comment 1969 W ILL BE A YEAR OF IN D U STRIAL ACTION, precisely because the class struggle exists objectively, and is sharpening.
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1 comment EVERYBODY W H O IS ANYBODY knows that the class struggle is outmoded, lingering on vestigially only because communists, leftwing unionists and other oldfas'hioned orthodox working class thinkers stubbornly persist in believing it exists, stirring up alleged grievances and fom enting strikes. T his idealist conception of Australian social reality is shared, from quite differing viewpoints, by the conservative establishment which has a vested interest in abolishing the class struggle, and some of its radical opponents who consider that economic injustices have almost disappeared in the affluent society and are superseded by new moral issues and problems of contemporary capitalism. A whole new concept of social, industrial and political conflicts has emerged, w ith conservative and radical sides. T he conservative theory holds that a new unionism is needed, that concerns itself with sharing in the technological revolution by,lifting productivity, co-operating with the new managerial class, a unionism of bright and pushing new experts that will turn its back upon all the old traditions. The new radical theory, with several variants, seems to be saying that the working class, changing at any rate, has been assimilated into the system and is no longer capable of waging a consistent anticapitalist struggle for social change. T h e conservative theory fares far worse in explaining contem porary reality was a year of widespread and sharp industrial action, ushered in with a postal strike and the protracted and largely successful struggle of metal tradesmen against absorption of the margins increase, supported by their unskilled and semi-skilled fellow workers, who entered the struggle wholeheartedly even though they had little or nothing to gain from it. As the year progressed, industrial action swept across, the workforce, involving new workers and raising new possibilities for trade unionism. Journalists, teachers, space technicians and other professional workers came into the fight alongside petrol tanker drivers, railwaymen, aircraft m aintenance workers, the postal workers again, not to speak of the constant guerrilla, struggles, so usual as not to m erit even a. press report in most cases, waged in m etal factories, the mines and the waterfront W ILL BE A YEAR OF IN D U STRIAL ACTION, precisely because the class struggle exists objectively, and is sharpening. T he 1
2 U STRALIAN LEFT REVIEW December, 1968 Australian ruling class the owners and controllers of the economy and their political and industrial auxiliaries has worked out a coherent and well-planned economic strategy. This aims at nothing less than the introduction of an incomes policy, not by direct government legislation as in Britain, but by a combination of sheer monopoly economic power, the judicial power of the arbitration system, and the power of the State both to mobilise the national wealth for the monopoly capitalists through taxation and other fiscal powers, and to use legal sanctions against the unions when they use their industrial strength. Essence of a capitalist incomes policy is that it seeks to control wages and salaries, but not profit, interest, ren t or prices which are sacrosanct. Economic power is used through monopoly price-fixing, that dots not fix prices but continually raises them and so exerts constant pressure upon wage and salary earners and those on fixed incomes (pensioners, etc.). Very little remains of classic bourgeois economic theory, based on free competition, the market, and individual private enterprise. However, the right of private price fixation is jealously guarded, even when the conditions of price formation through market competition have almost disappeared in the decisive economic sectors. W hile the monopolies no longer fear but actively dem and government economic regulation in many fields (including lab o r), they resist strongly (and successfully) any government regulation of prices or profits. A R B IT R A T IO N S ROLE IS ENHANCED in the new economic strategy. Over a three year period, the A rbitration Commission has introduced a totally new method of wage-fixing, in which the judicial m urder of the basic wage margins structure was decisive. In its place has emerged the total wage and work-values structure. T his new creation is the employers brainchild, and its desired future growth into a fullfledged incomes controller is the subject of new demands in the Employer s C harter served on the Commission. 2 Effects of this new wages structure can be summarised as follows: T he total wage, that affects the income of every wage- and salary-earner, will be reviewed annually and varied only according to the Commission s interpretation of economic conditions. This virtually means a general wage-freeze, with any increases barely keeping up with erosion of real wages by price rises. It is an interesting intellectual exercise to consider what economic conditions make a general wage rise
3 AU STRALIAN LEFT REVIEW Decem ber, 196\ j desirable, according to arbitration, governm ent and employers economic experts. If the economy is booming, any wage rise, they argue, would cause inflation; if there are economic difficulties, a general increase is plainly undesirable, and even dangerous. Add to this the perennial balance of payments problem, which must be met by increasing exports (which means keeping costs down and every bourgeois economist knows that wages are the only costs that can be kept down ) and by dam pening dem and for imports (and this means the wage-earners demand above a ll). There is thus an ironclad case for keeping general wages down; every possible contingency and conjecture of circumstances demands that wages m ust not rise too much. If the general wage is to remain pegged, perhaps there are dramatic new possibilities for increases for specific industries and occupations through work value cases? T he metal trades case, which provided a $7.40 increase for tradesmen, seemed to promise this. But experience soon showed how thin was this sugar-coating on the bitter pill. Employers, the arbitration machine and governments bitterly resisted any automatic flow-on, and union experience of work-value cases has been salutary as railway men in general and enginedrivers in particular will testify. In fact, work value cases after the first ones will present many obstacles to establishing a legal argum ent for new rates. It is necessary to prove new skills and new conditions, and in general technological change makes this harder for most workers in most industries. T his is particularly true for those classed by arbitration as semi-skilled and u n skilled. T he general trend to establish a low rate for the majority of production workers will be accelerated. In fact, Australia is moving in its own way, towards the conditions of a submerged and depressed class within a class, m ade up largely of im migrant workers who are the backbone of the production workforce in such basic (and low-paid) industries as sted, automobiles, railways, textile, clothing and food. T H E W O RKING CLASS NEEDS A COUNTER-STRATEGY to meet the m ounting offensive. T he working class is growing, not diminishing, as technological change gathers momentum. Newer elements in the working class, the technicians, planners, teachers and professional workers are no longer a bulwark of conservatism. T hey increasingly turn to the classical methods of industrial action, 3
4 AUSTRALIAN LEFT REVIEW December, 1968 sometimes infusing new methods and concepts into the traditional forms. And industrial workers and their unions have not abdicated the struggle by any means. T he changed methods of wage fixing met stern opposition, even if this did not prevent the change. The procedure and final form of the change are instructive, for it was not im plem ented w ithout problems. T he metal workers, by refusing to accept absorption, struck the first blow, and many thousands of other workers acted or threatened to act to win flow-on against the C ourt s declared intention. This is the m ilitant alternative to the new system. But it needs to become a powerful movement, uniting blue and white collar unions and all working class political trends in the unions around a common strategy. Unionism often limits its perspectives and usually fights on the terrain dictated by employers and within the employer-oriented rules of arbitration. W hile the employers, governments and arbitration worked purposefully to implement their total wage strategy, the unions have no common counterstrategy that seeks to change the whole terms of the battle. This arises from limitations imposed by influences of conservatism and rightwing reformism in the movement, and failure to understand the implications and possibilities in technological change if a bolder and more fundamental challenge is made to the system itself. And quite frankly the left also has been slow to articulate a strategy for the new conditions. Some lines of thought suggest themselves for consideration. T h e new conditions of technological change and higher productivity suggest that unionism should advance more radical demands, both in distribution of the national income and in democratic control of decision-making in workplaces, whole industries and in the places where the public and private bureaucracies decide national policies in secret. In the field of economic demands, the following are worth considering: 4 T he union movement should, through intensive research at both academic and grassroot levels, fix upon and substantiate a demand for a minimum living wage. This wage demand (and already-taken surveys and researches suggest it would be at least $60 a week) should then be projected as the alternative to the present total wage that is m anipulated w ithin the economic framework and the irreducible m inim um th at can placate workers unrest. T he demand for equal pay that must bring women s wages up to m en s, not scale down somewhere between existing male and female rates.
5 AUSTRALIAN LEFT REVIEW December, 1968 T he demand for shorter hours, at least the 35 hour claim, and for 4 weeks annual leave. T he development of 'industry campaigns (on industry allowances, pensions, etc.) that can embrace all workers, whatever their skill levels, in industries like the automobile, steel and other big and highly monopolised branches of production. Develop and sustain industrial campaigning and organisation by unions covering low-paid workers, recognising that these are often m ainly im m igrant workers w ith all the attendant special problems. These and other issues of wages, hours and conditions require a broader horizon and a bolder challenge to the whole system than as yet exists even among most m ilitant unionists. It also requires a new type of unionism, more efficient, more scientific and more highly organised. T here are several trends developing on this plane. T h e comm unist view should be based upon a mass-democratic concept of efficient, scientific and highly-organised unionism that is dem o cratic from the workplace upwards to the national level. In this concept, job and workplace organisation is basic, and the real strength of the unions flows from an active membership that can effectively control each union and the state and national centres of the movement. T his stresses the significance of (1) the union delegates, shop committees and industry-wide rank and file organisation embracing direct representatives of all workers whatever their unions; (2) union democracy and active encouragement of activity; (3) union amalgamations; (4) democratic national and state dentres that allow for union initiatives and do not seek to impose a control that confines m ilitant unions to the level of the m ore backward. T his method of union struggle will raise, naturally and logically, issues of democratic control. At its most direct expression, the formation of shop committees and delegates organisation at once asserts the demand for recognition of workers rights and carries within it the demand for potentially democratic control. A t another level, the struggle against arb itratio n s crippling legalisms, restriction and penalisation of industrial action is a direct, even if only partial, challenge to the capitalist state. Popular appeal of democratic resistance to arbitration penal powers has been shown again in W estern Australia. Seven boilermakers, electing to take jail rather than pay fines for an illegal strike, set the Establishm ent a real problem. U nited opposition of 5
6 AUSTRALIAN L EFT REVIEW December, 1968 unions threatened state-wide industrial action, and support came from varied and sometimes unexpected quarters. R um or has it that neither would the police have picked them up, nor warders received them. W hatever the truth of this story, the fact remains that some anonymous benefactor paid the fines. TODAY S ECONOM IC AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS affecting wage and salary workers are more directly and obviously political issues. High taxation takes a big bite out of any wage increase, first and most obviously in income tax and then through indirect taxes. Income tax alone has mushroomed 30 years ago a skilled metalworker had to work perhaps two days a year to pay his tax, now he works several weeks. Ever-increasing governm ent charges fares, car registrations, hospital fees, TV-radio licences, and an endless list eat into real wages. Alongside this goes a shameless monopoly price fixing for goods and services, that steadily increases the cost of living, forcing excessive overtime, two jobs or a whole family working to m aintain standards. Added to this is the chronic deterioration and rising cost of social services education, health, local government. It is surely necessary to elaborate a radical working class program of demands and action on all these questions, that monopoly capitalist affluent society projects into the lives of even the most complacent and apathetic citizen. W hat is needed is an Australian action program, finding in the apparently m undane realities of life the starting point for a radical challenge to existing social relations, m orality and political practice. T o suggest a few: A radically new taxation system, in which the first $2,000 is free, with the wealthy monopolies and individuals paying more. Price control that protects the public from monopoly extortion, ru n by direct popular representatives of unions and consumers. A new quality of education for all children, with highly qualified teachers, proper facilities and a m odern curriculum. A non-contributory health service that provides medical, dental and hospital care for all. Increased social services, particularly pensions and child endowment. These are some of the issues and demands that move masses to concern, yet are in their essence radical and even potentially 6
7 AUSTRALIAN LEFT REVIEW December, 1968 revolutionary if asserted by a people s movement as demands upon the powerful groupings that direct and control A ustralian society. It would be merely naive to suggest that such a movement can be built easily, or to believe that it only needs a program of demands to come into being. Big problems arise from the character of our society and the power of its dom inant ideology, conservatism and capitalist individualism. O ther problems arise from the inadequacies of the working class movement and of its left and radical components. T h e working class m ovem ent needs to consider seriously the new left criticisms mentioned above. It is too facile to dismiss them out of hand by pointing to the obvious realities that the mass workers movement provides the real opposition, the perennial irrepressible counter-action against capitalism, or that the working class must play a decisive role if there is to be a fundamental challenge to the present social system. Even if the new left criticisms were 100 per cent correct (which they are n o t), the task of the revolutionary vanguard would still have to be assisting the workers to consciousness, to see themselves as a class for itself, otherwise elitism and sectarianism will cut off the vanguard from the masses who alone can m ake history. T he working class must play a leading role, and for this it needs the co-operation of radical intellectuals and other strata critical of capitalist society. T his requires a new approach, elim inating proletarian snobbery and suspicion of intellectuals on one side, elevated condescension and plain lack of knowledge or concern about the actual working class struggle on the other. T h e left working class m ovement should understand from its long experience of struggle that the working class has no mystically-endowed right to a leading role. Rather, it has to win this right anew in each new period, by lifting its struggle to new targets, speaking and acting for all whose interests conflict with and whose lives are restricted by capitalist society. T H E FIG H T FO R PEACE IN VIETNAM, and the struggle for a new post-vietnam foreign policy, is central to this role. T he tortuous path to real peace negotiations presents a challenge to all who have opposed the war, for the U nited States and its Australian and other satellite governments are still pursuing their war aims. Reluctantly, they have recognised that they cannot win the war; further, that they actually faced m ilitary defeat in the classical sense of this term. T h at is why they finally accepted the offer first m ade by the Democratic R epublic of Vietnam in February 1967, after trying 7
8 AUSTRALIAN LEFT REVIEW December, 1968 several different m ilitary strategies th at failed miserably after in flicting immense suffering upon Vietnam and the loss of tens of thousands of American, and hundreds of Australian, lives. If this chance of peace is to be seized, public opinion m ust dem onstrate the demand for immediate withdrawal of US, Australian and satellite troops from Vietnam, recognition of the National Liberation Front and the right of self-determ ination and independence for South Vietnam. All the face-saving lies and inspired concoctions about a favorable turn for T he Free W orld in the war cannot hide the hum iliating defeat of the USA, nor disguise the collapse of the whole Australian foreign policy. But like the Bourbons, the Australian policymakers forget nothing of the canards about defending Australia from Asian Communism and learn nothing from the lesson, magnificently taught by the Vietnamese, that m ilitary m ight cannot today defeat a whole people determ ined upon national liberation. Forgetting and learning nothing, the policymakers are now working on a new policy that prepares for new interventions in Asia to suppress new national liberation movements. This policy calls for mobile strike forces, equipped with modern offensive weapons. Clinging to the F ill is not just political face saving nor inept and precipitous contracting though both are present. The F ill is the type of weapons system required for Asian intervention, even if it is a flop. So the defence review may come up with new plans b u t they will be directed to the same aims. Government foreign policy will not change its basic character either; it will still be subject to W ashington s decisions. Johnson is dead; Long live Nixon! And US policy under Nixon will not change its basic character; probably it will only demand a bigger Australian contribution in men and money to further US policies of dom ination. Australian foreign policy is in a ru t from which it can escape only by a complete change enforced by popular action. Unless this can be developed, and soon, Australia will stumble from crisis to crisis, from one Vietnam to a second and a third, sacrificing more and more for policies that end in fiasco and increased dangers. T he struggle for democratic foreign policy is one of the most vital issues for the whole democratic opposition, and the left in particular. It influences every aspect of the struggle against m onopoly capitalism, and a real challenge to the economic, political strategy of conservatism is impossible unless there is confrontation an this issue, not the growing trend to bi-partisanship evident in W hitlam ite thinking on the US alliance as the keystone of Australian foreign policy. 8
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