Power men should

women. They're solidly behind us. We've got first-class support from the old people too. They understand. They fought before.

'At the moment we're almost back where we were in 1926, with unions and management fighting one another. Industries have got to organized for social benefit' LES MEAKIN and Donald Fraser are two young miners on 'flying squad' duty visiting London's power stations, wharfs and coal depots to send back reports to union headquarters.

When interviewed they were checking that pickets had turned back lorries carrying chemical supplies vital to power station maintenance.

Twenty-year-old Donald is a front ripper at Warwickshire's modern Dawmill pit.

He was impressed with the solidarity coming from rank-and-file trade unionists.

'When we've turned lorry drivers away from they've stations, he said, jumped out and offered us money for our funds. KENT miners picketing John Hudson's Choats Road coal depot In Dagenham yesterday morning were Joined by carworkers from the nearby Ford plant.

EEF trying to ENGINEERING employers will step up their pressure for agreements with unions which hold down 'earnings drift', says a survey published yesterday.

The survey - sponsored Employers Federation andrine Leverhulme Trust- is based on computer analysis of workshop relations in 432 firms employing 588,000 workers.

From information collected early in 1969 and processed by late 1970, a team of academics headed by Arthur Marsh, senior research fellow in industrial relations at St ably try to replace piecework pay systems with forms oI Measured-Day Work.

They add that attempts will also be made to strengthen non-strike provisions in pro"The power workers should come out with us to black out the country like they did in 1970.

I can't see the government giving them more than 7 per cent-the same as they are trying to give us.

If we stick out and the power stations close we should get our money' Donald thought the miners' leaders would stick out the strike. But he added: If they chicken out, miners will throw them out and find new leaders to take their place.

'Feather's just poking his nose in where he shouldn't. He should call a General Strike if the NCB won't give a better pay offer.' For the Tory government Donald had nothing but contempt: If Heath and his Ford peg wages cedure agreements.

EEF director-general Martin Jukes says in a foreword that the survey will be of great value 'at this critical juncture when firms are planning to meet the challenges and opportunities for change occasioned by the Industrial Relations Act of 1971'.

And the Marsh team warns that in the past employers have been reluctant to take action against workers for breach of contract.

"The Industrial Relations Act places squarely upon the employers the role both of initiating action where unfair industrial practices are thought to have been committed, and of pursuing, under the aegis of the Act, positive industria.

relations policies of a regulative nature,' he said.