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workers press Poulson bankruptcy hearing learns about Crosland's coffee pot INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • TUESDAY JANUARY 30, 1973 • No. 984 ® 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

FROM ALEX MITCHELL IN WAKEFIELD

THE POULSON case reopened yesterday with the names of Edward Heath and Labour leaders being bandied around the court. The court also heard that the bankrupt Yorkshire architect, John Poulson, made gifts to Anthony Crosland MP, former Labour Education Minister, and Lady Patricia Fraser, widow of the Scottish chain-store magnate, Sir Hugh Fraser.

Poulson, the head of Europe's largest architectural practice, was being examined by Muir Hunter QC about his financial failure and his 'extraordinary and in- NO explicable generosity. began This case, which

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Political NO months ago, never fails to produce the most sensational revelations.

Pol. Censorship Within weeks of the hearing open- and ing the Tory Home Secretary Reginald Deputy -and Cards maud sual had soon was forced to resign. Yard's asked investigate rouIsOn empire. Yesterday's hearing showed beyond Broad- doubt wiv the independent An orion decided he friend film *The Friends World Action and Influence of John L. Poulson'.

In his opening statement Mr Hun- ter dropped his first bombshell-that the trees 30 of Penel last week than a cache or more

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son's personal at his former llles Pontefract office. Two days later the Official Receiver the and recovered went to •premises 18 cwt of documents. They covered the activities of Bovis Holdings, the hem Tort Tally Sir cabinet Minister Keith Joseph; T. Dan Smith, head of the Northern

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members the Economic Planning Council, technicians' union who was television Wilson Granada yesterday appointed Harold ana George Brown in 1966; and docu- Dickered The Independent Poul Broadcasting Authority ments relating to links between London protest sWord nit son ane oncials or me agonal coal banning Board, British Rail, the Ministry of Transport and local hospital boards.

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nour-long on the Poulson case. Mr Hunter objected to the piece- A further picket has been called for Thursday, meal fashion in the when it Wal tne docu ments had come to light. He asked suppor THE RESUMED talks over hoped 1o Win Poulson if he knew the existence from other The the gas workers' pay claim deal general secretary this great of documentars Cinema replied: gave take place today against a evidence Pouson ASsoCIation you all the files in my possession. Sappen oned is 1 Television and background of widespread Yesterday's revelations included the Alan members joined industrial action by the rank sapper, following lems. nebicker line yesterday and file. Pottinger, civil • George (left foreground). senior servant at the Scottish Office, helped The shop Gran Three thousand manual prepare a speech which Poulson made ada yesterday held in abey workers in the Northern Gas strike ance inreal

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'You gave us a quite exceptionally beautiful gift and I tremble to think how much it cost. I shall treasure it in memory of a very beautiful building.'- Anthony Crosland, then Labour's Educa- tion Minister, in a letter to John Poulson, January 1966. I do not recall this incident... I have a cupboard full of such things. '-An thon y Crosland yesterday.

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Board area are to stop work today as union chiefs meet the employers in London. Plans are going ahead for an all-out, nine-day strike by gas workers in Scotland, beginning this Friday. Forty years ago to- day, January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became the Fuehrer of Ger- many. On our centre pages today and to- morrow Tom Kemp looks at the reasons for the fascists' rise to power.

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50,000 jobs are to be axed in the steel industry in the most massive and ruthless manpower shake-out since the Tory government came to power. Why? Which plants will close? How will the steel- men fight back? IAN YEATS has been to the major steel- making centres in England, Scotland and Wales to find out. He begins his reports on

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Some workers in Barnsley have already turned a work-to- rule into a strike, while a ban on overtime is in force in many areas of Britain. In line with Phase Two of the Tory state pay plan, gas workers have been offered under £2 a week rise as against a claim ranging up to £3 extra.

workers press Poulson bankruptcy hearing learns about Crosland's coffee pot

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL

FROM ALEX MITCHELL IN WAKEFIELD

THE POULSON case reopened yesterday with the names o Labour leaders being bandied around the court. The cour bankrupt Yorkshire architect, John Poulson, made gifts to A former Labour Education Minister, and Lady Patricia P Scottish chain-store magnate, Sir Hugh Fraser.

Poulson, the head of Europe's largest architectural practice, was being examined by Muir Hunter QC about his financial failure and his 'extraordinary and in- explicable generosity. began which This case, SiX months ago, never fails to produce the most sensational revelations.

P Within weeks of the hearing open- Tory Home Secretary and ing the Deputy Prime Minister Reginald Maudling was forced to resign. This followed the announcement that Scot- Yard's fraud squad had been land investigate the Poulson asked to empire. Yesterday's hearing showed beyond Broad- doubt the Independent why casting Authority decided to ban the film "The Friends Action Word n and Influence of John L. Poulson'.

In his opening statement Mr Hun- ter dropped his first bombshell-that last week the trustees had uncovered a cache of more 300 of Poul- than files at his former son's personal Pontefract office. Two days later the Official Receiver went to the premises and recovered 18 cwt of documents. They covered the activities of Bovis Holdings, the firm Tory family construction of Sir Keith Joseph; cabinet Minister Dan Smith, head of the Northern

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of the T. members Economic Planning Council, who was television technicians' union Harold Wilson and at Granada TV yesterday appointed by George Brown in 1966; and docu- nicketed the Independent Broadcasting Authority in ments relating to links between Poul- London against son and officials of the National Coal to protest banning the of World British Rail, the Ministry of in Board, hour-long Action's' special Transport and local hospital boards.

Poulson case. on the Mr Hunter objected to the 'piece- A further picket has been meal fashion' in called for Thursday, when It the way the docu- come to light. He asked ments had support hoped to win Poulson if he knew of the existence from other The unions. evidence Brot 'this deal of documentary general secretary of the Cinema- Association Poulson replied: gave you all the files in my possession.

Allah, Technicials, Television and Yesterday's revelations included the Allied Alan Sapper, joined his members following items: on the picket line yesterday George Pottinger, senior civil (left foreground). servant at the Scottish Office, helped The AČTT shop at Gran- prepare a speech which Poulson made ada yesterday held in abey- threat strike ance its

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names of Edward Heath and he court also heard that the fts to Anthony Crosland MP, ricia Fraser, widow of the THE RESUMED talks over the gas workers' pay claim place today against a take background of widespread industrial action by the rank and file. Three thousand manual workers in the Northern Gas ARY 30, 1973 • No. 984 • 4p

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'You gave us a quite exceptionally beautiful gift and I tremble to think how much it cost. I shall treasure it in memory of a very building.'- beautiful Crosland, Anthony then Labour's Educa- tion Minister, in a letter to John Poulson, January 1966. 'I do not recall this incident ... I have a cupboard full of such *things Anthony Crosland yesterday.

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Board area are to stop work today as union chiefs meet the employers in London. Plans are going ahead for an all-out, nine-day strike by gas workers in Scotland, beginning this Friday. How Sitler came to power ago Forty years to- January 30, 1933 day, Adolf Hitler became the Fuehrer of Ger- many. On our centre pages today and to- morrow Tom Kemp looks at the reasons for the fascists' rise to power.

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Ica 50,000 jobs are be axed 1o massive most and ruthless manpower shake-out since the Tory government came to Why? plants will close? How will the steel- men fight back?

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Some workers in Barnsley have alreadv turned a work-to rule into a strike, while a ban on overtime is in force in many areas of britain Phase Two of nine wire the Tory state gas pay plan workers have offered been under f2 a week rise as against a claim ranging up to £3 extra.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Tuesday January 30, 1973

BY DAVID MAUDE

OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

LEADERS of the actors' union, Equity, will today attempt to piece together the shattered fragments of their do-nothing policy on the Tory cut in their West End members' rates. It will be an impossible task. On Sunday a mass meeting of actors deci- sively rejected the policy and called for strike action. Gerald Croasdell, the union's general secretary, had already indicated that he and his executive have no intention of acting on this call.

But Sunday's meeting showed a definite shift of mood in Equity. Workers Press taiked to members and leaders afterwards about what faces the union now.

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always considered myself of the A road and I'm still middle of the road, but the mid- dle of the road is going Croasdell have to This secretary Gerald political move by actors speaking to the Press after of youllg who voted for actor sunday Molly strike action during Sun- who supported the actors day's meeting expresses successful motion were very clearly the impact much for against Tories' Phase Two clearly voting of the Tories' West End the Donce as for its call for militant wage-cut on the thinking action. of Equity members. "Ihis was not a general Maurice Macmillan's Jan- immediately actors what position •• vyitnaraw certain would Tnen to see statutory meeting With order the union's £7 from February we are in under the legis- Lary banning Croasdell rushed the Industrial Rela- and their f5 from March under lation'. Press tell the Stalinists' -and rates- taking back i TOnS

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carrer November- Sunday's meeting was to granted He had been assured of • Join with the whole binding authority It repre- faithfully has up for this sents the view of 156 mem- Dollics

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trade union inis, ne tola a tress Cor- movemeal thoroughly bankrupt policy.

no uncer- ference later, by someone. tne tneatres in struggle bers at the time the lorce TRe

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tain fashion. at the Department of Em- Tory government to resign Their leading spokes- was taken. Declan Mulholland, 'I would hazard a pretty AL and elect a Labour govern ployment, woose anne ne man, Theatre Sunday night, did not know, but who he confident prediction that voted against the success- reveal all 'to question strike or thought was either anti-union legislation. resolution, moved of the The governe Doev strike' amendment the union will not consider nOL LO Was argued under secrelary or a sellor Both the executive's pro- out on clear political lines.

civil servant. Council His this as authority or persua- motion. posal-pledging support for was this development What Croasdell did not amerameru was simply Haunch Into sunkes JaWTUl acts apalesi worrying the remove the word 'lawful' in the West End or aban- WnICO was make clear, either at and statutory control wage union's right-wing leaders from the Council's motion. don our application for and a centrist motion call- when they met the Press the Press conference, In moving this motion, approved closea shod. ine lor rank-ana-uue acuon that if the Tories Hugh Manning, alter the meeling. And it 1s get their

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were defeated. appealed Noranc this which makes their job vice-president, rushed move by for unity then for 'the was way. aclors wii nevel today so difficult. that a lot to tell the again the money they have Conservatives press in the union Party

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hours of de- already lost. Alter lour • rose spoken saul from word aelete the associa- bate, the Adelphi in the debates had made neeting the tions and oppose the wage The of E's assuran a execu- their much association voted by 1o to 12y to freeze from within'. tive's motion. that the Society West wild use La DOU Implement the decision End Theatre Managers The meeting opened with This left the centrist LeAd Equity Press of Equity's annual general could pay out from president Ernest Clark and An officer motion, movea by suppor Gerald Croasdell ters the International later took the full unpreccaen- payment of ership's only argument. Marxist Group, which quite 1 cher telling their members they ted step of informing the the West End claim. Their 'alternative' to the Press that one were about coe speculcaiiv and denverate y • Lodge immediate pay meaning the govern- strike motion, unveiled by excluded all reference to the claim fobershry, action a ment's Two removing the Tories and Phase Croasdell at the post-meet- 'probably' Day reso taon Was membership, SLL member. replacing them with all onl ing press conterence, was a 'anybody's guess' special committee the government. Sunday's poncy

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ODDosition It was Labour meeting made to government control what to and dis- The defeat of these two executive Clear. that La y However. and defy wages the state Croasdell said. highly But such moves can revive the licalll, cover une cover- mons Many claimed that was ment's guidelines mean- ficant. of the 156 ghost of Equity's past. Day laws. As fascists attack left wingers Italian CP blunts engineers fight REPRESENTATIVES of over a million Italian engineering workers resume negotiations today with employers' federations and Minister of Labour, Coppe, for the renewal of their wage contract.

Negotiations have been prolonged since last October because of the Italian Communist Party leadership's refusal to continue the fight against employers who threaten bankruptcies and mass un- employment if they are forced to make big concessions.

Jeanora Armando, one of th nonstrators urt when attacked by the MS The Stalinists' restraining of the mass movement is coupled with an enthusiastic defence of the forces of the state when they act against left-wing groups.

Spain creeps closer to the Fighting broke out in Turin mission to raid over 40 houses last Saturday front of and offices in the Turin, Lotta local offices of the fascist MSI Continua ofices.

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The police claimed have after a of

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pro- the found remains of Common Market vocateurs had tried to disrupt cocktails and other

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a left-wing demonstration.

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The quarters. They also 'identified' yesterday paid his first 20 leftists the and and arrested four

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youth. Lotta Continua were injured and of the Com- CP's quarters four arrests made. provincial tederation Market Party issued statement president of The public prosecutor who was

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However Franco does The demning the provocateur Brussels to sign a pro- acts of and Sir Christopher not intend

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Chalke Case 161 - irresponsible tocol supplement

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are with mediately gave the police per- Soames. the Tory dele COse mounting a campaign against the 1970 the preferential gate in brussels can imperialism democratic and working-class agreement between the A group of 30 Catalan At Turin'. movement of EEC and Spain. engineering employers BLACK SEPTEMBER has claimed Stalinists The want all left- Defence wing broken The new protocol is it sao executed an ODDosiTion Bravo order to mittee the Israeli intelligence officer by by the state because they a step over are on road to search the Lopez Bravo prospects for Moise Had in Madaid. The man, of the attraction they Have eslavlisillig a lee trade Hanan (36), engmeer: area with Spain and inBacked by uhe franco 1 old Was Ilalian workers praise of General main street continuous token protest actions.

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of the Spanish capital. He With possible breakdown regime, which said to played the engineering negotiations could Europe part in OutLaws nave Bravo unions, they include bases the Trade organizing the muracr icao strikes acrores received by Xavier- to meet with He assured this representatives ree or the gains to the the comes to the anc …Kome Ortoli, Gaullist the success. liant the Palestine Liberation defence

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Organization. local MSI. THE WAR has raged on unchecked throughout South Vietnam since the ceasefire agreement of last Saturday. The United States has threatened to throw its ships and planes back into the wa: if fighting continues. Mr William Sullivan, the State Department's top official • Vietnam, said on Monday on that US air power remained in Thailand and US ships were being kept off the coast of Vietnam. Hanoi 'can draw its own conclusions', he said.

Heavy battles are taking place in the central highlands, central coastal region, the Mekong delta and in the provinces round Liberation forces Saigon. have captured more than 50 hamlets.

Meanwhile US planes are still missions in launching combat Laos. Twenty B52s and about Phantom fighter-bombers 100 have been in action since the Vietnam truce. The Cambodian puppet regime reported to have called unilateral suspension of offensive operations, but bitter fighting was continuing in the Tram Khnar area. • In Saigon the government yes- terday allowed 14 members of Provisional Revolutionary the Government into the country without completing immigration forms. The PRG delegation had held the meeting of the joint up military commission (consisting of the United States, North and

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South Vietnam and the for more than 20 hours because they claimed signing the forms would imply recognition of the sovereign Thieu regime as the government of South Vietnam.

The first meeting of the four- nation (Canada, Poland, Hungary and Indonesia) International Com- mission of Control and Super- vision of the ceasefire held its first meeting yesterday. Asked what the Commission fighting broke out coula do if "right now, across the street, the Commission's chief delegate, 'Nothing, Michel Gauvin, replied: Canada's AN ATHENS Court of Appeal yesterday sentenced eight people including_three women (one them a West German), to prison terms ranging from to 12 one years and four months on charges of plotting to overthrow the regime by force and establish communism. The defendants belonged to a • of 17 arrested in Athens group October 1971. They 1n were charged under a 1947 anti- sedition law passed during the civil war.

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United States military' Franco does o break his that the Franco govern- vith Ameri- ment was under no illu- sions about its links with eastern Europe: ting of the 1-North Am- 'However great the dia- ence Com- logue is, we consider the week- that we are radically anti-Marxist.' Bravo ex- elf in his The Spanish Commu- eneral Bur- nist Party has yet to ad of US explain how Spain's 'in- irope which tegration into democra- s in Spain. tic Europe' constitutes a d this 'bril- US body blow against ype of the imperialism.

Workers Press, Tuesday January 30, 1973 PAGE 3 Four-point plan chases costof living

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confines higher main aims Since then, however, the eru. but 1l they cant anora to cation those refuse to do so, then Union National une has made husbands are both student has means grants campaign no students estimate, based on cost-0l- Other students, like married biggest ever living since ano . ne those Ordinary and women totally inade- -will December their wives having higher institutes court action. history the union's Higher their needs. A National Diploma quate education. It is doubly dis- new cure uney estimate to same time discrimin- coursed. slated 101 •ine for for the minimum increase Chlalony. Stalls 'discretionary awards. married woman student students prevented are bring now husband is also a student unless her the extra from making up The grant is at the 'dis- discriminates against the

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increases of grants to t550 a year poor? other sources. cretion' the local edu- keep verr Utner students have re- Even the £275 is subject grants line with the auliority Finally there the If a student earns more jected the NUS executive's of living increases. varies widely from area to cost menn rest than £100 issue of the means test. out that parents-though she is not • OBTAIN full grants for area. term time, has to he dependent on them in any "To grant at all, WhaT they need are Consequently in get the extra to the married back women • local mediate cash supplements subject

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the present have nans ne counse way. studells to the present grant en- Such a low figure makes dullurily. students would not means test. Then parents The particular it impossible for a married test', the union explains.

1972, the which coming year. hardship for parents and they exist univer- for

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estimated That If parents' yearly income children their younger grants to retain their 1968 At only those or present get easily somew here £1,100 Over would Bachelor The union is demanding husband is willing and able they students on lammunes SZCaDIt deducted from the grant. value to afford to for her. income students the pay Then Diploma that all

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Theoretically, goes towards grant expenses The executive parents creased by £65 a year to Education courses have sane can messecue d alone. grants as a right. their statement points out: have to make up the president Digby Jacks throws his long and challenge militant action' Students ready With Tish Lones. Collins and Judy Cotter from London colleges of education.

Colliery for militant walk-out called off grants campaign

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colliery, South A 'LONG and militant' campaign for higher grants was launched by off Shields, called their walk-out yesterday when the National Union of Students yesterday at six special Press con- non-unionist James Sim failed ferences at major cities throughout Britain.

to turn up for the 4 a.m. shift.

Sim who the (32), The students are demanding minimum full National Union Mine- of £510 a year against the present grants workers a week ago, did not maximum of £456. after Coal Board start Piecework NUS president Mr Digby Jacks told reporters official said he would not be at the union's London headquarters yesterday: allowed to work. He 'Students are more concerned and more angry was to nave talks with the clash delays about their grants than they have ever been.' been Forty students' unions already staging rent dispute with al c strikes and canteen boycotts bid to force the in a 14 montes arter relusing to pay US contract Tories to raise grants. Massive demonstrations and a f3 fine for working too much overtime. He took the rames are Danne• over me next tew montos to1 union all parts of the country.

industrial tribunal over the The NUS is canvassing for wide support and case STOREKEEPERS at CAV Acton, expects backing from Lodge secretary Jimmy Inskip teachers' said other collieries west London, are refusing to the councils and unions, trace covernmen had pledged decide when to pay any increases issue components for an impor- supports acon

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Mr Jacks challenged the govern- He said: "Ideally would Westoe Sim walked over tant US contract because of a starting work. Any dispute could like the now. but it ment deny Une Jusuce alle moncy have spread to the whole Durham pay dispute. strength of their demands.

on floors and give up all enter- government will more kev me We He said: "There will be a long tainment to survive on existing raise grants for 1973-1974. The men have put their case 1,000-strong and sustained militant aust want action from them, that's meeting call passes on Sunday decided on the walk.

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conference the ex- after hearing con- only way we think Tory government refused to in- The grants campaign that _1s The pected to be arranged shortly. firmation that Sim we can get justice from the grants this could only biggest ever mounted by the crease Mad cite contraction

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e Tory pay-control pata, pret licall a My Mechanics Association had Tish Collins, from Wa- further sector. unanimous recommendation from pay-control law,

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brook College of Education, said The

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claim, which will the union's annual conference at work Values taken the same decision on Satur- had cost £20.6m Margate last to implement year. fore November 6 last year that addition raised grants day. frozen, but new work is still some students tull. was submitted in September

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forced to live on 5p and there the NUS is demanding full grants plates will be further talks subject to mutual asicillate chips. the two next for all students in further educa- Planemakers The stonekeeper because Miss Judy tion, including aboition of the means test d the are pressing from month. women, for the University of London the eifect of commenung their method students Phase Two of the Tory pay plan change Haucatin. camer determines parents contributons wound up without on their claim, Jacks said it would to grants. working. had to food, sleep go

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Ltd, of Tories take Clyde bank rent mous slander Bembriage Is e pro famous aucers or the light passenger aircraft, was pulsorily the Higi an uncon-

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ventertay tested petition. Micronair (Aeriat) Counsel the THE TORY government is going ahead rebels to court Bem today with attempts to get a court bridge Fort. Sandown. Ow. told Justice Plowman for t2,2e%. Mr the order made against Labour- were trade controlled Clydebank town council in 'ounsel said eigh for to 223, supported Glasgow. the petition. reced on 0 the era, 1571.

declared the council in default when it meets tonight. If granted it will order the as a result of the inquiry and has 'The of on uctober majority councillors council to instruct their

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take expressed their determin Have oinciais to prepare the imple- represented. action. ation to carry whatever on, of rent mentation Increases First made last happens in the court, • he said. non-implementation. moves within a fixed time limit.

was Soded on behalf of he Secr Saturday Housing to the Subsults no 4,000 out Failure comply with £320.000 have Secretarv creases a lower- any already Deer would lead to withheld, forcing the council to State Court ing of the standard of living for order against them CTne Such Court high Session. This morning, counsel the the in- result especially as the in- ConCilors sides the both will argue to back 100 being jailed for contempt.

terest. creases are going to be automanc result in rates increase case. year by year Clydebank throughoet onc similar procedure was cost. At the same time, unemploy- councils Labour adopted last month against against the Tories ment in Clydebank was running i ne 4,000 •coland clusine DUl subsequent workers at two Clydebank rent And almost cent, added

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over une ju per rents under Posse aton. The housing creases is one of extreme bitter- contempt of cour Mr Fleming. tactories at Beeston and threat was (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) enough the Labourites near and led to big staged a 24-hour strike yesterday Secretary State crashing • The six other Labour council the there n Scotland standing with Clyde- in support of There 9,000 council for Scotland ordered a public in- favour of implement-

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marily tenants quiry into Clydebank's refusal to wiring shop who have been sitting WHo love WaLk allull Saltcoats, not had to pay the increases due and trade Clydebank Provost Robert denbeath, Barrhead, In TOr ovel •a week in

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Leilalit. last October. told he Alloa and Denny and Dunipace of a pay claim. With lorries being yesterday me Fleming stormed meeling, the plants, Inquiries turned. away from government has waving their banners and forced thought his counci would prob. been completed The Tory al- Laye the proceedings to halt. ably decide continue its stoppage the into each or them buttres results stewaros Clarica struck DaCK opposition to the rent-raising Act are not out as yet. was a iv per cent success.

council, which is 14-7 in favour Neve meress.

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Tuesday Januar Two hundred north-east brew- ery workers are to lose their jobs over the next three years result of a major re- as a organization scheme by Whit- bread. About 350 others-at present employed at Salford, Blackburn and Liverpool - Will be ex- pected to travel to a new brewery at Preston for work.

In all 570 workers will be affected in one way or another by the plans of the £206m The defence of the inde- pendence of the trade unions from the state is closely bound up with the struggle for democracy within the unions them- selves. Many unions, however, have few elections and most of their full-time officials are appointed. The National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers, for instance, has only two full-time officials. elected These are the general secre- tary and the assistant general secretary. Once elected both these officials are in for life.

a 15-man The union has executive board whose mem- all lay-members-are bers elected every two years. But all the other full-time officials-except the top two- are appointed. The procedure is for appli- cants to undergo a series of tests to see if they are suit- able for an officer-training course. candidates undergo a The two-hour written examination.

According the to current issue of the union's journal, typical questions would be: 'Write a short note on some facet of work-study' "The clothing industry is often referred to as a wages council industry. What does this convey to you? Do wages A Labour MP with un- employment in his con- stituency running at 6 per cent has welcomed the principle of the Tory state pay plan. .He is Robert Thomas Ellis (48), a former ICI chemist and mining engineer, who repre- sents Wrexham in North Wales.

Two-and-a-half years of Tory rule have brought the unemployment total in the Denbighshire town to 2,288— an increase since December of 143, and 97 of them were male breadwinners. There are now ten jobless workers chasing unfilled vacancy in the each constituency. But this deplorable situation does not seem to have in any way coloured Ellis's attitude to the Tories' policies. told the 'Wrexham He Leader' last week that he had telieved for many years in the need for a national incomes policy. Some of the details of the Heath policy needed argu- ing, 'but in principle I would be all for prices and incomes policy, as will, I think, be the Opposition, who have given it qualified support' Ellis also took the oppor- ay January 30, 1973 brewing firm, which is a major donor to Tory Party funds.

Under the reorganization all brewing will stop at Salford, Blackburn and Liverpool, but some labour will be retained for storage, distribution, sales and administrative work. The Salmesbury, Preston, brewery, which is currently producing only Heineken lager, will take over all the older breweries' output. councils serve any useful pur- pose?' 'How would you approach the problem of organizing and servicing membership in an in- dustry that has a large per- centage of female workers and an extremely high rate of labour turnover?' Candidates who emerge suc- çessfully from this, then un- two interviews by the dergo executive board. In the first of these candi- dates have to debate with each other topics of trade union interest. Then they undergo a personal interview, 'similar to that which takes place when one applies for a job with any employer', says the union's journal. If they get through that lot, they go in for a training course, which can take up to 12 months. The training course is de- signed by the union's national Smith, officer, Mr and Alec it is he who decides whether or not a candidate has proved successful in the course.

If he has, he is appointed by the executive board to a full-time post. officials 'in All the unions the field' are appointed in this way—the scheme having been in operation for more than three years. This includes all the area officers of the union, some of whom also act as local branch secretaries. Heath: In principle Ellis agrees with the Tory laws. to launch a vicious tunity sideswipe at the union leaders, who had announced their non- co-operation policy a few days before. 'A prices and incomes policy has been the official policy of the Labour Party, although unions disagree,' some claimed. 'Broadly speaking you can separate the unions into those who disagree, represent- ing the better-paid workers, and those who agree, those who represent the poorer-paid workers.' number of so-called 'chal- A lenges' to the engineers' union policy of refusing to co- with the National operate Industrial Relations Court have been eagerly seized on of late by the Fleet Street Press. In have some cases newspapers even invented stories of a re- volt against the policy in the ranks out of thin air. A case in point the was recent vote of the union's No.

20 divisional committee for a change in policy to allow the union to go to court. This received front-page accolades from the Tory news- paper barons one Sunday. One _ suggested fanci- paper even fully that Hugh Scanlon, the union's president, might be forced to resign. It took a strike against the court by 75,000 engineers in the district to force the capitalist Press to admit, three days late, that the had been a totally un- vote representative ten-ten tie, re- solved in the court's favour only by the casting vote of the right-wing chairman. have Engineering workers shown by a series of token strikes in almost every area of the country that they are firmly behind the union lead-.

ers' refusal to go to court- and that they want this oppo- sition taken much further.

We have received the fol- lowing letter from an engineer- ing union shop steward South Wales, where the divi- sional committee has also voted to go to court. It gives the lie to the Fleet Street Press and takes the lid off the myth that such decisions re- present the real feelings of engineering workers.

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1057. Dear Editor, On Monday, January 15, 74 shop stewards. attended special meeting called by the mid-Glamorgan district com- mittee of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Work- ers. This was to hear a report- back from the divisional com- mittee on a resolution sub- mitted by a quarterly shop stewards' meeting in Decem- ber. The resolution called on the divisional committee to stage a one-day stoppage of all members in the division in support of national policy.

The shop stewards' meeting was told that the resolution had been vetoed by the divi- sional committee. Chairman Tal Lloyd, divi- sional organizer, had ruled that the resolution was out of order 'as one district com- mittee could not dictate to another district committee'. It had therefore not been dis- cussed. The same divisional com- mittee later decided by 15 to four to recall the votes national committee to change the policy so that the AUEW could attend the court. This was a stab in the back for all those engineers who have shown in action that want to fight to defend their union. The stewards, in complete opposition to the divisional committee's retreat, rejected as totally inadequate a resolution for a one-day stoppage in the district by 43 votes to 12.

They went on to pass a reso- lution, also passed by the Margam branch, calling on the AUEW executive to 'come off the fence and not leave the fight to local officials, district committees and shop ste- wards'. It was through their lack Engineers In London, on a one- day strike and demonstration against the fine on their union.

of leadership in • leading the fight, the resolution said, that closed shop-the the very basis of the AUEW-was now under attack. The resolution called on the executive Council to launch a national strike as the first towards defending the step AUEW and free trade unions.

It pointed out the danger of isolated local stoppages at level and quoted the national engineering pay claim as an The shop stewards example. demanded that the executive call a meeting of the Con- federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. This meeting : would be to implement the CSEU policy of defending member unions threatened under the Industrial Relations Act, since the attack on the AUEW affected all 3 million members of the CSEU.

The policy should be backed with industrial action, if neces- sary, the stewards said. And it was stressed that whether the executive liked it or not, the fight of the AUEW was political. It was pointed out that the only way to defend the AUEW and free trade unions was to mobilize the whole of the working class in a campaign to force the Tories to resign. The stewards called on the executive and the district com- mittees to carry out this policy as the only way of defending the AUEW and the principle of free trade unions. This reso- lution was carried overwhelm- ingly by the shop stewards, the vast majority of whom were voting on mandates from their members. An AUEW shop steward, Glamorgan.

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The system of so-called cessor to the Stakhanov system of the 1930s, is being extended in the Soviet Union in an at- tempt to raise the general level of productivity and overcome the country's glaring economic pro- blems. The extension of this old system is announced in the January 16 issue of the official newsheet 'Soviet News' by Anatoly Strelyany, correspon- dent of the Novosty Press agency. In essence the system is nothing more than a crude attempt to encourage higher production in industry by promising bonus payments, medals and special privileges to workers who produce more than their fellows. This method tackling the basic problem of low labour productivity in the Soviet was adopted under economy Stalin as long ago as 1963. He established Stakhanov the named after movement, a Donbas miner credited with digging fantastic amounts of coal in a single shift. The aim was to stimulate a form of piecework in the hope that other workers in the factories would be encouraged to chase the 'carrot' of special treatment. Stakhanov and others like him were showered with privileges and medals.

They became part of a labour élite, a genuine aristocracy of the working class, encouraged to think and act like building bureaucrats. Their real wages were sometimes 20 or 30 times those of their fellow-workers.

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in particular he demanded an end to the initiation of all but the most essential new projects, measures to minimize the expenditure of foreign ex- change and primary emphasis on obtaining higher productiv- ity from existing capital invest.

ment. This speech alone makes of the excuse nonsense Strelyany gives for stepping up He claims "socialist emulation'. that it is being done 'to fulfil the 1973 economic develop- ment plan ahead of schedule' (emphasis added). The Novosty correspondent claims unal tne socialist emu- lation movement is aimed at ensuring that the production and social tasks facing enter- prises and industries carried out in the best possible way. He writes: 'This year will 100-per-cent increase in see a the funds from which the the best workers bonuses for The foremost workers come. will 50,000 vouchers enabling them to take

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"Those who achieve the best results and display, as the text of the decision says, "examples valour" will of labour be awarded orders and medals.'

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He saw no hope of increased productivity in 1973 con- Press, Tuesday January 30, 1973 PAGE 5 ne their target-board. in order in a short space of time, it tries to violate both labour power and technique. 'When the clockwork slows down it pokes the little wheels with a nail. As a result of the "Stakhanovist" days and ten- day periods, complete chaos introduced into was many This explains enterprises. the fact, at first glance astonishing, that a growth of the number of is frequently Stakhanovists accompanied, not with an in- crease, but a decrease of the general productivity of enterprise.' The fact that the bureaucracy is forced back on this costly and generally ineffective means of raising labour productivity is, in reality, a retreat from the plan and an admission of bank- ruptcy by the leadership, which bears prime responsibility for the economic crisis. tributing to any slowdown in the rise in unit costs and expected world prices to con- tinue on their upward trend.

'Nor can the possibility be excluded,' he forecast, 'that, in the improvement view of the business climate, enter- prises additional may make price increases, which could lead to new wage demands.'

Perhaps unintentionally the former Social-Democratic MP and trade union official got the sequence right: price rises first, for wage in- then pressure creases. The Community is aiming to reduce the rise in con- sumer prices to 4 per cent by the end of 1973. A meeting will be held in mid-June to determine whether the mea- taken up to then by sures member countries have achieved results or whether tougher ones will be required.

while general and keeping middle-of-the-road all on controversial issues, could have given his listeners no confi- dence that 1973 will see an end to the problems gnawing away at the capitalist economy in Europe.

Hitler in Munich, 1923. By this time he had become the recognized leader of the forces of the far right and he gained national notoriet PAGE 6 Workers Press, Tuesday Januai

BY TOM KEMP

The coming to power of the Nazi Party in Ger- many 40 years ago today was a heavy defeat for the working class and major turning point in history. Its consequences can hardly be underesti- mated. It was on January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader that of the National Socialist Ger- man Workers' (Nazi) Party, was called on by President Hindenburg to become head of the government as Chancellor.

In the previous year Hitler had twice failed to defeat Hinden- burg as President. Hitler came to power as a result of backstairs intrigue by the political representatives of the German ruling class. His party never won more than 37 per cent of the votes in a free election. Election figures for 1932 show that Hitler's star waning. In the General was the Election of November Nazis lost 2 million votes.

Local elections held later in the same month showed a further sharp decline. Hitler and the Nazis never won the support of the Ger- man working class and to sug- gest otherwise is a calumny.

election figures from The Berlin and the industrial areas show that the Nazis generally reached their peak with be- tween one quarter and one third of the votes. Both the Social Democratic and Com- munist Party votes, with some fluctuations, well main- were tained. In the factories the Nazis set up their own cells and put up candidates for the works' councils. In 1931 they received 0.5 per cent of the votes against 83.6 per cent for the SPD trade unions. Even in March 1933, after Hitler had taken over, they only received 3 per cent of the votes in the factories. Practically none of the factory workers supported the Nazis. Hitler's mass support came from the middle classes-the small property-owners, shop- keepers, peasants and white- collar employees. A look at any picture of Nazi party meetings and rallies will confirm the fact that the audience was com- posed predominantly of respectable middle-class Ger- mans, not of workers or of lumpen proletariat. Even the unemployed did not flock to the Nazi banner on the scale that has some- times been suggested. More unemployed supported or joined the German Communist Party (KPD), which almost literally became a party of the unemployed in 1931-1932. The Nazi party and its Storm Troops (Sturm- Abteilung), the para-military formations descended from the Freikorps, attracted what day January 30, 1973 Trotsky called 'the masses of crazed petty bourgeoisie, and bands of the declassed and er- demoralized lumpen- proletariat; all the countless human beings whom finance capital itself has brought to desperation and frenzy'. The SA were housed and fed in party barracks and given a few marks a week. Their job was to protect party meetings and to take command of the streets, beating up and killing workers and smashing the working-class organizations.

The SA Chief-of-Staff was an intimate Ernst Rohm, friend of Hitler from the early days of the movement.

Rohm aimed to build up the power of the SA, make it the basis for a new army and supplant the Reichswehr and the officer corps. After the Nazis came to power a bitter conflict broke 'out between the SA leaders army chiefs. Rohm's and the enemies in the movement pre- pared the SS to strike a deadly blow and won Hitler's support.

To make himself complete master of Germany after the death of Hindenburg, Hitler had to ensure himself of the support of the Reichswehr and the aristocratic officer corps.

The support of the army was indispensable if his regime was to carry through the war pre- parations required by German imperialism's drive for markets.

To be sure of this support, Hitler knew that he had to relieve the army of the threat from Rohm and the SA and therefore backed the combined operation of the Reichswehr and the SS against Rohm. On June 30, 1934, in the 'night of the long knives' Rohm and his supporters were shot and the power of the SA was broken.

Hitler took the opportunity to have other enemies and rivals liquidated. The coming to power of Hitler-and its significance for the German working class and the whole international move- ment — cannot be understood without an examination of German history after the defeat of 1918. By the autumn of 1918 Ger- man workers and servicemen enough of the had had slaughter and sacrifices of the previous four years. The Kaiser's regime was over- thrown by revolution, but instead of power passing to the working class it was grasped firmly by the bour- geoisie with the aid of the army, thanks to the treachery of the leaders of the Social Democratic Party. To deal with the threat of revolution the bourgeoisie turned to squads of free- booters, mostly ex-soldiers, imbued with nationalist and racialist ideology and sworn enemies of the working class.

Hitler in Munich, 1923. By this time he t These the Freikorps, were mobilized and used to hunt down militants by the Social Democrat Noske. These squads the initial recruiting were ground for the Nazi Party.

The Nazi Party was thus a product of the witches' cauldron which was post-war Germany. This was the party in which Adolf Hitler, un- successful painter and wartime corporal, came to the fore. By 1923 he had become the recognized leader of the main of the far-right and forces secured national notoriety as leader of an attempted putsch in Munich. While confined not too un- comtortably in wrote his fortress, Hitler testament and bible of the Nazi 'Mein Kampf. movement, After 1933 a copy was to be found in virtually every Ger- man home. During the 1920s the Nazis remained a fringe group of the extreme right and failed to be- come a mass movement. Noted 3 time he had become the recognized leader of 1 and approved by the forces of conservatism, and especially by the magnates of heavy industry, they were kept in reserve with just enough subsidies to ensure their survival during the period of artificial prosperity which preceded the crash.

Everything changed when the economic blizzard struck Ger- many after the Wall Street crash of October 1929. Hitler himself did not realize the significance of that event, . but he soon seized the possibilities which it offered his movement.

Germany was more seriously affected by the depression which followed it than any other country. Unemployment leapt to over 6 million. The industrialists faced bankruptcy and they feared social revolu- tion which would dispossess them as a class. Politically, post-war Ger- under the "demo- crany lived many constitution promul- gated at Weimar in 1919- hence the Weimar Republic.

ted But the industrialists quickly leader of the forces of the far right and he gained natio saw that their problems could not be solved through the medium of bourgeois democ- and adherence to this racy constitution. As early as December 1929 some industrialists published a 'Rise called programme or Fall?' in which they demanded higher indirect taxes, falling on the workers, and lower direct taxes to assist capital accumu- lation. These demands broke up the coalition government in which the Social Democratic Party held key posts. A period instability political and social crisis began, ending only in 1933. The German ruling class had been forced to accept the harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty because they saw no alternative. But they hated a deprived settlement which Germany of the armed forces and colonies needed for expan- sion. The whole right wing was united on this question, as they were in hatred of the working class and the 'Marxist' parties.

ined national notoriet To omic ment impos which overco tendec May, when progra which Brunit lor, V was to a few By were trappi democ dustri econo solved tion a trade workin Papen Schlei ist' W power ployer attemp

and he gained natlor could the тос- this 1929 led a or nded g on lirect umu- roke nt in ratic eriod and only • had marsh ailles rived orces pan- , was they rking rties. and he gained national notoriety as leader of the To with the grapple CCon omic crisis the Bruning govern.

ment which took over in 1930 imposed hics could do nothing on do nothing overcome the depression and In tended make it worse. May, 1932 the government fell when it put forward a modest programme public works taken by was over Bruning's successor as Chancel- lor, Von Papen-the man who was to open the door for Hitler a few months later. By although elections now, were still being held, only the of parliamentary trappings The in- democracy remanned dustrialists understood that the not be economic crisis could solved without state interven- tion and the smashing of the unions and the whole trade working-class movement. Papen, and then General Schleicher, sought a 'bonapart- state ist' way -with the power balancing between em- ployers and workers an attempt to win support for an h putsch of November 9, 1923 anti-depression programme.

The failure of Bruning and then, in rapid succession of Schleicher, Papen and con- vinced the German ruling class that only Hitler and the Nazis could save the capitalist system from disaster. From 1930 on- wards support for Hitler in industrial circles grew rapidly.

In a literal way the big capital- ists put their money on Hitler.

A significant index of this was the speech which Hitler made to the Industry Club in Dusseldorf in January 1932 to a select audience of West Ger- man industrialists. His recep- tion at first was cool, but after two and a half hours Hitler had the élite of German business on their feet wildly cheering.

Needless to say the cheques flowed in to make possible the gigantic presidential two Men like Kirdorf of Fritz wealthiest were personal port bankers, private The politicians by to prevent methods Within three from big ampaigns which Hit- ring that year the old Emil Gelsenkirchen and

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onal friends and ad- Hitler already. Their as followed by many 1931 and 1932. Hitler cultivated the sup- industrialists and holding discree and always n the need for funds. old of the solve the crisis means convinced usinessmen that ex. sures were necessary They revolution. the Nazis when other exhausted. le space of two the alternative be a Nazi dictator- roletarian revolution part of the the Nazi Party came business,

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in the middle class. Workers Press, Tue middle class The German feared revolution as much as did the ruling class. It had suffered most from the in- flation of the early 1920s. The depression once again opened up an abyss as trade fell off, farm prices collapsed and com- petition became more acute.

Nazi propaganda appealed to national feeling by denouncing the injustices of the Versailles treaty. It blamed the big mon- opolies and bankers for the depression and attacked the trade unions and the 'Marxist' parties. Shopkeepers, lawyers and doctors were told that the real enemy was their Jewish competitor down the street and if only he was removed their troubles would be over.

confused, contradictory A and irrational mixture which promised miracles once the Nazis had power, it was put over by Hitler with consum- demagogic skill mate at enormous meetings and rallies.

Everything was done to stir nationalist emotion and create atmosphere of expectancy an and hope. Frenzied attacks on Bolsheviks and Jews raised feelings to fever pitch. The Nazi Party itself built up an enormous apparatus to organize its members, the most and energetic being devoted into the paramilitary drawn formations. These formations were intended to protect meet- ings and marches and to do battle with the enemy: i.e. with the Socialist and Communist workers. While Hitler put on a res- pectable front to his huge audiences of troubled middle- class people, a free hand was given to the SA and the SS (Schutz-Staffel) to smash up meetings workers' and carry out a reign of terror wherever they had the power to do so.

They came into their own in 1933 when they had the job of totally destroying the work- ing class organizations. The leaders and active mem- bers of the Stormtroopers were the most deeply influenced by the 'socialist' or anti-capitalist elements in the Party pro- gramme. As Hitler became in- creasingly respectable and was drawn into intrigues with the became an embarrassment. Gregor Strasser, head of the party organization, broke with Hitler in 1932. He, together with many of the brownshirt old guard, was liquidated in the 'night of the long knives', June 30, 1934. In fact on the very eve of taking power the Nazi Party in its deepest crisis. was Despite the huge subsidies from industry and the sub- heavy scriptions of members the movement faced bankruptcy.

Hitler and his aides spent on a grandiose scale both on the organization and on their per- sonal needs. In the presidential campaigns of 1932 no expense spared to impress the was public. Hitler and his party flew all over Germany in a big three- engined plane chartered from airline. In the Lufthansa those days such a whirlwind campaign by air was unusual.

When not in the air, Hitler travelled in a big Mercedes, the biggest and fastest production car on the German market.

He had a large entourage including a chauffeur, a photo- grapher and a personal body- guard. At least 300 storm- had to be provided troopers before Hitler would speak at a meeting. 'When I visited Berlin before I came to power, , Hitler once reminisced; 'I used to stay at the Kaiserhof [a luxury hotel]; and as I was always accor panied by a complete general staff, I generally had to book a whole floor and our bill for food and lodging came to about 10,000 marks a week. I Press, Tuesday January 30, 1973 PAGE 7 earned enough to defray these expenses by means of inter- views and articles for the foreign Press. Towards the end of the Kampfzeit ['the time of struggle'], I was paid as much or three thousand as two dollars a time for such work.'

Reference to lavish fees from the foreign Press recalls the fact that capitalist circles in the rest of Europe and the United States looked favour- ably upon Hitler both before he came to power. and after Such a valiant crusader against Bolshevism and the trade unions commended himself to all those who were worried about the power of the working.

class and the threat of revolu- which the depression tion appeared to have brought closer. Hitler's contacts and support always from within the came established centres of power in Germany big business, the army, the Prussian landowners, members of the old ruling families. As has been said, Hitler did not win the support of the Ger- man working class before he took power. He never detached it from its leaders or organiz- ations or won its votes. To the last, uniformed Nazis could not enter working class strong- holds. In street fights workers gave as good as they got and even after January 30, in the elections of March 1933, they continued to vote in their mass for the SPD and the KPD.

And yet this great move- ment was defeated without a struggle. Once Hitler had been brought to power by the old- line politicians the police and the stormtroopers were sent out to destroy the organiz- ations of the working class. Its leaders were arrested, tortured, imprisoned, murdered; hun- dreds and thousands of workers suffered the same fate. Hitler came to power because of the treacherous policies of the working-class leaders, not because the work- ing class was unwilling or un- able to fight, far less because it had been won over by Nazi propaganda. The betrayal of the Social still the largest Democrats working class party goes back a long way. In 1914 they sup- ported the war. In 1918-1919 they destroyed the German Revolution together with the Freicorps, who were the fore- runners of the Nazi storm- troopers. They supported the Weimar republic and entered coalition governments along: side representatives of one of the most brutal and reactionary ruling classes in Europe.

As Trotsky put it in 'Ger- many, the Only Road': 'The principal political responsibil- ity for the growth of fascism rests, of course, on the shoulders of Social Democracy.

Ever since the imperialist war, the labours of this party have been reduced to uprooting from the consciousness of the proletariat the idea of an inde- pendent policy, to implanting within it the eternity of capital- ism and to forcing to its knees time and again before the decadent bourgeoisie. "The petty bourgeoisie can only follow the worker when it sees in him the new master.

Social Democracy teaches the worker to be a lackey. The petty bourgeoisie will not follow a lackey. The policy of reformism deprives the prole- tariat of the possibility of lead- ing the plebian masses of the petty bourgeoisie and thereby alone converts the latter into cannon fodder for fascism.'

The SPD controlled the state government of Prussia the in Germany. In largest state 1929 it polled nearly 30 per cent of the votes cast and was, at that time, the largest party in the Reichstag. Reformist to the core, the SPD and trade "nion leaders hoped to find a ! of saving German capital- in and continuing their loyal dialogue with the ruling class as its agents in the workers' movement.

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PAGE 8 Workers Press, Tuesday January 30, 1973 In Greece today political trials are on the increase and tortures intensify. Yet the Greek Communist Party calls for the restoration of the monarchy and a 'government of national unity'. It was a government of this type which led to the Civil War of 1944 when the British-backed Greek ruling class sought to disarm the working Stalinist assistance. The coming to power of the classwith military junta in 1967 was directly linked to that betrayal.

While Greek communists languish in jail, Moscow has recently signed agreement with the an colonels to inaugurate a railway service linking Moscow and Athens. Other Stalinist countries, like Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Rumania, have trade and cultural pacts with the colonels' 11-man regime. In November Chinese an delegation arrived from Peking to open an embassy in Athens, and in the same month the state-controlled Public Power Corporation announced an $89m supply-and-install deal with Russia for a new steam power plant to be erected in northern Greece. The Stalinists, in Greece and elsewhere, bear the major responsibility for the sufferings of the Greek masses under the colonels' military junta. In this series of articles JACK GALE will trace the rise of the colonels' regime and the direct assistance given to it by Stalinism.

The full tragedy of The deal with Stalin was sealed at Greece cannot be under. a meeting in the Kremlin. Churchill recorded in stood without reference his 'Memoirs': to the crimes of Stalin- 'Stalin strictly and faithfully adhered to our agreement in ism. October and in all the long During the Nazi wartime weeks of fighting the Commu- occupation, the Greek Com- nists in the streets of Athens Party able munist was to not one word of reproach came establish its control over the from "Pravda" "Izvestia"? or of the It must be greater part country stressed that- through

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(National although many members of the Front) Liberation and ELAS Greek Communist Party have (People's Army of Liberation).

suffered terrible tortures and 'The Times' credited have behaved heroically—-their

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with the support of 90 per organization shares responsi- bility cent of the Greek people, while for the fate of the its youth organization, EPON, country. Greek Stalinists faith- had The an estimated membership of 500,000. fully followed Moscow from the beginning and consciously And working-class strength destroyed their chances of vic- was suficiently great-even tory-cynically sacrificing their under Nazi occupation-that General own members and supporters.

Strikes and demon- 1944

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was strations in Athens and Salo- a vast army with hundreds of thou- nika halted conscription to the sands of German supporters in the army, prevented the cities, auxiliary mobilization of slave labour organizations, a mass youth for Germany and forced in- movement and labour organizations. creases in the bread rations.

Almost all Greece was under its The Greek bourgeoisie con- was trol. In the Athens area alone collaborationist from the be- there 20,000 were

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ginning. Under Nazi occupa- troops. the Greek tion, state was administered by virtually the same personnel as under the Metaxas regime. The The situation resistance movement was ripe for was entirely and proletarian it was equally hostile to Chur- Greek Stalinists welcomed the chill's collaborators in Cairo liberators, forbade the ELAS units outside Athens as to Hitler's collaborators in Athens. to enter the city and agreed to Despite mass support, how- the 'Government of National Unity' ever, the Stalinists never launched As in France and Italy, the genuine struggle for power. Instead they sent a Stalinists delegation to Cairo to persuade anxious to serve in the Tsouderos, geois coalition. reactionary premier of the Royalist Government-in-Exile, Lebanon and a former member of the Metaxas May 1944, the Greek Stalinists entered the bourgeois govern- apparatus, to form a 'Govern- ment of National Unity'. of Papandreou, and re- This played into the hands mained in it even of Winston Churchill who sent allies occupied Greece. British troops to Greece under On September 27 the Stalin- General Scobie to crush parti- ist commander of ELAS—Sera- san resistance and preserve the phis-had conference old regime. This invasion was Caserta with the leader of the cleared with Stalin at the bourgeois armed Tehran Conference. eral Zervas, and the Supreme As a preliminary a left-wing rebellion The terms the Greek among forces in Egypt Caserta Agreement-at a time armed was crushed and 20,000 when the Greek masses virtu- some Greek soldiers and sailors im- ally had power in their hands prisoned in the desert. —were: The Soviet bureaucracy went (1) 'All guerrilla forces oper- along with this in return for a ating Greece place them- free hand in the Balkans.

selves under the orders of the Churchill's instructions Greek government of National to Scobie Unity. The Greek government were to destroy the EAM: 'Act as if you were in places these forces under the a conquered city where a local orders of General Scobie, who rebellion in he had been progress, nominated by the told the military commander.

Supreme Allied Command as the general officer commanding in Greece. Greek government, the guer- rilla leaders declare they will forbid any attempt by any units under their command to take the law into their own hands. Such action will be treated as a crime and pun- ished accordingly. (3) 'In Athens no action is to be taken except under the orders of General Scobie. Secu- rity battalions are considered instruments of the enemy unless they surrender.' The Stalinist leaders fol- lowed this by an agreement with Papandreou that both ELAS and EDES would disarm and be superseded by a Nation- al Guard. A report in 'Nation' situation in described the Athens: 'Thousands of traitors and quislings were permitted to roam freely around Athens. No collaborators were called to trial or punished by the gov- Royalist ernment. organiza- tions were secretly armed. Members of the Nazi-organized Security Battalions were spirited out of prison and armed. Wild stories of red ter- rorism were fed to the local and foreign press. High offi- cials of the various ministries who had faithfully served the Nazi and quisling government were kept at their posts.

'No attempt was made to purge the police and national guard, both of which had worked for the Gestapo. When the Under-Secretary of War, on November 24, appointed 14 officers to organize a new national guard, eight of them former were officers of the Security Battalions. The Moun- tain Brigade was withdrawn from Italy and brought to Athens. More British troops kept landing in Greece. And long after the last German had left the Greek mainland British tanks rumbled along the streets of Athens.' In this situation, the British occupation commanders gave a deadline for ELAS and EDES to disband by December 20. It the popular reaction was to this that forced the break be- tween the Stalinists and the Government of National Unity.

This was the signal for the suppression of the armed workers by the troops of the western allies beginning with the machine-gunning of a mass demonstration of unarmed workers on December 10. When the civil war broke out the Stalinist leaders ordered 20,000 ELAS forces to leave for the North while the crucial battles were being fought in Athens. This was a deliberate policy calculated to smash the most militant sec- tions of the working class in Athens. (At a meeting in London in January 1970 Greek musician and then Communist Party member Mikis Theodorakis told of a 'red paper' sent by Stalin to the Greek Communist Party in 1944 instructing it to call off the struggle. G. Votsis, who had been a leading mem- ber of the Greek Communist Party before the 1967 military coup, and president of the Journalists' Union demanded a full accounting of the role of 14 Moscow in the events of that time.) They were certainly entitled to ask for an accounting. For, after • 23 youth had been shot dead in Athens on December 22, the masses paraded through the city shouting 'Revenge! Revenge! Death to Papan- dreou!' A General Strike was called.

Workers militia occupied all except three miles in the cen- tre of Athens. Papandreou resigned and fled to the Grand Bretagne Hotel where he was protected from the wrath of the Greek workers by British tanks. After a further month's fighting, the bourgeois forces of General Zervas had been wiped out in Epirus and ELAS controlled all of Greece except one section of Aihens. Yet the Stalinists concluded an agreement with Churchill and Eden to disarm the work- ers, accept an appointed regent and allowed General Plastiras —a commander of the Greek contingents that invaded Soviet Ukraine in 1919—to take office as premier. Indeed, when the Stalinist secretary of the EAM—Dimitri Partsalides—met Churchill he kissed his feet and thanked his 'great coming to On February 12, 1945 the Stalinist leadership signed the Varkiza agreement disarming and disbanding the ELAS in return for an amnesty for the leaders while the ranks faced murder, arrest and execution, from a Greek regime under the protection of the British army.

This was not a capitulation by the working class but by their Stalinist leaders. Hun- dreds of partisans took to the mountains to continue the struggle, but they were left without political leadership.

who refused to lay Those down their arms were de- nounced by the Stalinists as 'sectarians' "Trotskyists'. and They even organized their cap- ture and handed them over to

December 2, 1944Members of the w streets of Athens. Left: Churchill with th the police. They also them- selves executed scores of Trot- skyites, particularly in the Salonika area. By July 1945 more than 20,000 militants had been im- prisoned, hundreds had been executed and 3,000 more were under sentence of death. Yet the Communist Party was still legal and its press was free. However, it was forced to assume the leadership of the armed struggle and was per- mitted to do so by the politi- cally untrained fighters who saw this as a correction of past 'mistakes' By 1947 the rebel army, now called the 'Democratic Army' was dealing heavy blows at the state armed forces, despite the American aid the latter were receiving. Yet the Greek CP leaders never broke from Stalin-who, in 1948, told a Yugoslay Com- munist delegation, headed by Kardelj: "The uprising Greece must be stopped as quickly as possible and the Yugoslavs should stop helping them.' The 'Democratic Army' was thrown into adventuristic con- frontations with far superior forces in such a blatant man- ner that it was clear the Stalin- ist leader Zachariades was seeking to destroy it. Indeed when the commander army Vafiades objected to these sui- cidal tactics he was removed from his post. Zachariades took over per- sonal direction of the Demo- cratic Army and by 1949 it had been destroyed. The only force which fought for a revolutionary perspective were the Trotskyists who had undergone years of repression, first from the pre-war Metaxas regime and then from the of the workers' milltia armed with captured i hill with the Greek Regent, Archbishop Damaskin Nazis. Its leaders—men like Pouliopoulos and Xypolyotos were executed by the Nazis.

During the civil war period the Trotskyists were able to bring out a paper three times a week and the Stalinists were forced to take part in debates with them in Athens. The Trotskyists were unable to win the leadership of the Greek masses partly because they had been decimated first by the regimes of the right and then by the deliberate cam- paign of the Stalinists to elimi- those consistent revolu- nate tionaries who exposed the be- trayal of Moscow and its pup- pets and fought for an alter- native programme and leader- ship for the working class.

the Greek But, above all, Stalinists were able to carry out the behests of the Moscow bureaucracy because the work- ing class as an international force had suffered a series of defeats in the previous two de- cades-these defeats being themselves the responsibility of international Stalinism.

By 1949 when the Stalinists had brought about the defeat of the Greek working class, British imperialism was too weak to continue its role in the Balkans. The United States took over. With the Greek resistance crushed, some appearances of democratic liberties were a convenient cover for the real policy of holding back revolu- tion, keeping Greece in the 'Free World' and ensuring the dominance of US capital in the country. Behind this facade of parlia- mentary democracy Greece be- came a hotbed of intrigues involving the King, the CIA, captured weapons and helmets, on the • Damaskinos in Athens in 1944.

the army and various right- wing groups. The Communist Party with its post-1949 policy of left alliances lent veracity to this fraud, disarmed the work- ing class and left the door open for the colonels' coup in 1967. While the Stalinists preached support for the Centre Union of Andreas Papandreou 'against the right, they allowed the right to prepare behind the scenes. There was no basis for par- liamentary democracy in Greece. The election of a Cen- tre Union government in 1963 was more than the American government was prepared to tolerate. When this govern- ment seemed likely to be re- elected in 1967, with the pos- Sibility that it would be op- posed to the NATO military alliance, the CIA acted. 1970 Papandreou re- vealed how the US government advisor Walter Rostow met the National Security Council in February of 1967 and proposed the establishment of a military dictatorship. This was supported by the CIA and endorsed by Presi- dent Johnson. Papandreou, who had been in charge of the Greek security forces before the coup, revealed that even then the real control of Greek internal and foreign policy lay in the hands of the CIA. After the colonels took power, thousands of Greek workers, including many mem- the Communist Party, bers of jailed and murdered. were This has •not prevented the Stalinist regimes having the friendliest relations with Papa- dopoulos, nor has it prevented them from denouncing Trot- skyists to the Junta authorities -as we shall show.

CONCLUDED TOMORROW

Workers Press, Tue Children who are deaf are being wrongly diagnosed as mentally-handicapped because of a lack of assessment centres and qualified specialists.

A report by the National Deaf Children's Society claims that as many as 350 of the country's 400 ear, nose and throat specialists might not have the necessary • skills to detect deafness in infants and young children. Often deaf children have other physical and emotional handicaps, but very accurate assessment of the degree of deafness is necessary even if it is the only handicap. Both parents and children suffer frustration and distress as a result of mistaken diagnoses.

The Society calls for special assessment centres in Man- chester, Birmingham, Exeter, Southampton, Nottingham, Newcastle, Glasgow,. Edin- burgh, Aberdeen and three in London. Each centre, it says, should have an audiologist, neuro- logist, educational psychologist, otologist, paediatrician, psy- chiatrist and a teacher of the deaf. But a capitalist system in crisis will do nothing for working-class children, many of whom face the dole, even if they have no physical or emotional handicaps. The deaf can expect little consideration from the Tory government.

Lord Thomson of Fleet will go down as the man who said that controlling a commercial TV channel was 'a licence to print money'. Judging from the figures just released on TV advertising it seems that his ten-year-old statement is as true today as it was then.

Commercial TV advertising revenue totalled £13,151,239 last month, compared with £9,008,131 in December 1971, the Independent Television Companies Association said last week. But it was less than the record £15.3m total for Nov- ember, first the complete month in which day-time pro- grammes were fully opera- tional. It must also true that be commercial radio is also a licence to print money. A syndicate including Thomson Newspapers is heading the stakes for the prime London licence.

LES

vail - O' W m la I m Press, Tuesday January 30, 1973 PAGE 9 The quiet burghers of Kidder- minster are in a spin. They have been faithfully voting Tory for generations in this hamlet. But the worm has turned. Tory policies are now begin- ning to lash sections of Heath's own followers. Kidderminster shopkeepers have just received new rating assessments. Some are up a 1,000 staggering cent. Hairdresser Miss Hazel Griffiths has been told the rateable value of her lock-up shop in New Road is going up from £58 to £567. Nearby men's hairdresser John Carter faces an increase from £66 to £622. Reginald Moore, shoe a repairer for more than 50 years, said he would be forced into retirement by a new assess- ment from £42 to £347. Cardinal Heenan, the guru of the Roman Catholics of Britain, has given an enthusiastic bless- ing to entry into the Common Market. He says that 'peace is the greatest attraction' of the enlarged community. But what about the soaring cost of living caused by British and the resulting im- entry poverishment of the working Pompidou class? 'If the world is never in war again to be involved on account of disputes between European nations, no price will be high enough to pay for entry" He went on: 'We pray that our entry into Europe may both further the cause of peace and hasten the day of reunion between all the bretheren of Christ and the children of God'-believed to be a refer- ence to Heath, Pompidou and Jack Lynch. By LEON TROTSKY Paperback. £1.00 Illustrated Sharp pen-portraits of leading figures of the Second Interna- tional in Russia and Europe, for first time published in the an English edition. The translations were first commissioned by the Socialists' paper 'Keep Young Left' Their enormous success has led to the completion of the translation of the whole book, which is the first part of Volume 8 of Leon Trotsky's 'Works' pub- lished in the Soviet Union in 1926. It provides the most vivid picture available of the historic figures Second Inter- of the national, their strengths and weaknesses, written by an obser- ver who was also a participant in the daily struggle of the Euro- pean and Russian working class.

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TODAY'S TV

1.00 Pebble Mill at 9.38 Schools. 12.55 News. 12.30 Ar y trywydo. one. 1.00 Andy Pandy. 1.45 Ask the family. 2.05 Schools. 2.50 Sixteen 3.20 Rolf Harris. 3.45 Whose Dorset? 4.10 Play school.

4.35 plus. 5.15 Craven's 4.50 Scooby-Doo. 5.10 newsround. Jackanory. John Vision on. 5.40 Magic roundabout. 5.45 News. Weather.

FILM: NEARLY A NASTY ACCIDENT'. Jimmy Edwards, Kenneth Eaton. Connor, Shirley. Comedy. 8.30 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LIKELY LADS? Moving On.

9.00 NINE O'CLOCK NEWS. Weather.

DOCUMENTARY: 'OUR SPORTING LIFE'. A personal view by 9.25 Dr Anthony Storr. 73.

10.45 MIDWEEK. 11.30 NEWS. 11.35 VIEWPOINT.

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Cartoon. 5.25 3.00 London. 5.20 Crossroads. 5.50 London. 6.00 Day by 3.35 Columbo 0 tor day. 6.35 dear Columbo. 12.00 News. 12010 Weather. Guidedior: 9.00 London. HARLECH: 9.30 London. 2.30 House- West. Wales. Try for ten. 7.05 Film: "The Kid From Texas'. 8.30 Father, dear father. _9.00 London. 12.00 Time to remember. 12.30 Weather. HTV Cymru/Wales as above except: 4.25 Miri 4.35-4.50 Cantamil. mawr. Y Hogiau'r 6.01-6.18 dyda. 10.30 wydffa. HTV West as above except: 6.18-6.35 Report West. ANGLIA: 9.30 London. 12.04 News.

12.05 London. 2.30 About women. 3.00 London. 5.20 Cartoon. 5.25 Wind the willows. 5.50 London. 6.00 in Fight rising rents and prices Defend basic democratic rights Force the Tories to resign MANCHESTER: Tuesday January 30, 8 p.m. 'The Maypole', Ford Pendleton. Lane, Speakers: Connie Fahey, Harry Price, Hyndman. 'Fight rising Mike prices! Force the Tories out!'

ROCHESTER: Tuesday January 8 p.m. 'The 30, Greyhound, Rochester Avenue. BARKING: Tuesday January 30, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, corner of Fanshawe Ave./Lagbridge Road.

HARROW: Tuesday January 30, 8 p.m. Labour Hall, Harrow and Wealdstone. CLAPHAM: Tuesday January 30, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clapham Manor Street, SW4.

CAMDEN: Tuesday January 30, 8 р.m. 'Prince • Albert , Wahrie- dale Road, off York Way, Kings Cross. THE Plymouth Fine Tubes strikers have just completec seven months iwo years and on strike. These men have waged a bitter struggle for the most basic right a worker can possessthe 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

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INTERNATIONAL TENNIS. Commercial Union Masters' Tourna- 8.05 ment. ENCOURAGE OTHERS. Dramatized reconstruction of the 9.00 Craig and 1952. With Billy Hamon, Bentiey murder case of Charles Bolton. 10.45

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GRANADA:

9.30 London. 2.5510 Col- 11.55 lecting on a shoestring. London. tion. 30, Hotel, Tooting p.m. 'Cardinal's Wood Street. January CROYDON: Thursday February 1, Hall, 31, Trades 24 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Adelphi. Road. bruary

WIGAN:

Monday February 5, rown'. 1, 8 p.m. Mesmes Market Hotel, p.m. and Street. Speakers: Frank Kelly, East Road.

UCATT,

Bill Lyons,

AUEW,

Ray February Hudson,

UCATT.

(All in a per- 1, "Liverpool Arms', sonal capacity.) (corner Cambridge Road/

LONDON TEACHERS' SECTION

London Monday February 5, 8 p.m.

February Conway Hall, Red Lion Square 1, 7.30 Metal Mechanics p.m. London WC1. HACKNEY: Thursday February 8,

SOUTH

Thurs- Room, p.m. Parlour Central Deptford Hall (opposite Town Hall). 'Build Road. Councils of Action.' February

WILLESDEN:

B p.M. Labour and Trades Hall February Seven Co-op Hall. p.m. Fobru- imperialism. school, Winnie Joo Potts, VERPOOL: Tuesday Februa . 7.30 p.m. AEU House. Mol 'Fight rising ut Pleasant. lose. That is why the Socialist children. Common Market entry vith rapidly rising prices, has and Labour League the financial imposed Workers Press wishes to make severe burden. The 37 strikers face a special appeal to all trade the challenging months ahead unionists to take collections in depleted strike fund their factories and branches with this is in a period when meat for the Fine Tubes men in has now become a luxury for order that their heroic and all highest paid. determined action can be car- but the ried forward. All money should January is always difficult month to raise money to fur- be sent to: ther their fight. Fine Tubes Treasurer are determined to c/o 65 Bretonside fight on. working class cannot afford to Plymouth, Devon.

BY OUR OWN

CORRESPONDENT

THE TORY government is to continue direct rule in Northern Ireland, which was due to expire at the end of March. The Northern Ireland (Tem- porary Provisions) Act, which suspended Stormont and placed Northern Ireland under the control of Mr William White- law's department, lays down a period of one year for any renewal. until the Shooting carried on early hours of yesterday morn- ing in the Andersontown area and near Belfast cemetery.

Three petrol bombs and a blast bomb exploded in front of shops in the Crumlin Road. Meanwhile, the trial continued in Dublin of Londonderry Repub- lican leader Martin McGuinness and Joseph McCallion. They are charged with being members of the IRA and possess- ing explosives and ammunition.

Police claim they had 250 lb of gelignite and 4,000 rounds of they ammunition when were stopped at a road block near Ballybofy, in the border area, on January 13. Both men refused to plead and McGuinness said he did not recognize the court.

BY A WORKERS PRESS

CORRESPONDENT

SIT-IN strikers at Coles Cranes in Sunderland yesterday decided to continue their fight against redundancy, and to keep in posi- tion three huge cranes with which they have : been blocking the factory gates. The strikers decided that the cranes would remain in position until the • company-recently over by Acrow group- taken to return to established agreed agreements with the labour force.

A mass meeting also endorsed proposal that shop stewards a tour the country seeking financial support.

CLAPHAM

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14,

8pm South Island Library South Island Place Stockwell, SW9 speaker: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Cttee)

WATFORD

MONDAY FEBRUARY 19, 8pm Trades Union Hall near Watford Junction stn speaker: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Cttee)

WANDSWORTH

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 22,

8pm Wandsworth Town Hall Wandsworth High Street speaker: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Cttee)

BIRMINGHAM

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25, 7pm Digbeth, Civic Hall Digbeth, Birmingham speaker: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Cttee)

• OCEAN

MONARCH

SPEW

Seamen and their wives demand union from the liner 'Ocean

CREW

Monarch' who flew home from Australia on Friday saw union leaders in London yesterday to demand action against the Shaw Savill line. They wanted National Union officials to give 10 of Seamen pledge that any attempt victimize or blacklist the crew would be fought. Also sought were assurances that seamen serving in Aus- tralasia would be given extra payments to compensate for the recent 10 per cent revalua- tion of the Australian dollar.

Crew members found that when the ship , reached Aus tralia, the dollar devaluation fl sterling meant was only being exchanged Shaw Savill for $1.82 as against the old rate of $2.16. As many of the crew were likely to be in the region for

SLOUGH

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28

8pm Britwell Community Centre Long Furlong Drive Britwell Estate speaker: G HEALY (SLL National Sec)

NORTH KENT

MONDAY FEBRUARY 19, 8pm The Shakespeare, Powis Street Woolwich speaker: G HEALY (SLL National Sec)

GLASGOW

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 11,

7.30pm Govan South Town Hall Langland Road nearest underground Govan Cross speaker: G. HEALY (SLL National Sec)

NATIONAL-

END

UNION

UNION'S

PENAL

CHIPOWNERS?

CAUSE

nd union action over Australasia pay.

up to 18 months, the revalua- tion effectively amounted to a wage cut. But demands for extra wages from Shaw Savill were refused and about 200 crew unofficial strike went on at the beginning of last week.

•We were then refused entry to the ship, and were locked out, one of the crew told Workers Press yesterday. 'When the union official arrived from London the first words he said were: "You're not on". There was no beating about the bush. He said we couldn't get a rise because of the wage freeze in England.'

Eventually the company did another f7 a cruises. This was rejected by the crew because they claimed the number of passengers travel -

ACTON

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 8pm Woodlands Hall, Crown Street speaker: G HEALY (SLL National Sec)

MEDWAY

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27, 8pm Aurora Hotel Brompton Road Gillingham speaker: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Citee)

DAGENHAM

THURSDAY MARCH 1, 8pm Manor Park Library Romford Rd/Rabbitts Road opp Rabbitts Pub speaker: G HEALY (SLL National Sec)

MIDDLETON

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14,

8pm Middleton Baths, Middleton, Manchester speaker: G HEALY SLL National Sec) Workers Press, Tues ling on the ship was dwindling and was below 900 on most occasions. While they were on the quayside, the crew received from the Australian support dockers' and seamen's unions and the pilot refused to take the 'Ocean Monarch' out. 'But we'd had enough and decided to come home' said another crew member. "The union wouldn't support us and the company had disowned us?

When they collected their final pay checks, the crew for another shock. were in Under the notorious Merchant Shipping Act 1970, they had each been deducted f50 by Shaw Savill. This anti-trade Act union allows a maximum of £50 to be taken out of wages by the employers if members crew are considered to be in 'breach of contract'.

GLASGOW

Sunday, February 4 The Left Opposition's struggle against Stalinism.

MID HALL

Partick Burgh Halls 7.30 p.m. Lectures by Tom Kemp, SLL Central Committee member

DONCASTER

Sunday February 4 The crisis and the socialist answer. Sunday February 11 The revolutionary party In Britain. Lectures given by Cliff Slaughter.

SPREAD EAGLE HOTEL

Westlaithgate 7.30 p.m.

TODMORDEN

Monday February 5 'Trotskyism'

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CHICKEN

price rises — with warnings of more to come-were described yesterday as a bigger scandal than beef. The meat controller of a large stores com- 90 per cent of the bine said rises were 'sheer profiteering'. He added: "The only increase facing the poultry industry has been in feeding stuff -everything else has been frozen.' Lecture 1 1919-1924—The Communist In- ternational in the days of Lenin and Trotsky Lecture 2 1924-1933—The Left Opposi- tion's struggle against Stalin Lecture 3 1933-1938—From the German defeat to the founding Fourth International given by TOM KEMP (SLL Central Committee)

ACTON

Wednesday January 31 Lecture 1 Wednesday February 7 Lecture 2 Wednesday February 14 Lecture 3 Woodlands Hall Crown Street, W.3. 8 p.m.

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Nixon's new war-on PAGE 12 Workers Press, Tuesday January 30, 1973 ON THE EVE of Edward Heath's crisis visit to Washington, pre- sident Nixon's budget announced yesterday He abolished the minimum in- proposed families come poor to shreds the slashes notice that he and he gave Would • away building with plans …Tor social gains won by wor- new hospitals, with urban newal and with aid kers in the United States to schoos near reced acutes since the turn of the At the same time, he announced that military expenditure will century. collated year Health, education, housing, next year, despite the ending of US welfare, anti-poverty and job South direct involvement in programmes have all tidilllig been savagely slashed and The sum to be spent Europe. Nixon will make it plain on of Council LIVIng of wetare elmin. called defence is all-time that expects trade and ospital iworkses from 33,000 ated entirely. record, 30 the economic concessions from hospital calills to

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budget total the its Phase une signing of Common Market. 5.5 under svesote cent Warning Vietnam ceasefire, welcomed un- Three powers. against any attempt indicate will that ne by the Stalinists, this Presenting the budget from the fight budget critically the proposals, Heath must shoulder the burden White budget. Florida Nixon British House, Duuket struggle sale concess war cause budgeted outlays to Gecaranon

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Pearest He workers. announced by a ruling class which is deter- inge Prosperin ised essense • exceeded, it would inescapably inauguration that other capitalist mined back from ing. promised business take the face ot higher countries could It no simply alternatives

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of America and Europe that tax would be kept interest rates

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rely 'umbrella' and

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waxes Ull the what it has lost to the revolution Among other cuts, pre- newed inflation or all three' responsibility for TAKe in Asia. sident slashed: 'preserving their own peace'.

The budget cuts were an- • $600m in health care for the liberal protest Inside the US Phase class Three of nounced prepared to elderly. of the US the President's collaborallon premier WaRe

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union chiefs. It must serve as a

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• $59m in school milk subsidies.

programme, begun August spur to the building Labour 1971, already beginning to bite • $305m public housing Washington for talks on trade in US, based into workers' wage packets. 1 alLy ll today. grants. questions for Trace

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Ignting een centres on days before Nixon • $2,700m in social service socialist policies against both lations between the and announced his budget plans, the grants. big business parues ol SLL public meeting

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Wednesday, January 31, 7.30 p.m. Oxford Street School, Oxford Street. Speakers: Roy Battersby

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Don Jones (AUEW THE BRIANT Colour liqui-

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possession of the and laclor convenor Viscose), Jim Beavan dator may soon be forced to put it under the hammer? About 105 the real value of the assets.

men and (mid-Glamorgan AUEW district take legal steps to clear the are still working in at the factory men out of the factory committee). All in a personal un- co-ordinating committee Blandford less a buyer is found. Baker capacity. has called a special Press confer- said yesterday: Ultimately the ence the Mr Brockdorf made David connauti

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job of the liquidator is to realize today to discuss the position.

an offer for the Old Kent Road the value of the assets. McGUINNESS and McCallion The workers made factory a month have ago, but jailed for appointed Six months for 'He was formal statemen Brock- WElC sever was rejected by liquidator Mr ago and we have still dorf offer, which involved Montic em- P. Granville White explosives and ammunition not found a buyer. What option ploying only a third of the pre charges. • See page 11. grounds that it fell far below is there but to take steps to gair sent staff

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Asked. if he intormed the anoro priate authorities of his views, Poul- he had shown Poulson, disquiet The guest of honour at ficates. Dody. the Caxton Hall meeting was Edward • Poulson agreed that he gave Lady Heath, then leader of the Opposition.

Fraser, widow of Sir Hugh Fraser, a silver costing £150. He fer ase peech desoribed litica Her- strong political utter- ter as very It was for an opening ceremony the violently he alice. Was holder openine ceremony. Prime Minister, then the Right Hon- presented an eight-inch salver the ourable Harold chairman of Poulson: I can't remember.

District Counci Poulson said he contacted Pottinge • In 1966 •January Poulson gave about the Fraser gift Anthonv Crosland. the Minister for Education and Science, a silver coffee • But the most astonishing revelation following the opening of a school was the mysterious case of Mr Smith built by Woulson. Mr Brown and their uncertain Crosland and his wife, journalist centry Mr Hunter produced a letter dated Susan Barnes, wrote letters thanking Poulson. . Dan Smith, his business associat Crosland wrote that he was 'most in Newcastle. coffee The oraterua uve stated that a Mr and letter kindly gave me'. He described it as George Brown would be Mrs taking "a quite exceptional gift and added: holiday at an expensive Spanish CROSLAND... cupboards full Majorca resort from July Il to Jul 'I tremble to think how much it 26.

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Pottinger golf on the Muirfields Hunter: It must have cost at least suggested however that rouison €500? Edinburgh, Course near cuse Mr and Mrs Brown used the names heard that Poulson paid for the land, Poulson: Oh no, about £100.

Mr and Mrs T. Dan Smith 'to avoic the construction of the building and publicity. paid mortgage arrears. • More details emerged of the pay- Mr Hunter asked if the George He also gave Pottinger the use of George Pottinger Brown was former Cabinet Wine Was seconded from the Scottish Office to a new Rover car and paid for an ex- Minister. with the development of Mediterranean assist the pensive cruise worth Mr Poulson replied that he had more than 600 guineas no idea and had never met him.

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luxury ski resort al aviemore, A document was produced showing Hunter: which inshales yoat write should you ten d • Bovis Holdines. the main contrac SLL national that Poulson had paid a total letter tors on the Aviemore project, were £23,209 towards a new house for A are to go to an hotel as Mr Marxism and the Road strongly criticized by Poulson Mrs in a and Mrs B? letter ('Dear George') to Pottinger.

Poulson: The only thing I can think

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Poulson said the additional costs of is that I was asked to do it.

she res Bovis receipts were "false Hunter: asked you who is the

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accounts'- 'and this is not too strong George you sending of Brown are a word". He added: 'In fact the Bovis (nr Mansion He on an incognito holiday? High Street! is a complete confidence Poulson: have idea - certainly not the one you inter. trick.' A TEN-DAY strike by 400 welders at Govan Shipbuilders was called off yesterday on the advice of shop stewards. The dispute over manning of welding equipment, over which the strike started, is to be taken through procedure. Equipment LUCAS Industrial workers began working in at Fazakerley, Liverpool, yesterday.

They accepted passes issued by the CAV sit-in strikers who con- trol the gates of the site. Lucas management has refused to accept the pass system and will not pay the LIE workers. 'FINANCIAL TIMES' share index slipped again yesterday, reflecting losses by leading companies on the London Stock Exchange. At mid-afternoon, the index was down 4.4 points at 454.8. Banks were among the shares which fell most heavily, the Midland losing 17p during the day to reach a price of 417tp. Lord Donning LORD DENNING announced in the Appeals Court yesterday that it would take 'two or three days' to think about the evidence on the banning of the Andy Warhol film. Mr. Roger Parker, QC, re- presenting the Independent Tele- vision Authority said the judges were not court of public morals have and should only intervened if it could be shown that the film was greatly offensive that no reasonable man could approve it. Mr. John Le Quesne, appearing for right-wing journalist Ross McWhirter, said the material before the court when it granted the injunction against showing the film was sufficient to show that the IBA had not taken proper steps to see it contained nothing offen- sive.

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