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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY DECEMBER 16, 1972 • No. 948 • 4p Heath snubs unions over pay

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UNION LAW

By David Maude Our Industrial Correspondent A SHOWDOWN between the unions and the govern- certain ment is coming. This became absolutely yesterday. As the strike movement against the fine on Tory premier the. engineers' union strengthened, Edward Heath issued a blunt directive on pay.

The directive became joint council for the gas offers of improved remun- public shortly before eration maustry, called Coll talks between the News- sider pay-and-hours olner words, as paper Publishers' Asso- behalf of 46,000 Confederation of British on Industry told employer its ciation and the print

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failed to avert crew

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members recenty: unions response from the about pay. And even talk. the engineers' stoppage your men. which will close down Despite the politics of its we otherwise. say Fleet Street on Monday. recipient, there was not conciliation on the unions It came in letter this is deliberate Heath's message. apace, Lord Heath from Cooper: "Until the tace

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sidD 101N Cooper, right-wing gen- such time as the govern- union leaders. of the ment is able to announce secretary It marks a major worsen- General and Municipal guidelines, negotiations, ing in the relations between Workers' Union. in the the whether unions and the Tory The letter private sectors, should not was read to covernment carried to the point of a meeting of the national be Heath has stripped away this laws on pay and in dust- mask of 'fair play' from a rentons ane revealed that the most basic rights Socialist Labour League

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this issue, without politics issemoly Hal are exposed as liars to and goel civic Ha Speakers: deceivers of the working Speakers: class G. HEALY (SLL National Secre MIKC BANDA (SLL Centrel Heath's letter and the saryl AITKIN (YS national fine on the AUEW must be

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MONDAY'S Fleet Street strike is on. Talks held at the headquarters of the Newspaper Publishers' Association yesterday afternoon produced no challenge to the strike call by the north London district of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.

Apart from stopping pub- lication of Britain's seven the national dailies, major stoppage will hit all one-day industrial plants north of the Thames. Engineers in south London are also stopping on Monday with their along fellow-unionists in Sheffield, Hull, Accrington and several other areas. Striking yesterday were engi-

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Guildford, Letchworth neers in and Stevenage. Yesterday's NPA meeting pro- ved to be a brief and abortive affair. Both sides met for less hour. All the than an print unions - NGA,

NATSOPA,

SOGAT and NUJ-were present, but not the AUEW. Lord Goodman. chairman of Workers Press: the NPA. told 'It would be an optimistic man who didn't think the strike would be on. We held the meet- ing so all sides could review the situation. Asked if the Press barons had considered taking the engineers to court. Goodman said: 'No. no that wasn't suggested. The proprietors looked grim as Head of the they left. Daily Express' Sir Max Aitken, group, said: "The strike's on." When union officials were asked what would happen they would only "You'd better say: ask the AUEW Decisions for strike action on Monday came at Ford's Dagen- ham assembly plant and CAV, Acton, west London (see p 3).

Shop stewards in the Birming- ham East district are to meet Monday decide whether on to they will support action on Wednesdav. All 10,000 engineers in the Southall district will strike next Wednesday. Mass meetings at most factories endorsed this call from shop stewards yesterday. The largest group to strike on Lord Goodman... Not very optimistic Wednesday will be the 250.000 engineers called out by the Manchester district committee of the Confederation of Ship- building an a Engineering CIALS may tomorrow press leaders of Unions. Id CAV occupation on Merseyside to CSEU shop stewards on Mer- supplies to Lucas Industrial seyside have agreed to work for

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workers. whose a stoppage on that day. It has factorvi ame site as CAV. have been laid off also been backed in Bolton, and Stockport.

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • SATURDAY DECEMBER 16, 1972• No. 948 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Heath snubs unions over pay

DEFY ANTI-

UNION LAW

By David Maude Our Industrial Correspondard A SHOWDOWN between the unions and the govern- certain ment is coming. This became absolutely yesterday. As the strike movement against the fine on Tory premier strengthened, the engineers' union Edward Heath issued a blunt directive on pay.

The directive became offers of improved remun- joint council for the public shortly before inaustry. Called COs- callull. talks between the News- sider pay-and-hours words, as the other paper Publishers' Asso- Confederation of British claim on behalf of 46,000 told its Industry employer ciation and the print

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drew furious failed to avert menders recency. unions response from the union even talk about pay. And the engineers stoppage shut keep your lilchl which will close down we Despite the politics of its until sdy Ole Wise Fleet Street on Monday. recipient, there was witn tne legal onslaugal On. conciliation in the unions proceeding It came a letter deliberate Heath's apace, this from Heath Hessage. Lord Cooper: 'Until tace he t

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the class-the working right to heht for a decent

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O ce government to resign. Those who say National Industrial Re

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Court or the pav-

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control law can be defeated SUNDAY DECEMBER 17,2 p.m.

without movement on SUNDAY DECEMBER 17, 7 p.m.

this issue, voooside malls without politics Assembly Hall d bee vess Digbeth Civic Hal are exposed as liars to and Speakers : deceivers of the working Speakers: clabeath's letter G. HEALY (SLL National Secre-

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action by the whole of the steward. In WILLIE DOCHERTY (chairman Li duc movchichl aisley Com- CORIN REDGRAVE (Equity. In i enants ACTIOn benind the political demana mittee. In personal capacity.)

for the removal the a personal capaclty.) Tories from office.

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OCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

MONDAY'S Fleet Street strike is on. Talks held at the headquarters of the Newspaper produced no challenge to the strike call by the north London district of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.

Apart from stopping pub- lication of Britain's seven dailies, the national major one-day stoppage will hit all industrial plants north of the Thames. Engineers in south London are also stopping on Monday with their along Sheffield, fellow-unionists in Hull, Accrington and several other areas.

"SPAPE

Striking yesterday engi- were Guildford, Letchworth neers in and Stevenage. Yesterday's NPA meeting pro- ved to be a brief and abortive affair. Both sides met for less hour. All than an the print

- NGA,

NATSÓPA,

unions SOGAT and NUJ-were present,

AUEW.

but not the Lord Goodman, of chairman the NPA, Workers told Press: 'It would be an optimistic man didn't who think the strike would be on. We held the meet- ing so all sides could review the situation. Asked if the Press barons had considered taking the engineers to court, Goodman said: 'No, no that wasn't suggested.' The proprietors looked grim as they left. Head 'Daily the Sir Max Express' Aitken, group, 'The strike's on' said: officials When union were asked what would happen they You'd would only say: better

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ask the Decisions for strike action on Monday came at Ford's Dagen- ham assembly. plant and CAV, Acton, west London (see p 3).

Shop stewards in the Birming- ham East district are to meet on Monday to decide whether they will action support on Wednesday. All 10,000 engineers in the Southall district will strike next Wednesday. Mass meetings at most factories endorsed this call from stewards yesterday. shop The largest group to strike on rd Goodman... Not very optimistic Wednesday will be the 250,000 engineers called out by the Manchester district committee of the Confederation Ship- of building and Engineering LS may tomorrow press leaders of Unions. CAV occupation on Merseyside to CSEU shop stewards on Mer- seyside have agreed to work for to Lucas Industrial on supple 350 LI workers, whose that day. It has factory a stoppage on e site as CAV, have been laid off also backed Bolton, been in and Stockport.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Saturday December 16, 1972 US unlikely to heed PM Rumania Trade war will signs IMF documents tear us apart RUMANIA has become the first member of COMECON, the economic Soviet-led bloc, join the Inter- national Monetary Fund set Heath warns stabilize capitalist up cumenees. Yugoslavia is already a mem-

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does not belong Rumania will have deposit- to pay for admission by the Fund. ing about toum will a quarter of it in gold. return it will be able to

BY JOHN SPENCER

drawing rights under use and become more and

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TORY PREMIER Edward Heath has warned that the capitalist countries investment by capitalist firms. To the full advantage will 'just tear each other apart unless they sort out their trade differences.

will Tols Lave 'We shall cut each other's throat,' he said in an interview taped for the World Bank. Canadian broadcasting corporation and transmitted on Thursday night.

HEATH... It will weaken security representatives Rumanian signed the

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articles "There will be the develop- the State Depart- agreement ment of protectionism and

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this will weaken the security the western world as ot 'Peace' recedes: 'agreeable "Eled e na healthy and pross well, Heath said. working out terms entitled to a healthy pros- of us' is little short of Lo dil The Tory leader said the absurd. perous agriculture just Ilke any body there e se Unta economic future of the western All efforts to patch together ar recognition of that, don't world depends War hots up on three large agreement through international one can really get think that blocs: the European monetary and negotiation proper understanding of how yvu Market, the United August 15 Common since get a trade agreement negotiated.

laut States and Japan. last year have failed. I mean doesn't help Heath's is say Their task, he said, fact, US bombers pounded North ger and Le Duc Tho, returned was statement that United States reflected the bitter feeling against work international trading to their respective capitals.

the United among knight and Vietnam in the heaviest raids shining armoul, are arrecable protectionist. The The B52s dropped over 1,500 bourgeoisie. Referring to all of us, and in which we can euroscan highly protec. of the United States war as peace all share, including Canada. American tons of bombs on the demilitar- demandes Canada knows that

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slash its tariffs farm tionist ized zone and the North Viet- negotiators, Dr Henry Kissin- 'Unless we really do that--and perfectly well. produce, ne sala: namese panhandle. and will political Coalition attacks Ceylon youth and Rocket attacks were launched teennical experuse--we sual usu within tear each other apart,' Heath said.

on around Vasts up L4 nours or ine blowing Wide-ranging trade negotiations giant ammunition dump only between the three ele are are due from attempts to muzzle the Press miles the capital. The New was on the Bien Hoa man alack US has repeatedly made clear air base. The next target may be will demand that the other itself where there capital massive countries in- Detention THE SRI LANKA (Cey. to rot in the city streets.

pushed through lon) coalition govern- Crease n america calls. With the chances of peace headed Mrs already held, have been ment by less or an appear to une when mey revol arails! The US wants a 25 per cent cecing Sumer gov- become more insistent that his andatanant increase in imports or its products command nas begun a new guara remains by the

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and Japan, and to 1 Cold of arrests among the At ne same line lne •rolest woolly this result it threatening Vietnam. He get Was visile The continuing country's youth. CUSt American ambassador His. ahead with its among the youth has the Sri Lanka's jails are unless Over 150 young people plans or the resultsho in risingers countries toe the line. the still full to bursting point have been arrested Kissinger's une Press ale saluc results with and the past few days on take permanent dicta- brutally The latest Us balance of Dav.

Jatest round of talks April 1971 uprising. pretext they torial powers. the that women dinester thousands last year's revolt. President was The Press Council

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Post' wn the Cantal Colombo. youth being tried assured that whatever the Bill Its educated who They on the capital, way have been unis countrys inlernallullal liauc batches before Americans saying The armed forces through parliament no position is deteriorating'.

put the one of the finding a job. And village on all the have been on Conissons publicly. ne call Count youth come to the which assume they -are military and stiffen deployed designed strengthen other ao necessari Will certanv they his corrupt and to seek work guilty unless Niks. sortin the for haine guard strategic instal- LowS crumbling regime together.

Heath talk lations and prisons. against all opposition. which is not there. talks. For KGB action against Opposition tion, he earned the special enmity of the port was confiscated and he was deprived

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

KGB, which now claims that he has given of Soviet citizenship. He was a founder of the Rights Committee, other opposi- Human which smash the information about IN ITS latest drive to within the 25 people who had con- Soviet opposition the political police tonists A DouL Was always calciul tact with Yakir at the Institute letter or te aw (KGB) has arrested dozens of suspects History Moscow, where he ance By leaving the in country he obviously and called in many more for ques- have been worked. or in other places, laid himself open to the measure wich tioning. The aim is to hold key figures pulled in for questioning.

has now been taken against him. It ne KGB has suc- asks for political asylum in the US sure that is not the from the different sections of the Yakir's will by the it will said that be opposition movement and to demo- ceeder in breaking same means used in Stalin's day (beat has gone over enemies of the ralize others with threats of arrest, and beat s claim that Khrushchev put Soviet Union. Deat confinement in psychiatric hospitals His friends claim he told them this novelist danger which or deportation to labour camps.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn 'understood when material strabishing that other dissidents shown he refused to go to Stockholm to collect Valeri Chalidze Others, like and his Nobel prize or other invi- Zhores Medvedev, have been induced LU were, willingly tations to leave the Soviet Union.

being asca or permitted to leave the country to anti-Soviet forces abroad.

experience other exiled dissidents get them out of the way. that they Before his arrest Yakir told a foreign became completely in- Facing difficult economic situation reporter: If they beat me, I will say any- effective once outside the soviet Union shortages following food The KGB's thing. I know that from my former ana alludl repression, although it has disastrous narvest me occy

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in the perience camps. But you know it undoubtedly deterred some dissidents, has siders it Reces are to deal with any will not not been able to stamp out opposi- de the reai me speaking. _The potential pole attraction The tion. Despite orders from the Communist KGB would like to stage another presented ciscontent. dIci Central Committee could use Yakir Party's that show ma in waca lev as being in league with enemies of the discredit the YAKIR... Not the real me as a state witnesle. This.

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ocurrent arrairs Soviet state abroad. as a whole. could be used should be suppressed, another issue has position improved rela- At the time, the been distributed in the under- salle recently divert „lne bureaucracy lu allcilliul and the tions between the soviet union the Soviet Conom the economic crisis now gripping ground. countries US and other capitalist mean the KGB is taking against this wing of the 50 imprisoned Over oppositionists that the KGB is now freer carry out the opposition which wants return to While staged a hunger strike from December the Bolshevism and tough measures are being used traditions a clamp down. As Workers Press Wallcu he no rai left wing of the opposition, suent nela last June, the Nixon visit and the pre- Leslusu 'liberals' are being treated in a dif- Moscow's Pushkin Square to mark the of the first victims of the latest European Security Con- One liminaries for a of the of the Uni- have already anniversary signing down was Pyotr Yakir, son of one wav. Some of them of the Terent the op-- Terence make DOsilion Rights at been driven into silence by Red generals shot tear or re. versa Declarauon position not less nut more precarious Ally prisals. Others have been he minted to the United Nations. Stalin's orders in 1937. From the age of As we said at that time: 'This applie like physicist 'liberals' have not been com- 14 he spent 17 years in a concentration the it the the revolutionary com- Icave coullli y. particularly Valeri Chalidze (See yesterday's Workers emerging with a burning hatred of cowed, niete v minists who represent as mca a meract Cally. Press), the revolutionary opposition continu- burehe taur one in the the can stanism. the the activities teeth of of the capita- Because Yakir was one of the leaders Challaze was allowed to go to the US to support 111% bureaucracy. of the revolutionary trend in the opposi- lecture, but after a short time his pass- which repression. lists is assured for the measures

Miners march to support Conisborough rebels Arthur Wellon... No more flannel AT LEAST 177,000 workers lost jobs in manufacturing industry in London in the four years from 1966 to 1970, an MP revealed yesterday.

Labour MP for Acton, west London, Mr Nigel Spearing, called in the House of Com- mons for an urgent investiga- tion into the social and economic consequences of the 'present free market in land and property in greater London.

'Manufacturing industries have been leaving London at an enormous speed, he said. Jobs in manufacturing indust- ries in the decreased from area LA million in 1966 to 1.2 million in 1970-177,000 jobs had been lost. This total-80,000 in engineer- ing trades alone-represented the equivalent of perhaps two, or even three, decent-sized provin- cial towns, he said. opening his Spearing was private members' debate calling attention to 'the dangers of un- balanced growth and development in greater London to the life and livelihood of its citizens'.

He pointed inner out that London was losing population very fast indeed. From a maxi- mum of 4.5 million it was now down to 3 million. Many office sites, he added, were being kept off the market to keep rents artificially high.

House prices and rents were directly linked to this. and, as a result, there was a high turn- over of population in many areas of inner London. of people, Large numbers particularly the young, were moving out to areas where house prices were lower. THE NATIONAL Union of Bank Employees is protesting that the Bank of England refuses to get round the table with it to talk about union representation.

NUBE says it already has a lumber of members among the Bank staff and has been carry- ing on a vigorous recruiting campaign, but complains that all efforts to arrange a meeting with management have failed. The union also says it has Workers Press, Saturday December 16, 1972 PAGE 3 SEVERAL Yorkshire branches of the National Union of increases could find themselves landed with the bill for all Mineworkers have pledged support for tomorrow's demon- the rent which should have been collected since October 2.

rally Lawrence Daly, stration in Conisborough to back up the councillors defying general

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and Frank Allaun, 'left- the 'fair rents' Act. ot the talking labour MP from Salford.

Monday. district auditor began his investigation Last Conisborough council meets on Monday to review the into the housing accounts. lollowing With a of one in favour of non- Could situation. majority only order made against Conisborough by the Tory government.

implementation. it is not clear what the result of the meeti..

The seven Labour councillors in opposition to the rent could be. Fighting the Tories' rent Act Rent rise Labourites refused nomination

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they wouldn't telling us right-wing north Derby- for people Cllr Wellon's own coun- overturned the he sa conference shire Labour councillors out the and work Clay Cross cil decision,' Then voted for the Icuales

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at and the ip seancillor 1l will I Suppose these uctober they put the rent.

Tories 'fair rents' Act councillors But up £1.09. „The there being the ironic thing Trans- an example to ke auc 'Then one or two coun- the districi House surchargea by bor asked ne followed up throughout auditor. cilors seeing this na beel. ing went round addressing Britain, says the leader 'What Party ordinating committee the Labour most needs is a good shake- for dis- of Clay Cross council. ing they shouldn't pay the trict council elections next a blouse lic colley. rent counci Arthur Wellon was one year. ne told weve wouldn't evict them if that should done done shout the cakery: be taken "They of those who last week- complain happened. Tried to end led the fight to with- they didn't know What was coming, to them Then we found out that He contrasted their de- noid nominations lot next Chesterne d council did noi the year's elections from 11

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will lial or Une told us now neo been down even have a motion Labour Party's home policy on the council for so many Chesterheld councillors they wouldn't evict which years, doing all those good for voted imple- the tenants. who this week decided that things mentation of the Housing 'All they doing TuTe

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government 'One said we should take Welc Finance Act. could not be asked to giving thererore Was al this into account.

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back councillors fined tenants flannel. Well, they up The decision, taken by then he said he'd been won't be able to that surcharged do nghting acting for good the general management the Tory Rent Act. now on because we've But all this the committed lenallls . put the skids under them.

shire Labour Party was 'That was not just was a smokescreen for lack upheld, despite stab in the back for We principles, Cllr 'These weren't narrowly people right - wing but the whole movement, politicians but administra- Icalsudil 'All the time they were struggle on the committee.

because in doing that tney Stoke Newington 8 March to jail over sentences By OUR OWN REPORTERS

THE STOKE

NEWINGTON

Eight Defence Group has organized a march on Worm- wood scrubs today to protest ten-year against savage Ine sentences on four members of the group. The march will start at Shep- herd's Bush Green at 1 p.m. anc public will follow Denbigh Road. the Denbigh Hall, who were jailed are The four Anna Mendleson, Hilary Creek, Workers at the CAV factory Heal IRA split- call TOnn barker Green. in West London were field, described by the police a associates or ine Anerv once among many in the last few days who have voted One of the aims of the march A CALL to end the three-year- Another motion, from Armagh old split between the Official and leadership the con. to strike for the day on

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agallot •mons in onlan s Disons rel seek Contact Wild Monday against the fines militant Protestant ealer savs: All prisoners the National imposed by conference in Dublin this week- develop an organiza- need our support, tion based on democratic workers Industrial Relations Court support. on their union the AUEW. oack drainst unew concilons D from Wick- resolution the letting them know …are Theirs was significant low Officials resolution expresses a calls on the The same solidarity with their demands.' Dranch vote in view of the vote at 'stop bickering' With The concern at the increasing arl Provos and for all Republicans towards toe north. sectarian civil war in CAV Sudbury to return to Sections or tie lamaces went l together 'in fight the Goad, work. James against the common enemy.

Sections Many 319 resolutions man who took the union to deal with social and economic It says 'petty arguments' waste nuncer suike vesterday worked at the Sud- court. north and south of the Press claimed that another escape time and into needs. and energy blay bury plant. attempt has been foiled. the hands of their enemies.

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PAGE 4 Workers Press, Saturday Decem

BY CHARLES PARKINS

The Labour peer Lord Brockway — former MP Fenner Brockway, mem- ber for Eton and Slough, and chairman of the Movement for Colonial Freedom - was the guest of honour at a reception held in Lancaster cently by the local Con- stituency Labour Party. The occasion was the cele- bration of the 50th anniver- sary of the 1922 General Elec- tion, when Brockway stood as the first Labour candidate ever to contest Lancaster. Among the old Labour Party members who gathered to swap reminiscences, some recalled the second occasion on which Brockway stood for election in Lancaster. This was in the wartime by- election of October 1941. The Labour Party at this time had entered a political 'truce' with the Tories and did not contest the Lancaster election. But Brockway was at this period in his career a member of the Independent Labour Party, and stood as an ILP candi- date. The Tory candidate in the by-election Brig-Gen was Fitzroy Maclean. He was sup- in his campaign by ported messages from Churchill call- ing on the electors to vote for him to show their support for the government. An Independent also stood in the election, a naval Lieu- tenant Ross, who had Liberal support. He said he was stand- ing to oppose the stifling of political discussion during the war and also to demand more aid for the Soviet Union.

The result of the Lancaster election was that the Tories held the seat, while the Inde- pendent candidate came sec- ond. Brockway came bottom of the poll, but he did suc- ceed in obtaining more than 5,000 votes, almost 20 per cent. amazing this is more when we consider that Lancaster was not a tra- ditionally 'left-wing' constitu- ency and the war was on, but the ILP candidature that ran into particular opposition and obstacles. The local Trades Hall management com- mittee, for instance, refused to allow the ILP to use its pre- mises for a committee room.

There was also an attempted smear campaign to suggest that Brockway wanted 'Peace with Hitler' at any price. Brockway The campaign was assisted by visits from Maxton, the well-known ILP leader, to speak at his meet- ings, and another speaker was Bro. Ballantyne, a leading the National member Union of Railwaymen. The 'pro-Hitler' smear was answered in a letter to the local paper, the 'Lancaster Guardian. :, on October 3, by a reader who said that, in fact, the ILP candidate stood for defeating fascism, but also for defeating capitalism which had given it birth. He added that they only a believed that socialist government in • Bri- tain could be a true ally of the Soviet Union and could also appeal to the German workers to overthrow Hitler. E of his cam- In the course. paign, Brockway produced a lay December 16, 1972 letter sent to him from east London ARP workers, thank- ing him for his help in getting them a 72-hour maximum week and wishing him suc- cess. He also produced a letter from Soviet Ambassador Maisky, thanking him for donating the royalties from a book of his to the Soviet Red Cross. Nevertheless, "pro- the Hitler' smear continued to be used. And those who were most assiduous in spreading it, not only at Lancaster but nationally, were the Stalinists of the British Communist Party. Having fully supported Stalin's GPU in its colossal smear campaigns against the former leaders of the Bol- shevik Party at the time of the Moscow Trials, the British showed Stalinists that they could fully emulate their master when it came to vili- unscrupulous fication and attacks on their opponents on the left in this country.

Having previously correctly characterized the war as im- perialist-and used this to defend the Soviet-Nazi pact— the Stalinists turned, once the Soviet Union had been in- vaded, into the most fervent supporters both of the war and of Churchill. Outraged by the fact that the ILP was daring to oppose the Tories, in however limited a way, they denounced both and Maxton as Brockway "Trotskyists' (Bearing in mind the previ- ous record of these centrists, their opposition to the Fourth International and their incli- to compromise with nation Stalinism, the description was ludicrous; but perhaps some centrists who are of those flirting with the CP today might care to reflect on Sta- linist 'gratitude!) Then they went a little further, and coined the slogan 'A vote for Brockway is a vote for Hitler'.

Only a matter of months after their policy change, and while the 'Daily Worker' was still banned by the Tory gov- ernment, the Communist Party members turned up to smash an ILP election meeting in Lancaster, and then went to offer their help to along the Tory, Brig-Gen Maclean.

Lancaster in 1941 was not isolated incident. It was an the first of a number of war- time by-elections in which the Communist Party gave full support to the Tories. Again, in Cardiff, the fol- lowing year, when Brockway put up for the ILP, the Stalin- ists called on workers to vote Tory, the 'pro- and used Hitler' slander against Brock- way. Around the time of the there was a meeting held city on the topic of helping the Russian war effort. The speaker, Albert Inskip, of the 'Russia Today' movement, cri- ticized in passing a state- ment by a leading Tory, Moore-Brabazon, who had de- clared that British policy should be to 'let Germany and Russia bleed each other and destroy each to death, other, after which Britain could emerge as the dominant power in Europe. Undoubtedly, this was how number of Tories were thinking at the time. Chur- chill himself was notorious for his hatred of the Soviet Lord brock Union and of communism. following year, in Yet the 1942, when there was a by- in Wallasey, and election Moore-Brabazon the was the Communist Party Tory, in that part of Merseyside publicly declared that they would campaign on behalf of Moore-Brabazon! The Tories were defeated in that election by an Indepen- dent. In fact, it became evi- by-elections in dent in the 1942 that a wide section of the electorate welcomed any opportunity to express dis- content with the government.

In 1944 the Trotskyist Res volutionary Communist Party fought a by-election at Neath, South Wales, and polled some 1,700 votes on a straight anti- imperialist policy. So clearly the Stalinists were not only drifting along as opportunists with a mood 'national patriotism and unity'; they were using their influence wherever they could to. drum up support for the Tories. This was, of course, parti- cularly reflected in industry.

The employers were still exer- cising their right to make profits during the war, and, as in every war, many of them particularly well, as did the black marketeers. (In fact, up to the outbreak of hostilities, a number of British firms were quite cheer- fully supplying war materials to both sides; and under car- agreements, the German tel I. G. Farben monopoly re- ceived patent royalties on the aviation fuel supplied to the

RAF!)

Yet the workers were ex- pected to put in maximum effort and surrender their nor- mal union rights in order to help the war. The Communist Party, now that the British ruling class was Moscow's ally, pulled out all stops to help the employers. They explained in their publications and under these speeches that conditions, a worker who went on strike was a 'scab', while a strikebreaker-such as the CP member who crossed a picket line to work during the Hull dispute was showing the height of class-conscious- ness! went further, of They course. In August 1942, Wil- Wainright—now deputy liam editor of the 'Morning Star'— produced his infamous pamph- let 'Clear Out Hitler's Agents' in which he alleged that Trot- skyists in the factories were a 'fascist fifth column', out to sabotage industry on behalf of Hitler. Wainwright urged his readers to 'expose' every Trot- skyist they came across and to 'treat him as you would an open Nazi. In one north London engi- neering factory engaged on munitions, worker who • a opposed the Stalinists actually caught them trying to plant blueprints in his overcoat.

Needless to say, Wainright was never able to offer a shred of evidence e-for his vicious witch-hunt, a though as the case above indicates, some CP members willing to were manufacture some if they could. But there was plenty of evi- dence that the Stalinists had become Churchill's agents!

In Palme Dutt's publication 'Labour Monthly', articles ap- peared calling on the govern- ment to take more vigorote strikers ang action against detailed advice on offering legal means to be used. The same journal carried articles by such 'progressives' as the Tory MP Sir Thomas Moore been notorious —who had before the war as an out- spoken supporter of Franco, the Anglo-German Fellowship, and Mosley's Blackshirts.

The Stalinists joined enthu- siastically in attempts to whip patriotic reaction against strikes, to help 'our boys' at the front, even though it turned out that the "boys' were by no means convinced that the right to strike should be surrendered. 'Socialist Appeal', the Trot- skyist paper was able to re- produce the front page of an issue of Eighth Army News' with the headline, reporting a among Royal Engi- debate neers, 'Right to strike is one of the rights we fight for, and quoting the soldiers as coming i candidate in the Lancaster by-election.

out against any wartime ban on strikes. In fact, the growing anti- Tory mood observed in. the 1942 by-elections was, if any- thing, a great deal stronger among the forces. There was the famous event of the 'Cairo Parliament', which Forces came out of discussion-groups run for political education in the army. A mock 'Election' held stationed in among troops Egypt resulted in a sweeping victory for 'Labour' , on a pro- gramme of nationalization of the basic industries! The War Office got a report, took fright and that was the end of the 'Cairo Forces Parliament'!

But if the Tories were losing "popularity among the their troops, they could still rely one dedicated band of on supporters — the Communist Party. Right up to the end of the war, the Stalinists main- tained their policy of loyal ad support to Churchill. CP gen- eral secretary Harry Pollitt National called for a new government' to be form ad after the war, to include 'pro- gressive Tories' like Churchill and Eden! Those who, like the Trotsky- ists, called for 'Labour to Power' were, at the very least, as "sectarian'. denounced In the event, of course, the class appar- British working ently became, to a man, 'sec- tarians' in 1945, and threw the Churchill government out on its ear! In fact, after the war, at the 1946 Labour Party con- ference, Herbert Morrison was able to oppose the CP's re- affiliation, quest for telling delegates that the CP pre- election policy had been 'full co-operation with capitalism and a complete desertion of socialist principles ... They are not a Party of the Left as far as I can see" From supporters of Stalin and his lies and murders, the British Communist Party had become supporters of Winston Churchill and British im- perialism.

A new wave of student unrest is shaking West German universities. The main issues of protest are problems within the universities themselves, not world questions such as Iran and Vietnam as in the 1960s. But the new development is a clear sign of intensifying class struggle in Germany. The most significant issues are: • The extension of the limi- tations on university entry- the numerous clauses which mean that about 30,000 out of 80,000 applicants • cannot • places obtain because each subject has been given a quota. • The introduction of reac- tionary university laws in some provinces controlled by the Christian Democrats and the alteration of the more liberal laws which apply for example in West Berlin. • The decision of the regional governments and the Federal Chancellor to bar from the civil service (including school and university posts) members or supporters of organizations which do not confirm their full support for 'free and de- mocratic basic order' of the state and their complete loyalty to the constitution.

This regulation is being applied against members of the German Communist Party (DKP) and socialist groups. It even been used against has people who merely took part in demonstrations in 1968.

However, it has almost never been used against fascist teachers and lecturers. The agitation is not confined to the universities. In many cases it began in the technical col- leges and teachers' training colleges. The banks in Venezuela have been enjoying a boom in the last 12 months. Never have their deposits been so high. Never have the vaults been so swollen. Indeed the problem for Venezuelan bankers is that they are having difficulties in finding customers for all their money. What is the origin of this deluge of money reflected in central bank statistics? Venezuela has single source of income — oil. And 1,000 million bolivares the provided by oil have been quickly eaten up by increased spending at the National Treasury over the past two years. Imports went up and money left the banks with the same speed as it arrived, as did In West Berlin a student strike started in the teachers' training college when the edu- deprived authorities cation certain teachers of the right to conduct examinations. The strike spread to the Technical University and the Free Uni- versity, where it is still going on. Tightening of the examina- tion regulations also led to a strike in Kiel. When a crowd of 50 students confronted the rector demanding withdrawal action against of disciplinary three students, he slapped some of the delegation in the face. In Bavaria there is growing to legal opposition moves aimed at abolishing university autonomy altogether. The gov- ernment intends to take harsh disciplinary student parliaments and com- mittees to look after their interests and deprive them of representation in the elected organs of the university.

Demonstrations against these moves have already taken place in Erlangen and Nuremberg and others are planned in Munich and Re- gensburg. The most spectacular event took place in Heidelberg. On the morning of December 6, students found their univer- surrounded by 1,000 (some papers report only 600) heavily-armed and protected carrying Roman- policemen style shields. Heidelberg students were in the forefront of the 1960s student struggle, but the uni- versity staff is dominated by a conservative majority, many of them members of the Lea- gue for Freedom of Know- ledge, a right-wing teachers' association. Prof Rendtorff, the rector, ela resources from loans which the Venezuelan government kept contracting. The mass of money comes through transfers from foreign banks to their branches in Caracas. That money does not enter the country through the central bank, which according to law has a monopoly over the currency produced by oil or public credit. In 1971, the private banks in Venezuela received $900m from abroad. Since 1968 sums ranging from $200m to $500m have arrived. Three banks, Chase Man- hattan, the First National City Bank and the Bank of Paris and the Netherlands are res- ponsible for the dollar flow, to take advantage of the high rates of interest on mortgages and deposits in Venezuela...

until the money can find happy haven in Europe and the United States. German police in action against stude Introduction of reactionary university lat had resigned two weeks be- fore the confrontation because he found it impossible to negotiate with the students in the atmosphere created by the rightist teachers. The right wing were fully supported by the Education Minister and the government, which denounced student de- monstrators as "terrorists'.

state government of The Baden-Württenberg is domi- nated by the Christian Demo- crats who, with the support of the fascist National Demo- cratic Party, recently imple- controls mented Draconian over organization, teaching and research. The immediate issue which sparked the police interven- was the staging of tion teach-in on 'The internal situ- ation of the Federal Republic and the League for Freedom of Knowledge', where two left-wing university teachers were due to speak. The Baden-Württemberg cabinet decided against Rend- torff's advica to prevent any students attending the teach- in by closing off the univer- Writings of OF

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sity for the day. organized a The students demonstration 4,000-strong in the town against the police repression and the following • the police were with- day an indoor drawn to allow protest rally to take place. In against the police action, the boycotted lectures students for a week. Similar police actions were in Heidelberg in 1970 taken the radical SDS stu- when dents' movement was banned demonstrations prevent during a visit by former US Robert Defence Secretary McNamara. The SDS offices were occupied by force and its property confiscated.

These attacks are accom- panied by an outcry from in- dustrialists against 'extra- vagant' spending on higher They want early education. specialization and courses geared to specific jobs in in- dustry. from giving reforms, Far the government is clamping down on the students and History of Russian Revolution -special gift pack of three volumes £1.70 includes postage u require. Amount enclosed f ns, 186a Clapham High Street, Lond 8s, Saturday December 16, 1972 PAGE 5 police action combined with the : students. universities into turning the educational barracks. In the face of these attacks the student leaders have no programme which fight can them successfully. They have tried to turn back into the old this protest channels, only time in a more disciplined way without confronting or provoking the police. They create and support the illusion that reforms are still possible if only they unite and demand them firmly. The confusion is fed by the various revisionist and Sta- linist groups which are unable fight to unite the students' with the growing militancy and struggle inside the work- ers' movement. The only organization that can unite the struggle of the working class, the students and all layers of society that are hit by the capitalist crisis and the attempts to cut their and profes- living standards sional prospects by the mono- polies, is the young German of the International section Committee of the Fourth International. Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 includes postage et, London SW4 7UG

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Saturday December 16, 1972 Imperial Chemical Ind Staies, Bitain's nutth be sunded and has enabled an ICI Stafi Association to be founded registered under the Industrial Relations Act. The association has become one of the founder-members of the Confederation of Independent Staff Organizations.

The establishment of the is a blow against the campaign by

ASTMS,

association the ICI's 40,000 largest white-collar union, to recruit clerical, technical and managerial employees. It also sets back the union's drive for recognition in the company. ASTMS is in Industrial the process of complaining to the Commission on Relations about the conduct of a so-called 'independent' survey which paved the way for the staff association. It has said that was not properly conducted and the body which the survey carried it out, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, has been declared persona non grata. In this article a special correspondent examines how ICI has waged its fight to estab- lish a state-controlled staff association.

BY ALEX MITCHELL

Michael Clapham's recent union discussions began for a and scheme of speed-up new outbursts demanding cuts work study-the Weekly Staff in the standard of living Agreement (WSA) for produc- tion workers and Staff Develop- of the working class do ment Programme (SP) not only reflect the views clerical workers. of the Confederation of of 1970 two- At the end British Industry (CBI), of thirds of production workers were on WA and all staff were which he is president. new SDP conditions. on the These views are also shared The 1970 annual report said: board of

ICI,

the by the 'Following a series of dis- biggest industrial country's work cussions among groups company, where he is deputy within factories and depart- chairman. designed to improve ments Clapham is one of the top management five men contralling more than the had moved on to next tied up £1,750m of capital in making that objective sure of basic the manufacture every improvement plans al artificial fibres, raw materials, level played a systematic part and non-ferrous explosives all in company activity. 'Better metals. And the result? the Tory Irritation with working practices and relation- based big on this produc- anvernment Is ships created by business's belief Heath that programme have played tivity and company are not standing a useful part in reorganization up to the working class with of the factories.' sufficient resolve. And another internal The strength of the working memorandum it was noted: class intensifies the economic 'Notable in improvements the monopolies crisis facing productivity have already been

ICI,

white-collar like where The made in recent years. workers are demanding resist- believes that, given company ance to redundancies and wage- the right conditions, continuing cuts. substantial increases in pro- There was anger and embar- The ductivity possible. are therefore, ICI's at belief are rassment. foundations for this headquarters Millbank the WSA sites, experiences at when directors weeks ago supported by a large body of received advance copies of an research carried out inside and outside ICI. article in the 'New Statesman' dis- by Peter Paterson which detail closed in considerable the machinations of the com- pany over the past two years to prevent white-collar gaining negotiating rights from staff. for ICI clerical to the He drew attention which have company's moves 'reorganization', of The of led the setting up to big redun- course, spelled of the staff association—one spite in of dancies, because, under the first to register

ICI

productivity-dealing, the Industrial Relations Act.

out of the no means was by To explain all the wheeling The 1970 annual report woods. and dealing that has taken point quite clear: made this place it is necessary to examine the chair- 'As forecast by part of the history of attempts

ICI

had last spring nan recognition to gain difficult year in 1970. Rising the giant firm. costs of wages and salaries and end of 1969 ICI Before the of the slower growth rate was faced with a drastic slow- production world industrial the increase of its down in especially in the and trading, sales and the failure of the UK. all combined to cut profit Labour government to tame margins down. the the unions. A survey carried out by Petrochemicals Division at that About this time management- 1. 2 time showed that ICl had a of proportion much higher administrative staff per unit of production than their Com- competitors. Market mon Clearly big redundancies among been clerical workers decided by the spring of 1970.

Under this threat there was mounting interest in trade proper union unionism and representation. Management strategy was to resist staff unionization with- out giving the impression that the company was hostile, to the right of staff to organize.

In this spirit the Central Per- Department issued sonnel which notice in June 1970 stated: 'Over the last few years staff unionism has increased in the country as a whole. It has been encouraged by govern- ment policy and influenced by the findings of the Donovan Commission and the Commis- sion on Industrial Relations.

"The company acknowledges the right of staff to have their employment of conditions determined by collective bar- if they so wish, but gaining it would expect certain con- ditions to be satisfied before agreeing to claims from a Staff Union or a group of Staff Stan Davison of ASTMS Unions to bargain collectively on behalf of their members.

These are: "(a) A company-wide policy for major conditions of employ- ment.' (The purpose of this clause was to prevent militant staff in any single department organizing their to improve wages and conditions own which would give rise to leap- frogging' throughout the ICI empire.) So it was specified: '(b) The minimum size of group involved in collective-bargain- should be ing arrangements a "common. company-wide interest group"! Joving laid down these hasic linac of ctantear the documents added, almost casually member of staff will conduced : annountan on indenendent 1970, just before Co in bane the General Election, the com- pany motion what appeared like wide-ranging oners wanted. white-collar It sounded like a debate on freedom Stan Nouica, moronled deeper and that were at stake hitter issuec wrote August 1970 surether of no survey is now almost irrelevant. clearly longer here the in an a operat to ioin thain miaht uninn of their nwn choice with. any attemnt infinence On the thic choice forces many Institute was body, says Paterson in rad mode to dreamlet. researchers allowed first the Tavistock company Labour Studies at ten hond hood. quarters of Labour Oraanization mending the te Geneva Paterson insisted duestionnaire staff asso- equally mintione and as possible'. He says that when Walker introduced was union officials he was intro- £80-a-day duced 'not as an consultant under contract to ICI, but as a member of the Tavistock team'. surprisingly, ASTMS Not warned its members not to have anything to do with the Tavistock researchers. A statement from the union said: 'The Tavistock Institute which is an organization employers may wish to call in to conduct surveys into union membership or staff attitudes, in connection with trade union recognition. 'All members are asked to resist any such attempt in their factory, and to alert head office this immediately. simply because we are ex- tremely unhappy with this organization and its methods.

Tavistock Institute The persona non grata with us.

'We asked them not to in- situation, tervene in the ICI but they did. We told them we would this interpret as hostile action. But they did. So please treat this body as anti- ASTMS and refuse to collabor- ate with it. We are informing the TUC about our view and TUC affiliated organ- every ization. opinion- Throughout the a subtle testing there was campaign which propaganda represented unions as 'external' bodies to ICI who might in- individual's terfere with an chances of promotion. On the staff other hand associations were boosted as bodies which after minor would look grievances for the membership.

Mr S. D. Lyon, the per- sonnel director, went out of that 'the his way to assure company has no wish in- to fluence staff in any direction except towards expressing firm opinion on how best their views both as individuals and as members of a group can become known, considered and acted upon, whether by rep- resentation, consultation or negotiation. The result showed an over- whelming majority in favour of changes of some sort; it outright did not give an majority for either a union, im- staff association or an Workers Press, Saturday Doc proved staff committee system.

it paved the Nevertheless, way for the formation of an ICi Staff Association registered under the Act. Since ASTMS is now de- registered, this means that ICI can call on the legal backing of the National Industrial Relations Court in their fight union against recognition. ASTMS is taking evidence of 'anti-union' the company's manoeuvres before the Com- mission on Industrial Relations which is examining the labour relations policies of multi-plant companies. The continuing fail of ICT's fortunes on the eve of entry into Market the Common means that clerical workers are caught between a management bent on extracting the last ounce of 'efficiency' and the mounting inflation legalized by Heath. Six hundred scientific and Pontypool, technical staff in South Wales, have already Press, Saturday December 16, 1972 PAGE 7 Campbell Adamson, CBI director Michael Clapham, (left), with deputy chairman of the huge ICI consortium. been told that their Research and Textile Development De- partment will be closed over the next two years and that only 100 can expect redeploy- ment. 'Flextime', for a system tailoring working hours to the flow of is being paperwork, throughout the introduced combine and threatens to push up productivity even higher..

The fight for trade union recognition among ICl's white- collar workers is becoming the focal point of resistance to the company's rationalization and peed-up plans. Cl staff should ioin unions on a policy of total opposition productivity plans to redundancies. Within the union they must take up a political fight against of ICI plans chairman Callard, Clapham and Jack in the Heath their friends Cabinet. This means a campaign to

ICI

monopolies like bring under public ownership. There can be no preservation of jobs work conditions without or such a fight.

FAGE 8 Workers Press, Saturday Dece Following the articles 'Reneg dealing with the situation in now examines the British sec Unified Secretariat of the For International Marxist Group (1 The International Marx- ist Group faced such an enormous split in 1970 and 1971 between its leaders and the minority tendency supporting the Socialist Workers' Party of America, that serious work was impossible (see yesterday's Workers Press for the repercus- Glasgow sions in the branch alone). Yet IMG leaders Pat Jordan, Tariq Ali and company were unable to deal with this politically. They could resort only to bureaucratic measures.

The disciplinary action taken against Alan Harris, without affording him any democratic discussed in rights, has been an earlier article. But this was standard practice. One Glasgow tendency sup- porter was suspended without charges. Following protests, the leadership wrote to him saying they did not need to present charges because they had not suspended him from the IMG, but only from its Glasgow branch. 'Your status at the moment, wrote Jordan, "is that of a member at large.'

(Page 83.) The fact that the tendency had a majority in the Glasgow branch was neatly overcome by sending in people from other parts of the country and giving them voting rights in the branch. (Page 84.) When this proved insufficient, the Political Committee sent in an organizer and placed him in charge of the entire branch.

(Pages 96-97.) This man had one member charged for not moving a resolution at a trades council meeting which he had handed to him as he walked through the door two minutes before the meeting began and which had not been discussed any- had where. (Page 84) He another charged for not giving up his job to build a Claimants' Union (The IMG's branch. intervention at UCS, when they finally got round to it, was to attempt to start a Claimants' Union.) This also had not been discussed anywhere. (Page 84.)

Another member went out of the country on holiday and returned to learn that his ex- pulsion had been proposed in his absence. There were, of course, no charges. A com- mission was appointed by the leadership to investigate objec- This commission laid tions. charges against him after hear- ing a report from the majority (which supported the leader- ship) but without listening to the minority (to which the member concerned belonged).

(Page 84.) The case of the Nottingham equally extra- women was ordinary. Here, as has been said, the tendency members were subordinating themselves entirely to the Nottingham rday December 16, 1972 'Renegades from Trotskyism' tion in Ceylon, JACK GALE tish section of the revisionist the Fourth International, The Group (IMG). Socialist Women's Committee and its paper 'Socialist Woman'.

It is fair to point out that the IMG leadership did not bother to correct this opportunist turn until the faction fight hotted up and they were able to use he it in organizational measures against the tendency Socialist Nottingham Women's Committee had been in existence for over a year, 'Socialist Woman' and almost as long, before the IMG leadership discovered any objection to this activity.

However, when they wished to move against the tendency women supporters in Not- tingham, they simply: (a) Announced a policy of forming a national network of 'Socialist Women's Groups'. This national network never got beyond one branch - in London. (b) 'Socialist Took . over Woman' by edict- i.e. they published a new address for it (with an increased subscription) and told their Nottingham women to get the line accepted in the NSWC. (C) Appointed a new editorial from which every bord, member of the board of the existing 'Socialist Woman' was excluded. (d) Instructed the Nottingham tendency members that they were barred from work among women. (e) Abandoned an earlier pro- ject of a 'Red Mole' broadsheet which had been in preparation for five months. The Nottingham women who were not in IMG, of course, would not accept all this, so that at the Women's Demon- stration of March, 1971, two of 'Socialist separate versions Woman' appeared - with the Nottingham issue containing a duplicated slip condemning

IMG.

Subsequently, the

IMG

leadership presented the Not- tingham tendency women with a statement sayıng that they fully approved of • the new •Socialist Woman', "personal reasong:" and that pre- vented them being active in the Nottingham group. In fact, of course, they did not approve the change and they had been barred trom activity in the Nottingham group by the IMG • leadership. When they refused to sign this statement on the grounds that it contained lies, they were charged. All this came to a head at the 1971 Congress. The attitude of Jordan, Tariq Ali and com- pany at this conference is best illustrated by one of their supporters who resigned from IMG on the grounds that they hie not been tough enough with the minority tendency.

We quote: 'Comrade T.W. at the "kangaroo" majority meeting of November 6 and 7, 1971, told the meeting explicitly that democratic centralism was not a necessary principle of Leninist organization and that It was at this Women's Liberation dem 'Socialist Woman' appeared, the Nottin the IMG was only "sometimes democratic centralist" and this was quite sufficient.' (Page 124.)

Nowhere in the 151-page long report of the Fact-Finding Commission is this challenged.

Be that as it may, at the 1971 IMG Congress prominent IMG members who were sup- porters of the tendency were National removed from the Committee. In fact, tendency representation on the NC was halved, from two to one, although its support at the Congress was doubled. removed NC members were for belonging to the tendency 'too soft' on it. or for being (Page 82.) Equal time with majority National Committee presenta- tion was not given to tendency documents on the grounds that nothing had the tendency 'new' to say. In 'relevant' or minority tendency fact, the minutes given ten on was Women's Liberation and seven minutes on youth work. (Page 95.) was, indeed, ample There justification for the complaint of the minority tendency that: 'The method of election of the leadership at the national conference, with the full know- ledge of the supporters of the majority, effectively excluded from the NC the views of those comrades in Scotland who, at that time, indicated their sup- port of the general line of the tendency documents.' (Page 87.)

By this time, IMG was in such a state of internal collapse, that Jordan and company were compelled to ask the Unified Secretariat to come in and sort This was the reason it out. for the Fact-Finding Com- mission. But even this created prob- It was at this Women's Liberation demonstration in March, 1971, that two separate versions Nottingham publication carrying a slip condemning the IMG.

hard-liners felt lems. Several that the should minority 'dealt with' simply have been and about with no International Commissions.

One NC member wrote to the NC in the crudest terms hoo people, being let objecting to off the 'We have pissed about on The this long enough. Con- ference was six months ago. Resolutions have been passed NCs like confetti and still at What do the PC prevaricates. comrades, the latter not on select body, have to do to get the PC to carry out decisions?

*The trouble is that you, the PC, are allowing yourselves to

SWP

be intimidated by the Each incon- and its allies. sistent action will add to the of the opposition al gullello We must proceed with the quickly, charges otherwise the SWP will make shit of us.'

(Pages 77-78.) How did the Unified Sec- retariat deal with this situation of within of open war one their sections? By both sides to get together and work amicably! They with did not deal single political in the sordid They instructed the

IMG

simply leadership to withdraw all dis- measures - and this ciplinary was not by any means due to regard for democratic ally centralism. When a minority was ex- ellec from the Socialist Party for political disagreement (and subsequently became the American Workers' League) the Unified Secretariat showed no such touching con- cern for minority rights.

What they were concerned the case of the IMG with in nat two separale versions of the journal a slip condemning the IMG.

was simply patching up a dying organization in order to pre- serve a 'section' in Britain in opposition to the only real Trotskyist movement in this country-the Socialist Labour League. So the Unified Secretariat receiving the report on its Fact-Finding Commission, simply said: drop all charges and find something that those who have fundamental dis- do so they agreements can don't have to leave the organ- ization. Let them do 'defence work, the expansion of British circulation of "Intercontinental Press" , and the abortion-con- traception campaign - where their specific opinion cannot come into conflict with efficient and enthusiastic engagements'.

(Page iv.) If Lenin had sought, after 1903 Congress the of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, to find fields of work for the Mensheviks 'where their specific opinion' could not 'come into conflict with efficient and enthusiastic engagement' there would have • no revolution in Russia been in 1917. And the political methods of the Unified Secretariat as re- vealed in the IMG case would prevent a revolution in this country — if it were left to them. However, it will not be left to them. There is a principled Trotskyist organization in this country the Socialist Labour League. And our organization will, as part of the preparation the British for revolution, politically destroy revisionism in every form in which it shows itself.

CONCLUDED

What has happened to Sir nat Gordon Newton, the 'fighting' 'crusading' editor the 'Financial Times'? He has left the editorship and been pro- moted to the board of the parent company. But just to ensure that he doesn't suffer in retirement, Newton has grabbed the chair- manship of Vavasseur, the banking and investment group.

Having served the City of London so faithfully in the Press, Newton now goes off to join the financial establish- ment. On his departure the Tory Press began a chorus of praise for the man who ran the 'Financial Times' for almost 20 years. A discordant from note David Malbert, city editor of 'Evening Standard'. He revealed the other day a hidden subject of Newtonisms. New- ton, it seems, is prone to the most sensational faux pas.

Briefing a writer on one occasion, Newton declared: It's right up your pigeon.'

On another occasion, ex- pressing his desire to support a friend, he said: 'I'd slip over backwards to help him.' Referring to a painting on somebody's wall, he commented that it was 'an excellent Rio Tinto'. Malbert reports that a book of these astonishing statements might be compiled of the sayings of the luminary who guided the editorial policy of the 'FT' for a generation.

French radical leader Jean- Jacques Servan - Schreiber, author of the best-selling book 'The American Challenge', , sees Americans as defeating the their European rivals in con- quering the market in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

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Antonio Delfin Netto, the chubby-cheeked Minister of the Brazilian Treasury, has won a reputation for welcoming foreign invest- ment in every branch of the Brazilian economy. He recently rebuffed critic- ism that had led to a this concentration of the power of the foreign banks from Rio to Sao • Paulo which threatened the national future . 'Fear of concentration of capital has no basis in fact.

organized economies be- tween 80 and 90 per cent of the market is controlled by • than eight to ten no more banks.' What then is the state of play • in the Netto-sponsored banking-houses, in the land that Michael Clapham of the Confederation of British In- dustry. • (CBI) insists the first capitalist nation in the world may have to copy. Let us take a look at the investment banks. The largest is the Banco Real de Investmento, an Fidel Castro's alliance with the of regime anti-working-class Velasco, the Peruvian Juan dictator, has, to say the least, sinister overtones. At the beginning of Decem- ber, the Havana government entertained another Peruvian The dele- military delegation. by Lt- gation headed was Gen Eduardo Rojas, Pre- Armed sident of Peruvian Forces Joint Command, and included the chiefs of staff of the air-force, army and navy.

Rojas personally congratu- lated cadets who put on an 'impressive' demonstration of anti-tank defence as well as a display by tank crews. The schools visited by the military were decorated with full-scale pictures of Velasco and children sang the Peruvian national anthem after shouting •Peru, Cuba, united and vic- torious'. Lt-Gen Rojas commented that the event was 'unforget- table, making us feel in this friendly land the same emotions and patriotism as if we were in our own country. As he left the school, the chant began of 'Viva Peru!'

Velasco, out and Right on, with the Yankees!' The official daily in Lima, 'The Peruvian', has just re- ported the granting of a $20m loan to the National Develop- ment Corporation-COFIDE by the First National City Bank of the United States. This report confirms an earlier bulletin from City Bank vice- President Walter Johnson.

Workers Press, Saturd l'c affiliate of the Adela invest- ment company which has its headquarters in Brussels.

Next in the ladder is the corporatist 'miracle' of the Medici police state-Bradesco.

But Bradesco has been en- gaged in long negotiations with the Union of Brazilian Banks, large sections of which are owned by the Deltec Banking Corporation, of Deltec Chicago, of the Rockefeller Group Third in rank is InvestBank, a real international centre whose stock is owned by the Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt, the Credit Lyonnais of Paris, Hill, Samuel and Company of London and late of the AUEW, the Banco Nazionale of Italy, the First National City of New York and the Banco Popular Español of Madrid. The Fuji Bank of Tokyo also has a toe- hold in InvestBank. Further down in the invest- league table is an in- ment stitution as Crefisul known which has just filled entire pages of the Brazilian Press to announce its association with the First National City Bank of New York, 'crowning a A Peruvian peasant woman displays a against the struggle of peasants and i dollar speculators grow rich, protected t 38, Saturday December 16, 1972 PAGE 9 Rockefeller (foreground facing camera) surrounded by heavy guard on a visit to Latin America.

process of understanding be- tween the two institutions, always identified with the common aim of serving the development of Brazil'. At the same time, Crefisul announced finance of more than $4m for Rhodia, a sub- sidiary of Rhone-Poulenc of Paris, one of largest the chemical firms in the world.

Rhodia has quickly gathered funds for building a new fac- injected via tory. The sum Crefisul from the comes Federal Economic Fund which is in theory accumulated for Social Security. The penetration of foreign capital is no less evident in the commercial banks. Chase Manhattan recently took over, to mention just one example, the Banco Brasiliero to 'pro- vide new and agressive services in the financial area', declared David Rockefeller in Rio in November. But that's another story in the multifarious acti- vities of capital in Netto's Brazil. 0T N17:

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PAGE 10 Workers Press, Saturday Decemb CHANNEL: 11.10 Merrie melodies.

11.35 Puffin. 11.40 Bonanza. 12.30 London. 5.10 On the buses. 5.49 London. 7.00 Film: 'Brush Fine' 8.30 Burt Bacharach. 9.30 Up- stairs, downstairs. 10.30 London.

10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 All our yes- terdays. 11.55 Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 10.45 Woobinda. 11.35 Gus Honeybun. 11.55 Faith for life.

12.00 Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 Let them live. 10.35 Stingray. 11.05 Cowboy in Africa.

Merrie melodies. 12.27 12.00 Weather. 12.30 London. 5.10 Per- suaders. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Posse From Hell'. 8.30 London.

10.40 News. 10.50 "The Film: Tattered Dress'. 12.30 Weather.

Guideline.

HARLECH: 9.00

London. 9.50 Bugs Bunny. 10.00 Tomfoolery show. 10.30 Sesame street. 11.30 Joe Farming diary: 90. 12.00 12.30 London.

5.10 UFO. 6.10

London. 7.00 Film: "The Forgotten Man'. 8.30 Burt Bacharach. 9.30 Upstairs, downstairs. 10.30 Lon- don. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Name of the game. 12.45 Weather.

HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as above 5.10 Turnbull's except: finest half hour. 5.40-6.10 Sion a sian. 10.00 ANGLIA: 9.00 London. Rovers. 10.25 Film: 'Follow That Dream'. 12.20 Cartoon. 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 Lon- don. 7.00 Film: 'Prince of Pirates'.

10.40 Aquarius. 8.30 London. 11.30 Film: 'Night Caller'.

ATV MIDLANDS: 9.15 You and your golf. 9.40 Collecting on a shoestring. 10.10 A place in the country. 10.35 Survival. 11.00 Car- Tomfoolery. 11.30 Noc 11.05 toon. Osmonds. 12.00 Elephant boy.

REGIONAL TV

CHANNEL: 11.00-12.25 London.

2.13 Weather. 2.15 London, 3.15 Film: 'Don't Ever Leave Me'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty.

6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'The •Rolls Royce'. 10.00 Lon- Yellow don. 11.20 Spyforce. 12.10 Epi- logue. Weather. WESTWARD. As Channel except: 9.30 London. 10.30 Let them live.

Gardening today. 12.55 12.25 Collecting on a shoestring. 1.20 Barry John talks to George Best.

1.55 Farm 1.45 Gus Honeybun. and country news. 12.10 Faith for life. 12.15 Weather. SOUTHERN: 9.15 Talking hands.

10.30 Farm pro- 9.30 London. gress. 10.57 Weather. 11.00 Lon- don. 12.30 Bush boy. 1.00 Super- man. 1.20 Primus. 1.50 Hogan's 2.15 London. 3.15 Bev- heroes. erly hillbillies. 3.45 Golden shot.

4.40 Aquarius. 5.30 News. 5.35 Black beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Once Upon A Dead Man'.

9.50 Film diary. 10.00 London.

11.05 Jason King. 12.10 Weather.

Guideline. HARLECH: 9.30 London. 10.30 All our yesterdays. 11.00 London.

12.30 A place in the country. 1.00 University challenge. 1.25 Love, American style. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: 'Village of Daughters'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty.

6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'War of the Worlds'. 9.30 Mr. and Mrs.

10.00 London. 11.20 Department S. 12.20 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as above except: 6.40-7.25 Serch hudol. ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 10.30 Sur- vival. 11.00 London. 12.30 Arthur.

1.50 Weather. 12.55 Champions. 1.55 Farming. 2.30 Name of the game. 3.55 Match. 4.45 Golden 6.05 5.35 Black beauty. shot. London. 7.55 Film: 'Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie'. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.20 Department S. ATV MIDLANDS: 9.30 London.

10.30 All our yesterdays. 11.00 ing Citizens' London. 12.30 rights. pro 2.00 Soccer. 1.00 Champions. 3.00 Film: 'Man in the Moon'. Go shot. 5.35 Black 6.0 4.40 Golden beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Will Penny'. 10.00 London. 11.20 Loi y December 16, 1972 12.30 London. 5.15 It takes a thief. 6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Man in the Attic'. 8.30 Burt Bacharach. 9.30 Upstairs, down stairs. 10.30 London. 10:40. Aqua- "The Priest 11.30 Film: ULSTER: 11.00 Thunderbirds.

12.00 Woobinda. 12.30 London.

5.15 Lucy show. 5.40 Sportscast.

6.10 London. 7.00 Cartoon. 7.10 and wife. 8.30 Burt McMillan Bacharach. 9.30 Upstairs, down- stairs. 10.30 London. 10.40 Aqua- Per- rius. 11.30 Journey to the un- known. YORKSHIRE: 9.15 Let them live.

on a shoestring. 9.40 Collecting 10.10 Osmonds. 10.35 Follyfoot.

11.05 Film: 'Tarzan and the Ama zons'. 12.30 London. 5.10 Riptide.

6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'Law and 1.30 Order'. 8.30 London. 10.40 Aqua- 11.30 Mod squad. 12.30 rius. Weather. GRANADA: 11.00 Sesame street.

12.05 Clapperboard. 12.30 Lon- don. 5.10 Sky's the limit. 5.40 Doctor at large. 6.10 London.

7.00 Mr. Magoo. 7.05 Film: The Feminist and the Fuzz'. 8.25 Lon- don. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Sea- n a way. TYNE TEES: 9.15 Wild life thea- 9.40 Collecting on a shoe- string. 10.10 10.35 2.30 Follyfoot. 11.05 Film: and the Amazons'. 12.30 London.

les'. 5.10 Riptide. 6.10 London. 7.00 ius. Film: 'Hangman's Knot'. 8.30 Lon- don. 10.40 Aquarius. 11.30 Edgar Wallace. 12.30 Epilogue. GRAMPIAN: 12.00 Tomfoolery show. 12.30 London._5.10 UFO.

6.10 London. 7.00 Film: 'High Noon'. 8.30 London. 10.40 Aqua- rius. 11.30 Jason King. Spyforce. 12.15 Stories worth telling. Weather. ULSTER: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- ing on shoestring. 1.30 HR a Pufnstuf. 1.55 Women_ only. 2.15 London. 3.15 Film: "Elopement'.

Black 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 beauty. 6.05 London. 7.53 Sports results. 7.55 Film: "The Yearling'.

10.00 London. 11.15 Department S.

GRANADA: 9.30-10.30

London. 10.35 Time to remember. 11.00 12.25 Merrie melodies. London. 1.00 Saint. 1.50 Untamed world. 2.20 Football. 3.20 Film: 'Rock Around the Clock'. 4.40 Golden beauty. 6.05 shot. 5.35 Black London. 7.55 Film: 'The Long Duel'. 10.00 London. 11.20 Scot- land Yard casebook. TYNE TEES: 9.30 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 You your golf. 11.00 London. and 12.30 Jimmy Stewart show. 1.00 Farming. 1.25 World War I. 1.50 •jobs are. 1.55 Felix Where the the cat. 2.15 London. 3.55 Film: 'The Huggetts Abroad' 4.45 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty.

6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'The Last Safari. 10.00 London. 11.20 Chal- lenge. 12.10 Epilogue. YORKSHIRE: 9.20 Chess master- pieces. 9.30 London. 10.30 You and your golf. 11.00 London.

12.30 Nanny and the professor.

1.00 Farming. 1.25 Calendar. 1.55 Soccer. 1.50 Film: Just For You'.

Golden shot. 5.35 Black 4.45 Iden beauty. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 9.

6.05 'The Last Safari'. 10.00 London.

11.20 It takes a thief. 12.15 Wea- 9.

ther. GRAMPIAN: 11.00 London. 12.30 You and your golf. 1.00 Collect- .shoestring. 1.30 Farm ing on a progress. 2.00 Sport. 3.25 Film: *Pirates of Blood River'. 4.40 Golden shot. 5.35 Black beauty 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: 'Paths of Glory'. 9.25 Adam Smith. 10.00 London. 11.20 Untouchables.

3.00 Film: 'The Unfinished Dance'.

Margaret O Brien, Cyd Charisse, Karin Booth, Danny Thomas. A ballet student tries to prevent an experienced dancer from taking the place of her favourite balle- rina. 4.35 Play away. 5.00 African safari. 5.50 Man Alive.

6.45 TELEVISION DOCTOR.

7.00 WESTMINSTER

NEWS AND SPORT. Wea- 7.20 ther. 7.35 RUGBY SPECIAL. Scot- land v New Zealand. 8.20 WAR AND PEACE. For- tunes of War. FULL HOUSE. Introduced 9.05 by Joe Melia. Including André Previn with Kyung Wha Chung, Adhocism. 10.00 Countdown with Sheila Hancock and Clive Dunn. Adrian Mitchell, Le Grand Magic Circus. 10.50 Zinotchka, film adaptation of short story by Chekhov.

11.20 NEWS ON 2. Weather.

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9.00 Jobs around the house. 9.30 Getting your money's worth. 9.55 10.20 Return to Peyton Place. Sesame street. 11.20 Merrie melo- dies. 11.30 Osmonds. 11.50 Junior police five. 12.00 Partridge family.

12.30 News. 12.35 World of sport.

12.40 On the ball. 1.05 Interna- tional sports special. 1.20 ITV seven. 1.30, 2.00, 2.30, 3.00 Rac- ing from Nottingham. 1.45, 2.15, 2.45 Racing from Catterick. 3.10 International sports special. Rally- cross and scrambling. 3.50 Re- sults. scores, news. 4.00 Wrest- 4.50 Results service. 5.10 ling Adventures of Black Beauty. 5.40 Sale of the century.

NEWS.

6.10

THE REG VARNEY REVUE.

6.15 Dorothy Squires, Guests Semprini, Mrs. Mills, Joe (Mr. Piano) Henderson.

FILM: 'THE OUTRIDERS'.

7.00 Joel McCrea, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan. Three Southern prisoners escape during the Civil War.

NEW SCOTLAND YARD.

8.30 The Money Game.

BURT BACHARACH AND

9.30 ASSOCIATES. Guests An- thony Newley, Vikki Carr, Sammy Davis Jr.

NEWS.

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RUSSELL HARTY PLUS.

SIX CENTURIES OF SONG.

11.40 11.45 McCLOUD. New Mexican Connection. Dennis Wea ver. Queeg, the man whose marbles aren't

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6.05 NEWS.

6.15 ADAM SMITH

6.45 THE BIG QUESTION.

7.00

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William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosa- lind Russell, Susan Stras- berg. A stranger arrives one hot summer's day in a small Kansas town and changes people's lives.

10.00 NEWS.

10.15 PLAY: 'THE PIANO

PLAYER'. Clive Revill, Gareth Forwood, Angha- rad Rees, Cyril Shaps, David Waller. 11.20 UFO. Timelash.

12.15 SIX CENTURIES OF SONG.

12.20 SCALES OF JUSTICE. The Undesirable Neighbour.

Tories increase stranglehold

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORIES have tightened their strangle- hold on the BBC by the appointment of Professor Sir Michael Swann as the new chairman. Swann, the vice-chancellor of Edinburgh University, is a noted right-winger. In the first interview since he took over, said with accustomed Swann superiority that his students "per- thought that he was ceptibly to the right of Genghis Khan' may or may not be so. This What is known, however, is that has contributed to the Swann Black Papers on education, a series of tracts arguing for the of universities for preservation a privileged élite. His article was entitled 'Student Trouble-Edinburgh and Beyond'.

gist of his argument was The that 'authority' had to exert it- self over those who challenged it. It was the responsibility of those in power to stand up against those who tried to under- mine them. He has also delivered a number of lectures to staff and students along these general lines. One was called 'Flight from Reason' GASWORKERS in Bristol were strike yesterday over the sacking of two of their number on grounds of discipline.

The 400 workers involved claimed that the South Western had shown 'lack of Gas Board compassion'. It had failed to use dişputes machinery before carrying out the sackings.

Drivers, fitters b cleaners and other workers Board's Bristol district offices at Bedminster, formed the core of the strike. Eric Edwards, regional officer of the General and Municipal Workers' Union, said the 400 were seeking support from gas in other towns board workers in the area. The Board was re- fusing to discuss the issue until working was resumed. normal Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign

THIS SUNDAY

CENTRAL LONDON

All Trades Unions Alliance meeting (Press and Entertainments branch) RSC Rehearsal Rooms, Floral Street, WC2, 7 p.m. 'Press Freedom in Britain and Ireland Lynch law and Toryism' Speaker: Alex Mitchell (Workers Press) BRADFORD: Sunday December 17, 7.30 p.m. 'Talbot Hotel', Kirk- gate. No tines on the unions'.

AUEW speakers. LONDON TEACHERS: Monday December 18, 8 p.m. Caxton Hall (near St James's Park tube).

SKELMÈRSDALE: Monday De- cember 18, 7.30 p.m. Quarry Bank Community Centre.

•SHEFFIELD •

Monday December 18, 7.30 p.m.

'The Foresters Inn' Division Street 'Defend the Engineering Union.

Force the Tories to resign'.

and in June this year he made another veiled attack on students in a diatribe entitled 'Events and Non-Events'. A MAN described as a 'kind band' has been sentenced to : under the Race Relations Act.

James Hamilton, attendant, appeared in Leeds Crown Court charged with offences likely to stir up racial hatred. He was found guilty of pub- lishing written matter which was threatening, guilty of distributing matter which written was threatening and guilty of one charge of possessing an offensive weapon. ROCHDALE: Tuesday December 19, 8 p.m. Rochdale Town Hall.

MEDWAY: Tuesday December 19, 8 p.m. "The Greyhound', Roches- ter Avenue, Rochester. CAMBRIDGE: Tuesday December "The Mitre', Bridge 19, 8 p.m. Street. 'Fight rising prices'.

CLAPHAM: Tuesday December 19, 8 p.m. Clapham-Manor Baths, Manor SW4. Clapham Street, 'Force the Tories to resign'.

KINGSTON: Tuesday December p.m. The Swan', Mill 19, 8 Street. Way forward for trade unionists'. SWANSEA: Wednesday December 20, 7.30 p.m. YMCA. 'Defend the AUEW. Force the Tories to re- SOUTH EAST LONDON: Thurs- cils of Action'. CLAY CROSS: Thursday Decem- Derby Road. Fight any neet 'Fight Tory rent ises!' 'Make this government resign.' In this speech he said that confrontations in the university were engineered by people whose authority im- attitude to was And he criticized the mature. Edinburgh Student Representative Council too often being dominated by activists. In other words, good old Tory stuff! They say the same about the dockers, the miners, the engineers, etc., etc. Since 1968 Swann has been in two big disputes with the student body. When the students wanted to install a contraceptive machine, the rector, Malcolm Muggeridge, resigned in a fit of absurd anger.

In the ensuing fracas Swann down on Mug- clearly came geridge's side. In 1970 students began to ask It the university had any financial interests in the racist republic The general of South Africa. council issued a public statement denying that it held shares in companies. How- South African ever, students were later able to prove that the university had a t500,000 investment there.

authorities then The were forced to admit that their first 'misleading'. statement was Swann During these uproars frequently showed anger at the a 'kind, generous, loving hus- ced to a year's jail for charges Detective Peter Inspector had 12 Walker said Hamilton involving previous convictions 19 offences. Nine of these were offences of violence and three offences possessing were of offensive weapons. was said in court that It Hamilton wanted to train white gangs to exterminate coloured people. Mr Barry Mortimer, OC, de- fending Hamilton, told the jury: 'He is taking no different stand than a Powellite stand. Whether you disagree heartily with it or agree heartily, he is entitled to take that stand.' In evidence Hamilton said that his White Alliance Party aimed to get the three major parties to accept that Britain had a race problem. On the opening day of the trial it had been stated that Hell's Hamilton had urged Angels, skinheads and Crombie boys to band together to stir up hatred against Asians and to in- fight them. He denied any tention to stir up hatred, but said he believed that immigration should be stopped and the Race Relations Act abolished. Mr Justice Summing up, said: There Wrangham is a political aspect to this case which is closely bound up with the case made against Hamilton.

'There are differing political opinions on immigration and both were legitimate opinions.

'We are not in the stage where we commit a criminal offence if we disagree with the govern- ment's policy of the day.'

AIRLINE - workers at Heathrow airport, London, staged a light- ning strike yesterday because they claimed their firm had told a young colleague to get a haircut.

Management staff left their desks to shift cargo after the unofficial walk-out from freight carriers, Seaboard World Airlines. Workers Press, Saturday December 16, 1972 PAGE 11

BARNSLEY

Sunday December 17 Revolutionary theory and the Marxist Party media'. students used the way He seemed to think that students

RED LION HOTEL

received much coverage by too (Worsborough) 8 p.m. Press and television. Lectures given This is a brief biography of by Cliff Slaughter the man Heath has selected to (SLL Central Committee) and control the state-run radio television network. He replaces Lord Hill, a former Tory Minister. At a Press con-

SHEFFIELD

Swann ference in London said that had said he a newspaper would be 'neither too permissive Monday January 8 authoritarian'. This is nor t00 right, he said. Marxism and the Another report said he would revolutionary party be 'very much in the back seat'.

FORRESTERS HALL

Swann distnissed this view.

Trippett Lane, 7.30 p.m. I am not sure this is my style.

I want to be in the front seat alongside the Director-General who will be doing the driving. and the board of governors

TODMORDEN

will be doing the map reading— deciding where we are going.

It responsibility will be our in Monday January 8 planning where we will go.

'The economic crisla' A measure of where the BBC Monday January 22 will go can be gauged from the of 'Stalinism' fact that the first telegram received congratulations he was Monday February 5 from Mrs Mary Whitehouse, the Trotskyism' former Moral-Rearmer and noW of the Festival of Light head

THE WEAVERS' INSTI-

brigade.

TUTE,

Burnley Road, 7.30 p.m. A HUNDRED people will lose their jobs when a cotton mill closes in Stockport, Cheshire,

HULL

early next year, it was announ- ced yesterday. 'A few of them Wednesday January 10 might be willing to go to one Stalinism and Trotskylsm of our mills in Yorkshire', said a Wednesday January 24 spokesman for Carpets Inter- Marxist theory and the revolu- national, which owns Stockport's tionary party Spur Doubling Mill. "That's the

WHITE HART HOTEL

nearest other mill in the group'.

Alfred Gelder Street The Stockport mill has pro- (near Drypool Bridge) duced cotton chain yarn to back made i in other 8 p.m. carpets group mills for the last 18 years.

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MANSFIELD Hosiery company, Loughborough-hit by a seven-week strike of 500 workers-yesterday Asian indicated they would not re- deploy workers taken on during the strike. Scott, for the company, Peter told the final day of the govern- ment committee of inquiry into the dispute, held in Nottingham, moves 'would such that any crystallize resentment on the shop floor. strikers, Bob Hepple For the told the inquiry, chaired by former Labour Minister Kenneth Robinson, who is now personnel chief for British Steel, that the evidence of racial discrimination at the factory was 'overwhelming'.

PRENDERGAST ... Confidence ?

He appealed to the inquiry to 'give • lead elsewhere' a on question of job discrimination among immigrant workers. Peter Prendergast, president of the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers, said he hoped in future the Asians would have confidence in the union and would take notice of advice given to them. At Thursday's hearing it was revealed that union officials knew of large-scale recruitment by the company during the strike, but did not supply this information to the strikers. The Asian workers planned to end their strike on November 27. But as soon as they returned to the factory, they discovered the 41 trainee knitters had been installed. The strike re-started immediately. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Workers Press, Office. Published by Street, London, 186& Clapham High

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BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

MEAT PRICES will rise this weekend by an extra 2p to 4p a pound, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fish- eries and Food announced yesterday. It is the fourth consecutive weekend that meat prices have edged up.

The Ministry said there is in Britain is highlighted in a re- the also expect to be an average port published yesterday by Organization for Economic Co- 2p home-killed increase in and Development operation lamb. The prices of meat,

(OECD).

vegetables and fruit are allowed to rise in this fashion The communiqué, issued in said British because Paris, that prices not come were rising at an annual rate of under the legislation. the six nearly months leading up to the break- cent The 90-day Act specifically ignores these basic commodi- down of the tripartite talks.

ties. This is a far more accurate In other words, while wages figure than the 8 per cent which are held down -under pain of Tories the and the

CBI

talk unlimited fines in the criminal about. courts—prices and dividends are Britain had the worst record allowed to regardless. soar up in Europe for the The outcome of such a situation rising prices, millions said. The annual rate of clear enough: of report working-class families are having price inceases was 4.3 per their standard of living drasti- in the six months to April, but it rose to 11.8 per cent in cut as the Tories rush into the cally the Common Market. next six months to October 31.

Britain is not the only victim It should be noted that the 2p of the inflationary crisis, rises which the Tories so glibly but it is the hit. The annual something worst announce amount to of price increases through- like 5d in the old pace currency. They began their prices fraud at Europe has accelerated to an average of 9.6 per cent. This the time of Decimalization and is the fastest European inflation they haven't let up since.

Korean officials since the war, The roaring state of inflation said.

MINERS'

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

leaders and the National Coal Board have formed a 'united front' over a 'unity of interest' had been a fuel plan for Europe. This is Coal established between the despite a policy of total opposi- Board and the unions. This sen- tion to entry into the Common timent was supported by colliery overmen's Joe Craw- Market on the part of the secretary, ford, who is also this year's TUC National Union of Mine- chairman. workers. But both Ezra and Gormley The plan i was unveiled yester- insisted that there was no ques- day by

NCB

Derek chief Ezra European Coal and tion of the and the right-wing president of Steel Community dictating terms the NUM, Joe Gormley. of or rundown of the expansion British industry. Gormley said he would be fighting for 'British interests' in community Ezra said the Europe when discussions on authorities had no mandatory fuel policy opened after entry over these matters. They month. He said approaches next would only make recommenda- would be made to the coal com- mittees of European tions. the trade unions-particularly in the main The policy argues for an ex- EEC producer country, Germany.

the British and pansion The NUM president added that European industry to deal with

WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

STEEL

INDUSTRY chiefs estimates Tory risk. Some went to see premier Edward Heath yesterday after- government's Closures at Irlam in Lancashire noon over the South Wales have already and plan to close large sections of been announced. the industry. The factor most The discussions are over- affecting Tory policy is entry into shadowed into the by entry Market. the Çommon Common Market and the policy The European Economic Com- of the European Coal and Steel mission has already stated that Community the to rationalize steel production should be con- industry. fined to several large groupings.

understand that five steel Apart from the 18,000 jobs cut- back already planned in Scotland, centres in Britain are envisaged.

Consett, ( Corby, The Commission has pointed steel plants at problems Shotton and Shelton are thought out that of the

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Decembe March through Brixton shopping centre Assemble 2 p.m. opposite Brixton Town Hall Meeting: Clapham Baths Clapham Manor Street 4 p.m.

OECD

The announcement comes on the heels of the Na- tional Institute of Economic and Social Research report which says that Britain cannot attain the 5-per-cent growth claimed by the Tories. This view shared by the CBI. For the working class it is a time for massive solidarity action against the common enemy-the government. All attempts to resolve the capi- talist crisis at the expense of the working class must be resisted totally. Prices and currency anarchy must be replaced by a planned socialist economy. This can only be done by forcing the Tories re-electing out of office and a Labour government which is in- structed to carry out socialist of nationalization policies basic industries, including the food combines. As part of the campaign against the Heath government, two London Councils of Action organized demonstrations today (See details above).

• Fight rising prices. • Make the Tory government resign. part of the Common Market 'energy gap', filled at present by 992 million tons of coal and oil imports from outside Europe and Britain. Ezra said the Community centres of Europe in the future would be in Britain and the Germany. Ruhr area of The Dutch industry was rapidly clos- ing down and the coalfield in northern France would not last because of bad geological con- ditions. Britain had the competitive edge on Europe, but costs would have to be kept down. This has a particular bearing on the substantial pay claim the leaders are to discuss with the NCB on January 10.

Gormley said there would be no discussion of this claim with heads of the European industry.

sector can be solved by steel 'Working out of measures which will allow the ordered integration into the : Common Market of a very few large concerns.'

It has warned that the British steel industry could 'threaten the Community's aim of achieving a fair competition in the steel sector. The Commission insists that any one group should not control more than 12-13 per cent of total European Production but the British Steel controlled his well above this Corporation • figure.

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ember 16 March through Wood Green and Tottenham Assemble 2 p.m. opposite Wood Green Town Hall Meeting Downhills Park Schoo 3 p.m.

BY JOHN SPENCER

CHANCELLOR

Anthony Barber made it clear yester- day that the sterling exchange rate will not be fixed before • 1, when Britain January enters the Common Market.

In a written Commons reply to a question from former In- dustry Minister Nicholas Ridley, Barber said he had decided con- ditions were 'not yet appropriate for a return to the maintenance of margins round a fixed parity.

Common Market central bankers meeting in Basle last weekend apparently gave up hope of seeing the pound parity fixed before British entry. Some of them think it will be well into the summer or later before Britain will be in a position to end the float. The central bankers also adopted a new set of rules for the settlement of intervention debts between the EEC coun- tries. The debts arise from the 'snake-in-the-tunnel' system which is supposed to be the first step to European monetary union. Under the system each central bank is obliged to maintain its currency within 2.25 per cent of its central rate with every other Common Market currency. The pound, of course, is at present an exception to this rule.

The original scheme adopted last April specified that coun- tries whose currencies were sup- ported within these margins by their countries should repay debts in proportion to the com- position of their reserves.

However Britain and Italy objected to paying in gold and rights under special drawing conditions where the free mar- ket gold price (over $60 an ounce) was almost twice the offi- cial price of $38 an ounce.

This objection was accepted by the Basle meeting, which de- cided that countries could choose between parting with their gold immediately to settle their debt or 'rolling over' the debt until 1975. By then, they hope, the offi- cial gold price will have been brought into line with the free market. This decision is a fur-.

ther indication that the two-tier gold system set up in 1968 has irretrievably broken down.

By accepting this forced re- treat, the central bankers have also seriously undermined the for monetary unifi- prospects cation within the Common Mar- ket—an essential if the Euro- pean employers are to fight the trade war on the same basis as the United States. 01-720 2000 01-622 7029