One man for pit inquiries

Workers Press no. 1077, 21 May 1973 · scan page 13

Topics: Miners, Socialist Labour League and the WRP

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A PUBLIC inquiry into the Seafield colliery disaster of May 10, in which five miners died, is to be conducted by Mr J. W. Calder, OBE, HM Chief Inspector of Mines and Quarries.

EIGHT weeks and still going strong. A group of Coventry toolroom strikers guard the entrance to the Stoke plant of the GEC combine in the town.

Over 200 toolroom strikers at Stoke and GEC Helen Street are fighting for higher wages.

The firm has refused to offer any money and has got an opinion' from the Pay Board which says the men's demands are against the government's Phase Two pay laws.

Behind the issue of the strike, however, is the Coventry toolroom rate. Last year the practice by which all wages in the dis Below: Some toolmakers GEC plant.

COTIA LON GECICOLO SARIKE FFIC Mr Calder is also to conduct the public inquiry into the Lofthouse colliery disaster in which seven miners lost their lives.

That will open in Wakefield on Wednesday May 30 trict went up by averages was abolished after a long struggle.

Now employers like GEC who initiated the struggle against the rate want to keep wages down.

One striker said that wages in the GEC toolroom were up to £6 below other toolroom workers in the town.

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SOCIALIST LABOUR

LEAGUE LECTURES Merthyr Tydfil Given by Gerry Healy, National Secretary ocialist Labour Leagu Wednesday May 23 neory and Practice of Marxism Wednesday May 30 of the revolutionary par Javid's Church Hall, urch Street, Merthyr 7.30 p.m.

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SLL Central Committee membel Clvic Hall, Jarrow 7.30 p.m.

Monday May 21 The Sociallst Revolution Britain: 3. The state and revolut on. Reformism and revolution in Britain. The fight for democr atic rights today means preparing for working-class power.

Basic reading :

Perspectives for transforming SLL into a revolutionary party. Marxist Analysis of the Crisis. Problems of the British Revolution (Trotsky).

Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International, Communist Manifesto.

Council of Action

North London must break off talks Tories No negotlations on Phase Three No capitulation to corporatism Make the Tory government resign TUESDAY MAY 22, 8 p.m. Lord Morrison Hall, Chestnut Grove, Tottenham, N.17 In