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At the same ume the world economic recession trace Mineral prices have mining industry THE HOUSE of Commons deba the miners' strike proved to bi than a monumental talk-in.

From the Labour benches came a torrent of pious irrelevancies. The Tory speakers were at least refreshingly honest - they espoused class war!

The Opposition 'attack' was led by millionaire banker Harold Lever who. voted with the Tories to get Britain into the Common Market.

The first Labour speaker in the debate, Mr Joel Barnett, demanded Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath:

Something in this strike a do 500 bring, hamber was half-empty when Other Labour MPs distinguished themselves in a more In a have decided Curation or he strike.

earnings totalling £26l salaries which was a 38 per cent increase.)

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The Tories have declared decent living. • The Labour Party and the Communist Party reformists are enter the TOTE TORES OOT. - GET VICTOR FEATHER, of the TUC has refused to convene a meeting of transport unions to fight alongside the miners. And now he has written to the Tories pleading for the reconvening of the Energy Advisory Council, a body, of top Tory and trade union His latest stunt came at noon yesterday when he announced he was calling together the NCB and NUM for 'talks about talks' today. In this meeting lie the treacherous seeds of arbitration or courts of inquiry.

JACK JONES, the transport workers' leader, has told the miners his union is 'holding Driendship and the coated! this gesture is cynically called 'the stab in the back':

Members of Jones' union are still handling coal and oil: The absence of a decisive T&GWU statement is creating confusion and acrimony picket lines and only helning the Tories' reactionary plans.

HUGH SCANLON, the engineers' chief, has abandoned national pay claim, thus atomizing his members' struggle against the Tories. When the working class most needs unified action to get rid of this hated government, the engineers' sector is hived off into literally dozens of small local actions which will have to be fought under the shadow of the Industrial Relations The Tories are drawing tremendous comfort at present from the activities of these But what's afoot is a Tory onslaught against not only the miners, but the whole working class.

Embodied in the Tory strategy against the miners is THE WASHINGTON agreement on currency realignment is breaking up only a month after it was reached.

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The instability of currency relations has a direct impact on production, particularly for export, as there are no longer any guarantees, even in the short term, that contracts will be profitable.

Production is going down and unemployment mounting throughout the capitalist Japan's steel barons reported yesterday that world production had fallen last year for the first time in more than a decade.

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The 'appeal was lodged on Monday with the Russian Federal Supreme Court. Bukovsky (29), was sentenced on January 5 to seven years' imprisonment followed by five years' exile to a remote region.

He was sentenced after a semi-secret trial at which he tional tendencies. The Stalinist press is also taking part in the clamp-down.

Valeri Chalidze, physicist and co-founder with Academician Andrei Sakharov of an unofficial civil rights committee, was attacked yesterday by 'Izvestia' •