TALK, TALK BUT NO ACTION

REAL FACE OF TUC N LONDON railwaymen have been rapped by the National Union of Railwaymen's national executive for introducing an unofficial black on movement of coal.

Two days ago the union's | London district council decided to order its 50,000 members not to shift any A statement from NUR headquarters said yesterday the council's decision does not have union backing.

'We had discussions with the mineworkers at the beginning of the strike and we agreed with them that we would tell our people not to do any work which is not their normal work, not to work in colleries and if there were any oil shipments into power stations as replacements for normal coal issues these would be examined with a view to stopping carrying it.

"We're not stopping coal which does not comé from collieries or coal which was in sidings when the strike started' Thank you Sir Sidney Greene! Here we have the T.!C's real face. that Victor Feather of the TUC had at l: off the fence on the miners' strike.

'Sweet talk' will not els strike, Feather said. 'Only more cash can solve it.?

Feather made these remarks in a special statement to the press after meeting Joe Gormley and Lawrence Daly, the 55, Dowr miners' leaders, at the NUM headquarters on Tuesday afternoon.

With indignation he said he was making this special statement in response to 'some misleading statements in newsstrike.

He also strongly denied earlier suggestions that he had gone to the NUM on yet another peace mission to try to get the miners to climb down.

But a statement issued after yesterday's TUC General Council throws considerable doubt on these disclaimers.

The council felt, it said, that the reasons meetings with Robert Cart, Employment Secretary, had not 'yielded any productive results' and why the dispute had run into a strike were "largely to be negative attitude: Bovernment's found in the In the present deadlock there was little likelihood that the miners' union and the Coal Board would find settlement basis unless 'the government itself accepted its share responsibility for creating a more flexible situation'.

TUC leaders later went to meet Carr, ostensibly for talks on improving Britain's empolyment services.

These union leaders, who are so anxious to talk to the creators of a million jobless, have completely failed to mobilize the support of the trade union movement to defeat the Tories' wage-cutting policy.

In yesterday's Workers Press we posed three pertinent questions Feather. We repeat them today: • Why has he refused to summon every union to fight the Tory government alongside the miners? • Why has he consistently refused call together even the transport unions to work out a common policy on halting coal, coke and oil supplies? • Is Feather angling with the Tories for a deal over the application of the Industrial Relations Act?

These are the questions which must be answered immediately.

Feather's talk of 'more cash' is a pipedream. In statements from Edward Heath, Robert Carr and John Davies it is absolutely clear that the Tories won't budge:

The decision to fight the miners is a definite decision of government which can only be defeated by ending its reign.

FOUR MEN and four women were committed for trial yesterday to the Old Bailey on charges of conspiring to cause xplosions.

leporting restrictions were lifted on the application of John Barker, also known as George Buchanan (23), à translator, of Amhurst Road, Stoke Newington, the address said by the prosecutor to have been the headquarters and armoury of the Angry Brigade. MITCHELL ARE SUPPOR 3y'-T.G.W.U • EF DOCHEN. TUC BACKING US -savs Dalv STRIKING miners had 'had enough' of calls for cooperation from the National Coal Board, union secretary awrence Daly said yesterday.

Speaking to Ford workers at Dagenham, he said: 'While we co-operated with closures hundreds of pits were closed and thousands of men thrown on the scrap-heap.' But Daly, who came hotfoot from a meeting of the TUC General Council, said he was 'very pleased' with their attitude towards the strike.

He described a TUC stateMDW talks at • Longbridge MANAGEMENT at BritishLeyland's Austin-Morris plant at Longbridge, Birmingham, are hoping that talks which start tomorrow are the first crack in opposition there to the Measured-Day Work pay The talks follow a hushhush decision by the shop stewards to negotiate on the company's proposals changing over from present piecework arrangements.

Opposed by only ten of the 700 stewards, this decision 1s believed to have been taken after encouragement from union leaders at national level.

A strike of 134 women trim-shop workers against MDW has been called ofi following the new turn in events.

Originally out for a 15-percent rise, aimed at bringing their pay to £26 for 40 hours, they returned yesterday on £25 pending settlement on the new pay system.

This was hailed as a victory in yesterday's 'Morning Star'. And the reason is not hard to find.

Opposition to MDW is policy of the British-Leyland national stewards' committee of which Longbridge Communist Party convenor Dick Etheridge is joint chairman. leclared st come NUM SECRETARY LAWRENCE DALY AT DAGENHAM YESTERDAY ment urging a 'more flexible' attitude on the part of the Tory government as 'a gesture of solidarity' with his members.

The miners' secretary added it was impossible for any arbitrators to be neutral.

He recalled the last arbitration in 1960 gave the miners 25pl Body plant shop stewards presented Daly with a 'first instalment' donation of £100 after the mass meeting gave the miners' leader an enthusiastic reception.

Yet now he and his stewards have taken the first steps along the road which led to MDW being signed for by union chiefs at PressedSteel Fisher in Oxford last year. COLLIERY CLERICAL STAFF DEFY UNION-MEET PICKETS TWENTY members of the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union defied their executive for the third successive day yesterday when police escorted them through jeering miners' pickets at the National Coal Board's W Wales headquarters at Tondu, near Bridgend.

About 500 miners and a dozen miners' wives blocked the entrance to the NCB offices yesterday clerical workers forced their way into work.

The CAWU national executive ruled on Monday that their members would not cross miners' pickets.

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ON-MEET From IAN YEATS when she lost her footing in the rush through miners' pickets forming a human corridor on either side of the scabs.

Afterwards picket leader and Blaenant lodge chairman Ben Davies said:

"Less than 20 of the 440 clerical workers went in to the offices. With the whole industry at a standstill I don't know what they're doing in there anyway.

'All this would be avoided if the CAWU officially called out their members in support of the miners.' Angry pickets accused a four-man Harlech television crew interviewing the clerical workers of blowing scuffles up into violent MINERS HEAD JOBS MARCH MINERS, dockers, engineers and building workers: filed 5,000 strong through Liverpool yesterday against unemployment and. for, the right to work.

There are over 50,000 unemployed in the Merseyside area.

Big contingents of Lancashire miners led the chant of 'Heath out, socialism in, workers' control in'.

They were joined by men from the occupied Fisher-Bendix factory, another 500 from Plessey's and workers from Lucas and Otis Elevators.

Liverpool dockers, on one-day strike against threatened redundancies and Kraft workers who have just won their 1l-week reinstatement strike were also there.

Though all Liverpool building sites struck for the march nearly all the big factories in the area failed to answer the call of Liverpool Trades Council for a one-day stoppage.

Work continued at Vauxhall's, Ford's and English Electric among other factories. Shop stewards' delegations were sent instead.

Jack Spriggs, Fisher-Bendix convenor, told the Pierhéad meeting that followed that he was disappointed with factories that didn't come out.

Vauxhall steward Dave Thompson told Workers Press however, that workers were fed up with one-day stoppages and wanted to have a real go at the government.

Several marchers told for the right to work was the same as the miners' fight.

"To me the right to work is a class issue and must be incidents on their news programmes and slurring the miners.

Cables linking their cameras to sound recording equipment were cut and at one point NUM officials intervened to stop the TV crew being ejected from the NCB site.

Preparations are well in hand for today's anti-lory demonstration in Cardiii.

Loudspeaker vans were touring the coalfield valleys yesterday and the giant Port Talbot and Llanwern steel works are expected to shut down completely as thousands of miners and other workers flock into the Welsh capital for the march organized by the TUC and the Labour Party. SHOP STEWARDS at the British-Leyland Standard Triumph factory in COVENTRY have passed

fought on that basis,' said Otis Elevator steward Andy White.

We must fight around the miners' strike in a struggle to bring down the Tory government. That's the only way we'll get any satisfaction.' Support for the Young Socialists 'Right - to - Work' marches was widespread.

Secretary of Bold Colliery Bernard Donaghy, said: 'We look forward to young workers joining us. We'll give the marchers any help we can.' 'It is one of the things ! support, English Electric shop steward chairman Peter Martin told us. 'If we don't restore the right to work the Tories will have jobs for us on their terms.'