Workers Press no. 977

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JANUARY 22, 1973 • No. 977 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

NIXON INAUGURATION HERALDS

A NEW ERA OF

IMPERIALIST CRISIS

BY FOREIGN EDITOR JOHN SPENCER

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Ine working with Europe. On the home front workers living In a special series of reports, starting class? Some of the 100,000 anti-fascist demonstrators marching through Rome last Thursday standards and basic rights will come under enormous

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attacks. He made this clear at his inaugura- Saturday tion in ceremonyon speech which was hailed by Alabama governor George Wallace- darling of US rednecks and fascists embodying the philosophy of the average American citizen'.

The speech reveals that the United

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States is right at the centre of the world crisis of capitalism. its rulers, the through increasingly dictatorial Nixon, intend to force the rest of the world to pay for their economic crisis.

Nixon is the who severed the man 1971 dollar's link with gold in August precipitated and une breakdown une Woods monetary Since then all efforts to arrive international at agreement monetary and trade ques- tions have failed. Nixon, who had earlier faced a barrage oT rotten tomatoes som ana- gave no guarantees Vietnam But he about ending the war. referred specificallv to his visits to Mos- cow and Peking as laying the basis for *a more durable pattern of relationships among the nations of the world.

The basis for these relationships, how- ever, is to be radically changed. No longer America shoulder will or litical and responsibilities allies, economic

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Nixon indicated. What this means in practice was made weekend when three of the clear at US Continental PanAm. largest arunes and American announced the Aur innes cancellation of their options 17 Con- World airliners. Trans

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY JANUARY 22, 1973 • No. 977 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

NIXON INAUGURATION HERALDS

A NEW ERA OF

IMPERIALIST CRISIS

BY FOREIGN EDITOR JOHN SPENCER

Workers Press reporter Stephen Johns and its pil produce the ror staff photographer Martin Mayer have been Press produce results of their fascists? Who Investigation. to Rome Cola PRESIDENT Nixon's second four-year term in the ference of the

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In Italy, the first country In Europe to go fascism within the Common Market? Who is fighting the White House will be marked by intensified trade war In 1921, the fascist revival and what under Mussolini ex- are treme right wing s working with Europe. On the home front workers' living In a special series of reports, starting class? of the 100,000 anti-fascist demonstrators marching through Rome last Thursday standards and basic rights will come under enormous Some

• SEE STORY PAGE 2.

attacks. He made this clear at his inaugura- Saturday tion in speech which was hailed by Alabama governor George Wallace-darling of US rednecks and fascists the philosophy of the embodying "the average American citizen'.

The speech reveals that the United

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States is right at the centre of the world crisis of capitalism. Its rulers, through the increasingly dictatorial Nixon, intend to force the rest of the world to pay for their economic crisis.

Nixon is the who severed the man with gold in 1971 dollar's link August of precipitated the oreakdown „ Le Bretton Woods monetary system. Since then all efforts to arrive at international apreement on monelary ana trade ques- tions have failed. Nixon, who had earlier faced a barrage all- war demonstrators, gave no guarantees the Vietnam But he about ending war. referred specincally to his visits to Mos cow and Peking as laying the basis for 'a more durable pattern of relationships among the nations of the world' The basis for these relationships, how- ever, is to be radically changed. No longer America the political and responsibilities allies, Nixon indicated. What this means in practice was made at the weekend when three of the clear US Pan Am, Continental larsest and American A1T Ines announced Lone of their options 17 Con- World corde supersonic airliners. rans known to be Ares saso considering cancellation of its six options to buy.

These ancellations come on Trial of 17 opens peace abroad has required turn- of Kennedy and the projected visit to programmes

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from old that away policies Johnson. bv wasalactor premel Edward Heath. They are a cal- have uncle a new This in Athens means the wholesale the home requires turning culated step trade war THE TRIAL starts in Athens to- Cla scrapping of welfare, health and with the Common Market. day of 17 Greeks who are charged education programmes ano systematic erosion constitu- It remains to se seen whener will overLaron Concorde production in Britain regime and establish Party led by 68-year-old Deme- and basic democratic Connels! Lola. continue follow- Partsalides trios and rrance can rights won by the working class Ture defendants ing TOlS concerted DoOv olow. i ne NIVe women British Aircraft Corporation According to legislation passed Zoe wife incuce and its French partners could be for counter-revolution, as against 'subversive' George Vẹi, the demonstrated activity, maximum sentence abundantly University. 15 air- Technical 1еTT producing as lew as death. craft in total. Wallace's welcome. workers an antiquities department official regime's efforts to accused are charged with The Nixon Nixon plans to go to war on among the male defendants.

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A victorv for the blackmailers PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday January THE DECISION of the South Amer Conference of Shipping Lines to re the meat trade in the Royal Docks not to move to Southampton is b currently advertised by the emplo union leaders as a victory and 'common sense' and • as proof of a spirit' in the docks. Similarly the return of the City Line b is also from Hull to London heralded era' on the Royal Docks. It is nothing of the sort. It is a victors • the employers whose ruthless poli which contained a certain elemen blufl, were realized only because of bankruptcy of leadership of the d shop committee fight the Jones-Aldin to proposals in a principled way.

It is a situation which will not be slightest bit affected by the rumo Bernie Steęr resignation of Mr chairman of the London docks stew: As Workers Press-and only the Wor pointed Press-has consistently these leaders could, if they had wa the Royal Docks into to, make impregnable fortress of struggle ag the employers and the Tory governn After the retreat of the Tories at Pen ville, the docks stewards had the po and the influence to unite the el transport industry and prevent the of a single docker's or lorry dri job. They could have transformed transport union into an inferno for right-wing bureaucrats and reversed SATURDAY'S march to the American Embassy in Lon- don against the Vietnam war brought together popular front of protest dominated politically by the Communist Party Stalinists.

Contingents on the march, or- ganized by • the British Cạm- paign for Peace in Vietnam, included CP branches, sections of the Liberal Party, the re- visionist International Marxist Group, anti-communist Inter- national Socialism and the Maoists. Banners demanded that President Nixon sign the draft peace treaty drawn up between Dr Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho. Police estimated the size of the march at 12,000 by the time it reached its destination. In a futile effort to differentiate themselves from the CP, the various revisionist contingents held their own rally at Temple Embankment before joining the main march at Trafalgar Square. There meeting chaired by a veteran Stalinist Solly Kaye heard Lord Soper, Digby Jacks National Union Students, Ray Buckton of the footplatemen's union ASLEF and Labour 1 MP Mrs Judith Hart. Besides appealing for his sig- nature to the man they were denouncing as a warmonger, speakers dwelt on the 'shame' brought to Britain by Edward Heath's support for the Viet- nam war. *If Sweden can dissociate from Nixon, why can't Britain?' one speaker demanded. This line is illusions in designed to

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the possibility of 'pressurizing' the leaders of imperialism into making peace. It is designed to hide the real and relentless pressure on the Vietnamese revolution from Moscow and Peking. In the interests of peaceful co- existence' with the US imperialists, the Stalinist bur- are driving the eaucracies Vietnamese towards a rotten compromise in Indo-China.

There can be no defence of the Indo-China revolution without a struggle to expose the counter-revolutionary role of Stalinism and to mobilize the working class against the Tory enemy at home. By lining up with the Stalinists and Liberals in Saturday's popular front, the revisionists have made themseives an in- tegral part of the mechanism betrayal and confusion of against the Viet- directed namese revolution. / January 22, 1973 the

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uth American the Dockers Detore over picketing of the Midland Cold Storage relall east London yal Docks and so delicately put being Edmund Vester

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it: 'We have taken this decision to try to create a better atmosphere in which victory

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been kept in London, it is certainly not 'new poncy or collaborating with tne walona.

to sove une oresenl probicio. Industrial Relations Court. lieve that with goodwill and common because But these guided not by has opened a new berth, reduced their sense from all concerned these can be stewards were City Line boats charges promised over of Marxism, take ine poncies melnod resolved. being aiso Already encouraged by the retreat in the but by the reformist of Thames Stevedoring 'new Stalinism capitalism- -both of The grim fact is that Royals, employers in Tilbury and other The rate or exooa. aion unprecedented leven lein the sport the which categorically reject the tightening disciplinary al c Let the level. a victorv for sity and possibility of forcing the Tories screw policies, to resign. magazine-subsidized by the employers Maplin Sands gets nearer and as Heath's element of T&GWU leaders -speak: Phase Two the Instead of fighting the into operation, because of the will step up their demands emo overs new leadership, they diverted the team-headed for increased tonnages, more product- I the docks London their struggle fratricidal Richard Butler, PLA Director of Docks, ivity and greater discipline. This is not into a con- that with the facilities ›nes-Aldington are flict with lorry drivers and the end ... only the beginning Cupcalcu available at four berth they will be able infamous Jones-Aldington com- What now inte WIth 1S urgently required mittee in the hope that lost jobs in the to maintain the tonnages asked for by docks is a leadership which will com- docks would miraculously there with bine the traditional militancy re-appear in "This is tons per gang shift. Over the the poltical struggle of the whole work.

Steer contanner devols When the docks strike was concluded they past fortnight there has ing class for the defence of democratic beer ocks stewards. refused to fight for their four-point stantial increase in productivity. It has and the Tory rights replacing y the Workers climbed from 45 to more than the policy. the shop government with a Labour government Mallonal out, stewards ten-point policy ou tons per gang shitt committee s pledged to tne nationa zeron whittled down to point place docks without compensation and under wautcu was increase in productivity takes into in the context of Heath's state pay law committee collapsed ignominiously. workers' control. the truggle against and, what is worse, without any increase We refuse to blame the dockers for their Meanwhile the completely eno overs mave We undermined the National Docks Labour stewards' bankrupt policies. are In manning and no increase in pay since ies at Penton- Scheme with massive dilution and piecework abolished under Devlin confident that the London docks, which di c the power Two. It 1s difficult to Phase imagine a

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next slare or men plan: the playing off of one port against past, will once again produce a leader enure event the loss another, a policy which is facilitated by and syndicalist leadership.

hip which will b equal to the political driver's We now also understand containerization and Jones-Aldington.

can more clearly tasks that confront the dockers. But The retreat has turned into a rout for the why the Vester they will do so only through an implac- wilderew stewards and no amount of whitewash its action against the T&GWU and the able struggle against Stalinism and nerno or tne d reversed the If the meat trade has National Amalgamated Stevedores and revisionist rank-and-fileism.

can conceal it. CHILEAN shopkeepers have said that they will not CO- President operate with the

FROM STEPHEN JOHNS IN ROME

Salvador Allende's govern- ment proposals to deal with ITALY'S main fascist party, the MSI food shortages. (Italian Social Movement), ended the Jorge Martinez, President of the Central Chamber of Com- most significant conference since it was merce, has instructed his founded in 1946 here yesterday after a members to oppose the intro- duction of ration cards. weekend of violent clashes between riot Minister the Economy Orlando Millas has been informed police and left-wing demonstrators in that the retallers have suspendec government. reamous with lie the city. Shopkeepers small nessmen already organizing The conference, held in the neo-classical Commando seldes exhibition centre built by Mussolini, the government's 'price-action' committees This confrontation follows the front to the Italian middle class.

•erween Allende's Popular Unity coalition The sinister 'squadristi', bands of armed and the strike by lorry owners thugs controlled by MSI who organize murders the of left-wing militants and bomb attacks, were Allende reso ver That the ecstatic kept strictly to fringe by withdrawing nationalization transport in the gathering. plans for south and bringing three generals int The focus was on MSI leader Giorgio Almirante his cabinet. He used the conference as a victory rally for On the eve of elections, he is success in last year's election to the sure lo make Concos old their representation in the Italian parliament.

shopkeepers Popular Front policy of adapting Almirante made an overt overture to the right middle classes. to wing Christian Democrats- -Italy's adopted capitalist His regime has never party- -to join with him out wiping policy the Communist Party and the trade unions.

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dic business, anyone leaving Rome's main in Italy. This was highlighted reduce ron toree modus to oat the police, the army and the state working-class and the partial devaluation month the time granted area main yesterday by institutions. repayment of of the lira, which has been under importers for Cr stronghold. Over 100 aLICSL heavy speculative imports, and cut to three months were made. pressure alus. during four The MSI will be well pleased out the country's large from one year the time ing rulv armed sauads of the The deficit. for delaying receipt uclate. with this protection. con- payments Carabinieri para-military sur- the export payments. any terence went Ilaid monetal y rounded the congress hall. Others serious interruption and the authorities will introduce a two-

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Lone mounted a continuous horseback formally brought the tier system for the lira The month from six months TOf will control duration bank •ano roune tre perimeter Monarchist Party containing the ex- maximum circled the helicopters also ex- held in foreign many landowners - under change rate in the oricial market.

their accoulls hibition about four miles area wing. but it will be allowed float change. the of the city. itself there Rome series demonstrations and strikes against the congress. The when biggest was I hursday the

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Communist massive 100,000-strong anti- Seen He fascist demonstration from the court chairmanship conseum said the ne was ine onl Eugenios The Stalinists, who have the Miss servan the bulk Italian working class, were reluc- Has stance however, organize action vears' morisonment tant, Saturday evening. against the tascists left of Groups to the the Greek other Stalinists clashed with riot police charged with the in Rome. On one occasion three bridges across the River Tiber

MEET MRS CAROLINE

Meet Mrs Caroline Thompson, née Caroline Maudling, daughter of the former Home Sec- retary. She has just re- turned from three years in South Africa. She told a South African 'Race newspaper, Relations Today': I have attached great importance in the human values of people who enriched my life with their friendship.

On the other hand, I have been saddened by the erosion of race relations in this marvel- lous country. hope one day that the 'I privileged half will realize the sincerity of the black man in trying to find his identity, and that he will be accorded his human rights which he deserves as his birthright. I try to be realistic in life. I appreciate why some blacks reject me • but politics is not my field.' Mrs Thompson made a deep impression on her white neigh- bours. She took the unusual step of paying her maid £12 a week, far in excess of the pittance normally given. She was surprised to learn that her wages were 'so high' South thought millionairs, who spend a lot of money on luxuries, paid their workers adequately? Mrs Thompson must have had a very secluded three years in South Africa. Presumably she never heard of the richest South Mr African, Harry Oppenheim, head of Consoli- dated Goldfields. His workers have no unions and work for slave wages. And Oppenheim is considered a "liberal'!

'I was brought up in an atmosphere where race pre- judice was unknown. I have always accepted people-irre- spective of their race, colour or creed—as equals,' she says.

so with her father, Not Reginald Maudling. As Tory Home Secretary he presided over the introduction of anti- coloured immigrant legislation.

He was also responsible for arguing 'foreign of former German student leader Rudi Dutschke and had him deported. Accountants have caused a few worries with their proposals that company balance sheets must be made up on the basis of inflation. Many leading companies are justifiably worried about the plans from the Accounting fear i accounting, as it is called, would result in, for example, lower profits than those pub- lished at present. At the moment auditors' reports just indicate money earned and make no attempt to show by how much such money was devalued by in- flation. the stock market, re- On duced profitability of many companies would lead to major convulsions. As the 'Daily Telegraph' put it: Industry has Two women servants in South Africa. Th ed been understandably worried at the prospect of having its figures exposed as unrealistic, not misleading in their if implied optimism.' departments, Government says the report, have not been falling over themselves to go over to inflation accounting and the Inland Revenue will proposed accept the not method for taxation assess- ments. The draft proposals from the accountants actually do not go all the way: Alongside present nigures, it is suggested, com- panies should produce an additional set of accounts adjusted for inflation. 'It is open to directors,' the draft proposes, 'to comment on the significance of the figures.'

On this the 'Telegraph' City editor says frankly: 'It will be surprising if they do not. Some companies, notably in the engineering sector, where capital commitments are often Two women servants in South Africa. They are_on call six days out of seven, and seven nights out of seven.

will find their con- neavy, ventional profit figures looking pretty sick. Then the "Telegraph' goes on to spell out some of the im- if plications for big business the methods accounting are 'The eventually changed. to normal business response diminished profitability is to raise prices and no doubt many will. For others, Coll Dallies and they mav not be so easy. may have to look at dividends or earnings cover, or both.'

In reality, therefore, the new methods of ever getting off the chance crounalin brital or elsewnere Sir Ronald Leech, the chairman the committee had brought out the scheme, this to say about the situation: 'Many countries have re- searched the problem and pro- duced learned reports, but no succeeded country has so tar in grasping the nettle.' Workers Press, Mon of seven, and seven nights out of seven.

Marathon Manufacturing, the ma US company which took over cra the former Clydebank division Clyde Ship- the Upper builders consortium, has put off a plan to train men from the yard in rig building at its Texas headquarters. It has also postponed scheme for establishing highly- paid flying squads of men pre- pared to go anywhere in the world at a moment's notice in rig repair or similar work.

Company officials have tried quickly to forestall any sug- gestions that these moves stem any standoff in their from plans for developing the yard centre for building oil as a rigs. The idea of training in Texas has been postponed rather than abandoned, they say.

Marathon claims that the delay in the project is mainly because only 86 men have so far volunteered to take part.

About 180 would be needed to ess, Monday January 22, 1973 PAGE 3 make the chartering of an air- craft for the trip worthwhile.

A similar reason is given in the case of the flying squads.

A nucleus of 15 men had for training, come forward Marathon says, but the number needed is about 25. The company also says that since it already has three such squads based in Texas, there is no great urgency to have one at the Scottish yard. Union representatives are also anxious to dispel any notion that jobs at Clydebank may be under threat again.

The district delegate of the Amalgamated Society of Boiler- makers, Willie Dougan, says that the training project had been agreed when there were difficulties over redundancy at UCS. He claimed that part of the reason the training pro- gramme had been cut back was art. because all 1,250 workers in I to the yard were fully employed.

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BY ALEX MITCHELL

The Heath government is using "intermediaries' to continue supplying arms to the racialist re- public of South Africa. The deals are kept secret so that the government's middle- class supporters are kept in the dark about the government's collaboration with apartheid.

Shortly after gaining office in arrogantly 1970,1 Heath announced that arms sales would be restarted. But he ran into a storm of opposition which forced him to tone down his pro-Vorster policy. of the Details of the size African armed forces South have just been published. Al- though they might not be totally accurate, they reflect the sharply rising size of the military. They indicate three trends: • Arms are still being supplied by Britain under the counter.

• The French government is picking up some contracts would previously have which come to Britain. • The South Africans are be- coming more self-sufficient. In other words they are creating their own arms-making in- dustry. The total of South Africa's armed forces personnel has in- creased from 44,250 in 1970- y January 22, 1973 1971 to 109,300 in 1972-1973.

in the latest issue of "The Military Balance'* • Comment- all-round ing on the huge, in South increase reflected Africa's defence forces, spokesman for the publication long said: We have been worried about these figures from South Africa. Your security out there is pretty good and information is very hard to come by.' The figures published show that the number of French- made AML60 and

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armoured cars rose from 300 to 800; and the number of armoured personnel Saracen carriers was estimated at 250.

armour includes 100 Other Centurion tanks, 20 Comet tanks and 50 Ferret scout cars.

Another big increase is reflected in naval manpower— from 9,000 3,000 regulars, 1,250 citizen force and 4,750 11,300 trained reserves) to 9,000 (2,300 and regulars trained reserves). The public- ation also shows that the South navy possessed six African frigates but that this number increased to nine this year, with five of this number being held in reserve. There are now three submarines against one last year, ten coastal mine- sweepers (seven being held in escort mine- reserve), one sweeper, two destroyers, five seaward defence boats and one fleet replenishment tanker.

Air force personnel estimates remained constant at have 5,000 8,000 made up of regulars and 3,000 citizen force reserves, and the total number of combat aircraft has in- creased by three to 166. The numbers of Buccaneer, Can- berra and Mirage aircraft re- main fairly constant, but the number of Impala trainers— in now being manufactured South Africa-rose from 50 to 75. Below: South African Prime Above: South African troops on count There is an unaccountable drop in the number of Alouette 11/1l1 helicopters from 106 to 60, but this has been partly by the purchase of 16 ofiset helicopters. Another Puma four have yet to be delivered.

Para-military forces-—com- estimated mandos-are 75,000. Last year this figure was 78,000, but included 3,000 whose equipment police, cluded 80 Saracens on loan from the Army. * 'The Military Balance' is pub- lished in London by the Insti- tute of Strategic Studies.

Minister, Vorster and Britain's Heath.

on counter-guerrilla manoeuvres.

British Rail is to investi- gate plans for a complete system of unmanned, automatic freight wagons which would roam about the network under their own power. If carried through—it could be fully operational in about 12 years—thousands more rail- way workers will undoubtedly lose their jobs. The 200,000 workers in the industry are already under the hammer with plans laid down by the Tory government. Only recently secret plans the light of day which Saw revealed that a 40 per cent cut in the 11,600 mile network was contemplated. An even smaller system of 3,800 miles could not be ruled out, it was said. On top of the 26,000 redun- dancies at present being dis- Book' cussed, the 'Blue strategy would mean another 26,000 jobs gone. In 14 years the railway workers have suffered a stag- gering 60 per cent loss in numbers, through productivity deals and technological developments. British Rail is now seriously rethinking the automated system - something wagon which potentially could be of great benefit to the working class and society as a whole.

A successful experiment was carried out in Derbyshire in which automatic methods for loading and unloading the container carrying wagons were simulated. Overall, to be worthwhile, a and fleet of between 10,000 vehicles 20,000 driverless carrying up to 100 million tons of freight a year would be required. Vehicles would literally wander about the network using computers to find the space in the timetables. Un- manned depots would auto- matically remove the container and put it on the back of a lorry. The very nature of the rail- way system makes it open for automation, experts point out.

Scheduling, route setting and undertaken signalling are centrally. Already automatic warnings and cab signalling equip- ment have been developed to assist and if necessary over- ride the driver. It is but a short-and technically, entirely possible-step to removing drivers altogether. It is obviously possible that the entire BR system could be run from • the central control panels of a computer bank.

Under the capitalist system, railways being run with essentially for profit in com- petition with other transport systems, the result will be massive unemployment. The growth in the means of production stands opposed to the relations of production.

Automation can only serve profit and bring misery to workers under capitalism.

Only under socialist system, where the means of production are under the con- trol of the working class can develop- such technological ments as 'autowagon' benefit society as a whole. The working week could be reduced for all railway workers while the manual labour they formerly carried out would be performed by the new techno- logy.

BY JACK GALE

The trial of Stathis Panagoulis (26), began in Athens last Thursday. The main charge against him and 12 others is that they tried to organize the escape from prison of his brother Alexandros. Stathis, the youngest of the three Panagoulis brothers, had found a safe refuge in Rome after Alexandros had unsuc- cessfully attempted to kill Papadopoulos, the head of the military regime, in present August 1968. Alexandros, who was a student at that time doing his military service, was arrested, inhumanly tortured and sen- tenced to death. He suffered three mock executions, was handcuffed for eight months continuously and for four and a half years has lived under terrible conditions in a cement on and tomb, being tortured off at the whim of his bestial guards. (See the statement of Alexandros Panagoulis in Fri- day's Workers Press.) On August 6, 1972, Stathis to Athens by was lured back the military police. To achieve this they exploited the young man's anguish for his brother's fate. One or more officers approached him and pretend- were friends, con- ing they vinced him that they would help Alexandros to escape. But that at that point Stathis would have to be in Athens to take over and help his brother out of Greece. fell into the trap. Stathis He entered Greece under a false name on August 6. He must have been arrested soon after August 8 when he was last heard of. Since then he has been kept special interrogation at the centre of the military police, the notorious 'ESA' to the Greeks. Stathis has been horribly tortured. Over a period of months his screams and moans were heard day and night. To break the resistance of others, the martyred body of the young man was dragged before them and he was tortured again.

For about 160 days no one outside the military centre, neither his lawyer.. nor his mother, have been allowed to see him. The charges brought against him include, among others, that in 1970 Stathis thought of hijacking an Olympic air- ways plane. That he had a list of diplomats, copied in the right order from the booklet diplomats' by of addresses, which the military deduced that he wanted to kidnap these diplomats. Among them, though, is the name of the German Ambas- sador, Mr Limbourg, whose military regime recall the achieved, with great clamour, months before Stathis' clan- destine entry into Greece. He is also charged with the new which has escape attempt existed only in the militarists' minds and was their trap.

Two members of the Pana- goulis family are already dead.

The father, a retired colonel, suffered a brain haemorrhage in the hands of the while Security Police, after Alexan- dros' assassination attempt. He died two years later without having recovered enough to say how he got the brain haemorrhage. The eldest son, George, an officer who deserted the army immediately after the coup, escaped from Greece but was Stathis Panagoulis on trial for trying to handed back to the military regime and disappeared while in their hands. There is now only an old mother left in the family house, who, in the hope of seeing her children, spends hours stand- ing outside the prisons. The 12 other defendants suffer in the first place be- cause Stathis happened to cross their_ path. Some, like Demetrios Dinou (61), a re- tired police officer, is supposed have Stathis harboured when he was hiding in Athens.

Dinou, however, was arrested as a hostage for the return of his daughter, student Evi (21), who had escaped from Greece to evade arrest and shared a flat in Rome with Stathis and Nicos Zambelis, another escapee. The commanding officer of the military police, a renowned Evi asking torturer, had rung her to return and surrender otherwise her family would be arrested. Her father's and her sister's arrest followed Evi's refusal to return. Both were tortured. sister was released Evi's some three and a half months later. But the father is still in their hands charged that he had arms hidden in his house, that he was to help Stathis hijack a plane, that he had helped the escape of Nicos Zambelis. In general the charge for the remaining 11 accused is that they gave refuge to Stathis or Dinou or Zambelis for one or more days. Some are charged with helping the escape of Evi or Zambelis, either by per- suading Evi to go or by taking her to a car, or by taking Zambelis away in a boat. In addition they are all r trying to help his brother escape.

charged with intending to help Stathis in his thought of hi- jacking of a plane. These I1 defendants are:

HELEN TSOUKALADAKI

(24), Pharmacist.

PANAGHIOTIS

CHIONIDES

(23), Student. MARIA NASTOU (25), Stud- ent.

DORA

• TSANOU (34), Civil servant.

PANAGHIOTIS KRITIKOS

(35), Lawyer.

LORNA CAVIGLIA BRIFFA

(30), Italian publisher of magazines.

THEODOROS KYRIAKOPOU-

LOS (44), Private employee.

ARISTIDES FATOUROS (30),

Carpenter. (A relative Zambelis.) (35),

SOPHIA GEORGIOU

Beautician.

EFTATHIOS

MELAS

(37), Electrical engineer.

ANDREAS

STAVROULAKIS

(44), Acountant. All political prisoners in Greece are beaten and tortured.

It is known that Dora Tsanou, in particular, has been hor- ribly tortured. Stathis Panagoulis spoke up bravely in court, declaring before the five-member military tribunal that he had been tortured during his five-month interrogation by military police.

He also told the court that 'anti-fascist Italy is being tried in the person of Mrs Caviglia'.

non - commissioned Naval officer George Economides, the agent provocateur who impli- cated Mrs Caviglia in the imaginary plot, appeared in court as a prosecution witness.

The entire British labour movement must demand the immediate release of the Pana- goulis brothers and of all political prisoners in Greece.

#.19 Workers Press, Mol The news that heroin is being smuggled into the United States sewn up in- side the bodies of Ameri- can soldiers killed in Vietnam underlines the cynical callousness of the traffickers in this murder- ous trade. But the heroin trade four- ishes not because drugs are some wonderful way to 'indi- vidual freedom', as the mud- dleheads who advocate legal use would tell us, but be- cause they are big business.

With the measures against production of opium in France and Turkey, south-east Asia is now the world's main centre for the drug (see 'Grim Future for the ex-Vietnam GI', Work- ers Press December 29). Opium is used in the pro- duction of heroin. Four hundred tons of heroin is produced annually in Burma, 150 tons in Thailand and 50 tons in Laos. The main trading Throughout long pre-trial proceedings Ruchell Magee, one of the Sole- dad Brothers, has been denied every elementary right available to a de. fendant. At every point where Magee fought to defend himself, he was dragged out of the court- room to a prepared isolation booth where the trial is piped Magee is fighting for his life with a court-appointed attor- ney who refuses to carry out the defence Magee wants. During the proceedings and the selection jury, of the Magee was chained to his chair in the courtroom. Just before the trial proper was due to begin, Magee was thrown out of court when he spoke to his lawyer. Superior Court Judge Colvin told Magee that he spoke audibly, he would be removed. As he was chained down Magee had to speak in a nor- mal voice and the second time that happened the Judge threw him into the isolation booth.

Carrow, Then his lawyer, refused to challenge a juror on Magee's instructions. Carrow said 'Pass' and Magee replied: 'Hell, we do' ... and was into the promptly thrown booth again. Magee—a former co-defend- Press, Monday January 22, 1973 PAGE 5 centres for the American mar- ket—apart from that smuggled direct into the United States by Vietnam veterans-are Hong Kong and Bangkok. These centres provide two main types of heroin-Grade 3 which is 30 per cent pure heroin and is used for smok- ing, and Grade 4 which is 95- 99 per cent pure heroin and is mainly used for injection.

The Asian farmer will sell opium at $25 per kilo. It will take $250 worth to make one kilo of heroin. But in Bangkok one kilo of fetches heroin $2,000-eight times its original price.

By the time it reaches the United States it sells at $20,000—80 times its original price. And by the time it hits the American one kilo of streets, heroin will bring in $430,000.

That is 1,720 times the ori- ginal price paid to the Asian farmer. The real story of drugs lies in these enormous profits and in human lives destroyed.

ant with the acquitted Angela Davis-is last of those the caught up in the events which began more than two years ago at the Marin County court- house. One of the Soledad Brothers, Magee was in the courthouse in August 1970 when Jonathan Jackson arrived with a batch of guns. As they attempted to escape, police opened fire. In the shooting the kidnapped Judge Haley was instantly killed as were three of Jackson's com- panions. Magee is accused of being the man who pulled the trigger on Judge Haley. US Communist Party The Stalinists have been doing their utmost to ensure that Magee's defence is made as difficult as possible. First they made sure the trial was separated from that of Angela Davis. Now the Communist Party's West Coast newspaper, the 'People's has refused to say any- World', thing about the trial except to acknowledge that Magee exists.

Meanwhile, in the side rooms of the San Francisco court are police armed with Ml6s and police dogs ready to be used at any moment. Magee himself has said: I'm a slave once again'. And that is what the court proceedings mean. Below: Magee (right) and Judge Haley in courtroom shoot-out.

THE REIGN OF THE SHAH-IN

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday January 22, 1973 The recognition of the German Democratic Re- public by the Shah's re- gime in Iran has proved rather embarrassing for the Iranian Stalinists of the Tudeh Party. Many of the activities of organization, including their the broadcasting station, Radio Iran Courier, which is beamed to Persia, are located in East Germany. And taking advantage of this Iranian Press— situation, the which is nothing more than a for the propaganda Shah-claims that the

GDR

has accepted Iranian conditions for recognition. These, according to Teheran papers, include the East Ger- man government's unequivocal support for the Iranian policy Gulf; silencing in the Persian Radio and preventing the Tudeh Party activity in East Germany. ay January 22, 1973 This propaganda is hotly denied by the Tudeh Party and by Radio Iran Courier. They claim there were no such con- ditions in the recognition of • the GDR by Iran. But the very fact that the two countries are establishing diplomatic relations is an in- dication of the growing rap- prochement between Iran and the USSR and its East Euro- pean satellites. The Soviet Union, which shares an extensive border with Persia, is collaborating closely with the Shah's regime: build- ing a major steelworks, aiding the Shah to open natural gas fields and carrying out trade on a big scale. Cordial relations between the USSR and Iran have not been affected by the Shah's territorial demands the on Soviet government. In fact, the Iranian monarch—as befits the Shah-in-Shah (King of Kings) has claims on the territory of every neighbouring country.

If the Soviet leaders are not concerned about the Shah's territorial claims, they are even less worried about the character of his regime. It is one of the most bloodthirsty dictatorships on the face of the planet. The Confederation of Iranian students described the Shah as a 'fascist tyrant'. Last year more than 50 young militants were executed his firing squads after ith farcical trials before rigged military courts. The Shah is the son of an Army NCO who seized power in a coup in 1925. Yet he prides himself on dynastic origins going back over 2,500 years. These phoney claims were endorsed by the majority of the leading world heads of state at Persepolis where the dynasty's anniversary was celebrated with great pomp.

Not only is the Shah's re- gime particularly brutal, it is The also extremely corrupt. Shah has a particular down on and ir 1969 drug smugglers introduced new laws providing the death penalty for anyone than caught smuggling more 10 grams of cocaine, heroin or than 2 kg morphine or more of opium. The penalty has since been applied to about 160 Iranians, Afghans and Turks, according to 'The Times'. The victims military tried before were courts. None of the 30 or 40 European drug smugglers who came before the courts were sentenced to death. There are some Iranians who appear to get away with smuggling on a grand scale, however. Not surprisingly they consist mainly of members of the Royal family. The Shah's sister, Princess was caught at Geneva Asharf, airport in 1961 with a suitcase full of heroin. And in February last year, a member of the Shah's entourage, Prince Huchang Dawallou (70), was formally charged with supply- ing 35 grams of pure heroin to a fellow Iranian middle-man who in turn passed it on to a 'Prince K' in Germany. Prince Dawallou was staying with the Shah in St Moritz at the time. The warrant against him could not be served as he has diplomatic immunity.

He left with the Shah for Persia in the latter's private The Swiss afterwards plane. dropped all proceedings. The corruption in the ruling circles acts as no deterrent to the western eastern one another to pay court to the Iranian monarch Shah. The has visited Moscow four times since he took the throne.

Both his sister and Queen Farah have visited Peking. And on his way back from Moscow, President Nixon stopped over in Teheran for very cordial Iranian head talks with the of state. Last summer the Shah paid a p Ro the ten bur reli the Ag sid 195 lish for ter anc alo sup sen den wea arn bus fro

pply- -man aying itz at gainst unity. for rivate wards ruling errent stern Utic • the narch

LICS

Queen And scow, over ordial head • paid a private visit to Windsor as a guest of the Queen. The British Royal family was reciprocating the Persepolis celebration, at- tended by the Duke of Edin- burgh and Princess Anne. The Shah's regime is heavily the assistance of reliant on the US Central Intelligence Agency, which aided him con- siderably by disposing of the troublesome Dr Mossadeq in 1953. The CIA went on to estab- lish the ubiquitous secret police force, SAVAK, which runs the terror campaign against the left and keeps the country innocent of any form of democracy, let alone revolutionary thought.

The American government supplies the regime with large amounts of arms and recently sent a team of specialists to demonstrate a number of new which the Iranian weapons army had expressed interest in buying. The team orders went on from the White House follow- Nixon's conversations with ing the Iranian monarch in May last year. The Iranians wanted to buy Navy and Air Force F14 and F15 fighters, not yet in opera- tion even in the US, and also had its eye • on some of the 'smart bombs' being used for pinpoint bombing of targets in North Vietnam. When, on the eve of the American elections, the US President began pouring war material into South Vietnam to thwart any ceasefire moves, much of the equipment was provided by the faithful Iranian ally. About the same time the Shah declared that his navy would be increased several times over in the next period to look after his interests in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean! 'The Times' noted on November 7: 'The vessels that Iran has taken delivery of, or will be taking delivery of in Ira Workers Press, Monday January 22, 1973 PAGE 7 the near future, include three destroyers, four frigates equipped Seacat with 24 surface-to-air missiles, fast patrol boats and more than a dozen British hovercraft.

'Britain is also helping train marine commando battalion and is selling Iran a 10,000-ton support ship' The paper added: "The pur- chases part of a massive die build-up that is taking arms and which, iran on place in the Shah's will ation the biggest make his nation the military power in the Middle East in five years. ' Among other equipment that the Iranians are bringing into 140 service Phantom are fighter-bombers and 800 Chief- tanks. The cost to iran Lall the moment is about S1,300m £540m] [about or about 1l per cent of the gross national product? It is against this regime that the young left-wing fighters of The Shah-son of

NCO.

Above: The Shah's regime-last army year more than 50 young militants were pitting themselves. executed. iran are

STEEL PRODUCTION:

DOING AWAY WITH COKE

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Janua Unemployment in the Irish Republic, already running at 70,000, is near certain to escalate drama- tically as the effect of Common Market entry begins to bite. The Confederation of Irish Industry said in a report that the existing rate of economic growth fell far short of what is needed to make significant inroads into the jobless total.

The CII said that instead of rising at the 8.5-per-cent rate set out in the five-year plan which ends in 1978 industrial output must go up by 10.5 per cent a year. It calls on the Lynch govern- ment to provide 10,000 new jobs a year net of redundan- instead of the 7,600 cies envisaged in the plan. Lynch: His plan for 7,600 new short of jobs a year falls well CIl requirements. Unfortunately the two objec- tives are almost in flat con- tradiction to one another.

A spokesman for the Irish Export Board in London told me that one of the prime effects of EEC entry would be to accelerate the rate of mer- gers and rationalization which has characterized Irish industry for the last few years. Side by side with these measures to increase efficiency and beat inflation by pushing unemployment down costs, has risen steeply and is cer- tain to continue to do so.

Productivity has in fact shot up and Irish exports increased by 20 per cent last year alone.

This performance, says the CII, can be maintained but only provided the battle against is waged vigorously. inflation Then 'it will be possible for Irish industry to hold its own on the home market and con- tinue to advance in Continental and British markets' Wages and salaries in the Republic are controlled by pay arrangements similar to the Heath state pay plan. Against industry's trend to shake out labour, the CII says that if the government intends to reduce the jobless, employ- ment in manufacturing must go up at an annual rate of 4.6 per cent instead of the 2.6 per cent in the government's implied White Paper on Ireland's entry to the EEC. The Confederation says that the White Paper held out the rise of 50,000 prospect of a job opportunities in manufac- turing industries between 1973 and 1977. 'Since then, however, the number employed in manufac- turing has actually declined while the time in which to target has actually reach the shortened.' day January 22, 1973

BY IAN YEATS

The British Steel Cor- poration is looking into ways of doing away with coke altogether in the process of making iron and steel. But it is, notes BSC's re- journal "Steelresearch search 72', a long-term project aimed at methods steel- new making in the 1980s. The Corporation's • director of research and development, Dr Robert Barnes, says: "The use of a fully-harnessed nuclear reactor to provide both high reducing temperature iron-making and for gases electricity both for steel-making and following operations under active consideration.'

Preliminary experiments are already under way. It is, of course, a long-term project, but as with electric arc furnaces, even on a limited scale, once it is developed the could at least process high- applied to high-grade, cost steels. However, other developments in the iron and steel-making process threaten coke more immediately. In coming to grips with the high price of coke because of the exceptionally strong world demand, the iron and steel- makers are turning increasingly to alternative fuels. North Sea gas and oil have from appeared like manna heaven. Dr Barnes notes: 'Encouraged by the oil finds around our research into oil in- shores, jection into blast furnaces has shown that a considerably greater amount of oil can be used with larger savings in coke than have been achieved before.' This method has been tested successfully in the No 2 and No 3 blast furnaces at Port Talbot, Wales. The potential savings per cwt of coke replaced-tonne hot metal per million tons of iron produced is £200,000 on oil and a blast furnace gas credit of £50,000. Furthermore the use of oil to pre-heat scrap used in Basic Oxygen Smelters has raised the proportion of scrap in the total furnace charge from 30 to 40 per cent, giving an increased output of 10 per cent. The process is being pion- eered at Port Talbot and the Consett works and production trials are under way. The conclusion to be drawn from these developments is that there is now a concerted move to oust coke as a basic iron and steel-making fuel.

Should any of them come into use in a big way, the effect would be felt on Britain's coalfields. The record demand for coke is likely to remain high only for as long as US, German and Japanese iron and steel makers are unable to bring the new techniques into mass produc- tion. And only as long as recession the so- continues to allow called developing countries like India to stay in the field.

All the evidence suggests that world excess capacity has brought the major steel pro- ducers into the foothills of a cut-throat trade war in which forcing down costs and elimi- nating competitors in the race Above: The steelworks at Port Talbot where use of oil to pre- heat scrap metal for steel pro- duction is being pioneered. The manufacturing trials are already underway. for export markets will be central characteristics. At 'east 25 million tons of the annual 140 million ton out- put of Britain's coalfields is used for coking coal. Already the new methods have drastically reduced the amount of coke needed per ton of iron from 30 to between 11 and 13. The mining of coking coals is labour-intensive because it is most often found in narrow unworkable by large seams machines. Most of these coals are found in Durham, South Yorkshire, Kent and South Wales. Cutbacks in the use of coke is unlikely to lead to further pit closures since coke coal seams are worked in parallel with many others. But over the next decade there could be a further drop in the number of miners as the more uneconomic seams are abandoned.

Numelry officers' 'progressive The regime' in the Sudan has been passing some interesting legis- butchering the lation. After Communist Party leaders, fulsome praise from receiving the Stalinists in Moscow and Sudanese President Peking, Numeiry is getting on with the job of encouraging imperialism in his country. though cautious A distinct, revival of private investment occurred following the President's economic new policy. The British Lonrho group will produce some 30 million yards of cloth together with a Sudanese concern Gulf Inter- national. Lonrho is also into a deal to grow 300,000 tons of sugar. The revival of private enter- prise is due to the Develop- ment and Promotion of Indus- trial Development Act 1972 which offers privileges and freedom from custom duties to foreign firms. For the first time compensa- is tion offered if firms are taken only if vital public are at stake. The export of profit to the imperialist home- land is also permitted as well as the withdrawal of capital in case of liquidation of a company in the currency of the country where it originated.

The latest measures are a of the reaction continuation in Sudan which began with a Numeiry after vengeance drowned a military coup led by the Communist Party in blood. Unions were outlawed and thousands of CP members driven underground. Recently the Numeiry regime praise from Igor received Belyayev, a functionary of the USSR's Africa Institute: 'The Soviet Union has always worked for friendship with the Sudanese people and for normal relations in all fields,' he said. Caroline Amas (18) was preg- nant in Outshoorn hospital, South Africa. She was desper- ately in need of an emergency Caesarian operation. But a young coloured doctor, Dr Carl Abrahamse was pre- vented from helping the girl because the operation would have involved using the ser- vices of a white theatre staff.

The young mother-to-be suffered for three days then died. Dr Abrahamse sat beside his patient for three days watching her agony. Dr Roux Cloete, the Medical Superintendent at the hospital said: I am not pre- pared to comment on any in- dividual cases at this hospital.'

Truman of Some of the politicians American imperialism cursed the world for much longer President than necessary. Harry S. Truman was 88 when he died last month. The durability of the man who gave the orders for the dropping of the Atomic bomb on Japan is shown by the in the obituary published 'Honolulu Star Bulletin'.

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TV REVIEW BY ANNE BLAKEM

Man Alive: 'Danger, men at work' Producer Tim Slessor. BBC 2, January 17. During the 1930s a num- ber of doctors expressed their suspicions of a chemical substance pro- duced by ICI for the oxi- dization of rubber. It was being marketed widely, especially to firms like Dunlop's, prevent to rubber tyres from perishing. In the 1940s it was proved conclusively that the sub- stance, Betathiamine, caused cancer of the bladder. Imme- diately ICI brought in the most stringent protective mea- sures for its workers; what they failed to do was to pub- licly alert those firms who pro- vided the market for them.

As a result scores, if not hundreds of workers, particu- larly in Dunlop's, contracted cancer of the bladder, very often many years after their contact with Betathiamine.

ICI was taken to court and proved guilty in the matter.

But this was small consolation to the men who had severe doses of this horrible disease.

'Man Alive' in its pro- gramme last week gave uS something of an insight into this particular case as well as a couple of others among the rapidly-increasing hazards to health in industry today.

The second case was that of lead poisoning—the recent clo- sure of Enthoven's factory in Southwark after the discovery of dangerously high lead con- tent in the blood of children living in the vicinity of the factory. As the programme pointed out, there is an Enthoven fac- tory in Derbyshire still run- ning. A couple of the workers —Mr Fletcher and his son— appeared on the screen des- pite apparent fears by many 'that they would employees their jobs if they spoke lose up'. Mr Fletcher had already had a bad bout of lead poison- ing; he and his son spoke of inadequate inspection and working in conditions of great heat and clouds of lead dust.

The third case was the long established horror of pneumo- coniosis, or 'black lung', con- for years by miners tracted working on the coalface, and the fact that the development of modern machinery and tech- niques which should improve conditions, are, in fact, creat- ing such huge quantities of dust that this fatal lung dis- ease is on the increase. If there was ever any pre- vious room for doubt about the horrifying contempt with which the working class is treated by managements and governments alike, the discussion in the last half of the programme among union representatives, doctors, lawyers, safety experts and health mandarins soon wiped them out. The union leaders, whatever their own shortcomings, repre- sent clearly the last bastion of concern for working con- ditions and the working men in factories everywhere- they are heavily responsible collusion at all times with right-wing policies at all levels.

Examples were given again and again of 'workers killed, maimed and poisoned by in- dustries not prepared to risk Workers Press,

LAKEMAN

Working on the coalface creates huge loss of profit or extra expendi- any process which ture on might alleviate health hazards.

The factory inspectorate was quickly shown for the farce it is-400 inspectors doing the daily rounds the through whole country. It's only a poor sop for the liberal tradition in any case. The heart of the matter lies with industry and government —plenty of sympathetic noises were heard from James Tye of the Industrial Safety Commit- tee and Dr Spinks of ICI, plenty of outrage from the assistant general secretary of the T&GWU, who explained that 20,000 cases were now being fought out by his union on behalf of men in industrial accidents and with health injuries—-although few damages were ever won, he said, for the health cases. But all the outrage and sym- pathy is soon deflated when faced with the hard truths on the real action front. Even the tame solicitor pre- sent pointed out that the Robens' Report, the govern- in the ment's only gesture direction of industrial disease and the like, had as its basic philosophy assumption that the root of the trouble lay in the apathy of the working man himself. It was up to him to take on responsibility for his own health, to become aware of the risks he faced in his dailv life. To this appalling revelation the representative from the Robens' Report Committee, George Beeby, explained how disappointed he was that the Report had not in fact come up for government action this year, but how much he hoped it would next year, or at least within the government's life- time. From all this it is only too apparent that every worker in the country literally takes his life in his hands in the busi- ness of earning his daily living in industry. For all those toxic health risks substances and which have already been re- vealed, even the dignitaries on 'Man Alive' agreed, there must be hundreds as yet unknown.

With the added threat of unemployment to keep them hard at it, even in the worst conditions, the working men are set up like sitting ducks as a target for indescribable ress, Monday January 22, 1973 PAGE 9 huge quantities of fatal dust.

pain and disease of all kinds and with utter certainty as long as a capitalist state holds sway and industry can ask any price for production. All In A Day: 'The Collection'.

Producer Roger Mills. Director Keith Sheather. BBC 2. Janu- ary 17. There's nothing like a glimpse into the enormities of the fashion trade and its exploit- ative extravaganzas, its stench of the rich feeding the rich, to really show us where the de- gradation about us receives its nourishment. Day' showed the 'All in a first 'exhibition' of a young designer who, in the terms of the day, 'makes it' on his first showing. As model after model contorts and preens in front buyers and Press and of the hangers-on come for the kill, and clothing worth thousands on the market is flaunted, the grisly spectacle only reminds us all the more of the greed and hard cash deals that lie just beneath the tinsel on top.

It's nothing more than cattle market in the crudest terms. Glasses clink and furs flash —another bargain has been found—a new man to cater to 'the rich or the jet-set—what- ever you like to call it' as one whimsically girl reporter remarked. And what a pain-stricken business it all is. A reputation is made for six months while the wealthy cash in and buy all the goodies they can— everyone knows that nothing lasts, that a built-in obsoles- cence infects the fabric of not only the glittering gowns, the gaunt models themselves, but the world they live in. The craze is to buy, buy.

buy-for any day, any market vanish overnight, any may collapse is on the cards. The question of the hour is—-what replace it? There are will to be taken by all decisions of us.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Monday January 22, 1973

B.A.T.

MOVES

FROM

UGANDA

INTO

ZAIRE

GENERAL IDI AMIN DADA

The British-American Tobacco Company has just been nationalized in Uganda. But it has opened up in neighbouring Zaire, formerly the Congo. General Amin named BAT for take- over in a nationwide announcement last month. At this time the company had well-advanced negotiations to establish a base in Zaire. Under the investment the company will employ some 5,000 workers on the tobacco farms and produce some 200,000 kilograms a year within four years.

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Name.. Address Neap House Whart, where pickets arrested Dockers at were after Incidents with police and two were fined £165 each.

the Perth Yarns factory, where A sheriff's court in Scot- he works, by brandishing land last week cleared a hammer and shouting. He also strike breaker who bran- cleared McNeil of carrying an dished a hammer at pic- offensive weapon. Not that McNeil denied kets on the grounds that brandishing the hammer. his intentions had been 'When I arrived at the fac- "purely defensive'. tory' he told the court, 'I saw crowds of angry looking men The judgement appar- was forming barrier across the ently in sharp with contrast gate... I was alarmed and to treatment of more recent the bluff them took out the those on the cases involving hammer and said I would pro- side the picketing other of tect myself with it if any man situation — the pickets them- laid a hand on me selves. Following this 'purely defen- For instance dockers two sive statement, McNeil crossed arrested at Neap House Wharf, the picket line and went in to Lincolnshire, last were year work through a strike over fined £165 each without any promotion. of them brandish- suggestion Ford's judgement b ing anything. appears his Thomas McNeil (24), from to hinge solely on own that McNeil thought however, got different opinion Perth, that pulling the hammer out treatment. necessary sort of self- Sheriff Harold Ford found was a him not guilty of committing another protection' yet example of class justice.

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Defend democratic rights: Rally at Empire Pool, Wembley Sunday March II response to Pageant Students' grants campaign gains strength

FROM DAVID MAUDE IN SOUTH SHIELDS

THE

'Road to Workers' Power campaign has received another enthusiastic reception-this time in the north-east. About 250 trade unionists, house- wives and youth packed the Marine and Technical College, South Shields, for the campaign's first public event in the area.

RSOURS

spongied by the houng socialists and by tarow and response cabaret South Shields Trades Councils, the campaign is going to be a roaring success. The South Shields cabaret was held last Friday night, after the successful launching of the campaign in Middleton, Manchester.

On Sunday, March 11, working-class families from Manchester, Merthyr Tydfil and and South Shields will take part in a monster pageant of labour history at the Empire Pool, Wembley, in London.

For the day Empire Pool will be the scene of unique and spectacular re-enactment of working-class history before workers from all over Britain.

The Pool, the enclosed audi- largest torium the country, 10.000 can• seat tators. Big The north-east contribu- tion will the

HIST

miners

UNION

formed in Jarrow in 1831. One the miners' Jobling, leaders, Was hanged and gibbetted after being framed murder. His body was hung chains for three

WECKS

arow kill the spirit of trade of many the audience determination •ereno unionism in the area. joined. their trade union rights in case Westoe Last Friday night's Delegations attending the skilfully miner who had taken them cabarel Incor- cabaret included porated glimpses the Industrial Tribunal. ot wast bawdon TrOl Monkwear. workers letermination mouth and col- The lodge itself backed with working- lieries; boilermakers from the campaign by providing class ContemDI

TOI

Tne the Swan Hunter and other with actors accom- hypocrisy. and decadence yards; large modation. of the ruling class. group of women workers Hector Gowland... appeal the suc- After songs from Lisa took part in Josie Lloyd, leader of Martin and a side-splitting.

the strike which 35,000 oreanized men,

A DOUT

Barbours, though macabre, sketch strike; strikers the said that the women and children 1101 from Malcolm Tierney and three -week - old pageant Coles campaign was what evicted houses irom their David Hargreaves. Cranes sit-in. was liccucu lllake bcobic une coæec reter Armlace aware ol the scale of attack during the course of that Jimmy secretary Inskip, hushed audience letter being launched them strike. of the Westoe lodge of the by a striking miner Tories. written by the miners' definitely be at the Empire as at Middleton, the at the sald he was But, Cowpen ITom

CONCLY

that hit sure And Hector Gowland, his employer in 1831. ot the evening Was would win big support son Power, in which Road chairman He appealed for financial … or the •rauents. It was a simple but pro- from miners in the area. Workers' union and support from found expression the whole and They had shown their Coles Cranes, said he would local trade the company unionists. of ordinary actuallull workers

TO RATION

rights. Tom Kempinski and Corin Redgrave ridiculed the scandals and foibles the Tory government in the

THIRTY-FIVE

students student campaign in the next told there that the said white tie and tails unions are taking part in few days. of a further review of the worse off today than Western Brothers the fees and cam- Where they grants rent strikes are rates. dour sequence. being the The of sureen Association ever parents iCed MaRid Redgrave escalatiational their withholding their paying a higher per- auer University Teachers is alsc Nolan in joined the National Union money into income paying sympathetic to the students' take-off of the activities Students has said. towards their mallerance universities, LOSe LaDacious Huallicis. were myna The

NUS

claims that the asset-strippers. six polytechnics and one it will launch a new cam- There would be a major because of inflation, Kika Markham's render- college staging paign support of a £20m confrontation between stud- in students have been reduced ing rent strikes aimed at 'Twenty rise in the leve of student

LONY

CIL

to starvation levels and are Weeks', a song about the something was done grants suffering real hardship. 1844 Durham miners residence fees and higher University chancellors as to help said strike, again a body Southampton had the audi- grants. have twice appealed Writing in 'New Society' University's soes Mogy eater Mr Ernest thoughtful other student in ree Tory government to vice-Chancellor Professor cast Seven week, Essex University ece In unions may decide to join silence. increase grants, L. Gower.

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11.30 Odd onday January 22, 1973 PAGE 11 pire Tom Kempinski, Corin Red- grave and Lisa Martin seen during rehearsals. TOMORROW night the campaign will be launched Merthyr Tydfil. The at i cabaret will be staged at the Pentrebach Labour Club, Pentrebach, Merthyr Tydfil, at 7.30 p.m. • FOR FULL details of the Empire Pool, Wembley, rally and pageant on Sun- day, March I1, see the advertisement on page I2.

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PAGE 12 Workers Press, Monday January INCREASES in the price of food in the coming period were 'unavoid.

able', the Minister for Trade and Sir • Consumer Affairs, Geoffrey Howe, said at the weekend.

Howe reaffirmed what is already.

contained in the Phase lation — that the Tories will do nothing to hold down the soaring cost of food. In a speech at Eastbourne he said there must be no illusion about the fact that some increases in costs were unavoidable and therefore that some increases in prices were also unavoidable. Howe said the government was pursuing a policy of 'firmness and fairness. 'It is a fight in which we claim the support of all our people, he added. The Tories have no such claim

FUND NEEDS

BY END OF

JANUARY

• days . to WE HAVE only ten £1,750 target. complete our at Our • total now stands £740.27, which means there is no time to waste. Every effort is needed to pull our total up.

The Torles do not waste & moment. Each day they prepare to wage an even greater on- slaught against the working class. With wages being per- manently kept down by law while prices increase at an i rate, our basic outstanding standards are being living slashed. And it will get worse. Workers Press Is needed more than ever today to prepare workers everywhere for the struggle ahead. Thousands of trade unionists, determined to fight the Torles, are looking for a lead. Workers Press will provide it. Help us therefore with very big effort for our Fund this month. Time is running out so let us raise as much as possible. Post every dona- tion immediately to: Workers Press January Appeal Fund 186a Clapham High St London SW4 7UG. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Workers Press, Published by i8бa Clapham 186a High Street, London,

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PRICES ROUND-UP

-during the first full month of the first stage of the state pay and prices laws. to blame for This compares with a rise of 8.6 because they the cent for the whole of 1972 of living was their same CUSt in the decision The n0N(-10 June maim creases were devalue it- that has pushed up the beef, bacon, fish, prices of all imported goods.

And they nowers are lomalocs. have encouraged their Sie has been tress mend up supporters been fresh round there stage prices ramp bring for ham Common

FROM PHILIP WADE IN CLAY CROSS

prices into line with IнIсaось CLAY CROSS Labour group will decide tomorrow IN LEEDS schoolchildren are being canal Cadbury Schweppes, the lead night whether to appeal against the £7,000 surcharge gave given the Courtaulds-made synthetic this said *the of when era meat, Kesp, as part of their school faced by councillors for refusing to implement the VIl Watkinson is meals 100 'fair rents' Act. former Tory Defence y Inister Nearly 900 pupils are the 'guinea member of Macmillan Cabinet. Before that two councillors will travel to London knowledge of parents or teachers. with north-east Derbyshire MP Tom Swain to see Kesp is spun protein from a bean FIGURES just released show that Labour Party chiefs who have apparently offered legal there was a The experiment is being super- advice. It was Swain who urged the group on Friday per cent li the retail price of food in December vised by Leeds University.

light to put off any decision on the appeal until the councilors were in full possession of the facts 1 he councilors-wno are automatically disqualifiec office for five years- from will ask une district audito.

detail his reasons for imposing the surcharge on them. cous lt Trans Several suspicious at With justification they point struggle has been going months and Nauroda. execute opposed them all along the

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

line. It's first the time we've with tighter price controls, are planned by the heard from them,' THE TORIES are attempting to bludgeon Cllr Davic government from the autumn. I learned authori- move tola me. the trade unions into supporting Phase little late the tatively that this means an even lower limit on and seems like a face-saver Two of their state pay claim by raising wage increases.' the spectre of a tougher Phase Three.

Tomorrow's group meeting 'Sunday Telegraph': 'Far tougher control of wages Yesterday all capitalist newspapers carried will be a crucial one in the and prices will be introduced by the government battle by Clay Cross front-page articles warning of the Phase Three against proposed limit on wage rises The this year. the Tory coverical slall of fl plus 4 per cent will be cut back drastically proposals. rents ACT 'Sunday Mirror': Still tougher pay curbs, coupled in Phase Three.' Some members of the 15- •Sunday Express: 'Mr Heath group- includes Sour Labour Party delegates planning an even fiercer tightening of tour this Canown Wares He is intent on reducing still High Court while another year. further permitted wage increases section want under Phase Iwo. Jurc to do will icca baltics By 'News of the World': 'Phase Three taking it out of the prices in- or tre coverinent s would bemes poto, der in theres man will effect would be tougher allu HULL GAS workers decided yes- on emergency work only and that ceruse the movement ould planned Phase which starts in

C1WO.

normal services will grind to a councilors and tenants babie defence terday up April.' STeD then non- The purpose of this carefully-leaked Ilall. co-operation poncy launchea in Tory Nants. support of their pay claim.

The meeting condemned the propaganda to Phase ser the union leadership diversionary debate about It would hamper moves to decision decision. taken at a mass meet- Three. mobilize the working class ing, will seriously disrupt all the Coll one-uav the only fight the strike Hull last week and _ne ories none that ov come sin utting and maintenance working demanded that the

G&MWU

of the mind, workers will forget about

1 CHILO

in the city. Phase which has been Une,

CACCULIVE

tended for 90 davs. and Phase appeal would cut Iney nave imposed an overtime de peates conterence tor the in- work to rule and dustry to decide further national which into parliament this ban, blacking work. The week. contract action on the claim calcia 240 Involved Megson, regional union Len PROTEST against the state pay laws General and Municipal secretary, Union members servicing is snowballing. that they being summit is being planned of all and appliance section. usel for Heath's policy. civil will unions Co-Drunlale inrougnoul britain. Although production want a £5 rise, though even this industrial action to oppose the not be affected, union officials leave them among the low blatantly unjust' pay controls. in the Labour Party will run almost paid. that all the belteve mobilize maining staff will now be engaged miners ane tenants wno have willingness to definite strike defend the councillors.

•SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE

Gas workers all over County House is suddenly interested.

What the Labour bureau- steware crats want to do is kill the 11121 Clay Cross fight by it tying in legal arguments. Clay policy. should Cross ColeOs representing 3.000 manual workers in double their guard and take

THE

the fight out into the open.

heckled decided Have CHANTS of "Fascists Out!'

and Racialism Out, Social- meet today Rainhill Labour organizer. 'Strike action seems to be ism In!' greeted National spreading throughout the area.

Front demonstrators from Today's meeting will be the sidewalks of Blackburn Jack Higham, addressed by THE NATIONAL Industrial Re- during an anti-immigration National Union of Domestic lations Court has snared its first march there on Saturday. Appliances. trade union leader. Alfred Brooks, of About 300 people- includ- the Sixty-one of the work force Union ing many children- were given their notice with one of Bank Em Natona lieu despite is to become a judge of made un the National front ployees, the court. contingent. Opponents of the march mustered at least an tions. The union which he led until equal number to heckle a: 32

ATIC RIGHTS DEFEND TRADE

of but management decidea wno veal the Front supporters passed TUC for re-

UNITY

was to be sacked, despite the suspended by the

© LIVING STANDARDS

through the town centre. of last first under the Industrial usual procedure in, gistering

TORY

GOVERNMENT

The large force of police

TO POWER IS THROUGH

out. Stewards told Workers Press mobilized to protect the NF that management gave a verba among five newly-

HE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

DTOOKS S

agreement in June 1971 thạt ther appointed NIRC members. used ponce horses to crust the counter - demonstrators no redundancies for Would against buildings. three years.