sean Connery in d on Sunday. It deals with the brutal Ilte e middle of the desert, where the ultim- d to run up 'The Hill'-a sand dune in Fonda is one of the jurymen in Sidney 3C 1 also on Sunday. ВВС 1 9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan.

9.30 Repondez s'il vous plait. 10.00-10.25 Avventura. 10.30 John Knox. 11.35 A job worth doing? 12.00-12.25 Design by 12.50 Farming. 1.15 design. Made in Britain. 1.30 Jimmy Young asks. 1.55 News. Weather.

2.00 Chigley. 2.15 Shari Lewis show. 2.25 Ask Aspel. 2.50 Undersea world of Jacques 3.40 Film: 'Green Cousteau. Mansions'. Audrey Hepburn, A political Anthony Perkins. refugee falls in love with a mys- terious girl in the South Ameri- can jungle. 5.20 Carnford.

6.05 NEWS. Weather.

6.15 A CHANCE TO MEET.

Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh.

6.50 SONGS OF PRAISE.

7.25 THE ONEDIN LINE. Good- bye, Goodbye.

8.15 FILM: 'TWELVE ANGRY

MEN'. Henry Fonda, Lee Ed Begley G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam Drama of twelve men in conflict within the con- fines of a juryroom. 9.50 NEWS. Weather. 10.00 OMNIBUS. Thrillers and Crime Fiction. 10.50 OTTO PREMINGER. At the National Film Theatre, London. 11.30 Weather.

ITV

lait. 9.00 You and your golf. 9.30 1.25 collecting on a shoestring. 9.55 Return to Peyton Place. 10.20 11.20 Merrie Sesame street. melodies. 11.30 The Osmonds. The Santidge car tive 12:30 The Partridge family. teur News. 12.35 World of sport. and. 12.40 On the ball. 1.05 Inter- national sports special. 1.20 ITV Sacing from Kept 145, 200, 3.00 seven. 2.45 Racing from Sedgefield. 3.10 International sports special. Box- ing. 3.50 Results, scores, news.

4.00 Wrestling. 4.50 Results ser- vice. 5.10 Adventures of Black Beauty. 5.40 Sale of the century.

6.10 NEWS FROM ITN.

6.15 THE REG VARNEY

REVUE. Kittens, Design. Guests The Korean 7.00 FILM: 'GUNSMOKE'. Audie Murphy. ( A hired gun changes sides. 8.30

NEW SCOTLAND YARD.

Error of Judgement. SATURDAY VARIETY. Les- 9.30 lie Crowther, Mike God- dard, Los Diablos Del Bombo. Lionel Blair and The Saturday Dancers. 10.30

NEWS FROM ITN.

10.40 RUSSELL HARTY PLUS.

11.40

EDUCATION FOR WHAT?

11.45

COLUMBO.

Suitable For Framing. Peter Falk.

ITV

9.30 Morning service. 10.30 Return to Peyton Place. 11.00 Weekend world. 12.30 Turnbull's finest half hour. 1.00 Thunder- birds. 1.50 Beloved enemy. 2.15 eri- . Big match. 3.15 Persuaders. 4:20 Golden shot. 5.15 Aquarius.

6.00 APPEAL. On behalf of 'Refresh'. 6.05

NEWS FROM ITN.

6.15 ADAM SMITH.

6.45 THE BIG QUESTION.

7.00 STARS ON SUNDAY.

7.25

THE FENN STREET

GANG.

The Loneliest Night of the Week 7.55 FILM: 'THE HILL'. Sean Connery, lan Hendry, lan Bannen, Michael Red- Alfred Lynch, grave, Harry Andrews. • Five pri- soners are admitted to a British military stockade in North Africa during World War II.

10.00 NEWS FROM ITN.

10.15 PLAY: 'THE WEB'. Ann Firbank. 11.15 UFO. Mindbender.

12.15 EDUCATION FOR WHAT?

12.20 HIS AND HERS.

Tested team for assault on Europe and Japan Trade-war cabinet

LEADING

capitalist place at a time. when would be a maj countries of Europe large amounts of capital capital from the are are being exported to the controls trying to protect their Market in pre- But this has no common by big own currencies paration for entry at the The bank rat rises in bank interest beginning of next year. foreshadow inc rates. According to the Finan- employment, The French central bank cial Times', concern and recession raised its discount rate by being expressed in White- in Britain. 1 per cent to 7t per cent hall about the outflow of At the Thursday and the Ger- on capital from influx of Britis] investment followed creating man banks suit Britain to Europe. with a rise of ½ per cent rate at which this above all in Fr "The to 4t per cent. is happening is beginning British hrms The British bank ministers,? to worry the in on the prop already stands at 74 per paper reports. and food indus Relending rates are cent. The government-which The stage higher, even at 10 authorized the outflow of for a major The Europe as the i interest rates must sad to cent. rise capital earlier this year— is now trying to encourage to apply a savi in decline new invest- increase of investment

FFC

to borrowing money ment as in Britain from the

EEC.

time same The becomes more expensive. had slumps and governell In Britain this is taking originally feared that there become more

PLANS

ty American car manufacturers in Britain to cut their to the exports United States are creating a serious situation for the Tory States, with serious consequences government. for British of foreign earnings Ford has virtually ended send- exchange. ing its British-made products to Behind the US manufacturers' the US and now General Motors decision the Nixon is govern- Vauxhall to stop exporting ment's policy of protecting the cars to Canada, and Chrysler has home market while encouraging temporarily suspended shipments drive major to conquer from Britain to the US. markets overseas. This will leave British-Leyland More than half the motor in- as the only major manufacturer dustry Britain is owned by in Britain selling to the United in American firms, making it a All Trades

BIRKENHEAD :

Sunday Decem- ber 10, 7.30 Pier Hotel. p.m. Unions Alliance WATFORD: Monday December 11, 8 p.m. Upstairs Room, Wat-

MEETINGS

ord Trade Unior Hall, Watford Road Watford (opp. Junction Station). Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign

HULL:

Monday December 11, 'White Hart', p.m. Alfred Chelder BASINGSTOKE: Sunday Decem Street, near Drypool bridge. 'No state control of wages.' ber 3, 7.30 p.m. The Hop Leaf' Church Street. ACTON: Monday December 11, Co-op Hall, High Road, BRACKNELL: Monday December p.m. 4, W3. 'Free Sean MacStiofain'. 8.00 Priestwood Com- p.m. munity Centre. WEST LONDON: Tuesday Decem- ber 12, Prince Albert, p.m. WANDSWORTH: Tuesday Decem- Wharfdale Road, Kings Cross. Selkirk Hotel, ber 5, 8 p.m. Sel- 'No State Control of Wages'. kirk Road. Tooting Broadway. 'Fight Rising Prices' LIVERPOOL: Tuesday December 12, 7.30 p.m. The Mitre, Dale

CLAPHAM:

Tuesday December Street. 5. Hall, Clapham 8 p.m. Small EAST LONDON : Tuesday Decem- Manor Baths Repression in Clapham Manor ber 12, 8 p.m. Festival Inn, Crisp Street, SW4. Ire- Street, E14. 'Build Councils of land-State Pay Britain: Laws in Action'. Preparation for the Common Market. CROYDON: Wednesday Decem- ber 13, Ruskin House, p.m. TOTTENHAM: Thursday Decem- Coombe Road. Croydon. 'Free ber 7, 8 p.m. Bricklayers Arms, Sean MacStiofain'. Tottenham Hiah Road (near White Hart Lane). MANCHESTER: Thursday Decem- ber 14, 7.30 p.m. Milton Hall, Deansgate. HOLLOWAY: Thursday December Co-op Hall, 7,8 p.m. Seven Sis- LEEDS: Thursday December 14, "Free ters Road. Sean Mac- The Peel, Boar Lane. No 8 p.m. Stiofain'. State Control of Wages'. I would like information about Fill In the form below and send to NATIONAL

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LONDON

unday December : theory of knowledge Sunday December 10 Opponents of Marxism

BEAVER HALL

BY JOHN SPENCER

at Mansion House tube 7.30 p.m.

PRESIDENT NIXON'S

second-term Lectures given by cabinet now taking shape in Washing- G. Healy be a major inflow of ton is primarily tailored to the require- I from the EEC when SLL national secretary ments of trade war against Europe and were remover. his has not happened. Japan.

BARNSLEY

rate rises thus Nixon has confirmed William Rogers, rising prices Sunday December 3 a tested member of his inner team, as particularly Capitalism and the crisis Secretary of State (Foreign Minister) in Sunday December 10 same time the the new administration. The struggle for power of British capital i Sunday December 17 But perhaps the most significant appoint- Revolutionary theory and the all in France, where ment at the State Department is the under- Marxist Party firms have moved property market secretary for economic affairs, William Casey,

ED LION HOTE

a 59-year-old chairman of the Securities and Worsborough) 8 р.п Exchange Commission. ecession i Lectures giver US capitalisti on lall Street and has the reentation is directly connected with the centre e as the US prepares of being a tough operator.

exports at the will take charge of the vital trade negotiations investment due to open

LEEDS

cally lical year will aval dnu lie Dalk and the Common Marker _ The Us team expensive. International Monetary Fund talks on the currency Monday December 4 crisis. The struggle for power The US is seeking To Dose & "reform' which would Monday December 11 monetary raise its exports at the expense Revolutionary theory and the Marxist Party the other Illall Cabilalist countries. It will also be pressing

WHIP HOTEL

the

EEC

to dismantle its simple matter to close off the Leeds agricultural tariffs and other pro- of

OUIK

Anerican 8 p. m. market to British-made cars.

LeConst oracules. Casey will also be attempting The United States and (Note change) to force to cut its exports to the us sil forcer and cett Canada form by far the largest export market for British cars. Not only do British manufac- rectify

LIVERPOOL

its huge trade surplus with the dave lu conibele azallisl US. US however, they Wednesday December 6 The new Nixon cabinet is a also face stiff competition in the Trotskylsm and the founding of small cabinet, set up car sector from the the Fourth International time when the international avannese. economic crisis is worsening and

COMMON HALL

Faced with the of General Motors Chrysler,

HACKINS HEY

At the International Monetary British the authorities off Dale Street, 7.30 p.m.

Fund's Group of 20 earlier this duced to pleading with a hostile week there was an Nixon administration for a fair (SLL Centra gulf between the US and Europe Tom Kemp Chance in the American market.

and no progress was made Committee) wards agreement vuesuons.

SHEFFIELD

Monday December 11 Stalinism and Trotskyism Monday January 8 Marxism and the revolutionary party

WEEKS

if not months

FORRESTERS HALL

Ilay elanse before a new Dutch gov- Trippett Lane, 7.30 p.m. ernment is formed following the suffered in the defeaț General Election by the

TODMORDEN

Dallies made up the outgoing coalition government. Monday December 11 the meantime, the former 'Dialectical materialism' prime minister Barend Biesheuval

LEOPOLD

TREPPER,

the Big Chief' of the Soviet spy- govern- Monday January 8 wil nede acarelaker ment. Commentators were agreed The economic crisis' ring in western Europe known that political life was in a com- Monday January 22 'Red Orchestra', has tne plete deadlock following won his libel action in Paris electoRs. Monday February 5 against a former head of the the rest Horane. ulke French security service, Jean Europe, is suffering from spiral- 'Trotskylsm' ling infiation, industrial decline Rochet.

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The Tories' freeze' fraud continues Food, zine prices up PAGE 12 Workers Press, Saturday December 2, 1972 been 01-622 7029 interviewed by Scotland ment who are trying to vironment calls Iol informing establish how secret reductior first editor. network document 11,000 Detectives al- have published in the paper. leases 20,05 0 redenda ready visited Thomson will mean least The police have al- cies. connection with thalido. ready been to the olice! mide posters which have the of 'Railway Gazette' 01-720 2000 started interview the editor and Commons the the House, Mr visit The 61-page docu- second stall. expected to be made by ment prepared the Sale l investigation police from Cl Depart. Department of the En- IN THE first week of the By OUR OWN REPORTERS prices "freeze', 118 food Mr J. O. Blair-Cunnynghame, Tos Fair Tradint Bill. This of National Trading Bill' : Bill chairman prices rose, according to follows 'fair' pieces ol Commercial other Banking Group. salc

• LWU

the 'Grocer' magazine. legislation from the lory govern vesteror interest rates were on the way. ment. He said: 'Rates are likely to The increases covered such Thes turned items as sausages, cooked are likely Tater Work into up rather than to go Then meats, pies and canned soft Relations remain the same.' 'Fair Rents turned into drinks. Fresh has the hated Housing Finance Act. already undergone two in- England The let

RTZ

creases in the past ten days hoisted the hrough the price freeze , is clear -2p per Ib last weekend and rates. vidence of t 1 ories nypocris TINTO Zinc, They have another Ip this weekend. the world's the criminal courts aloest in romany has been and unlimited fines prevent allowed from Mr John W. Atkin, associate workers improving govern Luck At econ mank, forecast yesterday WaLes. yesterday Bank, forecast and increase the price of slab are deliberately encouraging prices to rip increases in zinPermission was granted by the next year RTZ is a firm with the most MILITANTS who break the law could 'make according to Tory MP Britain ungovernable' It is because this brand Sir Anthony Meyer. of law-breaking has become the norm Northern Ireland that the province is almost ungovernable,' Meyer continued.

'If the tendency is allowed to spread in the rest of Britain, if moderate opinion in continua defiance of law and the law by militants, the whole of Britain order chorus will become ungovern- able.' James Callaghan, problem was not Labour's Shadow much of governments Secretary, complained: which were Christian are •Ul approached with weak to defend the general interest against viction they used to be.'

te particuial interest • Callaghan said he The motion called for found it intolerable that repudiation the pickets should gC doctrine that it was Labour councillor's and create fear aole Bree his family for any individual he thought because organization reject was his duty to enforce the Housing Finance Sir Anthony insisted

ACL

that Labour Party mem- He found it equally bers should be particu- •But and in workers disputes. today we were 'intolerable' that the involved the lally conscious of cracks and under - secretary for claimed The police, rule of law. fissures and erosion.' Education Norman 'have been pro- He was supported by Hughes, lohn-Stevas) MP Cledwyn yoked times almost Another Tory, Labour at be shouted down at endurance More called for beyond Hughes who said there so • that meeting peopis Sir Derek Walker- 'machinery by which were groups Oreen. hear Smith, ists on the right and the Conservative section of societi 1121 argument. said people in which deliberately opts whose work was of legal had our Opening Bia private

COULLE

members mentary democracy and . must of law, there destructive and acceptance segregated rule TrOT

LIC

the solid rock which rest of society and put . on Mever Antony to useful employment. earlier said that 'the universities and colleges was bascui all its troops from the south number, 27,000, NO MORE American troops present Dr withdrawn from Viet- In the ground war North Viet- will be nile Grant ouncer reach some agreement with launched nam for the present following nantest the North Vietnamese in Paris. rocket attack on the Bien Hoa all the hold up In peace negotia. Nixon had base 15 miles Saigon meetings yesterday north of tions. damaged five fighter- with his advisers to and #tullar y President Nixon cancelled bombers helicopter discuss the situation in Vietnam.

disl planned He has also had talks with direct hit was scored on an all «nouncener further withdrawals. special envo sent by Presiden* force supply depot. (metals that the number of Gis in An opposition Thieu of South guyen would remain the has accused government vieurin Saigon of a summit meeting be- from lack the two leaders prisoners to die food and medical care Serious differences are believed letter to the Prime to exist between Washington and In an open that 40 Saigon on peace deal with Minister, says is Cessa North Vietnam Thieu piastres (less than Sp) a day wa allowed for each prisoner.

Hanoi to undertake to withdraw ordered by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The police interven- tion is aimed at intimi- the dating civil servants and British journalists. from to 7,000 Up to yesterday the will mean at chapel of the National redundan- Union of Journalists at "The Sunday Times' had

DECEMBER

of taken no action to defend members le Leader of this crude James against

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attempt at state censor- police ship. been WE ARE determined to make a December great start for our Fund. Last month was magnificent —you raised a record amount of £2,105.97—well over our £1,750 target. Can we beat it this month?

We are certainly going to try. A huge movement is now grow- ing against this Tory government.

Workers everywhere are stub- bornly fighting back against rent redundancies and for increases, intimate Tory connections.

higher wages. Our must Chairman Sir Val Duncan is a paper turn out to them and win their close personal friend of Edward support. Heath. As we reported in yesterday's This is the month to step up Duncan who told circulation drive in paper 1t our every Heath in private talks in August district. Take extra copies your- 1969 to start preparing his anti- self to sell. Make sure we expand trade legislation well in union in every way. Finally let's have a advance of the General Election.

very special effort for the Fund this Help us make it Writing in his diary Cecil month. Post donations King, head of IPC, recorded: record. your immediately to : 'He [Duncan] assumes that a General Strike-or its equivalent Workers Press --will be encountered and thinks that the government should very December Appeal Fund carefully pick the timing and the issue and stage the whole thing.

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are members of the Royal Family. Com Exchange Leeds Boors open 12 noos

LEAGUE

SOCIALIST LABOUR

PUBLIC

MEETINGS

SWINDON

Wednesday, December 13 8 pm

AEU HOUSE, FLEMING WAY, SWINDON

SPECIAL SHOWING OF THE 'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM.

A film made by ACTT showing the five Right-to-Work marches Southampton from Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea, Deal and to London, ending with a huge rally at Empire Pool, Wembley, on March 12, 1972. Speaker: G. Healy, National Secretary of the Socialist Labour League.

Chairman: Willis,

AEU

steward British Rail Engineering Workshop, Swindon (In a personal capacity).

• We demand the right to work!

• Make the Tory government resign!

• Build the revolutionary party!

BRACKNELL

Thursday December 14 7.45 p.m.

MEADOW VALE SCHOOL,

MOREDALE AVENUE,

PRIESTWOOD ESTATE

WAGES, DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AND THE TORY

GOVERNMENT

Speuker: G. Healy, Natlonal Secretary of the Socialist Labour League