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Under·· Ahack NUMBER 38 DECEMBER 1976 TWENTY CENTS Fairfax, Newport, petrol - bureaucrats in retreat Union rights under·· aHack "Nevi lie Wran (right) is a better liberal Premier than Dick Smash the anti-union legislation! Hamer (left}." For state-wide general strikes in Vic, Qld and WAf Malcolm Fraser came to pOl'le;r with a pledge to members who were black banning Fairfax mail in uals and $50,000 for organisations. Legal bans slash social services, drive down wages and work­ sympathy with the striking unions. Seventeen could only be instituted following compulsory ing conditions and whip recalc'itrant unions into postal workers were suspended in four days. The government-conducted secret ballots with $50 line -- more reliably than an ALP government threat of a national postal strike against the fines for unionists who fail to vote. A bill could. l>1edibank has been dismantled; two "pla­ government's,provocations was posed. Instead the tabled in the Queensland Parliament also provides teau" indexation decisions have markedly reduc'ed APTU leadership drel'J back, setting the tone for a for secret ballots (in strikes lasting. more than real wages; increased unemployment has been ac­ week of'retreats and ever sharper blows and a week), strips unions of immunity from civil cepted and encouraged to make Australian second­ provocations by the bosses: damages and provides for temporary suspensions ary industry more competitive through domestic and automatic,deregistration (after three suspen­ cost-cutting. The labour. bureaucracy's treachery -- Monday (15 November): APTU votes to lift the sions in as many years) by the Industrial Com­ last November and its continuing fear of mobil­ ban on Fairfax mission. It would also enable employers to auto­ ising the ranks in struggle has already taken a -- Wednesday: oil refinery workers forced to matically stand down workers left idle by substantial toll on workers' standards of living. lift their ban strikes. In Western Australia, proposed "right­ -- Wednesday: Victoria Premier Rupert Hamer in­ to-work" provisions would provide automatic Now, o~e year after taking office Fraser has troduces legislation aimed at smashing the New­ exemption from union membership to all who re­ moved to carry out his pledge in full. The week port ban quested it. following Remembrance Day saw a'multi-pronged of­ -~ Friday: Fraser presents an ultimatum to New­ faR, j"vfj, iliJned at, CX~RW,i.ll~th~?"l~M~;U!lt<?!1_,Ill.o'y.e­ castle dockvar.d union~ -- acc~pj: a nO-:,?t1;"ike. _. The three bills come after months of clamour­ ment, encouraged and initiated by the Fraser predg~:=wag~f~-e6~'an~nrrrial3'tl'ity for"' ingln tJie- national' pr'ess oveTbans and political Government. With the national wage indexation construction delays or no more work. strikes and "undemocratic" actions by "left-wing case pending before the Arbitration Commission, minorities" in the union movement. For months three work actions which had little intrinsic 1he APTU vote was pivotal. ,The bourgeoisie cor­ Fraser has sought to broaden the Newport dispute connection -- a strike at the Fairfax press in rectly took it as a sign that the bureaucracy was into a generalised power struggle of government Sydney, a nation-wide ban on repairs at oil re­ not willing to mobilise the ranks for a fight -­ versus unions. - These bills pose the most direct fineries and a longstanding ban against construc­ a fight which it would in all likelihood have and immediate threat to the labour movement tion of the proposed Newport power station in won.. In endorsing the lifting of the ban, the ,nationally. They must be smashed by immediate Melbourne -- became three fronts in a shOl"dolm reformist Communist Party of Australia and state-wide general strikes in all three states. provoked by the Federal Government. l'lithin a Socialist Workers Party demonstrated once again Given the extent of FTaser's involvement, a gen­ matter of days every L/NCP state government in­ that they would be just as treacherous at the eral strike in any of the states would quite troduced wide-ranging anti-uniOn legislation. head of the working class as the, existing leader­ likely lead to open federal intervention, The bourgeois press orchestrated a virulent anti­ ship. For the bourgeoisie, it was "Sanity at necessitating a defenSive national general union hysteria, including the following editorial last" (The Austrulian, 16 November). strike. statement~y the scab sydney M~Pning Hepald(13 What was termed a "tactical retreat" was in The current offensive is part of the Austra­ November) i~; fact a signal for a generalised rout. The crimi­ lian bourgeoisie's urgent need to drive down "Sooner or later the Government is going to nal class collaborationism of the labour bureauc­ labour costs. Overseas capital is loath to in­ have to meet the challenge -- a challenge to racy was epitomised by the presence of the APTU vest because of the relatively high wages, and the rule of law no less than to its own auth­ federal secretary, George Slater, on the Postal the low rate of productivity in Australia's sec­ ority, a challenge to the general community Commission. Strike breakers cannot be condoned ondary industry has put it increasingly under interest by one vested sectional interest. If within the ranks of the union movement -- if threat from foreign imports. The Fraser Govern­ meeting the challenge means a collision of Slat'er does not resign from the Commission im­ ment has rejected the stiffer tariff barriers de­ national scope, then so be it." mediately he must be expelled from the APTU. sired by sections of secondary industry and the union bureaucracy. The world upturn of 1975-76, On 11 November Fraser ordered the Postal Com­ Hamer's Vital States Projects Bill would com­ having passed Australia by, appears headed into a mission to use penal provisions against Austra­ pletelyoutlaw bans on "non-industrial 'grounds", new downslide. The government is rumoured to be lian Postal and Telecommunications Union (APTU) allowing for fines of up to $10,000 for individ- considering devaluation, which would lower the cost of exports on the world market at the ex­ pense of the domestic standard of living. In any case, .Fraser's monetarist economic policy (tight money supply and credit, heavy pruning of govern­ ment expenditure) has had the effect of further depressing the economy -- pushing unemployment tOl"ard 400,000 -- with only marginal impact on an inflation rate which still exceeds 10 per cent. TIle "full" 2.2 per cent I"age rise granted 22 November, blasted bY,Fraser as an inflationary spur to further unemployment, in fact retained the losses incurred by the previous "plateau" decisions and was simply a sop intended to avert Continued on page three J»ower struggle , :- .,.' . in China SEE PAGE 4 Striking printers march to Fairfax Building; the strike cannot be won without·mass militant picketing to shut Fairfax down. ~ SWP lifts ban against SL As shown by the correspondence reprinted on to bureaucratic suppression -- on the basis of become the critieria for exclusion from the this page the Socialist Workers Party (Sh1P) has their property rights !Accordingly the S\'/P sup­ workers movement and 10 and behold the SWP has a lifted its almost ~o and a half year ban on mem­ ports the SLL's "right" to exclude anyone from "principled" basis for calling the capitalists' bers of the Spartacist League (SL) attending its its stage-produced "public" events. courts and cops into the labour movement. In Direct Action forums. The ban was instituted on fact this mealymouthed "theory" is a cover for 23 April 1974, as a national policy against all Such a methodology has a political logic. If the SIVP to cross the class line in pursuit of its it is accepted that an organisation can exclude SL members, on the fabricated grounds that the SL short-term appetites. Thus in 1974 in order to or suppress certain political views in its "disrupted" the forums. The real reason, as ad­ keep close to the Pringle-Owens leadership of the mitted by SWP Melbourne organiser Steve Painter, "public" activity -- in effect categorising them NSW'Builders Labourers it supported their use of was that the SL's attendance was turning the fo­ as not a legitimate part of the workers movement -- then there is no difference in principle from the courts against Maoist Norm Gallagher's feder­ rums into too much of a political debate -- some­ al takeover bid by claiming that Gallagher and thing they were not intended to be. (For a full extending that to their suppression by the use of thug attacks or the bourgeois state. Moreover his officials "deserve to be treated like bosses' documented report of the SWP's charges and our agents" (Direct Action, 13 December 1974). The exclusion see ASp no 9, June 1974.) the SWP has already availed itself of a "theory" to justify such possibilities. In an article absurdity of this position, in which individuals . or tendencies can be classified at whim as in or That the charges of disruption were a smoke­ that followed a sertes of Maoist goon attacks screen for what was in fact a political exclusion against SWP/SYA members, Dave Holmes quoted out of the workers movement, is that it could ex­ was confirmed by numerous incidents over the American SWPer Barry Shepherd: clude the overwhelming majority of the trade­ union bureaucracy who as a matter of course act period of the ban. Not only SL members but SL sympathisers and even SL contacts were excluded; "like bosses' agents" and use bureaucratic sup­ "Such attacks are a violation of workers pression against their rivals or leftist critics.
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