OUR ANSWER TO DEVLIN

1"t Labour government unde CLEAR OUT THE WILSONMACDONALD TRAITORS!

FIGHT FOR SOCIALIST POLICIES!

LONDON movement.

p.m., Sunday, October 17 heartedly. Indeed, the only valid reason for the functioning New Ambassadors Hotel of the government, is that it will prepare the legal groundUpper Woburn Place, W.C.1 work against the trade unions, so that later on a Tory (nearest tube station: Euston)

government would have more Speakers:

G. Healy, National Secretary, SLI power to enforce its own M. Banda, Editor, Newsletter reacuonary decisions Peter Kerrigan, Liverpool docker Halona Dalking Maleruity las providea a oracine loan enable the government LEICESTER stagger over balance payments difficulties during the p.m., Sunday, October next few months-long enough The Corn Exchange Speakers: raae unions on its way to cne Slaughter, Editor, 'Fourth statute books.

International' Ashby, National Secretary, Young Socialists Gale, Central Committee Member, SLL ¿nere will be a big nont acainst all attempts to speed up and It is, SHEFFIELD important for them to Up.m., Sunday, October «Dose un place or wevin The Vestry Hall, Cemetery Road (Moor Ent):

Speakers:

Cliff Slaughter, Editor, Fourth chester and Glasgow.

International' Dave Ashby, National Secretary Young Socialists generallv speaking. supports the Gale, Central Committee Member, SLL all docks and harbour installations should be nationalized.

GLASGOW 7.30 p.m., Sunday, November 7 the docks, why Partick Burgh Hall, Lesser Hal vital sector of industr Speaker's :

Or Wilson's leadership is to propose legislation on the basis of the Devlin Report on the docks. Portworkers will, therefore, be the first victims of the attack which is now being launched against the trade union Needless to say, the Tories will support Wilson wholeportworkers fighting for better conditions, as Devlin alleges.

Towards this end, the inter- The right - wing Labour government has moved a long way from the nationalization demands of the early pioneers who built the labour movement. Today, it supports monopoly capitalism on the docks. No compensation Portworkers rank tradition- The Socialist Labour ally amongst Britain's most League is not in favour of the solidaritykind of nationalization on minded seculon of workers. the docks which has virtually crippled the railways and mining industries. .. There worsen conditions on the should be no compensation, except in very needy cases, where the former employers about what solution they pro- would have to establish that they would be destitute Brital is an an wise unless they received some economic lifelines flow through assistance.

The majority of the profits must be ploughed back into the industry enabling wages and The rank-and-file portworker working conditions to be improved, whilst costs of imports policy of the Socialist Labour and exports would be reduced, League, which says clearly that thus reducing the cost of living and assuring a greater volume of exports.

Neither are we in favour of Vital industry La bureaucratic hierarchy of If the nation depends on ex-owners, or their agents, running the docks after Çont. page 2, col. 3 → mal lu che nanas or private owners WhO make massIve profits through exploitation turn, continuous increase in the cost of goods which are imported and this, and he is supported by the Labour government. He says National Secretary of the Socialist League