Workers Press no. 995

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workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER ® MONDAY FEBRUARY 12, 1973 • No. 995 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Capitalism teeters on the brink Glassmen

INFLATION,

fighting a 'loathsome'

TRADE WAR

closure

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

RECESSION

THE DECISION by the Rockware Glass group to close its Greenford plant in Middlesex was yesterday described as 'loathsome and disgusting'.

Local MP Bill Molloy told a rally of Rockware workers that only weeks before the company announced decision to Its close down in January 1971, the firm was sending careers pro- paganda to Greenford schoolchildren He also said that the firm had asked him to help over a threat

BY JOHN SPENCER OUR FOREIGN EDITOR

*They power supplies. would I wrote to me and asked help them with their plans to increase production. Weeks later they announced their decision to close.'

But apart from passionate words from Molloy and the other plat- AS TOP LEVEL envoys scurry in panic from country to country the form speakers, who ranged from a UCS delegate to Bill Freeman, leader of the capitalist monetary system has reached the point of almost global Briant Colour sit-in, there were no real perspectives put forward for victory at Rockware.

disintegration. The campaign at present is being restricted to putting pressure Tokyo has already closed its foreign exchange the management on market and the European exchanges will also be closed over sell the today. Gecision factory in a multi-million There is general agreement that the present situation pound is the direct outcome of the Nixon measures of August property 15, 1971, which put an end to the dollar's convertibility with gold. Stan McKnee, makers' This official from

UCS,

meant that paper America's strategy is clear: currency no longer had any sald. the burden of infiation and definite for world value unemployment must We had at UCS the mis- borne by its rivals, whether Lace. fortune come alo .COn The relationships between they like it or not. destroyers Tact witn The decency, but glad the various currencies were "Peace" through inter- that Smith realmed national conferences

WCIC

sonian agreement of Decem- by the con- contaminated doomed from agreements ber 1971 which began tact,' he said. to start. The conflict can break down resolved through Describing the UCS work- wiel only was floated and has now ruthless combat. in as a victory ne Talled Lo been completely undermined.

mention that over 2,000 jobs has The CrISIS arread that contracts August 15, as we warned revealed the fragility and which broke the European repeatedly. шаткес aea- impotence of Lact sive political turning-point principles signed and were Common MarKet COl- spelled the that the Stalinists James Reid end of pletely disrupted its attempts and James Airlie had unified DOst-Wal monetary SyStem monetary Con- Tory and the political compromise gratulated des- system. to which it had given rise. troyers of decency' for their 'economic good sense. Tory boasts or prospers and vast markets opened up The assault on the Ger- the Arthur Harris, chairman Common man mark and the lapanese

CHERY

HELC

of the Rockware shop past week has yen over the Market are a hoax. stewards' committee, said: created a POLITICAL crisis The trade

WAT

motion by President Nixon *There is a difference be- relations between the world's will have an unprecedented tween crooks - roDDers main trading blocs. who deal in land speculation effect living workers standards, jobs and condi- and those who rob your

FIGHTIN

The big American corpora house. One gets put in jail Cons. tions, East Vidal Oll and the others get the OBE sheikhs and State pay laws are only the other specula-

FUNC

beginning. Both Edward But Rockware workers can their dollars Heath 12) and James only fight on the basis of Tory into marks and yen in the Party deputy these cur- polltical campaigi chairman and leader the rencies will be revalued.

throughout or the worker Commons, have said there is London especially area They can then buy effective those faced with redundancy alternallye their original dollars at a this policy. collected for the Greenford Rockware workers' against the the government -to bring profit and use the surplus to neeting yesterday. down. The only alternativer tard service their loans. have put forward The vast dollar pool out- would lead on the one hand Socialist Labour League Public Meetings side the US makes im- to massive unemployment, Unite in action to defend basic rights possible for and nomic the pitical the of a other Japan to resist this pressure bamna republic, Prior Said.

for revaluation. The US has made it clear Rapidly the basis is being

MIDDLETON

JARROW

their currencies must be re created for a General Strike valued immediately so as to Britain and the replace. price these countries exports ment of the Tory govern- WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14, 8 p.m.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 18, 7 p.m.

of world ment by Labour govern-

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marKels. giving American traders the pledged socialist advantage. nolicies Middleton Baths, Middleton, Manchester Civic Centre, Jarrow Discriminatory tariffs will which alone can follow anarchic conditions the next scare Speaker at both meetings: G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) trade war with Europe and by the capitalist created Japan.

workers press INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • MONDAY FEBRUARY 12, 1973 • No. 995 • 4p DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Capitalism teeters on the brink Glassmen fighting a

INFLATON.

"loathsome'

TRADE WAR

closure

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

RECESSION

THE DECISION by the Rockware Glass group to close its Greenford plant in Middlesex was yesterday described as 'loathsome and disgusting'.

Local MP Bill Molloy told a rally of Rockware workers that before only weeks the company announced its decision to 1971, the firm was sending careers pro- close down in January paganda to Greenford schoolchildren He also said that the firm had asked him to help over a threat

BY JOHN SPENCER OUR FOREIGN EDITOR

•They would I power supplies. to sen Wrote me and asked Weeks later help them with their plans to increase production.

they announced their decision to close.'

But apart from passionate words from Molloy and the other plat- AS TOP LEVEL envoys scurry in panic from country to country the form speakers, who ranged from a UCS delegate to Bill Freeman, leader of the capitalist monetary system has reached the point of almost global Briant Colour sit-in, there were no real perspectives put forward for victory at Rockware.

disintegration. The campaign at present is being restricted to putting pressure Tokyo has already closed its foreign exchange the management market and the European exchanges will also be closed its mind Couse Over sell the today. factory in a multi-million There is general agreement that the present situation pound is the direct outcome of the Nixon measures of August property 15, 1971, which put an end to the dollar's convertibility with gold. Stan McKnee, makers' official from This that

UCS.

paper America's strategy is clear: currency no longer had any Said. the burden of intation and definite for world unemployment must "We had at UCS the mis- borne by its rivals, whether fortune The relationships between they like it or not. destroyers LacH WiTH The decency, but glad to the various currencies were 'Peace' through inter- report that Smith. national conferences sonian agreement of Decem- con- contammateo Tune doomed trom agreements ber began tact,' he said. to the start. The conflict can break down resolved sterling through Describing the UCS work- WIcH only floated was and has now ruthless combat. in as a victory. he been completely undermined.

mention that over 2,000 jobs has already The

CTISIC

lost, that August 15, as we warned contracts revealed the fragility and which broke the European trade rescalculy. marked impotence of sive political turning-point signed and were Marker Common that and spelled the end of Stalinists James Reid pletely disrupted its attempts Airlie James had unified monetary DOSL-Wal monclar SYSLeN Tory and the political compromise Called des- system. to which it had given rise. troyers of decency' for their 'economic good sense'. tory boasts or prosperity and vast markets opened up The assault on the Ger- the Common Arthur Harris, chairman intc Man mark an une abanese CuLLy the Rockware shop Market are a hoax. yen over the ast week ha stewards' committee, said: created a POLITICA crisis The trade war set motion by President Nixon "There is a difference one use coo l le be- relations between the world's have an unprecedented tween crooks WIll

LODOCIS

main trading blocs. who deal in land speculation effect

CLAI

workers Iving standards, jobs and condi- those who rab your •anc The big American corpora- * антів house. One gets put in jail

LIS.

tions, LaST and the others get the OBE.'

State pay laws are only the sheikhs and other specula-

FUNC

beginning. By the one basis or their dollars

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coware tors are turning Heath 12) and James only fight on the basis into marks and yen tue Party Tory deputy political campaign expectation these Cul- rencies will be revalued.

chairman throughout the ano, ender workers Commons, have said there is London especially aled They can then those faced with redundancy hack effective alternative their original dollars at llected for the Greenlord Rockwere workary nal the bring the government inis poncy. profit and use the surplus to ig yesterday. down. 'The only alternatives that service their loans. have put forward been The vast dollar pool out- would lead on the one hand Socialist Labour League Public Meetings side the US makes massive unemployment, for Unite in action to defend basic rights possible and on the other to the eto. Japan to resist this pressure nomic and political life for revaluation. banana republic' Prior said.

The US has made it clear Rapidly the basis is being

MIDDLETON

JARROW

their currencies must be re- created for a General Strike valued immediately so as to and Britain the replace. price these countries' exports Tory ment govern- or the world the WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 14, 8 p.m.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 18, 7 p.m.

by Labour govern-

OUL

giving American traders the pledged socialist advantage. Dolicies nanonazann Middleton Baths, Middleton, Manchester Civic Centre, Jarrow Discriminatory tariffs will which alone can surmount follow anarchic conditions the next start Speaker at both meetings: G. HEALY (SLL national secretary) trade war with Europe and Dy Cholast Japan. crisis.

PAGE 2 Workers Press, Monday February 12, 1973 UPW chief raises right-wing bogey

BRIEFLY

Fresh debate Fighting Tories on rent Act MOVES have started to force a fresh debate of the Tory scares Jackson Act the Labour- rent on controlled Glasgow Council.

A majority of the city's Labour councillors have signed a petition i. Forty-one asking 1ssue debated again. coun- ONLY TWO alternatives face the trade union movement today, voted for cillors who originally of the non-imo ementalio• said Post Office workers' leader Tom Jackson yesterday in one of have signed the petition.

The motion will be submitted the most forthright declarations from the reformist right-wing in to the so catalive

LULLIO

recent months. Wednesday night. group on hear deputations ouncillors will The alternatives were:

FROM DAVID MAUDE OUR LABOUR

Lade amons no tenants negotiation and co- associations.

CORRESPONDENT IN BOURNEMOUTH

the operation with Tories, on the basis of Arms deal necessarily The Labour Party would control of slalulur y condemned five eyen Genera both wages and prices, Election, but could 'swiftly years out of office. man charged or 'massive, all-out in- lead to the replacement ol Jackson, who was osten- dustrial action to change Edward Heath Enoch by sibly acie the mind of the gov- rower on the progress sales Pavli ernment'. ARMS DEALER Andreas the union's claim, the to' pay Campaign for Pageant, "The Road (46), of The Ridgeway, Church there And it was Workers' Power', held fiao sales in their respective Finchley, was Alas duvocalt End, In an hour-long, partly remanded said, the election. he of keeping politics areas al ine weekena. Renearsals are unaerway tor when off-the-cuff speech to the periences May-June the Pageant which will cove the crucial episodes unions. appeared at Thames Court on 1968 in France 1926 the working class's fight for basic democratic Saturday charged with illegally Britain that But politics-the politics suggested riguis. In mis picture pageant supporters in middle exporting tve armoured vehicles vastly repressive onut the Pageant and the figh against the r more cola borason WitH Ene

TOMORROW

Cyprus Dock government would be elec- Tories -formed the centre Pageant and the fight against on February ire tort of Military Pavli, of his speech. ted than the present one.

who director Special Consultants national) Ltd, is also accused of Army ready for take-over in Ulster?

making false declaration to by comment that Lustills Clalci containing the vehicles Container used agricultural machinery.

In tomorrow's Workers THE BRUTAL assault on questions, we shall have to that Lord Carrington, Catholics by car-gun squads He was allowed his bail Secretary the unarmer womer by bausi Delence has neen attributed to Corres- with two sureties each Press Labour troops in Belfast on Satur- sinister intrigues of White- notorious hardliner on SAS and to Unionists who surrender day hall in prepara- or Uses to take l hae have been night recruited pondent David Maude his passport to police, and Westminster s twice daily to police while with une report will be commenting in notorious plans for White Paper is announced.

At the same time harass- USTeT C The Why did the There many aspects ment of women shoppers Paper. the special detail on of this erately laving failed to break move to open dic- army has Overal

DECI

JOHN PAXMAN, the conference at Bourne- resistance of Protestant stepped

(WRACS)

women Amalgam- ing an tatorsn» dozers, armoured and workers Most notable soldiers have ated Union of Engineering catholo been mouth. the use of SAS been introduced to facili- Workers' water cannon extensive convenor

CAV

murder siderable lories squads tate the army's job. Acton. has warned the plant mav

LOUDS

titula exacer to disperse sectarian feeling Some of the other less shut down unless militants are Office women nave ceciceo to nursue gr hate and Union of Post And why did the officer- even tougher reate fea in the ghetto. ingeridius roles of the arme rewarding more curbed. It is believed he is believed this Weat • not Workers' special confer- riot They giving Lord Balnie admitted in in-charge are greater stand as ence here, Jackson argued the to the nesday's meeting denote bUWer. wate armanen! Tral been

TON

annual general testers' respect army Whitelaw's border poll and if this policy is rejected •othes curve lance coman Co-vocraliol.

TOT

maintaling The T8coe All-out industrial action, barricades and Mr Michael Lied civilian administration had opened fire at least on even of Only two shop supervise rogres: stewards would not bring public by William Whitelaw. 20 occasions. jobs he said, Farrel's appeal the vork site be- thought while to support fille Inspired More recently the indis about the restraint and 'no violence!

longing to the Derrv Deve.

are opposed to a right- rebacement ol

TUROUS

JOlL the Tories by Labour. For answers these Lisburn already indicate criminate shooting opment Commission! wing witchhunt. Nationalist illusions

CYNGRES

LLAFUR

UNDEBAU

FROM IAN YEATS IN SOUTH WALES

SOME 250 delegates from 25 trade unions

CYMRU

most of Wales' 51 trades councils and

WALES

defied TUC advice on Saturday and went ahead with a special conference to set up a T.U. Welsh Trade Union Congress.

Conference chairman, right-wing Merthyr Tydfil Únion Amalgamated of Labour councillor and Tal Engineering Workers' district organizer Mr Lloyd said he hoped there would be no permanent split with the 'English' TUC.

He said he believed the next meeting of the embryo Welsh Congress to be held at Llandrindod Wells next have would the Right TUC's blessing. «The Mr Lloyd said: grass have made call anal we stave ДОИ eached a point of decision be wing creates Welsh TUC Welsh not intending to

T&GWU

assistant VC al the

TUC,

Wright George WiLl secretary nor should the TUC be in speaking from the platform with These on Saturday. conflict us. recognition

HOUSE

the inevitable. financiers and capitalists. public nattie corporation.

setting every shade of political If they have Communist Party mem- money to in- opinion. will ber and Welsh NUM execu- where to invest it because them Giving 'guidance' to the tive member Mr Dai Wales transpor More development of Tal cone ence. Corde the it is our money' 'facilities. Francis, shared Lloyd said would be policy platform and wrong of the meeting to

WITN

Lloyd economic document before the • The Welsh Transport Con- diversification do more than 'sympathize she patent In the light of the activities of nationalized and General Workers' with a resonmion industries. Union ing industrial action to secretary

MIT

LOrE Jones, was the cessive governments council at said The Congress agreed the Bedwas and Machen tight- failure of

TUC

stimulate the Welsh the to act eco- proposals a working during nomv and provide balanced anners Strike Tal Lloyd Dal Francia party reported ing the iory rent Act. which had promoted the industrial growth it is in- He said: 'Some unions feasibility or a demand for a Welsh Con- cumbent the Welsh 'the public upon finance TUC on December 18. • budger,

TUC

British economy is wind- tion direct investment early stage and gress. This The report, which was Saturday's conference at Wales and about alternative programme when we are trying to unite in bring • TOr 111 the reconstruc- approved working-class the Hotel Metropole, Llan- But, said, *we overwrend me conciuons ror run em- on stressed that fair share tion wales. spon- our ployment. Trade unions of Wales, a decision CrinGod was not today the Welsh would sored by the and on'. In would play leading role The document called for: could be very dangerous. what going the new bode OI remain affiliated the of Mine- National Union five The meeting, held • Increased job creation in enoranci Were were

TUC

and give workers. workers chasing every one Wright condemned the areas emergent indus- "strong support. The job, but in Wales the ratio British Steel Corporation' proclaiming 'Cyngres Un- Congres tone was try. debau Llafur Cymru' by

T&GWU

8,000 job Delegates to the congress was 12 decision to axe set one Wright Increased public spend- assistant secretary Mr Mr said one ended with In the principallty. elected o Singing ing George Wright, who said Welsh Tucsmould be for first demands He said: 'The

BSC

is throughout the basis of one per Welsh of the Principality's 4,000 members and to represent national anthem. acting like businessmen, ecoromy. of the Loat result

GRANADA BLACKOUT

BY OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESI

For the first time ever, the commercial channel television screens have been blacked out by strike action conducted for a political end. When the ITV channel went blank last Monday during the •World half-hour that Action' is usually broadcast, it marked a new stage in the developing political crisis.

television journalists The and technicians have fallen out with their management in the past over wages and • other domestic trade union issues.

And the journalists have indignantly on remonstrated several occasions about edi- torial censorship and have talked of withdrawing their labour. never before had . the But reporters and the technicians got together to use their power to control what the television monopolists put out. The direct cause of this action was the banning of the programme 'John Poulson, his friends, and influences'.

The television workers were not able to force the Indepen- dent Broadcasting Authority to show the hour-long documen- but in protest they tary, blacked out its replacement.

In the background of this situation, far deeper causes were working to push ACTI levels of members to new activity. There is growing disquiet among workers and profes- sional people at the ever- increasing signs of censorship in Britain. In most instances so far, workers in the media have not made the correct political con- clusions about the sources of the censorship or the reasons behind it. But their concerned resist- ance to these early moves to- wards a full-scale political censorship in Britain indicate that the ruling class is going to have a massive fight on its hands. Even at the present stage, when the many liberals work- ing in television are merely angry in a professional sense at the cutting and banning of some of their best work, but do not see any political Con- spiracy behind it, the censors are scarcely having things all their own way. Once the political origins of the drive towards censorship become clearer and the ruling class is seen to be deliberately manipulating the news in the defence of its class interests, the resistance could grow into a decisive challenge to the monopolists' 'right to rule' important control of How television is to the ruling class was made quite clear after the black-out. The Granada man- agement said: 'The implications of using industrial action to affect deci- sions which Granada believes to be concerned only with broadcasting and This piece of gobbledegook means that questions of pro- gramme content are to decided by management alone and the unions should confine industrial action to trade union matters. The London 'Evening Stan- dard' tried a feint with the left followed by a cross with the right in order to try and appease outraged liberals about the censorship, but warn them

ORRESPONDENT ROYSTON BULL

off industrial action as a way of dealing with it. editorial the Its knocked easiest target available — the Festival of Light fanatics for the attempt to suppress the Warhol film—although it did even that in the most obscure way. is alarming to genuine It liberals that one or two self- spokesmen for appointed public decency should have attracted attention, whether or not they intended it, to the cause of repression. But then they got to the real point: 'But what is perhaps of greater concern was the even decision by TV technicians to protest against censorship by acting as censors themselves.'

The official statements of the London Granada ACTT shop, which held a one-day strike against the ban, reveal the present attitudes of the journalists whose objection to censorship is still mainly a professional one: 'The refusal of the IBA to of allow transmission this programme is a grave infringe- ment of the freedom of broad- casters to report events in a responsible manner. It is pos- sibly the gravest such infringe- ment ever imposed upon independent television. To delay a current affairs pro- gramme is in effect to kill it.'

This statement then stressed the journalists' belief that the programme was made in totally tair and protessional manner, which indicates to what extent the ACTT mem- bers are still on the defensive.

The IBA's ban was called 'arbitrary, absurd, and a precedent'. The dangerous ruling class's attitude to the Poulson bankruptcy hearings was not really analysed. Although of the some journalists are highly sus- picious of some of the immediate personal connec- tions between the Poulson case and members of the IBA board, they don't as yet make any political connection be- tween the hearings and. the ruling class's anxiety at the growing economic crisis. 'We believe that the Poul- son bankruptcy hearings, and the circumstances surrounding them, are matters of wide public concern which should be freely reported by the Press of and on television.' reality is that the The hearings boldly exposed many dubious aspects of capitalist society and, even more im- portant, the complicity of important elements in the labour and trade union move- ment. What the ruling class fears is that the wide coverage of these revelations in a mass- audience television programme, and above all the constant repetition of these facts, will have a profound political effect on the working class. And as they approach an all- out political confrontation with the working class, they fear like the plague too much adverse propaganda about the capitalist system, and especially about its chief prop, the social democracy. The way the television pro- fessionals see all this is in- teresting. Their initial reaction is that the normal rules' of editorial control by manage- which they usually ment, accept, have been broken.

They see the IBA as having pr ACTT members picket the IBA over the stepped in in an 'abnormal' way, against their own officials' lawyers' advice, to cut a and sinister programme motives, given the connections.

It has left the liberals ask- ing: 'Where are the rules?'

With the result that 'even moderates were convinced that strike action was justified because normal editorial pro- cesses had broken down' • One television producer commented: In the back- ground to all this, there seems to be growing discontent and in all areas decision makers are being made to account for their decisions. 'In television and elsewhere, people are saying to decision makers: "You are not getting away with it any more, you are not going to trample on us."

•People are demanding and asserting their rights, as limited as they are. 'But we must not kid our- selves how far this revolt is going. The more working-class members of ACTT, the tech- any nicians, were more hostile to the idea of doing something about the ban than were the producers. 'This black-out has been a good step forward, but it is only the first flicker of workers' control in television. Although there was a good debate in the Manchester shop of Granada, there is still a feeling among the technicians that this is not the right area for industrial action. 'In a curious way, the ordinary engineers share the this. management's view on But this has been a historic step forward and people will learn from it. "The atmosphere has un- questionably got worse recently in ITV and we are now getting almost a ban a week, but it is not always the same forces at work. There are all kinds of reasons for it and it is not simply a class thing. 'Different parts of the estab- lishment all seem to be under pressure in their own way, in- Workers Press, Monda over the ban on the documentary, 'John Pouls cluding the TUC leaders. All authorities are creaking and are now being forced to give a little. The minor crises in the media are part of the same thing. "The people with statutory responsibility for television programmes are subject to the same kinds of tension as those administering the government's wage controls. 'And just as the government has shown an amazing readi- ness since 1970 to rush to the law to squash things where it before, so do in- didn't do stitutions like the IBA rush to their statutory powers use where they didn't do before.

'Authority in general is searching round for new because they are weapons facing greater challenges.

'The more revealing kind of television programme has been on the increase for five years, but either the IBA did not watch current affairs pro- grammes before, or they are being pressured for the first time into doing something about them. •Whole areas of society are demanding things they did not demand before. Authority is being forced to concede things to trade unionists, students, women, and other sections. It is one way of redistributing power. 'The that authorities way have waded in against protest movements over the last five years in France, Germany, and the United States has caused people to change their ideas of what democracy is. Authorities have been particularly hostile to trade unions' assertiveness because they cannot afford to let it go on. 'The Industrial Relations Act is part of a whole machinery of oppression. Either they use an old-law, like the ancient Incitement to Dis- affection Act used against an Irish labourer in Ulster, or they make a new one. 'The IBA ban on the Poulson 83, Monday February 12, 1973 PAGE 3 ohn Poulson, his friends, and influences'.

programme was not a party political issue. The IBA was worried at giving further pub- licity to matters which question so devastatingly the quality of public life. *The programme states that large areas of public life are beginning to stink, but the IBA saw it as a programme about people much like themselves and so they were concerned.

'But no one who went on strike over the ban thought that the programme was being censored because the economic basis of society was being challenged. The black-out was not a class response to an attack made on Press freedoms in defence of property. It is still possible to practice free journalism within the present system, but if this kind of censorship action continues, it won't be possible much longer. Censorship would wipe whole areas and free out journalism would become a shrunken animal.' These views contain many misunderstandings about how the basic struggle between the bourgeoisie and the working class affects developments in the superstructure of society, including television, and also about how the working class comes to political conscious- ness. But they give a good indication of the historical attachment to democratic rights which is deeply in- grained into British politics, particularly among the work- ing class and sections close to them. They also indicate how diffi- cult it will be for the ruling class to take away those rights as the Tories are forced to try to do in order to solve their economic bankruptcy by dictatorial control of the including workers' economy, wages, and therefore dictatorial control of society in general.

TÖRIES WHO BACK

ATTACKS ON THE NHS

PAGE 4 Workers Press, Monday Febru From this week, skilled workers at G. Clancey, ironmakers, of Hales- in the Midlands owen will be receiving £5 a week less in their pay packets. The company will be observ- ing a notice served on it by the Department of Employ- ment. The notice, backed by authority of criminal the courts, calls on the company to stop paying the £5 increases which it introduced on Janu- ary 1. From all accounts it seems clear that the Clancey workers are being led around by the nose. The £5 increase was to have been paid on August 9.

But because of cash-flow ques-* tions this was deferred until January 1. The company began to pay the £5—illegally—in the New Year. The decision to pay was based on 'both the moral and written obligations to our em- ployees and their unions'. But the statement was also careful to add "The company has made clear to the unions throughout the negotiations that it will obey the law.' Once served with the notice, the company has therefore, immediately rushed to obey the law' and stop payment of the £5. As Workers Press has per- sistently warned, there is no guarantee that pay increases outlawed by Phase One will be allowed before the implemen- tation of Phase Two. On the contrary, Phase Two is a legally tougher piece of legislation which imposes three-year controls on wages. Under this new Bill, now be- fore parliament, the Clancey men are only entitled to the £1 plus 4 per cent, which is the new Tory 'norm'. Their chances of getting f5, or anything like it, are remote.

The company can't now make a new offer because free bar- gaining has been outlawed.

When the company talks about holding talks with the DEP in an attempt to get round the order' they are being naive or worse. Higher wages can only be won today by massive action on a united and national scale against the Tory government to force it out of office. Writings of

TINGS OF

Lenn Trotsky

TEEN TROTSHY

1040-28 (1938-9]

WRITINGS OF

WRITINGS OF

LEON

LEON

TROTSKY

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A patients' walting-room for NHS treatm encouragement to private health schen The total came out at £78,451,000 against £68,206,000 tax. No figures were before included from Courage's bought by Imperial in Britain's second- biggest brewery takeover a few months ago. Sir John said that despite rising costs the company was showing 'significant gains in both and profits' turnover compared with the first quarter of its last financial year.

The new brewery division 'has also out-performed its result of a year ago and has Trotsky—a documentary by Francis Wyndham. and David King £1.65 including postage eet, London SW4 7UG able, free, on request. Lreatment room Minor surgery ment to prime heals seatmet. NS gains by the working class are jeoparazed by Sir Kelt's contributed valuably to group pronts . The results were greeted on the Stock Exchange with a gain of 3$p in the share price which moved up to 98kp The tobacco division's trad- ing profit was by £4.7m, up mostly from higher sales The food division pushed up its profits by 17 per cent to more than £10m. With kind of high- this it powered backing is no wonder that Joseph can en- the private business- Coulare

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THE QUEEN

Having plead tried to Tory-in-chief, Edward The Heath, students are now plan- ning to take up their fight for student grants with the Queen! Students at Sussex Univer- sity are to petition the Queen higher They have been in touch with Buckingham Palace to see it the Queen-who founded Sus- 1961—will University them let personally deliver a petition to her. In the petition they 'humbly pray' that 'visitor țo as university, she will investigate their grievances or 'cause such other order to be made as may appear to be just and proper to Your Majesty'. David Youlton, Sussex stu- said the stu- dent's president. dents had looked into the legal and believed that the

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ding class are jeopardized by Sir Kelth's men in their private health schemes. For the working class Joseph's statement is nothing short of a provocation. The NHS was established by the first post-war Labour govern- ment. The mass movement must incoming demand that an Labour government institutes an entirely free medical service' and that the drug companies are nationalized without com- pensation and under workers' control.

HOW WEST GERMANY

PROTECTS WAR CRIMINALS

Inmates of the Nordhausen concentration camp who had been forced to work underground in a munitions plant. 20,000 died here.

BY JOHN SPENCER

Five former members of the Nazi police and secu- rity services have just been sentenced for mass murder in Frankfurt, West Germany—11 years after they were first ar- rested and charged. But as they are appealing against the paltry sentences awarded against them by the court, the men have been allowed to remain at liberty on bail. The men involved are Adolf Petsch (67), a former member of the Nazi security service (SD). He was given 15 years for his part in mowing down more than 12,000 Jews with a machine-gun in front of a mass Pinsk, in grave at western Russia. The other four-all former police officials-were found to have taken part in the evic- tion of ten ghettos in the Pinsk area in the autumn of 1942, ordered by Nazi secret police chief Heinrich Himmler. The court was told the police battalion in which they were company leaders had sealed off before ordering the ghettos their inhabitants to mass graves, where they were shot.

They were Johann Kuhr (56), sentenced to two and a half years; Heinrich Plantius (57), four years; Rudolf Eckert (58), three years; and Heinrich Teltz (56), three and a half years.

All four served for many years after the war in the West They German police. were in 1962 for briefly detained investigation and then released on bail. They have been on bail ever since. Kuhr and Plantius were also accused of taking part in the shooting of 6,000 political commissars of the Red Army Bialapodlaskas, but the at court found the charge had not been proved! The maximum sentence for these crimes under West Ger- man law is life imprisonment.

The same court also sentenced a former German commandant of a Polish railway station, Gross (61) to four Walter years' jail for shooting and killing a young Jewish girl who been pushed out of a had carriage by non-Jewish pas- sengers. He told the court he had carried out an order that all Jews found outside the were to be shot ghettos immediately. All six were released on bail after defence lawyers an- nounced they would appeal on the grounds that the accused were acting under orders.

The lawyers had succeeded in spinning the trial over 14 months, during which evidence had been taken from witnesses in Israel, Austria, the United States and the Soviet Union.

The delays engineered by the Frankfurt defendants are rule rather than the the exception when Nazis come before the West German courts. One anti-fascist lawyer, 'Der in a recent letter to Spiegel', suggested sarcastically free sanatorium that a established to treat the ill- cited by Nazi defen- nesses dants to delay their trials.

The letter was from Dr Robert Kempner, of Penn- sylvania, who was an official in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior before Hitler came to power and later prosecuted the Nazi leaders at Nuremberg.

Four particularly glaring cases have recently been cited by the International Commit- tee of the Survivors of Ausch- Inmates of the Nordhausen concentratio witz, which was meeting for the first time on German soil.

The names of these Nazis were ignored by the German Press.

The four men named by the committee are: Horst Wagner, liaison man between Adolf Eichmann and the Nazi Foreign Ministry, who later served under Henrich Himmler himself. For the last 15 years Wagner has stood under a charge of complicity in the murder of at least 356,664 Jews from Hun- gary, Slovakia, Greece, Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Denmark. His victims were deported to the extermination camps after April 1943 when the Nazi 'final solution' was in full swing. Less than two weeks before Wagner was due to appear for trial in Essen, his lawyer withdrew, bringing the first postponement. His new lawyer succeeded in winning a whole number of further postponements to allow Wagner undergo to medical examination. He was examined in succession by a general practitioner, an eye specialist, an orthopaedic sur- geon and finally a psychiatrist.

In this way he managed to keep out of the court until June 1971. On May 26, 1972, three days before the court finally intended to begin the trial, Wagner had an eye operation performed, which forced another postponement.

In July last year, after stall- ing successfully for 14 years, Wagner won another postpone- ment because of an ortho- paedic disorder of the hip. He was admitted to a clinic on August 24 last year and his doctors plan to operate this ncentration camp who had been forced to work year-but not just yet. Visitors to Erkrath, near Dusseldorf, can find the old butcher walking the streets a free man. Horst Schumann, a doctor of medicine, was responsible macabre operations on human guinea-pigs at Ausch- witz and Buchenwald, two of the most notorious Nazi death- camps. He was seeking a way of 'subhumans' preventing from reproducing, while at the same time being able to force the last ounce of labour power out of their bodies. Schumann used radiation to sterilize his victims and then removed their reproductive organs surgically for examina- tion. He belonged to the Luft- waffe, not the SS, which means he cannot claim he was acting under orders-the usual excuse forward by these war put criminals. Schumann enjoyed the per- sonal protection of Ghana's 'redeemer' Kwame Nkrumah until the latter's death in 1966, when West Germany succeeded in extraditing the German criminal. Investigation has shown Schumann is adroit at mani- pulating his blood pressure with strong coffee just prior to court examinations of his state of health. His first trial, in 1970, ended before a verdict due to ill-health established by a court examiner. At this trial Schumann was not accused in connection with his infamous 'experiments' but only for other crimes under the Nazis' 'euthanasia' pro- gramme. After four years' pre- varication the court claimed there was no time to prepare a case based on Schumann's Workers Press, Monda d to work underground in a munitions plant. 20,0 experiments. Schumann lives freely in Seckbach, outside Frankfurt, and has yet to come to trial again. It is worth noting that the survivors of Schumann's 'experiments' and similar 'medical' enterprises of the Nazi regime also had a long wait. It was not until late last year that the West German government agreed to pay them compensation. It finally earmarked just over £lm to pay compensation —at least 1,357 of the sur- vivors had previously been forced to rely on charity from the International Red Cross.

• Johannes Thuemmler, for- mer Gestapo chief of Katowice, Poland. He headed courts- martial in which he passed sentence, as documents prove, after 30-seconds to two- minutes proceedings. Thuemmler had only one verdict and only two sen- tences. They condemned 60 per cent of the defendants to death and all the rest to Auschwitz. He admits to having been in charge of about 200 such "trials'. But docu- ments indicate that personally he passed at least 658 death sentences. On June 10, 1970, a court in Ellwangen declined to bring Thuemmler to trial and an appeal from the prosecution was later rejected by a higher court in Stuttgart. In July 1972 Thuemmler was exposed in • a television documentary programme broadcast from Baden-Baden.

The programme showed Polish documents and interviewed who massively witnesses in- criminated the former Gestapo chief. 88, Monday February 12, 1973 PAGE 5 plant. 20,000 died here. The editor programme's handed his material and docu- ments to the Stuttgart prose- cutor's office, but it appears nothing has been done with it.

Thuemmler receives a substan- tial pension from the Carl foundation, where he Ziess was employed for years in an important post, enabling him to live in some style at Aalen in Württemberg. • Albert Ganzenmueller was a in the Nazi state secretary Transport Ministry when Himmler appealed for more trains to deport Jews and carry out the 'final solution'.

Ganzenmueller responded with brisk efficiency, brushing aside red tape to speed Himm- ler's victims to their deaths.

No such efficiency has been displayed by those charged with preparing Ganzenmuel- ler's trial. He selected a lawyer who was already immersed in a complicated war crimes case and has succeeded in postpon- ing trial for over 15 years on the grounds that his lawyer needs adequate time to fami- liarize himself with the case.

Ganzenmueller lives today, a free man, in the little Allgau town of Oberjoch, near Hin- delang. Like Thuemmler he is now nearly 70 and has at the rate an present excellent chance of living out the rest of his days without ever seeing the inside of a prison. These cases are not by any means unique. There are dozens of other notorious Nazi criminals in West Germany living respected, as often wealthy, middle-class citizens and protected by the state apparatus riddled by the Nazi old boy network.

WHYTHE GASI

Left: Ken Smith, worker at the Westminster fitters depot. Right: Greenwich gas works. Above: Wakefleld gasworkers, voting for strike PAGE 6 Workers Press, Monday Febru On January 1 this year the new British Gas Cor- poration was inaugurated by the Tory government to replace the Gas Coun- cil and the 12 area gas boards. Sir John Eden, the Industry Minister and man behind the carve-up UCs, said the at corporation was 'necessary for the efficient conduct of the industry'. He went on: 'We have decided to put full statutory authority for the industry in the hands of a single body, the British Gas Corporation. The Tory Gas Act of 1972, which received its Royal Assent on August 9, marked the cul- mination of a huge rationaliza- tion programme. This has already cost the industry 22,500 redundancies over the past five years. other words there have In been just under 100 redundan- cies a week since 1967. The industry was originally nation- in 1949 when 1,037 alized undertakings, of which 689 were private companies, were absorbed under. public owner- ship. Ten years later the number of separate works had been reduced to 463. By 1968 it had fallen to 192 and on March 31, 1972, was only 96. jobs in the The number of industry has fallen sharply in the past few years due to the discovery of large quantities of natural gas under the North Sea. The finds in 1965 and 1966 convinced the Gas Coun- cil that the future of the industry would be natural gas and that the manufacture of town gas would be phased out.

Throughout this massive re- organization in the industry, the gas workers' wages have remained at a miserable level.

labourer's basic is The £19.10 while the skilled crafts- man receives £22.87 basic. This is well behind the pacesetters in the electrical industry. In the power industry a shop floor worker gets £4 more than his equivalent in the gas industry and the skilled craftsman electricity supply gets £6 more than his counterpart in gas.

Extraordinarily, the massive carried redundancies were 'with union through co- operation'. Just as the pits were closed with union assist- ance, so the gas industry was savagely rationalized with the active connivance of the trade in the union bureaucrats G&MWU and the T&GWU. Yet all along the profiteers from the North Sea gas were the private gas interests.

companies which The are making a bonanza from North Sea gas are BP, whose supplies landed at Easington in are Yorkshire at the mouth of the Humber, the Phillips and Arpet group, the Gas Council-Amoco Shell Esso groups, whose supplies are landing at Bacton on the Norfolk coast, and the Conoco-National Coal Board group with supplies landing at Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire.

have also The Tories nominated a board of their choice. Chairman is Arthur Ken Smith of the Westminster, Vincent Street, fitter's depot, is married with two children.

Last week he worked 88 hours — virtually two weeks and a day's work—for £40.68.

I need about this amount of take-home pay in order to get a decent living wage for myself and my family. 'Even though I don't have to pay much income tax, with having two children, I still virtually have to do two weeks' work in every week in order day February 12, 1973 ar F. Hetherington, former chair- man of the East Midlands Gas Board, whose salary is well in excess of £23 a week. He gets about €17,000 a year. That's about f350 a week. The real political teeth lies in his part-time members who get a couple of thousand plus expenses for making appear- ances at board meetings. They include: • • Sir Don Ryder, chairman of Reed International, the newsprint and publishing group.

If gasmen have been receiving in the 'Daily a bad Press Mirror, the 'Sunday Mirror' and the 'People' they should address themselves to Ryder.

Reed international has a controlling interest in Inter- national Publishing Corpora- tion, the largest newspaper group in the world. He was the man who carried through the boardroom purge of Cecil Harmsworth King and was later knighted by Edward Heath. • Dr E. G. Woodroofe, chair- of Unilever Limited, has man massive interests all over the world in raw materials. It is among those companies which are making gigantic profits out decision not to of the Tories' impose price restraint under its Phase Two legislation-but to hold down wages at the pain of criminal action against those who disobey. • Joe King, right-wing general secretary of the National Union of Textile and Allied Workers.

Gasworkers might well ask what a trade unionist is doing on the board of the Tory- created Gas Corporation. He heads a union whose members also suffer from gross ex- ploitation. • Professor A. D. Campbell, Professor of Applied Eco- nomics, University of Dundee.

• Mr George Cooper, chair- man of the North Thames Gas Board. He receives £13,000 for running North Thames, plus extra bonuses for his appearing on the corporation. i the men These are among who are now working might and main with the trade union restrain the bureaucrats to rising tide of militancy.

just as the reluctant But miners finally took a stand 12 months ago, so the gasworkers are now forced onto the scene to take up the struggle for a decent standard of living. But a warning must be sounded: when the Tories first came to power they began to pick off one section of workers after another-dustmen, post- men, Ford workers, power workers, etc. They came un- stuck with the miners and to some extent with the railway- men. But all these experiences proved that the Tories cannot be defeated in isolated, single issue struggles. Everything is on the table now - unemployment, soaring prices, council rents, asset stripping and wage-cutting. To these vicious measures end against the working class re- quires a united struggle of the whole labour and trade union movement against the govern- ment. To force it out and elect a Labour government pledged to socialist policies. to provide good conditions for my wife and children. it of But what means, course, is that I sometimes only see the kids once a week.

'When I go out in the morn- ing to be on shift at 8 a.m., there is little time. Frequently I work on after normal finish- ing time at 5 p.m. until 10 p.m.

doing emergency fitting repairs for time-and-a-half payment.?

At the Lenton depot in Nottingham another gasworker told Workers Press: 'For 40 hours I get £2l a week with bonuses. And I had to spend five years at college to get my qualifications.' Another worker chipped in: 'I had five years of study too.

I did my City and Guild exams to become a first class fitter.

My basic is only £23.31' Then he added defiantly: I should be getting f30 a week? L

WHYTHE GASMEN ARE STRIKING

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THE HOPE

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Preamble to the Rules of the Gasworkers' Union, 1892. (Drawn up by Edward Aveling Marx and Eleanor Aveling.)

FELLOW WORKERS:

Trade unionism has done ex- cellent liessk in the east ane of the lies the hope workers for the future; that is trade unionism which clearly recognizes that today there are only two classes, the producing working class and the possess- ing master class. The interests of these two classes are opposed to each other. d gasworkers, voting for strike action Workers Press, Mond The masters have known this a long time; the workers are beginning to see it, and so are forming trade unions to protect themselves, and to get as much as they can of the product of their labour. They are beginning to understand that their only hope lies in themselves, and that from the a class they can masters as expect no help; that divided they fall, united they stand. This is why every . form of labour is now organizing, even is called 'unskilled' what labour and admits all workers, women as well as men, on an equal footing. immediate objects of The this union are the improve- ment of the material conditions of its members; the raising of them from mere beasts of burden to human beings; the making brighter and happier the home of every worker; the saving of little children from the hard, degrading, bitter life to which they are condemned 288, Monday February 12, 1973 PAGE 7 today; the dividing more equally between all men and women the tears and laughter, the sorrow and the joy, the labour and the leisure of the world. It is important that all members should understand the necessity for and aims of this union; that they should accept and loyally carry out its rules; that they should remem- ber that the interests of all workers are one, and a wrong done to any kind of labour is a wrong done to the whole of the working class, and that victory or defeat of any por- tion of the army of labour is a gain or a loss to the whole of that army, which by its union organization and marching steadily and irresist- its ultimate ibly forward to goal-the emancipation of the working class. That emancipa- 'tion can only be brought about by the strenuous and united efforts of the working class itself.

THE BANKERS LOVE

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Monday Febru The ruling class all over the world shrinks from no atro- city to preserve its rule and defend its profits. In country after country—in Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East-the most brutal repressions are prac- tised. Opposition parties and trade unions are outlawed.

Free expression is banned.

Revolutionaries, youth, intel- lectuals and trade unionists are jailed and tortured. Everywhere the hand of international, and particularly American, imperialism can be usually through the seen, direct intervention of the US Central Intelligence Agency.

Often enormous profits are sucked out of these countries by powerful monopolies while the workers and pea- sants live in poverty, disease and fear. Invariably, the British Tories rush to defend these brutal regimes in the name of 'democracy' and 'freedom'.

But the struggle for socialism and for real freedom goes on.

Jailed and murdered workers..

and leaders are replaced by others. The obscene tortures.

of the imperialists and their agents are more than matched by the courage of their opponents. Imperialism will be unable to crush this resistance and, with the construction of the Fourth International, will be finally overthrown. In this series of articles JACK GALE examines the structure of government and repression in a number of key centres for British imperialism. Brazil, the largest of the south American states, is also the most brutal. Arrests without charge, torture, beatings and forced confessions, fas- cist gangs protected by the state, police murder squads and laws gagging the Press and banning strikes are normal as- pects of life in this country. The armed forces, police and torture squads work in close liaison with the American Central Intelligence Agency.

Brazil is, in fact, the lynch- pin of Washington policies in It receives south America. enormous American military aid and each years selected officers of the armed forces go to the United States for orientation visits' Special Brazilian units are trained there in guerrilla and jungle warfare. The political police are also trained at the expense of the US government.

In June last year, President Nixon's State Secretary William Rogers spoke of 'the excellent opportunities for the expansion of foreign invest- ment operations in Brazil'.

survey in A the recent 'Jornal do Brasil' revealed that 30 per cent of the capital in important the ten most Brazilian companies was foreign cent of the owned; 73 per capital in companies producing goods; 70 per cent of capital in durable that consumer goods; and 54 per cent of that in non-durable consumer goods.

General Motors' biggest in- vestment abroad in 1972 was in Brazil and Ford of America $150m in new and invested expanded plant in the country.

Current Volkswagen plan- ning includes an outlay of $200m on its new factory at Taubate, Sao Paulo, between 1970 and 1975. Six Japanese conglomerates are investing $400m in Brazil- projects, ranging from ian minerals to acrylic fibre.

Brazilian banking is also dominated by world imperial- Ba ism. day February 12, 1973 General Garrastazu Medici. Above: The military coup which brought General Medici to power in April, 1964. Medici has pro- ceeded to tighten anti-strike laws, jail trade unionists and repress opposition through arbitrary arrests, torture and murder.

The largest investment bank is the Banco Real de Invest- ments, an affiliate of the Adela which investment company, has its headquarters in Brussels. The next largest is Bradesco.

But Bradesco has been engaged in long negotiations with the Union of Brazilian Banks, large sections which are owned by the Deltec Banking Cor- poration, of Deltec Chicago, of the Rockefeller Group.

Third in rank is InvestBank, a real international centre whose stock is owned by the Deutsche Bank of Frankfurt, the Credit Lyonnais of Paris, Hill, Samuel and Company of London and late of the AUEW, the Banco Nazionale of Italy, the First National City Bank of New York and the Banco Popular Español of Madrid. The Fuji Bank . of Tokyo also has a toehold in InvestBank. Another investment bank is Cresiful, which • is associated with the First National City Bank of New York. of foreign The penetration capital is no less evident in the commercial banks. Chase Manhattan recently took over, to mention just one example, the Banco Brasiliero to "pro- vide new and aggressive ser- vices in the financial area', declared David Rockefeller in Rio in November, 1972. World Also last year the Bank promised a $1,200m credit and $50m was handed over by the American Agency for International Development.

The 1973 Brazilian arms budget totals $1,100m. it is not only the But imperialists who assist the Brazilian rulers. Last October a five-man trade delegation, headed by Gaulite Coutinho, President of the Brazilian Exporters' Association, at- tended the Canton Export Fair. After talks with Chou Hua- min, Chinese vice-Minister for Trade, and Wang Wen-lin, vice-President of the Council for Promotion of World Trade, announced that Coutinho a large mission of Brazilian businessmen would visit China in 1973 to sign contracts.

Meanwhile, of course, leaders of the pro-Chinese Brazilian Communist Party— like its secretary Raul Gonzales-are rotting in the military prisons.

And Joao Antonio Mesple, a central committee member of the pro-Moscow Communist was arrested last Party, November ... during a four- day trade visit by a Russian delegation. The Brazilian Communist Party has been illegal since 1948. That has not prevented plans being well in hand for a Soviet Trade Fair to be held in Sao Paulo this year. Meanwhile, the sufferings of the Brazilian masses are almost beyond description. In May, 1970, it was revealed that in the north-east states men and being sold as women were slaves at $18 a head to the big estates in Minas Gerais and Goias. The last census (held in 1970) showed that one-third of the Brazilian workers re- ceived less than $20 a month and a further third less than $40. According to Gerhardt Filmo, director of the National Tuber- culosis Division, two new cases of TB are registered every minute and one dies every 40 minutes. In some Brazilian states per cent of all children 40 born alive die before they reach one year old. According government statistics 23 to million Brazilians suffer from 'amarelas' — a disease carried by worms which penetrate the soles of the feet. And in 1971,, there were 250,000 recorded cases of leprosy. to the dictatorship of Prior Getulio Vargas, established in 1937, Brazil had been governed by local political bosses, with their own state militias, ever since the republic has been declared in 1889. Vargas was ousted by the army in 1945. A series of unstable govern- ments followed until another army coup in March 1964. Yet a further military coup took place in 1968 under General Garrastazu Medici. Ever since 1964 there has been an official 'war against subversive groups.

The 1960s saw a spread of workers' unrest in the southern of the towns, emergence peasant leagues in the north- east and a large student move- ment. The latter was led partly by the pro-Moscow Communist Party (PCB) and partly by the Catholic 'Acao Popular'. The PCB lost most of its influence in 1965 when it law advocated accepting which banned student unions.

Student demonstrations con- tinued, however, particularly eld in 1968 after a student had been killed in a Rio de Janeiro demonstration. The Brazilian 'trade unions' have been run on corporatist lines for 40 years. The Minister of Labour appoints the heads of the 'sindicatos' (unions) and levies and distributes the "imposto sindical' of one day's wages per year. This did not save Juan Lechin Oquendo, leader of the Miners' Federation, from being jailed by the military regime.

Following the 1964 coup, the anti-strike laws (all strikes are tightened. rule, as well as wages, political crimes in 1 o civi crimes But resistance In May 1970, troops with laid incendiaries of Sao Paulo in a hunt for mem Popular Revolutio guard

(VPR)

Lamarca. May of that arrest of five Workers Party of B operated om Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio Gra Their names Alberto Antonio Helena Naumann. October of the murde sary Marighela by a pol Marighela leader of the National ment, Alliance (ALN). H Joaquim Camara F murdered under io cumstances a year This growing. worrying cenousiv clique. Army General Alfredo Sc has called for 'larg and well-trained civ deal with the towns, free to fight the the countryside. guerrilla movement 'October Movement'.) A number of il wing groups are alr the most being the 'death sql are composed policemen who kill those they deal with through machine. Torture is now of part official

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Alexanare Lucio Borges, Vito and Nava tions on the anniver. le murder of Carlo been the the guerrilla Liberation ALN). His successor, amara Ferreira, was under identical cir- s a year later. opposition is worrying the Ifredo Souto Mala for large diversifie ained civilian groups ith the workers in leaving the urban also an novement called the Revolutionary er of 'illegal' right- os are already active, These capture they cannot easily through the officia is now a routine interrogation

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office space in the building at the price of f6 per square foot a week. If you invested f12 these you coula have two oi square feet to live work in. But as we said, youd prime be quite a midget to have to make things work out.

RECORD

Greenall Whitley and Co, the Lancashire-based brewery, hotel and soft-drinks group announced recora pronts for the third year succes- 1n Group profit before tax sion. was £4,519,221—an increase of over 10 per cent on the previ- ous ycal. 'But for the industrial prob- the lems prevalent during second half of our trading year and the redundancy and closure costs involved at Groves and Whitnall Ltd and Allied Vint- ners Investments Ltd, the re- sults would have been even better' said company charman Mr Christopher Hatton. The recently ca duv acn built a 108-bedroom hotel at Warrington Daresbury, near Meanwhile the town council at Oldham, also in Lancashire, has been told that it will not get a new hospital before 1990.

hospital accommoda- Soresenl in this serving tion area 250,000 people is a patched-up workhouse and an infirmary a century old.

MUCH ADO

ABOUT NOTHING

The dozing spires • OOrO University are periodically shaken by learned controver- sies which, as well as contri- buting to the march of science, serve to keen the older occu- of college pants sinecures awake at High Table. the In most recent instance, however, excitement has mounted to the point where academic decorum is in danger, and rude words exchanged in have even peer the public prints.

POLITICAL PROFILES

Now available from New Park Publications 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG The present dispute arises from the 'discovery, in manu- scripts at the Bodleian Library, of an identity for the anony- 'dark lady' to whom mous many of Shakespeare's amor- are addressed. ous sonnets Author of this literary break- through is Dr A. L. Rowse, well-known as a weighty tren- cherman-fellow of All Souls (the college most esteemed in ruling-class circles since it admits no students whatsoever, is fabulously wealthy, and has more bottles in the cellar than books in the library). Dr Rowse claims the woman was in fact one Emilia Lanier, daughter of an Italian musi- cian (and therefore probably swarthy), mistress of the cour- tier Lord Hunsdon, wife of a court minstrel, and lady of easy virtue. He offers evidence from the notebook of an Elizabethan astrologer that she may very possibly have been Shakes- peare's mistress in the 1590s.

Dr Rowse published his dis- covery in "The Times', where he embellished it with piquant details of Mrs Lanier's love- affair (with the astrologer, not Shakespeare) and compared it favourably with Newton's dis- covery of gravitation. His claim has provoked a mass revolt among the ivy- covered labourers of the 'Shakespeare Industry', fearful that such a delectable 'puzzle' should be 'solved'. The corres- columns of "The pondence Times' are a daily running sore of censure and derision at Dr Rowse's Professor expense. Trevor-Roper, late of Magda- len College has reproved him for 'outrageous egoism' and 'a sentience dulled by opulent fat'. Agatha Christie has sug- gested that Mrs Lanier was the original for Cleopatra, and that the asp was Will's revenge for her inconstancy; while a Ham- shire clergyman has penned the conjecture (with textual evi- dence from the Sonnets) that 'Hamlet' was actually written by Mr Bernard Levin. Shakespeare's own lines are being muttered sotto even voce: I pray thee, cease thy falls into counsel, which mine as profitless as ears water in a sieve' ('Much Ado about Nothing' Act. V.) By LEON TROTSKY Paperback. £1.00 Illustrated Sharp pen-portraits of leading Second Interna- figures of the tional in Russia and Europe, for the first time published in an English edition. The translations were first commissioned by the 'Keep Young Socialists' paper Left' Their enormous success has completion of the led to the of the whole book, translation 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 Second Inter- figures 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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TV REVIEW BY ANNE BLAKEM

Tuesday Documentary: The Longest Drink'. A film by Don Haworth. Commentary by David Marlow. BBC 1. The spectacular highlight of last week's television was from 8.00 p.m. to 8.30 on Monday night when the screen was empty (see page 3). Tuesday Don Haworth's "The Longest documentary Drink', which was one of the which the tech- programmes nicians permitted to broadcast this week. It gave us good clear filming and plenty of in- formation but at the same time a limp liberal commentary by David Marlow which was bent on dispersing facts and render- ing them impotent as fast as they emerged. The problem under consider- ataion water supply. 35 was gallons of water are consumed daily in this country by each individual; industry eats up the same amount again. In the next 25 years the country will need to double its water supply, on the reasoning of the current political system, with- out either ruining rivers or flooding country. valleys.

The film showed the old world of water supply, the leisurely methods, the hap- keeping it hazard means for and flowing in the right clean directions; and the new, highly- computerized, newly-equipped, automated centres for control and distribution of water where manpower is reduced to a minimum and chlorination, re-cycling and all other water business is possible and efficient. Focusing on Manchester, as the epitome of the big in- dustrial city's demands for followed the water, we machinations of the local Corp- oration against all odds and cutting its expenditure every way it can, in bringing what 'wholesome trade calls water' to every individual as their right (although of course they do pay 1fp a day for that right). Workers Press, Mond

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We watched the way in- dustry systematically destroys waterways and naturally ignores the pathetic statutory exist controls which (on paper), while at the same time all the industries ensure con- struction and expansion where water is available in order to facilitate usage on the scale of: 400 gallons in the making of a single car, 44,000 gallons in the making of a ton of steel. 300,000 gallons in the making of a ton of aluminium. The heart of the capitalist crisis, sharply exposed by the apparently straightforward matter of supplying water, was brought right to the fore.

We saw men working for Manchester Corporation where a new 'dynamic' system of work has been instituted: bonus schemes, no overtime, gang labour in hot competition with itself, incentive structures which not ensure keeping essential matter of water clean and healthy, but in a world where even water begins to spell profit-where the major portion of work and energy goes into cutting down water losses and leakage.

A 'top' waterworks ganger, under pressure from the bosses and their time-and-motion their committees measures, deciding who is the 'top' gang each month, can the earn princely sum of £40 a week.

No comment was made on the money earned by less fortunate gangs. The great revelation on manpower came with the film- ing of sewage treatment and its relation to re-cycling-one of the great move for the future which emerges uneasily and sparsely at present because of 'prohibitive costs' Down in the sewers in tunnelling a 100 and more years old, entirely inadequate for its job, men work at shift- ing the solids and sludge and easing its passage onward amid rats, urine, poisonous gases, and danger from flooding scalding and disease of all sorts. 383, Monday February 12, 1973 PAGE 9 Above: Lancashire's River Irwell —the water supply is jeopardized, so is the life on our planet.

On a 60-hour week they shift blockages that the clogged and reeking, jerry-built sewers cannot do; sewers which were built at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution when men had the smell of ready money and big profits in the air and were only concerned with hurrying through the necessities which allowed as much labour as possible to exist, not live, in the areas required. All the lessons were there to be drawn-against the will of the programme makers who were stuck in their persistent dilemma of 'impartial com- ment' Pollution, the devastation of water or other- ecosystems, wise, may be contaminated by the superficial abuse of liberal its real per- standpoints. In spective it illumines the rotten core of the capitalist crisis human need everywhere blocked by the ruthless calcu- lations and ploys of profit- makers. Human labour is contempt- uously exploited and the results are in water supply as they are everywhere else. Future decent supply is jeopardized and so is the future and • hampered by antiquated labour methods, abuse of wretched organization power, and minimal expenditure. None of it is necessary. To the working man in the backstreets of Manchester it's simple the programme as showed: 'It's not my problem mate-I just want my water running properly.' All the technological means are to hand for brth man and satisfied and nature to be develop. What is required is the overthrow of a corrupt and diseased system of government to set man on the road to achieving satisfaction and development in every aspect of life.

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BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

the 'spivvery on the periphery' Suddenly we have the "The of the City. He went on: sight of extraordinary City's image has been tarnished in recent the con- tinued publicity given to a few City of London. Not a I mean those operators cases. day goes by when there have specialized in deals who is not some businessman done with which have been pure financial gain in mind and indulging in self-flagel- with apparent scant regard to lation. other consequences - the get- Unclean, ( brigade, unclean, they cry ting-rich-quick some Press. The of the barrow boys of the pro.

in the capitalist Stock Exchange must be tidied perty world seeking new out- lets for their money and so- There must be end to up. an called managerial talents' insider-trading. Indeed, one official report said that insider- He said it was a pity that trading should become the legitimate search im- criminal offence. efficiency and ration- proved Workers reading about the industry alization of British drive to 'purify' the business through takeovers and mergers activities in the money-chang- and the realizing of assets for ing world should be-and are more productive use elsewhere -very sceptical. had been abused. Asking the City of London warned that the City He reform itself just can't be to must put its house in order.

done. Sir Kenneth's line of argu- past week Mr During the scarcely subtle. What ment is Tim Slater, the City's most he is saying is that the ruthless financial spectacular enter- British pruning of industry has been joined in preneur, should proceed, but it should of by Sir welter moralizing do so in a gentlemanly way. Kenneth Keith, chairman of crudities None of your or the Hill Samuel Group. adverse publicity, please.

Sir Kenneth is the financial old It is ironical that an world's hardest nose. He is a hand at asset-stripping should devoutly keen Tory-his mer- wrist of now be slapping the chant banking group gave the the Young Turks. But then, this -and Party £25,000 a year ago- is part of the smokescreen.

he enjoys the closest contacts of Tories in his The elder statesmen with top other of Times being role director British capitalism are as Newspapers. called upon to solemnly take up the cudgels for 'cleaning up In a typically abrasive speech capitalism'. the other day he referred to WhEs Do you get WORKERS PRESS regularly? If not, why not take out a subscription now? £20.28 for 12 months (312 issues) {10.14 for 6 months (156 Issues) £5.07 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week the rates are: £1.56 for 3 months (24 issues) £6.24 for 12 months (96 issues) Fill in the form below NOW and send to : Circulation Dept., Workers Press, 186a Clapham High St., London SW4 7UG. I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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The business community is try- ing to convince the trade capitalism has, unions that after all, 'a human face'.

The of corporate gospel morality being spead by Sir Kenneth and Mr Slater has confounded Mr John Bentley of Barclay Securities, the man "The Guardian' described by as the country's 'No. 1 asset- stripper Bentley, who in reality is a novice compared with Sir Arnold Weinstock of GEC, say, gave a very sell- pitying interview the other day to the 'Sunday Times'.

I don't like being branded a wheeler dealer. said as 'Honest John' in the colour supplement. 'We're just a young earnest bunch of guys sincerely trying to re- all organize and reutilize com- best of our panies to -the ability, doing what the country needs to be done.' There can be no 'reform' of British capitalism. It is a ruth- less, parasitic structure. For the working class there is one way forward-expropriation of the assets-strippers, young and old.

These people are all _closely connected Tories: Sir Kenneth is a life-long contributor to the Party, Mr Slater's business partner is Mr Peter Walker, the Environment Secretary, and the despondent Mr Bentley is now striking out in a new career as a prospective Tory MP. The TUC is co-operating with the Tory govern- ment to implement a scheme of worker-direc- tors in British industry.

This corporatist move is in line with legislation on 'indus- trial democracy' which Common Market will be intro- throughout the nine ducing later this member-countries year. The TUC study group which decided to agree with these proposals include the Tory 'lefts' Jack Jones of the Trans- Workers' General port and Union and Hugh Scanlon of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. It can be seen, therefore, that implementation of the scheme is worker-director nothing more than acceptance of the Common Market as well. Both moves have been im- plemented without consultation with the members-indeed, the whole TUC is overwhelmingly committeed to an anti-Market policy-and in secret. Among west European coun tries, Britain has the least degree of boardroom participa- tion by the trade unions. It has been a founding principle of the trade unions that the chair- men, the directors and the shareholders belong to the enemy class. And written into the aims of these unions is the long-term aim of bringing private enterprise under public ownership and workers' con- trol. Now, when the ruling class is at its weakest and is striking out at the working class in the most reactionary fashion, the reformists want to enter the John Bentley: 'I don't like being brande boardroom. They wish to par- ticipate in a phoney scheme towards worker-participation.

This is already being prac- tised in the British Steel Cor- poration. And privately-owned companies have been more than satisfied with the conduct of the trade unionists on this nationalized body. They have presided over the closure of massive sections of the indus- with the loss of try some 31,000 jobs. Under the new Tory ration- alization a further 50,000 jobs will be axed. At this point one thought that the would have have worker-directors might pulled out of the boardroom.

BSC chair- On the contrary, man. Lord Melchett has just announced a strengthening of trade union membership of the board. Five new employee directors have been invited to serve on BSC's divisional boards. Five others have been reappointed.

All ten will serve for four years from April. They were selected from 70 nominees considered by the TUC steel committee, on whose recommendation appointments are made. Steel workers who are facing the savage effects of the Tories' hatchet plan may like to know those who were reappointed and newly-elected: Those reappointed were: Mr Len Eaton, Tubes Division, (Stanton); Mr Jim Kane, Tubes Division, (Corby); Mr John Slater, General Steels Division, (Lackenby); Mr Cyril Whur, Division, General Steels (Irlam); Mr George Williams, Strip Mills Division, (Trostre).

The new 'directors' are: Mr James Armstrong (57) has worked at Lanarkshire for ng branded as a wheeler dealer.!

34 years, is an Amalgamated Union of Engineering and Foundry Workers' shop steward and convenor. He is a magistrate and a member of Lanarkshire County Council.

Mr Kenneth Clark (56) has spent 32 of his 35 years at Stocksbridge in the melting shop. He has been a member of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation executive for five years and is the current vice-chairman former chairman of the works coun cil. Jackson (50) Mr Norman has been chairman of the Normanby Park joint works' committee for ten years. He is a member of the National Union of Blastfurnacemen's national committee and was chairman of the union's north Midlands district for three years. Mr James McLaren (38) is the youngest of the new em- ployee-directors. He is Iron and Steel Trades Confedera- tion works' convenor and secretary of Ravenscraig No. 2 branch and of the Joint Branches Committee at Motherwell in Scotland. Mr Alan White (51) has been chairman of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation Temple No. 1 branch for 11 years and secretary for six years. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1970. Two years ago he completed a three-year course at Sheffield University's extra-mural department as 'a storeman the special steels division'. Each £1,000-a-year get lucrative salary, plus very on their frequent expenses trips to London.

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AT £206.48 IT IS proving a tough struggle so far this month. If we don't step up our campaign Immedi- ately, there Is a danger we might not collect our £1,750 target on time. Let's go into action right away. We know the situation can and will be changed. As Ford workers, teachers, hospital gasmen, workers, trade unionists from all walks of life, take up the struggle for more and more wages, readers are being won behind our paper. Workers Press, alone, gives a firm political lead. We will never cover up for the class collabora- tion of the reformist and Stalinist trade union leaders. We know that the fight for wages today is part of a political fight to make this Tory government resign.

We will continue to speak out loud and clear as we know that it is this that wins your growing support. Therefore we appeal to you all. Keep your paper, Workers Press, out in front. Make every effort you can for our February Fund. We still need £1,543.52 by February 28. See If you can raise a bit more. Post all donations immediately to: Workers Press February Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG Fight rising rents and prices Defend basic democratic rights Force the Tories to resign WANDSWORTH: Monday February 12, 8 p.m. 'King's Arms', , Wands- worth High Street. 'Fight rising rents and prices' WATFORD: Monday February 12, 8 p.m. Trade Union Hall (down- TODMORDEN: Monday February OLI 12, 7.30 p.m. 'Woodpecker Inn'. 14, 'Defend Basic Rights' CLAY CROSS: Tuesday February 13, 8 p.m. Social Centre, Derby Road. 'Fight rising rents and prices. Defend basic democratic rights'. COVENTRY: Tuesday February 13, 7.30 p.m. Wood End Com- munity Building. LOUGHBOROUGH: Tuesday Feb- ruary 13, 8 p.m. Cobden Street School. CLAPHAM: Tuesday February 13, 8 p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Manor Street, SW4. Clapham 'Defend basic rights'.

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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 Hail near Watford Junction stn speaker: MIKE• BANDA (SLL Central Cttee)

NORTH KENT

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

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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 20, 8pm Woodlands Hall, Crown Street speaker: G HEALY (SLL National Sec) STEWARDS from British- Leyland's Rover plants in the Birmingham have area decided withdraw to со- operation with management over efficiency and mobility of labour clauses in the 1972 wages agreement. The decision to withdraw co- operation was taken at a meeting . stewards on saturday of 700 ABOUT 500 GEC-AEI workers will meet outside the Mill Road factory in Rugby today to con- sider the next steps in their fight to stop the transfer of militant AUEW steward, Mr Steve Evans.

If he was moved from the generator shop to the press shop he would lose his shop steward's credentials. Last Friday more than 800 from four unions stopped men work in protest against the pro- posed transfer. They claim that since failure to agree had been registered two weeks ago and they await a works conference on the trans- fer, the management was violat- accepted negotiating machinery. SIR DAVID BARRAN, ex- head of the Shell Oil Company, will lead a government inquiry into the future of London's rail services. The study is being set up_jointly by the Department of Environment, the Greater London Council (GIC), British Rail and London Transport. It is thought the inquiry will take a year to finish. PADDINGTON: Tuesday February WIl 13, 8 p.m. 'Artesian', , corner Chepstow Road and Westbourne Grove, W2. CAMDEN: Tuesday February 13 8 p.m. Wharte- of the rents fight' HARROW: Tuesday February 13, 8 p.m. Labour Hall. 'Defend basic rights'. wn- TOOTING: Tuesday February 13, 'Selkirk Hotel, 8 p.m. Selkirk Road. 'Defend basic rights'.

OLDBURY: Wednesday February 14, 7.30 p.m. 'The Bulls Head'.

WOLVERHAMPTON: Wednesday February 14, 7.30 p.m. 'Little Swan, Horseley Fields. KINGSTON: Thursday, February 15, 8 p.m. 'Liverpool Arms', cor- ner of Cambridge Road/London Road. 'Build Councils of Action'.

SLOUGH: Thursday February 15, 8 p.m. Community Centre, Farn- ham Road. 'How to defeat Phase Two' HOLLOWAY: Thursday February 15, 8 p.m. Co-op Hall, Seven Sisters Road. 'Build Councils of Action'.

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8pm Britwell Community Centre Long Furlong Drive Britwell Estate speaker: G HEALY (SLL National Sec) representing all direct workers in the plants. A proposal for an overtime ban was left to stewards in the individual plants. The sanctions have been imposed because the £2.90 second stage of a wage increase due on January 1 has been stopped under the govern- ment's pay laws. Non-co-operation • with the clauses is expected to rapidly create production difficulties.

On Friday, the works' commit- tee recommended a return to work and said negotiations would continue during the week.

Five hundred, mainly AUEW members, rejected this and said they wanted total withdrawal of the transfer and decided to stay on strike. In November 1971 the same firm was successful in sacking militant DATA (now TASS) committee executive member, Bernard Pearce, for trade union activity. MR JAMES SIM, who resigned National Union from the Mineworkers at Westoe and Harton colliery, has been dis- missed by the National Coal Board. Immediately Sim's lawyer, Mr Tony Brown, announced he would be going to the Industrial Relations Tribunal at Newcastle.

has Sim (32), a former soldier, been in trouble with the local lodges for excessive overtime.

WINSFORD: Thursday February rner 15, 8 p.m. 'Red Lion Hotel', Wins- ford, Cheshire. LEEDS: Thursday February 15, 7.30 (please note date p.m. • change). Peel Hotel, Boar Lane.

SWANSEA: Thursday February 15, 7.30 p.m. Council of Social Services, Mount Pleasant Hill, (near fire station). 'Defend de- mocratic rights' LIVERPOOL: Tuesday February 20, 7.30 p.m. AEU House, Mount Pleasant. BRIXTON: Tuesday February 20, 8 p.m. Brixton Training Centre, Control Room. 'No state control of wages'. DAGENHAM: Tuesday February 20, 8 p.m. Barking Co-op Hall, Fanshawe Avenue. 'Defend basic rights'. LEWISHAM: Thursday February 22, 8 p.m. Deptford • Engineers Club. (opposite New Cross station). ACTON: Tuesday February 27, 8 p.m. Coop Hall High Road 'Forward to Pageant —The Road to Workers' Power'.

CROYDON: Thursday March 1, • of 8 p.m. Ruskin House, Coombe Road. 'Defend democratic rights.

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

DAGENHAM

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

BRADFORD

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7.30 p.m. Central Library Top of Hall Ings. Speaker: Cliff Slaughter (SLL Central Committee)

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SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25, 7pm Digbeth, Civic Hall Digbeth, Birmingham speaker: MIKE BANDA (SLL Central Cttee) Workers Press, Monday February 12, 1973 PAGE 11

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and civil servants today enter full scale defiance of the Tory government's state pay laws. Under the new laws, trade unions and sec- tions of workers can be fined or even jailed for taking industrial action in support of higher wages. There are now more than 3,000 gas workers on strike while another 7,000 have introduced unofficial overtime bans and works to rule. Shop stewards repre- senting 3,000 gas work- ers in the north decided at Newcastle at the weekend to ask the national executive of wal their unions to call a Defend trade unionisi Unite in action to mak The road to power is through t

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policy against inflation des- troyed,' Heath declared. clearest warning yet to the Admitting that Phase Iwo would restraint, it trade union movement that auring last yedi s wage bound cause cases of great would giye way as it did then and he added 1973 is going to be different hardship and unfairness, make a 'special case'. æ™ „evere ve exec cd from last year-the govern- Such illusions are highly be no reason for trying to frustrate dangerous. of industrial power', the ment is not going to give by the use The international trade and cur- govemmment s poncies at all in its dealings way the ligniest besitation by de p othes crisis now This clear declaration that the Tories will not climb with the working class. weaken one thing toi

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dictatorial controls from the under exceptions to. the wage-cutting monied class The Tories now have their backs All that policies contained in the Phase lies ahead is confronta- completely to the wall in their deal- Two wage control laws ought

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noluc ese Ana ine outcome with ise ing lass No will be defeat or victory.

For the to lingering illu- more compromise possible. remove any trade leaders union this late Either the ruling class brings the trade Sins among union about stare laiking labour movement firmiv under dic- leaders. 'resuming negotiations with the gov- tatorial control, Britain's capi- ernment' is criminal betrayal in the in the world trade lose out There has been speculation that face of an enemv ready to go.

if the pushed government was as anu curency wal. The government is armed with 'If we accepted each special case punitive legal hre cr nes oy une momes sonke powers use on tiduc unons ane any secuor of the working class which organ- izes defiance of the Tories Gasmen and civil servants dety pay law defence of their basic rights.

his Cabinet Heath and, are preparing to fine or imprison The Scottish stewards who anyone speaks out or takes The Tory Press has strike the Tories said want all-out action from next week. defv their begun a most scurrilous acuon new and D•irilI W0 O| whether arbitrary laws, by campaign swamped with garbage; striking, picketing or rent strikes gasmen. Yesterday's Three civil servants' powermen's were full unions representing Simultaneous/v. report- newspapers une tree strike they raised the 272,000 ing the working-class's fight some members oI SadlE

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movement. Each returned prisoner has a tions of compromising and talk to look after his ing to Tories and employers over ten-man team decades now makes them Thev wil be rushed evera neeo. from the hand-over point to the threat to the working class seclusion of the Even now, as the government camp the finishing touches where they can be rolsomres 'debriefed' before being shipped to the state machinerv tor taking back to the US. contronatrki, the tran h adion confrontation, trade Each prisoner is to be given union SUnDAY MARCH 11th 3pm- leaders his own personal escort who has ether firting with been thoroughly briefed about une laea oi loining the mono- and ex- polists' Common Market, or else background tamıly

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living standards, or it will be sacrifice made everything to tney nave been ınstructea nol to prisoners to talk British •oltaiNs cecnerare about in the bid to survive. There is no middle experiences way. North Vietnamese camos. A TORY Minister has warned • that the government will intervene with an Order in Council if British Road Ser- vices pays a £2.50 bonus being demanded by 1,300 Midlands lorry drivers. Mr Robin Chichester Clark, junior minister at the Depart- ment of Employment, has issued the warning in a letter to BRS management and Mr Alan Law, Transport and General Workers' Union's regional officer.

The two-week-old dispute has created havoc in the car and car components industry. There are Midlands 15,000 now car workers laid off at nine British- Leyland factories. The men are asking for the £2.50 bonus which is already paid more than 170 drivers for to private road hauliers and to men working for a BRS subsidiary.

But under the state pay laws, the payment of wage-or bonus —increases is outlawed. And under the state pay legislation, unions or sections of workers who defy the laws can be fined or even jailed. In a speech at Oxford on Friday night, Mr Kenneth Cook, the BRS managing director, said the transport union was trying to create a situation where he, the head of a state-owned enter- prise, would openly oppose the government's declared policy.

It is my considered opinion that Alan Law and the T&GWU is fighting not just Mid- lands BRS but the British gov- ernment, Cook added. THE 3,800 striking Liverpool dockers meet this morning to decide future action in their bonus dispute with the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company.

They are out in support of 200 men who stopped work last Tuesday when their claim for extra money for impedance was rejected. were claiming extra They money because they say the cotton cargo was badly stowed on the Thomas and James Har- rison cargo liner 'Administrator'.

A company spokesman said at the weekend: 'The dockers were made an offer which they turned down. 'Instead of going to the second stage of an agreed procedure, they walked out.' Because of the dispute, 29 ships are idle-24 deep sea and five coasters. Other vessels are being directed to nearby ports.

STOREMEN employed at Massey Ferguson in Coventry meet to- day to consider their next move in the dispute over an incentive deal allied to tractor production.

The storemen, mainly members of the Transport and General Workers' Union, went on strike a week ago over the manage- ment's attempt to disrupt their previous work conditions.

The company has laid off 1,300 workers in the assembly plant.

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