The Newsletter, vol. 8 no. 336

Wilson's

pilgrimage to ANYBODY watching Harold Wilson's movements or listening to his statements must be forgiven for concluding that he represents not the Labour Party but a faction in the State Department.

is visits to the White House conducted with monotonous regularity and a sense of religious dedication will not win Labour a single extra vote.

• the contrary his statement on the necessity for Polaris bases in Britain violate the stated policy of the Labour Party and will disgust many a young Labour voter.

is attitude to NATO, which has already cost the British taxpayer more than £20,000 million in 'defence' expenditure, is an outrage to working class sentiment.

URDEN is clear that Wilson plans to continue the foreign policy of Ernest Bevin and will saddle the working class with the same predictable burden of colossal defence expenditure, conscription, inflation and wage freeze.

is foreign policy is only a continuation of domestic policy.

Externally he proposes to rely on an alliance with the most reactionary capitalist powers and at home he intends to rely on the same faceless men who helped the Tories survive the Profumo crisis.

Not only will he rely on them but (according to Nora Beloff in "The Observer') he will strengthen their powers immensely.

According to well-informed sources he intends to establish a system of government not far removed from the Presidential system of Mr. Kennedy or at least comparable to that established by Mr. Churchill during the last war.

So now we know why Mr.

Wilson was not at all keen in making political capital out of the Profumo crisis.

REACTIONARY His proposal that a Cabinet Officer should be 'regarded as an integral part of No. 10° will mean that reactionary, anti-labour bureaucrats whose only allegiance is to the ruling class will determine the policies of the next Labour government.

Labour, in other words, will neither govern nor rule! Mr. Wilson will be well advised to study the precedent of "socialist' Guy Mollet and the dismal end of the Fourth Republic.

Mollet, too, tried to administer and reform French capitalism in its hour of crisis.

In order to do this he had to rely increasingly on the state bureaucracy-and less on his Cabinet colleagues.

Parliamentary democracy, which was a farce anyway, was reduced to a cynical fraud. Government by decree became commonplace and soon the virtual dictatorship of Mollet and his successors led inexorably to the real dictatorship of de Gaulle.

bour's task, therefore, is not to reform capitalism or the Cabinet system of government but to overthrow it. causing the employers great anxiety.

For many years they have relied upon close collaboration with the local officials of the 'White' union, the Transport and General Workers' Union.

In 1955, when 'Blue' and 'White' dockers took strike action for the recognition of the 'Blue' union (the National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers) in the out of London ports, the port employers were prepared to spend millions of pounds to break the strike and maintain the rule of the TGWU on the docks.

They considered this as money well spent, especially when the Trades Union Congress persuaded the leaders of the 'Blue' union to expel the thousands of members they had gained during their provincial recruiting drive.

These members were ultimately reinstated by a High Court action and on a number of occasions since then members of the TGWU have worked in unity with their colleagues in the 'Blue' union.

Action

• On some of these occasions they have actually threatened to take strike action to prevent 'Blue' union members being pushed off the docks.

This united stand by dock workers has now created a serious crisis for the employers. Liverpool as a port is losing trade and and profits are beginning to slump.

Although the employers had no difficulty in persuading Mr. John O'Hare, the leading official of the IGWU, to sign their 'new deal', they now realise that it will be impossible to implement it.

The plain truth of the matter is that the TGWU leadership has no support whatsoever amongst its members on the docks.

A representative of the employers writing recently in the 'Liverpool Echo' said that the decision to ignore the 'Blue' union during the two years' negotiations on the 'new deal' was 'a grave error' If the "White" and "Blue" can work together in London, why cannot we have the same co-operation at Liverpool?' he asked.

Dilemma

He then went on to reveal employers' dilemma:

"Today we still stow ships on Merseyside better than anywhere else. Where we fail is that we do not turn the ships around as speedily as London, Southampton, Manchester or South Wales ports. Continental and American ports are twice as fast as Liverpool.

"This, of course, is due to the "Well" on the one hand and the lack of moderal craneserved berths on Merseyside. I acknowledge that the Mersey Dock Labour Board are tackling this problem but there are still too many outdated and obsolete berths being used.

'However, if we can all work together, employers, "White"

and "Blue" men, the National Dock Labour Board and the M.D.L.B., we can soon regain our pre-war status as Britain's most efficient port. The T.U.C.

should exert every effort to bring these men together for the Cont. on back page, col: 2→ TANY dockers and readers pleded their support for The Newsietter at a meeting held last Sunday in Liverpool.

Area organiser of the National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers, Bill Johnson, expressed, on behalf of his members, his appreciation of the truthful way the paper had presented the dockers' case on Merseyside.

He outlined the struggles of dockers through the years and explained why they had rejected the 'new deal', which would mean cutting the labour force from 70,000 to 30,000.

BACK DOCKERS

If the employers were successful in implementing these plans on the docks, they would do the same in other industries.

"The British working class will be with the dockers 100 per cent in their fight against the 'new deal' because this is not just a dockers' issue,' he commented.

Gerry Healy, general secretary of the Socialist Labour League, said that if the next Labour government used the state machine to break dockers, they would lose the support of the whole labour movement.

The future Labour government would take over all the Tory problems, without any policy to combat them.

It faced a situation increasing Bill Johnson (standing), speaking at the meeting. Seated are from left to right: Gerry Healy, Reg Perry and Mike Banda. productivity has increased while wages have remained the same. It knew struggles would arise and it would probably call out the troops and bring in legislation against the working class, he commented.

'We warn that a dock strike is coming and that the Labour government will use the state machine,' he added.

Referring to the "Blue union he said: "So many dockers joined the NASD to fight the employers, it has not been possible to push this union from the docks.

'It is a disgrace that this union hasn't proper representation on the Merseyside Trades and Labour Councils and negotiating rights on the docks.' Editor of The Newsletter, Mike Banda stressed the role the paper played in supporting workers in struggle in Britain and abroad. 'Unlike the "Daily Worker" and "Tribune" , The Newsletter is not afraid to tell the truth— even if it means "rocking the boat"?

l'art of the audience and the speakers.

THE BATTLE for circulation continues. Liverpool Central branch of the Socialist Labour League has pushed its sales up from 300 to 900 copies each week during the month of February.

The sales of the Oxford branch have gone up from 80 to 120 copies.

Sheffield members have increased their circulation from 200 to 300 copies each week.

Wombwell (Yorks) branch has increased its sales from 48 to 70.

Glasgow West branch is fighting to increase its circulation to 150 copies a week by July 1. Ayr branch is also planning to increase its circulation by 30 copies a week by July.

Birkenhead branch has set a target of 150 copies a week by the end of March. Since the large-sized Newsletter has started appearing the branch has increased its circulation by 25 copies a week.

Our overall circulation has now crept up to 10,300 copies. There is no reason why we cannot reach a figure of anywhere between 12,000 and 15,000 by the middle of summer.

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A GROUP of Nottingham businessmen will put an independent Conservative candidate in opposition to Mr. Martin Redmayne, the government chief whip, at the next general election.

Redmayne's majority at the last general election was only 4,040 votes.

The leader of the group is a local spare parts dealer and an alleged member of the Martell Freedom Group.

Their differences with the Tory Party arise from the fact that they are 'disgusted with the government's proposed abolition of retail price maintainance'.

Such a proposal, they say, could threaten the livelihood of many small Tory businessmen, who do not have the capital to deal with large combines.

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FIVE TRADE unionists, arrested for organising last year's Asturian miners' strike, have been acquitted by a court at Oviedo.

All five, members of the outJawed Spanish General Workers' Union (UGT), have been in prison for six months awaiting the trial, which went on for four days.

The principal charge was that they reorganised the union. The accused also admitted distributing money to families of deported workers and strikers.

It is feared that these men will now be deported from the Asturias, leaving their families in a similar predicament.

Others who took part in last year's strike are still in jail awaiting trial.

Meanwhile rumours in Madrid say that General Franco Will soon be succeeded by a 'military directorate'.

In the past few months has been a 'softening' of the regime towards political prisoners.

As The Newsletter has pointed out, this may be due to the fact that the Franco government can create an impression of relenting in its attitude to opposition and thereby improve its trade relations with Russia, Cuba and the European market.

CORRECTION

A CARDIFF READER has written to us pointing out that our article last week on the brickies should have read:

'Over the last few years the gang of brickies has been progressively broken down from 23 to 16 men.' Our reporter said this had taken place in 'the last few months' He adds that all bricklayers must be in the Amalgamated Union of Building Trades Workers before they can get employment.

both 'Blue' and 'White', of the 'new deal' is WHILST THE United Nations Security Council examined plans of a so-called 'peace force' in Cyprus, Greek warships headed for manoeuvres near the island.

After endless discussions, four countries have decided on a 'peace plan' that a United Nations force should be sent into Cyprus for three months.

Both Greek and Turkish government representatives have agreed in principle to the proposal.

Conflict

Meanwhile the islanders themselves will have no say in solving the problems of inter-racial conflict whipped up by British imperialism.

Instead a 'neutral mediator', most probably backed by both Britain and America, will 'seek' a solution to the Cyprus problems'.

In New York the Security Council agreed to the 'peace' force by eight votes to none. Three countries, including the Soviet Union, abstained. This is just another page in Russia's well thumbed book of 'peaceful co-existence'. - But things wiit not be so peaceful for the many militant communists in Cyprus when the 6,500-strong "mission' arrives and joins the 3,000 British troops left on the island. -- van

Merseyside dockers, He relection bi for A STORM of protest from the press and the employers has greeted Aberdeen Town Council's decision to boycott South African goods.

This move was taken after Councillor Robert Hughes put forward a resolution condemning the apartheid policies of the South African government.

In an attempt to discredit this action the Aberdeen employers have issued threats to close the shipyards and put 1,300 workers on the dole if the ban continues.

It is not surprising that the shipyard employers should get so angry over the ban.

Recently a firm obtained a contract worth £l million from South Africa. Obviously, the bosses are afraid that this very profitable order may be affected.

work

LE publication in the bovier unon or a colec tion of articles by Alexandr Konstantinovich Voronsky, a Left Oppositionist, is an extremely important event.

Only 8,500 copies of this selection were printed. But this is many more than the fundamental historical works like The Spanish Proletariat in the National Revolutionary War', by Maidanik, and "The November Revolution in Germany'. a collective work of the Academy of Sciences. Only 2,000 copies of each were printed.

This proves the manner in which the Soviet bureaucrats want to stifle even the controlled study of history of the socialist revolution. None of the copies of Voronsky's books were sent to the provinces-but they sold out in Moscow in a matter of days!

Born in 1884, Voronsky joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolshevik) in 1904. He participated in the Prague conference (January 15February 5, 1912) which took the decision to change the Bolshevik faction into a Bolshevik Party.

In 1921, with Krupskaya, he founded one of the most important Soviet literary reviews, 'Krasnaya Nov'.

In 1923, he joined the Trotskyist Opposition, was one of the signatories of the letter of the 46 (October 15, 1923), and a member of the unified opposition.

He was expelled from the Communist Party in 1927 or 1928 and arrested in January 1929 along with nearly 150 other Oppositionists. He ended up by capitulating to Stalin under conditions about which we know nothing.

He was arrested again in 1937 and deported, and died in 1943. The circumstances of his death have never been made known.

Voronsky's work has an introduction by a certain Dementiev. This is a long, but fairly honest assessment of Voronsky's literary ideas.

Some extremely interesting biographical details and evaluations, which in a small way lift the veil of mystery shrouding Cont. on page 3, col. 7→

By Our Science Correspondent THE announcement that Professor lan Bush and five members of his research team at Birmingham University are going to the United States has sparked off a lot of comment on the so-called "brain drain' There have been newspaper articles devoted to the facilities, and lack of them, for scientific research in Britain.

Lists of British scientists who are going overseas, particularly to the United States, have been published.

Quintin Hogg has been given the credit for this move. The idea that British scientists are good and that a few should be exported-like so many prize cattle-has been created.

Leaders of the Labour Party have been criticising the Tory government without suggesting anything more constructive than vague promise to spend €30,000,000 more on science.

Analyse

In fact, the real brain drain is not across frontiers, but lies within the capitalist system.

For example, firms that make detergents employ highly-trained scientists to analyse other manufacturers' products in order to try to discover their trade secrets, an exercise in wasted resources that is justified in the name of free competition.

Different firms making plastics or drugs maintain teams of research scientists 'racing' each other to some new discovery, regardless of the fact that a pooling of talent might well lead to the same discovery more quickly and release some of the scientists for other work.

On the rare occasions when information is pooled, the first and only consideration is increased profits for the firms involved.

An example of the misuse of scientific and technological resources has been obscured by superficial argument as in the case of nuclear power stations.

Gas-cooled

The Atomic Energy Authority, under Sir William Penney, wants the government to develop gascooled nuclear reactors, on the This is the last part of 1 aul Simon's assessment of 'rehabilitations' made by the Soviet bureaucracy since the death of Stalin.

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behind grounds that they are British designed.

The Central Electricity Generating Board, under Sir Christopher Hinton, wants to go ahead with water-cooled reactors from the United States because they would be cheaper to build.

In tact, both types are almost equally inefficient and barely compare with conventional power stations.

Harold Wilson, of course, is very concerned at this inefficiency in the use of science and technology under the Tory government.

This is why last year, he proposed the establishment of a national research and development corporation which would employ scientists to undertake research work in a more efficient manner and then give the results to British industrialists so they can compete more efficiently in the world market.

Speed-up

For the working class, however, this will mean increased speed-up in the factories and higher unemployment, thanks to the increased mechanisation that is bound to arise from Wilson's streamlining of technology.

The labour movement must make it quite clear to Wilson that it will not accept this or any other attempt to help out big business at the expense of the working class.

If science and technology to be used for the benefit of mass of working people and merely for the profits of tew, then the working class n take over the industries. THE principal chiefs of the Red Army, liquidated b Stalin in 1937 and 1938, have all been 'rehabilitated' — Tukhachevsky, Yakir, Uborevich, Blücher, Eideman, Yegorov and Gamarnik.

These 'rehabilitations' were carried through tardily. They had to await the 22nd Congress before emerging from the framework of discreet and allusive quotations in magazines. (Izvestia)

The generals were 'rehabilitated' by Khrushchev himself at the Congress. "They were all victims of the repression, he stated. 'But nevertheless they were highly worthy of our army especially Tukhachevsky, Yakir and Uborevich.' Tukhachevsky's biography shares a place among the 12 life stories of great communists, published in "Almanac' in 1963, alongside those of P. Togliatti, W. Ulbricht and Mao Tse-tung!

Those of Gamarnik, Blücher and Kossior (mentioned last week) feature among eight biographies published in the 1964 edition of 'Almanac', with those of Khrushchev, Ernst Thaelman, Antonin Novotny and the former head of the Soviet Secret Police (GPU), Menzhinsky.

Notes on Gamarnik specify that 'he committed suicide in May 1937 because he could no longer tolerate the massive repressions engendered by Stalin's personality cult'.

The short history of these military 'rehabilitations' is devoid of interest but for two aspects.

Firstly, they are used as an explanation for the initial rout of the Red Army by the Nazis in 1941 (placing Stalin's responsibility for this in question). Secondly, the machinery of repression of the military chiefs is carefully concealed.

At the 22nd Congress, instead of referring to the archives, Khrushchev borrowed heavily from the foreign press.

FREQUENT tion of the planning system and continuous discussion about planning methods reflect the existence of problems which Soviet policy-makers are unable to overcome.

For over a decade they have been trying to adapt Stalinist methods to the needs of a technologically more advanced economy, and the demands of consumers for more and better goods, without success.

In the Soviet Union, of course, the main means of production are owned by the state and the collectives.

Legally they are 'the property of the whole people', , though they are administered by members of the privileged bureaucracy very conscious of their own interests.

There are no landlords and capitalists, so that production is not carried on for private profit. Instead it is based on plans drawn up in advance by the planning authorities.

AUTHORITY The main planning authority is now the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

Directly under this body come the Gosplan (State Planning Committee), the Sovnarkhoz (National Economic Council) and the Gosstroi (State Committee for Construction). In addition there are Regional Economic Boards (Sovnarkhoz) and various national ministries The same attitude was same attitude was adopted by the author, L. by the author, L. Nikulin, of a long account about Tukhachevsky, which appeared in the February, March, April and May 1963 editions of the ultra-Stalinist literary review 'Oktyabr'. He quotes from Churchill and writers such as Gunter Peis.

'On the personal order of Stalin, Marshal Tukhachevsky's wife, his sister Sofia Nikolaevna and his brothers, Alexander and Nicholas were physically annihilated.

'Three of his sisters were dispatched to a concentration camp as well as his young daughter, who was imprisoned as soon as she came of age.

His mother also died.' While one regrets the fact that Nikulin does not quote the various sources to which he had access, it is strikingly evident that the only point in Tukhachevsky's trial to which he made direct reference was the accusation about collusion with Trotsky and not that of collusion with Hitler and the Wehrmacht.

Thus the 'rehabilitation' serves to combat Trotsky, since Tukhachevsky considered as astounding the notion that he Antonov Ovseenko could have had relations with the creator of the Red Army.

The political use of the 'rehabilitations' is indirect here, but is often far more clearly defined. The rehabilitated' communist is shown as being at once opposed to 'capitulationist Trotskyism' and to the Stalinist repressions of 1936-39.

E. B. Kviring, first secretary of the Ukrainian CP from 1923 to 1925, who 'died prematurely' concerned with particular parts of the economy.

Gosplan deals with longterm planning, the Sovnarkhoz with current plan execution.

Actual production, construction and distribution are in the hands of separate boards and enterprises: factories, power stations, collective and state farms, cooperative societies and so on.

However, decisions about most matters regarding equipment, supply of raw materials and output are taken, not by the enterprises, but by the central planning boards.

TARGETS

The enterprises are given targets in advance output which they are supposed to fulfil.

Soviet theory assumes that what is good for society must be good for the individual enterprise, but to put this into practice is not easy.

Plans for each enterprise are usually based on past performance: next year's target will be set a bit higher, usually in terms of gross output, which often has a detrimental effect on quality.

Equipment is allocated centrally and there is no cost item corresponding to interest.

Defects in this system arise from excessive centralisation, the receipt of conflicting instructions from difterent bodies, the pressure to meet targets (which can mean that goods are produced for which there is no need) and poor use ¡'Left to. right: Top-Gamarnik (Political Commissar), Tukhachevsky, Yegorov, Khalepsky, Orlov (Navy), Yakir. Bottom-Kamenev, Ordzhonikidze, Alksnis (Air), Muklevich, Eidemann, Uborevich (sic) in 1937, 'vigorously defended the unity and cohesion of the party organisation against the Trotskyists, the nationalist deviationists and other antiparty groups'.

Chataievitch fought 'to put an end to despotism and to the undeserved slandering of honest Bolsheviks for the tiniest criticism, to finish with the atmosphere of showiness, of gaudy demonstrations and habitual boasting' Postycher is perhaps the best example of this use, insofar as he was without doubt one of the members of the Stalinist faction who, after having fought the Left Opposition, tried to stem the wave of Stalinist terror.

This is also probably the case with Rudzutak and Vlas Chubar.

If we leave aside the case of Skrypnik, an old Bolshevik, hostile to the Russification of the Ukraine, who committed suicide in 1933, and of Antonov Orseenko, an oppositionist up to 1928, who rallied so effectively to Stalin that he took part in the liquidation of POUMists and Trotskyists in Spain, the 'rehabilitation' of two oppositionists is of some magnitude.

The of equipment and lack of balance between different enterprises.

Various changes have beel introduced and many others discussed, intended to overcome these problems.

Lack of real control from below on the planners is the real core of all these problems.

Without full participation by the workers themselves in the drawing up and carrying out of plans, decisions are taken administratively with a large amount of bungling.

Incomes are paid out in money and goods are sold for money. The peasants may sell on the market the produce from their private plots. The USSR is still an economy of scarcity.

INCENTIVES

Incomes remain very unequal and money incentives are applied at every stage These conditions influence the planners in deciding what shall be produced and at what prices. They have three main problems: • To provide adequate supplies of equipment and raw materials to meet the requirements of planned total output of finished goods; To avoid overproduction of goods which will otherwise be wasted or unsold; who was legally rehabilitated in the course of summer 1962 during the secret session of an unidentified tribunal.

Its decision took the form of granting pensions (on occasion refused) to surviving members of his family, and the rumoured publication of part of Bukharin's works.

The second is more important. It concerns N. Krestinsky, sentenced at the same Moscow Trial (the third) as Bukharin.

(Pravda)

Krestinsky doubtless broke his ties with the opposition in 1928, like Antonov Ovseenko.

But while the latter was shot without the slightest legal proceedings on his return to the USSR, Krestinsky was one of the pillars of the Third Moscow Trial. He was one of the more important components of the judicial machinery engineered by Stalin against the Left Opposition.

The "Izvestia' article of October 27, 1963, 'rehabilitating' this 'diplomat of the Leninist school, quite implicitly questioned this machinery.

It should be noted To fix prices and incomes to equate supply and demand.

In Stalin's day a large measure of arbitrary central action entered into the plans.

Even now part of the planning is done in a crude way: e.g., by setting the enterprise gross output targets. As a result enterprises may resort to 'contact men' to buy, sell and exchange outside the plan.

Most of all, consumers have to put up with whatever is available and late-comers go empty away.

PLANNED PROFIT'

Each enterprise has to obtain money from sales as much or more than it pays out in cost, including a planned 'profit' Output sold in excess of the planned target will bring in additional 'profits'. These profits are really an accounting item, not a return to capital.

Where prices are fixed it is difficult to say, however, that high profits equal efficiency.

Some Soviet economists have been concerned about this problem. At present the State budget receives 70-75 per cent of planned profit, but only 25 per cent of excess profits; the rest of the profits go to the regional sovnarkhoz or to the 'director's fund' to be used for the benefit of the enterprise. Overshooting means bad planning or price fixing.

Some Soviet economists have been arguing that there was none other than that old Stalinist diplomat N. Maisky (a Menshevik who had rallied to Stalin after the Menshevik Party had expelled him for participation in a White Guard government!) who was entrusted with this 'rehabilitation'. This task falls usually to unknown historians.

One could add to that the sympathetic portrait of Zinoviev, painted by the novelist Kazakieviech in his novel 'The Blue Notebook', published in 1961. We can see that this chapter is poorly documented considering the huge number of rehabilitations carried through since 1953.

To go any further would presume that the present leaders are obliged to renounce their system of oversimplified explanation of the Stalinist terror.

Obviously it is difficult to rehabilitate the thousands of victims massacred by the regime and at the same time to explain that this regime was truly socialist and carried out …a correct policy. The explanation they provide is at the same time schematic and facile.

A quotation from 'Questions of History' 1962, No. 5, had this to say:

It must emphasised resources should be greater freedom for the enterprise and greater flexibility in the formation of prices.

Emphasis has also been laid on the need for more refined mathematical techniques in the preparation and controlling of plans.

Public discussions on those questions have been permitted and even encouraged in the past three years.

It is thus admitted that the planning system is far from perfect, but it is also clear that the bureaucracy is not agreed about what should be done to improve it.

One tendency leans towards maintaining central control while at the other extreme some wish to increase the power of the enterprise director, and thus the role of "profits' as an indicator of efficiency.

CLASH Behind these discussions can be seen a clash of interests within the bureaucracy when faced with the task of controlling an increasingly complex economy under pressure from the world market and from within.

So far the working class is left out of the question: though some have argued that the factory director should be able to fix wages. In fact, the full potentialities of planning cannot be realised until it is brought under its control.

Naturally, no one in the controversy has so far proposed this despite all the harm it did, despite all the harm Stalin's_personality cult Stalin's personality cult was not able to change the socialist nature of Soviet society, nor arrest its progress towards communism.

'It has in no way paralysed the activity of the Party and the government. It must be borne in mind that the Party as a whole and the Soviet people knew nothing of Stalin's scandalous abuses of power, or the gross violations of the Leninist principles of leadership in the activity of the central organisations.' Sometimes, however, an inept "rehabilitation', or a very able one, would go a little further than the others. It was in this way that in the article on Kossior in the 1964 'Almanac' (circulation 750,000 copies) the author Melchin wrote:

'S. V. Kossior vigorously defended the general Leninist line of the Party, and waged a resolute struggle against Trotskyism and the right deviationists.

'In this respeot Kossior frequently emphasised in his contributions that the Party's duty was "to wage essentially and especially an ideological struggle against rightist deviation and against the ideology of rightist deviation and against its slogans —we must insist on ideological struggle and not on organisational methods"?

This sentence is no doubt ambiguous. Is he trying to make Kossior say that the right opposition was the principal enemy or that on the contrary it alone deserves to be fought ideologically, while Trotskyism must be fought at all costs?

We cannot tell. 'But this ambiguity and uncertainty indicates that despite all the lies, the truth is slowly coming to light.

It is not really known why Kossior or Rudzutak were N. Krestinsky killed. But if it were true, as is probable, that it was for being opposed to the Stalinist wave of terror of 1936-37, this tardy opposition has no great political significance.

On the other hand the condemnation of Kamenev, Zinoviev, Rykov, Bukharin and the sentence in default on Trotsky, were directly linked with the policy carried out by Stalin and his collaborators, at least from 1929 onwards.

This policy has changed without a doubt. But, without Stalin and his policy, Khrushchev would not today be secretary of the CPSU.

The official explanation could no longer be maintained from that moment when not only loyal Stalinists but also oppositionists sentenced by the former or at the same time as them were considered just as undeserving victims.

From another point of view it would seem fairly difficult to check the machinery which was unleashed and which could, despite the most meddling controls, provoke some surprises for the very people who set it in motion.

In this field, as elsewhere, the ruling bureaucracy wavers in an unstable equilibrium between its subjective needs (to harmonise the administration of Soviet society) and its political heritage bound up with its objective parasitic social nature.

ROMAN CATHOLIC views on racism, Nazism and apartheid have been brought to a head by the controversial play "The Deputy' which opened in New York last week, and the statement by Archbishop Whelan of Bloemfontein (South Africa) reported in The Newsletter last week.

The Archbishop said the Roman Catholic church was in favour of apartheid.

Although this was hurriedly denied, the basis of his statement can be found in the attitude of Pope Pius XI to the Hitler regime.

"The Deputy' deals with the efforts of a young Jesuit priest to carry the cause of the Jews during the last war, to the feet of the Pope.

The opening of the play brought protests from uniformed American Nazis and, the 'New York Herald Tribune' reported, a rosary flourishing religious group'.

HISTORY

In the same newspaper Hannah Arendt, an authority on the Nazi era, delves into the true history behind the play.

Although several national Roman Catholic hierarchies opposed Hitler and Nazism, 'the Holy See had its own policy with regard to the Third Reich and up to the outbreak of war this policy was even a shade friendlier than that of the German episcopate', she says.

Earlier, in 1930, when German bishops had condemned the Nazi Party, the official Vatican newspaper said that this condemnation did not necessarily imply a refusal to 'cooperate politically'.

Even though bishops had protested over deportation of Jews and euthanasia the protest was never backed by Rome.

In fact Pope Pius XI has even praised Hitler 'as the first statesman to join him in open disavowal of Bolshevism'. (!)

With this evidence it is not surprising that Whelan confidently made his statement recently. Also it shows that over the years the Roman Catholic church has not changed its views. integration struggle and the fight for civil rights and equality, then he is doing the Negro people a great disservice.

'Be proud of your culture, be what you are,' he is reported to have told the Negroes of the United States.

Coming from Cassius this is indeed remarkable. Not so long ago, when pressed by a Russian reporter in Rome about the plight of the American Negroes he had this say:

'Man, the United States of America is the best country in the world. , counting yours. 1 ain't fighting off alligators and living in a mud hut.' Maybe the Negroes are not fighting off alligators and living in mud huts, but 18 million of them are leading ghetto-like existences in broken-down, ratinfested hovels in the slums of all America's major cities.

Perhaps Cassius, who comes from a middle class Kentucky family has never tasted the distastelu. stew of violence, prostitution, delinquency, crime, impotent rage and soul-destroying frustration of the Negro ghetto.

Opportunist

As for the Black Muslims, this is an opportunist organisation with a bureaucratic leadership.

It is useless trying to alleviate the suffering of coloured people by projecting the vision of a Utopian black paradise across a mythical Jordan.

Segregation in housing, employment and education is not just a moral evil as the priests and lawyers argue. It is a formidable weapon in the hands of the American ruling class which enables it to rule the white and Negro workers more effectively.

Those who like Cassius preach territorial segregation and the intrinsic superiority of the Negro over the white are deliberately or otherwise helping the white segregationists and their big business backers.

The solution to Negro problems can only be found in a socialist America where the immense wealth of the country will belong to the workers and farmers-both black and white.

CAMBRIDGE: Fifteen Negroes were arrested by National Guard troops as they paraded with posters appealing for jobs and Federal surplus food.

Pickets formed in two groups in front of the welfare office and the employment security office early in the afternoon.

They had only been parading for a few minutes when the National Guard arrived.

The Negroes will be held until the Attorney-General orders their release.

NEW YORK: Hundreds of angry Puerto Rican and Negro tenants marched through the lower East Side of the city shouting 'No rents without repairs' in a demonstration against their profiteering landlords.

Tenants of dozens of buildings in the area have joined the rent strike - started four tenements.

New York leaders of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) who are organising a campaign to get their members to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters were charged vith 'intimidation in connection with union organising activities'.

Amarinan Talanhano snor kind of manoeuvre possible to prevent the phone workers from joining the Teamsters organisation.

The State Supreme Court ordered 12 local leaders to be jailed for contempt of court.

The pretext used by the court was that union leaders refused to leave their headquarters, temporarily set up in a hotel.

These arrests and charges came after 10,000 members of the Communications Workers of America had voted to disaffiliate from the company-dominated CWA and join the Teamsters. CHICAGO: Over 172,350 pupils refused to go to school last week in support of a boycott called by Negro leaders to protest against segregation.

Chairman of the boycott movement in Chicago, Lawrence Landry said that more action would be carried out school by school.

MONROE: Three American Negroes and a white man are being tried on a charge of 'kidnapping' a man and his wife during a Negro demonstration two years ago.

BOSTON: Thousands of students stayed out in a boycott of 10k enhanle arronicad hu tha crushed the counter revolution" Who were "we"? When and how did they crush the so-called counter revolution?

*3. He states that the Hungarian government made three calls for intervention by the Soviet Army, thereby implying that the same governments were involved. Were there any differences between these governments? Were there any differences in the circumstances of these calls and, if so, what were they? '4. If, as he affirms, he could "produce all kinds of documents to prove the legality of his government". , why has he never produced them? We are convinced that, even if this is of only limited importance, he should still present the proof. '5. Kadar admits that the "basic aim" of his government was "the re-establishment of legal order... the re-establishment and strengthening of lawfulness". But what order and what lawfulnass is

STATEMENT BY THE LEAGUE OF HUNGARIAN REVOLUTIONAR THE LEAGUE OF HUNGARIAN RI SOCIALISTS (GROUP IN EXILE)

Basle, Switzerland, February 1964 SHORTLY after an interview between Fontaine, a correspondent of 'Le Monde' and Janos Kadar, head of the Hungarian government, appeared in the paper on February 19, the 'League of Hungarian Revolutionary Socialists —Group in Exile' issued a statement from their headquarters in Basle, Switzerland.

The interview revealed the true nature of peaceful coexistence and unmasked the interested parties, the statement says.

It adds that an important part of the interview dealt with the 1956 revolution in Hungary. Certain questions were deliberately ignored by Kadar and 'Le Monde', but, says the statement, it is important that they be asked as they are an integral part of the interview.

The statement then questions: 1. Kadar vaguely states that in 1956 "Hungarians, loyal to the regime of People's Democracy, undertook and won a struggle against a counter revolutionary uprising"

'He should have replied concretely to these questions: Who were these Hungarians? Where and when did they undertake a struggle? What struggle was this, with whom and against whom, and on the basis of what programme?

'Is there a connection between this statement and the explanation given by Kadar that "the formula which I have used concerning aid by socialist countries applied to aid given by the U.S.S.R. in the diplomatic, economic and military fields"? '2. Kadar also states that "we • delegation to visit Pekin involved? Those of the workers' councils, or those of the bureaucracy?

'6. If, as Kadar says, in the summer of 1956 the party had resolved "to correct the errors in the system", and if "the great step forward had been taken" at that time, how did it happen that in Autumn-this is still in Kadar's words-"the vast majority of those who revolted wanted only to correct the errors of the past"? How is it possible that "the great step forward had been taken in July 1956, and that despite this, in October the masses rose up?

'Should we attribute this "historical" explanation to the fact that, in July, Kadar personally had become a member of the Political Bureau and that in October the same Kadar was to be found alongside Imre Nagy greeting the revolutionary people?

'Would that be a scientific explanation? Or, perhaps it is rather a question of Kadar trying to justify his zig-zagging, which is determined by a fear of the masses?

Budapest 1956: soldiers and workers ride together to battle '7. Kadar unashamedly states that "we debated in detail the events of 1956, including the trial (that of Imre Nagy and his friends) •.. publicly with the broad mass of the people"

Where and when did these debates-public into the bargain —take place and in what circumstances? Who represented the opposition? What were the respective arguments: What, in fact, was the fate of those who defended the revolution?

*8. Kadar was right in saying that the trial of Imre Nagy was organised and carried through by Hungarians and not by Russians. A pitiful boast. But to state that the trial was "public and open" and "legal in every respect" is too much.

'What we want to know the trials is: (a) Were close relatives present? (b) On what date were the Hungarian people informed about it? (c) Were all the accused present in person at their own trials, including the principle defendants in the Nagy trial? (d) How many of the accused, who were too young, had to wait till they "came of age" to be hanged? (e) How many communists were hanged without any trial and how many died praising communism? (f) Where and when did the trials of the members of the workers' councils take place, and how many of them were hanged?

'We Hungarian workers and Kadar know the answer.

'9. How should we interpret Kadar's statement: "We have always sought to make the system as humane as possible." Humane for whom?

"And finally, the most important question: *10. Why did Kadar not say a single word about the workers' councils? Did they never exist? What happened to these councils and their members? What was their programme?

'Kadar and the bureaucracy deny the revolution. M. Fontaine, the representative of "Le Monde" only contradicts him to the wellbalanced degree of bourgeois good tastes.

'He does not put any questions likely to unmask the counter revolutionary bureaucracy.

'Slandering the revolution and ignoring its working-class character is the basis of their complicity. The French bourgeoisie and the Hungarian bureaucracy are now looking for agreement.

'International and French capital has a particular need for outlet in the People's democracies.

'Capitalism's most pressing need is to check and crush the rising revolution by making a temporary compromise with the bureaucracies, while the bureaucracies hope to obtain the assistance of the international bourgeoisie through peaceful co-existence and prevent the working class sweeping them all aside.

It is on this basis of common efforts to canalise and stifle the revolution that agreements can be reached. This was revealed in the interview.

'For instance, Kadar criticised the Common Market, only because of its German policy. This comment is well received by the French.

'He is particularly well received when he speaks of the 1956 revolution as an uprising against which it was necessary to "restore order". This is the language the bourgeois understand and give their agreement to.

"Therefore Fontaine limits himself while listening to these lies by saying "many other aspects would merit being broached", but claims time is pressing.

'So the affair is now settled. The treatment of the 1956 revolution-and subsequent revolutions —is "justified"

'In the meantime, "Le Monde" can carry on its little business selling the paper in the news kiosks of Budapest.' the Rumanian government criticised the Soviet Union for its economic policies in Eastern Europe.

It claimed that the Soviet policies of 'socialist division of labour' merely reduced the Eastern European countries to

THE RIFT between the Soviet and Rumanian bureaucracies came even more out into the open last week with the announcement that a Rumanian delegation to visit China next month Prime minister Ion Maurer the talks will be headed by President Liu Shao-chi.

The fact that both delegations are to be led by such high-ranking officials shows that some importance is attached to the talks.

The between

Industrial

ONE OF THE many "treason trials being conducted by the Verwoerd regime ended last week with savage sentences being passed on 18 coloured South Africans.

The accused, many of them members of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, were jailed for periods ranging between five and 20 years by the Supreme Court of Pietermaritzburg after they were found guilty of sabotage.

Meanwhile others, who have been carrying on a fight against suppression by the regime, are being tried in cities throughout the country.

Friends and relatives of the 18 men wept as the JudgePresident passed sentence.

In their defence the accused, who faced an indictment of 28 counts, stated that the banning of the African National Congress by the South African government had compelled them to use violence in their fight against suppression.

DISPUTE

Defence council Mr. J. Gurwitz, said that the trial was political and involved a dispute between the government and 'a certain section of citizens' The accused felt that the banning of the Congress could only result in one of two courses, he added. Either the voice of the African people was stifled or they were compelled to make themselves heard by violence and sabotage.

Mr. Gurwitz asked that the death sentence should not be imposed on any of the 18 men.

book

A BOOK published by the Ukrainian_ Academy of Science has been described by the American Jewish committee as 'viciously anti-semitic'.

Even allowing for this committee's opposition towards the Soviet Union, the book 'Judaism Unmasked' by M. K. Kycho, appears to be more openly anti-Jewish than anything brought out officially in Russian since 1917.

In particular, it contains a series of grossly offensive cartoons, whose racialism is hidden in the guise of an attack on Zionism.

This is not the first time such methods have been used. The trial of the Czech leader, Slansky, in 1952 was followed by a whole series of Jewish arrests in Russia.

Campaign

The campaign was cut short only by the death of Stalin.

Official anti-semitism had a long tradition in pre-revolutionary times. In the Ukraine it was deeply rooted amongst the peasants. Priests and landowners used it to divert the attention of the oppressed classes from the economic difficulties.

After the revolution in 1917 the Bolshevik leaders campaigned to eliminate these trends.

But as Trotsky pointed out in an article in 1937, the rise of the Stalinist bureaucracy engendered a revival of antisemitism.

Prejudice

Stalin was not averse to playing on prejudices of this kind, which were in any case strengthened by general poverty in the '30s.

In the frame-up trials of 1936 to 1938, the Jewish origin of many of the defendants was underlined.

One of the results of the continuation of anti-semitism in Russia • is the revival of Jewish nationalist tendencies.

This is highlighted by last week's announcement that Jews in Moreow are to be allowed to bake Maizot (bread) for the

BY No one had been hurt, he pointed out.

After a 35 minute adjournment to consider the sentences, the Judge-President told the accused: "All men are lovers of justice by nature.' Some people believe that the non-white population had not reached a stage of evolution to justify them having a vote in Parliament, he added.

He sentenced two of the men to 20 years' imprisonment, one to 16 years, one to 15 years, two to 14 years, one to 12 years, five to 10 years, five to eight years and one to five years. the lives of old Bolsheviks, are given in the introduction.

'In 1904, while still pursuing his studies at college, he [Voronsky] joined the RSDLP (Bolshevik) and after that date he did political work in Tamboy, St. Petersburg, Finland, Vladimir, Saratoy, Nicolayev and Yekaterinoslav. He took part in the Prague conference. He was imprisoned and deported on several occasions.' (p. 3)

"The review "Krasnaya Novzh' was published on the initiative of Krupskaya and Voronsky.' 'In 1928 he was expelled from the Party as a Trotskyist, but broke from the Opposition and was reintegrated into the Party.' (p. 14)

'In 1937 he was unjustly represted and, following the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was posthumously "rehabilitated"

into the party.' (p. 44)

Subject to error, this very official onclusion is Voronsky s ConClUSIOn une DISI omicia. of Voronsky's 'rehabilitation' and of his 'reintegration' (his second, since he had already been granted this between 1929 and 1937) into the Party.

The political circumstances of Voronsky's life tapers off somewhat when the author examines his ideas.

'Voronsky denied even the possibility of a new proletarian, socialist culture in Russia in the period of transition from capitalism to socialism. Like Trotsky, he stated that "no really proletarian and communist culture existed in the USSR".

(p. 10)

'On more than one occasion the Central Committee drew Voronsky's attention to his mistakes. So it was that at the Central Committee meeting of May 1924, which was devoted to. literary problems, Lunacharsky and others subjected the Trotskyist denial of a proletarian culture to criticism.' (p. 12)

"The basic reason why Voronsky differed from the positions of the Party on literature manifestly lies in the faot that he had joined the Trotskyist opposition. Evidently this was not expressed in the most negative manner in his literary activity.

Talent and intelligence, no matter how much of these a writer might have, are insufficient if he has lost contact with the revolutionary epoch,* with what happened in Russia in October 1917, and with the Party oronsky in his articles. This was often stater His personal experience bears out the truth of these words.' (p. 13)

These statements are solely concerned with literary questions.

But when Dementiev points out that 'Voronsky denied in principle the very possibility of the existence of the and that Voronsky was a Trotskyist it is of great critical value: it wrecks one of the corner-stones of socialist realism. What is socialist realism?

It' is a system which transforms artistic activity into a means of propaganda and constraint used against the masses to indoctrinate and stupefy them.

To destroy socialist realism is to destroy the Stalinist and bureaucratic system of intellectual oppression.

* We should note that the history of Soviet ant under Stalin and Khruchrhaw amnly confirmo thic

Dockers injured picket A.E.U.

by chemical cargo headquarters Bosses TGWU dockers stop work len ENGINEERS STAGE from the Raleigh cycle will now be taken discuss firm, Nottingham, picketed the again. This move has made after many of them had suffered severe FUNERAL MARCH national London headquarters tools have come from to enable many strikers whilst unloading a cargo of chemical fertiliser. of the Amalgamated Engineer- production to continue. The dockers, members of the Transport General ing Union on Tuesday. "Has the firm employed LOCKERS Workers' Union, visited their union official the day before the They were demonstrating dissatisfaction with they ask. *If this is so why bas

who and asked TWO JNERAL' mar On Tuesday this week many union executive's failure the union not Gone anything also demanded he have been held in the last two le last of the 1,000 Projectile instruct district committees about it?' thought weeks by workers facing be thrown on to the dole 'black' supplies to Raleigh. Mr. R. Hooley, chairman of be well Ivised to read dundancy. queues when the Battersea firm There has been a strike in the the strike commit report in the Ann Journal official workers Last more than Ltd., ment area in two years' time North-east 'dev elop- toolroom at the firm for seven weeks over 25 redundancies. members prepared of his union the strike were between two ship bosses It gives details of arrive at the work page. Demands we icks to after tl put forward coffin labelled through the Watford In spite of assurances mi lerts.) marched "murdered. town behind Workers believe aind a hearse. that spite from memb At meeting Sunday voted to continue their stagger the hours,' he said. sharing. five hours a and the "The men struggle for men will work week less work- and discussed • the prospects British shipping with of economics. The bosses shipbuilder, job, applicable for an hourly 'lump awards' had been made. on it. Later they rard learned that all engaged for the 10. the Admiralty) that there wo three years ago by T. G. Galbraith (then Civil Lord managing director Tuff, ex-convenor, firm to production costs the area union officials to extend management and the local press. No attempt has been made by strike was concerned Mr. Hooley said: "The strikers know that As the a member of the National Employers' Confederation and Richardson, president of the Swan, Hunter and Wigham Mr. E. J. Hunter, chairman of these 'awards' ranged from 13s. had worked 40 hours. to just over tz for who Excluding differential payment the FORT Y - EIGHT 70 per overheads workers The firm be claims that excessive be sacked. resulted in a with men and women carrying straight-speaking posters. by paying non-union men. Both marches were militant lower men laid off during the dispute. resentment towards the the strike into other parts of the to build up amongst 2,000 other They have allowed know we can encourage- The Newsletter is th from.' get Economic Development Council, skilled status costs. collared workers joined in the Members of other unions in Asked why he tho and shipowner, Sir Errington strike on Monday at Tuesday demonstration factory have not forgotten Raleigh should take back Keville, chairman of Furness, Transport union dockers Bradford firm Projectile and S. Brown that the Amalgamated Engineer- 2,000 men it had previously Withy and Co., the International again contacted their official The Amalgamated Engineer- are part of a pattern of closure: ing not give any Union did off, commented: Chamber of Shipping and Com- and asked him to conduct ing Union has given full backing in London and the Home support te Confederation the management is extremely mittee of European Shipowners a further inspection. He is The whole works to the workers' attempts to halt especially of Unions when 850 men were barrassed about having to start and a member of National alleged to have said he brought to standsti redundancy and on engineering workers. declared redundant last these men back. Maritime Board. would 'see them in hell of the ositions strike. Proposals have already "Where they are going to get They discussed Dr. S. first'. hold. been put forwar I for work- Suffer ILL-FEELING the tools from I don't know. Sturmey of Lancaster Univer- In a fight kind Nearly per cent of sharing through four-day has This has been the cause of To keep the factory going they sity, author of 'British Shipping inspection, the men refused men's work-the majority week. stressed in the past two weeks, ill-feeling towards probably having to resort and World Competition: work overtime at night. them are welders-goes on is growing these closures and moves to the strikers so far. work-sharing All three looked forward to They were concerned about the production line, and pro- per cent redundancy will only the The local press has given wide On behalf of the strike coma new era based on a big possibility of a skin disease cesses before and after welding grow to 20 per Workers the north publicity to Mrs. Marion mittee Mr. Hooley made development of automated ships. as a result of their punctured will be affected. the firm may Hendley who has started an appeal for funds. 'This But, they felt, in order to make fingers being impregnated with International Harvesters altogether. lower wages, redundancies and campaign. extremely important are profits even greater, they automation ashore. eeded legal advice on the matter. chemical. Some have sought the job and not American Company which rates The re-nationalization Workers are the union-breaking. Hendley has the support of 60 is claimed that Mrs. to win this fight against dundancies,' he added.

Victims of this incident say welders, who normally Brown which was given back all these disputes and threats other housewives whose hus- Your donations should they shudder to think what kind classed as ski men, are to Anglo-Americ: in private should call on the whole of the L... 1_ - -- -e. 1 1... 17. - by the strike. sent to A. J. Holmes, 80 Forster that if cargo handling The professor c of conditions they will be forced work under if the deal' workers. receiving wages emi-skilled enterprise the 1960. Tories in labour movement to unite with them in action. The employers announced Street, Radford, Nottingham. better port facilities into operation. The strike follows months The "Aims of Industry'-get obtained then the advantages negotiations during which all rich quick while the going's Northern Ireland transport more economical ships wo procedures were exhausted.

the be felt. page like There is a danger to be denationalized Dockers So far as the clothing may provision of regarded steps of the Steel Company of bosses will follow in drive for speed-up has only just concerned, their This as a pattern breach contract. •stoppages Wales' management and be able turn the other 1,500 workers THE NORTHERN IRELAND government is planning to hand controlled by the representatives of private industry it will always begun. takes pla ice almost daily when the factory the against over freight and passenger ser- freight and passenger be maintained in interests loading and unloading Automation has not Automation yet, but affected with the dockers, job whilst who have waiting carried But, according pickets, vices to private enterprise. The state-owned Ulster Trans- of big business. A fight in the labour movethe employers have a v a 'new era' in which ision of dockers arbitratio: n, have wages in order to nad there has not been so far and the pr its of a hostility port Authority, which bas a monopoly in road and rail ment basic industries is the only for nationalization will join the workless of the the union leaders and firm stand against THE MANAGEMENT freight services, is being dis- that the rail will workers automated society, brothers in work, while their their bosses into action. It is only these demonstra- ment is bright. The welders support from their fight 1 in soon taken advantage Steel Company of Wal stepping in. banded enterprise is their struggle for jobs.

tions of solidarity for better cial support. victory granted them Mass closures railways, And what conditions, that prevent the All donations ges of leadership of the AEU. including the line between Belseamen? Mr. Huni think manning, m employers bility and a 1 running riot support should Thomas, 86 Rowantree Drive, to J. port and General The executive another phase the large-scale Last ley announced week, Two whole counties — Tyrone fast and Dublin, are threatened.

automation progressively isn' in i very coming along the operation difficult ing of Thorpe Edge, Bradford 2. in favour of the proposed work- to-rule planned by the workers Union is expected to come out the Abbey works. Two modernisation to take place at and railw Fermanagh—will have next WHAT HAS the miner of mechanisation?

ship the bridge which can by be lei in the electricity supply industry. half million pounds are spent in modernising the more and more, not This question being only shipowners pressing buttons, many problems themselves have but hat benefit of the dock years along these urged the l agree. The lines and for and fringe benefits in the to the fight for a 40-hour week Union has given its full support Already the Electrical Trades finished, the entire mill is be by control. Strip Mill. In 1966, when the work system of structed. over £200 place million is to of the rail service a motorways costing introduction Scottish coalfields. "dundancies, employment sackings and have followed of modernisa where to get over. 'First of all they have got to The employers know very seems to me that were expelled for our pains. there is n industry. Ten thousand but also in areas such as get the ping unions to reductions in agreement of the ship- the "new deal', they will have to well that if they want to impose to this th eye? reached after last year's power The three-year agreement— same time experimen- faced 1,000 will with rec It is on ly since 1957 that economic proposition. additional expense of to €150,000 unless savings on the 'It's no good inci to make crews' wages, thing rring an you get £100,000 history. trade quarrelling amongst themselves. This Commenting on the letter in so they have started more most their have tion with secretary and Wise of the port employers, Mr. Johnso i said: Commenting sugges- that his signature should O'Hare, TGWU regional been " on the 'new deal' dispute—is obviously not going to relieve the position of the up their earnings, most poorly-paid workers of this ındustry. At present, in satisfactory, two or will be installed tation continues with the Con- tinuous Casting process, in- stalled in the Bessemer shed. If the unit now installed proves three take pay-off. gallery of parliament all-night debate heard ict MD (Ilashr ctato 10l Yet, y. ticaly, sale wal uaut unionists were the only people Workers who the public during an National- that trada just gair. seriously will methods ed from the Next week publish an how little of mining article showing the miner has profits made in which tie the capital expen- Johnson, area secretary the the "Liverpool Echo, Mr. Bill would have sacked If it had been, members I would men have to work long of overtime before they ‹ an get full production. The speed-up • has already action. who could halt the government's the coal mining industry.

National Amalgamated not go behind the acks, anything like decent living affected electricians in the works.

Errington der Dockers said: could I Plant department is to be altered The shift system in the Power onstrations and n arching Newsletter is playing a vital IN the fight for socialism, The are too many particularly ›mmented: beginning that the important 'Some people to awal union are to th the at is an e fact Mer- last the day, is to be supervised onlv during and the 1.5 megawatt alternator from 8 to one 4.30, are no Whether alone good,' he said. will this the stop trade unions 'Action are role. Do you get it regularly? encounter, Don't leave it to the chance 'Yes, I you could squeeze out anyway that would help you to secure the economies with automation? whether wondering something negotiations is a grave el seyside. the 'Blue' union of the letter when he I would agree with has say years' vriter "that been Newtown Polishing Company, THE POLISHERS firm's rate of producti hampered. Attempts to bring electrician. pening night, calculated risk The manage to the order the plant during the on nothing hap- taking a pends prepared government and the rail He an open fight between is right to stress what they do to fight this out VOI- this the de- send it to: Subscription High Street, 1g g. Department, 186a Clapham London, S.W.4. or f1 8s.

out was Something you could squeeze talking about seamen. anyway'! The professor is it that we have been ign‹ But I would ask the writer, 'For 10 years the empl , why ored? for joining a union are deter- mined to fight the issue Birmingham, who were sacked in new labour have been on he After joined the union and one polisher was taken foiled. superv wages of the raising this question Healy exposed the trade union leaders kers, who must take action. has By Address thought that He went further. shipowners were thought they could destro When they introduced the new • US. end. An made by join the picket line. A number walked out of the factory to The plant was shut down on calls for strike action. who have constantly refused really conscious that their first deal" proposals they referr ed to manag ake back of lorries have already been Monday, to be reopened in a Whilst public transport is job was to make profit, I would our 150 members. But we have of the this away from the gates. month's time the new terms. be happ a lot er about the shown than rejected. Mr. A. Greatorex, one of The men affected will attected will return to MEETING industry? and in the And that's The 'new "Blue" Londo: union ever her 'On union and the point I would say this: working together the W about pickets, Newsletter: "The owners are trying to split us up but we are demanding Mr. R. of you up off the streets and firm's directors, is alleged have shouted at the pickets they stood on the gate: 'I pic lose up to f3 a week in wages. normal maintenance Action maintenance and will is needed to ensure GREET THE NEWSLETTER Leeds when the ter dockers In Merseyside, that all of should be taken see that you'll be walking because the management decide the "Blue" and "Wnite" nave always - 1 66TX71.:4-33 back with right the streets for a long time to co to reorganise. Sunday, March 22, 7.30 p.m. stood together and this unity union? An appeal has been sent out A full-time official of the ETU len and dockers, has been the stumbling block 'We joined by the National Society of in the area has said that he Leeds Art Gallery have their way, before the employer and his fed up with the way t Metal Mechanics asking Bir- not prepared to have trouble' Speakers: and speed-up. schemes.' US. There mingham workers to rally M. Banda-Newsletter Editor Referring appeal proper ime rates behind the locked-out men by But the management are C. Slaughter Registered at the G.P.O. as a newspaper TUC to ex ert ev ery effort they try to make all sending in donations to: J. giving trouble to the men who Published by The Newsletter, 'bring together', compulsory? Wood, 70 Lionel Street, ir- are expected to accept a drop P. Kerrigan (NASD)

180 Clapham High Street. London. said: Without minghar 1 3 in wages.