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BEHIND THE

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WAGES

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

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THE TORY government has opened up a massive campaign of deception over the Common Market. It centres

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on the lie that entry into capitalist Europe means a new era of better living.

European idea' The will be sold to

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saturation point in all the Tory Press.

Yesterday we had the first taste propaganda war. Every newspaper in country, except Workers Press, turned over its BY front page to hysterical praise of the Common

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and prosperity to the working class in Europe And ex-Labour Minister George Thomson talked about the ancient nations of western Europe going on a great adventure. ballyhoo the facts are plain.

But beneath the The Common Market will mean higher prices.

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Foods will be jacked up almost immediately Common In because the butter Europe beef and veal are 2o per cent dearer, 179 per cent, cheese oz per cent and bread to per Value-Addeds This without the additional burden cent. Tax, which will fall directly on the consumer ate Aol. The Common Market will mean fewer jobs.

both It will mean a massive men or cabilal. industrial and speculative, into Europe and especially areas where the working class is weak wares lOW and trade unions outlawed, as in fascist Spain.

the Common But of course Market will bring more than Economic activity will be and a rising confined mainly to the para- onver cole cucues cost of living. basically sitic speculation of the city and the money dealing on the a capitalist amance for depry- ing class of all the working commodity exchanges. will become its democratic rights. areas The effects will be felt sharpest industria deserts. This is the home of all in Britain This the Britain within Europe the ruling class ate of the capitalist economies.

like to see. Trade figures have already that the defence of It means highlighted enormous weak- basic rights now becomes a re- of industry. Over Already ness volutionary question. the last montos our export. 'Euro- rapid rose by caDicuadon to unc western Europe Idea' is apparent pean Tene but imports from the

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way tney mean unar oritain revorunonary DarLy prepard- finished investment ma tacturing for big Ton The battles will ahead the only reply to the see p. 12 county. East India Hail, East India Dock Road, London E14 'Fanfare for Europe' made abroad and at home working class must be driven Dance 8-11 p.m. See 'Leon Trotsky down, robbed of all rights by on Europe' — page 12 mass unempoyment.

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JANUARY 2, 1973 & No. 960 • 4p

SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE

BEHIND THE

PRICES

UP,

WAGES

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

COMMON

AND

THE TORY government has opened up a massive campaign of deception over the Common Market. It centres

JOBS

on the lie that entry into capitalist Europe means a new era of better living.

European idea'

HIT

saturation point in all the Tory Press.

Every propaganda war. newspaper country, except Workers Press, turned over its BY front page to hysterical praise of the Common

MARKET

Market. The "Morning Star' did Stalinist tor the feeble of 'opposition'-it appealed nags to be nown at hall mast.

EEC

In Tory Godber, the we read Joseph Minister for Agriculture saving prices would not rise. premier Heath promised The Tory more jobs

POLICY

and prosperity to the working class in Europe.

ex-Labour Minister George Thomson talked And about the 'ancient nations of western Europe going on a great adventure. the ballyhoo the facts are plain.

But beneath The Common Market will mean higher prices.

BALLYHOO

Foods will be jacked up almost immediately of Common Agricultural In because the butter Europe beef and veal are 28 per cent dearer.

179 per cent, cheese 62 per cent and bread 10 per This is without additional burden cent. Tax, which will fall directly on the Value-Added consumer after April 1. The Common Market will mean fewer jobs.

flight of capital, both It will mean a massive industrial and speculative. into turope and especially areas where the working class is weak wares OW . and trade unions outlawed, as in fascist Spain.

But of course the Common Market will bring more than Economic activity will be longer dole queues and a rising the para- confined mainly to cost of living. It is basically City sitic speculation of the i capit working corall and the money dealing on the class of all the working commodity exchanges. Whole will become its democratic rights. The effects will be felt sharpest industrialeserts of all in Britain This is the home This Britain within the of the most parasitic and degener- Europe the ruling class would ate of the capitalist economies.

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Britain the sunuches and National Speaking Contest held off These campaign to transform the Views now predominate Socialist Labour League Put another into in capitalist circles Next Saturday—January 6, 2.30 p.m.

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Release Ere's political prisoners PAGE 2 Workors Press, Tueeday January 2, 1973 McStiofain, THE BASIC rights of the Irish workers have suffered another serious blow with the latest against Republican pogrom leaders. O'Bradaigh and Provi- The head the berrv sional

IRA,

Martin McGuin- have been and his deputy ness arrested Teacuo ary Lynch the government south. These two men been incarceratea m mountjoy McGuinness ¡ail many Irish suffered and patriot hands of British •enle imperialism. Now the wretched Green Tories Dublin are doing the dirtv work for their British masters. charges were preferred against The second act of repression was the arrest of Ruairi O'Bradaigh him last June and were dis- charged with missed the district judge been by

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flas Co. four offences said to have beer Elohin Roscommon. committed on September He concluded by asking one November court: and Al or unen Terer vallols 'How often can a person be sub- ways to the allegation that he member of illegal ject to arrest ana prosecunon on the charges and still organization in Eire and that be regarded as a free citizen?

he is raising or attempung raise an armed force 'contrary A rhetorical question! to the constitution'. Since June 1972 the Irish capi- These charges are not only re- together with their talists, actionary ana an insult co une London, conscience anti- overlords of cvcl imperialist Irishman, been, manoeuvring they tranuical Common the Market enter grotesquely cynical ana prool as a precondition ti thot the liceh bd prestie to en- ana- the leading Repub- Irish bourgeoisie try- Two of _ o vovczce une dister wal by every conceivable means.

licans recently aken by before Whitehall.

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To do this they have only and O'Bradaigh in his statement to not O'Bradaigh (top) resorted to direct rule, intern- McGuinness. the court said sunnid 'Sign now' pressure covers CP betrayal

BY JOHN SPENCER

and labour movement to 'wipe trade union out this shame on Britain's name'.

British THE PROTEST merchants of the This typically chauvinist tone is deliberately Communist Party are claiming the credit for exppession of genune workin glass internevenal "Morning prevent adopted the suspension of the American bombing of of North Vietnam and the resumption the Vietnam war. against the c opmus l ent abat ithe isis s- Paris 'peace' talks. spreads the ceptible to ti tht tor opinion and puonc They are planning continue the workers' movement "pressure' the US imperialists, appealing to of on overthrow of imperialism, October draft treaty the President Nixon to sign make I mure uculanl with North ve cdrdc v. it generates the illusion that Heath, orse asiNi ton, this fraudulent demand, they Not content as well forced change Witl are also calling on Tory premier Edward Heath to presumably nebulous

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DI cosunC 'speak out' against the policies of US govern- by bigger vigils more signatures CoCuuons ment. reinforce it devalues the resistance Vietnamese fighters, giving it claimed yester- ineir paper, une morning stal day that Heath had 'dishonoured Britain by Wor - Wi sordol ds a lausc It called on of Nixon's decision to stop the bombing.

refusing to denounce the bombings'.

And • he Sove Unin in modems gratuitous received praise Socialist Labour League North West Rally

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A film made by ACTT showing the five Right-to-Work marches from trom Glasgow. Liverpool. Swansea, Deal and Southampton to London ending with a huge Rally at Empire Pool, Wembley on March 12. 1972.

Speakers G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) THE CHILEAN government CHRISTINE SMITH (Young Socialists) of Salvador Allende has pub- In a personal capacity : lished a decree granting $19m CONNIE FAHEY (Manchester Tenants) comensation to the United ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Shop Stewards) States mining consortium, the

BRIAN GEENEY (U.P.W.)

Cerro Corporation. WALLY FOUCHS (CAV Occupation Committee) The comensation is for the La Andina copper mine which ment, massive intimidation by the army and the setting up of kangaroo courts in the north. They have also recog- nized that no campaign against the IRA can be successful without the support of the southern Irish bourgeoisie.

That is why they arrested Sean MacStiofain. That is why they organized—with the complicity of British imperialism — the bomb outrages and provoca- which 'persuaded' the tions opposition in the Dail to vote for the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act and, at a stroke, overturn the con- cept of the 'free citizen' and enable the Gardi seize to O'Bradaigh and McGuinness.

But it is not just Lynch who THE SPANISH Ministry of licences to Aceros de Liodi Fabrimetal to export 25 millio to China. The Ministry hopes China leading cus- will become a tomer for Spanish steel in the footsteps of the Soviet Union.

It could help redress the imbalance in trade between the two countries. The fascist regime suffered a 900 million pesetas deficit in 1972 which was nine times the 1971 figure.

Trade at the moment is con- ducted through Spanish trading agencies in Hong Kong. As yet there are no Peking commercial delegations officially resident in Madrid. Foreign Minister Lopez Bravo recently attended a reception given by Chinese UN representa- tives and speculation is rife in the Spanish Press on Bravo pos- sibly visiting Peking. Trade between Spain and the Soviet bureaucracies in the Union and Eastern Europe doubled in the first ten months of 1972 compared with 1971.

Spanish imports to COMECON countries were worth 7.107 mil- lion pesetas.

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was nationalized by the Popu- lar Unity government in 1971.

Allende had already told Cerro executives of this gift from his 'socialist' government. He them during his visit to New York in early December. O'Bradaigh and arrests McGuinness. The silence, equivocation and down-right treachery of trade union, Stalinist leaders Labour and are also to blame. They have not lifted a finger to defend basic rights in Ireland or mobilize the working class against Fianna Fail reaction- aries. That is the real reason why O'Bradaigh, McGuinness and MacStiofain are deprived of their freedom by the capitalist class. If the hand that arrested these men is the hand of Lynch, the mind that guides these oppres- sions is that of the Tory gov- ernment and the Minister for Northern William Ireland, Whitelaw. Behind him stand the general of the army of occupation who are determined to smash the IRA and all resistance military might, to north and south. The struggle to free these poli- tical prisoners is inseparable from the struggle ta build a revolutionary Marxist leader- ship in the Irish working class. Workers Press calls on the trade unionists of Ireland and Britain to demand the immediate release of all poli- tical prisoners in Ireland and, as a part of this campaign, to force the trade union leaders to break off all contact with the Tory oppressors in Ulster.

stry of Commerce has granted e Llodio, Forjas Alavesas and 5 million pesetas worth of steel

BY JUAN GARCIA

Poland and the Soviet Union handled 50 per cent of this trade.

While peaceful co-existence' the Spanish secret proceeds, police have jailed leading mem- bers of the illegal, CP-dominated Workers' Commissions and over 20 Maoist Marxist-Leninists. The sentences demanded range from six to 22 years. Some leaders of the strike in the Citröen plant in Vigo are still in jail awaiting trial while the local labour court has rati- fied hundreds of sackings of workers who were active in the strike for a 44-hour week.

• Ford's are pressing ahead with their plans to establish a plant in Spain. The Spanish Min- ister of Industry, Lopez de Leto- na, has just received draft pro- posals for a $310m car factory to produce 240,000 cars a year.

Ford's estimate they will em- ploy 6,400 workers in the first year of production and that the eventual labour force will be 7,600. Two-thirds of production will be aimed at the European market. The main aim of his visit was to deliver a speech to the United Nations Assembly attacking the exploitation of the 'third world' by US monopolists. Allende had always previously stated that would whose Chilean holdings were nationalized.

Comment by ALEX LAST SATURDAY the Comn Campaign staged a rally and London. Reporting this prote Workers Press said: 'An ant monstration organized on Sati members, including Douglas J taken over by the National Fr British Movement. 'The protest attracted over 400 interrupted the speeches at the C chants of "National Front" and "F three-column photograph of the ma banners on the march. They said, in 'Say No Common Market. • 'Keep Britain out of Com- mon Market-National Front.'

'No surrender to Europe No to Afro-Asian Invasion— Bloody Traitors, You've Be- trayed Your Children.' Yesterday's 'Morning Star', , the newspaper of the British Com- munist Party, covered the same event. But you'd never know it!

On page 3 the 'Star' carried a three-column photograph. It showed Big Ben and the front of the march with the banner: 'Say No Common Market'. The next two slogans had been neatly trim- med out of existence. Nationalist The one-paragraph caption to the picture said: 'Over Westmin- ster Bridge and past Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament go Common Market Safeguards Campaign members in a torch light march on their way to an anti-Market rally in Central Hall ad at the weekend. And that was the end of the report. Not a mention of the presence of the National Front and the Jordanites. No reference to the fact that this rally turned into a jamboree for every nationalistic, anti-communist group in Britain.

Why does the 'Star' omit to mention these facts? Is it simply a case of 'bad reporting'? Every CP member must ask this ques- tion. The answer is NO. The omis- sion is deliberate. It is conscious.

It goes to the heart of the CP's to the treacherous opposition Common Market. The CP's grounds for opposing the Market are intensely nationalistic. That is why the Party was able to join an anti-market rally on October 24, 1971, on which the National Front was also represented.

THE TORY Press has swung with a vengeance behind the legal attack on the closed shop. Self-styled liberals at "The Guardian' and 'The Sunday Times' joined forces with the witch-hunters of the 'Daily Express' and 'Daily Telegraph' stables in shrill screams of anger and frustration at the Chrysler workers' decisive rejection of this campaign in Coventry. Joseph Langston, the 59-year- whose old Chrysler welder industrial application to an tribunal started the attack, has

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e Common Market Safeguards illy and torchlight march in s protest against EEC entry, An anti-Common Market de- on Saturday by Labour Party uglas Jay, was almost entirely onal Front and Colin Jordan's ver 400 extreme right wingers who at the Central Hall, London, with " and "Enoch".' We also carried a f the march showing the first three y said, in this order: There was no CP contingent on Saturday's march-but their newspaper sets out to falsify the composition of the protest. The Stalinists tell these atrocious lies in their paper because they •adhere to the theory of 'Popular Fronts'. The Party links up with any anti-Market brigade because it regards these movements as 'progressive' It was similar reactionary alli- ances in the 1930s which opened door for the rise the of the fascist regime under Franco in Spain and General Petain in France. Trotsky was completely cor- rect when he denounced the Popular Front as a joint attempt by. Stalinism, social-democracy and capitalism to stifle the work- ing class in the name of 'broad unity' in the fight against fascism.

Certainly these were the pre- cise political ingredients involved Saturday's last dangerous and amalgam the subsequent coverage in the "Star'. But the Stalinists' newspaper goes even further.

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR INDUS

become the apple of every Tory leader-writer's eye. 'Sunday Express, At the Beaverbrook-fed stomachs which had remained unaffected by the genocidal US bombing campaign suddenly in Vietnam all week turned last Friday when Lang- ston lost his hat. For them this picture of the was 'the ugliest week'. Both "The Sunday Times' and the 'Sunday Telegraph' explicitly linked the demonstration at Chrysler's with Vietnam. 'The Sunday Times'-in a piece of obscene logic-chopping-

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tional A front-page editorial indulges in the crudest nationalistic lan- guage in commenting on : Day One of Market entry: 'If flags are flown today, it should be at half-mast, to sym- bolize Heath's betrayal Britain's sovereignty by dragging its protesting people into Common Market.' These are sentiments worthy of Enoch Powell himself. 'Sovereignty' sanctimonious Compare rubbish about 'sovereignty' and the 'people' (not a mention of the working class with what Workers Press said in a 2,000- word declaration by the editorial board: 'Britain's entry into the Com- Market today marks a mon watershed in the history of British capitalism. It is a des- perate act by a ruling class in the grip of the worst economic crisis it has ever faced.

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equated the demonstration with the bombing. 'If we condemn the excessive use of power represented by the American bombing campaign we must condemn the physicai intimidation shown by Chrysler workers', an editorial declared.

It was the "Telegraph' how- ever, which let the cat out of the bag. Saturday a 'Daily Tele- On graph' editorial voiced the fear that was obviously felt through- out Fleet Street: that the Chrys- ler workers might win. When the 'Sunday Telegraph' Workers Press, Tue pro- ed that riy balf is about natl.. unhappy Market membership. A substan- tial minority of 22 per cent of per cent of the ORC sen- the 38 g in- sample who professed to be un- and happy about Market entry be- lieved the British people should bue of show "total resistance, while awn. 40 per cent wanted entry terms intry re-negotiated. optimistic about entry be Most Conseratives culen alid sugias particularly Conservatives e at All, some sections of youth, says the survey. positively funeral note épeal was struck by villagers of Hullbridge, into it Essex, who marched down.

heads bowed street Hock ambands "They are joining hands with the reactionary monopolies and cartels of Europe to destroy all the democratic rights of the European masses. '1973 will be a year of intense class battles because the working class will fight any attempt to drive smash its independence, down wages and reduce it to a state of poverty and oppression.'

Not only does the 'Star' rely nationalism wretched and on alliances to put its Market case, it also tells its readers the most blatant lies. Yesterday's editorial "The "Morning Star" went on: is the only national daily paper to carry on the fight [against entry. 'This is because the "Morning Star's" principled fight for the sovereignty of the British people and parliament, and for their fundamental interests against the operations of the multi-national and monopoly firms, is not ended because Heath has joined the Market.' This is a barefaced lie. Workers called for condemnation of Fri- day's demonstration by Labour leaders who are 'so busy critici- zing America', it did so because of this fear. By their stand against the In- dustrial Relations Act, the paper said, the engineers' union leaders were making 'ugly outbursts all the more likely to occur. In other words, they were provid- ing a dangerous rallying-point for workers' to the resistance on their basic Tory onslaught rights. What is really worrying the Tory Press about the Chrysler workers' determined opposition to Langston is that resistance is rapidly turning into attack.

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Westminster Bridge and and the rouses Comr Yesterday's 'Morning Star' (above) and Workers Press (left). Notice how the National Front banner is excluded from the Stalinists' picture. Press has been consistently opposed to the concept of the capitalist EEC. And the 'Star' knows it. So does the labour and trade union movement which is why the 'Star's' lies only serve to expose Stalinism to the masses.

Only political charlatans or counter-revolutionaries tell lies to the working class. Furthermore there is not an ounce of principle in the 'Star's' opposition to entry. If there was any principle, how could CP members' have been involved in a march with the National Front in 1971? And how could their paper deliberately falsify a meet- reactionary extremely ing groups against the Market?

Letter The CP is facing a considerable internal crisis over its 'stand' on the Market. Yesterday's paper carries a letter on page 2 which explains why. 'What exactly is meant by "sovereignty" which is said, by John Gollan in "The Times" and the "Morning Star" [December 19 and 20], to be violated by membership of the EEC? 'Supposing there were Popular Front governments in Italy and France, and a Social Democratic government in West Germany in favour of close ties with the German Democratic Republic and that the European Parliament , socialist policies were pursuing in conflict with the interests of British capitalism. 'One can imagine who would be proclaiming the inviolability of our sovereignty then. But would we wish to join them? defending "national 'But is sovereignty" really an issue for the left at present? It surely is in some circumstances [if a fascist invasion imminent, were back- instance]; but couldn't it fire in the present context?'

The letter is carefully timed.

been As we have warning for some time, the British Communist Party is currently in the throes of a great turmoil deciding when and how to change its Market French CP chief Georges Marchais That was the reason visited Britain in November.

The West European Com- munist Parties already support the Market and if Marchais and his socialist coalition are elected in March it will be only a matter of months before the British CP stands on its head and supports the Market as well. In the meantime workers are still being subjected to the 'Star's' lies and distortions this on momentous issue.

Right: Britaln and Europe-maps showing the Development Areas of Common Market countries. (Mape from 'Commerce Internatlonal') PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday Janual

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The Tories claimed a grand coup at the last Common Market summit when they got member- states to consider a policy for helping the depressed areas of Britain and Europe. Heath said the decision heralded a new era for regions like Scotland and the north. In fact the opposite is the case. The Paris declaration on the regions were merely a verbal commitment to the principle of an integrated policy for All observers are Europe. agreed that as the British eco- nomy is forced into the Con- tinental mould, the so-called development areas will suffer and more jobs will be lost in country's unemployment the blackspots. The most likely outcome is like Lancashire, that areas and Yorkshire, Humberside parts of the south-west will lose their limited development area status and be forced to compete on equal terms with the industrial power-houses of central west Europe. The decrepit state of British capitalism is startlingly re- vealed in any map showing the extent of areas which receive special grants and privileges.

The black shading, which regions, stands for depressed now spreads over 68 per cent of the land area. Only the rump of the country below a line from the Severn to the Wash remains unshadowed by unemployment. of Scotland, The whole 1933-1934. £1.43 1934-1935 £1.43 1935-1936 £1.25 1937-1938 £1.25 1938-1939 £1.25 1939-1940 £1.05 These extremely vital years 1929 and 1940 Union-are now availal 28 Charlotte St

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Left: Commissioner Borchette, who, unti Right: Britain and Europe-maps showin Wales, the north, half of the south west and the whole of northern and southern Ireland qualify for varying degrees of • aid. Northern Ireland, at one extreme of the scale, gets massive financial support to stave off the complete collapse of her beleaguered economy.

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who, untii recently, was the Director General of ps showing the Development Areas of Commor against the heavy subsidies en- joyed further north and the lure of the south-east. Europe has no such com- prehensive policy. There is a Director-General for Regional Policy, but he has been remarkably slow in proposing any real plans for the regions.

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Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs 9 am.-6 p.m. Fri 9 a.m.-7.30 p.m. Sat 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Development Areas Denmark Rep.of Ireland Dublin® Netherlands UK London• Belgium- Luxembours Paris• France Special Development Areas Devalopment Areas Intermediato Aroas Northern trodand ionaral of Reglonal Policy of the EEC, responsi 1 Common Market countries. (Mape from "Comm tives in existing heavily-indus- trialized regions. Regionally Europe is divided into two. There is the central area, with its fulcrum on the famous golden triangle which straddles across the Belgian, French and German borders and periferal development zones. These include west, and particularly south-west France, southern Italy, Corsica and Sardinia, and the eastern border of West Germany, which, with the division of Germany, has been deprived of its natural economic hinter- land. For the present, govern- ments are allowed to offer high incentives in these areas.

The proposal is to Europeanize the assistance under the policy mooted at Paris. In addition to specifically regional grants these areas receive substantial support from the guaranteed price system under the Common Agricultural Policy. Aid to the central areas is carefully controlled. Grants cannot be higher than 20 per cent of any new investment Market countries, and the Britain included, are pledged to reduce this ceiling in future years with the first review planned almost immediately.

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, responsible for the development areas.

om "Commerce International') 20-per-cent ceiling is reduced, they will be forced to com- pete directly with the golden triangle and south-east Eng- land. This can only revive the exodus of investment from these areas southwards to the Midlands _and beyond into Europe. For the working class it will mean higher and higher unemployment. It is also suggested that the whole of Scotland should not be included since there are industries like tourism and rural crafts which have growth potential and don't need a high level of assistance. The Eurocrats are also against any blanket support of certain industries. Some voiced their strong disapproval of the recent Industries Act, which was designed to shore up ship- building. Opposition to grants and assistance is very much part of the Common Market ethic. The emphasis from the start regional policy a was on which stimulated 'orderly com- petition' within industry, hence the emphasis on 'negative' in- centives. Competition is some- what of a misnomer in con- temporary Market conditions.

rule in Monopoly is the Europe and the giant com- bines do not compete in terms of price. aim of 'orderly com- The petition' would therefore be better described as orderly relationships among the mono- polies. The really depressed areas will be seen and used as sources of cheap labour and this includes Britain's Celtic fringe. Certainly 'model projects may be started in this area, but for their real investment in depressed areas, the Euro- pean capitalist class is looking even further afield, across the borders to Spain, Greece and Turkey, countries which possess the best asset of all— cheap labour plus regimes which outlaw all basic rights.

WHO MADE A PRESIDENT

Jack Gale's fourth article in the series on Harry S. Truman investigates the 'Pendergast machine'—the political machinery in the Democratic Jack Gale's fourth article in the Party that brought Truman to p In all the paeons of praise poured on the late Presi- dent Harry S. Truman by the bourgeois Press, one would search in vain for a mention of a gentleman by the name of Tom Pendergast. Tom Pendergast was the younger brother of the notor- lous jim Pendergast, Alderman of Kansas City, Missouri, who in the 1890s built up a power- ful machine which combined political skulduggery with liquor and gambling dens.

Jim explained his political philosophy in simple terms: I've been called a boss. All there is to it is having friends, doing things for people and then later on they'll do things for you.' Younger brother Tom took over and expanded the busi- ness. He did this so successfully that by 1920 the Kansas City and Jackson County Demo- cratic Party was virtually con- trolled by two factions-Pen- and his rival Joe dergast Shannon. Each boss had his strong- arm men. Pendergast's were known as 'The Goats' and Shannon's as 'The Rabbits' But they ran into some local difficulties in 1920. The Kan- sas City elections of the spring of that year were so blatantly dominated by thugs and 'repeat voters' that Republican Arthur M. Hyde won the gov- ernorship of Missouri on the basis of a pledge to end cor- ruption-in particular, in the Democrat - machine-controlled police department. Only one Democrat was elected to the County Court.

Pendergast decided that patronage from the Jackson County Court was essential to his machine. He needed a 'respectable' figure on there who would be friendly to him.

And in August 1922, he found just such a man. A local boy, from an established family, a Baptist, ex-army officer and— not least—a Mason. And to the Jackson on County Court went none other Harry than ... Judge S. Truman. In 1924 he was thrown off.

He had been originally elected as a result of a truce between the Pendergast and Shannon factions. the But Shannon group felt that it didn't receive enough patronage in return, so it didn't support him next time round. However, things were better organized in 1926 and Truman became Presiding Judge of the Jackson County Court. He rapidly became so important to the Pendergast machine that when Tom's son Mike died in 1929, he took over the leader- ship of the County organiza- tion. Thus, by using Truman, Tom Pendergast overcame the challenge that had threatened to destroy his power in Jack- son County. It was in this period that the Shannon faction was finally defeated and Tom Pendergast became the recognized leader of the Kansas City Democratic Party. In 1931 Harry Truman sought the governorship of Missouri but, though he had served Pendergast loyally__ le in the series on Harry S. Truman it nan to power. Truman taking the Presidential oath in A and, indeed, a section of the Pendergast machine formed a 'Truman for Governor Club'— the machine as a whole backed • another candidate, Judge Park of Platte County, who was duly elected. But Truman could still be useful. In 1929, the Pender- machine sought a ten- gast year plan for Kansas City and which in- Jackson County volved issuing bonds for an extensive public-works pro- gramme. Perhaps not surprisingly, the local citizens were not too enthusiastic about having such a costly venture in the hands of Pendergast and his pals.

It took two years of hard machine to get the work scheme through. And when this was finally achieved, one of the newspapers controlled by Pendergast — the 'Mis- souri Democrat' - carried a large picture of the men responsible. These were Kansas City Manager Henry F. McElroy (about whom more later), Pen- dergast's life-long associate Conrad Mann and... Harry S.

Truman. Shortly afterwards, when the United States Secretary of. Labour appointed one Martin Lewis Missouri as State Director of Federal Re- Employment, the Pendergast machine rapidly him got ousted and replaced him with Harry Truman. In 1934, as all the bour- geois papers faithfully re- ported, Truman became US senator for Missouri. But none of them told us how he got there. Yet this is a story that is intriguing in the most literal sense. Each state had two senators. The senior senator for Missouri was Bennett Clark of St Louis who had won the nomination in 1932 against Pendergast's opposition. uman investigates the 'Pendergast n oath in Aprll, 1945, not more than 5 yours after In the 1934 Democratic primary, ( Clark supported Jacob L. Milligan against Tru- man and two other candidates.

In the course of this campaign Clark alleged that municipal and state employees were being pressurized to support Truman and that in some areas they were required not only to work for Truman, but to contribute financially to his campaign. The police department in particular, Clark claimed, was mobilized behind Truman. Secretary of the Missouri Service Commission Public Robert Holloway was given leave of absence te run the Truman campaign. surprisingly Truman Not won. This not only gave Pen• dergast one friend as Missouri senator but convinced Clark that he would need Pender- gast's support for his own nomination and re-election due in 1938. So Clark fell into line with Truman in an action which excited little attention at the time and was certainly missed by every bourgeois newspaper in the world-wide eulogies that we all endured last week.

And that was the nomina- tion of a certain Matthew S.

Murray for the post of Direc- tor of Federal Public Works in Missouri. Murray was a Pendergast nominee. And the appointment carried with it control of the Works Progress New Deal Administration in the state.

No one could be placed in such a post in any state with- out being nominated by the state's two senators. The WPA poured enormous sums of money into the re- construction of Kansas City under the New Deal policies.

New buildings erected in- Workers Press, Tues ergast machine'-the political machi atter Pendergast's release from jail on col cluded a city hall, a court house, a main police station and a municipal auditorium.

Extremely juicy contracts firm called the went to a Ready Mixed Concrete Com- pany... owned by Tom Pen- dergast. Pendergast certainly seemed to share Truman's joy in his election to the United States Senate. And the morning after that success, newspapers all Missouri proclaimed: over •Pendergast: the undisputed boss from one end of the state to the other' Whatever Truman's part in this, it cannot be disputed that when . one Kansas City man sought support from Truman, the new senator replied: 'If you will send us endorsements from the Kansas City Demo- cratic Organization, I shall be glad to do what I can for you.'

A photostat copy of this letter from Truman to L. I.

Slayton is contained in the Barrett papers of 1935. A year after he became Truman supported senator Pendergast's nominee for the of Missouri, governorship Lloyd C. Stark. Stark, however, turned on evidence of Pendergast when wholesale vote frauds became evident in late 1936. Federal District-Attorney Milligan (brother of the man Truman had defeated in the 1934 Primary) prosecuted a number of Kansas City Democratic Party workers and went to Washington to get the State Department to investigate Pendergast. It is on record that Truman sought to replace Milligan when he came up for re- appointment in 1938. But he didn't want to be associated with corruption in the Demo- cratic Party machine. Five Federal investigating agencies were sent to Kansas in- City. They didn't only dis- ress, Tuesday January 2, 1973 PAGE 5 1 machinery in the Democratic Jail on corruption charges cover vote frauds. They found out that Pendergast had: 1) received $50,000 on an insurance deal and had paid no income tax on it. 2) evaded income tax between 1927-1937 on an undeclared sum of over $im. 3) falsified the books of eight different companies in which he held an interest. Pendergast was indicted and served 15 months in jail. But that was only the tip of the iceberg. A whole number of officials other Kansas City ended up in prison—including the police the director of department Otto Higgins. City manager Henry F McElroy — the one who had featured proudly in newspaper photographs alongside Truman (see above) resigned and died before investigations into the city's fiscal policies were con- cluded. He may have been worried to death. Because what turned up was: 1) A deficit of almost $20m.

2) Enormous sums of money involved in unlawfully diverted bonds - including almost $Ilm worth from the water works department alone.

3) Hundreds of thousands of dollars gone astray in tax abatements. 4) Nearly 3,000 people on the city's pay roll who didn't do thing except draw their cheque every month. Not even the Pendergast machine could survive that lot. It was smashed. Pender- gast himself came out prison in 1940 and died in January 1945. Three months later his pro- tegé — Harry S. Truman — assumed the presidency of the United States of America.

THE FINE TUBES FIGHT

PAQE 6 Workers Prose, Tuaeday January 2, 1973

PART TWO OF AN INVESTIGATION BY PHILIP WADE

After the Fine Tubes strike had been going 22 weeks, Jack Jones, gen- eral secretary of the T&GWU, the majority union at the Plymouth factory, paid a surprise visit to the factory-gate pickets. Jones, however, brought no using his union's promise strength to win the strike. In- talked of 'trying to stead he get the American owners of Fine Tubes to recognize the gravity of the position.'

He made a plea to American firms recognize 'British to standards of justice, fair play and reasonable negotiations'. speaking shortly after the introduction of the Industrial Relations Bill into House of Commons by the Robert 'Securicor' Carr. The attitude being taken by day January 2, 1973

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some American companies to trade unionism left him feeling 'rather apprehensive'. But the strikers wanted a good deal more than the know- ledge of Jones' feelings about Leadership in the matter. action was what they wanted.

After eleven months about 75 of the original group who struck work the previous June were still fighting on. It was at this stage that the T&GWU executive hit the strikers hard by calling on Vic Feather to set up.. a court of inquiry.

This capitulation to the puny Fine Tubes management by the leadership of Britain's largest and most powerful union opened the door for another virulent attack on the.

strikers by the 'Western Even- ing Herald'. On June 16 1971, a year and one day, after the walk-out at Fine Tubes, they wrote: 'Now... it would be better by for the strikers to give up their senseless picketing and for the unions to make a start on en- couraging these men to be- come, once again, usetul mem- bers of Plymouth's workforce.'

Not surprisingly Tom Bar- clay welcomed the T&GWU's suggestion, even feeling free to speak to the Press for the first time since the strike began.

He said: 'We will maintain our position at Fine Tubes to be among the leaders in the community for pay and condi- tions. We need no pressures to do this, nor will we react under pressure ... our em- ployees can be what they like -union or non-union. Mem- bership is a matter for the individual. It was, of course, the classic expression of anti-unionism.

You could join as an individual if you liked. But any attempt organize in order to re- to present the factory was not on.

Then on July 30 1971 hun- dreds of police from all over the region converged on Fine Tubes to deal with a mass picket of 200 trade unionists who had come from factories all over the area. That day the police moved in viciously, striking out at who they could, arresting nine in the process. Television film of the event showed beyond all doubt the brutality of the provoked the police who violent situation they wanted.

Said Ron Nethercott, the T&GWU's regional organizer about the police intimidation: 'This is the sort of thing we saw in Fascist Germany before the war. I have never seen scenes like this before in all my life. The police have be- haved disgracefully and many of our lads have been pushed into the ground for doing no- thing' These incidents-later to be whitewashed by the police who found themselves not guilty of . the any provocations-pushed union leaders into the required position. The court of inquiry announced and Nether- was cott was over the hill with joy.

'On behalf of Jack Jones and the union I am very pleased that this has come about. We are very happy about the Mini- ster's decision. We think it is necessary and hope it will lead to an end to this long strike and relations can get back to normal, he said enthusiasti- cally. Such illusions were common place among the trade union bureaucracy. The inquiry was way of easing the seen as a pressure, under the benevolent eye of the Tory minister.

And what about the three wise men who made up the committee? Archibald Camp-

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bell, who chaired the inquiry, Professor of Economics at was Dundee University. He was veteran of a number of inquiries, including the Rochdale committee on shipping. John Rhodes, a retired labour-relations director at ICI, was another inquiry mem- ber. He had also sat on the employers' panel of the old Industrial Court. The third man was Syd Robinson, president of the Na- tional Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives. When the report came out in late November last year, it was hardly surprising there- fore the conclusions that reached favoured only the company. The three men called for an end to picketing, a lifting of the black and a re- quest for the company to re- employ the strikers... 'if they have vacancies'. Did the union leaders reject such rubbish? Far from it. Said Nethercott: The T&GWU and welcomed the the AUEW statement that the dispute should now be settled quickly and further accepted that meaningful negotiations should take place between the parties.'

The union leaders swallowed whole the inquiry's scandalous formula and called off the offi- cial black on Fine Tubes pro- ducts. Early in January 1972 the strike committee called off the picketing and their black- ing campaign under pressure from union leaders. Two meetings took place in February between national union officials and Tom Bar- clay, the first in two years.

Barclay refused reinstatement and by April strike leaders were seeking the reimposition of the black nationally. And on June 27 this year, strike leaders found themselves locked in a three-and-a-half hour battle at Transport House trying to get the black reim- posed. All they gained, how- ever, was a formula written with the Industrial Relations Act in mind. This became clearer in July, by which time the pickets had been restored. A meeting of the strike committee in the T&GWU's Plymouth head- quarters heard a letter from Jack Jones which called for a "resumption of full dispute activity' whatever that might have meant. Any reference to "blacking' was omitted. As for the AUEW, their policy had also softened in the 25 months the strike had been on. In their original circular 51/70 of September 16 1970 the fourth paragraph specifi- cally declared that- 'the work connected with this company should be considered "black" i An eight-paragraph circular issued in July last year referred to 'blacking' only in the con- text of it being suspended by a circular dated January 27 1972. But this new circular only called for 'all possible support' to the Fine Tubes strikers, leaving the position wide open to anyone's inter- pretation. Since their October confer- ence in Birmingham, attended by over 600 delegates from 17 use different unions, Fine Tubes strike committee have man- aged to reduce the number of firms on their blacking list.

Those taken off have-under pressure-agreed not to deal with Fine Tubes. their Now struggle has merged with the general insur- gence of the working • class against the Tory government.

The attacks on basic rights to organize and to strike have evoked a mass movement of the class. Workers Press, Tue The fight begun by Fine Tubes strikers in June 1970 has now become bound up with the fight of the entire trade union movement to de- fend their basic rights against Tory government's the on- slaught as seen by the reaction of the engineers, to the fine on their union. With their heroic and deter- mined struggle, the Fine Tubes men were among the first to feel the Tory hammer. Now it is for the rest of the trade union movement to come to their assistance. A defeat at Fine Tubes would be both a victory for anti-union employers and a Tory government which is set on a course of preparing a dic- tatorship to deal with the working class. It would be a blow struck against severe basic democratic rights. Yet victory is entirely pos- sible and absolutely necessary to safeguard the future of the trade unions as a whole. In that sense Fine Tubes becomes a battle cry which must now— as a matter of urgency and priority-be taken up through- Press, Tuaaday January 2, 1873 PAGE 7 Left: Members of the Fine Tubes strike committee in the front line, lobby Transport House in July last year to demand resumption of full official blacking of Fine Tubes products. Above: Jones, Captulated to the fine Tubes

T&GWU

leader the management and accepted the court of inquiry. out the entire movement. Unity with Fine Tubes strikes can be forged in stru- ggle against the common enemy-the Tory government.

All shop stewards commit- tees, branches and rank-and- members of the trade union movement must demand that the leaderships of the T&GWU and the AUEW take immediate action to restore completely the blacking on Fine backed sary. Above all the demand must now be made for the mobiliza- tion of the working class to force this Tory government to resign and return a Labour government pledged to social- ist policies, the repeal of the Industrial Relations Act and all Tory legislation and the nationalization under workers' control without compensation of the basic industries. Firms like Fine-Tubes will be on the agenda for expropriation.

PAGE 8 Workers Pross, Tuesday Januar In this final part of an analysis 'socialist theories' Jane Brown borative role of the Labour Par Ever since MacDonald's day, the Labour Party has promoted socialism as some form of moral ideal.

The morality of socialism must be counterposed to the 'selfishness' of both capitalists and trade unions alike. As MacDonald put it: 'Socialist propaganda • carried on as a class war suggests none of those ideals of moral citizenship with which social- ist literature abounds...It is appeal to individualism, an and results in getting men to accept socialist formulae with- becoming socialists... out Socialism must recognize the intellectual as well as the eco- nomic movement. And if it overemphasizes either side, let it be the former.' From the fact that socialism is 'moral' and 'intellectual, it flows naturally that ...if the copitalist were fully enlight- ened, he too would embrace socialism on account of the great blessings it would bring to him'! Such speculations can only paralyse the process of build- ing a socialist party, in Britain or anywhere else. They repre- ау лапша 2, 1973 nalysis of Ramsay MacDonald's Brown looks at the class colla- our Party. sent a deliberate attempt to soften the working class up, to make it less resistant to the attacks of the employing class.

In political terms, they opened the road for the National Gov- ernment of 1931. This govern- ment was used by the Tories first to cut workers' living standards, and then to almost destroy the parliamentary Labour Party. The recent revelations in Cecil King's Diaries prove that some leaders of the modern Labour Party are pre- paring to tread the same road to anti-working class coalition politics all over again. In the House of Commons, they help the Tories along with • their reactionary 'counter-inflation' plans, instead of mobilizing working class to fight. ine While in private they specu- late about the feasibility of a coalition government to 'weather the storm' of the eco- nomic crisis. for, as MacDonald wrote: 'Socialism is no class move- ment. Socialism is a movement of opinion, not an organiza- tion of status. It is not the rule of the working class; it is the organization of the com- munity... MacDonald produced all the writings discussed so far in the period before the Russian Revolution. After 1917, he was forced to acknowledge a changed situation-to find new justifications for the inertia of the Labour Party. The content of his writings becomes increasingly reaction- ary. At all costs the tide of Bolshevism must be stemmed, by the old plea that the time is not yet ripe. The working its leaders, are class, not dragging their feet along the road to socialism — 'what the community is prepared to do is the opportunity which the politician has'. MacDonald's hostility to the unions is trade by now scarcely disguised. Workers should not tolerate bad con- ditions, but at the same time ...in their struggle to secure their ends they are tempted to forget that they are all inter- dependent members of a social unity, and that consequently they only injure themselves by punishing those against whom they have a grievance to such an extent that they injure the society to which they belong ...The socialist, therefore, looks with some misgivings some recent develop- upon ments in the conflicts between capital and labour. They are contrary to his spirit; he be- immoral lieves they are both and uneconomic, and will lead to disaster'. The Industrial Society, in 1972, has scarcely been able to state the employers' point • a of view more effectively!

Labour's What would answer be, if such gloomy pre- dictions of economic disaster actually materialized? To this question, MacDonald and the Labour Party leadership never really applied themselves until disaster stared them in the face in 1931. After all, they believed in 'evolutionary socialism'. For years they had been explaining that nothing 'catastrophic, nothing 'short and sharp' could interrupt the chain of biological develop- ment. As MacDonald wrote confidently in 1907: 'Capital- ism evolves upwards towards organic harmony, not down- wards towards revolution' Or, as he expressed himself in a polemic against 'the posi- the revolutionary tion of movement' after 1917, this movement "begins by mis- understanding the nature of society, believing it to be a hard, resisting structure... the social organiza- Whereas tion, like the body, is in a constant state of change and readaptation, responsive to every movement of the human intelligence, sensitive to every change in the mass will'.

In such circumstances, to plan a socialist revolution was obviously 'an absurdity'. But in the unlikely event of 'bank- ruptcy ending the present order in disaster and disgrace' might occur. "Then also the duty of socialists will be clear ...The socialists alone can then save the state, and a deci- act of sive commanding will will be required to do it? And it was as saviour of the capi- talist state that MacDonald stepped in bravely, in 1931.

MacDonald's writings are outstanding for their intellec- tual poverty and their in- coherence. But it is important not to let these factors cloud our assessment of his role as a leader of the Labour Party from its foundations almost until World War II. His theo- retical weakness is not the result of lack of ability or edu- cation. It is mirrored in the 'Oxford-educated' Labour Party leaders of today. It amounts to a refusal to bring the politics of revolutionary socialism into the powerfully organized British working- class movement. In contrast to Lenin and Trotsky, MacDonald refused Prime Ministers Three Labour whose terms of office have shown how Labour 'steps in to save the state'. Clement Attlee. Above : Harold Wilson. Left: Ramsay MacDonald. to seriously study philosophy, economics, or the history of working-class movement the in this country and abroad. In he shows com- his writings, plete disdain for such studies.

'No wise man need plot and plan a revolution' — because the empiricists of the British Labour Party will never admit that the economic and political is on collapse of capitalism the agenda, until after it has actually happened! They sense that the founda- tions capitalism of are crumbling beneath their feet today: Like MacDonald, their reaction is to duck for cover: to 'save the state' by helping to impose anti-working-class Tory legislation. The role of the Socialist Labour League is to expose the true nature of the existing state as a weapon in the hands of the capitalist class, a weapon which the working class must seize and operate to destroy capitalism. Such an exposure cannot proceed without the full exposure and destruction of the reformist leadership in the Labour Party. This exposure, in turn, cannot be achieved simply by explaining the treacherous nature of reformism. The Socialist Labour League calls for the resignation of the Tories and the return of a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. For it is only by experiencing the bank- ruptcy of a Labour govern- ment in a period of acute economic crisis that the mass of the working class can be won away from reformism to revolutionary politics, and the building of a Marxist revolu- tionary party.

NOTEBOOK FACE JAIL

The Holy Spirit Association for World the Unification of Christianity tells us that "This Nation is in Great Danger' The way out is to follow the teachings of a gentlemn called Sun Myung Moon, who occasionally helps out a lesser creature called God. In fact, we are first intro- duced to Mr Moon as 'quietly comforting God, telling him not to worry. Mr Moon is very fond of Britain—capitalist Britain. He says: 'God blessed Britannia and the navy because they pro- tected other peoples' freedom.'

With the same lofty disregard for historical fact, he an- nounces: 'The British pursued the slave traders'! But now, unfortunately, Bri- tain has 'fallen from grace' There it seems, two are, reasons for this. One is that we don't export enough bibles to the Soviet Union. And the other is that we allow our university students to study 'a foreign sociology (that of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Freud and Pavlov). What they ought to be do- is reading the great ing sociology of this country. The stories of men divinely inspired -Bad en-Powell, General John Wesley, Lord Booth, Shaftesbury, William Wilber- force, Winston Churchill, John Bunyan, Grace Darling, Eliza- beth Fry, Florence Nightin- Thomas More, John gale, Sir Hampden etc. etc.'—instead of all those damned foreigners.

We 'train our youngsters in Marxism' and if we don't get down to some hard praying, bible-exporting and study of the deep ideas of Baden- Powell 'the atheists will build a Marxist Britain' There's just one other thing you have to do to stop Britain going communist under the in- fluence of the university sys- tem-and that is, send your money to the Holy Spirit Asso- ciation, of course. A row is brewing among local government workers at Lytham St Annes, near Blackpool. At a recent council meeting a 10-per-cent pay rise was awarded to the Town Clerk, the Borough Engineer and Surveyor, and the Treasurer.

The extra cash - backdated to July I-will be paid until the end of March, 1974, for the 'additional work and res- involved in pre- ponsibility' paring for "local government reorganization. Rises of 7.5 per cent have been awarded to the and other top chief clerk officials for the same reason.

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186a Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UG. Hundreds of tenants in Newark, New Jersey, are fighting bitterly to de- fend their two-year rent strike over brutal hous- ing conditions. Tenants' leaders facing im- prisonment have called on the organized labour movement in to come to their the area assistance. Union leaders have been asked to organize a General Strike to prevent the authori- ties smashing down the ten- ants and their leadership.

Newark Housing Authority tenants have set up picket lines around blocks of flats in support of the rent strikers.

Tenants at one housing pro- ject, threatened with now eviction, invaded the rent office to take possession of the housing authority's records.

At one stage housing offi- cials threatened to call the riot police on the tenants. One of the leaders faced with jail, Toby Henry, presi- dent of the local and most mi- litant tenants' association, has now demanded action from the Newark labour movement. He says Democrats and Re- publicans alike have failed to correct the thousands of re- corded abuses in the Newark Public Housing System'. Henry added: "All Newark workers subjected to are attacks beyond human foler- Supporters of the right- wing Democrat George Wallace, who was shot down during the recent US election campaign, are joining the Nixon administration. The President has just an- nounced that Claude Brinegar will head the US Department of Transportation. Brinegar is an executive of the Union Oil Company of Los Angeles. He is also a member of the right-wing Lincoln Club, the businessmen who filled Workers Press, Tues Newark children drink waten from project, one of the estates involved in t ance: mass unemployment— particularly among the youth— decaying schools, drastic cut- backs in social services, police brutality, soaring prices and wage cutting, attacks on the jailing of unions and the teachers. 'These attacks are part and parcel of the assault by Nixon and big business on the working class of New Jersey and the rest of the country, aimed at busting the unions George Wallace in hospital atter the attempt on his llte prior to the election. Nixon's hidden election coffers.

He is also a director of the International Speedway Cor- poration in Florida. This or- ganization is affiliated to the National Association of Stock Car Drivers which was a staunch supporter of Wallace, financing his campaign plane during the primaries. Brinegar's appointment is a sure sign that Nixon is putting his administration on a war footing to deal with the Ameri- can working class in the com- ing period. 1033, Tuesday January 2, 1973 PAGE 9/

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rom a broken pipe on the Stella Wright olved in the rent strike.

with the Pay Board and new anti-union laws.' Henry called on the team- sters, carworkers, and all trade unionists to 'mobilize their members in a General Strike' in defence of the tenants and their leaders. The New Jersey labour movement was also urged to convene a National Congress of Labour to fight for the construction of a Labour Party in America. The Federal government is withholding social security York's funds from New poverty-stricken families. This charge is made in a study by the New York Rand Institute commissioned by the city's Human Resources Administra- tion (HRA). The study said the 1970 census indicated there were 291,000 welfare cases in the city in 1969, for which the city paid out about $500m (£200m). However, the study cited the city's own social ser- vices department record of 470,000 welfare cases in 1969 and a municipal outlay of more than $833m (£345m). The Rand study's author, Dr C. Peter Rydell, refused to attribute the undercount to statistical error, but said wel fare families were probably reluctant to identify them selves as such to census-takers.

Rydell's statement is the classic theory of the work- shy. This is aimed at absolving the state from any respon- sibility . for the by poor blaming them for lack of initiative' in not registering.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Tuesday January 2, 1973 9.55 Captain 10.05 pugwash. Desert crusader. 10.25 Unsolved 10.50 Huckleberry mysteries. hound. 11.00 Film: 'Down to the Sea in Ships'. Richard Widmark, Dean Stock- Lionel Barrymore, 1.00 Pebble well. 12.55 News. 1.30 Andy Pandy. Mill at one. 1.45-2.00 Canvas. 2.05 The young idea. 2.30 Going for a song.

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Patriots' witch-hunt left teachers Hopeless picture painted by shipbuilding bosses Workers Press, Tuesda on five to 16- said: "There firm evidence to back up All NUT members must THE ROYAL Society of 'extremists' Society, is

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ICvOll premier patriotic society', matter if any teacher which they may unwittingly tionariès r the do not lo pacale tem, as jarvis attempted to his use pro- has aleced that there I. of existing is doing. approve an 'alarming number' of thousand left- TENOR DOS LOn lO lIlo• Several yoLCule duce indoctrina- NUT reply to this Charles Sheill, wing communists, activists Tune Tine tion in the National Union of Tea- witch-hunt not only president Catholic and other ottha inadequate but dangerous.

Teachers' Federation, chers organizing 'sub- Cass r00ll. holding teaching posts in alc 'If he was an NUT mem- English schools. last week claimed a hith vers ve aa es annet gi Deputy general secrelarj the destruction Fred Jarvis said that the ber he would be in breach ot column in the church and The Society Society of St. George of the union's professional our is to com- society. W dt mission Vice-Admiral Sir lan 'independent high v code of conduct and could querying the • userulness Della resvonsiore study into the influence of Hogg, Comptroller of the be proceeded against? separate 'unless it could produce BRITISH SHIPBUILDERS have warned that unless European interests in the industry are merged. they will not be able to 'thwart Japan's expansionist ambitions'. Prospects for shipbuilding in Britain 'are clouded', despite recent 'development work', says the Ship- bulders' and Repairers' National Association. Their president, T. A. Greenwell, in an end-of-the-year statement, paints an almost hopeless picture as far as the prospects for the British industry are concerned.

They were not afraid of fair competition.

We are not, however competing on equal cil lu Walla dow cice l we udı we cannot at the end of the day hope match those yards in other countries which are supported by their governments.

Greenwell claimed, in essence, that the failture industry flowed from lack of any real or tae incentive to buy British.

The answer, he added, effect, he making modern and more wide grants-if they had any- was of a Commor efficient. the formulation ben lor government subsiales areewel soel out ds vısior and grants to enable British There he of the trade war. were case: ex- European Marıume policy .

'All Europe shares But what he carefully western place orders where even if all ship lallicl. the the omitted mention about wa: comesuc varas varo abour costs were cur out.

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concer alli But Greenwell also admitted Britain would still have diffi- bitions of Japan to dominate The remalne DIlESI in so many words that coming down foreign world and shipbuilders must launch culty in to the conditions of capacity and wages of continua growth COnIDCLILOIS. •aruc dr leve onces onerte Japanese, produced ships foreign competitors. in that country, where there is shinvard workers it thev are to simply from gov- After demanding the Tories active the stand any chance of competing not let alone the industry government against anyone ernment subsrdies. but main y make dn cally annun elcil industry was on their plans for industry- becnse uner ana a protectea nome market.

_abalcor SWAN HUNTER ship- merce', in outlook thinning. of the year unless new yard workers round-up for the Tyne, figures Sunece contada WOl. said the 'Jurnal'. Tyne face said Swan Hunter only 'casting a shadow" over sackings announced the 'upsurge' elsewhere. Union leaders are new orders to

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1970. He has now resigned from Address.. Alfred Gelder Street the board and is in New Zealand (near Drypool Bridge) 'building up property interests' The group's profits were 40 8 p.m. 01-622 7029 per cent ycal. W d announced yesterday. 8, Tuesday January 2, 1973 PAGE 11 A TRADE union leader, a judge and a police chief are among those who receive high state awards in the New Year's honours list. The Tories have conferred knighthood on Dai Davies, secretary of the general Iron and Steel Trades Con- the federation, biggest in the nationalized union steel industry. This award comes on the eve of the massive attack on job by the British Steel Corporation.

has already seen Davies the loss of some 31,000 steel jobs since nationalization in 1967.

While workers are toasting the success of Sir Dai, they might also spare some cheer for these honoured servants of other the state: • Robert Mark, the new head of the Metropolitan Police, has been given a knighthood.

But to maintain 'balance' be- the Home Office- tween appointed Mark and the hard- line brigade of career officers, a special honour has also been giyen to the deputy Com- missioner at the Yard James ('Big Jim') Starritt. He is made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. • Judge Melford Stevenson is a member of the Privy made Council. He was the judge who gave jail terms to Cambridge students following the anti- Greek colonels demonstration at the Garden House Hotel.

He then went on to sentence Take Prescott to 15 years on a bombing conspiracy charge. Along with Lord Chief Tustice Widgery he also ordered 'The Sunday Times' not to publish its 14,000-word article on Dis- tillers and thalidomide. • Sir William Armstrong, head of the Civil Service, also be- comes a Privy Councillor. This means that Heath is establish- ing in the Privy Council a 'war cabinet' made up of ministers, judges and senior civil ser- vants. Under Lord Rothschild's Whitehall reorganization Arm- is become strong to a "supremo' directly responsible to Heath's Cabinet Office.

• Mr William Batty, the head of the Ford Motor Company, receives a knighthood. His home was mysteriously bombed during the 1971 wages fight and he is currently facing another tough pay battle.

• Hugh Cudlipp, the head of the International Publishing Corporation, the giant 'Daily Mirror' becomes Sir group, Hugh. He started as a 14-year- olds copy boy Welsh on a newspaper. His early life is coloured with left-wing ideas, but in recent years he has been identified with more Roy Jenkins and the right- wing of the Labour Party.

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lay January 2, 1973 DOCKERS at Thames Steve-

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doring Ltd, in London's Royal and Thursday, the lines' representa- ity work, docks, yesterday of group tive would hold hope fusal to handle it could quickly out to black South lead to dockers' pay being with- voted trade will be tained in London, whatever ton- drawn. American meat ships in pro- nage increases are proposed.

Yesterday's meeting told the proposed test against -Holver Bros of assurances to the unions that Two of the lines 850 dock- and closed, its Elma. if the nrm transfer of the trade to South-

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Slalt line- -have already definitely de- pro wolore reloctero one cided to pull out of London.

employers under the terms of the ampton. Jones-Aldington report. of the Bill stewards cirmmi Knight, They decided to work nor- What they not told

WOLC

mally until redundancy notices Thames, said yesterday it was his Jones-Aldington that provides were actually received from the committee's opinion that the for work-sharing scheme- -with a by all the dock- loss of earnings company intended to close.

Later this week, union officials erd east A kev factor in turning ves. reallocation to firms with insuffi- terday's meeting against the will meet reoresennaves cient work. Port London Authority to stewards' recommendation of proposals for pushing work out Bernie Steer, National Amal- by Diackme similar meeting ten days ago- gamated une the Royals. was the of any policy steward at Thames, reported that to the meeting the in the

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These proposals will be sub- against on amoton stewards had agreed wine the four shipping lines the jobs. back any action taken in Friday Royals only of the Lon- IColy From the floor of the meet- has been promised by January doners could guarantee the trade questioned dif- the 12. ine dockers would not be transferred to an- between terence енестте other port. But with union black and a strike. South Ameri- meeting can meat constitutes the major- If there was any danger that officials and shop stewards last CIVIL SERVANTS are planning selective short, strikes against the Tory government's state pay laws which have held up negotiations over their annual review. The Civil and Public Ser- which is vices Association, recommending the stoppages

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£3.80 a second Secretary Employment week in the later this month or in early Maurice Macmillan has signed of a two-stage agreement of signed before the pay-control law February, is also calling joint order stopping rises pay announced on November week rol was branch meetings with the Leaders Equity- - he ventr. Society of Civil Servants dur- union-will meet today to decide The actors' minimum rate was from £25 to take the due ing working hours on January week from yesterday. order. 10. Staff supervisors in the South Governmen

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were Eastern Gas Board joined manual anxious to make clear yesterday

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that do not to Bill Kendall, general in their they workers yeoLcrudy provocative step ecretary annoyeu

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time ban ana work-to-rule, which economic committee's been since the acorS to give BaCK Thursday against the pay-control paid since last November. for on during And there were

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seclor muons its members' earnings hardly rose the Tory laws. against the law in many of all. Britain's hospitals. the actors' In 1971 median annual June order Down- Kotowing ursday tor friday pub rise, which is ICCo ing the ished Thursday royalties and other extras, were on standards of members have been €835 for all The figure for parliament, after being laid belore savagely reduced in the as compared follows one

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week still be reduced electrical contracting firms paying Comparable figure. dull 1973, due yesterday. munder SalO wage increase bitter attack on the men's action is due Done our slaras His members unofficial, but at a delegate con- for rises of between needed a 20 rIse, Coul said. He called on the Society Cationervants ocal Government Government officers National Union

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ALL MAIN engineering factories considering a widening of in- "to hit the govern- in Leeds ana district were crostu ment where it hurts'. workers responded vesterday as to the call of the AUEW district Action could the prepa- committee for a one-day strike.

worker, told assembly the ine rallon 101 Workers Press: Value Tax and the pay- The was protest Added ment of Social Security benefits. against the £55,000 fines imposed "There's general feeling that a National day for a strike. on Lne SCS placed The full-page Court. Industrial Relations It made united action impossible.

"The Times engineers were criti- duveru semenl some I moved a resolution in my DUlliC yesterday protesting cal of the choice of New Year's

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branch criticizing the government are breaking the pay Day as the strike date. day this have with their they commutte and calling on the national Con- Tom Thornton, a 24-year-old own employees. one whole. of blind tion The 1940 Trotsky The struggle In gave inde- question of state bord- unbridled proclaim Interview to the St an provide few will as interests must 'Post-Dispatch.' Louis placed the rule nies, establish friendly discussed In he economic relations with plan, of con- adminisira War World and the live divisions inside and, step step, scious European country. prospect of the slightest ror curope unification. He pointed violence, means Borders nside the unification is a question example out that only the work- of life and death. The them introduce ing class could lead the termined in relation accomplishment this WOuh language and national united struggle belongs federation. culture by free decision soclalist Europe. not to the present populations governments, but the The

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liberated The capitalist system trom Its own ruling volved. led by a blind alley. is in will loin the Euro- WIll oh the seem Uto- Without an entire recolt Europe must become nean pian 1o realistic' struction of the econo- will help reach To politicians? cannt. mic system Euro Socialist United world States higher level. their time, not 10 the scale is Dals, and •Can giving up of human the cemetery of The economy of the our Cita en was Utopian. unified Europe will fung- flesh doomed. the old culture. a port other than London or Southampton • would the get trade, Southampton would work the ships, he said. Steer went on to call for sup- port for the stewards' recom- mendation, while warning the meeting of the serious implica- tions of the vote they were about to take. 'It's your decision', he stressed. Although transport drivers' leaders were present as observers at the hour-long meeting, по appeal was made to them for support for any action the dock- ers might take. Neither was there any refer- ence to the drivers' approach to docks stewards offering joint action. • Officials of both docks unions stayed away from yesterday's meeting. The Transport and Gen- eral Workers' Union man was not there because all T&GWU officials were on holiday on Janu- ary 1, dockers were told. And the NAS&D man did not attend out of courtesy to his T&GWU opposite number. ference next Monday union leaders are expected to come under strong pressure to spread it, strengthen it and make it official. Yesterday also saw the first of a series of special meetings— due to end on January 15—at which hospital members of the Union National Public Employees will be asked to vote on nine alternatives. These range from withdrawal of facilities to other hospital staff, to all-out strike against the stop- ping of negotiations on their f4-a-week claim. • The Tory Cabinet meets early this week to complete its tactical planning for Phase Two of the pay-control law. At its meeting with the TUC on Thursday the government is expected to press co-operation for union with a corporatist-style system involving a permanent wages board. federation of Shipbuilding and Unions to hold a Engineering national indefinite strike.

up into 'By splitting the fight local areas the national leaders have opened the door for the right wing who are saying we should go to the court. • "Defend the union" is too vague. The right wing says we can defend the union by chang- SWINDON'S two main engineer- ing plants, the railway workshops and Plessey's, will be closed to- day for a day-long strike against fining of the engineers' the union. A march and demonstra- tion has been organized. Yester- day all engineering firms closed down in protest against the NIRC fines. ing our policy and accepting the Act. This has got to be rejected and the leaders should call a national strike now. AUEW shop Frank Sissons, steward at Yorkshire Vehicles said: It's ridiculous to call a strike on New Year's Day.

'All of Leeds should have come out together. It's time to stop shilly shallying. If we don't win the smashing up of it'll mean our union.' Dick Mitchell, convenor of Wilson and Mathieson, a gas cooker manufacturing firm, said: 'Like they did on the wage claim, the leaders pushed this back to local level and said, "Get what you can lads". They're just dodging their responsibilities.'