Workers Press no. 987

workers press

VICTIM OF THE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTR

BY JACK GALE

THE DECISION of the two main American airlines- Pan-American and Trans-World Airlines — to cancel their options on the Concorde is a deliberate blow in the United States versus Europe trade war.

It threatens well over 30,000 jobs in this country and a similar number in France.

what 'The Times' calls the most damaging Producing setback for British advanced technology since the collapse into bankruptcy of Rolls-Royce', the Americans are seeking to destroy Concorde their • in fight to win the war for the passenger trade. As long ago as 1969, Mr William Hamilton, then direc- tor of the US Boeing project, said: 'We regard Concorde as •people will an opponent fly on it in preference to the subsonic aircraft which we produce. At the same time, President Nixon said America should 'con- tinue to lead the world in this field'. In April 1970 John Volpe, US Secretary of Transportation, said that if the Concorde project suc- inedstry would getto poaircraft ceeded. American In the same year the United States Congress was told that if America lost the passenger trade war and subsequent aircraft sales it would mean a balance of pay- ments loss of $15,800m over the following 20 years. The Americans are also anxious to break up Anglo-French colla- boration which, in projects like

BILL

FREEMAN, chairman of Concorde, could challenge Ameri- the joint chapels committee at can economic interests. the Briant Colour Printing work-in, They want to turn the screws symbolically burnt the on British capitalism in the hope oricina of the Hiah Court wri served on him at a Press con- of forcing it to act on behalf of ference yesterday. American interests in Europe.

Mr Freeman, the father of Nixon would like to make

NATSOPA

the the chapel at Heath his 'errand boy' in the Old Kent Road printing works, example, Common Market, for and his committee have stated by opposing tariff barriers which that they will defy the writs.

discriminate against American Their action follows a mass exports. workers of the print meeting Although Concorde costs have at the occupied factory on rocketed from an original esti- Wednesday which decided that mate of £150m when the Anglo- 'we would resist all moves to French agreement was signed in writs' enforce the 1962 £970m The to by December members of the seven 1972, this is not the major rea- committee named in the writs son for the cancellations.

have 14 days to file their de- The Americans feel threatened with fence the Chancery Division.

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They have been ordered to

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in- aerospace dustry, with its 110,000 workers is also facing a bleak time. Not only have the Pan-Am and TWA airlines turned down Concorde, but orders for military and civil planes are also falling off.

The French partner in the Concorde project is the Aero- which em- spatiale company ploys 45,000 engineers. The Snema company, which is engaged with Rolls-Royce in

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Bill Freeman (with beard), chairman of burns in a waste paper basket surrender all the company's books, papers and recoras to the liquidator, Mr Patrick Granville White. They have also to leave the premises and to pay costs and damages.

The High Court action brings the seven-month Briant Colour occupation to its sharpest point of. struggle. At yesterday's press confer- ence in the plant, Mr Freeman said: 'This is not a legal issue.

It is a social and moral issue and women's rights of men to defend the right to work.

"If It is a crime to fight for the right to work, then we, the

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HE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

the Anglo- Cancellations of French Concorde by US airlines threatens well over 30,000 jobs in this country alone producing the Concorde's Olym- pus engine, also builds the en- Anglo-French Jaguar strike aircraft which the French navy is turning down.

The navy wants the new Super-Etendard plane which would be equipped with Ameri- can Pratt and Whitney engines.

One leading industrialist, com- menting on the Concorde said: More broadsides are yet to come when the Nixon round of trade negotiations gets under airman of the joint chapels, watches with coll Briant Colour workers, plead guilty. But let the men and women of this country judge us, not the High Courts.'

A statement prepared by the BCP joint chapels committee also called for a Charter of Rights. THE EXECUTIVE of the Civil and Public Services association, meeting today, will consider call- ing a one-day national strike of 200,000 civil servants against the Tories' state pay law. But the locomen's chiefs de- cided yesterday by seven votes to two not to start industrial Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party

TOMORROW

Workers Press carries the first publication of the Draft Pro- gramme for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party

SLL

1973. Presented by the Central Committee, it gives a comprehensive analysis of the political situation and outlines the revolutionary programme, starting from unity in action to defend basic democratic rights, which can take the working class forward to force the Tories to resign. The publication of this reso- lution puts into effect the un- animous resolution of the All Trades Unions Alliance Octo- ber 22, 1972 conference, where 2,200 delegates called for this first step to the transformation of the SLL into the revolution- ary party. In every area, the SLL will be organizing the widest pos- sible discussion on this docu- ment, and the columns of the Workers Press are open for all amendments, additions, criti- cisms and questions. The final resolution will form the basis for a special conference in the spring to plan the founding of Make sure of your the party. copy on Saturday. Order now by phoning 01-622 7029.

STEER

*OLOUR PRU

with colleagues as the High Court writ 'We take the view,' the com- mittee said, that it is about time in this country that work- ing men and women had a Charter of Rights with the right to work and enjoy a de- cent standard of livng as the basis.' action. They will continue talks with British Rail. In London today there will be two big protest strikes over pay. Ancillary workers at St George's Hospital, Hyde Park, will stage a 24-hour strike and electricians will hold an unoffi- cial rally at Speakers' Corner.

workers press

VICTIM OFTHE

INCORPORATING THE NEWSL

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTF

BY JACK GALE

Pan-American and Trans-World Airlines - to cancel their options on the Concorde is a deliberate blow in the United States versus Europe trade war.

It threatens well over 30,000 jobs in this country and a similar number in France.

Producing what 'The Times' calls 'the most damaging setback for British advanced technology since the collapse into bankruptcy of Rolls-Royce', the Americans are seeking to destroy Concorde in their fight to win the war for the passenger trade. As long ago as 1969, Mr William Hamilton, then direc- tor of the US Boeing project, said: 'We regard Concorde as people will an opponent fly on it in preference to the aircraft which subsonic we produce. At the same time, President Nixon said America should 'con- tinue to lead the world in this field'. In April 1970 John Volpe, US Secretary of Transportation, said that if the Concorde project suc- industry would go to poaircraft ceeded, American In the same year the United States Congress was told that if America lost the passenger trade war and subsequent aircraft sales it would mean a balance of pay- of $15.800m over the ments loss following 20 years. The Americans are also anxious to break up Anglo-French colla- boration which, in projects like

BILL

FREEMAN, chairman of Concorde, could challenge Ameri- the joint chapels committee at can economic interests. Briant the Colour Printing burnt the They want to turn the screws work-in, symbolically oriainal of the Hiah Court wril on British capitalism in the hope served on him : at a Press con- of forcing it to act on behalf of ference yesterday. American interests in Europe.

Mr Freeman, the father of Nixon would like to make

NATSOPA

the chapel at the Heath his 'errand boy' in the Old Kent Road printing works, Common Market, for example, and his committee have stated by opposing tariff barriers which that they will defy the writs.

discriminate against American Their action follows a mass exports. of the print workers meeting Although Concorde costs have at the occupied factory on rocketed from an original esti- Wednesday which decided that mate of f£150m when the Anglo- 'we would resist all moves to French agreement was signed in writs' enforce the £970m December 1962 by The seven members of the to 1972, this is not the major rea- committee named in the writs son for the cancellations.

have 14 days to file their de- The Americans feel threatened wlth the Chancery fence Division.

TURN TO BACK PAGE

They have been ordered to

IE NEWSLETTER • FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2, 1

• CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SO

in-

THE FRENCH

aerospace dustry, with its 110,000 workers is also facing a bleak time. Not only have the Pan-Am and TWA airlines turned down Concorde, but orders for military and civil planes are also falling off.

The French partner in the Concorde project is the Aero- spatiale which company em- ploys 45,000 engineers. The Snema company, which is engaged with Rolls-Royce in

OUT

Bill Freeman (with beard), chairman of burns in a waste paper basket surrender all the company's books, papers and records lo the Mr Patrick liquidator, Granville White. They have also to leave the premises and to pay costs and damages.

The High Court action brings the seven-month Briant Colour to Its sharpest occupation point of. struggle. At yesterday's press confer- ence in the plant, Mr Freeman said: 'This is not a legal Issue.

It is a social and moral issue and women's rights of men to defend the right to work.

If It is a crime to fight for the right to work, then we, the 4p Cancellations the A7120- French Concorde by US airlines threatens well 30,000 jobs over an is country alone producing the Concorde's Olym- the en. ouS engine, gines for the Anglo-French Jaguar strike aircraft which the French navy is turning down.

The navy wants the new Super-Etendard plane which equipped with Ameri- Wolle • OP can Pratt and Whitney engines.

one on the Costie, boom. said: More Concorde blow, said: Diodusues are to come when me Nixon rollne d trade negotiations gets under way. Bill Freeman (with beard), chairman of the joint chapels, watches with colleagues as the High Court writ Sit-in printers burn court order Colour workers, plead rant guilty. But let the men and of this country judge US, A statement prepared by the

BCP

Joint chapels committee also called for a Charter

THE

EXECUTIVE of the Civil Public Services and assoclation. meeting today, will consiaer call- 200,000 civil senatios a sinist the national strike 1 Ores Day law. But the locomen's chiefs de- cided yesterday Perspectives for transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party

TOMORROW

Workers Press carries the first publication of the Draft Pro- gramme for the transformation of the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party in 1973. Presented by the SLL Central Committee, it gives a comprehensive analysis of the political situation and outlines the revolutionary programme, starting from unity in action basic democratic to defend rights, which can take the working class forward to force the Tories to resign. The publication of this reso- lution puts into effect the un- animous resolution of the All Trades Unions Alliance Octo- ber 22, 1972 conference, where 2,200 delegates called for this first step to the transformation of the SIL into the revolution- ary party. In every area, the SLL will be organizing the widest pos- sible discussion on this docu- ment, and the columns of the Workers Press are open for all amendments, additions, criti- cisms and questions. The final resolution will form the basis for a special conference in the spring to plan the founding of the party. Make sure of your copy on Saturday. Order now by phoning 01-622 7029. with colleagues as the High Court writ 'We take the view,' the com- mittee said, 'that it is about time in this country that work- ing men and women had a Charter of Rights with the right to work and enjoy a de- cent standard of livng as the basis.' action. They will continue talks with British Rail. In London today there will be protest strikes two big over pay. Ancillary workers at St George's Hospital, Hyde Park, Will stage a 24-hour strike and electricians will hold an unoffi- rial cial rally at Speakers' Corner.

Police strike-breaking PAGE 2 Workers Press, Friday Februar PRESIDENT Nixon has des mit talks with Tory premier E 'enormously important and i effort to flatter and woo his gu Talks opened yesterday at the in Camp David, a rarely used ve meetings. As a further sign of agreed to attend a dinner at the I Nixon said the agenda for the talks would include trade, the European Security Con- ference and negotiations on mutual and balanced force re- duction. He said the question of relations with Europe 'must be put on the top burner.

He wants to put pressure on the bankrupt British employing class to aid the US capitalists in breaking up the European market. US capital has been pouring into Britain in the past few years in anticipation of EEC entry. In the car industry, for example, three firms out of the Big Four are in US hands. In banking, the big : US banks are now using London as their base for operations in Europe.

France in particular is wor- ried about this development.

De Gaulle's chief objection in the past to British entry in the EEC was that it would be a Trojan Horse for US invest- ment in European industry.

Paris newspaper Le The Monde', , summarizing the trade questions involved in Heath's talks with Nixon, commented somewhat acidly that though the British government had never appreciated the agricul- of the EEC, it tural policy knew that its good relations with Paris were dependent on the determination to put it into practice. Heath will no doubt try a balancing act in the face of harsh US demands for trade concessions. But one thing is already clear: he cannot please Nixon and his newly- both acquired European partners.

And as the fate of Concorde demonstrates, no amount of diplomatic footwork can avoid the blows of the trade war and economic recession. PRESIDENT Nixon's special adviser, Dr Henry Kissinger, will visit Hanoi from Febru- ary 10 to 13 for discussions with North Vietnamese lead- ers. President Nixon said that an important the visit was development. If the North Vietnamese participated in re- building the country, Nixon said, 'they will have a tendency to turn inward to the works of peace rather than outward to the works of war' What he is talking about is a not bribe to Hanoi to carry through the Vietnamese revolu- tion. The aim is to offer big fin- ancial aid in return for conces- sions which will ensure survival of the Thieu regime in the South and maintenance of American in- VAT myth explodes TORY myths about limiting the

BY AN ECONOMICS REPORTER

impact of the Common Market's

VAT

has been completely initial VAT and even lowering the exploded. surcharge to 7t per cent. Commission By making these statements Barber The European

TUC

Brussels has decided to And i R place ween strictest limits on goods which garden path. Just as they got the off the ground by

VAT.

be exempted from also considering a new standard rate Sayilla everyl on lue dockla 5 per cent they are of VAl at 15 now promising higher hich Britain leniency which they can't hope achieve. will April 1. latroduct February opts rhe Common Africul will these «rectives TrON the commission to the Britain adopts the Policy. And Press Council of Ministers later thi: Association's agricultural They the make mockery oI ‹enl Sale advice Anthony Barber, 'starts inexorable the progress used venue for diplomatic Exchequer, has bringing farm food prices Chancellor of the of favour, Nixon has line with those the In been unlon caacts

EEC'.

about making special exemptions or lie Around the world African workers in wave of pay fights in Durban STRONG mobile miled elite into units were African and Indian town- ships around Durban yesterday break transport boycott as the

BY FOREIGN EDITOR JOHN SPENCER

city's strike wave mounts.

Armed squads were ordered and trains would running working WarOS and bus scheduled and some Durban Pakey industries such stations to patrol official as textiles, firms depots to prevent any intimi-

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on their of people workers chemicals dation' travelling to mission to kees alle Surallaye

OCCI

premises overnight rather than hit past three by strikes in the and from work. The head OI send them home. Under the law, over pay, was only 4.50 and which squad, this strike-breaking to extreme case

A COUS

Brigadier Bisschoff, said his to their townships at night.

men would crack down hard Although primarily Most of the strikes have been on anyone molesting those who recently-increased fares, the boy. shortlived, but have reflected rises which pay wished. co CoLI aiso al c The cailways issued repeated marked hardening of attitudes nercentage basis. siderable on a workers to- among many black if not in real money terms.

everyone asoul alicco Ulster bus bomb kills builder A BOMB thrown into a made off. peThe Irish Republican Whitelaw reaime to neu bus at Kings- There The tralize known murder was bus huge informed the Dundonald, bang and the Army has gangs was wal Ulster Defence contributed immen

ASSOCC

Belfast early yesterday Denouncing the sec- tion that a new phase of sely to ine nigh casually morning killed one tarian murders by Pro- sectarian killings will rate sectarian kill- man the be says

IRA.

and injured nine testant extremists, not tolerated As been assassinations five serousiv Hows ond

INA

warned Wad to nave expected, the first The bus was taking yesterday that it 'has were British troops building workers to option but to take ruth. peated appeals to the operating retaliatory action

UDA

meetings 1o civilian clothes less for of a new school in SIle discuss the murders monster thus creat. cultule was waved down ments who engage have mot with longer calt the bouts cowardly acts against ponse. controlled by the British forces.' bomb inside defenceless, innocent The refusal of the

BRIEFLY • BRIEFLY

Kissinger bound for Hanoi

WRITER

Augusto Lindolfo, former member of the illegal Por- Communis rary alas been shot as hé entered his home Oporto. He hit in the was with new Nixon bribe chest. arms and legs by fire from two men in a passing car.

THE

prosecutor sentences if ask for expect 19

BY A WORKERS PRESS REPORTER

and l years' tor men accusea or setung up a fluence whole of Indo- for Control and Supervision, also revolutionary organization in the the army aimed at turning the coun- under ceasefire agree- Culld The Soviet and Chinese bur- ment. nas. sull not begun tryko a consumist state already work. trial is a former law professor have bought eaucracies Dogu Perincek, a student and 32 helicopters have Thel im Droved relanons will Amenican picked , Liberation officers the Jumor omeers. ar mne start or une case on Wednesday they refused Now National Army and people. to recognize the military court in take hown them Saigon to Will uner Ankara and the judges adjourned force the North and part in the the Joint Military com- National Liberation Front They Tan tra eute led to consider ineir position Tra who led General Tran plete sell-out of the revolution

SOCIALIST

offices Party That is what Nixon is count- moe yoo ler oress ve. Milan were seriously damaged by In the Press Heavy conference fighting has continued ing on. plastic bombs Wednesday on places although Lne missinger ln a numoel night. Notes nearby claimed that he said: would have been appears to be tapering off. the expiosion was the work dishonour had South Vietnamese marines were peace with fascist 'Mussolini Action the bugged out and allowed what the driven base just below of a Squad' VUl Vietnamese zone wanted-me dentitanted Winda imposition communist they had grabbed only two min.

RUMANIAN leaders have been utes before Sunday's cease. communist last government French Foreign Codillion Vulnister Maurice Schumann the honours 10 ole veran Inis goal tney have failed to achieve. The first team from the Inter.

his visit Bucharest. during is expected They have secured French back Hallullal commission ing for their application for pre- HANUl nas accused i neu s gov- To eave saigon for the country. . consist of 24 ernment of trying to delay the side today. It will ferential treatment from the of the soldiers Canada, Hungary, Common Market Joint which tour-party would activilice 11 Ul. will Military Commission in vernam Hones a aerodeney enve gooas to enter ai The International Commission visit Hue, Danang and Pleiku. lower tariff rates. He says that butter will double in price to 46p a pound over the next couple of years, apples will get pean by one bread wil by ease by June, bread will increase so will beef and cereals.

Eggs have shot up in price by up to 3p a dozen in the past three weeks since January 10. And they are to cost even more now that the CAP is introduced. From today no packs of eggs from any part of the Common Market will bear their country of origin.

The housewife's only way of identifying a British pack will be by means of a code (No. 9).

The government has given per- mission for textile manufacturers to increase their prices by a staggering 75 per cent. This is because of a sharp rise in world raw wool prices.

number of workers who A came out in two textile mills and a chemical factory on Wednes- day were expected to return to work yesterday morning-if they the threatened did not join boycott. The strike is not confined to the sections of lowest-paid workers. It is a general move- of the Durban workers ment against inhuman conditions which have been rendered intolerable by repressive laws and rampant inflation. It is the first big strike move- ment in the Republic itself since the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 which clamped a fascist-style regime of terror on the black workers of South Africa. Last year's strike of Ovambo contract workers in South-West Africa marked the beginning of a new wave of struggle against the white supremacy regime and brought previously quiescent workers onto the scene. Now the force that the white minority has so long feared is on the march: the African work- ing class. The white liberals are running in terror to the government, begging and pleading for con- to be made to the cessions strikers. The venal white union leaders are making the same plea.

Their words are wasted on the leaders of the apartheid regime who know that their virtual slave-labour system can be main- tained one way and one way only-by piling repression on repression and cutting down everyone who stands up for his rights. The time has long passed when there can any: compromise between the South African rulers and the black majority, as the liberals want. The strike actions in Durban are nothing less than a declara- tion of war by the courageous workers of this industrial city, who know they will face police bullets and prison camps as a result. A BELGIAN experiment in broadcasting the parliamentary session Tuesday when the on new Leburton government pre- sented its policy turned sour.

The proceedings began with a of the scufile when members government overflowed onto the opposition benches. Then, while the Prime Minister was reading his statement, he was constantly with interrupted insults from nationalists, Flemish who also hurled leaflets at him. Leburton's proposals have done nothing to appease the linguistic conflict which has plunged the country into a political crisis ever since the last elections.

900 jobs in jeopardy at Rockware, Greenford Asset-stripping at Workers Press,

BY PHILIP WADE

THE CLOSURE of a major bottle factory just outside Lon- don was finally decided on the basis of the soaring market value of the land on which the plant stands.

At the same time, the shut-down and the sale of the land will enable the company—the giant Rockware Group-to ruthlessly rationalize production at its remaining plants.

At the Greenford site the 900 workers have been told there will be TOr being made the pawns of a

GEORGE COWLEY

THE ROCKWARE Group is , the Bailey or Engineering Workers, is run by deal property Det wees gamated family. Managing David Bailey company and Rockware. It director 209,000 25p shares for the sookesman co-ornaine committee ce , with a market value or aboul is certain that any attempt €180,000. J. A. Bailej has 539,000 shares cur- sack to close the plant or stewards Helens rently €460,00( valued managing workers there will met be offered ter lisudson Visillg •recLor . stiff with and the other factories. about £160,000. Iesistance, possibly a sit-in. The firm manufactures milk o mos t Bas beer Rockware controls and close the factory, the bottles, vials for penicillin and so on. money of the market cent in glass 33 per cent of the market.

COn- tinuously—and it might be their turn next.

contancis. a provoruon wuica months ending June 1972 sales For the si is growing. United uiass, ine reing Trom m652,000 to 4167,00 , pre-tax profits leading firm £652,000 £767,000 and divi- 40 per has about Colll two companies inerelore Iotm Greenford workers 750,000 •hocuce

DOLLS

jars a day, about tons worth out of total 2,200 turned

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OUI

ine group's nive lactories With the new technolog)

CKWARE

CLASS

used in the industry,

KOCK-

Ware savo i cad broouce wad!

needs four factories for s hm But equally the need ior omited The to finance the research and •revious chairmen nave earned about year. 1971 several directors were development in e clear-out operation, each receiving 116,000 needed to Lakt Inspection department at Rockware competitor doreas United Glass. "If they start making workers redundant here compensation. For year the group had will undoubtedly positive The workforce - including those at Greenfordtais put at rust over 7,50g.

we takt dcudl been do studving what to not been formally this where it was would In 1971 the group gave £1,000 to the British impossible finance the factory right-wing Tory fund- United rationalization orortanmuc £300 Some given to the the within company Workers are beginning to realize that larg itself. corporations are only interested in profit at th chairmar In the commenting on the past few years the Peter Parker, expense of human beings. Greenford said: «Witl thi move has shut-down, developed two CrOWD "The West Middlesex area has thousands out with ultra-modern plants. One was look forward to 4 lulia at Wheatley, of work. All that is going on round here is the relish. Our view is that if you get the Doncaster lOgISTICS Yorkshire, construction of storage Everything is and concentration of the best space. noW right e oe really get something Where Irvine New Town in Ayr- you

DELLE

colacl humming in 'the 1974 period.'

shire. does it end? Who cries At both these companies it discovered how Was to pro- duce more bottles with fewer 1964 it had That factory is workers, while receiving gov- Last valued in further rationalization and STe netroy. a book price of £3.5m. But the closure programme. also closing down. une romas group admits it is worth far Ealing borough council, the investment grants. Although no names havı Remaining were the plants more today. local authority, says some esuimates been revealed, Rock mare most St put it at over f10m. there have been no planning Helens, Lancashire, probable that the The picture becomes clearer for site Yorkshire, and already have an offer for the dobucaliuls Greenford. question at this point. Greenford-the land. of which first plant, built in inquiries' had been made one was to close group's the 35-acre plot The the And last year Slater Walker about It was at this voint that the - would Close. buying Rock. question redundant. Securities began of land values arose. workers matele arco LOnCO I0l Obviously the site shares thick and fast. use, but borders a residential best was ware buy Slater's group bought the Greenford - all 35 land and Rockware Jim area hat the Rockware workers that at acres of it. would be or way land at Westland Helicopter s (LO S a

STEELWORKERS

Flint- REGINALD Prentice, the Shadow He further: the strike throughout from Shotton in worker Minister has should not be used as a poli- shire the East Moors works at Employment, Wales are planning a one-day Cardiff and Ebbw Vale tical democracy. become the Rav Gunter weapon in .a OI LIt stoppage-on March I-St David's Labour Party in 1970g. The CUNe Mr Monti, of Ken secreldry latest outburst predict- Cabinet took the unanimous Day-in the protest against Shotton works action com- the able enough from this rapidly- decision that could not mittee, said: devastating cutbacks in their any action exvoioe NeiL- WIkCI

ITON

DuDUlt East Ham North. He has come industry. was in are going ask every-

COHCL

witelt 'We to against strikes oppo- law.". body tor s oit work for the 10,000 Prentice full-time demonstration bi sition to the state pay laws.

is former day into

LUTI

Work steelworkers being suggested Transport and General Bad law. he mourning.' Savo. unusı bc oo- at Newton mid-Wales, which "democratic and posed by proces- Union oiicia union-sponsored MP. The steelworkers throughout and not by strikes. ses' conveneny Stiatee is Press, Friday February 2, 1973 PAGE 3 are faced with here is a com- bination of a ruthless ration- alization process by a big corporation and the work of land speculators. As such it is part and parcel of what is fast be- coming a natural occurrence throughout British capitalism.

The planned victims in the process are the workers. Backing the company is a Tory government which is determined to modernize and rationalize British capitalism at the expense of the working Rockware workers are Class. therefore facing a process which is not special to them.

No amount of persuasion will deter Rockware from pursuing its course to ruthless conclusion. It begins, naturally enough, from profit- ability. At the centre of all the campaigns launched by the Rockware workers must be these central facts. The fight for the right to work today is a political fight against the monopolies and their govern- ment. A call must go out from the co-ordinating committee for full support in action by the Labour government and trade union movement. workers' The Rockware struggle for the right to work merges today with the offen- sive of the working class generally to defend its rights on all fronts. On the right to strike, to negotiate wage in- creases, against the 'fair rents' Act ,.and risint is ready to prices, working class move forward. At the centre of such a mobilization can be only one demand: the resignation of the Tories through the mass action of the class. A Labour government must nationalize Rockware without compensation, group putting the plants under the control of those who work in them. Landowners must be similarly expropriated. Only on that basis can the industry be. run for the benefits of those who work in it. the country don't need a day of mourning. They need a day of intense to bring political organization their demand for the right to work into the mainstream of today's struggles against the Tory sovernment and its repressive • See Steel series on centre pages.

PAGE & Worker

LAND GRAB

BY PHILIP WADE PART TWO

OLD HOMES

FOR

OFFICES

Over 700 tenants have already been moved out Covent Garden of the area by the Greater Lon- don Council. In two in- stances, evidence exists that the vacated dwell- ings have been smashed up to prevent their being used again. of Cam- North and south Trendishoe bridge Circus are Mansions Sandringham and Buildings respectively. Owned GLC and Westminster by une council they them, between used to house working-class tenants. After the tenants began to workmen moved in Move t destroy the fixtures and fittings, rendering the dwellings uninhabitable. Today almost the blocks are empty, save for four families in Trendishoe.

This week the nature of the deal over Trendishoe Mansions became clearer. It was an- nounced that Town and City Properties, which the own block behind, had been sold ay February 2, 1873

JAMES KERFE

Trendishoe by the GLC for a mere £625,000. to go The company means straight ahead with a gigantic office block on the site, while the GLC will undoubtedly get the land it needs to widen Charing Cross Road. Sandringham Flats will also be needed to provide room for the eight-lane road and dis- cussions are in progress over future development on the site.

for Plans are a multi- storey car park, an office block up to 200 ft high, 100 luxury flats and a new fire station. no provision for There is public housing. In March and April 1971 the GLC began moving out tenants from Siddons and Stirling Buildings, Tavistock Street, at the rear of the Waldorf Hotel.

Of the 70 one- and two- bedroom flats, 68 were vacated by June 1972. The site, which is owned by the GLC, interestingly enough seen by the planners as the spot for a luxury hotel, car parking for 450 cars and the sunken road.

The London 'Evening Stan- dard' reported on April 21, 1971, that tenants were ...against plans which would demolish their flats to make way for a 400 bedroom exten- sion. Trust House Forte has applied for planning permission the hotel extension, but will not get a decision from the GLC for some time'.

ARTS

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Trust House Forte's chair- man of directors is Lord Thorneycroft, ex-Tory Avia- tion Minister. With the GLC's rush to clear the dwellings, nearly all the tenants had to move out of the area. And, of course, where before they were paying just over £2 a week, the GLC could now only offer flats at around f8 or £9 a week. The site is strategis to the plan for a sunken road and International Conference Centre. Every one of the Greater Lon- don Council's millions of rate- undoubtedly would payers agree that the thing to do at the end of the Strand would be to demolish two theatres other things) and (among build a £5m conference centre for big business. Well, that is what the well- loved Tories at County Hall are going right ahead with.

Two victims of the scheme would be the Lyceum and Duchess theatres, together with flower the Covent Garden market. Not surprisingly there are a number of developers thought in the to be interested

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'scheme', including Town and City and an American chain of hotels. Presumably most of the land would have to be bought from the Covent Garden Market • Authority which was given a £12m government loan last year to buy up all the small market traders in the area.

The London Evening Stan- dard', reporting a number of developers 'interested' in the idea, said in May 1971 that the 'huge conference centre' would hold between 4,250 and 6,000 delegates'. It went on: County Hall planners think the conference centre would cost £5m to build and equip, excluding land acquisition. Running costs, to be covered by income, are cal- culated at £600,000 a year. Additional revenue could be raised, suggests the GLC, by using the centre for other pur- poses than conferences when- ever possible.' Obviously such a centre would not be complete with- out the usual hotel, offices, shops and restaurants. The GLC showed willingness to have such aspects incorpor- ated into the plan and not long after the announcement no less than nine private development agencies said to be were swarming into the GLC head- quarters seeking out the route to multi-million pound profits.

Last month the London Con- vention Bureau-an offshoot of the London Tourist Board- confirmed that the conference centre was turning into another potential money-spinner. A report recommended that the GLC set its sights higher and build a main hall capable of seating 5,000 instead of the proposed 2,000. One enthusiastic Tory MP would to be Robert seem Adley, who sits for Bristol The Arts Theatre Club, on a site Square under- Leicester near ground station, Is another theatre threatened by the scheme. Inset: Fixtures destroyed in GLC hous- ing, rendering the dwellings un- Inhabitable. North-East. In January of last year Adley asked two tions in the House of Com- mons about the conference centre proposals. He is listed as a director of the Common- wealth Holiday Inns of Canada Ltd, among other things. If this centre ever gets built, businessmen will cer- tainly find enough room in London to lounge about. The International Trade Centre at St Katherine's Docks has con- ference facilities; there is room for 2,000 at the Grosvenor Hotel; another 4,000 will come at the Barbican and at the new Cunard International Hotel.

Yet another potential site where offices are planned and the GLC wants to build roads is the one owned by Town and City Properties Ltd, near Leicester Square underground station. Geoffrey Rippon has just listed for preservation the on- pub on the corner of Upper St Martins Lane and Great Newport Street. But this should not hold up things for ever. Rippon himself told the Tory Bow Group's annual dinner last month that listing was not absolute prohibition an on redevelopment. All it meant • extra stage of was an con- sideration. 'There may be cases where tol much-needed new development

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• take place only at the can sacrifice of one or more listed buildings,' he said. East's £90m T&C Barry group first revealed its plans for the site in September 1971, around the time of the public inquiry into the GLC re- development plan for the Covent Garden area. 'A £15m scheme . i . would include a substantial amount of air-conditioned office accom- modation; a theatre, a cultural and sports centre; 19 shops; parking and residential car accommodation comprising some 36 flats,' said a company spokesman. He also revealed that a special joint company had been formed with Management Agency and Music Ltd, run by Tom Jones and other pop stars, to develop the site.

In October, after plans for 200,000 sq ft of office space had broken, the 'Daily Tele- graph' revealed how the T&C/ MAM partnership was working.

... MAM has bought the leases of 6, 7 and 8 Great Newport Street ... The group of companies owning the leases, Thalia, MEC Productions, and the London Arts Theatre Committee, were acquired by MAM for £85,000, the paper reported. Town and City already owned the freeholds of the properties which were vital in making up a viable block for redevelopment. On the site at present are the Arts Theatre Club, the Photographers' Gallery, Sir Renolds press, Joshua three publishing groups, designers, film-makers and around 20 low-income flats, as well as a secondhand book shop and the pub. During October 1971, the "Telegraph' announced that Peter Birtwistle, director of the Arts Theatre Club had been appointed to the board of International Property De- velopment, the T&C/MAM company. one of the vital Again, questions to be asked is: if the GIC wants its roads, will there be some give and take on both sides?

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area. Key to numbers in Here are the landowners. The list is as complete as it can be, given the possibilities of new owners coming in all the time, and the difficulty in establishing the true identity of the owners. Remember when reading about the plans for the sites that London now has 10,000,000 sq. ft. of vacant office space. Stock Conversion and Invest- ment Trust Ltd: Britain's l1th largest property company with capital valued at £60m. Pre-tax profits last year £3.2m. Total were over dividend before tax 30 was per cent. The company has in- in 38 subsidiary or terests associated companies. Joe Levy built this empire, which involves Euston the Centre and much of Piccadilly Circus. Levy recently threat- ened that if the go-ahead was not given for the Piccadilly scheme, he would put out his land on long leases, frustrat- ing any future plans. Besides the luxury offices at plot 1, Stock Conversion own of King Street, West parts Tower Street, Street, Mon- mouth Street, Earlham Street and Shaftesbury Avenue, Long Acre and the Cambridge and Palace Theatres. Map num- bers include 34, 36, 42, 43, 44 (with the GLC-to be demol- ished for the widening of Shaftesbury Avenue) and part of 59. Town and City Properties: A fast-growing company with for which they al outline planning And it is almost ce will enable enough taken allow widening operation place The block will, if completed, partner. to T&C's plo wants to 200,000 sq. the AA building Square. Barry East' which also £2,747 Party in 1971. Hammerson Trust: vestment The fourth largest c this field, it owns th site numbered 7. O was given to the To 1971. With assets of over £130m son has nearly Profits companies. were over f9m. Metropolitan and Company national: These two giant have joint assets of c and formed a specia to develop the sites Reed International ( day's Workers Press Reed's embraces rublishing ation which 'Daily Sir magazines. company is, of cour. ed £250m develop- It has control over on Charing which, it will be d, is to be widened. k it was announced C had sold Trendi- ons (38—see separ- just £625,000. Only mden, in an attempt offered the This T&C, in partner- Shipman Estates, with a 325,000 block (1t times y of Centre Point) they already have permission. almost certain T&C enough land to be road- take k will, if and when T&C's plot 31 where make nice build another in Leicester plot owns • Property and In- largest company in : owns the four-acre Over £1,000 o the Tory Party in total property er £130m, Hammer 90 subsidiary Profits last year giant companies ssets of over £630m a special company the sites owned by lational (See yester- ers Press). mbraces the Inter- Corpor- 'ublishing out the several , of course, also in- Workers Press, Fr volved in paper manufacturing and packaging. MEPC is Britain's second largest property company and recently announced the results of a revaluation of one-third of all its UK holdings and all the company's Australian in- vestments. And what was previously valued at just over £70m, was suddenly found to be worth, in iss. book values that some £119m! Former British Rail chief, Sir Henry Johnson, now MEPC's chairman, said honestly: 'There have been substantial changes in the mar- ket level of property prices' Reed and MEPC between made almost £55m them profits last year. In addition to the Odhams Press site (20, most of 27 and part of 19), the companies in- another Centre Point tend office block at site 8 directly opposite Harry Hyams' empty giant on block 9. Other land owned by this group is at 12 and 13 (73,000 sq. ft. of office), part of 30, part of 69 (for more offices) and all of 79. The architect for most of the schemes is Richard Seifert, designer of Centre Point.

Oldham Estates: in Harry Hyams' company, which his personal share is put above £20m, of course owns Centre Point at 9. It also owns the southern half of 83, which is the site of another empty Hyams block - Space. House. Trust Houses Forte: This £160m hotel and catering group, with ex-Tory aviation minister Lord Thorneycroft as chairman, is deeply involved.

It owns most of 10 (the re- mainder is held by Pruella In- vestments), 46, the Talk of the Town (to be pulled down for road widening), and 73, the Waldorf Hotel. Under man- aging director Sir Charles Forte, the company is also in- volved in the Piccadilly scheme.

Land Securities Investment Trust: is Britain's This biggest property company with quoted assets of more than £700m, annual rents totalling £33.3m and a net profit last year of £28.5m. Sir Harold Samuel, the chair- man, is also nancial adviser to the Covent Garden Market Authority, which has a lot of land to dispose of. Land Securities, which is also involved in Piccadilly and Victoria Street owns part of site 22, and the whole of 88.

Sterling Land: This f2m company is 16-per- cent owned by Slater Walker Securities. Owns part of 12, 40,52 and part of 56. Haslemere Estates: This £54m company expects to complete its offices-hotel block next year on site 16. The other piece of land owned by this company is part of 59. Amalgamated Investment and Property Company: !. and managing The chairman director of this company is Gabriel Harrison. Through a subsidiary AlP owns 50 per cent of the Hay's Wharf £300m redevelopment. In Covent Garden it owns the northern section of 21 part of 35 and 40 and the whole of 89. Star (Great Britain) Holdings Ltd: This £268m company recently revalued and found itself worth another £100m. It is the third largest property company in Britain. It owns the centre of block 37 along Shaftesbury Avenue and the western part of block 15. Country and New Town Properties: This company has outline planning permission for the re- development of the Adelphi Theatre. It intends to replace the whole site (57) with • the usual array of offices. This £10m company is a subsidiary of the British and Commonwealth Shipping Corp- oration, which has assets of £175m. Directors include Lord Rotherwick. This company blocks 22 Trafalgar also Owns block studios, the Covent Post. Office Pension Fund: ing story. of Wales later, sold it and Company for Partly-owned official Crown House all round. David Lewis: This of Eastern ings Ltd, an owns part 53. Covent Authority: Owners Grand Sir Maxwell hold 48. Crown Estates: Real This company half of 81. Britain's most assurance well block 82, of company cave Block and southern Prudential London's private hats man of the 'fair rents' The Drury owned by the £10,000 to the 1971. Rank

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'Everything I have came from steel', Shotton action committee VICe chairman Mr Geofi Hett told me at his home. We take it won't let them away from us.' On December 28, 1972, the Tory irrevocably government down the curtain on rung steelworks which has been the of the industry. The pride 13,500-strong plant has made a profit every year since it was first opened by John Summers

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Part Two. Shotton: 'We won't let them take our works' around 1908, last and even €500,000 was the vear ll 1n black. During the worst period when other works like East Cardiff, and bow Vale were shut down for years on end, Shotton stayed open. Its men were on short time and there was work-sharing, but all through the slump the demand for Shotton's special sott stee s carried the steemen through the blackest days.

1926 John Summers' in- the tegrated steel plant was largest producer of steel plates Britain. Three years later, when blast furnaces 100 miles south were being blown out as the export market collapsed, the expan- sion of the car industry kept Shotton in business. As the German panzer divisions rolled into Czechoslo- vakia in 1939 firing the open- ing shots in World War II, in addition to its steel-making the Shotton became most modern rolling mill in Europe.

Since the war £60m has been spent modernizing the 1,000- acre plant on the banks of the River Dee, £20m of it in the last decade and £7m of that in the last three years on new coke ovens and production lines for aluminium coated steel. In 1962 all previous and sub- profit levels sequent were smashed with a weekly output of 33,000 tons-a level of production only exceeded the week after the British Steel Corporation announced the closure. By the mid-1960s the 8,750- strong town, which sprang up at the turn of the century almost overnight in green fields on the banks of the Dee, became known as one of the most prosperous in Britain.

its successes, due Despite mainly to two periods of recon- struction after wars which hamstrung competitors, the Summers project was doomed from the start. It opened in 1908 in a high- • remote from the cost area cheap ore fields of South Wales or north east England and away from deep-water berths for ore imports. Had Summers opted to follow Dorman Long in setting up the new plant in Lincoln- shire-now along with Port Talbot one of the key areas where steel production is to be concentrated - things might have been different. But they did not. When the time came for John Summers to move from Stalybridge to a it could ted new site where

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expand, the company opted in- stead for Shotton-close to the big markets of Liverpool, Man- chester and the Midlands.

In 1972 with both export and home markets in con- traction the transport costs which make Shotton a dearer proposition than Port Talbot or Lincolnshire have turned out to be its kiss of death.

Shotton is an open-hearth steel plant. Massive investment (about £50m) to install the vastly more effective and larger basic oxygen converters poured in. could have been But for the crucial fact that the competitiveness of British • period of world steel in a excess capacity means viciously driving down costs, including transport charges. Although they would rather not believe it, many steelmen sense that this is the logic guiding the Melchett axe. At Shotton and Ebbw Vale the burning question is not when will steel-making end, but when will the axe slice into the finished products divisions as well. The same arguments apply at both works. If it is too ex- pensive to cart ore from the north east to Shotton or from

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in- the an- ort on- sts rer bot led rth ent ind ers in. hat ish rld sly ing her 1C1l gIC At the but nto ons ply ex- Shotton action committee formed to fight the closure of the steelworks.

Above: the Geoff Hett, vice chairman of the Shotton workers and their families march through the town, in one of a series of demonstrations against closure.

om Workers Press, Friday February 2, 1973 PAGE 7 the coast to Ebbw Vale, how Flintshire granted inter- was long before the cost of freight- mediate status as a depressed ing steel to the finishing plants in 1972 there have area been will also look ripe for pruning?

28 applications from in- only dustrialists with a potential of Equally important, the hot- providing a mere 1,000 jobs- mill machinery is immediately 800 for women. post war and compares most The failure of new factories unfavourably with the labour to appear in Shotton has not savings to be had from BSC's been lost on the steelmen.

new mechanized and automated Almost from mills. the moment The Shotton men claim they the Tories came to power on June 18, 1970, waving the de- have no intention of letting nationalization plan things go that far. above their heads, Flintshire formed Said Mr Hett: 'We will go all a committee to fight any pro- out to maximize production to posals to shut the steel works.

show the BSC our worth. MPs, local councillors, 'But going to have pro- we are fessional people and traders sat none of this slow amputation the committee and three the point where you can't on to work.' months ago, as the storm The decision of John Sum- clouds gathered over Shotton, the 13,500 the Stalybridge clog- steelmen set mers, up their own works' committee.

maker, to build his new works On Wednesday January Shotton thin 10 at threw up Lord Melchett went to Shotton of ribbon development shops and houses all along the coast to explain to both committees road from Chester to Flint.

that his hands were tied. He had no power to stop the living standards Whatever closure. workers have they owe to steel.

The immediate And it was the boom years of response from the steelmen of the com- the early 1960s which gave Connahs Quay 'we'll fight it all munity was, Shotton and the way. their new public buildings, in- Library, Initially the men intend cluding college, to baths and municipal offices.

pull out all the stops to in- the plant's profitability half of Over century and thereby sell it to BSC as relative of employ- security a proposition worth hanging rising living ment and They will also propose on too. standards, during which gener- the modernization of existing of ations steelmen never furnaces. experienced a major strike, has But there are limits to what understandably led many to can be done. The plant already the conclusion that if only they operates a three-shift work harder the plant can be system, of good there is record saved. labour relations, productivity Of course, it cannot. But the has been drastically hiked up very same history which pro- duces this attitude-almost and the labour force reduced as by a policy of non-replacement.

a reflex-at the same time has Even if Shotton's profits triggered another. be marginally increased Mr Hett (46), whose father can through harder work, the steel- and grandfather before him will be treadmill were in steel, summed it up men on a the effect of he told me: 'Nobody is with slump on when providing the to stop us making steel costs ever going faster current. at Shotton. More important, the logic of And, the least, at very T&GWU leader world excess capacity dictates Welsh Tom that BSC must dramatically in- Jones' statement that 'we will its share of dwindling fight on the beaches of the crease markets by pushing Dee savagely estuary to keep steel down costs—-this the making here' reflects the deep means fewest number of plants with mood of defiance among steel- the largest possible output.

men. Their determination is understandable. Shotton steel largest is the single industry from Merthyr Tydfil to Liver- It also means a fight. At all pool and the biggest the on the threatened steelworks this entire north Wales coast.

must involve a bitter struggle.

Together with Flintshire's There can be no work-in at major industries. two other steelworks which produce no aircraft and textiles-Hawker finished products they can sell.

Broughton Siddeley, and Most will important, who Courtaulds. Holywell employ supply the ore from which the 10,500—steel accounts for is steel made if they even 23,000 of the 54.000 insured could dispose of it? working population. Steel From the outset Shotton represents 24 per alone cent steelmen know that if raised of the work force. production fails there is only If only 6,500 jobs are axed outright occupation left, by 1980 in the steel-making Tom Tones as well as who. division, promised as by being Welsh T&GWU leader is Melchett, at present levels un- of the North also secretary employment would leap at Wales

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vice-chairman of conservative estimate from 3.8 the Council for Wales and 15.5 per to cent. of chairman the Shotton In practice it would be far Campaign committee, says the worse than that. Dockers' jobs union will back an occupation.

at Birkenhead, where the steel- He does not say how or in works ore is imported, would what And there is little way. be threatened, would 700 so doubt that his view that the jobs Beresham at colliery, only real solution to the sack- which supplies coke. ings is a 35-hour week through- An incalculable number of out industry is being brought jobs in building, engineering, bear on the works com. to and haulage would disappear mittee. and all types of service trades Mr Hett put the same view.

from the corner shop upwards But the steelmen are faced with would be hit. immediate problem an and Mr Hett estimates that for their solutions are tending to every job lost the in steel- be more practical and more works another will go in capable of rapid attainment dependent industries and The works has committee trades. If the entire works acted to already prevent all closes, more than 20,000 jobs machinery plant and from could be affected and Flint- leaving the works. shire's economy would collapse.

And talk is ranging over Over the years Flintshir calling other on organized ounty Council has sought t workers for help-especially persuade John Summers Liverpool dockers--if it comes to make available land it owns to an occupation. adjacent to the steelworks for Said Mr Hett: "They are not other industries. but it has taking our works from us.

We always been turned down. can have £200m in capital tied up here overnight. The men on Many workers guess this was the finishing side will be because the company be- did not hind us too. They know their want wage and labour com- only short petition from other firms.

reprieve is term. We are united to a man! After the Tory carve-up, this Jand will be made certainlv available-but too late. Since

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THE PRICE OF PEACEFUL

PAGE 8 Workers Pyess, Friday Februal

BY JOHN SPENCER

The latest issue of "Tur- kish Digest, put out by the military regime's State Information Organ- ization, reveals the close collaboration between the Turkish government and the Communist Party leaders of eastern Europe.

It also provides a glaring exposure of the Stalinist idea 'peaceful co-existence', of which 1s used to justify col laboration with anti-communist regimes. Under the headline 'The Yugoslav Prime Minister in Turkey, the paper recounts how upon an invitation ex- tended by the Turkish Prime Minister, the president of the Executive Council of Federal the Republic of Yugoslavia, Mr Djemal Bijedic, paid an official visit to Turkey on Nov- ember 19 to November 24'.

On its front page the maga- zine carries a large photograph of the Yugoslav delegation chatting amicably with pre- sident Cevdet Sunay, one of the leaders of the army-backed government. The Turkish premier, Ferit a dinner in Melen, gave Bijedic's honour and 'expressed his delight at the presence of the the Prime Minister and distinguished members of the delegation, in Turkey'. He that the repeated explained visits [sic] between officials contributing to the were development of understanding between the two countries.

Both parties declared their appreciation of the principles and aims of the Charter of the United Nations (which sup- human posedly guarantees rights!) and they looked for- ward to the further develop- ment and intensification of the between the close contacts two countries. The visit had its lighter side: The guests paid a visit to where they showed Istanbul admiration for the Topkapi Other touristic places Palace. were visited and a cruise along the Bosphorus was made.' But serious matters were not neglected: 'On the second day of his visit to Istanbul, Mr Bijedic visited the Cayırova Glass Factory and the Ipras Yarimaca, where Refinery at he was briefed on the petro- chemical industry in Turkey.'

It is to be hoped that the visit did not tire Bijedic and party too much because he had another, similar, appoint- ment to keep elsewhere: 'Mr Bijedic left Turkey on Novem- ber 24 for Tehran, where he was to begin another week of official_visits, upon invitation of the Iranian government.?

While Bijedic was in Tur- key, another visitor arrived 'socialist' from the Mr Peter was. Mladenov, the Bulgarian Foreign Minister, who arrived Bijedic's de- on the of eve parture. He held talks with his Turkish counterpart Hadluk Bayulken on Mediterranean and European security ques- tions. The same issue of the Digest' also reported the participation of a Soviet delegation in talks the expansion of the on and steel Iskenderun plant plant. was con- structed with Soviet credit and aid and the extension is cost- ing some £60m. Other sections of the maga- zine report the participation of the Polish Radio and Tele- vision Symphony Orchestra ay February 2, 1973 Liberation fightera In East Turkey, killed and the Budapest Symphony Orchestra in the Istanbul Festival being held this year to mark the 50th anniversary of the Turkish Republic. According to the classic Stalinist theory of peaceful co- good relations existence the between Turkey and the USSR, Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, etc., should make life for the Turkish Com- easier munist Party. Not a bit of it. The same issue of 'Turkish Digest' car- ries a lengthy report of a Press briefing given by the First Army and Martial Law Com- "anar- mand of Istanbul on aiming to chistic activities destroy the state'. The report is worth quoting at some length: "The officials made it clear that the Inter- national Communism Centre, which has deliberately chosen Turkey as its "target", ex- tended its activities by the intermediary of a secret Tur- kish Communist Party. 'A group of individuals and some organizations in Turkey, taken in by communistic key, killed by the Army. Above: Front page of th activities, served the purpose of international communism although they did not take an active part in movement. 'The terrorist organizations were enumerated and defined as follows: 'The Turkish Peoples Liber- ation Party and Front: 'A group of its militant members died in the Kizildere incident, after escaping from Maltepe military prison. 300 of the members of this organiz- ation are now under arrest.

"Turkish People's Liberation Army: •Without being organized, as the other groups were, aimed to provoke a civil war by carry- kidnapping, sabotage, out extending their gradually activities from urban to rural areas. It worked as small cells of 3-7 persons called "foko".

"Turkish Revolutionary Wor- ker-Peasant Party: "This party claimed to be the true heritor of the banned Turkish Communist Party and aimed to extend its network all over the country. page of the 'Turkish Di gest' showing Yugoslar y 'Democratic Radical Worker- sm Peasant Power: Its militant members as- sembled in Ankara to en- courage communistic activities, by publications. These mem- bers were seized in their first attempts to implement what looked like a long range plan.

It was also disclosed that the underground organizations were actively trying to infiltrate into Turkish student and worker groups in Europe, under the control of the secret Turkish Communist Party, and by the intermediary of some extreme leftist student organizations. "The officials went on to explain how sabotage teams were formed between workers.

A case cited was of a shipyard workers' union which was responsible for the arson of the Opera House and the Marmara Passenger Ship, and the sinking of the Eminönü Ferryboat in Istanbul. No doubt, if not brought to justice, they would proceed with their deviated other ideology, to destroy major installations as in the Yugoslay visitors with Sunay.

case of the thwarted Bosphorus Bridge and Kastamonu Cargo boat. 'The organization to deceive the workers was accomplished by choosing workers to be trained as militants, those chosen agents were specially with trained and provided propaganda equipment so that would initiate activities, they say in their working fields, and push as many workers as pos- sible into action. 'At the end of the briefing, Military the Prosecutor ex- plained the judicial activities of the Martial Law Command, and said that out of 416 law • suits brought before the courts 315 have been finalized, 159 of them resulting in the conviction of the defendants and 59 in acquittal. There were 477 arrested and 18 detained in military jails.' Perhaps the British Com- munist Party's experts can answer whether these people are benefiting from peaceful co-existence or whether they are its victims?

NEWS

Tory premier Edward Heath, who starts his talks with US President Nixon today, should be able to swap a few subjects ideas with him on destroying other than the unions and cutting wages. Both men face growing allegations of attempting to manipulate the news media. Heath is the centre of storm over his House of Com- mons denial that the govern- ment secretary briefed selected journalists on Friday, January 19, about the government's Phase Three pay-control plans, while Nixon has been accused of "wholesale intimidation' in the US. against the media Senator Sam Ervin, a North Carolina Democrat who chairs the judiciary sub-committee on constitutional rights, is to hold hearings on Press freedom.

who has charged It is he with intimidation. Nixon Recent actions by the Admini- stration 'appear to go beyond simple reactions allegedly to irresponsible or biased report- ing', he said last week. He pointed to the recent decision • by the government- controlled public broadcasting corporation to withhold funds from commentary programmes by public broadcasting services and to the attempts in some court cases to subpoena jour- nalists to testify before govern- ment bodies. Three Glasgow Labour coun- cillors have been hauled before the Glasgow Labour Party executive for signing a motion asking the Labour administra- tion to ban overseas visits by members and to corporation end the serving of free drinks at corporation functions.

ClIrs James Wray and John Lavelle and Bailie Albert Long were questioned on comments in newspaper reports attri- buted to them. Before the executive meeting Cllr Lavelle and Bailie Long, together with Cllr Thomas Muir, voted at a housing com- mittee meeting against a pro- posal that a deputation should represent the corporation at a conference-study tour in Amsterdam. After the meeting Labour leader, Cilr Richard Dynes, said no decision had been reached by the executive and the matter would be con- again at a further sidered meeting.

CORPORATISM

Propaganda for the corpor- ate state is now being churned out so fast that woolly-headed liberals and social democrats are already failing to see the wood for the trees. The BBC television pro- gramme 'Midweek' had a good example on January 24 with a discussion between ex-liberal candidate Ludovic Kennedy, union bureaucrat David Bass- net (G&MWU), Pat Lowry of British-Leyland, and ex-Labour Minister Lord Wilfred Brown (no relation). They examining were new brainchild-the Brown's National Council of Regulating Differential Wages, an anti- being working class scheme peddled by 'The Times', the BBC and other media. The Council's basic purpose would be the abolition of free collective bargaining, exactly as proposed under the Tory laws, but carried out under the guise of a 'community of interest' body with the trade unions taking part. Bassnet, the trendy Lowry and Kennedy all fell for it hook, line, and sinker, and pro- ceeded to debate in learned fashion what would be the snags such an innovation would run into on points of detail.

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'Clvil Strite In Latin America'. By Everett Hopkins University

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Indeed, 'No state or whatever, SOl into the take action threat.' speech said: 'The civil meaning.' ary American lished national Law- development tion The way perpetuated ana pollucal area after Ine 1y4 any state would all of them. standardized organization the estres The 1948 clearly: "The war, the with surplus the Surplus Mutual Kane. Johna Press. 240 From the beginning of the Pan-American move- ment during the Wilson right 15 of the when President Republic. State law, the the Domi- remove University, be- and interna- in the Latin auspices of to trace the US interven- which the In of Chapulte- state by any attack : all the equipment, Subversion America'. Conference of VuL 1101 C concept American from the the Act, Assistance Workers Press, Frie American troops in the Dominican Repu the control of Even then, military supplies was enough to give the US control of gov- ernments. Its policy was spelled out as 'destroy the unfavoured, reward the favoured and mani- pulate the friendly. In early 1960, for example, President Goulart of Brazil sought economic aid from eastern Europe. The US organized his overthrow by the Brazilian military, led by General Humberto Branco. The government, schools, unions and Press were purged and 7,000 people thrown into jails—to paeons of praise from US ambassador Lincoln Gordon. It was after the Cuban revo- lution of 1960 that the main emphasis in the American aid programme shifted to counter- insurgency and civic actions projects. Over 70 per cent of all US aid to Latin America is specifically earmarked for those purposes. And, of course, aid allegedly for other purposes is chan- nelled in this direction as well.

Military officers from all over Latin America go for training and political indoc- trination at the US Army Forces Southern Command at Fort Gulick in Panama. One of the main instruments of American political domina- tion is the Central Intelligence Agency. Some of this organiza- tion's activities came to light in 1968 when the Bolivian Minister of the Interior — Antonio Arguedas — fled to Chile after forwarding a copy of Che Guevara's diary to Cuba. Arguedas revealed that he had been a CIA agent for three years. In 1965 he had been forced to resign his govern- ment post because the

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accused him of being a 'com- munist infiltrator' and threat- ened to stop all US aid to Bolivia. He underwent four days' interrogation, drugging and lie-detector tests at the hands of the CIA. On his release he was paid br politicians, union to corrupt officials and Press men on behalf of the CIA. Arguedas named two officials of the American embassy who directed

CIA

activity in Bolivia. US intervention, of course, goes beyond the manipulation of military regimes and CIA activities. Three times since the of American Organization| States was set up, the United States has intervened with Press, Friday February 2, 1973 PAGE 9 00 Ican Repubilc, sent by Johnson in 1965.

force - in Guatemala, armed Cuba and the Dominican Republic. A look at one of these will show how the US operated.

mala held 78 per cent of the arable land. Behind this lay an even important factor - the more United Fruit Company of the USA. This held more than 400,000 acres of uncultivated land, had long been powerful in the internal politics of Guatemala and was tirelessly represented by the US Depart- ment of State. The original contracts be- tween the company and the government in 1930 and 1936 had been drawn up by John Foster Dulles. Allen 1 Dulles, his brother, then head of the CIA, was a one-time president of the _company, and Henry Cabot Lodge was one of its largest stockholders.. In March 1963 the Arbenz administration made its first expropriation of United Fruit lands. It took over 219,160 acres of uncultivated land and offered to pay twice the com- pany's costs and exactly the sum at which United Fruit had valued the land for taxa- tion purposes. The US declared that Guate- was 'playing the com- mala munists' game' In February 1954, Arbenz accused the US government of planning an invasion, in col- with the laboration govern- of El Salvador, the ments Dominican Republic and Venezuela. The US called an OAS con- ference and railroaded through a resolution calling for action against 'the domination or con- trol of any American state by the international communist conspiracy. invasion force was An trained in Honduras and Nicaragua and crossed from Honduras on June 18 with air- cover provided by the CIA.

The Arbenz government was aid brought down and replaced by ion the dictatorship of Castillo Armas. The author concludes his book with 'the faint hope that the US may understand that Latin American instability is not communism in disguise'.

But despite his inability to understand the revolutionary implications of developments in Latin America, William Kane has presented a lucid exposure of the workings of American imperialism and its agencies in the area.

PAGE 10 Workers Press, Friday February 2, 1973

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Workers Press, Friday February 2, 1973 PAGE 11 Croasdell uses "The Times' to attack his own members' fight for policy Equity secretary sees Trotskyists under his desk NO GROUP of workers has a more powerful motive for fighting the Tory government than actors and actresses. Despite the impression that many people hold that the acting profession is highly paid and 'glamorous', the reality is very different.

Uniy a uny minorily of actors are well-paid. Actors at their AGM where

A COMMENT BY JACK GALE

they voted 10 fight for the For most, behind Tne glitter of the stage lie poky little dressing Wednesday weeks guaranteed employ- closed-shop agreement said rooms in theatres over pay National Sunday's nonady nonady 100 years Cold. better sick pay. 'politically by Its leaders had used poli- This was backed weeks or unem- claim members tical tactics ployment and insecurity,

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a resolution passed sincal at Equity's 1972

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rowly and miserably low pay. calling full 1972 AGM on resolutions mobiliza- 'Trotskyism' 1UI Equity has the highest calling for nationalization of the union if the rate of unemployment of claim was rejected. and strike action arallis. the land- wage-cuts the any union in And the Eauitv Council region of 25 per cent. last year reached 92 did not oppose an amend- The They had played on the Labout ment demanding per cent. action if negotiations broke tears or lneir members of the Equity those members em- the decisions gain of the -a-depran West ployed by the week, the watered-down End meelng. The leadership then pro- number of Of avcidsc weeks course some mem- and to win settiement year was worked ast cecacao accent a use to referendum vote on regis- for men and 22.5 for £25, not becoming £30 tration. League, West End women. In the until January 1973, to make But the first-hand ex- Labour tue average was 10.9 weeks concessions 01 • and still venence State da in repertory was aspects ot the ano oiner control changed the atmo- Conservative 12.4. claim and to agree to fixed within Party. sphere the union rises of £3 the which all shades a ycal ol last Sundav's and led minimum rate until 1977. fighting resolution. This left their members Of those employed bJ Ils ranks. the day, the average num.

CROASDELL ... 'Politically-motivated' slur To lolally unprotected deans!

say the 156 ber as 3ii for rises in the cost of living worked last Croasdell's immediate members voted for five years! That passed and return a Labour gov- year state pay men nent the Then, by 56 ernment pledged reaction was to rush to the January resolution votes to repeal women. On tele- laws

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because Concorde could fly from Europe to New York, Tokyo or Rio de Janeiro with passenger fares 10 per cent below that of first-class subsonic flights.

They are concerned also at the break-up of the authority of International Air Transport period Authority which, in the of expansion, could fix the Atlan- tic fares charged by the 104 air- lines which belong to it.

But last October the British Authority unilaterally Aviation declared that airlines operating into or out of Britain could charge whatever passenger fares they liked. This amounted to a 60 to 75- per-cent cut in basic North Atiantic air fares and opened up a ferocious price war, in which the Americans are dis- at advantage because of their high operating costs. This is a crisis situation for the aviation industry which en- enormous expansion tered an programme in the early 1960s based on forecasts of a ten-fold increase in the passenger market between 1960 and 1980. Early estimates anticipated de- livery during the 1970s of 3,500- 3,800 aircraft, including 700-800 supersonic planes. But by 1970 the rate of growth of passenger transport was de- creasing. 1969 marked a decisive change.

That year Pan American lost $25m, compared with a profit of the previous year. $49m In the first quarter of 1970, TWA lost $39.9m. These losses have continued.

Pan-Am lost $28.9m, Last year bringing its lotal losses over the last four years to more than $150m. Early in January the firm had to offer $75m of convertible debentures on the New York market, despite an earlier agree- ment by its 38 banks to extend a $270m revolving credit arrange- ment for a further two years.

Such losses set the pattern for the future: ruthless trade war, growth of monopoly, rationaliza- tion, speed-up, wage-cuts and unemployment. British Press reports that all is not yet lost are simply whistl- ings in the dark. Every aviation correspondent knows that Pan- American sets the pace for pur- chase of new aircraft. Prospects for orders in Australia, Asia or the Middle East are extremely slim. Registered as a newspapeorkers at the Post Published by Press, 186a Clapham High Street, London,

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lay February 2, 1973 BRITISH ROAD Services yesterday con- tinued to refuse its heavy-vehicle drivers equal treatment to those at other transport firms, causing the lay-off of hundreds more Midlands carworkers. total number laid off rose to well The over 10,000 at factories as assembly-line workers nine at Oxford and Abingdon joined those already sent home and at Birmingham Coventry. Supplies of bodies and other Colonels Yet BRS completely disrupted. maintained noW its drivers' demand for a £2.50 resistance to the which being paid by almost all merit bonus, private hauliers in the area to men possessing the new heavy goods vehicle (HGV) licence.

Meanwhile the 1,000

BRS

drivers demanding the bonus remained available for work at their depots. handed their HGV have all But since they General Workers' licences into the Transport and they are unable to drive the big lorries and Union, which supply the car factories.

transporters HGV licences became compulsory for all vehicles over three tons unladen weight

BRS

BY DAVID MAUDE

this week. So as long. as withholds the payment it cannot around the depots are about the send the drivers outside the Press lies about how much drivers depots. earn, the fact that drivers now To describe the situation as a three certificates need to would be to stalemate, however, job and the unfairness of BRS's leave out of account the enor- refusal to what already pay 1S the mous power of the weapon being paid by private firms.

drivers have decided to deploy. Nevertheless BRS has itself in- With one action-handing troduced politics into the dispute of card their piece to shop claiming it cannot pay the £2.50 stewards-they have exposed the because of the The laws. pay weakness of car giants like drivers' quiet 1S con- British-Leyland when confronted fidence that they can crash the united of by action just one Tory roadblocks. section of workers. Jack Jones and the T&GWU Hence the embarrassed silence leadership instructed Alan Law, of the capitalist Press, and the the union's Birmingham transport union leaders' rush to settle.

official, the city to to Tenins The most frequent comments try and settle the dispute.

Forge, Titanium Metal and Alloys Union Carbide UK. Daniel Doncaster and Sons in- stalled the world's largest screw press at its Monkbridge Forge works in Leeds, primarily to pro- duce blades compressor for the Concorde engine. There are 300 firms in Britain involved in major work on the Concorde and 400 more than others involved to a lesser de- gree. These include Marconi-Elliot Avionic Systems, supplying an advanced auto-pilot, which would eventually include automatic (Marconi landing also supplies lines, Shizuo Asada, said navigation and guidance units): yesterday that there was little Smith Industries (temperature possibility that

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would and rpm indicators and other extend its deadline of February Triplex Safety Glass equipment); 28 for taking up its option on (flight-deck Flight Re- glazing); three Concordes. fuelling and Plessey Dynamics The decisions of Pan-Am and (fuel systems): Graviner, a Wil-

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Sword kinson substitute (fire with a good guideline' in deciding protection); Lucas (generating her policy. Dunlop equipment); (wheels, brakes and tyres) Ekco Electro- Last year British government nics (weather radar equipment); spokesmen refused to answer Dowty (flying controls and asso- about parliamentary questions ciated Normalair- how much of Concorde's escalat- equipment); costs could Garret (cabin pressurization sys- covered ing be by Davall tems); (radiation detec- sales. But, according to French Honeywell at least 300 tors): (switches and sources, sales are control units); Hymatic (gas and needed. Wal- liquid control valves): The Pan-Am decision to cancel Kidde ter (oxygen equipment); its option on seven and TWA on Thermatic Controls (pressure its six will certainly be followed Engineering switches); Bradley by more blows-from American (drain caps); Cementation-Muffe- Airlines (siX) and Eastern (six). lite (racking and elfin cases); This leaves only six options still Zenith control equip- pressure standing in the United States, Abex (hydraulic ment): pumps) three each from Continental and and many more. Braniff airlines. Work by undertaken various American United Airlines can- firms from f320 worth ranges celled for its options six in to £3.7m. October and Air Canada can- A similar situation, of course. France-on eve of celled four some time ago.

exists in the the The book of elections! original order 74 options 16 airlines has No proof could be from further shrunk to five from BOAC needed of the total inability of now four from Air France. capitalism to maintain living and standards for the working class. This means that the project On the contrary, important tech- is almost certainly doomed and nological developments lead only Press 30,000 estimates of lost to economic collapse and the loss jobs in Britain are likely to be of jobs for thousands of workers.

wide of the mark. Far very The Concorde affair is only more jobs will go. of ferocious one aspect the Eight thousand of the workers now developing be- trade war at the

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plant Filton, at tween America. Japan and Bristol, are directly concerned Europe. If capitalism is allowed with the Concorde, together with fate is to continue the same more at the Weybridge, Surrey, in store for workers in cars, factory. shipbuilding, steel, machine Some 5,000 of the Rolls-Royce tools, textiles and every major workers at the Bristol engines industry. department working the on This underlines the urgent need Concorde's engine, Olympus the to mobilize the unions to call a 593. General Strike destroy the to Firms involved in force the Tories state pay laws, the high of metals able to meet and return a Labour to resign temperatures and stringent con- pledged the onvernment TO ditions of supersonic speeds of all these in- in- nationalization clude the British Steel Corpora- compensation dustries, without Brown Bayley Steels, under workers' tion, Ches- and control. terfield Tube, English Electric, There is no other way to pre- Firth Brown, High® Duty Alloys, vent millions of workers joining Smith-Clayton Jessop-Saville, the dole queues. Ted Groves (above), a driver at Birn home £29.50 after 50 hours work last biggest pay-packets in the depot. Herı demonstrate that even with £2.50 bonu gross pay was. only £34.47.

MRS BETTY BROWN,

a member of the rebel Clyde- bank Council, has said she would rather go to jail than implement the Tory rent Act.

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FILM producers and journalists picketed the Independent Broad- casting Authority, Knightsbridge, yesterday for the second time this week. They were protesting against the banning of the 'World in Action' film, 'The Friends and Influence of John L. Poulson', a documentary on the business network of the bankrupt York- shire architect. The IBA banned the screening of the film which was due to have been transmitted in an hour-long slot on Monday night. Members of the film union, ACTT, at the Granada Television shop say the IBA is political.

They have threatened to black- out ITV screens if the ban is not lifted. On yesterday's picket they were joined by members of the Central London branch of the National Union of Journalists and the branch chairman, Roy Bull.

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