TORIES TO ACT ON UNION LAW

By February 28, all the major provisions of the new law will be in force together with the Code of Industrial Relations Practice which will guide its use in court.

'The sooner this is in operation the better, Employment Secretary Robert Carr told the House of Commons amid very muted Labour protests on Wednesday.

A later debate, on an Opposition motion to stop the government activating the Act's provisions on union registration, picketing and sympathetic strikes, was marginally more heated.

But the Tories could not proceed for five minutes with their hated industrial pay or N Ireland policies without the most abject collaboration of the Labour and trade union leaders.

Car Collection Co Ltd, a N London delivery firm, went to the National Industrial Relations Court to make the first application under the new law yesterday. The Transport and General Workers' Union boycotted the hearing — despite a TUC ruling that it could go if it wanted. See P.I2. • While Carr was speaking in parliament on Wednesday, Leonard Neal, chairman of the Commission on Industrial Relations, was declaring in Manchester that unions were defying TUC official policy of non-co-operation with the CIR.

'A lot are working with behind the scenes', , he said. • The source of this the TUC itself.

Although publicly • eschewing consultation with Carr over the Code of Practicehind-the-scenes engaged manoeuvres on it for months. The final clause in the document ric. actually drafted by the TUC. • Talks with the government over the miners' pay claim are supposed to have been broken off two weeks ago. But TUC secretary Victor Feather and miners' president Joe Gormley have been involved in secret talks with Carr at least twice since then. • Instead of fighting tooth and nail for the Heath government's resignation over the Londonderry killings, Irish TUC chiefs • were yesterday trying desperately to fix private talks with Home Secretary Reginald Maudling.

Hence the Tories' lethal arrogance towards workers both N Ireland and Britain.

Speaking during the Commons debate on implementation of the Act, Solicitor-General Sir Geoffrey Howe, who drafted a large part of. the law, made little attempt to conceal its purpose.

People were crying out for some way of breaking the deadlock in the miners' strike, he said.

Dublin and Londonderry, February 2, 1972, and the determined picketing of. the miners in defiance of their national leaders' policies, show how fragile is the grip of the Tories' agents.

And the breadth of trade union support for the Right-toWork marches which start tomorrow is a measure of the support which can be won for breaking that grip.

INSIDE Miners' history Discussion on ATUA Manifesto Actors and the Right to-Work play 6 Miners' interviews TV programmes Lynch on the brink THE LYNCH government in Dublin made desperate moves yesterday to pull back from the brink of open conflict with Britain.

There was mounting speculation that the Eire premier would make another bid, possibly at the weekend, to get talks with the Tory government over the Derry massacre, which has thrown his administration into crisis.

He met Labour Party leader Conor Cruise O'Brien who reported on his talks with Home Secretary Reginald Maudling.

Among the points the Lynch deputation wants to make are demands for an end to internment, the eventual abolition of Stormont and withdrawal of British troops from what are described as 'highly-populated Catholic areas'.

This compromise will not be accepted, by the Tories and certainly will not satisfy the Eire tainly will not satisfy the Eire therefore have no alternative but people, who, according to O'Brien, have undergone an 'immense and massive' change of attitude.

He compared the feeling in the Free State to that following the Dublin uprising in 1916.

This attempt at reconciliation is rapidly being overshadowed with the possibility of another massacre.

While the Eire parliament began its two-day debate on the Derry killings, civil rights leaders in Newry said the planned march on Sunday would go Organizers said they expected bigger crowds than in Derry last Sunday.

The Tories have made it clear they will not allow the protest.

In the Lords, British Defence Secretary Lord Carrington warned:

I am quite confident that the ban is right and that it must be upheld. The security forces will therefore have no alternative but to halt and disperse any unauthorized marches, however difficult it may be Prime Minister Heath has also intervened and asked leaders of the Roman Catholic Church to use their influence to stop the Newry protest.

Whether Lynch will be able to pull back from the brink once again and survive politically is doubtful.

The Tories are in no mood to compromise over their campaign of terror in the North and talks will not satisfy workers in the Republic.

Wednesday's rioting, when the British Embassy in Dublin was burned, was the biggest seen in Eire for a generation.

The shooting over the border by units of the Provisional wing of the IRA also suggests that elements in the Free State Army are not unsympathetic to the demands for military action against Stormont. *FOR *PENSIONERS The Tory press is already printits predictable pictures of old women shivering over empty grates in order to whip up hostility to the miners. Our picture gives a very different story, however. An elderly miner is picking coal on the old tip at Pontlottyn, S Wales, for his nextdoor neighbour-a pénsioner. Many miners are having to pick coal for their own families because the NCB delayed their Christmas load; but they are all firm on one thing-they won't let the old people go cold.

MINERS' PICKET KILLED A MINER on picket duty at Keadby power station near Scunthorpe, Lincs, was killed in an accident involving a lorry outside plant yesterday afternoon.

Labour MP Tom Swain warned n the Commons yesterday that his could cause 'another Ulster in the Yorkshire coalfied'.

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IS CENSORED A WORKERS PRESS reporting team has compiled a reconstruction of the Rossville massacre that occurred in AROUND THE WORLD