Feather paves way for

GLASGOW— LONDON Briefly PICKETS were on duty 100strong yesterday outside the talks with Carr TORY Employment Secretary Robert Carr today intervenes in the 13-day-old national miners' strike when he meets union and National Coal Board officials.

Arranged by the TUC's Victor Feather, the meeting is fraught with dangers for the miners.

These closed-door discussions are being the determination niners is growing and as sympathy for their strike spreads through the working class.

On form, the miners can only view the talks with Carr with the utmost Throughout the dispute, the trade union leaders, one after another, have retreated from joining the fight. First Feather refused to (AUEW) abandoned his national pay claim; Jones (T&GWU) gave a terselyworded statement that 'abnormal' coal deliveries POLICE arrested six should be blacked and extended his 'fraternal hand'; Chapple (EEPTU) decided to postpone the power workers' wages fight until February 1; and Lord Cooper (G&MWU) has remained steadfastly silent.

The most significant factor behind today's talks is that Feather is responsible for setting them up.

Miners should take note that it was Feather who also stepped into the Post Office dispute almost a year ago with the suggestion of "talks.

From these desperate meetings emerged the rotten compromise of a court of inquiry.

Embodied in the meeting with Carr today is the same danger.

By agreeing to the talks, the NUM leadership has taken a step in the direction of a sell-out which the right wing is so desperate to achieve.

British-Leyland's combine shop stewards' committee this week gave a glimpse of the indignation which is building oficinong workers about the retreats.

At their meeting in Birmingham, the committee called on the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions to • reinstate the national pay claim.

Speakers in the discussion, who come from Britain's largest car-making firm, fiercely criticized the abandonment of the national claim.

When the 'peace' talks begin in London today, miners all over Britain will be watching all the parties - Carr, Ezra... and Gormley.

WOMEN strikers at the Austin Morris car factory, Longbridge, Birmingham, voted overwhelmingly yesterday to continue their week-old strike.

So far the strike has caused the company to lay off about 3,000 workers. Management wants the women to accept a pay offer which involves stringent Measured-Day Work strings.

Jan Fund in 11 days AS UNEMPLOYMENT rises to over the million mark, the memory of the 1930s looms ahead. Never again must the working class bear the poverty and humiliation of those days. All our efforts must be mobllized-with the Workers Press-to force the Tory government to resign.

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Town council to put up Right-to-Work' marchers MARCHERS on the Young Socialists 'Right to Work' campaign starting from Glasgow on February 5 have received support from 'Cumnock Town • Council in Ayrshire.

Two-day's march from Glasgow, the youth will be accommodated overnight at the Town Hall on February From Scotland comes news of more support from trade union branches and trades councils for the campaign.

The Glasgow N branch of the electricians' union has given its backing for the march and has decided to write to the union's headquarters to ask for peravaribe for me karturd Kilbowie AUEW, in supporting the march, called on the Clydebank Trades Council and the Cooperative Society to give financial and moral support.

STUDENTS at Norwood Technical College, London, have voted unanimously support the 'Right-to-Work' campaign and the rally at Wembley Pool on March 12.

They are raising funds to sponsor one marcher and will send a deputation of students to meet the marchers on their arrival in London.

SUPPORT for the 'Rightto-Work' march is also mounting in Nottingham.

The Transport and General Workers' Union 5/92 branch of city council busmen has passed a resolution supporting the march and donating £10. The branch also agreed to send a delegation with a banner to greet the marchers.

Nottingham No. 1 branch of the technical and supervisory section of the AUEW has also voted support.

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