Workers Press no. 973

workers press

TORIES VERSUS THE CARWORKERS

A BIG PAY

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTI

BY DAVID MAUDE

OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

THE FIRST big clash between work- ers and the Tories' state pay plan now seems certain to take place in the vital car industry. All the lines for the clash are drawn in two documents published within hours of each other today.

THE WHITE PAPER setting out Phase Two of the state control over wages will be launched at a presidential-style Press con- ference this evening. It spells an end of col- lective bargaining in British industry.

THE FORD WORKERS' PAY CLAIM,

which goes on the bookstalls in pamphlet form this morning, sets out a demand for a £10 rise plus a five-hour cut in the working week. The two documents are completely at odds with each other. The Tories' White Faper has the back- ing of vicious legal sanctions-fines and imprison- ment for unions or sections of workers who defy the state 'norms' on wages.

The Ford workers point out that they are grossly underpaid in relation to other workers in their industry. They explain that they have to work long hours of overtime or exhausting shift patterns to make up their wages.

With the expiry of a two-year agreement, they feel that they are due for some decent remuner- ation. They also know that Ford's made an estimated £1.000 profit from each of its 50,000 workers in 1972. And they can prove that the American- owned far company extracted value from each worker more than any other car firm. But under Heath's new laws the Ford claim is not only out of the question, it's illegal. And with the hysterical backing of the capitalist Press, the Tories want brand these carworkers with to charges of treason. The same treatment can be ex- pected by British-Leyland work- ers at Oxford, whose claim for increases of up to E7 has already been greeted with alarm by Fleet Street. The Tories are preparing for a stand-up fight with the workers in the motor industry.

They recognize that in order to impose their wage-cutting plans, they must take on a powerful section of the work- ing class, isolate them and defeat them. Their aim is to intimidate the million other trade unionists with pay claims or settlements which set them collision course with the Tories. But they will fail. Nothing solved Yesterday's decision by the leaders to call off gasworkers industrial action from midnight solves nothing (see p. 3).

The 47,000 workers in the REGINALD MAUDLING ... Former Hon industry £3—to want at least bring them in line with the The Ford workers' plight is electricity-supply deal signed last November. The most the British typical. Gas Corporation will be allowed Their claim submitted by to offer is half that. Moss Evans of the Transport and General Workers' Union last Every other union with a month-calls not only for more claim in needs at least twice shorter hours and an extra pay, the Tories' provocative E1- but also week's holiday, for higher premiums, lay-off plus-4-per-cent "guideline' even shift pay and pensions. to keep their members ahead According to the government's of price increases over the Phase Two guidelines, the maxi- last year. Ford will be allowed mum offer is a straight £2 to £3 And every trade unionist week. the pay stakes knows he or she Yet as Evans's detailed sub- faces a further 20 to 30 per cent mission to Ford's proves, by the drop in living standards this time the existing pay deal runs year. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY JANUARY 17, 1973 • No 973 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

CLASH

NEAR

SE REGINALD MAUDLING... Former Home Secretary upset by offshore fund questions at the end of March the real gross earnings of the average worker in the company wipe 19 more than they were in April Robbed of benefits Price increases will have robbed of the benefit of two pay him deals. And while his take-home pay per cent willnave risen three this is only due to changes in the two Ducess. JANUARY 17, 1973 • No 973 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY PHILIP WADE

as planned for THINGS did not go quite former Tory Home Secretary Reginald Maudling School when he spoke at the London Economics yesterday. able to ramble on For 20 minutes he was of government. The about 'current problems *the power biggest factor in inflation was of the unions', said the former deputy Prime Minister. Students at the Conservative Society meet- ing wanted answers to other questions first: How can Mr Maudling re- main credible in our eyes and tell us how eco- to run an companies nomy when two he was invoived in went bank- rupt?' queried a girl. Maudling, who resigned over the Poulson bankruptcy affair at first remained cool and said of the architect: be in a 'He does seem to bit But the of trouble. com- of which I was chair- pany man is still in business and operating.' 'Did you a Mr ever know Mellinder of Norske Credit- bank?' the girl asked. 'He was a very old friend of mine,' said Maudling. 'Didn't But the girl went on: the friendship begin with Mr Hotf- mutual interest in offshore islands fund?' man's By this time Maudling was rattled said sharply: Absolute nonsense. Must you play these "Private silly Eye' —Paul Foot games?' another After replying question on the Real Estate Fund of America of which Maudling was the first presi- dent (Hoffman, an American financier. and founder of the fund is now in prison serving wo years for mortgage fraud) the ex-Cabinet Minister said: *British parliament is more free of corruption than any other parliament in the world.

Home Maudling was also at the time of the Secretary Rudi Dutschke expulsion of ore fund questions and the Derry massacre.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL

Sir This is the situation facing every worker. It proves that the Peter Rawlinson has decided clash is inevitable, there is insufficient evidence to and that the union leaders must be forced to theft of a charge anyone with break off their treacherous talks copy of The Railway Policy Re- with the Tories. view' from offices of Depart- ment of the Environment. All workers in the pay struggle After consultation with the must be brought together behind Director of Public Prosecutions, to force the political campaign he decided that although there Tories of office. The the out evidence that the of TUC must be recalled to mobilize is copy the document was stolen, there this campaign. Its old leaders who insufficient was evidence to will not fight must be removed.

charge any person. Today's White Paper must be The Attorney-General has also and decided that the signal for the proceedings under building extending of Councils of Action the Official Secrets Acts would in each area to lead and develop not be justified, said a statement this fight. from Law Officer's Department.

workers press

TORIES VERSUS THE CARWORKERS

A BIG PAY

-CLASH

INCORPORATING THE NEW

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENT

BY DAVID MAUDE

OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

THE FIRST big clash between work- seems certain to take place in the vital are drawn in two documents published within hours of each other today.

THE WHITE PAPER setting out Phase Two of the state control over wages will be at a presidential-style Press con- launched ference this evening. It spells an end of col- lective bargaining in British industry.

THE FORD WORKERS' PAY CLAIM,

which goes on the bookstalls in pamphlet form this morning, sets out a demand for a £10 rise plus a five-hour cut in the working week. The two documents are completely at odds with each other. The Tories' White Paper has the back- ing of vicious legal sanctions—fines and imprison- ment for unions or sections of workers who defy the state 'norms' on wages.

The Ford workers point out that they are grossly underpaid in relation to other workers in their industry. They explain that they have to work long hours of overtime or exhausting shift patterns to make up their wages.

With the expiry of a two-year agreement, they feel that they are due for some decent remuner- ation. They also know that Ford's made an estimated £1,000 profit from each of its 50,000 workers in 1972. And they can prove that the American- owned company extracted far more value from each worker than any other car firm. But under Heath's new laws the Ford claim is not only out of the question, it's illegal. And with the hysterical backing of the capitalist Press, the Tories want to brand these carworkers with charges of treason. The same treatment can be ex- pected by British-Leyland work- ers Oxford, whose claim for increases of up to £7 has already been greeted with alarm by Fleet Street. The Tories are preparing for a stand-up fight with the workers in the motor industry.

They recognize that in order to impose their wage-cutting plans, they must take on a powerful section of the work- ing class, isolate them and defeat them. Their aim is to intimidate the million other trade unionists with pay claims or settlements which set them on. collision with the Tories. But they course will fail. Nothing solved Yesterday's decision by the gasworkers' leaders call off to midnight industrial action from solves nothing (see p. 3).

The 47,000 the workers in REGINALD MAUDLING ... Former Hon £3-to industry want at least bring them line with the in electricity-supply deal signed last The Ford workers' plight is The most November. the British typical. Gas Corporation will be allowed Their claim submitted by to offer is half that. Moss Evans of the Transport and Union General Workers' last Every other union with a month-calls not only for more claim in needs at least twice shorter hours and an extra pay, week's the Tories' provocative fl- holiday, but also for premiums, lay-off plus-4-per-cent 'guideline' even higher shift pay and pensions. to keep their members ahead According to the government's of price increases over the Phase Two guidelines, the maxi- last year. Ford be allowed mum will to offer is a straight £2 £3 And trade unionist in every week. the pay stakes knows he or she faces a further 20 to 30 per cent Yet as Evans's detailed sub- drop living standards this mission to Ford's proves, by the 1n time the existing pay deal runs year. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY JANUARY 17, 1973 • No 973 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

NEAR

USE

V REGINALD MAUDLING... Former Home Secretary upset by offshore fund March out the end of the at real gross earnings of the average worker in the company willbe more than they were in April 1970. Robbed of benefits Price increases will have robbed of the benefit of two pay him deals. And while his take-home pay will have risen 4t per cent three this is only due to years, changes two in the last lax JANUARY 17, 1973 • No 973 • 4p

THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

BY PHILIP WADE

THINGS did not go quite as planned for former Tory Home Secretary Reginald Maudling at the London School of when he spoke Economics yesterday. For 20 minutes he was able to ramble on about 'current problems of government'. The 'the power biggest factor in inflation was of the unions', said the former deputy Prime Minister. Students at the Conservative Society meet- Ing wanted answers to other questions first: 'How can Mr Maudling re- main credible in our eyes and tell us how eco- to run an when two companies nomy he was involved in went bank- rupt?' queried a girl. resigned Maudling, who Poulson bankruptcy over the affair at first remained cool and said of the architect: 'He does seem to be in a the bit of trouble. But com- which I was pany of man is still in business and operating.' "Did you ever know a Mr Mellinder of Norske Credit- bank?' the giri asked. 'He was a very old friend of mine,' said Maudling. "Didn't But the girl went on: the friendship begin with mutual interest in Mr Hoff- offshore islands fund?' man's By this time Maudling was rattled said sharply: 'Absolute nonsense. Must you play these "Private Eye"—Paul silly Foot games? After replying to another on the Real Estate question Fund of America of which Maudling was the first presi- dent (Hoffman, American an financier, and founder of the fund is now in prison serving two years for mortgage fraud) ex-Cabinet Minister said: the 'British parliament is more free of corruption than any other parliament in the world.

Maudling Home was also Secretary at the time of the expulsion of Rudi Dutschke ore fund questions and the Derry massacre. Sir This is the situation facing

ATTORNEY-GENERAL

Peter worker. It proves that the Rawlinson has decided every clash is inevitable. and that the there is insufficient evidence to theft of a union leaders must be forced to charge anyone with break off their treacherous talks copy of 'The Railway Policy Re- with the Tories. view' from offices of Depart- ment of the Environment. All workers in the pay struggle After with the must be brought together behind consultation Director of Public Prosecutions, the political campaign to force he decided that *although there office. The the Tories out of evidence that the copy of TUC must be recalled to mobilize the document there was stolen', this campaign. Its old leaders who insufficient evidence to will not fight must be removed.

charge any person. 'The Attorney-General has also Today's White Paper must be signal for the and decided building proceedings under the that extending of Councils of Action the Official Secrets Acts would in each area to lead and develop not be justified,' said a statement this fight. from Law Officer's Department.

Ruchell Magee expelled from his PAGE 2 Workers Press, Wednesday January 17, 1973

THE DECISION

of the Union of Shop, Distri- and Allied challenge the Workers of in government's wages state control courts can only more contusion Of course, the 50,000 USDAW members we are on a basic wage of £15.35 and 1£15. 90 ought the fl-a-week rise agreed last May. Indeed, they should get a lot more.

But taking the Associa- Co-operative Emplovers tion (which has refused to pay the increase on government Court, is not the correct County way to get it. USDAW's general secretary, Alf Allen says Vir they are challenging the government after con- sulting 'some of the best legal advice in the "is the only way his savs Mr Allen. country. we can enable the rise to be paid.

The way to defeat wage the governments stale control laws is not to legal loop- outside the San Rafael courtho search Magee, with gun holes in them. In any case, the cost of living fl a week much more than has gone up Around the u since last May as a result of the Tory govern- of deliberate unleashing inflation by floating the pound in June.

Other anti-working like the rent Act, have also class measures, sent costs soaring.

TUC

During this period Allen, sitting on the General Council, has been advocating and parti- cipating in talks with the Tory leaders!

that the trade it should also be remembered union leaders consulted legal 'experts' when the were preparing the industrial Relations Tones But legal advice proved useless the Act. face of the Tory determination to change the law. It not law books that in the last analysis determine history, but the movement of class forces. From that standpoint what is required -even if small not legal procedure. 100U holes can be found in the law-but a united

BY JOHN SPENCER

fight of all the unions to destroy the Tories

THE

FRENCH government has once state pay laws altogether.

again pushed the unwelcome topic of gold This would inevitably lead to a conflict in which back into the centre of the international the unions could force the Tories to resign crisis, proposing to raise the and replace them by a Labour government 'official' pledged to socialist policies.

price-currently Suing the employer. is really a way of avoiding fight. Manchester spokesman Since the free market price is over $60 USDAW let the cat out of the bag: 'We did ounce this proposal would involve a

NOT

consider industrial action because vast upheaval in the capitalist monetary thought that was not the win this way lo French Finance Minister Giscard Our advice is, reasonable we have a d'Estaing has since tried to minimize the chance of winning on interpretation of importance of the proposal, which was sub- Act.' mitted to the Group of 20 currently dis- This makes it clear, that, under of cussing monetary reform. fighting the government, the leaders Their action The French argue that neither dollars nor in reality accept the Tory Act. special drawing (so-called gold) rights can only help to create illusions among lower- paper are an acceptable oasis lor mernauona value paid workers and spread contusior and divi. This position simply reflects the fact that no sion among the working class which has fought determine what is the actual on wages, rents, and government rights. trade union The French proposal, of The course, is ridiculed

USDAW

must tell their leaders: 'No members by tune Dus ner with the Tory Act, collaboration under any resting places of the News', one the last guise whatever.' theories of John Maynard Keynes 'Really there is no problem about gold, the editorial says 'Gold for more than a de- cade has not had a central place and its in une monelary system revived in • Wha matters alc relative currency values...!

French proposals-described 1 by PRESIDENT NIXON was yesterday reported to be expecting Giscard d'Estaing as merely a response from Hanoi to his 'unilateral' action in suspending technica. document for experts- should have caused such conster- the bombing, mining and shelling of North Vietnam.

nation in the Group of 20.

in Washington Observers

ON THE

Nor, for that matter does it same day • Nixon called believed that the President gold should be given explain why off the bombing was expecting of Party's 'Morning Star' announced role in Specau to demon- the of Inter- Market's new monetary reserve reciprocal action fund at the express insistence Socialism strate Hanoi's readiness to sign national its along the British lory government a settlement lines

SHOW

side the American Embassy in This plan, drawn up in Luxem.

worked out in Paris. London. bourg by the Finance Ministers or Nixon's General Alex- envoy revisionist group tween teC provides ander Haig is in Saigon to explain central banks must aligned itself uncritically with the tween Communist Party and become an be settled in gold in South Vietnam dictator Nguyen adjunct of the Kremlin's counter- Camousl Van Thieu, who has previously revolutionary pressure for a sell- debtor countries' reserves.

North deal with out deal in Indo-China.

•00OSCO

However. debtor countries will Vietnam. have two safeguards against 'No genuine Vietnamese would But according to Thieu govern- revaluation of gold: if they settle "two Vietnams" Viet- North Vietnam has recognize unear sources. according to the rules, reunified, Lali made several concess ons - 11• nall must claim the right to buv back thei Volving both the demilitarized typical commentary said. of inter- and the size gold price price sources, draft deal control force- when they originally paid off the in the course of the talks.

CORONE

debt. The representatives meeting both Hanoi's insistence Alternatively, at the cost of a that Vietnam is a single country negotiating under

WCIC

the small interest payment they car saigon's demand that euress. Water allu oolied fron both and Deferranteements sovereignty MosCoW eking to bolster Nixon's threats guaranteed. This would hone that the missiles against a major step price or gold wil. guided be have been stabilized. back with the

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comparce even This scheme just how But they appear, if reports are being. reveals demands an vanced lone far away the Common Market is to be believed, to have summer by the North Vietnamese and the Provisional Revolutionary from actual monetary union. the 101 that the Mar- It demonstrates division or ne

WCTE

17th parallel. Hanoi Radio, how- for the removal of Thieu and the kel s much-neraldea unity is con formation of government stantly being disrupted by the continues 'national concord'. international crisis. ently that Vietnam is indivisible.

courthouse with Judge Haley as a le world

SPANISH ROUND-UP BY JU

THE EAST German govern- ment had full consultations with the Soviet Union before establishing diplomatic rela- tions with the Franco regime, reports a correspondent of the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug in Moscow. The matter was discussed by East German Foreign Minister Otto Winzer on his visit to see his Soviet counter- part Gromyko on January 8.

Gromyko gave his full support to the step. This latest diplomatic coup for Lopez Bravo, Franco's Foreign Minister, follows the signing of the trade deal between Moscow and Spain on September 15, 1972. The growing links between the Spanish fascists Stalinist bureaucracy built on the are suppression of the Spanish work- ing class. FRANCO'S courts have been engaged in a very thorough anti- communist purge over the last week. The Madrid Public Order Tribunal (TOP) has rejected the appeal by Lucio Lobato, Spanish CP Central Committee member and confirmed his 21$ years' sentence. In El Ferrol TOP has demanded harsh sentences for those arrested during the March strikes in the local shipyards. For Rafael Lista, 17 years; Amor Deus, 15 years; Jose Millan, 14 years; Aneiros, 12 years; and the lawyer Varez, four years.

THE military court martial of the Basque nationalists who kid- napped the industrialist Lorenzo Zabala began last Saturday.

The prosecution has demanded 25 years for Pedro Trincado and 21 years for three other Basques.

THE RECTOR of the Autonom- ous University in Madrid says he has no intention of re-opening the department of Pure Philo- THIRTY people walked out of a San Francisco court- room yesterday when a murder trial judge ordered defendant Ruchell Magee to be thrown out of his trial for the 32nd time. Magee was originally a co- defendant with Angela Davis, and is accused of murdering a judge in escape attempt an courthouse. from a California The US Communist Party, which organized a massive protest campaign in support of the Davis defence, has barely since his mentioned Magee case was separated from Miss Davis. Magee is chained in his chair and has been forced by the court to accept attorney Robert Carrow, who refuses to carry on the type of defence he wants. In the latest incident Judge Morton Colvin ordered 33- loudly to Carrow. Magee was taken to an isolation cell.

IN WASHINGTON, five of the seven defendants in the Water- gate bugging trial are pleading guilty so as to prevent any further investigation into the case. Accused of burgling and bugging the Demo- illegally cratic Party headquarters, the defendants have close con- nections with the White House and top Nixon aides. A group of Florida Republi- can businessmen offered them $1,000 for every month they spent in jail so long as they pleaded guilty and kept their mouths shut.

• BY JUAN GARCIA

sophy, which he described as a 'centre of subversion'. The department was closed at the beginning of the academic year as a result of a strike against the sacking of teachers. A group of Spanish intellectuals has issued a protest manifesto against the attack on freedom of discussion. They have been joined by a group of intellectuals led by Althusser and Sartre who sent a the Education telegram to Minister. Diplomatic

LOPEZ BRAVO

•.. coup for Foreign Minister IN VALENCIA, students authorities who have closed down the university dining hall.

The management and staff have been sacked. There is no money for wages now that the Ministry has cut the annual £7,000 subsidy.

WRITER Luciano Rincon Vega was sentenced on Saturday to imprisonment six years' illegal propaganda and extremist activities'. He used to write articles against Franco under a pseudonym for the French publishing house, Ruedo Iberico.

Auditor to take away all Clay Cross powers Rebel councillors prepare

BY PHILIP WADE OUR HOUSING CORRESPONDENT

WITHIN A MATTER of hours the entire Labour council at Clay Cross, Derbyshire, could be dis- banded for refusing to implement the hated Tory 'fair rents' Act. This will happen if the district auditor sur- Police were out in force when the auditor arrived The tenants' anger will mount even higher if t charges each of the 11 councillors more than £500.

Not would the only councillors therefore, but rupted, Cross Clay workers would also be deprived of their elected repre- Centve It is understood that the determined councillors have no intention of being removed easily office if the worst comes the There has talk been the council offices. The auditor's report almost certain to be sent councillors today to tne his LOmOLLOW special investigation of the Clay Cross housing revenue accoulll. Auditor Charles the orders Was the Tory government after that Clay was CrOSS S Coenance Was sistent and principled and With in the accounts unemployment not just so many words. this the Act's non-imp Ever since the White ning at staggering tion. Paper •Fair Deal in the council cent, per His who is responsibil report Housing' published in refused to put rents up 1971, tenants July the Clay Cross for last loss. council has been October. auditor has since All of the Lously CHARLES LACEY ... Hte plans basis To destroy Ine estimated Thal almost have cone report is expected today of municipal housing. £7,000 was missing from to make THE GASWORKERS' over-

THE

COST

of keeping

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

time ban was called off yes- week patient for the average large acute illness terday despite news that the Edmonds England rose hospital in to V T went government will only allow satisfied the deadline on £78.58 year ending March 3, had been He negotiations met. 1972, payment of half the £2.65 to according to fron recave. Betters Health Department figures £3 demand. the board, one which said an published yesterday. offer would be made today After meeting of the of £11.88 This was a rise over national 1971 figures, committee A statement from the which execuuve execu• wale arcaly General and tive, 42.000 £ll up on the previous year.

Municipal reoresents In Wales the Workers' Union, workers in the indus gas trade The 4 H was even higher at £80.89 said the embargo would be Edmonds secretary John said immediately to allow contrast. however. it oniv with negotiations the gas cost week to be the negotiations to start. board would be resumed that patient hospital Mr Edmonds said that Phase atternoon mentally England Ordinarv long-stay hospital costs were €34.86 in England and £41.31 in Wales weish nospital costs were the average much higher than in EIGHT of the 12 poorest groups drawing supplementary benefit. England. week in a Welsh isolation society nationally By the end of 1971, he said Decame million people hospital per over 4.5 were

COCT

worse off during 1971-in spite patient in comparison with £83.43 dependent on supplementary Welsh of the government's widely. England; maternity benefits to bring their income up publicized selective approach to to the poverty line.

HON DELON

Call. Second

COSLIC

a week in help those in need. And despite expensive adver England). tising campaigns, the government staff recruited for the Extra Mr Frank Field, director of the had failed to obtain a satisfactor Showpiece Neath Child Poverty Group, take up level. Cardiff-not fully operational speaking inaugural until late the -was At the outset high Welsh costs, said Supplement blame for Income scheme approach help those in The staff, he said, were used in per cent take up would be con- greatest need had failed hospitals and so raised the sidered satisfactory. The number staff/patient ratio to higher than One person in ten of the entire ris. however normal. stubbornly around 50 per cent.

populaton naa been reauced to

THERE

sion that the Churchill

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now for skilled men? 500 about almost 6,900 unem- being quickly This revealed that the ployed in the industrial found new work. Inger- the has said. American-owned Dell Опе headline said: In other words, hang Stockport in Cheshire about on intends to resurrect part the dole for help Wythenshawe, and jobless'. old

AEI/GEC

the next five years and Nancrester.

ADOUL

that with Ingersoliset a HOweveL, 2,000 of these are from gigantic empire was pre- wannensinwe the Churchill Machine pared to hire only 60 The articles limped on • Latest unemployment which shut 1ool factory men! figures for the area say: "Initially the to down last year. Meanwhile another work should provide wvthenshaw! 14 > 4 The local Press is try- about Stockport 2,898 and hercine dee areas nice 10DG

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ing to create the illu- • hopes of 500 jobs people rising to Altrincham 1,605. "SOme

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Workers Press, Wednesday January 17, 1973 PAGE 3 Under the Local Gov- lor arrived to complete his hearing a week ago.

igher If they lose their representatives on the 1933 this ernment Act means their automatic dis- office qualification from for a period of five years.

An appeal could be made to the High Court against any decision of the auditor. councillors But have ruled out any further legal battles against the Housing Finance Act. disqualification If the does take place, it is pos- sible that Derbyshire County Council will be asked the take over running of the council's affairs. AT

CONISBOROUGH,

Yorkshire, the only other non-implementing Labour council in England is also being lined up for similar treatment. The district auditor under fories - moves instructions from the into town again on Friday to conduct the second stage of his special examination.

He has asked to see ten ints as a result of auditor the Labour councillors that non- to find non-implementa- implementation out who is responsible for was and estimated £14,000 loss unanimous ail decision. because some 1,800 tenants will decide If each of the Il coun- have not had rent In- esponsible for the held cillors are equally creases. responsible for the loss Local tenants and trade they could be revenue, councillors unionists are planning to e out of their way surcharged well over £500 demonstrate his against arrival. it clear to the each. Two been discussed at the meeting of the Norman

COUNCILLOR

Weall, A conference leader Labour-controlled of gasworkers' of the delegates will be held council at Middleton, Lancashire, later. to discuss the offer from the board.

is waging a one-man rent strike.

He has received two demands Other unions in the industry are expected to follow suit and rent Act. The third call off the ban. will him 28 notice give days' notice to quit his home at Lang- • In the West of Scotland today ley. supplies will His decision, gas be hit he added, one-day unofficial The strike. purely individual an one; he stoppage is expected to go ahead would advocate never rent despite the national leadership's strike to others. decision to call off the He understood, however, that overtime ban. About 750 G&MWU mem- there were others on the same bers are involved. estate refusing to pay. Socialist Labour League Yorkshire Rally

FORCE THE TORY

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

BUILD THE

REVOLUTIONARY

SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 7.30 p.m.

Great Northern Hotel,

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OF WORKERS PRESS

n personal capacity

EORGE LUBY (U.P.W

ROBBIE ROBERTS (N.U.M.)

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Wednesday Jar

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDEI

Such is the crisis in the economy and the rate of inflation that many big investors are now pre- pared to pay double the price of a year ago just to buy their way into City of London properties. Institutional investors like the insurance companies, for example, are stampeding to put their money in office blocks whatever the cost. increase in The enormous prices being paid means that the yields—the annual return based on rental income-are falling. In other words, while rents bought remain of properties fixed until their next revision, the market price of the property has gone up. Yields, in fact, are so low in many cases that they fall below the average return from money invested in stocks and shares.

But these property investors are anticipating a further huge growth in the market values of the properties bought in the next period. If that happens, the new valuation which will appear in the balance sheets of the in- vesting companies will more than compensate for the seem- ingly low returns. in Britain With inflation running at between 8 and 10 per cent, there are severe dis- putting big advantages money into fixed interest accounts. Although the rate might be high, it is still insufficient to give any real increase in money invested because returns on capital are devalued by the loss of purchasing power of the pound. The attraction of property investment today is that the asset itself can be constantly revalued to more than compen- sate for inflation. So although yields may be low, a 50 per cent or 100 per cent increase market values will more esday January 17, 1973

PONDENT

than make up for the initial of loss. Confirmation of these trends has come in the annual reports of three leading City estate agents. Strutt and Parker say yields on both urban and agricultural land are coming down to 2$ per cent, and even lower at It per cent. On the other hand two record-breaking sales were recorded in 1972—the Brown Candover estate which fetched £1,355 per acre and Gateway which was sold for House £27.7m. Another firm, Erdman's, point to an unprecedented in- in prices crease vacant freehold and leasehold office property. some cases the capital sums obtained have been al- most double the amount that would have been realized had sold in the property been 1971, they say. Speculation in agricultural land went forward by leaps and bounds in 1972—resulting in some phenomenal increases in land prices. As a result yields which began the year at around 4 per cent were as low as It to 2 per cent by December. Estate agents Savills had this to say about the increase in agricultural land prices: 'The City, disappointed by the per- formance of industry, both in national private and sectors, are seeking alternative investment for their outlets funds.' All these firms say the trend in 1973 is for even faster in- creases in market values.

The money paid for these will land purchases of course in someone else's bank balance and will immediately renew the process of fevered speculation.

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Greece and the United States have signed an agreement pro- viding home-port facilities for six destroyers and one aircraft carrier of the American Sixth Fleet. agreement means that in future ships of the Sixth Fleet will be able to remain in the Mediterranean for about two years at a time. The pact is for an initial period of five years. Some 6,500 men and 3,350 dependants will able to the use Greek ports Facilities available agreement. will include the use of a float- ing dock at the Eleusis Bay, near Piraeus. The establishment of per- manent shore bases in Greece for the US Navy will pave the way for further US military installations there. The Israelis' diplomatic offensive in 'independent' Africa has now reached its eclipse. In the past few months no less than five African states have broken off relations with the Zionists. Niger and Congo, Mali decided to sever links with Israel thus following the lead taken by Uganda and Chad.

Behind these moves lies the mercurial influence of Colonel Gaddafi of Libya. He has been promising military and economic assist- ance to a number of these minor republics, most of them A Washington judge has refused to end a cartel agreement between Bri- tish, Common Market and Japanese steel pro- ducers to limit their steel exports to the United States. The voluntarily - reached agreement was challenged by the Consumers Union which claimed that restrictions on steel exports to the US would result in higher prices for steel products. The voluntary steel quotas, agreed last May, are designed to protect the US steel in- dustry from cheaper foreign competition. Judge Gerhard Gesell said "raised very serious the case questions' as to whether the agreement constituted a viola- tion of the anti-trust laws.

But despite his misgivings, the question of whether there military dominated, in return for sanctions against Israel.

There is no need to regret the breaking of ties with Israel. But this does nothing the reactionary to explain implications óf Gaddafi's new enterprise in black Africa.

Take his relationships with General Idi Amin, the butcher of Uganda. Last year Gaddafi contingent of crack sent a armed troops to Kampala when Amin was threatened with a counter-coup. He is also supplying arms military advisers to the and to help sustain his general tyrannical and corrupt regime. A similar relationship exists between Gaddafi and the pup- pet regime in Chad. President was a violation was not the issue for the court to decide, he said. The foreign firms proceeded of US the assurances officials that the agreements were legal under American law.

Since they acted in good faith Secretary of State and the encouraged them in their be- lief, no injunction was appro- priate, the judge concluded.

He noted . that: the arrange- ments affect 85 per cent of US steel imports. The test case brought by the Consumers' Union was a dead duck before it started. In the rapidly accelerating trade war all kinds of private arrange- ments will be made - and broken - to ensure that each country can stack up advan- tages against its competitors.

In such a situation the con- sumer has not the slightest say.

And now will the capitalists dare to intrude on behalf of forced to pay those the artificially high prices?

Workers Press, Wednesdi François Tombalbaye visited Tripoli in December to seal a new economic agreement.

The two leaders signed an agreement by which Libya is grant a loan to Chad to equivalent to £38m plus the promise of finance for import- ant development projects.

The Chad regime is backed by French imperialism. In Foreign 1970 the French Minister, Maurice Schumann, 3,000 admitted there were French troops in Chad. Military aid ran into millions of pounds. The Chad govern- ment has been conducting the against most savage war liberation army, the National Liberation Front of Chad (FROLINA), for many years.

Just over 35 per cent of the Israeli budget will be spent on defence this year, according to figures presented to parliament by Finance Minister, Pinhas Sapir. A total of £606m - £60m Wednesday January 17, 1973 PAGE 5 Amin of Uganda. Above: Gaddafi of Libya, who sent a contingent of crack armed troops when Amin was threatened by a coup.

more than last year—is allo- cated for defence. It compares with the 42 per cent of the total budget which was allocated last year. Commenting on the defence expenditure Sapir noted that large defence spending had been a 'hallmark distinguishing the Israeli economy from that of other countries' '. The cumu- lative defence allocations in the past six years since the Six-Day War come to £2,500m.

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Gianni Agnelli, boss of Italian monopoly, the Fiat, recently remarked that the trouble with de- mocracy was that it could not solve the problem of strikes and rising wages.

He was referring to the difficulties of competing with the United States monopolies with production relations based on the post-war boom.

Profitability, he was saying, can only be restored when the democratic rights of the work- ing-class have been destroyed.

His undisguised call for the open dictatorial rule of Italian _ capital monopoly operation which made a brief appearance in the Italian Press at the beginning of 1972 ... before Press silence was restored.

Operation '5 × 5', it was revealed, was a movement uniting judges, industrialists, priests and parliamentarians to bring Fanfani into the presi- dency and initiate a presi- dential republic along Gaullist lines. The political programme would include: • The restoration of order in the factories. • The banning of all left-wing organizations. • The limitation of the right to strike. The ideological basis for the programme was the philosophy of Catholic corporatism, or "integralism', as expounded by Felice Balbo and others. Amintore Fanfani, a staunch right-wing Catholic and lead- ing member of the Christian Democratic Party, held an im- portant post as a professor of economic history under Musso- lini's fascist regime. Sponsoring the authoritarian project was the Agnelli Found- ation, a so-called 'cultural' centre, sion of the Confederation of British Industry. Some of the leading lights in the plot were: Umberto Agnelli and Valarino Gancia, young-bloods in Confindustria; Fanfani's Mimmo Scarano, Press officer; Ubaldo Scassel- lati, head of the Agnelli Foundation, General Mereu, the fascist Gino Ragno and a motley group of priests, ex- priests and colonels. Fiat intervened to stop the Press from spreading details of the right-wing conspiracy.

At the end of 1971, the Agnelli Foundation secretary, Concetta Leonetti, was sacked from her job in Turin on the pretext of 'the requirements of restructuring and the drastic reduction of expenditure' Miss Leonetti, who had just had the temerity to put her name forward as a candidate for a place on the Foundation's internal committee, decided to fight her case in the labour section of the Turin courts.

The prosecutor who dealt with her case, a certain Signor Converso, has delved into the muddy waters of the finances of the Foundation and ex- tracted some of the complex web of Fiat's power. resday January 17, 1973 The Foundation, founded in 1966 to honour the centenary of the birth of Giovanni financed directly Agnelli, is 'through returns from Fiat's profits and a percentage paid in by the different constituent of companies' Official expenditure involves the costs of administration and the financing of other "cultural' activities like the Einaudi Foundation in Turin, 'Il Mulino' publishing the house and the Carlo Cattaneo study-centre in Bologna, which recently commissioned has many research projects into questions of work and wages.

The committee in charge of accounts includes three men who are not notorious as patrons of intellectual pursuits.

• Rodolfo Saporiti: ex-prefect of Turin and councillor of state. • Scardi: Member of the Supreme Council in charge of legal activities in Italy and key- man in '5 × 5'. • Francesco Rota, director- general of Fiat. Signor Converso made investigation of the accounting of these gentlemen and dis- covered a vertiginous spiral in expenditure in 1971 and a final record of huge losses.

One of the recommendations of the accounts committee at the end of 1971 was ... to be more careful about the use of the telephone to avoid expense! Well might Converso write in his report of a flood of con- tradictions and absurdities'!

In his evidence to the court Scassellati was able to state that there had been a drastic reduction in expenditure, al- though the balance-sheet actu- ally shows an increase in one year from 14 to 25 million lire. Converso then went on to read out the professed aims of the Foundation: 'To organ- ize projects, cultural activities and research through which to spread the results of latest research and to attract with • concrete proposals the iniative of the leading groups in the country, and public and private enterprise? Some of the research activity involved: Project Foundation, Project Image of Italy, Political of Com- Culture, Technology munications, Printing, the Home, Business Education, Quality of Life, Systems Theory, Europe, the Factory, and the role of women in in- dustrial society. Converso did not inquire into the finance used by the Agnelli Foundation in buying up young university intellectu- als, fixing university appoint- ments and purchasing publish- ing houses. The recent election of the right-wing professor Sasso as rector of Turin university was inspired by Fiat. Agnelli's group owns the publishing- houses of Etas Kompass, Bor- inghieri and Bompiani... and has made large, so far un- successful, offers for the Feltrinelli group. Another sphere of 'research' and 'activity' not included by Converso is a subject which the Foundation has promoted in the last few years in many dis- lectures, cussions seminars- -the situation of the study ol the armed forces, the relevance of counter-insurgency in Europe and the militarization of labour in the factories. In particular, the Foundation participated in the organization of a 'teach-in' in Rome on the subject of 'unorthodox war and defence' which also '5 5' sponsored by two of creatures, the Institute Military Studies and the Association of Parliamentary Studies. Among those attending this right- patrouc galnering Were wing Christian Democrats like Ciccardini Bartolo and army and like police top-brass, General Sangiorgio, com- in chief of the 'car- mander Above abinieri ... democ Topics on the agenda: the influence need for in greater the life of the of the country armed forces, preparations for ports counter-insurgency and the en- Instit couragement of the values of Ford the nation, religion, the ations and Europe. terest family It should be of no surprise The Agnelli Found- nectio then that the ation works officially with the intelli of Strategic Studies. Institute lishes The Agnelli Foundation sup- munis

Above: Pirelli workers demonstrate in democratic rights. These rights are er the monopolies led in Italy by Agnelli, t Italian Premier, Andreotti. Right: with Pire London - based the ports together with the Institute, Ford and Rockefeller Found- ations and other monopoly in- tu terests. Institute has con- The nections with Britain's secret intelligence service and pub- lishes a stream of anti-com- munist booklets and inform- he onstrate in Milan in defence of their his are endangered by the plotting of • Agnelli, boss of Fiat. Left: Agnelli with t: with Pirelli, head of the tyre monopoly.

ation of military deployment throughout the world. Two members of the Insti- tute are Brigadier Frank Kitson and Brian Crozier, biographer of General Franco. Crozier is the director of the anti-communist Institute for the Study of Conflict when rm- he is not presenting papers at the ISS. Kitson is a leading adviser on strategy to the British army.

He wrote in his book on counter-insurgency a descrip- tion of the tasks of the army in the 1970s which is com- pletely at one with the con- ceptions stirring up the Agnelli family and the other bosses of Italian capital: 'The second half of the 1970s is going to see a further swing towards the lower end of the operational spectrum with large-scale insurgency giving to civil disorder way accom- panied by sabotage and terror- ism, especially in urban areas ... 'Subversion, then, will be held to mean all measures short of the use of armed force taken by one section of the people of a country to over- throw those governing the country at the time or to force them to do things they do not want to do. It can in- volve the use of political and economic pressure, strikes, marches and propa- sti- protest ganda.' As Workers Press com- mented: 'By this definition workers who are calling for an end to unemployment are "sub- versives"! ' Brian Crozier, a more 'uni- Workers Press, Wednes versity intellectual' style per- sonality in the Institute, has distinguished himself by writing a eulogistic biography of the Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco. At the time of publication, Crozier's large sections enthusiastically book were quoted by the Spanish Press.

Spanish Franco and the military staged their insurrec- tion against Second the Republic when it seemed that the demands of workers and beyond peasants were going "true and the framework of just order' in society, that is, were threatening the existence of capitalist order. of Strategic The • Institute Studies has naturally the best with NATO of relations the generals, as does the Agnelli Foundation. March" 1972, Admiral In Gino Birindelli gave up his job as NATO's naval commander in the Mediterranean to stand as a fascist candidate for the Italian Socialist Movement in the Italian General Elections.

He had made the move 'because. I regard this moment particularly critical for as national life and for NATO. It is a moment in which the fate of the alliance which even ni- with its imperfections has 8, Wednesday January 17, 1973 PAGE 7 guaranteed peace for 20 years could be put in serious danger by the disintegration which to have struck our seems national community? NATO, which helped organ- ize the colonels' coup Greece in 1967, was accused two years' later of preparing a similar operation in Italy.

The connections of the Agnelli Foundation show that the Common Market is in essence no more than a con- spiracy to suppress the work- ing class which has been pro- ceeding for several years.

It lays bare the dangerous lies and falsifications spread by the French and Italian Com- munist Parties that it is possi- ble to work through the institutions of the EEC with a strategy of 'creeping' demo- The European cratization. parliament and Commission are but the cover for the prepar- ations of military dictatorship in Europe. plans can These only be thwarted by the building of a movement in the ranks of the undefeated working class in Europe of a socialist leader- ship fighting for a rejection of all collaboration with the EEC and the construction of the Socialist United States of Europe.

Special correspondent JUAN GARCIA examines Stalinism and Trotskyism in Peru following the attack by Pompeyo Mares of the Communist Party on the Liga Comunista, which works in solidarity with the

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Wednesday Ja Special correspondent JUAN by Pompeyo Mares of the ( International Committee of the The Peruvian Communist Party's most abject craw- ling before the parasitic representatives of US im- perialism took place in 1938. The Stalinists fully sup- ported the 8th International Conference of American States held in the Peruvian capital, Lima, on December 9-27. It ratified US President Roose- 'good neigh- velt's so-called bour' policy and ironically the Lima declaration came out against 'foreign intervention' in Latin America. Ravines, general-secretary of the Peruvian CP, was one of the organizers of the Popular Front and supported Roose- velt's New Deal in Latin America. He had been sent by the Third Communist Inter- national (Comintern) to organ- ize the Popular Front in Chile.

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examines Stalin f the Communist Party on the Li e of the Fourth International. Part I On the eve of the 8th Pan- American Conference, he issued a pamphlet attacking its opponents as 'Trotskyist' Having said that the con- ference was held under the sign of the rule of democracy in the USA', he continued: 'In spite of the clear charac- ter of this position to the least perceptive, there exist in Peru leftist politicians-Trotskyist elements—who refuse to accept the evidence of the progressive policy of the good neigh- bour ... arguing that a "defin- itive guarantee" is needed..

"definitive agreement" The which is demanded of the policy of the good neighbour is a sectarian, absurd con- ception.? His parting shot was that the cry of 'down with American imperialism' was a Trotskyist conception. In the pamphlet, Ravines Stalinism and Trotskyism in Per the Liga Comunista, which work 1. Part Four. attempted to ally Trotskyism with the various regimes and parties in Latin America which were in favour of Hitler's victory. This was a complete falsifi- cation of the Trotskyist move- ment's which policies ex- pounded the independence of the working class from every variety of imperialism, in accordance with Lenin's analy- sis of imperialism as 'reaction all along the line', • a system of production relations which was a fetter on the development of the productive forces. The Trotskyist movement did not look for non-existent progressive features in world imperialism, but worked for of the imperialist the defeat powers. While the Stalinists in Latin America were embracing Roosevelt's New Deal, Trotsky wrote in the Transitional Pro- gramme of the Fourth Inter- national: in Peru following the attack h works in solidarity with the • International, "The Fourth already today, is deservedly hated by the Stalinists, Social Democrats, bourgeois liberals and fascists. There is not, and cannot be, a place for it in any of the People's Fronts. It un- compromisingly gives battle to all political groupings tied to of the the apron strings bourgeoisie. Its task-the abolition of capitalism's dom- ination. Its aim-socialism. Its of method-the proletarian revo- lution.' Just Stalinists Harry as Pollitt in Britain and Maurice Thorez in France backed the bourgeoisie's war effort and entered into patriotic alliances with their home imperialists, so the Latin American Stalin- ists stomped the continent calling on workers not to damage the Allies' war effort.

When Vincente Lombardo Toledano, president of the Latin Stalinist - controlled Left: Stalin at the Yalta Confer- ence, February, 1944, with Roose- whom he considered velt 'progressive' imperialist. Because of this Popular Front, the masses in Latin America were called upon not to upset the war effort of American imperialism. Trotsky, above, fought against such class- collaboration for Marxist leader- ship in the working class.

American Confederation of Workers, visited President Prado and spoke at a meeting of workers in the Municipal Theatre in Lima, his message was simply: do not strike, work harder, do not damage the Allied war effort. This was the school of the present leadership of the Peruvian CP. The expulsion of Ravines at the Ist National Congress of the CP in 1942 was in no way a move towards a principled policy, as Mares claims in this pamphlet attack- ing the Liga Comunista. Ravines had been one of the agents in leading Comintern Latin America and his removal for 'capitulationism' was only a manoeuvre to give the im- pression of the party's inde- pendence from the dictator, Prado. Mares claims that it is im- possible to talk about the CP leadership accepting or reject- ing anything before the Ist Congress, because no leader- ship existed only a 'trio named by Ravines'. Yet this was the leadership which pioneered the Popular Front in Peru, and in the case of Ravines and Porto- carrero had relations with the Comintern from the mid-1920s.

They were Stalin's men! As the Liga Comunista wrote in the series of articles on the of the PCP in Congresses 'Comunismo'; 'after the expul- sion of Ravines, the "new leadership" referred to the Prado government as "our government", "our Supreme Command", or "our people applauds and supports the Supreme Commander of the Nation", , etc. ('Democracy and Labour' October 11, 1942).

'All this, despite the declar- ation by Jorge del Prado in a Bulletin of the National Com- mission for Organization dated April 6, 1942 and addressed to "Committees, cells and mem- bers of the Party", that "the marked right-wing deviation of the leaders who had forgotten the vanguard role of the party, lost revolutionary perspective and subordinated their actions to the wishes of the govern- ment and some functionaries considered as allies' (Del Prado is now General Secretary of the PCP.) Hence Mares curses 'CIA- intellectuals' who have 'a special predilection for the past of the Party' and 'specu- late on subjects about which many members know little'.

At all costs, the PCP must keep quiet about its past and especially about the period in which it openly advocated sup- port for American imperialism.

The present support for Velasco is a direct continu- ation of that policy, learnt in Stalinist school of the Popular Front.

It is no wonder that Peter Walker, the new Secretary for Trade and Industry, is talking about legislation to control asset-stripping and the like, though it's no more than a political gimmick. (Walker himself comes from a financial conglomerate which is dabbling in these sort of activities. I refer to Slater Walker Securities - though Walker had to give up his directorships when he became a Minister.) Walker has been forced to make mild denunciations of his erstwhile colleagues because of mounting anger from the com- panies who represent industry.

This sector, the foundrymen of capitalism, have little time for the whizz-kids who are fortunes in property turning speculation. In a recent copy of 'The Engineer' , the weekly magazine for engineering man- agement, there is a strong editorial attack on the specu- lators. With biting sarcasm the magazine begins its editorial in the following vein: 'Finan- cially there is no justification for setting up any manufactur- ing company in Britain; under conditions property present development is the only real- istic business. 'This situation is accentu- ated by the attitude of mer- chant bankers, who generally couldn't care less whether you make tintacks or sell porn- ography as long as the return on their capital is high.'

(Merchant bankers in the Tory Cabinet include Lord Carrington, the party chairman and Defence Secretary, Peter is a Walker, while Heath director of Brown, former Shipley and Company. Former Home Secretary, Reginald Maudling, was a director of Kleinwort Benson, and the new chairman of the influential 1922 Committee is Edward du chairman of Keyser Cann, Ullman.) "The Engineer' goes on: 'More serious for the engineer- ing industry is the growth of asset-stripping and mergers promoted for far reasons remote from the business of the companies concerned. 'Industry does not want a prop for the inefficient. But it does need greater incentive for investment-especially as the promised pre-EEC entry invest- ment boom has fizzled out.

Otherwise the government's proposed growth rate means nothing' This discord in the ruling class should be seriously noted.

As everyone knows, the Com- munist Party ceaselessly covers up for Jack Jones. I wonder how they took his little joke to the snobs and business magnates at the Savoy last week. Jones was speaking to the American Chamber of Com- merce, the agents of American imperialism, before rushing off to 10 Downing Street to see Edward Heath. His anecdote from came Poland where he and Feather had been on a visit. A farmer there had applied to join the Communist Party.

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The outspoken, but somewhat unpredictable pre-civil war parlia- William Prynne de- mentarian nounced the Papal Nuncio for striving to corrupt the chief men at court and 'to seduce the king himself with pictures, antiquities, images and other vanities brought from Rome'. Of course the estab- lished tactic the day in of attacking these 'evil men' around the king, rather than monarch himself. I's avid, almost fana- Charles tical acquisitions of the mainly counter-reformation variety of renaissance masters was a deter- mined, but ultimately futile attempt to provide the illusory grandeur and ideological justifi- cation for his attempt to reverse the tide of history and introduce version military of the counter-reformation in England.

This importation of some aspects of the most-advanced artistic techniques, was paralleled by Prince Rupert's initial success against the parliamentary forces in employing Swedish cavalry tactics, which he had learnt serving in Protestant armies in the 30 years war, until Cromwell built the New Model Army.

only collected Charles not Titians, Carravaggios and Durers, but he was in direct con- tact with Rubens and Velasquez and the papal sculptor Benini.

And, of course, he was the most prominent patron of Van Dyck.

Much to the bitter disgust of courtly art lovers to this day, Cromwell's men, having des- troyed the king, dismantled the old feudal monarchic structure and sold off most of the paint- subsequent 'cultured' ings. To reactionaries, this was an act of gross vandalism. But these sales, at ridiculously low prices, even for those days, was determined by the conscious anti-monarchical outlook of the revolution army. They broke for- 'magic' with the feudal ever which Charles and his cronies had surrounded themselves.

The of the counter- art reformation, with its emphasis on piety and the greatness of martyrs, was the rallying cry for the Catholic forces determined to crush the Protestant Reforma- tion. This had an obvious appeal to Charles, for in England the puritan trip the newly- on emerging trading and industrious classes was so complete that no real tradition of painting had emerged. The 1630 Rubens portrait of Charles as St George killing the dragon against setting of a a non-commercialized, idealized London was an open employment of this tradition. In sharp con- trast to the fanciful dramatics of this picture is the rather staid portrait of three leading mem- bers of The Worshipful Com- pany of Painter-Stainers' by an unknown artist which was still in flat, the formal Elizabethan tradition and typical of its genre.

In the first sections of the Workers Press, Wednes Charles I In 1636—from Van Dyck's tript exhibition a number of portraits and drawings of King's favourite, the odious Duke of notable Buckingham (also a patron of the arts) stand out. He has the disdainful gaze of a man who is confident that he is look- ing down on his inferiors.

1626, full-length Mytens portrait in particular, we see nim gorgeously_ dressed and covered in pearls. Together with Charles, he assisted the King of France in revoking the edict of Nantes 1628 which deprived the French Protestants of their former privileges. Shortly after he was murdered, and his assassin became 'the most popular man in England'.! The other major art cronies of the king, the Arundels, also stand out at the entrance. In two • portraits painted about 1617 we importation of see the artificial the continual techniques as the Earl stiffly points to his statue gallery with • Earl Marshal's baton, and his wife sits in front of their picture gallery.

Formal possession of works of art as property, and culture as a veneer, stands out sharply. In sharp contrast are the main of the exhibition by paintings Van Dyck of Charles himself. The centre piece is the 1633 pic- ture of Charles clad in armour, sitting astride an enormous white and riding through a horse triumphal arch. In stark contrast to the heroic stance of the monarch is his expression, tired facial weary and the apprehensive gaze of his attendant. Similarly the same washed-out, almost doomed look is even clearer in Van Dyck's triple portrait of Charles which he painted for Benini to use in lieu of a model. the principal Van Dyck was painter to flourish in these 'hot- house' He had conditions. studied extensively under Titian and Rubens and when invited to England to become the court painter, he developed enormously, especially the art of portraiture.

purposely abstracted work of aspects of the the Venetian school and Rubens, concentrating on the theatrical and rich colour and limpid sen- suality. But precisely because he never really understood what in fact his painterly flourishes stood for, the end product is far from convincing. Even his central paintings have contrived a quality, as he imposes 'realistic crisis-torn facial expressions Con improbable armed, or gorgeously- dressed figures. Mercifully the rather 'hack' attempts by the parliamentary painter Robert Walker (apart from one self-portrait) in which he superimposed Cromwell and other faces on similar figures, are absent. Presumably Cromwell's jocular injunction to 'Mr Lilly" to 'remark all these ruffness, pimples, warts' and paint 'every- thing as you see me' expressed his dislike of this romantic self- deception. Van Dyck's special relationship to Charles is exemplified by the rather smug self-portrait of him- self pointing at a brilliant sun- is the flower, which for him source of wealth, beauty and 3, Wednesday January 17, 19 yck's triple portrait. Johnson (the with Inigo together artistic Suoreme Caroline period courtly masks and ent brooding, as 11 tney were musil further contrast ear v royal and aristocratic especially Polson' (II)-which Charles uncomprehending arro class that has blindly against change. While later Dobson's portrait (the painter nebrew had lost the which virtuall and had been d war The although finely painted than ones, , is a saader regicide

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with of thats Charles at his trial Poses the dramatic arrogance. blank look almost aispenet. exhibition dichotomt social that Charles' reign. for survival Charles

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middle classes Charles' court pant and pleasure-lovi SnOT imitate the cultural de parasitic court. the staid the English and Dutch This is shown in of paintings that are The …imited. Insular certain Dutch work naïve Importe• 'oyalty and the arist particular way been nave sainted Dobson exception monopoly Charles and his hang he painted the in Dvke and LO e the divergence must be ano purnose exhibition's real and the febrile cultured wise Tate Gallery, Queen's taste-watche believe lave Us have been

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gether up. oroken to along watch for finished miniature of ( ry 17, 1973 PAGE 9 hich motivated him. Rubens, portrait of Ber who Jones-the of the genius crester The is and entertainment) searching pictures ere musing on the contrast is provided Istocratic children- palntings one of Prince express nding arrogance of a turned its face of forces the we have ice Rupert. after h siege of Bristol, ended the civil d been dismissed by althon he press the previous dder and wiser man. • determined look of Henry Marseden engraved ehind aim) by Lilly Bower's portrait t his trial. Gone are lank look of bored demonstrates which there arose Under sharpened The frantic n need demonstrated higher aristo. sts with the interests and the saw wn in the two kinds are exhibited— sometimes denicted the aristocracy in a that could not painted within the only English the Continental preterred he Venetian school he counter-Reforma closest. of philosophy must be seen as the eal point of interest eulogies of the king That ste- waisted. assisted by the would first time that these brought to collection f you are able to get be sure ature of Cromwell. d's Englishmen

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Imooser Inancial 37 on strike. burden. The strikers face a special appeal all trade the challenging months ahead unionists to take collections in These men have waged a factories with their and branches depleted strike tund- bitter struggle for the most Tubes this Is in a perioa wnen meat rine men right basic worker has now become a luxury for order that their and possess-the right to belong to but highest paid car a trade union. ried forward. All money shoulc January Strike committee members month to raise money to fur- be sent to : have travelled over ther their fight. miles to sustain their fight.

Fine Tubes Treasurer These determined latest months have Yet they are c/o 65 Bretonside been the hardest of all for the fight on. This is a struggle the Plymouth, Devon. men, their wives and working class cannot amore to

PROFILE

By Alex Mitchell FRANCIS BENNION, the barrister who brought a private prosecu- tion against anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain, has been appointed a parliamentary counsel. At the same time Bennion has resigned as director of his self-styled organization, Freedom Under the Law.

In his new post he will be involved in drafting and piloting Tory legislation. Writing in the Freedom Under the Law journal, Bennion says: 'Clearly I must avoid involvement in public controversy. Indeed I am per- publicity of any kind is to be avoided in future so far as sonally concerned. Within these limitations I shall do all I can to continue the good work we have started!

Francis Alan Roscoe Bennion, lawyer, writer and property developer, is described in legal circles as 'a brilliant constitutional lawyer'. In 1953 he joined the Office of the Parliament- ary Counsel to the Treasury.

Heath In 1956, when still only 33, Bennion sent to Pakistan was to help draft the country's new constitution. Three years later he Ghana was loaned to out the exacting legal cally recruits transformation oi Ghana into a republic. Back in London in 1964 he became deputy counsel ne was considered next in line to be First Parliamentary Counsel This Treasury. Hain case bUSI knighthood erevalon Queen's Counsel. But on the election of Labour, Bennion be- civil and lett the uncasy service set up private practice. His main business was in the lawyer black countues the Caribbean. He ATrICA helped frame legal straitjackets the black which bourgeoisie and placed workers peasants in these countries. He had a £10,000-a-year con- Old Bailey. After a 21-day trial with the Jamaican tract Hain was convicted ment to avse on on Whizzkid of conspiracy to Maouty verdict. disrupt the Davis С 16" lawyer Bristol Scab force match by at the He Francis Lullill

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pleaded not guilty and was fined £200. Bennion... In started y sennion I must The success of this prosecution show the first signs of his political marked important precedent ambitions. During the avoid any teachers' use conspiracy slike ne oranzed a scab torce controversy Professional Asso- Knowni as te At the same time Bennion ciation of Teachers (PAT), whose formed his Freedom Under members give pledge not Law International (membership private fee: £2.40). Item 18 modestly National says the body w1ll Mineworkers over the big strike He also made two attempts to any part of the early last year. win pre-selection for Tory seats. world'. He the short got list, but During Bennion talled to get selected. this his links In September round. TaST wear fog Monday began links with the He came notoriety, Club. _to bunte right-wing At Its however, when he launched ball in 1971 Was private case Peter Hain, attacked group's guest along with Enoch Powell. The National Front also joined dockers stop une lout and OncI campaign. in singing his praise. for Unionists 'endangering basic liberties'. After a series of legal battles He won favourable Bennion succeeded having from function of the group 1 ones do sec. One Hain tions of the middle class when to monitor 'subversive and dis- commuted Why policemen are 'retiring' early among the police is on the

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officers involved in plinary cases were 'allowed to retire' from the Metro- Police, compared politan with 45 in 1971 46 and in 1970. 92 interpeste the police expected to be up on those 19 a result of almost 4,000. result 451 inquiries serious omcers. 17

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have been unen men, charged and are awaiting trial for serious crimes. Next Menday Chielanuans 22, Inspector Detective Victor Kelaher, former head of

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resigned trom • Drug Squad chief Scotland Yard's Drugs Squad, facing trial Fraud SQuad Is one to appear in court with have investigated have resulted officers four other officers. The five four were aismissed, are facing charges of conspir- disciplinary proceedings. others were required to resign' Inquiries by policemen outsid and five officers allowed were aly anucury.

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have resulted retire 107 Eleven officers have already been

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served proceedings 19720 in 1971 to was with disciplinary charges.

convicted 1972 1972; 88 and Another 65 police officers were 1971 pared with eight and 62 in 1970. allowed before to retire 1970. Of 107, the officers pletion were nine were imprisoned, after proceedings into their Deme avowed to retre plinary i9a0.st five in 1971 and one in being served with disciplinary conduct. This was 28 up on This higher was six more t than lal. In the months since Al0- 1 1971 and eight up on 197 One of former scored as Yard disciplinary inquiries The ranco Tormen to investi- internal gate complaints against the were down in 1972: 129 com- former Scotland police- pared with the Flying - was ormed, seven Squad ycal which its mander Kenneth Drury. Come alls oCeS Derore seven Workers Press, Wednes chell ruptive' activities. This job would be undertaken by Tory students and those other student elements on the extreme right. The decision to bring back Bennion into the highest law- making office of the government is no accident. It was a decision taken at the highest level. Since coming to office the Heath government has passed a stream of legislation attacking basic democratic rights: the Industrial Relations Act, the Housing Finance Act, the amend- ments to the Criminal Justice Act and the so-called now Counter-Inflation Act which takes away the right to negotiate wages.

Bennion's legal talents will be employed to develop even more stringent laws as Heath moves rapidly towards greater dictator- ship and repression. His re-appointment as parlia- mentary counsel blows up for all time the myth that the law is 'neutral'. As we have seen from this profile, Bennion is cer- tainly not a neutral man.

PLESSEY, the electronics and telecommunications giant, yester- day produced another record set of half-yearly results. Best-ever second-quarter pro- fits - up from £5,080,000 to £7,201,000 — lifted the group's •six-month pre-tax total to £12,117,000, a 42-per-cent in- crease in profits over the same half of 1971. Sales also hit record levels during the six-months period to the end of December. They stood at £150.3m-£17.7m up on the corresponding half of 1971. About £10m of the improvement was scored in the second quarter.

5, Wednesday January 17, 1973 PAGE 11 A UNITED STATES govern- Will provide ment agency insurance and finance services for private firms investing in Yugoslavia, the first time such government services have gone to an East European country, it was announced yesterday.

The move is an expression of US government confidence in the Tito government's guarantees for foreign investors. A large amount capital, of foreign including some from the United States, has flowed into Yugoslav industry over the past period. The Overseas Private Invest- ment Corporation (OPIC) is to sign bilateral a agreement authorizing the insurance and finance programme in Belgrade on Tuesday. OPIC is chartered to guarantee that private Ameri- can firms investing in 'develop- ing' countries are not adversely affected by internal politics or confiscatory actions. OPIC president Bradford Mills said he expected a gradual build- up of American interest in Yugo- slavia. 'We view this forward in the significant step development of closed ties and greater freedom of exchange with developing the people of key countries and we look forward to a steady growth of investor interest in the nations of eastern Europe,' Mills said. FOUNDRY department at Hall- side Works, Cambuslang, Lanark- shire, is to close and about 70 workers will lose their jobs, the British Steel Corporation con- firmed yesterday. The department forms part of the Craigneuk, Hallside and Poll- cross works within the special steels division. The BSC's Scottish office said: 'This announcement follows con- sultations with works' represen- tatives and trade union officials on the reasons for the closure and its implications, from which no more acceptable alternative has emerged.'

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Milk and meat bound to rise PAGE 12 Workers Press, Wednesday January 17, 1973 15 Defence of closed shop moves to London site After WORKERS at a London tractors at their and one-hour stop- building site threatened Britain at Bed. backed pare malacemenl ford Way, Holborn. down Donaldson and took immediate strike action off the 140-man site. if a fitter who refuses to They took strike action on Monday when the fitter Site steward Jim Kemp join union is allowed said yesterday there that back on the site. —ronca ae cora. son-refused join would sonion or pay his dues walk out if Donaldson re- The men are employed to a turned. by Imperial

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LOr- Chantv as an ailernauve. battle for closed- shop the going Chrysler worker whose Langston has still had since May. the closed from campaign against no reply "This basic issue. Chrysler's SIDe been The men here fully industrial tribunal, had in coventry, aware or me bacao o with whether he will be their action and the the work Tory occiciary under takes place ner. pledged povernmen tions Court yesterday. ultimatum The attack trade unionism,' he ary mittee expires yesteaday said. He would say yesterday wielder ne nan gene spokesman for Impe- decided his case to Take by the company on Londor Contractors 44471 before the court. forced said yesterday that 'deli- workers® cate negotiations' between here to inquire admit the LudL about the procedure should

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continults Site steward Jim Kemp I decide to make an appli- 'unrelenting'. to solve the issue. THE 1970s will be a Forecast in cattle speech period of rising beef and milk prices, it was fore- Besponsibility Britain Beef and veal consumption expected almost entirely public health cast at a cattle breeders' the Common Market to grow during the messectors whereas under the control of veterinary policymakers difficulty will be conference yesterday. officers. considerable, said. chief R. At the time the Asso- Mr Williams, prices will go up economist of the Milk Market- the Chaton rONG neare missed after government's lory DU" tors said that the adoption ing Board said: 'The pattern DuCE ureeze. was as -

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in meat inspection nounced yesterday. the future seems likely

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higher prices DIllain Could be modest increases in the The brewery company's annual in the shops. milk, price report testers poeted out that largel rises yesterday ine Association sald in the price of beef.' since that

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methods would add to of the cost production and presenting Williams lical and it will be necessary Was to rise create UK milk industr raise It brewery price "ine increasing the price house- the

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the British again during wives. Cattlebreeders' winter con- The company's earnings, how- At present meat inspection in Terence m camonase. Actors still without policy on £12 pay cut

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leaders meeting next week decides union yes- off for the third terday put ornerwise. Ine union s seem certain to remain without fighting time decision on ally January a policy Tory £12 pay cut against Lne £1,000 dona- their West End members. tion Equity benevolent The But they accept fund did our presumably designed to OrAAr E1, of particular 000 hand-out from humiliating cases West End I heatre the society narasio caused ov Ine pay Managers the union's A previous suggestion that all fund. the money stopped by the Tories volent is thought The executive actors be paid into the tund Por alary 38. union, Equity, have been abandoned for West legal reasons. Lesl ficclills membersals Aries decision to to spa incensed SHOTTON Steelworks' 12 unions will stage one-day strike and to slash night rise due january 1. in pro- minimum rates back £7 to their against TeSt closure men level of last November. are ed in danger by Both be save 6,500 industrial action, the recall of the Corporation's reoreanizaton and remove the plan' Ken Monto, secretary a campaign the Flintshire office believed, works' action com- however, to have been ruled out said mittee LIver DOOl of order at yesterday's meeting. and Cheshire workers had pledged solidarity support.

So unless a further executive

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VICTOR FEATHER...

ver who was also a participant in the daily struggle of the Euro Looking for more talks pean and Russian working class.

with Heath Now available from NEW PARK PUBLICATIONS 186a Clapham High St, London SW4.

and Jim Komp IMPORTED Golden Delicious apples may rise by 6p a lb to mid-February, 16-18p a lb by Mr Matthew Mack, president of National Federation of Fruit and Potato Trades, said yesterday.

The rise in price would be- come inevitable because govern- ment had refused to suspend Common Market compensatory on apple imports which levy takes effect on February 1, Mr Mack said. ever, appear to indicate another pronts increase. • On Monday night Post Office chief Sir William Ryland said that postal charges must go up again. VICTOR FEATHER, general secre night that the government's count not solve the country's economic p 'Nor, unless some new of policy dramatic change comes about, will the so-called Phase Two,' he added. Feather was giving a lecture on trade unions at Warwick University, Coventry. 'The unilateral government's decision to introduce a standstill on incomes is neither justified by Britain's economic problems nor calculated to secure the support of trade unionists. 'On the contrary, the freeze could intensify the problem. It will certainly make it more difficult to achieve a long-term solution based on agreement.

It does nothing to deal with in the the basic disequilibrium distribution ownership and of in our income wealth and country. It is all very well telling the boat workers not to rock when they are crowded in the fo'c'sle and the preacher is in the state room' warned that he Feather also keeping faced difficulties in order in the rank and file of the trade union movement. "The TUC cannot issue orders to our unions, any more than the unions can issue orders to their members. If you want that kind of trade union movement you will have to go to a totali- tarian country. "The TUC cannot put the whips as the government can in on parliament; we have to depend on the merits of our case.'

But having forecast conflict over wages, Feather went on to declare that the TUC would act "responsibly'. He pledged: We shall not go looking for trouble.

We shall not seek dramatic con- with frontations either the As the miners conducted their with employers, government or in court or outside. Workers

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A GREAT collection of £50 at our meeting in Liverpool last Sunday night has helped give a boost to our fund this month. We now have 15 days to raise the remaining £1,265.31 total. Let's to complete our press ahead faster than ever.

Nothing will hait these huge Every price increases. day items rapidly more and more become dearer than ever. The Tory government has no inten- tion of stopping this onslaught.

This is a conscious policy on their part : to take away all the basic rights of the work- Ing class. But they will not be allowed to do this without an enor- mous battle. Everywhere, more sections of trade unionists are demanding pay rises to meet the cost-of-living increases. A showdown with the Tory gov- ernment Is not far ahead.

Only Workers Press Is politi- cally prepared for this fight.

Our paper alone has fought consistently to defend all the democratic rights basic of workers everywhere. Make a very special effort therefore for our January Fund. Go all out and help us pull the situ- ation around. Post every dona- tion immediately to: Workers Press January Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High Street London, SW4 7UG ral secretary of the TUC, said last t's counter-inflation legislation will onomic problems. If trouble comes our way, we shall have to cope with it in the interests of our members, but we will as we always do, not throw our weight around.

"This the time for not provocation, and I hope that the and the employers government share this view? Feather's suggestion for the future? 'Eventually, and probably quite soon, we shall need to talk again.' Feather's 'militant' speech must be answered uncompromisingly.

He has gone along every step of the way to allow the Tories to formulate their dictatorial state pay plan. He has • consistently opposed the recail of the TUC to develop a policy to fight the government wages policy which has done away with the right to negotiate pay. Feather is simply mouthing words. What about deeds? Will he make a statement pledging support for any section of wor- kers who decide to fight for decent wages? Will he, to be more specific, pledge support for the wage claims of the Ford and British- Leyland workers and the gasmen?

Feather says this is not totalitarian state. He's right. But if he and the other TUC leaders continue to encourage the Tories in round after round of dangerous talks, they will open the door for this very development.

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