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DWARF This appalling missive was sent to us by a comrade in the factory below:
TO ALL BSR EMPLOYEES AT OLD HILL STOURBRIDGE AND WATERFALL LANE FACTORIES As you are aware, a Trade Union is attemp ting to secure a foothold in the Stourbridge factory. As we have recently seen at East Kilbride, the Trade Union there is feeding those who care to listen to them with untruths and half-truths, especially with regard 1. INSTANCE: You are being told that the ninimum earnings level is £11.10.0 per 40 our week and if you join the Union they wil see that you get it.
FACT: The minimum earnings level is now £10.15.0 per 40-hour week and on the basis of the National Agreement should be increased to £11.10.0 per 40-hour week as from Ist December 1969. Personnel Departments have already prepared the new wages sheets which have been approved by the Management. The new wages sheets are already in the Wages Offices and all the increases as per the National Agreement will be paid by the Comany as from that dat INSTANCE: You are being told that imm diately the Unions are in the factory they promise to obtain a sixty shilling rise for you. FACT: This is complete "pie in the sky". Any increase of this nature would be in complete conflict with the Prices and Incomes Policy of the Government and would stand no chance of being approved by that Board. The Trade Union could not fulfil its promise 3. INSTANCE: You are being told that Operators in the Moulding Shop should be earning 5s 9d per hour.
FACT: This is equivalent to £11.10.0 per 40hour week and as stated in (1) above this rate comes into force on 1st December 1969, and will be paid from that date.
Whilst Trade Unions talk of minimum earnings conditions. These are lessons which Brilevels, most of our work forces are paid on a piece-work bonus system which gives earnings ubstantially in excess of the minimum earnngs levels. However, certain jobs cannot be put on piecework as output is controlled by ments are being carried out at Waterfall Lane together and get hysterical the machines cycle times. Nevertheless, experito see if some form of bonus system can be introduced into those factories producing plas tic mouldings.
There has been extensive Press coverage regarding the situation at our East Kilbride factory. This was a happy factory until the Union interfered with production having grown from 1500 changers per week in 1967 to 35,000 er week in 1969. These figures speak fo supposed wage dispute by 21 operators only. When the Company proved this to be untrue, the Trade Union dropped this as the reason for the strike and instead demanded Union recognition, since when the dispute has been whipped up to National level by people with no connection whatsoever with BSR. THE RESULT: Over half the women still try to earn their wages inside the factory despite being subjected to threats of physical violence to them and their families, damage to their cars and property and abuse on leaving HAVE NEVER WORKED AT PER THOSE who were misguided enough to join the Union are existing on £3.15.0. per week strike pay for the sake of what?
Have you any serious cause for complaint during your employment at BSR which was not taken up by your foremen on your behalf? If so you know that you have access to the Personnel Office and to higher Management, right up to the Factory Manager's office, at any time.
Obviously in factories as complex as ours with the need from time to time to move labour from one section to another, etc., there are bound to be occasional causes for complaint but by dealing with these promptly we have maintained full earnings for our employees, excellent relations between employees and factory Management and have built up an international business reputation second to none, a reputation for which each and every employee, wether on the lactory floor of in the offices, has worked very hard to secure. WHY SHOULD YOU, THE COMPANY AND THE COUNTRY LOSE BY IRRESPONSIRLE ACTIONS FROM A FEW PEOPLE? NO STRIKES - NO WALK-OUTS. Read this. THE LATEST NEWS The latest news from our East Kilbride factory is that one night at 10.30 p.m. there was a knock at the front door of a member of our Transport Department. When he opened the door, one of three men threw pepper in his face; he was then knocked to the ground, kicked and his face razor slashed. Is this how Trade Unionists seek to impose their will ...? However, this man believes in his right to live and work as he chooses and is back at work this morning. Who can but admire his courage?
ISAAC DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE The first Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize was awarded this year to Martin Nicolaus, a young American Marxist intellectual. He has played a leading role in the strugles on the West Coast, particularly at San Francisco State, and has done im ortant theoretical work on Marx (see "The Unknown Marx" in New Left Re view 48). The committee intended the award as an encouragement to a young Marxist.
MURDER AND THE FAMILY The new Home Office report on murder has been treated in various ways by the bourgeois press. The Guardian gave it standard mystified liberal treatment, showing how the latest statisties related to the debate on capital punishment. But the Times pointed out what was implicitly more important - that most murders appen as a result of conflicts within the fami ly. Hence instead of arguing about abolishing hanging, it posed the revolutionary problem of abolishing the family - once again revealed as the cause of violence, insanity and misery in its present form.
Thirty workers at a Normandy metal factory on October 24 held five executives captive to obtain the reinstatement of a sacked fellow-worker. The men striking workers at a machine tool factory in Cholet, western France, held three managers captive overnight to back demands for better wages and tish workers should study and apply. A possible start: Weinstock.
THIS IS A TRUE STORY. It shows how Press/Royalty/Police/local authorities all hang 1. Duchess of Kent visits Nottingham to open ugly new Art College. 2. Corporation tarts up exterior of municipal slums opposite - but leaves leaking roofs and internal repairs. Tenants and students decide to demonsuldte. 3. Miss Christine Edge, leading YOUNG LIBERAL and then employed as reporter by Nottingham Evening Post gains admission to the presence of the Duchess. N.B. Not on 'Duty' Does not use press card. Thrusts tenants' leaf let at the smiling Duchess. 4. Hysterical civic dignatories criticise police arrangements and security lapse. Senior police officer due to be next Assistant Chief Constable has promotion blocked under pressure from Councillors. Police threaten to withdraw Press privileges from Nottingham Evening LOSE 5. Miss Edge is offered "transfer" to Grantham - a sleepy Lincs. farming town. 6. Miss Edge "resigns". 7. National Union of Journalists Chapel discusses strike action but does not manage to work up enpugh courage. 8. Dwarf supports Miss Edge.
On October 21st five students at London University were arrested for demonstrating against the University's links with the racist University of Salisbury, Rhodesia. The five (Saville, Gillespie, Dagleish, Hoch and Brashaw) were held in Brixton for up to seventeen days on the grounds that they would disturb the University on their release; and various charges of malicious damage, riotous assembly and assault have been laid against them. The authorities of the University of London were in full co-operation with the police both in trying to refuse the students bail, and in erecting the charges against them.
The reason these comrades were arrested is a political one: they openly challenged the links between the racist ruling class in Rhodesia and the University of London. London University gives ideological, technical and administrative aid to the racists in Rhodesia and is itself a base for the production and spread of all kinds of capitalist and imperialist ideologies. In a capitalist society those who challenge this ideological hegemony in a militant fashion will be locked up. The police are used to defend class interests. December 31st) and prices shoot up. It is used to curb the proletariat and boost profits. It is class justice that locks up Obi Egbuna and the comrades of the Black Power movement. And it is class justice that prosecutes Bernadette Devlin for organising the defence of Bogside against the fascist agents of the Ulster ruling class. Class justice also extends to hippies, pot-smokers an c squatters of the underground. The Londor Street Commune is smashed because it violates bourgeois property laws, and exposes the irrational allocation of living space when this is determined by the market. There are more that. enough places for everyone in Britain to live -it's just that the capitalist system keeps them out until they can pay. The pot-smokers too are sometimes a limited fairness and equality. On the victims of class justice: pot-smokers and hippies deny the overwhelming importance of work and obedient discipline; they are not willing to go out all day and produce surplus profit. But without surplus profits the whole system will collapse. It is therefore essential for the capitalists to send their repressive troops (the police) into action in order to root out those whose life-style and smoking habits are denials of the basis of the exploitative order.
In the USA class justice is more violent and total than here. The trial in Chicago of the SDS and black militants is merely a highlight in the unleashed repressive forces of the US state. The chaining of Bobby Seale to his chair in court condenses a general contradiction between capitalism, its law and its police on the one hand and the agents of revolution on the other. In West Germany a "trial-wave" has been driven over the left. 10,000 prosecutions have been made as a result of the anti-Springer demos and the university actions of the past two years. Students and intellectuals have received up to 21 months for charges of disorder, whereas three police in Berlin were given only six weeks for groundlessly beating up a student till he was in danger of his life: they were of course immediately released on probation.
Students have been prosecuted merely for belonging to the SDS, and one public prosecutor in Cologne merely had to remark that the four accused "were born in East Germany" The students in court have fought back: many have refused to stand up, one in Berlin simply crapped on the floor and 8 girls in Hamburg, members of a women's liberation group, confronted the court with a phalanx of 16 naked breasts. This refusal to respect the authoritarian formalities of the capitalist court-room has led in Germany as in the US to supplementary prosecutions for contempt of court. One disgusted juror in Tubingen exclaimed that "This is just like a Jews' school": when the accused student protested he was sent back to his cell. Others have released pamphlets, balloons, and firecrackers as well as stocking themselves with large supplies of food and drink.
In London, the US and Germany, the main drive of the police has been to root out the "ring-leaders" , so-called, and ruthlessly to arrest the advanced cadres of the student left. In Frankfurt there is now a major trial of three SDS leaders, Krahl, Wolff and Amendt, who led the demonstration last year against the Senegalese President Senghor. Senghor was receiving the Peace Prize of the German Publishers' Assocanon and une students allackea nator nis suppression of the workers and students of Senegal, for being an agent of French and German colonialism, and for writing semi-fascist gibberish poetry which is dishonestly acclaimed by European liberals as expressing African The Frankfurt trial is like that of the London anti-Rhodesia comrades. In every society the law and the police express a contradictory reality: some of their content is rational and positive, essential to protecting the defenceless and organising traffic, etc.; on the other hand it also contains a political content, which can only be overcome by removing the ruling class that determines the character of the law.
This is why slogans like "Police off the cam pus" or shouts of "Sieg Heil" on demos represent a liberal and pre-political response to the arrest of student militants. It is not by misdescribing the enemy as Nazis, and reviving the sentiments of the alliance of the 1940s, but by identifying the enemy as capitalists and imperialists that they will be overcome. The police express class relations, and it is not by attacking them but by attacking those behind them and driving them off the campus that the crisis can be solved. The slogan is not "Police off the Campus", but "All Capitalists and Imperialists EDITOR Tariq Ali EDITORIAL BOARD DESIGNER CIRCULATION AND ADVERTISING David Kendall BRETON Peter Gowan SECRETARY Marie-Therese Ligougne The Black Dwarf 26th November 1969 Page 12 off the Campus". The Red Flag must be raised on the Senate House: the LSE can be turned into the LSD - the London School of Dialecties - and the School of Oriental and African Studies can become the Ho Chi Minh Institute. In University College they have the corpse of Jeremy Bentham: but they can throw out the dead corpse of utilitarianism and replace it with the living soul of Marxism-Leninism. In this way way an abstract anti-imperialism can take a concrete form in the practical intellectual work of students.
The mystified form taken by class justice is that of appearing equally applied, and it is ob vious to all that in capitalist justice there is the other hand the laws themselves are class laws, however evenly applied, and express the inequality of class society. Moreover the political basis of abstract law is masked by the miserable "sub judice" principle, which prevents a public discussion of the issues behind trials and enables judges and jurors to go into court armed with the prejudices of the bourgeois order. The arrest of the five London comrades requires a political response: to unveil the mystified structures of capitalist law, and to launch an unrelenting battle against the capitalist class that controls the universities of British Fred Halliday SOCCEV Danish police have admitted that a Laotian prince had sought political asylum in Denmark following notification that he was to be called up into the Laotian army. They identified him as Prince No Phommavong, 23, son of the ruling Prince of Outai Phong Saly Province. He arrived in Denmark by train from Poland, where he had been stedying electronics at Lodz. He had already done his national service in Laos and sought asylum after being informed that he was to be recalled to the army. He decided to come to Denmark when he could not get his residence permit extended by the Polish authorities, he said. Of course the Polish government did not want to offend the pro-imperialist government in Laos by letting him stay in Poland.
Some sporting hacks have been trying to make out that the All-Whites match at Twickenham wasn't affected by demonstrators. So why did the scrum keep breaking up at the sound of Anti-Apartheid whistles? Why did the profascist sportsmen in the crowd become so angry.and shout that we were spoiling the game? Why did the Rugby Union only take £2,000 on the gate, while they had to lay out £4,000 for police protection?
About police impartiality. As the game finished, a pro-Apartheid nut ran, deliberately, full tilt between two young demonstrators at the gate, knocking them both to the ground at the feet of a cop. Then he ran on. The police made no attempt to stop him. The cop in charge at this point was Police Sergeant T 17.
The Black Dwarf expresses solidarity with all the anti-Springbok demonstrations and advises comrades not to forget the cricket tour next summer.
Copenhagen students are demanding the immediate suspension of Copenhagen University's administration following the discovery of a military communications centre in a cellar under the University's Asian Institute. On 23 and 24 October police were called out to stop students breaking into the cellar. The students discovered the centre only recently. At a mass meeting 400 students demanded the suspension of the administration and removal of the centre. They said that if their demands were not met they would adopt direct action. The university rector and Minister of Education are both said to have been unaware that the communications centre was in the cellar.
WHAT IS LAWRENCE DALEY DOING? Lawrence Daley's actions during the recent mining strike appear to be totally indefensibl siding with the NCB and the capitalist stat against the strike actions of his men, he played an anti-socialist and counter-revolutionary role. From a union leader with a long record of militancy and internationalism this action was horrific. Can he or anyone else explain these changes?
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