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this strike, or from Paynter, who has now joined the side of the government?

Under their leadership wages have declined until miners are 20 places down the wages 'league'.

Along with millions of other workers, the miners are saying to the government and the employers: for many years you've treated us with contempt; now it's ended! The surfacemen's hours are only the tip of the iceberg.

Determination We say it is a fight against the government: how can it be won?

Only by the greatest determination of the men, like the Liverpool dockers in 1967. No return till the demands are met, no matter what the press, TV, the government, Mrs Castle, or the TUC or the NUM executive may say.

But more is needed. The miners are now. out in front of a whole class fight against the government and against the Tories' plans to return to power and attack the working class.

When the NCB refuses the eight-hour day and sticks fast on wages and the marketmen's issue, it does so with government support.

Whether they like it or not miners are faced with a battle for a new socialist leadership against the plans of the NCB and the Labour government.

This new leadership is an urgent question. There every danger that the present leadership will try some way to sell the strike down the river. They are afraid of a real Wages issue Why are miners out on the surfacemen's hours and not also on the main issue wages?

Miners in Yorkshire know very well that the Yorkshire NUM officials and the area council did not want any strike and above all they did not want a strike over wages.

They hoped the threat on the hours question would get them off the hook on the wages question, with 12 pits already supporting the fourweek Cadeby strike.

Because the NCB rejected any concession on hours, the Yorkshire area leadership were caught in their own trap and had to call a strike.

The magnificent response to the strike recommendation goes for beyond what they intended and shows the great things which the miners and the rest of the working class can now win if a revolutionary leadership is built.

Can this strike turn tide against the NCB?

Yes! From this strike THE WHOLE of the Milan region came to a halt on Wednesday as a million workers staged yet another one-day strike against high rents and rising costs.

The stoppage was total.

Shops, banks and morning newspaper offices closed, while trams and trains stopped running for one hour.

Again to the fore were Milan's engineers joined in this strike by building, chemical, pharmaceutical, municipal and hospital workers.

Fifth week

This is Italy's fifth consecueupationof mass strikes and he present working-class offensive shows no signs of slowing down. Only its leaders fear victory.

industrial correspondent for Workers' Press, has written the first of a ser of important articles on the motor These will be especially important for delegates attending the All Trades Unions Alliance Motor Conferen in Birmingham on November 8.

The article, entitled: •Sackings, Measured-Day Work, Common Market British-Leyland tools for new attacks', is a must for all car workers.

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If the government wanted another £26 million contribution to the balance of payments, said Stokes, 'it is perfectly easy and we will oblige willingly.

'All it has to do is something positive to stop unofficial disputes and have the solemn and binding undertakings actually undertakan donorad hie Tand. laken, uccidicu ms Luruship.

He was immediately backed up in his attack on car workers by Mr. Douglas Richards, president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

'WAY OF LIFE' 'Strikes seem to be coming a way of life and this has done incalculable harm to the image world, Of Britain around the The industry was facing a state of 'near anarchy, he warned.

Mr. Victor Feather, TUC general secretary, on the other hand, received his usual warm praise from this leading employers' spokesman.

He was, said Richards, "as nearly all of us know here a sincere man, and he has already tasted some success. We wish him much more.

Richards no doubt had in vicious detration of Mend seyside workers.

LEGAL SCREWS Stokes' attack follows directly from the Tories' declaration at their Brighton conference that on their return to power they intend to immediately tighten the legal screws operating against the unions.

moTor industry arises from he capitalist private ownership.

As the employers face a life-and-death struggle for markets, they know that the weakest will go to the wall Other BritishTHE £30,000 FEE paid to Bob Dylan for his recent single Isle of Wight pop concert does not, it appears, contravene the prices and incomes policy. So ruled Mr. Harold Walker, Parliamentary Secretary at the Department of Employment and Productivity, replying to a House of Commons question from Mr.

Marcus Lipton, Labour member for Brixton, who had asked the DEP to refuse Dylan a further work permit.

Tax One-time 'left' Walker would hear none of this: "It should not be overlooked' he stated 'that such fees are largely subject to heavy tax demands. in any event the main fight now is against sackings, shorttime and speed-up.

The danger is that councilby-council bargaining can lead to speed-up and productivity deals.

MEAGRE

RESULTS Council workers rightly reject individual negotiations because they have seen their meagre results in the past and feel that unity is their main weapon.

After the meeting a delegation left for Westminster to ask what Terry Wilson called "friends in parliament' to press for changes in the NIJC

must go forward with a programme: • Immediate wage increases. Immediate settlement of the union's now outdated claim of £16 underground and £15 surface minimum and a new claim to be settled within a month-or strike action! If the dustmen demand f20 minimum, what about the miners? • Suspend all pit closures now. Committees of workers' inspection must be set up with powers to decide on the future of pits. •Stop all NCB rent increases.

should miners fight for now, during the strike?

Bring the wages question into the forefront, where it belongs.

The union branches and panels in Yorkshire and every area must call regular mass meetings to plan the strike and hammer out policy. CAR creating vast unemployment and short-time working.

On the very day before his speech, Stokes had threatened 1,000 of his Oxford workers with the sack and the Motor Agents' Association had warned of considerable shorttime working in the industry over the coming winter.

Only the nationalization of the motor industry under workers' control can end this capitalist anarchy and chaos.

This is the programme of the Socialist Labour League and All Trades Union Alliance.