Workers Press no. 953

workers press

COURT TAKES ENGINEERS'

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY DECEMBER 22, 1972• No. 953 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ANOTHER BLACK DAY'

FOR TRADE UNIONISM

£69,250

SNATCH

BY JACK GALE AND DAVID MAUDE

IT TOOK the Industrial Relations Court only 15 minutes yesterday to order the seizure of £69,250 from the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.

Sitting with Judges R. Davies and Herman Roberts-the latter still a member of the National Union of Journalists-court president Sir John Donaldson instructed city stockbrokers Joseph Sebag to sell gilt-edge stock held in the name of trustees for the union.

The fines, imposed because of the union's refusal to admit Sudbury engineer James Goad into branch meetings, are likely to be paid over by the end of this week. But Goad, a strike-breaker, evangelist, and member of the Conservative The met who selzed the Party, could again attempt to get into the Sudbury branch when it meets next court after hearing that the Friday. If he turned was away once more, he could start a new contempt action in the court. Donaldson yesterday. em- phasized that the

CASH IN 15 MINUTES

nominal value of the stock to be sold did that the court not mead was increasing the fine. Never- theless, union faces Ener £5,000 bill for the Commis- sioners' costs, about £78 for the costs of the sale and also the legal costs incurred by Goad. £100 change expected balance of about ELO from the expected sale Is to be paid? back to te amon.

Richard Southwell, appearing said that commissioners, for possible Theoreucany 1 was them to seize typewriters or onel but they wanted fulfi three requirements Evangelist James Goad President Sir John the money. be ing Unions for a one-day stop These cheapness other unions were speed, • There mignt of 500,000 and of method that grounds for a dissenting member page on January choice Merseyside workers in engineer- consider action would cause as little hardship to or branch to shipbuilding, docks and the union as possible. against union for dissipatior building trades must be supported.

of union funds." Meanwhile, a lawyers' magazine But it has to be said that this this week that Quite clearly suggested preparations are going behind scenes for is not enough.

AUEW.

risk further legal on by the union action from right wingers within Turmer allacks For while these savage attacks is dan The te News 'dissipating the bourgeois courts assisted oy the working class on are being Journal Tory or right-wing Labour provo- Law unleashed, the

TUC

leaders membership. cateurs among back to Heath. cecared: was It yesterday announced that if the Under these circumstances, the That une It seem Prime Minister has agreed rule book of the AUEW resembles call by the Merseyside Confedera-

TUC

the economic com- . in any way the rule book of most tion of shipbuilding and engineer-

HICCE

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o selzed the fine. The two se cave sale of E69 hearing that they must organize the mittee at their request on Thurs- day, January 4. Although the TUC leaders claim to want such a meeting to pro- test at rising prices and govern- interference in wage ment the Tories will negotiations, clearly use it to lay down the line on phase two of their wages control policy. It is expected that Tory plans include extension of wage control by a further 60 days.

This step by the TUC leaders is a betrayal of the hundreds of thousands of workers who struck work this week to protect their unions against the Tories.

It is a betrayal also of trade union members like the farm- workers, hospital ancillary wor- kers, gasworkers and Post Office workers who are fighting for wage rises now. These leaders must be told immediately: 'No talks with the Tories!" The only way to defend living standards and trade union rights built up over 200 years is to call a General Strike to force the Tories to resign. That must be the demand from every union branch and every workplace.

the National Industrial Relations ale of £69,250 of the engineers' assets.

This is the third Christmas that the Plymouth Fine Tubes strikers, their wives and their 53 children, have spent on strike with very little money.

These men have waged bitter struggle for the most basic right a worker can possess-the right to belong to a trade union. Strike committee members have travelled 100,000 over miles to sustain their fight This Christmas is the hardest of all. It has imposed a great financial burden. Now the 37 strikers face the rest of the winter with a depleted strike fund. January is always a diffi- cult month to raise money to further their fight. Yet they are determined to fight on. This is a struggle the working class cannot afford to lose. That is why the Socialist Labour League and the Work- ers Press wishes to make a special appeal to all trade unionists to take collections in their factories and branches for the Fine Tubes men in order that their heroic and determined action can be car- ried forward. All money should be sent to: Fine Tubes Treasuren c/o 65 Bretonside Plymouth, Devon.

workers press

COURT TAKES ENGINEERS'

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY DECEMBER 22, 1972 • No. 953 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

ANOTHER "BLACK DAY'

FOR TRADE UNIONISM

£69,250

SNATCH

BY JACK GALE AND DAVID MAUDE

IT TOOK the Industrial Relations Court only 15 minutes yesterday to order the seizure of £69,250 from the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers.

Sitting with Judges R. Davies and Herman Roberts-the latter still a member of the National Union of Journalists-court president Sir John Donaldson instructed city stockbrokers Joseph Sebag to sell gilt-edge stock held in the name of trustees for the union.

The fines, imposed because of the union's refusal to admit Sudbury engineer James Goad into branch meetings, are likely to be paid over by the end of this week. But Goad, a strike-breaker, evangelist, and member of the Conservative Court ener hoaring that they The mon salzed Party, could again attempt to get into the Sudbury branch when it meets next Friday. If he turned was away once more, he could start a new contempt action in the court. Donaldson yesterday. em- phasized that nominal

CASH IN 15 MINUTES

the value of the stock to be sold did not mean that the was increasing the fine. Never- theless, ine £5,000 bill for the Commis- sioners' costs, about for the costs of the sale and also the legal incurred by Custo Goad. £100 change expected balance of about sale expected from to be paid Richard Southwell, appearing commissioners, said that for possible for uncoreucally It Was them to seize typewriters or ornel union but they wanted fulfil three requirements Evangelist James Goad President Sir John the money. unions there be ing Unions These speed, cheapness other might tor a WeTC and choice method grounds for a dissenting member page 19 Merseyside workers in engineer- consider action would cause as little hardship to or branch to shipbuilding, and ing, the union as possible. against union for dissipation cure building trades must be supported.

union funds.' Mested leis wyers mata zine But it has to be said that this Quite clearly preparations are suggested on behind scenes for is not enough.

AUEW

risk going further legal by union action from right The wingers within lurluci allacks For while these savage attacks its. ranks for the bourgeols assisic by the working class are being on funds •New Journal' Tory or right-wing Labour provo- The unleashed, the

TUC

Leaders membership. cateurs among Heath to was the announced that if the Under these circumstances, yesterday une seemns Prime Minister has agreed Confedera- rule book of the AUEW resembles call by the Merseyside

TUC

com- the economic • in any way the rule book of most tion or shipbullding and bugneel- BER 22, 1972 • No. 953 • 4p

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no. The too earing that they must organize the sale mittee at their request on Thurs- day, January 4. Although the TUC leaders claim to want such a meeting to pro- test at rising prices and govern- interference in ment wage negotiations, the Tories will clearly use it to lay down the line on phase two of their wages control policy. It is expected that Tory plans include extension of wage control by a further 60 days.

This step by the TUC leaders is a betrayal of the hundreds of thousands of workers who struck work this week to protect their unions against the Tories.

It is a betrayal also of trade like the farm- union members workers, hospital ancillary wor- kers, gasworkers and Post Office who are fighting for workers wage rises now. These leaders must be told immediately: 'No talks with the Tories!' The only way to defend living standards and trade union rights built up over 200 years is to call a General Strike to force the Tories to resign. That must be union the demand from every branch and every workplace.

• the Natonal Industrial Relations This is the third Christmas that the Plymouth Fine Tubes strikers, their wives and their children, have spent on strike with very little money.

have waged a These men bitter struggle for the most basic right worker a can possess-the right to belong to a trade union. Strike committee members have travelled over 100,000 miles to sustain their fight This Christmas is the hardest of all. It has imposed a great financial burden. Now the 37 strikers face the rest of the winter with a depleted strike fund. January is always a diffi- cult month to raise money to further their fight. Yet they are determined to fight on. This is a struggle the working i class cannot afford to lose. That is why the Socialist Labour League and the Work- ers Press wishes to make a special appeal to all trade unionists to take collections in factories and branches their the Fine Tubes men in for that their heroic and order determined action can be car- ried forward. All money should be sent to: Fine Tubes Treasuren c/o 65 Bretonside Plymouth, Devon.

PAGE 2 Workers Pross, Friday December 22, 1972 What we think Stalinist responsibility for terror bombing brace the butcher Nixon and collabo- THE TERROR-bombing of North Viet- rate in liquidating the revolution.

nam is an unequalled act of savagery The collapse of the secret Paris negotia- and barbarism by President Nixon and tions has shown that there can be no the US war-machine. Thousands of Vietnam until imperialism peace in civilians have been killed by the pat- ariven out ana lis agents removea Iron Vietnam is the highest point of once. world revolutionary rionless bstruarise of tern-bombing B52s since the Americans the struggle. demonstrates the cynically terminated the secret 'peace' the imperialists their power and when wealth is endangered. talks in Paris. shee is a reactin try peopia, a seen- is The intensity the bombing ence is a reactionary a scheme US des- Air Force since the ecuae.. TOr amasses anor troyed Hiroshima ana Nagasak. will them at the time of greatest danger to the end of World atomic weapons the revolution. This is true not only bombing is reason for the IL. Vietnam. but in every corner simple: the Vietnamese people dave te the globe. How peaceful can nnere De fused bow the knee to the armed co-existence between the exploiters and United States. Nixon has might of the they exploit? Isn't capilalist sol decided they must •e externalca. always maintained by bodies of 1ery armed men'? This treatment is being imposed on the In line with the treacherous perspective Vietnamese people as a warning to all of the British the Moscow bureaucrats. fight against Enose Walll Stalinists are still campaigning for pres perialism and be applied to Nixon to sign themselves from the tyranny of capital.

Vietnam. nine-point draft treaty should under illu- any

INO

Vietnam want agreemen -British as well as cion meat intenaisa- signed because the continuation of the American- -will try to mete out the same Indo-China revolutionary struggle workers fighting treatment on barbaric a serious obstacie to Delici • relations De basic rights here in britain anc tween Moscow and the imperialists. in the United States. This is a betrayal of the Vietnamese revo American of the attack The savagery lution and a negation of the fundamen the inheal treachery l the burea task international solid. socials! bureau. criminal treachery Vietnamese

WITN

struggle Reuters' and Peking. is not the task of socialists to put pres-

IVIOSCOW

correspondent reported from be washing sure imperialism to more gen- ton that Nixon is 'confident there would tee or less barbaric the Soviet backlash from no seas the violent charac- Union The task is to expose or China _over as US alrmen trundle their deadly loads towards waiting planes.

resume full-scale bombing North ter of imperialist rule and prepare the working class overthrow Vietnam-the most intensive in history.

operate in efforts to reach a settlement relaunch the bombing campaign follow- This is the breakdown of the Paris talks. why real sold. ing or me war. Peking. Us condemnation arity 'Despite wits Toe emanese workers and What price peaceful co-existence? Is this officials involves relentless struggle "And as the new US bombing campaign Moscow and Irom simply another name Tory government and the cand the went quiet diplo said they belleved the two major COn- Into lis thira day, and betrayal on an inter- collaboration would exert behind-the- were said to be in pro- munist Driush lullg class. duty Hanoi Washington, Moscow and influence on to try to gress between nationa sced „Lne ercmentaly seeills socialist revolutionaries is to Those who spread ilusions about the Dos Peking.' break moe mandasse reached last week in Indo-China revolution and aid its vic. sibilities peaceful co-existence and the Paris peace talks The Soviet Yet between the revolution- the peace and Chinese renewed There reports in Washington every possible were even alicalls. the Wash- that Soviet Anatole by y stalinist bureaucrats in tne fremin and anu described here in Done was in Peking have turned their backs on are aiding the imperialists and duping ington] as relatively indicating a advance Was the heroic Indo-Chinese fighters to em- the workers. cautious approach and a desire to co- Kissinger that tne Us was planning to Two Germanies German coal giant sign deal takes f93m nosedive German THE TREATY between the The Democratic German Federal Republic and public nas 2oRe rotes cess of rapid industrialization in the German Democratic Re- making it the hit The Ruhr is the heartland the past ten years, WEST GERMANY's biggest Their exports have been public was formally signed in by imposition of quotas in the Common Market and its de- the most economically - devanced coal combine, Ruhrkohle AG, of the problems facing the dupt index of the depth East Berlin yesterday. It only country in the COMECON (the the United States to Artene bloc of the eastern equivalent home remains to be ratified by the continued its nosedive into manuracturers. Common Market). But. with only same time, British entry into pean enolovers. two governments. Common Market means The Ruhr barons of the past is dwarfed the red this year with losses the 1/ million people, it This effectively conse- the division by German Fed- for the cultural expected to total up to f93m.

crates the Germant with the Bri- eral Republic of which Brandt is European marker resulting from World War II. tish Steel Corporation Chancellor years of hard of two a Press continental is the truit The West German monopolists AT cone ence an- The steel manu- report tor company's annual bargaining. moe Dureau• need markets in the east as they facturers have demanded allcaly report of the Soviet Union, men- said they expepted 1972 company that the BSC raise its oices ace growing convereve Dres of German Democratic the sure on the world market. They Market entry. They are also culIves of between 600 and 700 has build more and losses collaborating diD. million marks. proaches made by plant to DDR in which re-absorb the moder are compelve litt in pursuit of his Ostpolitik. meet competition from abroad.

Class unker cass The losses have occurred des- wiped out and the means huge subsidies from the Deen pite have of production been and the government rederal 50 years of Soviet Union mauonauzed North-Rhine-Westohalia The treaty is a step along this administration. The company which, at same saved from was the division ot Ger consecrates government interven- many into two states. tion earlier this year. 'celebrated' reaucracy the treaty agree me a Ruhrkohle

FIFTIETH

cele- worldwide formed at the step was anniversary end of the 1960s by pooling the brations of the founding of the which wile inDenausa coal-mining interests of the able it to maintain its rule. Soviet Union began Mos. It has Ruhr industrialists. They merged won a concession in the cow yesterday when President the their interests shave of the

ICCORON

Nikolai Podgorny addressed a tionalize the coal industry who ruled the Soviet Union for consumer government the at Soviet and 5,000 likely to be the expense of the almost 30 years of its existence. of the policy of 'social- next admit- meeung ol sequence foreign guests in the Palace of which the United Nations ted one to Cully s Many miners have already Congresses. the fact that the bureaucracy took over from the devarted dic joint commission of the two Ger.

but another 8,000 been sacked, able give no account of tator. manies will be set up to deal He told them: "This the at the That the Soviet Union has sur- with border problems. were announcca greatest Or SLOrY. end last month put While it entertains its friends' policy our country-after the Bolshevik two countries vived sno Al presenl into effect in the coming period.

The bureaucracy and hangers-on with or a result of its stewardship.

defended raontier separated heavily- Revolution'. inevitable eflects the and nationalized the in the east and the The situatio head Rue for tis sight-seeing uses suca occasions to due tended to stop people leaving the headache self-praise pretending speeches, it has to eco only while set race blanca celebrate revolutionary most serious crisis in the They nomv made bossole o occa- (erman barons since the death of 1917 and the con- the west. West Berlin sur- ning the influx cheap face cree

SONS

of the work- rounded the wall with fidence and courage by famous Japan, which is creating Moscow is decked out Irom 1961. such giants of red flags and portraits of Lenin, Its inability to organize the is not like v in- Come cit elected mi •roblems lor planned economy, to the that revolution by throwing the that the treaty will result but there is no mention of Josef dustry as the Mannesmann -com- bureaucracy off its back.

these barriers being removed. problem satisfy bine. or stain, ine blooatnirsty autoctal azralian

Workers Press, Friday December 22, 1972 PAGE 3 Labour Party NEC will not back rent rebels They're in for a

CLAY CROSS,

nasty shock. says Clay

WILL NOT

IMPLEMENT THE ACH

Cross leader

BY PHILIP WADE

LABOUR PARTY lead- Ineir decision is certain to fragment the ers have warned movement. And it is a sad Clay Cross is one of the they are heading for 0 Labour councils in Br pare S achpoen coderion. • lave nasty shock' following Blackpool conference ain which refuses to imple brought this about,' he their decision not to back added. ment carried resolution councillors who Finance Act. district up are against the Neu - SDeCIl: Throughout fight VUlT the Tories auditor has already been to instructing future penalized by weve mad Derbyshire Labour government for not increasing rents. town anc either from "They House or the have entirely mis presener at J D-unt councilos nt oy we should have Cories Labour judged Party and been collected Sownetect, Labour the NEC has the mood of the tenants,' we coud be in Clas Cros danger of losing the next weresony. une ausowned Cour bour Party's national exe- cillors fighting Tory election, ' he warned. Wellon told Artaul future to smash municipal cutive from number of pro-imple housing. yesterday. would Labour menan abour counclos He not In my. opinion they've have just lost nominations warned that there reimburse hit by fines splitting hairs all for next year's big been for not putting rents up.

Cilr 'shake-up' along. added Cilr Wellon North Throusnout Une policy Labour Party, with they HOve recr they wanTed WellOn This out of back was defeated 16 to 5.

could lee late not to herse clear out could soon be people being thrown if they're taking place throughout the This decision by the La- nize fines

DOS LIONS

Ene. fight. bour A march in Clay Cross rigal-Wing SHower enue country. Dangers 'Yesterday's bleak was

BRIANT COLOUR

That any new emn over womene forced either to reduce the work- slash force or wass SPECIAL REPORT by lan Yeats That is now about to happen.

We went on: 'Factory occupations will, WORKERS at Briant Colour Printings, Peckham, - of defeat without doubt. cero one south London, are on the brink of a major setback.

fight against blanket sackings which will Britain's entry For six months 120 men and 30 women have worked- into the Common Market. Workers Press and the in at the doomed factory in one of the longest and Socialist League have always insisted that most determined struggles in print trade history.

were the Takeovers linked political perspectine of no bilizin Now they are being asked union labour to accept a deal which falls unovemeni one force the Tories to resign and far short of their original elect Labour government objective of saving all the pledged to socialist policies, they would be ineffective. jobs at the factory. This was never more true than it is today. FIRST only about 40 of the total not too late to save -strone worklorce are all employed the jobs at Briant's. The by buyer Mr David Brockdorff if the acal goes ately be turned into an occupa- tion.

SECOND

there no to be dic Unless there is unofficial strikes for two years.

zalallet that every ane woman THIRD Brockdorff has made it the factory will remain em- that he wants no pay ployed, Brockdorff's offer must demands for two years •e cecica our or land nanonal arreements Work-in leaders must raise will be honoured.

THE RIGHT

the demand at : once for industry-

FOURTH

there wide strike action to defend thei is to be maxi- mum goodwill and productivity basic right to a job and a living

TO WORK

wage. work force slashicu to make the factory pay. And resolutions must be raised at the branches of other unions A spokesman Ior tne pledging full support to their committee refused to comment fight. but it is

TO WURA

deal yesterday, on the walked The struggle must now be

OU L

of a joint union-Brockdorff Press waged with all the determination the Connaught and resources the men and conference Briant's Rooms on December 13 women can blustel Brockdorff's offer, 1 here Is non o-unet way Desoile save their jobs and protect their laid which is expected be conditions. before liquidator Mr P. • Granville we under- In the long term, escalating un- White any udy stand that _the work-in coloracal Lut Old Kent Road factory is going trades wil on v be nated torough Inside the factory during the early days of the work-in.

the natior lations the in aust Olle under workers' control The Joint Chapels Negotiating without restoring the factory to profit- employer that he must trade union conditions in order compensalon Committee, lea by mr bill rree- This be done *'employ print exi man, has been under heavy ability. use the pur- Colou will bv a buver. nOL employ workers must examine what hap- Tory government. The Briant from print union poses Dressure Brockdorff (42) has his head- pened at UCS in order avoid their fight as workforce at their present oficials to accept the deal.

quarters at what same dangers for their own the campaign to mobilize NATSOPA, the NGA, SOGAT 11, 1972, web-offset division of Electrical August we work-in' The trade union anoabour move until he warned: Walthamstow ment in a General Strike to force ranging from After six months those dangers a similar situation at UCS, government out sullis bought •ano revived Jast In now loom imminently. and January. week m benells Labour gov- eventuallv forced ot olce and elect a were has been clearly intimated to the 15, 1972, after to accept a four-year, no-strike September pledged This summer he bought Un ernmen socialist work-in that such ledge and the disappearance of talks with the liquidator, we said: policies. Printers Northern ale payments cannot be made much turned £60,000 loss into a longer. profit of similar proportions.

BOOKS - AN IDEAL XMAS PRESENT

The print unions feel Briant Colour now 'cold' the He makes his money by buy- 'ailing' businesses, trim- public mind and the Brockdorff ing A wide selection of paperbacks—special giftpacks— ming the workforce and insisting oner is very mansance If the work-in goes on against maxima children's books all available from we understand they those who remain. their advice,

PAPERBACKS «CENTRE

would be The 'concession' Brock- ned celal lo only their backing. dorff has made is a promise They have been concerned re-employ workers sacked from the deteriorating chances the factory as quickly as pos- about of sible over the next two years SOILe and took the negotiations with 28 Charlotte St

OPEN:

The point ud the hacked med Brockdorff largely into their own find sacked men 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon-Thur: to hands. 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. Friday temporary employment. London W1 Brockdorff and the ' unions began, disne ysne2tl, 1972, we skii: Five days after work-in y a.m.o p.m. saturday have expressed satisfaction with Book Tokens welcome 'framework agreement' which the they important 'Once the liquidator has com- leaves

BOOKS • PERIODICALS • NEWSPAPERS

say issues Deted his business. nothing short door to an immediate start on of a political fight will convince

PRODUCE A SCAB NEWSPAPER

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday December The miners' union's first brush with the Industrial Relations Act ended in what might appear to be stalemate this week, with Westoe lodge, Durham, industrial accepting an tribunal finding that one of its members no longer owed a £3 penalty for working too much over- time. Lodge members sent James Sim to Coventry last year after he exceeded an agreed limit on the amount of overtime which would be worked. They refused to talk to him after he refused either to pay the £3 penalty or to attend a meeting to discuss the case. A rope man at the time the lodge took its action, Sim had to go work onto lower-paid as a sweeper. Sim complained to the in- dustrial tribunal that the lodge's action • constituted an unfair industrial practice under the Tories' Industrial Rela- tions Act. After hearings spaced out over a number of weeks, the tribunal found in his favour.

It ruled that he no longer owed the lodge the £3. The tribunal failed, however, to award compensation for the period Sim's earnings were affected by the sanctions against him, and this may be why, at a special one reason lodge meeting on Sunday, its findings were accepted. Lodge secretary James who appeared before Inskip, the tribunal, described the findings as 'well reasoned'.

Inskip also expressed com- placent underestimation of the anti-union Act itself. The lodge accepted that Sim no longer owed it £3, he said, 'but I cannot make the men talk to him if they don't want to.

More dangerous still, the case is a precedent for co- operation with the National Court Industrial Relations itself. Headquarters spokesmen for the National Union of Mineworkers have consistently held that Inskip's appearance at the tribunal represents no breach of union policy. The union is much less happy about a development in the Midlands, where 17 miners out of Cannock transferred Wood colliery have initiated a NIRC case against the National Coal Board. The men, who now work at Colliery, Cannock, Littleton and Lea Hall, Rugely, say their wages have slumped £15 be- cause of the transfer. They claim the NCB has breached a collective agreement. But the NUM's disquiet about their action seems to be less on principle, than on a conviction that they have little chance of winning the action.

A preliminary hearing in the NIRC has been arranged for January 16. The main issue on that occasion is expected to be whether a union branch can take such action, or whether it has to be a national approach. Things may look like stale- mate from Durham, but the legal trap is being sprung on the unions regardless. December 22, 1972 Deserted dispatch bays on Fleet Street On Monday and for the third time this year dur- ing a national newspaper strike a group of Fleet Street journalists who claim to be solely moti- vated by their concern for 'freedom' have put out a scab newspaper. But the latest eight-page stop-gap newsheet is a paper with a difference-it is finan- ced and published by the viru- lently right-wing Aims of Industry. The organization was formed after the war by big-business interests opposed to nationali- zation and ever since it has fought a series of poisonous campaigns aimed at defending private enterprise. The outfit threw its money and organization behind last Monday's publication, a paper called, unsurprisingly, 'Free Enterprise News' Shock of working- waves class unrest, particularly over the Tory anti-union laws, have forced them to decide the time organize has the come to Street's right-wing and provide them with the means of public expression. With the collapse of commo- dity values and currencies in world markets spurred on by the crisis of overproduction and competition, the capitalist class is moving rapidly toward taking its destiny directly into its own hands. being "Free For the time Enterprise News' is only a tem- porary measure. More impor- tant is the incursion of big business into the Street and its attempts to set up a directly partisan corp of writers first et Street last Monday when engineers brought to influence and then to gain complete control of the media.

This issue's front-page story slams Monday's strike of print- ing trade engineers in support 'yet another of the AUEW as step in the chain of events which poses a major threat to Of course, the threat they are really worried about is not to 'freedom', but to the rule of capital. The chain of events they refer to has confronted them more sharply than at any other time since 1926 with the ques- tion: who rules Britain-the working capitalists or the class? Aims of Industry not only does not want to see the ruling class deprived of the means of pumping out its lies and dis- tortions, it wants the campaign against the working class and all its organizations stepped up. Lower down the anonymous front-page article it says the media are becoming 'news- papers and television for union extremists and the Free Com- munications Group' Significantly the same claim was made at the beginning of month by Eire Justice this Minister Desmond O'Malley when he dismissed the entire governing body of Radio Tele- fis Eireann for giving publicity to 'subversive and illegal orga- nizations'. The nine-man committee has been replaced by new control- lers widely believed to be no more than puppets of the Fianna Fail government. This is what Aims of Indus- wants in Britain. This is try the purpose of organizing Fleet Street's backward and bank- is brought the Tory Press to a standstill.

wing. rupt right 'Already', says the article, 'we have newspapers seen forced to leave out material be- cause of a possible strike.'

Their fear of the working class and its power is a mix- ture of paranoia and reality.

For instance, the article goes on to say: 'We had the un- accountable decision by "The Sunday Times" not to carry Crawley's article on Aidan extreme left influence in the trade unions.' But as everybody who reads capitalist the gutter press knows, articles on the influ- ence of extreme left-groups are two a penny. And thousands of contribu- tors to the nation's publications receive rejection slips every day —are they all the victims of a red plot to control the media?

In nine cases out of ten there are more fundamental reasons.

There is, of course, yet another consideration. Most newspapers, including The Times' employ Sunday wherever possible and practical staff reporters on their own major series. So why should they use an outside man? In any case, since Crawley's idea was 'rejected', "The Sun- day Times' published a has number of articles on the 'extreme left' . we know and from personal experience that the editors would laugh out- right at any suggestion that they could be intimidated into not publishing such material.

Few, if any, in the working class and its organizations have noticed that the capitalist Press ever had any difficulty in lash- ing out at them. concerns Aims of What Industry is that they do not lash out hard enough and they can see with every passing day the growing strength and con- fidence of the working class.

They know that entry into the Common Market can only make more intense the deter- mination of the working class to fight and to defeat the masters of capital and their state machinery of exploitation and repression. Aims of Industry says: hit out at all those who show the slightest sympathy for the policies of the organizations and leaders of the working class. Infiltration of the media by , the article 'left extremists', concludes, is a matter of urgency to be dealt with by the political government, parties, the television and radio authorities and by democratic trade unionists' pointedly lump. to- They Tory, Labour, Liberal gether 'moderates' and trade union in a corporate front against the 'extremists'. Their conclusion is forth- right. What is needed, they say, is a 'really free communications group that will oppose infil tration and blackmail of the media and campaign for free opinion at all times': In terms of a definition of it is significant 'free opinion' that the first article on the first page of the first issue of the new paper bases itself on the lie that "The Sunday Times' consciously rejected an article of industrial reper- for fear cussions. Nevertheless it remains true that big business has moved in to organize its supporters in the media to turn all the big guns of Press, radio and tele- vision against the working class and its organizations.

BRAZIL: MORE GUNS

AS PEASANTS STARVE

BY JUAN GARCIA

The Foreign Minister of Brazil, Mario Gibson Barbosa, has just re- turned from a diplomatic tour of Africa in which he consolidated the pro- gress already made in the creation of a joint task in force South the Atlantic. Operated by Portugal, Brazil and South Africa, this force will defend the interests of im- perialism in general and of the police-states three pat- ticular. One role for Brazil, sketched out by Barbosa, is the protec- tion of the Portuguese 'over- seas provinces' in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea- Bissau. Barbosa stated more than once that Brazil would be more than willing to serve as mediator between Portugal and these African countries to find 'peaceful solution' to the a colonial problem. He claims he believes that Portugal should grant them formal thus independence, placating the national libera- tion movements, while retain- ing real control. Such formulations are in keeping with a particular aim of the government Garrastazu Medici-to inherit the African colonies of Portugal. Many other good reasons for a South Atlantic 'peace- keeping' force have been found in recent months. In August, Colonel Hermes Araujo, on a visit to Brazil from Portugal, stated: "The West is unaware of the danger to the South Atlantic, con- cerning itself only with the defence of the North Atlantic.'

This followed an earlier warning from Foreign Minister of South Africa, Edgar Muller, that the General Staffs of the armed forces of Brazil and South Africa should urgently get together to study the defence of the South Atlantic.

Only a fortnight ago, Cap- tain Gerard de Castel Baja Employees of the state- run Port and Navigation firm in Paraguay have accused the management of making discounts from their wages in order to pay for insurance policies.

The President of the navi- gation service has apparently signed a contract with the Alliance Insurance Co under which all the employees of the state agency will take out life- insurance policies. But they were not informed of the agreement until they spotted the extra deductions made from their wage packets.

The policies are in fact use- less, given that no one knows what the benefits are and no issued for receipts have been 'premiums' paid. The contract was eventually signed by a small number of Mo men which grew when threats sto Brazilian peasants from the poverty stri commander of a French fleet whose flagship is the heli- copter-carrier 'Jeanne d'Arc'— engaged currently in joint man- the Brazilian oeuvres with navy-stressed the strategic importance of Brazil: the Suez "The closing of Canal has turned the Soyth Atlantic into a vital area for the transport of petroleum and thus the Brazilian navy is an important element in the pro- tection of the new inter- national route.' To fulfil its new military were issued by head of per- sonnel relations Tomas Gimenez. Gimenez holds office in the ruling Colorado Party which has an infamous reputation for graft and corruption in the service of United States cor- porations and their local patron, Alfredo Stroessner.

Another favourite source of income are the compulsory subscriptions to official pub- lications paid by state em- ployees. Stroessner boasts that sales of government literature show that his regime is popular. Anyone who thinks such malpractices are the preserve of 'distant 'banana' republics has only to await the numerous special taxes which will appear after Britain's entry into the EEC, apart from the com- pulsory donations British workers already pay to the of Monarchy and other well- stocked funds. werty stricken areas in the north east of the ce the Brazilian requirements, government intends to spend $250m revamping its navy.

That sum is part of a $1,100m budget for the three branches of the armed forces: an outlay which is equivalent to an $ll per capita outlay in military spending while less than $3 go to education and $2 to public health. In some Brazilian states, 400 children out of every 1,000 die before they reach their first birthday. Writings of

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are offering 'extra-official' aid. It is completely in keeping The Heath and Pompidou gov- with the parasitic nature of particularly have chinents world and expressed the need to include Imperasa puppet-state in Brazil that Brazil discussions on the expenditure in- extension Treaty into 1S ot the creased while millions starve the South Atlantic.

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PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday December 22, 1 The people feeling the full backlash of the Tory are that prices fraud largely blameless section of the retail community -the back-street grocer. The Tories find it useful to cultivate the myth that the small shopkeeper, who deals direct with the working-class consumer, is somehow respon- sible for prices. The family grocer is an easy target, always on the spot to complaint. The receive a supermarket is an anonymous The hand that alters place. the price-tag is invisible- shoppers who question policy will be referred to head office.

And the agitation usually ends there. In fact the small grocer is Iday December 22, 1972 powerless. His prices are dic- tated by the big food combines (some of them with their own massive retail chains) and he survives against the super- market only by staying open for incredibly long hours to catch off-peak custom. He is, in fact, a fast dis- of business- appearing breed In 1967 there were man. 94,500 across-the-counter gro- cers. The number now around 60,000 and the forecast for 1979 is 20,000. The multiples (Fine Fare, Sainsbury, Tesco, etc) control the largest chunk of the mar- ket, with 43 per cent of turn- over compared with the truly independent grocer's 20 per cent. By 1979, according to LINTAS the marketing agency, multiples will have swallowed 77 per cent of turnover. The people who share the of prices, therefore, control the supermarket chains are and the food monopolies. In some cases the two sectors have merged into one vast organization. Hence Caven- ham's, controlled by the high- flying financier Jimmy Gold- smith, markets the Bovril of foods (Bovril, Mar- range mite, Ambrosia rice etc), slim- (Slimcea, breads etc) ming AND runs the biggest private retail chain in Britain-Allied Suppliers-bought last Janu- ary from Unilevers. The Cavenham's retail em- pire, with the Wrights and Moores Stores interests added, has around 2,200 retail outlets and a turnover of over £300m a year-higher than any other grocery chain and three-fifths of the massive £535m annual sales of the entire Co-opera- tive Wholesale Society. The meteoric rise of Caven- ham's and Goldsmith (staked by the King of Financiers, Jim Slater) is in sharp contrast to the decline of the corner-shop.

Goldsmith bought his retail empire in less than two years and the transaction has proved extremely lucrative. Profits for the 32 weeks to November 11 were announced earlier this week at £ll.16m compared to the £1.8m for the correspond- ing period of 1971-before the retail chain was added to the group. Cavenham's and the other big boys, like Associated Bri- tish Foods, which controls Fine Fare, are the shadowy giants that the Tories never name. Yet they do control price by board decision. The annihilation of the will be back-street grocer completed by entry into Eur- The death blow to the ope. small independents will be Value Added Tax (VAT). Apart from making prices rise borroweroke this intropion borrowed European capitalism, will present formi- dable administrative problems to the small man who cannot employ thousands of adminis- trative staff like the multiples to work out the new rates.

Danny Doolan, who runs a small grocery shop in Isling- ton, north London, thinks he may well be among the first victims-especially crop when after April VAT be- comes law. Danny, who keeps open until midnight, told of his bit- ter experience under the so- called price freeze and the Tory government. There have been a lot of price rises since the freeze.

I have not noticed any big difference—sausages, cooked The meats have all gone up. "The Grocer' and figures in Guide' speak 'Shaw's for themselves. The reason is simple-how can a price freeze work if the foods from abroad are outside control? Almost all the pro- cessed stuff we sell has some foreign food in it, so it's got to go up. I think the government is basically trying to brainwash people over this freeze. People don't know much about prices, they don't know who calls the tune on prices, they just see the shopkeeper like me. But I can't do a thing about prices— it's all controlled by the big firms. The big supermarkets have They have more of a chance. some power, but they don't really make the concessions they could. There are just the odd price offers to get people into the shop, then the pres- sure goes on to make people buy more than they want to.

People are getting so punch drunk about prices that they don't bother to ask or ques- tion a price. They just accept it. I tell people when they go into supermarkets to keep a check on the price lists when they get the bill-but people never do it's too complicated for them or too much trouble.

The small shopkeeper is really finished. He can't com- pete against the supermarket.

They order in bulk and they get concessions off. The small man can't do anything like that. The small businessman everywhere is going under. You can see that we are fol- lowing developments in places like America where the small man has been killed. But this is only Tory policy.

They don't have any interest in blokes like me. They look towards the big groups and the bankers in Zurich for their support. I can't understand shopkeepers; they are sup- posed to be Tory, but the Tories don't do them any good! The effect on the ordinary person of the government poli- cies is very noticeable. I notice it because I can study life in my shop. There is still the appearance of some affluence, but it's all on credit. Take the Christmas shop- ping, for example. Most people do it through the mail order firms—that's all on credit. The whole thing is resting on this debt. It looks prosperous, but its not underneath. But the real crunch for us and the buying public will after go into the we come Common Market. This VAT will cripple us. I can't work out the tax on the goods pro- perly-I don't have the time or the staff-l've got to open all hours of the day now to get by. The whole thing is really designed to suit the big chains and the companies. The Common Market will mean they will get bigger and bigger at our expense. And, of course, the public benefit. will not necessarily How will these big groups use their power-for themselves or for others? I can guess the answer to that one. I have spoken to most of the small shopkeepers round here. They say that it's just not worth it after VAT. Most of them say they will pack up and get out before April.

This will have a bad effect.

Workers Press, Friday D iny / Liqu (30 all Dec I pity the old. For example, an old girl can come in the shop and you can help her to get what she wants and. advise her. Some other times she will find she hasn't got enough, so 'All right darling, you'll say that's OK'-you won't get from the supermarkets. that There's no credit there, even to the starving. of poverty The signs are already there. More people are asking for stuff on tick. They can afford fewer luxuries like ice-cream and cakes and after the Common Market : things will really begin to bite. The price rises I think are going to put a lot of fresh foods beyond the range of people. It's not just the working class that is feeling it either.

A lot of middle class have moved into Islington because of the property speculation. But they come in the shop and some of them are living on a They have the shoe-string. mortgage to pay on a house inflated in price, a car to run, kers Press, Friday December 22, 1972 PAGE 7 The supermarket the hand that alters the price tag is invisible. Above left: Danny Doolan, small dictated grocer-his prices are by the huge food combines.

on-some of them and so really have to scrape to keep up appearances. We've heard about the so- called freeze-I'd rather call it the squeeze, because that's exactly what is happening to people, being they are squeezed. When people begin to find themselves only f2 or £3 above the bread-line, then really begin they to get worried-and a lot are in this position now. for the old-I don't As know how they live. One old girl I know is over 80. She went to get a job and they told her at the Labour Exchange she was too old. But, like she can she manage? said, how She puts half her pension in the meter. It's the old, old story of the fight between the rh and the get richer, you're poor you're out. Things will stay like this unless there is a big chapge. • Tomorrow, Prices and Ire- land—Britain's warning.

PAGE & Work x 22, 1972 certe The Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers is today in the forefront of the struggle against the Tory government's Industrial Relations Act. Here a special correspondent highlights important and significant episodes in the history of the engineers' fight to build their union against the employers, their governments and their courts. Part two: The employers on the attack and the first lock-outs to the recovery in the mid-1850s, when Britain was the 'workshop of the world'.

Determined to stamp out went on strike against imposed overtime, the increased intro- redundancy in the light of of duction apprentices and recent experience when piecework. Platt announced the financial resources of certain concessions on all the issues, boosting the confidence the union were exhausted of the

ASE

make the de- to in contributions for the an object of mands national maintenance of unem- policy. Throwing down the gauntlet ployed union members, to the the executive masters the Amalgamated Society council sent circulars to all of

(A SE)

Engineers branches, them to instructing retuse to work systematic over- adopted an aggressive time after December 31, 1851.

policy with regard to con- The ASE entered the struggle trol over conditions of without making adequate pre- parations, the leaders expecting work. the employers to be deterred The ASE faced an early test by the prospect of confronting of its strength in the lock-out a formidable organization like of 1852, the first of three lock-

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the and consequently outs in the listory of engineer- expecting them to be eager to ing unions. grant terms to the advantage In April 1851, the 1,500 of the craftsmen. engineers employed by Hibbert of November At the end and Platt Oldham at the largest 1851 the union offered arbitra- engineering factory in Europe tion and an independent inquiry as the best means of settlement, but was immediately rebuffed by the united opposition of the biggest employers in the London and Manchester areas, organized for a showdown in 'Central Association of the and Operative Employers Engineers' witch-hunt led by 'The A Times' • launched against was the ASE and its aims, equating the engineers' demands for full and regular employment with those of the co-operative socialists' workshops set up in Paris and elsewhere in France during the 1848 Revolution.

Thus Lord Shaftesbury, the philanthropic friend of factory children, congratulated the employers on the eve of the lock-out for their bold, manly and righteous course of resistance to the Louis Blanc conspiracy of the mechanics and engineers'. Lord Cranworth, to whom the leadership had Society naïvely looked as a possible arbitrator, declared unequivoc- ally the real intentions of the masters to crush the ASE, then the largest and most organized body of workers in the country.

'We must take leave to say that we alone are the complete judges of our businesses; that we are respectively the masters of our own establishments; and that it is our firm determina- tion to remain so, he said.

locking out their After employees on January 10, the masters then pre- 1852, sented the 'Document' which contained demands for full control over hours and terms of labour, outlawing trade union interference in such matters. The employers followed the precedent set by the master tailors and master builders who used the weapon of the 'Document' to force a return to work after the great strikes of 1833. Wilting before the threat of the employers' charter to end effective trade unionism, the ASE's executive council re- duced their demands in March and offered to withdraw them completely if the employers withdrew the hated 'Document'.

The employers refused and after a solid, four-month strike, which had virtually bankrupted union funds, the ASE had to admit defeat. There were bitter lessons for the future. It had assumed that their been numerical organized and strength would be sufficient to win the required aims without recourse to strike action.

William Newton, the engin- eers' leader, reflected after the event: 'It was never intended expressed intentions that the of the circular should be car- ried out by anything approach- ing a strike,' admitting that the took the initiative employers to provoke the conflict on their own terms. Motivating the employers was the uniform determination to stamp out at its birth the first formidable amalgamated body of workers since the federated unions of the early 1830s, regardless of the costs in the short term, even in the expanding market conditions of 1852. The employers' stand did not achieve its purpose, namely the disintegration of the ASE. In the boom of the 1850s most masters learned to recognize the propriety of avoiding costly disputes. Lord Shattesbury-congratulated the employers on the lock-out.

Shop floor of Stephenson steam.

factory locomotive during 1850s when Britain was the 'un- disputed workshop of the world' and the ASE led struggles for improved conditions and pay.

Similarly, the industrial ex- pansion provided opportunities of regular employment and an increase in real wages for skilled engineering craftsmen, and at the same time the con- ditions for recovery of trade union organizations. A new pattern of relations established in the mid- was Victorian boom years after 1852 when Britain was the un- disputed 'workshop of the world'. While the machinery of consultation and negotiations brought mutual arrangements, the strike weapon was never established in principle, the "model' ASE using it sparingly in practice. However, it would be a mis- take to regard the years from 1852 until the upsurge of in- dustrial and political unrest of 1866-1867 as years of quies- cence in which the ASE as the 'new model' union was obsessed with the accumulation of funds and the paying out of benefits.

On occasions, when em- ployers tried to introduce "illegal men' into the work- shop, the threat and the use of strike action and the tactic of 'passive resistance' was adopted to protect conditions.

In this period of relative peace between the classes, the machinery of existing law was often used against trade unionists. The ambiguity of the 1825 Act on the law of picket- ing gave wide discretionary powers to magistrates to take action against workers, indict- ing them for the alleged offence of threatening or intimidating behaviour against employers and 'scabs' The notorious Masters' and Servants' Act secured convic- tions against any worker who, by leaving his place of work, thereby broke his contract with che employer.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

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Guess who was at Buckingham Joe Kenyon, leader of the and Unemployed Palace last week - Brigadier Claimants' He follows in Workers' Union, has found a Frank Kitson. the footsteps of other recent job. But he is to continue as 'union's' leader, callers like electricians' leader the despite Frank Chapple. Kitson is the the fact that he earning 1S close on £40 a week with the army's 'expert' on counter- insurgency. He has a number Batley Community Develop- controversial theories in- ment Prolect. miner, founded the Claimamer Kenyon (57), former cluding the use of the army to 'restore the situation rapidly' of assișt- Union with the aim if the working class challenges the ruling class. ing the unemployed to obtain their full benefits at the dole.

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Then the 'Standard', the sup- The French CP is above all a of every anti-working porter class measure of the Tory gov- party OI tradition ana oraer. could pose the And nothing could have been ernment, traditional than the defender of the poor and weak Hole Sure enough Tuesday's paper elections to the Central Com- mittee at this year's Congress.

pictured Mrs Mosley holding up the money • Re-elected were old Stalinist stalwarts Benoit Franchon (69) No one belittles the plight of Mrs Mosley and Jacques Duclos (77). or begrudges The Party federation her relief at being saved from from Christmas. Val-de-Marne continues to be poverty-stricken But the of the over-represented, continuing trumpeting the tradition begun by Maurice Tory Press barons is appalling.

While they focus attention when he was head of horez that region. their own good samaritan role, a recent survey found that 100 Secretary Marchais comes the Vale-de-Marne, old people will die of hypo- from of body does, Charles Fitermann, his thermia (loss heat) secretary, and Marcel over Christmas. These are the Trigon, the mayor of Arcueil, both unrecorded victims of Tory newly-elected to the CC.

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"The Poseidon Adven- ture' is a suspense melodrama about an at- tempted escape by ten passengers out through the hull of a capsized ocean liner. At a deeper level, it is about a conflict between passive Chris- tian acceptance and a pragmatic, do-it-yourself philosophy advocated by a preacher who is pre- pared to fight God if he has to. As an adventure, the film is passable entertainment, mainly because of the novelty of a giant liner upside down in the water through the bowels of which the passengers have to clamber, pursued by the ever-rising waters in a bid to locate the propeller-shaft where theory has it, the steel plating of the hull is less thick than elsewhere. The melodrama that goes with the frantic search for ducts and passageways not blocked by fire or water is less tolerable. A lot of predictable tough-talking, and hysterics, maudlin last farewells to dying comrades which the dialogue (Stirling Silliphant and Wendell Maes) frequently renders far- cical. Example: a rather pathetic girl folk-singer (Carol Lynley) cradles the head of her dead Workers Press, Frid guitar-playing brother saying 'Please wake up, George', or something similar. Whereupon a perceptive haberdasher (Red Buttons) 'He's dead, says: Nonnie' To which the girl re- plies, after suitable pause for thought: Did you like his music?' The other drama, in which the unorthodox preacher (Gene Hackman) takes on just about everybody, God included, in a bid to will his shipmates to fight for survival, despite the fact that all repeatedly seems lost, is more plausibly interest- ing except for the final scene.

The reverend decides that a steam-jet blocking their path is a direct challenge from God and swings into action shout- ing abuse at the Most High...

only to come a cropper. The vicar's main line of argu- ment, both before and after the shipwreck, is that God is not someone to pray to but is a somewhat mean outsider who is sympathetic to those who are prepared to fight for them- selves. 'Be strong' is his constant advice. It is a harking back to those good old American virtues of honest, hard-working pragma- tism, which have become quite a feature of recent Hollywood films under the influence of US capitalism's decay. His main opponents are the 'let's die quietly' line of a fellow parson; the conservative 'let's all stay in our places until help arrives' line of the purser; Press, Friday December 22, 1972 PAGE 9 the conformist "let's do what everyone else is doing' line of the dumb cop (Ernest Borg- nine); and the general timidity of everyone else, the little ten- year-old boy excepted. Virtue (struggle) is eventu- ally rewarded and the party are saved, but at a depressingly high cost in 'sacrifices'-the three best of the survivors all get killed - claimed by the vengeful God. The moral is: nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without great sacri- fice. Paradoxically, the ship's got into their company only watery plight in the first place due to that other good American get-up-and-go virtue of sheer commercial ruthless- ness. The ship capsized because the owners refused to let the captain slow down and correct the boat's ballast. But this aspect is never sub- sequently developed in the film and the point is suitably softened for Hollywood con- sumption by making a greasy foreigner called Linarcos the grasping capitalist who snarls 'Every minute's delay is cost- ing our company money' Gene Hackman, is superb as the somewhat implausible man- of-action preacher, not too loony, but not too sane either.

piece of acting, it is as As a good as his obsessional cop in the 'French Connection'. It is almost good enough to make the film worth seeing but not quite.

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Galloping 3.25 3.00 gourmet. Saint. 4.20 Weekend Christmas Special. 4.25 Funky phantom. 4.50 and London. 5.20 Cartoon. 5.25 Cross- roads. 5.50 London. 6.00 Day by Bardot as Marla I and Maria O'Malley II sentation on BBC 1- 'Viva Maria'.

Bernie Winters, Noele Gordon, Rod Hull, Heath- more, Lionel Blair and his dancers.

8.30 FILM: 'HONEYMOON WITH

A STRANGER'. Janet Leigh, Rossano Brazzi. A woman tries to prove the man claiming to be her husband is an imposter.

10.00 NEWS.

10.30 IT'S CHARLIE WILLIAMS.

11.15 IT MATTERS TO ME.

and 11.25 MCCLOUD. Dennis Weaver.

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Alfred Gelder Street (near Drypool Bridge) 8 p.m. Marxism and the revolutionary party

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Trippett Lane, 7.30 p.m. he Christmas day. Scene SE. 6.30 Survival. 7.00 • Sale of the century. 7.30 London.

11.15 News. 11.25 Film: 'Franken- stein'. 12.40 Weather. Guideline.

HARLECH: 12.05 London. 1.00 Let them live. 1.30 London. 2.30 Women only. 3.00 London. 4.25 Rovers. 4.50 London. 5.20 Chuckleheads. 5.25 Crossroads.

5.50 London. 6.01 Report West. 6.18 Report Wales. 6.35 Bonanza.

'Foreign Exchange'. 7.30 Film: 9.00 Larry's Christmas party. 10.00 London. 11.15 Who was Maddox? 12.15 Weather. by HTV Cymru/Wales 7 and 41 as above except: 4.25-4.50 Stesion cantamil. 6.016.18 Y dyda. 10.30 Outlook. 11.00 Sports arena. 11.35 It's Charlie Williams. 12.20 Weather. HTV West as above except: 6.18- 6.35 Report West. Jake's

ANGLIA: 10.30

scene. 10.55 Holy land. 11.20 Joe 90.

11.50 Cartoons. 12.04 News. 12.05 London. 3.30 Dick Van Dyke. 3.55 Romper room. 4.20 News. 4.25 Merrie melodies. 4.50 London. 5.20 Elephant boy. 5.50 London.

6.00 About Anglia. 6.35 London.

7.00 Sale of the century. 7.30 London. 8.30 Film: "Afong Came a Spider'. 10:00 London. 10.30 Probe. 11.00 Charlie Williams. 11.45 Film: 'The Trunk'. ATV MIDLANDS: 10.45 Royal Marines. 11.05 UFO. 12.00 Today: 12.05 London. 3.30 Danger man.

4.20 Forest rangers. 4.50 Lon- don. 5.20 Flintstones. _5.50 Lon- 6.00 Today. 6.35 London. don. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Lon- don. 8.30 Film: 'The Last Safari'.

10.00 London. 11.15 Film: "Topkapi. Weather. ULSTER: 12.00 News. 12.05 Lon- 2.00 Women today. 2.30 don. Cartoon. 2.40 Romper room. 3.00 London. 3.25 Randall and Hop- 4.23 News. kirk. 4.25 Funky London. 5.20 4.50 phantom. General hopsital. 5.50 London.

6.00 Reports. 6.35 London. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 London. 8.30 Film: "The Mystery of the Wax Museum'. 10.00 London. 11.15 Spectrum. 11.45 Partners.

YORKSHIRE: 9.30 Let them live.

10.00 We need each other. 10.50 Funky phantom. 11.20 Gilbert and Sullivan. 12.05 London. 3.30 Danger man. 4.25 Merrie melo- dies. 4.50 London. 5.20 Jimmy Stewart. 5.50 London. 6.00 Calendar. Weather. 6.35 London.

7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 London.

- 10.00 8.30 Film: 'Danger Route'.

London. 11.15 Film: 'A Raw Wind in Eden'. 12.45 Weather. GRANADA: 11.30 Galloping gour- met. 12.00 Paint book. 12.05 Lon- don. 3.25 Smith family. 3.50 Crossroads. 4.30 Cartoon. 4.00 TV funnies. 4.50 London. 5.15 Turnbull's finest half hour. 5.50 London. 6.00 News. 6.30 Doctor at large. 7.00 Anna and the king.

7.30 London. 8.30 Film: 'King Kong v Godzilla'. 10.00 London.

Kick off. 11.45 Theatre 11.15 macabre. TYNE TEES: 9.35 Make a wish.

10.00 We need each other. 10.50 Ugliest girl in town. 11.20 Gilbert and Sullivan. 12.05 London. 2.30 News. 2.31 Yoga. 3.00 London.

3.25 Danger man. 4.25 Merrie melodies. 4.50 London. 5.20 Me and the chimp. 5.50 London. 6.00 today. 6.35 London. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 London. 8.30 Film: 'Gold of the Seven Saints'. 10.00 11.15 Film: "Foreign London. Exchange'. 12.30 News BORDER: 11.35 Bath, preserved.

12.05 London. 2.00 Love Ameri- can style. 2.30 London. 3.25 Danger man. 4.25 Jackson five.

4.50 London. 5.20 General hos- pital. 5.50 London. 6.00 News.

6.35 London. 7.00 Lookaround. Sky's the limit. 7.30 London. 8.30 Film: 'Danger Route'. 10.00 Lon- don. 11.15 Parliamentary report.

11.45 Film: 'House of Mystery'.

SCOTTISH: 10.05 First principles.

10.50 Katie Stewart cooks. 11.15 Phoenix five. Sky hawks. 11.40 12.05 London. 2.30 Dateline. 3.00 London. 3.30 It takes a thief.

4.25 Nanny and the professor.

4.50 London. 5.20 Crossroads. 5.50 London. 6.00 Today. 6.30 7.00 Sky's the limit. Protectors. 7.30 Hawaii five-o. 8.30 Film: 'Danger Route'. 10.00 London. 10.30 Friday night. 11.00 Late call. 11.05 Cimarron strip.

Cowboy in

GRAMPIAN: 11.00

Africa. 12.02 News. 12.05 London.

2.00 Dick Van Dyke. 2.30 London.

3.25 Shirley's world. 3.55 And mother makes three. 4.20 Funky phantom. 4.50 London. 6.00 News.

6.05 Thompson at teatime. 6.30 London. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 8.30 Film: 'Pardners' London. 11.15 Film: 'Shock'. 12.21 Medita- tion.

We will not allow the Tories to trample on our rights ORPINGTON and Sidcup Council of Action recently held its first delegate confer- ence centred on the struggle against rising prices and rents. Secretary Phil Hunter, from the Sovex factory, explained the history of Councils of Action dating back from the 1926 British General Strike and Councils set up in Russia before the 1917 Revolution. Laurie Smith, conference chair- man and delegate from the Erith district committee of

. AUEW,

spoke of the fight for leadership inside the labour movement and the need to mobilize the working class in support of the engineer- ing union's struggle against the £55,000 fines imposed for defying Tories' Industrial Relations the Act. A member of St Paul's Cray Tenants' Association spoke bit- terly of the betrayal of Labour councillors throughout the coun- refusing in stand out to against the Housing Finance Act.

He saw the setting up of the Council of Action as a miniature TUC in this area' because of the refusal of the present leaders to fight the Tory government. A lively discussion followed in- volving trade unionists, Labour Party members and shop stew- ards. Represented at the con- ference were several members of Ward Labour Parties, the AUEW major district committee, fac- tories in the area, such as Klinger's, and from the main , organizations in the political locality. The conference agreed to plan a campaign against rising prices in the area and also passed the following resolution: This meeting of Orpington and Sidcup Council of Action calls on all workers in the area to support the struggle of the

AUEW

' against the attacks and fines imposed • them by the on Industrial Relations Court. De- fence of the stand made by this union is in the vital interests of all workers. Resolutions and action are essential sympathetic to further this struggle as is the demand that the TUC brings into action the whole of the trade union movement in support of the engineers and bring down this Tory government.

GEORGE LOWTHIAN,

MR general secretary of the Amalga- mated Union of Building Trade Workers for 21 years, will retire next month on reaching the age of 65. Carlisle-born * Lowthian has been secretary of the builders' section of the Union of Con- struction, Allied Trades and Technicians since the AUBTW became part of the new union last year. He has been a member of the TUC General Council since 1951 and was chairman in 1963- 1964. THE ASSOCIATION of Scienti- fic, Technical and Managerial Staffs yesterday. withdrew its application to the industrial court against Horizon Holidays, the west London travel firm which dismissed four union members engaged in a recogni- tion dispute. Union secretary Clive Jenkins told the after court that 'friendly, civilized and orderly?

Albert Crawley

BY STEPHEN

WORKERS all over the coun prepared to come out and fi capitalist Press has been force There were no stories about the 'great revolt' in the Press yesterday morning after Wed- nesday's series massive of strikes against the £55,000 fines imposed on the engineers which shut down major fac- tories and docks in the north- the Midlands and west, London. But the occasion provided an examine past opportunity. to policy on the campaign against the Industrial Relations Act and the National Industrial Relations Court. At Liverpool question one overshadowed the 1,500-strong demonstration—were protest poli- tics enough? including many Workers, members of the Transport and General Workers' Union, made important points. They two criticized the engineers' leader- ship for not calling national strike action and condemned heads of other unions for failing to support the campaign.

EMPLOYMENT

pros- pects for graduates are worse now than at any since the 1930s, time claims the Hull Univer- months a sity annual report. but Two years less double th "go, than 3 per cent of Hull normal. graduates were likely to The be still seeking jobs six ployers wh MAJOR CUTBACKS in student accommodation at universities and poly- technics are proposed in a report from the House of Commons Expenditure Committee. The Committee — made up of six Tory MPs and three Labour MPs under the chair- manship of Tory Mr Niel Marten - recommends that over the coming period home- discussions with company chief Vladimir Raitz, the members had been reinstated. Both ASTMS and Horizon had agreed to collaborate with a Commission on Industrial Rela- tions inquiry-ordered by the court last week-into the recog- nition issue. Jenkins said afterwards that no recriminations he expected from the TUC about his decision Joe Henn

EPHEN JOHNS

• country have shown they are and fight the Tories and the n forced to eat its own words.

ALBERT CRAWLEY, I&GWU

shop steward at Dunlop, Speke, said. about 2,500 workers from the AUEW and the T&GWU had supported the action. men have responded to 'The this call. We should have been told to come out by our leaders alongside the AUEW, he said.

AT VAUXHALL's 10,000 work- ers were on strike. JOE HEN- said: NESSEY, shop steward, 'This campaign must be just the beginning. I think our executive should have got off the fence and given us a directive for a com- plete stoppage and I think the T&GWU leadership should have got off the fence too.' TOM STAPLES, AUEW shop steward at Clohurst (formerly Fisher-Bendix) said: "The call was to defend our union. This is exactly what we are doing and will go on doing. In my opinion this campaign has been a success, because it has proved to the Tories that the working class will not allow their rights to be trampled on.' after leaving, the university to recr than students has now more uble this figure is drastically and only h the number of int number of em- views between prospe yers who have visited tive employers based students at universities and polytechnics should be increased. To encourage this they say that 'no further purpose-built accommodation for students should be made'.

Another sweeping change pro- posed in the report is that the current £106m a year for man- datory grants to degree-level students should be transferred from local education authorities to central government. Local authorities, it says, should retain powers to award e- discretionary grants to students, to lodge the application, or to collaborate with the CIR.

Both these actions fell within the category of self-defence, he claimed, since the CIR inquiry had been initiated by Employ- ment Minister Maurice Mac- millan. Such • self-defence was sanctioned by the TUC. The TUC had been told infor- mally before the application was lodged, Jenkins said. Workers Press, Frida atin MIKE REYNOLDS, shop steward at Lucas aerospace, where 2,000 failed to show up for work, in- cluding the staff, said: 'We are 100 per cent behind the policy of the union. We identify our- selves completely with national committee decision of total non-co-operation with the Act.'

STRATTON,

divi-

GEORGE

sional organizer of TASS, the technical section of the AUEW, said: 'One way to hit this gov- ernment and the court is to make sure that whatever fines are undergraduates were arranged compared with a year ago. The Hull ty to recruit report dropped time when comes at a nd only half • of inter- worsening situation i for en prospec- and graduates. but the Department of Education should lay down detailed guide- lines for their application.

The report suggests the estab- lishment of a National Careers Advisory Service to help stu- dents, schools and universities.

It wants to see a major shake- in the whole structure of up higher education through the creation of a Higher Education Commission. This would bring under the same administrative financial the and umbrella present separate autonomous university sector and the local- financed polytechnic authority sector of higher education.

Mentioning the recent sharp rise in graduate unemployment over the past few years, the report suggests the setting up of a new Manpower Council, made up of local Department of Em- ployment representatives, em- ployers' organizations, trade unionists and academics. This Council mis-match' be- say the MPs, would cut the the output from the tween universities and polytechnics and the needs of the labour market.

1028, Friday December 22, 1972 PAGE 11 Mike Reynolds George Stratton imposed, the cost of the strikes which result from those fines is ten times greater.' DAVE MARTIN, a member of the CAV Fazakerley occupation committee, said: "This fight is as important as our fight for the right to work. They both in- volve the rights of the whole working class. But I think this one-day strike and protest action inadequate. Only a General is Strike and the removal of the Tories will solve the problem. for good.'

MANUAL

workers at CAV (Acton) are taking action against office workers who crossed the picket line on Monday when 2,800 workers were on strike against the fine on the AUEW.

Manual workers at the plant struck 100 per cent and 60 per cent of the office staff joined them. These workers are angry at people who, they say, are all too willing to take any increase which is won by trade unionism but are it is defend it when slow to attacked. One tele-controller has been told that any instructions he an- nounces over the monitoring sys- tem will be ignored. Another section has had its no escalators neating cut oft, here are in operation and work from it has been blacked.

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More strikes planned against fines on AUEW Engineers will fight on MI5 man on Official Secrets charge PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday Decembr Workers

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DECEMBER

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GENERAL

Banzer's military dictatorship in Bolivia claims a Castroite-Chinese plot to assassi- nate him has been foiled. In- Minister Mario Adett terior Zamora Castro says gave the opera- Tachai. he assassins were Roo foreigners linked with • the Na- Liberation Front-the tional body founded by guerrilla leader Che Guevara, who was captured murdered by the and brutally Bolivian army in 1967. A MEMBER of the British security service, MIS, appeared in a Dublin court yesterday charged with offences under the Irish Official Secrets Act. He is John Wyman of Swan Walk, Chelsea. Wyman and a senior official of the Irish security were charged with possessing and passing secret information prejudicial to the inf state. charged that be- Wyman was tween August 1 and December 19 he obtained official information from Patrick Crinnion when he was aware or had reasonable for believing that the grounds communication of such informa- tion would be in contravention of the Act. He was also charged that he did, in a manner prejudicial to the safety or preservation of the August 1 and state, between

BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY

NATIONAL Industrial Relations Court yesterday dismissed an ap- peal by Ronald King, London regional secretary of the Tele- communications Associa- complained decision. King nal the Post Office has not fully in- its rights formed its staff of under the Act. He said the Post Office regional director refused him an interview about aspects of the Act. John Brightman, who Sir chaired the three-man court, said that although the TSA had regis- tered under the Act, neither the y December 22, 1972

TENS OF THOUSANDS

of engineers are planning to continue their strikes against the massive fine on the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. More one-day strikes will hit Merseyside, Tyneside and Leeds in the New Year and in Liverpool a call for national action was narrowly defeated.

leadership A demand for the of the engineering union for all- out strike was narrowly defeated at a key Merseyside shop stewards with members of the meeting Communist Party voting against.

The vote at the Liverpool shop stewards' quar- engineers' terly meeting was 34-32 against Ховать посіату г December 18, attempt to obtain informa- documents containing tion relating to matter or in- formation which would or might be prejudicial to the safety or preservation of the state in con- travention of the Act. Crinnion was charged that on December 19 at the Burlington Hotel car park, Dublin, he did in a manner prejudicial to the safety or preservation of the state have in his possession or under his control, documents containing information relating to matter, information which would or THE SCOTLAND YARD report into the 'railway leak' case is likely to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions before Christmas. CI Department, the political police, have completed their in- into "Railway quiries the and The Sunday Gazette' Times, who published a secret Act nor the Code of Industrial Practice required employers to recognize 'every single union which workers like to form and • register'. . The court has still to give judgment on the TSA's main application for recognition by the Post Office. GOVERNMENT called in £440m from the big banks yesterday in another bid to halt the growth in money supply. The measure follows the £220m already frozen by the Bank of England and will hit investment. This will make the government's 5 per cent growth target more difficult to achieve. a call for the executive council of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers to organize a national stoppage and to cam- paign for emergency con- ference of the TUC. Party Communist stewards said a demand for a national 'confuse" strike would matters. They said that shop stewards had to start from the situation as it was and that there would not be support for a national stoppage. amendment was passed An giving support to the one-day strike of all Merseyside workers called by the Merseyside Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. Movers of the national strike out that it call pointed en- compassed the one-day action and added they were prepared hasiary workars on thak picker might be prejudicial to the safety of the state, in or preservation contravention of the Act.

He was further charged that between August 1 and December 19 at the Phoenix Park police headquarters he wrongfully re- tained in his possession official documents and that he com- municated these documents to Wyman. brief During their court appearance Detective Inspector Patrick Doocey said both men Wednesday arrested were on night in Chancery Street, Dublin.

report on plans to cut the rail labour force by about 20,000 men. The Yard report is believed to contain the name of the per- son who is said to have handled the photocopy of the report.

During the inquiry the editor of 'The Sunday Times' was threatened with the Official AT LEAST another 30,000 steel- workers will lose their jobs in the next ten years under plans announced yesterday for ration- alizing the ailing British steel industry. Production will be concen- trated in five centres, and out- dated plant will be run down. Up to £3,000m will be spent in ten years by British Steel Cor- poration, most of it on a new • to move another resolution to come out on the 19th. Over 3,000 Merseyside car Triumph workers at the two plants went on strike yesterday against the fines on the engineers' union. The timing of their walk-out- which began with the night shift on Wednesday night-means the factories will not re-open as usual today. A company spokesman said that the Christmas holiday would normally have started with the shutdown today, but the one-day strike meant closing down a day earlier. So the Triumph workers began their Christmas holiday on Wed- nesday night and production will not resume until next Wednesday morning.

BY A WORKERS PR

THE ASIAN

Hosiery's Lougl call off their tw firm agreement training of a n ters. At the same t made a plea fo workers at the r They were taken to Bridewell pelice station where they were informed that on the instructions of the Attorney-General, Mr Desmond O'Malley, they would be taken to the Special Criminal Court and charged. The case was adjourned until January 12 and both men were led away flanked by detectives.

application for bail was be- An ing heard in the High Court late yesterday. In London the Prime Minister's Department and the Ministry of Defence refused to comment.

Secrets Act and there were alle- gations of phone-tapping.

The police have been accused of tapping the Gazette Phones of the 'Railway to get this information—a charge they deny.

The DPP will have to consider if any offences under the Theft Act could be sustained in con- nection with the photocopy.

7 million ton plant at Lackenby.

BSC has sacked 27,000 since nationalization and announced 20,000 another redundancies. The 30,000 mentioned yesterday are on top of these figures.

Eric Varley, Opposition on steel, said the spokesman Tories were 'concealing a lot of then true facts behind the situa- At their quarterly meeting 300 Belfast AUEW shop stewards passed a resolution pledging full support to the union's executive in opposing the fine. Earlier eight branches in the city passed similar resolutions. Thirty thousand engineers on Tyneside will be called out on strike over the fine on January 8.

The strike decision has been by the AUEW district taken committee, but it may also aftect other workers. The Newcastle and Blyth Con- _ Shipbuilding and federation of Engineering Unions is convening a meeting of its 1,500 shop stewards to decide whether to join in the action. Engineers in Leeds are to strike on New Year's day after a unanimous decision by the AUEW district committee on Wednesday night. Swansea district committee of the AUEW decided on Wednes- day to call a one-day strike of 8,000 workers on January 5.

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KERS PRESS REPORTER

SIAN workers at Mansfield s Loughborough mills will not their two-month strike until a eement can be reached on the of a number of them as knit- • same time, strike leaders have plea for unity with the white at the mills. A meeting yesterday morn- ing rejected the recommenda- tion in the Robinson report on the dispute which dealt with the recruitment of 41 non- Asian workers as trainee knit- ters by the company during the strike. Former Labour Minister Ken- neth Robinson said the company should place the 41 job vacan- cies in a pool which would be competed for on merit by the Asian workers and the new re- cruits. 'We want a reasonable number of Asian workers trained as knit- said Benny Bunsee, ters,' the strikers' spokesman, yesterday.

He said the strike committee had moved from their original demand for the sacking of the 41 trainee knitters. 'We did regard them as strike- breakers and scabs,' said Bunsee, given a vote of confidence by the strikers following an attack on him by Kenneth Robinson.

'But we don't want to create any division between black and white workers, he added. 'We don't want to provoke any strikes by white workers against us. The strikers want to work together with the other workers in the mills. That is our main aim.? More talks between the strik- ers, union leaders and manage- ment will take place at the De- partment of Employment's Bir- mingham office today. If any agreement is reached, it is under- stood the return to work will take place on January 2. Dise blished Were s Press.

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