Socialist Press no. 121

DON'T ISOLATE FORDS!

SOCIALIST

PRESS

Weekly paper of the Workers Socialist League * No. 121 * October 18, 1978 * 15p Last Friday's 6½% and 8% offers by. Ford manage- frank ment were admission of the company's weakness in the face of a solid, official strike by all its 57,000 manual workers. Having already lost three full weeks production and knowing that their whole curopean oper ation is graduany grinding to a Done the Poores of cord Britain, Ford posses nave not only been com pelled detence of the 5% pay limit, biat initial

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malcule by having two offers flatly rejected in one day. Further action Their refusal to fix further talks go beyond an 8% •e win stinos attacheo now indicates that further action is.

needed to force Ford and other Dosses to conccat But TUC leaders have shown inclination to ahead with the final demolition of the

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Far from pressing ahead and mobilising sections workes on tre owe claims in strikes a onesice the Ford workers, they are now engaged timewasting talks at British oxycen ano vauxnals. despite the fact tha scort any miles short workers centands. Despite his speeches against Phase 4, miners' leader Gormley last week brazenly order Arthur Scargill's proposal for the miners put immediate pay claim alongside Fords. Problems And union leaders are even now participating in a series of talks with Callaghan and Healev.

the diehard architects of wage controls. These talks are unlikely to agree route any sion ricant ment on a ceiling to new. pay replace Healey's 5% ultimatum cost of living as assessed by non edders know too well elected trade union committees the problems that would cause With such leaders in charge, from their • members. a new danger is opening up in •UT Fords even as the management willingness of TUC leaders to begins to crumble: officials such compromise and sacrifice their Ron Todd who have mowers "ving standaras in trie alone with une strike in order to "national interest" so-called keep control are now With reviews involving ever pay choosing at what point they car one million local authority workers and 100,000 ena over claim only partially won.

falling workers now due, it is essential that all such Ford workers must begin to compromises take control of this strike out of aside al o the hands of the union bureau- ana tne rigo taken up tor strike cracy if they are to achieve the action alongside Fords to win workers' demands in full. Izu increase and tne 3b hour week demand. And fight Mass meetings. in each plant into the trade unions Carried and the Labour Party around must be conveneo to elect strike committees-who must then the demand that those wild take on the task of campaigning oppose Phase 4 now veroaliv campaign not only for an end amonast onel sectIons to the Downing workers-council workers, Street Lalks Vauxhalls and others our also tor tre removal or the wage-cutting Callaghan-Healey -tor strike action against Phase leadership. Such committees offer the fighting Only policy best means for contmuation or ine strike at tne Meanwhile incessant talk union officials where move in to sell out. • 0™ once controd as band on new proposed package deal Meanwhile every union shows that leaders branch and shop stewards com- oniy mittee insist that their continue retect the policy that can defend workers leaders witnaraw TrON Ine secret wage cutting discussions increases with cost of taking place in Downing Wade living clauses linked to the rising.

STRIKE NOW

ON WAGES!

Break off talks with Callaghan

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strike in Iran general strike new began in Iran on Monday 16 October-forty days (the traditional period for after the mousing massacres of Black Friday.

This comes after two weeks in which the bloody regime of backed Shah has been further shaken by a wave of militant strike. supported virtually workforce in the ,the whole public sector. Hundreds workers nave been killed and injured in army attacks as have university students demonstrating against Ine onan as they assembled a the start of the college term. The regime's reaction has betrayed growing weakness anc Danc While with one hand the regime fires bullets the other it is Strikers. with trying to buy them 1 off. But panic offers of waat of 25% (which the increases regime admits would severely deepen its financial crisis) have persudae Ine workers to call ott the strikas Fears that public knowledge of this critical situation could lead to insurrection orova thi Shah last week to try througt martial law authorities im bose total dress censorshio reaction of print …The workers and journalists to this was immediate and terrifying tr the regime. They came out on protest strike and brouaht the nresses of all the major newspapers of Iran to an instant halt. option the one possible Shah must be considering is the slatedes of festin honori pretence constitutionalisn and tne making ot the present state of military terror perman ent through the appointment of a military government Whichever tactic he tries in his desperation he assured of imperialist backing.

particular, Callaghan Owen and Mulley continue ti back him on behalf of Britis arms firms for whom the Shah is • a major customer. That is why the absence o Labour Party and trade union banners on las Saturday's spasay attendea demonstratior against martial law organised by the Campaign Against : Repres sion in Iran was very serious cam oater mUS urgently taken up throughout the labour movement demand the immediate ending of British aid to the Shah an the removal of Callaghan, Ower and Mulley. the by appoint ment' political suDo lers support and murder weapons to

Page 2 Extreme danger of military coup in Turkey Socialist Press: Do the murders ot six members of the lurkisr Party Ankara the represent slage in political situation: Trotskyist: Yes. shows clearly the great dangers that exist . ot a military coud now in Turkey and the suppres sion of all democratic rights of ine workers ane boor pedsants SP: Can you tell us how this has come about? oourceois dominisud- tion of Ecevit's, which government at . into Lallic with the •eoinnine ot inis vear support many workers ano peasants has proved com- poor pletelv incapable ot solving the economic crisis facing Turkey.

The Turkish balance of pay- ments deficit for last year was 4 bution coltars. ano inis orooiem shows growing many greater this year, Istanoui arone there are 50,000 extra workers perman• unemployed added to a ently Ecevit, they have been involved one minton lolal numerous individual killings ractories are closing aown all the time. student teaders, . workel Ecevit has failed to get econ- mustanls. elc Kurdish areas, how- tne. omic suooort trom ine soviet Union so he has now moved to ever: tnev mave lee dorisine three cities, coming into conflict cooperation yalll with the national government.

Americans ano mne iwr At the same time InE absenct any American military reaction from the workers' opening the organisations against oases. Inere na. oeen waue freeze and the prices of agri - orovocation. lasclsu Ieduel cultural Turkesh goods has now been oben. calling for coup. 25% increased fess tilan against a general inflation rate There can be no doubt that of 60%. this bossıbilitv is cioser than TOI some time. This causes social discontent Trotsky says, the • amonast ine oeasantrv as well as the urban workers. become Tascist movement To threat, is not necessary

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the petty bourgeoisie to support it. thev need to be disillusioned SP: What has been the role of with the political system as it is.

the main workers' organisations This is certainly the case in the face of this crisis?

Turkev todav without nev nave exception supported Ecevit, in deeds if not in words. SP: What are the possibilities of Party, Communist rne revolutionary leadership in the though they talk 'critical the com- support

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working class: mobilise They very great pletely refuse Workers will respond to a lead, workino class Tor tear or lhircal Workers ening Ecevit's government.

suoporters tne Thus leaders of DISK, League Socialist nave trade union discovered. revolu total y possible build contederation. who are

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from the CP, refuse to lead any detence squaos in workers areas and through mass organ- strikes, or even recruit new their isations against the fascists.

memoers to the unions They refuse to raise any demands of the It is also possible to organise the economic strike action, to compell Tne workine class ane wit nott release of strikers from jail and argue for democratic demands, example against restrictions win some cains desolte tor treachery of bureaucratic union on the riont to strike Reformist organisations such taalcs all, however, as the Turkish Labour Party and ADOVe which necessarv to bulia a revotution aIS0 Ene vidusls the kurkish mostly oettv bourgeois, araue class. This is the need working along the same lines. murder of the TLP After the ot ine nour we say Behice that t s necessar. mem bers rart ledder now 'to call for a united front of Boran said they would nOt workers organisations, the Com- then retaliate, and was Turkish Hurriyet munist party, InE coneratuiated Labour Party,

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etc., (Freedom) the main right wing class on working mobilise the daily paper. Everywhere the policy of the economic ano oemocidEll demands. reformists and stalinists Is to One of the main slógans of the working class, disarm this united tront must de lor d refuse to mobilise them and to and farmers govern- lull them to sleep despite and for building armed dangers, thus preparing for their menl, workers detachments to answer сетедт. the fascist attacks The Turkist Pabioite SP: What would you say is the main danger facing the Turkish supporters of the Usrl do not workers now? have such a perspective. they now agree with c'oveeor tne oeverop Ecevit's party that æcc s novemen z their tay bou-geois, tnus reversine suopors for him in the election.

need to r0: see ::: = 25% 10:30: s-aduced w.despread -aga -a és " In this Socialist Press interview John Docherty talks to a Turkish Trotskyist who is currently visiting Britain.

Two of the murdered Turkish Lahour Party members last week their premises four weeks ago, circulation reprinting the Trans.

itional Programme in Turkish long before the murders of last quite explicitly week yet state The Kurdish national move- will taat uney connue from putting . forward retrain ment ooes ПОТ

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consisI o the current the bourgeois . nationalists Banzani's KDP political situation in Turkey this .r ver one UnIon wnere WitnI mOve mae no erisor e cin members have some ment on the basis tint principles of proletarian inter- to revolutionary poifcies nationalism anc permanenl They see the fight against rêvolution is not only necessary coup but also possible. fascism bourgeois dis- SP: :Can you tell us the context lerms NeLLy cussion ano ouerrilaism ratne ot the recent Lr murcers than mobilising the working TT: I mentioned the importance class and fighting for rèvolution.

of the revelations about govern.

arv leadersnip ment atrocities • in Kurolstan in leading to the latest events.

Following a continual series SP: What is the significance of of killinas bv fascists, in the tirst the Kurdish national struggle in October week MaskatH! Turkey today? of the fascist party in that consiael istancui was Knled necessary to give particular pro with his son. this matter The same night no less than minence killings ful: consideration of the Turkish

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retaliation political situation. socialists: and unionists trade Any imperialist settlement in took place in Istanbul The TLP killings in Ankara holding back Ine mioole casl. back the upsurge in Iran, reach- took oace in inis context ing a compromise with the bour- The killing of Haskaltli was regime in Iraq, by geois nationalist claimed back Marxist involves no laine LITt calied Kurdish national struggle.

Propaganda Unior Which savs 11 The the kill one fascist for every suppression left winger who dies Kurdish national struggle is right will not, at the centre of recent political uch an escaration developments in Turkey. of course, help. the working class the mobilisation of the mentioned without nave arready fascist attacks on the Kurds.

workinu cidss August near the city " 00 When the tascIsts kited sx in Istanbul in March, Kurdistan, •Makkarl DISK called two hour protest armed militants of the kurdist Democratic Party were killed strikes. Now. much and others were handed over to when more they call nothing at where TeuCa communities necessary, rivalries were deliberately stim all. more deaths resulted Such is the criminal way that ulated and Stalinists It was the publicity given to the working class when these events in the pubiications •isarm Ine of the Turkish Labour Party their monilisation is al tne more which led to a fascist raid.

or Eceri: SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 18 October 1978 Crisis brings on Kaunda's zig-zags week Zambia last the announced re-opening of the direct trade route to South Africa via Zimbabwe which had been closed since the 1960s. The of immediate caust this move was big crop failures nec sitamino mmeae mpr of fertiliser from South Africa.

However, the Zambian economic crisis has been sharp ening over the last few year: rail link had Inrouor cim Daowt increased the cost of both ;exports and imports. The importance of all this is not the tact ot trade with soulr Africa for this has been going on constantly via Botswana.

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tre ovel announcement this trade which has important DOHCa de ver nells beh ind it. Major strikes Alonosioe Ine oevelooine economic crisis, the political problems faced by President Kaunoa nave Deen immense For example, there have been major strikes by recently munic yat ana talway workers. whiie •Kaunda i nas aiso oeer under sharp pressure from the led by right wing opposition Simon Kapwepwe He has been in ine toretront calls to reopen the border and stronger links with make

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Faced with these problems Kaunda trom left to zig-zags Tonil He seers to dea witn tni crobens tais rits miy mther cementing his imper. lalsm -tvoitied ovune boenne border ot the cand trade with South Africa and also his recent aid deal with Britain: Kaunganooes to outtiank ZANU must reject all talks Mugabe's Robert Zimbabwe African Union National last week issued a statement calling for the exclusion of the USA from any further talks the on future of Zimbabwe. A statement like this is from forces long overdue which claim to represent the best interests of the Zimbabwe workers and peasdlils However, it can be legit-

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imately why asKeC has not made such à state- ment before. Why Is so much Hlll DOl placed Smith's tance visit the

USA,

the reason for the demand

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exclude the

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from talks' Smith's visit makes no serious difference talks already going on in secret between imperialism the Stalinists and the leaders of the liberation forces, under the particularly tnose control of Joshua Nkomo If the ZANU leadership ahout its . WCIt senpus Kaunda Kapwepwe from the right with nis current stande Within Zambia itself, unde the guise of crackdown or crime naunda nas , launeneo ‹ campaign of political repression Political opponents includind suboorters Kapwepwe, have been openly arrested These right wing policies are combinec with periocic mintan rhetoric lagainst South Africa, the USA or Smith) and courting IVIOSCOW-WIt! inreat. calling Cuban troops to defend himself against Smithi But in spite of these words Kaunda has carriec out a con tinuous programme of secret with Smith leg diplomacy omitn s secret visit to camola le meet Nkomo) and with South key figure in Wds persuacino SWArUO acced imperialist on the future of Namibia. by snorl snows Callaghan's emproencv rush to meet him in Nigeria last month centra Nauliuc oroos or imperialism in centra Africa. Mugabe opposition to imperialism it woule lighl any manuesla of tion compromise refuse to take part in any LalAs But there seems little will do this prospect any more now than they have done the past A struggle must be taken the building of a

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orna otedcdues o aounu Trotskyist programme for Zimbabwe. *No deals with imperial- ism! No Secret talks! Intensify the armed struggle! For socialist Zimbabwe!

US workers move against anti-union laws and labour SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 18 October 1978

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bureaucrats 25-block The long the left forces in the unions must offer a serious alter- Labor Parade through native. programme. central St. Louis Instead joining the OT "exceeded all expecta- bureaucracy debating tions" according to the abstract cunscitulional St. Louis Labor Tribune rights .and lalkıng aboul -the official AFL-CIO "treeloaders''

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must clearly show' the ciass war newspaper. origins the "Right to OI It was the largest march Work" campaign. in St. Louis history. But this Offensive success was not due to the efforts of the labor bureau- It must openly say that it crats, who made no serious is part of big business' right wing political offensive and file. linked to the defeat of labor With the Missouri Secre- and reform legislation tary of State having cutbacks in social services.

certified in August the so- It is linked to massive "Right Work' called inflation, unemployment, proposition to appear as a the dollar decline, the referendum on the Novem- rebirth of racist grosps and ber ballot, the labor leaders jailing striking are running scared. teachers, city workers and They hoped at first that firemen. the September mobilisa- Labor must tell working tion would frighten the people that the ripoff cam- Missouri ruling class into paign's chief aim is finding a legal technicality destroy the union shop. Work "Right to keep Even though the union off the ballot. shop's penens ale Ilmitea Closed shop by the continued treacher- ous deals of the bureaucrats, If successful in the Nov- set higher 1t nas • WLt ember referendum, the mis- standard for all Missouri named "Right to Work" law workeIs, would outlaw the closed Moreover, in union shop shop state une labor states organisations Missouri. have often led or joined in The legislation is a part fights for expansion of of the anti-union Taft- democratic rights and pro- Hartley Labor Act, and is 20 CCSSIVe worker prolecuon oocalve states. mainly in the south of the

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But in the weeks before parade, labor officials did little to build the march. No press conference was called, nor. was there any effort real get radio, television, or Meanwhile within the publicity. US labour movement Yet thousands of the bureaucracy workers did show up for the facing a growing, if con- wore •araue. . UnIES "Right to Work is a Ripoff" fused and politically caps and shirts. misleading opposition. But both the leaflet Clearest example of this handed out by the American Socialist Workers week's revolt by 2,000 workers at the newly Party and Tim Kaminsky's organised Volkswagen The articie in tnelr paper, plant New Stanton, Militant, failed to criticise Pennsylvania. the role of the conservative labor bureaucracy. meelng al ine plant voted by 1,235 to 94 Fat cats to reject the new contract freshly signed United The SWP plainly hopes Auto Workers' leader Doug to become the respected rraser ana voikswagen doss "left" advisors for the union and to McLernon, James fat cats. action to force Take strike It fails to point out that an improvement. Hundreds pickets the material of bureaucrats? privileges, sweetheart deals, gathered outside the plant- forcing management and undemocratic methods have opened the door to the abandon ettorts to get in to their offices, and the whole bosses' Cutent winlg offensive. plant-organised into the union only three months bureaucracy's Ine ago-is now idle. conservatism alienated has the ranks from unions, and Booted out Tre rerusa lo organse une has InoTeaised aciay While produced a decline in union Araser contem- plates how to discipline this membership in both absolute terms and major revolt force a as and of the work to work, postal return Uculae force. workers' leader Joseph Vacca, But the SWP's literature, President of

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revolving around favourable National

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Carriers questions from a speech by been Auto workers' leader Doug ignominiously booted out Fraser, in'no way poses the of office in elections follow- need for an alternative fight- ing his sell-out of the post ing leadership in the unions.

workers' pay struggle. To defeat the "Right to Vacca was replaced by Work» Novemher. in militant toll-ina

ME REPUDIATE

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Massive new rallies must be called in every city where rank and file speakers will point out the class wal nature of the union-busting camn oalt An emergency Confer- of Labor, open to all ence working people, should map

SELL-OUT LEADER OUSTED

Vincent Sombrotta from New York in the biennial eecon 3-year sell out He had capitulated to arbitration ConDISO the pay claim, which had 21.4% sell-out settlement. Meanwhile even the gangster-ridden and corrupt

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union olektnse ourcdl cracy mounting laces problems as the "rank and file' Professional Drivers Council (PROD) launches a internal senes moves and wrongheaded law suits goatst monores den Frank Fitzsimmons. has been

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summonsed union tribunals charged with mis- harried comelc Congressional inquiries and Labor Department investi- gations into Teamster finances spurred by And in one union local

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alone

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members are bringing two lawsuits, seeking a total of 495,000 dollars against secreldry treasue Gamache. Legal suit time the same AL Ine 'rank and file' grouping Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) has also filed a legal suit demanding equal Based on a report from the St. Louis corresponent of Labor News, paper of the Socialist League (DC).

Postal workers' delegates fight for rejection of the bosses. offer .out a strategy including a march on Jefferson City. Fear of ranks But the union leadership fails to do this out of fear of the rank and file mobilisation. Fitzsimmons candidates the Interna- tional Teamster Magazine.

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Presidential candi- date Pete Camarata 31RN established a murky record over the last two years of invoking the machinery of US capitalist state to tne intervene the Teamsters 1n Union. As a result of his com- plaints to the Department of Labor, the Department is to sue the officers of Teamsters Local : 299 Detroit, seeking to overtur an election held last Decem- ber. The corruption of the Teamsters leadership has become an international legend. Page 3 Chile butcher to visit Peking The reactionary basis of the foreign policy of China's Stalinist rulers has for some time been the search for ¡allies-any allies-against the Soviet Union. This unprincipled quest has brought into tnem rerations WIth a mannel reactionaries—.from military dic tators in Pakistan or Indonesia t orle. britain and Francoist King in Madrid.

In the last days the

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Chinese leaders have sions ot wisnine tor new. uo now reviled, potential allies against Moscow and of cement- ino one or lis mosi crimina ole alliances The new possible friends are not surprisinglv. the so-called Eurocommunists public attitude towards them has changed fron land hypocritical) scorn oitter of their "revisionism", to tenta.

Etive flattery cer tail independence" which they were showing towards Moscow's "hegemonism" Militant/ The September 9 Labor Parade St. Louis, drawing thousands, showed potential of enormous if the unions start workers to mobilise independently and in the streets. Pinochet Those were the words of the Affairs Minister Deputy Foreign Y U Chan on uctobet visiting delegation of French beatings endure physical provincial journalists. threats his and Yu Chan salo there were stil membership and his job in differences with the "Euro fight communists" for order to pursue his example, or against Fitzsimmons. the auestion of the dictatorshic 10 Teamster of the proletariat. The top his generally friendly families that control the made clear that tont bureaucratic network of the eos oe c million-strong union

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mere formality made a total of $1.7 million inevitable that the it wa in salaries alone in 1976- rekino oureaucrad SnoUld with the top five families- attempt •intervene the to public rift between "Euro Fitzsimmons Provenzano Schoessling, Williams and communisis and Ivoscow But it does so entirely in its making Presser-tremce ver own interests. well over a million dollars.

But fighting such in As in the rest of Chinese bureaucracy there is no sub Stalinism's international inter stitute for the patient, prin- ventions It snows no shred cipled the mobllsation or political principle union's membership indep- Nowhere has this been more endently the capitalist shamefully borne state. Ine case or Cnile The reactionary Peking bureaucrats scarcely disguised Illusion theil oleasuri wnen Genera To spread the illusion overthrew Allende's vinochet Unity Popula government that the state apparatus that 1973 imposes Taft Hartley legis- Since then, Peking has con.

lation, scabs and protecu tinued to cultivate "its butcher harrasses workers can friend. Pinochet receives oirtn defend impose genuine or Chinese day greetings trom the democracy in the Teamsters government. And now, it is reported, he is union is to pave the way for bourgeois China shortiv to be invited to never-encing and feted manner in the labour intervention recent predecessor like movement. Henry ivaroarel natcher In breaking from such Kissinger and King Juan Carlos.

methods, Teamster militants

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must also take up the fight murcerer ane torturer ot tens di for their break Thousat fot Coilea tong hat from the bourgeois Demo- But thing only matters to cratic party and play a role ciass criminas in the struggle for a Labour in reking wno protess to stanc for the the Party in the USA, based on proletariat is that Pinochet is ar the unions, and representing of the rival implacable enemy workers' independent class band of opportunist betrayers interests the working r'acc in Minerow

GARNERS: A MAJOR BLOW AT

WRP's squalid cover-up Page 4 Brute force backs up bankrupt Irish capitalism The announcement estimate that around 11% of last week that the Irish the 1 million-strong labour without job. force bourgeois government is And in the North, where unlikely to meet official figures of creating target women and youtn, even tue 20,000 new jobs by the figure shows government end of the year under- • 8 out ot work. A survey of schools in lines the huge problem West Belfast conducted last in of unemployment showed Noven Del Ireland as a whole. 53% of school staggering leavers still unemployed six In the South, although months after leaving school.

official figures carefully leave out school leavers and This is despite the lavish by cash handouts offered farmers,

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Dear Editor I would like to supplement on the Garners Day the report Press toy emposing hea emphasising the scale defeat inflicted on the от Tne union bureaucracy. The Region 1 float into oblivion.

Phil Gillatt of Grunwicks This break from the bureau- month Sanderson cracy in which members of the trom Ine strike at the rally demonstrated strike played assment of TGWU to the embar: continuity of reminder for Region 1 officials the independent that a leadership CaSS

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exIss wittin one side and TGWU sabo- which is prepared to the this strike that has actions to the other Tine Nocessary characterised Grunwick win the strike, even i it mears Sandersons and Garners strikes.

open fight against the union events in Northumber- bureaucracy. full effects of the Day land Avenue were The descriped in last week's Socialist and the mass overwhelming picketing on the strike have yet did majority The to be seen The morale of the scabs has indeed follow the WL back to the picket line, leaving a small been damaged. we predicted, it has Stalinists rump or ou reaucrats

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meant that the strike has gained and WRP members to follow the attempt Under the scandalous gades". Yet anyone present on heading "Solidarity Turns to the day knows that the majority of the trade union contingents Adventure', the opportun- the call on the march tollowed ists of the Workers Revolu- to turn back and picket warners.

tionary Party attempted last If the mass picketing was "revisionists really done only by week in their daily paper and renegades", Then me wor Newsline conceal their to has to why they only answer abject failure to lift a finger people on turned out a dozen the TGWU against bureau- the ,maren-none Whom joined the picket. cracy in the Garners strike.

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The Newsline No. the 12 WRP suppor- ynet picket Clans ThaT une Wass led Corin "Ciashed witn we orepared and standing cordon of police at Whitcombe silence alongside Street"

SCOWIT

Stalinists The communist This is "illustrated" watching hundreds photograph taken only after a workers march back to mount had police charges Ot Serie Garners mass picket finally broken up The mos. restaurants, they merely put the picket itself. of their whole history scal. on WSL members had passivity and aosTention checked beforehand and verified this crucial strike. that there were no police at all at the Whitcombe Street restau- Bitterness rant when the mass picket arrived. But. their bitterness at the arrests that took And the the picketing success ane •lace narv al came later n te their own isolation led the WRP evening when normal picketing lying attack on inted vicious, had been resumed. move which The most cleany demonstrated the isolation te ivewstine. 1 bureau- anxious to minimise the defeat TGWU Region suffered by Region 1 officials at cracy:

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No. 1: The newsine Ene hane. reneddoes ana article claimed that the mass revisionists" claims that the mass picket took place only wes group of revisionists and rene- atter the march was over.

the British government to British. and foreign mono- they set up pones factories in the North, and "job fraudulent numerous creation" training and schemes which cover ove the full scale of unemploy- ment. The reality is that the capitalist system cannot provide stable jobs decent living standards for workers either North or South of the artificial im- perialist-drawn "border"

TGWU SABOTEURS

as fresh forces have materially. been drawn support strike. Over £100 a day was arriving at strike headquarters last week Wandsworth Trades Cauncil has taken the important step of emergency fund for the costs of those arrested.

The police have been more picketing restric-

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But what is crucial is that vita it now becomes aldoueu tor the bureaucracy to ки l strike, more atticult alter the Day on will, find it much Action. This change in the balance of forces was reflected this week as a result of a clear break from the march-leaving the Region 1 float and a handful of hangers- travelling up alone Northumberland Avenue

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No. The Newsline that claims were 110 forward policies put on the march. to support Yet thev refuse the very demands tought Tor by the Strike consistently teeth the Commute vicious bureaucratic opposi- picketing; full Suppliers; and a Wu Regional Garners levy to finance the strike.

Instead, like the passive WRP contingent The march Newsline offers no fight against and the bureaucracy, Garners strikers urdes the down strike" bring the Labour government. Refusal These lies are combined with To bolt our te muma of by the

TGWU

Region bureaucracy -who mobilised only among the 25 contingents . movener 500,000 present, despite Thel membership. The whole article adds up to a brazen defence of the bureau cracy against Me Strike committee and the trade union contingents that showed in prac- nice them mill net to Tourol conclusion to the Such is the price to paid for

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'left' talking the and conscious Lynch The type of investment attracted to these areas of chronic unemployment exploit the seeks to levels and depressed • wage the low levels of taxation which flow from primitive health and social services, education facilities. But they also bring in the latest technology using government grants to assist the of setting up increasingly capital-intensive factories This also means that, in in a number of positions taken •v ine sirike comtuttee. They are issuing a siod or Chine a national Committee the supporting discuss ways the strike committee's policy.

And they are also calling on trade unionists, TGWU branches, to lobby the Regional Committee n8X1 meeting. We must call on all labour bodies support movement These miniative: Yours fraternally, GS London. workers' in Coolitical teac daily struggles TGWU officials Shorter and Staden SE region 'lett ecstatic about their new- friends Newsline, found however. Cynical this miser- Because while able rag gives cynical Its their treachery, endorsement numereds or urade umonists due Tovi Solidarity SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 18 October 1978

IRELAND

TROOPS OUT

NOW!

the North, such investment exploitation, repressive measures are needed both is concentrated on the areas North and South where skilled workers, advanced communications facilities Quotas and other are other already available-in words the largely Protestant favoured by areas, successive Lovalist govern- attack ments in this sectarian state- let. Small wonder that, to a system which prop the nothing to offer students majority of the population and than misery 'quotas' If DES imposed overseas on North East students 500 London Polytechnic student places and 50 teach- ing posts, quite apart from clerical and manual jobs, could well be lost. Under the 'quota' system the overseas students number 'specifier designated Race avoid students Relations Act, must be reduced to that of 1975-6 specified students TaCU include many who would pre have considered viously 'home students' eligible for local education authority grants Now such students must b Britain- resident' normally interorete• ov most autnontie students who have lived here for other thar educational purposes. Shorter Labour councils The only way these racialist policies. which Labour borough councils such as Newham have reversed, is by dient at can blithely implemented, be . Already studen ar occupation threat stage the Garners Strike Committe on the October 7 publiciy registered regulations concerning fees pay.

the their otter ments to be withdrawn until the bureaucratic sabotage strike, and exposed the officials' next governors meeting isolation from the rank and file They are inreatening occu pation again unless the rest. of declares itsett the regulations are withdrawn at unequivocally on the side and the mar meete the Staff at NELP must support pendent moolation working class. the students the event Only this basis can the occupation and refuse to handle fight be carried through for the until all dis downcatium criminatory construction or a revolutonary measure. dodins capable of leading the students are with- party struggle for power. Garners Steak House turns to adventure Newsline's own picture shows the numbers that joined the mass picket

Ghost of Heath haunts Tory Party 14I1. . =› Denis Remember Skinner? He, along with Neil Kinnock, was one of the 'new broom' left wingers elected to National Labour's Executive by. constitu- ency parties this year. As a member of the NEC

PHOTO:

Wiard, Callaghan For the Tories, it must have been a frightful sight.

midst of a national In the strike at Fords-centrepiece ot a wages movement that could yet bring the Callaghan mummified government-the remains or tormer orv Heath sprang embarrassingly to life. Proving that four under political snroud nave taught him nothing and allowed Heath to forget nothing, fiendish ancient curse. Oblivious to the real world, of the very he spoke in favour policies orouani Ine downfall of his government in 1974-rigid wage controls. Tory Kenorters TrOM press, however were plainly relieved this opportunity to report somettino ot the otherwise mun- of the main conference capitalist party. Prominence The Heath's replies to were reported with utterancos renewed enthusiasm. efforts of the Thatcher leader-

TUC

leaders persuade nave SeCtIOnS WOrKerS that the Tories stand for free collective bargaining were given increrser orominence. Thatcher's winding-up speech appeared in parts to echo The recent •ecarations TGWU leader Moss Evans, with its responsi- Davis -=.• 'Lefts' stand aside as TUC talks go on lation of the Fords strike by he was mandated by vote of workers in struggle, turn up offer their now and then and coming out. on oWIl conterence to take part in a 'left' speech pay claims at once. against the campaign Callaghan's poli- If top bureaucrats such government's 5% pay limits.

acmning as McLoughlin are making

TUC

cies. But last week, But if such talk is separa- such statements, then leaders in the midst of the clearly there ted from . must be Calan trooped in to rOTO the growing willingness within paign now within Downing Street to attempt working class to fight Labour Party to drive out to patch up a means of con- the Callaghan-Healey leader- for this perspective. trolling wages which is less Rather than develop and ship, it means nothing. brazen and contentious than The kind of feeling now strengthen this movement, the 5% Phase 4 ceiling, not a offering a concerted cam- running through the trade whisper of opposition was paign to drive out Callaghan movement this to be heard from Skinner or and Healey, Skinner and his issue was refelcted last week his 'left? colleagues in

NEC

in the 'left' speech given by fellow 'lefts' nave "Tribune' group. already junked Labour con- the London Conted Secre Rapidly forgetting his tary Bill McLoughlin to the ference policy and effective- statement at the demagogic ly washed their hands of the rally in support of the Fords Tribune rally that struggle. strike. got to get rid of the pay In demanding they break Pointing .out that all" policy once and for from this position and lead and Healey Callaghan ate Skinner has retreated to the of the serious fight inside the now the mavericks sidelines while union leaders Party and the unions, more and the right wing Callaghan labour movement, pursuing and more workers will see a policy rejected by individ- cabinet discuss new means the inade- ual unions, the TUC and the Ior of holding back workers' quacy of 'left' talking re- pay demands. conference, Party formism in the struggle for No doubt as the outcome McLoughlin called for them policies to defend socialist to be removed from office.

of these talks is implemen- the independent interests of ted by the TUC and Labour And he went on to call the working class. for of leaders, Skinner will, other sections of workers to prevent the iso- pressed by seculos conference Most Tory leaders have now come to the view that this kind of approach stands more chance assistance union TrIantened retormisi officials and convenors than the setting of an open pay limit.

Viability Because while union leaders been to challenge have known pay Genera bureaucrat has yet challenged the central reformist notion that caritalisi

TU UST

we« to make я тоготіт and be kept "viable" —if nece expense of the ssary at the workforce. Inis is why evans nas been so careful to restrict the TGWU offensive highly profit- Joseph able firms POre and from government interference."

BOC,

while clamping similar firmly against action All time that the Tories Evans talk has would the 5% scrap existing "responsible" bargaining-ir collabo. other ration with union leaders, determined WOrd walt been 500,000 by the profitability of the emp.

imposed loyer. This has not been lost on And caretui reading The ior ieaders Tory leadership speoches throughout the week indicates Confrontation clearv Thal government inter ference TAr de intensi. still With the prospect of a huge the application strike pay poss- movement on moneta policies zooline and threatened by Labour the last the Thie har ofici, chancellor Healey. the last thing Thatcher wants cash Will limits on public spending and target "rates of return" for the confronta- immediate nationaliseo Incusties. Ton'witu mie workie cass Hence the confused talk of Shot-gun the Tory conference-and hence

CISO

Borrowing by private firms of the speeches dealing with the will be made more difficult and next election. more expensive. crv was issuec 1 natcnel firms will be "Lame duck" speedily dispatched to a watery bringing down Thatcher's own final sermon for grave by government shotgun.

Callaghan. acains cass natreo summeo ur voicas of the her concern that this party -not In this way, Sir Keith Joseph Instead, the crew could scarcely be known for its conciliatory view: others out and spelled with Thatcher •thrown relish, demand heard above the sound of their who Coor InTe "'unrealistic" knees knocking at the prospect bitter confrontation. levels of "If it is wrong to preach race would price themselves out of a of possibly having to face up to hatred.:" (said this leading job. a militant working class.

CABOUR

PARTY

"'.. advocate of racial hatred) why is it right to preach class hatred?" But of course race and class consumate hatred for the working class-is of Toryism very essence feature of this year's confer- ence Delegates had howled with anguish and 1 rage at sr Jonr Davis that sanctions declaring lifted against could not vet be the Smith regime in Rhodesia.

Bring back stocks They the demand the rostrum to ne reze death penalty, . of the Tne birch and the and their declare undying •the police in its attacks or TOl the working class. enthusiastically backed They plans for pay incrense Skinner British imporiailist troops repressing onine workers, and to increase the armed forces. Ano ue entre coov orar and small businessmen shareholders, landowners anc ovar oare parasites sallied into attack after the allegediy low of productivity British the class, demanding working immediate end to manning" ruthless rationalisa Tion oT Inoustry. 'ano an al-ou assault on the social services, as well further line as tax :cuts to te dockets ou tae Ticu. Relic of past But the irony remained in the vocal presence of Heath as an inescapable relic of the past. Now regarded, astonishingly.

as part of the Tory 'left', Heath took office pledged to a series equally draconian attacks on the unions his Tour Industrial Relations Act his controls tatters, wage his ana autority tinguished, he was pitched out of off for the on te remains Party no visiole remince that reactionary words are one .

thing: implementing them another. frightening sight former cabinet Coneonar s colleague Prentice, now recom. the wing menced ront "'Selsdon Group from James Prior as Shadow Employment Secretary.

THE BUILDING

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INDUSTRY

In a capitalist society, governments may use certain industries such as the motor industry as "regulators" of the economy. By using taxation and credit restrictions they can * make it difficult for workers to buy cars. This has the brutal effect of throwing car and compo- nent workers on the dole; demand and reducing the for consumer goods. But 'two industries, construction and machine tools, the relationship of the industry to the economy is much more direct. These industries sent in material terms the growth or decay of a capitalist economy. growth stops, construction not just reduced but disappears com- pletely. Severity This construction is affected by a immediately and

COSTS

dramatically. the problems which All confront workers in a crisis —unemployment, wage-cuts, attacks on agreed conditions and on union organisation- and

OCCU

more suadelly with more severity than in other industries. Even periods of relative stability for capital- 1sm there is never the same stability in construction.

Fot a start there is a large fluctuation. The seasonal early stages of construction work are far more expensive to carry out in winter than i summer. Because union organisa- So many workers do not tion construction has know from one day to the never been strong enough to next whether they will l ve force employ- permanent a job. many building Thirdly, because of tht find workers themselves position of construction as unable to get work representing the growth of Willlel. the fluctuations conomy in the rate of growth Casual employment magnified. Secondly, labouring In the minor recessions of construction remained the 1950s and '60s, of one the few of unemployment nationally al cas casual employment. The reached 4%. In construction still sight can the peaks were aboul 1U%.

secu parts of Birmingham But these problems were some of labourers queuing up as nothing compared to the 7.30 in the morning waiting last five years. for sub-contractors to arrive Previously, government and pick their labourers for policy increase Was spending the day. public during

NATIONALISE

periods when private invest- ment faltered. Immeasurable his to a certain exteni shielded the construction industry from the effects of crisis-ridden capit- alism. But now the crisis has the stage where in Teached "save capit- Its attempi lo the alism Labour govern- ment has slashed public spending at a time wien private investment has collapsed. The result that 400,000 of the million jobs in construction Builders on the march during their 1972 pay strike and supplying industries have disappeared Output has fallen by 30% in four The years. waste which this means to society in terms. of unused skills, machinery and materials is immeasurable At the same time Shelter estimates that 'inere are a million families without a decent home in Britain. indus. The construction try is dominated by a few giant companies, WiTh of tiny tinpot contractors and sub-contrac- tors competing for what the giants don't want. construction firms make much in their SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 18 October 1978

EFEND

CT WORY

PHOTO: John Smith TET March in defence of Manchester Direct Works department 'propaganda oi the virtues of decent house to live in. "competition in ensuring Now that this boom has and efficiency low cost ended, construction construction. giants are trying their best But in practice the use of to have the direct labour price rings and corruption in departments of local obtaining contracts so closed down Collea widespread as to be that they can take the work a way of life. they turned up their noses Recent articles in at in previous years. News Construction havi They are generally indicated. that over most of maintain managing the country supposed "com- profits by taking contracts petition" the supply of overseas and sacking ready-mixed concrete is in workers in Britain-but even fact a farce. the Arabian building boom The country is divided of steam into spheres of influence. In each area all but one of the economists suppliers put near that In argue competition identical tenders, and the tends to balance supply and remaining supplier puts in a demand. What they neglect is that under capit- sugally lower one to there l alisil Widespread relation between social demand an a eConomie This enables prices and demand ie between what profits be to people need and what they protecica in times of slump. can afford to buy. The recent Bryant's case The problem of housing in Birmingham showed that shows this very clearly. In a Bryants were able to obtain crisis, the giant construction £100 million worth tirms leave their nant idle orders by bribing the Chief and lay off their workforce Architect and other officers financial and use their Birmingham City reserves for speculation in Council. property and stock markets.

It is well known in the Worker must demand these the of maustr TOaT that books these examples are not exceptions companies are opened but widespread. committees including build- The projects which the ing workers and other trade construction giants go after unionists are those where the Use OI large construction plant and Nationalisation automated techniques can bring big profits. They will find that in a Houses and community crisis the construction firms buildings designed to a good cannot guarantee employ- standard are not generally the new provide ment or of this type. Motorways and homes, schools shops and office blocks are which workers This meant that in the need early 1970s local authorities That is the basis of a call found it almost impossible for nationalisation of the get for their industry. tender. contracts. One of the fondest argu- speculation for competition ine ments "quality" property values led hundreds of thousands of Nothing could be being from the truth. CONSLUCLIOl WOrKCIS employed Once a contract has been building the office which empty blocks let-whether by fair means foul-the now adorn the skyline of object of our cities, while many of building contractor is to those same workers had no save as much as possible of

SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesda: 18 October 19-s

HYUSES

MILLION

SAVED ON

EJOB ALONE

precautions. the Every two of crafts- hundred workers men cuts killed and 40,000 are every corner in seriously injured in tries to hide directly Inautyudle At the design stage satety. necessary may either The and Safety building workers (e.g. Executive 1n out of 100 Milford bridge) or final "reasonably accidents the Ronan forseeable. other words they controlled resulted obvious breach of workers

DIOLCCLON

rules. One given "The is, the AS. 1t pressure the given ladder. placed or niques many that cost set too low. Everyone knows that Work Act makes comparable private construction. But even these the Slanuarus HOISt to

TOT

determine. they who depart- have to in the aurnonly W1ll ments. houses. buildings as commun- last ity centres, unionise. and relatively schools: employ facilities. site one anolner firms avoid Construction Inadequate safety employing direct instead workers, They should have. the advice and specific job period assistance designers and of the social time. This their workers, nospilal workers or res teachers who ponsibilities of use the terms buildings. One of the easiest ways holiday pay and finding

HING TON

€ 170,0 of a job. Because ably than direct workers. contract. most sites of therefore, majority workers do for the and 11l1l1 union conditions. analist industrial and no co-ordinated campaign tories insist that supervisory staff. the PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, IFL I million families lire in suh-standard housing. while building

DIRECT

MOD

CRE

SPENDI

supplier have The industry much heavily unionised A supply forcement, colicie brickwork could black supplies sites. tion shows the ibility of piecemeal This houses, as well. They mostly COl- adequate

A DICT

facilities safety pre- cautions. The of their of a so provide industry cheaper to local contracting out the work. the books of and profits are problems a decent job. The Party has Wages because _are reflect the basic rates existence competition Whereas ensuring all building fact, some •direct employer, Labour's In labour have a scheme infiltration Board. would when unemployed. skilled many And constant ers for their has substitute permanell succeeded preventing cannot them work guarantee for outside the sphere of living, nothing to council and has eliminate evils of bad forced them tender for quality, of training, and of waste resource with private builders for part of the system acted depart- as ment which the also setting up a just necessary, poration by now they as profit making who have and other and as possible (which for- tunately unlikely "nationalised' single by are being corporation forced to on and Leslis on wages and tha the committees tenants other giants associations building involved in trade defend DLO's. to see such строган! adopting anti- because they union the other employers. joint the and users building workers. Efforts workers the building private needs direct labour, and homes worKers relation to places contracts constae the of which public develops works to unem- out of the which ployment face The

WSL

has always workers both and private emphasised that the public sectors. works under be only trade an essential of fight action by workers to of take sites from the away building employers And the Councils of of organs alised should be gramme an area, reclamation

JULI

health and These will the basis for the This ised industry with workers and local government councils. part of the for a of the of planned construction industry only when these workers the struggle must First denies the conditions, dangerous labour. Secondly the

Page 3 Castro's fans excuse Eritrea slaughter By Bob Sutcliffe Ogaden, Cubans' The renewed cam- role In Harsch claims: paign by leading mem- negative "Despite the of the American bers aspects of the Cuban role in Socialist Workers Party Ethiopia, the dominant side to make Fidel Castro by far has been the progres- sive one. In a war situaton- an honorary Trotskyist where the question is posed was given another boost of 'which side are you on?'

in the October 2 issue Cubans come OuE

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of the journal Inter- decisively against the imper- In the machinations. continental Press in an •lallsı overall that's no picture, article on the Ethiopian small thing." Ernest Revolution by This to Harsch is: Harsch. . an internationalist policy, a policy that aids the The main subject of the and by war in the African revolution, the article extension the world socialist Ogaden in 1977-78 between revolution." sup- the Ethiopian ported by the Soviet Union This clean bill of revol- utionary health for Castro, West and alu diberation and the Front follows hard upon the publi- Somali cation of another article in and the regular army of the which SWP leader Joseph dictațorship Barre Castro's Hansen lauded in Somalia. regime, claimed that it was "independent" of the Soviet Union and explicitly denied Trotskyists should call that com- overthrow through for its assess- 1TS pietely political revolution. (See the comment in Socialist Press (correctly No. 113): it was enough) Falsifications the like Hansen ation Harsch, oppressed is forced to before hom Falsification also inside to

SLOOU

order to establish his case.

One scandalous instance of this is his treatment of Harsch Now, the Soviet Union. says that imperialist- He tells us (p.1093) that backed invasion in Ethiopia: policy 'Moscow's highly opportunist, and has Ine wal, enrust, and its political extent do with aiding nothing the Ethiopian revolution."

Harsch He is quite right. And he crude) (rather adds

SONC

proof: the USSR. initially "Teal. "repressive A medal for butcher Mengistu supported the 'objective impetus' military junta" Somalia in aims' (sic) only switched and revolutionary international- afterwards. Ethiopia later because it was ism! and because the bigger Americans withdrew. Withdrew aid constituted, All this So the Soviet when Harsch the

COLELCL-

necessary DayD Union withdrew military aid revolutionary approach." war in such a from Somalia and sent it to beginning That's at the Derg it was the Ethiopian of the article. The becomes and counter-revolutionary Only when we've read on his plain in rest ot opportunistic. forget that, does enough to SuC.t But when Cuba did the Harsch tell us with breath- rewriting which (a policy that taking inconsistency salllc on the hero obviously co-ordinated with conduct by the same

TUSE

its co-thinkers the its Cuba evidence of the So; result ab ‚Kreman) unen ll was comuig out decisively against im per- ialist machinations! When Moscow portrays the Derg as "socialist" and "Marxist-Leninist" then, Harsch tells us, "the Mengist's phoney claimster Kremlin But when Fidel CastIC calls Mengistu a revolution- ary and a socialist, when he fetes the Ethiopian leader as the most honoured possible guest in Havana (most of which Harsch chooses not then Harsch to mention), assures us; "Cas socialist points of the dynamic revoluti itself this Derg process. "This could Castro (right) with Che Guevara Cuban troops in Angola especially in errors. sitiopin as complicated as situation divulge Harsch doesn't the dubt very (no trick which dialectical) enables him to discern that and virtually identical co-ordinated certainly actions by the Moscow and Havana bureaucracies are in conscious the one case and counter-revolution a simpie other casc genuine confusion ot revolutionary socialist. Harsch tells us: aid falls "Soviet arms within the context of Mos- cow's support for the Derg's policies against repressive the Ethiopian and Eritrean masses." Not revealed doesn't Of course he reveal how Cuba's arms aid (from the beginning co-ord- inated with that trom the Union) falls Soviet In totally different context. Of Harsch CouIse. doesn't sort out this inconsistency apparent because he cannot. shred of evidence Every him. And he against knows this the Decast the of article structure

SOCIALISI PRESS. ":.....

obviously tries to conceal the glaring inconsistency from the reader. It is a conscious effort to TaS1V TOle Ethiopia. For anti- an and

HN CEU

Havana shown thai counter- fit revolunonary. betwecl dictatorship the however. Tne them is mental supporting decisive Mengistu's revolution genociua revolution! Against evidence "the Harsch that from not Cuban Whether Mengistu's would CommtOl without the he from the back-up TaOCaIS European thousands formed political the 1963 for The Eritrea. If political Castro to does .he certainly "territorial of those ences and those Harsch scandálously adaptation reduces •COLDOTa• Mengistu's And with attempted to position Harsch's facing the articles Eritrea." these Knowing the front line of the bloody as the 1S every of the has couldn't

VOU

of Press of positions between most funda- Dolllica between counter- basis of to US and "Trotskyists" unprincipled in of the Stalinism continuation Pabloite maintain this TeouTe Hansen's shown, that indulge distortion of

One year later, murderer still SOCIALIST PRESS, Heinesda : SOcioter:*"% full after the year public murder of American Young Socialist leader Tom Henehan, police are still refusing to arrest the known killer or his accomplice.

Andelo Torres aunned down normal League, was Henehan at a Young Socialists' initially assume in Brooklyn, discotheque New homicide? To that murder was nOT York political considering its victim Henehan was Politica of the event (at member of the US Committee ana ue socation League (the US organ- young Socialisi dancer, YvOrKerS most careless. political sympatny "To simply assume that it with Gerry Healy's equally dominated was, tional Committee' nowever, dangerous. the arusa workers nevol- "It is most likely that Tom's utionary Party). Identity known Workers League member Vielot also Jacques was woundeo in tue snootie. Torres' identity, and that of Edwin Sequinog his accomplice, to the police within was Knowi an hour of the murder. But it took advocates these of "law and order" four months ased his release They Sull have not released photo. year later, both graph; and Sequinog renall ccot tree. This contrasts vividly with and the draconian police military moves acainst movement militants on picket lines-and continual survelliance or 1etr arous.

barrage obstructive thrown by up police whenever to inquire as to what has been done murder case. far Workers League has not most obvious step of initiating a labour movement inquiry into The Killing Open investigation them urged Socialist League (DC). in first issue of their paper Labor Vews, after the tragic killing had така Diace. Headed 'Open investigation the article-pub. necessary', lished before the killer's identity was known-pointed out: this murder are complicated and un peasant noT only The Workers League, he us which is the US which organisation in opposea to capitalism. "Therefore, call Trotskyist organisation, Tne labour movement in ceaeral.

'Girlfriends' has been and concerned workers and to participate in the compared in the students the investication Tory press to "The detailed descriptions of film Woody Allen the gunmen which the Workers 'Annie Hall'. fidd already 90th Precinct The l But this is a completely need to be printed in their party Bulletin TaSt Unlike 'Annie Hall' there is "There are several important no real attempt at humour.

questions That need answered in this investigation There are only a couple first In the place, was the of jokes in the whole film- murder a portical attack agains each based not on wit but Tom Henehan and the Workers on the situation. Susan Photographer Wein blatt and her friend Writings on

WSL

the Fourth International Aspects of the History of the FI: Based on a lecture by John Lister to Summer

WSL

1977 School, the this article attempts to examine in more departure from the Marxist detal. the method carried out by. Michel Pablo majority and the of the International of FI Secretariat 'the the period In following the Yugoslavian 'break' with Stalin in 1948. The article shows the methodological connection between the positions which led to the 1953 split in the those which international, and opened the door for the opportunist 'reunification' of 1963. Today No 2, Published in Trotskyism march 1978. Price 50p plus 15p p&p.

scot free. By John Lister political, but this come. death should be ascertained factually, "What is the description | 01 killed who WIth concrete evidence and

TWO

Since through conclusions Tne muree the motivations of right wing occurred at the entrance to the dance it is likely that there were elements "This WIll ena ole Ine witnesses Workers League other "The Bulletir newspapel exacts dom West guarter did should any publish their anc exactiv trom what quarter the attack on Tom and Jacques observations of US cops-condone murder of Trotskyists while harrassing blacks and the labour movement Women from a woman's view TONY RICHARDSON reviews Claudia Weill's film 'GIRLFRIENDS' again and again how happy flat and Anne share are on their own. The develop friendship. • a real film exposes the hollowness Then Anne moves out and or lins prelence marries a well-to-do man, "Annie Hall', directed by has a baby and struggles to Woody a film Allen, was write poetry at home. a beautiful about woman, But neither Susan, who a sparkling personality, seen continues photographing from a man's viewpoint. barmitzvahs and But Claudia Weill, direc- get personal ignts to accepted tor of 'Girlfriends" has photographs by examined magazines, nor Anne are relationships from the happy Both however to woman's standpoint,

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much their portraying them with real deny now sensitivity. friendship means-saying The Poisoned Well: The document drafted by the Workers Socialist League for submission to the discussion of the USFI pre-conference Xith World Congress - exposing the political bankruptcy and opportunism of both of the previous main factions within the USFI. Pointing out that the common factor of each of the self-styled 'Fourth ' Internationals' is their departure from the method and principles on which the FI was tounded, this article calls for serious steps towards the reconstruction of the International. Published Trotskyism in Today No 3, July 1978: Price 60p plus 15p p&p. Both available from the WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR October 15 and morning • October 16. "According to the minimal descriptior • the October 21 ano suesequent issues. Tom was inside during the dance and following a disturbance at the door. came out to investigate tnere must nave been at least one other comrade already outside at the door (was married Thus the man falls with whom Susan love who pulls back from a relationship because of his wife, only an incidental character, whose feelings The focus is on Susan and her response situation. through Gradually its careful portrayal of personal relationships the film shows most important relationship is that between Anne and Susan In doing so it highlights how few films seriously portray women as anything incidental other than characters, or as ornaments in a man's world, seen from a man's view. The weakness however. is that as nearly always in such films, CHaracters . alt drawn exclusively from the privileged petty bourgeoisie.

Their feelings, emotions and relationships take place completely cut off from the real world, its struggles and its material problems life not Indeed in real even every petty bourgeois wants to become a photo grapher or a poet. Some key sections affected by the class struggle, come to recognise relationships that Lullal. can only flourish freely and sexual oppression brought to an end, in the struggle for the revolution- ary overthrow of capitalism Page y this Jacques?) collecting donations sufficiently "If Jacaues has recovered by now he may able to provide a more thorough explanation of what occurred "The New York : police have into the investi- been brought but gation The readers of the Bulletin as well as working class organisa. other. tions, certainly need to know ai least much "concerned" detectives of the Unsolved "The New York Police Dep- artment going to interested in fully pursuing the investortion ano even were, the thousands of unsolved Now York City homicides raises abou wuetuel they would succeed in solving it "However, the Police and oThel acencies are now l excellent position the pretext of gathering information killing

CUTE

October probe every nook and cranny of the Workers League: the of all its and their members sUDDOTTerS addresses and places of work, etc. "It is most unlikely that the police will find anything illegal, is siene the Workers League the of among arugs

ITS

members, terrorist activity such as trafficking in bombs Otne patty bourgeol: utionary" dilletantisms. this won't stop police from on NaZ organisations Tane periphery of the police with the information they now have the opportunity to amass "This is why the murder of Tom Henehan double simply for Tom'! but for comrades of his death and the shooting of Jacques Vielot begin immediate the pod le. and let it bi we once d Unfortunately the Workers League has not acted upon thi.

aovice. But more reprehensible by far is the deplorable silence The Killing by The us Sociall Workers Party-sympathisin of "United section Secretariat of the Fourth inter.

national. During year these The last "Trotskyists' self-styled found so • much as a column-inch in their mammoth 36-page weekly The Jave millant, much or which is tilles issues and with civil rights liberal protests Publicised Yet the

SWP

itself has suffered home attempted assassinations of lead ing members-including election candicate catarino gara. wnici have all 'been correctly and The heavily The murder Tom fits into a pattern of Henehan and state forces against the US labour movement. The SwP silence under thes conditions is a scandal. The campaign to expose the

COSE

movement and out ' The eccons from the brazen police conniv at the murder of a leading alice CoUlC suostan tially advanced by the conven- labour ing movement inquiry, along Wne differences political Witn The vorkers Laddut the Healyite International Com mittee are well known and deep.

going. But were the Workers League to take the initiative in sUCH newly Tney certainly advance the fight for political clarity in the US class polttical groupin that refused to sud exposed would stand exposed move politica murder of the leaders of oppos ing tendencies.

WSL Why not join us?

INDUSTRIAL

Pressure builds up on low pay determination of November has been voted for by The the public workers to

CSCLOT

NUPE branch fight against further wage The restraint growing more, both strength as union branches nationally-reflect throughout London militand workcis continue to pass resolutions pay. in support of the demands Co-ordination of the Pay

"LOW

Campaign". Despite these the Following the lead given by Camden General Branch of NUP the other ana launcning

NUPN

vestminste! Mosolla Campaign" NUPE have passed a resolution single step claim for a £60 supporting the ing these resoiutions a week minimum watt ano d ve ing together the various sections hour week linking into a united attack on Phase 4.

demand that the NUPE Execu- treacnerous Tive Call Inocule

SITIKE

of the NUPE leadership-despite action from the final settlement oe touont The Branch also pledged its next period. shop any other section or

SUPOOTL IU

ment branch ot NUre 'waich Takes industrial action against Phase the initiative taKe Man not cnes nave todetner Inest already resolved to support the St. Andrew's coordinating including Graiui other sections and unions HOW-WnO •are oreddrine joint action with and

GWU

GMWU branches in the area-

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branches and the Royal Free, Hampstead.

stewaros a the daaintr ion in Finally. the claim

LEALELE

NOIN AREA

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TALIST REVOLUTION!

Few moventents can struggle. We have ever have trodden on so major many toes in so short a struggle from Grunwick the Workers time as Garners and Socialist League. highlighting bureaucratic Our movement has been at the forefront of agitation baDUle e. And ior action to break Labour's brushing wage controls aside the posturing speeches TÚC bureaucracy to of the oERir reveal their real collaborat- ion with Phases 1,2 and 3.

endent shop fought We have movement of iously against the sale jobs at Speke, in steel and participation' bodies. élsewhere by the TUC bur- highlighted enect Traudulent Explain theit talk of 'fighting unemployment'. In Our members have time and our and again deflated fiery speeches by 'left' windbags reveal and who talk of opposition to coayed -fe ole staliy call cuts played atle out make по strikes occupations; Communist 85 ₴ result we have been in whether these the front rank of support foT every major cuts adhering to Moscow.

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Unless the leadership forced to give a clear lead there s a cancer Inat me wnoie cam paign-and with chances of action in the public SeCTOl oredk ruast North London Polytechnic eno in solation ano deteat. witr individual branches the various sections taking action at resolutions-ano many London and oierent less effect. the growing ouollC sectol the question of moves now leadership of NUPE involved unions "Low rdy have not taken towards co-ordinat- ana orile inactivity all their fine talk of 'unity' and the plight of the low paid-must at anl evels intne stewards move- Health the ondon Service is in a strong position to bringing and Clalls forcing the NEC to give a lead with Support is growing in several •a London conference-initially Striking social service workers continue their action over for Health Service stewards-to discuss action on the pay claims.

regrading Our principled stand on these issues has also vividly exposed the opportunism and confusion of the various other left groups who claim to offer workers a revolut- ionary' alternative. And such struggles have earned members con- tinued witch-hunting and victimisation at the hands. of and employers union officials alike. of these The CersoN fights, together with an up- of the 8se cneni developing struggles of the working class internation- ally, have been reflected in our paper, Socialist Press.

Now, as struggles break out on growing against Phase 4 of wage con- championed trols, and public sector unionisation workers increasingly rebel at ow wages and the impact. ol Sandersons savage ibour Socluus cul each step the need to carry this fight betrayal and the Workers Socialist League has been at the forefront of the fight in Leyland throughout industry to opp ose the erosion of the indep through class 'workers Socialist League. Name each of these struggles international Address. work the WSL has fought to to explain the role Send to: WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, the Stalinists of London NW5 1HR Parties be 'Euro- communist' parties or those Conference fights cuts in Sheffield has A conference bers and been called in Sheffield readers on Saturday December discuss 2 to the beyond the problems facing the fighting cuts as NHS and a programme they occurred, begin of action to defend and develop health care behind the cut-backs. facilities. The conference was orig- mittee inally called by the offensive Sheffield Campaign dadles. in the

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being sponsored numbe. support number of organisations. SerVICE movem ent arallis l the health service. campaigns union movement be open amendment at the enče. *Opposition closures in the NHS for revolutionary leadership to new sections of workers is greater than ever. Weapon The fighting perspective of the Trotskyist prog- ramme offers every militant « we oor Ine dual ligat against the employers and treachery against the of TUC bureau- Labour and crats. We call on Socialist Press readers and supporters consider the coming struggles, the problems they face, and the necessity of a principled lead each day-to-day fight !I would like to receive Why and not join us, help us trample even in more bureaucratic toes Name the months and years ahead? Address Dartmouth London NWS IHR

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patient's needs. **Opposition the massive profits made by the is now firms by drug and supplier from the NHS. For an inves- of union branches and Labour Party wards and tigation into the finances of pledged firms unese Oall class campaign for their nationali- working sation. *The cuts will not be Trade unions prevented by lobbies of MPs, petitions, or "days of The committee is open action" . What is required is to all workers in the health national strike action by other trade On health service unions. unionists in industry, labour the basis of this we call fo1 anlu solidarity strike action by members of the public who other unions are determined to campaign *We support in particular cuts in defence of hospital occupations against closures committee Details and credentials the trade for the 2 December confer- on the ence, which will be held at following policies which will Mount Pleasant Centre discussion/ to can neneo De nce COnIC from Chris Styles, 179 Giove Road, Sandford Sheffield, S7 1RS. which Right at

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the Fire Brigades As Union conference opened in week, Bridlington last Terry General Secretary Parry revealed that he was unable to report the still amount of the pay rise due for payment on November 7. Report The reason, ne said, is inal not be the exact tigure could calculated until ine Department Wiard Employment's earnina. published annual Survey figures on October 26 But Parry did say that in his Daily Express report anticipating a 20% rise-meaning week around ber

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qualified firemen on Tne "would not be far rate ot pay- the rise might OuT ano Inat be more than that. Difficult period suggested However it was that it the figures were revedieu might othei press of workers sections claims in excess of the 5% pay •backed by many of the larger week figure The £15 briaades, including Merseyside only wouid in any event apply firemen 4-5 WIth oricade service-with grades Executive's getting considerably less.

winter's strike was withdrawn in But the size of ine increase • ordel doubt encourage the will Manchester move on emolovers to pursue their porcy hour week. attempting run TIrE beredates stations with less men on duty virtually nod through a series of new rules designed to tighten up inan du oreschl Firemen now face a difficult period in which they must fight defend existing the present manning levels at week stands -ever struggie before force same levels of cover for the 422- emoroyers hour week. "Picked off" PHOTO: Chris Davie! Indeed in the debate on the Parry 42-hour week strongly against emergency resolution from Greater Manchester calling for the FBU to force the employers to agree to implement the 4z-nour week by December 1 or take unilater- as a union to imple- al action disciplinary ment it trom that udie Parry claimed that with only Union third of manned one With only the go over to To be doie lu 42 hour week oresent. unis policy would give the employers an excuse to back while Ano ne arat indi some brigades m ght be able to even hours hearing the debate! rule would unilaterally. picked off, with the employers using the action as a pretext to from the union by the EC cut manning levels. His appeal for no action was

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capped off with a ritual plea for Executive who lives resolution, calling

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neco- tiated arrangement for the intro- duction of the 42 hour week to bureaucracy to buttress against he renorted to a recal conier serves 28 November, was during last winter's strike.

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Firemen on the march during their strike A resolution from the Bucks the Citicsig handling last concession Greater _the 4 2 went Kensington, The Chelsea and Westmin- Health Area ster has made Authority of conceding to show pressure. meeting it a tiam, At its last will accepted that there have to be an extension of period the consulate before going ahead with the Mary's close Hospital in Harrow Road. Health workers lobbying 11 the

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meeting Parry' October heard John Dunwood, and others the procedures in talk about an extension, but in the end put off a decision amend- minel pending discussion with the whole Community Health document was adopted -though local at one point it was revealed that Council. through a defective microphone some delegates had been voting Supporters of the battle from prevented to defend the hospital must view all such talk with the changes end the utmost suspicion: members' right to appeal to full The AHA's quandary on expulsion this question is a reflection of almost unanimous oppos- chance ition to its plan being voiced aimed against union representa- militant action by local organisations. on pay and conditions, and will There is no doubt, how- Authority be used by the rignt wing rou that tne them- intends to go ahead with the the type of rank cuts in expenditure dictated and file hostility demonstrated by the Labour government.

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within the EETPU to dras- tically cut back the number AHA talks of of branches in operation.

The public meeting on 19 October at Paddington School organised by the Hospital Defence Commit- 93 must workers at programme of opposition to all cuts. in whatever guise Walker • Labour lefts' like Arthur local MP, who are claim to support the Cam- official strike paign, must be forced to say ing the there what steps they remove management taking Callaghan-Healey leadership cy threats responsible which 101 loisting the cuts on the working class. - Sandersons- mass picket

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National though Organiser Ron Todd swagger: • soute doubt the strike could be won around basking in the reflected the union's massive

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involved are strenot at roros. ne is tactruly silent about a very different one he has consciously battle- to noted on Friday October 27 The sandersons recognition strike in Skegness, now urge WA goes on with none everywhere months old, the oublicity tull scalt call.

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Chapple hits militant branches tary Frank Chapple and his right wing El supporters Is to down to only four branches by December of this year Such a move would dissolve the branches with any record-one North militant London has a 50-vear history o militant leadership-and strengthen the stranglehold on the the .. exercised Chapple leadership. one time there were 48 At area, in the London branches but neer In 1. number reduced 1972 steadily napole aisanded une union s district committees Now full-time officials are inform round comine branches Executive

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Council's decision. These moves must be seen in the context of Ine oroposed amalgamation with the AUEW, which will undoubtedly lead to still turine' stream aning order to minimise the strength Chapple of the rank and file. must militants Moves are now underway follow resolutions already passed which call on the Executive to. reconsidel Ene scheme, and demand an emer gency conference to discuss the area the trom Genera secre- whole issue Expulsion threat to strikers chapel on Monday October production revealed the Usher- mallare mell plans 15-20 Illake printing inks workers of their own choos factory in East London ing redundant. and to force on indefinite, a further half dozen workers un- to retire demand- withdrawal of All out strike redundan- Since the factory is at undermanned this present At a meeting with repres- entatives of the NATSOPA move could only be seen as a bid to remove the militant leadership of the NATSOPA chapel. union meeting next day therefore voted to take all-out strike action demanding that the sacking withdrawn, and threats be seeking the payment oi witheld by manage- during previous ment dispute official backing of the Fords But this prompt action there is no of jobs has in detence

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annoyed mem aers fighting for the now officials, who have most basic right of all. They are disciplinary threatened appealing for support, especially possible including actor. on their mass picket at 6.30 am the union, expulsion from chapel members on unionists trace strike. to respond to this

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Ten years jail for strike leaders after show trial The kangaroo court in Tunis has pronoun- ced sentence on the 30 union leaders, removed from office by the for their government in the violent part 26 general strike of January. With no right of appeal, Habib Achour and Abderra- zak Ghorbal former • The and secretary regional secretary for Stax General

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Union of Tunisian Workers) have been sentenced to 10 years hard while labour, shorter have been inflicted on 22 others. these vicious But • penalties fall short of the sentence demanded death by the state prosecutor in this rigged trial. Hailed by the Tunisian bourgeoisie, such 'clemency' was dictated by the scale of that the opposition to the form of developed justice being administered by Bourguiba's 'democratic regime. Impossible to act The defence lawyers walked out in protest-some now face charges themselves as a result. replaccacills. the state, appointed by, complained that the restric- tions of the court made it impossible for them to act • ot the accused In erence They too refused to cooper- ate with the political frame- trial, Outside the and supporters of relatives the defendants were with arrested, by: French observers sell trade union confederations, demonstrated they protest. Amnesty Condemnation of ine sentences, and demands for an amnesty have been made by international trade union including the International Confederation Trade Unions, and the International Union of Arab Workers Unions. But the Bourguiba has sign regime Inat it will succumb to these the protests, and bureaucrats involved in this have from their side given even less indica- tion that they will mobulse the independent strength of the working class to achieve these basic democratic

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The mass meeting which adopted the Cowley Assembly Plant claim Pay crunch at Leyland the lead But the Communist Following right Party and wing given last month by the stewards who control Cowley Assembly Plant Committee Combine have of the plants most still not up in their given Leyland Cars efforts to introduce at least within elements of corporate bar- have now tabled wage gaining this year. seeking around claims They have recommended £100 per week for pro- that each individual plant duction workers. consider including "common elements" in each While Cowley stewards claim. have been awaiting manage- Communist After the ment's reply to the claim Party members succeeded in endorsed by a mass meeting defeating a Cowley proposal the Leyland plant, the that all plants should press Combine Committee has for a cost of living clause and forced. to met,

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"common elements' this year's recognise proposed were: wage review will be nego tiated at factory level and 35 nour *A week through centralised

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without loss of pay. Cowley convenor Fryer speaking at the mass meeting

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month. More heartening news comes this month from Oxford where a weekly tote has now been started which promises to bring in a further £40 a month to our funds very shortly.

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*Consolidation of all supplementary payment per An Increase or l week from November 1978 to be applied to the highest current flat rate payment All other (£84.13). grade. to receive the appropriate pro rata increase based on this rate. *Full apply parity to from November 1978. points have now these ben submitted by most of Leyland's Midlands car plants as their plant claim.

Management policy A central danger with formulated this claims 1n demand for the way "parity" to be brought of forward to November this rather than year November 1979. Since "parity" means, in Leyland effect, manage- ment's corporate bargaining such a demand falls plan, line with completely InLO and management policy, must be strongly opposed.

have Union leaders enabled Leyland bosses to advances make their corporate towards plan. Last week the national negotiating committee to accept (LCJNC) voted the company's five grade only structure-suggesting different differen- slightly tials to those insisted on by management. "Bench marks" More importantly, the has negotiating commonice agreed to undertake the task of the of slotting each OU "bench marks" (job titles) into the five grades, subject to the current job evalua* tion exercise Every one of these The Cowley claim *£27 per week increase on *35 hour week. basic wage. *Increased company contri . of butions to pension scheme.

*Consolidation all supplements. *Sick at full hourly pay *Premiums to be based on Tate. full hourly rate. *Five additional days *Cost of living clause. holidays. for Leyland If there is any prospect of the Company proposing to bring "parity" forward as offer pali would have to emerge at this meeting. There is no doubt that it would be accompanied by speed-up calls massive of under threat further plant closures. "Incentive" plan But much more likely is will use that "incentive" revamped the major plan

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element of their offer. dis- This scneme-aisc the strictest cussed under by leading bureau- secrecy crats on the LCJNC-is now reaching its final stages.

much

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they seem to money may offer, "incentives" schemes separate a completely issue from basic wages. productivity And, fit the deals, they into description given by TGWU Organiser Ron Todd in the Ford dispute- workers more raffle ticket" than exchange for more effort Leyland workers must pressure on their negotiating commit. O Tall tees to stick to the main claims sub- points mitted-increases on the basic rate, consolidation of shorter hours, supplements, and longer holidays. Key question The "incentives" plan be should •considered separately and thrown out The key question is the way in which the leadership each plant prepares its fight for the members claim Management and unior leaders will almost certainly that Leyland argue Fords from different "bankrupt" because it Todd and kept afloat by the tax- highly aecisions payer. and likely will contentious Therefore, they lead to strikes as soon as claim, any pay rise must be each is announced. financed through increased In an effort to avoid this, productivity. decisions being taken dic behind firmly closed doors, £60 million interest

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with members the This must be answered sworn sulleles demanding that BL's secrecy. by books be opened to elected committees The five pay grades trade and by pointing to the f60 proposed by BL manage. paid million per year ment are as follows. Leyland in interest on this £84.76 1. so-called "taxpayers money" £80.71 Leyland workers must £79.05 3. £71.66 press lor mass meetings le these questions, discuss 4. £65.00 alongside stewards meetings written statements to Even a meeting of TGWU allu keep members informed held last Friday convenors now alongside "Strike the was relusea access Fords! by

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documents *End the national cars officer publish tiations; Grenville Hawley. the whole documents Despite the eagerness of union membership! the Stalinists to press ahead, *Decisions on the pay it is likely the sheer that to be taken at mass claim scale of the task and the meetings practical problems involved *No deal on "parity" or will make it impossible for incentives! management to bring pay *For an uncompromising "parity" forward. defence of living standards The main company £100 per week for produc head off the strategy cost of tion workers, is likely wage Calms living protect clauses come next weekend ata against inflation! in Luton meeting *End "workers' partici where chairman Micnae. pation"! Edwardes unveil the 1S

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new "improved" 5-year plan