Workers Press no. 966

workers press

TORIES STRING

THE TUC ALONG

Bread drivers dispute overtime: locked out

IRC

ABOUT 90 Transport and General Workers' Union drivers for the ABC bread company in Camden, norin London, were locked out yesterday following their attempts to reduce overtime working on Saturdays. After doing a five to 12-hour shift on Fridays, drivers have to report for work again at midnight to do a further 12-hour shift. They have asked manage- ment to bring forward the time of their last delivery so they can get home in more reasonable time. For the last three Saturdays they have started at the earlier time the management

DUE

HOW

has locking them retailated by

OUT

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JANUARY 9, 1973• No 966 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AS THE WAGES BATTLE OPENS

TORY PREMIER Edward Heath By ALEX MITCHELL of the initial tripartite talks which opened the door for the first stage of Heath's state will see a delegation of TUC lead- control over wages Victor Feather ers led by ON THE other they attend the very talks at on In the latest issue of his union's magazine 10 Downing Street which pave the way Thursday to discuss implementa- he puts forward the followin 'policy': It is he vital job of every T&GWU negotiator t for the next phase of the wage-cutting legis- tion of Phase Two of the legis- lation. carry keep wages Tne lation to place permanent, legal machinery well-oiled and the of By their deceptive policies the trade union order. All this industrial justice battle readers are delberate y misleading their controls on wages. members as to the true implication of the acuon can take place as usual.

present attack on wages and wage-bargaining.

Nothing is last Heathe wrote a personal Yesterday the Chancellor of the Ex- Mr Anthony Barber, December last Heath chequer, briefed it is eavina workers all over the countri wrote personal confused consen their real ass the • To the Dress Tories letter to Lord Cooper, head of the General the heads of nationalized industries on their legal attack and Municipal Workers' Union, banning any the next stage of the state pay plan.

right to a decent wage and a decent standard further wake of living. offer. Is this 'usual'? It is already a foregone conclusion that Of it isn't! It's dictatorial. The truth is that although food prices- course state pav laws will be introduced during stroke Heath has outlawed wage next session of parliament. In the face of this fruit and vegetables Dard culary meat. -are nexonatons unprecedented attack the trade skyrocketing, the Tories plan to introduce wages The letter to cooper marked the end or the machinery hold down wage rises being won by permanent legal to edders Stand accused COnDICLe consent. Now it can only mean class war.

This truth which two-faced treachery. is the wares.

CHC

bureaucrats want to keep from their Feather's actions have been

JUST

members. ON ONE hand they tell their reprehensible. At the TUC General Council members of the Heath Take Jack Jones, general secretary of the following the receipt ignore neams state pay plan

WILL CUT

mecuns the standard of living of million of wage- country's largest union, the Transport and letter Feather sent our letters tenne member General Workers' Union. He was a member unions to disregard any statement calling for earners. the suspension of negotiations.

But only

LWO

weeks later January 4, Feather was present- ng himself at Downing Street to Phase the Two Indusurale state pay plan. This Thursday he is due No. 10 for yet

EEPING

talks prior to te introducaon

REPARATION

Heath's corporatist wages policy.

While workers are armed as to the nature of the im- pending connict over wages, Press treating the trade union leaders role with the

ABC. DRIVERS

utmost cynicism. "The Times' reported on its yesterday that mans frabour Mes took the view that front

LOCKED OUT WHY?

the government has been "play-

WE WILL NOT WORK

ing the unions along" Telegraph' was - DVANCEMENT oF PRODUTTO

AND 13 HOURS

more outspoken. paper's political staff said: Thursday the govern-

BY 1 HOUR

GROTE SONIGHT TLL MIDSAY

limiting pay ment will discuss claims with the TUC. *If is reached agreement CoMF the government will put its plan into operation and will place the blame for the breakdown on the union leaders. This is the Tory trap which Workers Press warned about on last Saturday's front page.

capitu- But despite the craven ation or te trade union leaders the Tory Cabinet knows that it NIRC fines spark more strikes has eventually to take on sections or workers in a ole pontical and industrial confrontation.

That is why is such THE WHOLE of the heavy Engineering Unions. All major factories and works intense behind-the-scenes Man- *They have given 95 percent and shipbuilding secret engineering were closed including tne

SAID-

oeuvres invo vine one yards. Rolls-Royce, Plessey, police, the uniformed police and industry Tyneside was factories such as Reyrolle's Brown's, 'armies' of strike- Jopling's and small private paralysed yesterday as 30,000 in Hebburn and the Swan Hunter Thorn's. breakers which have connections engineering workers struck shipyards Wallsend on with the military. une District Henry against the £61,000 secretary 500-strony fines and The have rees ed one on The police are proceeding with Wilkinson told costs on the AUEW. and their plan to establish a heavy meeting at Steel's Club that George Arnold, divisional G&MWU and Lne Goad affair could only be solved mob along tne ines developed of in France and all constabularies oreanizer Tne A ma camated by industrial conflict. Union of Engineering Workers The apprentices are receive issues of After the told said: meeting he out. employers *Police Gun Workers new v-cestened favoured 'The members have responded attacked the bitterly capable of firing gas can- We being anarchy and pointless.

• bullets. magnincenny. are 100 the get rid of the Industrial Relations cent. I am delighted with The Tories will prosecute the OVER 17,000 engineers on Wear- from the trade response other

ACT

once and for all by forcing class struggle to this sharpest the Tory government to resign.

unions such as the unions in the side also starea a one day sulke • Wales and Scotland p.12 confederation of Shipbuilding and yesterday.

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workers press

TORIES STRING

THE TUC ALONG

Bread drivers dispute overtime: locked out

ABC

ABOUT 90 Transport and General Workers' Union drivers for the ABC bread company in Camden, norin London, were lockea out yesterday following their attempts to reduce overtime working on Saturdays. After doing a five to 12-hour shift on Fridays, drivers have to report for work again at midnight to do a further 12-hour shitt. They have asked manage ment to bring forward the time of their last delivery so they can get home in more reasonable time. For the last three Saturdays they have started at the earlier time the has retallated locking them by INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JANUARY 9, 1973 • No 966 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

AS THE WAGES BATTLE OPENS

TORY PREMIER Edward Heath By ALEX MITCHELL of the initial tripartite talks which opened the door the first stage of Heath's state will see a delegation of TUC lead.

control over wages. Victor Feather ers led ON THE other they attend the very talks at on In the latest issue of his union's magazine for the next phase of the wale-cute the egis- LO Downing Street which pave Thursday to discuss implementa- e puts forward the followin "policy': It is he vital job of every T&GWU negotiator t tion of Phase Two of the legis- lation. carry negotiating, keep wages une lation machinery and the cause of to place permanent, legal By their deceptive policies the trade union All this industrial justice battle order. readers _are celiberate v misleading Their controls on wages. members as to the implication of the acuon can take pace as usuai.

present attack on wages and wage-bargaining.

Nothing Yesterday the Chancellor of the Ex- iS last Heathe wrote ae aitsonal Mr Anthony It is leaving December last Heath chequer, Barber, briefed workers all over the country wrote confused and disarmed as the To the basis Tories letter to Lord Cooper, head of the General the heads of nationalized industries on Municipal Workers' Union, banning any ahead with their attack the next stage of the state pay plan.

negotiations leading to a hrm right to a decent wage ana a decent standara Ware of living. offer. Is this 'usual'? It is already a foregone conclusion that Of it isn't! It's dictatorial. At The truth that although food prices- 1S stroke Heath has outlawed wage next session of parliament. In the face of this vegetables •araculay steal. -are catalions unprecedented attack trade skyrocketing, the Tories plan to introduce wages ne etter to cooper marked the eno or ine machinery hold down wage being won by permanent legal eaters consent. Now it can only mean class war.

This truth which two-faced treachery. is the Wares. awlul L11C bureaucrats want to keep from their Feather's actions have just been members. reprehensible. At the TUC General Council ON ONE hand they tell their members following the receipt the Heath Take Jack Jones, general secretary of the Ionore neau s stale say odi

WII CUL

the standard of living of million of wage- country's largest union, the Transport and setter reamer sen our jeters tenne memoe.

General Workers' Union. He was a member unions to 'disregard any statement calling for earners. the suspension of negotiations.

DuL ORry

IWU

weeks laler January 4, heather was nresent- ng himself at Downing Street to 51 Phase Two the induzuldie state pay plan This Thursday he another round of is due No. 10 for yet

EEPING

laiks pror to une mtroducuon

PREPARATION

Heath's corporatist wages policy.

While workers are armed as to the nature of the im- penaing connict over wares. capitalist Press treating the trade union leaders' role with the

ABC. DRIVERS

'The Times' reported on its yesterday thạt many front page

LOCKED OUT WHYCL

that Labour MPs took the view "play- the government nas been

WE WILL NOT WORK®

ing the unions along"' Telegraph' was ADVANCEMENT oF PRODUTio

AND I3 HOURS

more outsooken. paper's political staff said: Thursday the govern- BY 1 HOuR

FROCCO NIGHT TILL MIDDAY

limiting ment will discuss claims with the be. *If agreement is reached will put its the government own plan into operation and will place

GOEREFUSE

the blame for the breakdown on the union leaders. which This is Iorv trap une Workers Press warned about on last Saturday's front page.

But despite the craven capitu- anon or toe trade unionedoers.

NIRC fines spark more strikes the Tory Cabinet knows that it has eventually to take on sections of workers in a big political and industrial confrontation.

That is why is such THE WHOLE of the Engineering Unions. All major factories and works intense behind-the-scenes heavy Illail- 'They have given 95 per cent and shipbuilding engineering were closed including tne oeuvres secret yards. Rolls-Royce, Plessey, the uniformed police and industry Tyneside was small private factories such David Brown's, Jopling's 'armies' as Reyrolle's and of strike- paralysed yesterday as 30,000 in Hebburn and the Swan Hunter horn's breakers which have connections engineering workers struck Walsend with the military. SolDvaros District Henry against the £61,000 secretary s00-strory fines and Tyne have received support from The police are proceeding with Wilkinson told costs on the AUEW. the boilermakers their plan to establish a 'heavy meeting at Steel's Club that the George Arnold, divisional the mob' along the lines develoned such and Goad affair could only be solved of in France and all constabularies oreanizer Amarcamated Dy inaustral connict. Workers Union of Engineering The apprentices of all outer receive issues After said: The the meeting he told were out. employers 'Police newly-designed Gun Workers favoured The members have responded bitterly attacked the capable of firing gas can-

SLIIKC

We being anarchy and pointless.

is tre Tores will preecute the magnincently. are get rid of the Industrial Relations cent. am delighted with the Tories

OVER 17,000

engineers on Wear- from the trade response other once and or all by forcing struggle to sharpest CaSs the Tory government to resign.

the unions such as unIons 11 Lac side diso slarea d unc-ady slilke • Wales and Scotland p.12 confederation of Shipbuilding and yesterday.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuaaday January 9, 1973 Towards the end of 1971, when confrontation with had abor Tory put chamber coincil the Hosing Finance Bill government which after concil chamber, calling was for the implementation of the mandate to destroy introduced into the House Commons® by ex-speculator basic right decent the zees o oe bes reeg THE SIZE of Sunday's march in Peter Walker, the Labourites housing at a reasonable rent.

of the tenants. that all Camden The stab-in-the-back

SUBDULL

were accat. decisive Then, in October, Frank Allaun, would let loose the Labour counci s rerusal to im- March when the MP Salford, "left-talking Calle

BIO SI

the rent-doubling Tories dared to proceed. piement National Executive Committee for the at the

DUKC

Housing Finance Act marks a met to discuss the question of Party conference and Weekly" 'Labour Transport l The Housing Finance Bill, as it step lorwara In te campaign.

House declarec declared a future Labour gov organ 2,000 Supported by still was. ernment not com- well over special supplement: "Their fight Colc tenants, trade unionists, mitted to reimbursing your In a most pathetic statement, the

CHODORE

VOUT

Party members councillors penalized and local Labour councillors,' NEC said it could not advise LabUul biggest councils to refuse

VOUTA.

was urging tenants everywhere to Labour …iones Implementing demonstration seen in London the Act. 'the big fight of prepare for the intolener Teasanon against the Tory government's 1972 giving weight Although this made in public housing the the amr rent Acl versed next that tenants by On basis eme tormen and right-winger era conference bee In the campaign's next steps the of betraan the seeds SPoKcSlan assoclauons

WEIC

Anthony Crosland. of had well assist in the fight against the sown. And last month the NEC demonstrations "The effects will be different plans to put an end to Tory authority to authority from serves acuons housing Britain, voLca mn condor overtun council conference not the torieso the NEC declared. "Therefore policy yet again, opening the field for wide determination leaving the councillors every property speculator.

, it was not possible to give disowned and isolated. the basic advice to local authorities on a In the 1972 municipal elections, of workers to muni- national basis. Each Labour mulons Today, just 20 Labour councils cipal housing. Labour in ColCHs were SweDE must decide the throughout Britain are stand- To dats t e gtaged by ea cour of tenants and in the out oier 360 ha e the Tories interests ing sabotaged light of local circumstances its while anther imple- own methods of fighting the rent increases, Inere was mucH Partv leaders who. at al costs.

menee me

ACL.

une cerane talk of non-implementation.

legislation.' collaboration councils face severe financial But the Labour Party leadership It was the escape route the Party penalties, bankruptcy, dis- refusing either to alert or lead looking began to move swiftly to cut for. the loss Was qualicallons anlo off any possibilities of an open Suddenly resolutions began to all powers to government- FIVE AMERICAN fighter- awn Phan- bombers-an airforce cause une tom, two marine ed. investigation is being

COI NS

known. THE BIG European ban-

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

conducted. I would say that Phantoms and two navy Cor- the aircraft dropped their bombs kers have failed to make dropped 34 sairs-yesterday Ministers in Luxemburg on Janu- the airfield. progress towards any arv 15 and l6. 500 lb bombs on the Da Nang He added that the jets flying "tactical' bombing The Basle summit aso falled air base in South Vietnam.

monetary unity within mission in the Common Market at gold for settle- Da Nang used be the head- their latest meeting in ing debts in the future monetary quarters ol the us mariae cores in South Vietnam. It is now run sel up Basle, Switzerland. South and The Italian by the gold of the largest bases Ult The main result of the three- under dyslcil. Willc acols WeIt day conference was a plan to priced serueo OnCHU The bombs fuel dump or allow Italy repay at $38 an ouncefar below the fire, damaged Huey ILlaDO VC balance-of-payments debts free market Now both price. injured several men and

LUDLCI•

Britain Italy ana dollars. This in fact represents say une WIil le South Viet- Kalled betwee Mine Af Cambo dien serd rival factions release no gola untll a monetary Americans and one deterioratior European union is formed but at the sam namese airfield guard, according monetary relations. valhovulan stuueus al raras their time decision makes such university using swords and rifies to US command in Saigon. Britain became the first left one man dead and 20 in- uly naruer lo acneyc. jured. countrv to tel the DEC bluntv The EEC's main „is to it would not its NELSON Rosario Dos Anjos (22) That devise a means of debt settlement ane cus bewee smoorı debts gold-linked has been sentenced by a Lisbon and opponents of exiled between member-countries whick i5 gears deprivatis Cambodian Prince Norodom Si- court confines fluctuations in the price

SDRS)

hanouk continued overnight pay the muelenv yes- dIlu balance in paper currency.

with narrow limits. cividats _supervisio! LAt Leludy untu police interveneo The dead student was Suk Kim Portuguese secret police. Both the British and Italian The switch to dollar settle- He was accused of making an armed Huos (24) from Cambodian decisions further dim the pros- ments and the floating pound Phnom Portuguese Penh. on the He of con bullet from a 22 European allala monetary boun unacrmine Inese plans in May killed b union which will be discussed by Agreement is now a matter of suare Amsterdam 1972. the first full meeting of Finance urgency. The United States canbre Tine.

APPRENTICE

airman lion tons of steel products Socialist Labour League North West Rally

BRIEFLY

Franklin Roundtree (20), in 1973. 200.000 tons-more dis- Negro, been than last year. Chairman

FORCE THE TORY

charged from the navy fol- Yoshihiro Inayama said the lowing a race riot aboard would assoc anon

SOOT

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

jeopardize might the apply to the Ministry of «ic ORNeTKIN re- October. Hawk' last He Trade and sumed Paris talks. ocala had pleaded guilty to

BUILD THE

Industry for permission Meanwnile inormaton nas charges of assanlt and riot.

been leaked that there set up a steel export cartel.

ing aboard the ship while than 650 tacti-

REVOLUTIONARY

were more was stationed off North cal air strikes in the north Vietnam. GOLDA MEIR, the Israeli He admitted hit- between December 26 and

PARTY!

Prime Minister, has advo- officer. January 1. The payloads à chiel petty During the fighting 46 tha left-wing were more destructive than CaLCe group, 'Red Front', should crewmen were injured. Be.

SUNDAY JANUARY 14, 7 p.m.

the comolnea capacity ol be declared illegal. She was the two A-bombs dropped

IOTC

ausc arcer The Everyman, Hope Street, Roundtree served 60 days' of speaking at a study group Japan the end detention. meeting World War II.

LIVERPOOL

Bill. . .. JAPANESE and Thai THE UGANDAN military lhe 'Red Front' a Maois vestors have agreed to set alleged to have government has raised the group, 1S up a f120m petrochemical been involved in a spy and industry cent following a sharp pro- r nauene. sabolare metwork.

VIS.

'RIGHT TO WORK' FILM

is to be south duction drop. Meir is due in Paris later built by this month for meeting to the exoulsion of Ugan of Thai the Socialist dan Asians who owned lillelld- Company Limited, in which and operated the country's

TONAA

the Royal Dutch Shell rich The suzal . mauslry. Group and local InYCOLOTS largest was the Maanvan group at the township of nave a toom nolang. ine Japanese interest comprises After being impri- G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary).

Mitsubishi, Mitsui, sone‹ tor iwo momms. unt Nippon head of the family was CHRISȚINE SMITH (Young Socialists) retrocem. cals. The deal took two deported. 01-720 2000 In a personal capacity : years to negotiate. CONNIE FAHEY (Manchester Tenants) JAPAN is to increase its ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Shop Stewards) MELVIN LAIRD, the US export of steel to the

BRIAN GEENEY (U.P.W.)

Defence Secretary, has larged Common Market The Japan ordered a news black-out during this yeat WALLY FOUCHS (CAV Occupation Committee) 01-622 7029 TuTTe T

«TOB

Skonterd bombed devastation Association has decided to export a total of 1.45 mil- appointed Housing Commis- sioners. Now the fight of councils like Clay Cross in Derbyshire has come together with the move- ment of the whole working class to defend their demo- cratic rights against the Tory government's onslaught. The fight against the Housing Finance Act cannot and must not be separated from this overall struggle of the class to defend their unions and fight Tory preparations tor the corporate state. Nor is the fight inseparable from the struggle to bring down the Tory government. It is most urgent to go forward in each area where tenants and councillors are in struggle to construct Councils of Action to mobilize the entire working class. Such Councils, comprised of tenants' delegates from the associations, trade unions and every political tendency in the labour movement, must pre- pare the campaign to force the Tories to resign. In its place must be elected a Labour government pledged to socialist policies of nationaliza- basic industries, tion of the the land and the banks under workers' control and without compensation and the repeal of all Tory legislation, includ- ing the Housing Finance Act.

That is the way forward after Sunday's march. monetary authorities have made it clear that they will not make concessions to Europe in any forthcoming talks on the the world This monetary system. aggressive attitude mirrors the mood the American among capitalist class which is in favour of trade war on Europe.

and Britain Italy key are countries in the European set up since they both have hefty balance of payments deficits with the rest of the EEC. But they now propose to honour their commitments by pouring out dollars which, after Nixon's decision 17 months ago to remove all gold backing from the currency, have a purely fictitious value. The issue of monetary union in general raises questions which the Common Market, on its present predatory and capitalist basis will find it impossible to answer. Despite fine words on unity, the capitalist governments within the Market are not prepared to sacrifice any real value to the European dream. The latest economic survey by and Cambridge the London Economic Bulletin predicts a massive £1,000m balance of pay- ments deficit by the end of this year. This will be the resuit, says the bulletin, of the Tories' 5-per- cent growth policy. They say even by the standards of previous 'reflations' the latest initiative has got off to a very bad start. Much of the extra expenditure has sucked in more imports-a 'disturbing' amount the Common Market from countries. The bulletin warns if a crisis to be avoided, personal expenditure and income will have to be strictly controlled.

The influential Tory economist Professor Paish has suggested in the Lloyds Bank review one remedy to curb expenditure. Un- employment would have to rise to a national average of 10 per cent before inflation could be halted, he says. these Many of enormous problems facing the British economy are reflected in Tory policy. The reflation is accompanied by record interest rates on bank lending to businessmen for in- vestment. These policies are accompanied by the Tory drive to make all wages and incomes a matter for state decision and control under the new corporate style machinery in phase two of the envisaged 'pay freeze'.

Don't do black work from Fighting the Tories' rent Act Bedwas fights the Commissioner... and the Labour Party

THE

HOUSING

Com- the of the anis alon

BY PHILIP WADE

missioner sent into Bed- National Health Service. was and Machen in South opinion, the fight In his re Del counculors … Tnere. Wales to receive backing from the now given has told that resistance to Party's 1.700 tenants four weeks the Commissioner was be- Ilaliulld notice of not

'NECS

rent increases execuuve In The Dicbarca. ended, despite the of almost £1. Trades • council ano reversal confer- trade branches are Tory Appointed by the policy supportine supporting our firm stand. culc the fighting when councilors the overnie!! Now circulat. council 'fair rents' Act. Labour reTused Lo ing urging the tenants implement Housing the "The unions affiliated to pay Finance Com- Act, the Labour Party will have and the councillors aLc misSioner deeds the -has Cll s neadea notepaper- *In decisions conterence. told tenants they can leave can the NEC often in the if they do not want to pay

HOOT

a081nS1 The de- interpreted these pication the min ир. the wishes Finance Act. But Costs But already the tenants more is involved. tie memberson. are beginning to organize 'Now a ee NEC to make years council. "COr ожет Commissioner MPs and the local government, accept and plan to refuse his rent these lors elected have been binding on cenares. Terence the public. Now all powers them.' Councilor Stan Nind is have been taken out of our one of those elected rep- hands by the Secretary of Tenants and trade resentatives Bedwas State Wales. unionists will demonstrate who- -with Nind explained that Merthyr Tydfil— Cllr WUlACIS carousl any reorgan-

HOST

Will ThIS year s the olmer cerant counci in sort of control over rents ization of local government, Wales- -next Saturday after- to there would the a government agent. fewer against dousing As he Councilors. commussioner who has aisl They would have less at the local Streets cameen been installed Sunday in support the over things like town hall. over rents. White-collar Liverpool plea to London CAV plant difference over £400

THE OCCUPATION

committee at

BY WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

CAV's Fazakerley plant, Liverpool, has

WHITE-COLLAR

appealed workers throughout the workers at … LO Rolls-Royce headquarters giant combine not to undertake black in Derby staged a one-day pro- work. test strike yesterday over pay.

This follows news that the

BY OUR OWN

management is proposing to The 80 workers involved com-

CORRESPONDENT

fac- ask workers in plain that taeir opposite numbers olner the company's Scottish fac- tories to Lilake tories get €400 year more for tories where are being normally made at Fazakerley.

WOLACIS

black doing the same Job. asked to pro- The Liverpool works has ducts. Members of the Association of been under and Man- picket is now being Technical occubaliol A 24-hour agerial want this October 9 last year when the the Lucas Aerospace mountcu al anomaly ironed out, despite the management announced it was works Broad Green, LIveL- shutting down and making pool. pay-control law. The this companv is resisting 1,000 men and women redun- Tomorrow the joint shop stew- demand. the differen- ard's committee at CAV's It blames dant. Acton on wages being negoțiated de- The committee is also stepping lant in London may have to locally at its various factories.

Messes de. Singe activities ide on whether to handle blac In any nothing be Strong work. Lasc call desperately •OnE unti lne present onase of were

OUT

vesterday dudes core manacemen the pay law ends, Rolls claims. and Standard Triumph car fac- needs plungers and barrels to be Meat: Dock Natural gas kills 11,000 jobs moves to ABOUT 11,000 workers stand be completed by 1975. Five keep trade 1,100 major employing to lose their jobs by 1977 Dialls production workers wicose when all Britain's town including Warrington and Par- gas tington produc- which went into plants will have stopped pro-

SOUTH

AMERICAN

meat tion onlv in 1968 and cost tl5n duction. That is the date when and £18m respectively: shippers are expected to reply The conversion to natural gas will run-down already nasi this week to speed-up proposals and many men will lose begun be completed. which jobs May this are designed to keep their in April and Partington their trade in London docks.

In some areas the closures will Bradford Road, Manches- come earlier. (30), Warrington (61), Lin- representatives oI the In the north-west, for example, (36), four shipping lines in the South Liverpool

LOSLUCK

will the conversion programme American Hall, Preston (17). conference are sulting their principals in Buenos Dial Europe Alres about ine proposals.

put forward at a hese were 50p.c. easier meeting between union officials, the of Port London Authority and Thames Stevedoring Lia. Cae trade in nrm which nandles the largest international telex ex- the Royal docks, last week. change, St Botolph, the City 1n the of real victoria Iney inciude •I LordON Into ser- 28 Charlotte St No berth at the Royal vice yesterday, will enable 50 per customer-dialled calls LaKS more agreed this might achieve the outside Europe Countlico London W1 demanutput output shoute be with. which the lines month. calls to outside Europe Another under dis- countries have proposa takeover ast year to over 1o0, cent a weeke

CUSSION

Increase• ov Thames. Workers Press, Tur LOR STAN NIND ... No control now which manufactured at Acton has the capacity and know-how to make them. Both components are normally made at Fazakerley.

The management's line is to tell the Acton committee that unless their request is met, fur- ther contracts will be lost. This could lead to the jeopardizing of the f2m expansion plan at Acton. Since the 14-week occupation began the Fazakerley workers have received strong financial support from Merseyside engi- neering factories and there is a complete ban on blacked goods at Vauxhall's at Ellesmere Port.

Lucas drivers in the Midlands A plant employing 44 men at Cheshire, will Ellesmere Port, close in October. Mr Jack Wilkinson, the Gen- eral and Municipal Workers' Union official representing most of the north-west gasworkers, said: 'We are now negotiating for an improved severance-redun- dancy agreement. The production workers are highly-skilled men, but could have great difficulty finding alternative work'

@ PERIODICALS • NEWSPAPERS

Press, Tuesday January 9, 1973 PAGE 3 Fraud Squad moves north COMMANDER James Crane, head of Scotland Fraud Yard Squad, arrived in the north-east yesterday to begin his investigation into councils said to be in- volved in the Pontefract- based Poulson empire. In Pontefract four men have been committed for trial on charges of corrup- tion relating to building contracts in Yorkshire and the north east. They include the town's former I, of Leeds. Maurice Byrne (47), of Also accused are Brian Norman Woodcock (47), of Ireton, Derbyshire; Anthony Joseph Flannery (39), of Horsforth, near Leeds; and William Starling (44), ot Barnsley. They are to stand trial at Leeds crown court. Byrne was committed on ten charges, Flannery on ten, Woodcock on two and Starling on nine. These allege that being of Carlton Con- agents tractors Ltd northern division), they corruptly accepted gifts in connection with giving contracts. Flannery was also com- mitted on a charge of acting as a director of Carlton Contractors when he was an undischarged bankrupt. They have all been re- leased on bail, but their been con- passports have fiscated. The four men pleaded not guilty before Leeds magistrates last week. have refused to run any consign- ments normally handled by laid off drivers from Fazakerley.

Shop stewards on the docks and at the two picketed car plants have so far dragged their feet on the occupation commit- tee's call for blacking action.

At a recent demonstration against the fining of the AUEW by the National Industrial Rela- tions Court, engineers' convenor Dave Martin said: 'We can't win this struggle on our own. We must have the sup- port of every trade union organi- zation, every political party.

Without that solidarity we will be defeated.' A ONE-DAY strike against the Tory pay law crippled large sections of the administration at Warwick University yesterday.

The 270 weekly-paid staff at the university struck claiming they should have had a £2.40 per week increase agreed for local authority workers within a few hours of being announced in the law November. Catering facilities, the campus bus service and mail distribution were hit. The university authori- ties claimed there was no agree- ment that the workers concerned were classified as local authority workers.

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KOREA: 2½ MILLION CASUALTIES

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There is support for th Korean claim tr attacks across th were made by Korean forces the invasion of t in June 1950 foll repelling of thes Normally, the dir of the bord vation 38th parallel Nations military would have provided of what actually hap But these withdrawn 48 hours conflict flared up. hirst Ana General reach headquarters reported not an att north on the by the south on the Syngman boasted as recently 1949: 'If we had ou would we have

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considerable for the North laim that three cross the border by South forces and that ion of the south 950 followed the of these raids. the direct obser- the border on Tune United by observers provided witnesses tually happened. observers were 48 hours before the reports tc MacArthur's in Tokyo ot an attack by the the south, but one h on the north. Rhee himself had recently as October e had our own way started UL day January 8, 1873

AND THE KOREAN WAR BY JACK GALI

ened by the Russians. They had no possible interest in spreading stories to the con- trary. But in reality, the lack of support for the North Koreans from Russia carried on into the war period. On July 7, 1950, the 'New York Times' military commen- tator Hanson Baldwin reported 'encouraging signs the that Soviet Union is strictly limiting commitments to North its Korea'. A briefing session of Mac- Arthur's intelligence staff on July 26 reported that North Korean tank losses were not being replaced by further Soviet supplies.

WEAPONS

SHORTAGES

A report to the 'New York Times' from Tokyo revealed that weapons captured cluded World War I rifles but no post-war Russian weapons.

Within one month of the outbreak of hostilities the North Koreans were suffering enormous shortages of men and supplies. Some captured Korean soldiers had North received only four days' train- ing before being sent into the front line. There is no doubt that had such help been forthcoming, the Americans would have been driven into the sea. At the decisive Battle of the Beachhead-which would have brought total victory to the north — the Americans dis- covered the North Koreans no artillery. had They were equipped only with mortars, machine guns and small arms.

criminal It was this treachery of the Stalinists which enabled MacArthur's forces to hang on and sub- sequently to drive back to the 38th Parallel and beyond to the very borders of China.

Nothing illustrates better than the Korean war that Lenin's description of the League of Nations as a 'Thieves' Kitchen' applied equally forcefully to the United Nations. It simply rubber-stamped every action of American im- perialism — usually after the Truman event. authorized

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American intervent war on June 27. the following day. July rum ized the bombing Korea, a naval blocl Korean entire Russians refused for recuesi combat this) and Amerca colo o General MacArthur On July 7 a Unit resulution-moved ana rrance- agreed to other assistance ava unified command United States'. And on the day Nations placed under this command Truman authorized ‹ enlistment in the Ur for whatever be needed in the wi There is General Dougas the intervention in the The United dorsed the action on of North aval blockaae or tne coast (Ine Korean submarines of the use ‚rouna troops under acArthur. 7 a United Nations -moved by Britain -endorsed this and 'make forces tance available to a under the the day the United. its forces command, President thorized compulsory in the United States manpower might une were is no doubt that MacArthur World War obit- the United States. On August 25 Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews -a prominent Catholic lay- man-called in Boston for a preventive war, claiming that this would 'cast us in a charac- ter new to a true democracy —an initiator of a war of aggression... the first aggres- sors for peace'. On August 26, George N. Craig, national commander of the American Legion (to which Truman belonged) said that the USA should tell Moscow that any 'further aggression' by its 'satellites' would be 'the signal for our bombers to wing their way toward Moscow. The 'Pilot, organ of the ed. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, declared on Septem- ber 1 that offensive wars were moral under certain conditions and that a preventive war against Russia might be neces- sary. Yet Truman kept Мас- Arthur in command and, after a special conference with him Wake Island, authorized on him to invade North Korea.

of Mac- Truman • was afraid Arthur's determination to spark off a full world war but he shared his hostility to peace in Korea.

PRESSURE FOR

FREE ELECTIONS

There was a very good poli- tical reason for this. There would have been enormous pressure for free elections throughout Korea had the war been ended instead of Mac- Arthur advancing north. Syngman Rhee did not have a hope in hell of winning such elections, despite his refined electioneering methods - threats to confiscate the rice ration cards of people who refused to vote for his candi- dates was one of the mildest.

Both the Soviet Union and the United States were pub- licly calling for all-Korean elections. But the catch was- who would supervise them?

The US wanted this job to be in the hands of Syngman Rhee —who had just executed 1,200 'suspected' communists and communists in South Korea.

Syngman Rhee's administra- tion of such elections could Left: General MacArthur and Pre- sident Truman, on Wake Island In October 1950 after the special conference where they decided to Invade North Korea. not be achieved and therefore the Americans decided to pro- long the war and invede the north. Free elections were unthink- able. Commenting on a plan for such elections, the 'New York Times' declared: Under this plan a unified Korea would go communist within four or five years...the United Nations could not prevent the establishment of communist governments if this took place by peaceful means.' By the end of October 1950 —having been authorized by Truman to advance within a few miles of the Chinese border on the Yalu River- MacArthur was approaching Manchuria. The battleship 'Missouri' bombarded Chong- jin, only 50 miles from Siberia.

On November 25, the Chinese Red Army poured across the Yalu River. Truman and MacArthur had discussed this possibility and decided that the Chinese would not intervene and that even if they did they would be no match for MacArthur's forces.' In the event Mao's army turned out to have the best possible arms and equipment and was supported by ample air power. It drove MacArthur's troops out of all the territory they had won in North Korea, pushed them out of Seoul and sent them reeling back across the 38th Parallel. A desperate MacArthur called for the bombing of the mainland cities of China, an invasion of China from For- mosa, and the use of atomic weapons. All the bourgeois Press obituaries of Truman said that he dismissed MacArthur be- cause the latter wanted all-out war. This is only partly true.

had made no MacArthur secret of his desire for such a war from the beginning and Truman had not broken with him as long as an easy victory seemed likely. the victories of Only atter China's Red Army did Tru- man's fear of world war pre- dominate. The actual sacking of Mac- Arthur in • April 1951 was not over his line on the war, but because he lined up against Truman with the Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives, Joseph Martin. He also gained the support of the two most powerful figures in the Republican Party - Herbert Hoover and Robert A. Taft. On April 5, Martin read out in the House a letter from MacArthur declaring: There is no substitute for victory.'

What was involved here was an attempt by a military commander in collusion with sections of the Republican Party-to challenge the right of the Democratic Party's civil authority to direct the war.

That was why Truman sacked MacArthur. (MacArthur still had his supporters. Hoover described him as 'a reincarnation of St Paul'. When MacArthur ad- dressed Congress an ecstatic Republican, Dewey Short, cried out that he had seen 'a great hunk of God in the flesh'. But the Americans could not win in Korea. They were helped off the hook by the Stalinists in June 1951 when the Russian delegate to the United Nations proposed an armistice. Negotiations dragged con until June 27, 1953. Truman's the war cost United States 30,000 dead and 100,000 wounded and over missing. South Korean casual- ties approached a million while North Korean and Chinese casualties were estimated at 1.5 million. Korea — north and south alike—lay in ruins.

The Greek military dictator- ship which survives on a mix- ture of mass oppression and selective torture is supported 100 per cent by American imperialism. But the colonels who head junta are finding the • the friendship has its disadvan- tages. For one, the American officials tend to rub the colo- nels the wrong way. In true petty-bourgeois fashion the Greek dictators think a great deal about their ancient heri- tage—which they claim to re- . ins present. But the Americans care little for such subtleties. At a recent party thrown in the US embassy to celebrate the Nixon victory the haughty were forced to Greek rulers eat hamburgers, popcorn and sandwiches with American their American masters. What is more they were forced to pay a $l a time for the food.

Austerity for the masses and investment in heavy industry will be the key.

of the Algerian note Four-Year Plan to begin in 1974. The national bourgeoisie is ambitious to build up the to exploit economy and Algeria's natural resources, particularly gas and petroleum.

Almost half of the investment envisaged in the plan will go into this sector. It is planned to build a car factory and to expand the The officials also made it clear that they want little to do this the 'culture' they are to be defending. supposed They drive around in buses marked 'For Americans' only.

The American community ad • has also brought financial hardship to the rich of Athens.

the price of luxury flats has been driven up and there has been no compensating trade the Americans prefer to buy their wares at the PX stores, duty-free. There is also one interesting re- - insight into what the US forces really think about the regime they are pledged to de- fend. Before they came to the colonels' Greece, they forced the junta to allow the with- drawal of any American citi- zen from the jurisdiction of a Greek court. One Greek paper called this concession 'a mark of slaves more characteristic than their chains'. capacity of the steel works at Annaba to 1.5 million tons.

The Boumedienne regime is looking to the World Bank for financial help in carrying through these projects, as well as to private capital. Revenue from gas and petroleum sales, which make up 90 per cent of the country's exports, will be used to guarantee loans.

Despite the nationalization of French property, Algeria remains intimately dependent international capital. upon Without it the Plan has no chance of success. In any case, chief adminis- trator Kamel Abdaliah-Khodja admits that if the Plan is to be realized, austerity will be for some time to necessary come. This will be nothing new for the Algerian masses whose age-old poverty has not been relieved by independence.

While the bourgeoisie makes its grandiose plans, agriculture remains backward and un- employment is rife. Algeria remains firmly tied to the imperialist world. Below: Boumedienne, leader of the Algerian regime. Repression on the streets of Manila. Un The Marcos regime in the Philippines, which aims to consolidate itself as the result of a bogus plebiscite to be organized early this year. • is A nationwide campaign now in progress in support of constitution which, a new behind a smokescreen of propaganda about reform of 'new government and society, will give President Ferdinand Marcos absolute powers. Under it he will tem- porarily assume the powers of president, prime minister and speaker of the new National Assembly. Under the old constitution Marcos' presidential term would have automatically come to an end in December 1973 and he would have been ineligible for re-election.

The country is living under conditions of martial law im- posed by the Marcos dictator- ship to stamp out all opposition in preparation for the vote on the new constitution. Hundreds of oppositionists are in jail, have most newspapers been suppressed and only those ex- pressing a government view- point are permitted to appear.

Those being held include leader Senator Liberal Party Benigno Aquina and many politicians from Marcos' own Nacionalista Party. Only by arrests and pressure mass backed up by armed force could Marcos ensure the passage of the constitution by the constitutional convention.

The referendum on the new constitution, which was orgin- ally to have been held on January 15, has been postponed on the pretext that this will allow more time for debate. In fact the regime needs a Workers Press, Tues Manila. Under Marcos' constitution the army wil further period in order to con- dition the voters to give it their approval and to continue its repression of the opposition.

The first principle of Marcos' so-called 'new society' is that all power should be held by the army, which is equipped and backed by the United States. All democratic rights and liberties have been sup- pressed; strikes and picketing are prohibited; meetings and demonstrations are banned.

Curfews have been imposed in Manila and other towns which obstruct the movemen: of people and gives the army greater control of the streets.

Soldiers commit and crimes exactions against the civilian population with impunity both during and outside the curfew.

The Marcos dictatorship is the guarantor of the invest- ments of American imperialism in the Philippines. It is based on the support of the local big bourgeoisie and landlord class which ruthlessly exploit the masses of the population who live in poverty. Poverty and unemployment has forced tens of thousands of Filipino workers to emigrate to the United States and other countries. Women and girls are coming to Britain as a supply of cheap, skilled labour for the 'rag trade' and the employers are crying out for more. The regime is carrying out a campaign of unbridled terror against the peasant masses accused of supporting the Maoist New People's Army and other guerrilla movements which are strong in a number of places. Guerrilla war has been raging in parts of Luzon on and off since the time of the Japanese occupation. The big increase in the military budget in recent years been required in order to has equip the armed forces to take on the guerrilla fighters with their roots in the people. The army now numbers over 65,000 men and is the principal arm e88, Tuesday January 9, 1973 PAGE 5 army will hold all power.

of the dictatorship. An even larger and better equipped will be army necessary to carry on what amounts to a permanent civil war against a large part of the population. The dictatorship will have to be made still more stringent, attacks will have to be made against the living standards of the middle class as well as the workers and peasants. Taxes will have to be raised to meet rising military expenditure and to repay loans from US capitalists. Despite the appearances of national independence and sovereignty, the Philippines remains a colony of US im- perialism and Marcos is a classic puppet ruler. The Nixon administration fully backs the Marcos regime which it sees as a barrier to revolution in the Pacific.

The US maintains important military bases in the archi- pelago which makes up the Philippines, a vital strategic for the domination post of Asia. US investments receive privileged treatment and profits can be repatriated to the US without difficulty. US goods find a ready market. Meanwhile Marcos and • the big families who dominate the economy wax rich, acquire more stockholdings and take over more of the land. The increasingly flagrant between the luxury contrast living of the ruling clique and the poverty and hardship of the peasants and workers feeds the anger of the masses. The result of the plebiscite, which under conditions of is a police and army terror foregone conclusion, will do nothing to stem the rising tide of popular anger and the grow- ing support for the guerrilla movements.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuosday Jami

BY CHARLES PARKINS

Around some streets in Manchester, as in some other cities, you can still find their slogans scrawled on walls- slogans like Support South Africa'... or Stop Immigration' or some- times just 'Niggers Out' —invariably accompanied by the identifying trade.

mark of the lightning flash in the circle. Sometimes as a slogan they just use the one name 'Mosley' The slogans are those used by of Oswald supporters Mosley's 'Union Movement'— before war it was the the 'British Union of Fascists'— the 1950s has which since made a tactical shift away from its previous anti-Jewish emphasis to concentrate instead on the coloured immigrants.

With the ageing of Mosley, the movement has lost some of its limelight and supporters to the more active and appar- ently better-financed right- wing extremists of the National Front. But Mosley 'Boys' are around. It was one of still them, Danny Harmston, who led the Smithfield porters' anti- immigrant march last year. He also stood as a Mosleyite candidate in the Uxbridge by- election. From the slogans they use, it would seem preposterous to find a connection between supporters of the Mosleyite movement and 'Black Power' advocates. But clear evidence exists that a man who boasted about being a 'Black Power leader' connected behind the was scenes with people who asso- Mosley ciated with known supporters. The man concerned, who died last September in Man- was Enos Trevor chester, Beach. December 15, On at a Manchester court, Beach's wife Maureen was found not guilty of the murder by stabbing of her husband. The court had been told that on the evening of September 25, after Beach had been drinking, there was a row between them at their home in Yarmouth Drive, Wythenshawe. It led to a fight.

Beach accidentally was stabbed as he pulled his wife towards him by the hair, while she had a knife in her hand which she had taken from him.

Apparently there had been previous rows over Beach's drinking and gambling, and on one occasion Mrs Beach had to have stitches in a head wound after Beach had kicked her. Beach's death was big news last September.

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TO DEATH' was the headline on the front page of the *Manchester Evening News' on September 26. The story also asday January 9, 1973 made the front page of the 'Daily Mirror' and was re- ported in other papers. In each report in the capitalist Press, Beach was boosted as a 'Black Power leader'. 1 met Enos Trevor Beach towards the end of 1969, when he was living at a house in the Moss Side area of Man- chester. In a bed-sitting room decorated with 'Black Panther' and other posters, he offered me a glass of rum and I asked him some questions about the sort of Black Power' and 'community action'-type poli- , was supposed to be tics he involved in. My initial curiosity had been aroused by a previous en- counter with a man associated with Beach, a young white man called Anthony King. Christmas around It was time, and I had been sitting in a • Manchester pub with a friend when King came around with a collecting-tin asking for money. My friend recognized him as someone he had known at school, so we got into conversation. I asked what the collection was in aid of, and King said about 'helping old something told him people'. I that I thought this could only be done through political action and not through charity. Whereupon King announced that actually, the organization was working for, was political. He revealed he was collect- ing for something called Cam- paign for Action for the Relief of Need', which in turn was connected with an organization called the 'National Freedom Movement'. There were a number of points about this encounter which made me curious. One was that King had seemed a little too vague about just how 'help his fund-raising would people' and had not mentioned politics until after I raised it. The second point was that even then, he seemed unforth- coming the political about aims of this 'National Freedom Movement. Furthermore, he was unable to offer me any other leaflets, or papers material representing the views or activities of this movement.

I paid a visit to the Moss Side address used by King to out more about this find 'National Freedom Movement'.

King being out, the person who I met was a West Indian, Enos Beach. It seemed that both he and King were living at this address, both were un- employed, and they were both their time working spending 'Campaign for Action for the for the Relief of Need'. Beach told me that they intended to take up problems of the people in the area and 'community encourage action' in support of them. He was interested said he such the movements as Panthers in the United States and that he would be parti- cularly involved in organizing black people in the Moss Side area. Once again, he had no pub- lications to show me, not even so much as a duplicated leaflet Enos Beach. Above: Mrs Stephanie / secretary of The Free Society shows society to raise money. For a time the Le Free Society used offices in Colebrooke !

setting out the movement's views. In fact, Beach admitted that, to date, their only acti- vities had been to collect funds.

But in May 1970, Campaign for Action for the Relief of Need (CARN) appeared on the political scene in Manchester with a surprising intervention in the municipal elections. No less than 19 candidates were fielded. None of them got many votes-the highest vote they got in one ward was 54. Their big stunt was to come

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Harris who was described shows collecting used boxes by • London branch of CARN and the in September that year. There be was to municipal Peter's ward election in the St CARN announced of the city. that it would contest it. Not one, but 98 nomination papers were handed in! Beach was just one of the candidates. some 984 Altogether, nomi- nees were named for the CARN people thar Canenates had actually voted in the war election! The the previous electors, it seemed, would have found themselves facing ballot 4300s

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declared that that was their intention.

The capitalist Press lapped it up. 'BLACK POWER PLOT' were the headlines over stories that militant blacks led by Beach planned to take over Manchester, and after that other cities. Besides quotes from Beach to this effect, King was quoted as saying that the peculiar electoral tactics being adopted were designed to show up and disrupt the system of local elections. In the event, the CARN campaign fell to pieces. Of the candidates supposedly standing, 95 were found to have their addresses given as 12 Danson Street, Miles Plat- ting, Manchester-which was now Beach's address. Since not even in the worst districts of overcrowding Manchester is that bad, these were not re- garded as genuine! Eventually, after all but Beach's own nomination had been declared invalid, Mr Tony King announced that Beach would withdraw his own nomination. On September 10, 1970, it was reported that Beach had withdrawn. The 'Ninety-five - in - one - house' bit was not the only strange thing about the CARN intervention. electoral It appeared that among the large number of electors who were signed supposed to have : 35 not nar can the 'Ma wh ado of the den pol cou of che the sibl fusi acti was oth An Pre pler

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nomination papers for CARN candidates, few had any idea what they had signed. In fact, some of the 'candidates' them- selves were equally bewildered!

One man, a garage worker, said he had been working when King, who he knew vaguely, had approached him for his signature on a form. He had not realized what it was about until he later himself saW named as an election candidate!

He had no intention of standing. Reporters who tried to find of the other CARN some candidates could not trace them. Norman Jackson, of the News', 'Manchester Evening who was given of a list addresses by Beach, supposedly found of CARN supporters, they were all houses due for demolition and empty. Obviously such a ridiculous political goon-show as this could hardly serve the interests in Man- of black workers chester. The only effect that the CARN tactics could pos- sibly have was to create con- fusion, and by the publicity they got, contribute to splitting black and white workers, and exciting anti-immigrant hos- tility among the whites. Whatever Beach and King intended, the purpose their activities could actually serve was that of the Powellites and other anti-immigrant groups.

And, of course, the capitalist Press saw to it that they got plenty of publicity. Without bothering to find out had any Beach to 1970 election had Collarl groups. ported to that 'they use him, using unem A Cheser went whether he alleged, really extreme

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actually followers, the Tory ress always referred "black leader'. time of its September there episode, ours that Tony Kin with 'fascist ing himself was have said that the local fascists, and thought they could but he was actually the 'Man- rter from News' who ee King at the house where he Was King h Beach, asked was, as had been working for aims him, himself as a full-time Nationa Movement, rejected and declared militant left-winger.' d that he was to the Communist Party e believed that there be a revolution with- ('Manchester Jews', September 7, about with a known sup Mosley's Union Hesketh to with information, would woundreds of replied use, all, it is several wasnected Union Movement as an ex-policeman, is candidate

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the General Election. He was also involved with 'Fellowship and Service', through raising funds and through his position as head of the Young Britain Movement, a Mosleyite youth organization. In actual fact, the connection between King and Hesketh has been a good deal closer than King's remarks in 1970 might suggest. About a year ago, a number of people answered young newspaper advertisements ask- ing for collectors for a fund- raising appeal called the National Welfare and Housing Society. Those who were recruited received collecting tins and were told to send the money they collected to the Society's office in Manchester. Last June, the two organizers of this so- called 'National Welfare and Housing Society' appeared in court at Stockport, Cheshire, and were subsequently sent for trial at the Crown Court, accused of promoting an un- lawful lottery. The accused were Walter Hesketh, of Carnforth Road, Stockport, and Heaton Moor, King, Anthony William John of Duncombe Street, Moston.

Charges of defrauding the public were dismissed. Both of the charges arose from the sale of lottery tickets and the collection of donations for the 'National Welfare and Housing Society, which was not a registered charity.

It was stated in court that collectors recruited from news- paper advertisements had been told they could keep some of the money they collected for themselves. A 15-year-old boy said that Workers Press, Tu he had been told he could keep one-third of the money he collected. A young London housewife, Mrs Smith from Wimbledon, said she had col- lected over £200 after answer- ing the advertisement. She said she had been under the impression that the money was to be used to help old people's homes. A man who had been recruited as an organizer for the Society's fund-raising told the court that he had resigned, because after being advised to ask for a statement of accounts, he was unable to obtain one.

Mr Cecil Franks, prosecut- ing, said there was evidence that the 'National Welfare and Housing Society' was a sub- sidiary of the National Free- dom Movement. Readers can draw their own conclusions from the close working relationship between the one-time Mosleyite candi- date Hesketh and the 'Black Power' promoter and 'left- winger' King. Two things remain to be said. The first concerns the capitalist Press. Whenever the Tory papers referred to Beach, they proclaimed him as a 'Black Power leader'. It has, of course, become their common practise obscure, to boost way-out characters in this way, regard- less of whether they are really leading anything or anybody, in order to give a completely wrong impression. Their aim hat in this should be obvious.

Press, Tuneday January 8, 1973 PAGE 7 But in the Beach case there is something else involved. All the facts I have cited in this article about connections with the extreme right could have been obtained by the reporters for the national Press. Indeed, if they had devoted a tiny fraction of the energy they expand on witch-hunting organizations left-wing and trade union militants into looking into these right-wing connections, then undoubtedly with the time and resources they have, they could have exposed the whole ramifications of this affair. Yet, except for the odd snippet in the Manchester local Press and one mention in 'The Guardian', not one of the capitalist papers which gave Beach headline coverage has printed as much as a word about the right-wing connec- tion. The second, and final thing to say is that this story is recounted not simply as an interesting tale. We have now entered a period when provocations and stunts and undercover schemes by the forces of the extreme right and by the secret services eft- of law and order are very much to be expected. The working class and the left must be on guard. The kind of atmosphere which flourishes around loose 'pro- test' groups and publicity- seekers eager to talk to the capitalist Press is precisely the sort of atmosphere in which infiltrators and provocateurs can best do their dirty work.

An alert labour movement, with a revolutionary party and its Press at the centre of this alertness, can deal with them.

A BOOK WITHOUT DEPTH

PAGE 8 Workers Prass, Tuaeday Janua

REVIEW BY CLIFF SLAUGHTER

'From Alienation Surplus to Value. By Paul Walton and Andrew Gamble. Sheed and Ward, £5.50. This book, which won for its writers the Isaac Deut- scher Memorial Prize for 1972, seems to aim to be a number of different things at the same time. It details the fact that two young academics have found that they can understand and re-present some basic ideas in the writings of Marx. But it confuses these few ideas hope- lessly because they are taken separately from other funda- mental ideas of Marxism and from the 125 years of revolu- tionary practice of Marxism.

It then attempts to answer others, like Marcuse and who have revised Althusser, Marx out of recognition. But it lacks the theoretical breadth and depth to do this.

The best that can be said is that its authors appear to have begun some preliminary ground-work as students of Marx; if they were to keep day January 9, 1873

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working hard for a year or two, participate in and study workers' movement through revolutionary activity, and devote themselves to some branch of scientific study, they might produce a useful book.

It is very difficult to under- stand why they want to get into print at this elementary and confused stage. But since they do, and since the 'New Left' professional confusionists give them the accolade, their confusions had best be an- swered. If the authors were ready to tackle the modern revisers of Marxism, and the opportunis- tic politics to which they give from the standpoint of rise, Marx's basic theory of value, as they appear to be groping towards, that would be excel- Having said that, we lent. must turn to criticism. At the source of the confu- sion lies the following claim (p. 18): The peculiar structural posi- tion of the intellectual frees his consciousness from the determinations that pervade the universe for the alienated producer. The intellectual can therefore choose whether to become an abstraction of alien- ated man establishing himself as a measure of that aliena- tion, or a philosopher of the ruling class, who makes it his 'chief source of livelihood to develop and perfect the illu- sions of the class itself. The former will be acting as a dereifying agent, the latter as an ideologist'. This suggests that Marxism, theory, is simply 'an as a abstraction of alienated man •.. a measure of that aliena- tion' (whatever that may mean), and that the role of this theory is to 'dereify' the thinking of those who read it, i.e. to clear away the mists of in men's 'reification' placed minds by capitalist ideology.

This Utopian idealism is re- peated in the author's talks 'helping conditions about where species-being can be realized (p. 21.) In the first place, Marxism is not a reflection of the in- terests and experience of the working class and its aliena- tion, but a comprehension of those things through the development of the most advanced ideas developed (in bourgeois society) in philo- sophy, politics (history), and political economy. through the Within and class-orientated (i.e. relative to its own class and time) thought any particular stage of of social development, there is the growth of objective human knowledge. The development goes off at all sorts of tan- gents, idealist and even obscu- rantist, but the development is there nonetheless. Marxism itself must be seen in this dialectical way. It could arise only at a certain historic juncture, but it is not simply a reflection of that juncture. The existence of the prole- tariat in Marx's day had a very specific relation to the origins of his revolutionary theory, which, of course, had nothing intellectual's to do with the "peculiar structural position' (a sociological myth cultivated by Alfred Weber and Karl Mann- heim, conscious opponents of Marxism). Until the second quarter of the 19th century, capitalist political economy could exist and develop as a science, and could even analyse the division of national income between the classes (Ricardo). But it ceased to be so, and became for an apology capitalism, obscuring its real relations, when the working class, from being merely a class by • defi- nition of its exploited position, with only scattered manifesta- tions of coming together as a class to fight the bourgeoisie, began to organize, unite and express its independent inter- ests as part of the national life of the bourgeois powers. At that point (after 1830 or so) only bourgeois thinkers able to go beyond their own class standpoint and grasp the historical process as a whole, synthesizing. the most ad- vanced developments in philo- sophy and history as well as economics, could go outside and beyond the trap of ideo- logy. It was Marx and Engels who did this. Walton and Gamble appear to think that it was all a mat- ter of Marx's arriving at a new definition of man-man as producer--and then rethink- ing everything from the stand- 'dialectics of of the point labour' They ignore the central question: Marx and Engels did as the authors think, not, 'combine Hegel's concept of teleology [purpose] with Feuer- bach's humanism' (p. 9). They brought French socialism, the political movement and think- ing of the working class, into Eng- a conflicting unity with lish political economy and the Marx-'The existence of revolu particular tionary ideas in period presupposes the existence of a revolutionary class. Above: The March, 1848 revolution in Berlin. Hegelian dialectic. Hegel's contribution was not simply to work out a tele- ', but to establish (even if ology' 'upside down') a truly histori- cal and dialectical (contradic- tory, negative) view of the unity of the natural and social- historical process. The possibility of Márx at his revolutionary arriving synthesis is no mystery. 'The of revolutionary existence ideas in a particular period presupposes the existence of a revolutionary class', ('The Ger- man Ideology'); capitalism's development, besides own every day 'manufacturing' ali- enated consciousness, produces this class and its revolutionary needs. The role of revolutionary ideas is not to 'dereify' think- ing, but to become the con- sciousness of this revolution- ary class through a political its existing struggle against consciousness. This struggle takes place only in and the leading of the through working class against the bour- geoisie. The authors of this book ignore this unity and conflict of theory and practice, even time, though, from time to he they hail it from a safe dis-

In the whole book— tance. which is supposed to show us the relevance of Marx's politi- cal economy today—Lenin's Trotsky's 'Imperialism' and 'Permanent Revolution' the two fundamental developments of Marxist theory in the fight against 20th century capitalism in the epoch of proletarian revolution, are not even men- tioned! somehow never Stalinism happened. Rather than Lenin, Trotsky and the revolutionary movement, the authors seem about something to know called 'sophisticated Marxism' (p. 92). It is true, of course, that many, many of the fashionable criticisms of Marxism can be dismissed simply by referring to what Marx actually wrote, instead of to the myths about what he wrote. Walton and Gamble seem to see them- selves as inheritors of this real Marx' . Two things need to be said about this. First of all, Marxism exists today; and has developed, be- cause it has been fought for against revisionism, in the course of the work of revolu- tionists striving to lead the working class to the conquest of power. Trotsky and the Fourth In- ternational, in struggle against Stalinism, represent the only tradition of this struggle. There is no understanding or developing Marxism except from the standpoint of its own real struggle for life. It is not a magic 'dereifying' spell to be discovered by scholars who happen to be 'sophisticated' enough... Secondly, Walton and Gam- ble make numerous errors in their own reading of Marx, some of which we have dealt with already, and others of which are equally disastrous for a real understanding of Marx's fundamental ideas. In particular the confusion of and labour-power' 'labour' which recurs (pp. 36, 97, 209 etc.) again and again, despite their definition being correctly stated in other places. At the risk of appearing 'un- sophisticated', we will point out that Marx himself, besides the definitions of his political economy quoted by Walton and Gamble, wrote that his doctrine distinguished was above all by his theory that the class struggle was located in definite stages of develop- ment of the productive forces, that it issued, under capital- ism, in the rule of the work- ing class, and that this would give way to a classless society.

This historical, political, re- volutionary essence of Marx- ism is not exhausted by the 'the formula dialectics of labour'. It will not do simply to insist that Marx's mature theories do not contradict his earlier basic assumptions.

The essential question is the relation between the develop- ment of the theory and the real world of the class struggle with which it dealt. Out of the fight to realize the historical mission of the proletariat came new attacks on Marxism, new defences of capitalism, new developments of theory. Walton and Gamble want to be able to answer the critics of Marxism, however, from a purely scholarly standpoint.

Whether they like it or not, they end up in the position of Althusser and his 'theoretical practice' , and not of Marx's revolutionary practice' Our 'sophisticated Marxists' have discovered-with some foundation, and certainly cor- rectly as against the vulgar theorists of 'the end of revolu- tion'-that modern capitalism is economically at the height of its contradictions, with enormous revolutionary poten- tial. But they are unable to give his glimmering (trom the Grundrisse') any real weight or direction because, like the ideologists described in the Communist Manifesto, they treat the class struggle itself, its real historical development, Feuerbach and Hegel (above). Marx Hegel's concept of teleology (purpose as Walton and Gamble, the authors of 'with transcendental disdain'.

If, as they say, the produc- tive forces are now rotten-ripe for socialism, then why no socialist revolution. The auth- their backs on the ors turn fundamental thesis that 'the crisis of humanity is reduced to the crisis of revolutionary leadership'. Because they will not go near this problem, Wal- ton and Gamble put forward the idea, without any attempt to demonstrate it, that only capitalist society does now come fully into contradiction with the further development of the productive forces.

a stroke of the With pen they wipe out three genera- tions of imperialism and the proletarian revolution, and this absolves from responsi- bility the reformists, Stalinists and revisionists who have be- trayed the working class, and whose defeat is a precondition of proletarian victory. ('Only now are the relations of production turning "from forms of development of the productive forces This thesis renders the whole final chapter 'The Rele- vance of Marxism for the Pre- sent' negative. To conclude in this day and age that 'the pro- letarian revolution is still possible outcome of history' is to reduce oneself to being the mouthpiece of some desperate idealistic hope of a disillu- sioned middle-class intelligent- sia. This is the very opposite of the Marxist position on the relation between theory and the revolutionary movement.

The chapter 'Engels and Scientific Marxism' is no bet- ter than the rest. Once again our authors see themselves as who have rescued the men 'real' Marxism from the 'great damage' done it by lesser, more simple minds like ...

Frederick Engels! (p. 75).

They begin by quoting Luk- acs at length against Engels.

did Marx and Engels not 'combine with Feuerbach's humanism' the authors of the book, think.

('History Class Lukacs. and Consciousness') was at pains out that the only point reality is the relation between subject and object, and all the categories of thought, like dia- derived from lectics, are

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In this, as in every single theo- retical question, Marx and En- had an identity of views all collaborated closely and their lives. The popularizing works of Engels, so often attacked by revisionists, were always read anen based dn his Marx, and often based on notes. large number of works were jointly written. It is nonsense to suppose that a fundamental difference between the

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But there are already signs that much of the buying was done on the basis of fictitious value. The 40 House of Fraser stores in Scotland have noticed a marked increase in credit purchasing. 'There is no doubt,' said one official, 'that the publicity given to credit cards has sparked off a spending spree particularly at Christmas? Like many other of the store chains the House of Fraser has noted a marked increase in accepting credit. It began credit cards in March, since then the never-never purchases have increased ten fold. Credit purchasing adds enormous fuel to the inflation- ary fires. But this is one flare- up the Tories are not too keen to put out. The people who tote the credit cards around in their wallets and handbags are the wealthier middle class or the rich-good solid Tory supporters. The frightened people of Wolverly and Cookley want to bring back a little bit of the Wild West to their tiny Worcestershire community.

They want a sheriff - or rather a bobby-and they are prepared to pay the West Mercia police force £50 a week for the exclusive use of one their strapping young of constables. The enemy is the vandal who has been breaking lamps in the village. Patrols in panda cars are not enough to catch this varmint. Only a man on the beat will do. A spokesman for West Mercia constabulary would not comment on the offer. Press, Tuosday January 9, 1973 PAGE 9 You must have read about the have-a-go who foll types bandits to save thousands of pounds for their firms. John Baker, a pensioner was one.

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The Jones-Aldington promises that never came true MP proposes trade war tactics LATEST figures for the number of new jobs found for dockers at container depots show a huge discrepancy with the number of men who have left the industry or want to leave under special severance terms. While 4,500 have already gone nationally and 2,000 more have applied to go, the new jobs total is ... just 250.

So all the promises on which union leaders ended last year's national dock strike are shown to be frauds. As Workers Press warned at time, the the promises were designed to inflict a permanent cut in the docks labour force a major attack on dockers' and hard-won rights. This is now happening. Take Merseyside, where the register of dockers has been cut by 20 per cent. There a new deal has just been signed with one of the biggest container operators which provides exactly 26 new open- ings for registered men. The deal with the OCL-owned Containerbase Federation hailed by the current issue of 'The Port' as 'following in the wake of the Jones-Aldington proposals that more container ANTI-CONCORDE activities in the United States should lead to reprisals by Britain and France against American interests in the Common Market, says Bristol Tory MP Robert Adley. He has written a strong let- ter to premier Edward Heath as American aircraft interests and their 'conservationist' allies intensify their campaign persuade Pan-American to Airways not to take up their option on eight Concordes.

Cancelled On October 28 last year United Airlines, the largest US domestic airline, cancelled its option on aircraft. If Pan- Am follows suit, there will be • 24 Concordes in options for only the whole of the American market. Workers Press pointed out on August 27, 1970: 'If Pan-Am's marked reluctance to commit itself to a definite purchase hardened into a rejection, other airlines grappling with the same problems, but with far inferior

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In fact negotiations on the deal started well before the Jones- Aldington committee was estab- lished. And, in any case, 26 new jobs-and the possibility of 30 more before the end of the year -cannot in any way plug the gaping hole the committee's pro- posals have punched in the Merseyside labour force. Since severance-pay terms were increased for five months in line with the committee's proposals last September, the port register has fallen from nearly 10,000 to 7,500. Meanwhile tonnage and, there- fore, productivity is increasing despite closure of the south end of Liverpool docks last August.

In other words, Transport and General Workers' Union general Jack Jones' deliber- secretary with Port of London ations Authority chairman Lord Alding- ton have already gone a long way to changing the face of the in- dustry by stealth. The agreement between the union leaders and the port employers has led to a situation where there may well soon be a shortage of labour. This in a port which had no problem surplus labour before last year's strike. Another 'new move' credited the Jones-Aldington to com- Merseyside is the mittee on opening of a container group-

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resources, will be even less likely to commit themselves.' Every capitalist airline has the same problem—a vastly-increased expenditure launched in capital the mid-1960s on the basis of an expected expansion of the passenger market which did not materialize. Now they face soaring costs in a declining market. Profits turned to losses in 1969. Trans-World Airlines lost $39.9m; United Airlines $15.1m; and Pan-American $25m (com- pared with a profit of $49m in 1968). This has led to world-wide rationalization, speed-up, attacks on wages, sackings, monopoly growth... and trade war. The Concorde is in a weak position in this war because its development costs have increased more than eight-fold since the first Anglo-French development agreement was signed in 1962.

These costs are now in the region of £900m. On August 16, , 1971, the French partner in the project- Aerospatiale — said each Con- corde (with spares) would cost age depot at the old B and I Lines' terminal, Trafalgar Dock.

There registered labour em- ployed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company will stuff and strip containers for the Far East trade, recently transferred to Southampton. The containers will travel and from South- to ampton by road. But the depot will provide no new jobs for dockers, since the men required will be drawn from already working the 50 for B and I Lines at the dock. A preamble to the Jones- Aldington interim report, pub- lished in July 1972, promised that a 'considerable number' of new job opportunities for dockers would be provided if its terms were accepted. The main problem in the in- dustry, the report said, was the existence of a large temporarily unattached register (TUR), then comprising 1,650 men. Union leaders on the com- mittee also accepted employers' estimates that they were carrying 10 per cent of labour surplus to their requirements. There was no suggestion that the intention of the, report's proposals was to get rid of these other 4,000 men.

Yet this is what has happened.

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£13m. Less than five months later this figure was revised up- wards to £20m. But the major threat to Con- corde-and the 25,000 jobs at stake in Britain and France-is the determination of American capitalism to protect its leader- ship in civil aeronautics.

The US holds some 70 per aircraft exports cent of world and Britain and France about 25 per cent between them. Opponent But the American manufac- turers still want to keep Con- corde out of the US market until their own Boeing 2707 Super- sonic Transport (SST) plan is ready in a few years' time.

The project's engineering direc- William Hamilton explained tor November, 1969: 'We view the Concorde as an opponent— when our supersonic airliner is introduced, Concorde will suit a number of lesser routes.'

The 2707 will certainly be superior to the Concorde, small and which is has inadequate baggage space, narrow Workers Press, Tues r came true for carrying Compensation surplus should be claimed by employers from the central fund of the National Dock Labour Board, the report said. The dockers themselves would also be expected to make 'an contribution' appropriate by systems of work-sharing. As only Workers Press pointed out con- sistently, it was admitted by Jack Jones that this could mean a loss of earnings for dockers.

But the real sting in the report's tail was the proposal for a five-month campaign to per- suade men to leave the industry by raising severance pay to £4,000 maximum. This was hard, specific and far-reaching. It was quickly and enthusiastically taken up by the Tories. On the other hand there was specific or nothing hard or definite about either: The interim report's promise of talks between unions, em- ployers and port authorities on making groupage work available to dockers. Jones-Aldington's further pledge to 'continue its efforts to guarantee groupage containers and port-type work' to registered dockers. The cruel deception involved in this trick has been shown on Merseyside. fuselage, inaccessible components and high operating costs.

One thing can be asserted without a doubt-the jobs of thousands of and European American aircraft workers are at risk as this battle of the giants intensifies. • The first flight of the second pre-production Concorde expected today. Originally scheduled for Toulouse last Sun- day, the flight was twice post- poned because of bad weather.

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There was a strong feeling for all-out industrial action at the

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per- manent representative at Comecon, the Soviet bloc's grouping, Frantisek trading Hamouz, has forecast talks on with the Common contacts Market. In an article in the youth 'Mlada Fronta' newspaper, deputy premier Hamouz said there was a fundamental con- trast between the free com- petition of the EEC of western planned Europe and co- operation based on planned PAKISTAN'S President Zul- fiqar Ali Bhutto and Rumanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu will today discuss for prospects greater economic co-operation, especially oil extraction.

large quantities prod industry equipment which could be help- ful in exploring Pakistan's oil basins. In an interview published in Bucharest on the eve of Ceau- sday January 9, 1973

BY SARAH HANNIGAN

SACKINGS in the Tees- side teachers' dispute have now reached a total of 66, a spokesman for the National Association said of Schoolmasters yesterday. About 60 teachers have been dismissed or sacked without a hearing, their cases being con- sidered in their absence, the spokesman said. Another been dismissed after a nad hearing. The spokesman, Mr George ig into yastarday's delegate meeting

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meeting , which was attended by 70 delegates representing. 42,000 gas workers all over Britain.

The only reason this was not adopted, said the chairman, Jim Mason, was that delegates were aware of the safety implications to the public. Edmonds, John

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national officer for the industry, said that many delegates felt that since this was unique action by the government it should be matched by an equally unique reaction from gasworkers'.

development and socialist in- tegration which was typical of Comecon. 'We expect that talks will take place on potential con- tacts with the EEC, but we maintain that the prerequisite must be mutual advantage, he said. The East German govern- ment has transferred its dip- lomatic headquarters from Amsterdam to Brussels in a move which many sources see as part of an accommodation to the enlarged community.

sescu's visit to Pakistan, Bhutto said the two leaders would 'exchange opinions to the mutual benefit of both countries and of the entire world.' Bhutto defended his country's policy of building good relations Russia, with China and the United States. "There is no con- tradiction in such a policy, he declared. Limburn, also said that the union was now considering claiming 'wrongful dismissal' under the Industrial Relations Act.

The NAS is still affiliated to the TUC and if it does decide to industrial initiate action at an tribunal, it will be flying in the face of official Congress policy.

Schools in Teesside reopened yesterday with another 500 teachers operating a work-to-rule and also facing possible suspen- sion. National Union of Teachers' Under the constitution of the union, yesterday's meeting could only advise the union executive which will take the final decision on what form action is to take.

The timing of this, Edmonds would obviously be said, co- Greened Workers Transion and Union. T&GWU delegate conference. last Friday said that the first indust- rial action should start not later than January 17. Besides the ban on pay negotiations, the meeting also discussed the possibility that action might be needed to force a realistic offer once the talks were resumed. But no firm decision was taken on this. Gasworkers at East Greenwich and Croydon, who have been banning overtime and working- to-rule for almost a fortnight, will meet tomorrow for a report back on yesterday's conference and the executive's decision.

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point of confrontation if neces- sary. Their other alternative is to a snap election - which call would be preceded by a red scare —with the hope of mobilizing the middle class to vote Tory.

If they won, the Tories would return to power and introduce a barrage of openly repressive legislation. It is brutally obvious that this period poses great dangers for the working class as well as great possibilities. The attacks on the standard of living of millions of working- class families means an attack on basic democratic rights.

Councils of Action, comprising all political parties, trade unions and tendencies in the workers' movement, tenants' associations housewives' and committees must be built in all the areas.

A central campaign of the members, who are not directly involved in the dispute, are refusing to operate timetable changes to cover jobs they do not normally perform. Regional NUT officer John Alderson said, however, the union was not officially blacking the jobs of sacked NAS members.

Before Christmas a total of 156 Teesside teachers-members of the NAS and the Union of Women Teachers-received sus- pension notices for working-to- contract in a dispute over de- mands for assurance of job- security with the local education committee's move towards com- prehensive schools. Most of the teachers had been invited to attend hearings of the staffing education committee's and general purposes, but the vast majority did not take part.

Many say they had been kept waiting at the town hall all day long and saw no possibility of their cases coming up and there- fore went away. Dismissal notices sent to them gave the teachers until yesterday to explain why they did not attend their hearings. Trade unionists on the local Redcar trades council last week called for the resignation of the Education Committee chairman, Cilr Peter Fulton and the whole of his committee over the dispute.

The trades council passed a resolution deploring the attitude of the Labour - controlled its education committee and general mishandling of the dis- pute. Said trades council chairman Cllr Garth Houchen: 'We are appalled that people who lay claim to having a trade unionist background-and may well have attained their office through the medium of their respective trade unions-should adopt policies which are reminis- of those of the employing cent classes in the latter part of the last century.' Last Friday, Cllr Fulton of 'black- accused both unions mailing' the committee. got to see,' he 'People have said, 'that they are being black- mailed and that compromise is no answer.' And he added that, in his opinion, ordinary men women of Teesside fully support- ed the local authority's actions.

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About 1,000 members of the Transport and General Workers' Union met yesterday and voted to continue their strike at least until Friday when they will meet to review progress. The strikers have already re- ceived backing from laboratory workers at Shell. Over 1,000 process workers are involved in the dispute which centres around a management speed-up offensive. The dispute began on Thursday when workers refused to change a tyre.

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