Workers Press no. 941

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER FRIDAY DECEMBER DECEMBER 1972 No. 9414p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MEMBERSHIP STAND FIRM AS

ANGRY BRIGADE

AUEW

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Comment and pictures See pages 6, 7, 8 and 12

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Clay Cross THE LABOUR movement today faces a crisis unparalleled since invades the Taff Vale decision of 1901, when the Tory courts plundered inquiry the resources of the early railway unions.

In the dock this time is the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers which faces a massive fine from the National Industrial Relations Court for defying the anti-union laws.

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protest is sweeping the wave engineering industry against this most serious threat faced by the union in its 121-year history.

District committees yesterday reported a flood of resolutions demanding the union stands ane organizes industrial action to defend its rights. forced suspend James management to who has brought Tne contemot cast

AUEW.

The 1,300 employees unani- against industrial Goad action threatened mous!y not dismissed. Management said he had been SCuL home on full pay. officials yesterday reported Engineering workers expressed the feeling Sudbury that the of members throughout the country.

Vic Swift, north London,

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oreanizer tor "inundated' said had been the stand firm calling with resolutions *This more hnes: and organize suike acaon agamsi the way we get out UnIS situaton Cal by while larder is robbed cannot just stand said. Dare. ne I think it is the duty . of other trade unions to stand by the AUEW. I think we can make a stanc on all the other issues that affect the working class the rent acc prices. and so on.

The rank and file in all the major engineering called for action against more unes include: Manchester Tyneside, Merseyside, north London and the Midlands In south London, shop stewards have demanded Tenants demonstrated outside Clay Cross council offices yesterday when

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industrial action and a -re-call the district auditor arrived to conduct a hearing with the 11 Labour coun mobilize the entire movement to force the govern- cillors who refuse to implement the 'fair rents' Act. Meanwhile, in Glasgow ment to resIen. echoed in Swindon, This call has been the Labour council decided by 53 votes to 48 to continue defying the the district committee Dassed similal shop stewards' quarterly, Scottish Rent Act. Nineteen Labourites voted with the Tories and one resolution. At proposals for action will be put before the Swindon abstained. • Clay Cross story p. 3.

membership. clearly struck The ordeal before the court nas

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and pictures IN 1851 the Amalgamated of Engineers Society was formed in industrial Manches- ter. It was the first modern union. Almost immediately it faced the attack of the Manchester masters. In 1852 the textile engineers Platts locked ASE members out in Oldham. But the fight went on and the union grew in strength and power. 1896 was the year of the when the great lock-out newly-formed Engineers' Em- ployers Federation tried to smash the ASE, which was demanding a 48-hour week.

The demand was not achieved, but the union maintained its grip on the industry. During World War I the shop stewards movement in the engineering industry, in- spired by the Russian Revolu- tion, organized strikes against war conditions. On the Clyde ASE members were arrested for their struggle and deported by the ruling class. But the wartime fight won the 48-hour week. Soon the rest of industry was forced to follow. The modern union was formed out of a merger of ten engineering unions in 1920.

Many engineers went on to lead the political struggles during the 1920s, including the General Strike of 1926.

In World War Il the engi- neers won the 44-hour week.

The union was now open to any worker in the engineering industry. the war the 40-hour After week was won and now the campaign for the 35-hour week is being fought. AUEW members have also been the most consistent opponents of the anti-union laws. They led the big strike movement be- fore the laws in force were and they are now in front once more.

workers press

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY DECEMBER 8, 1972 No. 941 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MEMBERSHIP STAND FIRM AS

ANGRY BRIGADE

AUEW

FACES

Comment and pictures See pages 6, 7, 8 and 12

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

Clay Cross THE LABOUR movement today faces a crisis unparalleled since invades the Taff Vale decision of 1901, when the Tory courts plundered inquiry the resources of the early railway unions.

In the dock this time is the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers which faces a massive fine from the National Industrial Relations Court for defying the anti-union laws.

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the Raced by the amon in tis tat year hoty, Daret protest is sweeping District committees yesterday reported a flood of resolutions demanding the union stands firm and organizes industrial action to defend its rights.

red unbury See suspend takes a tore forced management to suspend james evangelist who has brought … te contendi cast

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The 1,300 employees unani- against the Goad was threatened industrial action mously not dismissed. Management said he had been sent home on full pay. officials yesterday reported Engineering union workers expressed the feeling Sudbury that th ot members trougnoul une country Vic Swift, AUEW organizer Ior said district had been 'inundated' on the union to stand firm calling will resoruliulis and organize strike action against more ines: 1 nis is e annot just stand an eile the way we can get out ot unis suanon. larder is robbed oare. te sald. 'I think it is the unions to auly. or owner lauc stand by the AUW. I think we can make a stanc on all the other issues that affect the working class the rent Act. prices, and so on.

engineering The rank and file in all the major ente hand called for action against more unes. include: Manchester Merseyside, north London and the Midlands In south London, shop stewards have demanded Tenants demonstrated outside Clay Cross council offices yesterday when

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industrial action and a re-call the district auditor arrived to conduct a hearing with the 11 Labour coun- mobilize the entire movement to force the govern- cillors who refuse to implement the 'fair rents' Act. Meanwhile, in Glasgow ment lo resion. where This call has been echoed in swindon, the Labour council decided by 53 votes to 48 to continue defying the the district committee passed similal proposals for a ton will be pu see she are y shop stewards' quarterly, Scottish Rent Act. Nineteen Labourites voted with the Tories and one resolution. abstained. • Clay Cross story p. 3.

membership. The ordeal before the court clearysuruck

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: and pictures s 6, 7, 8 and 12 IN 1851 the Amalgamated Society of Engineers was formed in industrial Manches- ter. It was the first modern union. Almost immediately it faced the attack of the Manchester masters. In 1852 the textile engineers Platts locked ASE members out in Oldham. But the fight went on and the union grew in strength and power. 1896 was the year of the when the great lock-out newly-formed Engineers' Em- ployers Federation tried to smash the ASE, which was demanding a 48-hour week. The demand was not achieved, but the union maintained its grip on the industry. During World War I the shop stewards movement in engineering industry, in- the spired by the Russian Revolu- tion, organized strikes against war conditions. On the Clyde ASE members were arrested for their struggle and deported by the ruling class. But the wartime fight won the 48-hour week. Soon the rest of industry was forced to follow. The modern union was formed out of a merger of ten engineering unions in 1920.

Many engineers went on to lead the political struggles during the 1920s, including the General Strike of 1926.

In World War Il the engi- neers won the 44-hour week.

The union was now open to any worker in the engineering industry. the war the 40-hour After week was won and now the campaign for the 35-hour week is being fought. AUEW members have also been the most consistent opponents of the anti-union laws. They led the big strike movement be- fore the laws were in force and they are now in front once more.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday December 8, 1972

FOREIGN NEWS

WITHOUT firing a shot, Asset-stripper No 1 American imperialism acquired has overseas esti- assets worth an mated $160,000m, pur- chased with paper dollars point of view, and are rapidly losing their pur- good measure they are print its own money remember- which are no longer con- to buy up the wealth of its for.

ing that infiation is now a stand Crasine power June short-tenu nOW demanang war tne foreig vertible into gold. liabilities accumulated by the US holders of these surplus dollars eign competitors. ard part of the economic scene'.

use them to buy non-marketable As the US 'Financial Times' Exactly: they have olid asset rapidly puts According to Green's Com- profited from and rapidly depreciating iabili President Nixon sance Ilan Market Comments, modity dollar convertibility in August International Monetary Fund process Up Ties. exolainc sec. US publication, US assets special drawing rights. foreign investment empire with tions of the European contributed by the liabilities by no they stood about This plan, according to the money largely class are belatedly demand- abroad exceed Inen which less than $132,000. These Now, 16 months later, "Financial Times'. should be $40,000m. appeals commer Nave they stand over $60,000m, Washington because sorbing the dollar proceeds extinguished by transferring in real in. assets are largely SUrOnZIY LO the finan- external payments which four times the figure more completely ownership assets vestment (land, build- plant, allust capital eepare The Americans, the paper says, they fortunately are the They reacher at me ere oo

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ings, etc) which do not fall in The big US corporations and previous export excesses have greatly improved their net for the Euro- value through inflation. have be disposed the better investment position while this slogan is monopolies investing can pean been US placed it millg a chronic payments dencit.

but impossible maoulties. nowever. cover worle ano David casy are mainly in the form of paper for their investments with paper ing more! 'created nev nave put into elect. In inis economic which be which the Washington US, assets-liabilities "mix" that combat the strongest dollars can longer govern- in other words, unlimited license to ism holds all the trump cards.

demanding immensely satisfactory from gold at Fort Knox MCal nOW No EEC summit for me- -Nixon Brazil clamp- PRESIDENT Nixon will meeting would be 'out economic warfare tective tariffs and open Common its markets to more US definitely not be hold- Goalts down on CP he agreed to pass on to Market. exports. summit meeting ing a the president a proposal Vital fact that talks on Nixon Common with Market "liberalization' trade refuses even to consider should heads meeting the nine are due to begin in the meeting ine ministers. new year. head of state indicates year, his Secretary 01 aldes that these demands Nixon's have The American nego- State William Rogers THE BRAZILIAN govern- promised to the lators Charis has announced. non-negotiable 'year Europe' Market demolish is pro- that Common ulti- ment of Garrastuzu Medici round Rogers said such a signifying matum. "I-W has begun a campaign to des- troy what is left of the Bra- Black-and-white Vietnam zilian Communist Party which has been illegal since 1948. THE SAIGON government will not re- Security forces have arrester eight CP members this week and cognize any peace settlement which the newspapers, the tame spokes Medici in uniform. does not include a 'black-and-white' are full details about supposed communist in defence of the single word commitment from Hanoi that all its 'plots'. arrested CPers. troops will be withdrawn from South In fact, four-day visit by They claim military secrets Soviet trade ended only have been handed to the Soviet Vietnam. and eastern European embassies.

ast week. soviet assistant toreign trade minister, Gennadi Yuraley, This point is being hammered home in the revealed during negotiations that

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Antonio Mesple, official Press and on the radio as Dr Henry arrested Kremlin une oureaucracy wanted CP to sell £5m worth of equipment Toulas! President Nixon's Kissinger, special envoy, Committee member and an expert for Brazil's new hydro-electric continues his talks in Paris with Hanoi's top military analysis of in- stations. negotiator, Le Duc Tho. ¡ollation. He also said that ale Thieu: up • repression. Medici's police have accused well in nana lor a soviet trade The two men met for 5* hours fair Sao Paulo, early next Wednesday and continued him of giving detals of secunty which it warned would and bureaucracies are sureeen their discussion yesterday. onicials. the Amazon region to Soviet ycal. not be easy. Hanoi accept 'L'Aurore' •We have chosen the hard way Nixon's terms for a peace settle.

Moscow, TONE- WINe caus At dinner in claimed that the signature of to fight the war and we will win Salvador told ment. The Soviet Embassy in Frescell Allence peace agreement broadcast said. In the south, President Nguyen Prat Chile driving comma We Brasilia Ilas slalcu. fought for quarter of a Van Thieu is carrying out a reign that Chile living through Was was 'We know nothing about this.'

the Paris correspondent silent Vietnam', since it was being little if of it means against his opponents Lell Ul Columbia Broadcasting System. keeping on fighting for two or three series nave been Witt Moscow c besieged by American monopoles years.' round-ups and forcible support for the most reactionary Chile, during Allende's The National Liberation Front This statement, the its , and others like conscriptions territory Latin America, of under rule in South urged Louis supporters continue Embassy not CA-trained General Carlos Prats.

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resistance, including one backers- is fact or alter s try even pricing system. an Krupp's- -reported stag- massive sackings. desperate more 85.3 that buyers gering This means per cent drop showing a f6m deficit for Speakers: of steel pay deli- in profits to £1.9m. have to The Mannesmann the first six months. MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Committee) stee firm-which has sacked DAVID JONES (YS national committee) The firm blamed its 1,500 workers in the last Massive closures are EEC is demanding at least losses the world de- ahead and to 15-per-cent increase BOb MAINS (unempioved) going up in ved was one or me kev VINCENT FOY (Jarrow Trades Council secretary. In a cline steel demane. 0.000 BSC's prices. Ruhr magnates which sackings alc personal capacity). sharp sharidiess to the rises ›verheads the next backed Hitler financially ten planned in Ruhi When the steel industry years. Ludi and later participated pro- industry the begins to decline as it is revalua destruction 1n The One of the latest shut- tion of the Deutschemark doing throughout western the German working which weakened the downs announced

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com- Europe. class. Ebbw Vale, South Wales, that a trade recession is cutiveness OUNDAT UCUCMOChI!. Co.I steel. where 4.500 l0bs are at under SUNDAY DECEMBER 17, 7 p.m.

Mannesmann's latest way. Noodside Halls IC- Assembly Hall St George's Cross stake the inaicate ThaT A few months ago more Now the West viabein civic Mal German basis of the economy- Based on the antiquated than Speakers: 50,000 SLeeIwOrker heavy industrialists - Hit- in deep Speakers: steel—is open-hearth the CrISIS in the Ruhr and the Rhine G. HEALY (SLL National Secre- broCCos

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Krupp and Klockner. i Kover Europe's most aggressive Earnings by the giant- Significantly it was steward. In personal capacity. WILLIE DOCHERTY (chairman Bri. of The mark revaluation of vealed yesterday that capitalists is which emolovs over 84.000 Tenants' Action Com. CORIN REDGRAVE (Equity. In all workers-in the first nine Mucher cent priced which retro eun severe warning mittee. in persona caoacity.

a personal capacity.) months of this year were German steel out of 50 per cent government workers.

Special Branch snoop on IRA sanctuaries

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children living near a Derbyshire lead smelt- ing plant taken were into hospital in Derby yesterday for special tests to discover • the levels of lead in their blood.

The tests have been ordered by Matlock Urban Council after renewed concern The possele denners not bead pollution facing people living near the Enthoven lead works at South Darley. Tests were carried out earlier this year after the children of some workers at the Enthoven lead plant were found to have abnormally high levels. Tests have revealed levels reaching twice the accepted danger limit in I1 out of 38 Wallsend children. In Gates- head as many as four out of seven were above the limit and in Newcastle the figure was one child in a sample of Il.

Doctors believe that children whose blood level is above the acceptable 40 micrograms per 100 millilitres run the risk of behavioural disorders and brain damage. TENANTS swamped the coun Out! ' when the district audi councillors face a £7,000 bill f Finance Act. District auditor, Charles Lacey, accounts due to failure to impleme due to negligence or misconduct or Local Labour MP Tom Swain, representing the councillors at the inquiry, said that as the proceedings were a precedent and an appeal would be made to the Hight Court a complete transcript of the hearing was necessary.

And although the auditor told them it was not up to him to arrange shorthand writers, three council staff later joined the hear- ing to take full notes. The proceedings, added the auditor, were under the Local Government Act 1933 and not the Housing Finance Act. Of the demonstration by the tenants, John Dunn, a • young miner told Workers Press: 'This shows people who are affected by the vicious Act are going to fight. "These people are prepared to OVER 800 workers at Scottish and Newcastle's Tyne brewery staged a 24-hour strike yester- day in support of 16 forklift- drivers who have been suspended in a bonus dispute. The drivers were suspended without pay on Tuesday because they had been working to rule and banning overtime for a week in protest against a bonus agree- ment. They claimed the scheme not giving them sufficient was award. They were given a management ultimatum that unless they normal working, returned to after advice from union officials, they would be suspended. Workers Press, Friday December 8, 1972 PAGE 3 PROVISIONAL IRA leaders said discontent from crystallizing into active sup-

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port for Sinn Fein yesterday the Irish Special Branch might try to pick off some of the leaders to Dublin Provisional leaders believe that for nake things difficult for us.'

areas in had moved into border the will be used to • nCw laws Monaghan, Louth and alongside Donegal are the them force during the past week.

intimidate three counties which ring Northern Ireland's determined government campaign to isolate borders and which are used as IRA sanc- them public But Monaghan Provo chief Maurice Iron

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and bases. LuaLIco seels to nave worked in tne north with 334 Conway told me that in the first full Mr Conway told me the Provisionals were informers using anonymous tip-off of the week operation of the Lynch not unduly alarmed Lynch last August. In Belfast alone system set up so-called he said they government's anti-IRA law five a dav. Calls ayclare there had been no dramatic crackdown added that the Where the IRA or Sinn Fein come out into

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showed what they thought of them. the open in the Republic, relatively heavy in border security. But the threat of the new laws has already legal hammers Official Sinn Fein secretary Mairin de Burca Political observers in Dublin have been scored some success. It has forced the IRA months' since the weekend the days was yesterday three saying that to ne extremely low in the kepublic and to acknowledge publicly that jail from now its picketing the ves vote in the Dai Immeulately aller asters work will be almost exclusively in Friday would be used to gather more the Six none on nove .. detailed information about the IRA.

Counties And 33 other men and women appearing And at a time of mounting working-class similar before Dublin Charges last Friday's Conway 'We had not been sald: bomb blasts sentences ranging but we thought they from 14 days to a month. MORE than 10,000 Scottish

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ancillary workers in will Leeds, today ancillary hospital workers will demonstrate when Tory premier Edward Heath join next Wednesday's half- visits two hospitals Lily day strike to demand payment side of the Ancillary, taff Coin.

same time, unlot of their f4 rise 'frozen' by the meeting in London to cuss floods of demands from local government. union branches for more miltant Thomas May, West of Scotland officer of the National big demonstra- 1nere will be Union of Public Employees, Manchester, Liverpool, tions said that the unions were having Carlisle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and dificulty in restraining members Glasgow Cor- A verdeen. ANnO BY PHILIP WADE, Our Housing Correspondent from taking a stronger line.

work to join If Wednesday's action was not the demonstration he council chamber at Clay Cross yesterday chanting Heath effective, the unions would hold Other will be demonstrations ballot the question centred Birmingham, on Dudley, on oi a ct auditor arrived to meet the Labour councillors. The 11 full strike. Stoke, Nottingham, Derby, North- ampton, Southampton, Bristol, 10 bill for not implementing the Tory government's Housing The Scottish stoppages Exeter, Gloucester, New- follow 24-hour strikes

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Hull, Leeds Northa - Lastic. Bristol. erto London they Liverpool and Manchester during In will assemble s Lacey, told them: 'It appeared to me there was a deficit in the the last ten days. Guy's, Westminster, Thomas hospitals and The four unions involved are implement the Housing Finance Act. I have to see whether this is NUPE, G&MWU, the Confedera- the offices of the Department onduct on the part of the councillors.'

tion Health Service Em- Health at Elephant and ployees and the T&GWU. Castle. I'll do turn up again and again. the National

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to Keep Union Mineworkers their pledge of support ally against tenants or Lake councillors. Tenants from the nearby OF Mickley association also supported (1939-40) the councillors. Said Fred Barnet: *We should have here from the working class. they naa cut our wages by ti. we'd have downed tools.' Many. the Clay workers from 1933-1934 Cross pipe plant had struck ... £1.43 851-38 altena tne meeling. Une or tnem 1934-1935 .. .... £1.43 Michael Cole, said the 'fair rents Act was 'one of the worst pieces 1935-1936. £1.25 ТАО

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of legislation to come from this 1937-1938. £1.25 government. 1938-1939 And Alan Spencer, a miner at ... £1.25 Markham colliery, added: "This 1939-1940. . £1.05 Act all wrong. It's means rest. vIr NUN danca is peoced to support with industrial action any tenant hit by councillor or These extremely vital writings by Leon Trotsky between the the lories. years 1929 and 1940—his third and final exile from the Soviet Union-are now available in Britain from the Paperbacks Centre ate editors the News of the (see advert below). editor 'News new the 'Sun'-of which he was editor- -Rupert deputy Murdoch's

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday Decembe How successful have the polici Irish Republican Army been si in Ulster in 1968? IAN YEAT articles based on interviews wi revisionists and reformists on l The situation in Ulster today is one of great dan- ger and great opportunity for the working class. The danger lies in the growth of right-wing cen- trism-a tendency the Tory government is do- ing everything possible to encourage as the basis for its solution to the Ulster problem. The emergence of loyalism has already silenced a whole laver of left' shop stewards and rank and filers in the trade union movement. Now, after four years of fruitless reformist campaigns, right-wing union leaders- among them Communist Party 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.

members and supporters-are moving in to stop the unity from they come sce musl developing into class-con- sciousness and political action.

Their argument is that there has been enough violence and disruption and that the key to prosperous future lies in Catholics Protestants and working together-obediently.

Apart from shop-floor erup- tions against loyalism at purely bread-and-butter level, there is no hint of any new Protestant leadership among workers capable of presenting the alternative to union all bureaucrats. And those Catholic shop • stewards who have survived that if they want their positions, politics Keep must be taboo. The atmosphere of sectar- of ianism and the prospect war it holds, is being civil deliberately used by union leaders to stifle political deve.

lopment. Tory is The government underpining its efforts with a mammoth publicity drive cal- a mood of culated to create optimism about the prospects for economic growth in Ulster.

The Confederation of Bri- tish Industry (CBI), the major banks, and the Exchequer are all being used to push an un- precedented wave of work and cash into the Six Counties.

In Derry and Belfast release have been started schemes under which as many as 20 men have been employed just sweeping a road, boosting the impression that jobs can be created—particularly now that the workers have of many been given two-year contracts.

While creating the economic in which union conditions leaders can credibly cry peace the Tories have at the same time tightened up security in the Province, so as to make terrorist activities virtually impossible. towns And in order not to alienate the public, they have done it unobtrusively. Four years of reformist fruitless, but courageous and determined struggle have con- fused and disorientated the Catholic working class and for the time being they are forced, for lack of any alternative, to accept Heath's "peace', lick their wounds and generally take stock. Few, if any, believe that the latest Tory initiatives will do anything significant to ease the chronic and worsening shortage of houses and jobs, but yesterday's roads have all ended in political dead-ends and nobody sees a clear way forward. Partly because of the Tory initiative, partly because of disillusionment, popular sup- port for the civil rights move- ment and for the Official IRA has fallen away. But by far the most drama- tic collapse has come in the support for the Provos, culmi- nating on November 19 in the of Chief-of-Staff Sean arrest MacStiofain by the 1 Dublin police. The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) is, of course, not a political party, but both wings of the IRA have laid vigorous em- phasis in recent weeks on their political programmes as a means of winning an inyita- tion to any eventual all-party settlement talks. The likelihood of these pro- grammes getting wide support or that they will ever be in- vited to talks is slim to say the least. But there is little doubt that the Provos have now, even tacitly, decided to wage a pro- paganda war rather than carry on shooting on any scale.

Both wings of the IRA are now talking about 'progressive elements' in organizations like the Ulster Defence Associa- tion (UDA) and about the need to open talks with them.

The aim of this, as Cathal in the Goulding explained Communist Party's daily paper 'Morning Star', on November 15, is to make Protestant workers: .. aware that their for- are not tied with tunes up Westminster but their future, the future of the people of the Six Counties and of the 32 counties is best placed in their own hands. 'In other words, the unity of the working-class popula- tion of Ireland is the answer.'

The answer to what, you may ask. To severing the Bri- tish connection once and for all, comes the reply. To what policies will this newly-found unity be dir- ected? Wrote Goulding: 'Our atti- tude should be to get back and reactivate the civil rights movement to get the original civil rights demands, like a bill of rights and a demand for democratization more within the six counties. 'Then we can present our our radical or nat- policies, ional policies, our civil rights, our human rights policies, no matter what they are, in a way similar to the manner in in which they are presented any other civilized country' As a start the Officials in- tend to contest all local elec- Youth engaged in street fighting with British troops in Derry. Four years of fruitless but courageous struggle has sown confusion and disorientation in the Catholic working class. tions 'to involve the member- ship in agitation, education and organization'. In the first issue of their new paper 'An Solas' the Belfast Officials described this process as Elec- tions — a revolutionary ap- proach'. of this differs None markedly from what the Off- cials were saying in 1969. If anything , has changed in the it is Republican movement being the Provos are that physically forced to follow the same line though both will find such a policy virtually imposible to carry out in the south with Lynch's new anti- IRA iaw driving both wings underground. Provos have The never given any hint about how, it at all, they intended meeting this enemy at their rear. But for the Officials, Goulding told the 'Star' (before Lynch's law was passed): "The government is not going to get away easily with these attacks. What does he propose? 'We intend to defend our- before these (special) selves courts and to use every legal means that we possibly can to prevent them from sentencing our people to imprisonment.

'In other words, we will the government work make for its money and it will have to try and justify its repressive legislation before every court in the land before it even- tually sentences our people.'

Catholics always knew that the Provos had nothing to offer been driven to the under- standable conclusion that the craven reformism of the Offi- cial IRA is a blind-alley too.

Since the split in 1969 the Officials have talked of offer- ing candidates in the elections to local authorities and the partition parliaments.

What has limited this en- deavour or stopped it outright is the lack of support, parti- cularly from the trade unions and the working class. The Officials have no policy which workers feel confident will solve their problems and indeed the Officials' attitude to the working class and the movement is not labour determination to liberate it from the exploitation of capi- tal, but merely to use it as a means of changing the identity of the exploiters. Ulster workers have been offered other leaders, notably Mid-Ulster's independent MP Miss Bernadette Devlin. But Devlin has never done more than reflect their own militancy on the absurd pre- mise that it is necessary for workers to go through useless and demoralizing struggles in order to learn from them.

Now Devlin, like the Irish Communist Party, rounds on these same workers who have been thirsting for the lead she never gave and blames their lack of education and con- sciousness for the failure of the mass movement and the growth of the right wing.

Contrary to her own asser- tions, the lessons of her own political behaviour and the performance of the IRA have not been lost on the working class. Sectarian lines are still firmly drawn in Belfast, but Catholics in Derry among there is a ferment of political discussion. Understandably the discus- sion is confused. Yet among one tendency the demand for an end to nationalist politics and the substitution of 'class politics' is at least being raised. The fullest statement of the policy of this group around the paper 'Starry Plough' is contained in issue three: 'As long as decisions as to how much is going to be in- vested and where it is going to be invested are made accord- ing to the profits that will re- sult, there will be mass unem- ployment in Derry. 'What we need is a society where such decisions are made according to how many jobs are needed and where they are needed. That can only be done when the profit motive and the profit-makers are elimi- nated. "This side of socialism there will be no solution for the unemployed. We have had half a century of their sub- sidy schemes, their advance their glowing pro- factories, mises, their prattle of jobs in the pipeline; 50 years of pro- tests, petitions and pressure.

They have not solved the problem. They won't and they cannot. 'For the real solution, join the Republican Movement and working-class help build a party which will end unem- ployment by ending the sys- tem which creates it.' And in issue six: 'Stop the stoning and think about how we should launch the first attack on what, after all, is the common enemy, the sys- tem that needs armies to keep the workers in check. The shop floor of the factory must be declared a battlefield, the building site another battle- field and all the places where workers sell their only com- modity (their labour).' The insistence of the 'Starry Plough' faction on 'class poli- tics' has triggered a sharp res- ponse from the more tradi- tional nationalist elements at Gardner Place. Joe Sweeny and Jackie Ward who edit the paper re- flect a wide layer of local opi- nion when they talk of break- ing from the Officials and using the Republican Clubs as the basis for new revolu- a tionary organization. understand that the Off- cials' Ard fheish has been postponed twice because of failure to reach agreement with the Derry section. It was due to be held in Left: Jailed Provo Chief-of-Statf, Sean M official wing of the Republican movem support has fallen away. Above: Cathol Dublin on December 16 and 17, but Lynch's new law prob- ably means another delay.

Gardner Place has dealt more summarily with similar elements in the Republic. The Galway Cumman entire was expelled for so-called Trotsky- ist tendencies and the Provos expelled their Galway Cum- soon afterwards because man their members had been work- ing with the Officials. In the last three months the 'United Irishman' has carried a number of articles smearing Trotskyism and railing against the ultra-lefts. problem for those The around the 'Starry Plough' and for all those reassessing their in the political perspectives light of the experiences of the past four years is primarily their lack of theory. The politics of the 'Starry Plough' are basically whatever the individuals who write for it can give it. A convention of dissident elements is being planned in north to consider the the building of a new 'revolution- ary organization'. There are many confusions about this, ranging from what it means to use social issues as the basis of the organiza- tion's work to who precisely it is going to oppose and how —whether through or violent ov sure There is also a s calist tendency. •Starry Plough the Ulster's economic be ended by can of unions the country Gerry Hacke view the need to unite and Catholic work Even those who ing about new pollt the Republican tra lishment' and unions to run indu: But neither the "establishment' the unions to run i solve the problems. The economic facing Ulster only get worse rages their the Irish S to hlame. Slump is cause sharpening the contradictions the capitalist rat ra profit. It is no and Britain's dominatiol counties or the role capita in the Reni Ireland, is more, Popula rs man a barricade. •through mass pres- iolent overthrow. also a strong syndi- Issue one of Plough' says that forma- to take over and in his inter y Hackett spoke of unite Protestant blic workers in one lose who are think. new politics fall into lican trap of talking throwing the 'estab- using trade run industry overthrowing lishment' nor using • to run industry will problems workers Coll inflation as slump gets s the employers and on both le Irish Sea who are caused by the of crisis point built in to ist rat race for trade It is not caused by omination of the six the role of foreign the Republic. What being Workers Press, Fi agricultural country dependent exports, is extremely vul- on of nerable to the ravages monetary crises and inflation —a situation which will be exacerbated by Common Mar- ket entry. Only the working class can smash the employers' anarchic system and replace it with a planned socialist alternative.

And the only way to do this lies in building the Marxist revolutionary party. The middle-class leadership of the IRA is incapable of this. Their interest does not extend beyond home rule for the 32 counties, rejuvenated by being purged of profiteers.

Their only interest in the working class is that as in 1921 they, the middle class, are not strong enough to bring this about themselves. Incapable and unwilling to a genuine revolution- launch ary struggle, they have been forced to retreat by the attacks of the Heath and Lynch governments, leaving the Ulster working class lead- erless and defenceless. Ulster workers cannot take the first step by themselves towards ending the economic problems of Ulster and halt- ing repression. The first step is to force the Tory government to resign and return a Labour government to socialist policies. pledged And this will only be achieved on the basis of the unity of workers on both sides of the Irish Sea, brought about through the building of the revolutionary Marxist party.

Nowhere is Trotsky's theory of the permanent revolution more appropriate than in the context of Ireland. He wrote: 'With regard to countries with a belated bour- geois development, especially the colonial and semi-colonial countries, the theory of the permanent revolution signifies that the complete and genuine solution of their tasks of achieving democracy and national emancipation is con- ceivable only through the die- • Press, Friday December 8, 1972 PAGE 5 tatorship of the proletariat as the leader of the subjected nation... He goes on to explain: 'The dictatorship of the proletariat, which has risen to power as the leader of the democratic revolution, is inevitably and very quickly confronted with tasks, the fulfilment of which is inevitably bound up with deep inroads into the rights of bourgeois property. The demo- cratic revolution grows over directly into the socialist revo- lution and thereby becomes a permanent revolution. The completion of the socialist revolution within national limits is unthinkable.

One of the basic reasons for the crisis in bourgeois society is the fact that the productive forces created by it can no longer be reconciled with the framework of the national state. 'From this follow, on the one hand, imperialist wars, on utopia of a the other the bourgeois United States of Europe [read Common Market --Ed.]. 'The socialist revolution begins on the national arena, it unfolds on the international arena. Thus the socialist revo- lution becomes a permanent revolution in a new and broader sense of the word; it attains completion only in the final victory of the new society on our entire planet.' Thus the lesson of the last three years' political struggles is absolutely clear: the Irish working class must break irrevocably from its middle- class Republicanism and Pro- testant leadership; it must replace the fetishistic and ritualistic iconoclasm of Wolfe Tone with an assimilation of the philosophy, theory and elaborated by programme Lenin and Trotsky and take road to working-class power in alliance with its British brothers. This is the only road to vic- tory and the genuine liberation of Ireland.

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday December 8, 1972 Freed after almost 15 months in custody, Stuart Christie said yesterday that the case against him had been 'a frame-up'. He told Workers Press: 'If the law planted me-—and that's what the jury found—who's to say they didn't plant the others?' The message of the trial he said was embodied in the words of Angela Davis: If they come for us in the morning, then they'll be around for you at night.'

Christie was sentenced to 20 years in a Spanish prison for carrying explosives. He was released after almost three years. On his return to Britain he became a marked man by the police. After the jury's decision on Wednesday evening a Special Branch officer was overheard to say: 'That bastard Christie got off. He was the one we were after?

Christie said: 'We are heading for a period of big be directly repression This can in this country. attributed to this Conservative government. In Spain they torture you or murder you. Here they frame you Throughout the trial the defence argued that the bombs, weapons and am- munition found in Am- hurst Road were planted by the police. They also maintained that the police were under govern- ment pressure to find the cul- prits after the homes of three Tory ministers — Robert Carr, John Davies and Sir Peter Rawlinson-were bombed. In this section of the tran- script some idea can be gleaned of the tactics and attitudes of the Special Branch officers in- volved in the case. Detective Sergeant Woollard, one of the officers who led the raid on Amhurst Road, said they had originally gone to the address in with connection cheque offences. When asked whether it had not been to 'catch the four prime suspects for the "Angry Brigade" ' Woollard replied: 'But my reason, as I have already explained, was in con- nection with the two who were wanted on the cheque offences.'

Q: I suggest that the cheque business and the emphasis you're putting on it is simply a smokescreen. Woollard: That's totally un- true. Ian Macdonald, counsel for one of the accused, James Greenfield, staged a long and revealing cross-examination of Woollard. We reproduce sec- tions of it: M: Mr Woollard, I think last night we'd got to the point where you'd agreed that you were part of the Special Squad that had been set up in January investigate to particularly the at Mr Carr's house. explosion And I think you said that the Squad was also investigating, in addition to the explosion, a question relating to cheques?

W: Yes, that's right. M: It was still the same Squad that was set up in January, after the bombing of Mr Carr's house? W: It was still the same mem- bers, but split into two.

One section dealt primarily with the cheques case, with the reievant searches of premises and the other section was responsible for the investigation of the bombings. M: Yes, and you were in the concentrating on one that was the bombings? W: Yes I was. There were ten or 12 of us. M: And that would be where major concentration of the personnel was? W: I think we were about equally divided M: were told • And you that there were two people, and Mendleson Jim Anna Greenfield, who were wanted in connection with that cheques when you were told to charge and observe in Amhurst W: When I went to Amhurst been Road they had already circulated as wanted in the Police Gazette. M: So they were well known?

Their faces were circulated in the police gazette? W: Yes. M: Did you also know-Their photographs, I think we heard yesterday, had been taken at Widnes, sometime in February 1971. Did you also know that, so far as Jim Greenfield is concerned, fingerprints of his found on cheques were com- pared with fingerprints found on Angry Brigade communiqués April of 1971? as early W: No I did not. M: So you don't know what were made at that attempts whether Jim stage to see Greenfield involved in was explosives? W: As I explained yesterday, I wasn't aware that he'd been involved inter he'd been aspected it mass suspected cheque offences as far as I was concerned. But you say he was also a suspect for the bombings: that I had no know- ledge of. M: You see, you were in the section which was dealing mainly with the question of explosives? W: Yes. M: And it's right, isn't it, that—we've established this this was set up after the explosion at Mr Carr's house.

And immediately after that there were a large number of raids? In the next ten or 15 days? W: Yes. M: Did you take part in any of those raids? W: Yes, I did. M: And were any of these raids under Explosives War- rants? W: I believe most of them were. M: And it's right, is it, that once the explosion was brought to the notice of the police, that, as is normally done, the first look for is thing you candidates' 'likely for being involved in that? And you would go, would you not, to the Criminal Records Office to see if there are any people who have got convictions for similar kinds of bombings?

W: Yes. M: And so that's how the police first got hold of the name of lan Purdie? W: Well, I don't know how his name first came up. or: Beause hend been intervent had been convicted throwing a petrol bomb at the Ulster Office: you don't know about that? You knew about it subsequently? And so there you have a person right from the beginning with a conviction for a bombing with political motivation? W: Yes, I think you could say that. M: And within three days of the Carr bombing the Squad you were a member of was Workers Press, Friday D A press conference was held on Wednesday night, after the ver- dicts were announced, by three of the acquitted, at 'Time Out Left to • right: Kate magazine: McLean, 22 years old, the young- est defendant, Angela Weir, Stuart Christie and his girlfriend.

looking for lan Purdie? W: Yes. M: And another likely candi- date you would be looking for would be Stuart Christie?

W: Well, I was unaware of Stuart Christie's involvement until his arrest. M: Are you serious about that?

W: Er, yes. M: Well it's right, isn't it, that the Squad made a raid on January 24 at a flat of Ros Flett and Philip Carver who were taken to Barnet and questioned for four hours?

W: I have no knowledge of that because I wasn't present.

M: And you don't know that on that occasion--January 24, 12 days after the explosion— Stuart Christie's address book was taken from a flat? W: I didn't know his address , found there. book had been M: And you didn't hear, then, although you were a part of this closely involved team, with the inquiries, of the Press that reports appeared on January 30 reporting a hunt by the Squad of which you were a member for a Scottish anarchist? W: I remember reading those reports. M: And you mean to say that you weren't aware of whom that was supposed to be refer- ring to? W: No, I was not. M: You mean you weren't told?

W: No, I was not. M: Although you were part of this team? read these did you bother to ask 'What's all this about'? • • M: a number W: Yes. sent to The Times', Inter- and Press Association. was un- •The and 'The not connected but which on? details of they details specific com- likely 19, W: Yes. a Times', Association, W: Yes. whether there were received. M: No, explosion. can any raids were ers Press, Friday December 8, 1972 PAGE 7 explosion. W: I'm afraid I can't. M: Can you remember going on any raid in March or April?

W: No. M: You may have done? W: Yes. M: Were any raids carried out.

after that people who on worked at Ford's? W: I can't say. M: You see, it's right isn't it, time of that ex- that at the plosion at Ford's there was a big strike on at ford's? Well, it was in the newspapers.

W: I may have read that at the time, but what with one thing and another- M: And that explosion took place, did it not, close to the boiler room in the adminis- trative building? W: I don't know the exact details, the exact spot where explosion took place. I the didn't actually go there to deal with it. M: No. And then there was another one at Biba's Boutique on May 1 1971: you can remember that? W: Yes. M: Did you go on any, raids after that? M: was an- 22 the • of Ford's on explosions. raids were M: And you went on these raids any W: No sir. books? W: No. pamphlets? W: No. suggest a such a thing, might take? W: Yes. see lIst OI wnat La en W: No sir. M: Were lists taken? W: Weli, not having seen them, I'm not sure whether they were. M: Can you remember whether any other officers on raids you went on took address books?

W: No, not to my knowledge.

M: But they may have? W: They may have, yes. M: Now, when you go on a raid, when you went on these various raids under Explosives what was it you Warrants, were particularly looking for?

W: Explosives. M: You personally? Explosives?

W: Yes. when you didn't find M: And explosives-because you didn't find them on any of these raids you went on-what was the next thing you personally were looking for? 'ANGRIES'/continued overleaf

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday December 8, 1972 Continued from page 7. W: Well, anything that would suggest that there may be from the communique issued addresses. Like printing machine or anything like that.

Typewriters. Some means of printing communiqués M: So looking for It vou explosives in it be- place, of Conce

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that any reaction typewriters be immediately would ex- amined? And some cases, samples the typing were OI taken away? W: Yes. Then M: with the explosions. There were two June 22. The 011 CeOSONa Mr Davies' house on July 31— W: Yes, I believe I remember that. And he was the second whose minister house was bombed? There were no other bombs that related to Cabinet Ministers? W: Not as far as I remember.

M: And you can raids that? atter W: I think I was away on a snort nonday. M: And then there was another one on August 15: the TA Drill Hall Centre, Parkhurst Road. W: I didn't have any dealings with that one M: And so, at the end of July, the beginning of August, you have two These explosions. expiosions seem to be going on, And up to that stage, apart Prescott from the arrests of and Purdie, who had both been arrested by March 4, no one had been arrested since then? And so for all these bombings March between and August, no arrests had been made?

W: That's correct. M: And I think you said, yesterday afternoon, that you didn't think much headway had been made on explosions?

W: That's correct, yes M: And Mr Bond set up group, or organized or 1c W revamped the team in June W: It became a bomb squad unit under Bond, Mr opposed to an independent in- vestigation at Barnet, which was the way it had originally been set up. M: Yes, but reorganized extent because you weren't getting much very results? W: I suppose that might be the reason why. M: And it's right, is it not, political that there pres- was sure to get results? W: There might have been on

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The Angry Brigade trial, last- ing 11l days, was the longest Britain this century. staged in It cost an estimated £750,000. It was one of the longest history; 188 British legal the days of the Tichborne Claimant case in 1874 is said to be the record. The Tichborne Claimant case had earlier lasted for 103 days in a civil action before collapsing. It is estimated that more words have been spoken in the six-month- long trial at the Old Bailey's No. 1 Court. It heard before Mr was Justice James who was prose- cutor in the Great Train Robbers' As with the Great Train jury, the Angry Brigade jury spent the duration of its deliberations at undisclosed hotel an some- Counties. where in the Home There is a further Great Train association in the Angry Brigade One of trial. defence lawyers for one of the robbers Mr WaN Matthews. He was police Stoke against tne Newington Eight.

JAMES BOND'

When the Angry Brigade mas at is climax in 1970. Scotland Yard the appoint- announced ment of a special Bomb Squad under "Commander X'. ' December 8, 1972 Mr Bond, but I can't say for myself because I wasn't in- volved in any- M: No, but if there was on Mr Bond, then the effect of that would come down to those who were taking ; orders and instructions from him, woudn't it? W: Not much, because we were doing our best anyway.

M: Yes, but any investigating team always thinks it is doing its best, but if pressure is put on to get results, and that pressure is put on the person in charge — he in turn will unload it onto those below him. W: You're assuming that pres- sure was put on Mr Bond, but I don't remember it. M: But isn't it right that about that period there was reported in the newspaper-| think it interview in the was an "Telegraph' or a similar paper, on the need to get the Angry Brigade? W: I didn't realize that had taken place. M: And that the Cabinet, or Mr Maudling, was pressing him to get results? W: I didn't realize that.

M: You hadn't read any news- paper reports along those lines?

W: I can't remember. M: And you can't remember any newspaper reports saying that there were a number of suspects and that all that was needed was some evidence?

W: No, I can't remember. M: And then, I think you said the committal proceed- that ings in the cheques case Jim Greenfield and Anna Mendle- son are connected with, was in July? W: I'm not sure whether that was committal proceedings or— M: Well someone else who does know about it can deal with it, but if for the moment you can agree that it was in that sort of period. And then on July 31 there is another attack on a Cabinet Minister's house—Mr Davies? W: Yes. M: And still no results? W: There hadn't been any results until we raided Amhurst Ily Road This is not strictly correct.

After the arrests two further bombings took place - and prosecution ad- both, the mitted, had all the hallmarks • 'Angry Brigade'. One of the was planted in October 1971 at the home of a Birmingham building contractor, the other in November at the Royal Tank headquarters in London.

In a gigantic public relations Yard launched exercise the 'Commander X' and his anti- subversive squad. It was later learned that the mysterious head of the unit was Commander Ernest Bond who was immediately nick- named James Bond. Bond was a principal wit- ness in the trial. Last week it i announced that he had was received promotion. Following the spate of resignations and early retire- ments at the Yard, there are now a number of vacancies in the top echelons of the Metro- politan Police Force. 16 Bond On December becomes head of the CID with the rank of deputy assistant commissioner. The role of the Special Branch political police became as clear on numerous occasions throughout the trial. It was revealed during a short ex- change between Anna Mendle- son and an SB officer, Con- stable Cardwell. He gave evidence of a Black Cross meeting in October 1968 at which he met one of the defendants, Stuart Christie.

(Christie is secretary of Black Cross, an anarchist organiza- tion which works for the release of international political prisoners.) Anna: Constable Cardwell, do The elght defendants in the 'Angry Bris (acquitted). Bott (acquitted), McLean Creek victed), (convicted), Greenfie Mendleson and Creek by Chris Davies you often go to political meet- ings? Cardwell: Occasionally. A: And you enjoy them? C: Not particularly. A: Who sends you? C: A senior officer. A: Who is your senior officer?

C: There are several senior officers. A: Well, who are your senior officers? Can I have the names?

C: Ferguson Smith is my supreme senior officer. A: And who else? C: Commander Roger, Com- mander Bryant, Commander Gilbert. A: When you go to these political meetings, do you take you? a notebook with C: Not normally. do A: So what is your purpose in me Angry Brigade Trial. Top: Barker (convicted). McLean (acquitted), Weir (acquitted). Bottom Greenfield (convicted). (Photographs of B ris Davies.) eet- going there? Do you register what's going on and remember it? How do you remember faces—presumably you're there to see who's there, to find out what's being talked about.

C: I take notes on whatever I have with me. A: You make notes there and then? Has anyone ever dis- covered that you are a police- man? C: Not as far as I know. A: Well, do you go dressed like that? C: Yes. A: Have you been to meetings of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign? About 1970. C: I don't recall. A: What other meetings have you been to? Only anarchist meetings? onvicted). Centre lei to right: Chrisue I). Bottom left to right: Mendleson (con- phs of Barker, Christie, McLean, Welr, C: No, this is the only anar- chist meeting I've attended.

A: What are the other meet- ings? What groups or organ- izations? C: Communist, fascist, different organizations that are planning demonstrations. A: Would you say that your main job is to go to meetings of left-wing organizations?

C: No. A: Have you ever been to any trade union meetings? C: No. A: And what do you do with all the information that you receive? C: I pass it to my superior officer. A: And presumably it's filed?

C: This may well be.

A new series of articles by Jack with the situation in Ceylon.

The timing of our attack on Bala Tampoe, accord- ing to the Unified Secre- tariat and the Inter- continental Press, is 'worth noting. It comes, claim Joseph Hansen and his associates, when Bala Tampoe is one of the attorneys for members of the revolutionary Jana- tha Vimukthi Peramuna, when the Ceylon Mercan- tile Union joined a 24- hour hunger strike and when the bank employ. ees were in struggle against the government. To criticize a leader of a political tendency at such a time, it is clearly implied, is to assist the other side.

This is a very old and dis- honest method of argument.

Stalinists the For years, claimed that to oppose Stalin was to assist capitalism, to oppose the Popular Front in Spain was to assist Franco, to criticize Stalinist policies in Germany was to help Hitler etc, etc. Trotskyists always replied that to expose and attack the false leaders of the working class, tar from assisting its enemies, was the only way to take the class forward. Does this now suddenly cease to be true? Or is Hansen desperately seeking to use the struggles now under way in Ceylon to prevent his own members from taking up these ques- tions? The most the Unified Secre- tariat can claim for Bala Tampoe is that he is one of the legal attorneys for the What is particularly

JVP.

heroic about this? Colvin R de Silva—a leading Ceylon ex- United Secretariat man and one of the LSSP renegades who went over to Mrs Ban- daranaike in 1964—was an attorney, who in his time also defended people against state prosecution. The arch-Stalinist D. N. Pritt defended Jomo Kenyatta when the latter was on trial accused of leading the Mau Mau in Kenya. Did that make the Stalinists into defenders of the colonial revolution?

The more the youth, the workers and the rural poor come into conflict with the Bandaranaike regime, the more essential it is to fight for the principles of Trotsky- ism and expose the charlatans who masquerade under its name In passing, let us deal with a real slander-that the Socia- list Labour League did not solidarize itself with the strug- gle of the masses in Ceylon.

We refer readers to the fol- lowing issues of Workers' Press for one month only: March 23, 1972: 'Ceylon's Internment Jails still hold 14,000 Youth' April 4: '1,000 Youth for Trial. April 6: 'Ceylon Bill legalizes Repression' April 10: 'US arms Ceylon'.

'Lift Press Ban in Ceylon'.

April 14: 'Guerrilla Bill splits Ceylon coalition'. April 18: 'Ceylon Workers Re- sist Wages Freeze' When the trial of members by Jack Gale dealing especially of the JVP began last July, we reported it fully and declared ourselves clearly with the de- fendants. The same month we began an eight-part series on the background to the Ceylon crisis. In this series, although we put forward frankly our dif- ferences with the jVP, clearly defended them against bloody repressions launched by Mrs Bandaranaike and supported by the Stalin- ists and the former close associates of Messrs Mandel and Hansen. knowing full Yet Hansen, well that his allegations are a pack of lies, tells his readers we did not solidarize with these struggles. Let take up another point. Tampoe is presented in the Unified Secretariat state- ment as something of a hero, valiantly lining up with the

JVP.

Yet the statement of the Indian member of the Unified Secretariat's Ceylon Commis- significantly to sion referred Bala Tampoe's being allowed to hold meetings in Colombo when other tendencies were denied all right of expression.

We went into more detail same question the in on Workers Press on October 20 —an article which Mandel and Hansen and company stu- diously avoid. We pointed out that al- though 16,000 people were arrested—4,000 of them for attending political classes— and 4,000 trade union officials disappeared, Tampoe and his retained complete associates freedom of movement. We also commented on the extremely mild nature of Tam- poe's 'opposition' to Mrs Ban- daranaike at that time. We repeat what Tampoe's CMU statement actually said, remembering that the Unified Secretariat's Ceylon section has complete control of the leadersip of this union: 'Does it serve useful any purpose to regard the rebels as who have intimi- criminals, dated and murdered innocent people, raped and looted and indulged in kidnappings and arson-even if some of them be proved to have com- may mitted such acts? Is the view that the young not be regarded rebeis should "terrorists" and that they as are deserving of humane treat- ment, a view that cannot be seriously in a country taken where the teachings of the Buddha are revered?' At a time of enormous eco- nomic and political crisis, with thousands of youth taking up arms against the state, a sec- tion of Mandel's International, led by a member of its Inter- national Executive Committee, appeals to the bourgeois Prime Minister to base her policies on divine teachings! A far cry indeed, from the 'main defender' of the JVP presented to us in Mr Han- sen's journal. Why is the leadership of the Unified Secretariat and the Socialist Workers' Party so to remain on good anxious terms with, and to paint in totally false colours, a leader who, to put it mildly, is ex- tremely dubious? Because they are an oppor- tunist revisionist tendency re- JVP youth captured during the April, 19 execution at the hands of the Bandaranal jecting the very basis of Leni- nism and Trotskyism. This basis is the insistence on principle above all else. If this leads to a split, then so be it-better a split than an unprincipled unity. This is the great historic lesson embodied in the construction of the Bolshevik Party. That Party was not built by papering over cracks, hiding differences, run- ning away from principles.

petty-bourgeois Only the behaves in that way. This is the basis of the split between Bolshevism and Menshevism.

In 'One Step Forward, Two Steps Back' (in which he is reviewing the disputes at the - 1903 Congress of the Russian Democratic Social Labour Party where the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks split) Lenin conversation with recounts a one of the "Centre' delegates.

oppressive the at- • "How mosphere is at our congress", he complained. "This bitter agitation fighting, this one against the other, this biting controversy, this uncomradely attitude" • "What a splendid, splendid is!" thing our Congress replied. "A free and open struggle. Opinions have been stated. The shades have been revealed. The groups have taken shape. Hands have been raised. A decision has been taken. A stage has been passed.

Forward! That's the stuff for me! That's life!" 'The from the comrade Centre stared at me in per- plexity •.. we were talking different languages.' ('Collected Works' Vol. 7, p.346.). petty-bourgeois, The the 'centre', hates conflict. But the Unified Secretariat is turned towards the petty-bourgeois.

And so, particularly, is Hansen's Socialist o w n Workers' Party. That is why that Party dis- graced itself by permitting its secretary Farrall Dobbs to send a message of condolence to President Kennedy's widow when that leader of world imperialism was struck down in 1963. Mandel, Hansen and the rest of the gang know the charges against Tampoe are true. And so do their members-or at least, those who have been allowed to hear of them. Yet they conspire to keep up the fiction that Tampoe is an 'honest revolutionary. Why?

Because in that way they hope to preserve a facade of a 'section' in Ceylon. Their relationship to Tampoe is exactly the same as their relationship to his predeces- sors, the leaders of the LSSP.

Hansen is now extremely hostile to 'the former Trotsky- ists who betrayed the move- ment and accepted posts in the Bandaranaike government' But we outlined in detail the relationship of the Unified Secretariat to these men in the Workers Press, Friday December 8, 1972 PAGE 9 "The future of the revolu- wing depends tionary mainly upon a serious study of this re- lationship' ('Ceylon, the Great G. Healy, 1964.) Betrayal'. This warning disre- was garded, with the result that the LSSP(R) entered upon the road degeneration. It did this sheltered by the same inter- national leadership *had as previously sheltered the leaders of the LSSP right up to the where entered a point they bourgeois government. In 1963 an honest discussion Ceylon would on have torpedoed the reunification, organized without discussion of outstanding political questions, by Pabloites the with the SWP. (This could not be an organizational reunifi- cation, because the SWP is US law prevented by from having such connections.)

In the same way an honest discussion Ceylon on arısing …of the 1969 out allegations against Tampoe and his role since would blow sky-high the Unified crisis-ridden Secre- tarat today. That is why the Ceylon Commission specifically April, 1971, uprising. They faced jall or avoided the political issues.

andaranalke government. We quote from its majority Workers Press of October 18 report: and 19articles which the "The Commission did not Unified Secretariat is careful to feel it was in a position to ignore. fully examine the policies Comrade Bale in his nion of We established there, and we challenge Hansen to refute member of the IEC, the it; that the Unified Secretariat secretary of his section, is also criticism suppressed of the general secretary of his union.

of the LSSP, refused leaders is accused, among other demands within their organiz- things, of organizing scabbing ation discussion on by his members. Yet the Com- Ceylon, endorsed the LSSP's mission is not in a position to of position 'critical support fully examine... for SLFP (Bandaranaike) an But more was to follow. The government and had in their Commission reports that it was for four possession years 'not unanimous in evaluating before

LSSP

the leaders all these While all actions. entered the Bandaranaike agreed they were, or could be, government a letter which out- extremely compromising, some lined proposals for a 'program- comrades felt they might be matic agreement' with Mrs the context explained in of Bandaranaike's party with a Ceylonese political and trade view to forming a joint govern- union life; felt others they ment! were totally unjustifiable?

We printed the details of Or-to put it more this letter in Workers Press succinctly-some members felt 19-and Hansen October on that honouring ex-Nazis, and Mandel avoid all mention organizing scabbing and having of it. your expenses paid by the CIA deplorable. somewhat Others felt that in Ceylon any- thing goes. Certainly, Bala Tampoe was re-elected to the IEC of the In contrast, the position of Unified Secretariat at its ninth Socialist Labour League the congress in 1969 and remains was entirely principled. there to this day. We warned: 'One cannot It was at this same con- separate the problems of the Mandel gress that Ernest LSSP revolutionary wing from presented a report laying down this degeneration [of the that the slogan 'Victory to the Unified Secretariat] Many

NLF'

should be the slogan of comrades the who support all Unified Secretariat sections only now minority are IN

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SLL LECTURES

LONDON

Sunday December 10 Opponents of Marxism

BEAVER HALL

at Mansion House tube 7 p.m. Lectures given by G. Healy SLL national secretary

BARNSLEY

Sunday December 10 The struggle for power Sunday December 17 Revolutionary theory and the Marxist Party

RED LION HOTEL

(Worsborough) 8 p.m. Lectures given by Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee)

SHEFFIELD

Monday December 11 Stalinism and Trotskyism Monday January 8 Rachel Gurney and Nicola Pagett In Marxism and the revolutionary party on Independent channels.

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Monday December All Trades 11, 'White Hart', Alfred Chelder p.m. Unions Alliance 'No Street, near Drypool bridge.

state control of wages.

MEETINGS

ACTON: Monday December 11, Co-op Hall. Road, p.m. High Fight Rising Prices W3. 'Free Sean MacStiofain'.

Force the Tories to Resign WEST LONDON: Tuesday Decem- MANCHESTER: Friday December 8 p.m. Prince Albert, ber 12, 8, 7.30 p.m. Milton Road, Deans- Wharfdale Road, Kings Cross. 'Force the Tories to resign!'

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Sean MacStiofain'.

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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 Deal trom Glasgow, Liverpool, and Southampton Culancoa 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.

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

• We demand the right to work!

Make the Tory government resign!

BRACKNELL (Berks) Thursday December 14 7.45 p.m.

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PRIESTWOOD ESTATE

WAGES, DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AND THE TORY

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Calendar. Weather. 6.00 6.35 London. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 London. 8.30 Turnbull's finest half hour. 9.00 London. 10.30 Film: 'Desire Under the Elms'. 12.30 Weather. GRANADA: 9.30-10.05 London.

11.00 Schools. 12.00 Paint book.

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3.50 Cartoon. 4.00 Crossroads.

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5.15 Turnbull's finest half hour.

5.50 London. 6.00 News. 6.25 Wagon train. 7.50 Protectors. 8.20 Comedians. 8.50 Cartoon. 9.00 London. 10.30 Kick off. 10.55 Film: 'A Lion is in the Streets'. TYNE TEES: 9.30 Let them live.

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6.00 Today. 6.35 London. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 London. 8.30 Turnbull's finest half hour. 9.00 London. 10.30 Film: 'A Prize of Arms'. 12.25 News. 12.40 Epilogue.

SCOTTISH: 10.05

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4.25 Nanny and the professor.

4.50 London. 5.20 Crossroads.

5.50 London. 6.00 Scotland to- day. 6.30 Protectors. 7.00 Sky's 7.30 London. 8.30 the limit. Turnbull's finest half hour. 9.00 London. 10.30 Friday night. 11.00 Late call. 11.05 Film: 'Mystery of the Wax Museum'. GRAMPIAN: 11.05 Cowboy in Africa. 12.05 London. 3.25 Shirley's world. 3.55 Katie Stewart cooks. 4.20 Funky phan- tom. 4.50 London. 5.20 General hospital. 5.50 London. 6.00 6.05 at tea- News. Thompson time. 6.35 London. 7.00 Sky's limit. 7.30 Cade's county.

the 8.30 London. 10.30 Points North.

11.00 Job look. 11.10 Film: 'Sweet, Sweet Rachel'. 12.30 Meditation.

Around the unions Motions build up against

THE

By OUR OWN REPORTERS RIGHT to strike was attacked says the Aims Industry. by the Aims of In- Tories This right-wing business.

dustry yesterday and men's which gives financial the another new publica- ano CanaDales THE NEWLY-amalgamated Nos. 1 and 3 against nationalization has tion by the engineer- pamphlet on branches of the Union of Construction, Right to Work ing employers called alla Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) the kignt to strike. for the strengthening written by the pro- it 1s at Leeds have passed a resolution calling Tessol • so-called for a campaign to force the government of the Industrial philosophy Edinburgh University, Harry Burrows to resign. Relations Act.

ACLON.

The resolution states: "That this branch meet- The earned protessor, Strikes by workers in who sees no other morality ing totally opposes the government's state con- the fuel industries, the than the defence of capi.

This action constitutes a major trol of wages talism and private attack on the living standards and interests of docks and enginels property, comes the working class as a whole. This branch meet- are 'barbarous' and starlille ConCIuSIOn 'morally many large-scale strikes are ing calls the executive unacceptable, upon committee demand the recall of the TUC and Labour Party conferences as part of a cam- paign to force the government to resign.' B.

OURS

The same branch also passed resolution condemning the Lynch government's 1C W alll!"

SKA ACI

That this meeting condemns the Lynch govern- ment's Offences Against the State we are Tune oninioni this Bill is the first towards dictatorship and hand hand with British Torvism.

'While apparently the Bill aimed against the

IRA,

it does change the fact whole basis and une aw we are opinion that these measures will be against the used working Class Irelana ano tomorrow.

RESOLUTION

calling for part strike general campaign to bring down Tory the been Wamouss Passed Chiswick No. branch the Amalgamated Union En- Workers. The cals for the resoluton return a Labour government ot pledged all repeal anti- class legislation based on a socialist programme.

The resolution was addressed north London district committee of the AUEW.

LEEDS

Trades has Council unanimously condemned Tory gov- т with ine and the Confederation of British Industry the sub- ject or wace restraint. The resolution from the Leeds electricians' branch union the accores to enter into talks' with pickets outside Barbours' rainwear factory question a traveller belore he the Tories and the CBI. It goes enters the firm. We Ne therefore demand that the should not merely con- the demn £1m jump in Westland's 1 U13 ware Treeze in words out should announce its intention to ignore the pay of freeze, fighting with profits all possible means for high wages WESTLAND Aircraft. the hover.

and pensions and refusing craft, helicopter and further talks with the gor- dis- any engineering group yesterday

CBI.

and closed a Elm jumo in pront. The 'Further the by its group as whole increased The British Hovercraft Cornor- leadership and must profit from £3.15m organization pre-tax ation also showed an increase mobilize the whole of strength ₺4.2m for the year to september £697,000 £737,000 profit from force of the group, une movement to mainstay this vear. use orectors. nowever. General Election and no minted win Westland Helicopters, who con Labour say these results are 'by no means tribute almost half the profit this they admit £2m Lo socialist •onces. DCLUIC LaX they are an improvement compared with £1.51m last year. Bradford This latest figure was achieved in the improvement' the will be mai

WELLUARD

be Trades Council of the maintained next have spite of the closure Dasseu ycal at Hayes, condemning plant lucrative arms deals resolution the acti an l hencopter of Middlesex, which cost 1,800 the racialist state South Ot. workers their jobs. Africa. groups for Use honolorant workers the scapegoats for the results of the crisis and attacks economic Anniversary picket the working class The motion states: The Bradford The third year of their piebet in Mr Bob Kucharek (45), Derek condemns allavilies Walters (41), and Bert Vizor Stop the third year picket Campaign receiving Immigration and the racialist a Gloucester a pay aispute with it nave been

AUEW

and week each from fascist organizations who since the strike began. members of the en- black scaperoat unemployment, inadequate gineerine unon olnee unem oul- spokesman said: company housing, and social side Autonumis Vending aAl seven draugh smen far are concerned, Tetbury, by the Factory in dis- SErVICES causea were the bankers and ancioras lorrellai Tall Illalk missed on the day thev walked government policy. anniversary. out. call upon the Brad- also were oronaiy sever who walked out on Decem- 'If the are any new vacancies group TorO Labour 111cl and policies which ching for all ensure apply over a dav onsoute. unese men care decent standard of four others have since found new they will be considered in the way as other applicants. jobs. same Draarora s population. Workers Press, Friday December 8, 1972 PAGE 11

OWN REPORTERS

that strikers 'limit the em- ployer's choice of workers'.

Strikers established Labour and aimed at making the gov- monopoly of ernment and employers that had to stop. workers' g1ve in to The Industrial Relations demands. Act should be strengthened Any idea of 'threatening to provide better protec- the population' with 'cold' tion for the non-worker, 'hunger' the 'ruin or says the Engineering Em- economy' the were 'bar- ployers' Federation in a barous, Professor says new book out today. Acton. Author David Hall, who 'It is ridiculous to claim the recently worked in that there is any funda- EEF's research department, mental right to engage in is now a lecturer at north- such activities? east London Polytechnic. He the functions says He the says provisions and place of trade unions for ending the closed shop in British society needed had not worked because clarifying. employers did not wish to His pamphlet finally re- risk industrial action. veals the sort of society he Non-union members- and the Aims of Industry needed more assistance would like when he claims under the Act.

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

POLICE chiefs in Co Durham have told women rainwear factory, on strike from the Barbours' South Shields, that policemen were right to throw young girls claiming hardship money out of the local Social Security office.

South Shields Trades ganized a delegation to the Union Council has received

DHSS,

they received an a letter from the Durham apology for the 'incident" police headquarters follow- from a local department ing investigation into head. 'incidents' South the at This was later withdrawn Shields' Social Security after an 'inquiry'. office on November 10. The And now a further "in- police 'acted properly un- vestigation' has upheld the instructions' and der any 'integrity' of the police. error was the responsibility Jack Grassby, secretary of the DHSS officials, of South Shields TUC, told says. Workers Press: About 70 women at the 'This goes a long way to factory have now been on establishing a police state strike since October 24 in -where workers are forc- defence of their right to Ibly deprived of their, rights union recognition. by police actions.' The girls aged between When the women went 18 and 22 — all single - on strike over six weeks visited the DHSS office on ago their basic wage for a Friday November 10 with 40-hour week was £10.80. fresh evidence to appeal Since then they have re against an earlier decision fused to accept a £2-a- that they were not entitled week increase awarded by to benefit. government Statutory Officials, however, Order re- for the industry fused to see them or con- which would make their sider their evidence. The basic wage £12.80. girls say that next thing They have refused the they knew they were being increase because it would evicted and thrown outside mean giving up their fight on the street. for recognition of the A few weeks later after Transport and General the South Shields TUC or- Workers' Union. Corn Exchange Leeds

PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday December 8, 1972 What -The Stoke Newington 8 we think accused's right to silence in his or her ence between those who stress the "drab, The police began to re- THE TEN-YEAR sentences on the four call struggle" surrect this legislation Loose against the lett in young people in the Angry Brigade trial most self-sacrificing struggle of 1968 in the wake of the student and anti.

only be is a savage act of retribution by the ruling _nese corooraust moves call individuals. The law demonstrations. defeated by the monizater conviction 'But this is no paradox. The Economists all-embracing; working class under revolutionary leader- class and its legal machine.

relies on innuendo and guilt by association.

establish and the terrorists merely and bow to diner. slip LaKe unc During the trial the defence maintained type of legal attack demonstrated Economists of spontaneity: the This ent poles socialism. 'planted' of Rudi labour that the eight accused

OCCI

Dutschke and the jailing of Jake Prescott by the and that they seen framed. By finding four of them not guilty Specia police have not had it all their jury accepted tha the mas Dassiuliale of terror can be the means of destroying Branch, the rapidly-expanding the pollical abillly used frame-up techniques to impli- police, 'cons- working-class movement into an in- cate four of the detendants in a evidence which the police and its agents provocateurs have concocted.

piracy. from Christie, they come from the middle tone orkers Pressy Stuart The acquittal of four of the accused and As ot ine move said Class TrON squatters they Call Dalsils. testimony to the fact that the police came "It they. planted one. say is loosely called the libertarian.

Libera- didn't plant the others?'

bringing £lm Stuart Christie. The state spent almost class move mender hey have s chagrin of the Special to trial in what branch. these eight young people They came out of the ineffectual CND of the became the longest Toel In summing up Mr lustice adopted Said it political defence the games was arcady one

VICW

which by ah its political atmosphere.

Laws alc revolutionary socialism, given the trial extension to sectional, middle-class stunts.

of the Special Powers Act to Britain or the January 12, 1971, the day of the massive relations Bi revolt against the Industrial political views them in this country, he said.

vernment can establish a wave Marxist theory has established: he was sentencing Yet when the re 'Robert Carr's mansion was wrecked by the dock the judge came nique used by Lynch a week ago.

maining tour in under two bombs in a straightforward emotiona response by a section of the revolutionary out with nakea class These reth toe Tories other rapid deterioration in his con- "The conspiracy of which you have been movement. On January 12 we had We went on 12uge mad aes all ditions of life, and even ruin, easily goes convicted had as its object, Tine and attacking the of disrupting • The Industrial Relations Act, which has renton cipline perseverances. the future and we bombed Your of this country. democrauc sociely

TOT I

participation arose you becance to the orderly way of society?

'A petty bourgeois driven to frenzy by plan which means of society' James's 'orderly way violence capitalism. It is a system based on hands of the revolutionism turn can vividly Northern capitalist press. seen by fighting for wage demands.

where innocent workers and their provided a lever for the trade union leaders Ireland murdered, tortured and jailed to appeal to their members 'that enough ano direct attack on the shop floor rights manues are ball - without trial. Britain recognize that But the important lesson is that the Workers in Northern Ireland is also a training ground struggle against these tendencies has got • The Housing Finance Tories will try here. As the Or Wildl LIC -not in the courts of the ruling class oppo- economic worsens and mass means swingeing fines on those who resist.

COSTS

will sition to its policies grow, Te lores The Socialist Labour League compunction introducing its have kers Press stands unequivocally tor Justice Act which will remove the police of the four who were given ten- tenor doodlalus appear paradoxical, so great is the differ- In this atmosphere of growing repression, caulion are interrogated and the removal of the the use of conspiracy laws is particularly Dockers may black CAV Workers Press goods to back sit-in

MONTHLY

APPEAL

FUND

THE CAR component combine CAV Lucas is facing a black

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

of its goods on Merseyside docks over the occupation of its

DECEMBER

Fazakerely plant in Liverpool.

A mass meeting of the Faza- the Fazakerely plant in April.

Liverpool docks shop kerely employees heard this The has agreed news yesterday. They also unani- stewards'

TOTAL IS

committee the Liverpool Tuesday Low turn- rejected a $50,000 offer black if it gets a to impose the Trades Council is calling shop mousiy from Merseyside shop pledge from the combine wach woul stewards from all over Mersey that they will back worpers inted their occupation.

paid a lump sum if the

NOW £317.62

out in side to see stewards what action can be dockers any action is taken to support the occupation.

by against them the National The firm also offered full pay Industrial Relations Court.

Lynch poll want to see a pledge raise our Dockers to up to Christmas. PLEASE nelp us stewards is over possible action under The £1,750 target before Xmas. We move by the anti-trade union laws from this decided that boost to assist plans of this extra a big blow against Ine need Lucas combine to close down meeting. more talks with would period. us over HALF WAY through polling Tine only be held on the basis of the equal rights for all

AUEW

Aude mens or day on the AS the Bank must pay-NIRC re-opening of the site. turns to the court, all eyes votes at 18 refer- religions and unionists are focused on trade yesterday The Lucas workers have also Ireland endum in judge Taff Vale in enarikton. They have agreed The rasht. reports from polling THE NATIONAL Industrial Re- ment looms up once Sad crate •annointed in the in Warrington. short of disastrous. were little details of the union products after day. to black Lucas lations Court yesterday spelled Fianna funds they held. rall neadquarters WelC Only Workers Press has con- out the duties of a bank when a the nIrM atten oled reports plunged gloom as warned about Sir John Donaldson said that goods through the Warrington sequestration writ had been issued instead of hoped a six eight rolled in of only sequestrators for rail head. demand by serious poll against one of its customers.

political cent this court. The Tories not answered Will

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also Obs pere cent turn out promptly, fully and accurately.

and Miners It to try • to des- giving its rea- use The Labour Party or as debilale cult was ine postmen disclose extended last week The duty to would troy the decision not handle 1HoS. cons tor poll whereabouts, if centall arcas the that the Midland Bank and Hilll must reach 20 Our much as per cent and paper Lucas parcels. workers everywhere and lead the Samuel and Co, bankers to the known to the bank, political or properl. parties appealed three engineering nion These moves of solidarity will Which had been redled by bee which had been held by but the Amal- make government section of fight large out in strengthen the fight for the right voters curI Engineering amated The Fund therefore to work at Fazakerely. numbers last night. customer. to disclose to the Workers, hac doubly important. Make Workers particularly showed special effort today and help general Interests m vulne early. Fight target taking the view toere Was Tories

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for them and back against nothing your dona- all your might. Post up to was the country's Immediately to: tions some new polacal manoeuvre government Press The Lynch Workers hoped that the polls would pro- Fund December Appeal Above all the campaign mus has decided to Street of con-

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government 186a Clapham High vice massIve

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re-call the Uc that strength begin now destroy London, SW4 7UG. fidence for all its policies.

to prepare national action There probably no other

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leadership Secretary Robert Carr • Home force the Tories to resign.

has done nothing to mobilize the union tnat nas done more i said parliament yesterday that history or fought harder for the against the offensive the No union in the land will be ranks precautions' have 'certain working class of Britain.

been free from the terror of the anti- possibility union laces threat of taken But today will see the crunch the This is why the Tories hate 1101 alle attempts by members of the IRA the everywhere complete ruin Engineers he acked, it would nor tae Britain'. But the engineers. They stand for to seek sanctuary DUlL architects of the Industrial Re- should be supported by all trade in the strength of the organized P High Street. Pris Clapham lations Act remain in power.

and the Heath unionists. working class public interest to give details.

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