Workers Press no. 956

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GENOCIDE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAI

BY JOHN SPENCER

AMERICAN aircraft made their heaviest raids so far against Hanoi when they resumed the bombing of North Vietnam following a perfunctory Christmas pause. And as the raids went on, US officials indicated they were relying on China and the Soviet Union to get Hanoi to be 'more accommodating' at the negotiating table. The Moscow and Peking Stalinists have done nothing that would jeopardize their good relations with Nixon, making only token. protests against the bombardment of North Vietnam.

Yet their men on the spot are in a position to see exactly what Nixon is doing to the North Vietnamese capital, the nerve-centre of the Indo-China revolution.

Tass reported on Tuesday Eight B52s were shot down Hanoi that bombing sorties in the yesterday OVer week before Christmas had left morning, bringing the total num- ber of the giant bombers des- Gia Lam suburb of Hanoi troyed to 26 since the raids be- as if a severe earth- looking gan nine days ago. quake had hit it. All but the most essential In southern Hanoi there were personnel have been evacuated of 'dead soil' 500 strips yards from the citv. but the death toll wide and up to 1.2 miles long in from the unprecedented bombing what formerly residential Were is still extremely high. areas of the city, Tass reported. White House spokesmen Hanoi in- from say Latest reports the bombing will *for continue dicate that the bombing is now several weeks, until the North aimed right at the heart of the Vietnamese leaders agree to re- city and is more intensive than sume what President Nixon terms ever. 'meaningful negotiations'.

"The B52฿ bombers came One officer of the US military larger numbers and from a high command Saigon the in said black sky they dropped carpets bombing 'pause' was to enable of bombs right in the middle the North Hanoi and the immediate suburb, Vietnamese to come back to the 'peace' talks 'and no Hanoi radio said. fooling around', but It said the bombs had 'poured that Nixon had made it known that if the like on the inhabitants rain' Vietnamese say "OK, come and Pho Kham Thien Street, which get us" then we're really seemed be of the main going to one to kill them'. targets for the B52s. Hanoi has made it clear that it North Viet- But the defiant will stand firm through its *test defenders exacted namese downed of fire'. The latest Foreign Minis- toll in bombers, heavy leaving the streets of the North the bombing try statement on US Vietnamese says the brutal and barbaric capital littered with B52s. attacks Hitler's war debris from crashed surpass INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY DECEMBER 28, 1972• No. 956 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE crimes intensity. scope an ades. Imperialists should not suffer any illusion that they can subdue the heroic Viet people by torce. namese -ine Americans. nowever. are not relying simply on force and brutality to crush the Vietnamese and force revolutIOn settle on Nixon's terms. Far are their more insidious manoeuvres be. secret diplomatic hind the scenes with the Moscow 4p

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and Peking Stalinists who want the Vietnam war brought to an end in the interests of peaceful coexistence'. • The position of the Moscow and Peking leaders provided the clearest indication of the coun- ter-revolutionary character of for a Stalinism and the need ruthless struggle against it as an integral part of the defence of the Vietnamese revolution.

JANE FONDA and Tom Hayden lett Britain yesterday, still angry at their treatment by immigration officials. her The actress and husband-to-be were detained for two hours on Tuesday when they arrived for a conference against US policy in Vietnam. Hayden, a leader of the US Students for a Democratic Society,- was recently acquitted of conspiracy charges in connec- tion with demonstrations at the Democratic convention of 1968.

As the couple left Heathrow airport, he said that the immigra- tion men had told him they needed agreement from 'a higher authority' before he could be let in. They said they could not give us the reason. They did not have to give a reason.' A BRITISH MIS agent was yes- terday refused bail by a Dublin court. His application was heard in secret at the request of the Irish Republic's State Attorney.

John Wyman, of 3 Swan Walk, Chelsea, is charged with Irish police constable Patrick Crinnion Republic's Official under the Secrets Act. The Londoner is accused of obtaining secret information from Crinnion and with attempting to obtain secret information. Crin- nion faces three charges in con- nection with the possession of secret documents and one of passing secret information to Wyman..

workers press

GENOCIDE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAI

BY JOHN SPENCER

AMERICAN aircraft made their heaviest raids so far against Hanoi when they resumed the bombing of North Vietnam following a perfunctory Christmas pause. And as the raids went on, US officials indicated they were relying on China and the Soviet Union to get Hanoi to be 'more accommodating' at the negotiating table. The Moscow and Peking Stalinists have done nothing that would jeopardize their good relations with Nixon, making only token. protests against the bombardment of North Vietnam.

Yet their men onethe spot are in a position to see exactly what Nixon is doing to the North Vietnamese capital, the nerve-centre of the Indo-China revolution.

Tass reported on Tuesday Eight B52s were shot down Hanoi that bombing sorties in the over yesterday week before Christmas had left morning, bringing the total num- ber of the giant bombers des- Gia Lam suburb of Hanoi troyed to 26 since the raids be- as if a severe earth- looking gan nine days ago. quake had hit it. All but the most essential In southern Hanoi there were have been personnel evacuated •dead stide and up to 152 miles longrds strips yards from the city, but the death toll from the unprecedented bombing what formerly residential is still extremely high. Tass areas of the city, reported. White House spokesmen say Hanoi in- Latest reports from the bombing will *for continue dicate that the bombing is now several weeks', until the North aimed right at the heart of the Vietnamese leaders agree to re- city and is more intensive than sume what President Nixon terms ever. 'meaningful negotiations'.

bombers came "The B52 in One officer of the US military a high larger numbers and from command Saigon the in said black sky they dropped carpets bombing 'pause' was to enable of bombs right in the middle of Hanoi and the immediate suburb, the North Vietnamese to come back to the "peace' talks 'and no Hanoi radio said. fooling around', but It said the bombs had poured that Nixon had made it known that 'if the like the inhabitants of rain' on Vietnamese say "OK, come and Pho Kham Thien Street, which get us" then of the we're really seemed be going to one to kill them. targets for the B52s. Hanoi has made it clear that it North Viet- But the defiant will firm through its 'test defenders exacted stand namese downed of fire. The latest Foreign Minis- toll in bombers, heavy the bombing leaving the streets 'of the North try statement on US Vietnamese says the brutal and barbaric capital littered with debris from crashed B52s. attacks Hitler's war , surpass INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY DECEMBER 28, 1972 • No. 956 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE crimes in intensity. scop and The US should not suffer any illusion that they can subdue the heroic Viet Hallicoe however. Sure Amen cans. are relying simply on force and brutality to crush the Vietnamese and force settle on Terms. insidious are their Far more diplomatic be- secret manoeuvres hind the scenes with the Moscow 4p

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and Peking Stalinists who want the Vietnam war brought to an end in the interests of 'peaceful coexistence'. The position of the Moscow and Peking leaders provided the clearest indication of the coun • ter-revolutionary character Stalinism and the need for a ruthless struggle against it as an integral part of the defence of ow the Vietnamese revolution.

JANE FONDA and Tom Hayden lett Britain yesterday, still angry at their treatment by immigration officials. The actress and her husband-to-be were detained for two hours on Tuesday when they arrived for a conference against US policy in Vietnam. Hayden, a leader of the US Students for Democratic a Society, was recently acquitted of conspiracy charges in connec- tion with demonstrations at the Democratic convention of 1968.

As the couple left Heathrow airport, he said that the immigra- tion men had told him they needed agreement from 'a higher authority' before he could be let in. They said they could not give us the reason. They did not have to give a reason.' A BRITISH MIS agent was yes- terday refused bail by a Dublin court. His application was heard in secret at the request of the Irish Republic's State Attorney.

John Wyman, of 3 Swan Walk, Chelsea, is charged with Irish police constable Patrick Crinnion the Republic's Official under Secrets Act. The Londoner is accused of obtaining secret information from Crinnion and with attempting to obtain secret information. Crin- nion faces three charges in con- nection with the possession of secret documents and one of information to passing secret Wyman..

over wage reform PAGE 2 Workers Press, Thursday December 28, 1972 Turkish teachers jailed for union Martial imposed

FIFTY-TWO

Turkish was activity 1971 so that the only in April schoolteachers have received miitarv court's jurisdiction to sentences eight

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accused was retro- try months for and ten spective. yeals belonging to outlawed Ankara were acquitted. chief accused, The trade union and carrying out The trial opened in October Fakir Bav- president Tull's an illegal strike. 1971 before court-martial kurt, novelist, and Dursun Akcam, the general ei set years, menses

LIC

the Turkish Teachers' Union teachers were ar- were

HOLI

bones from recite i lie which has been banned by the trial 1970 tor rested organized in miitary regime. Another 92 de.

fendants at the mass trial in Deler lving conditions. Workers have learned from 1970 Baltic tension reforms are POLISH government plans for so-called wage creating tension at the Baltic shipyards where workers struck and rioted two years ago.

Attempts to 'explain' the wage systems through There have been a number of strikes consultations between managers and party activists month, yards the past case to the in the over to put the wild aler rank and file, have not been very successful.

though there have been no demonstra- Arguments break out when the vague formula- tions outside the dock areas.

tions are translated into Two years ago strikers were involved in delegation violent clashes with the police who attacked York Times' gives the example of the of 40 dock workers who stopped work last month them with considerable bloodshed.

the anel demanded see

DOLL

Manlazers kecently army reservists in the coastal area were introduction of labour-saving devices.

reported to have been issued with police uniforms The issue was only peripheral to the wage prob there was a repetition of riots and the Case lem, but it was part of a pattern and it disturbed demonstranons. A tom sho to yar worket more than are were authorities. reron sale 30 per cent more they were also quoted unsubstantiated reports that aftermand of the rats of 1970.

demanding workers groups amnesty in 1970. according to party offcials, they tear that those jailed in the new incentive wage schemes will work against Officials have for some time in- them. that nobody involved in sisted une nots renans in aıı

JAPANESE

BRIEFLY

demonstrators ves However, Party officials admit terday staged Seited noisy protest the shipyard workers remain that States air base outside their Temain want it be returned to Tokyo,

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1 aclikawa ical leadership. There nave been thinly-veiled allusions this

JAPAN

is considering curbing n il use to here years tito. n recent parlia- shipbuilding from time. the orders alulude live yeals mentary debate on the current dollar heavy seas Drevell demonsulalors five-year plan. influx which mayor of Could samnuate lachikawa, stood

OUT-

of Edward Gierek's chief pressure for another yen revalua- side thema shoutine soot as One Szydlak, Transport Ministry 128-man aides, Jan

CLOT

Lull or ensuring rapid growth Japanese armed forces moved in consideric the only ensuring an quota for such orders aboard helicopters. means While Ine Trade and Industry Ministry was rapid standards and finding 'successful curbing

ISRAELI

bombed ship two Dianes Saida-and tensions villages- -Dael and solutions recurring licences, oficials said. The Irans port Ministry last month Gierek leadership some advance army posts in lat authorized building applications southern sector the Syrian followed a policy of trying yesterday morning. with higher vessels, but officials placate workers for 30 export killed and considered figure standards. while

LOIS

was Civilals

WELC

living soldiers wounded in the raid.

high. its own bureaucratic privi- leges intact. workers frightened the bureaucracy into making concessions alter Decen Socialist Labour League North West Rally 1970 feel strengthened and ber their are ready use more powers.

FORCE THE TORY

This serious problems the Polish Stalinists, who are for

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

most or carryle turouse a major economic decentraliza- tion, involving the linkage of

BUILD THE

wages to pronts. shipyar wages have been bonuses ased on the

REVOLUTIONARY

produced, but of work alloul

PARTY!

under the new system they would according to the profits of yards, cases of and in some The workers want know SUNDAY JANUARY 14, 7 p.m.

what will happen if supplies fail The Everyman, Hope Street, time. Are they to bt To arrive on rivet-maker penalized

LIVERPOOL

fails fulfil his commitment? to if rivet and And what prices other costs go shipyards profill their wages ... tomone une cut back?

'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM

The • remain workers vinced, Feron when they says A film made by ACTT. showing the five Right-to-Work marches from are told by Party officials of the from Glasgow. Liverpool. Swansea. Deal and Southampion to London imorovements made are verio hostile post yearoposed ending with a huge Rally at Empire Pool. Wembley on March 12. 1972.

hostile proposed Speakers labour code, presented by uCW the Party leaders as a stream lining of existing law. The code has reportedly nearly two Wheercone G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) and failed gain last month's CHRISTINE SMITH (Young Socialists) trade approval at In a personal capacity: Concess had read found that few people CONNIE FAHEY (Manchester Tenants) read it? ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Shop Stewards) workers it would even. tually regulate were apparently

BRIAN GEENEY (U.P.W.)

among those unfamiliar with its WALLY FOUCHS (CAV Occupation Committee) terms and unable

LOCAL

Feron factory explanations, reported. SINCE coming to power in June 1970, the Tories have policies leading pursued more and more in the direc- tion of dictatorship. This is amply evident in the Relations Act Industrial which jails trade unionists and fines their unions; the so-called Counter-Inflation Act which legislates against which in increases wage means that wage- effect cutting is now legalized.

(Penalty for defying the Act is unlimited fines in the criminal courts); the amend- ments to the Criminal Jus- tice Act which abolish the police caution and end an accused man's right to refuse to give evidence without comment to the jury. In the summer of this year the homes of a number of mem- bers of the International Socialist group were raided and documents carried away. It was a liberty-taking swoop in which the Special Branch was allowed to col- lect a range of names and addresses. Then the Tories closed down Trafalgar Square to all demonstrations on Northern Ireland and several men were arrested on 'treason' charges for making pro-IRA speeches at Hyde Park Corner on a Sunday after- noon. issues of In the past two Workers Press we have been sounding the alarm bells about another encroachment on civil liberties. We have warning been about the activities of the faceless men in the secret police.

is widely believed that Britain's secret police, who work behind the Ministry of Defence, are concerned with rooting out spies from foreign countries. The myth is fostered that raincoated men stand around Hyde Park waiting to catch the Patagonian military attaché as he picks up the Concorde secrets from a hollow log. The facts are far from funny.

In reality a powerful section of this sinister body of men and women is dedicated to spying on the labour and trade union movement. The Ministry of Defence, with its implications of Polaris and weapons, is secret merely a cover for their real activity. As the ruling class is plunged into ever-deepening econo- mic ruin. this shadowy branch of the state's repres- sive machinery will be used more vigorously. The result will be even graver assaults on civil liberties and the away of taking democratic rights which have been won in years of struggle by our forefathers.

years the liberals In recent have raised an occasional squeal about police spies and agents provocateur. But they have done so in a way which deliberately separates the issue from politics. This situation cannot con- tinue. The defence of basic democratic rights is a class question. It must be taken up by the whole labour movement and those sec- tions of the middle class— lawyers, film and TV direc- tors, writers, journalists and actors — who are not pre- pared to sit by and watch the destruction of basic rights. We are firmly convinced that the Tory government is being dragged deeper into is 'the social crisis. It period of civil wars' which Heath so accurately forecast when he spoke before the United Nations shortly after his election. It is against Heath's statement have learnt that that we Tories with a military back- ground are being invited to join some mysterious body of public-spirited citizens.

It is ostensibly to 'protect the nation'. But from what are they protecting it? The only conclusion is that this body is to be an army of scabs such as the notorious OMS which operated as strike-breakers during the 1926 General Strike. Workers Press serves notice that it will not give way to the faceless political police who open mail, listen to telephone conversations and bug meeting places and pri- vate homes. This clandestine group can be expected to step up its activities in the coming period. They will attempt infiltration and provocation in order to create an atmos- phere of panic. These special police are not being expanded to defend freedom, they are preparing to smash its remaining vestiges. It will be the duty of Workers Press, the daily newspaper of the labour and fear- lessly unmask these sinister forces.

Worker-director scheme SIT-IN STRIKERS at the CA facing a serious new danger- The officials have been asked by the strikers, and by shop stewards from the Industrial laid-off Lucas Equipment factory on the site as CAV, to same with arrange a meeting stewards from Liverpool's Ford and Standard-Triumph factories. Blacking action against all Lucas products has been called for by the CAV occupation committee. They are already picketing the car factories to stop Lucas lorries getting in.

Now they want firm action from inside until the company reverses its decision to close CAV in April. A district committee meeting of the Confederation of Ship- building and Engineering Unions is expected to discuss the request this week. But a number of officials are serious blacking hesitant about action at the car factories. And they are expected to support an 'alternative' course of action in- volving a new bid for talks with the company. It is believed these officials want to bargain with Lucas's over the future of Lucas Indus- trial Equipment. They apparently hope to get a new lease of life for CAV in return for some for- mula which would allow LIE- closed by the stopping of supplies onto the Fazakerley site-to re- open. Yet the company has already made clear that if LIE does not reopen on its terms within the next few weeks' , it will close it a series of permanently. And meetings with union men and MPs have shown the firm in no mood for negotiation. The suspicion is gaining ground at CAV, therefore, the that policy of this group of officials is merely a delaying tactic which the vital blacking postpones issue. A call for effective blacking action has also been postponed on the docks. Docks stewards are asking for a guarantee that they will backed by industrial action in the Liverpool area if forced into a strike over the blacking of Lucas goods. Stewards deny that this is be- cause they fear action against their union in the National In- dustrial Relations Court. But whatever the reason for the delay, it leaves the CAV workers-now in their 13th sit-in— . week of temporarily high and dry.

Despite this, the mood at the occupied factory over the Christ- mas weekend was of unshakable determination to continue the action and win. • See Goad affair shakes CAV leadership p. 11. This is the third Christmas that the Plymouth Fine Tubes strikers, their wives and their 53 children, have spent con strike with very little money. These men have waged a 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.

BY DAVID MAUDE

the CAV Fazakerley factory in Live anger-this time from local union o THE TUC is considering Common Market corpo- ratist-style proposals aimed at drawing trade unions directly into the management structure of big corporations. Tory Ministers have written to the TUC and the Confederation of British In- dustry asking their views on

EEC

legislation new on worker-participation'. And the TUC has lost no time in rushing into action to elabo- rate its own scheme. A small Paul Channon, Tory Minister for Housing conference yesterday. This Christmas is the hardest of all. It has imposed a great financial burden. Now the 37 strikers face the rest of the strike winter with a depleted fund. January is always a diffi- month to raise money to cult further their fight. Yet they determined to are fight on. This is a struggle the working class cannot afford to lose. That is why the Socialist Labour League and the Work- Workers Press, Thursday December. 28, 1972 PAGE 3 Overtime ban starts gasmen's pay protest

GASWORKERS

in south in Europe workers-sala Thal ine gas- London will ban all over- opened in 1966, at least want parity with 6 a.m. 2,000 electricity time from today ry men have workers' pay against made redundant. •rolets oclucuenl,

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goyer man slath mil be be finally agreed only two days be- ine plant will The ban which closed along with other fore the At the plants wher naturad union's startea

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natrekkal delegate gas next Caen Tenaces Codl Cine loe COTeAnCe Sait ho crogdo, wich works last 600 men will lose their month shop stewards in the 250 north Thames 108. Midiands Croydon plant Over 46,000 workers in will men lead dl cas the Soceitol

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e ceno! •emane whole south-east Eng- the state pay law action. •AcAICO land has interrupted The is also union de- manding Sympathetic acther ros action for shorter HUUiS from expected SIONen neli n: gions. spokesman for the workers. This, says, Since main involved the could also help halt redun- the East Green- union Municipal wich plant-the biggest of and General TUC joins corporatist plan In Britain, the Tory course, i enL or ake i Tn1C course with Industrial Re- lations Act and the state now

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

pay laws In addition. Calll Dalkis like tions inike Together and orga- nizations Industrial -which is well supported group of trade union leaders has independence of the trade unions.

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hl lue sallt tuc, allacks unlon icauesiave be published by the end of next conditions can an workers foster the 1cez

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1GenlTy month. launched from been favourable of interests between the classes. The TUC has also gone further This the Now the

TUC

dis- position. has case is not only •raw i

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CUSS y Lucoeodis DuL. accoro- on question. union men the ing to one source, actually think- inec' _the _une wnte cludes the an appointment board, 85,000 workers were lined of participating in the insti- of the Market 'worker-director al- for redundancy. " The common Las Lulivao of the EEC trade Jeceoi reate UnOI perspecuve Tne near mucure principles. reflects its strategy in a period With EEC entry only four days the European bour- of trade war: A grand coalition the building a new, As far away, the 'worker- of the capitalist classes volutionary leadership BeUSIC Conccncu, doaills baraciaton n nelsas seer te Insurgenl working classes Ol

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SHOTC

to. undermine the Europe. urgent. Rent Act: Now bonanza for private landlord

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

STAGE TWO of the Tory rent swindle starts next week when the government applies its Housing Finance Act to private unfurnished accommodation.

The move will inean that Rebates will not make up the difference of this burden. extra 1.1 rents for over million The Minister said vesterdav that people living in slum houses controlled properties had some could double incredibly that as regulations inevitable that 1957 was eventuall passed in preventing they would increase. rent increases are phased out.

Another problem is highlighted brithe robrte sonee es, eni ine These are the houses with a private rebate schemes, rateable value of less than £40 in London and £30 elsewhere.

Loncon borouon or Lambem oniv estimated 20,000 360 out of an eligible have applied rebates The Act will also be the green in the hirst two months light landlords ot properties regulated apply 1n Mr Channon said yesterday tribunals to obtain so-called 'fair that he was 'satisfied' that coun- fact new rents' -in rents vastly cils were capable making infiated by property speculation. could sure all those who would get a rebate. N ne sate une next Paul Channon, Tory Minister phase of the self over negis cam- for Housing Construction, and legislation presented this paisl aul Channon, Tory Minister for Housing and Construction, at his Pres yesicrud lalesl would involve I'V and newspaper attack on the working class advertising. some kind of. hale -od to the Under the scheme a couple made great on private Leulalll. £26 play oi ine natonal rent-rebate wire uwo culcren woura cel scheme meliet er cich pensate for it the rere ates inca ased by £S. the was increased €3 compensate rent to £8 the would increase rockellng rents. by only £1.80 rents in- - veti But he would not confirm creases this nature will be deny that the sum total of the when the new lan ColonDlalt scheme, despite the rebates, is in full swing. ers Press wishes to make woud medu Lnal mOre ocooie would be rent to The controlled tenancies manv trade to all dlls Huie S o «o•ci private landlords. them slums and not worth unionists to take collections in the small rents already paid, will thri r factories and branches This the would seem Fine in the ir heroi men ceconuoned ovel inevitable four years. order that their and legislation. determined action can be car- The new legislation will draw ried forward. All money should Figures show. that the private tenant into the heht over be sent to: period of three years 59.2 against the Tory government. of flats and houses which : New Year it will be Fine Tubes Treasuren cent Later in the c/o 65 Bretonside the turn of the tenants Have usce cone test have had their rents put up accommodation who turnisned Plymouth, Devon. -the average rise was double the will be subjects of a similar Tory attack. Orz lat tc.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Thursday Decem Martin Jukes, QC, president of the most powerful section of employers in the country, the Employers' Engineering Federation, is another emin- ence in the ruling class who is now calling for sterner mea- sures against trade unionists.

Listen to Jukes talking to the Industrial Correspondents' Group luncheon recently: 'Should free collective bar- gaining as we have known it in the past be restored in the future? It is my belief that if it is restored we should within a year thereafter be involved in the same inflationary situation as before. 'But to me the most im- portant problem facing the government is to redefine the role and influence of plant bargaining' In a breath Jukes is pro- posing attacks on collective- bargaining and plant-bargain- ing. He wants to end both!

This is a pretty tall order even for a group like the EEF.

It is seriously urging the dis- mantling of procedures for winning decent wage awards which the working class has during decades of erected struggle. In their place the employers wish to impose state-control over wages in the style already partly outlined by Edward Heath. Under Phase Two of the state pay plan the govern- ment is expected to set 'norms' which will be legally enforce- able in the criminal courts.

and their trade Workers unions will be threatened with unlimited fines if they seek to break the 'norm' barrier.

The Tories' and Jukes's chief hope is that the trade union • ing leaders will be able to deliver Dear Editor, I feel that your article on Indonesia Wednesday, on November 29 is incomplete without reference to the role of Stalinism and in particular the Chinese bureaucracy. The defeat suffered by the workers and peasants in 1965 Suharto's mili- when General tary regime came to power is probably the most serious re- verse suffered in any country since World War II. As your article pointed out, Indonesian Communist the Party in 1965 was the largest Communist Party in the world outside China, Russia and eastern Europe. With a mem- bership of one million it was extremely powerful in an position. But Suharto and his generals were able to triumph, murder- ing in the process an estimated million workers and peasants, whimper of with scarcely a organized opposition. How did ba terrifying defeat take this place?

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ay December 28, 1972 this wage-cutting proposal: 'One of the factors that would affect the situation most fav- ourably would be a strengthen- ing of the control of the unions over their members and an understanding by those mem- bers that there must be some limit on the claims they put forward in the interests not only of themselves but of the economy as a whole? If the ruling class is relying on the trade union leaders, it is a sad case of the blind lead- •ing the blind. Though both parties may desperately wish Sukarno It is directly attributable to the reactionary Stalinist theory of constructing socialism in a single country. The leadership of the PKI was in the hands of men who were the tools of the Chinese bureaucracy. The bureaucracy was not concerned with the fate of the Indonesian masses, but with 'good diplomatic relations' with Sukarno, then president of Indonesia. Sukarno was nothing but the representative of the Indonesian national bourgeoisie, a leader who balanced between the army on the one hand and the Com- munist Party on the other.

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to co-operate, they are head- ing towards a precipice over which both may well fall.

Time and again throughout this year the rank and file has demonstrated that it does not share the class-collabora- tion policies of its leaders.

Jack Jones may have gone to the National Industrial Rela- tions Court (NIRC) and paid his fines, but the dockers committed gross contempt of court and went to jail. And it was the unofficial action of the working class which secured their release. Sukarno and the

PKI

allowed the generals full rein to prepare the counter-revo- lution. Too late the

PKI

leaders realized that their fate hung in the balance and very probably they made an abor- tive attempt at a putsch. Cer- tainly they never turned to the masses. They paid with their lives.

Without leadership the work- ers and peasants were dis- oriented and counter-revolu- tion was able to triumph with very little resistance. Thus ended another peaceful road to socialism', and another page in the book of the crimes of Stalinism. The entire betrayal has a remarkable resemblence to the events which took place in 1927 in China itself, when Chiang Kai-shek was enabled to murder the flower of the Chinese working elass through the betrayals of Stalin. Lest anyone should imagine that there has been any change since 1965, one has only to Nixon's visit to remember Peking and the role of the Chinese bureaucracy over Bangladesh. Truly today the humanity resolves crisis of question itself into the of leadership for the working class. London reader.

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North Thames Gas Board men who are demanding strike action over the suspension of pay negoti- ations might like to know their bosses how much are making. Salaries among the full-time members are as follows: Chairman Mr E. Cooper £13,000; deputy irman Mr W. chairman L. Smith chief Mr execuLive P. R. Rhodes £8,910. There good money to be made as a part-timer. Lord Collison, Labour enalt- Supplementary of the Nail Benefits Commission, the Earl K. G of Halsbury and Dr of Denbigh Queen Elizabeth Hospital all £1,000. get For unexplained reason Mr some C. T. Higgins, former company director and chairman of the Peterborough Development Corporation, final the part- time member, gets £2,100.

Stewards representing 8,000 North Thames manual workers, General and members of the Municipal Workers' Union, voted last week to press union's executive to authorize

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Policies which the gov- ment claims will reduce unemployment will, in fact, have no serious effect, according to an 'Monitor', the article in journal of the Institute of Manpower Studies. This argument is based on Sus- a study-carried out at Mr Colin sex University Leicester-of trends in cull productivity and ployment, national output over the last 21 years, Mr Leicester finds first that labour productivity in Britain been growing faster than the output of goods and ser- vices since the mid-1960s. In other words, fewer people are requirea to produce

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This means that the govern- ment's stated beliet that ant increase in the Gross Domestic Product Will automatically in- of jobs the number Li caoc available is fallacious.

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Since about 1966 the oppo- happening. site has been Mr Leicester's other main finding is that when extra jobs become available, many of them are taken by people who were not previously registered as unemployed. "The past 20 years' experi- ence', he says, 'suggests that any economic policy aimed at reducing unemployment from 800,000 to the the recent "acceptable" 300,000 would have to provide, not 500,000 jobs, but 1.5 million. 'A 5-per-cent growth rate' 'might produce he continues, an extra 500,000. But it cer- tainly would not produce three times that number.'

A comparison of changes in employed over the numbers with changes in num- years, bers of registered unemployed example, showed, for that • 1966 and 1971 the between employed fell by numbers roughly 1.2 million while the numbers of registered unem- ployed rose by only 400,000.

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The case of Greek judge Christos Sartzetakis pro- vides an instructive in- sight into the quality of fascist justice and into the extremes to which the ruling : colonels are pre- pared to go to destroy all opposition - real or imaginary. In a recent 'Sunday Times' article, Greek-born Lady Fleming, widow of Sir Alex- ander Fleming, told how a man who refused to compromise his concept of justice was tor- tured and persecuted by the military regime. On May 22, 1963, in the northern Greek city of Salon- ika, left-wing MP Grigoris Lambrakis was murdered in full view of the chief of police and 200 of his men who made no move to apprehend the attackers. Sartzetakis (33), a brilliant local lawyer, respected for his integrity, was appointed to look into the incident. He brought charges of murder against two men who had clearly been seen to com- mit the crime and who had been detained by a watching crowd as they tried to escape on a motorcycle combination.

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for northern Greece, General Mitsou, and several of his officers with actually instigat- ing the attack on Lambrakis.

All were arrested, in de- fiance of the wishes of the.

public prosecutor in Athens, Constantine Kolias, who was made Prime Minister when the colonels came to power in 1967. It took three and a half years for the accused police to be brought to trial and then the case against them was dis- missed. The two motorcycle were jailed for 1l and men eight years, but have since been freed. Sartzetakis was in Paris when the colonels seized power and need not have returned.

he received orders to When go back to Athens he did so.

For a whole year after the. Ja colonels' coup there was no mention of retribution for his dangerous audacity in pressing charges against the police and attempting to bring the mur- derers of a left-wing MP to justice. Then, without warning, in May 1968, the colonels sus- pended for three days the rule making judges immovable from office and Sartzetakis and 28 other men were abruptly dis- missed. They were forbidden to practise as lawyers and banned from leaving Greece.

Sartzetakis was never a 'political' figure. Though hos- tile to the colonels, he refused to side with the opposition.

hich came to power in 1967.

He had aways been against "totalitarianism' and limited himself to putting into practice stringent concepts of justice. Nevertheless, on Christmas Eve 1970 he was arrested at his parents' home-his father was an ex-general of police.

For months the colonels had toid the world that nobody could be arrested without a warrant or after sunset. Sartze- takis was not shown a warrant and he was arrested at night.

A week later, despite the fact that his father had been promised he would be told if Sartzetakis was moved from Salonika, the lawyer was taken in secrecy to the special inter- rogation centre of the military police in Athens. 24 From December to January 15 Sartzetakis was subjected to beatings and tor- tures which brought him to the brink of death. He was allowed one glass of water a day and only a bite of food.

Forty-seven days after his arrest, he was charged officially with attempting to overthrow the regime, despite his con- sistent denials and factual innocence. Months later he was freed and allowed to practise as a lawyer again. But it was a brave man who would risk offering him a case and in the 12 months since he was freed he has dealt with only ten cases-all put his way by close friends. Workers Press, Thursd A major contribution to the lowering of the standard of living of the working class is planned with the introduction of Value-Added Tax (VAT) on April 1 next year. The new tax is one of the chief aspects of a sweeping change in British taxation cur- rently being undertaken by the Tory government. One reason for bringing in VAT is to align the British system of taxation more closely with the Common Market as required under countries, the Treaty of Rome. But the Tory aim is also to produce a massive shift of the tax burden from away property-owners and high- earners and onto the backs of the working class. Adopting the Common Market system is the easiest way to achieve this, because EEC tax systems are far more tavourable, in general, to the rich than • the present British system. The standardization of taxes throughout the Common Mar- ket is a necessary step towards the eventual object of econo- mic union. Differences in taxa- tion constitute a barrier to the free movement of capital and goods. It was for this specific pur- pose that VAT was first in- troduced in the EEC as the standard tax. All the six member-countries were re- quired to bring in a

VAT

system by January 1970. Only Italy has yet to put this decree into practice, suc- cessive governments fearing the upheaval that would be created by price rises and in- creased administration costs.

In order to cut the burden of taxation on the rich, the Tories adopting are classic strategy of cutting 'direct' taxes and increasing the weight of 'indirect taxes.

'Direct' taxes are levied on income and profits, while 'indirect' taxes are imposed on goods or services. An example of indirect taxation is the tax on cigarettes, which is raised by increasing the price of the goods. The Tory government's first budget in 1971 sharply slashed surtax (which naturally penal- ized the wealthy and now plans to replace income tax and surtax altogether with a new unified personal tax which Will treat unearned incomes much more favourably than at present. A new (and more lenient) type of corporation tax will benefit companies, while death duty seems likely to be re- placed by inheritance tax, cutting the amount that will have to be surrendered to the taxman on death. VAT can be levied on the whole range of consumer goods and services and can thus bring in a vast yield. Its great attraction is its universal character. It can cover prac- tically every item in the shops and every form of service industry as well. To bring in the money on the necessary scale, the tax must be applied, above all, to necessities. And it is no acci- dent that in all the countries 38, Thursday December 28, 1972 PAGE 5 of Europe where it operates, VAT is applied to food. The Tory government is making great play with the tact that food, rents, fares, rates, fuel and light are all "zero-rated' under the tax.

But this simply means that the tax is not yet being levied on these items. They are not exempt and the Chancellor is to change the empowered rating when he wants to. VAT replaces existing pur- chase tax and Selective Em- ployment. Tax (SET). It is levied at each stage in the trading • process: the value added by any trader is calcu- lated as the value of his sales less the cost of materials and services purchased from other tirms. • Effectively the tax is levied as a percentage of the sum of wages and profits. Each firm involved in pro- duction or handling of a good pays the tax and then passes the extra cost onto the next firm or person in the chain.

The entire total burden thus falls on the unfortunate shopper. But though in theory the 'middlemen' pay nothing to- wards the tax, they will be forced to undertake the com- plex financial administration associated with VAT. Only those with less than £5,000 a year turnover will be exempt.

Many small traders expect to be ruined by the crippling administration burden of the new tax and are planning to sell up their shops. As a first stage, VAT is actually being charged only an about 40 per cent of con- sumers' expenditure, though this includes such items as children's clothing and shoes, which are now exempt from purchase tax. Nobody should be deceived by appearances. It is only too clear that the Tory govern- ment, once it gets the chance, will raise both the coverage and the rate at which the tax is levied. The standard VAT rate on April 1 is likely to be 10 per cent, which compares with rates of 23 in France, 20 in Norway, 18 in Belgium, 14 in Holland, 12.5 in Denmark and 11 per cent in Germany. The government has already taken powers to increase the rate by 24 per cent in the first year of operation and then to make changes of up to 20 per cent of the rate in any year, without further legislation.

Obviously it will not be 10 per cent in Britain for long.

Nor is food—which is affected by the tax in all countries, presently applying it—likely to remain exempt for any length of time. The tax is officially esti- mated to increase the cost of living by 2t to 3 per cent when it is introduced. This estimate is certainly on the _The experience of low side. other countries has been that VAT introduction is accom- panied by substantial rises in the cost of living. In Denmark the cost of living rose 7.9 per cent in the after six months VAT was introduced, while in Norway retail prices rose 6.25 per cent over the year, despite so-called price control.

PAGE 6 Workers or 28, 1972

BY OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

Drastic changes in the fall, but stated that 'the tar- gets for production and pro- current five-year plan are curement of grain and a num- being undertaken by the ber of other agricultural crops in Soviet leaders the were not met in our country as a whole'. wake of the disastrous To prevent a serious short- grain harvest this year. age of grain the Soviet leaders At the Supreme Soviet ses- have had to import almost sion held in Moscow last week $1,000m-worth of wheat and from reversed the priority other abroad, they grain mainly from the United States.

goods in- given to consumer But the grain is not being dustry in the original plan. the impe- They also announced big in- given away free by Far from it. The creases in investment in agri- rialists. for the ship- culture and a general cutback money to pay from the ments has to found in investment throughout in- foreign exchange re- dustry. meagre serves of the At the Supreme Soviet ses-

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or from negotiated with over- Nikolai Baybakov, the credits sion chairman of the state planning seas banks. Measures have already been committee, presented a gloomy introduced down the report on the prospects for the to cut import of 'non-essential' items coming vear. He cautiously avoided speci- and officials are carefully scan- imported harvest short- the lists of fying the actual ning goods to see whether more cuts can be made. This is undoubtedly one of main for the the reasons Soviet decision to invite con- siderable foreign investment, the United notably from States. This is a means of ac- quiring capital for investment, particularly in the vast mineral projects whose production can then hopefully be exchanged for western consumer goods.

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PRIORITIES

Foreign investment can en- able the bureaucracy to over- come some of its most severe immediate headaches by mak- economic political and ing imperialism. concessions to This is essentially what the theory of peaceful co-existence means. Baybakov said there were 'serious shortcomings' in the work of certain economic sec- tors. 'The main problem has been the under-fulfilment of the plan for commissioning productive capacities and in a series of cases delay in reach- ing their rated capacity.

This is a severe blow to the development of increased in- dustrial production and re- veals that though the imme- diate strains created by the harvest are the most important cause of the budget revision, they are not the only one.

The ninth five-year plan, which enters its third year in envisaged major in- 1973, creases in the output of con- sumer goods. It was billed as the plan which would provide , trial de a 'better life' for the Soviet people. Priority was given to invest- ment in light industry, for the production of such items as washing machines, electronic goods and other symbols of improved standard of living.

However, these plans have more difficult to put proved into effect than the planners thought. Attempts to raise the productivity of labour, either by exhortation or by increased investment have not been not- ably successful This is not simply a matter of lack of eagerness on the part of the workers. They are subjected to an extremely managerial bureaucratic те- gime in the factories which suppresses all independent ini- tiative. The general level of indus- , trial development is such that piecemeal investment can have little effect on overall produc- tivity—a bottleneck overcome in one place simply reappears in another form elsewhere.

This is one of the reasons why Baybakov had to report that 'planned measures for in- creasing production efficiency in certain industries have not been fully effected'.

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PROMISES

The growth in gross indus- trial output for this year is down to 6.2 per cent from an original estimated rise of 6.9 per cent. But this existing shortfall is mild compared with the cut- backs planned for 1973. A wholesale reversal of priorities has been undertaken and the grandiose promises made to the workers in 1970 are being snatched from under their noses. In order to prevent the re- currence of this year's disas- trous harvest, the planned ex- penditure on agriculture has been considerably stepped up.

The sum allocated in Bayba- kov's budget for agricultural investment in 1973 is nearly equal to that spent over the past two years. The state will spend 25,400m roubles on agriculture next year compared with expendi- ture of 28,000m roubles for the first two years of the ninth five-year plan. This increase is to come largely from the consumer goods section of investment, where the targets have been drastically downgraded. Con- sumer production is to rise under the revised plan by only 4.5 per cent next year, a re- duction of 3.6 per cent on the original target in the five-year plan. This cutback comes at a time when the previous years' increasing targets for con- sumer goods production have already fallen short of the plan. By contrast, the rise in out- put of heavy industry is to be cut by only 1.5 per cent, from an originally scheduled figure of 7.8 per cent to a revised estimate of 6.3 per cent.

In effect this means that the whole axis of the present five- year plan, which was presen- ted originally as a scheme for vastly increasing the amount of available consumer goods, has been reversed. Now the emphasis is again, as in the past, on heavy in- dustry and agriculture and production consumer goods has once more been pushed into the back seat. This will hit the working class quite dis- proportionately, for the bur- eaucracy has always been first in the queue for consumer products and invariably takes the cream of what is available.

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Trotsky formulated 'a unique law of Soviet indus- try . 'commodities are as a general rule worse the nearer they stand to the mass con- sumer By contrast, the most influential clients and the most fastidious customers are the armed forces. Trotsky's analysis is entirely Workers Press, Thursday De borne out by the Supreme Soviet discussion. There is to be no cutback in military ex- penditure. The necessity to de- fend the Soviet Union means that the armed forces must be kept up to exacting standards.

But this is only a graphic Utopian expression of the character of the bureaucracy's dream of socialism in a single country. So long as imperialist encirclement remains, the eco- to bear nomy must continue this unnatural burden. The political implications of this move are extremely seri- ous for the men in the Krem- lin. They have already com- police drive menced a new against the intellectual opposi- tion and there have been a number of important arrests.

clearly they want to get rid of any focus for popular dis- content and the oppositionists of Moscow and Leningrad are the obvious target. But there is a much more basic danger facing the bureaucracy and one which they appear power- less to avert. It is the spectre of the poli- tical revolution of the work- ing class, which in the USSR • Press, Thursday December 28, 1972 PAGE 7 Above left: Soviet workers in an automobile factory. The cut- backs in consumer goods will hit workers hard, depriving them of a rise in living standards, long- promised to them by the bureau- cracy. Top: Harvest-disastrous this year, but it was not the only Above: Military shortcoming. Red Square. In this parade in field there is to be no cutback.

take the form of an must explosion of work- elemental ers' anger against the bureau- cracy which has robbed them of their political rights and flaunts its usurping power in their faces. The Soviet bureaucracy must know that it was the re- duction of consumer supplies in Hungary before 1956 which played a prominent part in sparking the Hungarian Revo- They have the fresh lution. reminder of the Polish Baltic port strikes of December 1970.

The question for the bur- eaucrats in the Kremlin is that they have kept the workers quiet with promises of a bet- ter life. Will these workers be once now be content to again pushed to the back of the queue?

PAGE 8 Workors Preas, Thursday Dacembar 28, 1872 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 five: Engineers turn to politics and the building of the Labour Party. The right wing goes over to the 'war effort in 1914-1918 and the shop stewards' move- ment is born. The new Amalgamated Engineering Union of 1921 fights for survival.

Society of Engineers (ASE), by The consequences of the a majority vote of its mem- 1897 defeat and the con- bers, endorsed the Labour Re- tinuous legal attack on presentation Committee major step towards the build- the status of the unions ing of the Labour Party. in the 1890s, culminating One of section engineers in the Taff Vale decision, headed by Tom Mann and Charles Duncan campaigned to required, as in 1897, a the ranks of the exclu- open shift decisive to the sive ASE to the numerous and political front. of semi-skilled rowing body there was inevitably and unskilled engineering Again hesitation the workers. much among Mann and Duncan and many majority of members to pursue a policy of campaign for inde- threw them- young engineers selves into the work of recruit- pendent labour representatives The Taff Vale those sections into the in parliament. Ing Union judgement produced the turn- Workers' (later the Transport and General Work- in 1904® consciousness. 1904 the Amalgamated ers' Union) around a fighting industrial and political policy as the best means of present- ing a strong front against the employers and government and positive answer to the as machinations of the official leadership. ASE members formed the front line in the struggle for defence of wages and condi- tions during the 1914-1918 war. When war broke out, the trade union leadership de- serted to the side of the national government, declaring their members' support for the war effort. By the terms of the Trea- sury Agreement of March 15, trade union rights were 'voluntarily' suspended for the duration of the war. The Munitions of War Act and the Defence of the Realm Act fur- ther enabled the state to strip away all union rights and force a ruthless policy of speed-up, long hours and the breaking down of the long-established workshop practices of skilled engineering workers. Abandoned by the official leadership, the resolution of grievances at workshop level was taken up by the Shop Stewards' Movement which first rose into prominence dur- ing wartime. Beginning with the Clyde Workers' Commit- tee, formed out of ASE mem- bers, the movement blossomed out into other areas and intc a national organization. The Shop Stewards' and Workers' Committee move- ment had an important influ- in the main munitions ence centres in the country. The Clyde Workers' Committee led strike action against dilution (of skilled labour) before being dispersed by the government in April 1916. A labour historian in Cov- entry, John Yates, informs us the normal working hours in munitions factories in the city were from 6 a.m. until 8 p.m., 'with Saturdays and Sundays thrown in'. The shop stewards fought to reduce hours and win recognition as the demo- cratic representatives of the workers. The Engineering Employers' Federation refused to recog- nize shop stewards. The bosses were promptly answered by a strike of 50,000 men, women and girls in Coventry aircraft and munitions factories. Engi- neering workers brought Shet- field to a standstill over the of the skilled conscription craftsman and the "May Strike' of 1917, occasioned by the extension of dilution general and the ending of the exemp- tion of skilled craftsmen from military conscription, involved 250,000 engineering over workers in all the big centres.

As a result of the determin- ation of the working class, particularly in engineering and munitions, to hold on to its past gains, the status of shop stewards was officially recog- nized and the rules and rights suspended in August 1914 re- stored in the summer of 1919.

In the immediate post-war period, ASE members and en- gineers still outside it, con- tinued a militant policy, reject- ing the Whitley Councils pro- jected by the government and the trade union leaders. They participated instead in the Council of Action in 1920 to prevent the prosecution of the counter-revolutionary • war against the new workers' state in Russia. The election of Tom Mann to the position of general sec- retary indicated the shift to the left. Under his leadership, the ASE, with nine smaller craft societies, achieved the forniation of the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1921.

ponded Union rights were during the war enabling the om- ployers to introduce speed-up, longer hours and the recruitment of unskilled labour. Above: A woman munitions worker. The temporary economic boom after the war was fol- lowed by roaring inflation, slump and heavy unemploy- ment. Engineering was one of the first industries to feel the pinch of depression and the employers resumed their offen- sive against recent wage gains of AEU workers, including the bonuses paid out in 1917 and 1919. A whole range of rights came under attack with a near 20-per-cent reduction in wages, on overtime and the manning of machines. Like its predecessor, the ASE, the AEU almost at birth was faced with a battle for survival against a vastly strengthened Engineering Employers' Feder- ation of over 2,000 firms.

Weakened by the effects of unemployment, by the collapse of the leaders of the Triple Alliance, the defeat of the miners and the inability of the AEU leadership to raise the consciousness of the struggle of their members beyond the level of the wages issue, the brought to union was knees. By drawing certain political conclusions from their experi- ence of defeat, the politically- conscious elements in the union were able to agitate for accession of the Labour the parliamentary representatives sponsored by the union as their strategy for beating the employers in the near future.

They also recognized the need to break out of the prac- tice of fighting single-handed battles and broadened their front against the employers and the plans of the Baldwin Tory government.

CONTINUED TOMORROW

"The Sunday Times' Colour Magazine has just produced a remarkable feature article on history of the chain of the fashion stores, C&As. The article revealed that the international conglomerate has published an annual never report, nor issued comprehen- sive balance sheets, accounts, profits or dividends. "They have never discussed their business in public nor given interviews to the Press or television,' the article went on. The investigation explained that the group was founded Clemens and August (hence C&A) Brenninkmeyer in the last century. It is still in the Brennink- meyer family who are million- aires several times over.

The family is fanatically Roman Catholic and among other Dutch businessmen the is that standard remark "They're • more Catholic than the Pope' Of particular interest, how- ever, were revelations among company's wheeling and dealing with the Nazis. In 1937 the family wrote to Hermann Goering announcing an inten- tion to open a store in Leipzig.

They promised to stock Clemens Brenninkmeyer of clothes 'generally sort required by the largest group of citizens with the lowest incomes-that is, small wage- earners'. On a second page the com- pany sets out its reasons for seeking sympathetic treatment from the Nazis: 'We were one of the companies that pene- trated the position of power held by Jews in the textile La industry before the war and we were obliged to pit our- selves against the financial strength of the department stores and shops and against the power of the entire Jewish establishment—which we did successfully. 'Since the foundation of the firm no non-Aryan has ever been employed by us.' But before you rush to commend the courage of The Sunday Times' for publishing these revelations, there is a point worth mentioning. The completed two article was years ago. Why the delay in publishing it? We don't know, except that C&A are very big advertisers in the Thomson newspaper chain. That may have had some effect. ... It wasn't a Merry Christmas for everybody, especially for 22-year-old Mrs Sandra Gregory, judging by a recent from Broughton in report Lancashire. Mrs Gregory, her husband and seven - year - old son, Stephen, have to live and sleep in the only habitable room in her Worcester Street home.

The ceiling in her living room collapsed a month ago and a week later three holes appeared in the roof. The entire house is damp and, says Mrs Gregory,. it is infested with mice You can hear them squeaking when you're lying in bed'. She has withheld her rent for some weeks. She says: 'I've got all the rent money and if the landlord will do the repairs he can have the money.

But I'm not paying it with the house in this state.'

Health Department inspec- tors have been to the house on several occasions, but the Gregorys were told they could not be rehoused until a report sent to the Medical Officer of Health had been approved.

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Produced by David Conroy: Epl- sode 13—'BORODINO'. BBC 2.

p.m. 'COLDITZ': 'Tweedle- 9.25 dum'. By John Brason. Series devised by Brian Degas and Gerard Glaister. Directed by Michael Ferguson. Produced by Gerard Glaister. BBC 1. 10.15 p.m. 'Monty Python's Fly- ing Circus'. Produced by lan MacNaughton BBC 11.00 p.m. 'Something to Say': 'Will the Real Ronnie Laing stand up'. Directed by George Saw- ford. Produced by Udi Eichler.

Thames Television. Christmas is done with again and in case any mis- conceptions lurk that there is a wage freeze on our doorsteps, along with a decorative package called the Common Mar- ket which should up the cost of living around 20 per cent, the Press has been busy reminding us that a spending spree of around £50m has been go- ing on about us. And such spending in turn reminds us of three things will, of course, that there always be a crowd of vultures in the worst crisis who can fatten themselves on the pick- ings; that an orgy of this pro- portion can only be carried out by people who are panic- stricken at the thought of a dearth that the to come; money itself is worthless stuff in the tills and swilling pockets like so much sawdust.

asserts itself But stability where it should and the tele- vision screens have been clogged with goodies of the consistency of cold slabs of Christmas pudding-all the old faces (Alf Garnet, Dad's Army, the the Two Ronnies and like) to give us a laugh, variety for a bit of a song and dance and, above all, a vast selection of old films presented with as much triumph as if they were cutting room hot from the floor. All this in the name of that grand old myth-'enter- tainment'. As economic and political crises tighten up internation- ally and unrest grows the tele- vision boys grub about ever more frenetically for material to 'take our mind off things'— churning out the digestible, the innocuous, the bland, like stuffing being poured down the neck of the goose being fat- tened for the kill. Take one evening spent in pursuit of these mystic quali- ties-all hands to the task of 'entertaining': 'War and Peace' is still moving along-less like a juggernaut than a streamroller: the armies were on the field singing in re- markable unison in prepara- tion for the battle with a for- midable array of extras, can- non and the like. The music was suitably res- trained, the acting, with Anthony Hopkins as Pierre, Alan Dobie as Andrei, and David Swift as Napoleon, earn- ponderous. est, persevering, Some of Tolstoy's words came ringing home against some odds: 'I say no quarter-kill and be killed—then people would never go to war. War is the vilest thing in life and we should have done with the humbug of it." Battle ensues with plenty of enthusiasm and exploding can- non balls, digging of bayonets into unseen stomachs; Andrei dies, Pierre sees the nature of war before him. Great trouble has been Workers Press, Thursda lakeman Anthony Hopkins (centre) as Pierre in ' taken with the details. A for- tune has been spent. And with welter of worthy this equipment, impeccable 'acting' and concern for authenticity, the thing is almost unrecogniz- able as Tolstoy's major work.

The roar of life which issues from his been pages has obscured by an apparent pre- occupation with achieving the the raw pain and vitality with which Tolstoy himself gave us his giant canvas. With elabor- ate care the tale has become nothing more than an every- day story of 19th-century Rus- sian folk. Michael Bryant was the guest star in this week's epi- sode of 'Colditz' which was concerned with the medical orderly's successful attempt to escape by feigning a version of insanity—only to fall victim to his own self-imposed madness.

Even Michael Bryant's un- deniable talents could not but be dimmed in the dreariness • of this production. This travesty of what the truth must have been and is to have been shows known something along the lines of a Boy Scout camp in which no stronger emotion than irrita- tion is apparent. The tension, the savagery and the bitterness of the real prisons like Colditz together with • inordinate ex- plosions of grotesque humour in such a pressurized situation, never touch this production.

Life and death, the minute- to-minute obsessions which kept men on the knife-edge between the two, are handled with a contempt and flippancy which permeates the majority of all efforts like this which 'cash in' on history and dredg- ing up the trivia, leave the big issues to rot in obscurity.

After a brief but nonethe- less stunning glimpse of Gen- eral Amin on the news busy making his own history and comparing himself favourably with Hitler ('British and Am- erican economy have been milked by the Jews')-after, as he himself pointed out, an education thoughtfully ren- dered at the hands of British colonialists in the past, a move "Monty to lighter stuff and Python's Flying Circus'. Perhaps the leaden quality of earlier programmes had mutilated my sense of humour, but I was unable to raise a laugh at the ingenious antics and surrealist inventions of the team. Their talent lies chiefly in being able persistently to upend and to disperse some of the deadly order and routine that sits on society to keep it where it is. But I find them more curious than funny. s, Thursday December 28, 1972 PAGE 9 Pierre in 'War and Peace'.

Ther're certainly not bent on searching analysis, but any they do have great talent for nonsense in the right place.

Finally almost in the mood of a religious epilogue, two grey intellectuals curtsied to one another across an inter- view in "Something to say: psychiatrists Dr Ronald Laing and Professor G. M. Carstairs played at gentle debating under the guise of a kind of attack by Carstairs on Laing's aversion to physical methods of treatment, his 'politics' and his view of society. In fact the discussion took place on the basis of opinions a kind of philosophy and which Laing was expounding with some fervour four or five years ago. In fact, although the anaemic exchange in this pro- gramme gave little hint of it, Laing has contributed some important ideas on sanity, and 'policing' insanity-on the work done by psychiatrists in society, on the jungle of dead wood lying in the so-called mental hospitals, in human and intellectual terms, and only now being brought to light. He is a man of extraordi- nary abilities and capacity for struggle, but like so many, despite all his early preten- to Marxism, he has sions chosen to abandon the fight.

He made this abundantly clear in the programme by saying he saw no possibility for any change in society, des- pite the fact that he could see and predicaments quite clearly. He seems now a man in limbo and even Carstairs was plainly unable to draw any concrete response from him on any issue to his satis- faction. From all these programmes and so many like them being turned out every week there is to be drawn nothing so much as the sense of a dreadful apathy, a desert of lies and and half-truths about the world live in. This is really we nothing more than a way of temporizing for those who put the programmes out: there's concern about which way the axe is going to fall—where the liberals, the middle-of-the- roaders, the vacillators will be when the crises of the next few months explode and the corporate state is evolved.

By playing for time, by non- committal material of third- rate quality, the intent is not only to fool the viewers but the producers of such stuff themselves. All energy is de- voted to prevarication and downright dishonesty. It's a debilitating business and at best creates tedium, at worst revulsion.

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Goad affair shakes up the

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

THE GOAD affair, which has so far cost the engineering union £69,000, has sent shock-waves throughout the shop-floor leadership of the CAV com- bine which employs the Suffolk evangelist. At Sudbury, where Goad worked, it provoked a three-day strike which was only called off when the leaders of other factories in the Lucas combine failed to mobilize support.

The Rochester factory in Kent was only prevented from striking last Wednesday when the convenor circu- lated an Ilth-hour letter telling work- Perhaps the most tortuous road to strike action was taken at the Acton complex, in

TWO CAY MEETINGS

west London. action. Bolow When the right-wing lea- ders of the joint shop stew- ards' committee there de- cided to fight for strike action Monday, December 18, on many long-time observers of industrial the scene in the area were amazed. The rea- son for this turn of events is that the stoppage was forced on them. During his speech to a factory- gate meeting the Friday before Acton's AUEW the strike, con- the shop, stewardsadmitted Paxman, venor, John leaders that

CAV

the group's south- in factories had been in- eastern strumental in 'getting Sudbury to return to work' the previous day.

Formula Sudbury convenor Bill Duck- ling had been offered a formula his members back to for getting without loss of face, he work said. The resolution agreed by the stewards' leaders-known as the But this was easier said than committee'--on Wednes 'Group 13, done. day, December stated that Sudbury had given a lead to the Already the fact that the Sud- whole trade union movement.

returned bury factory had to But it went on to say that this work was widely. known among workers. On the the Acton lead had not been taken up as morning of the mass meeting at it should. the way, Having led newspapers reported that Sudbury Acton, the implication was, the Rochester plant had rejected should get back into line now Motor call to strike. Simms Units at Finchley, with the one-day stoppages which joined which were being called nation- CAV-Lucas in 1968, had pledged ally. support for any action taken by Having supported this resolu- the rest of the group. tion Acton was honour-bound to At this point it is worth look- undertake some action itself over ing briefly at the nature of the the £50,000 fine. A FRAUD spree is being conducted at the expense of the newly-formed Access Credit Card group. A special security team has been assembled quickly to combat fraud and bad debts. The company has recruited stolen and used for fraudulent from Scotland Yard ex-Detec- purposes. tive Sergeant Ray Mogg, for- Shops Access can of goods sell up worth merly of T' Division, and on production of the card by a Sergeant former Detective without check Be- customer cause of the delay in submitting Alfred Laughlan of the Flying people bills, it feared that Squad. may have been spending, at £30 a time, for as long as 11 weeks. It is believed that other Fly- The company thinks that many been ing Squad men have cardholders may have spent drafted into the team. beyond their capacity to repay. The Access is When Access began business computer So 3.4 heavily loaded that it will not be • three months million ago, second half of distributed. Since known until the cards Tanuary number of cards have how much credit has then been gone astray and others have been given. CAV leadership action. Bolom at Bu obury the stewards were persuaded ta gel a rolurn vota.

CAV 'Group committee. The committee is composed of members of each the executive shod stewards committee For many years these com- held mittees have ornety meetings, on Saturdays. Travelling and meals expenses group fund come om itself dependent on dona- the respective shop tions from stewartos munes. years, over a perloa or degenerated group has into swapping comparative forum ior rates ot pay, Imenaly cal-chal McGARRY . . . Lett Scotland 30 увать адо. Workers Press, Thursday nor John Paxman was forced to call for • persuaded to get a return voto.

and other items of gossip. This was done over quite sumptuous with drinks meals to follow. Then it was back home on the train. Managements seemingly had little to fear from these factories, gather- ings and the social clubs were always available as venues. Three months ago the company offered to underwrite group meetings financially-and even to permit them to take place in works' time. This offer was accepted with suitable gratitude. EDDY McGARRY, joint chairman of the British-Ley- land combine shop stewards' committee, has won pre- selection for a parliamentary seat in Scotland. McGarry will stand as Labour candidate in a newly-created seat in East Dunbartonshire at the next General Election.

McGarry (53), is convenor at Leyland's Standard Triumph works in Coventry. His success in winning Labour selection has deep dis- caused in the Scottish Labour quiet 'an Party. He is regarded as outsider'; he won over a number of local candidates because he is officially sponsored by the Transport and General Workers' Union. Thursday December 28, 1972 PAGE 11 Two conditions were attached, however. The first was that man- agement would appreciate a copy of the minutes. And the second ... that the number of delegates be limited. The company now pays all ex- delegates' except penses meals. They offered to pay for the lot, but the 'Group commit- felt that it should retain some show of 'independence'.

Investment The December 13 visit to Sud- bury was to some extent out of Management did the ordinary. not offer to help with the cost. Yet in the view of many CAV workers, the company's invest- good cheer over the ment in years did yield its pay-off.

When it became clear that no determined backing was forth- coming from the 'Group commit- tee', those Sudbury stewards who wanted to continue the strike were weakened. Although the Sudbury strike rejected committee later the 'Group committee's resolution, it undoubtedly influenced the decision to call a mass meeting the following morning. There it became obvious that the right wing had done its work well and undermined the confidence of the strikers. growing number of CAV A workers believe that one lesson of the affair is the need for a independent combine genuine, committee. With workers at CAV Faza- kerley, Liverpool, now in their 13th week of sit-in strike against Tories' Closure, and the pay- law blocking all piece- control increases in south, work there is no shortage of issues on which to fight. In his letter to the constitu- ency party McGarry said he had left Scotland 30 years ago. Local Labourites are planning to write

T&GWU

general secretary Jack Jones, to complain about backing McGarry for the seat.

When one of the constituency workers recently party • con- plained about McGarry's selec- tion, a trade union leader re- plied: 'But he's a trade union MP! The worker replied: 'Yes, ard so was Ray Gunter.' One of McGarry's close col- laborators used to be Cyril Morris, a leading combine com- mittee official. British-Leyland recently announced Morris was the management as a Joining personnel manager. During the recent combine strike in support of the occupa- tion at the Basingstoke works, Standard's was one of the fac- tories which stayed at work.

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BY OUR OWN CORRE:

A CREDITORS' meeting later today is expected to de- cide the fate of 271 jobs threatened as a result of a mid-Wales firm going into voluntary liquidation. The company, Buttington Contractors Ltd of Trewern, are builders and specialist road makers. They are said to have lost up to £i00,000 in the first nine months of this year alone.

Mid-Wales is almost entirely barren of industry and T&GWU district officer Mr John Llewellyn Cooke told me total shut-down of the business would be a 'dis- aster'. He added that up to 1,000 jobs could be lost as a result of the effect of the closure on sub-con- tractors, quarries, builders sup- pliers and haulage workers.

If the worst: happens the sacked men and the union will organize 'community pressure' on the Tory government to set up work projects in the alternative area. If nothing concrete emerges from tonight's creditors meeting at the Lord Hill Hotel, Shrews- bury, the union may also decide to set up 'roadblocks' as a means of leafleting the public.

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SUFFOLK evangelist James attend the Sudbury branch of tomorrow. But the union face the Industrial Relations Act i Joseph Langston, a welder from Chrysler UK's Ryton- on-Dunsmore, Coventry, fac- tory, will ask an industrial tribunal in Birmingham this morning to back his refusal to join a union. He will point to Section 5, paragraph i(b) of the Act. This union-busting clause seeks to establish the so-called 'right' of every worker it he so desires, to be a member of no trade union or other organization of workers or to refuse to be a member of any particular trade union or other organization of workers'. An official of the industrial tribunal has said that they may not proceed to hear the case immediately today because named in three union men Langston's application may not attend. But even if the engineers' union policy of non co-opera- tion with the agencies of the Act is followed to the letter, the case must eventually be heard and decided. This would open the way to further action in the National Industrial Rela- tions Court and further big fines on the union. At present Langston is sus- pended on full pay of £41.20' week from the Ryton assembly-line. WHILE indicating that he does not intend to go to tomorrow

N CORRESPONDENT

Said Mr Cooke: 'We will nothing less then 271 accept iobs.' But the likelihood is that this Montgomeryshire's MP Mr Emlyn Hooson said that the re- ceiver is 'interested in finding a way of continuing the business in one form or another to pre- serve the most jobs. Most of Buttington's losses have been incurred on the build- side which ing-construction employs two-thirds of the labour force and rumours are circulating that Sir Val de Travers himself may be interested in buying the road-making section alone after liquidation. There can be little doubt that it is this section of the business that the receiver will try to keep going and we understand that and Tarmac are among Bovis potential buyers. If the carve-up goes ahead at least 180 men could find them- selves on the dole-queue early in the New Year. The future is bleak. Some may find work building 117 new houses scheduled by the Mid- Wales Development Corporation at Newtown early next year and others could be employed on a new £400,000 office block due to go up in the town next spring.

Nothing like the full 180 can expect to find jobs and those who do will succeed only after competing with men thrown onto the labour market after work at other sites in the locality has ended.

RIAL CORRESPONDENT

James Goad may not try to ranch of the engineers' union ion faces more trouble under is Act in the Midlands today.

night's meeting of the Sud- bury AUEW branch, Goad has told district secretary J. W.

Morley that he intends to carry on his bid for union member- ship under clause i(a) of Section 5. The next meeting of the branch is on January 5. If Goad is barred again, he can i go back to the NIRC with a further charge that its orders are being held in contempt.

Such an action could produce an even bigger fine than the £50,000 seized from the union last week. OVER the next three weeks at least 100,000 workers are expected to strike against the enforced sale of a nominal £69,250-worth of the union's shares to pay the fine. By the end of the week, the union should have received the balance of the money the sale yielded after the NIRC, its commissioners, their stock- brokers and Goad's solicitors had all taken their cut. This was expected to be about £100.

NEXT MONDAY (January 1) the Leeds district committee of the AUEW has called its mem- bers out. Engineers in north Gloucestershire are also due to strike. A week tomorrow will see engineers in the Swansea dis- NO NEW talks are planned to end the strike by 6,000 Scunthorpe steelworkers which began on December 29, a spokesman for the British Steel Corporation said yesterday.

The dispute is over a claim by the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation for recognition and bargaining rights in middle- management grades. THE FUTURE of Cardiff's East Moors steelworks will be dis- cussed with city and trade union officials tomorrow by Lord Mel- chett, chairman of the British Steel Corporation, and Guest, Keen and Nettlefold chief Sir Raymond Brookes. If the works closes-as the BSC's national modernization programme seems to indicate- 4,600 jobs would be lost.

The latest available breakdown of unemployment figures shows 7,803 workers already out of a job in Cardiff. This represented THE VENDETTA against rank-and-file dockers who protested at their union's head- quarters in August against the calling off of the national dock strike is to be continued at a meeting of the T&GWU's London executive committee next month. Five dockers, including Anthony Merrick and Cornelius Clancy, two of the Pentonville Five who went to jail in defence of trade union principles, are to face an inquiry into incidents of alleged violence inside Transport House. GOAD... Not going to branch meeting trict taking action against the fine, while the following Mon- day, January 8, the Tyne and Blyth Confederation of Ship- building and Engineering Workers has said all its mem- bers will back an AUEW strike call. The CSEU has also promised to support the last in the present series of protest strikes Merseyside on Friday, -on January 19. is • already But pressure building up both in the AUEW and the CSEU generally for much more extended, national action. Many thousands of en- gineers are recognizing that the Act has not gone away, that protests against it are not enough and that both it and its Tory authors must be removed from the scene. At present these grades are represented by the Steel Industry Management Association. A Confederation spokesman afıser t. but confirmed: The strike is still on.' The stoppage has shut down all steel-making and steel-rolling at BSC's three Scunthorpe plants ast a rate of 4.8 per cent.

Brookes' GKN combine were the previous owners of the East Moors works, before nationaliza- tion in 1967. East Moors and SOUTH KOREAN dictator Park Chung hee cabled condolences to President Richard Nixon upon the death of former president Harry S. Truman: 'His name has become so dear to the Korean people and will continue to occupy the warmest spot on the thoughts of the Korean people.'

A large number of protesting dockers invaded the offices to remonstrate with secretary Jack Jones and other national officials after the announcement that the dock delegate conference had voted to end the strike. The capitalist Press made a big song-and-dance at the time about the so-called intimidation and personal violence threatened to Jones. The union bureaucracy has dutifully followed up this scare-mongering by starting a witch-hunt against the protestors.

Many dockers wanted the strike to continue at that time in order to force the employers HULL engineering stewards have called for more leader- ship from the AUEW National Committee in the fight to defend the engin- eering union. The Hull district committee is already on record for further action in the new year follow- ing the 100 per cent stoppage of all Hull's 9,000

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members on December 20. That strike completely Stopped production at Hawker Siddeley's Brough plant and Fenner's engineering plant and seriously affected Hull's ship- building and ship-repairing yards. But the district committee will now have to discuss the stewards' demands for more action. Ken Spoose, AUEW steward at Metal Box, Dairycoates, told Workers Press: 'The action up to now has not been enough. There is need for real national leadership.

The members in the different districts showing their are complete opposition to the In- dustrial Relations Act, but their actions are unco-ordin- ated. Co-ordination means national leadership. The fine itself shows what this Act is. One individual can threaten a trade union. 'There must be an indefinite national strike. This is the only way to defeat the Act, since you have got to get rid • of the to repeal the Act, aren't going government-they and 12,500 other workers may be laid off. It began after management sent home 34 Confederation members for refusing to take part in plant-testing trials at BSC's new £230m Anchor Works.

The union has said that their recognition claim must be dealt with before the Anchor project came into operation. another former GKN factory, the Brymbo works at Wrexham, are the subject of continuing dis- cussion between Melchett and the combine. THE PROSPECT of higher in- terest rates in the New Year sent prices tumbling on the London stock exchange yesterday on the first days trading after the holiday. At the end of the second hour the Financial Times Index was 5.2 points lower with govern- ment securities leading the fall.

and the government to end the threat to their livelihoods from containerization once and for all.

The union bureaucrats accepted the Jones-Aldington plan which liquidated jobs in return for cash payments and now want to most determined stifle their critics. accused dockers could The face a fIO fine, or be barred from office, expelled. This or 'trial' will add to the growing conviction among dockers that the union leadership will have and eventually to be fought forced from office.