Mass revulsion against Tory government

we The need Press STATEMENTS by the Labour Party National LORY CHANCELLOR Barber's cass-wat bucge!

sent Fleet St into paroxysms of glee. Congress General Council constitute a complete All the acani yarki im as prostiutedffices of abdication of responsibility for leadership and editorial pIcs Was InEC print a clear encouragement to the Tories. when the 101 pres: ncara he good news from Wes minster.

Topy against the Tory government is left in their hands, then our defeat is a foregone conclusion.

MPs to nent tne Tory laws What really meant was contained In the next section which asked Wilson to repeal Tory legislation when returned power. of Barber: firm advocate of wage-freezing —did not oppose the motion 'Two days ago Mr Barber was and said it was the oroner largely procedure to adopt'. public. Now mav Britainis histeat as one possible means, it is clear greatest chan- that the NEC does not intend cellors ...

beyond St Stephen's gate and that they reconciled to JollV. the passage of the Dence and went According to this exult at the 'sharo increase reformist logic, millions of the rents ot wel-ot workers, schoolhi deen must stoicer counci tenants "AWa Wıll e present blank stem of suhsidies. Inste f the Tories for another fiv help Il go only to famil years whilst their representho need i atives indulge their talents for constitutional shadow boxing Its Beaverbenink. Standar and parliamentary rhetoric. greeted greet un miti ate delin. :cut La funeral! "Aboe sheine it ble aritude would be even more sand on your facetious.

away its crutches.

And mori the same By the Editor Executive Committee and the Trades Union If the struggle Coalfield strike move from S Wales NUM Miners demana The NEC motion called on every possible means'. Strike against Predictably, Mr Wilson-a the Tories!' Despite The onrase ever DONCASTER miners carried placards urging take the anti-Tory fight 'Strike now against the Tories!' ard 'All out now for £20, £22 and £30 with no "strings"!' outside yesterday's Barnsley meeting of their union's Yorkshire area council as more pits came out against the National Coal Board's new must stoically pay offer. the CUTS and lashes growing number of miners are beginning to feel the same way as they realize that the government is hellbent on speeding them up and The Tories nrenare foi taking away the proposed ight—the NEC prepares for increase even before they have accepted it.

If the situation weren't so The S Wales executive of the National Union of Mineworkers yesterday decided to recommend strike action of the area's 35,000 miners to today's coalfield conference at Porthcawl. • Whilst millions of workers, Refused But the union's YORKSHIRE leadership followed the pattern of Wednesday's Scottish delegate conference and, while crushingly rejecting the NCB offer, refused to endorse a stoppage.

Although nearly 17,000 whilst thousands of miners at nine out of the ten pits in Yorkshire's Doncaster bornly resisting the employers' panel were already involved in unofficial action, Yorkshire NUM president Sam Bullough refused to accept resolutions supporting it.

He also refused to take motions either for a ban on ay nothing and do nothing.

The only alarm it raises is overtime or for a work-to-rule -and he turned a deaf ear circular advising affiliated to demands that he should leave the chair. 'unofficial bodies' Area panel meetings will take place throughout Yorkshire within the next two days to decide whether to take further unofficial This is to culminate in action.

Since the Albert Hall holds Continued In SOUTH WALES, facepaign' will be an ignominious results arch 19l! evaluated both the national pay settlement and an internal dispute.

Miners at W Lothian's Evasion Polkennet colliery and the Valleyfield section of the Kinneil-Valleyfield colliery in the General Council had ont SCOTLAND resumed work out industrial action' yesterday in response to Wednesday's delegate-conference call.

Bill are not opposed to The Coal Board hopes that conferences and meetings to most of the 3,200 Scottish miners involved will have But all this • is surely decided by the weekend to subordinate the main return to work.

mobilize Just what are the miners' the whole trade union leaders doing?

movement on a programme of action to defeat the Bill Credit This requires an integrated unions and the Parliamentary A DRASTIC cut-back in Labour Party on a national bank lending with reperscale. the former organizing cussions on hire purchase, one-day general strike individual borrowing and against the Bill as a first step industrial investment was ine-by-line attack on the Bill announced by the Bank of England yesterday. as well as organizing support Acting on Tory government instructions, the Bank called on clearing banks to Radicalization of the increase their special working class brought about by the policies of the Tory deposits —already standing near £260 million — by a bankers and monopolistsfurther £100 million. The additional funds must be Bullough, in Yorkshire, describes area action as unconstitutional.

At Wednesday's Edinburgh delegate conference, Scottish NUM president Mick McGahey appealed for strikers to return to normal working 'in the interests of unity and having achieved some success' Yet only the previous day he was calling on the union's executive to sanction strikes in areas where miners had voted for them by simple majority.

Lawrence Daly himself accepts that the proposed increase will be greatly reduced as a result of the Barber cuts (see interview page three), but turns miners' attention to new pay resolutions at next year's unione oference minen Teali call must be answered now. Pensioners lobby MPs COMT NOT A CONELICI WANT.

queeze will deposited within the next fortnight.

The move will make credit almost unobtainable except for privileged export customers. It will have drastic repercussions on overdraft holders, who can expect to have these called in soon.

Even more serious will be the effect on unemployment. Thousands of firms and businesses which have borrowed bank money for H BORCUCH PATRICI FAIR WAGE FAIR WAUE £10 INCREASE workers lobby for £10 rise MILITANT electricity supply workers lobbied national pay talks in London yesterday and demanded a £10 increase in their basic pay.

The men also want a twohour reduction in the 40-hour week, more holidays and scrapping of the notorious 202 clause in the agreement signed by unions in 1967.

Under this, electricity workers can be moved from district to district and from Job. to job within the power stations.

'We want fl0, but quite frankly with the price increases and cuts in social services announced by the • See story page 4, col. 8 hit jobs investment will now be asked to pay it back, posing a threat to their workers' jobs.

Following closely on Chancellor Barber's Corporation tax concessions, the move will favour big monopoly firms which have their own sources of liquid cash.

For the working man it can only mean foregoing planned expenditure and the threat of the dole.

BORDUE DOIRCT

WE SUPPORT WE SIU PORT £ 10 INCREASE CROI Electricity Tories on Tuesday, this is not enough and I expect we will be back next May for more,' one worker from the London Electricity Board's northern district told the Notice 'We want an end to 202 clause as well. This meant redundancies speed-up.

For example, a man might suddenly be told he's going to have to work in a new district. If he says no this is considered the equivalent to him handing in his notice.' The unions have said that they will put in for a 'substantial' increase but only the Transport and General Workers' Union has indicated that this means asking for f10.

They can agree to an increase without consulting the men though a • report-back meeting has been arranged for, November 11.

'But we won't be able to do anything about the claim at the meeting. We will be forced to accept it,' said another London worker from the LEB's Borough district.

This is bad because under the new Industrial Relations Bill we can be fined for breaking an agreement.

'Some of us might find ourselves in court for breaking something we did not agree to in the first place.' Rates in the industry are low.. A labourer can take home as little as £ll after stoppages and his average wage is around £14.

An electrician's wage, after stoppages, averages about £16 to £17, and the top rate for an inspector is £22 gross.

Overtime is also unsatisfactory—calculated on a now defunct basic rate which is well below • the normal time and a half.

Last year Britain's 120,000 electricity supply workers won a 36s increase. 73331 reprieve for Lynch BY A CORRESPONDENT Aary yesterday's parti mack Lynch's motion of confidence in himself, his Position as Prime Minister the Irish Republic has become if anything even more precarious.

The debate stands ad. ourned until nex Tuesday, eaving four days for the opposition to whip up support in the country.

The Labour arty h promised would vote wi ynch if he would sacrifice hi: finister of Agriculture Gibbons. But this was never a real possibility.

Speaking in the debate, M Brendan Corish, Labour Lyn i, to leader, called for resign Evidence at the rocent Dublin arms trial, he said, made it appear there was plan at the highest level for war in the North.

Money was spent on military preparation without the knowledge or approval of the Dail.

Mr Liam Cosgrove, leader of the main opposition party, Fine Gael, also denounced the unapproved allocation of £100,000 for a 'relief of distress fund' in N Ireland.

It had been stated that a police investigation was being carried out and parliament had become suspect.

'What a Minister says canbe accepted, and what the Prime Minister says cannot be accepted because it might only half muet said wrong or Cosgrove.

Technically, Lynch's fate hangs bers onhis obe thana Fail •own anna Party who defected this week will vote for him on the confidence motion.

Lynch himself has called for support on the grounds o he urgency of putting through the legislation to enforce the recently decided wage-rise ceiling of 36s.

It is precisely the doubts about his ability to handle the working class in the South or the struggle arising out of the oppression in the North, which have brought him to the brink-and will do the same to the next Eire government.

Give police

-Nabarro SIR GERALD NABARRO, Conservative MP for Worcestershire South. wants to see the police in London armed with water cannon for quelling civil disorder in the citYabarro asked Ian Gilmour Defence Under-Secretary the Commons yesterday:

'What is the constitutional difference between employing water cannon for the purpose of quelling civil disorder and disturbances in N Ireland but refusing to equip the metropolitan police in London with these admirable weapons for quelling civil disturbances by disorderly persons in Grosvenor Square, for example?' The Under-Secretary replied that he didn't think there was any constitutional difference and that the employment of water cannon was a matter for the Home Secretary.

£1,156 Os 1d WE'VE nearly made it. Yester lay we *94 by tom tion Thore endous tea an Clearly Workers Press However back. • Tie are no grand finish.

Lions to: immediately all donaLondon, SW4. street Some London men return, but Council strike escalates COUNCIL WORKERS ended their strike in a large area of London's East End vesteroav. DUT Custmer remained out to negotiate Incenuve navments before they start clearing the mountains or rubbish rottins in The streets Both HAMLETS councils Tower were coets continuals barracked by scores of w large borough's Stepney.

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