Workers Press no. 978

workers press €4,500m SHARES IN

PHASE TWO PLUNGE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESD

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITT

BY IAN YEATS

the market value of Britan's top companies on the Stock Exchange yesterday.

Since the Tories' Phase Two state pay plan was annonced last Wednesday, more than £4,500m has been wiped off share values.

Yesterday the 'Financial Times' Index recorded one of the biggest ever single falls in the first half hour of trading. By 3 p.m. it had plummeted 18:1 points to 470.0. The downward price slide dramatic 1s a illustration of big business anxieties about the Tory government's ability to inflict permanent and the deteats on the tauc - UnIOnS

WORNITS

order against class. Their survival in the teeth of herce world com- petition depends driving costs and down an workers® and living dil-oul allaCk Wascs standards. Until now Heath has been unable to do this and yesterday's selling undoubtedly reflects the growing middle-class over panic TO e economy s future. British Industry slammed The Confederation of down the nutters on all Fress comment yesterday after had been asked if the wave of stock they market selling had been udeeunon response to the state pay plan.

But significantly, prices fell by share up to l3 on the F Index following the unveiling

DOTTES

Phase Two by Heath at his Lancaster House Press conference last Wednesday.

By far the largest falls came after the meeting of the [UC economic committee on Friday at whicł Britain's decided to cadets Pa Ol recommend total non-co-operation the pay WIth plan. Internationally the situation of British capitalism in the on-going trade war situation continues to Italy's two-tier decision to operate AN

EXTRADITION

order WUtCH. system for the lira—in effect a badly camouflaged devaluation-is a blow to British industry's pros- granted yesterday pects of competing within the Common Market.

Royal Ulster Constabulary The government has virtually committed itself the Dublin District Court.

April at $2.3499an effective Doherty, who is wanted for to 'peg' devaluation ot 9.2 per cent since the pound was sterling has in High aTmOs onences. which to appeal to Dublin floated last summer. Court and ask for the order to Deputies of the is Ciss the 20 cm of 20 countries meet in UL aS10 Paris todav to discuss of the inter be handed o ter to thi huc" f he fails to do this will national monetary system.

Preliminary discussions at between the major revealed agreement County Lough, on Haye Carickarnon, powers on this vital question.

the border. When the London Stock Exchange opened for price landslide was business vesterdav morning the immediate with falls of up to 35p on some shares.

Phase Two of Heath has himself admitted that emplovers do not want controls of anv kind over and are clamouring for a return to a free-for- the working class. Scottish miners It is hardly accidental that the very companies which led the price retreat yesterday are notorious tor the size ol their contributons to gory Party A SPECIAL delegate conferénce funds and are represented in the party's right Scottish numers lenaers wing up to ministerial level.

Edinburgh annonced yesterday Guinness led the field closely followed by Reckitt total opposition to Phase Two ol and Coleman and EMI. the government's state pay plan it would not stop and declared Building, including Bovis and BPB Industries, current property, insurance and banks including Barclays Enem acheving Thell wage claim in full. They pledged and Westminster all took of around 10p tumbles take a share with one company losing 25p.

mnemserves ready lo any demande-ess re cesari eve pay

ICI,

Beecham, Courtauld's, and Boots demands — if necessary to lup a share. registerea losses Index has dropped 30.4 points since Phase Two executive - national oI tne National Union of Mineworkers was annonced the middle price landslide reflects miners on share Dauol

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Heath govern. industrial action. class's growing uncertainty over the 12. State pay plan strike revolt. See ments altemo to destroy basic acmocrauc reIls by the imposition of a state dictatorship over wages.

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER & TUESDAY JANUARY 23, 1973• No 978 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE CAV sit-in still on

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

SHOP STEWARDS at the of the 14-week CAV sit-in Some

LIE

stewards

CAV

occupied against closure. Tactory wanted o Liverpool yesterday voted executive to withdraw But to maintain their control of Lucas financial aid to the sit-in.

relused To accept the

CAV

workers' une Site Tonight, the

CAV

insistence that they which the factory stands.

CUH"

stewards, WhO have WIth. To contro me mares They resisted drawn pickets from three pressure through a system of passes Mersetside from the Lucas combine to other issued by their occupation Live up contro or the cares using Lucas products WI boiler house and canteen.

meet trades council leaders to point out that increased eater vesterony arenoor Last week a mass meet- the CAV stewards leaders allow ing agreed to

SUDOOTE

101 Their were meeting their opposite

SUU"

against unemployment plies on ane on une site

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now vitally important. numbers that Lucas Industrial form them of the decision Equipment, a smaller fac- and appeal to them not

TOMORROW:

LORY

dISO overals on tie Industrial participate in a planned site, could re-open. engineers'

ODDV

The correspondeni Workers there have been union executive council Maude in an on-the-spot laid off week since three today. assessment the sit-in. NUR listens in on pay talks The National Union of Railwaymen Marylebone headquarters.

NUR

attended yesterday's talks with leaders only made a decision to British Rail on the £9.25 claim by attend the talks at the last minute.

Sid the locomen's union

ASLEF.

ASLEF

has already threatened Weighell (left),

NUR

assistant strike action to raise the locomen's general secretary, joined ASLE'S Ray Buckton (right), at BR's basic to £40 a week.

workers press €4,500m SHARES IN

PHASE TWO PLUNGE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESD

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITT

BY IAN YEATS

the market value of Britain's top companies on the Stock Exchange yesterday.

Since the Tories' Phase Two state pay plan was announced last Wednesday, more than £4,500m has been wiped off share values. Yesterday the 'Financial Times' Index recorded one of the biggest ever single falls in the first half hour of trading. By 3 p.m. it had plummeted 18:1 points price slide dramatic downward •18 a Extradition business anxieties about the ilustration of big Tory government's ability to inflict permanent deteats on the trade unions and the wulkig class. Their survival in the teeth of fierce world com- depends driving down costs and petition living workers' and

A -OVE

aLLacK Warcr standards. Until now Heath has been unable to do this and yesterday's selling undoubtedly reflects the middle-class panic over economy's Tne siWilis future. The Confederation British Industry slammed ot down the shutters on all Press comment yesterday been the of stock after they had asked wave market selling neocen nececooy uraoe umor response to the state pay plan.

to 13 But significantly, prices fell by unvelling BoInIS on uner mcex otowre wie Two by Heath at his Lancaster House Press conference last Wednesday.

By far the largest falls came after the meeting of the TUC economic committee on Friday at which decided denders DN LalO S ud Ol UnIOS recommend total non-co-operation with the pay plan. Internationally the situation of British capitalism in the on-going trade war situation continues to Italy's decision operate two-tier AN

EXTRADITION

WUloCul. order system for the lira-in effect a badly camouflaged against Anthony 'Dutch' Doherty levaluation-is a blow British industry's pros. granted yesterday pects of competing within the Common Market.

Roval Ulster the Dublin District Court.

The government has virtually committed itself April at $2.3499—an effective sterling Doberty, who as vandeds in to 'peg' arms offences, has ln High which to appeal to Dublin floated last summer. Court and ask for the order to Deputies of the Group of 20 countries meet in be put aside. Paris today to discuss the 'reform' of the inter he fails to do this, he will national monetary system.

Preliminary discussions be handed over to the RUC at major agreement between the Have revcatu lo Carickarnon, County Lough, on powers on this vital question.

the border. When the London Stock Exchange opened for husiness vesterdav morning the oce arosice wa immediate with falls of up to 35p on some shares.

Phase Two Heath has himself admitted that a section of employers do not want controls of any kind over and are clamouring for a return to a free-for- pay all situation in which they can get to grips with the working class. Scottish miners It is hardly accidental that the very companies which led the price retreat yesterday are notorious for the size of their contributions to Tory Party A SPECIAL delegate conferènce represented in the party's right funds and are SCOTTIsa Miners Henders wing up to ministerial level.

Edinburgh yesterday announced Guinness led the field closely followed by Reckitt tota opposition to Phase wo of and Coleman and EMI. the government's state pay plan and declared it would not stop Building Bovis and BPB Industries, including them achieving their current insurance and banks including Barclays property, wage claim in full. They pledged tumbles of around 10p and westminster all took a share with one company losing 25p.

unemuse ves …reaoy lo lake necessary to achieve pay

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Beecham, Courtauld's, and Boots action demands - if ask The Index has dropped 30.4 points since Phase osses ot to lup a share. niecessary remisiered Two the - national executive of the National Union of Mineworkers announcea. was miners The share price landslide reflects middle Dallol aNIST industrial action. uncertainty over the Heath govern.

class's growing 12. State pay plan See ments •memor o • oesuiov asic cemociauc by the imposition of a state dictatorship over wages.

strike revolt. INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER & TUESDAY JANUARY 23, 1973 • No 978 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE CAV sit-in still on

BY DAVID MAUDE OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

SHOP STEWARDS at the of the 14-week CAV sit-in

LIE

stewards Some

CAV

occupied factory against closure. wanted to union The Liverpool yesterday voted executive withdraw But Lucas to maintain their control of financial aid to the sit-in.

accept the workers' on alre Tonight,

CAV

which the factory stands.

that they lie stewards, who have with- otto ane gales They drawn ickets from three resisted pressure through a system of passes Merseyside from the Lucas combine to issued by their occupation lactorie products, glve up control or the gates using Lucas Will Cotta Lee. boiler house and canteen.

meet trades council leaders Later yesterda: to point out that increased Last week a mass meet- the CAT stewards' leaders ing agreed allow

SUDSONL

TOI

were meeting their opposite against unemployment bles on and The site now vitally important. that Lucas Industrial form them of the decision Equipment, a fac- smaller and to appeal to them not LOrY operaung on une

TOMORROW:

Industrial particibate a palace site, could re-open. lobby the engineers' corresponden Workers there have been executive council Maude on-the-spot laid off since week three today. the sit-in. NUR listens in on pay talks The National Union of Railwaymen Marylebone headquarters.

NUR

attended talks with yesterday's leaders only made a decision to British Rail on the £9.25 claim by attend the talks at the last minute.

the locomen's union

ASLEF.

Sid

ASLEF

has already threatened Weighell (left),

NUR

assistant general secretary, joined ASLEF'S strike action to raise the locomen's Buckton (right), at BR's basic to £40 a week.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday January 23, 1973

HAROLD WILSON'S

in MR speech Edinburgh last Saturday was aimed at and convincing working-class men powerless they women that were to fight monopoly capitalism.

He described workers not as a class but of weak, isolated indi- as a collecuon These individuals, claimed Wil- viduals. the of 'remote The fact that workers son, Were financial interests', irresponsible multi- and more is proof that it 'mega- national organizations' and giant who prostrate but their leaders. corporations' And that, of course, is why were robbed of any control They real Tory how lives, 'denied newspaper, they live 'their delighted voice', 'drilled, dragooned and carry any real full and to load it with edi distracted'. In the early days of the Tory It would be difficult to recognize in this 'The Times' was saying that description of weak, indivi- atomized finished and should duals--reminiscent of the helpless scene. But now the same pa 'proles' of Orwell's 1984' —the working that 'Mr Wilson's class which halted Saltley coke depot and marks 'a healthy sign'.

and pushed the government to the verge of collapse in the miners' It is 'correct' from the standi strike; which forced the release of five dockers bourgeois newspaper jailed by the Industrial Relations Act; leader should consider and which went on to demonstrate in class "impotent. its hundreds of thousands against the would very The ruling class Tories' anti-union legislation and rent workers to be impotent. It Act. ever, that this is not so.

It would be difficult also to recognize the the trary, of living and which built the formed in class unions, COSt consequent upon Common I the Labour Party and placed Wilson office and his forebears Six and the intensified America occasions. will lead to more and more

BY FOREIGN EDITOR JOHN SPENCER

AMILCAR CABRAL, one of the most prominent leaders of the African struggle against colonialism, was assassinated on Sunday at his villa in Conakry, where he was the guest of the Guinean Republic.

Portuguese officials denied responsibility for the killing and one senior Lisbon official said: 'This is not our way of acting. We do not resort to violence of that kind.'

However. Cabral's own African organization, the Independence Party of Guine and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC) stated: 'Portuguese colonialists preferred to assassinate Cabral to demon- their civilizing strate mission.' Guinean President Sekou

THE INTERNATIONAL

mone- Touré, the murder Common Market announcing tary crisis, questions and relations with the over Conakry radio, said his Union the assassins had been taken into Soviet were high on agenda at the meeting Paris custody. They were hired in Chancellor Willy killers and professional sub- yesterday versives Brandt of West Germany and corrupted by the Pompidou. President Portuguese special services, he marked the 10th said. The summit of the friendship anniversary Portugal has powerful treaty between the two countries motive for the cowardly mur- President Charles de signed by der of Cabral, because the Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad

PAIGC

has won important Adenauer. Since then trade be- territorial gains in its struggle tween the two countries has in- to drive the Portuguese fascists creased fourfold, but there have Guine-Bissau been serious differences out of their on rela- US and Britain's colony. tions with the Common Market. to the entry According to Basil Davidson, concern also is Of immediate writing prior to the assassina- the question of European mone- 'Sunday tion the Times', tary policy on which the French Cabral's movement was on the government has insisted on fixed verge of declaring an indepen- parities and closer integration.

dent state of Guine-Bissau and for United Nations applying membership. The capital, Bissau, and some of the surrounding areas are Portuguese hands, but still in bulk the of the country is ruled by PAIGC through a net- work of elected local and national committees. Davidson: According to TWO VETERAN leaders of the 'When was in Guinea, the Greek Communist Party face the Portuguese governor and com- death sentence in a trial which chief, General mander in began in Athens yesterday.

Antonio Spinola, a leader was issuing Demetrios Partsalides, warnings from besieged Bissau of the home-based Greek Com- that his African opponents munist Charalambos Party, and mintary surprises spring about some Dracopoulos, were organization secre- tary of the formerly legal EDA, 15 accomplices are charged with It may well be t well that the of plotting to overthrow the Portuguese in get colonels' regime by force.

PAICO

blow the against They are accused of setting up leadership in the hope of dis- an underground communist organ- rupting the movement's ization, producing leaflets, re- planned offensive and taking a and raising cruiting members vindictive revenge on its money for subversive activities.

leader. Partsalides and Dracopoulos Cabral (47) led the military accused of the entering are of for the liberation country on forged documents to struggle Guine-Bissau from 1963. While organize the movement. . class. It to think, the working class is a becomes a OnIy CUCELIUll individuals Gecsive v •erenten and its organizations smashed.

The Tories have not succeeded in doing this. Wilson's speech underlines once again what Trotsky wrote •Transitional in the undefeated working class Programme of the Fourth International': ers coula ao all ina Darues as of that it is not they defends its basic rights from Tory 'The world crisis is reduced to a crisis before of working-class leadership?

capitalism, attack. What delights 'The Times' is Wilson's An alternative ercersgio must oe o , is why the leading insistence that the working class cannot defending the basic rights of the class— 'The fight a class. This is consistent with the right to increase rimes' to strike, y Wilson s speech in Labour leader's immediate IcaclIull wages,

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oranne aile Une with editorial praise. to the Tory wage control White Paper, right to defend all the gains won in the which was to pledge his assistance past. government, making it law and to urge the working This involves fighting in tre unions class not t0 o01 ıcada e a. the political defeat the laws thus sacrosanct, e same paper declares creating the political conditions for forc- Lne lory LO resicn. Sunday night Labour government returned by such a wison s statement on the "Cross-Talk' TV programme must have could Mot be arefeti in be repetition class action the standpoint of this delighted Tories more. Here even the one which that the Labour Wilson emphasized that a labour working 104-1yU Tue. Placed in power by. a strong, victorious legislation passed by the Heath govern- working class insistine on a socialist very much like menl programme, such a government would Heath, Wilson told his ex-Minister Richard be split. Crossman, 'will have left us an enorm- cmene oyment The conditions would be created for the increase ous bonus, a bequest. We will use it.'

working emergence at the head of the It is one thing to Common Market entry revolutionary leadership say Inis, nowever, ank cass or another to put it practice. What- carry through the British socialist American trade ever Wilson and "The Times might like revolution.

BY A FOREIGN

CORRESPONDENT

SEAMEN from the British liner 'Ocean Monarch' staged a mass walkout for higher wages in Sydney yesterday and said they would 'sit here until we rot' if the owners did not pay up. The 350 strikers, all members of British National Union arc uculalas pay" ment Decause recent of the Aus- slashed the dollar has kialall buying power of their wages.

Monarch' y the Shaw Saville line Ine owned by the which the British Days men in Union representauve 'We have had discussions with the captain te solD anaour own unlon representatives in Britain and ir have met with a case blank refusal' NUS headquarters in London said one of their officers was on his way to Sydney to intervene in the dispute. 'He will listen to the men's AMILCAR CABRAL .. . Many threatening letters case and decide whether to nego- tiate or not to negotiate the PORTUGAL'S fascist dic- a student in Lisbon in 1948 he tators have a long record of case might be. a union spokes.

had helped to found the Centre man said. and of for African nitelec assaos alon LuTUC! became magnet for young African militants. Their most The ship was due to sail to prominent victim was Dr New Zealand with almost 1,000 African radicals. of Eduardo Mondlane, leader DusscHecio, In 195o ne helpea louna ine the Mozamolele aDerdnon

PAIGC

underground organiza- Kildi zati nar eins who was which sabotage began Dar Salaam on operations against Portuguese February 3, 1969. occupation forces in 1961. As Another victim in Mozam- leader of the liberation move- bique was Samuel Kakonbe, for ment Cabral Tece ved unnee vers Donuca commussal many threats to his life.

Cabo Delgado, Mozam- bique's north-east province, When mercenary soldiers by kortusuese adens Was saol un albusa in landed in Conakry on Novem- southern Tanzania.

TURKISH

textile workers etl- ber 22, 1970, their prime target Another Frelimo leader, by the nationalized ployed fighting Jaime Sigauke, murdered Sumerbank company are was his house. was in July 1966 in Zambia. for higher wages stift aerost lOste der Nest last year, government opposition. visited York the UN Their struggle began with acaress genera assembly, he received a number hunger-strikes company's factories in Malatya of threatening letters. has Adiyaman, and since and Though he was acclaimed as spread throughout the country.

a revolutionary leaaer by tne Teksif, the union tolerated by communist parties and the 01-622 7029 the military regime, has been New Left, Cabral was the with holding talks state- nanonalist concernecs dslnaruy for with independence. He told an appointed manasenen last nine months on a new con- interviewer last year: tract. 'We do not want to bring The workers are isde minderes the Portuguese oner anees but to bring about the with- an increase OI plastres 01-720 2000 the Portuguese (about 5p). an hour, drawal from our colontalsts tories.'

Workers Press, Tuesday January 23, 1973 PAGE 3 Fighting the Tory rent Act

BY PHILIP WADE OUR HOUSING CORRESPONDENT

THE LABOUR PARTY leadership was as Clay Cross: Total rent strike far removed from the feelings of the working class as it could ever be, says Cilr David Nuttall. likely by the end of the week 'Let's put it straight,' he added. "The Parliamen- tary Labour Party and the National Executive were quiet about our struggle until yesterday. The leader- ship has no feelings for the rank and file, for the ANGER IS mounting in Clay Cross cil surcharged for refusing ther to appeal against the sur working-class movement.' Tory "fair plement the rents Act. charge and disqualification to the over the £7,000 surcharge on the unev Camorn He told me the auditors' report came as no shock.

Labour councillors. And by the end do something and it looks like a At the start of the meeting the It's not something which hits vou because the whole of the week the town could be hit total strike Friday,' rent labour LWOl

COUCHOS

fight has been going on for 18 months.'

added. Party chiefs in London earlier today by a total rent strike. Cilr Nuttall said Clay Cross councillors had attended Feeling against the Tory will visit. govern- report on ment in this small, ex-mining town Spontaneous movement Transport House hundreds of meetings throughout Britain, including a num- It Is known that week tenants the end of last where unemployment is 18 per cent ber of conferences of Labour councillors which were parti- when became Interested a picket of the • co too cularly disappointing. the nury offered legat announced and offices 400 The automatic from

OUL

promptly advice 'Take the Sheffield conference last June. It, was charac- of office councillors. seen appeal to the major cities Lensuc. dominated by aldermen from approached Tory the courts would have the effect of blay SoMe a dragons: No hese dropped their oppon workers their right had to defusing the in Clay leacers cures une weekend (cross of being movement elected who

TONG

to wrus and are down on their bended knees.

tenants withhold mandate for non-implementation.

Workers who have been demand- We ses this as an attack nd the Is barrede is anti- While supporters demand ing a lead for immediate fight Clay Cross in order to try and get "the tenants want to take some some action against the government, Tories against the left wOulu working class of action to the Labour legislation. They're taking awav our housing support tonight holds case dis-

LICI

Winte Arthur Wellon, leader of the coun- whe- appears into the legal jungle.

powers wilen local autnoriues nave nad since their incep- crucial meewe los decides oni tion and giving it to Whitehall.

We were mandated to keep "They wall lo save mone on council housing and the Housing Finance Act different from the rest of their policies.

We've come

BIOL

learn expect Christmas presents from the Tories. Apart from the rents, it's rents low of the Dack means LeST 1920s and 1930s.

IS ARE ANSWERS

SUPPORT THE LABOU

'Now with Phase Two it's back Lo une comomanon ACIs. AS a Defeat the branch secretary of the General Municipal Workers' Union I say councillors Tory Means test fined €400 for Call men in a strike in order to claim & Rent Robbery by right, col- lective way for what we believe be our rights. •We politically are conscious and prepared Lo so as lal as Dos• and implement Stole will never and can say rents tillere o up dis- Cross. WElC councillors Danded, "No" will take our place. ace lo push even no "There's situation 110 that •romise. sunose Who 010 have implemented the Act Part of the May 1972 manifesto in which Labour candidates opposed spent the rest of their time look- the rent Act. ing lot topaoles. Labour shortage on Mersey win— were looking Tor which means rents not going there will Appeal no appeal- obviously Chance. yveve

SHIPS

bein to It says that although a berth al c transienter got the support of the tenants.

Middles- available Liverpool, Irom livernoo. brough. because of UKWAL's stevedores had insuffi needed to bring the number Wnat 1s Merseyside dockers Tory government is a has slumped cient labour to load the ship of leadership, The since the Jones-Aldington report.

has now become a defunct So many dockers have Shotton, taken body, north Wales, will lobby parlia- •ankruol the new severance ofter that in part of a bureaucracy. The Tories David Nuttall (above left) and to work every ment on Ihursday after travelling sumcient are le were able to use the TUC in the RoY Booker, two of the 11 Clay COUNCILLOR Roy Booker, ship that enters the port.

to London in two special trains.

Cross Copies plan to save Lipartice lalk. introduce a committee member in the UK/West Africa Lines Joint Phase Two', said Cllr Nuttall.

seats for opposing the rent Act.

plant prepared jointly by man Service

(UKWAL)

local National Union of trans- has workers wil aren serend the sche blad Soar Line Engineers want action Mineworkers' branch, said it handed to MPs. conference sailing Black Star steelworkers Scotland, from was now up to the leader- Bruary 3. Middles- vessel Afran Scunthorne

NO LACE

brough on February ship of trade and Wales will be held, probably on state pay plan the union Aed to transfer further sabe .E. Birmingham, formulate movement. forced transfer joint halt Tory ings in the immediate future.

rundown of the industry. "The TUC must call all-out A NORTH London branch of members Ineir Just Strike action, General the Amalgamated Union of claims will met by imme- Engineering Workers has diate strike the Tories,' thought national actions. against resolution Booker, Socialist Labour League Yorkshire Rally Cir

ULICLY TO

Wite jecting Tory state pay off all the coking works just outside The plan. relations with this viciously

FORCE THE TORY

of the town. Gladstone 80GE The Park overnmen I knew it was going to hap the

GOVERNMENT TO RESIGN!

followins The think bassee pen. government trial backing any union resolution with only one vote which they Clav Call souase cross tre against: can beat us all. The auditor will get nothing out of

BUILD THE

This branch utterly rejects me-I've got pre- nothing, he'll get nothing. Tory Tre governments

REVOLUTIONARY

to introduce attempts legal We've got most of the people which of wages, takes control Tories have behind us. I'm willing to to

PARTY!

made it plain jail if it comes to that. aWAy Tile Cleratoe long as 10 d the right to strike and fight for vicious Act. they they will We were elected or living wage for their mem- matter a mandate to keep rents low,' he bers. with their said handing me the proof SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 7.30 p.m.

Ne support the decision of attacks on From his pocket he pulled the Council he AUEW Executive Great Northern Hotel, manifesto on which the Labour 101 • cooperate wiTn Wellington Street (near Leeds station), Cross decions last May. Crat Clay Councilors National Industrial Relations government Court. We now call on them

LEEDS

Tory Means Test and Rent Robbery, it said, urging tenants new legislation, but to press to vote Labour. ahead with wage claims wher- anti-union If they want us off the coun ever members are l1• cil, that's for the of Clay people volved, such as in Ford's and At the time, call Cross British-Leyland's. the Brent Council decide,' added Cllr on

FILM: THREE YEARS

However, council worker just as the policy DOOKeT Walle of repre- Peter Bilbie and his friend An- action

OF WORKERS PRESS

Wyld nodded their sup- thony to be taken to local areas was branches, shop quite unable either to win our mittees,

JULL.

government seizing over and STRIKERS from the St. Helens, The of our funds, so if the €60,000 Lancashire, sections working class firm Stoves does it hear the res is of 10L Live tne area Inter Linited national lead on this issue, the to set ing today to hear Speakers: results strength of membership Council talks with Action • HEALY (SLL' National Se AUL WHETSTONE (Young Socialist will not be mobilized stewards at present asking are management introduce nealn's wage-culling plans.

We and they are therefore the the country mobilize the four-day week also In personal capacity:

AUEW

Executive seeking give maximum consultation

GEORGE LUBY

(U.P.W.)

over recun. o une cover men moa dancies. Ine strike began almost

ROBBIE ROBERTS (N.U.M.)

attempt to prevent our a week ago when the company announced severe staff cutbacks.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday Janua The world market for small motor cycles is totally dominated by the Japanese, in particular by Honda. Except for a few moped manufacturers, such as Steyr- Puch in Austria or Mobylette in France, which are helped licence regulations, by local the Japanese face no serious challenge in the field. This has pushed back the British motor-cycle industry which, until the Japanese challenge of the 1960s, was the world's largest manufacturer.

Driven out of the market for small motor cycles, the British have been forced to fall back on the large (or 'super-bike') category. Since the bankruptcy of Associated Motorcycles, two British companies-BSA and Norton-Villiers—have been the main British competitors in the field. Both are heavily dependent exports, especially, to the on United States. BSA, following its financial troubles of 1970-1971, has rationalized operations around the Triumph 750 and the Trident. Norton-Villiers—a subsidiary of Manganese Bronze Holdings -has concentrated on its 750cc Commando. firms Until 1968 these faced only the competition of the American producer Harley Davidson, with the BSA Triumph leading the field.

1969 saw the full-scale arrival of the Japanese and within a year they dominated the market. This domination has since become even more powerful.

In 1970 the Honda 750 raced into the lead with sales of 22,000. By last year this had doubled to 44,000. Second is the Yamaha 650/ 750. From sales of 3,000 in 1970—behind the Triumph 650, the BSA 650/750 and the Norton Commando - this Japanese machine made a Writings of

WAITRICS

OF Leon Trotsky

LEON TROTSHY

151-28 (1938-9)

WRITINGS OF

WRITINGS OF

TEOD

LEON

TROTSKU

183-34. 1934-35 Six volumes of Trotsky's writings during the years 1933-1940 £8.00 including postage Please tick those you requi Name .... Address Complete form and post to: New Park Publications, 18 A New Park Publica day January 23, 1973 phenomenal leap to an esti- mated sale of 20,000 in 1972.

Last year two new • Japanese Kawasaki 750 and bikes-the the Suzuki 750—entered the 'super-bike' American market with sales of 8,500 and 6,000.

This took them ahead of the BSA 650/750, the German BMW 750, the Italian Moto- Guzzi 750/800 and the BSA 750. Although American the market as a whole has ex- panded in recent years, sales of some British machines have dropped. The Triumph 650, fell from 14,000 for example, in 1970 to 12,500 in 1972, the from 6,000 in

BSA 650/750

1970 to 4,500 in 1972 and the BSA 750 from 1,000 to 400.

Another rival is the Italian Moto-Guzzi which increased its sales from 1,300 in 1970 to 2,200 in 1972. The biggest British loser from the Japanese decision to the market is, of take over course, BSA. Its efforts to introduce a of completely line new machines from the small to the large led to a financial crisis in 1970-1971. In 1971 BSA lost £2.7m and had to get a £10m credit from Barclays Bank. And the Japanese • are now so firmly in control that the big British, German and Italian motorcycles have to be sold in the United States through Japanese dealers. more critical Now, even days lie ahead. Yamaha has already an-

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N 'SUPER-BIKE' MARKET

1972 est. 1970 1971 22,000 34,000 44,000 3,000 9,000 20,000 11,000 15,000 n.a. 9,000 13,000 n.d. 12,500 14,000 14,000 8,500 4,000 4,500 6,500 6,000 6,000 4,000 4,500 3,000 3,500 1,000 2,200 1,300 2,000 900 1,000 1,800 1,000 600 400

TROTSK

Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham and David King £1.65 including postage reet, London SW4 7UG lable, free, on request. Sears Holdings, the in- dustrial and property which conglomerate dominates the shoe in- dustry, is shortly to find itself worth another £70m. The f220m group, under chairman Sir Charles Clore, will not actually be producing more or building up • assets. All that is happening is the publication of a revaluation of the market value of Sear's 3,000 and more properties.

The last one was back . in 1966-1967 so the valuers think the f13lm book price cal- then needs updating. culated With inflation, property men reckon gleefully that the re- valuation will produce a sur- plus of at least £50m and perhaps £80m. Clore, millionaire many times over, is about to join an exclusive club, as far as the City is concerned. There are only about six property companies with a £200m portfolio which Sears R. Palme Dutt (76) is aș loyal to the present leadership of the Soviet Union as he once was to Josef Stalin. This is clear from an article of his just published by the Soviet trade union journal "Trud' in which he gives effu- support to the bureau- sive cracy's peaceful co-existence policy. He hails the Nixon visit to Moscow in May 1972 as a re- markable landmark in post- international relations war which paves the way to de- tente and east-west co-opera- tion on the basis of the prin- ciples of peaceful co-existence.

He hands out lavish praise Willy Brandt's to Chancellor 'Ostpolitik' of improving east- west relations through treaties with Poland and the German will shortly have when the valuers have completed their work. Two of the most impressive of the Sears properties are the Lewis and Selfridges depart- ment stores, originally bought for around £65m. They are standing in the books at £74m, but after the recent rebuilding of Selfridges' Oxford Street store, are worth well over £100m. Through his holding group, Clore controls well over 2,000 retail shoe outlets throughout Britain, holding 22 per cent of all sales and 8 per cent of national production. Takeover-king Clore also over engineering has control factories and William Hill, one of the leading bookmakers. A bid for shoe group William Timpson has just been referred to the Monopolies Commis- sion. Sir Charles has forecast pro- fits of £40m this year, and city men think it might turn out to be £45m. Remember that when you next buy a pair of shoes or have a bet. Democratic Republic. He sees the Bundestag elections of November as being an over- whelming endorsement of this policy. Dutt's article is intended to give a boost to the current Soviet demand for a European Security Conference to endorse present division of the uphold the continent and status quo. He chides the Tory government for its anti- Sovietism as shown by the ex- pulsion of diplomats accused of espionage. Dutt claims that the Tory government has led Britain to 'complete isolation' as a result.

This is a fantasy, just as is Dutt's assumption that other NATO countries are any less anti-Soviet than they were when that body was founded.

Dutt's endorsement of the counter-revolutionary policy of the bureaucracy deserves attention because it sets the tone for the whole rightward course of the communist par- ties in Europe, including the European support for Common Market and tacit acceptance of NATO.

BRITAIN'S SECRET ARMY

IN THE OIL STATES

A captured Ilberation fighter. Above: British troops in Oman-some are seconded from the Ministry of Defence, others work under contract.

Militants of the left-wing movement in the Gulf States have protested that their comrades are being subjected to brutal torture by special units of the Jordanian army. The Jordanians were sent to Persian Gulf by King the Hussein to assist the ruler of Muscat and Oman to put down a guerrilla uprising against his feudal regime. of Muscat and The ruler Oman, Sultan Cabus bun Said (32), is entirely dependent on aid from imperialist the powers and the neighbouring reactionary regimes to stave off defeat in the struggle.

His army is officered largely soldiers some by British seconded from the Ministry of Defence, others employed by the Sultan on a contract basis.

There are more than 250 such mercenaries in the Sul- tan's army and their efforts by • supplemented have been 100 officers from Pakistan, the Jordanian officers and heli- copter crews from Iran. The Sultan was so delighted with the aid from Iran that he allowed the Shah to grab one of the Omani islands in the mouth of the Persian Gulf.

The war. is going badly for Sultan despite the lavish the equipment and backing of his army. He is currently having to spend more than half his annual £30m oil revenue on the war. The war has been described 'Brit down to its desert as boots': the Omani army, navy and air force are all com- manded by British officers and the Sultan's secretary of de- fence is called Hugh Oldman.

The Special Air Services have a purposes'. But soldiers on the spot have made no pretence of threadbare keeping up this disguise. The purpose of the military aid is simple: it is aimed at crushing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman and the Arab Gulf, which is backed by the left-wing government in South across the border Yemen. war has been in pro- The gress for over eight years, be- ginning with the revolt against the Sultan's father Said Bin Taimur, who was a notorious feudalist. Said was in fact overthrown by his son, in a coup d'etat by British organized officers who considered the old Sultan to be an obstacle to the effi- cient prosecution of the anti- guerrilla struggle. The British tactic in the last two years of war has been to infiltration try and prevent across the border from South Yemen, where a kind of minia- ture Ho Chi Minh trail is used to bring supplies and fresh forces to the liberated area.

In October 1971 the British- officered Oman forces were joined by SAS units which had fought in Malaya, Aden and Borneo. The force attacked through the desert to the north of the liberated area and from the coastal plain moving west- Yemen wards towards the border. The attack was aimed at cutting the supply lines, and the attackers set up a line of blocking bases along the A captured Ilberation fighter. Above: Bri border between Oman and Ye- men. But the guerrillas coun- ter-attacked and all but one of the bases had to be aban- doned by May of last year.

By July, the PFLOAG guer- were in a position to rillas attack the government-held port of Mirbat where they faced the biggest pitched battle of the war. The attempt to take Mirbat failed, with the the loss of 30 lives. Above: British troops in Oman-some are secon Late last year the govern- ment forces mounted a second with up an- 10,000 troops, of the advantage struggle which was then in progress - between North and South Yemen. fomented This conflict was largely by the Saudi Arabian regime, which sees South Ye.

men as a dangerously subver- sive influence on the Arabian Workers Press, Tues are seconded from the Ministry of Defence, of peninsular. The North Yemen government is virtually a crea- ture of the Saudi regime.

Its attack on the south led to a to-and-fro struggle with attempts at mediation • by a number of Arab states. Des- pite talk of eventual unity, the two states remain in a ress, Tuesday January 23, 1973 PAGE 5 sence, others work under contract.

state of armed true. It is not possible for the British and the pliant states of imperialism in the area to eli- minate the guerrilla struggle in the Gulf without overthrow- ing the South Yemen regime.

But their latest attempt ap- pears to have backfired and it remains to be seen whether they have any more success in the battle against the Oman insurgents.

ITALY: THE NEW FASCISTS

PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday Januar

BY STEPHEN JOHNS. PHOTOGR

This picture spread is the first evidence we present of the growth of fascism all over Italy. The movement which avows to smash the working class and murder left-wing militants for the greater glory of European civilization is no longer a sect. It claims hundreds of thousands of supporters and members and already has a powerful following in indus- try, the police and govern- ment. The 'respectable face' of Italian fascism is the MSI, the Italian Social Movement, founded by the relics of the day January 23, 1973

IOTOGRAPHS BY MARTIN MAYER.

Mussolini era, but now re- born in the conditions of capitalist crisis and workers' struggle in Italy. At their congress last week thè 1,400 MSI delegates courted influence among the entire Italian ruling class now shaken by a devaluation of the lira. Their argument— 'MSI is the only force capable of restoring order and spirit to a "new Italy"? Leader Giorgio Almirante, a junior minister under Mus- solini, pleads his movement has renounced fascism. But the real MSI was represented by the bands of young 'squadristi who guarded the conference (a second line of defence to the massive mili- tary police protection) and the literature on the book stalls — Hitler's speeches, biographies of Mussolini— the fascist broadcasts of poet Ezra Pound. A three-part series , un- covering the story of the new rise of fascism in Italy be- gins in Workers Press to- morrow. It is a series no British worker can afford to miss.

Italy is not some exception in the capitalist conspiracy of the Common Market. Some of the biggest and most 'res- pectable' monopolies and cartels already support the Italian fascists and the UK is plagued with perhaps an even worse economic crisis than Italy. The threat of fascism is now very real and can only be stamped out by the revolu- tionary struggle of the work- ing class, the construction of a workers' state and the expropriation of capitalism.

This is the immediate pros- pect facing the Italian work- ing class. Tomorrow-Who are the fascists and Giorgio Almi- rante, of the Salo man Republic?

Workers Press, Tuesday January 23, 1973 PAGE 7' Left: The Congress: 1,400 delegates attended.

The huge hall which was built by Mussolini, was encoolr TEme пооотмь doovp cine riccici leaders. The platform line-up when the Monarchists joined with the fascists. Leader Almirante at the rostrum. Below: Military police guard the fascists against attacks from the working class

XCONGRESSO NAZIONALE MSI

2069 Left to right: Gino Birindelli, one the mol s greatest coups. ne len nis

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fleet commander post in the Mediterranean to stand as an MSI candidate. rino naut. avowed fascist. Founder of the fascist terrorist movement Ordine Order).

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Tine American armies. •aisn and Jailed as a war criminal.

General Giovanni Lorenzo, de cricce or intelligence. Italan colnter personal files on 36,000 trade unionists and politicians.

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MSI.

He is the fascist link man with Nixon.

POMPIDOU'S RISE TO POWER

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuosday Janua Until he was dragged from obscurity by General de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou was an unknown figure on the French political scene. Today he is the President of the Fifth Republic, not due for re-election until 1976, en- dowed with vast powers as in a key head of state and position with elections pend- ing on March 4. Pompidou was born into a family of prosperous peasants and small businessmen in the Auvergne: a region noted for the craftiness and cunning of men of this class. One such was Pierre Laval, perhaps the most odious character in the 20th century political history of France, with the who collaborated Germans in 1940-1945. Pompidou's father was 'teacher and Georges, a school clever if not a brilliant pupil, passed from the lycée (second- ary school) to the Ecole Normale Superieure, the train- ing ground for the élite corps of the French educational system. At this time Pompidou is best described as a dilettante.

and a man with his options - open. He took out member- ship of the Socialist Party, supporting its right wing in the controversies 1930s. After a period in the army in the early stages of World War II, he returned to live quietly under the Occupation.

His options open, and with a keen desire to preserve his own skin, he neither collabor- ated nor resisted. He has thus day January 23, 1973 been able to extend presidential favour to at least one notor- ious collaborator and cast aspersions on those who make Resistance with their play record. luck would have it, As Pompidou was recommended to General de Gaulle after he had installed himself in Paris in 1944 as the right person to keep contact with the educa- tional set up. Pompidou thus became an Gaullist, but, keeping official his options open, he did not join the first Gaullist Party, the Rassemblement du Peuple Français, founded in 1946, second, founded in nor the 1958. After de Gaulle's withdrawal from the government Pom- pidou became a top civil ser- vant for a time until his director- appointment as general of the Rothschild Bank. His feet now firmly on road he ex- the to success tended his relations with the bankers and bosses who held real power through all the gov- ernmental ins and outs of the Fourth Republic. evidently paid Rothschild's him well for his services be- cause, besides his ancestral home, Pompidou managed to acquire four other residences in different parts of France.

Wherever he travels he is literally never too far from home. After de Gaulle returned to power in May 1958 at the time of the settler revolt in Algeria he remembered the discreet banker with whom he had retained a formal relation- ship in the intervening years.

Pompidou was then the direc- tor of the foundation set up by the de Gaulles in memory of their mentally-subnormal daughters. Thus, in 1958, while retain- ing his position with Roth-.

schilds, Pompidou was drawn into de Gaulle's inner councils as member of the Constitu- tional Committee and the He was Supreme Court. a link man between two centres of power, while remaining un- known to the mass of the French public. Such an ascent, and such a performance of a dual role, could only have been possible under the Fifth Republic. But still further doors were to be opened to the suave Pompidou, intellectual preten- with his sions and his eye for antiques and modern paintings. In 1962, he came to the top of the Gaullist heap and was nomin- ated Prime Minister. His role at first was strictly subordinate to that of Presi- dent de Gaulle-until May- June 1968. Then, when other members of the government were flung into confusion and panic and de Gaulle himself not sure where to turn, was Pompidou kept his head. It met Georges he who was Marchais and held the fort while the strike movement was being defused. The turn of events was by no means to de Gaulle's liking.

Pompidou looked too much like a rival. After the elections 1968, de Gaulle of June appointed Couve de Murville Prime Minister. But in as April 1969, beaten in a referendum on the powers of the senate and regionalism— really a vote of no-confidence -de Gaulle resigned. immediately Pompidou posed his candidature for the Presidency without consulting Prime Minister or the the Gaullist Party. Speaking to a gathering of Gaullist deputies, he claimed that he would be th-. able to ensure 'continuity'. A letter was sent to Colombey- Les-Deux-Eglises, where de Gaulle was in retreat - then came a reply. Supported by Madame de Gaulle's discreet lobbying, Pompidou became the Gaullist candidate. The election. was hardly a smashing success for Pom- pidou. On the first ballot he won 44.46 per cent of the valid votes cast. On the second ballot his percentage of valid 58.2 per votes cast rose to cent, but this still left him with only 37.5 per cent of the total electorate. In other words he was rejected by nearly two voters out of three. Nevertheless the election put Georges Pompidou in the all the Elysée Palace with presidential powers laid down in the Constitution of the Fifth Republic for a seven-year term. It also merited a terse congratulatory telegram from de Gaulle, then visiting Ireland.

Pompidou was able to rally the Gaullist team, but in the next two years he was to pre- side over a series of scandals affecting even his first Prime Minister, Jacques Chaban- With Delmas. the General safely passed into history, his underlings were having the time of their lives. After the grand style of the "man on horseback', affecting a contempt for wealth, came the moneygrubbers presided over by Rothschild's man in France. An ambitious small-town bourgeois intellectual with pretensions now presides over the Fifth Republic. For the ruling class of France, this mediocrity is a favourite son; a reassuring figure to have at the top after the alert of May- June 1968. Pompidou is more to its taste than de Gaulle, who was indispensable in his day but remained a disturbing figure in many ways alien to their way of life. De Gaulle was, more at home was, he orcers mess than in the salon. His intimate friends were military men and his ambitions for France were not all that the capitalists desired. Moreover, Gaulle, a rigid and puri- de tanical Catholic, had a disturb- ing royalist past and talked bombastically about the great- ness of France and his his- torical mission. By comparison Pompidou is key. low Businesslike and indulgent to the characteristic bourgeois vices which he fully shares: good eating and drink- ing, luxury living. Tough when it comes to dealing with the working class, a hard bargainer with the craft of an Auvergne horse-trader. In short, the sort of man the bourgeoisie trusts to see them through any confrontation like that of 1968, the man who will know how to use to the maximum all the powers which the Constitution gives him to deal with Georges Marchais and François Mitterand should the left coalition be elected in March.

After all, that Constitution was devised by de Gaulle to strengthen the bourgeois state and the capitalist preserve order. 'Continuity' is Pom- pidou's watchword.

The health of working-class people has never been a noted priority of the capitalist class of any country. It has now been pointed out that the Tory has budgeted government £860,000 a year for an occupa- tional health service scheme to cover the needs of 25 million people. Compare this with the cost of a new home for Sir John Davis, chairman of the Rank Organization and Southern Television, who has paid £510,000 for the 331-acre Ardenrum Place estate, near Linghield, and the cost of llb pear-shaped diamond which bought for £335,196 was by. London jewellers Andrew Grima for an unnamed British client at a Christie's sale in Geneva. The health budget is just under £14,800 more than both these items! From the 'Financial Times' the morning after the "alleged' publication of Phase Two of the state pay laws: 'Copies of the White Paper on countering inflation were unavailable to the public in London yesterday because of the continuing strike by 170 bookshop and mail-order staff at the Stationery Office.

*A spokesman said yester- day that the quickest way for people in London to obtain copies of the White Paper would be to go to so book- shops in Edinburgh, Cardifi, Manchester, Bristol, Birming- ham or Belfast.' Edinburgh is five hours and 43 minutes away on a fast train from London. Dr Samaed Moosa and his wife are two very respected citizens in the little Transvaal town of Duiwelskloof. Recently the community decided to celebrate jubilee of their hospital.

Besides being on the hospital staff Dr Moosa was invited be- cause of his long service to medical care in the area.

Then hospital board the decided to withdraw his in- vitation on the grounds that this was 'a white function to which Dr Moosa could not be invited'. Apartheid sup- porters backed the board by saying it was in line with government policy that it was 'dangerous' to encourage social mixing. The ban remained in force. A member of the Greek Com- munist Party recently suttered a heart attack while in his prison cell near Athens. for his illness The reason wasn't revealed. The attack coincided, however, with the initialling of an agreement be- tween the military junta and the Soviet Union to provide a rail service between Athens and Moscow. An air agreement is now under discussion. the housing situation becoming even more grim in central London, Workers Press takes the opportunity to give readers a rundown of a few flats and houses for sale.

small self-contained flats near Hyde Park are going cheap at £120,000 on a 74-year lease. The agents are Wilson and Sons. A four-bedroom town house in Dulwich, south London, is selling about £21,000. Some three-bedroom houses in Lambeth modestly being priced at £30,000. Agents Blake and Company say they still have desperate home-buyers willing more than £150,000 for a five- room flat. The same agents are asking -and expect to get—a mere £195,000 for a five-bedroom maisonette in Belgravia. Next time you hear some wretched Tory talking about 'building bridges' with South Africa, please mention the following facts: • The average per capita in- come of whites is over 13 times higher than the average income of Africans. • Black gold miners in 1969 were earning no more —and possibly slightly less—in real terms than their grandfathers in 1911. Where is Britain Going? Paperback 37Łp • Problems of the British Revolution Paperback 35p Lessons of October Paperback 60p In Defence of the October Revolution Paperback 15p Marxism and the Trade Unions Paperback 25p Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International Paperback 10p Postage: 10p per book. Order from:

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THEATRE BY A GUEST REVIEWE

Middle-class Scots seem to have a special knack of portraying working- class struggle in a way which can completely castrate it—or rather be- head it. In the background of this sort of writing are forces simi- lar to those which led sections middle-class people into of uncritical support for the Stalinist leadership at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders. Workers are forced into the role of the eternal underdog.

Alongside all sorts of myths about the 'dignity of labour' lies the comfortable conviction that although workers strug- gle, and struggle heroically, their struggles are doomed.

brilliantly acted Although for the most part, impressively produced and often extremely Rough' entertaining, "Willie must be placed in this cate- gory. Bill Bryden's play about the early struggles of the Clyde Workers' Committee broke box-office records in both Glasgow and Edinburgh. It is now playing at the Shaw Thea- weeks London, tor two and received an enthusiastic reception from a first-night predominantly of audience liberals and lefts'. Centre of the play are the experiences of Willie Rough, who, at the start of the action, in Greenock from arrives in February 1914 Johnstone seeking work in the shipyards.

A follower of the Scottish socialist John McLean, Rough bridles at having to obtain a job by bribing the foreman, Jake Adams. With the outbreak of the first imperialist war, Rough Workers Press, Tuesday

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becomes involved in the anti- war agitation, bringing both McLean and Willie Gallagher to speak to meetings of ship- yard workers. He becomes the shop ste- ward for the allied trades in the yards, and, ironically through Adams, forges a link an engineer with from the upper Clyde yards, Charlie McGrath. McGrath is an activist in the Workers' Committee. Clyde They become joint leaders of the pay strike which crippled in 1915. Rough yards writes an article for the com- mittee's paper 'The Worker'.

Although the article is not the end published until after of the strike, Rough is. caught Below: Eileen McCallum and James Gr Joseph Brady, James Grant and Fulton 3, Tuesday January 23, 1973 PAGE 9 up in the sedition trial of the following year and sentenced to six months. He returns to the yard in June 1916 to find Adams has betrayed his trust and that he has been victimized. The play ends with the same words as the first scene: 'I'll get a start.

I've got to' Bryden's skilful and sympa- thetic treatment of the period embraces no sense of its im- portance in the development of the working-class move.

ment, however. Gallagher's own hindsight on the period is far more illu- minating: 'We were carrying on a strike when we ought to have been making a revolu- tion.' James Grant as Kate and Willie. Above : ind Fulton Mackay in 'Willie Rough'

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Tuesday January 23, 1973

TODAY'S TV

BBC 1

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6.00 NATIONWIDE. 6.50 TOM AND JERRY.

7.00 BRITISH FILM COMEDY: 'RAISING A RIOT'. Kenneth More, Ronald Squire, Mandy Miller. 8.30 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LIKELY LADS? Cold feet.

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Frazier (USA) v George Foreman

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Fight Rising Prices Force the Tories to Resign Support the Engineers ACTON: Tuesday January 23, 8. p.m. Co-op Hall, High Street, SOUTHALL: Tuesday January 23, 8 p.m. The Library, Osterley Park Road. EAST LONDON: Tuesday Jan- 8 p.m. "Festival Inn', uary 23, Market Square, Crisp Street Mar- ket, E.14. LEICESTER: Wednesday January 24, 8 p.m. Queen's Hotel, Rut- land Street. THE Plymouth Fine Tubes strikers have just completed two years and seven months on strike. These men have waged a bitter struggle for the most basic right a worker can possess—the right to belong to a trade union. Strike committee members have travelled over 100,000 miles to sustain their fight.

These latest months have been the hardest of all for the men, their wives and 53 and James Bolam-are on BBC 1 The Likely Lads-Rodney Bewes at 8.30

BBC 2

11.00-11.25 Play school. 5.50 Open University:

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7.30 NEWS SUMMARY. 7.35 ART AT ANY PRICE. Art and Patron- age. INTERNATIONAL TENNIS. Commercial Union Masters Tourna- 8.05 ment. PLAY: 'A VOYAGE AROUND MY FATHER'. By John Mortimer.

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THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST. 11.05 NEWS.

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Wednesday January 24 Marxist theory and the revolu- tlonary party

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Thursday, January 25, Jan- 8 p.m. Lane. Selkirk Hotel, 8 p.m. Peel Hotel, Boar uary Tooting Broadway, SW17 'The state pay plan'. MIDDLESBROUGH: Sunday Janu- February KINGSTON: Thursday ary 28, 7.30 p.m. Settlement Com- 1, p.m. *Liverpool Arms' munity Centre, Newport Road.

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lose. That is why the Socialist with rapidly rising prices, Labour League financial imposed severe Workers Press wishes to make The 37 strikers face a special appeal to all trade burden. unionists to take collections in the challenging months ahead with a depleted strike fund their factories and branches for the Fine Tubes men order that their heroic and but highest determined action can be car- onth to raise money to fi or their fial Fine Tubes Treasurer c/o 65 Bretonside Plymouth, Devon.

Workers Press, Tuesday January 23, 1973 PAGE 11 Rent strike BAC chief's desperate trip to US students Concorde: Make or break back staff STUDENTS at Warwick Uni- versity occupied the social BRITISH Aircraft Corpora- building yesterday in support tion chairman Sir George of 300 ancillary staff who are Edwards flew to New York out on strike in support of a yesterday to try and persuade pay claim. US airlines to take up options The staff, who include cleaners. on the Concorde. porters and caterers, came out on Saturday demanding parity with Trying to play down the make- workers in local authority or-break nature of the visit. BAC described one Sir business trips. effectively amounts George's 'many £2.40 claim, but negotiations have been suspended through the intro- But the BAC's concern follows state pay laws. the reports over the weekend that

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o re Lecture theatres shut woue mor de and yesterdas students -who options for eight Con- ing up its voted and Air- lines and Continental support the strike- -occupied the would also building when was cancer leur lolai oi nne dodons.

rumoured the

WCC

It was also said that if Pan Hawker stewards link up cose r cowu With the agreement of the canceredi • rans Word Airlines, with their six options, strikers, skeleton catering would probably do the same.

SCI VICC

Was maillanco

IOI

BAC

those dispute and the spokesman the SOUs said

SHOP

STEWARDS in ployed throughout the the formation of the profits rose from about students Hawker came The place ev combine committee TrOm At same time as taking 'continuing ine Ine Us airlines were struggle group have formed their Glanannan joint with normally. But with South first-ever combine on a national basis. Wales who taken Transporton options members and expiring January 31,

UVEI

General Workers' time is running out. Delegates from South pute over rates. companies since 1962, students Warwick have meeting. the inaugural Wales, South Shields, If the US airlines did cancel the total work force in Swindon, resolution Huddersfield It was only when they launcnea a rent surike this term it would leave both conjunction with other took lici

BAC

and French partners, angl LOnGOT amener une susce dropped from 97,000 to colleges. Aero Spatiale, in serious difficul- total Fories sposition to the the first meeting, which other parts of the com- of those was held on Sunday bine that they About yu state pay laws. at were Lies. lo say une least. The next meeting of living in halls oI residence are able to carry it forward The Tine Concorde 002. the second pro said to be withholding their fees new committee The committee be Coventry headquarters. and win. totype, leaves for trials in South will represent held on March 25 at a them and paying into a special Africa today. 70,000 Hawker Siddeley workers The inspiration for venue to be fixed. Studenus non accolat Husak extends purge of Liberation troops urged Dubcek supporters on to bigger victories

IN A

MESSAGE to about to collapse.' US A FRESH purge of sup- In all 400,000 applying for a new job. plantations yesterday. over Lao People's Liberation He called on the army to planes made heavy bombing Alexandr porters people were crossed off the Thev ask about member. Army on its 24th annivers- Dubcek taking place ir political organiza- rales over mie den ship in Vo ary, General American reliable. Those being tions before 1945, before Take uzechos ovak1? 1 nose Giap however, 1948, after 1948 and now.

Vietnam attack the enemy Ellsworth Bunker had already crossed off Com- sacked, lessly and strongly on all with President Party membership OCCubaLLOns Cons eret Such information has to struggle battlefronts. Thieu Nguven Van on be politically sensitive.

ASLS

are removed supplied wives or tor 'Put of action Sunday night. from jobs in scientific and

OUT

In some cases enterprises husbands, children and thrown out the Indo- many enemy soldiers as Nixon met his institutions and reclassified have staff brothers and Chinese peninsula' possible, sisters. ceven shoot down more envoy General Alex. succial Irom une cress dney behalf if dead. On the Daber Colli- eremy bares. destrovmore malg, who nanneet The delay sacking them get on with the same mand of the LPLA. Kham. enemy war supplies and co- Saigon other One of the key questions jobs. one-time oppositionists may tay Siphandone issued with the fraternal is: What was your political south-east Asian capitals.

Order of the Day Vietnamese and Cambodiar De unar un now In others they have been activity in 1968 and what some reports suggest that trained replacements were 'the peoples a peace, will be is your contemporary atti- Lilal oreschl armed Iorces and Transterrea to less delicate not available. in Laos as well as through- completely to defeat the prepared in Paris this week tude to this activity?' DUSLs. out Indo-China is US imperialists in turning Indo- A close check is kept on Tv directors are said to By such police methods unfavourable for the enemy.

China.' Ythers say that the hope havrerecce all instructions workers in some types of the Husak regime hopes to "The Duppet armed forces staff job. replace and Irienter CrITICS the Vang Pao special forces HEAVY fighting bring about continued is to ployed in 1968 and 1969. This includes filling out opponents into cringing accase and Thai reactionary Saigon the vicinity regardless of whether they a detailed questionnaire silence and enforced con lical ue serore _Ler New al of the huge Michelin rubber Year on February 3. were Party members. regular intervals wiel Lulucy. Allende blames working class for his failure PRESIDENT Salvador Allende has made the Chilean working class the scapegoat for the failure of his reformist policies. During a visit to a large state-owned textile plant near the capital of Santiago, he blamed the Chuquicamata copper miners and the Chilean working.

with the support of miners. class as a whole for lacking 'revolutionary consciousness and spirit'.

ALBIG Coor the organi- votent Now he turns on them. zations of the Chilean working class. In his first public speech the copper miners—who only way would hale solve the socialist •• Ine complete rever The similarly harangued There been anti-working class fraud the been over 20 vio- since returning from Moscow nave to establish a livestock policy.

old demagogic attacks on United lent incidents since January 6.

he referred in particular to -have turned against the States ille. Parliament te carly stages on Ils clialisil. In one attack, members of the Popular Unity that dissolved the early stages The constant defence of the so- a strike in the copper mine entirely the responsibility bourgeois-democratic tra- burnt the provincial headquarters Casedi Allende's 'peaceful revealing workers as 'real majority of deputies ditions of Chile more Allende's Socialist nave wor a road to socialism' policy.

who supported Popular Unity than ạn instrument to Linares enable the monopoly bankers, asking for policies. In his speech, intensitv their on Twelve youth who were er uild- standards money for their pocket, with- _The ving in later talks with government tending meeting in the of the Chilean masses. and leading civil ser- out any consideration for the ministers ing were injured. Allende condemned cor- in March, situation in the country.

The ruption and sectarianism.

speech In Com- people saoula nave been the textile plant another incident, informed that we found the coun.

Chilean munist party was shot 'There exists a sectarian atti- Cal Spilt Une Allende appealed to his audi- the reserves ingerided trad to pay Most in the head working class and produce maxi- tude which leaders textile workers and ence demoralization mum ensuring Car bitee between members of Popu- union Allende has made it clear that made by

WULA

Laruel

TOT

commitments he claimed. une victor or le monE up vious governments. He said the intention uniting anel

DUS

production ngures has 1972, (in the state hysterical ( from The confidence of the right has workers in defence oi .eir own debt today stands outbursts the Stalinists' model 'democratic lost $800,000). $4,020m. been expressed organizations.

Shipbuilders, dockers, students gasmen act State pay plan strike PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday January 23, 1973 revolt THE FIRST wave of industrial action against the Heath state pay plan broke yesterday. Shipyard workers walked out at the Vosper Thornycroft yards at Southampton, Hull dockers staged a one-day gas workers all over the country either stopped work stoppage and or tightened their overtime ban.

'You Two thousand Vosper Thornycroft

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

was told: got the vote for it, you go an• orcanze ror l. 2,000 workers were joined by about ABOUT 2,000 Hull dockers motion to form one was carried overwhelm- yesterday staged engineers striking against the £61,000 one-day strike against Phase Two of the ingly. state pay laws. This opposition to the platform. fines and costs imposed on their union This was decided at a mass meeting called But than that une volt Was Diracl 101 National Industrial Relations by the original motion demanding the recall of the by The shoo stewaros committee dr le Hall yesterday. Dockers themselves have Court. submitted a fio-a-week wage claim.

Hodges, Vosper's told Mick Walter Cunningham, chairman of the for the one. tre except get orner people committee, put tune resoluton day strike. The other main speaker the at Walt Greendale,

T&GWU

WOlKS. was Jolea by a con- of this government. meeting was tingent Dock Sudents steward alla member Labour workers snop The recommendation was also put that the calling for dockers practice 'welting', which gives them a sav in the size of gangs Aco were emusasucauv rece vee and d The feeling 'Cheap food days are over' strike not enough in the circumstances.

all the unions can

THE

the and

DAYS

of cheap stockpiling in times of referring to purchase tax on government, sub- clothes with the Britain are over. Sur orus cast Walle commented. National Farmers' Union He added that sky- increases Sholes MORE than 3,000 Newcastle gas president Henry rocketing beef prices under the profit. workers began the review is unclear. over me Plumstead has said underlined 'The yesterday in protest against the way •emane ot an expansion across tren ward by £2-a-week offer by foods like and the board at farms and mean higher prices for yay says that this TuTel market gardens. the housewife. meat had enormously tue gas corporation. will ехрапаеа, longer had the power to result Britain union had persistently

WHILE

the farmers before Tine lobbied successive of still gov- served prices, 1O0C Mr West MP, 'not only 'The prices we must new growth policies for Swansea 'They are determined the Industry. But Williams, clalms pay are by Alan bailers to re- their clothing the that cabl occasol tailers break the ness of other people's advice had been cold- are urse varie

THATS

freeze but buying and not our shouldered. tallers to impose Added Tax own', he told the union's He said: 'With agricul- before unev a rate of tax and pro- outstanding i is introducea omcially the charging Plumstead said ductivity record, the on April 1. in- said has an- only solution the for Increased that re •overnment was waoo tailers the production and renewed successful indus- advice, customers would ques Hesto efforts 1o tries is Irrefutable.' find paying tion in set agree Commons. Plumstead both Value Added Tax Whether prices Walter Cunningham, Hult docks Builders may strike to steward. IN THE north-west an estimated 500 workers were out and gas 1,000 more were banning over- back reinstatement fight ume. sunKers were service and distribution workers in the Lancashire owns of Warrington Wigan, St Helens, Runcorn an Widnes.

BY OUR OWN

union are as follows: ALL BUILDING workers in

CORRESPONDENT

vertime sans were in torce m Birmingham have been asked UCATT requests the National Greater Manchester and outlying Last Wednesday 13 sites Conciliation Joint panel towns, including Stockport.

to strike today in a further of total Sons

WOLK

allu demonstration the against 1,000 building workers were out.

Limited to reinstate the gang of four dismissed the sacking of Peter Carter, chair- Today in London the union will demand reinstatement Comedev s tan deman man of the UCATT joint site on grounds of redundancy.

Carter and the other three when stewards committee, the case is heard before the shop "The union believes a redun- Joint Industrial Conciliation dancy fabricated and three bricklayers on his situation was Council for the building industry.

bv the companv as an excuse to gang at C. Bryant and Sons.

The terms of reference by the dismiss P. Carter, a well-known

UCATT

steward, this was extended to the other three mer

YOUNG SOCIALISTS AND SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

Carter's gang in order to cloak this act with respectability' HAROLD WILSON, the La- bour Party leader, and Victor Mr Matthews, one of UCATT'

PAGEANT

TUC

told Workers Press Feather, general We are treating this 1978 15 spent only 'We are secretary, case straight case of victimization.'

discussing the state

OF HISTORY

pay plan at a summit meeting The Birmingham building

THE

SUNDAY MARCH 11 STARTS 3 p.m. B

ROAD TO

will meet again yesterday at the House of stewards to- Commons.

WORKERS POWER

morrOW lo near a resort on une outcome of the conciliation pro- ceedings consider what political 1832 and Press Association's

EMPIRE POOL, WEMBLEY,

It future action to take. correspondent commented: was understood no attempt was In statement to Workers Press, Mr Carter said: Wilson outlined the proce- 1842 dures to be adopted by parli- "ne real issue as tar as we amentary party in relation to luc concerned is that Bryant's are legislation, while Feather has thrown down a challenge to gave the union attitude.'

The Whole The organıze• Another commentator said that movement in Bire Birm I am the Birmingham chairman the tact ma liev crew UD plans on the legislation indicated stewards' shop 10lfL Committer both sides were keeping their and if I fall they can of UCATT options open. attack any steward. The failure of the two leaders *Since year's building AT The our are ace union the emplovers have movement prepare united way that we have against the Heath plan should be never known before. no surprise to workers who have 'My sacking is directly linked neen watching aelpreceding footwork.

DEFEND ALL DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS

DEFEND TRADE

with the not ov use empiovers

UNIONISM AND BASIC LIVING STANDARDS

to reintroduce the lump. They both agree with the state

UNTY

TORY GOVERNMENT

control of wages, even if it means

TO MAKE THIS

"The with its government, a drastic lowering of the standard

RESIGN

THE

ROAD

TO

POWER

wage laws, Is trying to do what

BUILDING OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

ot living or the working class.

THE

calms miners and other workers last They are both dedicated re

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Only our paper has maintalned its firm political stand against the Tory government. Just at a time when Heath is preparing even greater at- tacks against the working class with his Phase Three proposals, Wilson and the reformist trade union leadership prepare to co-operate with his plans.

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See What We Think-p. 2 UNION LEADERS representing more than 20,000 shipbuilding workers in the north east are to Newcastle next month meet at to discuss the future of the in- dustry in the area. secretaries The chairman and Wear and Tees of the Tyne, district committees of the Con- federation of Shipbuilding and will talk Engineering Unions about the lack of orders in the area and the rundown at some yards. During this week itself, union officials are expected to meet management from Swan Hunter where work is running out and within the group redundancies are looming. Registered as a newspaper at the Post Workers Press, Published by Street, London, 186a High

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