COMMON TORY ENEMY

MINERS MINERS

ANDETHE TORNY GIONIT Sere page:4 Wheldale miner and SocialIst Labour League member Brian Lavery opens a dis. cussion among pit workers by explaining his NUM branch's recent resolution calling for all-union backing for the miners' strike.

THIRD ULSTER AND ULSTER AND BRITAIN CAMPS THE PITS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT EVERY SERIOUS trade unionist and of the hated Tory government must with pride by the courageous struggle against internment.

Braving possible death and serious injury, thous. | ands of young workers, students and housewives are giving a decisive lead to the English working class on how to fight back, no matter what the odds.

them back on their knees JIster now takes on a special leaning for English worker • the coming weeks miner:

fake its defenceless suins like the of internment. recites being tortured of anguishing behind bars whilst Try section of of later Bear life-and-death enemy.

For nection ight and that against intern nent. They are both directer enemy, the Tory government. Try can all state mak oic handle strike pickets, while the army, another arm of the same state, fires round after round bullets into defenceless demonstrators in the vicinity of Macgilligan concentration camp.

Surely we must now work might and main to establish the strongest unity in action and clear in the affirmative. EVERY BLOW struck by the miners and every other section of the English working class against the Tories is a blow against internment.

EVERY BLOW struck against internment. in Ulster weakens the Tories and strengthens the miners in their fight.

Miners must not be hoodsmears about acts of violence winked by the yellow and terror. Marxists condemn terror as a weapon because it tends to play into the hands of the capitalist enemy; it cannot solve the basic problems facing workers.

The Tories want to return miners to the starvation conditions of the 1930s.

Isn't this a violent act against the working class?

Is not the existence of over 1 million unemployed an act of violence against the working class -but you won't read any protests against such violence in the capitalist press.

Those who really want to see an end to internment must now see a powerful ally in the miners strike. The task of the hour is to build a unity in action between the Ulster and British working classes to make the hated common enemy-the Tory government -resign. STATION STRIKERS WANT BACKING RAIL strikers at Paddington station, London, are demanding official union support in their fight against a new management speed-up scheme.

The 600 workers now involved are determined to defeat attempts to impose the scheme without discussion.

So far, however, all they have had from National Union of Railwaymen oficials are calls for a return to work.

The dispute flared on Monday when down-parcels office workers were told that the new scheme was to be brought in despite the fact they had broken off discussions on it. Their overtime ban escalated T&GWU forcing power station oil through pickets TRANSPORT union leaders in Yorkshire nave pleaded with miners to let oil through picket lines so that power supplies can be maintained.

A circular instructing power workers to use extra oil 'for safety purposes' has been backed by National Union of Mineworkers' Yorkshire president Sam Bullough.

He warned pickets on Friday they would be breaking a national executive directive by stopping This retreat has been HEIP THE YS JOBS CAMPAIGN SEE GROWING SUPPORT PA opponent be filled in Ulster WESTE CASE into a strike joined sections.

Although given the innocentsounding title Management Services Review, the scheme would have meant at least 16 redundancies in downparcels and a huge increase in flexibility of labour across the rest of the station.

In a statement at the weekend, NUR local leaders attacked 'a prolonged management attitude of complete disregard and contempt towards elected staff representatives.

They refuted as 'completely false' Fleet St reports that the strike resulted from demands for overtime. made clearer by an NUM area executive attack on the Wheldale branch, Castleford, alleging : 'unofficial and entirely unreliable outsiders are attempting to deflect this union and its malaims from our prinIt was Wheldale branch which called on the NUM to mobilize other workers in support of the miners to force the Tories out—a policy since endorsed by a mass meeting in Castleford. (See p. 4).

The T&GWU's oil policy, which only became clear in Yorkshire last Friday, dates from January 10—one day HANDS OFI STUDENT FUNDSMARCHERS SOME OF THE 20,000 STUDENTS OUT YESTERDAY STUDENTS from all over Britain marched 20,000 strong through London yesterday against Tory proposals to control student union funds.

The giant protest demonstration led by the contingents from Wales took over an hour to move off from Hyde Park.

many gruesome figies of Education Ministe cans harder outudents.

Marchers enthusiastically joined in shouting 'Victory to the miners' strikel he demonstration woun ts way through central Lon don to a packed Trafalgar Square rally.

The Tory proposals — outlined in the Department of after the miners' strike began!

Leeds-based power group officer Tommy Dobson addresses it to all Yorkshire power workers.

He refers to a January 6 circular urging extra oil supplies to maintain the flame stability of highly volatile, pulverized coal.

The situation will be further reviewed when coalstocks run dry, he says.

On Friday, his appeal to an emergency N Yorkshire panel meeting , to let oil through was defeated by 18 votés to five. Panel president Henry Daly, Nostell colliery, voted for Dobson. MASS PROTESTS and demonstrations in NIreland at the weekend defied Prime Minister Brian Faulkner's announcement that the province's ban on parades would continue for another year.

At Magilligan Strand, Co Derry, 2,000 marchers demonstratéd outside the newly-opened Magilligan internment camp. (Out of the camp's reported 240 internees, only two are over 20 and • some are as young as 16.)

Troops retaliated brutally, hring round after round of rubber bullets at point-blank range into the faces and chests of the civil rights marchers as some tried to bréach the camp's barbedwire surrounds.

The army has ordered an inquiry into the conduct of troops at Magilligan after thousands of people watching television on Saturday night saw a soldier brutally kick a demonstrator in the head during the clash.

At Armagh, lines of armoured vehicles and 2,000 troops were on the alert to deal with 1,000 antiinternment demonstrators staging a protest outside Armagh jail.

Ulster loyalists led by the Rev Ian Paisley held a counter - demonstration. Fighting broke out as the anti-internment m a r ch reached a barricade in Ogle St, where they were ordered to stop by the Royal Ulster Constabulary. no perspective the government's proposals.

He warned only that students face defeat if they do not maintain 'commitment, solidarity, involvement, cohesion and strength'.

Hawker strike A STRIKE of 1,800 workers, members of the AUEW, G & M WU, Patternmakers, Woodworkers and " Woodmachinists at Hawker Siddeley, Brough, near Hull, begins today in support of an across-the-board f4 increase.

Management has offered £1.90 and is adamant in its refusal to give more. The chairman of the AUEW shop stewards commented: "This is the first official strike at Brough since 1939. I think it will be a long one' praised on Ulster estates In Derry, Republicans held a meeting on the city's Creggan Estate dedicated to the people of the Bogside and Creggan for their determined stand in keeping the British army at bay.

Sinn Fein President Thomas MacGiolla crossed the border to congratulate the people of the area on behalf of the ! Republican movement in the 26 counties.

Britain, he said, had imposed internment, torture and terror because she knew a new political settlement would have to be made with Ireland.

"The first step in Britain's new political solution is in Brussels where Lynch [S Irish premier] and Heath are signing the Treaty of Accession to the EEC.' Other speakers emphasized the link in the struggle between workers in Britain and Ireland.

Said Derry Republican Club member Terry Robson:

"The struggle that we are fighting is the same struggle as that of our comrades in the miners' strike and on the Clydeside-the people who are fighting for a decent living wage in Britain.

'We have to get rid of the capitalist states both N and S of the border'.

Independent MP for MidUlster Bernadette Devlin opened the meeting. Warning that the army was now préparing to pick up and intern women as well as men, she said that the people of Creggan were pertectly justified in fighting with every means at their disposal.

Their aims therefore must be simple and immediate; to keep the British army out of Creggan and the Bogside and to maintain the resistance campaign which would ultimately release the internees.

Miss Devlin added that it was everyone's duty to help all escaped internees.

*If we keep the campaign going, we can rest assured that we can win the end' she concluded.

• PREMIERS Heath and Lynch met for an hour in Brussels yesterday and discussed the Irish situation. Chief topic of conversation was the proposed all-party talks which the Tories have been attempting to get off the ground for almost six weeks. No statement was made after the talks.