Power supply workers

now being their medicine so-called Ust Aed Secretariat Mandel of the Eclectic speculation, by hope, has l Manders perspectiver. As Hull dockers join strike HULL dockers have voted to join the national one-day docks strike next Wednes day.

At the stop-work meeting they heard a report from the National Dock Shop Stewards' meeting and discussed the growing say: back miners POWER AND MINEWORKERS CONFRONT AUEW OFFICIAL BOB WRIGHT (RT) YESTERDAY'S talks over power men's pay will be resumed next Thursday. But no increased pay offer is likely. The unions are threatening only an ineffective overtime ban from February 1.

threat of redundancy on the docks.

After the meeting dock shop steward chairman Walter Cunningham said that the men would take further industrial action if it was needed. The situation on the docks was caused by a general recession, he said, but this was nothing new.

THE MINERS But electricity supply workers lobbying the talks wanted much stronger action to back up the miners.

Westminster district shop steward Jack Ashby said: 'What I'm worried about is that there might be a sell-out even before the miners have settled their dispute. That would be a stab in the back for them.

'But our leaders won't call a work-to-rule because it throws the power into our hands.' Leaders of 107,000 power workers are claiming £2 a week more.

But the Electricity Council is refusing to increase its offèr of £1.30 to £1.60.

Northfleet power station worker Fred Bristow commented '£2 would be disgusting. We should strike now for physical support, the miners £10 and give * yesterde NCBS Yorkshire headquarters hen moved in tront of tice then moved in miners and allowed over 300 clerical workers to enter the building of those workers clerical cross smaller number were members of a management union, the British Association

SOCIAL CLUB CHAIRMAN FRED WOODS late as January 10 he airily informed 'Intercontinental Press, readers that the situation may be hopelsss but not serious.

In the absence of an overall solution, the most the imperialist powers can hope for is a gradual extension of the system of Special Drawing : Rights ... Moreover the imperialist countries of the Common Market ...will seek to create a common currency which, all things being equal, could be added to the dollar as an international reserve currency, aimed at supplanting the dollar?

Mandel can luxuriate in his revisionist fantasies, but Marxists know • that no amount of juggling with the credit and monetary system can alter the validity of Marx's conclusion that: 'Stagnation [of production] paralyses the function of ment' money as a medium of pay" solempse of the credit This is the significance of August 15 and the fact that unemployment figures in Britain are back to the 1930s. Moet Editorial Board speakers. Discuss your Ideas for the expanded paper ALL TRADES | MEI the Tory government resign!

Return a Labour government pledged to restore full employment and repeal all laws against the unions! WILLESDEN: Monday January 24, 8 p.m. Trades and Labour hall, High Rd, Willesden, NW10. 'Rents and LIVERPOOL: Monday January 24, 8 p.m. Museum Lecture Hall, William Brown Street. 'Right-to-Work campaign'.

E LONDON: Tuesday January 25, 8 p.m. "The Aberfeldy, Aberfeldy St, Poplar (nr Blackwall 1unnel). 'Right-to-Work campaign'. DAGENHAM: Wednesday January 26, 8 p.m. Room 11, East Ham Town Hall, East Ham. 'Right-to-Work campaign' LUTON: Thursday January