Workers Press no. 957

workers press

GOAD-STYLE CASE AT CHRYSLER COVENTRY PLANT

COURT CHALLENGE

TO CLOSED SHOP

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY DECEMBER 29, 1972 • No. 957 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE A NEW James Goad crisis loomed

FROM DAVID MAUDE

berter. he told the tribunal chairman

IN BIRMINGHAM

Robert Chapman that his terms for the engineers' union yesterday settling the dispute between himself and the personnel office to Unlonwere Coventry tell them of the tribunal's when a carworker • That should be allowed to return to decision at about 10 a.m. today.

his old job. obtained legal backing for his bid he full Currently suspended on • That his case is taken through the works because fellow workers to work with to break the closed shop in the The

NIRC

committee, negotiating procedure.

Terus

STONE ITS

CONSUMA

recess early in the New Year and if, as seems • That the Ryton convenors and the AUEW Chrysler car combine. adamant, then tearing could be arranged Ryton shop remains execuuve state postnon writing 'the operation of the closed shop in the Birmingham Industrial Tribunal ruled offices, shops and work of in a very snort ume places Inıs our Langston, a body welder that Joseph at By this time a further application could

COUHILLY

Chrysler's Ryton plant, Coventry, has also be the way from Sudbury

CAV

on Langston who joined the General and every right to refuse membership of the Goad, worker James who Municipal mas Workers' following the UnIon union if he so desires. local AUEW branch attend his meeting on defeat the General Strike, transferred to January 5. the engineers' union in 1940 Tot the industrial elations Ander Section the Industrial Relations Act.

Langston, a wartime shop He held shop stewards' card for 12 steward mn me union, the tribunal that months before turning it in because ne was Langston said after the hearing that did AnG object opposed to the closed shop.

HOL

SUCH

*USE

if this ruling not accepted by Chrysler their bombastic, dictatorial attitudes'.

•My basic proposition,' he told the tribunal, workers, he will take the maller Compulsion to not in the rule "is that the trade union is to achieve better • JoIn was Court Relations maustrial book of any union, claimed. *If they working conditions and better wages.

London. If ther would drop the closed shop policy I would they've InLO une nee or polltics then This could happen very quickly, since failed their members. If they get preparea to look on it witn reasonable com- Langston (59) intends to report to the Rvton respect." pulsion by bombastic, dictatorial methods, I claim Lat Gas overtime ban may spread member of a trade union.'

The first application welders the Industrial was submitted on This Chrysler (UK), Halica management executives and every single trade unionist factory. It was returned on the grounds that he had no grounds for com against the company itself and that it would nposible to serve writs on all 3,000 Ryton workers. On A application, submitted application, another failed to specify the union Lang- ston was complaining against and he was asked to amend i. Advice Mr Chapman, a barrister, told Langston unal been his advice that he had been asked amend the application, rather than •We

PUL

one Workers leave the early shift at Europe's biggest gas plant you to were trying to get yourself within our scope, THE WORK-to-rule

BY PHILIP WADE

But Heath Chapman said. and can un- ban on overtime cam- settle us it shows you redundancies in the Workers Press yester- paign launched by south None of hended marination coming it's Last year the spring. day. whal amended London Now this move of ours GasworKers Gas Board East They are resentful Tory SoUl against the govern- will spread throughout yesterday's hearing appeared ar sacked 200 men at the the Tory ment's laws yester- These were Jim Conway,

AUEW

covernments country I think. plant. the day spread intervention especi- Ken Walton. soon general secretary, steward's Gasworkers have re- Ine ally when they still want throughout the country. opinion, Britain was the WOrKS convenor. ane beorge acted angrily to to about the heading towards Park, former convenor and now This warning by Edward letter sent redundancies.' leader of the ruling Labour group state' Tories Heath to the unions and came Coventry He said their Heath's letter Council. leaders of the 600 men was any- Cit! the Gas Council cam thing to go by. the East Greenwich pad woo ban overtime December 15 The two-and-a-half-hour hear- work-to-rule would the largest them plant, informing that of Brains one goe gas ing was conducted at the tribunal show much there was no point in Britain's 46,000 producing WOrKS WOrK office Phoenix Assurance in the Europe. each did workers has carrying negotia- man aine been calle Building in the city centre.

could be eat Over 200 men at the point of an Municipal General Tions

STO

be Crovdon offer while the pay laws Workers the Diana SoUn judgement roHoWIng London's other main were in operation Union for January Doved were was Langston told reporters that Whe Greenwich were supporting hours 100-per reduction plan the There much obliged' Was very worked. tribunal. It was not possible to aclon. CenT resentment DaV laws. Heath's letter in here,' a The East Greenwich 'This action has been the union has broken off decide a definite course of action. are also involved in We've discussions about redun spokesman for the pushed us, he men depends

LICI

shop stew- added. Greenwich dancies by the people at work, he ша or Dame taken against the threat of 200 militancy. gas boards. added. aroS commites TOld a nistory

BY JOHN SPENCER

inflation is

RUNAWAY

undermining any prospect of international agreement to tackle the monetary and trade crisis of the capitalist world.

This is sharply demon- strated by the dispute which has broken out on the Inter- national Monetary Fund over the issue of special drawing rights for 1973. The basic reason for the dis- is that the wealthy agreement metropolitan capitalist countries have more paper money than they can cope with, while former colonies and semi-colonies are virtually bankrupt. The big powers want no more SDRs issued for at least two years, while the poor countries want a full quota of $3,000m- worth issued on January 1. They need them to pay their debts to the imperialist powers. The imperialists, however, are against the creation of new in- flationary paper credits simply to allow their debtors to pay off some of their obligations.

Like Nixon in Vietnam they want to extract their debts in blood from the colonial workers and peasants. The and savage barbaric bombing of North Viet- nam is an indication of the fate awaiting any people which dares to defy imperialism. The failure to agree on the issue of new SDRs is a crippling blow to this new monetary unit.

SDRs are less than five years old. They were conceived only in 1968 in the aftermath of the sterling devaluation and the run on the US gold reserves. They were supposed to replace gold, which was regarded by liberal pundits as a relic of bar- barism which could only cause crises and conflict and ought to be phased out. The geniuses who organized this inflationary scheme, how- ever, were unable to foresee what would happen to their new system. According to the 'Financial Times', the authors of the SDR scheme provided for various con- tingencies, allowing member- countries to opt for fresh crea- tion of SDRs, zero creation or even cancellation of some of the units they had issued.

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workers press

GOAD-STYLE CASE AT CHRYSLER COVENTRY PLANT

COURT CHALLENGE

TO CLOSED SHOP

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY DECEMBER 29, 1972 • No. 957 DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE A NEW James Goad crisis loomed

FROM DAVID MAUDE

told the tribunal chairman

IN BIRMINGHAM

Robert Chapman that his terms for the engineers' union yesterday settling the dispute between himself and the Coventry personnel office to tell them of the tribunal's «nor were when a carworker • That should be allowed to return to decision at about 10 a.m. today.

his old job. obtained legal backing for his bid Currently he full suspended pay • That his case is taken through the works because fellow workers refuse to work to break the closed shop in the The

NIRC

committee, negotiating procedure.

Teles non recess early en the ep andor mans • That the Ryton convenors and the AUEW Chrysler car combine. Ryton floor certain, writing 1 challio execurve „state position adamant. then a hearing could be arranged 'the operation of the closed shop .E. the Birmingham Industrial Tribunal ruled offices, shops and In a very snort time. work places of this our Langston, a body welder that Joseph By this time a further application could collatty. Chrysler's Coventry, Ryton: plant, has also be on the from Sudbury

CAV

way Langston who joined the General and of the every right to refuse membership Goad worker James who may Municipal Workers' following the aliciel Union union if he so desires. attend his local AUEW branch meeting on defeat of the General Strike, transferred to January 5. the engineers' union in 1940 The tribunal made this order under Section (1) of the Industrial Relations Act.

Langston, a wartime shop stenar hat he He held shop stewards' card for 12 union, told tribunal engineers that before turning it in because ne was

MORIS

And Langston said after the hearing that object to opposed to the closed shop.

union

SUCH

if this ruling not accepted by Chrysler their "bombastic, dictatorial attitudes'.

•That he prade sunion is to a the tribener workers, take the ne mallel to achieve Compulsion to join was not in the rule is that the union better Relations Industrial Court book of any union, claimed. *If they London. working conditions and better wages. If ther would drop closed shop the policy i would politics then they've enter unLO •Lee could quickly, happen very since with reasonable failed their members. If they get preparea to look on it com- Langston (59) intends to report to the Rvton respect.' pulsion by bombastic, dictatorial methods, I be Cialill

HOI

Gas overtime ban may spread member of a trade union.'

The first application welder c the Industrial Tribunal was submitted on This Chrysler (UK), Hallcu management executives and every single trade unionist the factory. It was returned on the grounds that he had no grounds for com.

against company itself _The and that to d the irits on all 3,00 Rsible would imposible workers On A appticatione submitted application, this another failed to specify the union Lang- ston was complaining against and ne was askea to amend it.

Advice Mr Chapman, a barrister, told Langston on « nac been his advice that he had been asked amend the application, lail Ic. 'We than one Workers leave the early shift at Europe's biggest gas plant you to put were trying to get yourself within our scope, Mr THE . WORK-to-rule

BY PHILIP WADE

But Heath Chapman said. un- ban on overtime cam- shows you settle redundancies in the Workers Press yester- paign launched by south Note amended menication It's coming Last the spring. year day. Now this move of ours East Board avocaton Gas against the Tory 'They are resentful al govern- spread throughout yesterday's hearing sacked 200 men at the the ient's pa laws yester- These were Jim Conway,.

AUEW

the country I think. plant. day especi- Walton soon Intervention general secretary, KAr Gasworkers have re

STAMARO S

ally when they still want throughout the country. opinion, Britain was and George works convenor. angrily to talk redundancies: "s about the Corporale towards Park, former convenor and now This warning to letter sent leader of the ruling Labour group Tories state' Heath to the unions and Helme leaders of the 600 men said their Heath's letter Coventry Council. 'was any. Gas Council at the East Greenwich paign to ban overtime thing to go by'. December 15 arroganti The two-and-a-half-hour hear- and work-to-rule would plant, the largest gas. informing them that • A national conference show me was conoucte• ar me oa works there was no point in how Must the of Britain's 46,000 producing office in the Phoenix Assurance Europe. each man pay negotia workers has been callec Building in the city centre. plant and the number of Over 200 men at the the point of Gener. who could be offer while the pay laws em- Crovdon plant, Municipal Workers the judgement, ronowine ployed London's other main were in operation Union for January Langston told that works, supporting hours were 'There 100-per- plan action the against much obliged' Was worked. the Greenwich cent pay tribunal. was not possible to resenten the union has broken off The East Greenwich Heath's letter in here,' a 'This action has been decide a definite course of action.

men are also involved in We've spokesman for the pushed us, he discussions about redun- depends Greenwich shop stew- added. not with the various taken by the people at work,' he •aTe dance. against the threat of 200 ards' committee told a history militancy. gas boards. added.

BY JOHN SPENCER

RUNAWAY

inflation is undermining any prospect of international agreement to tackle the monetary and trade crisis of the capitalist world.

This is sharply demon- strated by the dispute which has broken out on the Inter- national Monetary Fund over the issue of special drawing rights for 1973. The basic reason for the dis- agreement is that the wealthy metropolitan capitalist countries have more paper money than they can cope with, while former colonies and semi-colonies are virtually bankrupt. The big powers want no more SDRs issued for at least two years, while the poor countries a full quota of $3,000m- want issued on January 1. They worth need them to pay their debts to the imperialist powers. The imperialists, however, are against the creation of new in- flationary paper credits simply to allow their debtors to pay off some of their obligations.

Like Nixon in Vietnam they want to extract their debts in blood from the colonial workers and peasants. The savage and barbaric bombing of North Viet- nam is an indication of the fate awaiting any people which dares to defy imperialism. The failure to agree on the issue of new SDRs is a crippling blow to this new monetary unit.

SDRs are less than five years old. They were conceived only in 1968 in the aftermath of the sterling devaluation and the run on the US gold reserves. They were supposed to replace gold, which was by regarded liberal pundits as a relic of bar- barism which could only cause crises and conflict and ought to be phased out. The geniuses who organized this inflationary scheme, how- ever, were unable to foresee what would happen to their new system. According to the 'Financial Times', the authors of the SDR scheme provided for various con- tingencies, allowing member- countries to opt for fresh crea- tion of SDRs, zero creation or even cancellation of some of the units they had issued.

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PAGE 2-Workars Press, Friday December 29, 1972 What Moneybags we think normal immigration procedure being Hayden had a US passport, Hughes

HOWARD

HUGHES,

the multi- doesn't possess any followed.) millionaire hermit, has taken germs-'They're residence in Park Lane. His It was then revealed that the Home own The vast security arrangements and the and he also believes immigration £49 suite 1s costing gigantic fawning to Hughes are than is more than obscene nothing more an arrival and had 'agreed to co-operate It's two weeks. peanuts exhibition of worship of wealth.

in giving maximum secrecy.

Hughes- -he's estimated to be worth between £800m to £1,000m.

When Hughes moves from one secret arrived at Gatwick destination to the next one sees the he Inn on the Park to worship Mr Hughes unimpressive port. It is normal custom that over- individual. His attempt at a political career was a shambles, his efforts at and immigration film and to make sure direction were laughable offer extra precautions, equipment was in good operational the of his business inter- majority traterniti ventions ended in misfortune.

where the earthquake had presented But Mr Hughes surrounded himself The merchant bankers, N. M. Roth- The liberals are bleating in the Press with men who had finer financial that if Hughes can enter the country brains than his Whenever so freely, Hughes boobed, they were there to bookings and asked the hotel stati has been marked by the most pick up the pieces. True Mr Hughes for the utmost co-operation in look- zens. obscene bowing and scraping by all Hughes black he would became a billionaire and his closest ing after their client. When a clean- the agencies of the state.

The Special advisers became humble millionaires.

went to the vicinity of precisely the same armchair service ing woman Branch met him at the airport and Suite 901 she found herself being he got two days ago. Since 1956 the eccentric Mr Hughes chaperoned him to his hotel. The accompanied up and down the carpet has been living in complete seclusion It is not a racial question.

stifi immigration ritual-which hours We are by two well-heeled security men.

while the has continued to earlier had detained Hughes's com- money. simply watching on a grand scale roll in. Today, (These Hughes whenever he travels, patriot Tom Hayden for almost three 'heavies' also appear what money can buy in a capitalist he takes his circus of armed security to have entered Britain hours—was waived. without socicly. Zionist bomb US bomb genocide takes its toll Vietnam: Nixon sends blew up PLO man FRENCH police believe that every available plane the bomb attack on the Paris representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization on 8 was the work of December Israeli intelligence. Mahmoud Hamchari, who has recovered from his wounds, TOld bomb went after he had answered tele- is

THE PENTAGON

parallels in history. They scarcely call onone

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

go bevond a tew resornico com journalist'. sending every available ments like that of 'The Times': The the plane into the terror- "The voice had arranged a meeting but wowe as eels admits o planes aop sending back their and Chargé while the admits sending one bombing of North Viet- the explosive device was of the big bombers lost and d'aitaires to Sweden. that fixed while Hamchari had left his six smaller planes. cities despite namese Illally After heavy losses. The bomb was of special bombing, all, there I D€ for it in strictly Cal have been type which could olly claimed beer made installed by proces. The US command in Saigon

NAU

Il appears thal 1l ine off when sionals. It went admitted targets. seven servicemen received the that it Laud

LOLC

was killed last week and telephone. were that

LICY

waulchcartcary. once another 73 missing, captured Ine attempt on hamcnall s le acciaentally condemnadon come doubts or interned. is believed to have been one of Most of them the carried out were plane crews. JCLa for unich killings. Ashers reverke WILl

LONL

leave brea Hanoi claims 31 B52s shot

SLOW

Socialist Labour League North West Rally

FORCE THE TORY

Illas

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

NONE

been cold-blooded

BUILD THE

aCu aression soul cabl

REVOLUTIONARY

encounter Peking rally against bombs

PARTY!

there is a rising tide of criticism SUNDAY JANUARY 14, 7 p.m.

The Everyman, Hope Street, aggression and for national salva-

LIVERPOOL

rarewer President Nixon's visit last reb LUl • ....... • • • Israel's Bangkok embassy

'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM

ringed by police A film made by ACT showing the five Right-to-Work marches from available for Us ships Lual from Glasgow, Liverpool, Swansea, Deal and Southampton to London ending with a huge Rally at Empire Pool, Wembley on March 12, 1972.

MEMBERS of the Black Septem- Speakers ber organization took control oi • . . ...... A Palestinian was remanded holding five yesterday and are custody yesterday on charges Europe the only strong of being in illegal possession nostakes. criticism from a government They G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) are a Browning automatic pistol and come from Sweden, whose prime lease prisoner in Israel, encillas 51 rounds of ammunition. CHRISTINE SMITH (Young Socialists) minister. Vlal ralme, condemned the bodies the raids outrage and Mohammed Abdul Karin In a personal capacity: compared them with mass the Japanese Fuheid, aged 24, was detained at

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commandos killed in the attack on Lydda perpetrated by CONNIE FAHEY (Manchester Tenants) London airport on Christmas Eve.

airport and their safe con- own such Police took extraordinary security ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Shop. Stewards)

WITH

Oradour, Babi duct out of the country. precautions and outside

BRIAN GEENEY (U.P.W.)

Sharpeville and They threatened kill the the Uxbridge courtroom. After a reblink WALLY FOUCHS (CAV Occupation Committee) hostages if these demands are appearance briet rulers met. The building is ringed taken to police van with The guilty men in Washingtor not blanket over his head and the responded to these words witl troops police

Workers Press, Friday December 29, 1972 PAGE 3 Fighting the Tory rent Act

CAMDEN MOUNTS CAMPAIGN TO DEFEND

REBEL COUNCILLORS

The Committee also aims THE CAMDEN Action that these deci- to ensure Committee Against the

SOLS

onmucu du tet Housing Finance Act- London Labour Party con- ference February and comprising representa- included in the manilesto tives of all the labour Camden Town Hall (op- the town hall which will from I1 a.m. to 1 p.m. this unionists Greater London orate

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Tie movement organizations Sta- start as soon as Sunday. Couneil elections on St Pancras

JOSILC

over Britain. trict auditor enters The Action Committee is April 12. in London tion) and proceeding north TIRe bulding (which could be Politica Committer Fields-is in Sure borough-is working for 'the london Co-onera- any day now) and will con- mentation of the Labour of the London Co-operative support of the Camden tive Society has agreed to while he Party National and London Society has the the biggest demonstra- written to administer campaign Labour councl 's relusal there. tion yet seen against the concrcact IeusoIs lo re LORdOL OSUCI on ce the to implement Act

CHPNDE

Cavalcades with the fuse to implement the rent of all unions affiliated to demonstrations. Tory rent Act on Sun- and for a socialist policy London Co-operative Soc- Act to commit the London Labour Party, day, January 7. The National Union will for housing and rents future Labour government

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louus kakdi barlicularl

LOSE

Lavli The Committee Railwaymen and the Post tour Camden from 11 a.m.- reimburse Labour council employees in mem- The demonstration- for Office Engineering Union and councillors surcharged by bership, urging support for pealing support from p.m. assembling at 2 p.m. at Saturday the Tories. the campaign. privale

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ONARTIRIOORSIR

Era of cheap Shotton closure could cost 13,000 jobs -MP Fa TESA food is over in stee

JOST

nOTlI suculic The decision to close Shotton Lord Melchett, chairman itself will 6,500 jobs Steel British 7,000 axed, the will LUl DUlaIOn

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

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OLACA

Sir Gest Reen ond Nettilerold, Caldirde Cadbury In Inisning plants of Guest Keen and Mr Jones said: 'If steelmaking will Cardiff today meet taken from Shotton will A WARNING that the era of cheap food is over for the threatened only duscuss Schweppes time before a malle. of the city's. . East Moors steel- good was issued yesterday by the chief of Britain's the finishing section is also sche- works. duled for warning second biggest food group.

"The finishing One possibility being discussed section cannot of East

GKN

owners that Lord Watkinson, chairman connoue Incenutel ate ure closure of the steelmaking de- MOOrS DeTOre nano alzalon. of Cadbury Schweppes told a partment because of increased might buy it back. Workers conference of businessmen in Blackpool| that 1973 would Death of a see big price rises. want a "The era of cheap food is over.

Countries are no longer willing to share of DrOGHCIS witch-hunter record HIe Ford sales

WILLIAMS,

Governor-

SIR

LEONARD

was d General of Mauritius since 1968 and a former FORD of Britain broke all its secretary of the Labour Party, died existing production and sales records 1972—750,000 produced and WuCu vehicles were creases in Iresh Iood prices more than a million engines.

Half million vehicles were freeze. the United Kingdom and Calicu Drices sold in over £300m was earned in export Maliker

DUSACOW

He fought bitter v eariy Lalse Lose cals le Une workne cass. will lt venc es 2n0 V

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duced this year while in the previous best manufacturing company vedt- DrOuucCu SORELy CuCE- vehicles and 61,000 tractors.

TOOe Pr miln million-or

LOCKCLUK

COSL

"15 es in Britan ..In 1963 Just atter he —Sul)

WILLIAMS

became Party secretary. the teeth oc cre will reach 400,000, beating 1968 Big margins -previously year for No successes sales Cal They will try to persuade the by at least 30 per cent. nousewite That line extra cost worth it because the commodi- Hora's two best selne mnocer -the Cortina and the Escort- ties involved are 'quality" goods. menlar y Laboul took 20 car sales in per cent of In tact the imare • Olay- UK The against Keep Left' higher price-is markel 11 alIsil «neretore medium van took more than 37 usually built itn ahe 'saturation' per cent of commercial advertising and television Escort vehicle market while the The balkdk Dasic COnT oI beneath wrappings •enede non

MOGHLV

The light commercials. remains largely the same.

BUDL.

StaLC CuCi However, Ford's 50,000 Watkinson told the conference car- oue So tune done cor demanding As Labour Party general secre- that

WUIKCIS

alc

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malulacluers Saolue Williams des- mittee bigger share of the value demonstrate that their margins iney produce. wereis t excessive. perately and unsuccessfully.

ConTatence This prevent Trotskyists trom whelmingly the Labour Party and They want substantial pay in- difficult. The Hical of the Left' programme. longer winning the adherence the partı Maumcen socıa bemo_ hours. Credses. Snorler marsmus on sonde connmod

CON-

holidays and benents. modities are enormous. A Prices oTmeT That year figure has been put on the pay and Incomes Board proe- Labour Party Young Socialists report Labour but militant shop claim, stewards cently found that the He was a party to the ban- •lan ers are talking my Unilever atomm, tor Blue the Young NeMS OdexLd o onCed ning of the youth paper 'Keer £10 a week. Band, Committee. Lcutto rapty shoe ho 1962—only present Echo, etc.) was between 20 and ment express at the-end of ree- two-year wave of Lalli 25 per cent ot cost. 10,000.

CNNYA

Inis government simply launched to drive the vouth These conditions reflected ruan-te same ame as me usı are phase of the Tory government's in the profts of the secd orsa nts.

climbed to Tinie legislation. Ford While other sectors p Leonisy, publica- wage-control many Young British been are due have comany necoudlols maustry youth MasS have routine meting they have of DILLeI Wild sunering cec ine. Socialist Labour League. anon ree estesa ee on ot are been turning in a record per- Socialists-the latest edition formance. weekly youth paper This movement mertmwi TaK S wite une trom strength Schweppes, which Ford Workers' Bulletin. the Shor LaLDUrV Transport House is unable to proved this stewards' committees at Dagen- from confection and 1TS produce a youth paper at all.

*sharp reaction drinks empire owns Hartley jam, campaign, ham promised ouldwine sInKe len• the Smash' instant Williams Labour Party workers' Chivers preserves, a major 11 1101 S01 has remained Ivphoo Hea. made ermeni exeroe wake- bolalods control period. £10.5m profit in 1971. «am amcatau.

HARRY S. TRUMAN-

... AND I'VE NEVER LOST ANY SLEEP OVER IT

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday Decembe Part one of a series by Jack Gal the US President who made th first Atomic bomb. On April 12, . 1945, Franklin Delano Roose- velt, architect of the New Deal fraud, enemy of the working class and idol of Stalinists and labour fakers the world over, suftered a cerebral haemorrhage and died instantly. The same day, Harry S. almost un- •Truman, a man known outside the immediate circle of the Democratic Party, was sworn in as the United States President. Three months later-on July and 16—American scientists military men gathered before dawn the New Mexico on desert, their eyes covered with dark glasses, to watch the first detonation of an Atomic bomb.

As the fireball erupted to a height of 41,000 feet, one scientist present, Robert Oppenheimer, was reminded of a passage from the 'Bhagavad- Gita': 'I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds.'

Truman's committee of top officials and atomic scientists recommended that Atomic bombs be exploded over Japan at once and without warning.

On July 25, the President issued the necessary order to prepare to drop the bombs at the first favourable moment after August 3 if Japan had not accepted surrender. At the Potsdam conference surrender terms had been offered to the Japanese which required only a guarantee that the emperor would retain his position to be accepted. Without this guarantee, the Japanese would not surrender.

Accordingly, at 9.15 a.m. on August 6 a B29 US aircraft called 'Enola Gay' dropped the Atom bomb from a height of 31,600 feet over Hiroshima.

Four square miles were razed to the ground and 60,175 people were killed instantly.

Almost all the city's doctors were killed or too seriously injured to work, as were 1,654 out of 1,780 nurses. That afternoon people who seemed to have escaped un- hurt began to die, the first signs of the effects of radiation.

At noon on August 9, a few hours after Russia declared war on Japan, the second Atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki, killing 36,000 more.

People are still dying as a direct result of these two bombs-the total now being over 200,000. Truman was on his way home from the Potsdam con- news of the ference when Hiroshima bomb was flashed the warship to him on 'Augusta'. He told officers at the mess table: 'This is formal statement, issued from Washington with his approval, declared: 'What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history' On leaving the White House in 1952 this 'Mr Democrat' was still of the same opinion— although the full devastating effect of the bombings was well known by then. 'The final decision of where when to use the bomb and was up to me, he declared.

'Let there be no mistake about that. I regarded the bomb as a military weapon and never had any doubt that it should be used. 'I did not hesitate a minute and I've never lost any sleep over it since.' Although the final decision December 29, 1972 lack Gale on Harry S. Truman, made the decision to drop the indeed his, the American was president's responsiblity was shared by others. At the Pots- dam conference Churchill un- hesitatingly told him that he favoured the use of the Atomic bomb as a means of ending the war. By the time the bombs were dropped, the British workers had unceremoniously ejected of British im- this leader perialism, but his successor, Labour premier Clement Attlee, fully! informed of the was Americans' intention to use atomic bombs. And he raised no objections. Stalin, too, was aware of the existence of the weapon and-by declaring war on Japan between the bombing of that of Naga- Hiroshima and saki-gave tacit approval to its use. Certainly, Stalinist news- world papers the over-not least the British 'Daily Worker' —hailed the dropping of these bombs as gigantic blows for world peace. On September 2, 1945, the surrender signed Japanese documents on the deck of the 'Missouri'. The battleship Americans had given the re- quired undertaking that the Imperial family could remain.

Had that undertaking been 6, the given before August Japanese would undoubtedly have surrendered then. There was no other difference be- tween the terms offered before and the atomic bombings those accepted afterwards.

American stories that the Atomic bomb was justified to another year of war prevent and to 'save 500,000 American lives' are a pack of lies. So are the Stalinist arguments of the time which faithfully backed up the American 'self-justifica- tion'. atomic bombing of The Hiroshima and Nagasaki served no direct military purpose They whatever. not shorten the war by a single day• But there were two very real reasons for unleashing this rain of death. One was simply to find out what effect weapon would have on the was a cold, human beings. It 'scientific' experiment brutal infinitely more horrible than by anything perpetrated Hitler's concentration camp doctors. The second reason was to display America's lead in military potential as World to its close. War I came Truman and his advisers in- tended this as a warning to the Soviet Union, the colonial revolution and the workers of western Europe-all of whom they considered a threat to the continuance of capitalism.

That Stalin went along with this should cause no surprise.

He retained as much faith in the leaders of world imperial- ism as he had had in ! Adolf Hitler until the actual invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Moreover, Stalin feared the colonial revolution and the upsurge of the European work- ing class as much as Truman did. American imperialism was able to 'stabilize' western European capitalism only with the assistance of the Stalinists who rushed into coalition governments with bourgeois parties in both France and Italy and preached restraint to the working class which was pre- pared to go forward to chal- lenge for power. Without this treachery by Truman at Potsdam. Above: Nagasaki o the Stalinists, United States imperialism would have been unable to sustain capitalism in the old world, to occupy parts and Austria, to of Germany defend reaction in Greece, to re-arm the Turkish bourgeoisie and to establish air and naval bases throughout the world.

All of this was carried out under the presidency of Harry S. Truman. was in the Truman on launching of the Cold War. In January 1946, he declared that Russia must be 'faced with an iron fist and strong language ... only one thing do they understand "How many divi- sions have you?" ... I'm tired of babying the Soviets.' Truman In March 1946, accompanied Churchill to Fulton, Missouri, where the latter made his notorious 'iron curtain' speech. In March 1947, the Ameri- can President enunciated the • 'One of the 'Truman Doctrine'. primary objectives of the foreign policy of the United States.' he declared, 'is the ina= lagasaki on August 9, 1945.

creation of conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion. We shall not realize our objectives un- less we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to im- totalitarian them pose on regimes ... I believe that it the policy of the must be United States to support free resisting peoples who are subjugation attempted pressures.' In plain English this meant the commitment of enormous sums of money to prop up the economies of the old ailing imperialist powers and to take their military respon- over sibilities in the colonial world.

It was, indeed, a very close thing. In May 1947, when the launched, Marshall Plan was rations in Italy bread and France were down to half a pound a day. In Britain terrible fuel shortages produced crip- pling power cuts. Financial Editor of The 'Reuter' wrote "The biggest crash since the fall of Constan- tinople-the collapse of the heart of an Empire-impends.'

And Winston Churchill was describing Europe as 'a rubble heap, a charnel house, a breed- ground of pestilence and ing hate'. In March 1948, in response to Truman's appeal to 'halt the advance of communism', , Con- passed the Foreign gress Assistance Act. This involved an immediate grant of $5,300m to Europe, $463m for China and $275m for Greece and Turkey. prolonged fighting After with neither the Soviet Union nor Yugoslavia lifting a finger Greek to help them--the guerrillas were beaten. Turkish capitalism was re- stored and the situation in the Mediterranean 'stabilized' United Altogether the States dished out $12,000m under the Marshall Plan, in- cluding $700m to take over from the British in the Near East. But world imperialism could not be saved by economic aid alone, despite the willing col- laboration • of the Stalinists. : the United More and more States was committed to mili- tary expenditure. At the outset of Marshall Aid, Congress expressly stipulated that none of it was to be used for mili- tary purposes. But within • less than three Americans were the years, insisting that every cent should be allotted so as to contribute to western 'defences'

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Bulgaria is renowned as the most conservative and orthodox of the East European countries with a leadership closely tied to the Kremlin. Rapid industrialization, forced through on the Stalinist pattern, has brought about a considerable transformation of the country. Still a backward agrarian country at the end of World War II, Bulgaria now has modern industries and a large working class. The bureaucracy has been able to keep down wages by a combination of repression and ideological pressure. Until the early 1960s the former pre- dominated, but since the dis- missal of Vylko Chervenkov, a Stalinist of the old school, in 1962 more emphasis has been placed on the latter. His place is now occupied by a colourless apparatusman of the Brezhnev stamp, the more flexible Todor Zhivkov, backed up by a youngish team and an ageing of ministers Politburo. While the pragma- tists go to it, seeking trade with western businessmen, the orthodox elders steer the Party on a typically Stalinist course.

A whole system of titles, distinctions, medals and awards-has been thought up in an effort to boost production.

But it doesn't seem to have enough. Signs that the been working class is becoming rest- less and is demanding a bigger share of the good things of life are evident in the proceedings of the Communist Party Cen- tral Committee held in the first part of December. A report of its decisions calls for the setting up of a special comission to deal with problems of the living stan- dards of the working people.

The Committee calls for many changes: higher pay for night work, a scientific reform of wage scales, improved bonus scales. as though the It looks awards and medals and the appeals to 'moral incentives' are not having the desired effect. It is also evident that many Bulgarian workers and housewives have not been afraid to criticize the bureau- cracy and its mismanagement.

The Central Committee that the solemnly decreed quality of baby foods and goods should be greatly im- proved': Longer leave, increased pensions and disability payments were also suggested. It is necessary to overcome rapidly the shortage of goods which are important to population and to ensure a better satisfaction of the de- mand for consumer goods', the Committee resolution deman- ded. Better supplies of every- thing would sum it up fairly.

The Committee calls for better housing and new tech- organizational nological and methods in the building trade.

Centralized heating should be adopted. Efforts should be made to stop high labour turn- over. Judging from this resolution, very little has been right with the Bulgarian economy up to now and the bureaucracy is now seriously worried. A des- perate effort is being made to throw a sop to the working class. Housing seems to be an especially sore point, which is to be expected in a country where industrial towns have been growing rapidly. Evi- dently the bureaucracy has been taking more than its fair share and corruption in high places has been causing an outcry. On this point the resolution says: "Those living in state- owned apartments should not be allowed to build country houses and to buy private cars, purchased unless they have these apartments from their own resources or have built their own apartments' So it seems that some have acquired country houses and private cars at the state's expense!

And the resolution goes on: 'Greater social justice should be applied in the distribution of rented apartments. Citizens who engage in speculative deal- ings in housing should be punished by various sanctions, including confiscation of their property and expulsion from the city or settlement in which they committed the offence.'

Can it be that in the Peoples Democracy of Bulgaria, under of the Communist the rule Party for a quarter of a cen- tury, speculators and queue- jumpers have been operating with impunity and that it is the Above: Bulgarian party leader of Georgl Dimitrov (left) the past, and of the present, Todor Zhiv- kov are portrayed on posters in a parade through Sofia. only now that it has come to the notice of the Central Committee? The Central Committee, which was presided over by Party boss Zhivkov, called for a review of all programmes for enhancing the people's living standards in the sixth Five- Year Plan. Some of these proposals were immediately adopted by the National Assembly at its session which opened on Dec- ember 18. The national mini- mum wage was raised to a miserly 80 leva* a month. The retired Stalinist dictator, Vylko Chervenkov, receives a state pension of 600 leva a month and lives in his own villa on the outskirts of Sofia. Many workers have been taking home no more than 100 leva a month, giving a standard of living lower than that in neighbouring countries. The increased flow of commodities into the shops noted by visi- tors in recent years have been very inequitably distributed.

The privileges of the bureau- cracy, and the illicit gains of its corrupt members, stood out ail the more glaringly. Bul- garian workers have been get- ting increasingly impatient.

The question of whether it will be possible to fulfil these promises of higher wages and improved supplies of goods and put a brake on speculation and corruption remains in doubt.

Bulgaria will have to in- crease its trade not only with the other COMECON (East European EEC) countries but more with the outside even world if there is to be any hope of improving the supply consumer goods. It can count on little or no help from the Soviet Union which is em- broiled in its own economic crisis. So far Bulgaria has been the quietest of the East European countries. The Central Com- mittee resolution suggests that underneath the surface explo- sive forces have been building up. The coming year may see unprecedented events in the most Stalinist of the People's Democracies. _-- * About 2.63 leva to the £.

Workers Press, Frida The US White House estimates that about 25,000 Vietnam war veterans have returned home suffering from drug addiction. And the num- ber is increasing all the time. Last year Pentagon sources estimated that 10 to 15 per cent of US personnel then in Vietnam were heroin users- between 26,000 and 40,000 men. Some medical authorities in America claim that even this estimate is too low. The official figures are based on urine samples conducted on the soldiers before they were re- patriated from the war theatre.

addicts, claim But many these authorities, were able to abstain from using heroin for up to a week so that they would pass the tests and avoid being held in Vietnam. These American soldiers be- came drug addicts with sup- plies provided by the allies they were fighting to 'save from communism'. The Golden Triangle — the district near the borders of Burma, Thailand and Laos—is one of the world's major pro- ducers of illegal opium. Enterprising Vietnamese businessmen quickly estab- in lished laboratories this region to produce the high- grade opium required by the Americans. But it is not only the Viet- namese who are making money out of the GI drug addicts. American drug-pushers have organized large-scale imports ess, Friday December 29, 1972 PAGE 5 from the Golden Triangle into the States. This supply has replaced the former main source-the Tur- kish opium poppy fields. And this has rendered largely in- effectual the American govern- ment's much-publicized sub- sidy to the Turkish campaign to reduce poppy production.

A heroin addict requires up to $100 a day to finance his habit. It is therefore good business for international dope rings provide Vietnam to soldiers with cheap opium- and then cash in on the market when the hooked victims get back home. There is also substantial evidence to show that soldiers who start out on marijuana in Vietnam rapidly move on to opium-contrary to the rub- bish peddled by the so-called 'progressives' who advocate its use. There is now-in conditions of growing unemployment in the United States—a particular of unemployment problem among Vietnam veterans. Drug addicts are unable to hold a job and many em- ployers won't take on an ex- soldier at all. In New York subway and bus posters implore em- ployers to give the ex-soldier 'He is back home a chance. with maturity and experience, give him a job, they plead.

But with a surplus of labour on the market, many employers won't take a chance. Meanwhile the drug traffic continues to grow. Business is business, after all-and drugs are big business. Below: US soldiers in Vietnam at home prospects are grim.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Priday Decora not tie to Statement by the International C The enlargement of the Common Market with the entry of Britain, Ire.

land and Denmark on January 1 is a desperate attempt by the Euro. pean employers to band together to meet world capitalism's economic crisis. This is their response to the breakdown of the international monetary system and the de- velopment of trade and econo- mic warfare between the major capitalist powers. This is the only basis on which they can hope to com- bat their rivals in the United 1872

GEGEN LOMNDIXTAT

UND

nternational Committee of the Fourth International.

States and Japan for own benefit while at the same an in- time erecting creased share of the shrinking tariff walls and to keep world market and to gain out- other trade barriers out their competitors' lets for capital investment.

goods. The monopolists who domi- This does not mean that the nate the Common Market and European employers have been determine its policies have to able to overcome their national grind more surplus value out conflicts and rivalries with the

EEC.

of their workers by slashing The collapse after only the labour force and intensifv.

of eight months the latest ing exploitation. demon- monetary union plan The biggest obstacle to their that the in- national erratac

EEC

reactionary plans is the work- terests of the members of Europe, which is be peacefully harmo- ing class cannot undefeated and determined to nized. preserve its hard-won condi- The adoption of protec- tions and basic rights. tionist policies reveals that The monopolists and their European capitalism has arri- political in the ved a historical cul-de-sac mouthpieces Common Market governments and become an absolute obs- unified the further develop- want a single. market tacle to Western Europe for their ment of the productive forces, in and above all of the working class itself. crude protectionist The policy of the EEC is accom- panied by the concentration of capital into fewer and fewer hands through mergers and formation of cartels encou- raged and fostered by the Common Market commission in Brussels. The parasitic character of much of this capital is revealed in the feverish speculation in property on the currency mar- kets and above all in the exis- tence of the vast pool of 60,000m surplus dollars not secured by gold cover which constitutes the Euro-dollar market. Under the slogan of regional EEC is development en- tha capital the flow of from the old industrial centres in Britain and drawhara low-wage areas of Europe like fascist Spain where unions are banned 'and are agely punished. This accompanied by is ruthless rationalization of basic industry to improve the Euro- employers' chances of pean with the US and competing Japan and bring down the to prices of EEC exports. In the steel industry, for example, closures and sackings taking place right across are Europe. In the Ruhr Iorraine and in Northern France work- the flung are being dole to make way for the con- Police move attack demonstrating Workers Prose, Friday Dor struction of automated modern mounted against a background steel plants built with govern- price inflation, running at ment ald an average or over iv per cent within the

EEC

The adoption In Britain, Steel the Cor- value-added tax in April poration plans to concentrate and the very sharp rise in food production five modern prices resulting from 'harmon- plants with a systematic of British food prices ization' gramme of closures and sack- under the common agricultural the industry. throughout policy will create an additional Driving forward this process burden crushing for workers a flood of from cheap steel whose wages being held Japanese industry which com- Car e down by law. European fortably undercuts after transporting prices even The Stalinists of the French its product half way round the and Italian Communist Parties world. Socia Demo wellas ine claim that Shipbuilding is another basic crats fraudulently Common industry faced Market can be with virtual Ine 'democratized' and advocate extinction as part of the Com- mon Market's industrial ration- the participation of the labour movement in such institutions alization plans. The parasitic as the European parliament.

shipbuilding emplovers Save for years restricted new invest- They are simply clearing the and are road „LO oo n en ug cor- evenlai now unable to compete with poratist onslaught on the work- their Japanese rivals. ing class, accordance with The object of this strategy the Kremlin's counter-revolu- of peaceful co- is tionary policy Centt Inen viovmerı which can used to existence and the preparation assist for the European the member governments security smashing the trade unions and conference. bringing down wages. That is The International Committee the the purpose of anti- denounces the Stalinist policy inflation declarations adopted disarm the attempt to at the Paris summit in October.

working class in the face of These attacks being dangers. The workers students Milan, Italy. great _Commor In r8 Prose, Friday Docember 29, 1972 PAGE 7 Above right: French miners march against anti-union The placard laws. reads, Market has nothing to offer the workers of Europe except un- employment, wage cuts, destruction of their organiza- tions and the drive towards the corporate state. If left un- challenged the plans of the European monopolies will re- the creation of fascist sult in states and inevitable plunge to atomic war. Against the Common Market of the monopolists and their agents within the labour move- ment, the working class must fight for the Socialist United based States of Europe on expropriation of the employers in the west and the Stalinist bureaucracy in the east. To carry through this task today means the construction - of sections of the International Committee of the Fourth Inter- European national in every country and an uncompromis- ing struggle against counter- revolutionary Stalinism.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday December 29, 1972 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 six: The General Strike to the fight against the Tory government today. National Minority In May 1924 the en- Movement. The NMM inherited many of gineers proposed the the personnel and the syn- formation of an Indus. dicalist ideas of the shop trial Alliance which in- stewards' movement. Its main influence was in centres like cluded transport workers, Glasgow and Sheffield London, locomotive men, foundry where the older movement workers, had penetrated most. workers, steel From the onset the Com- engineers, miners and the munist Party became the main Workers' Union. inside political driving force Afraid of potential the NMM. But the CP soon its Stalin's for overthrowing the degenerated under power leadership into providing cover government, Thomas and the bureau- TUC right wing rendered the for 'left' trade union crats inside

TUC.

This Industrial Alliance stillborn the the eve of the General the

NMM

from prevented on Strike. developing any alternative, During the General Strike, revolutionary leadership inside numbers of the unions. large engineers With the defeat of the came out in support of the General Strike, the CP's policy beleaguered miners, despite the not to resist the TUC General TUC order to limit their role Council's ultimatum to trades to that of auxiliarieswhom disaffiliate from they intended councils to never to the NMM virtually killed the mobilize. From its formation in 1924, movement. In two-and-a-half of a section of the years engineers Tory rule, working-class mili- played a major part in the tancy has now reached a peak unparalleled since the early 1920s. But mere militancy today is not enough to defeat the Tory government. The trade union 'neutrality' in the political arena, as epitomized by the Amalgam- ated Society of Engineers (ASE) in the mid-Victorian heyday of British capitalism, served a progressive function at a time when the material basis existed for granting con- cessions on wages after a deputation from the workmen had been received by the master. Since the onset of cut-throat imperialist rivalry for the divi- sion and redivision of world markets and the permanence of the world crisis of capital- ism, it has been impossible for the working class to hold on to its gains in wages and condi- tions without encountering the fundamental requirements of the ruling class : to take back all historical gains made by workers. In the course of their his- tory engineering workers have faced many severe defeats but they were still able to recover and add to their living and working standards. The end of the post-war boom has sig- Union leaders. Herbert Smith, arriving at 10 Downing Street, prior to tl nalled the end of an era when such recovery was possible.

The mortal crisis of the British economy finds one of its reflections in the hopelessly uncompetitive nature of both the traditional heavy industries and the modern light engineer- ing Under Common sector. Market conditions the increas- ing outflow of capitalist in- vestment from Britain into Europe threatens to turn many engineering plants into scrap yards. Because of the depth of the crisis of value, the political tasks before the employers to use the machinery of the Industrial Relations Act and other dictatorial measures to undermine the workers' organ- izations and the tasks facing the working class to secure and defend all trade union and basic rights means total vic- tory or total defeat for one class. On crucial occasions in their history the engineers—out of necessity - have taken the political road in defence of their rights. In the second half of the 19th century they participated agitation for the in votes working class. They con- tributed to the formation of Cook and W. Richardson P. prior to the defeat of the General Strike.

The General Strike, 1926. A bus Immobilized by strikers, Is towed Large numbers of en- away. despite the gineers came out, TUC order to limit their role to that of auxiliarieswhom they never intended to mobilize.

the Labour Party. And during the 1914-1918 war, engineers in areas like the Clyde fought a bitter struggle against the Tory- Liberal coalition and their trade union leaders who had sold their basic right to strike during the war period. The most decisive political struggle for the engineers and the working class is straight ahead. The principal question facing the engineers is that of leadership. The Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers' official leadership, Scanlon and vacillate over company, • the full mobilization of the indus- trial strength of the union to serve notice on the Industrial Relations Act and the Tory government. The consequences of any failure to act decisively against the government will be far greater than the treachery of past betrayals like that of South Wales, the Amalgam- ated Engineering Union (AEU) leaders and TUC General Council members during the General Strike of 1926. As the engineering workers last week took industrial action against the Industrial Relations Act, the best tradi- tions of the historic struggles of the engineers for basic rights must be consciously ab- sorbed into the task of build- ing revolutionary leadership in the AUEW and in the working class as a whole.

Engineers can • take a signi- ficant step forward in the fight to remove the Tory govern- ment from office and re-elect Labour government com- a mitted to socialist policies. It is only on the foundations of a socialist planned economy that trade unions and all basic rights can be lastingly secured.

CONCLUDED

This item appeared • in "The Times' the other day: BBC television is launching a new type of debate in depth on social and moral issues. "The Sunday Debate" will run for 12 weeks from January 7 and will feature four debates, each taking up three programmes.

Viewers will state their res- ponses. The two assessors will be Mr Reginald Maudling and the Rev D. Cupitt, Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.'

No comment! Answering" a parliamentary question on November 15, Mr John Nott, Minister of State at the Treasury, gave esti- mates of the amounts that would be raised" by a wealth tax at various rates. One of these was that wealth tax which exempted the first €20,000, applied at 1 per cent £20,000 and £30,000 between and progressed at an additional 1 per cent for each successive £10,000 to a maximum of 10 per cent on wealth in excess of £110,000, would yield about £1,000m, about 700,000 people would be liable to pay the tax. The cost of increasing re- tirement pensions to £10 for a single person and £16 for a married couple would be about £1,000m. Remember Mr and Mrs Sibley of Luton? They were pre- sented as real 'freedom fight- ers' in the Tory Press after they kept their two daughters away from school for two years rather than send them to a comprehensive. months ago virtue Two found its own reward, we were told, when a wealthy business- man Mr L. de Wirtz put up the money to send the girls to an expensive public school.

Now Vanessa (14) and Me- lanie (13) have come home from the Park School, Yeovil, in Somerset. And is life better than it would be among all those rough comprehensive kids?

Unfortunately, no. The well- brought-up children of the gentry have been giving them a rough time. The two girls were jibed at for 'living on charity' Mr de Wirtz, now in Spain, has made no comment. A widely-used anti-depressant drug can cause temporary dumbness, according to a Harley Street psychiatrist.

Dr Simon Behrman, a con- sultant to several London hos- pitals, has issued this warning to doctors working in mental hospitals. Nine patients treated with _phenothiazine had the drug gradually lost the power of speech, but there would be more unrecognized cases, says Dr Behrman, who first diag- nosed the condition and wrote about it in the 'British Journal ..of Psychiatry'. Patients took at least a month to recover their normal speech after treatment was stopped — and one patient, who already had suicidal ten- dencies, killed himself. When Mrs Marjorie Rangeley's husband died in 1970 she was immediately threatened with eviction from her farm by her been landlord. Now she has told she can stay - provided she pays up to three times as much rent. In 1970 the rent was £5 a year for each of the farm's 41 acres. Now she has been told she must pay £ll an acre for the next two years and £15 an acre after that. Mrs Rangeley, who says she will have to leave because she can't afford to stay, claims that local farmers describe the new rents as 'scandalous'. They say it should be no more than f7 or £8 an acre. What makes all this interest- ing is that the landlord is...

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Since Judge Harold Haley was taken hostage and killed during the Marin County shoot-out two years ago, security in San Francisco courts has become more elaborate and bewildering every day. Gone is the once-austere atmosphere of the courtroom.

It has been replaced by the paraphernalia of an armed camp. Bulletproof glass partitions to separate spectators from the defendants and attorneys have been erected in many court- rooms. Closed-circuit TV sys- tems have been installed to allow defendants who disrupt proceedings to view their trials from a separate room. At a current Hell's Angels motorcycle gang murder trial, up to 20 deputy sherifis are assigned to security duty every day. Many of the deputies dis- play loaded shotguns. Spectators and Press must pass through two checkpoints before being admitted. They must record their names and display some identification and are then subjected to a very thorough personal search.

Reporters have had bottles of aspirin, nail files, pocket knives and even hair combs taken from them. All reporters are searched four or five times a day-each time they enter the courtroom —no matter how well-known they are to the police. Even the men's room is kept locked, with a deputy sta- tioned on guard nearby. trial of At the murder Ruchell Magee, security has • more stringent. been even Magee is the man accused of killing : Judge Haley. He has watched most of his trial so far on closed-circuit IV be- at taking cause of his habit swings at attorneys. He enters court handcuffed. In August 1971 Magee was one of three San Quentin pri- soners who were brought to Judge Haley's courtroom to face charges of stabbing a pri- son guard. Suddenly a young man— The White House has drafted tough new legisla- tion that will hold indi- vidual television stations accountable, at the risk of losing their licences, for the content of all net- work material they broadcast. This constitutes a deter- mined effort by the Nixon administration to keep broad- casters in line ideologically.

The existence of the draft legislation and the intention of the administration to intro- duce it in Congress early in 1973, were revealed last week by Mr Clay Whitehead, direc- tor of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy.

In a speech to the Indiana- polis chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journal- ism fraternity, Mr Whitehead ideological plugola' attacked in network news reporting and Workers Press, Friday The shoot-out at Marin County courthous ages in the corridor. Top: Judge Haley t later identified as 17-year-old Jonathan Jackson-stood in a public seat and cried: 'AÎl this is it. Everybody right freeze.' with a shotgun, he Armed took the judge, the prisoners and other hostages outside to a van. There was a shootout and the judge, Jackson and a prisoner were killed Since then, security has dominated the area's court- rooms. Police officers carrying loaded sub-machine guns stand at the rear of the court out- side, ten other officers in light blue jumpsuits carrying tear gas, long nightsticks, hand Spiro Agnew, who in 1970 began the attack on the news media with several violent outbursts.

said local stations would have to bear responsibility for such matter carried over their faci- lities. 'Station managers and net- aft work officials who fail to act to correct imbalance or con- sistent bias in the networks— or who acquiesce by silence- can only be considered willing participants, to be held fully accountable at licence renewal time,' he declared. 'Who else but management can or should correct so-called professionals who confuse sen- sationalism with and sense who dispense élitist gossip in the guise of news analysis?'

s6, Friday December 29, 1972 PAGE 9 courthouse, two years ago. Above: host.

ge Haley being led outside.

guns and two-way radios pat- the corridors of the hall of justice. The entire proceedings are monitored on TV screens by members of the crime preven- tion bureau. Before being admitted to the courtroom, members of the public and the Press must be searched, have their pictures taken, and be issued with passes with specific seat num- bers. They are then personally escorted to their seats by uni- formed deputies. 'The defendant can go to the toilet easier than I can,' commented one disgusted re- porter. This outburst is reminiscent vice-president of Spiro Agnew's violent attack on the news media made in 1970. Whitehead's announcement brought widespread protests from broadcasters throughout America. Mr Tom Chauncey, president of the television sta- tion KOOL in Phoenix, said: 'If Whitehead really means this... (it) could mean cen- sorship of news and entertain- ment, the government telling us what to broadcast and tell- ing the people what they should see or hear.' Along with this attempt to gag broadcasters went an in- tensified attack by President Nixon on the 'Washington Post' Nixon was enraged when two young 'Post' reporters dug up a mass of evidence to show that highly-placed members of his staff had been involved spying ments in order to discredit leading Democrats in an elec- tion year. Reports from America say that White House aides are openly boasting of how the 'Post' is going to be 'screwed' by starving it of news and blocking its access to sources in the know. in this has been Une step to bar the 'Post' from the White House over the Christ- mas period.

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Stalinists not a revolutionary force, Commons told Hollow ring to Heffer's THE 'MORNING STAR', t Communist Party, has been fl with leaflets attempting to bo tion. The leaflet is an inspi propaganda which has backfire endorsements It contains for the 'Star' written by Labour MPs and trade union leaders under the emblazoned headline: Labour movement leaders recommend the "Star"? One of the personages chosen to speak out for the 'Star' is Mr Eric Heffer, the MP for Walton, Liverpool, who Is a member of the 'Tribune' group of "lefts'. Heffer's tribute to the 'Star' knows no bounds: 'I read the "Morning Star" because it is one of the best-informed papers on industrial issues. The coverage on strikes and industrial disputes is unequalled. It is necessary and essential to get a united struggle against the lories and it is an additional reason why I read the "Morning Star" and urge others to do likewise' The ebullient Mr Heffer is so praise of the with his warm Stalinists that it came as no surprise to learn that when Georges Marchais, general sec- retary of the French CP, visited Britain last month, he came to the House of Commons to see Heffer. The CP's friendly liaison with these 'lefts' rests on the theory of the 'peaceful road to socialism'.

This is a strategy for taking power through parliament by an THE UNRELIABILITY of planning under the bureau- cratic regimes of East Europe has produced one of its most spectacular set- backs so far. East Germany and Czechoslovakia have suddenly dropped without official explanation any their long-standing plans for joint mass production of a new 'people's car'. The car, with a new four- stroke engine, was to have been produced at East Ger- many's Wartburg factory at Eisenach, and the Trabant works at Zwickau, and at.

the Skoda factory at Mlada Boleslav, Czechoslovakia.

Production was expected to reach over 400,000 annually by 1975 and electrical components were to be supplied from Hungary. At least 300,000 cars were needed for the a year projéct to become economical.

Reuter reports that the reasons the decision to scrap the entire plan remain a mystery. But there have been several warning, signs that all is not well with this gran- diose project, which was meant to go some way to meet the huge unsatisfied demand in East Europe for consumer goods like motor cars. At the Leipzig trade fair in September, it was announced that production of the existing Wartburg and Trabant models would not only continue after 1975, but would be expanded.

AR', the daily organ of the been flooding the countryside g to boost its flagging circula- n inspired piece of political backfired.

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alliance of Communist Party MPs_ and 'progressive lefts' in the Labour Party. (During the 1950s Heffer be- longed to a group which com- pletely shunned parliament and the Labour Party. Today he is a member of both!) But if Heffer is a 'friend' of the Communist Party, who are its enemies? Listen to Heffer during last week's witch-hunting debate initiated by reactionaries from the Tory Party. Fuddy-duddy 'The assertion that communists are always trying to stir trouble in industry is not borne out by the historical facts. It has been suggested that the communists are today the great revolutionary force. In fact, in the eyes of most young people of the left, the Communist Party is composed of the most old- fashioned bunch of fuddy-duddies one could find. Communist Party shop stew- . ards tend nowadays to be the most conservative ones. Most of our lads in the Labour Party are much more to the left in the industrial struggle' Heffer's statement is a scan- dalous insult to sincere. CP

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In December, East German sources were saying that the anti- development of a new pollution device meant that their existing two-stroke engine production plants were no longer obsolete. On top of that, the East Germans announced that they had purchased from West Germany's Auto-Union com- pany a licence to manufacture two-stroke 60-horsepower a engine in the GDR. No confidence At the same time, it was disclosed that deliveries Polish- and Soviet-built Fiats had considerably exceeded original expectations; and that Skoda had a heavily-committed schedule supplying production lorries to Comecon (the East European EEC). What seems to have hap- pened is that the business-like East Germans have eventually decided to place more faith in a smaller-scale joint production venture with a western capi- talist concern than in large- scale joint planning with their fellow East European bureau- crats. Presumably, they know a thing or two about such pro- jects. Certainly they show the same lack of confidence in their own ability to deliver the goods as their colleagues in the USSR do when tackling major new enterprises, despite HEFFER ... CP stewards most conservi stewards and workers who want to fight against the Tories.

They are obliged to give out leaflets which carry his remarks in support of their paper while at the same time Heffer. makes all the advantages of national- ized property relations and planned production. The bureaucracies are caught , in a web of their own making. By abandoning the world revolution and artificially trying to build socialism in just one corner of the globe, they have to resort more and more to bureaucratic expedien- cies to sort out their economic difficulties, with consequent disastrous effects on planning.

Another reason said to be a cause of the plan's abandon- ment is East German resent- ment at the potential dis- of their appearance own 100-per-cent, home - produced models. Such economic nationalism is the entirely predictable out- of the rule of the come bureaucracies. Unable to build socialism, but unwilling to complete the world revolution, they merely hang on to power as best they can and try to patch things up. This is the third Christmas that the Plymouth Fine • Tubes their wives and their strikers, 53 children, have spent on strike with very little money.

These have waged men bitter struggle for the most basic right worker a can possess—the right to belong to a trade union. Strike committee members travelled 100,000 have over miles to sustain their fight.

Workers Press, Friday December 29, 1972 PAGE 11 opportunist policy of cuddling up the 'lefts' to It is 100 per cent correct to the that British Stalinist leadership is counter-revoluton. and—in ary the service of Moscow-will try might and main head off the revolutionary to developments of the working class in Britain. We saw this treacher- ously illustrated on the upper Clyde. debate in The which Heffer made his intervention was It vicious anti-communist affair. Tory was stage-managed by the Party-the MP who put down Sir the Edward motion was Brown, a former chairman of the Conservatives—as part of a witch- hunting campaign against the trade unions. Well-prepared Every Tory who spoke rattled off well-prepared information link trying to militant trade 'violence' unionists with and "subversion'. crushing 10 Is a indictment of the 'lefts' like Heffer that the Labour Party's "defence' pathetically was SO limp. Instead of slandering stewards Communist from the Party-he also made scathing reference t conservative the Socialist Labour League to derisory references them in and the International Marxist parliament—to the delight of the Group-Heffer should have been witch-hunting the smirking Tories and right-wing real enemy: Labourites. the Tory Party and its backers His Commons side-swipes in big business, the police and are the fruits of the CP leadership's the army. MEMBERS of the Scottish Divisional Council of the white- collar union ASTMS have unanimously endorsed a resolution calling for the resignation of the Tory government as an in- tegral part of the campaign against the state pay law.

The motion states: "That the No. 12 Divisional Council totally opposes the wage freeze recently decreed by the Tory government. This action constitutes a major attack upon the interests and living standards of the working class as a whole and clearly provides the basis for the formation of a corpo- rate state in this country.

'We consider that such an answered attack can only be

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and trade union the labour movement against the employ- towards directed forcing the ing classes in order to force Tory government from office and the Tory government to resign.

the election of a Labour govern- 'We therefore call upon ment pledged to a socialist pro- gramme.' National Executive Council to demand the immediate recall of The resolution, forwarded from the TUC and Labour Party con- the union's Edinburgh General the branch, ferences in order to unite has now been directed workers' movement in this strug- the National Executive Coun- and plan cil for its consideration. gle to campaign This Christmas is the hardest ers Press wishes to make of all. It has imposed a great special appeal to all trade financial burden. Now the 37 unionists to take collections in strikers face the rest of the their factories and branches with a depleted strike for the Fine Tubes in winter men and fund. January is always a diffi- order that their heroic cult month to raise money to determined action can be car- further their fight. ried forward. All money should Ye on This is a sergie to determined to be sent to: are fight on. Fine Tubes Treasurer working class cannot afford to c/o 65 Bretonside lose. That is why the Socialist and the Work- Plymouth, Devon. Labour Leaque

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WILSON'S ful- some support for the expan- sion of Zionist rule in the Middle East attacked was yesterday by one of his own MPs. Christopher Mayhew, Labour MP for Woolwich East, said Wilson's remarks during his visit to Israel were 'very sur- prising conflict and with Labour policies and principles on several points'. Wilson had told the central committee of the ruling , Israeli Labour Party that a 1967 United Nations resolution sponsored by his own government did not en- visage total Israeli evacuation of occupied Arab territory. He told the Zionists: If our government had meant "all" we WILSON . . . Colonization policy would have said "all". We would never have wanted to say it any- way.' an endorsement of This is recent Israeli government state- ments favouring the colonization of lands forcibly snatched from the Arabs in 1967. Wilson is a fanatically pro- Zionist social-democrat, who has repeatedly attacked the Pales- tinian revolution. He called re- cently for the expulsion of the Palestinian Liberation Organi- zation representative in London and for the formation of a special armed squad for so-called anti- terrorist functions. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Workers Press, Office. Published by Street, London. 186a Clapham High

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ay December 29, 1972 TALKS TO AVERT a possible crisis The pav deal involved was agreed on October 20 and provided for phased increases of the minimum over the Tory laws banning wage rises weekly rate. The first £7 was paid seven days after continued yesterday between govern- ment officials and West End theatre The actors were to have received the increase which would have taken their basic rate from managers. £25 to £30 from Sunday. The order, : issued, will The government have warned aso dory to exua mone to raneand mune the It is not the government's intention to reclaim managers that they will face an order all the £7 increments spent, saved or invested by actors since November 13 orbidding them to pay a £5 increase to One difliculty highlighted' by theatre managers West End actors if they do not with many actors employed on contract 1s that basis. If their draw the rise voluntarily.

salaries increased after the freeze, is this due to the rise or aue to c But I understand another proposal to take better or more exacting part won by the individual a £7 increase paid from November 13 off the performer? actors is also under discussion.

This would ning £2.20 to £3.80 wage increase 70,00 widespread throughout the cause unrest electrical contracting Dard for ane industry e • 25. protession. The Joint Board industry have Ior refused to stop the increase, so compelling them similar order A has been issued to cover 30,000 plumbers who got a ti pay in August with a promise of an extra fl at the end of this year. Frank Chapple, president of the and Dumbers actuates union has said he does not intend to fight these Tory He attacks. said run foul of the law. Firms who disobey the orders, or those who encourage workers to neht Ware Dan subject to large fines and im- prisonment. A SLASHING attack on the gov- ernment policy outlawing increases wage has been made Willfam Mcal leader 70,000-strong Institute of Pro- fessional Civil Servants, who had their pay increase ALAN PIKE... Young docker to appeal "frozen'. Writing in his union journal Mr McCall says: "Every government, strongly Press, never by wearies of preaching to trade union movement that arrednens dise ver And every government has, in fact, broken the to which it is bound for Solenty the determination of pay in the Civil Service.

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'In accordance with these should been pay increases for the whole printers' picket at Horne's.

POLICE yesterday withdrew of the Civil Servic effect all but one charge of assault Work-in leader Mr Bill Free- man appealed for took support at against six men who creases will not now mass before the •end picket at Robert meeting cockers Tower Hill the following morning standstill, if then? Horne's Old Kent Road, Lon- and in the 500 men afternoon He said the government would don, paper mill last July.

marched to the Old Kent Road be guilty of another violation of were attacked police Four of the Robert men, agreements the full increase Grant, driver; Peter Wilzon, allowed by the end of Was Mr Freeman yesterday docker; Barry Holmes, tally the total freeze. described clerk; and Edward Davidson Tne core meditated' and said they were were each fined f10 printer, part of a considered Tory cam- with £10 costs for obstruction during picketing on the after- unionists. noon of Friday, July 28, 1972.

Two others, Thomas Cottrell, labour movement

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haulage and ContaCLOT corators tuese lads pay 'What was not foreseen, how- were each fined €150 in fines and costs.'

fike. docker $25 plus £10 costs. was a straignorwara als Grant, Wilson and Holmes agreement over what to do next, £15 for Cottrell was fined were given to 2o days the paper says way throwing two cardboard cuDs of two Davieson For the last 16 months every lukewarm tea • abstruce the a police and Cottrell and Pike three months.

attempt achieve to currency further £10 for Summing Mr said he had so wish to magistrate stability between • Mall lao- in the course of their duty.

K. Cook talist powers has foundered. The impose the men multilateral trade negotiations, witherew assaul nnes Water against the would find it difficult to pay.

charges which hopes wert because of lack of evidence He added: "In the interests of seriously until 1974, if at alerwas

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and although Mr Pike was found 1 could bind prevenuive jusuct guilty of the offence he you did to might peace, but The US Congress has yet to looking into the possibility of did, mint give im- ratify the trade Bill without appeal. that which no hard negotiation pression wa: Trouble first flared on July 27 prevent you carrying your take place. The Bill will still be police arrived in the matter through when about 40 legitimate rights in its way Congress vans and transit squad cars to when the preliminary talks oper Briant up Colour to give that impression.'

in the summer next year.

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ancillary workers are being asked to decide what industrial action should be taken to press their claim. Negotiations on the claim have been held up by the pay 'freeze'. Many of the workers have staged demonstrations, already which in most cases resulted in a half-day stoppage of work. Now they are being asked to vote for or against nine forms of further industrial action. These are: total strike of all ancillary workers in all hospitals; hit selected hospitals; one-day strikes each week; a total strike of selected key groups of stoppages and workers; token demonstrations; a ban on over- of time and day working; an rest organized go-slow; withdrawal of facilities to private patients at all hospitals, and withdrawal of catering and ancillary services to staffs at hospitals. Each branch will receive a form setting out the nine choices and members attending branch meetings will be asked to vote.

Their votes will be recorded and returned by the branch sec- retary to head office by January 15. There will be no individual ballot of members. In the north-west of England, where voting papers were „re- ceived yesterday, Mr Colin divisional north-west Barnett, officer of the National Union of Public Employees said: 'Clearly some of the branches will be making a mulitiple choice, but the union will decide what form of action will be taken if the Prime Minister has not de- clared his intent to deal satis- factorily with low paid workers?

Hospital workers felt increas- ing desperation at not being able to make ends meet when costs were rising, he said. ENOCH POWELL has ousted the Prime Minister as 'Man of the Year' in a poll among listeners to a radio programme.

Powell received 554 votes, more than twice as many as Edward Heath, winner of the World at One' popularity poll for the last two years, who scored 259. Opposition • leader Harold Wilson gained 18 in preliminary voting.

Meanwhile the US balance of trade continued to worsen, reaching $5,835m for the period from January to November this with This compares year. deficit of only $1,929m for the whole of 1971. One of the main targets the administration Nixon has set itself in the forthcoming trade talks is to put America back into the black by forcing other countries to accept more US their own imports and cut exports to the US. Where does this leave the liberals who believed that capi- talism could be stripped of its barbaric features and made to operate as a humane system of mutual co-operation?