Workers Press no. 942

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FINED E50,000

UNIONS and the govern- ment are on the brink of a new showdown over the £50,000 fine slapped Amalgamated on the Union of Engineering Workers. The National Industrial Relations Court yesterday gave the AUEW one week to pay up or face sequestration.

But it seems certain that this latest attack by the court will cause outbreaks of industrial unrest throughout the engi- neering industry. Many of the AUEW's district committees are on record de- 6 A.

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manding an all-out strike if more fines are levied. Even more militant calls have come from shop stewards' bodies which are pledged to strike action with or without an official lead.

On Thursday, for example, the north London shop stewards quarterly meeting voted unani- mously to withdraw their labour if more fines were levied.

The man at the centre of the storm once more is the presi- dent of the NIRC, Sir John Donaldson. In his judgement yesterday he said that the con- tempt of the union caused by its persistent refusal to allow Suffolk engineering worker James Goad into branch meetings was the most serious to come before the court so far.

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James Goad (centre) the man who brc Industrial Relations Court yesterday. He warned that the fine would the have been greater than €50,000 made against the Trans- port and General Workers' Union earlier, this year, but for the financial weak state the

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'Any fine will have to be paid from out of those assets or contributions from the members, said Sir John. He concluded: 'We trust that the union will review its policy at once. An unlawful policy is no credit to the union and the taking action necessity for against the union is no source THE Oxford district AUEW shop stewards' quarterly meet- ing on Thursday, passed a reso- lution congratulating the AUEW executive on its stand against the Industrial Relations Act and called upon it to use industrial action if any further action was taken against the union. of satisfaction to the court. We are bound to uphold the law and will do so, but our real bring- satisfaction comes from ing the parties together in settle- ment of industrial disputes. This impossible so long is as one party refuses to attend.'

If the union do not pay up in seven days commissioners will be sent in to seize contributions or assets. The fine marks the crisis point for the union's leaders. So far they have taken no steps what- soever to defend their members' money. is no doubt that the There rank and file of every union is solidly behind the engineers, who must be given full support by all trade unionists. Any industrial action will im- mediately raise the question in the TUC of supporting the en- gineers in their battle against the Tory anti-union laws. This could be the starting point of open conflict between the union and the Tory govern- ment.

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n who brought the case against the AUEW is A STATEMENT from the AUEW declared that yesterday the Executive Council had decided unanimously not to pay the fine.

The general secretary would be contacting the members to in- form them of this decision and, in particular, pointing out that REMARKS comparing the engine the Angry Brigade were sharpl Donaldson in the National Industr Mr Peter Perrins, for Sud- bury, Suffolk engineer Mr James Goad, said the union clearly backed the action of the Sudbury shop stewards who were keeping Goad from branch meetings. *The events of the last 24 hours make it abundantly clear , Sir John what are you talking about. that as far as the rule of law is concerned, Mr Hugh Scanion and his officials are just as much anarchists as the mem- bers of the Angry Brigade, he said. Sir John intervened immedi- ately: I don't know what you are talking about,' he said to Perrins and went on to rule that Thursday's events, when workers at the CAV factory AUEW is picketed outside the National Mr Goad could have used the union's machinery. The Executive Council was calling on the membership to 'defend the policy of the union'.

However, it had not considered industrial action and any National Committee was not to be recalled. e engineering union's leaders with e sharply rebuked by Sir John 1 Industrial Relations Court.

where Goad works forced to suspend him, management had nothing to do with the case. cannot see the slightest justification for referring to the union in language which them with criminal connects activities,' he said. But he went on to accept that a sworn statement by Goad over events last Friday when he was kept out of a branch meeting at the Bear Hotel, Sudbury, was evidence to show that the union had committed a second breach of the court's order to give Goad full rights. *It is perfectly open to this court to infer, because of the fact it is a second breach, that this is now not the isolated action of two shop stewards, but is the action of which the union does not disapprove an action which is consistent with the policy of the union in not recognizing the Indust- rial Relations Act, whether it be a tribunal, this court, or the Court of Appeal,' said Sir John. Goad has already caused the union to be fined £5,000 for contempt. Workers oppose his admission to branch meetings because he worked during a strike, then refused to pay a for this behaviour to a fine charity.

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FINED £50,000

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UNIONS and the govern-

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

ment are on the brink of a new showdown over manding an all-out strike if the £50,000 fine slapped more fines are levied. Even more militant calls have from come the Amalgamated on shop stewards' bodies which are pledged to strike action with or Union of Engineering without an official lead. On Thursday, for example, the Workers. north London shop stewards quarterly meeting voted unani- The National Industrial mousiy to withdraw their labour Relations Court yesterday if more fines levied. were gave the AUEW one week to The man at the centre of the pay up or face sequestration.

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But it seems certain that this dent of the Sir John Donaldson. In his judgement latest attack by the court will yesterday he said that the con- cause outbreaks of industrial of the union caused tempt by unrest throughout the engi- its persistent refusal to allow Suffolk neering industry. engineering worker James Goad into branch meetings Many of the AUEW's district the was most serious to come before the court so far. committees are record de- Leeds

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James Goad (centre) the man who bre Industrial Relations Court yesterday.

He warned that the fine would have been than the greater £50,000 made against the Trans- port and General Workers' Union earlier, this but for year, financial state of the weak

AUEW.

"Any fine will have to be paid out of those assets from or contributions from the members,' said Sir John. the union will review its policy at once. An unlawful policy is no credit to the union and the necessity for taking action against the union is no source THE Oxford district AUEW shop stewards quarterly meet- ing on Thursday, passed a reso- lution congratulating the AUEW executive on its stand against the Industrial Relations Act and called upon it to use industrial action if any further action was taken against the union. of satisfaction to the court. We are bound to uphold the law and will do so, but our real satisfaction comes from bring- ing the parties together in settle- ment of industrial disputes. This is impossible so long party refuses to attend, as one If the union do not pay up in seven days commissioners will be sent in to seize contributions or assets. The fine marks the crisis point for the union's leaders. So far they have taken no steps what- soever to defend their members' money. There is no doubt that the rank and file of every union is solidly behind the engineers, who must be given full support by all trade unionists. Any industrial action will im- mediately raise the question in the TUC of supporting the en- gıneers in their battle against the Tory anti-union laws. This could be the starting point of open conflict between the union and the Tory govern- ment.

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n who brought the case against the ALEW I A STATEMENT from the AUEW yesterday declared that the Council had decided Executive unanimously not to pay the fine.

The general secretary would be contacting the members to in- form them of this decision and, in particular, pointing out that REMARKS comparing the engin‹ the Angry Brigade were sharp Donaldson in the National Indusi Mr Peter Perrins, for Sud- bury, Suffolk engineer Mr James Goad, said the union clearly backed the action of the Sudbury shop stewards who were keeping Goad from branch meetings. 'The events of the last 24 hours make it abundantly clear , Sir John... what are you talking about. that as far as the rule of law is concerned, Mr Hugh Scanlon and his officials are just as much anarchists as the mem- bers of the Angry Brigade,' he said. Sir John intervened immedi- ately: 'I don't know what you are talking about,' he said to Perrins and went on to rule that Thursday's events, when workers at the CAV factory Is picketed outside the Natlonal Mr Goad could have used the union's machinery. The Executive Council was membership to calling on the 'defend the policy of the union'.

it had not considered However, industrial action and the any National Committee was not to be recalled. • engineering union's leaders with •sharply rebuked by Sir John • Industrial Relations Court.

where Goad works forced management to suspend him, had nothing to do with the 'I cannot see the slightest justification for referring to the union in language which them with criminal connects activities,' he said. But he went on to accept that a sworn statement by over events last Friday Goad branch Bear Hotel. to show that the union had committed a second breach of the court's order to give Goad full rights. It is perfectly open to this court to infer, because of the fact it is a second breach, that this is now not the isolated action of two shop stewards, but is the action of which the union does not disapprove an action which is consistent with the policy of the union in not recognizing the Indust- rial Relations Act, whether it be a tribunal, this court, or the Court of Appeal,' said Sir John. Goad has already caused the union to be fined £5,000 for contempt. Workers oppose his admission to branch meetings because he worked during a strike, then refused to pay a fine for this behaviour to a charity.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday December 9, 1972 FRENCH Finance Minister M. Valeri Giscard d'Estaing has intro- duced an anti-inflationary package intended to pass the burden of the economic crisis onto the working class. Rapid price rises had sapped the franc's strength in recent weeks and pushed up the cost- of-living to new heights.

of the elections In view French due in March, the government is unable to im- immediate an wage pose. freeze. In fact, with the Com- munist Party and the main the CGT, hold- trade union, ing back the working class and preventing full-scale wage struggle, it is concen- trating temporary on mea- sures which it knows cannot grapple with the problem.

These of a consist reduction of Value Added Tax, in the rates an increase in the rate of interest French tinance minister Glacalad d'Estaing (cen!

and savince flotation of a big on very loan of the a plant and ind paid to the correctness on advantageous conditions for the programme of the left He does subscribers. throw of the savs that such a government Loans of this kind are an old would further - it would criticizes its go finance Irrench calls 'carry democratic reform and out a ministers. They give an impression the tax system'. The whole CP ot

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of action while placating middle- which the CP® demagogic froth to gramme class savers. In fact, very little committed does not go any guise All new savings generally result. further than this because it has the government in loan does help bridge The Is to working class to be operated Wirin the rame. the government's budget deficit. work of capitalism.

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In addition Giscard d'Estaing The French Stalinists directly appeals employers and the the government's game by play The lent, unions maintain ware olding back the class Party emerging working and priest bies o work and are Cind of th nartv in the lower policy' for new wages wage any kind of against anti-inflation polic 1973. announced. the anti-inflation nackage.

While criticizing these measures, Then working class and tad as The Dutch unio the Party daily, working class and agreement Communist an 'L'Humanité', says mildly: "Rising the rich. ment and the emp problem. No The CGT sec- comment by wage increases Once de d Krasucki government wants to last retary Henri on year to 3.5 per ce which

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length of time can now Messmer new The agreement for any government's of measures shows the treachery margins and nrices evade it. It is thinking of the possible the French Stalinists. limit price increas CP, Instead of calling for a national with vernmen e coation. the Socialist Party and the stre rile f5 ow thes working efend unit remaining con effect will be to Radicals, which might result from rights working class, the March elections. It sees the he says that Durchasing power union enders working-class milit reduction in VAT as a homage must be defended by bargaining Socialist Labour League

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11 cal Industries punctured British currency is bound dropped dollar Heath's pretensions earlier to worsen relations within against yesterday morning the Common Market. 1 tre exchange warning that the govern- give Bri- It will tend to ment's boasted target of point edge on entry. tirely based on Inflation. pound. There Cocai He what was British currency has blings discontent from The existing EEC GulS countries several sumption create reflecting mounting sterling has days, for Investment- sources with Tory downwards. discontent. out financial

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Camell With three weeks to go the pockets the circles. the Tory entry, govern- working class to pay for the Optimistic speeches from and Anthony about when the pound will Edward Heath downward slide The be sterling also reflects the stabilized. about the prospects for the The continued fall makes the Tory cov wednes that have unlikely, however, ernment Nixon administration the currency will new national financial frater- high $2.35, which In the United States, which effec- nity. would represent is planning vigorous of British to folst the economic crisis tive Confederation Industry ation on the pre-float Michael chairman Europe. OTHe The continued fall in the parity. Clapham of Imperial Chemi- THE UNITED STATES Treasury has announced a new set of regulations which will into ettect on anti-dumping Collic just a week after Britain formally enters January 8, the Common Market. American The government US in which the ing manner aing (centre). proposed the new regulations Treasury has been applying in April and there were sharp anti-dumping laws already in at and industry basis. about them when exchanges not call for the over-

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class militancy. production costs. November 25 'New York Times Knowing this, the Soviet and Chinese bureau- of their cracies, part with Nixon, Nave forced Hanoi and the NLF to agree to the US peace through which it intends hamlets which the hoped to take to retain its grip on South terms. had Vietnam. over. By rationing the North Vietnamese the

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Sterba, in the P. writing and technical auviscis Thieu Incan tine rounding up his political opponents and liquidating the political prisoners he with the blessing of nolds the US. sion in South Vietnam is ONE HUNDRED foreign In swelled by Paris on officers have been alerted i nursady currely Madame Thi Nguyen Binh number oi lorelgn for temporary assignments and military personnel, the Nif representative in South Vietnam follow- the pease talk called called on ing conclusion of a peace and ted to be phased out State and agreement, Depart- there is a ceasefire. guarantee une security officials said in lives of these prisoners and ment Officials cautious

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South Vietnam following a Henry Kissinger early last and work. Colsula. The US diplomatic mis- month peace agrecuten.

Enter Commander X

COMMANDER BOND,

the new head of the Me- tropolitan CID and the man who, as Commander X, headed the Angry Bri- gade bomb squad, be- lieves that 'terrorism is here to stay'. As long as capitalism re- mains in existence, Bond is telling us anything not we didn't know. Capitalism is a system based on violence and terror. In the interests of capitalism, two world wars have been fought this century resulting in the loss of 100 million lives, the greatest mass slaughter in history.

Today in Vietnam the peasants and workers are bombed, strafed and have their land destroyed by the most bloodthirsty military machine ever created. In Northern Ireland the SAS and the Special Branch murder, torture and imprison without trial. There are terrorists in evid- ence,' says the commander. He's right again. Pick up any news- paper and read about the terror- ism of the racialists in South Africa and Rhodesia and the military junta in Turkey. Read about the vicious attacks on workers and students in fascist Spain and the crowding of political prisoners in Portugal.

'It must follow, says Bond, 'that we should take measures to counter terrorism.' Bond, of course, is not talking about an on the real terrorists of attack capitalist society-the ruling class.

When you hear him use the word 'terrorist, you must read 'the left wing' and those groups in the labour and trade union movement who are resisting the attacks on the unions and' the crushing of the standard of living of the working class.

In this context workers should note the outrageous comment made by James Goad's lawyer in the National Industrial Relations Court yesterday. 'The events of the last 24 hours make it abun- dantly clear that as far as the rule of law is concerned, Mr Scanlon and his officials Hugh are just as much anarchists as members of the Angry Brigade.' Instead of talking arrogant and arrant rubbish to the Tory Press about 'terrorism' the new head of London's 2,000, plainclothes detectives should perhaps examine the situation in his own ranks.

Already this year two of his have left their senior heads jobs under extraordinary circum- stances. • Commander Kenneth Drury, head of the Flying Squad, re- signed after newspaper revelations that he and a strip-club owner had spent a holiday with their respective families in the Medi- teranean. Drury's friend had previously served a term at The Press was told Dartmoor. Drury and his playmate were in fact on earnest inquiries into the whereabouts of Ronald Biggs, the Great Train Robber! Detective Chief Inspector Victor Kelaher, head of the Drugs Squad, was removed from his post and last month was sus- pended from duty. He faces in the court summonses January for alleged conspiracy.

The CID is in revolt over the Commissioner regime of new Mark and his plan to Robert 'clean up' the plainclothes branch of the Yard. (On Thursday a Yard Special Branch officer, Colin Stuart_[32], was fined £50 at Uxbridge Court for stealing a tie from a Heath- row airport shop and Sergeant Hugh Nobes [32], was jailed for four years for stealing from a flat he was investigating a when burglary.) The situation in Bond's own department is so critical that last year police officers were removed from security duties at their top

BY ALEX MITO

secret headquarters at Tintagel House on the South Bank. Instead, private police from the firm of which Securicor, Home Secretary Robert Carr was a former director, were brought in to • ensure the safety of in- in the computer and formation library files. None of these issues are by Bond mentioned at his unusual Press conference. But at Angela Weir (centre) and Kate McLea Brigade trial, protesting outside Hollo ABOUT 300 supporters of the four jailed in the 'Angry Brigade' trial Thursday on marched from the Old Bailey to Holloway jail where Anna Mendleson and Hilary Creek are serving their sentences. A continuous chant of No poli- tical No political prisoners. trials!' and 'Free Prescott. Free the four!' was kept up through- out the four-mile march. When demonstration reached the Holloway, shouts and cheering could be heard from inside the jail. impromptu meeting An decided to call for a mass demonstration Saturday on December 16 to Wormwood Scrubs where John Barker and Jim Greenfield are jailed.

Sack Prentice THE 1/37 (docks) branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union has written to West Ham Council demanding Trades action against Mr Reg Prentice, Labour's Shadow Minister of Em- ployment. Prentice attacked the five dockers who were jailed by the Tory government earlier this vear and he has also made a statement implying that 400,000 unemployed would be an accept- able figure. The branch's letter reads: 'We, the above branch, move through the Trades Council for the removal of Mr Reg Prentice from the parliamentary panel of the Transport and General Work- ers' Union and that no further assistance be given to this MP during the election period.'

The chairman of 1/17 branch is Vic Turner, one of the dockers who was jailed. West Ham Trades Council has expressed its 'agreement with the sentiments' of the letter.

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Workers Press, Satu huge reduction in track will mean the loss of a further 20,000 jobs in British Rail. The police the swoops on t 'Railway Gazette' and "The Sun- day Times' are damning evidence that the CID, under Mark and will Bond, assume a more Their 'political' role. action amounts to nothing more than political intimidation of jour- nalists and members of the civil service. As an institution of the ruling class the police force is bound to reflect the same sort of crisis witnessing in the that we are Tory Party itself. The amiable Dixon of Dock Green created by Lord Willis is quickly going to be replaced by a different type of policeman. Enter Commander X. n), two of four acquitted in the Angry

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ress, Saturday December 9, 1972 PAGE : PAULINE JONES was yester- day enjoying her first day of freedom after being released from Styal Prison, Manchester, where she spent 13t months for taking baby Denise Weller from outside a shop at Harlow, Essex, last year. She was in one of five cars which , sped out of the prison last night, but her whereabouts are not yet known. Nobody appeared to be at the home of her father, Mr Richard in Lower jones, Bury Lane, Epping, Essex. Pauline, now 24, was jailed for three years at Essex Assizes in October last year after pleading guilty to stealing little Denise 21 weeks, from her pram. This sentence was later reducéd to 21 months as 'a measure of mercy" in the Court of Appeal.

Pauline, from Hull, first went to Holloway and then absconded from an open prison, but was found after 15 hours' freedom. WEST HAM Trades Council has condemned the recent Lynch anti-IRA legislation and demanded the release of Sean MacStiofain. Its resolution, passed unanimously and with one speaking against, declares: "This meeting of West Ham Trades Council condemns the legislation of the Lynch govern- ment. We are of the opinion that this Bill is the first step to dictatorship and goes hand in hand with the requirements of British Toryism. 'We express our solidarity with the Irish television and radio workers and call for the immediate release of Sean MacStiofain, Kevin O'Kelly and all political prisoners in Eire and Northern Ireland. 'While we have basic differ- ences with the Provisionals, we are of the opinion that these measures will be used against the working class tomorrow?

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How about a living room whose splendid carved chimney piece and fine oak panelling has a shot- shattered bit where, dur- ing the Civil War, a Royalist was fired at while escaping? the country Unfortunately whichcamercomplete house with this little episode of the Cromwellian revolution has been withdrawn from just sale, probably because no one could afford to buy it. Nevertheless, for all those facing overcrowding, soaring rents and impossible mortgage bills, there is still a great deal of worthwhile property going at the moment.

SUPERB

How about Tirweston House, Bucks? Described as a 'superb, late Georgian, stone- built manor house, set ll Is in five acres, with a small lake and fine views over the River Great Ouse. For those with big families, house the manor eight rooms the ground floor and nine rooms on the first.

If you like sport there are two tennis courts. A large orchard, greenhouse and Crose garden are also thrown in. After restoration the whole house with extras will cost you a mere £100,000. The people to contact are Peter Gilbert Associates (Country Properties) Ltd. They new company specializing in the search for and restoration of such nice bargains. Another one-off job is to be found at Toot Baldon, Oxford, should please Wilco many Cowley workers at the British- Leyland plant. Once ecclesiastical and later belonging to the The Queen's College, Oxford, it is a splen- did example of early Jacobean stone architecture.

WONDERS

Restoration has redeemed the original attractive face of the house, and, from close exallamon of lne ola rougn timbers, and of remnants buried windows, the present facade looks much did as it the middle of the 16th century. The re-positioned front door incorporates a stone doorway brought from demolished a manor house in Rutland. The asking is price reasonable enough at £80,000. Without any doubt at all, the coming to power of the Tory government done has wonders for the housing pro- blem. No one now say Can there are not enough houses to go round.

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After its suspension at the September congress of the TÚC, the registered National Union of Bank Employ es has branched out into new fields.

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Travel, through which members Call cut-rate holidays overseas.

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The union is not averse to help- ing its members take cheap vaca- Spain and Lon in tne colonels' Greece. Members can travel to Spain for as little as £26 and to Greece for £52. It's a great life on the Register of Trade Unions...

day December 9, 1972 Jack Cotton (le1l) with Ste Charles Clor

BY PHILIP WADE

the war, Before Sir Charles Clore, the son of an East End tailor, was beginning to find his feet in the property world. His efforts varied from developing the Prince of Wales theatre, buying old country their timber, to estates building ordnance depots and other factories. Today he is a millionaire many times over and chairman of the British Shoe Corpora- tion which dominates the £500m shoe industry. Through his Sears Holding group, Clore controls some 2,000 retail shoe outlets throughout Britain. In this way Sears Holdings has 22 per cent of the retail footwear sales, 8 per cent of national production and per cent of all retail outlets. The group itselt is BritainS 39th biggest enterprise and is involved in engineering as well as shoes with the owner- ship of Furness Shipbuilding.

Last year the group's turn- over was over f320m and profits almost £40m made from Sears' 59,000 workers.

Known the takeover as king, Clore is always in the news, usually rubbing another group of capitalists up the wrong way. Last week Sears Holdings' £30m bid for Timp- son Shoes was referred to the Monopolies Commission. extremely The City was puzzled, however, by the fact that a rival and lower bid by United Drapery Stores was not to be referred. Not surprisingly, UDS's advisers, Hill Samuel, were delighted with the outcome.

is just It : what we have expected all along from the Department Inaustry, cryptically. shoe firms the of sale and had over values values, or realize them. for the of J. pany trolled the shoe shops. Sears' pany's which when he of the over the takeover. Clore then took leaseback Before shoe shops Sears controls some 2,000 retall shoe outlets and ta n of Trade and through the buying they commented Curtess and Philipt Character Shoes ch hout the 1950s Clore In 1956 Dolcis I the acquisition of field multiples fell is with the develop- giving him at the his property business. shoe shops, six imp chnique was to tories and use astating combination of the shoe trade. and leaseback It was also in and bids. The essence of Clore bought the which th tion was that most of site on anies victim to take- Hilton Hotel • their properties in cost him £550,000 nce sheets at pre-war something of a ba not have a seller needed the ne their post-war off family death dut indeed how to By the time the finished it had cost uary 1953 Clore bid was worth £7m on 1 ong-established com- With the J. Sears. They con- 1960s, Clore begar against more rival he famous Freeman d Willis chain of 900 Here he also form unstable the most directors tried to relationships ever k re off and told their Jack Cotton's Ci ers that at least £6m company. on the com- First Clore roperties. It was shares in an impo a them all because they in petitor the in the books at no Lilley and Skinner, some 500 shops. ffered 40s for shares Then he approac d stood around 13s with a plan first began buying. group with his ow the desperate raising the Sears' subsidia ividend by Sears to Shoe. per cent could stop On the property merger of Cotton's ( he had won control, with Clore's City a omptly sold £4}m produced a compa the shoe shops and said the stock excha k back long leases; Clore's personal • another £4m worth worth over £14m rty left. The money sented what he had rom the sale and the of property betweer of his own shops 1960. devoted to his future The marriage pr pletely unworkable. another 100 wore on Cotton d ps were taken into sort of megalomania of the newly-created ing the image of t property man of all company and is now Increasing his stake in the pre le buying up of the In 1961 Cotton id Philipps Brothers a £70m plan to b Shoes chains. complex station in Chic Man- • Dolcis and iples fell to Clore, which never • at the time 1,500 remarked once i, six important fac- once referred to the leading share - Cotton, Clore bus. I like that. also in 1956 that is how I feel.' ght the Park Lane Perhaps the n the London able of Cotton's tel now stands. It those to move all £550,000 and was out of central Lo bargain. The redevelop the ed the money to pay Cotton died in death duties. shortly after resig time the hotel was tion on the boar‹ had cost f5fm and tually City Centi £7m on the market. was swallowed b he arrival of the Samuel's Land : re began to move form a proper re rival shoe firms. worth more than also formed one of Now the shoe unstable property entering somethin ps ever known with with foreign ton's City Centre already accountin 32 per cent of • began buying market. an important com- William shoe field, Clore wants to ta Skinner, which had just shut down Yorkshire, factory approached Saxone it to a travel goc to merge the and closes others 1 his own creation, at Kettering, Nor subsidiary, British Production in 200.8 million pair property side, the 1968, but in 1970 Cotton's City Centre to 190.5 million: 's City and Central 185.7 million last a company worth, With Common ock exchange, £65m. a few weeks awa personal slice was towards rational r £14m and repre- mergers already s at he had made out ant in the British i between 1945 and try will undoubted rriage proved com- And it cann before Clore fo workable. As time Cotton developed a British capitalists alomania, encourag- the road to Euror age of the greatest sense, moving ca an of all time. Britain for the pu C n the property world. 51 Cotton spoke about plan to build an office above railway Unicago — a' aea off. He remarked: erred to the three C's Colom- and ke that. I feel fine. I most remark- 'Cotton's the plans were move all the hospitals entral London and to valuable sites. the • died in March 1964, ıfter resigning his posi the board. And even- Centre Properties llowed by Sir Harold Land Securities to company property ore than £325m. the shoe industry is something of y crisis, competition accounting for nearly cent of the domestic which Timpson, ants to take over, has down its Maltby, e, factory, later selling travel goods compan es others this mont ring, Northants. llion pairs of shoes t in 1970 it had fallen million and to about illion last year. Common Market entry eeks away, the trend rationalization and already so predomin- re British shoe indus- indoubtedly accelerate. cannot be long follows other capitalists and takes to Europe in a direct capital out of or the purpose.

N. M. Perera, finance minister of the capitalist coalition gov- erriment of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), introduced a budget last month outlining policies for tighter control of wages, cuts in con- sumer goods and drastic speed-up in production. The Communist Party news- paper "Aththa' said it was a budget which did not directly attack either the working class or the capitalists. The capitalist Press des- cribed the budget's aims as development. The Stalinists were lining up with the em- ployers to cover up the real attacks aimed at the workers and the oppressed masses through the budget. Like other capitalist gov- ernments hit by the grave international economic crisis, the bourgeois coalition govern- ment in Ceylon plans to slash the living , standards and in- comes of the working class.

The immediate effect of the budget will be to control wages while prices of all con- sumer goods are allowed to rocket upwards. The Ceylon rupee has been " devalued indirectly — and not for the first time-by 10 per cent through the new measures by raising the payments for Foreign Exchange Entitlement Certificates to 65 per cent.

In his budget speech Perera laid special stress on limiting wages. During the last three years the cost of living has risen by at least 20 per cent, according to official figures.

To counter this rise in the cost of living, almost every trade has claimed union wage increase around the 30 per cent mark. In this situation, the gov- ernment has laid down there will be no wage rises. Workers earning 180 rupees a month (about £9) were given a 7.50 rupees increase and the maxi- mum wage was fixed at 187.50 rupees a month. Minister The Finance further stated that all those who enter the public service in future must be prepared to accept a low wage. All those who use 'mental labour' will be forced to spend two weeks working on manual tasks. According to the budget Allegations of widespread cor- ruption in the US Immigration Service are now under investi- gation. Officials are said to have been concerned in narcotics traffic, gun smuggling, the sexual exploitation of women aliens and the sale and falsification of passports and other documents. The Operation Clean Sweep which is carrying out the investigation has accumulated a mass of evidence relating to these activities. It alleges that report the rise in consumer expenditure in 1969 was 14.1 per cent. Due to the sharp rise and the shortage of in prices goods this has fallen to 5.3 per cent this year. The new bring the budget plans will figure down to zero. The budget report states that everyone must be given a definite quota of work and must be forced to do it. In this there must be a strict discipline. measures intro- Speed-up duced last year in the govern- ment corporations will now be extended to all other fields. In this way wages will be tied to production. The living standards not only of the working class, but of all sections of the masses will be slashed through the withdrawal of the rice sub- sidy. The guaranteed price paid to the peasants when they sell their rice is increased only by one rupee. Big business, however, faces no difficulties as far as taxes are concerned. Tea, rubber and coconut producers are given additional tax concessions. The foreign exchange regulations have been eased in their favour. • The government did not attempt an immediate cut in the rice and flour subsidies, but Perera stated that the cabinet as a whole is examin- ing the possibility of removing the rice subsidy. The government's plans - outlined by the renegade revi- sionist Perera who heads the Lanka Sama Samaja Party — are clear. Not only are wages frozen, but the wages of new entrants to the government service are to be cut. In addition the government is bringing in a rule-by-decree system designed to push up the rate of exploitation.

Finally, consumption is to be cut and the price of con- sumer goods increased. These are the main features of the new budget and they represent policies forced on the capitalist Sri Lanka coali- tion by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. A Sri Lanka worker some high officials of the Service have connections with organized crime. It has been shown that a number of officials have bought large amounts of land and accumulated blocks of shares which they could not have done out of their salaries.

Five officials have already indicted by a federal been grand jury, two for narcotics traffic, one for gun-running and two for falsifying entry permits and other documents.

BY JOHN SPENCER

Amnesty International has expressed great con- cern about the fate of of political thousands prisoners in South Viet- nam jails should a deal be done at the Paris 'peace' talks. The ques- tion has also been raised by the National Libera- tion Front (NLF) in their talks with Americans. The prison system in South Vietnam must be one of the world's most extensive. North Vietnam has said that 300,000 prisoners are held in at least 1,000 prisons and detention centres (many of them secret) throughout the south. Starvation, torture and mal- treatment are routine. Many of the prisoners are perma- nently. paralysed and mutilated by the treatment meted out to them in jail. There have been periodic prisoners' riots, brutally suppressed with the aid of the South Vietnamese army. There are four big civilian prisons inherited from the French colonial administration.

'Devil's Island' Two are prisons off the coast, and two are situated in Saigon itself.

The best-known is Poulou Condor Island (now known as Con Son. This is the prison for 'recalcitrant' supporters of the National Liberation Front.

prisoners North Vietnamese are also kept there. Here are the notorious "Tiger cages', underground cells where lined with concrete prisoners are confined like animals. A similar prison is at Phu Quoc island, off the Cam- bodian coast near the port of Sihanoukville. In Saigon, apart from the city prisons, the two national police headquarters of the where much most sadistic torture is carried out.

Prisoners are also held by the 250 local police stations and by _army and police units.

In Chi Hua, one of the Saigon prisons, is Huynh Tun Mah, associated with a left- wing student movement in this year. It was believed to have been brought on by mal- treatment. His case was excep- tional - the vast majority of prisoners have never been tried. Two other students, Nguyen Duy Hien and Buu Chi, were tortured to death six weeks ago in a prison at Hué. They were never brought to trial.

Neither was Nguyen Long, advocate at the Saigon court of appeal. Imprisoned in 1965, he was released under a gov- President ernment decree. Thieu simply ordered him put back in jail. Exact figures for the number of prisoners are hard to come by: the official estimate of about 90,000 is considered a under-estimate. The gross figure is certainly higher than 150,000. Apart from a small number regime. camps. Workers Press, Satur

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Ngo Dinh Diem, one time ruler of South a 1963 army coup. Above: Con Son P The South Vietnamese govern- ment is one of the most brutal and bloodthirsty dictatorships the world has ever seen. It is entirely dependent on US finance, military support and international backing. It came into being in 1954 under Ngo Dinh Diem when the vic- tories of the Viet Minh liber- ation forces drove the French out of Indo-China. At the Geneva conference of that year the Moscow and Peking Stalinists applied pres- sure to the Vietnamese revolu- tionaries and forced them to accept the partition of the country. The southern government supposedly a stop-gap was administration pending elec- tions to be held throughout Vietnam. The elections were never held. The United States, which had not signed the Geneva agreement, set out to maintain the regime at all costs. Under the Geneva agree- ment, the two sides agreed to an exchange of civil as well as military prisoners. The Viet ess, Saturday December 9, 1972 PAGE 5 I CAl HUAN CONSON 2914 r of South Vietnam, who was deposed In on Son prison. Minh had a trump card be- cause they were holding over 10,000 crack French troops captured at Dien Bien Phu.

They were in a position to force the colonial regime to its captives in the disgorge south and the agreement ap- pears to have been carried out relatively thoroughly. But before long the portable guillotines operated by Diem's executioners were touring the villages settling scores with the peasants and reimposing the landlords and money- lenders in power. The civil war which opened up in response to this repres- sion in the Vietnamese coun- tryside continues to this day.

And in the process, successive regimes have again crammed prisons concentration and camps with hundreds of thou- sands of prisoners. They include not only com- munists and supporters of the National Liberation Front, but oppositions from various lib- eral tendencies, intellectuals, critics of the present Thieu administration and advocates of peace.

PAGE 6 Morkórs press, Saturday Decambar 9, 1972 Alex Mitchell investigates the embattled plan to build a container terminal at Falmouth. It was backed by an Act signed by the Queen and an ofishore fund that has sunk without trace. The celebrated scheme to tile Engineering. Other direc- tors were Major General Lau- build a £10m, fully-auto- Grand, Douglas also mated container terminal director of ungineer Planning at Falmouth has run into Strawson Resources Limited difficulties. chemica imitedany Interprep Power huge A Stations Limited, spokesman for the con- Limited, Seymour Square Lim- sulting engineers said this ited; Ronald Keith Brennan, director of the week: "The present board managing transportation division of Bri- (of the company) will not tish Contractions (Bir- Steel build at Fal- anything Gerhard mingham) Limited; and May (Travel) Limited, mouth. I am convinced of Transport Company Stokes that.' (London) Limited, Inter-freight His gloomy prediction comes Lines Limited, D. A. Crudling- Fitzroy Limited, (Travel after two years of enthusiastic

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Press publicity which extolled and Freight) Limited, Com- the Falmouth terminal as one bined Securities limited and Associated Storage and Distri- of the gicalest Limited; Silas port technology. bution Services Harwood Fletcher of C.V. Those newspapers which re- Precision Tools Limited, Vide- ported ecstatically the about Holdings Limited, cord scheme included the 'Financial Charles Fletcher Limited, Ard.

Times', 'Economist', the the Consultants ric Investment •Journal of Commerce, Limited, Scientific and Projec- Weekly' 'Freight News and Charles •International Freighting Limited: John Koster, an American citizen, Weekly'. Mr Norman Holmes, of Transport Information Ser- the vices Limited. man behind the scheme, told In the initial shareholding the project Press ne saw the Holmes had 73 shares, Grand 'the of Falmouth's means ten and Brennan ten. and. MeTer Lon bundlery. papers for The as a national asset attracting tion were presented to Com- English an port container panies House by Jeffs, Bishop vessels which might otherwise and Partners Limited, business Continental opt for ter- Westmin- consultants, Ster Palace Gardens, Artillery minal. 'In my opinion,' he warned Row, Westminster. 'it would be a tragedy if the Just to give you an idea of scheme is turned down. Fal- the rapid changes in FACT's mouth has suffered for so long fortunes, when we telephoned from being cut off.' In another headquarters company's interview he said it was 'our determined Sackville Street yesterday intention' that were told they de- had Falmouth would become 'the we European parted over a 'We principal year ago. don't know where they terminal'. said a receptionist. 'We now, This astonishing boast gave forwarding the deal of got company a great address'. goodwill among the burghers the When company was of Falmouth and even the local formed it had a considerable trade unions expressed sup- amount of political credibility port for the proposal: ther on its side. A Falmouth Con- were dreams of a boom in thi quiet corner of Cornwall.

tainer Terminal Bill had been presented in the House Holmes assured the local Lords in the autumn of 1969 newspaper that the container seeking to empower the com- "will reduce 090 - with the pany necessary employment to infinity and pro- arrangements to go ahead with vide Falmouth with eco- an construction nomy second to none. It provided the company Now, two years since these with the right to sell or lease were being em - statements the terminal and to complete blazoned the the in press, the project within ten years.

scheme faces ruin. Little happened to Pri- What happened along the Gen- vate Bill until after the way? eral Election and the Tories Falmouth Automated Con- came to office Terminal Less than a month after the tainer Limited election the 'Journal of Com-

(FACT)

was registered at said: 'This ambitious Companies House in January merce project, which is ready to go 1970. ahead immediately parliamen- The directors were Norman tary approval is stamped Prescott Thorold Holmes, the Bill, will bring new life to managing director of Mercan- this and splendidly natural Above: Chairman of Fund of Nev ex-Mayor York, Robert Wagner, with Chan- cellor Willy Brandt.

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right the D. Hotman fund verone Bot organizer now behind bars.

tom right: Lord Brentford Tor who was a director several Hoffman companies. Left impression of the greal Falmouth container terminal.

Cornwall, sheltered port in which, according to the com- would be semi-opera pany, tional for container ships 18 months after construction was under and fully opera way tional within two years.'

At the time 'Inter- same Freighting Weekly' national pointed out that the Bill was likely to be given parliamen- basic tary approval 'under a ally more sympathetic Conser- vative administration'. The Bill had a luxurious and swift ride through parlia- ment. received opposed second reading in the House of Commons in Nov- ember there were 19/0, the committee objections in stages and it had an automatic report stage and thirc read ing. On February 17, 1971, th Queen put her signature to thi Bill and it became an Act.

Its House of Commons pro- cedure was completed in less than four months when most Private Bills take up to 12 months. It is necessary, however, for us to backdate the story a little and introduce another character in the FACT saga —Jerome D. Hofiman. Hoffman, to many Workers Press readers, is not a new figure. He was 'brains' behind the ill-fated Real Estate Fund of America, the offshore pro- perty fund which had Regi- Maudling as its first nald president. Maudling resigned from the company, but sent a letter to shareholders which assured them that REFA was 'a good and sound investment'. The Fund subsequently crashed, Hoffman and his colleagues fled from Britain leaving mas- sive debts. On returning to the US, Hoffman was charged with mortgage fraud and he is now serving a two-year sentence in a state penitentiary. But what few people know is that Hoff- man had another fund besides REFA. The other, in some spectacular, ways more had the biblical title of Fund of the Seven Seas-FOSS, for short. With typical brashness Hoffman inflicted FOSS on the public with unsuspecting a of brochures and barrage prospectuses. Chairman of the ex-mayor of

FOSS

was New York, Democrat Robert Wagner, who declared: 'FOSS is the most rapidly-expanding fund I have ever known. The Fund of the Seven Seas is one of the most exciting products of this technological age.

'For the first time ever, an opportunity has been given to the small investor to put money into shipping and ship- building.' The prospectus enthused: 'The Fund of the Seven Seas is a unique and exciting con- cept for investors throughout the world. Not only is it the only mutual fund in the world today investing in ships and shipping, but it opens up new worlds of investment partici- pation in the rapid expansion of international trade.' The minimum investment $1,000; was arrangements could be made for painless in- stalments of $15 at a time.

Listen to Wagner again: 'If I could advise each and 91! every one of you personally, I would sincerely recommend you to invest in FOSS. It's the tastest growing shipping fund I know.' Besides Mayor Wagner, Hoffman gathered a copper- bottomed board of directors which included Lord Brent- ford, a former junior minister in the Tory government, Holmes Brown, president of the New York Board of Trade, and a number of special White House and Pentagon aides.

The FOSS link with FACT in the July/ was announced August 1970 edition of Hoff- man's internal house bulletin: 'Fund of the Seven Seas has stepped into a leadership role in the shipping industry. FOSS recently proposed an auto- mated container terminal cap- able of moving ocean freight more quickly and economic- ally than anything at dockside today. 'It was a welcome piece of thinking: so welcome, in tact, that the plan alone secured equity participation for FOSS in a major harbour develop- taking shape at Fal- ment mouth, England. FOSS ship- ping consultant, John C. Kos- ter, has been designated a

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director of Falmouth Two other Hoffman execu- tives later joined FACI— Geoffrey Grant, who was re- lated to the house of Brent- ford through marriage, and Bill Rogerson. The FACT saga enters a 13 December new stage on when the board of directors meet. There will be moves to re- constitute the board and pre- pare a new application to get the project underway. A Chastened Norman more Holmes told the 'Journal of Commerce' this week: 'Like poor old Stanley Baldwin, my lips are sealed. But they won't be after our board meeting on December which there will be news for you! great deal of It remains to be seen whe- ther FACT becomes a fact!

FUND OF THESEVENSEAS

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Salurday Decem M IMG leader, Tarla All (third from right) Following the articles Renega Ceylon, JACK GALE now goe Unified Secretariat of the Four The disintegration of revisionism The crisis of the Unified Secretariat today reflects the break-up of middle-class revisionism throughout the world, as the working class moves into action. Their hey-day was the era of 'confrontation' liberal-protest and student demonstrations which preceded the big class battles now under way. The Socialist Workers' Party (which, for legal reasons, can- not be an actual member of the Unified Secretariat) wishes working-class to abandon struggle altogether. It seeks respectability, middle-class concentrating electoral on campaigns and presenting a "reasonable' image. That is why its leadership sent a message of condolence to President Kennedy's wife when he was assassinated in 1963. In a word, it is 'opportunist'.

Their opponents in the Uni- fied Secretariat have swung the other way—to guerrillaism and adventurism. two 'opposites' i.e. These opportunism and adventurism connected. They both are reject the building of a principled revolutionary, party based on the working class as the social force for historical change. conflict reaches its This highest point in Britain because the International Marxist Group is a completely artificial creation of both factions.

Money has been poured into Britain, particularly from the United States, in order to fight the Socialist Labour League. All kinds of publicity seekers and adventurers- like Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn—were pulled in with no regard as to whether IMG leader, Taria All (third from right) with Robin Blackburn beside him on a march in January,

RENEGADES IN ACTION-

Following the articles 'Renegades from Trotskyism' dealing with the situation in Ceylon, JACK GALE now goes on to examine the British section of the revisionist pled Stalinists, political and smear the League.

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so-called the stantly refer. For "Unified Bala "lampoe smearing leading beating the

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Everyone on Tate provoke the steward wrong to ation. The ately-staged communism had no legal action to plete tuture the capitalist The this slanderous day Once The n Blackburn beside him ‹ • Trotskyism' dealin exa mine the British s national, The Intern or not with princi- l questions. were forged with cale capitalists and organization I agree to denounce Socialist Labour staged--like the the Affair'-to revisionists their statement 9 'Healyites Smear say: "The they Tampoe, Trotskyist, par with on on a march in Ja dealing with the sit ritish section of the r • International Marxis Pat Jordan of the IM Hardly had rch in January, 1971 the situation in of the revisionist Marxist Group. of the ING had the dust on the cover-up on behalf of the Lanka Sama (Revolu-

(LSSP(R))

fol- the 1969 report Unified Secre- Ceylonese Com- than yet another the in lew up Mandel, Maitan, id Hansen. 1971, November, Secretariat meeting to appoint a Fact- mmission to investi- cuation in tne iler- arxist Group (IMG), h section. he revisionist organ- one is more fond of the Socialist ague as "degenerate', 'undemocratic, ian the TMG. expose exactly self- these defenders of revolu- actually are. t of their own Inter Commission reveals MG leaders had: member of Workers Party and circu. censure to the entire membership presenting charges informing hir even matter was to National Cor their (c) giving him to state his side of The member learned his read Membership'. (Pag vi.)" (2) Behaved in rela ownership and con Socialis journal a way that could a public scandal h mental to the inter IMG'. (Page vi.) (3) Attempted to fo of members of th in tendency sign a public stater they claimed conta (Page vi.) (4) Created a 'pro mate' in the Scottis and carried and expulsions whi all cases tainted generally of the porters branches which pathies with (Page vii.) Bureaucraticall (6) minority and natio regional (Page vi.) Some of the fine the climate within I are referred to seve their document, inc (1) After drinking of majority Glasgow-whicl four IMG National members-demande other they were turned NO member bottle through a gla the door. (Page 2.) (2) In Edinburgh, si where target was a pictur Hansen. (Page 2.) (3) A 'committee' of of the leadership of home tendency minority and sought selling into Press' at IM ental meetings. He was to protest would be u be would (Page 2.) mony. Leading (4) denounced other members public subject Non-members tells report wildered'. (Page addition bers. because, like its pre Ceylon, the split. We refer to A, B, C, and D. Irrevocable spli It is clear fror aragraph of State MG is irrevocabl aragraph reads: I inal report of the F Commission level of the facts am in agreement wit as a not will help resolve problems of the IM This statement d 'provocative actions political without taker were minority, that reflects this national Secretariat split Unified the America also Workers' Party Statement irresponsible eadership of the S LSO/LAfor exac the IMG a crisis in the SWP to cease without (a) ever (b) him that the to be discussed by onal Committee or opportunit s side of the case concerned censure two event when he the nationally- 'Letter the and p'. (Pages V d in relation to the and control of the Woman' in could 'only lead to candal highly detri- the interests of the ted to force a group minority rs ol the Nottingham to lic statement which ed contained a lie. 1 a provocative cli- out suspensions ions which were 'in by the rovocative climate'. d from outside sup- the leadership on had sym- the minority. ucratically excluded from national bodies. the finer details of within IMG, which d to several times in ment, include: drinking in a pub, a supporters included w-which National Committee demanded admit- When members. one threw ugh a glass panel in burgh, supporters of eadership held darts the central a picture of Joseph mittee of supporters visited the of the member endency in London intimidate him 'Intercontin- at IMG-sponsored He was told that any uld be useless as it verbal testi-

IMG

members other leading. IMG "male chauvinists' which Union'. the Soviet the present, 'be- were the main n. are separate state- its individual mem- was necessar re its predecessor on commission these state- to • obvious reasons, as ble split: the first lear from of Statement A that split. revocably The I signed the t of the Fact-Finding the because presented I ement with the docu- This does whole. that the document internal tement declares that e actions or actions olitical justification the against but makes it clear an inter- reflects the Within involving ecretariat, American Socialist (Page 1.) 'the blames of the of the SWP and the for exacerbating the le IMG and calls on • 'cease all criticism of the IMG' American leaders hi

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the members behind its The the

IMG

Ine polemic Workers' Party. (P Statement B said ship of IMG was irresponsibility, and just 'moral mutual confidence.

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easi authority of the le seriously compromi does not 2.) Tariq Ali. Statement C sa central leadership organizational chac land and goes justificatior ample opinion, for anyon ority

MAWS

that the believing created factional narrow obscure The author of S however is on the He claims that t were just as provoc majority and there to blame for the of affairs state organization. with the agree of the Commission to the IMG leader ment D claims it is This statement c that nizes nirrors, an implicit n the United Secr 'There whole: between the minority within th the minority within International'. (i.e. Secretariat-this 3 and 4.) This is clearly t told by the the SWP that 'the ship has declared while Joseph Hanse national Informati Number 3 (April written that some 1 felt happiest 'in a with their adorned But, if the reflects a Unified conflict, what conc be drawn when th to be proves And this the Ur Commissi tariat's considered it to be. to Statement A say Report couldn't he Statement D says: political differences all internal political Comrade A from t tendency... told even more political than have been seer mission] that almo agreement between rests in being mem Fourth Internationa fore being British section of organ tact eve tact evervone

IMG

represents n Trotskyist Only Britain is the Socia League. Statement D claim that Unified Secretaria face a tendency of : nature inside one o izations, we face t two organizations. to currents inside International.' (Pag This is an open of a state of politic within the ationa

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1 All page referenc these articles Report of the Commission Secretariat within Situation Marxist tional 1972. March 12, = A Canadian 'Trol dency which SWP/ Unified Secre 1G' saying that the leaders had criticized to IMG leadership ehind its backs tement also calls on leadership "stop Party. (Page 1.) nt B said the leader- IG was 'a mixture of incompetence bureaucratic . It went on to clain authority • (do) not moral compromised exist: (Page not of course, to h as Pat Jordan and nt C says that the eadership 'initiated Scot- on: stification, in my or anyone with min- Glasgow the leadership "mistakes" for ends to

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minority as provocative as the nd therefore equally for the catastrophic within the Although forced mission in relatio iG leadership aims it is 'one-sided'. the are tendency Ithe vithin the IMG] and ty within the Fourth tal. (i.e. the Unified minority by the SWP). (Pages clearly true, as the Commission was secretary of 'the IMG leader- declared war on us' ph Hansen, in Inter- Bulletin had at some IMG leaders est 'in a red T-shirt ith their totem'.

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conflict Unified Secretariat hat conclusion must when the IMG split be irrevocable? Unified Secre- clearly Commission it to be. In addition ent A saying that the uldn't help the IMG 'There are D says: ifferences on almost political points, an‹ the Glasgow •. told us there are political differences been seen up to now. ared to us [the Com- hat almost the only between both sides ing members of the ernational and there- members esents no-one. section the Socialist Labour ecretariat: not lency of a traditional ide one of our organ- face the roots of izations, both linked inside the Fourth (Page 3.) admittance of political civil was e revisionist inter-

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articles are to Fact-Finding of the Unified the Internal within the one interned dated lian 'Trotskyist' ten- supports the fied Secretariat.

JEWELS

Followers 14-year-old of the Guru Maharaj Ji are required to give up meat, sex, money, drinking, smoking, TV, cinema, marriage and all such worldly activities. Frequently they live 'Ashrams' - residential Churenes. The works of the Guru in Britain are expounded by an known organization the Divine Light Mission. Mission has However. the shed too light much on nol exactv how the Guru and his immediate entourage their own life of sacrifice.

Customs officials at Delhi airport claim to have seized a suitcase belonging to the Guru which contained jewels and cash worth about f27,000.

And a British national news- reported that paper recently the Guru travels around in Rolls-Royces and private aero- planes.

WIZARD OF WORDS

If you are thinking of going Rome Christmas for your holidays, do go to the left- of wing bookshop the Fel- trinelli publishing house. It has all the latest books on the left.

Feltrinelli has just brought out a 'History of the Russian four volumes Revolution' in which the Maoist weekly 'Servire il Popolo' describes as strument of great utilitya in- moaern great utility. According to their reviewer, Mario Bruschini, the great relevance of the work rests on its 'emphasis on the creativity of the proletariat, the decisive of ideological importance the proletarianization of the leader- ship to guarantee partv unity and the affirmation of the sub- of the dulonolly working class. Surely, must be the product of a new Left wizard of words, one of those gentle- men who keep revisionist groups going with daily bul- letins on the proletarianization of the party, the self-reactiva- tion of the masses ... Not a bit of it. It is a work written in 1936 by a group of historians under the direction Grand Old ot those the men. Men of the New Left, Stalin, Gorki and Zhdanov. So that's where they get all their ideas from!

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number of Manchester The children at risk of having an excess of lead in their blood could be as high as one in five. A controlled survey car- ried out in the city earlier this year showed 4 per cent of children were over the present accepted danger limit of 80 microgrammes of lead per 100 millilitres of blood.

A further | 17 per cent had over 50 microgrammes per 100 millilitres. But the man behind the Professor D. Bryce- survey, The Tory Press Smith of Reading University, says that the blood-lead limit with relish on u should be 30 microgrammes thought was on per 100 millilitres if not less.

better football He believes that brain damage can be caused above The call by this limit. Association secr This danger has been inten- Denis Follows sified by the Tory decision to milk. Professor under-18-year-ok halt school Bryce-Smith declares in his be banned from report that milk has a natural cleansing effect on the body which plays an im- system part in portant combating atmospheric lead poisoning to which children living in large cities are exposed. Since 1964 the number of people admitted to hospital in the Manchester area suffering from lead poisoning has in- 30 per cent. creased by The polluted atmosphere of big cities carries a high lead content whether or not there is a lead factory nearby.

It is known that in the United States a quarter of the children in some urban areas suffer brain damage through lead poisoning.

DISTILLERS

The new settlement offered by the Distillers whisky Then thalid amids Limited, to the victims was greeted with great enthusiasm in the Tory Press.

'Distillers doubles hand-out,' screamed the headlines. Few of them bothered to point out that the offer is 60 per cent less than was awarded in court settlements by Mr Justice Hinchcliffe in 1968. And with the inflation of the past few Distillers years, has to at least offer 50 per cent more than the present £5m. It should be noted the com- pany cleared about £60m profit last year. m below with name and o whom you would like the post immediately to:

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Workers Press, Satu 'Evening In London the Standard', Follows' suggestion was made the front-page lead story in some editions under the two-decked headline: 'Under-18 Fans - "Ban the Lot"!' Beaverbrook newspapers were undoubtedly enthralled to find a convert to their "law- and-order' brigade in such seemingly unusual corners of Britain. By the next morning every paper had seized on the story.

The 'Daily Mirror' had even devoted its entire editorial to Follows' y Press jumped outburst. Another Beaverbrook paper, the 'Daily sh on what they Express' made the story the was one of the back-page lead. ootball stories: Why all this publicity for a proposal from whose I by Football a man hobby is given in Who's Who on secretary Mr as cricket, of all things? All Follows that the papers know there was no chance of it ever -year-olds should being accepted. d from matches. All know that without the ress, Saturday December 9, 1972 PAGE 9 youth, who pay up to 30p to get into a match, many clubs would in fact go bankrupt.

And when tomorrow came, the new generation would simply not be there to carry on sup- porting the clubs. It was in fact an opportunity for all the 'popular' papers to attack working-class youth in general to try and focus atten- tion on them, to isolate the youth from older workers.

The reactionary 'Daily Ex- press, a paper never known for its love of young workers, has always been keen to slam 'football hooligans' as if they were some special breed of monsters who had to be exter- minated to purify society and save Tory women from a violent and an unseemly death.

Tensions of the youth, flow- ing in many cases from dead- end or non-existent jobs, have been painted as the signs of a genetic mental disorder. Thus, far from coming down against Follows, one-time National Union of Students' president in the 1930s and former RAF pilot, the 'Express' decided that the middle-class (or "public opinion' as it is known in Fleet Street) should have their say on the subject.

Readers were invited to send in their views on a postcard.

What did the 'people's' 'Daily Mirror' have to say?

They said Follows was taking a 'curious approach' to the 'problem'. But the /'Mirror' thought it was better to have 'young hooligans' inside the ground than outside. As for chanting, the hard-core of foul-mouthed hooligans at many grounds ... 'Don't let them enter any ground,' said 'Everyone Follows. would cheer if the clubs did that,' agreed Cecil King's old paper.

Given the CBE by the Labour government, Follows has been president of the game's leading body, the FA, since 1962. His organization runs the game in an arrogant way, answerable to no one save themselves. His attack on the youth is no different in essence from that made regularly by leading Tories and not-so-leading dele- gates at the annual conference when all the backwoodsmen/ women get round to bringing back the birch. By the middle of the week, Follows and the Tory Press had found allies in the shape of police judge Mr Roddy Devon of Motherwell and other arms of the state. The learned Judge Devon said a policeman with a dog should be at each corner of a football ground. Then if the 'hooligans' came on to the field, the dogs should be set loose. Worse was to come. Echo- ing the feelings for the setting up of a dictatorship by the Tories, a spokesman for the Glasgow branch of the Scot- Police Federation said tish that the message must go out 'louts and hooligans' to the that they were regarded as 'a cancerous scourge on the sur- face of society. Finally, that well-known authority on the game, former England team manager Walter Winterbottom suggested 'large task force' of police to follow football fans around the country. If Chelsea sup- porters travelled to Brighton for a game, the special task force should go with them.

Whether he knew it or not, Follows had done his job well.

All the leading anti-working class elements in Britain had joined the attack on the youth.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday December 9, 1972 CHANNEL: 11.10 Merrie melodies.

11.35 Puffin. 11.40 Bonanza. 12.30 5.10 London. On the buses. 5.40 London. 7.00 Film: 'Con- quest of Space'. 8.30 Julie Andrews. 9.30 Upstairs, down- 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Film: stairs. 10.30 London. 10.40 'Payroll. Aquarius. 11.30 All our yester- 11.55 Weather. days.

ULSTER:

11.00 Thunderbirds. Woobinda. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 12.00 12.30 London. 10.55 Woobinda. 11.10 Merrie 5.15 Merry melodies. 5.40 Sports- 7.00 Cartoon. melodies. 11.35 Gus Honeybun. cast. 6.10 London. Faith 7.10 8.30 11.55 for life. 12.00 Columbo. Julie And- Weather. 9.30 Upstairs, downstairs. rews. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. SOUTHERN: 9.15 You and your 11.30 Journey to the unknown. Collecting golf. 9.40 …on 10.10 Wildlife theatre. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 Let them live.

string. 10.35 Follyfoot. 11.05 Cowboy 9.40 Collecting a shoestring on 10.35 in Africa. 12.00 Merrie melodies. 10.10 Osmonds. Follyfoot. 5.55 12.27 Weather. 11.05 Film: "Tarzan and the Mer- 12.30 London. 5.10 5.10 Persuaders. 6.10 12.40 Rip- London. 7.00 Film: 'Sierra'. Film: 8.30 London. tide. London. 10.40 News. 10.50 Film: 'Rogues' *Black Noon'. 8.30 London. Regiment. 12.30 Weather. Guide- 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Mod squad line. 12.30 Weather.

HARLECH: 9.00

London. 9.50

GRANADA:

11.00 Sesame street. 12.05 Bugs Bunny. 10.00 Tomfoolery Clapperboard. 12.30 Lon- 5.10 Sky's the 5.40 show. 10.30 Sesame street. 11.30 don. limit. Follyfoot. 12.00 Farming Doctor 6.10 London. diary. at large. 12.30 London. 5.10

UFO.

6.10 7.00 Mr Magoo. 7.05 Film: Came Spider'. London. 7.00 Film: 'Along Came 'Along a 8.25 10.40 8.30 Aquarius. 11.30 Spider'. Julie Andrews. London. 9.30 Upstairs, downstaires. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 TYNE TEES: 9.15 Let them live.

Name of the 12.45 game. 9.40 Collecting on a shoestring. Weather. 10.10 Osmonds. 10.35 Follyfoot. HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as 11.05 Film: 'Tarzan and the Mer- 12.30 5.10 above except: 5.10 Turnbull's maids. London. 7.00 Film: Sion Riptide. 6.10 London. finest half hour. 5.40-6.10 8.30 'Return Gunfighter'. a sian. 10.40 11.30 London. Aquarius.

ANGLIA:

9.00 London. 10.00 Edgar Wallace. 12.25 Epilogue. Sean. 10.15 Rovers. 10.40 Film: 'Knights of the Round Table'.

SCOTTISH:

9.15 You and your 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 golf 9.40 Collecting on a shoe 7.00 Film: "The Reluctant 10.10 Tomfoolery. 10.35 London. string. Heroes of Hill 656'. 8.30 London.

Follyfoot. 11.05 Dave Cash. 11.30 10.40 Film: 12.00 Cavalcade. 12.30 Aquarius. 11.30 Osmonds. 5.10 Bonanza. 6.10 'Dracula'. London. London. 6.15 Hogan's heroes.

ATV MIDLANDS:

9.15 You and 6.45 Film: 'Bitter Victory'. ( 8.30 golf. 9.40 Collecting your on 11.30 London. 10.40 Aquarius. 10.10 A place in shoestring. the call. 11.35 O'Hara. Late 10.35 Survival. 11.00 country.

GRAMPIAN:

Tomfoolery Cartoon. 11.05 Tomfoolery.

11.30 11.30 Rumblie Elephant 12.00 jumblie. Osmonds. 12.00 boy. show. Batman. 12.30 London. 5.15 It 12.30 London. 5.10 5.40 takes thief. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: Protectors. 6.10 London. 7.00 Buccaneers'. 'The Last the Film: 'Hec Ramsey'. 8.30 Lon- 8.30 9.30 Up- don. 10.40 Julie Andrews. Aquarius. 11.30 stairs, Downstairs. 10.30 London. Jason King. ULSTER: 11.00 London. 12.30 WESTWARD. As Channel except: You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live.

ing on shoestring. 12.25 Angling today. 12.55 Col- Pufnstuf. 1.55 Women only. .15 lecting on shoestring. 1.20 Smith family. 1.45 Gus Honevbun.

London. 4.40 Golden 5.35 Black shot. 1.55 Farm and country news. Beauty. 6.05 London. 7.53 Sports 12.05 Faith for life. 12.10 Weather.

7.55 Film: "The Horse SOUTHERN: 9.15 Talking hands.

Soldiers'. 10.00 London. 11.15 9.30 London. 10.30 Farm pro- Department S. 10.57 Weather. 11.00 Lon- gress don. 12.30 Bush boy. 1.00 Super- YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess master- 1.20 Primus. 1.50 Hogan's You man. 9.30 London. 10.30 oleces. 2.15 London. 3.15 Fenn golf. 11.00 London. hernas. and your Street gang. 3.45 Golden shot. 12.30 Nanny and the professor. 4.40 5.30 5.35 1.00 Farming outlook. 1.25 Calen- Aquarius. News. The Black beauty. 6.05 London. , 7.00 1.55 Soccer. 2.50 Film: dar. Golden shot. 5.35 Carols for children. 7.25 On the Great Lie'. 4.45 7.55 Film: 'The Priest 6.05 7.55 buses. Black beauty. London. Killer'. 9.50 Film diary. 10.00 'Carnival of Thieves'. 9.50 Film: London. 11.15 Jason King. 12.10 Cartoon. 10.00 London. 11.30 It Weather. Guideline. 12.30 Weather. takes a thief. GRANADA: 11.00 London. 12.25 Merrie melodies. 12.55 Saint. 1.50 3.20 Survival. 2.20 Football. Film: "Tommy the Toreador'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty. 7.55 Film: 'Genghis London. 6.05 10.00 London. 11.15 Scot- Khan'. land Yard casebook. TYNE TEES: 9.20 Chess master- 10.30 You pieces. 9.30 London. your golf. 11.00 London. and 1.00 12.30 Jimmy Stewart show. 1.25 World War Farming outlook. 1.55 Where the jobs are. 1. 1.50 Shoot. 2.50 Film: 'Anything Goes'.

7.55 445 London. 4.35 Cartoon.

HARLECH:

9.30 London. 10.30 'The Bedford Incident' Film: All our yesterdays. 11.00 London.

9.50 Cartoon. 10.00 London. 11.15 12.30 A place in the country. 12.05 Epilogue. Challenge. University 1.25 1.00 challenge

SCOTTISH:

9.45 Master chefs. Love, American style. 2.15 Lon- 10.00 World War I. 10.30 Women 3.15 Film: 'Pardners'. 4.45 don. only. 11.00 London. 12.30 A place Golden shot. 5.35 Black Beauty. in the 1.00 Randall and 6.05 London 7.55 Film: 'East of country. 3.25 Film: Sumatra'. 9.30 Mr and Mrs.

Hopkirk. 2.00 Sport. 10.00 Man' 4.40 Golden 11.15 Corridor 'The 49th London. 400. 5.35 Flipper. 6.05 London. 12.15 Weather. shot. 8.00 Film: 'The Long Duel'.

10.00 ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 10.30 Sur- 11.15 Late call. 11.20 London. 11.00 12.30 vival. London. Rolf Harris show. Arthur. 12.25 Champions. 1.50 GRAMPIAN: 11.00 London. 12.30 Weather. 1.55 Farming. 2.30 Name 3.55 Match You of the game of the Farm 5.35 1.30 week. Golden shot. ing shoestring. 2.00 Sport. 3.25 Film: Black 7.55 beauty. 6.05 London. progress. 'The Trygon Factor'. 4.40 Golden 'Under the Yum Yum Tree'. Film: 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 Lnn- 10.00 London. 11.15 Department shot. •Wedding Break- 7.55 Film: S. con. 10.00 9.30 Adam Smith. fast'.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30

London. London. 11.15 Untouchables.

11.00 10.30 All our yesterdays. 11.00-12.25 London. 12.30 Citizens' rights. London.

CHANNEL:

Weather. 2.15 London. 3.15 1.00 2.00 Soccer. 2.13 Wind Film: 'A Dog'. 4.40 Golden shot.

3.00 Film. In 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London. Jamaica'. 5.35 to Succeed Beauty. 6.05 7.55 7.55 Film: 'How Black London. Trying'. Without Really Film: 'The Oscar'. 10.00 London.

Business Stories 10.00 London. 11.15 Spyforce. 11.15 Spyforce. 12.10 12.05 Epilogue. Weather. worth telling. Weather. 3.00 Film: 'The Lively Set'. James Tiffin, Darren, Pamela Doug McClure. Two dragster enthusi- asts plan an attempt on the world land speed record. 4.30 Play away. 4.55 An Italian Girl Algiers. Rossini's in overture illustrated in cartoon form. 5.05 Pity the 5.55 Man alive. Children.

6.45 TELEVISION DOCTOR.

7.00 WESTMINSTER.

7.20 NEWS, SPORT. Weather. 7.30 RUGBY SPECIAL. North Eastern Counties v The All Blacks. 8.20 WAR AND PEACE. Men of Destiny. 9.05 FULL HOUSE. An enter- Saturday tainment for from the University Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne. Lindisfarne, Tyne- side poetry. 10.00 La Monde, Job- Creation du Dividing Force. The True Life Story of Andy Capp. NEWS ON_2. Weather. 11.15 11.20

FILM: THE

MAN FROM

LARAMIE'. James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Alex Nicol. A man travels a thousand miles to find the man who killed his brother. BBC2's 'Full House' tonight is from T about his work. Right: Margaret Leighto 4.00 Man at work. 4.25 Money at work. 5.25 Horizon.

6.15 NEWS REVIEW.

6.50 NEWS

SUMMARY.

Weather. 6.55

• DOUBTS AND CERTAIN-

TIES.

7.25 AMERICA. Part 5 Invent- ing A Nation. TAINMENT. At Your Ser- vice. The skills of the Armed Services.

9.05 BUT SERIOUSLY - IT'S

SHEILA HANCOCK. Guests Hopkins. the Morning. Ghost story.

10.25 UP SUNDAY.

10.50 FILM: 'YOUNG MR LIN-

COLN'. John Ford's film dent. With Henry Fonda, Weather. 9.30 Vintage gold. 10.00 Repon- dez s'il vous plait. 10.30-10.55 Avventura. 11.25 Weather. 11.30 Mr. Benn. 11.45 Harlem globe- trotters. 12.05 Barrier reef. 12.30 Grandstand. 12.35 Football pre- view. 12.55, 1.25, 2.00, 2.30 Racing from Cheltenham. 1.10, 1.45 International boxing. 2.20, 2.55 Rugby league. 3.50 Lancer.

4.40 Final score. 5.05 Goofy. 5.15 Mary Tyler Moore show. 5.40 News. Weather. 5.55 Bruce Forsyth and the generation game.

6.45 DIXON OF DOCK GREEN.

Who Needs Enemies?

7.35 THE HARRY SECOMBE

SHOW. Guests Beryl Reid, Lulu, Viktor Klimenko, Julian Orchard.

8.20 FILM: 'FIVE MILES TO

MIDNIGHT'. Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins. Thriller about a man who forces his estranged wife to col- lect life insurance • when he is supposedly killed in an air crash. 10.05 NEWS. Weather.

10.20 MATCH OF THE DAY.

11.20 PARKINSON. Michael Par- kinson and guests. 12.20 Weather. is from Tyneside where Tom Pickard (left) et Leighton as The Woman in Independent's 9.00 Nai zindagi naya jeevan. 9.30 Repondez s'il vous plait.

Avventura. 10.30 10.00-10.25 Morning service. 11.30-12.05 VAT special. 12.50 Farming. 1.15 Made 1.55 News in Britain. 1.30 Look. 2.00 Chigley. 2.15 headlines.. Story. Shari Lewis show. 2.25 theatre. 2.50 Undersea world of 3.40 Film: Jacques Cousteau. 'Beau Miles. 5.20 Cranford. NEWS. Weather. 6.05 6.15

THANK GOD IT'S SUN-

DAY.

6.45 STEVE RACE. Appeals on behalf of The Royal Academy of Music Devel- opment Fund. 6.50

SONGS OF PRAISE.

7.25 THE ONEDIN LINE. Bloody Week.

'RANDOM

HAR-

VEST'. Ronald Colman. Philip Greer Garson, Dorn. Susan Peters. An amnesia victim's life is totally charged when he remembers who he really Remem- 10.25 OMNIBUS. Max bers. Ronald Fraser as Max Beerbohm.

SCHLESINGER.

British film director talks to Joan Bakewell. Sesame street. 11.20 M lodies. 11.30 ridge World of sport ball. 1.05 Internation 2.00, sports

LOAK

Barbara Stanwy A girl o see the grar

8.30 NEW

JULIE

= LABOI

11.45 COLUMBO. Lady Waiting. Peter Fa urn to Peyton Place. 1 end world. 12.30 Turnb enemy. 2.1t 3.15 Persuaders. ther's Di zin. Comedy abo deserter and a shoestring. Place. Osmonds. News. 12.35 12 40 On The nternational sports seven. Racina 215. 245 Racinc 3.10 International figure shios of Great Bri suits, scores, news 4.50 Results

FROM ITN.

THE MAN WITH A

Joseph Cotten Leslie • she loves.

SCOTLAND

Guests Phyllis Carroll, Lady in Wait- Peter Falk. Place. 11.00 Week Thunderbirds. 1.50 4.20 Golden er and a con man

New court attack on A COURT judgement made in London this week could lead to the sacking of dockers employed at a Bermondsey cold store in south London. The Bermondsey Cold Stores company, Limited, * Galleywall Road, in went to the Queen's Bench Divisional Court to obtain ruling that cold store work is not "dock work.

The court upheld the ruling already given by an Industrial Tribunal. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery, said he agreed with the tribunal's finding on the law that none of the work done at the cold store could be defined as 'dock work'. It was not for the court to interfere with any finding of fact. The tribunal had correctly directed itself as to the law and had decided that handling at the store could of goods not be part of, their by sea. Mr Justice Willis and Mr Justice carriage Talbot agreed. At present nine dockers are employed at Ber- handling home-produced goods and im- mondsey's, ported goods. National Dock Labour Board objected to The the tribunal's ruling and took this week's case before the Queen's Bench. Mr Anthony Diamond, 'If the operation at these for the Board, said: premises is not dock work, then the company may employ non-registered dock if they workers and. so choose, they will be entitled to dismiss, employ, the services of registered dock workers.'

Widgery's judgement means that the legal noose is being tightened around the dockers' fight to get Lord Widgery cold storage jobs declared 'dock work'. The fact that these cold stores have dockers on the payroll IS an important point in the dockers' fight to get jobs in the depots.

For this reason the other big monopoly interests like Vestey's

'POLICE REVIEW'

has and Borthwick's have been in- urged members of the buying terested in establishing the legal police force to make dockers precedent that have no of Inform- exercised greater use right to cold-store jobs.

Widgery for ers. has now provided this cast-iron it went on. Detectives spend only ruling. 'We amount' paltry on how The use of the Queen's Bench buying Information from spent on has another feature worth and nOL- petty criminals, The employers did not seek mants. ing. police need to exploit to have the be known to ruling made by the pald informer to a the National Industrial Relations but our greater degree. that in comp Court, because of the bitter feel- other items l There was no need ings this court trade unionists. Instead they have quietly obtained legal backing to sack dockers from the cold stores in the civilian before courts—yet the highest legal authority in the the Lord Chief Justice. country.

ACTON:

December 11, All Trades Monday 8 p.m. Co-op Hall. High Road, Unions Alliance W3. 'Free Sean MacStiofain'. WEST LONDON: Tuesday Decem-

MEETINGS

ber 12, 8 p.m. Prince Albert, Road, Kings Cross. Wharfdale Fight Rising Prices 'No State Control of Wages' Force the Tories to Resign

LIVERPOOL:

Tuesday December 7.30 The Mitre, Dale 12, p.m. BIRKENHEAD: Sunday Decem- Street. Pier Hotel. ber 10, 7.30 p.m. WOOLWICH: Tuesday December

WATFORD :

Monday December 8 12. 'Queen's Arms', 11, Upstairs Room, Wat- p.m. p.m. Burrage Road, SE18. Watford ford Trade Union Hall, EAST LONDON: Tuesday Decem- Road (opp. Watford Junction ber 12. 8 p.m. Festival Inn, Crisp Station). F14 'Build of Street, Councils WIGAN: Lancs. Monday, Decem- Action'. 7.30 p.m. ber 1 Wages The Market CROYDON: Wednesday Decem- Hotel. and laws against 13, 8 Ruskin House, the trade unions'. Speaker: Mike ber p.m. Coombe Road, Croydon. 'Free Farley (Building trade worker).

HULL:

11, 8 Sean MacStiofain'. Monday December 'White Hart', Alfred Chelder MEDWAY: Tuesday December 19, p.m. Street, near Drypool 'No 8 p.m. 'The Greyhound', Roches- bridae. Rochester. state control of wages.' ter Avenue,

• SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

PUBLIC MEETINGS

SWINDON

8 pm Nednesdav. December 13

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 from Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea, Deal and Southampton 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.

British Rail Chairman: Willis,

AEU

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

• We demand the right to work!

• Make the Tory government resign!

• Build the revolutionary party!

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

MOREDALE AVENUE,

MEADOW

VALE

SCHOOL,

PRIESTWOOD ESTATE

WAGES, DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AND THE TORY

GOVERNMENT

Speaker: G. Healy, Natlonal Secretary of the Socialist Labour League I Widgery... Not 'dock work' price-peqging in the estimates it is a palt Information amount. police have 'It is money rcised price control spent. There are developin a number of years, bilities of this way of obtalning I formation.' We cannot be sure The magazine sa N much money is that many Junior of ent on paying infor- nts. The figure must cers were deterred fro known to a very few, cultivating more produ tive informants becaus • our Inquiries show of red tape involve t in comparison with er items in the police when drawing

TRADERS

accused were yesterday by the National Consumer Protection Council of trying to kill off the fp piece, for their own advantage.

It said that after a thorough research of Christmas goods not one fp was to be seen on prices. spokesman said: 'We A strongly condemn those who have taken advantage of Christ- mas fare to exclude the $p from their prices. 'We have evidence that the Christmas prices this year have been so designed to kill off the sixpence and, inevitably, the fp.

'It is resulting in higher prices.

The fp should be retained as a measure against inflation.'

A spokesman for the Retail Consortium, which represents about 90 per cent of High Street stores, said: 'We have always maintained that the new penny should have been worth 1.2d of the old money and not 2.4d. It was too big a gap. "The $p has become a highly unpopular coin mainly because of and the difficulty in - its size handling it, but, in a competitive situation, prices are rounded down to the nearest penny as well as up? Trades Council calls for THE CITIES of London and Westminster Trades Council has on the executive com- mittees of the printing unions to grant dispensation to the Workers Press and the 'Morning Star' in the event of a political strike in Saturday December 9, 1972 PAGE 11 Workers Press,

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 Cliff Slaughter

SHEFFIELD

SHEET

who METAL workers Monday December 11 ace redundancy at the Sunder- Stalinism and Trotskylam land plant of Coles Cranes are Monday January 8 to hold a mass meeting on Sun- Marxism and the day to work out ways of fight- revolutionary party ing the sackings.

FORRESTERS HALL

After their shop-floor leaders Trippett Lane, 7.30 p.m. met yesterday they went to management in Newcastle. The

LEEDS

are a result of a redundancies takeover of the firm by Acrow, which says 350 must lose their Monday December 11 jobs. Revolutionary theory and the Marxist Party All the other unions have agreed the cut-back. to

WHIP HOTEL

Leeds 8 p.m. (Note change)

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BY-ELECTION RESULTS

A GRAVE

WARNING

Comment by JACK GALE THE BY-ELECTION results at Sutton and Cheam, and Uxbridge, following the recent Liberal victory over Labour at Rochdale, show that the 1970-style election cannot happen again.

In 1972 the political implications of economic crisis protrudes Tory against the Common Market Reginald Simmerson (left) stands by as National Front Citon centre chats with victorious ory directly into elections. count on Thursday. The huge decline in the Tory vote at Sutton and Cheam (where a Tory majority Barbours' women march of 12,696 became a Liberal majority of 7,417) reveals the enormous crisis inside Heath's party. for right to join union The Tories of this blue chip' constituency con- sciously voted against their party to serve notice the working cts. This is a reeremons on Heath that against want sterner measures of the eco- nomic crisis. Only by smashing down the working class and imposing dictatorial methods of rule can

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The march will be from Seven of the strikers for a 40-hour week jrosi capitalism hope to solve its enormous problem ol Hall Barbour's rainwear factory, South Shields Town young, single girls—were and also leave the union inflation and world markets.

10 rally In the Northern from Soul evicted police recognition question unre- by are march- It is the tension created by this in the middle Social CluD. from Shields Social solved. Ing today at 2.30. Support and backward sections of the that class among some Novem. women claim the Seventy women and girls ber 10, when they tried to have beel told working class inal producea not oniy a large vote in the major unions area, claim benefit. for the Liberal at Sutton and Cheam, but also a the boller. seven weeks demanding significant vote for. extreme right-wing organiza- ine sukers nave roused working makers and the engineers.

the right to Join the union despite Barbours, that non- to return 1o work, and Cons. South Shields and Jarrow of their choicethe Trans a management offer of a E2 union supervisors have At Uxbridge four ultra-right candidates totalled Trades Councils will also port and General Workers' nise that working because been he strike 4.685 votes between them and Sutton and be on the march give the Cheam two such candidates received 1,992 votes

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Inel 212.6l At Rochdale the anti-immigration candidate polled 4,074. The 10,681 votes for the ultra-right should not ignored. Nationally, there could be be a potential than ume sunce une peak of Mosley's British Union of Fascists activity in the 1930s. These results are also a measure of the total bankruptcy of the Labour Party leaders. Uxbridge is a marginal constituency which could easily have been torn away from the Tories had the Labourites mobilized the working class in struggle against the government on issues ike toe rent act. wace con.

trol, anti-union legislation and the Common Market. Instead, the Labour leaders have held back we struggle or lne working class al every turn The right-wing Labourites in the parliamentary party are virtually an adjunct of the Tory govern- which they ment, power by with it over the Common Market These men do not want to take the power and will now be argu- ing that bring down the Tories would result in electoral defeat. As the 2 working class have moved to the left during and challenged the government in and basic the Labour defence of its wages rights rally Icaucts nave been unanic o Dur our a vote in any constituency where the government ought to under presser socialist Laitut this situation, trans. formation of the League into revolutionary party is essential. Only such a party can and will defeat capitalism.

Greek worker gets Little comfort from

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7 months Eire poll GREEK worker, Ioannis Kortesis

FIANNA

FAIL said yesterday (28), was yesterday sentenced to

FUND REACHES

afternoon that they were dis- a total of seven months' jail for appointed with the outcome assaulting a Sergeant Roy Thornton at Can- unemployment demonstration out- £339.22 the equal rights for religions and side House of Commons in the polls in the central division ponce station, causing him actual bodily harm. votes at 18 referendum. of Dublin. 1971. November Timothy Rowe, an unemployed Several people The Green Tory government were Polling graduate, said he was also wel down in evidence use during the 15,000-strong demon- had expected a decisive endorse- bordering on Northern officers countles which had been called and pull total right stration SctI

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collise our Ireland, but in the Republican dragging backwards ment for its 'New Ireland' policy, We are determined to Kortesis com- the TUC. rassing sentence while another kicked him.

rural south there was. plete £1,750 at the Inner London crown court berore including the new so-called anti- some places, a 70 per cent Xmas. Judge Elam said Kortesis was Kortesis, Municipal Workers member plus turn-out. IRA legislation. which General and of £25.28 Yesterday's post very prevalent at this time.

leaving was …the Only two hours before the end consisted of £5 from a group but by the late alternoon yes- demonstration because of the He sent Kortesis to prison for terday known of the count yesterday afternoon west London crush. four months and activated a three cent of Fianna Fail officials told me about Repub- from Manchester supporters; looked certain that 70 He nad leit a group or trade electors per £3.60; million cent South- montes suspended serterce 111- unionists in front of the House posed on Kortesis in April 1971 voted. would reader sent and, of Commons when he was pulled for assault. Acton, Suborer demon. Polling got off to one of between one ponce who had pleaded not Kortesis, strators. SlOW constitution linking church and SLaLL He Was convicte denied assaulting any All counting districts state. your ove Country majority verdict after jury …The counties on Thursday. magnificent support comes in poncemen. had been three hours. The He is But the spokesman said: "We each day helping now taking out sum- us reach our jury unanimously found him not wanted Voting was lowest in working- than that out mons for assault by step Commol lolai.

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guilty or a charge or tnrealening police Cannon Row It hasn't given Try and raise Toe reterenolin weekend behaviour and by a ten to two per cent while he was held there. with only 40 going to us much confidence that extra amounts. can, add you assaulting majority not guilty of Fianna public that something Post approve all yoursell. rail is doing.' all your donations immediately to:

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commissioners the Tory Housing implement were Workers Press Finance Act. The commissioners Party members are also wor- yesterday appointed by the Sec- work in the name and ried that the low turn-out will December Appeal Fund retary of State for Wales Peter Street, 186a Clapham High Street of Merthyr Tydfil be insufcient to convince North- Thomas to take over rents col

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Council and ern Protestants that Irishmen London, Wales Brid Council Machen Urban Dis- south of the border wel- lecuon irom two south councils who have refused come then into a 'New Ireland. to