The Newsletter, vol. 6 no. 245

EDITORIAL Candidates step back THE decision to form the Independent Nuclear Disarmament Election Committee is a step backward for the movement against the H-bomb. le committee, including members of CND and the Committee of 100, is to prepare to stand nuclear disarmament candidates in by-elections. It hopes 'to appeal to members of all parties' lis line of action will further separate the anti - H-bomb fight from the Labour movement. INDEC candidates will have the effect of siphoning-off votes and active support from the Labour Party and thus aiding the Tories. : a time when all efforts should be devoted to uniting the opposition to this H-bomb, pay freeze government, Pat Arrowsmith, Michael Craft and their friends will be dividing the opposition. ley will also be weakening the fight inside the Labour Party to get rid of the GaitskellBrown - NATO leadership. Already, Stoke Newington and Hackney North Labour Party is to discuss a motion for the expulsion of Hugh Brock, on the basis of his association with the move to put up candidates in opposition to Labour. The right wing are presented with a weapon to use against those who oppose the line of the leadership. le Newsletter has argued since the beginning of the development of CND that the struggle to get rid of the H-bomb must be linked with the struggles of the Labour Movement. owever difficult this task may appear, there are no short cut ways of avoiding it. The power of organised Labour must be brought to bear against the threat of nuclear war. owever sincere the motives of INDEC may be, its formation will undo much of the work which has been done to win support for unilateral nuclear disarmament in the Labour movement. We hope its members wil reconsider their decision and help to complete that work.

H-Bomb Hypocrites (p. 2) he Socialist Labour League and its paper The Newsletter have pported the movement for unilateral nuclear disarmament and have been represented on every one of its demonstrations.' •BLAO-BASES

ISTER 196: sees thousands of people on the march against the H-bomb, while engineering workers and many other sections of the Labour movement prepare to do battle with the Tories. At the same time, in Geneva, representatives of the major powers discuss yet another set of proposals for an international agreement to stop the testing nuclear weapons.

On Christmas Island, American mission of the Tories, complete their series of thermo-nuclear explosions.

While more and more terrible instruments of mass murder are developed, the politicians manoeuvre in the effort to put the blame for World War III on to someone else.

The Socialist Labour League and its. paper The Newsletter have supported the movement for unilateral nuclear disarmament and have been represented on every one of its demonstrations since its emergence in 1957.

As Marxists, we have striven to bring home the need to link this fight with the struggles of the organized working class. For us, the H-bomb is the highest manifestation of the decay of the capitalist system.

A society without a future, capitalism utilizes the scientific techniques available, not to benefit humanity, but to prepare to destroy it.

That is why we see in the Labour and trade union movement the only force which can stop the drive towards nuclear war. Individual protest or summit talks appear to us to be irrelevant to the problem: how to get rid of an outmoded social system? by the Editor against the H-bomb inseparable from the fight against the pay freeze.

The same leaders of the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress who fear an all-out attack on the employers and their government, are also supporters of the NATO alliance and its war preparations.

All those who want to see the world freed from the shadow of the bomb should join us in our efforts to organize the opposition to Gaitskell and his friends and to connect the fight for peace with the fight for socialism.

Join Forces If the mighty Labour movement and CND join forces to remove the Tories from power and replace them with a Labour government committed to the nationalization of the basic industries and the arms industry, then the prospects for peace and the end of the threat of nuclear destruction become a definite and inspiring reality.

Diversion

The Communist Party, arguing for 'pressure' on Macmillan to force an international meeting of heads of state are diverting attention from this question.

The Tory government manufactures and tests H-bombs, because it represents the class whose social system these bombs are meant to protect.

Today, the Tories are in difficulties. Their economic measures are meeting with resistance from 1 trade unionists. Engineering workers are balloting to decide on a national strike for higher wages and shorter hours. A decisive 'Yes' vote will mean that a major section of the Labour movement will take on the Tories and the employers.

We are all fighting the same enemy. A united struggle of CND and the Labour movement, given correct leadership, could force the Tories out of office. The fight SUPPORT for the Cuban Revolution and resolutions of protest at the US blockade are beginning to stream in.

Croydon Labour Party Management Committee has passed a resolution, moved by Young Socialist delegates, and is now arranging to raise the matter at other Management Committees in the area.

Ward Labour Parties and trade union branches are going on record for the protest and sending money.

The Political Committee of the South Suburban Co-operative Party (third largest in the country) will have before its next meeting a resolution calling upon it to support the Surrey Aid to Cuba Committee.

In view of the support already received, the Surrey Committee has plans to broaden and extend its work in the coming weeks.

The Executive Council of USDAW have been asked to place on the agenda at their conference opening at Blackpool on April 30 an emergency motion protesting at the blockade and asking them to raise funds and contact the Cuban trade union movement.

Birmingham Central ETU branch has passed a resolution protesting at the blockade which, it says, is an attempt to starve the Cuban people into submitting to the demands of US big business. The branch urges that a campaign be formed in the area to raise money for the Cuban people.

Seventy people attended a meeting of the Cuba Committee in London last Tuesday to hear reports from four recent visitors to the country. Only at the very end of the reports was the need for aid mentioned.

Speakers from the floor, however, stressed the urgency of the matter and YCL speakers said that the Aid for Cuba Committees were just what was needed and called upon the committee to sponsor such organizations in other areas and mobilize support for the Cuban revolution.

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'ST, Our year that has seen the resurgence of the Right wing at the Blackpool conference and the rout of the lefts' around "Tribune' and VFS, the one bright spot in the ranks of the Labour Party has been the youth organization—the Young Socialists.

The Young Socialists meet in London this Easter for their second annual conference and the resolutions on the agenda show that the success of the struggle against the Right wing and for socialist policies in the Labour Party will depend to a considerable extent upon this militant youth movement.

Gaitskell and company recognise this fact. They see their vision of a few thousand young people recruited to revitalise the decaying electoral machine being replaced by the ogre of a mass youth movement fighting with socialist policies.

To stave off this awesome possibility, the past year has seen an intensification of the witch-hunt against left-wing Young Socialists and further attempts to stifle political discussion in their ranks.

Undaunted, however, the Young Socialists have waged an enthusiastic battle against the Tories in recent months and in many areas have succeeded in building their branches by recruiting large numbers of young workers and apprentices.

The agenda contains a hefty majority of motions in favour of socialist policies: for unilateral nuclear disarmament, for nationalization of the basic industries, land and housing, for control of the Transport House 'youth' paper, and the rights of independent papers, for a better deal for apprentices and for withdrawal of British troops from the colonies. Against the immigration bill, conscription, the Common Market, the pay pause and the collaboration of the trades union leaders on the National Economic Development Council.

The prospect for such a mass movement depends upon the willingness and determination of the elected leadership of the Young Socialists to turn the rank-and-file's policy into a national campaign against the Tories.

M threat of destruction ANKIND faces the in a nuclear war. Such a war differs from all past wars in that initial striking power will be decisive: it is essential to get in the first blow on the enemy's towns, launching sites and warning systems. There will not be years, or even months, to carry through industrial mobilization.

Each major country, separately, or with its allies, aims to have a fully - prepared striking force based on a balanced assortment of weapons.

The technique of war changes at breath - taking speed. Last years' weapons are already obsolete. A fantastic commitment of highlytrained scientists and technicians and research facilities accompanies this arms drive.

Nuclear weapons delivered by ballistic missile, perhaps Let Escalante Lunched from satellit lean:

1 Little or no warning attack; warning time actually diminishing.

No pretence of singling out 'military' targets; indiscriminate massacre of a kind from which all but the most bloodthirsty would have shrunk in former times.

The whole target area will be destroyed, desolated and rendered uninhabitable for years.

The first strike and fall-out effect of an all-out nuclear attack on Britain might leave alive 9-12 milion people. These people would face a slow death from famine, epidemic, radiation sickness and moral, as well as physical, decline. A relapse into barbarism, perhaps cannibalism, would be a matter of days.

The present civil defence effort is ludicrous, a symbolic showpiece to kid people that something is being done. Yet, if it is maintained, nuclear war is being considered as a possibility.

What the H-bomb hypocrites -Macmillan, Gaitskell, Brown sion of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union is an incontestable right as far as socialists are concerned. Does anyone seriously believe, for example, that Cuba could have held out against American imperialism if the Soviet Union did not have equal or superior nuclear striking power?

The possession of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union, while defensible, is the expression of its own contradictions. There are no economic forces which impel the Soviet Union to expand. In fact there are certain circumstances under which its rulers would be prepared to do a deal with Kennedy and sacrifice many Castros.

The political degeneration of the Russian Revolution has left power in the hands of men for whom the bomb is a substitute for the mobilization of the working class against capitalism and a means to push the capitalist world to make a deal along the lines of 'peaceful co-existence' Sq JUST a year after the attempted invasion of Cuba, President Kennedy is once more being hailed as a radical opponent of Big Business. What is the real significance of his attack on the steel companies and his prevention of the rise in the price of American steel?

The administration was especially worried because of the balance of payments problem, which has been troubling the dollar for some time now.

Kennedy had to try to hold back wage increases. He first intervened in wage negotiations last autumn, when he stepped in to stop a strike in the motor industry. ments of one ruling class.

This 'victory' will be used to prevent further wage increases for American workers. The trade union movement in the United States faces a number of struggles with the employers in which the true class position of John F. Kennedy will be made very plain.

THE ARRIVAL in Belgrade of the Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko last Monday is un-

FIDEL CASTRO's attack on 'sectarianism' among leaders of the former Cuban Communist Party has now received backing • from i Moscow. A 'Pravda' editorial on April I1 said that this criticism the strength of the Cuban revolution'.

Castro, in a speech on March 26, had selected for special mention Anibal Escalante, a founder of the Cuban CP. He was blamed for a large number of mistakes and 'an incorrect and disdainful attitude to the young cadres of the revolution, disbelief in their forces' Escalante had been appointed acting secretary of the new Integrated Revolution Organisation, formed by Castro's July 26 movement and the Cuban CP. However, at the time of Castro's attack, he was in Prague, having been removed from his post 'by unanimous decision of the leadership'.

So far, nothing has been published of his point of view. No one knows just what 'sectarian and dogmatic' views he has expressed. No congress of the IRO has yet been held to discuss these, or any other questions.

All friends of the Cuban Revolution must be disturbed at these developments. The issues under dispute must be brought into the open, so that decisions can be reached which will best serve the interests of the Cuban workers and peasants. and company-do not tell you, is that to meet this problem a colossal proportion of the national resources would have to be mobilised.

At dispersed points throughout the country, depots containing food, drugs, raw materials, machines, blueprints, text books and supplies of all kinds would have to be established in radiation-proof shelters. The survivors would be able to open up these stocks to begin to rebuild something like the life of an advanced society.

But no government has seriously considered providing for the survival of civilization as the necessary complement to weapons of offence. Heavy taxes, controls, industrial mobilisation, in short a veritable siege economy would be required now. The conclusion must be that the British and American governments have not seriously prepared to survive the nuclear war for which they arm.

Such men are irresponsible hypocrites with no right to control the destiny of mankind.

The real problem is how to put them out of harm's way. That can only be done by eliminating the system which has produced them.

Nuclear war has social roots. Its possibility today arises from the world - wide challenge to capitalism, which cannot afford to see its field of operation further reduced by successes of the colonial liberation movement or the working class.

In this situation the possesThese men, the bureaucracy, cannot defend the Soviet Union in the only real way, by the mobilization of the international working class.

Peace, and the struggle against the H-bomb, are political questions. They mean contesting the right to rule of the ruling class in the capitalist countries and calling on the Russian working class to unseat the bureaucracy.

Political struggles are essentially struggles of classes. That is why an effective struggle against the bomb can only be carried through when the working class is brought in.

On the other hand, the political struggle against the bomb is far from being devoid of human and moral significance, since what is at stake is nothing less than the lives of hundreds of millions of people, perhaps the fate of mankind as a whole.

We must expose the H-bomb sham, expose the lack of provision for civilians in a nuclear war and hammer the H-bomb hypocrites. We must expose the system which produces, and can only be defended by, weapons of massacre and genocide.

The growing revulsion against the H-bomb must be linked with the need to bring the working class into action against capitalism on an international scale.

At the same time he contacted the steel manufacturers and asked them not to raise prices and to begin their 1962 wage negotiations early. In this way, he hoped, they could reach a 'non-inflationary, wage settlement.' When talks started in February, he persuaded the union leaders to agree to a settlement involving a 21 per cent wage rise, mainly in the form of 'fringe benefit'. They had already been talked into dropping the claim for a shorter working week for steelworkers.

Enlisted Union Support Kennedy's Labour Secretary, Arthur Goldberg, played a big part in these activities. He had previously been legal adviser to the steel union bosses. Thus Kennedy, like Selwyn Lloyd, was enlisting the support of union leaders to impose the pay pause.

The sudden announcement that US Steel and the other major companies were going to raise steel prices by 34 per cent was a blow to his attempts to hold down costs. He replied by public denunciation of the steel barons, and the threat of legal action.

The price rise was cancelled. Far from being an attack on the interests of US capital, Kennedy's action was directed to safeguarding them. Just as Roosevelt did in the 1930s, the government was defending the needs of Big Business as a whole against the particular requiredoubtedly related to the rearrest of Milovan Djilas. Gromyko was welcomed at the airport by all the diplomats of the East European countries, except those of Albania.

This is the first official visit by a Soviet leader since 1958, when the dispute between the Russians and Yugoslavs broke out anew.

Djilas' arrest was intended to forestall the American publication of his book 'Conversations with Stalin'. The publishers have now announced their intention of continuing with the production of the book.

It contains a picture of Stalin as a cruel autocrat, based on meetings with the author between 1944 and 1948, when Djilas was a leader of the Yugoslav CP and government. No doubt some of his reminiscences would be somewhat embarrassing at this particular moment.

For example, Stalin is reported in January 1948 to have supported a scheme for Tito to move troops into Albania.

'You ought to swallow up Albania, the sooner the better' he said. A few days later he changed his mind. A few months later he broke with the Yugoslavs.

Djilas' right-ward political development is no excuse for Tito's attempt to silence him by police action. Socialists should press for his immediate release and the maintenance of his right to express his views.

URING the last few weeks Scottish industry has lurched into the red with a series of sackings, try, then the engineering workers are beginning to realise that the ready and under way by the end of the year, when Britain enters the Common Market.

There are nine resolutions opposing the Common Market

closures and • redundancies. More than 5,000 men are to lose their jobs.

The old shale oil industry in East Lothian is to close down. It was kept going by government subsidy which now to be withdrawn.

The ancient North British Locomotive Company, which has doddered on for a couple of years on loans from the banks and government, is to go into liquidation. One of its main creditors is the General Electric Company which is currently amongst the group of electrical firms lobbying the Tory ministers in its own interests.

Rolls-Royce have announced the immediate redundancy of 3,000 workers in its Scottish factories. The trouble at Rolls is traced to cut-backs in engines for the government's military programme. Jet engines are no longer part of advanced military technique.

These sackings come on top of the closures in the pits and railways. They provide some explosive material for the discussions at the annual conference of the Scottish Trades Union Congress which opened at Aberdeen on Wednesday.

On the agenda for this conference are many resolutions which express grave concern about the condition of industry in Scotland.

They call mainly for the direction of factories and other work to Scotland by the government. None call for nationalization or put forward a policy for a national plan drawn up by a Labour government.

But if the Scottish trade union leaders are not clear abou t what is happening in Scottish indusThe big shift From November the price of house coal will rise by 20/- a ton, but better grade fuel will be relatively cheaper and lower grade relatively dearer than before.

A massive increase in railway fares will become effective within the coming weeks. The cost of postage and telephone calls have only recently been subject to increases. Gas, electricity and national insurance charges have all risen within the last year or so.

All thi ese costs are outside the province of the Budget. Yet they are all, in reality, imposts levied by the government, because the services covered by them are indirectly controlled by the government.

On the other hand we have seen in the last two Budgets provisions aimed at increasing the purchasing power of the wealthy. Last year Lloyd's drastic reductions in surtax resulted in those earning up to £100 a week being taken out of the range of this tax.

This gradual process of transferring cost increases from the richer section of the population to the poorer has been going on since 1955 and its cumulative sackings are being carired out according to a definite plan.

New industries are being opened up: by BMC at Bathgate and by Rootes Motors at Linwood, Renfrewshire.

At Bathgate, BMC are now in need of unskilled and skilled labour for work on production lines turning out trucks. Their factory stands only a few miles from the old shale industry, now redundant.

One thousand workers are ready to be taken on at cheap rates by BMC.

Rootes are to employ 8,000 men and intend to transfer 50 per cent of their car production to the Linwood factory which starts work in September this year.

They are open to applicants for skilled and semi-skilled engineering jobs at rates of pay 3/- to 4/- per hour less than the rates in England.

These rates are official and signed by, amongst others, Boyd of the AEU Executive.

The men from Rolls-Royce and from the North British Loco will be seeking jobs in a few weeks, ready for Rootes and BMC to pick up.

The Rootes management are to be rewarded for their role in breaking the strike at the British Light Steel Pressings Co. last year!

The hand of the Tory government is clearly in evidence behind these dealings. Conditions in Scottish industry are to be depressed and unemployment through closures will be the weapon which will be used.

Wage rates are to go down so that workers in Coventry, Birmingham and London can be attacked. All this must be effects result in workers being compelled to work considerable overtime to enjoy the benefits of the so-called affluent society.

By the end of 1961 the index of retail prices had risen by 4% per cent over the previous year. Wages and salaries in the second half of the year increased by only 1 per cent. Behind these statistics lies the fact that workers' spending power fell drastically. The continuation of the policy of 'wage restraint coupled with the new price increases in basic commodities and services will mean on the agenda of the Scottish TUC conference. The General Council is sceptical on the question but undecided.

When it comes to breaking strikes, however, these people show marked determination.

The Scottish workers not only need resolutions opposing the economic plans of Toryism. They also need a policy to fight and replace it.

Foremost in such a policy must be a determined fight against sackings, for the nationalization of the engineering industries and the operation by a Labour government of a national economic plan. THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION, Sir David Eccles, has introduced severe cuts in the school building programme of the London County Council's education committee.

The committee's plans for 1963-64 included 23 new schools costing f3,320,000. The Minister has cut this programme to 12 new buildings at about £1,900,000.

This decision is consistent with Tory policy. In their 10 years of office the shining products of the public schools (!) have shown little enthusiasm for plans to improve the conditions of pupils under the State education system.

The latest move is just another in the long line of swingeing cuts into the proposed plans of local government bodies.

The reaction from the Labour -controlled LCC is a typical squeak o indig ination a still greater working class.

This attack on working class standards becomes more and more blatant. And it becomes more directed. Even the sacred cow of 'free competitive enterprise' goes by the board in the desire of the capitalists to get a return on their capital.

Lord Chandos, speaking at the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland last week, said: 'It is equally understood that, if for reasons of immediate gain, the smaller competitors start cutting prices in order to gain more of the big man's business, they must face the consequences of a price war, which will lose them a great deal of money and possibly lose them their existence.' The tendency, reflected by the Economic Survey, of workers' declining purchasing power will continue, unless there is a strong challenge from organized labour.

When trade union leaders participate in the National Economic Development Council they do so knowing that the Tory government are plotting new ways of redistributing income in favour of the wealthy.

They make the task of organized labour a thousand times more difficult.

Fi. GAITSKELL, wearing specially re-inforced trousers, is continuing to sit on the Common Market fence. The leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party is a faithful supporter of the ruling class, but when that class itself is torn by fierce arguments over the merits of 'going in' or 'staying out', he is left dithering and undecided.

Last Saturday Mr. Gaitskell told a meeting of the Fulham from those Morrisonian gentlemen who spend their lives registering shock and surprise, like human seismographs, at the activities of the right honourable members of the government.

• We are disappointed', says the schools planning sub-committee of the education committee. A spokesman added that the decision underlined the 'urgent need for greater overall spending on education.' The decision will be fought, no doubt, in the time-honoured way of sending a deputation to the Minister, who will express concern and regret but will say that unfortunately he is unable to change his mind at present.

PART OF THE ATTACK This decision must be answered by the Labour movement, for it is very much a part of the present Tory attack upon working and lower middle class seople who rely upon 'free' education for their children.

Coupled with demands for nationalization of industry, land and building must be one calling for the complete abolition of privileged education, a rapid expansion of the school building programme and more university grants for students. (The latter have also been severely pruned by the Minister.)

First sweets and now schools come under the Tory attack. What next? Nurseries and prenatal clinics, perhaps.

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In true democratic spirit, this new line is not discussed by the rank-and-file of the Party even, it would seem, the NEC. It is instead the result of a few tete-a-tetes by the Frognal Group.

In fact, of course, there is no line. Until the ruling class can settle its differences Mr. Gaitskell will be left chewing his finger-nails.

At the meeting he announced that he intends to make it his business to ensure that the Labour Party sees the Common Market issue steadily and as a whole. Whilst he realised that the charge of sitting on the fence would continue while the party retained its non-committal attitude, he felt it would be far more damaging to reach a decision based on inadequate or partial information.

More facts were needed, he said. These would be obtained by private discussions within the Shadow Cabinet and the Parliamentary Party, together with 'pointed interrogation of Ministers'.

•CAREFUL BALANCE "This is a matter to be settled not by slogans and headlines, emotions and prejudices, but by cool, well-informed consideration and a careful balance of the arguments for and against.' But while Mr. Gaitskell awaits his orders, the rank and file of the trades unions are showing an unfortunate determination to take a prejudiced attitude to the problem.

Seeing the Common Market as a further attempt to attack the conditions of the working class, many trade union conference agendas contain motions strongly opposing Britain's entry.

Mr. Gaitskell sits on the fence, facing right, waiting for a friendly hand-down from his masters. Behind him, the forces of the Labour movement prepare to bring him down in a rather less gentlemanly fashion.

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Industrial IN addition to the disgust felt by all nurses 24 per cent pay increase, employed Nottingham City Health Department are further angered by the amount of form filling and paper-work they are now required to do besides their normal nursing duties.

Their threatened ›aper strike, , a refusal to comply with H has gone to the rank-and-file dockers.

The plans of the any more form filling, was only Mr. called off when the Finance of the dockers in the Committee i nvestigate their grievance. is small wonder that there chronic shortage of both hospital and district midwives. In addition to the normal period of ballot procedure One of the conditions for NASD, Mr. Barrett, has nursing training, the midwives must complete an two years' situation than any thin g which the Rig ht wing the resumption of work after stressed his union's intention course and pass qualifying and the High Court claimed existed Electrical Trades Union. the recent Merseyside dock to work with non-unionists in a examination.

democracy in the ETU-includ- All those who screamed headquarters strike put forward by Mr. O'Hare was that only members circular addressed to all members working in Manchester, Hull, Birkenhead and Liverpool from bears no relation to the responsi- Their reward is a wage which ing the national press — have been noticeably silent about Mr. Tanner is alw: also at Maritime of the Transport and General Workers' Union should be the Executive Council. feel the extra clerical work bility they have to undertake, and the Nottingham midwives is the now situation in the NUS. for his advice. ployed. last straw.

NUS has for years been one of This is surprising. The persed union with widely membership and where dis- nise the The TY GWU does recog- NASD - the 'Blue' circular says: increase in pay was regarded The offer 21 per of a the pillars of the Right wing in union dues are deducted from Union - although this militant If allocated to Employer insult by the 400 nurses and s the TUC and the Labour Party. wages by the Shipping Employers' body has constantly fought for upon reaching your allo- from Nottingham hospitals The union's rules and organiza- Federation, the odds are clearly per cent trade unionism on cated job your Book is returned attended a protest meeting tional structure were tailored to the requirements of both the stacked against anyone not sup- ported by the official machine. the eith docks, with freedom to join the White' or the 'Blue' to you, report immediately to your Officer the following:- Your name and number, the week. They highly indignant employers and the Right wing by Members with under five years' when Tory MP Peter Tapsell Havelock Wilson and Sir Thomas membership are accorded one Employer, and the name and asked them to be patient little Yates. vote; with five to 10 years' mem- position of the person who longer. A probationer nurse bership, two votes; with 10 to 15 speakers in recent reeks returned your Book to you expressed the feeling of all of years, three votes; have repeatedly stressed this and the reason for being put in them when she cried, ' We cannot The main contestants the four pressed by both the NASD's point. Dockers have been im- returned to the Control Point. possession of your Book and work to rule, we cannot go slow, we cannot strike, and we certainly ballot are Mr. William 1 Hogarth, record and their recent leaflets When doing so get proof are not prepared to be patient any the acting general secretary, and distributed to explain the case that will stand up absolutely in longer.' Jim Slater, a seaman from the It rumoured that the Liberal and it is clear that it is the fact, in order that the Executive The nurses agreed with the North-East coast who played a Party is assisting Jim Slater and growing support for the rights of Council can consider the action National Union of Public Emprominent role in the 1960 strike. the Reform Movement in its cam- the 'Blue' Union that have forced Industrially or Legally that it ployees Divisional Organiser, W.

Mr. Slater is supported by the paign for democracy. But demo- O'Hare to postpone his decision can take on behalf of the Griffiths, that it was useless going National Seamen's Reform Move- cracy in the Seamen's Union is for another eight days last Member or Members concerned. to arbitration since the policy of ment, which was formed during conditioned by the terms of em- Monday. The NAS & D are equally arbitration tribunals was deterthe strike to fight for working conditions and union better Shipping Acts and the require- ployment of seamen, the 1894 TGWU dockers last Sun A meeting attended lay by heard 2,000 concerned with Dock Workers being fully paid up Members of pause policy. mined by the democracy. ments of British imperialism, Mr. O'Hare say that the Trade Unions, and INSTRUCT It was stated that the present handicaps that Jim face which constantly has in mind the date for the closed shop had that Members of the NAS & D wage for a staff nurse after three nomination, he now cannot issue greatest difficulty in securing are formidable. the After needs of a shipping fleet in of war when the greatest pline is desired. disci- time made in order give intentions. ployers notice the the possession Trade Union Cards? will not work with men not in nurses are claiming years' training and experience is £12 12s siX years' 3d. The increases an elecitor addrass to the members The Liberals are incapable of which will bring their pay up to until authorised by the Executive struggling successfully in this O'HARE'S CLAIM What will Mr. O'Hare's £16 7s. a week for a staff nurse Council. Meanwhile Seaman', «The the the capitalist system which is at union because they stand to retain men had rejoined the Tran: He claimed that 3,000 to port ,000 be to that? not permit himself read Or perhaps he does and scales ranging trom LyUU to £1,500 a year for sisters and a anna dunion magazine, has carried the root of the NUS bureaucracy. Union in the past fortnight and union' literature? maximum of £2,200 for the three-page article by • Hogarth Seamen do not want a govern- that there were now only matrons of the biggest hospitals. attacking the Seamen's Reform ment inquiry into the union as 'non-unionists' on Merseyside. The nurses ignored the Movement stooges'. the Liberal's industrial officer Miss At a NASD meeting also held manoeuvres to the treaties of the Tory MP to register In order to vote, a seaman has his application with demanded. Manuella Sykes has continuously last Sunday, 400 dockers passed a resolution supporting the aim for employers and split the union militancy on Merseyside, the rank decided to appoint an action mittee representing all the his local union office. His 100 per cent trade unionism on and file must answer him by going pitals in the Nottingham and stamped b ›ok is then sent to the docks, with the right for every forward to defeat the employers Mansfield area, which is to be head office at Maritime House in man to join the union of his and the Tories with the slogan: charged with the task of mobilisLondon. choice. ' White Blue unite against ing public for the The the Tory pay claim.

Here it is checked by three appointed scrutineers and by the three trustees of the union.

They are Mr. Ernest Goldsack, an NUS member, Ernest Jones, NUR PORT who are at present in dispute people hinting at a London Airport on Tuesday. The OBE, the old Right-wing presi- TO STRIKE with unions over a claim for 75 per cent vote rith an over- electricians were sent home last dent of the NUM, and Jack THE NATIOI JAL UNION whelming majority week after refusing to ser vice Tanner, CBE, the president of Both sides of the railway wor- the strike. aircraft unless they received 6d.

the reactionary organisation Railwaymen ounced kers dispute visited the Ministry Feeling against the and an hour increase.

• Industrial Research and Infor- Monday that its 10,000 mem- of Labour on Tuesday, but no the employers is running so high BEA aircraft are also affected mation Service' (IRIS). bers employed in ports by the progress was made. in Scotland that many enginee ring by the work-to-rule being conBritish Transport Commission workers are saying that they will ducted by aircraft inspectors and would be called out on strike come out on strike whatever maintenance supervisors who beThis Paper is your from midnight on April 29. decision the Confed. long to the Association of SuperWeapon ml.- - - 11 .:1. Ine call Ior strike action follows C_11 visory Staffs, Executives and the refusal by the Transport Docks Technicians.

Board of Management to accept a CHIEF TALKING oint BEA officials were confident of claim for a reduction in the work- amongst the delegates to the the MR. GEORGE : ¡COTT, maintaining a full flight schedule ing week from 44 hours to 42. Scottish TUC Conference tional officer of the ETU, visited over Easter by using every availThe reduction in hours would have the rumour that there had been the Ministry of Labour on able plane once. That is, planes been in line with the new hours worked by ordinary railway a high vote in the ballot being acesday of the dispute int-hand first-hand that planes are not used in winter and used by pilot training Name workers. organized by the Confederation classes will come into service.

The employers' rejection of the of Shipbuilding and Engineering British European and demand is clearly an indication Unions for a national strike in airline technicians. Registered at the G.P.O. as a newspaper Published by The Newsletter. of their reluctance to tread on the of their hours and end the of the private dock employers to Claphem