Workers Press no. 969

workers press

PRICE CONTROL

O'Brady sentenced to six months jail

INCORPORATI

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

The beef investigation, led by Tory Dame Elizabeth Ackroyd, accepts that prices will stay at record levels. Its advice to housewives is to lower their standards and buy cheaper foods like pork, lamb and chicken. Good meat, it seems, is now food only for the rich.

But yesterday's report was just one sign of the massive cut in living standards which is on the way. Bread, cereals, jams, meat pies, sausages and all sugar products will go up in price soon.

This was admitted yesterday by a spokesman of the Food Federation, Manufacturers' which represents the big monopolies that dominate the shops and super.

markets. I think price rises are inevitable. We can't control the prices of raw materials we Sugar use. has gone up enormously on the market and so has • he said. grain, The spokesman was referring to perhaps the The Torie biggest monthly rise in the prices of ever supermark raw the food in- materials to An increase in the price dustry. of will newsprint be approved in the next few The index for December days and rises in timber. rose by per cent- leather, light metal and would be a bad figure for and board paper a whole are ex- for a year, but pected to be agreed. month it is unknown. These new increases will of living is The cost be on top of the vast rises about to go up even more.

that have already occurred Over 800 food price rises since the so-called freeze are already under consider- on goods in the shops. by the Ministry of ation Agriculture. Between November and December, of fresh prices The Department of Trade food rose by 7.5 percent and Industry is examining on average. proposed price increases for In other words wage- 1,000 non-food goods.

O'BRADY,

RORY

Pro- visional Sinn Fein presi- dent, was sentenced to six months' Imprisonment in Dublin yesterday afternoon convicted after being of being an IRA member. The whole trial was over and the sentence delivered only about two hours after O'Brady first appeared in Dublin's Green Street special court yesterday. Two police officers and Chief Superintendent a gave evidence in the trial.

It was the first of its kind under Eire's new Offences Against the State Act, steamrollered through the Irish parliament in Decem- ber. O'Brady charged was O'BRADY ... Attack with being of a member the IRA, being a member on organization

ORATING THE NEWLETERRI

OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

The Tories "beef team'-(left to right) e supermarket chief James Gulliver and high earners have already been robbed of a substantial proportion of their in- come and they are about to be robbed of an even greater proportion. Another basic right is in jeopardy-the right grave to fight, without fear of or fines, for a arrest decent standard of living.

The Tories are challeng- ing this right with the power of the state. This is the background to the talks with the TUC and the bosses of British industry.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

of an illegal organization and raising or maintaining or attempting to raise or maintain an armed force contrary to the constitu- tion. Prosecuting counsel, Mr N. K. McDonald, said two other charges alleging IRA membership on another date would not be pressed.

'Evidence' in the trial consisted of reports from two police officers who had heard O'Brady address a Sinn Fein meeting on Sep- tember 23, 1972. Detective Sergeant John O'Maheny told the court he heard O'Brady say: 'When force was used against the people of the north they looked to the

R • FRIDAY JANUARY 12, 1973

MITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LAB

o right) ex-union official Sid Robinson, r and high Tory Dame Elizabeth Ackroyd.

While men like Victor Feather go on talking, the Tories are given more time down living push to standards and prepare even greater attacks. No worker can tolerate any more of this treachery.

It is his livelihood and his rights that are at stake.

Now is the time to strike hard at the government. The massive demon- strations and strikes against the plan to control wages by decree of the state clearly show the mood of the working class and even

ERS PRESS REPORTER

people of the south for help, but no help was forthcoming. 'Their only shield was the Provisional IRA, and it was they who did most of the work in the north. Another police officer gave a similar account of the meeting and then Chief Superintendent John Flem- ing gave evidence of his 'belief that O'Brady was BRITAIN'S trade deficit rose to £93m in December, last month before entry to the Common Market. Exports were down on November and imports fell by less. 30 73 • No 969 4р

IST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

MEAT prices have leaped up to Common Market levels but no one has made any real profit. This is the amazing conclusion of the Tory inquiry into beef. For half an hour, high Tory Dame Elizabeth Ackroyd, supermarket chief James Gulliver and ex-union boss Sid Robinson stone-walled their way through a Press conference.

Housewives big sections of the middle agreed, paid much class. more for meat, but where the had gone This movement must be extra cash mobilized to the remained a mystery. expose Tory and the

TUC

Dame was certain, Tories collaborators. but certain, one was profiteering. The fight for wages The instead should begin It IS committee now. the only way to stop identified a curious pheno- 'psycho- price increases. called the mena logical expectation of the The TUC must be called market. order and instructed to to hold The suppliers 'expect' a special congress to because of prepare the campaign to prices to rise remove this government- shortages. a Tory government out to The shortages do not rob worker of his occur, but the meat barons every basic democratic rights. sut prices up portway. Thie 'the says report, market feeding on itself but not profiteering Only farmers seemed to be enjoying higher margins on their fat cattle. Agriculture member of an The Tory a illegal Minister Joseph Godber organization! said he would look into O'Brady cross-examined this, but stressed how the chief superintendent at difficult controls were to length and challenged the impose. accuracy of the officer's The other interesting information. that the argument was He told the court: into the Common entry *It is generally agreed Market has had no effect that I am the elected head on prices. of the Sinn Fein organiza- Irish beef, once destined tion. for the British market, now 'I submit that it is not flows to Europe at the rate just Rory O Brady who is of 100,000 tons a year. on trial here, but it is in In the first 11 months of fact my organization.' last year continental buyers bought three times as many cattle as Britain in 1971. The Board of Trade Control of exports, how- figures show that exports would only have ever, were up 4 per cent in 1972 short term impact. compared with 1971. The three (described But imports rose by 16 aptly by the Tory Minister per cent, pushing the as his 'team') put forward balance seriously into the red.

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PRICE CONTROL

FRAUD EXPOSED

O'Brady sentenced to six months' jail

INCORPORATII

DAILY ORGAN OF THE

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

The beef investigation, led by Tory Dame lizabeth Ackroyd, accepts that prices will stay at record levels. Its advice to housewives is to lower their standards and buy cheaper foods like pork, lamb and chicken. Good meat, it seems, is now food only for the rich.

But yesterday's report was just one sign of the massive cut in living standards which is on the way. Bread, cereals, jams, meat pies, sausages and all sugar products will go up in price soon.

This was admitted yesterday by a spokesman of the Food Manufacturers' Federation, which represents the big monopolies that dominate the shops and super- markets. think price rises are inevitable. We can't control the prices of raw materials we use. Sugar has gone up enormously on the market and so has grain,' he said. The spokesman referring to perhaps the was The Torie biggest the prices ever monthly rise in of raw supermark food in- materials the to An increase in the price dustry. of will be newsprint approved in the next few The index for December days and rises in timber, rose by per cent-this leather, light metal and would be a bad figure for and board paper are ex- a whole year, but for a pected to be agreed. month it is unknown. These new increases will The of living is cost be on top of the vast rises about to go up even more.

that have already occurred food price rises Over 800 the so-called freeze since are already under consider- on goods in the shops. ation by the Ministry of Agriculture. Between November and December, prices of fresh The Department of Trade food rose by 7.5 per cent and Industry is examining on average. proposed price increases for 1,000 non-food goods. In other words wage-

RORY

O'BRADY,

Pro- visional Sinn Fein presi dent, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Dublin yesterday afternoon after being convicted of being an IRA member. The whole trial was over and the sentence delivered only about two hours after O'Brady first appeared in Dublin's Green Street special court yesterday. Two police officers and Chief Superintendent gave evidence in the trial.

It was the first of its kind under Eire's new Offences the State Act, Against steamrollered through the Irish parliament in Decem- ber. O'Brady was charged O'BRADY... Attack with being a member of on organization the IRA, being a member

RPORATING THE NEWSLETTER O FRI

OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

vas the Tory gov- • housewives yes- The Tories 'beef team'- (left to right) supermarket chief James Gulliver and high earners have already been of a substantial robbed proportion of their in- come and they are about to be robbed of an even greater proportion. Another basic right is in jeopardy-the right grave to fight, without fear of fines, for a arrest or decent standard of living.

The Tories are challeng- ing this right with the power of the state. This is the background to the talks with the TUC and the bosses of British industry.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

of an illegal organization and raising or maintaining or attempting to raise or an armed force maintain contrary to the constitu- tion. Prosecuting counsel, Mr N. K. McDonald, said two other charges alleging IRA membership on another date would not be pressed.

'Evidence' in the trial consisted of reports from two police officers who had heard O'Brady address a Sinn Fein meeting on Sep- tember 23, 1972. Detective Sergeant John O'Maheny told the court he heard O'Brady say: 'When force was used against the people of the north they looked to the

R • FRIDAY JANUARY 12, 1973

VITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LAB

ex-union official Sid Robinson, r and high Tory Dame Elizabeth Ackroyd.

While men like Victor Feather go on talking, the Tories are given more time living push down to standards and prepare even greater attacks. No worker can tolerate any more of this treachery.

It is his livelihood and his rights that are at stake.

Now is the time to strike hard at the government. The massive demon- strations and strikes against the plan to control wages by decree of the state clearly show the mood of the working class and even

RS PRESS REPORTER

people of the south for help, but no help was forthcoming. "Their only shield was the Provisional IRA, and it was they who did most of the work in the north.' Another police officer gave a similar account of the meeting and then Chief Superintendent John Flem- ing gave evidence of his 'belief' that O'Brady was BRITAIN'S trade deficit rose to £93m in December, last month before entry to the Common Market. Exports were down on November and imports fell by less. 373 • No 969 40

IST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

MEAT prices have leaped up to Common Market levels but no one has made any real profit. This is the amazing conclusion of the Tory inquiry into beef. For half an hour, high Tory Dame Elizabeth Ackroyd, supermarket chief James Gulliver and boss Sid Robinson stone-walled their ex-union way through a Press conference.

Housewives big sections of the middle agreed, paid much class. more for meat, but where had gone This movement must be mobilized remained a mystery. The Tory Dame Tories was certain, collaborators. certain, no one was profiteering. should begin now. committee instead The identified a curious pheno- 'psycho- price increases. called the mena logical expectation of the The TUC must be called market'. order and instructed to to hold a special congress to The suppliers 'expect' rise because of prepare the campaign to prices to remove this government- shortages. a Tory government out to The shortages do not rob worker of his occur, but the meat barons every basic democratic rights. put prices up anyway. This, is 'the says the report, market feeding on itself but not profiteering. Only farmers seemed to be enjoying higher margins on their fat cattle. Agriculture a member of an illegal The Tory Minister Joseph Godber organization! said he would 'look into O'Brady cross-examined stressed this', but how the chief superintendent at difficult controls were to length and challenged the impose. accuracy of the officer's The other interesting information. argument was that the He told the court: into the Common Market has had no effect 'It is generally agreed that I am the elected head on prices. of the Sinn Fein organiza- Irish beef, once destined tion. for the British market, now I submit that it is not flows to Europe at the rate just Rory O'Brady who is of 100,000 tons a year. on trial here, but it is in In the first Il months of fact my organization.' last year continental buyers bought three times as many cattle as Britain in 1971. The Board of Trade Control of exports, how- figures show that exports ever, would only have were up 4 per cent in 1972 short term impact. compared with 1971. The (described three But imports by 16 rose aptly by the. Tory Minister pushing per cent, the as his "team') put forward balance seriously into the red.

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PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday January 12, 1873

WHAT WE THINK

Robert The road to dictatorship ministers, Home secretary. or orences. traditional right of any on an indictable charge to choose trial Donce recorosne should be flogged for the most minor excluded from the jury. did not include such things as belong.

The proposal, which is enjoying Labour Party' the un- ing to the The Times' raises shrill cries against this divided support of the capitalist Press Counse for the Crown interrunted: "There "The Times' believes that vetting of jurvmen. It fails to aso menton. 'Sun' centre pages on question of any political party should be abolished from 'complicated however, a far more important case on 1s 10 three huge column in the editorial listed against any name. Where is being and other turning this subject We Saor Eire cases on Times' yesterday), which This is Irishmen and

UNIS

calle. intricate inancial case in lour transacions. government Platts-Mills pressed on: 'I intend to show Tine Ween 1ory based on the spurious assumption that woman were coarceo wilo ans orences making an unprecedented attack upon that this whole case has been engineered the man-in-the-street to This case collapsed at the Old Bailey on basic democratic rights. the Special the accused Branch through fourth day and were appreciate the ins and outs ot compans to plan these guns my rarker swindles. discharged after spending seven months clients -in custody. framework On recent experience, however, it is clear corporatist Pittendreigh: 'The word "object" that I It then emerged that Britain. reluctant Parker, had that the state 1s hugely 'The Times' agent, John been involved press charges in fraud cases. But in the to political activities. Forgive me, class circles. big financial crashes Pire grour they had not relations to DaOr convictions. the collusion of the Special Branch'.

The paper which would show the financial reck- Platts-Mills: 'Only the over 90 per Wha Coll one. were Were they nothing to do with the right to elect the Director of Public Prosecu- others? ol brose Last weeK e esencile it'. This is Times' wants judge and 'expert tions, Sir Norman Skelhorn, announced politics? defendants assessors' to hear them. charges would be laid against inserted that no Pittendreigh: 'I didn't say "nothing to do Special Branch officers involved in this rights, with politics". LaKe But the more insidious comment concerns Workers Press and sewhere.

their thiminal artical and their ınis nas been well-publicized Stoke Eight aclivilics unas uke une It also takes up the argument activities.' that there When the trial ended, Workers Press should made is of Platts-Mills: 'It is the right of the defence the only that the was paper to stress nO i Menor ras ver Who is another extraordinary aspect of to have a jury which is not picked by verdict- lour lound guilty, tour aquitted to decide what and what This occurred during the the Special Branch. em- -would mean further attacks on the Lasc Pittendreigh: I was asked to take these that motoring The Crown jury system. •aneuls

LAC

JuLy are clogging objected to number of jurors steps, sir.' onerces are "The Times' says: "There have recently their alleged political atti- According 'The account Times' it is a terrible "To of Dersons to trial by jury in ocen examnies tudes. No attack 'freedom' for the defence given for chal being excluded from serving on juries Icasull was lenging jurymen until The potential Chauence … orles … on une Jury, out thet questionable grounds.' cites Detective Inspector James Pittendreigh raise not murmur about the secret exclusion of jurors in the Stoke Newing- see ences sa the defendant,' evidence. was given his political vetting undertaken by the state ton Eight case because they were mem- Platts-Mills, QC, We don't support the jury system. We are says exuremer cross-examined bers of the Tory Party. for Pittendreigh said: only recently opposed to insno capiples It is one cancerous Penalties fines- This the Special Branch. I've been 22 the institutions capitalist democratic point needs some close study. The joined up to the years in Special Branch rule. Ihe tact that acicle lawycIs 1 Domine Cast lorce L Ores dre Die Lorry very crime, leastways intelligence paring savage system an deceo to ver each oi the Jurors Tais driver's licence carefully. the charges unit. Not necessarily criminal indication of their increasing move to- and a clean alleged continue bomb attacks the political wards dictatorship homes and repressior lale allloulll have the Cad Sir metes Peter Rawinsor • Carr. work. oralar toree 1 ney are ariven oy tne economic crisis lo jury and Davies and -they "There information from dispense with bourgeois democracy and muer an• women was willed a number of not by some Tory felt that Tory could the move rapidly Party members records against names towards the corporatist women's chairman reasonably expected to be biased againsi of the jurors. Information from Specia W110 stale French Stalinists double-talk Strong delegations muster for 'peace' through Pompidou's Moscow trip talks in Paris

RELATIONS

between the

BY A FOREIGN

«one Soviet Union and France pro-

CORRESPONDENT

endorse Pompidou's visit and hi fore he policy making out vide a model of co-operation shat her being hanti policy.

held back IN PARIS yesterday both sides in the Vietnam peace talks had and peaceful co-existence be- successtul meneotanon decisions already taken and as in a different with On the hand, it has stales preparation assistant Secretary of State William Sullivan.

social systems, says the Soviet Claim, through its Moscow corres.

long-term plans Press and radio during Pre- poncent MaX unar more The Soviet bureaucracy could have been done to carry A central issue at the talks was sident Pompidou's unofficial highly with the Gaullis of policy the-metion the status of the demilitarized zone.

two-day visit. happily rom- anu UDOn al Pompidou's last visit in October, President Thieu General de Gaulle is highly difficult leading the visited by Wals en con praised as 'one of the first General Election in March In the same way, 'L'Humanité' western statesmen to recognize out flattering The Gaullists face Cul reterences

TOT

realities' and 'the de Gaulle and the French govern- accept Communist-Socialist chalenge. helping hand of friendship and Leonid .Brezhnev's 50th the President's trip has speech. offered the the French Stalinists co-operation by caused allillycioaly ellaries ¡Viallas Hecking acin a ramarea for Iel, as tneir deciarations about Herrer accusedi countries, Soliccual asolicil. elections French Moscow radio commentator.

Soviet Stalinists vould While the quite Hanol The o says that the past gely.

French 27. Strategic Air Com Drasoe Cre coveramacal December Pompidou Cololallicu blanes 'Izvestia' says for carrying out its undertakings by if the past yea cover Titeren note. were sent in toree nignis running sounding left coalition wins a majority in he was the only man to refuse to will down go the history March. Soviet-French relations for the 1O1 'Moscow and Peking Socialist Labour League Yorkshire Rally

FORCE THE TORY

bartered wheat for

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

raDIorV

BUILD THE

Vietnamese blood'-Ellsberg U11oUll, portical orisoner.

REVOLUTIONARY

recerve on

PARTY!

DANIEL ELLSBERG, who published secret papers showing how the United States prepared the Vietnam war, blasted the role of China and Press conference SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 7.30 p.m.

Union at a pulsulleis al e during the saturation bombing of North Vietnam.

bertecteo • vert cells light and little air Great Northern Hotel, with no FIRST, he thought 'that the in which are crowded Chinese and it the Russians Wellington Street (near Leeds station), together without being bought wheat of at price stana us suralen or ne down.

LEEDS

blood of their Indo-Chinese American public which ulti- Thousands of women. children the last allies'. to materv and old men are dying a slon 500,000 tons on Haiphong and Mases referis tonele big death in other prisons and camp which is leading the lack Loudy lo tood medicai direct use of B52s against the China and especialv the Sovie Exercise people of Hanoi and Haiphong'.

VISIL

Union made necessary at the hd kill suppressed. Guards nave

FILM: THREE YEARS

end of last beat and prisoners with im- year owing Ellsberg secured secret docu- punity.

OF WORKERS PRESS

harvest Pentagon axialial ments known as the The brother of Mme Binh, rasers

WICI

caused sensa- National tion when published in 1971. LiDeraLon rront neco He and Anthony Russo Paris, disappeared Tator In are after being sent to trial Los Codore prison. Angeles. got in Russia after the On the prison of Phu- of Haiphong that they came to

FBI

agents are trying Quoc, statements over 28.000 brisoners whi intimidate defence witnesses would find an end to the refused to come over the and have War visited people south being subject what 'That means,' he Monde tney urce onone chis. calls 'abominable The government refuses to tortures. nature of their reception hand over material to the pre- Its frori cones ficapating sin decentin orte heavy

ROBBIE ROBERTS (N.U.M.)

Llal obanes South Vietnam from people who phone-tapping. supporters arenal Liberation Front, it says.

PHILIP WADE, our housing correspondent, was on the spot at London's last council stand against the Tory rent Act PHILIP WADE, our housing correspondent, was on the spot at WORKERS should get rid of the Labour Party leadership if they are not 'getting satisfaction' from it, says a Camden, London, tenants' leader. Shortly before Camden Labour council voted 39 to 22 to implement the 'fair rents' Act, breaking all previous pledges, Bill Budd from the Ainsworth Estate said: 'Those in the Labour Party must carry out the policy decided at conference. They should be replaced if they don't; what else can you do?' Mr Budd, chairman of his Post Office Engineering Union branch, added: 'All political parties must now unite to remove the Tories from office as soon as possible. We must get them out and all their legislation.' No leadership in that fight will ever come from the majority of the Labour group on the Camden council.

Some 28 of them voted with the Tories Wednes- on day to crush by 39 to 22 an attempt to maintain the po- licy of non-implementation of the Housing Finance Act. It means that every one of the 21 Labour-controlled bo- to impose the savage rent in- creases under the Tory Act designed. to end pul council housing in Britain once and for all. The used by the excuse ma- that the jority government Cam- subsidies going cut did not implement was, in tact. no excuse whatsoever.

Scornful As Cllr Paddy O'Connor

SUPPORT

pointed out in moving the non- THr OBEY amendment Imniamentation the main motion:

C/ THE

"There no new situation.

LAN

Anyone who knows the

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government, who thic knew were going attacked. He poured scorn on the cani- still maintained tulators who to the Act. were opposed 'But some are more annosed than others, said O'Connor. The majority had, he added, forced 'the the hill, troops up camned them tor • ten weeks and then led retreat before the enemy approaches'. O'Connor said Camden would he hnnwn. »c tha which nearly fought. 'It's a shame and a disgrace. He appealed the Labour members to think back the on 'high-hopes' 'the a year ago, that fichi this Tory government. Well let's fight,' O'Connor finished stormy applause trom the gal- leries. Phil Turner ridiculed the argu- subsidies about the loss of ment "They are used by the majority. by paid for by the ours right, taxpayers' he said. For Dick Collins. of veteran the St Pancras rent battles more than a decade ago, to implement retreat'. was an awful He added: Month after month we told tenants would not nut the rente un Now Mol Nowhile tenants chorused when the crunch comes the men have been sorted out from the boys.!

New deputy leader Frank Dob- Collins told son laid himself wide open by the meeting third timo ho hod eno espise men belled To a tha voted against the majority in the Party on the question of rents.

variously sit-down, shut up and/or resign. I will never, and I say naver. Peter Best. chairman of the vote Housing Finance for tho policy and Act, he concluded to key resources com- enormous mittee, the newly-converted im- cheers from the tenante plementer, was heavily barracked.

We're admitting we've lost Barracked battle? he said. after declaring the council would now have ow bsite policy of rational Tho coil whatorer that micht mone onathor mom. implementer sprang from the BY that mean-minded suburbanite, timo_oftar petty- almact of debate-the fight Tories who can't stand three hours bourgeois The majority of Cam. seeing the ordinary working man den Labour had living in decent conditions'.

councilors proved beyond all doubt their Despite late defections political honkruntay in the face como to she see council leadership was of attacks by the Tories on the council leadership basic rights of the working class.

tha day howavar Tad hi Tenants had been led Mrs Miller they went down on so far their "knees before the govern- and than shonannad to tha ant.

ernment. The reformists at Cam- ment. den who wanted comnromice 'This is the moment we must government had be- 4h ho submit to the government, said trayed the working class.

SURRENDER

CAMDEN

NO

SURRENDER

SAYS

HANDS. PRIDRY

TO

TORY

ACTIO

BLACKMAIL

SUBSIDIE: COMMI

CAMDEN

Shotton steelmen to defend jobs 'CIVILIZED and constitutional' action has failed to prevent the proposed shut-down of the steel-making department of the north Wales Shotton works, Secretary of the Deeside Steel Defence Committee, Mr John Griffiths, has said.

Instead, militant action to prevent the closure must be prepared, he told a committee meeting at Connah's Quay on Wednesday night. It was now time to fight, he said. The previous day workers at Shotton were told by Steel Corporation chairman Lord Melchett that the iron and steelmaking department would be phased out by 1979 because outdated. Was least 6,500 jobs will be lost.

Mr Griffiths said that Ene defence committee would pledge full support the works' to action which meets tonight. commuttee He added that the workers had every right to fight for their and for the

JOUS

ODs or ruture generations. 'The government not the realize tragic re- that 0,500 lost Job oppor suits tunities would mean,' he said.

And it would be nonsense suggest that enough alternative could be attracted to hill those lost jobs. Measures to fight the closure have been agreed by plan -a sub-committee otine Norta Wales

TUC.

Its chairman, Clir Tom Wednesday Jones, said on night uney were going to moblize the public in Flintshire, Denbigh- Press, Friday January 12, 1973 PAGE 3 against the Tory rent Act

TELLS ITS

- STAY

DEFIANT

Top: Tenants demonstrate outside the council chamber before Wednesday night's debate. Below left: Tories create a noisy diver- sion as anti-implementer Paddy O'Connor moves his amendment to the pro-Act resolution. Below right: The vote for implementa- tion. Bottom: Two Labourite pro- implementers-council leader Mrs Millie Miller and com mittee chairman Peter Best. s failed to prevent the proposed of the north Wales Shotton works, mittee, Mr John Griffiths, has said.

sure must be prepared, he told a Nednesday night. It was now time

BY A WORKERS PRESS

CORRESPONDENT

shire and Liverpool to back up the resistance campaign. So far, however, the 'militant' action proposed is an invitation to Tory Trade and Industry secretary Peter Walker to visit the works and demonstrations to be organized to Downing Street.

Demonstrations will also be or- ganized in Deeside. Jones said that it is possible that between 7,000 and 8,000 will be thrown out of work. 'We want to inform the people of the area of the callousness and brutality behind the plan, but we shall fight all the way, he added. 01-720 2000

THE BIG PORTS ARE DYING

PAGE & Workers Pross, Friday January By our industrial corresponder The trend towards switching major cargo contracts away from Bri- tain's biggest ports is con- tinuing. Recent developments in this field have meant moves to transfer huge sections of the London meat trade to the small unregistered port of Sheerness and to Southamp- ton. The same trend has been operating in the north-east coast with switches in major contracts to places like Pres- ton. Now the Port of Bristol has lost two important contracts to other smaller ports. A pot- entially large contract, involv- ing a transatlantic container service has been switched to the unregistered East Anglian port of Felixstowe, after fail- ure to reach a manning and agreement with the wages unions.

OTHER LOST

CONTRACTS

The other lost contract-a 30,000-tons-a-year deal for Italian container cargoes—has been transferred to Newport, Monmouthshire. International Cargo Lines, London, wanted to operate a regular container service from Avonmouth, Bristol, to north American ports. However, company directors stated recently that after six weeks negotiation with Bristol Port Authority, they have been unable to , reach a man- ning and wages agreement with the unions. Just what the details of the manning agreements the com- у лапшау 12, 1973 spondent pany wanted have not been revealed. Said the director: 'We just could not afford to sit back wait any longer, so we and decided to transfer to Felix- stowe.' He added: 'No one at Bris- prepared to com- tol seems promise. But at Felixstowe the reception we got was entirely different. Negotiations took less than a week.' A spokesman for the Bristol Port Authority told Workers Press that they 'had no details' of just what International Cargo Lines wanted on . the manning and wages scales, but said that they did not find the company's offer for the con- tract a viable one. Did the move have anything to do with the fact that Felix- stowe was outside the National Dock Labour Scheme? "Well,' the spokesman said, 'that is at the back of every- body's mind. Obviously a port that does not have to adhere to commitments in terms of wages, etc, like we do, will be able to negotiate much more quickly? International Cargo Lines has now started operating the weekly service from Felixstowe and if all goes well it could lead to more regular services.

At Avonmouth, negotiations for a manning and wages agreement for work at Bristol Port Authority's container ter- minal are still continuing with unions and shop stewards.

The Geneva-based Tarros Line is now operating its con- tainer service from Newport.

For the past year, however, it has been going through Avon- mouth. The Line's Bristol manager, Mr Enzo Balestrazzi, said the transfer was an 'experiment'.

Tarros, he said, expected ex- clusive rights to a berth and labour, but their tonnage did not qualify them for this in Avonmouth. The urgent need to slash cargo costs today has rapidly escalated the drive towards unregistered ports like Felix- stowe over the past year.

ONE OF THE

LARGEST

This drive can be seen clearly in its growth—it now claims to be one of the coun- try's largest container ports. In 1955 it employed nine men; by 1970 the figure was 425 and in 1972 it had risen to 1,200. In the first six months of year alone, total last a 1,115,385 tons were handled and the year's figures are ex- pected to top the 2.5 million ton mark. Last October all monthly records for cargo- handling were broken when 250,000 tons passed through the port, mostly in 10,259 con- tainers. (This is almost an annual rate of 3 million tons.)

It compares with a total of 19 million tons of container traffic through all Britain's ports in 1971. The dockers in Felixstowe, who are outside the Dock Labour Scheme, are paid El an hour with time-and-a-half for overtime. On average they work 60 hours a week, some- times even more. In the registered ports, on the other hand, the trend is towards massive cutbacks, par- ticularly in the labour field.

Since the Jones-Aldington Unregistered Felixstowe recently container service. Above : Port of Bristol settlement of the 1972 dock strike, well over 6,000 men have accepted voluntary re- dundancy and left the indus- try. The employers' target is for a 10,000 cutback by the end of next month. Within the next five to ten years the aim is to reduce the total docks labour force by 20,000. In this drive the need for speed-up and productivity is absolutely essential. With entry into the Com- mon Market, competition with huge, almost entirely mechan- 13 ently gained contract for transatlantic t of Bristol-the loser. ized ports like Rotterdam is bound to increase with roll-on,.

roll-off traffic between Europe and Britain. At present Felixstowe oper- ates two of these terminals and a third is scheduled to open this year. For all dockworkers today the employers' drive to main- tain profits in the face of mounting competition can only mean the threat of massive re- dundancy and increasing at- living and working tacks on standards.

Since July 1971, when the Sudanese Communist Party was decimated by General Jafaar Numeiry, the Communist Party of Syria has been the largest and most influencial in the Arab world. It is also one of the most sharply divided, with two main factions in fundamental dis- agreement over key issues facing the Arab movement.

The majority of the Party's politburo-and apparently the majority of the membership as well-is opposed to the general secretary, the veteran Stalinist Khaled Bekdash.

Repeated efforts to heal the breach have not succeeded, despite top-level consultation between the dissident factions and the Soviet leadership.

Though the Party is formally still a single organization, the Bekdash faction and opponents are separately rep- resented in the Syrian govern- ment, led by the Ba'ath Party.

Bekdash and his chief Party, within the opponent Daniel Ne'meh, in the are Cabinet of President Hassan Al-Assad. Similarly the two factions have separate repre- sentatives on the central com- mittee of the National Front, which the Party entered in 1971. Plainly neither faction has any principled opposition to Stalinism-both have entered the thoroughly anti-working- class military government of General Assad, indicating that neither faction aims to chal- lenge the Syrian bourgeoisie.

Bekdash hews rigidly to the Moscow line. He has been de- scribed as 'more Soviet than Soviets' majority the " The faction leans towards Pan- Arabist positions and criticizes the USSR from this standpoint.

The key issue which divides the factions is resolution 242 passed by the United Nations Security Council with Soviet support in November 1967.

This reactionary resolution a negotiated settle- envisages ment with Israel based on Israeli withdrawal to its pre- 1967 positions. It thus implies recognition of Israel and abandonment of the Palestinian people's national demands.

In the course of their dispute over these questions, a dele- gation of top Syrian Stalinists went to Moscow in May 1971 to discuss one of the key documents in dispute-a draft programme approved by the Central Committee the pre- vious year. The delegation saw Michael Suslov, a leading Soviet ideo- logist, and Boris Ponomarev, be better known for his witch- hunting attacks on Trotskyism.

The record of their discussions, in the form of extensive notes, was published in the Arab Press last summer. It reveals frankly that the Soviet leaders have subordin- ated the Arab revolution, and particularly the fate of the to their Palestinian people, own bureaucratic requirements.

is There not an ounce of principle in their statements.

Ponomarev came down firmly against the idea that 'the prob- lem of eliminating the con- sequences of [Zionist] aggres- must be solved • through sIon war'. They say 'we are not in favour of this except in the case of extreme necessity'.

And perhaps more signifi- cantly they add: 'It could also lead to a confrontation between the Soviets and the Americans.'

And nothing, not even revolu- tion, must be allowed to upset relationship! that They are also against the policy of 'no peace, no war' advocated by the ruling syrian Ba'ath Party. This policy is objectionable in Soviet eyes because it involves continued refusal to recognize Israel.

The third course, favoured by the Soviet Stalinists, con- in what they call sists political solution on a just In reality this just basis'. basis' is nothing more than the ratification of the original expropriation of Pales- the tinians by Zionism. The USSR claims, with some justification, this policy that will strengthen what it terms the progressive regimes-that is the rule of the Arab bour- geoisie over the masses. War, on the other hand, would be disastrous for these regimes. The Soviet chieftains are hostile to the destruction of the state of Israel on the grounds that Israel is a fact ... an Israeli nation is arising' In any case, they say, the slogan of eliminating Israel cannot be realized in practice.

And they give this explicit warning to the Syrian Stalinists: 'As regards the logic of struggle: if the Arabs employ the slogan of the elimination of Israel and the liberation of their usurped homeland they can never gain the support of world public opinion or the support of the USSR or the support of the world com- munist movement.' This is a clear declaration that the USSR leaders do not the struggle of the support Palestinian people to regain the lands that were stolen by the Israelis with backing of the world imperialism. Even Suslov and Ponomarev are forced to admit the colonialist character of the state. But they claim: Israeli "The aim of the struggle must be to change the colonialist Syrian ruler Assad (centre) heads a thoroughly anti-working class military government.

character of the state of Israel, not the elimination of Israel as a state.' The Soviet plan is presum- Zionist ably to convert the state into a means for the liberation of the Palestinian people, since Ponomarev and Suslov talk in terms of the Israelis at some future date allowing the Palestinians to return to their homeland.

The most revealing part of the document, however, deals support for the with Stalin's establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. According to the Soviet leaders, the draft Syrian CP programme 'stated that the UN recognized Israel by virtue of the 1947 partition resolution and reaction and the agents of colonialism parti- cipated in the conspiracy.

"This brings the USSR into the conspiracy. Nothing is said about the USSR's attitude in in the 1947, only its attitude 1956 and 1967 aggressions is mentioned. Frankly, this im- plies that the USSR took part in the conspiracy? (Emphasis added.) two Soviet experts The somewhat lamely claim that when Stalin cast the Soviet vote in favour of Israel he 'voted on the basis of the right to self-determination, not to implement a colonialist scheme.' formula, to say the This is least, disingenuous. The USSR, like the imperialist powers, was well aware that the basis of Zionist Israel was expropriation of Arab the Palestine. As a kind of consolation prize for the abandonment of their hostility to peace with Israel, the Syrian Stalinists are the prospect of 'the offered formation, strengthening and expansion of Arab progressive democratic movements in all the Arab countries and the victory of socialism in these countries'. This of course, is a mutually- contradictory perspective.

On the one hand, the construction of 'democratic' (i.e. bourgeois) movements and on the other the victory of socialism. In reality, however, the question is easily resolved: the job of the Arab communist parties is to further the diplomatic in- terests of the Soviet bureau- cracy in the Middle East.

The Palestinian struggle and the revolutionary overthrow of Arab capitalist rule must be subordinated the to caste of the Moscow requirements rulers—that is the message the Syrian CP leaders were given in Moscow. Workers Press, Frid Iraq has two communist ministers, but the Communist Party is still illegal and is not permitted to have offices or a daily paper. Many of its mem- bers have been in jail for years.

This odd state of affairs is noted without comment by Reuben Faiber, assistant_sec- retary of the Communist Party in a 'Morning Star' article (January 2) following his visit to Iraq on the invitation of the ruling coalition. He gives no account of the present Ba'athist regime which came to power as the result of a military take-over in 1968.

It embarked upon a campaign of against repression com- munists which resulted in thousands being tortured and thrown into prison. This did not prevent the Soviet Union maintaining the friendliest relations with the Ba'ath Party, whose repre- sentatives attended the 24th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1971. They were also wel- Prague for an comed to 'International Theoretical Con- ference' in 1972 on national liberation movements. In Prague the Ba'ath Party delegate Z. Bayrahdar said that it and the Communist Party 'have a similar, if not identical class basis'. Reuben Falber is more categorical: 'The Ba'ath Party is a petty-bourgeois nationalist party? Bayrahdar admitted that there were complications be- tween his party and the Iraq Communist Party, 'but their co-operation-even though not very smooth-has shown the parties that their con- two tradictions are much less than could be expected, and this allows them to find more common ground'. The ground is common mainly found within the con- fines of Iraq's prisons with the communists being tortured by their Ba'athist jailers. Soviet pressure forced the Iraqi government to take two communist leaders into the cabinet after the 15-year friend- ship and co-operation treaty signed between Alexei Kosygin and the Ba'athists last April.

These men, Makran Talabani, Minister of Irrigation, and Amer Abdullah, Minister with- Press, Friday January 12, 1973 PAGE 5 out Portfolio, are hostages for the good behaviour of Pre- sident al-Bakr's government.

The Ba'athist Party includes extreme right wingers and anti- communists as well so- as socialists'. called 'Arab It tolerates CP cabinet members at the behest of the Kremlin, but it would have no compunc- tion about meting out to them the as the same treatment dictator Numeiry of the Sudan did when he had thousands of communists and trade unionists massacred in 197l. Reuben Falber has nothing to say about this. But he does reveal another Iraqi contradic- tion - the position of the Kurdish minority. For ten years, until 1970, the Kurds fought for their national self- against the determination Ba'athist - Arab chauvinists.

Then the war was ended by under which agreement an members of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan entered the government. Even Falber does not claim that the national question in Kurdistan has been solved.

Indeed he reports Kurdish complaints that discrimination and persecution continue. The Party maintains Communist guerrilla forces in Kurdistan who, according to him, 'guard part of the frontier of the area'. liberated Falber's visit was not with- out importance in backing up the class-collaboration policy of the Iraqi Communist Party.

The delegation which he led assured representatives of the three coalition parties of CP backing. Yet the persecution of com- munists is going still on. Hundreds are in jail, especially members of the Revolutionary Group which emerged after a split in 1967. Clearly Falber did not call on dominant Ba'athists to release these opponents and other critics of the regime.

His article is a discreditable cover-up job which tries to • contemptible gang present a of petty-bourgeois nationalist politicians revolutionary as anti-imperialists. Below: Iraqi Communists before tribunal which passed the death sentence on them.

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday January 12, 1973

BY ALEX MITCHELL

'Such an elaborate and daring attack in July 1948 upon an urgent national problem aroused the interest of the world, and numerous laymen and medical experts descended on England for a quick look at this remarkable experiment. Dire predic- tions were voiced about the future of British medicine and the health of the people. From the outset the climate of the United States was unfriendly towards this British venture! Dr Almont Lindsey, US doctor. The Harley Street Clinic, last week'. It would be a roar- both from the success, American-financed an point of view of the patients private hospital group, is and the consultants. preparing to establish its It is cruelly ironic that on the day the private scalpels own network of hospitals were rejoicing about the Har- independent of the Na- ley Clinic's plans, a small mid- wifery unit the Fairfield tional Health Service. at General Hospital at Bury, on The US corporation financ- the outskirts of Manchester, ing the expansion is American was forced to close down.

Incor- Medical International It was stated that the unit porated which already has could not remain open because considerable invest- overseas there was not enough staff to ments in private medicine in run it. The Bury and Rossen- Lausanne, Zurich and Paris, dale Hospital Group announced Brussels. that because of the stringent In the chairman's report for budgeting being imposed by 1971 stated: 'We It IS are the Ministry there would be increasingly inter- becoming ested in the expansion of our extension service activities in countries other 'unless staff absolutely

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Operating than the necessary. results of Harley Street Clinic have exceeded projections ..: The clinic's private merchant Warburg, bankers are S.G. is interesting only which because the same bank advised Limited Bovis the recent 100 abortive takeover battle with Bovis is the family con- P&O. Keith firm of Sir struction Joseph, the Tory Secretary for Health and Social Services.

The clinic, the most expen- sive and privileged in the country, has already announced plans to build a £1.3m private hospital in Manchester cater- ing for private patients.

agent in the area An estate has been commissioned to find a site for 150-bed the new hospital. Dr Stanley Balfour- Lynn, the chairman and man- of the director group, aging. said he hoped to find a site close to the Manchester Royal Infirmary teaching hospital.

'There of is no shortage 'Balfour-Lynn said, 'and money, I will build anywhere in this country where we are needed and wanted.' been in The clinic has Labour- negotiations with the controlled Manchester Corpor- atione cia suitiannisite depart- Bevan: Allowed private practices to flou city's planning The not a mention of nationalization of the agreed to ment had originally What's happening at Bury is corporation-owned only a microcosm of the serious land Chorlton-on-Medlock, in disrepair which National the but this subsequentiy was Health Service is falling turned down. into. the in- This, of course, is no accident.

site, near The new It is deliberate Tory policy.

will be distinctly firmary, They have made no secret of advantageous for the their preference for a health medical practitioners. dominated by facilities service the they can use mean from the

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in terms of private sector. their influential staff and equipment. They want medical and well-heeled backers in the Because of its newness it will British Medical Association to also possibly attract regular vast profits from sick- NHS patients. make ness and injury. Balfour-Lynn seems pleased loophole for site which had been The legal the with the of the suggested by the corporation. re-emergence private medical service was placed in It comes as no surprise that Health local consultants in Manchester the National Service Act of 1946 by other are eagerly awaiting the arrival none 'left' of the private group. One told than Labour Aneurin the 'Manchester Evening News' Bevan. es to flourish under the NHS, and made ion of the drugs industry.

Part I, Section 1 of the Act states: It shall be the duty of the Minister of Health to pro- the establishment mote England and Wales of a com- prehensive service health designed to secure improve- ment. in the physical and mental health of the people of England and Wales and pre- diagnosis and treat- vention, ment of illness.' This high-flown article of faith gives the impression that the new NHS would be avail- able to everyone, regardless of wealth or class distinction. But in Sub-section II, the principle of completely state-run a service is abandoned: "The service so provided shall be free of charge, except where any provision of this. Act expressly provides for the making and recovery of charges.' In a recently pub- lished pamphlet the Socialist Medical Association comments: Thus the seed was set for the existence of a private paying sector.' The SMA says that Bevan, "in order to gain agreement of the medical profession, felt compelled to sacrifice certain of the basic principles which originally built into the were of socialist conception the This service'. is a health distortion of the events.

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It is true that the leadership was hostile to the formation of the NHS. But a BMA referendum showed that 60 per cent of those voting in favour of a general were practitioner service for all, 69 per cent were in favour of a completely free hospital and consultant service, 83 per cent of doctors in the armed ser- vices wanted to work in a health centre after the war and of medical 89 per cent students were in favour of health centres. In other words, the Labour government under Attlee had a mandate not only from the voting population, but also from the medical profession to go ahead with all the necessary changes. In his book on the NHS, Dr D. Stark Murray, SMA presi- dent from 1951 until 1970, says' • in the atmosphere of 1964 when people were ready for great new moves it was strange that Bevan did not see and did not grasp the opportun- ity to make a complete break with the past? It was not strange at all, of course. For all his left rhetoric, Bevan remained tied to reform- ism and finished his career shocking his erstwhile sup- by openly opposing porters unilateral disarmament. Thus Bevan allowed private practices to continue to flourish under the NHS while £66m was offered to the profession as compensation for the abolition of the buying and selling of practices. Private pay-beds continue to exist in NHS hospitals. Throughout this period there was not a mention of nationalization of the drugs industry. The medical provident societies were quick to see the bene pen' In to sing in had subs com the 650 COlE In SuOS whic priv big attri gove

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to form the largest single private medical scheme in the country. In 1964 BUPA had 510,000 approximalely subscribers with an annual in- come of f6m. end of By the the decade this had to risen 650,000 members with an in- of £11.2m. In 1971 alone, 72,000 new subscribers joined the scheme which now runs a string of 19 of this private hospitals. raTE big rise in membership can be attributed to the tax relief for which insurance the has granted to

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The total income of BUPA and the one private senemes was £14m. Richard Crossman, Labour's Health Minister, in wrote pamphlet: Fabian blunt truth is that anyone who pays for private insurance expects to bur advantage ior him. self; if he doesn't he won't pay.

"These schemes growing because they enable their members to choose a time for an operation and to choose a consultant by name and that he will him- guarantee UPA buys a nate and ens look after patient. time, to put it plainly, facili- tates queue-jumping.' It is sobering to acknowledge Crossman's in- that despite cisive comments on BUPA's role, he did nothing to expro- priate them and bring them under control. On the contrary, the Labourites launched some of the most offensive attacks on the NHS principle: pre- scription charges were intro- duced and charges for dental services were increased. If the Labour Party paved the way for the erosion of the NHS, then the Tories have not been slow , to get things moving. As early as December 6, 1969, Angus Maud, the in- fluential Tory backbench MP, wrote: 'Private medicine is im- portant, something to be fought for and defended, for much the same reason as pen- sion schemes and independent schools are important good-or how bad-the how publicly-provided services are in terms of efficiency and pro- gress. The lack of this yard- stick would be very dangerous indeed... 'If we were to abolish private practice we should be con- ays demning ourselves permanently to a second-class service for all. Standards would deterior- ate everywhere.' Enoch Powell has also been in the forefront of attacking the NHS. Speaking at a con- ference Anglo-American on medical care in April 1971 Powell said the NHS has been Britain's 'big mistake' in health care. 'In my view a better distribu- tion and a better supply of medical care would have existed today but for the in- troduction of the idea of nil price in 1964' The British nation was 'stuck' with the NHS and with its conse- quences'. During the two and a half years of Tory rule the pincer has been applied to the NHS..

Charges have gone up and various budgets have been pruned. This has led to a deterioration in facilities and morale. On the other hand, the government has done everything possible to let the private sector flourish. It is known, for example, tly that private clinics are at Workers Press, Fr

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Dr. 1.D. Mortgomery DIA DESe present hoping to stage a take- over of the National Blood Transfusion Service, the nationalized body which takes, distributes and tests blood.

This service is already open the widest abuse by the to private practitioners: although the blood is given freely and supposed to be supplied freely, po private consultants are charg- enormous fees to their ing patients. As the SMA pamphlet says: 'The growth of the private practice within the NHS is a of part-time consult- process ants giving part-time loyalty to the NHS with no incentive to reduce their waiting lists; in fact, the incentive is to main- tain them and drive more into the private patients channels. It means that the con- sultants are actually subsidized by the state in the form both of use of expensive equipment IS. bought with public means, and of the service of fully salaried stiff. Without these they could not treat their private patients and so augment their income. 'It means a mushrooming of insurance schemes which adds more to the pockets of the consultants and places more and more people who can pay • Press, Friday January 12, 1973 PAGE 7 3 regomery Waiting-room in one of the more modern hospitals. Now private clinics are moving in beside the NHS, using public facilities, and threatening the very existence of the NHS. at an advantage to those who cannot. It means the im- possibility of comprehensive planning and the inefficient use of manpower and equip- ment, always in short supply.'

But the Tories aren't con- cerned about curing people or providing a universal free health system. The driving force of the capitalist system is the quest for profits. German capitalists profits made and submitted fiercely competitive tenders for gas chambers during the years of Nazism. The capitalist class has to make money from workers from their birth to their death. If this means destroying the right to a free health ser- vice, they will fleece away that right. The fight to preserve basic democratic rights now involves a fight to get the Tories out of office. In its place must be elected a Labour government pledged to socialist policies in- the institution of a cluding completely free NHS.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday January Dear Editor, 1 have been an ardent reader of your paper for some time now and congratulate you on its contents—well, 99 per cent of its contents. Just how long are you going to keep up this idiotic, suicidal campaign to free MacStiofain, O'Brady, McGuinness and the like? Do you really think that the British working man agrees with you? It so, perhaps you would care to join me on a typical building site and listen to the comments. How many supporters are you prepared to lose? Do you have such a large following that you can make yourself such a laughing stock?

I am in full support of a campaign to free political prisoners, but the three men- tioned above hardly come into that category, they are 'not too bright' out and out terrorists who have launched campaigns of violence against the British troops (who are mostly young men forced to join the ser- „vices as an alternative to being unemployed). Could it be that the really hurtful part of all this is the fact that Lynch is only doing what the working class should have done some time ago, put the MacStiofains of the world out of circulation?

BY MICHAEL BANDA

Our campaign for the re- lease of Sean MacStio- fain, Rory O'Brady and Martin McGuinness is neither idiotic nor suici- dal, but is based on a principled opposition to the arbitrary actions of the Lynch government. The Irish premier had these men imprisoned in order to curry favour with his political masters, the Westminster Tories, who are now his 'part- ners' in the Common Market.

He jailed the IRA leaders under the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act, rushed through the Dail to abolish the right to jury trial give the state extra- ordinary powers. Lynch is completely sub- servient to British capitalism which has been the fountain- head of violence and blood- shed in Ireland for over 300 years. Consciously or unconsciously T. Ewing ends up defending denigrating imperialism and and deriding those who fight against it. The Socialist Labour League has always condemned as reactionary the terror tactics of the IRA in Northern Ire- land. These tactics alienate the support of the working class, which is the only force cap- able of settling accounts with British imperialism and its Irish lackeys. But we in no way equate the misguided terror of the Irish Republicans with the y January 12, 1973 Does O'Brady really con- sider that he should be allowed to cail himself a 'free citizen'?

MacStiofain hardly warrants mention, he has even been shunned by his own beloved IRA. Such loyalty. As for your pathetic state- that the British im- ment perialists were responsible for the bomb outrages at the Dail, well, I don't think you are quite so gullible. Do you think the opposition influenced by such a were simple trick? In my opinion that outrage was perpetrated by terrorists, who assumed in their usual not too intelligent manner that the opposition would think as you pretend to, that the British were responsible and oppose Bill. Fortunately, the the Ministers opposition saW through this and the terrorists plan backfired. I shall, of course, continue to read your newspaper and give as much support to the SIL as possible. In the mean- time I trust we will see less support for murdering terror- ists and more for the working- class peaceable citizen. Yours faithfully, T. Ewing, Southall, Middlesex officially sanctioned state terror waged by the British army.

The British army is the main arm of state power wielded by the employing class. Its savagery in Ireland is a train- ing ground for class war at home. It is thus quite unprincipled of T. Ewing to boast that the 'British working man', that traditional creature of Tory mythology, is for jailing the IRA leaders. The Socialist Labour League bases itself on the principles of scientific socialism and not on the reported opinions of our critic's workmates. The task of leadership in the working class is to fight for those principles in order to warn the class of the dangers in front and combat the illu- sions spread by imperialism.

There can be no concessions to the position adopted in this letter, which comes within a hairbreadth of endorsing the aims and objects of British intervention in Ireland It is significant that in the same breath as he attacks the provisional IRA leaders, he apologizes for the British troops who are 'forced' to join the army. To say that young men are forced into the army as an alternative to being unem- ployed is an insult to those thousands of class-conscious youth who would rather rot than act as gunmen for the Tories. And the allegation that the IRA men are 'not too bright' reeks of British middle-class snobbery and superiority. It is worth noting that our critic British troops in Ulster: A military traini in England. Inset: Sean MacStiofain.

has nothing to say about the IQ of British soldiers or their • are not selected officers, who for their intelligence. Ewing treats the bomb out- rage at the Dail as a matter simply • of the opposition's gullibility. But it is Clear that the opposition (Fine Gael) only required the bombings as an excuse for voting with Lynch.

Like the Reichstag fire, on undoubtedly which was modelled, the Dublin bombing could benefit only one sec- tion-and that is why it was carried out. Who benefited from the Dublin bombings? Quite ob- viously not the IRA. But the explosions served timely Lynch's purpose-—and the pur- poses of the Tory government —admirably. T. Ewing apparently con- siders it 'fortunate' that the Dublin government secured passage of the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act which has robbed not only Itary training to be used against workers MacStiofain and his comrades but every other Irish worker of his rights. This welcome for the re- actionary Lynch laws is a clear demonstration of the reaction- ary nature of Ewing's support for the jailing of IRA leaders.

Over a century ago, Marx, in a Confidential Communica- tion to a section of the First International, anticipated some Ewing's and arguments made this prophetic reply: 'Ireland is the only pretext the English government has for retaining a big standing army, which, if need be, as has hap- before, can be used pened against the English workers after having done its military training in Ireland. 'Lastly, England today is seeing a repetition of what happened on a monstrous scale in ancient Rome. Any nation that oppresses another forges its own chains. «Thus, the attitude of the International Association to the Irish question is very clear.

revolution the social England. To this end a great blow must be struck in Ire- land.' (Taken from the Minutes of the General Council of the First International, March 1870) Marx was right! Only the combined struggle of the Irish and British working class can end imperialism and establish socialism. In conclusion, we appre- ciate Mr Ewing's decision to support the paper despite his differences with us on the IRA.

However we would | like to warn him that it would be an untenable relationship as long as he refuses to recognize- the IRA's methods- despite the legitimacy of the centuries old Republican demand for independence and the counter- revolutionary and utterly indefensible conquest and occupation of Ireland by British imperialism.

'Rattle her bones all over the stones, she's just a dead pauper who nobody owns.' This old doggerel became a night-marish reality recently for Mr and Mrs Anthony Davies of Aston, Birmingham.

Mr Davies, an unemployed lorry-driver and father of ten, had just lost his son Anthony.

He had died in hospital after suffering for two years of leukaemia. Mr Davies and his wife were living on Social Security and because of this they found their son had to be buried in a common grave along with several other adults. The parents also say that they were denied permission to attend the burial. Mrs Davies asked the hos- pital if the child could be buried in her family grave in Witton cemetery. The hospital said this was not possible and referred her to the Birmingham Social Security office. They said that £22.50 could be offered to open the Witton last Wednesday, But grave. when Mr Davies went to collect the money, he was told that he could not have it. The hospital then said that only one funeral car could be provided-obviously, with the size of the family, two were needed. The family was subjected to further distress when govern- officials asked for the ment child's birth certificate so that his name could be added to rather than deleted from the family allowance book. A Birmingham regional hos- pital spokesman said: 'It must be remembered we are dealing with public funds Mancunians who fancy a grand, amazing, superb — and, above all, divine-time handing over hard-earned cash for second- hand knick-knacks should pro- ceed immediately 298 to Oxford Road. Today is the last day for them to help fill the coffers of a great little religious operation whose admitted assets already in include a £25,000 house fashionable Highgate, London,: and a Rolls-Royce. The operation is centred on the person of Guru Maharaj Ji (15), claimed by his devotees to be 'the Lord incarnate again'.

He gives his followers the Perfect Knowledge, they give him virtually everything. They are expected to renounce all luxuries, hand over everything but what they need to live on from their salaries and help in organization of Divine Jumble Sales and the sale of Divine Literature. is supposed As the Guru to have acquired 6,000 fol- lowers since hitting Britain last June, this must add up to a tidy sum. example of what the An faithful get for their money is printed on the publicity hand for this week's Grand outs Charity Shop— described as 'this incredible landmark in history of Manchester' the in the heart of the city's club- land. 'If I told you an elephant two inches high would was you believe me? Of course not,' says a quote from the Guru himself. 'If I told you an ant seven inches tall would was you believe me? Of course not.

But if 1 showed you, you would have to believe. 'Believe in the practical, not in the theory. If you say God exists then I will ask you to show me. You must see God face to face-and I can show you that God exists.' According to a recent letter to the 'Sunday Times' from Glen Whittaker, general Sec- retary of the Divine Light Mission which handles the Guru's affairs, the 15-year-ola IS God. But Whittaker's letter combined this spiritual-sound- ing declaration with a strangely materialistic assessment of the Guru's worth. The Mission secretary denied the paper's suggestion that a suitcase the Guru took to a rally in New Delhi last November was stuffed with money and jewels to the value of £45,000. The contents of in question were the object formerly valued at only $27,000, he claimed Whittaker also insisted that the Highgate house cost only £25,000, not £50,000 as the Times' had estimated. 'Sunday But perhaps the most fas- cinating paragraph of the letter related to the Rolls-Royce. 'If Jesus were and to reappear asked the Primate to arrange a tour of British churches, no doubt a similar vehicle would be put at his disposal,' Whit- taker argued. But where would the faithful find the palm leaves to throw down in his path? Moscow Trials Anthology Paperback, 622р

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FILM REVIEW BY JOE HARPER

'Behind the Lines' is a colour documentary about life in the liberated areas of Mozambique where Frelimo trains and educates its guerrilla army and helps organize the revival of agricultural production and trading as well as political reorgani- zation and the starting of social services. As anti-Portuguese propa- ganda, the film is successful enough, contrasting the racial- ism, the slave labour, and the military of the repression colonialist regime with the heroic struggles of the libera- tion movement. Director Margaret Dicken- son also exposes the role other imperialist powers play in propping up the extreme right- wing regime by their military aid to Portugal through NATO and by commercial ties, such as the multi-national Cabora Bassa dam project. But this

STALINIST CRISIS

After nearly 25 years in a 'Peoples' Democracy, Slo- vakians are hitting the bottle with all the traditional enthu- siasm. They are running near the top of the European league for the consumption of alcohol.

Consumption per head in 1972, including infants and old falt amounted to ten litres spirits, almost as much wine made from grapes plus 1.5 litres of other wines and a hefty 115 litres of beer.

Lamenting these figures, a writer in the Bratislava 'Pravda' pointed out that alcohol was responsible for over a third of all crime and much economic and moral damage as well as health prob- lems. He called for tighter laws against drinking abuses and a campaign against the menace of alcoholism. He did not explain why, in a country sup- be socialist' posed to and 'building a happy life', to use a consecrated Stalinist expres- sion, Slovaks were taking to drink with such abandon. It is obvious that there is enough to drive them to drink Workers Press, Fr aspect is less fully treated.

If it had been possible, it would have brought a violent jolt to British audiences to see in detail how their taxes are being used to help the bloody suppression of the liberation struggle through

NATO-

supplied helicopters and other military expertise. The film is less satisfactory, however, on the question of exactly what the Mozambique consists of. The revolution portrayal of life behind the lines, while sympathetic, leaves many questions unasked, let alone answered. In view of the complex development of many of the revolutionary struggles in the 'third world', including not a few disastrous or dangerous wrong turnings, this is a pity.

The argument about which is the correct way forward is crucial and obviously takes within Frelimo place as within liberation any other struggle. But the film makers seem either to be not aware of this or else chose to ignore Husak: driving them to drink in the strains of daily life, not to speak of the effects of the invasion by the Warsaw Pact countries in August 1968 and the oppression by the Husak regime. The link between drunken- ness and crime is also being in the stressed constantly Soviet Union where it is said that every second criminal who breaks the law was or is under the influence of alcohol.

A report from Orenburg attributes 90 per-cent of absen- teeism in Orenburg's nine largest industrial plants to drunkenness. Severe measures against alcoholism are being taken in the Soviet Union.

Workers Press, Friday January 12, 1973 PAGE 9 Above: Medical team in a liber- atta area or mozamoique Consequently, the film iS slightly marred by having 'Look at Life' J. Arthur Rank feel about it. We hear tantalizing refer- ences to the co-operative struc- ture of the revived farming and trade and the democratic councils which run village life, but the specific political and content these new Cass forms of organization is not gone into. Similarly, the political edu- cation of the army is fre- quently referred to, but never fully described or ever dis- cussed. On the question of Mos- cow's and Peking's influence on rrelimo and anv reachol there is complete silence; much as Moscow and Peking would no wish it doubt. The film-makers clearly want to win sympathy for Frelimo from every shade of opinior without going too deeply into This they have done DOlLICs. well.

AFTERMATH

OF THE

BALTIC RIOTS

The organ of the Polish Com munist Party', a Maoist group operates which from Albania, called on Polish workers has prepare for an armed up to rising Gierek to overturn regime in a second anniversary article the riots the . on 1n Baltic ports 'Gierek did not keep It says: his promise take severe action against those respon- sible for the hideous murder inflicted on the working class anu civilan populaton or the coastal area. The Central Com- Commission which he set up published not a single communiqué in two years. • Not one criminal punisned Neither the main culprits, led by Gomulka, nor the rank-and file murderers in police uni- form have faced a court.'

The article adds that the victims of the repression-shot down by police and troops were wrapped in plastic bags and buried graves. The place of burial of many of them remains unknown Many of those arrested are still in prison; others have dis- appeared. The families of those who were murdered are being pestered terrorized and secret police agents say they must stay silent or face imprisonment and reprisals?

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Friday January 12, 1973

TODAY'S TV

12.25 Ryan a ronnie. 12.55 News. 1.00 Pebble Mill at one. 1.30 Teddy Edward. 1.45 Television doctor. 2.05 Country walk. 2.35 Parkinson.

3.35 Tomorrow's world. 4.00 Clangers. 4.10 Play school. 4.35 Jack- anory. 4.50 Help. 5.15 Record breakers. 5.40 Magic roundabout. 5.45 News. Weather.

6.00 NATIONWIDE. 6.50 DROOPY.

7.00 THE VIRGINIAN: MEN FROM SHILOH. The Politician.

8.15 THE MORECAMBE AND WISE SHOW. Guests Robert Morley, Vicky Leandros, New World.

9.00 NINE O'CLOCK NEWS. Weather.

9.25 CANNON. A Flight of Hawks.

10.15 THE DIMBLEBY TALK-IN. David Dimbleby and guests.

11.00 NEWS.

11.05 FILM: 'UNDER THE CLOCK. Judy Garland, Robert Walker. A lonely soldier meets a tender-hearted secretary. 12.30 Weather.

11.00-11.25 Play school. HAMMER IT HOME. Making good ceilings and walls.

7.05 NEWS SUMMARY. Weather. 7.30 7.35 COME FISHING. For spring salmon.

MONEY AT WORK.

Selling Britain Short? 8.00

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9.00 Elizabeth I. FILM: 'THE FALCONS'. Directed by the New Wave Hungarian 9.15 director Istan Gaal. 10.45

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12.10 ALL OUR FUTURES. 12.15 JASON KING. A Page Before Dying.

Sarah Miles as 'Lady Caroline Lamb' in the film written and directed husband Robert Bolt. His work is examined in BBC 2's Film by her Night at 10.45. Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign Support the Engineers GLASGOW: Saturday January 13, Keir Hardie House, 10 a.m. Brougham Street, Greenock.

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Now children have just spent their third Christmas on strike with the 37 strikers face the rest of with depleted very little money. the winter These men have waged a strike fund. January is always bitter struggle for the most a difficult month to raise money basic right worker can to further their fight. Yet they are determined to possess-the right to belong fight on. This is a struggle the to a trade union. Strike working class cannot afford to committee members 100,000 lose. That is why the Socialist have travelled over sustain their fight. Labour League and the Work- miles to and the Fuzz'. 9.00 Upstairs, down- 10.00 London. 10.30 Film: 1hese are the Damned'. Guide- News. 12.30 HARLECH: 12.05 London. 2.30 Women only. 3.00 London. 4.25 4.50 5.50 London. 6.01 Report 6.35 7.30 Film: Scotland Yard. 9.00 New London. 10.30 It's all in life.

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11.15 Nelson. 4.25 12.05 London. 3.30 Danger man. Merrie melodies. 4.50 London. 5.20 Nanny and the pro- fessor. 5.50 London. 6.00 Calendar. Weather. 6.35 London. 7.00 Sky's the limit. 7.30 Hawaii five-o. 8.30 It's all Upstairs, in life. 9.00 | downstairs. 10.00 London. 10.30 North country. "The Frozen Dead'. 12.40 10.55 Film: Weather. GRANADA: 11.00 Felix the cat. 11.15 12.05 London. 3.25 Shirley's Tarzan. 3.50 Cartoon. 4.00 Crossroads.

world. i 4.25 Merrie melodies. 4.50 London. 5.20 Elephant boy. 5.50 London. 6.00 News. 6.30 It's all in life. 7.00 Film: 'Ambush Bay'. • 9.00 Upstairs, down- stairs. 10.00 London. 10.30 Kick off. 10.55 Film "The Bowery'. TYNE TEES: 9.25 They met him. 9.30 Lidsville. 9.55 Cowboy in Africa. 10.50 Van Dyke. 11.15 Nelson. 12.05 Dick London. 2.30 News. 2.31 Yoga. 3.00 London. 3.25 Danger man. 4.25 Merrie melodies. 4.50 London. 5.20 Me and the chimp. 5.50 London. 6.00 Today.

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ers Press wishes to make a special appeal to ail trade unionists to take collections in their factories and branches for the Fine Tubes men in order that their heroic and determined action can be car- ried forward. All money should be sent to: Fine Tubes Treasurer c/o 65 Bretonside Plymouth, Devon.

City police clamp down on THERE WILL be a shortage of well over 60,000 school- teachers by 1981 as a result of the government's plan to cut back teacher output, according to a statement issued by the National Union of Teachers. The NUT executive, com- menting on the government's White Paper, Education: A for Framework Expansion', says it is deceptive to argue teacher supply on the basis of overall pupil-teacher ratio.

Overall ratios can conceal grossly over-sized classes, espe- cially when the number of pupils staying at school beyond 16 is not known. The NUT condemns Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher for to accept what it calls refusing 'the entirely reasonable and far from generous' staffing objectives of classes of a maximum of 30 in primary schools as well as secondary schools. Mrs Thatcher, the union says, has 'underestimated' by at least 60,000 the number of teachers needed simply to achieve a satis- factory basic staffing standard. JUNIOR Education Minister Norman St John Stevas yester- day refused to comment on Labour demands that he should be sacked for giving a Tory political speech to sixth formers. sixth-form conference At a on the "Third World' held at girls' a Stevenage school on November 15, St John Stevas is alleged to have spoken on Tory education policy. Two Labour Shadow minis- ters-Roy Hattersley and Shir- ley Williams-have complained to Education Secretary Mar- garet Thatcher and Tory Party chairman Lord Carrington.

Hattersley said that 'gross deception was used to enable Conservative speakers to address school audiences and to obtain information about young voters'. One complaint is that questionnaire at the confer- ence had little or nothing to do with the "Third World' but was 'composed of the sort of question used to determine social and political attitudes'.

He says that the minister's conduct involved a degree of impropriety which made it 'a sacking matter'. The National Union of Teachers is to carry out its own inquiry into whether the schoolchildren were faced with "political indoctrination'.

And she has allowed nothing for the demand for qualified teachers for nursery schools, and nothing for the 'neglected areas' of the 16-19 age group and adult education. The NUT is also critical of the inadequate expenditure targets contained in the White Paper.

Recently a prominent Conserva- tive educational economist, Dr Kathleen Ollerenshaw, estimated that by 1980 expenditure would need to be in the region of £4,000m. a year to finance exist- ing educational policies.

The White Paper's more up- to-date calculations are based on higher prices yet propose only an expenditure of £3,120m by 1980. Its talk of 'expansion' is therefore a total fraud. In addition, the Tory Minis- ter's Paper is silent on the re- form of secondary education and the completion of its reorganiza- tion on comprehensive lines.

And the NUT 'deplores' the government's intention to reduce the rate of growth in higher edu- cation and actually cut the anti- cipated increase in the number of university places. This, says the union, coupled with the fail- ure to begin the planning of a comprehensive system of higher education, "serious is another flaw' in the White Paper.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

UNIONS in the City of London say they may lose their right to organize because of a police threat to arrest three members of the National Union of Bank Employees for distributing leaflets in the street. These fears arise out of an incident last Tuesday when NUBE members were pre- vented from campaigning at Bank and London Bridge underground stations.

The City of London police threatened to arrest the three under 1839 law for giving an out leaflets to office workers advertising a NUBE recruiting the City. meeting in Terry Molloy, national organi- zer of NUBE, which is registered Industrial under the Relations Act, said that the decision was a serious blow to the union. Unions like NUBE and the de- registered Association of Scienti- fic, Technical and Managerial Staffs have fought a bitter battle against City employers who are hostile to any trade union orga- nization. Mr Molloy said that this was the 'We, of course, are not allowed first time the police had taken to come onto City premises to carry out our work,' Mr Molloy such action. said. 'We have been distributing b leaflets outside the Bank of Eng- 'If we distribute literature on land for the six the steps of bank Dast are weeks without harassment. The with threatened trespass so the not to have seen us police claim normal method of spreading the doing this,' he said. word about the union has been in the street. The City Commissioner of Police can give permission for 'If this avenue is now cut off the distribution of literature or -and it seems it has—we will placards in the City, but appar- have great difficulty in expanding ently such the influence of the union.

has not permission granted been for the last 18 months to two years. Others affected The move against the NUBE is ironic. It is union which has out of its gone way to comply "This does not just affect us, with the government's anti-trade but other unions in the City like That does union legislation. ASTMS; he said. not appear to have protected it from Mr Molloy said that the men the general anti-union attitudes had originally been threatened that pervade the City- -which is with arrest under the 1839 Police the home of capitalism, but also 35. Act, section Later the from

NUBE

in area which ine told afternoon the union was draws substantial proportion that an arrest could have been of its membership. made under the 1867 Metropoli- Comments Mr Molloy: 'We are tan Street Act, section Later Industrial registered under police said the arrest could Relations Act and the govern- have been made under section 28 ment says this legislation assures of this Act. people of the right to belong to It has been the practice of the trade union. But this latest kind of union to carry this police jeopardizes move this activity for 50 years. recruiting right.

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local council work should be con- ducted 'in the public limelight' order to combat increasing cor- 'Not unnaturally' the 'It is here ruption, according 'the all that the temptati to journal continues, the 'New Law Journal'. for. the backhander, areas most involved are excessive hospitality Corruption the placing of contracts in local for bribery -local government ca- are government is not new, evident.' says the journal, but pital expenditure in there Bribes, appears to have recent years has exceed- the £2,000m been significant in- year- points out, can from the crease in the last two and in town and coun- odd years. try planning. whisky at Christmas A MASS meeting of Teeside teachers will be held tonight following the breakdown of talks aimed at settling their job security following the educa- dispute with the local educa- tion committee's move towards tion authority. comprehensive secondary schools.

Wednesday's five-hour talks between National Altogether 158 teachers have the Associa- been sacked tion of Schoolmasters, now or suspended the main by the i authority. involved dispute, in the Union the Teachers, of Women The talks broke down because the Teesside Education Authority the

NAS

insisted that all the and Department of Education dismissed well suspended as as officials failed to reach any agree- teachers be reinstated. The auth- ment over of job guarantees ority, however, would not agree. security the teachers have been Tonight's will be meeting seeking. addressed by Terry Casey,

NAS

Since last October NAS and general secretary. He has said he UWT members have been work- thinks a government inquiry will ing to contract in support of have to be held, now but. this their demand for assurances of was not necessarily dependent on Wonkers Press, Frid

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'We see it as an act of intimi- dation. Many people who work in the City would like to join a union, but are afraid of sticking their necks out. This threat may frighten them off.' The tough police line is also a threat to other unions. ASTMS also uses this method of propa- ganda, though it relies more on adverts in the tube itself. One City organizer, Russell Miller, said that strictly speaking it was illegal to distribute literature in the City. 'It only needs an employer to pick up the phone and tell the by-law is being police that a broken for this to happen, he said. Problems 'The fact that a union like NUBE that has registered under the Industrial Relations Act has been done this way shows the enormous problems that unions still de-registered NUBE has written to the City Police Commissioner asking for a clarification of the position. If this is unsatisfactory, the matter will probably be raised in parlia- ment. the bogus employment of council members or wives as consul- their tants' or 'advisers'. The more invidious re most of form of corrupting in- • temptation fluence was where plan- khander, for ing or redevelopment ospitality or committees were com- are most posed largely of local builders, estate agents, the journal valuers and others with vested interests in the • can range dd bottle of planning passing of Christmas to applications. a return to work. Casey also warned after the breakdown of Wednesday's talks that education authority would not get the goodwill of his members, because of the 'capricious and invidious way' some of the teachers were being treated. Teesside education committee chairman, Cir Peter Fulton said the authority had been prepared to make 'massive concessions' in an attempt to 'get things back to normal', but the NAS had not been prepared to accept to the terms: " -.. . ... Press, Friday January 12, 1973 PAGE 11 THE STOCK Exchange is cautiously awaiting the publi- of Phase Two of cation Heath's state pay plan, which is expected next Wednesday or Thursday. The market has been steady since the New Year as the government has manoeuvred to- wards publication of its White Paper. Over the next few days share values are to move expected sideways' in anticipation of the new laws. The 'City Press, the weekly newspaper of the City of Lon- don, reported yesterday: If Phase Two is weaker than ex- pected, both gilts and equities would plunge down on revived galloping inflation fears.'

Richard Lamb, The editor, says that the lesson for Heath 'is that he must be absolutely tough not only in Phase Two, but in Phase Three and in any other phases which we may have'.

'So when the Lamb adds: White Paper comes out next week, the Stock Exchange should remember the tougher it is on both prices and wages, the better is for our economy and shares. 'A rigid prices and wages freeze is the only possible eco- nomic policy for the government at this exciting moment.'

But when the City of London calls for control over state prices and wages, it means con- trol over wages only. There is not the slightest in- tention prices- to hold down if it were possible in even capitalist economy. The meaning of the 'City Press' report is that the bankers and brokers are calling on Heath for the strongest possible legal controls on wages.

They want wages fixed by the state and enforced by the state.

Indeed, what they want is the corporatist state in which the economic crisis of the capitalist class is resolved at the expense of the wages-and the stand- ard of living—of ordinary wage- earners.

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Combinesupport growsfor CAV sit-in PAGE 12 Workers Press, Friday January 12, 1973 STRIKERS at CAV

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

SIT-IN

Fazakerley, Liverpool, heard yesterday that group factories diesel-pump LIE workers have been laid off of components nine weeks by the stoppage desperately needed by LI Lucas combine, which owns CAV. management pressure to pro- of all to the site not back at work duce blacked components. This could unne are the combine within the next two weeks Reporting back from Said trip in severe trouble, since a new management now say, there is a stewards they intended to replace south, shop range possibility of permanent closure. the Fazakerley product has been recelvet Deutes This was many undermine the fight against delayed. Lucas stands lose

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closure on Merseyside. both markets if it yesterday workers splitting tactic. existing stocks. 14th cannot inish This is now in its week, Meanwhile Simms Motor Finchley, north vo bee de

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denne SKI In what appears to be a desper- London, Units in that it is beginning to bite.

weaker Stela operators At the CAV complex in Acton, magnise management has now issued strike over pay. west London, sit-in threat the future of Lucas new told, they The rest of the imeoun force stewards maus al the is banning overtime factory reuse lo anow produchon on the same site as why.

BY WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

WHITE-COLLAR workers in the gas industry yesterday pledged to back manual workers in Tory their fight against the ban on pay negotiations. Union instructions were issued to staff grades in the North Thames and Eastern Gas Boards not to undertake work normally done by the manual workers, due to ban overtime and with- draw co-operation from next Wednesday.

Staff in other areas are expected to receive simi- lar instructions shortly.

Yesterdav's instructions went out from the south.

east region of the Managerial, Administrative Technical and Supervisory the Association, stafl Workers' of the venerai and Municipal MATSA's regional officer, David Warburton, said he was confident his members would not prejudice their fellow-unionists' action by co-operating with management in either area.

'We are preparing a claim for staff grades and it Is common sense or US to eve sooom to me manual workers because the basic issue is the same', he said. MATSA has 80 per cent of gas staffs employed in the central London area, which is likely to ot the hist areas to teel the eftect of the one manual workers' action. Mr

JAMES

GOAD,

attempts gain Said Warburton: 'We will not tolerate any form to the Sudbury branch admittance of blacklegging either from contractors or anyone mated Union of engineering else'. to the union being fined £55,000 by Industrial Relations Court, says he will not attend Members of Local the branch meeting today because his wife is ill.

indicated that they will pursue the same policy. THREE HUNDRED workers -the time work from l1 a.m. • Leaders of the G&MWU will Chrysler Rootes Technical Brown was suspended over be meeting in London today to Coventry, have wages demand. Whitley, Centre, discuss final plans for the over- Workers Brown, member the National Sheet won the restatement or a stud time ban. steward after a three-day strike.

overal A spokesman said: "They will They work Union, told Workers Press that return talk about putting the overtime the management had now agreed steward their senior shop wilt effect and the possi- ban Alan Brown, to lift the suspension completely who had been sus bility of further action if this ban pended "indefinitely" on Tuesday. and the sheet medI is unsuccessful. workers wages for walked out on 1 he they period when before the ere on were 'The safety of the consumers strike at 3 p.m. on unle during the dispute will also be support sheet metal strike alone, the factory came out. on the agenda. Socialist Labour League North West Rally

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February 4 deadline.

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the Detore making Latest figures for their minds to go. special severance scheme by the report show spokesman for t offered As a SUNDAY JANUARY 14, 7 p.m.

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industry The Everyman, Hope Street, the since the commented jokingly yesterday: "At t scheme began last Septem-

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won't have an per. lace dustrv left at all soon. And 1,700 applications to leave are still being pro- It is now estimated t the cost of the cessed. ment's contribution to still The scheme has severance scheme three weeks - ana already reached f25m. officials of the National

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Labour Board expect The original cost Dock at the rush further mate, given applications just before the publication .. • • • G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary) CHRISTINE SMITH (Young Socialists)

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to control exports. In a personal capacity: The report explanation CONNIE FAHEY (Manchester Tenants) for this oraclusion. elaborate by Europe's biggest ALAN STANLEY (Vauxhall Shop Stewards) trader as d fact is that under mick'- is monumen

BRIAN GEENEY (U.P.W.)

white-wash. the Common Agricultural WALLY FOUCHS (CAV Occupation Committee) of the DEC. would find it at first very is that prices will stay hi difficult and after 1978 im- and housewives must 'choose' chick possibie LO 1 get permission strikers' support. It is estimated that the result- shortage ing of components could close the factory-also part of the Lucas combine-by today or early next week. The operators, who have been performing setting • and main- tenance operations for some be paid years, now want to setter-operators' rates. Management agree that the men should have more money, but will not concede the prin- ciple that it should be paid as a skilled rate. It is also withholding payment because of the Tory pay-control law. moves MOVES are being made to form a new organization of over 200 unions registered under the In- dustrial Relations Act which would claim a seat at the govern- ment's prices and wages talks. Behind the idea is the Coven- try-based Union of Sales, Tech- nical Representatives and Agents, inviting all registered who are unions to a conference, probably in the Midlands. Jack Ogden, union general secretary, suggested that the new organization should be known as Federation of Registered the Trade Unions (Fortune), and declared: 'We are claiming a seat at Downing Street.' He said he had unsuccessfully asked to be heard at yesterday's Downing Street talks. JIM SLATER'S plea for a 'socially responsible' more capitalism must go down as an attempt at a public-rela- tions job for the government.

The chairman of Slater Walker securities-the other, half, Peter Walker, is now head of the Department of Trade and Industry and cannot be part of the firm—has called on employers to investigate the and ex- 'monotony of work' cessive heat and noise levels'.

Capitalism's image is getting worse, writes Slater in today's 'Investors' issue of Journal". which has named him 'Man of the Year'. If 'critical industries' were Aldington report last July, was £8m. las until the Only about 250 new jobs onth to pay have been found ly men are container to dockers at depots, while the rate of last minute making up closures and reallocations has the quayside on accelerated. man for the Council LIVERPOOL dockers must half- be made to work 24 hours day: 'At this a day, seven days a week have an in- if the port is to survive in the Common Market, warns Dr Tony Brautenaar, timated that a director of Rotterdam the govern- container terminal. ution to the has

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Cold Store, south London, faces regis- I cost esti- a strike by its six the time of tered dockers from January the ones- 21. —this is called 'housewife - described power'). iggest meat As the Press left, the olitical gim- BBC man shock his head monumental sadly: 'I still don't know who I conclusion benefits from rising meat vill stay high prices'-an attitude shared s must suffer ose' chicken by all.

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we realize, of course, that everyone must be feeling the pinch of huge price Increases.

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We know you will do everything you can. A special effort is needed right away. Help us turn the situation around by raising extra donations wherever pos- sible. Let's go all out and make a fight of it. Post all your dona- tions immediately to : Workers Press January Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London SW4 7UG. allowed to die, he added, thou- sands of people would be un- employed. This fact and many other things were bringing the system into disrepute. And unless some- thing was done about it, 'capital- ism as it is now won't survive, says the head of one of Britain's most powerful investment and industrial conglomerates.

How to make capitalism your happiness friendo be made socially respon system? It • Legislation had to 'control sible' what is acceptable in carefully the making of money, says Slater. massive Slater Walker Securities empire is worth £150m.

JACK JONES had a busy day yesterday. Before rushing to see Edward Heath at Downing Street he had to speak to businessmen at an American Chamber of Commerce lunch at the Savoy Hotel. The transport union chief told the cigar-smoking, wine-drinking audience that 'it is in the interests of the working people of Britain to encourage US investment'. It could fill the 'vacuum' created by Common Market entry and the loss of "job opportunities' He told the businessmen to press the Tories to get the anti- union laws 'out of our hair, and to 'drop the legislation, to bury One of those on the guest list managing Tom Barclay, was director of Fine Tubes, the US- owned company which in June 1970 sacked all its workers who on strike. Over 35 of went Jones' members are still fighting for reinstatement. Walter H. Smith, introducing Jones, said the T&GWU leader and Lord Aldington had 'un- questioningly averted chaos in the docks and rendered a great service to British exports' '. What better tribute can you get?

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