Workers Press no. 975

workers press

BEHIND PHASE TWO OF STATE PAY PLAN

IN THE FOOTSTEPS

OF DE GAULLE

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORIES have embarked on the road to Bonapartist established by General de Gaulle in France in 1958. This from Edward Heath's presidential-style Press conference w year state control over wages.

ONE CLOU

From Press conference to dine with ..

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

tive strikes and rallies in support FIRST to hit back at the of their claim. Ford Tory pay laws were 500 The unanimous decision of the workers at the Dagenham body 23-man council of the executive 60,000-strong Civil Society of plant who staged a half-day pro- Servants was greeted by cheers test strike yesterday. from 100 members lobbying the -The men in the underbody and meeting. A joint meeting is planned for sub-assembly plant said they today with the executive of the would go on indefinite strike on 200,000-strong Civil Public and March if по agreement was Services Association to lay plans reached by then the with com- for co-ordinated against on their £10 pay claim. pany

CPSA

the government. general secretary Bill Kendall has already mass meeting in the lunch- A demanded the recall of the TUC hour demanded the recall of the Thousands of gasworkers in

TUC

campaign to prepare Scotland and Hull joined men in the laws. There against were London in launching an some voices in favour of a General overtime ban and work-to-rule following Strike. Wednesday. one-day strikes Civil servants' leaders meeting.

In Dewsbury, Yorkshire, 72 fitters, in London condemned the White transport men and distribution 24-hour Paper 'totally unacceptable workers staged a stop- as and plan to go ahead with selec- page.

HE NEWSLETTER

FRIDAY JANUARY 19, 197

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOC

partist dictatorship in the style . This is the definite message ence which unveiled the three- Even the most right-wing newspapers drew compari- sons with Gaullism when descrihing the event. This does not at all mean that the government over which Heath presides is in a position to establish such a dictatorship. What the Tories have done, and are doing, is to create the legal framework for another Tory government to be re-elected to complete the task. It is one thing to introduce legisiation which abolishes the right to free wage bargaining.

It is another thing to carry it out in practice. And before the Tories can make this corporatist legislation 'work', they know that they must fight the working class and sev- erely defeat it. Despised Heath and his government are roundly despised throughout the length and breadth of the labour and trade union movement by unionists, housewives, trade council tenants and the unem- ployed. It is no accident that after announcing his wholesale attack on the rights and standard of living of the working class, Heath went off for a 21-day tour of After Devon. climbing into a naval flying jacket he was taken by helicopter to the 9,000-ton cruiser, HMS "Tiger", at Ply- mouth, to dine with service chiefs. Again shades of de Gaulle. . . . While he consorts with the monopolies and the military on the one hand, he rests the other arm of his Bonapartist rule on the bankrupt leaders of the Labour Party and the TUC.

His only allies in the workers' movement are the bureaucrats like Wilson and Feather (see p. 12). They form part of the conspi- racy which has brought this Phase One and Phase Two legis- lation forward. And they will do nothing to prevent him getting it onto the statute books.

It is immediately vital that both the TUC and the Labour BY 19, 1973 • No. 975 4p

HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Party conferences are recalled.

The purpose of these recalled conferences must not be another of windbagging and exhibition posturing by the bureaucrats.

They must be to decide on the urgent question of the leadership of the working class movement.

Wilson, Feather and the fake lefts have demonstrated that unfit lead the they to are working class in these perilous days. On the agenda, therefore, must be the removal of these leaders on the basis of a strug- gle for socialist policies.

These policies must include • The abolition and repeal of all anti-trade union laws.

• The resumption of free wage negotiations between trade unions and employers. RHODESIAN premier Tan Smith said last night that African tribesmen north-eastern in Rhodesia were giving food, shelter and assistance to African nationalist guerrillas. Smith's statement is the racial- ist government's biggest admis- since the anti- sion of failure guerrilla campaign began.

He warned that 'some pretty tough Ap ... army chiefs in true Gaullist style • Withdrawal from the Com- mon Market. The nationalization under workers' control of all the basic monopolies. Mobilize But these policies can only be fought out when Labour Party members and trade unionists re- cognize that this struggle is inseparable from the mobiliza- tion of the working class to force the Tory government to resign and to return a Labour government pledged to imple- ment socialist policies. In such a situation the con- ditions would be created for the complete exposure of the role of reformism and pave the way for the building of the mass revolutionary party. action' would be introduced to- morrow to deal with people in- volved in such subversion.

He said that the guerrillas had been operating the north-east for months, 'quietly and methodically undermining the local population'.

Smith claimed the guerrillas had 'witch-doctors of doubtful used character' to 'mislead' tribesmen into supporting them.

workers press

BEHIND PHASE TWO OF STATE PAY PLAN

IN THE FOOTSTEPS

OF DE GAULLE

INCORPORATING THE NEWS

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTF

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORIES have embarked on the road to Bonapartist established by General de Gaulle in France in 1958. This from Edward Heath's presidential-style Press conference w year state control over wages.

From Press conference to dine with ...

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

FIRST to hit back at the new tive strikes and rallies in support of their claim. Tory pay laws were 500 Ford The unanimous decision of the workers at the Dagenham body 23-man executive council of the Civil plant who staged a half-day pro- 60,000-strong Society of Servants was greeted by cheers test strike yesterday. from 100 members lobbying the meeting. -The men in the underbody and A joint meeting is planned for sub-assembly plant said they today with the executive of the would go on indefinite strike on 200,000-strong Civil and Public March no agreement Services Association to lay plans reached by with the then com- for co-ordinated action against pany on their f10 pay claim.

the government. CPSA general secretary Bill Kendall has already A mass meeting in the lunch- demanded the recall of the TUC hour demanded the recall of the Thousands

TUC

of in campaign gasworkers to prepare There Scotland and Hull joined men in the against laws. were some voices in favour of a General London in launching an overtime Strike. ban and work-to-rule following Wednesday. one-day strikes Civil servants' leaders meeting In Dewsbury, Yorkshire, 72 fitters, in London condemned the White transport men and distribution Paper totally staged a 24-hour stop- unacceptable' workers as and plan to go ahead with selec- page.

HE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY JANUARY 19, 19

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

partist dictatorship in the style 3. This is the definite message rence which unveiled the three- Even the most right-wing newspapers drew compari- sons with Gaullism when descrihing the event. This does not at all mean that the government over which Heath presides is in a position to establish such …a dictatorship. What the Tories have done, and are doing, is to create the legal framework for another Tory government to be re-elected to complete the task. It is one thing to introduce legislation which abolishes the right to free wage bargaining.

It is another thing to carry it out in practice. And before the Tories can make this corporatist legislation 'work', they know that they must fight the working class and sev- erely defeat it. Despised Heath and his government are roundly despised throughout the length and breadth of the labour and trade union movement by trade unionists, housewives, council tenants and the unem- ployed. It is no accident that after announcing his wholesale attack the rights and standard of on living of the working class, Heath went off for a 21-day tour of Devon. After climbing into a naval flying jacket he was taken by helicopter to the 9,000-ton cruiser, HMS 'Tiger' , at Ply- mouth, to dine with service Again" chiefs. shades of de Gaulle. . . . While he consorts with the monopolies and the military on the one hand, he rests the other arm of his Bonapartist rule on the bankrupt leaders of the Labour Party and the TUC.

His only allies in the workers' movement are the bureaucrats like Wilson and Feather (see p. 12). They form part of the conspi- which has brought this racy Phase One and Phase Two legis- lation forward. And they will do nothing to prevent him getting it onto the statute books.

It is immediately vital that both the TUC and the Labour RY 19, 1973• No. 975 • 4p

'HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Party conferences are • recalled. The purpose of these recalled conferences must not be another of windbagging and exhibition posturing by the bureaucrats.

They must be to decide on the urgent question of the leadership of the working class movement.

Wilson, Feather and the fake lefts have demonstrated that they unfit to lead the are working class in these perilous days. On the agenda, therefore, must be the removal of these leaders on the basis of a strug- gle for socialist policies.

These policies must include The abolition and repeal of all anti-trade union laws.

• The resumption of free wage negotiations between trade unions and employers. RHODESIAN premier Ian Smith said last night that African tribesmen in north-eastern Rhodesia were giving food, shelter and assistance to African nationalist guerrillas. Smith's statement is the racial- ist government's biggest admis- of failure since the anti- sion guerrilla campaign began. He warned that 'some pretty tough • army chiefs in true Gaullist style Withdrawal from the Com- mon Market. The nationalization under workers' control of all the basic monopolies. Mobilize But these policies can only be fought out when Labour Party members and trade unionists re- that this struggle is cognize inseparable from the mobiliza- tion of the working class to force the Tory government to resign and to return a Labour government pledged to imple- ment socialist policies. In such a situation the con- ditions would be created for the complete exposure of the role of reformism and pave the way for the building of the mass revolutionary party. action' would be introduced to- morrow to deal with people in- volved in such subversion.

He said that the guerrillas had been operating the north-east for months, 'quietly and methodically undermining the local population'.

Smith claimed the guerrillas had used 'witch-doctors of doubtful character' to 'mislead' tribesmen into supporting them.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday January 19, 1973 Fighting the Tory rent Act Man-hunt

HANDS OFF

Workers for ETA X kidnappers

CLAY,

must defend

SPANISH

police are man- hunting four Basque national- ists (ETA) who kidnapped Pamplona industrialist Felipe Huarte. wealthy Navarre rent rebels industrialist, Huarte CUl- his surtant company and director of several engineering companies.

The

ETA

has demanded ransom. They want Huarte to re- ause instate 100 workers and give

BY PHILIP WADE OUR HOUSING CORRESPONDENT

month's paid annual leave.

EVERY CLAY CROSS Labour councillor is today threatened with Radio Nacional, the main radio plight bankruptey and disqualification from office for the 'crime' of fighting channel. lallchicu The Industria sts Tamoul ana mentioned the

ETA

demand for the Tories' despised 'fair rents' Act.

The 1l councillors in It also reported statement this Derbyshire ran- are plona condemning the kid- Councillors faced Tory members napping. - nave ordered by the been latest kidnapping district with disqualification auditor cides with the trial of the kid. …lo pay £6,985 between nappers the industrialist over Determined tenants will have to stop up their figh Zabala. them within 14 days. o defend housing By law the surcharge The Public Prosecutor 11 'Independents, could move for sentences of means are removed The loss 'has been calling office caretaker authority 25 trom the and canno ds d no vers or les and misconduct of yourself ETA militants. stana again Ior lve years.

Tout cav Coss Is merce• Only successful appeal and the other members of with neighbouring authori- The ETA's acts of indi- this. ties in 1974. can the council', he said. vidual however terrorism, wellol leader of Of course of the Such a savage attack none lead more the Clay olave. canonly told Workers the basic rights of council -who have youth into the fascist jails.

Coule vis Press yesterday: Cross and workers coun- auto

CONSIST.

Zabala kidnapping The shall ently opposed the Tory Cillors be recommen- LaKCI led to at least 60 arrests.

ing not appeal. plans for destroying muni- we Dy the entre working class.

has been Clay Cross must not be Similar has the dangers housing Cipal the get any justice from left fight involved Molotov money required. 1n dorison leadership treacherous systemn. the auditor The cocktal attacks • Le In that Casc was district auditor Wilson in the Madrid showrooms will apply to the courts for Charles Lacey who Labour Party, Chrysler and General brought orders their pro- the struggle Council leader Arthur Wellon (left) with seven of his ten with the fight The can only be Motors. they have any- council colleagues who now face bankrupicy.

of won li tne 1 orles are torcea he sent letters out to each to rennent elected, piedeed resign Labour earnings. UNITED STATES bombers councillor Wednesday THE ATTACK on Clay Cross was being made They would. effect, flew their heaviest raids In

OUI

Socialo be in permanent debt to South Vietnam by a Tory government which had no mandate On phe fair rentse repe Insu cions trom the the Tory for government Tories he had carried out a 'fair rents' Act and for any of its policies,

ARTHUR WELLON,

fighting special investigation all Tory troops Is DULCICE Dc- legislation. vietnamese half of the council leader, said. 'It's a travesty of justice council's working class. housing There Cal Disqualification takes fighting below cal- promise and totally undemocratic.

We've done nothing the money missing place six Derbyshire miners must Culate weeks from yes multan zed zone because of Clay Cross terday appeal of their leadership The US said but represent the of those demand interests who lodged. And of refusal to implement because yesterday that fighter-

LIC

une oncle

SLNIKO

elected us. Thailand, Finance and action in support of Clay from

A CI

10cal verneau bombers to order those responsible Cross. and carriers in the South Izanon, une lories are not "This government has never cared that what they are for the obliged to hold fresh China Seas de 3 Soub loss make And the call must go doing of the elections. Wisnes good. our ror te moonzauon oi everything. forced through While workers are to be fined situation, the entire trade union

CUCI

TOUI

for striking, and we're told are to be kept down, no one in any doubt as to Derbyshire county movement bring down regions during the past up,' said Cllr Wellon. his findings. which is run by Tories and this Tory hours. 'The Torles have no mandate Connon Industrial Relations Act or the Border is a key issue Housing Finance Act. Their mandate ources ai stroke and they've gone 30 per cent.' Wellon THE NATIONAL Libe- prominent theme of Hanoi Radio anarge. Workere are Degining the few broadcasts over Cast Front of South

SAIGON

government sources wrap up formalities connected days. said yesterday that agreement. President Vietnam yesterday said Vietnam's South Foreign agreement will be signed within Nixon's Alex- General

CLYU

goal was still the re- ander Haig left Saigon vester.

Juile Saigon that in date of signing would be deter- morning briefing unification of the coun- the Paris talks Hanoi has refused next mined by progress in Paris to meetings with President Thieu.

but its immediate Lo make ally concession •ravine is trooos nom rie sond It could indicate that the PRG object was 'national con- Preside Henry Nixon's represent- re-establishing the demili- has accepted continued ative, Kissinger, said tarized border zone. cord' in the south. Vietnam partition tem- conference on Decem- the lol gros ion that North Vit am Tory laws are good unless statement was basis. North Vietnamese had demanded trans- cannol they are accepted the mitted by the North Vietnam the Geneva accords. that the Provisional Revolutionary by This would be concession constant inter- majority.' News Agency for the Pro- Joveranca De civea cal slalus the United to States and Nguyen vention in the south visional Revolutionary Govern- with ine on covernment But crucial he ever, ave insisted that Vietnam how- the Van Thieu's Duppet dictatorship. North any agreement. Lam said the of South Vietnam. The Vietnam added, was one leadership. division of has South Vietnamese would never described the The national executive of apparently been a major SLe- agree to this. ment as 'important. has Party had 'kept quiet' on Paris negotiations. people. in the secret been a The

PRG

statement said re- their fight. unification 'sacred goal, was tought ior

DOLI

Of the next period, Clir Wellon Durban is centre of strike wave country. But na ver had this 1o lot depends say: added the most essential require- was to rally ment at the moment and the TUC. the union leaders us and the the Dalliouc aralis! puppet government. "The way I see It the rank and "The council of ministers AFRICAN workers demand- below the oncial poverty le we.

a six-day week and are well also the union and file

BY A WORKERS PRESS

holds that to ing higher wages are reach une hey will not doit volum

CORRESPONDENT

goal, concordh is the policy "national lead. They strike in four different fac- Another strike by 1,500 work.

most suitable to tarily. ers at the Coronation Brick Fac- in Durban, South that they were 'becom- realities the present situ- grounds 2.70 rand tory won increase, Africa. Earlier this week 16 nuisance'. ation in South Vietnam oers and in workers, car ing nnoune mer wace to ou rao to had strayed trom ehe mese millions of others for were Police told them either to re.

about £5.75) a week directeu "strayed from the right ane not going to sit back and une to work or leave the area. picketing ship-building They had originally demanded accept It from the Tories. One strike-bound com- paln, our wno wanted ro receen company. a weekly wage of 30 rand. but the therso ne peoples rome. would be allowed to finally accepted the company's 'At Clay Cross we shall call The 400 unskilled bility hiring convict labour companys offer when the management support everyone. ship's and cleaners are Department of Prisons American multar davisers threatened to send them back to want practical help the form 90 with the South Vietnamese army demanding cents cAlla

SULIKC

1o be legislated Zululand. have been ordered by their. com- the day uneT Wades

VID

he shim-oucine comnanu re 3.50 rand (about £1.75). One of cently awarded wage increases of mand to pull out trom • ground account of the Durban dockers ages for the called in the police combat areas if attacked employers cents day. But the We're all being accoulli done legally. Orders had been issued for ans verse une sulkers Une are sull carning only 10.00 rand Stke But the people have had enough 'political humanitarian and and beginning rise reasons anucisauon Torles,

MORE FOREIGN NEWS—PAGE 11

fighting for territory which would agalnst Workers Press follow declaration.

Workers Press, Friday January 19, 1973 PAGE 3 IAN YEATS sums up Heath's 'presidential' Press conference Mailed fist behind Phase Two 'FAIR' was the keynote of Tory leader Edward Heath's Pompidou- style world Press conference at the ex-ducal mansion of Lancaster House on Wednesday. He explained journalists largely from European countries, the Commonwealth and America that the government's ap- proach to pay and prices had been a 'fair' one aimed at being 'fair' to as many people as possible. But beneath the bland recitation of the Elysian Fields opened up by Common Mar- ket entry lay a mixture of inducements and threats. Together with the eight other EEC countries, the had a prospect oi >-per-cent growin said Heath, and since last March un- employment had dropped by 150,000.

The only thing that marred the nation's future prospects high-productivity, high-wage economy was the spectre of inflation.

The Prime Minister walks to the dals at Lancaster House But whatever the nation If it could be shown that And, said Heath, referring, perhaps signifi- —an ex-ducal True of the whole coun free bargaining mansion--jor nis presidential style rress would not to the 'special the government conference. Journalists remained seated and silent.

generate inflation, the gov- cantly, powers' future taking: whole coun- ernment would listen. But War nation realizes it is essen- excus very tial to deal with the prob. on the success of the new Sinister undertones to said: 'We had con- policies which the He govern- that siderable success until the rexrculed after the tripartite talks at But mcal could not allow luch- spring of last ycal. Downing Street between selves to be deflected from then awo miaor certements implementing. the TUC, the CBI and the threatened the economy of Heath's 'fairness' government beginning of his the country'-(miners and Trace At the unions had been unable to Heath with speech said rauwaymnen). participate voluntary decision: "we are

MOT

Clearly the government to throw away the poncy and price intends no further such restraint. benefits have gained threats and we workers, This, Heath laid heavy empha- that they had Priority was to be given he said, was signs not Lai from this standstil.' for miners and railwavmen wil the sis his totally turned their backs rises 'disappointment to And at of the

WILLCOS

the end be the first to feel the country as whole. But at any on the idea. groups talk to the luc • workers on ow Press conference he said: edge of the government's the gravity of the time. incomes. Heath disclosed that the 'We see the new legisla- new legal clubs. Pensioners He said the machinery are be crisis facing the nation had General Council had urged tion as a permanent feature led the government helped. But Heath is not staking to The lor operaling lne pay plan him to end the standstill- or the economv ano we are inescapable conclusion that had been so constructed The 2p merely on bat- _ Increase in The everything not determined to show the TOr „ time-

-DUT

duty that the moment the

TUC

price of school meals, due tering individual groups of to take sole it was its that Phase Two could begin world that can deal we would be can- April 1, for workers into line with the restral. Chancea Is without delay. Will Illall. ing pay and prices. be operated jointly. celled to hen pay plan. lower-paid Without doubt the TUC A major reason for doing first 90- The Downing Street families. was that Asked if he thought that so, explained, anticipates might And the rent Act would day been talks, he had been T01C standstill together the trade salu acting generate the illusion that if we are be to rake avan. introduced. 'very moditled ane. torpedo the certain "fair' limits, tage of the opportunities unions could within Said Heath: 'The whole government had 'embodied poorer tenants raising offered by going into the policy, said whole [the the needs allowance used nation has -co-operated much their Wage eac pointedly they would pretty much as before. Common Market. then to calculate rent rebates by TUC's advice and see-until the autumn.

me overduon or mar stame- as possible have got to deal with com- still and I want in their pay plan. could hardly be acci- £3.50. petitiveness and these mea- tribute to it.' The dental that the on Heath clearly hopes that ubs fail, the words unspoken but clubs fail, combined effect of this sures help our competitive.

nation' will blatant which the government the reply to a ques- Laler. In macalon Was ness.' almost certainly called tion, added that the that the government might package will be to rally the be chose spechical had be only sed deal 'fair' were the very nation' behind the Both the TUC and the upon to give its verdict on pay been which the

TUC

ernment and at the same

CBI

wanted return to the 'fairness' of the gov- 'observed

TUC

had would co Lilt he policies in greatest operate to the full. time bargaining ernment s unions The campaigned

MOST

VOCI-

Illake easiel lict wart There certainly ferously. the TUC to help them out.

said. 'But it is not possible'.

General Election WelC

JOHN

PROFUMO,

30,000 'A' ordinary shares Macmillan senior Students' grants Thomson valued at around £50,000. This minister in the friend Miss leaves him with a personal hold ernmest ane Christine Keeler, has sold off ing ordinary strikes oil part of his holding in the Provi- shares £272,000 - worth about Philip Profumo, his Major aent rue association or London.

revolt-warning Profumo has notified the asso- director of the brother, is a ciation that he has disposed of Provident. son has struck Socialist Labour League Yorkshire Rally More than £1.5m was added stock market value of the

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

to the

FORCE THE TORY

Thomson viran Lato, aller licws an oil strike in the North THE TORY government was warned last night that unless it

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

Sea off Wick Island. does something soon to help students having to live on The has been made discovery headed Occidental

BUILD THE

consortium inadequate grants 'a major confrontation is inevitable'.

The Petroleum Corpora- tion Thomson warning came from Professor L. C. B. Gower, vice-Chancellor and includes

REVOLUTIONARY

Associates with a 20- of Southampton University, in his annual address to the per-cent holding.

PARTY!

University Court. Scottish, which is family, basically the Thomson Students and at Southampton costs the grant was agreement has SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 7.30 p.m.

designed the major of its stake to 30 cover. Universitv the Thomson Organization if the And he 'Unless some- other colleges the West added: Great Northern Hotel, thing company wants it at a later date about this, Hampshire area earlier done soon major confrontation Wellington Street (near Leeds station), this stage a one-day week to is inevitable. One consolation, he Powell Thursday in sup-

LEEDS

strike next Dullica Oul. Was Lial Il was no of supplementary grants internally issue, but

DULL

divisive in line with the cost of living one in staff, students and tops poll administrators were all victims naulunai policy. Tanuary a students a policy was unlikely to be

FILM: THREE YEARS

une Portsmouth Polytechnic will reversed as a result of strikes or

FOR

Enoch Powell hase seen

THE

fifth strike and demonstrate.

OF WORKERS PRESS

boycotts at individual universities.

been year Professor Gower said students 'These will merely strengthen elected Conservative politician had genuine grouse about thot Yorkshire. the hands of those the Monday Who wanT their Whatever the grants. take with line with students might pretend, inevitably force the coverincel Edward Heath tory premier TaCtS were Clearle level universities concerned to failed to attract a single vote.

ICLOUD

maintenance grants which still charging Cabinet Minister Geoffrey their osses over 90 cent of UK students per more,' he said. Ripoon. a member of the club.

Speakers: had kept dependent were Gower added that so far the also received a nil vote.

pace Witt rising costs. HEALY (SLL National Secretar had shown Rippon fell foul of his right- so Wilingt no sign UL WHETSTONE (Young Socialis Rent strikes students were the wing friends he adminis. will eness al univ easies place inter bee in pine i tan shane and In personal capacity: universities were policy loan finance. policy.

SEORGE LUBY (U.P.W.

Powell obtained 84 per unreatened. sale, they had done cent

OBBIE ROBERTS (N.U.M

of the the club's will be made Inadequate grants more suudents snowe be gone-

VOLE

300 Yorkshire members. more inadequate by increased based.

GAITSKELL

By Jack Gale. Part two: Saved by the left'.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Friday January A powerful factor in stopping Hugh Gaitskell destroying the Labour Party's Clause 4 (nationa- lization) at the 1959 party conference was the change in relations be- tween the unions and the right wing on the party's National Executive Com- mittee. Throughout the 1950s, Gait- skell—who died ten years ago strong right- yesterday-had wing trade backing. The 'left' Frank Cousins had taken over as general secretary Transport and of the giant General Workers' Union and he clashed with Gaitskell both on Clause 4 and—like a grow- ing number of other union leaders—on the H-bomb. At the 1960 Party confer- ence Cousins bluntly declared: 'You can have nationalization without socialism, but you socialism without an't have nationalization.' In the end, Gaitskell had to settle for a compromise. In July 1960, the NEC resolved not to proceed with any am- endment or addition to Clause 4, but also accepted a policy statement that no additions to the nationalization programme were contemplated. The other major issue on January 19, 1973 which Gaitskell came into con- flict with the Labour Party ranks was the H-bomb. consistently and thor- oughly supported the nuclear policy of United States impe- rialism. He was undoubtedly helped in this by Aneurin Bevan who, at the 1957 Labour Party conference, opposed uni- lateral disarmament nuclear saying that a British Foreign Secretary could not be sent into the Conference 'naked Chamber'. From this point, Bevan was making his road back to Gait- skell. Yet opposition grew to the right wing as never before.

In 1959 Gaitskell supported of American the transfer nuclear warheads from France to Britain, despite a motion opposing this put down by 80 Labour back-benchers. The same year he spoke up publicly for British H-bomb Despite Bevan's defec- tests. tion, the movement against all this was growing, as was shown by the massive Easter marches of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. This reached its peak in 1960 when the Labour Party conference passed a unilateralist motion submitted by the T&GWU by 3,303,000 votes to 2,896,000.

went on to reject the It NEC's H-bomb statement by 3,339,000 votes to 3,042,000.

A motion to leave NATO was also passed. This could have been a deci- sive defeat for the right. Thou- sands of people, especially the march youth, were on against the bomb. Powerful trade unions like the T&GWU were committed to unilateral- ism. It was at this conference that Gaitskell and George Brown openly declared that conference decisions would be ignored, and in particular that such decisions were not bind- ing the Parliamentary on Labour Party. In his notorious *fight, fight and fight again' speech, Gaitskell served notice that all his efforts would be devoted to overturning the democratic decision of the conference. This provoked a violent re- action. Wherever he went, Gaitskell was shouted down by members and supporters of his own party. In Liverpool he was almost mobbed when he declared his support for the American Polaris nuclear sub- marine base at Holy Loch in Scotland. In 1961 the first annual con- ference of the Young Socialists voted 210-114 for the imple- mentation of the unilateralist resolution and the removal of Gaitskell as leader. The Parliamentary Labour Party failed to reflect this in any way. Gaitskell was re- elected by 166 votes against 81 for Harold Wilson. (Wilson was a so-called 'compromise candidate-with characteristic opportunism he had called for the nationalization of the arms industry.) The right wing launched a counter-attack. The Campaign for Democratic Socialism was launched with the express pur- pose of overturning the con- ference vote. One of the lead- of this right-wing fifth ers column was Dick Taverne, now standing against the Labour Party on a pro-Common Mar- ket platform at Lincoln. But the right wing could in re- never have succeeded versing the position, as they at the 1961 conference, had it not been for the com- plete capitulation of the 'Tri- bune'-ite 'lefts. Despite Bevan's defection, these MPs —Michael Foot, Ian Mikardo, etc-were looked upon by many people as the alternative to the right wing. For years they had been in a minority.

Now they not only had the party ranks and many thou- sands outside it behind them, they also had a conference decision and the support of powerful unions. They promptly proceeded to • Michael Foot's announce, in words, that 'the debate will continue. The debate, in the eyes of thousands of oppon- Left: Gaitskell In the early 1960's at the time of Wilson's challenge to his leadership of the Labour Party. ents of nuclear war, was over.

The decision had been made.

It was now the time to take up the challenge thrown down by Gaitskell and force the party leadership to carry out that decision. The 'Tribune'-ites refused to organize a single campaign or rally to enforce the conference decision. Appeal aiter appeal from their followers for meet- ings in the key Labour areas to demand enforcement of offi- cial policy went unanswered by Foot, Mikardo and company. By their talk of 'continuing debate', they played into Gait- skell's hands and by their in- action they left the field open to him. Gaitskell survived as leader after 1960 solely because of failure of the reformist the 'left' to fight. One other aspect of Gait- skell's career needs mention.

The 'New Statesman', in an his article commemorating death, praises him "for his against Eden over the stand Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt in 1956. But Gaitskell's initial reac- tion to this crisissparked off by Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal—was to sup- port Eden all the way! When Eden made his initial in the Com- announcement Gaitskell replied: 'On mons, side of the House we this deeply deplore this high- handed and totally unjusti- fiable action by the Egyptian government.' Complimenting Eden, the Labour leader went on: 'We are all grateful to him for the statement he has made about the attitude of Her Majesty's government to Colonel Nas- ser's action. He later changed his posi- tion. But this was not because supported the Egyptians' he right to take over the canal, nor because he was-moved by the flood of opposition to Tory imperialism throughout the labour movement. Gaitskell changed because he wanted to keep in line with American imperialism which, for its own ends, opposed the Tory government's action.

Gaitskell lived and died a faithful servant of imperialism —in Lenin's phrase la Labour lieutenant of capitalism'.

But he remained Labour Party leader until the end. of days only because the his 'lefts' would not fight him.

Trotsky's analysis of an ear- lier generation of 'lefts' and rights in the British labour movement-made when Gait- skell was just beginning his political life-applies equally forcibly to the conflict between Gaitskell and the 'lefts' over 30 years later. In 'Problems of the British Revolution' Trotsky wrote: the rights ... gentlemen who at nothing in the will stop defence of the foundations of bourgeois society. 'The wooliness of the British with their "lefts" together theoretical formlessness and their political indecision, not to say cowardice, makes the clique of MacDonald, Webb and Snowdon masters of the situation.' Trotsky pointed out And that the path of the revolu- tionary party 'lies not only through irreconcilable an struggle against capital's spe- cial agency in the shape of MacDonald-Thomas clique, but also through the systematic unmasking of the "left" mud- dleheads by means of whom alone MacDonald and Thomas can maintain their positions.'

It is in such a fight against both 'the of Mac- successors Donald and Gaitskell and the generation of 'left present muddleheads' that the revolu- tionary party will be formed and built in 1973.

On August 13, 1968, Alexandros Panagoulis was arrested in Greece. Three months later a military court sentenced him to death on two counts and committed him to prison for 18 years.

One death sentence was for being a deserter. Panagoulis, then a 27-year-old student, was doing his military service at the ime of the colonels' coup on April 21, 1967. He refused to serve those reactionary officers. The second death sentence was for 'trying to overthrow the legal regime. Panagoulis maintained that the colonels' regime was illegal. Two years' imprisonment were for contempt of court. He told the mem- bers of the military court that he did not recognize their right to judge him. One year was for possessing explosives and the remaining 15 years were for his alleged attempt to kill the military dictator George Papadopoulos. After suffering years of the most brutal torture, Alexandros Panagoulis managed to smuggle a letter out of prison.

This is the statement: I am writing with the hope broken. Burns with cigarettes that my letter will reach on my hand and genitals. every human being who feels They put a long metal his duty to be indignant about needle (wire) inside my crime and to fight for its aboli- urethra and heated the ex- With the hope that the tended part of the needle or tion. support of the world opinion wire with a cigarette lighter.

the struggle of our people With their hands they closed for for freedom, democracy, Jus- my mouth and nostrils (ways tice and progress will become of breathing) till almost to the more substantial. of Kick- point asphyxiation. I am writing with the confi- ings. Punching with the fist. dence the Pulling that progressive the hair. Beating of powers of all the world will my head against the wall and Preventing help the many prisoners of floor. from me the junta and with their assist- sleeping. (The protagonists physical were Major Theofyloyannakos prevent ance our destruction. Police Officers Mailios and I am writing lastly so that Babalis.) Brutal and torturing from the isolation of a prison ways of the junta the anathema of to force feed me by Dr Pana- someone who suffers reaches permanently gopoulos. was all the world and hits all those handcuffed. I was refused every of who help the completion the crime that is perpetrated their refusal to allow people. against our At the to see the brief of the prosecu- same time I want our gratitude• tion prior to my trial and their to reach all those who stand refusal to allow me to see my by us at this terrible moment.

lawyer except once on the eve For two years now I am in of the trial and this in the absolute isolation. I have been presence of officers of the subjected to terrible tortures.

junta. In summary I report: Threats and by Whipping with wire and wire during Theofyloyannakos the rope all over my body. Beating trial. Withholding the charges with clubs on the soles of my I made and submitted to the feet with the result that my Military Tribunal against Major right heel was fractured. Beat- Theofyloyannakos Had- and ing with iron bars on the chest zizisis for forging (which is supposed defence and on the ribs with the result proved) my that two three ribs were Or plea produced in the brief of document the prosecution which is not valid and has not got my signature. These all before the trial. After the 'trial' transfer from KESA (Centre of Training of the Military Police) in gang- ster-style November 20, 1968 to the arsenal (Nafstathmos) and from there in a naval boat under the signal R.25 (P.25) to a cell at the back of the prisons of Aegina (Island of Aegina). They notified I me that would be executed the next morning and I asked me if wanted ask for I pardon. to refused. At dawn a detachment outside my cell and I came could hear orders being given —after a while the detachment left. I was notified that they would execute me the follow- ing day because 'today is the Virgin Annunciation of the Mary and executions cannot take place'. I refused again their suggestion that I should make confession and ask for pardon. In the of morning November 22 I was told again that the execution would take place on the morning of the 23rd. In the afternoon I was trans- ferred to Nafstathmos with the naval boat P.21 and from there to the special questioning department of ESA. A sergeant Greek Colonel, Papadopoulos.

(surely under orders) told me Alexandros Pan ged to sn had that the newspapers an- had been nounced that executed adding that now 'they are going to question you as they like. At dawn on November 23 they put me in a car telling •Now all this gimmickry me is over and we are definitely going for the execution'. And went to the prison of we Boyati. They threw me into a cell without a bed. The walls were damp and green with mould. Still permanently hand- cuffed. I started a hunger-strike, or rather I continued it because from the day after the trial I was not taking any food. The hunger strike lasted until December when they allowed my mother to visit me and promised to improve my prison conditions. However, I remained handcuffed and on the floor until the end of March. My wrists had ulcerated and pus was running from them.

My cell smelled so badly that the guards couldn't stand out- side the door. Inside the cell there was a hole which I had to use for all bodily functions.

From March 20 it was im- possible for me to bear the handcuffs (because of the wounds), but all they did was to remove them for two to hours in the morning three daily. From May 8 after I had been on hunger strike since Easter they put a bed in my cell and a table. And they for 15-20 accompanied me minutes in the prison yard when they had closed the other prisoners into their cells.

On June 5 I escaped-I was betrayed by Patitsas and Perdikaris and I was arrested on June 9. I stayed handcuffed in a cell in the security of Neo Ioania. I refused to make any testimony. I went on hunger strike. I transferred to KESA, was on July 13 they removed the They handcuffs. a cell. On July 20 1 a hunger On July 24 I was Boyati in I continued the h septembe Then they promise vould allow me t yard the when 1 and that I from home and ne started September 10 I sta hunger strike beca the newspapers other September 24 food that my moth October while trying to Handcuffs, removal of feet, food from exhausted from and they started su different logical pressures, e The of the Internationa who visited me on I have no room an write many things clear picture. strike ended 44 days) when in out me on a bed t cell. into the removed the :00l many On Janu recover International Red C me. On January 19 I ferred to KESA str and was tortured. ( 9 I was transferre Boyati of cement measurir by metres known to the Red ( went on tormentin writing difficult to give a of the conditions I Workers Press, Fr ut a letter describing the tor locked me in July 20 I went again strike. 24 I was transferred strike lember 5 147 days promised that they ow me to get out in could walk would get food e and newspapers. n taking food. • 10 I started again a rike because, except wspapers, there was On improvement. they ted eating again. On arrested chains at my ›val of the bed, no cigarettes, home-I started a from November started subjecting me tortures, psycho- of tortures o the Representatives ernational Red Cross d me on January 16. room and I need to y things to give you My led on December when in a coma they I a bed they brought And ther handcuffs, and newspapers. days for me In January the al Red Cross visited lary 19 I was trans- CESA strict isolation rtured. On February transferred again to special cage-cell measuring 3 metres (conditions the Red Cross). They ormenting me. I am summary so it is give a full picture ditions I face. Press, Friday January 18, 1 I am coming to the for me, and more for the une unla. On April 9, to attempted after this failed present it suicide. I told in as as I could all tha with the attempter Representativ International June asked Public Prosecutor the evening of well as at the transferred This was refused To protect similar acts of the who have not for left their make this accusati viln tne nope th of mine will be with the power an also protect other prisoners strict isolation certify on my denunciatio nave aones this I didn't know that junta had on p they did murder mistake. When there wil our the which testimonies criminal act. sonnel of the priso two people are From April 21 (30 days) I di food They Military Dr peated On the would allow m mother and I accep Let the world's he Greek jalls. ng to the most tragic, id more telling event mentality of oril 9, 1970, _the murder me and they tried to attempted an told in as clear a way I all that had to do attempted murder to of the esentalves Red Cross on transferred prison where ferred while still ill. refused. They also • allow me to get i h my lawye myself trom ts of the fascist junta for a moment murdering intens accusation publicly that this letter testimony power and the ability the life soners who are in nunciation. I would done this publicly if now that as perfectly ta had prepared my did make one here will be justice will untry again evidence and which prove this From the per- the prisons only one ople are involved in April 22 until May ys) I did not take brought TOf Panagopoulos who tortures on May 2lst I was told i allow me to see my d I accepted food. world's morals and igned: A. Panagorlis

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Friday January 19, 1973

POVERTY

The Tories' West End wage-cut-their order slashing back wages in London's theatreland to their pitiful level before last November—is not just brutal. It's sadistic.

For a survey just completed by the actors' Equity, union, shows that despite the enor- mous rise in the cost of living members' earnings avelage hardly increased over six years.

And even without the gov- the boot in ernment pulung the vast majority of actors and actresses face constant struggle gaainst pauperism and the dole queue. So when Employment Secre- Maurice Macmillan sat tary down on January 1 to sign his y January 19, 1973 order, it was no bureaucratic formality under the Counter- Inflation (Temporary Pro- visions) Act. He was using the knife, turning it in the wound and rubbing in salt as well.

The order told the Society of West End Theatre Managers not to pay a £5 rise due to go out in wage-packets at the end of that week. It also instructed them to withdraw a £7 rise which they had been paying since Novem- ber 13before the pay-control Bill onto the Statute went Book. This instruction has reduced the minimum wage of West End actors to £18 a week for shows and fit for rehearsals. The only thing standing be- tween Macmillan and an im- mediate demonstration of the atic actors' anger has been the servile attitude of one section of the Equity leadership to the Tories and the hesitations and doubts of another section.

Falling back on 'law and order' the right arguments, wing on the union's executive voted solidly against proposals industrial for immediate action, the recall of the TUC and a campaign by the whole of the trade union movement to remove the Tories from office. - Others abstained. Yet the proposals, it is believed, still won the support of a sizeable minority on the executive.

The only firm decision taken, however, was to call a meeting of the West End mem- bership. This meeting is to take • just over a week's place in time, on January 28. So far the Equity top brass have no policy to place before it.

order' the 'law and brigade on the executive can their prejudices, afford the union's own survey of employ- ment and earnings proves that their members cannot. The survey - based on returns for the year 1971 from 5,000 actors and actresses- shows that of Equity members: • Six out of ten earn less than £1,000 a year. • Four out of ten go on the dole at least once in 12 months. • Seven out of ten are out of work at any one time. Many actors argue that this unemploy- statement of the ment position is in fact an underestimate. Over 90 per cent are without work at any one time, they claim. Poorest paid in 1971 were extras and those in £200 from their work in the profession. Higher in the poverty scale were chorus dancers, actors, stage man- agers and chorus singers at between £600 and £1,000. But even the higher-paid ake groups earned far less than - the wage in British average industry and services a as whole. Variety artistes, for example, earned £1,040 on average, ballet dancers £1,143 and singers £1,406. Only about 700 of Equity's 20,000 members earned £5,000 or more a year, it is estimated.

Most actors at the peak of their careers, between 41 and 50, still had to make do with £1,140 a year on average.

The survey found that only about 4 per cent of the mem- bership did no work at all in of 1971, but the amounts found pitifully work were small. For men in weekly work, the average number of weeks worked was only 25. Women employed on a weekly basis worked an even smaller pro- portion of the year—only 22.5 weeks. For those employed by the day—on television, radio, films, concerts and in clubsthe number of days average worked was 31 for men and only 17 for women. In the West End, where 18 per cent of Equity's members were to be found that year, the median average* number of weeks worked was only 16.9.

For the 26 per cent of the mem thea wors weel had T half duri of t worl TI med ing ouie £835 TI -th perc mecl But ings grou And wher £986 £500 In over £750 Pr were with £1,7 Sullet direc and balle varie

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itish aple, age, and ity's ,000 ted. of and only em- I in of ully ork, eeks asis pro• 22.5 the Ims, -the lays and • 18 bers of the membership in repertory theatres, the position was even worse. The average number of weeks worked by those who had a job at all was 12.4.

Television, which employed half the union's membership during the year, provided each of them with only 17 days' work on average. found that The survey median annual earnings exclud- ing repeat fees, royalties and other residual payments were £835. The top earning age is 41-50 -the age at which the greatest percentage are working in the mechanical media and clubs.

But despite their higher earn- ings over a quarter of this group earned less than £500.

And in the 31-40 year bracket, where median earnings were £986, a third earned less than £500. In the 21 to 25 age bracket less than half earned over £750. Professional broadcasters were the highest paid group, of with median earnings £1,730. They were followed by opera theatre singers £1,406, at directors at £1,352, concert and session singers at £1,219, ballet dancers at £1,143 and variety artistes at £1,040.

The lowest paid group were extras and walk-ons with annual earnings of median £212. For the rest, actors earned £785; stage management £930; chorus dancers £611; and chorus singers £980. Distribution was in direct proportion to professional income. Temporary work was done by 49 per cent of those earning less than £250; 23 per cent of those earning £1,501- £1,750; 8 per cent of those earning £3,001-£4,000; 3 per cent of those earning £5,001- £7,500 and none earning over £10,000. The number of people doing temporary work decreased in direct proportion to age. Around half of those aged up to 25 did some temporary work; a third of those aged 31-40 and a fifth of those aged 41-50. Seven per cent of those aged 66 or over did some temporary work. Very few people earned very much from temporary work— nearly two thirds earned less than £250 and the median was £210. The earnings were indis- criminately low for all ages, the survey found. In the light of these findings, one suggestion made by the 1972: Actors from 'Hair' lobby a meeting to demand their full claim. right wing at a recent execu- tive meeting assumes the pro- portions of an insult to the entire membership of Equity.

This was in response to a tentative offer from the em- ployers to pay the wages stopped by the government into the union's benevolent fund. Some members of the executive seriously • wanted to give this proposal house room.

People who could not get by their Tory-shrunk pay on could go to the fund as hard- ship cases, they said. The union has now accepted a £1,000 hand-out from the employers to its benevolent fund. But the hard facts of life for the majority of union members indicate that such Marie Antoinette policies are in for a decisive pounding on January 28. * The median average of a set of numbers arranged in order of size is the middle number.

Equity used this measure be- cause the more usual mean average (total divided by num- ber would of respondents) distorted tend to give a picture. Workers Press, Fri Two-and-a-half years of Tory rule have gone a long way to breaking up the backstage mystique, the 'show must go on' mentality and the per- sonal loyalty to manage- ments which have held actors back in the past. Backstage at one of London's newest musicals, 'Applause' at Her Majesty's Theatre in the Haymarket, the change of mood is noticeable. When Universal started auditioning outsiders for a TV-film version last week without informing the union, the management almost had a walk-out on their hands. Stanley McGeah, the Equity deputy at the theatre, welcomes the change. 'There's a lot more militancy around now, he says. •Although the leadership's always letting the members down, more and more people are prepared to stand up for themselves and speak out. That's not easy in a profession like this, where pretty well everything you say even in closed meetings gets back to the managements, but people's confidence is growing. 'It's surprising the impact the willingness of just a few people to speak out has had.'

The son of a Belfast ship- yard worker—-'at one stage it was touch and go for me between the yards and acting' -Stanley saw first hand at an early age the brutal mechanics of divide and rule. But on entering the theatre he exchanged poverty and un- employment, underpinned by imperialist partition and de- liberately - fostered sectarian strife, for poverty and unem- underpinned by ployment money-hungry managements, rotten union leadership and ever-present threat of the victimization. Both Stanley McGeah and his actress wife have experi- enced long periods of unem- ployment. They can both tell •Weekly' category

WEEKS WORKED

MEN

(per cent) (P 3 None None in weekly 27.5 category 1-5 6.5 ' co 6-10 11-20 13.5 21-30 13.5 31-40 11 41-52 17 100

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MEN

(per cent) None 3 None in weekly 23.5 category 11.5 1-5 6-10 11-15 16-20 21-30 7.5 31-40 5.5 41-50 3.5 12.5 51-100 101-200 9 201 + 6.5 100

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Workers Press, Friday January 19, 1973 PAGE 7

NO CHEERS FOR

Stanley McGeah, Equity the deputy Her Malesty's Theatre the Haymarket, where the musical 'Applause' is showing.

the bitter story behind the cold statistics of the Equity Survey. At the moment, Stanley is of among une lucky minority.

and actors earning something approaching living wage. But when he started in the business 12 years ago it was £11 slogging round the Ior clock poorly- when in work. paid labouring or the Jobs dole when out of it. And as Stanley himself says: 'Even for those of us who are working now there's a real hard centre in the actors' old phrase "You're only as good as your next job". It was into this situation, with prices and rents rocketing for actors the same as every- one else, that Macmillan and Tory Heath threw oremier their January 1 'don't pay' order to the employers. And this isn't the only aspect of Tory attack. Stanley the McGeah and the other actors at Her Majesty's have just dis- covered that the 10 or 15 per cent of their salaries that go be out in agents fees are subjected to Value-Added Tax -another 1 or 1f per cent.'

Meanwhile 'Applause' con- tinues to gross an estimated €17,500 week for the employers...

BACKSTAGE UNEMPLOYMENT

ALL MEMBERS

WOMEN

(per cent) per cent 5.5 30.5 7.5 7.5 13.5 10 11.5 100 100

WOMEN

ALL MEMBERS

(per cent) (per cent) 5.5 4 27.5 25 13 15 amariamond 8.5 3.5 10.5 7.5 4.5 100 100

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Friday January 19, 1973 Little mention-if any- Gordon's article went on: 'And that wouldn't suit British has been made in the policy at all. And it wouldn't Tory Press in Britain suit the Orange leaders either, about the strange inter- if the troops were obliged to "lean" equally heavily on lude recently in the assas- other To avoid the areas. sination by Protestant necessity of opening a second extremists of Roman front, it was kindly explained to them that the killings would Catholic workers in have to cease. Northern Ireland. 'Moralistic lectures about wickedness of murder were In the 14 days leading up to noticeably absent.' More effec- and including January 2, than all the "sermons tive but- innocent people were from clergymen and all the By all chered. appearances, "moderate" from orations they were victims of a random were lessons in politicians Catholic-killing campaign.

political relating to strategy The had been campaign overall British intentions'. The until gathering momentum up killings came to a halt. that date. Then strange events Every 'political simpleton began to take place. and hypocrite' welcomed the In the period from January few days later statement 2 to 13 there was not one from the Ulster Defence Asso- instance of an Ulster Catholic ciation, publicly proclaiming a being murdered for the offence and halt murdering to the of belonging to the 'rebellious warning the assassins to cease minority'. their nefarious work. What happened in the mean- But, as Gordon pointed out, time to cause such a sudden only a few drew out the impli- reality? Claud The reversal of of the change. cations the UDA had, by all appearances, Gordon, journalist on Dublin 'Sunday Press' has put been the authority given to it all down to a crucial meeting switch the murder campaign that "significant date, and off-something they on on January 2' have since shown they have "The British overlord in the the ability to do. six counties, William Whitelaw, 'The only practical influence which had a at Stormont the

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could exert conference with the leaders of the Orange would be an influence based Order. And, by all accounts, of who the on a knowledge complained he to them very murderers are,' Gordon added.

bitterly. He told them he didn't This open collaboration be- all this like butchering that tween the British occupation was going on, Gordon forces and extreme right-wing wrote last week. elements in Northern Ireland 'Why not? Was it doing him further was cemented when any harm? Was it basically various swoops took place on immoral? Well, no, not quite.

suspects

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who were He simply explained patiently rounded as matter of up to his listeners-according to convenience. all official Stormont accounts showed that the loyalists refrained from "divert- -that if the killings continued it would "lead ing" the only to troops. the troops demands" for could be troops to be trusted to pursue, diverted from their of task harass and round up suitable "leaning» the Catholic members "rebellious of the peppiation: On minority"; concluded Gordon. Writings of LeT TO SAV mairs Leon Trotsky 1837-38 (1938-9

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news broke, When the Alderglen quickly attempted to improve the workers' status.

The fund was scrapped and an offer of a free flight home extended to the girls. Subse- quently eight have decided to leave. Meanwhile the search is on in Rochdale for better accommodation for the rest.

Alderglen is typical of the many small firms in this industry which employ 295,000 women and 79,000 Wages, according to a men. DEP survey, are £26.20 for men and £14 for women. Out- put fluctuates violently on a seasonal basis, leading to im- mediate short time and sack- ings. Because of this, and because of the general air of depression that hangs over the textiles and trade in Lancashire clothing towns like Rochdale, employers find it difficult to recruit local labour. Therefore they spread their net abroad. The immigrant workers are less aware of their rights and certainly less able to defend them. A survey in April last year uncovered a factory on south employing 120 women-mainly Punjabis from India and east Africa. All the women and girls were involved on brassiere of three making on one different types of machine.

Much of the work came on contract from well-known chain Of the 25 stores. women interviewed, the highest paid earned £18 a week take- home pay; the lowest was f5 and the average was a fantastic £9.70. The firm, in fact, paid below the statutory minimum.

Profits in the industry can be substantial. Alderglen paid its eight shareholders a large 30-per-cent dividend—£22,000 in the year ending March 1972.

Another £40,000 profit was transferred to the reserves.

The smaller firms in the industry are often controlled by a tightly-knit group. In the case of Alderglen's board of six, three-the chairman, the managing director and another Mr Stanley Aldergion. director- Rubin. The received received £5,000 and Two new Brighton and salaries. Another ary shares. Stourcliffe single London, bulk of the the company. The firm's 2i3.S0erae between often throughout S. Rubin, John Haasan The and the grant workers dic ground for too apparent. There begun textile unions ruthless both workers nationalization and Rochdale. share the name of ighest-paid director four between £2,500 and the chairman, £2,750. Gillian Yorke, come from 1,000 A hares on top of their director, P. S. s the biggest holdi ard of 11,500 ordi and 3,250 A ordin- a Phyllis Weil, of Close, London, and 5,500 A hares) are the biggest areholders. Another eenie Rubin, also o wns 8,500 ordinar A ordinary shares. oldings make up the 51,600 ordinary • A ordinary shares e eight members of reports show : bill for the year o on 579 employees- of the March last year. ttern of small com- high profits, shared individuals

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repeated * the rag-trade. (H. example, ips in 19 other firms, thing, one of which, of Basford Ltd, dustry's conditions separation of immi- white the racialism. In chdale by-election racialism was only nust be a struggle clothing and to conduct to and white fight for ehind a - the only closures, short-time ssion in towns like

Meet Bobby Acland, mine host at the Black Raven pub in in the City of Bishopsgate London. " He's no ordinary publican. Not the sort who has a quiet light and bitter under the counter. Acland is going into the 1973 edition of the Guinness Book of Records as the cham- pion champagne drinker. He gets through three bottles of champers a day most days of the year. At more than £3 a bottle that's very expen- sive drinking.

FAMILY

The man behind the warm relations between _US im- perialism and the bureaucrats in Moscow is held to be Henry Kissinger. As President Nixon's per- national sonal adviser security he did all the foot- work leading up to the summit.

His wily diplomacy has been applauded by the bourgeois media. Now, another seems, member of the Kissinger family is about to receive the fruits of this turn in US foreign policy. Henry Kissinger's brother, Walter B. Kissinger (48), is head of one of two companies in the final bidding for a multi- million dollar contract to build 500 petrol stations in Moscow.

Walter Kissinger is chair- man and chief executive of the Allen Group, a glamour stock of the 1960s which has diver- sified interests. The Allen Group's wholly- owned West German sub- sidiary, A. Rohe Company, is handling the bargaining, according to Kissinger. 'I resent some people's sug- gestion that I am involved and that my brother has some- thing to do with it.' . Talks have been in progress a year and a decision is expected in mid-1973. The cost of building 500 petrol stations in the US would be about $125m; the negotiating figure with the Soviet Union is not being dis- closed. Through its Rohe subsidiary the Allen Group is already active in Hungary, Poland, Yugo- Czechoslovakia slavia. The Allen expects about $150m in revenue from 1972, including from the Rohe opera- $24m tions.

COMFORT

There'll be weeping throughout London dockland with the news that Mr G. E. Tonge, CBE, JP, is to retire. He has resigned as a direc- tor of Hay's Wharf and from chairmanship the the Council of the London Whar- fingers' Association.

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OF A Germany 1918-19'. By Sebastian Translated by Georg Haffner. Andre Deutsch. £2.50. Rapp. Illustrated. Published yesterday.

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Ebert's Social Democra- tic government, more particularly Ebert him- self, worked closely with the Army High Com- mand in 1918-1919 to wrest power away from the workers' and soldiers' councils and to "clear Berlin of Spartacists' (i.e.

the supporters of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht). The full extent of the secret understanding between Ebert and General Groener for the army was only known many years afterwards. In fact the chairman of the Social Demo- cratic Party (SDP) gave every encouragement to military re- action which the workers' and soldiers' councils wanted to smash. December 6, Already on 1918, a Spartacist demonstra- tion had been fired on and six people were killed. On Christ- mas Eve a still bloodier clash took place, this time between the People's Naval Division and troops called in by Ebert.

Workers, with women and children, into poured the streets and ensured the victory of the sailors. Again there was no leader- ship to take advantage of this success: it was followed with- in days by a decisive defeat.

Haffner writes: 'The fate of the German Revo- lution decided in Berlin was during the week of January 5 to 12, 1919. History remembers it as Spartacus Week-but wrongly.

What happened that week was not a communist rising against the Social Democratic govern- ment. It was an attempt by the Berlin workers to regain what they had won on November 9 and 10 and had meanwhile half lost, and to regain it by the same means as before? Despite the existence now of the German Communist Party (KPD), founded at the end of December, leadership was once again lacking. The "spontaneous mass explosion' ended in defeat. No one gave orders for a decisive onslaught on government buildings. 'The KPD had neither fore- nor desired the January seen rising, they had neither planned nor guided it. They were in fact horrified by the unplanned, leaderless, stampede, mass writes Haffner. Once again a spontaneous uprising of the masses proved unable to prevail against the counter-revolutionary cunning of Ebert and his military backers. Noske, another Social Democratic leader, brought in the army freebooters, the ex- treme right-wing embryo fas- cists, the 'Freikorps' to repress the workers. 'Someone has got Workers Press, Frie January 5, 1919: Karl Liebknecht speak to be the bloodhound', he said. The name stuck. the direction of Under Ebert, Scheidemann and Noske a bloody civil war was un- leashed against the workers from throughout Germany January to March, 1919. It was heralded by the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg by Guards officers under SDP instigation. The potential leaders of the German Revolution were quickly put away. Their mur- der, says Haffner: .. was historically the most potent event in the German Revolution, drama of the It effectually beheaded the leadership which might have been able to turn the tide. As recently as 1962 a Press hand- out from Bonn tacitly justified the murders which were described as 'executions by shooting under martial law'.

Thousands more were mur- dered in the following months.

Ebert and Noske let loose 400,000 armed men against the er- working class to save the new bourgeois republic and capi- talism in Germany. Haffner tends to make them out more unsuspecting and confused than they really were. The ruthlessness of the repression obvious, and the was SO reactionary nature of the Freikorps and army chiefs so open, that they must have been fully aware of what they were doing. Was Ebert a victim of 'a strange trait of blinkered in- comprehension', as Haffner claims? It does not seem likely.

Ebert had supported the war, co-operated with the army and wanted the victory of Imperial Germany. Only in Munich, where there was a determined revolutionary leadership which knew what it wanted, did the working class enjoy a brief success. Here outstanding leaders two appeared. The first was Kurt Eisner, who Haffner says, was ÷. the only man in Germany who had enough shrewd insight.

to grasp what the German Revo- lution was aiming at and ably to assist its birth. But Eisner was shot down an assassin in February by 1919. There followed a period of immense turbulence in the of which another re- course markable figure emerged, Eugen Levine. Tragically he took control of the revolution when it was already doomed.

The man Haffner regards as Workers Press, Friday January 19, 1973 PAGE 9 'quite unlike Rosa Luxemburg, made of the stuff to German Lenin only fight could action. He ing tion'. Hafiner's glimpse of the German many the extreme. aemolsn revolution thing grace was The ambiguous. could only guarded if begin there. believe clear which. 'The German west or the be and powerti German Marxist quickly settle west and the the east. lessons of indispensable Haffner's author's a contribution it has Germany. Liebknecht was perhaps become or Trotsky' a recalcul was taken prisoner, tried and shot. He died shout- gives a vivid character summary sets out to 'legends' that Bolshevik trom some- dis- The remains revolution been safe- have The

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These latest months have been the hardest of all for the men, their wives and 53 fight next in Jamaica. Harry Carpenter looks into his background.

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The language of Bonapartism MR ROSS McWHIRTER yesterday took a further step in his legal battle to get a final ban on the ITV documentary about Ameri- pop-artist Andy can. Warhol. Solicitors for the right-wing journalist and broadcaster de- livered documents to officials at the Attorney-General Sir Rawlinson's office in Peter London. He will study evidence given at Tuesday's Appeal Court hearing before deciding whether to take action to make the Independent Broad- casting Authority ban the Warhol programme. McWhirter was hoping yesterday to arrange a meeting with the Attorney-General's office for early next. week. to discuss the matter. The IBA, despite its early

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CORRESPONDENT

TALKS WILL start next Tuesday between Liverpool dock shop stewards and Hea- tons Transport of St Helens to try to resolve the nine- month-old dispute. _ Junior, man-. Robert Heaton, family aging director of the company, said he was meeting dockers and an official of the Road Haulage Association. There is still a partial. blacking of Heatons' lorries which carry con- tainers packed by the company and unloaded by them. Heaton said yesterday that the position currently 'dead- was locked'. He added: 'As far as the dispute is concerned, no ground has been given by either side.'

ROBERT HEATON ... Junior He also revealed that the company was going ahead with its claim for compensation from the union. The compensation is for finan- cial losses which the company sustained during the full-scale blacking which ended in October. Heaton said losses for partial blacking would be added to the bill. He would not, however, divulge the amount, although it runs into thousands of pounds.

It was the Heaton, Craddocks and Panalpina case before Industrial Relations Court which resulted in the £55,000 fines on the Transport and General Workers' Union.

Another two companies, Howitt Transport and Howitt Brothers of Bootle, Lancs, are also pressing claims for • com- pensation. Mr Joseph 'Howitt, joint man- aging director, said the matter was with the company's lawyers.

protests, has so far made no plans for a special Board meet- ing, which would be necessary to sanction any legal move against the ban. Neither Mr McWhirter nor the judges who banned the Warhol film had actually seen THE COMMUNIST leaders labour contract as a victory f intended to benefit the emplo strike. Men will be able to retire at 62 and women at 60. A lower retiring age has now become general in the ad- vanced sectors of French industry. Older workers are put on pensions of from 40 to 75 per cent of their previous earnings.

Their place is taken by younger workers able to stand the increasing pace of the assembly line, often at lower rates of pay. The additional cost of employers is more than APPLICATION of the wage- cutting law passed by the Yugoslav government in order to liquidate debts accumulated by many factories and busi- nesses is leading to consider- able turmoil. The law imposes 10-per-cent workers all wage-cuts on in factories which are in debt. In addition the salaries of managerial THE PROTECTIONIST policies of the Common Market are giv- ing the Japanese great concern.

This was clear from a speech by Bunroku Yoshino, Tokyo's envoy to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, to the Trade Policy Research Centre in London. Voicing the anxiety of his country's export industries, he called on Britain to make the 01-622 7029 There can be no doubt that the statement of the Associa- tion of Cinematograph, Tele- Technicians vision and Allied that the ban created a 'frightening precedent' is abso- lutely justified. It opens the door to right- wing censorship and is a part

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leaders of the CGT unions have h ictory for its 'common programme.

e employers through speed up and Around th made up by higher producti- vity and bigger profits. Workers generally have have been with the firm for 20 to 25 years to qualify for a pen- sion. The scheme helps to en- sure a docile labour force.

Renault proposes annual wage increases linked to the cost-of- living index to give a 2-per-cent increase in purchasing power. This will not meet the loss in real wages already brought about by inflation. It gives the employers a vir- office workers have sup- and posedly been frozen. However, there is widespread as in Slovenia, where withdrew nearly factories too much money to pay their wage-bills last month. The accountancy service complained that 248 factories had taken out enough money to pay twice their normal wage bill. In Croatia, office workers were Common Market more outward looking. He said Japan wanted substantial reduction in tariffs and other trade barriers.

Japan's long-term objective, he said, is to eliminate all tariffs and trade discrimination. In other words, a situation which will enable Japanese exports to penetrate freely into the markets of the other capitalist countries and win a big advantage in the trade war. 01-720 2000 Workers Press, Fri of the wholesale attack from the right on basic democratic rights. A significant aspect of the case is not only that one man could use the law to stop a programme being transmitted to millions of people, but the speed with which he could do Usually the law moves slow- ly-defendants in the recent Angry Brigade trial were held in jail for up to 16 months awaiting trial. What emerges is that, though normal cases may take years to get to court, the High Court and Court of Appeal Judges have wide 'instant powers to dispense justice. Several judges are available each day to give im- mediate attention to 'urgent' applications. If this can be done to ban a television programme, it can be done to ban other activities as well. It is in fact the have hailed the new Renault ramme'. In fact the contract is up and restricting the right to d the world tual guarantee against strikes and strengthens the hands of the trade union bosses; particularly the Stalinists who dominate Renault, against militants.

Renault employs 95,000 work- ers and generally sets the pace for large-scale private industry, especially in vehicles and engi- neering. The Stalinists are using the proposed agreement to hold back the working class and to maintain an image of class- collaboration on the eve of the election. paid a bonus amounting to an extra month's wage in defiance of the law and there were com- plaints from student organiza- tions, some of whose members have had their grants stopped completely as an economy measure. According to the Croat student organization, nearly 2,000 stud- ents and schoolchildren, mostly from the poorer areas of the region, have had their grants stopped for this reason. In split, 600 students have not received any grants this term. Some firms, however, are still not satisfied with the arrange- ments for debt repayment. Zadar, the power station is cut- ting off electricity supplies to all its debtors who do not pay up after 90 days. The company is owed over 15 million dinars (about £4m) by a total of 537 debtors. They in- clude the town planning institute which owes over a million dinars.

The nearby municipal assembly at Pag owes the hrm money from 1962. The Tito government's efforts to resolve the economic situation cutting already wages are leading to discontent and anger among the working class. To eliminate the vast accumulated debts in the economy still further attacks on living standards will be required. Press, Friday January 19, 1973 PAGE 11 Bonapartist method so dear to the hearts of the Tory Cabinet.

right-wing Increasingly, forces are resorting to private actions to infringe on demo- cratic rights. Not long ago, the right-wing Bennion—-now lawyer Francis parliamentary counsel could take out a private pro- secution against anti-apartheid campaigner Peter Hain. The climate is being created for a whole series of ''private' actions against artists, writers, demonstrators-and the uni- ons. This gees hand in glove with the legal attack on the right to strike contained in the government's pay control White Paper. This makes it all the more build up massive urgent to for the Socialist support Labour League's national cam- paign in defence of basic demo- cratic rights, which will culmi- in an Empire Pool, nate Wembley, rally, Sunday on March 11.

MOHAMMED

Abdul Karim Fuheid (24), a Palestinian, had laid further charges against him when he appeared at Uxbridge magistrates' court yesterday. The new charge, put by Detec- Chief Inspector tive George that Fuheid, on Mould, was December 24 at Heathrow Air- possessed or had control port, of electric detonators, 3lb 3 oz of plastic high explosive and two electric timing devices. The charges were laid under the Explosive Substances Act of 1883. previous At appearances Fuheid charged with was possessing arms. At the end of the 15-minute hearing he was sent for trial at the Old Bailey. The chairman, Mr W. J. Lips- combe, made the committal order after being told there was no application for bail.

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SIT-IN STRIKERS at CAV Fazakerley in Liverpool, yes- terday agreed to allow the reopening of the Lucas Indus- trial Equipment factory on the same site. A mass meeting accepted the strike leaders' recommendation to recommence services to LIE, stopped ten weeks ago to give the strikers complete control of the site. This decision, weaken the against workers' fight

CAV

closure, has been forced on them by union officials, the refusal of leading LIE stewards to defend the sit-in and the dragging of by Ford's, stewards in feet Standard's, Lucas Aerospace and the docks on appeals for blacking action. occupation commit- The CAV tee decided its recommendation on Tuesday by 15 votes to eight.

Its acceptance yesterday means that Lucas transport will no longer be blocked by the sit-in strikers, and that services given to LIE during the first four weeks the occupation will be re- of started. When these services were with- drawn by the occupation com- Lucas mittee weeks ago, ten promptly laid off all 280 pro- workers and 100 LIE duction staff. Press

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IT IS proving & tough struggle month complete OUr £1,750 target by January 31. Time now running short and we have not a moment to lose.

The Tory government is hit- working ting out against the class as never before. Heath's latest proposals mean a perma- nent plan to legally keep down allow prices to rocket wages, high to enforce laws to and destroy the unions. All sections of the • labour movement must be mobilized to and defeat the Tory fight back government. Workers Press is vital now to politically prepare such a movement for the struggle to make this government resign.

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increased by than more 42,000 over the last month, government admitted the ›colana 14›,03o1 per cen Northern Ireland 38,758—7.5 yesterday. And despite the Tories' method of It was in November that the the seasonally-adjusted figures'.

Northern Ireland, Scotland and Department Employment fiddling the figures, they This, Macmillan claimed. was the north-west. But the govern- changed its presentation of the showed that the increase 'the real what ment's figures for the unemployment ngures up on those for regions They no longer give the per- was reflected in every area December. 'lhese now are: centage male rate but the omcial anuary tola.

of the country. of unemployed in Britain and outh-east 151,502—2 per cen but a The announcement Northern remained East Anglia of the 6,750-2. female This is arti- Ireland 24 increase than stubbornv at ‹ 3.774showing nanA South-west 45,366-3.4 per hours after premier Heath's an increase of 42,144 over the declaration that joblessness is December figure. West Midlands 68,101-3 per The figures fact falling fiddle, even under the previous This means that 3.5 per cent So '' Employmens population system,

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cent was demonstated oi wrong forecast, now unemployed according to East Midlands 38,5882.8 per the 1971 Census, , which showed Secretary Maurice Macmillan Mac- of count Cortshire out at a Dy and Humberside yesterday produced a continu- own Department D of Hillal d wick lie 75,379—3.8 per cent. regions worst bit are Ing suaro downward trena In aaming lo only a million.

THE LABOUR leaders will not fight Heath's corporatist-style wage control legis- Harold leader Labour Party Wilson (left) with TUÇ general lation. Instead, they will assist him to get it through parliament and then support secretary Victor Feather in jovial the Tories against workers who fight it.

outside Congress House. mood This was made clear by Harold Wilson on Wednesday night. Hardly had the govern- ment's latest anti-working class legislation been announced, than the head of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition was hot-foot to the television studios to declare his support for it. 'Midweek' Wilson declared that Heath was entitled to get the White Paper through the Commons 'provided he granted reasonable time for debate. •We are to ensure that the prevared cover. ment gets its Bill through in reasonable time', he said. Labour did not want to see a lot of time spent hehting the legislation. continued, but he hoped that the government would allow 'reasoned amend- ment'. and on BBC Radio, Wilson Both television stressed that class should obey the the 'Certainlv we would not bill when it decame law. lend our support to any who seeks by illegal, any other means, to destroy it As far as this man is concerned, form of ally opposition to the Tory measures is ruled out.

Placing himself openly on the side of the Tory against working class, he is per- government betrayal than petalills that of Ramsav MacDonald The working class has

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600,000, but dis- Labourites than ot 1920 and 195l, the. The Shadow Cabinet hastened illusioned thousands of rush into the arms of not been defeated. This up behind its leader. In

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Tories before the the is not (vorers Lat 1931. when the from which holt responsibility the electoral victory to the fight hecins workers had not yet re- …tne cuch Michae being Tory Party. The construction of covered from the be- Foot dissented, this body boasted allacas of Action to Labour Councils warer on working-class ernment's prices and in- And the that the Tory White Paper General trava of the men and women by the Strike. Lanco sone measures presser on They comes paved the now immediate government. the government by the Labour The Socialist Labour state urgency. Party. oberet Lal

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War will no These Councils unite League spare govern- power for that

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This was in line with the 'In Place of every aspect of working- that ment. ensure Feather, paved the the class struggle against 1973 will be the year of Victor consistent way for who said when the revolutionars TUC general secretary, Industrial Relations Act.

Tories. particu- attempts Souve the Bill was 'good in parts'!

launched and crisis of capitalism They Know • Tul Wel TheT the the stage is set for for united battle by built in Britain. offer the expense that In what amounts the Shadow to the trade to des the way defeat the workers from 1964-1970 battles unions of the biggest class coalition politics, Tories not only pushed unem- ever seen was torre gory salesbay cabinet declared. T021 in the Labour camp. more Like predecessors laws. 'prepared to back any proposals ployment which can recognize as fair and workable.' Making the mildest DOSSIN e criticisms (the Bill was 'not fair' and would not 'produce the sults desired'). Labour's leading the IIB and the offer to reinstate will ciation said yesterday they body hastened to

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workers parliamentary solidaritv with al the dismissed men stems trom that the law- 'however un- wanted to show agree stage a one-day strike today the action the committee's ruling. material particulars'- against the shut down of the decision was that the of the strike should be honoured. member com- wrong one. Shotton steelworks, Flintshire.

mittee said after the mass meet- Again. the 'lefts'. They will not be taking part ing yesterday that the company's constitutionalists of all, were at The. closure wil mean the loss the march against the Indus- decision complete victory with in er rank and filo action on tore one the right that wing 6,500 jobs and the strike trial Relations Act. should the work. accounI marks the opening salvos of the site. ers fight the Bill. WOrKS acuon Comitee s Calll- NEARLY 3,000 men on strike on paign to prevent it. Scunthorpe's Anchor steelworks It coincided with the one-day

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demonstration policy to follow up the successes unanimously student at

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protest in Liverpool by place in Rome election. engineer- yesterday last year's meeting vestereav to return lo the £50,000 the The work at 8 a.m. today. neo-ascist is being wOrkers

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Social Movement (MSI) Congress fine imposed by the National In- held in a suburban complex built The decision followed talks dustrial Relations Court in the being held in Mussolini house World Fair which students marched through was have voda case.

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the firm night at which the citv to the university More than 1,500 Shotton de inoce nave mongeo agreed to reinstate 38 men they the Internationale and Bandiera a strong guard to prevent de- workers will travel to Liverpool monstrators approaching the con.

sacked on December 21. Rossa and chanting anti-fascist to join the demonstration.

slogans. called Management at the doomed Giorgio disputes com- plained to NeO-TASCISI Tende Atome Trade unions Almirante facing criticism their members to strike for 30 stee works will diso lom une one- day strike and a spokesman for from section of the movement minutes to protest against the case for reinstatement. the 350-strong branch the which holding of the more cuerecul Coless Watson Norie is a member of Steel Industry Management Asso-