Call to action against Tories

1,023,583 JOBLESS IS Tory policy. ment has been deliberately creati government for specific reasons. It SMASH the independence of the working class.

DESTROY the independence of the trade unions by tying them to the capitalist state through the Industrial Relations Act.

JOIN the most reactionary group of monopoly capitalists in W Europe in order to build a united front of employers and bankers to defeat one of the most powerful Labour and trade union movements in the If the miners in the forefront of fighting this government are defeated, the doors will be open for a considerable increase in unemployment with the wages of those fortunate enough to have a 108 driven "dowh to a minimum!

In the face of this onslaught the reformist and Stalinist trade union leaders are running away from the fight. They could have used the workers' strength to force this government to resign and prevented the Industrial Relations Act from becoming law.

The more the TUC retreats and refuses to use this greater strength • in 1972, the more arrogant the Tory government The Young Socialists have led the fight against the reformist treachery of the Labour and trade union leaders since 1960. This is why Wilson expelled them in 1964.

Today the YS is about to give a mighty lead in the fight to defeat Toryism.

On February 5 the first of three national 'Right-to-Work' marches leaves Glasgow for a five-week walk to London. Two weeks later, on February 19, similar. marches leave Liverpool and Swansea to join the main march when it reaches London on Saturday March 11.

Rally

A mass rally at Trafalgar Square will greet the marchers followed by the largest indoor rally seen in Britain for a long time at Wembley Pool on Sunday, March 12.

Both of these major events will be followed by a lobby of Labour MPs demanding the Parliamentary • Labour Party organize a national campaign to make the Tory government resign.

This is not the time for reformist, revisionist and Stalinist faint hearts who want to hide behind the treachery of the trade union leaders in order to excuse their own cowardice by blaming the working class later on.

Now is the time to rouse the labour movement against this hated government. The national 'Right - to - Work' marchers are determined to stop the retreat.

To be successful this campaign needs at least £30,000 for food, clothing and shelter for the marchers. They will need auxiliary transport and hundreds of secondary but important items along the route.

A mass publicity campaign Will carry the message of the marches into every trade union branch and every ward • and management committee of the Labour Party.

Unity of the working class in action to make the Tory government resign is now possible.

Don't postpone your decision to help the marches. Write to Clive Norris, national secretary, 'Right - to - Work' campaign, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG, to tell him what you will do to help.

THE EDITOR very happy about jobless UNDER a thin veneer of pious concern, top Tories and their Fleet St friends are really very happy with the latest unemployment figures.

After all, they are not among , the million jobless and they stand to make a lot of money out of the share boom proceeding unabated in the City of London.

leader-writers No one, of course, is prepared to say this openly.

But "The Daily Telegraph' came close to it, telling Ministers they 'certainly have no reason to panic in assessing their economic strategy.

In 19 months of office the cornerstones are almost in place: industrial relations foreshadowed Budget, the Prime Minister about to sign the treaty of accession to the Common Market.' Thẻ Telegraph' also expressed satisfaction at its belief that the miners are fighting the National Coal Board over an 8-per-cent pay ofier.

'A year ago •. .. such a figure would have been laughed out of court, the paper said.

In "The Times', yesterday labour correspondent Paul Routledge reports that the government will now try to push the norm for pay rises down to 5 or 6 per cent.

It will certainly have the we get ri SUPPORT for the Young Socialists' 'Right-to-Work' campaign is naturally finding support among striking miners. Labour councillor and a Yorkshire miner for 40 years, Charlie Thompson is quite clear where he stands:

I agree with the purpose of the Young Socialists' march, which is to force the Tories to resign. The "Right to Work" means just that.

'We can't get full employment without getting rid of the Tories. But I also agree that we have to insist that the next Labour government is committed to socialist policies.' Charlie, chairman of the housing committee on the Labour - controlled Hemsworth Urban District Council, Yorkshire, worked at Roy. 1 by is out Students march against union registration THOUSANDS of students will march through London to Trafalgar Square tomorrow for a mass rally against Tory proposals on student-union hnancing.

The proposals-contained in the consultative document issued by the Department of Education and Science last autumn - would mean that student unions would become part of the overall university administration and would be subject to the university authorities for finance.

But NUS President Digby Jacks, a Communist Party M1 summons for Bernadette MID-ULSTER MP Miss Bernadette Devlin faces a summons carrying a six-month mandatory prison sentence for taking part in a Christmas Day march along Ulster's M1 Motorway in defiance of the Stormont ban on parades. Stormont MP Ivan Cooper will also appear on February 18—accused of breaking the ban in Belfast earlier this month.

get employment until 1 of the Tories-miner the S Kirkby colliery until meals and uniforms for far as Leeds and Bradford;

the strike. their children and free pre- that's a 12-hour day travel'As an old miner,' he scriptions when they're ling and working' says, 'we have to rely on sick. youth to take initiatives 'When a man's worked work, at 14 years of age, he like the "Right-to-Work" all week in the pit or any got 2s Ild per shift. Shifts marches. It's not only what's happening now; it's their future.

'It's time we went on the streets. We've got something to ro on the streets about, we've got something to shout about.

'I agree with the Basic Rights you're demanding. Take the right to a decent house at a rent a worker can afford. The Tories' 'Fair Rents' scheme is one of the worst attacks on the workers' standards I've ever seen.

It's the means test back again. Workers shouldn't have to fill in forms to get pennies.

In our industry men are getting wages below what they can live on. They're filling forms in for free SARAH HANNIGAN member, is clearly hedging his ets on the recent so-callec back down' by Educatior Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Interviewed by the weekly '7 Days', , Jacks equivocated when asked if the 'government climb-down' was really a victory.

It depends on what happens overall. If we win in the end, this will have been a tactical victory; if we lose, it might have been better that something else had happened now. But the general reaction from the press and in the that it has been a victory i Jacks didn't know why the government had 'backed-off'.

"The NUS didn't ask for a deferment; we were against the whole thing. But everyone else concerned-the vice-chancellors, the local authorities, the teaching unions was exerting pressure. Their views have prevailed, at least at present.' His only hope of successfully nghting registration was 'intensified activity and pressure on university authorities' or failing this to hope that the Registrar of student unions would find the job impossible. other industry, it's humiliating for him to have to go These Copper hando lise, are really subsidizing the industrialists. We're fast approaching Orwell's "1984".

'Hemsworth has the largest Labour majority in the country. But it's also got one of the highest unemployment rates—over 11 per cent.

'We've had pit closures— Moncktonhall No 3, Upton and Hemsworth merging with S Kirkby-but it isn't only the pits. Only recently, a clothing factory closed in Kinsley.

. "Even for those in work, it's not so good around here. Young girls have to travel on buses to mills and clothing factories as CLERICAL STAFF Centrelie i Beheadquarter onade mine the local NUM organize Thursday.

Picket nea which hi a key blank Tory Robert open told reporters: "We told the Minister that the only way to get this dispute settled is to provide cash substantially increased offer.' Carr suggested a court of inquiry but Gormley replied: "There would be no value in that. Following the visit by the NUM chairmion, Derer saW chairman Ezra.

When Charlie started lasted from 6 a.m. to 1.30 Bs. And in 1930, he cobad onl! zet three days' work a week.

'My wages went up as I got ölder, but my "father was an unemployed miner on the means test. Every time. I got a rise, he got a corresponding cut in his dole.

"The boss was right on top when I started. He was king in the pit and king in the mining village. He controlled men's lives.

We worked under the contract-wage system, which put man against man.

Nationalization smashed all that, but the Tories are trying to put men in the same relation to management as existed then.' The enormous support for the 'Right-to-Work' campaign clearly indicates the deter. mination now growing Inside the working class. More and more trade unlonists are becoming mobilized in the fight to defeat the Tories.

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"The Times' advised the Heath Cabinet to avoid 'demands for reckless further reflation'. It wants the government to further improve training services to stop workers hankering after the job they have lost.

All this is exactly what the Tory leaders want to hear.

Thursday's figures showed that they sponsored a labour shake-out destroying almost 1,000 jobs a day right through 1971. In lino through precisely the measuree the "Telegraph' boasts about, but it is by no means finished yet.

When Employment Minister Robert Carr says there are now 'some hard figures which show that the economy is expanding, he is not promising more jobs.

According the Financial to Samuel Brittan Times', 'there are still many employers who claim that this [jobs shake-out] has still further to go and that they could increase output a great deal without taking on any more men. Such developments, if really true, would be triumphs rather than tragedies ..!

Behind the parliamentary double-talk, in other words, with are Vengeance. for the Tories these are happy-bunting grounds. Lecture Hall, William Brown Street. 'Right-to-Work campaign.

E LONDON: Tuesday January 25, 8 p.m. "The Aberteldy, Aberteldy St, Poplar (nr Tunnel). 'Right-to-Work campaign'. ABERDEEN: Wednesday January 26, 8 p.m. Trades Hall, Adelphi. The 'Right-to-Work' campaign. DAGENHAM: Wednesday January 26, 8 p.m. Room 11, East Ham Town Hall, East Ham. 'Right-to-Work campaign'.